Chapter 1: What advanced metrics did Tony and Mike analyze?
Tony, you and Mike were pouring over the advanced metrics. What were the final stats on Greg Cody yesterday in terms of production, number of carries, number of targets? What can we say is the final stat total on Greg Cody?
So before I give the final stat line, we did talk about it here in the analytics department that when we scripted our first 15, he was great.
Chapter 2: What were the final stats on Greg Cody's performance?
We had the right blocking assignments. The offensive line did their job. The quarterback called the right place, called the mic out. Greg was able to understand where his blocking assignment was and hit the gap and hit it hard.
After those first 15, we kind of fell off a little bit. Yeah, they stacked the box. Brought the safeties down. Honestly, you should have utilized him better in the play-action game, and you didn't do that. You let him down. He softened up the defense for you. I do appreciate that you guys are really getting into the press conference explanations on this, and you're right.
I will accept the criticism. I should have used him better. Any failures of Greg Cody are my failures and my failures alone. I like that. But the thing that I had asked you was, I asked for a number of carries we had yesterday and just some general advanced statistics. Yeah, 22 for 78. Okay, see, that's not bad.
Not great. 64 in the first half.
We said we were going to say committed to the run game.
And 22 carries when they stacked the box. 10 of those carries came when they stacked the box.
Do you feel like we're going to do better or worse today? Because he's come in today and said he's proclaimed himself a Firestarter. He wants the nickname as a running back of Firestarter, which is a good... It's a good nickname.
We would agree that any running back in the league would like ā if a running back ā if we started calling A-Chan Firestarter and got it off the ground, A-Chan would love to be called Firestarter.
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Chapter 3: How did Greg Cody's performance impact the team's strategy?
In Greg's case, I think it's appropriate because he was amongst the first to discover fire.
Yeah.
I like that. I want to adopt that as my official nickname, by the way. I want people to start calling me FS, Fire. Firestarter's a little unwieldy. But in terms of the carries and the yards, I'm more concerned with carries than yards. It's a Cesar Tovar theory.
That's a baseball player that's not a running back. Okay, listen to his... All right. He's been doing this to me for 40 years. Stuffed at the line. 40 years. Do you guys... Tony, do you know what he's referencing? Does anyone there, does his son know what he's referencing when he says it's a Cesar Tovar reference?
I've heard it. It's the guy batting average. Go on. Did you just drop a Firestarter sound effect? No. Oh, I like that.
Tony, do you know what he is saying when he is saying Cesar Tovar? No, I have no idea. Roy? No. Mike? I think I've heard it on this show before, and it was a guy that was like boomer bust.
Well, Cesar Tovar was a former Minnesota twin. He may have played for other teams, but I'm thinking 60s and 70s. And he was notable because he once had over 700 at-bats in a season. He was a guy who was just prolific. And I like the idea of a lot of at-bats. You know, you give me 700 at-bats, it doesn't really matter whether I'm hitting .241 or .278.
No, because the at-bats are akin to carries by a running back. You know, I'm the kind of guy who would like 31 carries, and it doesn't particularly matter if it's only for 68 yards, you know, because I'm putting in the work. You know, I'm doing the lifting. You also did have a fumble here I didn't know. Obviously, the Packers versus Steelers situation was a fumble.
We were in the red zone there. We were getting really close to coming home, and you did fumble.
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Chapter 4: What nickname does Greg Cody want to adopt and why?
I like that. Cesar Tovar, not even on my catchphrase countdown.
Cesar Tovar, can you guys give me his career average, please? I'd like to now go through. Thank you, Zaslo. What do you have? 278 career average. Solid. So you're saying that you're going to take 10 swings on jokes, and if you fail seven or eight times, you're good with it?
Yeah, yeah. If I get two or three out of 10, I've succeeded. Did you yesterday? Hall of Fame material. I think so. You just heard that from the statisticians.
Yeah. Did he succeed or fail yesterday? Did we win yesterday? I think we won despite Greg Cody.
Okay.
Professional basketball may indeed stink, but I'm finally ready to do it. I'm here to announce it. Jokic is a better offensive player than Michael Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry it took me a long time to get here. I am now here. Everyone should capitulate. There has never been a better offensive player than that loaf of bread.
And you're not comfortable with it because you want it to be a wing guy and you want it to be somebody who soars through the air. And I'm sorry that this guy ruined basketball for you, but he's better as an offensive player than any that the sport has ever seen.
Okay, so if I asked you, you have one game, Michael Jordan and Nikola Jokic. You're taking Jokic? That's not what I said.
But I'm asking a different question. It's not what I said. I said he's the best offensive player I have ever seen. I could give you all of the numbers and metrics of how champion the Nuggets are when he plays, offensively and defensively, because he's also good defensively. He clogs everything up. They're not the same thing defensively. But I don't want to start there. You just did.
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Chapter 5: What is Dan's controversial opinion about Jokic and Jordan?
And I know my tone's bad. And I know that nobody wants to hear this message. But what do I do when I'm simply emotional about, ooh, I can't reach somebody who's got to be under it? I'd like to talk to her before talking about this. And there's pressure from every angle to you fraud. You don't talk about the real things.
Look at how you protect others when now you're attacking that journalistic thing that I care about where it's like, no, what's responsible here? What's right? Is there a clear answer? Like, because I don't think there is. And I don't think silence is it. Like, I don't want to give oxygen to it.
Man, I don't want to go give oxygen to that bullshit going on between Whitlock and Stephen A. And I could drive it for clicks all day. All day I could sit here and talk about all the shit that happened between those two friends of mine. But they were trying to do something journalistically objective once upon a time, and then this business distorted all of us.
Turned us into fucking preening peacocks. Like, we are the news. We are the newsmakers. We opine on the news, and when you don't talk about your friend, you're a fraud. Okay. Okay.
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Hey, Roy, buddy. Yo. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody, all together, in unison, knows to stand up on their feet? Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big-time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo. Oh, delicious. It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal.
It's when small talk turns into stories.
Mm-hmm.
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Chapter 6: How is the current NBA discourse affecting fans' perception?
I think it's okay to blindly support someone who's a friend.
Didn't Ashton Kutcher do that? When they're not accused of rape.
I'll set that aside. Danny Masterson? I think there is a distinction. I don't like what Ashton Kutcher did.
You shouldn't have said blindly. I didn't think you'd go for DJ Mom Jeans, but he went there. I mean, but blindly is when. No, no. You know what he says. Yeah. I feel like it's implied. You're the fire starter. He can't be the fire starter because you've been the fire starter for 20 years. The tone is shitty, undisputable, cannot, cannot argue it.
The thing I'm asking you all, bad tone and all, cutting you off and all, is the very serious question. With everything you see happening in America and all around the globe, fairness matters.
like wanting something to be fair, fighting for something to be fair, to have a standard, to have a journalistic standard of you talk about this when you know what you are talking about, when you have facts, reported details, when you are aspiring to objectivity, the times and when you talk about this, not on radio, podcast, ESPN, the printed standard of how do you do this fairly,
Does it matter? Because I ask you guys sincerely, I did not want to talk about this. Greg, it's the thing that Greg was interested in today. And he thought it would be interesting. I didn't even know about that I was being criticized by anybody. It's the thing Greg found interesting. And I'm conflicted with, well, what do I do with this? It's just a cheap thing to talk about.
It's a cheap thing to do because people want you to talk about it. And so when I ask you, what's fair? fair?
I think it's fair. In this case, Diana Rossini is a frequent guest on this show. If you believe her denial about this controversy as much as I do, I think it's fair simply to say we support her. We believe her. You know, in two months from now, if we're proven wrong, that'll be regrettable, not for us, but for the parties involved. But right now,
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