WEBVTT - Drive Time: December Beckons 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.080 To on the move, going deep speedways, Peace do hell. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.360 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 this is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.400 Heasy my ad hands in the playoffs? 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.880 What is up, Dolph Fans and welcome to the Draft 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.000 Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.400 today's show, as you can tell, we are back in 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.440 full production. No more sad podcasting like the last two episodes, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.800 taking a look at the tape and the initial reaction 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.520 to the game on Thursday. What we're gonna do today 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.879 is tell you exactly how this team can find its 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.840 way back into the postseason for the third consecutive year. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.040 And we'll go ahead and play the intro here and 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.080 then I'll tell you why you should listen to that 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.560 here on the other side. From the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.440 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.720 This is is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.200 May so I keep posting updates on social about Dolphins 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.760 playoff hopes and games to look for, and of course 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.000 the games this weekend went in the complete opposite direction 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.679 of where they needed to go. So that was rough 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.480 and just FYI recording this podcast on Monday So I 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.240 do not yet know the results of the Broncos game, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.880 but I will tell you this, If the Broncos lose 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.160 this game on Monday that happened yesterday, everything is like 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.080 right back on the table where you needed it to be. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.959 For the most part, I'll explain that as we go 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:36.520 along here. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.480 And first of all, like trust me, tomorrow's episode is 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.399 going to be taking inventory of what happened this offseason 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.319 and looking ahead to next offseason, and so we are 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.560 very much on the precipice of pivoting this show to 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.480 off season content here early in December. So I'm willing 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.960 to flip that switch, but before it happens, I'm not 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.720 gonna do that. I mean, I've been watching prospects. I 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.920 have to takes for you guys on some prospects. But 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.400 we are gonna keep this about the current football team 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.960 and their ability to hang in this race, which they 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.480 can do with wins every single week. And as I'll 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.680 tell you on the show, I think every one of 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.320 these games down the stretch is winnable. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.000 Will they do it? We shall see. But also when I. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.920 Put it on social media, the Dolphins need this and that, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.880 and people are like, why are you being so optimistic. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.320 Why haven't you given up yet? That's my job, dude, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.720 that's my job. Like, this is what I do. I 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.639 don't you know, this is what I do. So I'm 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.799 not gonna stop, you know, giving you the full information, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.840 the full The freaking title of the show or the 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.600 explanation of the show is comprehensive Dolphins coverage. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.960 This is comprehensive Dolphins coverage. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.480 So we're gonna do that today, and I will cut 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.800 that intro and change it if the Dolphins get disqualified 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.239 from playoff contention, because I agree it would be silly 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.840 to have that in there. So I'm gonna run everything 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.919 as is until the Dolphins are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.679 Sound good, We are on the same page. Great, how 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.680 is everybody's holiday weekend? It was a bit of a 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.720 this is gonna be a bit of an abnormal episode 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.320 today because this is usually where the All twenty two 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.600 kind of has a day to breathe before we get 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.720 into the Wednesday mid week transition episode. And again, gonna 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.320 look at that, Gonna look at some philosophy questions I have. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.440 But with all that being said, we have five games left, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:18.920 so we'll go ahead and finish out the stretch and 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.160 string before we do that, like with a like finality 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.840 type of tone to it. I'm just doing because I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.840 have an extra day of episodes in the week this 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:27.800 week to give you guys. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.160 So that's what you're gonna get. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.280 And let me just start right here real quick, because man, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.840 how different was this weekend in college football? Like, don't 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.640 get me wrong, I think the playoff system will ultimately 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.960 give us more premier matchups that see prospects playing like 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.080 high pressure, must win games, which is obviously great for 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.920 someone like me whose investment in the college game from 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.880 a wins and losses standpoint is totally gone. I don't 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.320 care who wins rivalry games. I don't care who makes them. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.600 I don't care about any of that anymore. I still 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.440 care big time for prospect evaluation. But after the realignment 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.960 and removing the Apple Cup from Thanksgiving weekend, which has 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.360 been that way my entire life, WSU played freaking Wyoming 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.920 this weekend and they lost. That reminds me of the 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.280 great micd up with chad Ocho Cinco when they were 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.600 playing the Ravens on like opening night in like two 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.840 thousand and seven or something like that, and he tried 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.159 to crack. He tried to crack back on Ray Lewis 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.960 and got blown up and he goes. I tried to 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.080 block Ray and I lost. It was one of my 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.200 favorite soundbites of all time. So get a load of 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.799 this for the coupiers. By the way, speaking of teams 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.920 that collapse in December or late in the year, they 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.479 started off four and oh this year or two years 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.120 ago and finished five and seven. This comes off the heels. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.320 We'll start in this year eight and one and finishing 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.599 eight and four. In twenty twenty two they were four 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.640 and one and the one lost that year was a 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.120 forty four forty one loss in Oregon when cam Ward 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.159 went up and down the field and they finished that 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.359 year seven and six. So they've been my teams like 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.280 to collapse. Apparently that's what I have to deal with here. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.400 I guess down the stretch of these seasons, and that's 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.680 the last WSU propaganda I'm gonna give you until draft 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.400 season and we get into prospects there. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:01.200 Sound good, all right? 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.679 First, I did like all of the plag plag flag 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.400 planting and the ensuing brawls that came with that it's 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.520 cool to see that level of juice and rivalries. And 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.919 speaking of juice, I was talking to or I always 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.680 talked to Oj McDuffie about this. We miss it when 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.159 rivals like hated each other. That was what made part 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.400 of what made sports so much fun. I guess that's 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.960 the old school in US and juice a little older 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.480 school than me. But you know, compared to this handshakes 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.200 and jersey swaps era that I just don't really like 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.480 that much. Now that said, I actually think I love 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.000 the playoff format. And what's funny was I was writing 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.120 this copy down and I originally put like, I don't 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.200 like the playoff because Ohio State lost and there was 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.320 no consequences for it. Well, yeah, but it also gives 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.039 teams on the outside looking in an actual shot, like 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.680 Texas A and M. Had they beaten Texas in that 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.200 ugly ass football game, they would have vaulted into the 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.840 Big twelve championship game and then one win away from 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.160 the automatic bid. So the argument that every game is 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.800 a playoff game throughout the course of the sea it 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.000 does diminish that idea, but I love that it creates 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.600 the opportunity for the Cinderella and makes more games late 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.279 in the year have bigger implications, which is what you 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.239 look for around holiday season, right Like, I was really 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.240 into that A and m Texas game on Saturday that 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.599 I otherwise would have waited for the tape to come out, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.000 you know, and watched a movie on Saturday night or 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.720 something with Danny McBride in it, which, by the way, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.880 I'm obsessed with Danny McBride right now. I used to 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.040 think he was just Kenny Powers, like he only had 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.640 his fastball, but he does everything. I watched Righteous Gemstones. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.280 I'm ripping through Vice principles right now. He is an 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.920 absolute gem. Check out Danny McBride. All right, we'll get 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.599 to the pro football in just one second. But man, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.800 what a what a brutal weekend that was for the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.920 Miami Dolphins. But still, despite all that, I saw people 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.280 talking about like watching the games or why do you 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.680 It's like because it gives you something to do. I 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.320 love watching games that impact the Dolphins. I had a 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.360 blast all day Sunday until the conclusion of the Chargers 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.880 and the Colts and the Steelers games. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.800 But it was fun for those three hours. It was 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.240 an escape from real life. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.080 But other than that, like and this is my new 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.800 thing or not that new, but this is what you 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.360 should do when the Dolphins disappoint you. Just go play 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.880 with your kids. Just go do things that make your 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.280 kids happy. For instance, like yesterday, after we put up 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.160 all the all the decorations, we did the driving on 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.480 the neighborhoods and looked at Christmas lights. All that stuff 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.080 is so elite, which for me, I used to be 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.320 such a scrooge because in my mid twenties, my mom 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.760 had recently passed away, my dad hasn't been in my 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.560 life for a long time, and then my immediate family, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.880 I just don't think very highly of them, and so 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.800 I shouldn't say my immediate like my aunts and uncles 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.560 and cousins. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:34.840 And stuff like that. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.560 So I was kind of a scrooge because everyone's all 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.160 happy on this holiday and I'm just a miserable, family less, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.440 you know, mid twenties person that wants to go get 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.760 drunk at the bar. But now it's my favorite time 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.800 of year because I just lean into my family that 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.400 I've created for myself, and that coincides with the football 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.920 schedule really ramping up, and it makes me absolutely love 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.680 this time of year, with all the glitz and glamour 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.000 of the holiday season. I talk all the time about 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.960 that Cowboys game last year, getting that win, celebrating with 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.840 OJ and Seth and the postgame show, you know, having 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.640 some adult fun if you will. And then like going 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.920 back home at like nine o'clock at night and seeing 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.080 my Christmas tree all lit up and my wife had 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.440 like the fake fireplace YouTube channel on the TV. I 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.040 was like so happy in that moment, knowing that I 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.240 was about to give my daughter her elsa bike and 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.600 she was gonna be so pumped up, Like you cannot 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.880 beat this time of year when you factor in football 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.840 and watching the football games that impact the Dolphins, to me, 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.760 makes it even more fun than it already was again 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.920 until about four fifteen in the East. And what I 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.360 did after that was I found some extra lights in 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.960 our Christmas like packaging stuff, and I decided to string 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.920 up lights around my daughter's room and she loves it. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.040 So just find something that brings. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.920 Your kid's joy or your wife joy, or whoever is 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.280 important to you. Find a way to do something that 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.520 brings them joy. And I promise she'll forget about the 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.800 Dolphins for just a little bit, all right. Also, I 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.560 used to think October was the best month on the calendar. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.880 But it's December, isn't it. Especially when you live in 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.000 South Florida, December is the best month either way. September 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.079 through December are one through four in the power rankings. Though, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.520 you know, I will say I was telling my wife this. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.280 Since I got to South Florida in twenty twenty, the 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.880 Dolphins have only played one game where the playoffs were 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.719 out of reach, and that was the twenty twenty one 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.720 finale against the Patriots. After that, tough Titans lost that year, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.240 the one game that like quote unquote didn't matter, right, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:24.920 it didn't matter for playoff implications. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:26.600 And I said this would happened. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.839 I said, we lose the Packers, and I'd still think 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.560 we can win the rest of the games down the stretch. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.440 But you just kind of get the sense and some sense, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.520 for lack of their term, that maybe it's just not 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.120 our year. I mean, we lost our quarterback for you know, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.160 three incredibly winnable games that we lost, and we had 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.680 the Cardinals and the Bills games, which if Seler plays 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.840 in those games, doesn't get poked in the eye at practice. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:48.920 Maybe you win those games, like it just kind of 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.679 feels like one of those years where the Chargers can 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.800 you know, the Falcons throw four picks and miss a 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.480 short field goal and have a layup touchdown go off 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.600 the board and they still only win by four points. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.679 Like it just kind of feels like one of those 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.360 years that Colts game, for instance, like the Patriots literally 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.920 had a touchdown in Hunter Henry's hands, he bobbled it 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.840 and it goes into an interception and they missed a 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.840 thirty yard field goal like a pull a full on 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.640 snaphook job when they lost the game by one point. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.200 So it feels like one of those years. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:16.960 And with all that said, I'm going to tell you 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.679 how it's still possible to make a run despite a 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.240 nice little weekend recharge and getting up for the stretch run. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.960 The playoffs start this Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. You 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.839 have to beat the Jets, then we have to beat 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.800 the Texans, and if you can do that, I think 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.800 you're in store for a fun finish to the season 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.520 where you're probably gonna have to run the table. I 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.960 think nine to eight possibilities were kind of signed off 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.880 with the results that happened on Sunday. But if you 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.240 can get yourself into that Niners game, man, then you can. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.520 Like it puts you right back in the situation where 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.920 you were before this Packers game, Like you have another 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.840 huge game that you have to go in and see 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:55.520 if you can do it. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.080 Let's go ahead and take a break right there. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.200 We'll come back and talk about all the possibilities, all 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.319 the scenarios. Short episode today that's next to Draft Time Podcast, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.000 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.320 As I was firing up this second segment of the Tuesday, December, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.640 the third edition of the Draft Time Podcast, I was 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.000 on Blue Sky and I saw Seth Walder from ESPN 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.400 tweeted that the odds are the seventh seed in the 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.040 AFC will be a nine win team, and if the 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.640 Dolphins go nine and eight, according to ESPN FPI, they 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.120 have a fifty two percent chance of getting into the playoffs. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.840 And so while I think I believe the Dolphins have 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.640 to run the table, I don't think nine and eight's 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.839 gonna get in anymore. I thought it could have before 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.240 Sunday's results, but I think some of those games going 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.120 the way they did will make it so the Dolphins 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.000 have to win ten games, and we are recording this 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.199 ahead of the Broncos game, which after looking at all 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.880 this stuff, if the Broncos lost that game, and maybe 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.920 you're listening to this podcast, they did lose the game, Travis, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.400 it's really good news. Then I think everything is fine 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.280 in terms of if you can go four and one 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.560 or especially five. But after losing to the Packers, we 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.320 went over in terms of getting help. Even if the Broncos, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.960 you know, if they lose on Monday night, the weekend 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.959 wasn't so bad. But if they win, if they won 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.319 the game, I think a lot of the nine and 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.840 eight pathways have been removed. So we start here. Can 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.200 the Dolphins run the table. That's the most important question 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.040 here right. Nothing from the game Thursday changed my mind 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.800 about that, and I think they can and I actually 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.439 think that they will now you can say, Travis, they 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.200 continue to prove that they can't handle those situations, and 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.480 I don't think we'll see any of those elements the 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.920 rest of the way by way of a good quarterback, 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.320 a team that has a super physical run game, or 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.760 in any of the two potential elements games and this 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.320 is a big one playing a good team because all 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.000 of our cold weather games are against the Chiefs, the Bills, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.840 and the Packers, like three really good football teams, and 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.480 that's not an excuse. You have to show up in 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.240 those games, and they haven't for the most part. But 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.720 it is what it is. I think we wipe the 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.680 floor with the Jets twice, regardless of the elements in 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.959 that Week eighteen game. They they lined up one play 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.280 with their full defense and a punt return of the 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.600 game on Sunday. They're not well coached, they're not disciplined. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.720 Speaking of discipline, they extended the Seahawks game winning drive 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.120 with two penalties on fourth downs. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:12.920 How do you do that? 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.839 Rodgers missed a wide open touchdown pass and then threw 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.120 a pick six on the next play to Leonard Williams, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.240 who ran it back ninety two yards and he weighs 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.440 like three hundred and ten pounds. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:22.280 Go figure. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.520 They got a kickoff return touchdown, and they recovered a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.320 Seahawks kickoff fumble in plus territory, and they still lost 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.160 the game to a coming East ten o'clock body clock 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.480 game For a team that had just won two divisional games, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.520 the Seahawks just beat the Niners and Rams like this 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.280 was their chance to pick them off, and they still 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:40.240 couldn't freaking do it. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:40.959 They're terrible. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.160 Miami's gonna roll them both this weekend and next weekend. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.800 Spoiler for the preview podcast. Then the Texans are not 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.240 a good football team. And here's the biggest kicker right now, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.400 Cej Stroud, who's not playing good ball. And I'm a 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.520 you guys know, I'm a huge, huge c J Stroud fan. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.360 I did a whole piece of content before he got 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.120 drafted saying that Stroud and two was passing strengths or 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.200 what plays in the league, and I feel really good 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.000 about that take. But right now he's not playing at 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.040 that level. He's missing throws, he's not trusting his offensive line, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.160 nor should he. And the best part about it is 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.600 the teams that give us the most fits defensively are 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.880 the ones whose quarterbacks can move off the spot and 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.800 throw off the spot, and he's got a little bit 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.480 of that in his game, but he is mostly a 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.120 pocket spot thrower. We seem that we can disrupt those teams, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.640 especially teams that struggle to run the football and block 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.040 the interior, which is their biggest weakness on their entire 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.200 offense is the interior offensive line, and we have Seeler 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.680 and Campbell, who are our two best defenders outside of 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.960 Jalen Ramsey. In my opinion, I think we can beat them. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.960 I won't say that we will, but I would be 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.000 shocked if that game was anything more than a three 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.680 point spread in the Texans favor, meaning it's basically a 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.400 toss up because you get three points for being the 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.080 home team when it comes to spreads in football lines 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:47.640 money lines. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:50.680 So yeah, I think you can. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.720 I think the Jets game is at home as a 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.000 to me, it's like a guarantee. It's like playing the 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.000 Patriots and the Raiders, and then if you can beat 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.000 the Texans, that brings you to this critical game against 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.840 the Niners where you're seven and seven and you're looking 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.320 at that point I think like, okay, if we can 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.840 just get this one, we have two road games against 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.320 bad teams that if we can run the table, we'll 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.000 make it in and the Niners, and I really want 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.800 you to pay attention to them in these next two games, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.280 because first of all, you saw the game on Sunday night, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.400 when Christian McCaffrey's not playing. Everything is different about that 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.600 offense even when he was going and he wasn't one 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.200 hundred percent. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:25.840 There's a reason this team is struggling this year. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.120 They're not just gonna magically find it in the game 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.600 against us, even though it does kind of seem like 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.480 that's what happens to the Dolphins more often than not. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.720 We are a freaking, you know, a curse team, right 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.840 to questa tribe curse is very real, I feel like. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.800 I mean, but if the Bears can find a way 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.160 to beat them on Sunday and don't sleep on the 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.280 interim head coach bump with Thomas Brown this weekend, then 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.880 they play the Rams on a short week. Even if 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.400 if they drop both of those games and they're sitting 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.760 there at five and nine, perhaps they shut down Fred 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.320 Warner who's got a fracture in his foot. Perhaps Rock 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.320 Purty decides to rest that shoulder. Maybe a banged up 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.520 Kittle or Trent Williams or Nick Bosa, maybe they don't 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.160 play in the game. The downside is is Kyle Shanahan 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.920 would rather beat Mike McDaniel than win a Super Bowl. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.440 Probably not really, but it's a lot closer than you 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.120 might think that the former coaches off that Washington football 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.840 team tree. They love beating each other more than anything 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.760 else in the world. It's why Matt Lafleuri tried to 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.440 run the score up. To be quite honest with you guys, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.840 they'd like to rub it into each other's faces. After 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.080 the Cardinals and Bill's losses, I just keep kept saying, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.000 you know, beat the Rams so that we can wipe 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.640 the floor with the Raiders and Patriots. Get us to 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.200 five and six for Thanksgiving, and then we'll see. Well, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.800 my new focus is win these next two games and 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.440 let the Niners come down here on Christmas Week and 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.960 play for our lives. Knowing we have two bad teams 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.360 on the other side, that should be plenty for you 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.120 guys to get excited about the Dolphins in that situation, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:47.640 they have. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.080 To get there. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.200 But if they're there, just give them the benefit of 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.000 the doubt that this has been a rough year and 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.480 with three games to play, they still have everything ahead 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.720 of them to make to accomplish. And speaking of bad teams, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.240 we cover the Jets. I think the Browns might be 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.080 the one team that I worry about the most in 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.240 these final five games. Like you might call me crazy, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.200 but it's because they have things. I think we've shown 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.040 true weaknesses in a power running game in what's going 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.520 to be a cold weather game. A quarterback that will 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.880 play yolo ball, and if he's not going to throw 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.159 four picks, then Jamis Winston probably plays pretty well. So 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.080 hopefully we just get old four picks Winston out there 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.640 and he makes the game walk in the park. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.000 That's a very possible reality in that game. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.320 Like if you're seven, if you're eight and seven after 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.400 the Niners game and you go into that Browns game, 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.639 you feel like you're gonna win, right, and that's the 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.080 path to ten and seven. Beat a terrible Jets team. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.040 Hope the Texans are still struggling, beat a Niners team 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:39.800