Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check
Speaker 1: your pulse if you're not. What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And
Speaker 1: on today's show we turn the page to week number
Speaker 1: eight and the New England Patriots. A chance to sweep
Speaker 1: a division rival in your building, a place where you've
Speaker 1: won three straight against that rival and five of the
Speaker 1: last six. Key matchups, key data points, key film study points,
Speaker 1: and keys to victory and much much more from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist healths Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. Maggie Gaffie, My apologies for
Speaker 1: the energy on the show. Your boy is sick as
Speaker 1: a dog and you'll hear that on tomorrow's podcast with
Speaker 1: Mike Reese as well. So we're trying to get through
Speaker 1: the week into the weekend with lots of fluids and
Speaker 1: hopefully feeling better in time for the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The weather for Sunday is supposed to be a little
Speaker 1: bit breezy, but hot as hell, eighty six degrees on
Speaker 1: Sunday with a very high humidity point that makes it
Speaker 1: feel like ninety degrees. So we've had some nice cold
Speaker 1: fronts here lately, but it's going to be hot once
Speaker 1: again for the Patriots, just like we like it against
Speaker 1: those guys. Speaking of the Patriots, let's get to know them,
Speaker 1: even though you already know them very well. Once a
Speaker 1: thorn in our collective side. The Dolphins have really flipped
Speaker 1: the script here in this series in recent years. The
Speaker 1: Patriots are in year three post Brady, and it's been
Speaker 1: an adjustment that first year. They qualified for the postseason,
Speaker 1: but had a rough go in the wild card round
Speaker 1: up in Buffalo, a place where they finally exercised that
Speaker 1: demon just last week. But I think that season that
Speaker 1: Mac Jones had as a rookie gets a little bit
Speaker 1: lost in the weeds after last year's rough experiment with
Speaker 1: a variety of coordinators and play callers that attempted to
Speaker 1: implement that wide zone system that never really took. Eventually
Speaker 1: they revert back to more man gap concepts in the
Speaker 1: running game, But though through some injuries and up and
Speaker 1: down play, it was a challenging sophomore season for Mac
Speaker 1: Jones and then a rocky start so far here in
Speaker 1: year three. The reason he was a first round pick
Speaker 1: was the same reason he found success in that rookie season.
Speaker 1: He sees the field pretty well, throws a very accurate football,
Speaker 1: and he's a good decision maker. I thought we saw
Speaker 1: some of that on Sunday against Buffalo than we have
Speaker 1: really all year with Mac Jones. And more on him
Speaker 1: in a moment, but he's obviously the marquis talking point
Speaker 1: here in discussing the post Brady era run of eight
Speaker 1: consecutive trips of the AFC Championship, with three rings over
Speaker 1: that span and obviously six total over two decades. There
Speaker 1: it's hard to fill the shoes of Brady. I mean,
Speaker 1: Belichick is doing what he's always done, though, and it's
Speaker 1: no secret to say their draft classes have not developed
Speaker 1: a lot of star power i e. Pro Bowls and
Speaker 1: second contracts. But you often need to look at the
Speaker 1: entire body of roster billing to get a feel for
Speaker 1: how a team is at constructing, and the bottom line
Speaker 1: is Belichick, year in a year out, develops a defense
Speaker 1: that performs well above what you expect them to us
Speaker 1: based on paper. They put the clamps on the Bills
Speaker 1: last week before the fourth quarter, when a couple of
Speaker 1: late drives for Buffalo with a short field put them
Speaker 1: in prime position to come back and almost steal that victory.
Speaker 1: And I think we might look back in that game
Speaker 1: as like kind of a turning point here in the
Speaker 1: AFC East. But from the Patriots perspective, Josh Allen carved
Speaker 1: them up going back to twenty twenty one, like several
Speaker 1: games in a row where he didn't even have any punts,
Speaker 1: So the Bill's offense didn't have any punts in those games.
Speaker 1: So it's nice for them to be able to get
Speaker 1: that win to slow Josh Allen down, who by the way,
Speaker 1: he is in pain. He's banged up. That whole Bills
Speaker 1: team is banged up. We're gonna talk about the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills on the Friday podcast and the landscape of the
Speaker 1: AFC East that I find very promising for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But today's bout the Patriots. So last year for that defense,
Speaker 1: eleventh in points allowed the year prior second points allowed,
Speaker 1: and then back in twenty twenty they were seventh in
Speaker 1: points allowed, so they're always top ten or on the
Speaker 1: periphery of it well until this year, and that was
Speaker 1: after being ranked top in Tom Brady's last year in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and this year even with the offense really
Speaker 1: struggled to sustain drives for long periods of time and
Speaker 1: now down Matthew Judon and Christian Gonzales, who I would
Speaker 1: argue are two of their top three players on defense,
Speaker 1: with Kyle Dugger in there as well. What do you
Speaker 1: know here? They are fourth in yards per play allowed
Speaker 1: at four point eight. Now that said, they are seventeenth
Speaker 1: in total defense and twenty fourth in scoring. But again
Speaker 1: that to me is a product of turnovers and three
Speaker 1: and outs on offense putting them in challenging spots. They
Speaker 1: average twenty five point seven yards per drive. That's twenty
Speaker 1: sixth in the NFL one point two toy six points
Speaker 1: per drive is thirtieth, and then five point six plays
Speaker 1: per drive is twenty six So maybe an opportunity here
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins defense to get quick stops, give the
Speaker 1: offense more possessions, and maybe boat race this team. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking forward to. Additional note here, what's
Speaker 1: crazy about that? As Miami averages five point five plays
Speaker 1: per drive, so They're worse than the Patriots in terms
Speaker 1: of sustaining drives, but that's a different result because Miami
Speaker 1: strikes quickly so often, evident by our league leading three
Speaker 1: point zero one points per drive, which leads the NFL
Speaker 1: by more than a half or almost a half a
Speaker 1: point San Francisco's two point sixty four. So Miami has
Speaker 1: less plays per drive but averages more than double points
Speaker 1: per drive than the Patriots do. So structurally, it's still
Speaker 1: a second Dary driven team that employs six seven eight
Speaker 1: dB packages on the rig. They get production from every
Speaker 1: avenue of roster acquisition, the same unheralded D line that
Speaker 1: deserves way more praise than they get between Dietrich Wise,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Guy. They've been there since, you know, George Bush
Speaker 1: was in office. They imported Von Godshaw from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and then Christian Barmore I think
Speaker 1: would be their next best player that I mentioned with Judon, Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: Dugger and then Barmore probably he has been probably their
Speaker 1: best draft hit in recent years. And again they lost
Speaker 1: their best player in Matt Judon to injury and have
Speaker 1: really struggled to replace his pass rush production. More on
Speaker 1: that in the preview, they are twenty six and thirty
Speaker 1: two since twenty twenty that includes a playoff loss. They're
Speaker 1: off to a two to five start, but coming off
Speaker 1: their biggest win in quite some time, in fact, something
Speaker 1: of a demon's exercise game for them. They were owned
Speaker 1: fourteen when the opposition scored twenty five or more points
Speaker 1: and mac Jones starts, which is what you know, what's
Speaker 1: weird about that? Miami has not done that to the
Speaker 1: Patriots very often, even last year in the victory, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty points. So this year up in New England is
Speaker 1: twenty four points and of course the non tua game.
Speaker 1: But we have two of this week, so I feel
Speaker 1: very good about it. But Mac Jones is now one
Speaker 1: and fourteen when the opposition scores twenty four or twenty
Speaker 1: five or more points. He didn't have a game winning
Speaker 1: drive and had just one fourth quarter comeback in his career.
Speaker 1: He now has those both under his belt. And again,
Speaker 1: there's always fun storylines when these two teams link up.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into those here before our
Speaker 1: first break on the show, and again apologize for the energy.
Speaker 1: I tend to think my podcast is good for the
Speaker 1: research and notes, but I'd like to think that the
Speaker 1: energy and personality I bring to it is the other
Speaker 1: reason you come and stay for the podcast. So we're
Speaker 1: missing one of those two elements to day. But can
Speaker 1: we win a game and we don't have our best stuff?
Speaker 1: That's the idea. Here some key storylines. Now some of
Speaker 1: this will give us some cross over in the matchup section,
Speaker 1: so we'll avoid getting into the numbers and the teletape
Speaker 1: tail of the tape on some of these. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start here. Miami is five and oh against
Speaker 1: the Patriots in games started by two a Tongua by lower.
Speaker 1: From a fundamentals and execution standpoint, I think you can
Speaker 1: make the case this was Tua's sharpest game of the year.
Speaker 1: Back in Week two. The Patriots rolled out a defense
Speaker 1: that we just simply don't see to try to slow
Speaker 1: Miami down, and I guess you could say it worked.
Speaker 1: I think twenty four points with two miss field goals,
Speaker 1: so potentially thirty points is an offensive win, especially on
Speaker 1: ten possessions, because that would be three points per possession,
Speaker 1: which is a little less than what Miami averages, which
Speaker 1: leads the league by a big chunk, by a big margin,
Speaker 1: and for posterity there, the league average is one point
Speaker 1: nine points per possession, so that's you know, greater than
Speaker 1: sixty six percent of the league if you can get that.
Speaker 1: What the Dolphins did score, even the twenty four points
Speaker 1: is a full half point per drive better than that
Speaker 1: league average of one point nine. So you know, four
Speaker 1: hundred yards is not being shut down. The Eagles at
Speaker 1: a much better job slowing Miami did than anybody else.
Speaker 1: But that's my soapbox. The Dolphins were not shut down
Speaker 1: by the Patriots in week number two. Our next storyline
Speaker 1: to track here. This is for the next segment. What
Speaker 1: the hell is the Patriots game plan going to look like?
Speaker 1: Will they employ that same look from week two? Will
Speaker 1: they try to borrow from the Eagles last week who
Speaker 1: shut Miami down? Will they take what the Vikings did
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football against a similar Niners offense and
Speaker 1: use that. That simple question is going to make this
Speaker 1: game preview difficult to do, And I wonder how much
Speaker 1: more difficult it is a game plan for this Patriots
Speaker 1: team when you quite frankly don't really know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, so maybe you have to feel them out
Speaker 1: for the first couple of possessions or so. Next storyline
Speaker 1: is when we talk about every single time we play
Speaker 1: this team, is that minimal possessions are had by either
Speaker 1: side every time these two teams play. Does that change
Speaker 1: with new coordinators? And again, akin to the first storyline,
Speaker 1: this game script tends to follow the same well script
Speaker 1: every time these two teams meet. Both teams have methodical
Speaker 1: drives that shortened the number of possessions in a game,
Speaker 1: and both teams play really well on third down offensively,
Speaker 1: but even better in the red zone defensively, and you
Speaker 1: wind up with these seventeen to sixteen finals. You know,
Speaker 1: for the opener last year, I did a study and
Speaker 1: found the Dolphins and Patriots games average two point two
Speaker 1: possessions per team, fewer than league average going back to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Last year's opener was similar, two possessions fewer
Speaker 1: for each and the Week seventeen game didn't have the
Speaker 1: same track, But we were also down a couple of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in that game after you know, an in game injury,
Speaker 1: throwing a wrench into the whole thing, So I kind
Speaker 1: of throw that one out. But then Week one was similar.
Speaker 1: Both teams had fewer than league average possessions but more
Speaker 1: than the series average. So I think that there was
Speaker 1: some return to the norm in that sense, with Miami
Speaker 1: no longer deploying an offshoot of the Belichick scheme and
Speaker 1: with them going a little more tempo aggressive with Bill
Speaker 1: Brian O'Brien's attack. But he's operated this you know, same
Speaker 1: thing on as defense where you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get here, because they have had in Houston a
Speaker 1: deep dropback, slow developing type of system for Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: to go big play hunt like he did in Houston.
Speaker 1: He's run the quick rpo game at Bama with Tua,
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. So maybe not the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge in terms of personnel, but in terms of having
Speaker 1: to kind of develop multiple game plans for what you
Speaker 1: might expect to see. Vick Fangio has the same challenge
Speaker 1: as Frank Smith and Mike McDaniel do. Next story line,
Speaker 1: Dolphins are dominant at home on defense against a struggling offense,
Speaker 1: especially when they come down here really the entire operation.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dolphins are three and ozero this season at home,
Speaker 1: fifteen to two. In their last seventeen games, they average
Speaker 1: forty four points six points per game at home, five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight yards per game and eight point
Speaker 1: eight yards per play with a plus eighty six point
Speaker 1: differential in this building. The last couple of years, the
Speaker 1: defense at home has just been entirely a different beast.
Speaker 1: Over those seventeen games, two hundred and sixty seven points
Speaker 1: allowed is fifteen point seven points per game. That's why
Speaker 1: it's so key for Miami to try to find a
Speaker 1: way into home field advantage in this upcoming postseason. The
Speaker 1: Patriots point outputs in Miami last year seven, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty four, and twenty twenty just twelve. So the three
Speaker 1: year average of Mac Jones games in Miami, they score
Speaker 1: just fourteen points per game. So the numbers tell you
Speaker 1: Miami can hold the Patriots under twenty in this one,
Speaker 1: and I think it's pretty rare. See the Dolphins offense
Speaker 1: go under twenty, so I like our chances there. And
Speaker 1: then finally, of course you have to mention, actually sorry,
Speaker 1: I have two more here former Fins and Patriots Parker
Speaker 1: Gasiki Godshaw, Barrios Bailey, and Bethel Isaiah Winn was in there,
Speaker 1: but he no longer is active. Some more recent than others.
Speaker 1: You know, Gasiki, Bailey and Win were on the other
Speaker 1: side for that Week seventeen game last year. Parker is
Speaker 1: in his second year with the Patriots. Godsha been there
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. Similar timelines for Barrios and Bethel, but
Speaker 1: lots of familiar already here in division. Not as much
Speaker 1: coaching staff carryover as there once was, but it's always
Speaker 1: fun for me to watch who can have a good
Speaker 1: day against their former team. And then how about this
Speaker 1: for you guys for the last storyline double digit favorites
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins here. This is the third game in
Speaker 1: the last four that Miami's going to be double digit favorites.
Speaker 1: I've seen lines of ten, I've seen lines of twelve,
Speaker 1: but I'm going with a twelve point line here since
Speaker 1: Draft Kings the league's official website, right, they covered both
Speaker 1: times against the Giants, which was also twelve down here
Speaker 1: a couple weeks back. They covered that with a fifteen
Speaker 1: point win, and then covered a fourteen point spread against
Speaker 1: the Panthers with a twenty one point win. And here's
Speaker 1: the key storyline. We typically don't lose games as favorites
Speaker 1: with Tua under center. Eighteen point or eighteen and five,
Speaker 1: I should say, in games favored to win in his career.
Speaker 1: The Chargers and Packers last year were two losses Denver
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then back in twenty twenty one that
Speaker 1: you know, atrocious two game stretch against Jacksonville and Atlanta
Speaker 1: that really basically cost Miami the playoffs that year. But
Speaker 1: teams that are double digit dogs rarely, rarely come out
Speaker 1: victorious in the final score. The twenty nineteen Dolphins won
Speaker 1: three such games as double digit dogs, and that's what
Speaker 1: sold us all on Brian Flores, right, But winning with
Speaker 1: those rosters and you know, five games versus winning with
Speaker 1: expectations and winning ten games to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Different ballgame, as we came to find out a couple
Speaker 1: of years after that. But that was the first and
Speaker 1: only time that's ever happened, a team winning three games
Speaker 1: as double digit dogs in one season. The Patriots just
Speaker 1: scored a double digit dog win against Buffalo at home
Speaker 1: in Miami. I don't think it's gonna happen. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break right there and come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and break down the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense first, Patriots defense, that's next Draft Time Podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Feels
Speaker 1: good to be back on a Wednesday here talking about
Speaker 1: another football game. Man. I always tell myself, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get too beat up over the losses, but these
Speaker 1: two losses this year have kind of taken it out
Speaker 1: of me for a couple of days. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: to get back to hard Rock Stadium and hopefully beat
Speaker 1: the crap out of the New England Patriots. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and preview the Dolphins offense versus Patriots defense, and just
Speaker 1: looking at the matchups here, you guys kind of know
Speaker 1: what to expect. I mean, the safety, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: trying to the limit to a tongue of by Lowa.
Speaker 1: Kyle Duggars played ninety five percent of their snaps, Jabrill
Speaker 1: Peppers ninety two percent, and then a big fall off
Speaker 1: for Adrian Phillips the third safety to play twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps. But I expect you might see more
Speaker 1: of that because I expect to see that three safety
Speaker 1: look again they ran in week number two. Uh, the
Speaker 1: frequency of it, we'll see, but I think they would
Speaker 1: be crazy to go away from that plan and just
Speaker 1: using Kyle Dugger and Jabrill Peppers in a variety of roles,
Speaker 1: as those two guys have had so much success this year,
Speaker 1: you know, fitting the run down in the box, playing
Speaker 1: you know, off and coverage, covering tight ends like those
Speaker 1: guys are such good players. It's gonna be a key
Speaker 1: to account for both of those guys, the corners who
Speaker 1: are going to go up against Tyreek and Jalen and
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson on the outside. Jonathan Jones is back. I
Speaker 1: expect you'll see him shadow Tyreek with some help a
Speaker 1: bracket where they literally clamp him. And then that means
Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle could get some one on one looks against
Speaker 1: the guy like j C. Jackson who's back and just
Speaker 1: back in time to get picked on by two once again.
Speaker 1: Never should have made those comments back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: J C. Jackson, Jalen Mills plays twenty six percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps and then Jack Jones is back, and I
Speaker 1: want you to keep an eye on Jack Jones because
Speaker 1: he's only played seven percent of the snaps this year,
Speaker 1: But gosh, he's a good football player. He arrives with
Speaker 1: you know, ferocity, he's a good return guy. I just
Speaker 1: like his game a lot in the slot. Miles Bryant
Speaker 1: has played eighty percent of their snaps and Sean Waye
Speaker 1: has played thirty one percent of their reps as well.
Speaker 1: So Barrios and Smythe I don't think it's a good
Speaker 1: tight end game because I like their safeties in coverage
Speaker 1: and even julying to either linebacker quite a lot. But
Speaker 1: I think Barrios could get some one on one looks
Speaker 1: inside and really be kind of like a you know,
Speaker 1: a six catch for sixty yard type of game for Braxton.
Speaker 1: But I really expect Wadal to get off on the
Speaker 1: outside defensive line of Dietrich Wise sixty seven percent, Christian
Speaker 1: Barmore fifty nine percent, Lawrence Guy fifty three, Devon Godshaw
Speaker 1: fifty two. So there you go. That's four you know,
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Sealer type of players that play more than
Speaker 1: half the snaps. So you get really strange formations from
Speaker 1: this Patriots defense. I mean, we know what that looks like, right,
Speaker 1: We saw it with for years here with Flora some
Speaker 1: boyer running you know, heavy ends. You know, essentially three
Speaker 1: defensive tackles who run these odd fronts where you then
Speaker 1: bring down your linebackers off the edge and give you
Speaker 1: essentially a five to one or a five to two look.
Speaker 1: And nobody runs more base in this Patriots team. And
Speaker 1: it's really kind of intertwined there with those big bodies
Speaker 1: on the interior who also play that you know, five
Speaker 1: technique end as well, and they're gonna go up against
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be Lester Cotton, I don't know, We'll see.
Speaker 1: I would go with Rob Jones personally. Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be Connor or Liam That's a that's the biggest discrepancy
Speaker 1: on the entire football team besides the quarterback position in
Speaker 1: terms of starter and backup. And then Robert Hunt, who
Speaker 1: just is kicking everybody's ass this year off the outside.
Speaker 1: Lamb and Jackson, we know about those two guys and
Speaker 1: they've both had really good years. And this is where
Speaker 1: I think Miami can really you know, help in terms
Speaker 1: of scan protect inside, pull alec Ingold inside or drham
Speaker 1: smythe to block the interior, because without Matt Judon, I
Speaker 1: don't think any of these guys match up well one
Speaker 1: on one against Lamb or Jackson. And that's Anthony Jennings,
Speaker 1: who he's forty six percent of the snaps. He doesn't
Speaker 1: really have a great rush arsenal, but he's got super
Speaker 1: long arms, so he can kind of redirect and get
Speaker 1: that second effort sack if you, you know, pump and
Speaker 1: hold the ball for too long. I do like josh
Speaker 1: Ucha's explosiveness. Now he's coming off an injury, so we'll
Speaker 1: see how much he plays just thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: reps this year, and then Keon White, also coming back
Speaker 1: off an injury, twenty eight percent of the snaps, and
Speaker 1: we'll see how effective those guys can be coming back
Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks off with injuries. So I
Speaker 1: like Miami's front to handle their front, even with the
Speaker 1: potential backups that we have in place there. And then
Speaker 1: of course Rahem Moster and Savon Ahmed going up against
Speaker 1: the linebacker crew that seemed like it's been there for
Speaker 1: the last several years. Juwan Bentley plays ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps July Tevia sixty six, and then Marte
Speaker 1: mop who is a new name, twenty five percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps. He's kind of like a buck linebacker, like
Speaker 1: a safety linebacker convert. And you know, this third defense
Speaker 1: in general has faced so much attrition in the defensive
Speaker 1: backfield this year. Jack Jones is back again. He looks awesome.
Speaker 1: But Christian Gonzal being down is so huge. He was
Speaker 1: a pivotal piece to that team. And I think that
Speaker 1: he would have been the guy that would have matched
Speaker 1: up on Jalen. You know when you bracket Tyreek with
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones and somebody else, But they don't have a
Speaker 1: good option for Jaylen Waddle in this game. Marcus Jones
Speaker 1: is still on IR as well, so they went out
Speaker 1: and got j C. Jackson. He's played a lot for him.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then you know, good luck, good
Speaker 1: luck to you guys. Jonathan Jones has the smaller workload
Speaker 1: because of an injury, but again he's back and a
Speaker 1: really good player. And then Miles Bryant that primary slot guy.
Speaker 1: That's why I like Braxton a lot. I think Braxton
Speaker 1: matches up well against Miles Bryant. And even with that
Speaker 1: banged up edge, they still operate more base than anybody
Speaker 1: else in the NFL. And you're gonna see, you know,
Speaker 1: there's different variations of that that they can run, whether
Speaker 1: it's you know, if you're in a base and you've
Speaker 1: got seven guys up front. It can be a five too,
Speaker 1: it can be a six to one, or it can
Speaker 1: be like a two five like, they have different options
Speaker 1: they can roll with in this front. Seven, Their flexibility,
Speaker 1: their versatility are all so key for them. So three
Speaker 1: four which again there's varieties of this, but twenty seven
Speaker 1: percent of the time four to three eight percent, So
Speaker 1: that gives you a total of thirty five percent in
Speaker 1: a base look, which means you only have four dbs
Speaker 1: in the field, which means there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: speed out there to cover Tyreek and jayln Waddle. Now
Speaker 1: I think it'll change this week because of the personnel
Speaker 1: they face. Nickel thirty five percent and then Dime twenty
Speaker 1: five percent. So basically, base downs, we load up the box,
Speaker 1: we get bigger and more physical than you, and then
Speaker 1: on third downs we pull all the dogs off and
Speaker 1: basically run you know, six to seven defensive backs on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. For what it's worth, they have not
Speaker 1: run that three high safety look against anybody else the
Speaker 1: way they did against the Dolphins this year more than
Speaker 1: half the snaps in that game, and have not topped
Speaker 1: more than three snaps in three high in a game
Speaker 1: otherwise this year. I alluded to this in the open
Speaker 1: What plan will they deploy? I think this is the
Speaker 1: primary challenge for McDaniel en staff is you probably need
Speaker 1: three game plans in terms of what you might expect
Speaker 1: to see, and to have mentioned it after the Patriots game,
Speaker 1: they did a total change up based on their week
Speaker 1: one look against the Eagles to week two agains to
Speaker 1: us or the typical Patriots. Look, there's just no reason
Speaker 1: to think they won't do that again. And when I
Speaker 1: say common Patriots, look, yes, they will change it up
Speaker 1: by opponent, but traditionally blitz heavy, man free, you know,
Speaker 1: single high safety odd fronts with those big heavy ends
Speaker 1: and lots and lots of dime and dollar defense. That said,
Speaker 1: there's one thing you can count on. They are going
Speaker 1: to bracket Tyreek. They do it every single time. They've
Speaker 1: done it since he was in Kansas City. And they
Speaker 1: always use Jonathan Jones's four to three speed to try
Speaker 1: to negate what he can do. Now, Tyreek did split
Speaker 1: a double team against the Eagles. I think the Patriots
Speaker 1: are more fundamentally sound to not let that happen. We'll see,
Speaker 1: and a great ball from two it helps too. But
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you know, nobody has limited the Cheetah
Speaker 1: the way the Patriots do annually. But when you have
Speaker 1: a strong number two option behind that, that's where you
Speaker 1: can eat. That's why it's such good news that Wattle
Speaker 1: is back in practicing and will probably play in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. I think Wattle I've said this probably
Speaker 1: five times this year, so you can tell me I'm
Speaker 1: stupid for going back to the well. I think Wattle
Speaker 1: goes off in this one one hundred yard game of
Speaker 1: the season, maybe multiple touchdowns. Back in Week one against J. C. Jackson,
Speaker 1: Hill had three for eighty one, Wattle had two for
Speaker 1: forty against him, and Waddle's last three games against the
Speaker 1: Patriots not crazy high catch volume ten catches, but two
Speaker 1: hundred and seven yards is pretty good for a three
Speaker 1: game total. All thanks told, Tua has in a great
Speaker 1: job of spreading the ball around against these Patriots, and
Speaker 1: while I think we will get a similar look than
Speaker 1: what we saw from week number two, you can't guarantee it.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. The best way to attack that is
Speaker 1: take your short stuff, run the football successfully, and don't
Speaker 1: get bogged down by procedural issues. Didn't have the issues
Speaker 1: up in New England last time. The other couple of
Speaker 1: road games, the Bills and the Eagles, we did so
Speaker 1: for the home game. I don't expect you have that.
Speaker 1: I expect Miami to be sharp in that regard. That
Speaker 1: was the recipe in week two. They executed it again.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns in a field goal is pretty good, but
Speaker 1: two more miss field goals thirty days, thirty points potentially there.
Speaker 1: That's a successful dig against a team that has struggled
Speaker 1: to score for the Patriots offense, at least until last week.
Speaker 1: But more on that on the other side of the
Speaker 1: break here. To me, there are two key two keys
Speaker 1: to this defense well, I guess three. Number one is
Speaker 1: to always locate Kyle Duggar. He's a game changing playmaker.
Speaker 1: He'll peel off his coverage and wind up in a
Speaker 1: place he's not supposed to be. And there are a
Speaker 1: few safeties if any who come from depth to make
Speaker 1: plays better than he does. So he might be a
Speaker 1: key to limiting Miami's outside run game and the extension
Speaker 1: of the run game with the screen game, as he
Speaker 1: tends to find a way to make plays on those plays.
Speaker 1: Got to locate and get a hat on number twenty three.
Speaker 1: Every single snap for the Dolphins. Next is to find
Speaker 1: secondary options. Again, they love to double and that's a
Speaker 1: pretty obvious double option here with Tyreeks. You got to
Speaker 1: spread the ball around as we covered it. And then
Speaker 1: three is to stay on blocks up front. Anytime you
Speaker 1: get a big front against a smaller front, you know
Speaker 1: they want to play a heavy handed stack and shed
Speaker 1: and you know two gap, they'll have to have good
Speaker 1: gap discipline and want to rush the quarterback akin to
Speaker 1: how we did it last week, where it's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, reset the line of scrimmage by playing through
Speaker 1: your man, not around them. So I think that all
Speaker 1: the misdirection, all the motions, all the ball fakes that
Speaker 1: we run, I think that's where you stand to really
Speaker 1: help prevent two or from getting sacked. You know, he
Speaker 1: got sacked one time in the game last time around.
Speaker 1: I think that could be similar this week with one
Speaker 1: or no sacks onto a tongue Maila. I don't think
Speaker 1: Connor's absence in this game will be felt nearly as
Speaker 1: much as it was last week. If he can't play,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens this week in practice. But then again,
Speaker 1: I thought Derek Brown could cause some issues in the
Speaker 1: Panthers game, and he didn't do anything in that game.
Speaker 1: So that's where it comes down to McDaniel neutralizing a
Speaker 1: defensive line with the previous detail regarding misdirection. But I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots front with you know, the safety support
Speaker 1: we talked about from Kyle Duggar, and there are so
Speaker 1: many fronts in this defense where the dB inserts itself,
Speaker 1: like inside of your outside linebacker, like a marble front.
Speaker 1: We've broken down on the podcast so many times before. Though.
Speaker 1: You know, Patrick Chung was always the guy that used
Speaker 1: to put down there in the sea gap and he
Speaker 1: would go fit a gap in the running game. I
Speaker 1: think if they do that here, it's a big mistake
Speaker 1: because you cannot leave the speed the Dolphins have on
Speaker 1: the perimeter alone. But if you don't do that, mine,
Speaker 1: he's gonn run the football. They did it last time.
Speaker 1: So for instance, Miami ran off the left edge last
Speaker 1: time eight times for twenty five yards. They tried the
Speaker 1: right edge three times for fifteen yards. So not bad
Speaker 1: on balance, but check this out. Runs between the tackles
Speaker 1: twelve for ninety four and a touchdown. Doing that executing
Speaker 1: in the short intermediate passing game, that's how you get
Speaker 1: these nine to ten possession games. The Patriots must get
Speaker 1: stops in the red zone to keep it close. So
Speaker 1: that's where I think this game is won. And luckily
Speaker 1: for Miami, seventy eight percent red zone conversion is way
Speaker 1: out in front of the rest of the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: best in football. How about this. The Patriots offense is fourth.
Speaker 1: Would you believe that two thirds of the time they
Speaker 1: get in the red zone they score. But the problem
Speaker 1: is they only have fifteen trips down there, the fifteenth fewest.
Speaker 1: On defense, they rank eighth with a forty five point
Speaker 1: eight percent red zone possessions resulting in touchdowns. And for posterity,
Speaker 1: Miami's defense is not good in that regard, twenty seventh
Speaker 1: at two thirds of the time allowing touchdowns and red
Speaker 1: zone possessions. It's an interesting matchup because we aren't the
Speaker 1: biggest line, but you play so fast. This is a big,
Speaker 1: big front that goes, you know, that way through their
Speaker 1: entire back front seven, which is why Miami's ability to
Speaker 1: run the football and influence those base defenders and throw
Speaker 1: into the windows that creates. That's where Miami can find space.
Speaker 1: Now that's said, they do have a linebacker in July
Speaker 1: and Tobai I think who found his footing after he
Speaker 1: got drafted by the Lions, and you know, Matt Patricia
Speaker 1: didn't know what he was doing, so didn't work there. Then
Speaker 1: he get traded to the Patriots and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: what do you know has a role in that same
Speaker 1: defense that's better coached, and man, he's really looked good
Speaker 1: for them. He's second on the team and stops. He's
Speaker 1: allowed only thirty seven yards on one hundred and one
Speaker 1: coverage snaps and has eight pressures on thirty eight pass
Speaker 1: rush attempts. So really athletic player and their matchup eraser,
Speaker 1: if you will. Now, when they go to that base package,
Speaker 1: if Miami stays in twenty one personnel, I like the
Speaker 1: Dolphins opportunities to hit the vertical passing game. So if
Speaker 1: it's just Tyreek and Waddle on the field at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think you could run a lot of
Speaker 1: alec ingold action and somedrm smythe action to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, sell the inside running game and hit those successfully.
Speaker 1: But when they pull that base defense out against your
Speaker 1: fast twenty one person or even your twenty one personal
Speaker 1: grouping in general, I think Miami can hit explosives out
Speaker 1: of that package I'm looking for. I think Waddell has
Speaker 1: like one long touchdown, maybe one other long play in
Speaker 1: this game, and goes for like a buck thirty in
Speaker 1: the game. That's kind of my bold prediction on this one.
Speaker 1: As far as their guys, you gotta worried about up
Speaker 1: front the pressures leaders Wise has nineteen, has seventeen, Barmore
Speaker 1: has sixteen, and Juwan Bentley has twelve. He also leaves
Speaker 1: a team of twenty three stops. I think the matchups
Speaker 1: across the board come down to Miami's ability to strike first,
Speaker 1: like fire out of your stance, don't let the guys
Speaker 1: get into your chest, play and control the rep with
Speaker 1: explosiveness where you can out leverage them. If we can
Speaker 1: do that, I think we can win one on ones
Speaker 1: outside when they present. And I just really like Tua's
Speaker 1: ability to find solutions against this defense. He always plays
Speaker 1: well against the Patriots. They never blitz him. He stays
Speaker 1: patient and finds his yardage through rhythm and timing. And
Speaker 1: I like Miami's chances to put up a big number,
Speaker 1: not a huge number, but a good number here against
Speaker 1: the Patriots in this one about the other side of
Speaker 1: the football on defense. Well to that next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Winfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: We've done Dolphins offense first, Patriots defense. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about how Miami can continue their hot streak
Speaker 1: at home on the defensive side of the football, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens at safety. I think that Nick
Speaker 1: Needham getting activated this week could have a potential impact
Speaker 1: in that spot. And if it's not, Jevon Holland, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe Deshaun Elliott plays that post position and
Speaker 1: really gives you the range back there. And then Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones Elijah Campbell. How they impact Mac Jones will be
Speaker 1: a big key in this game. Their receivers are Kendrick
Speaker 1: Bourn leads away at seventy five percent of the workload.
Speaker 1: Devonte Parker plays two thirds of their snaps at receiver
Speaker 1: both inside and outside, and then on the slot to
Speaker 1: Mario Douglas plays twenty six percent, but that's that number
Speaker 1: has gone way up in recent weeks. Hunter Henry is
Speaker 1: their top option on offense seventy six percent of the workload.
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki's played half the snaps and then Faroh Brown
Speaker 1: has played twenty five percent, So they love those three
Speaker 1: tight ends to roll those guys out in various packages.
Speaker 1: Their offensive lines back and healthy. That's the biggest difference
Speaker 1: I think in this game in terms of the matchup,
Speaker 1: because Miami really exploited that Patriots offensive line back in
Speaker 1: Week two. But cole Stra back, he's a really good player.
Speaker 1: David Andrews has been good for a long time city
Speaker 1: so is the right guard. He is back in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And then Trent Brown left last games last week's game
Speaker 1: with an injury but returned. And then Michael on Wen
Speaker 1: who is in his second week at right tackle. He
Speaker 1: looks pretty good out there as well. Just a much
Speaker 1: healthier offensive line who had backup tackles the last time
Speaker 1: he came out here, and I think the tackle play
Speaker 1: will make a big difference to the Patriots offense this
Speaker 1: time around. There's not a bigger tackle combo in football.
Speaker 1: Brown is three seventy and on when who is three
Speaker 1: to fifty, So again size advantage Patriots here. Their personnel
Speaker 1: usage eleven personnels fifty one percent, and then nobody runs
Speaker 1: more twelve and then New England Patriots thirty three percent
Speaker 1: at the time they have two tight ends in the field.
Speaker 1: They also run a lot of thirteen personnel. It's nine
Speaker 1: percent of their snaps that's three tight ends. And they
Speaker 1: do run some twenty one action, but it's no fullback
Speaker 1: for the Patriots offense four percent of the time in
Speaker 1: their fast twenty one personnel, that twelve personnel package leads
Speaker 1: the way. And that's why I think if Holland can't go,
Speaker 1: you just stay in single high, man free, you know,
Speaker 1: single high regardless. You could mix some some zone coverages
Speaker 1: in there, but constantly insert either Brandon Jones or Elijah
Speaker 1: Campbell into the run fit. And honestly, I would take
Speaker 1: Campbell because he's been a better player this year in
Speaker 1: a small sample size. But the bottom line is this,
Speaker 1: if you hold the Patriots to what you did last week,
Speaker 1: you know, three yards per carry or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: then it's going to be a blowout. Now, have the
Speaker 1: Patriots found something offensively because of their rush EPA the
Speaker 1: last two weeks is point h nine that's fourth in
Speaker 1: the NFL over those two weeks, and their success rate,
Speaker 1: you know, four yards on first down, half the distance
Speaker 1: on second down, conversions on third and fourth down was
Speaker 1: it fifty seven point one percent over the last two games.
Speaker 1: That's the best in football. So they found some running game.
Speaker 1: They've also utilized motion more in the last two games,
Speaker 1: the third highest compared to fourteenth highest in the first
Speaker 1: five games. So you know that's where it starts, right
Speaker 1: stop the run. Prior to that, they were last in
Speaker 1: rush EPA and twenty ninth in rush success rate. Of course,
Speaker 1: that leads to the least productive offense in terms of
Speaker 1: EPA in the entire league. If Miami gets that. With
Speaker 1: the way this defense at homes and flies around a
Speaker 1: third down, the Patriots won't score more than single digit
Speaker 1: points in this game. The run success has produced more
Speaker 1: success off play action, going from less than seven yards
Speaker 1: per past to twelve yards the last two weeks. On
Speaker 1: play action passing, getting healthy on the line, kicking on
Speaker 1: one who out running the football more, and involving Born
Speaker 1: and to Mario Douglass along with the tight ends in
Speaker 1: the run pass game. That's been the recipe for success.
Speaker 1: But when you look at that group right there, like,
Speaker 1: does that group of eligibles scare anybody? I mean, they've
Speaker 1: had a good run in like a game and a half,
Speaker 1: but I would never worry about that group of eligibles
Speaker 1: based upon the NFL standards. So we'll we'll see about
Speaker 1: Javon Hollands availability. I figure you'd get more work from
Speaker 1: both Jones and Campbell in this game, but we'll see
Speaker 1: what they want to do again Miami. You know they
Speaker 1: ran a lot more single high in the game against
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week two than they have in other
Speaker 1: games this year. I think that tracks for an offense
Speaker 1: that just has no field stretching ability whatsoever. Condense those
Speaker 1: short windows, jump some short routes at a hat in
Speaker 1: the box against the running game. And again that's what
Speaker 1: both Jones and Campbell do best. And Elliott's range has
Speaker 1: been a hallmark trade of his so far in the
Speaker 1: back end. So the solution to me is obvious to
Speaker 1: pinch and squeeze everything ad a hat to the bucks
Speaker 1: in the running game, challenge those short routes. That could
Speaker 1: be a solution. Because Mac Jones averaged just four point
Speaker 1: four air yards per attempt in that twenty nine point
Speaker 1: output against Buffalo last week with a time to throw
Speaker 1: average of two point one to nine seconds. Now a
Speaker 1: lot of that comes to the screen game, which I
Speaker 1: think Miami defends very well. Despite the Goddard touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: That was just a perfect call against the blitz. Another
Speaker 1: reason to play close to line scrimmage. You know, if
Speaker 1: they can't hit a deep ball or two, maybe that
Speaker 1: changes things, but they've not done that all year. Mac
Speaker 1: Jones is five for twenty five, throwing the football twenty
Speaker 1: plus air yards this year for three twenty five, two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and a pick that was exaving Howard's pick. And
Speaker 1: it's not like it's not there for them. No one
Speaker 1: really respects the deep ball, so they have chances, they
Speaker 1: just can't hit it. And speaking of X, hopefully we
Speaker 1: get him back this week. But I think that you
Speaker 1: know a guy that matches up against big bodies, and
Speaker 1: we saw it in training camp. He dominated Devonte Parker
Speaker 1: every time those two guys went up against each other.
Speaker 1: So that's like shut down Devonte Parker will give help
Speaker 1: elsewhere and handle the rest. I like cater Co, who's
Speaker 1: quickness inside against de Mario Douglas and their screen game.
Speaker 1: So to recap extra hat in the box, you know,
Speaker 1: disrupt the short stuff, and I think heat up Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: who's getting blitzed at twenty four percent of the time
Speaker 1: this year, and on those plays he gets the ball
Speaker 1: out quick, he sees it well, completes a high percentage
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent ball out in two point oh four seconds,
Speaker 1: but just six yards per pass in one touchdown against
Speaker 1: the blitz. But you only do that if you're confident
Speaker 1: you can take away the quick game. Because when he's
Speaker 1: not blitzzed, Mack has thrown six picks like he's not
Speaker 1: getting pressured and blitz he's he's still throwing the ball
Speaker 1: to th team quite a lot, same completion percentage sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent. So maybe it's not a blitz game plan.
Speaker 1: That's you know, we'll see. But finally there's a chance
Speaker 1: to get another multi takeaway game from Miami Max. Ball
Speaker 1: security has been a problem this year. He's had several
Speaker 1: passes slip out of his hands. He's got two fumbles
Speaker 1: fourteen on the career. He's thrown seven picks this year,
Speaker 1: just four away from the entire season total of last year.
Speaker 1: The way you generate this is sticky coverage on a
Speaker 1: group of eligibles that does not separate at all. They're
Speaker 1: all really low in that category. But I think the
Speaker 1: way you stop I think that's why you stop the
Speaker 1: run game, you win the game because they are able
Speaker 1: to get into it. Really with Steven sim and Exekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott powerful runners who can turn second and nine and
Speaker 1: second and six, which is why it's so critical to
Speaker 1: get extra hats to the party to force those guys down,
Speaker 1: forcemen a long down distances. If they're in third and
Speaker 1: seven plus all game, you're going to destroy this team.
Speaker 1: It's a big key this week, and frankly, not just
Speaker 1: with man coverage, because the best ways to thwart those
Speaker 1: anticipatory throws is to have dbs with eyes in the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think if we see Rams this weekend,
Speaker 1: and I think you will, you could see him making
Speaker 1: a big play in his debut. But if not for him,
Speaker 1: you know nick ning him back in the fold, hopefully
Speaker 1: exabing Howard as well, so you're getting healthier on that
Speaker 1: back end. Some matchups that I like, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought Jalen Phillips tape against Lane Johnson was awesome and
Speaker 1: his speed to power like inside crossover move is a
Speaker 1: good way to get bigger offensive tackles to overset and
Speaker 1: give up that inside post. I'd look for that this week.
Speaker 1: Also just glad to hear David Longs doing will because man,
Speaker 1: if we get that version of him the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, with Ramsey coming back, Phillip's getting heated up Sealer,
Speaker 1: and Wilkins kicking ass inside, the defense will come together
Speaker 1: sooner than later, even without Holland. I think this is
Speaker 1: a week we see utter dominance as a result on defense.
Speaker 1: I think you shut the run game down. I think
Speaker 1: you generate multiple takeaways, give the offense some shorter fields,
Speaker 1: and make this game look a lot like the Week
Speaker 1: two game, but with a better second half. And that
Speaker 1: takes it to our next segment here. What's at stake,
Speaker 1: Quite frankly a ton Divisional games are huge and amplified
Speaker 1: by that Bill's lost to these guys last week. So
Speaker 1: by getting that sweep in this one, you put yourself
Speaker 1: at an advantage in terms of potential tiebreakers in the
Speaker 1: AFC East. Of course, losing to Buffalo in Week eighteen
Speaker 1: would swing that tiebreaker back in their advantage for the
Speaker 1: head to head tiebreaker, but you can put yourself in
Speaker 1: a position for that game with wins over the Patriots
Speaker 1: and then even just a split over the Jets, which
Speaker 1: I don't expect that either. Even on a short week
Speaker 1: AGAINSTEC I still liked all to beat the Jets as
Speaker 1: long as two A players, I like chances to beat
Speaker 1: the Jets. But where if you beat them in week
Speaker 1: eighteen and you get two of these three against the
Speaker 1: Patriots and Jets, you would then have a four and
Speaker 1: two divisional mark to their three and three because they've
Speaker 1: already lost to the Patriots and Jets both. So it's
Speaker 1: huge for that purpose. It's huge to stay a game
Speaker 1: out in front of them. They play tomorrow night at
Speaker 1: home against Tampa, who has hit a slump, So I
Speaker 1: think there's a good chance you enter Sunday with just
Speaker 1: a half game lead over Buffalo, then keeping pace with
Speaker 1: Kansas City who plays Denver. They're going to win that game.
Speaker 1: The Ravens, who play the Cardinals, they're going to win
Speaker 1: that game. Who I think, are you know, the cream
Speaker 1: of the crop right now besides Miami in the AFC,
Speaker 1: so plus you're at home. Not to get too far ahead,
Speaker 1: but I think Miami should expect to win every game
Speaker 1: at home the rest of the way, especially leading into
Speaker 1: those late December games with Dallas and Buffalo, which your
Speaker 1: upcoming slate against teams at home two and five Patriots,
Speaker 1: three and four Raiders, two and four Titans, and the
Speaker 1: three and three Jets, and quite frankly, I think all
Speaker 1: those teams are worse than those records. To indicate, the
Speaker 1: playoff probability scale reflects the importance of this game. Summer
Speaker 1: Sports has Miami at seventy eight percent for the playoffs
Speaker 1: right now, but a win can bump them all the
Speaker 1: way up to eighty seven percent. At six and two
Speaker 1: heading into the second half of the year, a loss
Speaker 1: goes eleven percent in the other direction down to sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent, So it's a big game. Gotta win this one.
Speaker 1: Three keys win in the red zone. These games typically
Speaker 1: have limited possessions, so seven points compared to three is massive.
Speaker 1: Quickest way to turn a game around. Both offenses execute
Speaker 1: a high rate in the red zone. Key number two.
Speaker 1: Take what the defense gives you that three high safety
Speaker 1: birds on offense defense, they want to run bracket tyreek,
Speaker 1: whether it's run game, spread the ball around, wattle, hitting
Speaker 1: some big plays, just playing smart and then executing once
Speaker 1: you get into the red zone. Keys for TUA and
Speaker 1: the offense and when they gamble and butch you make
Speaker 1: them pay number three, control the line of scrimmage. Everything
Speaker 1: the Patriots do successfully on offense works off the running game,
Speaker 1: and then their size on the defensive line of something
Speaker 1: you have to combat. So if Miami can control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, no chance the Pages can win. If
Speaker 1: they don't win the battle in the trenches. My areas
Speaker 1: of concerned, I don't really have any this week. If
Speaker 1: their run game gets going, I'll be concerned, but I
Speaker 1: don't think it will. And if our backup center plays
Speaker 1: that always worries me. Areas to exploit take chances on
Speaker 1: defense against an offense with no explosive weapons and a
Speaker 1: quarterback who drops his eyes against the rush. If you
Speaker 1: get your pass rush cranked up like we've seen him
Speaker 1: in this building, against this team and against anybody else,
Speaker 1: you're gonna force him into a bad game. That's what
Speaker 1: he does. If he gets hit and pressured, he turns
Speaker 1: into not a good quarterback. And then also run the
Speaker 1: football against their light fronts they're gonna play, you know,
Speaker 1: I assume they'll play that three high safety look. If
Speaker 1: they do that, run the ball, run the ball, run
Speaker 1: the ball. By prediction, I think Miami comes out with
Speaker 1: something that something to prove in this game and puts
Speaker 1: together some early scoring drives. I think you see another
Speaker 1: two touchdown lead from Miami. They had that last year
Speaker 1: down here in September. I think it was seventeen to nothing.
Speaker 1: They had that in the game up in Foxborough. I
Speaker 1: think it was seventeen to three. I think you get
Speaker 1: the exact same thing, but a better second half. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take a run game that saw
Speaker 1: it's the away in the second half, and Miami wins
Speaker 1: this one twenty seven to ten, maybe thirty to ten,
Speaker 1: but we'll go with twenty seven to ten for now.
Speaker 1: That's the prediction. That's the podcast. Again, apologize for the energy.
Speaker 1: I just don't have it in me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go home. Thursday's podcast is also almost complete, so hopefully
Speaker 1: by Friday, I've got some more juice for you guys here,
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