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Chris, I don't have confidence in what it is that I just saw.

And I walked into a room where it didn't seem like Billy had much confidence in what he saw playing out on video.

And then when I came out, I looked at your father, and he was grinning ear to ear while watching something.

And he was watching himself.

He was watching whatever he was doing, whatever he had orchestrated.

Billy, where are you with whether this is going to succeed or not?

Oh, I mean, I have no idea if this is going to succeed or not.

I just know when we walked in, you and I separately, we had the same experience where we were quickly ushered out of where our normal is just like, hey, hey, pick up the pace, get out of this room, get, you can't be here.

You can't be there.

Go hide in this corner.

We can't have you here.

There was a live, active music video shoot going.

Suey week.

It was not a music video.

It was a rehearsal.

Like we did in the New York show.

We try to rehearse things with my dad.

I'm sure he'll screw it up.

You can't rehearse things with him.

They don't work when you rehearse anything with him.

Well, that's what, like, as we learned with New York, you're right.

We tried to practice this once or twice before.

We're about to go lie to it.

It's Suey's Week.

Okay, you're trying to bring the enthusiasm to Suey's Week, and this is how we're doing like the adornments on Suey Week.

We're doing a taped thing that required your father to rehearse.

For me, the best award shows start with an opening number.

And that's what we're trying to prepare here for the audience.

Is that true?

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show.

Do the best award shows start with an opening number?

Oh, yeah.

Don't they all?

Are Are there any award shows that don't start with an opening number?

I'm not, you know, I haven't tuned into award shows in probably 15 years,

but I don't assume that you start.

I guess, yeah.

Did Conan start, Conan started dancing around with like in the last one, he did a bit of a musical, right?

I don't believe you.

Yeah, I don't think so either.

I think you watch all the award shows.

15 years?

You guys are now accusing me.

We talk about every award show.

Every award show.

We did two weeks of Shane Gillis talk.

You watched every award show.

I didn't watch any of the awards.

All I saw was the 10-minute monologue.

You watch them.

Okay, I don't know what to do with being accused of being a liar now.

That's your move now.

Hell out of here.

Look, it's Sue's week.

I will tell you that the last award show moment I remember was my wife waking me up because Will Smith had slapped Chris Rock.

It's Suey's week.

That was 2022.

Caught you.

Is your dad ready?

I was watching.

I was asleep.

It's Sue's week.

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All right.

All right, girl.

The timing on the lip sync was slightly perfect, but

pretty good, all things considered.

And suey week is here and i heard you taping stuff put on your headset like a professional he's actually got ear pods in really ready to cook

excuse me

the professional now yeah i'm sorry forgive me for underestimating you you look great i haven't seen there are only two times that i've ever seen greg cody dress this way two times when his boys got married

That's it.

That's the list.

This outfit does not get worn except on these most special of occasions.

That's right.

Is this the only suit that you own?

It's also for funerals.

Yeah, it's weddings and funerals and special occasions.

This is probably one of three suits I own, and it's the one that's the closest to being new and clean.

It is great.

You look great, and thank you for getting us on this awards week off to a rip-roaring start.

We're going to open with Uncomfortable Moment because I imagine I've got a few of those in there.

I'm the reigning champion here, correct?

This is my category.

Wouldn't you guys agree that, like, Stugatz has mispronuncifications, Greg Cody has back in my day, most uncomfortable moment or biggest mistake.

Those are my categories.

Well, don't, I'd like, I put up a good fight in biggest mistake.

So don't don't take that.

Okay, but you would agree that if I were the betting, I've got to be the betting favorite on uncomfortable moments.

You know who actually had a great performance this year in terms of a person you're going to see pop up in a lot of categories?

David Sampson.

Yeah.

I mean, he can make us uncomfortable.

I would say, no, you are in here, but David Sampson brings it in uncomfortable.

I believe Amin has a good one, so it's pretty widespread, actually.

We'll get to that in a moment.

But speaking of uncomfortable moments, I want to play some video for you.

This is from Mike Bibby's podcast, and Shaq is making an appearance on the podcast.

And he's told parts of this story before, okay, of how it is that Shaq.

and the Miami Heat broke up.

It included Shaq being escorted out by security, wanting to fight Pat Riley.

His things were taken outside, and they were not to see each other.

And Shaq has told those portions of the story before.

But I want to present to you this story as he told it to Mike Bibby, where his anger was.

And I just want to bring it to the dolphins to ask you how it is that they're going to handle situations like this if things escalate this year and you do not have somebody like Pat Riley at the helm of your organization.

How do you handle this?

One day Jason Williams came late.

Like, remember you used to have that clock?

Yeah.

But Jason Williams came a half a second late and he was like, hey, man, you need to get out.

I told Jason, we're not doing that because, you know, that's when he got rid of Antoine and all my guys and I had a regular team.

So we was losing like crazy.

So he told J-Dubb to get out.

And I said, no, we're not getting out.

He said, well, you get out.

And I said, motherfucker, put me out.

So we got into a little scuffle.

And then the next day, I was trading.

Hey.

A little scuffle.

Yeah.

So I ask you, Mother Bleeper, You put me out.

Obviously, with Shaq, how do you do it?

But let's make it Tyreek Hill.

Let's make the season start.

And now, the focal point of everything you do offensively and your job and your future all rely on.

I kind of need the deep threat.

He kind of makes everything happen.

And you know, he's not going to behave if it goes poorly at the start, right?

You guys understand that there's a volatile chemical in the dolphin locker room that was shouting at the end of last season, get me out of here in public.

And they didn't trade him.

And that spoke volumes.

Mike McDaniel's job is teetering, teetering, and he needs Tyreek Hill, who's still arguably his best player and his biggest threat.

He had some, not as much trade value as he had a year ago, but in the past offseason, he still had some trade value.

They didn't put him on the market because they need him too badly.

And so therefore, if Tyreek is this version of what Shaq was then,

they've proven that they're not going to trade him just because he's petulant or refuses to go.

I want to ask you guys about the hypothetical, though, about like what do you do when things escalate to that point where you've got

more than any team in the league right now

and Asante Samuel's father gave voice to this, Asante Samuel Jr.'s father, Asante Samuel.

Crazy where we are.

20 years doing this show.

We have to clarify.

That's correct.

It's Asante Samuel Jr.

I think Fernando Tatis Jr.

is the junior of a junior.

I'm not totally sure.

I think so.

I think I've got that right.

But when you of the Dolphins and the chemical ingredients in their locker room, and I say to you that no team in the league, none, comes with the reputation, I don't know if that guy's in control of all that.

I don't, I, and that happened quick, Greg.

That happened.

He went from expectations, mastermind to show us something, boy genius, and oh, is he overwhelmed?

Wait a minute.

Are these people too strong for him?

Are these personalities too strong for him?

All of that happened quickly.

Show me where else in the league it exists.

Because I've got the dolphins here, everybody gathered around saying, how do they go quickly to irrelevant if this thing blows up early in the season because

the joint practice that they had that echoed from C to C is indicative of, yes, things are actually falling apart there before it's even started.

Right.

Well, I think that's why they traded Jalen Ramsey as symbolic of the need for a culture reboot.

Jalen Ramsey spends the entire season being petulant, being late, and they said enough already, and they traded him.

And you don't see many teams that go public with the idea that we're not tough enough.

That's why we're always fading late in the season.

We need a culture reboot here.

And they've done that.

So let's see, you know, because a couple of their tearing arms.

What's that retired?

Wait, what does that mean?

Hold on.

They've done that.

No.

What do you mean they've done that?

I mean, they've gone.

They've said they've done that.

They've said they've done that.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Wait a minute.

That's not the same thing at all.

Right.

I mean, how do we judge that?

Right, exactly.

The season's just so.

So we know it's a goal of theirs.

We know what they're aspiring to.

I guess we'll lay out and see the results.

No, but this is the reason that I asked you guys the question because when you start this way with the expectations and everything that happened there, what usually doesn't happen is that the audience is sitting there watching.

The customer is watching and being like, Coach, I don't think they respect you.

And then then coach comes out and says, well, we're doing this different with the time and this different with the time and this different with the time.

Hey, coach, I don't think they respect you.

Like, just because you made a whole bunch of different rules, you're still the same guy they didn't respect before now just with rules.

So you're skeptical at their ability to pull this off, but I mean,

what are they supposed to do in the public space to convince you?

I'm saying they've got a problem at the top of their food chain with a volatile chemical that says, I want to be the leader.

And the quarterback says, no, you're not.

We don't trust you.

Kansas City wouldn't let you get in front of microphones.

There are great reasons that no one around here trusts you.

Just a play devil's advocate.

Arguments against.

They didn't just have one malcontent atop their food chain.

They had Jalen Ramsey, too, and they got him out of here.

And Tua seems to have asserted himself publicly more as a leader,

more publicly considered a guy that can maybe reign Tyreek Hill in.

I think that's right to be met with skepticism.

It's a super interesting dynamic when that receiver got Tua paid.

And now Tua has to go the other way on, no, I'm the big dog here.

I'm the leader.

But what happens when I take you out of the offense?

Now Waddle's my number one, and no one thinks he's a number one.

No one.

Well, but he's a really good number two, and Malik Washington is fast rising.

So they have a good wide receiver room, but they do need Tyreek.

You're right.

But the thing about Mike McDaniel...

The way they need him, though, is interesting.

It's like a linchpin on everything.

It's a really dangerous chemical to have near the detonation.

Right.

And

a big part of their hope is relying on a big bounce back year from Tyreek, whose yardage almost went in half

this season.

And Waddle as well.

But the thing about criticizing Mike McDaniel too much, he's the same guy who made the playoffs two years in a row and scored 70 points against Denver.

And then he's the darling of the league.

He has one eight and nine season, and everything blows up.

But, Greg, it's an optics problem.

Very obviously,

a young man who looks like a young man and who looks like he could be thrown by his ankles into the crowd by any of the people who play for him has the reputation of not being tough enough because he's compassionate and empathetic and he's a nice guy.

And he doesn't look the part of football coach, doesn't talk the part of football coach.

And now they need him to act like a football coach.

And he's here at every point saying gotta be me i gotta let my players be them look how that got you in trouble you let them be them and then they started showing up late and and they do what they want on your time like there's there's a functional lack of respect that's out in public okay but but i think he earned back an inch of that respect when he traded jalen ramsey i think there was respect earned when when uh tua on the first day of camp says tyree rekill has to learn earn back our trust i think that was huge for tua to say that and that's a leadership thing that you said.

Let me ask the group the question.

What did you find there, Jeremy?

Did you locate something that made your eyes light up?

Fernando Antonio Tatis is the father of Fernando Gabriel Tatis Medina Sr., who is the father of Fernando Gabriel Tatis Medina Jr.

So Dan, you were in fact right.

Fernando Tatis Sr.

is not actually Fernando Tatis Sr.

So does that mean that the present day Fernando Tatis in the major leagues is Fernando Tatis Jr.

Jr.

So Fernando Tatis Jr.

has the exact same name because the maternal name is included.

So yes, Fernando Tatis Jr.

is the third Fernando Tatis, but he's only the second Fernando Gabriel Tatis Medina Jr.

But they have different middle names, right?

Yes, I didn't know that senior versus junior had to also include the middle name.

I don't know if that's the case for everybody.

Is it?

Is that the rule?

That's the rule.

Okay.

I don't think that's the rule.

The only thing is you use a middle name to differentiate.

That's right, yeah.

Well, that just becomes a nickname or a different way to say a name, right?

You go by the game.

I thought the middle name was just an appendage that had no real clout in any way.

It was just dangling there.

It was second place on the choices of your parents.

I think that there were three previous Will Fullers.

And that was just their name.

I know, but that became Will Fuller the third.

Senior, then Junior, then the third.

But Fernando Tatis Jr.

Jr.

is not going by Fernando Tatis III.

Put this on the poll at Lebatard Show.

Does the middle name have any clout?

And

put it on the poll as well at Lebetard Show.

Is the middle name just second place for the first name?

Right, he's not going by the third because he's not a third, because the first in line wasn't a Medina Tatis.

I don't believe that the middle name is in play here, but I don't know what the audience would register there.

I didn't think that the junior, junior had to have the identical middle name.

I think middle names are significant in a lot of families, to a lot of people.

In my family, both of my sons have middle names that are there for a reason.

And I can't speak for everybody, but I don't disrespect the middle name.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, but what clout does it actually have?

It doesn't have clout.

Okay, nobody uses it.

But give it, okay, but give it, well, not, no, look, Stephen Smith is not the same.

Stephen A.

Right.

Like, Stephen Smith, there's an A there for a reason.

Yeah, but nobody knows what it stands for.

There are people who know what it stands for.

I don't think so.

I think he made it up.

What clout does the middle name have?

I want you to give me one thing the middle name does, one thing you know the middle name to be.

Give me something, Greg.

I'm looking at you.

I'm asking you these questions.

You're telling me you think the middle name is something.

I'm asking you, give me one thing the middle name is.

The middle name is

a continuation of family history and legacy, to some.

In my case, Christopher's middle name was my father's given first name.

Michael's middle name, my other son, is my given first name.

And so there's something there that makes me feel good.

So it's just you, is what you're saying.

It's your name being passed down.

It makes you feel good that your youngest son has your middle name.

It's just you giving your son something that he has to hang on to after we've written your tombstone.

I'm just, my tombstone is too full.

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Right.

I'm just saying that right now I have a granddaughter.

I don't have any grandsons.

So, you know, the Cody last name

may be in trouble.

That's all I'm saying.

You know?

Oh, there's a Chris.

There's a lot in Canada.

Well, I mean, my the elongation of my family name.

You go into Canada, everyone's like, oh, Cody.

Hey, Cody.

It's like Smith or Jones.

Cote.

Cote, that's right.

Yeah.

No, that's a, but, but here, in my case, you know, but but why can't my why can't my granddaughter take my last name?

I guess she will.

Yeah, there you go.

I'm going to have a talk about that.

I want, yes, please, let's talk more about you.

I know you enjoy doing that and putting your name wherever it is that you can.

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Oh, there's a brand new kid in town, out of BYU.

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Getting back to the question I was asking you guys: if a coach loses respect optically and actually, can he get it back when he doesn't actually have job security or clout or when an overthrow, if you start in adversity, will end up with them swallowing you because they don't respect?

Oh, now you changed the rules.

It was okay for us to be everything that we were before.

But now you're changing the rules because you and the GM are on the hot seat now and because we have a reputation as a team league-wide as being soft and

the great combination of soft and unmanageable.

Yeah, but soft is on the players.

That's not, to me, that's not on the head.

No, but it's the style of play as well.

It's not just, no, it's their style.

Their offense doesn't travel in December.

I know.

It's also the style.

It's because they rely on speed more than any other team in the league.

And nobody was complaining about that in the middle of two seasons ago when they're the

reputation.

That's where the reputation comes from.

Like, to me, it's unfair to ever call a football team soft.

But this one has that reputation, does it not?

Am I just...

Is anyone going to dispute me on this?

I would say it did have that reputation, but let's see about this year.

Okay, so they haven't played a game, but they may have changed it, even though, you know, Chubb and Phillips are hurt.

And, you know, like they're signing Judon for $6 million.

A good signing.

Yes, a good signing.

Like,

when you guys tell me, forgive me for bringing up what his rehashed subject matter on chemistry, respect, leadership.

But as we head into a football season that risks the job of the GM and the coach, and as the coach's reputation has gone up in flames in a way that needs to be rescued by this season.

And even if they start 8-2, no one's going to trust them because of everything that December has brought to this franchise this entire century.

They go into this season

with him needing to be a leader.

And he needs Tyreek Hill.

Because Chris made a face when I said Jaden Waddell wasn't, Jalen Waddell wasn't a number one.

He's not a number one.

He came here and it looked like he was a number one.

Tyreek Hill made him look like a number one.

Then the drop started.

And you know that offense is not going to look the same if I take Tyreek Hill out of it.

You all know it.

No matter what a mastermind the coach is, you all know that if I don't make Tyreek Hill perfectly healthy, if he looks banged up or slower like he did last year, look what happens to the offense.

It all falls apart.

I don't know if Tua is their most important piece.

I really don't.

He is on offense,

Devon H.

And the reason I say it is because I think Tua needs Tyreek Hill more than Tyreek Hill needs Tua.

I think Tyreek Hill gets open against anybody.

I think Tua needs Tyreek Hill to run that offense so he can throw the ball every time, two seconds in.

Well, Tyreek Hill's got something to prove, too.

He's an aging wide receiver coming off an extremely disappointing season.

So he's got something to prove.

Everybody's got something to prove.

Devon H.

Han

averaged eight yards of carry as a rookie.

Last year it was more of a standard four-point something.

Everybody on that offense has something to prove.

Patrick Paul, the left tackle, has got something to prove.

Do you guys disagree with what I'm saying, that Tua needs Tyreek more than Tyreek needs Tua?

They need each other, I think.

I mean, we've seen what this offense looks like without Tua, and it's an absolute disaster with a healthy Tyreek Hill.

But we've also seen the Dolphins last year didn't really do anything when Tyreek was injured all season.

So they seem to need each other at this point in their careers, but I don't think one can necessarily succeed without the other.

There was a report from a Dolphin Insider that cited sources that said the offense goes to hell when Tua is not out there.

So would you guys agree with me?

And I believe that that is also so, but when Tyreek has not been quite right and Tua is out there, I've also seen them constipated and no longer looking like the offense they look like.

that gave us enthusiasm a fourth quarter against the Ravens and 70 points against the Broncos and put the expectations where they did.

Whatever your expectations for the season are, seven and a half is the number for their season, the betting number.

Greg Cody, the homer, has written a column saying go over there.

We will get to his column in a moment.

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But if I tell you right now, whatever your expectations for the season are, I'm not even going to, maybe you've got it at 12 wins.

Take just Tyreek Hill out of that.

Now, where are your expectations?

We know that you can't trust their quarterback to stay healthy, but now just take Tyreek Hill out.

He can't play.

He's suspended.

He's hurt.

He's traded.

Where do your expectations go on this season?

Because I believe all the expectations for the Dolphins weren't just that they could win.

No, they had the explosive offense.

It didn't look like what the Chiefs looked like last year.

They had the guy that made them a big play threat, and it's not something they've had since Marino.

I mean, there's a lot of data points that you can pick at.

Tyreek Hill didn't look like himself last year.

It got off to an inauspicious start, but

it's baked into the fabric of this franchise to his health.

He just can't finish a season healthy.

But what's the answer to my question on Hill?

How about Tyreek Hill?

I mean, they have weapons, right?

It all depends on is Jalen Waddell going to be healthy?

Malik Washington has looked okay.

It's preseason so far.

You have no idea what Darren Waller is going to be at this point in time.

Ollie Gordon has looked good if he's the number two.

He was good in college.

Just the Dolphins are more likely to win a game if Tyreek Hill is out injured as opposed to if Tu is out injured because the

falloff is crazy.

Yeah, and the Dolphins are not alone in relying super heavily on their best player.

What is J.J.

McCarthy's chances if Justin Jefferson gets hurt in Minnesota?

I mean, there's a dozen teams of the league like that.

Yeah, but usually the risk is of health, and that one's random.

This one's got more in it.

This one's not just health.

This one, you can lose everything

that was your head coaching career in the first four games if he doesn't actually have control of Tyreek Hill and if he doesn't actually have the respect of Tyreek Hill.

And furthermore, if Tyreek Hill has actually lost the respect of

those people in the locker room, because he did what no one does at the end of last season when it was down, when Tyreek Hill tells you he's just a winner, all he's known is winning.

He loses poorly and throws a temper tantrum in public that every player feels and no player acts on because no other player is quite the baby that this person is.

I'm afraid it feels pretty predictable how the Dolphins season is going to go.

It's going to get undone by an injury to their quarterback, and that'll be that.

And then they'll have to reevaluate how they want to move forward with this franchise.

I know they tried for so long to get somebody with the production of Tuas, but every season, there's some sort of scare that makes you wonder if this guy can continue playing football.

You have to almost include it in your projections that he's going to miss a few games.

I wouldn't.

I mean, he has had one season in five where he played all 17 games.

That's bad.

It's bad, but there's

a law of averages, right?

I mean, there's no reason why he can't do it again.

One of the reasons I...

There is his head.

His head.

I think that there is plenty of reason why he can't do it is because of all the other injuries that he took.

I'm with my dad.

He's due.

That's not how the law of averages works.

He holds the ball a shorter amount of time than any other starting quarterback in the league.

Ever.

Right.

So, you know, there are things in that offensive formula designed to prevent his getting future concussions.

But the reason I think more highly of the Dolphins' chances this year than some do is the first half schedule is really easy, okay?

And then it gets really tough with three games in a row, but all three of those games are at home.

So I think there's a favorable schedule here for them to get off to an encouraging start that foments hope.

Billy, were you making faces at the ability to do one loss on the Dolphins schedule?

No, I would love to do one loss.

We can go over it right now if you would like.

I was just going to say, I don't know if you guys caught the preseason game on Saturday, but Tua still decides to scramble sometimes, which is kind of like, what are you doing, sir?

Why do you continue to do this knowing?

Especially in a preseason game that means...

absolutely nothing.

Here is the most homorific paragraph from the Cody column on MiamiHerald.com.

If you want to go behind the paywall, Tua, yes, Tua.

Those are exclamation points.

He rarely uses those.

It's true.

It's when he really means it, okay?

Yeah, eye tals, exclamation points.

Greg Cody does not often use the exclamation point.

If I, if number of times in your historic 50-year column career, that give me a number, that you have used the exclamation point, do you believe?

Well, it's a long-ass career, so I would say less than 100.

And usually I use it in an ironic sense, like I use it to over-dramatize how I imagine people are receiving this.

Tua, yes, Tua, the quarterback is a cornerstone.

Reason for optimism and hope if you believe it can stay healthy.

I do.

I really don't know how you can believe that.

Like how anybody can.

It's not you.

I just don't know.

I don't know how you can have faith in that.

But okay, I do, says Cody.

Tua is 38 and 25, 603.

winning percentage as a starter.

Justin Herbert, drafted one spot later, is 41-38, 52% winning percentage.

Tua, in his career, has led the NFL in passing yard, completion percentage, and passer rating.

QBs who have not led in all three categories in their careers include Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Herbert, Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, and Dan Marino.

None of this is to put Tua at that level, but to say when healthy, he has the skills to be a top 10 quarterback.

Yeah, every word of that, I believe.

I believe.

When you lead the league in three categories, passing yards, accuracy, and passer rating, it shows you have the skill set.

When you say all those guys haven't done it, though, I go, that must not be that important then.

Because it was like Burrow, Mahomes.

No,

it's just to illustrate that.

But are you living in an echo, Greg?

Because you could say some of the same things.

Like every team that had Carson Wentz.

Every team that kicked the tires on Carson Wentz as a possible solution was saying similar things.

Okay, I get that.

And Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl.

I know there are anomalies in every formula you use to judge quarterbacks.

What I'm saying is that, and we saw it when he was healthy two seasons ago and made the Pro Bowl, Wintu is healthy, and granted, it's the biggest if, the biggest asterisk in all of sports, Win Tu is healthy, he's really, really good.

I'm not saying he's, you know, Joe Burke.

Maybe it's that cold.

Well,

you know, you lose a game in sub-temperatures in Kansas City.

You know, I'm not.

Well, they lose all those games.

They lose the game in Kansas City.

They lost the game in Green Bay.

They lose the game in Buffalo.

They do have a cold problem.

Well, so do a lot of teams.

Look at Kansas City and Buffalo's home record in December and January.

Pretty good.

You know, it's not just Miami that goes from hot weather to ice cold and struggles.

The good news is they play Buffalo week three

at Buffalo, so they're not in the cold.

What do you think of that one?

I think that could be the only game.

Thursday nighter.

I think that could be the only game they lose the first half of the season.

Wow, okay.

Oh, my God.

Win it in the win versus New England.

A lost Buffalo.

Wynn versus the Jets.

Dan and Greg, wouldn't you think that the upset here would be if Tua just finds a way to stay healthy the rest of his career?

Yes, I don't know how Greg can say with any degree of conviction.

If it was something you could bet on, he'd be a favorite to get hurt.

Doesn't this one feel obvious?

I feel like we've seen this guy on a field scare us enough times, and we've seen some fairly innocuous hits that have led to him being out for extended periods of time.

I feel like we can say with certainty at some point, that dude's going to become such a liability to put out there that teams are just going to decide he can't be QB1 anymore.

I want to to go over with you guys some of the thoughts that I have on a Cowboys documentary here that ended up being big and empty.

But one of the things that was in it that was interesting and was one of the few things, actually, I was hoping to learn more during it, that I learned during this.

Troy Aikman's concussion problem that made him retire was so bad that he played an entire NFC championship game that he doesn't remember.

He still doesn't remember playing in it.

Played well in it.

Won it,

got to the Super Bowl because concussions were something that were so primitive back then that if you had four in 14 months and he was getting hit a lot in ways that weren't getting concussed.

We didn't do enough with the close of two of those, the faces of that position in that generation, Steve Young and Troy Aikman.

This was before concussions became a big thing.

They were faces of franchises and literally walked away from the game and we just kept on moving and it wasn't until Ben and Amalu and them boys started cooking it up.

Yeah, but now we're going to have with two of some things that are presented throughout the entirety of his career.

Like we're not that far removed from wondering whether he should retire or not.

But let's let's move on to other things because there was a lot of stuff from over the weekend.

Dane, we have closure on something too.

In investigative report, Jeremy has scoured the internet to get us answers on junior, seniors, trays, and fours.

Wow.

Ultimately, the way that this works is if you're going to be a junior, you do need the middle name to be a part of it.

This is to decipher between people with entirely the same name, first, middle, and last name, or multiple last names.

If the father is deceased, that's when you would go with II over junior.

And then, obviously, if you're going with further Roman numerals, it's ultimately further generations.

But you would also go with II if it's going to be someone who is named entirely after another relative or person that you know.

So

there's all of your information.

Can you give me some more information on Tua without Tyreek and Tyreek without Tua?

Yes, I can.

Tua Tua Tagavailoa has a passer rating of 90.1 with 4,691 yards, 28 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions in 24 games without Tyreek Hill in his career.

Tyreek Hill has had 50 catches for 567 yards and one touchdown in the 10 games for the Dolphins without Tua.

So five catches for 56 yards and a tenth of a touchdown per game.

In other words, Tyreek needs Tua.

More than Tua needs Tyreek.

It's irrefutable.

Thank you, Jeremy.

One is stinky and the other is truly terrible.

Now look up Tyreek's numbers with and without Patrick Mahomes.

All right.

And then we can see if Tua is better than Patrick Mahomes.

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Hey, Mike.

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It's been a pretty incredible summer.

We've had a parade down here.

We've grown our family down here at Metal Arc Media.

A lot of exciting things, a lot of memorable benchmarks.

And along the way, at almost every step, I've been tailed by that beautiful white can of Miller Light.

Oh, that beautiful white can.

Or the brown bottle.

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There's been so many great special times.

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Don Lebatard.

All right, we got to go back out there.

That was big.

Wake him up.

Uh-oh.

He doesn't want to be bothered anymore.

Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.

He needs something that happens.

You can see him.

Mother FAIN.

He says, Can we bother?

Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone, Greg.

My microphone's on.

Stugats.

Paint the scene.

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Good night.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Among the things that happened over the course of the weekend is Avery Johnson, the quarterback for Kansas State, that we learned together in an embarrassing public apology from Mike Ryan that he is mixed and not Scandinavian.

It was a very confusing controversy from last week.

Greg Cody doesn't know about it, so if you guys in the back room want to get Avery Johnson and that photo that had him him looking like Dolph Lundgren, really like Nordic, really, in nature.

And then we learn that, no, he's mixed.

And not only is he mixed, but and this one is going to be something that we can't play the video because there are a couple of videos from this weekend in sports that we simply can't play.

One of them is Rampage Jackson's son and a video that

might end up looking like you're witnessing a murder, a snuff film, because it's not even funny.

It's just violence of the highest order.

And then this story is, I think, just kind of funny and reminded me of Zaslow, who doesn't have any control over his kids, because Avery Johnson's father, it was an amazing headline to see, honestly.

I didn't even understand it.

I had to reread it a couple of times when I saw it.

Avery Johnson's father in fist fight with other son.

And so the video is of a father and a son just fighting outside of the game.

Football's back, people.

The violence is back.

Kansas State lost.

Kansas State lost with their quarterback.

What are you shrugging your shoulders about and moving away from the microphone for?

No, I'm looking at that photo and trying to process it.

Like, who's hitting who?

We cannot play the video here.

We introduced you to Avery Johnson last week.

We can't play the video because of, again, violence concerns, but it is a father, and that father appears to be beating up the son, right?

The other son is getting beat up.

The other, Avery Johnson's brother, is getting beat up there.

Resets a clock for six months.

According to the Zaslow mansion rules.

I texted Zaslow this weekend because Zaslow's son, 16 years old, referred to him as Sugar Tits the other day.

And I just texted him, Zaz,

when your son says to what you think looks like the father that you are sugar tits, you are now the older brother.

You have ceased being the father.

Do any of you have parental relationships that would end up in a fight with one of your kids?

My brother and I were always afraid of my father.

We were afraid of his old man burst.

I'm still a little afraid of it.

He's in his early 80s, and my father has a burst in him of rage, of old Cuban rage, that if I were going to fight him,

I better make sure to take out his stamina because he's going to come at me and I'm still a little afraid of it.

Yeah, you're going to outrun him.

That's what it'll take out of the stamina.

I'm gonna have to do something, but do any of you have the relationship that would escalate to a physical one under any circumstance with your father?

No, my dad's never wanted that noise.

I mean, I haven't had a fist fight since middle school.

No, but I've seen you when you get upset and I've seen you when you and your son get physical and I know you to be thinking that you're 20 years younger than you are.

So you probably...

Who wins a fight, you or your son?

I mean, I think he, hopefully he would let me win if he cares about his inheritance.

But I do possess old man's strength that's a thing oms that's like a thing which i i asked your question who who would win a fight between you and your son you're 70 okay i cannot envision anything happening that would have us come to blows you've gotten really mad at me

i've seen it i've seen it when he grabs your elbow i've seen it when you grab his elbow and it gets we're elbow grabbers Okay, the only time I would be physically violent with either of my sons is if they have me in an arm lock and I say, Let me go twice and they don't, and then I'm going to come at them with an elbow that might aim a little bit high.

My dad's thing always been when we like rappy-cack around, that's what he calls it, rappy-cacking.

He'd be like, I'll break your arm, I'll break it off.

Oh, rappy-cacking.

Yeah, that's his thing.

I don't know what is a rapper.

What is a rappy-cack?

Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Lebanon Show.

Have you ever used the word rappy-cack?

Do you know anyone who has ever used the word rappy-cack?

I do.

And I thank you, Greg.

We're clear on that.

Not just me.

I got it from someone.

How would you spell Rappyca?

R-A-P-P-Y-C-A-C-K.

And what is it?

It's wheelhouse, baby.

The rapycack wheelhouse.

And what can you tell us is the formal definition of to rappycack?

If a head coach goes, we're going to rapycack that team.

Are you kidding me?

The very first thing that shows up on Google when you search for it is a Lebetard Reddit post from six years ago asking if Rappycack is a reference to a 1992 Buffalo Bills fan group.

but I will keep looking.

Rappycack originated.

I have it as horseplay, not to cut you off.

I've never heard the word before, rapycack.

I've never heard you say it in the context of like that team's going to rapy cack them.

It's always like, quit playing around, stop rapping.

Next one is a tweet from Greg Cody in November 21st of 2017.

Lobos update, Greg's Lobos, Rappycack, Allison, 109.9 to 93.4.

So you go to the bottom of the business.

You're telling me you're searching the entirety of

the internet as our information guy, and the only two proofs that you have that there is a word

that it's not a word.

What do you

mean?

World English origins.

Who did you hear from?

You were about to tell us.

Can't find on the internet any references to anyone using the word.

Was this found as evidence that Greg is keeping it alive?

Is this another Alan Cherry joint?

No.

I found one from December 11th, 2017, also, Greg.

Stunning.

Dolphins beating Patriots 27-20.

Yeah, that too, I guess.

But I met number eight seed Gregs Lobos rallying behind Jarvis Landyu to rappy cat Chris Cody, 120 to 117.4.

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