Listen to me, Blankenship, those white glasses of yours, if I saw them in the open field, Blankenship, I would tackle your ass just because of the glasses.

That's what you want. So I'm glad it's mostly what I'm doing. But his glasses are more ridiculous than my glasses. Dominique, I want to play something for you here, and I want to get your thoughts after you hear it. So here it is.

Play this for Dominique Foxworth, Jason Johnson throwing the ball. Willie Snead, Willie Snead, a good player, but it's not even close to DeAndre Hopkins. He knows the NFL man now. He has not been able to figure it out since coming here.

All right, Dominique, what what happened there?

What happened? I mean, he's right. You I don't know what I to react to it. A man is out here telling the truth. Great show, DVR, podcast, whatever you got to do. Let's get one more spin.

Let's give you one more. Shawn Johnson throwing the ball to Willie Snead. Willie Snead, a good player, but it's not even close to DeAndre Hopkins. He knows the NFL.

Dominique, any other thoughts there on what am I missing? He knows the NFL well. He's is not DeAndre Hopkins. These are facts.

They are facts. But also, I don't think he's throwing the ball to Willie. Willie Snead is not. Well, Fuller. That's the problem.

I guess he can do well. I thought he was talking a little more. Jackson Well, I talk about Lamar Jackson, actually.

Maybe he was maybe it would maybe expand that out of it. He was talking about your observation being that Lamar Jackson is never throwing the ball to DeAndre Hopkins.

I think my eye, and this is just maybe my mind is that I shouldn't be making. But you're right. I'm assuming that he was saying, like, Lamar doesn't have a number one number one receiver. He doesn't have somebody like DeAndre Hopkins. He's throwing it to a guy like Willie Snead.

I think that's the point he makes in throwing the ball. Willie Snead, Willie Snead, a good player, but it's not even close to DeAndre Hopkins. He knows the NFL.

I mean, there's a Kyler Murray Lamar Jackson comparison go down there. And I think Dominique is right. I don't know.

It could be this show's all about inflection. This is sort of like the end of your advance auto parts delivery. I'm not exactly sure you're right.

I like your version better, though. I got to be honest. Let's go with that. I like that one.

He knows that when the NFL, after saying to players that have never played an all star game, maybe, but Dominique, they both have Will Fuller and Willie Snead have Roman numerals in their name. It's an obvious connection to be made here. What he meant, they both have the V. I mean, whether I like it, it's more fun that way.

He knows the NFL two players that I've only been in the same room at the Pro Bowl.

Go ahead and play what you've been trying to play there.

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I'm not going to blame Chris again. It's only going to cost me money.

Chris, Chris texted me during the show today. He said, finally, I made the one positive contribution since being fired. I threw out there the idea of Dan tackling some.

You're one for two weeks. Is there going to be a Pro Bowl this year?

Like I'm just now, you know, am I not going to be able to see the Jerome drop or dodge ball this year because of Corona? Correct.

Your Pro Bowl? Yeah. No Pro Bowl this season. Oh, my gosh.

Twenty. Twenty. He really is a disaster. It wasn't until now. But now now that you get this news, this changes everything.

That's twenty, twenty one already off to a bad start. No Pro Bowl. I mean terrible. Yeah it's weird.

It's weird that that was the safest game on the schedule is the one we can't save is the one we can't. Yes.

So what did you guys do with the Dabo Swinney comment. Nothing.

We were waiting for you. Nothing except explain what happened to the audience.

OK, well, this is what happened. So FSU Clemson gets canceled a few hours before it was supposed to go off. Medical personnel can't decide on something involving, you know, a positive test adjacent to one of the Clemson players. And then Dabo Swinney takes to the microphone and, you know, says that FSU didn't want to play them and that not the players that he says the players and coaches wanted to play.

The administration did not want to play that game, not because of covid, because they didn't want to play Clemson.

And I understand if they didn't want to play Clemson, if anyone didn't want to play Clemson. But the idea, though, that Dabo and, you know, these football coaches can be incredibly lopsided, like there's just a tone deafness involved with all of these kids playing in the first place in the middle of a pandemic, when the college football season is an unholy mess and we keep sending these young bodies out there to just make. Money like that's the only reason we're doing it, we're not doing it to declare a champion, we're not doing it to figure out who's got the best team and any of that.

It's just to get money. And so the idea that medical personnel would give their advice for FSU and that DABOLL wouldn't keep quiet, there is simply Tonev.

The kids are doing it for those reasons. The coaches in the administration, they are not. They are doing it for the money. You're right. Which makes it ludicrous that a coach would blast the team for being concerned about covid.

It's also quite the misdirection because I don't think it's being ignored, but it's being softened because we're all running to the inflammatory Darbo quotes. But to have a symptomatic player along your offensive line I practice all week, I feel like should be talked about more.

Yeah. Do you have the sound there of of Darbo so that Dominique can react to it?

This game was not canceled because of covid. covid was just an excuse to cancel the game. And to be honest with you, I don't think it has anything to do with their players. I have no doubt that their players wanted to play and would have played and sang with the coaches. To me, the Florida State Administration forfeited the game and if they want to play Clemson, in my opinion, they need to come to Clemson or they need to pay for all expenses.

Other than that, there's no reason for us to play them. We were there, we were ready and we met the standards. Dominique, your thoughts there? I mean, there's no other NCAA sports happening right now in the fall, like the whole construct is absurd. We can jump on Dabo Swinney, but Dabo Swinney is Daboll Sweeney. He's a football guy who wants to play football like this whole thing is a bit of a money grab. That's kind of not that kind of that is actually uncomfortable.

So, I mean, I could care less about Dallas for now and expect that much of him. He's an outstanding recruiter and football coach, but he's not a medical professional. I don't know that he knows what he's talking about in this whole thing is a mess. I love football.

Dominique, is college football going as poorly as you expected or is this worse? I think it's going better than I expected. I think everything has gone better than I expected, which is not to say that it's going well. I just expected much worse. And I guess we don't know the long term impacts of all of this stuff, but it is kind of a mess where we have guys canceling games, teams canceling games for guys in games. It's unpredictable and it is a mess.

And I expected it to be worse. So but not worth celebrating. But it is it is going pretty poorly.

We were talking about this in the local hour before the show. I think the thing that surprised us all is how well the NFL has gone. Dominick, I'm with you. But the one thing, the product that hasn't really been affected and I thought it would be the most from the lack of fans and because of covid is the NFL, I'm enjoying the season as if it was any other NFL season. I really Sundays do feel Sundays do feel exactly the same as they used to the televised experience, like there seems to be no different, the basketball, the even the NBA.

There seem to be differences that you can feel. Football is weird. How the televised experience to me, it doesn't feel any different. Not a not a microbe different dominate.

It's because we don't care about the players. And I include myself in that. Like we care about a couple of quarterbacks. We don't care about all the players that are on and off of the protocols. We don't care about that many games where we had five and six players not on the field. And I agree there's a distance between football and its fans. Maybe it's the helmets, maybe it's the size of the field, but it does feel by and large the same.

And I am enjoying this season just as much as I would have enjoyed last season. You're right, it feels different. But I it's hard for me to call it a success when we see every other week there is a game postponed and or their games that they play anyway, despite the fact that they are five, six, seven players on this Kobe protocol.

Forgive me, Dominique, I didn't mean to skip past the bodies there. I was talking about his entertainment experience for the fan I was talking about. I was talking about stuff in that boat with viewing experience, like just what your Sundays end up feeling like there. I, I don't even know what you'd point to as a difference like that. It feels different. Maybe crowd noise on your television, maybe.

I mean that Ravens Titans game felt like a big game. No fans. And it felt like every other Ravens Titans game I've watched over the last couple of years.

I wonder what they're doing differently because you guys tell me about this because. The professional people, the people surrounding the professional game and televising it at the highest level of sports broadcasting expertise, and I've got to tell you that when you're watching, like maybe the USC game Saturday night and the feed goes down for four minutes and you have some technical difficulties, it's startling just because of how expert all of this stuff usually is. There are a lot of moving parts that go into broadcasting a football game and it's fairly seamless.

But you do notice in the pros that it's done better because I never seem to get those shots that make me sad of the beginning of the Ohio State Indiana game. When you're looking and you're like, oh, northwestern Wisconsin, you're looking in and there's nobody there and you can see that no one's there. And then it starts to feel weird. I feel like the NFL does a better job of camouflaging that than the only times you end up seeing.

And maybe it's because I'm watching the red zone channel. The only times you end up seeing that the place is empty is when a players like Lambeau leaping in the stands and there's no one there.

I've gone out of my way to watch the dolphin games like like wire to wire and it has no effect. Like they're going less to the fans that they're staying on the field, which is which is great. And they're piping in the right amount of crowd noise that makes it feel like there's some sort of crowd there, even though I know that there's not. But they're doing less and less shots out to the stands during the entirety of the game, which helps because it keeps your focus on on what's on the field and what's on the field.

It's the same as it's always been.

Dominique, what did you make of the of the Dolphins benching to yesterday? I thought that was ballsy by Flores to to just try and win the game. Like, just bleep this. I don't care about how this looks, how this sounds, how this feels to anybody. Just bleep this. I need somebody who's going to be good in two minutes. And two is holding on to the ball too long and he's taken too many sacks.

Yeah, I think building a culture as cliche as it is, it's about all the decisions that you make in the behaviors supporting the things that you say. And it seems like that's what Brian Flores is doing consistently. It seems like the decisions that he makes support the rhetoric that he speaks. And that's how you build a team that believes in you and believes in that culture, that nobody is bigger than it. It's all cliche and feels like nonsense. But when your coach lives by it, in that moment, it seemed like he was living by is trying to give them the best opportunity to win.

It's hard for anybody to have excuses in that climate when you don't feel like practicing or you're tired or you don't feel like running a particular play, or you don't think the game plan is perfect. It's hard to to generate that type of ill will in a locker room or those things to bubble up and impact their culture negatively. When the guy at the top is like, you know what drafted this guy first round overall, he's the golden child. He ain't playing well.

Sit him down. That's that's a powerful thing to do. So even though they lost yesterday, I think it appears to me that Brian Flores has a good handle on this team and he's making all the right moves going forward. Probably should be coach of the year unless Mike Tomlin goes undefeated about Frank Reich.

I think those are all fair points. Hold on. Hold on, Chris. I say that finger.

No, no, I'm actually I'm I'm just interested because I kind of said a similar thing in the local hour that he kind of sent a message to Tua. And because it was me saying it, I was kind of mocked and now Dominie kind of just said a similar thing and everybody nonmarital.

Oh, it's a great no. But because you did your friend send a message to.

I didn't send a message to the two. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I still go ahead.

Not because you put your finger up. You let me finish there. Chris, what I was going to say is you're playing a very dangerous game with two, with his emotions, with his head, OK? I don't know if he can handle all that. And let me ask you this. What happens if Fitzpatrick goes out there and they win the game? They win the game, then where are they would do it?

Where is floor? Same place to go. Your starting Fitzpatrick next week is not NFL coaches are not quite as short sighted as you are about not so certain.

I mean, you think they are you think they're as short sighted as you are.

I think if you bring Fitzpatrick in and he gets them a couple of touchdowns in that victory, be very hard. He said he benched him after two blowouts. He benched him. OK, but I think it'd be tough to do it after that.

But he benched him after winning a couple of games by blowout. But you would have a locker room all of a sudden divided, saying, no, go back to that guy.

Things came down. Yeah, I think I think that he is not establishing who's the guy as much as he's establishing the way that the organization will operate. The organization will operate in a way that puts the best player out there to give you a chance to win. So, like, I think that that's what he's establishment, which then makes it easy to go back to to it whenever you decide to go back to do it, because that's what you believe in to a place bad in that game.

Go back to Fitzpatrick. I think it's all about building up some trust and goodwill. And it seems like there are very few coaches in this league that their team believe in them and have faith in him the way that they do with Brian forward. So not everyone could get away with that with every player.

But I think he could correct me if I am wrong here, because one of the things that I found interesting about it, but I don't. Know what was being said by others and I don't know what was being said on the broadcast, is that the immediate reaction that I saw seemed to be to a must be hurt. Because no one saw it coming. No one saw the idea that he would bet, and even though it was the most obvious thing in retrospect, the coach was out ahead in front of everyone else that I could tell by doing a thing that people weren't expecting.

That is the thing you do when you have Ryan Fitzpatrick. You try and get a spark when you're young. Quarterback is holding the ball and seems to be confused by what's happening with the Denver defense. You throw a veteran out there and you try and get a fourth quarter spark. You gave him three quarters and it was just three and out and punt all game. I didn't see it coming. I didn't see what he did there. Who predicted it?

There was a replay that might have suggested something with that ankle on that most recent hit. There's a lot of punishment being dished out by the Broncos d line. But then you realize to his not getting worked on and all that goes out the window, right?

Bradley Chubb was all over him. The whole I mean, the the defensive line was all over him. But then Fitzpatrick comes in same skill players, same offensive line at Fitzpatrick plays better. So it was it was weird. I'm worried about what's weird.

Hold on a second. Hold on a little bit weird.

It's it's not weird. It was. They have spent two months not losing. They have gotten to the point where you guys were counting the scheduled wins and you did it at Denver, you counted scheduled wins and you went to Denver and you counted it, even though in that league, stuff like that ends up happening every damn week with somebody.

Well, they play the Jets this week. That's a win. Still counting. But I think that what you do there to Godse by by like just you're assuming something that I don't believe is so. And I can't believe that we haven't dissuaded you of this in 20 years doing this. You have a coach being impacted by what's being said on sports radio because Ryan Fitzpatrick is better at the two minute drill. The specifics of they needed points fast because they were down double digits and it was three outs, three, three and out and punt the entire like he gave to a plenty of chances to stop holding the ball too long.

He gave him plenty of chances to do anything and he was doing nothing like it was all constipated out there.

I understand your listen, it's a tough spot. You're playing for the now and you also have to consider the future. So I get all that because it's a big game and you want to win that game. And Fitzpatrick perhaps gives you a better chance of winning that game. The way, too, was playing. I just weren't. There's a couple of things I'm worried about with too what he seems like a game manager. That's not the reason you drafted him.

And then I'm just wondering in that spot, realizing how big of a game it is, don't you want the quarterback to be in that position as many times as possible and try to figure his own way out of it?

I understand that. But is there another quarterback who's had this experience that to a head in college where you come in and you get sit down, you come back and you're switching spots with a less talented quarterback and Jalen hurts. Like if there's anybody who is prepared do something like that, it would be to a given his college experience. It's a great point.

Chris, what do you have here of stiches has broken his social media silence. I see, Billy, that in the chat stiches the. Well, how do you explain stiches to the audience? I don't think many people in the audience got this stand.

Well, he's just he's a rapper whose face is tattooed and he's a white guy from Miami. And he had brick in your face. It was a very popular song and the only one that was popular in his catalog, I think. And it was about cocaine, about how much cocaine he liked to sell. And so what is the breaking of the social media silence? Can anyone give me any details?

Yeah, I got very excited about it because I was super into what Dominique was saying and all, but I took the opportunity to check Instagram and stiches has broken his silence. He's OK. He's got some more tattoos on his face. You'll be happy to know. And he was taking his time off from social media very clearly to work on himself, but also work on some music. Swipe up.

Mike, can you give me some Instagram information on Greg Norman? Can you send this photograph? Can you just send this photograph, text it to Dominique and I want to get his on air reaction of the Greg Norman Instagram. Give it also to send it to Stewart and let's get their on air reactions. Greg Norman, I don't want to contaminate the jury pool too much here and influence you guys, so I will just wait for you guys.

I think you're going to be disappointed in my reaction, because right now I'm looking at pictures of stiches. So whatever you send me, a Greg Norman is not going to be as shocking as what stitches looks like.

OK, well, we will see about that because there are a couple of things to notice in the this was sent to us last night by a colleague. And it's not something that I it is not something that I was aware of. The comment section is filled with double entendres. It is filled.

Oh. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, my God.

The shark realized it was time you said it wasn't going to be a shooting.

Well, well, well, my friend. Oh, my. I don't even need to zoom. No need to zoom.

I want to see this. Can you send it to me? All right. Yeah, it's all done.

But then you I think there's some foreshadowing here.

Let's wait for dad. There's definitely a shadow. All right, Chris.

And so, Jelani, first of all, Greg Norman is 65 years old and he looks great with a six pack. OK, he's just got.

Oh, yeah, he's got some muscles too high.

But wait till Chris gets this. Chris, I want you to drink all of this in, OK?

I want you judging based off these contests clues. I'm kind of I think I know what I'm expecting. OK, we go.

All right. So let's see what we got to factor. Let's.

Oh, man. That's a great white.