00:00But one of those games which could have fireworks today, it's Tampa Bay and it's Miami.
00:04Tampa Bay cannot afford a loss in this football game, which means they lose today.
00:08Carolina wins. Their season is over.
00:10They lose and Carolina loses. Then it flips right over to Week 18.
00:13But if we focus on the quarterback since game, it's Baker Mayfield going up against Quinn Ewers.
00:17The line in this game, Joe, the look ahead, minus two and a half.
00:20No longer in the marketplace. We're up to five and a half.
00:22It's just about every outlet in a total, Joe, of 43 and a half, which is actually down from 46 and a half.
00:27You were starting last week, which you like because you never want to see a quarterback.
00:30Oh, first career start. How's he going to do? Get everything out last week.
00:34Was it great? Not necessarily. But they did let the kid throw.
00:36And if they let him throw today, we might see some points on the board, Joe.
00:40For me, I look at Tampa Bay and say, I don't know if I want to lay the five and a half.
00:44But if they don't, that's a bad look for them to not cover the spread.
00:46And I just think Tampa's offense should be able to do whatever it wants today.
00:50That's what I think. And I go back to that Carolina game last week.
00:54They jump up early. And again, is Baker 100%?
00:59Because I feel like they should have pushed a little bit.
01:01They just kept running, Joe. They just kept running.
01:02I felt like they should have pushed a little bit of tempo.
01:05You have your wide receivers back. You had McMillan. You have Abuki.
01:08You have Godwin. You have Mike Evans.
01:10What's the excuse not to put up potentially 30 points and outscore Bryce Young?
01:15But you played close to the vest. Now it's back-to-back road games.
01:20Granted, it's in the state of Florida. I understand that.
01:22But you're in Miami against a defense that just got torched by Joe Burrow.
01:27You have to be looking at that game plan and saying,
01:29OK, Baker, as long as you're 85% healthy,
01:33you're going to throw it 45 times in this game
01:36and jump up early 21-0 on this dead football team.
01:41That's the way I view it.
01:42So I do like the over in the matchup.
01:44It's one of my better picks today.
01:46And we'll get to that a little bit later in the show.
01:48But why is yours in there if he's not going to throw?
01:50I mean, McDaniel made such a point about Tua not being the guy.
01:58You can't put in Quinn yours and then hand off to Devon Achan 60 times in this matchup.
02:03He put up 260 last week.
02:05See if he's the guy or at least could be the guy next year
02:08and let him throw it 40 times.
02:10Yeah, I have to get the football, though, to Jalen Wilder.
02:13I don't understand another wide receiver.
02:16He stops at 70 yards.
02:17Can we get this guy to 100, 100 and a quarter?
02:20Evaluation mode, which is what you're going to be doing with Quinn yours,
02:22which means, as Joe points out, hey, 9 for 16.
02:24That don't work.
02:25That don't work.
02:26He needs to throw 25-plus times, and he will today.
02:28And also, if you can get that running, mate,
02:30maybe you are forcing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to sort of giddy up on offense.
02:34I think Bucky have a good day.
02:35I think a couple of the wide receivers have a good day.
02:37Baker Mayfield, I struck out last week, Joe, because as Joe was alluding to,
02:40I had Baker Mayfield's yardage over last week in passing.
02:42I couldn't figure out what their game plan was.
02:44We're scared to death that Carolina's played slow
02:46and ended up catching you at the end of the game.
02:48That offense has to get in rhythm.
02:49But also understand this, Joe.
02:51Odds to win the NFC South.
02:53Carolina's got a game up right now.
02:54You look at the odds, though.
02:55Tampa Bay, minus 154 as a price point and plus 130 for the Carolina Panthers.
03:00The Bucs, is there a chance in your mind that Quinn yours
03:03and the Dolphins can pull this upset today?
03:05No.
03:06Okay.
03:06No.
03:06To me, I think it would be a monumental fail out of Todd Bowles in Tampa Bay.
03:13And I understand they had that lull in the middle part of the season.
03:17But again, you cannot afford to lose this game to basically a rookie quarterback
03:22and a dead and buried football team.
03:24You just can't.
03:25Again, you have the veteran.
03:27You have multiple weapons at your disposal.
03:30I understand your secondary's abused and stinks.
03:33But still, first team to 40 should be able to win this game.
03:38And again, on the flip side, I just think Carolina, for me,
03:41has a much tougher road.
03:43I think they get smashed today by Seattle.
03:46And next week when they do play Tampa, in Tampa,
03:48it should be all Baker Mayfield in that matchup.
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