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Draftkings Network. We have an overflowing cornucopia of things to talk about today, stunningly. Stunningly off of that Monday Night Football game, I cannot explain to you the hundreds of things everyone here is eager to talk about. But I can't start with any of them because I have to explain to the audience on this Greg Cody Tuesday as he lubricates, which he could have done at any point before we started the show. But he decided because Greg Cody Tuesdays are unruly.

Well, he's about to talk, so that's why he did it.

Right, I know.

Exactly.

I'm going to tell the audience what just happened and what my general Greg Cody Tuesday experience is. Greg, what are you laughing about? Is that your asthma inhaler?

It is. Yeah. Way to make fun of the handicapped.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu, at Levitard show. Are you making fun of the handicapped if you're making fun of an asthma inhaler?

Mike said something in his ear and Greg laughed.

Right.

I did. To answer your question.

I know. I thought he was saying it aloud.

Would you like to.

Share it with us? Yeah. You were making fun of me for taking a swig of my coffee, and I was doing it to lubricate my throat.

You'll admit it was a poorly timed swig of coffee.

No, I don't think it.

Was-lubing it right as he starts.

The show. And Mike put in my ear tuning up the band, which I thought was worth a chuckle.

Right, but he wanted you to say it. I know. It would have been funny if you had said it to everybody. But this, okay, so this.

Is-sometimes you get mad at me for interrupting and talking over you.

If.

We.

Weren't live, I.

Would have restarted the show.

You never know.

Get it together, guys.

Let me explain to the audience. You want it gotten together, but here's the problem I run into. As we sit down with a thousand things to talk about, Greg Cody is in no way prepared to discuss much of anything because Mike Ryan has to say to me, and this is not the most efficient way to do this, We're a big deal now. We're on max. Greg Cody doesn't know what that is. We'll explain it to.

Him in a second. The Greg Cody show is on min, minimum. Yeah.

As we're getting ready to start, the frustration that not just Mike Ryan, that I have is the general inefficiency, because we've got a lot to talk about, that Mike Ryan is saying to me, Can you tell Greg? And Lucy's laughing while he does this. Can you tell Greg to put the microphone in front of his mouth? Because it was not in any way prepared to start the show. But the reason I had to tell Greg is because his headsets were not on either. However, what he had conveyed ad nauseam for the fifth time to me, right before that, moving the microphone out of his face so that I could see his face when he said it, is, Hey, Dan, I'm serious about that idea of Metallark Media funding and creating a Greg Cody mascot.

I am.

It's a great idea.

It's a great idea. I'm glad you're behind it because it's a brainstorm I had. I even wrote it in my iPhone notes. Nice. I showed it to Christopher this morning, a lifesize, lifelike mascot of myself that would be available for all sorts of purposes. I don't know, I haven't looked into the pricing, but I'm going to give Metalark the opportunity to sponsor my mascot. I think it's a great opportunity for Metalark. It's very nice of you. I want.

To involve you guys. You know what hit me is 97 million more people across the globe have access to us, thanks to being on Max now. They might be wondering aloud who the daughtering old man is. Well, this is the thing. I would say that's Dan Levitard. I'm the today of the Miami Herald and part of the interruption and formerly of highly questionable.

It is a good way to introduce our new audience of 97 million potential customers. Greg Cody doesn't know what it is. Was asking his son earlier when his son told him excitedly, This is your first day on Max. This is a big deal. Not everybody gets these deals where you get to take your little YouTube thing that is live and give it to somebody, and then you've got something that's getting max exposure. Great. But what did Greg ask you, Chris?

Where is it?

How.

Many things are.

We on? A lot's happening. But because of my debut on Max, that's why I'm wearing my fancy shirt. Nice. I dressed up for the occasion.

You found out after you got in the car.

That's true, too.

You have a back in my day as well, right?

Well, that wouldn't make it true, too. That would just make it true, unlike what you said earlier.

Yeah, but when he mentioned it used to be HBO, Max, it put it in context for me. I'm surprised they dropped the HBO because that.

Was quite a brand. Let's just stop him right now.

Before he gets going. You guys.

Asked.

Him… Don't let him tune.

Up that bad. You wanted his headsets on? You wanted the microphone in front of his face?

Fair point by you guys. You know what? I'm going to regather ourselves.

Greg, do me a favor. Matt Heberflus.

Do me a favor and just go sit on the therapy couch for a second. What? As I explain to the audience, though, because we don't want to- Amazing. Not your fault, Greg. It's not your fault. But again, you may be wondering who the daughter and old man is who's trusting his teammate and lifelong friend. It is Dan Levitard throwing the show to Greg because I believe there's content around both the mascot and his not knowing what Max is. However, there is one pothole he could step in here and he doesn't know what it is because he doesn't know what.

Max.

Is. Yeah, I do know.

So go.

Sit out there.

These are men. Exactly.

You mentioned that. Greg, Cody.

Show on men. Let me gather myself and take control of the show while explaining to the audience what Greg, Cody, Tuesdays are if you haven't been with us for 20 years.

Get out of here. Have a time on the couch, man.

One of the most successful jokes that we have around here, it's worked since the start of time, before which Greg Cody was born, is he annoys me, but I find him genuinely and generally always funny. He has used that and parlayed that into great internet fame. His podcast, The Greg Cody Show, featuring Greg Cody, is very popular. But he has played defense against this show being done well for 20 years, and he makes it better by making.

It worse. It's with Greg Cody.

The Greg Cody Show, featuring Greg Cody, is not available on Max. It is available wherever it is you get your podcasts. Among the number of things that we have to talk about in sports today, especially locally, Stugat, I now do a word association with JPP, Jason Pierre Paul. The word association is give me that update that was done at ESPN that could give us the context on what Dan is talking about.

Giant owner John Marrow, who also today.

Said he doesn't know how.

Many fingers JPP has.

That was a sports center update on the worldwide leader after JPP with Firecrackers on fourth of July had blown off some of his fingers. The Dolphins have now signed JPP because they need a pass-rush because.

Phillips is out. Wait, that audio wasn't a bit?

No, that's not a bit. That was a real- Thank you, Jeremy. I'll never forget it. Jeremy, I'm glad we can introduce you to this. Maybe Lucy as well. We were just doing the show. We were talking about this thing, and we were asking fairly innocence, Hey, are you allowed to make fun of someone losing their fingers? Because it doesn't seem like it'd be very fun, and it seems like a bad thing to make fun of. Then as we're discussing, Hey, this has to be taken seriously, right? We cannot joke about it. This is how we took it seriously by listening to this update.

Giant's owner, John Marrow, who also.

Today said he doesn't.

Know how many fingers J. P. P. Has. That's so good.

Who also today- That's right. Well, the sing-songy broadcaster voice really brings it home.

It's perfect. Did you know he was still in the League?

I did, but I thought he was like the Ravens or two teams ago. I did not know he was on the Saints Practice squad.

Hanging on. Yes, hanging on. Wait for someone to tear their Achilles.

The Mascot is intended for the Greg Cody Show Podcast, not the Levitard Show. I'm trying to swing it where Matt O'Lark pays for my mascot that's really used on my show. But what's going to happen is I'm going to make the mascot available on Tuesdays when I'm in here. So it's going to work out for everybody.

Chris, what happened with the conversation with Max? He has no idea where to find it. And when you explain to him at HBO, that's when he understood?

Yes. Until I said HBO, he was like, What's Max? Where are we? Is a stream? I was telling him a.

New word. I walked into an old-fashioned post office the other day, and two of the guys there who.

Were working.

There -I'm storyboarding it. It's not complete yet, but I'm thinking of making the mascot, the Greg Cody mascot, available for grand openings, premieres, movie premieres, any.

Public occasion.

That might be enhanced by.

A life-size- There are two guys in there, and they've been lifelong Miami, and they're super excited to see me, super excited to see me in an old school post office from a different time. I felt like I was in the '80s. And they say, Where are you now? Huge fans.

I get that a lot.

And I'm like, YouTube. And they're like, Oh, yeah. We don't have time. Allergic. But I could have said, Max. This was a couple of days ago. I could have said, Max. And then they would have been like, You're dead. Where is that? Just like it. Because we.

Have to-It's a possibility that this thing could really mushroom. I mean, if it takes off as a life-size mascot, why not a miniature plush toys in my likeness? Just for the holidays, really, you.

Sell.

Them year-round because they're not pegged to a particular holiday.

That's not a bad idea, actually. It's a great idea. We're going to reopen our merch store here shortly for the holidays. David Samson has finally figured that part out. But we do have stuff to get to here in sports, Stugats, because that Panthers game last night was fairly amazing.

It was. They won the game. Big fight as well. I'm still stuck on JPP. He made a Pro Bowl in 2020. What? He did, yeah. I do wonder if he has some explosive plays left. Oh, that's ridiculous.

What do you mean no?

I don't accept that. It was a funny joke. Also a joke I've made a thousand times since that report.

Yeah, that part.

It's the only joke you've made. Are you proud of that? Are you proud when you play the laziest of your hits? Yes. You are? That was pride.

That was pride in my.

Voice, yes. All of us looked at you, and you turned away from me, and it looked like you were about to leave the room. I thought you were going to the penalty box self-punished.

Panther senators fireworks last night. Let's talk about it.

There were fireworks last night. Did we have fireworks on our.

Grid of- The escalating tensions? I don't think fireworks were on there.

Fireworks were not on there, but those were fireworks last night. When's the last time you heard an official, a referee do anything like this at the microphone?

He throws it up again. But the several is safe out of the box.

braided Kachuk is coming. He's got to get around the stick. Now, that shoot for Trotsky to save, bumps into him on the way to the neck. Kool-op goes after. Braided Kachuk, the folks are on the left. Everybody, tiles in, and here we go.

Were you.

Trying to try to get them.

To come through?

Right.

Now we're watching chaos.

The show brings down in to grab somebody. That's right. The last place in sports where this is allowed. All of this.

Is- It should be at.

A senator's meeting.

I told you senators should fight.

Yes, you did mention that. These two teams, weirdly, hate each other with the hatred and the heat of 1,000 suns.

It's very odd between these two teams because they had an all-out brawl last year when they met up, when the senators had nothing to play for. You see, Matthew Kachuk is already in the sin bin. His brother, braided Kachuk, plays for the senators. Sin bin. I'm really genuinely curious as to why these two teams hate each other, especially considering that the brothers are pretty tight. But after this Melee in Ottawa, the official came out and announced a 10-minute major penalty for everybody on the ice. I don't think I've ever seen that. No, but that's.

The sound that I would like to get to, and we will get to it in a moment. But now that Greg Cody is back, I did want to discuss the mascot with him because this Panthers game is worth talking about because they sent everyone away. It's one of the rare places where you get a situation, fighting is allowed. It's allowed. It's allowed. Too much. Everybody get out of here. If this happened in any of the other sports, any of the other major sports, what we just witnessed, which happens frequently in hockey.

Don't live a tard. I actually thought you look good.

Stugats. That good. I had a beard grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face, I feel like. Little tan, Colorado, San Francisco. I had a.

Great time.

You get life on your face.

You've got death on your face.

I think you got 40 to life on your face. This is the Dan Levator Show.

With the Stoogots.

What.

We just witnessed would be something that would carry your news for the entirety of the week. Football, baseball, basketball, any of that happened, we would have a week's.

Worth of coverage. Think about what Draymond Green just got suspended five games for. It was one headlock. That was it.

Just one headlock. He got suspended for what the officials are doing in pulling players off of this fight. The officials are doing Draymond Grays left and right.

The best part? Not the best part. One of the funnier parts was them cutting to grandma Kachuk, just looking mortified during this. She just had her arms folded. She wasn't scared. She knows what her kids, her grandkids do, but it was just hilarious. They kept.

Cutting her. It was grandma Kachuk, grandpa, Lomburg, and the Sands. It was just a horrific display in front of.

This wonderful crowd. Wait a minute. You're saying horrific, but those grandparents, hockey grandparents, Mike Ryan, those grandparents have been watching those boys fight for 60 years.

Look at the grandma.

For 60 years.

You can't be mortified. You can't be shocked.

No, that's a grizzled hockey family. She expects it. That's what they do for the holidays.

I have a theory that these two guys, they get overly aggressive in this game because they don't want their teammates to think they're taking the game off. Kachuk doesn't want Lombberg thinking, Oh, I'm not playing hard against the senators. They go above and beyond physical just to let their teammates know, Hey, I mean business, even against my brother.

She actually looks like she wants to fight.

That's right, because she does. Because she does. Geraldine is pissed that she's not right in the middle of all of that. Throwing haymakers and hams and yelling, Suspend me.

That's right. Put her in a uni.

Two years running, this is the most penalized game of the season. Senator's Panthers. You can throw out the records when these two get together. You really can't.

Five nothing last night, Panthers.

That's right. Put the kids to bed early, huh?

Oh, yeah. When it sends Panthers, this is the hottest rivalry.

Did you realize if this happened in a Heat Nicks game or no, bleep that. Mike Ryan still hasn't forgiven Joe Kitch. Mike Ryan still hasn't forgiven it.

We're just bumping him in the back. -for a Morris brother, for pushing a.

Morris brother. For pushing a.

Morris brother. We're lucky that Grandma Morris wasn't in the sands. Dirty player. Then the weirdest fan base in all of basketball. Just use your eyes. Throw his body and wait around recklessly with intention.

I have for you, because this hasn't gotten into the news stream yet today, I've got for you top five things from last night's Clipper's Nuggets game. Wow.

You have a top five?

Top five most shocking. You have a top five? I have not. I think it's the first time I've ever come in here with a top five because this game, I want to break… Max is starting and I want to have things first. You should see how well our Frank Reik video is doing because we were first to market on Frank Reik. We got to get good at this game of getting things out there in the news quickly as soon as they happen.

That video was so great to seize on the algorithm, with the exception of Stugart's not listening as it was happening.

It was beautiful. It was beautiful. But maybe he'll listen to this because it involves dollars. All right. Frank Reik. Yeah. Double firing in 13 months. Wehave to have a Stugart's Memorial Award for guy who was the greatest of the thieves. Thirteen months fired twice. Frank Reich is owed by the Colts $36 million still. Through 2026, that's the Colts paying Frank Reich. Now, maybe his contract has offsetters when he goes to Carolina.

Just so we're clear, that $36 million is for getting fired there, right?

That is correct. Frank Reich and all that happened there, he'd still be there if Andrew Lockhead had retired. With the ring-grabs. That's all that happened. This is the Andrew Locke.

Memorial-well, Pagana would still be there if Andrew Locke never retired.

That's correct. The stipend, though, we have to... Look, Stugart, I can't believe I'm saying this. When next year, the Cincinnati Reds will pay Ken Griffin Jr. $3.6 million.

The.

Kid. The Ken Griffin Jr, who is 50 something years old next year, the Reds, he will be one of the Reds' highest paid players at $3.6 million. But I am willing to make Frank Reich right now. Not Bobby Bonia, Frank Reich, the face of stealing money in sports years after you've been any good. Frank Reich not only gets that money from the Colts, but now the Carolina Panthers will pay him $25,000 a day for the next.

Three years. Oh, my God. I should have been a coach. Yeah. I can be bad and get fired.

We've seen this in.

College Football, too. This week, Tom Allen got fired.

By Indiana.

Tom Allen, we probably haven't.

Heard of him. I don't know who that is.

It's really, really bad.

Yeah. The third highest buyout ever, $20.

Million to not.

Live in.

Bloomington.

Indiana, and.

Coach the.

Hoosiers football team.

As I continue to seize on the Carolina Panthers news-breaking algorithm, this comes courtesy of Jack Kennedy. Here's what David Tepper's time in Carolina is consistent of. He spent a third round pick on Will Greer. He signed Teddy Bridgewater for a 33 million guaranteed. He cut Cam Newton. He traded a second, fourth, and sixth for Sam Arnold. He traded Bridgewater for a sixth. Then he picked up Sam Darnell's $18.85 million option. Then he signed Cam Newton. He spent a third round pick on Matt Corral. Then he traded for Baker. Then he cut Baker. Then he cut Cam again. Then he drafted over C. J. Straud. And after the Matt Rule era, he hired Frank Reich and he fired him after 11 games. David Tepper is a problem. He's the.

Problem there. He is. Did you see who has interest in that job now, though?

Greg Olson.

Yes, I love that.

Just wants to cut the line. He says, I'm willing if Tom braided comes and takes my job for 375 million, I am willing with no credentials whatsoever other than I talk about footballs on Sunday and played it on Sundays. No credentials. I want my Jeff Saturday deal.

What do you think Brandon Staley thought yesterday when he saw an alert on his phone? A coach fired. He had to have like, Oh, shit.

Right. Oh, right. Not before the Patriots game, please. Not before the Patriots game.

You think Tom Allen is happy? Honestly. So happy. Yes, I agree.

That's crazy. What Lucy just said is crazy. $20 million for Indiana's Coach to get bought out.

Third highest ever for Indiana football.

Mike, I know we can't talk about some of the specifics around some of this, because I genuinely wonder if we're going to go and make college sports this professional, how far we are from the day when we just know what a Tyler Van Dyk is making. We just know publicly. We know all the numbers on all of the players the same way that I know that Ken Griffy Jr. Is going to be making $3.6 million next year.

He signed a two-year deal in Oklahoma for 25 million dollars.

I don't think he... No, I think Mike will give us information not here, but around some of the business of this because Tyler Van Dyk's career, a disappointment at the end, expected nothing at the beginning. This was going to be the Eric Kings team. He only got the start because the Eric King plays a style of football that'll get you hurt. He created a huge amount of expectations with 400-yard games right off the bat when everyone thought that the backup quarterback situation would look like what it has this year.

Keep in mind, TVD was a third-string quarterback. He only got on to the field because Jake Garcia also had an ankle injury, too. After an initial struggle, he had a great stretch of games. It wasn't all puppy dogs and ice cream during the Ret-Lashley era, but Tyler Van Dyk really set. I think he set a record for consecutive 500-yard games where he tied Joe Borough. He came out of the gates firing.

He was the ACC rookie of the year.

The.

Whole thing, though, is curious to me right now because I don't believe that he's got a lot of value. I don't know. He goes into the portal, and I think a lot of people have seen-.

Dan, he was a projected first round pick. There has to be a coach of his school out there. Well, at one.

Point, he was. At one point, a blogger put him in the first-round draft pick. I mean, no, that was what bloggers were saying. I'm just saying we don't know the true evil.

For me, I just need one blogger to do it, and a blogger.

Did it. Fair enough. He's going to end up in the ACC at SMU. That's where Lasley is. That's who he had.

Success with. No, but there has to be a coach that thinks, I can make that guy good. I saw enough, and I can make that.

Guy good. I think Tyler Van Dyk can really resurrect his career if he goes into an SMU type of offense, which is basically check with me. We'll line up at the line of scrimage, look to the sidelines, there's one read. I'm going to tell you exactly where to go with the ball because Tyler Van Dyk does struggle with reading defenses. I guess the criticism that you could hold against Miami when it comes to the development of this quarterback is, Well, why didn't you build an offense to cater to him? There's a lot that goes into an offense. We all agreed that Gattis had to go after one year. They brought in a different type of offense. The offense was way better year over year. You can't just worry about the quarterback. If your quarterback can't read a defense, that's an issue. But you can still put up big numbers and he can go to a place that will use his skill as well. I thought he represented himself well as a professional here at the University of Miami. I think this year he played through injuries that were kept quiet. That limited his ability to move, even though he's not the most mobile.

That's a good way to break a zone. He definitely struggled against the zone. I think both parties are going to benefit from moving on.

Willing to bet he finishes top 10 in passing yards in college.

Football next year. I mean, he's a veteran. He's experienced. He's a perfect one-season fix. If you're a bad program or if you're just missing a quarterback, I can see a team signing him. But the problem is he's very sensitive to criticism. He hears every boo, and that's not particularly a good trait.

For a quarter. There's a mentality thing there that I don't think is there's many guys and Mario Guys. A lot has been made of his mental makeup. I just don't know if it's a great fit. I think right now with all the portal news going on with Miami, you're seeing guys that if you're a Miami Huricans fan, you wish them the best. I think all parties are going to benefit from separating. Don Cheney had a good year. It's a shame that his legacy down here in Miami is going to be a Fumble that wasn't actually a Fumble. But big programs are apparently interested in him, or at least he feels that way. Miami needs to find a quarterback because they have a good offensive line and they really max... What you want out of an offensive coordinator? This is a complaint. You did not maximize Tyler Van Dyk's skill set. Well, look at that wide receiver room. Look at the top receivers in the ACC. They certainly maximize that. Look at the running back room. They maximize that. They did. Look at the old line, they.

Maximize that. The wide receivers, they got better numbers. I watched Texas's wide receivers, and it's like different human beings than Miami's wide receivers. You're talking about size differences. The speed is the same on Texas's receivers, but the size differences make the Miami receivers look like the ones I used to see at FAU and Lane Kifen's program.

The one big-bodied Miami receiver, Kobe Young, is not a fast player. Miami was looking to upgrade, but Kobe George had a great year. Restrepo almost got 1,000 yards. Now there's talk about Restrepo, he's weighing his options. The NFL is even an option for Restrepo and some of these receivers. I know there's some mystery around Rashad Smith potentially. I think all these things are eventually good. If you look at the running backs that God touches for Miami, Mark Fletcher is considered a cornerstone for this program. That needs to be the floor for Miami to get to where they need to go. I think this is ultimately going to be pretty good. Although there's a lot of mystery around who the quarterback of this team will be. Not just next year, but for the bowl game. Because Curry Brown wasn't exactly happy this season with the treatment. He wanted to get in some games and I know fans wanted to see him. We'll see what happens in the bowl game. Otherwise, they might be running a wild cat.

Don't live a tard. Finally, fruit loops are all the same flavor, just different colors. I refuse to believe that. Is that right? I refuse to believe it. I mean, try the grape fruit loop and tell me that doesn't taste different than the cherry one because it does. I love fruit loops.

Still guts. Put it on the pole gear, at Levitard show, did you know that all of fruit loops were the same flavor, just different colors?

Refused to believe it.

This is the Dan Levitard show.

With the Stugats. Wide receivers in Texas, regardless of who they are, regardless if they're even good, they just look better. Same with Oklahoma State, same with Oregon, same with Washington. They just look better. You're a.

Bigger and better. Agreed on all accounts. Uniform forms help, except Washington. I think you're doing something funny there with Washington.

Well, this year they look great.

They're undefeated. Yeah, that's the part I think you're doing.

I'm getting disrespected, though. A 10-point underdog to Oregon. They beat them already. I mean, all right.

But hold on a second. I just need to stop everything because I wanted to get to this mascot because I actually think it's a good idea. I'm ashamed to admit it. I think it should be Brad Williams. I don't know the costume that we're going to put him in, but I feel like he should be the mascot on behalf of.

Greg Cody. But then we can only use it when he's in town.

That is correct. But the thing that I wanted to stop on because I'm genuinely torn on something here. Mike Ryan is inside this program and doing a hybrid navigation of insider journalist, but his allegiances are all shown and.

What-.

Contributor. Hold on. When, yes, you're paying to be a booster for the school, you care deeply about the program. But when Draymond Green talks about new media, he doesn't… It's not just athletes coming into the space. Mike wants to do some of this stuff differently than it's been done, navigating the slalom courses of it'll be journalism, it'll be solid information, but also I'm a fan and here's where my biases are. However, and I believe that that's got enormous value, I believe that Mike Ryan has information and covers this program better than anybody in this market can cover this program because he's really on the inside as the whole business of it changes and he knows a lot of stuff that's fascinating. But while you're talking, Mike, and this is a problem, and I don't know what to do about it because I think the information is valuable. While you're talking, you're doing so in a way that Jeremy is making faces as if he's eating Lemons back there because he's looking at you and he's like, Is he a manny guy? Is he a Mario guy? I could see it on Jeremy's face and it's a glee face.

But he's like, Mike Ryan, bleep you. I can see on your face you're disgusted with something that Mike Ryan was saying, but I don't know exactly what it was. I think it was, is it a Mario guy or a manny guy? And talking that language of Miami is-.

That's the one that really sent me over the edge because we've been doing that now since Mario showed up. I was told before this season that it was a roster full of Mario guys now and that everything would be so much better. That when they were three and a or four and a that this team was destined for such great things. Tyler Van Dyk was going to be a first round pick a couple of years ago, and the offense was going to be transformed with him at quarterback. It's no longer guys like Mylik Rosa at quarterback. I just feel like since I was six years old, I've been hearing a lot of similar stuff for a team to finish one game better in a power five than UCF in their first year.

You.

Have to talk about that. You're saying it. It's a fair enough criticism, and I'll just cut to it by saying UCF, I don't think about you at all. I don't know what exactly you're doing, but if you look at the offense, they've improved by nine points since last year. I would say that if you watch these games and I don't know if you did or not, last year's team quit. Oh, wow. They flatly quit. This team did not. I do think that the mentality has changed. I do buy a lot in that intangible stuff. Unfortunately, it was only to the improvement of two wins. You look at their stats where they rank in offense. I mean, they went from the '70s in some offensive categories to the '30s, and their defense was top 10 in the nation. They had a top 10 offensive line. You wonder, how did this team win seven games? Let's say the Georgia Tech game really screwed up a lot of the math. Because I entered this season thinking that this was an eight-win team. You look at what happened in Georgia Tech, it is an eight-win team. We'll see what happens in the old game.

Defensive, Mike, back to.

You, defensive, Jeremy. No, I'm not being defensive. I'm being rational. The poison that you got, which is some fact, some just UCF shit. I don't care at all about you.

No, I agree completely. The offensive line got a lot better by getting a transfer.

From the DCF.

Passive-aggressive, Jeremy, back to Mike. Mike's not being an apologist for what he said. Homer, Greg, Cody. The eye test is irrefutable. I love it. The eye test is irrefutable. This was a much better Cain's team. They lost by one score to two top 10 teams. They're not that far. And Mario continues to do well in recruiting. You're not looking at the buyout just because the buyout is the rage now. Everybody's spying on contracts.

They led the in moral victory. Doesn't watch that.

All in all, I think Miami is on track here, and this is the biggest two months of Mario's tenure. I think that you can be encouraged. The offensive coordinator, I know Shane and Dawson, there were a lot of opinions when you isolate individual games because the quarterback, like Tyler Van Dyk, straight up lost that game at NC State. But I think he showed you, he made a mistake with Gattis. He tried to cater the offense to the quarterback. He did all the things that he wanted. He found a good offensive coordinator in Shannon Dawson. He found a great find in Lance Gidry. I do think both coordinators are going to be back. They're both valued. Gidry should have a new deal in front of him unless a behemoth just tries to poke around and poach him with the staff that's coming together late. I think this program is right on track. I think my expectations entering the season were eight wins. Barring that weird Georgia Tech game, they're right there. We'll see where we're at year three. Year three, there needs to be a huge uptick. That game against Florida to start the season is basedbasically for Billy Napier, a loser leave sound match.

Mario definitely needs to go into Gainesville with that dub. Because right now, if you look at the two coaches entering year three, Mario is a great deal ahead of where Billy Napier is right now. That's why our team needs to prioritize the portal because they need to win.

Right away. Now, Mike, let me ask you for your informed opinion. Why not get a starting quarterback through the portal? There's guys out there. They will. That should be their priority, though, I would think, to get a starting quarterback in the portal.

They are, and it's funny how all this news breaks. Rest assured, Tyler Van Dyk's camp is talking about their options in October. Right. All these quarterbacks that have entered the portal have been back channeling for months. Miami is doing their due diligence when it comes to these quarterbacks. You've heard the names. Cam Ward is a prospect that really interests me. Although everybody in the nation is going to be in on him. Will Howard is going to have suitors. Riley Leonard, I don't think is a fit here for Miami. The chatter is that he's headed to Notre Dame. There's going to be domino pieces. The one that's really interesting that if you listen to Pro Scouts, because I have friends and sources that are plugged in with Pro Scouts.

I hope you're going to say what I want you to say here.

Talia Tug of Iola. That's what I was trying to say. The all-time Big Ten leading pastor. Now here's the thing. If you listen to Talia's camp, they've been exploring options. It was well reported last year that they got an offer of over a million dollars to go to an SCC school. Talia, their camp doesn't seem to think that he's going to go to the NFL, that he's going to stay in college football. Pro scouts don't think Talia is going to be coming out.

He looks like a pro to me, like Maryland football. He does not have a lot of help here. He had a year. Not just this year, but last year, too. He's had.

A bad offensive line.

You liked Mike Glethen.

I did, but he was a first.

Round pick. This is a name that naturally, especially down here in this market, would excite a lot of people. But here's the weirdest thing about Talia. There's all this certainty that he's coming back. He's out of eligibility. He doesn't have eligibility. You may say COVID year. He played in 2019. He appeared in five games. Two of those games, he only handed the ball off. He's going to need a hardship waiver, and the hardship waiver is going to be hard to get when your brother is number one making millions of dollars. You also need assistance from Alabama. Alabama is not incentivized to help Talia. Maybe you can just, Hey, you were good for us. Your family's been good to us. Mario helped nick Saban out with some big time recruits. But I don't really know the path outside of a waiver. The NAAA has actually been hard asses about these waivers. Just ask UNC. It took moving heaven and earth to get Tess an extra year of eligibility. Darryl Jackson transfer from Miami to FSU, he didn't get a waiver. The NAAC is pretty strict when it comes to the eligibility that you have. He would be a postgrad, and it would be guaranteed to a postgrad, provided that he had an extra year of eligibility.

I've reached out to people that are finding out what's papered in Alabama's compliance offices, because if you check Wikipedia, it says three games, but he appeared in five in 2019.

I'm laughing here. Didn't the NCAA give an eighth year of eligibility to a U. M. Tight end? Tim McCormick.

Okay, so- I think Utah's quarterback is on his eighth season.

Get a job. I don't think it's out of the question that they give another year of eligibility.

I would say that what Greg's attitude, if you listen to it, it's just like, They'll figure it out. That's been the attitude around the rumor mill surrounding Talia. I don't necessarily see the path.

I want our max listeners and watchers to know that this is a segment we call Over Analyzing an average college football team.

Back to you, Dan. Oh, we do so much of it. We do so much of it.

For two decades. Wait till Texas A&M gets queued up.

Well, let's get that. Thank you, Stugat, for nothing. Let's get that video queued up so that I could get to it next.

Or Pablo Torres, formerly of SI. Or that. To talk AI.