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Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: And on today's show, I'm quite certain we have not
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Speaker 1: We're breaking down the top two teams in the AFC,
Speaker 1: how they match up, how the Dolphins can win, the
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Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maggie dafir So, the
Speaker 1: wife and kids went back home for New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: I guess to celebrate Christmas with the family back in
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest, And so after this podcast, I'm going
Speaker 1: home to an empty house for the first time and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like two years. It's I think it's
Speaker 1: been a little bit sad to miss them, but also
Speaker 1: pretty excited to do absolutely nothing all day, every day
Speaker 1: for a few days. I'm sure the fellow fathers out
Speaker 1: there could understand how that goes. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: a big football game here and go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with the opening introduction to the Baltimore Ravens before we
Speaker 1: do that, because this could be the last road trip
Speaker 1: of the season outside of a potential neutral site game
Speaker 1: at the very end of everything. As Uncle Dan said,
Speaker 1: we'll get better at golf after the Super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: But if you keep winning, that's what it means. And again,
Speaker 1: I made sort of a habit of doing this with
Speaker 1: a weather reportsin since we're on the road and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be seventy five degrees and Sunday like
Speaker 1: it is in South Florida every day this time of year.
Speaker 1: Partly cloudy, seven mile an hour wins, five percent chance
Speaker 1: of rain, and high of forty nine. Can't ask for
Speaker 1: much more than that. If there's one good thing about
Speaker 1: climate change, it's that it means fewer cold weather games
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and meet the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens here. We're gonna have Charles Davis in the
Speaker 1: podcast this week. In spoiler, it has already been recorded,
Speaker 1: and he talked about big game experience and managing emotions
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. He even made the
Speaker 1: great point that this is a business as usual game
Speaker 1: for Baltimore. They've been here now. They have had postseason
Speaker 1: failures recently, especially with that quarterback, which wasn't always the
Speaker 1: case in John Harbaugh's career. They're one to three in
Speaker 1: their last four playoff games, and they missed the postseason
Speaker 1: two years ago, which usually doesn't happen for the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: and Lamar ended that year with an injury, same thing
Speaker 1: as last year, but Tyler Huntley won them enough games
Speaker 1: to make it into the postseason and almost beat the
Speaker 1: Bengals in that wild card roun game. So it starts
Speaker 1: at top with the aforementioned John Harbaugh, one of the
Speaker 1: best coaches in the National Football League, a special teams
Speaker 1: coach by Trey, but just a great leader of men.
Speaker 1: A la a Mike Tomlin, a lah a Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: Ozzie knew someone was probably the best GM in the
Speaker 1: league for a decade plus and then he turns things
Speaker 1: over to Eric DaCosta and then ends up taking a
Speaker 1: secondary role, which he wasn't supposed to do, but he
Speaker 1: does that. And now he and DaCosta are basically freaking
Speaker 1: jobs in Wozniak. I mean, they're incredible. They know what
Speaker 1: a Baltimore Raven is and they draft them accordingly. Now,
Speaker 1: the landscape of their approach changed entirely when they went
Speaker 1: from L Flacco L Fluco, who is forty seven years
Speaker 1: old right now, ball them for the Cleveland Browns, which
Speaker 1: is crazy to me. And remember that, you know what,
Speaker 1: quick aside, remember last year when I praised the game
Speaker 1: that Joe Flacco had in that week eighteen eleven to
Speaker 1: six game, not because he had a monster game, but
Speaker 1: because there were like eight plays where Miami had him
Speaker 1: in the grasp within one point eight seconds and the
Speaker 1: ball would still get out somehow. And sometimes you've ben
Speaker 1: complete those passes. Why is Joe Flacco still playing? Well?
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on with that guy? What did
Speaker 1: he did he find? Tom Brady's like snake oil. I
Speaker 1: don't know, oh man. So the landscape of that football
Speaker 1: team changed when they turned to a rookie Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, and they were fluttering that year
Speaker 1: until he came in, and then I think he went
Speaker 1: like six and two down the stretch and took him
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. And then the next year they had
Speaker 1: that MVP season fourteen to two. But that year they
Speaker 1: moved up to thirty second in the draft. Member four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks were selected ahead of this guy. And I never
Speaker 1: knew how you watched Louisville tape and thought he was
Speaker 1: the fifth best quarterback in that class. I was a
Speaker 1: huge Josh Allen fan. I was also a huge Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield fan, but I was also a huge Lamar Jackson fan.
Speaker 1: Was not so much Rosen and Darnold. Sometime you get
Speaker 1: it right, but you know what a class that was
Speaker 1: for the Ravens in general. They get Hayden Hurst, who
Speaker 1: the Ravens even thought was worth picking over Lamar Jackson. Right,
Speaker 1: They get Lamar next Orlando Brown, junior, Mark Andrews to
Speaker 1: Sean Elliott, Zach Seeler, and only Andrews remains on that
Speaker 1: team and he's on IR So that class is Lamar
Speaker 1: right now for the Ravens. But that's the thing about
Speaker 1: their drafts. They get return value for a as they
Speaker 1: move on from whether it's compicks or trading Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: for a first round pick in twenty nineteen, Who was
Speaker 1: you know later repurpose to the Cardinals for that first
Speaker 1: round draft pick? Go to twenty twenty, Patrick Queen, JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: Justin Matdabweke, Devin Duverney. You guys remember having a punt
Speaker 1: return or a rather opening kickoff return for a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the Week two game last year, Gino Stone? How
Speaker 1: about the next year in twenty twenty one, Rashad Bateman.
Speaker 1: He caught a seventy five yard touchdown reception against us
Speaker 1: o'daffe Oway. Fantastic pass rusher, Ben Cleveland, Brandon Stevens twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, Kyle Hamilton the best safety the NFL for
Speaker 1: my money. Tyler Linderbaum, a surefire lockdown center prospect that
Speaker 1: is playing like it. Travis Jones, Isaiah likely this year's
Speaker 1: Theay Flowers. I mean, who remember the draft exercise we
Speaker 1: did during the bye week to kind of measure up
Speaker 1: Chris career against the rest of the NFL since he
Speaker 1: got the GM job back in twenty sixteen. The Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Saints were the only teams higher than the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins on that list, and then they add key
Speaker 1: veteran parts that fit their program too, because they know
Speaker 1: what they want, kind of like the Miami Dolphins. In fact,
Speaker 1: keep a lookout for tomorrow's podcast. I'm gonna do a
Speaker 1: fun segment talking about Chris Career and Durham Smyth and
Speaker 1: how those two have proven together this year, how good
Speaker 1: of a GM Chris Greer is. Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: But like Kalais Campbell for instance, like he's not there anymore.
Speaker 1: But was there ever a player that screamed Baltimore raven
Speaker 1: more than Kalais Campbell? I liked a good talk of
Speaker 1: a quarterback, like his big booming voice, and I just
Speaker 1: made him sound like he's you know yeah. But guys
Speaker 1: that just look like Baltimore Ravens and talk like Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: you know, Patrick Ricard, Gus Edwards, Morgan, Moses, even his
Speaker 1: name sounds like Baltimore Ravens. Michael Pierce, who was actually
Speaker 1: drafted the same year as Ronnie Stanley back in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the two old heads and then he left and came back.
Speaker 1: They signed Kevin Zeitler away from rival Cincinnati. The Rokwan
Speaker 1: Smith trade maybe the most raven ever since Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 1: At least you got the idea. It's a college style
Speaker 1: powerhouse that replaces and repulnishes its whole roster every couple
Speaker 1: of years to dominate the NFL. It's crazy, key cogs
Speaker 1: replace the other parts. Well coached, aggressive, adaptive to the
Speaker 1: modern game. There's a reason that nobody else in the
Speaker 1: NFL has as many wins as the Baltimore Ravens. They
Speaker 1: are a phenomenal, phenomenal football team. How about the storylines
Speaker 1: for this one, because they are a plenty. Had to
Speaker 1: kind of narrow them down here, But I start with
Speaker 1: this one because I'm so intrigued by this, and I
Speaker 1: asked Charles Davis about this, and you'll find that on
Speaker 1: the Friday Podcast with Charles Davis the Week seventeen Variety Show.
Speaker 1: Is both of these football teams coming off the biggest
Speaker 1: win of the year for them, right because the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and I kind of get intrigued by the clapback they're
Speaker 1: doing to Mike Florio and other members of the media
Speaker 1: as if to say, like, this was the game we
Speaker 1: geared up for. This was a kind of a super
Speaker 1: Bowl matchup for us, and we're gonna bring our best
Speaker 1: and prove you all wrong. Can you match that juice
Speaker 1: the following week? I tend to think you can't. Like
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to do now. This time of year
Speaker 1: is a little bit different, but I think that human
Speaker 1: nature dictates that you don't always have that same level
Speaker 1: of motor quick aside. Travis's sports career, high school basketball
Speaker 1: in eastern Washington for a where it's basically kids that
Speaker 1: look like me, you know, not the best basketball players.
Speaker 1: But my senior year, we were playing our rival high school,
Speaker 1: cross town Kenwick High School, and we needed to beat
Speaker 1: them because we were like a middling team trying to
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. We knew that going in we
Speaker 1: weren't like the best team in the league, but we
Speaker 1: had to beat Kennewick because it was a matchup that
Speaker 1: we just need to get a dub on our schedule.
Speaker 1: And remember being so charged up, Like our first play
Speaker 1: of the game, first play the season, I ran this,
Speaker 1: you know, I got into the offense. I was a
Speaker 1: point guard, got the dish off to someone for a
Speaker 1: three pointer, cashit, and I was like, whoa whoa like fire,
Speaker 1: let's play some defense points. That's fire up. Now. We
Speaker 1: lost the game by a few points, but the very
Speaker 1: next night we traveled to Eisenhower High School and had
Speaker 1: nowhere near the same energy, and after like a four
Speaker 1: point loss, lost by like twenty seven. So I just
Speaker 1: think it's human nature that you can't possibly match that
Speaker 1: energy for consecutive weeks. For the Miami Dolphins, they're coming
Speaker 1: off a huge win as well, So who can find
Speaker 1: the closest replicated energy that they provided in the Dallas
Speaker 1: game and come out and punch their team in the
Speaker 1: mouth and have more effort and just play harder and better.
Speaker 1: And I think the team that does that will find
Speaker 1: a way to win. For the Ravens, this is a
Speaker 1: real thing. Man short week with a long night's travel.
Speaker 1: On Monday night, the game ended, I was tracking this.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that Sam Darnold could lead back the
Speaker 1: Niners and tie the game up and make it an
Speaker 1: overtime game because the game was already getting late. But
Speaker 1: obviously more snaps played impacts you know the next game,
Speaker 1: next week's effort. Like last year when the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: eighty four snaps on defense against Buffalo, and then had
Speaker 1: to go to Cincinnati for a short week. Like, there's
Speaker 1: a reason that in the fourth quarter of the Bengals
Speaker 1: just wore us out in that game and we couldn't
Speaker 1: get a whole lot done because they had no gas left,
Speaker 1: no juice left. For the Ravens. They played against the
Speaker 1: Niners and a tough, you know, physical team, and they
Speaker 1: played sixty eight snaps on defense, and they flew across
Speaker 1: the country and that game ended right before midnight, so
Speaker 1: they're probably not getting on the plane till about two am.
Speaker 1: They probably didn't get off the plane in Baltimore until
Speaker 1: like eight am. By that point, Mike McDaniels already had
Speaker 1: five hours of game prep and film watching here in
Speaker 1: the building. So short week. That's a tall ass, man,
Speaker 1: It's a tall ass turn around that fast. Other key storylines,
Speaker 1: the Ravens off a game against the offense that most
Speaker 1: closely resembles ours. Right. I find this so fascinating. They
Speaker 1: just faced a Shanahan offense, right, the Shanahan offense. Well,
Speaker 1: this week there's another one, and of course McDaniel's got
Speaker 1: the exact same offense, but seventeen years together, a little
Speaker 1: bit rubs off is it a benefit to Miami? Is
Speaker 1: it a benefit to Baltimore? I'm gonna ask Charles Davis
Speaker 1: that question on Friday. Next storyline, the winner is in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat for the one seed, but also the
Speaker 1: unanimous best team in football, which doesn't matter power rankings?
Speaker 1: Who cares? And also, real quick, hey, Colin Cowherd eats
Speaker 1: because you guys retweet him, don't give him the time
Speaker 1: of day. And I get the aggregators in our industry,
Speaker 1: the guys in the beat that want to get the
Speaker 1: tweets off, and they show all the videos and all
Speaker 1: the leaks and all the stuff. I get it. There's
Speaker 1: money to be made in that progress. But can we
Speaker 1: just let him die? Like he's doing this on purpose? Guys,
Speaker 1: just leave it alone. He's a jackwagon like he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not someone you concern yourself with. He doesn't know
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. Who cares about power rankings? But
Speaker 1: the winner of this game will emerge as the favorites
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl? Right, And that's that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know. But more importantly, the Ravens
Speaker 1: are already clinched a top two seed barring a Cleveland miracle,
Speaker 1: So I guess I shouldn't say clinched already, but unofficially,
Speaker 1: if they lose both their games and Cleveland wins both
Speaker 1: their games, then the North goes to the Browns. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. So Baltimore's not losing
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh in week eighteen and Cleveland I don't think
Speaker 1: I win both their games either, so either way, but we,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, could slide as far as the
Speaker 1: sixth seed if we lose out. But a win in
Speaker 1: this game or next week means no lower than the
Speaker 1: two seed, and that means you're not going on the
Speaker 1: road until at least Championship weekend, maybe even the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl at best. The reunions here, So Lamar not quite
Speaker 1: a South Florida native, but he was a Palm Beach
Speaker 1: guy or Pompino Beach right, the closest team to him
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Zach and Deshaum are both
Speaker 1: draft picks of the Ravens. George god Sees the tight
Speaker 1: end coach there, and Vic Fangio was a linebacker coach
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. So that's your storylines and
Speaker 1: introduction to a very very good Ravens team. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and spin at four now to the tape, and
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get down to the matchup tables
Speaker 1: here before our first break. So for the Ravens, a key,
Speaker 1: key injury that will be tracking all week long. In fact,
Speaker 1: I don't have the injury report for Wednesday just yet.
Speaker 1: I would have to imagine he did not practice, but
Speaker 1: I don't have that information at my disposal just yet.
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton ninety one percent snaps, Marcus Williams, the other safety,
Speaker 1: plays fifty percent, and Gino Stone plays eighty one percent.
Speaker 1: So Stone is supposed to be the third safety and
Speaker 1: he is right now. But since Williams missed some time,
Speaker 1: he filled in, and when Hamilton went down against the Niners,
Speaker 1: he filled in that role as well. So three safeties
Speaker 1: all can play their corners. Really, if they get into
Speaker 1: their depth, it's a struggle, but gosh, they're good up top.
Speaker 1: Marlon Humphrey is the top perimeter guy, but he's only
Speaker 1: played a half the snaps this year because he missed
Speaker 1: so much time. But Brandon Stevens has turned into a
Speaker 1: very good like lockdown number two, maybe even number one
Speaker 1: cornerback plays a very physical brand of football zone turned
Speaker 1: good job out of the break. And then their interior
Speaker 1: guy is either Ronald Darby who's played a little bit,
Speaker 1: but also Arthur Malette, who's a kind of a more
Speaker 1: of a fit, I would say in that position. But
Speaker 1: either way, one of those guys will get slot reps.
Speaker 1: If anybody goes down. It kind of throws the whole
Speaker 1: rotation into a bit of a into a kind of
Speaker 1: a mess almost because they don't have the additional bodies there.
Speaker 1: But up front, the depth is the good. So justin
Speaker 1: Mattabueke sixty seven percent snap taker all. He leads all
Speaker 1: defensive tackles and sacks this season, and he plays alongside
Speaker 1: Michael Pierce, who is the biggest man in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. He's a three hundred and fifty pounds beast.
Speaker 1: Broderick Joe, or rather Broderick Washington plays thirty four percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps, and then Travis Jones, a Yukon grad
Speaker 1: who is quick as all get out, thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps up front off the edge. It kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of the Flores teams down here, like
Speaker 1: ogbab builds Odafe always played thirty nine percent. He's missed
Speaker 1: some time this season, but Jadavian Clowney's having maybe the
Speaker 1: best year of his entire career. Another guy that just
Speaker 1: looks like a freaking raven, right, but they're so big
Speaker 1: and so long. And then Kyle van nid Duh like
Speaker 1: forty one percent of the snaps, and then Brent Urbans
Speaker 1: played twenty two percent, and then off ball linebacker Rokwan
Speaker 1: Smith ninety eight percent, Patrick Queen ninety eight percent. Defense
Speaker 1: is loaded, guys. We have our hands full. It's a
Speaker 1: big time matchup physicality against speed, but Miami also has
Speaker 1: their own physicality. Kyle Hamilton, it's worth noting that if
Speaker 1: he misses the game, like he's their top slot guy.
Speaker 1: He plays four hundred and eighty snaps in the slot.
Speaker 1: He's their top blitzing defensive back. Nobody else comes close
Speaker 1: to his blitz production. He's a center field, rangey safety
Speaker 1: who can pick off Brock Purdy in the end zone like.
Speaker 1: He does everything so well. If he misses the game,
Speaker 1: it's a huge, huge loss for them. Patrick Queen was
Speaker 1: in and out of the game on Monday with a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, and I thought he was gonna be test
Speaker 1: for a while, but sounds like he's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1: And then the guys they already have out are David
Speaker 1: Ajabo and our Darius Washington, a rusher and a defensive
Speaker 1: back for the Ravens. Their personnel usage, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and do some numbers here before we get into the
Speaker 1: actual nitty gritty of the tape. For the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: so they run their three four sixteen percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and they run their nickel package eighty two percent of
Speaker 1: the time. And there's some heavy personnel and there's some
Speaker 1: diamond there, but that is a what is that ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent there for? Right? No, yeah, ninety eight percent
Speaker 1: usage of there nickel and three four they blitz just
Speaker 1: twenty three percent of the time. That's twenty second the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Primarily on third downs, they'll often bring
Speaker 1: a defensive back Kyle Hamilton Arthur Malette and drop a
Speaker 1: rusher back into the hook. Like you have to be
Speaker 1: aware of your fronts and your coverage and how they
Speaker 1: marry and how they could possibly switch aspects of who
Speaker 1: rushes and who drops back. But their pressure rate is
Speaker 1: twenty percent, which is actually just twenty third so really,
Speaker 1: in terms volume, the pressures are not that great. However,
Speaker 1: fifty four sacks leads the National Football League, two more
Speaker 1: than your Miami Dolphins. When they get pressure, it typically
Speaker 1: impacts the game. So between fifty four sacks and twenty
Speaker 1: six takeaways, both league leading, you have to prevent this
Speaker 1: defense from making their splash plays. Sixteen point three points
Speaker 1: allowed points allowed per game, that's also tops, and for posterity,
Speaker 1: thirty six percent allowed on third down is fifth best.
Speaker 1: It's the best defense in the NFL. Guys, Miami might
Speaker 1: have a case for that as well, but Baltimore right
Speaker 1: now is the top defense. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to know them on the tape on the other side
Speaker 1: of our first break here, that's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: picking it back up previewing Dolphins and Ravens, the biggest
Speaker 1: game on the National Football League schedule this season in
Speaker 1: terms of what it might mean for playoff seeding. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get more into this Ravens defense. So
Speaker 1: it's a great unit. How do they do it well?
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald is quite frankly, nothing short of a defensive genius.
Speaker 1: And he's been helping the Hardbaughs for quite some time now.
Speaker 1: He was an intern with the Ravens back in twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen before getting promoted to defensive assistant, then position coach.
Speaker 1: Then he jumps positions before leaving to Michigan to run
Speaker 1: Jim's defense for a year, but then one year later
Speaker 1: right back to John to run his defense and replace
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale. And he's changing up. It's not blitz heavy,
Speaker 1: it's not the same attack attack approach of Wink Martindale,
Speaker 1: and it's been a lot better. And what you get
Speaker 1: is an ever evolving picture. You never get the same
Speaker 1: coverage twice in a row. You get different blitzers coming
Speaker 1: from the same package on different types of snaps. Let's
Speaker 1: put it this way, Tua has his work cut out
Speaker 1: for him one of the smartest, most intellectual approaches of
Speaker 1: the game at quarterback, and Tua is going to have
Speaker 1: to really prove that he's strong in that area. That's why, Spoiler,
Speaker 1: one of the keys here is going to be to
Speaker 1: just prevent the Ravens defense from making splash plays. If
Speaker 1: you can do that, you will at least be in
Speaker 1: this game at the end of the fourth quarter Because
Speaker 1: teams average starting field position against the Ravens is their
Speaker 1: own twenty seven point one yard line. That's fifth lowest.
Speaker 1: But see here's where you really get the impact of
Speaker 1: the defense. Their offense has the best average starting field
Speaker 1: position in the National Football League by more than a
Speaker 1: full yard thirty two point five yard line average start position.
Speaker 1: The gap between them and the second place team in
Speaker 1: that regard is the same as the gap between second
Speaker 1: place and twelfth place, so they dominate the field position battle.
Speaker 1: They're always good on special teams, but the sacks and
Speaker 1: the takeaways they get the hidden yardage that puts the
Speaker 1: offense in advantageous situations backs you up on defense. But
Speaker 1: also Miami does the same thing too, fifty two sacks
Speaker 1: their help. Our average starting field position is fifth at
Speaker 1: the thirty point three yard line. I want to take
Speaker 1: a look at two games of the Ravens, the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers and the Rams games, the two offenses that
Speaker 1: most closely resemble what the Dolphins do from a structure
Speaker 1: and philosophy standpoint. So first was curious to look at
Speaker 1: zone versus man because the way the Ravens can play
Speaker 1: with physicality all across the defensive line with huge defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: long and strong edges. They meet you where you are.
Speaker 1: I thought Dallas did some of that, especially against our
Speaker 1: jet sweep action and our toss game and reverse game
Speaker 1: end around all that stuff. And we have to be
Speaker 1: so much better in this one than we were in
Speaker 1: that one, because these guys are even better and they
Speaker 1: will knock. I mean, that's how we lost several drives
Speaker 1: in this game, was losing yardage on those wide runs.
Speaker 1: They'll penetrate, they'll lock out, they'll shed, they'll funnel you
Speaker 1: back inside, and they'll rally back to tackle. It's impressive
Speaker 1: team football with very strong gap discipline and again just
Speaker 1: sheer overwhelming power plus. In our win over Dallas, there
Speaker 1: were more gap man calls than we've been getting and
Speaker 1: it worked, especially on that final drive. We went fourteen
Speaker 1: zone runs eight gap runs per Pro Football Focus, which
Speaker 1: also checks out on the film and also was our
Speaker 1: highest usage of gap running this year in our entire season. Now,
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers didn't do that. They're the most
Speaker 1: prominent zone football team in football, and they went eleven
Speaker 1: zone runs and three gap runs. The Rams, however, and
Speaker 1: this is something that Sean McVay has pivoted to this
Speaker 1: year fourteen gap runs and four zone runs. The Rams
Speaker 1: in that game also played the most condensed offense of
Speaker 1: any offense in a game this year. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Everything is jammed in close to the offensive line, nasty splits.
Speaker 1: Extra gaps probably allows you to help get more bodies
Speaker 1: on those edges and just control things a little more
Speaker 1: in terms of not getting one gapped and beaten. With
Speaker 1: the combination of power slash get off Laika Jadevian Clounie
Speaker 1: is capable of or odafe Oway or inside with Michael
Speaker 1: Pierce's massive build, or Travis Jones and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the most productive pass rushing defensive tackle in football this
Speaker 1: year in justin Mattaweeka. This group is rugged, they're explosive,
Speaker 1: they're big. I think you could possibly see a lot
Speaker 1: of twelve personnel, maybe some thirteen. Maybe you activate Tyler Croft,
Speaker 1: maybe you put alec Ingold in line, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a way to help the tackles even
Speaker 1: more than you already do. Because this group, let's just
Speaker 1: talk about him so size wise. Puerce three fifty five
Speaker 1: the truest best nose tackle in the National Football League
Speaker 1: bar none to me? Uh, Travis Jones three thirty eight
Speaker 1: and by the way, a nine point four rass a
Speaker 1: ninetieth percent tile and forty yard dash at that size,
Speaker 1: also in the three cone and his weight also is
Speaker 1: in the ninety percent tile as well. Broderick Washington three fifteen,
Speaker 1: he's a three technique in a five technique, basically a
Speaker 1: Seiler esque kind of guy. Speaking of Steeler, was there
Speaker 1: besides Kalais Campbell and Rokwan Smith? Was there ever a
Speaker 1: better raven than Zach Seeler? How did he got out
Speaker 1: of the building? That was a mistake. I'm sure Glaids
Speaker 1: shook freeing and got to us. Justin Maddowueke is three
Speaker 1: zero five, but oh yeah, a four eight three forty
Speaker 1: at that size, that's ninety eight percent tile. He's also
Speaker 1: in the ninety percent tile in the twenty and ten
Speaker 1: yard split, so the get off is absurd. Then off
Speaker 1: the edge. Clowney two hundred and sixty six pounds, Oh wait,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty seven pounds and Brent Urbans three
Speaker 1: oh nine. Like my god, man, remember Shaq Lawson back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty in training camp, you got some heavy
Speaker 1: ass hands, Bro talking to Emmanuel Ogbah. That's all these guys,
Speaker 1: heavy handed dudes up and down the lineup. I think
Speaker 1: the other part that lends itself to that idea of
Speaker 1: running more gap and gap man gap scheme. Your interior
Speaker 1: line is right now built better for it. Liam is
Speaker 1: nowhere near the athlete Connor Williams is, but he's strong.
Speaker 1: Rob Jones is a He's a good road grader, maybe
Speaker 1: not as effective in space. And Lester Cotton is more
Speaker 1: lost in space than George Clooney than that terrible movie
Speaker 1: from like ten years ago, but at least he's big
Speaker 1: and can push people around. Right. So, I think that
Speaker 1: where this matchup really is one is there. How can
Speaker 1: we execute on early downs both with the run on
Speaker 1: the pass. Can we mitigate the way the defensive line
Speaker 1: wants to play and match their physicality? I think you
Speaker 1: can hopefully Austin Jackson's because he's a pusher, wig back
Speaker 1: type of guy. That's his game. He has an edge,
Speaker 1: so does leam Meikenberg, Rob and Lester are bigger dudes
Speaker 1: in Tehran. I just think he beats whoever he sees
Speaker 1: across from him. Let's go ahead and talk about the
Speaker 1: numbers here because they are staggering for the Ravens pressures
Speaker 1: and stops. Clowney sixty six and twenty two. He's having
Speaker 1: a career year. Matabueke sixty one thirty five. What what
Speaker 1: sixty one pressures a defensive tackle? O Way has forty
Speaker 1: seven and twelve, so he's kind of a rush exclusive player.
Speaker 1: Kyle Vanni has forty three and eighteen, remember him, great player.
Speaker 1: Pierce twenty nine and twenty. He has twenty nine pressures
Speaker 1: at that size, and Travis Jones is twenty and eighteen.
Speaker 1: Raheem Moster has to be at his best because in
Speaker 1: that Rams game, Kyrine Williams broke eleven tackles and produced
Speaker 1: eighty nine yards after initial contact, just grinded them out
Speaker 1: and stayed in manageable third down situations where Stafford then
Speaker 1: hit big third down throw after big third down throw
Speaker 1: with anticipation largely to Puka Nakula where he's getting pressure
Speaker 1: and just kind of losts this thing out there, just
Speaker 1: like the ball that two or threw a Tyreek on
Speaker 1: that critical third and eight against the Cowboys. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get some of that here because the pass
Speaker 1: rush will get home. I think there's something to that
Speaker 1: game where they were able to chip away and really
Speaker 1: hold the attention to the linebackers, because guess what, when
Speaker 1: you get past that massive defensive line we talked about,
Speaker 1: they have arguably the best off ball linebacker duo that
Speaker 1: hangs out before them. I would take Greenlaw and Fred Warner,
Speaker 1: these guys would be second to me. Smith has thirteen
Speaker 1: pressures on ninety one pass rush attempts. They don't blitz
Speaker 1: him very often, but also has forty seven stops. Queen
Speaker 1: has twenty four pressures on one hundred and four attempts. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent pressure rate. That's like elite. That's your
Speaker 1: blitzing linebacker. By the way, number six, he also has
Speaker 1: forty one stops. They have a first down run stopping
Speaker 1: success rate of seventy two point two. That is why
Speaker 1: they have so many sacks and so many takeaways because
Speaker 1: teams are always in third and long. It's the best
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And how they get you into those
Speaker 1: long third downs. Speaking of that third downs, seventy five
Speaker 1: point seven passer rating, twenty sacks, seven touchdowns to five picks,
Speaker 1: fifty seven percent completion six point zero yards per attempt.
Speaker 1: A lot of that funnels through those two backers. Man,
Speaker 1: they can get their depth and coverage. They can win
Speaker 1: with speed to the perimeter. They can match up with
Speaker 1: size and power down the trash. Just watch that Niners game.
Speaker 1: They tighten all those windows. And we've seen what happens
Speaker 1: when offenses. This offense is timing is impacted. There are
Speaker 1: misses that just go awry. So I can imagine. I
Speaker 1: imagine they can create some of those misses. But if
Speaker 1: we're sharp and we're on our stuff, we can compete.
Speaker 1: We can hit some big plays. The Niners had their
Speaker 1: big plays when they were sharp early on. It's a
Speaker 1: big time to a game man. How he influences those guys,
Speaker 1: how quickly he sees things. We'll get into the schematics
Speaker 1: here shortly. Let's go ahead and finish up with personnel
Speaker 1: and their defensive backs. Now, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go, but gosh, Kyle Hamilton, this
Speaker 1: guy changes the game. He changes the picture postnap. You
Speaker 1: cannot be late with him in the equation. Watch the
Speaker 1: party interception the first in the first quarter. He might
Speaker 1: be the best safety in football, right now, his instincts,
Speaker 1: his range like Ed Reid's the camp man. He and
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams make up the best ball hawking safeties in football,
Speaker 1: and they're combined range with how Hamilton sees things. It
Speaker 1: allows them to be so exotic and make the quarterback
Speaker 1: hitch that one extra time and that's all the pass
Speaker 1: rush needs. Now, if Hamilton is down, how much more
Speaker 1: vanilla does the scheme become? Because I kind of think
Speaker 1: it's like us with with Jalen Ramsey being out, And
Speaker 1: I just mean in terms of switching, bumping, rotating, like
Speaker 1: if you have less of that, if guys are more
Speaker 1: ingrained and we're gonna stay right here, we're able to
Speaker 1: get our motions and dictate the matchups and play on time,
Speaker 1: then we won't be stopped. So that could be a
Speaker 1: big absence. But also maybe Gino Stone steps in and
Speaker 1: has it down pat and they're still to doing the
Speaker 1: exact same stuff he has experience. But I just think
Speaker 1: there's a different level of play you get with Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 1: He's the best safety in football. For my money, I
Speaker 1: would take him right now over anybody else. They also
Speaker 1: really only blits him when they do send a defense,
Speaker 1: he has thirty seven pass rush reps. The next most
Speaker 1: is Arthur Malette with fourteen so, and Ginostone has eleven
Speaker 1: so out of the eight hundred and thirty four stats
Speaker 1: that he's played. He replaced Marcus Williams earlier this year, so, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna change the way you play the
Speaker 1: game if they don't have Kyle Hamilton. Speaking of defensive backs,
Speaker 1: Brandon Stevens has developed into a true lockdown corner. He
Speaker 1: and Marlin Humphrey together make that system kind of go
Speaker 1: akin to how I think Ramsey and X do it here.
Speaker 1: Like the rest of the defense, they're smart, they're long,
Speaker 1: they're physical, they find the football, and Stevens has such
Speaker 1: a good feel for the concepts with the requisite feel
Speaker 1: and twitch to see it ahead of time and go
Speaker 1: get it. I think his ability to anticipate what our
Speaker 1: receivers are going to do is a big key in
Speaker 1: this game because our guys are so good at holding
Speaker 1: their route and kind of making it a mystery where
Speaker 1: the break is gonna come from. And Tyreek is such
Speaker 1: a good route runner that I don't think he really
Speaker 1: gives up his tail at all, and he can play
Speaker 1: off of their outside leverage which kind of funnels routes
Speaker 1: to the inside and those cover three cover one looks,
Speaker 1: and I can think you can find those pockets. I
Speaker 1: think that's how Miami can really get their chunks and
Speaker 1: move the football. Hopefully we have Waddle sounds a little
Speaker 1: more promise than I thought it would at this point
Speaker 1: of the week, but we'll see with him. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: the two drives that we had against Dallas at the
Speaker 1: end of the half is what I think you could
Speaker 1: see here where the ball is out now inside access
Speaker 1: to Durham to said to Braxton to riv if he's
Speaker 1: up and hit enough of those, run the ball well
Speaker 1: enough and start softening up those intermediate lanes that we love.
Speaker 1: And man, this is such a good matchup, like all
Speaker 1: across the board. To me, this is two of the
Speaker 1: top three teams in the NFL, and the styles they
Speaker 1: play make it such appointment viewing, like it reminds me
Speaker 1: of those legendary Colts and Patriots matchups in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. They run man coverage thirty percent and zone
Speaker 1: seventy percent, but get a load of this against man
Speaker 1: coverage eleven touchdowns and one pick, fifteen sacks, but also
Speaker 1: just five point three yards per past against zone teams
Speaker 1: have four touchdowns, fifteen picks, thirty nine sacks, but more
Speaker 1: yards per pass at six point oh so kind of
Speaker 1: interesting splits there. Sorry to get repetitive. It's another top
Speaker 1: tandem in the league, the cornerbacks. There's a reason that
Speaker 1: this is a top defense in the NFL. They can
Speaker 1: both move to Stevens nine point two relative athletics score
Speaker 1: Humphrey eight point nine their numbers. So Stevens has seven
Speaker 1: hundred covered snaps and seven hundred yards allowed. That's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal year. Two touchdowns, two picks for Humphrey three sixty
Speaker 1: three and two hundred and twenty four yards like Damn
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one pick. So Hamilton's absence also changes their
Speaker 1: structure because they love to roll into single high and
Speaker 1: let him come down and match up in the slot.
Speaker 1: He leads a team with four hundred and three snaps inside.
Speaker 1: Next is their top slot corner, Arthur Molett. He's allowed
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty yards on two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four covered snaps and they're my friends, is your sombrero.
Speaker 1: If there's one place to go, it's after him, and
Speaker 1: then I'd say Stone if Hamilton misses, this is maybe
Speaker 1: the most important non quarterback in the game. Hamilton is
Speaker 1: besides Tyreek and he could be out. Their coverage structure,
Speaker 1: and this is where the variety we talked about occurs.
Speaker 1: Cover one twenty two percent, Cover three twenty two percent.
Speaker 1: Those are the two coverages that Dallas runs primarily against
Speaker 1: US that in Tampa two, so it gives you the
Speaker 1: most inside access throws they run quarters twenty one percent.
Speaker 1: That's a variation and it always changes, so it's tough
Speaker 1: to decipher. But also cover six fifteen percent. All those
Speaker 1: coverages marry off of each other and they mix it
Speaker 1: so well. They go zero seven percent of the time,
Speaker 1: which actually is fifth most. But I doubt they would
Speaker 1: do it against Miami because you'd have to be stupid
Speaker 1: to do it against Miami. So there you go. That's
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense versus Ravens defense. Go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break right there. Come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and do the Ravens offense first. The Dolphins Defense Draft
Speaker 1: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. Well, I definitely did not expect to come
Speaker 1: away from the tape more impressed by the Ravens offense
Speaker 1: than I was their defense, simply because of how good
Speaker 1: their defense is. But yeah, that's where we are. My god,
Speaker 1: what a football team. So Lamar Jackson's the quarterback, the
Speaker 1: receiver Ze Flowers plays eighty six percent, and then a
Speaker 1: big drop off for Sean Bateman fifty three, Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: four forty four. Both those guys get banged up. Both
Speaker 1: those guys leave the field. Zay Flowers is their number
Speaker 1: one since Mark Andrews got injured left and replacing Andrews
Speaker 1: is a really good tight end and Isaiah Likely, who
Speaker 1: plays forty four percent, runs a lot of his routes
Speaker 1: from the slot in the on the in line attachment.
Speaker 1: Their key slot receiver is Nelson Aguilar, who plays half
Speaker 1: the snaps, and then tight end two is uh, what's
Speaker 1: his first name? Kolar got his first name, the tight
Speaker 1: end that plays sixteen percent of the snaps alongside Likely
Speaker 1: tight end three. Because Mark Andrews is hurt. On the interior,
Speaker 1: it's John Simpson, Tyler Linderbaum, and Kevin Zeitler off the edge.
Speaker 1: Interesting combination here because Ronnie Stanley was once the best
Speaker 1: left tackle in football. And has had a lot of
Speaker 1: injuries that have kind of robbed that from him. And
Speaker 1: then Morgan Mo's this is another big kind of plotting
Speaker 1: right tackle, but they've used Patrick McCarry to shuffle in
Speaker 1: at left tackle, but he got hurt in last game,
Speaker 1: so interesting decision there. And then Daniel Fallele is a
Speaker 1: four hundred pounds right tackle who comes into as an
Speaker 1: extra offensive lineman sometimes, so Mark Andrews, JK. Dobbins, Keaton
Speaker 1: and Devin DuVernay all on ir key parts of that
Speaker 1: offense and special teams, and a lot of the explosive
Speaker 1: plays the offense had came out of those guys, but
Speaker 1: they still have more guys behind that. As far as personnel,
Speaker 1: one of the lowest eleven personnel groupings in the National
Speaker 1: Football League just forty seven percent of the time. That
Speaker 1: means often just two receivers on the field, hence these
Speaker 1: splits we just heard about. Twelve personnel is thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: You think it'd be higher, but here's why it's not.
Speaker 1: Because twenty personnel two backs, no tight ends is ten percent,
Speaker 1: But twenty one personnel with two backs and one tight end,
Speaker 1: which is often Patrick Ricard and Isaiah likely is twenty
Speaker 1: four percent that by far leads the National Football League
Speaker 1: twenty two personnel, two tight ends, two backs is four percent. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a lot going to be a challenge, guys, because
Speaker 1: we know how Lamar runs with the football, right, scrambles,
Speaker 1: zone read, RPO, quarterback power like everything's on the table
Speaker 1: with this damn guy. And early in his career it
Speaker 1: was keep him in the pocket, force him to stand
Speaker 1: and scan. And even though that was tough, if you
Speaker 1: got bad Lamar, he was still able to kill you
Speaker 1: with his legs or a couple of explosive plays on
Speaker 1: broken plays in the passing game. But guess what. He
Speaker 1: has improved his willingness to stay in there. He's scrambling
Speaker 1: to throw more. He's improved the touch and layering throws
Speaker 1: in that second level. And this Dolphins defense has probably
Speaker 1: been the best in the NFL since Jalen Ramsey came
Speaker 1: back top three minimum. But this is the test. This
Speaker 1: is the game that you built this dominant defense for
Speaker 1: vic Fangio four for games like this. So the other
Speaker 1: element they have is that when Lamar breaks the pocket,
Speaker 1: now he has playmakers on the perimeter to break off
Speaker 1: and make explosive plays, and it's not even exclusive to
Speaker 1: the off schedule stuff. They can dial up these slow
Speaker 1: developing routes because Lamar can buy time inside the pocket
Speaker 1: by showing that short area mobility. Like the game I watched,
Speaker 1: one of the games I watched, the Lions have mercy,
Speaker 1: want to SmackDown. That was and Lamar was consistently getting
Speaker 1: to the backside of what I assume our three and
Speaker 1: four regions progressions because the Lions could not get any
Speaker 1: pressure on him, and then it would go out the
Speaker 1: gate with the say Flowers or Odell Beckham or Isaiah
Speaker 1: Likely you catch a slight break that Keat Mitchell's down
Speaker 1: because he's an explosive element of the offense. He's out.
Speaker 1: But man, this roster like ours, it's good. It's deep
Speaker 1: everywhere because Justice Hill can play. Gus Edwards has some
Speaker 1: as my man Seth Level would say, some ish to him.
Speaker 1: I was trying to find games against similar systems for Lamar,
Speaker 1: and there's only one game against a Fangio descendant this year.
Speaker 1: Is that the right word Fangio disciple is at the
Speaker 1: Chargers back in week thirteen. Who's now been fired actually
Speaker 1: in Brandon Staley, but Lamar was eighteen for thirty two
Speaker 1: for one seventy seven and a touchdown pass and an
Speaker 1: eighty two point four passer rating, his lowest of the season.
Speaker 1: That's not very good. The thing the Chargers did so
Speaker 1: well was threefold and not dissimilar from their game plan
Speaker 1: against US last year. Lots of two man pressed to
Speaker 1: negate the timing of the offense. They defended the run
Speaker 1: and contain Lamar pretty successfully. He didn't hit the big
Speaker 1: plays in the passing game offscript, and if you limited
Speaker 1: to just running plays for big plays, then you have
Speaker 1: a chance. It's when he does both that you're dead
Speaker 1: in the water. And I think Lamar was just a
Speaker 1: bit off, which happens for every quarterback sometimes. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it's a replicatable plan. I'm not sure there
Speaker 1: is a great plan for this guy, because, like Vic
Speaker 1: always says, you have to defend the play they called
Speaker 1: and the scramble stuff a second play after it all
Speaker 1: breaks down, hopefully, And I'm optimistic here because he looked
Speaker 1: good at practice that we see Javon Holland this week.
Speaker 1: He was back out there getting some good work in.
Speaker 1: He and Deshaun Elliott's range and physicality and coverage and
Speaker 1: their discipline and their communication and the way they play together.
Speaker 1: I think makes a huge difference. If you get Javon
Speaker 1: back and Kyle Hamilton's down, that's like maybe a touchdown
Speaker 1: swing Like I'm not even joking about that if you
Speaker 1: can get it. But plus, I always think back to
Speaker 1: that third down open field tackle Javon had in Buffalo
Speaker 1: last December on Josh Allen. I like the speed of
Speaker 1: those guys, and then with Duke and David in the middle,
Speaker 1: we have the speed to compete there as well. And
Speaker 1: as much as I love their playmakers, I always like
Speaker 1: our guys when we can match up with five, twenty
Speaker 1: five and four at the corner position but nobody else please,
Speaker 1: And we've seen this defense is really about not traveling.
Speaker 1: It's not you don't match up specifically. You can get
Speaker 1: into that within the game, but by and large, it's
Speaker 1: about the scheme and the way it functions together. I
Speaker 1: like the way that ck at Chris or at ck
Speaker 1: Parrott on Twitter said, do you want to make your
Speaker 1: game plan for Ceedee Lamb or for Dak Prescott. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty obvious answer there. I think fanjo has proven
Speaker 1: for oh I don't know, two decades, he's got a
Speaker 1: pretty good grasp on limiting elite quarterbacks. And we heard
Speaker 1: from coach McDaniel on Monday. He said, the beauty of
Speaker 1: this scheme is that the offense often has little idea
Speaker 1: what's coming before the ball is snapped. I think that's
Speaker 1: your only hope of hemming down Lamar's production. You have
Speaker 1: to give him a post snap picture that confuses him.
Speaker 1: You need to get into a second and third hitch.
Speaker 1: You need the best gap discipline you've had all year,
Speaker 1: and you have to finish your tackles with flowers. Sharp
Speaker 1: route runner can eat up one on ones, can really
Speaker 1: hit the gas to run away from you. Beckham's still
Speaker 1: one of the top route runners in the entire National
Speaker 1: Football League. All of it to me says you can't
Speaker 1: really play man because of that and his threat of
Speaker 1: the run. But we play lots of zone anyway, So
Speaker 1: maybe it works out with Isaiah likely. I mean, they
Speaker 1: lose Mark Andrews and there's almost no drop off there
Speaker 1: because this guy's big, physical, has long speed, he's shifty,
Speaker 1: he can run through you like he makes you miss
Speaker 1: in space. He's a great player. And then Rashaan Bateman,
Speaker 1: he's okay when we saw him go for seventy five
Speaker 1: yards on the slant last year against US. Like I said,
Speaker 1: huge test, But if anyone's up for it, it's this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. Before we get into the matchups. Down on
Speaker 1: the trenches, some numbers here the coverages the Ravens have
Speaker 1: seen the most of twenty three percent Cover one, only
Speaker 1: five teams have seen more. That's more hats in the box.
Speaker 1: That's the running game. Coverage Cover three thirty eight percent,
Speaker 1: only seven teams have seen more. That's a deep defense.
Speaker 1: Take away the deep shot mold or type of defense.
Speaker 1: Cover two six percent, nobody sees less. And then thirteen
Speaker 1: percent quarters and seven percent Cover six. These two coverage
Speaker 1: we play a lot of. That could be your fashion here.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what looks like maybe a
Speaker 1: lot of Cover one with Javon Holland roaming down in
Speaker 1: the box. We'll see some more numbers here so that
Speaker 1: deep cover three look twenty plus yard air throws this
Speaker 1: year not their game sixteen for fifty six terrible five
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight yards, four touchdowns, two picks, just
Speaker 1: a seventy six passer rating. Now where he Eats is
Speaker 1: extending plays and finding guys on horizontal runs after the catch.
Speaker 1: He's in that ten to nineteen yard range. He's seventy
Speaker 1: two percent sixty eight for ninety four one thousand, seventy
Speaker 1: three yards and nine touchdowns to no picks in a
Speaker 1: passer rating of one to forty best in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, which is kind of crazy because teams are
Speaker 1: playing those cover one, cover three looks where against your
Speaker 1: cover one you invite the deep shots and against cover three,
Speaker 1: well that's a defense you want to run the football,
Speaker 1: all right, So interesting splits there, and to cap it off,
Speaker 1: Agalar and likely their top two guys inside Andrews was
Speaker 1: that guy eighty percent, but they're down to seventy four percent.
Speaker 1: Agalar fifty five percent likely, but he runs forty percent
Speaker 1: of his rouse inside on the on the attached to
Speaker 1: why so it's kind of that's slot as well. But
Speaker 1: Man eleven point five yards after the catch on average
Speaker 1: as a team, the best run after catch team in football.
Speaker 1: Their past block efficiency scores Stanley and Moses are ninety
Speaker 1: four point five and ninety six point six on the
Speaker 1: perimeter inside. Nobody's lower than ninety eight in fact, Simpson
Speaker 1: and Zeiler, the two guards are both ninety eight flat
Speaker 1: and linderbamas ninety eight point four. I think this number
Speaker 1: is indicative of the team's strength on the interior of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. That's where their best. But also when
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback like Lamar, you kind of squeeze
Speaker 1: it and you keep those gaps tighter because if you
Speaker 1: went off the edge and sacrifice your help off the edge,
Speaker 1: those are easier rushers to make miss and he does
Speaker 1: it so well. So the thing from Miami I love
Speaker 1: here is that Chubb and Gink are both a great
Speaker 1: combination of fast and big enough to run through things,
Speaker 1: but also they have such good eyes that really help
Speaker 1: them key the quarterback and not get overextended beyond the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, I laud Wilkins and Sealer for the
Speaker 1: way they keep their eyes in the quarterback for the
Speaker 1: last five years now while playing through their blocks. And
Speaker 1: quite frankly, if you can give it to Dallas and
Speaker 1: the way Zack Steeler whipped the crap Tyler Smith, one
Speaker 1: of the best guards in football, And the way that
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, a future Hall of Famer, got his ass
Speaker 1: handed to him by Christian Wilkins, even though he was
Speaker 1: getting through some things there. If you can do that
Speaker 1: to those guys, you can definitely do it to these guys.
Speaker 1: But you have to earn a chance to do that.
Speaker 1: And how do you do that? Well, you guys know
Speaker 1: the drill. You have to stop the run, which is
Speaker 1: obviously a challenge when the quarterback can pull it out
Speaker 1: and take it around the end himself for seventy five yards.
Speaker 1: David Long and Duke Riwley have played awesome together. You
Speaker 1: need that again here. The Ravens are tops in the
Speaker 1: NFL running the football versus light boxes, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: try that. But those guys ability to beat blocks and
Speaker 1: make plays will go a long way towards winning. When
Speaker 1: it's Justice Hill, you probably get more outside stuff, screen game,
Speaker 1: more speed and with Gus Edwards wants to get north
Speaker 1: and south and be that hammer. What a fun matchup.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting a long time to play games like these,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I think this is a primer for
Speaker 1: a rematch in January, hopefully down here this time. But
Speaker 1: what's at stake in this game? Probably the last time
Speaker 1: need this segment, and truthfully probably don't even need it here.
Speaker 1: But with the win, the lowest you can finish in
Speaker 1: the AFC is second place. That's the old first first
Speaker 1: round by range. Remember kids few years ago, you get
Speaker 1: a first round by for getting the second place in
Speaker 1: the conference. But even then, a win keeps you in
Speaker 1: position to get that buy if you can beat Buffalo
Speaker 1: or a Ravens lost Week eighteam with aint losim to
Speaker 1: the Steelers. We agree upon that right. A loss makes
Speaker 1: Week eighteen the difference between the two seed and the
Speaker 1: six seed. Most likely Buffalo, who could lose to New England,
Speaker 1: and Cleveland could lose to both the Jets and the
Speaker 1: Bengals to give us the five. But yeah, that's basically
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. I think if you win
Speaker 1: this game, you come out on the other side as
Speaker 1: Super Bowl favorites. Doesn't matter. But it is a hat
Speaker 1: and T shirt game. It's a game where you can
Speaker 1: guarantee that the next time you leave South Florida would
Speaker 1: be the championship round. Minimum. My keys to victory you
Speaker 1: probably know him by now. Win when the Ravens go
Speaker 1: off script on offense, the best running quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: the best YAK average as a team, pretty simple there
Speaker 1: key Number two. Prevent the Ravens splash plays on defense.
Speaker 1: Simple again, fifty four sacks, twenty six takeaways. You cannot
Speaker 1: let them do that to you. San Francisco is in
Speaker 1: the game until they're barrage began, and then number three.
Speaker 1: Win on early downs offensively, and you can prevent number
Speaker 1: two by being sharp here at number three. Run the
Speaker 1: ball successfully. Get those chunk plays that we had against
Speaker 1: Dallas that kind of started those drives very tough due
Speaker 1: of off ball linebackers influenced them, and that strong front
Speaker 1: of the Ravens. Win on your early downs. My areas
Speaker 1: of concern their physicality inside, but also their ability to
Speaker 1: win off the edge on defense, their linebackers range going
Speaker 1: forward and backwards. Lamar Jackson, scramble and offscript ability more
Speaker 1: concerns than usual. Right Zay Flowers unbroken plays areas to exploit.
Speaker 1: If Hamilton's out, their slot and cover structure is not
Speaker 1: the same. Run them out of those heavy base fronts
Speaker 1: by getting the ball on the perimeter and then Lamar
Speaker 1: in the pocket. If he has an off game it
Speaker 1: does happen, that's an area to exploit as well. And
Speaker 1: my prediction, I'm very stuck here because I think these
Speaker 1: are the second and third best teams in football. I'm
Speaker 1: still sticking with the Niners as my top team because
Speaker 1: what do we not do here? We don't trash our
Speaker 1: process because of one result, because we're smarter than that. Right.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember the Eagles preview podcast. I said
Speaker 1: we'd win if Carnor Williams played, and he did not,
Speaker 1: so I changed it to a loss bummer. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to go in the exact same direction here with
Speaker 1: the Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton. With Kyle Hamilton, I'm going
Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty Baltimore Without him, I'm going Dolphins
Speaker 1: twenty seven Baltimore twenty three. That's your podcast Tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: Great Daniel Oyafusi, the Baltimore native, will be on the
Speaker 1: show talking about this game. On Friday, Charles Davis plenty
Speaker 1: to come your way here on the Draft Time Podcast
Speaker 1: in a fun week of shows getting ready for the
Speaker 1: biggest game the franchise has played in a very very
Speaker 1: long time. In the meantime, you all please be sure
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Speaker 1: next time. Finn's up, Caroline and Cameron that is coming
Speaker 1: home to an empty house tonight