WEBVTT - Dolphins Ravens Week 10 Preview 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:14.880 Looking down field, touchdown, Miami Drun. What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.079 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:23.440 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.040 How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. I am your host, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.200 Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am here to bring 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.920 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.600 today's show, it's Wednesday, which usually is reserved for a 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.240 deep dive pod, but on a short week, it's gonna 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.280 be preview day. We'll go position by position and break 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.519 down the key matchups for Dolphins and Ravens tell you 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.239 how Miami can win this game. We'll give you the 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.200 three keys, and since it is a short week, will 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.680 move up the picks the week ten picks to this podcast. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.720 All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:03.040 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:09.520 Time Podcast. It's Ravens Week. And I don't know about 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.760 you guys, but the rivalries within the division still reigned 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.880 supreme to me. But for me, there are still two 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.560 more rivals out there that we play in different divisions 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.520 that I look forward to when we play them every 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.160 year every other year or so and it's former a 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.600 f C East resident Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.240 and ironically one used to be the other. And it 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.480 began for me back in two thousand one after the 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.120 wild Card round defeat here at hard Rock Stadium formerly 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.839 Pro Player Stadium. I had always heard this story about 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.360 what the Ravens players did on the field, and it 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.039 was one of those things where you start to believe 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.360 that as it gets more and more in the past, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.400 maybe that was one of those myths that you just 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.400 never quite knew was a myth until you became old 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.800 enough to realize it was, and it kind of was. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.400 And I googled this and there's a story from the 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.800 Baltimore Sun from January eight thousand two, and then head 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.280 coach Brian Billock told the players during their Saturday walk 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.760 through that they needed to mark their territory at Pro 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.360 Player Stadium. So far different from the legend of the 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.040 story of actually marking your territory on the field itself, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.120 but it gives you a sense of how those games 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.160 kind of went back in those days. Because you might 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.640 remember the Dolphins beat down that two thousand Ravens team 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.519 that would go on to the Super Bowl with a 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.880 nineteen to six when I think it was, and that 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.200 was two of the best defenses in the National Football 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.240 League in those years, and Miami's defense held that Baltimore 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.640 offense to just six points in that game with the 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.600 two corners pass rush from Jason Taylor, Zach Thomas. You 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.720 guys know the suspects from those teams. And that was 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:47.800 the second to last. So I guess penultimate home playoff 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.079 game for us and the next one. Guess who Baltimore? 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.480 Once again? The Wildcats season division champions eleven and five. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.799 They fumble the ball in the opening kickoff and I'm 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.600 out here thinking, here we go again, baby, this miracle 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.920 run continues for Chad Pennington, Ronnie Brown, Tony Sperrano and 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.480 these Wildcat Dolphins. It results in the field goal, and 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.720 that was the last real fun moment from that game, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.520 except though I still contend if Ted Ginn doesn't bobble 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.400 that end around snap when the game is twenty nine, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.200 it might have become a game at that point. But 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.120 I digress, because four I N T S two ed 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.880 read picks in that game won for a touchdown, And again, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.119 this just felt like payback from Baltimore after we got them, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.320 and that thrilling two thousand seven thriller, the one game, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.000 the one win season, I should say, Camerie over the middle, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.160 got it, touchdown, Dolphins, They're gonna win this football game. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.160 Since then, Miami has won just one game in this matchup, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.440 and that was a late season snoozer, a fifteen to 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.600 thirteen final between Matt shob and a Dolphins team led 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.520 by Dan Campbell. The fighting Dan Campbell's back then as 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.800 the novelty kind of wore off late in that year 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.119 after just a tumultuous season. Was one of my least 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.240 favorite years as a Dolphins fan. Since that victory, though, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.040 Baltimore has won three straight by a combined score one 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.360 thirty seven to sixteen, including a middle match on a 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.280 Thursday night up in Baltimore. Back in that game, a 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.200 forty two zip result in Miami came into that. I 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.640 remember flying high because Matt Moore was starting. A lot 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.279 of us were not very thrilled with Jay Cutler's production 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.359 so far at that point, four and too off of 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.320 a big win in overtime or a comeback win against 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.840 the Jets in the previous game. Fun times until that 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.240 game began. So plenty of symmetry here in the rivalry, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.120 and in fact, that two thousand eight playoff loss was 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.880 the first year of current head coach John Harbaugh, who 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.719 is one of the most accomplished coaches and best current 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.440 coaches in the National Football League, and several things have 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.760 helped the Ravens into the blue blood status since Harbaugh's 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.240 two thousand eight arrival. I put them up there with 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.760 the Steelers, the Seahawks, the Patriots. Who else goes into 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.240 that mix? The Packers, these teams that are regularly a 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.279 top the NFL standings and in the content and contention 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.840 every single year. The Chiefs are in that mixes. Well, uh, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.279 there's a couple of teams in that next I miss. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.760 But anyway, that started in earnest in two thousand and 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.159 eight with Joe Flacco and John Harba's rookie season that 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.240 brought them all the way to the a f C 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.640 title game that season, and that was the first of 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.400 five straight playoff appearances for that Ray Wins club. And 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.440 they would then win at least one playoff game every year. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.440 That sounds fantastic, and that culminated in a Super Bowl 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.440 championship in that two thousand twelve season against his brother 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.840 Jim Harbaugh. But after that a bit of a dip 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.360 for this Ravens team. One playoff appearance in the next 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.680 five seasons, and then something else happened to join with 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.120 what the Ravens already did well and playing lights out 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.880 defense and stertling special teams Lamar Jackson. Since Lamar's arrival, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.400 or rather when he took over the starting role in 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.200 mid two thousand eighteen, the Ravens are thirty eight and ten. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.960 Nobody has a better record since that time, and at first, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.040 after that first round playoff exit in which the Chargers 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.000 found a way to stifle the rushing version of Lamar 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.480 Jackson enforcement of beat you from the pocket, that dynamic 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.680 dime package defense that was spearheaded by Derwin James, helped 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.120 them get into a position to really make folks think, well, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.200 maybe during or maybe rather Lamar can't do this. All 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.400 Lamar did was come back with a fourteen and two 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.400 season in an MVP award and a first or second 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.080 round exit after a first round by to the Ryan 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.560 Tannehill lad Titans. But I digress now. This season, despite 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.080 a league high twenty one players on I R. Baltimore 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.080 six and two right back in that same position. They're aggressive, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.680 They trust analytics as much as anybody else. They go 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.520 for it on fourth down as much as anybody else. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.760 And they you know, they even though they have Justin Tucker, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.479 they still know that the best way to win games 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.200 of scoring seven points over three, and they go aggressively 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.200 in that regard. And there are a threat to make 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.640 a run to the Super Bowl every year because well, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.240 they usually play terrific defense, not as much this year, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.080 but again, injuries have depleted this team in so many 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.599 areas they're normally balanced on offense, and again the running 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.040 game is also depleted with just about every running back 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.839 they had back in camp on I R. And everybody 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.960 who had the opinion that the Ravens can't win games 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.240 coming from behind, which in some ways is legitimate, but 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.840 all it was a commentary on Lamar Jackson. And if 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.839 you do that, you're telling on yourself, because this kid's 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.160 one of the most electrifying best players in the National 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.600 Football League. That's all they've done all year long, come 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.560 back from defice sits, and they do it because Lamar 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.640 can basically do whatever the hell he wants with the football. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.800 In fact, last week, he became the first quarterback to 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.760 throw for three touchdowns and rush for a hundred and 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.160 twenty yards and multiple games in the same season. Ever, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.320 not Kyler Murray, not Michael Vick, Lamar Jackson did that. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.080 Not Randall Cunningham, not fran Tarkenton. He's a monster. He's 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.000 brought this team back from double digit deficits three times 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.080 this season. So the Ravens are six and two. There 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.040 was dangerous as anybody. But if there's one thing that 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.320 has sort of plagued them this year, it's the way 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.520 they've started some of these games, and it's playing some 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.840 games maybe a little bit closer than they should have been, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.440 Like they were a bad penalty away from losing in Detroit, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.280 which never should have happened for this talent with Ravens team. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.120 And to top it all off, before we get into 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.440 positional previews, it's a tough, tough ask for the Ravens 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.880 to travel on a short week after playing a full 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.280 fifth quarter on Sunday against the Vikings, going to the 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.400 buzzer and overtime and that win over Minnesota, but their 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.640 offense was on the field for plays the defense just 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.880 for fifty two, as they dominated time of possession too 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.080 in that game. So that's your intro and the small 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.400 footnote there. But as we do weekly, we start here 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.320 with the Baltimore quarterback versus the Miami safeties in our 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.440 week number ten game preview, over the halfway point, over 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.920 the hump and heading into the mid November portion of 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.480 the schedule. And I mean, I told you how it goes. Rushing, passing, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.960 play action, game zone read r p O, on the 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.080 move from the pocket, QB, draw design runs, and the 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.840 red zone. He's an absolute problem. And I think that's 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.679 one of the best players in the league, regardless of position, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.160 and I doubt I'm alone on that unless you haven't 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.120 caught up yet. But he creates so much conflict for 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.200 everything you want to do. Play Man coverage, well that's 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.240 tough because if you make if he makes you miss 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.240 on the initial rush, or even if the coverage is 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.320 good and you just can't quite get home in the 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.880 first three seconds of that rush, he can break contain 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.360 and get loose with his legs. Again, hundred and twenty 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.120 yards rushing on Sunday play zone, He'll just hang out 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.800 in the pocket and beat you that way too, gotten 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.160 taking his game to another level in terms of the 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.440 passing from the pocket in that sense, I never thought 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.400 it was bad, but it's certainly gotten a lot better 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.679 since that time. Byron Jones had a best like if 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.280 he thought that he was only a one dimensional player 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.240 back then you had it wrong then too. I mentioned 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.920 Derwin James earlier, and it's got me thinking about the 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.760 Dolphins recent surge and safety is coming on blitz Is. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.160 That's a big test for these two young kids. Javon 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.079 Holland to me, has some of that Derwin d n 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.480 A in terms of versatility that dog to him and 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.240 the ability to impact the game from multiple positions. And 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.400 this Dolphins defense is capable of getting deep into their 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.959 sub packages really as well as anybody across the National 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.760 Football League. We've seen a lot of it. Dime quarter 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.959 half dollar. They won't shy away from unloading six, seven, 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.600 even eight defensive backs onto the field, and that can 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:00.000 be kind of a key for defending this track star offense. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.840 And I think I mentioned this in the season preview 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.960 back in September August, whenever the hell that was. The 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.760 loss of Dobbins was so big to me because for 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:13.160 such a long time. The Ravens game ran as smoothly 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.800 as it did because of Lamar Jackson. And this is 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.319 not a slight against you know, mark Ingram or Gus Edwards, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.680 but those are just kind of guys. Those are guys 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.040 that are They're good players, but they're not game changers. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.200 And then getting Dobbins, a true game changer at the position, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.320 would make that defense, make the posing defense. So the 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.240 Ravens have to pay equal mind to both options. Because 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.760 when you have too key on on Lamar, it's obviously 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.200 gonna open things up for running back X whoever the 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.800 case may be. But when you have a guy like 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.920 Dobbins who can not only make tacklers miss, get skinny, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.959 have that wiggle in the hole, but hit the home 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.880 runs and make guys miss in the second and third level, Gosh, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.920 that would have been difficult to defend. I'm looking forward 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.960 to seeing it as a NFL fan in general next 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.400 year when Dobbins comes back. But having to pay equal 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.520 mind to both options on all that zone, Reed and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.200 ball face a king that Lamar does. What a tall 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.840 order that would be. And you can see that in 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.880 their numbers right now, Lamar has six hundred rushing yards. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.760 Second place on the clubs Latavius Murray with two d 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.720 and twelve, and that speaks to their injuries at the position. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.800 They got Levi on bella touchdown last week. Davonte Freeman 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.760 also scored. Bell has just eighty two rushing yards this 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.880 season and Freeman has one eight where Tyson Williams was 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.000 kind of the guy that was supposed to kind of 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.760 seize that role, but he's missed a few games, including 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.199 last week against the Vikings. At least he didn't play 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:31.480 at all. I didn't see the injury report, but he 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.720 had zero carries in that game. And all this is 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.960 to say that it starts with number eight. So for 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.760 Jones and Holland, two of their best traits have been 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.240 coming from depth, the angles they take to the football 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.439 and sound tackling. That's the big test here, maybe even 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.160 the matchup of the game for me. Then there's the 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.040 also the whole idea of the passing game, Like the 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.000 biggest way to hurt someone's with the passing game. Right 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.920 e p A always favors passing game, like for example 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.840 in Tennessee. As good as Derrick Henry is, they improve 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.360 their odds of winning when they go to handed hill 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.480 more because passing is more efficient than running. That's how 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.120 it works in football. And in the passing game, they 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.000 will pump the football to their tight ends, which works 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.800 so well to complement their running game because it helps 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.400 keep them balanced, it keeps the defense guessing, and it 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.360 stresses that middle part of the field. And when you 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.040 also want to get your safety is involved in the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.880 running game, it creates conflict, not just for the linebackers, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.679 but for those guys. So there's so much conflict within 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.280 this offense, and real quick before we bleed that over 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.079 into our next positional group preview here on the Wednesday 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.000 special Drivetime edition of the Drivetime Podcast presented by Auto Nation. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.520 This is one of the most unique personnel deployment offenses 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.000 in the entire national football They just thirty seven percent 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.080 of their snaps come from eleven personnel. Most clubs run 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.160 that anywhere from six all the way up to like 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.160 of the time. That's the second fewest to only us 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:55.520 the Miami Dolphins at or rather reverse those two numbers, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.960 but Baltimore and they also run by far the least 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.560 amount of twelve personnel just four percent of the time. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.880 Miami by comparison, which you take from that eleven personnel 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.319 packaging most of the time is that fifty twelve personnel. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.280 It's the two back sets they run they leave the 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.760 NFL and twenty one personnel atent. That's two backs, one 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.400 tight end. Patrick Recard their full back, gets plenty of work, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.719 and they've also Ransom two running back sets in there 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 as well. The second most at that package is nineteen percent, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.720 and almost everybody else is in single digits. So they 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.280 run it way more than the average in the NFL 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.800 than the twenty two personnel package. What does that mean? 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.200 Two tight ends, two backs, and that's eighteen percent. The 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.400 next closest is eight percent. Most teams are anywhere from 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.840 zero to three percent in that uh. In that arena again, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.559 we'll talk about Patrick Recard their fullback in a few segments, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.839 but back to the Baltimore receivers and tight ends versus 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.080 Miami corners. The thing about this team is despite the 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.160 varied personnel groupings, they can get to really any look 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.280 from all of those packages. Like they can go tight 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.959 and condense everything, or they can go empty. They run 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.480 tons of empty even from those two back or two 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.440 tight end heavy type of sets, so they cannot only 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.280 line up they can yeah, they cannot only line up 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.280 with their two back set. Go from the gun, from 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.280 the pistol, under center, jet, sweep, single wing, double wing. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.240 I'm not joking. They can do everything and they will 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.640 try everything to give them an advantage in the running game. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.840 And then from that Lamar is able to play pass 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.080 and attack the middle. Watching these guys on tape for 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:29.160 me was stressful, Like I have to imagine coaches feel 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.000 the same way across the NFL, and they watched this 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.040 team on tape and it starts with that quarterback and 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.520 when he attacks the middle of the field. Mark Andrews 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.480 is a Pro Bowl tight end. He had to one 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.800 yard games this season, a bit of a dip and 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.720 touchdown production compared to his usual stats, just three so 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.840 far this year, but he's good for at least a 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.280 handful of catches every single week. And when you look 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.160 at his matchups and splits in the big one hundred 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.880 yard games he had, he got on top of Bobby 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.360 oka Riki for five catches. That's a smaller, super fast, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.080 but smaller linebacker. He also had a twenty seven yard 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.320 reception on safe d Julian Blackman, who's one of the 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.880 best young safeties in the National Football League, although he 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.520 got hurt this year. Uh two for thirty six on 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.680 Darius Leonard in that game and two forty three on 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.200 cornerback Isaiah Rogers. So what do all those guys kind 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.960 of have in common? Not undersized, that's the wrong word, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.360 but lighter than the average typical matchup for your tight ends. There. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.440 Then in the Detroit game, he posted forty one yards 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.600 on slot cornerback A J. Parker, thirty seven on mike 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.680 backer Derek Barnes, and twenty four more on their will 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.520 backer Jalen Reeves. Maybe, And why am I telling you 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.840 all this? Because if you want to commit to slowing 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.240 Eric Mark Andrews, I almost said Aaron Andrews, it typically 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.280 takes takes a multifaceted player, and that's what Miami has 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.680 a few of them. Actually, Holland Jones, row and Jerome Baker. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:46.760 I think is also up to the task because of 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.280 his speed and physicality in coverage. Get the head around though, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.840 So that is a key matchup I'm looking at Because 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.080 of all those players, I think there are options. Maybe 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.520 you want to assign someone that follows him down to 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.240 the line who can also kind of keep their eyes 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.160 in the backfield and contribute in the running game, and 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.520 that would require that excellent eye discipline. So perhaps it's 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.720 a veteran like Eric Row. I like the idea of 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.040 Javon Holland, but with how much he does elsewhere, especially 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.560 in that deep post, maybe that's not the best usage 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.600 for his skill set. Maybe it is, but when a 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.520 certain receivers on the field, I think you need that 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.560 post safety, and that certain receiver is none other than 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.600 Hollywood Florida Brown Mark Keys. Brown himself was such a 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.280 great addition to help this offense stretch the field and 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.080 make you defend more grass than you would otherwise. He 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.760 changes the way defenses defend that team, and you better 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.920 be damn good in man coverage if you do want 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.240 to bring those safeties down, kind of like Miami did 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.120 all game long against the Texans, because he's a big 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.360 play machine. He's had a few drops this year, but 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.280 he consistently gets on tops of defenses, and I thought 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.800 one of his best performances with that playoff game last 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.200 year against the Buffalo Bills, because he showed you that 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.600 he can win underneath and create separation in short areas 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.320 because of really refined route writing. He's a great player. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.640 Love watching him play, and that's kind a structure of 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.800 this entire offense, like track speed all around their track 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.760 star quarterback. Lots of I candy and missdirection, tons of conflict, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.159 and it makes an incredibly challenging to defend, especially on 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.040 a short week. Their top snaptakers last couple of weeks 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.680 have been Marquis Brown. Around the season, I should say 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:22.200 Marcus Brown, Mark Andrews, Rashad Bateman, Devin DuVernay, and Eric Tomlinson. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.720 The tight end. I think for Marcus Brown, I think 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.160 you probably roll a safety a lot of the time there, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.280 but if you go in man coverage, I would probably 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.639 go more towards the idea of Byron Jones. You recall 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.199 last time we played this team, we didn't have Byron 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:38.880 Jones and they went He went off in that game 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:43.000 for too long touchdown passes. I think Jones's athletic ability 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.399 matches up with Brown really well in terms of what 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.120 the Dolphins have at that position. Mark Andrews, I think 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.080 I might cap him, I might double Mark andrew I 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.639 don't know. That's that's a tough decision. They're gonna have 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.359 to make. But trying to get someone to reroute and 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.280 then coverage over the top might be the best route 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.680 on him. Rashad Bateman to me, if he's out there, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.080 down in and down, now, that's an Xaving Howard matchup 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.959 for days, and just kind of lock that guy out 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.160 and take him out of the game of the best 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.160 you can. Devin Duverney one of these speed merchants. If 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.120 he comes inside the slot, I have to think about 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.800 kind of changing things up there because he has a 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.600 lot of speed from that position and I'm not sure 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.400 how you would attack that. And then Eric Tomlinson, Look, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.840 you can't let him beat you, but he will play 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.800 a lot. But if Eric Tomlinson beat you, that's that's 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.679 bad news. So just finding a way to neutralize his 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.800 impact and really focus on the other guys that have 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.359 gotten way more targets in the passing game. And of course, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.760 the first way to really disrupt a passing game and 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.399 to control the running game is up front and the 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.120 and the trenches almost a chrenches. Baltimore offensive line versus 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.919 Dolphins defensive line. Man, They're they're banged up here. No. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.359 Ronnie Stanley, a All Pro level left tackle who got 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.760 hurt again this season. I feel terribly for him. Two 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.679 years in a row he ends up on on season 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.160 ending i R no. Ben Cleveland and Patrick McCary did 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.320 not practice on Monday nor Tuesday listed as a d 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.320 NP in those practice reports. But as for the guys, 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.600 they do have three hundred forty three pass blocking snaps 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.119 for the Evens this year, so keep that number in mind. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.840 With their overall snap counts. Only one guy has hit 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.080 that mark. That's Kevin Zeitler, who also happens to be 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.560 their best player on the offensive line right now. He's 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.280 allowed nine pressures, no sacks or no hits on all 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.840 three hundred forty three pass blocking snaps. At left tackle 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.239 is the massive Alejandre Villaneueva thirty two pressures on three 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.879 hundred thirty six snaps at six quarterback hits and five sacks. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.360 Eleven times he's been responsible for a hit on Lamar Jackson, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.320