WEBVTT - Miami Dolphins 2020 Schedule Breakdown 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:07.120 Factors were Alford factor, d Park textole what a win 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:12.600 for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow, What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.200 And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:21.279 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.320 every day. How's it going, everybody? I am your host, 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.880 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.560 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.880 the schedule is out. Where you're going game by game 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.200 and talking some football. Will tell you the schedule advantages, disadvantages, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.239 some of the weird quirks of this year's schedule, interesting 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.040 facts about each game, and yes, we're gonna get into 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.199 the weeds of some of these matchups. All of that 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.519 and more on this Thursday special edition. May the seventh 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:56.240 edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins, and we are supposed 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.880 to be hearing that call the Miami Dolphins first down 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.040 call at Rock Stadium when the Dolphins have their home 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.920 opener week number two. We're gonna get to the entire 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.520 schedule here in just one second. But we finally learned 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.360 the order in which the sixteen game slate will play 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.000 out for year two of Brian Flores's Dolphins tenure plenty 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.679 of excitement going into this season. Every year for each team, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:22.440 this schedule comes with built in advantages and disadvantages. Short weeks, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.479 extended road trips, you have cold weather games, those kind 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.479 of serve as the latter the disadvantage, but you also 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.360 have advantages like the September Miami Heat which goes into October, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.560 for being honest, lengthy home stands, and playing opponents on 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.640 a quick turnaround or West Coast teams coming east. All 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.119 of those things are in the schedule for the Miami Dolphins, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.320 but still accurately previewing any individual game must be reserved 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.960 for the week of the contest because injury reports, unexpected developments, weather, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.040 and so many more variables can change the matchup. But 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.120 we will still do our best here in the month 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.920 of May to give you a preview of each of 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.200 the six team game. And we start this season where 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.400 last season ended, Week number one at the New England 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.560 Patriots at September at one o'clock Eastern on CBS. The 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.239 Patriots were twelve and four last year. They lost in 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.880 the a f C Wildcard round. After winning another a 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.400 f C East Division title. They were the seventh ranked 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.760 offense the first ranked defense. They added defensive tackles bo 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.720 Allen and safety Adrian Phillips, and they didn't have a 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.120 first round draft pick. Their first pick of the draft 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:30.120 was thirty seven overall safety Kyle Dugger out of Lenore Rhyan, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.760 and a big reason for that Dolphins win to cap 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.560 off last season was the first ever pick six by 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.040 a Miami Dolphin by Eric Rowe in Gillette Stadium that 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.760 capped off his successful switch from cornerback to safety, and 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.840 from Week six on last year, Eric row allowed a 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.040 catch percentage of just fifty three point three percent over 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.000 those final twelve games since that move to safety. So 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.360 he gets a look back in his old stomping grounds, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.400 his old New England Patriots Stadium in Week number one, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.680 and the Patriots and their off season reach hained prize 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.760 guard Joe Tuney on a franchise tag and extended the 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.240 ever dependable Devon mccordy at safety. But they have a 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.760 lot of old faces in new places like your Miami Dolphins. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.440 Three of those Patriots departures are now Miami Dolphins, and 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.760 Kyle van noy Eland and Roberts and Ted Carriss who 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.120 meet their former team for the first time in the 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.440 season's first game. The win in twenty nineteen was the 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.519 dolphins first in Foxboro since the two thousand eight Wildcat Game. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.240 Some all time notes here for you. The Dolphins and 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.120 Patriots have split the season series in six of the 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.000 past seven seasons. The only year it didn't happen was 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.600 the Dolphins playoff year in sten when the Patriots swept 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.240 the season series. The Dolphins do lead the all time 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.680 series fifty six to fifty three, and that mark does 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.400 include three playoff games. So the Dolphins go to Foxboro 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.600 week number one, where they will face possibly Jarrett Stidham 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.160 or Brian Jyer at quarterback, pending any veteran acquisition at 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.080 the quarterback position. This will be the first game that 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.680 Tom Brady did not start for the Patriots against the 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.440 Dolphins in Gillette Stadium since the two thousand eight Wildcat Game. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.200 We all know how that one went. The Patriots lost 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.400 plenty of veterans throughout the course of the off season. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.480 We talked about the three that came here to Miami. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.760 But you never want to count this Patriots team out 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.040 because Bill Belichick has stacked up wins and wins and 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.880 wins every single year, just going back to that Wildcat 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.480 season alone. Matt Castle, the backup quarterback, came in Week 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.600 number one, helped the Patriots win that game after Brady 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.279 goes down with the knee injury, and the Patriots won 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.039 eleven games that year, and then without Brady in two 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.599 thousand and sixteen, they were three and one under Jimmy 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.800 Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissette. This matchup is interesting because the 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.560 Patriots receiving corps is pretty young and inexperienced and goes 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.880 up a Dolphin, goes up against rather a Dolphins defensive 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.120 backfield that has all kinds of marquee talent with Byron Jones, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.040 Xavian Howard added a Noah Igbanogeny in the first round, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.039 Bobby McCain, Eric Rowe, we talked about Nick Needham and 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.960 Brandon Jones. That's the matchup I'm looking for in this game. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.040 How can the Patriots separate from the Dolphins sticky man 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.599 coverage and on the other side of the ball the 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:10.080 same receiver verse cornerback matchup. Last year's December meeting, DeVante 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.160 Parker capped off his breakout season with one hundred and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.360 thirty seven yards on eight receptions, and seven of those 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.480 catches and one hundred and nineteen of those yards came 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.560 up against Stefon Gilmour, who was the defensive player in 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.760 the National Football League in twenty nineteen. This game serves 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.800 as kind of a rubber match to those two's battles 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.800 from last season because in Week number two, Gilmore held 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.480 Parker without a catch in that game, so they both 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.160 have one win so to speak to their individual matchups, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.839 this game provides another chance for either of those guys 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.880 to take the victory. Box Dolphins at Patriots Week one, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.920 September one o'clock on CBS. Week number two, the home opener, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.560 the Dolphins will host another division rival, the Buffalo Bills 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.720 on September one o'clock Eastern on CBS. The Bills were 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.320 a ten and six outfit last year. They bounced out 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.240 of the first round of the a f C Wild 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.640 Card brown after that crazy game against the Houston Texans. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.159 Their offense ranked their defense ranked second, So the Dolphins 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.240 will get the first ranked defense and the second ranked 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.279 defense in back to back weeks here to begin this season, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.599 and the Bills did a lot to fortify their roster 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.240 this offseason. As well, acquiring receivers to Fawn Digs from 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.960 the Minnesota Vikings. In a trade, they picked up defensive 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:27.200 tackle Vernon Butler and added cornerback Josh Norman from Washington 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.320 in the first round. They didn't have a draft pick 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.599 after the Stefon Diggs trade, but they did select defensive 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.960 end a j Epanessa out of Iowa fifty four overall 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.640 for their first pick of this year's draft. And beginning 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.320 this season with the second straight divisional game, the Dolphins 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.440 have a chance to reverse their fortunes against the rival Bills. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.960 The Bills swept the season series last year in twenty 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.960 nineteen and have five wins in the last six, including 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.400 a seventeen sweep as well with the split series, and 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.520 one way the Dolphins can do that is to find 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.719 a way to shut down dual threat quarterback and Josh Allen. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.120 His work on the ground has been the go to 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.440 offensive threat in his four career games against the Dolphins. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.599 Allen has three hundred and eighteen rushing yards and three 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.800 touchdowns in four games against the Dolphins. But Miami have 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.480 some reinforcements this year that can look to contain the 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.440 Buffalo ground game, which does feature second year running back 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.480 Devin Singletary and now this year's rookie and Zack Moss 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.200 to go along with Josh Allen and a pretty good 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.800 offensive line that has been fortified over the last couple 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.280 of years. Cody Ford a good right tackle for them. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.240 He was added last offseason. They had Mitch Morris the center, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.640 plenty of good players up front for that Bill's line, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.280 but Shack lost in last year with the Bills. He 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.920 has his first game against his former team. He's gonna 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.120 have to wait until Week seventeen to return back to 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.160 Orchard Park, but he tied for tenth in the NFL 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.920 among defensive ends with thirteen tackles for a loss. Emmanuel 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.400 Ogba also had a good run defense grade off the 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 edge as well. Adding Kyle van Noyd to the linebacker 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.480 corps a Land and Roberts Cammu gruge Hill, the Dolphins 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.080 have more bodies, more players to deal with that Buffalo 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.840 running game a force in addition to Jerome Baker and 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.360 ray Kwon McMillan, and McMillan one of the better A 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.880 gap and B gap run defenders. When he gets that 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.200 full head of steam going downhill, he'll be in this 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.000 game this year where he missed the game against Buffalo. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.040 The second game against Buffalo should say last season, so 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.640 the key stopping the Buffalo Bills run game but also 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.480 holding that pass rush at Bay and the Dolphins once 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.120 again made plenty of additions to try to fortify that 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.120 spot of the offensive line with two free agents and 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.560 Eric Flowers and Ted Carriss, and of course the three 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.240 draft picks and Solomon Kinley, Robert Hunt, and Austin Jackson 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.640 in the fourth, second and first round respectively. That added 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.120 beef could help the Dolphins offensive line protect Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.120 who was sacked nine times with forty three total quarterback 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.200 pressures in those two games last year against Buffalo. The 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.120 Dolphins are thirty five and twenty and one all time 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.320 at home against Buffalo, but the last six seasons in 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.840 these games at hard Rock Stadium, the two teams have 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.560 split it three games apiece at hard Rock. Week number 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.280 three are one and all the primetime game of the 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.840 season on the road in Jacksonville on Thursday night. It's 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.120 gonna be a short week for the Miami Dolphins. September 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.800 twenty pm Eastern on NFL Network. The Jaguars, led by 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.240 Gardner Minshew six and ten. Last year no playoffs, they 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.560 had the twenty six ranked offense twenty one ranked defense. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.240 They added Joe Schobert of the Cleveland Browns, the really 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.479 good linebacker there comes over to Jacksonville, and free agency 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.560 Tyler If at the tight end and cornerback Rashawn Melvin 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.360 round out there notable free agent acquisitions. In first round 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.880 of the draft, they had two picks, one for the 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.800 the Jalen Ramsey trade, the other their natural pick, their 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.920 organic pick, and with that ninth overall pick, they took C. J. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.319 Henderson out of Florida to replace Ramsey, and with the 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.760 twenty pick they select ca Levon Chason out of l 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.120 s U. The only primetime game this year puts the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.840 Dolphins on the road, but luckily it's in state, just 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.280 a short flight up north to Jacksonville. And these two 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.080 teams faced off two seasons ago, but both are almost 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.840 unrecognizable from those twenty team campaigns. Two of the youngest 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.160 teams in football square off for the ninth time, with 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.760 the series split evenly at four wins apiece. Most of 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.760 the parts from the Jags seen a f C Championship 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.480 game team are elsewhere, with only sixteen members of that 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.679 Dolphins teen team still on this year's roster. Minshew, we 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.000 know about the magic. He came off the bench last 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.520 year in relief of the injured Nick Foles and Week 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.319 number one and sparked the in state rival with the 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.000 Jaguars into a national phenomenon. He creates that magic with 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.560 a slew of young whiteouts and DJ Chark, Chris Conley, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.560 d D Westbrook and they added Laviska Chanlt out of 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.400 Colorado in this year's draft. A pretty good core there 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.880 of wide receivers. They do want to be a physical 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.760 team and run the ball. That's kind of been the 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.480 m O of Doug Moron there in Jacksonville. They have 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.120 a high priced free agent guard acquisition from a couple 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.560 of years ago, and Andrew Norwell. He remains there. Brandon Lindore, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.200 their center, A j Can is still there. They drafted 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.320 Juwan Taylor and Cam Robinson in the first two rounds 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.280 of the last couple of drafts to wify the offensive line. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.960 So this game could be a physical, bruised out type 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.920 of game. As the Dolphins want to be physical, the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.440 Jaguars want to be physical. They're gonna have to find 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.880 a way to get Josh Allen blocked off that edge. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.760 Last year's number six overall draft pick, had a major 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.600 impact his rookie season. He gets after quarterbacks wherever he 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.679 lines up. Dolphins have to find a way to get 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.440 him blocked as well as Calavon Chason, this year's first 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.439 round draft pick of the Jaguars. Miles jack can do 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.160 a bunch of things at linebackers, so it's going to 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.760 be important for the Dolphins quarterback to kind of identify 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.720 number forty four on every single play and make sure 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.560 he is accounted for. The all time series between these 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.520 two teams is tied up at four apiece. The Dolphins 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.400 are three and two in the past five games against 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.160 Jacksonville and are three and three all time in Jacksonville, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.680 And despite playing in the same state and being less 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.400 than three and twenty five miles apart, this is gonna 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.680 be Miami's first trip to Jacksonville since September two thousand 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.720 and fifteen, a span of more than five years between 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.480 trips up to Jacksonville for the Miami Dolphins. So week 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.800 number three at Jacksonville on primetime NFL Network and playing 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.080 that short week means the next week. You get an 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.240 extra time to prepare with ten days, and the Dolphins 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.200 will get that in week number four against the Seattle 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.800 Seahawks October the fourth, one o'clock Eastern on Fox. The 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.079 eleven and five Seahawks from last season, who bout out 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.360 in the NFC's Divisional Round last year, come down to Miami. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.800 Their offense ranked ninth and twenty nine, team defense ranked 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.640 three twenty nineteen. They made some additions across the offense 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.560 and defense with Greg Olsen at tight end. Quentin Dunbar, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.920 a very underrated cornerback there formerly of Washington, joins the 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.640 Seattle football team. Cedric Abwegy, Philip Dorset, and b. J. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.599 Finney are all veteran acquisitions of the Seahawks this offseason. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.000 Their first round draft pick was Jordan Brooks out of 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.760 Texas Tech, and the Dolphins get a pair of benefits 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.600 facing the Seattle Seahawks in this particular time slot in 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.600 this particular game. First, the extra three days to prepare 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.640 coming off that Thursday game always an added benefit there, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.760 but second, welcoming a West Coast team traveling East teams 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.160 that make the track from the Pacific or Mountain time 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.960 zones to play in the early kickoff in the Eastern 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.480 time zone have traditionally struggled. I found an article up 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.160 on NFL dot com. From two thousand three through two 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.880 thousand eighteen, West Coast teams went eighty and one thirty 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.920 three in games that were kicked off in the one 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.760 o'clock Eastern time window on the road. And this is 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.280 Russell Wilson's second trip, his first since his rookie season 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.880 back in twelve to hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins won 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.000 that game on a buzzer beating field goal from Dan Carpenter, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.040 but Russell Wilson and the Seahawks returned the favor four 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.920 years later when Miami went to the Pacific Northwest with 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.079 a game winning touchdown drive and the waning moments breaking 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.600 my heart personally as I was in attendance for that 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.880 game and watched that game winning drive which had two 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.080 fourth down conversions. But that's neither here nor there. Seattle 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.959 has been a picture of consistency with trips in the 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.160 postseason and all but one of Russell Wilson's eight years 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.800 as a pro head coach. Pete Carroll makes no mystery 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 of the Seahawks I entity, so back to back games, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.559 and really the first four games of the year here 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.280 for the Dolphins are gonna be physical matchups because Seattle 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.000 ranked third last year and second the year before in 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.959 rushing attempts in the NFL. And again the Dolphins added 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.760 several integral parts to fortify that run defense with Shaq Lawson, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.920 Emmanuel Ogba, the Landon Roberts, Kyle van Noy, Cammu Gruge Hill, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.760 Rae Kwon Davis, Jason Strowbridge, Curtis Weaver, all those guys 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.400 coming over in free agency or in the draft. And 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:31.280 Seattle's last win in Miami was on October six. The 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.040 Dolphins lead the all time series ten to five, and 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.600 that includes three playoff games, so look for that game 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.480 to be a physical slug fest in the South Florida 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.280 heat early on in the month of October. Looking forward 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.320 to that one big time. The next week, we go 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.800 out to the West Coast Week number five at the 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.520 San Francisco forty Niners October eleventh, at four oh five 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.080 PM on Fox. The defending NFC champions won the NFC 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.960 West at thirteen and three. They were the second ranked 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.040 offense in the NFL, the eighth ranked defense in the 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.360 NFL and made plenty of auditions this offseason to really 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.120 boost that roster even further than what it is. They 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.520 added Trent Williams to the offensive line, one of the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.240 best left tackles and all of the National Football League, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.320 and Travis Benjamin. They also had two first round draft picks, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.120 Javon kin Law, one of the best defensive lineman in 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.760 this year's draft. He comes over in the trade they 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.600 got for DeForest Buckner and wide receiver Brandon You, also 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.160 in the first round. This is the dolphins first ever 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.840 trip to Levi Stadium to take on the defending NFC champions, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.920 A tough game for sure. Kyle Shanahan always has the 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.040 most creative, innovative and effective run games in football. As 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.360 the Niners finished second last year in the NFL in 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.080 total rushing, behind only Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.040 They will see the second leading back on the opposite 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.040 sideline this year in Matt Brita, who was sent to 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.600 Miami on draft Day for that fifth round draft pick. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.880 So a bit of a revenge game there for Matt Brida, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.360 if you want to call it that. The Niners featured 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.400 that zone heavy concept which meets and intriguing match up 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.640 as the Dolphins did get longer and stronger on the 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.240 outside once again with Lawson and og Ball. In free agency, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.680 Shanahan beefed up that receiving corps and got javon Kin 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.120 Law on the defensive line. You have to love the 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.480 Niners for knowing exactly what their identity as a football 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.920 team is. They generate pressure with that front four. They've 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.960 got Eric Armstead, They've got Nick Bosa there, now they've 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.560 got javon Kin Law. They can create all kinds of 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.120 havoc upfront. Gonna be a big challenge early in the 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.320 season for this Dolphins young offensive line to jail and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.400 find a way to get that ferocious pass rush of 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.200 the forty Niners blocked for the Dolphins quarterback this year, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.520 and this will be the first meeting between these teams 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.680 since Miami's goal line stand against Colin Kaepernick back in 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.760 propelled the Dolphins to a sixth consecutive victory. The Dolphins 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.400 lead the all time series seven to six, including a 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.400 matchup in the Super Bowl. Once upon a time. Staying 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.800 out West in the Mountain times on the Dolphins in 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.320 Week number six, We'll go to Denver to face the 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:02.160 Broncos October four oh five pm on CBS. The Broncos 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.960 were seven and nine last year, obviously no playoffs. With 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.760 that record, they were on offense, tenth on defense, and 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.920 they have been as busy as anybody this offseason, picking 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.880 up Darrell Casey, one of the I think most underrated 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.520 defensive lineman in the National Football League for the last 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.199 decade of the Tennessee Titans. He now comes over to 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.800 Denver quarnerback A. J. Boullier of the Jacksonville Jaguars. He 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.240 departs to come to Denver Melvin Gordon from the Chargers. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.280 They get him from their a f C West foe. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.679 Graham Glasgow and Nick Vanett round out their key veteran editions, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.000 and in the first round they get Jerry Judy out 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.320 of Alabama, one of the best pure route runners to 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.560 come out of the draft in recent memory. And the 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.520 Dolphins continue this West Coast swing with a stop in 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.679 the Rocky Mountains, where Drew Locke took the Broncos offense 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.760 last year. Took it over rather in the month of December, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.480 and when he started games they improved by five point 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.360 five points per game and his starts, giving John Elway 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.240 the confidence to build the team around the young gun slinger. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.600 The de bulked up offense hopes to improve on that 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.440 twenty eighth rank in scoring last year, but already with 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.720 a top ten defense, the Dolphins are gonna have their 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.639 hands full with the Broncos unit that got stronger in 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.000 the trenches. Drell Casey. I mentioned him. He averages fifty 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.720 one quarterback pressures over the last seven years. He is 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.359 a picture of consistency and getting quarterback pressure up front 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.920 on the defensive line. The Dolphins lead this all time 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.840 series with twelve wins, six losses, and one draw against 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.240 the Broncos. And the last trip to Denver was that 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.800 famed shootout game between Peyton Manning and Ryan Tannehill, as 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.360 the Broncos prevailed thirty nine thirty six among all of 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.680 those offensive fireworks, and though the Dolphins and Broncos typically 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.520 played tight games, the last contest was a blowout as 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.480 the Dolphins took it thirty five to nine. In December 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.440 of Week number seven, We're playing another West Coast team, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.400 but they're gonna come to our house, as the Los 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.000 Angeles Chargers traveled to Miami for another one o'clock kickoff 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.800 on CBS October. Last year, the Chargers five and eleven, 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.560 no playoffs. They were twenty one on offense, on defense, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.720 and scoring. Key veteran additions. They pick up the Broncos 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.359 Chris Harris Jr. One of the best cornerbacks going back five, six, seven, 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.480 eight years now in the NFL. Linval Joseph of the 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.480 Vikings joins the Chargers defensive line. He is a big 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.520 man who is tough to move. Its gonna be a 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.840 good matchup there between he and the new beef on 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.200 the Dolphins interior offensive line, Trey Turner. He's a big 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.240 time guard that comes over from the Panthers and the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.359 Russell o'coung trade. Nick vigil also was added and in 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.600 the first round, the Chargers had two picks this year. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.600 Quarterback Justin Herbert out of Oregon was picked one spot 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.800 after Miami took two Tongua Biloa and Kenneth Murray, the 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.760 Oklahoma linebacker. They trade back up to go get their 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.479 linebacker there in the first round, and for the second 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.119 time in the first seven games, the Dolphins welcomed that 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.000 West Coast opponent for the one pm kickoff. It is 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.560 a new era for the Chargers, as the first time 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.560 since two thousand five they're gonna start a quarterback not 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.440 named Philip Rivers. The incumbent veteran is a familiar face 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.000 to Dolphins fans everywhere and former starter and Tyrod Taylor 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.679 of the Buffalo Bills, while his challenger is a rookie 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.439 that was heavily tied to Miami during the draft process, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.080 in Oregon's Justin Herbert. On the other side of the ball, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.840 these two teams feature a fascinating matchup because they both 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.760 have some of the most multiple defenses in the NFL. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.119 Defensive coordinator Gus Bradley he uses first round pick in 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.480 Derwin James out of Florida State to really alter personnel 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.960 without requiring any substitution because he can play safety, he 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.760 can play linebacker, he can rush the edge. We talked 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.800 a lot about Isaiah Simmons, who will get to in 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.359 just a minute in the Cardinals game. We talked about 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.800 him in the draft run up. Derwin James was kind 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.679