The Crashing Waves of Jim Harbaugh's Mind | Hour 2 (feat. Amin Elhassan)

There is nothing casual about football season. You can tell yourself you're just going to watch one game, and six hours later, you're emotionally invested in a fourth quarter between two teams you don't even care about. That's what I love about this time of year. The entire weekend becomes football. You're texting friends, tracking games, second-guessing coaches, convincing yourself you saw something before everybody else did. And then Monday comes around, and you get to do the whole thing again. Those are the weekends you remember. And for me, some of the best ones have usually involved some good people, a great game, and a cold Miller Lite. No matter what triumphs are in store this season, legendary game days start with Miller Lite. Cold, crisp, refreshing, that clean finish. And it's part of plenty of memorable football weekends. Make game day legendary. 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What if Trevor Lawrence was on the Eagles? So, I have a number of things I want to get to. Including Zaslo is beefing with Mike and something happened with Laura Rutledge. And we need to get to that and we need to get to Amin as well. But I wanted to circle back around on something where I didn't have my facts right last week. And I just want to address this more thoroughly on the front end on something that happened and has been happening lately with Nick Saban as he turns himself into lobbyist for good with a propaganda arm that sells his past very strongly because everyone's interested in his past. But I was mentioning last week and I'm going to let Dominique Foxworth speak for himself here on his own podcast. We'll play the clip in a second. But it's not just something that happened in or around Dominique Foxworth. Nick Saban was brought out on first take and he was brought out on get up and they cleared out their normal sets as they normally as they sometimes do for important guests and made it a one on one where Nick Saban can control the conversation and say what he wants about the lobbying he's doing. On behalf of the following. Disney part owned by the NFL sharing the next 10 years of television dollars with the players only so much and in partnership on the business of how are we going to split up all this TV money when we know that Disney needs to control college football. It's the second biggest sports sport in America. And as I mentioned last week, you can argue Kurt Flood if you want. I can make an argument. I can assemble an argument that very quietly. The biggest sports labor dispute that there's ever been 500,000 athletes is being decided right now quietly and they're changing the set so that the television outfit lined with football can sell you whatever it is Nick Saban selling that involves lowering or curtailing or suppressing athlete wages, but not the wages of the power brokers who are getting all of these giant buyouts. So Dominique Foxworth talked about. This because it didn't feel good to him evidently to be to the side of this is someone who I just told you last week. Okay, what's happening in Major League Baseball and football. You got yellow unions. This is not a leadership. That is the past leadership of Foxworth and Saturday and Breeze and Brady. It's very quiet in football. What's being supported publicly by the TV arms is can football keep the minor leagues free can perfect can the NFL through an antitrust extended to its minor league outfit. Can we keep it free with Saban's help on television and so Dominique Foxworth will started his show the next day saying the following if anybody's talking about the protect College Sports Act and they're talking about chaos and college sports or Olympic sports or salary caps or how to fix college sports or transfer rules that is not important if they're talking about that. You need to get an answer to the original question. Who is getting the power to make enforce and change any of the rules any conversation about any of that is kind of misdirection away from the core of this the core of the protect College Sports Act is about antitrust exemption and honestly it's about reinstating or reestablishing the power that the NCAA had in the past that the court system determined was illegal and an antitrust violation. They're looking to get antitrust exemption. The same exemption that professional sports leagues have because they're professional sport but they're looking to get those exemptions without doing what professional sports teams have to do to maintain those exemptions that's acknowledge that your players are employees and collectively bargain their agreement that you're going to play under Patrick Mahomes get your helmet out of your ass do some leading here as Breeze and Brady did and Jeff Saturday did you've got a lot of power you made the commissioner of the league stand down on Kaepernick and racism. The moment that you said anything you want to participate in the adult games or you just want to play football. What if Mahomes play for the Dolphins? So Nick Saban goes on television this week and I want to ask you something because we haven't talked college football and Alabama Georgia was interesting and doesn't matter at all meaningless game won't hurt Alabama at all. If they win out all they have to do is win out. You can't say that it won't hurt them if they don't lose that help. Hey, help them quality. I'll say that all they lost helped him. I could say the game doesn't matter that game that result matters less than it ever has it matters to the winner. Yeah, I lose it actually helps. I can say that that result because of how what we've done of the playoffs that used to be a disqualifying result. No matter how close it was Miami lost championships plural losing that game, but it could be the difference between getting a buy and not getting a buy now when they expanded 24 teams. Okay, now it's not going to mean anything. No one wants that Nick. Saban before the game. I want to analyze what was done on screen because all the labor stuff. I'm talking about doesn't matter as soon as your Saturday start. Nobody wants to talk about this stuff. It can somehow happen quietly because Nick Saban's got five keys to the game before Georgia Alabama. These are the things Kirby smart must do number one. Stop the run number two affect the quarterback number three. No explosive plays number four get off the field on third down number five create turnovers. It's legitimately something that I could use as my top five for every football game that has ever been played the good keys. Those are the keys to every football game that has ever been played. There's no sixth. Those are the five things Nick Saban covered that as thoroughly as it could be covered. Play put six win in the trenches not necessary. Those are your top five Oli offensive lineman looking in an expansion to 24 teams gets the likes of Oklahoma and Oregon. In the CFP that's that's what they want right there. They want those teams to still be in it. They want you to be watching those teams playing football in January. Dan Lanning Arch Manning or White Sox fanning. Which one do you want to go with watch a means there though? Do you want to do Texas Oklahoma or you want to do Arch because he's got the quarterback chromosome? People are saying that he's overrated. He made the mistake at the end of that game. You know, what's funny every single time for the last I'm going to say 10 years on Oklahoma, Texas. I always think that the team that's obviously going to win is obviously going to win in the game is always closer than I think it's going to be always and very often. I am wrong there. Oklahoma's been bad this year. I thought they were going to bench their quarterback. They were talking about benching their quarterback. It was good that but that's that series is so special. I remember Greg Cody said the other day. He said Yankees Red Sox is the best rivalry in sports still and maybe it is I just don't think that baseball matters. Like that or like it used to and when I think of this rivalry, Texas and Oklahoma. Red River rivalry. Thank you. Don't call it shootout. Red River rivalry. I think I'm going to keep shootout. Nope. Don't say that. I will. Were you confused by that result or just that's how that's going to happen in the SEC because those two teams are going to play that game in whatever conference you put them in for the next hundred years? Didn't think Oklahoma were going to win. Did think it was going to be close. I'm not so surprised because we've been saying this for weeks now that Texas is this Fugazi number one. So I don't think it's terribly surprising. No. And my big takeaway, Arch Manning, that's the number one overall pick. That's the number one overall pick. That's everyone's takeaway. That's been happening here for the last two seasons. I think it's valid. AI isn't something that's coming five or ten years from now. Businesses are already using it every day and it's changing everything from the questions they ask to the decisions they make and even the routine work people don't have time for. 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Amino Hassan has popped in there, so let's change gears and let's do, oh wow, that is from solitary confinement somewhere in a prison. Let's do weekend observations with Amino Hassan. It is time for Amin to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice. Amin. Weekend observations is brought to you by Miller Lite. Legendary moments start with a light. By the way, Dan, to answer your question from earlier about in the history of sports, a mistake like that. Mario Cristobal not kneeling versus Georgia Tech. It was right there for all of you. Yeah, but I mentioned that and then skipped past it. Not as dumb as this. Oh, I would disagree, Dan. I asked it. I was serious. So was the rest of the country. Until yesterday and I said, nope, and so did the rest of the country. They're not for real. Raiders got their ass took it. Took that ass. Zazz. That's my giving Drake. May is great again. Yeah, that's right. Malik Willis. Terrible. Every time I looked, he was running out of the pocket trying to throw some ball fading every time. It's amazing. Speaking of some bull jamis jamising one play down the stretch. He overthrew the ball awfully in one direction, then complained for pass interference on the other side. You live with the jamis. You die with the jamis unless you're playing the Washington football team. What was the end of that game? How did two teams not understand how overtime works? It's just dumb and dumber. Yep. There they go. Carlo Castro, president of Resorts World Las Vegas, believes the best landing spot for an NBA team in Vegas is on the North Strip. No related story. I believe the best landing spot for Minka Kelly is with me. He's single now. I don't know if you guys know that. Are you New York Knicks? Yes, she's single. No places with me and the best for an NBA team is on the North Strip. Right where Resorts World is. Wow. What a coincidence. Oh, well, I guess. I mean, there's a lot of land around there. New York Knicks showing us even a championship can't stop you from being a screw up. Dispending extension talks on Carl Anthony Towns. Cat, listen to me. Don't let them skimp you on a dime. They're playing this little game where it's like, oh, oh, you know, like this is for the team. Nope. You get your money. You get your money. Don't let these guys run game on you. Hey, Mike, did you hear? Mike, get the Mike Ditka died. Say that three times fast. Well, I could have said it better so that the joke would have landed. I know the tough name to say fast, Dan. Mike Ditka died. It's not that hard. It is. Barack Obama dropped an RIP post for Mike Ditka that I could never. What can I say? I mean, I'm classy. You're not Georgia Tech versus Duke. Never in doubt. And by never in doubt, I mean that Dan texted me. Are you watching Georgia Tech? And then I turned it on. You missed it. You missed the ending to that game. The Duke kicker just flatly choked on a 33 yarder. You missed the end of that game. Why would I watch that game? Because you care about your school when they're good. Yeah. When they're good. Why is everyone so it's so difficult for everyone to understand this? I'll watch my teams when they're good. You're not. You beat the defending ACC champions of Manny Diaz because their choker at Duke choked it again. Choked again. I found out. Thanks to you. You guys stole my thunder on this one, but is Arch Manning good? I ask this every week. And look, guys, I mean, of course he is. And then I watch that game yesterday and I hear a lot of people. People start to ask the same question I'm asking. Like, that's your number one pick. There's a by the way, there's a very fascinating history. If you guys go back the last 25 years, the number one quarterback coming out of high school very rarely turns into a good NFL quarterback or an NFL quarterback at all. So tread lightly. Seems like a hard Kyrie Irving. I mean, I'm just saying the number one ranked quarterback coming out of high school. One would think. Yeah. I mean, the number one ranked quarterback coming out of high school. They don't all turn into Hall of Famers, but surely they play in the NFL. And I'm here to tell you, no, they don't. A lot of them don't. And the handful that do tend not to be very mediocre. There's a couple of Trevor Lawrence is an exception. There are a couple exceptions in there. But if you look at the last 25 years or 20, yeah, since 2000, go year by year. I'm telling you, you'll be shocked how many of those guys turned into nothing. Kyrie Irving. Dropped 14 points in the first half against the Rockets. In Macau. Afterward, he left to go find the end of the earth. Because it's very far away from us. So that's the reason that if he kept going east, there it is. See, the way a flat earth works apparently is like Pac-Man. Like you go out in one way and you come back in the other way. That's why you end up in California to keep going east. Not because, you know, the earth is round. Cal Labissiere got cut. If you don't know who that is, clearly you haven't been paying attention because he was in the NBA last year. Because I know who that is and I didn't know he was in the NBA last year. And the year before that. Look at that. There he is. That's two years ago. Him in the NBA. No clue. White Sox blew a 2-0 lead. Proof that while the Pope might be a Sox fan, God most certainly isn't. Thanks. Struck out 21 times. There are only 27 outs in the game. Like, how frustrating is that? That's not a Sox fan. Your team gets that far. You're watching your lineup, which hits home runs. Strikeout 21 of 27 times. Yeah. Cinephobe episode 327. 30 minutes or less. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, and Michael Peña. This is the movie that answers the question. Can I put Danny McBride? And Aziz Ansari and Michael Peña in a movie and have it not be funny? Spoiler alert. Yes. Just add Nick Swartzen. Cinephobe, wherever you get podcasts. Vinny Jr. Didn't take the penalty during the World Cup. Got weird plastic surgery. Then got a red card for pulling a guy's hair in a La Liga match. No one is more ready for 2026 to end than Vinny Jr. It's just been an awful year for him. The Pistons. Two preseason games. Two fights. It's like they're making up for the loss of Isaiah Stewart, who's now Memphis Grizzlies. Like, hey, we got to keep the spirit alive. Jags beat the Eagles in London on a 57-yard field goal. Jags did soccer celebrations for all their scores. I don't know if you guys noticed that. Well, Mike says they didn't at the end. Did they? Mike. Chris Cody They didn't do it properly if they were trying to do the Cristiano at the end. I just said what he was going for. It was pretty clear what he was going for. He just extended his arms. He did it poorly. He didn't do the jumping spin. He didn't say, that's what he was going for. He did it poorly, Mike, because like most Americans who grew up playing soccer, doesn't know shit about the game. That's right. That's for you, soccer chat. F all you guys. Wow. That was unnecessary. He's got bona fides, it seems. Somehow, the Eagles are having a worse year than Vinny Jr. 2026 has not been kind to the Eagles. Either there's a guy on Cincinnati named Sample, or they're really skimping on the jerseys. Isn't that the thing that you get? That's what they're going after Drew Sample for. I'm just saying, when you get a new design for a jersey, they send it to you, to the team, and they look at it, and it usually says Sample on the back to let them know. This is just a sample. And then somehow we got a guy who actually took that jersey, put it on, and said, hey, I'm on the team. Here's the science. A Bar Rescue podcast. Hosted by Chelsea Reynolds, a real-life bar and restaurant consultant. Colin Cassard, a real-life veteran of the commercial kitchen and food truck scene in Portland. And two guys who would never skimp on jerseys, me and Zach Harper. Here's the science. Wherever you get podcasts. Also, live watch-alongs every Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Subscribe, patreon.com, slash, count the dings. Being on the East Coast is exhausting, by the way. Midway through the third quarter of the Dolphins game, I realized there was like eight more hours of football to go. How? How do you guys do it? By like 3.30, I'm like, enough. I'm done. Because before last night's Ravens win with Tyler Huntley, teams had lost 581 straight games, down eight-plus points in the final minutes. That's how we do it. No, that doesn't tell me anything, because then I would have had to stay up to figure that out. You see? You see, the problem, Dan, is at 3.30, I'm close to like tapping out. I only got a couple hours left in me. But you guys have a whole other slate of games before that Ravens game. You want me to stay up to that? No way. No way. So glad I don't have to worry about CTE with Cam Scadaboo. No punchline, that's it. Jameis Pumpey passed the first down. Yeah, like seven yards past. I liked it. Seven yards past. I liked it. Passed the first down. Why not? Who the hell was he throwing off? It's not going to hurt. Argentina, those are the weekend observations. What was your Jameis line before that? Your Jameis line earlier in weekend observations? Jameis be Jameising. And how? How? How? Okay, so first of all, tying his teammate's shoelaces was one. Then he got into one of his wideouts on the sideline. And even though I couldn't hear the conversation, just the facial expressions he was making were just pure Jameis. Then, of course, the pump fake passed the first down. Then also the, like, snap, I'm looking right, I throw right, incomplete, like, what about that pass interference over there? What are you talking about, buddy? It was just, it was a Jameis-ass. And it's, to be fair, fitting that it ended in a tie. Because if he had won, I would have been like, what are we doing? I think you said you lived by the Jameis, you died by the Jameis, but they didn't. They just, they tied. They didn't. They tied by the Jameis. They tied. I said you lived by the Jameis, you tied by the Jameis. I know it sounds familiar, similar, but no. Thank you. I mean, appreciate the help. Appreciate all the football you threw into your observations. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. If you thought about trying therapy with our longtime partner, BetterHelp, insurance options may now be available nationwide, with an average copay for eligible members of just $23 per session. World Mental Health Day may have passed, but your mental health doesn't suddenly stop mattering after October 10th. Stress doesn't check the calendar. Burnout doesn't send an invite. And that thing you've been overthinking? 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John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's Way if I do it for you? I think it's pretty good. Yeah. Jonathan Sasolo. You think you're big time? Or you're going to die. Big time. That is my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a. That's a. 7.6. Solid. Good job, Dan. Good job. That's a suey nominee right there. That's really good. This is the Dan Levitard Show. What do you think was the cruelest way to lose yesterday? Because the Commanders, the Commanders Giants feels like a loss, but there's nobody losing. There feels like everyone lost, but nobody lost. What did you think was the cruelest way to lose, Zazz? The team that hurts the most today. Can I use college? Sure. Yeah. Texas-Oklahoma. Texas losing like that after being the number one overall team, that to me was the toughest way to lose. Especially because Arch Manning essentially gave the game away in the fourth quarter pick six. And then instead of driving down the field, gives up a really bad interception. Texas to me. The Packers winner. The Bears lose. The Bears lose. The Bears lose. Some tough calls in Alabama-Georgia, too. Yeah. I mean, that game was there for Alabama. A couple calls go differently. A couple brain farts go differently. Because I was going to nominate the way the Eagles lost. And the reason I was going to nominate it is because what their week was. Right? The offensive line has been the strength of the team. They had an unstoppable play. Their quarterback is under it. And all they did during the broadcast was winner, poised, knows how to win. This is the giant throw. I told you before, that Jacksonville defense is menacing. Made Deshaun Watson look incompetent. Made Drake May look incompetent. It's a very violent defense. Put a hurting on the Bengals. And then yesterday, Jalen Hurts, with what I'm going to keep saying, is only wearing the uniforms of the Philadelphia Eagles. That's not the Philadelphia Eagles. That's the broken remains of a champion. When I talk about that sport and how hard it is to win, how hard it is to win in that sport, okay? I can assemble an argument that the San Francisco 49ers over the last decade are better run than anyone in that sport, and they've won nothing. They are very well run. The game that they won yesterday is a really hard game to win. They're undefeated again, even though they, too, are injured because that sport breaks all of its parts. Eagles crumbling to the ground with a groan when they've been the dynasty. With that quarterback back there. They're trying to do something when they've got more three and outs than anyone in the league, and that's not a professional football team around him on offense. That's the remains of a professional football team. Jason Kelsey said something on the broadcast like, and that's their fourth string center because, you know, or their fourth stringer because one guy's in Baltimore and the other two guys are hurt. It's just the offensive linemen that they can put out there, which in no way resemble the most violent team in the sport. That team, what that team would do was like a bunch of farm equipment mowing over harvests because their offensive line made Nick Foles an MVP of the Super Bowl. Yet they're one game back in first place in the NFC. And also, they had 12 years. It's good. You know, that's what happens. You don't get to be that dominant along the line of scrimmage between different head coaches and different quarterbacks and get to reshape your team, win a Super Bowl one time, get to another one, and then win it again. So what's happening to them is football. Everyone deals with it. You highlighted San Francisco. They've had tougher fortune. That was a tough game for Jalen Hurts in particular because that win at the end, and having that moment when that's his reputation, that was tough because he was missing some throws, and then he gave you the drive that you needed, and now we're back to narrative talk. Why don't they kick the ball out of the end zone? I don't understand. Now granted, I don't know the rules of the kickoffs. I already explained that. I don't know where you get the ball, but I know you're not returning it to inside the 40 in the other territory. Well, that criticism is the criticism that is the reason that Nick Sirianni is saying, I lost that game. Yeah. But I did want to ask you guys, what your assessment was because Mike Tomlin is a star, and he's great at speaking plainly, and at the end of that game, he said to that criticism, now you kind of have to cover kicks correctly and punts correctly in this league. There haven't been a lot of returns like that all season anywhere across the sport. You gave one up with seven seconds left. You need to execute. Mike Tomlin isn't saying what you're saying. Everyone else is saying what you're saying. Sirianni's taking blame for the loss because of what it is that you're saying. But Mike Tomlin is saying, no, if you have a unit that stops kick returns, you got it with seven seconds left. Not allow them to get to your own 40-yard line. Also, by the way, quiet as it's kept, when I say that that game was a dumb-off, Liam Cohen let 20 seconds blow off the clock with timeouts just because he wasn't paying attention or didn't know the time management. Like, for that guy to be the winner today, Sirianni is winning an all-time, and it wasn't even the dumbest game or the ending of the day in football. Obviously, what Tomlin says there is true, but why even give them a chance to return the kick? Why? Because you want them not to even be at the 35-yard line with the ability with that kicker to kick a 70-yard field goal. That kicker, that kicker. That game was altered so much by their long snapper. Like, the fact that quietly, no one's talking about they figured it out at the end, and they got a free kick. They got a 57-yard field goal with seven seconds left. When's the last time you saw a holder have to do that three times in a game? Get up on his feet to catch where the snap was. When's the last time you saw that? Like, to lose that game, you don't. Look, man, Little is an enormous weapon. He can kick a field. They're going to try a field goal from their own 45-yard line. Their own 40-yard line. That's all. All they've got to do is get to the 40-yard line in order to try a game-winning field goal. I'm warming up to the kickoff. The kickoff rules and the strategy that a lot of different teams implement that maybe they should have revisited. I know it's a skill thing, but these dirty balls that teams use on the kickoff that are really difficult to handle probably would have helped in that situation. I understand the question, especially with that leg on the opposite sideline. You don't want to get the touchback. But the fact that we're actually applying some kind of tactics here in the final seconds, that's kind of what the NFL was going for. Dan, to Mike Tomlin's point, good kickoff coverage. You think tackles the returner where? My larger point, while I understand your criticism, look, Sirianni's saying my fault, so he agrees with you. We've never had a weapon like the weapon that Jacksonville has at kicker in that league. All you've got to do is get to your 40-yard line and he'll try one. They'll try from 75 yards. That would have been exactly the spot where you would have seen a 77-yard attempt or something. And you had to guard against it at the end. You fear that kicker. It's a weapon unlike anything the sport has ever seen. But that's the case whether you allow them to receive the kick or kick it out of the back of the end zone. Where do you think the kick coverage is going to talk about? 10? You'd probably get it at 25. It doesn't matter. I'm just telling you why they didn't do it. You asked me why they didn't do it. And I'm telling you why they didn't do it. They didn't want them to be able, with one play, to get to the 40-yard line, their own 40-yard line. I'm going to come out against you. I'm going to come out against player safety here. But I know you're frustrated with the really long field goals and that being a thing. And that you can have seven seconds and turn a loss into a win. I think that we've done too much player safety things on kicks. Of course. In terms of not being able to leap over the center. What are we doing there? There are certain things that you can do that don't allow for these kickers to have such a low trajectory because we're going back to the way that it was. I know that there's a catch-all when it comes to player safety. We're doing a little too much there. Dan, I have another submission for a person who feels the worst after a loss this weekend. Justin Herbert. I'm going to put up a picture of the still of the last throw he threw. Such a bad pass. Interception. It was three Broncos around one charger who was six yards away from where the pass ended up. He's been terrible. How's that Mike McDaniel's fault? It's not. That's why I said Justin Herbert. Mike McDaniel has his own situation going on. I get it. But Mike McDaniel's probably going to get fired. How is that Mike McDaniel's fault? I don't understand what we're seeing out of Justin. I don't understand what we're seeing out of Justin Herbert this season. And I think top down, there's a lot of coaches that messed up this season. Yesterday makes a little bit more sense. They miss out on some guys that could have helped them against a really tough defense. But 0-5 from a team that was a very sexy AFC champion pick. This is bad. Let me examine the parts of this game that are worth examining because there's still a ton to talk about. And college football had a bunch of things that were interesting. We don't actually have enough show to talk about. Because I'm only on 173. I've got 173 more up. That game, the Chargers were winning headed into the fourth quarter, 17-10. Had no business being in that position given how decimated their offensive line and their skill guys are. But this is not an excuse for Herbert because he lost the game. He lost the game by being careless with the football. He needed to play. Bo Nix was not going to win that game. All you needed to do was trust your defense in that game. And Justin Herbert had the turnovers. You lost the game. You absolutely cannot have. But he wasn't going to drive down the field at the end of the game. 17 was their max on the number of points they were going to score because they got a 50-yard run. But let's hear from Jim Harbaugh. I don't know how much more Jim Harbaugh or Deion Sanders we're going to get from the coaching profession at their present stops. When you're 0-5, what is the message that works? You know, that kind of gets through? Or is there one? Yeah, I don't know what that message is. It's just in the players that just fight their hearts out. You know, play, give it everything they have. That's the only way. That's the best way. But yeah, that's. Yeah. That's a dark place. Yo, got nothing. That's a dark place. What's happening in his head right there is darkness. It's just sweeping, whistling winds of darkness. Yesterday was a bad day for me. I might not know anything about football. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that I said Harbaugh's the best coach. And I mean, he's in his own five. And I had Tua under half a game ever played for the Atlanta Falcons. Look, we had the Gators turning it around and they haven't had a good snap since. But I'm just telling you that sound we played, what's happening, in Jim Harbaugh's head is just waves crashing across rocks. Like, there's nothing in there. What do you tell your team? Look, man, I am lost in the solitary confinement of my own imprisoned darkness. I got nothing. I'm looking around and I'm like, I got Mike McDaniels. He doesn't even wear his pants right. Like, I can't do anything with what I got. It's in black and white. It like physically looks like the lighthouse. It's a great shout. Yeah. I told you this act wasn't going to fly winless. Yeah. It just gets more and more weird from here. But if you were watching the end of that game, Mike, the problem is like, this is. Chris is asking a good question. Does any act fly winless? Touché. But here's what I'm going to say. That one's the worst act. It's a good one. That act is worse than all of them. Let's find the act that would fly. No, there's no, there's no, there's no act that flies. No, 0-5. I'll bet there's an act that flies. Dan Campbell, interim Miami Dolphins head coach Dan Campbell. It was flying. It was flying. Okay, you can come in for a couple of games and talk your way through it. You can talk your way into 0-7, but it can't be winless. Like, there's not an act that flies on winless. I think there are. I think there are acts that fly. Final one. Guys, Belichick didn't fly. At 0-5, your season's over. Like, your season has ended. Everyone else has more season left. Your season's over. And the other thing is, guys, if you watch the end of that game, like, football almost happened for three quarters of that game. Football almost happened. And then in the final quarter, fourth quarter, Justin Herbert was lucky he did not have 17 fumbles because he was just really reckless with the football all of them hitting off of players one butt one cleat it was like a mickey mouse like clubhouse out there it's like he drops back and the ball's this way it's going off that way by the way i want to stop for a second i want to like there's one guy in that game who has absolute balls and it's and it's mike mcdaniel who at 0 and 5 continues to wear these foolish glasses if i was jim harbaugh and i saw some of the plays that were being called and i looked over the sidelines and i saw mike mcdaniel with those glasses i would have walked up to him ripped them off his head and broken them did you say balls give me the imaging i don't believe that's the biggest balls of the weekend give me the whole imaging balls the ballsiest of balls ballsy oh the balls that took cojones balls balling it it's time for the ballsiest move of the weekend balls any nominees it can't be get pain on get pain on dan you're on the silence you're on five you're terrible they're gonna fire your ass i mean and you wait you have the gall to wear those glasses those glasses oh and i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie oh and five take them off and kill them he entered the he entered that game oh and four like you gotta have different glasses so justin herbert in the fourth quarter this season a 55 percent completion with uh zero touchdowns four interceptions and 11 sacks taken i told you last week his passer rating you'd be better off if you just spike the ball on every single play like trevor lawrence did when they got two delay of games in a row on first and goal at the one and got frustrated and he spiked the ball also how about this how about this this tweet from sun sentinel reporter david furones in the end the dolphins won the 2022 a herbert decision because they already moved off their pick the chargers still stink with herbert that's not as big as jeremy's got one the balls of will stein kentucky kentucky lsu you're going for two-point conversion when you've got lsu on the ropes and you give the that you give america the greatest thing in college football which is sour lane kiffin hurt face right there's not that's replaced wanting nick saban to lose is the thing that you're hate uh you're hate watching on your football weekends no hot seat two losses already we were just first week in october he's already lost two conference games you admit you don't know football stop you know there was an nlcs game last night and in that game it doesn't it doesn't end in the win for the dodgers and i think you know what i'm saying it doesn't end in the win for the dodgers birthday he wanted me to eat a slap which i was willing to do but domino did it very disrespectfully we have it here as opposed to the respectful slaps then i bent over oh i thought you ate that one i almost ate it oh man it hurt and i took a shot of cuervo to ease the pain how good was that with sings fields of gold skewing right after the slap and then you could see what i look like i look like wilson from castaway how did you nominate yourself for balls of the week you nominated yourself you wouldn't ask an offensive lineman to play wide receiver you need the right person and the right equipment for the job that applies to football and it definitely applies below the waist that's where the lawnmower lineup from manscape comes in trusted by over 14 million men worldwide the lawnmower lineup from manscape comes in trusted by over 14 million men worldwide go with slim sporty and straightforward or if you like your grooming tools fully loaded there's the all-new lawnmower ultra gen 6 engineered with a premium alloy body both are waterproof for easy cleanup and feature skin safe technology to help reduce nicks and cuts because that is one injury nobody wants to explain find manscaped and the lawnmower lineup today at target and cvs tony you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks i know it well it's usually when i show up everybody goes crazy yeah you usually take all the credit for it but it's because tony usually walks in with queer walking like this yeah yeah yeah cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night it has that effect on people it does you usually take the credit for it but again it's the cuervo effect it's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just goes crazy and you're like oh my god i'm gonna go crazy i'm gonna go crazy i'm gonna go crazy you start standing up hooting and hollering keep it cuervo the cuervo baby