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So I think Jalen Ramsey might have taken a shot at the Dolphins yesterday.

So Jalen Ramsey, he's going to play for the Steelers this year, Greg.

And Jalen Ramsey, speaking at, you know, Pittsburgh Steelers practice yesterday, he actually started speaking positively about the Dolphins as far as the way that they honored his trade request.

And they honored it because they wanted him gone, too.

I mean, like, from what I understand, the talk of the culture and the locker room and disrespect toward the coach, late to meetings, effort, all, like, Jalen Ramsey was one of...

the guys at the top of that list, you know, who they had to get rid of if we're going to change things around here.

So, of course, they wanted to honor the trade request.

And Jalen Ramsey said, quote, I do appreciate the Dolphins and them working with me.

Let's go to a team that's going to be able to compete.

Let's go to a team where there's a lot of respect for the head coach.

What do you make of that?

That's not a subtle shot.

That's a direct shot.

My understanding was always that he didn't get along with Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator, who they got rid of.

Well, they were not quiet about that.

Yes.

And so that was a thing.

You know, I mean, Mike McDaniel is an offense-minded coach.

I don't know that he dealt all that much with the defense, but yeah, that's a clear shot.

That's a clear shot.

And Mike McDaniel has to earn back that respect, you know, because his teams have had issues in terms of leadership, in terms of, you know, culture, quote unquote.

Whenever players start talking about we need a better culture, you know, that's pretty corrosive.

You know,

that can mean a lot of different things.

It can mean Tyreek Hill at the end of last season saying, I'm not going back in this game, and then

hinting that he wants out, and then backtracking on that.

This is not just any player doing this.

This is arguably the best player and a captain, a captain of the team.

So when one of your captains is the one creating problems, that erodes culture.

And all of that falls back on the head coach.

I'm not going to disagree with what you said, but I wonder if it's also worth pointing out that Jalen Ramsey, for his career, has been in the league, what, nine years?

For his career, he has been one of the best, if not at times the best cornerback in the national football.

He gets a premier position.

It's one of the four most important positions in the game, cover corner.

And nine years in the league, he is about to start playing for his fourth team.

Like, I think it's worth mentioning, you know, we could talk about Mike McDaniel.

You know, let's go.

to a team that has a coach that, you know, everyone respects.

But at the same time, not many guys are as good at their job, an important job, as Jalen Ramsey.

And they're about to play for their fourth team when they've been in the league nine years.

Well, plus, Jalen Ramsey is an aging player at a position where you tend not to age very well.

You know, cornerbacks and running backs are usually the first two positions you think of there.

My problem is not that they traded Jalen Ramsey.

The problem is they didn't replace him.

The problem is between trading him and injuries, they have the weakest cornerback league

meeting room in the entire league.

And that's a problem.

I think they think that, look, Minka Fitzpatrick is going to upgrade that secondary.

And by the way, Jalen Ramsey, if he was still on this team, may have been converted to secondary here as well.

Like, he's going to play in the secondary for Pittsburgh, most likely, or at least a hybrid role, all right?

Which is funny because that's essentially what Minka Fitzpatrick, why he wanted out of Miami initially.

Right.

It's funny that you got to get Jalen Ramsey out here.

We got to fix the culture.

Let's bring in Minka Fitzpatrick, who also had terrible things to say about the franchise and the head coach.

Well, but specifically, well, specifically, there you go.

Specifically, Brian Flores, who, I don't know, I think at this point, Minka may have been right about Flores.

Like, you see that Minnesota defense, though?

They're rocking and rolling.

Hey, some guys, some coaches are meant to be coordinators.

Great offensive coordinator, great defensive coordinator.

How about Spagnolo?

Like, amazing defensive coordinator was a shithead coach.

Like, Brian Flores may be that guy as well.

Yeah, but when you're winning, nobody says a word.

Okay, all of this is coming out after an eight-and-9 season where you didn't even make the playoffs.

Nobody was criticizing Mike McDaniel two years ago or three years ago when he'd made the playoffs twice in a row, when he was this offensive wonderkin.

When you lose, people are looking for excuses.

They're chirping.

They're frustrated.

And this is what happens.

I would actually cite Brian Flores, though, as an example of, remember that Dolphin team, you had the big Ryan Fitzpatrick improbable comeback against the Raiders.

That team was in playoff contention.

It was right there for them.

They were doing a fair amount of winning.

And it was well known that the team didn't get along with the head coach.

There was a lot of drama around that team that was one of the better teams when you compare it to what they had done previously.

So, I mean, it can get that bad.

You can manage that locker room so poorly that it still becomes a storyline despite success.

When you mentioned Ryan Fitzpatrick, can I just bring it up real quick?

Because it always reminds me the first time I hear Ryan Fitzpatrick's name in a really long time.

Remember that pass he threw for the Dolphins in that game with the big comeback?

Where they caught his face mask and they ripped the helmet so his eyes were like in the ear hole and he couldn't see.

And it was a bomb that he threw, which was caught like to the sideline, by the way.

Incredible throw.

Insane.

Best pass ever.

Right.

And you kept thinking, like, man, why doesn't Flores back up to it?

But like, Tua would get pulled from these games.

Ryan Fitzpatrick would come in as a closing quarterback and just justify the decision, which made evaluating Tua very difficult.

We also thought his head

got ripped off that play.

Like when his, when his head, because remember, they moved the helmet sideways.

And I was like, oh my God, his neck is now stuck like this.

And now he can't play a quarterback.

So we wouldn't have been sure if Darren Waller was retired or not retired if we mentioned him right when the Dolphins had signed him.

Do we have a

little game we could play here, Jeremy, of retired or not retired?

Yes, we've compiled the list and there's the theme music.

So we have six players on this list.

I'll go one at a time and you guys determine retired or not retired.

So first, I think I get it.

Defensive back Patrick Peterson.

Retired or not retired.

This game is going to be very difficult.

Patrick Peterson.

I feel like I remember a recent

message sent like an announcement.

He's retired.

I'm going retired.

Where did he play last?

I would have said not retired.

Was he at Pittsburgh last?

Wasn't he Arizona?

Maybe Arizona.

Did he close things with Arizona?

That's a different game we're playing.

Well, I mean, I was going to say still active, but there are people in this room that are pretty sure about this.

So I'm also going to say retired.

I'm pretty sure, like, within the last two weeks, he retired.

Congratulations.

He is retired.

And he was indeed a Pittsburgh Steeler most recently.

Thank you for your service.

Next up,

kicker Matt Prater.

Wow.

Kicker.

Still playing.

Former UCF Knight Matt Prater.

That was a list of playing.

Guy will kick till he's 50.

Yeah, he has a boot.

He was down in Basho Law.

Arizona, right?

I say active.

Retired.

Are we just going to do that?

Any player we don't know if he's playing or not?

We say he was in Arizona.

He was in Arizona, Dora.

He was at Toastpoint.

Yeah, they all were.

He remains in Arizona.

He is an active kicker in the NFL.

At age 41.

I'm good at this game.

Yeah, we're going to wear that boot out.

Yeah.

Next up,

Mercedes-Lewis.

Retired or not retired.

Tight end.

Best blocking tight end maybe in NFL history.

Could have had a great career as a lineman.

He is.

I know we're combining.

He's 41 years old.

I know we're combining

two games here, but last play for the Giants.

I like this game.

I think he was a bear.

I was in Arizona.

I say retired.

I'm going 41.

Like, if he didn't say the 41, I would say he's still active.

So I think he has a digging.

So I'm going to go retired.

I'm going to go.

Krater's 41, though.

He's still active.

Kicker.

Kicker, her though.

Mercedes-Lewis can block Twitter.

He's dead.

I'm going to say unretired.

I'm going to take a chance with this one.

Mercedes-Lewis

is a free agent and active.

Okay.

Looking for another opportunity.

All right, so that one's tricky, right?

Yeah.

Dolphins pay attention.

That's active.

Where was he last?

36-year-old wide receiver, Julio Jones.

He's retired.

Retired, not retired.

He's retired.

Yeah.

Retired.

He has to be retired.

He's retired.

He played for the Tennessee Titans last, right?

Oh, he's got to be retired.

Different game.

Yeah.

Mercedes-Lewis last year played 17 games for the Chicago Bears.

Of course he did.

I don't know how about that.

He appeared in every game at 40 years old.

That's what it says here.

17 games.

Oh, Twitter Bears sucked.

Well, yeah, he had to help the office.

One catch for two yards.

Wow.

Not Dan's favorite new comedian, who he's very upset that the Daily Show made him wear a suit, but quarterback Josh Johnson.

Oh, he's always playing.

Retired or not retired.

Julio was retired, right?

Did I?

Julio was retired, yes.

I think I saw

Josh Johnson's still playing.

He's always playing.

Go back up till he's 48.

I think he was brought in as a camp arm.

I'm going to say camp arm for Josh Johnson.

I'm going active.

He seems like a guy who's always ready to jump off the couch and

play if needed.

He's got to be old.

He's like in a Tannehill situation, right?

He's like 3D.

30.

Tannehill's still waiting for the right situation.

30.

Free agent, not retired.

39 agent

Quarterback in like the 40s.

Young 39.

Camp Arm knows all the offenses.

Unretired.

He is a Washington commander.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

And finally, defensive tackle at 38 years old.

And Domican Sue retired or not retired.

South Beach session.

Yeah, retired.

Yeah, he just retired.

He just retired.

Way to just trying to make sure you guys all are paying attention to what we do.

And Domican Sue retired.

Wonderful.

Good job.

Who did he play for last?

Yeah.

A different game.

Wonderful job.

Is he in Philly?

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Stewarts.

So we talked a little bit about this yesterday because two days ago, the AP poll made its preseason debut.

That week one is a banger of games.

We got three games of top 10 matches.

You got LSU Clemson.

You got Miami Notre Dame.

You got Ohio State and Texas.

I'll be there.

I'll be there for that.

Ohio State and Texas.

The AP screwed it up.

You couldn't have one versus two.

It's one versus three.

When number three three is favored against number one, makes sense of that.

Anyway, we got preseason rankings.

Came out a couple days ago, and we talked about it yesterday, but we didn't get a whole lot into the Kanes, though.

The Kanes are preseason top 10.

Greg, expectation for the Hurricanes right now?

Real high.

I mean, playoff high for sure.

I think that's what needs to happen.

Mario might not admit it, but I think he feels it and believes it.

You have to make the top 12 and be in the playoffs.

That's the standard for UM this year.

They're ranked in the top 10, albeit at 10, for only the second time since 2005.

The other was Mark Ricks 2018.

And they have everything.

They killed it with Carson Beck in the portal.

I think Carson Beck's going to be great for that.

I do too.

And their pass defense, which sucked last year, is much improved.

I think they're the whole deal.

I think they have the best team.

team.

I think Mario has a great chance to have an improved record for the fourth straight year.

I see them going like 10-2, making the ACC championship game.

sky-high hopes for the Kanes.

I am worried about the wide receiver position.

They don't seem to have a go-to guy yet, Carson Beck.

From being out of camp, Carson Beck looks good.

The arm looks good.

I know that that's a concern.

Very decisive with the ball.

I'm curious.

I really can't make heads or tails of who's going to be the leading receiver here.

You have CJ Daniels, who they brought in as a veteran presence.

Had an injury plague season last year at LSU, but before before that, lit the world on fire when he was at Liberty.

This may come as a shock.

There might be a 17-year-old that may end up being Miami's leading receiver.

Well, but they're going to be a more balanced offense, though.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

They got two guys that have potential to put up huge seasons on the ground.

Mark Fletcher, a bigger bruising back,

has been very productive since the day he put on shoulder pads here for this program.

But Jordan Lyle flashes a game-breaking ability.

We saw that huge run where he turned the corner at USF last year, where he pulled away from guys.

That game-breaking ability has kind of not been around Miami so much.

Those guys, Richard Smith took that ability, went to SMU, and now will be a deep sleeper for the Kansas City Chiefs with that next level speed.

But I think Malachi Toney is going to be a real surprise for this team.

A true freshman that's going to make an impact there.

But the defense has been shored up.

You think they certainly brought in a ton of players in that secondary.

You have Heatherman, the brand new DC that comes over from Minnesota.

Yes, the schedule is more difficult than previous years.

They got Florida.

They got hold on.

The schedule is going to be more difficult than previous years.

They're going to be favored every game this year, right?

That's curious.

We'll see what happens at SMU, but they only have four road games.

Yeah.

Only four road games, and then late November, it can get tricky at Blacksburg, at Pittsburgh, back to back, but you don't know what kind of condition those programs will be in.

Don't they not leave the state of Florida until like November?

Yes.

Yeah.

No, it's crazy.

For their centennial season, the schedule does lay out nicely.

Now, they could take a step back in terms of overall record and be a better team.

They could finish this season 9-3 and be in that playoff contention and still find their way to Charlotte, especially if two of those losses come non-conference.

But Miami, it was, I like the vibe around Media Day at the ACC because everyone's just kind of confident that Miami is going to be there in the end, at least in their conference.

And the conference has lost a lot of talent this year.

I think the ACC is probably going to take a step back while Miami takes a leap forward.

But I'm excited about what they did at the quarterback position.

I think they got a real good one.

And I think it's notable that SMU is their only, what I would call, difficult road game.

All of the other most challenging games are at home.

I mean, historically difficult places to play Blacksburg.

And we saw in 2017, before that 2018 year that got kind of sidetracked by injury and Mark Rick's own decline with his health,

Pittsburgh ruined a season for Miami in 2017 in which they would have been ranked number one

headed into the conference championship had they not dropped that.

I'm at SMU week two.

You need to do a little advanced scouting.

A lot of former hurricanes there.

Wear that hat though.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That makes you undercover.

All right.

You got to wear that flex vic backwards and we can sneak you in there on the sidelines.

Cutter stallion style.

Is the last time that Notre Dame was here at Miami was the blackout game?

2017.

That shit was a game.

Was it a blackout?

No, the blackout happened actually before that, Virginia Tech.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, regular regular game.

Which was like a crazy crowd, too.

But 2017, Notre Dame, that's really the only game that Miami Hurricanes fans can point to and say that building had some magic to it.

That building got really loud.

I think that's the only game at that stadium where you were able to say that game was over before it started.

Like, you knew.

Because this used to be a case of the Orange Bowl all the time.

But that night, you knew, okay,

we know what's happening.

Yeah, right away.

Once Will Manso leaked that video of the Notre Dame coach talking all that crap about the turnover chain.

But we were at ESPN at the time, very close to Morty Smith and a bunch of people with College Game Day, and they said that night at Hard Rock Stadium in 2017.

I think Herb Street says, like, this is the best atmosphere of the year.

Second loudest place they had ever been to as a crew.

That was back in 2017.

Maybe they've been to louder places, but they said only behind Death Valley and LSU.

Could it be like that for week one, number six versus number 10?

Absolutely.

We'll see.

Notre Dame has some issues too.

They have a legit quarterback competition right now.

They lost a quarterback that was a proven commodity for them.

And they have some injuries across the offensive line.

They're still very talented, but Freeman teams, they get off to a slower start over at Notre Dame.

So it lays out nicely for Miami.

And they'll have an opportunity with a standalone game.

Certainly Carson Beck and some of the other talented players on this team have an opportunity to make a real savement and get a lot of national attention with a standalone TV window Sunday night.

And And the points for it pretty much are close to a push the last time I looked.

Should the Virginia Tech game be tough?

Like, they haven't won more than eight games in six years.

You never know what kind of shape that program's going to be in.

They want to push the head coach out.

The fan base is over.

The head coach may be out, and you don't know.

Do they play hard for a new guy?

In the portal era, do these guys check out?

I would say normally most Miami Hurricanes fans would look at late November games at Blacksburg, at Pittsburgh, and be a little worried about that.

But the caveat of those coaches perpetually are talked about as guys that could be on the hot seat.

Yeah, Brent Prye, 3-8, 7-6, 6-7 in his three seasons at Virginia Tech.

So while I'm sure there are some good wins in there at home, it's not, given what Miami is supposed to be, something that should be much of a challenge.

But every year there's one of those ACC teams that seems to knock off someone at the top.

But all you got to do is look to last year.

Could it have gotten closer than last year's game, Miami, Virginia Tech?

Like, that was the closest football game of all time.

Yeah.

It was like a ball here, a hand here.

Was he out of bounds?

Was he not?

The Hail Mary that went out of bounds.

I would say Miami has always had these things, and it goes to the pro ranks, too.

The weather games late in the season.

This Miami team is more built for that.

My colleague over at Keynes Insight D Money Points 2, remember when they went to Boston College, played against Cassianos, who's now at FSU?

That's a tricky spot, late at Boston College.

We've seen it with one of the greatest teams of all time struggle there.

And they just are built in the trenches in ways for that that weather that previous Miami Hurricanes teams have not been.

God, how good is college football?

We're so close.

Football's back, baby.

I got my Phil Steele magazine in the mail yesterday.

I love that.

Saw, it's kind of late.

You're cramming, huh?

This is how I do it.

Like, I hit the road in two and a half weeks, all right?

And then it's every week I'm on the road with ESPN.

So I, I, it's time.

It's like, all right, I need to start cramming.

Like, that's how I do it.

Like,

I don't start looking at the magazine last month.

Like, it's now is the time.

Things change, too.

You got to get most up-to-date information, right?

Right.

So I got the Phil Steele magazine.

That's the college football Bible.

All right.

I got that in the mail yesterday.

I was very excited.

It's a magazine, though.

Wasn't it?

What you're reading, wasn't that written a month ago?

No, I just got it.

I mean,

I know, but it was,

it takes a while to publish a magazine, right?

It has all of the information.

It's got the building blocks.

That's what you need.

It's got everything you need.

There's so much info in there.

So I got to start studying, but once in a couple weeks from now, Greg, you're going to be able to ask me about any school in the country and I will know everything about it.

So I'm a college follow expert.

I'm just surprised magazines are still a thing because when I was a kid, Street and Smiths was the Bible.

Like I used to get their pro and college preview issues all the time.

But I didn't know that that was still a thing in 2025.

The magazine.

Do you guys...

When's the last like magazine subscription you guys had or that came to your house?

You know what came to my house two days ago?

Fortune magazine.

And it had my name on it.

And I have no idea why why it is that that I've never subscribed.

Did one of those people come to your home and it was like...

No, I've never subscribed to it.

I mean, maybe this is like some, I signed up for something.

You know, like sometimes you buy something.

It's like, oh, you get three free magazine subscriptions.

I must have...

checked off something or I went to like a boat show one time years ago or something.

What's the last magazine subscription you remember actually subscribing?

I think the last one I actually had was ESPN the magazine.

Wow.

Yeah, and I don't think that's even published anymore.

They canceled that publication.

Yeah, a long time ago.

But Fortune magazine came to my house two days ago.

Did you read it?

No, not yet.

It's on, you know, you know what I thought about doing with it as soon as I got it?

I was like, you know what?

I'm going to put this in the bathroom.

Yeah.

And this is going to be bathroom reading because there was like a glory day of like all the magazines are in the bathroom.

That's where all my friends steals.

Yeah, and that's where they go.

But I don't think they even sell bathroom magazine racks anymore.

Do they?

They can't.

There's no magazines.

Why would you need a bathroom magazine rack?

Really, I can relate.

We get, every week, we get a people magazine delivered.

Still?

Yeah, and I said to my wife the other day, do we subscribe to that?

Why do we?

And she's like, I don't know.

I mean, just every week we...

Lapple Luxury at the Cody house.

I don't know.

Whatever.

It comes.

Doesn't matter.

Does anyone read it or what do you do with it?

I leaf through it.

Yeah.

What's going on?

What's going on with the Hensworths right now?

You know, I didn't leaf through the last one, but, you know, if

Taylor Swift and Kelsey are on the cover.

I might give it a look.

I don't know.

All right.

That kind of thing.

Billy, what magazines did you subscribe to when you were younger?

I think ESP and the Magazine.

Sports Illustrated.

Oh, for sure.

SI for kids.

I didn't have SI or SI.

How about highlights?

You have highlights?

I did have highlights.

When we were younger, we had highlights.

When we were younger.

Yeah, I remember that.

Hidden pictures.

I had Rolling Stone the longest.

I had Rolling Stone the longest.

Rolling Stone was 10.

It was the last one that I didn't have anymore.

I had Rolling Stone forever.

I even had it, you know, change the address to come to my college residence.

You know, I had Rolling Stone forever.

And throughout my,

when I was a little kid and then into like mid-teenage years, I used to get WWF the magazine.

Those are the two.

Wow.

You're such a mark.

You're getting worked in that magazine.

Whatever, man.

I like reading about my favorite superstar.

That's how you got tricked into writing Hulk Hogan get wells.

It wasn't a trick.

He wrote me back.

It wasn't a trick.

Do you keep that letter?

You still have it?

I wish I still had it.

It was a postcard.

I wish I still had it.

He signed it and everything.

Yeah, I mean, now I would think it's probably worth, you know, no one's getting more postcards from the Hulks.

Greg earthquake put him in the hospital.

Is that right?

That piece of shit earthquake.

Yeah, I don't know who the hell it was.

Oh, it wasn't a real earthquake.

John Tenta.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

It was before he killed Damien with the same move that he used to put Hogan in the hospital.

Killed Damien.

Well, you'd think Damien would have been ready for it.

Yeah.

He was in a sack.

He didn't know what was coming.

Yeah.

At least he.

What do you do now that you hit the roads down at the manor?

What happens with the kids?

I live in a mansion, first of all.

At the mansion, now that you're away, cat's away, the mice will play.

Last time we spoke to you, it seems like the mice were playing quite a bit.

What are you saying?

What?

Yesterday, you were talking,

you've never heard the expression, when the cat's away, the mice will play?

You're the cat, allegedly, according to you.

Some are saying you're a mouse in the household where your kid is running roughshod, running away from home.

There's a question about your gambling.

It's kind of like when the enforcer's not there, you allege to be the enforcer of your home.

When you're away, what happens?

Oh, so you're asking, like, who's in charge and I'm away?

Well, well i'm asking yeah if there's any control when you're away well that's that's not for that's not my concern like i'm not there teenagers running the roost you know like all right my wife's in charge for those couple of days that i'm not home for the week and you know when dad comes home everybody got to have their together all right but while i'm gone all right you know just don't let me hear about it it's pretty much the way it goes okay yeah

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Don Lebatard.

Billy, somebody has written in here,

I need way more.

I'm sorry.

I just said in his headset, haven't you been to all of them too?

It sounded like you were speaking aloud.

My bad.

Totally on me.

That's 100% on me.

All right.

Stugats.

But that goes without saying.

Right.

That it couldn't happen.

Well, now he said.

He didn't say it.

He said,

that was just in your head again.

Craig.

My apologies.

Greg.

Yeah.

Craig.

He apologized.

Craig.

Sincerely.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

So tomorrow, the NBA releases its entire schedule.

Full schedule.

Entire NBA schedule is being released tomorrow.

But we did find out a couple days ago, I think it was yesterday, that the Christmas games.

What are you doing over there?

He keeps making fun of me.

His mic is higher than mine.

There you go.

I was just saying before, like, his mic is normal at his face, and yours is just like, I need to talk way down here.

It's so ridiculous.

The obsession with microphones.

It's not ridiculous.

There's no obsession.

It really is an obsession.

There's no obsession,

we are a show.

We are a show.

All right.

It's not an obsession.

It's actually a necessity.

Is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Are you questioning that?

Whatever happened to the megaphone.

Let's just get old-timey megaphones and, you know,

and do well with it.

You know how football players need helmets?

It's an obsession with helmets in the NFL.

They should, you know, it's like motorcycles.

You want to wear a helmet?

You wear a helmet.

Yeah.

If you don't, you don't.

No, no.

It's like motorcycles.

Do you want a motorcycle?

You need a motorcycle.

Yeah.

Debatable.

So, a couple days ago, the NBA, ahead of its schedule, released tomorrow, they released their Christmas Day games.

They got five Christmas Day games

like usual.

I mean, all those go.

The NFL's playing on Christmas.

Well, and yes, the NFL has decided, you know, they pulled up last year, the NFL, like Debo, and said, we're taking Christmas.

All right.

You're not in on all of the action on Christmas, Greg?

No, it's ridiculous.

The NFL and NBA now are competing to out-Christmas the other.

The only holiday where I love NFL games or pro games to watch on TV is Thanksgiving.

Okay, that's a part of the ritual.

Okay,

you're timing the turkey so that it doesn't interrupt with the middle game that you really want to watch, et cetera, and so forth.

But on Christmas Day, to quote a phrase, Jesus Christ, I mean, you can't, whatever happened to Christmas?

Christmas, and don't get me wrong, I'm not

super religious.

I'm not.

Like, I'm not going to church on Christmas.

I'll tell you that.

Relax.

Not that that there's any religious.

Well, technically, nobody goes to church on Christmas.

You could just leave it at.

I'm not super religious.

Okay, but

even so, Christmas, when I'm growing up, you know, Christmas is,

it's a holiday.

You know, you revere the holiday, you watch the little kids open their gifts.

But so is Thanksgiving.

It's a holiday.

Yeah, same.

Thanksgiving,

you're eating and drinking a lot and watching football on TV.

Christmas used.

Sounds like Christmas, too.

Christmas used to be that, and now it's five NFL games, not one or two, five or five NBA games and three NFL games.

You have eight games competing with each other from late morning until late at night.

Cody are considering moving Christmas.

Where's Christmas?

Where's Christmas?

You know,

it's just too much.

It's excessive.

That's all I'm saying.

But you don't have to watch the games.

I know, but

they're on TV.

I mean, you're a football fan.

You're a Hoops fan.

You got to watch it.

Were you a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve family?

Right, I thought, now look, I don't know if you guys know.

I'm Jewish.

I understand that Christmas, it's more about Christmas Eve.

Like, that's the big partying and the dinner.

And it feels like that's why neither of those sports play on Christmas Eve.

I think it depends on the family.

Yeah, it does.

Some people are Christmas Day people.

Some people are.

I make a big dinner on Christmas Eve.

I mean, to your point, it's a special day as well.

I just think sports have gone over, especially, it used to be the NFL owned Christmas.

Now the NBA, in the past several years, has been competing to the point where there are five games now instead of three.

It's just, it's too much.

I didn't like,

I didn't like the reported slate for Christmas Day for the NBA.

It should be noted, while everyone was assuming that the NFL was going to totally take over Christmas, there was a nice little rating story for the NBA last year as the NFL went behind their Netflix paywall and whatnot.

People were tuning in on cable and the ratings for the NBA did increase despite the extra competition.

You got

Cavaliers at Knicks.

Fun game.

Let me guess, Lakers Mavs.

I haven't seen it.

Are they playing?

No, No, both those teams are playing, but not against each other.

Cavaliers at Knicks, because the Knicks always have the noon game at Madison Square Garden.

And then you got Spurs at Thunder.

Fun game.

Mavericks at Warriors.

Fun game.

Rockets at Lakers.

Big game, not a big game.

It's a big game.

It's a big game.

I agree.

Durant,

Duncich.

LeBron.

LeBron's second.

Duncich's team.

And Timberwolves, Nuggets.

And that's a late game.

Is there a bigger indictment?

Like, we've talked a lot about the heat and how they're just kind of on the downtick.

We haven't even sniffed a Christmas game in a few years.

I mean, look at the Indiana Pacers.

They made the finals.

They don't get...

But it's just like, we used to be...

Like, I felt like there was a lot of people.

We weren't every year.

There was a good, like, eight-year stretch where we were just one of those guys.

LeBron.

LeBron.

But he wasn't here eight years.

Well, like,

Shaq and Wade before.

He just

played on Christmas in 2023.

Yeah, but they were there.

They were five years ago.

It's Milwaukee.

I think after

Philadelphia, sorry.

I think after the bubble, and they made the finals in the bubble, they didn't get a Christmas game.

Yeah.

Yeah, recently, post-LeBron has been kind of.

I think if you're going to have five games on Christmas, one of them's got to be a stinker.

You know, throw in Wizards against Jazz.

What?

It's like, what?

Why would you want a bad game?

No, you do.

You toss in a stinker there so you can enjoy the meal and enjoy the time.

Like, this is what I need to casually pay attention to, if at all.

Give me a two-hour break.

Exactly.

With Wizards and Jazz, and then you get back to the real game.

I like this idea, idea, and that should be Christmas morning.

When people are opening their presents,

they should add more games.

It should be wall-to-wall.

It should be like Boxing Day is for the Premier League.

You just go wall-to-wall.

Yep.

Can you just imagine what Greg just suggested on Christmas Day?

The

abomination of wizards and jazz.

That's just a bad idea.

You're lying to me.

He's right, though.

You're lying to me if you're not putting that game on while you're unwrapping Christmas Day presents in the morning.

Thank you.

If there is an NBA game going on, it tips off at 7 a.m.

Eastern Time.

You're asleep.

I'm watching Christmas time.

I'm on the same wake.

On Christmas morning.

Christmas morning,

welcome.

I guys are awake.

I got the pair.

Oh, dude.

You think you're watching?

Are you crazy?

What time do you think you're going to wake up on Christmas moving forward?

Right now, this Christmas?

Maybe nine.

Maybe

this Christmas?

A newborn, since Christmas?

Are you retired?

You wake up at nine?

What time do you wake up every day?

Well, every day I wake up for like on weekends, on weekends.

On weekends, Saturday mornings, I wake up at 6:30, play hoops at 7.

So why do you think you're going to wake up at 9?

You're not going to do that.

Because we have not changed the children.

Your parents are going to be there.

In-laws are going to be at your kids' first Christmas.

If you think you're getting any rest on Christmas time.

You think we're having Christmas at our house?

You think it's up to you?

Of course I do.

They're just ding-dong, and the whole family is there.

I'm not going to put up a tree here.

I think

you're not putting up a tree on your kid's first Christmas.

Nah, Tony's got to get away.

Take your kid away from this family.

Tony, you get one more year.

It's going to be a tree.

The baby's so young right now, you have this year.

But after this year, 8 a.m.,

you're like in your house every morning.

i don't think he has this year because while he may be playing it cool mama ain't yeah that's true it's baby's first christmas yeah to be honest i'm a big fan of christmas trees so i will get the real christmas

yeah we'll get a real treat

around on this

real treat but

seems as though Maybe the in-laws are going to do Christmas.

So everybody goes over there to celebrate Christmas.

We got nieces and nephews.

We got other family.

So it's like a giant thing over there, not at my house.

You're going to be awaken time for Jazz Wizards.

I'll tell you that.

I'm realizing now that I am so far ahead of you guys when it comes to the kids yeah and you're careful about what time you have to wake up on the weekends and what time like do you want to ask ask me when I wake up on the weekends

when you wake up you don't care whenever I want

whenever I want when your kids are just running around town yeah I mean they're doing like whatever they want they're going to Chicago this weekend for UFC and of course me and Cody

you need the crap game early on, so if you get a TV for Christmas, you like don't miss, like, you're setting it up and you don't really miss it.

I mean, but that's why you have Cavs.

That's why you have a bad game at the beginning.

That's why the Knicks are always.

So you can quickly plug out and plug in.

You need like a crap sandwich of games, like a bad first one, a bad last one.

And then in the middle is where you're like, okay, this is

where the crap is.

Well, then you got the NFL, Greg.

Well, they did this wrong.

How so?

Well, because the first game is Cowboys Command.

Wow, all three NFL games.

If we were to do a big game, not a big game, all three of these games.

Yeah.

815.

All three big games?

Yeah,

next one's a big one.

Lions Vikings.

Big game.

Yeah.

Now, the 80s.

8.15 Prime video.

Now we're going on from Netflix over to Prime.

We're switching channels, switching stations.

Broncos Chiefs.

Massive game.

That is a massive game.

That's a banger.

Broncos are going to have to show us, though.

By that point in the season, we're going to know if it's a big game or not a big game.

Yeah, I mean, that's like week 17.

Yeah, week 17.

Fight for a playoff spot.

Everyone loves the Broncos this year, man.

But it's too much for you, huh?

They're an it team.

And the Pats.

The Pats, everyone likes, too.

Yeah, but I would do the same thing with the NFL, you know, throw in a Browns Titans game or something, you know, just for a respite instead of three in a row.

But yeah, the combination of NBA and NFL, eight games on Christmas Day, is too much.

It's simply overload.

What would you do, Greg, for Thanksgiving, for Thanksgiving football games?

Because I feel like Thanksgiving games, the late game is the one that I'm always kind of, by that time.

So it was Steelers, Ravens.

My energy.

Well, last year was Dolphins, right?

And it was a terrible game.

I always picture it being an AFC North game.

It was a really bad game for the Dolphins.

I think it was Dolphins, Packers, it was their worst game of the year.

And it wasn't close.

I heard the big dog talking about it this morning, like 20 missed tackles in that game.

I think the money game is the middle one.

I think the prime game on Thanksgiving is the middle one.

The late one?

Cowboys.

The late one, you're already like, my energy is already down.

I'm a triptophan or whatever it's called.

Oh, that's exciting.

Yeah, and I'm like, oh, I've been watching a dog show

football and another football parade.

I can't anymore.

No, by the late game, I've been hammering Jim Beam all day.

You know,

I'm not ready to watch three more hours of.

The late game is big, by the way.

Tony, you see what this Thanksgiving slate is?

Slate is crazy.

God, why did Green Bay at Detroit

begin?

It's a whole new world with Detroit being crazy.

Massive game.

It's crazy.

It really changes the entire dynamic of that holiday.

Yeah, not so funny now, the Lions.

Come on.

4.30, right when you're getting over to your family's house, you're going to start getting the turkey out.

Kansas City, Dallas.

Yeah.

Craig, googly, Moogly.

Big game.

That's a big game.

And then as you're winding down for the night, maybe you're getting that extra piece of pecan pie or

pumpkin pie.

Pumper.

Cincinnati, Baltimore.

Sweet temples of Toledo.

But Greg doesn't like it.

Greg wants a stinker mixed in somewhere there.

Do, you know.

Browns Panthers.

I mean, come on.

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, Saints.

Throw in the Saints.

Yeah.

Somebody I don't want to see.

That way I'm not obliged to watch.

I can concentrate on my meal.

I'm in the kitchen doing a turkey.

I don't have to worry about the TV.

You're in the garage barefoot.

Well, that's true.

Can we put up that statue?

Bronze statue out of that one would be ridiculous.

AI made a statue of my dad.

It's recreating the photo of him out in the parking garage frying a turkey barefoot.

Is this like jumping off the Tom Brady statue?

It looks.

Oh, look at that.

I mean it's got a poppy face.

It looks like poppy face.

If you really zoom in, the face has poppy vibes, but it's, I mean, it's clearly...

Barefoot.

It's clearly that photo.

I mean, it's your.

And you got the, the, you're frying the turkey.

No, that looks.

Oh, wow.

You know.

Poppy eyebrow, yeah.

That really does look like poppy.

People's eyebrow there.

That is a...

That's a dead ringer for Poppy.

I think that's Lyndon B.

Johnson.

It's Dwayne Wade statuesque, where it's like every detail about it outside of the face is perfect.

But the face kind of throws you out.

What about the toenails?

That is one thing pointed out that it's the

my dad's toenails are...

Yeah, these are kept...

Actually, I'm looking down at that toenail?

No, long enough.

Yeah.

Because that'd be hell of an attention.

By the way, look at those calves on that step.

Boy, you're in great shape.

Wait, I work out.

Let me see your stand up over there.

Let's see if those are real calves.

I got long pants on.

You can pull them up.

You got nice calves.

They always surprise me whenever you're in shorts.

Pull a calf up.

Pull a calf up.

Let's see.

It's like Boog Shambi.

Let's see if he can pull a calf up.

I'm glad you left.

Boog Shambi's got the craziest massive calves.

Because as used to produce Boog Shambi, he can tell you stories about those calves and that they're big.

All the stories are, he's just.

I mean, those are old people's shoes, but yeah, the calves are nice.

Kind of petered out.

I was like, he could tell you stories about those calves.

Like, what?

It's like, I think, well, you can't wait.

He's also got a student loan boy.

He's got big calves.

All right.

I think it's the end of the story.

I feel like there's a whole lot more to that right there.

Great calves, though.

Thank you very much.

Your calves are not.

talking about book.

Yours looks more impressive in the statue.

I lead the league in calves.

Hey, it's Mike Ryan.

Those sprinklers are starting to slowly come up on the football field.

Time that we have with summer is dwindling.

I'm sure you're already doing that thing where you're going through your photo album, flipping through the photos that you've taken this summer, already reminiscing about the good times that you have.

I know I did.

And in many of the pictures that I went back to reminisce over, I had a beautiful white can of Miller light in my hand because I love making good times during the summer.

A Miller time.

And it's a good reminder.

We're losing time on this summer.

So why don't you share the moments that you have with a white can of Miller Light like I have, whether it's a long weekend or a full-on vacation.

It is the perfect time to get the crew back together.

And since 1975, Miller Light has been the go-to way to stock the cooler and celebrate those moments.

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