WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Commanders Week 13 Preview 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.880 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.920 your pulse if you're not far of what is up? 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.920 Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:18.160 the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.400 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.720 And on today's show, it is preview time on the 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.160 road again and then guess what, just one more game 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.560 the rest of the way away from the friendly confines 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.839 of hard Rock Stadium, It'll be Dolphins at Commander's back 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.640 to the preferred for me personally one pm kickoff, keys 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:43.240 to victory, big matchups, introduction into this crazy Commander's organization, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.640 top storylines, and much much more. But from the Baptist 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.000 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.760 the Draft Time Podcast. So I made that point off 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.680 the open about the home schedule the rest of the way. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.760 Right after this week, it's home, home, home, away home, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.399 and there are no more Hurricanes games here at hard 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.160 Rock Stadium, which means the beautiful aqua end zones and 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.280 the best playing surface in the National Football League College 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.560 football or otherwise is back, and December usually means the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.720 return of the Aqua jerseys as well. I know folks 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.280 have been looking forward to those a lot. I definitely am. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.000 I wonder if they'll do Aqua on Aqua this year, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.559 as my personal favorite uniform combination, although to be perfectly honest, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.640 I don't really care that much. Maybe the Monday night 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.640 football game would be the spot for those if you 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.399 do them. We do get the Aqua throwbacks on Christmas 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.880 Eve versus Dallas, so I would assume it's Aqua tops 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.080 white pants one game, maybe the throat for sure, the throwbacks, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.240 then maybe the Aqua on Aqua. Who knows, maybe Aqua 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.480 on white again, I don't know. Again, who cares? I 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.920 always tell myself I don't care about uniforms, and yet 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.640 here I am talking about them. But yeah, the aesthetics 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.480 of a fully painted field with the mo patterns and 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.120 all the good stuff that goes into that, that, for 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.600 whatever reason does matter to me. Probably because I used 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.880 to turn my backyard as a child into a full 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:13.520 fledged football grounds, so probably some nostalgia involved there. But 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.160 first here, before all of that, a trip to land Over, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.560 Maryland and FedEx Field. How about the weather report usually 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.160 only include this? If I think it could be impactful, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.960 and on this Wednesday, things could obviously change. The report 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.840 does call for some precipitation, some rain, at least a 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.600 fifty percent chance of it, but also fifty six degree temperature. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.840 So a ball me early December day here in the 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.720 nation's capital wins under ten miles an hour. I think 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.839 it was seven last I checked. And with the way 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.799 Miami unleashed its ground game, and for a commander's team 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.560 that leeds league in passing attempts and throws the ball 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.720 a billion times per game, I'm interested to see how 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.679 the report changes over these coming days. Anyway, let's go 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.600 ahead and meet these commandos. They made some coaching changes 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.280 after the loss in Dallas, relieving Jack del Rio of 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.359 his defensive coordinator duties and defensive backs coach Brett Visselmayer. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.639 And that's where I jump into kind of start monologuing 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:11.080 off the top here, because the league and seemingly general 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.119 common sense passed del Rio by years ago. In fact, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.720 I recall watching a breakdown earlier this year, and the 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.800 defensive structural issues were so expected that the creator or 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.880 the voiceover person of this content just said, and you 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.119 have this here because well it's Jack wrote del Rio 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.760 calling a defense, and so while I think it's auditioned 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.320 by subtraction, the guy that put him in that position 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.400 to begin with to run his defense is still there. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.880 But now I'm supposed to expect it to get better, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.840 now that you've lopped off one hundred hours worth of 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.480 work over the course of a game week. And is 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.119 Ron taking that on himself? And if he is, where 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.240 does the delegation of his other tasks fall to. I've 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.040 always wondered that. And who's filling in for the one 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.360 hundred hours of the dB coach's work? The same ripple 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.280 effect there. I don't know. I just think it's a 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.000 really poorly coached outfit so far, and it's been that 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.120 way for a moment. Rivera arrived back in twenty twenty, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.920 the pandemic year, taking over for Jay Gruden, and they 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.680 were coming off a three and thirteen atrocious season. You 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.760 might recall competing with us for a draft position that year, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.600 and they picked second in a draft that included Burrow 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.800 Tongue Vailoa, Herbert love Hertz and also the prospect that 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:25.000 everyone was sure was they can't miss and Chase Young. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.360 And despite the fact that who is their quarterback then. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.960 I don't even know they didn't have one, right, I 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.560 can't remember who was. I think it was Taylor Heineke, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.479 and they went for Chase Young over Tua. Detroit did 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.400 the exact same thing with Jeff Okudo and they didn't 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.200 have a quarterback either, So crazy to think about that 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.360 in hindsight, but that's where they went to Chase Young 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.200 and he was that rookie, was a baller, but then 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.360 injuries piled up and he's since been shipped off to 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.440 San Francisco. But that was their first pick under Rivera 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.680 and it helped them win the NFC East that year, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.440 albeit with a seven to nine losing record, but it 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.040 was a pretty drastic turnaround from a three win season 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.080 that helped inspire some hope under the new regime there, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.640 and they've stayed in that ballpark the last couple of years. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.120 Another seven win season back in twenty twenty one. They 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.200 were seven to ten that year with an extra game. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.320 They were eight eight and one last year with a 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.880 tie that gave him a five hundred record, hilariously, and 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.479 now a four and eight start to the season with 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.080 new ownership. So the biggest win for the Commandos is 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.680 that Dan Snyder is no longer there, right, so they 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.760 have a win in their back pocket this year, but 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.640 it's not going that well. And I'm sure we'll see 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.880 all new faces next year across the board. But I'm 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.000 pretty sure it's a difficult world to operate inside of 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.080 because Josh Harris, the new owner there, he didn't hire 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.240 coach Rivera, he didn't oversee the roster built this way, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.840 and I think it's tough for a new owner to 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.359 come in right away and have success. We see it 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.640 all the time Carolina Panthers under David Tepper, who's meddling 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.960 in all the football business there, and look at where 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.920 they're at. They're going to be in the basement for 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.400 a long time because of the decisions they've made there 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.520 at the quarterback position, at the head coaching position. And 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.680 we saw it here. It was a struggle, you know, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.320 back in the oughts right to get things figured out 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.159 from an ownership standpoint. But I think the reason the 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.720 Commanders have hovered around five hundred since Rivera's arrival is 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.040 the talent's pretty good, especially on the offensive side of 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.760 the football. It's one of my favorite group of eligibles 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.040 in the entire NFL because they hit YACHTSI absolute yachtsie 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.839 on Terry McLaurin back in twenty eighteen, a second round 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.960 draft pick, easily a top ten wide receiver. I love, love, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.400 love Curtis Samuel and those folks that have been with 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.120 the podcast here for a few years know that I 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.920 was dying to get him into a two A tongue 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.880 of my lower led offense back in twenty twenty one. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.400 Johan Dotson was a first round pick last year. He's 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.240 the man. Diomi Brown's a great fourth like kind of 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.240 vertical stretch and special teams type of receiver. He's in 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.919 the mix there. They brought Logan Thomas in, who's become 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.919 one of the game's better tight ends after being a 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.840 quarterback in college. Brian Robinson was a fourth round pick 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.479 last year, and he looks the part. So they have weapons. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.640 And then you've got young Sam Howe their fifth round 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.000 pick last year, a guy that was thought to be 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.719 a potential number one overall pick before a final season 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.880 at North Carolina kind of took that off the rails. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.359 And I think if the Commanders have done anything this 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.360 year that was positive, it's that they've uncovered a guy 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.400 who I think can play in this league. We'll get 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.200 more into the scouting report on him later on, but 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.520 there are things in Howell's game to really build around. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.160 On the other side, the same twenty twenty class that 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.800 gave you Chase Young also gave you Cameron curl in 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.560 the sixth round, and he's been one of the best 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.080 safeties in the entire NFL. Otherwise, the class didn't provide 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.520 much fruit that year. Twenty twenty one sure as hell 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.480 did though. Jamon Davis is one of their off ball 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.920 linebackers starting He's a first rounder, although it's been a 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.720 struggle for him. Sam Cosmy is their second round pick. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.000 He starts at guard for them. It's been a struggle 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.040 for him as well. Their third round pick though, cornerback 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.720 Benjamin Saint Jews from Minnesota love his game. He is 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.160 a very physically dominant cornerback at that position. As for 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.160 the rest of the defense, to Ron Payne and Jonathan 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.280 Allen are the two best players on the team. I 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.920 would say they were both first round picks prior to 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.680 Rivera's arrival, and they went Montes sweat as well. Just 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.120 sometimes it's not a great idea to draft the same 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 position every year, over and over again, two years back 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.440 to back. Fine strength and your strength, but don't do 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.120 it four years in a row. That's what they did 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:03.920 here with three first round picks and then a second 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.400 round pick in Montes Sweat. I Digress one of the 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.160 best dtackle combos in the NFL. Major hits there, but 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.480 again they've now traded young and Montese Sweat. They invested 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.920 so much capital upfront, but then you wind up playing 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.360 on Thanksgiving. Two rookies off the edge, a fifth rounder 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:23.240 and kJ Henry and a seventh rounder Andre Jones, Josh James. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.000 They started that Thanksgiving game and it was evident that 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.640 there was two rookies off the edge in the third 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.360 day of the draft. So it's a team that I 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.520 feel is ready to compete on offense, maybe definitely in 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.160 some transition on defense. And they've come up short in 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.240 a few close games. That's the difference between being four 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.280 and eight and you know, six and six. So that's 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.280 how it goes in this league. They lost an overtime 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.079 to Philadelphia, they lost by a touchdown to the Giants, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.640 and then again at home to the Giants a few 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.960 weeks ago. Because they had six giveaways. Can't do that. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.800 They lost in Seattle despite taking a lead with less 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.679 than two minutes to play in that game and the 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.679 defense had to get back on the field. They lost 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.880 to the Eagles again by three. Again, that's the league, right, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.199 but Miami hasn't made it that way for opposing teams 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.720 barely at all this year. The Patriots back in Week 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.120 two played us pretty close. The Raiders in Week eleven 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.120 plays pretty close. But other inferior teams have gotten the 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.240 stomp from this Dolphins team. Right. How about the storylines 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.319 in this one, So there's a good example right there, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.160 the fact that Miami tends to wipe out bad teams, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:19.880 which is a sign of a great team. By the way. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.800 Go back in history and check out teams that thrash 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.760 the opposition when they're touchdown plus favorites. That's that's what 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.760 good teams do. Baby, My next storyline kind of got 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.600 wiped out because I expected it to be different than 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.319 it was. But a potential cold weather game, but it 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.640 could be a wet weather game, you know. I think 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.240 it's a good chance to get a test run for 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.760 what Baltimore could be in a few weeks. Fifty isn't 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:46.280 cold unless you're in South Florida. My daughter's daycare teacher 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.080 the other day on the playground was bundled up in 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.040 like a north face and was shivering. It's like, come on, man, 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.560 it's fifty five, come on, come on now, sixty degrees 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.560 out here. But maybe it moves into the fourth quarter 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.040 and in the evening and could get into the low forty. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.640 So Miami's ability to come pete in cold, wet weather 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.120 could be good. Again, pretty good chance of rain. Just 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.520 want to see how sloppy conditions affect us. If we 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.280 do get those three game divisional lead on the line 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.480 with five to play, that's more for the what's at 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.800 state category, but it's a storyline to me. Huge opportunity 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.840 here to stretch your lead in the division with the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.600 Bills off and playing at the Chiefs next week and 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.560 then players returning. Could we get Devon ah chanback that 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.400 would be nice. Could we get Rob Hunt back? That 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.280 would be very nice. There just aren't that many storylines 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.040 for this game. It's kind of what you see is 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.719 what you get. NFC team, they're pretty much knocked out 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.120 a playoff contention at this point. One more loss would 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.200 definitely do that. Nine losses. There's not a lot of 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.680 crossover between former players and coaches. McDaniel had been on 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.720 that staff previously. Obviously, John Embry was there as well, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.920 and actually Eric Bienemy was the OC at Colorado when 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.240 John Embry was there. That's interesting, I think. And then 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.600 Danny Crossman had a cup of coffee made the roster 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.240 in nineteen ninety for the Washington We won't say the 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.680 team name there, but he was on that roster before 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.840 going on IR after just a few games. So coach 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.840 Crossman a reunion back to his former stomping ground. Let's 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.040 go ahead and continue rolling here before the first break 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.480 and talk about this Dolphins offense versus this Commando's defense. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.480 And I'm saying that intentionally, by the way, Commander's is 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.280 a to me, a hilarious, hilariously bad name. You know, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.640 lots of commanders there in Washington in the Capitol, like, okay, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.079 cool guys. Better than the previous name, though the football 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.640 team sucked, and the name before that was not great either. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.440 So you're making steadily steady improvements. But maybe we find 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.680 a name that's not corny as hell. Anyway, Dolphins offense 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:36.400 versus Commando's defense, the safeties Cameron curl and Percy Butler 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.280 played the majority of the snaps. Curls one hundred percent 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.040 snap taker. Butler has been infused in the lineup later 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.800 in the season, so he's only played seventy seven percent 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.040 of those snaps, but he will play every snap in 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.120 this game on Sunday, barring injury. Derek Forrest also has 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.240 played forty one percent of the reps, more of an 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.160 early season starting type of load there, more than it 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.200 is three safety big nickel packages, but just giving you 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.079 guys the full compliment. And then at corner, Kyle Fuller 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.680 and Benjamin Saint Juice are one hundred percent snap takers. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.960 It's probably their best position on defense outside of those 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.560 two DT's right now. But in the slot, it's been 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.880 a struggle, especially trying to replace the injured Emmanuel Forbes, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.920 who has kicked Saint Juice inside. That's where he typically 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.679 would go on nickel downs, as Forbes would come into 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.200 the game off the perimeter and Saint Juice would kick inside. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.640 But now they go to the rookie Jartevas Martin to 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.600 come in and man the slot. I don't think Forbes 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.320 will play in this game. If he does, I would 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.600 run the football at him every single time. He's not 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.080 physically up to the challenge of that. So Jartavas Martin 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.320 and then Danny Johnson's also played twenty two percent of 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.280 the snaps inside God, to be honest with you guys, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.360 a lot of these names I'm not super familiar with 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.400 inside Deron Payne eighty three percent of the snaps and 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.120 Jonathan Allen eighty one percent. Those guys are game wreckers, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.720 definitely gonna be in the Keys spoiler alert. And then 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.280 Ridgeways played thirty percent of the snaps. Off the edge. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.440 They traded away all of their edge production at the 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.400 trade deadline. Casey two Hills played thirty seven percent of 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.520 the snaps. That has increased tenfold since those trades. kJ 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.400 Henry and Andre James, two rookies, have also played ten 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.679 percent of the snaps this year, but those were your 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.760 starters on Thanksgiving, and then off ball linebackers Jamon Davis 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.240 eighty six percent. I loved him out of college. Has 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.760 not had it click for him in terms of the 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.920 mental side of the game. Reminds me so much of 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.120 Kenneth Murray and Los Angeles and you guys, remember what 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.520 happened when we saw that linebacker on that field on 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.600 that day, and then Cody Barton is sixty percent snap taker. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.080 So I mean, that's pretty much the gist of it. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.800 They traded away their edge production. The secondary was always 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.280 very thin. The linebackers kind of get caught in mud 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.360 a lot, and they use this personnel accordingly. So their 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.480 base package is a four to three. That's ten percent 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.319 of their workload. They come out of nickel sixty one 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.560 percent of the time, and they played dime seventeen percent 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.000 of the time. And that probably has more to do 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.400 with the fact that they don't really have edge rushers 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.640 right now, and they've pumped that number up with more 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.680 six defensive back packages than usual. But most defenses operate 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.280 from two high concepts, right Like, that's pretty common across 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.520 the league. They'll get to varied looks, but this is 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.240 one of the more consistent teams in terms of what 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.920 they do that's too high. It's similar to the Rivera 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.840 Panthers teams of old, which if you recall, had Sean 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.640 McDermott calling their defense. So think Buffalo with lots of 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.080 those cover two kind of eyes in the quarterback. But 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.240 to the sideline type of looks, only the Commandos do 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.960 not have Taron Johnson, so they don't have the exclusive 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.760 nickel defense they run with him up there. That kind 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.320 of drives the entire scheme there. But evident by what 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.040 we just laid out in the personnel grouping, deployment zone, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.320 off eyes in the quarterback lighter boxes, that's what you 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.360 can expect. Let's go ahead and take a break right 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.720 there and come back and finish up Dolphins offense versus 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.240 Commander's defense here, and I'm gonna tell you about why 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.920 this team at generating no pressure and why Miami could 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.400 be in for a big, big day offensively. That's next 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.360 here on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:48.000 brought to you by Auto Nation, continuing the show in 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.840 segment two, Dolphin's offense versus Commando's defense here, and I 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.960 left off talking about the structure of it, and the 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.520 truth is, it's difficult to know what it will be 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.640 exactly because you have a new play caller and the 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.240 guy that was calling the defense previously is no longer 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.760 in the building. So new staff, new direction, but it's 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.680 still kind of the same principle as the defense, Like 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.120 who knows. But what we do have a good sample 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.680 size of is the difference in the Commando's pass rush 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.400 since they traded Chase Young and Montes Sweat. So here's 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.480 the four games post Young and Sweaty era. Fourteen pressures 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.360 versus the Cowboys not bad, twenty three pressures against the 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.840 Giants very good against a team that can't block, thirteen 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.320 against the Seahawks not good. Ten against the Patriots very 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.520 not good. So that's sixty pressures in four games an 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.200 average of fifteen perts. Not that bad. But the Giants 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.720 game really throws it out of whack, doesn't it. But 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:48.280 here's the eight games prior to that, prior to those 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.400 two trades. Twenty versus the Eagle, that's a great offensive 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.520 line you got twenty fifteen against the Commando or against 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.200 the Giants. Sorry, how does that work out? Though? Like 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.320 we had twenty three with without them and fifteen with them, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.560 I don't know. Fifteen versus the Falcons is not great. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.960 Twenty four against the Bear that's great. Twenty one vers 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.000 Philly again, wow, twelve versus Buffalo that was a blowout 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.400 game that was never even like Allen was just chilling 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.520 in the pocket all game long thirty seven versus Denver 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.240 Holy Moly, and then eleven in the opener versus Arizona, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.200 but no Chase Young in that game. So either way, 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.120 it's a nineteen point four pressures per game average. So 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.760 the pressures have reduced by twenty one percent since the trade. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.040 I mentioned the personnel change, right, it's two rookies starting 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.320 off the edge with them. It reminds me of the 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.840 Bears last year when we saw them after Robert Quinn 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.760 and Rokwan Smith got traded, and it was kind of like, uh, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.200 they can't really play anymore. They have one player who 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.400 has over twenty five pressures this year, it's the best 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.000 on their team, Jonathan Allen. In fact, Chase Young still 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.280 leads their team with thirty eight pressures and Sweat is 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.760 third with twenty seven. Deron Pain's the only other player 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.640 who has more than twenty. He has twenty three. So 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.720 spoiler alert here. One of the keys of the game 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.440 for me is going to be to contain those two 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.880 on the interior, both Pain and Alan. Let's talk about 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.080 them here, but first, real quick, casey two Hill has 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.600 twelve pressures, one hundred and eighty nine pass rush reps, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.640 James Smith Williams has fourteen on one to seventy five. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.280 kJ Henry has four on fifty five, and it's the 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.199 exact same number for Andrew Jones. Andre Jones, sorry, but 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.040 back to the interior. It's not good. It's what I'm 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.359 telling you guys, two massive, strong, quick, heavy handed complete 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.280 players who can collapse the pocket and two gap to 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.800 win versus the running game. I think Pain is the 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.960 one that draws more attention because he kind of has 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.159 that Wilkins skill set where it's a good punch in 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.479 placement and then very good lower body agilia to kind 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.440 of cross you up. He rushes largely off the right guard, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.119 so it'd be good to get big rob Beck in 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.239 the mix there. I do think it's been tougher on 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.400 them post trade. In fact, last year he and Jonathan 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.920 Allen were ninth and twelfth among defensive tackles in ESPN's 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.119 pass rush win rate metric. This year they're twenty sixth 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.560 and forty second out of fifty two. But I think 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.760 it goes back to what we said about the Miami 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.080 rush last year, is the ball is out so fast 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.399 that it mitigates a lot of the good pass rush 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.760 you do you get, and the Commanders have had issues 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.280 on top of issues covering the pass down the field 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.320 before we move on. This is why I love having 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.040 Connor Williams in the pivot. Our slides and mic points 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.800 are just always on point. We get the right guy 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.280 double damner every time, and Tua usually has a very 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.000 good interior pocket, which is critical for his skill set. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.280 I'm curious what it looks like if Rob Hunt is back. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.280 I would think you have options there because you might 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.560 see Rob Jones back as well. You know, Liam and 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.119 Lester have played a lot, but I think that Liam 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.119 has been the superior player in those regards, so I'm 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.960 curious to see if he moves sides or what it 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.000 could look like there. Come Sunday before the secondary. You guys, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.480 remember the Charger game, right with Kenneth Murray the linebacker 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.320 chasing his tail all game long. That's gonna happen in 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.159 this game. Cody Barton is maybe the most limited linebacker 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.879 athletically in the league. Jamon Davis is the opposite, but 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.159 he's like Murray, doesn't really know what he's doing. To 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.320 be perfectly house with you, I think Waddle and Reek 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.080 both go for one hundred plus in this game, I 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.719