WEBVTT - Dolphins Bills Week 15 Preview 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:15.880 looking Gipstla water Dolph, touchtop, ton Rick, call that there man. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:17.880 I want to help you soon. Look up on the 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:22.280 vanway Wattle, waddle to a shotguns back that's throw looking 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.560 stumps up fires, touchtop again, it's waddle. It's six touchdowns 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:34.239 to Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:40.400 check your pulse if what is up? Dolphins And welcome 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.720 to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.680 network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.600 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.000 it's time for another preview edition of the DP pod 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.959 for a game tomorrow, the shortest turnaround time we've had 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.000 from preview podcast to game the entire season, Primetime in 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.960 Buffalo for a huge a f C East clash in 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.920 prime time nighttime cold snow, the only game on at 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.479 the time. Look at the matchups, position by position through 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.760 the tape and the stats will tell you what's at 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.200 stake with this week's game. The three keys to win 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.120 the game and pick the Week fifteen contest around the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.480 National Football League from somewhere in South Florida. This is 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.000 it feels this week like you probably don't need that 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.319 much of an introduction a division opponent who, unlike the 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.840 Bait Patriots, Patriots and Jets, haven't undergone a whole lot 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.360 of change in recent years. The other two have seen 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.080 their longtime quarterback depart and the other have a new 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.880 coaching staff in the last couple of years. But the 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.160 Buffalo Bills have kind of become not just the stable 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.600 force within the division, but the conference in the entire league. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.040 The Cliffs notes on Buffalo and how they got here 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.120 Sean McDermott and I almost said Billy Bean. Brandon Bean 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.480 arrived at the exact same time start building a culture 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.280 of tough, smart players with more of a focus on 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.320 the some of the parts opposed to the star player 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.640 by trading away some of their name talent for draft 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.480 picks and getting Sean McDermott type of players in there. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.320 And that really began back in seventeen where they also 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.400 in that same process developed their own stars. And it 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.280 began that year by remaking the secondary with Micah Hide, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.880 Jordan Poyer and tradabus White then team with Josh Allen 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.560 with Stefon Diggs. This year they go out and they 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.480 add Von Miller, who is out for the year, but 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.400 you can argue it's the best roster in the National 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.880 Football League when fully healthy. There's a reason they were 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.160 these overwhelming Super Bowl favorites coming into the season. They 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:39.760 can beat you and they don't play well. They can 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.120 vote ratio when they do, and they sure know how 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.840 to play within the elements that they deal with almost 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.440 on weekly basis, pretty much after Halloween up there in Buffalo. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.720 I don't think it needs much more set up than that. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.240 This is the team that, for all intents and purposes, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.120 kept the Dolphins from championships in the nineties. Losing to 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.720 Buffalo was the difference between making and missing the playoffs 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.440 and a lot of those eight and eight, nine and 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.639 seven type of years, and the odds hell, the two 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.960 thousand two Ray Lucas game was the difference in playoffs 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.600 and not we don't like them. They don't like us. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.880 They want to get Osha involved. Whether there's a game 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.000 in South Florida. We have the heat, they have the snow. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.120 It's a great rivalry that pits the two most polarizing 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.639 towns in the National football against one another, and there's 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.079 a good history of some bad blood here. I would say, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.320 let's go ahead and get into the matchup of Dolphins 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.440 offense first, the Bill's defense and the quarterback of Miami 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.359 and their offensive system versus the safeties of the Buffalo 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.720 Bills and their defense. And this is the most unique 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.839 defense in the NFL in terms of their personnel deployment, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.640 and it's really built around the presence of one player 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.720 sort of. Tehron Johnson is one of their best players, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.200 and calling him a nickel or slot cornerback is entirely 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.720 disingenuous because he plays every snap and we'll cover his 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.600 game in the Cornerbacks edition of this pod, but his 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.840 name is required here because of this. They play the 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.360 nickel five point five percent of their snaps. They're a 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.480 one package defense. Nothing else eclipses one point seven percent. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.600 That's their three four base look, which makes you wonder, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.720 makes you wonder about the running game because that's you 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.160 go back over the tape. What's one thing that teams 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.200 have been able to consistently do against the Buffalo Bills 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.640 this year? Weekend and week out, it's run the football. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.880 If you can go to two tight ends, if you 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.880 can get a second full back into the game, obviously 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.920 like Miami has, that's gonna put them a man down 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.440 in terms of their box count in terms of guys 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.600 that can compete with heavier personnel. But tarn Johnson has 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.159 the ability to do that. So that's kind of why 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.280 they feel comfortable in that. They also can get out 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.320 to big leads and that allows me to play from, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.520 you know, a position where the nickel is the primary 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.960 package as teams throw a catch up on them. But 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.360 the three or four base they run is one point 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.960 seven percent. They do run a four, three or verse 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.760 one percent at the time, so it's like a drop 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.239 in the bucket and then one point two percent dime 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.000 defense and a fraction of others. But as far as 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.719 where they align with their safeties pre snap, that's changed 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.159 a lot this year because of the injury to Micah Hyde, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.200 and so has the way they've deployed the safeties as 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.000 a result of that. More on that just a second, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.440 but single high coverage is forty three and a half 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.240 percent too high as fifty three percent, and they've ran 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.320 cover zero thirty plays this year. That's three point five 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.080 percent of their defense. It's a good mix of man 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.919 and zone. There was more man with Von Miller in 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.200 the lineup. But I also wonder if Trey whitebus White 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.719 starts to increase that again because he played a hundred 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.960 snaps in a game for the first time last week. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.400 Since one, they've also been on and off with rookie 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.119 cornerback Kayer Elam, who's been a healthy scratch at times 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.719 this year and given way in a platoon role with 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.280 six round draft pick Christian Benford, who was on the 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.240 I R. And I think ideally when they have White 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.279 and Elam up to full speed together, they do become 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.320 a man coverage primary team. But I don't know if 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.400 you can expect that in this game because it is 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.160 still a little bit green, and because well Elam is 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.800 not playing over the rest of the guys they have 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.200 in that secondary on a week to week basis. But 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.400 as always, you want to be prepared for both. So 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.719 if it's man coverage, Mesh routes and rubs man, have 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.480 you seen Mesh one time this year? I think if 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.800 they're gonna go man coverage, i'd love to see, you know, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.840 a combination of players that includes either Tyreek or Jalen 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.720 or both of them. With mesh which is basically either 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.640 side of the formation, and you cross right in front 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.920 of the middle linebacker, right behind the middle linebacker and 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.440 create conflict for him. Might be a nice offset some 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.600 of the r p oh look some of the play 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.880 action game in terms of guys priest nap motion in 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.159 one direction, I think you could get you know, some 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.679 with with your priest nap motions and then run mesh 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.560 in behind that linebacker and keep him conflicted in terms 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.880 of well, I either I'm downhill or that deep you know, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.520 fifteen yard hook drop that we saw San Francisco and 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.480 l A have success with. But now if I'm contending 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.919 with the potential run game of my eyes taking the 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.320 candy into the backfield, if I get that deep drop 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:47.880 and they're gonna mesh right in front of me, well, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.440 all of a sudden, that changes things. Then you can 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.080 run things off of that. And I just really, I 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.039 really have faith that this offensive staff is gonna come 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.600 up with something to counter what could potentially be coming 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.960 to the pike as a sort of blueprint plan. Right 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.560 everyone's talking about the teams throughout the last couple of 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.560 weeks and if it goes back to more of that zone, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.960 that kind of inside triangle with or I should say 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.480 triangle with inside leverage. You know some smash concepts where 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.680 you have the outside receiver run like a hook or 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.000 a little you know, in breaking route with the flag 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.960 route in behind that. Some whips are jerk routes whatever 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.440 you call those that I think I've heard it called 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.000 China inside to the outside. You know, you set up 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.920 for the slant or for the little skinny post, put 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.800 that foot in the ground, pivot back to the outside. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.920 It was basically West Welker's primary route his entire career. Speedouts, 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.360 you know, five yards pressed the inside shoulder, breakback across 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.600 the outside, and those flag routes back to the corner. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.120 So I think there's some opportunities from Miami here. We'll 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.520 see if they can get to it. The weather might 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.880 have an impact on that. As far as the Buffalo defense, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.360 they blitz eight teen point eight percent of the time, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.440 which is the tenth lowest rate in the National Football League. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.960 But their pressure rates, and we talked about that in 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.720 the podcast every week. If you can get a higher 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.200 pressure rate than your blitz percentage, then you're probably a 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.760 pretty good pass rush and that pressure rate is twelve 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.440 best in the NFL, and those numbers have fluctuated with 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.400 the loss of von Miller because they're book see Moore 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.160 and haven't generated as much pressure from their fore man 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.000 fronts without him, but it's still a key piece to 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.240 their defense with Gregory Rousseau a j F Banessa at all. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.680 Over All, those guys are so damn good. They need 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.760 pressure with the front four to really maximize what they 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.400 do best in their system, which is a complex zone 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.160 scheme that can man the can man match when it 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.760 it's required certain formations, certain checks. They can disguise very well, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.720 and they have a bunch of guys who have played 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.640 together for a super long time in that back end, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.440 which gives you that smooth pattern matching. Not really many 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.160 coverage bus They communicate well, and you heard head coach 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.199 Mike McDaniel talked about how there just wasn't really any 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.160 bus in the Chargers game, which is rare. I mean, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.920 I know NFL teams are supposed to be the cream 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.800 of the crop, but they still happen on a weekly 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.480 basis across the National Football League. Now as far as 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.400 the blitz rate against the Dolphins last time around, and 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.360 this is our first repeat opponent of the year, which 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.319 is crazy to me. In Week fifteen, most teams get 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.760 two division games out of the way, usually by Halloween, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.480 but they only blitz to on ten percent of his 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.480 dropbacks in that Week three victory for the Miami Dolphins 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.720 in the sun and if you recall all he only 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.040 had nineteen dropbacks in that game, so that meant just 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.400 two bits of the entire time. If that's the plan 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.880 again to what is gonna have to be sharp finding 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.640 openings and attacking the opportunities against man coverage when they 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.480 are there. If the weather is bad in terms of 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.640 the snow and the wind, you have to imagine the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.040 Bills probably want to clamp a little bit and see 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.439 if Miami can win vertically because it's tougher to throw 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.560 the ball for the on the field when there's bad weather, right, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.559 and they've shown their ability to do that this year, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.319 have the Dolphins. And you hit a couple of deep 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.760 balls in this one. In any game, really it changes 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.080 the entire complexion not just of the scoreboard, but also 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.440 the way the game unfolds from there. From a strategy 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.839 and schematic standpoint. In that game back in the Hot 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.000 Hot Sunshine that was so illegal two was three for three, 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.120 last time, throwing the ball twenty plus yards down the 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.160 field for nine three passing yards, including what served essentially 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.720 as the game winner with that forty five yard dime 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.680 to Jaitleen Waddle on third and twenty two. Like the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.959 last couple of teams we face, they are super athletic 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.280 at the linebacker position. And if if the Bills operate 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.400 in the same style as the Niners and Chargers, where 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.959 they deepen that hook's oone drop and don't really take 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.320 much of the cheese on play action, than the Dolphins 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.560 must get the running game going and have quick answers 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.040 in the checkdown game. I was looking at some old 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.760 Dolphins and Bills games. The last two times Miami one 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.120 in Buffalo was eleven. They ran for two hundred yards 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.600 in both those games. J Ji and Reggie Bush the 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.240 primary culprits there, and more on that in the running 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.320 back section. Let's go ahead and cover the quarterback safety 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.960 match up here real quick. In this portion it's different 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.920 without Micah Hide, but Jordan Poyer is still They're doing 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.600 great things every single week. He's one of the best 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.960 players in the NFL. He's gonna make plays too. It 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.160 has to be sharp. You have to identify him, not 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.680 lock onto a target and hold him. You have to 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.959 really respect where Jordan Poyer is on a given play. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.400 He's got four more picks this year. That's pretty much 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.480 run of the mill for him, four or five six 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.920 picks a year, another handful of pass breakups and that's 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.240 in just nine games for him played this year. Now 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.640 he is playing the deep center field more often this 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.160 year without Micah Hide back there, and that speaks to 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.760 his versatility to basically change his role kind of like 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.400 Javon Holland has in some ways. And I think that 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.600 limits the true strength of the defense with both of 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.520 them and that they are virtually interchangeable. Because now in 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.680 Hide's place is a very smart player in DeMar Hamlin, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.920 who's got twenty three pass rush reps two players ten 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.520 And that's a bit of a flip from what you 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.079 would see with high employers. So there you go. But 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.840 you'll see Tomar Hamlin come down and insert himself in 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.960 the running game. Eighteen run stops to Powyers ten and 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.880 on that third and twenty two. He was a big 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.640 part of that play to have moved him out of 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.199 that lane to create that throw. Do that again, that 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.520 will be nice to see. All things told, we've seen 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.440 to a. Continue to throw with confidence, and for me, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.880 that's my key for two in this game. Keep trusting 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.000 the eyes. He's so good in that certain area of 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.720 the field. Trust what you see, Trust the plan that 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.200 Mike and the coaches have given you, and attack this 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.400 defense the way you have all year long. Don't lose 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.680 that confidence, don't change who you are. You beat this 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.800 team once, you can do it again. Wide receivers and 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.600 tight ends against the Buffalo corners. We mentioned to Ron 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.079 Johnson in the open one of the true Jeana pieces 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.080 in the national football He's just so important. I imagine 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.560 he'll match up with Tyreek and Jalen a lot, especially 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.880 when they kick inside and back in Week three he 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.240 only saw two targets against the two of them, and 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.280 it made sense because you know they were short some 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.959 players in the secondary. Why attack the lone remaining starter 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.760 they had in the line up back then. But he 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.000 will key their disguises, He'll switch his role to line scrimmage, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.240 he'll rush, he'll enter it against the run, He'll blow 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.439 up the screen. He's a great, great player in a 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.600 secondary that has been banged up all year. He's leading 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.559 them in coverage snaps by quite a big margin five 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.800 hundred and twelve. The next one is four hundred and 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.600 it's not that big. Seventy five. He has allowed just 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.559 fifty nine yards with twenty eight run stops. I'm sorry, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.800 five hundred ninety six yards. That six got cut off. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.160 There it is again with twenty eight run stops. Dane 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.160 Jackson's on the other side at the cornerback position as 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.680 Trey White. He missed last game, but he's back. He's 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.439 been the starter when he's been healthy, and it's been 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.719 five hundred and twenty five yards on four hundred and 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.600 seventy five coverage snaps, but two picks, nine pass breakups. Then, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.120 of course White, who's one of the most competitive players 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.000 you'll find. He wants to play physical and challenge you. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.080 But he's so dang adept at falling off his man 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.000 and winding up in a place that he's not supposed 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.440 to be in to take the football away. I'm curious 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.400 how comfortable he'd feel doing that given his limited work 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.520 coming back from the injury, but a player of his caliber, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.319 I'd never account him out for that. Now in terms 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.800 of their movement to match the Miami speed and we 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.120 look at the r S scorecards usually weekly here on 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.679 this portion of the podcast. For Dane Jackson, and this 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.520 is across the board, they're not like a super athletic 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.480 bunch compared to you know, other NFL cornerbacks. I would 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.960 never call an NFL player and not athletic, that's crazy. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.760 But compared to their peers, Yeah, Dane Jackson less than 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.959 fifty percentile and it's three cone, tense split, twenty split, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.640 forty yard dash, short shuttle, and his overall relative athletics 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.560 score card. To me, this is the guy like, if 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.640 you get one on one matchups here, go after him, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.800 especially with tenants seventeen tradevious White. The only stat that 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.640 he's better than seventy percentile in is the forty yard 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.640 dash He's sixty percentile and three cone and shuttle and 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.800 the broad and sixteenth percentile on the vertical jump. This 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.280 is why I think Tyreek Hills the Bills killer. If 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.959 that's how they want to play it, we need Tyree 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.600 to have that, you know, ten for one fifty type 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.400 of game and go win it for us, and Trey 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.200 White is better to me suited playing guys like Davante Parker. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.160 Now to Ron Johnson, it's the same story. Forty percentile 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.040 or lower and three cone shuttle, broad and vertical. To me, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.559 you candense things close to the quarterback and create easy 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.360 natural rubs against man. You force them to want to 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.240 play inside that box if they want to press up 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.680 and challenge the area, because it then creates more with 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.440 on the outside, and you candense them pre snap and 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.120 expand it post snap to open up those windows more 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.640 so than you would previously because if they want to 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.480 charge on that outside breaking route from their inside leverage, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.320 then that creates chances to make moves off of that 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.720 or they just give it to you and you take 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.640 what's there and it can create some matchups I think 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.200 are not as easily dictated pre snap. When you play 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.520 from that condensed formation, we have their defense killed in 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.240 overall speed and if it's a slippery track, that could 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.400 potentially be beneficial for the Dolphins offense because the receiver 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.480 knows what they're going right, get the ball out hot 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.720 when after the catch, that's the route to victory for 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.040 me here, both at receiver and the running backs. We 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.720 should get tons of touches in this game quickly in space, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.600 in the short areas of the field, and let's get 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.440 some yack going on this offense. Really for the first 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.640 time all year now, I'm really curious to see how 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.680 they aligned priests now because again, teams have kind of 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.560 shown you a way to slow this offense for the 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.600 first time really since before TWA came back and I 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.800 leaned towards a zone heavy plan for them. I'm wondering 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.520 if they'll change that and what they really do after. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.480 You know, we saw the reroute have effect last couple 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.000 of weeks, but on the season, they play off sixty 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.640 two percent of the time and they pressed thirty eight 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.320 percent of the time, which is pretty common across the league. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.200 The biggest thing to me here is how do they 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.560 defend Tyreek killed because they gave him all the attention 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.840 of the world back in Week three and Waddle rose 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.000 to the occasion. But last year in the playoffs with 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.040 the Chiefs, Tyreek caught eleven of twelve targets for a Buck, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.880 Fitty and a Tuddy. And if the attention does go 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.480 back to ten, then you have to have a big 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.680 day from seventeen and really all the guys like and 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.920 I think you've seen Trent Sherfield's role expans since that 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.240 Week three game. So for him if he can win 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.000 someone on one matchups, especially if he gets matched up 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.800 on a linebacker or a safety, and they'll do that sometimes, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.160 whether it's sacrificing guys in the rush game or doubling 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.320 or bracketing somebody else with their zones and you know, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.000 trail technique into this funnel zone. That could be a 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.360 key matchup here to steal some first downs and yards. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.720 And like we say every week, it starts up front 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.200 in the trenches. Let's go ahead and take our first 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.760 break and come back on the other side and get 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.240 to the Dolphins offensive line versus the Buffalo Bill's defensive line. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.280 Dolphins and Bills preview Saturday night in Buffalo, December seventeenth. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.360 That's next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:37.080 you by Auto Nation. Back here on a Friday on 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.520 the Drivetime Podcast, previewing Dolphins at Bills from what is 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.400 it called down New I don't even know the stadium 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.200 in Buffalo. H Yeah, let's pick it up back with 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.280 the Dolphins offensive line versus the Bills defensive line. It's 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.560 been a big area of contention in this rivalry in 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.440 recent years and it's impacted you know, our quarterback with 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.960 some injuries last couple of seasons, and how the Dolphins 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.160 are able to you know, rally back this year year 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.200 in that game after he exited for a little bit. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.600 But uh, this is kind of what they do is 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.240 they put a big hurt on Mike White last week. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.439 He was came out of that game and took a 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.440 bunch of big shots and his questionable heading into this week. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.920 And it starts off the edge really with von Miller 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.000 was the guy, but now it's kind of pivoted and 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.399 they have more guys in that arena that can step up. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.119 Gregory Russo has taken a massive step forward with von Miller. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.160 You know, he had forty five pressures to lead the team. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.440 They were tough to stop and they still are with 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.080 without Von Miller. Um. But it's obviously impossible replays a 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.320 talent like that guy, But you don't get it twisted. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.240 You still have to have your best and it sounds 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.000 like Toron Arms that will play in the game which 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.639 is gonna be a big key for Miami. Pressures and 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.760 run stops among their edge defenders Rousseau thirty one and 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.600 third team. He's got a great get off. You Hurricanes 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.800 fans know all about him. Got a good arsenal of 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.120 pass rush moves. A j Eponessa was a five star 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.200 freaking at Iowa with insane length and flexibility and played 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.760 like every damn snap they played for the Hawkeyes, and 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.200 he just had production on top of production. He's coming 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.760 into his own twenty one pressures, eleven run stops for him. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.720 Y'all know about Shack Lawson seven team pressures and eleven 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.680