WEBVTT - Drive Time - Dolphins Bills Week 2 Preview 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:09.399 Factors facing touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.160 What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.919 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.439 your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.400 It is Thursday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.920 as always I am here to bring you your daily 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.199 dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.000 is Thursday. That means the start of a new week 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.040 in the National Football League. Bengals and Browns tonight on 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.640 Thursday Night Football. And then that's the appetizer for Sunday 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.440 as the Dolphins welcoming the Buffalo Bills here at hard 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.919 Rock Stadium at one o'clock Eastern on Sunday afternoon. We're 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.440 gonna preview that game top to bottom. Here, give you 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.520 the injury report, top matchups, the Bills personnel usage, their scheme, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.319 their system, their style, everything the Buffalo Bills do we're 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.880 gonna talk about on this podcast and get you ready 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.560 for game day for kickoff with some team notes, some 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.760 player notes, all the good stuff you look for here 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.720 on the Drivetime Podcast. We're also going to hear from 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.560 coach Flores and a couple more Dolphins players on their 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.839 Thursday media availabilities as well. All of that and more 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:21.839 on this Thursday, September seventeenth edition of the Drivetime podcast. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.959 And as we start out on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.880 podcast here on Drivetime, let's go ahead and get to 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.000 the injury report for Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.440 For the Dolphins, just one change from Wednesday's report. Jachem 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.800 Grant has been removed from the injury report on Thursday, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.960 and then four players limited safety Clayton Federalum, cornerbacks xaviing 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.400 Howard and Byron Jones, and wide receiver Davante Parker. He 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.920 Landed Roberts missed his second straight day of practice. He 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.880 was a d n P on Thursday, and linebacker Kyle 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.840 van Noy and wide receiver Preston Williams both were full 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.240 participants for the second consecutive day on Thursday. For the 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.080 Buffalo Bills, wide receiver John Brown, defensive tackle Vernon Butler, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.360 linebacker Tyrell Dotson. We're all full participants on Thursday. That's 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.440 a big upgrade from John Brown, who d NP on 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.480 Wednesday and for Tyrell Dotson, who was limited on Wednesday's practice. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.240 They had four players limited on Thursday's practice, linebacker Jermaine 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.120 Edmonds and quarterback Jake From not injury related therefore From, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.720 but they added two players in defense Eve and Jerry 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.600 Hughes and wide receiver Isaiah Mackenzie. They were not on 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.800 the report on Wednesday. They were limited in Thursday's practice, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.119 and then two more d nps who are not there 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.640 for Wednesday or Thursday's practice in linebackers Matt Milano and 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.560 del Shan Phillips. All right, let's go ahead and kick off. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.280 Brian Flores is Thursday morning media availability with a question 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.920 about snap counts at this stage of the season, both 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.160 on offense and on the defensive side of the football. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.040 I mean, I wouldn't take one game and you know, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.079 try to put guys in the buckets as you know, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.880 far as every down players or situational players. Um, I 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.640 wouldn't take one game and do that, especially uh, in 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.000 this type of this type of season. So up next, coach, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.440 we'll talk about the quarterback receiver relationship. Specifically, he was 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.000 asked about Preston Williams getting going with Ryan Fitzpatrick here's 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.800 Coach Flora's on the importance of developing that relationship between 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.120 the quarterback and all the receivers on this Dolphins football team. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.320 I think it's it's important to established connection, you know, receivers, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.520 excuse me, a quarterback to all the receivers, not just 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.400 one in particular. So I mean that's something that you 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.680 build that report and practice and you know, hopefully that 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.320 it shows itself in the game. And that's why we 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.040 go out there and practice, and you know, we'll do 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.360 that again today. Established that rapport with you know, you 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.840 mentioned Preston, but it's the same with really all the receivers, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.320 the back to tight ends um. Same thing defensively as 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.480 far as you know, guys playing together, same thing in 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.080 the kicking game. So it's something that you build over 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.040 over the course of time and through practice, and we'll 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.680 continue to do that. And going back to the defensive 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.000 side of the football, you heard on the injury report 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.040 that you Land and Robert's Dolphins linebacker was listed with 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.440 a concussion. Coach talked about that a little bit, but 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.000 also about who might be able to step into that 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.560 role if Roberts were out on Sunday. Well, first off, 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.640 you know, Roberts. You know, we'll see how that goes. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.720 You know, we're not counting him out. You know, we 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.280 obviously have some other guys in the room and always 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:20.200 played linebacker, uh Commos played obviously uh A linebacker Baker 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.600 Sam Mega von Months and we've got some other guys 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.360 in the room. So you know, if that's the case, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.560 if somebody's down with what other guys will step in 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.360 and look at. It will be based on the game plan, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.000 based on what they give us offensively. Uh So we 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.320 may have different different types of bodies in there. So 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.400 but you know the good thing about that group is 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.080 they're they're flexible, and they all have fversatility and play 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.880 multiple positions. So we have a variety of options and 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.840 we stay on the defensive side of the ball. As 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.039 you hear a coach talking about the linebacker group there, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:51.800 and that was part of the off season plan, right 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.800 to get some depth at that position. It's really good 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.960 depth at all the defensive positions. As you heard him 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.960 rattle off some of the names some of the capable 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.240 bodies in that linebacker room. Story is same is the 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.440 same rather at the safety position. As coach was asked 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.239 about the growth of Bobby McCain and Eric Rowe now 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.000 with one game and year two under their belts as 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.480 safety's here in Miami, and the importance of the communication 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.680 the leadership those two have exuded so far. Eric and Bobby. Uh, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.279 they played together for um it's call it half a year. Um, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.880 maybe less than that, but you know they played together some. Um, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.600 so they have a little bit of rapport you had, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.200 Uh Brandon too that you had Kavon Fraser to that. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.520 You know, you gotta mix of different people. UM. So, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.159 still trying to build that communication, that rapport, but you 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.720 know those two guys, I mean, it's very important to them, 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.920 So they'll do what it takes to to build those 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.880 relationships and try to do it the way where we're 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.440 asking him to do it. Uh, Brandon Jones, you know, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.039 he's a young player. He's improving on a daily basis, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.520 but he's still got a long way to go, just 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.359 like all of our young players. And um, you know, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.240 every practice is good for him, every game experience is 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.080 good for him. And uh, you know they're they're working 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.720 hard this week to prepare for a very very tough opponent. Um. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.560 You know in the Bills with the quarterback and the 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:12.039 running game and you know some receivers who are um explosive, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.919 you know, and tight ends, and I mean this is 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.120 a a good offense that they've got tempo in their offense, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.840 so we haven't prepared for that as well. So we 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.320 need as many guys like Bobby and Eric to communicate 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.240 and uh, you know, play at a good level and 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.000 bring other players with him. And I think they're trying 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.160 to do that also, And we go back to the 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.640 offensive side of the ball there after, Coach Flores talks 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.159 about the defensive backs in this room and again to 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.400 talk about the safeties with McCain, Rowe and Brandon Jones. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.640 All three of those guys have extensive coverage history in 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.119 their background. So you hear coach talk about the skill 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.760 sets the Bills Haven receivers in all the different ways 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.040 they can hit you. On offense. It's always gonna beneficial 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.040 to have guys that can cover on that back end 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.919 because ultimately it makes your defense more flexible and it 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.719 makes your defense more disguisable on that side of the football. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.960 So back to the offense and quarterback to a tog 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.640 of Baloa, who was off the injury report for week too, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.559 after being listed in the Week one injury report. Here's 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.640 coach Flora's on why and how that happened. He's doing well. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.280 He's really going into the from a rehab standpoint or 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.080 just a strength training standpoint. Um, he's doing what everyone 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:20.960 else is doing. So we you know, we felt like 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.240 we could take him off and he's he's he's doing 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.080 well physically, um and and mentally and you know, getting 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.000 the practice reps and trying to improve, you know, from 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.720 a football standpoint, from you know, learning and being a 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.120 professional standpoint like all rookies, he's doing well. You know 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.680 he's learning so you know, health wise though, from a 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.400 health standpoint, because obviously it was it was a serious injury, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.400 and he's done a great job as far as you know, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.040 getting himself back healthy and get himself to a point 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.960 where he can practice and take a lot of reps. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.880 So he's trying to get in the right direction from 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.320 a health standpoint. And you go back to the interview 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.080 I had with two of back when he was drafted 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.960 with the Dolphins and had that kind of in depth 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.440 dive onto his background and relaying the information from the 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.760 two A tongue of Voloa three sixty episode of the 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.440 Move the Sticks podcast when they had Trent Dilford, his 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.840 personal coach, his quarterbacks coach, on the podcast to talk 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.600 about his work ethic and the two of days the 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.440 two would go through. It just kind of all corroborates 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.360 there with what coach Flora said about tongue Vola's work 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.040 ethic and dedication to get back to this point, to 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.960 get himself in a position where he can take these 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.000 reps on the practice field, because that's important, right, getting 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.520 a guy to work as the backup quarterback. Those reps, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.360 those mental reps, but also those physical reps are important. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.480 So good for tongue Vola for putting the work in 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.640 to get himself back on the field. After what coach 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.000 Flores says, there was a serious injury up. Next we 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.680 switch over to the guys the quarterbacks throw the football 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.480 to and an injury regarding Davanta Parker. He of course 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.760 left Game one with a hamstring injury. Here's Coach Flora's 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.920 on DeVante Parker's update with the hamstring. As far as 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.040 the history, I don't really kind of look into that, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.440 you know too much, you know, how are we right now? 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.439 Where are we right now? That's kind of where you know, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.480 my conversations with Davonte are in our our trained staff. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.000 You know, he was out of practice yesterday. We'll see, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.120 we're taking this thing one day at a time. We'll 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.240 see where we're at, you know, for for the game. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.760 And you know, that's really all I have for you 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.200 right now. I mean, it's it's still early. We still 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.560 got a couple of days before we gotta get there. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.360 He's doing everything you can to get out there, and um, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:24.480 but no, we don't take you know, previous hamstring injuries. Um, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.040 we're really just focused on this particular one, which you 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.840 know has limited him some. But you know, he's he's, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.360 he's he's doing everything he can to to get back 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.280 out there. We're gonna go ahead and finish up with 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.080 a question here for coach about playing time for rookies 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.959 and real quick on this, I get asked often like 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.120 where did you school yourself on football knowledge? I suppose, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.000 And one of the things I always tell people is 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.080 that just being a sponge but also a giant fan 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.560 of someone that really just obsesses over the game in 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.320 general and kind of taking in everything you can from 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.080 every element of football you watch. And one of those 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.559 things I took in at one point was the first 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.400 season of All or Nothing on Amazon with the Arizona 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.280 Cardinals and Bruce Arians, when David Johnson was kind of 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.240 breaking out that year behind a running back who was 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.079 the starter going into camp that season, and as games 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.560 began to unfold, Johnson was showing himself to be the 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.040 superior back. But Arians said, we gotta make sure we 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.080 manage this guy and not get his ego or his 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.360 temperament to a level where maybe it becomes a problem 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.280 in the future. And here's coach talking about his rookies 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.320 and how he kind of develops that plan for how 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.840 to get them on the field, how he wants to 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.120 use those guys. Every coach had different philosophies. Obviously, here's 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.640 coach Flores on rookie usage. It's cased by k Omar 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.000 and I think, you know, it's a small role, and 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.600 then that role turns into a little bit more and 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.000 a little bit more and a little bit more. I 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.480 think give you guys would see that over the course 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.720 of you know, five or six games, when do you 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.840 realize it's not too big firm that takes a little 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.160 bit more time. Um, you know, you needed, you know, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:11:00.000 stretches of games of consistency to really feel good that um, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.400 they understand how to be a professional. Um, that complacency 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.680 doesn't set in. And now we don't we watch Hey 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.319 we got all the answers, and um we watch a 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.520 little less tape and you know there's to me, that's 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.080 the thing. Those are the things that I try to 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.840 harp on good performance or bad performance. We still have 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.280 to watch the film that not have to know our 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.200 next opponent. We have to get our lips in with 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.200 stay on course with our nutrition. We gotta stay on 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.840 course with our conditioning. Like, those are the things. You know. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.480 It's not one game, it's not two games, it's not 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.800 you know. You know, once you started stringing four or 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.760 five games together, then you that means you're doing something. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.040 You've been doing something over the last four or five weeks. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.040 I mean that's just my belief, UM, because I think 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.360 the guys who become complacent, the guys who uh I 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.000 think they have all the answers, eventually it catches up 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.199 to him. I mean that's that's been my experience with players. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.880 So UM, we just try to stay on them about um, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.680 you know, keeping to their routine and just the importance 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.960 of not veering off of that because you know, in 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.920 this league, but so many good players and so many 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.559 good coaches, Um, they'll find you, you know, if you're 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.679 if you're if you're taking shortcuts, and you know we 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.160 try to not allow that. But you know that's something 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.360 you know, individually for each player that they they realize that. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.360 You know, often times you know when it's too late. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.880 But um, as you know, with the the amount of 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.560 what is it, three years that guys are in the league, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.719 I mean oftentimes it's too late. So the players, the 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.480 young players, I'm thinking figured out early enough, um that 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.199 that routine, that that attention to detail, that the discipline 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.280 of playing play after play after play and playing consistently. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.079 Once they realized how important that is, then you can 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.800 see those what you're talking about, you know, whether or 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.680 not it's not too big for him. So there is 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.360 Coach Flores Thursday morning media availability. We're gonna hear from 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.840 a few more Dolphins players after this, and we'll go 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.200 ahead and sandwich this podcast here with the Dolphins Bills 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.040 week to preview Miami enters this game. Oh and one 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.920 Buffalo want to know after their victory over the New 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.760 York Jets Sunday, September twenty one o'clock eastern kickoff at 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.520 hard Rock Stadium here in Miami. As of Thursday, the 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.920 forecast calls for eighty seven degrees with chance of precipitation, 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.480 sevent humidity and twelve mile hour range with scattered thunderstorms 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.199 throughout the area. Welcome to South Florida. This stuff changes 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.480 every single hour, every single day here in South Florida. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.960 And it's another divisional foe here for the Dolphins the 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.120 second and as many weeks as they welcome in the 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.560 Buffalo Bills, who of course knocked off the Jets in 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.400 that Week one game. And really the parallels between Sean 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.960 McDermott's Buffalo team and the program Brian Flora's is building 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.280 here in Miami, they're pretty vast. And although McDermott is 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.920 in year four, Flora's in year two, you can see 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.640 some similarities stacking up between the two. Both have the 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.000 defensive minded background. McDermott ran many a good defense is 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.760 out there in Carolina, Flora's and New England previously, both 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.920 coaches in their second seasons put a premium on their 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.160 team's draft capital The Dolphins entered this past draft with 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.199 fourteen draft picks compared to Buffalo low in eighteen McDermott's 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.440 second year with eleven draft picks. In that year, Buffalo 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.920 got their quarterback and Josh Allen. The Dolphins selected two 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.120 a ton of Baloa with the fifth pick in the draft, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.960 so they get their quarterbacks at five and seven overall 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.959 in their second year. But above all of that, both 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.840 coaches really emphasized culture and people and mentality the acquisition 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.840 of players who prioritize the game of football. It means 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.920 a lot to them, players who are tough, smart, physical 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.520 and disciplined. And McDermott with that mentality and that makeup, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.400 and he and g M. Billy Bean Brandon Bean not 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.440 Billy Beam, brought the Bills to the postseason and two 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.640 of the last three seasons, and that first year in 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.400 t seventeen with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback, broke the longest 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.440 playoff drought in the four major sports here in America. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.880 With that trip to the postseason and then following up 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.480 last year with the second trip in three years and 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.280 beating a good football team at home and evening the market, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.880 one and one would give us both one and one 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.160 records Miami and Buffalo would be a nice step here. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.240 Early on in Flora's a set year, we talked about 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.360 the injury report already earlier in the podcast and going 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.000 back to the Bill's personnel here. Continuity was one of 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.960 those major talking points in the NFL this offseason, Right 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.080 with off season programs limited, no O t A s. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.680 It was all virtual contact and classroom less than type settings. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.080 Many pondered if returning starters might play a key role 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.440 early in the strange NFL season, and the Buffalo Bills 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.360 were atop the charts and ESPN's off season continuity rankings. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.520 The study measured returning players and the percentage of the 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.440 team snaps for which those players accounted. All three of 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.480 Buffalo's coordinators are returning this year, in Brian Dayball on 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.560 the offensive side, Leslie Fraser on defense, and Heath Farwell 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.800 as the special teams coordinator offensively. For day Ball, he 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.000 saw four percent of his offensive snaptakers last year in 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.120 nineteen for that playoff team of the Buffalo Bills come 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.840 back for so ultimate continuity there that was tops in 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.200 the league. Defensive the Bills had the seventh highest returning 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.160 snaptakers on that ESPN Continuity study and on paper, really 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.480 a few rosters are more daunting than the squad assembled 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.880 here by McDermott and Brandon Bean almost right Billy every time. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.400 Their moneyball one of my favorite all time movies. The 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.520 Buffalo defense is stout and deep at all three levels, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.480 and it starts with the secondary. They added three stalwarts 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.240 in the seventeen offseason alone. Safety's Jordan Player and Micah 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.440 High are the definition of ball hawks. In three years 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.720 with the team, Player and Hide have combined for nineteen 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.720 interceptions and forty two pass breakups. Ultimate ball production, and 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.280 Sunday against the Jets, Player was right back at it. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.720 Two run stops in the game. He allowed one catch, 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.920 but made the tackle on that catch for an eight 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.360 yard loss, and he also forced to fumble to get 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.040 more ball production there for his defense. Then there's first 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.480 team All Pro from last season, Tradevious White, seventeen first 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.040 round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills. On top of 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.320 game changing interceptions, he makes almost on a weekly basis, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.960 it seems, and he had a big one against the 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.840 Offhans last year. In that week's seven game, he held 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.160 opposing quarterbacks in his career to a sixty one point 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.480 nine overall passer rating. Linebackers Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.680 are on the injury report. We'll see if they play 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.119 on Sunday, but Edmonds made his first Pro Bowl at 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.200 the ripe age of twenty one last season, and Milano 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.600 in pass coverage allows an eighty one passer rating against 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.359 and has one and three stops against the run over 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.240 his three year career so far. It just keeps getting 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.320 strong on the front as well. Edge Rushers Trent Murphy 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.120 and Jerry Hughes both had three quarterback pressures against Sam 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.520 Donald and the New York Jets in the season opener. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.440 Ed Oliver a top ten pick back in twenty nineteen. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.040 He's made his interior pocket collapsing impact fell early on 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.280 in his career. He really picked up steam late in 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.400 his rookie season, had thirty one total quarterback pressures over 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.800 the course of that rookie season, but he got it 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.399 going early in year two. He had six pressures and 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.840 a run stop in the season opener. On the other 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.920 side of the football, offensively, Josh Allen beginning to really 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.280 come into his own here in your number three he 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.280 starts the season with three hundred and sixty nine total 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.439 yards and three touchdowns versus the Jets. Over four career 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.080 games against the Dolphins, Alan has three d eighteen rushing yards, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.639 but only eighty eight of those in the two games 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.200 last season. Doing most of his damage in two games 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.560 against the Dolphins, but limiting Alan's ability to extend plays 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.679 will be crucial for this Dolphins defense, and much like 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.000 in the second dary, Buffalo really rebuilt their offensive line 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.960 in short order under McDermott and being through both the 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.400 draft and free agency, the Bills acquired a wall of physical, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.919 tough players with a nasty temperament. Dion Dawkins out of 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.320 Temple Week one. His performance was much of the same 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.000 as he has been to the first three years of 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.800 his career. He averages just two pressures allowed per game 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.200 in his career. Very good left tackle there for the 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.160 Buffalo Bills. They signed center Mitch Morris last offseason. He 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.080 helped stabilize the offensive line on the interior. He allowed 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.520 just one pressure on Sunday against the Jets, and fellow 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.240 twenty nineteen free agent acquisition Quentin Spain had the same 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.879 stat line with one pressure allowed and he does his 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.720 best work digging out bodies in that running game on 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.240 the inside. Speaking of the running game, they are made 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.320 up of some sizzle on spice with two juxtaposing backs 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.600 in Devin Singletarry and Zack Moss. The former single Terry 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.280 rushed for seven hundred and seventy five yards last year 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.879 at five point one yards per clip and the ladder. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.120 Moss was the workhorse a tough, physical Utah youth program. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.000 He was the guy back there in that backfield. Over 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.760 his final three years in college, Moss average three or 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.760 ran for three thousand, six hundred and eighty five yards 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.200 and thirty six touchdowns. Single Arry is very shifty, very agile, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.600 and can make big plays in the passing game as well, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.160 whereas Moss has that really stout, compact build and can 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.439 really bruise guys and get that short yards for you. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.840 He's tough to bring down, usually takes more than one 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.600 tackle to get into the ground, has great balance, great 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.359 contact balance, and he'll run through arm tackles if you 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.240 do not wrap him up. The matchup highlights in this game. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.240 We're kind of going back to basics here, so stick 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.640 with me. But the Dolphins front seven versus the Bills 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.879 runner We just talked about the running backs and Josh 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.120 Allen and what they can do on the ground, and 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.920