Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, Mike, and Roy. We have a lot to get to across the NFL including the Miami Dolphins' big win, but will Stugotz be able to avoid recycling takes from God Bless Football? The Dolphins are now 5-6 and firmly in the mix just like everyone but Dan predicted. Will Dan be able to stay positive around the Dolphins as he wants to or will everyone else's optimism force him into being negative? Billy has some high praise of Tua, but he also wants to warn everyone of The Flip Side headed into a nationally televised game on Thanksgiving night. Then, Mark Jones had the most Miami broadcast ever as the Miami Hurricanes moved to 10-1. Should Miami's defense make us weary of them being able to do ANYTHING come College Football Playoff time? Plus, the Detroit Lions are dominant in a way they haven't been since Babe Ruth was playing Major League Baseball, Billy wants to be wrong, and we were duped by a fake video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the implications of the Dolphins' recent performance?
informed insider yeah all the things that you described definitely uh screams neutrality uh i will uh i will say that uh look notre dame doesn't play in a conference championship game if miami handles its business they'll be ranked again ahead of all these teams that you could poke holes and i actually have more of an issue with texas i think if you texas if you look at where's their quality when
A lot of people are like, well, I guess their win over Florida looks really good now. Florida had 12 starters out when they played Texas. I think that you can poke a lot of holes in that. I think Indiana has played three teams with a winning record all season long. They kind of cracked the code that you can actually have a weak schedule inside the Big Ten and only face three winning teams.
There's a lot of... chatter. There's a lot of SEC propagandizing that kind of frustrates me. Again, I'm in the camp that it is actually the best conference in America, but it is also simultaneously wildly overrated. None of this stuff matters if Miami just handles its business.
I don't trust them to. Syracuse throws the ball a ton, and that's where they're weak, and I think it's really hard to win on the road, and I love this Miami season. It's been super exciting. I thought they played terribly against Wake Forest. I mean, Powell drops a pick six, Restrepo fumbles, Cam doesn't look right the entire game, and they still win fairly easily. I...
I think that this University of Miami team is better than the one that was 10-0, started 10-0 with Mark Rick. But that team that lost at Pittsburgh, I can see this team losing that game at Syracuse because of where Syracuse is strong and because it's hard to win on the road.
I have the same lack of trust in Miami, but at the same time, I think they can win it all. Because who do you trust? Win it all? Who do you trust? You've got to win it all.
No, I'm not saying they're going to win it all. No, but win it all. It's not that I don't trust. It's that that defense is never allowed to win the championship. Never since I've been watching college football.
Who do you trust?
And I say that about that defense, even knowing that Wake Forest didn't have a completion the entire second half. Whatever it was plaguing them in the first half was not plaguing them in the second half.
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Chapter 2: How does Tua's performance affect team dynamics?
You force Miami outside the hash marks, you make them make tackles in space, and Wake Forest just decided to attack the A-gap all game long. Kiko had to stay within the hash marks and just it was it was the perfect opponent and really a truly horrific game plan by Wake Forest.
So I think it's fair, even after the probably the best defensive performance of the season, to still have your questions, because Miami is going to get challenged by teams. to actually show that they've improved some of their weaker aspects. I don't think Wake did that. That being said, I'm not sure Syracuse will do that either because they're pretty tied in their identity.
McCord likes to hold onto the ball and then freak out at the very last second. He throws the ball quite a bit. I think he averages more passing yards per game than even Cam Ward. I think that team throws more than any in the country. I think it's going to be another defensive line game. The D-line in this game is going to have the opportunity to get home. I'm encouraged by the opening line there.
And if I told you before the season, year three of Mario Cristobal's program, all he has to do is beat Syracuse on the road to get to Charlotte. Every single one of you is taking it.
How does the ACC determine who plays for the conference championship?
The tie-breaking scenarios are kind of complicated, and I was running through this, and I think all the power conferences, Billy, need to take a look at this because we're seeing Indiana make it to a college football playoff in the impossible situation of we are not exactly sure how good they are, and they haven't been tested in what was supposed to be the most powerful conference in all of the land.
There's head-to-head tie-breaking scenarios, but there were also tie-breaking scenarios in which you had four teams that probably would have been in the mix and only two of them played each other, it needs to be looked at. I think divisions are a way to fix it. But to answer your question, SMU is in the championship game, already headed to Charlotte. Miami will be there if they beat Syracuse.
If they lose, Clemson's in.
Clemson's only ahead of them because right now they've played more games.
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Chapter 3: What are the key factors for Miami in upcoming games?
It's a high-wire act, and I feel like we do a pretty good job, and I knew this is what we're probably going to be doing in the local hour today, in the max hour today on YouTube. and DKN and Peacock and all the places you can watch it. So I said, you know what? I don't want to say I'm saving it because I would say still check out Godless Football. A lot of fun today. A lot of fun. Lucy's on there.
We're talking about some college football. But we saved that for you, Dano.
And so how much victory lap are you ready to take today? Because you told us all they would be five and six. You told us all they would be in the mix. And I want to see where you are firmly entrenched on what this team is going to be because I don't know what the weather is Thursday in Green Bay, but that would be your test.
Like that would be an excellent place for the season to take one shape or another if you can go to Green Bay and do what you did against the Rams because you still haven't beaten a good team this season.
Is it crazy to say that this game could potentially be the biggest game of Tua's career? And I say that because he can dispel so many of the doubts this weekend if he goes into a cold, bad weather, Green Bay, national TV and pulls off a win. I mean, to get them back to 500, which is kind of like part of the statement that is not great. But like...
There's already people talking about how important Tua is to this team. You see the Matt Ryans of the world saying no one is more important to their team than Tua is. So if you can go out there and you can win this cold weather game, I feel like it's an injection of confidence, a boost, Dan, that you can take moving forward and say, you know what?
When the Bills overcome the Chiefs and then you go back and first round potentially is back in Kansas City or a rematch from last year's playoffs in the first round, then you know you can do it in the cold, potentially. However, here's the flip side.
And this is the dirty part that we don't want to talk about, that no one wants to talk about.
The flip side.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Miami's college football playoff chances?
No one's talking about that, but this could be the biggest game of his career if he is to survive it.
He played in Kansas City last year. I mean, playoff game.
Okay, but I don't even know. Is this the right?
Time to throw away dull journalistic credibility and get reckless. A little late. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.
You're good? I don't know if that's the right sound or not. I don't have the... It needed something, that sound.
It's not reckless. He's just pointing out a trend.
It's pretty irrefutable. Was it even him, though? I couldn't tell because there was a mystery voice speaking there. Was that Billy? I didn't hear who said that. It seemed like he was in character.
Those are the people who want to talk about it, but they're not talking about it.
I just said this could be the biggest game of his career, potentially.
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Chapter 5: How does the ACC determine conference championship contenders?
Who said that?
Like right before Thanksgiving. Right before Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving.
On Thanksgiving.
I'm sorry. On Thanksgiving. Oh, no. Oh, no.
Yeah.
No. Yeah, family gathered around the TV.
It's a late one, though. We talked about this. The late game is when everybody's kind of tripped a fan. You know what I mean?
Everybody's already kind of like, ooh. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
What's interesting is that the postgame message from Mike McDaniel to his team was all about playing on Thanksgiving against the Packers in this moment. He and Calais Campbell, they were gassing this game up. They were immediately on the green bay.
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Chapter 6: What makes a broadcast uniquely Miami?
business of sports let's talk about the story here at the center of the dolphin huddle because calais campbell deserves a better ending than the one i think the dolphins are going to give them but it's not a better ending than the one calais and mike mcdaniel seem to think that calais can have here instead of with the ravens because it would have made a lot of sense for them to just trade the oldest player in the league to the ravens who could have used
Hey, that dude's been a menace off the edge and up the middle of your defense because he's bigger and stronger than most people. And he has been for about 10 years, maybe longer. Yeah, probably longer, right? What is it now? We're looking at almost 20 years with Calais Campbell. If you go back to watching him at the University of Miami, the Dolphins decided.
somewhere between 2-6 and 4-6 that their season could be salvaged. And at 5-6, even though it's ridiculous to talk about what Billy's talking about, which is 12 games in, you're 6-6. That's not what this season of expectations was about. But the 49ers feel different at 5-6 than the Dolphins.
do it five and six because when to a place for the dolphins what billy says is right matt ryan is saying no player clearly is more important to their team than this one is because the offense looks completely different to that they've been playing it's not just the toying with the no look passes and all the ball handling that he does that you know has everybody in the league chris simms included on god bless football calling him the guy who's best
with the football, it's that they were using so much motion yesterday. You go from what we were watching in that month-long stretch where they were 1-3 and they couldn't get to 20 points against anybody to the way they play with Tua. It's startling to see the difference.
The obvious difference when you talk about the Niners and the Dolphins is the Niners are falling apart. Their players are getting hurt. The Dolphins are getting healthy right now, specifically at that position. And Tua's been great. The last two games, seven touchdowns, no interceptions, 128.5 passer rating. He has been great, Tua. Against nobody. Against nobody, but Dan, you know what?
Waddle looks better. Jonu Smith is amazing. The team just looks better when Tua is running that offense, obviously.
Dan, to your point on motion, it was their highest rate of the season yesterday. 93.7% of their plays had motion.
You also saw yesterday Skylar Thompson be Skylar Thompson yet again. Like, you try to get to a some rest. The game is a complete blur. You're like, you know what? We made it through. Dominating performance. He looks great. Let's rest him up. Short week. Going to play on Thanksgiving. Skylar Thompson comes in and says, nah. Let's have a little fun. Let's give the other team the ball.
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Chapter 7: What role does Jagermeister play in sports culture?
Football yesterday, I texted Chris Cody and Stugatz a half hour before the 1 p.m. game. So I'm like, oh, man, today's the one that hurts you guys. You guys love those big favorites on the road in a season.
Yeah.
when getting points is obviously the thing to do because all of these games are so close. And both of you said you were threatening to have a bye week for gambling during the one o'clock games because the one o'clock games were so bad. Think about this, okay? Think about the magic of this stupid sport. At 12.55, Chris Cody and Stu Gotts, legitimate degenerates, the both of them. Thanks.
Thinking about a bye week on gambling, these 1 o'clock games, woof.
I was actually telling you that even gambling on these games will not make these games exciting. That's what you were saying.
Yes, you were thinking about taking a gambling bye week just to get ready for December, for Thanksgiving, for the postseason. And then what happens? All at about the same time. There goes Patrick Mahomes running for 33 yards. Woo, the Chiefs escape. Oh, the Bears got an onside kick. Whoever recovers those, tie game. Oh, the Titans beat the Texans. Really? Really? No one saw that coming.
And then also, the Cowboys are going to win on the road, are they?
That finish.
And it's going to be four touchdowns in three minutes at the end of the game when all of you thought the under was coming in when it was whatever it was, 3-0 at the half.
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Chapter 8: What are the trends in college football this season?
Unbelievable. It's just unbelievable. Football. All crap games, all of them. But they're just close. And they got stakes. and five and six is in the mix.
Was that the best witching hour of the season? Unbelievable. It lasted two hours. It was two hours.
There was a Hail Mary in one, but no, he's right. Overtime went into the 425 games. Hanson was disoriented. He was confused. I wanted to ask you guys on the U.M. broadcast on Saturday. I believe Mark Jones, who has been doing this for a really long time and has enjoyed it for a really long time and has gotten so good and confident at it.
did the single most Miami broadcast I have ever heard on a national game. And furthermore, I'm pretty sure he was doing this on purpose, use an assortment of polysyllabic words just to do it. Just because he wanted to call the University of Miami defense intransigent. Somebody fumbled and he's like, oh, he regurgitated that one.
He did it like a dozen times and I'm convinced he's playing with his friends where he's like, I bet you I get this word in today. He's fooling around because they're words I've never heard on a sports broadcast.
Definitely a Miami broadcast. Gave the location of the stadium, Dan Marino Boulevard, 27th Avenue.
Oh, Carroll City, Liberty City, Overtown. Miami Gardens. Same where he got married. I've never heard such a Miami broadcast done nationally that way.
Where'd he get married?
So it's church nearby. He was going to have service there the next day at 10 a.m.
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