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welcome to the big sui presented by draft kings why are you listening to this show the podcast that seems very similar to the other dan lebetard podcast i'm sorry i'm not going to apologize for that in fact the only difference seems to be this imaging i have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there that hasn't happened to you guys, I've done it.

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It is.

It is everyone's.

We have Diana Russini on with us this season, and it's nice to have her back.

I hope we are joined by more impersonations of her mother than we have gotten in recent developments around here.

There's a burning question on ESPN right now.

I just want you guys to know.

And the question was, Notre Dame likely to run the table if they beat Miami on Sunday?

And Lewis Riddick said yes.

Burning question.

Burning question.

He's already saying Notre Dame undefeated if they win Sunday against Miami.

They got a really hard schedule.

Really hard schedule.

At Arkansas, Texas A ⁇ M, Boise State.

Hard disagree.

Okay, that's good, healthy disagreement.

I hope it gets inflamed in the next three days.

Regression candidate.

Diana, before we get to all the football news going on, do you mind if I just call my friend Greg Cody here real quick again?

Because

we've got a breaking story around here, and I want to get your opinion on it as well.

So just hold on for just a second, all right?

She's said yes.

Thank you, Chris.

I have a story, so I need to just take a break here.

Oh, there's a Whoa, whoa, whoa, dueling-breaking story.

There's big breaking news in the NFL.

Okay, there's big breaking news.

Hold on a second, Greg.

We got big breaking news in the NFL, and Diana's reacting to it.

Mike, what's the big breaking news?

Adam Thielen, homecoming.

Adam Thielen going back to Minnesota.

There it is.

Diana Rossini is on the story.

Greg Cody, you've been scooped.

Adam Thielen is going back to Minnesota.

We are calling you because Zaszlo is saying that as a journalist, he has a responsibility to

tell the American people what your rankings of the Dolphins are because we have the news.

We know what the number is, and Zaszlo wants to break the news before the Miami Herald prints it.

You know, I can't stop him from doing that.

Maybe the draft party Thursday night can be at Zaszlo's house if that happens.

Okay, so

you're threatening again to take the draft party if Zaslow reports something that Christopher can't control because Zaszlo's a journalist?

By livelihood.

Yes, even if he's totally guessing, if he says the correct number, the draft party Thursday will not be at my house.

Tell Christopher that.

I would never guess, though, because I have journalistic integrity.

I wouldn't have guessed.

I don't do that.

Okay, if you say so.

Well, we'll see.

Well, wait a minute.

So when is it coming out in the Miami Herald?

Well, my boss just called me, but I was on the phone FaceTiming with Dan Lebatard, so I couldn't take the call.

So I might have an answer to that, but I couldn't take his call.

Why don't you do a three-way call?

Get your boss on the line, too.

Go ahead,

go ahead.

Good idea.

With Wild Billy Wednesday, after all, go ahead.

Call John Devine.

See what he's got.

Give him a call.

I'm sure you're very good with the FaceTime technology.

Yeah, right.

That's going to happen.

All right, but serious, Greg, we're not joking around.

Zaslow feels like he's close to having the story, has the story?

Close, close, close.

Okay, but what?

So if he does this, he can do this at 10.01, right?

And he'll be okay?

10.01 a.m.

I don't know yet when the when the news.

Greg, we can't wait for you.

We can't wait for you.

He's got the news.

The news doesn't wait till the next day.

The news breaks when the news breaks.

You said 10 o'clock.

We need to break the news.

As Mike Ryan, the adult in the room, mentioned a few minutes ago, it is totally the choice of your team,

your show team, when

this is revealed.

Zaszlo's a journalist.

We can't control what Zaszlo reports.

I couldn't keep my engagement from you.

The show stops when my integrity begins.

Okay, fake journalist Zaslow can do whatever he wants.

I'm on the website.

I think it's out.

You can't stop that.

But I can't.

You could stop him on behalf of me,

but apparently you won't.

What do you mean stop him?

What kind of...

That's not journalism.

It's not journalism for me to stop him from doing journalism.

So news isn't news when it just regards you why can't we have the clicks and the views from where it is you rank adults how state control news works that's not how i work okay this this conversation is beyond absurd

uh

it it's beyond absurd hang on you know hang on just a second um are you calling john devine like billy requested Well, Thielen got traded.

There's a lot of people reporting.

So I'm just looking here.

Diana's chair is empty.

Thank you, Greg, for all your hard work on the show.

You've forgotten that we're doing the show again.

I'm just looking here.

Like, this is what happens with him.

It is fundamentally amazing that he is, at this age, somebody who still doesn't know when we're doing the show.

But I think Zaslow has to break this news.

And before we get back to Diana Rossini here, Mike.

The thing that you're doing talking Keynes football, is that the third game of the weekend?

Is UM Notre Dame the third best game of the weekend?

You have, for the first time ever in week one, you've got six top 10 teams playing against each other.

That's crazy.

And in the middle of it, you've got Arch Manning and you've got the history of Miami-Notre Dame, which is a nostalgia matchup.

You have three top 10 matchups.

That's the first time since 1945 that you've had that many top 10 matchups this early in the season.

In fact, the last time that we've had three top 10 matchups was way back in 2017 in the same week.

Ironically enough, that was when Miami beat beat the shit out of Notre Dame at Hard Rock Stadium back then.

So this is a really exciting time.

You have college football is putting its best foot forward and giving you the biggest possible spectacle to start the season to capitalize on no NFL.

And on top of that, you have Lee Corso's farewell.

I think without question, Keynes Notre Dame is number two.

I mean, we all know Texas Housing is number one.

There's no disputing that.

But I think UM Notre Dame is ahead of Clemson LCU.

I agree.

I think, especially if you look at the spread,

that is expected to be a closer game.

But

I'm as big a homer as there is when it comes to University of Miami.

Arch Manning at the defending national champs in the big noon window is crazy.

They're not sending me there because it's not the biggest game, Dan.

Well, tell us about where you're going this weekend, Zaszlo, as part of your college football coverage as a rising star at ESPN.

It's out.

Say it, Zaszlo.

It's out.

I just got a text that it's out.

I didn't have the confirmation yet.

Oh, no.

He undercut us.

That's what he was doing.

That's what he was doing.

That's part of the game.

That's what he was doing.

That is garbage.

He's getting the clicks.

He's getting the clicks.

All right, so hold on a minute.

Before you tell us where it is that he ranked the dolphins, I want to throw my theory in front of the audience and Chris as well.

Billy, what are you laughing about back there?

Because I saw where he ranked them.

Okay.

All right, now, wait, I want to guess here.

I want to guess what's happened here

because, Zaslow,

you have found greg cody okay i think i i think i have it but but if you were saying it's already out i think i have it now okay you've gotten the text that you need in order to all right so you have to get double confirmation in journalism dan i got it now all right so but you're telling me that greg cody's now scooped himself by putting it on the internet uh damn him he's faster than we are uh the the i should have known he was tweeting he got so distracted he's like what i'm doing here he couldn't do both things he came in he concocted a plan while talking to you

he was he was doing multiple things at once so dim-witted and yet outsmarted us and all the while diana russini has fled the room because they had him feeling has been traded

i mean i don't know if that's bigger than where great cody has the very average mommy dolphins ranked all right so i know my dear audience i know that i've been on this great cody thing about i don't know seven hours too long

but

I believe what happened here is this.

Chris Cody yesterday correctly said what his father had put the Dolphins at, which was 14.

Greg Cody misinterpreted that as Chris Cody looked at my computer and became immediately enraged, escalated toward us, all sorts of threats.

And now I believe he went home and changed where they are.

But he's not going to drop him out of the top.

He won't drop him out of the top 16 because he will have them in the top half of the league because he's a homer forever.

I would think he might even go up with them just to throw us a curveball because we would assume he'd go down with them.

See, this is interesting.

I'm going to tell you now what I found out, okay?

I had them, based on my sources, all right,

that he had them 14.

But

were my sources wrong?

Because that's, I'm looking at his article right now.

He just tweeted out two minutes ago.

That's not where they're ranked.

They're not ranked 14.

I think he changed it.

I think he changed it for no other reason.

And where did he, if I had to guess, the betting favorite would be 15?

Is that the betting favorite?

I go 16.

15 is too easy.

It's like one spot down.

He's going to get crazy.

No, but he doesn't know that we're on to him, though.

He doesn't know that.

I don't think he knows.

I said four.

He knows I said 14 yesterday.

He thought I knew that.

That's what my sources said.

Yeah.

So I think he goes to 16.

Billy, what was it?

He has them at 15.

He also has them making the playoffs, but he has them at eight and nine.

So he has them making the playoffs with a losing record.

Covering all his

He can be wrong in multiple facets, but he could also be right in one of those areas.

The conviction he had for over seven and a half wins does not match that prediction.

He was so strong on hammer over seven and a half.

He proved it right.

He took him at eight.

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Don Lebatard.

Well, Charlie sent uh Charlie had this.

Charlie, as far as I know, so just Charlie's title in my

Stugats.

How familiar were you at the time with Chewbacca?

Like how your upbringing

had how much Chewbacca in it?

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Diana, if off the top of your head, if you had to go one through 32, where would you put the Dolphins?

And what are you scribbling so furiously?

I hate the life of an insider.

I feel bad for you.

Oh, hi guys.

Yeah, so Adam Thiela just got traded, or at least it's getting finalized right now from the Carolina Panthers back to Minnesota.

Obviously, you guys know Minnesota has got some problems at wide receiver terms of suspensions and injuries.

So it's a big reunion.

He wanted to go there.

The thing that's wild about this is on this story, even late afternoon yesterday, there was a lot of frustrations because it appeared both sides were not close to coming to an agreement.

That Carolina knew very much so that

Minnesota really wanted to make this work.

I think Thielen wanted to go back to Minnesota as well.

And everyone yesterday said

this, this is probably not going to happen.

They're being really difficult on this.

So the fact that it shook out.

So Minnesota gets Thielen and Carolina gets a fifth round pick and a 2027 fourth round pick back.

So So, yeah, Life of an Insider is stupid, but it's also really fun.

The Dolphins out of 32,

27.

I have a lot of concerns for them this year.

I do.

There's just a lot of smoke around them.

Obviously,

we've heard enough of all the things that are going on behind the scenes there.

And obviously, with trading away Jalen Ramsey,

I just think this is a team that needs to find itself this year.

And

Tua, who appears to continue to take steps forward here in terms of his play,

this has got to be the year where he can figure it out.

And, you know, there's some rumors going around that the Dolphins were open to perhaps trading Tyreek Hill.

And from what I can gather,

that doesn't appear to be on the table.

They know they need him.

They need him out there to help this offense.

But yeah, I don't feel great about them right now.

Diana, back on Thielen, real quick.

Carolina's thought to be a team, hopefully, on the rise, given how they closed last season.

Not really a team that was interested in selling.

I imagine that was a sticking point when it came to the compensation here.

Is this

a ringing endorsement of where Macmillan is in his progression?

Because without Thielen, that wide receiver core does take a hit.

Yeah, no, and look at it from...

Dave Canalis and Dan Morgan's perspective here, right?

They are trying to build something and they're trying to get the most out of a quarterback that, you know, has been really up and down.

And Adam Thielen brings that great veteran presence

and confidence that they have in him that he can do this job.

So it made a lot of sense that Carolina was being tough about it.

I kind of understood their perspective on it.

But they obviously made the decision here in the end that they are better off trading Adam Thielen now to at least get something in return for a 35-year-old wide receiver

rather than just have him this year and get nothing for him next year.

So, I'm sure Minnesota is thrilled right now as they are.

I'm told they are currently trying to work out

the contract situation for Adam Thielen.

Diana, would we make your life easier right now if we just let you go?

Because I don't love the stress that we're putting you under.

You're in the middle of something and you needed

to do it.

You're right, because I feel like your head is racing because Adam Thielen.

I'm just doing what I have to do, which is like three jobs at once.

Okay, so you have to do this one.

If this is bad radio, then I get it.

No, no, no, it's no, it's not bad.

I just don't want to keep you.

I don't want to keep you from your job at the athletic where you're always busy being an insider.

But the news that you're getting here on Adam Thielen that makes it that we can't talk to you about the rest of the league because the league stops when Adam Thielen gets traded.

The league doesn't stop.

No, the whole thing.

The whole league.

No, everything.

Your life just shut down.

Look, I saw what...

Diana, we're doing a show with you.

It's a substantive show.

You run out of the screen for 10 minutes because Adam Thielen's been traded.

I thought a baby was microwaving a phone again.

And I don't know why it made you that crazy, but you left what we were doing for 10 minutes.

And now you're back, but you're distracted.

You're obviously distracted.

Yes, I am distracted because it is my job to work for the athletic to get this intel for them.

And it was a story that

me and a couple of reporters were working on together on this.

So, yes, this is what we're all about at the moment.

But in about 10 seconds, no one's going to probably care about an Adam Thielen trade.

So, yeah, I don't want to leave, but

if you guys want me to come back, I can do that.

It feels like both me and Diana got scooped.

Yeah, by Greg Cody.

By the way,

have we picked up on the pattern here that this happens a lot on this show?

I think I have to change my time slot.

I just think you're busy, Diane, and I imagine your life to be this at all times, and it stresses me out because all you, it's the gypsy's curse.

May all your dreams come true.

Because here it is, you're a spectacular football insider.

It never ends.

I'm going to die soon.

Chasing a story.

Revelation.

Chasing a story.

You can come back in 30 minutes if you feel better.

You're welcome to spend time around us whenever you like.

Billy, that might be a prediction.

Thank you, Diana.

Thanks, guys.

I do.

I've read a lot.

Shoms and

Schefter talking about what the insanity and the thrill and the crack of being an insider is.

And the idea that your life can stop right in the middle of your day because Adam Thielen has been traded because the information business is super valuable right now and she's really good at her job and that's one of the reasons she's great at her job because she goes and she attacks the story yeah by all accounts it's not terribly interesting news Adam Thielen being traded you shut up I am so into this it's a homecoming like where's the line though because like I thought he would have been on the other side this is not that easy guys everybody wrote him off and he should have put up consecutive thousand yard seasons for Carolina he did not write back Billy he's got good football still left in him and now he's headed back home.

Good golf.

This is big for J.J.

McCarthy.

And yes, I care more because I golfed with him.

Yeah.

I would also

have everyone know that Adam Thielen over the last couple of seasons, doing it where he has done it with a quarterback that got rejuvenated because he still plays like a number one, is one of the great stunning things of my football lifetime to see, not just the entirety of his career, but that, wait a minute, you're going to keep doubting this guy the last two seasons when when Randy Moss goes to Oakland, he can't get to a thousand yards, but wherever Thielen goes, he makes the offense better?

Because he's white, right?

Yes,

and because he was injured, and I guessed that we all thought he was done when he got to Carolina, that he wasn't going to be taking any of the offense, but mostly because he was white.

Yeah.

Checks out.

The life of an insider, you don't want me to talk about the mental health perils anymore.

What is the worst part of the life?

The best laugh.

Zaz is an insider, though.

You could tell us.

Yeah, I'm doing just fine.

Look at this face.

I'm looking good these days.

Look at me.

I'm dressed up.

I look nice today.

You got beat on that story by Cody.

It was embarrassing to watch.

And you know what's the worst part?

It's not that I got beat on it.

It's that we didn't pick up what was happening.

We really

underestimated him.

It's normal for him to just lose his, like,

trailing off.

That wasn't that crazy of a thing.

Like, do you think he, like, was he actually tweeting at the same time as he outsmarted us we saw a text of it'll go out at 10 so he's like all right let me he threw everyone off he said oh i'm just checking something and we're like what's wrong with you you don't know what you're doing and he knew when he hit that tweet button

he he must have been so proud of he's wily

i will tell you that chris is right when he says we underestimated him and i stand before you in a live audience or sit before you in a live audience saying oh my god you guys just saw it our whole show got beat by an old dim-witted man like just got tricked and turned around uh by this old senile old man as white hat calls him that'll make it better i mean 13 yards per catch that's his best season in that stat since pre-coveted eight and nine after telling us to hammer the over is crazy

uh Roy, can you please find for me the sound, okay?

Jessica Smitana and Mike Golick Jr.

have together a podcast, Echoes.

It's a very good Notre Dame name.

Echoes is good.

I asked her what the second choice was.

She said there were no second choices.

It was Echoes.

And Notre Dame, Miami is about to happen.

And who was the guest on Jessica's show to talk about Miami, Notre Dame?

Ian Book.

He came in and released that 2017 game.

And Jessica asked Ian about the atmosphere at Hard Rock Stadium on that fateful night in 2017.

And then it was so loud, couldn't hear anything.

And then I remember like actually having a pretty good drive when I went in there.

I threw a whole shot to Equinemius, started to drive down the field, thinking we'd maybe get three points or something before half, and then threw a pick six.

Welcome to the turnover chain.

So that was my experience, but

it was, it was hostile.

And I remember for the

until we went down to Georgia, it was a loudest place.

Honestly, it might be louder than Georgia.

I was like, top two loudest places I've ever played in my career.

Louder than Michigan?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Louder than Michigan.

Blacksburg.

Louder.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Louder than Cape Canaveral when a rocket goes off.

Louder than when Mike Piazza hit that walk-off in Chase Stadium after 9-11.

Louder than when Stone Cold Steve Austin helped mankind win the WWF title.

No way.

No, that's the Austin pop.

Oh, you could see how much this meant to Jessica on that video.

Not happy that that was the answer.

Why is it so hard hard for people to believe that people in Miami can be loud about sports?

The thing is, it's like such a crazy cell phone because we're capable of that kind of atmosphere and we don't really dial it up to that level nearly enough.

People are right to take shots.

We don't give it away.

You got to earn it.

Well, I think on Sunday they're going to earn it.

I mean, it's a top 10 matchup at Hard Rock Stadium against a hated rival that hasn't won down here in Miami since 1981.

And usually they get their asses handed to them when they come down here.

So Mike Ryan is about to do five hours of Twitchy Cocaine, where he talks Kane's football all afternoon.

Because

if you're going to get into the nostalgia of sport with The Last Dance or with the Cowboys documentary or wherever it is that your grandfather or grandmother or father or mother passed down the stories, Notre Dame, Miami has no real good reason to be a rivalry other than before all the chaos of today with the conferences, like a couple of independents kept facing each other, and then it became a holy war, Catholics versus convicts, and it was delightful.

It was just magical and partly racist television that were, yeah, just so the convicts from Miami, and they made a couple of three movies about it, one of them from Notre Dame's side, because they played at the top of the sport and they were so different.

And so you have a clash here

of what you can say are historical Titans.

And Jimmy Johnson began his rise as unpopular when he kicked Notre Dame's ass on television and ran up the score.

And Notre Dame, I think, who was the broadcast ever?

Was it Aeroparsegan just wailing on like, have some dignity, have some class, because that's where, you know, Miami passed Notre Dame.

You're about to do like five days of tailgating toward this thing, correct?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Bunch of idiots are flying in town for this one.

This one's going to be great.

I'm super excited about this because I'm super excited about the season.

I get really jacked up for this rivalry.

Notre Dame is coming off of season, in which they were unbelievable despite being hurt throughout the college football playoff.

They earned that ranking.

They were a runner-up and performed admirably against a much better Ohio State team, given the mass unit that they became.

I'm super jacked up about this because I also believe us to be a really good team, Miami.

I think Miami is good.

I think that there are perceived advantages, and most people may just blindly say, Oh, along the trenches, Notre Dame's better.

No, they're not.

Miami's the bigger team along the trenches.

This is going to come down to Miami's reshape defense, whether or not they can stop a really good running back in Jeremiah Love, and to see if they actually did indeed improve that secondary.

It's going to be pretty wild because I think that, look, I remember that game in 2017.

I wasn't there, but I was watching it, and just even the way it came across on television, it was the most obvious, oh, Notre Dame has no chance tonight.

And then, of course, you know, it was 28-0 before you blinked, all right?

And I think, I feel like going into the game this weekend, there is this,

I feel like there is going to be this responsibility from the home crowd where they want to live up to what that was like in 2017.

So it's going to be just as loud, if not louder.

I agree with you.

It is kind of strange.

And again, a self-owned that people are chasing the ghost of 2017.

For that stadium, that's always been the barometer for a raucous environment.

And I do think that there is kind of a responsibility to live up to that come Sunday night.

Yeah.

Don Lebatard.

Again, started on the breakfast flant.

Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long.

Breakfast flanta, no, no, no,

gotcha.

Have you never heard the breakfast flaunt?

No, hit me by that.

Okay.

I wish I had some breakfast flant.

Breakfast flant.

Where can I find a breakfast like that?

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

The entirety of it, though, when it comes to the Miami fan base being defensive because they have a persecution complex, and at least in part because back when they were playing Miami and Notre Dame, it felt like they were persecuted.

So, like, that's the history that's getting grandfathered in.

I'm telling you, the portrayal of these teams back then was Miami are the gangsters, and Notre Dame, they're the holy ones.

And that was a quainter time in a million different ways that built it into what it is today.

But I'm wondering, Billy, when you hear Mike talk like this, because Mike is homerific, but he's also on the inside of the program here and inside of the business machine.

When you hear him talk this way, it feels like Mike Ryan is going into the season feeling like Mario Cristobal and Miami has the better horses, the better physical.

That Cristobal was hired so that by this year, he would have bigger, better players than everyone else like he did when he was the recruiter at Alabama.

So it seems like Mike feels like he's seen something in these practices that has suggested to him, oh, no, Carson Beck is going to pick up where Cam Ward left off.

And that feels optimistic in a way that would feel biased.

Can it be both biased and informed?

I mean, once the games are played, I guess we'll find out, right?

Because they've just been playing against themselves.

You don't really know where any team stands presently.

But Mike feels like he knows.

I feel like...

I know he said that they were going to win by three scores last week.

That seems a bit optimistic.

But Mike is carrying himself as if he feels like he knows something that

the rest of us don't know.

Yes, that's Mike.

That is Mike just generally walking around.

But on this particular subject, he's going to do five hours later today because he can't talk about this enough.

Like, we have to go take the air out of the tire over there.

Oh, I'm going to try to talk about it enough.

I might.

I think we have.

I think you should tell people if they want five hours of Mike will tell you all he knows about what he's seen.

I wouldn't pitch it like that.

I would change the pitch.

I would pitch it like that because Kane's Insight is for Miami Hurricanes fans.

And if you're just a casual observer, want to know about this big game, we are going to have Notre Dame representation.

We are going to have national voices as well.

And Bruce Feldman and Brett McMurphy.

Sounds like a big show that

you're doing here with a lot of different people for a giant game.

And this is the future on where it is.

You can mainline this stuff because people can talk about it for five hours because they want to with enthusiasm build up the tailgate to this thing.

But it sounds like Mike Ryan is seeing something in the huddle.

I told you guys the story when I was on the campus at the University of Miami, okay?

I'm in school and during those four years, I'm a high school kid.

I don't know what professional football is, what college football is.

I don't know anything about anything.

My team in high school was terrible.

So I'm walking into the University of Miami locker room for the first time as a freshman at the University of Miami.

I've not been in many locker rooms.

Standing in front of me is Jerome Brown,

who would go on to just terrify the rest of the league.

But at this point, I'm a freshman.

I'm like, this is a student who is my age at school here, Jerome Brown.

And so I don't have any context for a home team that

they didn't lose a game while I was in school because their guys were bigger than everyone else.

And then when I went in the locker room when they were on probation, I walked into guys with pimples on their faces, young guys, clearly kids.

And I'm like, oh, okay, now I have the context for this.

It feels like Mike's in a locker room where he's saying, no, they've got the studs this year.

It has to look a certain way.

I remember being at practice during the Many Diaz years going, who the hell is that?

And it being Lou Headley, the punter.

And now, and there was one other guy, Chase Smith, who's actually a holdover still on this roster.

Now you barely notice him.

I remember feeling good about Deer King coming back.

All right, let's do this.

Let's go.

Measure ourselves up against Alabama and stepping on the field in Atlanta and knowing right away we had no shot in hell because they dwarfed our guys.

Okay, what were you saying this time last year?

This time last year, the body types are there and that Cam Ward is going to be good.

And by the way, I think Miami delivered on expectations.

They didn't surpass them.

Would have loved to have gotten to get to Charlotte.

They didn't have an opportunity to play the other teams in the mix for Charlotte.

They failed.

They blew a 21-point lead.

That would have been a great end to their season.

They would have had one loss headed into Charlotte.

They were close to 10 wins last year.

And that was pretty good for year three.

Year four needs to end in Charlotte.

Year four needs to be a CFP appearance.

They look really good along the lines.

One through 22, I like where they're at.

Now, it's not exactly what Dan said.

They're not going to have the talent advantage against the likes of Texas or Ohio State.

Miami is outgunned in that regard.

But it's going to come down to: are our guys good enough on a given day along the trenches to be able to dominate individual assignments?

And I think one through 22, this roster is as good as it's been in Miami in like 20 years.

So Stugant

is doing God bless football, and you can catch God bless football every day.

And I've been wanting to talk to him about the New York Jets practicing on Sunday by themselves.

They had no coaches.

Did you guys see that?

They had a players-only, like, not a lot of people have seen that, a players-only practice where they go out there on their off day to practice.

This is after I have seen a hard knocks ripoff on Amazon that I had not seen before called the Home Team, where Amazon Prime is doing on six Jets players from last year.

I don't know who they are.

Can you look this up for me?

They're going through the lives.

What are you laughing about?

Billy and I have a theory.

I think that you said so Stugatz is a crutch and just a normal transition, and then you covered it up pretty well and went into the New York Jets.

That's what I thought, too.

I thought that that was like just your normal muscle memory transition.

I thought that too.

You were so good at making it seem like we were going to talk about this Jets practice and that's your natural transition, but I think you got caught up.

True or false?

Wait, Judge Zaz, you want to make a ruling?

Well, I mean, I can't read his mind.

That's not a case that would be hurting my mind.

I just want to see the prop again.

What?

I

will admit with great shame, I hate the way these people can see through me.

All of that was, was not only that I had done it, I put my head down and started doing like a cat with kitty litter, just saying what's in the file on the Jets that I got in my head.

Good recovery.

It was a great recovery.

Thank you for noticing that, but I actually wanted to keep talking about UM Notre Dame, and I just lost my way with the crutch.

You just said so sugats.

You don't think that while people are hearing us talk about UM Notre Dame, they wanted to all of a sudden hear about the Jets practicing on their own?

Some might.

Technically a walkthrough.

You're not allowed to have practices.

You know, the Chiefs also have their own hard knocks.

Yeah.

There's so many.

The Chiefs' Kingdom.

The Kingdom.

Too much.

The Cowboys have their own thing.

Yeah, too much vote.

Takes a lot.

Just kick the ball off.

Actually, you know what?

Don't.

Thank you for laying out and not having preseason football.

This week is college football.

See, see what I'm saying?

Zaz?

See?

No, but he's not getting a week.

It's a week off.

See?

It's a week off.

No, it's not a week.

Yes, it is a week off.

See, he likes to go to the next slide.

It's a week off.

He's ran off though.

It's a week off.

It's a ramp off.

Were they playing last week and the week before?

And the week before that?

It's all.

Are they playing?

Are they playing next week?

This is a fairly new thing where

they take a week off before the regular season.

But we're not stopping.

This isn't a go and stop and go again.

They started.

And now they're stopping?

And then next week, they're going again.

It's a ramp up.

It's a ramp up.

So no break.

Just saying, keep your mind open.

It hasn't.

My mind's open.

It hasn't started yet.

You want to start and then stop for no reason.

Not for no reason.

Can you stop interrupting Danny?

He wants to talk about the hurricanes and the Jets.

She's Louise.

And the Jets.

Enough, Zaz.

God, Law.

Klubnik versus Nussmeyer and Clemson LSU.

I mean, there's so many Heisman Showcase games.

This is wild.

Hey, looking back on the film, Riley Leonard meant a lot to Notre Dame.

When they needed to play, Riley Leonard was there.

Can CJ Carr do it?

CJ Carr has less experience than Emery Williams.

We're going to learn.

You guys can sort of hear football in the air, right?

Like, there's a bit of a scent around here that's slightly different here because you guys are saying play the games, but we've got two weeks here, and we're going to fill it with some Kelsey news and some pop culture.

And we're going to break the internet with that love being real, evidently, unless you're still going to question it.

Two weeks, dude.

Three weeks.

Boys, it kicks off at USF

5:30 p.m.

tomorrow.

Bethune FIU, Friday.

Check it out.

You on the call?

I am.

Really?

Tell us more.

Where can people find you?

I think you're at FIU Sports.com.

Why do you do this in the shadows?

Why do you do it secretly?

Not a secret.

Look at the calendar.

It's out there.

There was a press release that came out, and then it kind of went away from me.

I want to see this calendar that says FIU Bethune and then has your name underneath it.

You don't believe that I'm going to do it?

No, I do, but you're telling people to look at the calendar.

No, I'm just saying it's out there.

I'm not one of self-promotion.

I'm like you who walks around.

Oh, I'm on game night.

I'm on this.

I'm on that.

You know, it's not me.

Oh, look at me, Zazo 2.0.

Oh, look at me.

I'm on with.

That's your impression of me.

Oh, look at me.

I'm on with Freddie Fitz or whatever.

Yeah, Freddie Fitz, big star.

Yeah, well, I'm bigger than you.

Oh, oh.

Give me the Sue category best laugh, please.

I want all of the best laughs from the last year.

And now the SUI nominees for Best Laugh: Big Mac, the Elser Hotel Valet Guy,

Ed Nan Vurke,

Al Michaels,

Amin L.

Hassan,

Andrew Hawkins,

Andrew Ceciliano,

Baron Davis,

Billy Gill,

Bob Costas

Charlotte Wilder Chris Mad Dog Russo

Chris Cody

Chris Fowler

Chris Parnell Chris Whittingham

Christine Leasey

Comedian Otsuko Otsatka

Dan Lebetard

Dan Lebatard again

Dan Patrick

Danny Green

David Allen Greer

David Sampson

David Sampson again

Diana Rossini

Dominique Foxworth.

Eric Hosmer.

Yeah.

Ernie Johnson.

Frank Thomas.

Craig Cody.

Hank Azaria.

Izzy Gutierrez.

Jake Plummer.

Jake Tapper.

James Carville, the Raging Cajun.

Jeff Kirchin,

Jamel Hill, at your leisure,

Jeremy Tashay,

Jessica Smitana,

Jim Lara Nega,

Jonathan Zaslow, Juju Gotti,

Merrow,

Lewis Black,

Maury Povich,

Michael Ian Black

Mina Kimes

Mike Ryan

NASCAR driver Ryan Blaney

NBA Insider Chris Haynes

Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman again

all right all right then ribs O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Pablo Torre

Poppy Lebatard

Pat Forty

Pat Riley

Patton Oswalt P.K.

Suban

Rachel Nichols

Ron Funchus

Rose Arias

Rosie Perez

Roy Bellamy

Roy Bellamy again

Roy Wood Jr.

Crucifying everybody

Sam Morrell

Samantha B

Scott Van Pelt

Stan Van Gundy

Steve Kerr

Stormy Daniels

Stugats.

Ted Danson.

Tiger Woods former caddy, Steve Williams.

Tim Kirchin.

Tim Kirchin again.

Tony Calatiud.

Tony Reali.

Weird Al Yankovic.

Sausage King and Wheel of Fortune contestant Will Jordan.

Hey, Tony.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, man.

The summer's almost ending, man.

I don't like that.

There's no way.

There's no way.

I am excited about cooler temperatures, but down here in South Florida, that just means slightly less boiling.

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.

You can do it on draft.

Draft is crisp.

There's been so many great special times.

And each time, I've decided to make those special times a Miller time.

Whether it's a long weekend like one we got coming up or a full-on vacation, it is a perfect time to get the crew back together.

This year marks 50 years of Miller time.

50 years of great taste, great friends, and unforgettable memories.

Miller Light, great taste, 96 calories.

Go to millerlight.com/slash Dan to find delivery options near you, or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer.

Cheers to 50 years of Miller time.

Celebrate responsibly.

Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.