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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a moral victory.

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Speaker 3: If you there's no column when you see one or loss or time, there's not one for moral victory or a quality loss, because the Dolphins could have won that game. They went toe to toe and they gave you that glimpse of this is who they really should be. And you're tied at twenty one. You have the roughing the punter, and then that changed the game right there. You know you're an eyelash away from getting a finger on that punt, and then all of a sudden, the game probably changes changes in Miami's position, but you don't block the punt, you rough the punter, and then all of a sudden, the Buffalo Bill's tack on ten more end up winning. Barry Jackson, a great columnist with the Miami Herald, had some questions about the Miami Dolphins after the loss. Now I said it, I wouldn't have given to that contract extension because he hasn't earned it, hadn't earned it. Plus you look at his record and then you look at his health, and I never would have given him a one hundred and sixty seven million dollar contract after the twenty twenty three season. In that season, he went one in six against good teams and they couldn't score more than twenty two points. The Dolphins gave him a four year, two hundred twelve million dollar contract in twenty twenty four. They didn't have to because they controlled him through twenty twenty six fifth year option. Then they could have used the franchise tag on him a couple of times. So this isn't revisionist history. On my part, I just couldn't trust him to stay healthy, and I didn't think he was playing great football. You know, for an offensive might have head coach and Mike McDaniel and you have Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Tua. They're supposed to lead with their offense. They're supposed to be a team scoring at least thirty points. Again, but even last night, twenty two to thirty four, one sixty one to two touchdowns, had the interception passer rating eighty one. But the Dolphins are two to ten in his last twelve starts against good teams. But if you look at the point total, that's the thing that stood out for me. Granted they could have won that game, you get seventeen against Philadelphia, twenty against Buffalo, fourteen against Kansas City, twenty two against Dallas, nineteen against Baltimore, seventeen against Buffalo, seven versus Kansas City, twenty seven versus the Bills, twenty three versus the Rams, seventeen versus Green Bay, twelve versus Houston, and then twenty one last night against Buffalo. So one game where Tua was the quarterback, they went over twenty three points against a good opponent. It's not good enough, won't get it done. And it's not just on him, but that's where you start him and the head coach Mike McDaniel, and Tua should be on the hot seat. Can't fire the quarterback, but you can fire the coach. But they gave you an idea of they can play, they can be competitive.

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Speaker 2: But two, what got hit once? So it wasn't like man Buffalo's defense. Buffalo's defense isn't great at least not right now. And I thought Buffalo played an okay game, but you got to at some point, you got to win these games. If you stole that game and then you win the standalone game Monday night against the Jets, Okay, now we called off the Dogs, the heat dies down a little bit. You're two and two, But now you got to win the game against the Jets, and that'll be standalone game on a Monday night, and all your problems come forward. Everything is on display now. Sometimes that's great when you go, hey, we're going to showcase our talent. This is like, oh boy, I hope they spend a little more time on the Jets than they do us. But here is the Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel after the loss.

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Speaker 4: For expectation was to come in here and win the game. And we knew we had to not turn the ball over, and we knew we had to, you know, try to get at least plus or at least even with him in the in the takeaway department, and we had to play good football and make some plays. And you know, we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of things can that's how these types of games are decided. So it feels like a loss, and it feels like we have a lot of motivation to.

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Speaker 2: Get back to work.

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Speaker 3: It feels like when Mike is at the microphone, it's like the press secretary for the White House, like I'm gonna translate, I'm going to tell you some things. It's not the president who's going to be speaking, it's the press secretary.

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Speaker 2: But it's just didn't sound inspiring.

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Speaker 3: And I think we go back to that first law to the Colts that set the tone. And then you have a player's only meeting. When you have a player's only meeting after one week, that's doom and gloom. There's no excuse like this the first game of the season. I'm always amazed when a coach says, hey, we weren't ready to play. How is that possible? You had seven months to get ready to play a game. We weren't ready.

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Speaker 5: Huh.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like, hey, you have this game and you got a game in four days. It was seven months to get ready and to it was just, you know, it's just kind of a to a performance there, and it's not all on him. But man, we give the quarterbacks too much credit and too much blame.

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Speaker 2: And that's the case right here.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Martin, football is the one sport where I will not take we weren't ready to play as an excuse. You had seven days every single week. You have seven days to prepare for the next team. What do you mean NBA, MLB, NHL you play every day, Basically, you had seven days.

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Speaker 7: What do you mean you're not ready?

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Speaker 3: Well, they weren't ready for the opening week against the Colts either.

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Speaker 5: Seven days, seven months.

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Speaker 2: Either way, they weren't ready.

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Speaker 3: So the Bills hold off the Dolphins thirty one twenty one. They're now three and oh the Dolphins are zero to three. Is it just me or does every Bills tight end sound like he has the same name they got? They got some Dawson and Dalton and Paul. There's three tight ends there, and it feels like they're on the WB. They're on a show.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Their quarterback room, as people like to say, is Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox, and Jackson Hawes.

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Speaker 9: Houdle.

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Speaker 3: What on it for?

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Speaker 6: All lost to the over coming next on the WB?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well Dawson break it up with John coming up next.

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Speaker 3: I kept thinking, I'm trying to I'm getting confused. Is it Dalton Knox? Is it Dawson Knox?

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Speaker 2: Is it Dalton?

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Speaker 3: It does sound like the starting rotation for Mississippi State's baseball. Yes, yeah, we got Dawson out there, and then we're gonna bring a Dalton out there.

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Speaker 8: Bringing Carter Hendrix about the bench.

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Speaker 3: They sounded like fake names to be like okay, and and they love their tight ends there in Buffalo. All right, Seaton, what's Oh, it's a meat Friday. Here is the menu. Beef and chariso chili, jalapano, cheddar, corn bread, bacon, corn bread.

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Speaker 2: Has it better than we do? No beef and chariso chili? Yes?

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Speaker 8: I am a huge Charisa supporter from way back.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 8: My concern though, is the guy behind me having cheriso and then a drive home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about an hour drive. You are a grown up, so I'll let you handle accordingly.

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Speaker 10: Don't through the whole fill up to plate like a big pictures now.

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Speaker 8: Chili's out, Clayton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you just hold your cheriso there?

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Speaker 8: Pace myself yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Long drive home, but it's a Friday, that's right.

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Speaker 5: I'll stop at a mobile or a Sonoka.

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Speaker 2: What you got to do? Do you know the codes? The bathroom codes on one.

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Speaker 10: Of them has the key with like a brick attack through it. This other guy, he sends me into some back room.

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Speaker 3: Do you even by gasoline? When you go into these gas stations rarely.

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Speaker 5: I'm more like I get a big of chips and like a coke.

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Speaker 2: They're like, oh here comes that guy again.

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Speaker 5: Great, close up shop till tomorrow we're closed.

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Speaker 2: Do they do police tape outside?

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Speaker 7: Do not cross?

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Speaker 10: It's embarrassing when they stop putting the tape around you while you're strolling here.

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Speaker 3: All right, So we'll run down the football matchups NFL and college over the weekend. Our good buddy Clayton Kershaw to retire after the playoffs. We'll talk about that. He's pitched really well this year, and I love that you can come to that decision. That's a really hard decision, especially when you're playing well. So many athletes go, I can't go like Travis Kelcey, I can't go out this way. You can't, but you might go out in a worse way the following season. But Clayton Kershaw has pitched well. They've needed him to pitch well. And when you start to look at these pitchers like true pitchers, you got Suerzer Verlander Kershaw, and pretty much after that, the ace is done with Major League Baseball, and I wonder how we're going to look at numbers for pitchers for the Hall of Fame, because it used to be if you got to two hundred and two fifty, okay, maybe a little more than that. Now it's going to be one fifty. I mean, Jacob de gram is kind of a dinosaur in there as well. But for the most part, the starting pitcher and how we view them is going to change dramatically because you won't. I mean, Verlanders pitch pretty well second half of the season. I think he wants to pitch again. I think he wants to get three hundred. I don't know where he is. He's pretty close. And then Schuerzer is in there. He wants to continue to pitch. But Clayton Kershaw wonderful season and first ballance Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: He was a great, great pitcher.

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Speaker 3: We hope to have him on before the end of the regular season or the postseason.

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Speaker 2: All right, Seaton, you've got a poll question for me.

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Speaker 4: Not only do I have a poll question for you, but I was lucky enough to get three from Todd at two thirty am last night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Todd. I know they're very important. These are the things that are on Todd's mind. If he wants to share those.

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Speaker 5: Sep was very restless, and.

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Speaker 3: Then I got a recap email after that saying here I put all three just in one email now for convenience.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very thought.

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Speaker 3: I will warn the audience Fritzy got a little loose yesterday on the twelve to fifteen podcast. It's the wrap up with the back room guys, and it feels like that's a spillover and it's Friday Fritzy on full display. All right, Todd, would you like to give us the three pole questions that you came up with at two in the morning.

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Speaker 10: The first one you've already touched on or we've already touched on. Was last not a moral victory for the Dolphins in Buffalo? The choice is being absolutely they stood toe to toe with a much better opponent. That's keeping it positive. Absolutely not, they still lost by double digits. Third choice, there are no moral victories, only losses, especially at the zero to three mark of your season.

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Speaker 3: I think it depends on what the expectation level was or is for the team. The Dolphins are supposed to be a playoff team, or at least on the cusp of being a playoff team. I don't think you can have moral victories if you're a team that's supposed to be a playoff contender. I think the Browns can have a moral victory, or Carolina can have a moral victory. A couple of these teams, but not many, because I think the NFL is built in a way that everybody should be kind of hovering around seven, eight or nine wins, and the Dolphins should be that kind of team. I don't think it's a moral victory. I think this is who they're supposed to be. It's not like they played out of their minds where we go, Wow, that was a big surprise. It wasn't a surprise to me because they're built for offense, and they stayed in the game and when it came to crunch time two is you know, QBR if you follow that is terrible in the you know, the last five minutes of a game, in a one score game, he has a terrible QBR. I mean that's where these games are won and lost. That's the difference between my quarterback and your quarterback. How many times did we do that with Brady? How much times left two minutes? What's he need?

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Speaker 2: He needs? Touchdown?

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Speaker 3: Damn you guys are going to lose Mahomes Montana. I mean, oh way, run down the list of great quarterbacks of all time. Now two is not in that category. But I expect Josh Allen to do that. I expect Lamar Jackson to do that. I don't expect two a tongue of ioloa to do it. If I do, I'm surprised. But he does have weapons.

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Speaker 2: He's got two of.

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Speaker 3: The fastest guys in the NFL. He got the fastest guy in the NFL. Oh yeah, I just two yard passes here, That's all I need to do. It's two yards and you take it thirty We both get credit for you a thirty yard touchdown pass, but I don't.

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Speaker 2: That's not a moral victory. All right, What else do you have?

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Speaker 5: The second one? Is the best NFL Week three matchup is?

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Speaker 10: And this is just an alphabetical order or not because I'm a Bronco fan Broncos, Chargers, Rams, Eagles, Lions, Ravens, Monday Night.

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Speaker 5: Football or other?

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Speaker 10: Could there be something other than those three as the best game of Week three?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say the rematch with the Rams and the Eagles, But I mean even the Bengals Vikings with the backup quarterbacks is kind of interesting to me. Broncos Chargers is big and Lions Ravens. But I would say Rams in the Eagles because I thought the Rams were a better team in the second half of that game. I know you got to play a full game, but I thought the Rams were going to win that playoff game.

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Speaker 10: What else and the last one a little off the board. I think the other day we were talking about Haley Joel osmond Enough was on the air. Off the air that and we've said many times that he should have won the Academy Award over Michael Kine. So if you had the sixth sense, if you had that ability, I guess it's maybe at DISCIPLI. It's a horrible thing in that movie to happen that which group of dead people would you.

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Speaker 2: Most be happy to have? The sixties.

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Speaker 10: He looked very upset when he was telling Bruce Willis that he's got this thing. I don't think it was affliction, whatever you want to call it. Nobody wants to see dead people pop it around. It's kind of scary. But if you had the sixth sense, which group of dead people would you most want to see floating around around you. Actors, actresses, athletes, family slash pets, musicians, presidents, supermodels, supermodels in their prime, not when they're eighty, and they passed away of natural causes.

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Speaker 2: So this is what you're doing it two in the morning, between two.

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Speaker 10: Fifteen and two forty five in the morning, I was tossing to him, like and just a few of these poll questions.

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Speaker 5: The first two were fairly obvious. The third one was a little odd to be thinking about it.

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Speaker 3: No, it's very odd. But there's only one right answer, and that's your family.

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Speaker 5: You would think. But I don't know if it's going to comple we run away with I'm very curious to.

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Speaker 3: The last time you said, man, I'm thinking of that supermodel who was eighty years like, I'm not thinking of Bridget Bardow or rock hol Welsh or any of these women who passed away.

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Speaker 5: One of my uncles I liked.

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Speaker 10: But if there was between Uncle Joe, he was a little weird sometimes at the satyr at the passover table, I might have to go with one of the super miles that passed away. It's not everyone, but I'm curious. It's not going to be one hundred percent and obviously you feel like compelled. You got to pick family and pets.

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Speaker 2: I got to put a hard cap on you today. I think there has to be it's a valid question.

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Speaker 5: Do you guys think it's one hundred percent of the vote's going.

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Speaker 11: To go to your family?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: If I said you could revisit with your father, oh forget of course answer.

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Speaker 5: It's the right answer.

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Speaker 10: But not everyone is like, oh, I wish I could go see my grandma and my dad again.

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Speaker 7: Some are like, screw that.

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Speaker 10: I want to see the famous athletes to hang out with a walk around or just see them floating by.

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Speaker 5: It could happen.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was thinking I'd go with Charles Groden over my dad. That's what I was thinking.

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Speaker 6: About, yes Mar Sorry everyone for two was on a twelve fifteen podcast. I put a disclaimer up because he was like this yesterday, and we could have put a hard cap on it like you guys did.

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Speaker 10: Aunt Michelle, Johnny Uniis and Grandma's kind of smelled and I didn't like her.

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Speaker 7: Were going dinner.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, and we'll come up with a legitimate poll question here, at least for the first time we're the program.

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Speaker 2: But thank you Tom for your contributions.

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Speaker 3: Devin mccordy, he's a three time Super Bowl champ, former defensive back, three time All Pro. You can catch him on Football Night in America. It'll be the Chiefs and the Giants. They'll be at MetLife Stadium eight twenty eastern. Okay, why didn't the officials call those false starts on the Eagles with the tush push.

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Speaker 13: I think it's it's tougher than we think. I think everybody's so zeroed in and looking to see if they're off sides.

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Speaker 11: Or not.

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Speaker 13: I mean, it's a clear miss of the play, and I think, like I'm if I'm the Chiefs, I'm pissed because to me, like you can't miss that on that play, like everyone's been complaining about it. You can't now give them an advantage of the false star because I think if usually when the guy's on defense lineup off sides, that was like an emphasis last year, so obviously they'll be washing it a close call now. But when you lose in a close three point game last week, that letter doesn't help you at all.

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Speaker 2: Is this a must win situation for the Chiefs against the Giants?

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Speaker 13: I think so, I think for them, and they get back to feeling like yourselves and to rally, you can't.

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Speaker 11: Fall too far behind.

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Speaker 13: The Chargers are already starting two to zero, like you can't go zero to three and just keep losing and hoping that Rashie Rice gets back and hoping worthy like you still got to go find a way to win. And I think their championship pedigree is going to make them feel like they have to go win this game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I just wonder if maybe it's right there in front of us, and maybe this is where the Chiefs aren't who we thought they were, that they're not going to win this division.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they're a wild card team.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how how far along do you need to get before you think you've got to handle on who the Chiefs are?

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Speaker 13: I mean, for them, it won't We won't believe in it until they lose in the playoffs or they don't make it like that's the only way because they're The way they've lost these first two games is the same way they won games last year. Instead last year against the Chargers, they get the defensive stop, then Mahomes goes down the scores. This year against the Eagles, they would have got the defensive snap stop and then he goes and scores. So it's the same thing as that close of a line in the nfls they're not far off.

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Speaker 3: The Dolphins last night had a chance to win that game. They were going toe to toe with Buffalo. What are they missing?

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Speaker 11: I think the way their team is constructed to what has to.

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Speaker 13: Go be that guy And I know everybody's going to talk about the sealer penalty to extend to drive the truth of the matter is they Buffalo goes up seven with I think seven minutes and seventeen seconds.

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Speaker 11: Left in the fourth quarter, plenty of time.

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Speaker 13: Miami drives right down the field and then it comes to throw Terrell Bernardo interception and then they go down. Buffalo goes down, kicks a field goal with twenty somethings seconds left, and that's the game. And I think we're not even talking about the sealer. If Tua can take the team down and go score, because they did, Like everyone expected their defense not to get any stops last night, they got two big stops in the third to stop in the fourth quarter to try to get this team to lead. I just think, you know, an obviously the offensive line isn't perfect.

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Speaker 11: They need to to be the.

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Speaker 13: Guy that we watch Buffalo and Josh Allen that no matter how the game goes, if I get enough chances, I'll go win the game. I'll go take the game away from the other team. I think they need to start to see that from Tua.

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Speaker 3: But being a former defensive back, if you know that quarterback's not going to throw, he not even looking downfield, everything is, you know, five yards.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Occasionally it's a little bit more than that if he scrambles like he did last night. But how does that affect how you play your position if you know he's not really going to challenge you down the field.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: I remember playing in games and Coach Belichick can come and tell us, like, this team's not trying to throw the ball down the field, and he would say, like, at most, I think the ball go forty forty five yards down the field. If you watched last night's game, he threw one post to Tyreek Hill that probably should have been intercepted, hung in the air forever.

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Speaker 11: So it tells you be aggressive.

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Speaker 13: I know they have two of the fastest receivers in the league, and it sounds crazy to say be aggressive, but they're not throwing the ball really deep or really outside that much.

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Speaker 11: So you see Buffalo they're.

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Speaker 13: Packing the middle of the field, and guys who are aggressive coming downhill, the linebackers play a little deeper to take away that middle part, and they say, beat us checking the ball down, beat us throwing it underneath.

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Speaker 11: The whole time.

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Speaker 13: And that's how everybody's playing them in so far, it's worked because it's led to we're going to continue to make you play that way and hope that you make a mistake. And TWOA has made those mistakes. I think it's four interceptions in the first three games.

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Speaker 3: What's it like to line up against one of the fast you know, the fastest guy in the NFL when when you're out there, you know he's faster than you. But what is that like as a defensive back where you go, all right, it's me on an island.

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Speaker 13: You gotta have a plan. I think that's the key thing. So whenever you do see last night, it was Bentford a lot on Tyreek Hill when he was up in his face, that pressure was coming, they were blitzing, they were doing different things. So as a corner, you take the mentality and have the confidence and the rest of your guys that are right, I'm not gonna have to cover this fast dude for eight seconds because the ball should be coming out fast. And I think that's the blend of your rush and your coverage.

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Speaker 11: You gotta have both.

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Speaker 13: You can't chase Tyreek Hill around the field without pass rush and think you're gonna have success.

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Speaker 3: Who is the guy though that when you're out on an island, you're like, oh boy.

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Speaker 13: Oh, I mean, who wasn't a guy you think about Antonio Brown in my era Julio Jones being the top two. When I was a young guy, the first time we went to Detroit on Thanksgiving and you lined up against Calvin Johnson and he got in a stance and you were like looking up at him like those are the times that you were like man, mom, and you here like, mom, I really.

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Speaker 11: Signed up to do this. That's the challenge and the fun of playing defensive bet.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to Devin mccordy.

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Speaker 3: You can see him on Football Night in America, the studio analyst, three times Super Bowl champ with the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about baby names.

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Speaker 3: Where can you name your child after a sports personality. I'm wondering in New England how many babies were named Brady.

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Speaker 13: One of my good friends his son's eight now, and he's a Brady. I mean, when you're walking around, you meet so many kids named Brady, because you know, Tom's just not enough, Like you can be any Tom, but that Brady first name.

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Speaker 11: It's very popular in all the New England states.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't have named your children Brady, would you.

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Speaker 11: I love Tom, but Brady. Brady wasn't coming at our house.

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Speaker 2: No, no kids Brady, And nobody's naming their kid Belichick.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not saying that.

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Speaker 13: Maybe there's some Maybe there's some Bills out there though, William and they call him Bill out there.

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Speaker 3: The Rams Eagles game is interesting because I don't know if we've seen the best the Eagles have, but the Rams. I think the Rams are so dangerous and well we saw that last year in this game that they might have won that game if it was a little bit longer, but obviously it wasn't. But handicap that game here. What do you expect to happen in this rematch?

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Speaker 11: I think the biggest thing.

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Speaker 13: I think the Rams are itching at this rematch because if you remember, in that playoff game, Sakwon Barkley had like two runs that were huge runs that made up all of those yards. And I hate saying this because every football game goes that way, but I'm sure they're sitting there saying, if we just don't give up those two plays in the running game game, we successfully go out there and we kind of slow down Saquon Barkley. So I think that's a big part. Everybody knows when the Rams can get and passing situations, you don't want to go against that defensive front. But I think the key thing for the Eagles is I think they're gonna have to get the passing game going. I think the Rams, even more than last year, are going to develop so many people to stop in Saquon Barkley because even though we say only two plays, that's the danger of Saquon Barkley that on any given play he can go to distance. So I think they're really going to say, you know what, don't hold the disguise as long, don't do this as just get down there, stop them, stop them. And I think that's going to force the Eagles to use and open up this passing game. And so far that's yet to be seen how the passing games really going to look this year. We know they have the players, but like, is there a confidence level to go out there and execute the passing game at a high level, Because eventually I see Stafford and Pooka Nakula and Devontae Adams, I see them starting to be able to make some plays in this game we saw week one. Opposite Pointyon Mitchell is a little bit of an issue. And with two guys that they have.

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Speaker 11: With Stafford throwing the ball, I think that can create some problems.

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Speaker 2: Are you all in on the Chargers.

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Speaker 11: I've liked what I've seen from the Chargers. I really do. I think.

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Speaker 13: You know, we had the Hall of Fame game this year and we all sat around the desk talking justin Herbert, and my whole thing was I was tired of hearing about his talent and everything he could do. It was time to actually see it done. And I think in these first two weeks they've answered the bell. They've come and they've showed they can dominate a game. They can win different ways. It's not just a running game, it's dropped back passes, everything. So I do I think they're for real this year.

00:26:22
Speaker 2: If I said you had to face Herbert, Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, who do you want to face? Out of that group, who do I want to face?

00:26:35
Speaker 11: I would I would pick the I would pick Herbert.

00:26:37
Speaker 13: I would pick the Chargers, and playing against Herbert, I'm not picking the other two guys that are. Do you mind as we're not even saying Josh hal Lamar Jackson, we're not even signing up for that. But I think the Eagles of defending champs with Jamalen Hurst. He plays his best games in the biggest moments, and I give a ton of credit to that. That's how I came into the league and grew up in the league, was Belichick telling us your players have.

00:27:00
Speaker 11: To be their best and the biggest games, and Hearst has been that.

00:27:04
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you again, have a fun weekend. Thank you again, Devin, No problem, Good to see darre That's Devin mccordy.

00:27:10
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00:27:22
Speaker 3: The voice of Miami, Dan Levittard, host of Metal Arc Media's The Dan Levittard Show, which you can find on this channel. Peacock, is that right down right after us?

00:27:34
Speaker 2: You do? Okay? I just want to make sure.

00:27:36
Speaker 9: Yes, thank you, Yes, okay. I want to get in on your name's game here though. Can I want to which is the more interesting name fact here in this In this equation, I'm giving you that all of George Foreman's kids were named George, including his daughter who is named Georgett, or that Dennis Rodman, one of nineteen children his father was actually named Philander.

00:28:01
Speaker 3: Would you ever name your child after an athlete? And if so, which athlete?

00:28:07
Speaker 11: Uh?

00:28:08
Speaker 9: Well, I am childless and I have not given this question any thought. This is why you're the great one that you are in terms of interviewing. Would I name my child after an athlete? No, I don't think I would do that. I would have to do that. I think I would take if I was going to name them after a family member, not just a name the name I liked, I would name it after a family member, I should say, not not an athlete.

00:28:28
Speaker 7: I would not do that.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: So like Marino Lebtard, Lebron Lebtard, Oh, are you still better over Lebron leaving Miami?

00:28:39
Speaker 1: Clearly?

00:28:39
Speaker 6: Not?

00:28:39
Speaker 7: If I was, clearly, I'm hugely grateful.

00:28:44
Speaker 9: If if what I just did there is name a child, how ridiculous would that be?

00:28:49
Speaker 7: Poor poor little Lebron LeBatard?

00:28:52
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:28:52
Speaker 3: How about Riley? Riley LeBatard? After Pat Riley, your good buddy could.

00:28:58
Speaker 7: Be a boy or a girl.

00:28:59
Speaker 2: I could go.

00:29:00
Speaker 9: I could go Pat and it could be a boy or a girl. I could go Riley, and it could be a boy or a girl.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: Probably not Tua, But let's dissect here what we've seen is the weather or the temperature underneath.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel Warmer today.

00:29:17
Speaker 7: Well, that game.

00:29:18
Speaker 9: They were well coached last night. That's an outman team with I think a historically bad defense, and I don't believe that coaching is the reason that they lost that game. They've got a fundamental architectural problem here, Dan, in that I believe that's the best game the Dolphins can play, and they're doing it by throwing the ball as many times behind the line of scrimmage as they are past the line of scrimmage. Now, that whole game last night, the average air yards in that game for Josh Allen and Tua one point four yards one point four yards on completion.

00:29:50
Speaker 7: So a lot of the league is doing that.

00:29:52
Speaker 9: But when I say they have a structural problem, Dan, here's the structural problem because they're no longer what they were, which was the best offense in the league. They're constipated on offense, and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill don't look like they can give you much. But Josh Allen against the Dolphins is in the regular season thirteen and two, eight and zero at home. He's got forty five total touchdowns and eight interceptions against the Dolphins. On the other side, the Dolphins have now lost four of their last seventeen and eight in a row against winning teams.

00:30:25
Speaker 7: And here's the structural flaw.

00:30:28
Speaker 9: And Tua's cap hit the next four years is more than Josh Allen's cap hit in Buffalo, and that's obviously an issue that's not going to go away for a while.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: I just don't understand why they jumped the gun on Tua with his performance, his injury history, and they could have kept him another year, they could have franchised him. I'm just trying to understand from the front office, from ownership, where they go, Nope, we got to sign this guy up.

00:30:58
Speaker 9: Now, why wildly mismanaged. They've got a GM who's got the longest tenure in the league without winning a playoff game. They have not enough good players, and they got fooled by scoring seventy points against the Broncos and having a comeback against the Ravens, which a lot of people do late in games. The Ravens have blown seventeen second half leads, and they got enamored with they had the best offense in the league. And more than that, Dan and this part matters. They had exciting offense. They were the fastest team in the league, but now you look up and they're accused of being soft and not physical enough. And the three guys that they have on offense that you need things from Wattle Hill and Tua all physically undersized. Like yeah, they were fast and speed burns, but speed also ages.

00:31:49
Speaker 7: And their offense is you know.

00:31:52
Speaker 9: It's a bit like a Ferrari in that if a spark plug is off, it doesn't run right.

00:31:58
Speaker 7: There's not a lot of margin forrer I think one of the.

00:32:00
Speaker 9: Stats last night they had two they had a drive that had multiple successful attempts on third and ten, and it's the first time they've had that since twenty twenty two. Like they used to be a big play offense, but now what they had to do in that game last night is do a.

00:32:20
Speaker 7: Perfect sixteen play.

00:32:22
Speaker 9: Drive that converts a bunch of third downs and just keep Josh Allen off the field for a while, because we can't do this anymore. Where what we used to do is we'll have a scoring drive that goes one, two or three plays, not sixteen.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: How safe is Mike McDaniel.

00:32:39
Speaker 9: Safer today than he was before the game, right, because I really thought that whole game, Dan was gonna go the way the first half did, which is just keep handing the ball to James Cook and he's gonna get nine yards every time. And you know, they didn't stop him in the first half. And the most stunning thing for me to happen to this season for the Dolphins is that they stopped the Bills at all in the second half. Like, I don't know, you know, the Bills still scored thirty one points, but the fact that the Bills were punting in the second half, I've seen no evidence from this team that it can stop anybody. Dan, I really do believe that the defense is historically bad.

00:33:14
Speaker 3: Talking to Dan Levittard and a host of Metal Lark Media, is the Dan Lebotard show that follows this on Peacock. You know, when you're quirky and you win, we're fine with that. When you're quirky and you don't win, then all of a sudden we start to pick apart your answers at a press conference. Here has the quirkiness, the nerdiness of Mike McDaniel Warren off in South Florida.

00:33:36
Speaker 9: Yeah, that part is obvious, but the glee with which the quirkiness is being mocked by the rex Ryans of the world, who seemed to be delighting and calling him nerd boy and mc genius because he had some of that Brandon Staley stuff where, oh, you think you're smarter than everyone else, do you? He had reason to write for a minute, he had reason to believe that when they had the best offense in the league and Rahem Mostert had eighteen touchdowns at the running back position because it didn't seem to matter whether his offensive line was any good or not. They had offense. He took a quarterback that all of us wondered about and had that quarterback leading what was the best offense in the league. But there's something else happening with McDaniel, right, Because we don't really want.

00:34:23
Speaker 7: Our coaches to be interesting.

00:34:25
Speaker 9: They're better off being public faces and voices for a team. Jim Harbaugh is awfully quirky Dan like I like him, but fans kind of would prefer that their coach just sort of be presidential, be somebody who connotes leadership and doesn't do very much with interesting sound bites. Like in the history of sports. When you think of the coaches who are real personalities, you know whatever, Steve Spurrier, Mike Leech, They're just there aren't very many that you think of Jerry Glanville. There just aren't very many that are wild personalities. They you know, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick. That tends to be what you get.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: Fans in South Florida. Would they rather have the you be great or the Dolphins to be great?

00:35:18
Speaker 9: Ooh, that's a good question, because I'm gonna say the Dolphins, because it's the you know, fifty years of Dolphin football includes a time and I don't think your audience has any recollection of this. It includes a time where the Dolphins were the winningest franchise in all of sports, not just in football. They won by percentage more often than everyone else. And now they've got the longest drought in the sport, a sport that includes you know, the Bills for a while when seventeen seasons without getting to the playoffs. The Raiders haven't done anything in the playoffs in a long time, But the longest drought belongs to the Miami Dolphins. And this began as a football town because of the Miami Dolphins still have an Expressway here named after Don Shula because of what the Dolphins did a long time ago, and and the Miami Hurricanes have had some recent success, some success this century. The last playoff game the Dolphins won, Dan Lamar Smith scored a touchdown against the Colts. It was not on television locally that there was a Dolphin playoff game that was so long ago that you could not see it locally in Miami.

00:36:32
Speaker 3: Can you think of another franchise where when you go to the game, you see this jersey and it's a jersey that is from a player who played decades ago in Dan Marino, like of all the all the different now you might see that with the Jets maybe, or the Bears with Walter Payton, But when you're thinking about the Dolphins, do you see other jerseys of you know, you know, anybody besides Dan Marino in the building.

00:37:02
Speaker 7: They're a good amount of TUA supporters. It is hard to support.

00:37:06
Speaker 9: Some of the things Tyreek Hill is, even if you're excited by him on the field. But this has been a fan base that is unusually starved for excellence because it's become a regional team, Dan it's not a national team, and one of the reasons that we're talking about them now is because for about a sixteen game span or maybe a twenty game span, they had an offense that was interesting, that could make big plays, and so for one brief moment there, this team had expectations that had people talking about it nationally. And what I've been surprised by the first three weeks of this season. You tell me if I have this wrong, because there are plenty of bad teams in that league, the Jets, the Saints, Carolina, but national laughingstock from coast to coast over the first three weeks of the season. That's been because they've got three very polarizing things as the face of their now national identity, McDaniel, Tua and Tyreek Hill. And the weirdest thing about that, dan is I think two was the most polarizing of the three. Think about that for a second, and it's just because we haven't been able to accurately.

00:38:13
Speaker 7: Measure what is this guy like?

00:38:16
Speaker 9: Is he is he a franchise quarterback or is he not a franchise quarterback? That discussion made the conversation around to him more polarizing than the one around McDaniel, who can give off the quirkiness you speak of, and Tyreek Hill, who does some pretty awful things as being a menace to women and children.

00:38:35
Speaker 2: Thank you for taking time, Thank you for having me, my best to the family.

00:38:41
Speaker 7: Thank you. I'm going to go home right now.

00:38:43
Speaker 9: And this is too much information obviously, but see if I can try and make a little lebron.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: Lebatad whoa look at the purean interests of Dan Patrick's cardle.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: I feel bad for your wife.

00:39:01
Speaker 7: I'm my undulating sensuality is not persuasive to you.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan, that's Dan Leboatard.