September 19, 2025 • 39 mins
DP and the Danettes recap Tua Tagovailoa's performance in the Dolphins' loss to the Bills. Former All-Pro DB Devin McCourty breaks down what it's like to line up against some of the fastest in the NFL and doesn't necessarily see the Chiefs' game against the Giants as "must-win." And Dan Le Batard describes the Dolphins’ organization as "structurally broken," and notes that Mike McDaniel's quirky style has worn off in the eyes of fans in South Beach.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, it was a moral victory.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
If you there's no column when you see one or
loss or time, there's not one for moral victory or
a quality loss, because the Dolphins could have won that game.
They went toe to toe and they gave you that
glimpse of this is who they really should be. And
you're tied at twenty one. You have the roughing the punter,
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and then that changed the game right there. You know
you're an eyelash away from getting a finger on that punt,
and then all of a sudden, the game probably changes
changes in Miami's position, but you don't block the punt,
you rough the punter, and then all of a sudden,
the Buffalo Bill's tack on ten more end up winning.
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Barry Jackson, a great columnist with the Miami Herald, had
some questions about the Miami Dolphins after the loss. Now
I said it, I wouldn't have given to that contract
extension because he hasn't earned it, hadn't earned it. Plus
you look at his record and then you look at
his health, and I never would have given him a
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one hundred and sixty seven million dollar contract after the
twenty twenty three season. In that season, he went one
in six against good teams and they couldn't score more
than twenty two points. The Dolphins gave him a four year,
two hundred twelve million dollar contract in twenty twenty four.
They didn't have to because they controlled him through twenty
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twenty six fifth year option. Then they could have used
the franchise tag on him a couple of times. So
this isn't revisionist history. On my part, I just couldn't
trust him to stay healthy, and I didn't think he
was playing great football. You know, for an offensive might
have head coach and Mike McDaniel and you have Tyreek Hill,
Jalen Waddle, Tua. They're supposed to lead with their offense.
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They're supposed to be a team scoring at least thirty points. Again,
but even last night, twenty two to thirty four, one
sixty one to two touchdowns, had the interception passer rating
eighty one. But the Dolphins are two to ten in
his last twelve starts against good teams. But if you
look at the point total, that's the thing that stood
out for me. Granted they could have won that game,
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you get seventeen against Philadelphia, twenty against Buffalo, fourteen against
Kansas City, twenty two against Dallas, nineteen against Baltimore, seventeen
against Buffalo, seven versus Kansas City, twenty seven versus the Bills,
twenty three versus the Rams, seventeen versus Green Bay, twelve
versus Houston, and then twenty one last night against Buffalo.
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So one game where Tua was the quarterback, they went
over twenty three points against a good opponent. It's not
good enough, won't get it done. And it's not just
on him, but that's where you start him and the
head coach Mike McDaniel, and Tua should be on the
hot seat. Can't fire the quarterback, but you can fire
the coach. But they gave you an idea of they
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can play, they can be competitive.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But two, what got hit once? So it wasn't like
man Buffalo's defense. Buffalo's defense isn't great at least not
right now. And I thought Buffalo played an okay game,
but you got to at some point, you got to
win these games. If you stole that game and then
you win the standalone game Monday night against the Jets, Okay,
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now we called off the Dogs, the heat dies down
a little bit. You're two and two, But now you
got to win the game against the Jets, and that'll
be standalone game on a Monday night, and all your
problems come forward. Everything is on display now. Sometimes that's
great when you go, hey, we're going to showcase our talent.
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This is like, oh boy, I hope they spend a
little more time on the Jets than they do us.
But here is the Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel after
the loss.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
For expectation was to come in here and win the game.
And we knew we had to not turn the ball over,
and we knew we had to, you know, try to
get at least plus or at least even with him
in the in the takeaway department, and we had to
play good football and make some plays. And you know,
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we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had
a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of
things can that's how these types of games are decided.
So it feels like a loss, and it feels like
we have a lot of motivation to.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Get back to work.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It feels like when Mike is at the microphone, it's
like the press secretary for the White House, like I'm
gonna translate, I'm going to tell you some things. It's
not the president who's going to be speaking, it's the
press secretary.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But it's just didn't sound inspiring.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I think we go back to that first law
to the Colts that set the tone. And then you
have a player's only meeting. When you have a player's
only meeting after one week, that's doom and gloom. There's
no excuse like this the first game of the season.
I'm always amazed when a coach says, hey, we weren't
ready to play. How is that possible? You had seven
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months to get ready to play a game. We weren't ready.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It wasn't like, hey, you have this game and you
got a game in four days. It was seven months
to get ready and to it was just, you know,
it's just kind of a to a performance there, and
it's not all on him. But man, we give the
quarterbacks too much credit and too much blame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's the case right here.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yes, Martin, football is the one sport where I will
not take we weren't ready to play as an excuse.
You had seven days every single week. You have seven
days to prepare for the next team. What do you
mean NBA, MLB, NHL you play every day, Basically, you
had seven days.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
What do you mean you're not ready?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well, they weren't ready for the opening week against the
Colts either.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Seven days, seven months.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Either way, they weren't ready.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So the Bills hold off the Dolphins thirty one twenty one.
They're now three and oh the Dolphins are zero to three.
Is it just me or does every Bills tight end
sound like he has the same name they got? They
got some Dawson and Dalton and Paul. There's three tight
ends there, and it feels like they're on the WB.
They're on a show.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Their quarterback room, as people like to say, is Dalton Kincaid,
Dawson Knox, and Jackson Hawes.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Houdle.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What on it for?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
All lost to the over coming next on the WB?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, well Dawson break it up with John coming up next.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I kept thinking, I'm trying to I'm getting confused. Is
it Dalton Knox? Is it Dawson Knox?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Is it Dalton?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It does sound like the starting rotation for Mississippi State's baseball. Yes, yeah,
we got Dawson out there, and then we're gonna bring
a Dalton out there.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Bringing Carter Hendrix about the bench.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They sounded like fake names to be like okay, and
and they love their tight ends there in Buffalo. All right, Seaton,
what's Oh, it's a meat Friday. Here is the menu.
Beef and chariso chili, jalapano, cheddar, corn bread, bacon, corn bread.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Has it better than we do? No beef and chariso chili? Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I am a huge Charisa supporter from way back.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
My concern though, is the guy behind me having cheriso
and then a drive home.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, it's about an hour drive. You are a grown up,
so I'll let you handle accordingly.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Don't through the whole fill up to plate like a
big pictures now.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Chili's out, Clayton.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, why don't you just hold your cheriso there?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Pace myself yet?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah? Long drive home, but it's a Friday, that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I'll stop at a mobile or a Sonoka.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
What you got to do? Do you know the codes?
The bathroom codes on one.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Of them has the key with like a brick attack
through it. This other guy, he sends me into some
back room.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Do you even by gasoline? When you go into these
gas stations rarely.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'm more like I get a big of chips and
like a coke.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
They're like, oh here comes that guy again.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Great, close up shop till tomorrow we're closed.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do they do police tape outside?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Do not cross?
Speaker 10 (08:39):
It's embarrassing when they stop putting the tape around you
while you're strolling here.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
All right, So we'll run down the football matchups NFL
and college over the weekend. Our good buddy Clayton Kershaw
to retire after the playoffs. We'll talk about that. He's
pitched really well this year, and I love that you
can come to that decision. That's a really hard decision,
especially when you're playing well. So many athletes go, I
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can't go like Travis Kelcey, I can't go out this way.
You can't, but you might go out in a worse
way the following season. But Clayton Kershaw has pitched well.
They've needed him to pitch well. And when you start
to look at these pitchers like true pitchers, you got
Suerzer Verlander Kershaw, and pretty much after that, the ace
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is done with Major League Baseball, and I wonder how
we're going to look at numbers for pitchers for the
Hall of Fame, because it used to be if you
got to two hundred and two fifty, okay, maybe a
little more than that. Now it's going to be one fifty.
I mean, Jacob de gram is kind of a dinosaur
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in there as well. But for the most part, the
starting pitcher and how we view them is going to
change dramatically because you won't. I mean, Verlanders pitch pretty
well second half of the season. I think he wants
to pitch again. I think he wants to get three hundred.
I don't know where he is. He's pretty close. And
then Schuerzer is in there. He wants to continue to pitch.
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But Clayton Kershaw wonderful season and first ballance Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
He was a great, great pitcher.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
We hope to have him on before the end of
the regular season or the postseason.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All right, Seaton, you've got a poll question for me.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Not only do I have a poll question for you,
but I was lucky enough to get three from Todd
at two thirty am last night.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know if Todd. I know they're very important.
These are the things that are on Todd's mind. If
he wants to share those.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Sep was very restless, and.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Then I got a recap email after that saying here
I put all three just in one email now for convenience.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, very thought.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I will warn the audience Fritzy got a little loose
yesterday on the twelve to fifteen podcast. It's the wrap
up with the back room guys, and it feels like
that's a spillover and it's Friday Fritzy on full display.
All right, Todd, would you like to give us the
three pole questions that you came up with at two
in the morning.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
The first one you've already touched on or we've already
touched on. Was last not a moral victory for the
Dolphins in Buffalo? The choice is being absolutely they stood
toe to toe with a much better opponent. That's keeping
it positive. Absolutely not, they still lost by double digits.
Third choice, there are no moral victories, only losses, especially
at the zero to three mark of your season.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I think it depends on what the expectation level was
or is for the team. The Dolphins are supposed to
be a playoff team, or at least on the cusp
of being a playoff team. I don't think you can
have moral victories if you're a team that's supposed to
be a playoff contender. I think the Browns can have
a moral victory, or Carolina can have a moral victory.
(11:44):
A couple of these teams, but not many, because I
think the NFL is built in a way that everybody
should be kind of hovering around seven, eight or nine wins,
and the Dolphins should be that kind of team. I
don't think it's a moral victory. I think this is
who they're supposed to be. It's not like they played
out of their minds where we go, Wow, that was
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a big surprise. It wasn't a surprise to me because
they're built for offense, and they stayed in the game
and when it came to crunch time two is you know,
QBR if you follow that is terrible in the you know,
the last five minutes of a game, in a one
score game, he has a terrible QBR. I mean that's
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where these games are won and lost. That's the difference
between my quarterback and your quarterback. How many times did
we do that with Brady? How much times left two minutes?
What's he need?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He needs? Touchdown?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Damn you guys are going to lose Mahomes Montana. I mean,
oh way, run down the list of great quarterbacks of
all time. Now two is not in that category. But
I expect Josh Allen to do that. I expect Lamar
Jackson to do that. I don't expect two a tongue
of ioloa to do it. If I do, I'm surprised.
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But he does have weapons.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's got two of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The fastest guys in the NFL. He got the fastest
guy in the NFL. Oh yeah, I just two yard
passes here, That's all I need to do. It's two
yards and you take it thirty We both get credit
for you a thirty yard touchdown pass, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's not a moral victory. All right, What else do
you have?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
The second one? Is the best NFL Week three matchup is?
Speaker 10 (13:23):
And this is just an alphabetical order or not because
I'm a Bronco fan Broncos, Chargers, Rams, Eagles, Lions, Ravens,
Monday Night.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Football or other?
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Could there be something other than those three as the
best game of Week three?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well, I would say the rematch with the Rams and
the Eagles, But I mean even the Bengals Vikings with
the backup quarterbacks is kind of interesting to me. Broncos
Chargers is big and Lions Ravens. But I would say
Rams in the Eagles because I thought the Rams were
a better team in the second half of that game.
I know you got to play a full game, but
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I thought the Rams were going to win that playoff game.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
What else and the last one a little off the board.
I think the other day we were talking about Haley
Joel osmond Enough was on the air. Off the air
that and we've said many times that he should have
won the Academy Award over Michael Kine. So if you
had the sixth sense, if you had that ability, I
guess it's maybe at DISCIPLI. It's a horrible thing in
that movie to happen that which group of dead people
would you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Most be happy to have? The sixties.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
He looked very upset when he was telling Bruce Willis
that he's got this thing. I don't think it was affliction,
whatever you want to call it. Nobody wants to see
dead people pop it around. It's kind of scary. But
if you had the sixth sense, which group of dead
people would you most want to see floating around around you. Actors, actresses, athletes,
family slash pets, musicians, presidents, supermodels, supermodels in their prime,
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not when they're eighty, and they passed away of natural causes.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So this is what you're doing it two in the morning,
between two.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Fifteen and two forty five in the morning, I was
tossing to him, like and just a few of these
poll questions.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The first two were fairly obvious. The third one was
a little odd to be thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No, it's very odd. But there's only one right answer,
and that's your family.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
You would think. But I don't know if it's going
to comple we run away with I'm very curious to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The last time you said, man, I'm thinking of that
supermodel who was eighty years like, I'm not thinking of
Bridget Bardow or rock hol Welsh or any of these
women who passed away.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
One of my uncles I liked.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
But if there was between Uncle Joe, he was a
little weird sometimes at the satyr at the passover table,
I might have to go with one of the super
miles that passed away. It's not everyone, but I'm curious.
It's not going to be one hundred percent and obviously
you feel like compelled. You got to pick family and pets.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I got to put a hard cap on you today.
I think there has to be it's a valid question.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Do you guys think it's one hundred percent of the
vote's going.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
To go to your family?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
If I said you could revisit with your father, oh
forget of course answer.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's the right answer.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
But not everyone is like, oh, I wish I could
go see my grandma and my dad again.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Some are like, screw that.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
I want to see the famous athletes to hang out
with a walk around or just see them floating by.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It could happen.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Yeah, I was thinking I'd go with Charles Groden over
my dad. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
About, yes Mar Sorry everyone for two was on a
twelve fifteen podcast. I put a disclaimer up because he
was like this yesterday, and we could have put a
hard cap on it like you guys did.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Aunt Michelle, Johnny Uniis and Grandma's kind of smelled and
I didn't like her.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Were going dinner.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Okay, all right, and we'll come up with a legitimate
poll question here, at least for the first time we're
the program.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But thank you Tom for your contributions.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
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Speaker 3 (17:05):
Devin mccordy, he's a three time Super Bowl champ, former
defensive back, three time All Pro. You can catch him
on Football Night in America. It'll be the Chiefs and
the Giants. They'll be at MetLife Stadium eight twenty eastern. Okay,
why didn't the officials call those false starts on the
Eagles with the tush push.
Speaker 13 (17:28):
I think it's it's tougher than we think. I think
everybody's so zeroed in and looking to see if they're
off sides.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Or not.
Speaker 13 (17:35):
I mean, it's a clear miss of the play, and
I think, like I'm if I'm the Chiefs, I'm pissed
because to me, like you can't miss that on that play,
like everyone's been complaining about it. You can't now give
them an advantage of the false star because I think
if usually when the guy's on defense lineup off sides,
that was like an emphasis last year, so obviously they'll
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be washing it a close call now. But when you
lose in a close three point game last week, that
letter doesn't help you at all.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Is this a must win situation for the Chiefs against
the Giants?
Speaker 13 (18:07):
I think so, I think for them, and they get
back to feeling like yourselves and to rally, you can't.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Fall too far behind.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
The Chargers are already starting two to zero, like you
can't go zero to three and just keep losing and
hoping that Rashie Rice gets back and hoping worthy like
you still got to go find a way to win.
And I think their championship pedigree is going to make
them feel like they have to go win this game.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I just wonder if maybe it's right there in front
of us, and maybe this is where the Chiefs aren't
who we thought they were, that they're not going to
win this division.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe they're a wild card team.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, how how far along do you need to
get before you think you've got to handle on who
the Chiefs are?
Speaker 13 (18:50):
I mean, for them, it won't We won't believe in
it until they lose in the playoffs or they don't
make it like that's the only way because they're The
way they've lost these first two games is the same
way they won games last year. Instead last year against
the Chargers, they get the defensive stop, then Mahomes goes
down the scores. This year against the Eagles, they would
have got the defensive snap stop and then he goes
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and scores. So it's the same thing as that close
of a line in the nfls they're not far off.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The Dolphins last night had a chance to win that game.
They were going toe to toe with Buffalo. What are
they missing?
Speaker 11 (19:27):
I think the way their team is constructed to what
has to.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
Go be that guy And I know everybody's going to
talk about the sealer penalty to extend to drive the
truth of the matter is they Buffalo goes up seven
with I think seven minutes and seventeen seconds.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Left in the fourth quarter, plenty of time.
Speaker 13 (19:46):
Miami drives right down the field and then it comes
to throw Terrell Bernardo interception and then they go down.
Buffalo goes down, kicks a field goal with twenty somethings
seconds left, and that's the game. And I think we're
not even talking about the sealer. If Tua can take
the team down and go score, because they did, Like
everyone expected their defense not to get any stops last night,
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they got two big stops in the third to stop
in the fourth quarter to try to get this team
to lead. I just think, you know, an obviously the
offensive line isn't perfect.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
They need to to be the.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Guy that we watch Buffalo and Josh Allen that no
matter how the game goes, if I get enough chances,
I'll go win the game. I'll go take the game
away from the other team. I think they need to
start to see that from Tua.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But being a former defensive back, if you know that
quarterback's not going to throw, he not even looking downfield,
everything is, you know, five yards.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Occasionally it's a little bit more than that if he
scrambles like he did last night. But how does that
affect how you play your position if you know he's
not really going to challenge you down the field.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
I remember playing in games and Coach Belichick can come
and tell us, like, this team's not trying to throw
the ball down the field, and he would say, like,
at most, I think the ball go forty forty five
yards down the field. If you watched last night's game,
he threw one post to Tyreek Hill that probably should
have been intercepted, hung in the air forever.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
So it tells you be aggressive.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
I know they have two of the fastest receivers in
the league, and it sounds crazy to say be aggressive,
but they're not throwing the ball really deep or really
outside that much.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
So you see Buffalo they're.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
Packing the middle of the field, and guys who are
aggressive coming downhill, the linebackers play a little deeper to
take away that middle part, and they say, beat us
checking the ball down, beat us throwing it underneath.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
The whole time.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
And that's how everybody's playing them in so far, it's
worked because it's led to we're going to continue to
make you play that way and hope that you make
a mistake. And TWOA has made those mistakes. I think
it's four interceptions in the first three games.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What's it like to line up against one of the
fast you know, the fastest guy in the NFL when
when you're out there, you know he's faster than you.
But what is that like as a defensive back where
you go, all right, it's me on an island.
Speaker 13 (22:03):
You gotta have a plan. I think that's the key thing.
So whenever you do see last night, it was Bentford
a lot on Tyreek Hill when he was up in
his face, that pressure was coming, they were blitzing, they
were doing different things. So as a corner, you take
the mentality and have the confidence and the rest of
your guys that are right, I'm not gonna have to
cover this fast dude for eight seconds because the ball
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should be coming out fast. And I think that's the
blend of your rush and your coverage.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
You gotta have both.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
You can't chase Tyreek Hill around the field without pass
rush and think you're gonna have success.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Who is the guy though that when you're out on
an island, you're like, oh boy.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
Oh, I mean, who wasn't a guy you think about
Antonio Brown in my era Julio Jones being the top two.
When I was a young guy, the first time we
went to Detroit on Thanksgiving and you lined up against
Calvin Johnson and he got in a stance and you
were like looking up at him like those are the
times that you were like man, mom, and you here like, mom,
I really.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Signed up to do this. That's the challenge and the
fun of playing defensive bet.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We're talking to Devin mccordy.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You can see him on Football Night in America, the
studio analyst, three times Super Bowl champ with the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We were talking about baby names.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Where can you name your child after a sports personality.
I'm wondering in New England how many babies were named Brady.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
One of my good friends his son's eight now, and
he's a Brady. I mean, when you're walking around, you
meet so many kids named Brady, because you know, Tom's
just not enough, Like you can be any Tom, but
that Brady first name.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
It's very popular in all the New England states.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You wouldn't have named your children Brady, would you.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I love Tom, but Brady. Brady wasn't coming at our house.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, no kids Brady, And nobody's naming their kid Belichick.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Yeah, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Maybe there's some Maybe there's some Bills out there though,
William and they call him Bill out there.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The Rams Eagles game is interesting because I don't know
if we've seen the best the Eagles have, but the Rams.
I think the Rams are so dangerous and well we
saw that last year in this game that they might
have won that game if it was a little bit longer,
but obviously it wasn't. But handicap that game here. What
do you expect to happen in this rematch?
Speaker 11 (24:20):
I think the biggest thing.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
I think the Rams are itching at this rematch because
if you remember, in that playoff game, Sakwon Barkley had
like two runs that were huge runs that made up
all of those yards. And I hate saying this because
every football game goes that way, but I'm sure they're
sitting there saying, if we just don't give up those
two plays in the running game game, we successfully go
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out there and we kind of slow down Saquon Barkley.
So I think that's a big part. Everybody knows when
the Rams can get and passing situations, you don't want
to go against that defensive front. But I think the
key thing for the Eagles is I think they're gonna
have to get the passing game going. I think the Rams,
even more than last year, are going to develop so
many people to stop in Saquon Barkley because even though
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we say only two plays, that's the danger of Saquon
Barkley that on any given play he can go to distance.
So I think they're really going to say, you know what,
don't hold the disguise as long, don't do this as
just get down there, stop them, stop them. And I
think that's going to force the Eagles to use and
open up this passing game. And so far that's yet
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to be seen how the passing games really going to
look this year. We know they have the players, but like,
is there a confidence level to go out there and
execute the passing game at a high level, Because eventually
I see Stafford and Pooka Nakula and Devontae Adams, I
see them starting to be able to make some plays
in this game we saw week one. Opposite Pointyon Mitchell
is a little bit of an issue. And with two
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guys that they have.
Speaker 11 (25:48):
With Stafford throwing the ball, I think that can create
some problems.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Are you all in on the Chargers.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
I've liked what I've seen from the Chargers. I really do.
I think.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
You know, we had the Hall of Fame game this
year and we all sat around the desk talking justin Herbert,
and my whole thing was I was tired of hearing
about his talent and everything he could do. It was
time to actually see it done. And I think in
these first two weeks they've answered the bell. They've come
and they've showed they can dominate a game. They can
win different ways. It's not just a running game, it's
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dropped back passes, everything. So I do I think they're
for real this year.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
If I said you had to face Herbert, Jalen Hurts,
Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, who do you want to face?
Out of that group, who do I want to face?
Speaker 11 (26:35):
I would I would pick the I would pick Herbert.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I would pick the Chargers, and playing against Herbert, I'm
not picking the other two guys that are. Do you
mind as we're not even saying Josh hal Lamar Jackson,
we're not even signing up for that. But I think
the Eagles of defending champs with Jamalen Hurst. He plays
his best games in the biggest moments, and I give
a ton of credit to that. That's how I came
into the league and grew up in the league, was
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Belichick telling us your players have.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
To be their best and the biggest games, and Hearst
has been that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Good to talk to you again, have a fun weekend.
Thank you again, Devin, No problem, Good to see darre
That's Devin mccordy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
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Speaker 3 (27:22):
The voice of Miami, Dan Levittard, host of Metal Arc
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this channel. Peacock, is that right down right after us?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You do? Okay? I just want to make sure.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yes, thank you, Yes, okay. I want to get in
on your name's game here though. Can I want to
which is the more interesting name fact here in this
In this equation, I'm giving you that all of George
Foreman's kids were named George, including his daughter who is
named Georgett, or that Dennis Rodman, one of nineteen children
his father was actually named Philander.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Would you ever name your child after an athlete? And
if so, which athlete?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Well, I am childless and I have not given this
question any thought. This is why you're the great one
that you are in terms of interviewing. Would I name
my child after an athlete? No, I don't think I
would do that. I would have to do that. I
think I would take if I was going to name
them after a family member, not just a name the
name I liked, I would name it after a family member,
I should say, not not an athlete.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
So like Marino Lebtard, Lebron Lebtard, Oh, are you still
better over Lebron leaving Miami?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Clearly?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Not?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
If I was, clearly, I'm hugely grateful.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
If if what I just did there is name a child,
how ridiculous would that be?
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Poor poor little Lebron LeBatard?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
How about Riley? Riley LeBatard? After Pat Riley, your good
buddy could.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Be a boy or a girl.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I could go.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I could go Pat and it could be a boy
or a girl. I could go Riley, and it could
be a boy or a girl.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Probably not Tua, But let's dissect here what we've seen
is the weather or the temperature underneath.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Mike McDaniel Warmer today.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Well, that game.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
They were well coached last night. That's an outman team
with I think a historically bad defense, and I don't
believe that coaching is the reason that they lost that game.
They've got a fundamental architectural problem here, Dan, in that
I believe that's the best game the Dolphins can play,
and they're doing it by throwing the ball as many
times behind the line of scrimmage as they are past
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the line of scrimmage. Now, that whole game last night,
the average air yards in that game for Josh Allen
and Tua one point four yards one point four yards
on completion.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
So a lot of the league is doing that.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
But when I say they have a structural problem, Dan,
here's the structural problem because they're no longer what they were,
which was the best offense in the league. They're constipated
on offense, and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill don't look
like they can give you much. But Josh Allen against
the Dolphins is in the regular season thirteen and two,
eight and zero at home. He's got forty five total
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touchdowns and eight interceptions against the Dolphins. On the other side,
the Dolphins have now lost four of their last seventeen
and eight in a row against winning teams.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And here's the structural flaw.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
And Tua's cap hit the next four years is more
than Josh Allen's cap hit in Buffalo, and that's obviously
an issue that's not going to go away for a while.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I just don't understand why they jumped the gun on
Tua with his performance, his injury history, and they could
have kept him another year, they could have franchised him.
I'm just trying to understand from the front office, from ownership,
where they go, Nope, we got to sign this guy up.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Now, why wildly mismanaged. They've got a GM who's got
the longest tenure in the league without winning a playoff game.
They have not enough good players, and they got fooled
by scoring seventy points against the Broncos and having a
comeback against the Ravens, which a lot of people do
late in games. The Ravens have blown seventeen second half leads,
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and they got enamored with they had the best offense
in the league. And more than that, Dan and this
part matters. They had exciting offense. They were the fastest
team in the league, but now you look up and
they're accused of being soft and not physical enough. And
the three guys that they have on offense that you
need things from Wattle Hill and Tua all physically undersized.
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Like yeah, they were fast and speed burns, but speed
also ages.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
And their offense is you know.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
It's a bit like a Ferrari in that if a
spark plug is off, it doesn't run right.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
There's not a lot of margin forrer I think one
of the.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Stats last night they had two they had a drive
that had multiple successful attempts on third and ten, and
it's the first time they've had that since twenty twenty two.
Like they used to be a big play offense, but
now what they had to do in that game last
night is do a.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Perfect sixteen play.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Drive that converts a bunch of third downs and just
keep Josh Allen off the field for a while, because
we can't do this anymore. Where what we used to
do is we'll have a scoring drive that goes one,
two or three plays, not sixteen.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
How safe is Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Safer today than he was before the game, right, because
I really thought that whole game, Dan was gonna go
the way the first half did, which is just keep
handing the ball to James Cook and he's gonna get
nine yards every time. And you know, they didn't stop
him in the first half. And the most stunning thing
for me to happen to this season for the Dolphins
is that they stopped the Bills at all in the
second half. Like, I don't know, you know, the Bills
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still scored thirty one points, but the fact that the
Bills were punting in the second half, I've seen no
evidence from this team that it can stop anybody. Dan,
I really do believe that the defense is historically bad.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Talking to Dan Levittard and a host of Metal Lark Media,
is the Dan Lebotard show that follows this on Peacock.
You know, when you're quirky and you win, we're fine
with that. When you're quirky and you don't win, then
all of a sudden we start to pick apart your
answers at a press conference. Here has the quirkiness, the
nerdiness of Mike McDaniel Warren off in South Florida.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Yeah, that part is obvious, but the glee with which
the quirkiness is being mocked by the rex Ryans of
the world, who seemed to be delighting and calling him
nerd boy and mc genius because he had some of
that Brandon Staley stuff where, oh, you think you're smarter
than everyone else, do you? He had reason to write
for a minute, he had reason to believe that when
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they had the best offense in the league and Rahem
Mostert had eighteen touchdowns at the running back position because
it didn't seem to matter whether his offensive line was
any good or not. They had offense. He took a
quarterback that all of us wondered about and had that
quarterback leading what was the best offense in the league.
But there's something else happening with McDaniel, right, Because we
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don't really want.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Our coaches to be interesting.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
They're better off being public faces and voices for a team.
Jim Harbaugh is awfully quirky Dan like I like him,
but fans kind of would prefer that their coach just
sort of be presidential, be somebody who connotes leadership and
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doesn't do very much with interesting sound bites. Like in
the history of sports. When you think of the coaches
who are real personalities, you know whatever, Steve Spurrier, Mike Leech,
They're just there aren't very many that you think of
Jerry Glanville. There just aren't very many that are wild personalities.
They you know, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick. That tends to
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be what you get.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Fans in South Florida. Would they rather have the you
be great or the Dolphins to be great?
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Ooh, that's a good question, because I'm gonna say the Dolphins,
because it's the you know, fifty years of Dolphin football
includes a time and I don't think your audience has
any recollection of this. It includes a time where the
Dolphins were the winningest franchise in all of sports, not
just in football. They won by percentage more often than
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everyone else. And now they've got the longest drought in
the sport, a sport that includes you know, the Bills
for a while when seventeen seasons without getting to the playoffs.
The Raiders haven't done anything in the playoffs in a
long time, But the longest drought belongs to the Miami Dolphins.
And this began as a football town because of the
Miami Dolphins still have an Expressway here named after Don
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Shula because of what the Dolphins did a long time ago,
and and the Miami Hurricanes have had some recent success,
some success this century. The last playoff game the Dolphins won,
Dan Lamar Smith scored a touchdown against the Colts. It
was not on television locally that there was a Dolphin
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playoff game that was so long ago that you could
not see it locally in Miami.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Can you think of another franchise where when you go
to the game, you see this jersey and it's a
jersey that is from a player who played decades ago
in Dan Marino, like of all the all the different
now you might see that with the Jets maybe, or
the Bears with Walter Payton, But when you're thinking about
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the Dolphins, do you see other jerseys of you know,
you know, anybody besides Dan Marino in the building.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They're a good amount of TUA supporters. It is hard
to support.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Some of the things Tyreek Hill is, even if you're
excited by him on the field. But this has been
a fan base that is unusually starved for excellence because
it's become a regional team, Dan it's not a national team,
and one of the reasons that we're talking about them
now is because for about a sixteen game span or
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maybe a twenty game span, they had an offense that
was interesting, that could make big plays, and so for
one brief moment there, this team had expectations that had
people talking about it nationally. And what I've been surprised
by the first three weeks of this season. You tell
me if I have this wrong, because there are plenty
of bad teams in that league, the Jets, the Saints, Carolina,
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but national laughingstock from coast to coast over the first
three weeks of the season. That's been because they've got
three very polarizing things as the face of their now
national identity, McDaniel, Tua and Tyreek Hill. And the weirdest
thing about that, dan is I think two was the
most polarizing of the three. Think about that for a second,
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and it's just because we haven't been able to accurately.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Measure what is this guy like?
Speaker 9 (38:16):
Is he is he a franchise quarterback or is he
not a franchise quarterback? That discussion made the conversation around
to him more polarizing than the one around McDaniel, who
can give off the quirkiness you speak of, and Tyreek Hill,
who does some pretty awful things as being a menace
to women and children.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Thank you for taking time, Thank you for having me,
my best to the family.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Thank you. I'm going to go home right now.
Speaker 9 (38:43):
And this is too much information obviously, but see if
I can try and make a little lebron.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Lebatad whoa look at the purean interests of Dan Patrick's cardle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I feel bad for your wife.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
I'm my undulating sensuality is not persuasive to you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Thank you, Dan, that's Dan Leboatard.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, it was a moral victory.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
If you there's no column when you see one or
loss or time, there's not one for moral victory or
a quality loss, because the Dolphins could have won that game.
They went toe to toe and they gave you that
glimpse of this is who they really should be. And
you're tied at twenty one. You have the roughing the punter,
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and then that changed the game right there. You know
you're an eyelash away from getting a finger on that punt,
and then all of a sudden, the game probably changes
changes in Miami's position, but you don't block the punt,
you rough the punter, and then all of a sudden,
the Buffalo Bill's tack on ten more end up winning.
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Barry Jackson, a great columnist with the Miami Herald, had
some questions about the Miami Dolphins after the loss. Now
I said it, I wouldn't have given to that contract
extension because he hasn't earned it, hadn't earned it. Plus
you look at his record and then you look at
his health, and I never would have given him a
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one hundred and sixty seven million dollar contract after the
twenty twenty three season. In that season, he went one
in six against good teams and they couldn't score more
than twenty two points. The Dolphins gave him a four year,
two hundred twelve million dollar contract in twenty twenty four.
They didn't have to because they controlled him through twenty
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twenty six fifth year option. Then they could have used
the franchise tag on him a couple of times. So
this isn't revisionist history. On my part, I just couldn't
trust him to stay healthy, and I didn't think he
was playing great football. You know, for an offensive might
have head coach and Mike McDaniel and you have Tyreek Hill,
Jalen Waddle, Tua. They're supposed to lead with their offense.
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They're supposed to be a team scoring at least thirty points. Again,
but even last night, twenty two to thirty four, one
sixty one to two touchdowns, had the interception passer rating
eighty one. But the Dolphins are two to ten in
his last twelve starts against good teams. But if you
look at the point total, that's the thing that stood
out for me. Granted they could have won that game,
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you get seventeen against Philadelphia, twenty against Buffalo, fourteen against
Kansas City, twenty two against Dallas, nineteen against Baltimore, seventeen
against Buffalo, seven versus Kansas City, twenty seven versus the Bills,
twenty three versus the Rams, seventeen versus Green Bay, twelve
versus Houston, and then twenty one last night against Buffalo.
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So one game where Tua was the quarterback, they went
over twenty three points against a good opponent. It's not
good enough, won't get it done. And it's not just
on him, but that's where you start him and the
head coach Mike McDaniel, and Tua should be on the
hot seat. Can't fire the quarterback, but you can fire
the coach. But they gave you an idea of they
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can play, they can be competitive.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But two, what got hit once? So it wasn't like
man Buffalo's defense. Buffalo's defense isn't great at least not
right now. And I thought Buffalo played an okay game,
but you got to at some point, you got to
win these games. If you stole that game and then
you win the standalone game Monday night against the Jets, Okay,
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now we called off the Dogs, the heat dies down
a little bit. You're two and two, But now you
got to win the game against the Jets, and that'll
be standalone game on a Monday night, and all your
problems come forward. Everything is on display now. Sometimes that's
great when you go, hey, we're going to showcase our talent.
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This is like, oh boy, I hope they spend a
little more time on the Jets than they do us.
But here is the Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel after
the loss.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
For expectation was to come in here and win the game.
And we knew we had to not turn the ball over,
and we knew we had to, you know, try to
get at least plus or at least even with him
in the in the takeaway department, and we had to
play good football and make some plays. And you know,
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we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had
a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of
things can that's how these types of games are decided.
So it feels like a loss, and it feels like
we have a lot of motivation to.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Get back to work.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It feels like when Mike is at the microphone, it's
like the press secretary for the White House, like I'm
gonna translate, I'm going to tell you some things. It's
not the president who's going to be speaking, it's the
press secretary.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But it's just didn't sound inspiring.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I think we go back to that first law
to the Colts that set the tone. And then you
have a player's only meeting. When you have a player's
only meeting after one week, that's doom and gloom. There's
no excuse like this the first game of the season.
I'm always amazed when a coach says, hey, we weren't
ready to play. How is that possible? You had seven
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months to get ready to play a game. We weren't ready.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It wasn't like, hey, you have this game and you
got a game in four days. It was seven months
to get ready and to it was just, you know,
it's just kind of a to a performance there, and
it's not all on him. But man, we give the
quarterbacks too much credit and too much blame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's the case right here.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yes, Martin, football is the one sport where I will
not take we weren't ready to play as an excuse.
You had seven days every single week. You have seven
days to prepare for the next team. What do you
mean NBA, MLB, NHL you play every day, Basically, you
had seven days.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
What do you mean you're not ready?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well, they weren't ready for the opening week against the
Colts either.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Seven days, seven months.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Either way, they weren't ready.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So the Bills hold off the Dolphins thirty one twenty one.
They're now three and oh the Dolphins are zero to three.
Is it just me or does every Bills tight end
sound like he has the same name they got? They
got some Dawson and Dalton and Paul. There's three tight
ends there, and it feels like they're on the WB.
They're on a show.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Their quarterback room, as people like to say, is Dalton Kincaid,
Dawson Knox, and Jackson Hawes.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Houdle.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What on it for?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
All lost to the over coming next on the WB?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, well Dawson break it up with John coming up next.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I kept thinking, I'm trying to I'm getting confused. Is
it Dalton Knox? Is it Dawson Knox?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Is it Dalton?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It does sound like the starting rotation for Mississippi State's baseball. Yes, yeah,
we got Dawson out there, and then we're gonna bring
a Dalton out there.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Bringing Carter Hendrix about the bench.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They sounded like fake names to be like okay, and
and they love their tight ends there in Buffalo. All right, Seaton,
what's Oh, it's a meat Friday. Here is the menu.
Beef and chariso chili, jalapano, cheddar, corn bread, bacon, corn bread.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Has it better than we do? No beef and chariso chili? Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I am a huge Charisa supporter from way back.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
My concern though, is the guy behind me having cheriso
and then a drive home.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, it's about an hour drive. You are a grown up,
so I'll let you handle accordingly.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Don't through the whole fill up to plate like a
big pictures now.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Chili's out, Clayton.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, why don't you just hold your cheriso there?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Pace myself yet?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah? Long drive home, but it's a Friday, that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I'll stop at a mobile or a Sonoka.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
What you got to do? Do you know the codes?
The bathroom codes on one.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Of them has the key with like a brick attack
through it. This other guy, he sends me into some
back room.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Do you even by gasoline? When you go into these
gas stations rarely.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'm more like I get a big of chips and
like a coke.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
They're like, oh here comes that guy again.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Great, close up shop till tomorrow we're closed.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do they do police tape outside?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Do not cross?
Speaker 10 (08:39):
It's embarrassing when they stop putting the tape around you
while you're strolling here.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
All right, So we'll run down the football matchups NFL
and college over the weekend. Our good buddy Clayton Kershaw
to retire after the playoffs. We'll talk about that. He's
pitched really well this year, and I love that you
can come to that decision. That's a really hard decision,
especially when you're playing well. So many athletes go, I
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can't go like Travis Kelcey, I can't go out this way.
You can't, but you might go out in a worse
way the following season. But Clayton Kershaw has pitched well.
They've needed him to pitch well. And when you start
to look at these pitchers like true pitchers, you got
Suerzer Verlander Kershaw, and pretty much after that, the ace
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is done with Major League Baseball, and I wonder how
we're going to look at numbers for pitchers for the
Hall of Fame, because it used to be if you
got to two hundred and two fifty, okay, maybe a
little more than that. Now it's going to be one fifty.
I mean, Jacob de gram is kind of a dinosaur
(09:51):
in there as well. But for the most part, the
starting pitcher and how we view them is going to
change dramatically because you won't. I mean, Verlanders pitch pretty
well second half of the season. I think he wants
to pitch again. I think he wants to get three hundred.
I don't know where he is. He's pretty close. And
then Schuerzer is in there. He wants to continue to pitch.
(10:12):
But Clayton Kershaw wonderful season and first ballance Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
He was a great, great pitcher.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
We hope to have him on before the end of
the regular season or the postseason.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All right, Seaton, you've got a poll question for me.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Not only do I have a poll question for you,
but I was lucky enough to get three from Todd
at two thirty am last night.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know if Todd. I know they're very important.
These are the things that are on Todd's mind. If
he wants to share those.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Sep was very restless, and.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Then I got a recap email after that saying here
I put all three just in one email now for convenience.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, very thought.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I will warn the audience Fritzy got a little loose
yesterday on the twelve to fifteen podcast. It's the wrap
up with the back room guys, and it feels like
that's a spillover and it's Friday Fritzy on full display.
All right, Todd, would you like to give us the
three pole questions that you came up with at two
in the morning.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
The first one you've already touched on or we've already
touched on. Was last not a moral victory for the
Dolphins in Buffalo? The choice is being absolutely they stood
toe to toe with a much better opponent. That's keeping
it positive. Absolutely not, they still lost by double digits.
Third choice, there are no moral victories, only losses, especially
at the zero to three mark of your season.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I think it depends on what the expectation level was
or is for the team. The Dolphins are supposed to
be a playoff team, or at least on the cusp
of being a playoff team. I don't think you can
have moral victories if you're a team that's supposed to
be a playoff contender. I think the Browns can have
a moral victory, or Carolina can have a moral victory.
(11:44):
A couple of these teams, but not many, because I
think the NFL is built in a way that everybody
should be kind of hovering around seven, eight or nine wins,
and the Dolphins should be that kind of team. I
don't think it's a moral victory. I think this is
who they're supposed to be. It's not like they played
out of their minds where we go, Wow, that was
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a big surprise. It wasn't a surprise to me because
they're built for offense, and they stayed in the game
and when it came to crunch time two is you know,
QBR if you follow that is terrible in the you know,
the last five minutes of a game, in a one
score game, he has a terrible QBR. I mean that's
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where these games are won and lost. That's the difference
between my quarterback and your quarterback. How many times did
we do that with Brady? How much times left two minutes?
What's he need?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He needs? Touchdown?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Damn you guys are going to lose Mahomes Montana. I mean,
oh way, run down the list of great quarterbacks of
all time. Now two is not in that category. But
I expect Josh Allen to do that. I expect Lamar
Jackson to do that. I don't expect two a tongue
of ioloa to do it. If I do, I'm surprised.
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But he does have weapons.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's got two of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The fastest guys in the NFL. He got the fastest
guy in the NFL. Oh yeah, I just two yard
passes here, That's all I need to do. It's two
yards and you take it thirty We both get credit
for you a thirty yard touchdown pass, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's not a moral victory. All right, What else do
you have?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
The second one? Is the best NFL Week three matchup is?
Speaker 10 (13:23):
And this is just an alphabetical order or not because
I'm a Bronco fan Broncos, Chargers, Rams, Eagles, Lions, Ravens,
Monday Night.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Football or other?
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Could there be something other than those three as the
best game of Week three?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well, I would say the rematch with the Rams and
the Eagles, But I mean even the Bengals Vikings with
the backup quarterbacks is kind of interesting to me. Broncos
Chargers is big and Lions Ravens. But I would say
Rams in the Eagles because I thought the Rams were
a better team in the second half of that game.
I know you got to play a full game, but
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I thought the Rams were going to win that playoff game.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
What else and the last one a little off the board.
I think the other day we were talking about Haley
Joel osmond Enough was on the air. Off the air
that and we've said many times that he should have
won the Academy Award over Michael Kine. So if you
had the sixth sense, if you had that ability, I
guess it's maybe at DISCIPLI. It's a horrible thing in
that movie to happen that which group of dead people
would you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Most be happy to have? The sixties.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
He looked very upset when he was telling Bruce Willis
that he's got this thing. I don't think it was affliction,
whatever you want to call it. Nobody wants to see
dead people pop it around. It's kind of scary. But
if you had the sixth sense, which group of dead
people would you most want to see floating around around you. Actors, actresses, athletes,
family slash pets, musicians, presidents, supermodels, supermodels in their prime,
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not when they're eighty, and they passed away of natural causes.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So this is what you're doing it two in the morning,
between two.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Fifteen and two forty five in the morning, I was
tossing to him, like and just a few of these
poll questions.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The first two were fairly obvious. The third one was
a little odd to be thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No, it's very odd. But there's only one right answer,
and that's your family.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
You would think. But I don't know if it's going
to comple we run away with I'm very curious to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The last time you said, man, I'm thinking of that
supermodel who was eighty years like, I'm not thinking of
Bridget Bardow or rock hol Welsh or any of these
women who passed away.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
One of my uncles I liked.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
But if there was between Uncle Joe, he was a
little weird sometimes at the satyr at the passover table,
I might have to go with one of the super
miles that passed away. It's not everyone, but I'm curious.
It's not going to be one hundred percent and obviously
you feel like compelled. You got to pick family and pets.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I got to put a hard cap on you today.
I think there has to be it's a valid question.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Do you guys think it's one hundred percent of the
vote's going.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
To go to your family?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
If I said you could revisit with your father, oh
forget of course answer.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's the right answer.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
But not everyone is like, oh, I wish I could
go see my grandma and my dad again.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Some are like, screw that.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
I want to see the famous athletes to hang out
with a walk around or just see them floating by.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It could happen.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Yeah, I was thinking I'd go with Charles Groden over
my dad. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
About, yes Mar Sorry everyone for two was on a
twelve fifteen podcast. I put a disclaimer up because he
was like this yesterday, and we could have put a
hard cap on it like you guys did.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Aunt Michelle, Johnny Uniis and Grandma's kind of smelled and
I didn't like her.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Were going dinner.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Okay, all right, and we'll come up with a legitimate
poll question here, at least for the first time we're
the program.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But thank you Tom for your contributions.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
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Speaker 3 (17:05):
Devin mccordy, he's a three time Super Bowl champ, former
defensive back, three time All Pro. You can catch him
on Football Night in America. It'll be the Chiefs and
the Giants. They'll be at MetLife Stadium eight twenty eastern. Okay,
why didn't the officials call those false starts on the
Eagles with the tush push.
Speaker 13 (17:28):
I think it's it's tougher than we think. I think
everybody's so zeroed in and looking to see if they're
off sides.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Or not.
Speaker 13 (17:35):
I mean, it's a clear miss of the play, and
I think, like I'm if I'm the Chiefs, I'm pissed
because to me, like you can't miss that on that play,
like everyone's been complaining about it. You can't now give
them an advantage of the false star because I think
if usually when the guy's on defense lineup off sides,
that was like an emphasis last year, so obviously they'll
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be washing it a close call now. But when you
lose in a close three point game last week, that
letter doesn't help you at all.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Is this a must win situation for the Chiefs against
the Giants?
Speaker 13 (18:07):
I think so, I think for them, and they get
back to feeling like yourselves and to rally, you can't.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Fall too far behind.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
The Chargers are already starting two to zero, like you
can't go zero to three and just keep losing and
hoping that Rashie Rice gets back and hoping worthy like
you still got to go find a way to win.
And I think their championship pedigree is going to make
them feel like they have to go win this game.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I just wonder if maybe it's right there in front
of us, and maybe this is where the Chiefs aren't
who we thought they were, that they're not going to
win this division.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe they're a wild card team.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, how how far along do you need to
get before you think you've got to handle on who
the Chiefs are?
Speaker 13 (18:50):
I mean, for them, it won't We won't believe in
it until they lose in the playoffs or they don't
make it like that's the only way because they're The
way they've lost these first two games is the same
way they won games last year. Instead last year against
the Chargers, they get the defensive stop, then Mahomes goes
down the scores. This year against the Eagles, they would
have got the defensive snap stop and then he goes
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and scores. So it's the same thing as that close
of a line in the nfls they're not far off.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The Dolphins last night had a chance to win that game.
They were going toe to toe with Buffalo. What are
they missing?
Speaker 11 (19:27):
I think the way their team is constructed to what
has to.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
Go be that guy And I know everybody's going to
talk about the sealer penalty to extend to drive the
truth of the matter is they Buffalo goes up seven
with I think seven minutes and seventeen seconds.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Left in the fourth quarter, plenty of time.
Speaker 13 (19:46):
Miami drives right down the field and then it comes
to throw Terrell Bernardo interception and then they go down.
Buffalo goes down, kicks a field goal with twenty somethings
seconds left, and that's the game. And I think we're
not even talking about the sealer. If Tua can take
the team down and go score, because they did, Like
everyone expected their defense not to get any stops last night,
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they got two big stops in the third to stop
in the fourth quarter to try to get this team
to lead. I just think, you know, an obviously the
offensive line isn't perfect.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
They need to to be the.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Guy that we watch Buffalo and Josh Allen that no
matter how the game goes, if I get enough chances,
I'll go win the game. I'll go take the game
away from the other team. I think they need to
start to see that from Tua.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But being a former defensive back, if you know that
quarterback's not going to throw, he not even looking downfield,
everything is, you know, five yards.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Occasionally it's a little bit more than that if he
scrambles like he did last night. But how does that
affect how you play your position if you know he's
not really going to challenge you down the field.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
I remember playing in games and Coach Belichick can come
and tell us, like, this team's not trying to throw
the ball down the field, and he would say, like,
at most, I think the ball go forty forty five
yards down the field. If you watched last night's game,
he threw one post to Tyreek Hill that probably should
have been intercepted, hung in the air forever.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
So it tells you be aggressive.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
I know they have two of the fastest receivers in
the league, and it sounds crazy to say be aggressive,
but they're not throwing the ball really deep or really
outside that much.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
So you see Buffalo they're.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
Packing the middle of the field, and guys who are
aggressive coming downhill, the linebackers play a little deeper to
take away that middle part, and they say, beat us
checking the ball down, beat us throwing it underneath.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
The whole time.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
And that's how everybody's playing them in so far, it's
worked because it's led to we're going to continue to
make you play that way and hope that you make
a mistake. And TWOA has made those mistakes. I think
it's four interceptions in the first three games.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What's it like to line up against one of the
fast you know, the fastest guy in the NFL when
when you're out there, you know he's faster than you.
But what is that like as a defensive back where
you go, all right, it's me on an island.
Speaker 13 (22:03):
You gotta have a plan. I think that's the key thing.
So whenever you do see last night, it was Bentford
a lot on Tyreek Hill when he was up in
his face, that pressure was coming, they were blitzing, they
were doing different things. So as a corner, you take
the mentality and have the confidence and the rest of
your guys that are right, I'm not gonna have to
cover this fast dude for eight seconds because the ball
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should be coming out fast. And I think that's the
blend of your rush and your coverage.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
You gotta have both.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
You can't chase Tyreek Hill around the field without pass
rush and think you're gonna have success.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Who is the guy though that when you're out on
an island, you're like, oh boy.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
Oh, I mean, who wasn't a guy you think about
Antonio Brown in my era Julio Jones being the top two.
When I was a young guy, the first time we
went to Detroit on Thanksgiving and you lined up against
Calvin Johnson and he got in a stance and you
were like looking up at him like those are the
times that you were like man, mom, and you here like, mom,
I really.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Signed up to do this. That's the challenge and the
fun of playing defensive bet.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We're talking to Devin mccordy.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You can see him on Football Night in America, the
studio analyst, three times Super Bowl champ with the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We were talking about baby names.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Where can you name your child after a sports personality.
I'm wondering in New England how many babies were named Brady.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
One of my good friends his son's eight now, and
he's a Brady. I mean, when you're walking around, you
meet so many kids named Brady, because you know, Tom's
just not enough, Like you can be any Tom, but
that Brady first name.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
It's very popular in all the New England states.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You wouldn't have named your children Brady, would you.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I love Tom, but Brady. Brady wasn't coming at our house.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, no kids Brady, And nobody's naming their kid Belichick.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Yeah, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Maybe there's some Maybe there's some Bills out there though,
William and they call him Bill out there.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The Rams Eagles game is interesting because I don't know
if we've seen the best the Eagles have, but the Rams.
I think the Rams are so dangerous and well we
saw that last year in this game that they might
have won that game if it was a little bit longer,
but obviously it wasn't. But handicap that game here. What
do you expect to happen in this rematch?
Speaker 11 (24:20):
I think the biggest thing.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
I think the Rams are itching at this rematch because
if you remember, in that playoff game, Sakwon Barkley had
like two runs that were huge runs that made up
all of those yards. And I hate saying this because
every football game goes that way, but I'm sure they're
sitting there saying, if we just don't give up those
two plays in the running game game, we successfully go
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out there and we kind of slow down Saquon Barkley.
So I think that's a big part. Everybody knows when
the Rams can get and passing situations, you don't want
to go against that defensive front. But I think the
key thing for the Eagles is I think they're gonna
have to get the passing game going. I think the Rams,
even more than last year, are going to develop so
many people to stop in Saquon Barkley because even though
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we say only two plays, that's the danger of Saquon
Barkley that on any given play he can go to distance.
So I think they're really going to say, you know what,
don't hold the disguise as long, don't do this as
just get down there, stop them, stop them. And I
think that's going to force the Eagles to use and
open up this passing game. And so far that's yet
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to be seen how the passing games really going to
look this year. We know they have the players, but like,
is there a confidence level to go out there and
execute the passing game at a high level, Because eventually
I see Stafford and Pooka Nakula and Devontae Adams, I
see them starting to be able to make some plays
in this game we saw week one. Opposite Pointyon Mitchell
is a little bit of an issue. And with two
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guys that they have.
Speaker 11 (25:48):
With Stafford throwing the ball, I think that can create
some problems.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Are you all in on the Chargers.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
I've liked what I've seen from the Chargers. I really do.
I think.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
You know, we had the Hall of Fame game this
year and we all sat around the desk talking justin Herbert,
and my whole thing was I was tired of hearing
about his talent and everything he could do. It was
time to actually see it done. And I think in
these first two weeks they've answered the bell. They've come
and they've showed they can dominate a game. They can
win different ways. It's not just a running game, it's
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dropped back passes, everything. So I do I think they're
for real this year.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
If I said you had to face Herbert, Jalen Hurts,
Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, who do you want to face?
Out of that group, who do I want to face?
Speaker 11 (26:35):
I would I would pick the I would pick Herbert.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I would pick the Chargers, and playing against Herbert, I'm
not picking the other two guys that are. Do you
mind as we're not even saying Josh hal Lamar Jackson,
we're not even signing up for that. But I think
the Eagles of defending champs with Jamalen Hurst. He plays
his best games in the biggest moments, and I give
a ton of credit to that. That's how I came
into the league and grew up in the league, was
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Belichick telling us your players have.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
To be their best and the biggest games, and Hearst
has been that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Good to talk to you again, have a fun weekend.
Thank you again, Devin, No problem, Good to see darre
That's Devin mccordy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
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Speaker 3 (27:22):
The voice of Miami, Dan Levittard, host of Metal Arc
Media's The Dan Levittard Show, which you can find on
this channel. Peacock, is that right down right after us?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You do? Okay? I just want to make sure.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yes, thank you, Yes, okay. I want to get in
on your name's game here though. Can I want to
which is the more interesting name fact here in this
In this equation, I'm giving you that all of George
Foreman's kids were named George, including his daughter who is
named Georgett, or that Dennis Rodman, one of nineteen children
his father was actually named Philander.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Would you ever name your child after an athlete? And
if so, which athlete?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Well, I am childless and I have not given this
question any thought. This is why you're the great one
that you are in terms of interviewing. Would I name
my child after an athlete? No, I don't think I
would do that. I would have to do that. I
think I would take if I was going to name
them after a family member, not just a name the
name I liked, I would name it after a family member,
I should say, not not an athlete.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
So like Marino Lebtard, Lebron Lebtard, Oh, are you still
better over Lebron leaving Miami?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Clearly?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Not?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
If I was, clearly, I'm hugely grateful.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
If if what I just did there is name a child,
how ridiculous would that be?
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Poor poor little Lebron LeBatard?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
How about Riley? Riley LeBatard? After Pat Riley, your good
buddy could.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Be a boy or a girl.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I could go.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I could go Pat and it could be a boy
or a girl. I could go Riley, and it could
be a boy or a girl.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Probably not Tua, But let's dissect here what we've seen
is the weather or the temperature underneath.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Mike McDaniel Warmer today.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Well, that game.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
They were well coached last night. That's an outman team
with I think a historically bad defense, and I don't
believe that coaching is the reason that they lost that game.
They've got a fundamental architectural problem here, Dan, in that
I believe that's the best game the Dolphins can play,
and they're doing it by throwing the ball as many
times behind the line of scrimmage as they are past
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the line of scrimmage. Now, that whole game last night,
the average air yards in that game for Josh Allen
and Tua one point four yards one point four yards
on completion.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
So a lot of the league is doing that.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
But when I say they have a structural problem, Dan,
here's the structural problem because they're no longer what they were,
which was the best offense in the league. They're constipated
on offense, and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill don't look
like they can give you much. But Josh Allen against
the Dolphins is in the regular season thirteen and two,
eight and zero at home. He's got forty five total
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touchdowns and eight interceptions against the Dolphins. On the other side,
the Dolphins have now lost four of their last seventeen
and eight in a row against winning teams.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And here's the structural flaw.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
And Tua's cap hit the next four years is more
than Josh Allen's cap hit in Buffalo, and that's obviously
an issue that's not going to go away for a while.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I just don't understand why they jumped the gun on
Tua with his performance, his injury history, and they could
have kept him another year, they could have franchised him.
I'm just trying to understand from the front office, from ownership,
where they go, Nope, we got to sign this guy up.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Now, why wildly mismanaged. They've got a GM who's got
the longest tenure in the league without winning a playoff game.
They have not enough good players, and they got fooled
by scoring seventy points against the Broncos and having a
comeback against the Ravens, which a lot of people do
late in games. The Ravens have blown seventeen second half leads,
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and they got enamored with they had the best offense
in the league. And more than that, Dan and this
part matters. They had exciting offense. They were the fastest
team in the league, but now you look up and
they're accused of being soft and not physical enough. And
the three guys that they have on offense that you
need things from Wattle Hill and Tua all physically undersized.
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Like yeah, they were fast and speed burns, but speed
also ages.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
And their offense is you know.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
It's a bit like a Ferrari in that if a
spark plug is off, it doesn't run right.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
There's not a lot of margin forrer I think one
of the.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Stats last night they had two they had a drive
that had multiple successful attempts on third and ten, and
it's the first time they've had that since twenty twenty two.
Like they used to be a big play offense, but
now what they had to do in that game last
night is do a.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Perfect sixteen play.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Drive that converts a bunch of third downs and just
keep Josh Allen off the field for a while, because
we can't do this anymore. Where what we used to
do is we'll have a scoring drive that goes one,
two or three plays, not sixteen.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
How safe is Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Safer today than he was before the game, right, because
I really thought that whole game, Dan was gonna go
the way the first half did, which is just keep
handing the ball to James Cook and he's gonna get
nine yards every time. And you know, they didn't stop
him in the first half. And the most stunning thing
for me to happen to this season for the Dolphins
is that they stopped the Bills at all in the
second half. Like, I don't know, you know, the Bills
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still scored thirty one points, but the fact that the
Bills were punting in the second half, I've seen no
evidence from this team that it can stop anybody. Dan,
I really do believe that the defense is historically bad.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Talking to Dan Levittard and a host of Metal Lark Media,
is the Dan Lebotard show that follows this on Peacock.
You know, when you're quirky and you win, we're fine
with that. When you're quirky and you don't win, then
all of a sudden we start to pick apart your
answers at a press conference. Here has the quirkiness, the
nerdiness of Mike McDaniel Warren off in South Florida.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Yeah, that part is obvious, but the glee with which
the quirkiness is being mocked by the rex Ryans of
the world, who seemed to be delighting and calling him
nerd boy and mc genius because he had some of
that Brandon Staley stuff where, oh, you think you're smarter
than everyone else, do you? He had reason to write
for a minute, he had reason to believe that when
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they had the best offense in the league and Rahem
Mostert had eighteen touchdowns at the running back position because
it didn't seem to matter whether his offensive line was
any good or not. They had offense. He took a
quarterback that all of us wondered about and had that
quarterback leading what was the best offense in the league.
But there's something else happening with McDaniel, right, Because we
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don't really want.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Our coaches to be interesting.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
They're better off being public faces and voices for a team.
Jim Harbaugh is awfully quirky Dan like I like him,
but fans kind of would prefer that their coach just
sort of be presidential, be somebody who connotes leadership and
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doesn't do very much with interesting sound bites. Like in
the history of sports. When you think of the coaches
who are real personalities, you know whatever, Steve Spurrier, Mike Leech,
They're just there aren't very many that you think of
Jerry Glanville. There just aren't very many that are wild personalities.
They you know, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick. That tends to
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be what you get.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Fans in South Florida. Would they rather have the you
be great or the Dolphins to be great?
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Ooh, that's a good question, because I'm gonna say the Dolphins,
because it's the you know, fifty years of Dolphin football
includes a time and I don't think your audience has
any recollection of this. It includes a time where the
Dolphins were the winningest franchise in all of sports, not
just in football. They won by percentage more often than
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everyone else. And now they've got the longest drought in
the sport, a sport that includes you know, the Bills
for a while when seventeen seasons without getting to the playoffs.
The Raiders haven't done anything in the playoffs in a
long time, But the longest drought belongs to the Miami Dolphins.
And this began as a football town because of the
Miami Dolphins still have an Expressway here named after Don
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Shula because of what the Dolphins did a long time ago,
and and the Miami Hurricanes have had some recent success,
some success this century. The last playoff game the Dolphins won,
Dan Lamar Smith scored a touchdown against the Colts. It
was not on television locally that there was a Dolphin
(36:26):
playoff game that was so long ago that you could
not see it locally in Miami.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Can you think of another franchise where when you go
to the game, you see this jersey and it's a
jersey that is from a player who played decades ago
in Dan Marino, like of all the all the different
now you might see that with the Jets maybe, or
the Bears with Walter Payton, But when you're thinking about
(36:53):
the Dolphins, do you see other jerseys of you know,
you know, anybody besides Dan Marino in the building.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They're a good amount of TUA supporters. It is hard
to support.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Some of the things Tyreek Hill is, even if you're
excited by him on the field. But this has been
a fan base that is unusually starved for excellence because
it's become a regional team, Dan it's not a national team,
and one of the reasons that we're talking about them
now is because for about a sixteen game span or
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maybe a twenty game span, they had an offense that
was interesting, that could make big plays, and so for
one brief moment there, this team had expectations that had
people talking about it nationally. And what I've been surprised
by the first three weeks of this season. You tell
me if I have this wrong, because there are plenty
of bad teams in that league, the Jets, the Saints, Carolina,
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but national laughingstock from coast to coast over the first
three weeks of the season. That's been because they've got
three very polarizing things as the face of their now
national identity, McDaniel, Tua and Tyreek Hill. And the weirdest
thing about that, dan is I think two was the
most polarizing of the three. Think about that for a second,
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and it's just because we haven't been able to accurately.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Measure what is this guy like?
Speaker 9 (38:16):
Is he is he a franchise quarterback or is he
not a franchise quarterback? That discussion made the conversation around
to him more polarizing than the one around McDaniel, who
can give off the quirkiness you speak of, and Tyreek Hill,
who does some pretty awful things as being a menace
to women and children.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Thank you for taking time, Thank you for having me,
my best to the family.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Thank you. I'm going to go home right now.
Speaker 9 (38:43):
And this is too much information obviously, but see if
I can try and make a little lebron.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Lebatad whoa look at the purean interests of Dan Patrick's cardle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I feel bad for your wife.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
I'm my undulating sensuality is not persuasive to you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Thank you, Dan, that's Dan Leboatard.
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