WEBVTT - Dolphins Bills Week 8 Preview 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:13.800 Actual booking, down Field, cuts down, Miami Quarters, run. What 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.799 is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.960 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.160 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.200 Travis Wingfield and as always I'm here to bring you 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.160 your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.879 it's Preview Thursday, a tough divisional road game coming up. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.040 We'll preview the game position by position, give you the 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.400 three keys, tell you how Miami can capture victory. And 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.519 we'll hear from two A Toungle by Loa, Byron Jones 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.040 and Christian Wilkins from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:55.959 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.160 Dolphins and Drive Time is presented by Auto Nation. And 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.840 just a quick update from the Brian Floras Wednesday press conference. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.120 He was asked about the situation right now with a 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.480 trade deadline coming up, and he just simply said, to 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.479 is our quarterback. I've said that. I've told him that 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.640 and to a later would tell us about Brian Flores 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.959 and those conversations they have together about how from what 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.959 he's taken from most conversations, he has the utmost confidence 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.080 that he is the Dolphin's quarterback. So I think that 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.000 also meshes well with what Tou said Sunday post game 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.000 about the transparency in Flora's message to him in their meetings. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.480 Other news, Jerome Baker day today he was limited on Wednesday, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.000 and Brian Flores is hopeful the DeVante Parker can string 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.240 some practices together and go on Sunday and Buffalo we'll see, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.520 he said. I'll circle back to that into the entire 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.520 injury report at the end of the podcast. Let's go 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.560 ahead and start though where we always start on these 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.160 preview podcast and this is a repeat opponent, so you've 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.240 heard some of this already. But Buffalo executed. They tear 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.760 down type of rebuild under the vision of Brandon Bean 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.320 and Sean McDermott that began back in earnest team. They 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 unloaded Ronald Darby, Sammy Watkins, Marcel Darius, three of their 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.040 most recent high draft picks at that time, and they 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.399 brought in Josh Allen the next year after a surprise 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.920 playoff berth In seen behind Tyrod Taylor. It took a 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.760 short detour in Allen's rookie season, I think it was 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.000 a six win season for them then. But you know what, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.320 even the next season when they got back to the playoffs, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.560 Alan had some ups and downs. He showed flashes of brilliance, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.120 but then in his third year at the position with 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.800 the Buffalo Bills, it all came together. Allen's a hit. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.080 McDermott's defense isn't as good as it has been or 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.040 had been, i should say, that year, but it's got 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.720 a good mix of rush and coverage. What you're seeing 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.200 now is they get back to more top of the 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.320 league type of defense. So a trip to the a 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.959 f C title game, a loss opening day this year, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.239 four straight victories and then a disappointing lost last Monday 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.280 Night that well, frankly, they were one play away from 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.240 putting this game away multiple times in my opinion, including 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.919 a quarter back sneap where Josh Allen was thirteen for 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.560 thirteen coming in to third or fourth and short quarterback 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.840 sneaks and he slipped and fell and costs that cost 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.839 him the game essentially. But the point is, I still 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.359 think this is the best team in the a f 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.600 C despite their four and two record, which is behind 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.079 a few teams obviously, but where I wanted to look 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.160 this time was where things have gone since that week 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.600 to game against the Dolphins. I don't have to tell 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.720 you guys, has been a rough run down here, And 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.680 just thinking back to the lead up to that game, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.239 I mean that was like a litmus test for us 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.040 going into it right one and o Buffalo. So I 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.919 wouldn't want a chance to get a two game divisional 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.960 lead and put them behind as far as the tiebreaker 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.760 goes as well. And then eventually you thought, if they 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.840 did well in that game, that this game here on 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.120 Halloween might be, you know, a stake for the division 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.080 made way through the season. But it hasn't gone that way. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.160 A couple of bad offensive series, a long rushing touchdown 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.240 there for the Buffalo Bills, then that hit on our 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.240 quarterback that sends him to I R. That was just 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.120 a day that I think we all want to mendum 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.320 black ourselves and a race it from our memories and 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.040 just get rid of it. So maybe this is our 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.320 season as it relates to the Buffalo Bills timeline. Hopefully 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.720 that's what it is. That's the hope, and sometimes things 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.520 go off track, but things that you can't always see 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.120 on the surface, because I still think with this team, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.120 despite the fact that, yes, you I don't like this saying, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.880 but I guess you are what your record says you are. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.479 I don't subscribe to that theory so much. I just 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.160 still think this team can be better and can be 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.680 better than the results they've shown, and it can turn 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.520 it around at any point the season in my opinion. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.840 Now the record might be too late for that regard, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.680 but I do believe they have it in them to 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.719 start stringing together some victories. So lastly, this game was 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.479 kind of when things started to turn things around back 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.120 in twenty nineteen when Miami went up to Buffalo and 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.320 it was supposed to be a comfortable win for the 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.560 Buffalo Bills, and I'm hoping that can be the case here. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.440 Whereas the Dolphins lad that game in the fourth quarter 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.640 fourteen to nine and had the football inside the ten 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.440 yard line. So worst case scenario, you go up by eight, right, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.000 or even better than that, you go up by eleven. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.560 But it didn't happen, be because Trey White makes a 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.279 ridiculous interception and things just kind of unraveled from there. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.960 So let's go to Buffalo and compete. That's what I'm 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.760 here for, and it starts with Buffalo's quarterback versus Miami safeties. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.800 As we do the positional previews on the podcast every week, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.920 we always start here and Josh Allen is a good 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.920 place to start as well. And even in a thirty 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.680 five point loss, that really was the best showing we've 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.880 had against Josh Allen since his rookie season and the 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.920 last time Miami beat Buffalo. Not only did it hit 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.800 some low marks against his career, in my his career 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.279 against the Dolphins, I should say it was his lowest 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.880 completion percentage, yardage total and passer rating game of the 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.160 season and not great but not the worst rushing performance 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.239 with thirty five yards on the ground for Josh Allen 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.479 back in that week two games. So the question how 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.280 do you replicate that production? I thought Miami did well 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.599 to mix it up with Alan in terms of coverage 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.080 is and blitz in that first matchup not too frequently, 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.800 actually about two to one in terms of playing coverage 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.520 versus blitz. Remember, if you blitz this guy, you have 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.479 to get him down on that first way because once 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.279 he extends your toast. So it's always a unique balance 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.960 of four man pressure versus overloading and trusting the a 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.440 it gets home and be that the coverage holds up 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.360 and also see that you don't miss when you get 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.440 I thought we had some of our best man man 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.560 coverage last week against the Falcons, at least in spurts, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.960 I talked about that play out of trips where Miami 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.240 plastered at the top of the stem on all receivers 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.640 on that beautiful looking coverage rep. I thought that was 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.080 a great sign and something they'll have to be extra 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.560 sharp with this week against this Buffalo Bills team that 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.600 can spread you out as well as anybody. And as 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.600 for the safeties and how they match up in this game, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.880 we've been getting more Javon Holland than we had back 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.039 in Week two, and obviously a m accordions down this 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.520 week and for a couple of weeks at least, I 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.920 think you could see a lot of too high looks. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.359 Forced Buffalo to play left handed and asked them to 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.440 run the football. Not that they're not a good running team, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.840 but the lesser of two evils, right Like I'd rather 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.560 take my chances on Zack Moss and Devin Singletary than 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.440 I would on Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs, even though 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.800 the last time I think one of the first place 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.520 from scrimmage was a long touchdown run by Devin Singletary. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.560 They're explosive. It's not a good there's no good option, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.160 but the lesser of two evils, so they run the ball. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.320 I'll take the repeeve from reprieve rather from digs and 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.880 Sanders and that dangerous passing games. So for the young safeties, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.280 they need to be on point. They need to communicate 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.960 well and disguise well, because if there's one way to 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.720 beat Josh Allen, it's to change the picture and create 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.480 tight windows because he's not going to shy away from them, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.920 and nor should he. He's incredibly physically getted and it 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.800 can fit almost any throw in the windows on the 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.680 football field. But this also does lead to putting some 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.880 footballs in harm's way, and when you get those chances, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.800 you have to capitalize. If you're going to beat Buffalo, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.160 they're gonna score points. So they're gonna get ten twelve 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.080 possessions in a game, and they're gonna find the end 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.080 zone three or four times, a couple of field goals 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.200 and probably wind up with thirty points on the scoreboard. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.880 So when they give you chance to not only take 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.880 away one of those drives, but to shorten the field 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.720 for your offense on the ensuing drive, you absolutely have 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.800 to do it. You have to capitalize on it. I 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.840 said it a million times last year. If we get 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.240 that Kyle van Noy pick or the Xavien Howard pick 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.080 late in that game in Week two last season, the 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.800 outcome probably changes. In that game. We saw the Titans 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.840 capitalize on a tipped ball last week. That's what you need. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.160 Steal points from this Buffalo team. Last note here on 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.720 the Miami safety's we saw Javon Holland time up a 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.320 blitz and get Matt Ryan to the ground. I'll be 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.600 curious if he sees more opportunities like that, because I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.920 remember Bobby McCain and I think it was I want 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.800 to say Nick need him. Could be wrong on that, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 but a couple of Dolphins defensive backs got to Josh 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.600 Allen in the last couple of games we played against him, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.520 and those defensive back blitzes can be effective. But you 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.160 absolutely have to rap and drive because he's huge and 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.160 he's gonna be bigger than your dbs, and we've seen 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.120 Javan Holland do really well in that area as far 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.880 as coming and coming downhill and control and rapping and 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.960 have good sound fundamentals and technique on tackling, and Brandon 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.559 Jones for that matter, two a couple of sacks in 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.000 the game a few weeks back. As for the Buffalo 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.000 receivers and tight ends, whichus Miami cornerbacks, I didn't mention 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.480 Eric Rowe in the previous portion, and I was originally 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.599 right about a matchup between he and Dawson Knox, but 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.800 Dawson Knox is not gonna play this week who he 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.000 has traditionally had success with, even though Knox had a 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.160 good game back in week two. But it sounds like 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.520 it'll be Tommy Sweeney, the rookie, in place of Dawson Knox. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.480 And I just wrote the same rule applies here. If 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.280 Miami wants to compete in this game in this area, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.920 then you have to have Row or whoever draws that 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.760 tight end matchup. You gotta be solid on Tommy Sweeney. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.240 You cannot let Tommy Sweeney win one on one matchups 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.079 out there regardless, because if that position consistently gets wins 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.079 and the one on ones, you're gonna have to take 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.000 away a focus from different receivers and those guys are 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.640 even worse news when they start beating you. So on 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.040 that topic, the receivers to Fond Diggs, what's the plan 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.599 for him? Well, last year I talked about this a 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:56.560 little bit about how in that receiving corps the matchups 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.040 they present are unique in the sense that Diggs is 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.920 an all world receive eiver. But at the time I 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.960 thought maybe Byron Jones athletically was more equipped to play 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.079 against Stefon Diggs, and without xaviing Howard in that game, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.640 we saw no way Egg Bogaty make or draws. Stefond 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.640 digs a handful of times, but athletically speaking, Diggs is 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.199 going to challenge you, and so I think sometimes you 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.280 see Byron Jones in that role, sometimes you'll see Stefon Diggs. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.079 In fact, in the first matchup this year, Byron Jones 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.040 is on digs for two targets and allowed just one 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.200 catch for seven yards, where Xaviing Howard three catches on 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.240 six targets for fifty three yards and a touchdown and 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.080 an interception as well. There, so there's a good unique 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.080 balance but I think all things told, I mean with 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.600 not that they're not deep in the position anymore, but 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.000 I would definitely divert a lot of attention to Stefon 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.440 Diggs because no one can beat you more and more frequently, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.960 and he's gonna get his like he'll he'll beat good 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.320 coverage and and make tough catches. It's what he does. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.600 But you would be doing yourself a disservice to let 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.680 him have good free opportunities, free access and just get 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.880 easy catches. It's it's more, it's more difficult to do 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.880 than it is to say. But you have to find 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.360 a way to take him out of the game bracket, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.840 double trail cap whatever, whatever it has to be, you 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.080 have to do it. And then Emmanuel standards is also 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:08.760 a problem. This guy has been one of the most 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.400 underrated receivers in the National Football League for a long time. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.360 In the last matchup, he had five targets, all against 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.760 Byron Jones. He caught two of them for forty eight yards. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.800 But he's been coming along more and more so his 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.800 slot vertical skill set that can challenge you too. So 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.839 if he goes inside, do you chase him inside with 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.400 Byron Jones do you put Nick need Um in that role. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.480 I'll be curious see how that works out. And then 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.360 cole Beasley, he had three catches on three targets for 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.280 fourteen yards against Justin Coleman last time around, and one 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.720 catch on one target for twenty two yards on Jerome Baker. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.720 But then you also had Dawson Knox who won't play 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.040 in this game, and Isaiah McKenzie as well, and the 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.679 running backs with various targets throughout the course of that game. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.199 So I think that's kind of what the secret sauce 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.680 was last time right, that nice mixture of man coverage, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.440 UH man coverage with blitzing, and zone coverage with playing coverage. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.560 You get what I'm saying. I think that for you know, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.679 maybe Byron follows digs inside and then ex getson when 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.520 he goes outside, and then iron also works on Sanders. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.720 There's just not a great answer here because those guys 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.520 are so so good. But you know what, so we're 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.839 exhaubing Howard and Byron Jones, So I'm always excited to 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.480 watch the way this matchup unfolds. And then additionally speaking 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.080 finding ways to disrupt those crossers that they run, and 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.560 so successfully last season against both man and zone coverage, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.199 and hopefully we get jer Own Baker back for that, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.600 because the last thing you really want to see is 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.600 them getting a declaration for a matchup on one of 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.640 those guys coming againstide to draw a linebacker. That's what 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.960 they want. How can we stop them from getting to that. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.960 That's kind of a key in this football game. And 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.920 I want to also play a clip here from Byron 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.000 Jones who spoke to the media on Wednesday and spoke 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.400 to me in the media on Wednesday. A question I 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.560 had for Byron Jones regarding disguising coverage, because that's, you know, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.600 not only a key in football in general, but anytime 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.960 you face one of these top dog quarterbacks, you better 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.120 be able to disguise your coverage and confuse them, otherwise 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.200 they'll wind up with those four hundred yard games and 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.520 four touchdown games that they are wanting to do. So 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.800 I asked Byron Jones, and specifically asked him about the 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.920 difference in the relationship between how corners and safeties dis 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.120 guy's coverage since he's played both positions. Here's the Dolphins cornerback. Well, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.560 it's all got to be married together. So the corners 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.880 can be doing something different in the safety. So if 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.720 you want to show Cover two, it's not just the corners, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.080 and it's not just the safeties, and in fact, it's 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.320 also the linebackers too. Is where they where they align, 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.280 uh some of their checks and what their calls may be. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.640 So uh yeah, disguising is really a whole secondary thing, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.079 and oftentimes it does include include the linebackers. Um so 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.200 sin it's not one group doing one thing. It's really 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.000 all of us operating on the same level in unison. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.280 And as always, it's also important to marry that coverage 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.880 with rush and especially if you can do it with four, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.960 which takes us into our next positional match up here 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.679 the Buffalo Bill's offensive line versus the Dolphins defensive line. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.480 And last time Alan when he was blitzed in this 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.120 game was four for twelve pretty good for the Dolphins 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.320 twelve dropbacks and he had just a four point seven 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.520 yards per a tempt at thirty three point three percent 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:01.719 clip completion, no touchdowns, no interceptions. Like that's the thing, right, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.640 get home with that pressure and mix it up on 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.600 the back end. But even when he wasn't blitzed, just 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.920 thirteen one with five point nine yards per attempt and 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.360 two touchdowns and a pick, so it kind of works 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.240 both ways. They're like, it's just about finding the right 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.920 time to go to those calls and that's gonna be 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.240 up to Brian Floors and Josh Bowyer to make that happen, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.280 to get the guys in right position to execute the 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.600 plays in the schemes. It will be a fun matchup 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.960 to watch. So if we get those one on one 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.640 wins in the past brush game, where can that happen? 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.880 We have to get those right. Where can they happen? 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.920 Where they can they come from? Well, first, they're total 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.520 pressure number and we'll see if Spencer Brown plays this week. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.480 He missed Wednesday's practice, but from left to right, Dion 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.840 Dawkins eleven pressures, three hits and one sack this year, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.840 John Feliciano fifteen pressures, three quarterback hits, Mitch Morrise ten 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.640 quarterback pressures allowed one sack, and then Darryl Williams inside 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.080 who played some right tackle as well, sixteen pressures, one sack, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.440 five hits, and then Spencer Brown eight pressures, one of 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.360 those a QB hit, but he played just a hundred 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.560 and thirty snaps compared to two hundred and sixty nine 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.960 for others Feliciano two d and thirty eight snaps. Cody 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.360 Ford was in the game back when the Dolphins played 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.520 in Week number two, I believe, but Spencer Brown replaced 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.560 him and they kicked Williams into guard, and so for 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.920 the Week two matchups, Ford and Morse allowed three pressures 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.640 of peace, Williams two and Dawkins won. Just to give 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.800 you an idea where Miami had success. So they did 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.880 a good job of keeping the pressure off Alan in 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.760 that matchup. But remember it was a two to one 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.960 coverage plan, more coverage than it was blitzing. But I 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.160 think there are matchups here that Miami has a chance 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.520 to get some production out of. We've talked about Christian 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.520 Wilkins this year and how good he's been. This is 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.400 actually the one game this season where he didn't have 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.400 any QB pressures. We also get ray Kuan Davis back, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.760 who was not there last time, which allows both these 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.040 players to show off more of that versatility and be 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.920 more complete versions of themselves in my opinion. And I 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.720 wanted to play some more audio here for you guys, 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.640 because I got another good breakdown from a Dolphins player, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.240 Christian Wilkins this time. And I want you guys to 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.440 watch Christian hands when you focus on him when you're 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.360 watching the game this Sunday, or when you watched on 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.320 game pass, wherever the heck you rewatch this thing. I 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.240 hope you guys rewatch the games right, get a better 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.680 feel for what happened. Watch his hands. He's just been 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.600 more active, more aggressive, more physical with him, more impactful. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.800 You see, guys kind of get shooken back a little 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.120 bit when he hits you. And he's able to get 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.320 off those blocks very well as well. So I asked him, like, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:26.160 how does that additional or improved hand placement, hand shooting, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.440 handwork correlate with your production uptick this season? Like we 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.000 talked about on the Wednesday podcast, here's Christian. You know, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.320 I recognize that, you know, as as an area for 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.680 me to improve on. So all our season just you know, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.560 just and countless reps of shooting my hands inside hands, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.000 you know, just doing grip things, you know, to make 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.560 my hands stronger, just you know, because as important obviously 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.240 as a d lineman. Um so you know, and just 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.760 really hands and eyes go together. So seeing my hands 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.480 in shooting, shooting, shooting at my target, you know, and 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.960 just being strong at the point of attack. That's something 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.560 I'm just trying to improve on all off season and 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.520 continue try to prove on each week dond the season. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.960 Anytime player uses their hands to kind of simulate a 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.359 hand placement and handshooting, love to see that he was 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.000 doing that during the video there. But also on the 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.280 defensive line, Emmanuel Ogba had six pressures in this game 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.680 last time around, working primarily against Cody Ford, who's not 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.040 in the lineup anymore unless Spencer Brown miss is the game. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.120 But if he plays, it's gonna be a tall order 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.280 for the rookie because Ogba's ability to not just win 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.000 with power, but to show speed to convert to power 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.160 and run through somebody. He really tests your technique and 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.480 you're basically your ability to stay on balance against that 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.480 bull rush. He's gonna need solid technique and solid stand 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.240 of the pants to hold up against those bull rushes. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.040 And he'll get some chances. To me what he does 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.240 with those chances and how the coverage holds up when 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.720 he gets those one on one opportunities, that will go 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.320 a long way towards disrupting the passing game in this 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.800 game from Miami. Additionally, Van Ginko had three pressures. Phillips 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.920 had one in their last meeting. Look at those guys 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.960 potentially against Dion Dawkins. It's a tough matchup. That's where 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.840 you're gonna have to get some more production in those 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.520 one on one looks. Our final matchup on this side 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.879 of the football, Buffalo running backs versus Miami linebackers. I 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.439 know from experience that my that the Bills rather have 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.840 been a bit ambiguous on their running back usage this season. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.399 Devin Singletarry is on my fantasy team. Lost a game 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.399 last week felt five and two, damn it, and he 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.600 started off as the main guy there and actually made 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.919 me play him longer than I wanted to because he 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.399 stopped getting carries at one point and cost me a 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.040 fantasy points in that. But I digress. He did have 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.320 that long touchdown and running get stuffs back in Week two. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.439 But Zack Moss has really taken that role in a 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.760 lot of ways. Is the kind of primary back there. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.040 Both guys are three down backs. Single Terry has a 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.679 little more juice in terms of speed and explosiveness, but 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.720 Moss can bring the lumber, some thunder and lightning look there, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.680 but they both worked well and pass prote and they're 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.320 both options in the passing game as well. And this 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.520