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So Mike says it's the the rare local hour where we can talk about all the teams we've got all the teams have the local teams are in play today and relevant. The University of Miami squeaks one out against Virginia Tech. That's a game they've lost a lot over the last twenty years.

I get the canes, the dolphins.

I'm just struggling to figure out how we're going to weave the Marlins and the Panthers into the local hour and the heat as well.

Chris, do you want to weave it all together, as are our local afficionado?

I mean, I feel like the Marlins did one of the most historical things ever done in sports and is like what the Marlins do.

And let's wait, wait. Let's just sit here and let's see if he can figure out what it is.

Because to God, I know they hire the first female in charge of baseball operations, which is a great move by Derek Jeter and the Marlins. So I listen, I asked the question and it was answered. Good job at yes, they hire. Her name is Kim NG. And I will be curious to see how that ends up playing out, because we've got a couple of very diverse front offices now. Football, I mean, the Dolphins have about the blackest front office in the league.

And now I'm going to assume and I don't know if this is fair to Kim NG or not because she's credentialed and she has the resume to be worthy of that position. But I assumed when they got rid of Mike Hill that Derek Jeter was just going to largely take over, that it was going to be Derek Jeter got the veto call on everything. And so whoever gets installed, no matter what, white, Asian woman, black, they're going to be answering to Derek Jeter on the smallest of minutiae.

But that's not reported. I'm not reporting that out. I just assume it. What did you think of that, Chris? I mean, I didn't really I don't. OK, very good, good thoughts on that. I appreciate you giving us all your thoughts in a way that was concise and strong.

I also thought that Derek Jeter sets that opportunity here for him not only to be part owner of a baseball team, but a guy who puts the baseball team together. So I thought he would have a more active role. Maybe you still will, but I just figured he would be.

The guy who ran the test is someone he's worked with before in New York. And so he knows what the working relationship is.

She's very credentialed. I don't know much about the relationship with Derek Jeter, but given her time with the Yankees and her time, I believe, with the Dodgers, she seems to work well with Don Mattingly and Derek Jeter. I only know Derek Jeter is business operations. From what I hear from David Samson, which is obviously skewed. I say that as a bit of a warning on the front end. But he suggested that Derek Jeter really isn't of the school of mind to give up power.

Whatever move he would make in that front office would either increase his power or keep it where it is right now presently with Mike Hill. And he was still very powerful and influential there.

So still maybe a final say situation, universally applauded move, though, like, no, you will not hear that. You won't find a criticism of what it is they did. I'm with you, though.

I think Jeter, late in the Marlins season last year, was hearing a little too much. Michael Hill being referenced on MLB Network and was like, you know what? This needs to be the Derek Jeter show.

That would have been good about three minutes ago.

It wasn't actually good enough, but it would have been better than what he produced, which is a lot of surprised hemming and hawing and uselessness or some landmines there.

One of the landmines, though, that was I was just distracted by things going on in the home front. And then you went to me. I wasn't expecting you to go to me. And I was just like, oh, God, what do you just say?

It's very early in the proceedings. I understand that. Like, I get it. But, Chris, you got to be on your toes here. You never know when dad's going to go to you with the local our two. I mean, you just got to be on your toes, man. Billy, speak.

Billy, what did what did you think of what the Marlins did there? Historically, it was a good move, I guess.

I don't know. I mean, I didn't really know of coming before this, and I don't think I'm alone in saying that. But, you know, they got rid of their president of baseball operations who they inherited. They have a plan that they've been rolling out the past couple of years. And this seems to be the last piece that was missing in terms of their decision making. And, you know, you see her resume. She's been in baseball for thirty plus years.

She's had all kinds of roles. Assistant general manager. I think she was the vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball. She has a relationship, but Jeter and the Yankees. So, you know, we'll see. I mean, they rebuilt the farm system. This is just the missing the final piece, I guess, for them to have their fingerprints on everything. So we'll see how it works. I mean, hopefully next year is kind of like a fallback here because they made the playoffs this year.

So there's expectations there. I think there's expectations there.

I'd be careful with that, Billy. I'd be careful with that. I really would. Well, in terms of what?

Just because you think of playoff teams and it was a totally muted.

Well, that's what I'm saying. I'm sorry, sir. This is a dangerous position because there could be people that have expectations there. But it was a 60 game season where they finished, I think, two games over five hundred and they went one. Well, they made it to the second round of the playoffs. So, you know, you would think things will kind of get back to where they were. Yes. Last year was ahead of, I think, schedule in terms of where they were going to end up.

So I don't know that they're going to repeat the success that they had last year. And I'm hoping that this won't be something that they'll be like. Well, you know, we took a step back. I doubt that it will. I doubt that they will be that short sighted when it seems like they're rebuilding and just say one season will be, you know, on the GM. So I don't know. I guess we'll see how it plays out.

But I mean, it's exciting. I mean, the organization's headed in a new direction. Billion.

That's a that's a good point. The expectation. So because you're the perfect person to ask, do you have expectations? Because the job's a lot easier for her at the start when there are no expectations? Oh, no.

I mean, I don't have expectations next year in terms of, oh, we need to keep moving forward and it's NLCS or bust. Like, I don't think most people that I've been following the team would say they're ready to be one of the two best teams in the National League. So I think it's a good spot for her. I mean, there are nationally, there's no expectations. Right. And I think locally there's not a ton of expectations either.

So there's only positive, I think, in terms of the way her work can be perceived.

I think when you have the two starting pitchers at the top of the rotation, that there are expectations that the Marlins will compete for a playoff spot. I don't think that they need to win the division or be one of the best teams in baseball. But if the Marlins are not good next season, I think that will be a disappointment. I think they've at least raised the expectations, too. You need to be in the hunt for a playoff spot.

Listen, you guys, that's that is tough. What you guys are doing to this baseball team where you're expecting them to be above average when in. Sixty games this year, they were fortunate to be above average, given when you look at how much they were being outscored by, you know, they they could have been the bottom half of that division, Philadelphia and Washington in the Mets. All had didn't they have either better run differentials or the same?

And all of them had catastrophic seasons. The three of them had catastrophic seasons. I know that it's not totally right to do run differential on 60 games because the the place to do that is 162 games. I just thought that they were an average team that caught some breaks last year.

Marlins were minus 41, the Phillies were minus five, Mets minus 22. And the Nationals who were dreadful were minus eight.

I mean, they lost 18 players. I wouldn't exactly say they got breaks and they were a lucky team last season.

Also, they lost two games to the Braves by like 40 runs combined.

OK, so you guys expect them to be above average and competing for a playoff spot next year? I just think they need to compete. Like, I think we're kind of like, you know, semantics here. Like, I'm not like I just think they need to not be terrible. And I don't think you're saying that they're going to be terrible.

So I feel like we kind of agree or hold on to say in a 60 game season, they're for the most part, the teams that were expected to be good in a regular long season. OK, we're good. Even in a 60 game season, it got down to the Dodgers, the Rays, the Yankees, all the teams that a lot of people thought we're going to be very good.

Those teams are a good deal better than the Marlins, but not a little team, not a little bit better. Those teams are all a good bit better than the Marlins.

I think we agree, though. We're previewing a season. We'll see what how it shakes out. It seemed as though the Marlins were good last year. We all have our skepticisms entering this season. But let's talk about an actual good team.

A bit of an upset here that we spent this much time on the Marlins when it does appear you guys tell me if you think I have this right as it as it relates to the dolphins, because they are an above average football team. They're a good football team, the Super Bowl. No, I would not put them in the Super Bowl, but this is what I would do because I think this part is fair. You saw with that Buffalo, Arizona game.

I think if I tell you Buffalo, Arizona, the Dolphins, what's the difference? You kind of shrug your shoulders. You saw the last two weeks. You're like a play here. There I think there's the second tier in the AFC underneath Pittsburgh and Kansas City. You've got all of these teams, all of them Baltimore, Buffalo, Miami, Indianapolis, the Titans, the Raiders, maybe Cleveland. You've got all of them second tier there. They're clearly below Pittsburgh and Kansas City.

Any one of them could beat the other and any one of them on the right day could catch Pittsburgh or Kansas City in a playoff game and surprised them. But that's a lot of teams, man. You're basically hoping that you are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. That's nine teams that are legitimately playoff good to at the very top and then another tier below them that everyone feels the same.

The NFL playoff picture is wild. And I say this as a Browns fan who's looking at this graphic for the first time in mid-November since Brian Hoyer was my quarterback, I thought with an expansion of the playoffs, you would see more of these like terrible Arizona, Carolina, Houston. Texans like playoff games. But at least for this first year, this experiment, it doesn't really seem like it's going to be diluted outside of the NFC East. They're all pretty good teams that are going to be making the playoffs.

And you can make an argument for one of them catching the top tier teams on the right day.

There are enough good teams in the AFC especially you're right, because the NFC East has to be thrown in there. They're just there are so many good teams in the AFC It's ridiculous.

Headlining story is Miami appears to be one of those good teams. Their defense, they're special teams. Every week I go into it like, let's see what they ask of two and they don't ask much of the player. And when they do, he delivers van Dinkle. That van Ginkel is making plays in the paint. Guys, I keep saying it's not sustainable to get scores from the other two phases of the game, but every week they prove me wrong.

They've been tremendous.

I believe that I could corner Stewardson a total bit of fraudulent. Van Ginkel has been great house to God. So I see you furiously. Oh, you're going to read it. He's a great kicker. You're going to you're going like you have no idea what we're talking about.

Well, listen, I just wanted to be part of the conversation and lend you guys a little cheer. I have no idea. Vanka, you think I'm happy with these dolphin developments?

Let me tell you I am not OK. They're going to be good. They're going to be good for the next decade and a half. And I'm sitting here at 019. So you think I'm thrilled with these developments that I'm not ok. I don't think you're thrilled. I just, I just don't pretend like you know what we're talking about. We said van Ginkel and what you said is who? And then you said he's been great and and you said he was a kicker.

Support when their kicker is actually pretty good to Jason Sanders.

Do the corners on this team. Those are really good wide receivers that they they just pretty much shut down outside of a garbage time. Touchdown to Keenan. I like DeAndre Hopkins.

They slow DeAndre Hopkins last week like those defensive backs. Legitimate, best in the league kind of tan. Yeah, that's an elite best since Madison is certain. Yeah, keep it for the Miami Dolphins and we touched on it last week. But saving Howard clearly wasn't himself. He was dealing with off field stuff and injuries. He's bounced back in a big way. And now both those corners are worth the money. Tremendous defense.

Miami's probably thinking Miami fans. If you haven't been watching the Chargers, what's the big deal about? Herbut like, they haven't looked like that this season, like Keenan Allen's not someone you can stop. Mike Williams is always making plays all over the field like those, though. What they did yesterday was was impressive. And I didn't understand the point spread because the nation is still not believing in this team. The Chargers were only a one and a half point dog.

Like people are not not yet believing that the dolphins are actually good.

I'm not betting against the dolphins anymore. They've handed me my ass three consecutive weeks. I keep thinking like, OK to us, maybe got them fooled.

But two is also like you stepped up against Calamar. You saw a special Colin Murray was yesterday. You make an argument. He outplayed calamari in that game against Arizona. This is this is something special that is building here because everyone was positioning Miami is if they nail this quarterback draft selection, they're setting up to be a dynastic team. The Texans once again lose. They have that Texans pick. Now, you have faith in your defense and the culture that they're building, because every time we've been doing radio in this town, they've had a tire fire in that front office.

They seem as though they're finally getting it right.

Broncos, Jets, Bengals, next three games. Here's the other thing.

The GM and the coach, they all have to be applauded here because they are set up for the next they really are for a decade run here because they have those picks. They have the Texans pick. I think they have the quarterback and they'll have something as valuable as anything in the NFL right now. If they have one of those first two first two picks yesterday was they'll have the rights to Fields or Lawrence. That's crazy. Yesterday was a great day for the Dolphins just because Buffalo got knocked back down at the end.

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We saw the accuracy from two in the first few games, but yesterday we saw the composure from two. There were a few plays. There was a few bad snaps and a shotgun where all of a sudden the pocket swarming in on him and he just is calm and knows where to go for the safe throw. A couple of times he turned what would be a sack into like a three yard run because of his elusiveness. I'm sold now. I've been kind of waiting back on this.

We've had two in the chamber, two is now out of the chamber. And I'm going to start calling him Ace. Accuracy, composure, elusiveness, a c e ace.

That's very efficient there. You're calling him Ace. You're very excited about that. What he is doing that Burrow and Herbert are not is winning. He isn't. He is. It helps.

It does help that he has had a seven nothing lead before. He's touched the ball in all three games and Ginkel, their kicker is still got to likes to call it.

He's got a boot. I, I want to spend more and more time just pointing out surrogacies fraudulence. I know it's bad for you, the epicenter of everything we do here, but I very often think like, did you go somewhere this weekend because you come in here and you're phlegmy and you're Cofan things up in the audio.

He provided a negative test. He did go somewhere. I sound great. It's all right. I mean, I yelled at a lacrosse coach in my team and I was very adamant my team needed me. And I go by, feel sometimes I don't have to say anything and sometimes my team needs a little kick in the rear end, if you know what I need, if you know what I mean. And they got one this week. I mean, I feel fine.

I feel great. I'm excited. I'm depressed because I'm a jet fan. But other than that, I feel great. I mean, it's not on air that you sound bad.

It's the amount of hacking that you're doing. We're in a very confined space. You close the door behind you. This is an airborne virus. You go out and you fly around and you get on tubes filled with disease. And then you come back in here and you're talking very loud and you also a clear your throat without the mask being on.

So you're doing a lot of like look back to back negatives than last time you got tested for covid. Listen, if someone gets covid around here, it ain't my fault. Back to back negatives, do it seven days.

I buy that kind of feel like you should get one four days from now because you don't get it immediately.

Well, good news. I'm going away again. I'll have to get another one.

I want to talk about some gambling stuff that happened yesterday. Billy, did you have anything you wanted to give us on the Dolphins into it? Did you have any opinions as you soak that up the to suspend the entire game, rubbing his nipples? What was happening there on the sideline, Jeff?

What we know what he did yesterday, Danny, pass the test. We said, yes, there is the test game herbut to who is going to pass the test. They both had previously pass the sniff test. Yes, there was the eye test. And I think we all know who won the test yesterday.

We do. And that means the Dolphins won the draft, by the way. How about that?

Also, who's this Ahmed guy? Because that running back was shifty.

I love I love the idea that the Dolphins are clubbing people with van Ginkel and Ahmed.

And they had they had to deal with covid entering this game. They caught a break because it looked like Boza was going to be healthy. Entering that game. He ends up not playing, but week in, week out. I keep looking for holes to poke in the Miami Dolphins just because I'm kind of a hater. That's not my team locally. And Dolphin fans annoy me. They're talking their shit on Twitter and they should they got a good team.

Their skill guys are not excellent. But Devante Parker has grown and is doing some of the things that you expect from a number one receiver, you would imagine.

Right. With these draft picks, they don't need a quarterback. We know that. So they have used number one and number two, plus their own number one. And number two, you would imagine that would be used to surround to it with the right plan. I hope so.

Right. Because I am so very tired of watching the dolphins, you know, give all the money to and can sue or draft offensive lineman after offensive lineman. And tell us, going back to Keith Simms in Richmond, Webb, how important the offensive line is. Like, all I want to see from them is something that I haven't seen from them in twenty years, which is give me guys who can break the game open. Like give me a bunch of guys who are, you know, just like lamb, for example, or Dick Metcalf.

But just like just give me somebody out there, because Devante Parker has been largely disappointing to God. He is. He's come along in the last like eighteen games or so, but he's been largely disappointing in hurt.

If you could arrive at a place where Davonte is your number two wide receiver, you're in good shape. He's not Julio Jones. He's not going to be that type of guy. He's good. He's not great.

If it could be your number two, then you're really on to something is going to be a weird draft, just like with the NBA draft, because there's a lot of prospects and we're going off of two years ago tape. But the real impact receivers, I think Wadle for Alabama suffered an injury. Chase was dealing with all sorts of covid stuff. And LSU is not very good. So they're not on our radar. But there are IMPAC receivers here.

But you're just going to have. To go on two years ago, kind of like with Greg Russo in Miami, I'd love someone like Jefferson. I would love like something like that that gets you all excited, doesn't have to be Julio Jones. It could just be somebody who's a clear number one.

Remember before the draft when Dolphin fans wanted Tom Brady on this team, they didn't want to or they wanted Tom Brady. Did we say that?

We didn't say that. That would have been fun, though. I mean, I think stopgap. I think you said that, Chris. I think that. OK, very well.

Imagine, though, that they had Brady and to a two headed monster to a head in Montana. To a head.

Yeah, that means they have Antonio Brown and Gronk as well. Wow. I know.

Stuart, did you see the two gambling things that happened yesterday that were breathtaking, depending on which side you were on?

Well, I saw that picture, but obviously, did he buy up a half point what happened there? And like and then I saw. Are you talking about the are you talking about the end of the Cardinals game?

Those two impactful game finishes? Two and a half points. I had the cards.

Well, thank God for Kliff Kingsbury not running that two point conversion, but I was mad at him by that point. Well, we had the bills. We were about to suffer two bad Menagh beats because we also had Chubb. But let's say on the local kick, that's more national than because we can talk about a lot. We got the NBA draft. It's Woj notification season. The Miami Heat are involved in talks potentially with Danilo Gallinari who. But you kind of miss your shot here.

But can I talk about the Miami Hurricanes real quick? Because I'm very critical of the Miami Hurricanes this season. I haven't you know me. I've been screaming fire Manny Diaz since he lost to Georgia Tech last year. Not impressed, but I do want to give him credit now. They got punished by the AP, but that stuff will work itself out. I can make an argument, hey, this is not fair. You're raising Wisconsin. They played two games and they beat Michigan.

What are you doing? I think Miami is right around where they should be. It's just grading off of years past. It doesn't really make sense how Miami's slipping when they're winning straight up on the road, missing thirteen players as a two point dog. But I want to give credit to Manny Diaz because last year, look, you don't have to dig around too much to find out what Deron Williams was doing before that FSU game. There was a culture problem with Miami.

There were very identifiable needs that jumped off the TV to Miami. Had to fix kicker the year before. Punter quarterback, obviously, Mendez's fix, every single one of them. The Miami Hurricanes play hard at the end of games. They're not doing the you can always say about a Manny Diaz defense. Well, they're a good defense, but when you need a stop, they're not getting it. But now they know that they have a quarterback that's going to go out there and win the game.

They're not deflated by how immature the quarterback is on the other side and they're making plays. That was very impressive what they did at Virginia Tech, missing thirteen players, the rotation guys on the defensive line against a dual threat quarterback. You have guys like Phillips and Rachet basically playing every down and they're getting stronger as the game goes on. Russia had a really difficult matchup against one of the best left tackles in the nation. That's a good win for the Miami Hurricanes.

It's a game they always lose.

Virginia Tech did lose to liberty, which is somehow good this year. Miami, this part was impressive. I mean, Diaz said after the game they were on the brink of not even playing because they lost so many guys and the protocols were weakening them. It's why Miami was an underdog. You say they have fixed everything and you did hit the signature spots that they fixed. But what I noticed in that game is they're not going to be able to block anybody.

They did not fix that offensive line like they were missing Jackie Clarke also because it came in contact tracing. It's not exactly fair to say everyone tested positive for covid. They're in a hot spot. They probably all just positive over the summer if I want to get reckless. But there's contact tracing protocols in the act to which, again, credit to many dealers, because we've seen numerous programs, even programs in the Big Ten and PAC 12 that had additional time to get their protocols in line.

Miamis fielded a competitive team every time out. They haven't canceled the game and one of the hottest spots in the country, they've dealt with the look. They're not sexy. When Harrison Hunt is out in McLeod is out. You're not really pointed to Sexy Mike.

Their quarterback is like he is absolutely Heisman worthy.

Oh, yeah. I'm really worried about what happens in Miami. If the king decides to leave because he is a senior, he does get an additional year of eligibility, but we may come crashing down to earth and realize exactly how far we are. Again, we won against Alabama.

Sexy one. He's now playing Clemson. They're. Does anybody look cooler wearing a mask than Manny Diaz? No, he's got that going for him. Do we agree on that? He he just he just rocks it.

Well, you don't think Jim Harbaugh know that it's hard to take him seriously and think he's. But you know what happened?

You wanted him to coach every team. You thought Jim Harbaugh. I was wrong. I saw a freezing cold, takes a tweet about college game day saying somebody on College Gameday saying of Harbaugh when he was hired, quote, I think he's going to be urban. Meyer's biggest nightmare.

That is what somebody said about him, not even Ryan days. And he lost by 35 points against that Wisconsin.

But you see teams like Michigan and teams like Penn State. I know I'm identifying Big, Big Ten schools, but there are good programs that aren't knowing exactly how to handle this weird season. So this year more than ever, to point to it like a one score victory against Virginia Tech and say, yeah, just get the win. This is one of those years you can point to and say that's a valid argument. I know it's a University of Miami.

Another sky high expectations. They seem to be building something again, though it could all come crashing down when they lose a special quarterback who's the best quarterback we've seen at this program since Dorsey.

It can go crashing down before that when they lose in a game like they always seem to lose the Michigan loss. Do you believe that on the sidelines during that, as he's losing by five touchdowns to Wisconsin, Harbaugh's like scratching his head and saying, why was I in such a big hurry to make sure we played this season? Like, why?

Why did I force my conference to hurry up and get out here so that this could happen to me again and again as I'm a lead voice on. We need to get out there and so I can show everybody, man, my talent evaluation must stink because we're not five touchdowns within Wisconsin.

I think they play Rutgers this weekend. And it's it's only an eight point spread. Michigan's only favored by eight and three or four years ago. They beat Rutgers by seventy three points on that.

Hell's going on. The talent's going in the other direction. You see them on the field with Wisconsin and you're like, how is Michigan going to beat these guys? Because Wisconsin is so much more talented. That's not supposed to happen. When you bring in Jim Harbaugh with his coaching pedigree and his ability to reach top recruits. I don't think the pleated pants and the glasses and the look out of the 1950s is really connecting with kids.

Dan Billy, have you heard from people? Has he been around anywhere? Because I would imagine that this is coming close to being a time where people might be might be getting ready to get loud. He was beaten into submission, but I haven't had any contact with him. Have you have you heard from him in any way?

Suspiciously quiet so far. But it seems like we may be ramping up to an appearance at some point because they do keep winning, barely winning, but they do keep winning, which means he's probably thinking that they have a shot at doing something that they probably don't actually have a shot at doing.

Well, what's the rest of their schedule look like here, Mike? Because it is kind of silly when you see the PAC 12 playing six games and it's going to be a real cluster bleep trying to sort out who deserves what, because it wouldn't be fair at all to God to reward somebody for playing six games with another team is playing ten. Right.

But that's where we are in terms of the structural the structural integrity of this sport being compromised.

Three more conference games, a primetime game at home against Georgia Tech. Miami should win that game in Georgia Tech is terrible. Yeah, that's the easiest game left on their schedule at Wake Forest. That could be a challenge. Wake Forest can put some points up against North Carolina, who's coming to town. And the thought was, well, that would decide the coastal division. But this year in the ACC, there are no divisions. And you just so happen to have a Notre Dame team.

That's very, very good. So Miami might actually find themselves in the scenario where they can be the angry one loss team that shut out of the ACC championship game while not being very good. And the optics from Maynards who continues to recruit well, are very, very good. And you can say, look, allow me the ability to build a one loss regular season for the Miami Hurricanes is a dream scenario in terms of realistic scenarios for many ideas and credit to him.

Yes, they're barely winning these games, but those are games that 100 percent they lose last year against NC State and against Virginia Tech.

I'm surprised Pepper's waiting this long because they're seven and one usually PEBO does this at like two and one three and one four and one. I mean, they're seven and one. I mean, this is a long time to wait.

People, people and cocky canes fan got it all beaten out of them last year. You wanted it. You have a new coach energy, but you lose to fight you. That's a that's a come to Jesus moment. And I'm probably a little too hard on the Miami Hurricanes. It but it's all resorts back to that that that lawsuit, FIU, that's a program changer and that's a recalibration of expectations.

I know we're talking canes right now, but you guys want to do some schedule. Looking at some schedules, the Dolphins next three games, Broncos, Jets, Bengals looking at a little nine and three.

Chris, you weren't listening when Stewart said that, right? Or. It just wasn't listening at all when he said that, like, you've been on fire this hour, we have to have to make mistakes, too.

That's part of my bit. Like, I can't just be good. This has been a guy just a beautiful start to the week. Just what are we getting to the good part? You can't be good. Yeah, yeah.

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Like what level of shame do you have right now? Kicking off this week, OK? I went to you and you had nothing. Yeah, nothing on the money.

Thing is, is I don't really have shame about that one because I blame my wife because she was talking to me as you were talking to me that this last one I just didn't hear you got to say that. So that one I actually feel more shame about.

Actually, I find interesting, though, that this is this is fairly shocking. OK, I don't know if it's the most shocking thing about 20/20, which has been a rough year, but I just heard and saw and I can't remember this being exactly. So Mike Ryan and Chris Cody basically say of their teams yet we got that one. We're going to win that one. That one's easy. We're going to win that one. And it's like, whoa, that's where we are with the dolphins.

We're making them nine and three and we're taking the hurricanes and we're having them finish.

Yeah, I said we're going to be Georgia Tech looking at that schedule. That's the only one I feel.

Is Miami better than North Carolina. What do you think? Do you think Miami, obviously North Carolina's offense is over? Well.

Well, yeah, obviously. But you can lose to a team. You're worse then in the act, if they finish the season with two losses, I'm still very happy with how the season and the upward trajectory and where we're going. I'm really worried about next year because I think we're seeing the difference between Miami now and the Miami teams in the last 15 years. Not much, but but at that quarterback position, he's special. He's also a grown ass man.

Right? He doesn't look it physically, but maturity. That's a 25 year old man with a life experience going in there. It is night and day from what we were having here before. I cannot I cannot push this upon you guys enough. They had immature little boys at that position and it showed with those losses, just give me the game that concerns you the most.

It's not the yellowjackets. It's either the Deakes on the road or North Carolina at home. Both of those both of those. It's they're both of those concerned me, the canes and swatted those games. No, no.

We always swat North Carolina since we've gotten in the ACC. North Carolina is always a nightmare matchup for Miami. I always swat North Carolina. All right.

You say always. But Stukas is always reverting back to the time when Miami Good Times did not SWAT teams like no before being in the ACC. There was no sweating of North Carolina back then. Every once in a while, Arkansas or South Carolina would come into the Orange Bowl and like surprised you.

You had to make a field goal or something that had a lot of title hopes dashed at the hands of the Tar Heels. I do not take them lightly.

But you are doing you are doing the Butch Davis years. You're doing one last year with Sam Howel hanging it up on them like they they pretty much own Miami in this matchup. That's Miami's biggest nontraditional rival since they got in those those matchups are always heated up and they taunt us like crazy.

Why did you guys stop it? Three games out looking at the Dolphins schedule, you did Broncos, Jets, Bengals. But the big one, Chiefs. I mean, that's a measuring stick game, Dan. And I don't think that they're necessarily going to lose that game. Oh, against the Chiefs. You could be rolling in at nine and three.

And that's a who's whose game is if the dolphins are where everybody thinks they are.

And I think that, you know what that may get flex that game, maybe it flexed. I don't know how flexing works, but I think it can make it flex, flex.

And right now, like the the who they are game. What kind of game is the measuring stick game? No one that tells us who's who. OK, because I don't think I don't that when you say they are who everyone thinks they are as it regards Kansas City, I think what everyone thinks they are is not nearly as good as Kansas City.

What does that say about the dolphins? Everybody's talking dolphins here. That's what I know. But that's what we know. Kansas City is. We're we're trying to figure out who the dolphins.

I know, but I don't think there are many people listening to this right now that put the dolphins in the class with Kansas City.

Well, they should. And he. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they should.

I mean, have they watched the dolphins the last couple of five straight, by the way, I remind you, but thank you for that reminder that she's speaking of schedules and I'm so glad we're here. The Chiefs are at the Raiders, at the Buccaneers and then they're home with the Broncos. So there's a chance this game has major, major seating implications. Seriously, Dolphins chiefs who suzu. Hotseat for Andy Reid. Mike, why don't you describe to the audience what's to Gods does when he says who's who and like how he like settles into his chair, like there's a good amount of response.

Just shut up for a second.

Backs away. He backs away. He flapped his sausage fingers in front of his microphone like he smelled something bad. Yes, all his fingers, the same exact length as the other, and sits back in a deep appreciation of him displaying a hint of himself. Not a good one, a great one, pointing out the chief's schedule. You don't think they're good until they become good. The chiefs lose a couple of games. Those two is right. There is.

Yeah.

I think the chiefs are good guys. I think we all know the chiefs are good too. What do you what do you do? I'm just making the point that it appears there's a big gulf between these two teams right now because one is eight and one the other six and three. The others coming off a Super Bowl might have the greatest quarterback we've ever seen. Those are important variables. They're just pointing out at the time we get to that game, OK, the chiefs might have added a loss or two to their record.

That's all important. Only one of those two teams won five in a row this season, not the Chiefs.

Can the Chiefs Dolphins game be a who's who game?

If we already know who the chiefs are, that's just who's game. And that's the part.

I was confused why God was so proud of himself, because he has a lot of unanswered questions about the Kansas City Chiefs.

I know the Chiefs were a year ago. I'm still not certain who the chiefs are. They're a team that lost at home to the Raiders. I mean, I don't know who they are this year. A lot of good teams lose at home to the Raiders.

I'm careful. It's a good point. I really don't understand why you were so swaggering and proud of yourself is a weird thing to do.

But explain to me, I want the audience which can't see you. I want the audience to sort of absorb. Did you guys saw what he did right? He backs away from the microphone. It's not just what Mike says, where he wiggles his sausage fingers in front of his face like he smelled something bad. But it's also sort of dismissing me, like with his fingers, like he's he's he's wiggling his fingers at me in a way that suggests, like, take that smell and do something with it.

Dan, I dare you. I'm just going to sit over here and be great.

He's like all palms to the hands when he waves him, it gives the illusion that his hands are webbed. Yeah, weird hands.

But why did that point summon that? Because you do back up in your chair. And it's like I've said, what needs to be said there. I don't even need to be near the microphone because the microphone is on fire from how smart and great I was that when you dissect the game and a story and a future game, you have to look at it from all angles.

And what was being left out there was the chief's portion of the schedule and what they could potentially be once we get to this game. And I was proud of myself for bringing out the Chiefs schedule and how difficult it is because Raiders at Raiders in Las Vegas and at Tampa Bay, those are two very difficult games of games. I can see the chiefs losing. Why? Because I don't know who they are, that's all.

Not just the three games headed into that game against the Dolphins. The guards look back at the chiefs schedule. Who have they beat? We're looking at the teams that they played the Ravens. OK, that's a good win. But outside of that, Texans, Chargers, Patriots, bills, Broncos, Jets. I mean, who have they beat? It's not like they've been going up against these great teams to mask that eight on one. We don't really know who these teams are.

And I mean, the Patriots beat the Ravens. I mean, guys, they're the defending champions with the best quarterback any of us have. OK, very good patriots beat the Dolphins.

You're like, this is a transitive property riddle.

What you got going on right now is a different Patriots team and the Dolphins team. Oh, football.

Football does this to people. But I believe that is every chief's opinion should be rendered moot, totally moot by this.

Oh, go ahead, Andy Reid, I dare you to go fourteen and two and allow Alex Smith to leave Arrowhead Stadium to leave Kansas City. Go ahead. I dare you. Because of Patrick Mahomes. Because you think you could turn Patrick Mahomes. That's something that Alex Smith is not. Alex Smith is a very good quarterback. The audacity first off to do this to Alex Smith, who's been very good and loyal to Andy Reid and won him a lot of football games to Daniel Patrick Mahomes out there because Andy Reid thinks he's some sort of quarterback whisperer, which he he's not, by the way, is not, because if he was, Alex Smith would be better than he's been the last few years.

So I was there. I mean, that's a record for Concertante on. And that is that is a myth that sets a world record for Stewart's not paying attention to any of the things he said. The sentence before was the leading passer in football yesterday. Alex Smith.

Three hundred ninety yards, more yards than anyone in the sport. Yesterday, the lions were so lions in that game, he did it on thirty eight completions.

I mean. Yeah. Can you imagine if Mahomes had thirty eight completions in a game three fifty five times 50 of them.

That underneath the. That the Lions apparently couldn't figure out I would be so I studied lions, defense and fantasy. If you can't be miserable, if I were a Lions fan, like how how can you be up twenty four to three against Washington's third quarterback and they come roaring back? Alex Smith is a surgical success story. Alex Smith, more than a football or a wild story, is a medicine story like he is a story about the marvels of modern medicine.

How the hell do you cough up a three touchdown lead to the Washington football team?

I mean, you're the Lions. It's not like it's the Packers.

How can you how can you keep rooting for that team, though? Like how if you're a fan of that team and you make your best players quit, plural, plural. Barry Sanders. That's plural. Yeah, it's Calvin Johnson there. I don't know what I would do if I were a Lions fan. I'd quit football.

I'd quit the idea of watching football on Sunday, telling the caller from a Bleacher Report did an awesome story about the Patriots way going wrong and how Matt Patricia tries to bring over Patriots culture to Detroit and how all his players hated him. In fact, one player's agent sent over champagne. And during the last day of team meetings of that season, they went to the cafeteria, got orange juice and started toasting mimosas in the locker room because they were so happy to be done with Matt.

Patricia.

But Dan, I mean, the dolphins, you've you've remained I mean, you're not a fan, really, but you're loyal to the Dolphins. You want the local teams to do well. They've had a couple of decades of.

No, but but no, it's not merely losing. I'm talking about just what losers you are like that you even won yesterday.

And I'm still looking at you like what's the matter with you guys? Like you won? And I'm like, you guys just keep stinking. You're a plague of disease on your fan base.

Right in the mix, though, I don't know. Nor so the Redskins. No Washington football team.

Damn.