How Billy, Chad Warlick, far back dad was a big one. It was huge. You're succeed, right? I don't care about seats, I know I know that we care about getting in. Are you citizens or not?

We can get a ticket to the dance. We can get in tonight with a victory and a Phillies loss of magic, number two.

Ladies and gentlemen, you just heard the enthusiasm of one Christopher Cody, because today is the rare day and we do not get this chance very often to say out loud to the country, Chris Cody is a winner. He is a winner today.

His teams win. His teams go into Jacksonville, into the lion's den in Jacksonville, and they win his marland and his Marlen's after losing three games to the Braves by a combined 7000 run, his Marlins come back and are now one game over 500. They are one game over 500. Billy, how excited were you when when the Marlins won yesterday? The five hundred police, about 500 police. That's what they have right now.

A ticket to the dance. Do you know we have a ticket? We have like a ticket for a train that could take us to the dance, but we're not sure it's going to actually take us to the dance.

They got a ticket right now where the Marlins act like what what needs to happen that the magic number is to what is Andy Slater say it is?

I mean, that's a good question. Right? Right, exactly.

They could just win two out of three against the Yankees and need no help. Or they could win tonight and have the Phillies lose tonight. They could technically, I think, win one game and have the Phillies get swept or lose, I don't know, whatever. I just know that we need to TCBY. So you got to that's what we need. All right.

Taking care of business lately. Dolphins did last night so much of a winner that he doesn't have time to even say taken care of business. He just gives you the acronym.

How did we arrive at this place where we have a team that is one win away from an NBA finals appearance? We have a baseball team that's going to make the postseason. The Dolphins firmly entrenched in the mix in the AFC and the Canes, a top 15 team. It's all happening right here.

A global pandemic, an apocalyptic crisis of our lifetime had to happen. We will take it. That's true. We're we're happy to have it. But when you ask when you ask how is the world upside down? Well, this is how the world is upside down in many, many places. And also South Florida gets to feel like a winner today. Help me out with this, guys, because I am so sick of Thursday Night Football and I'm so sick of Thursday Night Football that feels like last night's game did.

What domination? Amazing, amazing. You could just not watch and then it won't bother you. Well, you know what's funny about how I watched? I'll tell you how I watch because I didn't watch live. What happened was I simply taped the game, stayed out of all my devices, and then I watched the game on. Fastforward today at five thirty in the morning. I watched the game as fast as I possibly could, and I was bored by that.

Like, once you go to a cell phone, you don't go back to a landline. Once you go RedZone, you don't go back to one game. And if that one game involves Thursday Night Football and the Dolphins and Jags, that is a hard pill to swallow.

Why can't you get past this Thursday night thing? Because all three Thursday nights have been good games. They've been high scoring affairs. The Dolphins scored thirty one Joe Burrow through 60 times the previous week. He had the Super Bowl champs chiefs play against the Houston Texans. They've been all exciting matchups. These haven't been crappy games to watch.

And you also just watch like a twenty minute condensed version on NFL dotcom or something, so you don't have to watch it.

And fast forward, I have a Colin Cowherd style analogy for you, Dan. When you have sex, you don't always do it the same way. OK, when I watch football on Sundays, I get my red zone in. I get it like nonstop.

And on Thursday night I relax. I slow down a little bit. I open a bottle of wine here, not a candle, and then I watch one game.

Nice, nice. I like to change it up a little bit lower down this way every time. Dan change it up. Mix it up.

Yeah. So it's not a Thursday night problem, it's just a one game problem.

It's multiple problems. First of all, I also love and do imagine that you turn on your candles. I don't believe you have actual authentic candles in your house, which I think you've got three candles in which you just yes, you light something.

But this is my issue because you say and help me with this because I was legitimately watching the game and fast forward and was bored by what I was watching and fast forward. So you guys tell me when you say it's a high scoring game because the Under came in and Ryan Fitzpatrick threw six passes in the second half. And what I felt like I was watching is the deep pass was such a rarity that the one time there was a blown coverage in Gardner mind, you had a chance to make it a game.

He blew it by ten yards, overthrowing a guy that would have had an easy touchdown because everyone in that game was so unfamiliar with throwing the ball down the field.

Yeah, the Jags weren't very good last night. I'll certainly give you that. Ryan Fitzpatrick only threw the ball six times in the second half because the offense executed as well as we've seen it, a Dolphins offense execute and a half in God knows how long. Like we should start the position, we should have a conversation about chain gayly. Hey, hey. Where did that come from? I think Ryan Fitzpatrick completed its first twelve passes. It was eighteen of twenty Mike.

Yeah, he was the second pass. He looked really good that first half and that's the occasional if it's magic he'll do that.

OK, it look I don't want to pooh pooh the dog calling it the pooh-pooh the Dolphins saving their season because if you're open to and you must win, you're just said it yesterday was a must win and they want it to be.

Exactly.

You're you're playing a Jacksonville team that is the worst team in the league, tanking on purpose. And you had to go and save your season. But when you say that's a high scoring game, what do you do with the following? OK, because Chris Whittingham put this out, the Dolphins have had four games where they scored 40 points or more in the last twenty years.

The Chiefs had five of those in twenty eighteen. The Patriots in those twenty years have had forty six of those. They are last in the last twenty years. And in producing the forty point game, the high scoring game, that doesn't feel the way that that one felt last night was a lot of dink and dunk like Ryan Fitzpatrick was not asked. And you're right, it's the best start of his career. He's beaten the Jags for six different teams now, six different stat.

He has beaten the Jags, six to God and he's played for eight. But it was Dink and Dunk. It was Dink and Dunk. It was efficient. It worked and it was good. Good way to beat Jacksonville kept the ball. Minshew turned it over. They didn't turn it over. They were efficient on offense. But it wasn't very exciting for me to watch.

Oh, he took a shots in the first half I thought. And then you're right, there was Dink and Dunk after that and they were just sitting on a lead. If you're watching and fast forward, I imagine now that I have the context applied to it, a large chunk of that game seems boring because it felt like the game was in hand by halftime.

If I wake up at five thirty in the morning to watch a game any day, I'm going to think it's a boring game. I feel like your judgment was clouded by how early it was and how groggy you probably were.

What did I get your point? Like I get WINNINGHAM XPoint. Well, we don't need it. We know the Dolphins have been bad for years. That WINNINGHAM stat just kind of proves what we already knew. Not today. It's like we got to on the bench today. We're we're. Ryan Fitzpatrick leads the league and beard and leadership two useless things, the chest hair also. I mean, we're also cherry picking Whittingham tweets because midway through the second quarter, he said, this is the greatest Dolphins offense I've ever seen.

I don't want to hear from waddingham. I mean, seriously, I don't care what he has to say about anything, to be honest with you, including soccer. I mean, you want bad football, Dan? You get Jets. Broncos next week on Thursday night. Last night was fun. A Jets, Broncos next week, Aparo and so.

Well, but just so you guys understand, like because it is fairly flabbergasting and I'll leave it alone after this. But the fact that the dolphins have had for forty point games in the last 20 years, the Jets have had 12, and we know the jets are putrid.

The Jets have had three times as many. Like I have to explain to you, because what ends up happening in this sport is people get fooled in the game and choose exciting and then you're not going to win anything that way. You're going to he's going to throw interceptions and he's value and a guy who's going to come in at quarterback and he's going to look competent, but he's not going to be somebody who's going to consistently beat everyone. I need you to have in context how bad the dolphins have been for twenty years.

Yeah.

Does I does it why can't we just enjoy yesterday? What were we supposed to watch yesterday then the Meryl Streep show with the wives and who murdered who. And then there's the thing and the testimony in that black mirror. What were we supposed to be watching yesterday? What were we supposed to be doing to enjoy ours?

There was an NBA playoff game against the team. The Heat.

My take cares about them. We are the Marlins. Braves probably. Yeah, that's that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, playoff implications.

I mean, yeah. You know, we can root for more than one team on Miami than just the Heat, Dan. Right. Like we can be happy for the Dolphins in the market. It's not just parolees who the parolees cause or money.

This we can root for the Marlins and the Dolphins also why you really became a villain here and the came I saw a great movie last night, Devil all the time, except what's on Netflix.

I haven't heard really starring our Briles. Really well done. It's a really well done movie stars in that movie.

I didn't know there weren't name people in the movie. It was just I was surprised at how name, how well it was done. Yes, everyone does have a name.

Thank you. But they weren't they weren't famous people. I think you guys I think everyone here might enjoy that movie except for Snooki.

I saw the mask last night, which was introducing Cameron Diaz. The mask bit rapey.

Why would I like it? Just out of curiosity, not enough explosions.

Rock How are you going to explain that one to your daughter? She's not allowed to watch the mask, not allowed to watch the mask at all.

What are you guys does it actually feel like twenty years? Because I looked it up. That's the last Dolphins playoff victory, the Lamar Smith game, where he said a playoff record for Carrie's at the at the time against a Colts. That was December 30th, I think 2000.

It was a wild card game. Yeah, there was a wild card game was twenty years ago. Twenty years ago.

There were people who were not born that now have children. Right. That haven't experienced a Dolphins playoff victory. Now, I know for the Browns it is felt like that because I haven't been to the playoffs since the 2001 season. Not being in the playoffs is a different thing. You've had the occasional playoff appearance that was blacked out locally, but has it felt like twenty years for you guys, Chris?

Yes, it feels like I can't remember the dolphins being good. That's why just let me enjoy to being here. That's why I don't even want to have a play. Like I'm feeling good about this team for the first time in my life. Don't play him like last night when they were up twenty points late in that game, I was like, oh my God, they might put him in. Don't do it. I've got to the point where I just want to keep to a way not playing just so I can have this feel good for the whole year.

I don't know.

I don't know what I'm thinking right now. I just like I just know that if he enters the game and then he's bad, then it's like, oh, we're back. Right. Like, I at least have this right now. Don't take this away from me.

Like a present under the tree he's wrapped and you see it and you're like, what if. Oh, I don't know. That could be a good president. It's wrapped in something. I can't wait. But it's not Christmas yet. I don't want to open it just yet. Right.

But I have a feeling in ten days you want to open it because you play the Seahawks. I'm like, that's going to be it's not the Jaguars, it's the Seahawks. And Ryan Fitzpatrick is probably going to be bad in that game.

Don't open it against the Seahawks. That's the wrong data open at present. No, no, no. I think I might be able to trap Billy in a corner here. I hope I can. Billy, did you actually watch the Dolphins game?

Yeah, I had it on had it on the iPad and I had the Marlins on the big TV. Lots of rain. They were going to get that game in regardless. All right, ready for segment to FSU, we like trying to dictate what we talk about, about whatever you guys want to talk. It is FSU, but FSU stinks and they don't have a head coach.

I mean, we have a good Miami Hurricanes team. And when we're not talking, we don't know. But you don't have to talk. There's a lot of exciting things. I mean, the Miami here are a game away from an NBA finals.

So are the Kings good, though? I feel like the Cavs are just in, like, no idea and like a very barren and vending machine right now. And they're like the best thing that we can click, but they're not necessarily a great thing to eat.

Oh, that is a great question right there. What is in the midpoint of a barren vending machine like what is right at the middle? I want to know what's right in the middle where the orange crackers, they're always there with the peanut butter.

Yeah, I think those are pretty good. They're always the one. They're always there. Yet lances, there is no one.

We turn to our vending machine expert because no one had part of his balanced diet by an entire vending machine quite like Roy Bellamy. Roy, what is the thing that is always left over in the vending machine? Those old barbecue chips from Toms. Oh, yeah. What about isn't there like some sad brand of chocolate chip cookie that no one wants, like it's not the one that you chipped your tooth on?

I think it's a brand name. How about just pretzels? How about just like some old golds now? But yeah, no, such a basic thing.

I feel like they go out of stock quickly now. Life savers, life struggle. They're always there. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait a minute.

That is a really barren vending machine if you've gotten two life savers and not just those the mint ones like that. So wait a minute. Are we going to the last thing in the vending machine? Because I was just asking the question of sort of like what's right in the middle? You're hungry, you arrive at a vending machine. The vending machine is disappointing. In general, it is barren. But what is the high end of what you simply will turn around and walk right out of the room because the best thing in the vending machine is blank because you guys went low with all the stuff.

You guys went the last thing in the machine. But what's the best of those final things? Because I'd get the peanut butter crackers if the peanut butter, if you would, that hungry.

And that's the only hungry you revived in a vending machine. And the peanut butter crackers are in there. We're all getting the peanut butter crackers, are we not?

It depends on the vending machine at the old waxy studios. I wasn't touching those peanut butter crackers that she was in there since the Bush administration. Right.

But a new vending machine, I feel like that might be one of the first things you get. Those things are delicious if they're fresh. So I don't know if that's like middle of the road type stuff in a vending machine.

Maybe some, like, classic original lays. Right. Like the like the low end of the Lasan Van Gundy thinks those are like the best chips.

Doesn't he still say Van Gundy is a remarkably plain eater for a fat man like he doesn't like he doesn't like much of anything that isn't plain. Roy, the best things in a vending machine, according to you, are is it cool ranch Doritos? Like, what is the top? Let's do this as well. If you had to do a metal stand, a vending machine items, what is it that you're going with? Because honest to God, you guys, peanut butter crackers might be in a lot of people's top three on vending machine item.

Yeah, that's so kind of vending machines.

You guys going. Yeah, yeah. They're kind of used to the waxy old waxy bone vending machine. So I would say a bronze medal would probably be the lady's barbecue chips. I was expecting the fanfare. OK, well, hold on a second, I'm texting my sorry I got caught.

I'm texting my engineer, so we haven't actually said yes, it was. It's a miracle we're on right now and the AC is off. I am sweating through my shirt right now.

So also, you are a total nightmare before the show, like he was pin balling all over the place with rage on his face.

It was also sliding all over the place because there was condensation on the floor, which isn't great for a high tech studio.

Get used to it because this entire building is going to be underwater in about ten years.

So, Roy, did you just make the thing that was last on the vending machine?

Did you know we're talking about Lei's. It's all about Lazed. The first one that said it was like, oh, oh, the bootleg barbecue chips.

All right. So lazed. Unit to Roy Silver, silver medalist is the nacho cheese Doritos. The gold medalist is four. And you know what the gold medalist is? So what do you have a favorite item? I mean, I do have a definitive list here of the top 10 most popular things purchased from a vending machine. I mean, I do have that.

Well, how about yours, though? I'm at Snickers Bar. Oh, a Snickers bar. Wow. We had gotten out a Snickers bar is like a meal. I mean, it is I feel like I feel like Roy left off.

Like the cream of the crop is the honey bun. That's the number one. No, because the honeybun has been there since the Bush administration, but apparently let it marinate.

I think a lot of people might argue on behalf of the honeybun being one of the last things. I guess that's a. I went to my high school, that was the first thing gone all the time. That's in high school now, that if you arrive at a vending machine and that's all that's left, that's a sad vending machine for the Pop Tarts.

Agree to disagree.

Let's let's put these questions on the poll. Is the last item left in a barren vending machine being a honeybun sad? And also is the peanut butter orange cracker in your top three, a vending machine items?

Keep in mind right next to that honey bun is a cinnamon roll. Can we do the top 10 here that Douglas is stealing from the Internet, do we want to source this here? Let's do top 10. These are the top 10 vending machine items of all time history.

Yeah. Yes. According to a vending machines. Dotcom, yes. All right. Very good. Very popular Web site. Vending machines, dot com number 10, sugared pretzels.

Number nine, Chex Mix. No, a Jesus. That's your from that sad, yeah, what year is this from? This is two thousand and eleven seven granola bars. Jesus. All this is the saddest vending machine. I love it, I love a good girl. Number six, planters trail mix, delightful before vending machines actually got creative with what they were making this like a vending machine from the 1950s.

Number five, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Pretty popular about Billy, what do you. What are you laughing about how bad this list is? What are you laughing about? I love it because I found the same list and it's hard to find the data. It's a stew got rolling off and say it's from 2012. It is such a believable lie. The date is on there buried and it's August seven. Twenty twenty.

You typed in vending machines. That com. Yeah. To. Billy, this is and it's good for the audience to know that everything Stuart says is a lie. Just keep it moving. There are no facts. It's everything that dribbles from his mouth is untrue.

But it was so convincing to the way that he's like, oh, this from 20. Let me look it up.

He even paused. He paused like he was looking at us, you know, like that. Yes. I mean, you got to sell the lie. It was two thousand eleven. Exactly.

No, for some chips. The sun chips, we forgot about the sun. That's a good answer. Don't make fun of my legs out of the sun chips. How did we do that?

Number three, Pop Tarts, very high, I would say, is one of the sad ones. That's one of the last ones with you.

Pop Tarts in a barren vending machine. I am with you, Tony. Shaking his head vigorously.

No want no pop tarts. Always the first one to go breakfast time. Somebody sees it. Let me grab those strawberry ones. There's no variety in the vending machine.

You know, the issue with the vending machines is that it really depends on the location. Right. So, like, if you're like in a high school, like a pop tart, a honey bun, like, those things will go fast, right. Where if you're in an office setting, you'll get other things, like if you could get like a cup of noodles or something like that in this lunchtime, then you're like, whoa, oh, wait.

The worst thing in an office vending machine, I think, is popcorn. Right? Not because it's a bad snack, but because then everybody comes and wants a piece of your snack and then there's all sticking a dirty hands and your popcorn. And I'd leave popcorn out of the work vending machines unless you're going to secretly eat it maybe in the bathroom.

No, I think that actually I am telling you that the person who is depressive, OK, the person who's got like some real issues with darkness in their life and that person is hungry and that person shows up hungry at a vending machine that is barren and all that's left is a cup of noodles. That person is not leaving that room without committing Hari Kari suicide like that person is going to be done with life at that point. That's the saddest thing that could possibly be in a vending machine.

Cup of noodles. Did Harry Carey commit suicide? What happened?

That happened? It also depends on what part of the country that you're in because you're not going to find plantain chips in Boston, I'm sure. Yes.

I'll put it on the Paul Gamble at Batard show. Pop Tarts, top of the vending machine, food chain or bottom of the vending machine food.

But what happened to Harry Carey, number two to guy Cliff Barnes. And finally, a little bit of a change up there, the new chair for noise, no one still got the number one vending machine item, according to a list from 2011 and also 20, 20 vending machines that got a Snickers bar.

Did you steal Snickers? I did. That tell you it's early. Snickers Bar your choice. And my God, it is too early in the morning for your stealing and lies.

I mean, but you watch the Dolphin game earlier this morning on morning. It's been a nightmare. I was thinking about things like suicide, Gary. I just Googled it.

There is there is an actual word. That's Harry Carey I thought you were talking about. What about you? I thought you guys were joking. I know. That's what doing about it now is an Asian word. Harry. Harry, we thought you were doing a big talk about the broadcaster.

Wait a minute. All right. All of you thought that I.

Well, I don't think you pronounce Harry Carey. Yeah. It's how Takieddine know it is pronounced it. Well, it's a fine. How. This looks like how. Takieddine. I thought you guys were absolute.

No, I thought you know, I thought I thought you were like mistaken on how Harry Carey is if the definition was right. That's who I thought you were talking about.

The definition of Harry Carey, I believe I pronounce that correctly as well.

I've spelled a are a k i r I that looks like an Asian or I go to dictionary dot com or the creation. Let's see, let's see. Let's do this, let's have the payoff to the segment B, whatever it is that pronunciation dot com says is the correct way to pronounce in English. Harry, I'd also like the definition for the audience. I can't believe I carry.

So harakiri, harakiri, it's harakiri ergaster, yeah, harakiri.

Harakiri, harakiri. But you said Harry Carey. Yeah, I mean, you think I mean, I understand answer and I think it's it's not Harry Carey.

I mean, harakiri, I'm telling you that audience right now is siding with me on this. The audience that knows what Harry Carey is that that they carry the audience that doesn't know harakiri what side is with you guys.

She's not saying Harry Carey, though.

Harakiri, harakiri.

But if it's if I said to you, what is a broadcaster that this sounds most like? I mean, come on, Harry, we're damned fair is fair.

I was taught not to be most fair. I was talking about depression and suicide, and I used the pseudonym for you guys, but I was talking about the GOP's broadcast.

We weren't like not like you did a Harry. I can slow her down.

Hey, harakiri a classic Harry thing, I think.

Roy, do you have you have a deciding vote on this as everyone ganging up on me because they didn't know what Harry Carey what Harry is here.

It's Harry Carey. You pronounce it like that. Yeah.

Sarika Harry Roy. You knew what he was talking about.

Something about Bush, Strangers', Miami, Florida State breakdown. Roy, were you like me? Did you think that they were doing a bit? Did you think. I thought that was a brilliant line by Stu. Got to say what was not a bit at all. It was just him being ignorant, like I thought he was being brilliant. This is what happens around here. I thought it was him being brilliant as his character. But now it's just him being ignorant is him and it turning into magical here.

I think this is like, what color is the dress man?

Hara-Kiri, I thought was a Harry. Really?

You do not seen Harry Carey again?

You need to read out more to guys on Asian suicide techniques, but shame on us.

What is the suicide technique? Incidentally, can you guys give me the definition that Harry Carey of the Harry Carey. Yes. Can you give me the definition watching a bad baseball team for like thirty years?

OK, to put a bow on FSU, Cain's talk, the analogy I was trying to make last segment before we got sidetracked was right now the college landscape is a barren vending machine and the canes are the best option in there right now. But some bad news for Cain's fans is that that vending machine is getting restocked this weekend with some LSU, with some Alabama.

I just feel like a mess. We look good right now. But it's it could be a little rough. Not not as not as looking great in a couple of weeks.

I can't remember the last time you was an 11 point favorite against FSU going into a game, an 11 point favorite. I know FSU is a laughingstock. I know they lost Georgia Tech at home. I know we spent a lot of time laughing at all the people who painted and painted themselves in garnet and gold and then lost to a Georgia Tech team that FSU was favored to beat by more than a touchdown.

I know it seems crazy, but and I don't know enough. So I'm going to ask Mike, who was watching these games of watch these teams. But I've been listening to a lot of local sports radio over the last few days. I have, because by Sirius XM subscription is up, I need to renew it. That's not the only reason. And I enjoy listening to those guys occasionally. That's the strongest endorsement. Sorry about that.

But I like what I feel like. That had to be a couple of guys in there somewhere. Like what do you think? There always are, Chris. Again, if you are up sometimes if you weren't here with us earlier in the show, I don't know. Everything that dribbles out of his mouth is uselessly not factual.

But what I have heard is people like Leroy Hoard and others, the big dog is telling me that the Florida State Seminoles or this is the worst Florida state team that they've seen in their lifetime, is that they're that bad.

I mean, they looked really bad against Georgia Tech. They've got a quarterback problem. They're still doing the Blackman thing occasionally at quarterback. And when I say that, I mean, his name is Blackman.

I mean, that is such a knee jerk reaction. They're only on one. And they lost a power five team at home. They've had plenty of bad losses along the years. And they go to overtime against the Citadel recently or something like that. So not going to knee jerk off of one. They're not good, as evidenced by the line this weekend. They've had a tumultuous offseason where their brand new head coach lost the locker room before he even stepped foot in the locker room.

The coach has covid-19 and won't be there on the sidelines. And Miami. Yeah, you're absolutely right. The college football landscape is going to be a little bit more congested. But the ACC is looking like a bit of visionary's right now with all these schools playing seven game seasons without really room to reschedule games. ACC looks pretty smart in getting an earlier start because Notre Dame gets canceled. That game gets pushed to December 12th. All these other conferences won't have open dates and the college football playoff.

I know we're looking way ahead here in terms of Miami, but that is going to be an absolute mess this year.

I think that anyone who listens to this should be encouraged by what it is that I was saying that revealed itself against Louisville. Louisville is terrible at defense. Louisville will allow a great many plays of 50 and 60 yards where you're looking and you're like, how did that happen with no one near the dude?

Like, it's just apocalyptically bad defense.

But they have a quarterback and they have a kicker. Like, those things are so and I know it's kind of pathetic to say something like they have a kicker, but they seem to have one of the best kickers in college football. And there were too many times with that team in recent years where you didn't trust them to make an extra point. I wouldn't trust them to get 25 yards of field position on a punt from Feagles. So, yeah, the kicker is a grad, a graduate transfer from FSU.

You might remember him last year when he broke Miami over his knee, kicking all sorts of long field goals in that game. They also have an offensive coordinator. You mentioned the the two broke down coverages that led to lightning, quick touchdowns from Miami. I heard Brett Lashley talk. He was like in preparation for that game. I had those two plays dialed up when they showed that, look, they wanted to make Derrick King make quick decisions and go through his progressions.

And he did that. He he's already shown you in two games against UAB, admittedly, and Louisville, who was really good at home and is the fastest team. Miami's probably going to play all season long that he can beat you in more than one way. And he's he's actually quite a good quarterback. And often I would say they might. Yeah, they have a bunch of. Yeah.

Certainly the fastest offense, no doubt. Attwell Cunningham, these these are very fast players, very fast players. Clemson is pretty fast obviously. Well, they have ATN, but people that know this is I mean, throughout the skill positions that that's going to test the defense. And we'll see. I have no idea what kind of defense Louisville has historically bad. We'll see what happens this week. I think they have pit coming up. But I'm encouraged by by Miami.

I have respect for Louisville, especially at home UAB as well. So you have respect for the UAB defense. You have respect for Louisville, especially at home, but you have no respect for Manny Diaz. He's. Out to earn your respect, he does, he does. I've been burned, I've been so embarrassed by this team, really embarrassed by this coach to last year was the worst, um, year I can I can recall. And they had years where they weren't bowl eligible.

I would have rather to suffer that embarrassment in the bowl game was so humiliating.

This can't and earning the respect game though it can up. No, no, no, no. What game will that be? Do you know how you do a pegged or if they win this game and all these games, even when FSU had some really good teams playing against some subpar Miami teams, those games were tight. So we'll see what happens with this. They have an off week to prepare, which is never good for Manny Diaz for Clemson.

And I imagine Clemson will blow the doors off of Miami and we'll have to sort of gather ourselves and set new expectations.

But that's the ultimate earn your respect game one of its close. What if they don't beat Clemson? But it's a very competitive game. Will many of earn your respect?

I think every I think every Kings fan has the. I know what you're looking for. Yes. If they if they if they have a close game at Death Valley. Yes.

I'm going to be to have the conversation. Like, what percentage of respect do they get from you for winning games. Like, I want to know where is your respect level? Before Louisville, you had no respect for Manny Diaz. None. Zero. It was a zero percent. Yeah. So he beats Louisville and it climbs up to what, on the respect spectrum? Eight percent, four percent.

That's that's the best one of the college football season. I dare you to find a better one. This is such a trick that I'm playing on Louisiana at Iowa State. Raging Cajun is pretty good win percentage of respect. I don't want to talk about college football. I want to talk about my research. There's a pie chart and it starts with nothing. OK, yes.

The whole pie chart, you know, it was on the road. And even though is against the fantasy, I believe they'll play all year. It was a team that Miami destroyed last year with a worse quarterback. So really maybe three percent more. So if they beat FSU and destroy that impressive fashion, nothing. Nothing. You're still at three percent this year. FSU small piece of last year's FSU letter last year, FSU game was their best performance of the season.

So two percent, two percent, two percent, more and more.

So it's go to five percent, five percent mind.

I had zero respect for Manny Diaz entering this season zero. And then in recruiting, he earned, like, you know, four and a half percent. Oh, wow. So we're closing in on 10 percent total. Right.

Have you seen the new turnover chain? It is sending a message throughout the state. It is the state of Miami. It's the state of Florida. The you over it and the tri county area is highlighted in orange and green. We are keeping our athletes down here. KNIGHTON That Brachy running down the sideline with that NFL speed, wasn't it? That's to do that. Ends up at LSU. Ran away from secondary with angle.

Yeah, that was see goodbye as soon as the pass left the hand but is ten percent fair.

So I'm wondering what happens if they beat Clemson Bonfils in the if they become one hundred percent. Right. If they beat one of the close game against Clemson will it be a full 90 percent fill in the pie or.

No, no, no no no no. If they beat Clemson it's that's a fill in the pie scenario close. Now that we're talking about scores of respect, just stop with the beating of Clemson, all of us.

I could have been Bill Belichick. No, it can't happen.

Billy, help me out and just listen. Notre Dame, you may want to stay away from those. They can't beat Clemson.

We're going to do this again. I mean, we'll see. Like I've told you a couple of times already, they go into these Clemson games and you think they're going to win and they lose by seven touchdowns.

Well, they've only gone into one Clemson game out to after the Al Golden experience. And yeah, they they're kicking game was a disaster. They were injured in that SCC championship game. And just so happens that they were playing the best team in the nation, which absolutely smashed Miami. If they keep it close, you want something to build on for an eventual rematch in the ACC championship game. And I want to be able to get excited for said rematch.

That's all I want to see when they go to Death Valley. But we can't look ahead past FSU guys rivalry game.

But the question I was going to ask you, Billy, is how you feel about an FSU kicker named Hosie ending up as the University of Miami's kicker? Because this has got a lot of different things in it. First of all, I love that the the University of Miami has a player called Hosie. I don't think. Have they ever had a player called Jose before? I can't remember.

Off the top existed a long time. I know. I know.

But it's just it's it's a different part of Miami, right. When Mike talks about the state of Florida keeping people gated in here in the region on recruiting, this is a different side of Florida, the hoses and he comes from FIU. Did you think it was traitorous that he that he decided, well, wait a minute, if I could beat you, I might as well go ahead? It was like a Kevin Durant move, except for a guy named Jose.

Yeah, and he's not that good. I don't know why you're saying he's the best kicker in college for. Seventy two percent of fuegos last. That's not good. Oh, we just need three percent the year before they get three percent. They trusted him out there too. It doesn't mean he's the best in college football.

I didn't say he was the best year over year, year over year. He's been the most impressive kicker so far. And seventy two percent. Well, yes, he's missed some kicks. Seventy two percent is a tremendous upgrade over the likes of Bubba backs. And this is a reverse. Kevin Durant, this is like I mean, this is if Kevin Durant beat the Golden State Warriors with OKC and he was like, I think I'm going to go to Memphis.

Correct me again, Billy, if you think I am wrong. But my I thought that we've gotten spoiled by NFL kickers. College football kickers are not 90 percent kickers because they're college football kickers like it's very rare. Who was the name? Was it the guy who failed in the pros that was at FSU? FSU excuse me? Was it a great Batley? No, it was. Was it what was the name of the WYO? Yeah. Thought yes.

He failed with the Bucs. Way to flex your bucks muscle. Weird Uruguayan muscle. I gave you two Florida State kickers as well.

But that was a guy that was a guy that was a ninety percent kicker. But that always stands out like if a guy if your guy in college football and I may be wrong about this because I don't know the math on it, but I thought that if your guy in college, college football made eighty percent of his kicks, that that was one of the best kickers in college football. Am I wrong?

So last year in college football, the best kicker was I don't even know what Afar's was. One hundred percent guy from Oklahoma was one hundred percent for the week was ninety six percent. The guy from TCU was ninety five point eight. The guy from WSU is ninety five point to the guy from Memphis was 92. OK, from 90s. Yeah, I'm wrong.

Then in the hash marks are further apart in college football, which adds to the difficulty that adds yardage potentially.

I don't want to pooh on the guy. I mean you want a huge the biggest game in FSU history, but just get ready because the misses are coming with. Oh, no doubt.

No doubt. No doubt. I have more trust in him than Bubba backs it. But that's not saying much. But if Bubba backs and makes seventy two percent of his kicks, that's a different end result. That's a big difference in Miami results. They lost a lot of one possession games, you know, when they got super lucky and made it to an Orange Bowl in twenty seventeen, they were winning these one score games. Since then, Miami's been paying for their sins and been losing those results that they won in that season.

I may have the wrong memory here, but I feel like the University of Miami hasn't confidently trotted out a kicker to try a fifty seven yard field goal the way they did in the Louisville. Since I was thinking, since Jimmy Johnson.

No, Todd Sèvres made a massive kick in that forceable against Ohio State. That's one of the most pressure filled kicks I've ever seen. It gets forgotten because of the flag, but Sèvres was unbelievable.

I'd look it up, but I'm still looking up all time. Hoess of the University of Miami.

I mean, we've had to walk. You said I'm on that beat. I mean, like it's like seeing a Miami player being named Papi. Like, yeah, it's confusing to me. Um, player here comes like our hopes. Rest on Pepé.

Yeah. You're also I it's a college kicker, man. You are saying that we can trust him because he nailed a fifty seven yarder against Louisville. Just always makes me nervous because I'm superstitious and Jinx guy. He's going to miss KCS obviously, but he's better than Bubba back.

So which is really all this team needs for the uninitiated to close out this local hour. As Miami feels like winners today, this city feels like we're winning. I just want to go back to Harry Carey and the formal definition of what Harry Carey is. It is a ritual suicide by disembowelment practiced by the Japanese samurai or formally, formally decreed by a court in lieu of the death penalty. I now want you to see the image I was trying to conjure earlier, the waxy vending machine room.

An impossibly sad place she was in there, her neck hurts and it's just sad and terrible and small, and you go to the vending machine and it's barren and you're really hungry. And what's there is a cup of noodles and now you kill yourself by ornament. Ornamental ceremony, Asian death by disembowelment. That is what I was trying to conjure for you guys. And instead I conjured the old Cubs broadcaster.