WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Chiefs Week 9 Preview 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.240 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.479 your pulse if you're not at pulses popping over here, baby, 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.080 I'm fired up for this game. What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.720 And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.880 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.079 How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.479 And on today's show, it's time to take a look 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.160 at the Kansas City Chiefs. You guys know the gravity 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.120 of this one. You know where it is, and you 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.840 know what we do. Chiefs, intro, storylines, matchups, keys, what's 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.519 at stake. Let's go ahead and preview Dolphins and Chiefs 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.000 from the Baptist Hell Studios. That's a lie. Apparently Caroline's 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.839 doing construction upstairs at the house right now from my 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:47.040 house somewhere in South Florida. This is the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.280 Maggie daff You know, I literally hadn't thought to look 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.400 at this until today Tuesday, putting together the script for 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.600 y'all when I started prepping for the Chiefs. So it's 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.960 a three point thirty local time kick and Frankfurt. There's 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.120 a big chance of rain though it's supposed to be 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.320 a light rain bordering on a drizzle. It's supposed to 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.000 be fifty one degrees at the day and forty four 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.800 into the evening with ten mile an hour wins essentially 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.640 a carbon copy of the weather you had in Philadelphia, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.000 with a little bit of moisture added to the equation. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.840 But I've been watching too practice in wind and rain 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.640 for the last several years doesn't affect in the way 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.119 you would think it does, so I don't really worry 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.280 about that anymore real quick, and I thought this was 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.360 worth looking into as well. One of the big topics 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.240 I've seen around these International games is the travel, how 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.720 you prep for it all of that. So teams that 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.560 have traveled early, and the Dolphins went over on Monday 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.759 and the Chiefs go over on Thursday are two and zero. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.560 Both the Jags and Falcons traveled the same day, and 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.280 so Jacksonville won that game. So no real data point 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.640 on that. But I also found this interesting, and this 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.840 is very much a point spread type of research point 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.800 that I would have looked into years ago when I 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.400 used to do that stuff for a I guess part 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.480 time job. We talked about this last Friday with OJ 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.800 and seth And you know, for personal preparations, when you 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.040 do have an international trip like this looming with a 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.680 game to be played prior to that, like you travel 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.080 on Monday, you better have all your travel prep sorted 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.560 out for the game before you play on Sunday. Right, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.880 So with that, teams who played on the road before 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.480 traveling to Europe all time are five to nine and one. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.200 The five teams that won were multiple games in the 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.359 win callumn better than their opposition who played at home 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.000 the week prior. The Dolphins were of course at home 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.120 Sunday for the win over the Patriots. And I'm not 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.600 sure you need much of an intro into the Chiefs 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.640 who were on the road in Denver for a loss 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.720 before this trip, because you know who they are, where 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.919 they've been. Let's go ahead and just do a cliffs 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.399 notes version of this portion. The Chiefs intro. Mahomes drafted 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.760 number ten overall, traded up, gave away the future you know, 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.000 draft picks in twenty seventeen, and only started the season 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.720 finale that year, also in Denver, when the Chiefs were 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.639 locked into a playoff position. That team, under the guidance 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.000 of Alec Smith, won ten games and lost in the 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.560 wild card round with that crazy Marcus Mariota play against 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.919 the Titans, and that was the last time you could 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.480 say that about them about bowing out in the first 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.400 round of the playoffs. They've won twelve, twelve, fourteen, twelve, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.080 and fourteen games under Mahomes and their six and two 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.200 right now. They've gone ten to three in the playoffs 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.880 playoffs during that time. There isn't a franchise that wouldn't 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.760 take a ten to three mark thirteen games into their 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.359 regular season, and they've done that against the league's best 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.440 team in the postseason. Their losses coming to the Brady 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.520 led Bucks in the Super Bowl, the Borough led Bengals 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.840 when they were red hot to close out twenty twenty 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.560 one in the AFC Championship Game, and the Brady led 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.240 Patriots in overtime of that legendary AFC Championship Game back 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.160 in twenty nineteen. Mahomes is the constant he and Travis Kelsey, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.960 their twenty thirteen second round draft pick, who is one 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.280 of the greatest unicorns in the history of the National 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.720 Football League in terms of being among the league leading 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.240 receivers every year. Despite the fact that he's not a 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.680 wide receiver. He's a tight end and it just doesn't 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.040 happen that way. But it does for Kelsey now and 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.560 we'll cover this in the matchups portion. Replacing Tyreek has 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.120 proven to be a bit of a challenge for them. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.800 They've used more wide receivers with significant snaps than any 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.760 other team in the last in the NFL this year. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.440 Last year they won the Super Bowl, so it's ridiculous 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.760 to question that process. But the last few weeks the 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.320 offense just hasn't looked like its usual explosive self as 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:32.040 they're working through two handfuls of recent acquisitions Marquez Valdez, Scantling, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.359 Sky Moore, Kadarius Tony, Justin Watson, Rashi Rice, even the 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.000 guy who has familiarity in Mikole Hardman, he left and 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.080 came back. The entire group of receivers has been acquired 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.800 in the last two years, so I think you're seeing 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.000 the lack of continuity and familiarity kind of impact this offense. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.120 More on that in a moment. The offensive line, though, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.479 is where the stability exists. Taylor was brought in to 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.320 replace Brown, Juwan Taylor and Orlando Brown this year, and 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.480 Donovan Smith is in for Andrew Wiley, who also exited 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.920 in free agency. But they know they can survive pass 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.799 rush losses off the edge with the creativity of Patrick Mahomes. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.520 They just want to keep that interior pocket clean and 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.599 nobody does it better than Tony Humphrey and Smith. That 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.440 front three is the league best, in my opinion, better 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.560 than better than Philadelphia defensively, and this is where it 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.920 gets really interesting, like crazy right. They have a Hall 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.760 of Fame quarterback, hall of Fame coach, Hall of Fame 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.400 tight end, and the d is where it gets interesting. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.560 In my best Al Michael's voice, go figure. But they 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.000 never had a good defense, you know, good quotes during 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.520 all that success we just talked about. They never ranked 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.000 better than sixteenth and defensive EPA during that ten to 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.720 three playoff record we talked about, and average of thirteen 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.400 wins per year. But now the defense has been more 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.159 efficient than the offense. It starts with Chris Jones, a 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.839 total beast. They supplemented him on the front with two lengthy, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.400 strong edges in George car Loftis twenty twenty two first 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.320 round pick and Charles Amene, who probably their best free 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.960 agent acquisition this spring, who they signed this spring. They 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.520 also drafted another edge in the first round this year 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.880 and Felix on A duque Uzama who doesn't play a 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.159 whole lot but inside. With Jones, another original draft pick 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.360 back in twenty eighteen, and Derek Nandi, they're really good 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.320 upfront now. Nick Bolton was another draft hit they had 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.040 on defense in recent years twenty twenty one. He's also 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.159 the green dot in the middle of the defense, but 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.919 he's out. They also brought in Drew Trankwell, who was 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.080 the Chargers' best linebacker, So they took from their division 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.240 rival and got better at that spot this spring. And 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.880 you know, they're in a good spot there with depth 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.919 in that position. But they're banged up right there right 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.400 now because Willie Gay is going to be doubt for 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.159 this game. It sounds like two but more on that 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.640 in a moment. They also hit another draft pick with 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.880 Trent McDuffie in twenty twenty two. They found former Washington 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.960 State star Jalen Watson as a UDFA last year as well. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.000 They signed Justin Reid last year. They developed twenty twenty 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.080 fourth round pick Lagerius Snead into a stud, so they 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.840 are an example of retaining a few core parts from 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.800 teams of old and then hitting on key draft picks 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.160 and free agents to cobble together an impressive result. I 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.240 think you look at this Chiefs team and you kind 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.760 of project what the Dolphins might look like in two 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.280 or three years, because I think Miami's going to be 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.280 a Super Bowl contender for the next couple of years 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.080 with this core they have. But it's going to be 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.640 so imperative for them to draft well after kind of 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.480 passing on the draft the last couple of years down 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.760 the road to supplement all those big contracts with key 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.280 contributors on rookie contracts. That's a podcast for three years away, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.440 but just thought it was worth mentioning because these teams 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.240 they mirror each other in several ways. Andy Reid, you know, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.320 talking about mirroring an offensive genius. He's still at the 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.560 controls nomre Eric b Enemy, Matt Naggi back is OC. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.840 Steve Spagnolo's in his fifth year as DC, cooking up 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.600 all those blitzer and pressure packages. So they've really built 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.920 this team to his vision on that side, and the 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.640 continuity I think shows. While offensively, the lack of such 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.720 continuity I think has caused some down weeks for the 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.720 attack on offense. They've looked disjointed at times, but I 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.600 also will never doubt their ability to get it right, 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.600 to get it humming like it usually is. And for 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.360 all transparency, Miami has been kind of a get right 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.480 defense for teams in the past. I do not expect 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.640 that to be the case this time around. We'll talk 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.440 about that more in just a moment. Some key storylines 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.200 for this game. Patrick Mahomes has never lost back to 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.160 back games. That's the tweet, right, would be a historic 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.240 waiting for the Dolphins in that sense, and I have 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.640 to imagine that leads most shows on Monday. Patrick Mahomes 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.480 lost back to that game the Broncos I was a 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.680 floup in Miami. They look like the real deal. That's 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.880 my colin Cowver. Next one is this is more of 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.760 a what's it state category potentially, but I think the 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.000 one seeds up at stake for this game. Remember the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.080 before times before Coach McDaniel, we lose a game to 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.880 some unassuming two to five team and then in December 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.240 you look back, why the heck did we missed the 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.960 playoffs by one game? Well, I have a really strong 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.560 feeling we're going to look back at this game in 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.760 the same way, but not for a playoff spot. To me, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.280 that's already clinch perfectly. But the one seed will be 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.280 touchdown favorites plus against Las Vegas, which, by the way, wow, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.800 what a tirefire. Against Washington who just traded away their 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.440 two best pass users on the xter year, against Zach 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.559 Wilson twice, come on now, and the Titans who will 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.120 Levis looks good but Rickie quarterback against Vic Fangio with 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.640 tape to watch. What I'm trying to say is I 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.800 think Miami's going to win the next several games, regardless 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.439 of what happens on Sunday. So if you get this 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.160 one to me, let's save it for the end of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:27.439 the podcast, because I have a point on that I 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.640 want to make next storyline, the top two favorites for 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.079 the MVP race face off to us chance to make 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.280 a statement against the best quarterback in the world, arguably 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.400 the best player in football, and put Miami in prime 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.199 position heading into their bye week. And it doesn't matter 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.160 at all, but Miami has a chance in our next 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.800 story line here to shed the quote unquote cannot beat 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.760 good teams label again. I think it's dumb, but win 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.800 this game and you won't hear about it anymore. And 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.880 they will have multiple chances down the road. They'll play Baltimore, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.040 they'll play Buffalo at home, they'll play Dallas, they'll play 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.680 in the playoffs. They have a lot of chances to 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.000 win game against a good team this year, but this 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.640 one's a big one for them. And then, speaking of 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.040 that is the Miami defense for real. And again I 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.120 have you know, or I should say, I hate these 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.120 definitive takes from sixty minutes of football in early November. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.640 But we've seen Miami's defense, very bad offenses and struggle 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.760 against the good ones and the elite quarterbacks. Right, well, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.800 this isn't a bad offense and this is the elite 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.640 quarterback in the NFL. Can they put the screws to 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.600 a top offense if they do? Can you imagine the 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.960 talking points about it after we have the offense that 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.520 we have. It should help you that Ramsey's back with 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.920 the game under his belt. I have to imagine X 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.560 and Holland arago. In fact, they said as much on Wednesday. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.360 Phillips played eighty five percent of the snaps last week, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.880 so it looks like he's full go. Nick Needham got 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.600 his first reps back. Brandon Jones got his first full 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.280 slate of snaps, although he didn't travel with the team 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.760 in Germany, so he probably relegates back to that backup role. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.520 But with Holland back not as needed, we haven't been 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.120 this healthy on defense all seasons. That's the key elements 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.040 here for this big test is Miami has their entire roster, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.400 does it click? Does it work under Vic Fangio Tyreek reunion? 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.600 Not much to say about that. It's not in Kansas City, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.559 but you know he wants this one and then the 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.480 last one piggybacks off. That last point is that I 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.400 think it's fascinating how these offenses are constructed with opposite approaches. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.720 This isn't apples to apples because Mahomes is on that 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.880 second contract, in Tua is on his rookie deal. But 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.520 you've seen these two teams attack the structure of the 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.439 offensive side of the football entirely different. After Case lost 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.320 the Super Bowl following the twenty twenty season, the pandemic 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.800 year where they were decimated on the offensive line, they 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.680 then inked Joe Tooney to the biggest guard contract of 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.480 all time. They later went on to sign Orlando Brown Junior, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.760 and since him they have moved on and signed Juwan 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.600 Taylor to a similarly massive deal. They did hit home 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.720 runs in the draft on Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.840 as well. Miami, on the other hand, they have invested 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.719 in the offensive line. I mean big contracts Fatista and 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.840 Connor Williams. Austin Jackson's the first round pick, Rob Hunts 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.680 a high second round pick. Lee was a high second 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.360 round pick. Isaiah Win was once a first rounder. Not 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.080 a big investment for Miami, a one year free agent deal. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.240 But there's a lot of investment on the offensive line. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.760 But we also know about McDaniel's famed seven hundred play clip. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.160 I'm gonna go show the entire organization why this quarterback 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.880 is special. Let's surround him with weapons to maximize that 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.600 processing and accuracy superpower of his, but also his ability 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.560 to help get the football out and protect the offensive 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.960 line for a handful of snaps every single week and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.160 mitigate potential pressure problems as a result. I just think 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.640 it's a fascinating dichotomy in terms of team building. It's 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.280 not all done the same, and these two teams are 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.559 a good example of that, because a lot of this 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.200 game is like looking in the mirror, but a lot 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.920 of it is not. At the same time, Let's go 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.640 ahead and dive right into Dolphins offense versus Chiefs defense, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.280 and we start at the quarterback position. To a tongue, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.360 Baiowa is gonna go up against a trio of safeties 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.400 who plays significant snaps for the Chiefs defense. Justin Reid 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.720 plays almost every rep. Brian Cook plays eighty four percent, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.560 in Mike Edwards plays about half the snap, So there's 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.040 lots of big nickel package. They play lots of dime 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.440 as well. We'll get to that here in a second. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.959 At receiver Hill Waddle Craycraft, it looks like we could 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.360 have him back Cedric Wilson against Lugerious Sneed, who does 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.840 not leave the field. And then you have some interesting 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.280 cornerback dichotomy here, or disparity, I should say, because you 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.360 know Barrios and Smyth on the inside from my slot 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.120 and tight end positions. Trent McDuffie is your other ninety 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:29.160 nine percent snaptaker or corner, but he plays almost exclusively inside, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.840 especially with all their sub packages they run now Jalen 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.280 Watson from WSU, who had a good rookie year but 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.520 not so much this year. Pays me to say it, 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.040 but it's the truth, plays thirty four percent of the snaps. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.640 Josh Williams plays thirty three percent of the snaps, and 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.199 Chamari Connor plays nine percent. So if you're catching my 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.960 drift here, they have two good cornerbacks, really really good cornerbacks. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:55.320 But beyond that, in terms of the Dolphin's interior offensive line, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.040 with whether it's Cotton or Jones at left guard, I 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.760 think you're gonna see Connor Williams back, and I'd be 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.280 shot if Robert Hunt does not play through the hamstring 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.920 injury that he suffered last week. You get Chris Jones, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.679 who's played sixty percent of the snap, so that is 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 actually a lot higher because he missed the first first game, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.280 just the first game, right that that takes in, you know, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.040 you know, eight one eighth of the entire snap, so 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.679 that's probably closer to like seventy five percent. Derek Nandi 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.760 plays half the snap, so then tray Shawn Warton plays 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.080 thirty seven percent of the snaps. The thing you'll see 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.720 about this defense, and you'll really appreciate where Miami's opportunity 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.960 is here at the linebacker position is there's not a 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.720 lot of depth. It's really good up top, not a 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.520 lot of depth. If they lose guys and throughout the 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.480 course of the game, that could be a potential big 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:38.640 issue as well. So off the edge, Lamb, potentially Toron Armstead, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.720 back Austin Jackson we know is good to go. George 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.280 carl loftis seventy seven percent of the snap same as 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.720 Michael Dana. Those guys have been really good this year. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.200 Carl loftis on a different level. And then I think 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.320 you see more Charles Amene who who made his season debut. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.200 Was it last week or two weeks ago? I forget, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.560 but he's impactful as hell, and he's long and strong 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.680 and really can lock out the edge. He's played just 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.920 thirteen percent. And then that rookie first round pick fa 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.520 and d k Uzama twenty four percent. Running Backs Mooster 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:10.560 achmed Jeff Wilson up against a linebacker group that is 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.760 not going to have Nick Bolton. He's on ir They're 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.960 probably not going to have Willy Gay. He's played sixty 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.160 percent of the snaps and that leads him with Drew 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.640 Tranquill at sixty six percent, Leo Chanell at forty one percent, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.600 and Jack Cochran, who's barely played it all this year. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.120 He played a lot in the game on Sunday and 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.280 the Broncos ran the ball out him and threw the 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 ball at him. It's kind of your sombrero on this defense. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.840 But mcduffe never leaves the field, kicks inside to Nickel, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.840 Nick Bolton's the green dot field general. He's out. They 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.440 have to get a new signal communicator. I believe this 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.880 is probably Drew trankwill in this position, a mena who 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.520 I think starts off the edge coming back from his suspension. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.760 No Willie Gay, Jack Cochran replacing him, and then Justin 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.080 Reid also exited the game on Sunday with an injury, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.800 but came back and returned to that one. So flying 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 over on Thursday. Who knows how those injuries react to 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.560 that after some you know, practices in Kansas City for them, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.600 it's all interesting to me. Part of the equation for 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.360 how that works out for travel, Their personnel usage is unique. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.080 They're in their base twenty nine percent of the time, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.120 which is one of the higher percentages in the National 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.320 Football League. The four to three they run, they run 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.520 their nickel on one of the lowest percentages of forty 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.960 five percent, and their dime one of the highest at 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.360 twenty four percent. They love to get into subpackage. They 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.760 love to blitz dbs and kind of confuse you, and 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.360 every shell looks the exact same. Then they rotate and 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.120 shift and they run a variety of coverages, like they're 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.200 heavily in Man free, they're heavily in Cover three, they're 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.040 heavily in Cover six, and those are kind of all 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.520 translucent types of coverages that blend off each other, and 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.640 so they get to the same pre snap look and 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.400 adjust to those accordingly post snap. That's why two was 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.600 processing one of the best in the league. To me, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.600 has a chance to exploit this defense in a way 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.760 that nobody else really has this year because they haven't 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.600 seen a quarterback this good. They played the Chargers a 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.920 couple of weeks ago, they scored seventeen points. That quarterback is 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.320 not a good processor, so there's an issue there. They've 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.400 played the Broncos twice and even though they won the game, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.640 that Broncos offense didn't do a whole lot on this 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.000 case defense. They played the Lions back in Week one 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.359 and they were kind of getting their feet weight a 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.760 little bit. The Vikings had a pretty good plan to 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.560 score twenty points on them. But nothing is going to 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.480 test this and that was without Justin Jephson. Two. I 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.960 think nothing will test this Chiefs defense and the way 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.560 they operate. Like Miami's offense, Let's go ahead and take 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.320 a quick break right here and come back and pick 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.520 it up on the Dolphins offense first, the Chiefs defense, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.400 and we'll take our second break after the other side 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.479 of the football. All that coming your way next year. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.280 On the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:34.080 to you by Auto Nation, we left off on the 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.520 other side talking about this Chiefs defense. Let's go ahead 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.520 and kick this segment off by looking at some of 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.880 their leaders by the stats, the pressure leaders I mentioned 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.600 George Karloff is thirty nine pressures this year. He's top 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.400 ten among edge rushers, and then Chris Jones also top 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.879 ten among interior with thirty actually his top five and 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.240 he missed a game. Then a drop off to Mike 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.639 Dan twenty two, but then a bigger drop off to 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.320 Drew trankwill eleven so they have three guys up front 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.760 that can consistently put pressure in the quarterback. So I 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.440 like Miami's chances to new those guys because it's really 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.440 the four man rushes that have four guys that could 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.439 win one on ones that give this Dolphins group, this 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.680 Dolphins front issues. I just don't think that's the case 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.720 here for the Chiefs, they're stops leaders. Tranquill has twenty three, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.040 Trent McDuffie has eighteen. That's cater coohu esque. In terms 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.480 of a cornerback tackling, Dana has eighteen, Chanelle has fifteen, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.200 and Willie Gay who's out, has thirteen. So what I 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.359 think is interesting about this list is that Nick Bolton 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.880 is not in there. To me. It shows you how 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.280 rare his role is, and I think a big piece 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.400 of why the Broncos were able to have some success 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.240 on Sunday against this very good Chiefs defense. Bolton's workload 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.040 goes one hundred and twenty coverage snaps, just thirteen pass 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.200 rush snaps, but seventy nine rundowns. Now, of course, teams 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.800 are usually behind them, but no other linebacker on the 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.320 roster has more coverage snaps than rundown snaps because most 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.879 of them rush the quarterback. So I think you can 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.480 get away with all this blitzing and fire zones that 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.520 the Chiefs run because of Nick Bolton, He's a massive 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.160 loss in that regard. Drew Trankuill steps into that role. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.200 I think that he's you know, not the same player, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.160 but he's a good player and we saw his role 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.080