Transcribe your podcast
[00:00:00]

All right. How about a team that is favored to make the playoffs that won't? And I mentioned Chiefs, Ravens, bills, Texans, bangles, jets, dolphins.

[00:00:08]

So there's obviously, since I have two in, I have to have two out. But I'll give you the one that I'm most competent in. The jets are not going to be good. I love it. I don't understand. This is one of those things where I'm like, Oh, this is a smart person whose opinion I respect. I I wonder why they're so wrong about this. And there's a lot with the Jets. They are favored to win the division. Robert, usually to win the division, you have to go at least four and two or five and one in the division. If the Jets go four and two in the division, Robert Salah will have doubled his career division wins. He's four and 14. They have an offensive coordinator that they tried to shadow replace because they thought he was so bad, and they were too incompetent to do that. And even if we were to just pretend that Aaron Rodgers didn't tear his Achilles, let's just pretend last year, instead of being out with a torn Achilles, he was out because he was canvassing for RFK Jr. Fine. Then I'd still be like, Well, his last season before that, he wasn't good.

[00:01:23]

And people are like, No, he just wasn't good by Aaron Rodgers standards, but he was good by NFL standards. No, he wasn't. Look it up. He was league average in everything. Well, who could have won with that team? I don't know. Jordan Love played pretty well. And in the final, in the last game of relevance that Aaron Rodgers played, he was at home against a team he had owned forever, played one of his worst games of the year, and threw the game away at the end. So that guy is all of a sudden going to be the connective tissue and the best... Not the best, but a very good the quarterback. It's people, everyone who doesn't believe in the Jets says, well, injuries could kill him. Obviously, that's true. I think even healthy, they have an average quarterback play this year.

[00:02:14]

I think you might be right. And they're on my list, too. They're one of those teams that, again, if I did this earlier, I agree with everything you just said about Rodgers and the Jets. And I do this thing that I know I'm a hater, basically. I'm a little biased against the Jets. So I almost try to pretend I'm not and make the case for them in the end. But when it comes down to it, I don't believe in them. They have so many aspects of the team, even if you take away Rodgers, and I'm with you. I'd start with Rodgers. But who's their second best defensive lineman after Leonard Williams? Robert Salah counts on a great defensive line to help them. They were counting on Hassan Redik. I don't know how that's going to happen, but at this point, I'd almost be surprised if he plays with them. Jermaine Johnson is maybe their second best. They're counting on Javan Kinla, like Tak McKinley is in the mix. There's so many ifs with this on their offensive line, their defensive line. Obviously, Rodgers, Tyron Smith. I know they have backups in certain places, but it's just so many ifs all in a season where their GM and their coach both know they're going to be fired if it doesn't go well.

[00:03:13]

That's too much. I think they'll be okay, and they'll stay in the mix, and they'll be dramatic. But they were on my list, too. They were the one I was going to talk about. But I had two teams out, too. I also, by the way, will throw in the Dolphins just because offensive line, defensive line, the edges coming off injury, just a little too much.

[00:03:29]

So we're going to... I promise, because I went through your producer did a brilliant job, sent me a really thorough rundown. So I know what's coming. I anticipate we're going to have more disagreements later, but we have the same two out, the same two. Yeah, it makes sense. The The Dolphins. Can I give... I don't know. Can I give a quick Dolphins take?

[00:03:49]

You can do whatever you want.

[00:03:51]

This is the year... I like Mike McDaniel. I think he's sharp. I think he's a good coach. I also personally have graded him in Miami on a bit of a curve. The curve being, man, look at what he's doing with Tua, who I think is a limited player. The moment he signed off on them giving to a 53 million, I made a decision in my head, I'm removing that curve. Now, you are telling the world that you think this guy is top flight quarterback. And you can say it wasn't his decision, whatever. So in my head now, it's like, no, now you're graded the way people graded.

[00:04:35]

It's his decision, though. It was like he showed up there and he made it, and he's made that work. Weirdly, Tua is not the least of my concerns, but Mike McDaniel, Tua as a combo. To me, that works. That works to be a playoff team. It's everything. There's other things. I'm grading him on a curve because he's the Dolphins' coach, very similar to anyone who is a Jets' coach. I just feel like organizationally, structurally, there's a reason why these teams haven't won.