Speaker 1: To remove Dallan Deep speedless, peace, do hell Peas. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my havnds in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 3: just previewing the biggest game of the entire season.
Speaker 2: No big deal.
Speaker 3: We'll take a look at the critical matchups and everything
Speaker 3: you need to know ahead of Dolphins and Texans on Sunday.
Speaker 3: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Maggie Duff.
Speaker 3: Week fifteen at the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium, one
Speaker 3: o'clock kickoff ONBS Gonna be played indoors. They keep the
Speaker 3: roof closed this time of year at NRG. I was
Speaker 3: interested in this. I went and looked it up. TUA
Speaker 3: is five and one all time in domes and one
Speaker 3: and one and retractable roof stadiums.
Speaker 2: Can you can't? Can you know these games? Can you
Speaker 2: name these games?
Speaker 3: I had to cheat, but only because I didn't know
Speaker 3: what Las Vegass roof was comprised of retractable or an
Speaker 3: actual roof. It is the latter. It's a dome that
Speaker 3: does not open up. But I went backward and man,
Speaker 3: we play we play so few games indoors. Are you
Speaker 3: guys like aware of this? Our division, the entire AFC
Speaker 3: North being outdoor stadiums, you have two retractable roofs in
Speaker 3: the South and two indoor facilities in the West. But
Speaker 3: in the NFC you've got seven indoor or retractable, so
Speaker 3: it's a four to seven split. So I guess that
Speaker 3: pretty much tracks as to why we don't play that
Speaker 3: many games indoors. Anyway, the games we have played indoors
Speaker 3: under Tua was the Rams earlier this year, the Chargers
Speaker 3: last year. So so far has been a nice play
Speaker 3: for us to play the Lions back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: which was right before they began this run as the
Speaker 3: best team in football. As far as the record goes
Speaker 3: over the last two and a half seasons, the Saints
Speaker 3: in twenty one that Ian book game that was ugly,
Speaker 3: and the Raiders back in twenty twenty which Tua got
Speaker 3: benched for Ryan Fitzpatrick in and the lone loss is
Speaker 3: the game in twenty twenty two at the Chargers retractable
Speaker 3: roof games twenty twenty against the Cardinals to hiss rookie season,
Speaker 3: the famous Cardinals game, and this one's harder. It was
Speaker 3: the loss in Frankfurt last year. Technically that is a
Speaker 3: retractable roof in Germany over there, so interesting facts there.
Speaker 3: I think this bodes well for the Dolphins offense ability
Speaker 3: to hit their explosive plays and play sharp and play
Speaker 3: their best game because footing will be good on artificial turf.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead, meet the team, this gun try to
Speaker 3: stop this Dolphins offense and team in general.
Speaker 2: In the Houston Texans.
Speaker 3: We have not played the Houston since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: and we haven't been in Houston since twenty eighteen?
Speaker 2: Can you believe that? And who boy?
Speaker 3: They are the prime example of how quickly things can
Speaker 3: change in this league. You might remember just two years ago, hell,
Speaker 3: even this time last year, before they got hot, they
Speaker 3: were still kind of this upstart, young team that was
Speaker 3: kind of fun to watch under Demico Ryans three years
Speaker 3: three head coaches, starting back in twenty twenty when they
Speaker 3: dismissed Bill O'Brien and somehow finished with four wins despite
Speaker 3: having good version of Deshaun Watson back then, which helped
Speaker 3: us get the third pick in the draft and would
Speaker 3: turn into another number one pick and Jelen Waddle pretty
Speaker 3: good there. Then they go David Coley for a year,
Speaker 3: who was a sacrificial lamb who won four games for
Speaker 3: a team that was supposed to win zero games, and
Speaker 3: they still fired him. They had a couple of years
Speaker 3: there after they depleted their draft cupboards where they signed
Speaker 3: like thirty free agents and like twenty five of those
Speaker 3: deals were one year contracts. It was one of the
Speaker 3: weirder teams in terms of construction that was hurting for talent,
Speaker 3: but wasn't a young team at the exact same time
Speaker 3: that I can ever remember. Very strange dichotomy. They had
Speaker 3: like a team chaplain who was like making personnel decisions.
Speaker 2: I guess Jesus take the wheel.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That continues into the Lovey Smith year where he goes
Speaker 3: three thirteen and one, and you might remember his big
Speaker 3: middle finger to the entire organization where everybody knew he
Speaker 3: was getting fired, and he winds up pulling out a
Speaker 3: victory from the jaws of defeat in Week eighteen that
Speaker 3: gave the Panthers the first pick, and actually Lovey did
Speaker 3: them a favor, although I think that the Panthers were
Speaker 3: the only team in the league that was going to
Speaker 3: take Bryce Young theer one overall, but it wound up
Speaker 3: getting in the better quarterback in the class that year
Speaker 3: with CJ. Stroud, And that is where things end or change,
Speaker 3: I should say, when you get one of the best
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback performances this league has ever seen. So they
Speaker 3: bring in Damiko Ryans, who this offseason rounds out his
Speaker 3: defense to fit what he's looking for. So in the
Speaker 3: matter of three years, they go from one of the
Speaker 3: most talent poor franchises to a team that has a
Speaker 3: star quarterback Stefan Diggs, although he's down, Nico Collins, Tank
Speaker 3: Dell Dalton Schultz, Joe Mixon, Laramie Tunsel. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: put Tye Howard in there. He's a decent player. Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 3: will Anderson, Deniko Loxrey, Derek Stingley, Jalen Peatrie, Jimmy Ward.
Speaker 3: They are a very talented football team, a popular dark
Speaker 3: horse Super Bowl pick this offseason, and they come out
Speaker 3: of the gates on fire. With this five and one
Speaker 3: start and kind of validate what everyone said about this
Speaker 3: football team, but have really really struggled in the seven
Speaker 3: games since then, three and four. They have losses to
Speaker 3: the Jets and Titans. In there, those wins are against
Speaker 3: the Jags and the Cowboys, and I'm forgetting one more.
Speaker 3: They beat Jacksonville twenty three to twenty before their bye week,
Speaker 3: and quite frankly, I think the bye week came at
Speaker 3: the perfect time for them. But we'll see if it
Speaker 3: helps them get things corrected or if they come out
Speaker 3: of the bi week a little bit rusty. We've seen
Speaker 3: that happen to this Dolphins team a couple of times,
Speaker 3: so hopefully that's the case for Houston this week. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we force them into that and just you know, make
Speaker 3: them go back to the drawing board. And man, they
Speaker 3: have to be locked in on this game because if
Speaker 3: they don't win this one, they go to Kansas City
Speaker 3: next week on a Saturday for a short week game.
Speaker 3: Then they have an even shorter week playing on Christmas.
Speaker 2: Just what is that?
Speaker 3: Four days later, So they have a six day week
Speaker 3: and then a four day week and it's against the
Speaker 3: Ravens on Christmas. It is entirely conceivable that if we
Speaker 3: can go in there and get this win, they could
Speaker 3: be looking at falling to eight and eight heading into
Speaker 3: their finale against the Titans. And if the Colts can
Speaker 3: beat Denver, Tennessee and the Giants, the Texans would have
Speaker 3: to win that game against the Titans and get help
Speaker 3: for the Jags to beat the Colts on the season
Speaker 3: finale to win the division. So to say, this is
Speaker 3: a big game for both teams, it's a must win
Speaker 3: for both teams.
Speaker 2: I think if Houston loses this game, I.
Speaker 3: Don't really trust the Colts, but I think there's a
Speaker 3: I'm not going to predict it, but there's a real
Speaker 3: possibility they lose the division if they do not beat
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
Speaker 2: You also know about the similarities.
Speaker 3: Bobby Slowack was a coach on or with McDaniel and
Speaker 3: San Francisco as well as in Washington. Similar offensive systems.
Speaker 3: Of course, to MeeGo Ryans brings a defense that Mike
Speaker 3: knows all too well from their time together in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Matt Burke is the defensive coordinator. Connections are a plenty.
Speaker 3: Let's break down this massive, massive, massive, game in the AFC.
Speaker 3: The Texans offense their schemes. So if you thought we
Speaker 3: threw the ball to the middle of the field a lot,
Speaker 3: just wait until you watch this Texans attack. Forty eight
Speaker 3: percent of their throws go between the numbers. Well, actually
Speaker 3: it's the exact same number as us, but our numbers,
Speaker 3: I think are a little bit skewed to account for
Speaker 3: the frequency of the screen game we run this year,
Speaker 3: which has replaced our poor running game. But the Texans
Speaker 3: numbers to the intermedia and deep portion are much higher
Speaker 3: than ours. And that's kind of what I'm getting at here.
Speaker 3: They start things with outside zone. You know that here
Speaker 3: they haven't really employed a curveball to that it's a
Speaker 3: three to one zone to man split. Ours is a
Speaker 3: little bit less than two to one. And they run
Speaker 3: the ball off tackle or wider on forty five percent
Speaker 3: of their runs, and they just quite frankly, can't really
Speaker 3: do it this year. I mean, you couldn't be more
Speaker 3: familiar with this Texans scheme. They want to fire off
Speaker 3: the football, create indecision with your eyes and your pre
Speaker 3: snap motion and activity. But I think that teams have
Speaker 3: been able to kind of stop this because they don't
Speaker 3: respect their run game, especially with the one on one
Speaker 3: struggles they've had inside. And I mean what I just
Speaker 3: told you is kind of true of the Dolphins as well,
Speaker 3: which I think should create even more appreciation for the
Speaker 3: way two was playing right now. That's down the road
Speaker 3: in this podcast though. They're not playing connected up front,
Speaker 3: and it produces a lot of runs for nothing or
Speaker 3: losses for that matter. You can backdoor them, you can
Speaker 3: get them off their spot, you can impact their ability
Speaker 3: to catch and climb with big, powerful players, which what
Speaker 3: does Miami have inside but exactly that, and then off
Speaker 3: that they want to run play pass, they want to
Speaker 3: hit inbreakers against your displaced middle of the field defenders.
Speaker 3: Based upon that play action game, I think a lot
Speaker 3: of the time, timing and rhythm being thrown off has
Speaker 3: really been the monkey wrench for this offense, if you will,
Speaker 3: for them. Because of Stroud's nine interceptions, seven of them
Speaker 3: have come in the middle of the field, and if
Speaker 3: we can just get one or two of those this week,
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna win this football game. Personnel groupings,
Speaker 3: they run eleven personnel sixty two percent of the time,
Speaker 3: twelve personnel thirty four percent of the time, which is
Speaker 3: the third highest rate in the National Football League, and
Speaker 3: they will go to three tight end sets here and
Speaker 3: there three percent of the time.
Speaker 2: How do you attack it? How do I say this correctly?
Speaker 3: Like all summer, you know, the concern among our fan
Speaker 3: base was the offensive line. And I saw one of
Speaker 3: the trolls on Twitter that hates everything that we do
Speaker 3: say like, oh, all you have to do is give
Speaker 3: to a two top ten receivers, a top ten running back,
Speaker 3: and a top five offensive line, Like really, dude, now
Speaker 3: the offensive line's top five. Cool man, But if you think,
Speaker 3: I think, if you look at the Texans season and
Speaker 3: how that's transpired, what has happened there was the fear
Speaker 3: that all the Dolphins fans have they had the Texans
Speaker 3: have not been able to run the football and they
Speaker 3: cannot protect CJ. Stroud, and that offense has regressed in
Speaker 3: a major way, despite I think Stroud playing pretty much
Speaker 3: the same level of football that he did last year.
Speaker 3: I think the way to attack this version of this
Speaker 3: offshoot of the Shanahan system is to do everything you
Speaker 3: can to disrupt the edges. Do not let those tackles
Speaker 3: get out in space, don't let the tight ends win.
Speaker 3: You have to win those matchups frequently, and I think
Speaker 3: you could sacrifice a a little bit inside in order
Speaker 3: to accomplish that. Like we've seen Ramsey, we've seen Holland,
Speaker 3: and even if you want to call on more base
Speaker 3: for you know, Anthony Walker or Tyrell Dodson could be
Speaker 3: a big spot for those guys. I think you have
Speaker 3: to find a way to really set the temple on
Speaker 3: the edge and then also be able to flood the
Speaker 3: intermediate middle part of the field and trust that Seiler
Speaker 3: and Campbell can win a bunch of inside rushes or
Speaker 3: run game reps in terms of playing double teams, beating
Speaker 3: one on one matchups and making the tackles on those plays,
Speaker 3: so that Brooks and Walker can really focus on their
Speaker 3: width and depth against both run and against coverage. And
Speaker 3: that means you absolutely need a big game from Emmanuel Ogba.
Speaker 3: Hopefully Bradley Chubb can can go. I would love to
Speaker 3: have tyas Bowser for this game, but we do not,
Speaker 3: so Chop, you're gonna have to step up the run
Speaker 3: defense as well. Of course, when Campbell kicks outside, maybe
Speaker 3: you get Mo Kamara, Maybe you'll get Cameron goodback here. Shoot,
Speaker 3: maybe even move Seiler and Campbell both into some more
Speaker 3: five tech roles to achieve that.
Speaker 2: So you know what it looks like.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and talk about the big three verse
Speaker 3: the Texans offense. You have to shut down the run
Speaker 3: and you have to do it from light boxes, because
Speaker 3: I want to be more concerned about Nico Collins and
Speaker 3: Tank Dell and John Metchi. Speaking of playing with light boxes,
Speaker 3: did you know that we are the number one team
Speaker 3: stopping the run in the NFL from light boxes? That
Speaker 3: means less than seven to man box counts, So five
Speaker 3: defensive backs out of the equation six or fewer men
Speaker 3: in the box. Nobody gives up fewer rushing yards on
Speaker 3: those looks per play then we do. And that is
Speaker 3: very much to me. A Zach Sealer, A Jordan Brooks,
Speaker 3: and a Kalais Campbell's stat Did you know that CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud has five hundred and four dropbacks this year and
Speaker 3: one hundred and four of those have come on third
Speaker 3: or fourth down and long, which is seven plus yards. Spoiler,
Speaker 3: we'll have another key attached to this, but this is
Speaker 3: the result you strive for with your run game. If
Speaker 3: you can make ten of Stroud's forty ish dropbacks in
Speaker 3: this game, or eight of the thirty five, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it. If you can make them in
Speaker 3: these situations, I love our chances to make some stops
Speaker 3: and even more importantly, create some splash plays. Man, we
Speaker 3: need to get back to taking the football away. It
Speaker 3: feels like the last couple of years we have not
Speaker 3: gotten anything by way of takeaways. We need more of that.
Speaker 3: Please let's continue that in our second portion. But back
Speaker 3: to the main thing here. And as we said in
Speaker 3: our how do you attack it category, I think about bigger,
Speaker 3: heavier edges like Ogball, Kamara, Seeler, Campbell.
Speaker 2: You look at their deployment.
Speaker 3: They want to involve their tight ends as attachments in
Speaker 3: the outside running game, and I just think if we
Speaker 3: can prevent them from stretching it out there, it creates
Speaker 3: a world of issues for their offense. And Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: is not like a super elusive shifty back who can
Speaker 3: find those cutback lanes. He kind of wants to get
Speaker 3: his head of steam rolling and make quick decisions from
Speaker 3: there where he can sort of, you know, make one
Speaker 3: cut and go, And I think that reduces the effectiveness
Speaker 3: of their play pass game as well. It cuts off
Speaker 3: their bootleg opportunities, which CJ. Stroud is very adept at doing,
Speaker 3: and it makes the jobs of Brooks and Walker and
Speaker 3: the safeties much much easier. If you can stop Joe
Speaker 3: Mixon's feet on those stretch plays, I think you can
Speaker 3: to shed blocks and give them serious issues and stack
Speaker 3: up a lot of TFLs and runs for no gains.
Speaker 3: But Itto Jones is playing, in my opinion, the best
Speaker 3: football of his career. Deshan hand gives you a handful
Speaker 3: of really good reps every single week in the rotational role,
Speaker 3: and perhaps their gradual growth allows you to be more
Speaker 3: flexible with both Campbell and Stealer. And this probably changes
Speaker 3: if we get Bradley Chubb back as well as Cam Good,
Speaker 3: and hopefully that would mean you could reduce some of
Speaker 3: those snap counts outside for those guys and get Neil Farrell,
Speaker 3: for instance, back to playing zero snaps, but especially chub Man.
Speaker 3: What a great week it would be to get the
Speaker 3: best edgesetter on the entire football team back in this
Speaker 3: game against the Houston Texans. Not to mention next week
Speaker 3: against the Niners, because it's gonna be the exact same thing,
Speaker 3: and against the Browns in two weeks as well, so
Speaker 3: hey beatchup. Good three games to come back for here,
Speaker 3: Big Doug. All these stats go together for the Texans.
Speaker 3: They have the most negative runs in football and a
Speaker 3: run game that has a success rate ranking thirty first
Speaker 3: the National Football League, which leads to Stroud being the
Speaker 3: most pressured quarterback in the NFL. Let's cover that Texas
Speaker 3: offensive line. Our second big thing, Number two, is to
Speaker 3: create and punish third and long situations. Opposing defenses have
Speaker 3: blitzed the Texans fewer times this year than what they
Speaker 3: did last year, and already have more hurries and unblocked
Speaker 3: pressures than they did a season ago, and there are
Speaker 3: four games left to go. I think there's been a
Speaker 3: few issues here. They haven't run it well and that
Speaker 3: always makes life tough on a passing game. They aren't
Speaker 3: scheming up those room service throws for Stroud, and he's
Speaker 3: had to really parse through some slow developing route concepts,
Speaker 3: and their spacing hasn't been very good. And speaking of
Speaker 3: life coming at you fast in the NFL, go look
Speaker 3: at the commentary among Texans fans on Bobby Slowick, and
Speaker 3: I will I don't like listening to fan commentary on
Speaker 3: offensive coordinators and play calls, because if you can't draw
Speaker 3: a run fit, then you probably shouldn't be talking about
Speaker 3: play calls, right, But the discourse has changed. Last year,
Speaker 3: he was a head coaching candidate. This year folks want
Speaker 3: him fired. And all of those things combined are a
Speaker 3: terrible combination with the third issue, which is their pass protection.
Speaker 3: Per ESPN Pass block data, the Texans have a blown
Speaker 3: block or a loud pressure on thirty percent of their dropbacks.
Speaker 3: It's the most in the NFL. The Patriots are second
Speaker 3: from last and they're at twenty five percent. And we
Speaker 3: saw how Miami did against that offensive line. If you
Speaker 3: can replicate that pass rush in this game, you're gonna
Speaker 3: run away with this game and reset some serious narratives
Speaker 3: about the Dolphins. On Sunday, I think about where those
Speaker 3: struggles come from. We've seen Chop really spearhead the pass
Speaker 3: rush these last five or six weeks. We will run
Speaker 3: sim pressures off the overload side and invite these doubles
Speaker 3: and slides for isolation on Chop, like he's having that
Speaker 3: big of an impact as a rookie, but in this game,
Speaker 3: he's gonna get Titus Howard for most of the game,
Speaker 3: and that's Houston's I mean, I guess it's their second
Speaker 3: best pass protector, but.
Speaker 2: They've only got one good one.
Speaker 3: Larrymy Tunzel is kind of unbeatable, but he's the only
Speaker 3: guy that can do it out there, and he will
Speaker 3: draw some flags here there, So hopefully tuns Wi comits
Speaker 3: a couple of penalties against us and gives us that win,
Speaker 3: but he's gonna beat most guys that he faces. I
Speaker 3: would honestly just throw Augby out there and kind of like, hey,
Speaker 3: go occupy Touns. I'll make sure he's got you to
Speaker 3: deal with. Now with Howard on Chop, I pulled up
Speaker 3: his tape and he does some a really good job
Speaker 3: of shortening the runway the way I talk about Tron
Speaker 3: Armstead on speed rushers, but he also like really exposes
Speaker 3: his inside gate. And Chopp has shown the ability to
Speaker 3: win with speed, to convert that speed to power, and
Speaker 3: to crash inside, especially on pass rush games. I think
Speaker 3: you can get a little creative here. If you guys
Speaker 3: saw the Chop breakdown on HQ or on YouTube wherever
Speaker 3: the hell exists in our content, or rather, I think
Speaker 3: I think it comes out tonight. Actually I showed a
Speaker 3: lot of the plays where they overload the offenses left,
Speaker 3: you know, the side that he's not on, and let
Speaker 3: Chop go one on one off the offenses right, and
Speaker 3: then they squeezed, you know, every rusher besides Chop and
Speaker 3: he gets himself a one on one situation with a
Speaker 3: two way go where he has that B gap and
Speaker 3: the C gap to work with as a pass rusher.
Speaker 3: And there's often a very large lane in that B gap,
Speaker 3: especially with how they have to contend with Chop speed
Speaker 3: around the edge, because he can he can stretch that
Speaker 3: edge and then angle back and be effective opposed to
Speaker 3: some rushers who just go past the quarterback and can't
Speaker 3: angle back, and that makes that tackle set deeper, and
Speaker 3: it creates a bigger B gap for someone like Zach Seeler,
Speaker 3: who I would say is the best slanter among defensive
Speaker 3: tackles in the NFL, with how he could cross face
Speaker 3: from like a one technique position, cross face into that
Speaker 3: guard and then he kind of hooks them there and
Speaker 3: just plays right through them with his engagement of power
Speaker 3: and just you basically walk them back into the quarterback. Now,
Speaker 3: this does open up some vulnerabilities to the quarterback run
Speaker 3: if you do that. But guess what, that ain't CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud's game. I think we have the athletes to come
Speaker 3: from depth to stomp it out, whether it's Jordan Brooks
Speaker 3: or Javon Holland, so kind of some keys within the
Speaker 3: keys create one on ones. For Zach Seeler as a
Speaker 3: pass rusher, chop really helps you do this, and you're
Speaker 3: sim pressure like simp pressure the crap out of him.
Speaker 3: With defensive linemans falling back into the hook zone. That
Speaker 3: has caused a lot of confusion on their mesh and
Speaker 3: crossing concepts to get their man beater looks and just
Speaker 3: around out the offensive line here with their pass block efficiencies.
Speaker 3: Tunsel is elite ninety eight point five. I think they'll
Speaker 3: go with Juice Scruggs, who has a ninety seven point three,
Speaker 3: and Kenyan Green could be the guy back in that
Speaker 3: position is he's active for his twenty one day window,
Speaker 3: but he has a ninety one point seven pbe so
Speaker 3: beat the crap out of the left guard whoever it is.
Speaker 3: Jarrett Patterson ninety eight point five, but he's not a
Speaker 3: really good pass protector inside shack Mason's long in the
Speaker 3: tooth ninety six point one at right guards a very
Speaker 3: low number, and then Titus Howard ninety six point five.
Speaker 3: We have to win this part of the matchup. Chopp
Speaker 3: has to take Titus Howard to school, and Zach Seler
Speaker 3: has to win his one on ones against inferior pass blockers.
Speaker 3: If we can dominate like I think we can against
Speaker 3: those guys, we will win this game. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and take our first break right there. Come back on
Speaker 3: the other side do the third big thing against the
Speaker 3: Texans defense. We'll also talk about the offense, the range
Speaker 3: of outcomes, prediction, and much much more. Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 3: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 3: These big games tend to cause more study and more
Speaker 3: notes from me because I try to find how the
Speaker 3: Dolphins can find victory, and every damn time I wind
Speaker 3: up disappointed. Hopefully this time it's different because, as I
Speaker 3: mentioned on the podcast yesterday, oh by the way, by
Speaker 3: the way, quick cutoff, because I just forgot about it.
Speaker 3: I picked the Rams to beat the Niners tonight on
Speaker 3: Thursday night football, Rams over Niners, and yeah, to my
Speaker 3: point that I cut myself off on. If you win
Speaker 3: this game, you then get the rest of the Sunday
Speaker 3: slate to have games that matter for the Dolphins. You
Speaker 3: get a big Thursday game that matters for the Dolphins,
Speaker 3: you get two Saturday games, and you get another one
Speaker 3: o'clock slate with games that matter before you play the
Speaker 3: nine Ers at four twenty five on Week sixteen. So
Speaker 3: please win this game for the sake of the next
Speaker 3: week of football to be a lot of fun and
Speaker 3: just to keep us going right. Thing Number three to
Speaker 3: beat this Texans team is to spam the intermediate middle
Speaker 3: and the curl flat.
Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 3: Between the numbers in the ten to nineteen yard range
Speaker 3: and the curl flat zone which is about ten yards
Speaker 3: downfield outside of the numbers. Those are the areas we
Speaker 3: have to really concern ourselves with against Houston offense. Run
Speaker 3: the ball to the wide, to the perimeter, to those
Speaker 3: curl flat areas, and then throw the ball in the
Speaker 3: intermediate part of the field that has been displaced because
Speaker 3: of the linebackers stretching their way to get after the run.
Speaker 2: Game Downhill.
Speaker 3: Stroud rips the middle of the field as much as
Speaker 3: anybody in the NFL, but there has been more mistakes
Speaker 3: this year than there were last year. I mentioned these
Speaker 3: seven interceptions of his nine coming in the middle of
Speaker 3: the field, and they're mostly misfires where he just flat
Speaker 3: out misses his guy. Can we get like one of those?
Speaker 3: Can we get a quarterback that just misses his target
Speaker 3: and we get a room service pick? Can we get
Speaker 3: a pick like we had or the opportunities we had
Speaker 3: against the Jets where both Braylan Allen and Jeremy Ruckert
Speaker 3: basically bump the volleyball to know Kendall Fuller's direction and
Speaker 3: we can't make a play on the football. Can we
Speaker 3: just get one of those in one of these games
Speaker 3: and like steal a possession and the steal seven points
Speaker 3: Like that would be cool. Remember the Packers stole seven
Speaker 3: points from us on the muff punt, Like, can we
Speaker 3: get that just one time?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but pressuring this guy long down in
Speaker 3: distance make him uncomfortable. If we can do that and
Speaker 3: get a takeaway or two, I think that's all our
Speaker 3: offense would need to get the best of this matchup.
Speaker 3: So all of these kind of you know, playoff of
Speaker 3: one another, play the run with light boxes, get them
Speaker 3: behind the sticks, try to confuse Stroud as much as
Speaker 3: you possibly can into a double clutch. Then we get
Speaker 3: forty four off the edge, ninety two inside and those
Speaker 3: one on one chances in the past rush game while
Speaker 3: you flood the middle of the field with your backers
Speaker 3: and your safeties and possibly Jalen Ramsey. And the reason
Speaker 3: I put Ramsey in there, I don't think.
Speaker 2: That we will be the shadow idea.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe we put that in the trash bind for
Speaker 3: a while, because you know, I add Ramsey in there
Speaker 3: because quite frankly, I don't have a lean on how
Speaker 3: you should call it. I think some of those wide
Speaker 3: open receivers last week were because of the way you
Speaker 3: shadowed on Garrett Wilson and it caused confusion elsewhere, which
Speaker 3: those guys got it up their game as well. Cater Kohoo,
Speaker 3: Javon Holland. I'm a little more inclined to have Ramsey
Speaker 3: playing a lot more inside, to have him impact the
Speaker 3: run and the rush game, because he can do that
Speaker 3: as well as cover. You can blitz him more, but
Speaker 3: also just be present in those positions to take away
Speaker 3: their bread and butter. Like maybe some Charles Woodson type
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: This week. I don't know. I trust Weed to cook
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 3: I think Ramsey does match up better on Collins than
Speaker 3: he did on Wilson because Collins's game was a little
Speaker 3: bit more physical than shifty, and Ramsey is probably the
Speaker 3: most physical cornerback in the league who kind of got
Speaker 3: burnt on Wilson's shifting us a few times. Tank Dell
Speaker 3: hasn't been as effective, but he is their deep threat
Speaker 3: and he's had games that he's gone off in, so
Speaker 3: I think you can always look for ways to sort
Speaker 3: of bracket or funnel him, and hopefully your pressure can
Speaker 3: help negate his ability as well, because of how much
Speaker 3: you can force Stroud to not be able to step
Speaker 3: up into one hitch opportunities to take his shots down
Speaker 3: the field. We just have to do that and we
Speaker 3: have to be better on backs and tight ends this
Speaker 3: week in coverage Schultzen Mixon, they can make you pay
Speaker 3: in that regard. They're better than the Jets guys were,
Speaker 3: and those guys beat us pretty good. So to me,
Speaker 3: it's a huge game for Ramsey, for Holland, for Brooks,
Speaker 3: for Sealer, for Campbell, and for Chop. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: kind of all the you know Kendall Fuller as well.
Speaker 3: Kind of the good players in the defense right now,
Speaker 3: Can we just get enough from the other guys and
Speaker 3: give these players opportunities to go change the game defensively parts.
Speaker 3: I just want to mention John Metchi, an electric player,
Speaker 3: and he desires to be talked about here, even though
Speaker 3: his numbers are pretty much non existent this year. I
Speaker 3: just want to mention him because he is a good
Speaker 3: football player, and without Stefan Diggs, you'd think they go
Speaker 3: to him more often, but they have not done that
Speaker 3: so far. Let's pivot here, quick pivot way. There is
Speaker 3: more talking about this Texans defense against Tua Tongueo vay
Speaker 3: Lowa and the Dolphins offense. Remember what we said about
Speaker 3: the Jets. It's similar in a sense. I think the
Speaker 3: Jets adjusted what they did against us, and probably do
Speaker 3: in large part to not having Sauce in that game.
Speaker 3: But up front you can almost replicate it here. One gap,
Speaker 3: get upfield, try and backdoor those stretch and outside zone runs.
Speaker 3: Go with blitzes and the sim pressures and critical and
Speaker 3: obvious passing downs. Now where it's different is in the coverage.
Speaker 3: The Texans do not play two man zero percent this
Speaker 3: year two man coverage. Now, will they go to it
Speaker 3: and surprise us? Maybe they had the byeway to install
Speaker 3: that and they could do that. You can never count
Speaker 3: it out, but I would be surprised if they do.
Speaker 3: They live in nickel eighty six percent. They run their
Speaker 3: base about seven percent and dime about six percent, so
Speaker 3: it's basically a nickel defense and they run a lot
Speaker 3: of big nickel. Four of their top six snap takers
Speaker 3: on defense are safeties. Their calling card is quarters coverage.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Four high?
Speaker 3: You know, four defenders take a deep quarter of the field.
Speaker 3: They run that at the third highest rate in the league,
Speaker 3: and they can do some match from there. So it's
Speaker 3: like show quarters and play man. So it's tricky to decipher,
Speaker 3: but again, our quarterback is good at that. They also
Speaker 3: love to mix in Cover three, which is of course
Speaker 3: a defender in each deep third of the field. They
Speaker 3: have some Cover six, which is a deep quarter, a
Speaker 3: deep third and a deep third, so all ways to
Speaker 3: keep the roof on top of the defense. They can
Speaker 3: change the complexion of how it looks and how they
Speaker 3: present it on a given play. But that's kind of
Speaker 3: where their coverage gets its wins because they're personnel back there.
Speaker 3: It's not great, and it's a lot harder against the
Speaker 3: quarterback who sees things like Tuas. So they want to
Speaker 3: confuse you with their coverage and then beat you with
Speaker 3: their pass rush. It's going to be incumbent upon TUA
Speaker 3: to decipher things very quickly. And who's doing that better
Speaker 3: than NFL right now than Tuas. So I like our
Speaker 3: chances in a controlled environment with our very loaded skill
Speaker 3: group against a team that wants to beat you with disguise.
Speaker 3: This is the guy you want to have for a
Speaker 3: game like this. They're twenty three percent usage of man free.
Speaker 3: We saw Miami carve the Patriots man coverage up right,
Speaker 3: same with the Jets, and when they got some more
Speaker 3: looks against the Packers in that way, they went after
Speaker 3: that in the same same type of approach. I think
Speaker 3: if they do play man free, they probably attach blitzes
Speaker 3: to it, and so maybe you can try some of
Speaker 3: those one hitch deep shots where you get your one
Speaker 3: on one opportunities. But if they don't come, just beat
Speaker 3: patient and attack these short intermediate areas. I am curious
Speaker 3: to see if they do run more of the short
Speaker 3: stuff for wreak and waddle. It was effective in that
Speaker 3: game on Sunday, and maybe you give them more to
Speaker 3: think about with that and basically say, hey, you can
Speaker 3: play your three high safeties and your quarters coverage, but
Speaker 3: we're it's gonna run these guys underneath and try to
Speaker 3: force you out of that.
Speaker 2: How do you attack it?
Speaker 3: Well, you do have to stretch that shell, but you
Speaker 3: have to have intermediate answers too. I think the key
Speaker 3: to how this defense runs is kind of what Aziz
Speaker 3: al Shayer does for them in terms of how he
Speaker 3: can get deep into the hook but also play downhill
Speaker 3: and play the width of the field with sheer physicality.
Speaker 3: He's a tone setter guy that kind of he's kind
Speaker 3: of bamf right, bad a m effort.
Speaker 2: I think it's a clean podcast.
Speaker 3: I think they'll have a lot tougher time defending the
Speaker 3: middle of the field without him, as well as playing
Speaker 3: the run with lighter boxes. We heard Tamiko Ryans call
Speaker 3: him the heart and soul of their defense. Maybe he's
Speaker 3: just trying to rally the other guys, but that seems
Speaker 3: like a big loss to me. So in those looks,
Speaker 3: I think it's paramount to win with the other guys, right,
Speaker 3: guys not named Reek and Waddle. Now, I think we
Speaker 3: did a good job of getting those guys underneath routes
Speaker 3: on Sunday, But I fully believe either guy could have
Speaker 3: a big game with out a ton of targets just
Speaker 3: by how they lift the coverage, like go be a
Speaker 3: decoy if you have to go block off the edge.
Speaker 3: For us, the key is going to be keeping the
Speaker 3: menu open and not let those pass rushers id their
Speaker 3: one on one matchups and play super convicted. You have
Speaker 3: to give them eye candy and keep their discipline and check.
Speaker 3: The number one thing I look for against this Houston
Speaker 3: defense is to neutralize Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson. Much
Speaker 3: easier said than done, and my rally cry for just
Speaker 3: about three years now has been that there is no
Speaker 3: scheme in quarterback that mitigates good pass rushers like this one.
Speaker 3: We've played games against Max Crosby, against Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 3: games against Mac and Bosa and never really let any
Speaker 3: of those guys wreck games. We have the best quick
Speaker 3: game in the NFL, for my money, one of the
Speaker 3: game's best ball handlers in the quarterback. In the run
Speaker 3: and screen game, and does a great job of making
Speaker 3: run and play pass look all the same. And we
Speaker 3: typically cook up our shots with max protect that can
Speaker 3: make the quarterback really trust his protection. Sunday will be
Speaker 3: the biggest test in that regard.
Speaker 2: This season.
Speaker 3: We have to take Hunter and Anderson out of the
Speaker 3: game some way. Screen them to death, run rap, run
Speaker 3: return rap, take fake rap like run it at them,
Speaker 3: throw it behind them, throw those glances behind them if
Speaker 3: we get in third and lungs. And this kind of
Speaker 3: goes against every fiber of my football being to say this,
Speaker 3: but you might just be best uted to play field position.
Speaker 3: I'm talking third and twelve screens and runs. And you
Speaker 3: heard DJ Banamy talk about it on the show yesterday.
Speaker 3: Tua was probably gonna get sacked a couple times in
Speaker 3: this game. Let's not let those sacks flip the field
Speaker 3: or you know, produce turnovers and end the game. I
Speaker 3: thought Lamb and Paul were really good on Sunday, but
Speaker 3: this is a whole different test for these guys. Lamb
Speaker 3: I think can do enough to win his one on
Speaker 3: one matchup when he gets them. And while I think
Speaker 3: Pat's good reps are as good as they come, he
Speaker 3: still is a rookie learning the game who can kind
Speaker 3: of click his feet together sometimes and not get his
Speaker 3: weight transfer sorted. I think that that's something that guys
Speaker 3: are going to try to take advantage of and overset
Speaker 3: him and cross face where they burst out of the gate,
Speaker 3: get him to take a vertical set cross face and
Speaker 3: beat him back inside and he either grabs on hold
Speaker 3: or just misses all together. He has to know that
Speaker 3: they've seen that on tape and they're going to attack it,
Speaker 3: And then Tua also has to be aware of that
Speaker 3: and understand the escape routes he has off of that,
Speaker 3: they could overload that and blitze it and cause that issue.
Speaker 3: So he scrambles into the blitzer. But I think he's
Speaker 3: capable of getting out of some of this pressure himself
Speaker 3: and extending himself. And you can't really forecast this, but
Speaker 3: you just kind of hope the way Hunter gets his
Speaker 3: wins over there that maybe you don't get the additional
Speaker 3: interior win at the same time, Like this is just
Speaker 3: like total by chance, but maybe Hunter's wins come when
Speaker 3: Deniko Autry gets blocked up on the inside, you know,
Speaker 3: and Tua has such a good feel for pressure to
Speaker 3: get away from one win, but if it's multiple wins,
Speaker 3: that's obviously very difficult to overcome. I trust two us
Speaker 3: pre snap. He's one of the best in the game.
Speaker 3: I think the run game is so paramount for us
Speaker 3: to stay ahead of the chains, keep the whole menu
Speaker 3: on the table, and really get to our screen game.
Speaker 3: It sounds like Raheem should be good to go. I
Speaker 3: think this is a good game for him to get
Speaker 3: a nice little workload, especially our wide zone runs where
Speaker 3: he can stretch it and bang it and sort of
Speaker 3: soften up those edges. I think we need a more
Speaker 3: physical presence this weekend. And I trust him right now
Speaker 3: more than I trust Jalen Wright, just because I think
Speaker 3: Rice missing some assignments here and there. So Tua needs
Speaker 3: to be super sharp. You have to play your best
Speaker 3: game of the year. Probably Tua need a screen game
Speaker 3: to be cranking. A Chan and John, who I think
Speaker 3: are gonna have a lot of targets this week compared
Speaker 3: to last week, and I think Raheem has to have
Speaker 3: one of his best games of the season. Hunters a
Speaker 3: seven twenty five percent player, Anderson right around seventy percent,
Speaker 3: so there is a rotation there. I think you have
Speaker 3: to be super privy to their plays off, like when
Speaker 3: we take Campbell and Steeler off the field and teams
Speaker 3: run the ball down our throats. Like if you see
Speaker 3: one of those guys, check out, call your shot, play
Speaker 3: and don't just wait until it's third and seven and
Speaker 3: those guys are rearing to go, and let them just
Speaker 3: pin their ears back. Deniko Autry is the guy inside
Speaker 3: and plays a lot on the edge as well. But
Speaker 3: I think it really thins out after that. So maybe
Speaker 3: you can get those guys conditioning tested here. Maybe they
Speaker 3: have they should have rested legs, but sometimes that can
Speaker 3: that can be the opposite for you off a bye
Speaker 3: week and really make them run. Guys like Derek Barnett
Speaker 3: out there and and Tim Settle and get deep into
Speaker 3: that rotation. I think Barnett's not you know, he's pretty
Speaker 3: long in the two of these days and yeah, is
Speaker 3: he is he even healthy right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think he's up and going shoot. I probably
Speaker 2: should check that out.
Speaker 3: Inside though, it's really space eaters and not pocket pushers,
Speaker 3: Like Tim Settle is their nose and he's just a
Speaker 3: tree trunk. Follo Fotacasi has some wiggle, but I think
Speaker 3: you can. That's a matchup you're gonna have to win.
Speaker 3: And then Mario Edwards is more power, you know, a
Speaker 3: three to five technique subtype of rusher. It's such an
Speaker 3: interesting matchup because typically our tackles are the matchup erasers.
Speaker 3: But obviously Austin's down probably will not have Tron Armstead
Speaker 3: and the Texan strength is off the edge too, So
Speaker 3: I think if we can hold the four inside, we
Speaker 3: should be okay. Fun matchup, last break right there, come
Speaker 3: back on the other side. Take a look at keys
Speaker 3: two and three of Varsu Texans defense, the range of outcomes,
Speaker 3: what's at stake, the prediction, the keys to victory, all
Speaker 3: of that coming your way. Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. So close to
Speaker 3: prediction time. What do you think I'm gonna say about
Speaker 3: this game? Take advantage of the Texans aggressiveness and push
Speaker 3: the ball downfield is my second key for the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 3: I am really curious to see how they play us.
Speaker 3: You heard djb Enemy talk about how they play it.
Speaker 3: They want to span the middle of the field, they
Speaker 3: want to get to their blitz looks on third and lungs.
Speaker 3: They want to disguise and rotate their coverage. And what
Speaker 3: makes me curious is if you're going to camp in
Speaker 3: that quarter's look and if you blitz Tua, and if
Speaker 3: you don't have your captain, your middle the field ace
Speaker 3: in the hole, can you do those things without al Shayir?
Speaker 3: I mean, Tua is so good at beating it when
Speaker 3: you have all your guns. And we've seen Reek run
Speaker 3: through many a quarter's looks for long touchdowns, you know,
Speaker 3: against Philly, against New England last year, a couple of
Speaker 3: off the top of the head examples of that. And
Speaker 3: Houston only blitz this twenty four percent of the time.
Speaker 3: It's below league average, but they time them up so
Speaker 3: well against you know, vulnerable looks or empty looks, whatever
Speaker 3: you want to call. It would be a nice week
Speaker 3: to have some offensive line, the same offensive line combos
Speaker 3: start and finish the game, just to get that continuity
Speaker 3: all week. I don't want to have guys coming off
Speaker 3: the bench and trying to figure out what the Texans
Speaker 3: are doing.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the third quarter.
Speaker 3: So if they do play those looks, and just based
Speaker 3: on Demico's comments, I think they will.
Speaker 2: He said, we have the right.
Speaker 3: We have the guys with the right mentality on the
Speaker 3: edge with Kamari Lassiter and Derek Stingley. We just have
Speaker 3: to play physical with the Lion of Scrimmage when we
Speaker 3: get our opportunities. We have to play physical at the
Speaker 3: Lione Scrimmage toll slow down Tyreek and while two times
Speaker 3: in one quote he talks about bump and run and
Speaker 3: disrupting our timing. Now that means we get cracks at
Speaker 3: defeating the press and getting flybys, but it also means
Speaker 3: something else, something I thought this entire offseason was all
Speaker 3: about taking advantage of teams who do that by finding
Speaker 3: different targets i e. John new Smith. So without al Shaiir,
Speaker 3: they and that approach of man free. But if they
Speaker 3: turn their back on the outside releases, like if Tyreek
Speaker 3: takes an outside release and the cornerback you know, turns
Speaker 3: and runs with him. That way, it opens up John
Speaker 3: Whu on the slot screen that we hit for big
Speaker 3: plays on the overtime drive and he can get rolling
Speaker 3: after the catch and with the screen game as well,
Speaker 3: which bodes very well for that first key, right, Like
Speaker 3: if John Whu is the slot and Riek is the
Speaker 3: one and he takes the outside release, you remove that
Speaker 3: cornerback from the equation. You get a one on one
Speaker 3: block and then it's John u versus a safety or
Speaker 3: a slot cornerback one on one. That is exactly what
Speaker 3: he got on those back to back plays against the Jets.
Speaker 3: The linebacker in for al Shaiir, well, it's thin there, man.
Speaker 3: It's Neville Hewitt. You know who he is. He's a
Speaker 3: special team's ace, but playing on defense the entire game,
Speaker 3: that ain't his game. And also if he does that,
Speaker 3: are they gonna pull him off special teams? It makes
Speaker 3: that phase weaker for the Texan. So it's a big loss,
Speaker 3: a huge downgrade. Not to mention that Henry to Oh
Speaker 3: to Toto.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna work here anywhere anyway.
Speaker 3: Like those aren't cover guys. So Johnny and a Chan
Speaker 3: are kind of my clicks to pick this week. I
Speaker 3: think we're back on that game plan. Then there's the
Speaker 3: vertical element of it all, Like Derek Stingley is a
Speaker 3: guy that I f like can match up with anybody,
Speaker 3: and they feel that way. And if that's how you're
Speaker 3: gonna play it, you have to say, all right, bet
Speaker 3: we have Tyreek Hill and Jillen Waddell, and if you're
Speaker 3: gonna go one on one against those guys, they're gonna
Speaker 3: beat you. That's how you win big games. Your best
Speaker 3: beats their best. But that doesn't mean you should go
Speaker 3: after a willy nilly. I mean, I like Kamari Lassiter,
Speaker 3: but he's still a rookie, and if you get safety
Speaker 3: help away from him and he draws ten or seventeen,
Speaker 3: that's a matchup you have to also like and go after.
Speaker 3: And then I think there's some slot matchups you can
Speaker 3: create since they basically bring a safety and I don't
Speaker 3: like Caden Bollock is a really good deep safety. They
Speaker 3: like to have Jimmy Ward come down and play some coverage,
Speaker 3: maybe even a little bit of Jellan Peatree, but for
Speaker 3: the most part, like they don't really have the cover
Speaker 3: guys in those positions. I think Miami can create some
Speaker 3: matchups and go out and win those. My third big
Speaker 3: key here to execute in the red zone. And it's
Speaker 3: sort of a shot at our defense. Like the Texans
Speaker 3: offense has been broken for a while. They couldn't do
Speaker 3: ish against a terrible Jags defense. But I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I don't know Jim just with the bye week and
Speaker 3: what I think is a bunch of tired legs in
Speaker 3: this Miami defense and an old Miami defense. I just
Speaker 3: don't trust us to get consistent stops. And if that's
Speaker 3: the case, we're gonna need our elite quarterback and our
Speaker 3: really good skill players to go win the game. We've
Speaker 3: been pretty damn good in the red zone since Tua
Speaker 3: came back. In fact, we are fifth with a seventy
Speaker 3: point five percent red zone touchdown rate. But we did
Speaker 3: kick two field goals in low red zone last week,
Speaker 3: and I think that those four point swings will be
Speaker 3: critical in this game. And perhaps this is just a
Speaker 3: way of kind of zooming out on a few issues
Speaker 3: that I have that have held this offense down, and
Speaker 3: not like in total, but things that could be better. Right,
Speaker 3: Because over that time, we have the most total trips
Speaker 3: into the red zone twenty nine. Nineteen of those possessions
Speaker 3: have ended with a touchdown, and that second behind only Detroit.
Speaker 3: But we also have seven field goals, which is tied
Speaker 3: for the tenth most in the NFL. So even with
Speaker 3: two more touchdowns on those drives would be a big difference, right,
Speaker 3: That could be eight points in this game. I think
Speaker 3: that would be the difference in this game. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm getting at here. If you go deeper into the numbers,
Speaker 3: we run the ball up the seventh lowest rate down there.
Speaker 3: And that's not my issue. I love throwing the football.
Speaker 3: My point is that we've had to dial that back
Speaker 3: because it just hasn't been that effective. We had that
Speaker 3: stand against the Packers and the goal line that was
Speaker 3: the one turnover on downs in that stretch I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: We missed a third and one against the Jets and
Speaker 3: kicked a field goal, had to convert a fourth down
Speaker 3: after a third and one got stuffed later in the game.
Speaker 3: It's just been a struggle to run the football, but
Speaker 3: particularly down there, and that's why I think Raheem Moster
Speaker 3: could be your answer, your red zone answer down here.
Speaker 3: I don't think eight Chan's vision and physicality is really
Speaker 3: what you want in that part of the field, like
Speaker 3: keep them on the field for the screen game. But
Speaker 3: Raheem should get some some red zone carries this week.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, if we could just find a way
Speaker 3: to better execute in short yardage, it would produce such
Speaker 3: insane ripple effects in terms of making the offense even
Speaker 3: more dangerous than the top five offense it's been since
Speaker 3: the Cardinals game. I am fired up. I think we
Speaker 3: covered it pretty well. What's at stake in this game, guys,
Speaker 3: the entire season, No big deal, that's all win the
Speaker 3: whole thing, just the entire season. You know, I vow
Speaker 3: to not talk about playoffs further if we lose this game. Deal,
Speaker 3: But I mean, you win this one and you get
Speaker 3: to really enjoy multiple slates of football like I just
Speaker 3: told you about, all the way through next Sunday into
Speaker 3: the four to twenty five slate. If we win and
Speaker 3: the Colts win, then a big door opens as another
Speaker 3: path of the playoffs. The Texans losing to the Chiefs
Speaker 3: and Ravens very possible in my opinion, would mean the
Speaker 3: Colts are just wins over the Jags, Titans, and Giants
Speaker 3: away from taking the division away from the Texans. Should
Speaker 3: they lose those games, I think they will lose. I
Speaker 3: do think the Colts will get picked off once in there.
Speaker 3: But man, if they beat Denver, we get all of
Speaker 3: that and the one o'clock window for the Niners game
Speaker 3: before we get to put the season back on the
Speaker 3: line against the Niners next week, so it could be
Speaker 3: a really fun like celebration for a week after this
Speaker 3: victory if we get it. So, Dolphins, please pleasease do
Speaker 3: the damn thing. I've watched every big game this team
Speaker 3: has played live, like on TV or in person since
Speaker 3: two thousand and four. That's twenty years. We've had some
Speaker 3: big wins, the Jets finale in eight the win in
Speaker 3: Buffalo in twenty sixteen on Christmas Eve, the Cowboys last
Speaker 3: year certainly up there, but those have been so far
Speaker 3: and few between, and while I think the Texans team
Speaker 3: is better than all those teams sans the Cowboys at
Speaker 3: home last year, those were win and in situations, we
Speaker 3: have to win this one just to have the right.
Speaker 2: To go another week.
Speaker 3: So please, for a twenty year watcher of every game,
Speaker 3: for a fan of thirty plus years, someone that hasn't
Speaker 3: seen a playoff win for that twenty year span, someone
Speaker 3: that dedicated his entire life and career and moved his
Speaker 3: family to South Florida, I implore you on behalf of
Speaker 3: Dolphin's nation. Please come on, guys, I beg of you
Speaker 3: get this win.
Speaker 2: Please. You must excuse me. I've grown quite.
Speaker 3: Were as we all have range of outcomes. I don't
Speaker 3: think we know show in this game. I don't. It's
Speaker 3: not primetime, it's indoors. It's not a team that I
Speaker 3: think is anywhere. You're the caliber of the teams we've
Speaker 3: seen in those spots, the Bills, Chiefs, and Packers. But
Speaker 3: my heart won't let me go there. I like the
Speaker 3: matchup on tape. That offense has been broken for months.
Speaker 3: I worry they get it sorted out against a thin, tired,
Speaker 3: old defense that seems to be on his last leg
Speaker 3: this year. I trust Tua to keep it close and
Speaker 3: to get us our points. If we can win in
Speaker 3: the margins on special teams, those third and twos, those
Speaker 3: little moments that can extend drives and swing games, then
Speaker 3: I think we will win. But wouldn't I be a
Speaker 3: fool to predict that to suddenly change. I think a
Speaker 3: Texans comfortable win is within the range of outcomes. I
Speaker 3: could see us winning by a touchdown or even ten points,
Speaker 3: but I think the difference will be split there. I
Speaker 3: think it'll be a good game. I think that they'll
Speaker 3: make a play at the end that beats us. Probably
Speaker 3: on offense, we have struggled to get second half stops
Speaker 3: for a while now, and I think that's a direct
Speaker 3: correlation with our lack of depth on defense. And I
Speaker 3: think we'll have a lead on the final drive for
Speaker 3: the Texans and they'll break your heart with a field
Speaker 3: goal or a touchdown. Twenty nine twenty seven. Texans win
Speaker 3: this game. Keys the victory and capitalize takeaway opportunities. Number two,
Speaker 3: set hard edges against the Houston ground game Number three,
Speaker 3: stay ahead of the chains on offense. You all please
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Speaker 2: Episode is Nails.
Speaker 3: Check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins HQ, Zach Steeler,
Speaker 3: my guest tonight on the show, as well the Chop
Speaker 3: Robinson Breakdown and DJ Banname's interview as well. Last but
Speaker 3: not least, Miami Dolphins dot Com. Until next time, Ben's up,
Speaker 3: Caroline and Cameron Daddy
Speaker 2: He's coming home.