{"id":1281,"date":"2025-11-12T17:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:26:10","slug":"our-eyes-do-they-deceive-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/our-eyes-do-they-deceive-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Our eyes, do they deceive us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Alex and Scott couldn&#8217;t wait to talk about the Bills game, and everything surrounding it &#8211; but it took two days to find a hole in our schedules. As the front office purge continues, Buffalo came to town and no one in professional sports gave the Dolphins a chance, including Vegas (and us). Yet, not only did the Dolphins win, but they dominated the scoreboard. Alex has it broken down &#8211; he knows why this happened.They can&#8217;t let go of the changes happing to the team, and scratch that surface. So Miami is going to Spain! How will they fare against the Commanders and are the football gods involved again? Stick around for the One Cool Thing segment for some awesome things to check out in SoCal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6343\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1281-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1281-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Alex and Scott couldn&#8217;t wait to talk about the Bills game, and everything surrounding it &#8211; but it took two days to find a hole in our schedules. As the front office purge continues, Buffalo came to town and no one in professional sports gave the Dolphins a chance, including Vegas (and us). Yet, not only did the Dolphins win, but they dominated the scoreboard. Alex has it broken down &#8211; he knows why this happened.They can&#8217;t let go of the changes happing to the team, and scratch that surface. So Miami is going to Spain! How will they fare against the Commanders and are the football gods involved again? Stick around for the One Cool Thing segment for some awesome things to check out in SoCal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6344\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1281-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1281-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"F_Buffalo_2025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,5,254],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-buffalo-bills-josh-allen","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-washington-commanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9K6Y-kF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/classless-bills\/","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":0},"title":"Classless Bills","author":"Scott","date":"November 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Scott and Alex hit the studio to record their thoughts on the Dolphins latest game against the classless Buffalo Bills. 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