October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
The 2025 NBA season starts on Tuesday, and we’re breaking down the early contenders for the title! Plus — is it time for the Dolphins to move on from Tua Tagovailoa? We also dive into college football hot seats, with Billy Napier and Jay Norvell being the most recent coaches fired. Don’t miss this week’s Fitz Take Podcast episode for all the biggest storylines in NBA and college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into another episode
of the Fits Tape podcast. I'm your guy, Ja Marcus Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me FITS. That
man in boxes with me is my co host, mister
Elijah Nixon. Guys, thank y'all so much for continuing to
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you know when we're dropping an episode. Thank you guys
so much. Like I said, man, I think this is
episode sixty. We've been able to just continue to build
and grow this thing weekend and week out, whether it's
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you know, episodes with players or just the two man
shows when us just talking man like. It's been. It's
been something that we could have never imagined it growing
to at this point, and we're truly appreciative of what
you guys have been able to do for us locally,
for college football, for us here in Louisiana that the
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sky is falling. Ulsu loses the Vanderbilts for the first
time since the nineties. Louisiana Raging Cajun's are two and
five after losing on homecoming to Southern miss Uh. They're
in rocket top. Things ain't good because they didn't got
their second loss. They lose Tobama thirty seven. So yeah,
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work is work is something right now? You know, the
guys are contending for what they want, but other than
they eat, how you doing, Man, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Doing all right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I was upset that I wasn't that except but you know,
I thought they would pull something out that they never
didn't do since two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Do you remember the graphics of TV in two thousand
and three that was the lifetime but it was three
the left time.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's last time to the z beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Man,
I know I was joking on something my co workers.
Ye yesterday I was like, man if I was driving
home and I also saw that bus driving next to
throw a rock at it. Man, So that's all man,
I was, Man, I want bro I was. I was
pissed bro like, but today he'll be fine. It's just,
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you know, bad loss, but you know something that they
can bounce back.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
From, especially this week of Get Kentucky. That a real fan.
He's I want to throw a rocket.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm trying to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh man, that's hilarious. Yeah. Like I said, man, you
will follow in the Southern miss, it was. It was
a rough watch, man, because they had a lot of
opportunities in their defense. Force two turnovers. You will, turned
it over three times, including one with lunch went Field.
He was trying to scratch stretch the football across the
goal line and uh he got it right there to
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the ground. They lifted him up in the air just
enough and the ball came out of his hands. He
fumbled it at the one yard line, So that hurt
a ton. I think at that point it was twenty
to ten, So if he'd have scored twenty seventeen, completely
different ball game. Yeah, And then they got a Southern
miss ended up getting a safety at the end kind
of put the game away. So it was rough. Man,
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it was rough. But college football season as shaky as
it is. You know, we have a lot of things
that we have on tap that we're gonna talk about
We're gonna talk about the recent firing of Billy Napier
and Jane Norville and potentially Mike Norvelle, potentially Hugh Freeze
and potentially Jeff Levy. Like all of these coaches are
getting canned left and right. People are calling for coaches heads.
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We'll talk about that, we'll talk about whether to talking
for lower needs to be gone in Miami. But before
we get into that, basketball season is here. The NBA
starts the season on Tuesday night and it is the
return of the NBA on NBC. The Little We got
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that coming up on tap. Man, there's gonna be some
good ball games there on Tuesday Night. I think the
Warriors play at six point thirty and I can't remember
who has the nine o'clock tip off game, So it's
gonna be exciting. Man. A new season brings about new conversations,
and it also means that it's always gonna be about
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who is the early contenders for championships in the East
and the West. And that's the question that I pose
for you, Elijah, who you believe is gonna be your
early contenders in the West, in the East? One one
who you think coming out of the West who do
you think is coming out of the east.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My three teams coming out of the West, no particular order. Okay,
so you gotta give them respect.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Now you can't get three. I just thought about that.
Now you get one because only one team win the championship.
No one.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, I don't know. Well out of the west, all right,
you know what? Out of the west. Here is my sleeper.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think that people not looking at him because it's
really between these two.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But I want to go.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm gonna go. We'll go Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm gonna go Dallas only because they move a d
back to the four. He don't play the five. I
think they don't put a lot of pressure on Cooper,
but I think Cooper Cooper flag could really ball like
and I heard it he was starting at point guard,
so moving him to a guard of letting him dish
like a Magic Johnson type Willie.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is he a Magic Johnson as player? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Because we know him for scoring, I never really seen
him facilitate as much. But it's interesting because that's gonna
be a lengthy lineup, Like defensively, you they're long, and
then they can stretch the floor with any guy with
Clay with Cooper, with Anthony, you know, Gaffords on at
the bottom.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think Dangel Ruffle coming off the bench. So Dallas
is gonna be an interesting team to watch, and Jason
Kidd is one of my favorite coaches, So I'm gonna
go Dallas between them and the Clippers. But I'm gonna
go Dallas for that one as a really favorite. And
then in the.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
East, I don't I don't know Tyre's Halliburton's off for
the Pacers, Jason Tatum is not coming back most likely
Johannis don't even know if he want to be in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Uh, I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
In Donovan and then when you believe in Donovan, he
let me down. Like That's like one of my worst
fan duel picks. So I'm gonna have to go with
I'm gonna have to go with the Knicks only because
I'm a Knicks fan, Like I.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Have to go to the.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Nicks because I'm a Knicks fan.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I ain't like And this is me being like truthful,
like I of course I would love to see the
Knicks go.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There, but I don't know if really I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What they really look like because it's a whole new scheme,
the whole new system with Mike Brown at the helm.
We got bench players with Jordan Clarkson on the bench
coming in and we'll see how that works with him.
And I think Michael Brock didn't signed with us for
two days and then decide to retire, so I don't
even know what what was the reason with signing their paper,
but I'm just interested to see how that worked with him, man,
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because I think they could do some good things. I
think Josh Hart is coming off the bench as well,
so I think, you know, with us utilizing probably probably
eleven ten to eleven rope mayor rotation, I think we'll
look a little different. So I'm gonna go with the Knicks.
And that's mainly because a lot of a lot of
teams are hurt. So I'm gonna go with the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I got you, man. I know. I said in the
pre part of the show in the West that I
was looking at OKAC because it is their world. But
as I look at things again, I'm gonna lean more
towards the Denver Nuggets. I think that OKAC definitely will
be in contention, and I wouldn't be surprised if they
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make it back to the Western Conference Finals. But Nicola
Jokic is gonna have something to say about SGA and
all of the other boys, because he's looking like, I
know you did what you did to get your MVP, brother,
But I'm that boy. I'm net one. I play this methodical,
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slow tempo, very fundamental style basketball, and I'm gonna give
you a smooth thirty twenty and ten, maybe even fifteen
depending on how I'm feeling. I'm gonna give it to you,
real simple, real slow, and I'm gonna lead this team
to a championship. He's done it before, He's won multiple MVPs,
he's a multiple time All Star, and he has pieces
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around him. You know, one of the things that I
look at with a lot of the teams just around
the league in general, is a lot of their big
three cores, Like this is the Big three era, without
a doubt, Like this is the time where if you
don't have three main pieces, you not even giving yourself
a chance to compete. You gotta have your superstar. You
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gotta have somebody to compliment him, and then you need
somebody that when those two guys are having an off
night that can pick it up too. And the Denver
Nuggets have that, you know, Aaron Gordon, Nakolejokicic and Jamal Murray. Obviously,
they would like to have back that series that they
had against Minnesota. They would like to be back in
the conversation again and redeem themselves. And I think Joka
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is gonna be able to lead his team to be
able to do that. He's always been a dominant presence
throughout his career and I think he's gonna be able
to continue to build off of that throughout the season.
But like I said, I would not be surprised if
Oka see comes out the gate and comes out swinging
and finds themselves back as a number one seed, number
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two seed and goes on a deep playoff run. But
for now, early on before the season kicks off or
tips off, that is I'm taking the Denver Nuggets out
of the West and in the East, I'm gonna have
to go with the Cleveland Cavaliers. I know you said that,
you know it's hard to believe in Donovan Mitchell, but
I believe Spider is gonna come out there, man, and
it's gonna flip this thing around. Because they had all
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the pieces together to be as successful as they were
last season to get the number one seed, and they
just ran into a very, very hot Indiana team. Sometimes
it ain't even about being the best team. Sometimes it's
about who's the hottest. Like if you a hot basketball team, man,
that's tough because in the game of basketball, teams can
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score in bunches because of the way that the three
ball is utilized. Bro three full baskets, that's a twelve
oh run easily. And so if you're not careful, you
find yourselves losing games that on paper. You come in
and you say, we're not supposed to lose this game.
This is a basketball game, and we're supposed to come
out and win. And I think now that Cleveland has
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experienced that, now that they've seen that, now they're coming
out and they're saying, we can't take nobody lightly, we
can't take no prisoners. If we get an opportunity, we
need to put our foot on people's necks and we
need to go ahead and dominate to win these basketball games.
And like you said, because there are so many teams
that are banged up and or young in the East,
because they have the experience in May, can you know
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a number one seed push and getting into the second
round of the playoffs. Because they have that experience in
doing that, they're gonna be a little more ahead of
the curve today, be able to know what it takes.
All right, we know what it took to get to
the second round. If we can add on top of
that work, and we already did, then we can get
ourselves to the Eastern Conference Finals, and we can get
to the Eastern Conference Finals, and we can get to
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the NBA Championship. If we can get to the NBA Championship,
we got a chance to be able to win it.
So I got Cleveland coming out of the East, and
I got Denver coming out of the West, and I
think that would make for a very, very exciting NBA
Championship game. The West, I think is very very crowded
with a lot of talent over there, and I think
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that it's going to be a tough run. But it's
gonna be an interesting NBA basketball season, man. So it's
gonna be definitely exciting, and we'll be keeping our eyes
on it. Like I said, the NBA tips off on
Tuesday night. We're recording this episode on Monday morning, so
on tomorrow we have the Houston Rockets taking on the
OKC Thunder at six thirty, so they got the six
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thirty tipping. Then it's the Lakers and the Warriors and
the nine o'clock tip. So I had it flipped around,
so the Rockets and the Thunder going at it to
open the NBA season, and then the Warriors and the
Lakers that night. We know Lebron James will not be
playing at night because he probably is gonna be out
for the foreseeable future trying to figure things out with
whatever that injury is. I don't know if it's like
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a butt muscle or something like something going on with it.
He got an old he got old man injuries going on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You're trying to put sixty two games with.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Look, I understand, what's the point of it. If I
can get hot, Like I just said, Bro, you don't.
You don't need to go eighty two and oh. You
need to be playing well enough on the back half
of the season. You need to get into the playoff picture.
You don't need to be in the playing tournament. You
need to get into the play off picture as a
one through four, one through five. Get in there, get
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hot and going to run that's all you need to do.
That's all you need to do. So we'll keep my
eyes on that, ladies and gentlemen. It'll be fun to
watch what comes out of this NBA season. Let's move
forward back to football, and we're talking about Miami Dolphins
quarterback to a tongue BA Loa. It's been an interesting
run there in Miami and the past couple of weeks,
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he's been in the headlines quite a bit recently talking
with the media and mentioning how you know there were
players that were late to team or players only meetings,
and then coming back and apologizing, you know, his win
loss record isn't what a lot of people expected to
be with the expectations that were put on his shoulders,
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he made a lot of mistakes in their recent loss.
Mike McDaniel gets to the podium and says that he's
going to be reevaluating things, which brings the question about Elijah.
Is it time for the Dolphins and to a to
part ways and for them to go into another direction.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's been tom, there's been time. It's been time since
after the twenty twenty four season. Honestly, too talk about
law gets paid. Let's let me, look at this. He
gets paid I think fifty three million dollars a year.
I want to make sure I'm correct before I before
I go on my ramp, because I want, I want
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you to feel what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He gets paid, Yes, fifty three the average of fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Three point one million dollars a year two hundred and twelve,
and he's signed two hundred and twelve million dollars deal
in twenty twenty four. Did you know that two a
tongue about low only through nineteen touchdowns last year?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, I get it, I get it. You had a
good cushion. You had a good cushion. That's normal for it.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Did you know that he only had two seasons? And
I'm including this one right now because I don't even
think he'll reach it were he only he threw for
over twenty He threw for twenty or more touchdowns? Does
that sound like a fifty three million dollar contract a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To you?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do sound like somebody who should get another chance to eat?
Does that?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Does that sound like that's somebody that's just putting up
numbers or winning games? No, No, it doesn't. For instance,
the officer corded to Mike McDaniel. I'm not a head coach.
I'm not mad that he caters his whole offense to
to talk a while over, but think about it, he's
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hindering what Jaylen Wattle could do with stretch the field.
Tyreek Hill could do, which just stretch the field what
a change could do. And he can stretch the field
as well coming up the battlefield because all he doing
is dunking and dunkin to toa doesn't really throw the
ball down the field because he doesn't have the armstrength
to do it. So now you're hindering Tyreek Jalen Wattle,
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who can be ones on other teams and be productive productive.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
The reason why you were productive is because of those.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Guys that they had around you in the office of
scheme that they had around him two time two a
tongue whatever to a tongue about low.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Last name right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Was never the X factor. That's the name tongue whatever.
Hung by lord, he can't even know he was never
the X factor in the offense.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And I really feel like this.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I know people are just saying, you know, well, I
think if Mike McDaniel don't get fired this year, which
I don't believe he should. I think they should give
him another chance with another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
For they already came out and said that they unlikely
to get rid of him. But you know people be lying.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's why I'm not even gonna I think Mike mcdamia
should go try to get another quarterback, talk to Tyree Hill.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And see what they could do till Tyree give me
half a year. Now, we will trade you with.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
This new quarter if the quarterback doesn't work out. Because
at the end of the day, two is the guy
that's holding that office back. I don't think it's Mike
McDaniels much. I'm not saying like Madell's gonna take him
to the super Bowl, and I don't believe that, But
I believe the office could be way more productive without
that man under center.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, but the only thing about that, you said, draft
the quarterback. Who do you go and get right now?
If you're talking about a high caliber quarterback, all the
ones that everybody thought in college football were gonna be
good and we're gonna be ready, ain't that Garrett Nesmayer
ain't been that Drew Aler heard Carson Beck, ain't been
that Arch Manning, ain't been that probably gonna come back
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for another year. Who do you go with? Who do
you go with? You're you're almost it's almost like they're
blessed and curse in a sense, right too. It has
the Pro Bowl year in twenty twenty three. That's what
you know we talked about offline of sometimes guys play
for a contract, whether it's coaches, players, whatever, they're in
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a contract year, they have a good year and then
you end up getting paid for what they believe you
can do after that. So he had a Pro Bowl year,
he led the league in passing yards, he gets the
Pro Bowl year. And so now that they're saying, all right,
we believe that you can be our future, We're gonna
pay you like you're the future. You gotta give them
what the going rate is for. It's a messed up,
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you know, way to look at it. But when quarterbacks
are getting paid the money that they're getting paid, and
they're looking around and he saw that Trevor Lawrence is
getting this and Dak Prescott getting this, and you know,
all these quarterbacks are getting paid what they paid. They
don't want their money, right, So I understand that he
got what he got. However, since that contract year since
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him going eleven and six and getting his team to
the playoffs, he's gone six and five and now one
in five. In that time he's thrown four twenty eight
hundred yards, nineteen touchdowns, seven picks. This year he's thrown
for five hundred and seventy five yards, five touchdowns, four picks.
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So now you turn it into pick Maine. And even
in the year where you led the league in passing yards,
you had twenty nine touchdowns fourteen picks. Hey man, you
got more turnovers in a bakery right now, Like, what
are we doing? You're giving the football away too much.
But when you look at it, for me, it's not
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even about a football thing on the field of why
I think it's time for two of to move on.
When he stood in front of that microphone in front
of the media and started talking about business that's going
on inside the locker room and giving too much, like that, bro,
that is the locker room is the space where, no
matter what we'll handle it in here, it can't get
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out there. They say, out the noise. Don't don't put
the noise out there. He got to the mic and
gave him the noise. But yeah, players is you know,
showing up late to you know, players only meetings, and
you know it's it's about leadership. But you're the leader.
You you the man. You making fifty three million dollars
a year. So isn't that is it? Aren't you calling
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out your own leadership skills? Why would you do that?
And then you know you wrong because then they probably
put them in their locker room and said, hey boy,
you lost your mind for real that one of them concussions.
Then you left your brain on the side of the
road with one of them last concussions you had. You
don't do that. Come on, man, you think about it.
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My office and tackle office of guard, my running backs,
my receivers that we talked with day in and day
out in facilities with all day long, and I'm talking about, oh,
players is doing this and that, and you know, we
just need to be more accountable. Okay, hold them accountable
into him, right, But then they probably get say, hey man,
you you're making all his money and you're throwing all
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these picks and you ain't winning. It was cute in
twenty twenty three. You got your money. It ain't cute
no more. It ain't cute no more. It's not you
ain't hand. It was cut in twenty twenty three. Oh boy,
he threw twenty nine touchdowns fourteen picks. He got us
to the playoffs though he made it work. Hey, no,
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no more. You got to turn this around. Brother. And
I think from a cultural standpoint, if Mike McDaniels wants
to keep his job to a Gotta Go, I'm not
saying that they gotta do something. They're gonna have to
figure out something how to trade somebody. They gonna have
to figure this out. They're gonna have to trade him
and figure out who has enough cap space that can
be able to take him. Maybe the Raiders might want
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him because Geno ain't working out over there. You know,
maybe if they can figure out how to, you know,
swap a little something something for that. But two of
Gotta Go Man two is not at the answer right
now on the field and then in the locker room
as well, Like it is not a good situation in Miami.
And let's say fast nose diving plane right now, they
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are going now very very fast in a hurry. And
I know reports just came out a few seconds ago.
As we're recording this episode of the Dolphins saying, and
we're unlikely to get rid of Mike McDaniels. Losing changes
people's mind, just like I win in here's all. Losing
changes mind. Keep losing, see what happens. See see won't
your butt start warming up? Mm hmm, gone ahead, keep losing,
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I'm telling you, And that's gonna that's gonna that's gonna
pivot right into what we're about to talk about next
with them wins and losses. You keep losing. See, won't
you get a pink slip in the mail? See want
your key card? Stop working to the building, keep on. Okay, Mike,
you better go and get rid of that man. You
better put him on the bench you had Quinn yours
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in there. If that's what you think, you finished, gone
with your move, because if you keep playing to it
and y'all go from one to five to one and nine,
one and ten. Oh yeah, you're gonna get a high
draft pick. But you ain't gonna be the one getting
the pick. You're gonna get a pink slip. That's what
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you're gonna get. So we'll see, we'll see what the
Dolphins decided to do with the future of two were
talking about lower are guys. We're gonna round out the
show with our fits take. As we're looking around the
college football world and a lot of coaches have lost
their jobs, especially early on, like it was Sam Pittman, Uh,
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it was Dashaun Foster out at u C l A
H James Franklin Penn State, and now the latest, the
two latest. The biggest one was Billy Napier, which that
one was expected that there have been a lot of
conversations around it happening. You know, his time in Gameville
was very up and down, very back and forth, short
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lived three and a half seasons because he didn't finish
out this fourth one. And then also j Norvell out
of Colorado State gets fired after three seasons. I believe
it was so you got two coaches that are added
to this coaching carousel that is already spiraling. And then
there are multiple reports saying that Florida State boosters have
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been meeting with each other to talk about Ken and
Mike Norvelle. The conversations of Hugh Freeze getting thrown out.
I just saw a tweet of somebody saying that Jeff
Levy needs to go out of Mississippi State. Everybody trying
to fire a coach. Everybody, Elijah, how many years does
a coach really have to be successful or how short
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of Alisha does a coach really have before they start
calling for his head man.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
In my personal opinion, I think you should have three,
but the leasha is still short. College is kind of
different than the pros only because it's simple fact that
kids and administrations they want to win the rivalry game
just as much as they want to win the championship.
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So if I'm Michigan and I lose to Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Three times in a row, they're looking to get me
out of there, especially if I have a loser to you.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And it shows even with like Billy Napier, I think
I think Florida really liked Billy Napier, but Billy Napier
just couldn't win on fourteen.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
On the road, you play your rivals on the road,
and if you're not getting done on the road and
you're not getting done at home, you need to go
somewhere else out the country.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't think that. I just think that.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Basically in college, they look at it as a national
championship and bust every year. Depending on what program you're at,
other programs. Can you beat my right, Mississippi State? Can
you be all missed nine times out of ten? No,
But that's what they're looking into, that stuff, and I
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think that's why they give him three years. James Franklin
is the perfect example of all this stuff. James Franksman,
I thought, you know, he ran a program well, you know,
with the way he was winning games, but he just
couldn't win the big one. There was nothing else. Penn
State was in contention every year, every year up at that,
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and the next thing you know, he's out because he
can't be anybody or win the big ones. He can't
be the organ and stuff like that. Borks just can't
win the big ones. So I give you about three years.
And I give it three years because if the program
really likes the candidate or they like the coach, they're
going to keep you around. But if you don't win,
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after they pay X amount of millions of dollars, they're
gonna have to just kick.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Rocks with you. And if you want to pay somebody
to lose, hire me.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
If you giving out all this money fifty million dollars,
million dollars, seven million dollars, and I can't beat your rival.
I look, I'll go home. I'm gonna go home with
a bag, but I'm going on. I'm going I'm going home, going.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Home with like a cartoon character villain with two bags
of money with the money symbol on it. Feeling like this,
I robbed, y'all, No man, before I say what I say.
First of all, you know in the one season that
Billy Napier was here while I was working. While I've
been working here Laffey, and he was the head coach
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of Louisi and the Raging Cagents. I didn't have as
many opportunities to interact with him in person because we
had COVID restrictions still going on back half of that.
So like most of the press conferences we had for
like the first eight weeks were over zoomed, So I
only had a chance to be in person with him
maybe like four to five times realistically before he was going.
(28:12):
But he always seemed like a high character guy. Every
question that I asked, you know, he answered it to
the best of his abilities. I'll never forget Whenever LSU
was getting ready to hire Brian Kelly, it was a random,
like Tuesday night something I was at a volleyball game,
and I got on a zoom call and I was like, hey, coach,
has LSU contacted you at all? Or do you have
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you know, any thought process of how that might be
going there? In Baton rouge. He answered it to the
best of his abilities. Obviously, ain't no coach gonna tell you, Yes,
ls you called me while I'm working here at with Louisiana.
They're not gonna do that. And the unfortunate side of
firing a coach is I think I was talking to,
(28:57):
you know, an assistant basketball coach for you out here
is that, bro, people's lives are affected in this. So
as much as you know Billy is going to get
his twenty one million dollar buy out, ten million of
it is coming to him in the next thirty days.
That's finding dandy. That's great, But that's gonna weigh on
this man heavily, knowing because of me at the leadership
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of this, we couldn't get it done. So assistants are
out of jobs, you know, so many guys have to
go and tell their famili's bab we got to move again.
We got to pack the bags up again. That's the
hard part of it. Now to the point of how
many years or how short of a leach a coach has.
(29:40):
I disagree with you about three years. I think it's
two years. I don't believe that, but I think it's
two years because of the amount of money that coaches
are getting paid, because of the nil that players are
getting paid, because of the transfer portal of you literally
being able to go in, spend money, get a really
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really good roster and put the pieces together to go
and win, and you look at short term success because
they're looking at how like in Florida they built a
brand new facility football only facility forty gators at Penn State.
I think they were getting ready to do like a
fifty million dollar renovation to their stadium. Bro, that's a
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lot of money, and we're paying you a big contract.
And then if you Brian Kelly, you spend eighteen to
twenty million dollars on his roster. We ain't got tied
for you to be going eight and five. We ain't
got tied for you to be going ten to three.
We need a Natty. Winning cures all losing changes minds.
Remember that winning cures all losing change his minds. So
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coaches really only have a two year window. Look at
Kirksey Nitty. This man went to the college football playoffs
his first year. They said you is the man, and
they gave him an eleven year extension, paying him eleven
million dollars a year. Winning cures all losing change his
mind as long as he keep pumping out dubs. If
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he could go ten and two every single year, get
them boys to the playoffs, they'll they'll probably be like,
he can never win the big game, and they'll still
probably call for his head. But he's always gonna be
able to have some form of job security. But let
you start losing your seat, gonna start woman up. Brian Kelly,
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your seat gonna start warming up. Dame Beemer, your seat
gonna start warming up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I'm telling you you, bef Brian Kelly the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Man, I'm telling you man. People, boy, if you if
you get on Twitter and on Facebook, hey, man, these
people is they fed up. We tied him right there,
We read for him to go. They are ready for
him to go. They don't believe he fits the culture.
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They don't understand how you spend as much. But that's
what I'm saying, man, because of the way that you
can literally go into the portal now and say, we
need a quarterback, we need a running back, we need
a receiver. Go get that one, give him, give him
five hundred thousand dollars, bring him here. You can literally
go and do that now because it's that and you're
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getting paid ten million dollars a year, and you got
some of the best facilities in the country. You got
state of the art recovery and training the tables, and
you feeding these boys taking lobster and they running and
lifting weights to noth But you better go win a championship.
We ain't got time to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You know, we're so right there, We're almost there. UCLA
fire Deshaun Foster after two seasons, no really really one
in three games. She was five and ten. They said,
you know what, No, this ain't gonna work. This ain't
this ain't gonna cut it. This, this ain't gonna cut it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And they won three games in a row after the
three ride.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Maybe he was the problem. We'll never know. He ain't
get it, he ain't get two years. He got one
in three games. Brother got fifteen games. So hurry up
because we're waiting and we're still waiting why you're not
Kirk Signetti. Why we ain't got to the playoffs yet,
Why we ain't won a championship. We'd have punk too
(33:33):
much money in this and we're still waiting. Hurry up,
you dragging your feet still, don't worry about it. Let
mcg goon ahead, slip this house to a source. We're
having conversations with boosters.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Is it embarrassing that if Indiana mix the playoffs and.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
They don't, who would l s U doesn't make it
and India to make it. Yeah? I mean the Vanderbilt
loss was the kind of destraw that broke the camel.
If Brian Keller los another game, man, which is very likely,
because what they got next, they got a number three
Texas A and M team coming into Death Valley, they
gotta go to Alabama, then they gotta go to Oklahoma.
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That's three games with the possibility, bro that you're probably
gonna be the dog. I think they are the dog
at home against Texas A and M. This is a
possibility you could be the underdog in all three of
them games if he lose two of them three games,
mark my words. You heard it here. First, Brian Kelly
is gone from bad ruge. They gonna find that money.
They gonna find that buy out money. It's a lot
of it. I think it's like fifty three and a
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half or something like fifty million. It's somewhere up there
with James Franklins. They gonna find that money. Again. People
are spending their money and if they don't like what
they seeing, they gonna stop spending their money. Winning cures
all losing changes minds. Oh y'all losing. Let me stop
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spending my money at these football games. Let me stop
donating to this football program, to this nil collective, Let
me stop showing up and giving money to the players,
all these different things like that. It's gonna go away.
It's gonna go away. But that's just our take, Ladies
and gentlemen. What do you think. How many years does
the coach have do they even have time? Is it
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really just a game by game basis? And the couple
just come in one year and six games in they no, no,
we don't want you. What do y'all think? Drop it
down in the comments, let us know how you feel
about it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, That is gonna wrap
up yet another episode of the fits Take podcast. It
was another good one here on the show. We appreciate
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What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into another episode
of the Fits Tape podcast. I'm your guy, Ja Marcus Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me FITS. That
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you know when we're dropping an episode. Thank you guys
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episode sixty. We've been able to just continue to build
and grow this thing weekend and week out, whether it's
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you know, episodes with players or just the two man
shows when us just talking man like. It's been. It's
been something that we could have never imagined it growing
to at this point, and we're truly appreciative of what
you guys have been able to do for us locally,
for college football, for us here in Louisiana that the
(01:06):
sky is falling. Ulsu loses the Vanderbilts for the first
time since the nineties. Louisiana Raging Cajun's are two and
five after losing on homecoming to Southern miss Uh. They're
in rocket top. Things ain't good because they didn't got
their second loss. They lose Tobama thirty seven. So yeah,
(01:27):
work is work is something right now? You know, the
guys are contending for what they want, but other than
they eat, how you doing, Man, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Doing all right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I was upset that I wasn't that except but you know,
I thought they would pull something out that they never
didn't do since two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Do you remember the graphics of TV in two thousand
and three that was the lifetime but it was three
the left time.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's last time to the z beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Man,
I know I was joking on something my co workers.
Ye yesterday I was like, man if I was driving
home and I also saw that bus driving next to
throw a rock at it. Man, So that's all man,
I was, Man, I want bro I was. I was
pissed bro like, but today he'll be fine. It's just,
(02:13):
you know, bad loss, but you know something that they
can bounce back.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
From, especially this week of Get Kentucky. That a real fan.
He's I want to throw a rocket.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm trying to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh man, that's hilarious. Yeah. Like I said, man, you
will follow in the Southern miss, it was. It was
a rough watch, man, because they had a lot of
opportunities in their defense. Force two turnovers. You will, turned
it over three times, including one with lunch went Field.
He was trying to scratch stretch the football across the
goal line and uh he got it right there to
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the ground. They lifted him up in the air just
enough and the ball came out of his hands. He
fumbled it at the one yard line, So that hurt
a ton. I think at that point it was twenty
to ten, So if he'd have scored twenty seventeen, completely
different ball game. Yeah, And then they got a Southern
miss ended up getting a safety at the end kind
of put the game away. So it was rough. Man,
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it was rough. But college football season as shaky as
it is. You know, we have a lot of things
that we have on tap that we're gonna talk about
We're gonna talk about the recent firing of Billy Napier
and Jane Norville and potentially Mike Norvelle, potentially Hugh Freeze
and potentially Jeff Levy. Like all of these coaches are
getting canned left and right. People are calling for coaches heads.
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We'll talk about that, we'll talk about whether to talking
for lower needs to be gone in Miami. But before
we get into that, basketball season is here. The NBA
starts the season on Tuesday night and it is the
return of the NBA on NBC. The Little We got
(03:54):
that coming up on tap. Man, there's gonna be some
good ball games there on Tuesday Night. I think the
Warriors play at six point thirty and I can't remember
who has the nine o'clock tip off game, So it's
gonna be exciting. Man. A new season brings about new conversations,
and it also means that it's always gonna be about
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who is the early contenders for championships in the East
and the West. And that's the question that I pose
for you, Elijah, who you believe is gonna be your
early contenders in the West, in the East? One one
who you think coming out of the West who do
you think is coming out of the east.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My three teams coming out of the West, no particular order. Okay,
so you gotta give them respect.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Now you can't get three. I just thought about that.
Now you get one because only one team win the championship.
No one.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, I don't know. Well out of the west, all right,
you know what? Out of the west. Here is my sleeper.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think that people not looking at him because it's
really between these two.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But I want to go.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm gonna go. We'll go Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm gonna go Dallas only because they move a d
back to the four. He don't play the five. I
think they don't put a lot of pressure on Cooper,
but I think Cooper Cooper flag could really ball like
and I heard it he was starting at point guard,
so moving him to a guard of letting him dish
like a Magic Johnson type Willie.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is he a Magic Johnson as player? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Because we know him for scoring, I never really seen
him facilitate as much. But it's interesting because that's gonna
be a lengthy lineup, Like defensively, you they're long, and
then they can stretch the floor with any guy with
Clay with Cooper, with Anthony, you know, Gaffords on at
the bottom.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think Dangel Ruffle coming off the bench. So Dallas
is gonna be an interesting team to watch, and Jason
Kidd is one of my favorite coaches, So I'm gonna
go Dallas between them and the Clippers. But I'm gonna
go Dallas for that one as a really favorite. And
then in the.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
East, I don't I don't know Tyre's Halliburton's off for
the Pacers, Jason Tatum is not coming back most likely
Johannis don't even know if he want to be in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Uh, I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
In Donovan and then when you believe in Donovan, he
let me down. Like That's like one of my worst
fan duel picks. So I'm gonna have to go with
I'm gonna have to go with the Knicks only because
I'm a Knicks fan, Like I.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Have to go to the.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Nicks because I'm a Knicks fan.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I ain't like And this is me being like truthful,
like I of course I would love to see the
Knicks go.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There, but I don't know if really I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What they really look like because it's a whole new scheme,
the whole new system with Mike Brown at the helm.
We got bench players with Jordan Clarkson on the bench
coming in and we'll see how that works with him.
And I think Michael Brock didn't signed with us for
two days and then decide to retire, so I don't
even know what what was the reason with signing their paper,
but I'm just interested to see how that worked with him, man,
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because I think they could do some good things. I
think Josh Hart is coming off the bench as well,
so I think, you know, with us utilizing probably probably
eleven ten to eleven rope mayor rotation, I think we'll
look a little different. So I'm gonna go with the Knicks.
And that's mainly because a lot of a lot of
teams are hurt. So I'm gonna go with the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I got you, man. I know. I said in the
pre part of the show in the West that I
was looking at OKAC because it is their world. But
as I look at things again, I'm gonna lean more
towards the Denver Nuggets. I think that OKAC definitely will
be in contention, and I wouldn't be surprised if they
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make it back to the Western Conference Finals. But Nicola
Jokic is gonna have something to say about SGA and
all of the other boys, because he's looking like, I
know you did what you did to get your MVP, brother,
But I'm that boy. I'm net one. I play this methodical,
(08:05):
slow tempo, very fundamental style basketball, and I'm gonna give
you a smooth thirty twenty and ten, maybe even fifteen
depending on how I'm feeling. I'm gonna give it to you,
real simple, real slow, and I'm gonna lead this team
to a championship. He's done it before, He's won multiple MVPs,
he's a multiple time All Star, and he has pieces
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around him. You know, one of the things that I
look at with a lot of the teams just around
the league in general, is a lot of their big
three cores, Like this is the Big three era, without
a doubt, Like this is the time where if you
don't have three main pieces, you not even giving yourself
a chance to compete. You gotta have your superstar. You
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gotta have somebody to compliment him, and then you need
somebody that when those two guys are having an off
night that can pick it up too. And the Denver
Nuggets have that, you know, Aaron Gordon, Nakolejokicic and Jamal Murray. Obviously,
they would like to have back that series that they
had against Minnesota. They would like to be back in
the conversation again and redeem themselves. And I think Joka
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is gonna be able to lead his team to be
able to do that. He's always been a dominant presence
throughout his career and I think he's gonna be able
to continue to build off of that throughout the season.
But like I said, I would not be surprised if
Oka see comes out the gate and comes out swinging
and finds themselves back as a number one seed, number
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two seed and goes on a deep playoff run. But
for now, early on before the season kicks off or
tips off, that is I'm taking the Denver Nuggets out
of the West and in the East, I'm gonna have
to go with the Cleveland Cavaliers. I know you said that,
you know it's hard to believe in Donovan Mitchell, but
I believe Spider is gonna come out there, man, and
it's gonna flip this thing around. Because they had all
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the pieces together to be as successful as they were
last season to get the number one seed, and they
just ran into a very, very hot Indiana team. Sometimes
it ain't even about being the best team. Sometimes it's
about who's the hottest. Like if you a hot basketball team, man,
that's tough because in the game of basketball, teams can
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score in bunches because of the way that the three
ball is utilized. Bro three full baskets, that's a twelve
oh run easily. And so if you're not careful, you
find yourselves losing games that on paper. You come in
and you say, we're not supposed to lose this game.
This is a basketball game, and we're supposed to come
out and win. And I think now that Cleveland has
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experienced that, now that they've seen that, now they're coming
out and they're saying, we can't take nobody lightly, we
can't take no prisoners. If we get an opportunity, we
need to put our foot on people's necks and we
need to go ahead and dominate to win these basketball games.
And like you said, because there are so many teams
that are banged up and or young in the East,
because they have the experience in May, can you know
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a number one seed push and getting into the second
round of the playoffs. Because they have that experience in
doing that, they're gonna be a little more ahead of
the curve today, be able to know what it takes.
All right, we know what it took to get to
the second round. If we can add on top of
that work, and we already did, then we can get
ourselves to the Eastern Conference Finals, and we can get
to the Eastern Conference Finals, and we can get to
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the NBA Championship. If we can get to the NBA Championship,
we got a chance to be able to win it.
So I got Cleveland coming out of the East, and
I got Denver coming out of the West, and I
think that would make for a very, very exciting NBA
Championship game. The West, I think is very very crowded
with a lot of talent over there, and I think
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that it's going to be a tough run. But it's
gonna be an interesting NBA basketball season, man. So it's
gonna be definitely exciting, and we'll be keeping our eyes
on it. Like I said, the NBA tips off on
Tuesday night. We're recording this episode on Monday morning, so
on tomorrow we have the Houston Rockets taking on the
OKC Thunder at six thirty, so they got the six
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thirty tipping. Then it's the Lakers and the Warriors and
the nine o'clock tip. So I had it flipped around,
so the Rockets and the Thunder going at it to
open the NBA season, and then the Warriors and the
Lakers that night. We know Lebron James will not be
playing at night because he probably is gonna be out
for the foreseeable future trying to figure things out with
whatever that injury is. I don't know if it's like
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a butt muscle or something like something going on with it.
He got an old he got old man injuries going on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You're trying to put sixty two games with.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Look, I understand, what's the point of it. If I
can get hot, Like I just said, Bro, you don't.
You don't need to go eighty two and oh. You
need to be playing well enough on the back half
of the season. You need to get into the playoff picture.
You don't need to be in the playing tournament. You
need to get into the play off picture as a
one through four, one through five. Get in there, get
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hot and going to run that's all you need to do.
That's all you need to do. So we'll keep my
eyes on that, ladies and gentlemen. It'll be fun to
watch what comes out of this NBA season. Let's move
forward back to football, and we're talking about Miami Dolphins
quarterback to a tongue BA Loa. It's been an interesting
run there in Miami and the past couple of weeks,
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he's been in the headlines quite a bit recently talking
with the media and mentioning how you know there were
players that were late to team or players only meetings,
and then coming back and apologizing, you know, his win
loss record isn't what a lot of people expected to
be with the expectations that were put on his shoulders,
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he made a lot of mistakes in their recent loss.
Mike McDaniel gets to the podium and says that he's
going to be reevaluating things, which brings the question about Elijah.
Is it time for the Dolphins and to a to
part ways and for them to go into another direction.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's been tom, there's been time. It's been time since
after the twenty twenty four season. Honestly, too talk about
law gets paid. Let's let me, look at this. He
gets paid I think fifty three million dollars a year.
I want to make sure I'm correct before I before
I go on my ramp, because I want, I want
(14:26):
you to feel what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He gets paid, Yes, fifty three the average of fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Three point one million dollars a year two hundred and twelve,
and he's signed two hundred and twelve million dollars deal
in twenty twenty four. Did you know that two a
tongue about low only through nineteen touchdowns last year?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, I get it, I get it. You had a
good cushion. You had a good cushion. That's normal for it.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Did you know that he only had two seasons? And
I'm including this one right now because I don't even
think he'll reach it were he only he threw for
over twenty He threw for twenty or more touchdowns? Does
that sound like a fifty three million dollar contract a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To you?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Do sound like somebody who should get another chance to eat?
Does that?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Does that sound like that's somebody that's just putting up
numbers or winning games? No, No, it doesn't. For instance,
the officer corded to Mike McDaniel. I'm not a head coach.
I'm not mad that he caters his whole offense to
to talk a while over, but think about it, he's
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hindering what Jaylen Wattle could do with stretch the field.
Tyreek Hill could do, which just stretch the field what
a change could do. And he can stretch the field
as well coming up the battlefield because all he doing
is dunking and dunkin to toa doesn't really throw the
ball down the field because he doesn't have the armstrength
to do it. So now you're hindering Tyreek Jalen Wattle,
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who can be ones on other teams and be productive productive.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
The reason why you were productive is because of those.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Guys that they had around you in the office of
scheme that they had around him two time two a
tongue whatever to a tongue about low.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Last name right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Was never the X factor. That's the name tongue whatever.
Hung by lord, he can't even know he was never
the X factor in the offense.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And I really feel like this.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I know people are just saying, you know, well, I
think if Mike McDaniel don't get fired this year, which
I don't believe he should. I think they should give
him another chance with another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
For they already came out and said that they unlikely
to get rid of him. But you know people be lying.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's why I'm not even gonna I think Mike mcdamia
should go try to get another quarterback, talk to Tyree Hill.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And see what they could do till Tyree give me
half a year. Now, we will trade you with.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
This new quarter if the quarterback doesn't work out. Because
at the end of the day, two is the guy
that's holding that office back. I don't think it's Mike
McDaniels much. I'm not saying like Madell's gonna take him
to the super Bowl, and I don't believe that, But
I believe the office could be way more productive without
that man under center.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, but the only thing about that, you said, draft
the quarterback. Who do you go and get right now?
If you're talking about a high caliber quarterback, all the
ones that everybody thought in college football were gonna be
good and we're gonna be ready, ain't that Garrett Nesmayer
ain't been that Drew Aler heard Carson Beck, ain't been
that Arch Manning, ain't been that probably gonna come back
(17:40):
for another year. Who do you go with? Who do
you go with? You're you're almost it's almost like they're
blessed and curse in a sense, right too. It has
the Pro Bowl year in twenty twenty three. That's what
you know we talked about offline of sometimes guys play
for a contract, whether it's coaches, players, whatever, they're in
(18:01):
a contract year, they have a good year and then
you end up getting paid for what they believe you
can do after that. So he had a Pro Bowl year,
he led the league in passing yards, he gets the
Pro Bowl year. And so now that they're saying, all right,
we believe that you can be our future, We're gonna
pay you like you're the future. You gotta give them
what the going rate is for. It's a messed up,
(18:24):
you know, way to look at it. But when quarterbacks
are getting paid the money that they're getting paid, and
they're looking around and he saw that Trevor Lawrence is
getting this and Dak Prescott getting this, and you know,
all these quarterbacks are getting paid what they paid. They
don't want their money, right, So I understand that he
got what he got. However, since that contract year since
(18:48):
him going eleven and six and getting his team to
the playoffs, he's gone six and five and now one
in five. In that time he's thrown four twenty eight
hundred yards, nineteen touchdowns, seven picks. This year he's thrown
for five hundred and seventy five yards, five touchdowns, four picks.
(19:11):
So now you turn it into pick Maine. And even
in the year where you led the league in passing yards,
you had twenty nine touchdowns fourteen picks. Hey man, you
got more turnovers in a bakery right now, Like, what
are we doing? You're giving the football away too much.
But when you look at it, for me, it's not
(19:34):
even about a football thing on the field of why
I think it's time for two of to move on.
When he stood in front of that microphone in front
of the media and started talking about business that's going
on inside the locker room and giving too much, like that, bro,
that is the locker room is the space where, no
matter what we'll handle it in here, it can't get
(19:58):
out there. They say, out the noise. Don't don't put
the noise out there. He got to the mic and
gave him the noise. But yeah, players is you know,
showing up late to you know, players only meetings, and
you know it's it's about leadership. But you're the leader.
You you the man. You making fifty three million dollars
a year. So isn't that is it? Aren't you calling
(20:21):
out your own leadership skills? Why would you do that?
And then you know you wrong because then they probably
put them in their locker room and said, hey boy,
you lost your mind for real that one of them concussions.
Then you left your brain on the side of the
road with one of them last concussions you had. You
don't do that. Come on, man, you think about it.
(20:44):
My office and tackle office of guard, my running backs,
my receivers that we talked with day in and day
out in facilities with all day long, and I'm talking about, oh,
players is doing this and that, and you know, we
just need to be more accountable. Okay, hold them accountable
into him, right, But then they probably get say, hey man,
you you're making all his money and you're throwing all
(21:06):
these picks and you ain't winning. It was cute in
twenty twenty three. You got your money. It ain't cute
no more. It ain't cute no more. It's not you
ain't hand. It was cut in twenty twenty three. Oh boy,
he threw twenty nine touchdowns fourteen picks. He got us
to the playoffs though he made it work. Hey, no,
(21:27):
no more. You got to turn this around. Brother. And
I think from a cultural standpoint, if Mike McDaniels wants
to keep his job to a Gotta Go, I'm not
saying that they gotta do something. They're gonna have to
figure out something how to trade somebody. They gonna have
to figure this out. They're gonna have to trade him
and figure out who has enough cap space that can
be able to take him. Maybe the Raiders might want
(21:50):
him because Geno ain't working out over there. You know,
maybe if they can figure out how to, you know,
swap a little something something for that. But two of
Gotta Go Man two is not at the answer right
now on the field and then in the locker room
as well, Like it is not a good situation in Miami.
And let's say fast nose diving plane right now, they
(22:13):
are going now very very fast in a hurry. And
I know reports just came out a few seconds ago.
As we're recording this episode of the Dolphins saying, and
we're unlikely to get rid of Mike McDaniels. Losing changes
people's mind, just like I win in here's all. Losing
changes mind. Keep losing, see what happens. See see won't
your butt start warming up? Mm hmm, gone ahead, keep losing,
(22:37):
I'm telling you, And that's gonna that's gonna that's gonna
pivot right into what we're about to talk about next
with them wins and losses. You keep losing. See, won't
you get a pink slip in the mail? See want
your key card? Stop working to the building, keep on. Okay, Mike,
you better go and get rid of that man. You
better put him on the bench you had Quinn yours
(22:57):
in there. If that's what you think, you finished, gone
with your move, because if you keep playing to it
and y'all go from one to five to one and nine,
one and ten. Oh yeah, you're gonna get a high
draft pick. But you ain't gonna be the one getting
the pick. You're gonna get a pink slip. That's what
(23:18):
you're gonna get. So we'll see, we'll see what the
Dolphins decided to do with the future of two were
talking about lower are guys. We're gonna round out the
show with our fits take. As we're looking around the
college football world and a lot of coaches have lost
their jobs, especially early on, like it was Sam Pittman, Uh,
(23:41):
it was Dashaun Foster out at u C l A
H James Franklin Penn State, and now the latest, the
two latest. The biggest one was Billy Napier, which that
one was expected that there have been a lot of
conversations around it happening. You know, his time in Gameville
was very up and down, very back and forth, short
(24:04):
lived three and a half seasons because he didn't finish
out this fourth one. And then also j Norvell out
of Colorado State gets fired after three seasons. I believe
it was so you got two coaches that are added
to this coaching carousel that is already spiraling. And then
there are multiple reports saying that Florida State boosters have
(24:26):
been meeting with each other to talk about Ken and
Mike Norvelle. The conversations of Hugh Freeze getting thrown out.
I just saw a tweet of somebody saying that Jeff
Levy needs to go out of Mississippi State. Everybody trying
to fire a coach. Everybody, Elijah, how many years does
a coach really have to be successful or how short
(24:48):
of Alisha does a coach really have before they start
calling for his head man.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
In my personal opinion, I think you should have three,
but the leasha is still short. College is kind of
different than the pros only because it's simple fact that
kids and administrations they want to win the rivalry game
just as much as they want to win the championship.
(25:14):
So if I'm Michigan and I lose to Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Three times in a row, they're looking to get me
out of there, especially if I have a loser to you.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And it shows even with like Billy Napier, I think
I think Florida really liked Billy Napier, but Billy Napier
just couldn't win on fourteen.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
On the road, you play your rivals on the road,
and if you're not getting done on the road and
you're not getting done at home, you need to go
somewhere else out the country.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't think that. I just think that.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Basically in college, they look at it as a national
championship and bust every year. Depending on what program you're at,
other programs. Can you beat my right, Mississippi State? Can
you be all missed nine times out of ten? No,
But that's what they're looking into, that stuff, and I
(26:17):
think that's why they give him three years. James Franklin
is the perfect example of all this stuff. James Franksman,
I thought, you know, he ran a program well, you know,
with the way he was winning games, but he just
couldn't win the big one. There was nothing else. Penn
State was in contention every year, every year up at that,
(26:40):
and the next thing you know, he's out because he
can't be anybody or win the big ones. He can't
be the organ and stuff like that. Borks just can't
win the big ones. So I give you about three years.
And I give it three years because if the program
really likes the candidate or they like the coach, they're
going to keep you around. But if you don't win,
(27:03):
after they pay X amount of millions of dollars, they're
gonna have to just kick.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Rocks with you. And if you want to pay somebody
to lose, hire me.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
If you giving out all this money fifty million dollars,
million dollars, seven million dollars, and I can't beat your rival.
I look, I'll go home. I'm gonna go home with
a bag, but I'm going on. I'm going I'm going home, going.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Home with like a cartoon character villain with two bags
of money with the money symbol on it. Feeling like this,
I robbed, y'all, No man, before I say what I say.
First of all, you know in the one season that
Billy Napier was here while I was working. While I've
been working here Laffey, and he was the head coach
(27:51):
of Louisi and the Raging Cagents. I didn't have as
many opportunities to interact with him in person because we
had COVID restrictions still going on back half of that.
So like most of the press conferences we had for
like the first eight weeks were over zoomed, So I
only had a chance to be in person with him
maybe like four to five times realistically before he was going.
(28:12):
But he always seemed like a high character guy. Every
question that I asked, you know, he answered it to
the best of his abilities. I'll never forget Whenever LSU
was getting ready to hire Brian Kelly, it was a random,
like Tuesday night something I was at a volleyball game,
and I got on a zoom call and I was like, hey, coach,
has LSU contacted you at all? Or do you have
(28:35):
you know, any thought process of how that might be
going there? In Baton rouge. He answered it to the
best of his abilities. Obviously, ain't no coach gonna tell you, Yes,
ls you called me while I'm working here at with Louisiana.
They're not gonna do that. And the unfortunate side of
firing a coach is I think I was talking to,
(28:57):
you know, an assistant basketball coach for you out here
is that, bro, people's lives are affected in this. So
as much as you know Billy is going to get
his twenty one million dollar buy out, ten million of
it is coming to him in the next thirty days.
That's finding dandy. That's great, But that's gonna weigh on
this man heavily, knowing because of me at the leadership
(29:20):
of this, we couldn't get it done. So assistants are
out of jobs, you know, so many guys have to
go and tell their famili's bab we got to move again.
We got to pack the bags up again. That's the
hard part of it. Now to the point of how
many years or how short of a leach a coach has.
(29:40):
I disagree with you about three years. I think it's
two years. I don't believe that, but I think it's
two years because of the amount of money that coaches
are getting paid, because of the nil that players are
getting paid, because of the transfer portal of you literally
being able to go in, spend money, get a really
(30:03):
really good roster and put the pieces together to go
and win, and you look at short term success because
they're looking at how like in Florida they built a
brand new facility football only facility forty gators at Penn State.
I think they were getting ready to do like a
fifty million dollar renovation to their stadium. Bro, that's a
(30:24):
lot of money, and we're paying you a big contract.
And then if you Brian Kelly, you spend eighteen to
twenty million dollars on his roster. We ain't got tied
for you to be going eight and five. We ain't
got tied for you to be going ten to three.
We need a Natty. Winning cures all losing changes minds.
Remember that winning cures all losing change his minds. So
(30:48):
coaches really only have a two year window. Look at
Kirksey Nitty. This man went to the college football playoffs
his first year. They said you is the man, and
they gave him an eleven year extension, paying him eleven
million dollars a year. Winning cures all losing change his
mind as long as he keep pumping out dubs. If
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he could go ten and two every single year, get
them boys to the playoffs, they'll they'll probably be like,
he can never win the big game, and they'll still
probably call for his head. But he's always gonna be
able to have some form of job security. But let
you start losing your seat, gonna start woman up. Brian Kelly,
(31:31):
your seat gonna start warming up. Dame Beemer, your seat
gonna start warming up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I'm telling you you, bef Brian Kelly the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Man, I'm telling you man. People, boy, if you if
you get on Twitter and on Facebook, hey, man, these
people is they fed up. We tied him right there,
We read for him to go. They are ready for
him to go. They don't believe he fits the culture.
(32:04):
They don't understand how you spend as much. But that's
what I'm saying, man, because of the way that you
can literally go into the portal now and say, we
need a quarterback, we need a running back, we need
a receiver. Go get that one, give him, give him
five hundred thousand dollars, bring him here. You can literally
go and do that now because it's that and you're
(32:25):
getting paid ten million dollars a year, and you got
some of the best facilities in the country. You got
state of the art recovery and training the tables, and
you feeding these boys taking lobster and they running and
lifting weights to noth But you better go win a championship.
We ain't got time to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You know, we're so right there, We're almost there. UCLA
fire Deshaun Foster after two seasons, no really really one
in three games. She was five and ten. They said,
you know what, No, this ain't gonna work. This ain't
this ain't gonna cut it. This, this ain't gonna cut it.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And they won three games in a row after the
three ride.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Maybe he was the problem. We'll never know. He ain't
get it, he ain't get two years. He got one
in three games. Brother got fifteen games. So hurry up
because we're waiting and we're still waiting why you're not
Kirk Signetti. Why we ain't got to the playoffs yet,
Why we ain't won a championship. We'd have punk too
(33:33):
much money in this and we're still waiting. Hurry up,
you dragging your feet still, don't worry about it. Let
mcg goon ahead, slip this house to a source. We're
having conversations with boosters.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Is it embarrassing that if Indiana mix the playoffs and.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
They don't, who would l s U doesn't make it
and India to make it. Yeah? I mean the Vanderbilt
loss was the kind of destraw that broke the camel.
If Brian Keller los another game, man, which is very likely,
because what they got next, they got a number three
Texas A and M team coming into Death Valley, they
gotta go to Alabama, then they gotta go to Oklahoma.
(34:18):
That's three games with the possibility, bro that you're probably
gonna be the dog. I think they are the dog
at home against Texas A and M. This is a
possibility you could be the underdog in all three of
them games if he lose two of them three games,
mark my words. You heard it here. First, Brian Kelly
is gone from bad ruge. They gonna find that money.
They gonna find that buy out money. It's a lot
of it. I think it's like fifty three and a
(34:39):
half or something like fifty million. It's somewhere up there
with James Franklins. They gonna find that money. Again. People
are spending their money and if they don't like what
they seeing, they gonna stop spending their money. Winning cures
all losing changes minds. Oh y'all losing. Let me stop
(35:01):
spending my money at these football games. Let me stop
donating to this football program, to this nil collective, Let
me stop showing up and giving money to the players,
all these different things like that. It's gonna go away.
It's gonna go away. But that's just our take, Ladies
and gentlemen. What do you think. How many years does
the coach have do they even have time? Is it
(35:23):
really just a game by game basis? And the couple
just come in one year and six games in they no, no,
we don't want you. What do y'all think? Drop it
down in the comments, let us know how you feel
about it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, That is gonna wrap
up yet another episode of the fits Take podcast. It
was another good one here on the show. We appreciate
(35:44):
you guys for listening and watching if you've made it
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(36:05):
signing out for Elijah Nixon, I'm JaMarcus Fitzpatrick. We'll see
you guys next time.
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