The Rundown Take
Ken Dorsey, Gino Torretta & a Shannon Sharpe Shot Fired: U Talk's First Quarantine Friday
Night one of official lockdown in Atlanta, and Devin wasn't about to let a canceled spring or a missing football season stop the family business. Solo on the mic for the top of the show, he ran the Canes memory lane series back through quarterbacks and receivers before a Shannon Sharpe hot take on Undisputed lit up the phone lines and turned the back half into a full-blown Jordan-versus-LeBron war.
Key Takeaways
- Devin's three (plus a bonus fourth) favorite Miami quarterbacks: Ken Dorsey, Gino Torretta, Kenny Kelly and, bending his own rules, Craig Erickson.
- Favorite receivers: Andre Johnson at number one, Reggie Wayne at two, Michael Irvin rounding out the list.
- Devin's pick for current Canes who could start on a throwback championship team: running back Cameron Harris, defensive tackle Nesta Silvera and second-year edge Gregory Rousseau.
- Shannon Sharpe's on-air claim that LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan sends the show into overtime, with caller after caller lining up against it.
- The show closes on a somber note — a tribute to a friend, Brice, who passed away that week.
The Quarterback Countdown
Devin opened with Ken Dorsey, the "field general" from the 2001 title run, before jumping back to Gino Torretta and the '91 squad, then Kenny Kelly, a two-year starter he actually played high school ball alongside. True to form, he broke his own rule and squeezed in a fourth name, Craig Erickson, because leaving him off felt wrong. The receiver list followed the same format: Andre Johnson, "the silent assassin," ahead of Reggie Wayne and Michael Irvin, with Devin noting the podcast era bias — these were simply the guys he grew up watching.
Who Could Play on a Throwback Team?
The most forward-looking segment of the night asked which current Hurricanes could have started on one of Miami's old championship squads. Devin went with Cameron Harris for his physical, contact-seeking running style, Nesta Silvera for old-school toughness on the interior, and Gregory Rousseau, whose second season he's watching closely after seeing what happened to Jonathan Garvin's production once the veterans around him left the program.
The Jordan-LeBron War
Then the bonus topic hijacked the rest of the show. Devin, a self-described lifelong Lakers fan, couldn't stomach Shannon Sharpe putting LeBron ahead of Michael Jordan and spent the second half of the broadcast making his case caller by caller — pointing to LeBron's run of Hall of Fame-caliber teammates as proof the numbers don't tell the full story.
"I'm not hating on LeBron, I like LeBron, he played for my Lakers, I root for LeBron. I'm just saying we got to stop with all this — it's Michael Jeffrey Jordan, y'all, Michael Jeffrey Jordan."
Caller after caller — Terrance, Ricky Dunn, even Devin's own mother, phoning in live — fell in line behind Jordan-Kobe-LeBron as the order, with only Jeffrey O'Neal holding out as the show's resident LeBron loyalist. Devin closed the broadcast the way he always does, thanking the Kane nation for riding through quarantine with him and asking everybody to stay safe, stay home, and take care of their families.