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Chris, before we get started here,

your father's wearing a chef's hat.

Mike Ryan has a cigarette.

Will you stop, please, Zaz?

Like, we're on air and everyone can hear your sniffles on my microphone.

Turn my mic off.

On my microphone, everyone can hear your sniffles because you're sitting here.

Turn my mic down yeah turn my sensitive turn my mic down thank god for thank god for zaz you know usually you make fun of me breathing too heavily thank god he's sniffling oh well he's snorting i i will uh i don't want to tell the story about freddie gonzalez when i met him he introduced me to the snot rocket third base coach in eerie pennsylvania he's the third base coach in their minor league system and i'd look at a guy on third base and he holds his hand up to his first nostril and blows out something out his other nostril that's what zaz was just doing i can hear

that's the best.

Nothing resets your system quite like a snot.

Put it on the poll: is the snot rocket the best to reset your system?

But I just want to ask you, Chris Cody, the last couple of days we've been having a lot of technical difficulties.

Do you know the buttons work today?

Can I start testing the buttons, please?

Chunk it!

They work.

Okay, that's kind of loud, though, right?

Standard.

Dan's pressing other ones and nothing's happening, so it seems like one works.

Yes, this could be Dan's headphones being too loud.

No, one of them works

chris whittingham is a fancy lad all right the buttons work then this one is intentional and i want you guys to look uh right now with delight at the chef hat's face here in the studio can't see anything no you guys not the audience you guys

happy birthday to him

i don't care good luck Thank you, Stephen A.

Happy birthday to Greg Covey.

He's never told us his age.

He always hides his age.

Which birthday is this for you?

Well, I'll give you a hint.

A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday.

So you need to do the math on this one.

Good clue.

Yeah, thank you.

Called it the retirement home yacht.

Are they still having the inside of that thing, Dan?

At this age?

Yeah, it was a little musty.

It was weird, dude.

It's really sad.

We can talk about it now.

The outside and the deck with the music, very nice.

The inside where you ate,

no, it was a sad yacht.

It was.

Sad yacht.

It was.

Dad, admit it.

Admit it.

The inside.

No, I thought I was fine.

The bag was there, right?

Oh, yeah.

Gary the bag.

Hell yeah.

Yeah.

He was loving it, man.

He was reveling.

What's he up to today?

Yeah, you guys still keep it in touch?

Yeah, he texts you this morning or what?

Sought.

Sad yacht.

No, it was a nice yacht.

I'd rent it again.

What am I sleeping on the video there?

What's going on with me?

We haven't aired the video.

Oh, my God.

You are.

Sorry.

Happy birthday.

No, but let's.

Yes.

Happy birthday.

But, you know, we're on the shadow shoot.

You know, we're on what right now.

I think year 71 is the year that Greg finally gets a hang of this thing.

Thank you.

Greg, in the preview there is the beginning of the show.

When the show starts, it's you dancing, but you're distracted by you.

You're distracted.

Anytime you show up on the screen, you're delighted.

And I have to say, honestly.

It's one of the favorite things that we've done around here.

This particular open, seeing Greg this happy and seeing so late in what remains his prime, the singing sportswriter reinvigorated.

Look, he's gotten lazy.

No back in my days.

He doesn't want to work.

He's complaining about working.

He sounds like my dad.

Thinks the dolphins are good.

I wrote the book on back in my day.

Yes.

Literally.

Yes.

No more.

Do you have one?

I have it right here.

Do you have not the book?

Do you have a back in my days?

No.

Soup.

I got about 150 of them in the book.

Buy it.

And the pride of a lion.

I went off the show.

Sazlo, I want you to just stare at Greg Cody's face when this open plays because it delights me as much as it delights him.

But he is so happy because the singing sportswriter's back, he got tired on ESPN radio.

He was doing row, row, row your boat, like the last seven songs.

He quit on that long before back in my day.

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Football is back, Jack.

Oh my, we've waited for so long.

We're so damn excited that we put it in a song.

No need, no check downs.

Give me big hits and quarterbacks.

Keep your fantasy team from falling off the track.

Football is back, Jack.

Whether on the ground or through the air,

when the chips are down and you throw a prayer,

when your team is frowned and on the hug,

it's four to ten, you refuse to buck

when the shoulder pads and helmets crack.

That's how you know that football is back,

Jack.

Let me hear you say,

Football is back, Jack.

This high is wild and out of control.

And we're gonna ride it every week till we reach the Super Bowl.

No need, no check down.

Give me big hits and quarterbacks.

If you say this game's the best, I'll say it's a gag.

Football is back, Jack.

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We have got a local hour that's going to have both kinds of football in it.

And Greg Cody is here.

Why are you guys laughing?

Because he's breathing and it's his birthday.

I'm going to be nice today.

Yes, you're going to be nice.

And we've got the gift, the gift of Greg Cody.

We're now in our 21st year.

The gift of Greg Cody on this show over those years should turn today into a party.

And it's a party hosted by Wild Billy because we don't want to be on the sad yacht anymore.

Chris, it can finally be said that your dad's 70th birthday, a lovely boat, a lovely gesture, a yacht.

A yacht is a wonderful, wonderful thing, but the cafeteria and commissary area felt like it was a bit

less luxurious than one would imagine of the of whatever they paid for that.

Zagak.

What are you guys hoping for?

Like cocaine and hookers like at a 70th birthday party?

Like it's it's a boat.

Seriously.

Yeah, 70-year-olds.

Thank you, Billy.

Exactly.

Greg Cody is a great cook.

How did you feel about the food that night?

I thought it was, you know, I'm never there for the food.

He's there for the booze.

I thought it was good.

I thought it was good.

I didn't think it was, you know, five-star Michelin, but I thought it was good.

I mean,

I don't know anything about this.

I wasn't invited.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, I know it's true.

I just said it.

You just missed the list.

You know, we had to cut it off somewhere.

I'm the

sister.

I did that, right?

Of the one time it happens naturally.

You did bring it up, yeah.

That's right in my face.

The first time it's ever happened naturally, and Dan's like, aha!

You did bring it up right in front of Zaz.

Let's talk about this party Zaz wasn't invited to.

Greg honestly said earlier today, I'm so glad Zazzo's here, which I didn't think we would ever hear.

Oh, wow.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, he said, I love Zaz.

I'm glad he was here.

Yeah, well, let's not get carried away, Billy.

It's when you made a mistake, he was happy because he didn't make it.

But regardless, he said he was happy you were here.

Yeah, look,

the tension between them is real.

Greg Cody looks down on the radio journalist or the radio broadcaster, I guess.

He thinks the print media is more honorable, so do I, actually.

That's that's how we that's how we grew up, but not anymore.

It's not.

Now it is an obsolete dinosaur, and all of the future medias are coming through and tearing the place apart.

And Zaz is the one who's the star at ESPN, who has suites on the road, who flies first class because he's a rider.

Do you know about that first class, Greg?

Yeah, I've heard about that.

Yeah, you were like incredibly surprised by the accoutrements of first class

I found funny, but that's okay.

Well, you know, I'm not this bougie sports writer, apparently.

Okay.

I don't get those perks all the time.

All right.

Well, I don't get the perks because I'm a sports writer.

Well, and also, let's make something clear here, all right?

Between the two of us, you're a print guy i'm a radio guy between the two of us you you tried to get into my business i never tried to get into your business yeah because you couldn't have because well we don't know that that requires putting uh words in in a particular order making turning them into sentences and then paragraphs in a way that's entertaining you're assuming that's why i didn't want to get in feel good about this then i didn't do this yes you did no you called him a dinosaur you said his this used to be prestigious and it's a dying medium, and now Zaz is a rising star.

Which, by the way, I will say for the record.

Go on.

If you ask anyone on earth, beginning with toddlers and anyone who could start speaking, dinosaurs are revered.

Yes, yeah.

Dinosaurs are beloved.

Everyone likes a dinosaur.

Everybody loves dinosaurs.

Kids love learning about dinosaurs.

Love dinosaurs.

You look around at a modern-day Komodo dragon.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Couldn't hold a candle to a dinosaur.

My kid has never said, hey, can you get me me a toy Komodo dragon?

Never.

T-Rex rules the kingdom.

Bang-a-gong, get it on, am I right?

Hell yeah.

Okay.

That's how Chris was made.

I got the reference.

Thank you, Mike.

Happy semi-first birthday, Greg.

Why are you wearing a chef's?

I'm going to destroy you.

No, just.

No, you're not.

Let's just

hold on.

All right.

Good of a toy.

You like this fight now?

You started between Mike and Greg, Dan.

Jeez, Louise, how many people today?

We are going to

broadcast over the course of time.

He has told us, we make a lot of jokes about what we're going to, I'd like the listeners to write in what tombstone nominations for Greg Cody.

I am hoping that the Greg Cody experience for the remainder of his life is broadcast by our show until the very end.

Okay.

And like literally, yes, I guess.

That's right.

Yes.

Yes.

Like I would like him to do our show

for the rest of time.

But what I'm telling you guys now, as he becomes 71, it's only going to get worse from here in terms of he's going to know less about what he's doing.

You guys keep expecting him to get better at this.

He's not going to get better at it.

He's not going to get better at the mechanics of doing this.

And he is a print guy to the very end, and he will always look down on the radio guy.

That's not manufactured.

I'm not making that up.

Okay, first of all, when I'm on my deathbed, The Greg Cody Show will get the exclusive bedside interview, okay?

and you'll be in line for that, but the Greg Cody show will get it.

Look, uh, I appreciate sniffing.

I think that might be Zaslow's phone.

My phone's been on solid hot 10 years.

Oh, it's my phone.

My bad.

Someone did that to him because he found it.

Yeah, I was talking to him in the kitchen earlier, and that thing was buzzing.

Someone must have turned that on.

I bet I'm going to check right now.

Look to see the case.

Someone find the security tape because I saw Christopher in there earlier.

I suspect someone set him up.

Okay, it was not Christopher.

Damn.

Oh, it was Yeti saying Great T-Rex

excellent T-Rex reference.

Yeah, reference from 1971.

Get it wrong.

Get it on.

I would also say

in Greg's defense, Greg didn't become a radio guy.

Greg became a podcaster long ago.

He has had the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody for years now.

If anything.

Anyone gets thought of podcasts?

Excuse me.

If anything, Zaszlo was a radio guy who crawled over to the podcast world, which was Greg's domain long before Zaszlo's domain.

Radio is different from podcasting.

Podcasts, great.

I do a podcast, all right?

But there is a prestige to doing radio.

Is there?

It's live.

Okay.

It's live.

Yeah.

Craig, you can't tell me that you're recording your podcast sometimes and you're like, wow, I didn't like that.

That didn't sound good.

Let's do it over.

Guess where there are no do-overs?

Radio.

That's where I honed my craft.

We're literally live right now.

I understand.

Do you?

I don't think he does it.

This is not a podcast.

I don't think he gets it.

Greg's.

It gets put into a podcast.

Yeah, but this is live.

I understand.

I don't think you do.

This is not.

Do you think you're on radio?

This is not radio.

Do you think

you're doing a radio?

You think you're doing a podcast?

He's doing radio.

He's been doing radio since the moment he stepped foot in here.

Yeah,

I'm born for live.

What station are we on right now?

AM, FM?

This is like YouTube.

Yeah, you don't know anything.

You know, Jack.

Going left to right on your radio?

I know lots of things.

I'm not certain.

Go on, Greg.

I'm the shitstir.

Anyway, I'll get to the Dolphins, and I want to get to Ray Hudson because Greg Cody, 50 years of experience in this market, he can actually bring the proper history to what happened in soccer yesterday, where a legend stepped down.

And we talked about it for a second, but it's bigger than any of the stories we're talking about today.

USF against Miami, super interesting.

Dolphins, super interesting.

There are things to talk about, but this legend in this market shouldn't, as a voice who's international, it's across all the seas.

This is a person in Ray Hudson who came through this market, and you covered him at the very beginning of soccer in this market.

You were writing the first columns about can the international sport live in Miami?

Can it live in the United States?

At the very beginning of Ray Hudson's career are the seeds of South Florida getting into soccer.

Yes, and back then, all you had was the Dolphins and UM football.

There was no other major sport and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers they filled Lockhart Stadium.

They filled it 20,000 fans a game.

It was really the seed from which soccer in this area grew, the seed that led to Inner Miami generations later signing Leo Messi.

And Ray Hudson was the first star and if I can be very personal about his impact on me, he was the first athlete who I associate with my big break in journalism.

Because prior to then,

I was covering high schools for like 10 years.

I was in purgatory.

I never thought I was going to become anything in this market.

And all of a sudden, they had me cover the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was very big at the time, selling out the stadium, as I said.

And back then, we had a budget.

And so all of a sudden,

A year after covering, you know, a Boyd Anderson Shamanade football game, I'm in Vancouver covering the Fort Lauderdale Strikers against the Vancouver White Caps.

And we had nothing in the market at the time.

It's the Dolphins and Miami doesn't matter.

UM baseball is trying to find footing.

There's nothing in this market.

It's just Don Shula.

Yeah, and so the strikers back then were big, and Ray Hudson was the most flamboyant and charismatic of all the strikers.

And I remember sitting with him at a wooden picnic table outside Lock Art Stadium during the middle of the week.

And he had just come over over from England.

He's as white as a milk bottle, and

talking in that charming, thick accent of his.

And our relationship grew from there.

And he and I are friends to this day.

And he was the first guest on my podcast, actually, five years ago.

And so he's just meant an awful lot.

He's on the timeline of my career.

Before I ever became a columnist or covered the Dolphins or the Hurricanes, I had Ray Hudson and the Strikers, and it just, it means a lot.

You don't understand,

I don't think the audience might understand that this is the greatest sports voice to have ever come out of South Florida we can go all nationalities all languages you can go fellow Ramirez like there there is no one in the history of sports in this market whose voice has internationally resonated with flamboyance from player he was a coach as well didn't he do some coaching at broadcaster but he made his mark he he was great at all the things, but the thing that he was greatest at was broadcaster because he's done this with the enthusiasm of soccer for 50 years.

Vinicius Ofterwitz, like Draculan, who will play the liver,

and it just leaves Barcelona in acid here.

The roughness disappears when the Magic Man gets it, though, doesn't he?

He's almost polite in the way he beats his defenders.

again.

If you showed him a Roshak blotch, he'd see goal every time, Phil.

It's a phenomenal strike.

Vakia is underwent.

Jumping jack flash quick and

sharp as vinegar with this hit.

He sees his teammates on either side of him, Phil.

And says, I see you lads.

I don't need you.

He needs help.

Like a shark needs a dentist.

Chris, I think we need to every day until the World Cup take 30 seconds to honor Ray Hudson in this market.

Did I say anything that was wrong, Chris?

No, no, I don't think so.

And Ray Hudson, I don't know, not all of those wonderful, florid comments were spontaneous.

I guarantee you he put some of them in the oven and took them out at just the right time because he told me once, way back in the late 70s, that if they were up two or three nil at halftime, he was already devising the colorful quote he was going to say at the same time.

It's so wonderful to know what your relationship is here because he learned before you did that it's all professional wrestling.

And he was a salesman and a spokesman and it carried him the charisma of it.

And I'd like to honor him right up until the World Cup.

Every day until the World Cup.

Next year?

Every day.

Every single day.

On it.

We stopped for 30 seconds.

Like the Pledge of Allegiance at school?

Yes, yes, yes.

Start the shadow show.

I got to say, you did not have this energy yesterday.

Start the shadow show every day with 30 seconds of Ray Hudson.

Ray Hudson?

To honor the great

man.

I was shell-shocked when you kept it to a 30-second bit.

Corey Brooks.

Who's on the Mount Rushmore of Voices in South Florida?

Eric Reed.

Eric Reed.

Tommy Hutton.

Corey Brooks.

Zagak.

Zagak is on the Mount Rushmore.

Is he or is he not?

Zagak, yeah, I think

A.J.

Ricketts.

Jeremy Tashay.

That gives Jeremy Tashay the opportunity to give a stat of the day that nobody wants.

I'm punishing you, Billy, with this stat of the day because he wants to talk Marlins, and you just made it about the Marlins.

Through 37 games to start his career, Marlins outfielder Jacob Marcy has recorded 20 extra base hits and 10 stolen bases, becoming the first Marlin to reach those numbers in the same span and the first player in Major League Baseball to do so since Barry Bonds

in Pittsburgh in 1986.

He's definitely going to keep it up.

I know the 7,000 fans at the game really appreciate that.

Jeremy, well, we're not the worst.

I feel bad that baseball is segregated around here.

I feel bad that you never got to talk, never get to talk baseball, but you're so eager to do things, you didn't even wait for the stat of day music.

You gave the stat, and you didn't even wait for the music.

You just rushed.

I have another baseball stat if you'd like.

We can play the music now.

You're doing this in the wrong water.

When this finishes, you tell us your rate hypothesis.

I will get to the...

I first met Ray Hudson at WSVN when I was working as an associate producer.

He came in for Sports Extra, and it was just a joy to be around him, just like a kind man who brought a really special energy energy to the room.

That accent was obviously infectious.

And it was really special working alongside him and Steve Shapiro, Mike DePasquale on that Sports Extra.

You know, working behind the scenes, it was a really, really good time.

And

yeah, Drew Rosenhausen there almost every Sunday.

It was great.

Thank you, Ray.

Thank you, Ray.

Did you not see that I was trying to talk there, Jeremy?

Turn this music.

It's fancy.

I like that music.

Turn the music off.

Thank you.

Did you not hear, Jeremy, that I was trying to talk there, that I was going to make a point there?

I did.

You disrespected the...

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It's all about me.

Stugats.

This is the Don Lebatard Show with the stugats

you're wearing a chef's hat because

because

you are somebody who is a very good cook I think that Greg Cody why are you still here why are you still here doing my job making a no the stop doing your job and get the hell out

thank you

the chef's hat that he he is wearing, he is, I believe, the best cook among us.

I think Roy might have some sort of objection.

I think Roy would take offense.

But he's a really good cook.

However, around here, he's 0-3 in cook-offs.

He's lost all three that he's done.

And now Mike, who I didn't know could cook, has challenged him today in a soup-off.

How are we doing this, Mike?

We have a stove upstairs here at the beautiful Elser.

You look like you work at the bear.

Look at him.

He does.

I didn't know Mike was a chef.

Yes, chef.

I take great pride in it.

I just don't advertise it.

I'm not like Greg Cody, where I make it seem like I'm greater than I am and then fall well below expectations anytime someone decides to take him to task.

Wow.

Okay, Roy Bellamy deservedly beat me in the turkey off.

But it sounds like everyone's beat you.

Well, Lebetard beat me in popcorn, which was a disgrace.

Lebetard's popcorn was so over-seasoned with tagine,

almost almost inedible.

But it won.

So, how bad was yours?

Mine was good.

Well, he's the boss.

Mine was good.

But the third event, I don't remember what was.

Yeah, I think there might have just been two.

No, the pumpkin.

You lost.

It wasn't cooking, but you've had three challenges.

You had a car.

That's another one.

Jessica beat me on that and should not have.

Excuse for everything.

You're owing three.

I carved by hand, and she had a machine.

She had a machine.

She drew a machine.

She used a paper thing.

Mold.

Yeah, she had a money.

She had a mold and she had like an electronic knife.

It was a whole fraudulent.

Yeah, it was fraudulent.

For hockey.

It's like the build-up thing.

And I did a beautiful pumpkin that included a ghoulish face with a prop, a knife in the pumpkin head.

It should have won.

Waste not, want not.

So have you thought about what the excuse will be this time?

I have no excuse because I'm going to win.

Well, what are you making?

You're 0-3.

You're 0-3 in competitions running over here.

But today's his birthday.

Yeah, no, it's a, you stack the deck.

Brindamore had a birthday.

You stacked the deck against me.

This is certainly a road game, but I feel good.

I mean, Craig, he decided to go for lentil.

Now, sausage and lentil with a little bit of kale.

I've had that.

It's good.

Well, so did people on the Oregon Trail.

This is a campfire soup.

Okay.

All right.

He's here for the hearty.

I'm here for the party.

It's not as foofy.

What is yours called?

You have like names in the titles of the soup that I eat right now.

It's pretty complicated.

It's for a refined palate.

We got curry, we got ginger, we got chicken, we got far row.

But all in all, we're just going to go ahead and call this soup Thai food.

Hell yeah.

Oh, I love Thai soups.

Thai food.

Do you have coconut milk in there?

There's coconut milk in there.

I'm going to eat you.

No, I already have a negative critique of Mike's acumen in the kitchen.

You guys have both been divas this morning.

If I may say it,

a coconut Thai chicken soup demands that the bell red pepper be cut into strips.

And I saw him over there chopping into a fine dice.

Hey, old man.

Worry about your own soup.

Unheard of.

Yeah?

Worry about your own soup.

I don't have it.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

That's a.

You're already.

It's a faux pas.

Okay, really?

Yeah.

We'll see.

I think I'm going to dominate you in this one.

Yes.

In fact, I know it.

I saw the color of yours.

It looks like poop.

Any Thai restaurant in America

at a fine dice, red bell pepper.

What's your soup?

you gotta cut cut it in strips my soup is sausage and lentil with kale and and other stuff and it's super flavor were you not listening to your father before no he wasn't okay but it's worth repeating quite frankly kale's for color and trust me it needed it and by the way this a chef hat is supposed to be a souffle

it's supposed to stand up regally and and these uh headphones are really raining on the parade of my chef hat but otherwise it's amazing i was able to get a chef hat with the greg cody show logo on it, which I didn't even know they made.

But

that's a good podcast, that one.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know who does it.

We have Ad Nan Vurke on the latest episode talking about his new book, and we do a Dolphins autopsy.

It's a great episode.

Greg doesn't know movies.

You are petering.

I was just hoping you guys would lay out the entire time to see how long he talked, like just bored about his own podcast.

No, I don't want to dominate.

I don't want to talk too much about my podcast.

That's not, you wouldn't have called what he just did there, dominating, where he petered out, yeah, we got that in the invert.

Yeah.

You know, that was not dominating.

It was you petering out because you haven't gotten to plug your podcast in the last couple of days.

Thank you for that.

And I'll just tell everyone, it's 71 today.

It's only going to get worse from here.

There's going to be more petering out, more distraction, more slurping on the cup, more frustrating at the sun.

That's what it's going to be.

You love the phrase petering out.

It's one of your go-to's.

I didn't accuse you of it.

I'm the sister Mike accused you you of it.

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The Dolphins are playing a game this weekend.

And I'm trying to think, okay,

Dave Wandstead, first half when he can't decide between Fiedler and Feely.

I'm trying to think of a season that felt like this right away.

I'm trying to remember Cam Cameron's 1 in 15 season.

And if the first game felt like the following.

The Miami Dolphins this weekend play in a game that is only interesting to South Florida because they're like, does the whole thing just fall apart right here?

Was last week real?

They might get some sort of NFL illusion because, and think about what I'm about to say here.

The New England Patriots, the first week of the season, deserve to also be laughed at from Seeda Shining Sea, but no one is doing that to the Patriots who played one of the worst football games played this weekend.

The Patriots played one.

Carolina played one.

The Giants played one.

Patriots are the only one of those to do it at home against Geno Smith and the Raiders.

The Patriots have their fan base saying, oh no, maybe Drake May's not the answer.

Oh no, maybe Vrabel's not the answer.

One week at home and you lose to the Raiders.

That's bomb for the Dolphins.

But I'm presently talking about a game with this group of people who have covered this sport and this team all their lives, and I can't remember something that felt quite like this this early in the season.

And I'm looking at all of it after Marino retired at 62-7, Jimmy Johnson leaves.

I'm having a hard time remembering a season feeling like this seven days in.

I think both extremes can be legitimate.

I think there's no excuse for the way they played.

They had an entire offseason not to come out like that.

By far the worst performance in the NFL in week one.

I think this is also true.

It's a gross over-exaggeration and knee-jerk to say they're done.

They're done.

If they beat New England, mark my words, and it's not a stretch to say it, if they beat New England and they're one and one and Tua looks good, all of a sudden we overreacted.

A birthday gift to let you talk that long when you don't seem to know what's happening here.

Like you don't seem,

you're in a burning building saying that Mike McDaniel's got a sprinkler over here that a Patriots win solves.

The way they lost in game one makes it so that the noise around this stadium is going to have banners flying and people booing in the first quarter if this thing goes sideways.

I agree that people will boo at the first interception.

Greg,

what I'm telling you is a team known to be meek nationally, led by a man feared to be meek nationally, is heading to a buzzsaw at home if they get down 10-0.

I'm surprised that you...

you do believe that if the Dolphins beat the Patriots this weekend, that all of a sudden, hey, they're one and one and maybe we all overreacted.

I mean, everything Dan just said about the Patriots in week number one rings true.

Sure.

So you're essentially saying that if the Dolphins beat at home, if the Dolphins beat an equally terrible team who had a terrible performance from week number one, all of a sudden we're going to feel better about them and maybe week one was an overreaction.

Like, I disagree.

Okay, what I'm saying is the overreaction to them losing week one is A, why a lot of people hate the media, and B, why a lot of people think that fans are idiots because of the overreaction.

It's one game.

I don't care how bad they run it.

Greg, the overreaction, though,

look, it's not one game.

Greg,

Greg.

I thought it was one game.

What he's saying, it's the mistrust that is here right now from the fan base toward this thing because

Zaslow's holding the popular opinion, Greg.

Most of this fan base is saying, even the most hopeful, oh my God, is Tua McDaniel, is all of it over?

If they lose this game, Someone's not going to be here.

We agree on that, right?

Tyreek Hill, McDaniel, like, if they lose this game at home, you would agree that someone will not be here the following week, right?

And not a minor play.

Following week?

No, I don't know.

Not after weeks.

Greer?

I think Owen 2, someone's paying for it.

Really?

I do.

I think that...

I mean, I hope you're right, but I don't think that's true.

It also depends on the game flow, right?

If they show up unprepared again and the Boo Birds have their voicing and taking it.

Is it Greer or Ross?

Like, who has shown you they have the guts to make such a significant move?

I think it would probably be Greer because he's been here for close to a decade, and it doesn't really shake up the operation all that much as you're in season.

If you let go of the GM, like, the fans are going to demand it.

How do you think Ross has the guts after two weeks?

I mean, it's been 10 years.

I'm with you.

It could be Tyreek Hill.

Greer, to save his job, could be like, let me make another trade.

And I do believe the Chiefs are going to go 0-2 after this week.

If the Dolphins are 0-2 and the Chiefs are 0-2, maybe Tyree Kill's going to be.

But by doing that, you're telling the fan base we've given up on the season after two weeks.

I mean, they're flying a banner.

Yeah, but telling them the season's over two weeks in is a horrible message.

You can agree with them, but no, we have to make changes, but after week two, no, but here.

So, this is the part that's most interesting to me about what you're saying because Greg, Greg's not wrong when he says, in almost all the other instances, a reaction to one game in week one is an overreaction, it's a hyperventilation, it's one game.

However, Greg, and this part to me is the most important part the way they looked on sunday that makes you fear oh no i'm watching the whole thing collapse because they can't stop anybody they're not going to be physical enough they're going to ravage their coach and the entire nfl Brian Flores in Minnesota is looking down at Boy Wonder and saying, you went from ball boy to the top and you changed your wardrobe and your clothes and you were offensive genius.

Now, what do you got in this game against the Patriots when no one trusts you?

And one of them might be your wide receiver.

And your quarterback looked in the last game like he didn't trust anybody because we didn't recognize him after his first read.

And former teammate said that he knew what to do to make to a panic.

Greg, this thing, like I don't believe I've ever had, I don't mean to be prisoner of the moment, but I remember Jay Feedley, Jay Fiedler and A.J.

Feely.

The first half, Dave Wanstedt ran into something like this.

Dave Wansted, and that was at 10-6 every year.

At 10-6 every year, Wanstedt walks into, I don't have a quarterback.

Who's it going to be?

I don't know.

And in the first half of the first game, he panics.

First half of the first game.

It's the only time I remember a stadium closing in carnivores.

They do it at Miami, at the University of Miami all the time.

That happens all the time.

It's the first time I can remember a stadium caving in because he was under the pressure.

This is why the Steelers, what they do is so amazing with three coaches.

He was under the pressure of Shulin Johnson before you.

You're 11 and 5 every damn season and everyone's saying you're mediocre.

And he panics in the first game because he's Dave Wondstead.

And the Dolphin fan base is looking at Meek Daniel.

They're looking at Meek Daniel, all the stuff that was charming, and saying, wait a minute, am I going to watch my team fall on this guy's head next Sunday?

Like, that's what surrounds that stadium this week.

I've never seen anything like it in this market.

I have a feeling that you're going to be the one renting the plane that carries the Fire Everybody banner.

I'm not sure if most fans feel quite as vitriolic as you do about Fire Everybody right now.

Really?

No, no.

You're the columnist.

You're supposed to have your finger on the pulse.

Okay, did you read what I wrote following that game?

I spared no amount of time.

You can't just say this was a terrible game, but I have no reason.

Like, you're acting like you have no reason to believe that it will continue.

I want to see more than one game of proof.

Oh, multiple years of this game.

They're favored against New England.

They're terrible New England.

And the Dolphins are at home.

You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of nuance or perspective here.

And you should be more of a fan and just fire everyone immediately.

Billy's 100% right.

Look, I've been writing and saying since last season that this is the season that tells the future of McDaniel and Greer.

If they don't make the playoffs, 99%

they will fire the general manager and the coach if they don't make the playoffs.

And if they start off terribly, worse than 0-1, I don't think Tyreek Hill will last if they can get a buyer for him.

Probably the Chiefs will take him back.

But

where we disagree is I'm not ready to say all that after one bleeping game, no matter how badly they look.

The place where I would push back on that is, do you, does Greg Cody, do you feel any different?

Did this team look any different from what they looked like the way you felt week 18 last year compared to what you just saw in week one?

Yes.

They look different?

They look terribly unprepared.

Oh, okay.

That's the whole point.

So that's why it's not one week.

It's a total, it's a continuation

from last year.

Here's the thing, Zaz.

The way you two are putting it suggests that the opener they played is on top of a terrible 3-14 season.

They went 8-9 last year.

I'm not forgiving 8-9.

Okay, it's a losing record, but 8-9

is credibly bad.

It's not.

But the trajectory is this.

They were playoffs the first two years of the year.

Greg, if I can, just for historical perspective, okay, because I'll just keep going back to this Wandsted season because, okay.

I was saying the same things then that you were, and I was doing it with 11-5 in my back pocket.

And everyone was yelling, no, this is the beginning of the end.

How do you not see it?

Look, he's using up all the Jimmy Johnson shares.

And I'm like, guys, it's 11 and 5.

It's hard to go 11 and 5 in that league.

And he's handing the ball off, and he's making my friend retire because they're running the ball

400 times a game and they're punting all the time because they're playing primitive football, wasting the Jimmy Johnson years.

And everyone's saying, Dan, how can't you see it?

And I'm like, 11 and 5.

The Dolphins, this is not one week, Greg.

Two and McDaniel are six and nine in their last 15 games when two is available.

14 interceptions and two has got eight fumbles.

We worry about his head.

This is built on something that's really flimsy, and everyone around it is howling.

This is the beginning of the end, obviously.

And the thing that doesn't feel like hyperventilation to me, and I keep coming back to it, the first game of the season looked like that.

You got injuries now on the offensive line.

You can't block anybody.

And the Colts put up a performance we've never seen in football before.

Seven straight drives can't be stopped.

And the way that it looked is important.

It's not just, oh, they had an off game.

It's, no, they were dragged up and down the field by surgical competence of Daniel Jones.

Against a team that you know is not that good.

Yeah.

I mean, you guys aren't saying anything I don't know.

You guys aren't saying anything.

But, Greg, it looked like that's what they are.

What I'm saying is no other team in week one, like Carolina could think they're bad Giants and the Patriots, but no other team was on the field with its fans watching saying, oh my God, the way that this is going, they don't have any chance in this game.

Do they have any chance in any game?

Okay, if you think the Dolphins are going to be the worst team in the league, I'll bet you $100 and give you odds.

It's not going to happen, okay?

Kind of odds are we talking about?

The Dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener.

They could not have looked worse.

I agree with you.

They were putrid.

They were embarrassed.

They were humiliated.

They deserve all of the criticism they're getting.

I'm just saying it's one game, and you can't refute that.

And

it's not a reach that they beat New England and then what?

Are you going to say maybe we overreacted?

Maybe.

I will.

If they look good on Sunday, I'll say I overreacted as will most fans.

The problem here is like the perspective of Dolphins, fan, right?

Like there was this expectation after that game against the Broncos that that's what the Dolphins were, that they were going to score 70 points every game.

And if you look at what the Dolphins have been over the last three seasons, it was playoff appearance, playoff appearance.

Last year, they controlled their own destiny and they vomited on themselves and they cost themselves the playoffs, but they were there.

You knew when that season ended, when as soon as they missed the playoffs, that Stephen Ross announced, hey, you know what, Chris Creer is safe, Mike McDaniel's safe.

They weren't going to make any significant change.

I mean, the big change that they made in the offseason was, hey, let's get Darren Waller out of retirement.

He'll solve this problem.

So they came into this season and even Greg, who you guys accuse of being a homer and all that, said eight and nine or nine and eight.

He said like they'll be a playoff team.

maybe as the last seed in the playoffs, but he's not predicting they're going to win the Super Bowl.

Everyone knows this is just just like a middle-of-the-road team that you could say the window closed, but I think now the question is more so, did the window ever even really exist?

Or did we just convince ourselves that this was like some super team that it really never was?

So when they decide in the offseason, we're not gonna make significant changes by giving it two games and firing everyone, what are you really accomplishing?

Because you know week three is probably gonna be a blowout regardless of the outcome of this one against the Bills on Thursday night football.

So if you fire everyone week two, then you come back week three you get embarrassed nationally while your team is already in disarray like you've punted on the season for everyone to see look at zaslow he seems defeated here uh i don't suspect this will be the last time we talk about this uh mike ryan get out of here go cook your stuff we're gonna start the soup off oh yours looks like poop hey everyone it's mike ryan One thing about me that everybody knows, I absolutely love Miller Light.

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