00:00This is my strong take of the day.
00:02Oh, you're straight.
00:03We're talking about Malik Willis and Kirk Cousins
00:06and these single-digit win quarterbacks.
00:09Keep Tua.
00:11Keep Tua.
00:11Give him to the new OC.
00:13What's the big deal?
00:14Like, you have to pay him $50 million anyway.
00:16Why try to do the whole jostling thing?
00:18Just keep Tua around.
00:19See if he works out.
00:20Tell him he needs to perform, and you can now earn another contract.
00:25We're just going to see what we have because, Josh, you just said it.
00:28But 2026 isn't a Super Bowl year.
00:30It's a first-year head coach, first-year GM.
00:32They're trying to get through the cap hell of it.
00:34Keep Tua around.
00:35I don't see a problem with that.
00:36Hey, run him.
00:37Run him.
00:37Hey, there's no more restrictions.
00:40We want you diving headfirst.
00:42Josh, this is your year, man.
00:44Make it happen.
00:45To your point, run your offense.
00:48Don't protect him, but why get rid of Tua?
00:51Malik Willis.
00:52That's the answer?
00:53He looked good in his relief appearance.
00:56He did.
00:57I don't think that they would necessarily be the answer.
01:00They would just be the bridge to whoever they eventually identify as the actual answer.
01:05And if you take a flyer on Malik Willis and he turns into someone that plays well for a season or two, there are a lot worse problems than that.
01:14I'm with you.
01:14If you're deciding between Kirk Cousins and Tua, whatever at that point.
01:19I think Kirk still somehow, I can't believe I'm saying this, two years removed from Tua leading the league in passing and Kirk Cousins getting benched for Michael Penix.
01:26But I'd rather have Kirk right now.
01:28But it doesn't matter because I'd rather have him for what, to your point?
01:32I'd rather have Quinn Ewers then.
01:33Right.
01:34For sure.
01:34You don't need to spend the money.
01:35If it's Kirk Cousins, you don't need to spend it.
01:38But if they want to take a flyer on Malik Willis because Halfley's familiar with him, the GM's familiar with him, and he showed flashes when he had to play for Jordan Love the last two years.
01:49If you're going to go get all of Green Bay, let's go get Micah Parsons.
01:52Let's not just stop with Halfley and Malik Willis.
01:55This is my thing with Malik Willis.
01:57You're getting Malik Willis to do what?
01:58Win eight games?
02:00Yeah, just to get you to the next season.
02:02So let Tua get you to the next season.
02:04You know I love Tua.
02:05I'd have been okay with Tua McDaniel and Greer coming back.
02:09You can't bring that guy back.
02:10Why not?
02:11Just leave Tua in there.
02:13Let him get knocked out.
02:14If he doesn't get knocked out, let him play.
02:16He wins seven.
02:17Malik Willis wins eight.
02:17The era is over.
02:18They demoted him to third string last year.
02:21There's no coming back from that.
02:23Leave the quarterback room exactly what it is now.
02:25We've got to let him go.
02:26Quinn Ewers, Zach Wilson, Tua.
02:27We have to let him go.
02:28Bring him back.
02:28Bring him back.
02:30We have to let him go.
02:30It's tough for all of us, but we have to let him go.
02:32Bring him back.
02:33Because I don't think Tyreek Hill is coming back either.
02:3426 is a throwaway year, and we're going to spend $10 million on throwaway quarterback?
02:39Just bring Tua, Ewers, and Wilson back.
02:41You can't.
02:42Appel, I don't know if you agree.
02:43You can't bring in a new general manager, a new coach, who are talking about establishing
02:50their own culture, pushing the franchise ahead, bringing in the guys that best fit their play
02:57style, and the style that Sully wants to construct his offense, and go back to the guy who was
03:06the face of the last six years of your organization.
03:09Well, you could do it.
03:10It would be funny.
03:11But it's not the way you do things.
03:14If you genuinely want to win.
03:16Well, it's not the way most teams do things.
03:18But you want to just make a move to make a move.
03:20Spend $10 million, $15 million on Malik Willis.
03:23Just make a move to make a move.
03:24It's not a make a move to make a move.
03:25It's a final ending of an era.
03:30Greer, McDaniel, Tua.
03:32It's a failed era.
03:35They tried.
03:36They tried several different ways.
03:38Did not work.
03:40At some point, you have to cap off the well.
03:43One of the things that I'm excited about here with Sullivan, they set a good foundation
03:50for that team this year.
03:52And then they're like, you know what?
03:53We can make a move that'll put us over the top.
03:55And they go out and trade for Micah Parsons.
03:57They're not going to be this team that throws around money willy-nilly in free agency.
04:01They're going to, as he said, build from the draft, keep their own guys.
04:05I immediately think of like Andrew Van Ginkle.
04:07Like you're not letting Andrew Van Ginkle walk.
04:09You're not letting Robert Hunt walk in that spot.
04:11I know the money was tricky with Hunt, but still.
04:14And then I look at like Green Bay brought in Xavier McKinney in free agency.
04:18And if that, like you pick your spots and you have like one big contract you sign in free agency
04:22that supplements what you've already built, like to me, that's the Packer model.
04:25And I'm really excited to see how they can work that in here.
04:29And if Malik Willis is the guy that starts that to just get them through this year, maybe, who knows?
04:35Maybe he plays well and he can compete again when they draft another guy, hopefully after next season.
04:41Then you have a good problem on your hands.
04:43That's just enough for you.
04:44But I've been calling for Josh Jobs for a while, but I think this might finally be the season.
04:50Should Dolphins fans, Appel, be excited and inspired by the new GM and coach?
05:00Because oftentimes that's what happens with a fan base.
05:03You meet them, it's a new breath of fresh air, and you get inspired and you get excited.
05:11I didn't feel that way after the press conference, but I'm kind of with Solana where, eh, that's fine.
05:16Like I felt that way before.
05:18I felt that way with Al Golden.
05:20Al Golden gave a great introductory press conference.
05:23So I'm kind of okay not feeling like rah, rah, rah, let's go get them.
05:29Do you think Dolphins fans are feeling inspired and excited today?
05:32Should they, I think that fans kind of have their mind made up about how they feel about this right now?
05:38Hopefully they don't like, I'm just, you know, we'll see how it works out.
05:41I heard Solana kind of say the same thing earlier.
05:44Um, I think that when you're on version 27 of this, it's hard to get inspired regardless.
05:51I was inspired by Mike McDaniel.
05:53I was really excited for that.
05:55And there were exciting times, but now we're four years in and he's gone and that kind of fell apart.
06:00So I, this wait and see thing, like you're not going to get inspired by boilerplate.
06:06We're going to hold each other accountable.
06:08And we're going to bit like, you're just, you're not going to get inspired by that.
06:11But like, who cares?
06:12Like really, we're all going to forget about everything that was said today in two weeks.
06:17Like once the off season really gets going and you get started going towards the draft and you're seeing who's not going to be here, who's going to be here, what moves they make to the roster.
06:25Nobody's going to remember what Jeff Hapley said.
06:28Maybe we'll remember that Steven Ross had to look down to remember the names, but outside of that, like what are we, nobody's going to remember anything from this press conference.
06:35Really, nobody will remember the tears.
06:39What about the tears?
06:40I'm not a big fan of the cry.
06:42Well, here's the thing.
06:43Think about it this way.
06:45John Eric Sullivan for 20 plus years was working his way up through the front office.
06:50And now he reaches the pinnacle of his profession and he gets to be an NFL general manager.
06:55And he thinks back to 20 plus years of all the people that helped him get there along the way, his family and all that stuff.
07:01And it makes him emotional.
07:02Same thing for Jeff Halfley.
07:04He left Boston college to come back to the NFL to hopefully get an NFL head coaching job on your couch.
07:10Like, why not?
07:12Because Eric Spolstra worked up from the video room.
07:15I don't recall him crying at his introductory press conference.
07:17Never.
07:18Some people cry.
07:19Some people don't.
07:20It's okay.
07:21Real men cry, Hawk.
07:22Appell.
07:23I don't think so.
07:23I cry, but I don't cry and celebrate a celebratory cry.
07:27I don't like my baby's crying in the other room.
07:29The baby's a baby.
07:30Yes, man.
07:31He's 40 years old.
07:32Also, tell a little chain to tighten up.
07:36I like public emotion.
07:38Like, I'm cool with them.
07:39Did you ever consider naming your baby Lamar?
07:43Did Lamar make the list?
07:45That's his name.
07:48I changed it.
07:49Lamar Appell.
07:51Do you know who Lucius Quintus Cincinnati Lamar is?
07:56That's not a white man.
07:59Lucius Lamar.
08:00Lucius Lamar.
08:01That's not a white man.
08:03You know who that is?
08:05Nope.
08:06Appell?
08:07Am I going to feel really stupid when you tell me who it is?
08:10No.
08:11Jerry Jones.
08:13Lucius Quintus Cincinnati Lamar is a former Supreme Court justice for the United States of America from 1825 to 1893.
08:25And Lucius Lamar is as white.
08:29That is Lucius Lamar.
08:34Thank you to the chatter who gave me the info that Lucius Lamar.
08:39He light-skinned.
08:40No, Jack.
08:42Jack, he light-skinned.
08:44No, sir.
08:45That guy had no trouble playing at Augusta.
08:51Who's that?
08:52What it is, man?
08:54I don't know.
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