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Why are the Dolphins expected to go 0‑17 and how does that set the tone for the episode?
I know that there has been a lot of despair around the Dolphins for a long time, but I legitimately have never seen it like this where hope is lost before the season has even started. And Dolphin bars all over town says have nobody in it because everybody knows that the team is terrible and it's a big victory when your field goal team is only down eight at the half against San Francisco. where you're just clearly overmatched and you don't have a professional football team to rival the other NFL teams.
Yesterday was a really rough watch. Like I didn't I didn't feel that way week one. Like I I you know, I'm all right. I'm I'm entertained here. They're in the game. Yesterday was was very, very tough. They they have nothing going for them, especially when the defense's on the field. Like they're they're the they were scoring touchdowns every single time they
had the ball,
San Francisco.
Well, Brock Purdy was incredible yesterday. Like that that first and foremost. But what do you expect from the Dolphins? Like you're saying it's tough, but you know what the outcome's gonna be. They're gonna lose. You just gotta see how Billy. I'll believe
Willis would be a good thing. Yeah, yeah. But here's the thing, though, Tony, okay? Yes, you know they're bad. But all over that league, teams you know are bad, all of a sudden the Titans are keeping it close when they're playing against the Eagles. All over that league. Nobody's so bad. I mean, yeah, you got what Atlanta does yesterday when they throw their fourth uh string quarterback out there. But generally speaking, you have a chance in a salary-capped sport to keep some of these games close. Unless you're playing the forty niners and they have fifty four Pro Bowlers or Pro Bowl appearances and you've got the one Pro Bowl selection on your active roster.
Yeah, I I thought yesterday was really tough to watch. And if you go up and if you go back and look at the Dolphins one win season, Cam Cameron's year, they lost a lot of close games. A lot of close games. I we might be watching the worst Dolphin team of all time.
Even the one they won was close. Camarillo into the end zone for the eighty yards game. Like that was it. And it was like a And it was like a
four point game. I expect them to keep some of the games close at home, but that's not saying much. Uh Jeremy, give me some of those purdy stats because they didn't even throw to Kittle in the first half, and then they started throwing to him in the uh in the second. Tight end just runs
around
uncovered all game.
Purdy completed all 10 of his downfield pass attempts, which is 10 plus air yards against the Dolphins. It was 211 yards and a touchdown on those. It's the most completions without an incompletion by a quarterback on downfield passes since 2021 when Carson Wentston it.
It's like watching a good college team against a really bad college team, and the good team just does whatever they want.
All right, uh let's since he's uh talking about completions, let's move it to the team, uh the professional team locally that actually has a chance to do something this year. The University of Miami plays uh wake forest and I fell in love with the super Hispanic Wake Forest combination of Lopez to Hernandez.
What what a what a revelation that was when we're warming up and I see Gio Lopez and I'm like, Okay, I like that name. His best receiver, Carlo Hernandez and I'm like, I know c seven Carlos Hernandezes.
Yeah, uh put it on the poll at Lebotard Show. Are there seven Carlos Hernandezes in every Miami uh classroom? Uh the thing that I wanted to talk about here though, and I want to set the expectations off the top because I don't want people to hear from me in a game where their quarterback completes his first twenty-four passes, something that sounds overly critical. So let's just set the bar at the way. The way that we're talking about the hurricanes this year is as if they're fixed, and because of their schedule, the only two games where you're expecting the possibility of a loss are Notre Dame and the ACC championship game because their schedule is pretty easy, and everyone can see watching them that's a really professional offense they have, at least when Malachi Tony is healthy and moving.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why are the Dolphins expected to go 0‑17 and how does that set the tone for the episode?
0:02–4:10
2
What made Brock Purdy’s performance against the Dolphins stand out?
4:10–11:42
3
How did the University of Miami’s game vs. Wake Forest unfold and why was it a surprise?
11:42–20:06
4
What defensive blitz strategies did Miami use against Notre Dame and how effective were they?
20:06–35:28
Speakers
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