Transcript of Local Hour: Nine Olives

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Cody, you know that Zazlo is serious about wanting to replace Mike Biamonte as the Heats in Stadium announcement, right?

I did not know that. It doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know that. Tell me more.

Well, did you know that Mike Biamonte is leaving after 35 years. I'd be curious. We should get him on the show and just ask him, after 35 years, why would you stop? I thought for sure he would be doing that job for forever, and he's been very good at it. And rare is the thing. I got to think. I mean, Detroit has something that's great, but I got to think that most arenas do not have something that has lasted three and a half decades.

Yeah. No, it's impressive. I think a guy in his position, the PA in bouncer, I think, gets overlooked. I don't think he's appreciated as much as he should be. Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, I think he is here. Everyone knows the whole shtick. I think he's very appreciated down here.

Yeah, Dose Minuto. I get it.

Wow, that is dismissive of a legendary voice in this market. You just were really indifferent about it.

I am saying I don't think heat fans appreciate him and will miss him as much as 35 years of service warrants. I may be wrong.

You're doing that.

Can we put that on the poll? Dos Minutos, yeah, I get it.

It was really dismissive. If I were talking to Mike Biamonte right now and he's like, Yeah, Cody's 50-year career at the Harold. Words, I get it.

No, no. You know If Mike Biamonte were right here, Biamatti, I'm sorry, unintentional faux pas there. I would say to him directly, do you think that fans fully appreciate the career you've had? Because I just think the PA announcement is background noise that everyone assumes and takes for granted.

During a time out yesterday, Mike B addressed the crowd after they played a tribute video to him to say, After this season, I will no longer be here. And the audible, No, from the crowd was startling. I frankly was surprised and so happy for him because it's what he deserves.

Miami has very few things like this, never mind sports, period. Mike feels some of this on the University of Miami campus, what used to be Marke Light Stadium and just Marke Light Stadium is a corner shop where the people who have been going there for 35 years have an allegiance to it that's unusual. The heat fan who knows and appreciates Mike Biamonte has that reaction where it's like, No, what do you mean he's leaving? I'm used to this. It will not be the same without him because it's a very unusual community to have in such a transient town where you have just a ton of people who just go to all of the games or go to many of the games and associate this as one of the sounds with this game that takes them through, like having children, winning championships, discovering Dwyane Wade. He's the soundtrack on that.

I am glad to hear what Jeremy said, and I am happy to be wrong. I'm glad he's more appreciated than I would have imagined.

I would say he's probably a bigger soundtrack to my Miami Heat childhood than Eric Reid was. I used to walk around my house. Be careful. I used to walk around my house doing the Miami Heat starting lineup, introduction. I think Biomonte might have been a bigger thing for me as a kid. Childhood?

You're old as hell.

They weren't around when you were a child.

That's the first time Zaz has complimented me this month, the 33rd time in his career.

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Thank you. You stood for that, but you couldn't stand for the actual thing?

In my knee. I was having a bad knee day. That thing. Yeah, exactly. I had a doctor's note.

I don't want to be prisoner in the moment, but I felt like yesterday was the worst professional football day I'd ever seen in my entire life. And then I saw the stat. Do you guys know when the last time was that professional football had a full slate eight of games and there was only one one-score game in it? Do you guys want to guess the last time that happened? It's pre-salary cap, pre-legislating equality, because I wasn't prisoner of the moment. It was 1970. It was 50 bleeping years ago that there was a weekend of professional football less competitive than that one because half the teams are broken and we're halfway through the season, and now there's Andy Dalton out there trying to make a tackle throws it to A. J. Espinosa. And there's Spencer Rattler throwing the ball. Who had the more embarrassing play? Was it Andy Dalton or was it Spencer Rattler, where you're just throwing it to one of those power forwards that play defensive end They're catching it and they're stiff-arming you, you're missing the tackle, and then they're just running into the end zone.

I don't know. When Fnesza caught the ball, he juked somebody out of their shoes with a one, two. I think it was Andy Dalton who flew like six yards out the other way.

The plays that stuck with me yesterday. We're in that bangles-jets game, but I don't want to start. That was a good game. It was. It was the only good one. I want to get the funniest thing of the sports weekend, and I want to get to the hurricanes as well. But I want to start surprisingly with the Miami Heat are going to be good offensively. Hell, yeah.

Norman Powell.

If they're good offensively, then I know they're going to be good because I know they're going to be good defensively. They're always good defensively.

When do we get to sit? It's only three games. How much of a sample size do we need to say, Okay, the heat are going to play fast and they're going to be able to score.

No, but obviously, they're going to play fast. I don't know if any of that stuff works in the playoffs, but obviously, they're going to be a fun team to watch offensively. I think we can state that after three games because they look totally different offensively. This is without Tyler Hero, and they've changed. It's not that the ball's going in. They're changing the way that they're doing things, and Norman Powell's really good.

They don't call any plays. Did you hear that after? I think it was after the second game where they in Memphis. And they said, Spoden call any plays. They just run up and down the court.

Against Orlando, they played the fastest game I've ever seen them played. Then they scored a buck 40 at Memphis. They scored a buck 40.

Yesterday, they continued with that pace, even with the Knicks, a really good defensive team slowing them down. Right now, they're running on average 22 on-ball picks per 100 possessions. The all-time record for the fewest in a season is 37. 9. That's just showing the lack of plays right now where they are just getting the ball, pushing it up the court, whether it's Jaime Haka is doing it with the bench unit, whether it's Davian Mitchell in the starting unit. They are pushing the ball, and it's leading to all sorts of open shots for Simone Fantechio, amongst others.

You guys are overthinking this one, pal. Big screens. What do you thought? Terry Rozier is no longer here, and they're 2-0. We got him away. The franchise has been fumigated, and we're undefeated since he's gone.

The last time they beat the Knicks was when Terry Rozier had a, I believe, heat high 34 points in that game at the end of the 2024 season.

Under the jail.

Yes, let's say that, can we? When Bam Adamaio is saying, Oh, we all stand behind Terry. He's our brother. You got to say that, I guess. But he was dead wood, dead weight on the end of the bench. They were dying to get rid of this guy. So the FBI got rid of them, got rid of him for them. You know what?

I'm glad you mentioned You're right. They have to say that, I guess. We support him. He's our brother. But here's the thing. My first thought when I heard Bam say that, and granted, it doesn't appear to be that he was doing anything with rigging games while he was with the heat. It appears to be something that It's not going to happen with the Hornets. But do you have to support him? And the reason that I say that is because if he's rigging games, why would you support him? It's the worst thing you could do if you're a teammate. That It bothered me when they said... And you know what? The same thing with the Blazers, too, is, Oh, we support him. We love him. Well, hold on a second. If he's rigging games for you to lose, why would you support this person?

Well, Chauncey Billups wasn't rigging basketball games. He was alleged that he was rigging co-conspirator.

And he was passing along information as far as who they're going to play, not play because they're tanking.

Co-conspirator number 8 did. We don't know if that was Chauncey Billups, although who the hell was it if it wasn't Chauncey Billups?

No, it was. But in Roger's case, Why would you support someone who is actively trying to hurt the thing that you're making a living off of?

Why does Cody say you have to say that? You don't have to actually say that.

I think it's what you say if you're a teammate whose teammate has not been found guilty yet. The evidence is incriminating. I'm not going to say Terry Rozier is guilty, put him in jail, but the evidence is incriminating. Thirty unders on prop bets, 30, and all 30 of them hit in a game where he He was not on the injury list and then leaves with a mysterious ailment nine minutes in. That's incriminating.

Was the bail $6 million for Terry Rozier? That seemed impossibly high for what it is that we were talking about. Too low. $6 million as a bail. I don't know if you can look up for me other comps on that, because when I heard that, I'm like, Can that be right?

It was a $10 million bond. He had to put his $6 million home in Florida as a result. That's part of why, obviously, these guys are supporting him, because forget the fact that it was just... He's accused of one game of this, right? So if you're the guys and you haven't been a part of that where you're accused of him throwing any of your games, you can look at your brother who you've played with and say, I support this guy.

That's why I said, Granted, it doesn't seem to be with the he.

Right. And then on top of that, you're looking at a guy who was brought in in in shackles and taken from the flight. It's a It was a really different experience than someone who was allowed to turn himself in. Was that how it went down?

Was he taken off the plane?

Not off the plane, I don't believe.

No, it was in Orlando. But look, there are some politics involved here. Congress summoning Adam Silver over this. There are politics involved in what it is that's happening. Adam Silver now has to go and explain some things to Congress, and there are some optics involved. There's next to nothing. I will say this again, once you're weaponizing Fedra federal institutions for political gain, as is happening all over the place now, and you can get some black millionaires in shackles, you're going to do that. But one of the things that is interesting to me here, we glanced over this last week, how little power the NBA investigators actually have. Did you guys see this Eastern Michigan story? I don't expect you to have seen it, and it's a little difficult for me to read my notes with these bad glasses.

Greg, you up on Eastern Michigan? All the time.

You'll forgive me for a second as I find this story.

I know one player on the roster.

There was something funny in the Eastern Michigan stories in that there are some accusations because this is easier to do in college, and it's really dangerous in college. Because obviously in college, you can have players who need money. Terry Rozier ostensibly wouldn't need money when he's got a $25, $26 million contract. So if you're going to buy a player for things of these purposes and have him risk the $26 million federal jail time and everything else, it's harder to get to pro players. But the NCAA went and tried to interview the Eastern Michigan players and people near them, and they were all like, Yeah, not going to talk to you. Don't need to talk to you. You don't have any real power. We're going to threaten you by taking away your eligibility. Well, they don't have any eligibility left. So there's literally nothing the NCAA can do. It's just interesting to see that there's also nothing the NBA can do, because if you're going around Terry Rozier's family and friends, they're not going to talk to you. They've got to talk to the FBI. They might not talk to the FBI either. But when federal power is being the thing that you're hit over the head with or just NBA Investigator X, the NBA investigation is going to be incomplete because nobody needs to cooperate with that.

Yeah, but the The thing that I'm mad about, I think Heat fans are as well, how could the NBA not disclose any of this to the other team, specifically a team that then trades with this player and gives up a first-round pick? Do the Hornets have a responsibility to have told the Heat? I don't know. I can go either way on that one. But the NBA, the NBA doesn't let another team know that we're investigating. We hit a roadblock, so it's open. We can't do anything about it. But this player may be investigated by the FBI, and the Heat wind up having to give up a first-round pick. Now, granted, they gave up Kyle Lowry. I mean, that's a good day no matter what. But they still gave up a first-round pick.

But Zaz, here's the thing. So the NBA is going to tell the Heat, Hey, by the way, there's a little bit of an issue. We had a red flag come up with one of the gambling partners that says the Terry Rozier may have been allegedly fixing this game. That's right. So you're going to just uncover an entire massive investigation to the heat to another team when you have it siloed with the hornets. Hornets knew. I know, but you have it siloed there. And all of a sudden, you're going to let another team know, and then that team is going to tell another team, and then blah, blah, blah.

But they didn't actually clear this player. There's an open, essentially- They took him out of the season.

He was done with a fake injury.

That's debatable.

That's what Windhorst says that the information on this is somewhat cloudy because Shams reported the NBA cleared him and the NBA had not cleared him. And so there are some things here that are still a little bit murky, but can we talk about the product on the court for a second?

It's a good product.

Is Tyler Hero going to foul this up? Because you're doing the Terry Rozier thing. Is Tyler Hero going to make this better? It's going to be something worth watching because it's inescapable how good they look without Tyler Hero offensively. He is going to come back. There's been some questions for the entire time that he's been here about how good he can be, how good he can be at the end of games. He can get his own shot at the end of games. I still think the heat are going to have trouble at the end of close games playing this way.

That's what it is, though. That right there is where Tyler Hero is going to help. We saw it at the end of the game in Orlando where they really couldn't score the last few minutes. We saw it for a small stretch last night as well. Having an extra guy who could create and make junk shots when the defense is tied up, that's where he's going to help.

What a wonderful problem for the best coach in the NBA to have is to integrate his all-star player into what's already good.

But he's ball dominant, and they need Davian Mitchell's defense in the starting lineup.

The other thing, too, is this offense has worked because there's been no ball stopper. In years past, you had Jimmy, who's a ball stopper. You have different players, Tyler Hero, also Jimmy and Tyler, trying to share one ball. And you're looking at it and saying, All right, can Tyler Hero come in and actually buy into what the offense is that they want to run? Or is he going to be like, No, I'm back as my all-star self. Give me the ball. I'm going to shoot 22 times a game.

But that's why he can contribute because offensively, when they were playing with Pace last year at the very beginning of the season, he was a huge contributor to that. It was only when Jimmy started taking the ball and dominating it the way that he did, and they needed to build the offense around that. Jaime Haukes Jr, another perfect example. Everybody looked at him as like another version of Jimmy Butler that was going to operate from the high post and was going to just use different post moves. No, he's better in this free-flowing offense. Tyler Hero will be the same way, but they had to build an offense around Jimmy Butler before. Tyler seems like someone who, if willing to just be a piece of it and get his the way Norman Powell has, he'll be a greater piece of this offense.

Stop being a homer, bro.

Jaime Haukes had some trouble last year, faded over the stretch, vanished, didn't do much in the way of improving. I still have, unfortunately, the text string that Jeremy started with an assortment of people that says, Hyme Haukes is the next Jimmy Butler.

That was the name of the group chat until I changed it to, Kala, where is the next Victor Wemenyama?

Yeah. Oh, wow. But Hyme Haukes has been very good. This is an interesting question for later. It's not the question for now, three games in. But once Tyler Hero is in the Harlow songs, Jack Harlow songs, and he is the All-Star, can he even go back to being 6th-Man guy? Can he even go back to being the role that he was so good at when he was good enough to be six man of the year? Is that something... Once you've been an All-Star, do you come back, you miss three games, and you're like, You guys miss me? And they're like, No, not so much.

I'm the man, right? And they're like,.

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Dan Levatard. All these high-paid analysts. I don't want to mention names. Tnt, ESPM. They are dead. They're not going to make it. Even if they win, if they lose in Miami-I need to calmI need to calm you down.

I need to calm you down. That's right.

If they lose in Miami, they don't got a chance in Boston. Oh, they are going to have their ass in Boston. Stugats. They were wrong. Are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting. What is the obvious? They're going to say, Oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? They are not going to win at all. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

Moving on to the University of Miami and what it is, and we'll get to the dolphins in a second because Tyrie Kill is lecturing us, sermonizing and taking a victory lap on Twitter saying, Where's everybody now that they beat Kirk Cousins without Drake London?

Let me say something really quick. Let me say something quick. I'm sorry about my Kirk Cousins' mistakes. He's dead. It's over.

Oh, my God.

Lost all trade values No, forget trade value.

Forget Trade Valley. Forget Trade Valley. I'm off the plane. I'm off the ship. I'm off the train. I'm off everything on Kirk Cousins, Dan. I'm sorry to report. I'm sorry to report.

You finally capitulated on the quarterback.

Yes, I'm sorry to report. Kirk Cousins, dead to me.

Okay, a couple of things. I guess we're not going to start on the University of Miami since Kirk Cousins is now dead to the Tony. Kirk Cousins is making $45 million a year. That is the money that you give Micah Parsons. That's the money you give T. J. Watt. That's a backup quarterback making $45 million a year. And once you take away Drake London and have him only throwing to a tight end, oh, look, Béjon Robinson is having the fourth worst game of his career. And all of a sudden, a terrible run defense can stop the run because they're not afraid at all of $45 million Kirk Cousin throwing it to Kyle Pitz.

What is this league?

I mean, when you miss your wide receiver one and your QB one, the deck is stacked.

That's a good point because Harland yelled on the Waddle He yelled, Wow, what is going on?

I love that call.

And what is going on is exactly that. Is QB one and wide receiver one are out, and all of a sudden, Béjon Robinson is not one of the top three runningbacks in the league. He can't get anything going because the Dolphins can suddenly stop the run when every back in the league and every backup running back in the league is gone for 100 yards against them. But Béjon Robinson, who's every bit as good as Jonathan Taylor and Saquon Barkley, can't get anything I'm going in that game because it's Kirk Cousins to Kyle Pitz.

Congrats, Miami Dolphins fans. You support a team that the opposing team looks at like, Let's hold them out this week.

Cody, what were your thoughts on that Dolphins game?

I give the Dolphins a little bit more credit than you guys are doing. They stopped Béjian Robinson. They tried to establish the run. Their offensive line was the same. He was getting the ball, and they stopped him. And that's why they started throwing as much as they could. Plus, They were way behind. I give the Dolphins credit. Look, if you're going to rightly slam the dolphins a week ago for a 31 to 6 loss in Cleveland and say they quit, where was the effort? Okay, if you're going to do that and you think that's legit, then one week later, you got to give them credit. To me, and call me a homer, I don't care. I've heard it before and I've heard worse. To me, this was an example of the dolphins being embarrassed nationally, being mocked nationally and locally, called quitters This was their answer yesterday. I thought it was a very good performance. I don't care if it's a backup quarterback and no Drake London. And nobody hurts for Drake London missing that game more than me because he's one of the top players on Greg's low ball.

I was going to ask you about it, if you're upset about that.

That was tough, man. Between six teams being on buys and having a couple of injuries like that, and that's a last-minute injury. I had to scramble home from lunch and make my lineup change just before the deadline. But having said that, I thought the Dolphins played very well. I would like to see them get a modicum of credit for yesterday.

Would you serve? Would you serve up for lunch?

We went out to lunch in an unnamed burger joint near us.

The journey to 7: 10 begins. The journey to the 12th pick begins.

Okay, so you're getting carried away. I'm just saying-7 and 10. That would mean you think they're going to win six of their final 10 games. I hope they don't.

Look, they did the last time, they were two and six.

I'm just saying this is the Dolphins' Dolphining. I don't believe they're any They're good. I think they're what they were a couple of weeks ago, but they're going to do this. They're going to annoy us, win a few games, and they're going to get the 12th pick. Okay.

The thing that that attitude doesn't take into mind is that teams don't tank. Okay? Players are not built that way. Nfl players are not wired that way. That's why you saw the defensive effort you saw yesterday. That's why you saw the tua you saw yesterday, who had a terrific game. Because you get mocked and people kick you, You want to get back up. Jordan Brooks, who leads the NFL in tackles, said that after the game. When we're down that far, we stand up. We're proud athletes.

Can I just stop you for a second? Because you're right, much of what you're saying is correct. However, the two things that are variables here that are unusual. One, I don't often hear Kevin Harland scream, Wow, what is going on? That's a good Harland, actually. That's so great. And Falcons fans were booing in the third quarter because they knew what was being lost to. It's not just that the Falcons were frustrated because they were bad. They were losing to a one in six team. Can you guys tell me what happened in the first quarter? Tua did throw a couple of interceptable balls, right? Because in the first quarter, I was driving around. I was listening actually to the Atlanta broadcast. We all know why. And the Atlanta- Whoa. Whoa what? He's got some thoughts on that. I saw them on Twitter. Twitter, but the Atlanta broadcast described on the opening, shutdown drive that the dolphins had. I don't know what happened, but the announcement was yelling, They put a paycheck on your stool every Thursday to catch that. Because somebody dropped a very easy interception, and I didn't see the first half of the first quarter.

I like the idea of just the paycheck sitting on everyone's stool. No direct deposit. When they come into a locker room.

Anyone see my paycheck? Old-time paper checks.

Can we talk about how the day started for Dolphin Fins, which was a report that Tua has got a swollen eye now out of nowhere. He woke up with a really swollen-looking eye. Definitely pink eye.

I was like, Come on, the internet is trolling me now.

It's just like you read that and you're like, Wow, they're going to get blown out. This somehow is more of a circus, a swollen eye out of nowhere. And then he has his best game of the season.

By the way, that would be interception was a pass that was batted at the line, flipping up in the air, and the defensive player should have had it.

That was the call that I heard on the radio on my way home from the airport.

That's a tough one for that team to call.

It's a tough one for that play-by-play man to call. How'd Cefalo do? He did exactly how you'd expect. It's like we're being told the game with his eyes closed. At one point, it was two... I swear to you, on that play that you were talking about- Can you do the replay?

Can you reenact it right now?

Well, no, because I wouldn't be able to be that terrible at it. But it was two of it was sacked, then Then the pass was intercepted, and then the pass was incomplete. All three of those things happened on that plate. I'm driving in my car. I'm being told two of it was sacked. Then I'm being told it's an interception, and then I was told it was incomplete.

It's not fair to put Jimmy Sefflo in a radio booth that far away from the action and expect him.

He's got to be using binoculars, right?

I picture it just like- It's not a fair thing to do. When you say Tua had his best game, the reason The reason he had his best game is because he threw everything within 2. 5 seconds, and everything, the average air pass was 3. 7 yards. I'm a little frustrated with the Dolphin offense, how often it throws to Achan, how often it throws the ball sideways. But they did the move of bringing the offensive coordinator down to the sidelines so that Tua stops thinking. So he just stops thinking, throw everything in 2. 5 seconds, and that's why he had his best game of the year.

Yeah, I agree with that. But that's a big move. That's a good move by Mike McDaniel that worked, bringing Frank Smith, the OC, down from his press box perch.

But why, though? Mcdaniel calls the plays. Why does that even matter?

Because Frank Smith develops the strategy, the play. To Dan's point, he's probably into his ear after every series or during a series, during a time out, in his ear telling him what to do and what not to do.

Everyone talks about how it was two point whatever seconds he was getting out as fast as he has all season and how that's a really good thing. I don't think it's a good thing. If you're getting the ball out that fast, there's no... The play is not developing for a huge play. It's, okay, hopefully my first option is available, and I'm going to do it immediately. It doesn't matter whatever else is happening.

But it is how they had the number one offense in the league and best passing offense when they had it at 9: 00 and 2: 00 is because he was getting everything out faster than Tom braided did. That is where they had their success, and the absence of that is where he and they have been figured out.

Then you have these third and 10 plays. I know you talk about how we're throwing it horizontally. There was this one third and 10 where they throw the screen pass, which resulted in no yards. I'm just imagining, like Moreno must be watching, and on third and 10, we're throwing the screen pass. It must just be projectile vomit. I I don't understand the league when it comes to that.

There's no greater example of watching Aaron Rodgers' age than seeing him on third and 10 being a quarterback who I don't trust to convert a third and 10.

It's such a scared league now when it comes to offense.

Okay, but it worked yesterday. When they're throwing a screen pass to Echan in space, that's what he's turning into. The last two countdown passes were 43 and 20 yards. Long plays, both were screen passes. Both were catching runs. It was working. And by the way, Atlanta went into that game with the number one rated pass defense in the NFL in terms of fewest passing yards per game allowed. Part of that granted because teams tend not to be passing against them.

Well, it also... Dolphins didn't light them up in the air. He threw it for 200 yards. That's true.

No, that's fair.

They were efficient.

Wow. What is going on? That was when the Dolphins got to 24 points. Just Kevin Harland has watched a lot of football and Waddle running in the open field was something that totally baffled him.

Don Levatard.

We got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up.

He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see him mother-effic.

Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone, Greg.

My microphone's on.

Stugatz.

Paint the scene.

The paint the scene is I got to go to work. Good night.

This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats.

I did want to get, though, to the University of Miami. It seems like their uniforms is what everyone is talking about. I've seen no one say anything positive about their uniforms. That first half that they played against Stanford was abysmal, was just truly horrible.

A lot of Defensively.

Yes. Well, Stanford's offense is terrible. Andrew luck is on- I understand, but the defense is special. Andrew Luck was chief cheerleader on the sidelines. They spent a lot of time on Andrew Luck during the telecast. Did you guys hear- It was magical.

I couldn't hear it.

I ride my bike to work every day.

Yeah, it's so ridiculous. That bicycle video. Hilarious. Stage for the camera. That guy hadn't been on a bike in 20 years.

I don't believe that. I believe that Andrew luck probably- More likely to not be in a car in 20 years. I believe that Andrew luck... In fact, if you ask me what's more likely, Andrew luck takes a horse to the athletic department or a car, I would say a horse. Yeah. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Does Andrew Luck's parking space have a car or a horse in it? It has a post? So you could tie up the horse on a post.

Yeah, a hitching post.

At the Stanford athletics Department. Did anyone like the uniforms? Because at the very least- I did.

I thought they were terrific. Great message to send to the nation. He's trying to-support the troops.

The military, yeah.

That's the worst thing I've ever seen Miami wear. Terrible. It was a really disappointing first half. I think one takeaway here is, over the course of Shannon Dawson's time at Miami, I can tell when he doesn't trust his quarterback fully. I don't understand why, because this quarterback is weeks removed from winning you a game on the road, from FSU deciding they were going to commit taking away the run and the play action working and the deep pass is working. If you don't think Carson Beck can bounce back from a couple of interceptions against Louisville, then you didn't watch Carson Beck over at Georgia because that guy would keep it moving. This is not a Tyler Van Dyke situation. And they called that first half as if they had Tyler Van Dyke under center, and they had to protect this delicate little snowflake with, again, a conservative running game. It's not just the fact that you're running the ball because we saw in the second half, they broke through. It's the nature of these run plays.

It's so stubborn.

You know what? I miss Kam Ward, and not for the obvious reasons. What Kam Ward did last year, every damn play, he's checking out of runs. He's just counting how many people are in the box and how many guys are on their line of scrimage. And sometimes you can mitigate that. You can put a fullback back there. Miami had some big plays when they even the numbers up. But Carson Beck's not checking out of these runs. You're running into a stacked box hoping that you'll get a different result. Now, you wore Sanford down, and you did towards the tail end of the game. But I think it was an overcorrection by the Miami staff. I think they took the attitude, Let's just get a clean game against Sanford and get this thing back on track. But I didn't like the approach in that first half, especially.

Is there a chance Carson Beck just couldn't see his players in the first half because of the camouflage? And it took adjusting.

The camouflage was- I was at the game.

I had trouble seeing the receivers. I was trying to look out there. I'm like, I don't know.

I can't believe we wore that. It was awful.

It was really abysmal.

Just terrible. I don't know how you have a University of Miami uniform with no orange in All black would have been dope with just the camo down the side. But you've got to have orange in the University of Miami's uniform.

This was my problem with those dolphin uniforms. It's not the dolphins. That's not the hurricanes.

It's over. It's behind us. Our national nightmare is now done. They will never wear those things again. So help me God.

I didn't hate them. I didn't hate them. I'm just going to put it out there. I didn't hate them. I don't think they look good on TV, but when I saw them in the pictures and during the social media, I was like, You know what?

I like them. When they changed the color of what they looked like so that nobody would realize how dreadful they were? Because that's what happens on social media with the bad- Dreadful is a strong word.

You don't support the troops.

Those are truly dreadful.

I don't care if they're camo.

Those are bad uniforms. You don't support the troops?

I don't like those uniforms.

Do you support the troops, yes or no?

He won't answer the question. I'm not going to answer the question. I'm not going to answer the question.

I'm not going to take a quiz. Do you like camo?

I'm not going to take a quiz. Do you like camo? Do you like camo? Thank you, Greg.

Finally, someone said it.

Good. I'm glad we got here, finally.

Somehow the second worst.

I hate America.

Somehow on the second worst uniforms of the weekend, too.

The Steeler one?

Yeah, really bad. The Steelers were just abysmals. The Steelers were bad, too. What's that design on the front? The stripes and the Vs. It's just horrible, but not as bad as the UM uniform. I disagree. I love the military. Nobody loves the military more than I do. But the uniforms were terrible. When I see that color, olive, I want to put that in a martini. I want two olives on a spear in my martini. I don't want to see it in my football uniforms. It's ridiculous. It really is.

It is ridiculous.

Yeah. Thank you.

Speaking of olives, Roy and Mike and me were at the game, thanks to Mike. God, that's how I watch football now. Zaz, those seats?

I know. That's where I sit at the games now.

And this buffet spread that they had, Roy comes back to our table with nine olives. Wow. What's the limit? At these buffet things, what's the max of olives I should put on my plate?

I think the max just makes sure you leave some for the next person.

I mean, it was like he had a big plate.

What's the spread looking like, Chris? It was a great spread.

What's outside? There's pizzas, pastas, desserts, cookies. The other side, we got steak with the chimichurri. Then you got your regular hot dogs, chicken wings, chicken tenders.

And Roy came back with 96 olives?

At least nine, and I may have undersold it.

Good for him.

We're cool with this? There's no rules at a buffet?

No. Look, you can take as much as you can fit in your mouth in one time. Anybody can put nine olives in their mouth. All right. I need nine olives. You don't even notice it. I have nine olives in my mouth.

You can't do nine olives in one time.

You don't know I have any olive in my mouth.

Notice it.

I'm going to get you olive. Go ahead. I love olives.

Go get nine olives and let's test his theory here. Let's see if we will notice. Go get nine olives and let's see if we can notice whether Greg Cody- I'm not sure that's in our fridge.

I love olives like I love bacon. There should be some an amalgam there, like an olive, bacon or something. Get on that culinary, Wizaz.

What? Okay, put it on the poll. Should there be an amalgam of olives and bacon? Is nine olives too many olives to take from a buffet. I've got a number of questions here. Worst uniforms from this weekend, University of Miami or Pittsburgh's uniforms. It's close. I missed a couple. But let's get back to Mike's point, because this isn't something that I I've heard a whole lot in covering football in South Florida, not trusting your quarterback with audibles. The last time I remember it being a conversation around here was Dan Moreno being offended at the end of his career that Jimmy Johnson would not allow him to check out of run plays. And that offense that I saw against Stanford, a really bad football team, that's a half that will get you beaten against a good football team. You'll be down and you won't be able to dig out of it because your quarterback is trying to throw his way back into the game.

It's what happened against Louisville.

It's not a way to play football not trusting your quarterback.

Please don't misrepresent. I don't know if they trust him or not. I just know it's not happening. And I knew it happened a ton last year, where Kam Ward checked out of run plays and made Shane and Dawson look like a genius. I don't know if the directive is, you can't and Kam could, and that's just it. Carson Beck's just not doing it for whatever reason. And that's why you get the repetitive run game up the A-Gap and with varying degrees of success. My whole thing is, Carson Beck should be trusted. This is not Tyler Van Dy. He should be. Look, man, do you want a drive ending because of two runs up the A-Gap in a tunnel screen? Or occasionally a deep shot arm punt? I think Carson Beck has shown in his career that he can rebound from bad performances and interceptions. I think we went into that game way too cautious.

I think he should be trusted because if they don't trust him, they're not winning shit this year.

I think they have the discussion like, Hey, if we limit turnovers, we can hang with anybody. And that may be true. But I'm just saying, you invested in this quarterback. The quarterback's got arm talent. And again, you're two games removed from him actually doing the thing that you're scared and calling in games like he's not able to do. He can go on the road. He can win you a game. He can take what the defense gives him. One bad performance against Louisville, where they made astonishing interceptions. And by the way, that luck worked out a little bit because he threw an early one that should have been intercepted. I just don't see it. I think it's an overcorrection. You play a defense in which you're going to have more possessions at SMU. Trust the quarterback. Let's move on.

Well, they're going to need more of Beck at SMU. No question. That's going to be a tougher game. I think against Stanford, even at halftime, 7-7, stubborn Mario is not worried about that game. He knows he's going to win in the second half, maybe not score 35 points, but it was a predictable outcome, even at 7-7 at the half. Who was worried?

Well, but hold on a second, though. I was a little bit worried. Let me just stop.

I was worried of never getting invited back if I went and Stanford beat him.

Let me stop you for just a second when Mike says, Running the ball up the middle with varying degrees of success. Over the last two games, that's not been a varying degree of success. I've been surprised that they're very good running back. They've got a couple, but Fletcher, specifically, and that offensive line has been stopped.

He had 106 yards.

Okay, but he had it in the second half.

Yes, which is If you're Mario Cristobal, you point to, Look, it works. Which I'm saying, no. They got a couple of big plays now. Malikai Tony, who is an absolute joy to watch in person. He's just a brilliant athlete to watch live and in person. He broke three tackles on a good play that went outside, but they had two big running plays on the outside. And I'm not asking for a revamp of the identity. By the way, Alex Mirabal designs the run game. Dawson calls the plays, but they obviously have more A-Gap runs than any other team in the nation. I'm not asking all of a sudden, let's become an outside zone running team. I'm not asking for that. I'm asking for four more looks a game, honestly. And it was great to see Jordan Lowe get into the end zone. Hopefully, that builds his confidence. But his skillset, he can run a gap for you and he can pull away. But get that guy in space. Get that guy outside.

Mike When Chris Cody says the way that he did, he's small. The other thing about him is he's not that fast. He's fast or he's quick.

He's quick in the game.

He's quick, but he was caught from behind against Louisville. Look, he's fast, but he's not the fastest player on the field.

He's not Rosco Parish. But you think that because he's so fast in the game.

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