I found out in the locker room after the game against the cowboys that we made the playoffs.

You just told me that we wanted to division,

the main thing that is so terribly difficult for NFL teams to do is down the stretch of the season,

narrow your focus to the opponent.

I know you guys got a little sensitive about tell guys to f off.

That wasn't the spirit of it.

The spirit of it is occupying your mind with things that are outside what you can control.

The ultimate outcome of the game will determine whatever.

But every time you're spending doing this, you're not doing that.

Mike McDaniel Dolphins head coach, getting his team ready for the latest installment of the game of the year. It seems like every week there's a game of the year, but now that the Ravens have beaten the 49ers and the Ravens are coming home and the Dolphins are coming to town and the Dolphins have kind of defied the narrative that they can't beat good teams teams although one of the narratives had to give on

Sunday it was either the Cowboys can't beat good teams on the road narrative or the

Dolphins can't beat good teams anywhere narrative the Dolphins stop that at least for a week now they have to go

to Baltimore where the lions got destroyed where the Seahawks got destroyed and try to

beat the ravens number one scoring offense versus number one scoring defense could be a great game and it's tucked within Peter 10 games at one o'clock eastern on Sunday. The good news is 70% of the country will be getting

Dolphins Ravens. I mean one of the things that I love about this game is that it will be played in daylight. It will be played in a window that

too often the networks have, not the networks really, but the NFL hasn't quite disregarded but it's taken a little bit

too lightly.

And Mike, I think what is interesting about Miami and

just said,

just, just curious what your sentiment would be about flexing to the night game in

week 17 when clearly you would be coming back from a Monday night game 3,000 miles away.

And I think there was some sentiment on the NFL's part that the Ravens had taken one of the even though the

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