Let’s go back to Monday, Nov. 27.

Coming out of an exciting holiday weekend of football, the Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars are both 8-3.

In the AFC East, Miami is 2.5 games up on the 6-6 Bills.

In the AFC South, Jacksonville is up two games on the 6-5 Texans and Colts.

Meanwhile, in the lowly NFC South, Tampa Bay was 4-7, but only one game behind Atlanta and New Orleans.

If I would have asked you then, which Florida NFL team would win their division, you would have likely picked the Dolphins or Jaguars.

The Dolphins were looking at four very winnable games before a tough stretch run, while the Jaguars had a litany of journeymen QBs and bad teams staring at them, aside from Baltimore.

It’s funny how the NFL works.

The Jaguars went 1-5 down the stretch and missed the playoffs completely.

The Dolphins went 3-3 and were overtaken in the AFC East by the Bills, who ended the season on a five-game winning streak. Miami landed with a wild card berth.

Meanwhile, the Buccaneers won five of their last six games and won the NFC South.

The one team that seemed least likely to win their division, did.

You just never know what’s going to happen when the randomness of football strikes.

On this week’s “The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast,” powered by the USA Today Network, Dolphins reporter Joe Schad of the Palm Beach Post, and Buccaneers reporter Ira Kaufman of joebucsfan.com, join me to talk about this weekend’s playoff games.

Joe will talk about how this game is a rematch of a Week 9 tilt in Germany, won by the Chiefs, 21-14.

"The Dolphins pitched a second half shut out against the dynamic Chiefs offense," Joe says about the Germany meeting. "And certainly the Chiefs' offense hasn't looked quite as good this year as it has in past years.

"So offensively, you think they'll have a chance after limiting Travis Kelce to three catches for 14 yards in Germany, and he certainly looks slower since he started dating Taylor Swift."

He’ll also discuss how this game could end up being the coldest the Dolphins have played in their history. The temperature at game time could be 1 degree.

"People get big mad at me when I say that I'm cold when it's like 40 or 30," Joe said. "No Dolphin player is going to admit that he is worried about the cold, that he's going to wear long sleeves, that he's gonna wear Underoos."

Ira will tell us what led to the Bucs’ late-season surge after struggling much of the early season and what they need to do to defeat the Eagles.

"The rushing defense has been stout, you know, through 17 games," Ira says during the podcast. "People don't run up and down the field on the Bucs.

"I think Monday night defensively for the Bucs is to contain Jalen Hurts as a scrambler. ... Hurts, you could argue, has been more effective as a scrambler as and he has been throwing the ball."

And he’ll explain what’s happened to make Baker Mayfield one of the most reliable starting quarterbacks in the NFL this year.

"He has a chip on his shoulder, there's no question about it, and I think it helps drive him," Ira said. "He feels he's been undervalued and unappreciated for most of his NFL career. It might even go back to his college days. He's been durable. He's taken virtually every snap this season, which you can't say about a lot of NFL teams. So he's got that going for him now."

Ira also mentions how he will be in Atlanta next week, where 15 remaining players will be whittled down for honoring into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including ex-Jaguars Fred Taylor.

Both the Dolphins and Buccaneers head into their games as underdogs. After all, their opponents — the Chiefs and Eagles — met in the Super Bowl last year.

The state of Florida will try to thwart that matchup from happening again.

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This article originally appeared on Florida Today: "The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast looks" at Dolphins, Bucs playoff games