WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Ravens Week 17 Preview 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.880 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:09.360 your pulse if you're not far of what is up? 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.240 Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:18.119 the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.279 How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.040 And on today's show, I'm quite certain we have not 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.440 had a preview show for a game of this magnitude. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.560 And yes we have done a playoff game before, but 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.960 come on, come on, baby, you know it's a bigger one. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.559 We're breaking down the top two teams in the AFC, 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.960 how they match up, how the Dolphins can win, the 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.440 critical matchups, keys to victory, intriguing numbers, what's at stake, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.320 the prediction, all of that and so much more from 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.559 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:55.840 This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maggie dafir So, the 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.680 wife and kids went back home for New Year's Eve. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.680 I guess to celebrate Christmas with the family back in 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.000 the Pacific Northwest, And so after this podcast, I'm going 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.040 home to an empty house for the first time and like, 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.400 I don't know, like two years. It's I think it's 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.960 been a little bit sad to miss them, but also 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.360 pretty excited to do absolutely nothing all day, every day 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.920 for a few days. I'm sure the fellow fathers out 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.240 there could understand how that goes. But let's talk about 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.959 a big football game here and go ahead and start 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.160 with the opening introduction to the Baltimore Ravens before we 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.720 do that, because this could be the last road trip 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.880 of the season outside of a potential neutral site game 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.839 at the very end of everything. As Uncle Dan said, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.000 we'll get better at golf after the Super Bowl, right, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.720 But if you keep winning, that's what it means. And again, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.160 I made sort of a habit of doing this with 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.000 a weather reportsin since we're on the road and it's 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.720 not going to be seventy five degrees and Sunday like 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.840 it is in South Florida every day this time of year. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.320 Partly cloudy, seven mile an hour wins, five percent chance 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.520 of rain, and high of forty nine. Can't ask for 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.360 much more than that. If there's one good thing about 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.000 climate change, it's that it means fewer cold weather games 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.680 for the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and meet the 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.280 Baltimore Ravens here. We're gonna have Charles Davis in the 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.440 podcast this week. In spoiler, it has already been recorded, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.480 and he talked about big game experience and managing emotions 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.560 on a week to week basis. He even made the 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.239 great point that this is a business as usual game 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.160 for Baltimore. They've been here now. They have had postseason 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.320 failures recently, especially with that quarterback, which wasn't always the 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.760 case in John Harbaugh's career. They're one to three in 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.440 their last four playoff games, and they missed the postseason 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.520 two years ago, which usually doesn't happen for the Baltimore Ravens, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.200 and Lamar ended that year with an injury, same thing 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.320 as last year, but Tyler Huntley won them enough games 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.000 to make it into the postseason and almost beat the 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.639 Bengals in that wild card roun game. So it starts 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.400 at top with the aforementioned John Harbaugh, one of the 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.280 best coaches in the National Football League, a special teams 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.440 coach by Trey, but just a great leader of men. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.560 A la a Mike Tomlin, a lah a Mike McDaniel. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.080 Ozzie knew someone was probably the best GM in the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.040 league for a decade plus and then he turns things 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.840 over to Eric DaCosta and then ends up taking a 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.360 secondary role, which he wasn't supposed to do, but he 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.360 does that. And now he and DaCosta are basically freaking 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.320 jobs in Wozniak. I mean, they're incredible. They know what 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.800 a Baltimore Raven is and they draft them accordingly. Now, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.240 the landscape of their approach changed entirely when they went 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.240 from L Flacco L Fluco, who is forty seven years 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.320 old right now, ball them for the Cleveland Browns, which 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.520 is crazy to me. And remember that, you know what, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.480 quick aside, remember last year when I praised the game 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.280 that Joe Flacco had in that week eighteen eleven to 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.400 six game, not because he had a monster game, but 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.360 because there were like eight plays where Miami had him 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.840 in the grasp within one point eight seconds and the 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.920 ball would still get out somehow. And sometimes you've ben 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.840 complete those passes. Why is Joe Flacco still playing? Well? 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.160 What the hell's going on with that guy? What did 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.600 he did he find? Tom Brady's like snake oil. I 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.560 don't know, oh man. So the landscape of that football 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.480 team changed when they turned to a rookie Lamar Jackson 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.840 back in twenty eighteen, and they were fluttering that year 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.160 until he came in, and then I think he went 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.160 like six and two down the stretch and took him 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.680 to the playoffs. And then the next year they had 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.640 that MVP season fourteen to two. But that year they 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.240 moved up to thirty second in the draft. Member four 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.000 quarterbacks were selected ahead of this guy. And I never 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.359 knew how you watched Louisville tape and thought he was 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.040 the fifth best quarterback in that class. I was a 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.880 huge Josh Allen fan. I was also a huge Baker 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.240 Mayfield fan, but I was also a huge Lamar Jackson fan. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.080 Was not so much Rosen and Darnold. Sometime you get 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.120 it right, but you know what a class that was 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.479 for the Ravens in general. They get Hayden Hurst, who 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.680 the Ravens even thought was worth picking over Lamar Jackson. Right, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.160 They get Lamar next Orlando Brown, junior, Mark Andrews to 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.000 Sean Elliott, Zach Seeler, and only Andrews remains on that 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.040 team and he's on IR So that class is Lamar 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.279 right now for the Ravens. But that's the thing about 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.360 their drafts. They get return value for a as they 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.000 move on from whether it's compicks or trading Hollywood Brown 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.400 for a first round pick in twenty nineteen, Who was 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.440 you know later repurpose to the Cardinals for that first 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.760 round draft pick? Go to twenty twenty, Patrick Queen, JK. Dobbins, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.560 Justin Matdabweke, Devin Duverney. You guys remember having a punt 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.960 return or a rather opening kickoff return for a touchdown 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.479 in the Week two game last year, Gino Stone? How 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 about the next year in twenty twenty one, Rashad Bateman. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.200 He caught a seventy five yard touchdown reception against us 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:28.039 o'daffe Oway. Fantastic pass rusher, Ben Cleveland, Brandon Stevens twenty 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.320 twenty two, Kyle Hamilton the best safety the NFL for 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.120 my money. Tyler Linderbaum, a surefire lockdown center prospect that 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.160 is playing like it. Travis Jones, Isaiah likely this year's 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.880 Theay Flowers. I mean, who remember the draft exercise we 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.720 did during the bye week to kind of measure up 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.040 Chris career against the rest of the NFL since he 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.479 got the GM job back in twenty sixteen. The Ravens 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.480 and the Saints were the only teams higher than the 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.920 Miami Dolphins on that list, and then they add key 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.320 veteran parts that fit their program too, because they know 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.920 what they want, kind of like the Miami Dolphins. In fact, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.279 keep a lookout for tomorrow's podcast. I'm gonna do a 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.240 fun segment talking about Chris Career and Durham Smyth and 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.960 how those two have proven together this year, how good 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.960 of a GM Chris Greer is. Stay tuned for that. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.799 But like Kalais Campbell for instance, like he's not there anymore. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.200 But was there ever a player that screamed Baltimore raven 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.560 more than Kalais Campbell? I liked a good talk of 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.080 a quarterback, like his big booming voice, and I just 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:28.640 made him sound like he's you know yeah. But guys 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.640 that just look like Baltimore Ravens and talk like Baltimore Ravens, 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.960 you know, Patrick Ricard, Gus Edwards, Morgan, Moses, even his 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.479 name sounds like Baltimore Ravens. Michael Pierce, who was actually 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.200 drafted the same year as Ronnie Stanley back in twenty sixteen, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.920 the two old heads and then he left and came back. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.200 They signed Kevin Zeitler away from rival Cincinnati. The Rokwan 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.960 Smith trade maybe the most raven ever since Kalais Campbell. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.159 At least you got the idea. It's a college style 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.920 powerhouse that replaces and repulnishes its whole roster every couple 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.960 of years to dominate the NFL. It's crazy, key cogs 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.320 replace the other parts. Well coached, aggressive, adaptive to the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.760 modern game. There's a reason that nobody else in the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.680 NFL has as many wins as the Baltimore Ravens. They 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.320 are a phenomenal, phenomenal football team. How about the storylines 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.360 for this one, because they are a plenty. Had to 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.040 kind of narrow them down here, But I start with 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.200 this one because I'm so intrigued by this, and I 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.480 asked Charles Davis about this, and you'll find that on 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.200 the Friday Podcast with Charles Davis the Week seventeen Variety Show. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.960 Is both of these football teams coming off the biggest 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.640 win of the year for them, right because the Ravens, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:40.080 and I kind of get intrigued by the clapback they're 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.480 doing to Mike Florio and other members of the media 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.480 as if to say, like, this was the game we 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:46.880 geared up for. This was a kind of a super 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.280 Bowl matchup for us, and we're gonna bring our best 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.840 and prove you all wrong. Can you match that juice 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.080 the following week? I tend to think you can't. Like 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.760 it's very difficult to do now. This time of year 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.840 is a little bit different, but I think that human 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.000 nature dictates that you don't always have that same level 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.640 of motor quick aside. Travis's sports career, high school basketball 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.320 in eastern Washington for a where it's basically kids that 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.840 look like me, you know, not the best basketball players. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.280 But my senior year, we were playing our rival high school, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.160 cross town Kenwick High School, and we needed to beat 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.920 them because we were like a middling team trying to 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.720 get into the playoffs. We knew that going in we 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.080 weren't like the best team in the league, but we 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.400 had to beat Kennewick because it was a matchup that 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.080 we just need to get a dub on our schedule. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.440 And remember being so charged up, Like our first play 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.000 of the game, first play the season, I ran this, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.720 you know, I got into the offense. I was a 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.680 point guard, got the dish off to someone for a 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.200 three pointer, cashit, and I was like, whoa whoa like fire, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.040 let's play some defense points. That's fire up. Now. We 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.160 lost the game by a few points, but the very 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.960 next night we traveled to Eisenhower High School and had 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.600 nowhere near the same energy, and after like a four 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.760 point loss, lost by like twenty seven. So I just 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.920 think it's human nature that you can't possibly match that 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.200 energy for consecutive weeks. For the Miami Dolphins, they're coming 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.240 off a huge win as well, So who can find 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.000 the closest replicated energy that they provided in the Dallas 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.000 game and come out and punch their team in the 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.760 mouth and have more effort and just play harder and better. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.600 And I think the team that does that will find 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.200 a way to win. For the Ravens, this is a 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.480 real thing. Man short week with a long night's travel. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.720 On Monday night, the game ended, I was tracking this. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.680 I was hoping that Sam Darnold could lead back the 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.400 Niners and tie the game up and make it an 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.240 overtime game because the game was already getting late. But 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.320 obviously more snaps played impacts you know the next game, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.240 next week's effort. Like last year when the Dolphins had 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.400 eighty four snaps on defense against Buffalo, and then had 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.720 to go to Cincinnati for a short week. Like, there's 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.480 a reason that in the fourth quarter of the Bengals 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.280 just wore us out in that game and we couldn't 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.199 get a whole lot done because they had no gas left, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.360 no juice left. For the Ravens. They played against the 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.560 Niners and a tough, you know, physical team, and they 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.360 played sixty eight snaps on defense, and they flew across 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.360 the country and that game ended right before midnight, so 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.600 they're probably not getting on the plane till about two am. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.200 They probably didn't get off the plane in Baltimore until 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.120 like eight am. By that point, Mike McDaniels already had 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.760 five hours of game prep and film watching here in 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.080 the building. So short week. That's a tall ass, man, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.679 It's a tall ass turn around that fast. Other key storylines, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.200 the Ravens off a game against the offense that most 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.840 closely resembles ours. Right. I find this so fascinating. They 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.960 just faced a Shanahan offense, right, the Shanahan offense. Well, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.080 this week there's another one, and of course McDaniel's got 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.439 the exact same offense, but seventeen years together, a little 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.080 bit rubs off is it a benefit to Miami? Is 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.720 it a benefit to Baltimore? I'm gonna ask Charles Davis 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.679 that question on Friday. Next storyline, the winner is in 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.000 the driver's seat for the one seed, but also the 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.880 unanimous best team in football, which doesn't matter power rankings? 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.480 Who cares? And also, real quick, hey, Colin Cowherd eats 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.000 because you guys retweet him, don't give him the time 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.040 of day. And I get the aggregators in our industry, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.920 the guys in the beat that want to get the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.560 tweets off, and they show all the videos and all 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.880 the leaks and all the stuff. I get it. There's 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.680 money to be made in that progress. But can we 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.320 just let him die? Like he's doing this on purpose? Guys, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.560 just leave it alone. He's a jackwagon like he's not. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.199 He's not someone you concern yourself with. He doesn't know 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.839 what he's talking about. Who cares about power rankings? But 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.960 the winner of this game will emerge as the favorites 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.080 for the Super Bowl? Right, And that's that's kind of cool. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.600 I guess, I don't know. But more importantly, the Ravens 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.960 are already clinched a top two seed barring a Cleveland miracle, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.920 So I guess I shouldn't say clinched already, but unofficially, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.120 if they lose both their games and Cleveland wins both 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.800 their games, then the North goes to the Browns. But 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.640 I don't think it's gonna happen. So Baltimore's not losing 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.440 to Pittsburgh in week eighteen and Cleveland I don't think 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.600 I win both their games either, so either way, but we, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.680 on the other hand, could slide as far as the 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.720 sixth seed if we lose out. But a win in 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.120 this game or next week means no lower than the 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.920 two seed, and that means you're not going on the 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.000 road until at least Championship weekend, maybe even the Super 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.760 Bowl at best. The reunions here, So Lamar not quite 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.720 a South Florida native, but he was a Palm Beach 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.720 guy or Pompino Beach right, the closest team to him 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.640 in the National Football League. Zach and Deshaum are both 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.440 draft picks of the Ravens. George god Sees the tight 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.720 end coach there, and Vic Fangio was a linebacker coach 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.760 in two thousand and nine. So that's your storylines and 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.959 introduction to a very very good Ravens team. Let's go 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.920 ahead and spin at four now to the tape, and 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.920 let's go ahead and get down to the matchup tables 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.360 here before our first break. So for the Ravens, a key, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.560 key injury that will be tracking all week long. In fact, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.720 I don't have the injury report for Wednesday just yet. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.079 I would have to imagine he did not practice, but 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.120 I don't have that information at my disposal just yet. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.360 Kyle Hamilton ninety one percent snaps, Marcus Williams, the other safety, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 plays fifty percent, and Gino Stone plays eighty one percent. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.880 So Stone is supposed to be the third safety and 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.800 he is right now. But since Williams missed some time, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.480 he filled in, and when Hamilton went down against the Niners, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.520 he filled in that role as well. So three safeties 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.559 all can play their corners. Really, if they get into 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.120 their depth, it's a struggle, but gosh, they're good up top. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.560 Marlon Humphrey is the top perimeter guy, but he's only 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.240 played a half the snaps this year because he missed 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.640 so much time. But Brandon Stevens has turned into a 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.280 very good like lockdown number two, maybe even number one 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.480 cornerback plays a very physical brand of football zone turned 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.280 good job out of the break. And then their interior 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.040 guy is either Ronald Darby who's played a little bit, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.000 but also Arthur Malette, who's a kind of a more 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.960 of a fit, I would say in that position. But 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.840 either way, one of those guys will get slot reps. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.000 If anybody goes down. It kind of throws the whole 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.400 rotation into a bit of a into a kind of 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.120 a mess almost because they don't have the additional bodies there. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.120 But up front, the depth is the good. So justin 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.199 Mattabueke sixty seven percent snap taker all. He leads all 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.240 defensive tackles and sacks this season, and he plays alongside 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.880 Michael Pierce, who is the biggest man in the National 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.360 Football League. He's a three hundred and fifty pounds beast. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.760 Broderick Joe, or rather Broderick Washington plays thirty four percent 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.520 of the snaps, and then Travis Jones, a Yukon grad 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.920 who is quick as all get out, thirty seven percent 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.520 of the snaps up front off the edge. It kind 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.200 of reminds me of the Flores teams down here, like 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.480 ogbab builds Odafe always played thirty nine percent. He's missed 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.520 some time this season, but Jadavian Clowney's having maybe the 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.880 best year of his entire career. Another guy that just 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.200 looks like a freaking raven, right, but they're so big 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.600 and so long. And then Kyle van nid Duh like 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.960 forty one percent of the snaps, and then Brent Urbans 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.920 played twenty two percent, and then off ball linebacker Rokwan 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.640 Smith ninety eight percent, Patrick Queen ninety eight percent. Defense 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.640 is loaded, guys. We have our hands full. It's a 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.160 big time matchup physicality against speed, but Miami also has 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.200 their own physicality. Kyle Hamilton, it's worth noting that if 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.920 he misses the game, like he's their top slot guy. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.320 He plays four hundred and eighty snaps in the slot. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.960 He's their top blitzing defensive back. Nobody else comes close 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.320 to his blitz production. He's a center field, rangey safety 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.720 who can pick off Brock Purdy in the end zone like. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.760 He does everything so well. If he misses the game, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.920 it's a huge, huge loss for them. Patrick Queen was 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.480 in and out of the game on Monday with a 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.280 shoulder injury, and I thought he was gonna be test 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.160 for a while, but sounds like he's gonna be just fine. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.040 And then the guys they already have out are David 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.760 Ajabo and our Darius Washington, a rusher and a defensive 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.320 back for the Ravens. Their personnel usage, let's go ahead 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.520 and do some numbers here before we get into the 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.040 actual nitty gritty of the tape. For the Baltimore Ravens, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.400 so they run their three four sixteen percent of the time, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.640 and they run their nickel package eighty two percent of 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.840 the time. And there's some heavy personnel and there's some 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.560 diamond there, but that is a what is that ninety 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.000 eight percent there for? Right? No, yeah, ninety eight percent 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.080 usage of there nickel and three four they blitz just 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.120 twenty three percent of the time. That's twenty second the 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.400 National Football League. Primarily on third downs, they'll often bring 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.520 a defensive back Kyle Hamilton Arthur Malette and drop a 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.160 rusher back into the hook. Like you have to be 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.880 aware of your fronts and your coverage and how they 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.480 marry and how they could possibly switch aspects of who 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.160 rushes and who drops back. But their pressure rate is 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.720 twenty percent, which is actually just twenty third so really, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.760 in terms volume, the pressures are not that great. However, 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.680 fifty four sacks leads the National Football League, two more 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.840 than your Miami Dolphins. When they get pressure, it typically 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.880 impacts the game. So between fifty four sacks and twenty 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.600 six takeaways, both league leading, you have to prevent this 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.920 defense from making their splash plays. Sixteen point three points 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.600 allowed points allowed per game, that's also tops, and for posterity, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.760 thirty six percent allowed on third down is fifth best. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.400 It's the best defense in the NFL. Guys, Miami might 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.800 have a case for that as well, but Baltimore right 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.120 now is the top defense. Let's go ahead and get 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.680 to know them on the tape on the other side 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.440 of our first break here, that's next Draft Time podcast, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.520 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.160 picking it back up previewing Dolphins and Ravens, the biggest 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.120 game on the National Football League schedule this season in 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.360 terms of what it might mean for playoff seeding. Let's 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.960 go ahead and get more into this Ravens defense. So 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.280 it's a great unit. How do they do it well? 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.440 Mike McDonald is quite frankly, nothing short of a defensive genius. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.480 And he's been helping the Hardbaughs for quite some time now. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.639 He was an intern with the Ravens back in twenty 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.720 fourteen before getting promoted to defensive assistant, then position coach. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.000 Then he jumps positions before leaving to Michigan to run 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.320 Jim's defense for a year, but then one year later 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.680 right back to John to run his defense and replace 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.560 Wink Martindale. And he's changing up. It's not blitz heavy, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:32.000 it's not the same attack attack approach of Wink Martindale, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.879 and it's been a lot better. And what you get 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.080 is an ever evolving picture. You never get the same 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.320 coverage twice in a row. You get different blitzers coming 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.800 from the same package on different types of snaps. Let's 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.800 put it this way, Tua has his work cut out 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.520 for him one of the smartest, most intellectual approaches of 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.719 the game at quarterback, and Tua is going to have 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.359 to really prove that he's strong in that area. That's why, Spoiler, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.000 one of the keys here is going to be to 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.520 just prevent the Ravens defense from making splash plays. If 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.120 you can do that, you will at least be in 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.440 this game at the end of the fourth quarter Because 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.160 teams average starting field position against the Ravens is their 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.320 own twenty seven point one yard line. That's fifth lowest. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.000 But see here's where you really get the impact of 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.840 the defense. Their offense has the best average starting field 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.119 position in the National Football League by more than a 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.000 full yard thirty two point five yard line average start position. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.760 The gap between them and the second place team in 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.879 that regard is the same as the gap between second 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.320 place and twelfth place, so they dominate the field position battle. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.879 They're always good on special teams, but the sacks and 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.280 the takeaways they get the hidden yardage that puts the 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.199 offense in advantageous situations backs you up on defense. But 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.160 also Miami does the same thing too, fifty two sacks 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.480 their help. Our average starting field position is fifth at 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.879 the thirty point three yard line. I want to take 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.280 a look at two games of the Ravens, the forty 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.520 nine ers and the Rams games, the two offenses that 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.920 most closely resemble what the Dolphins do from a structure 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.879 and philosophy standpoint. So first was curious to look at 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.320 zone versus man because the way the Ravens can play 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.560 with physicality all across the defensive line with huge defensive tackles, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.120 long and strong edges. They meet you where you are. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.800 I thought Dallas did some of that, especially against our 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.840 jet sweep action and our toss game and reverse game 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.040 end around all that stuff. And we have to be 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.280 so much better in this one than we were in 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.359 that one, because these guys are even better and they 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.680