Top 5 South Florida Sports Personalities Of All Time | Local Hour

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Podcast Summary: "Top 5 South Florida Sports Personalities Of All Time | Local Hour"

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – May 13, 2026
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz; with Greg Cody, Chris Cody, Juju, Tony, Roy

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this "Local Hour" episode recorded from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew explore the biggest personalities in South Florida sports history, sparked by a news segment on Warren Sapp. The conversation weaves together sports nostalgia, mental health discussions, and the unique culture of South Florida, layered with the show's trademark humor and self-awareness. They also, in classic Le Batard style, detour into playful segments like "Greg Doesn't Know Movies."

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. "Greg Doesn't Know Movies" Game (00:00–14:25; 40:38–43:00)

• Premise: The team puts Greg Cody’s limited movie knowledge on display by feeding him famous lines and watching him flounder with guesses.
• Highlights:
  • Greg confuses “Yippee ki yay, mother…” from Die Hard with Saving Private Ryan (04:13–04:30).
  • He identifies “I see dead people” from The Sixth Sense as possibly from Ratatouille (11:03–11:29).
  • Greg believes “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” (Apocalypse Now) could be from Good Morning Vietnam or Blackhawk Down (40:41–41:08).
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Greg: “I'm not a moviegoer. I'm not a movie knower. That's a shirt right there, man.” (03:43)
  • Dan: “You're not calling it Greg doesn't know movies. It's just the exact same premise.” (01:20)
• Tone: Playful, slightly exasperated, classic Le Batard banter.

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2. Local News, Warren Sapp, & Mental Health (17:52–34:40)

• Context: Dan shares concern about Warren Sapp after a confrontational local news video surfaces, using Sapp’s erratic behavior as both a mental health case study and a lens for larger discussion on CTE and athlete well-being.
• Highlights:
  • Dan shares history of Sapp being "the only athlete in South Florida I've ever feared," but also sometimes affable.
  • Sapp’s local news interview: Defensive, confrontational, references to court orders, mental health court, and his own struggles (20:13–22:43).
  • Dan draws parallels between his own brother’s mental health experiences and Sapp’s apparent instability: “When my brother looked the same in all ways, but was himself a different person… it looked like that.” (25:22–26:09)
• Notable Quotes:
  • Sapp (in interview): “I’ve never, never been a nice guy. So you think I give a damn about what you think of me?” (21:22)
  • Greg Cody: “If I’m Warren Sapp’s mother or his partner or his best friend, I see that and I worry for Warren Sapp. I am very concerned that this is the beginning of really going off the rails.” (27:54)
  • Dan: “If this doesn’t reach you when it’s one of the biggest personalities in the history of South Florida sports… I don’t think we’re actively thinking about very much.” (28:48)
• Tone: Concerned, contemplative, respectful of Sapp’s struggles, layered with show’s penchant for questioning media narratives and common perceptions.

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3. Defining South Florida’s Biggest Sports Personalities (33:19–40:38)

• Kickoff: “Can you guys get me a list? If we were making a list of the top five biggest personalities in the history of South Florida sports, would Warren Sapp indeed make the list?” (33:19)
• Panel Lists and Debate:
  • Greg Cody’s list includes: Ray Hudson, Jimmy Butler, Michael Irvin, Matthew Tkachuk, Jimmy Johnson, Ray Lewis, Ozzie Guillén.
  • Chris Cody’s “efficient” list: #5 Joey Porter, #4 Chris Anderson (Birdman), #3 Jose Fernandez, #2 Shaquille O’Neal, #1 Michael Irvin (38:22–38:31).
  • Other names discussed: Ricky Williams, Jose Canseco, Mercury Morris, Jerome Brown.
• Debate Points:
  • Dan is offended Birdman rates above Sapp: “You can’t have Chris Anderson ahead of Warren Sapp. No, you can’t do that.” (38:31–38:53)
  • Reflection on what “personality” means – is it accomplishment, eccentricity, controversy, or media presence?
  • The show acknowledges “not all of them go off the rails,” though several on the list had turbulent lives (37:35–37:43).
• Tone: Fun, loose, but with undercurrents of nostalgia and the unspoken costs of fame and football in South Florida.

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4. Broader Topics & Throwaway Polls

• Yodeling Detour: Dan requests polls about whether yodeling is still a thing and if it ever was big in country music. (02:05–02:22)
• Scooter/Bike Profiling: Greg admits to prejudices about grown men riding bikes (“I assume he’s had a DUI and temporarily lost his license.” 10:01), generating laughter and mock debate.
• Voice Uniqueness: Brief philosophical riff on whether every human voice is unique (05:38–07:17).

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5. Miami Hurricanes & NFL Prospects (43:06–46:51)

• Topic: Is it fair to expect UM’s Reuben Bain to become a Hall of Famer, given his historic draft position for a Miami pass rusher?
• Dan’s Argument: Bain has a skill set never previously seen at UM, at least as measured by NFL draft investment (43:54–44:28).
• Greg’s Response: “I totally agree, and I think he’s going to have a great career, but… he’s not a perfect candidate.” (44:28–44:45)
• Comparisons: Names invoked – Ted Hendricks, Bill Hawkins, Calais Campbell, Jerome Brown, Cortez Kennedy, Jalen Phillips, Greg Rousseau (45:29–46:51).
• Tone: Old-school/new-school Hurricane debate, brisk and knowledgeable.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You're going to steal three facts, Jack. Pretty soon my whole show will be usurped by the Le Batard show. I'll have no show left. It'll just be me singing and yodeling into a mic and nobody will be listening.” – Greg Cody on show segments (01:32)
• “I’ve never, never been a nice guy.” – Warren Sapp (21:22)
• “If I’m Warren Sapp’s mother or his partner or his best friend, I see that and I worry for Warren Sapp.” – Greg Cody (27:54)
• “You can't have Chris Anderson ahead of Warren Sapp. No, you can't do that. What are you doing?” – Dan Le Batard (38:31)
• “I'm not a moviegoer. I'm not a movie knower. That's a shirt right there, man.” – Greg Cody (03:43)
• “Any still shot from that interview. That is absolutely unfair. That is media bias. That is sensational. Shame on you, Channel seven.” – Dan on local news portrayal of Sapp (32:02)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–03:54: “Greg Doesn't Know Movies” game debut
• 11:03–13:35: Greg’s legendary “I see dead people” misfire
• 17:52–22:43: Warren Sapp news clip and panel’s first reactions
• 25:22–28:48: Dan on personal family experience, mental health, and CTE connection in sports
• 33:19–40:34: South Florida Top 5 Sports Personalities debate (Ray Hudson, Michael Irvin, Shaquille O’Neal, Birdman, etc.)
• 40:41–42:59: More “Greg Doesn't Know Movies” (Apocalypse Now confusion)
• 43:06–46:51: Miami Hurricanes NFL draftee conversation (Reuben Bain, Ted Hendricks, Jalen Phillips)

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Style & Tone

The episode is a mix of humor, nostalgia, and earnest discussion that is quintessential to the Le Batard Show. It moves fluidly from lighthearted ribbing (Greg Can't Name That Movie) to serious, sometimes uncomfortable, debates on how we view athletes, fame, and mental health. The group’s chemistry and Miami-centric perspective provide both warmth and bite.

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Summary Table: South Florida Sports Personalities Mentioned

| Name | Sport | Personality/Legacy Note | |-------------------|-------------|----------------------------------------| | Warren Sapp | Football | Intimidating, unpredictable, embattled | | Ray Hudson | Soccer | Colorful, media-savvy | | Jimmy Butler | Basketball | Modern, outspoken | | Michael Irvin | Football | Energetic, controversial | | Matthew Tkachuk | Hockey | New-era, vocal | | Jimmy Johnson | Football | Coach, big presence | | Ray Lewis | Football | Intense, complex | | Ozzie Guillen | Baseball | Outspoken, flamboyant | | Joey Porter | Football | Brash | | Chris Anderson | Basketball | "Birdman" tattoos, visual presence | | Jose Fernandez | Baseball | Charismatic – tragic | | Shaquille O’Neal | Basketball | Larger than life, but quieter | | Mercury Morris | Football | Old-school Miami legend | | Jose Canseco | Baseball | Eccentric, controversial | | Ricky Williams | Football | Unique, introverted, press-shy | | Jerome Brown | Football | UM legend, larger than life |

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Conclusion

This Local Hour artfully blends Miami sports nostalgia, bracing discussions on athlete mental health, and the inside-joke-laden, family-squabble energy fans expect. The focus on Warren Sapp provides a sobering look at post-football challenges, while the “Top 5” debate and movie-flub game keep the episode brisk and entertaining. Underneath the jokes are real questions about how we perceive celebrity, mental illness, and legacy in South Florida sports.

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For listeners who missed this episode:
Expect to hear classic Le Batard and friends: sharp, honest, irreverent, but always rooting their talk in a genuine love for Miami’s unique sports history and a concern for the human stories behind the headlines.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg, have you been told anything about the new game that we're playing today with you?

[Greg Cody]

I have not.

[Dan LeBatard]

You don't know. You don't know anything. I saw last night there were a group of people scheming and devising because I asked them. I'm like, the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody has a segment that I want and I want to steal that takes advantage of how little you know about movies. But let's deceive and disguise it so that people don't know that we're stealing it. And I asked Zaz and Chris and Roy and Tony to come up with a plan to do a movie game with you because I thought the best part of yesterday's show was you thinking that Al Pacino was in BUL Durham and you thinking that Al Pacino was in Raging Bull, and you thinking that

[Chris Cody]

the line, you're not man enough for

[Dan LeBatard]

the truth in A Few Good Men was you're not man enough for the truth. And so I want to take advantage of your general lack of movie knowledge. And you didn't know until now that we're doing that. I see from your body language you don't like it.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it's. I mean, well, it's into the mic. I'm into the mic. I'm annoyed with the game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, wow. $5 into the mic. What you do is you clear your throat in the mic. You don't talk into the mic, but you clear your throat directly into the monster chair.

[Greg Cody]

This is. This is grand theft bit. Grand Theft show bit.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're doing it differently.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, no. Yeah, right. You're not calling it Greg doesn't know movies. It's just the exact same premise.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's kind of the exact same premise. It has the foundational sameness.

[Tony]

A little tweak, though.

[Greg Cody]

A little tweak.

[Dan LeBatard]

But it does have. It's got. It's not a little tweak. I think it's a. It's a different game.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. Next you're going to come from dad jokes and you're going to steal three facts. Jack. Pretty soon my whole show will be usurped by the Levitard show. I'll have no show left. It'll just be me singing and yodeling into a mic and nobody will be listening. It'll be the sad yodeling.

[Dan LeBatard]

When did yodeling end? Any. Anybody got an idea of when it is that yodeling?

[Juju]

They're still killing it.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, yodeling is not. Is absolutely not killing it.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it's still big in the Swiss Alps putting.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the poll, please. At Lebatard show. Is yodeling still big in the Swiss Alps?

[Chris Cody]

I got the Internet telling me yodeling has never truly ended.

[Greg Cody]

It's true. It's eternal. It used to be big in country music back in the country, in Western.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the poll as well at Lebbetard show did. Was yodeling ever big in country music? And also put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Is yodeling still a thing?

[Juju]

Are there different variations of yodeling? Because to me, it's just yodel.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's funny about this is I'm thinking that yodeling is so old that there are generations right now that before you made that sound, had no idea what yodeling was. None.

[Tony]

So the yodeling golden age, according to the Internet is 1920s to 1950s. That's when it was just absolutely rocking.

[Greg Cody]

Greg.

[Tony]

Obviously you'd know that.

[Chris Cody]

But it started to fade in the fifth.

[Juju]

But they need another banger. All they have is what I just said.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's the other known one I basically made? I associate that with Price is Right. Iger.

[Greg Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris Cody, get those famous movie quotes going to see how long we can do this with your father over several segments because his movie knowledge is not great. And we have some famous movie clips to play for you and to have you guess perhaps where the movie is from. Oh, you're already defeated. You're already beaten down by this.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know movies. Not a moviegoer. I'm not a movie knower. That's a shirt right there, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

It is. Just play. Play one of these real quick. Any of these.

[Juju]

Are we playing our game show?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well. Oh, wow. Okay. We already got imaging. Oh, that sounds like just a terrible 1980s video game.

[Juju]

Terrible.

[Dan LeBatard]

That music sounds terrible.

[Juju]

Here's our first movie line for Greg Cody.

[Greg Cody]

Yippee ki. All right, I heard the mf. What was the first thing he said? Yippee ki yay. Yippee ki yay.

[Reporter]

No.

[Dan LeBatard]

You don't know what that is?

[Greg Cody]

Saving Private Ryan. Oh, my God. Saving Corporal Ryan, the sequel. I don't know. I don't know it.

[Sponsor Voice (Miller Lite)]

Yippee ki.

[Greg Cody]

How would I know that? Although yippee ki yay is a form of yodeling, in my opinion.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Is yippee ki yay a form of yodeling? It's a good game. It's not Good music, but just keep it in the holster. Is he gonna get any of these if he doesn't get this? Is he gonna get any of these?

[Greg Cody]

He should have gotten that. What is it then?

[Dan LeBatard]

It made its way. It's from Die Hard, it's Bruce Willis, but it made its way from the movies into pop culture. Like, the reason this is gonna be funny is not just cause they're famous movies or they're easy to get. They're things that have springboarded from the. To just being a part of the fabric of popular culture. So when I say yippee ki yay about anything to anyone, they know the movie I'm referencing, because Bruce Willis made it more famous than it originally was.

[Greg Cody]

Yippee ki, mother. So that was Willis's voice?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

I feel like yippee ki yay. Like the Lone Ranger and Tonto were saying. Yippee ki yay.

[Chris Cody]

You know who Bruce Willis is, right? From Moonlighting?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I've heard of him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Bruce Willis, you say. You say you recognize his voice. And I actually asked this question of somebody recently, and I had never considered it before. Is the voice unique to every single human being on Earth? That there is no one anywhere in the world who has Greg Cody's voice? There's not somebody in India who sounds exactly like Greg Cody. Are all voices like fingerprints that no one in the world sounds like? Exactly. Someone else a voice doppelganger? You guys, When I asked that question, and I don't think of them as fingerprints, I assume someone in the world has the same voice that I do. I assume that they're not fingerprints. But I may have this wrong.

[Tony]

My brother and I have a very similar voice. So much so that when we talk to my mom or my wife or his wife, they don't know who's talking. Is it me? Is it my brother? So we're very close in voice.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, you may remember it was a few years ago, right? If you were watching Marlins games, I couldn't tell the difference between who was talking between Severino and Hollingsworth.

[Juju]

That was a good one. That's a great shout.

[Dan LeBatard]

When I asked the question, though, you have to guess and be right, not look at the Internet or anything else. And put this on the poll Juju at lebatard show. Does anyone else in the world have exactly the same voice that you do? Yes or no? Because I did not. They say snowflakes. They're all different. I'm not talking about the same political snowflakes. I don't know if that's true. Or not. But fingerprints, they're all unique to us. They're all unique to each person. I didn't think voice was. Did you?

[Greg Cody]

I never gave it much thought, to be honest with you, but I think the clear answer is no. Nobody else has a voice exactly like yours.

[Dan LeBatard]

It seems like there would. Yeah, but it seems like there would be so many people in the world that just simply mathematically, there wouldn't be that different. That many different alterations in degrees and shades of voice possible to cover all of the people in the world. There wouldn't be more choices on degrees of what voices sound like than the number of people there have ever been on the world because it's just people right now. It's ever. No one's ever had your voice. There's not some dude in the 1800s who was talking just like Zaz.

[Greg Cody]

Are we. Are we excluding twins here?

[Juju]

I don't want to do this again. Can we move on from this?

[Greg Cody]

Chris?

[Tony]

Chris, do they sound the same?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's kind of cheating a little bit.

[Tony]

No, it's not cheating in terms of

[Dan LeBatard]

unusual, weird questions that don't have anything to do with anything. Also, on my way in this morning, I thought about this. It can't be just specific to me. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Do you lose respect for the guy in a suit when he's riding a scooter? Yes or no? Yes or no? It's just. Do you lose respect for the guy in the suit when you see him on the roads on a scooter with a helmet on?

[Greg Cody]

Yes, with the helmet. Yes, clearly.

[Dan LeBatard]

But I'm not. I'm actually not even talking. I'm not even talking about that kind of scooter because what I saw today is the skateboard scooter, like whatever that Segway. Whatever those called. I don't. I don't know if they have another name other than is it just the

[Tony]

one wheel in the middle and the guy's trying to like.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not one wheel in the middle. I don't think that's.

[Juju]

I've seen those.

[Dan LeBatard]

Those are crazy circus. Wait a minute. There's one wheel in the middle. I think of these vehicles as all having at least two wheels.

[Greg Cody]

No, no, no.

[Tony]

The one that I'm talking about, it's like a skateboard, but the wheel is in the middle, so you're balancing it and the wheels in the middle.

[Sponsor Voice (Chewy)]

Those things haul.

[Chris Cody]

That's a tricycle.

[Tony]

No, tricycle is three. Try.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was talking about.

[Chris Cody]

That's a unicycle.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm talking about the. These, you know, the scooter. I'm talking about where you're standing on it.

[Reporter]

You're not.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're not sitting on it.

[Greg Cody]

I get it. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes or no?

[Greg Cody]

Yes. They've been around a while.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. Do you lose respect? Yes or no?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. No. It's jarring. I mean, it's jarring. Like it'd be like driving and looking in the next lane and the guy driving the car next, she is wearing a full clown outfit including the big red nose. When you.

[Juju]

The scooter is a clown is what you're saying.

[Greg Cody]

Well, when you see it's jarring to look at, you know, you, you assume that the person driving a scooter is. Is going to be, you know, just some ne' er do well. Whoa. You don't assume it's going to be a business ne' er do well.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why do you assume that about the scooter? I don't do any profiling based on the scooter except for losing respect for the guy who's in a suit. Well, that's the, that's the only profiling I'm willing.

[Juju]

You're playing the similar game. Just saying it differently.

[Greg Cody]

I profile. Yeah. I don't. I don't mind saying that. Another. Here's another example I'll give you. When I see a grown man riding a bicycle, I assume he's had a DUI and temporarily lost his license.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was riding a bike yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so don't drink and drive.

[Chris Cody]

Look at Levittard racking up Deweys.

[Greg Cody]

People assume that when they see a grown man riding a bike.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is a bicycle town. Like this is.

[Greg Cody]

No, the only exception is if. And here if you're doing this, they assume you're an idiot. If you're riding a bicycle, but it's a souped up bike and you're dressed like Lance Armstrong. You know, with all the get up and the bright.

[Tony]

Stand up for those guys.

[Juju]

Dude. A heavyset person wearing the skin tight is never good.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you can't do that, Dan.

[Juju]

If I see your ass crack, I don't want to see you in a biking outfit.

[Greg Cody]

He's not wrong.

[Dan LeBatard]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

Already? I'm gonna be worn out by this. This bit.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's go ahead and play the next movie sound.

[Greg Cody]

I see dead people. Oh, now that phrase I know.

[Dan LeBatard]

But you don't know the movie.

[Juju]

No, this is every time with Greg doesn't know movies. He, he's like, oh, yes, I know this guy.

[Greg Cody]

But he Doesn't I know I see dead people. I see dead people.

[Dan LeBatard]

What is the. What is the premise of it?

[Greg Cody]

I assume it's a horror movie. See, I'm putting two and two together, but not really.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not.

[Reporter]

Not.

[Greg Cody]

It's not Ratatouille. Ratatouille.

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Greg Cody]

No, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

So wait, you went from the Shining?

[Greg Cody]

The Shining. That's the better answer because the Shining. Still the wrong answer.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a better answer, but only because nothing could be worse than Ratatouille. Like, you went from horror movie to a cartoon.

[Greg Cody]

Like, they call them animated films.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan, it doesn't even make sense what you just did.

[Greg Cody]

I know. It really doesn't.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is. This is another Bruce Willis vehicle. Does that help you at all?

[Greg Cody]

Now, that's not Willis talking, right?

[Tony]

He's right about that. He's right.

[Greg Cody]

Let me say something about.

[Juju]

Nailed it.

[Greg Cody]

Let me say something about Bruce Willis, all right? And I know he's going through health issues. I don't mean a criticism of Bruce Willis, but very nondescript voice. Like. Like when you hear an Al Pacino or a De Niro, they have a very distinct voice. You know exactly who it is.

[Juju]

You didn't know either of those guys.

[Greg Cody]

Bruce Willis, I don't think, has a distinctive voice. That's not him. Who's wrong?

[Juju]

You're deflecting right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're wrong.

[Greg Cody]

Am I wrong?

[Dan LeBatard]

You are wrong.

[Greg Cody]

Nobody in the history of mimicry has done a Bruce Willis impersonation that might be true.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you know what the premise of the movie is? Or you have no idea anything? We're talking about the dead people. It's a spoiler.

[Greg Cody]

Dead people.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Yes.

[Greg Cody]

No, I don't know what movie it is, so how would I know?

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, so spoiler alert. Does this help you at all? It's a movie that has a plot twist at the end that reveals that everything it is that you have been watching beforehand was an altered sense of reality. The plot twist at the end is, I see dead people. That's the plot twist.

[Greg Cody]

That's. That's. That's lazy of the filmmaker. That's like. I hate it when filmmakers do this. You devote 90 minutes of your life to watching a film, and then in the very end, you find out it was all a dream.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's not what.

[Greg Cody]

It was all a dream. None of it happened.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right. That's not happening.

[Greg Cody]

Ridiculum.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right. The name of the movie is the Sixth Sense. We'll put this aside for the moment because I think he's going to go 0 for 12. It's terrible music, but it might grow on me.

[Greg Cody]

It's happy music though. I like it.

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[Juju]

Oh, when you open that with the can though, and you one of the

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[Juju]

I have goosebumps thinking about the first sip.

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[Juju]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Tony]

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[Dan LeBatard]

every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing, that she married. She married Larry David.

[Greg Cody]

I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And, and to my credit, my personality,

[Dan LeBatard]

in my humble opinion, followed by to my credit, to my credit, amazing.

[Greg Cody]

My personality, just amazing. Predate Curb youb Enthusiasm Stugats oh wow. I'm not going to say Larry DAV David patterned himself.

[Dan LeBatard]

You copy? All right, put it on the poll, please. Juju Did Greg Cody copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.

[Greg Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to play for you guys and the audience a clip that's a little bit long. I don't know if you guys have noticed in general what it is that's happening to local news. I know I lament all the time the great danger in the fact that local news is falling apart, but I see it on my newscasts where the anchors are wearing cheaper clothes than I'm used to them wearing in the 90s. The sets look like they're stuck in the 90s, some of them, because local news has not had a money transfusion. But on local news yesterday, I don't. None of you are watching 6pm Local news, correct? That is not. Put it on the Pollard show. Are you still watching 6:00pm local news, yes or no? But yesterday on the news, they had an exclusive on Channel 7. And it made me both sad and worried for Warren Sapp. Now, in the history of South Florida, I don't know that I can name a lot of sports personalities bigger in our entire history than Warren Sapp. Go ahead and come up with me a list of the biggest personalities that we have had in this market. Because before I play this clip. Okay. I will tell you on the front end that my experiences with Warren Sapp is that sometimes he is legitimately the only athlete in South Florida history that I've ever feared. Because he behaves with me a couple of different times in a way that's very intimidating and makes me feel like he's trying to make me feel small physically, emotionally and otherwise. And other times he's hugely affable and really nice. And I never know which one it is that I'm going to get now. I've heard him talk about how much CTE he feels like he already has. I've heard him talk about having to write things in his phone to remind him how to get home. He played a very violent physical position. But when I saw this piece last night on the local news, my worry for him in general went through the roof. So watch this video. Here he is warring with the Hollywood Police Department.

[Reporter]

I came to ask questions of my government, the NFL.

[Interviewer]

Great. Providing an exclusive interview to 7News days after we broke the story of a court order he must follow connected to testy on camera encounters with Hollywood cops and city employees. He was issued a notice to appear in court after another contentious encounter. You feel this is your calling now? This is now that you're doing this in a champion of people's rights in the First Amendment. Why do you need to go into the police department, into city hall and get to the point where you're this close to getting arrested?

[Reporter]

Am I?

[Interviewer]

It looks that way.

[Reporter]

Charge. I'm gonna make you arrest me today. I promise you.

[Interviewer]

What do you think of the judge and the court order from Thursday?

[Reporter]

Have you seen it?

[Interviewer]

Yes, I have.

[Reporter]

What am I required to do?

[Interviewer]

You gotta call twice a week.

[Reporter]

I call every day.

[Interviewer]

Okay. You can't be around. You can't be around the third floor in the records department. Don't you think there's a thin line, though?

[Reporter]

No.

[Interviewer]

Between being A steward of the First Amendment. Someone who is paying attention to laws and trying to get people to ask questions and think and take video. And being someone who comes across as a jerk.

[Reporter]

I've never, never been a nice guy. So you think I give a damn about what you think of me?

[Interviewer]

Do you like being perceived as a jerk?

[Reporter]

Is that it?

[Interviewer]

I'm asking.

[Reporter]

No, I'm saying, is that. That's. That's the word.

[Interviewer]

Didn't you just say. I've always not been a nice guy, so don't. Is that.

[Reporter]

Oh, no. Nice guy and jerk are two distinctly different words, let's just say. How about. That's a different word too, right?

[Interviewer]

That's a word you used. But if you.

[Reporter]

No, no, no. I'm definitely using the word. I'm giving you examples.

[Juju]

Okay.

[Interviewer]

So.

[Reporter]

So, so, jerk. What degree would you put jerk?

[Interviewer]

What is the end game?

[Reporter]

Transparency and accountability. Because what happened to me in City hall was a crime. I was assaulted by the officer.

[Interviewer]

Sapp says he was assaulted by a cop during a 2025 exchange. There's a court order. Are you gonna stay away from the third floor?

[Reporter]

You're like an officer. I don't need to answer you.

[Interviewer]

I'm asking.

[Reporter]

I don't need to answer.

[Interviewer]

This is my job to ask you questions. That's all.

[Reporter]

Next question.

[Interviewer]

What about these city employees? They told you to stay away from. You stay away from them. You don't answer that one either.

[Reporter]

Next.

[Interviewer]

Hollywood police say his demeanor has become increasingly aggressive when encountering city employees to the point where some feel unsettled and intimidated. It isn't done.

[Reporter]

It ain't done.

[Interviewer]

Tell me. Tell me what you mean.

[Reporter]

I got a June 10th court date, brother. It ain't even done. Huh? It ain't done? No. Not even a little bit. All right, so I gotta go and listen to them. You saw they moved it to the Mental Health Health Division, right?

[Interviewer]

I did not.

[Reporter]

No, check that one.

[Interviewer]

So they think you're mentally unwell?

[Reporter]

I don't know.

[Interviewer]

Are you mentally well?

[Reporter]

Excuse me?

[Interviewer]

Are you mentally well?

[Reporter]

Are you a doctor to be able to diagnose that?

[Interviewer]

No, but I'm a reporter who has gotta ask questions.

[Reporter]

Me either. I feel well every morning I wake up, man.

[Interviewer]

That's important.

[Reporter]

I don't have no issues.

[Dan LeBatard]

What are your thoughts there, Greg? As someone who's covered him since he

[Greg Cody]

was in college, I'm a little worried for him. You mentioned cte. He could have a degree of bipolar. Mental health issues are in play there. Perhaps. I don't know, like he May be just looking for attention. I don't know what he's doing for a living now, whether he's still on tv. He used to be. He's not anymore. I don't know enough about his life right now to sort of diagnose what I feel about that, except to say I feel bad for him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, so you did sort of diagnose him with bipolar. But I will tell you. Okay, and I've said this before. It's Mental Health Awareness Week, and there are dangers in being a doctor when you don't know what's going on. But before I go down this path of talking, what specifically happened with my brother that recognized. That makes me recognize some of what it is that I see there. Zaz, your take was what, on what you just saw?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I lean more toward. I'm certainly not willing to diagnose him as someone who has a mental health issue going on right now. Like, to me, I think he's coming off as someone who is upset about an incident he had with the police in 2025 and thinks that he understands the system and his rights better than everyone else around him. Like, he's clearly motivated. He has a motivation here, what he's trying to accomplish. And I feel like he's coming off like he knows more about it than everyone else.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, he may have indeed been wronged. And there are a number of ingredients here that can make that so, including just the climate in this country and where it is that a black person's relationship can be with the police. And so when you get the detail that this court date is in the mental health portion of the facility, it may be because he's having mental health issues that are empirical, or it may be that they're trying to make him look bad because they're trying to set up the case against him. But when my brother looked the same in all ways, but was himself a different person with whatever the episodes would be that have mania in them and bulletproof, he thought he was right and everyone else was wrong and that he could overturn the entirety of the system. And a clip we didn't play there that you would have seen that could have escalated is a police officer says to Warren Sapp, if you touch me, we have a problem. And Warren Sapp says back, vice versa. If you touch me, we have a problem. And that's where those things shoot into the sky, and then you get all sorts of problems. This didn't feel stable to me. Like, he can be right and in pursuit of justice. And I May have this wrong, but when I'm watching that interview, I'm seeing both the Warren Sapp I've seen since college who can be anywhere in terms of Tempest List. I'm also seeing what looks like in his eyes when you're watching the video, a craze. Like it looks like this if when he's calling it his cause I'm telling you, I saw with my brother. I did not recognize my brother at the end because of whatever it is that happened to his brain chemistry that needed something that he wasn't getting. But it looked like that. Like, it's just, I'm right about this and everyone else is wrong.

[Chris Cody]

That's the impression I got from watching that he knows better than everyone else. Now, it could be exactly what you said, that there's a mental issue going on there. But at the same time, what I just saw there from Warren Sapp, also, to your point, not that far off from what I've seen from Warren Sapp over the years.

[Dan LeBatard]

But the reason I want to have the conversation with you guys, okay, it's easy for all of us now to diagnose Antonio Brown, but when you have somebody in New York shooting all over the place and killing himself in front of the NFL building and leaving a note that says, I have cte, and then he is diagnosed with, indeed cte, my question to you is, what do you think it looks like? What do you think what. When you talk about Mental Health Awareness Month, what do you think it looks like? Because when you have some of these kinds of displays where the behavior seems unstable, it doesn't seem like a righteous fight, though it may be. I want to keep saying I don't actually know if he's been wronged. I know that however he's going about trying to fix it, that's not going to work. Like, whatever it is that people see there, when you put it parrot against him also saying, look, I have cte, I have trouble finding my way home. I have to write things down so I know whether I've done them or I haven't done them.

[Greg Cody]

And so nobody can argue if he's saying he has cte and these are the symptoms and these are the results, and this is how CTE has changed my life. That' syou know, he's an eyewitness to his own pain. When I see that, if I'm Warren Sapp's mother or his partner or his best friend, I see that and I worry for Warren Sapp. I am very concerned that this is the beginning of really going off the rails.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to re. Ask the question, though. I remember being on when the Ray Rice video broke and saying to the audience, what do you think domestic violence looks like? Because that video was sort of illuminating to a lot of people that one of the tiny guys in the NFL would have domestic violence look that way. You were reading about it in the paper. You weren't actually seeing it.

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[Dan LeBatard]

Since we don't know how to diagnose concussions in the NFL with the world's best doctors. Since brain chemistry is a complicated and difficult thing that the science is evolving on, I will ask you guys again, what do you think it looks like? Because if this doesn't reach you when it's one of the biggest personalities in the history of South Florida sports, a Hall of Famer, if it doesn't make you feel some kind of way, I don't think we're actively thinking about very much. What does it look like? What are the consequences of battering your face against somebody in a way that can get 20 sacks, you know, up the middle of the field in a season?

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

What does that do to your long term health? Because if he's already telling you he has all of the symptoms and this is the behavior, where are you inclined to think when they put the hearing in a mental health facility? Are you. Are you inclined to think that he's mentally unwell or are you inclined to think that the police are doing something to smear him?

[Greg Cody]

I'm inclined to think that he has shown indications of a mental health issue and I'm not surprised that the cops have put him in that division. I think that's what CTE looks like, is that kind of behavior. The thing that scared me about that is that in one second he's being very angry and with good reason. The reporter basically called him a jerk or called his behavior jerk behavior. He didn't bring up that word first. The reporter did. If somebody called me a jerk in that context, I'm probably pretty angry too.

[Dan LeBatard]

Off of him saying, I've never been a nice guy, which isn't something you hear very often from an athlete I know.

[Greg Cody]

But the thing is, in foot, in, in the context of his career, in the context of what made him famous and successful, not being a very nice guy worked to his benefit. He was the guy you were afraid of if you were the center of the opposing team in real life. Now, in retirement, there's a whole different connotation to not being a nice guy when you're fighting with cops. That's just plain dumb. I'm not saying. Look, if I'm going to put it in a tiny little context, I'm usually overly nice to cops when I get stopped for speeding or something. But there was this one time I got stopped for going 47 in a 40. And I'm like. I'm like, is it the end of the month? You got a quota to me. Oh, no, no, I did. And obviously that didn't go over well. And I got a ticket for this and something else having to do with my car. The point is, you don't win a conversation with a cop, let alone an argument or a beef like that.

[Dan LeBatard]

He doesn't even realize how privileged he's speaking in order to be able to feel free enough to talk that way to a police officer.

[Greg Cody]

Because he talked that way to a police officer, he tacked on another thing. Yes. That happened to your car. Correct. Yeah. It's compounding the issue. I know. And it was, you know, normally I'm overly nice and that's gotten me out of a couple of tickets as well, which is white guy syndrome. Perhaps. But in Warren Sapp's case, he's not doing. And that's the thing that scares me right there. Look at those eyes. And when you go from being extremely angry one second to looking at the camera and grinning the next, that's an unfair photo.

[Dan LeBatard]

It is unfair. That is media unfair.

[Juju]

Any still shot from that interview.

[Dan LeBatard]

That is absolutely unfair. That is media bias. That is sensational. Shame on you, Channel seven.

[Juju]

I was surprised to learn his middle name's Carlos.

[Chris Cody]

That was a swerve.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the Poll Batard Show. Are you surprised to know that Warren Sapp's middle name is Carlos?

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[Greg Cody]

I know it well.

[Tony]

It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy.

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[Greg Cody]

Walk in like this.

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[Tony]

It has that effect on people.

[Sponsor Voice (Miller Lite)]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

That's shocking.

[Greg Cody]

Stugats Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right next to the condom.

[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Can you guys get me a list? If we were making a list of the top five biggest personalities in the history of South Florida sports, would Warren SAP indeed make the list?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, he would make your top five.

[Greg Cody]

I wrote down a list of 10 or 12 names here. I can read.

[Dan LeBatard]

But would he make your top five?

[Greg Cody]

I'm not sure if he would because

[Dan LeBatard]

you said yes flatly. You also said you weren't going to diagnose him and then diagnosed him as both bipolar and having cte.

[Greg Cody]

Well, first of all, my concern is that he may have bipolar. My concern is that based on visual evidence and that kind of thing. I never said he said.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's a strange place for one of your catchphrases.

[Greg Cody]

It worked better than and you know it. No, I think that he. And he said he had cte.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's correct.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so I didn't say it. I'm agreeing with him. Yeah, Warren, I think you do have cte.

[Dan LeBatard]

You did say it and he did say it. I'm just pointing out your. Your genuine, genuine general flimsiness in terms of consistency.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. The one thing I want to emphasize is that. And we're having a couple of laughs with this. That's not a funny matter. What's happening with Warren Sapp. I wish him well because like I say, if I were his best buddy or his neighbor or his loved one, I'd be concerned for the guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've just never in my history in South Florida had this particular relationship. Now, when he was in college, I interviewed him one time when he was at a frat house. I just went and did the interview and from the beginning, just an amazing talker and a giant personality. Just had so many opinions. I was legitimately startled by the interview because of how good it was, because this was a person coming into the league that is generally pretty conservative and the personalities weren't like this. So give me some of the lists, some of your names, when you were to put together the biggest personalities we've ever had in South Florida sports.

[Greg Cody]

If I'm starting chronologically, I'm starting with Ray Hudson of the Strikers, who at halftime would conjure up, you know, funny, colorful quotes he was going to say to the media after the game. The coach of that team was Ron Newman, who once popped up out of a coffin to announce that their three game losing streak was over. Antonio Brown actually Can you just stop for a second?

[Dan LeBatard]

Because you were so excited to talk about the 1977 Fort Lauderdale strikers that I want to give you your music so that you can have the floor to tell us about sports again from 50 years ago.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, what can I tell you? The Fort Lauderdale Strikers were one of a kind. They played at Lockhart Stadium. They sold out an 18,000 seat stadium. Ray Hudson was colorful. White as a milk bottle because he was barely 20 years old. He'd just come over from London or a suburb of London. All of a sudden he's in Fort Lauderdale, which is a dream of his. The NHL at the time was big. They were pretty big at that time. Ray Hudson, colorful, Just engaging. Like I say, he literally devised quotes. At halftime, the coach is talking and he's thinking of what he's going to say to amuse the media afterward. Love that guy. Still do. He's been on the Greg Cody show podcast a few times.

[Juju]

First guest ever.

[Greg Cody]

Ron Newman was a colorful coach. He was to that team. Probably what Ron Frazier was to, um, baseball. A lot of colorful figures.

[Juju]

All right, can we get in this century, please?

[Greg Cody]

Okay. I mean, I have a list here. I have a whole list. As recently as Jimmy Butler, I think fits this category of outsized personalities. Michael Irvin is. Is absolutely in my top five. Matthew Tkachuk, I think, is Jimmy Johnson. If we're going outside of players to coaches. Jimmy Johnson, absolutely. Ray Lewis, of course. Ozzie Guillen, Marlins manager, for a minute. Had his. Had his moments. There's been a lot of colorful characters. Most of them are also very accomplished and most of them are very successful. Not all of them go off the rails, Zaz.

[Dan LeBatard]

None of them have gone off the rails. Except perhaps. Wow, you're right. Ozzy and Michael Irvin, I should say.

[Greg Cody]

Ray Lewis had a couple of moments.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. You know what? I stand correct.

[Juju]

Who stayed on the rails?

[Dan LeBatard]

My fault. Zaslow, what would be your top five? Does Warren Sapp crack your top five?

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Dan LeBatard]

That seems aggressive. It seemed unnecessarily aggressive.

[Chris Cody]

Just an answer to a question is all it is. Efficient. Number five, Joey Porter. Number four, Chris Anderson. You know about that. Birdman. Number three, Jose Fernandez. Number two.

[Greg Cody]

Two.

[Chris Cody]

Shaquille o'.

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[Chris Cody]

Okay, number one, Michael Irvin.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm offended by your list. You can't have Chris Anderson ahead of Warren Sapp. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. What are you doing? What? He's got a bunch of tattoos and you're.

[Chris Cody]

You know about that mohawk.

[Dan LeBatard]

He was Not a colorful talker. He was just draped in tattoos and was a white guy who could jump

[Tony]

in the league and here for a

[Greg Cody]

season and a half. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's unbelievable what you just did, putting Chris Anderson ahead of Warren SAP. That's disrespectful.

[Tony]

I've got a couple more to salvage. His list, Dan. How about Jose Canseco?

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, that's a good one.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Tony]

How about Ricky Williams?

[Greg Cody]

Huh?

[Dan LeBatard]

Another good one. So if we kind of quiet. If we had to do top five. If we had to do top five, I'm surprised if any of you wouldn't put Warren Sapp in your top five. Like, you guys did not give me, you know, that whole list. There weren't four better.

[Juju]

Like Michael Irvin.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think Michael Irvin's the consensus.

[Greg Cody]

Michael.

[Dan LeBatard]

Everyone would say Michael Irvin.

[Greg Cody]

Jerome Brown. Be on there. Yeah, Think about that one.

[Tony]

Not long enough.

[Juju]

I. Ray Hudson's honestly a good one.

[Dan LeBatard]

Jerome Brown became more of a personality when he left the University of Miami. Warren Sapp was a personality from the beginning. If you want to go old school, Greg Cody's time. I think Mercury Morris would have to be on any top five list.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was. He was definitely a colorful personality. Some of these guys, like Ricky Williams, I think was almost the opposite.

[Juju]

He's in the Birdman category where he was interesting, but the personality wasn't.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, like, if anything, he was, like, introverted and wearing a helmet during interviews. And I don't know. And Shaquille o' Neal, I might take issue with. You know what? Shaquille o' Neal physically was larger than life.

[Dan LeBatard]

Talking about. He's one of the biggest. Metaphorically, one of the biggest personalities.

[Chris Cody]

He arrived at an 18 wheeler.

[Greg Cody]

No, I understand. No, I understand. During interviews, though, if you weren't standing right next to the mumbler. The. The worst mumbler in the history of interviews. If you weren't standing right next to him. You didn't hear him.

[Tony]

Ricky wore a wedding dress on ESPN the Magazine.

[Juju]

That was Dan's fault.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it was Dan's fault. Yeah. Contrived.

[Dan LeBatard]

He still did.

[Greg Cody]

Was my fault, though, is also what the Saints wouldn't have.

[Juju]

All right, here's our third movie line for Greg Cody.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. I love the smell of night palm in the morning. Oh, good morning. Vietnam. No, close.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, it's a war movie.

[Greg Cody]

Blackhawk Down. No, I love this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Further Pump in the morning. Earlier. 1970s. 19. It's a movie from the 1970s. It's your wheelhouse.

[Greg Cody]

I think I already guessed. Private Ryan.

[Dan LeBatard]

Saving Private Ryan.

[Greg Cody]

I think Vietnam era Vietnam. Good. That's why I said good morning.

[Tony]

That's why I said you were close.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know. I don't know. I love this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you think is the. Is the most famous war movie of all time? Apocalypse Now.

[Greg Cody]

Good job. Good job, Dan.

[Dan LeBatard]

I wasn't naming the movie. I was saying what was happening during our show.

[Greg Cody]

Is that the name of the movie? Apocalypse Now? Yes. Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Juju]

All right. I feel like we need to give my man a victory. I got one here.

[Dan LeBatard]

You don't have one. You're not going to.

[Juju]

I've got one here.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't want to. I don't want to give him a victory yet. I want to see. No, let's. Let's see if we can make him go over 11. Put that one at the end and we'll see if we can finish the show with him getting it right.

[Chris Cody]

You don't want to give him like some maybe, you know, some self esteem.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I will give him some self esteem. I don't want to give him some confidence going into the game. It's better if he goes over 11. I don't know why I have to explain this to you guys. Like, it seems like you've been in the business for a while. It seems like we've been doing this together.

[Juju]

I just want the same, like, I don't really know.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. So you want to. So you want to have range. Just to be clear, I think you want to have range with the segment as the person from the Greg Cody show feature.

[Juju]

Creator of the Greg Cody. Greg doesn't know movies. The best ones are the ones where you're like, he has to know this one. And then he'll still impress us and miss it. So I'm telling you, you got to, you got to work some of these easy ones in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. And I wouldn't we have said that,

[Chris Cody]

by the way, for every one of these already. He has to know this one.

[Greg Cody]

No, they were, weren't. They weren't typical normal.

[Dan LeBatard]

They are very famous movie.

[Greg Cody]

Well, famous because you can recite a line. You should when, when Christopher and my other son are together in the house, their whole conversation is just going back and forth reciting lines from movies. Who has a conversation like that?

[Chris Cody]

That's what guys do.

[Greg Cody]

I'm ashamed to be a guy.

[Tony]

I'm the kind of guy, that kind

[Greg Cody]

of guy who doesn't recite lines from movies. That's who I am retroactively.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to go back a couple of weeks ago because Greg Cody has never been sharper than when I said that Reuben Bain is the greatest pass rusher in University of Miami history. And he went in and he said 10. Hendricks would like a word. Yeah, and he's right. Ted Hendricks, the Hall of Famer, would like a word, but was drafted in the second round in the 30s. The Hurricanes have never had an edge rusher drafted this high. Correct. I think Bill Hawkins was drafted in the late first round. But this is. This is the highest an edge rusher has ever been selected by the NFL, correct?

[Greg Cody]

I think so. I haven't done the research. I think so. But as we all know, that doesn't always equate to success. No, but it's just a tongue of a low. Is drafted number five overall.

[Dan LeBatard]

But I'm just saying, when the NFL was making its measurements on the investments that they are trying to put together in their business, they said that Reuben Bain has a skill set at pass rusher that is more valuable than anyone has ever seen while at the University of Miami. Ted Hendricks then became a Hall of Famer, as you said. But that's. I'm. I'm just talking about while he was in school.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

The NFL has never valued more a skill set that can get to the quarterback than the one that Reuben Bain has had at the University of Miami.

[Greg Cody]

I totally agree, and I think he's going to have a great career, but with the short arm thing and, and, and there was a reason why he didn't go fifth or eighth, a lot of people thought he was going to go number eight to New Orleans, and he dropped a couple below that. So my point, he's not a perfect candidate.

[Dan LeBatard]

My point is, though, given where he was drafted, I'm wanting to know from you guys, is it unreasonable to place the expectation on Ruben Bane as borderline hall of Famer? Is that an unreasonable expectation to make based on the fact that the University of Miami has been playing football for a long time and there's never been a guy that the NFL has looked at and said, this guy has the skill set to do this better than any other guy we've seen at your school?

[Greg Cody]

I mean, he was the most impactful defender on the second best team in the whole country. Yes, he has the potential to be a Hall of Famer, but right now, I mean, Jalen Phillips was drafted in the second round, I think, and he's had an.

[Dan LeBatard]

Where was Calais Campbell taken? How w. How late was Calais Campbell taken? Cause the only thing that I'm.

[Chris Cody]

Teens, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

The only thing that I remember like this in the history of the university that would be comparable when I saw it on the field is the three guys. There's only three for me and two of them are edge rushers and the other's Warren Sapp. It wasn't even Cortez Kennedy for me who went. He went one. Overall, it wasn't even Cortez Kennedy. It was three guys I saw at the University of Miami that I said that guy could get to the quarterback at any level. And it's Calais Campbell, it's Ruben B. Warren Sapp. There is no fourth for me.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, Jerome Brown was pretty good. Cortez Kennedy, you mentioned they've had a lot of great defensive linemen and edge rushers. A lot. And I just.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg, they have not had a lot of edge rushers. They've had a lot of great interior defensive linemen. They have not had a lot of great edge rushers.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, outside linebackers, edge, whatever, however you want to define. They've had a lot of great pass rushers. But I don't assume anybody is going to be a Hall of Famer. I don't assume Fernando Mendoza is going to be all that. He has to show it.

[Tony]

Jalen Phillips, drafted 18th overall. Greg Rousseau, also back into the first round. Claeus Campbell's second round 50th pick.

[Chris Cody]

I was way off of Clayus Campbell.