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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: Herald Emeritus

20 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the Miami Football apocalypse?

1.28 - 10.498 Jonathan Zaslow

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11.27 - 23.325 Jonathan Zaslow

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23.606 - 39.292 Jonathan Zaslow

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39.332 - 48.157 Jonathan Zaslow

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Me.

49.019 - 68.002 Jonathan Zaslow

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68.022 - 77.693 Jonathan Zaslow

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78.685 - 105.337 Mike Ryan

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Chapter 2: What does Greg Cote think about the current state of the Dolphins?

203.049 - 218.429 Chris Cody

But also, the Dolphins. Where would you start, Zaslow? Where does Zaslow Show 2.0 start today as you have just mutual apocalypses for different reasons because of where the standards have fallen in this town in football?

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218.649 - 221.012 Mike Ryan

Dolphins because I think at

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221.195 - 248.653 Chris Cody

any moment mike mcdaniel is going to be fired today and so you want to talk about the dolphins before that ends up coming across the news okay so you're saying that but i don't like friday to dictate uh where the standards are in this town because we got one bad football team and we've got one that wants to win the championship and uh just because the other one played earlier you're running away from what you said last week when you said the standard is so high i said it loud

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248.633 - 251.997 Chris Cody

You said real loud the standard was so high on undefeated.

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252.257 - 253.698 Stugatz

Yep, that should be the expectation.

253.718 - 276.362 Chris Cody

And you won't even start your show there today because you want to fire McDaniel. You want to fire another one of these coaches. Man, we've had this problem down here since Wanstead Greer. You cannot spend 20 years trying to figure out whether you have a good quarterback or not. You can't spend 20 franchise years with Tannehill and this trying to figure out whether you have Jackson Dart or not.

276.342 - 284.076 Mike Ryan

Well, and now it's not just figuring out if you have a good quarterback or not. It's figuring out how to manage having the worst contract in football.

286.039 - 299.102 Chris Cody

I mean, anyone want to dispute that? Well, Deshaun Watson's is the worst in football. It's the worst ever. But it's a bad contract, and Kim Bocamper is saying yesterday that that's the worst quarterback performance he's ever seen.

299.322 - 301.165 Mike Ryan

I heard that, too. That's a little much.

Chapter 3: Why is there criticism surrounding Mike McDaniel's coaching?

609.203 - 622.096 Tua Tagovailoa

And while doing that, kind of continue to Continue to get the whatever it was last year and the years prior for myself to get going again and get in that flow. Thank you. All right.

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622.116 - 640.376 Mike Ryan

First of all, what the hell is he saying? More rambling stuff. More rambling stuff. What do any of those words mean? No. I know people automatically want to go to the concussion stuff. That's just like a troubling clip because it's rambling nonsense. What are you talking about? It doesn't sound right.

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640.917 - 663.364 Chris Cody

McDaniel and Tua, when they get out in front of cameras, and I would not blame them if the intoxicants of the last two seasons were the greatest at offense. We've got it figured out. Everybody's going to get money in Miami. They're 9-2. and at the middle of that story is also the brain does keep getting hit and making us worry, should they give him that money for health reasons?

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663.424 - 680.618 Chris Cody

Never mind that there's still the argument, wait a minute, is he Brock Purdy? Is he a product of system? Or is he actually a good quarterback? We've done the architecture of this team. We know the bet that Greer made. We all fell in love with it at that watch party when they were 9-2 and then lost to Vrabel in Tennessee because, oh, look out, Vrabel's got Drake May now.

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680.638 - 690.321 Chris Cody

They're going to be running the division for a while. Like, Drake May just had a better quarterback percentage than Brady ever had because they found a quarterback there and a good organization protects that quarterback.

690.341 - 691.183 Mike Ryan

Speaking of rambling.

692.395 - 715.045 Chris Cody

The Dolphins have two ramblers in McDaniel and Tua, and they're in front of the microphones, and we want explanations for the losing, and they have to say something, and they're not good at saying nothing. Just get up there and just keep saying nothing again and again. They say it inefficiently. Their offense is efficient. Their words are not.

715.025 - 731.218 Mike Ryan

I mean, I guess in a vacuum, you like the accountability from the position, right? But you're also concerned as to, wait, they're paying you a lot of money. What is it about your off-field prep that you don't like? You know that there are things that you should be doing to be better, but you're not doing it?

731.418 - 735.126 Mike Ryan

And he didn't realize it apparently last week, because last week it was everyone else's fault, not his.

Chapter 4: How is Tua's performance impacting the Dolphins' future?

1248.511 - 1258.222 Chris Cody

They were the best in the league and could throw on anybody, and now they get six points in Cleveland, and it's a miracle last week that they scored 27 against the Chargers. This is not abnormal.

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1258.543 - 1278.626 Mike Ryan

If you give me 10 minutes to take pen to paper over the last 20 years and give you a quarterback that had all year, and then most people decided that quarterback's not starting caliber in the NFL. Throw out some names. Like, let me put pen to paper. Pen to paper. It just happens all the time. Daniel Jones had that, but now he's back again. It happens all the time.

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1279.307 - 1289.501 Mike Ryan

You are not a special little snowflake. You're not unique. You're running into the same problems that every franchise does when it tries to nail the franchise quarterback but falls short.

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1289.942 - 1305.317 Amin Elhassan

As a Giants fan, I can say Daniel Jones was never as good as Tua was that one year. He got paid? He brought him to the playoffs? No, he got paid. Everyone was like, why are we paying this dude? Everyone was like, he's an okay quarterback as a Giant. Like, what's happening this year, this is shocking to me.

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1305.598 - 1309.348 Amin Elhassan

But there was never a point where I felt about Daniel Jones the way I feel about Jackson Dart.

1309.328 - 1319.339 Mike Ryan

Jared Goff made it to a Super Bowl and was basically thrown into a deal to make salaries work. And he was just going to hold it down. And they even drafted potential replacements to push Jared Goff. And then he figured it out.

1319.359 - 1328.949 Amin Elhassan

He went to a Super Bowl, but no one really felt that confident about him going to the Super Bowl. Like they went to the Super Bowl because the team was great. Because what's my man? The running back was incredible.

1329.29 - 1334.155 Mike Ryan

But remember the year before, he's out dueling Patrick Mahomes on Monday Night Football in the catcher versus mustard game.

1334.135 - 1344.209 Chris Cody

Guys, there's so much that happened yesterday because if I said to you guys right now, hey, Stafford's my quarterback and I trade him back to the Lions, they're the league favorite, right?

Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Dolphins' recent losses?

1524.08 - 1525.922 Mike Ryan

Download the GameTime app today.

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1526.037 - 1536.373 Chris Cody

Don Libetard. Billy, somebody has written in here, I need way more. I'm sorry.

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1536.774 - 1558.06 Greg Cote

I just said in his headset, haven't you been to all of them too? It sounded like you were speaking aloud. My bad. Totally on me. That's 100% on me. Stugatz. But that goes without saying. Right. That it couldn't have happened. Well, now he said it. He didn't say it. He said it again. Greg, why? Greg, Greg. My apologies.

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1558.08 - 1559.602 Chris Cody

Greg, why? Greg. Yeah.

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1559.983 - 1563.408 Greg Cote

Greg. He apologized. Greg. Sincerely.

1563.568 - 1566.773 Unknown

This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats.

1569.957 - 1600.239 Chris Cody

This is an interesting conversation. I'd be curious if you guys want to have it. Because McDaniel and two are going to get swallowed. They're going to get swallowed by, oh, this is what leadership requires, right? When you're one in five, if you're... If you're leading, Greg, do you know a lot of other programs in America? Like First Take.

1600.259 - 1606.991 Chris Cody

Have you ever seen someone walk in 25 minutes late to First Take? Like just any other daily program that people watch.

1607.011 - 1612.574 Greg Cote

I don't monitor them. Sorry. He was being quiet. I was. Thank you. I thought I was.

Chapter 6: How does the Miami fanbase feel about the local football teams?

2005.101 - 2007.544 Greg Cote

With prejudice has never been more aptly put.

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2008.145 - 2017.196 Chris Cody

I don't think I've ever fired a coach in this market. I think there was just one time that I said Don Shula should be replaced. He never forgave me, and it was because Jimmy Johnson was available.

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2017.697 - 2030.974 Chris Cody

My opinion on this is Miami Herald columnist Emeritus, as ruled by Jonathan Zaslow, is that you just suffered out with these guys with the knowledge that you were going to make a leadership change no matter what happens the rest of the season.

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2030.954 - 2035.742 Mike Ryan

Well, but how much does it play a factor that you want to show the fan base that you're willing to make big changes?

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2035.762 - 2051.73 Chris Cody

Okay, so those are optics and you could – whatever. Whatever the best management move is to – hey, yeah, we're going to fire them, but they're going to stick around for a couple of weeks because it can't get any worse than that. We need them to lead the show the rest of the way here, but we're going to bring in a leadership change shortly. Like whatever –

2051.71 - 2070.478 Chris Cody

it doesn't matter whether you find today or four weeks from now they failed like it's an abject embarrassing failure the wheels have fallen off and what will get swallowed is their architecture their money in their quarterback and it's all gone like bradley chop they were all in man they were all in piece by piece on we're gonna get a pass rusher and bradley chubb like a

2070.458 - 2081.753 Chris Cody

And now you see what the Patriots are, what the Bills are. Everyone here must go. It's been obvious since before the season, when they went into the season, with no corners. You were late to that opinion.

2082.033 - 2093.308 Greg Cote

Okay, when you say everybody must go, Bradley Chubb's had a good season. Jordan Brooks leads the NFL in tackles. Devon A. Chan is a very good running back for the future. He's played very well.

2093.629 - 2094.61 Chris Cody

If they don't kill him.

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