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Man, Dan.

Looks.

Good.

I didn't think he'd pull another one-off. But that's two in a row: Fred Flintstone and now this.

What does he look like?

Raleigh fingers? You can't see in that costume?

No, boil away.

Bingo. Okay. All right, so-.

You don't have a dick?

He can't see even dick, is what he said, literally translated in Spanish. I don't know what you're supposed to be. Is that that famous DJ?

Mike, am I? I don't know.

Yeah, it's a dead mouse helmet. I get to control the eye color.

That's cool. That's awesome.

You want to see red?

Yes.

I'm familiar.

That's the punishment. Mine is Captain Hook, and I'm a bit disturbed. I got to be honest. I'm a bit disturbed that every time I put on one of these costumes, everyone says it's a better look for me than the one I usually rock.

Your look.

I mean, yes, my regular look, evidently, I look less handsome than this. David Samson joins us now in one of his patented loud jackets. That one's your favorite, correct? Of the loud jackets?

No, this is just the one that was up for today.

It seems like your go-to jacket. I'm with Dan. You wear that one more often than.

The other jackets. He's got one that's got rhinestone on it or sparkles on it that looks a lot like that.

Yeah, so the answer is no, stew. It actually is in a particular order, so it rotates every, let's say, 20 or 30 days. You may have seen it, but no, it's just a coincidence that this comes out on a Wednesday today.

Do the jackets just go around and around in your closet? Is that how it works?

I manually do it. I don't have the dry cleaner thing. I have to actually, when I take a jacket, I take it from the left, and at the end of the day, I put it back on the right.

What would you say of all of your idiosyncratic traits is the most obsessive, compulsive, anal one, even by your standards, like in terms of being meticulous, preparation? Even you say, This is too much. I do this too much.

I think what gets in the way of my relationship is that whenever I come back from a trip, no matter what time of day or night, I have to do all the...

Again with the sound on this. Yeah. I don't.

Know what to do with this. He's the only one. He's the only one who's going to blame us for it.

I don't know what to do about this anymore. The fact that his sound never works.

I'm in a different...

Perfect. Same results, though.

I don't know what to tell you, David. I'm sorry we're going to have to let you go for a moment and we're going to try to get this right. There's a lot I.

Want to talk to you. Do me a favor and skip it because every other show I do is fine. I'm now in a different location than I was.

This honestly would be a great fit for you. It is.

It's incredible. Just filling.

The blank.

I wish it was. It's so good.

It's Groundhawk Day.

Timing on the last two.

It's our fault.

We're the only person it happens to. He's the only person it happens with. This is incredible. This is the only-He.

Is getting stuck in a situation where he believes that our company is actively sabotaging him, doesn't promote his stuff, doesn't support his stuff. Nothing personal is anything. I just saw out of the corner of Captain Hook's eye, and I got to be honest, it's hard to see because there's a lot of things in my way. This is uncomfortable. I don't smell good already because this material is not a not very good material.

The materials, huh?

Well, I was clean. I did shower before coming in, and I'm sweating because I don't know what this cheap material is, but it's making me sweat, which is compounded by the idea that his sound doesn't work and we're on live. Furthermore, Mike spent the first 30 seconds before we went on air just screaming at everyone in video because something went- Off to a good start. -something went wrong.

We're all good. Look at his eyes now. Make him right again. Yeah, I can make him flash.

Look at that. Oh, wow. David, do me a favor. Since you are just sitting there and we've established now that your sound isn't going to work, I will now do our show as if you're not here. But you stay there because...

I saw that. I'll grab it for you.

You saw my.

Hat fall up?

Wow, you instantly became Ron Jeremy.

The mustache is going next.

The mustache will- Ron Jerber.

The hat makes you a pirate. Now you're Ron Jeremy.

All right, but David, just stay there. Hopefully, at some point, your sound is good enough.

You look like you're in the Eagles without the hat.

Maybe I can do that as a punishment after this. Captain Hook, and then I'll just remove the hook and then just be Don Henley.

You're Glenn Pry now.

Instead of talking about the winter meetings, which is what I wanted to talk about because there's interesting nothing happening there. Somehow the Dodgers have pissed off Ohtani because all Ohtani prefers is a privacy about everything that's happening now. Dave Roberts has filed that up for the Dodgers.

Don't you hate it when something secret becomes public?

We heard that.

Yes, we hear. All right, so David's back. Give us your winter meeting thoughts for as long as we have sound from you.

Dave Roberts is in trouble, but Ohtani is not going to skip the Dodgers because Dave Roberts said they met with him. The Dodgers have a built-in excuse if he goes back to The Angels now. This whole Ohtani veil of secrecy where the media feels entitled to have more action at the winter meetings, on today's nothing personal, I gave the solution. I want to know if you guys agree with my solution for how to fix the winter meetings. The deadline for signing to all free agents should be the last day of the winter meetings. If you don't sign by today, then you can't sign till spring training. How about that?

It's a great idea, but not surprisingly, you don't consider labor. That's good. He's talking right now. It's good that your sound is down. I don't even want to hear it. I don't even want to. It's good. In fact, we should use this as a device even when it's not working.

I don't understand this one, but back out and back back in. We'll hopefully fix that, okay? Get out of the room and we'll welcome you aboard. In the meantime, we'll talk about other things. There are many- A guy named Dick Fitz got traded yesterday. What? Yeah, it was a rare trade between the Yankees and Red Sox. Everyone got excited about Verdugo. I'm asking with a question. Is there a question mark in his name? I think it's Verdugo. Whatever. But Dick Fitz got traded in.

That move. That is not a good name for success. I think we did that game with Will Luts. Who was the other one last week? We had somebody last week.

Marty, Morten, Wag.

That one was as well. Eberflus. You cannot trust an Eberflus to win you a championship. The only thing that's happened at the Winner Meetings is this Dick Fritz move, right? Dick Fritz. Dick Fritz is on the move.

That's a fine. Yeah, he just said it.

Yeah, it is a fine. That is correct. So Dick Fritz is on the move.

I hope he fits in with the Red Sox.

You're a dick.

Touche.

Speaking of David Samson's back.

Oh, boy.

Let's see if his sound works. It's a good idea, but you're not considering labor.

All right. We're going to let him go.

The sound's always going to be off if you ask him to consider labor.

His thoughts on labor.

Everyone wants more live programming.

It's too bad.

I'm not sure that's a dick fit for us.

Max is where you can find us live. Mike Ryan doesn't trust us live. It's why we're only doing an hour instead of a sprawling spectacle that spends its morning with you.

You're finding out why on.

A daily basis. Yes, and he hasn't trusted us going live for a while, and we force it upon him, and he doesn't want to do it. But I want to get into what it is that happened with Jaylen Phillips last night. Chris Cody, it seemed like it was a Dark Night of the soul. I've had many of those recently, and he went to social media to share his pain. We were talking a lot at the end of yesterday's show about the pain these football players must be in. There's a lot to discuss today, Stugart, because the portal is crazy because everybody wants more money. All of the players see they have more value. In the NFL, you see the most valuable position, Stugart. A Browning can make himself some money on a Monday night because all of the other quarterbacks are going to be sent to the hospital. Eventually, somebody's going to have to stand up and they're already digging around in the Tim Boyle bin.

That's a sad bin to be digging around in. I got to be honest with the saddest of bins.

For sure. I was asking Mike before the show if he would want Tim Boyle to start for the University of Miami in its bowl game.

There's no way.

No way.

A professional quarterback. That's a downgrade. I'm not certain he's a professional quarterback.

I have no proof. Miami is on their third-string quarterback in the.

Bowl game.

Still a downgrade. Yeah. I would prefer the opportunity to evaluate the third-string quarterback.

There was agreement throughout the room when I lobbed that at Mike that nobody wanted a professional quarterback who had started an NFL game to replace the disappointing Tyler Van Dyk.

I'll take him as the backup in Miami.

The position.

Is- As opposed to the walk on that we have right now, fine. I'll concede, Tim Boyle can back up, Cary Brown at the.

Penitrae Ball. But Mike wants to see what the.

Walk on has. Provided he beats out Jeff George's son.

My larger point, Stugat, on this sport is that obviously people are tired of me saying how much it hurts, but I also think how much it hurts becomes not sustainable when you can't hit the quarterback in the head, you can't hit the quarterback in the knees, and all of the quarterbacks are hurt, all of them. You can't keep them healthy at all. Not won at all. Well, that's what McDaniel said. Mcdaniel said, As far as I'm concerned, we've got the healthiest quarterback year I've ever seen.

That's the funniest thing in football, right? Crazy. Of all of the quarterbacks, it's, who's the one that we're saying like, All right, he's healthy.

And Lamar Jackson. It's a.

Weird year. It's also a work of art. Both of them told they couldn't be quarterbacks, but all you have to do to be a quarterback today is can you be a functioning heart like Tim Boyle? We'll get you in the game if all the other guys get hurt. They happen to be two of the remaining healthy ones that are still standing somehow, even though we worried about their health more than any of the other quarterbacks in the League.

But you're right about Browning because Joe Barrow goes down, he gets an opportunity, and the backup quarterback has become so valuable because of what we're talking about. So many starters are getting injured. You can make yourself a ton of money if you have a couple of good games replacing the starting quarterback.

Can you guys see if I'm putting my hand up?

Yes, I can.

See your hand, Tony. We can.

See your hand, Tony. Just make sure. We should turn your eyes a certain color.

When you want to talk. You can't tell if your own hand is up.

No, my hand is up. I don't know if Dan can see me if my hand is up. Anyways, more importantly- We can see you. That's why Zach Wilson playing is such an important thing for him. You have a chance to be one of those guys that can just sit as a backup quarterback, make a couple of million dollars a year, and not worry about it. The report saying, Hey, I don't want to come back. That's already torching a bridge for next season, the season after that being.

A backup. I think we do green eyes when he's making a good point, red when he's making a bad point, and another color when he.

Wants to talk. I made it green because he was talking about the jets.

Okay, but I like Chris's idea. Like green, go, red. When you hit red, he has to.

Stop talking. He can't see his own eyes. I don't think he can see it, though. He can't even see his own hands. Oh, he can.

You can see.

The color? I can see the color inside. Okay, so when.

You see that red light, shut the fuck up.

Don't let me see it. All of us who were watching college football, elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much.

You.

Didn't watch the ending of U-Tep.

Jacksonville.

State.

It was awesome. It was easy. Boom.

Still gots. Such a lane for you. Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about. Don't you miss.

Viewing sports through that prism, though?

I'm.

Envious of Lucy.

I.

Wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don Leavator show with the Stugat. Can we get the Jaylen Philips? Mike, can we get that set up? And is the sound going to work on Jaylen Philips?

Well, there's no sound. It was an emotional post. If someone sends you this text, you're like, too long, didn't read. So you can tell by the length of it and the time that it was posted, where he admits, it's 3:30 AM, that he was actually going through it, career crossroads stuff. You have to keep in mind, Jaylen Phillips was a guy that medically retired during his time at UCLA. Then the story is he goes to University of Miami, builds his body and his career backup, ends up being a first round draft pick and a real good player for the Miami Huricans and Dolphins. This is just yet another injury setback. You can see the frustration. He's like, I've done everything that I possibly could with my body, and all I'm doing is exploding out of the ground. It's a routine thing. It's like opening a car door. Now he's expected to deal with this injury, yet another crippling injury, one that's historically, up until very recently, been hard to come back from. The Achilles injury, especially when you're leaning on explosion, is a very difficult injury to rebound from. The guy posted six paragraphs. I'm not going to bore you with it, but those watching on YouTube or on DraftKings Network or on Max can see this guy was going through a lot last night.

Yeah, he had some dark moments last night. But I know Billy talked about this last week with Hard Knocks because I finally watched it, and I watched the Jalen Phillips episode headed into the jet game. Dan, it was so heartbreaking because he has worked so hard. He's a freak athlete, and he's having a really good year, his best year, and his relationship with Bradley Chubb and Mike McDaniel and the entire defense and just how great of a season he has or he's been having and how excited he is to be on this team having the kinds of season that he's having, and then it all goes away into play. But you see him right before he tears the Achilles. He grabs his knee. He knows something's wrong. He's not certain what it is. On the very next snap, it tears. You see him crying. It's just it's heartbreaking to watch.

It really is. The Hard Knocks version of that was almost too much. I know. It was too much. You're right. You know how we wanted to access? Because they knew it was coming. They were highlighting him leading up to it. They showed every conversation he had before the game, and everyone knew it was coming. I thought it was almost-How happy he was. I thought it was almost heavy handed from Hard Knocks because we all knew that was the episode where we were going to see that. They were showing him just so much before that. I just felt like it was a little gross, honestly.

I skipped that part. I didn't watch this hard knocks because I knew Jaylen Philitz's injury was going to be on it. I'm like, I'll see you guys next week. I'm not here for that.

They show before where Mike McDaniel goes up to him and it's just like, Oh, this is where you're going to become a household name.

It's just... Black Friday Against the Jets, nationally televised game, you're going to become a household name. He was having a.

Great game. In hindsight, you could look at that as a jinks that he put on him. It's just so unfair. It was just all icky.

But we were talking about the way yesterday that we need to be able to be bringing Gen Z into watching sports. The narratives of things like that are the way to do it. If they're not going to watch it in real time, if you're able to set up this full narrative that makes your heart break for this player, and then you want to go follow him on social media and see the posts like this and then watch his whole journey back.

That's how you do it. No, but what Chris is saying, I understand what you're saying, but I tend to agree with Chris. You tend.

To agree or.

You agree? I agree. They knew they had the injury in their back pocket, and they made an entire episode about a guy whose career might be in jeopardy.

No, it's heartbreaking. I mean, watching it, I wouldn't want to watch it either, but I'm someone who actually watches sports consistently, and so I knew that it happened. I found the information and that was it. But if you're trying to bring people in, like probably putting that two minutes on TikTok or YouTube or whatever is going to get people to pay attention to what's going on in sports.

Except for the discomfort around Tony, understandably, it's like, No, don't want to see it. Would prefer to just enjoy my Sundays and not actually think about, We don't have to be with these guys at 3:30 in the morning when Jason Taylor is trying to sleep standing up on a staircase because somebody leg-whipped him and he's got compartment syndrome and they're going to have to cut off his leg in 12 hours if he doesn't immediately get to the hospital, but he pops more painkillers. We're not with them when they're having the dark nights of the soul on what this stuff actually results in. But when you get underneath the helmet and you see the humanity in it, who among us couldn't understand working that hard to get to the top of that sports? That's where the success is. Can you get to the quarterback seven times a season in two seconds. Success is, did you get there 11 times? That's what success is publicly. The way that he had to work to make himself that good, and he knows more than anybody now, Stugart, not just that this is a hard injury to come back from, but this is one of the hardest injuries to rehab in order to come back from.

The rehab process.

Here- Unless you're Aaron Rogers.

That's correct. Unless you're Aaron Rogers, who's not going to play. He's not going to play this year?

It's not looking that way. He approached rehab like it's his job. Aaron Rogers has given voice a handful of times on Pat McAfee about how consumed he is with the rehab process. It is a very difficult injury to bounce back from. But he.

Was playing catch.

I thought he was fine.

The dark parts of this are things that nobody really wants to talk about, right?

It was crazy to watch McDaniel be over him and just be like, You're going to be okay. You don't even know he's going to be okay. They have no idea what to say to him in that instance. You think that these injuries happen so much that there would be a protocol, and it's just they turn into humans that are just patting him on the back like, Hey, it's all going to be all right, man. It was just like, Oh, this is real.

Dan, I think for me, when I tell you I don't want to watch the injury, I understand that there's such a dichotomy between what we see on TV and what we see during the games and what we don't see 3:30 in the morning, posting all this stuff. But for me, it takes me to a place where I've been getting injured for a long time because I don't get paid to get injured when I play sports. I've had multiple surgeries. I've had multiple things that have happened to me. I know what that feels like where you're sitting there, your ankle's swollen like a watermelon, and you're like, Damn, this just sucks. So me to watch that again almost brings me back to a place where I got screwed in playing sports.

Mike Ryan, were you trying to turn him off successfully?

I was. He said that he could see the lights before, but now I'm doubting it.

But you were trying to turn him off because he was making it about himself?

Well, it just got off to a.

Sputtering start. I mean, Tony knows what it's like. Pickup game.

I will say that if Tony thinks he knows what it's like, and if Tony is.

Actually- Tony is staring at Stugats right now.

He is? He is. He is. He's a death star. Even I can see that behind there. A dead mouse stare. Tony knows, in the way that we talk about this, Stugart, that we can get numb to it, and they're not allowed to. They have to get addicted to painkillers in order to get numb to it. They see it all. They live in that carnage. All of their friends and teammates are walking around, pretending that they hurt less than they do because everybody's got to be a little bit tougher in that world than any of the human beings you know?

It's the part of the game. I really don't want to be privy to it. We are becoming more and more privy to the information. I don't. I just want to see them play on Sundays. But Dan, you mentioned Jason Taylor, we asked him in that same interview, Would you do it all over again? And Jason Taylor quickly said yes.

Yeah, but, Stugart, that's you rationalizing, I'm okay to feel this way about it. They're okay with that. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. The argument that I keep making that I don't, whatever, people don't want to hear this again and again and again. When people tell me they know what they're choosing, my response is, No, they don't. Jaylen Phillips didn't know that he was choosing this night. He didn't know it. He didn't know that when he chose football that this is like, All right, what do you want me to do? Switch it to a channel that can get me to talk about something else.

What would you like to do? As we always do with David Samson, we get his review, Host of Nothing Personal. David, what are you reviewing this week?

Iby Barry.

Bye-bye, Barry. He's back for now.

Bye-bye, Barry, is a documentary on Amazon about the career of Barry Sanders, which, sadly, there are people who are younger than I who don't realize that he may be the greatest quarterback of all time, the greatest running back of all time, excuse me. And the toughest part of the documentary is the relationship that Barry had with his father. And at Barry's Hall of Fame induction, his father, who, who introduced him, said, Congratulations to the third best running back of all time. Who were the first two? Jim Brown, he said, and then himself. Except he never played football other than in high school, but that's the type of hard, driving, ego guy his father was. And all Barry wanted to do was please his father. And then Barry left the game at the height of his career at 31 years old in a very famously doing that. It's an interesting documentary. For those of you who've never heard of him, you should watch it. If you did watch and play, watch it so you're reminded how great he was. Damn.

Damn what? He made it all the way through without his sound cutting out.

What was good about it, David? Because I found Barry Sanders outside of his play to be largely uninteresting.

So again, what was interesting to me, as you would think, is the father-son dynamic and what drives greatness. And he's not the biggest guy. He was very compact. I had just forgotten what his talent was like on the field, and I didn't realize what was going on off the field. And he was not allowed to or supposed to go to Oklahoma State University. His father wanted him to go elsewhere. He went against his father as some way to show that I'm the man now. Very complicated, sad relationship, actually. Now he's the father of four kids himself, and it's worth watching. It's not a long documentary, only 90 minutes on Amazon, and so do it.

Sad relationship. If I were talking to both of them, would his father say that he loved Barry and would Barry say he loved his father?

Of course, because you always say that. That's not the question. The better question is, if you said to Barry, Did you succeed because of your father or in spite of your father? I believe if he were honest, he would say he did it to spite his father, not to please his father.

And his father thinks he did it because of his father.

Of course he does.

That's how fathers go.

Second best running back ever. Not always. That's not not- My.

Dad doesn't think that I'm successful.

Because of him. Not real and genuine love. That's not how it always goes.

Yeah, my dad loves me.

That's why I asked you, does he actually love him? You're like, No, the better question was, was it spite or was it earned credit? I asked him, is it love? That's how Dave does the bottom line math. Samson sucks20, the promo code at levitardaf. Com, 20% off.

Dan.

Levitard. We got a Freeney Hardaway.

Who is a Freeney? Who is a Freeney Hardaway?

I was trying to read fast. Ud was on the team, Luke Jack, Jason, Bobby Jones, The Matrix, Sean Marion, Stugatz, 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. The hat fell off just as we were starting here. It came off, so I am now serving my Eagle's punishment.

You look like Carlos Santana.

Oh, definitely.

Well, how can I.

Look like Glenn Frey and the Eagles and Carlos Santana? It's a moussache.

It's of a time. You know that Carlos Santana and his very memorable Woodstock performance, the drugs he was on at the time made him think that his guitar was a snake.

Thank you, Stugatz. I appreciate you lovingly placing my hat back on. Those are good drugs. Stugatz could probably speak to some of that stuff. I want to get to the useless sound in a second. Tony, it's hot, right? You just took off your jacket or whatever. Boiling day. Yeah, me too. I have noticed this. I just noticed it. I'm just generally having a stamina problem. The thing that happens to Cody at the end of shows has begun happening to me, but it happens more quickly when I'm wearing these costumes. The doing of the show while wearing the costumes is an energy expenditure. I think that you're going to find that even a young buck like you who could have been a professional athlete if he hadn't had to always endure the high ankle sprain that makes him not be Jalen Phillips, that you too will feel it today.

Dan, you look a little like Cheech.

Put it on the poll. Go ahead and put your nominees up there. Who does Dan look most like? Cheach, Carlos Santana, a member of the Eagles, Ron... Thank you. Stan Van Gundy. If I'm Ron Jeremy, then I'm also Stan Van Gundy. Of course, you are twins. Yes, I'm both of these. I want to get to the useless sound montage, though.

You look like the bad guy from Ghost, the first bad guy.

Oh, yeah, the guy in the train? No, the first.

Bad guy? Yeah, the train guy.

The.

One that ends up, spoiler alert, killing Patrick Swayzee. That guy, yes. I mean, he wasn't the guy behind it. It was a whole deal.

Stugatz is the only one laughing. I see everyone else, Mike, because they don't have any idea what the movie is. Chris and Jeremy and Tony.

Willy Lopez?

Oh, God, what a character.

I don't know how you can make me both Carlos Santana and a member of The Eagles, though. There are ethnicity issues with what you're doing.

Well, no, it's just different hair color. It's like if I had this remote that changes the color of eyes, if I changed the hue of your hair, boom, Glenn Fry, Laurel.

Kenan guy. Maybe young Sam Elliot, maybe?

It's just people with a mustache.

You guys. Yeah, but it's a very...

Mustache. That's all you guys are doing. So then I look likeDo I look like Dave Wandstead?

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now you've got too far.

I want to get to the useless sound montage. It is belching absurdity. They have just put on the bad guy from Ghost on the screen. And now you can see what- I hate.

That guy. If he was wearing a pirate hat.

Why do you hate that guy? He brought a spiritual connection to Patrick, Swazie.

He had.

To die. Yeah, but their love lived beyond for eternity. That was the point of.

The story. Mike Dan also looks, if you look closely, you got to squint, okay? Like the crazy guy and Ghost who taught Patrick Swazie how to move a coin. No.

A little bit. No, not at all. That's very insulting. That guy looks like a mutated Jeff Van Gundy.

I learned of the movie Ghost through the Vendiesel classic The Pacifier, the children's movie he made, which is also the only Vendiesel movie I've ever seen.

Ghost is incredible. It's got the scene where they're making jars of clay and all that good stuff. Whoopee Goldberg. Didn't she win an Academy Award for that performance? Just an amazing romantic movie. I actually saw it on the West End in London as a musical. Incredible.

Now Video has found the guy, and Stugaz was just faking it. Stugaz has only envisioned this guy from the start of this story. Oh, no, I know Willy Lopis. Get out of here. No, my Stugats, I caught you in an unraveled fraud. This is the guy you were imagining throughout. It's why you bring him up again. This is the man. The reason you laughed, don't lie to me, I know you. The reason you laughed the way you did the first time is because this is the guy you thought Mike was calling me, not Willy Lopez. This guy. And of course, that's funnier because look at this guy.

Yeah, he looks like.

A- It's true. Everything you just said.

If Jeff Van Gunnie is the first stage of Pokemon evolution, that guy that teaches Sam how to push the coin is second.

Let's play the useless sound montageage, please. I think.

We did what we had to do to win today. I asked the guys to fight at the beginning of the week, and it's exactly what they did. It was unfortunate that they just made one more play than we did. It's a one game at a time mentality, and our guys came ready to play and we found a way to win. It doesn't have to be pretty. A lot of things are correct, but we found a way to win.

When the pressure goes up, who comes down at his level and is calm?

Our guys are. Anytime you're playing in the quarterback position, the team is putting a lot of trust in you to lead the way. And you know what? Today we had opportunity to go win a game for our team and just couldn't be more happy and more proud of our group. I wish we would have finished the.

Game a lot better. Yeah. It's to try to put the best team we can out there every week.

It's the NFL. It's a battle, especially these division games. We knew it was going to be a street fight. A week, and I was proud of how we fought. At the end of the day, they got the best of us. It sucks, but we're going.

To keep pushing. He made plays today. He put some balls where not many people can put him. He did a great job.

And we need to expect more from ourselves when we're.

In those positions to go score.

When you spot.

21 points to a.

Very good football.

Team, you're going to struggle to win a game. You can't.

Do the.

Things that we did and expect to win.

We won the turnover battle and we won the game, and that was the difference. I think the biggest thing is we just got to stay the course. It's already gone. That's the tough part. The reality is we got to be better. It starts with me being better. I'm looking forward to getting back to work. I thought our guys really answered the bell. So proud of those guys.

It shows up the way they work.

The way they go about their.

Business every single day. In this league, there's too much parity, and you come on there well-coached. They are good players. You come out and self-destruct like that in certain areas, and then you have a problem.

Find ways to win. That's always the mentality. That's always the approach. And I think this is a moment where you go back and you reflect on it. You learn from it. Like every win, and you treat them all the same. When you win or when you lose, it's about what can I learn from this? I think any offense is fun when you're scoring a lot of points. I'm a man, and I'm not going to let somebody just come push me, especially in my house. You're not going to just touch me after the whistle. You clearly hear it. I'm not mad at that dude. He playing hard. He maybe tried to throw me at it, but I don't like it. I got to control my composure at the same time as a man. Like Drewsy said, I'm a stand on business. Yeah, I was complimented football at its finest. Man, it was a chess game going on. Look, DA, he's a good defensive coach now. And those guys played hard. It's a prideful team. So, look, it wasn't ideal. You don't always want it to be that way. But my God, man, to be able to hang in there and they're able to come back and then we just answer back and then we were able to close it out.

I mean, it's a hell of a win now. I'm not going to take that away from us. On a day like today, you need that leadership. You need that togetherness. We made too many mistakes. They had a good game plan, played a good game. But at the end of the day, you make too many mistakes and against a good football team, you lose. They're coming together. They're working. They're getting better. They're playing faster, playing more confident. We're all waiting to see, is it a call? I mean, that's what we're waiting.

For, to see, did the official make a call here?

Oh, he didn't call. Oh, he did call it. I put a lot into this game. I prepared my ass off.

Oh, it was.

Obviously a lot of.

Fun to be out there and play football.

Again.

Especially with those group of guys. You can tell just being here in a short time that they're two great locker room. So it was definitely a lot of.

Fun to be out there.

You know, that was a horrible day at the office. We didn't do much right.

In that game, to.

Be quite honest with you.

So we got to own that obviously starting.

First and foremost with me, just JV football in a lot of ways.

David Crosby. David Crosby.

That's better. Yes. Yes, a little frumpy. That's real good. That's good. That is who I look like more than anyone. Pirate David Crosby. That is absolutely accurate. I think you finally found it after rummaging around inside your head.

It's the chins. It's not even the mustache.

Yeah, I got it. That frumpy was enough. I thought frumpy was where I should put the line. Is there.

Any sire the child of Melissa Ethridge?

You can look that up instead of... Wait, hold on a second. Let me find it here. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

You're good. I think.

I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. Yep, you're dead.

There you go. So it's no longer speculation. It's actually the truth. Stuart, I want to ask you something about what Enter Miami is doing, because I will try, I will fail here, but I will try to continue to conceal and hide how unhappy I am with the business elements of what happens in business. It's something that has made me... My brother just died, but second to that is how much I've had to deal with business bullshit over the last couple.

Of years. Jean Shallet.

Oh, that's even better. That's tremendous. That's even better. That is even better. I'm feeling like Jean Shallet. Viddya, you got to put Jean Shallet up there for the audience that doesn't know the old movie critic because that one's perfect. You're not going to do better than that. I defy you to do better than that. But the business element.

Of- I was thinking younger Gene Shallet, but that'll work.

But that's perfect. No, wait. I think you need more of his hair and not a hat. Let's go ahead and get younger Gene Shallet so that we can more truly represent Mike's artistic vision here. The very.

First picture on Google.

Will do it. Yes, the young Jean Shallot will be better. I hate business because business steals the soul from things. Let's just leave it at that. I won't bore you with the details. But Enter Miami is just doing good business when they get out there that they are sold out, they're sold out, they say, but they haven't put that many tickets on sale, but they've put those tickets on sale at double the price. By saying they're sold out, all they're doing is increasing their demand. It's a lie. It's just business. I'd like to enjoy all of the messy things without being gouged the way I am during hurricane time around here where people charge $7 for a gallon of water.

Are they sold out? But perhaps it's seasoned tickets that.

Are sold out. The club announced that they were sold out of seasoned tickets, which is a huge accomplishment, especially considering that in many cases, they more than doubled certain prices. They were smart in that the supporter section, which threatened a walkout after negotiating with the club, was the section that had the smallest rate hike. The most vocal had the least things to complain about. But I think what's happened, and this is purely speculative, and with a... Well, it's informed speculation. In. I don't think the demand was there.

Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

You're a getback.

I don't doubt that they found some whales to get some of the pricier tickets out there, but here's what I think happened with the season ticket announcement. I think that they saw how the market was going and they probably just internally decided, okay, instead of a certain number of season tickets that are available, let's move that number so we can have this big announcement because we are killing it in the business game. I think generally, and The Guardian wrote an article about this, legacy fans like myself are really frustrated. I did not renew my season tickets over this, mainly on principal, but also budgetary. It's really freaking expensive. I don't like being the one to have to pay for this stadium and Lionel Messi.

Put it on the pole, please. Calling yourself a legacy fan. Douche or no douche when the teams existed for a couple of years.