Mike Ryan

Empirically, this is the most improbable Super Bowl matchup there has ever been, correct?

There have never been two teams at worse than 60 to 1 odds to start a season playing in a Super Bowl.

The Pats were 80 to 1 before the season started.

Seattle was 60 to 1 before the season started.

I still don't trust the Patriots, their schedule, getting to play the Dolphins, the Jets, and the minor league division of Carolina and Tampa Bay and the Saints.

That is a rare path to the Super Bowl where you're in the Super Bowl and you haven't played anybody.

Or you've played teams that you were lucky to play against because you're going to Denver and you're playing a quarterback who does what Stidham did on that play.

It was crazy unlikely, but that was the greatest show on turf.

Once we saw that season play out, we didn't question Kurt Warner the entirety of the season the way we've been questioning Sam Darnold.

I don't think we can say that Sam Darnold's going to turn into a pumpkin again.

I don't think that that's a reasonable expectation.

two years.

And five teams.

Amin El-Hassan is there and he is ready to get to his weekend observations.

I also want to talk to him about an assortment of things going on in basketball because the Giannis stuff is really interesting.

I just don't understand how the Bucs are that bad with Giannis on their team.

It doesn't make any sense to me.

The team around them sucks.

Yeah, but still, like, I mean, if you have Giannis throughout the course of history, if you have that player, you're not seven games under .500.

You see where their coach is?