Chapter 1: Why is the University of Miami considered the best team in the country?
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Chapter 2: What makes Mario Cristobal's coaching style unique?
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Home game? Hadn't won a home playoff game since 2001. That's our wheelhouse. That's Griffey. That's big unit. That's A-Rod. Mike, you got wrapped up in the Seattle Mariners last year. Were you paying attention to them at all this year? Have you checked in on them even during the playoffs?
So I'm in a Mariners group chat with Mina and some other sports media luminaries. So that's how I've been able to follow them. I haven't watched a single game, but they're all over my algo. Big, big dumper guy. I'll check back in this week now that the football weekend is over.
I have to be careful on this one because I'm not 100% sure. Why were we acting like Julio Rodriguez is dying? Like, I was super confused about, like, all of the honors and everything that we were doing for Julio Rodriguez. Like, he got a hit in an RBI, good. But, like, we were acting. He's not retiring. He's, like, 32 or something.
Seattle badly wants a superstar. He is part of. They have one.
Big dumper. Yeah. He's going to be the MVP of the league, potentially.
Yeah, but him, he's now the old guy. He's now whatever Ken Griffey Jr. was when A-Rod was coming up. He could never.
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Chapter 3: How does Miami's talent compare to other college football teams?
He's 24. Didn't you have a jersey? I do have a Rodriguez jersey. That's the Rodriguez? He's 24.
Why are we acting like this is the end for him? He's one of the old-timey Mariners. He's been there suffering for years. He's 24! Older than C.J. Stroud. Man, they're making high school players who are dominating FSU who are 17. Like, I don't even understand how it is a 17-year-old can run a college football sport on the road with perfect passes. He's 17! You guys do know that you is back, right?
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I meant to get to the Panthers fighting the Lightning when we were talking earlier because the delight on Roy's face as the two-time champions returned to work by just creating a riot that if it happened in any other sport... A riot of such intensity, we would ban the teams forever and organizations and say you cannot behave that way. That was supposed to be a professional hockey game.
You cannot have 7,000 penalties and a guy getting an assist who'd been ejected.
Well, I can tell you that the Panthers didn't create that riot. It was the Lightning. And that was in response to Thursday's game when A.J.
Greer... It's in response to the last 10 years, Roy. Okay, fine. It's in response to the last 10 years of the fight for hockey has been in this state, which is funny at Canada's expense. And they're fighting the Lightning because bleep you, Lightning. We took what was yours. That's why they're fighting the Lightning. You're going to go to the micro on that? Yeah. Yeah.
These are organizations that hate each other because the Panthers took what the Lightning got because the Lightning taught them how to take it.
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Chapter 4: What impact do injuries have on Miami's season?
And in college football, the three teams have been fighting for the state for the last. 50 years. And I am not going to be a prisoner of the moment on this. So I'm going to offer you some qualifiers. And I'm going to say that I understand that the University of Miami is fully capable of losing a football game to Duke or Georgia Tech
But the team that I saw do that in Tallahassee to that Florida State team, that was 2-10 last year, and confused us all with what happened at Alabama, the University of Miami can beat you more ways than any team in college football. They are the best team in college football.
Maybe Ohio State could beat them in a game because whatever, but the talent they have, they have more ways to beat you than any team in the sport. It's obvious. What Texas just had happen to them in Florida, these are not one-game samples. Over a month, the best athletes Athletes are always in Florida and Miami has ransacked them. I saw USF. USF is a good football team. USF has a ton of talent.
And look at what happens when Texas goes into the swamp. An offense that was incompetent with the Gators suddenly makes what's supposed to be the cream of the SEC and the guy with the quarterback chromosome. Oh no, Texas, you're not even going to make the playoff. You're Penn State. Fraud. It's bogus. Florida takes the sport back. So now it's Florida and Ohio State.
Because what you saw from Miami in doing that to a physical FSU team that did that to Alabama. is, oh, you can't play with them. They can beat you with big plays now. They can beat you with defense. They're not going to do all of the dumb things. They'll take a touchdown off the board because of an illegal procedure. Fine. The kid turned 18, had three touchdowns, one of them taken away.
The one that was taken away was prettier than the others, and one of those was a pro throw. So Florida State got ransacked. Do not let the score fool you. Maybe Miami loses a game because whatever. The stuff that's been at the end where they go conservative in the second half.
Maybe they lose a game, but they're better than anybody else in the first half because when they take the field, they're extraordinary. They are the balanced thing that doesn't exist in a sport that's gone true parity.
FSU did a really good job against Miami's run. They kind of sold out for that. Miami was prepared for that game plan, knew that they could take some shots on some corners, that gamble. Entering the game for his career, Carson Beck was 3 of 15 on balls that traveled over 40 yards in the air. In the first half, he had two of such passes. The third bounced off of Malachi Toney's hands.
It was an absolute dot from Carson Beck. I think maybe we should apply the context of it raining down here for a month straight when we have conversations about Carson Beck. He was dynamite. And I did a lot of listening to FSU podcasts, both before and after the game.
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Chapter 5: How are Miami's recruits shaping the team's future?
And you're going to have to find a way to beat us. OK, we'll go WAPO. Like, OK, that's that's what you're going to give us. We'll we'll beat you whichever way you want us to. Miami is a very deep, very balanced team.
Why are your hands tied? Your hands have been tied. This program's hands have been tied for 20 years. Why are your hands presently tied? That looks like a good tight. I cannot tie the kind of knot that is required. A fisherman's knot to get Mike Ryan so that he is not able to move his hands. What's happened here?
This was my second loss at the Dentech Bucket. I thought I was definitely going to have another loss this last week. Shout out to Mac Jones, who saw a dead body before the game. Appreciate that. One of the more improbable straight-up victories. So, thankfully, this settles my account at the Dentech Bucket debt.
Does someone look cooler than they ever will? The coolest anyone ever looks is roping a boat. When someone gets on the dock and they do that thing where they can just, by flinging the rope, tie the knot.
That is the peak of humanity.
What are you looking at? Nothing. I'm just listening. I'm here. Give me something cooler. Beat it. The guy hops off the boat. Everyone else is still on the boat, and he's tying that thing down without even having to use a second hand. How about pushing off? When you're untying it, you're pushing off the dock. No, the untie is not as cool as the tie. No, you don't know what you're talking about.
The untie. It's cool.
You kick off the dock, and then you get back on the boat with one leg. Cooler. It's cool. That is cool. You're on basically both. You're on the dock and the boat. Untying. Hey, we're off back here. Boom. I kick off. Love a boat or not. Love a boat or not.
Chris, are you saying that you could apply yourself and then feel cool if you were coming in off the boat?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Miami's recent performances?
What you're saying is the part that you've got covered. You're basically saying a crew member. is able to do something with such dexterity. Well, it doesn't have to be a captain. It can just be somebody from the crew.
How many of you guys have ever gone out with someone that's like one? I don't have a yacht, okay? You get like a captain that he's the only guy on the boat. He ends up doing it all. You got to help him in that spot. Yeah, you got to help. I'm just telling you. I've been on a boat where the captain does it all.
Fine, Chris. These are details that are not particularly... No, they wanted to jump down my throat.
Oh, the captain. Yeah, the captain.
Well, because you're saying it's the coolest thing.
Like the captain would ever do that when they always do that.
It depends. Always.
Depends the size of the boat.
You made yourself a man of the people by being on a smaller boat where the captain does all of the work.
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Chapter 7: How has the rivalry with Florida State evolved?
Can you guys just sit there and watch him? Because he's doing middle class.
That's why it looks cool, probably.
This is what's happening. Middle class drinking, and he just gets on a boat. Your captain takes care of everything. He'll bring out some pigs in a blanket that he got at Publix, and Chris is riding the high seas on a Sunday like a baller. Because he's got a captain, but it's a one-man show unless he brings his son on Sundays.
Just shut up and sit down. All right. Thank you. And maybe you think the captain's cool. It's not the act of it. You just like the captain. It's the act of that.
No, that's what the thing I'm saying that Chris has right is that captain can get off a boat and he'll lasso the entirety of the seas. And it's and it's impressive that he could do it without any help because our winds are strong. and so is our local college football team. The University of Miami, because it now has, and look, health matters and all the qualifiers, okay?
In a one-game sample, anybody can lose. But what Reuben Bain does to get that 15-yard penalty, he's physically more menacing than everyone who is out there on the defensive line. He's a clear top-10 pick, and you will not throw against them consistently because they will keep plays in front of them, even if it's Castellanos.
And Castellanos is good, but he felt a little bit like he was out there by himself. It's like, I'm as good an athlete as some of these other guys, but my front lines aren't as good as their front lines. And it's on both sides because you say Carson Beck in the rain. No, not Carson Beck in the rain. Carson Beck with no one around him playing a different sport because it's not loop-de-loops.
It's because those defensive linemen are not going to be able to get past those offensive linemen. And so that's an easy game. Carson Beck can play that game. For any team in the land, if you're going to protect him like that, he'll get receivers open at Kent State that way because Castellanos was not allowed to play that football game. Castellanos.
No. Hold on. Why is it Castellanos?
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Chapter 8: What are the expectations for Miami moving forward this season?
He runs into Ruben Bain, who has his arms outstretched. I can't display it because my hands are tied. But he's like, you're going to run into my arms. Castellanos puts a foot in the ground and decides, I'll just run into Mesidor's arms instead, please. Thank you very much. 11 pressures.
The sack numbers aren't there for Reuben Bain, but if you're watching these games, Reuben Bain and Mesidor are absolutely wrecking these things.
Having watched, this has got some history behind it, when I'm talking about what championship teams look like at Miami, just physically what they look like. How you can't get side-to-side on them, and even if you're a 6'6 wide receiver, you can't get past their secondary either because...
We've had down here some champions, and we had down here that before Burrow and Jamar Chase was the single best college football team I'd ever seen, it was Butch Davis learning what needed to be learned so that all of the athletes out there, you were like, oh, oh, I see now in the pros why it is Ohio State's been good for 10 years. Look at all those receivers that came out of Ohio State.
Of course that's how it happened. Miami has never had this as an edge rush. Like, never had it. Like, I'll go back to Daniel Stubb and Bill Hawkins, but they've always gotten the pressure up the middle. It's never been two beasts on the side that you can't get outside of either because they're too big and strong.
Yeah, two guys at the same time. Like, again, try not to be hyperbolic, but this season goes the way that it's looking. You can talk about Mesador and Bain as potentially the greatest edge rush duo in the history of Miami. You mentioned Ohio State. Miami, I know nationally everyone is going to make the assumption, well, it's NIL, they're going after all these blue chippers.
And yeah, there are some blue chippers here. But let's look at the guys making the impact in this game. There was a sequence there, and this was highlighted by Gabby Urita of Through the Smoke. There was a two-play sequence in which Miami got 80 yards from true freshmen.
Bryce Fitzgerald, a four-star true freshman, gets an interception, runs it back, and then Malachi Toney, who was a three-star, gets a huge bomb, and Miami wins the game there. Reuben Bain, four-star, should have been a five-star, led the state in sacks, was a four-star. Jacoby Thomas, who was absolutely flying all over the field.
This was a rotational guy for Tennessee that Miami gets in the portal. Miami is also doing some really good talent evaluation. It's the holiday season and the 50th anniversary of Miller Lite. The holiday is all about spending time with friends and family. Why don't you sit back and toast a few Miller Lites? Make your holiday time tis Miller time.
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