Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan) | DLS 1/20 Pt. 2

Who speaks in this episode?

• Brad Williams (Guest)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Brad Williams, Jeff Halfley, Chris Schula
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Brad Williams, Miami Dolphins, Chris Schula, ACC
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Brad Williams, Nick Foles
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Brad Williams

Notable quotes from "Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan) | DLS 1/20 Pt. 2"

• Because my wife got the alert on ESPN and she's Dolphins hire Jeff Haly. And I'm like I'm like she he's like she's Is that a coach? I'm Yeah, he's a Green Bay Packers defensive. She's Okay, I lost.

  about Jeff Halfley · at 3:39

• Striking point yesterday, which is if they're going after a defensive coordinator in Miami, there's a more obvious name. Chris Schula to me, you hire that, you immediately…

  about Chris Schula · at 4:33

• The my only hesitation with this hire is that I don't trust the Dolphins.

  about Miami Dolphins · at 5:37

• Check out Height and Babel. New podcast Brad started.

  about Brad Williams · at 7:52

• We've seen this before with Jeff Hostettler. He won a Super Bowl with the Giants. We've seen it with Nick Fos beating the Patriots. Nick Fos had a great tweet, by the way…

  about Nick Foles · at 12:55

• Loss. It's easier to give Indiana credit. It's easier to say it wasn't our time. But the way they lost last night, that's going to haunt Mario forever. I guarantee you. Maybe…

  about Mario Cristobal · at 19:02

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Brad Williams — Person · Guest (Broncos correspondent / comedian) · 6 mentions · first at 1:42
  Appears as an on-air guest, jokes with the hosts, and reacts to Broncos playoff news—especially Bo Nix’s injury and the backup QB situation.
• Mario Cristobal — Person · Referenced coach (University of Miami head coach) · 2 mentions
  Central to the postgame emotional analysis of Miami’s heartbreaking loss; discussed as the program-builder and as someone who will be haunted by the ending.
• Jeff Halfley — Person · Referenced coach (reported Dolphins head-coach hire) · 1 mention · first at 3:42
  Discussed as the Dolphins’ low-fanfare head coach hire (timing, Rooney Rule process, leak), contrasted with other candidates and evaluated mainly through PR optics.
• Chris Schula — Person · Referenced coaching candidate (alternative Dolphins hire) · 2 mentions · first at 4:38
  Raised as the more obvious/marketable defensive-coordinator hire compared with Jeff Hafley, used to critique Dolphins PR/decision-making.
• Nick Foles — Person · Referenced athlete (example of backup QB winning big) · 1 mention · first at 12:59
  Invoked as precedent for a backup quarterback succeeding at the highest level, supporting the argument that an underdog QB situation can still win.

Companies & orgs

• Miami Dolphins — Company · 1 mention · first at 5:39
• ACC — Company · 1 mention · first at 5:51
  I got to meet him at ACC media days a few years ago.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:01 steps up downfield intercepted. And the Hooers of Indiana are your national champions in football. We were still alive on the final drive. The hurricanes had managed to survive. Then in our own stadium, we just fell flat. Still, it can't be denied that the U is back. It's a [ __ ] that we lost, but the you still back. Can't be argued. It's a matter of fact. You can [ __ ] all you want. We're still better than you. And everyone but the

0:47 Come on, Carson. Go in deep. Here we These guys won 13 games this year. for you. For you. You still

0:59 got to the playoffs for the first time in Miami history. You still won the Cotton Bowl.

1:13 Won the Fiesta Bowl. They're the best thing that's happened to Miami in over two decades. Uh, Mike, you should know that I would have won back in just a few minutes all of those M fans because the rant was written. The rant was going to make its return and it was written and it was going to slay and now it is dead, never to be seen because an interception got thrown at the end.

1:42 Uh, Brad Williams is going to be here in a second and uh, I wanted to wonder with Greg Cody because I think I can say this since football became popular. I don't believe there has ever been a Miami Dolphin head coaching hire with less fanfare than what it is that I saw yesterday because of the timing of it. You're talking about the biggest football game in 20 25 years played in Miami and the Dolphins are announcing their head coach then. Uh I don't think that it matters, but it is weird that you usually want the hope of and now we got the new answer and it just was buried yesterday.

2:18 Yeah, it wasn't voluntary. the the Dolphins didn't want it that way. I was speaking with a a Dolphin official in the press box last night and what happened was first of all they had to fulfill the Rooney rule. Uh they had to interview two minority candidates.

2:36 Have they done that? They hadn't done it until the last one was at like 400 p.m. yesterday. Okay. So they were late doing that and before they did that they couldn't hire anyone else.

2:47 The Halfley News came out like right after that I think. Exactly. And and what else happened was somebody I'm told somebody who didn't get the job leaked the news that it seemed like Halfley was going to get the job. Okay. So when it was then leaked to the media, then all the, you know, Sheffer and all these reports come out and then the Dolphins, they have no choice but to confirm it at 8:12 p.m. like in the middle of the first quarter. They're confirming. So it was a weird circumstance that forced their handling.

3:18 Oh, I didn't even confir. I didn't even see that the Dolphins actually confirmed it, which would make sense because, you know, I was watching the football game.

3:27 Yeah, so were so were most people. It it it did not work out the way they wanted. Believe me, they would have liked to have uh announced it and introduced him uh later in the week. For sure.

3:38 It kind of came off like a fart, right? Because my wife got the alert on on ESPN and she's like, "Dolphins hire Jeff Haly." And I'm like I'm like she he's like she's like, "Is that a coach?" I'm like, "Yeah, he's a Green Bay Packers defensive." She's like, "Okay, I lost interest." But like everybody's asking me like, "Who is this guy?" And I'm like trying to have like I'm trying to explain the the nuance of, "Yeah, he's a first- time head coach, defensive coordinator. You know, the Packers defense has been kind of good. They got Michael Par." But it's like nobody really cares. It's loco Dan like you and Diana were talking about a little while ago that the thing that seems to carry the day is who's good at PR, who's good in an interview. Bellich is not that.

4:17 And more recently, Liam Cohen was a laughingstock in his introductory press conference and so was Nick Serriotti

4:25 a couple of years ago. So, yeah, it's a it it's uh it's loco that that would be the case. But you made the most important part, what I thought was a striking point yesterday, which is if they're going after a defensive coordinator in Miami, there's a more obvious name. I mean, Chris Schula to me, you hire that, you immediately create something that would have made a noise even during the championship game.

4:47 It would have been a more popular hire. Uh, I'm not sure it would have been a better hire. Uh cuz because we can't know how good Halfley's

4:55 Well, we can't we can't know. But all things being equal, as I think they are with young defensive coordinator Whiz Kids, like in terms of us not knowing how to do the analysis on the Mike McDonald's of the world before they get hired where I only hear Mina and no one else celebrating that. Like as far as those things go, you absolutely win the off season if you do the popular thing of going with the defensive coordinator who has a name that people have heard of.

5:21 Yeah. I also think it's fair to note Chris Schula has had fewer head coach interviews than Halfley. I mean, there's a reason for that. Halfley's a little bit older, I believe, a little bit more experience at what he's doing. And um there's a reason the Dolphins liked him. The the my only hesitation with this hire is that I don't trust the Dolphins. is that I I nobody can know whether Halfley's going to be good or not, but you have almost 20 years of track record that the Dolphins aren't very good at hiring a head coach.

5:51 I got to meet him at ACC media days a few years ago. Nice. Here's my take. Certified sweetie pie. Super nice guy.

5:59 Oh, good. Not very tall. I don't like that. Short king. I need No, I need a I need a solid walking. I need a guy about 65 and a half.

6:06 You can't tell on Zoom. Although Joe Filin was tall. Yeah, that's true. Cam Cameron was as well. Put it on the poll at leart show is halfly certified cutiepie.

6:19 Sweetie pie. Sweetie pie. Where'd you get cutie from? Transition. Sorry, sweetie pie. Uh, speaking of short, uh, last time Brad Williams was on with us. What? You were mad last time you were upset last time you were on with us.

6:32 Well, yeah, because you said keep it short. Now, I'm about to come on with you again to finally talk about a meaningful NFL team. You know, an NFL team that plays football in January and into February. And then you guys are like, "Ah, yeah, short guys. Don't trust them. Hate short guys. They can't coach. They can't be a leader of men." What do you know, Tony? You threw invisible footballs. That's your bonafites right there.

6:57 If I would have thrown real ones, I would have made the team, buddy. Uh, I'm sorry. Is there not a pro alete that that you could tell that you could be better than in studio right now? Is there no tell that you could back down? Holy God. I can't I I can't win on this show. It's just I try to come on. I try to bring a little flavor and then you guys just Oh, you guys with the short bit. If that joke was any dead and be related to Dan

7:22 Brad, you you you have a new uh podcast. Jesus Christ. Uh you're on that's on the podcast. You're going to want to have to select the right microphone for when you're recording.

7:32 Yeah. All right. This is uh Take it from a an industry vet. All right. Don't be short with him

7:40 again. What is this? Not Is it not picking up? It's got a green light on it. It It It's working.

7:47 You just sound tiny. You sound tiny. You sound like you're in a submarine where you know.

7:52 Check out Height and Babel. New podcast Brad started. I thought it was Jesus Christ. I thought the name of the podcast was Jesus Christ like from the way Mike Ryan described it.

8:02 Jesus Christ. I I I think you should have Mark Norman on the show to have him talk about sports. I think that would be better than down the Miami game.

8:14 Uh you are our Broncos correspondent. You finally been elevated. Congratulations on that. Stidum hasn't started a game in 750 days and has started all of four games his entire life. How do you feel about the good news bad news of you beat the Bills but now you've got a problem that you're not going to win the Super Bowl. There is no circumstance under which you're going to win the Super Bowl.

8:39 So when the Broncos beat the Bills, I immediately had to go on stage in Gley, Colorado, and the news had not broken yet literally about Bo Nick's ankle. So, I walk on stage in Gley, Colorado, 1,800 people. Everyone's going crazy. Everyone's happy. And then when I got off stage, I literally had my tour manager and my opening act on the side of the stage going, "You should look at your phone." And I thought someone died. I literally thought like, "Oh god, what happened to my wife? What happened to my mother? What happened to my kid?" And then I get off and it's much worse than that.

9:17 So you what? explain to us the level of crestfall. And my guess is you've probably not had something that felt exactly like that where you've won the game against Josh Allen in dramatic and spectacular fashion and then that is the worst news you can get. Correct. That's there's no worse news than that.

9:36 That is the worst news. The only other way it could have been worse is if they said like, "Well, we've gone back and since Bo Nicks broke his ankle, now we're going to make the Bills win so they can move on so there could be a team with a good quarterback." But I have hope in Styi. I have hope in Jared Stim. He's been in that years. He's been in the system for three years. He's the highest paid backup quarterback in the league. There's a reason why Shawn Payeyton likes him. He is not Bo Knicks. Let's be honest. He is not B Knicks, but I believe he is a comparable backup. And this is very similar to the 2015 Denver Broncos that won the Super Bowl because Payton Manning had the planner fasciitis and we had to win some games with Brock Osweiler that year to actually move on and and get to the playoffs. So, eerily similar defensive centered team, not focused so much on the quarterback. So, it's not great news, but I have some

10:30 hope. Uh, put it on the poll, please. Do you believe in Stitty? Uh, because, uh, I I really am having a hard time finding a comp for what happened with Shawn Payeyton where he's coming at the press conference. His players have left. He doesn't want them to learn from someone other than him that Bo Nicks is out. So, he feels the need to have the press conference that wrecks Brad Williams night as soon as he gets off stage.

10:57 Can we can Can we have Timbo like do a little Mr. Miyagi over Bo Nicks's ankle. Just something. Give me a couple of throws. I don't know. It It It was truly heartbreaking. And I don't have a comp for it either, Dan. I don't know anyone that's gone that high to that low that quickly.

11:14 I remember Magic Johnson one time, they made it to the finals and he he had torn his hamstring and so he couldn't play in the finals and then they got swept. But uh Bo Knicks isn't that obviously, but if you're enthused about the Broncos, your chances of winning the Super Bowl are now over. Like you can have your hope about this weekend in a home game. You're not beating the NFC team with this as your quarterback.

11:34 Well, at minimum, Brad, I think that Jared St. Sorry for the pessimism. If you were to win this game, I do think Jared Stidum stands as the worst starting quarterback uh in the Super Bowl era. And I'm sincerely David Woodley, the late David Woodley from LSU in Super Bowl 17. Uh Trent Der is off is often volunteered. He's the wrong answer. Rex Gman deserve Caleb Haney. The comp would be Caleb Haney would have had to start that Super Bowl, Super Bowl 45 against Pittsburgh um 15 or so years ago because Jay Cutler tore his knee and it would have been had uh had BJ Rajie not pick six um Caleb Haney towards the end of that game, it would have been Rothllessberger and company versus Caleb Haney.

12:23 Yikes. I feel deprived as a football fan, TOO. DRAKE VERSUS BO would have been great.

12:29 Rambling. That was good info, though. I agree. You said Super Bowl 17 got to get out. Not that far.

12:36 The people are FIGHTING BACK. THEY WANT ME to stay. Dave should No, you still got to go. Uh, you can be hopeful, but uh, my guess is you're faking it.

12:55 I mean, we've seen this before with Jeff Hostettler. He won a Super Bowl with the Giants. We've seen it with Nick Fos beating the Patriots. Nick Fos had a great tweet, by the way, about how the Patriots notoriously come up short against backup quarterbacks. So, I love that by Nick Fos. So, we've seen it before. It's It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world, but uh, yeah, hope is not

13:17 Wait a minute. YOU'RE GOOD WITH FO YOU'RE YOU'RE good with fo saying come up short, but I say it and you get mad at me.

13:25 Well, he's not talking to me. I'm not standing next to Nick Fos and he's holding me up like a prop. He's not doing that. Dan Leitard, you have me on your show presumably for my uh great football analysis, not for my microphone, but for my great football analysis, and then you immediately go to short jokes. It's ridiculous. And we've broken bread together. Dan Levitar, you've coming out. You You come out to Los Angeles. I met your wife. Your your wife is impossibly more attractive than you. I don't understand that. I don't understand how you guys have gotten two $50 million deals from DraftKings and she can't afford lasic surgery. I don't get this. But at the same time, I I I I like he doesn't he does not have me right next to him telling me the short joke. You have me and you go right to the short joke. Lame comedy.

14:18 Hey Brad, does your uh beanie have a horse's mane on the back? Yes. And it's fabulous.

14:25 It is fabulous. I kept seeing orange hair in the back. I was like, I know he doesn't have orange hair. What's going on back there?

14:31 Uh this is my announcement that I am part of the brony community. I I I I'm now joining the bronies.

14:38 You knew he didn't have orange hair, Tony? You knew that? I knew you didn't have orange hair, buddy. For Brad Williams tour dates, go to bradwillscomdyd.com. Zaz, my dad and myself saw his show a couple weeks ago. Great show. He's also got a new podcast, Heightened Babble. Check it out.

14:53 Uh, good seeing you, Brad. Thank you for making the time. Always appreciate you enjoying insulting us and being insulted by us. Thank you, sir.

15:01 Thank you. Go Broncos. We just We did shut him down because everybody wants the Broncos now to go away. Thursday.

15:10 Oh, it would be a nightmare if they won. Nobody Nobody wants that in the Super Bowl anymore.

15:14 What do you mean YOU WANT THE BRONCOS TO GO AWAY? YOU WANT THE PATRIOTS YOU want the Patriots?

15:18 Honestly, yes. Yeah. I want a quarterback that's not STDM. You want You want Bill Simmons to just be talking about how this is the greatest Boston team of all time?

15:29 You know what? He makes good points. That's fair. Yeah. ST him, guys. Let's not back Junior. I'm telling you, everybody listen up. Cousin S. That's what's going on. Listen,

15:40 I just want to say that was my We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it.

15:46 I just wanted to quickly uh say that I think and I don't bring this up because Brad Williams is on. I I just think that was small of you, Dan, to send me off like that after what happened last night. I understand you're bitter, but but small. MY GUY, WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THIS BETRAYAL? IS Lucy going to get me next? Lucy, do you do you have any short jokes?

16:09 No, the energy in here is really negative right now and I just need there's a lot going on.

16:14 Uh, see you later, Brad. It's always nice seeing you. Thank you for making the time, sir. Uh, Greg Cody, uh, I have not heard enough from you today as the legendary sports columnist of the Miami Herald after, uh, I'm I'm trying to think, history of Miami sports, uh, most debilitating losses because, uh, the University of Miami now has two of these and there's not going to ever be anything worse than you have the best roster of all time and you're losing to Ohio State. you think you've won and there are fireworks in the sky and then there's a penalty flag on the field.

16:48 That happened a couple of times last night by the way where there was a flag on the field all of a sudden to sort of neuter so what had been enthusiasm. um your thoughts on historically where to put this in the history of South Florida where uh we wake up this morning and you could feel a city a bit hung over uh a bit sad from wanting to believe, wanting to hope, daring to hope, and then coming up uh forgive the expression that short.

17:17 Um I think it's probably the one one of the one or two most heartbreaking defeats and and part of the reason is that um had waited so long. Miami won its five national titles in an 18-year frame. It's been 24 years since. So, that puts in perspective how long the wait has been. I I think an analogy I would use is is Dan Marino's one and only Super Bowl in ' 84 um where they got their ass kicked by San Francisco. We didn't know at the time he'd never go back to another Super Bowl, but that was crushing because Marino was at the top of his game. he was going to be the guy who made the super made the Dolphins a Super Bowl champion for the first time since the early 70s under Schula and it didn't happen and that was at the time very heartbreaking.

18:07 Okay, so that that's an interesting comp, right? Because I do believe it would have hurt less if Miami last night had lost by four touchdowns. It hurts less than that because you're right there and I know that the noise the next day would have been unpleasant. The game would have been less interesting. you wouldn't have been interested in the second half at all. And that was an all-time second half. But there's something uh cruel about that, right? Losing uh losing when you're that close when there are pieces happening at the end that keep giving you this hope and you're watching the last few seconds thinking that the highest paid quarterback in the sport, somebody with seven years of experience is going to have his faculties about him. isn't going to have his ears ringing from a hit he took, a late hit that he took, or an excessive hit that he took and isn't right on the last throw of the game

18:56 according to himself by his own words. Yeah. And and if they lose a lopsided game, it's easier to rationalize the loss. It's easier to give Indiana credit. It's easier to say it wasn't our time. But the way they lost last night, that's going to haunt Mario forever. I guarantee you. Maybe not viscerally true. In fact, retroactively, isn't the worst loss in Miami sports history the loss in the Orange Bowl to the Patriots in front of Super Bowl 20? Marino and company in the Orange Bowl had just beaten those Bears. So, on the fast track in the Superdome, it stands that they would have had a great shot at taking them down.

19:33 Uh, but it wasn't for the championship. It wasn't for everything with a minute left. Like I I'm really having a hard time outside of the Ohio State Fiesta Bowl, which obviously if you've got if you've got fire Oh, that's a good one. Like that was in the

19:48 Now granted, first round. It's first round, but you had it's your it's your rival. You know, the team's going to be broken up that the ball bouncing on the rim. There's a certain cruelty to the heartbreak by being that close. And there were so many plays yesterday that the the result is an inch, right? A a back shoulder throw that's just in bounds. A couple of third and ones. Malachi Tony before the blocked punt, he got uh to fourth and one. He needed another yard to make that not a blocked punt. There were there were seven things in that game last night. If they go a different way, we're having a different conversation today.

20:21 And all the things worked out for Indiana and that's been their forte all season, which is why they're they had one of the greatest seasons of of all time. I would say like

20:29 greatest been doing this for 20 years and the only other time that I felt like today which was like I don't want to go to work and talk to people and have them go at me was like when the Heat lost to the Mavericks

20:43 JJ because we were so like it was us against the world. Yeah, it was we were the Heat show there.

20:50 Well, they were never really in that game six. You never felt it that night, you Yeah, I mean D. Wayade had that shot go off the back uh back iron there and we blew game five and like they were shadow boxing and just like it was a shell shocking experience and it was super embarrassing. This wasn't so embarrassing because Miami had a great

21:08 embarrassing at all. No, no, but it you know it still sings. Yeah. I don't want to be here.

21:15 Uh it can sting though, but I think I have it right when I say there's zero shame in it. uh you you I don't even know if today there is anywhere that I could tune in even into the most negative parts of Miami and hear people that we need to blame in situations that feel helpless that hurt. There's usually just a great need to blame. I don't think you can fairly blame much of anything that the Hurricanes did last night. You're quibbling with hair spplitting. Like there's no shame in losing to that team that way. I mean, we gave up a punt block for a touchdown when the opposing team was in safe coverage.

21:55 Okay. And they had a false start on second and one when they could have won the game by quarterback sneaking it won the season.

22:02 Yeah. But we lost by six and that was seven. I think it would be cruel, literally cruel to to blame the Hurricanes as the main emotion coming out of this, to blame Carson Beck even. Um, I I think they had a great season and I think that should be prioritized. If I were a Canes fan right now, I would feel really good. I would feel a trust in Mario Crisal to to work the portal again and and I would feel like the you was back. You know, you don't have to win everything to to be back. If if you get to the college football player for the first time and you plow through three good teams to reach the championship,

22:41 Chris Ball fixed it. He fixed it. It's the second worst loss in Kane's football history. It's not going to top the Fiesta Bowl in 2002. It's the second worst Kane's loss in their football program's history. It's worse than anything. Any loss from the

22:55 George Teague? Well, that's the other one that I would throw up there. But yeah, I I

22:59 What about Penn State? I would think that that would be one of the fatigue. See, that one's an excellent one. That that one's excellent for all the same reasons except for in that game, everyone knew Miami was better. Jimmy Johnson knew Miami was better. Jimmy Johnson still haunted by that game because he wouldn't stop throwing the football and it was his fault.

23:18 That's why you're sick. But that's why you're sick about it. When you're supposed to win and you don't, that to me seems like it would hurt.

23:24 That's a good one. Yeah. Like it's worse than any Marlins loss. It's worse than any Panthers loss. I think it's worse than any Dolphins loss. I do. Uh that the Heat have a couple that you throw in that range, too. So, it's it ranks pretty high among our our sports history. Is it worse than the Dolphins losing to Kellen Winslow senior's uh Chargers?

23:45 Was that divisional round uh in uh the Orange Bowl when they convert the hook and lateral and at the like Kell Winslow blocks a field goal? Is it is it worse than do you remember? We're going back a ways here. Is it Is it worse than that?

24:00 I don't think it it it is because that's not a championship game. See, I put the stakes of last night in a whole different category. That's why a a first round Heat playoff loss that that you alluded to earlier, I don't put in that category. Last night was for everything. Last night was for history. And and to be that close and and denied, I think is a whole different level than anything that precedes it.

24:25 If it matters, Dan, the Dolphins lose in Cincinnati in the Freezer Bowl, same as the Pretty Boys from SoCal. The Chargers did uh the following week against Ken Anderson and company.

24:34 Was that Was it the divisional round that the Dolphins lost that game? It was it was in that crazy year strike uh the strike year where you had the super playoffs or whatever they called them. Very strange entertaining.

24:46 Yeah, that was the Woodley uh Super Bowl. That's right. AJ Dwey. Mhm. Time now for Amin's weekend observations.

24:56 It is time for to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy.

25:03 Amin. Weekend observations is brought to you by Miller Lightite. Legendary moments start with a light. Weekend observations is also brought to you by letting a mean know that weekend observations will be moved to another day the morning of. Got up early on the rare day off because my kids didn't have school only to find out about oh 20 minutes before. Hey, by the way, we're punting it.

25:27 Thanks a lot, guys. Shout out to the busy show yesterday. I know. Who could have predicted it would be a BUSY SHOW YESTERDAY? HUH? I WONDER IF WE COULD HAVE SAW this coming from oh, maybe more than 20 minutes before I was supposed to go on.

25:41 Do you have the right microphone selected? I don't know. Happy MLK day. Happy MLK day indeed. Now, now Jeremy's got me in my feelings. Is my microphone selected?

25:53 You sound better right now. You sound a little bit better. Not much. Dave, we'll have to come back on this super playoffs. Oh, that's much better. That's much better.

26:02 So clean. Then full disclosure, I watched nothing but NBA basketball all night until halftime of Heat versus Warriors. Then I flipped on the Canes game just in time to see the game-sealing drive. Chris Cody, how close were we to the prophecy?

26:22 Kane's down six. Marching down the field less than a minute ago. I sat there saying, "Holy [ __ ] it's going to happen. They're going to score to tie the game and Mario's going to go for two.

26:38 God would have said that. So close. This is all Dan's fault. Broncos Bills a thriller. How about that? Mims Junior catch. You guys didn't even talk about that yesterday. Now he knows what housewives and girlfriends all over the world feel when they roll over and get poked in the back. Mims, this is why I'm hot.

27:02 Hey, Zaz looks like a line cook at a waffle house in the Redlands. That joke was from yesterday.

27:09 Pretty bandana. That's great. A mean's been down. Yeah, the Redlands. Yeah. Specific kind of Waffle House. You don't get this in Metro Miami.

27:22 Josh Allen channeling his inner Patrick Mahomes with that scoop throw under pressure. Now all he needs is an annoying wife and an even more annoying brother and he will have come for all of Mahome's stuff. Well, that in a Super Bowl, I guess.

27:39 Nothing says NFL playoffs like Jason Staithm. Stumm. No, Jason Staithm. I don't know if you saw the Jared

27:47 the intros. Jason Staithm was doing Oh, my bad. I'm sorry. Beekeeper. James Mulaney.

27:52 My bad. Misconnection. You are the guy in all white who locked eyes with me. I was Carson Beck with 44 seconds to go. NerS should have forfeited immediately after the Shahed kickoff return for a touchdown. Wasted everybody's time. Congrats to the NFL in coming out and taking a stance for genocide. Eagerly awaiting their pay the teachers even less campaign. You guys see that? Find my my boy because he had stopped genocide on his face. That's a finable offense. Stopping genocide.

28:31 Personal message. Dave Damashek was born to be a muppet. AFCON is over. What in hell? What? What the hell?

28:41 What the hell just happened here? Exactly. Tell me he's not a muppet. The way he talks, the way he moves around, the voice.

28:51 WHAT? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? I don't see your I get on an airplane and fly across this country to have a nice conversation with people who I thought were enjoyable and now this.

29:08 Hey Lucy. Hey. Appcon is over. Going to miss my dad screaming at people to pass the ball. Congrats to Congrats to Sagal. Big time win on hostile ground. I don't know if you guys saw this. A lot of shenanigans going on in Morocco. Sio Manet. Class act. RIP to Danny Benavante. Very funny local comedian who passed away recently. You will be missed. Actor, activist, filmmaker Jesse Williams has a new documentary on Hulu about how Dr. Martin Luther King was an avid basketball player. He's out there getting buckets and with a shirt and tie on, wearing hard pockets.

29:58 Now I want AI to simulate a massive one-on-one tournament of historical figures. Can you imagine MLK crossing up Trump?

30:05 Oh, Abe Lincoln would be great in the post. Oh, yeah. Especially with that hat. Or

30:09 how about Obama hitting Fidel Castro with the step back. Then he finds Bernie Sanders on the wing for the weather. Tony, would you play against MLK one-on-one?

30:20 I 5'7. I mean, I'm dominating MLK in the post. Sorry to say that after MLK day, but I'm just saying a foot taller almost.

30:28 John Morant, 24 and 13 in London. Greatest infomercial possible. Shout out to Jerry from the tire shop at my local Costco. You're a real one.

30:42 Yeah. Tonight's a big game. You guys know how I know tonight's a big game. How's that?

30:49 Because Master Tesation is in studio. Oh, wait. That's from yesterday also. Sorry. Some of these are pre-arranged. Let me Where's the material? New material. Oh, here we go. Shout out to the cameraman who put a Bella Danger on the screen in the middle of the fourth quarter comeback. No doubt a discerning gentleman who's a fan of great titles like Pure Taboo, Kink University, and Anal Destruction 4. Anyone a fan of Lesbian Hospital Affairs? That's a good one, too.

31:20 Who is she? Yeah, who is she? I don't know. Zaz was asking this morning. Who is she?

31:26 Greg. Cinnaphobe, episode 296, Dead Man on Campus, starring Mark Paul Gosler, aka Zack Morris from Save by the Bell. There she is.

31:34 Who is that? Allison Hanigan aka one time in band camp from American Pie and a young Jason Seagull. Miss Cass is a jock with an anger problem. Did you guys have that rumor in college that if your roommate dies or commits suicide, you get a 4.0?

31:49 No. I'm sorry. I was laughing because Greg Cody just said at the mic, ah, after Chris told him who that was. So like what just happened there was my own private

31:59 lesbian hospital affairs. Come on. I'm an innocent. Keep up. Anyone delighted that Jimmy Butler tore his ACL is going straight to hell?

32:08 I thought you Yeah, Mike Brian. You, not me. Speaking of hell, Art Briles, those are the weekend observations.

32:16 Going to hell. I've been in hell. Uh, thank you, Amain. Uh, nice seeing you. I'm sorry that we uh did the poor planning thing and uh insulted you yesterday. I was INSULTED TODAY, MINUTES AGO. Even

32:31 uh Pablo Pascal as a muppet is with us here in the corner. Uh uh Kermit, who's Pablo Pascal?

32:38 Uh Pedro, excuse me. Uh Football America. Football America. Stay thing through me.

32:44 Is Monday and Friday. Uh this super playoffs that you were speaking of before confused a whole lot of people here. I don't know what the super playoff

32:53 there was a there was a strike in 82 and so they expanded the playoffs to eight teams a conference and which was you know wild stuff and um so just looking at the game I'm sure you don't care about the matchup now basically

33:10 they call it the Super Bowl they called it the Super Bowl tournament I don't know why they attached that name to it but they did

33:17 uh does Greg Cody have any recollection of this as our local historian We had a few instances on our recent episode where Dave was in and Dave just goes into like the old like you remember this Miami game and my dad is just nodding along and you can tell that he's not really following the specifics.

33:32 Well, for you guys noteworthy is that the Dolphins got the rematch against the Chargers after the Orange Bowl uh you know the the battle of the Bavarian kickers. U von Shaman losing out to Ralph Berska in 81 but in 83 in 82 you guys house

33:48 he's making this up right? No, no. In ' 82, they had there was a strike. They had replacement players for much of the season. It was an eightgame season. The Dolphins replacement quarterback was a guy named Kyle Mackey. And and somehow they wound up going to the Super Bowl after an eightgame regular season.

34:06 Well, I'll tell you what it you know, I think he had five career interceptions. AJ Dwey had three.

34:12 Yes. In the rainstorm off of Dick Todd's right arm. That's right. I think that was a 14 nothing.

34:18 Richard Todd. Richard Todd. No one called him dick Todd. Also, I just did. I did.

34:22 Uh, Lewis, do me the favor, please, of just putting up before the end of the segment here, Ralph Bernerska because he just mentioned Uve von Shaman against Ralph Bonerska. And the best fact that I've got for you on Ralph Berska, who later went on to host Wheel of Fortune.

34:38 What? You beat me to it, Dan. I'm not. I got a camera on that spell. He's like I can see his mouth like

34:49 but was Sjack on strike? Was like like how did Ralph Burka become Wheel of Fortune host?

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36:19 You haven't been tested. Our minds, bodies, and spirits have been in hell since Halloween. You're walking into AN ASYLUM. DAN LEITARD, TELL ME THE BIG GAME THAT A MARIO CRYSTAL BALL COACH TEAM has not shown up for since he's BEEN AT MIAMI. I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU. I think they're actually going to be shocked at how not home gamey this is going to feel for Indiana. They thought that they were going to fly into this home because no one on my plane is a Miami fan. It's crazy. And they're going to be hit in the mouth by not just a football team, but by the crowd. The same folks picking you have been pouring dirt on our grave for two and a half months. We're still standing.

36:59 Miami is going to average at least four yards a rush. Miami matches up really well here. I think Miami is going to go on 14 play drives. I think Miami is going to lean on these guys. They present a matchup problem that they haven't really encountered. And I think we're going to see a team wear out over the course of the game. I think uh styles make fights and this is a really good matchup and it's going to be a difficult one for Indiana. I think I think Indiana's going to know right away they're in for a fight and I think Miami wins. Go Canes.

37:32 We're forged in fire and been fighting for our lives longer than you've mattered. See you in a week. Spot the goddamn ball.

37:40 All right, I stand by it. I will be beating it. The number SIX GOES. How do I get put in the parade of gas bags? was reading a quote FROM MIKE RYAN. NONE OF THOSE WERE my words. None of them.

37:52 You said it. It's unfair. Jeremy, you were secretly delighted last night, weren't you?

37:57 Secretly. Midway through the second quarter, he's like, I'm going to get going on the montage.

38:03 Greg, do you have a back in my day? It's Tuesday. Uh, no. I I just didn't have time. I've been a little busy lately.

38:09 Uh, can you guys get me uh as much uh Ralph Berserka uh information as you can here?

38:15 So, again, hold on. Let's let's rewind this for a second. Who are these people?

38:20 They're It's Uve von Shaman and Ralph Berska. U Von Shaman. Dig up a picture of Uve Von Shaman. He was quite a looker. That was a professional athlete. You have to keep in mind as you stare at his bald head.

38:32 Is it Ralph or Ralph? Ralph. Ralph. Oh, hell yeah. Ralph Shaman. Ral. Sweet. Let's go.

38:38 Uh, can you find out for me though why he was hosting Wheel of Fortune? Was Pat Sjack on strike? What was happening that made Ralph Bonerska be the host of Wheel of Fortune for a very brief period of time? It was a very strange thing and I'd like as much information on this as you guys can get me.

38:56 Passion Project is everyone just going to look at me and no one's going to look this up because I'm sure it's not that hard to find whatever it is that uh that Ralph Bernerski didn't host for very long. Uh incidentally here

39:08 is that Rol LF? Uh I think it's just one F. One F. Yeah. Uh, I was remiss in not mentioning this yesterday, so forgive me for this. Uh, please.

39:17 He had ulcerative colitis. Good for him. Inspirational story. Forgive me for not mentioning this. Yesterday, uh, Stugat returned to live radio yesterday, 3 to 5 Eastern, Fox Sports Radio on 270 affiliates. You should check out Stugatsson Company. Uh he is building out an empire and he's going back to his first love. I've expected him here for months. I don't know why he's not here. Uh hopefully we'll get some clarity on that uh soon. We do not have clarity. I expected him back this month. Uh Tony, what did you find on Ralph Berska?

40:00 So in 1989 he hosted Wheel of Fortune for a short period while Pat Sjack left to do a version of his own late night TV show. um about six months worth of Wheel of Fortune for Ralph Bernerski.

40:15 Uh can you guys imagine that? Like I don't even know I I really don't know who I can put as a kicker in the modern game with a funnier name as the host as a random host of Wheel of

40:28 Sebastian Janikowski than Ralph Ralph Bonerska. Did people know he was a kicker? Like oh that guy I I know who he is.

40:36 No. No. Like who's this guy? No, if you think kickers are not famous now, I had an idea actually. Uh I I didn't pose it yesterday and I meant to. Uh I really failed in this regard. Uh Xavier Lucas was out for the first half of the game yesterday because of the targeting call in the previous game. And given the general anonymity of football players inside the uniform, I was actually thinking, what if they just put Xavier Lucas in another uniform and didn't tell didn't tell anybody that it was Xavier Lucas and everybody like me? Holy [ __ ] that guy's

41:12 just put him in a different uniform that no one has seen play all season and don't tell anybody.

41:18 Oregon's kicker is named Attakus Sappington. Oh, that that name I've heard. That guy's nice.

41:22 Y Sappington. What a name. Attakus. I love that guy. Uh Lucy, uh the game last night, because one of the things that was most wrong that we got most wrong around here is wasn't really a home game for Miami in terms of the feeling and the energy of the crowd, right?

41:42 Yeah. I I feel like I said that I thought there would be a lot of Indiana fans. To me, we were up top, so we got to kind of see like the overhead. It looked like 6040. I did not expect this to beif I mean 5050 was probably closer to what maybe I thought it would be but I never expected it to feel like entirely Miami because the thing with Indiana fans is one that they have a wealthy you know alumni alumni base they have a top 10 business school also they've never been here before so like why would you not splurge and get this you know ticket I thought it was a great crowd I think it was interesting of like walking around the stadium before the game you could feel the difference in the sections where Miami it was there was an intensity to it of just like kind of knowing how much this game meant and whatever and Indiana was like we're just here and this is awesome and life is great. It was very different vibes.

42:27 Look at Tony back there. He will never forgive Roy Bellamy. I don't know if there's anything that we've taken from today more than uh Tony promising us that 60 years from now he will still not have arrived at forgiveness for Roy Bellamy for

42:42 never. I said never like I will never forgive him. Look at that face, Dan, as the ball's in the air and all of a sudden number 22 is intercepting it and I'm just thinking interception's coming here and I'm like, I'm going to never forgive him. Uh, do you guys I don't know if you find it funny, but do you find it interesting in in the way that history forgets the details that uh you may remember going forward the way that that game ended and it'll stick to Carson Beck forever that he's got six losses in college football and four of them he had the chance to win at the end and threw an interception. But the fact that very possibly he was concussed and he's telling you my ears were ringing.

43:21 Okay, my I'm I'm taking snaps and it's not crowd noise. It's not anything else. The fact that history will forget that in that moment you've got a quarterback who's quite possibly impaired making a decision that ends up being a the totally wrong decision to make. You do not throw to that receiver in double coverage in that spot. Marian took the blame for that, which I I don't even know what he's doing there. Like he said he never saw the ball and that he's supposed to go and contest the play. Uh quiet as it's kept. Puka Nakua got the Rams to advance because he played defense on a throw that would have been intercepted against Carolina.

43:58 He said that interception was all on him. Marian said the interception was all on him. But I'm I How do you do this? We're We're famously bad at concussion talk. We become doctors and we do diagnosis. But when on second and 15 you're getting the penalty that is showing you on video, oh, he's hit the back of his head there on the turf and now he tells you his ears are ringing. That's an impaired quarterback. And I I wonder uh whether those details matter at all. They don't. Right. History forgets all of them.

44:28 Yeah. I I think it matters in the immediiacy if Carson Beck admits that he may have been

44:33 Woo. He kind of did. He was woozy. He doesn't have to admit it. The way he got up made it obvious wobbly and and everybody was like, let's still roll with concuss Carson Beck.

44:41 Spoiler alert. If the Patriots go on to win the Super Bowl, it will be a footnote that they beat the backup of the Broncos to get to that Super Bowl. Well, let's talk about this for a second. It's not just merely that they've had the easiest schedule, which the Patriots did this year. Go look at just their the history of good fortune here that they've had the entirety of the season, which is nuts. But all of that stuff gets forgotten. Nobody Nobody cares at the end if it's an imperfect measurement system. It doesn't matter.

45:07 I don't discount what Diana Rousini said on this show earlier today. I think that that that the Broncos now have more incentive than they did, if that's possible. I think the defense is good enough. I think New England is overrated enough based on their schedule. It wouldn't shock me in the least for Denver at home minus five or plus five and a half to win that game over.

45:30 I'd be pretty surprised. I mean, it would be shocking. It really I don't think it would be.

45:33 It will definitely come up as a factor that I think is one of the most overrated things mentioned in sports. The advantage that Denver teams have at home. Oh, it's the thin air up there. Then why don't they all go undefeated? Why don't they all have remarkable home records? They don't. Spoiler alert. Once again,

45:52 I don't think that's how spoiler alerts work. I don't think that uh spoilers. I was spoiling you looking up their career their their uh their records to disprove my point. I am right. They none of them went undefeated at home in any given.

46:06 Aren't they like eight and one at home? I could be wrong. That's off the top. I'm talking about the nuggets in the abs. You you you get my larger point.

46:12 In the what? Sure. Can I jump in real fast? If you think you've got the boldest take of the week, we want to bring that segment back. Prove it. Call 305486. Gots.

46:22 Also, per Jeff Passen, the Miami Marlins are acquiring right-hander Bradley Bllelock from the Colorado Rockies for a minor league pitcher.

46:34 Block was DFA by the Rockies last week. This will give Miami additional pitching depth after trading away Edward Cabera and Ryan Weathers. I'm still confused by what happened on that phone call between Barkley and his bookie.

46:47 I know.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan) | DLS 1/20 Pt. 2"?

Brad Williams (Guest).

What is discussed in "Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan) | DLS 1/20 Pt. 2"?

In order: 0:00 Brad Williams, Jeff Halfley, Chris Schula; 5:00 Brad Williams, Miami Dolphins, Chris Schula, ACC; 10:00 Brad Williams, Nick Foles; 15:00 Brad Williams.

What is mentioned in this LeBatardShow episode?

7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Brad Williams, Miami Dolphins, Mario Cristobal, Jeff Halfley, Chris Schula, ACC. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Jason Stidham, Pablo Pascal, and a Muppet (feat. Brad Williams and Amin Elhassan) | DLS 1/20 Pt. 2"?

The episode runs 47 min; the transcript is about 8,774 words in 167 timestamped sections.

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