Transcript of Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take

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Bills fans, tonight, their hopes crushed yet again. It ends with the Bills again in Kansas It's not fun to be the champ here to beat the champs, and we didn't do it tonight. I root for Buffalo, so late postseason pain is all I know. It's just how it goes.

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Here in the AFC, the Chiefs continue crushing all our dreams.

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Buffalo did not deserve to win. We can't beat my homes, can't beat my homes.

They didn't deserve it because they weren't the better team.

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Buffalo is Kansas City without the trophies yet.

It's not fun.

What's happening nationally with Kansas City is super interesting because they're going to be so excellent that they beat the bleep you out of you, where you're so frustrated that they always get to win, that That is some of the best and most histing, defiant winning when you can tell everybody, You guys didn't want us to win, and we won anyway. But I have for many years now, secretly, I'm going to reveal a secret. Tuesday is my favorite day of the week, right? Wow. Yeah. I know it doesn't seem like it because I'm perpetually annoyed, and Cody and Stugatz are maximum rodeo clowning. But the problem I have today is I've got Greg Cody fired up about a topic nobody else wants to hear another word about. However, he's the local columnist who has now descended into willing to call the athlete names, angry enough to call the athlete names. So I've got that I have that in our holster, but I also have Stugats in the garage trying to fix a spare tire yesterday. Billy Gill has a bone to pick, and I've got Terry Jones and an assortment of Clown Sound.

Wow.

Big day. You got a lot. But Billy with a bone to pick, I snuck that in there. I got to go there first, correct?

You don't have to. It's your show.

Whenever Billy has a bone When you pick, that's where you start.

I got to tell you, I have bones to pick just about every day with someone or something. I'm constantly picking bones. They call me the bone picker.

Is there meat on those bones?

Well, not after I'm done with them. Okay. All right, let's go.

I want to hear it.

Well, I mean, part of this, potentially. Oh, boy. Reporters. What happened to them? You know what I mean? We're not getting reports anymore. We're just getting things that are put out there. I heard two weeks ago, there's a Dolphins game in Spain. Yeah. You know what would be great? The date of that game so people can plan to go in advance so that people can book their flights when they're cheap, not two weeks beforehand. No one's following up on this, trying to figure out what the date of said game is. Chris Cody came out here and he reported that he thought it was going to be the bangles. So someone told him something, presumably, or he decided, You know what? I'm going to take a one in eight guess, and maybe I'm right. However, he did it, he put himself out there. I stand by that report. He will either be ridiculed or he will be praised or forgotten, probably also. And by the way, I circled back because people after that were like, When's the date? When is the date? I went back to the sources. They don't know yet. Well, no, someone has to know.

That's the thing. Well, dig deeper. Somebody knows. Someone knows. But Chris is not a reporter. So Chris giving up when someone says, I don't know. That's fine. He's not a reporter. Now, the Gregs of the world, this is what you should be chasing. You should be going out there trying to find this date. Do you not want to go to Spain to see the dolphins play a historic game in Madrid? No. You don't?

Hell no. I've been to Spain. Why don't you want to go to... Okay.

Hell no. First of all- Spain is overrated. Wait, Chris.

Everything's in a different language.

Chris, your father-Speak English, Spain. Your father has become so formed, He doesn't want to go anywhere foreign because he's happy in plantation. A cruise ship plantation, don't put me on a 12-hour flight that doesn't have a dozen beers on it so that I can get to another country.

Everything he needs is right in plantation. He lives in the city plantation for people that are unaware. Let's clarify.

I travel. I'm a traveling man. Good job. A traveling man. I've been to Spain. I've been to Europe. I want to go there to have fun. I don't want to go there to work. I don't want to go to a dolphin home game that I have to travel 4,400 miles to see.

It is a fart. He'd rather go to Miami Gardens.

No, not necessarily, but at least that's within my range. The NFL has gone crazy with these international games, and the fans are hurting for it. The fans are suffering because of Goodell's obsession with internationalizing the NFL. Growing the game. Well, how about grow the game in the United States? My man.

How much more growth is What are we going to do here?

Exactly. What? What? I mean, what do we put in? The Netherlands has a franchise next year? What's going on?

But no one agreed with you and you said exactly.

I mean... You know, Zagakiel. Zagaki.

You're not even getting your signature lines right. All right, you know what?

He's fired up. No, no, no, no, no, Got to get his signature lines right the first 10 minutes of the show.

Yeah, that thing.

Nail that one. It can't be. Later in the show, we will forgive that it's a stamina thing, and he's running a gas, but we can't be 10 minutes into the show and he lazily throws out as a. It's got to be a full force, full Tuesday, zagak. It's 11. Give me a zagak till 11: 00. Let me press the gas till 11. I'll tell you what's here, and it happened all of us yesterday, Sunday takes a lot out of us. It takes a lot out of us for the whole week. Late night. We're going to get a Greg Cody who might be a little fatigued today, a little beat up.

Yeah, he already is. He's fatigued. This thing. I mean, that thing.

You're messing with us now. No.

What do you mean?

So, Jessica, can you walk me through among these things which you're most interested in? Because we've got Jerry Jones Jones, after he tried to sneak a head coach past us on Friday. Jerry Jones is out here talking, and it's just great to see an 80-year-old man just drunk on power, basically running the most valuable franchise in sports and just hiringering administrative assistant to be his coach because he can, because he's going to run it to the grave. You've got that. You've got a video of Stugats trying to fix a flat tire in the parking lot. You've got, I'm assuming, yet more bone to pick with Billy Gill and Greg Cody really wants to call Jimmy Butler names.

Also, the Steelers are apparently playing the packers in Ireland next year, but they haven't announced that either, Billy. I'm just being told that. We're just never going to know when these games are. How are we supposed to plan? How are we to plan, Dan? When am I going to book my flight? Exactly right. I'm getting these notifications saying there's flights to Spain on sale until the 28th. That's today. I need to have a decision by today, or I'm I'm just guessing. I can't just guess when this game is going to be. I could take an educated guess. It's not going to be the first week of the season. You should just go to Spain for the full three months of the season, and that way you're there when the game happens. You want to know how we're doing this? This is the way that this works. As I've stated in the past, I have no interest in going to Europe. I've been there, done that, as Greg has said, to Spain, in fact. I went to Spain, but I went to Valencia in Spain, and it was way too long. I was there for 10 days for a family wedding.

I got it. You're a little town. You're buying the Mediterranean. It's enough. It was fine. We saw the church, we saw this, we saw that. We saw lots of things, but 10 days in one place was fine. But when you go to these destination weddings, there's so many activities that you need to be part. I wanted to take a train up to Barcelona. It wasn't that far away. They're like, No, we need to go eat with the in-laws. I'm like, I don't need to go eat with the in-laws. I can go to Barcelona and see the architecture, see the world. I'm here. When am I going to come again unless a dolphin's come to play? Now I have the opportunity, and this is This is the way that you do it. You say, Wife, that's what I call my wife. I say, Wife, listen, dolphins, they're going to Spain. Wouldn't it be great to go to Spain? Then we can see your family there, make a week out of it. We'll see your family. Heady play. But also we're not going to Valencia again. We've been there, done that with Valencia. They're going to have to come to us to Madrid.

Meet us halfway, not even halfway, but meet us halfway. What you do is you position it as a family trip when you're really going there to see a football game. You know what I mean? But I need to know when the football game is because since the last time I was there, my family has grown exponentially. And sure, I'm to blame for that, but it has grown exponentially. So now things are pretty much double what they were before because there's four of us instead of two of us. So I need to get the deals while the deals are there to get got. But I need the reporters to do their jobs and tell me when this GD game is so that I can get these deals at a good price. I want to book these flights today before I have to pay tomorrow's price tomorrow. Someone do some reporting Devon Forones. I'm back on. Get out there. Tell me what day this game is. Someone, anyone. Do you like destination weddings, Billy? I like the idea of them.

The thing that is-Not attending them.

They're ridiculous, those things.

Destination weddings?

Yeah, don't get me started on that. You're insulting all of the people you're inviting by asking them to rearrange their entire schedule to spend big money. I have an unnamed nephew who once got married on a cruise ship Really? All of a sudden, I got to buy an international cruise to attend my nephew's wedding? Not necessarily. It's not going to happen. The destination wedding just isn't flying anymore. I don't know why the groom and bride get together and decide that's a good idea.

You guys being offended by a cruise wedding with all the cruises you guys go on is hilarious. No, Chris, if you're going to have a destination wedding, you better pay for me to get to that destination. Thank you. I pay for all guests. Yeah.

Thank you.

Otherwise, don't have it. Guys, it's a trick. People that have a destination wedding or people that don't want to tell you, they don't want you to go to their wedding. Exactly. They make it as inconvenient for you as possible so that you don't actually attend their wedding. Then they don't have to actually do the elopement thing where they actually piss off all the aunts and uncles. Well, no. Then, if we're going to be really honest about destination weddings, the way that they do it is they say, Yeah, we're booking it through this person. Then the more people that actually come, the more stuff they get for free, so they don't actually have to pay for their to wherever it is, their Mexico or the Dominican Republic, whatever. They get a whole package. Really, not only are you going, you're paying for their wedding, and you're paying for their room, and you're paying for their vacation, and for their excursions, and for all of that stuff. It's really a trick. Greg, to your point, the cruise, if I'm going on a cruise, don't interrupt my cruise with a wedding. Okay? No, thank you. If I have to go to a destination, make it a destination I want to go to, not one that you want to go to.

I think if you're If you're going to have a destination wedding and you invite all these people to go, there should be a committee where you vote on where the destination is. Because, again, we're paying for your entire wedding, and we're paying for your trip and your room and your flights and everything because of us going. We should decide where you have to get married. If you're going to inconvenience us, at least do it on our terms. Now I've got the bride sitting and hoping, Where's my wedding going to be? Where's everyone going to vote?

It's a great idea to make the bride and groom have the community vote on where How would you like our love to be celebrated?

Is it multiple choice or can it be anywhere? Can they pick like, Boise or something random?

Parkland. Well, you're allowing the group, the community to make a joke in that case.

I don't want people in my house, though. It'll never be.

The neighbor's in my backyard. Let's examine this for a second, because I hate that we're becoming this show. Greg Cody is sitting here arguing, I don't want to go to an NFL game in Spain. But I would imagine if Metalark paid for any employee here to go to Spain for that Dolphin game, that would be a prized possession in this workplace because not everyone is so jaded and cynical after a lifetime making money off of sports that they say, I don't want to go all the way to Spain to see the Dolphins play an NFL game. I don't want to be that show, man. Inside the NBA is complaining a lot about today's basketball. We're now the show that doesn't want to go to a foreign land to watch the Dolphins play because Cody's tired and just wants to drive to Miami.

See for yourself, I went to Ireland and you were going to watch football.

Ireland.

Some of us are not that show. I was in Germany. I went to Detroit.

Company paid for Germany. I love Spain. Don't get me wrong. Barcelona is one of the loveliest cities on Earth. I love Barcelona. Madrid, not so much. Folks in Madrid, not all that friendly. That's what I'm saying. I'm a dread going there. But I think that the NFL just expands too much internationally. I'm it.

Again with this.

And I don't think that it's right to ask home fans to travel 4,400 miles on their dime to cheer for the home team. Luckily, they have a choice.

They don't have to go.

This is the The NBA, where there's a thousand home games a year. In the NFL, there's eight or nine home games a year, and all of a sudden, you're taking 12 % of someone's home schedule and giving it to Spain? Come on.

Did you go on the cruise wedding, by the way?

I did not. We made up some lame excuse.

What was your excuse?

Well, I don't want to pay $4,000 to go to my nephew's wedding, quite frankly.

Yeah, but that's not what you said. So you told the truth.

It's just a wedding. It's just a wedding. Heaven That's right.

Just write, Cut the check and save your money, right?

And parenthetically, the marriage failed.

I was going to ask about that. I was going to ask.

You got to let that sit, Billy. You got to let that sit. Parenthetically.

Right. Through no fault of my nephew's quite frankly. I mean, I don't want to get into details. Wow. It's always a woman's fault. Well, in this case, it's... Come on now. How long did it last? She shall remain nameless. I don't know, a couple of years.

Interesting.

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He has been great. He's made great hires.

I said all.

We've said all.

He said all. We've said Everyone has said everything. First time hearing you this, Greg.

Everything you're saying has all been said. It's all been said.

Okay, you got to understand one thing. Stugatz. Me, Maximum. That's right. Until I say it, it hasn't been said. Boom. Okay, understand that. You're the mayor. Until I say it, it hasn't been said.

Me, maximum.

Me, maximum. Me, maximum. Me, maximum. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz. I want to get back into the destination wedding in a second, and perhaps this stature has been moved from upstairs to now next to me. I'm proud to have it next to me representing discipline in the face of I have a spoiled brattiness. Greg Cody is... He's descend into the stage. I haven't seen it in a long time. I really haven't. Local columnist, a man of dignity who has written a number of columns over the years and It doesn't usually excoriate anyone. I remember at the end, look, this used to mean something when Billy talks about reporters and stuff. It used to mean something when the local columnist was somebody of a certain grace who in our community, at least, when he ripped somebody, it meant something. It wasn't just gas bags on the radio like us or even kids in the newspaper like me. When I ripped somebody, it meant less than when Edwin Pope was doing it. Greg Cody is now Edwin Pope in our market, and I don't know that I've ever seen him as angry at an athlete as he presently is at Jimmy Butler.

He's descended in the name calling that I did when Saban left Miami to go to Alabama, and I was wandering everywhere, calling him a carpet salesman because he sold everybody a bunch of things about how he wanted to be here. I wandered around calling him names for an entire year. The old bill of goods, huh? I mean, he He did. It was the easiest thing. Liar. But now, Greg Cody has arrived at quitter.

Yeah. He's quit on everybody. He's quit on his team, on his teammates, on the fans, on the city of Miami, on the integrity of the NBA. I think his actions during all this, and I wrote this column before he was suspended yesterday for a third time this month, he's simply acting unprofessionally. He's acting childish. I think what he's done lapses on the betrayal level somewhere near traitorous in his actions. I just think he's been... I cheer the heat for suspending him without pay indefinitely. Differently because he deserves it. In all my time covering this market, I haven't seen or certainly don't recall another instance of an athlete, let alone a star athlete, behaving like this and just ruining... He's ruined his legacy. He was the popular player who would have been a tier below Dwyane Wade in terms of being beloved in this market. That's blown up by his own actions.

It wasn't a great ending with Shaq. I know this. I'm not saying that Shaq was worse than this. Shaq won a title, though. Right, but it was bad at the end.

It was bad. Look, Dwyane Wade didn't go out on the right terms and went to two other cities before he came back. I'm not saying everything is a happy ending, but Jimmy Butler has just taken a stick a dynamite to his own legacy down here.

If I may here, because I haven't done any reporting on what happened yesterday. I've read the reports. I don't know how much reporting you have done, Greg. I do believe that at this point, I'm led to assume that the heat will suspend him if he hiccups wrong, like that the rules have all changed now to whatever it is we need to do to suspend him. He's now practicing with a bunch of guys who don't want to practicing with him. If you believe in the cultish aspects of, look, man, these people are very much it's us against everybody. You're either in here or you're not, because if we're going to be throwing up every day from the workouts, we're all in here on the same thing to win. You're now embarrassing in public a guy who's had godfather power in this sport earned for 50 years. I cannot imagine how cruel and petty he is doing as he's got the strength of everybody behind him, Stugatz, because it's the easiest thing in the world right now to lean back on Jimmy Butler. The entire machine does. Nobody's going to support what he's doing now. That's not going to be supported even by the crassest of businessmen.

But it is the model for how you get your way in this sport. They benefited off of it 15 years ago, and they suffer from it now. This is what happens when the player gets the power.

For the audio audience, Dan is saying all this while pointing to a cardboard cutout of Pat Reilly. Kind of like he was a weatherman.

It's a statue. It's our statue. We said this was a statue. It's not a cardboard cutout. It was on the roof of the Elser Hotel because this show now stands in solidarity with Pat Reilly. But this particular name calling, can you guys help me? Because I know everybody's tired of this. Look, it's the gossipy, lame news of the moment in sports if you don't want to talk about Jerry Jones. Another suspension for a 500 team that had a nice win last night against Orlando in a regular season that only matters for these things. Because Boston's losing against Houston, and we'll make that a nice story. But everyone knows, come playoff time, Boston is going to be the team to beat if they're healthy, even if they go through 20 games that are weird and lose at home to Houston. Maybe the Cavs. Yeah, and maybe the Knicks. The Knicks looked great last night as well. This heat is a bit of a nowhere team right now. This stuff is stuff that sports fans love to eat up. I ask you to imagine. What do you imagine that workplace is like for him right now? The mess he made when I explained to you that this is a cult of people who are going to now line up against you.

You're either with us or you're against us. So now the whole machine works against Jimmy Butler. It's not just Pat Reilly. It's not just statement after statement. Here's the suspension. Here's another 500 grand. The media is going to also do what Greg Cody is going to do because the city is going to applaud Greg Cody saying it.

I don't think Jimmy... I don't think he really cares if everyone's against him. In fact, I think Jimmy's comfortable when everyone is going against Jimmy Butler. I don't know how it's going to impact him. I do wonder how him not being there impacts the team. Is that a better environment? It seems from reports that I have read and heard from, it seems like the players do like it more when Jimmy's not around. They won last night. That was a great win. They came back, they got the W. I may or may not have had the heat. Minus one. Do Do you think Jimmy's losing this exchange? Because Jimmy's winning this exchange. Jimmy's getting exactly what he wanted. They said a month ago, there's no circumstance in which we will trade Jimmy Butler. If they don't trade Jimmy Butler, they're just going to have to deal with a year's worth of suspensions every five minutes whenever he comes back from his previous suspension. They're going to get rid of him eventually, and he'll go to a new team that hopefully will get him the contract that he wants that they weren't going to give him at this time, which is why he started this stink to begin with.

He's not losing. He's getting exactly what he wanted. And by the way, if this wasn't happening here in Miami, we'd all think this was hilarious. We'd all think this is exactly... You'd be talking about how the player has taken the power away from management and how he's doing his own thing.

But it is hilarious.

I know, but we're viewing this from a Miami prism where we're like, This is no way to behave. And this is exactly how the heat got everyone they've got it as of late. That's correct. This is just the most extreme example so far.

It's amazing.

It's crazy that he's getting what he wants while behaving terrible He's getting puddaged, but he's really just getting what he wants. You think he wants to go back and play this game? No. He wants to go to Padel ball, pick a ball tournament, get screamed at by fans, get into fights with people.

On that one, I might stop you just because I do think he wanted the public tactical of getting his money by showing up and then not starting. I do believe it bothered him that he was not starting. I believe the reports that he walked out of practice early. I would stay until the end of practice if I were him every day because I would assume assume they are looking for ways to find that Jimmy Butler to take... You basically have an organization that I'm assuming is when he shows up to work for this week of days, if indeed it's not going to be, Okay, we'll keep you after the trade deadline. We got 10 more teams available to bid on you in the offseason, and then we'll work this to see if you'll ruin the second half of the season, and we'll see if you opt in as your threat, if that's where all of this is going to go. If they actually don't trade him because I don't know if anyone in our audience thinks that there's a possibility, but I would say there's a more than zero % chance that they don't trade him.

I don't think it's a zero % chance that they trade him before the trade deadline. They might make his life miserable right up into the offseason. You want to keep coming to work this way?

But if they don't trade him, it's just them being... It's just ego, right? It's just them thinking, We need to win every single trade that we're part of, so we're not going to get rid of Jimmy unless we get better, which is not how these exchanges happen with disgruntled superstars. He's costing himself money. He's losing there. His hope is that he makes all of that money back on signing a deal that he's not going to get. But this is not a relationship that is going to be fixed at any point in time. He walked out because his option is Stay here, and now we're going to embarrass you by not starting you. He's like, no.

You'd be stunned if they kept him past the trade deadline and said, We'll try to do it this way with Where. Where is going to be rookie of the year. We'll try and do it with big front lines.

If they do it, I believe that it's just because of ego and it's to try to prove a point that the players don't have the control here. It's not for the betterment of the team. It would be because they're not getting the type of trade that they want. They don't want to take on money that goes beyond next season. They have made it pretty clear from the beginning that they're willing to take expiring contracts, guys that aren't even necessarily that productive, but they'd prefer guys that could play a role on the team. They'd prefer to get draft capital, and they want to free up that space. That's why they handled it the way they did going into this season, which was if the worst case scenario as the Jimmy decides he wants to leave after this year, fine, we'll take the cap space. But the way that this has gone for Jimmy to say that he's winning on this one, look, the guy tried to force his way out. He has yet to be traded. He's torched his reputation with a segment of the Heat fan base. Not everybody, and there are plenty of fans that understandably are on his side.

But he also is not getting traded where he wants to go. Phoenix is in a total stalemate right now because Bradley Beale won't accept a trade to Chicago. They seemingly cannot move his albatross of a contract. And so Jimmy is going to end up more likely than not. It doesn't mean he won't get traded to Phoenix, but there is a chance he still just gets traded somewhere else that also wants him as a rental and doesn't want to extend him and he's in the exact same spot after torching his reputation with a segment of a fan base that loved him.

And losing millions along the way.

Jimmy Butler does not lose any sleep at night over whether or not a segment of the heat fandom doesn't respect him. No, that's exactly it. And you're right. Not a second. What about He has lost millions of dollars. What about other GMs? What GM out there is like, You know who I really want on my team? You know what's going to bring us all together? A GM who needs him. Well, the heat were stupid for bringing him in because he's done this everywhere he's been. I don't disagree with that. This is surprising to absolutely no one. Everyone knew this was going to happen, except we believe that heat culture fairy dust was going to fix this problem. No, the godfather is going to change Jimmy Butler. Except, guess what? His contract is up and he's behaving the the way he always behaves at this time in his career. This is not a surprise to anyone. How could they be surprised by this? I don't understand how you guys are like, We couldn't have seen this coming. How? How didn't any of you see this coming. There is no winner because everyone looks bad in this situation.

Except Kevin Love. It's just a bunch of losers. Kevin Love. You're right about that. Having fun on the internet with it. I would, too, honestly. You know some of them are texting Jimmy like, Jimmy, Jimmy, you should do this. All the other disgruntles that aren't in the to be disgruntled. You know what I would do if I was you. Then they go and just poke him proud. This is the guy in the class that you know is going to misbehave and do the bad things that you don't actually want to do because you don't want to get in trouble. You just give him all of the bad ideas. This is what you should I was like, You know what?

I got another one. Let's do this. What do you do, though? Tell Jimmy, he'll do it. I think you are right. This is all hilarious. What do you do when you're met with Greg Cody's stinging criticism of Jimmy Butler? And only Jimmy Butler, by the way. Because Greg's not criticizing the heat.

No, I don't blame the heat for not wanting to extend a lavish max contract on a 35-year-old guy. I think that's a smart business decision by the heat.

You understand Jimmy wanting to get his money?

Yeah, but if he's not getting it here, how about show some class, be a professional, play hard for the last part of this season. Play it out. If you get traded, fine. And if you don't, become a free agent and do your thing.

Forgive me for taking this long to get to the Jerry Jones sound. I will ask that the audience and Jessica and Jeremy and everyone, please tell me. Tell me. Give me a sound, give me something that alerts me to when we've talked Jimmy Butler 12 minutes too long.

You shouldn't have included me in that conversation. Billy was cooking. I feel like we could keep going. Because I can't freaking book these flights to Spain, and I have to take it out on someone. Yeah, Greg's not doing his job.

Jessica, but this is the thing, right? The thing that's happening with Billy, yes, Billy was cooking. I would be happy to listen to this viewpoint by Billy because Billy speaks for both the audience and people who are so very tired of all of the heat talk that has infected this show for the last 15 years. For the last 15 years. You're voicing something that was actually fresh. It wasn't this musty plume of cobweb smoke that comes out of the old columnist's face when he criticizes is the athlete for misbehaving. You gave us some new stuff. You said everyone's a fool. You're all idiots, and we'd be laughing at this if we were still a funny show.

I just want to maybe go to Spain. It's also a long flight.

Very long.

Now we have to change the subject because Pat Reilly looks bad in this time.

International games are always weeks 4 through 10. There's your hint.

Yeah, but that's a six-week window to fill. I need to guess the right one. They're not going to start in Spain, right? Probably not. No, they're not starting in Spain. Enough with London, if we're going to I'm going to be honest. London, look, either London gets it or they don't. We don't need to do three games a year in London. The crowds aren't even that great. But you guys started the season in Brazil last year. Yeah, that's true. That is true. There's a whole green-green thing in the gang wars. Was it real? Was it not? We didn't know. Then they wore green anyways. Everyone was fine. Billy, just say you're going to do a Man on the Streets and get the company to pay for it. That's what Roy does.

Not a bad idea.

Roy tried to go to Finland. Yeah, he did. That was where we put the foot down on international Yeah, Roy thought the hockey show's popularity.

Scandinavia. He thought we should send him to Finland to go drink beer so he could come back with a guitar rift again.

Definitely, Cup champs, you know? He had to go cover that.

That's where the Dolphins should play. Finland. Finland.

That's not a bad... They do. I get it.

Go to Scandinavia, Goodell. You've conquered everything else in the world. Attack Scandinavia. Have it become an American football region.

Finland.

Finnland. Figuratively. Finland. Figuratively. Dolphinland. There you go.

That's a good... That's what they should call the country. Dolphinland.

Putting it on the record, I don't like that you guys just talked about where it behind his back.

No. What the hell, Siki, is going on with you?

I don't know what came out of my mouth.

Greg, he got his line wrong again. I know. You got to get for me, you have to get isolated, him trying to deliver his zigak there and delivering it really poorly. And get me the Jerry Jones sound, please, because I don't want this guy to get away with it. Jerry Jones at 80 cannot and must not be allowed to sneak a head coach past us when we're not paying attention because we're busy with the games this week, and He tried to do it on Friday, and he got a bunch of noise at night. Now, Jerry Jones is going everywhere, giving more press conference than Brian Schontenheimer. He's telling you every way and fashion that he runs the team and Brian works for him, and their franchise is the most valuable one in the sport.

Now, I get my proverbial ass kick over needing people in my comfort zone. Without this thing being about me in any way, if you don't think I can operate out of my comfort zone, you're so wrong.

It's unbelievable.

This is as big a risk as you could take.

As big a risk as you could take.

No head coaching experience. Just sitting right next to Brian Choudenheimer. Look, if you think I can't get out of my comfort zone, look at this idiot I just hired. No coaching experience.

Brian is just awkwardly like, Okay, Okay.

Thank you. Thanks, Coach.

I'll prove to you guys how tough I am. Look at this fool I hired. I can't even imagine how distorted that dude is. Just distorted from whatever comes with Fame and wealth in that sport. I said yesterday, Don Van Nade and Seth Wickersham, who are among the best of real reporting that Billy wants on this game in Spain. They did a deep dive? No, it wasn't deep. It was a shallow dive, and I've come to expect deep, deep dives from them. All they did was there was some second-hand reporting on stuff that confirmed what we already knew, that Dan Snyder is a bleephole and that Dan Snyder is a bleephole who would not enjoy Washington having success after he's gone. But the reporting from great reporters created a story that made it yet more obvious to me, Man, the wealthy in this country are getting so wealthy that reporters can't even really get near them anymore. That there's so many shields and interferences that if you kill the news media, like Wickersham and Van Nade are doing it as well as it can done. They're going, anonymous sources that were near the dinner and heard about the dinner because where rich people reside, reporters can't get there anymore to smoke out what the real truth is.

And Snyder left in disgrace. We didn't even get to the... They did a lot of reporting on Snyder. What Snyder left in his wake was a disaster minefield that was only revealed to us because the other owners also wanted him gone.

But Daniel Snyder not being happy with the commander's success after he leaves is the least shocking thing I've ever heard. I don't need a deep dive on that.

That's correct.

That's a waste of reporting. By the way, Van Naut 100% knows when the Spain game is, Billy. I know. But Jerry Jones, he was not shy about chatting during this press conference. Apparently, it was just like 80 minutes of long answers. There was another really awkward moment when they introduced Brian Schattenheimer that I don't know if people caught, but it made me cringe.

Our new Dallas Cowboys head coach, Brian Schattenheimer. And chief operating officer, executive vice president of player personnel, and co-owner, Steven Jones.

All right.

No clapping. Brian Schottenheimer fills in. It feels the awkwardness. It's like, I'll clap for you. He has no choice.

You think if I get Devian a little liqued up with the rooster, he'll let it slip.

Tell the rooster, then the rooster could tell me. The rooster, for those of you who don't know, is Don Van Nade's domino partner. We played dominoes together. Tvn and the rooster and me. They whipped my ass.

Chris, are you simply laughing because Billy sunk deep into his explanation of who the rooster was because he realized he was ending a segment with a joke for seven people?

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