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Well, well, well, Chris, look at it. Oh, well, well, you're going to be very annoyed with the media, I think, although they're going to treat him with kid gloves. But welcome to knee jerk reaction with a young quarterback. Oh, I am seeing everything happening on Dolphins' Twitter right now and a lot of the same avatars that were in my mentions about my quarterback and have been for going on three years now all of a sudden have this level headed approach.

It's amazing. It's amazing.

It's almost as if you should apply context to certain situations and take a minute, take a beat and not overreact. It's incredible that we can all finally agree on this. Chris, how are you feeling?

You know, it's it's a tough one. I mean, I think it's a little it's not exactly apples to apples.

Your team a little more talented, I'd say, with certainly year two, certainly year to look at. Every every situation is different. I'm not drawing comparisons. I just I find it funny because I told you I'm not crazy about the Dolphin fan, even though I apply the very same sensibilities to several of my teams. But I get it. It's one part of Miami sports fandom that I'm not really aligned with. So I get to be like, OK, yeah, I see why everyone else thinks we're so annoying.

But yeah. So he gets to a for those that don't know the uninitiated to a guy gets pulled. He was not good. I think he had 80 yards passing. He was sacked six times. This is several days after he said I thought the NFL would be harder. Now in fairness to him, there was context applied to that and he even walked it back a little bit because it got aggregated in the headlines, got blown out of control, but benched for ineffectiveness.

The coach, Brian Flores, admits that in postgame and Ryan Fitzpatrick almost brings you back until he throws a pick in the end zone. Simmons incredible play made by that safety. Not enough is made of that. But now that you've had some time, you've had to sleep in, where's your head at?

I mean, when when he first made the move, I was like, there is no way that this is based on his performance. He must be nicked up because the first like our ball, the game was still going on. No one everyone was speculating. Is it like is it an injury or is it just performance? And so when I found I was like, so sure, I was telling everybody at my in my family, I'm just like, this is a thousand percent his that he's nicked up.

And then after the game it comes out that it was just performance. And I was just like a little blown away, a little impressed with Brian Flores. I don't know, man. I just trust Brian Flores at this point. I'm not overreacting. And then Mina brought up a good point that I actually agree with Mina that this could have just been protecting to it because that offensive line looked bad. So I don't know, man. I was going back and forth and I tuned in and I saw that Fitzpatrick was in and I saw two on the sideline, I texted Chris and I said, what happened to it?

Why is he out? And he goes, Ankle injury is out. It's an ankle. I think I would like it.

I was like, it has to be like, what scenario do you bench a quarter? Well, the broadcasters are like we're not sure if this is an injury or if this is, you know, based on performance. So I texted Chris. I'm like, what happened? And he's like injury. I think it's saying I'm pretty sure it's going well.

There was a replay. We're kind of looked like someone landed on his ankle. But then you realize pretty quickly that no one's working on him if he were hurt. So you the training staff is totally dropping the ball or he's not at all hurt. And again, you said not apples to apples, but drawing comparison. Remember, Baker Mayfield was pulled from a game because the offensive line was getting crushed when he had cracked ribs. And you sort of pull them to protect him, but also in effectiveness.

Now, Brian, flaws in the postgame press conference didn't say at all it was to protect him. Granted, he's got a locker room to worry about and that throws offensive linemen under the bus.

I think it's a little bit of both, but the fact of the matter is, too, it was not very good.

Billy, I've given up on looking at the sidelines to figure out if people are working on players because they're injured or not, because last week, Drew Brees for Drew Brees was just chilling on the sideline. And then we find out, oh, he has twelve fractured ribs this week, like, oh, OK. So he's just fine. It's just going to stand there. It's all good.

He I mean, look, I don't know, off the top of my head, I'm just kind of feeling around 12. Seems like a lot of fresh ribs, like I don't know how many exactly I have, but if twelve of them were fractured, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be standing.

Yeah, I saw somewhere. I've seen eleven. I've seen twelve. I've definitely seen the collapse long and I was a little surprised to find out that I had that many ribs. Also, granted, it's a very big man that was landing on Drew Brees, but he did turn away. We were talking last week about how that's that's actually the film that you put out to say this is how you avoid that penalty. It didn't really look a lot for the NFL like Dalvin Cook got absolutely punished on one hit in that Cowboys Vikings games.

And I thought, OK, well, he's got to have twelve cracked ribs. Do it seem fairly innocuous now? Drew Brees is like he basically had a car accident. I love me. I'm just going to start with that I'm not anti people eating meat. It's kind of crazy that we just eat ribs of animals, right, where it's like, oh, yeah, let's get this like meat in between the ribs. And it's delicious. We could get the right way.

Let's tear these bones apart and really get in between. Really get that meat.

So you trust Brian Flores? Chris is a ballsy decision.

He seems he's just he's got that Belichick thing so far where he does things that nobody expects him to do. And it's one of those things that I'm not just going to rip him just because I didn't expect it. This guy like like very stereotypical analysis. This guy has his finger on the pulse of this team more than we do. And I just kind of trust him at this point, like the to a thing. And I kind of see it from the aspect of the plan was to put two in when they did.

But that doesn't mean to it that you just like I get him sending a message to two of, hey, yeah, the plan was to put you in or whatever. But guess what, if you play like shit, we still have Fitzpatrick here. And I like the idea of reminding him of that.

These are big, meaningful games they dropped to into a playoff chase. Now, if there was one thing to nitpick outside of that Arizona game in which I came away very impressed with Tua, hasn't been spectacular, hasn't needed to be, certainly hasn't been the reason that they've won those games, although you can make a very solid argument for what he did against calamari in Arizona, not sustainable to continue scoring week after week in all three phases of the game, you needed to to do a hell of a lot more than he did.

Granted, the offensive line was not good personnel wise. It's the same offensive line that they trotted out there. Denver is without Von Miller. I know Chubb's a good pass rusher, but maybe they were due to revert back to being Chris.

And even even yesterday, they were put in a good situation to start the game. The defense got an interception, put them in scoring position. We got that early touchdown like it's insane, the how lucky and fortunate he's been early on in these games. But, yeah, this, too, has not been impressive in two of the four games. And, you know, he's a young quarterback. I'm still high on them. But, yeah, I mean, he's not looked great in two of the games.

Chris, at what point are you going to say, OK, his inability to push the ball down the field is a problem? Right, because he was eleven of something for 80 yards. And you're like, OK, every pass is a quick fire, three step drop, two yards slant. Like there's nothing that he's doing to push the ball to the second level.

The defense, I mean, that is his strength. So I think they're just trying to protect him. You know, he's very young and I do expect them to hopefully like to your point, it's not it's all tight spaces right now, all close short passes. So I do obviously hope that they open it up.

But I just think in protecting him right now, it's hard to open it up when you have someone basically within a foot of you in a second and a half. There was a lot of pressure in that game. And this is this is normal for a rookie now getting getting pulled, getting pulled isn't exactly normal. That's a very dramatic step. There's a lot of coaches I want to go that far because that's the situation now that he has to handle in the locker room, though, I think we can all agree that the way that two is built, competitive, wise, like this is not an ego management type of thing.

I don't think he lacks for confidence. I think you'll get right back to work. And he's already Rimforest has already said he's a starter. This was just a decision for that game in that game alone in that moment.

I wonder if there was any part of Flores that saw into these guys feeling himself a little bit like I don't like to it doesn't seem like the guy that gives off those vibes at all. But what other explanation do you have for Flores kind of sending a message to do you think yours took him out of the game?

Not because he thought that. Right. Patrick could lead a two minute drill and win the game. It's because he thought, too, it was feeling himself too much.

No, I don't mean specifically in that game he was feeling himself. I'm just saying overall tool was named Starter a few weeks ago. I haven't been in those meetings. I haven't seen the way to a has really reacted to that. Maybe there had to be something in Brian Flores that was like maybe let's take this guy down a peg or two. I don't know, like what their explanation wouldn't you want your rookie quarterback to feel himself like it's not the whole point, like to get the confidence to a level where look at Justin Herbert.

Like, I understand that he didn't look good against the dolphins, but if you're going to tell me that rookie quarterback shouldn't be doing that, he's doing for 307 yards and three touchdowns, every single one, I feel I know what you're talking about, Chris.

This is what this is what's going on here. Ryan floor, as we all know, New England Patriot, right? So what he's done, he's seen what's been going on with Brady and Belichick for two decades. Right. And he saw how things kind of fell apart there at the end. And it became a question of who is the one that gets the credit for all of this success going on. And he wants to make sure very early on.

Listen to this. Is it going to happen between us? I'm putting my foot down right now. You will not be stealing Brian Flores's shot.

I mean, to borrow from Chris, I don't think it's exactly apples to apples. Brady, Belichick to. Well, not yet.

But this is the thing. What happened? Bill Belichick, we thought he's the disciplinarian. He has everybody under control there. And I don't want to bring up Aaron Hernandez, but things go on in New England sometimes where players get out of control. And now, look, Tom Brady is in Tampa and New England's falling apart. So Brian Floras is like, I'm going to start right now.

Is this a bad loss, Chris? Yes.

I mean, see, that's the thing we've come so far in these four or five weeks, Midlake before the season, you would have thought this is a coin flip game. Dolphins not that great. Denver not that great. In the four weeks that have just passed. Yes, I expected to win this game. And I feel like the Dolphins fan can feel happy about the fact that people expected them to win that game. So we've come somewhere if if that's a bad loss.

Do you want to know how far the dolphins have come, Chris, to the point where last night on Sunday Night Football, they were talking about the Chiefs upcoming schedule and they mentioned the Dolphins as a team game and saying the chiefs have won a pretty tough schedule.

Coming up, dude, I saw a tweet, Twitter accounts like national Twitter accounts tweeting about the dolphins were relevant. And I'm excited just for that fact.

They poured so much capital with me over the last three weeks because I was betting against someone like you can't this is not sustainable scoring in all three phases of the game. It is not. And I finally bought in and I bet on the Dolphins. It was Amena Times bet and they felt the Earth. That's a normal NFL loss in the grand scheme of things. Your worst loss of the season was probably at New England before that was week one. If you do transitive property, Denver won at New England.

So head to head Denver, a little bit of a tougher matchup. I guess the graphic is still in the hunt. I'm trying to dilute how bad this loss was. You had expectations, which makes it more of a crushing blow. But Denver will do that to you the season, even when they have teams that are subpar. Two, it did not have a great game, but there were things that you saw that you realize he's going to learn not to do stuff like that, like he had one play in particular where he decided to try to run away and took a sack technically because he ran out of bounds like three yards behind the line of scrimmage where, you know.

All right, he's going to learn. Just throw the ball away. That's not a sack. We won't lose three yards. So while he doesn't look great, there are things that he's doing that you can tell are just rookie mistakes that he'll figure out.

It was it was a difficult weekend for the Miami Dolphins in that a lot of teams that they were competing with got victories in that playoff chase. The Colts came from behind and won that game. And overtime, the Titans, even though now all of a sudden you turn your attention to the Ravens, who are a game below the Browns in the standings, and the Browns, who have taken advantage of a much lighter schedule, finally beat up on the NFC East of Jacksonville.

Next, they're sitting at seven and three. So it was a bad weekend to drop that result for Miami because they essentially lose a game on the entire AFC field. Something Billy said made me think. They're running, yeah, too, of running out of bounds with, you know, at three yards and taking a sack, who's the king of running out of bounds after, like, a one yard gain? And I'm going to give you two answers here.

OK, Derek Carr or Kirk Cousins?

Oh, I think it's Derek Carr, which, by the way, like three times last. Yeah, I think I think the nation pretty much comes away even as impressed with with Las Vegas in that Sunday night game as they were with their victory at Arrowhead. Because you thought, OK, you them on a bad day, bit of a fluky, bit of a fluky scenario, but wire to wire, they hang with them as an amazing drive by Patrick Mahomes.

I can't believe that's a first comeback of that sword throwing a go ahead touchdown in the final minute. But they're always ahead so much. It's certainly not for lack of skill on his part because he made that look so easy. But I think a lot of people have a bit more respect now for the Raiders even in defeat. Like Derek Kahtani to see Derek Carr's move yesterday when he would run and go out of bounds and he does the thing where he sticks the ball out always, always does.

I always I always feel like officials don't appreciate that move and don't give the credit that that deserves. A lot of times the ball is extended like and they they seem to market always a little further back. They don't like to respect the the reaching out as much as they should.

This spotting of the ball is so ridiculous to me. I don't like that. If you dive feet first, it's where you've given yourself up and it doesn't matter how far you slide because it could be like a wet thing. You could go like 10 yards before someone touches just like that 10 yards back. If you dive forward, there's just too many rules in terms of where we're going to put the ball. I don't think anyone knows what they are, including the officials.

That's why when he runs out of bounds with his ball out here like three feet in front of him with his arm, like now he stepped out over there. And if you guys were wondering another reason why the Dolphins lost yesterday, I also bet the Dolphins and I'm telling you over the last five years, I can count on one hand the amount of times I bet the Dolphins. I bet a lot. I'm a degenerate, but I never bet the Dolphins.

And I did yesterday because I was just like, they're on a roll. Only four and a half like this is an easy win for the Dolphins.

Yeah, expectations are expectations first. And then you realized it was a bust. Whoa.

What do you think we're getting to that territory? I mean, that's what. I mean, Herbert is clearly the the class of this quarterback class, is he not? You back off a little bit, you back off.

I mean, it was a terrible day, right? It really was two against poled Herbert Herbert and Barot gets hurt.

I mean, Herbert was the guy in this class.

The game that we were already at, the Sade's where Herbert is Herbert, because we've established and all acknowledge who Herbert is, what he's got to win Rookie of the Year.

It's like Mahomes. Yeah. With a burrow injury, Herbert essentially clinched Rookie of the year. One thing, it's a little jarring because once again, on a later start, I try to give you guys a little bit of leeway, a little bit of rest, and he still can't nail the commute time with a later start. I can notice that your clean shaven. What happened to the playoff beard? Well, the playoffs are over. OK, so your season is over.

Lacrosse season is over. Yeah, the season's over. All right. So there are no more lacrosse trips. There are no more trips to the spring springs. OK, no more trips. No more lacrosse trips. You promise there are trips, perhaps, but not lacrosse trips, I promise you.

No, no, no.

Look crosses over to the spring. Until the spring. Till the spring. Summer season.

We are done OK? Yes. All right.

I'm ready for summer season is even up for debate, to be honest with you, because most of the girls have committed speaking of late starts, by the way, the dolphins have had way too many four or five starts this.

Oh, my God, I don't know what's going on. It feels like every week now is four or five. I need the one o'clock dolphin story so I can kind of get back into normalcy and do my things after four o'clock. What's that?

That is not a good take because if you want to actually watch your team and the red zone, they show up more on the red zone because there are fewer games in that four o'clock window. Now, I'm with Billy on this. I like to have a nice relaxing four o'clock window. Give me a nice little two games. Give me a little Oakland at Denver games. Yeah, I like I like it. Slow down a little bit. Abby, give me the 1:00 games.

Give me the dolphins in like nine other games in the one to go. No, no.

I just want to I want my head to be spinning the whole time and then you get to the four o'clock so you take a little nap. Do you watch the two games? You wake up in the third quarter.

That's how you do football for Salame sister nappy poo at four o'clock. What do you mean?

No, no, no, no, no, I'm not, Tony. I meant once the four o'clock, once all the 1:00 games are in late in the four o'clock hour, then you get on the couch a little nap.

Well you got also four o'clock games that's all. Start at the same time. Enough of these staggered starts. Four or five. Four twenty five. None of that anymore. Well that's annoying.

Four or five for twenty five. But you got dolphins jets this weekend so that's a one o'clock star. But I think the four o'clock start is a sign of respect. It's a sign of like people care about your team or it's a sign of you traveling to the West Coast.

Well, no, but I think you're more of a feature team.

I we're both games because they've been up four or five for twenty five slot. The last two or three weeks, I believe, were those games on the West Coast. All of those games, there was a home game in there.

Who are they playing in that home game before they were playing a Chargers team which is a West Coast team. So they like to stagger those sorts for sometimes for the West Coast audiences when they played Seattle at one o'clock in the afternoon. Yes. Sometimes when you especially when you had to East Coast teams, that is a sign of respect because that is a big TV window for the networks. But more often than not, and certainly in the situation the Dolphins were in this week, it's to cater to a West Coast audience.

I feel like gamblers like the four twenty five start because I know about you guys. I always like Slack about getting my four o'clock bets in and then it's like, shoot, it's for ten and but I still have time to get that four twenty five game in. So I feel like that for twenty five late starters just for gamblers.

If I lived on the West Coast I wouldn't want them to have four o'clock starts on the East Coast because that's one o'clock. You know, it's better than a one o'clock start at 10 a.m. start. That's why I love the London Games, because I wake up, I'm eating breakfast, watching football. The day is already started. I know. I'm going to have a good one. I lived in California and won all my games to be at one o'clock Eastern, right?

Yeah. We had a little insight into California life with the NBA playoffs when we had those four o'clock playoff games and the seven o'clock start here local time. And then all of a sudden we're getting full night's sleep during the NBA playoffs, something that we've never really had.

West Coast has it figured out I'm over the West Coast enough or have all these late NBA games starting at ten o'clock at night to cater to the West Coast? I mean, who cares about the West Coast for real?

Yeah, but at seven o'clock there, I've told you my friend will not move back to the East Coast because he loves his football starting at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, like loves it and it's over before, you know. It is a pretty sweet deal that they got out there, because, look, even the so the there's games that walk it right up to NBC's football night in America. Right. But on the West Coast, they're like, let's go.

I have an early dinner reservation I'd like to make. Oh, I want to. It's like some people are still being able to go out to brunch after their team plays in that 10 a.m. window. It's ridiculous.

You guys, like you guys will be excited to tell you got one o'clock the rest of the way. They might flex a couple of your games, but you are one o'clock the rest of the way. But potentially Dolphins bills could be flexed and potentially dolphins chiefs could be flex potentially.

Oh, I love that. Being a fan and looking at your schedule. Hey, we've got a shot at Aflex. You got two shots of the flex here. In one way. You have the Sunday Night Football schedule and the other you have your team schedule. I can not remember the last time the Dolphins were in that conversation.

Could be Flex didn't do a good game.

Well, when's the last time you were flat out flexed into a prime time slot? We were flex out of some games, like more recently than in obviously. I don't know. I honestly can't remember the last time we were flexed.

I mean, the Dolphins bills will be flex. That all likelihood, right? Well, no, it depends on what they have. Yeah, you you have to do that. Remember, they they didn't flex out the Patriots because Lamar Jackson versus Bill Belichick is key. And even as bad as that NFC East thing is, they're not moving an NFC battle out, especially even though those teams are bad. They have playoff implications. So NBC is not doing that.

So they have the Bears Packers this Sunday night. They've already advertised. That's next Sunday night's game. Bears Packers. Yeah, the one following has a chance, but I don't think they're going to flex out. Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes has big numbers on TBS. And Denver is still in the graphic now for the playoff chase. So Denver Chiefs that says Steelers bills, they're not flexing that. That is a massive matchup. San Francisco, Dallas Cowboys, that probably doesn't get flex because there's an opportunity for Dallas to make the playoffs.

And San Francisco's off, obviously, in the playoff chase. Tennessee Green Bay. I don't see that game being flex. Yeah, we're going to have a flex free football season.

So you guys are one o'clock the rest of the way, with the exception that Raiders game, which is at OK, which is at Vegas excuse me, which might be a four o'clock storm. That's it.

I mean, a tough schedule. Dolphins, it seems like Raiders. Chiefs. Yeah, I believe this is going to make history. The only game that was flex because of the Bengals and Jets was due to covid concern.

They put the Seattle area, Arizona game in there because Tampa, Las Vegas had covid situations going on. This is going to be a flex free football season for NBC. That's a bit of a bummer. And kudos to them for picking a pretty bangin schedule.

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Did you guys discuss already the feelings you had, Chris, when when he took two out Flores? Yeah, we kind of londres game, OK? Yeah, that would that was the main talking point. Dangerous game. That's all I'm going to say. What did you think? What did you what were you thinking this game.

OK, so what did you think outside of repeating dangerous game playing a dangerous game. What direction for you. Who's playing a dangerous game with to his emotions?

I mean, it's dangerous. You know, did the first time the kid faces adversity, you take him out. I mean, it's a terrible job by Florida.

Does he trust them? Does he not? Who knows? Dangerous game. I got to tell you, I wrote down in my notes, Brian Flores, does it trust to. That's what I wrote down.

Did you write down Dangerous Game? I did not write down Dangerous Game. I wish I had. All right. Can you see your notes for the game? Oh, Brian. For you typed out O'Brien. Flores does not trust you. And that was it. Yeah. Spoiler alert there. My weekend observation that one is here to see some game, not the guys.

While you look that up to catch you up. One of the other things that was thought was Chris thought that possibly what was going on here was that Brian Foresightful was feeling himself too much lately. So he took them out to humble him a little bit.

Really well. Humble pie. Well, humble pie. Humble pie.

And I said what I think is going on here is that Brian Flores thinks that this could be a Belichick Brady situation twenty years down the road. So he's letting them know who's who right now.

Oh, got it right. Who's who on the boss. I wrote down Mike. I think it's fascinating. You think don't you think it gives you a better chance to win the game or that you run the risk of upsetting to an embarrassing him, isn't he the guy you drafted to get you out of that situation in the first place to add 10 late in a big game right on the road that you drafted in to get you out of that situation?

And the second he's in that situation, the first time he's ever in that situation, you go back to Fitz Magic. I mean, that's a terrible job to get done. What if Fitzpatrick had won the game? Then what do you do then? You have to boss ass quarterback now.

That's why it's a dangerous game. Ask you know what the old saying is, Chris? You know what the old saying is? You have to boss as quarterbacks. You don't have one.

You got let me paint a scenario for you where he doesn't look like a jerk. Stu, let me paint a scenario for you after the game two comes in. Brian Flores's office there, social distance, of course. He says, yo, man, you got act like 17 times. I just did not trust our offensive line. We're good, man. You're going to start again. Suggests I just didn't want you to get hurt.

You know what, Chris? That's funny that you mention that, because one of the other things that I wrote down is, I don't know, like there is you have to manage expectations. As a coach of the number one lacrosse team in the country, I will tell you, it's a very big part of the job. I don't know the conversations that were had on the front end. And perhaps you're right where Flores is a master salesman and said, hey, I'm not doing this for me in the team and I'm doing this for you to you are my guy.

You'll be starting next week. Our offensive line is playing terrible. I'm going to try to find some magic here. But don't worry, win or lose, you're my guy next week against the Jets. I don't know if he said that or not, but that's what you need to set.

Wow. How about this before I derail? Because I have a follow up question on that's two guys. But maybe what was going on there is he was thinking back. He remembered Fitzpatrick had kind of like that sour attitude after he was replaced. Maybe Fitzpatrick has been kind of like a rain cloud in some of these meetings. And he's like, you know what? We need to have everybody on the same page. Let me throw a Ryan out there, get his spirits up a little bit so we can move forward to have a positive QB room because we need Fitz Magic to be teaching to what he needs to know.

Let me toss right out there, see if he's got one more in them. And if not, you know what? We put them out there. His spirits will be higher a little bit, and then we'll I'll be happy moving forward. Maybe that's what was going on. Perhaps.

Yeah, I think he's torn like he's trying to play for the now. I didn't even disagree with him trying to find a spark with Fitz magic. I'm just telling you, he's playing a dangerous game because he's playing there's games that he's playing, you know, Chris. But here are the two games that he's. But his wife is dangerous to dangerous games. You're playing for the now, but you also have to consider the future now. And those are two very dangerous games to plan.

Is he the guy to be playing these games? Right. It is a very crafty guy to be able to intertwine those two games and pull it off successfully.

I think it's intertwined. It's not a word.

When did you become the number one lacrosse coach in America? Just out of curiosity, might tell us that I don't take much of the credit, OK? I mean, my team is number one in the country for their division.

The rankings came out well.

I mean, it's impossible for us not to be. I mean, we when you were in last week, you know, that settled well. No, no, we won last week. I don't love do the weekly rankings.

I have no idea where can I find the rankings? No, no, it's not to Lacrosse magazine.

I think we were preseason number two or three. OK, that was preseason. And wait a second. They only come out with preseason rankings and you're just doing well. This team loves this team, so we got to be number one.

Well, of the top ten teams in the preseason top ten, we were the only 22 team that went through the last three weekends without a loss.

So you've crowned yourself number one? Well, every other team lost. I mean. Yeah, I know.

I get your reasoning, but you've crowned yourself number one. I would be shocked if the if the weekly I don't know if he does a weekly or wait for the season end, but I'd be shocked if we were not the number one team. I would make a stink about it.

To be honest. I was there. The only twenty two team that's done it. Mike. Yes.

I need to find the active Mike. Aren't you proud? It's a Florida team. We're not. We're not. I mean, what now you're going to be talking more about this.

This is a local team. I mean, we're not no, we're not known for the pros down here, especially women's lacrosse. And this team is no, they work very, very hard.

That's that's an excellent point. And they're number one in the country.

Why aren't more people writing about this? What's great Kody doing? What's Berry Jackson doing? Why is no one talking about this?

You know, Greg Kody needs to write an article because it's a proud Floridian. I am honored to know that my state houses one of the best women's lacrosse teams in that division.

Whether it's up for debate, whether it's the best or not, you have twenty South Florida young girls who are the age of 16 who have worked really, really hard to compete with girls up in Maryland and Long Island. And they have turned themselves into one of the two or three best teams in the country. The nice little feel good local story. I mean, Greg Cody should get. On that. What do you think, Chris? I mean, he'll probably do it if he thinks it'll get him Leadbitter type clicks and anything associated with this show.

Well, what does the team name? Florida select? Twenty, twenty two. That's not a great name. Well it's the name. That's right.

I mean, the select let's go select. It's not my company. I mean the name of the program is Florida Select.

That's just like the fireballs you're looking mascotte ever. I'm looking at Lacross Magazine's 20/20 watch list for 2022. And there is Rachel Weener from Florida.

Select the oh wow debois to the guys told something the truth. What can you tell me about Casey Roberts told something.

The truth. I think Casey Roberts, captain of my team midfield, they're going to Ohio State University, verbally committed their state, the Ohio State, where she always wanted to go. Families are big fans of Ohio State. They played the big shoe. You're right. And she's the heart and soul of the team. She is our captain has been since day one and will be our captain for as long as we're doing this, which is about one more season pass.

You guys, you should get Richard Lewis to call her to congratulate her. I'm sure she'd love that. Perhaps I. Well, you're right.

Any controversy, that's something that you have to navigate in the home. As head coach of the Crown number one team in the nation, someone else is captain, not Rachel.

No, Rachel's one of four captains, OK? Casey was the original captain of the team. Rachel had to grow into that position and she did. And she's done very well. It's like nepotism now. Well, no, no, no, no. Rachel earned it. I mean, she did. So our four captains are Casey Roberts, Carly Fleisher, Payton, Weyman and Rachel. Those are the four captains. If Rachel was having kind of like an off game, right, but she's obviously the future of this team, she's not a senior yet.

This is going to be her team next year.

The four captains there are all 22. So they're all the same. OK, right.

Well, OK. But let's say she was having kind of like an off game, which you bring up, kind of like an up and comer to maybe teach her a lesson or like maybe like a grizzled old vet if she's having an off day put in the grizzled old vet to maybe lead your team to a victory and hope that Rachel would be fine with that decision after the fact.

It's a great question. After she verbally committed to Northwestern, I sense that Rachel was feeling a little bit too good about herself, wasn't playing as hard, trying as hard, leading the way she normally does. And she needed to be humble. So I did not. She has started every game we ever played. She did not start. I have I sat for a dangerous game.

I just I have terrible news for you. So you got the the rankings have not been updated since the preseason. So you are still head coach of the number three girls lacrosse team in the land.

Who are the two teams ahead of us? Monster Lacrosse and heroes? Green. I will tell you.

I will tell you we beat Heroes Green straight up nine to beat him straight up. We did not play monsters only because monsters and I hope the girls are OK. Monsters had some covid. And so the game that we were supposed to play with then this past weekend was canceled because of that.

That's a team name right there, the monsters. So that's a team name. You left town, but there was no game. No, we played a different team. Oh yeah. Yeah. In Delaware. Yeah. Wow. So that would have been the number one versus number three. It would have been a big game. I would have been Fleck's.

The monsters had lost a game. They would have been there. Yeah. Game day.

But Monsters had lost a couple of games already this season so. And we were undefeated. Really rough year.

Listen, it's a tough dance, OK? Once these girls commit to keep them committed to the t to the travel team to keep playing at the level they play because they were all striving for something and now most of them have achieved what it is. You've got to keep them motivated. The way I do it is with playing time. What's it what's the difference?

What I could draw, I could draw if you play or not, by that second, what's the difference between a tough dance and a dangerous game? HUF, mm hmm. Well, dangerous game, just eating your ability to dance is more to God.

I'll take this for you. No, I'm very serious. I'm very curious to see how this guy pulls himself out of this one. Billy, I know I don't doubt that you have an answer for him, but I'm really curious to see what he formulates here, because I need to get down to what the difference is between a tough stance and a dangerous game.

So a tough dance is more of a psychological a tough game. Excuse me, is more of a psychological mind game. Now, we got a tough game. You've merged tough dance and dangerous game, a danger.

So let's go back to it with these muffins are so good. A dangerous game.

I think I'm going to go back to Billy. I'm sorry you got me. Billy discussed this many times. Yeah.

Dangerous game is usually one person is playing a dangerous game. We're a tough dance. It's back and forth between two or more people. It's a dance. It's more of a collaborative thing. That's kind of difficult. Exactly. It's a tough dance involving more than one person. We're a dangerous game. Often it's just one person playing it. Could not have said it better myself, well, unless it's too mind you, that's a dangerous game. So the total subset.

Right.

You couldn't say it better yourself because you were eating through the entire time. Two muffins. You can get more dangerous of a game than Russian roulette, right?

That's the world's most dangerous game of Russian roulette.

Yeah.

No doubt that in benching to a I mean, it involves a bullet.

I mean, I read this on Twitter that apparently there was a deleted scene from Die Hard With a Vengeance, where McLaine plays Russian roulette but with a rocket launcher.

Oh, yeah, but he didn't seen what doesn't make sense is that it was deleted. That's a dangerous game.

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But isn't it worth getting out for for that legendary hot steam towel for your face massage and shampoo that makes you melt into your seat? Oh, man. You remember that, right? We found your hair cut. It's right where you left it. Sport clips. It's good to be a guy.

Oh, boy. Like, why do you look at that up? How do you feel about what the Heat did over the weekend? I'm so glad you brought that up because they made moves and I have no idea if they were good or bad. I have no idea what to think of these moves. Mike, tell me.

Yes, please. OK, we had a feel. I'll tell you what they did. What they did was they maintain their flexibility for 2021, which was really what everybody wanted. But then you see other teams, I guess, improve really in the east. The only team that I think you could point to definitively and say they 100 percent got better is actually Philadelphia, TBD or Milwaukee, because the Bogdanovich thing like and if Bogdan Bogdanovic was enough to keep Giannis Antetokounmpo then he was never serious about leaving but he's had the ability to sign that extension and still hasn't.

Bogdanovic doesn't end up with Milwaukee because of the tampering stuff. I mean actually on the jump was pretty good about this. This is what happens when you're too eager to feel yourself publicly because they leak it and now they made their own bed. Celtics are worse. I think now they've added Tristan Thompson. Right, but head to head matchup. I don't really. Tristan Thompson is not the same player he was in 2016. He's going to be a matchup dependent guy.

Some games he's going to you're going to feel his impact. I really think that Miami addressed some glaring needs. It's not sexy. And a lot of people got attached to Jae Crowder in that bubble because he performed lights out up until the NBA Finals where he started falling back down to earth. Jae Crowder is not who he was in the bubble. And I think a lot of he culture zealots, including myself, might get too wrapped up into how good he was there.

But if you look at his career, he's actually very comparable to Mo Harkless and that's seven million less dollars. I mean Jae Crowder credit to him signed a three year deal with Phoenix. You can't do that.

Ten million a year hits a big shots though. Mike in the bubble Jae Crowder.

Let me just make sure I have all the moves that they made so. So we lost Derrick Jones to Portland. Jae Crowder is gone and we added Avery Bradley and Mo Harkless. Right that's it. Am I missing anything.

Well Precious is also a part of the team and I thought point of attack defending was a glaring need. Even with Goran Dragic healthy. It was a bit of a weakness for this team. So to be able to convince Avery Bradley to come here, I'm a big fan of that move because you need a defender at the point of attack. I think Precious is a great draft pick for what some of Miami's needs were when Bam would go out. Harkless is that is pretty much a lateral move, maybe a slight step down but it's again less money and you keep your cap flexibility and tight into all this phalluses.

You have to take into account another year of growth and development from Bam and Tyler Hero. I don't think you're going to get the same wacky results that you got in the bubble, Anthony, but you have to consider that you did that with a twenty year old. No, absolutely.

The weird one to me was Meyers Leonard two for twenty like that one to me was an interesting case. I understand it's a movable contract, a movable contract next year. Getting emotional. Yeah. I'm sorry, man.

When you have Montrezl Harrell signed two for nineteen and he's a sixth man of the year. That was that was really curious to me. I know the Heat have obviously a plan for the for the next year coming up. And anybody that comes available via trade, Meyers Leonard is probably the first one to go, right?

Well, I mean that I think they showed they showed the value of bench guy. That's why they gave him doesn't do anything.

He's on the back of his clapping. Every time he's standing it up. He is the best bench guy.

Take that back right now. I mean, it is a movable contract, but my understanding is caked in the deal is a no trade clause with him and Goran Dragic because of the nature of those deals. We will be next season. And right now it's very important to see what happens with Bam Adebayo in Giannis Antetokounmpo because if Bam weights and Giannis waits then it's game on. Keep in mind they share an agent so you can you could start running wild with a conspiracy theories.

It's going to be hard for Bam on a bio because you've seen some of these mega extensions from players that are in BAMS draft class. I can't fault man for wanting that money right now. So you may ask yourself what's the big deal? If he takes some money right now, you can still clear enough room for twenty, twenty one. If he waits to extend, you have more flexibility. If he extends right now, bam, then you're going to have to lose some of these guys because you're going to have to clear them off your books, which if that's the case, Miami is actually pretty well positioned because while Meyers Leonard on the surface, nine million dollars for this upcoming season, that seems like it's a bit much is an essential property.

When you're trying to acquire some money, you need to give up money to take on money. So in NBA terms, it's actually kind of necessary to overpay guys like Meyers. Leonard, I think really like Avery Bradley.

I'd like Avery Bradley to his shooting stats. I think everyone just sort of assumes, well, Harkless and Avery Bradley will be better shooters in Miami and that's what I guess. Culture buys you it's a it's a bit of a stretch, you're you're more you're more focused on the defense of what they bring defensively, both those guys. But it goes it stands to reason why people would think that if you get if you're going to tout the culture and get the he get the best out of the players that they get, then it stands to reason Harkless and Avery Bradley would become better shooters.

I look. There was a wide gulf between the Lakers and the Miami Heat when he considered all the injuries and the matchup problems the Lakers presented. And the Lakers have had a tremendous offseason bringing in Harrell, even though he wasn't the same player in the bubble, sort of bizarro Jae Crowder, where all of a sudden he falls apart in the bubble. That's a big deal for them to get the low key kind of really needed to get that Gasol trade done because they lost a lot of beef out there and they could absolutely dominate teams on the boards and they were matchup dependent.

They could always go small. You put Anthony Davis at the five. That's a wrap, too. But for matchup teams and to save the banging on Anthony Davis, his body kind of needed another big and just a five star offseason for the Lakers. But they're in a different position. Their window is right now. Miami obviously made it to the NBA finals. They're going to continue to build up, but they have the honest thing looming and that's only gotten more and more realistic with what we've seen over the last few days in the Bogdanovich tire fire.

That Dwight Howard thing was funny. Did you guys see Dwight Howard where he announces on Twitter he's staying with the Lakers and then he ends up signing with Philly?

I don't know what actually happened, but that was just it's my it's my understanding that as easy it is as it is to laugh at Dwight Howard, this one's actually on the Lakers because Montrezl Harrell thing was going out there. They screwed him over.

Dwight kind of thought he had a deal in place.

Then the mantra is Harrell thing became more and more of a realistic thing. The Lakers did end up coming to Dwight with a deal, but it was less than he thought. And then Embiid and Murray were actively recruiting Dwight Howard and then he made the best decision for him. I kind of feel for him because he wears Oh you trade you traitor. The betrayal and the obviously the embarrassing deleted tweet because a guy can never get out of his own way in terms of public perception.

But the Lakers were kind of playing games. They're a little bit with him.

What happened to the Lakers with Harrell? That I think is this a clutch sports thing?

Tony, this is it's a club sports, things like. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a major coup for them to get Harrell because it also weakens what is perceived to be, especially with the injury to Klay Thompson. They're their biggest rival in the Western Conference, although the Clippers. But they've got an asterisk. I did like bringing in Ibaka. I guess it all sort of depends on what Serge Ibaka is going to be this season. Is is he going to start that down?

He's already started the downward slope to end his career, but is there going to be a big falloff because honestly you can make an argument that Ibaka for Harrell that's actually a slight improvement if if we're going off of what we saw from those two players most recently. So I kind of like what they've done and I think the Clippers have another roster move to make to actually maybe shorten the gap a little bit once you get Harrell Marcus.

Although there's no room for for Dwight Howard, right?

Well, no, you you kind of knew the Gasol thing was was going to happen in the second travaille got traded to Cleveland. They might as well just said Marc Gasol has signed with the with the Lakers. And pretty shortly thereafter, after they move that contract, it was done. So Marc Gasol goes back to the team that actually originally held this draft rights. We come full circle with the good souls. I love what the Lakers did in the off season and they're going to be favorites once again headed in the season.

And the real mystery, and I don't know if Miami is going to play the Lakers Christmas Day, they announced that the NBA is going to be doing this schedule thing in phases. And what I assume is that you'll see what you saw in MLS regional travel try to limit travel, especially since there isn't a neutral bubble site. And I think you'll see in the first end of the NBA season scheduling close to region and then hopefully with the vaccine being rolled out and mitigating the virus, then you might see longer road trips.

But it's a bit of a bummer. I think we're going to miss out on the traditional NBA finals rematch Christmas Day.

Am I the only one that's going to Mr. Jones? Because I know Jae Crowder was really good in the playoffs for us, but, man, I felt like he had a lot of upside defensively. Obviously, all the dunks and stuff.

I'm going to miss him. No, you.