WEBVTT - Dolphins 49ers Week 13 Preview 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Wheatfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:15.800 looking what water Dolphen touchdop, toun Rick kill that man. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.880 I want to help you soon up away Wattle waddle 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.079 to a shotgut back that's thro all looks up fires touchop, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:30.520 it's waddle. It's six touchdown of this day. Drive Time 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.920 with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:41.320 if what is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.880 Drive Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.600 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.600 I am your host, Travis Winfield. And on today's show, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.160 it is preview day and a long one. I spent 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.480 a lot of time on this one because what a 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.319 matchup we have for you Dolphins and Niners. Wor oh 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.400 five kick will preview each positional matchup with an eye 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.480 on the tape and the numbers to give you that 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.000 water cooler conversation for a few days, plus What's at 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.840 stake and the three Keys to victory from the Baptist 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.880 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:24.160 the Drivetime podcast. At long last, the San Francisco forty 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.640 Niners game is here. So many familiar faces going back 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.960 to their previous stop with McDaniel, West Welker, John Embry 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.760 where he most art, Jeff Wilson, Trent Sherfield. We were 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.679 Craig Craft and we remind you of that to give 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.160 you an idea of how the team is constructed. That 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.319 it's not that far off from what the Dolphins have 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.480 built here in the short time under Mike McDaniel and 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.520 Chris Greer and the rest of the staff. It starts 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.760 with Kyle Shanahan over in San Francisco. I'll never forget 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.480 when I first really took my shot at getting into 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.360 the analyst world and covering the league at large. When 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.000 I launched my QB Grading website in the summer of 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.400 I wrote about how Kyle Shanahan could maximize Brian Hoyer's 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.080 skill set based upon what they did together in Cleveland. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.480 And while that take didn't age well, the Niners were 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.280 eventually able to build the roster to Shanahan's liking at 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.440 the quarterback that would maximize their offense as well. Under 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.960 GM John Lynch, and they rode that all the way 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.720 to the Super Bowl just three years in and just 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.440 fifteen mins away with a ten point lead from hoisting 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.480 the Lombardi Trophy, and that same quarterback website featured effusive 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.720 praise for Matt Ryan and the two thousand sixteen Falcons, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.040 which was you guessed it, Kyle Shanahan and the controls 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.000 and our own headman Mike McDaniel there as well, one 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.359 of the first most fun offenses I can remember watching 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.400 and a historic m VP season four in my opinion, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.440 future Hall of Fame quarterback Matt Ryan, you know the 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.639 drill outside zone principles that kick start the offense into 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.240 a deadly play action passing game that utilizes shifts, motion 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.480 play design in a very smart and accurate quarterback to 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.840 pick apart holes in zone and maximize the incredible slate 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.760 of skill players and their run after the catchability. Defensively, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.359 if you thought that losing Robert Salo would sink that defense, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.520 quite the opposite to Miko Ryan's is already one of 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.160 the top coordinators in the game and will be a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.080 head coach probably by next year, if not two years. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.280 Tops uh. He puts his own spice on the defense, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.160 but at their core it's an aggressive, attacking, hitting one gap, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.760 get up field, and put the onus on the offense 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.520 type of defense. More on that in a moment. So 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.560 it's year six of Shanahan and Lynch here with San Francisco, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.200 and what a home run pairing that was at a 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.640 time when the organization absolutely needed needed some stabilization coming 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.320 off of back to back one and done coaching moves 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.200 with Chip Kelly and Jim tom Sula. Who remembers Jim 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 tom Seula. What a year that was. It brought stability 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.280 to the organization and has made them a contender every 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.960 single year except for when they're wiped out by the 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.600 injury bug. Like, seriously, who's had worst injury luck than 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.120 the Niners since Shanahan got there? Really, and the similarities 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.560 really do continue for how these two teams were built. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.920 The Niners utilized a massive early free agency hall that 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.080 first year there, some wise drafting, and some big trades 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.320 to round out one of the best top of the 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.880 rosters in the entire NFL. There are elite players in 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.880 every room on this football team. That's how they brought 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.240 in Jimmy g Back in a trade that was awesome 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.039 for them for just a second round pick, and you 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.200 look at the record with and without Jimmy Garoppolo, pretty 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.240 safe to say he's the glue piece there. And what 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.080 does Savvy move to keep him this off season? From 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.920 what looked like he was for sure going to leave, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.000 even had like a goodbye post on social media to 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.799 San Francisco and then a break in case of emergency situation, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.400 they brought him back and that's what happened. On Week two. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.080 Former number three overall pick Trey Lance has an ankle 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.320 injury that wipes him out for the entire season. So 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.320 a big trade for arguably the most talented player as well, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.360 which is tough to peg because they have so many 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.880 of them. But Christian McCaffrey also arrives via a trade 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.640 to take this offense to a different level. Will monitor 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.040 his knee injury as we go along this week. Now, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.400 the wide receiver room was built primarily through the draft, 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.080 but Deebo Samuel and Brandon Auk are one of the 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.599 best wide receiver tandems and all of football, and like 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.360 we have here, just two perfect complimentary parts. Then, of course, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.480 one of the top two tight ends in football who 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.599 does literally everything, George Kittle, was a late round steel 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.120 in the draft. A few years back. They used that 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.360 trade option to acquire their best offensive linemen as well, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.599 and their best lineman in the NFL for my money, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.560 and Trent Williams. You've all seen the impact to Ron 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.520 Armstead has had here. That's Trent Williams in San Francisco. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.800 There have been some considerable changes along the offensive line, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.640 but they seem to really be coming into their own 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.760 as the year goes along. Then, defensively, maybe the best 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.200 in football, and it starts with maybe the best edge 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.080 rusher and football like Parsons Myles, Garrett and Bosa. I 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.240 think that's the top dogs in my opinion. Former number 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.240 two pick in the draft has been as advertised with 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.400 Nick Bosa. They drafted Arc Armstead in the first round 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.040 as well. Back in the beginning of that handed Lynch pairing, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.719 they brought Carry Hyder back after a stint with Seattle Sampson. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.680 Ebucom was a home run of a free agent signing 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.240 like it just keeps going. Fred Warner is probably only 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.640 a couple more years of this level of play away 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.440 from a gold jacket, and Dre greenlaws a Pro Bowl 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.680 caliber linebacker as well. Another draft pick for them. Then 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.960 in the secondary another late round gem and Telenoah who 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.000 Fonga a prize free agent, and char Various Ward the 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.160 other ward Jimmy also had great draft pick for them. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.640 So you get the idea. It's a complete team with 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.800 stars all over the roster, and when they have the 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.080 majority of those stars available, well, it usually produces a 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.240 trip to the Super Bowl and twenty nineteen and a 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.479 trip back to the NFC Championship Game. Last year was 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.960 a six and ten year that ended with Bosa, Garoppolo, Williams, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.800 d Ford and Raheem most are all on the I R. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.360 You had Samuel I you can kindle all this time 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.640 in the year as well, So pretty much injuries are 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.520 the only thing that has stopped this team in the 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.040 last five years, and now they're relatively healthy. Maybe not 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.560 this week so much as they have been recent Their 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.239 seven and four a first place outfit that hasn't allowed 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.440 a second half point in four weeks. And if you 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.800 turn on a talk show or get on social media, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.960 you'll see the Niners touted as a team to we 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.440 reckon with come January, and it's pretty easy to see why. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.400 In the NFC, let's go ahead and get right into 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.640 the Dolphins offense firstus the Niners defense, quarterback and offense 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.880 versus the safety matchup. First and off the top, I 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.560 mentioned the defensive surge of the Niners, and I'm excited 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.320 for this game to test a theory I've been telling 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.520 you guys about for some time now here on the 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.520 Drive Time podcast, the theory that in the NFL, in 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.760 defenses are as good as the offense they're facing. And 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.080 these low point totals came from three totally floundering offenses 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.920 and a Charger's offense that, for all its parts, just 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.840 hasn't been good this year. The Stafford List Rams, the 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.680 Allen and Williams List, Chargers, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, the 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.880 Murray List, Cardinals, and the Saints led by Andy Dalton. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.040 The week before that, the week the Street started an 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.480 offense somewhat akin to Miami's in terms of their production 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.880 in Kansas City, and they rolled up forty four points 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.600 with thirty of that coming in the second half. So 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 I really really don't think, and I've been wrong before, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.000 but I don't think the Niners should expect to score 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.960 like seventeen or twenty points and win this game. But 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.320 we'll see maybe the theory is wrong. Let's talk about 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.920 what they do well. The way we praise the offensive 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.840 structure and design each week, the same can be done 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.880 for the Niners defense and the way they call that defense. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.960 He just has an answer and response to everything teams 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.480 will do to them. There's a clip on a third 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.080 and long against the Chargers where the back isn't a 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.120 nasty split that's aligned up close to the tackle uh 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.800 to Nick Bosa's side, and he comes up to chip Bosa. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.200 So instead of having Bosa rush into an isolated tackle 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.760 who is ready to get a secondary piece of the 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.720 past rusher after he gets the chip dealt with, and 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.160 they slide the entire rest of the line away from that, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.720 They're just gonna drop Nick Bosa back into coverage and 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.040 bring the fourth man to the other side of the formation, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.320 giving you seven and coverage, two blockers doing nothing and 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.000 four on four and their pass rush scheme that leaves 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.160 two guys to block air to Herbert's right on that play. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.560 It's stuff like that time and time again for this 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.839 Niners defense. You've got to watch for that in a 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.320 quick passing game, because botha will peel back, and with 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.400 how many plays we've seen to you know, catch rock throw, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.040 you've got to make sure you I d those defensive 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.040 linemen and coverage. He did it in the NFC Divisional 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.400 game in Green Bay last year too, where he wound 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.800 up rerouting the three the closest receiver into the formation 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.240 and passing him off and then dropping to his landmark 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.280 like it's linebacker stuff and he can do it at 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.000 a high level, and they've got options with which to 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.000 do that too, Like there was a five man blitz 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.920 from a zone look with late rotation at the snap 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.640 in the game against the Saints where they eventually brought 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.960 who fonga more on him in a moment. It's such 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.880 a great chess match between that defense and a quarterback who, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.680 as coach has said, is such a savant for the 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.040 way he sees the game in the field. It's just 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.960 constantly stuff like that. Lots of zone coverage, but they'll 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.959 also dial up enough man coverage to keep you guessing. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.439 There's a third and four in the Cardinals game where 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.760 they pull the extra safety down and go press man 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.440 across the board and play man free single high free 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.920 safety man coverage across the board. It's not something they 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.880 do frequently, but it's on tape, and then you'll see 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:22.480 them primarily rush for drop into zones and those exceptional 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:28.040 exceptional linebackers and expand that zone because of their athletic ability, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.400 namely Fred Warner. Will come back to those guys in 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.760 a minute. The Niners man zone splits are nearly seventy one, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.480 and their third and QB are allowed in either of 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.680 those two things. Two US QBR against zone and man 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.000 is both best in the NFL at eighty two point 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.480 one against man and seventy eight point five against zone coverage. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.440 They blitz two point three percent of the time, that's 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.240 the twenty highest rate in the league, but their pressure 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.800 rates that's ninth most in football two of verse. The 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.880 blitz this year sixty seven point two percent completion, eight 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.320 a half yards per attempt, three teddies and no picks 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.240 versus pressure. He's the best quarterback in the league fifty 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.599 six seven point seven y p A, four touchdowns and 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.040 no picks, and the one h three point four pass 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.320 writings tops in the NFL. In fact, he's the only 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.480 qualifying quarterback over a hundred in that passer rating category. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.040 The next highest is Geno Smith at point five. Every 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.880 which way you splice it, it's an intriguing matchup. As 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.240 for the Niners safeties, Jimmy Ward is one of the 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.079 smartest players you'll come across, and speaking of jumping the 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.800 quick game, he lives for that. Over his two snaps 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.880 this year, he missed the first four games of the season, 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:35.880 only two have come in this in the post, the 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.040 free safety position, He's almost always in the box or 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.400 slot and wants to disrupt the passing game. You think 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.480 about these safeties as they can all play in the slot, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.320 which changes the way you kind of view things and 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.680 it makes the safeties interchangeable. He doesn't rush just four 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.720 blitzes on the season, but he'll play plenty of slot 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.199 and cover the slot receiver. And that's where a second 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.120 year sensation speaking of blitz is tell Noah who Funga 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.000 comes into play. He's nearly doubled his snaps already from 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.720 a year ago. And you think he's rushing the quarterback 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.600 all the time because he's always making plays. But just 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.640 twenty three pass rush reps this season, three hundred sixty 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.559 one in the post and then two hundred sixty two 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.200 between the box and the slow and then thirty four 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.400 more as a down defensive lineman, which is crazy, but man, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.559 he can impact the short passing game to all positions, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.240 to backs, tight ends, and white outs. He is really 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.440 really good this year. Throwing the ball against him. Per 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.000 Pro Football Focus, opposing teams are twenty of thirty one 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.880 for a buck, seventy five for a safety. To have 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.120 that kind of a number, thirty one pass attempts for 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.280 a hundred and seventy five yards. Gonna pull out the 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.400 calculator and do some live math for you guys right now. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.200 One sevent it's only five point six yards per past. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.240 That's really really good for a guy that plays back 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.319 in the post. What did I say two hundred and 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.080 thirty times this year? No? Uh yeah, three hundred sixty 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.160 one times in the post this year. He's got one 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.040 touchdown allowed and four picks he's a playmaker, man, and 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.679 twenty four run stops. He is. He's like defensive player 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.719 of the year good this year so far. Then you've 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.240 got Jimmy Ward, who uh is twenty eight and coverage 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.120 like every ball gets completed, two d forty yards, two 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.400 touchdowns on the pick, and he has five run stops. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.520 But wait, there's more. In fact, nobody on the Niners 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.360 defense has played more snaps than two Seawan Gibson, who 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.280 has long been a very good player in this league. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.840 So while who Fonga and Ward spent a lot of 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.960 time in the box, in the slot and the occasional 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.880 post rep, Gibson is in the post on four hundred 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.320 and seventies six of his six hundred and seventy five snaps, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.800 so like two thirds of the time, which obviously tells 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.320 you there are snaps elsewhere for him. I think this 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.520 is the best safety trio in the NFL, with Brandon 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.520 Jones being injured right now. They're versatile, they're instinctual, they're athletic, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.600 they they're playmakers. They're interchangeable, which expands their ability to 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.600 disguise coverage, which to A talked about in his Wednesday 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.120 press conference. Go check that out on the team YouTube channel. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.800 It's why this is my favorite matchup to date because 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.160 to A has been money this year getting his information 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.800 both pre and post snap, and the Niners are probably 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.240 the best at muddying all that up. It's good on 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.560 good Man Gibson ten for twenty in coverage. He's really good. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.160 Hundred and seventy six yards allowed, no touchdowns in one 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.280 pick five run stops, but he never comes down and 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.240 run support. Last bit of numbers here in the high 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.480 safety category almost dead even between two and single high 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.440 looks and two high three eleven and single. They have 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.040 twenty six snaps from zero coverage. This year. They are 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.800 first in points per game allowed, first and yards per 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.520 game allowed, yards per play, rushing yards per game allowed, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.160 and passing touchdowns. What a fun matchup. Let's go ahead 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.520 and take our first break and come back on the 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.280 other side and get to the rest of the Dolphins offense, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.720 First Niners defense. Plenty more to come your way. Another 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.360 long edition of the Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:52.440 brought to you by Auto Nation. A Thursday week number 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.520 thirteen upon us and a fun matchup for Dolphins fans 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.680 out there. I talked about it on the podcast last week. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.000 I love me some a f C East football ken 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.440 not wait to watch Bills and Patriots go. Pats, Come on, baby, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.800 let's go. Let's get that game advantage heading into the 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.720 game here. Let's go ahead and pick it back up 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.920 with the Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Niners 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.520 cornerbacks and kind of carrying this defensive evaluation into this category. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.880 The Niners play off coverage seventy three percent of the 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.320 time and press twenty seven percent of the time. We've 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.360 seen this all year long. Teams are pretty reluctant to 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.920 press the Dolphins receivers. They're pretty reluctant to play man 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.880 coverage against the Dolphins receivers. The Lions weren't. How did 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.720 that work out? You get a lot of zone turn 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.640 on the perimeter, which is eyes or butt to the sideline, 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.480 eyes to the quarterback, and it pairs perfectly with all 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.840 the athletic ability and intelligence in the middle at both 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.640 linebacker and safety. The way we talked about how this 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.200 Dolphins offense was built to compliment each piece. That's the 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.400 Niners defense to a t various wards. Cornerback one thirty 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.840 of fifty two are opposing passing teams throwing against him 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.200 for three seventy six, a touchdown and a pick. He 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.600 has no mistackles all year. What a crazy stat. His 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.920 relative athletics scorecard is interesting. I've never seen a cornerback 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.280 with a lower three cone time seven point five too. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.080 He's a four or four five guy, which is really good, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.600 but it's not close to your two four two guys 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.920 that you have. I don't think we'll see him pressed up, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.880 manned up or running deep. I think you'll see him 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.880 squat key and seek to jump and make plays. It's 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.520 where two is. High level proficiency has to come into 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.120 play on a snap by snap basis this week. And 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:28.800 then Lenore the other cornerback, Dion Dion Mandor Lenore, I 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.400 think is how you pronounce it. Thirty seven for forty 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.800 eight are opposing teams this year four D and thirty 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.280 and no touchdowns, are no picks. He's got a better 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.880 change of direction three cone times seven point oh two. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.840 He's also a four four or five forty guy, So 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.240 there's not a ton of speed outside for these two guys. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.600 Like it's better than you know bad, Like it's it's 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.920 probably like average, I would say, which makes one think 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.120 it could be a lot of shells up top, which 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.480 opens up the area we love to live in, that 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.960 intermediate deep range between the numbers and from there. I 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.320 think you really need to run the football l in 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.120 this game to help influence those linebackers because we haven't 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.439 seen a better ado this entire season, and I love 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.960 when this happens. And Seth and Juice on the postgame 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.280 show or on spaces last night, We'll tell you this 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.040 that I love bringing it up, but I love when 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.840 I have an idea, put it in the podcast, put 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.840 it into the notes, put it into my my script, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.760 and then like coach or TWA or somebody else confirms 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.920 it to it went through and like confirmed all this 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.880 stuff about Fred Warner's depth of his drop, how safeties 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.760 are playing off because the speed of the offense has 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.720 Go watch twos press conference, listen to this podcast. I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.960 wrote the notes before too, as pressor. It's fun to 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.600 kind of match up like that and just kind of 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.520 get some confirmation from people that are smarter than you. 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.399 Emmanuel Moseley is up next. But as we told you, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.160 with the safety's it's much more a big nickel team 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.159 where the third safety comes onto the field over a 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.439 third corner. He's played three and twelve snaps, no small number. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.520 You've got over three thousand snaps among these top six 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.919 d b s, which is a surprise for the way 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.479 they aligned from a personnel standpoint, because it's percent of 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.199 the time in a base four three and then the 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.959 rest of it is a nickel. So what is that? Uh? 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.119 They have three snaps the entire year in their dime defense. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.680 I thought would be more because of how many players 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.480 they use in that position, but they just basically it's 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.119 basically a platoon. I thought we'd get more dime, but 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.640 it's it's a platoon between Moseley and Ward when both 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.800 are healthy. Let's go ahead and finish up with Mosley's 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.480 numbers here in the slot A thirteen of twenty one, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.879 thirty five no touchdowns of one pick. Again, really good numbers. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.879 This is their primary slot corner. You know, six point 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.840 eight four three cone time with four or four two speed. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.159 That's more requisite of handling a Tyreek hill or a 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.720 Jalen waddle. So the fastest guy among the group there 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.879 as a manual Mosley from a straight line speed, but 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.360 also change the direction skill set. I'm curious to see 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.920 if he plays up in that slot and presses up 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.440 at all, because if you can get that one on 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.159 one situation like that for Tyreek or Jalen slot fade, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.479 let's go for against Alliance. Keep an eye on that 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.240 this week. This team as a whole has nine passing 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.119 touchdowns allowed and nine picks. It's by far the US 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.080 touchdown interception ratio for a defense in the NFL. It 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.520 will be so imperative for TWA and the receivers to 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.960 be as sharp as they've been for to uh, continue 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.119 to see things with tremendous anticipation, and then for the 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.320 wide receivers, be on your landmarks, have your footwork on point. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.640 Do not bobble footballs. These guys will jump routes, they'll 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.240 peel off and fall into zones that they're not supposed 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.320 to be in. They'll lay the wood, and they'll scoop 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.040 up tips and overthrows. You just can't have that this 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.280 week if you want to win the turnover battle and 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.600 ultimately the game. Again, fascinating matchup for how they want 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.080 to play it. Given their zone propensity and how teams 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.080 have really shown Miami not a ton of man coverage, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.480 and when they have it's been costly. You have to 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.719 imagine it's more of the same. So those points of 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.960 being sharp re emphasized here. I was curious to see 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.880 how teams had success attacking them, like the weeks seven 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.879 game against Kansas City where they scored forty four points. 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.240