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00:00It's time to finish out our breakdown and preview of the Monday night finale for week
00:07number 10 of this 2024 NFL season live right here on this Monday on the early line.
00:13It's the Rams.
00:14It's the Dolphins in Los Angeles inside SoFi Stadium.
00:18The Rams a two and a half point home favorite against the Miami Dolphins over under stands
00:23at 48 and a half.
00:25Let's just start with the game itself, its impact and importance tonight.
00:30The Rams a slight home favorite, less than three.
00:33The Dolphins in underdog once again with Mike McDaniel as the skipper, only seven and 11
00:40against the spread since he became the head man in South Florida starting in 2022.
00:45Only three outright wins and although, ah, look at that prime time DRS right now for
00:54this game.
00:55The time was setting up.
00:56I believe what he was trying to tell us here is the Miami Dolphins in the Los Angeles Rams
00:59going to be a good game tonight.
01:00It's a two and a half point line.
01:02But if we're looking at this game optimistically, it really points toward the Rams for me.
01:06If you're looking at the Rams set up tonight as the two and a half point favorite, they're
01:09the better team.
01:10They're the team that still has some playoff hopes here and the Miami Dolphins sort of
01:13careening off the road.
01:14Then the tough part tonight for me, honestly, is the fact that Tyreek Hill didn't practice
01:17all week.
01:18I don't think he's playing coy tonight saying, oh, I just didn't practice and my wrist is
01:22going to be a hundred percent healthy because as we talked to Tom, there's a difference
01:27between getting a handoff in the back and protecting yourself and trying to catch a
01:30laser beam away from you 20 yards away and then getting tackled and bracing yourself
01:35on the turf here.
01:36I'm worried about that Miami Dolphins offensive explosion.
01:39If Tyreek Hill can't be the player that we think he can be here tonight.
01:43Absolutely.
01:44So DRS and he was that leading receiver for Tua and the Finns last week in Buffalo yet
01:48to find pay dirt since week number one of this season or in any of course of the two
01:54games since Tunga Bailoa's return and Donnie for the odds makers here on FanDuel not to
02:00have the odds out yet for the wide receiver positions is a little bit concerning because
02:05of course the impact of Hill's either availability or absence that impacts what Jalen Waddell
02:11is going to be able to do.
02:13Jono Smith has been a consistent really for any quarterback this year for Miami.
02:17I would keep an eye on his numbers.
02:20But again the Dolphins of course the story of the season has been the head injury to
02:25Tua Tunga Bailoa and his murky future at times in his football career and in 2024 and because
02:32of that Miami is two and six.
02:34They have not looked great.
02:35They have looked better with Tua Tunga Bailoa back but they are in such a hole and again
02:40Donnie for the Dolphins losing this game by two or one in covering means nothing.
02:46Losing this game by three means nothing.
02:49It's an outright win that Miami is desperate for.
02:53Only three outright victories in the 18 games now as an underdog with Mike McDaniel.
02:59Meanwhile for the Rams their season has been resurrected.
03:02Two wins in a five day span.
03:04They backed that up with the extended mini bye last week on Sunday going into Seattle
03:09and holding on in overtime to knock off the Seahawks.
03:13You heard from Dr. Chow although there are still some injuries to pay attention to for
03:18L.A.
03:19Their Delta where they are trending is so much more positive now than it was in the
03:23opening month of this season and frankly Donnie that's why I believe the Rams are the right
03:28side in the correctly favored side of only two and a half.
03:31And also like Tyreek Hill being injured and not at 100 percent is a massive deal.
03:36So then we usually say that hey Jalen Waddell is a sensational wide out in first round draft
03:39pick gets a ton of money has that explosive ability.
03:42Did you see his last three games Colts game one for 11 cardless game four for 45 last
03:47week against the Bills two catches minus four yards like this isn't what we've expected
03:51here.
03:52Is he able to just step in and be that number one if Tyreek Hill can't do that and maybe
03:55buying a lower price.
03:56I'm not so sure that so I got a lot of information I need to dissect this afternoon which a lot
04:01of it does deal with is Tyreek Hill playing or not and the effect on this which might
04:04come down to just the pregame and said hey Tyreek's running his routes.
04:08He's catching the football fine.
04:09If I see that I'm probably going to be back in on Tyreek Hill and you know what touchdown
04:12props over his yardage.
04:14But that's going to be tricky.
04:15Are they going to do one of those like a Ben Roethlisberger in the playoffs like a decade
04:18ago against the Broncos.
04:19He hasn't thrown all week he didn't throw him pregame only to uncork bombs right away
04:23to start the game.
04:24I think we might be playing a little bit coy here on Tyreek Hill.
04:28That's what I'm trying to decipher today but I'm not just immediately going the water like
04:32oh he's been producing he has it.