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Dan Le Batard is an unapologetically big fan of Miami sports. So when FS1 host Craig Carton took a shot at the Miami Dolphins, head coach Mike McDaniel, and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Le Batard responded.
During Breakfast Ball, the FS1 morning show hosted by Carton, Danny Parkins, and Mark Schlereth, Carton argued that the season is over for the Dolphins and questioned when others would take his stance that the team’s head coach is overrated.
“The Dolphins aren’t a very good football team, period, stop,” Carton said. “You don’t have a competent quarterback. Your head coach is the most overrated coach, maybe in the history of football. It is very frustrating. Consider Mr. Mike McDaniels right now, who’s supposed to be this offensive guru and the wonder kid. He’s 1-6 without Tua. In those seven games, they’ve only thrown for six touchdown passes. And as you can see, there lot of turnovers, not a lot of points.
“So two things on this. Number one, the Dolphins’ season’s over. We can all agree to that. Let’s just move on from that. Number two, — and I’m asking for America right now — when do we all agree that it’s time to get off the Mike McDaniel choo choo train? Like he’s the future of the NFL? He has never coached the team to a playoff win, as you saw there. He stinks without Tua, who might be an average quarterback, anyway. And he doesn’t do anything all that creative to win games.”
In response, Dan Le Batard turned Carton’s formatting of his argument to criticize the FS1 host on Thursday during The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.
“Craig Carton isn’t a very good broadcaster, period, stop,” said Le Batard, mocking Carton. “You don’t have competent leadership in this business. You have a broadcaster who is maybe the most overrated broadcaster in the history of broadcasting. It’s very frustrating. Consider this: Mr. Craig Carton — who’s supposed to be an offensive guru and wonder kid — three and a half three years in prison without a microphone. In those three and a half years, he only defrauded $4.8 million from investors. And as you can see, there lots of blackjack, lots of securities fraud, wire fraud.
“Two things on this. Number one, Fox Sports’ reputation is over. We can all agree on that. So let’s move on from that. Number two — and I’m asking for America right now — when do we all agree that it’s time to get off the Craig Carton choo choo train? That he’s not the future of broadcasting. He’s never broadcasted credibly, as you saw there. He stinks without the shock jockey stuff, which, in my opinion, is average anyway, and he doesn’t do anything creative.”
Le Batard’s crew were surprised by the comments made by the host, before informing him that he needed to “be a lot more breathless” to mimic the sound of Carton. The former ESPN host then got out of his chair, did jumping jacks and high knees, then repeated the monologue.
