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September 11, 2025 40 mins

C&R can't believe a Mike McDaniel press conference clip is real! They discuss the future of a coach Rich is fond of from his Niner days. They laugh about "Wide Neck Guy" & get ready for a 9/11 tribute. Plus, 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' celebrates the Godfather of video game systems!

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my sweet nineteen eighty six throwback Thursday Big Trouble in
Little China T shirt. Yeah, buddy, it's all in the reference,
as Jack Burton said, And that makes me think of
the fight this weekend, which we don't have time today.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
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Speaker 1 (02:03):
On our new YouTube page, YouTube dot com slash Covino
and rich FSR. But first, before we get into old
school in fifty hits and reminisce and throw it back,
talk about the games this weekend in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Can we talk about a team that might be.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Ass do you mean the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, yeah, dude,
the Miami Dolphins very well could be you know, awful,
and you know, it just just makes you realize. Mike McDaniel,
who is so loved as a forty nine Ers offensive coordinator,

(02:42):
got the I got the opportunity to end up look
a breath of fresh air for a minute, right, Like
conventional type of coach in the NFL. He was like
a you know, nerdy looking dude. That was the guy
that you know, started off as a young man in
the organization and a guy that worked his way up
the football ranks. He had a cool story, He had
a cool vibe about him. I'm not saying that he's

(03:06):
not that cool. I'm saying that maybe he's just rubbing
people different nowadays. Well, my feeling is that I'll give
you the analogy. You know, how you overlook things sometimes,
like if you're dating a really beautiful woman, you sort
of overlook her flaws because you're just like, ah, she's
like real hot, and then the hotness fades when you realize, oh, wow,
there's things I don't like about her.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah. Reality sets it, Yeah, reality sets it.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think with Mike McDaniel, not only as an offensive coordinator,
but as a head coach. Like snark don't.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Mix with losing, and his like snark don't mix.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's his whole stick, which isn't really a stick. It's him.
His snarky, funny, sarcastic vibe only works when you're winning. Like, hey,
we're catching up with coach Mike McDaniel and he's like
running to the locker room and the you know, sideline
reporters like, there he is. I'm gonna being all silly.
That Mike McDaniel vibe only works. I think when you're winning.

(04:00):
Is when you aren't winning, his whole vibe just come
across as apathetic. Take a listen to him after game
one when they got an ass whappon.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
He's the captain of the franchise quarterback and everybody kind
of fell victim to something similar.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
I also know that he's very very much.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Like a lot most quarterbacks, to be honest, where you're
putting a lot of work into something and your first
time doing it for a collective four quarters in months,
you're not at your best.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
What's this guy talking about? And then you know the
other Mike McDaniel, he sounds like that pageant girl.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
When Mario Lopez asked her question, yes.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Of course, She's like like yeah and such and whatnot.
Well that and when he even said like all the
good thing is I can't go out worse. That type
of stuff might be Daniel talking about Tua. It seemed
like he was tongue tied or at a loss for
words or I don't know. That's not how a head
coach talks to the press. It's a really weird comment,
really weird SoundBite. Everything about it. It almost feels like

(05:13):
it's ai like that can't be real? Can that be real?
And it is real? And like Rich just mentioned, very
apathetic after the game with his comments, it's almost soude
about there play on the field, you know, it's almost
a vibe like he knows the inevitable reality, and that's

(05:34):
He's probably gonna be the first coach fire this year.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
It seems that way.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
If they don't turn it around, well, if they lose
this week to the Patriots, they play the Bills week
three and then the Jets week four, which are not
easy games. That Jets look pretty good in the Bills
please come on, so they could very well start zero
and four and that's that's the end of Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Unfortunately, I love the comments underneath this McDaniel clip that's
gone viral. The first fan says, this man is not
a leader. He is an absolutely horrible public speaker. How
can a group of fifty three men gather around this
guy and be inspired to play ridiculous?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
And based on that, yeah, like, based on that, for real,
I completely agree. I don't want to dump on a
guy in one bad moment, but they made the Colts
look like superstars this past weekend. Daniel Jones looked like
Lamar Jackson out there. He looked like he's the MVP

(06:29):
of the league against that team, and that was the
way he handled the press. Well, that was just as
bad as that was just as bad as how they
looked on the field, if not worse. He's no better
than what we saw on in the game. It was
really really embarrassing when you see other head coaches in
the NFL really fire up their team. Yeah, and I
know they lost Week one, but don't know why. Like

(06:49):
a Dan Campbell type comes to mind, like, oh, he's
a very much a raw rock guy guy that when
he speaks it almost looks like his muscles are flexing.
When you get a guy like that get you all
fired up, and you know, you've seen a lot of
coaches highlighted because you know Fox and CBS do tap
into a lot of those postgame locker room celebrations, and

(07:09):
you see it on Hard Knocks, and you see it
on quarterback and wide Receiver on Netflix. You get a
sense of what quarterbacks, what coaches really fire people up.
And I think the Mike McDaniel snarky, apathetic, funny, he's like,
you knows, funny that doesn't work when you're losing. I'm
taking you Scott stale at overstated to welcome and expired.

(07:32):
He seems uninspired. Yeah, by no means do I want
to be the guy that flip flopped that fast after
week one and now thinks this guy's the worst. Look
at what he's given you, that's based on that speech
and everything else that we saw week one, it doesn't
look good. I don't want to be the guy that's
just hating on this dude. But that's what we're working with,
and all we could do is make our observations. It's

(07:54):
not looking good for him, it's not looking good for
the team that might be the worst head coach speech
I ever heard. Well, that's not even a joke. Just
ask yourself this. If they beat the Patriots convincing lean
weet two and they have a pretty solid win in
Tua and Tyreek and that whole offense gets gets it going,
is it definitely over? Like is this one of those

(08:15):
like oh, it's inevitable, like they're just not going to
really get it together. Well, like you said, that leads
to an oh and three possibly oh and four start
for the Dolphins. I say, that's not looking good for
him and his job. I know, division battles again, the
reality setting in guys, Division battles could go anyway. We saw,
like you know, teams like Cleveland play division teams tight

(08:37):
and they're clearly not as good. But Daniel, let me
ask you, if they go where's where's the McDaniel's leash cut?

Speaker 7 (08:43):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
If they go oh and three after losing to Buffalo?
Does he even get four weeks in? Could he go
oh and three into the Jets game?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah, it's around that fourth or fifth game.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Same with the Lea Shawn Young quarterbacks getting in finally
for a veteran, who's somebody stinking it up. Russell Wilson,
what's what's the same thing four or five games?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, you're going to try to salvage somewhat or something
of the season. So your thoughts on that, because it
feels fake. That's a real clip and it's pretty embarrassing. dB,
what are your thoughts on this?

Speaker 8 (09:18):
You know, it's interesting just schedule wises. We break down
a lot of times, like we are with the Niners
with injuries. You mentioned where does it go? Because the
Dolphins play Thursday night next week. If you were to
make a move, I would think it would probably be
after the week three game, like if they were zero
and three, because then at least head coach a week
and a half. Yeah, a little bit more time to

(09:39):
at least adjust. Otherwise, their bye doesn't come up until
November twenty third.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Rich made his analogy about this feels like reality setting
in when a hot woman's.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Negative qualities start to kick in.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Right. Yeah, You're like, you were just so excited to
date her because she was so hot, and then you
like that reality, you're like, maybe she is a pin
of the ass, Maybe she's not that great. Maybe I
was just blinded because she's hot. Maybe we were a
little blinded because Mike McDaniel was so different and great,
great play call on you brought a good new energy.
But you know, he liked his commentary, we liked his answers,

(10:18):
we liked his his swag about him.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
But I have a different analogy. You ever feel like.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
When you're on your way out of anything, a job,
an old apartment, whatever, you stop caring as much Like
I remember waiting tables thinking I'm done with this and
I was like mad at everybody. I didn't care about
the job anymore. I'm like, I'm going on the radio.
I don't want to work with you idiots anymore. This
place sucks. Stop care and stop putting as much effort in.

(10:46):
How about your apartment you're leaving you know the lease
is up. Or your house you're moving, You stop cleaning
that house that last month there, You stop caring the
same way you know you're still something on a carpet
you just leave you just again. Or a relationship you
know it's not going anywhere, you start neglecting it, right.
I feel like McDaniel just based on the press conference,

(11:10):
I mean, and based on what he said about Tua,
he's too He could have said NFL coaches, it seems
like he's not caring a man. The leader's not caring,
the team's not caring. And if that continues, nay lose
this week, give it two more.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
He's out.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
He's you know, NFL coaches are too respectable and you
work too hard to get there to not care. But
do you think there is a sense that Mike McDaniel
knows deep down inside like I'm not gonna last this season?
It just doesn't. It seems he's looking at his team
dB and he's like, I see my personality, I see
what I got, and yeah, we might win this week,
but I don't think this. I don't he made deep

(11:43):
down inside feel I'm not last in the year.

Speaker 8 (11:46):
To his credit, he maxed out a lot of things,
like I think he maxed out Tua for what Tua
is as a quarterback.

Speaker 7 (11:51):
And we don't know how long Tuoa is gonna last.

Speaker 8 (11:53):
We've seen the serious injuries that that he suffered with
his concussions. Honestly, it's not like they got a young
Tyreek Hill and they brought him in so they maximize him,
but that was not going to last. Ultimately, it ends
up being the head coach falling, and there may be
a point to that. The only reason, and I don't
have any inside information why I think that wouldn't happen,
why he wouldn't quit is because those things circle throughout

(12:16):
the league, where like on your next job or your
next if it was thought that he quit on his
team or wasn't putting forth the effort, then I think
that that is would prevent him from maybe getting another
head coaching job elsewhere. So I would hope that he isn't.
But if it's in the back of his mind knowing
that I know, I can't get much more out of
Tuah and Tyree Kill maybe on the decline, Yeah, he

(12:37):
may already know his fate.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah. After the game again his who hume attitude after
a major ass whapon, Like you would have thought he
would have showed some passion or anger, did something to
fire the team up. The positive he said, remember the
positive is I don't see how it could be any worse.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
And you gotta hear that clip. You gotta hear that clip.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I think one more time sexy Ryan, just to hear
how ridiculous it sounds when asked about his quarterback. This
is him talking about Tua if you missed it, you
got to hear it again because it sounds fake.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
He's the captain of the franchise quarterback and everybody kind
of fell victim to something similar.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
I also know that he's uh, very very much.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Like a lot most quarterbacks, to be honest, where you're
putting a lot of work into something and your first
time doing it for a collective four quarters in months,
you're not at your best.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
What it makes no sense?

Speaker 9 (13:46):
I feel like I feel like it sounds like he
was on painkillers. Translation is that he is that you know,
did you have a bad day? Translation to his like,
he's pretty much saying it was their first go as
this new unit together as an offense.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Give them a little you're fluent and gibberish.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, riches fluent and I understood that are you fluent
in valley boy? Because he had seven ums one, two, three,
four of us seven ums and one like in there
rich Rich drops a lot of likes.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
I still think this is ai. I've been cross referencing,
like to make sure this is not.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Good and it or something like it's very odd. Again,
this is from the leader of the team, that's the
head coach, Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite had a better speech
than him. Well, I make your all, all your wildest
dreams come through or something. What do you want from
a coach or a manager in these some sense of.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
Urgency in Pats, I just want to well, I'll throw
this at you.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
Like.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
We just came off of this Cowboys documentary. Did you
guys watch it?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah? I thought it was great.

Speaker 8 (14:49):
What did you think Jimmy Johnson's tenure was in Miami?
How they characterized it in that documentary It was a
short blurb. Yeah, but well, like watching how it was
character eyes compared to what the Cowboys, it seemed like
it was a failure, right like it like not matching
up to the back to back Super Bowls. Jimmy Johnson

(15:10):
made the playoffs three times in four years in Miami
since Don Shula. Jimmy Johnson actually has the second longest
tenure of any coach with the Dolphins. Dave Wanstead was
there five years. That was the second longest tenured coach
of the Dolphins. So it made that Mike McDaniel is
going to be the fall guy for it. But the

(15:32):
Dolphins have been pretty much mediocre at best. Would you
say Dan for the ever since Don Sula ended up leaving,
and it's just amazing to think of just how bad
it's been for Miami, because they never are.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I have friends that are in their forties that fell
in love with Dan Marino, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton. They
fell in love with that Shula team in the eighties
and that's why they're Dolphins fans are like yo, Rich,
the same way you were a kid that loved Montana.
I love Marino. They stuck with the Dolphins, and like Yo,
it's not been a fun ride. By the way, can

(16:09):
I correct Dan Byer? I'm sorry, Dan, but Lee Majors
was the fall game Ryan Gosling as well.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
To DB's point, the last twenty seasons, the Dolphins record
is one forty seven and one seventy six.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
His winning percentage is five point forty nine, which Jimmy
Johnson had a winning percentage of five sixty three. Wanstead's
was five to seventy five. No other coach topped five
hundred in any of their tenure during that time.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're right, the Dolphins haven't really been a force or relevant. Really.
That's why I think I'm glad to point that out too,
because I never want to be the show that's calling
for this guy's job one week into the season and
one speech into it, you know, But it's more than that.
And as he overstated his welcome, has the reality set in?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Do they have to make a move?

Speaker 7 (16:57):
I am.

Speaker 8 (16:58):
I think I'm a Rich Davis guy here, and that
we both really like Mike McDaniel. I know you like
him for the forty nine ers tie. I like that
sort of deal. He again, he and the major's the
fall guy. Yeah, but I don't think that all of
it is his fault. If he could help himself by
maybe sounding coherent or shaping up a press conference here

(17:19):
or there. But I don't feel bad for him, but
I just I don't it ultimately falls on the head coach.
But I just think that there's a lot going on
with the Dolphins and he probably did the best that
he could.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
And I think ultimately Mike McDaniel loses this job. There's
a line of people that want him as their offensive coordinator. Yes,
you will absolutely get a quick he may not get
a head coaching job like that, but the same way,
like a Robert Sala fell right back in, like people
like we want you defensive coordinator. There are guys that
are head coaches that don't you know, come up short

(17:50):
that you know for a fact, someone will say I
want him on my staff.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
He's the only coach since Dave wants dead to lead
them to multiple playoff berths. They have made the playoffs
twice during his is tends.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
So you know what, maybe Mike McDaniel's getting a good
tough rep. Thank you Dan Bayer for adding some clarity.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
But when he's speaking to the press, why not just
simplify things. I'd rather my coach say a lot of
this is on me and and the players obviously, but
it's on me too.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
We're gonna be better.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
They did take accountability, but he started it off with
that really weak assed statement, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Five blocks to go across the street.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
And he said it comes down to him as the
coach of the team. He did say that it was
his demeanor, it was the way he addressed it. Everything
about it was noticeably odd. That's the thing. And if
he had a bad day, he's so big. Everybody does right,
talk about not just football. Let's let's make it broader, NBA,
major League Baseball. When a team is floundering, squandering, you know,

(18:49):
give me any other word when a team is just
fall fell off the rails. I'll up my New York Mets, Danny,
you know a lot of criticism of your Dodgers, Dave Roberts,
even though you've won World Series with the guy. If
you're Carlos Mendoza of the Mets struggling and the Mets
have lost five in a row and they have this
little two game lead now over the Giants in reds

(19:10):
for the Wildcard. A team that was twenty plus games
over five hundred have been the worst team in baseball,
the third worst team in baseball since mid June.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
They've fallen apart. And it starts with the leadership. But
it's the bullpen.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Really, does Carlos Mendoza give some raw ross speech? What
do you want to hear from your coach or manager?
Because sometimes I feel like there's.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
You you want passion.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think I think Dodger fans are hard on Dave Roberts,
partly not just because some of the moves he makes
with the bullpen, et cetera, but partly because you don't
see him like hyping up the players you don't see. Now,
I know everybody's different, everybody has a different form of leadership.

Speaker 7 (19:44):
Some guys are more quiet with it.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
But when what it feels like the fans are more
passionate than the manager or the coach, that's where you
start seeing grumbling from the fan base.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Nailed it. I agree completely with Danny, So your thoughts
on that.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're not trying to be hard on Mike McDaniel If anything,
we were. We're fans of the guy, but we have
to call it as we see and what happened and
what people are buzzing about, and the urgency of him
having to beat the Patriots here because the next few
weeks don't get any easier, so what's gonna happen? And
that speech about Toua was just pathetic, But again, everybody

(20:19):
has a bad day. Maybe it's just that what are
your thoughts? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox and
you can always chime in at Covino and rich and
on our YouTube chat.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
We got to pull that up.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm reading our feedback Mauser and Cincinnati, who's a big
Dolphins fan. He goes, oh, Dolphins McDaniels sounds like my
teenage horribly explaining to me why he got caught in
class with his cell phone. Well you know the you
know the yeah, just didn't it just sounded incoherent. But
again I said it in the beginning too. Sometimes, like you,

(20:51):
if your personality is based on sarcasm, it doesn't work
in a serious situation, right. It's like if you're like,
I'm terrible in serious situations because I'm always trying to
be lighthearted, Like I feel really uncomfortable and serious stars
to feel awkward. Everything feels awkward if you're like a
lighthearted guy. Mike McDaniel is based on snark and humor.

(21:15):
When your team gets there ass whopped, His like can't
get worst joke doesn't hit, right, that's not what you want.
And his funny stumbling and mumbling, which might be like
charming when they're after that embarrassment from the colts. You
want to see a little like fist pound and like,
you know, this is like Danny said before, honestly, it
doesn't work. It's a good point when you really watch it.
That's why we're thrown off by it. If they're one

(21:35):
to zero. His bumbling and rumblings might be charming when
you got whooped, not so much so. Hey, your thoughts
on the Dolphins and anything else around the NFL. We
will get to. Plus we're gonna go old school today
and on the anniversary of September eleventh, there is a
sports moment that can't be under the radar. It's it's

(21:57):
a moment that I want to talk about next where
there's two sports moments that really stood out. You know what,
You're right, I agree with you that I know which
one you're thinking of. So that's what brought us back
to a better place. And we said it yesterday. It's
been a somber week and today we never forget.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
But that's the beauty.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I tied music and sports into it, saying because a
not only does it take your mind off of things,
it's an escape, but it also brings.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
People together in a really great way.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
The world of sports is a great healing place. It
is it really And there are two moments from twenty
four years ago back in one that I think you
could say, while it is just sports, I feel like
helped heal the nation. So we're going to talk about
that next on the twenty fourth anniversary. More next right here,
Covino on Rich on Fox Sports Radio. So Rich, Football's
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(23:54):
NFL and the ultimate season to score. Last time the
Dolphins were relevant, Tubs and Crockett Miami vice was legit.
I feel bad, man, I'm talking smack about someone's job

(24:15):
and career. But that is the buzz, that is the story,
and I understand where it's coming from.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
That's all. Mike mcguy.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I wish Mike McDaniel the best. I hope the Dolphins
sort of turning around or a spot labeled on our
YouTube video right now is Mike McDaniel trying to get fired.
You know That's what Danny g was saying in our
pre show meeting because this sounds like it is that
really what's going on here? Like that speech was terrible.

(24:43):
Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio. Sometimes you get tongue
tight as a host. That happens.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, But imagine if I was at like a radio
conference or something for talk radio and they asked me
to speak on the show I'm producing, and that was my.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Yo.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
You know what I mean? People would be like, this
guy wants off that show.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Danny G.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I've watched Rich try to say the thick of things.
It took him about forty five seconds to get that out.
I was in the thick of th thick of fin
I mean we've all pulled Mike McDaniel moments.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Yeah, but Rich Rich well in all of us will
say words wrong or get tongue twisted while we have
animation and some you know, personality to what's going on
this guy, like you said Covino earlier, it's his demeanor
that has a lot of people asking questions right now.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
So the thought is, and if you go to social media,
is he trying to get fired? Danny G was buying
into that. I think it's the feeling of the inevitable.
Like I said, the weird analogy, and I know this
from experience, and I think everybody could sort of relate.
Let's say you keep your place clean, in pristine. If
you know you're moving out in a month, that means

(25:58):
you probably didn't clean your house in like a month.
He didn't change your sheets. It's a mess. There's just
boxes and mess. He wanted out. He's a head coach.
He wants to fix it. But does he think it's
inevitab Maybe it feels like it's already happening, that's how
he's acting. Chambeau hit us up on the YouTube in
show and he said, McDaniels feels like the classic example
I reference this before of an oc who's great but

(26:20):
maybe can't run the whole team. Maybe feels really frustrated.
I mean, Nikott got to hold the GM responsible. People
are staring ass kick thirty three to eight by the Colts. Anyway,
we're lying from the Fox Sports Radio studio. If you
miss any of today's show, just want to remind you
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(26:42):
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Speaker 3 (26:43):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
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we don't fit into today's show, Maybe we'll elaborate a
little more on the Dolphins. Maybe we'll talk about the
fight Cannello Crawford. This Weekend over promised Premiers Episode one
oh eight premieres today at four pm, and there's a

(27:06):
live chat right on our YouTube page. Covino and Rich FSR.
Let's take a few quick phone calls and then talk
about nine to eleven Never Forget and what sports moments
stood out and helped us, I guess deal with the
terrible situation eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Let's
say how to Megan Montana.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Hey, Meg, Hey, guys, you're breaking my heart.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
I'm sorry to talk about your Dolphins like this, but
it just as a lot of people are hitting us
up saying since Marino, they're like the definition of mid
oh Man.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, if not weak, it's not weak.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, definitely not.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Maybe it's been bad, but I'm one of those folks
who clung on hard after the Marino years and it's
been a rough road. And as you guys pointed out,
despite Mike McDaniel duber twelve year old skater boy looking nautitude,
he is the longest tenure of head coach and has
had the most success in Miami since Jimmy Johnson, which

(28:06):
thought in of itself as pastic But my Lanta, like,
everyone's being so harsh and throwing so much shade this week,
and I just don't think it's fair after one game
and granted all last season was a debacle as well.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
There's something to be said about what you're saying because
just being on the airwaves here Fox Sports Radio Nation,
and I feel like we're being.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
A little rude, Like absolutely a little rude.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I don't want to not trying to be but look
what we're dealing with here. Yeah, it's kind of just
calling it as you see it, not trying to be rude.
It just is right now. So take what we're saying
with a grain of salt, meg and maybe they turned
it around this week, but as of now, it looks
like he's uninterested. There's no such urgency. This is the NFL.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
I look at the Dolphins in a unique way. That's
why I wanted to bring up the big picture of
the lack of success. Think about the Patriots dominating that division. Yeah,
for two decades. However, Tom Brady leaves, Belichick leaves, who's
taken over the Buffalo Bills. Even during the Patriots run,
the Jets had their moments with Rex Ryan. Couple of seasons.

(29:12):
Weren't a lot, but they were being.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Him in the playoff. Yes, it took them, you know,
took him pretty far.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
At least they broke through. The Dolphins really didn't. There
was like one division title at one point and then
it's just a bunch of wild card birds.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know, I'll give you the baseball analogy if you're
a fan of American League East baseball, which I know
Cavino is. There was a good amount of time where dude,
it was Yankees or Red Sox, and my apologies to Baltimore,
Toronto and Tampa because you just didn't really have a shot.
But you're right. There was a year or so where
Tampa made it to the World Series. Yes, there was

(29:46):
a year where Toronto and Joey Bats went on a run.
And the Orioles even had maybe one or two years
where they were a wild card. The Dolphins were had
the odds stacked against him playing in that division. But
you're right, every other team found the way to le
have a glimmer of a.

Speaker 8 (30:00):
Yes, at least post Patriots, or even a shot during it,
and they really haven't really haven't done that.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's great analysis, dB, and it made me feel better
about our rude comments.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
Serious.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
It just backed up the feeling and sentiment everybody.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
You think about it, Even if a division is dominated
in any sport, there's you pick a team and you
be like, even if they didn't win it all, there
was a year or so where they jumped through a
national league. East Nationals won a World Series every few years.
The Marlins pops up, the Braves won a World Series.
The Phillies did. The Mets have a couple of moments
of glimmers here and there. So even even fifteen yeah, yeah,

(30:35):
so it's like even divisions are bad teams. They find
a way to be relevant here or there. The Dolphins
have never found the time to be relevant.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Correct, and it's not looking good.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
So it's by the way, with Tyreek, I know he's
not the Tyreek of aol, but he's still effective. Tyreek
and Waddle and h Chan and I don't know. It's
they had it and I just don't know why. It's
so have you seen a good look of Tyreek Hill's neck, Like,
have you ever really looked at it? Muscular?

Speaker 3 (31:09):
No, I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
His neck is it's like Mike Tyson's neck on a
little peete like a little p head on top.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
He is so so strong. I just saw a.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Picture of him, like, yeah, how go ahead. I never
noticed he's got a pit pull neck. I don't know,
because you know tyreek Hill, you've seen him a million times.
I just never noticed that about him. And this past
weekend I was looking at him. I'm like, my goodness,
like that's he's saying. He's like Beatles Troops from the
stern t.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
What was that guy?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I remember that, That that dude, that shady dode with
the big strong neck. He was all over the internet.
He said he's like rand Man from he Man. I'm
telling you, and I'm just saying, I know exactly who
you're talking about. It was the long skinny neck kid,
and he was always with that wide neck guy, and
they went viral for He's like wide neck. That's that's

(31:57):
actually a good picture. Spot Like, That's what I'm saying.
I think something happened where he was doing some real
serious neck workouts in the off season, because it's next
level wide And again you can see the pictures. You
can see us live on Fox Sports Radio, the YouTube
Channel's Covino and Rich FSR. Covino and Rich like, I
get you know, he's down in Miami turning his head
left to right a lot. So good all that ass

(32:19):
looking at all that ass man I'm telling you he's
like wide neck.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
That neck guy, the internet personality you're talking about. He's
from Pensacola, Florida. Neck was that that's they call people,
just call him guy guy.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I'm telling you it's all the it's the year long
bikinis in Florida where you know guys off and again,
maybe maybe it was like enhanced or whatever with Ai,
but I'm like, what is that? I never noticed that.
But again, he's the NFL, so I guess I shouldn't
be that surprised. It's like when Eli Manning had that
really bulbous helmet and there were some photoshops that made

(32:52):
it even bigger. Like you're like, didn't make it even bigger.
Maybe let's go to our buddy and yours Dan buy
for an update. dB. I'm hearing my dude rock party
is it might be worse than we thought.

Speaker 9 (33:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Ian Rappaport of the NFL Network says weeks two and
week three are really in jeopardy. So that's against the
Saints and against the Cardinals two to five weeks is
what they're saying. So when we talked about this yesterday
and no update right now from Kyle Shanahan on Pretty Status.
It's a turf toe injury that's the bigger issue again
because of their schedule when they've got that short week
from weeks four to five, because of their Thursday night game.

(33:27):
I think that's why you're seeing this two to five
weeks sort of timetable for Party. But Rapaport reporting earlier
today that it's weeks two and three that seemed to
really be possibly missed by Party.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I certainly don't want to dictate your update, Dan, but
with the Party news, I had to look up because
I feel like it's one of those things people don't
know and they just go, yeah, yeah, yeah, turf toe
for people that don't know. I did some turf toe
researcher earlier, so I'm like, what is he dealing with? Essentially,
it's your big toe gets overextended and you've essentially really
badly sprained your big toe and you don't realize how
important balance everything your.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
Big toe correct.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Major legends have been retired because of their feet.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
And if you have had to deal with anybody elderly
that unfortunately had to have something amputated, the silver lining
is at least it wasn't your big toe We make
jokes about it, but that's the reason why Buffalo Bill's
defensive tackle Ed Oliver didn't practice today because of an
ankle injury. They've got the Jets corner Sauce Gardner limited
in practice with a groin injury. Week two starts tonight
with the Commanders and Packers eight fifteen Eastern Time from

(34:25):
Lambeau on Sunday that it's the Vikings home to the Falcons.
No practice today for Falcons, excuse me. Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy.
He was with his wife as she gave birth to
their brand new baby boy. No practice for Raiders ten
and brock Bowers. They're prepping for a Monday night affair
with the Chargers. And the NFL won't punish Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson for shoving a fan after he was shoved

(34:46):
during a touchdown celebration in Week one in Buffalo. Some
baseball news. Kevin Gossman complete game two hitter today, struck
out nine. Blue Jay's topped the Astros six to nothing.
A little bit more breathing room on Covino's Yankees in
the Al East, now up to three and a half
for Toronto. As for the Astros. Now just a half
game up on the Mariners. That's Ale West.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
That division's wild. The aos got tight real quick.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
Orioles dropped the Pirates three to two, White Sox beat
the race five to one.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Guys, back to.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
You, Hey, thank you, Dan Meyern. Now, I know it's
hard to look back, but that's how you never forget right.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
And we're gonna share our stories.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
We were in New York at the time, on the
East Coast on nine to eleven, two thousand and one.
We'll tell you our story briefly, but we'll also talk
about what brought us back to normal and the great
sports moments that took us there. So we'll reminisce a
little bit plus old school win fifty hits. We have
lots to get to on Covino and Rich Fox Sports Radio.

(35:46):
It's Covino and Rich Remember everything, sorry, getting emotional everything
at Covino and Rich on social media at Fox Sports Radio,
and we're streaming live on YouTube YouTube Slash Covino and
Rich FSR. It's where you can also find our bonus
podcast right after the show, talking a lot about Cannello, Crawford,

(36:08):
Rich's NFL picks over promised Episode one oh eight premieres today,
so make note of that. Right now, live from the
Fox Sports Radio studio, and it's time for our tire
rack play of the day. Don't look now, but Mookie
Betts is heating up.

Speaker 10 (36:22):
Here's the pitch and Mookie swings hits a drive DP
left center.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
Hit is Park.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
It is a grand swam for Mookie Bets.

Speaker 7 (36:32):
O Mooky moment.

Speaker 10 (36:34):
Here Mooky bets On a three to zero pitch, hits
it over the three seventy five marker ridd of the
left field pavilion and the Dodgers open it up.

Speaker 7 (36:47):
It is eight to nothing.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
You're proud of yourself. You beat the Rockies, Danny g
You know what, can you beat the Giants? Three games
this weekend for the Mets if.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
The offense stays hot like this, Yeah, sweep the Giants.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Thank you, Dodger. Leave my team's name out your mouth.
Oh that's right. You're a Giants guy.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
That's a sexy Ryan Giants guy. But you know what, but.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
What do you care?

Speaker 8 (37:09):
Then?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm rooting for you this weekend. Rich had me convince
you're a Giants fan. Sexy Ryans. Yeah, I was like
keeping back to the back of the nights where bets
was on fire courtesy of a five seventy Dodgers odio network.

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we will talk about nine to eleven and what got
us back to normal. A few events in sports, baseball

(37:44):
in fact, but right now we do it every Thursday.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
We throw it back. Look at the clock, let's go.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
There's a certain.

Speaker 11 (37:55):
What we're gonna do is go back, go back, throwing
it back for a Thursday. Old School went fifty hits.
That's fifty after CNR give you the time capsule topic
and we reminisce together.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
So today's an anniversary, Sexy Ryan, I hope you're paying
attention because this is your world. Bro this day nineteen
seventy seven, I was a one year old little pimp
and the making bro the godfather of video games, became
a thing. Atari twenty six hundred debuted in America. That

(38:36):
was my first gaming console. Legendary. I remember when I
got it, when Santa wrote it. In fact, my dad goes,
what's that.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I was like, it's a joystick.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Joystick. I know what that means. Joystick. I know what
that means, Daddy with the joy stick.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I'm like, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
It exploded in the eighties with Space Invaders. I still
remember the day I had, like I got Glenn Gouglia moment,
went to my parents' friend's house and like the rich
eighties guy had Atar and he was playing pac Man.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Bink Bank, Bank mank Bank, Bank, Bank make Bank.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
But the Atari version it was different, less advanced than
the Arcade version, but it was mind blasting for the time.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
It's funny, Covino, you say a rich guy because it
started off slow, because it was the equivalent to eleven
hundred dollars for parents to buy in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Well, thank god Santa bought my Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
In nineteen eighty they started having sales on the console,
and Space Invaders blew it up.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
I remember the day that you hooked it up to
the back of the TV. That weird little.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Like UHF thing that it connected to. I don't know
what it was. Yeah, that a little weird thing.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
And my first game I ever played on my first
ever console, Tari twenty six hundred was Commando Raid, and
I remember I thought the graphics were way cool.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
That's how it looked.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
There was Commando Raid Atari twenty six hundred, just shooting
down the playing the little on the parachutes and everything.
So based on that, you have to start thinking about
how far it's come, how far we've come from I
mean a million dollars. My first gaming console was Nintendo
nes I remember getting that in the mid eighties, and
I remember remember Mario and Duck Hunt came on the

(40:17):
same but it all started with the Atari's I never
ever had Atari or whatever, but that changed our life.
So we want to dive into old school hobbies because
this week we found out that Iowa Sam used to
be a fencer when he.

Speaker 11 (40:29):
Was a kid.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Who knew. Let's talk about your old school hobbies because
nowadays that's one of the biggest hobbies in our country, in.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
The world gaming gaming, Yeah, game, So.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
We'll talk hobbies. We'll talk some sports members from nine
to eleven and more right here can be known wretch
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