Greg Cote kicks off the show with one of his best hits, the Gary Stevens and Bernie Parmalee story. Then, Dan examines Kevin Durant's comments in response to an ESPN report about Suns locker room toxicity and reveals how Suns owner Matt Ishbia's management of Phoenix impacted the Miami Heat. Also, is crying male weakness? The story from Jimmy Butler's camp's perspective seems to think so. Plus, how much better are the Eagles than the Chiefs? Is Howie Roseman a genius? Did Andy Reid get undressed? Did the Chiefs just need to run the damn ball? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Greg Cote's connection to the Miami Dolphins' past?
Baby! And I meant it literally. That kind of thing. He's ready. I am ready. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I am, but I get a bad rap. This time I was ready to go. My phone is off. My computer sound is off. Everything's good to go. I'm so ready, my name's Freddy. There it is.
The thing that he said there, I just want to examine it because he is legitimately the only person in the world keeping alive Gary Stevens, the former offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins, walking into a press room 40 years ago before a game in which the Dolphins were going to play the Bills with Bernie Palmoli as their running back. And he walks into the press room, Gary Stevens.
Lifelong offensive coordinator. Never graduated to a head coaching job, even though there were protests and people in Miami and every corner of the University of Miami were rooting for him to get a head coaching job he never got. He would come into the press room, usually smoking a cigarette, because back then you could do that.
My man.
And he would just say, who needs me? Dummy.
Right. As if someone automatically did need him. Who needs me? Dummy. You're going to go to Buffalo.
With Bernie Parmelee? That story's like Piano Man. I've heard it a few times, but it just slaps every time.
It's always good.
It's the best. I'm singing along with it. I'm like, who needs me?
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Chapter 2: How did Kevin Durant react to the Suns' locker room toxicity report?
He did try to buy OpenAI for like $97.4 billion and the counter was... We'll just buy X for $9 billion. No thanks.
So I wanted to explore, though, the parts of this that happened with the Miami Heat as it relates to Kevin Durant. First of all, you should know that was not close. It was never close. There was nothing close there. So not a whiff?
It wasn't a whiff by Riley?
It was not a whiff. It wasn't close. Well, it's a whiff if you think. This is where it is a whiff, okay? The reason it wasn't close is because of the heat, not because of the sun, and because the ask was, according to the people I've talked to, our entire team. It wasn't one of these young players. It wasn't Jaquez and Ware. It was they wanted our whole team.
And Ishbia isn't going to trade Durant. He's not going to trade Durant for pennies on the dime. He's not going to blindside Durant unless he was just sort of sniffing around on what's the most I can get for Durant. I know the Miami Heat are interested in this.
I mean, the Suns have a better record than the Heat. Maybe they should have done it. Do you think so? Trade the whole team? For Kevin Durant? Imagine if they just trade jerseys.
For a 36-year-old Kevin Durant. It seems like Riley's going to have fun.
He would have landed a whale. Seems like a big ask. Also, what do the Suns do then? They have way too many players. Right.
It seems like the opportunity to whiff on Kevin Durant will present itself once again. And I know we're on the heat aspect of it right now. But one thing that I can say with certainty is toxicity is subjective. I guess Kevin Durant famously just cares about ball, keeps his head down. Whatever the locker room situation is in Phoenix, he prefers that well over going back to Golden State.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind the Miami Heat's interest in Kevin Durant?
He was dealing with a neck thing on the sideline that they were working on throughout that game.
After that play. It was after that play that they started dealing with that.
No doubt. To the Roseman point, Great offseason. Potentially one of the greatest ever. Amazing. Hired Fangio. We know Fangio wanted to go back to that area. But hired Kellen Moore, who had to rebuild his reputation, now maybe a head coach in the league, possibly New Orleans. Signed Saquon Barkley. Signed Zach Bond, who was amazing for them. C.J. Gardner-Johnson was also a sign.
Mekhi Becton was huge for them. Traded for John Dodson. Drafted Quentin Mitchell and Cooper DeGene. And honestly, we should look back at this Carson Wentz trade and supplant... The Herschel Walker trade. This is the greatest trade in NFL history because in the Carson Wentz trade, they got Devontae Smith, A.J. Brown, Jalen Carter, Cooper DeJean. These are all picks that turned into these players.
And don't forget, they ended up flipping Carson Wentz for a bunch of picks, and those guys became guys. He also didn't cut A.J.
Brown in the middle of the playoff from reading a book on the sidelines. Like Samson said he should.
Yeah. By the way, anybody could have had Becton, including the Dolphins. The Jets had him. And they didn't go for him. The Philadelphia Eagles, three of their top five players are offensive linemen. I don't know whether that's unheard of, but it's certainly rare, and it showed.
And I can't overemphasize that, in my opinion, the Eagles are great because their offensive and defensive lines are great. Nobody talks about the two lines much enough, but that's fundamentally why they're champions.
It may have been nobody talking much about it beforehand. That ceases today, though, because even though the quarterback, even though a lot of people are talking about Jalen Hurts and trying to elevate him a tier the way that Stugatz is, I think most people acknowledge how it is and where it is that that game was won in a way that was obvious.
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Chapter 5: How does AI threaten traditional content creation?
It's easy and fair to say in retrospect that Kansas City should have run the ball more. One of the Chiefs' problems this year is that they didn't run the ball very well. Pacheco and Kareem Hunt Both averaged 3.4 yards a carry. Well below average. This is not a great running team.
I love football so much. Nick Sirianni was the guy who couldn't win the big game. He was crazy. He was a lunatic. And now he's a leader of men. And Andy Reid doesn't know what he's doing.
That's stupid. What would Andy Reid's honest reaction be to Mike's note? Hey, should have ran the ball more. Like, what would he say? Yes.
Yes, he's right.
He'd probably be like, no shit.
Yes, he would be right. They ran the ball seven times when it wasn't Mahomes running the ball. But I just want you to, I want you all to absorb, I want you all to just let this soak in, okay? What you saw on Sunday was so shocking that Mike Ryan is boldly coming in here with the argument, you know what needs to happen? I need to take the ball out of Mahomes' hands and give it to Pacheco. And Hunt.
Yes, I need to take it out of the hands. That offense was so limited all season and we forgot just because Hollywood Brown comes back and they scored 30 for the first time all season against Buffalo. That offense was bad this year. And Mahomes was the one always bailing him out. It wasn't Pacheco. It wasn't Kareem Hunt.
It wasn't running the ball unless it was Mahomes running the ball on third and five for seven yards.
I tried to tell you.
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