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Takeaways from the Dolphins introductory press conference for new head coach Jeff Hafley and new GM Jon-Eric Sullivan. A lot of tears and at times a confused Stephen Ross.
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00:00The new Miami Dolphins head coach, Jeff Halfley,
00:02held his first press conference this morning.
00:05Got underway a little bit after 11 a.m.
00:07And we'll play some audio from it during the show.
00:10It started with Stephen Ross, who's terrible at public speaking.
00:15He's just terrible.
00:17He knows it.
00:18Yeah, he's got to know it.
00:19Yeah, somebody has to tell him, get it quick and get out of there.
00:22It's just not his wheelhouse.
00:24He does not.
00:26And again, incredibly successful businessman.
00:29And I'm a Stephen Ross stan.
00:31So I'm a big fan of the fact that because even one of the guys,
00:35I can't remember if it was Halfley or Sully, said,
00:38one of the reasons when you come here, Stephen Ross said to him,
00:42you will not fail due to lack of resources.
00:46I'll tell you that.
00:47And I thought like, yeah, that's the Stephen Ross why I stand for him
00:52because he really doesn't hold back on resources.
00:55He has made the right decisions.
00:57And I don't know if these two guys are the right decision or not.
00:59We'll figure it out.
00:59But I did just kind of remark to myself as I was watching Stephen Ross,
01:05like he doesn't necessarily invoke a ton of confidence that he's, you know,
01:13got it all together and it's happening and whatever.
01:16But public speaking is one of the biggest fears in the world amongst humans.
01:20Michael Jordan's a terrible, terrible public speaker.
01:23I know you don't think so off the NBC thing.
01:25It was the greatest thing I've ever watched, literally ever watched.
01:28Garbage.
01:28Garbage.
01:29Ricky Williams.
01:30Like, it's a lot.
01:31It's just to be good at your job.
01:33You don't have to be a good public speaker.
01:35But I'm with you.
01:36I know, Solana, you think different.
01:37I think Stephen Ross is an amazing owner.
01:39He just don't let him talk.
01:41You own the team.
01:42Why do you need to talk?
01:42Well, he needs to talk once in a while.
01:44What does he need to say?
01:45He needs to say once in a while, hey, I'm not happy with, like,
01:48he needs to have outreach to the fans, which is what he did today.
01:51Not happy with the direction of where things were headed.
01:54We think we got it right this time, which is what he did.
01:56He's just not a commanding speaker.
02:00And so he was up there briefly, and he did what he did.
02:04And then who cried?
02:06They both cried.
02:07Everybody's crying now.
02:09John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Halfley both cried.
02:13I have a couple notes from the whole press conference.
02:16The first question.
02:17Did you cry?
02:18I did not cry.
02:19And here's the weird thing.
02:20I am not a crier, but I do appreciate people who will cry.
02:26You're a crier.
02:28I do cry.
02:29Right.
02:30But not when I get a job.
02:31Well, I mean, you cried on Tamron Hall for.
02:36I cried because I introduced my wife to her long-lost father.
02:40She hadn't met in 30 years.
02:41That's a cry situation.
02:43I get hired as a head coach.
02:45I mean, it doesn't really have anything to do with you.
02:48I was fascinated that the first question of the entire press conference
02:53went to Hal Habib from the Palm Beach Post.
02:56I didn't know he was the granddaddy.
02:58Usually the granddaddy is allowed always the first question.
03:01It's always Hal.
03:02Either Hal or Barry.
03:03Always.
03:04Well, it was Hal Habib from the Post.
03:06Second question went to Tim Reynolds from the AP.
03:09These are things that are interesting to me that I make note of.
03:13They both did cry.
03:15John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Halfley.
03:17Now, John Eric Sullivan said, he had been asked, but said, most people call him Jay.
03:26Everyone else calls him Sully.
03:29Damn.
03:30So, we got to put to bed J-E-S.
03:33It's terrible.
03:34No one calls him that.
03:35Halfley kept calling him Sully during the press conference.
03:39So, it's either Sully or Jay.
03:41I like Sully.
03:42Sully's cool.
03:43It's cool.
03:44It's a cool nickname.
03:45Yeah, because Jay could mean anybody.
03:47We could be referring to literally anybody when we say Jay.
03:49Sully will know who we're talking about.
03:52Well, really?
03:53Anybody?
03:54Even if they don't have a Jay in their name?
03:55I'm just saying, like, outside of having a specific conversation about the Miami Dolphins
04:01general manager, if I just, in conversation, say, oh, you see what Jay said the other day?
04:06You're not going to necessarily know exactly who I'm talking about.
04:09But I'm saying, hey, do you see what Sully said the other day?
04:11You'll know exactly who I'm talking about.
04:12Well, not necessarily.
04:13There'll be context clues.
04:14But it could be the guy who landed in the Hudson.
04:16And if you say Jay, I'm Jay-Z?
04:19Right.
04:20Why would Jay-Z be talking about the Dolphins?
04:22But we're not talking about the Dolphins.
04:24We're talking about anything.
04:25This is out of context of the Dolphins.
04:26But Sully could be really any guy from Boston.
04:29Yeah.
04:29You know?
04:30So did you see what any guy from Boston said the other day?
04:35I like Sully.
04:36So, you know, they both said.
04:38I read some interesting stuff on the press conference.
04:41For me, it was ordinary.
04:44But I will tell you that I usually buy into all the hoo-ha of an introductory press conference.
04:52Because usually, I like different.
04:55It's one of the reasons that I like Mike McDaniel.
04:57At the beginning, it was different.
04:58But it's one of the reasons that I like Rex Ryan.
05:02He gives you that press conference, you know, Mario Cristobal.
05:07The bravado.
05:07Yeah, the bravado.
05:09I didn't necessarily get that from this.
05:11Let me just read you this tweet from Chris Kaufman.
05:13I think he does three yards per carry, right?
05:15Very good Dolphins podcaster.
05:17He's been doing it forever.
05:18He says, introductory press conferences are so fascinating to me.
05:22Tony Sperano was so green speaking to a crowd that every other word out of his mouth was, okay?
05:28And I remember it from the Levitard show.
05:30We isolated Tony Sperano.
05:34I don't know if you remember his introductory press conference, Alana.
05:37But it was like, we're going to do great things here, okay?
05:40And when we're done doing great things, we're going to do even better things, okay?
05:43And literally, it was non-stop.
05:47We isolated every K on the Levitard show because it was like you couldn't believe what you were listening to.
05:54And so Kaufman points that out.
05:56He says, Cam Cameron literally cried when asked the simplest question about Drew Brees.
06:02Adam Gase had that hilariously wild-eyed introductory press conference in New York, which turned into my favorite GIF ever of him tracking a floating taco, buzzing around him like it was a fly.
06:15That was a great one.
06:17He also points out Joe Philbin was so awkward speaking to reporters and crowds that Dawn Aponte literally started coaching him on it,
06:26which led to some misogynistic reporters to innuendos about a man and a woman having too close a working relationship, wink, wink.
06:34Because Aponte was always with Philbin because he wasn't a very good public speaker.
06:39Mike McDaniel was, of course, very intelligent, but also scattered, prone to word salad, coming off like a stoner at high school parties who would blow the minds of his fellow teenagers by launching into some random philosophical discussion at 2 a.m.
06:53And so what Chris Kaufman writes is, from what I've seen of Jeff Halfley in his past press conferences and podcast appearances, he's going to come off pretty professional today.
07:03It's an event that is firmly in his wheelhouse.
07:06The press will love him.
07:07And it was.
07:09Like, he was fine.
07:10He said all the right things.
07:13It just wasn't remarkable to me in any way, shape, or form.
07:17For me, it was very ordinary.
07:20But maybe that's what they need.
07:22Very ordinary.
07:22How could you remarkably do a press conference?
07:27Like, he's not Rex Ryan.
07:28You're talking about you like personalities, Hawk.
07:30I do.
07:31I do.
07:31And his name's Jeff Halfley and Sully.
07:34They're just normal guys that love football.
07:36They were normal guys who were appreciative of the moment, trying to think of, you know, who came in for the Hurricanes and said, we've got one job.
07:48It's to beat FSU or who came in for the Bears and said, we've got one job.
07:53It's to beat Green Bay twice.
07:55You know, like, I like that kind of bravado, razzle-dazzle.
08:00I didn't really get that from either of these guys.
08:02These guys were just kind of like, hey, here's who I want to thank.
08:05I'm appreciative of the job.
08:07I'm appreciative of Steven Ross.
08:08We're going to make a winning organization.
08:11Ben Johnson just did it.
08:13Right.
08:14When he comes in and says, I hate Green Bay, we're going to go out there and whoop Matt LaFleur.
08:18And it's amazing.
08:19And then rips off his shirt, eats a hot dog.
08:21Yeah, when he rips off his shirt.
08:22That's personality, though, Hawk, where Andy Reid doesn't command the room in the press conference.
08:29He just mumbles.
08:29Bill Belichick's the worst at it.
08:31You start.
08:32And then, but Tony Dungy.
08:34Tony Dungy is, he can articulate very well.
08:36That's why he's on TV now.
08:37So, it's, I don't get this press conference thing where there's terrible coaches at press conferences, good coaches at press conferences.
08:43Oh, it doesn't mean anything.
08:44And it doesn't mean anything for the future.
08:46Correct.
08:47I think Sully, when I read it, when I read what was going on and then heard it, everybody should know Sully has the hardest job.
08:56For sure.
08:56He has to rebuild the entire roster with a handicap on the salary cap.
09:01And it was the one when I was listening, oh, we're just going to, we're going to, we're going to draft, develop, and retain.
09:07Come on, man.
09:07That sounds good.
09:09It sounds very good.
09:10But now you have to do it.
09:11Right.
09:11Which, by the way, God bless him if he can.
09:14If he knows how to draft correctly, and then, because we've seen this before too, correct draft picks, but then you're able to retain them.
09:22Yeah.
09:22So, if he can do that, if that's the blueprint and he can actually do it, we got ourselves a winner.
09:28But it'll take a while to find that out.
09:30And we don't know.
09:31We're hoping that Halfley is Liam Cohen.
09:34I can only have a reference point for the next young GM that gets a job.
09:38So, we're floating.
09:41We're floating.
09:42Here's my main takeaway from today.
09:45I can't tell them apart.
09:47Oh, I had a difficult time too.
09:48If they, if Halfley and Sully walked into this room right now, I'm not certain I would know who's Halfley and who's Sully, and I would take this a step further.
09:58I don't think Stephen Ross would be able to tell them apart if they walked in front of them either.
10:03He didn't remember their names.
10:04He didn't.
10:05You didn't see that.
10:06What happened?
10:07Stephen Ross, twice.
10:09First, when he was introducing Sully, he said, we did a long, thorough, kept saying thorough.
10:14This was a thorough search.
10:15They thanked Troy Aikman.
10:16Troy Aikman was there.
10:18He was there at the press conference.
10:20We're very thoughtful, and we took a lot of time.
10:24And I'm just super excited to introduce John Eric Sullivan.
10:33I swear to God, it was that pronounced.
10:36He had to look at the paper.
10:38John Eric Sullivan.
10:38And then when he was introducing Halfley, he's like, yeah, no, we're super excited about this.
10:43I mean, to have a guy like Jeff.
10:47He wasn't awing, but he really looked down.
10:50The Jeff one, there was an uh, and he kind of, he like rumbled the papers a little bit.
10:55And he looked down, he had to look at the name.
10:56Why doesn't he have a teleprompter?
10:57Well, call them both Jay.
10:59They both start with Jay.
11:01They said they'd go by Jay.
11:02If they both walked in here, I'd be like, what up, Jays?
11:06You want a teleprompter in the Dolphin facility?
11:11If Stephen Ross is the head of this organization, and he seems a bit uneasy speaking publicly at this
11:20point in his life, why not have a prepared speech that he could read off a teleprompter
11:25for him?
11:26No.
11:26Why?
11:26If he can't remember his new general manager and coach's names, don't have him speak.
11:31That's the, that's the answer.
11:32It's not have him speak with a teleprompter.
11:34It's don't have him up there.
11:36What does the, the hunt, the Kansas city guy hunt?
11:40What does he sound like?
11:42Kareem Hunt doesn't own the chiefs.
11:45He's the backup running back.
11:50Who gives, I don't know the dude's name.
11:54That's the trophy.
11:54The Lamar Hunt trophy.
11:56The soccer trophy.
11:56The Lamar Hunt trophy.
11:57Oh, that's the white dude's name, not Lamar.
12:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:00The owner of the chief's name's Lamar.
12:03Yeah.
12:03Ain't no way, Hawk.
12:05Yeah.
12:06Lamar.
12:06Yes.
12:09Yeah.
12:09Is he light-skinned?
12:10One of my favorite pitchers from the White Sox growing up was Lamar Hoyt.
12:14He was a cocaine addict and a white dude.
12:18Yeah.
12:19The Kansas city chiefs are owned by the hunt family, specifically the four children, Phil,
12:23four children of founder Lamar Hunt.
12:26There's Lamar Hunt.
12:27Now Clark Hunt, Lamar Hunt Jr.
12:31Sharron.
12:32Sharron L. Hunt.
12:35Who was naming these children?
12:37And Daniel L. Hunt.
12:41Lamar and Sharron are white people.
12:44Y'all are crazy.
12:46That's so funny.
12:47I like the cheese more now.
12:49I like it.
12:52Because I think the MLS trophy is the-
12:54Lamar Hunt?
12:55I don't know if it's the MLS.
12:57I think it's the U.S. Open Cup.
12:58Oh, is that what it was?
12:59Because remember, we had people in, and it was like the Lamar Hunt something memorial trophy.
13:04But is Arthur Blank a great speaker?
13:07Lamar Hunt.
13:08It's funny.
13:09A great speaker.
13:10Just Robert Kraft.
13:12We didn't know what he looked like until he went to the massage parlor.
13:15Right.
13:15Like, that side of it, Steven Ross, the man, he's just-
13:18He's not good at that.
13:19He's good at being a billionaire.
13:20We are idiots.
13:21The Lamar Hunt trophy is the annual award presented to the National Football League's American Football Conference champion since 1984.
13:28Jimmy, you got to jump in there and correct me on that stuff when I sound that dumb.
13:32White Lamar.
13:33No, but the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open.
13:36I used to call it White Lamar Hunt.
13:37Oh, is that what it is?
13:38I know there's something soccer related.
13:39The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, which is-
13:42We were getting-
13:43We got there.
13:43We got there.
13:44We got there.
13:47Lamar.
13:48Lamar!
13:48Does he go on the Mount Rushmore of Lamars now?
13:51Oh, by far now!
13:52Over Lamar Luttrell?
13:53Over all of them.
13:59Lamar, what it is, baby!
14:01Hello, how are you?
14:02That was delightful.
14:03All right, let's do headlines real quick.
14:04Josh Appel is going to join us.
14:06We're going to listen to some sound from the Jays and Rob Pizzola.
14:11I'm locked in.
14:11I got it.
14:12That's easy.
14:12And Rob Pizzola is going to join us in the four o'clock hour with some winners for this
14:18weekend, hopefully.
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14:26Very quickly here, we'll go with Lamar Hunt, Lamar Odom, Kendrick Lamar, and Young Thug.
14:36Young Thug's name is Lamar?
14:37His real name is Lamar.
14:38Yeah, I got to go.
14:39I got to think about this because Lamar Luttrell.
14:41Do you remember Lamar Luttrell?
14:43Revenge of the Nerds?
14:44Yeah.
14:45And Omega Moon.
14:47Hawk introduced me to him.
14:50Lamar Smith?
14:51He had the javelin and it bounced up and down.
14:57Lamar Hoyt from the White Sox back in the 70s, man.
15:01Lamar?
15:0270s and 80s.
15:02What about Lamar Hunt?
15:08Lamar.
15:09Lamar Jackson.
15:10Lamar Jackson's on there.
15:12Yeah.
15:18Oh, we're doing headlines, right?
15:19Lamar Thomas from the Hurricane, somebody points out.
15:22Lamar Thomas was good.
15:23A lot of Lamars.
15:25Not white.
15:26Surprisingly a couple, though.
15:27Lamar Hoyt, pitcher.
15:29Lamar Hunt.
15:34That's a couple, too.
15:36There's got to be more.
15:37No, Lamar.
15:38Famous white Lamars.
15:42No white Lamars.
15:45Oh, Hedy Lamar.
15:47She was an actress like in the 1800s.
15:50Oh, she died in 2000.
15:52Hedy Lamar.
15:53Born in 1914.
15:54Died in 2000.
15:56Let's see.
15:59That's not.
16:00Jeff and Christina don't say.
16:04Your son.
16:05Oh, Lamar.
16:07Lamar Wilson.
16:09All right.
16:10Let me just give you your local headlines.
16:13The Miami Heat will play at the Portland Trailblazers tonight.
16:16That's at 10 p.m.
16:17Kalil Ware.
16:18Questionable.
16:19Again, he didn't play the other night with a right hamstring strain.
16:21The Florida Panthers, they host the Winnipeg Jets.
16:248 p.m.
16:25Puck drop.
16:26I don't think Bob's starting tonight.
16:28It's Terrace Hobb.
16:29All right.
16:30And I saw yesterday just a couple other NFL notes.
16:35Look at my guy, Lamar Hoyt.
16:36This guy was the best.
16:38That dude could party.
16:41That dude could party.
16:41That was Coke man.
16:42Yeah.
16:43Look at Lamar Hoyt.
16:44That guy could pitch.
16:46Oh, that's a good set of hair.
16:48That's like Stranger Things hair right there.
16:49Yeah, it was 87.
16:51That's exactly it.
16:51That's from 87.
16:52Stranger Things.
16:55I saw that Brian Dayball appears to be the leader to be the Bills next head coach.
17:04Oh, interesting.
17:06Go back?
17:09Well, he was the Giants head coach.
17:12Remember he got fired by the Giants.
17:13He was a coordinator with the Bills, right?
17:14He was a coordinator.
17:15He was the Bills coordinator because he was the one that turned around Josh Allen's career.
17:18Yeah.
17:18Which is why he got the Giants job.
17:20And now he's going to go back to be the head coach.
17:22Well, maybe Joe Brady.
17:23That might be genius.
17:25That does.
17:26Joe Brady's going to interview.
17:27He's been the offensive coordinator there.
17:29Remember, he's the one that replaced Ken Dorsey after he got fired there.
17:34But I was just reading earlier this morning that it looks like Dayball appears to be the top choice.
17:39I don't like it as a Dolphin fan.
17:43But leave Joe Brady at OC.
17:44Hire Dayball, who fixed Josh Allen, and see what happens.
17:48Seems like a genius idea.
17:52All right, guys.
17:53Your weather in South Florida continues to be rainy and not the best day.
17:58It's in the upper 60s right now.
18:00That's your weather.
18:01Josh Appel is going to join us in the next segment.
18:04He watched the press conference today as well.
18:06Want to get his thoughts on it.
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