Transcript of Hour 2: Left Field Le Batard (feat. Edgerrin James & Billy Corben)

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Ab jetzt, HBO Max. This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stugatz podcast. I haven't I felt physically, energetically, what I'm feeling right now in the room with me since nick Wright and Pablo Torre were in a room together because I've got Billy Corbin and Greg Cody here. They are rivals, historically, but also Mike Ryan is a lot angrier at Billy than Greg Cody has ever been. Greg, what is the history between you and Billy Corbin before we ratchet up this tension here? Because Mike is hostile. To begin this particular week with Billy to start there aggressively when you are the historian above all historians about UM football, you have made the most beautiful things on behalf of Miami that are complicated. Rock on Tour, your business is one of the few Miami businesses that makes excellent things. We were talking about this yesterday. It's Burger King, it's Picardi, it's Rock on Tour. Mike Ryan doesn't want you to make a You Part 3 for Metalark Media because he thinks you're a Juan come lately when it comes being a fan of this football team?

I was just happy that they spelled my name right in the Billy Corbin episode. But listen, the difference between Mike and I is that I'm a fan and he's a fanatic. I think that... First of all, I was born a fan. My grandfather graduated the University of Miami Law School 75 years ago. I was born a seasoned ticket holder. But I still can see the forest for the trees, and I think I still have the perspective of a journalist where I have a little bit of objectivity, and I could call balls and strikes to mix sports metaphors. Whereas Mike is... I mean, Carson Beck could shoot somebody in Fifth Avenue, and Mike would still make excuses for him. He's a fanatic, and I appreciate it. I respect everything he's done for the program.

Beck derangement syndrome?

I respect everything he's done for the school and for the program. It disappoints me someone that doesn't respect what I've done for the school and the program.

Mike Ryan has been working for four years to try to get to Miami here, and you've been making John Ruiz jokes for four years.

Listen, I'm sorry about his uncle. Well, actually, I'm not sorry. Sorry, I'm not sorry about his uncle, John.

That sounded so insincere. I'm sorry about his uncle.

What I'm seeing is I cold it like I saw it. That's all. I don't think I was that far off about it either. You were totally off base.

The money was legit. You can make fun of him being delisted. John Ruiz won, all right? He's still helping. He gave Miami a leg up. And while you were laughing and along the way, he actually put in place a template that allowed for Miami to get here four years later. I know what you think of the man- Glossed over delisted.

He glossed right over that, by the way.

You keep saying delisted as if that's a big fat L for him. The guy made his money. He made his money, and the money was legit. And let me tell you something, he put those kids to work. All right? Those kids were doing ads. Those contracts were fully executed. You thought it was a joke. You thought he was a joke. Four years later, Miami is here. All right? Well, you were doing your whole sarcastic, The U is back, baby. The U is back.

The U is back.

You did that this season, too. I was right there right now. You did it after the SMU loss. I know exactly who you are in your bona fides as you were somehow born a seasoned ticket holder. You didn't add charlatan because that is what you are, a charlatan.

Oh, how so?

Jezebel.

I've never heard you speechless.

No, I'm curious how I'm a charlatan.

You You weren't with us when shit was rough. You were laughing at us. You were putting the boots to us. Everybody was having their turn, and you were teeing off just like the rest of them, and you were one of us.

There still was never, never, for all these years, I think, a recruiting tool or a bigger way to support this team than those documentaries. Like I said, I appreciate what you've done for the program. Thank you. It disappoints me that you don't see That what we contributed. The crew on the first You documentary had a combined 45 years at the University of Miami. No, it was good. It was a labor of love. It was a long time ago. I agree. It was a long time ago that this team won anything before this season.

Yeah, you made sure to remind everybody at every turn.

I don't think that I reminded anybody of that. I think that the documentaries did.

You're doing the thing. Dan did this, too, where I feel like I can be a journalist and look at this objectively. No one wants that from you guys. I'm not asking for it from you. You think there's a big market for, Hey, Billy Corbin calls it like he sees them when it comes to his football team?

No one cares. There is no market, particularly in this town, for telling the truth. No one cares. That is an absolute fact. In Miami, we do not have reality. We have realty, and that's the way that... And I get that- Please, spare me the T-shirts. I get that.

Don't do that. Billy. That's a sunny place for shady people.

Billy, you went to one of the old hits, and we've heard those too long.

I don't care about it. I appreciate you being appreciative of what I have done. But here's what I would like to hear, Billy Corbin. Hard truth or hard truth, Dan. Here's what I would like to hear from you. An apology. An apology for laughing at your own brothers and sisters that repped the green and orange. We turn to you as a guy that made the greatest piece of art in arguably sports collegiate history. For sure art. Yes, for sure. It was high art. It was a recruiting tool. It's all the things that you said. It's also a very long time ago. You've had a heel turn since then, pal. You don't think it's art?

You don't think that you made a love letter to the University of Miami.

I was teasing. I'm partial to the U part, too.

But it was art. He's asking for an apology from you, though. We were boys.

Absolutely not. You were the man when it came to the U. You were looked up to. And then something happened. Maybe it was Jaron Williams. I don't know. But you turned your back on us somewhere along the way.

As a fan, you can appreciate the team and the good things, and you can also appreciate and call out when shit isn't going right. And I want to go and watch a game and enjoy it and go home. I don't want to move in and hang out in a locker room like you do with a bunch of naked men. That's not my thing. I thought you were an ally.

That's not you. That's not you. No, what you're describing What you're describing is player hate from the sideline?

That is what you're describing.

You're a player hateing from the sideline. You just wanted to make fun of them, and you had an opportunity to help the program once again.

Oh, I never- Once again, you could help out the program.

Look, and I- Never hated the player. An ability get in the game yourself and actually turn this around. And now the whole thing's turned around and you've had nothing to do with it and you're trying to come around here and clout chase and be a glory Hunter? How dare you, Billy Corbin? How dare you?

That part, that's not fair. I invited him here. He's a shitster. You said Joey- I knew what you were doing. You said that you said, I'm a shitster. You said Joey Galloway was a shitster. You said worse than that about Joey Galloway today.

What's the matter with you? He doesn't want the smoke. Joey Galloway gaslights. Do we want to pay attention to Joey Galloway? Real quick. Joey Galloway, for weeks on end, said Miami did not deserve to be in over Notre Dame, that Notre Dame was a lot better than Miami. And now when the smoke has reached Joey Galloway, he's like, I was just talking about process.

I never said anything about the years. He's a fraud. He owes us a race. He says he could still run fast. He promised us he could. We tried to set it up at ESPN. Who do these people hate me? The only thing he did fast was run scared from his promises.

Look, I would also be confused as to why Miami people hate you If that were the actual case and you were only talking about the process, you were saying Miami wasn't good enough. That's why Miami people hate you.

Fony Baloney, Galloway.

I already explained why Miami people hate you.

All right, so, Corbin, this is not the only problem that you have in the room. Cody, what is the history of your beef with Billy Corby.

I don't think it's quite as vital as this beef. This is wonderful. This is a great, genuine, ongoing current beef. No, Billy, he's a little bit of a self-appointed policeman of morality. He wants to set the template for how everybody else should think. Back in the day, I supported the Miami Marlins getting a new stadium with public funding. It was a great deal for the Marlins, the way it turned out, through no fault of my own.

You conspired with Samson to outrage Billy Corbin because journalism was in bed with, I want a good team. I don't care what it costs. Please bilk Miami in order to do it.

I don't support I'm a local politicians, and I don't support team owners. I do support fans and the audience and people who read me and listen to me. I want Major League Baseball to succeed in this town. The only way it was going to do that was with a new stadium.

You were right. This beef is more boring.

I would agree. He's a sports welfare queen. I'm a one-issue voter.

The stirring shit goes wrong.

He's a sports welfare queen. That's all.

That's my only beef. The job is up to local politicians to make sure they don't get screwed by the local team.

I also don't much care about morality or how people think. I can only express my thoughts and my opinions on it. I don't think also that being a sports columnist is actually journalism. Oh, Oh, boy. Particularly, particularly. Greg, you heard that? Particularly, particularly.

At least he's not being an asshole about it.

Particularly when you write the same column. Oh, my God. Identical column, 10 years apart, making the same argument about the Melrice Stadium as you did about the Marlin Stadium when you already have the information on the... We already learned. We already touched the stove and we've already been burned.

We're the only ones that can make fun of him of repurposing columns. Not you.

Okay. Also, by the way, I'm working on my Fifth Cocaine Cowboys documentary.

That we're interested in.

Everything else, no, we don't like anything else. We like the coke stuff.

What I'm seeing is all of us repeat the shit that we do well the first time. But Greg, you just admitted that you didn't do it well the first time. You didn't call it right the first time because it turned out to be a good deal for the Marlins and not for the tax payment.

No, I never admitted that I didn't call it right the first time. What I said was the responsibility- Is he happy? No.

Anybody else have a problem with Billy Corbin?

The responsibility is on local politicians not to get screwed by the local team.

The part that I'm offended by, and all of you let slide, all of you let slide. I've invited Billy Corbin here because he makes the best things, and I want to see the You part 3. I want us to debut that together.

You make That's one of the best things. Did you watch Dominio?

I want our audience to support the things that Billy is, and Rock and Tour is just one of them. Hard pass.

Up there with Picardi and Burger King.

That was why. Yeah, very firm pass for me. I'm a no. I'll RSVP, though, so you can take catalog of it.

What do you think of the best businesses in the history of Miami? It's slim picking. Miami doesn't do business very well. In terms of presenting us to the world- You won't find a single soul that says Rock on Tour.

Have you heard of Lyon Medical Center's Dan?

That's right. I know this guy has Brightline.

I understand that no one would say Rock on Tour, but in terms- Have you heard of Pinecrest Bakery, Dan? Okay, I would argue. I don't think it's unreasonable to say, Present Miami to the World. Very few people have ever done that better than Billy Corbin. That's not... You're not allowed. And Mike Ryan. You're not allowed to dispute that. Present Miami to the World?

Pitbull. Pitbull. Mr. Worldwide. Gloria Estefan?

Yes, okay, fine.

The Miami Sound Machine.

Miami I'm not going to put it on the vice. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is Pitbull more Miami than Billy Corbin? That's fair.

Yes. I missed her 786. He's Mr. 305.

Thank you, Chris.

You're off base here, Dan. The game show is delightful.

Why are you keeping up for this guy. He sucks. I could tell you live on the beach.

You're not a Miami guy.

You're a beach guy. Are you a South of fifth? What are you doing? Are you a South of fifth?

I want the You Part 3 to air on Monday on our YouTube channel before the national championship game. How would that happen? That's my end game.

It's a big game for you. Who are you going for?

Speaking to the mic. That's the thing about a fan. We only have one team.

So it's Indiana?

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You want the University of Miami to win, correct?

Oh, are you kidding? I mean, it's like dueling fairytales. I mean, it's one of the greatest narratives, I think, in the history of college sports is the Miami- Go on. The Mario Cristobal of it all, the breaking of the Fiesta Bowl curse, the coming home for a national championship. And of course, when I say dueling fairytales, there's the Mendoza, of it all as well. I don't know that there's any better story, certainly. And the fact that the Miami Hurricanes have had a rise, a rise and a rise. They've had three rises since the Miami Dolphins have done a damn thing, it shows that there's only one football team in South Florida, and it's always been the case. I don't know. I just think as a storyteller and as a Miamiian and as a fan, I can't think of a more extraordinary story than this.

And you're sorry.

And the U is back, baby.

The U is back, baby.

The U is back. Minor penalty, two minutes. Peste tremenda come a mierda.

Go sit in the penalty box, Corbin. Peste tremenda come Come in. Get out of here. I will replace you with someone more Miami than you. Edge James. Me? You suck, Billy. Yeah. Let's see here. From the back. Yes. No, Mike. Again? Mike, again. Again, from the back.

I mean, in my defense, I hate him. Oh.

And so does Cody.

I just dislike him vehemently. I wouldn't say it quite goes to hatred.

What are the stages of this? Hate is strong. What are the stages of this?

It's just north of hatred.

Tell him to suck it from the back, It feels good.

Mike, please stop it. He goes, I bet it would. No, I bet it would, Greg.

That's double entendre.

A little rusty trombone.

So, Edgar and James is out there with Sedano and Domino, and it's Tuesday. Apparently, Jeremy won the first game, apparently.

I did.

It That is awesome.

All right. Can we welcome him in here? I'd like to talk to him. He was out there representing Miami, walked onto the field with Ray Lewis. He takes a unique pot. Excuse me. I told you this was happening to me during the holidays. I'm short circuiting. He takes a unique pride in representing Miami when he doesn't take pride in representing many things. He doesn't lend his name to that many things. You know that royalty is walking in here when Hall of Fame, Roger and James, who introduced a new time of Miami's back with what he did against UCLA, beat number one UCLA in the Orange Bowl with... How many yards? Do you remember off the top of your head? Of course he does. In a single game? 299. 299?

He didn't expect to remember.

I I don't know. He seemed to come by it pretty easily the entirety of his career in a way that was a little breathtaking. I remember that he used to, after leading the league in rushing, he would just play basketball games on Sundays after the football games he had already played in because physically an unusual beast. So welcome, sir. I've respected you for a long time. Thank you for making the trek in. You took a flight in for us.

Man, I appreciate it, man. I watched this thing grow, man. It's awesome. This thing is big time.

As are you, sir. What pride are you feeling these days in your school and what other things in life over the course of the history of being Edger and James give you the pride that you have in this particular school?

Oh, man, it's great, man. You watched everything develop. For years, we always say, Man, if we can just keep South Florida talent here. And Mario understood the assignment. Mario, Keep the South Florida talent here, and everything else will take care of itself. And you look at these guys right now, they're playing South Florida ball, and that's what Miami Hurricans was always about. You're keeping Florida talent here, and everybody going playing with a chip on their shoulder. And now these boys, they've taken that history and not just ride the wave. They're creating their own legacy.

Have you had a historical comp for Malikai Tony in the history of the program? The University of Miami guys argue about who were the best four guys in their history, and you've got an argument to be in that fight. Malakai That guy, Tony, is unlike any player I've seen in the uniform. I know Kevin Williams, I know Santana Moss, I know Devon Hester, but what this is, I haven't seen at 18 years old, 17 years old with braces.

That's special. That's a special kid. He's coming in very humble. He's special. He's doing what he's supposed to do. Now, just finish it and enjoy it. You got to make sure that you enjoy the whole moment. There's one thing to get out there. A lot of times we make the comparison. We say, Okay, he reminds you a lot of Santana, but he can throw that ball. He can throw that ball. So he brings another element to every other person we try to compare him to. But he's doing something special. And the good thing is, man, he stayed home.

Mike was saying that he would be fine with Malikai Tony being the quarterback next year.

He wasn't even joking. If Miami whips in the portal, I'm good with what we have in the roster and Lina and Mally under center. I mean, this is a really cool story. And Edge probably knows. He was nicknamed Baby Jesus, and it was given years ago. This is a prophecy fulfilled, and this is people's His eyes not lying to them because I know he was only a three-star. But if you watched South Florida football, high school football, you know the legend of Baby Jesus, and you know that this guy was a gamer. And to see him do it right away, it's not surprising anybody that watched him in high school.

Yeah, I wouldn't want him as a quarterback, but he can play. That's the one element that we have that I don't think anybody else in college football has, that he can actually play, he actually throw. A lot of times you see another position get the quarterback position in the backfield, you can think automatic run or handoff. With him, everything's on the table.

I think he went 15 to 15 in a state championship game.

Yeah, but I still want to see the ball in his hands. We need to get a quarterback that can put the ball in his hands because that's going to be so much. It's going to help us so much more.

The block out huddle around Washington. On to the next.

I want to, and you've always been good at this, I want to pin you down, though, on the idea of best ever at the school because we always do these comparisons, and you don't really like to do them, right? Because it puts you in a position where you'd have to say you're the best running back when you're proud of all the running backs that came after you. You don't do very much of that verbally. So when I ask you historical comp for that player? I don't think there is one. I don't think the school has had any number of playmakers, but not this one this way, doing it at this age, where you think he could do it for three years. You were similar.

Yeah, I came in I was 17, but I didn't have another year of high school either. But no, this kid doing something that's unheard of. But man, we'll take it. I'm glad he's on our side of the ball.

I would say to you, I don't know if you would remember any of this, but when we talk about how rare it is for the Cubans to be at the top of this game, my friends who were good at Pace High School, which isn't quite Columbus High School, remember thinking they were pretty good at football and then going to play Pahokey, Belglaia, played Amakale, and Edrin James was the running back in the backfield. Do you remember what you did to Pace? Because my friends who were much like Tony were getting run over by Edrin James, and they were scared because there was a grown man in the backfield, and Pace was still high school kids.

Dan, the funny thing is, I told Mike, So Edge is the first time I see you in person, and I look over to Mike, and I'm like, damn, Edge is big. Edge is a big dude. For a running back, your size, your height is Frank is not that big. Willis is not that big. You're a big guy, bro.

Willis is pretty big.

No, but size-wise, you're taller than Willis is.

I don't know. Probably around the same. I don't know. But usually when I come across people, they always look more because the runningbacks are usually like 5, 9, 5, 10. For me, I could have played lineback or safety or a runningback, but it worked out in the runningback position, though.

It seems to have. It's been okay. You don't do much in the way of emotional when I've talked to you over the years. Do you get emotional doing that with Ray Lewis in front of, like summoning Miami pride, going out there for your school because your school matters more than it has in 20 years?

No, everybody do it their own way. Me, Dre, we're more chill. Ray, and then Mike, of course, everybody have their way of doing things, but it all comes together.

All right, can we examine? Can we give Edge, the telestrator, to examine just Mike's way of doing That'll be good. Because this is not how Edge does it here. This is how Mike does it. This is the mascot from Miami. This is Michael Irvin. Yes, this is Michael Irvin, and this is what he said. This is just eight seconds. This is eight seconds of him yelling and screaming. But we have hours and spools of hours of Michael Irvin being the best mascot the University of Miami has ever had.

Mike is great, man. Mike is great. It's fun on the sideline. During on the sideline, if you can take part of those conversations, it'll probably be better than what you all probably think.

Edge, is he actually talking to anybody? He's just making noises and people are picking up on what he's saying, but he's often talking to nobody.

Do what now? Now, they're giving you the telestrator now. Appropriate response. No, thank you. They shouldn't have listened to me. It's okay.

Well, Dan, you threw that in there.

This is the first time we were doing.

We're in too deep, Dan.

We'll cover this in the meeting. Don't listen to Dan.

Write it down. Write this down. This is my fault, Edge, and they shouldn't have listened to me on that one. He hit us with a Greg Cody.

Do what now? I That is a Greg Cody saying.

It was a great response from Edrin.

He's writing that down really quick.

I have an idea from Dan, but it all depends. Let's play the result.

I don't have confidence anymore. I don't have any more confidence in the result. What is he supposed to do? What I wanted visually is to play for Edger and James a longer video of Michael Irvin on the sidelines and to see if I could get any telestrated content from Edger and James where he- Good idea.

That's what- We're all a little confused. That's why you think this is going to go well.

X is an O's on It's a bad decision.

I agreed that it's a bad decision. It's my fault, but- Oh, there he is.

He's taking his belt off. Oh, my.

To the stadium.

Oh, my.

How great is this?

Simulating child abuse, spanking the bum of a child. Where does this rank Edrin James with great college football traditions?

Man, it's new. It's new.

Top five?

We started. I think he raised the bar.

He did. He's been known Dan for a long time. Does he always make it this weird and awkward?

Dan comes. He comes left field sometimes. So he just got to make the proper adjustment. Big left field guy.

He's a huge left field guy.

Loves it. I might feel. A little too much. Dan Levatard. Can someone say a conservative entity?

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Mike, you are excited to be in the presence of Edge and James because you know you're in the presence of royalty. You don't want to talk about the past, though. You want to talk about now. You don't want to talk about the history of the program.

I'm curious Edge's thoughts on that because Dan does this thing where he can't help but talk about the past when we're dealing with the present. Look, it's great that you guys are hanging around the sidelines. I'm sure you do it. You do some mentoring, and that's awesome. But I feel like these kids deserve their own shine, too, because you guys had a memory of the standard. These guys growing up in high school, it was all fairy tales and stories from the past. They haven't actually seen it. They had to buy into a vision for Mario Cristobal that he was selling that they didn't have proof of concept. You guys, you rebuilt the program from the SI article and all that, but you You grew up and you watched those guys. I think these kids deserve so much credit.

No, we give them a lot. That's why we're there. And then for us, I don't think a lot of people really get a chance to understand that we get a chance to be a fan. All your life, you play ball and everybody's coming And now you get a chance to go and cheer for the other guy. You get to cheer for the guy, and then especially a guy that you watch grow up from youth football to high school, and now they're playing for your team. We really love the University of Miami. It's not something where, Hey, we If you want to get out, then it's about us. No, it's about them, but it gives us a chance to be a fan. We really get the chip. We really sit over there and celebrate those kids, and we talk about how great those kids are and those plays. It brings back It brings back memories and everything.

I've been hanging around a lot of the former players. I know you guys take the charter flights out there. It's cool to see the brotherhood. But one thing that really sticks out is how much you guys are actually enjoying this. It's a little bit like, pinch me. I can't believe we get to enjoy this as adults. It's our team. All the guys in the league have been laughing at us. We've been down bad for about 15, 20 years. And to be here, you guys have a smile on your face the entire time because you're thrilled for these kids. But you're also like, Man, we've been taking so many Ls All our colleagues have been making fun of us, and we're finally back to where we belong.

Yeah, they're looking at us like a cowboy's fan or something. Back on the past, we're talking about the '90s or whatever. Now we get a chance to say, Okay, look, this is what we're talking about right here. This is the University of Miami. This is the you that we know. Because over the years, I know we try to get behind the program, but deep down inside, you knew it wasn't Miami football players. You knew it wasn't Miami football, really. But you try to support it, but now you can really feel it because you have one of us at the helm, and we know Mario. Mario, 1998, he's right there with us. He played ball there, so you can really feel it. And it's bringing that whole Miami thing back. So this time it's real.

Well, Edwin, I was going to ask you to elaborate on that because I think it's changed with Mario, right? Has it always been as welcoming for the former stars than it is now? Because it just seems like you guys are out in force now, not because you're front runners, but because you're more welcome than maybe you have been under other head coaches here.

Well, I think it's selective. Now, it's more a collaboration of everybody coming. But before, it was your relationship with whoever's in front and It was picking and choosing. Now it's laid out to where it's like, Hey, this is the University of Miami. This is what makes us stick. And that's one thing that I always have to compliment Mario on. He may make it a point that he want the guys here. He want the guys involved because it was a point where the guys didn't feel like they were welcome. And it affects the program in a way that people don't really see when these guys are mentoring these guys and helping these guys in youth ball, but they have a decision to make, you're not pushing them to the University of Miami because it's not welcoming. That's why I hear a lot of the guys we're talking about in the past. But now it's like, Hey, we need to get him here. And everybody's on board trying to do whatever it take to get any kid that we wanted our school that's a Miami hurricane because it's welcoming. It's making everybody feel like, Hey, this is home.

I didn't just go to this school and I'm an outsider.

You felt that? You felt not welcome in the past?

I said selective. I've always been taken good care of, so I can't say for my personal experience, but I interact with everybody. I interact with all the guys, and that was the feedback. Because the school never, not one time, where it wasn't the situation. That's why I said selective, because it was certain people or certain situations and certain relationships. But now I feel everybody feel included.

Well, the thing that I think that you understand about what was built here is somebody who comes from a region of the country in South Florida that very often is neglected, that you still care about. You actually understand what Mario Cristobal was trying to block when he was trying to block Cortez Kennedy and Jimmy Jones and Russell Maryland, and how insane that human being has to be. For him to have Can you explain to me how that person, undersized, survived, fighting people who were much better than him physically?

Well, it starts with a mentality. Everybody's upbringing shapes them. You can tell Mario, his upbringing shaped them. Then when you get around the guys, the guys give you confidence to actually be bigger than what you are. That's one thing about Miami Hurricanes. We go out there, we're going to have so much confidence. I don't care. Deep down inside, we can think that we can know that the team may be better, but you'll never know it because our confidence is sky high. That's what you see when you see Mario going against those guys because everybody lift each other up. In the practice field, we're going to do one thing, but when it comes to game day, we're all together.

How do you lift up somebody's confidence? Zazla has been broken. You've been killing Zazla for the last hour. I appreciate that you've stayed in the game, given it everything you've got, not talking, but acting the hell out of your last hour. He has not been the same. He's a professional broadcaster. He's very good. This is how he described the end of the Packers-Bears game, the The bears famously won it. The packers famously choked it away. He hadn't spoken for 12 minutes. Here's how he described the game in a question.

The packers win or the bears lose.

And he's been lacking confidence since then. Look at him.

Oh, he chose the packers.

Man, now Edge thinks I'm a sucker.

You are a sucker. Edge, do you think that this is his normal dress? You think he wears this every day?

How do you think of this as a look? He's going for Cuban deal and barbecue doesn't speak for 12 hours? How do you feel as a Miamian? Does he look Cuban to you?

Not the Cubans I've been around.

Talk to him.

First time he's ever worn that hat in his life or no?

It's the chest hair. That's the tell. Right now, he's got no chess hair on that.

Zaz, are you in queue right now to try to get tickets?

Of that, Mike- Zaz is trying to buy tickets right now.

He's literally trying to buy tickets right now. I'm in queue right now.

It's Tuesday. We have a watch along.

Would the gold chain be any smaller?

That hasn't stopped him from asking me.

Actually, that chain- The entire cast of the watch along has hit me up on the side, Hey, trying to get tickets. So, Edrin, I've never seen this before. Legitimately, what's happening with my phone and what's happening with former players-He must be getting it, too. Who can't get tickets. Luther Campbell has already said, Don't ask me for tickets. Stop. Stop. I don't have any tickets. Miami is a big event town. I've never had this happening with my phone. Can you get as many tickets as you want, or how does that work?

No, tickets are limited. They made it real clear. They made it clear that you're not going to be able to get tickets. I really don't understand that it puts us in a bind. But at the same time, we're not going to let that become a distraction because we still got to go out and play the game. And one thing about down in South Florida, we know how to adjust to pretty much anything. I'm quite sure the game watch party, the day parties, those things right there are going to be popping also. So So we're not going to let that become an issue because we got one more game to win.

Jess Green. The players know who to reach out to. It's not a Miami home game. So if any players are confused, Jess Green.

Can I get her email?

You'll Jess is going to be mad at us. That's a hard job. That's a hard job. Jess, her phone is blowing up. I'm not going to call her today, but I'm going to call her tomorrow.

Well, how does this work, though? You can be on the sidelines if you wish to be, and you will be, right?

Yeah, I think it continues from-They have to limit it, though. It's limited, probably. It's probably limited. But as long as they got it, it'll just take it. I'm good, man. I'm quite sure they got the right amount to make our presence felt so we can keep this thing going. We don't need nothing going against what we've been doing in the past couple of weeks.

I'm going to be on the sideland dressed just like this.

How dare you?

We're orange.

Do you know the business of sports. You have learned how hard some of this stuff can be physically. Do you have a sports allegiance? I guess your kids playing at Louisville, I guess, would-Cincinnadi. Can we teach my understanding.

I'm University of Miami, and then it goes to the kids that I know. I'm always pulling for the kids that you watch or your mentors, so you always want to see them do well.

Okay, so your chief allegiance Is Miami still after all the-Yeah, always. It's more than colds, more than everything?

Whereas they're all one and the same because they're all at different points in your life. University of Miami is where you come in as a boy and you leave out as a man. Those days and those memories, they're always going to be there. And then I always knew I would be coming right back to Miami to live. So this makes it easy.

Edge, good seeing you. Look at Roy. Look at the smile on Roy. You're beaming. What a week. I don't understand. You're staring at Edge and James uncomfortably, I would say. Just out of admiration.

Don't project your awkwardness on Roy. Roy is doing just fine. How are we doing on that telestrator?

A bad idea by me. I have What did you want him to do?

What did you want him to do?

What I wanted him to do.

I just signed it. I just figured it. I just. Oh, a clown.

A sign telestrator.

I love it. You can draw a little clown nose on Dan. That'll work.

What a funny hat on Dan right now, wouldn't it?

What I wanted. We have not used the telestrator successfully yet. Zaz used it poorly. Greg Cody used it poorly. It's too much.

We don't need it. We're a show.

Why? You just asked me what I was trying to do. Now that we're here, I'm going to explain to you. It was a terrible idea, but this was the idea. Greg Cody has used the telestrator poorly.

I put arrows through heads. That was my special.

That's what you do. That's what you do. Steve Martin also.

Emine Alhassen- I literally- Emine Alhassen used the telestrator poorly. Zaz used the telestrator poorly. I'm going to admit now, this is bad judgment by me, bad leadership. What I thought is, let's have Edrin James rescue this by using the telestrator of doing Michael Irvin on the sidelines as a mascot for the team being just Michael Irvin.

How do you telestrate that?

What do you telestrate? To write the word mascot.

We have a hundred- Give me an example. Give me an Go, Dan.

Go, Dan. Go, Dan. You have it, Dan.

You brought that.

You brought that.

You brought it right. Go, Dan. Bring that Michael Irvin clip back in. Let's see what Dan would have done. Let's see what Dan would have done.

Just pick up the blitz right there. Go ahead, Dan. He's sweating. He's sweating. All right, Dan.

Go ahead. Draw a picture of a man taking a belt off.

Yeah. No. Let's do it with the intro of simulating child abuse because that's fun. People want to hear that. That's a good way to do it. Yeah, let's do that.

I have dropped whatever the tool is.

You dropped the pin? You dropped the pin? What is it? Tell him What are you doing? Fumbling. What are you doing?

Fumbling. Dan is nervous.

What we explain to our players is when they got the ball, they got the program in their hand. You got the program.

Come on, Ed, you're picking up your mess, Dan.

He's picking up your mess.

Butterfinger. He got it.

It was right next to you, Dan. All right, Dan, take it away. Hit the video. Wait. What do you mean, wait? I mean, this isn't the video that I want.

Go, it's playing. Go, Dan, do it.

No, no, no, no, no, Tell us straight. Yeah. Tell us straight. Are you just going to sign it, too? Are you just going to sign it? There's room in the corner. Please draw a dick.

I need the password. You need the password.

You're a mess.

He owns the company. He doesn't even have a password. One, one, one, one, one.

Okay, so now I've got it. Hold on a second. So thank you for this. This is not the video I wanted, Edrin. I appreciate all your help here. We're going to make two.

Join us, join us. This is by example.

Well, that's good. Okay, keep going.

I want a video Just draw a dick, dude.

Just draw a dick. Yeah, hurry up. Just draw a dick and be done with it. And the balls.

Don't forget about the balls. That's too much, Dan.

That's too much. That's too much. That's too much. What are you doing? You've lost your mind. Pee? Are you peeing on a legend? No, you didn't do that. You didn't pee. These are bad options.

You ready to PP now?

This is bad, dude. You see that? Unbelievable. Pee, Pee? Let's do it now. Left field levatard.

, God.