Greg, you're a words person.
are you on the following? Because I have not been able to correct something. When somebody,
who I love, says the wrong word, I will correct them in order for them not to do it in the future. But the response has been on a couple of different occasions. Don't be an asshole. You know what I meant. And if you know what I meant, you're being an asshole if you correct me. But I'm not correcting them to make them feel smaller in that moment. I'm assuming that they don't want to keep doing that around people who don't love them so they don't make that
“mistake. Yes. And so where are you on this? Can you lend a verdict on this?”
Yeah, that's a tough one because I've been in that situation. If somebody says, a word, a non-word, like, irregardless, I want so much to correct them and just say, "Regardless." No, that's a word. No, that's a word. It is a word. Look at where you're at. Look at where you're standing. Look where you drove to. Irregardless. Absolutely. Okay, okay. I don't think it is. So I don't say, I don't correct them. I don't say it's not irregardless. It's
regardless. But if it's the misuse of a word that I just can't abide, then now I'll give you an example from yesterday's show. You referred to JAWS as a horror movie. I would argue JAWS is not a horror. It's the number one horror movie of all time, according to people who classify horror movies. But I disagree with them. Okay, you can disagree, but it is. Like it's... Well, what's an example you would use? Where you correct someone over misuse of a word? I mean, I do it all the time.
“Whenever people misuse words, you're right about irregardless. I think Kevin James called his”
terrible, special irregardless purposely because it's not a word. And while I appreciate Trista's general comfort level around here, she came in today with flip flops and socks, which I love. And a dog. There's lots. She's still a little more careful than I'd like to be because she she's been polite lately about not correcting me when I get words wrong. It's true. Like I am really a bitch. Truly, truly. Like one of those meanest people you've ever met. And I've been mean since
birth. And my mom is very similar to Dan. We had the encyclopedia out and we were correct. We still correct each other to the... It's Iran. I mean, don't be a rude. Don't be a rude. It's Iran.
You sound like a hasty. It's not Iran. It is Iran. I do and have always called it Iran since I
discovered it many, many years ago for the first time. But I don't pronounce it Iran. But you don't run. You didn't, woof. I can't hide, we're in shadow show. You did. I do hide under the desk, but nobody can see you. Why didn't you correct me on Iran when I said I ran? I feel I've been doing it too much. And I did it to start my first day here, back in the Christmas time when I said it's Oregon and it's Louisville. And you liked it then, I'm like, how many times
can I use this? Because it's not really, it's not really a bug. It's a feature of my personality. And if I'm allowed to do it, I'm going to do it. We're going to rock out.
“Welcome to my life, guys. I think it's a good feature. I think we need more of it. I think you”
you correcting me and me getting it wrong is an absolute winning position for everyone but me, which reminds me. Yeah, well, but you know, this is a good time for men in power to be disabused of that power. This is a good time for you. This is the Dunleba Partial with this Tugat Spotcast. I would like a verdict here from Zaz and Greg Cody about how I'm supposed to feel and I'm specifically asking you to because you're longtime veterans of the market and you know what
the navigations are around relationships. When you cover people that you respect, but you also
have to be critical of them over the years. This show has gotten me in trouble with the Miami Heat
because it sounds the way that it was aggregated. Like I was the first to suggest in this market ever that Eric Spolstra and Pat Riley should be in some trouble. That is not something I've ever suggested but given Mike's general rise in the media business, Dunleman shouted him out the other day after going after boomerosias in. Excuse me, Dunleman shouted out Mike Ryan because he's like, did you see what Mike Ryan of the Levittard show did to boomerosias in? And now I've got aggregated
headlines in this market making it seem like I'm turning up the heat on Pat Riley and Eric Spolstra
When that's not what happened yesterday.
that that's what happened. How am I supposed to feel about it? It says day and Levittard show
does read the sub headline. Read out loud. You can't see it after another another underwhelming season day and Levittard is looking to turn the heat up on Miami Heat Head Coach Eric Spolstra forward on fair. I like that made is now being used in that form. Look how far we've come.
“There you go. That's not coming far. I don't want like what what am I supposed to do with that?”
Answer my question. What am I supposed to do with the fact that words are being attached to me because they were set on their show even though I was pretty strong in saying no one in this market has ever said that about Spolstra and Riley and no one in this market ever will say that about Spolstra and Riley. I think you stick to your guns. Say what you feel. What I did say what I felt yesterday and it got turned into that. You're ready to turn the heat up. Face it.
Just shift the heat to Mike Ryan who's not here to defend himself. I was going to say I saw the visual it was 99% Mike. I didn't see you in it once. I saw Greg in it a couple of times too.
Oh yeah but the headline is what's most important. I mean the subhead's not helping me. The
subhead just says that damn Levitt. It says flatly. He is looking to turn the heat up on Miami heat head coach Aaron Spolstra. Now Spo. Spo is somebody who does not. He's very polite, very professional with the media but doesn't have very much use for me. And just doesn't want to
“sit down and do a South Beach session even though I think he would be interesting. He just over the”
years. He doesn't dislike me but he's not interested in helping me do my job. And he's not interested in opening his guy. He's not. And you run strictly in shenanigans. So like when he's when you see a serious man who's about his business. He stands on business. He looks at you not standing on business. Standing on shenanigans. And what are you supposed to say? Look at this guy. Stand on shenanigans. Big fat damn Levitt's heart over you. What are we going to do? What am I going to talk to him about?
I've told you guys, I've told you guys this story before. This is something I've never
learned the lessons on. Okay? You guys, some of you guys don't know this story. Original Marlin's manager Renee Latchman. Okay. They're 30 and 31 in their inaugural season through 61 games. And he comes and I've written something off of the game they lost. The question all of his fifth inning decisions. And so when you say I stand on shenanigans, he's upset about something. He's like, are you going to cover us this way all year? And I'm like, come on, latch it sport. It's fun.
And he's like, no, this is my business in my life. And I'm like, you're in your underwear. Like you're standing, you're right now in your underwear. When you're yelling at me, all of this is silly. I do stand on shenanigans. And you don't understand why Mario Christopal and Eric Spolster don't have any time for that. But that shenanigans right there. Those headlines are not fair to me. It says flatly that I'm looking to turn up the heat on
Eric Spolster. And I'm not looking to turn up the heat on Eric Spolster. It should sue somebody. It's kind of just like what you didn't say I feel. You're kind of like, well, no one's really willing to have the conversation in this market. If it was any other coach and any other team with this type of record. Trista, that was Mike who said that was literally Mike. But it's one of those deals where, you know, if it's happening in front of you and you don't
do anything to stop it, you're a composer. Right. Good Samaritan. I love how Trista was here and things you said it. You know what that good Samaritan law? I tried to stop it. What I said when Mike Ryan said, I've been trying to stop it on Mike Ryan for three years. What I said and what I will continue to say is the only other time I've seen a circumstance like that in this market where somebody in management felt like they had that kind of bulletproof stability was Don Shula.
And he lost it when someone better younger was available. Jimmy Johnson and wanted the job unless Greg Papavic or Brad Stevens wants the job of running this franchise. I don't think
“you can have this conversation. Yeah, but if you read between the lines yesterday, I think what you”
essentially said is that Spulster is not does not have Teflon and if he does the Teflon's cracking I said the opposite of that. No, no, you said there's no better options. I'm talking about because he's the best. It's not because there are. There are no better options. It's in the quote. There's no better options. Yes, I love that two people are keep telling you that you said it. I'm very frustrated in general by what this show does to me as just a mental health hazard and
where's Roy? Don't get me started on Roy. When I talk about mental health hazards, Roy and Rose have tricked the person who broke that bottle over Jeremy's head in the open into a key West BBQ trip where they're not here. They're not participating in three or five
Day tomorrow.
fishing and barbecuing in the keys. Like, what's the, like, where, where's the content? What are we doing? It's just like a weekend for Roy to get away and just hang out. They want it last year in their defense. They want what? The competition? It's a big competition. No, it's big. Roy's good at barbecuing. Well, we're going for being real Dave Williamson's good at barbecuing. See what's out doing right now is y'all hating on the player instead of the damn game and shame on out three.
Well, I'm hating on the fact that we have to pay for all that after Roy tried to trick us into him and Rose going to Finland. Finland. Yeah, they want to just spend time with barcoff in the offseason just going around to whatever Parade's barcoff was partaking. Yeah, I'm hating now on the player. Luckily, you cooler heads per fail that didn't happen. How did this happen? It'll be out the rest of the week. No big deal. He needs a whole week to barbecuing. He'll be back Monday.
“Well, he's got a barbecuing. Then he's got a fish. Then he's got a drink over in Key West.”
Like, there's a lot of stuff to do. Then Rose needs to lose a camera. There's a lot that needs to happen. Yeah. We love Key West. It was there with him. Yeah, we do. I could be a sous chef of be handing him like the spatula. Pay for me to do that next year. No, the reason all that happened on yesterday's show is that Mike Ryan, he doesn't mince words. Mike Ryan, I thought, warranted that headline. I don't think you did. But Mike Ryan, let's talk about something here
regarding the heat because they beat up the net last night. And it really is funny. The concoction that the NBA has created with these play-in games, where making the playoffs or the play-in game doesn't really mean anything when you consider the following and help me with the teams that exist in that sport right now only to lose because the nets are one of them. So you've got the kings. You've got the wizards. You've got the jazz, the pelicans. The pacers are hurt,
“but no Phoenix is not Phoenix does not count. They don't exist. No, they heat. They're losing”
not on purpose. My point is that there are teams in the sport that are basically the Washington
Generals. They exist because the Harlem Globe Trotters need to make money and have to play somebody. And so everyone who's any good is going to make the play-in game because you've got... Do we name all of them because there are teams in that sport? The bulls? The bulls now are taking, yes. But it's not just tanking is that they're running around in uniforms for no discernible purpose. Like this. So how many teams are there? Is it 10? Because if 20 are going to get to the play-in
game, then all of a sudden you're allowing every team that's trying into the playoffs and if the heat make it there, it's no accomplishment even if they make it there and then beat Yanis and get all the way to the finals because they make it there by being not good enough. They're a benefit. They're a benefactor from a playoff system that is remarkably generous. The Panthers would be in the playoffs if hockey did it this way. The Panthers would not be disappointing season, not Paul
Maurice clearly on the bench being a very nice man, but upset we're going to play that sound
for you in just a second. But if the Panthers and plenty of teams make the playoffs in hockey too,
but if basketball did it the way, and if a hockey did it the way that basketball does it, you'd have the Panthers right now as two-time champions with a chance to do something in the playoff. In the NBA there's nine teams that are absolutely tanking the books or the one of the teams that are not in the play and right now that are probably still playing because Yanis is still around, but there's nine teams that just have no chance whatsoever. But do you realize how we're
“relevant? You've made the regular season when that's what it is, when everyone's load managing”
to get to the playoffs and all 20 teams that are trying are going to have playoff equivalent games with a play in. But wasn't the play in tournament created in part to prevent tanking because it gave eight teams who otherwise might be tanking. I'm reason to win. I mean, maybe it's semantics. I wouldn't say that it was created to prevent tanking. I think it was created just to, so that more teams late in the season, more fan-based are involved, have a chance.
So maybe you want to call that to prevent tanking. I think it's just more about having more fan-based is involved. I've been talking while trying to set my grind straight for several years about
how hard it is to be relevant for 30 years the way that the heat have been as the third winning
is franchise in the sport of the last three decades, okay? It's only the spurs and the makers that have won more games than the Miami Heat have over the last three decades. So the nets last night go ahead. Use your entire history of knowing the nets to find all the times that they've done real winning. Because the one time they got to the finals, they got swept. And you guys were telling me that Jimmy Butler against Denver's a failure that against the
lakers in the bubble, it's a failure. The nets got swept in the finals. It's the best they've ever done. Like as a franchise throughout their entire history, the Sacramento Kings have gotten
Close, got cheated by some rafts and shack and Kobe, but the Sacramento Kings...
to the finals. The wizards haven't gotten to the finals. The timber wolves haven't gotten to the finals. Yeah. You're kind of comparing the heat to trash ass franchises. And I don't feel like that's a great comparison. The reason that I'm doing that is over 30 years of being rewarded for losing at some point. I believe if I make a chimpanzee, the general manager of one
“of those teams, I'm going to stumble into a deep run somewhere. Like you have to be, you're right.”
I am doing it to trash franchises, but look how many I can do it to, where I'm saying,
they've never had the heat have made the finals twice in the last six years. I could look at
franchises that haven't done that for 30 years. The same 30 years. And so that's why I'm doing it to explain. Look, it's hard. Even if I turn over all the players, all the rosters, all the leadership, I'm still not having that success. It's why I'm saying we've been spoiled. It's why I won't go after Spolaster and these people. You're not going to get better than them. You did go, you did go after him. Take save. I'm going to be a panel.
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“After your buddy hits you up, and you know just the thing that don't make that regular”
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Uh-oh. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tensed because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something. Can we bother? Can we bother in you right now? Turn on your microphone. I'm microphones on. Stoogats. Paint the scene. The paint the scene is I got to go to work. Good night. This is the Don't Live with our show with this two gats. Let's play that Paul Murray sound real quick because Zazzlo and everyone here is hurting because
the Panthers are basically you understand over the last two years. They have not. They've been
the best in the sport. But they're still good enough. They are every bit as good as the Miami heat are. Whatever it is, you think the heat are. The Panthers are that and it's being considered a wildly disappointing season even though it shouldn't be. It's only because of where they place the standard the last two years. Yeah, I mean, I guess the the place where it shouldn't be considered wildly disappointing is because it's not like they're a 500 team coming off of three consecutive
Stanley Cup appearances. They're a 500 team that has just been crushed by injuries all season long, including their best player, not seeing a single second of Ice Time this year. And last night,
“I think two three nights ago was the worst loss of the season. The game of the Islanders and last”
night was and the season ended that night. But last night, I think it's a sign of what's to calm it ended last night for me. Well, I think I think last night's a sign of what's to come the rest of the season. Like I think it's going to get ugly now. Okay, but you guys, you guys have been saying for several weeks now that the Panthers season is over. What did you make? Paul Maurice
Is a very nice man.
about Mike McDaniels. But I don't, Paul Maurice seems to walk a really good rope between being somebody who's really kind and really nice, but also not too much of a player's coach.
Yeah, so last night, this is like late in the first period. And this is from TNT sports and he got
paying her. Darren Pangs doing the the in-game interview with Paul Maurice. And and it's funny because the Panthers lost five one last night, Bob Ross, he was actually really good to them. We're hunting a goals. Bob was really good. And so here is Paul Maurice on his team's effort. And apparently he, he lets everybody know that Bob Ross, he's the only one who was showed up. I like that turnover turning it all. I can't play that game. Nobody plays that game in a win,
so I don't like it. Your goal tennis bailing out, that's a good news. Bob, I was been fantastic. So we just got to get the rest of them. Maybe I'll get him up the ice in the most of you being told, right? He's the only guy with hands tonight. He's got pretty good hands. Bob, get up the ice. Thanks, coach. I love that guy. He's staring at the camera on the way out to, he's staring across the ice at the camera. He's he's like he's such a nice man,
Paul Maurice, but he's so angry. Was he mad there? Was he doing Bill? Oh, he's angry. He's angry and he's probably not to be a dude. When from angry tell, let me do a little stand-up
“set here for you. He plays both sides. I think Paul Maurice can be a hard ass. I agree with what”
you say. I don't think he's considered to be a player's coach. Oh, but he's a nice man. He's a nice man. So, but when I think of nice man, okay, let's do this real quick. Okay, because here are the comments from Raheem Mostert and for Dolphin fans who want to partake in confirmation bias, he's saying all of the things that you would want said about Mike McDaniels now that it has failed and he has gone and I legitimately fear what he's going to do next as a coordinator
because he's clearly an inventive offensive mind. Like I have rarely seen a coach in this market dismissed as a failure when he has shown me something that is a valuable skill set that is empirical. That man can coach offense. That is not up for dispute. So, mostert says to Colin Calhard quote, he's a great coach. If guys are talking, he'll listen and give them some advice, but head coach wise, when you have a coach that is so player friendly, it doesn't really mix all that well.
Look at the coaches in history, not just in the NFL, of all of these different sports franchises, they have coaches that implement toughness, resilience and that's something that he kind of missed the mark on in being a head coach. He called him nonchalant, laid back, a player's coach and he said that players respond better to a head coach whose attitude is, we're getting the job done and it's my way or the highway. I hate hearing a players say this because
I'm constantly objecting to how it is that adult human beings aren't fantasized that the guys with muscles need a brain to teach them toughness. It bothers me and I understand why it is that why it is that it happens. I don't think of Pete Carroll as one example as somebody who is so tough
“that he's not a player's coach. I think all of us here would want to work for a player's coach”
and this mostert is making it sound like he can't be great unless someone else makes him tough. I'm sorry. I have to correct you. It's Mike McDaniel, not like McDaniels. It's Josh McDaniels.
That's a Cuban thing though. First of all, you put S's at the end of things that don't need to
be there. It's like the heat. Sometimes we say things like that. We're just like, yeah, comes out of nowhere. Yeah, it's because he's cute. Let's play on for me then. Thank you Tony. I appreciate that, but I have been adding S's. This is an age thing. This is not a Spanish thing. Maybe I appreciate it. It is a Spanish thing. I appreciate it. Yeah, but it's an old person Spanish thing. If I call them, look, man, retire me on the spot if I start calling them the
Miami heats. I'll let it play on for that. I thought it was kind of tied back. Greg, you said that Palma Reese is a hard-ass coach. Can you give me some examples of some soft-ass coaches? Wow. Well, the argument right now is that Mike McDaniel was a soft-ass coach, right?
“I mean, that's what they're saying, but they're retrofit where he mostert is retrofitting that”
to McDaniel fizzling in the last couple of seasons. Were he mostert wasn't saying anything bad about Mike McDaniel when he was scoring 20 touchdowns and when they were putting up 70 points on Denver and when Tua was the made the provol and everything looked good for a minute. But now,
now that they've changed coaches, you look back and say, all right, here's what happened. He was too
soft-ass. Where are you guys on this, right? Because the problem with this to me is mostert is now giving voice to something that most fans already thought about McDaniel and furthermore, it's what most fans want their coach to be. They want their coach to be especially in football, drill sergeant guy, military guy and I don't I don't think that works with today's 20 year-old. Isn't that what got Brian Flores fired? They went the opposite when someone was tough. I think that
Brian Flores though was tough on everybody.
If you're being tough up when the owner doesn't want you to be that I assure you,
“the owner doesn't want a hard ass with him. That's why I'm scared to correct you.”
Get a cool lead back guy from California. Now, that doesn't work. Now, you got to get somebody kind of in the middle. So, it's like halfway. Look at the same thing. Literally half. Literally, but like Denver had Mike Malone, hard ass coach, got him to a championship, won a championship, then after that, fizzled out. They did get literally because he was also small. So, they literally got the halfway point between McDaniel and Flores. They got someone who is half of both of them.
I don't know, I know McDonald is boring, okay? And what is Serriani? Like, help me. Okay, Andy Reed doesn't strike me as somebody who's, I mean, he gets into his fights with Travis Kelsey,
but I think that Andy Reed strikes me as friendly. I may just be doing that.
You don't think hard ass in tight. No, you think hard ass damp, Campbell. You think hard ass damp. But even him, he's a player's type. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that's true. That's what you want publicly. That's why Jeff Haffley, in the wake of Mike McDaniel, that's why Jeff Haffley comes in and uses words like we want to be physical. We want other teams to be afraid of us and not want
“a player. That's what you have to say. That's coach speak, particularly when you're a coach replacing”
a coach who was, but do you believe like the part that I'm most objecting to is that the people who have gotten to the top of that sport, okay, fighting other men for money with violent, the idea that the guy on the sideline is going to make them tougher. Like it bothers me, the idea that the guy that the guy who looks like Pete Carroll or Andy Reed is going to he's going to make Patrick Mahomes tougher. But then why do we have coaches? Why do we have people
to push us? Like why do we have somebody has to control the minute? Somebody has to manage the egos and the personalities. You can have discipline while being an ally. Look, you've heard me say this before, okay? I believe that these coaches are in charge, but should act for the very best players as administrative assistance. How can I help you be better? You're the one who's got the football. What can I do to make you be better? And I'm not, I'll acknowledge that some guys need
tough love, discipline, and maturity. But to say a whole locker room does, like to say that every, it insults the locker room to say that all of those grown men who are tough and violent for a living are in tough enough because the coaches aren't making them tougher. I think athletes
“in general still want to be fired up and inspired. That's why a whether it's from a player or a”
coach. That's why Ray Lewis is free game speeches are legendary because athletes want that.
Yeah, but Fox were said he got tired of those after the first couple that they all started to sound
the same, but not everyone needs that. I mean, we used to hear the stories from Tim Hardaway, right about Pat Riley. It's like, yeah, it's great motivation for me. I think the perfect storm of the coach that was needed that wasn't necessarily needed, but needed a lot was, uh, my variable last year. Him being a player from that organization, a player's coach, and a little bit hard-estate, weren't wonders for the Patriots. The McDaniel stuff from where he's most
alert though. I think is, uh, I think it's a little bit tired because, you know, first couple years of McDaniel when in 11 games, when in 10 games, postseason appearances, I don't know, seem like the players were responding pretty well, and guess when the players didn't respond pretty well. But we realized that McDaniel may not be as great a coach as the other guys, and, you know, the offense was kind of figured out, and he wasn't able to, you know, make the right
it's a post-votory kill. Well, okay, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, yeah, when their quarterback's brain was scrambled, and their library's even no longer was fast, oh, toughness is a problem now. Yep. Like I mean, what are we doing? No, you're right. That's why I think it's, I think it's kind of lame what we're he most certain to saying here. Yeah, it's a little bit of revisionist history. But the overarching issue here with, with coaches
is that the dolphins are in the exact polar position from the heat. The dolphins have been futile for 20 years. They've done no winning in 20 years, and therefore they cycle through these coaches every four or five years to try the next guy with the heat. It's just the opposite, which is why Spolstra and Riley have built up such goodwill with everybody, with fans, with the media, because they have a track record. And when you look at the heat and say,
oh, they haven't wondered anything in the last four years, because they've only reached the final and they've only reached play in tournaments. That's a pretty high standard. This is why it's also
Shocking that Dan is calling for a serious conversation about Spolstra.
Don Lebatard. You got to know. I'm gonna be a colombo guy, salute to that boy. Okay, I don't think that's
proof. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's a lie. I don't think that's a lie. I don't think that's a loose. I don't think that is evidence. And salute to that boy. So it's just camouflage. It's just that you just has no idea what we're talking about. And now it's just Googling it. Still gots. I'm not Googling it. My grandma stayed in the country. I watched the braves. I watched colombo. I watched Matt. I watched Andy Griffin. Yeah,
you said that she'd go to the penalty box. Damn. They didn't take a chance to go to the penalty box. You did it. You did it. You did it. You did it. That they used to. This is the Don Lebatard show. With this two gods.
We got a crackstap back here working on a hard to soft coach meter. So we're going to put all the NFL
coaches in a meter hard soft. I don't know what we're calling them or not. We're going to call in the middle half way. We're going to that one of the things that they're going to eat the end of that half way. I'm going to put an asset at the end of it half ways. Let's find all the half ways that there are in the NFL that straddle the line right in the middle because I don't want to actually be absolutist about this. But I do want to have the conversation with you guys. Okay,
about Ron McGill is going to be on with us later. And their their dogs domestic dogs do appreciate discipline horses appreciate some forms of discipline. These are human beings, though. And that's why I'm objecting to the idea that you coach a locker room and everyone in it with my way or the
“highway because I don't think that that's what variable is. I think variable as it, I don't think that's”
what damn gamble is. I think the optics of that is how they present because fans and media love when the team spokesman face and voice gives off. I'm in charge. But I do believe that if you ask Dan Campbell, he would tell you that all the time he's working to help his players and that they love and respect him because they know that he's in charge. But also they know that he cares about them. Like to me, that's what when when I talk about players coach, I want more of them because
if the coach cares about the employee, I would think that would get the maximum effort from the majority of employees. You're going to have a few talented stragglers who are immature and need to follow the rules. And so you put in the blanket rules of you're going to be on time and you're going to be punished when you're not on time. And that was a problem with MacDaniel. I understand that I don't think that the dolphins weren't successful in Kansas City during a
“playoff game because their players were late to meetings. I don't think that that's what was happening.”
And I think you guys skip past some stuff on what happened to Tua, where all of a sudden their quarterback goes from statistically being Patrick Moms to somebody who's doing nothing but throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage. So it seems like once again, journalist Zazlo is not getting the credit. He deserves nationally because he reported weeks ago, Tua's gone. And now everyone's caught up. Zazlo is not wrong. He's just early. But he's not getting the credit.
Zazlo is mad about this. Hey, look, I'm mad about it because this happens all the time as Greg sits there and sits back and laughs and smiles, okay? You could smile all you want. The fact of the matter is at least a couple of weeks ago. I don't keep track of the actual date, okay? Because it's not really about, you know, when it's about just getting things right. But sometimes when you get things right, as a journalist like myself as a reporter,
“I'd like to get, give me a little hat tip. You know, that's what the HT is on Twitter. Do the”
H and then you do the slash and a T that's hats. Oh, that's what that means. That's when you give somebody credit. All right. That's cool. Well, hat tip. All right. Hey, thanks to the tip right there. I haven't seen one person gives Zazlo. I'm at Zazlo showing Twitter. I'm a great follow.
I haven't seen anyone do a hat tip to Zazlo for having the two and news first. Now,
did I designate a pre or post June one cut? I don't get involved in all that cockaming nonsense. All right. But I told you a couple of weeks ago, the dolphins are going to release to a Tonga by Lowe. They're going to eat the cap hit. And now everyone in their mother has been saying the same thing for the last couple of days. How about a hat tip? All right. So let's get me straight. Let's get this straight. What? When the dolphins benched to a with three games left in the regular
season. You read the T leaves. You said this is the end of his dolphins career. Correct. Or was that it was that after that or before that? No, when they bet you like it's over. Okay. So basically you reported what everyone was thinking. No, that was an opinion when I did that. That was I don't know immediately once they bench him that week that they're going to wind up cutting him. Maybe that was my opinion at the time. But a couple of weeks ago,
I straight up said right here.
I'm tired of waiting. The dolphins are going to cut to a Tonga by Lowe. They're going to eat the
“money. That's a report. Cody, why are you smiling and says those face. He hasn't gotten one of these”
wrong. He's broken all of these stories and he's getting no credit for the break. And I'm not really sure what to think about you. Give me buddies. You know, when when I'm talking about my report marks, it wasn't bunny years. He gave you a court. He gave you air quotes. Okay. And your report was taken as disrespectful report was based on what source. Or was it just a feeling of yours? I've already told you this before. I can't believe we're rehashing this. Is that a reveal of source? I would go
to prison before releasing my source. I doubt that. Okay. Your point as well. Wait a minute. You'd go to prison. Just because you wouldn't protect the source. Don't push that on me. I would go to hell and back to defend to protect any of my sources. So all my sources out there,
I will always protect all I'm saying. And I'm saying I happen to be saying this about you, but I
could be saying it to a number of journalists. When you're reporting and I'm using air quotes, when you're reporting that a two-a-tongue of Aloha with a concussion history coming off of his worst season, bench toward the end of the season. When you're reporting that they're going to divest themselves into one, not a big newsbreak on that. Wow. It's sort of like reporting that the Florida Panthers are not going to make the playoffs when they're eight points back. No,
that's a prediction. All right. That's a list. I just have to explain this to you the journalist. Right. And if I'm not exactly going out on a limb with that they're going to release to it, why did it take all this time until just a couple days ago for Palacero and Shepter and Rappaport
to finally come out with the news that everybody seemingly knows and that's that two is going to be
“released. I heard day by day this morning. Weeks ago. Okay. I think it's been pretty obvious for weeks.”
You say that, but he had it. He did have it. What my name on it? He put his name on it. He said, put it on the scroll. I'm reporting it before all the insiders. And now people are reading tea leaves. Let's show people what social media is mad about these days because two was birthday, was a couple of days ago and we didn't celebrate it properly around here. And let me see if I can find the happy birthday. Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. We've already done more
than the dolphins. A lot of people noticed that the dolphins did not wish to a happy birthday, but they did wish Willie Gay Jr. Happy birthday. A couple of weeks ago. And what do you make of that, Greg? Because a lot of people are using that as, you know, to confirm the Zazzle report from weeks ago. They are using the Circumstantial Evidence to say, well, that's clearly a sign. Once you're
“not wishing him a happy birthday, clearly he's gone. Yeah. How many more signs do we need before we all”
agree that they're going to part way? When it was signs to you all need more. If you're them, though, don't you just wish him a happy birthday to avoid all this dialogue? It's very well, I don't know who runs at a social media. It could very well have just been an oversight. It's I doubt it. I also think it's ridiculous that what do we in grade school? Where the elementary school teacher wishes happy birthday on the chalkboard, do whatever. What are we in grade school? Where the
player needs to be taught? How to be tough? We had to be an adult? Yeah. Yeah. We're in grade school. Yes. Okay. So we're we're congratulating happy birthday to all our players. Except for the quarterback. We're just with our cutting. Well, only because they can't trade them. So he's that bad that they can't even give them a happy birthday. Well, I mean, look what the Arizona's doing with Kyla Murray. It's tough to trade somebody when the rest of the league knows
that he'll be a free agent in a couple of weeks. Hey, hey, great. Could you just keep your mouth closer to the mind? Thank you. I feel like you're kind of just bleeding out when he starts to get excited about a pointy. So Zazlo mentioned the HT and taught all the youngsters out there that that is a well, they know that all the old people out there that that's a hat tip. It was hashed out. A hat tip, though, is from another time. What are we thinking? 1920s. I look at up 30s, 1940s. The tip of the hat
as a as a salute. But did you guys see what happened with Timberwood's podcast or Dane More, where? Well, when we talk when we talk about giving credit to people, right? ESPN on occasion doesn't do a great job of giving credit to others and Dane More went into the Timberwood's locker room and got some sound from Anthony Edwards about not liking to play basketball with all of the double teams and ESPN asked him, hey, can we use that sound? And he's like, I'm going to tell you what I
Tell you every time you get in my DMs.
wanted the sound from the locker room. You cannot have the sound. And so he just didn't allow them
“to have the sound and he made the principal stand on behalf of other journalists saying,”
don't fire your reporters if you want the exclusive sound. Oh, look at this. They're getting the macophilia, the macophilia applause back there and Anne Tony is going to hold code. Easy stands for the year. Yeah, easy stands for it. But no one else is doing that. And not easy
when he is being hits you like Abraham. We liked that one. Can we use it? And you got the
assumption to tell them for Abraham. You tell us off. You fired my home for two days ago.
“I like them. It's not a person asking you. It's the four letters. Sometimes it's easy to be the right,”
but guy. Hey, he did it. Well, was ESPN going to give him credit? They sometimes do and sometimes don't many people have an issue with that. But in this particular case, somebody is taking a stand.
I have expertise on this matter. They've hit me a couple of times to use some of the stuff that we
ended to do it. Yeah, I've seen it toolman. Sometimes they give us credit and sometimes they just use the content. So hey, I feel my bro, uh, due to not making the stand that Dane Moore has taken. Due to just said that you can you can more the barrier, uh, not on behalf of fire, uh, hymns and hers. A judge will not make it. Oh, no, this was from that in 2022, brother. I had something that ESPN hit me up about too that they asked me if they could post. And I said,
yeah, that's fine. You could post it. It went viral, whatever. It was actually the Houston Texans heading over to Baltimore in the playoff game, C.J. Straud versus Lamar Jackson. I had a picture of somebody with a Houston jersey with the four, four, four, four, it's still tipping on the back. They love that. That went crazy. And they're like, can we use this? And I was like, yes,
“and they'd tag me. No HT. You know anything about that? Still tipping on footballs?”
But what I wanted to do was not the chemical management of the studio. The master by tag leapt, tapioca, soft, behind the internet. I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry. I'm sorry, you can't say the same thing. You have a story to say, right?
But you don't understand it. Egal, it's just a misunderstanding. It's just a story with how this story works. And if you then do it, it's a shame. - That's right. - Save. How this story works.
Hold it, thank you, it's a story. Now, let's try it out.
