Stop that.

Stop that. Stop that. I don't hear I'm chatting a lie. It's too quick, can't stop the talking. I don't know, I'm chatting with a p-I'm not too sharp, but not too walking. I'm just too sharp with the prize.

White girl had to tell me I'm awesome. I'm not like fire on the pine. If you want to talk to.

Me, please use caution. I don't like to roll the game. I'm out the cage, got to let out the peace. Revolutionary guy, let out the streets. Locked in a cage, I'ma let out the... Let out the... Let out the... I'ma let out the sheets. You can't go out, man, forget about peace. Keep toward the west, I take on the east. I'ma put them in a cage, never let out the... Let out the... I am chatting the noise. I move too quick, can't stop the talking. I am chatting with the boys. I'm not so tongue-to-mouth, man. Just keep talking. Just too sharp with the price. My guys, better tell me I'm awesome. Hot like fire on the pine. If you want to touch man, please use caution. I'm out the cage, got to let out the peace. Revolutionary guy, let out the streets. Locked in a cage, I'ma let out the. Let out the. Let out the. I'ma let out the. I am checked in the noise. I'm too quick, can't stop the talking. I am checked with the boys. I'm not like a piner. If you want to touch my mind's keep talking. I'm just too sharp with the boys.

My girls, they'll tell me I'm awesome. Hot like fire on the pine. If you want to touch me, please just talk. Stop that. Stop that.

Stop that. I walk in today and I walk past Billy Gill muttering, I wasn't great today. On God-Blessed-Football-.

Spoiler.

Alert. -as Stugart mutters under his breath. Lisa Salter, give.

Me a break. Enough. Seriously. I mean, protecting the sanctity of the sideline report. Give me a break. I mean, Carissa Thompson, she told the truth. Lisa Salter and Tom Renaldi, whom I have great respect for, I do. Their jobs are difficult. They do a great job at it. But Carissa Thompson, she is not the first, she's not the only, she won't the last. If you're not embellishing your Southline reports, you're doing it wrong. Dan, if I had that opportunity, I'd be slinging stuff everywhere. I would. You have no idea. I mean, no idea.

I've got a pretty good idea. Do you? Yeah, I mean, I've spent 20 years next year. It's not surprising to me that you would advocate on behalf of making shit up. It's not-What do you mean? It's not in any way surprising.

Embellished, Dan.

It's not making shit up. It's giving color, Dan. It's adding color to the pallette.

It's taking Andy Reed, Hey, what do you have to do? So the offense plays better in the second half, and then just throwing it back to the guys, Hey, spoke to Andy, came out of the locker room, asked him what he had to do to make the offense better. He told me Patrick Mahom sucked in the first half.

What about if she didn't talk to Andy?

Yeah, that's what the story was, is that sometimes the coaches didn't talk to her and she would just invent things.

So what did she say there? I got nothing.

Back to you, Joe. Exactly right.

Yes. No, you talk to... No, guys, do you not know how this television works? You talk to the producer and like, Yeah, the coach never came out, so they wouldn't go to you. It's a conversation that would.

Happen before. But they go down every day. It'd be weird if they didn't.

Go down. Billy, thank you, because I felt alone this morning listening to people argue on behalf of, What difference does it make if she made a little shit up? I'm like, It matters. You're not supposed to make stuff up. Do your job. Your job isn't to make things up.

A lot of the stuff that they report is just stuff that you would call useless. It's like we got to put our ear to the...

That's fine. But do your.

Job better. She's essentially saying, had I asked the coach this, this is what he would.

Have said. Thank you.

There's nothing wrong.

With that. There is. She's right.

She's right. Oh, it's sideline reporting for the NFL.

Who cares? Okay, but the problem is when you admit it, then you have an employee who is admitting to, I just invent reports sometimes. So then you question, Well, do you invent reports every time? And then it's like, Well, is everyone inventing reports? It's why Bryan Williams lost his job. It's a.

Fireable offense. We'll get to it in a second because there's stuff from yesterday locally that I want to get to. But that's what I walked into today. Why didn't you feel like you were great today, Billy, on God bless football?

I had a food drive over the weekend. Thank you to everyone who came out, participated, contributed. Thank you, Tony, for wanting to come out. I wanted to.

Come out, but I had a lot of things. I had a baby shower.

I had a game. I'll tell the hungry people that they almost had food, but you didn't want to help out.

Make it up for them. But tell them you have food when.

You don't have food. I was on my way, and then I had to go.

To the Dolphins. It's okay. They won't feel their hunger. It's just a little embellishment.

It's just the end of the year. Things are starting to catch up. That went a little bit late. I got up early to go over and make my football notes to make sure that I was extra prepared for Godless Football. I called Kenan-Allen. I don't even remember who I called him that time. Oh, Mike Evans. We're getting towards the end of the season.

He had a bunch of Mike Evans drops in him yesterday. The Chargers are so good at losing. I'll say it again. They should do seminars, seminars on losing. Kenan-allen twice dropped... He dropped the ball that hit him squarely, like the point of the football hit him squarely between the numbers, and it bounced off his chest. He was standing in the end zone.

That's Kenan-Allen. Yeah. He also caught a lot of balls.

They're losers, man. Brandon Staley got mad at everybody. We'll play that sound in a second.

He's done.

But before we get to that, there are a handful of things that I want to get to locally because I'm legitimately wondering to myself that moment when you stub your toe between where that pain, you know you're going to feel that pain, and it actually arrives at your head. Is that what Jaylen Ramsey was feeling before the pain arrived yesterday of him writhing around on the floor? Because he did have a Rod Tidwell moment where.

He got- Broken rib. Now I'm.

Pumping up the crowd. -he got to be on the floor knowing he'd won the game, and not just won the game, won the game with one of the coolest plays I've ever seen a cornerback make. Because you know you're ending the game there. You're doing it in the end zone, and you're doing it. Look, man, I know that dude is athletic because I've told you before in the history of Florida State football. It's like Warwick Dunn, Delvin Cook, Peter Warwick, and Deion Sanders, and this guy because he's an athlete that stands out even among athletes. But that pick, I didn't think that was possible from the angle he was at. I know he's got basketball hops, but I didn't think after the injury and everything else that he could do what he did there. And I thought it had to be one of the coolest feelings that a cornerback could feel, except for the part about writhing in pain on the ground because you've landed in a way that's super hard. Where do you think he was? Do you think that the pain is such? You're trying to catch your breath. That only happened to me once, and no one taught me what it was to lose your breath, so you can imagine your panic.

I fell off a swing set. I was 43 years old. No one had taught me as a kid what it's like to get the breath knocked out or get the wind knocked out of you. Imagine the panic that sweeps over you before anyone has taught me that I'm on the ground, writhing for my breath. Jaylen Ramsey feels good or bad in that moment.

Well, hold on. Did you jump off the swing? How did you.

Lose your breath? I fell on my back. Backwards? Really? How? I fell on my back. I don't know. I was clumsy 43.

Years old. Did you guys like to use to do the thing where you would swing as hard as you can and then jump out and see who could go the furthest? Of course, yes. It's a miracle kids don't get more.

Injured, right? Put it on the pole, please, JuJu, at Levitrode show. Is it a miracle that kids don't get.

More injured? Kids are lazy these days with swings. They all want their parents to push them and get them going. It's like, no, back in my.

Day-use your feet.

-you can do.

It yourself. -use your feet. -you can do it yourself. -exactly.

-your kid's.

Still young. -no, she's five. I'm telling you, she's got it in her. Figure it out. I'll give her one push now. I'll get her one push now. I'll get her started with one, not even a hard push. That's all you get. She wants me to push her until she's the full... I'm like, No, you could do this yourself. Get your butt into it. Get those legs going. Let's go.

You're going to miss this.

You will.

Stugat, the Dolphins have a couple of impressive things going their way. They're 17 and two at home in their last 19 games. And this one's rare. You don't often win games when you have that many turnovers. It helps to be better than the other team. Obviously, yesterday Chicago forced Detroit into four turnovers. The turnovers to Anne rushed for nearly 200 yards and still lost the game because they're not as good as Detroit. But the Dolphins being four and one under McDaniels when they're in the wrong place on turnover differential, the rest of the league is 31 and 85 when they get out turnover and the Dolphins are four and one. Even on a bad day for the Dolphins offense, they went their first nine possessions of the game. They didn't punt. They turn it over, but it's not... Tyree Kill is on pace for the first 2,000-yard season ever. Everyone knows they're going to throw the ball there, and it doesn't matter that everyone knows, but their defense won the game yesterday. Bradley Chubb said, Stugats, what you imagined was true, which is that he's never seen Victorangio laugh.

Thanks. I like the clarification was, smile, yes; laugh, no.

I saw a smile on occasion.

He could stay upstairs, by the way, Chris. I mean.

Defense is playing well. All right, the last few weeks, the Dolphins, you can make the argument that defense has been the better unit ever since Philadelphia. I think that this team is becoming more balanced. Like Dan to Dan's point, the Dolphins have lost yesterday's game my entire life. Just a game where they don't really have it. How many rushing yards did the Raiders have? Like 38 or something. The defense has come in. The offense has regressed a little, but you can't expect the output the Dolphins had early in the season. If the Dolphins are going to be more complete team, good win yesterday.

They've also spoiled a good amount of people that cover the team and fans themselves because I saw Mike McDaniel get a little tessy with someone questioning whether or not they had a good game. He's like, We had 400 yards of offense. These games happen in the NFL, and the Raiders are in good form. That's a good win.

I like how you say that they've become more balanced and they're doing better defensively since The Eagles's game, and the difference is Jaley and Ramsey. Those are the three games.

Which is what we said at the beginning. They got to get healthy.

He makes a difference. Mike Ryan is right that it's a good win just because any win is a good win on Sundays with everything you see in that league that you can't explain. I can't explain how the bears had that game won yesterday and then didn't win. I can't explain how the Rams won that game.

This was a classic take-out-the-trash game for the Miami Dolphins. It's a game that you need to win no matter what. You take out the trash. It's not pretty. Sometimes you go out in chancletas that aren't yours, your mom's chancletas, you got to throw out the trash. That's what this was for the Miami Dolphins. Take out the trash game. You do what you got to do, keep.

It moving. They did get banged up. It's unfortunate. H. A. N. Again gets hurt. But all in all, when you struggle, you win a game like that. I do think that we talked about this last week when talking about Josh Allen. I was surprised to learn that Tua had eight fumbles entering this Sunday, and the dude fumbled again. I'm not sure what's going on there, but tighten that up.

He also took a hit to end the half. Whenever he takes a hit and pops up, this is good.

News for us.

You do notice all around both professional and college sports, you guys have noticed they can't keep the quarterbacks healthy. This is now two-season ending injuries for Burrow. The stat, I want to give it to you, Stugats, because people are pointing this out. What are you laughing about?

Well, the Dolphins are playing against Aden O'Connor. Yes, I understand.

That was a.

Good feeling.

Yesterday, the whole game just be like, Aden O'Connor is over there. We're good.

I got to get rid of hip drop tackles. It's a plague on the game.

They're evil.

Where can you tackle at this point?

Just a regular tackle. -just a.

Regular tackle. -is that okay? -just grab someone by the shoes.

If I'm chasing someone, how do I.

Tackle them? -not by the shoes. -shoelace tackle. No, that's too low.

Only for a quarterback.

Don Lebertard..

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

I'm trying to talk to everyone with a taste or where he pays more than you do.

Stugats. I always leave a fan of time. I hate the chicken. Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chicken. He doesn't leave him by himself.

This is the Don Leavator Show with the Stugats.

Dobb Kleinman writes that Andrew Locke had 115 sacks in 55 games, 115 and 55 games and retired. Burrow has 140 and 52 games and now two-season ending injuries. I felt bad for Sam Howe yesterday, and he wasn't even the quarterback who was sacked a bunch in that game, even though he usually is, because his body is going to be broken in half. He's going to be only a torso by the end of the season, taking that many sacks. And man, those camera crews got to DeMar Hamlin quick when there was another ambulance on the field during a- Weird decision. -bills game. Was it a weird decision?

Yeah. It's a weird decision.

It's just weird, like picturing the production truck of like, All right, find DeMar.

They showed him a lot. He was inactive, and they were showing him a good amount. Tony Romo and Jim Nantz have gotten good at this part, which is very somberly, very somberly. This is how it was delivered, and they've gotten good at it. I think they might practice it and might have to. It goes like this. Oh, prayers to him and his family. Oh, such a physical game, Jim. Empty backfield, second and ninth.

You have Nantz practicing that? I think it comes.

Naturally for Jim. I think all of the announcements have to go, Yeah, Jim can go somber. And he goes, Jim switches on the golf guy. He's got a switch under his desk that goes and gets the.

Master's tones. I wonder when they audition for these jobs, they run mock games. I wonder how often they go through those scenarios. Is the training video now like, Okay, we'll go to Monday Night Football, Bengoles, Bills. Tomorrow, Hamlin happens. Have fun. But yeah, you cover this. Whit.

I think the next play, Oliver was flagged for a 15-yard roughie in the passer.

Drove down, Zach, and it's.

A turf. You drove him right into the turf. My wife looked at me and said, What are they doing? I'm like, A general? She's like, Yes. I'm like, It's a violent sport. She's like, They should stop.

Playing it. Such a physical game, Jim.

They have thrown in those three games, Chris Cody, 13 times to where Jaylen Ramsey is, 13 times. There are five completion and three interceptions. That's what you got him for. He was the mercenary piece that did that for the Rams, and he allows you to gamble on defense. Of course, he's a giant difference maker. You don't pay someone like that unless you expect them to change the way that you play defense because you don't have to worry he's not beaten. It can look like he's beaten, but because he's that fast and because he can jump like that, he's not beaten on place. He did get beaten plenty with the rams toward the end. But what you got from him yesterday, you almost got that pick six, the game that he got back, and three interceptions, Stugach. I mean, he's not that Daron, bland guy from the Cowboys who's got four pick sixes.

That's crazy.

That is nuts. Who's second place? Does anyone have two? Does anyone else have two in the entire league?

I'm going to go ahead and say this is not sustainable.

How much of that is luck?

A lot of it.

There are some dudes that just have a nose for the ball.

Well, Ramsey is one of them. Didn't Dig start a season this way for them.

One time? Last year. They had a bunch of two, I think.

But four has got to be more than you find in entire divisions, and I dare say four might be more than you find in a conference. You don't see pick sixes all the time from one guy to have four of them.

It's an NFL record. What he's done thus far? Tied for an NFL record.

The most recent defender to have this many pick sixes, 30 years ago, Eric Allen had four in a probation year for the Philly.

Dolphia, England.

Good player.

Oh, Hawk. Oh, yeah. Shutdown.

Beautiful eyes, too. -they're all great eyes. -gorgeous. -great people. -gorgeous, man. Beautiful skin.

Blue eyes.

Incredible looking man.

That tends to be what you're going to get with beautiful eyes on a man. -but he also smells very good. They're going to be blue eyes, I think. -put it on the book. -it has a presence. At Levitard show, if someone is complimenting a human being's eyes, are they usually going to be blue or green?

I could get lost in a hazel.

Yeah.

But it's not black or brown.

Just had such a gravitas about him.

It was his eyes. Yeah. It wasn't a gravitas.

Oh, he had a gravitas.

He did. They started.

With the eyes.

You're right. I met him once in Bristol. I was like, if that.

Is a gravitas, what is? I got nervous. Yeah, I got nervous.

Put it on the pole at Levitard show. Does Eric Allen have a certain gravitas at Levitard Show? Because I'm not sure Mike has that right. The other thing that you could be encouraged by if you're a Dolphins fan is even on a bad offensive day. And this part, Stugats, to me, it's super rare in a sport where you're seeing the defenses climb up. The Browns now have the by yardage allowed, the best defense since the Super Bowl 2008, stealers.

Crazy.

And on the goal line, you have seen how difficult it is to score in the red zone. Dolphins third and 10 on one of those touchdowns, the one to Ahmed. They just designed something. A great play. They just designed something. That guy is running straight up the middle of the field. Nobody touches him. It's the easiest play you'll ever see because they've called exactly the right thing for what the Raiders were doing, which is vacating the center of the field. That's a confidence in staff that I just haven't had around here in a while where I'm like, Look, man, if they're calling the plays, I trust their process. The result might not be what I want, but I am trusting that the coach has got under control. Because Ahmed, I don't even mean to do this to him. I don't mean it as an insult, but that's not the guy you go to in goalline situations. They're just doing it because they've got scheming. Their running back is going to score in that situation. No matter who the running back is, because of how well their coach, scheme-wise, in a way that's obvious to.

Everyone in the league. The crazy thing is, if you tell me what's the thing that the Dolphins do well, they get the middle of the field open for Tyreek, for Wattle, for Most, or for anybody. When I was watching, I was watching from the end zone angle, because that's where my seats were, and I've got the all-22, and I'm like, Guys, the middle of field is open. If I see it on my ass on the chair with a beer, how does the defensive coordinator not see it? And they still can't stop it.

How did it feel being in the November heat? Because the Dolphins don't have cold weather games. It's not just easy opponents on the schedule. It's not just home games. They've got one possible cold weather game before the playoffs start. They really do have a chance. 17 and 2 at home. They clearly got home advantage over the last few years.

They had that one game at Baltimore, which has the potential to be a cold weather game, and what a massive game that's going to be. But that's.

How the Patriots made the Super Bowl every year. They'd get the by. They'd have the good regular-season record. They'd feast on the AFC East, and then they would play home games during the playoffs.

Two home games, win them both, go to the Super Bowl. And they did just about every year.

There is a benefit. The Dolphins, Chris Cody was talking about the idea that the Dolphins have lost that game his entire lifetime. I'm on a bunch of text threads with Dolphins fans who are just expecting still to lose that game because of what the last 20 years have been. Negative Dolphins fans who still expect that they're the same old Dolphins to. They've been scarred by November and December in the past. This team does not play second half of seasons organizationally for a generation that you have any confidence that they're going to win. But everything is set up. They're seven and three with health issues, Dugats.

Yes. Do you feel like they need home field advantage to get to the Super Bowl? If they go on the road, they're not doing it, right?

They've lost their road games against home teams. You do that once in the playoffs, your season is over. When they go on the road, their offense gets slowed as well against the good teams. You have seen that performance yesterday, all of us can see in a playoff game because we've watched it happen four times this season, where it's not historic offense you're getting from them. It's a little constipated, and Toa turns the ball over a couple of times, and Sanders misses a kick.

That always happens.

Billy, I know you were done with him. He made a couple yesterday, but I know you were done when he missed that first 50 yard. If that guy's out there, Billy, if that guy's out there kicking a 50 yard, you think he's going to miss?

Oh, yeah, obviously. Guys, I feel embarrassed to say this, but.

I.

Wanted him to miss that second one back to back within a minute of each other. Just so.

You can.

Have a take? Yeah, I.

Was reading.

For it. It's all about.

The take.

What the hell are we doing here? We're giving takes. I have.

The utmost confidence in this team. I said, You know what? If he misses this one, they could still come back. But if he misses this one, we're going to feast tomorrow. But we didn't.

It's a win-win, it seems like.

I'm worried about this Jets game.

No, you're not. I'm worried about this. You're not worried about this Jets game.

Get out of here. I'm a little bit worried about this Jets game.

Why? We need Robert Hunt back because Quinnin' and Williams is a menace.

Their entire defense is terrifying.

Their defense.

Is good. Their defense can win that game on Friday. No words. Their defense can win that game on Friday? I don't like any game that's played on the MetLife field at all. I'm worried about this game on Friday. Mark it down. Whoever's marking things down.

Billy, I'm with you on this, okay? I'm with you this way. If you are a human being who lies and tells me that you saw that coming from Tommy DeVito yesterday?

Tony, don't-I could have told you. -toney. I could have told you.

There were signs, Dan. There were signs. Two touchdowns the weekend. Gritty kid.

Did you see how he celebrates touchdowns? He runs down with the Italian fingers.

I don't know if that's going to be allowed 15 years from now. I think I've heard some comedians do bits on this, on the idea that we're-.

Some things should just be allowed forever.

He's Italian.

I'm with you. Sebastian can be a parody of Italians, can be a caricature. Tommy DeVito is allowed to be, too. Did you see that guy's family?

I agree with you. I'm just saying that 15 years from now, I don't know what's going to be permissible and what's not. I wonder if perhaps that will be viewed as something that is anti-Italian in a way that- He's Italian.

He's a Jersey and more Jersey. But Dan is right.

-and he came.

Through the Italian fingers.

It's changing quickly. It's not.

Cultural appropriation if it's.

Your culture. But 15 years from now, I don't know. No, he's allowed. Nothing lives forever, Mike.

He's allowed. Danny DeVito can get drunk on lemon cellow. Tommy DeVito can do the Italian finger celebrating a touchdown.

I agree with you. I just am arguing on behalf of not knowing, when I'm 70, when I'm 70, what's allowed and what's not allowed anymore. I'm guessing at this accelerated rate.

Are you trying to do it all now before it's not allowed? Are you.

Trying to cancel the Italian fingers, Dan.

Who are you to tell an Italian he came to the Italian fingers? This is not something where you should.

Weigh in. Is that what.

We're calling? The Italian.

Fingers, of course. We're calling it the Italian-What else do you call? I don't know what it's called.

You knew what I.

Was talking about. Well, only because I.

Saw you That's a spicy.

Meat ball. Yeah, I'd love that. I don't know. Maybe let's not do that. I think that is a go sit in the penalty box.

I think you're fine.

I.

Was trying to.

Explain it to you. You were.

Totally fine.

2004. Come on. That's spicy meat. Come on. What are we? What are we doing?

2040. Put him in the penalty box in 2040. Fake outreach.

The gacky is a champion.

Bahamur, hoops challenge champion.

I was asking the Elser staff to get me a bedsheet to put on a banner so that we could raise the banner to Bahamar, University of Miami College basketball team. Prestigious.

In an empty ballroom in the Bahamas, brought to you by Williamson Cattlehead.

Kicking the holy hell out of Kansas State.

Williamson is Miami.

Look, I want you two to debate each other as fake zagackies, both of you. You don't have to do it now.

I got some good video. Seems like you're applying the pressure.

I just want you to work on it. I want to plant the seed.

Debate brought to you by Ed Morce. Ed Morse.

Of course.

Don Leberthard. We got a Freeney Hardaway.

Who is a Freeney Hardaway?

I was trying to read fast. Ud was on the team. Luke Jackson, Bobby Jones, The Matrix, Sean Marion, Stugats.

Zoh, Shaqs, Smush.

Parker.

Chris Quinn, D. Wade, Jason Williams, Darrell Wright. I mean, stacked roster.

This is The Dan Levator Show with the Stugats.

Chris Cody, what was that stat you were giving me during the break on the chargers?

Dan, there's only one quarterback, and you gave away the answer to this with what you just said. There's only one quarterback with 30 losses since the start of 2020. And if you couldn't.

Tell by Daniel.

Jones, the happiness in my tone, it's Justin Herbert.

But you're a Chargers fan.

That was a thing, Billy. Come on.

You left to a behind to go to the side.

Of Herbert. I was more just trying to fire the dolphins up. I knew if I did that, they'd be like, All right, now it's time to get serious, guys.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Is Justin Herbert the most beautiful loser you have ever seen? This is the last 12 games from the Chargers. Are you ready? Lose by three, lose by one, lose by two, lose by three, lose by three, lose by 14, lose by three, lose by three, beat three backup quarterbacks and beat Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins is the only good win that they have, and all they do is lose close games. And yesterday, seeing the Packers, I mean, it's the defense's fault. Herbert will get blamed for being a loser, but that defense is God-forsaken.

Not according to Brad and Staley. He put the blame on.

His offense.

On Eccler. On Eccler specifically, without naming names. On that Fumble. Yeah.

Couldn't Johnston also catch that ball, brother. That was in the.

Bread.

Basket. Well, Kenan-Allen had two of those. He had two.

But not that one, Dan. That one.

Was egregious. No, the one I would say, Tony, the tip of the football, you heard the thud hit him between the numbers.

They lose that game because of the.

Johnson drop. He also cut 10 passes for 110 yards of.

The touchdown. You can't get mad at Kenan-Allen. Have you seen what's growing out of his shoulder? That guy sacrifices every day.

That guy had two drops.

He has a spike growing out of his shoulder. He's fine.

Yeah, a.

Little boat spike.

Two drops that cost them touchdowns. They had to settle for field goals. But Stugats, I wanted to talk about the University of Miami this weekend.

Bah, March champs. Thank you. Finally, we can get into this. Wooga Poplar has gotten better. Nigel Paak, player of the tournament. Norhan O'Mear, developing nicely. I think this guy is a pro. Great handles that smooth, soft touch from the outside. He is a natural three-point shooter in rhythm. I'm liking what I'm seeing over there. This is a top 10 team. You better get used to it. The Blue Bloods are back.

Not the University of Miami team I was talking about. Although, Chris Cody, a couple of years ago, you were asking us, I remember the conversation because you're like, How good is Miami? And we're like, They're final four good. They're good enough. And they've been for a couple of seasons, final four good. And this team might be better than all of them because they dragged Kansas State. That was not close. And we told you before that Lugah is ready to make a jump that I believe will replace the inefficient things that Wang was.

Yeah, Wang was a great college player, probably should have his jersey honored by the university. But also, he would go missing sometimes and he wasn't the most efficient player. You lose Jordan Miller, who allowed them to do a lot of things defensively, but Cleveland's assumed that role, and he's a more natural cutter to the basket. He's been a great pickup in the portal, and Wooga is looking like a lottery pick.

Are we better than last year? I don't know why I said we.

I think we are. I don't know if that'll... It's hard to make it to the final four. It's a very difficult turnaround.

That's what I'm saying. It's unfortunate that the year after they make that run, they're better just because the odds would think that you wouldn't make.

That deep of a run. How did you guys fall for this trip? I mean, how did you fall for this trip? Dan wanted to talk Cains football. Mike brought it to Cains basketball. You guys are still talking Cains.

Basketball on a Monday. They won a championship.

Two.

And a 0. A very prestigious championship.

They don't just give away Baha, Mar, Hoops challenge championships.

Enough. Put it on the pole.

Please, Jude. In an SCC and a big 12th school.

Do they just give away Bahamar in a ballroom banquet Championship.

The Bahamar Hoops challenge.

How many of those have there been? A couple.

They play in the ballroom? Who were the previous champions? No, they're more than a couple. They play in the Bahamas every year.

In a ballroom. Well, the Atlantis. This is the Bahamas, Dan. This is different levels. Beautiful grounds.

By the way. It's like the Winnie the Pooh meme. Bahamas is normal Winnie the Pooh. Bahamar is Winnie the Pooh in a tuxedo.

Stugart, I want to play for you in a moment some video of Jeff Brahm, the Louisville Coach. But before we do that, just put up on the screen, please, the Will Manso quote, because they had a chance to beat a top 10 team for the first time since 2017. And Will Manso, who is kind and decent writes, The Cains fall to six and five. They were a kneel down away from five and oh. This season hasn't been progress, no matter what Mike Ryan says, getting talent is one very important thing. Putting that talent in best position to win is pretty important, too. And here's the killer sentence. You hate it when the teacher tells you this, the disciplinarian tells you this, an authority figure tells you this. What is it that I'm waiting for, Stugart? You're busy with something?

Yeah, I was looking something up. I was, actually. My Caines notes.

Ucf won last year. I had.

My Caines notes, Dan, how undisciplined they were.

I think you made.

Up- The penalty that cost them a time out at the end of the game, all of it. I was looking that up. I apologize I was not listening to you. I was giving the appearance I was listening to you.

You made up that Mike Ryan portion. That was not in the tweet.

The sentence that Will Mantso gives you at the end that is consternation and filled with worry is, U. M. Has lots of work to do. It was not a penalty, Stugat, at the end, although there were a couple of penalties. The late game situation, again, was a disaster. I understand taking the time out to make sure you get your fort down offensive play right, but I wish they were more organized and didn't need the time out for that because I don't trust that offense. And what I want in that situation, more than anything, is options. I don't want one play for the game with that offense and that quarterback. Even on a good offensive day, I don't know why I'm doing the Italian fingers.

But- Careful, you only have.

15 minutes.

They call a time out, Stugats, on fourth at the goal line, fourth and short. In a game, they were able to move up and down the field at will on. And at the end of that game, in calling that timeout, you could have been in a situation where you had a team trying to do something, a program trying to do something it hasn't done before in Louisville, inside its own five-yard line with three timeouts on the road. And because you called the timeout to get your offense right and then failed, and furthermore, had two unsportsman-like calls, two of them that affected that, hail, Mary, fell three yards short of the end zone because you're doing dumb shit on unsportsman-like penalties at the end of games. And thisThis thing is going to haunt Mario Cristobal until he has a championship season. People are going to indict his teams for this stuff because I expect it.

From them. You think he's getting to a championship season?

He's got eight years, Dougant.

Sixth, he's counting.

They're not going to do Jimbo, Elliot. They're not going to do Jimbo.

Fisher, rather. You mentioned Louisville, and it's an interesting place to start because they actually won the first Bahamar Hoops challenge championship. Louisville, you'd agree, is a Blue Blood.

Yeah.

How long ago was that played, that championship? How many years? Two years ago.

Two years ago. Okay, so it's a post-COVID world.

Last year is UCF. Well, this is how you add prestige. You have Blue Bloods win your tournament, like Louisville, like Miami.

Like UCF.

Can I play for you?

They won a football national.

Championship recently. Frisky little team. Might be a tournament team. Really?

Eight seat?

Nine.

Go ahead and play.

Let's-play for the people because Jeff Brahm has been very good. He's been a very good coach. He's paid very well. But I remember, and it's all I remember from his playing career, is this clip from the XFL Stugats after he got annihilated in a game. This was before we knew exactly how much damage football did. This was the XFL, which prided itself on being more violent, more dangerous. He got a concussion as a quarterback. Very soon thereafter, it was a violent hit. It was just a horrific hit. He played very soon thereafter. Here's the interview, the XFL interview he gave before going out onto the field. He might as well have gone onto the field wearing a neck brace.

Jeff Brown, how in the world are you starting this game tonight after taking that hit.

Just six days ago?

Well, let me answer that question by.

Asking you two questions. One, is this or is not the XFL? Yes, it is.

Two, do I or.

Do I not.

Currently have a pulse? Yes, I do.

Let's play football.

Yeah! I feel! Gamer.

He was right on both accounts. There was the XFL, and he did have.

A pulse.

He was a good coach.

That was the best XFL, right? Yeah. Of the XFels.

The first one. I have a special place in my heart for all of them. We'll see what this merger has in the store.

How did you feel about losing that game?

I think Will Manso makes good points. You wish you could go back to that Georgia Tech game just because it would make the season feel different. I think there is progress, but ultimately, people that aren't paying attention to every snap are going to look at the win-loss column and say, How is this team just one win better? That's not what this year was about. I largely agree. I think if they don't win, they're like an eight-and-a-half point favorite at Boston College. I think a six-win season is not as disastrous as you can assume because it would just be a redux of last year, but it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. You can talk yourself into having a little bit more hope the way that these games have taken shape. Kind of feels like 2016 a little bit when Mark Rick was starting to get things together. The team wasn't quitting. Like last year's team would have been checked out at this point. They're fighting until the end. That's not what this season was about, I'll say again. But they're losing one score games. Louisville is a really good team. They've done a lot of great stuff with NIL and the portal.

Their coach totally de-pants Lance Gidry, who I rate highly. I think Lance Gidry has been one of the bright spots on this team. Jeff Brown totally changed some of the stuff that they were doing on offense, knowing that Miami was going to sell out for the run game. He used two tight ends that came into the game with 11 combined catches, and he made them look like NFL pros. Also, Kevin Coleman, that one stung. That one really stung because we thought we had Kevin Coleman on this team a couple of years ago, and then he pulled the Coach Prime thing and went to Jackson State and then became one of the bags of Louis that was lost on.

The way to Boulder. Is that also the play, though, where you get the added embarrassment of two hurricanes just ran into each other in the secondary? I think the Louisville players running 70 yards with the football?

Yeah, a lot of these games, especially the last two weeks, as you've seen game-breaking speed, Mark Fletcher had a really good game. But when he gets to that second level, he's not pulling away from guys. There's very few guys on the team with that natural game-breaking ability. Brashard Smith goes missing at times. You get guys that go into the second level. Florida State was really struggling, and Benson just takes a 16-yard counter, which would be a 16-yard counter for someone like Cheney or Fletcher, and he houses it. I think Miami needs that. But ultimately, I'm not going to push back too much on Wolfman, so they have a lot of work to do.

Let's get to all those notes Stugatz was going to get to in.

His- On my phone?

-in his phone.

Just on discipline. Very on discipline team. Mario always has excuses after the game. He's 73 and 72 now, career as a head coach. He was fired from FIU. Look how good Oregon's playing since he left. I just wondered, Dan, is he a good coach? That's it. That's what I wrote down. Is he a good coach? Is he a good game-day coach?

Is he?