In hour one, from the epic collapse to Tua Tagovailoa's inflammatory postgame comments, the Dolphins are the talk of the NFL for all of the wrong reasons. Crowder discusses the obvious lack of respect Tua has in the locker room.
00:00Breaking news though, if you wagered on Mike McDaniel to be the first head coach fired this season in the NFL,
00:09because he was the odds on favorite from week one, you lost your bet.
00:16Because the Titans have fired Brian Callahan, Cam Ward, coach killer.
00:23Mike McDaniel survives the first firing of the NFL season in 2025.
00:34Isn't the saying, hire slow, fire fast? We don't go by that.
00:39We do not go by that. I know people don't want to hear that, but I read another report today from Ian Rappaport that they are going to be patient.
00:49They are not in any rush to make any changes.
00:55Here's the thing that drives me crazy.
00:59And this was like week one. This is every week.
01:02The Dolphins can't just lose a close game.
01:05There were plenty of close games.
01:07There were blowouts.
01:09Dolphins had the lead with a minute to go against a team that was favored against them.
01:14And so the Dolphins, you know, and Tua gave you the little game winning drive almost.
01:20I mean, and then they can't.
01:23And so they, they lose a close game happens all the time in the NFL, but not with the Dolphins.
01:29Then Tua has got to say what he said in the post-game press conference.
01:34And now instead of just having a disappointing close loss, you've got an organization that's in disarray.
01:45They're the laughingstock of the league.
01:47They are being talked about on every show on earth.
01:54You know, Emmanuel Acho does a YouTube show Sunday nights after the games.
02:00It started with him.
02:02It went to NFL network.
02:05It woke up this morning and it jumped on to get up and it jumped on to first take and it jumped on to Pat McAfee and every other show.
02:15They can't just lose a game.
02:17They have to be the talk for all the wrong reasons of the league and sports media.
02:24And I said this, I can't remember if it was the Indianapolis game, but at what point does Steven Ross become tired of being fodder or owning a terrible organization?
02:40Hell with one in five.
02:41You're embarrassing me.
02:43You're embarrassing me.
02:45You saw the video yesterday.
02:46He came down to the field with Tom Garfinkel.
02:49They thought that they were going to walk out and congratulate Tua and Mike McDaniel for overcoming the adversity that they've overcome over the last.
02:59I shouldn't say they've overcome that.
03:01They thought they had overcome for the last few weeks.
03:04Steven Ross, Tom Garfinkel are down on the field.
03:07You know, they got to move from the suite, the owner's suite down to the field.
03:11And so by the time they get down there, you know, Dolphins are winning and what could go wrong?
03:17I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
03:21I saw someone write about, uh, I saw someone write about Jalen Phillips, that he's the, the guy who has warning track power in baseball.
03:30That he's always right there.
03:35And so Steven Ross is down on the field and that has to be embarrassing.
03:39I mean, that has to be wildly embarrassing.
03:42He didn't run down to the field to witness a collapse.
03:46He ran down to the field to congratulate his team for overcoming adversity and beating the head-to-head matchup against Justin Herbert.
03:57And, and then he was just standing there in the heat.
04:02It's embarrassing him to hell with the record, but James Franklin gets fired at three and three.
04:07The Tennessee guy is fired at one and five.
04:09We're being patient with McDaniel.
04:12So that's just, I don't know how much, and it's the butt whoopings.
04:16I'm getting to this point.
04:17The Colts butt whooping, it hits me less than the collapses.
04:22When Tua threw that second interception, I was at the stadium.
04:25I was in the alumni box.
04:27I said, this is, this is the collapse right here.
04:29Then they go down and score.
04:31And you see for a quarter, damn near 20 minutes left, 20 minutes of game time.
04:36Neither side of the ball wanted to play football.
04:38Like it's supposed to be turnover.
04:40Hey y'all, let's go get that thing back for the offense.
04:42No turnover.
04:44Okay.
04:44We're going to let a little boy that had 140 yards in his life go run for 121 on us.
04:50That's what we're going to do after this turnover.
04:52There are collapses.
04:54And, oh, I'm telling you, if Tua wants to be respected and earn leadership, don't go and snitch on your teammates to the national media.
05:03I mean, like, so if you want to talk about leadership, leadership is not telling the national media, oh yeah, I threw three interceptions, but nobody's coming to the players only meetings.
05:15Tua, boy, if, if there's any, we talk about those dogs that we always say they don't have many on the dog.
05:20But if anybody is a dog, they're walking up on Tua chest to chest this morning, bro, you're going to do that to your teammates in, in the national media post game after your ass through three interceptions.
05:32Hey, fella, you, you need to tighten up.
05:35Like, and by the way, it might be a fight.
05:37I just want to point out, right.
05:39You got a Des Bryant on that team.
05:40Cause she would tweet it.
05:41You got a Des Bryant on that team.
05:42And you do that nonsense.
05:44There's going to be a fight.
05:45I just want to point out.
05:47The first interception was not to his fault.
05:49That was Jalen Waddle's fault.
05:50The third interception was the funniest effing thing I've ever seen in my life.
05:55I've never, now, I don't know.
05:58Has that ever happened before?
06:00On the, on the lateral play at the end of the game, have you ever seen a defensive back jump the pass?
06:09Like that was, it could not have ended more perfectly.
06:13That game could not have ended in a funnier fashion.
06:15That was a thousand times funnier than the Seinfeld finale.
06:18Like that, that was, I was rolling on the floor laughing at that interception.
06:24That was comedy at its highest level.
06:28They can't throw the ball this, hell, Tua can't throw the ball from the 50 to the end zone.
06:33They're going to, they're going to turn somebody around on the hook.
06:36And Derwin James just sat there and stared at both number twos and broke on it.
06:40I mean, unbelievable.
06:42I was listening, I was listening to the radio broadcast and they're like, all right, well, they're going to have to pull out another Miami miracle.
06:49Cephalo's like, cause you know, that ball's not getting to the end zone.
06:52Joe's like, that's not getting to the end zone.
06:55Andrew Catalan said the same thing.
06:57He's like, Hey, we all remember the Miami miracle.
06:59Like it could happen.
07:00And, and I was just like thinking to myself, Hey, you know, what's happened this season.
07:05Every time the ball gets in Devon H and his hands, something magical happens.
07:11Let's see magic.
07:17That's our, that's our form of magic down here.
07:19That's the funniest, that's the funniest play I've ever seen since the Miami Dolphins threw a screen pass into the back of the end zone, their own end zone.
07:32It's like, Hey, could we do something funnier than Malik Washington having four receptions for no yards?
07:40Yes, I think we can.
07:42Do you know the end of the game when teams all over the league start throwing the lateral plays?
07:49I'm going to telegraph one and throw it so poorly that it's actually going to be intercepted.
07:55Oh, you mean like on one of the laterals, someone's going to grab it?
07:59No, no, no.
08:00The original pass is going to get intercepted.
08:04Wait till you see this.
08:05In fact, someone call Steven Ross and Tom Garfinkel.
08:08Tell him to come down here for this.
08:10It's going to be great.
08:12Tell him to get down here.
08:14This has never been seen before.
08:16But Tua, he sailed one to Malik Washington.
08:22He sailed one to Waddle in the first half.
08:24He sailed two balls out.
08:25They were wide open.
08:27That interception, when he was throwing it to A-chan, that was behind him and low.
08:32Behind and low is an interception.
08:34The corners are going to be behind and low.
08:37That's where their job is to be.
08:38That was 100% his fault.
08:40So, now, they ask you what went wrong, and you go on a rant about player-only meetings?
08:47And let me tell you, this goes deeper because this is a deeper problem.
08:50And it became a – Tua didn't know.
08:52I don't think he's malicious, but he's not calculated.
08:56This made the problem bigger.
08:58Oh, yeah.
09:00Because now, let me tell you a schedule of an NFL day.
09:03You get there about 6 a.m.
09:05You know what you go straight to?
09:07Meetings.
09:08You meet.
09:09And then after that meeting, there's another meeting.
09:11And then you're in defense and offensive meetings.
09:13Then you break off into individual meetings.
09:16Then you work out.
09:18You practice.
09:18You go eat lunch after practice.
09:20Oh, what's after that?
09:22Meetings and meetings and meetings.
09:24And the coaches have had these bastards in meetings for six hours.
09:29They haven't established enough of the game plan that now you have to plan another meeting to talk about the meetings.
09:37It is stupid.
09:38This player-only meeting stuff, it means like, oh, we've got together.
09:41We've pulled it together now.
09:44We're having player-only meetings.
09:45It's a waste of time.
09:46If you have to meet more than six, seven hours a day that you're meeting with the people that implemented a game plan,
09:51what the hell are they doing in their meeting?
09:54They're playing Yahtzee in these damn meetings that you're in meetings more than you're in life.
09:59I think if they were playing Yahtzee, the people would show up.
10:01They're not playing Yahtzee.
10:03Somebody's just droning on and on.
10:05A month and a half of meetings.
10:08We need player-only meetings.
10:10And now he's late.
10:11I threw it low and behind A-Chan because I was going to tell A-Chan in the player-only meeting I'm throwing it low and behind him.
10:18Get out of here, man.
10:19It sounds so dumb.
10:21To your point, we're losing.
10:23We're not a good football team.
10:25This crap is embarrassing.
10:27People that are hearing Tua's comments yesterday are saying the same thing I'm saying right now.
10:31What the hell are they having player-only meetings for?
10:32They're not doing enough in regular meetings?
10:35That's honestly something about the coaching staff if they have to have extra, extra, extra, extra meetings on top of y'all bastards' meetings.
10:42It is embarrassing right now.
10:45Damian Woody was saying something like that today.
10:47He was like, you're six weeks in.
10:48Like, your people aren't showing up for players' meetings six weeks in?
10:53Maybe address that before the season?
10:55Or like, he was like perplexed at the whole concept of players-only meetings and people aren't showing up or they're late.
11:04And it being six weeks into the season, we're going to get to everything.
11:11We have an abbreviated show today because it's Columbus Day and the Miami Heat have a preseason Columbus Day matchup.
11:20We've all been waiting for this against the Atlanta Hawks.
11:23I know, you know, most people probably won't watch Monday Night Football tonight.
11:27Certainly not the early game because we're going to be glued to this.
11:31So, we have an abbreviated show because you have to get, if you can't get an hour and a half worth of NBA preseason pregame on Columbus Day,
11:40I mean, what kind of sports station are we?
11:43So, because we have an abbreviated show, let's get headlines real quick because I do have a lot of stuff I want to get to from the media and all the hubbubs surrounding Tua and the loss yesterday.
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12:02The Heat play at 6, not because it's Columbus Day.
12:05The Heat play at 6 because the Falcons are the ones playing on Monday Night Football at 7.15, the first of a doubleheader for Monday Night Football.
12:13So, Atlanta said, hey, we'll start the game at 6.
12:17That way, people can come, watch the first half, and then jet over to Mercedes-Benz Stadium and watch the Falcons host the Bills at 7.15.
12:27Nobody's doing that.
12:28Yeah, I want to see how many people do that.
12:30I think it's the same number of people that jumped off the Uruguayan Stadium in 1931.
12:36Same amount of people at these player-only meetings.
12:43Guys?
12:45Hello?
12:48Panthers play tonight as well.
12:51And your Monday Night Doubleheader, Falcons versus Bills, 7.15.
12:55Commanders versus Da Bears at 8.15.
13:008.15.
13:01Six-team parlay.
13:02The Commanders have to win as the sixth league.
13:05Ooh, let's go.
13:07I'm betting the Bears, though, tonight.
13:08I like the Bears getting the points.
13:09Oh, right after I said what I just said, you're going to bet against me?
13:12Crazy.
13:12It's probably good news for you.
13:15You know what?
13:19Hey, Cats are 3-0.
13:20By the way, the Heat lost to the Magic yesterday.
13:22They're 0-4 in preseason action.
13:26I mean, this Keyshaud Johnson is going to have to start showing something.
13:30I see you saw Ira Winterman's tweet, I imagine.
13:33Word for word.
13:33He literally tweeted that out.
13:43So I was like, oh, I'll use that at some point.
13:44I heard, I just heard Spoh roasted Kal-El again.
13:51I like it.
13:52He didn't roast Kal-El.
13:54He didn't roast him.
13:56He kind of roasted him again.
13:59He did.
13:59I listened to Tobin and Leroy, and they were like, oh, he's doing it to toughen him up.
14:02I was like, oh, he must have loosed his ass out.
14:08The pigeon.
14:12Hawk, you mentioned that Ian Rappaport report.
14:16That's funny.
14:17This is it.
14:19Joe Shad tweeted this out.
14:20From my understanding, this is a quote from Ian Rappaport.
14:22From my understanding, it would take something significant for the Miami Dolphins to move on from the head coach.
14:27They just extended a head coach that Steven Ross really likes and believes in.
14:31The Dolphins want this to work and believe it will work.
14:35Well, see, that's the part.
14:37Listen, if you say, hey, we're going to be patient because we don't think a change in the middle of the season is going to do anything,
14:44and so we'll reassess at the end of the season, that I can buy into.
14:48If you're still saying you think this is going to work, then I have to question everything.
14:55At some point, don't they have to worry about season ticket re-ups and sponsorships?
15:01You know, they really don't.
15:04That's how powerful the NFL is.
15:06I'm being honest.
15:07I read something about the television ratings and the revenue over the weekend, and no, they really don't have to worry about that.
15:16What you have to worry about, I think, is legacy, and generally, if you're a billionaire owner, you probably take pride in your business.
15:26And, you know, we know what Jerry Jones has tried to do in Dallas, had success at the beginning, but they get, you know, very, they're wired to win.
15:37And I think the only motivator for Stephen Ross, it's not money.
15:44This thing is worth billions more than what he paid for it, billions with a B, more than what he paid for it.
15:50The only thing that has to be a motivator for him is the legacy of leaving a successful franchise,
15:58but also not being embarrassed on a weekly basis in front of the national media.
16:05Hawk, the only reason I disagree, because you're not wrong, fans not showing up for two seasons isn't going to hurt the pocketbook in any, you know, harsh way.
16:15It's just not.
16:15But the only thing Stephen Ross can hang his hat on as the owner of the Dolphins is what?
16:21We always say, the caveat of Stephen Ross, he's put money into the facility.
16:26He's made Miami a go-to destination, not just for the NFL, college football, F1.
16:32Like, he's made Miami Gardens into a destination.
16:35In itself, fascinating.
16:37The money he's put in, himself, into rebuilding that stadium and to making that a top-notch facility.
16:44People not showing up to watch his team and to be at the place he built, in my opinion, hurts him emotionally.
16:53Seeing empty stands.
16:54But how could it not hurt him?
16:55Like, how would that hurt him more emotionally than watching Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee and Mike Greenberg and every NFL player talk about?
17:05I don't think he actually consumes that stuff the way we do.
17:09Yeah, but how often is he at the games as well?
17:11Like, I don't think it's any more embarrassing to not have fans in the seats than it is to be the laughingstock of the national sports media.
17:24I think it's six to one, half a dozen to another.
17:25And talking about it now, you just made me think.
17:29The Ross Enterprise Hard Rock Division, you are a Miami Open, have all the best tennis players in your facility.
17:39F1, you have all the top racers in your facility.
17:42The Hurricanes, they're coming back right now.
17:44You have one of the, I'd say, the best college team in the nation in your facility.
17:48All the concerts, all the everything.
17:51The Dolphins are the little sister.
17:53The little one in the basement.
17:55Hey, the Dolphins also play here.
17:57If you think about it.
17:57Which is the one that he's got his fingerprints on.
18:00And that's the embarrassing side of it.
18:03Am I successful?
18:04Yes, I've blown up Miami Gardens.
18:06But my baby that I love, that I own, that I bought, that I have decision-making powers about, they are terrible.
18:15And they're getting laughed at.
18:16They're not just losing, they're getting laughed at.
18:18By the way, David Fironas tweets out, because Mike McDaniel's having his press conference right now.
18:22David Fironas tweets out, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said yesterday's post-game press conference was not the forum to air out what Tua wanted to get off his chest as the franchise quarterback.
18:33He said Tua knows that now and has communicated with teammates.
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