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Speaker 2: Week five takes us back up to a place where
Speaker 2: we go every single year in Gillette Stadium for one
Speaker 2: o'clock kickoff on CBS against the New England Patriots. It
Speaker 2: should be a beautiful all day in the New England
Speaker 2: region with highs of sixty nine degrees, a slight breeze,
Speaker 2: nice by the way, and a minimal chance of rain
Speaker 2: on a partly cloudy day. Let's go ahead and meet
Speaker 2: the Patriots. And I'm realizing how long it's been since
Speaker 2: we've played these guys. The Patriots series wrapped up last
Speaker 2: year prior to Halloween, and that actually sparked my interest.
Speaker 2: When was the last time we finished a division series
Speaker 2: prior to Halloween? In twenty twenty one, we wrapped up
Speaker 2: the Bill series on Halloween, but the last time we
Speaker 2: played New England. Knew the Jets or Buffalo twice before
Speaker 2: October twenty ninth, which was when the game was last year.
Speaker 2: The date we wrapped up the Patriots was twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: We played the Jets in Week three that year and
Speaker 2: then on my birthday October twenty eighth, when we blew
Speaker 2: the doors off of them, and I remember that game
Speaker 2: very well. Tannehill got hurt on the first drive, Matt
Speaker 2: Moore came into the game, Olivier vern had a blocked
Speaker 2: punt for a touchdown, and we smoked them thirty to nine. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Tangent aside, we know the Patriots right, We know you?
Speaker 1: Or do we?
Speaker 2: Because they have sweeping personnel changes the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and especially this year at the top after the most
Speaker 2: successful two decade plus run for any head coach in
Speaker 2: this league, Bill Belichick is gone and in steps a
Speaker 2: player that he once drafted and made a captain in
Speaker 2: Gerard bo Now. He was with the Patriots as a
Speaker 2: player from eight to fifteen, then hired as the linebackers
Speaker 2: coach in twenty nineteen and he held that role through
Speaker 2: last season and now he's in the big chair. He
Speaker 2: elevated DeMarcus Covington, the defensive line coach, to DC and
Speaker 2: brings in yet another branch of the Shanahan tree to
Speaker 2: run the offense in Alex van Pelt, who is a
Speaker 2: first time play caller for the Patriots. He also worked
Speaker 2: Van Pelt did with Zach Taylor and Kevin Stefanski before
Speaker 2: landing with the Patriots. This year, they use their third
Speaker 2: pick in the draft on Drake May, the quarterback from
Speaker 2: North Carolina, and he awaits his turn behind veteran Jacoby Brissett,
Speaker 2: who returns to New England, who drafted him after stops
Speaker 2: in Indie, Miami, Cleveland, and Washington. A lot of the
Speaker 2: mainstays on the roster well. They are Saya Nara as
Speaker 2: well Trent Brown, Lawrence s Guy, J. C. Jackson, Adrian Phillips,
Speaker 2: Matt Judon gone, Billy Bean, Brad Pick gone. David Andrews
Speaker 2: is down for the season as well, so lots of
Speaker 2: guys that have played a ton of snaps for this
Speaker 2: team over the last three, five, even ten years are
Speaker 2: now gone as they rebuild this thing following a four
Speaker 2: win campaign last year, and it's off to a pretty
Speaker 2: slow start at one and three. They're also the only
Speaker 2: team that hasn't surpassed a thousand yards on the season.
Speaker 2: So with that, look forward to a fun game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Patriots offense their scheme, let's talk about it. I think
Speaker 2: you start with the foundational belief that the offense starts
Speaker 2: through the run game, and you know what that means
Speaker 2: from this tree, the outside zone game. But not so fast,
Speaker 2: my friends, as the well he's still kicking. But Lee
Speaker 2: Corso famously once said this is actually one of the
Speaker 2: more diverse attacks in the league with the mix of
Speaker 2: zone and man concepts, which I also find fitting since
Speaker 2: they had that hilarious pivot in twenty twenty two when
Speaker 2: they had their season opener down here, and we heard
Speaker 2: about it all training camp long, how they were trying
Speaker 2: to employ a zone system after years of being a
Speaker 2: gap system that played power football right in your face,
Speaker 2: especially coming off that Cam Newton season, trying to just
Speaker 2: get vertical and go downhill on you only to pivot
Speaker 2: to the zone that year, despite having like no coaches
Speaker 2: with zone experience or a personnel that had no zone
Speaker 2: experience either, and it looked that way the entire season.
Speaker 2: But this year the Splits go fifty six gap runs
Speaker 2: and thirty nine zone runs and they've been happy to
Speaker 2: just take what's there from a numbers in box count.
Speaker 2: And they actually enabled Jacoby Brissett, which to me kind
Speaker 2: of speaks to why they want to keep him in
Speaker 2: the offensive lineup because they need a guy that can
Speaker 2: do that behind an offensive line that has a crazy
Speaker 2: amount of injuries, because he can make those checks at
Speaker 2: the line and he's plenty happy to do that. With
Speaker 2: the passing game, it's a lot more familiar to Dolphins fans,
Speaker 2: a mix of max protection but also five eligibles into
Speaker 2: the pattern. They change it up, reduced number of true
Speaker 2: dropbacks with all the action you get in the running game,
Speaker 2: and how that marries to play pass. I guess the
Speaker 2: cliffs notes version would be that the Shanahan style attack
Speaker 2: with more of a power running element. Maybe you can
Speaker 2: just say they want to be the Rams, although their
Speaker 2: personnel falls like hilariously short of that. How do you
Speaker 2: attack it. This is going to sound extremely simple, but
Speaker 2: keeping them behind the chains by stopping the run and
Speaker 2: doing that by adding hats in the box count. I
Speaker 2: think the lack of a true vertical presence allows you
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more aggressive in how you
Speaker 2: defend it. I mean, they've only attempted eight passes through
Speaker 2: four games beyond twenty yards all season, and they've only
Speaker 2: hit one of those, and that play produced a hilarious
Speaker 2: twenty one yards. Brissette is one of eight for twenty
Speaker 2: one yards on deep passes. It's the fewest attempts for
Speaker 2: any team and by far the fewest yards in the
Speaker 2: deep passing game. Tua had one throw that was quadruple
Speaker 2: that amount to Tyreek Hill back in Week one. We
Speaker 2: saw the Jets do this back in the Week three game,
Speaker 2: which wasn't it funny? You know, we're terrible, so, like,
Speaker 2: you know, I guess misery loves company, But wasn't it
Speaker 2: funny seeing Jets fans, like, after clouding on us for
Speaker 2: getting excited about beating the Patriots last couple of years,
Speaker 2: act like that was the Super Bowl championship for them,
Speaker 2: and then they go to they played Denver a home
Speaker 2: and just get they lay an egg. I thought that
Speaker 2: was hilarious. But anyway, we saw them in that Week
Speaker 2: three game just load up and have a hat in
Speaker 2: every single gap and probably even got a little bit
Speaker 2: gratuitous in how they fit the run. But it didn't
Speaker 2: matter because New England can't do a damn thing about it,
Speaker 2: and just flood it with wave after wave. Go seven
Speaker 2: eight guys in the bucks. That's what I would do,
Speaker 2: and that leads us to our first key and the
Speaker 2: big three against the New England offense. E I'm just kidding,
Speaker 2: but number one, challenge them to beat you deep. And
Speaker 2: this doesn't mean to just give them deep shots. Don't
Speaker 2: be like, oh, throw it deep and we'll leave you uncovered,
Speaker 2: but rather what you can take away while you attempt
Speaker 2: to force them into the throws where they haven't gotten
Speaker 2: them all year down the field. Back to the Jets.
Speaker 2: They played with seven or more men in the box
Speaker 2: in that game against the Patriots and even got some
Speaker 2: of those six one looks we saw from Vic Fongial
Speaker 2: when we saw the Eagles shut down the Saints with
Speaker 2: seven or eight in the box on eighteen of the
Speaker 2: forty five plays. The Patriots ram and the Patriots produced
Speaker 2: thirty one yards on those eighteen plays. If they can't
Speaker 2: run the ball, they can't move the ball. They have
Speaker 2: a terrible quarterback, a terrible offensive line on terrible skill players,
Speaker 2: Like that's what you get. Conversely, the Patriots success rate
Speaker 2: running against lighter boxes was forty six percent, not great,
Speaker 2: but much better than the twenty eight percent success rate
Speaker 2: they had against heavy boxes. We saw Javon Holland insert
Speaker 2: into the run fit or pass rush against the Titans
Speaker 2: on Monday, and he came as a rusher on that
Speaker 2: rep that led to a key Jordan brook sack, or
Speaker 2: at the time was key before the game fell apart.
Speaker 2: So he's kind of one of the keys I look
Speaker 2: at in this regard. The Dolphins have played plenty of
Speaker 2: split safety all year long. They've inverted that, they've robbed.
Speaker 2: I think weavers diversity and his calls has been the
Speaker 2: best aspect of this team four games in, and I'm
Speaker 2: wondering if you maybe even go as far as like
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty one Ravens plan where you just take
Speaker 2: away the run, see if they want to challenge you deep,
Speaker 2: and if they can't do it, then you shut him
Speaker 2: down for sixty minutes. The Ravens got that one deep
Speaker 2: ball early and it was like dropped in the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone or didn't get tracked properly, and
Speaker 2: they didn't never went to the rest of the game,
Speaker 2: and the Dolphins like, was it like a ten point
Speaker 2: total and that touchdown came like in the garbage time
Speaker 2: at the end of the fourth quarter. Pop Douglas is
Speaker 2: their best option for that, maybe Jalen Polk And again,
Speaker 2: I think Douglas's speed is more short area and horizontal
Speaker 2: than it is running vertical on top of guys. But
Speaker 2: I digress, and quite frankly, I think Ramsey is equipped
Speaker 2: to dominate either any matchup he gets in this game.
Speaker 2: They did open up Kendrick Bournes' twenty one day practice
Speaker 2: windows so he could return and shoot. Maybe Ramsey gets
Speaker 2: some matchups with their best pass catcher right now, who
Speaker 2: is not a receiver but rather a tight end and
Speaker 2: hunter Henry. But yeah, you stop the Patriots run, you
Speaker 2: flood the quick and intermediate game, and the odds are
Speaker 2: you will not get beat deep. But just to cover
Speaker 2: the whole thing, perhaps that thinking could come into play.
Speaker 2: We don't want to like bust something and give them
Speaker 2: a freebie when they struggled so bad. So you have
Speaker 2: to be cognitive of that. But I'm saying, like, challenge
Speaker 2: him to go that way, because I don't think they
Speaker 2: can do it. But given the way games have played out,
Speaker 2: you might need a lights out performance from the defense
Speaker 2: because you might have to shut him out and score
Speaker 2: yourself based upon how the Dolphins' offense is going right now,
Speaker 2: and that means creating negatives and turnovers and my tape.
Speaker 2: So he tells me that might be the best way
Speaker 2: to do it. The second thing for the Patriots offense
Speaker 2: pressure burst pipes. And I'm I'm very weird in the
Speaker 2: way phrases or cliches or even memes that have like
Speaker 2: too long of a shelf life. For instance, i was
Speaker 2: watching a golf shot for shot video the Great Luke
Speaker 2: Kwan channel check him out, and he had a guy
Speaker 2: on a show, and this might have been right when
Speaker 2: the meme came out, but he referenced Hawk Tua like
Speaker 2: five times in the first hole of the round, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I just can tell you right now, I'm
Speaker 2: not friends of that guy. I'll never be friends of
Speaker 2: that guy because if you make your personality a stupid meme,
Speaker 2: like I don't mess with that. That's not funny at all.
Speaker 2: It's not original, it's not creative. And I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like pressure makes diamonds or pressure burst pipes, Like
Speaker 2: I just don't like using it. It's been around too long,
Speaker 2: but it has never been more applicable.
Speaker 1: And here's why the.
Speaker 2: Patriots offensive line that I think at its healthiest wasn't
Speaker 2: good at all. And now we're talking about we're talking
Speaker 2: about a group that looks like the Dolphins edge group
Speaker 2: looked last year in the playoff game. It's that level
Speaker 2: of injuries. Cole Strange he's down, David Andrews is down,
Speaker 2: Chakuma Acora four is down, Vederian Lowe is down, Cayden
Speaker 2: Wallace is down. I mean, we're talking about getting into
Speaker 2: third and fourth string at a couple of spots.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Here's how they finished the game in San Francisco. Demontree
Speaker 2: Jacobs City so Nick Leverette Leverett, I don't even know
Speaker 2: who this is. Leyden Robinson, Mike and went who and
Speaker 2: Leyden Robinson played a lot last year and a one
Speaker 2: who is a big money player. But beyond that, we're
Speaker 2: talking about a fourth or rather, I'm sorry, City So
Speaker 2: played a lot last year. Other than that, we're talking
Speaker 2: about a fourth round rookie in Robinson, he has a
Speaker 2: ninety one point nine PBE score. For comparison, Tristan Wurfs
Speaker 2: is going of the highest score tackle with a threshold
Speaker 2: amount of reps you have to qualify, and his score
Speaker 2: is ninety eight point seven. For instance, Kendall Lamb is
Speaker 2: a ninety eight point zero. Like ninety seven is about
Speaker 2: the threshold you get from the top performers. For the
Speaker 2: most part, this guy's a ninety one to nine second
Speaker 2: second year player. Cd So is a fourth rounder from
Speaker 2: last year who had a PBE of ninety three point six.
Speaker 2: And for guards that threshold is even higher. Laverett, I
Speaker 2: think that's how you say it was undrafted in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: didn't make a roster, played forty snaps in twenty one.
Speaker 2: Filled in is a backup in Tampa in twenty two
Speaker 2: for five hundred reps, didn't play any snaps last year,
Speaker 2: and now because of these injuries here he is in
Speaker 2: the lineup once again. But he has not a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure in thirty six pass blocking reps. But I
Speaker 2: suspect that changes on Sunday. Demanterrey Jacobs didn't play a
Speaker 2: game last year as a UDFA with the Broncos, and
Speaker 2: now he too is up for injuries with fifty one
Speaker 2: pass blocking snaps and eight pressures allowed with a PBE
Speaker 2: of ninety. So it's been a struggle, but the Dolphins
Speaker 2: have their own injury issues to take advantage of this,
Speaker 2: at least off the edge. We just heard that Jalen
Speaker 2: Phillips is out for the season. Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: feel horrible for that young man. He god, man, I
Speaker 2: thought good things supposed to happen to good people. Dude,
Speaker 2: that's the best person I've met in this whole freaking
Speaker 2: run of Jelen Phillips and this back to back years. Like,
Speaker 2: I can cancel the season, man, And I know it's
Speaker 2: been a key just about every week, but it's because
Speaker 2: they're playing so well that I expect Campbell and Sealer
Speaker 2: to absolutely wreck shop on an interior offensive line that
Speaker 2: has shuffled parts, new parts, and quite frankly, not enough
Speaker 2: talent to handle what those guys can do from a
Speaker 2: strength and technique standpoint. Let's go ahead and put our
Speaker 2: first break on the podcast rate there, come back on
Speaker 2: the other side, do thing number three and the defense
Speaker 2: and pick the game and all that fun stuff. That's
Speaker 2: next draft on podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by a donation. Thing one and Thing two pressure
Speaker 2: burst pipes and challenge them to beat you deep. Thing
Speaker 2: number three is going to be shots on goal for
Speaker 2: this Patriots offense because the one element of this Patriots
Speaker 2: offense that has clicked is when they give the football
Speaker 2: to Ramandre Stevenson. He has sixty five carries for two
Speaker 2: sixty five not crazy four point one, but it is
Speaker 2: twenty eight percent of their offensive production. But the problem
Speaker 2: is he has four fumbles this season. And Geron Mayo
Speaker 2: did say they could start Antonio Gibson, who's more of
Speaker 2: a a pass catching back. They could start him in
Speaker 2: place of Stevenson, who has now eleven fumbles in his career.
Speaker 2: So it's a thing. But when he does tote the rock,
Speaker 2: he is a load. He's broken seventeen tackles and has
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifteen of those two sixty five yards
Speaker 2: came after initial contact, So gearing up to stop him
Speaker 2: and probably the best way to stop him punch that
Speaker 2: football free you get one on the ground, you probably
Speaker 2: put them on the bench the rest of the game
Speaker 2: because they aren't gonna watch him do that for a
Speaker 2: second time. This is where I'm looking at Javon Holland,
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks, Jalen Ramsey, Kendall Fuller, guys that have a
Speaker 2: knack for fining the football. Punch that thing out, get
Speaker 2: their best player off the field for the rest of
Speaker 2: the game, and maybe you shut them out. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: you do. Additionally, I think I barely mentioned Hunter Henry,
Speaker 2: that's a key cog in the offense outside of Stevenson
Speaker 2: stands his fumble issue. Henry is a crafty route runner
Speaker 2: who commands attention. I might throw Ramsey his way a
Speaker 2: few times. I also alluded to Kendrick Bourne. I love
Speaker 2: his game. It'll be his first game if he plays,
Speaker 2: though off of an ACL tear last year, so we'll
Speaker 2: see how ready he is to go. And then Jalen
Speaker 2: Polk has probably been the next guy, but he's he's
Speaker 2: just kind of like, you know, back shoulder guy exclusively
Speaker 2: almost the Patriots defense. So from a scheme standpoint, I
Speaker 2: found this quote from Gerrodmeyo back in twenty nineteen about
Speaker 2: how they coach their linebackers, and it got me thinking about, well,
Speaker 2: what this offense had been prior to its downturn recently,
Speaker 2: He says, quote, I always tell them not to get
Speaker 2: downhill until they recognize who's blocking them end quote. And
Speaker 2: that's like how you read your keys in the running game.
Speaker 2: And I think this is a smart and very effective
Speaker 2: in theory type of concept if you've got established players
Speaker 2: that you have that have seen a lot of football,
Speaker 2: and I think that you can point to exactly that
Speaker 2: for how the Niners were able to attack the Patriots
Speaker 2: last week, which, to be perfectly frank is a system
Speaker 2: that has given the Patriots defense some fits, even going
Speaker 2: back to the end of the Golden Era in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: The best player in that regard for the Patriots is
Speaker 2: down for a while, linebacker Juwan Bentley, and in his
Speaker 2: place has been familiar face ray Kwan McMillan now July
Speaker 2: Tavia is sort of a conversion player who kind of
Speaker 2: factors into the pass rush as well as playing off
Speaker 2: the football, like think about a kind of poor Man's
Speaker 2: down to high Tower. But it's been him, and it's
Speaker 2: been Rayqua McMillan in place of Bentley, but it's still
Speaker 2: a lot of the same principles, mix of zone and
Speaker 2: man coverage, half field hybrids, utilizing the safeties in various roles,
Speaker 2: massive defensive linemen the two gap and allow them to
Speaker 2: play with light boxes. So that's what it looks like.
Speaker 2: How do you attack it? I think with all the
Speaker 2: I candy this offense can pose and feature, with the
Speaker 2: variations of blocks from fullbacks and tight ends and f's,
Speaker 2: I think you can kind of slow their processing down
Speaker 2: a little bit and then hopefully find more of the
Speaker 2: inbreaking middle of the field passing game that has been
Speaker 2: completely absent in the last two weeks. I think once
Speaker 2: we start getting there, things could open up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I doubt we see their three deep safety look they
Speaker 2: rolled out against us last year, but I do think
Speaker 2: you'll see a lot of shells and the invitation of
Speaker 2: the running game. Even with our third quarterback on the
Speaker 2: season in the game which leads us to the big
Speaker 2: three against the Patriots defense, and number one is Scoot
Speaker 2: Snoop gets to Scoot and Snoop. The Patriots rank thirty
Speaker 2: first on third downs in gerond Mayo. As Wednesday, media
Speaker 2: availability said that the reason for those struggles is how
Speaker 2: they are allowing quarterbacks to scramble for first downs, and like,
Speaker 2: we're not talking about elite runners. It's been Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: it's been Geno Smith, and it's been Aaron Rodgers. And
Speaker 2: then who was last week? Who did they played last week?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not Lamar Jackson out there. So that's
Speaker 2: been an issue for them. And you'll hear from Patriots
Speaker 2: dot Com reporter Evan Lazar tomorrow and he said that
Speaker 2: the pass rush has developed a bad habit of running
Speaker 2: itself out of the play. Even they're butting star off
Speaker 2: the edge in Keon White, who has four sacks, nine
Speaker 2: hits and seventeen pressures, all of those lead the team,
Speaker 2: and the seven team pressures are more than the rest
Speaker 2: of the team combined. But if rush lane integrity is
Speaker 2: an issue and you have a good running quarterback, well
Speaker 2: there is your answer. And with the Dolphins having their
Speaker 2: own issues and maybe struggling to get the bread and
Speaker 2: butter of this offense going when it was operated by
Speaker 2: the original starter to at Tungo Bai looa, maybe this
Speaker 2: is a way to get some things going. Maybe probably not,
Speaker 2: I think even when it's third long you find a
Speaker 2: way to put them in this type of conflict, like
Speaker 2: the deep passing game to your two premiere wide receivers
Speaker 2: who are still there with game breaking speed, or the
Speaker 2: quarterback run. So do they play man coverage? If so,
Speaker 2: then I think it's rather simple try to run past them.
Speaker 2: If you get the favorable look, take your shot. Shoot
Speaker 2: Tybriek was opened for deep shots like three times on
Speaker 2: Monday and we couldn't find him. It only takes hitting
Speaker 2: one of those to change the complexion of the game.
Speaker 2: I tend to think you'll go more of a zone look,
Speaker 2: especially if Kyle Dugger can not play, and then from
Speaker 2: that you try to stress the second level and third
Speaker 2: level of the defense with routes that put those defenders
Speaker 2: in tight in a conflict. Allow Huntley to play from
Speaker 2: the pocket and assess before taking off on the run,
Speaker 2: provided A they cover it up and b they displayed
Speaker 2: that bad rush lane integrity. Now, both Pepper's and Dugger
Speaker 2: were dnps on Wednesday, and I believe either limited or
Speaker 2: DNP on Thursday for the Patriots practices this week. And
Speaker 2: beyond that is Jalen Hawkins, who's a special teams gunner.
Speaker 2: And then Marte mop who did return to practice for
Speaker 2: the twenty one day opening a window opening. But if
Speaker 2: all three of those guys can't go, you're talking about
Speaker 2: practice squad call ups playing real starting snaps like Dell Pettis,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. Who came up when
Speaker 2: map Whu went down. It's awfully thin back there. I
Speaker 2: think there are opportunities there with Reek and Waddle. This
Speaker 2: could be a great chance to get both of them going.
Speaker 2: Last year they both went over one hundred yards in
Speaker 2: the second game because the Patriots, and they've been invisible
Speaker 2: since Week one of this year. Thing number two going
Speaker 2: right back to that same space, middle of the field,
Speaker 2: intermediate passing game and your deep passing game. I think there,
Speaker 2: if there's a game to get this going, it's here.
Speaker 2: The injuries they have at linebacker and safety are legit
Speaker 2: like as bad as their offensive line injuries, and we
Speaker 2: have to find a way to exploit that. You just
Speaker 2: do I mean, if we don't see it this game,
Speaker 2: we keep saying this like is it ever gonna happen?
Speaker 2: You have the bye week and the Colts after that,
Speaker 2: so maybe you get some time to get it together.
Speaker 2: But the way it's going. I don't have faith that
Speaker 2: that happens, but I mean we saw it on the
Speaker 2: opening play, that glanced route, and again later on the
Speaker 2: ball that waddle dropped like glands and digs and seam shots.
Speaker 2: I think if you can find a way to marry
Speaker 2: that with your running game, you could get back to
Speaker 2: seeing more explosives maybe and hopefully a game of tape
Speaker 2: for Snoop to go back and look at. I can
Speaker 2: now help provide that I went over the injury situation
Speaker 2: off the top. But I think if you get all
Speaker 2: those new pieces, getting that many parts working in unison,
Speaker 2: I think you might have some opportunities to get their
Speaker 2: head spinning a little bit with multiplicity, plenty of play
Speaker 2: pass end, a rounds misdirection, maybe even a trick player two.
Speaker 2: I think there stands a chance to be some miscommunications
Speaker 2: in a game like this, and man, one of those
Speaker 2: could be all you need to get to the winner
Speaker 2: circle and win this game like seven to three. Maybe
Speaker 2: I don't know, And just real quick, I want to
Speaker 2: see Jalen Wright get the biggest workload of the running backs.
Speaker 2: I thought the effort on Monday from h Chan blocking
Speaker 2: down field, just running the wrong track in the running game,
Speaker 2: but the effort was what really got me, Like I
Speaker 2: would send a message there and I would play right more.
Speaker 2: And I think that his play style and his physicality
Speaker 2: can really help accentuate some of these keys here for you.
Speaker 2: So I don't think it's gonna happen, but I want
Speaker 2: to see more Jalen Wright. My third thing I'll do
Speaker 2: this quickly is to squeeze the interior. Now I covered
Speaker 2: key on White being their best rusher, but I think
Speaker 2: you can sometimes scheme around a good edged rusher. I mean,
Speaker 2: we saw it with with Max Crosby a year go er.
Speaker 2: You know, well the Cowboys had Parsons and Lawrence, But
Speaker 2: I digress. You can scheme around one edge rusher much
Speaker 2: more than you can multiple guys. Obviously, and again, as
Speaker 2: you'll hear it tomorrow from Evan Lazar. As good as
Speaker 2: White has been their rush land integrity has afforded plenty
Speaker 2: of quarterback run opportunities. But still inside, even without Christian Barmore,
Speaker 2: I mean, this team could be down bar More Bentley,
Speaker 2: Judon's gone dugger, and Pepper's like okay, time to get
Speaker 2: going right, but they still do have Godshaw and Dietrich wise,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty big front. You know how they play.
Speaker 2: It's it's you know, it's two gap, head up, bear fronts,
Speaker 2: all these types of different things that can kind of
Speaker 2: you know, play guys that play bigger than they play
Speaker 2: bigger than this one person should be able to play.
Speaker 2: And since I think their tackle pressure is the easier
Speaker 2: of the two for the quarterback to pick up and elude,
Speaker 2: I think handling their interior Patriots rush has to be
Speaker 2: the key for Huntley to play on script but also
Speaker 2: create which we've covered, you know, as a pretty significant
Speaker 2: key here for the Dolphins additional parts on this defense.
Speaker 2: I didn't mention Christian Gonzalez. He's looking the part of
Speaker 2: a premier lockdown corner for them after missing half of
Speaker 2: his rookie season in twenty twenty three. I think Marcus
Speaker 2: Jones has some nice juice in the slot. He's a
Speaker 2: guy they will trust to run man up from that
Speaker 2: position or come on the occasional blitz. And then of
Speaker 2: course Jonathan Jones, who for some reason is like a
Speaker 2: plus cornerback in the league, but when he faces Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill he becomes freaking Jalen Ramsey. So yeah, those are
Speaker 2: their guys. They have on defense. Let's take our last
Speaker 2: break right there, come back and do what's at stake
Speaker 2: and the keys to victory and the predictions. That's all
Speaker 2: next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by automation. What is at stake? And Dolphins and
Speaker 2: Patriots nothing a higher draft pick? Does it really matter
Speaker 2: if we win a thirteen to ten game or lose
Speaker 2: ten thirteen to you?
Speaker 1: Maybe you do?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. That's what's at stake. Keys
Speaker 2: to victory. Number one, make plays outside of the offensive structure.
Speaker 2: Hasn't worked. Quarterbacks not seeing it, quarterbacks not ripping it,
Speaker 2: so samlat football. Key Number two. Commit to stopping the run.
Speaker 2: If you're stopped to run, your stop the Patroid offense.
Speaker 2: You might come play from behind the change and just
Speaker 2: make them just stop the run. You know you'll probably
Speaker 2: beat them. Number three, you test the communication both on
Speaker 2: the Patriots offensive line and in the defensive backfield. That
Speaker 2: is running games up front with your pass rush, that
Speaker 2: is running multiple route concepts that stress different levels of
Speaker 2: that second and third level of defense, and try to
Speaker 2: get some bus in coverage. Those are the three keys
Speaker 2: to victory and the range of outcomes and my prediction
Speaker 2: prediction prediction prediction. I'm losing my damn mind here, guys.
Speaker 2: It's Week five and I feel like we're ore, you know,
Speaker 2: thirteen to ten for either side? I guess like seven
Speaker 2: to three, nine to six, Like, I don't know. Can
Speaker 2: either the teams score a damn point? We scored fifteen
Speaker 2: points in the last two games. We scored twenty five
Speaker 2: points in the last three games. We average eleven points
Speaker 2: per game, So thirteen is like, whoa hey, whoa hey,
Speaker 2: budd Hey, take it easy? Huh, take it easy? Thirteeny Hey.
Speaker 2: I guess this game could determine who picks first in
Speaker 2: the draft, So I'm conflicted there. Who do I pick? Man,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll go thirteen nine Patriots. Yeah, thirteen
Speaker 2: nine Patriots my TNF pick. Since we have Week five
Speaker 2: picks tomorrow, I'm taking the Falcons at home to beat
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers. We'll do the full Week five picks on
Speaker 2: the show tomorrow. We'll also have Evan Lazar and Kyle
Speaker 2: Krabs on the Friday podcast. In the meantime, you all
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