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What a great football weekend for your boy.

I had the Kanes dominate, a Baker won, Cameron Ward one.

I was looking at the Tampa Bay schedule.

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The Baker story is a cool one when I tell it through the context of what it takes to be one of the people who gets the privilege of being a star at that position in America, which makes you in the game that most grinds these guys to dust, one of the 10-15 guys allowed to be a superstar.

Not a fantasy sports superstar, not the guy that your league loves to have.

No, one of the quarterbacks who gets to be Mark Sanchez walking around in retirement with a great broadcasting career.

Because once we anoint you here, you got a broadcasting job for life as I'm Americana.

I told you my story in college when I was at Oklahoma and the school mattered more when I was there, when I ran Johnny Manzel off the road and I'm the guy with the video that you can see me trying to run away from the cops.

I'm an outlaw.

People are all polarized by him as he gets to the pros.

Not unlike Tua, polarizing guy.

Why is he polarizing?

Polarizing guy.

Cleveland has expectations for the first time in 30 years.

Never should have done it.

Swallows him whole.

Odell Beckham ends his career.

Travis Landry, thanks for trying.

Wouldn't want to limp through retirement with you because of how you had to play trying to keep that shit machine at 500.

The shit machine Browns don't have anything good, can't be trusted with anything good, spend all their money on a quarterback and are crippled for forever, no matter who they play back there.

17 points in the last 10 games.

That's how you're uninteresting the same way you were when you were 1 and 31 for two seasons.

Franchise, done.

Miles Garrett, you should have forced your way out of there.

They're going to eat up your career and it's not going to be worth it and you're tired at the end of the games.

And look, it's Carson Wentz and Minnesota's bastard.

They'll do things with Flores.

Your career is going to be wasted there, Miles.

It's going to be a bummer.

He seems aware.

They'll make him quit the way that the Lions once made Calvin Johnson quit and Barry Sanders quit because you can't play physically that way and be ravaged by that sport.

But the Baker Mayfield story, I want to talk about this for a second because you're not really allowed to come and ransack the league from behind on a horse collar because no, no, no, you guys left me for dead back there.

And I had one Monday night game with McVay and I got back in the game.

And now me and Sam Darnold got back to the riches when there are 10 of these jobs in America.

Like these things eat everybody up, but what is it?

Is it 10?

Is it 15?

How many cornerbacks?

Guess Sam Darnold's a football player.

He's not a star.

I'm talking about the guys who get to be personality and story and this guy's got playing the whole game.

What's the equivalent of the modern equivalent of what used to be the cigarettes tied up in the sleeve of the shoulder pads?

Like this, he's John Waning his way to victories on the road when Sam Darnold's playing out of his mind.

All the the games are going the exact same way.

It's kind of like Phillip Rivers in a way with the same kind of attitude.

And what I love so much about Baker Mayfield, outside of his playing style, which I think everybody, there's consensus, he's fun to watch.

He is a great player to watch, and everybody roots for those situations at the end of games because they know he has the arm talent and the moxie to get the ball downfield.

And he's going to try.

He's going to give it his best.

He was humbled by this league, but the humbling came by running scout team defensive end for Carolina.

He had to save his career.

Thank God for Sean McVay, because if it wasn't for that, we probably don't have Baker Mayfield doing this on Sunday.

But he didn't change his personality.

He kept to his authentic self.

He's out there mixing it up with fans before and after the game, finding them after the game.

He had every reason to change his approach to the game.

He remained true to himself, to his playing style, to his guts guile, to his attitude.

I'm so happy.

But

you're doing a bunch of guile and moxie.

And I just want to go back to the arguments we had back before you got Deshaun Watson when you were an actual Browns fan.

And I was saying, why would Baker Mayfield keep trying to get three more yards to get this thing to 500 when he's clearly playing hurt?

We saw what he looked like, and then he's giving himself to this cause, and it's going to ruin his career.

It's going to end his career.

That's Moxie.

But none of that is Moxie.

That's crazy.

What I'm describing to you is scout team defensive end for Carolina.

Go, Mike, find that tweet you sent me the other day of of all the things Carolina has given up to try and find a quarterback when they had Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield and had to let go of both of them because clearly Carolina never knows what it's doing at professional sports.

The only time they're any good at anything is when North Carolina basketball makes them feel good at something.

Sure as shit is never the football team.

I have it here.

I did the math, took inventory.

A total of five first-round draft picks, two seconds, seconds, one-third, two-fourths, DJ Moore, and a staggering $230 million guaranteed for the privilege of having Deshaun Watson and Bryce Young play quarterback over Baker Mayfield for your franchise.

They had Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield, and losing organizations are going to be losing organizations.

That's what the Jets are, and that's what the Browns are.

But that's what the Bucs are supposed to be without Tom Brady.

And this guy, you couldn't pick a tougher guy to follow and a more different dude, by the way.

Yeah, he does the LFG stuff, but his approach is different.

That's why last year, in Tom Brady's greatest moment as a broadcaster, you kind of saw the difference in their approach.

And Tom Brady kind of took offense to it.

They have an identity.

Their identity is as clear as anybody's in the league.

We're going to let our quarterback win these games for us.

And he's going to check.

with his receivers and he's going to go downfield and it doesn't matter how good your defense is because that is a brilliant defense that Seattle has and it didn't matter.

Let me frame this though a different way for you because when we talk about stars and faces for this league, okay, one of the reasons they're giving Brady that much money to be a broadcaster is because if they keep America tethered to the broadcast, hey, that's Tony Romo.

I remember him.

They keep the quarterbacks in your living room on Sundays because Troy Aikman's one of the voices, and I remember when his best season was 20 touchdowns.

Like the way that they continue to grow the sport through all of its voices and everything that they're doing baker mayfield tom brady from on high lorded down during the broadcast as mike just said it was the most interesting broadcasting moment he had is because that's not the way he would have done it but this is the way baker does it and when i think about likability i like baker a lot more than i do brady and i know brady you're the winner You get to win at everything.

But that seems more authentic to me, flaws and all, than whatever it is you're grinning about with your perfect teeth and saying nothing during the broadcast, even though I know you know shit, but you've got so many corporate conflicts and compromises that you can't say anything through that grit teeth except give me more money.

Like, there's no, it's all like stamped on your face.

I can't professionally broadcast here.

I'm too compromised.

I've got too many sponsors.

Baker Mayfield's real.

Like, whatever that is, has been on display for a long time.

That part's super interesting to me, right?

When I see what happens to Belichick, I see Kraft try to redo the story.

I see Brady try to redo the story over here.

And now Drake May's the star in New England and they get to take over with Vrabel.

And oh look, Belichick wasn't actually all of those special things.

He kind of needed the quarterback who thought he was responsible for it.

And at the end, Brady wins.

He always wins.

But what does he do with what I think a lot of us would say is, I like Baker more.

You're selling all these brands, but I...

I like that.

That seems flawed and weird.

And oh, look at what happens when it's the arrogance without all the talent and winning.

And you had it much like Brady comes from privilege comparatively, right?

Like seventh round pick, but didn't have to go through what Baker did.

Well, people liking it more seemed to be the thing that got under Tom's perfect skin last year.

It's like this team has really rallied around Baker and Baker's saying, look, I got a different way of doing it.

And Tom Brady's like, but my way of doing it has me as the greatest of all time winning.

a championship for this franchise.

Baker's a vibes guy.

I think the thing is America loves redemption, right?

We've We've seen Baker be humbled.

We've seen him be the best.

We've seen him be chased by police.

We've seen him win the Heisman.

We've seen him go out in the first round.

We saw him broken in front of us.

We saw him run DN for the scout team in Carolina.

We saw him go sent over to the Rams and played on a Thursday night with 36 minutes of studying

the playbook.

And then with Brady, there's never been any sort of humbling.

It's just been, oh, I'm here.

Oh, I'm the best.

I went through Subs.

Then I went through Subs after that.

And then I'm the perfect guy.

It's funny.

The one who comes from privilege is the seventh rounder.

It's just a funny thing to look back on and see like...

Baker's first overall pick.

It's weird.

When you think about how quarterbacks are made in this sport and how we don't actually know, right?

Like we can have an argument just last week about, so hold on a second, who's better?

Is it Brock Purdy who was Mr.

Irrelevant in the draft?

Or is it Mac Jones who went high in the draft?

Who's better?

Oh, it's whoever plays with Shanahan the longest is the one who's going to get to be better.

Okay, that's how it works.

Thank you you for teaching us that.

It's an interesting thing to learn that way.

Belichick wanted to trade Garoppolo over to Shanahan.

They've got something figured out over there.

Belichick, not the smartest guy anymore.

We've all seen it stripped.

Brady won.

He takes the credit.

Kraft tells the story.

Belichick is running around the earth, embarrassing himself at the end of his career.

Has no chance against these teams.

Mike Lombardi, game passed him by, sending apology letters.

Everyone mocking him for not knowing what actual pros looked like because they didn't get any of them and North Carolina's not playing top-tier football.

Belichick's thing ends in disgrace where

they're saying as a university, we're not going to celebrate Drake May because they're rebuilding it in New England without us.

Oh, it's going to be Vray Bull and it's going to be Drake May and they just knocked off the bills.

No word from North Carolina.

How small is that as an ending for Belichick?

Brady's not going to lose at the end here and neither is Kraft, but Belichick loses all the way to the grave.

Like, just that everything that was built.

He's winning at some aspects.

One, yeah, one aspect.

That's young.

That's winning.

To trade it all for disgrace, though?

Like, because what I thought that was royalty.

I thought that that was genius that knew no bounds.

I thought that that knew more about how to win than all the other people trying to compete at how to win.

And now, no?

Like, professional football over money is being played in college, and the old men have been left out I mean I just saw James Franklin run out of the sport this weekend like that's one of the highest paid coaches in the game he just lost to 0-4 UCLA that never happens to a real program that never happens that's a never thing lose to 0-4 when you're a top when you're a top program in the country also it's not a normal thing for the 0-4 team to have a quarterback that held his college football playoff team hostage over an NIL package.

It's just a very strange time.

Bill Belichick's got to struggle with it.

Hopefully, he realizes he's getting smacked in the mouth right now.

Hopefully, he realizes he's not smarter than everybody else.

And, oh, I need to get dudes.

This isn't about scouting.

James Franklin, though, that one's a weird one.

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I want to talk about the college football of the weekend because I love that Washington, Maryland game.

I love the K-State Baylor game.

But before I do that, can you guys just tell me how many touchdowns DeMarcado has in his career?

Because I was not familiar with this person's work before yesterday.

And this is my fault, not his, because I don't mean to call him a nobody.

He's just not somebody whose name I associated with touchdowns, even though on this particular play he carried the ball 70 yards.

He was forced to step up last week, or two weeks ago, in Thursday night football and made a big play.

He has in his career three total touchdowns, seeing the playing time because of the terrible injury situation that Arizona has in their backfield.

And James Connor is out, and

the difference between the Cardinals mattering this season and being like the difference between, what, three and one?

Yeah, it's all field goals.

That's all their losses.

They're out, Connor.

They're They're out Trey Benson.

DiMorcado was always going to be the backup.

Michael Corder actually flashed quite nicely for Arizona yesterday, but no,

it's a bad, it's a bad situation.

How much national shame?

This is not the same.

The Colts rebounded from Mitchell doing this at the goal line.

The Colts lost a heartbreaker.

Let's think about what we're talking about here when we do these examinations of these teams, okay?

The Broncos, the Broncos just beat Philadelphia, a team that could not beat beaten 20 of 21 times, went into Philadelphia to do it with Sean payton saying oh i'm down 17 16 i'm going for two here don't care about everything you've got going on champion philadelphia i'm not going for the tie here and they didn't play a clean game but the last couple of weeks are concerning because this is a team very strange season all right they're a team that is built to hold on to leads better than anybody else in the league and these second halves have been the eagles could be 0-5 that sport is super weird the broncos are a couple of bounces from being 5-0 and sean payton going into philadelphia and doing with Bo Nicks what I now ask all of you.

So, who is it?

Is it the coaches or is it the quarterbacks?

Okay, because Bo Nicks, I saw him play for a long time, and I didn't think Bo Nicks was this.

Sean Payton has made something in Denver that can walk into Philadelphia and do what nobody does.

And because it wasn't the late game, because it wasn't Buffalo and New England, and because we will get bored with droning excellence, even if you're winning, like we will, even if it's 20 games in Philadelphia and you get to win all the time, we'll throw in.

Yeah, let me figure out, oh, A.J.

Brown's not happy.

Oh, Saquon's not getting enough carries.

Jalen Hurts doesn't throw interceptions at home.

That team is just meant to be a bunch of cement mixers that go down the field and churn up your bodies until you limp through retirement.

They're just

11 cement mixers going down the field, and

Saquon's thighs are bigger than all of your players.

And Jalen Hurts squats, you know, whatever, 7,000 pounds.

That's funny.

And then it's the lion standing in their way.

Dan Campbell saying, okay, bing.

And a dude in the corner with cigarettes tucked under his sleeve.

All right.

All right.

Let's talk about this for a second, okay?

Let's talk about that because Kansas City is playing Jacksonville tonight.

And I've want, look, I want to believe in Jacksonville.

It's a big one, Dan.

There is a huge game for this show.

Jacksonville, athletically, I watched them and they just drop the ball and they do dumb shit.

But you're not going to convince me that Jacksonville does not have every bit at home on Monday night, playing what is an enormous game against a Kansas City team that's ready to be doubted.

You will not convince me that Jacksonville cannot athletically show you something today to America that hasn't been watching Jacksonville because it's coming out of grainy land over there that smells like paper mills still, even though it was 20 years ago.

I know it was 20 years ago.

And now Worthy's hurt.

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You may get to be right about the Chiefs again, the way that you were, by the way, about Darren Waller.

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So Darren Waller is another one of these ridiculous physical freaks like Philadelphia's got one and Goddard.

They just don't use him that much.

They've used him a couple times the last couple of weeks.

You remember he got that underhand pass?

Your Waller takes, by the way, have completely erased your Belichick is going to be a beast in North Carolina.

Well, no, I'll tell you one that's an all-time loser for me.

You mentioned this.

I was thinking about this this weekend as I see Brady try and claw with the end of his career on how do I protect my brand, what Nick Saban has done is an all-time L for me

in being a very vigorous public critic of him when he came to dabble in professional ball.

And there's a documentary coming about on this soon and I express my remorse and regret in it as well.

Nick Saban had a deal with Wayne Hizenga that if he didn't like it in the pros, he could could just go back.

It's how Hizenga got him.

And it's the reason Hizenga was never mad at Nick Saban for leaving the Dolphins because he said, I'll try it for a year.

He didn't like it.

What Nick Saban has done with the last 25 years of his career to now go into broadcasting, to go and get real power and influence within the NIL game to get out at the perfect time at Alabama.

What just happened to Belichick is the ego of him not knowing what Nick Saban already knew, which is, no, I've been in this game.

You ain't coming down here with Mike Lombardi

you and Mike Lombardi aren't gonna know that I no no no no no no you're not that much you and Charlie you and Charlie Weiss were not that much smarter than everybody they seem to think so Lombardi talked a lot about this conference and the coaches in it and about how their program was gonna be a lot better from the jump you need dudes but Sabin also left on his own terms which Belichick didn't so like Belichick left coaching or left the Patriots with a bad taste in his mouth.

So, he wanted to kind of change his ending to coaching, where Nick Saban kind of got to choose his ending in coaching.

But, do you guys realize this stuff, this stuff is interesting when I watch what Deion and Michael Irvin are doing with their media legacies over the last, you know, they've been as famous in retirement as they were during play?

Again, it was mentioned by Billy earlier, but Mike's media legacy kind of

towards the end.

Sideways.

Agreed, I'm just talking as nicely and probably unjustly so.

I have my regret already from an hour ago saying that Michael Irvin should be the mascot for the University of Miami because there are some details there that are ugly.

And flaws and all has always been the thing that has been in Miami something that at the very least is authentic.

But when you talk about Belichick and his legacy at the end here, There is literally no precedent for what it is that we're witnessing happen to this man in North Carolina.

He is disgracing himself with what all of us thought was, which is he is smarter than everyone else and the legacy and the resume prove it.

In all the competing that Brady, him and Kraft and the Kraft family do in the last, I don't know, 10 years, the Krafts can sit here and say more credibly than Belichick can, hey, organizations win, Bill.

Organizations win.

And Brady would say, no, I won.

I won because Tampa was a laughingstock.

But the Patriots have rebuilt it.

Like, that's unusual to go, Jared Mayo.

Okay, you'll be the guy who's the sacrificial lamb after the guy.

Let's drag you out of here.

Let's get you out of here in a hurry and get a first-round pick.

Two, four and twelve seasons.

All right, we're back, MVP.

We got Drake May.

Now let's see what the next five years look like.

He looks good.

The Pelichek thing is so confusing because I know he wants to get back to the pro game.

Everyone knows this.

And he was always the guy that was like, keep the distractions away, Patriot away.

No distractions.

And the thing that is standing in his way is totally manufactured by he and his camp like and it makes everything

the lack of success is one thing everyone could understand if it wasn't a circus everyone can understand that there's an adjustment period getting into the acc when you haven't been a college guy in this new unprecedented time where everyone's trying to figure out

davo's having a hard time no but the worst place though this is the worst place where Belichick will get swallowed.

There will be not time.

There won't be time to repair this.

He could have just been quiet.

He could have loved whoever he wanted to love and just been quiet.

And he'd eventually get his path back to the league.

And now

over the last few months, I think someone's going to take a chance on the go.

I don't know, dude.

He might be done.

He might be done.

He hasn't.

What does he prove?

What does he prove?

He might end up down here.

We can all agree.

He's hurt his chances with this North Carolina thing and the ensuing circus.

The precedent that I'm speaking of, okay, because I do want to stop for a moment and be truly awed by it.

Because whatever it is that you guys think of America's greatest leaders through sports, through time, Don Shula, Vince Lombardi,

whatever it is you thought greatness looked like because those people had a way to greatness none of us understood, Belichick was that,

and now, at the end, has been left behind by an assortment of things that include

your scheming and advantage isn't as great as the others have because their players are better than yours, because they're not inhibited by a salary cap to equalize things, because all of these advantages at this mercenary level are going to leave you stripped naked on a front porch for all the world to see that you're not a genius.

You're just a guy leaving an apartment.

And we knew it was you.

We knew from the shape of your body.

We knew it was you back then.

And we said, that looks too much remarkably like Delichek to not be him.

And then it all

fought.

Think about this for a second.

That's like Vince Lombardi doing that.

I want you guys to imagine at Alabama, go ahead and imagine at Alabama, Bear Bryant on a ring.

Bear Bryant leaving.

This guy taught Saban everything he knew.

Sabin did it.

You think Saban would get caught doing that?

Hamas.

It'd be funny if Miss Terry was following him out the door, though.

It is crazy.

We're in agreement.

We're in agreement that the enjoyment that that team, the worst part of what's happened to him there is the following.

Because everything's been so sped up, Bill, that's the four games you got.

Those are the, that's the grace period.

Deion had to do it in a year.

Like,

Cristobal's got three years to do it.

You got to do it.

Oh, this is what it looks like the first year.

Oh, no, you're not competitive all.

And also, North Carolina, no longer interesting.

Zero interest.

Clearly, well behind everyone else.

That is not, that's minor league football in minor league football.

That is not a top program.

Period.

End of story.

We can close the book on that.

I got to think he knows now what it's about.

I think he's a little behind the eight ball in that he thought he could scout his way.

to it a little bit.

And I think he knows immediately it's not all about that.

There is like a scouting network in eval.

Look, Miami's doing it with some true freshmen that weren't like the highest rated guys.

There's some of that too at play.

North Carolina has the budget to fix this.

North Carolina has the resources to just be like, we're going to attack the portal.

We're going to attack the high school recruiting.

It's just he kind of wasted a year and he looks bad in doing so.

He's getting embarrassed and there is nothing that is in the gossip sphere that remotely reminds us of who this guy was when he was a pro.

Belichick was okay good in the early days evaluator, but the last couple times, the last maybe what, 10, 15 years of the draft, like what has shown you that he's just

from

the evaluations that hit?

So, this is the most interesting part of this to me as someone who will concede on the front end and must, as we all must, oh, these people know millions and millions and millions of times more about what they do for a living than we do.

And we'll dissect every part of it, and we'll say, eh, his quarterback was better.

They devote their life to this, and Bill Belichick has for a long time believed that he is smarter than everyone else because they had a quarterback who won all the games, and we were convinced was because of the military discipline of the Patriot Way that can harbor a murderer and survive it and keep winning championships because whatever.

They ruled football because they were smarter than everyone else.

But then Brady won as soon as he left and went through Mahomes, Rogers, and somebody else on the road in order to do it.

Like, who was it?

It was Mahomes, Rogers.

It was a holy trinity.

Brady went on the road.

Breeze.

I think Breeze was on that path.

He ended all the quarterbacks on his way out.

Like, he took all the winning with him.

And this is what's left.

Like, it's an all-time fall from grace it has there will there will be no time in recorded sports history where you'll be able to find this happening to somebody where they get unmasked oh you weren't a general who was smarter than everyone else you were charlie weiss in a different uniform if the story ends right now yeah probably but it would be a footnote I mean, you get some separation from it.

Everyone's going to.

No, of course it's going to be a footnote.

You should probably rename the Lombardi Trophy after him.

He's one of the greatest to ever do it.

No, but you guys understand what I'm saying, though.

Yeah, Yeah, he can have all the trophies and he can and will get forever more greatest ever.

No one can ever change that.

But we all now know and it's like, ooh, you showed us, you showed us that it wasn't actually that he was smarter than everyone else.

Like it's an unmasking that.

Yeah, without Tom Brady as his quarterback, his record reflects that of Dave Wonstadt, not the greatest of all time.

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Bood ball.

Football.

Football.

Football.

Football.

Stugats.

This is the Dan Levatar show with these two guys

Think about what you just said

I did I mean come on

It's pretty crazy.

Now, he gets credit for developing Tom Brady.

He found Tom Brady.

He and his team found Tom Brady.

They developed him because remember what Tom Brady was at the start of his career?

He was a guy that was winning really on the back of that Bill Belichick defense.

He does deserve credit for that.

Can we do the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

Because there's no more reason to talk about North Carolina football until next season.

I think I'd take Dave Wanstadt back right now for the Dolphins.

Like, if you could assure me, like, a Dave Wansted-type run from the early 2000s, would you guys not take that?

Billy, what's funny in retrospect is that Dave Wanstead was run out of town for going 11-5 and 10-6 every year, but he was doing it because he was just burning up Ricky Williams for 400 carries a season.

And then they didn't win any playoff games with him either.

Like, they'd go 10-6 and 11-5, but they'd get to the playoffs and they didn't have a quarterback.

19 yards yesterday on the ground.

How?

How?

The Dolphins cannot run the ball, and every single team in the league will run for 300 yards on them.

Mike McDaniel copped to them not being fully prepared for that.

I saw Zaz like, well, then if that's the case, fire him.

He looked like a broken man walking into the locker room.

He took his glasses off.

He took his glasses off.

He was walking in.

Where are you guys on this?

They were up 17-0 in the game.

They lose to Carolina on the road.

The season is over.

Even Greg Cody, Greg Cody's done.

He finally wrote the column.

Yes, i i great did chris did you read your father's column greg cody has arrived he's gonna be mad if you guys if he comes in here tomorrow and you guys didn't read this column where he he has bailed on the dolphins i wonder what that column looked like when they were up 17-0.

I feel like they thought.

That's what I was thinking about.

I'm like, God damn it.

My dad's going to come in here this week and say, I was right.

Told you they'd be two and three.

They thought they won that game and they just kind of tried to coast to the end.

and then somehow thought like, oh, we're just going to have a game-winning drive.

And then they did seem to have a game-winning drive.

And then Bryce Young had two game-winning drives.

And then they decided to punt it on fourth down with like a minute and 40 seconds left.

Sometimes you just run into Rico Dowdle.

It was fourth and 17.

Yeah, it was fourth and 17, but they couldn't stop them all game long, and they only had two timeouts.

Like, you knew you weren't going to get that ball back.

Mike Ryan doesn't want me to be right on the Miami Dolphins.

Have a historically bad defense that you will see over the course of this season.

It's not me.

It's a Ravens.

It's all the defenses that are worse in the league.

CJ Stroud, you think you're going to be able to do that?

I'm sorry.

The Ravens were watching that game along.

All right, we got to top this.

We got to give 50 points to CJ Stroud.

What I want you to do before the end of the season is disprove me when this becomes a defense that puts up statistics that you've never seen from a Dolphin defense because they can't get off the field against anybody.

Not him, not 10 yards of carry.

They had two backup offensive linemen.

It was confusing.

Their edge rushers were doing the thing I thought they would do during the season, but

they're still so bad.

Do you guys understand the predicament that we're in, Billy?

Surely you understand this.

The way the championships are won now, it's Sirianni and Dan Campbell.

It's flex of muscle.

It's we're going to run the ball on you, and you're not going to be able to stop our pass rush.

Even the plays we make.

Bradley Chubb, they just handed him that.

That was a great play.

That was a great play.

That was a great play.

I'm waiting for someone to do that to Ruben Bain.

Just drop the ball.

You can have it.

If we want to look at the positive, admittedly, this week's a test against the Chargers, but the Chargers have dropped two in a row.

All right.

So they're kind of coming in.

This is going to be a Who Wants It More game.

Then you got the Browns, Dylan Gabriel.

I mean, I don't know how we felt about him yesterday.

That's a moment.

It's a moment.

We'll see what happens.

They're Falcons.

We don't know what they are.

Chris, let's do funny things.

And the Ravens, that looked like a game you were sure they would lose.

That's the funniest thing from the sports weekend, Chris.

Hey, people.

Fellows, what in the sport made you laugh hard this

I've got the Yankees.

That's a good one.

I'm going to go with the Bills fan that caught a pass from Josh Allen, put the ball under his shirt, and just started sprinting up to run away.

Because why do they...

They should let the fans keep those balls.

Like, what are we doing here?

It's a little weird.

I don't understand that.

I think it's because nowadays teams, like, prep their balls.

So, like, that off, like, we've been prepping that that ball give us like i don't like that rule yeah the whole the whole football thing it's a it's a little militaristically weird you'd agree right like that our footballs are precious things only certain people can have them no fan can run off with it it's got microchips no one can deflate gate you remember what we did to craft and ted wells it cost us five million dollars never again we can't play the sound but tarico did like play-by-play of the guy taking off it's like there he goes up the concourse and he's out of here He had a plan, like from the beginning.

Like, if I ever catch a ball, I'm sprinting out of here because there was like no time to And the security at the top kind of glanced at him and was just like, go ahead, man.

I don't give a shit.

You think if they can tell where the microchip is in the ball, they can tell where the microchip is at your house.

Well, let me ask you a question.

But is that thievery or is that person now?

Does that person now have a souvenir?

Is something that is protected by the football military that is not allowed to get outside the stadium?

Does he now have something that would sell at a local pawn shop?

Did he run out of there with $30,000?

Like, is that?

I think it was the second quarter.

Did that guy just leave?

Yeah.

But did he just win the lottery of I catch a football and I run out the concourse.

I can sell this famous football for X number of dollars, vastly more than what I paid to get in here.

Wow, isn't it famous?

It was an incompletion, way out of the back of the end zone.

What are those footballs worth when they're so protected about you're not allowed to run out of the stadium with them?

My funniest thing from the weekend is Saturday's Lightning Panthers game, which saw 322 pony minutes.

It was a

funny thing.

So, Roy, I steamrolled you there.

What are the funniest parts of a brawl that, again, if I made it happen in football yesterday, everyone would be arrested and entire football team would be desecrated publicly

because you're not ⁇ this was a full-on riot that was disguised as a hockey game.

There were so many game misconducts in that game that nobody noticed that Nico Mikola, who had a game misconduct a couple of minutes earlier, got an assist on a power play goal, which was then stripped.

They're like, wait, he was supposed to be ejected.

That goal doesn't count.

I love it.

Chaos.

That was five minutes later, by the way.

Because it was a riot.

Because that's not...

What's he still doing here?

That's not professional sport.

He kills a guy.

How are we...

So two-time champions makes it so that we don't understand the absurdity of this sport.

That if right now I played this baseball game and I had all of these players having all of these fights, there would be arrests.

A basketball game, if I did this, this is not...

When's the last time a game had this many penalty minutes?

Any game, any any time yeah

senators panthers every time they play every time they play

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You do understand that the Eagles and Lions are playing a primitive brand of football.

And

it's funny that in the space age of modern offense, you can't trust Dylan Gabriel to throw a ball 15 yards downfield.

But these two...

You know what the device is I was thinking of?

The farm machine.

What is the biggest of the farm machines?

Because cement mixer doesn't really work.

Like a big plow?

No, but

something that eats up wheat, something giant.

Like a hay baler?

I like it being described as a farm machine.

Yeah.

Cement machine.

You do this with a two-chip

farm machine.

Are you talking about a tractor?

What are we talking about?

I'm talking about cement chips.

That's like the big thing that runs through the grain and like.

Does my guy just call a tractor a farm machine?

Cement mixer.

It's not just a tractor.

It feels to me like there is something that is larger that runs through hay or runs through cornfields that isn't merely a tractor.

Oh, a farm machine.

No, it's a wood chipper.

Chris was asking if a wood chip.

Sometimes like lawn guys, you see him throwing a tree and all of a sudden it's getting shrubs and I'm not doing lawns though.

I'm doing the great outdoors and I'm doing something that has to

be

something that has to butcher a fields and like a corn hedge

or front folding brain drill.

All right, so this is what I'm saying to you.

This is my analysis of the Lions and the Eagles.

Tell me if there's a third team you put in here as I tell you that the Lions are averaging more points per game for two seasons than anyone since the 1941 bears

give me the third team that plows like a farm machine through the american terrain of real estate acquisition give me give me the third team that you put in this class of category because i thought the ravens were that with their physical defense and it took a month for john harbaugh to get exposed zaz over here has been telling us for the last five weeks that jim harbaugh is better than even Belichick is the greatest coach ever.

And then I see, oh, no, but if you have Jaden Daniels, no, that kind of

changes everything.

It kind of changes whether you're good at your defense or not.

My funniest thing was Michael Irvin taking a belt to a brick wall, but now it's Dan saying farm machines.

I think you're thinking about a John Deere T6800 Combine.

Combine machine.

A farm machine farm machine.

That's the farm machines farm machine.

Thank you.

Look at those cement.

That right there.

That is them.

That is.

The Eagles' offensive line right there, Dan.

Which one's the one?

That's Manda Dickerson.

Which one's Penne Sewell?

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I mean to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Light as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

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