The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Playoff Permutations

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

As Dan wants to get to all of the important things that happened over the last week and a half, the crew needs to get to all of the NFL Playoff scenarios on the table. Plus, the Dolphins lost more than just a game vs the Ravens as an old fashioned 'injury off' breaks out.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertor Show with this two-gots podcast. I just saw Billy in the makeup room and he said to me without any irony already defeated. 2024 is not going my way. And it's how I felt to got where a day into it. I know. That's not exactly what I said. I said 2024 is not for me.

I'm ready for 2025. Oh. Yeah. I'm ready to make a proclamation. Okay. 2024. We're having fun. All right. Really? Yeah. What do you think's coming in November? Oh boy. James. Sweeping James. To set up all the naysayers. I went to God, on Sunday. I'm watching football that should be enjoyable. And this is what swept over me in waves.

So you're telling me that the moment I sign off on however expensive it's going to be to send this fat show to Las Vegas for a week. And that debauchery that Wemba Njama calls the closest thing that you will find on this globe to dystopia, that as soon as I sign off on going to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, because the dolphins have a chance. Not only do I get that Sunday against the Ravens, where their whole secondary is out and the dolphins simply against good teams can't put up more than 20, 21, 22, 19 points that

explosive offense when it gets against the good defenses, even if it's the practice squad secondary of the Ravens, the dolphins not only fall apart in a way like you're like, whoa, Baltimore's a lot better. And now they just got the buys that now they're at home. And who's going to beat that? That quarterback that teams were rushing to got to tell us they didn't want this off season when he was available. That's funny, right?

Oh my God. All the terrible teams, Carolina and Atlanta, all of them rushed to the microphones to say, nope, we're good at quarterback Don't need an MVP. Don't don't know why why we're Atlanta Why would we want an MVP at quarterback? He's about to become a two-time MVP the first player to do so before the age of 26 What the teams were rushing to their information guys to tell us. Now, don't need Lamar Jackson.

No, thank you. Don't need any quarterbacks. But not only does that happen to the dolphins, Stugots, also, oh no, chab on a stretcher. Oh no, howard on a cart. After Stugots, what are you making faces about Billy? Yeah. Thank you very, very healthy. I mean, they, they, the thing is weekly though.

That's the thing. He also got burned like right before. Some people may be saying to just not want to be embarrassed. Some people, not me. But Dan is right. It feels like the dolphins lost everything that can, like all, everything. Why is Chub playing when they're down by 50? But Chub is out for the year.

Most of it was out to begin with. Waddle was out. Tariq Hill is banged up to a left with a shoulder injury. I mean, I don't like the people attacking Mike McDaniel over. He's on the hot seat over playing Chubb in that spot. You can't take out all your guys. Do the math. You don't have that. Dude, you know, you can't do the math. You can't sit everybody. Do you understand before Sundays, do gots? Mike, are you putting a finger finger up because you want to put's? Mike, are you putting a finger finger up because you want to put on the pole? Can you sit everybody? I can car with that point.

You can't sit everybody. You know what though? You could. They might as well. They did. Do the math. I mean, they should have sat the ones that are going to get hurt. He should have known who was going to get hurt and sat him. Like it's just such an easy. I hated that. What's he doing in the game? Bradley Bradley, Joe does have an injury history, but I had no issue, especially when, as recent as last season, your team came back in a game against that very team in a very similar scenario. So you have to go for it. No, the point where he got hurt, there was no coming back from there's like three minutes left in the game. Billy, this is why I think you

made a good point because and Chris did not make a good one even though Mike Ryan concurred with you can't sit everybody. How much worse would the score have been if you had in those last three minutes? Just sad everybody. Just said, nope, not interested in any injuries that's a violent game. Have added. Not gonna go near the mid grinder. Don't care.

Put up the 70. Indeed, did not have any more injuries before the biggest game in a centurion. All their other past registers were already hurt. So like Phillips is out. Like there's not that many dns. That's the other thing. The dns is pointed out.

You have that quarterback and that team strolling into town. I mean, that guy, that guy's a football player. Josh Allen has 15 rushing touchdowns. I saw on Sunday, somebody who is 320 pounds have a very difficult time trying to tackle it. I don't think this is a straw man. I think Miami Dolphins fans complaints about injuries and just being unlucky are so much louder than everybody else this year. You take a team that's coming into town that is now a favorite in your building.

They've had a load of injuries. You mentioned there were plumbers in that secondary for Baltimore. Look at what's happening with the Cleveland Browns. Everyone is banged up. Some teams historically so, you don't get a pass for that kind of performance just because guys are hurt.

Stu Guetz, before we get back to the dolphin raven game really so you don't get a pass for that kind of performance just because guys are hurt. Still gots before we get back to the dolphin raven game because I do want to talk about just the calamity that this is that the moment we sign up for Vegas, we're signing up for a Brown 49ers Super Bowl. Oh, that'd be a good matchup. We signed up for Vegas because we want the Miami Dolphins, the hard knocks Miami Dolphins. I still love that show. So it got it felt so good. It felt so good to watch to pretend to talk to

Braxton Barrios when he was actually calling the most important play of the game for Tyree Kill. It was so good to see Christian Wilkins so happy for sealer that he's running off of the field with him just yelling at everyone like, oh, six year old. That's my friend. That's my friend. That felt so good a week ago after beating the cowboys with field goals. But Mike Ryan mentioned something that is absolutely so.

And I cannot believe in 2024 the year of our Lord, I'm still asking this question. Is Joe Flacko elite? You know what? I'm still asking this question. Is Joe Flacco elite? You know what? I think Brady was onto something. Remember he was like, hey, the guys were in my time, my generation elite, all of a sudden, these guys coming up, not that good.

Well, this is what I'm telling you, Tony. Tony, on my life, I will side right by, this is gonna stun the audience. I will stand next to Bill Polion's six time executive of the year who told me to Lamar Jackson is not a quarterback. He's a wide receiver and say, what he cannot do is be something and footed, rolling to his right and throw a cannon ball,

70 yards because he's flaco, God damn it. And that's how he does it. And I will never get tired of that. And he'll roll to his left and do the same thing and it's going 70 yards and all of a sudden, David and Joku, muscles on top of that. And he'll roll to his left and do the same thing and it's going 70 yards and all of a sudden David and Joku, muscles on top of muscles. The greatest athlete in terms of physical body that I've seen at UM, not named Andre Johnson. Guy looks like a superhero.

All of a sudden in Joku is somebody who cannot be stopped when he's been underwhelming. His entire career's to got to and the Browns first team ever to have four starting quarterbacks and they're going to make the playoffs. Flacco is going to pass Johnny Manzel on the Browns career passing list. That's amazing. And 50 yards, he's going to win, come back player of the year over a guy who died on a field. He should win it.

I mean, all right. Did you not hear the second half of what I said, a man who died on the field? Yes, you're right. And, and I'm also right half a tackle though. He's gonna, that's correct. He's going to win. Come back, player over the year over a guy who died on the field. And no one will disagree with it.

They're like, yep, you did that with the Browns. You deserve it. It's harder than coming back from death. Mike just called him or someone did. Maybe you did a Hall of Famer. He hasn't been referred to at not a Hall of Famer MVP. Flacco has not been referred to as an MVP in years. And now we're just, hey, MVP. He should be considered. No, I mean, no, he should not be. He's certainly a dim back place. It's a different Joe Flacco.

It's a Joe Flacco that doesn't care. He's not supposed to be there. He's just letting it win. He is. He is just making crazy. He is kind of winging it and they ask him about the turnovers because he does have a lot of interceptions. He's like, man, you know, part of it. And he does fit the ball into these super tight windows. But this is the point that I was trying to make with the dolphins and them talking about injuries. Look at the injury list headed into that Thursday night game against the best defense in the league in which Joe Flacco made look made to look very pedestrian without a Mari Cooper there, not just without a Mari Cooper, without a starting left tackle without a starting right tackle without the backup to that right tackle without Nick treb that

happened early in the season without both starting safeties without the starting kicker without the starting punnel without the starting punturner. They have navigated injuries in a way that has been pretty unprecedented, and they're locked in the playoffs at number five. Let me ask you guys this question because I was thinking about this on Sunday as Philadelphia was booing its eagles, and I'm like, God, man, I get it.

You don't wanna, this is several weeks now, where you, so God, you have to be careful with expectations because the dolphins, what we just saw, the Ravens are one of the best organizations across sports this century. The dolphins are the opposite of that. The Ravens have the better Harbaugh. The Harbaugh you'd want more on a hell of a weekend

for the Harbaugh. That sport is hard to stay on top of. Look at the Kansas City Chiefs to got eight times they've now won that division and they've rarely looked weaker than this year. As everyone in the division drafts to stop them, as the schedule is made to make their seasons harder, as the salary cap takes away their Tyree kills. I got to thinking this weekend about Kansas City and Philadelphia. The Golden State Warriors have trouble keeping it all together

and that sport doesn't hurt the same way that this one does. Is it possible with the chiefs and the Eagles? It's just really hard to stay up there over all of these injuries and everything else and you're gonna get ground down physically in a way because how hard it is to stay on top of these divisions and play all these important games. Right.

That toward the end of some of these seasons, the wheels are gonna come off of the thing because everyone out there now going into a 17th game we've never had before is broken. Like physically broken, it's hard to get out of bed on Wednesdays. Do you know how hard it is to be the Eagles and the chiefs at the top of that sport that the Patriots have now given back to others? I was going to say Brady made it look easy.

I mean, the wheels never came off on Brady. They won that division every single year. They stayed at top that sport for over, well over a decade. You're right about Brady and I'm right about what I'm about to say. The dolphins are super injured as is everybody, but somehow they're quarter back, the biggest injury risk in the sport this season isn't why? Because he plays like Brady, two seconds and out, two seconds and out, two seconds and out.

But what happens when Wattles out in their defense up front is really good. And you need more than two seconds now. And Tyree Kill is, yeah, he's made out of the same material as bowling balls, but he's clearly every week that's hard to do. 15 targets a game. And you're being tackled by everyone on the field is bigger than you, every single person on the field is bigger than you. They were exposed and it's, you know, it's tough for dolphin fans because if you're going to make it to the Super Bowl and all likelihood, you're going to have to go back to Baltimore and try that again, right? And you're going to feel like you have no home going into that game.

Not necessarily. Well, the two seed is actually a good seed if you want to make it to the AFC championship game because if you're the two seed, like the dolphins are right now, if they win, right, and they're the two seed, and everything stays exactly the same, which I don't know how it can. Do you have confidence in them being balls? No. You're silly.

So if they lose the Buffalo Billy, they play Buffalo again, but only at Buffalo. At Buffalo, yeah. I don't. I think so, Billy. I don't know how these things play out. It depends, right? Right. Buffalo. I don't. I think so, Billy. I don't know how these things play out. It depends, right? Right. If the season ended today, right? And the dolphins are the two seed and the bills are the six seed, right? Which I don't know who would have to win, who would have to lose between the Colts and the Texans so that the bills would stay at

the six or if they'd move down or whatever. I think the bills have a scenario in which they have to win. And if they win, very of C's champs, if they lose, they're out. Well, but if the Colts lose or the Texans lose, then they're still, no, there's a scenario that bills end up down here next week. If we win, please let's not, please, please, let's not do the show where we're going. I love playoff. All of the playoff permutations and everyone gets confused. And you guys don't know, like, let's please not do that.

But here's the thing. If the season ended today, you don don't know, like, let's please not do that. But here's the thing, if the season ended today, you don't need to help here, Stugat, you can sit this one out. If the season ended today, which it does not, but if it did, if it did, it does not, there's no circumstance. But if it did, this is a great scenario.

If it did, and the dolphins were the two seed, they would be playing the cults, right? And the bills would be playing the chiefs. So the bills and the Chiefs, one of them has to knock off the other one. If the bills win and they knock out the Chiefs, then the bills are the lowest remaining seat in the playoffs. And then they have to play the Ravens. There's no scenario the dolphins play the Colts in the first round. The dolphins can only play.

How so? If the dolphins ended today. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I have two senses here that make today from the top Please yeah, just write me just stop you guys This is the season ended today. You If you mention that one more time Billy you got he was talking about next week

See he's in today. He's right. That's the confusion. Dolphins play the cold. What happens if the Titan speed the Jags? Oh shit The Dan Levitard show with stewugots is sponsored by BetterHelp. Around New Year's, we get obsessed with how to change ourselves instead of just expanding on what we're already doing right. Therapy can be helpful for personal growth, managing mental health challenges, improving relationships, or just coping with life's changes.

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Let me start again. Stugats is the closer. Comes in, ninth inning. Closes the game up. His name is Kenley Janssen. He has blamed his recent... DCC Don Lebertard our show with this two gods. Can I just read a couple sentences?

I'll make this all seem much simpler. I don't want to tell any of you. I think I cleared it up. I don't want to do any of this. But the Texans can only sneak in if they beat the pulse. Like where this read ascension is and then we'll know. Right. Yeah. From the top.

If the dolphins lose against Buffalo, Miami is in Kansas City, round one. Okay. If Miami wins, they will play at home against either Pittsburgh, Buffalo or Jacksonville. Now I have the scenarios of those if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but that was the worst place. Let's go down that rabbit hole. I'm one end of the worst place. If the season ended next week, next week.

I'm going to make everybody's jobs easy, Brown's locked in numbers. I am about to throw all of Brown's way of telling him box together. Okay. What? I'm about to throw everyone together at the penalty box. The playoff permutation show, when there is so much to talk about, after the holidays, it's a Tuesday. We have not done a show on Monday.

We have not talked about football. We have a lot to get to. You guys fouling this up with playoff permutations that are going to be wrong and keep interrupting you. No, it's no, in a couple of days they'll be wrong. But if it ended today, they're right. I'll say this. I'm pretty sure that one, three and five are locked in.

Okay, pretty sure. Ravens one, who's three? She's three. She's locked in a three and five are locked in. Okay. Pretty sure. Ravens one, who's three? She's her three. She's her locked in a three at your Browns. Okay. Oh, you try to get me with that one. They're not mine. Let me stop you for a second on your Browns and just Marvel again at the fact that the

Browns gave all the guaranteed money three quarterbacks ago. They risked it all. That no team wanted Lamar Jackson, but the Sean Watson sign us up. We'll give you all the guaranteed money in the world. Cleveland season didn't get healed until after that quarterback, another quarterback and another quarterback produced Joe Flacco getting on a plane. And I saw the pictures of him on that plane flying in and we all laugh. Flacco joining the practice squad. We all

laughed at that. I want you guys to take a guess here real quick. Just how many teams this Flacco played for? Three. No, no, no, Denver. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Just make your guess. Hold on. Yeah, just make guess. Prior to Cleveland, I must say, hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on This is his fifth team. I have no recollection whatsoever of Denver and Philadelphia. No, I do not remember. Flacco. Crazy. I'm not even certain.

I believe you. I mean, can you get a jersey? Can I go to the NFL store and get a Flacco Denver jersey or a Flacco Eagles jersey? I mean, if you order on fanatics, yeah, you may not be your intention, but that's what they'll send you. I'd like to see if we can get that and drape you in it because you've got a real moral conundrum here. What? What? I mean, yes, because... I don't have a moral.

Yeah, you do, because you sat all of the Browns allegiances out, and this is the most lovable Browns team there's ever been. It was, I was watching a little bit on Thursday because I was in New York and I was on local TV, so I didn't have to go out of my way to watch it. I was like, okay, let's see what this Joe Flacco thing is all about. I watched it and I was, you know, I was caught up in it. Joe Flacco, I have an his fourth consecutive 300 yard game. The Sean Watson's yet to do that in a Browns Union of Horn. While the game gets put in a phone booth and Baker Mayfield,

who's been great this season, gets reduced to 99 yards because this field gets so small. Flacco's playing. Yeah, he's also turning the ball over, but it's cool to see what that kind of quarterback can do in Saphay and Ski's offense. But I did find myself like I was I've plenty of Brown's friends and I'm happy for them. And I like I've plenty of allegiances to the players on that roster. I think the Joe Flacco story is super cool. I was kind of getting swept up in it.

And then there was a camera shot of Joe Flacco dapping up the Sean Watson on the sideline. I was immediately reminded of all of it. And what I can't fight what happens inside of me when I see that guy on the sidelines is a visceral reaction. I do want my friends to be happy. I do want Staphane's key, Miles Garrett, Nick Chubb, would get a ring.

I don't root against a Cleveland Browns at all. If anything, I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty.

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I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I'm so pretty. I break our situation and that might be a winning in I would like to learn huh? Yeah, no No, it's again. Can I say what I want to happen? I think this is what I think is the best case scenario for the dolphins Okay, the dolphins win all right Jacksonville wins right against Tennessee. Yep. The Steelers beat the Ravens who will be sitting People because they already have the one seat if that happens Pittsburgh comes to Miami and that's what happened

You don't want to do it off. You don't want that. That's our best. That's not best. We'd rather have Jacksonville here than Pittsburgh. That's if the season ends next week. You'd rather have Jacksonville. All the way. How do the, how do the, how do the bills not get into the playoffs? They lose. They lose. No, but they still, they got a 29 other seven days away. The seven seats. Yeah. They lose the Jags win. This is exciting, Billy. The NFC of the season ended today. I'm not focused on the Rams. Play the Lions. Now I want to see staffer. It's a good one. Stafford golf. That trade. What a storyline. So this is how we get Jack Campbell's a dummy. This is how we get Jacksonville down here in Miami. We'll

get to that later. There's too much to talk about. The dolphins win. The Titans beat the Jags, which is a little bit of an upset. Wait, so I'd have bad lost that one. Wait, the Jags can still get in if they lose. The Jags can get in, yep. Wow. I don't know how to do this. And that would be if Baltimore then beat Pits, because you don't want to do anything.

It's Denver. Denver, then Jacksonville comes down. Oh, I don't know. I can even focus on it today. I can't even focus on it today. Dan doesn't want to do hypotheticals of if the season ended next week. He wants to do if it ended today. What would okay? Okay. Yeah, that's the conclusion.

No, no, the confusion. I'm gonna help you out. Brown's five seed. Hmm. Locked in? Locked in. All right. All right. I vowed, resolute, after New Year's, to have more patience and more joy in my life. Okay. And you guys, huh? You guys are really, really testing it. Because I believe there is no worse thing that we could do as content today in sports than give me playoff permutations.

Disagree fancy football championships. I know you disagree. We're the Eagles. Lewis won our work league. A lot of people have money. I have a whole list of people who are delinquents here who have not paid their dues in the company league. Dan, if you don't like that game, how about which Super Bowl matchup would you most want to see? Wow. I mean, there are some doosies out there. How about Tampa and Cleveland?

Baker versus the Browns? What you have not allowed me to do so far because I've wanted to do it for about four days. I do not want to talk about how dumb it is that that violence gets decided by, hey, did that fat guy tell the referee that he was going to go for to be eligible or not? I don't like that LeBron James at his age hits a three against the best defense in the sport to tie a game when he's still being great and instead of talking about that, we're talking about replay. Instead of talking about Dan Campbell throwing it to a fat guy in that situation, the balls of that,

we're talking about the refereeing. All right, I've got the scenarios that the playoffs ended today. Yes, all right. We should do it. These would be your games. All right, I've got the scenarios of the playoffs ended today. All right. We should do it. These would be your games. I think we can assume Jacksonville hosting Cleveland is your peacock exclusive. Yes.

Yeah. Okay. So that's your super wild card matchup in the AFC on the other side of the bracket. You have Tampa Bay hosting the reigning NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles. Wow. That's a great game. Shoot out. Then as you mentioned, the golf trade matchup between Detroit and the ramp. That's for everything.

Double revenge game. How about this? Green Bay travels to Jerry World. Wow. Wow. What a matchup. Down in the AFC side of the bracket, you get Kansas City and Buffalo doing battle once again.

And if the playoffs started today, you would get a matchup between the dolphins and the cults, which I think is an impossible matchup no matter what next week. Dan, why don't you go, two guys? Like, why are you, you got a giant smile on your face, you got a giant smile on your face, and none of you allowed me to get to Dan Campbell not knowing what to do with his gum Throwing it awkwardly into a piece of paper that wasn't meant for it and then putting it awkwardly in his pocket Don Lebatard. So I think Larry Fitzgerald's on the green right there. Oh, that's all funds are repair Now, how do you think that they are just chillin' and the sun, the sun, the sun.

Oh, the sun. To be fair, you know. To be fair. All right, what I mean. Alfonso Rivera has a great ass. This is the Dalébatá Show with Estugats. The Dalébatá Show with Estugats. The Dalébatá Show with Estugats.

All right, so in the AFC, the Ravens are in, the Chiefs are in, the Browns are in, the Dolphins are in the bills win the AFC if they win But they clinch a playoff with the AFCs. Yeah, they win the AFCs. Yeah, if they win But they clinch a playoff burst birth if they tie if the Steelers lose or tie or if the Jaguars lose or tie or If the Texans and Colts tie Jaguars loser tie or if the Texans and Colts tie. Now, Houston clinches the AFC South Division title if the Texans win plus a Jaguars loss or tie. And they clinch just to play out birth if the Texans win or Texans tie plus Jaguars loss

plus Steelers loss or tie. Now, the Colts. Right. The Colts clinch the FC South Division title. If the Colts win plus a Jaguars loss or tie or the Colts tie plus Jaguars loss. Now they clinched just a playoff, birth if the Colts win or Colts tie plus the yours loss or tie. Now, Jaguars, those were some pretty good college football games yesterday. Just needed one more time. But those college football games, they're worth talking about.

Just repeat the Colts. The Colts clinched the AFC South division title. If they win plus Jaguars loss or tie or it's a tie. Colts tie plus Jaguars loss. The ties always confuse me a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Love a good or yeah. And then they clinched just a playoff birth. If they win or the Colts tie plus theors loss or tie. Now the Jaguars. Oh, the Jaguars Michigan. Michigan with a coach who wasn't around half the time and is the

best Michigan team ever beat lovable underdog, Alabama, with one of their worst teams under Sabin so that they get the right to play Indiana's quarterback in the championship game after he defeated a coach who was fired from his last job for reportedly drinking on the job. You guys know there hasn't been a tie in the NFL the entire season, not a single time. You're saying we're do.

No, yes. That's why he included them in the rundowns. Exactly. God bless football. Didn't have a place to exist yesterday. I don't know why that was. I was hoping that Stugots and Billy would get to the microphones and break down all of the football permutations there.

You could have done that there for an hour and 30 minutes. Nonstop. And then we could do it here. A well-placed. Why do it there when we could do it here? This is not a welcome place for it. How come? Because there are other things to talk about that are better things to talk about. And we've had 10 days off. And there's a lot to be said that isn't the cult's permutations. We didn't get to the jagged that they clinched the NC South. Maccafee is doing the cult's permutations today.

We should be doing other stuff. I think Maccafee's talking about college football. Let's, Ag. I don't care what the playoff permutation actually let's zig because the others are zagging. The zag is established. We're zicking. Are you saying that you're thinking about not going to the Super Bowl? If the dolphins don't make it, it seemed like you were headed there. No, weren't you? Did you get travel? No, I never know what to do there. Yeah. You know, I press no. We're into deep is the problem. These things require a lot of planning. I didn't even consider until yesterday that Vegas might be cold in February.

Oh, it will be. Yeah. No, I'm always there for late season football. It's always cold. We're going to be outdoors, aren't we? Yeah. Yeah. There's a heat lamps. Come on. Oh, yeah. Buck up. Buck of ruse. Yeah, nothing. Get going. Nothing could go wrong with heat lamps.

Oh, Jake, now, now we're worried about heat lamps exploding. Come on. Let me tell you something. You got way too much stress in your life. If you can't trust a heat lamp, put it on the pole. Please, dude, you add levitat. Show, do you have way too much stress in your life? If now you can't trust a heat lamp, it's 42 degrees in Vegas right now. Oh, jeez. Beautiful.

Pull up party weather, but it's a dry cold. Oh, yeah. We are again, I want to point out to you that the moment that that I find out, okay, let's just do this. Everybody wants to go. They're all excited about the dolphins. The dolphins are about to play. The biggest game they've played this century. Correct. The biggest, the biggest regular season game. And this is for the division. And it really is, can we get lucky with some other people getting hurt as well? Yeah, there was a, the pennington at bread for Philip Merling did something. That was for the division in like, oh, seven. What do you do? Yeah, something penny ten. No, they wanted division and Baltimore came here and ravaged them, which Baltimore might do again. That's not the point. This is the best. I will go there. No, no scenario

or the Ravens coming here. I'm going through the page. They will not be that ship is sale. That's sailed on Sunday again, though, as I watched in horror, okay, because it's one thing to lose. It's one thing to lose, but to lose that way, which Baltimore, let's be honest about this. That was a let down game for them. They had just beaten San Francisco at San Francisco. They're super hurt.

Nobody wanted their quarterback this off season. I watched his Twitter account after Twitter account for bad football team told me not interested to look more Jackson. That's a thing that happened six months ago. You know, the dolphins were coming off Dallas. I mean, that's a let down game for them too. So week 17 2008 Phil Murling intercepted a bread for pass and returned it for a touchdown helping the dolphins clinch the 2008 AFC East Division champion.

You're right. He did something. or touched out. Helping the dolphins clinched the 2008 AFC East Division champion. You're right. He did something. I know that TV ratings are largely fraudulent these days and hard to count, but that Cowboys Dolphins game is the most watched television program, not a Super Bowl since 1995 of any kind because it was Cowboys because somehow, good God, the NFL stole Christmas just like that from the NBA. That made it that easy where the rating numbers are. The NFL is doing 30 times the number is heat sixers. Even

Lakers Celtics, a classic, six times the numbers. Five million is the best that the NBA can do. Even as everyone cheats at the numbers, the NFL comes in there and just steals it. And Miami wins the game. And we decide to go to Vegas for the Super Bowl. And then Baltimore happens. Then Baltimore happens like that, which is you're got more guys getting hurt. Now you're, you're, you're not healthy at the wrong at the right time. And here comes Buffalo. And they're better than you are. You're getting unhealthy at the wrong time. That's correct. Yeah. You know what's at the wrong time. That's correct. You know what's weird about football is that bills fans are not confident in the bills,

but everyone else is afraid of the bills. And Eagles fans are not confident in the Eagles, but other people are afraid of the Eagles. I would say the same thing of the bills to you guys that I would say of what you've watched this year from the Eagles and Chiefs, the expectations in that sport are really hard. It's hard to stay up there. And Josh Allen hasn't gotten hurt and he runs around recklessly like a crazy person. They can come down here and he can have four turnovers. That's quite possible.

But also, they could beat you 48-20 like they did the last time that you played because when he plays perfectly, you're not beating them in whatever your form. It's why I thought to God's, and it's easier to say now, but it's why I thought, man, they're going all in with Chubb and everything on Buffalo right now, and they have to, because they gotta do this

in Tyree Kills window, they gotta do it while two is cheap, but they're also getting injured now and Buffalo is less injured. No, not really, not less injured. Plenty of injuries on that defensive side. They have injuries that would be really hard to overcome. And they should listen injury off. It was just they have more.

Let's say dance to one thing. Dolphins, you're not more injured than everybody else. If you did the math, though, they might be Mike. I get your point is everyone's injured, but the dolphins do have a lot. Mike, they lost Phillips and Chubb. I mean, and their center. It's not just that.

They're hugely important pieces in the secondary Buffalo. And that is what the dolphins have in Holland. They haven't had both their safeties for like three straight weeks. I don't actually want to do injury off. It's not any better than playoffs in area. You mentioned Kansas City. They stink. Oh, they're bad.

They're not good. They're not good. And I know we wanted to make injury excuses for them. What? Which injuries? The wide receiver're, they're, why do receivers stink? Travis Kelsey's not the same. I don't know what's going on with him. He's just not the same player. I know exactly what's going on with him. You know exactly what's going on with him. Right. I told you. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Everyone. If the Steelers win and the bills lose,

the Steelers are in. Wow. Right. Steelers, then the Jags lose, the Steelers are in. Wow. The Steelers win and the Jags lose or tie, Steelers win. The Steelers win the Colts Texans tie, Steelers win a Steelers tie, plus the Jags lost, plus the Texans Colts doesn't end in the tie, or the Jags lost, plus the Broncos win, plus the Texans Colts doesn't end in a tie. Steelers are in. So who's in if it's all ties? I need you guys to stop for just a second because it has a bit of Tony and I'm sorry this has happened to you. It's unfair. Okay,

because when it's the original crew in here, it gets crowded very fast and there isn't a lot of raw hogs. You see, like such ballhawks, such ballhawks and Tony's being respectful and he keeps standing in a corner and I see him. He's got open threes and he wanted to get in badly on an accusation that no one here has made toward Travis Kelsey. And he had something and I don't know what it is. I can suspect what it is because Stugat's jumped into the fray and said, I tried to tell you.

Yep. Try to warn a friend. I tried to tell you. So when the question becomes what happened with Travis Kelsey, Tony, the ball is yours. It gets crowded around here when all these guys want to talk about injuries and playoff scenario. Dan, it's very simple. Pfizer.

That is not the accusation that's being made now by Skip Bayless and others. Stugots did try to warn you. He told you that as soon as it got hard in Kansas City and if Travis's play fell off, people would be saying they were amorphous people. He wasn't saying it was him. He was just saying it was other people. Yep. They were going to say the Taylor Swift is a distraction.

No. Yes. So God's tried to warn you. He was yours. Yes. But skip Bayless over the Christmas break, ringing in the new year has just said it on Twitter. So God's just like that.

He has said, let's talk about this. Andy Patrick Travis, it's time to wonder whether Taylor Swift is a distraction. And Tony is so ready to agree with that. And I'm just telling you football is hard to stay on top of it. But go ahead, blame the girlfriend. It's not the girlfriend. It's the distractions that have happened in and out. You hear about Travis talking about retirement You know the rule about retirement when you're talking about it mentally. You're already there. You checked out you checked out Yeah, this team he looks across MVS. He looks over she writes who's actually pretty good. I like for she writes But he's looking around saying you know what? This is not the team that we once had

Why am I gonna give Max effort if I know in the background? I'm not in next year. I feel like I'm good He's also the same age as Rob Grinkowski. He's the same age as Russell Will's. He's 34 years old. He's 34. I know that people historically, you don't associate Travis Kelsey with injuries, but he started his career being very injured for some to miss his rookie season. That's a big body. He's carrying a lot of his own. 10 years. He plays all the games for 10 years he plays all the games for 10 years. Bill's have had like three serious injuries this year. I mean, come on Mike.

Jordan Phillips, that's for you. The Davis White. Okay, big. No, no, no, no, no, these are big, but that's it. Those are the two big and Damien Harris. That, okay, that was, I mean,

I'm just saying, I'm just saying that's three and the dolphins have lost at least four. They lost 20 touchdowns. You're trying to have an injury off. We are having an injury off now. Falcons are easy. Falcons win plus buck and years loss. Falcons are in.

Boom. It's an injury off. Kelsey has 93 catches this year. Yes. No, no, no, that's not true. How many drops? That's true. Down year form.

Does not have 93 catches. You're looking at last year's stats. Guys, come on. Fake stats. Fake news. Thanks, you're done. You're looking at last year's stats, guys. Come on.

Fake stats. Fake news. Oh.