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And the argument on the other side, simply enough, is that Indiana has a plus 473 point differential this season. That's the best of any team since 2019. Clemson haven't lost a game and have dragged the two most recent opponents. And there's plenty of sound now in the library for how laughable it will sound if indeed you are right, America, that that line, that betting line is not disrespectful. It's where it should be. The money tells you where it is, and the money says, Indiana, on Miami's home field is a seven and a half point favorite. You understand why that's funny to me, correct?

It's funny because history. Yeah, you followed this sport. Indiana is the second most losing major program ever. Look, don't get it twisted. If Indiana does what the sportsbook say it's supposed to do, which is come down here to Miami and win this game that they're a seven and a half point favorite in, Indiana can lay claim to greatest team of all time. No team has ever gone 16 and 0. You mentioned the point differential. You mentioned they slayed the defending champion in the Big Ten Championship game. They've gone through Alabama. And to do it against Miami, who's gone through its own murderer's row in Miami, I know that they don't have the talent of Jamal Chase or Sean Taylor and Ed Reid, but they're going to be in that discussion, especially with a Heisman-winning quarterback. And the fact that no one else has ever gone 16 to no and in a power conference, get out of here. That's greatest team of all time talk. The point differential thing is a bit of a mirage because you look at their schedule, they didn't really play a ton of tough teams. Kennesaw State, they beat 56-9. Indiana State, they beat 73-0.

Larry Bird wasn't there for that one.

No, it was the Illinois game.

Ucla 56-6. Maryland, 58-10.

They'll put up 50 plus on you.

Oh, look. On a bad team.

Look, it's getting more Cuban in here.

We've got- Purdue, they beat 56-3, Zaz.

We've got another college football expert and Cristible ally and friend, and more Cuban than most of us. Jorge Sedano. Is this indeed Jorge Sedano Miami style, or is this Hollywood George?

No, hold on, Dan.

. The city has gotten electric here early. Tuesday, you can't have the loud Cubans in town this early. George, stay there for a second because Diana's on the phone. She's very busy this time of year. She's a senior NFL insider for the Athletic. She's the host of the Scoop City podcast, and we have 15 minutes of her precious time. It is very valuable. Football is lunacy. It is crazed. It is not overreaction to say, right? Last night's game stunk. Not surprising. The end for Aaron Rodgers will be interesting to people, I suppose. Best I've ever seen four-time MVP, collapses, wheels fall off at the end. Tomlin hasn't won a playoff game in eight years. Bored by that team, bored by everything happening there. Eight years, you're exactly the same team. I'm really happy that Mike Tomlin is as great as he is. It's an amazing tribute to his stability. But they are the same team every single year. They've had three coaches their entire history. That team is not good enough, and their season ended the way you it would with a defense that is championship worthy. Thank you for being with us. But Denver and Houston have defenses.

Which is the better defense?

All of that? To ask me what's the better defense? First of all, hello. Joey says hello. Thank you so much for last week being patient with us while he was fighting that little stomach bug that he lovingly gave to his mother, which I received yesterday. We had a fun day here in our It's too much information, Diana, but thank you for bringing it back up.

Greg Cody's stomach did make that noise in the last segment. He was too embarrassed to tell it. It would have been comedically perfect. He's had only coffee this morning and probably too much of it. The sound came from his belly. Now that's where we are. Right. I'm flying on caffeine. Diana, they call it dancing swords in my house. That means when you've got that sound in your stomach, you're going to repair quickly to another room in the house. I'm just saying that. I'm not going to get into any details.

Yes. You paint a beautiful picture of what I was doing all day yesterday, except it was more from this part of my body. All right. Which was crazy because I was at that Eagles Niners game on Sunday. And in the postgame, obviously, you can imagine there was so much to gather because there was so much excitement for the Niners after such a great win. And then, of course, the demise of this Philadelphia Eagles team. And I was fine. I was completely fine. And I do regret one thing. I did eat a hot dog, which I haven't had a hot dog in probably five years. But that's all the Philly press box had. And I was like, I need to eat something because I've got a long night ahead. And I drove home, and it was like a two-hour ride. And the whole ride, I'm like, something's not right. Something is not good here.

You never want a stomach bug. But if you're going to pick a time to have a stomach bug, we all agree, post-holidays. You're rooting for that. Not a terrible. Just take it easy.

Do you think it's worse to have the stomach bug as the driver or the passenger? Because I kept thinking, I wish I was in an Uber right now because I could open the window, I could breathe. I mean, I guess I could do that while I was driving, but I would pull over, I don't know, every 15, 20 miles and just on the New Jersey turn bike and just be like, Okay, we got this. And the self-talk is incredible because you just don't I want to... Because I knew if I lost it, what was I going to do? Just stay on the side of the highway at midnight, one in the morning. But I was able to toughen it up, and I got all the way home.

This is great stuff. Only here can you hear Diana Rossini talking about Pinching a Loat.

Yeah, thank you. That's the exclusive domain of everything we're building here. There was plenty of football to talk about. I want to talk about the Eagles in a second, but you will forgive me. Video, can you please put the center of that room on camera just real quick? Not my parents, no, please. In center of the room, there's a person in there who seems to be dressed like a wrestler, and I don't know who that person is. I can't see from here.

It's the host of the game show that I just cooked up. It's called Domino. And that is a former CCW Southeastern heavyweight champion, Domino. Yeah, that's Domino. Who is the most Cuban person I have ever met in my entire life.

More Cuban than Sedano?

Yeah. More Cuban than Sedanos. All right? This guy- Spoiler alert. Yeah. This dude is aggressively Cuban. I watched him in a street fight last week, and he was bleeding. What? He won.

That's all the matter. Spoiler alert. Okay, so that game show is coming up. But the Philadelphia Eagles, that punctuation, make it in fiction, out of your imagination, a worse ending than the one we've got for A. J. Brown in Philadelphia. Just what that city is going to feel about him at what should be a time in Philadelphia to be really grateful for the team that you had that ran physically rough shot over everyone, and then this season ground to a halt, three and outs, because however constipated they are with the football.

Yeah, well, to steal domino's name. It really was a domino effect going back to probably October, when it was really apparent that A. J. Brown was not happy. I feel like nobody wanted to hear it. Everyone was in denial that, how could a team with so much talent not not figure it out. And it was obvious that this offense didn't feel like they could be... They weren't playing up to their potential. And everyone is just blaming everybody, right? Jalen Hertz appeared to be blaming the offensive coordinator. Aj Brown was blaming Jalen Hertz. There wasn't a lot of pointing back at themselves. That was something I noticed throughout the whole season. No one ever came up to the podium or spoke to reporters and said, I need to be better. I have to do a better job. Everyone just sat in the muck, in the yuck of this isn't good. Because here's the thing, that's the truth. I think now everyone knows. You should not be surprised that the Philadelphia Eagles lost in the first round of the playoffs. That should not be surprising. What did they show us this this year. At what point did this offense ever put together a performance that made you go, this team is going back to the Super Bowl.

They never did. The only times they looked at decent were against the Giants, right? And that was just okay.

The back end of the Rams game. Look, the Rams, this The board is weird, man. It's weird and it's crazy. So let me just step back from what you witnessed this weekend, okay? The dogs, okay, all of the underdogs, the chargers end up collapsing at their end because their offensive line shouldn't have been in the playoffs. All the other underdogs, either one or covered. The league is that close. And one of the games has in the Rams, what I believe to be the best team in the league, only lose if they have three turnovers. It's going to beat Seattle, except they could have used that rest, and that game needs to be at home. And they might have thrown away their season because they're a five seed because they left five of these close games. They played Carolina. Worst point differential history of the league, fighting for their life in the first road game because of how hard all this shit is after an extra game and all these bodies are broken.

Yeah, you have a- You missed out on the Niners, too.

Pick one thing. The most interesting thing from this weekend is a football I really care about this history and perspective-wise. Crazy week. The most interesting thing in it was what?

To me, it was the San Francisco 49ers figuring out a way to win. I know we just spent a few minutes talking about that the eagles stink. But, Dan, I had the card in front of me in the press box with the roster, and I was playing a game with myself of, Can I name the starting linebackers of the San Francisco 49ers without looking? I didn't know who these dudes were and were in the playoffs here because they've been able to just piecemeal... Yes, Kyle Shannon has been brilliant. Robert Salah was brilliant. The Philadelphia Eagles were outcoached on Sunday. So I've always thought the Niner story was cute. Like, look at these guys. They're playing with passion. They're playing with heart. They're finding ways to win. But I didn't think they'd be able to make it this far. So to me, that's been one of the best stories in football. This is a team that's been decimated.

It's interesting to hear you say that because in empirically, that sounds right in the value of things. How does San Francisco, even though all of its best players are hurt, how do they go and dethrone the most physical team and the defending champion and they lose Kittle during the game? How, year after year, do they physically get to this point when they should have broken three times this season? How are they with Seattle as an organization and with the Rams when physically this whole thing should have been ground to dust? You would agree? I asked that question. And yet they still somehow win, and it's a mystery. It's a mystery.

I don't know if it's a mystery. I think it's actually pretty simple to understand. You have a really good head coach who knows how to scheme and puts the work in and has the pulse of this team and understands ways to win and how to take advantages of the things that they've been facing. But also just asking guys like Trent Williams and Chris McAfree after the game, Give me just in one sentence why you are able to be here right now. And they're like, We got nothing to lose. We're not supposed to be here. And I think that's a dangerous place for a team to be in, at least for the opponents, right? This is a good spot because they're playing loose. It's just crazy.

I'm sorry to interrupt you, Diana. It's just crazy to me that the San Francisco 49ers are in this position again, because you're saying that they're playing loose, and Seattle and the Rams have looked than them all season. They carried part of their season with Mac Jones. Darnold and Stafford don't miss games. San Francisco got to hear fighting with these two teams with Mac Jones in the middle. You're basically telling me empirically that they have a coaching advantage that is seismic between whatever number one and number two is in this league. That it's not small. It's like people don't understand the difference in value there.

Yeah. And look, he is definitely going to be up there for Coach of the Year We turned in our nominations last week. I think it's going to be neck and neck with Vrabel. I'm interested to see what the voting is going to wind up being because obviously, you can give Mike also tons of credit for what they're doing with this Patriots team. And the reason why I leaned towards Vrabel when I was discussing this with some people, I think just when you look at what they've done, how they've bounced back from what they were last year. And it's not like Drake Mays got these incredible pieces around him either.

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I just really am. The body count, Warner, Bosa, Trent Williams is not himself anymore. No. Physically, It's obvious that he's just... Of course, the game is going to physically break all of them. Kittle goes down during the game. Purdy, Pearsall. Purdy's Mr. Irrelevant, last in the draft. Pearsall has been shot.

And he missed less games.

And get played with a bullet immediately.

You know I embrace my stupidity pretty comfortably at this point. And so I've known Trent for years. I covered him in Washington, and so we came up together. So he's one of the very few players that when I see, it's just like A really genuine conversation of catching up. And so I see him, and my brain's going 100 miles an hour because I got a million things I want to do and see and people I want to talk to. And I'm like, Hey, man, what's up? I'm like, How are you doing? You guys are great. I'm like, How are you feeling? And he just, in the coldest look, was like, Not good at all. And I was like, What's up? He's like, My ham string? I'm like, Yeah, but you're active. He's like, I'm active because I have to be. It's the playoffs. So I saw him after the game. I was like, How's that ham string? He's like, Not great.

Okay, Diana, you're sitting here, you're grinning maniacly at the toughness of this human being. Can we just for a moment, examine these incredibly strong people, human beings, are breaking each other every week? Trent Williams has been the best and the strongest among them for many years. He's part of why San Francisco is so good. And while Shana Khan can look that good, he's been physically dominant forever. Of course, that's going to break his body. It's going to be totally broken, and now he can't play anymore. But he's He's on the field. Warner and Bosa are in the box, and they don't have anyone out there except Mr. Irrelevant. Ayuk's not out there. They don't have players. You've got Fred Warner. Fred Warner is trying to get back.

They're not going to open the practice window this week, but if they can get past Seattle- No, he's not going to get back with a bro.

No.

The buzz, the buzz is they're trying to get Fred back. So then you have this. Then you have in the second quarter, George Kittle goes down. I mean, everyone can see it on camera what happened. So The Athletic had sent eight reporters there to the game. So I was sitting next to Mike Silver, my colleague. I'm like, I'm going to go to the tunnel and see if anything happens because it's George Kittle. He's incredibly magnetic, and he's got such a big personality. And he doesn't strike me as a guy that's going to get injured and just put a towel over his head. So I went down to the tunnel, and I see his wonderful wife, Claire, and Jed York, the owner, just walk in there. And they look miserable for obvious reasons. And so I'm just about to walk walk off, and I see a guy that I'd seen on the field that worked for the Niners, and he had a tequila bottle under his arm, and he went into the locker room. And I didn't want to make assumptions, but it was pretty obvious that that tequila bottle was for George Kittle. And it turns out that they took shots, and they basically just drank their heads off at halftime, or at least through the game, because he was so miserable.

And Jed York had walked in there and was like, Hey, man, can I do anything for you? And George was like, Yeah, can I get some tequila? So after the game, all the players went in there and they see George, and he's hammered, and he's like, Let's go. And everyone started taking shots, and that bottle was on the floor empty, obviously. So it was quite a celebration in a locker room from a team that wasn't probably expected to knock out the Super Bowl champ.

To slay that giant on the road, Mac Jones and Mr. Irrelevant, again, without their receivers, now without their tight end. It's lunacy. Philadelphia, To me, wherever it is, I understand that Philadelphia gets emotional about these things, but there is no shame in being dethroned by that thing, which is represented the elite- No, there is shame.

I disagree. You are more talented. You are naturally more gifted on your field, right? And that's credit to how they structured this team. You've had the luck of very few injuries outside Lane Johnson, right? You are the better team on the field. Everybody knows that, based on who's able to play. And you let that slip away. You let a team that wanted it more knock you out at home, at the link, coming off a Super Bowl. That's embarrassing.

Against a San Francisco team that had just gotten its ass kicked by Seattle in a really meaningful game. What was it? 16 to three? 19 to three? Thirteen to three. Well, the Seattle defense can ransack you in the spot this weekend, Diana. Every team that's ever had the rest Seattle has wins this game. The only reason people wouldn't believe that they'll win this game is Sam Darnold. It is two words, and people won't make it about more than that. We've seen... Shana Hans, brilliant. Seattle in the game for everything, before the games for everything, ransacked him. Shana Hans never looked that bad. Shana Hans, coaching genius. It didn't matter that he'll beat you with Darnal. Mcdonald will beat you. He'll be 15 and 2, and he'll beat you on the road with Darnal, and he'll beat you on the road with Gino Smith. That's what's It happened twice, correct?

I am not going to sit up here and say the San Francisco 49ers are going to beat the Seattle Seahawks. I can just tell you if a team that is going to continue this mentality that we've got nothing to lose with maybe the carrot of a return of Fred Warner in the corner with a motivated defensive coordinator who's trying to get a head coaching job is basically just putting on a display of his own talent and skillset as a coach, I don't know. And look, you're acting like Sam Darnold's had ultimate success in the playoffs. Isn't his narrative, isn't the story that he's not able to get off and get to the other side here?

We have the call of Get Sam Darnold Seeing Ghost, the last Minnesota season that ended here when we dare to believe that Minnesota was what Seattle is this year. Zazla, I want you to get in here, and I also want to start speeding all of this up, not because I mean to do this, Diana, but because there's so much to get to with you that I need to speed it up a 30 second bites on each. Because let's start with Mike Tomlin. That's eight straight years with no playoff victories and doomed in this purgatory of, We're always going to win this many games, and should we bring Aaron Rodgers back? Oh, it's all over in Pittsburgh. It's not going to look any better than that. They're another team that needs a quarterback.

I think it will look different. Look, we don't know what the future is going to be. I know the Steelers want Aaron Rodgers back. We'll see if he continues to play. We'll see what Mike Tomlin decides to do. I think TV is a real thing. I think him stepping away is on the table. I don't think that's just a gossipy rumor thing. That's one of those things that everyone around football is wink-winking. Tomlin is going to probably do this. He also has another year in his deal. He may want to return as well. So you have those options there. Then you've got their general manager has got great relationships with a guy like Mike McCarthy. We'll see what happens if Tomlin does step away. Where are they going to go? Because Guys, look at this coaching cycle right now. It's out of control. I can't even keep track of how many people the Titans are interviewing right now.

I need to speed you up. Okay, Diana, look. So I know there's a lot here, and I'm going to tighten you up. This is going to be right here. This game, 30 seconds on each thing, and then we got to hit her with a sound of some sort that tells her time's up, because I know you can talk for 10 minutes on each of the subjects I'm about to give you.

Just tell her to be quicker.

Thank you. Guys, you need to be quicker, too.

Yeah, faster.

I don't understand why you guys want to speed me up. If I have good information, you should slow down. That's exactly right. I'm more than what I'm giving you. Short attention, man. I'm not the person to speed up if I'm a football fan. I'm the one you go, Hey, stop talking, and let her tell you everything she knows. Slow down, if anything.

We have to wrap.

No, I'd say the 30 seconds.

All right.

Let's not fight over this. It seems as though there was a report that teams are just going to ignore Marcus Freeman and still try to talk to him about these head coaching vacancies.

Yeah, I think Marcus Freeman is still going to be a guy that people keep an eye on. They want him. I just don't get the idea or thoughts or information that Marcus is actually going to do it. I don't think this is the time he wants to do it. We'll see, though.

Diana, did the packers win or did the bears lose?

The packers lost. That was like 15 self-inflicted wounds. Credit to Caleb Williams, who figures out how to win in the fourth quarter. What a sucker move. Nine fourth quarter wins. But I just think Green Bay collapsed.

Man, I'm embarrassed now. Diana, is that little kid right? Does Kevin Patula need to be flipping burgers?

Brutal. It was really bad. Brutal.

That little kid- He was electric. That little kid is the symbol of Philadelphia. They need to make him the mayor. I don't know if he's going to be flipping burgers, but I think they're having serious conversations about the future of Kevin Patula there. I do not think it would be surprising if they decide to move on from him.

That was so bad, Zaz.

We're going to cover that one in the I'll tell you right now. We're going to cover it as soon as she's off. No.

A mid-segment meeting. I heard that replay several times. That was bad.

He asks good questions. I always like when Zaz talks because he always asks me real things.

He wants to know. I just embarrassed myself in front of you, Diana. Why? Because my question, see, Diana didn't even pick up on it.

No, but she's not playing the same game you are. We have expectations around here, around you. You waited 10 minutes before talking.

I love that he's wondering if he's embarrassed by what he said. I'll explain it to you. That he's dressed the way he is.

So that we don't exclude- What with that?

Hey, this culture is my costume.

Exclude.

This is my look now, Diana. This is how I dress.

Okay, I will tell you what happened there, Diana. I don't want to exclude the audience about what we're laughing there. What happened is Zazlo hadn't spoken for about 14 minutes. He really was the deal. He really was the deal at the party who doesn't speak, and everyone just believes he's Cuban. I love rooting for my team in some ways. The entire show turned to him, and he was just going to hop in and out with a question. There was two sentences, radio professional, and he stumbled over one of them, and four of us noticed, but he saw that we noticed, and the show fell apart right there, Mike enjoying that Zazlo had tripped over the jump.

For a second, I was hoping no one noticed.

He's a radio professional. Been doing it for 20 years. Don't talk for 15 minutes. Here's your chance. Here are six notes. Don't pick up one of them.

The pressure. He's Sam Darnold.

Okay, I'm sorry. Harbaugh, either one of them, 30 seconds on each.

John Harbaugh is going to have his choice. I think he really wants to stay in the NFC. I think the Titans are interesting because they've got Cam Ward, but I think for him, he wants to be in a division that's not in his brothers. And also the teams in the NFC, like the Atlanta Falcons and the New York Giants are pushing hard, and I think those are going to wind up being the teams that he zeros in on over the next few days. As for Jim Harbaugh, look, I mean, when is he going to get Justin Herbert to a point where they're going to get further in the playoffs. I believe in his program. I know what he does is really well. I just think it needs to be better with such a good quarterback.

Do you agree with me that the Chargers' offensive line didn't belong in the playoffs and that Harbaugh should be prosecuted for criminal charges for close to manslaughter for the way he made Justin Herbert play the last six weeks of the season?

Look, he had no choice. He had to do what he had to do to try to get this team as far as they were able to. Justin is the reason why they're playing in this playoff team with absolutely no protection. Look, injuries happen, it's going to be part of it. But his brother is going to have a pick of the litter, so to speak.

Can you give us the latest John Harbaugh situation? Because the Dolphins are not interviewing him, and Why is that? And what do you make of the Dolphins hiring the GM? It's weird that the Dolphins would handle things the way that they've handled them and not feel like they were going to- Is it actually weird? They were going to get in on Harbaugh. The Dolphins had to have planned to get in on Harbaugh. Yeah.

So I actually... I'm with Zaz there. It's not weird because they're very clear with how they want this to operate. We saw it with Chris Greer all those years. They were very transparent with their process, and it was, We are going to hire a general manager first. We don't care about anything else around it. And that's their choice. That's how they think they can build the correct structure. Obviously, Troy Akeman has had a big say in there, which is why the general manager that landed there is probably had the inside track from the start. Troy was a huge fan of his. Look, the conversations with John Harba right now, it's a lot of screening, we'll call it, where every team has talked to him. Just because nothing's been formal, you haven't seen the tweet from the team account, we have formally interviewed John. There has been so much backchannelling and work done by John in his camp to try to get to know each of these teams, their ownership, the structure, how they want this to run. So don't freak out if you're a Dolphins fan and you want John Harbaugh and you haven't seen anything formal.

They've talked to him. They know what he's looking for, and they know what they can get from him. So I just don't think that the Dolphins have the inside track on John in terms of his interest.

Do you guys have anything football related for Diana? Because I want to let her go. Mike Ryan is distracting me. Diana, thank you for your time. I'm sorry that I interrupted you a couple of times. They're a senior NFL insider for the Athletic, host of the Scoop City podcast. She She is great. Her information is exceptional. Dan Levatard.

Are you on the fan right now? Did Mike Greenberg call you yet? Are you ever going to go back to ESPN? People think it's so weird you're a writer now. All those years on TV, all those years, and now you write.

Who reads that? Stugatz.

Why did you take a job at the Atlantic? Mom, I work at the Atlantic. What?

You're on YouTube? This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

I was saying yesterday, there's just a handful of people doing it this way, really mastering both information art and walking through where all the conflicts are, right? Because all of these information people are in conflict with each other. So she's walking a tightrope. But while she's doing this, Mike Ryan is staring at Zazlo and shaming him. She won't stop staring at me. Well, Zazlo won't look him in the eye.

I embarrassed myself in front of Diana.

Zazlo will not look Mike Ryan in the eye. The Mike Ryan victory lap continues all week. He's burying people, and he's being Miami about it. He's being arrogant. He just saw Zazlo trip over. Zazlo just got offered a lob there. What are you laughing? It was an alley-oop. Zazlo had an alley-oop, and instead it turns into a career low.

What an embarrassment for my friend Zazlo over here. All of a sudden, you got a lot to say.

Wow. I mean, I can only imagine. Well, but so this just happened. We just all witnessed it. Zaz is ashamed, so ashamed he will not look Mike in the eye because they know 20 years of production- Look away. For 20 years of production history between them. They're like, No, that's the lob that I dunk.

The packer's winner, the bear's lose. Oh, my God. What a dork. That'll never go away either. I stumbled the bear's part because mid-sentence, I realized I had it backwards. The packer's winner, the bear's lose. The bear's lose, plural. Yeah.

I think it's a pretty good explanation for what happened at the end of that Packers-Bears game?

The packers win or the bears lose.

Okay, so look, that is what happened. That is the correct analysis on that Packers-Bears game. You know what allows Ben Johnson to run off the field saying, Yeah, I'm not apologizing for that.

Bleep the packers. The packers win or the bears lose.

The answer to that is people say, I need jerk yesterday. Don't you remember, Dan, the Falcons were up 28-3 in the playoffs? Yes, but as a statistical probability, the time left in that packers-beers game to lose it again when you were in the positions that you were in. It's an insanity that the packers threw away another season in a more bizarre way than they did a couple of weeks to go to a bears team that has the cruelest loss right in the middle of that.

The packers win or the bears lose. Tell Mike, Stop staring me.

That's a two-time champion broadcaster who just made that football.

Get his ass, Greg.

I mean, it's undeniable.

You got to live up to the standard. Good for you, Greg. You've been waiting for two years for this. Thank you. The packers win or the bears lose. Nice hat, asshole. Both of you.

It is mean how much delight you are getting from Zazlo tripping over that jump rope right there. It's absolutely cruel.

Do you know the healths-It's also the coffee.

Do you know the healthscape that the next eight days are going to be as we build up to a live stream on Monday night? And it began on Tuesday. Thursday with Rebenga and a career error from Zazlo. A career stain for Zazlo as he ascends in the media industry, trying to keep up with MetalArk Media's The packers winner, the Bear lose. That's the best analysis of that game I've heard anywhere.

The Packers win or the bears lose. Paul Keen said dominate. Guess what you did?

Please put that in the time capsule as representing Zaz for accurately describing this play during this historic time.

The packers win or the bear lose.

That's exactly what happened. Yes.

How can anyone take me serious now?

Exactly.

To be honest, if he was a Cuban deal, that's how he would have asked the question. Because he takes S off the end of bear. Let's play it one more time. That's right. The packers win or the bears lose. Did the bear lose? I don't think anybody ever took you seriously. I mean, neither of those things happened. The packers didn't win, and the bears didn't lose either. That's the dumbest question. But at least it was smooth delivery, pal. And you heard Diana said she likes when I ask her questions, and now it's like I'm a bumbling idiot. The packers winner, the bears lose. I've lost all my credibility with Diana. The packers winner, the bear lose. Just Diana?

You think just Diana is where you lost your credibility?

That shit's important to me.

Look, do you know how hard it is for me to throw you the alley-up? And, oh, no, Cody's dunking on you. Me cago en tres. Good. Cáñol. Papi, did you hear what Zaslow just said? What do you mean me cago en tres?

That's a yes for me.

What do you mean? Hold on. My father's here. I saw my father somewhere. I saw there's a wrestler in there.

Papy's getting ready for Cuban Trivia.

Me cago en tres. My My mother's back there. Mom, do we want... Oh, listen to this. No, my mom is waving off the camera. Okay, I want you to zone in on my mom there. And go ahead. I override her wanting to hide from the camera. No, because I need to shame. She points and probably just... I need to shame this woman. No, I need to shame her. I'm going to publicly out her. Don't do it. No, I have to.

Don't do it. No, man. We care about you.

Tony, I have what I believe-. Tony? I believe I have traitorous news within the Lebitard family. And when my mother said this to me, I was legitimately offended as schoolboy Dan, all of a sudden, school spirit guy. My mom's like, Yeah, rooting for Mendoza.

No. As she should be.

I'm like, Mom, we paid for that school. Mom, what do you mean? You're rooting for Mendoza. I want her out. She's traitorous back there. Look, she's hiding behind my father. Tony, you say I should be respectful, but no, that's no respect of Miami history. You're right. I'm not sure it's respect of Cuban history to root for Mendoza.

A sweet young man like that who represents the Cuban heritage the right way- You can't root over that over Cristobal when she married Cristobal.

She didn't marry Mendoza. But she raised Mendoza. She birthed Mendoza, yes.

Cristobal could be your brother, right? It could be one of your family members, like rooting on your brother, like the same age.

I I believe bigger news than Zaslow saying, Finally, the heat should trade Bam Abitubayo, is my mother, the Lebitard family. I'm going to respect that guy. A member of the Lebitard family is rooting for Fernando Mendoza in a Miami Orange Bowl. You guys have never seen or looked at my mother this way.

It's not surprising. That whole generation loves Mendoza. I'm telling you right now, Mendoza could run for President. His- Which party? Look, he went to Columbus- The right one. But he also went to We know that he can work across the aisle.

It's offensive to me. It's offensive that my mother is looking me in the face. I'm like, What do you mean? You're not torn about her or anything? No, she's not Mendoza. But I went to school there.

My dad downloaded ChatGPT just to send me Mendoza photos.

Wait a minute. The Auelos are root... Okay, wait. So this is Auelos' This is Auelos' quarterback. Auelos' quarterback.

I'm telling you right now, if Miami was not in this game, and it was in another location, my dad, who barely watches college football, might fly into that city to root on Fernando Mendoza. You have no idea what this guy has meant to the older Cubans. I would be wearing a Mendoza jersey if the Canes weren't in it. Let's be honest. Sedano, you should speak to this because Mendoza is an archetype of a good Cuban boy that has made the most of himself in this country. Mendoza is a dream scenario for the older Cuban heads. So let me tell you something.

I met Fernando Mendoza last season. I did four of his games at Cal, and the minute I met him in a production meeting, he came into the room after the coaches to talk to us.

We looked around, we're like, Wow, I love that kid. Dude, I remember. Holy moly. I remember. You put it in the group chat, and you were like one of the older Cubans because you met him and you were like, This Mendoza guy's amazing. He's incredible.

This was after the Miami game.

I had him shortly thereafter, and I had him four other times the rest of the season. He's the sweetest kid ever. We were talking about Miami and Cuban life and this, that, during the production meeting, and then eventually we got to football.

So I fell in love with him, and I do love him.

Talk to him.

But not on Monday. Not on Monday. Not on Monday. I love him. I love him on Tuesday. That is- Win or lose, but I don't love him Monday. So I'm willing to say publicly, put her back up on the screen, my mother. You can't. You can't. Dan? No, I'm good You be careful.

That is disrespectful. Walk it back. You can't say that. That is third rail. Maybe even a fourth one.. Perhaps a fifth rail. I know what you said, but tell Zaz.

Six rail. You can't be pro Mendoza. You can't be my You can be pro Mendoza, not more pro Mendoza. You can be very happy for Mendoza in the pros. You can wish him a great deal of well. You can't root against the school that made your son when your son's entire career is born on the back of this school's program. I think you can do both. I think you can root for a narrow Miami victory despite six shutdown passes from heroic Fernando Mendoza. That's what you root for right there. Did you see Zazlo's mistakes, Zetano, here? You could come laugh at Zazlo as well. Look at what happened here. He analyzed the end of the Packers game.

The packers winner, the bears lose.

Wow. Two-time champion brought. He asked Diana Rusini this question.

The packers winner, the bears lose. Literally, neither of those things happened. All from grace. You all right there, pal? Do you have a stroke?

You're going to do a game show better than the game show that I was going to do, the hungry off, the who's hungrier, Mike, you're going to make something better than that?

I'm not sure it's going to be better. It might be a mess, but that's what this show does. It's got a better name, though. Domineau. Better name. Next.