What is up, Dolfans, and welcome to the Draft Time podcast.

I am your host, Travis Wingfield.

And on today's show, we are going to hear from Niners reporter Lindsay Polaris.

We're going to talk to Kyle Crabs, and we're going to pick the week 16 games across the

National Football League.

From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, this is the drive time

podcast.

As we get ready to welcome in our guest today, we see the 49ers every four years, but thanks to the 17th game,

we get to see Coach McDaniels' former team for the second time in three years, and that means

for the second time in three years. We get to talk to Lindsay Polaris. She's a team reporter

for the 49ers and another former Pac-12er out there. Lindsay, welcome back in. Thank you so much for having me. Yes,

go Bruins. Hey, I'm still in the pack too myself. The Cougs are still kicking around.

So go Couges, go Pact 12. We'll root for those guys in bowl season here. And I look forward to

basketball season as we get towards March Madness. But let's talk about Dolphins and Nires this week, a Sunday kickoff 425 game, the Nansen

and Romo game.

And Lindsay, just two weeks ago, we had the Jets and we did the show with the Jets reporter.

And I asked her the same question that I want to ask you, because this is a team that

had obviously lofty expectations, you know, deep playoff runs in the past, Super Bowl appearances.

I mean, they were my pick to go to the Super Bowl in the NFC,

but a six and eight mark, the playoff odds are kind of bleak right now. So my question to you,

Lindsay, is what has been the difference between those expectations and the reality of a six

and eight season? Yeah, you know, I think everyone entered the 2024 season, very optimistic,

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