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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winkfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's Game Day. Preview Day. Will break down all the
Speaker 1: matchups position by position, tell you the current state of
Speaker 1: the Bengals, give you some key stats, ask the question
Speaker 1: what's at stake this week, and finish up with our
Speaker 1: three keys to victory as well as our Week four
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Speaker 1: scary over there. Tough to transition off of that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do it here and talk about a football game
Speaker 1: on Thursday night, And it seems like just yesterday we
Speaker 1: were getting ready for Week three. As we turn the
Speaker 1: page and we're onto Cincinnati, and how about those Bengals.
Speaker 1: I don't think any two teams are an exact reflection
Speaker 1: of one another. But as we look at the Bengals
Speaker 1: and their arrival at this current point in time, it's
Speaker 1: really not that far off from the Dolphins, and really
Speaker 1: you can kind of balance the two together and say, like,
Speaker 1: is this how you build a team? Is that how
Speaker 1: you build a team? And obviously last year Cincinnati went
Speaker 1: on that magic carpet right through the playoffs and kind
Speaker 1: of in a lot of ways put the debate to bed.
Speaker 1: But that's why in this league, you know the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: but teams as well. You never want to get two
Speaker 1: in Trenchant in one view because of one season. Because
Speaker 1: in the game of football, sample sizes, you know, with
Speaker 1: one game a week, it's not that large and things
Speaker 1: can change quickly. I mean, I was a big Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle fan for a long time, and you know, he's
Speaker 1: looking pretty good right now compared to the other options
Speaker 1: in that draft class. And it's a it's a good
Speaker 1: draft class, don't get me wrong. All four guys at
Speaker 1: the skill spots, Davante Smith, Kyle Pitch, Jamaar Chase and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle are all freaking studs. But man, you know
Speaker 1: that's why you give things time because the first round
Speaker 1: draft pick and Waddle, that's pretty damn good. But both
Speaker 1: these teams picked top five in they both took their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of the future. The returns on that looking pretty
Speaker 1: damn good for both teams right now. Both teams brought
Speaker 1: in some free agents to help balance out those draft classes.
Speaker 1: You know, we had Waddle and Chase and these went
Speaker 1: the same years. But like Jesse Bates, Javon Holland, you
Speaker 1: go to free agency. We had Tehran Armstead, they had
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, they signed Trey Hendrickson. We sign Emmanuel Ogba.
Speaker 1: There's lots of these positional examples of Miami and the
Speaker 1: Bengals using free agency or the draft to address the
Speaker 1: same positions, and it's you can compare them because the
Speaker 1: teams were kind of constructed at the same rate and
Speaker 1: same pace for a similar uh team cycle. As the
Speaker 1: Draft Network guys would tell us in our our preseason
Speaker 1: or our pre draft podcast we do here. It's just
Speaker 1: really interesting that way. Lots of examples like that, and
Speaker 1: the Bengals rode that defense last year that had I
Speaker 1: think seven of their eleven starters were free agent signings
Speaker 1: within the previous two years, and they rode that to
Speaker 1: a playoff run that took them within just a couple
Speaker 1: of plays of winning a frigging championship. They turned people over,
Speaker 1: they ran the ball well, they had timely plays by
Speaker 1: their quarterback when they needed them over that run, and
Speaker 1: they also made every damn field goal in the playoffs
Speaker 1: to win those tight games that they always found themselves in.
Speaker 1: All three of them came down to the buzzer two
Speaker 1: of those overtime victories, and then the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: not quite a buzzer beater. But at the very end,
Speaker 1: there young quarterbacks on rookie deal's young first time head coaches,
Speaker 1: there's this year five ours is in his rookie season,
Speaker 1: offenses littered with playmakers across the board. Can started to
Speaker 1: focus on the offensive lines this offseason, Defenses that put
Speaker 1: pressure on quarterbacks and take the football away again. Lots
Speaker 1: of symmetry here, fun matchup. Let's go ahead and dive
Speaker 1: right and starting with Dolphins offense first, Bengals defense, and
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Speaker 1: Quarterback and safety position again, pretty distinct match up here
Speaker 1: in terms of you know what you're gonna get provided
Speaker 1: everybody is healthy. The injury reports for both teams are long,
Speaker 1: but we'll see about Thursday night. Jesse Bates and Von
Speaker 1: Bell are the starters, and they don't leave the field,
Speaker 1: and they almost never bring a third safety onto the field.
Speaker 1: No other safety how to snap in their game on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Jets, and they split their looks between
Speaker 1: single high and two high. It's nearly even at so
Speaker 1: you'll get the middle of the field open, middle of
Speaker 1: the field closed on just about every other play, and
Speaker 1: they're in nickel of the time with five defensive backs
Speaker 1: and dime percent of the time once to be five snaps.
Speaker 1: That's a very high rate for dime defense. In the
Speaker 1: modern NFL. The remainder is three or fewer dbs, which
Speaker 1: is basically short yardage and goal line situations when you
Speaker 1: bring on all the big guys. So what I'm telling
Speaker 1: you is that there's not a lot of variation on
Speaker 1: this Bengals defense, and there's not a lot of variation
Speaker 1: of the Bengals offense. We'll get to that here in
Speaker 1: just a minute. Bates and Bell, though, are tremendous players.
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates is when my all time draft hits. He
Speaker 1: is a center fielder back there who is almost exclusively
Speaker 1: in the post. His career splits of his snaps played
Speaker 1: in that post, in the single high or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the middle of the field safety, i should say, and
Speaker 1: then scattered snaps across the box, slot, wide, corner, and
Speaker 1: down the line of scrimmage. And that should be no
Speaker 1: surprise because he's among the best middle of the field
Speaker 1: safeties and football. He was a great outfielder on the
Speaker 1: Wake Forest baseball team, and you could see the way
Speaker 1: he anticipated and compartmentalized route combinations, the way he tracks
Speaker 1: the football, and the way he anticipates the way everything
Speaker 1: will play out in front of him. It's why he
Speaker 1: has eleven your picks and thirty six passes defense, and
Speaker 1: when they go too high, it will be Von Bell
Speaker 1: back there with him. Otherwise he's creeping up on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Box player in the slot eight percent
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, so of his snaps he's up
Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the box and the rest of
Speaker 1: those are basically two high looks with the occasional snap
Speaker 1: out wide at cornerback. This defense mixes really cover three
Speaker 1: and man with some man free with single high safety
Speaker 1: up there, which they also play with really big cushions
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, and I anticipate this will be the
Speaker 1: look with all the speed the Dolphins can throw at them.
Speaker 1: We've seen ten and seventeen, just press those cushion coverages
Speaker 1: that off coverage with plenty of speed, and then you
Speaker 1: throttle down to create tons of space in those you know,
Speaker 1: intermediate portions of the field where to what has been
Speaker 1: so successful throwing the football this season. It's why I
Speaker 1: think you could get ten catches from both of these
Speaker 1: guys in this game. Like it might not be the
Speaker 1: biggest blowest as we've come accustomed to, but I think
Speaker 1: you could have ten catches from both Tyreek and Jalen
Speaker 1: and then if you break one, then maybe you get
Speaker 1: your gaudy you know, receiving yard of production on the day.
Speaker 1: But the offense, I think in this game, because of
Speaker 1: this matchup, can really sustain drives here, which would be
Speaker 1: nice because that would be a very big benefit to
Speaker 1: this defense. That's just four days removed from a nineties
Speaker 1: snap game on Sunday. As far as our defensive personnel,
Speaker 1: they played zero coverage on just four snaps this season,
Speaker 1: and again nearly a fifty split between single high and
Speaker 1: two high safeties on that defense. Um they have they
Speaker 1: blitz on twenty eight percent of their snaps. That's the
Speaker 1: tenth lowest rate in the NFL, so one of very
Speaker 1: five snaps, and their pressure rate coincides almost exactly with
Speaker 1: that twenty two point three percent. That's right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack as well. And the reason I'm
Speaker 1: going this route is to get to to AH. So
Speaker 1: I guess the you know, quarterback verse safety versus defensive
Speaker 1: structure portion of the podcast. Two is currently hitting sixty
Speaker 1: of his passes on ball intended over twenty air yards.
Speaker 1: I've been doing that little like kind of conceded you know,
Speaker 1: like pretentious laugh on the podcast a lot lately because
Speaker 1: kind of earned it, right, Like talked about this for
Speaker 1: a while now, and it's coming to fruition for a
Speaker 1: few weeks here. Hopefully it keeps going. That's tops in
Speaker 1: the NFL twenty plus air yard throws. But the Bengals
Speaker 1: play a style that keeps things in front. They actually
Speaker 1: rank six and average cushion allowed on the perimeter, so
Speaker 1: their cornerbacks will stay patient. There was a great clip
Speaker 1: of Josh Boyer on inside the NFL against the Bills
Speaker 1: where he was saying, you know, they're dinking and duncan.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's not how they wanted to play. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a cool sound bite to have and
Speaker 1: kind of tells you about the Dolphins defensive plan and performance, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, was great if if you look at
Speaker 1: the box score and get upset about that performance, like
Speaker 1: just watch the damn game. Man. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what else I gotta tell you, but that same idea
Speaker 1: here kind of applies. The Dolphins have to stay patient
Speaker 1: and just make sure they're not throwing the ball into
Speaker 1: those downfield windows that the Bengals are gonna try to
Speaker 1: funnel you into by staying patient and forcing you to
Speaker 1: be methodical. And again, if you can do that, I
Speaker 1: like the way that pairs up with a defense that
Speaker 1: could potentially be a little bit tired after that game
Speaker 1: on Sunday to a is completing sixty of his passes
Speaker 1: versus the Blitz seven point six yards per pass, but
Speaker 1: he's seventy three point six percent completion with nine eight
Speaker 1: point uh nine point eight yards per pass when they're
Speaker 1: not blitzing. Incredibly efficient in that department for Tuah. I
Speaker 1: think the patient factor here is a big one. But
Speaker 1: they also do mix in plenty of man coverage, so
Speaker 1: keying that man coverage and finding your opportunities and I
Speaker 1: think that's been one of Twoa's biggest assets this season
Speaker 1: so far. And Ryan Fitzpatrick talked about this on his
Speaker 1: Tuesday conference call with local Miami media, saying that he's
Speaker 1: been so impressed with how Tuah is seeing the field
Speaker 1: right now, so deciphering the coverage, is being aware of
Speaker 1: disguise and just what he's been doing. Like if he
Speaker 1: keeps this going, we're gonna be just fine. Really, since
Speaker 1: that Baltimore game sands the two picks, I think he's
Speaker 1: been so dang sharp in that area. He was on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and if he is again tomorrow night, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to or No, if he plays that way again and
Speaker 1: with the man coverage, you know, if you see Tyreek
Speaker 1: on a certain cornerback and he wants that ball, I
Speaker 1: want to go after Tyreek because of the confidence that
Speaker 1: he displays, and I think that that type of stuff,
Speaker 1: the chip on his shoulder brings out the best version
Speaker 1: of the Cheetah. Cheetah hungry, Cheetah gonna eat. We'll get
Speaker 1: some more carry over in these other positions kind of finding.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the case on these preview podcasts because
Speaker 1: we're always tweaking and improving the show, right, and so
Speaker 1: it's not just saying exclusive to that position group. There
Speaker 1: is carry over like I talked about there with Cheetah
Speaker 1: as the Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Cincinnati corners,
Speaker 1: and of course Two's weapons have been a massive asset
Speaker 1: to him this season as well, in addition to the
Speaker 1: way he sees the field and processes and throws with
Speaker 1: in my opinion, top five anticipation in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Big surprise, right, I mean, we've been talking about it
Speaker 1: for four freaking years here about what this kid can
Speaker 1: do the way he sees the field. But Penguin and
Speaker 1: Cheetah second and third in receiving yards right now, they
Speaker 1: draw a really really good Bengal secondary Cheetah Woosey a
Speaker 1: Is was one of my favorite players coming out. I
Speaker 1: want to sayeen second round pick. He blossomed mid run
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys and now he's a damn good corner
Speaker 1: here for the Bengals. He broke out last year and
Speaker 1: he's taking it to another level this year so far
Speaker 1: through three games. He played one of their snaps on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So did Eli Apple and Mike Hilton played of their snaps.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're almost always in either nickel or more
Speaker 1: defensive backs like a dime package. So that begs the question,
Speaker 1: do you try to get them out of that with
Speaker 1: mixing your personnel or do you just stick to what
Speaker 1: you do best. I mean, coach mixes personnel as well
Speaker 1: as anybody in football, but he was once asked about,
Speaker 1: you know, running more in terms of balancing the offense
Speaker 1: and how you know, wouldn't be very smart to just
Speaker 1: neglect Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, which makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: to me. They're both top five receivers. Now the difference
Speaker 1: Mike can do that while mixing personnel. He's already done
Speaker 1: it before we broke down that personnel empty set the stick.
Speaker 1: Odd passed the Galen Waddle for fifty nine yards against
Speaker 1: the Baltimore ravens Man. I think that package could cost
Speaker 1: some matchup issues here. Why because their linebackers are more
Speaker 1: modern game cover and speed types who allow them to
Speaker 1: play those deep shells because of their athletic ability and
Speaker 1: range to extend the hook zone beyond ten yards. But
Speaker 1: you slam alec ingoled in there a lot, and you
Speaker 1: either have some success and just keep doing it, or
Speaker 1: it influences them and they step up and you utilize
Speaker 1: that flow against them. Right offense is so tough to
Speaker 1: plan for, man and why is this in the receiver portion?
Speaker 1: You might ask? Well about defensive structure? Excuse me? Morety
Speaker 1: mixed with the player types on either side, with the
Speaker 1: over routes and slants that we can run, plus that
Speaker 1: freaking stick nod to jitland Waddle. I think that relationship
Speaker 1: bodes well for this Dolphin's passing game. Their fourth corner
Speaker 1: is Trey Flowers, not to be confused with our Trey Flowers.
Speaker 1: He played the snaps on Sunday. There's your dime packages,
Speaker 1: so they don't really bring the safeties on us. About
Speaker 1: four corners and too defensive or two safeties in their
Speaker 1: six defensive back looks. Some stats on them. I talked
Speaker 1: about teams are eleven for twenty seven throwing at him
Speaker 1: this year. That's that's unbelievable. That's the best completion percentage
Speaker 1: allowed in football for a cornerback. He's fluid, strong, he'll
Speaker 1: challenge you your entire way up the route. So if
Speaker 1: he gets physical impresses, maybe you can get that release
Speaker 1: and get on top of him. But a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six coverage snaps this year, a hundred and two
Speaker 1: yards allowed of superb staff for him, that's great. Great
Speaker 1: numbers for Cheeto Woozy Eli Apple, hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: coverage snaps, one hundred yards allowed, that's also really dang good.
Speaker 1: And Mike Hilton one seventeen and a hundred yards. Like
Speaker 1: these three corners, man, they're really good. It's a good secondary.
Speaker 1: They mix up man and zone really well, and you
Speaker 1: can tell they've been playing together for a long time.
Speaker 1: In fact, there was a great clip with Lou and
Speaker 1: Rumo you might remember that name. He had this really
Speaker 1: good diet tribe and a press conference a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago about the critical aspect of communication in your
Speaker 1: defensive backfield and he compared it to a shortstop in
Speaker 1: second base duo on a double play and how it
Speaker 1: really requires some time together to get that stuff down.
Speaker 1: And this is a team that is so deep in
Speaker 1: that area and really across the board. After they attacked
Speaker 1: the offensive line in free agency or so, they thought
Speaker 1: of drafting Daxton Hill and cam Taylor Britt in rounds
Speaker 1: one and two of safety in a corner from Michigan
Speaker 1: and Nebraska, respectively. The two of those guys have combined
Speaker 1: for thirteen snapps on defense. And that's not an indictment
Speaker 1: at all of those players. It's a testament to the
Speaker 1: level of play they've gotten from the guys that are playing.
Speaker 1: And the numbers are right there. Opposing quarterbacks have an
Speaker 1: eighty two point eight passer rating against this Bengals defense.
Speaker 1: You carry the one there that's thirty five points lower
Speaker 1: than two was one seventeen point eight rating good on
Speaker 1: good Man and as far as their r a s
Speaker 1: the relative athletics score cards, a wooz A nine five
Speaker 1: has elite times across the board. He was a great
Speaker 1: workout warrior in addition to good tape. In college, Eli
Speaker 1: Apple has an eight nine score, but a seventh second
Speaker 1: three cone is a little below average. Four point five
Speaker 1: out of ten and on terms of the zero to
Speaker 1: ten scorecard, and he also checks in with just above
Speaker 1: average times and ten split and shuttle. We tracked those
Speaker 1: because of how quick these receivers are from Miami. And
Speaker 1: then Mike Hilton wasn't very good to three nine out
Speaker 1: of ten. That's that's very below average. We don't know
Speaker 1: math like me, but the rare bad r A s
Speaker 1: with decent quickness times like he struggled in the other measurements,
Speaker 1: but his he was average and three cones shuttle and
Speaker 1: tense splits. So interesting mix there. And I've really kind
Speaker 1: of harp on this mixture of zone and man. That's
Speaker 1: really every defense and it doesn't you know it. Look,
Speaker 1: it doesn't take a bunch of research to know how
Speaker 1: tough it can be to defend hill and waddle against
Speaker 1: man coverage. But I've been so impressed by the synchronicity
Speaker 1: of those guys with ta on. Some of those digs
Speaker 1: and in breakers were to anticipates, but settles them down
Speaker 1: with a throw location a post to running them into
Speaker 1: a hit, and then too for throttling down their route appropriately.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating matchup man. And one more thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking for this week or just soon in general, is
Speaker 1: the number three option to emerge. It hasn't really happened yet.
Speaker 1: There's been a nice compliment of other guys like Surefield,
Speaker 1: Craig Craft, Big Mike and the backs getting involved. But
Speaker 1: it would be so beneficial for this offense if a
Speaker 1: third guy stepped up and just had like an eight
Speaker 1: for eighty game where you have to kind of pay attention.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break. We'll come
Speaker 1: back and do the offense and defensive lines, running backs
Speaker 1: and linebackers, and then pick it up on the other
Speaker 1: side of the football with Dolphins defense versus the Bengals offense.
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Speaker 1: pick it back up here with the offensive line of
Speaker 1: the Dolphin versus the defensive line of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: And it was announced that DJ Reader's gonna miss sometime,
Speaker 1: so he left the game on Sunday against the Jets
Speaker 1: after just eighteen snaps. He's I think he might be
Speaker 1: their best player, so that's a big loss for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: He is kind of the straw that stirs a drink
Speaker 1: and sets their defense up for what they want to do.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that more here in just a minute.
Speaker 1: B J. Hill is the same way. What a player,
Speaker 1: he is a sixty percent snap guy. Josh Tupo plays
Speaker 1: almost exclusively on the nose, a massive, massive people mover
Speaker 1: and block eater. He was number two and snaps on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then Zachary Carter also got a thirty percent workload,
Speaker 1: essentially filling in for some of the work missed by
Speaker 1: um by DJ Readers. So they'll have to find a
Speaker 1: fourth guy for that rotation. But Hill and Reader. You know,
Speaker 1: I compared him here in my notes to Tim Bowen's
Speaker 1: and Larry Chester because that massive size on the interior
Speaker 1: defensive line helped Zach Thomas stay clean. Right Like, if
Speaker 1: there's one thing Zach you know, wasn't the best at
Speaker 1: was if he was a beat slow beating a block
Speaker 1: on his way to the ball carrier. But he was
Speaker 1: so instinctual, and playing behind those two defensive tackles really
Speaker 1: emphasized those instincts and allowed him to make the plays
Speaker 1: that his brain took him to as or that his
Speaker 1: brain led him to get to that point to the
Speaker 1: play and then to physically make the play once he
Speaker 1: got there. A little bit an undersized but fast hell
Speaker 1: fastest Hell linebacker that benefited from those guys to eat
Speaker 1: up blocks, to just maximize that instinctual nature of his game.
Speaker 1: And DJ Reader was also the penetrator of the group.
Speaker 1: He led the defensive tackles on this team with eight
Speaker 1: QB pressures. B J Hills right behind him with seven,
Speaker 1: and that's it for pressures from defensive tackles. So to
Speaker 1: get b J. Hill block, there's a good opportunity here
Speaker 1: for two to have lots of time as far as
Speaker 1: the interior portion of his pocket. Interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they manufacture Reader's production in the interim with him down
Speaker 1: b J Hills three fifteen pounds, but he plays even bigger.
Speaker 1: But I've been so impressed by Connor Williams this season
Speaker 1: if you asked me, Connor Williams and Toron Armstead are
Speaker 1: both in all pro consideration through three games. A long
Speaker 1: way to go, but that's a good start. Uh. The
Speaker 1: anchor has has just been so good for him. But
Speaker 1: also the way he fires off the ball. He's stealing
Speaker 1: off those a gap runs in the running games so
Speaker 1: so effectively. And then you've got big Rob Hunt, who
Speaker 1: I just think is having an excellent start to the
Speaker 1: season of his own regard, and they've had a ton
Speaker 1: of success running in that direction. I think it's over
Speaker 1: five yards per carry in that center right guard position.
Speaker 1: Also very curious to see how the Bengals handled that
Speaker 1: absence there of DJ Reader. Now off the edge to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead. Gosh, oh boy, he's been as advertised, hasn't he.
Speaker 1: If he's good to go this week, he's a massive
Speaker 1: draw in Trey Hendricks, who leads the Bengals with eleven
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures. He's an absolute technician who will work to
Speaker 1: wear you down throughout the course of a game. So
Speaker 1: far nobody has had an answer for to Ron Armstead.
Speaker 1: And if I were given just one word to describe
Speaker 1: his game, technician would be it. That's another premier matchup here.
Speaker 1: Hendrickson's played of the snaps uh or he did up
Speaker 1: in Jersey against the Jets. Hubbard played seventy three and
Speaker 1: you might remember Hubbard from that freaking team game that
Speaker 1: fell apart. He was the one that hit Tannehill to
Speaker 1: change the course of that game aime. He's an absolute beast,
Speaker 1: strong as hell, tough against the rune and he can
Speaker 1: get you with his pass rush too. He's second on
Speaker 1: the team with nine pressures. And yet again it's an
Speaker 1: interesting matchup because Greg Little is such a strong stout
Speaker 1: right tackle. Do you have strength on strength there? And
Speaker 1: then Joseph Paca is a guy to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on number fifty eight. He's got just four pressures this year,
Speaker 1: but he's a guy that can literally rush any gap,
Speaker 1: mug up and in the a gaps come off the edge.
Speaker 1: So if they mix their fronts and go with some
Speaker 1: type of odd or bear front or three man front
Speaker 1: locate number fifty eight, because he could well be that
Speaker 1: extra rusher. Overall, I just really liked the way this
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive lines protecting. They face some of the top
Speaker 1: pass rushes in the NFL, and the production has been
Speaker 1: there Dolphins running backs versus Bengals linebackers. I was curious
Speaker 1: to see their run defense production through three games and
Speaker 1: got to thinking, have they faced a fullback yet? And
Speaker 1: they have. It's one of those things where I had
Speaker 1: the hypothesis and it didn't wind up working out for me.
Speaker 1: But Derek Watt of the Steelers was the fullback they face,
Speaker 1: and they held Pittsburgh to seventy seven rushing yards on
Speaker 1: twenty attempts. It's a really good defense. I mean, we'll
Speaker 1: see about Reader being down, but they are stout up
Speaker 1: front and those guys free up. Logan Wilson who never
Speaker 1: leaves the field. He's a straw that stirs the drink
Speaker 1: in that base four to five they run. And a
Speaker 1: Keem Davis gay here, who some draft gurus thought might
Speaker 1: be a safety at this level. He's not. He's just
Speaker 1: a good linebacker that runs like a safety. He's kind
Speaker 1: of their sub package. Mix and match guy, but also
Speaker 1: he's the the two in that base four to five.
Speaker 1: Can they find a way to stack up the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive line, I'm not so sure if if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that easy to replace DJ Reader with, you know,
Speaker 1: big Rob Hunt and Liam Eikenberg and Connor Williams, Barren
Speaker 1: Downhill on those guys. We saw the lanes open up
Speaker 1: on the two touchdown runs. If we can get those
Speaker 1: consistently between the twenties, then we can get more explosives
Speaker 1: we've seen occasionally here in this running game. With that,
Speaker 1: with the conversion factor, I think we're just on the
Speaker 1: cusp of getting things going there. This game really is crazy,
Speaker 1: and I'm typing this as I watch the tape, look
Speaker 1: at the numbers and concerned to the fact or consider
Speaker 1: the play styles. But it really is another familiar type
Speaker 1: of foe when you get to the spot fast running
Speaker 1: backs versus fast linebackers. All right, still with us, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and pivot now to the Bengals offense versus
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense. And uh, let's see if didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to check out coach McDaniels Tuesday presser as
Speaker 1: well as two A tongue Byla. Go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to the team YouTube channel. You can also find Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddles miked up from the game on Sunday on their
Speaker 1: picking it back up here with the Dolphins defense versus
Speaker 1: Bengals offense, quarterback versus safety, and you know the Bengals
Speaker 1: offense personnel wise, they just don't mix a lot. Eleven
Speaker 1: personnel has been run eight one pent of the times,
Speaker 1: four or five times, right, twelve personnel seven point five
Speaker 1: percent of the time. There's one percent each from O
Speaker 1: two and twenty two, which is no backs, two tight
Speaker 1: ends and two backs two tight ends. And then they
Speaker 1: have one play from a four receiver set. And they
Speaker 1: also have nine percent of their offense with heavy offense
Speaker 1: or a heavy personnel package with an extra offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: So you basically get eleven personnel, one back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: three receivers, twelve personnel one back, two tight ends, two receivers,
Speaker 1: or heavy personnel six offensive lineman. That's basically your offense.
Speaker 1: You get. Defenses have had ton of success when they
Speaker 1: run cover two against this offense because Joe Burrow loves
Speaker 1: to hit his drop, hitch up and throw in rhythm
Speaker 1: on his first read. The Jets did not run like
Speaker 1: any Cover two last week, and they got vertical on
Speaker 1: that Jets defense. They again eleven personnel and they often
Speaker 1: go four wide with a tight end as kind of
Speaker 1: one of those extra guys, and it's often two by
Speaker 1: two with mixing left in the backfield to pick up
Speaker 1: the extra rusher. So you can get six man in protection,
Speaker 1: which you know. To me says you can dial up
Speaker 1: that five oh look and blitz and get some stimulated
Speaker 1: pressures on Joe Burrow because if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: he does, it's drop his eyes against pressure, because maybe
Speaker 1: it's been kind of built into him over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years with how they've protected him, which hasn't
Speaker 1: been that good. But the Dolphin's ability to kind of
Speaker 1: confuse the quarterback and the rush scheme to get free runners,
Speaker 1: that could be a huge difference in this game, because
Speaker 1: he's really good at kind of ducking him behind the
Speaker 1: offensive line and picking his spots on where to move
Speaker 1: when he has really light feet. But if you get
Speaker 1: free runners right in his face, especially with Javon and
Speaker 1: Brandon or Jerome Baker or even off the edge of
Speaker 1: the Van Ginkle, like I don't think he gets away
Speaker 1: from those guys the way Josh Allen did. So that
Speaker 1: five oh look I think is a really good idea
Speaker 1: for this defense in this game. And you know, Burrow's
Speaker 1: superpower to me is that ability to get off the spot,
Speaker 1: but also to stand under fire and deliver accurate football's
Speaker 1: and the way he manages the pocket. There's a long
Speaker 1: highlight reel of him sensing immediate pressure where he kind
Speaker 1: of just ducks him behind the line, searches for escape
Speaker 1: routes and very Houdini like often finds them. A good
Speaker 1: chunk of their offense. Last Sunday came against a blitz
Speaker 1: look where he gets pelted and throws a dime to
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd and then the Jets missed two tackles on
Speaker 1: the back end and it turns a sixteen yard play
Speaker 1: into a fifty six yard touchdown with forty yards after
Speaker 1: the miss tackles. So it's a big part of their offense.
Speaker 1: And we have to tackle better this week, no question
Speaker 1: about that. And that's an evergreen thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: I understand Josh Allen is sort of otherworldly, but he
Speaker 1: came into the game. We came into that game with
Speaker 1: only eight missed tackles. We missed thirteen in that game,
Speaker 1: So that's got to get better. Um, this offense out
Speaker 1: of eleven personnel will condense things and the way Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh did because Zach Taylor's Sean McVeigh tree guy, I guess.
Speaker 1: But when they condense that stuff, that only increases the
Speaker 1: likelihood of that five. Oh. Look to get those simulated
Speaker 1: pressures where you have multiple guys across the board, you
Speaker 1: have all your your fits in the running game, and
Speaker 1: then you can you know, you can even drop out
Speaker 1: a guy like Zach Seeler Christian Wilkins because they don't
Speaker 1: know where it's coming from. That's the idea. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a very good rush plan from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins in this game. Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, getting
Speaker 1: back to the safety's they're so good. Both have strip
Speaker 1: sacks that directly or nearly put points on the board
Speaker 1: for our offense. They are right near the top of
Speaker 1: the leaderboard and pressures and sacks by safeties once again.
Speaker 1: And Joe Burrow this year against the Blitz. He's six
Speaker 1: with eight point seven yards per attempt, three touchdowns and
Speaker 1: a one thirty four point five passer rating. When he's
Speaker 1: not blitzed six six yards per attempt, three touchdowns, four picks,
Speaker 1: and a seventy two point to pass ranks. You're probably
Speaker 1: telling yourself, Travis, why would we blit? Why would be
Speaker 1: blitz Well, the past rushes he's faced have not been
Speaker 1: anywhere near like this Dolphins defense can get after with that.
Speaker 1: They played the Jets. The Steelers are very good, so
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, and they turn him over four times,
Speaker 1: So there you go defensively, but their secondary is not
Speaker 1: Miami secondary. They did have t. J. Watt I'm getting
Speaker 1: off the rails here, and then Game two against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys it's kind of similar idea. They had a good
Speaker 1: pass rush as well. So the defenses have been okay,
Speaker 1: but not it's not like anything. They they'll see what
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins in terms of how they can create
Speaker 1: those pressures and stimulated pressure looks against US Bengals offense
Speaker 1: under pressure forty seven percent completion, six point two yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, four touchdowns, one pick. Again, obviously getting pressure
Speaker 1: with four is always a winning formula, but really forcing
Speaker 1: him off the spot and having more than just one
Speaker 1: flyby is effective, whether it's a blitz or not. So
Speaker 1: if he makes the first guy miss, get that second
Speaker 1: guy in there, and you can really, really really shut
Speaker 1: on this offense. They love to throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field, and the way Javan has been covering back there,
Speaker 1: you know, yet again, makes this a very interesting matchup
Speaker 1: because I think that he can sky over the top
Speaker 1: of those fifty fifty balls they love to take and
Speaker 1: get a couple of hands on balls, maybe pick one off.
Speaker 1: This week, teams have just not gotten deep on us.
Speaker 1: In fact, Miami has the fifth fewest completions on balls
Speaker 1: traveling twenty or more air yards down the field, and
Speaker 1: I think Javan is a big, big part of that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of those balls down the field, receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends of the Bengals verse, the Miami cornerbacks will do that.
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Speaker 1: on our preview here taking a look at the Bengals
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends versus the Miami corners, and you
Speaker 1: know again talking about that cover two look that has
Speaker 1: had a lot of success against the Bengals offense this year.
Speaker 1: I just like that because of their affinity for attacking vertically.
Speaker 1: Like remember that twenty nineteen Dolphins team where they just
Speaker 1: basically threw fifty fifty balls to Devonte Parker and Preston
Speaker 1: Williams until Preston got hurt and it was just DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: That's basically how those function offenses. Primarily Joe Burrow wants
Speaker 1: to find that matchup, isolate the one on one opportunity
Speaker 1: and throw a fifty fifty ball and let those guys
Speaker 1: go make plays. And last year Tee Higgins had the
Speaker 1: most contested catches in football and Jamaar Chase Waste. That's
Speaker 1: who they were in college, that's who they've been as pros. Conversely,
Speaker 1: on vertical shots, no receiver had more targets of twenty
Speaker 1: plus eight yards then Chase and Higgins was twenty in
Speaker 1: that category forty and three targets respectively. That's sixty three
Speaker 1: divided by seven. Team was that three per game? Four
Speaker 1: per game. They're gonna take their deep shots. We mentioned
Speaker 1: the personnel rarely changing. It's kind of funny because they
Speaker 1: will go twelve personnel and they attached two wise into
Speaker 1: the formation and that's typically when they go max protect,
Speaker 1: play action, deep shot, two verticals, and if they get
Speaker 1: a one on one, they take it to either side
Speaker 1: of the fields. That's why I think Javon Holland in
Speaker 1: that post and the way he reads things, I think
Speaker 1: a big game for Javon Holland could be coming. We
Speaker 1: saw x shadows to Fawn Diggs on Sunday. Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus had Digs catching just three or five targets for
Speaker 1: forty seven yards in that matchup. That's exceptional against the
Speaker 1: league's leading receiver. Watching that Jets tape last week, Man
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner, you can play huh, but Chase had one
Speaker 1: target on Sauce and no catches. He had just twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards on ten total targets. But don't let that
Speaker 1: lull you into a false sense of security. He's a
Speaker 1: big time playmaker who can turn the game on his
Speaker 1: head with the ability he has to separate downfield. He's
Speaker 1: got this innate ability to stack and pull away from
Speaker 1: guys with that physicality, which I'm excited to see X
Speaker 1: match that, because that's what X brings as well. But again,
Speaker 1: stop me if you've heard this before. Another Premier matchup
Speaker 1: with clashing styles X on Chase is an appointment viewing.
Speaker 1: Then Higgins is show so sure handed and even if
Speaker 1: you're all over him, he can still pull it down.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see the matchup there. It feels like
Speaker 1: the first match up what we have where it's not
Speaker 1: like similar styles because Higgins at six ft five do
Speaker 1: you go need him? Who goes six ft one? Do
Speaker 1: you go Cohu or Crossing who are five ten each?
Speaker 1: And how about the game Nick had last Sunday Man
Speaker 1: just too just had to kick his confidence up another
Speaker 1: level of that showing and the hits keep coming here
Speaker 1: with the Bengals attack though, because Tyler Boyd inside is
Speaker 1: one of the shiftiest slots in the game and he's
Speaker 1: so sure handed and need him had a bunch of
Speaker 1: success against him back in that matchup in And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm so curious to see what Bowyer, Madison, Gregory
Speaker 1: and certain come up with on that back end? Does
Speaker 1: ex shadow where does Nick go and what's the rest
Speaker 1: look like as a result, um, you know, looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting Byron Jones back because that answers this question
Speaker 1: pretty pretty fully. But they're tight end group is interesting
Speaker 1: and like we said, it's almost always eleven personnel, but
Speaker 1: they had very balanced workloads last week. Mitchell Wilcox thirty
Speaker 1: nine snaps, Hayden Hurst twenty six snaps, Devin Asiasi twenty
Speaker 1: four snaps. The theme across all those guys as they
Speaker 1: can block, so you have to be careful to not
Speaker 1: get trapped into thinking eleven personnel equals pass because they
Speaker 1: will run behind that tight end attached and Mixing is
Speaker 1: one of the best backs in football. More on that
Speaker 1: in a moment. Offensive line verse defensive line. This is
Speaker 1: where you have to win the matchup. If you're the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to defense, you know they can't protect long enough
Speaker 1: for Burrow to consistently get to that second read and
Speaker 1: thus he drops the eyes. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: some potential for playmaking here, sacks, big plays, splash plays,
Speaker 1: takeaways is a big part of this. This equation from
Speaker 1: Miami's defense, haven't had that the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: That's what the defense does. I think they face two
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. In fact, the
Speaker 1: two best current quarterbacks I would say have been Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and Josh Allen. I would say two has been
Speaker 1: the third best quarterback in the leagas here so far
Speaker 1: through the first three games. But there's a there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of drop off here in this game, at
Speaker 1: least through the first three games. So hopefully Miami can
Speaker 1: get back to the takeaways. If they do that, that
Speaker 1: will be a big way to win this football game.
Speaker 1: The Bengals address this offensive line very heavily this offseason
Speaker 1: with three free agent acquisitions. They did draft Jackson Carmen
Speaker 1: last year, but he got beat out by Ricky Cordelle Wolson,
Speaker 1: who won a camp battle for that left guard position.
Speaker 1: They have not had an offensive line miss a snap
Speaker 1: this year. All five guys have played a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty eight snaps. The lineup and pressure numbers are as follows.
Speaker 1: Jonah Williams third team pressures allowed, Wolson nine, Ted Carriss six,
Speaker 1: Alex cap Of five, and Lyle Collins six and Hakim a.
Speaker 1: Denji has played thirteen snaps this season and it was
Speaker 1: all heavy personnel. It's all running plays. They bring him
Speaker 1: onto the field, he just runs the ball. No mystery
Speaker 1: in short yards what they want to do, and again
Speaker 1: mixed intends to convert those. But the Dolphins have the best,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, short yards defense and NFL two, so
Speaker 1: more good on good interesting left side options there. Williams
Speaker 1: was the first round pick, but his arm length is
Speaker 1: well below the league average for the threshold at left tackle,
Speaker 1: and this edge group between Agba and Phillips has incredible length.
Speaker 1: But then again, it's not been very pretty for Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins so far in Cincinnati, So which way do you
Speaker 1: pick your matchups? On the two tapes I watched, he's
Speaker 1: often been off balance and can get got with some
Speaker 1: of those push pull type of moves that Ogba really
Speaker 1: excels with. So if Ogas got enough gas in the
Speaker 1: tank after playing seventy freaking snaps and playing his butt
Speaker 1: off on Sunday, I would think he has a chance
Speaker 1: to have a good game here as well. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: find various ways to generate pressure, and we know that
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Seiler are absolutely wrecking shop right now. They're
Speaker 1: so freaking good. Wilkins has some snaps in the nose
Speaker 1: and ray kwon Davis's absence last week, and man, he
Speaker 1: was in the backfield before you can blink a couple
Speaker 1: of times. What an elite player. Ted Carriss is having
Speaker 1: a nice year right now, but I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: him match up with the power of Wilkins and Seiler
Speaker 1: and Davis. That was kind of his bugaboo down here.
Speaker 1: Has it gotten better? Miami just has so many guys,
Speaker 1: so many ways they can bring. I'm not gonna pretend
Speaker 1: to know how they're going to attack, but between you know, Ogba,
Speaker 1: Jalen Gink, Melvin Ingram, Trey Flowers, Christian Wilkins, Zach Seiler,
Speaker 1: you know which Jerome in there to boot. I think
Speaker 1: you have multiple directions you can go, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be up to Josh Boyer to decide how to
Speaker 1: push those buttons, which, by the way, he was phenomenal
Speaker 1: against the Bills. Tip of the captain coach Boyer. What
Speaker 1: a plan they had for Josh Allen Men's six potential
Speaker 1: turn has gone by the boards and seven different times
Speaker 1: they had him in the grasp and he couldn't get away.
Speaker 1: That's as good as you can draw it up. Will
Speaker 1: execute by our next time. But it was a great
Speaker 1: performance by Dolphins defense. Running backs and linebackers. We finished
Speaker 1: here by looking at Joe Mixing and some g P Ryan.
Speaker 1: P Ryan has been a really nice third down option
Speaker 1: for them, even had a clutch touchdown grab last week
Speaker 1: against the Jets, but they don't always go to him.
Speaker 1: Mixing is a super effective back on third down in
Speaker 1: his own right, and they like to sneak him up
Speaker 1: into that A gap. Remember the Rams game a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago when they just couldn't handle our blitz
Speaker 1: and they kept putting Mick uh Darryl Henderson up in
Speaker 1: the A gaps to go pick off the A gap blitzers.
Speaker 1: The Bengals do that too, But sometimes he'll he'll bluff
Speaker 1: a pass pro and just leak into the route against
Speaker 1: that mugged up linebackers, So you have to either plaster
Speaker 1: him or knock him down or just go get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. This week on the Jets tape,
Speaker 1: they had him running a lot of routes from that position,
Speaker 1: So if he does it, you know, go get the
Speaker 1: quarterback or find him. But Jerome versus Joe is a
Speaker 1: good one. He'll run routes, he'll scam protect they feed
Speaker 1: him the football hopefully Jerome could bring the exact same
Speaker 1: game he brought last week because he was fantastic in
Speaker 1: that one. Then kind of another one of these situations
Speaker 1: where we gotta see what Bowyer wants to do because
Speaker 1: of that eleven personnel grouping often takes linebackers off the field,
Speaker 1: but they run it really well from that grouping too,
Speaker 1: so it can be kind of a pick your poison.
Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup there for Boyer in that regard.
Speaker 1: I thought Duke Riley was really good in the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday. His snaps have increased each week, and that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a surprise. Very intrigued by his speed at
Speaker 1: that position making an impact there. Mixons averaging just one
Speaker 1: point nine yards after contacts will keep that going. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a number that they can't win with. In
Speaker 1: this game, he has just two runs of ten plus yards,
Speaker 1: averaging two point eight yards per carry if they do that,
Speaker 1: And it's a bit of an anomaly because he averages
Speaker 1: four point one yards per carrying his career and two
Speaker 1: point eight two yards after contact. But I see those
Speaker 1: numbers and it sounds to me like a lot of
Speaker 1: third lungs, which is exactly how the Bengals will get
Speaker 1: the trouble in this game. Pro Football Focus has the
Speaker 1: Bengals averaging over five yards per carry running right and
Speaker 1: under four yards per carry running left. Kappa and Collins
Speaker 1: have been big time people movers and that regard special teams.
Speaker 1: Evan McPherson in the same post season run last year
Speaker 1: seven of nine this year, but two of two on
Speaker 1: fifty plus, including a fifty nine yard or so once
Speaker 1: they get to the forty yard line, they are well
Speaker 1: within his range. Kevin Huber is averaging forty eight point
Speaker 1: seven yards per punt this year, and Jason Sanders hasn't
Speaker 1: missed yet. Fun fact, this is the fewest amount of
Speaker 1: field goals he's kicked through three games in his career,
Speaker 1: just two. He's a weapon, as we've mentioned a few
Speaker 1: times over the years on here, but a weapon you
Speaker 1: love when you can keep him in the garage and
Speaker 1: don't have to use them too often. He's made all
Speaker 1: eleven extra points. Keep making extra points. I'll take that
Speaker 1: all day. Thomas Morristead the free kick last week was
Speaker 1: an absolute missile and a huge game changing type of
Speaker 1: play from your punter the boot to Bethel to pin
Speaker 1: him at the two yard line. Punt team has been
Speaker 1: doing so dang good this year. Outside the last one
Speaker 1: on Sunday. He's averaging forty three point nine yards per punt,
Speaker 1: but consistently putting teams deep d v o A ranks
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's six nineteenth and special teams Miami's twenty nine. That's
Speaker 1: gotta get better. What's at stake? A chance to get
Speaker 1: to four now is o small thing, especially against the
Speaker 1: team that won ten games, made the postseason and went
Speaker 1: all the way to the Super Bowl, a team that
Speaker 1: was eight and three and the one seed before injuries
Speaker 1: took their toll. And a team who was arguably the
Speaker 1: second hottest team in the playoffs last year before they
Speaker 1: got clipped by the Chiefs in the Divisional round, and
Speaker 1: obviously everyone's favorite for the Super Bowl this year. And
Speaker 1: then a win Thursday would mean beating the defending conference champions.
Speaker 1: If you get to four and o against that schedule, wow,
Speaker 1: And frankly, I just think as far as the eye
Speaker 1: test goes, Buffalo and Baltimore are two of the top
Speaker 1: five teams in the NFL right now, So through three games,
Speaker 1: you know you're not just winning. This is not beating
Speaker 1: a bad Brown's team, a banged up Colts team, and
Speaker 1: an overrated Falcons team before going to the Saints and
Speaker 1: getting blown out. It's not three and oh running where
Speaker 1: you barely beat the Jets, you barely beat the Titans
Speaker 1: and you get a miracle finished against the Raiders to
Speaker 1: win that game, and then week four you get beat
Speaker 1: by thirty one points against the Patriots. This is different
Speaker 1: this time, and you could almost have. You just couldn't
Speaker 1: devise a more difficult schedule to start the season. And
Speaker 1: that's before you consider turning around four days after emotionally
Speaker 1: and physically taxing game to go on the road. We've
Speaker 1: learned a lot about this team's resolved through three games.
Speaker 1: They'll need that this week. So what's at stake is
Speaker 1: keeping distance between us and the rest of the division.
Speaker 1: To head into that many buy and get ready for
Speaker 1: the Jets and the MetLife takeover. If we can win
Speaker 1: this week and if Buffalo somehow los us to Baltimore
Speaker 1: two game lead, and after that you have Vikings and
Speaker 1: Steelers in our building, Lions and Bears on the road,
Speaker 1: and then back home for two games against the Jacobe
Speaker 1: Brissette led Browns and the Davis Mills led Texans with
Speaker 1: a bye sandwich between that. You get to four now,
Speaker 1: I think you'll feel pretty good about this team's chances
Speaker 1: this year. Three keys of the game established the running game,
Speaker 1: talked about keeping the defense fresh, keeping those guys on
Speaker 1: the sideline, and kind of flipping the script on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins plays this week. And plus, you know Cheetah and
Speaker 1: Penguin just thirty nine snaps last week. They're fresh, they're
Speaker 1: ready to go. The key number two, that's a weird
Speaker 1: way to say that. Key number two limit the Bengals
Speaker 1: deep passing game. They get vertical down the field, those
Speaker 1: deep shots. We take away those. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna have much success against you. And number three pressure
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow tell those eyes behind the line gets plenty
Speaker 1: of pressure, sack thirteen times in the first two games,
Speaker 1: and their offense was not very good as a result.
Speaker 1: Do that again, they'll have no chance of beating you.
Speaker 1: The week four picks, since we don't have a podcast
Speaker 1: for you tomorrow, we're gonna do it right here on
Speaker 1: the preview show. I was gonna take the Bengals because
Speaker 1: of the short week, and there's the what's being asked
Speaker 1: of this team on this you know hurricane week and
Speaker 1: injury week, in short week and ninety snaps on defense.
Speaker 1: But honestly, after watching the tape, I'm going back to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. So give me the Dolphins over the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Give me the Vikings over the Saints in London. Give
Speaker 1: me the Lions over the Seahawks. I'll take the Steelers
Speaker 1: over the Jets, the Giants over the Bears, although I
Speaker 1: don't want to pick either team, maybe a tie, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Titans over the Colts, the Chargers over the Texans.
Speaker 1: The Falcons over the Browns is probably my biggest upset
Speaker 1: of the week. Give me the Commanders over the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: NFC Schames are not fun to watch. Philly over Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: Baltimore over Buffalo. Let's do it, baby, Come on, Arizona
Speaker 1: over the cart over the Cardinals over the Panthers. The
Speaker 1: Raiders get their first win over. Then it goes the
Speaker 1: Packers against Brian Hoyer. Give me Aaron Rodgers and that one.
Speaker 1: Chiefs over Bucks on Sunday Night and Rams over Niners
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. No college preview this week. Gokug's still
Speaker 1: heartbroken by that. No guest. We are officially onto Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and the next time I talk to you guys will
Speaker 1: be the Thursday night recap show, or rather Friday morning
Speaker 1: that would be the recap, and then we'll do the
Speaker 1: film review over the weekend. Enjoy a Sunday slate without
Speaker 1: the Finns playing. My wife's on town too, so I
Speaker 1: getta watch like twelve hours of football. Pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1: We'll pick it back up Tuesday at the quarter pool
Speaker 1: and or what used to be the quarter pool in
Speaker 1: the sixteen game schedule, same idea, and we'll progress as
Speaker 1: we normally do to Jets week Twitter Spaces show tonight.
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