What If Patrick Mahomes Played For The Dolphins? | Local Hour

I have Zazlow 176 unique football observations from the weekend in no particular order, but before I get to them, just as somebody who has done content in our market for a long time, what Mondays, football Mondays are in general around here. If I gave you the previous day and said you can have all close games at the end or you could have a whole bunch of shitty games, but two games where the coaches are having a dumb off at the very end. Which do you choose for the like your dream scenario on how to do a show? I think I choose the latter because I mean I watched what I believe is one of those dumb offs and I thought that was hilarious. Well they started the day with the dumb off like Jacksonville's just maximum hey kickoffers are for a touchdown. We're so talented. He's two ejections and our long snapper is going to be gone for the game so every snap is going to be terrible and then Cereani says after the game, yeah, I lost that one. That's the other coach. Like that was a dumb off at the beginning of the day and then I've never seen anything. Like I legitimately never watched a football game that was as dumb as never, never not Mario Cristobal kneeling, not there's nothing I've ever seen in football, professional college or high school, dumber than what happened in that Washington, New York game. That's that's one of those deals where I was so glad that I saw it live. You want to experience it live as opposed to someone say, oh my god, you have to go watch the finish of the commands again. Watching it live is a completely different experience. There's one of the great things though about one of the shitty games from yesterday and most of them were terrible, but no one will be able to prove to me that Laflore wasn't throwing the most 50 yard passes. There's ever been in a game because Ben Johnson was on the other side line. Like no one will be able to prove to me that Laflore wasn't doing that on purpose. I'm going to throw 60 yard passes every pass. You stop this one, I'm throwing another one because I'm going to very Ben Johnson. And that's just like off to the side. No one's even going to be talking about that game today. And after Didca passed Laflore did that on purpose. There hasn't been a pro game played this year where somebody was throwing deep that off and I haven't even looked at the numbers, but my eyes are not lying to me on this. Like he was throwing Jordan Love spent the game throwing puns. And so last time we had coaches who like hate each other. It's great, right? Harbaugh's drowning. He fought Jim Schwartz at one time on the field. There was so much bad football play this weekend, but there was so much good storyline produced. Like the soap opera stuff of Ben Johnson and Matt Laflore legitimately hate each other. And thank you Tony, Tony's bringing in the rest of my 178 football observations. It's a great visual gag. Yeah, this is great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Zazzle, do not let me leave the local hour today without talking about what's happening around the Marlins. I don't want all our football obsessions to swallow the fact that some people were knocked out in the broadcasting of the Marlins games and the local fans, few though they are fervent though they are, even though they are few, are really mad emotionally and I'm not sure that they should be, but I understand where the hurt happens, especially when someone like Craig Minervini gets let go when he's been a part of your broadcast for a long time. And these emotional connections between fans and teams are getting colder all the time and baseball still has some treasures and what just happened to Craig Minervini felt wrong for a number of different reasons, but it's not all they did. So I want to get to that story. But the dolphins haven't had a lead all season. The season's over. Everyone's physically broken. The football's gotten worse because everyone's hurt. Like everything you watched yesterday was worse because everyone's hurt and the dolphins are the worst of it. The dolphins and the Titans, you've got, you know, they have the worst offensive success rate for any team through week five in the last five seasons. What you're watching is horrific. And not only that, yesterday's the hottest day in the history of October at Hard Rock Stadium, so I don't know why anyone would go to that. Like I don't know why any paying customer, unless you're going to see Joe Burrow, I don't know why anyone would physically pay for the product the dolphins are putting on the field. That did, I mean, the place was half empty and again, it was all fans of the other team. Like it was a sea of orange. Okay. But inside of the embarrassment, because Malik Willis, you know, among five game starters is now last in the league in completion percentage, pass rating and TD throws. There are field goal team in the league. You cannot be a field goal team. And what it is that happened yesterday was pretty predictable, but I want to talk about something specifically inside it where the Bengals are telling you the dolphins are predictable because their quarterback has a tell. Now I don't know how big a story this is and I don't know how many people nationally care at all about anything going on around the dolphins. But here's Jordan Battle three days ago, three days ago on Malik Willis. He has a little slight little tap before every throw though. So I feel like we could use that as a key, you know, the brick on the ball. He likes to tap the ball before he throws it or he takes his hand off and ask that gives the read to break stunned that he's saying that out loud before the game. That's needed to stay in the meeting room. But then you throw two interceptions in the first half to that guy. I want to jump in here before we play this Malik Willis sound. There's a little back and forth here that you might not miss. The reporter is basically saying this guy that called you out had both interceptions against you. And Malik Willis is confused thinking that he only had one. He's like, didn't 40. So there's just some back and forth. I want to give a little context. There's back and forth. Malik Willis is confused about who got the interception and there was more to that battle clip, too. Like he went in depth. I don't know how that wasn't buttoned up. Honestly, like he had to be pulled into the meeting room after that. All right. You want Al Golden to summon battle by the end? I want Al Golden to run a tighter ship because I need him to be the next FSU coach. You're working in the shadows in the way that is sheftary. And we will discuss Adam Sheftar later in the show. I am sure because we've got a lot to consume today. But as Chris was mentioning when he said, this is something you should not forget to miss. I believe is what he said. Malik Willis in this press conference is being asked about the fact, okay? I don't know how many people because the dolphins don't matter. They're now a regional team. And so you're not going for all the stupidity yesterday. And it was an intergalactically stupid day yesterday. It started with a dumb off between the Jags and Philadelphia. And then what Washington and New York did is the most apocalyptic dumbest ending I've ever seen to a football game at any level of play. But in this, you've got three days ago, a cornerback for the Bengals telling you, yeah, the dolphin quarterback, he's got to tell it's a tap. And then that cornerback gets two interceptions in the first half. And Malik Willis doesn't know who he threw the interceptions to. I thought 44 caught one, I thought 44 caught a big one either way. You said he caught both, let's come on. Well, no, that's what I tell you, I've got tip balls, I mean, good for him, that's what the defences are supposed to do at this level, I mean. They're a great defense, and they have a great front. We talked about that all week. They better ball down, and the second one is a scramble driven set. I mean, that has nothing to do with tails. I don't think I've had it either one of those. I mean, I don't think those are correlated. But I appreciate it. I had a sweet girl. Y'all told me, I didn't think much of it. I mean, everybody passed the ball. That's funny, really funny. So the beginning of that makes me feel like Malik Welles is learning all of that for the first time as he's listening to the question, which some of this seems impossible to me. But I do believe, Zaz, that our understanding of football is so crude and primitive compared to what it is that some of these people know. And I know we had an intergalactically dumb day yesterday. That battle wouldn't reveal something that was an actual secret tell that was super secret that was an advantage for his team, unless this was an empty nothing thing where everyone does tap the ball. But the things that happened in that game will make everyone clock about dolphins and competence, including the play, but not limited to the play. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I really don't have a problem with Malik Willis's response there at the end. I don't know, does the quarterback need to know who actually intercepted the pass? He got confused that he thought I was a different guy. Well, he needs to know if he's got a tell and he needs to not be learning it or seeming to learn it and the press conference during the question, if it was said three days ago. It's also just a weird thing to be defensive about. No, no, the other guy had the interception. Yeah. No, that guy didn't have to, did he have to? Well, whatever. Malik Willis is going to be blamed. Look, this already swallowed two entire careers when McDaniel and Tuo were seeing who gets the blame when everything is garbage and there aren't that many people to blame, like what's going to fall on the head of Malik Willis because he tries to get the one chance in his career he's going to get. Yep. Like this, this chance either works and produces more contracts or the limits now are 10 games on some of this stuff and with JJ McCarthy and this is a tank job. Like they are tanking and there's no way for Malik Willis to keep his confidence with this team around him. I think more concerning than the tells, even though the tells could be one of the explanations, is he's bad. He's bad, like he's not, he's inaccurate and his field vision is bad. There was, and he, there was, there was oddly times where he doesn't want to run where the corner is available to him and he's super athletic. He can turn the corner, but he's like, now let me step back and throw this ball to a contested wide receiver where as someone right next to him is wide open, there were a lot of head scratching moments. There's a lot of Marcel Reed out on that field. For, that's a hard insult. Marcel Reed sucks. That's a hard insult. I'm sorry, he stinks. He's just a kid. He's stinky. That was just, all right, I had money on Texas A&M and that was one of the worst things I've ever had to put myself in. Well, you also, you also did this and these are like, puts a town on a lot. And you can't have those. The game was there. I mean, it was there. The game was there. Dan, I watch every single one of those Marcel Reed passes. Your criticism, your criticism is now being tainted and corrupted by the gambling, like in a way that's obvious on Monday. You might have a problem. No, brother, come here, check out this account. It ain't a problem. I thought after the first game of the season, and even a little bit after the second game of the season, there were things about Malik Willis that I liked. But I said last week and certainly now, he's gotten worse every day. Okay, yes, agreed. But here's the problem with doing the assessments when this is what you're presented with because they haven't had a lead all season, guys, okay? This will cave in the career and the skull of any person who's not tough enough to handle it because what's around him? What surrounds him from the stands filled with Bengals fans? To a management team doing this for the first time and betting on him, the blame starts and that team is not good. That team is tanking, that team, you cannot win in this league. I do not care who you are, history of the league. Okay, or history of the salary cap. If you're paying your highest five players to play elsewhere or not at all in the league because it's a salary cap league and what surrounds Malik Willis is impossible to make an evaluation on because this isn't what he looked like in Green Bay. And it's not what he looked like in Green Bay because Green Bay surrounded him with confidence. This is people learning how to play football on South Florida's dime and the amount of indifference because we've crossed overs as it's not anger anymore. Like some people are watching, but there's no one gonna go and pay to see that as a major league NFL product on Sundays when it's the hottest day in October at Hard Rock and we're about to head into the embarrassment. The embarrassment has not yet begun for a team who five weeks into the season has not had a lead. I don't think they're betting on him. I think they're giving him a chance. I think those are two different things. But last week we were evaluating whether or not it's fair to evaluate Malik Willis because he doesn't have a great supporting guess. It's fair to evaluate. And I flipped that around. I don't think it's fair to evaluate these wide receivers with this quarterback that can't see them streak and open. I don't trust his accuracy. Tony, when he's not throwing to wide open receivers underneath and instead he's throwing to the guy who is double covered, like you can evaluate the quarterback. Yeah, he's been bad, right? And you look at what John Eric Sullivan and what Halfley saw with him in Green Bay and they're like, all right, we know what he's really good at. The problem is, when was the last time you do a deep ball? Okay, but let's talk about that for a second. After Green Bay just played the game that it did. Okay, this is a problem and it's substantive and it's at the core of everything that's happening. Have you seen what happens in this entire league at the goal line where there takes everybody all four plays to get the two yards because of how congested the size and athleticism is the dolphins do not have anything that you fear down the field. The third quarter pass to Jamar Chase is not something the dolphins can do. So now he's playing in a phone booth. He's playing with side to side. It's 15 yards because why would any team fear that he's going to throw the ball deep when he did it very well in Green Bay? Why? Because Green Bay can throw the ball deep down the field because they have the players to get down the field. They did it yesterday with Jordan Love in a way that was obvious and Malik Willis was good off of play action where they had a running game. A chance hurt, there is no way. There is no circumstance that any quarterback in football would be good with what surrounds Malik Willis on the dolphins. Better, yes, good. There's not a player in the sport who can do it. They actually ran the ball really well yesterday. Yeah, I think that they have enough to be winning some of these games. To me, Malik Willis is hesitant to fully flash is God-given natural ability to be athletic. They're used his legs. And it doesn't seem like he's seen everything properly. It doesn't and that's a great red zone weapon. A quarterback that's mobile can eliminate a lot of other offensive deficiencies. He seems hesitant to pull that trigger. And I think he wants to stay out there for his team. But brother, you need to start worrying about like, this is your opportunity as QB1. And what you bring to the field is a deep ball and those legs, he can't be afraid to flash either. Try to tell you what would happen if they lost week one against the Raiders. The Raiders are not for real. No, we don't know yet, hold on. The big loss. Down levitar. You're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Pormley. Mike Ryan in the Jigs. This is the down levitar show. I know that this is where it's going to go, OK? And it's where it's going today, Zaz. I understand that the quarterback is always the nuclear epicenter of a sports city. And you are right. Malik Willis is not good enough. And that is the evaluation of everyone today. I'm simply telling you that as they learn how to play football, all of them together, and he is the bandage, it is really hard for the dolphins to play offense for the same reasons that when you watch the Titans now, everyone wonders, OK, so Cam Ward, everything I saw from that electricity in college, OK, he's not any good, right? And yes, your appraisal is correct. But and also, there aren't a lot of skill sets that will win with the Titans and the dolphins players. So I ask you guys this. Let me just ask you this, because I know how this conversation is going today. I put Patrick Mahomes right now on the dolphins. What are they? Because I think they're last year's chiefs. Oh, what a fun game. And I think all of you are putting that immediately in the playoffs. You replace one of the worst quarterbacks in the league with one of the best? Yeah, I think they might be a winning team. I think I got two or three wins. I like this. The number they've been fighting hard, you know? OK, but that's where we separate on how the dolphins are presently playing football. You guys may be right. I want to write that sound. Your observation is they'd be better with Mahomes. That was your observation. Well, you asked a question. Your observation. Let me down. I think so too. Man, you're always making me think voting for Mahomes as well. 175. Better with Mahomes. At least two wins. I do believe that they would be better. But you guys understand my overall point. This is what happens when you're absolutely doing the janitor work and the fumigation of we need to transition to what this looks like in three years from now. And what it looks like now is five games in at a time that the patience we have for the starting quarterback, who's the first round picker gets the money, is the Vikings have set the standard that you get 10 games. They're first in with-- we'll trade the first round pick for a fifth. round pick, 10 games into J.J. McCarthy's career because the big bet we're making is, can we get someone who's valuable at quarterback and also cheap? So when you say Zaz, Malik Willis is just getting a chance, yes, and that chance will prove whether they either have a bargain at quarterback or don't, and it feels like you guys have already decided. It feels like South Florida, those who aren't indifferent who are still paying attention has already decided yet, that's never going to be the answer. Five games in. Yeah. Well, I'm also taken into account what we saw in Green Bay, which was a guy that could throw the deep ball. And I think it's coming to light that he had some pretty good weapons in Green Bay. Like you said that Green Bay did that with intention. That's love and Watson's connection. When they're healthy, they take those shots off and he struggles not that much Mike. No, no, that was, that was a little extra. You thought that was extra? Michael was a little tighter than usual. I mean, that's what the defense was affording them. It's a ball to Matthew Golden when you're in love with a quarter. It's what Jordan Love does. It's what for some of you. Fifty-five yards is what you go to when the game has been decided. Well, that one had a little extra seasoning on it. I give you the whole second half of it, but it's not like the floor got into the meeting room. He's like, "All right, we're going to change it up this way." I bet you he's like, "We're not going to let this thing go." I'm telling you that at halftime, the floor went in there and said, "Hey, defensive backs, if you pick off the ball, take it and throw at 50 yards downfield. I just want everybody to bombard Ben Johnson with. We throw the ball 60 yards downfield." Oh, you think you're good? Watch this. One of the Packers defenders was specifically talking because during the week, Luther Burton was saying like, "Our goal is to make the Packers quit." They, you know, we're going to our offense is going to do so much. We're going to destroy them. And ultimately, like the Packers saw everything that was there and they responded after the game. We have that audio. It's weird stuff they'd be doing in the meet and all the different stuff they'd be saying. We got guys that never really made a real play in his league talking about making somebody quit. That's weird. We don't do that. He quit the day by the way. He didn't want to play anymore. We focused on ourselves, man. We ain't really worried about that. We ain't going to play that in a team meeting and nothing. We just focused on ourselves. Where Colin was right, congrats, San. He told you. There was something extra to it. Absolutely right. Wait a minute. He just said, "We don't do that around here," and then his next sentence was to do that around here. Sorry, but I want to apologize. The very next, well, it's more than that though, Mike, because Ben Johnson said, "Bleep the Packers when they won in the playoffs last year and what you saw yesterday, Jordan loved complete six of eight passes, 20 plus air yards, career high, 258 yards, and two touchdowns, and only Russell Wilson has recorded more deep passing yards in a game in the last ten years." That's all they were doing yesterday is like, "Okay, you want Ben Johnson. You want to tell us you're in the number one offense? Here you go. 60 yards downfield. Everybody went wrong. You were right, Dan. That was extra. And it was wonderful, but not the most interesting of the coaching stories yesterday. I don't want to just leave the dolphins just yet on what this analysis is though, because one of the things that's interesting about the center of this sewage, who else are you going to blame? You guys don't care about anybody but the quarterback. You don't, there's no one else out there for you to go after. Like, you don't know the coach, you don't know the GM. You can go after the owner if you want. This is the only place to be the receptacle for. We haven't had a lead all season in the most competitive league. I just think that it's more obvious when there are plays on the field for the quarterback to make, and he doesn't make them when the games aren't that out of hand. There's these tipping points in these games where he can make the play, and he doesn't. And you, you feel like the game boils down to that because it's a little bit more self-evident. I think most dolphin fans knew what they were getting into this season, and they were all pretty rational. We want reasons to get excited. I think the quarterback's limitations are making it difficult to get excited about the other pieces, and injuries have something to do with that too. Achan, Douglas hasn't been out there regularly, so like, it's just been a tough season. And yeah, I would not buy a ticket to watch this team. They play hard enough, but they seem to be severely limited. Mike, you talk about that tipping point. They had it last week against the Vikings, right? It was Chris Bell going for a touchdown, and he had half of a pinky nail out of bounds. Like that would have been the play that turned the tide, but Dan, I want to bring something back. You said my homes on the dolphins. What if you take Malik Willis, put him on the chiefs? Are you getting an accurate appraisal? Like, are they around the same question? Well, this is the reason that I wanted to bring it up, the entirety of it. Because of course, we can look at the worst results in the league and the best results in the league and say, okay, if I just swapped those out, how would that look different? But the thing that I'm marveling at as you guys talk is, it's the most valuable position in sports and everyone in that sport who studies 20 hours a day and sleeps at the office is trying to find the market inefficiency that wins a mid-competitiveness where all the salaries are equal. And that's the most valuable thing to get, value at quarterback, a cheap quarterback. Why do you guys think that this person was available for $50 million? It's because he can flash it on occasion, but not all the time. Flash it on occasion, enough to frustrate you, but why do you think he was on a bench? Why do you think he was regarded by the entire league is not worth more than $50 million when this is the greatest value that is to be found anywhere in the sport? The answer to your question is, they properly evaluated him. They know, based on what it is, his years in the league is every time that the floor has to change the offense when he plays because we're going to be running the ball more and we're going to use you as a runner. We can't do that as much with Jordan Love. He better not get hurt. He's better than you are that they hide his inefficiencies. They hide. And so these two leaders who come from Green Bay thought they had a little treasure that they could coach up into being better than that. He's been properly evaluated. This is what he consistently is. It's going to be inconsistent. He's been in the league long enough for us to know that. That's why he was a backup. It's why he was available to the dolphins. What if we put Jordan Love on the Bears? Ooh. They'd be good. I think they'd be pretty good. But what if you put Caleb Williams on the commanders? No, but what if yesterday we put Tyson Baygent on the Packers? But what if Jayden Daniels would have been on the Giants? What if Geno Smith's a Viking? See that's what's funny about where the dolphins are. I don't think they're actually might be. I don't think there's any difference between where it is, the Cardinals are, where the Jets are, and where the dolphins are, except the dolphins have already gotten to weary building right now. And Geno Smith and Jacobi Berset are not actually obviously answers. Any more than Malik Willis is. But if you told me which would you prefer, I wouldn't want Geno Smith playing for this dolphins team. I wouldn't want Berset playing for this dolphins team. I'll take this quarterback, play, go ahead and lose the games and go ahead. This isn't going to get better. This is going to hurt all season. Might as well let it go ahead and tank it, wrap it up, because this season's not interesting to anybody. Right. Because the notion is you want to see what you have with this quarterback. However, you might have another quarterback that you might want to see what you have in Kalmakord. Oh, God, Mike. What do you mean? Kalmakord broke me over his knee a couple of years ago. I'm not right at night. Kalmakord Harrier, don't doubt. Kalmakord has a long tough in a pocket. Kalmakord. I've seen Kalmakord recently, and I've seen Malik Willis recently. I want to see more Kalmakord if I'm a dolphin man. Do you disagree with anything I just said structurally about what and whom Malik Willis is, and why I think it's unfair for all of this to fall on only his head? Well, okay. So to that extent, the place that I want to go to is why is it all falling on his head? Why is he the one we're mad at? Why is he the one we're blaming? There's only a handful of players. We all know this is a huge rebuild. There's only a handful of players on this team that we actually care about moving forward. And to be honest, the rookies, for the most part, are performing. Like, the rookies are doing well. The rookies we care about and Malik Willis we care about. And if the rookies are performing well and they look like they're going to be part of the future of this team, okay, well, what about the quarterback? Well, he's not playing. The sun glasses and boxes today, but in my bed in the hospital, ending our lives all the same. Jeremy Tachi. It's the final night down. This is the Dan Levittar show. Okay, so let's talk about this as it relates to what just happened with the Marlins because this is the emotions business, there are precious few like it where the connection with your entertainment product is human. There really are. It's music. I guess in some ways it's movies, but the daily rhythms of specifically a baseball season where you're spending 162 games with people, voices, personalities. If you have fandom about the Marlins and my God, the Marlin fan is resilient. Like any fan that the Marlins have that would and should legitimately believe in this new leadership, which knows how to win with the coupons. That Marlins fan has endured just so many betrayals where you're watching the, you're watching Yellich with Milwaukee, and he's a brewer. He's not a Marlin. No one considers him a Marlin anymore. Shut up. You picked up the Yankees. The number of Marlins who have been in the postseason because they can and have gotten good players. They just can't keep them here. They've now done something in the emotions business that really hurts the people who have an intimate relationship with this product and it's very intimate It's different than almost any other honestly the baseball season specifically so many games the Panthers play at one o'clock today You really have to care to stop your day at one o'clock on a Monday and the Marlins ask you to do that 162 times a season for a franchise that has betrayed you twice emotionally like try this is the Marlins are the spouse that gets caught cheating Twice they've done the greatest fracture that there is that you could possibly due to the emotions of a fan base Which is you won the championship and then you just broke it apart and the people we cared about now belong to others Mike Lowell and Josh Beckett are forever Boston somehow even though they used to be ours So they let go of yesterday during the during football we find out Jeff Nelson Craig Minervini, Rod Allen Kyle Sealoff These are different all of these are different people You're allowed to have different relationships with all of them Minervini hurt me just because he's been in this market a long time he's a fixture We've watched him like literally grow up and he still looks in some ways the same age to go from a wrestling voice to doing all of the local programming to being an initial person with us on 790 when the first lineup came out I was his producer. Is that right? Yeah, that was my first gig at 790. I would call many in the midday for trivia He's asked what I answer. That was my gig trivia. Oh, no, it was earth and peer So I use that answer all of this is preface because this is someone I admire respect like a maximum professional just really good at his job And so there was something heartbreaking about that specifically for others of you more recently Kyle Sealoff is going to hurt kind of that way because he's good and fun and funny and he's a craftsman And so all of this looks like cost-cutting but also in the conversation we're having around the dolphins and management changes because the rays are exceptional What they do in the marlins are now run by the people who felt like they knew where all the smart stuff was in Tampa and around value in this sport What if I told you that these people believe not only change is necessary with these people but also that they have younger cheaper and better Because they have people who are craftsmen and learn the craft the way the way know what eagle does where they're there These 20 year old broadcasters who already worked two or three years in the minor leagues who admire and read and understand the raise franchise And are every bit as good at broadcasting as they are at and cheaper at the raise are at establishing what's good in the market What if I told you that there's no way for the marlins to win from public relations standpoint right now because the emotion of this against the unknown doesn't get them any benefit of the doubt It's three television voices that Bruce Sherman is fired out at this point He hasn't even been the owner of the team that long That's a thing for me like you can make an argument that say you firmly believe that Kyle's replacement What's a young man that's coming over from radio's name? Jack McMullen. Yeah, you can firmly believe that he's better than Kyle but I think the frustration here is already in a season that you're saying goodbye to Tommy Hutton You're already saying goodbye to Minervini who's been around for 20 plus years is why does this franchise always decide to not plant any sort of legacy Kyle was popular. Kyle was from South Florida. Kyle was good. Kyle was young And you may feel like the next guy can be even an improvement But what's wrong with the good guy but for the love of God can this franchise put some roots down and keep something that is popular for any sort of period of time that allows you to grow attached Because the new guy may be an improvement Whatever I've got zero faith that that guy will be here in four years because that's what this franchise does And it just speaks to a larger issue with the franchise and when you have people that are popular that are being let go You don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're doing something for the better men of you the consumer It's also not likely a great spot for the guy who's taken over the job now when all the Marlon Famp scene to be angry That they got rid of sea laugh like they don't they don't want the guy who they just gave the job I'm telling you he's excellent I'm telling you he's under 30 and you can make your own determinations about better or worse Let's speak to what it is that Mike is saying over the past ten seasons The Marlins have had four different play-by-play men three different managers four different heads of baseball that's ten years I'm watching I'm watching Baltimore yesterday. I didn't even realize this mentors their fourth coach And only the Steelers are better because they've had three These are the top organizations that have stability And this is an unusual amount of turnover in what I'm calling the emotions business I'm telling you baseball more than others you're spending every day with these people like if you really care It's not once a week It's not every third day like you get addicted to this thing And what ends up happening is the days off cost you because you just really like your relationship with this thing There aren't many like it and so you guys are right But what do you do and I'm make I'm tying this to the dolphins What do you do in the emotions business the dolphins are doing in another way they don't have anyone you care about Everyone's gone like it's only Malik Willis and he's been here five games and now everyone hates him Like there's no one there that you care about. Achan is on the sidelines The Marlins with their fan base have I would say a more loyal fan base than the dolphins do Just it's obviously smaller but those people the way they care it's in here as like it's it's every day It's not once a week when those people lose the people they care about the voices There is no way for the Marlins to win in that situation But what if I tell you they're getting the people that are gonna be there for the next 20 years I don't trust you. That's what that's what I say Like I'm with that if you can feel compelled to convince me that this is an upgrade I'm like alright I just think that there is so much intrinsic value to something familiar When you're tuning into a baseball broadcast and they started building that with Kyle And you have a new guy coming in and I just don't trust that the new guy will be there for five years Because either he's as good as you say and he's gonna go somewhere else Or you're gonna decide to replace him with the next hot shot video What I'm telling you is that Bendix is really good. He's much better than the people who were here before But how does the broadcast have anything to do with anything? Well they're just running the organization. It might be colder than that But I believe that they just what if I were to tell you let's just say I were to tell you the guy they just got Is better by miles than anyone they've had since booge at and he's a prodigy Like does anyone care about that and can they win that argument? Let me ask you a question. Does anyone care about tradition there? Where's the voice inside the franchise that says guys we continue to put this fan base through a lot And the one thing that is plaguing them with us is consistency We're gonna shake things up yet again. I mean that guy is doing pack 12 games as the names are Schwaltz Like that like it was when they got rid of Rich Waltz. He was the guy. That's where it all starts Rich Waltz also exceptional. I hope that you guys it's only I don't know that I'm not a good brahminer on some of this stuff. I'll tell you why, right? For example people watch and the thing that they hate the most sometimes in sports is the broadcaster And they think that the broadcaster is someone who's got a rooting interest. They hear it with Joe Buck all the time. They always think that the guy who's broadcasting the game is Is hated because they've got their emotional and fan allegiances And yet I don't think anyone even noticed yesterday that Jason Kelsey Wimpert every time the Eagles made a bad play Anytime they fumbled he's actually making sounds on the broadcast that make it sound like he's getting hurt by the fact that the Eagles are losing And I don't think anyone cares or notices but they get really mad at the play by play guy when they think that he's rooting for something The people in broadcasting who know broadcasting who know how to do this well And I like all of the people who have always broadcasted for the Marlins But the one who's been the best at it was Bug Shambi. He's the most professional of the baseball traditional baseball people And the closest thing to him in terms of young cheap And passionate is someone they just hired who's 29 years old. Now I don't have any problem with Jeff Nelson or Rod Allen But I'd listen to them and I didn't even associate Jeff Nelson at any point with the Marlins not like Gabby Sanchez Not like I associate Gabby Sanchez with the Marlins and Rod Allen is fine You don't need 100 analysts But I didn't develop any kind of relationship with him. I do believe that they did the smart business thing And I also believe that that's impossible to do in the emotions business when people don't actually want to feel the hurt of chain Well when you say to him the smart business thing you think they're getting more viewers They're going to wind up getting more viewers with the new guy they're putting on television I think the viewers are a lost cause. I think that what they're going to get is cheaper and better I mean how would how expensive a call sea laugh have been? I think he was about to be more expensive than the 29 year old. I think that cheap Look man, I know I'm making an unpopular argument here as I know that you're on the winning side I have no way to win this discussion. These are people that people care about And I sound like I'm disparaging them by in some ways defending the decision But I'm trying to present it to you guys in a way that does go to your head instead of your heart What was this when the heat let go of me and Kelli and didn't renew us? You and Miami Hurricane? No. Get lost. I'm always in favor of the local broadcasts getting local and better. But Jeremy, you at this point are Malik Willis. What the? You said a lot of mean to me, Dan, that is by far the meanest thing you've ever said to me. I almost want to leave. Stopgap! Stopgap! Get outta here!