Transcript of Local Hour: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG COTE!

Chris, before we get started here, your father's wearing a chef's hat. Mike Ryan has a cigarette. Will you stop, please, Zaz? We're on air and everyone can hear your sniffles on my microphone. Everyone can hear your sniffles because you're sitting here. Turn my mic down. Turn my mic down.

Thank God for Zaz. Usually, you make fun of me breathing too heavily. Thank God he's sniffling.

Oh, well, he's snorting. I don't want to tell the story about Freddy Gonzales. When I met him. He introduced me to the Snot Rocket, third-base coach in Erie, Pennsylvania. He's the third-base coach in their minor league system. I look at a guy on third-base, and he holds his hand up to his first nostril and blows out something out his other nostril. That's what Zaz was just doing. I could hear him.

That's the best. Nothing resets your system quite like a snot rocket.

Put it on the poll. Is the snot rocket the best to reset your system? But I just want to ask you, Chris Cody, the last couple of days, we've been having a lot of technical difficulties. Do you know the buttons work today? Can I start testing the buttons, please? Chocular. They work. Okay. That's loud, though, right?

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

This could be Dan's headphones being too loud.

No, one of them works.

Chris Whittingham is a fancy lad.

All right, the buttons work. Then this one is intentional, and I want you guys to look right now with delight at the chef hat's face here in the studio. Can't see anything. No, You guys, not the audience. You guys. Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.

Thank you, Steven A.

Happy birthday to Greg Covey. Happy birthday. He's never told us his age. He always hides his age. Which birthday is this for you?

Well, I'll give you a hint. A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday, so you need to do the math on this one. Good clue. Yeah, thank you.

Called it the Retirement Home Yacht.

Are they still happy?

Remember the inside of that thing, Dan?

At this age? Yeah, it was a little musty. It was weird.

It was really sad. We can talk about it now. The outside and the deck with the music, very nice. The inside where you ate, sad.

No, it was a sad yacht.

It was. Sad yacht.

It was. Dan, admit it. The inside.

No, I thought it was fine.

The bag was there, right?

Yeah, Gary, the bag. Hell, yeah. He was loving it, man. He was reveling.

What's he up to today?

You guys still keep it in touch this year?

Yeah, he texted you this morning or what?

I thought, sad yacht. No, it was a nice yacht. I'd rent it again. What am I, sleeping on the video there? What's going on with me?

We haven't aird the video yet. Oh my God, you are. Sorry. Happy birthday. Yes, happy birthday. But you know we're on the Shadow Shire. You know we're on right now.

No, I think year 71 is the year that Greg finally gets a hang of this thing.

Thank you. Greg, in the preview there is the beginning of the show. When the show starts, it's you dancing, but you're distracted by you. You're distracted. Anytime you show up on the screen, You are delighted. I have to say, honestly, it's one of the favorite things that we've done around here, this particular open, seeing Greg this happy and seeing so late in what remains his prime, the singing sports writer, reinvigorated. Look, he's gotten lazy. No, back in my days, he doesn't want to work. He's complaining about working. He sounds like my dad.

I think the dolphins are good.

I wrote a book on back in my day, literally.

Yes. Do you have one?

I have it right here.

Do you have not the book, Do you have a back in my day?

No.

I got about 150 of them in the book. Buy it. And The Pride of a lion flying off the show.

Zazla, I want you to just stare at Greg Cody's face when this open plays because it delights me as much as it delights him. But he is so happy because the singing Sportswriters back, he got tired. On ESPN radio, he was doing Row, Row, Row, Your Boat, the last seven songs. He quit on that long before back in my day. But this is a bona fide banger right here.

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We have got a local hour that's going to have both kinds of football in it. Greg Cody is here. Why are you guys laughing? Because he's breathing.

He's breathing again. It's his birthday. I'm going to be nice today.

Yes, you're going to be nice. We've got the gift, the gift of Greg Cody. We are now in our 21st year. The gift of Greg Cody on this show over those years should turn today into a party, and it's a party hosted by Wild Billy because we don't want to be on the sad yacht anymore. Chris, it can finally be said that your dad's 70th birthday, a lovely boat, a lovely gesture, a yacht. A yacht is a wonderful, wonderful thing. But the cafeteria and commissary area felt like it was a bit less luxurious than one would imagine of whatever they paid for that.

Zagak. What are you guys hoping for? Like cocaine and hookers at a 70th birthday party? It's a boat. Seriously? Yeah, 70-year-olds. Thank you, Billy. Exactly.

Greg Cody is a great cook. How did you feel about the food that night?

I'm never there for the food. He's there for the booze. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. I didn't think it was five our Michelin, but I thought it was good.

I don't know anything about this. I wasn't invited.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, I know it's true. I just said it.

You just missed the list. We had to cut it off somewhere.

I'm the minister. I'm I'm not a minister. I did that, right?

Of the one time it happens naturally. I did that. The one time it- You did bring it up.

That's right in my face.

The first time it's ever happened naturally, and Dan's like, Aha.

You did bring it up right in front of Zaz. Let's talk about this party Zaz wasn't invited to. Great. Honestly said earlier today, I'm so glad Zaz was here, which I didn't think we would ever hear. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Yeah, he said, I love Zazzo. I'm glad he was here.

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

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

Yeah.

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

Look, the tension between them is real. Greg Cody looks down on the radio journalist or the radio broadcaster, I guess. He thinks the print media is more honorable. So do I, actually. Thank you. That's how we grew up. But not anymore, it's not. Now it is an obsolete dinosaur, and all of the future media's are coming through and tearing the place apart. And Zaz is the one who's the star at ESPN, who has sweets on the road, who flies first class because he's arising.

You know about that first class, Greg?

Yeah, I've heard about that. You were incredibly surprised by the accouterments of first class. That's right. Which I found funny, but that's okay.

Well, I'm not this bougey sports writer, apparently. I don't get those perks all the time.

All right. I don't get the perks because I'm a sports writer.

Well, and also, let's make something clear here. All right. Between the two of us, you're a print guy. I'm a radio guy. Between the two of us, you tried to get into my business.

I never tried to get into your business. Yeah, because you couldn't have because- Well, we don't know that. That requires putting words in a particular order, turning them into sentences and then paragraphs in a way that's entertaining to read.

You're assuming that's why I didn't want to get in.

You feel good about this, Dan?

I didn't do this. Yes, you did. No, he- You called him a dinosaur. You said this used to be prestigious, and it's a dying medium, and now Zaz is a rising star, which, by the way, I will say for the record- Go on. If you ask anyone on Earth, beginning with toddlers and anyone who could start speaking, dinosaurs are revered. Dinosaur are beloved.

Everyone likes a dinosaur.

Everybody loves dinosaurs.

Kids love learning about dinosaurs.

Love dinosaurs. You look around at a modern day Komodo Komodo dragon?

Oh, yeah.

Couldn't hold a candle to a dinosaur.

My kid has never said, Hey, can you get me a toy Komodo dragon? Never.

T-rex rules the kingdom. Bang a gong, get it on. Am I right? Hell, yeah. Okay.

That's how Chris was made. I got the reference.

Thank you, Mike.

Happy semi-first birthday, Greg.

Why are you wearing a chef's hat?

I'm going to destroy you.

No, you're not. Let's just hold on. It's good retort.

You like this fight? Now, you started between Mike and Greg. Dan, jeez, Louise, how many people today?

We are going to broadcast over the course of time. He has told us we make a lot of jokes about what we're going to... I'd like the listeners to write in what tombstone nominations for Greg Cody. I am hoping that the Greg Cody experience for the remainder of his life is broadcast by our show until the very end. Okay? Like, literally?

Yes.

I guess. Last breath? Yes. I would like him to do our show for the rest of time. But what I'm telling you guys now, as he becomes 71, it's only going to get worse from here in terms of he's going to know less about what he's doing. You guys keep expecting him to get better at this. He's not He's not going to get better at it. He's not going to get better at the mechanics of doing this. And he is a print guy to the very end, and he will always look down on the radio guy. That's not manufactured. I'm not making that up.

Okay, first of all, when I'm on my deathbed, the Greg Cody show will get the exclusive bedside interview, okay? And you'll be in line for that, but the Greg Cody show will get it. Look, I appreciate Sniffles career.

I think that might be Zazlo's phone.

My phone's been on silent for It's 10 years.

Oh, it's my phone. My bad.

Someone did that to him because he... That's a find. I was talking to him in the kitchen earlier, and that thing was buzzing. Someone must have turned that on.

I bet. I'm going to check right now.

Look to see the... Someone find the security tape because I saw Christopher in there earlier. I suspect someone set him up.

Okay, it was not Christopher. It was Yeti saying great T-rex. Excellent T-rex reference.

Reference from 1971. Make it on.

Get it on.

I would also say In Greg's defense, Greg didn't become a radio guy. Greg became a podcaster long ago. He has had the Greg Cody Show with Greg Cody for years now. Yes, five years. If anything- Anyone got to start a podcast. Excuse me. If anything, Zazlo was a radio guy who crawled over to the podcast world, which was Greg's domain long before Zazlo's domain. Right.

Radio is different from podcasting. Podcast's great. I do a podcast, all right? But there is a prestige to doing radio. Is there? It's It's live.

Okay.

It's live. Yeah. Greg, you can't tell me that you're recording your podcast sometimes and you're like, Wow, I didn't like that. That didn't sound good. Let's do it over. Guess where there are no do-overs? Radio. That's where I honed my craft.

We're literally live right now.

I understand.

Do you? I don't think he does. This is not a podcast. I don't think he gets it.

Greg still do. It gets put into a podcast.

Yeah, but this is live.

I understand.

I don't think he do. Do you think you're on radio? This is not radio. Do What do you guys think?

You guys think you're doing a podcast? He's doing radio. He's been doing radio since the moment he stepped foot in here.

Yeah, I'm born for life.

What station are we on right now? Am, FM? This is a YouTube. Yeah, you don't know anything. You know Jack.

You're going left to right on your radio. I know lots of things.

I'm not certain. Go on, Greg.

I'm the shitster. Anyway, I'll get to the dolphins, and I want to get to Ray Hudson because Greg Cody, 50 years of experience in this market, he can actually bring the proper history to what happened in soccer yesterday, where a legend stepped down. We talked about it for a second, but it's bigger than any of the stories we're talking about today. Usf against Miami, super interesting. Dolphins, super interesting. Shulival. There are things to talk about, but this legend in this market shouldn't, as a voice who's international, it's across all the seas. This is a person, In re Hudson, who came through this market, and you covered him at the very beginning of soccer in this market. You were writing the first columns about, Can the international sport live in Miami? Can it live in the United States? At the very beginning of Ray Hudson's career are the seeds of South Florida getting into soccer.

Yes. And back then, all you had was the Dolphins and UM football. There was no other major sport. And the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, they filled Lockhartt Stadium. They filled it 20,000 fans of the game. It was really the seed from which soccer in this area grew, the seed that led to Inter Miami, generations later signing Leo Messi. And Ray Hudson was the first star. And if I can be very personal about his impact on me. He was the first athlete who I associate with my big break in journalism. Because prior to then, I was covering high schools for 10 years. I was in purgatory. I never thought I was going to become anything in this market. And all of a sudden, they had me cover the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was very big at the time, selling out the stadium, as I said. And back then, we had a budget. And so all of a sudden, a year after covering a Boyd Anderson-Shamanade football game, I'm in Vancouver covering the Fort Lauderdale Strikers against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

And we had nothing in the market at the time. It's the Dolphins in Miami doesn't matter. You Him, baseball is trying to find footing. There's nothing in this market. It's just Don Shula.

Yeah. And so the strikers back then were big. And Ray Hudson was the most flamboyant and charismatic of all the strikers. And I remember sitting with him at a wooden picnic table outside Lockheart Stadium during the middle of the week. And he had just come over from England. He's as white as a milk bottle and talking in that charming thick accent of his. Our Our relationship grew from there. And he and I are friends to this day. And he was the first guest on my podcast, actually, five years ago. And so he's just meant an awful lot. He's on the timeline of my career. Before I ever became a columnist or covered the Dolphins or the hurricanes. I had Ray Hudson and the Strikers, and it means a lot.

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

And this year's on the wins like Dracula, they were playing a liver. And it just leaves Barcelona in acid here. The roughness disappears when the magic man gets it, though, doesn't he? He's almost polite in the way he beats his defenders. Again, if you showed him a Rorschach blot, he'd see goal every time, Phil. It's a phenomenal strike.. Thekia is on the went jumping Jack flash quick and sharp as vinegar with this hit.

He sees his teammates on either side of him, Phil, and says, I see you lads, I don't need you.

He needs help. Like a shark needs a dentist.

Chris, I think we need to every day until the World Cup take 30 seconds to honor Ray Hudson in this market. Did I say anything that was wrong.

No, I don't think so. And Ray Hudson, I don't know, not all of those wonderful florid comments were spontaneous. I guarantee you he put some of them in the oven and took them out at just the right time because he told me once, way back in the late '70s, that if they were up two or three nil at halftime, he was already devising the colorful quote he was going to say after the game.

Greg, it's so wonderful to know what your relationship is here because he learned before you did that it's all professional wrestling. He was a salesman and a spokesman, and it carried him, the charisma of it. I'd like to honor him right up until the World Cup. Every day until the World Cup. Next year? Every day, every single day. On it. We stopped for 30 seconds.

Like the pledge of allegiance at school? Yes.

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

Start the Shadow Show every day with 30 seconds of Ray Hudson. For Ray Hudson? To honor the great- He's no Kyle Seaw.

Are you shell-shocked when you kept it to a 30-second bit. Cory Brooks.

Who's on the Mount Rushmore of voices in South Florida? Eric Reid. Eric Reid.

Tommy Hutton.

Cory Brooks. Zagak.

Zagak is on the Mount Rushmore. Is he or is he not?

Zagak, yeah.

I think he is. Ajay Rickets.

Jeremy Tasche.

That gives Jeremy Tasche the opportunity to give a stat of the day that nobody wants. I'm punishing you, Billy, with this stat of the day because he wants to talk Marlins, and you just made it about the Marlins.

Through 37 games to start his career, Marlins' outfielder, Jacob Marci, has recorded 20 extra base hits and 10 stolen bases, becoming the first Marlin to reach those numbers in the same span and the first player in Major League Base to do so since Barry Bonds in Pittsburgh in 1986.

He's definitely going to keep it up.

I know the 7,000 fans of the game really appreciate him. You guys are the worst.

Well, we're not the worst. I feel bad that baseball is segregated I feel bad that you never got to talk, never get to talk baseball, but you're so eager to do things. You didn't even wait for the stat of day music. You gave the stat and you didn't even wait for the music.

You just rushed right in. I have another baseball stat if you'd like. We can play the music now.

No, you're doing this in the wrong order. This is the stat of the day.

When this finishes, you tell us your Ray Hudson memory.

Start of the day, start of the day.

It is the start of the day.

It is the start of the I will get to the...

I first met Ray Hudson at WSVN when I was working as an associate producer. He came in for Sports Extra, and it was just a joy to be around him, just like a kind man who brought a really special energy to the room. That accent was obviously infectious. It was really special working alongside him and Steve Shapiro, Mike DiPesquale on that Working behind the scenes, it was a really good time. Drew Rosenhaus. Yeah, Drew Rosenhaus in there almost every Sunday.

It was great. Thank you, Ray.

Thank you, Ray. Did you not see that I was trying to talk there, Jeremy? Turn this music. I like that music. Turn the music off. Thank you. Did you not hear, Jeremy, that I was trying to talk there, that I was going to make a point there? I did. You disrespected the...

Major penalty, five. Five minutes. Scrooming Comedy.

Dan Levatard.

It's all about me.

Stugatz. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

You're wearing a chef's hat because Because you are somebody who is a very good cook. I think that Greg Cody, why are you still here? Why are you still here?

Doing my job, making a mark.

No.

Stop doing your job and get the hell out.

Thank you. The chef's hat that he is wearing, he is, I believe, the best cook among us. I think Roy might have some objection.

I think Roy would take a fence.

But he's a really good cook. However, around here, he's 0 and 3 in cook-offs. He's lost all three that he's done. Now Mike, who I didn't know could cook, has challenged him today in a soup off. How are we doing this, Mike?

We have a stove upstairs here at the beautiful Elster.

You look like you work at the bear. Look at him.

He does.

I didn't know Mike was a chef.

Yes, chef.

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

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

But it sounds like everyone's beat you.

Well, Levatard beat me in popcorn, which was a disgrace. Levatard's popcorn was so overseasoned with tajine. It was almost inedible.

But it won.

How bad was yours?

Mine was good.

Well, he's the boss.

But the third event, I don't remember.

What was the third event? I think there might have just been two.

No, the pumpkin. It wasn't cooking, but you've had three challenges. You had a carb off the pumpkin.

That's another one. Jessica beat me on that and should not have. Excuse for everything. You're 0 and 3. I carved by hand and she... She had a machine. She had a machine. She used a paper thing. Mold. Yes.

What do you call it? She had a mold and she had an electronic knife. It was a hole. It was fraudulent. It was fraudulent.

It's like the buildup there. I did a beautiful pumpkin that included a goulish face with a prop, a knife in the pumpkin head. It should have won.

Waste not, want not.

Have you thought about what the excuse will be this time?

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

Well, what are you making? You're 0-3. You're 0-3 in competition. I brought Brenda more over here. But today's his birthday.

No, you stack the deck.

Brenda more had a birthday.

You stack the deck against me. This is certainly a road game, but I feel good. I mean, Greg, he decided to go for lentil now.

Sausage and lentil with a little bit of kale.

I've had that. It's good.

Well, so did people on the Oregon Trail. This is a campfire soup. He's here for the hardy.

I'm here for the party. It's not as foofy. What is yours called? You have names in the title of your soup that I didn't recognize.

It's pretty complicated. It's for a refined palate. We got curry, we got ginger, we got chicken, we got faro. But all in all, we're just going to go ahead and call this soup Thai Food.

Hell, yeah.

Oh, I love Thai soups.

Thai food.

Do you have There's no coconut milk in there?

There's coconut milk in it.

He's going to beat you.

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

You guys have both been divas this morning.

If I may say it, a coconut Thai chicken soup demands that the bell red pepper be cut into strips. I saw him over there chopping into a fine dice, the red bell.

Hey, O man, worry about your own soup.

Unheard of. Yeah?

Worry about your own soup.

I don't have to worry.

I'll worry about mine.

Okay, go ahead. All right. You're already- It's a faux pas. Okay, really?

Yeah, we'll see. I think I'm going to dominate you in this one. Yes. In fact, I know it. I saw the color of yours. It looks like poop.

Any Thai restaurant in America would laugh at a fine dice red bell pepper. What's your soup? You got to cut it in strips. My soup is sausage and lentil with kale and other stuff, and it's super flavorful.

Were you not listening to your father before?

No, he wasn't. Okay. But it's worth repeating, quite frankly.

It is. Kale is for color, and trust me, it I appreciate it.

And by the way, a chef hat is supposed to be a souffle. It's supposed to stand up regally. And these headphones are really raining on the parade of my chef hat. But otherwise, it's amazing. I was able to get a chef hat with the Greg Cody Show logo on it, which I didn't even know they made. But that's a good podcast, that one. Yeah. I don't know who does it. We have Adnan Virk on the latest episode talking about his new book, and we do a Dolphin's Autopsy. It's a great episode.

Greg doesn't know movies.

You are petering.

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

No, I don't want to dominate. I don't want to talk too much about my podcast.

That's not the word I would use. It's not. You wouldn't have called what he just did there, dominating, where he petered out, Yeah, we got that in. That was not dominating. It was you petering out because you haven't gotten to plug your podcast in the last couple of days.

Yeah, thank you for that, by the way.

I'll just tell everyone, at 71 today, it's only going to get worse from here. There's going to be more petering out, more distraction, more slurping on the cup, more frustrating of the sun. That's what it's going to be.

You love the phrase petering out. It's one of your go-tos.

I didn't accuse you of it. I'm the minister. Mike accused you of it.

I know. The show loves that phrase.

Dan Levatard.

Baker Mayfield tearing up Tampa Bay, 38 for 45.

Stugatz.

Shred 'Em.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

The Dolphins are playing a game this weekend, and I'm trying to think, okay? Dave Wadstet, first half when he can't decide between Fiedler and Healey. I'm trying to think of a season that felt like this right away. I'm trying to remember Cam Cameron's 1: 15 season, and if the first game felt like the following. The Miami Dolphins this weekend play in a game that is only interesting to South Florida because they're like, does the whole thing just fall apart right here? Was last week real? They might get some NFL illusion because, and think about what I'm about to say here, the New England Patriots, the first week of the season, deserve to also be laughed at from sea to shining sea. But no one is doing that to the Patriots who played one of the worst football games played this weekend. The Patriots Patriots played one, Carolina played one, the Giants played one. Patriots are the only one of those to do it at home against Geno Smith and the Raiders. The Patriots have their fan base saying, Oh, no, maybe Drake Mays not the answer. Oh, no, Maybe Vrabel is not the answer. One week at home and you lose to the Raiders.

That's bombed for the Dolphins. But I'm presently talking about a game with this group of people who have covered this sport and this team all their lives, and I I can't remember something that felt quite like this, this early in the season. I'm looking at all of it. After Moreno retired at 62-7, Jimmy Johnson leaves. I'm having a hard time remembering a season feeling like this seven days in.

I think both extremes can be legitimate. I think there's no excuse for the way they played. They had an entire offseason not to come out like that. By far, the worst performance in the NFL in week one. I think this is also true It's a gross over-exaggeration and knee-jerk to say, They're done. They're done. If they beat New England, mark my words, and it's not a stretch to say it, if they beat New England and they're one-on-one and two-a-l looks good. All of a sudden, we overreactive.

A birthday gift to let you talk that long when you don't seem to know what's happening here. You're in a burning building saying that Mike McDaniels got a sprinkler over here that a Patriots' win solves. The way they lost in game one makes it so that the noise around the stadium is going to have banners flying and people booing in the first quarter if this thing goes sideways.

I agree that people will boo at the first interception.

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

I'm surprised that you do believe that if the Dolphins beat the Patriots this weekend, that all of a sudden, Hey, they're one-on-one, and maybe we all overreacted. I mean, everything Dan just said about the Patriots in week number one rings true. Sure. You're essentially saying that if the Dolphins beat at home. If the Dolphins beat an equally terrible team who had a terrible performance from week number one, all of a sudden we're going to feel better about them, and maybe week one was an overreaction. I disagree.

Okay. What I'm saying is the The overreaction to them losing week one is, A, why a lot of people hate the media, and B, why a lot of people think that fans are idiots because of the overreaction. It's one game. I don't care how bad they look.

Greg, the overreaction, though... Look- It's not one game. Greg- Really?

Greg? I thought it was one game.

What he's saying, it's the mistrust that is here right now from the fan base toward this thing because Zazlo is holding the popular My regular opinion, Greg. Most of this fan base is saying, even the most hopeful, Oh, my God, is to a McDaniel, is all of it over? If they lose this game, someone's not going to be here. We agree on that, right? Tyreek Hill, McDaniel. If they lose this game at home, you would agree that someone will not be here the following week, Greg, and not a minor player.

The following week?

No, I don't-Not after week, too.

Not the following week.

Greer? I think Owen, too, someone's paying for It's not for it. Really? I do. I hope you're right, but I don't think it's true. It also depends on the game flow, right? If they show up unprepared again and the Boo Birds have their voice the entire game.

Is it Greer or Ross? Who has shown you they have the guts to make such a significant move.

I think it would probably be Greer because he's been here for close to a decade, and it doesn't really shake up the operation all that much as you're in season. If you let go of the GM, the fans are going to demand- You think Ross has the guts after For two weeks? I mean, it's been 10 years. I'm with you. It could be Tyree kill. Greer, to save his job, could be like, Let me make another trade here with.

And I do believe the Chiefs are going to go 0-2 after this week. If the Dolphins are 0-2 and the Chiefs are 0-2, maybe Tyree kill is gone.

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

They're flying a banner.

Yeah, but telling them the season's over two weeks in is a horrible message. You can agree with them and know we have to make change, but after week two.

No, but here. So this is the part that's most interesting to me about what you're saying, because Greg's not wrong when he says in almost all the other instances, a reaction to one game in week one is an overreaction. It's a hyperventilation. It's one game. However, Greg, and this part to me is the most important part, the way they looked on Sunday that makes you fear. Oh, no. I'm watching the whole thing collapse because they can't stop anybody. They're not going to be physical enough. They're going to ravage their coach. And the entire NFL. Brian Flores in Minnesota is looking down at boy WNDYR and saying, You went from ball boy to the top and you changed your wardrobe and your clothes, and you were offensive genius. Now, what do you got in this game against the Patriots when no one trusts you, and one of them might be your wide receiver. And your quarterback looked in the last game like he didn't trust anybody because we didn't recognize him after his first read.

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

Greg, this thing, I don't mean to be prisoner of the moment, but I remember Jay Fiedler and A. J. Feeley, the first half. Dave Wadstet ran into something like this. Dave Wadstet, and that was at 10: 06 every year. At 10: 06 every year, Wadstet walks into, I don't have a quarterback. Who's it going to be? I don't know. And in the first half of the first game, he panics. First half of It's the first game. It's the only time I remember a stadium closing in carnivores. They do it at the University of Miami all the time. That happens all the time. It's the first time I can remember a stadium caving in because he was under the pressure. This is why the Steelers What they do is so amazing with three coaches. He was under the pressure of Shula and Johnson before you. You're 11 and 5 every damn season, and everyone's saying you're mediocre. And he panics in the first game because he's Dave Wadstead. And the Dolphin fan base is looking at Meek Daniel. They're looking at Meek Daniel, all the stuff that was charming, and saying, Wait a minute, am I going to watch my team fall on this guy's head next Sunday?

That's what surrounds that stadium this week. I've never seen anything like it in this market.

I have a feeling that you're going to be the one renting the plane that carries the Fire Everybody banner. I'm not sure if most fans feel quite as vitriolic as you do about Fire Everybody right now. Oh, Craig, really? No, no.

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

Okay, did you read what I wrote following that game? No. I spared no amount of- You can't just say this was a terrible game, but you're acting like you have no reason to believe that it will continue. I want to see more than one game approved.

You've seen multiple years of this.

They're favored against New England.

They're terrible, New England. They're terrible. And the Dolby's are at home.

You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of nuance or perspective here. You're like, You should be more of a fan and just fire everyone immediately.

Billy's 100% right. Look, I've been writing and saying since last season that this is the season that tells the future of McDaniel and Greer. If they don't make the playoffs, 99% they will fire the general manager and the coach if they don't make the playoffs. If they start off terribly, worse than 0-1, I don't think Tyreek Hill will last if they can get a buyer for him. Probably the Chiefs will take them back. But where we disagree is I'm not ready to say all that after one bleeping game, no matter how badly they look.

The place where I would push back on that is, do you... Does Greg Coty... Do you feel any different? Did this team look any different from what they looked like, the way you felt week 18 last year compared to what you just saw in week one? Yes.

They look different? They look terribly unprepared.

Okay, that's the whole point. That's why it's not one week. It's a continuation from last year.

Here's the thing, Zaz. The way you two are putting it suggests that the opener they played is on top of a terrible 3-14 season. They went 8-9 last year. I'm not We're giving 8 and 9. It's a losing record. But 8 and 9 is credibly bad. It's not incredibly bad.

But the trajectory is this. They were playoffs the first two years of the tenure.

Greg, if I can, just for historical perspective, okay? Because I'll just keep going back this Wadstet season because I was saying the same things then that you were, and I was doing it with 11: 05 in my back pocket. Everyone was yelling, No, this is the beginning of the end. How do you not see it? Look, he's using up all the Jimmy Johnson's ears. I'm like, Guys, it's 11: 05. It's hard to go 11: 05 in that league. And he's handing the ball off, and he's making my friend retire because they're running the ball 400 times a game, and they're punting all the time because they're playing primitive football wasting the Jimmy Johnson years. And everyone's saying, Dan, how can't you see it? I'm like, 11: 05. The Dolphins, this is not one week, Greg. Two and McDaniel are six and nine in their last 15 games when two is available. Fourteen interceptions and two has got eight fumbles. We worry about his head. This is built on something that's really flimsy, and everyone around it is howling. This is the beginning of the end, obviously. And the thing that doesn't feel like hyperventilation to me, and I keep coming back to it, the first game of the season looked like that.

You got injuries now on the offensive line. You can't block anybody. And the Colts put up a performance we've never seen in football before. Seven straight drives can't be stopped. And the way that it looked is important. It's not just, Oh, they had an off game. It's, No, they were dragged up and down the field by surgical competence of Daniel Jones.

Against a team that you know is not that good.

Yeah. I mean, you guys aren't saying anything I don't know. You guys aren't saying anything. Anyone who watched that game- But, Greg, it looked like that's what they are.

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

Okay. If you think the Dolphins are going to be the worst team in the league, I'll bet you $100 and give you odds. It's not going to happen. Okay? What odds are we talking about here? The Dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener. They could not have looked worse. I agree with you. They were putrid. They were embarrassed. They were humiliated. They deserve all of the criticism they're getting. I'm just saying it's one game, and you can't refute that. And it's not a reese that they beat New England, and then what? Are you going to say, Maybe we overreacted, maybe? I will.

If they look good on Sunday, I'll say I overreacted.

As will most fans.

The problem here is the perspective of Dolphins fan, right? There There was this expectation after that game against the Broncos that that's what the Dolphins were, that they were going to score 70 points every game. And if you look at what the Dolphins have been over the last three seasons, it was playoff appearance, playoff appearance. Last year, they controlled their own destiny, and they vomited on themselves, and they caused themselves to play But they were there. You knew when that season ended, as soon as they missed the playoffs, that Steven Ross announced, Hey, you know what? Chris Greer is safe. Mike McDaniel is safe. They weren't going to make any significant change. I mean, the big change that they made in the offseason was, Hey, let's get Darren Waller out of retirement. He'll solve this problem. So they came into this season, and even Greg, who you guys accuse of being a homer and all that, said 8: 00 and 9: 00 or 9: 00 and 8: 00. He said, They'll be a playoff team maybe as the last seed in the playoff, but he's not predicting they're going to win the Super Bowl. Everyone knows this is just a middle-of-the-road team that you could say the window closed.

But I think now the question is more so, did the window ever even really exist? Or did we just convince ourselves that this was some super team that it really never was? So when They decided in the offseason, we're not going to make significant changes. By giving it two games and firing everyone, what are you really accomplishing? Because you know week three is probably going to be a blowout regardless of the outcome of this one against the Bills on Thursday night football. So if you fire everyone week two, then you come back week three, you get embarrassed nationally while your team is already in disarray. You've punted on the season for everyone to see.

Look at Zazlo. He seems defeated here. I don't suspect this will be the last time we talk about this. Mike Ryan, get out of here. Go cook your stuff. We're going to start the soup off. Yours looks like poop.