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Speaker 1: it is preview day and a long one. I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time on this one because what a
Speaker 1: matchup we have for you Dolphins and Niners. Wor oh
Speaker 1: five kick will preview each positional matchup with an eye
Speaker 1: on the tape and the numbers to give you that
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Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast. At long last, the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners game is here. So many familiar faces going back
Speaker 1: to their previous stop with McDaniel, West Welker, John Embry
Speaker 1: where he most art, Jeff Wilson, Trent Sherfield. We were
Speaker 1: Craig Craft and we remind you of that to give
Speaker 1: you an idea of how the team is constructed. That
Speaker 1: it's not that far off from what the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: built here in the short time under Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 1: Chris Greer and the rest of the staff. It starts
Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan over in San Francisco. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: when I first really took my shot at getting into
Speaker 1: the analyst world and covering the league at large. When
Speaker 1: I launched my QB Grading website in the summer of
Speaker 1: I wrote about how Kyle Shanahan could maximize Brian Hoyer's
Speaker 1: skill set based upon what they did together in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And while that take didn't age well, the Niners were
Speaker 1: eventually able to build the roster to Shanahan's liking at
Speaker 1: the quarterback that would maximize their offense as well. Under
Speaker 1: GM John Lynch, and they rode that all the way
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl just three years in and just
Speaker 1: fifteen mins away with a ten point lead from hoisting
Speaker 1: the Lombardi Trophy, and that same quarterback website featured effusive
Speaker 1: praise for Matt Ryan and the two thousand sixteen Falcons,
Speaker 1: which was you guessed it, Kyle Shanahan and the controls
Speaker 1: and our own headman Mike McDaniel there as well, one
Speaker 1: of the first most fun offenses I can remember watching
Speaker 1: and a historic m VP season four in my opinion,
Speaker 1: future Hall of Fame quarterback Matt Ryan, you know the
Speaker 1: drill outside zone principles that kick start the offense into
Speaker 1: a deadly play action passing game that utilizes shifts, motion
Speaker 1: play design in a very smart and accurate quarterback to
Speaker 1: pick apart holes in zone and maximize the incredible slate
Speaker 1: of skill players and their run after the catchability. Defensively,
Speaker 1: if you thought that losing Robert Salo would sink that defense,
Speaker 1: quite the opposite to Miko Ryan's is already one of
Speaker 1: the top coordinators in the game and will be a
Speaker 1: head coach probably by next year, if not two years.
Speaker 1: Tops uh. He puts his own spice on the defense,
Speaker 1: but at their core it's an aggressive, attacking, hitting one gap,
Speaker 1: get up field, and put the onus on the offense
Speaker 1: type of defense. More on that in a moment. So
Speaker 1: it's year six of Shanahan and Lynch here with San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and what a home run pairing that was at a
Speaker 1: time when the organization absolutely needed needed some stabilization coming
Speaker 1: off of back to back one and done coaching moves
Speaker 1: with Chip Kelly and Jim tom Sula. Who remembers Jim
Speaker 1: tom Seula. What a year that was. It brought stability
Speaker 1: to the organization and has made them a contender every
Speaker 1: single year except for when they're wiped out by the
Speaker 1: injury bug. Like, seriously, who's had worst injury luck than
Speaker 1: the Niners since Shanahan got there? Really, and the similarities
Speaker 1: really do continue for how these two teams were built.
Speaker 1: The Niners utilized a massive early free agency hall that
Speaker 1: first year there, some wise drafting, and some big trades
Speaker 1: to round out one of the best top of the
Speaker 1: rosters in the entire NFL. There are elite players in
Speaker 1: every room on this football team. That's how they brought
Speaker 1: in Jimmy g Back in a trade that was awesome
Speaker 1: for them for just a second round pick, and you
Speaker 1: look at the record with and without Jimmy Garoppolo, pretty
Speaker 1: safe to say he's the glue piece there. And what
Speaker 1: does Savvy move to keep him this off season? From
Speaker 1: what looked like he was for sure going to leave,
Speaker 1: even had like a goodbye post on social media to
Speaker 1: San Francisco and then a break in case of emergency situation,
Speaker 1: they brought him back and that's what happened. On Week two.
Speaker 1: Former number three overall pick Trey Lance has an ankle
Speaker 1: injury that wipes him out for the entire season. So
Speaker 1: a big trade for arguably the most talented player as well,
Speaker 1: which is tough to peg because they have so many
Speaker 1: of them. But Christian McCaffrey also arrives via a trade
Speaker 1: to take this offense to a different level. Will monitor
Speaker 1: his knee injury as we go along this week. Now,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver room was built primarily through the draft,
Speaker 1: but Deebo Samuel and Brandon Auk are one of the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver tandems and all of football, and like
Speaker 1: we have here, just two perfect complimentary parts. Then, of course,
Speaker 1: one of the top two tight ends in football who
Speaker 1: does literally everything, George Kittle, was a late round steel
Speaker 1: in the draft. A few years back. They used that
Speaker 1: trade option to acquire their best offensive linemen as well,
Speaker 1: and their best lineman in the NFL for my money,
Speaker 1: and Trent Williams. You've all seen the impact to Ron
Speaker 1: Armstead has had here. That's Trent Williams in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: There have been some considerable changes along the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but they seem to really be coming into their own
Speaker 1: as the year goes along. Then, defensively, maybe the best
Speaker 1: in football, and it starts with maybe the best edge
Speaker 1: rusher and football like Parsons Myles, Garrett and Bosa. I
Speaker 1: think that's the top dogs in my opinion. Former number
Speaker 1: two pick in the draft has been as advertised with
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa. They drafted Arc Armstead in the first round
Speaker 1: as well. Back in the beginning of that handed Lynch pairing,
Speaker 1: they brought Carry Hyder back after a stint with Seattle Sampson.
Speaker 1: Ebucom was a home run of a free agent signing
Speaker 1: like it just keeps going. Fred Warner is probably only
Speaker 1: a couple more years of this level of play away
Speaker 1: from a gold jacket, and Dre greenlaws a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: caliber linebacker as well. Another draft pick for them. Then
Speaker 1: in the secondary another late round gem and Telenoah who
Speaker 1: Fonga a prize free agent, and char Various Ward the
Speaker 1: other ward Jimmy also had great draft pick for them.
Speaker 1: So you get the idea. It's a complete team with
Speaker 1: stars all over the roster, and when they have the
Speaker 1: majority of those stars available, well, it usually produces a
Speaker 1: trip to the Super Bowl and twenty nineteen and a
Speaker 1: trip back to the NFC Championship Game. Last year was
Speaker 1: a six and ten year that ended with Bosa, Garoppolo, Williams,
Speaker 1: d Ford and Raheem most are all on the I R.
Speaker 1: You had Samuel I you can kindle all this time
Speaker 1: in the year as well, So pretty much injuries are
Speaker 1: the only thing that has stopped this team in the
Speaker 1: last five years, and now they're relatively healthy. Maybe not
Speaker 1: this week so much as they have been recent Their
Speaker 1: seven and four a first place outfit that hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: a second half point in four weeks. And if you
Speaker 1: turn on a talk show or get on social media,
Speaker 1: you'll see the Niners touted as a team to we
Speaker 1: reckon with come January, and it's pretty easy to see why.
Speaker 1: In the NFC, let's go ahead and get right into
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense firstus the Niners defense, quarterback and offense
Speaker 1: versus the safety matchup. First and off the top, I
Speaker 1: mentioned the defensive surge of the Niners, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: for this game to test a theory I've been telling
Speaker 1: you guys about for some time now here on the
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast, the theory that in the NFL, in
Speaker 1: defenses are as good as the offense they're facing. And
Speaker 1: these low point totals came from three totally floundering offenses
Speaker 1: and a Charger's offense that, for all its parts, just
Speaker 1: hasn't been good this year. The Stafford List Rams, the
Speaker 1: Allen and Williams List, Chargers, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, the
Speaker 1: Murray List, Cardinals, and the Saints led by Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: The week before that, the week the Street started an
Speaker 1: offense somewhat akin to Miami's in terms of their production
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and they rolled up forty four points
Speaker 1: with thirty of that coming in the second half. So
Speaker 1: I really really don't think, and I've been wrong before,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the Niners should expect to score
Speaker 1: like seventeen or twenty points and win this game. But
Speaker 1: we'll see maybe the theory is wrong. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: what they do well. The way we praise the offensive
Speaker 1: structure and design each week, the same can be done
Speaker 1: for the Niners defense and the way they call that defense.
Speaker 1: He just has an answer and response to everything teams
Speaker 1: will do to them. There's a clip on a third
Speaker 1: and long against the Chargers where the back isn't a
Speaker 1: nasty split that's aligned up close to the tackle uh
Speaker 1: to Nick Bosa's side, and he comes up to chip Bosa.
Speaker 1: So instead of having Bosa rush into an isolated tackle
Speaker 1: who is ready to get a secondary piece of the
Speaker 1: past rusher after he gets the chip dealt with, and
Speaker 1: they slide the entire rest of the line away from that,
Speaker 1: They're just gonna drop Nick Bosa back into coverage and
Speaker 1: bring the fourth man to the other side of the formation,
Speaker 1: giving you seven and coverage, two blockers doing nothing and
Speaker 1: four on four and their pass rush scheme that leaves
Speaker 1: two guys to block air to Herbert's right on that play.
Speaker 1: It's stuff like that time and time again for this
Speaker 1: Niners defense. You've got to watch for that in a
Speaker 1: quick passing game, because botha will peel back, and with
Speaker 1: how many plays we've seen to you know, catch rock throw,
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure you I d those defensive
Speaker 1: linemen and coverage. He did it in the NFC Divisional
Speaker 1: game in Green Bay last year too, where he wound
Speaker 1: up rerouting the three the closest receiver into the formation
Speaker 1: and passing him off and then dropping to his landmark
Speaker 1: like it's linebacker stuff and he can do it at
Speaker 1: a high level, and they've got options with which to
Speaker 1: do that too, Like there was a five man blitz
Speaker 1: from a zone look with late rotation at the snap
Speaker 1: in the game against the Saints where they eventually brought
Speaker 1: who fonga more on him in a moment. It's such
Speaker 1: a great chess match between that defense and a quarterback who,
Speaker 1: as coach has said, is such a savant for the
Speaker 1: way he sees the game in the field. It's just
Speaker 1: constantly stuff like that. Lots of zone coverage, but they'll
Speaker 1: also dial up enough man coverage to keep you guessing.
Speaker 1: There's a third and four in the Cardinals game where
Speaker 1: they pull the extra safety down and go press man
Speaker 1: across the board and play man free single high free
Speaker 1: safety man coverage across the board. It's not something they
Speaker 1: do frequently, but it's on tape, and then you'll see
Speaker 1: them primarily rush for drop into zones and those exceptional
Speaker 1: exceptional linebackers and expand that zone because of their athletic ability,
Speaker 1: namely Fred Warner. Will come back to those guys in
Speaker 1: a minute. The Niners man zone splits are nearly seventy one,
Speaker 1: and their third and QB are allowed in either of
Speaker 1: those two things. Two US QBR against zone and man
Speaker 1: is both best in the NFL at eighty two point
Speaker 1: one against man and seventy eight point five against zone coverage.
Speaker 1: They blitz two point three percent of the time, that's
Speaker 1: the twenty highest rate in the league, but their pressure
Speaker 1: rates that's ninth most in football two of verse. The
Speaker 1: blitz this year sixty seven point two percent completion, eight
Speaker 1: a half yards per attempt, three teddies and no picks
Speaker 1: versus pressure. He's the best quarterback in the league fifty
Speaker 1: six seven point seven y p A, four touchdowns and
Speaker 1: no picks, and the one h three point four pass
Speaker 1: writings tops in the NFL. In fact, he's the only
Speaker 1: qualifying quarterback over a hundred in that passer rating category.
Speaker 1: The next highest is Geno Smith at point five. Every
Speaker 1: which way you splice it, it's an intriguing matchup. As
Speaker 1: for the Niners safeties, Jimmy Ward is one of the
Speaker 1: smartest players you'll come across, and speaking of jumping the
Speaker 1: quick game, he lives for that. Over his two snaps
Speaker 1: this year, he missed the first four games of the season,
Speaker 1: only two have come in this in the post, the
Speaker 1: free safety position, He's almost always in the box or
Speaker 1: slot and wants to disrupt the passing game. You think
Speaker 1: about these safeties as they can all play in the slot,
Speaker 1: which changes the way you kind of view things and
Speaker 1: it makes the safeties interchangeable. He doesn't rush just four
Speaker 1: blitzes on the season, but he'll play plenty of slot
Speaker 1: and cover the slot receiver. And that's where a second
Speaker 1: year sensation speaking of blitz is tell Noah who Funga
Speaker 1: comes into play. He's nearly doubled his snaps already from
Speaker 1: a year ago. And you think he's rushing the quarterback
Speaker 1: all the time because he's always making plays. But just
Speaker 1: twenty three pass rush reps this season, three hundred sixty
Speaker 1: one in the post and then two hundred sixty two
Speaker 1: between the box and the slow and then thirty four
Speaker 1: more as a down defensive lineman, which is crazy, but man,
Speaker 1: he can impact the short passing game to all positions,
Speaker 1: to backs, tight ends, and white outs. He is really
Speaker 1: really good this year. Throwing the ball against him. Per
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, opposing teams are twenty of thirty one
Speaker 1: for a buck, seventy five for a safety. To have
Speaker 1: that kind of a number, thirty one pass attempts for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five yards. Gonna pull out the
Speaker 1: calculator and do some live math for you guys right now.
Speaker 1: One sevent it's only five point six yards per past.
Speaker 1: That's really really good for a guy that plays back
Speaker 1: in the post. What did I say two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty times this year? No? Uh yeah, three hundred sixty
Speaker 1: one times in the post this year. He's got one
Speaker 1: touchdown allowed and four picks he's a playmaker, man, and
Speaker 1: twenty four run stops. He is. He's like defensive player
Speaker 1: of the year good this year so far. Then you've
Speaker 1: got Jimmy Ward, who uh is twenty eight and coverage
Speaker 1: like every ball gets completed, two d forty yards, two
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the pick, and he has five run stops.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. In fact, nobody on the Niners
Speaker 1: defense has played more snaps than two Seawan Gibson, who
Speaker 1: has long been a very good player in this league.
Speaker 1: So while who Fonga and Ward spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in the box, in the slot and the occasional
Speaker 1: post rep, Gibson is in the post on four hundred
Speaker 1: and seventies six of his six hundred and seventy five snaps,
Speaker 1: so like two thirds of the time, which obviously tells
Speaker 1: you there are snaps elsewhere for him. I think this
Speaker 1: is the best safety trio in the NFL, with Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones being injured right now. They're versatile, they're instinctual, they're athletic,
Speaker 1: they they're playmakers. They're interchangeable, which expands their ability to
Speaker 1: disguise coverage, which to A talked about in his Wednesday
Speaker 1: press conference. Go check that out on the team YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: It's why this is my favorite matchup to date because
Speaker 1: to A has been money this year getting his information
Speaker 1: both pre and post snap, and the Niners are probably
Speaker 1: the best at muddying all that up. It's good on
Speaker 1: good Man Gibson ten for twenty in coverage. He's really good.
Speaker 1: Hundred and seventy six yards allowed, no touchdowns in one
Speaker 1: pick five run stops, but he never comes down and
Speaker 1: run support. Last bit of numbers here in the high
Speaker 1: safety category almost dead even between two and single high
Speaker 1: looks and two high three eleven and single. They have
Speaker 1: twenty six snaps from zero coverage. This year. They are
Speaker 1: first in points per game allowed, first and yards per
Speaker 1: game allowed, yards per play, rushing yards per game allowed,
Speaker 1: and passing touchdowns. What a fun matchup. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and get to the rest of the Dolphins offense,
Speaker 1: First Niners defense. Plenty more to come your way. Another
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Speaker 1: out there. I talked about it on the podcast last week.
Speaker 1: I love me some a f C East football ken
Speaker 1: not wait to watch Bills and Patriots go. Pats, Come on, baby,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's get that game advantage heading into the
Speaker 1: game here. Let's go ahead and pick it back up
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Niners
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and kind of carrying this defensive evaluation into this category.
Speaker 1: The Niners play off coverage seventy three percent of the
Speaker 1: time and press twenty seven percent of the time. We've
Speaker 1: seen this all year long. Teams are pretty reluctant to
Speaker 1: press the Dolphins receivers. They're pretty reluctant to play man
Speaker 1: coverage against the Dolphins receivers. The Lions weren't. How did
Speaker 1: that work out? You get a lot of zone turn
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, which is eyes or butt to the sideline,
Speaker 1: eyes to the quarterback, and it pairs perfectly with all
Speaker 1: the athletic ability and intelligence in the middle at both
Speaker 1: linebacker and safety. The way we talked about how this
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense was built to compliment each piece. That's the
Speaker 1: Niners defense to a t various wards. Cornerback one thirty
Speaker 1: of fifty two are opposing passing teams throwing against him
Speaker 1: for three seventy six, a touchdown and a pick. He
Speaker 1: has no mistackles all year. What a crazy stat. His
Speaker 1: relative athletics scorecard is interesting. I've never seen a cornerback
Speaker 1: with a lower three cone time seven point five too.
Speaker 1: He's a four or four five guy, which is really good,
Speaker 1: but it's not close to your two four two guys
Speaker 1: that you have. I don't think we'll see him pressed up,
Speaker 1: manned up or running deep. I think you'll see him
Speaker 1: squat key and seek to jump and make plays. It's
Speaker 1: where two is. High level proficiency has to come into
Speaker 1: play on a snap by snap basis this week. And
Speaker 1: then Lenore the other cornerback, Dion Dion Mandor Lenore, I
Speaker 1: think is how you pronounce it. Thirty seven for forty
Speaker 1: eight are opposing teams this year four D and thirty
Speaker 1: and no touchdowns, are no picks. He's got a better
Speaker 1: change of direction three cone times seven point oh two.
Speaker 1: He's also a four four or five forty guy, So
Speaker 1: there's not a ton of speed outside for these two guys.
Speaker 1: Like it's better than you know bad, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: probably like average, I would say, which makes one think
Speaker 1: it could be a lot of shells up top, which
Speaker 1: opens up the area we love to live in, that
Speaker 1: intermediate deep range between the numbers and from there. I
Speaker 1: think you really need to run the football l in
Speaker 1: this game to help influence those linebackers because we haven't
Speaker 1: seen a better ado this entire season, and I love
Speaker 1: when this happens. And Seth and Juice on the postgame
Speaker 1: show or on spaces last night, We'll tell you this
Speaker 1: that I love bringing it up, but I love when
Speaker 1: I have an idea, put it in the podcast, put
Speaker 1: it into the notes, put it into my my script,
Speaker 1: and then like coach or TWA or somebody else confirms
Speaker 1: it to it went through and like confirmed all this
Speaker 1: stuff about Fred Warner's depth of his drop, how safeties
Speaker 1: are playing off because the speed of the offense has
Speaker 1: Go watch twos press conference, listen to this podcast. I
Speaker 1: wrote the notes before too, as pressor. It's fun to
Speaker 1: kind of match up like that and just kind of
Speaker 1: get some confirmation from people that are smarter than you.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Moseley is up next. But as we told you,
Speaker 1: with the safety's it's much more a big nickel team
Speaker 1: where the third safety comes onto the field over a
Speaker 1: third corner. He's played three and twelve snaps, no small number.
Speaker 1: You've got over three thousand snaps among these top six
Speaker 1: d b s, which is a surprise for the way
Speaker 1: they aligned from a personnel standpoint, because it's percent of
Speaker 1: the time in a base four three and then the
Speaker 1: rest of it is a nickel. So what is that? Uh?
Speaker 1: They have three snaps the entire year in their dime defense.
Speaker 1: I thought would be more because of how many players
Speaker 1: they use in that position, but they just basically it's
Speaker 1: basically a platoon. I thought we'd get more dime, but
Speaker 1: it's it's a platoon between Moseley and Ward when both
Speaker 1: are healthy. Let's go ahead and finish up with Mosley's
Speaker 1: numbers here in the slot A thirteen of twenty one,
Speaker 1: thirty five no touchdowns of one pick. Again, really good numbers.
Speaker 1: This is their primary slot corner. You know, six point
Speaker 1: eight four three cone time with four or four two speed.
Speaker 1: That's more requisite of handling a Tyreek hill or a
Speaker 1: Jalen waddle. So the fastest guy among the group there
Speaker 1: as a manual Mosley from a straight line speed, but
Speaker 1: also change the direction skill set. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: if he plays up in that slot and presses up
Speaker 1: at all, because if you can get that one on
Speaker 1: one situation like that for Tyreek or Jalen slot fade,
Speaker 1: let's go for against Alliance. Keep an eye on that
Speaker 1: this week. This team as a whole has nine passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed and nine picks. It's by far the US
Speaker 1: touchdown interception ratio for a defense in the NFL. It
Speaker 1: will be so imperative for TWA and the receivers to
Speaker 1: be as sharp as they've been for to uh, continue
Speaker 1: to see things with tremendous anticipation, and then for the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, be on your landmarks, have your footwork on point.
Speaker 1: Do not bobble footballs. These guys will jump routes, they'll
Speaker 1: peel off and fall into zones that they're not supposed
Speaker 1: to be in. They'll lay the wood, and they'll scoop
Speaker 1: up tips and overthrows. You just can't have that this
Speaker 1: week if you want to win the turnover battle and
Speaker 1: ultimately the game. Again, fascinating matchup for how they want
Speaker 1: to play it. Given their zone propensity and how teams
Speaker 1: have really shown Miami not a ton of man coverage,
Speaker 1: and when they have it's been costly. You have to
Speaker 1: imagine it's more of the same. So those points of
Speaker 1: being sharp re emphasized here. I was curious to see
Speaker 1: how teams had success attacking them, like the weeks seven
Speaker 1: game against Kansas City where they scored forty four points.
Speaker 1: The key there was spreading the football around. They targeted
Speaker 1: chart various Awards six times with four different receivers, six
Speaker 1: catches on those for a bucko four. They went after
Speaker 1: Jimmy Awards six times with five different receivers six for
Speaker 1: six there for forty two yards. And Lenore saw four
Speaker 1: targets against four different receivers three for four there for
Speaker 1: forty eight yards. So I think the plan the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks has been Miami's mo to get the
Speaker 1: ball to Sherfield and Craycraft and Ghasicky and Smith and
Speaker 1: the backs like use Tyreeke and Jalen's ability to give
Speaker 1: you eight ninety yards, but also utilize their attention they
Speaker 1: command to get everybody else involved. I'm I'm just can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what happens. Are they canna put the
Speaker 1: emphasis on Tyreek and Jalen and forced us to win
Speaker 1: that way, or are they gonna proverbly throw us the
Speaker 1: challenge fastball and see if we can execute going up
Speaker 1: against those guys with our top dogs. Ideally you get
Speaker 1: a little bit of both. But if they challenge Tyreek
Speaker 1: and Jalen, I challenge anybody to make that challenge, because
Speaker 1: I think it will favor the Dolphins. In that Kansas
Speaker 1: City game, they went after Trevarious Award when he had
Speaker 1: deep responsibility, and I think if you can create a
Speaker 1: situation like that, that's the move to go after. Then
Speaker 1: it was quit game at Jimmy Ward with yards after
Speaker 1: the catch, And I think there's an opportunity here with
Speaker 1: the off coverage against two high safety looks, or if
Speaker 1: they sneak a safety down on the line and bring
Speaker 1: pressure to get the ball out hot and let those
Speaker 1: guys make place, get some yah going the quick run
Speaker 1: through that we saw Tareek have against the Texans up
Speaker 1: the sideline. That's kind of where I see the plant
Speaker 1: taking you, and they have to displace when they displace
Speaker 1: guys based upon their alignment. Try to maximize the yak
Speaker 1: on the back end, and when they clamp the middle
Speaker 1: and give you those one on ones out wide, try
Speaker 1: to win deep there and maximize that green grass down
Speaker 1: the field. And this all works infinitely better with a
Speaker 1: good ground game. Before we move on here, there's also
Speaker 1: a tremendous tackling cornerback room. So those wide runs, those matchups,
Speaker 1: blocking off the edge for guys like Trent Sherfield does
Speaker 1: a great job every single week against guys they used
Speaker 1: to see and practice for him and River Craig craft
Speaker 1: fun matchup there as well. Dolphins offensive line versus Niners
Speaker 1: defensive line. I know we're all very much anticipating this
Speaker 1: matchup here because it's where the game probably decided. Everything
Speaker 1: they do upfront is fast. Bosa and Carry Hyder are
Speaker 1: so quick off the football. They all are. Really, that's
Speaker 1: how defensive line coach Chris Cousera coaches it. Remember he
Speaker 1: was here back with Cam Waken and Dominican Sue, and
Speaker 1: those guys pinned their ears back every single snap. We
Speaker 1: heard from coach on Wednesday that arms at his game
Speaker 1: to game and the expectations that Jackson will not play,
Speaker 1: but let's not for certain. So what happens at tackles
Speaker 1: a big question. You have to figure Brandon Shell is
Speaker 1: the answer at one of those spots. Ideally to Ron
Speaker 1: plays and Shell can slot back in at right tackle,
Speaker 1: where he's played really well. They'll need their best this
Speaker 1: week because this defensive line gets after it, h pressures
Speaker 1: and run stop numbers bosat five and six and he
Speaker 1: has one mis tackle all year long. He's having a
Speaker 1: deployt year two, just like Hufunga, Charles Amenter, who one
Speaker 1: of my favorite draft prospects a few years ago, thirty
Speaker 1: nine pressures, nine run stops, Samson ebu Com twenty six pressures,
Speaker 1: twenty run stops, and Drake Jackson thirteen and eight. That's
Speaker 1: the primary edge defenders. Bosa is literally good at everything speed, power,
Speaker 1: technical refinement, setting up tackles with his game long pass
Speaker 1: rush plan. He's all pro level good. And you see
Speaker 1: teams attack him that way like we mentioned earlier, with
Speaker 1: doubles and chips, and they'll play into that. I do
Speaker 1: like the idea of running and screening and swinging the
Speaker 1: football motioning right at Bosa, split flow against him, akin
Speaker 1: to what they did against Aidan Hutchinson against the Lions.
Speaker 1: Chip with a tight end double with the back slide
Speaker 1: away from him, just make him think one extra beat
Speaker 1: longer consistently and try to slow him down by a
Speaker 1: half a step. He had fourteen pressures in one game
Speaker 1: this year, Week four against the Rams. He's had less
Speaker 1: than three pressures in the game just twice. Carolina and Casey,
Speaker 1: both teams played, paid a ton of attention to him,
Speaker 1: which you should. Amena, who is super long and powerful,
Speaker 1: some of the heaviest hands in the NFL. A strong
Speaker 1: edge and actually a very impressive four teen point five
Speaker 1: percent pressure rate is ninth among all defensive lineman edge
Speaker 1: or interior. If it's shell out there, that is pure
Speaker 1: strength against Pierre strength to power players fun matchup, and
Speaker 1: then ebucom Man. He is a play maker. You have
Speaker 1: to be really careful with your inside post with him
Speaker 1: because he'll bluff the rush upfield and then cross face
Speaker 1: and he's so devastating with that crossover slash arm over
Speaker 1: moved back inside and if there's no back scanning protecting
Speaker 1: their next to twa, that can result in some hits
Speaker 1: on your quarterback and as he's going to throw, which
Speaker 1: can result in turnovers. Obviously, that was an area of
Speaker 1: concerned last week with the tackles getting beat to their
Speaker 1: inside post. Gotta sure that up. Really need both guards
Speaker 1: to have their heads on a swivel this week too,
Speaker 1: against these long, powerful ends who can condense inside and
Speaker 1: really threat threaten those b gaps. Finally, the interior, they're
Speaker 1: gonna use a Mena who is a three tech quite
Speaker 1: often so he's kind of a D n D tackle,
Speaker 1: but among the true idels, pressures and run stops. Kevin
Speaker 1: Gibbons leads the way with twelve pressures and eleven run stops.
Speaker 1: Hassan Ridgeway has eight and twelve and Carry Hyder has
Speaker 1: seven and six. They lost Javon kin Law to injury
Speaker 1: a while back. They play the same way inside fast off.
Speaker 1: The football force you to be quick and react to
Speaker 1: the and be accurate with your hand placement and your punch.
Speaker 1: These are both areas where both Connor Williams and Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt have really excelled this year. This is a huge
Speaker 1: test Rob Jones. That's not necessarily his game when I
Speaker 1: just told you about, but man, if he can get
Speaker 1: it right and just thwart these dudes, it would go
Speaker 1: a long way towards us winning in the trenches, and
Speaker 1: that's probably scoring in the high twenties and then thus
Speaker 1: winning the football game. Another member of the rotation Akeem Spence.
Speaker 1: Remember him. He was the epitome of that one gap,
Speaker 1: get up field style of coach Cousrec. He's played a
Speaker 1: hundred and eight snapped on the season. Running backs and linebackers,
Speaker 1: they are a twenty percent blitz team right, but the
Speaker 1: safeties and corners almost never Blitz Lenore leads away with
Speaker 1: twelve among the dbs and Jimmy Ward is next with
Speaker 1: four pass rush reps. So what does that tell you?
Speaker 1: It's all about the backers, Blitz and Baby uh. Fred
Speaker 1: Warner eleven pressures on twenty eight pass rush reps. Dre
Speaker 1: Greenlaw four on twenty four. Not a very good number
Speaker 1: there for green Law, but Warners is pretty good. So again,
Speaker 1: not a crazy high number twentieth in the league, but
Speaker 1: it's effective because it's a tendency breaker and that can
Speaker 1: fool protection schemes into being wrong. For just to beat
Speaker 1: and that's all it takes for these guys to get downhill.
Speaker 1: Fred Warner, I think is the best off ball linebacker
Speaker 1: and football. As to what kind of talked about. He
Speaker 1: does everything like we don't even have to break him
Speaker 1: down because hook defender, edge center, run the scene with
Speaker 1: a three fit the B gap. It just doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He does it all. He and Dre Greenlaw have conbined
Speaker 1: for seventy nine run stops seventy nine and it's not
Speaker 1: a big gap forty one for green Law, thirty eight
Speaker 1: for Warner. To me, these two players are the key.
Speaker 1: Can Miami keep them guessing enough with a level of
Speaker 1: balance to just get them to take one false step
Speaker 1: or react to beat late. It's just not possible to
Speaker 1: flow downhill in the run game and cover twenty yards
Speaker 1: down the field from that position. And when Miami is
Speaker 1: hitting runs, they have attacked that area of the field
Speaker 1: with such success. But again, you haven't seen a duel
Speaker 1: like this yet all year. So if Miami can get
Speaker 1: the backs going in the running game, I think that
Speaker 1: opens up everything else. Of course, they that can be
Speaker 1: achieved with good design as well. So it's a big
Speaker 1: test for the Dolphins offensive staff to keep those guys
Speaker 1: guessing in the run game, even if it doesn't click
Speaker 1: from the opening snap. Just thirteen miss tackles between the
Speaker 1: two with almost a hundred and seventy can bind tackles,
Speaker 1: It's crazy, and we know it would be a physical game.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got Jeff Wilson for that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: sort of the land and Roberts of the offense in
Speaker 1: that way. And then if we can get those hard
Speaker 1: edges solidified and get Wheheem Moster around the edge with
Speaker 1: his speed, that's one of those things that really opens
Speaker 1: up the short intermediate passing game as well, so a
Speaker 1: big key. The Falcons had their best running day on
Speaker 1: the Niners with one hundred and sixty eight yards in
Speaker 1: the ground. The Chiefs were next with one twelve, and
Speaker 1: Denver the third team to go over a hundred. They
Speaker 1: had one on one in their game. They even held
Speaker 1: the Bears in justin fields just ninety nine yards. Then
Speaker 1: it's a drop in the sixties seven rushing yards allowed.
Speaker 1: So only four of the eleven games have surpassed sixty
Speaker 1: seven rushing yards against the Niners defense. And the Falcons
Speaker 1: had three different players top fifty yards in that game,
Speaker 1: but nobody went over fifty nine. Mariota, Caleb Huntley, and
Speaker 1: Tyler Algier were all in the fifties sixty year range
Speaker 1: in that game. Not exactly a Dolphins analog there, so
Speaker 1: not really a carryover comparison, like, hey, let's worked here,
Speaker 1: it'll work here. Oh, by the way, they're good in
Speaker 1: coverage to one or twenty nine or twenty five of
Speaker 1: thirty nine, that's a ridiculously low, can pleacient percentage for
Speaker 1: a linebacker. But three hundred one yards and a touchdown,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of yards for that few completions. Green
Speaker 1: Law forty four fifty seven for three thirty one and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. They are as involved as any backers because
Speaker 1: teams typically get it out quickly against the past rush,
Speaker 1: so you'll see those guys making ploys all over the place.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the other side of the
Speaker 1: football here before our second break. Dolphins defense, Niners offense,
Speaker 1: quarterback and offense versus the Dolphins safeties. No team has
Speaker 1: utilized more variants of offensive groupings than the forty Niners. Now,
Speaker 1: most of these are just a handful of plays, like
Speaker 1: a lot of it is the various packages with one
Speaker 1: extra lineman that gives them the distinction. They've added an
Speaker 1: extra line from eleven, twelve, thirteen, and twenty two personnel,
Speaker 1: But on the whole, eleven personnel is forty seven percent,
Speaker 1: twelve personnel seventeen percent, twenty one personnel Kyle us check percent,
Speaker 1: and then twenty two personnel's eight percent. All others are
Speaker 1: less than one percent. But there's like fourteen different packages
Speaker 1: they've used this year. But even within those were groupings
Speaker 1: the primary ones. You see the unique nature of the
Speaker 1: Niners offense. A lot of it is two back sets
Speaker 1: with you checking what he does kind of like alec Ingold. Basically,
Speaker 1: there's the top two fullbacks the NFL, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: plenty of tight ends. I mean they can go with
Speaker 1: McCaffrey behind you check with Debo, I you can kittle.
Speaker 1: That's the best five eligible line up any team in
Speaker 1: football can call upon. For my money, the key here
Speaker 1: to me is like it is most weeks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Make the quarterback uncomfortable. Don't let him scan and get
Speaker 1: to his third and fourth read. If you let Jimmy
Speaker 1: hitch up and get to the backside, he'll carve you up.
Speaker 1: But I think we can get home with four by
Speaker 1: overloading the right side and winning inside. Just overload the
Speaker 1: opposite side of Trent Williams and attack the other parts
Speaker 1: of the offensive line all game long. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and look at Jimmy G's numbers. When he's blitzed sixty
Speaker 1: eight percent completion, eight point five yards per past, six
Speaker 1: tuddies and two picks. It's a better completion percentage and
Speaker 1: y p A by almost a full yard than when
Speaker 1: he's not blitzed and teams are acting accordingly. He's been
Speaker 1: bleached just ninety five times this year. Compared the two
Speaker 1: twenty eight drawbacks against four or few are rushers. This
Speaker 1: is exactly the type of game that you go get
Speaker 1: a Bradley Chubb for a smart, accurate quarterback that will
Speaker 1: take what you give him. But you play coverage and
Speaker 1: force him to get through a couple of reads and
Speaker 1: take away his hots. You know he's not gonna scramble
Speaker 1: very much, if at all, especially after that dinged up
Speaker 1: need from last week. Disrupt the hot throws, and then
Speaker 1: you've also, uh, you're also not sacrificing tacklers on the
Speaker 1: back end when you don't blitz him, because you need
Speaker 1: as many men behind the ball to deal with these
Speaker 1: yards after the catch guys when not blitzed his time
Speaker 1: to throw his two point six one seconds, Phillips and
Speaker 1: Chub have been getting home and similar or quicker times.
Speaker 1: So man, if we can get we've been getting from
Speaker 1: those guys, I think it will swing this game in
Speaker 1: a big way in our favor. It's why this safety
Speaker 1: and quarterback matchups a fun one too. We talked about
Speaker 1: Holland playing a little more in little more space last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, Eric Rowe playing his best ball of
Speaker 1: the year, and McKinley getting more reps at free safety.
Speaker 1: They are killing defenses in the intermediate for ten point
Speaker 1: five yards per past seven touchdowns and two picks, but
Speaker 1: going deep twenty plus yards it's been bad. Just completion
Speaker 1: only nine yards perpasite. That's so low, one touchdown, one pick.
Speaker 1: Just nine percent of their dropbacks result in the deep
Speaker 1: ball and they barely ever hit them, so they'll run
Speaker 1: the ball and attack short to intermediate. It's really kind
Speaker 1: of the primary difference in the two offenses with the
Speaker 1: makeup of the skill players. Both teams are exceptional, but
Speaker 1: Miami has all the speed that the Niners just do
Speaker 1: not have that they try to catch the ball and
Speaker 1: run through tackles. It's it's more dink and duncan the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense spoiler. One of the keys will be formed
Speaker 1: tackling because they're fifth in the NFL with fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty one yards after the catch. They have the
Speaker 1: number three ranked wide receiver and Yak and Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: He's got four hundred yards after the catch, the sixth
Speaker 1: place tight end and Yak with George Kittle and two
Speaker 1: thirty seven, and the number two running back in the
Speaker 1: NFL with four nine yards after the catch and Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our last break and come
Speaker 1: back and finish up the rest of this preview. On
Speaker 1: the other side of the Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We ended
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks versus the safeties for the Niners offense
Speaker 1: and Dolphins defense. We pick it back up here with
Speaker 1: the receivers and tight ends versus the Miami corners. And
Speaker 1: speaking of those receivers, there are like three duo's I
Speaker 1: like more than Samuel A. Yuk. Maybe there's not a
Speaker 1: tied end in the NFL like more than George Kittle.
Speaker 1: Kelsey is great, but Kittle's play style is my style,
Speaker 1: my toil, I should say, my preferred toil. Now, Deebo
Speaker 1: isn't running the ball as much as he was last year,
Speaker 1: and with that mine you would would you believe it
Speaker 1: if I told you he wasn't the top target guy
Speaker 1: on the team. And it's not Kiddle either, And that
Speaker 1: just speaks to how good Brandon Ayuk is. Like their safeties,
Speaker 1: they're interchangeable in terms of their priest nap alignments and
Speaker 1: hilariously enough their slot alignments for a yuk and and
Speaker 1: deebo twenty six point five percent and twenty six point
Speaker 1: four percent one of a percentage point. They rake third
Speaker 1: and eighteenth and yak among wide receivers. That's why tackling
Speaker 1: is so imperative. Like listen to this stat. No receiver
Speaker 1: has a shorter average depth of target than Samuel's four
Speaker 1: point eight yards average, but he has four yards after
Speaker 1: the catch. So look at his receptions chart. It's all
Speaker 1: around the live of screwmage. They just throw him short
Speaker 1: screen game. Come tackle cater Cohu big challenge for you
Speaker 1: this week, my friend. They challenge you with man and
Speaker 1: zone ideals because Jimmy is so proficient at beating zone.
Speaker 1: And then when you go man, when you made them up,
Speaker 1: they'll just throw crossers and kill you with yack. And
Speaker 1: there's not a harder route to defend than drags and
Speaker 1: overs against man coverage. They'll use them all in the
Speaker 1: blocking game as well. You know that they'll give them
Speaker 1: jet sweeps, their big physical receivers who will challenge and
Speaker 1: invite contact when you reroute them. You have to be
Speaker 1: on point and you do have to be ready to
Speaker 1: compete at the top of the stem because they'll throw
Speaker 1: balls against tight windows, and those guys will use those
Speaker 1: frames to generate separation and really win with physicality the
Speaker 1: top of the route. And then there's George Kittle, speaking
Speaker 1: of physicality, who will control the edge in the running
Speaker 1: game and provide a whole other plate of challenges in
Speaker 1: the passing game. We mentioned the heavier packages. I mean
Speaker 1: sometimes they do that with Kittle with a couple of
Speaker 1: extra tackles and Kittle who can function as a tackle himself.
Speaker 1: That is three really devastating options atop their target share.
Speaker 1: They go you fifty one for six twenty five and
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, one point eight five yards per route ran,
Speaker 1: Samuel forty three grabs for five ten and two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one point seven yards per route ran, Kittle thirty six
Speaker 1: for four fifty and four scores seven years ago and
Speaker 1: one point six four yards per route ran, and then
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings two six one. I mean, look at those
Speaker 1: yards per route ran, all under one point eight five.
Speaker 1: It's not been very efficient in that regard. I kind
Speaker 1: of think you go into this game with everyone talking
Speaker 1: about one defense in red and gold, and I think
Speaker 1: he'll come out of it with everyone talking about the
Speaker 1: other defense in Aquan Orange. I really like this matchup
Speaker 1: on the side of the ball. Less than twenty points
Speaker 1: should do the trick, and the Niners have scored less
Speaker 1: than twenty four times and less than twenty five and
Speaker 1: seven of their eleven games. I am really curious to
Speaker 1: see the matchups, the decisions that Bowyer makes in terms
Speaker 1: of man and zone and blitz and coverage, and the
Speaker 1: matchups he prefers. X and Cater have both done really
Speaker 1: well against bigger, bodied, physical types of receivers, so I
Speaker 1: think you could see a fun slug fest out there,
Speaker 1: and again those guys against the screen come up and
Speaker 1: make place. It's a big part of the game this week.
Speaker 1: To me, it's a kitchen sink game. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of combo hybrid coverage is I think you do
Speaker 1: play some man with brackets and wallops and robbers to
Speaker 1: take care of those crossing routes like Javon holland maybe
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe. Bottom line is this, we want garoppolo serving
Speaker 1: and hitching to hold the ball from thin two point
Speaker 1: five seconds. I think playing aggressive underneath with seven and
Speaker 1: coverage is the best way to do that, and you
Speaker 1: have to trust your pass rush to get home to
Speaker 1: do it man cover six, some hybrid with zone front
Speaker 1: side man backside combinations like two man two high safeties
Speaker 1: and man coverage underneath. Mix it up and rely on
Speaker 1: that four man pass rush and dare them to go deep,
Speaker 1: kind of like that Baltimore game. Offensive line verse defensive line.
Speaker 1: So Trent Williams is absolutely incredible. It starts with him.
Speaker 1: He can really handle anything you throw at him. Stylistically,
Speaker 1: they fire off the football just like Miami. They want
Speaker 1: to beat you to the spot and use that style
Speaker 1: to keep your second level guessing second guessing. I should
Speaker 1: say offensive line pressures allowed and pass blocking snaps. Trent
Speaker 1: Williams ten pressures on two hundred and sixty nine snaps.
Speaker 1: That's an absurd offensive tackle number. That's pass block efficiency.
Speaker 1: You see that from the top interior offensive lineman in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Aaron Banks twenty one on three three. That's
Speaker 1: that That's kind of the one that sticks out. Jake
Speaker 1: Brendell remember him four for three two. He's developed in
Speaker 1: some kind of player there. Man Spencer Burford eleven to
Speaker 1: snaps and then Mike McGlinchey eight team pressures on three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty two snaps and then Jalen Moore and Daniel
Speaker 1: Brunskill will come into the game as extra offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: You kind of know the matchup from a style standpoint.
Speaker 1: They want to beat you to the spot, turn you
Speaker 1: while you off, and cel the alley and get bodies
Speaker 1: up in the second level to wipe out your linebackers.
Speaker 1: So for Miami and the two gap control the point
Speaker 1: of attack style of football they want to play. It's
Speaker 1: a big game for ray Kwon Davis and do what
Speaker 1: he does best and just prevent movement and doubles from
Speaker 1: getting up to that second level. And then with Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Seiler more of the same. We do see both
Speaker 1: of them win with quickness plenty. But at three ten
Speaker 1: and three oh five Burford and Brendle go three hundred
Speaker 1: pounds each. So getting in position to use that power
Speaker 1: to hold the point are big keys this week. And
Speaker 1: to move those guys against their will to kind of
Speaker 1: use your power and strength and balance to once they
Speaker 1: run a wide zone play, put your foot in the
Speaker 1: ground and chuck them and make the play. Our guys
Speaker 1: are that plenty. I think it's a good matchup here
Speaker 1: from Miami in that regard Banks is three for posterity,
Speaker 1: but man, he's getting all he can handle this year.
Speaker 1: The Saints hit him with seven pressures on Sunday. Need
Speaker 1: to get that done with Christian and Seiler going up
Speaker 1: against him with their quick pass rush, Arsenals Wilkins with
Speaker 1: the get off, Seiler with the arm over. It usually
Speaker 1: starts in the trenches, but for sure it does in
Speaker 1: this game on both sides of the football and then
Speaker 1: out wide. I'm not really sure what to tell you
Speaker 1: about Trent Williams. Like him and Bradley Chubb is a
Speaker 1: premier matchup Phillips as well when he goes to that side.
Speaker 1: But finding ways to execute games and get Williams away
Speaker 1: from locking down your top guys or one of them
Speaker 1: on a give him play would go a long way
Speaker 1: to keep in that pocket muddy for Jimmy g I
Speaker 1: think they've got you know, McGlinchey over there, a former
Speaker 1: first round pick, was a stalwart for them, just six
Speaker 1: pressures allowed in the last four games. But I want
Speaker 1: to see Jayleen Phillips speed to power move a lot
Speaker 1: against him. It's his best move, I think, and the
Speaker 1: route to getting McGlinchey is with power paired with suddenness.
Speaker 1: He's six ft eight three tents, so we can get
Speaker 1: over his skis a little bit that and Melvin Ingram
Speaker 1: with that really really good crossover step inside into the
Speaker 1: B gap. Those two guys against McGlinchey are big keys
Speaker 1: for me this week. Finally, running back in linebacker Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he can go. He's dealing with knee irritation,
Speaker 1: which I've never heard that before. Elijah Mitchell will not
Speaker 1: be available for them. Their offense really took off once
Speaker 1: they traded from McCaffrey, and that should be kind of obvious.
Speaker 1: With a talent scheme fit there. There's a ton of
Speaker 1: screen game and use of McCaffrey flexed out. He runs
Speaker 1: routes from every possible alignment. He's averaging just four point
Speaker 1: two yards per rush since coming over. But it's the
Speaker 1: passing game element that makes him who he is. He's
Speaker 1: caught twenty five of twenty mine targets for two oh
Speaker 1: two and a touch. He's forced six misths tackles in
Speaker 1: the catches, so when you give in space, he's tough
Speaker 1: to get to the ground. Tevin Coleman would be next
Speaker 1: in line. Since Mitchell's down. He was with the Niers
Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen twenty, played for the Jets last year,
Speaker 1: and then he came back this year to the Niners.
Speaker 1: He was with Shanahan and McDaniel in Atlanta in sixteen
Speaker 1: and he was awesome for that team. He gives him
Speaker 1: that speed element like McCaffrey does that really allows that
Speaker 1: offense to get the vertical stretch to give you the
Speaker 1: election to the horizontal stretch to really widen the defense out.
Speaker 1: So for the Dolphins covering these guys out of the
Speaker 1: backfield speed with Jerome and Duke getting over the top
Speaker 1: of hopefully heart edges from Chubb, Phillips, Melvin and gink
Speaker 1: In the whole crew. You know, I mentioned Duke Riley
Speaker 1: getting thirty plus snaps last two weeks. To me, this
Speaker 1: is another game for him to get thirty or more snaps,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if we see more of Baker off
Speaker 1: the edge to help contend with that speed, kind of
Speaker 1: like we saw in the Baltimore game a couple or
Speaker 1: a year ago. Special Teams d v o A ranks
Speaker 1: San Francisco's twenty first, Miami's thirty first, and after making
Speaker 1: all six of US kicks on Sunday. J In Sanders
Speaker 1: is now sixteen for twenty on the year, including a
Speaker 1: perfect nine for nine on kicks in the forty to
Speaker 1: forty nine range, the one short miss, and then oh
Speaker 1: for three from fifty plus. He's thirty for thirty three
Speaker 1: on p A t s. Kind of a cool stat here.
Speaker 1: We are just three p A t attempts away from
Speaker 1: matching his career high, so we're scoring lots of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Do it this week? Maybe um Raheem not Raheem. Thomas
Speaker 1: Moore Stead is averaging forty six point three yards per
Speaker 1: punt on thirty seven total punts, just a five points
Speaker 1: four percent touchback rate and a thirty seven point eight
Speaker 1: percent inside the twenty yard line rate. Both of those
Speaker 1: top his career averages. On the other side, the Niners
Speaker 1: send out great Robbie Gold for their field goals. He's
Speaker 1: sixteen for nineteen this season, with two misses in the
Speaker 1: forty nine range and one under thirty. He's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven on extra points, and then Mitch Wishnowski is the
Speaker 1: punter thirty nine points forty four point to average, ten
Speaker 1: point three percent touchback rate and fifty three point eight
Speaker 1: percent inside the twenty yard line. Good coverage team there
Speaker 1: for the Niners punt team, what's its stake? The cool
Speaker 1: part about winning Street did you get to put that
Speaker 1: on the line each week you keep winning and saying
Speaker 1: we're on a five game win streak is pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: So the potential for a six game win streak is
Speaker 1: even more sweeter. Remember when I said back in September
Speaker 1: we were going to do this segment, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: really start to click until late November and December. Well,
Speaker 1: a win keeps you in first in the division, you know,
Speaker 1: right before Christmas. Really in terms of the standings at large.
Speaker 1: Of course, cross conference games don't contribute to any tie
Speaker 1: break scenarios sans common opponents, and within our own division,
Speaker 1: nobody else plays a Niner. So from that standpoint, you
Speaker 1: could say it's the least important game on the schedule,
Speaker 1: but we know that absolutely nobody feels that way, because
Speaker 1: let's be honest, the main thing at stake here is perception. Right,
Speaker 1: if the Niners win, everything is still on in front
Speaker 1: of Miami. We not to be true, but if that happens,
Speaker 1: the talk shows and social media and the contingency that
Speaker 1: demands perfection on every single staff of every single game.
Speaker 1: We'll come out of the woodwork and say they were
Speaker 1: right all along. So really nothing at stake in that
Speaker 1: regard because none of that stuff matters, right. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was worth saying obviously all wins matter, but
Speaker 1: also talk about a great way to start a three
Speaker 1: game road trip against three really good teams, well, two
Speaker 1: really good teams and one that we're kind of waiting
Speaker 1: to see on in Los Angeles, and win puts you
Speaker 1: in position where if you can, if you can get
Speaker 1: the win, you can then complete the California swing with
Speaker 1: two wins potentially, and then that week fifteen Buffalo game
Speaker 1: gives you a chance to really increase your odds of
Speaker 1: win the division. It's probably not saying a whole lot here,
Speaker 1: but if you go three no on the road trip,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna win the division, So big, big things
Speaker 1: at stake This week. Three keys established balance on offense
Speaker 1: to help influence those middle linebackers. They are the key,
Speaker 1: the straw that stirs to drink and those safety so
Speaker 1: running the football keeps them guessing, keeps them off balance,
Speaker 1: keeps them fall stepping Key Number two, execute your tackling fundamentals,
Speaker 1: drive rap and put them to the ground. You cannot
Speaker 1: let these guys get loose in the secondary and number
Speaker 1: three get pressure without blitzing. Jimmy Garoppolo. Holding the football
Speaker 1: with guys win one on one pass rush moves will
Speaker 1: be a good way to keep this Nier's offense below
Speaker 1: twenty and that should be a good no to win
Speaker 1: the game. Week thirteen picks. This week we're eleven and five,
Speaker 1: and Week twelve we are now one and fifty seven
Speaker 1: and one on the year. That's sixty winning percentage. Buffalo
Speaker 1: over the Patriots night, although I'm rooting for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bears over the Packers. We'll see if
Speaker 1: Rogers plays. I'm still taking the Bears unless they don't
Speaker 1: have justin fields and it's gonna go back to the Packers.
Speaker 1: Give me the Falcons over the Steelers. Give me the
Speaker 1: Vikings over the Jets, the Lions over the Jags, Eagles
Speaker 1: over the Titans, the Browns over the Texans, Gross the
Speaker 1: Giants over Washington, Baltimore over Denver, the Dolphins over San Francisco,
Speaker 1: Seattle over the Rams. I'll take Vegas over the Chargers.
Speaker 1: It's kind of my big pick of the week right there.
Speaker 1: Take the Chiefs over the Bengals, the Cowboys over the Colts,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks over the Saints. All right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be my time today. We'll have the team reporter for
Speaker 1: the Niners, Lindsay Parallis, on the podcast tomorrow, so don't
Speaker 1: miss that. We'll also get your questions on the Twitter
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Speaker 1: on Sunday for another recap podcast and postgame show, all
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