Are You Buying More Stock in the New York Jets or Miami Dolphins Next Season?

The question put to the show cut to the heart of two miserable droughts: which happens first, the Dolphins winning a playoff game or the Jets making the postseason? One is the second-longest playoff-win drought in the big four sports, the other the longest postseason-appearance drought.

The bar settled the debate. The Jets merely have to make the playoffs. The Dolphins have to make it and win once they're there. That alone, the show agreed, gives the Jets the edge, even if it doesn't happen until the caller, in his 20s, is retired.

Most of the conversation, though, was a defense of Miami's teardown. The Dolphins traded away their best offensive player in Jaylen Waddle, and the logic, the show argued, holds up. Waddle was going to command an enormous receiver contract, and when you're rebuilding to the studs, that money goes to left tackles, not pass catchers. Trade him, get a first, and start over. The comparison drawn was Green Bay paying Christian Watson only because the quarterback situation was settled. Miami isn't there, so paying a receiver now makes no sense.

The pushback was that Miami only went halfway. If you're tearing it down, the argument went, why keep De'Von Achane? The answer: running backs and receivers are different, you pay a back less, and Achane is a genuine home-run hitter, arguably the best Miami has had in a long time. You hold on to a guy like that, the show said, the same way the Jets held on to Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall. Every rebuild keeps somebody to give the fans, even if the line between a Garrett Wilson and a Jaylen Waddle is a fair thing to question, especially after Miami already shipped out so many young players from that same draft window.

Either way, the conclusion held. Take the team that only has to make the playoffs over the team that has to make it and win. The Jets are the more likely bet. Unless, the show joked, the Jets are the ones who end up taking Brendan Sorsby, which would make for its own kind of evaluation, and blow up a lot of front-office vacations in the process.