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Speaker 1: on today's show, we are back for our first Wednesday
Speaker 1: show in a few weeks. Back to the five days
Speaker 1: a week type of schedule. It's time to get caught
Speaker 1: up on the five things I think as we look
Speaker 1: at five big picture thoughts here heading into the home
Speaker 1: stretch of the season, just three games to go plus playoffs.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll also hear from some players and some really
Speaker 1: good Monday Media availabilities in to Ron Armstead, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and Javon holland all of that and more from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is we dive right in here off the top with
Speaker 1: five big picture observations, and I think we start right
Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday, December twenty one, offensive Line and
Speaker 1: Run game. I don't know what the title or the
Speaker 1: takeaway is here other than the fact that it was
Speaker 1: really good and I think it could keep getting better.
Speaker 1: And then we talked about it on Tuesday. But man,
Speaker 1: the number of reps we had in that game where
Speaker 1: it was hat on a hat across the board, the
Speaker 1: number of reps where we successfully climbed to the second level,
Speaker 1: the number of reps we had guys seal off gaps
Speaker 1: that are not easily sealed off, and by that I
Speaker 1: mean you have to hit a reach, you have to
Speaker 1: throw that big butt into the gap that you're not
Speaker 1: in previously and wall off defender all while keeping him
Speaker 1: at bay. Happened over and over and over again, and
Speaker 1: in fact, just out of curiosity, I wanted to look
Speaker 1: something up as I wrote the script, and I was
Speaker 1: able to quickly confirm a hypothesis. I thought, maybe, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe Matt Mulano and Tremaine Edmonds arguably the second best
Speaker 1: off ball linebacker duo in the National Football League because
Speaker 1: San Francisco has that top spot notched. Matt Milano had
Speaker 1: his lowest PF grade against the run of the season,
Speaker 1: and it's hardly a knock on him. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a guy that's potentially a defensive Player of the Year Canaida.
Speaker 1: He's having a great year and a great player with
Speaker 1: a career year. Tremaine Edmunds not the lowest, but the
Speaker 1: third lowest of the year for him, again, another really
Speaker 1: damn good player who we did a good job on.
Speaker 1: And look, we don't take PF grades here all that. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I love their data and their stats with the grades
Speaker 1: they had to as the second lowest graded player on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense in the game on Saturday, what and
Speaker 1: you know, Mike McDaniel mentioned the grade on Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: and how that's one of the ones that matched up
Speaker 1: with the grades of the Dolphins staff had. But I
Speaker 1: think when you compare PFFS grades, so there are other
Speaker 1: grades that should be a baseline you can measure right
Speaker 1: either way. I guess what I'm trying to say is
Speaker 1: I'm not using those as the end all be all,
Speaker 1: but it does jive with what you saw on tape
Speaker 1: and how Miami was able to get a couple of
Speaker 1: bad players to have are good players rather to have
Speaker 1: bad games. But you don't need that to know the
Speaker 1: line played really well, right six pressures allowed seven point
Speaker 1: five yards per rush and two of those pressures came
Speaker 1: from a tight end position, So really good game in
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday. And individually, the three guys that
Speaker 1: have been stalwarts in terms of availability and snaps played
Speaker 1: have all been so good. All three have been in
Speaker 1: the top twelve in ESPNS categories run block win rate
Speaker 1: for Cornor Williams and Rob Hunt and pass rush or
Speaker 1: pass block win rate for Toron Armstead for the higher season.
Speaker 1: They've been durable to Ron has battled through some injuries
Speaker 1: and just produced at a high level despite that. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from toront On that here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But Toron's pass block efficiency this year is ninety eight
Speaker 1: point one, and among tackles with four hundred pass blocking snaps,
Speaker 1: that efficiency is fifth, only behind Tristan Worth's who's nine
Speaker 1: point five. That's a crazy number for the best right
Speaker 1: tackle on the National Football League. Larry mutunseil second, Juwan
Speaker 1: Taylor is third, and Jack Conklin is fourth, and then
Speaker 1: Big Tea Stead checks in at fifth. Rob Hunt at
Speaker 1: point two at his right guard position is thirteen among
Speaker 1: all guards. So we're talking about uh sixty four players
Speaker 1: here for these guys right fifth and thirteenth is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Out of four hundred pass block snaps minimum. PFF also
Speaker 1: charts Miami with twenty nine runs for one eight six
Speaker 1: behind right guard this year, and nobody else has played
Speaker 1: a staff at right guard besides Rob Hunt, so that's
Speaker 1: his statistics. Six point four yards per carry. Connor Williams
Speaker 1: is third amongst centers at nine point oh one of
Speaker 1: three centers in fact with the past block efficiency of
Speaker 1: ninety nine or better. The other two guys, Corey Linsley
Speaker 1: from the Chargers is number one, he just got a
Speaker 1: huge free agent contract this two off seasons ago, and
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey of the Eagles, who is probably the best
Speaker 1: center in the National Football League. Those three guys are
Speaker 1: the best in my opinion. Now, the other two spots
Speaker 1: have seen changes, but Shell and Jones have settled in
Speaker 1: pretty nicely. Since his first start the year against the Bears,
Speaker 1: Rob Jones has ten pressures allowed on two d and
Speaker 1: twenty eight pass blocking snaps. It's not the numbers of
Speaker 1: those other three guys, but that's more than good enough.
Speaker 1: When we talked about this offseason, an offensive line doesn't
Speaker 1: have to have five superstars. You just can't have tomato
Speaker 1: cans and multiple spots. I don't think Miami does right now.
Speaker 1: And brianon Shell at right tackle sixteen pressures on three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen pass block snaps. That's also over nine
Speaker 1: pass block efficiency and both have seen an uptick in
Speaker 1: rushing yardage into their gaps when they're in the game
Speaker 1: compared to their their counterparts are contemporaries on the team.
Speaker 1: And that's also a tribute to the backs in terms
Speaker 1: of the rushing production, who I thought had their best
Speaker 1: game of the year collectively. You know Raheem pulling through
Speaker 1: arm tackles and getting so many yards after contact. In fact,
Speaker 1: it was the most total yards after contact for a
Speaker 1: Miami back since j ag Im per Pff big runs,
Speaker 1: touchdowns and first downs. All three of those numbers from
Speaker 1: efficiency standpoint have increased this year compared to previous seasons
Speaker 1: at the running back position. If we can get that
Speaker 1: type of balance, man, I am excited to see where
Speaker 1: this offense can go over the final three games of
Speaker 1: the season, which brings us to thing I think number two,
Speaker 1: the money down, third down and if the running game
Speaker 1: is hitting a stride, and I think it's been something
Speaker 1: of a positive climb all year. You know, there were
Speaker 1: some moments where I didn't get going with the San
Speaker 1: Francisco game, didn't run it much versus Houston, but we
Speaker 1: start we saw it start to kind of hit a
Speaker 1: little bit back in the Bengals and Jets games, provided
Speaker 1: you know, some good balance over the winning street that
Speaker 1: we had hit that loll and then had its best
Speaker 1: performance of the year on Saturday night in Buffalo. And
Speaker 1: the reason I start with that prelude, the great Daniel
Speaker 1: oh Yafusi of the My Andy Harold shared some great
Speaker 1: stats on Tuesday on his timeline at Daniel O Yafusi
Speaker 1: about Miami's third down offense and it got me thinking
Speaker 1: about the money down in general. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start with the stats. So Miami are twenty one of
Speaker 1: forty nine on third and short this year that's three
Speaker 1: yards and shorter, that's forty two point nine percent. That's
Speaker 1: thirty second last in the NFL. However, on third and medium,
Speaker 1: which is four to six yards to gain, they're the
Speaker 1: best in football fifty eight point six percent. They convert
Speaker 1: si better with more yards to go on that situation.
Speaker 1: They're seventeen for twenty nine in those situations. On third
Speaker 1: and long seven plus yards, which again which is where
Speaker 1: we great quarterbacks, third and long, two minute fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: those are the most important elements for any quarterback in college.
Speaker 1: When when Scout's watched their tapes, best in football again,
Speaker 1: twenty six point eight percent twenty three out of eighty
Speaker 1: four on third and long for this Dolphins offense. And
Speaker 1: that kind of speaks to some of the earlier Wednesday
Speaker 1: shows we did this season, or we talked about signs
Speaker 1: of growth and improvement in various aspects like the running game,
Speaker 1: the point total matching, the offensive production we're getting in
Speaker 1: terms of yardage and conversions and all that stuff with
Speaker 1: a certain degree of belief and what the coaches and
Speaker 1: players are capable of on top of the typical production
Speaker 1: of an offense that moves the ball so well, like Miami,
Speaker 1: whose second in yards per play at six point two.
Speaker 1: And the thought I have here is that the more
Speaker 1: the sample size increases, more plays in those situations, the
Speaker 1: better that figure is going to get. Now, that's not
Speaker 1: a guarantee. I mean, it is only forty nine snaps
Speaker 1: out of however money we played this year, seven hundred
Speaker 1: whatever it is at this point nine, I don't know
Speaker 1: something like that, but you get the idea. It's it's
Speaker 1: a fraction of your total snaps, and so that gives
Speaker 1: you sample size variants, and once it increases, I believe
Speaker 1: that figure gets better. Even though it's not a guarantee.
Speaker 1: You can't just show up and it happens. Um. But
Speaker 1: that's some of the meat that's on the bone that
Speaker 1: gives me confidence this team will work on and improve
Speaker 1: upon and just get even better. It's why during the
Speaker 1: winning streak, I would see like my bar berber or
Speaker 1: my neighbor who's a big Dolphins fan, and they'd be like, man,
Speaker 1: you you were kind of right about this this offense
Speaker 1: in this passing game, and I'm like, it's just gonna
Speaker 1: keep getting better. And that's kind of one of the things,
Speaker 1: like they're so efficient and so productive that if you
Speaker 1: do that over a long enough period of time, the
Speaker 1: rest of the important stats will eventually catch up or
Speaker 1: even out. And maybe maybe they did a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, back to Earth a little bit after the
Speaker 1: five game winning streak. After that was a kind of
Speaker 1: raised bar from the prior production when the offense was
Speaker 1: clicking but not put enough points on the board. I
Speaker 1: think that kind of explains it, right, Like there's a
Speaker 1: baseline that you can expect, and when you produce at
Speaker 1: that high level, you'll get variants, but over a long
Speaker 1: enough timeline, eventually you'll be near that baseline expectation on
Speaker 1: a snap by snap basis for the important categories that
Speaker 1: can kind of fall by the wayside with a smaller
Speaker 1: variance and sample size. And if they do get that
Speaker 1: number higher the forty two point nine percent third and
Speaker 1: short conversion rate, well, you can sustain more drives, you
Speaker 1: can score more points. But doesn't it always seem like
Speaker 1: those things happen in plus territory, Like I'm thinking back
Speaker 1: to the game where we scored thirty plus all the
Speaker 1: games this year, and the only stops I really remember
Speaker 1: is like one or two punts in the Detroit and
Speaker 1: Chicago and Cleveland games and then a fourth down failure
Speaker 1: either approaching the red zone or in the high red zone,
Speaker 1: or you know, we get us help in a short
Speaker 1: field goal situation and miss that. So that's something I
Speaker 1: hope we get to see over the final three weeks
Speaker 1: and beyond, because I believe it can be done. You
Speaker 1: gotta go get it done. I think Miami can make
Speaker 1: a big stride in that department, even over just three
Speaker 1: games and into the postseason. And to drive this point
Speaker 1: home and to do what we did back before the
Speaker 1: Lions game, excuse me and the outburst of points the
Speaker 1: following four games of thirty one, thirty five, thirty nine,
Speaker 1: and thirty points. Let's go back to that. We looked
Speaker 1: at other teams who ranked in the top five annually
Speaker 1: in yards per play going back to remember that and
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins were the outlier in terms of the
Speaker 1: point scored. They had the lowest points per game of
Speaker 1: a team that averaged or a team that was in
Speaker 1: the top five and yards per play going back to
Speaker 1: eight team, Well, that sample size increased and the points
Speaker 1: total matched. The ability of the Dolphins to move the
Speaker 1: ball well, the other teams in the top five this
Speaker 1: season and yards per play and their third and short
Speaker 1: conversion rates. And I added Detroit here to give us
Speaker 1: five teams because they're six. Miami you know his second.
Speaker 1: So uh, let's pull another team into the top five.
Speaker 1: Kansas City is number one, and yards per play by
Speaker 1: actually a lot by by three tenths of a yard
Speaker 1: six point five. On short yardage third downs, they are
Speaker 1: twenty for fifty two, that's fifty solve better than Miami.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is third in yards per play, just six point
Speaker 1: one behind Miami six point two. They are thirty nine
Speaker 1: for sixty on short yardage this year on third down
Speaker 1: that's sixty. Philly is forty fifty eight, that's sixtent. They're
Speaker 1: a little bit different in the running game because they
Speaker 1: never fail on sneaks and j and hurts as a
Speaker 1: freaking that way. Seattle is thirty of forty seven, that's six,
Speaker 1: and Detroit's thirty forty nine, that's sixty one. So here's
Speaker 1: your top six teams and yards per play and their
Speaker 1: third and short conversion rate this year. Kansas City, Miami percent,
Speaker 1: Buffalo sixty five, Philly sixty nine, Seattle sixty four, Detroit
Speaker 1: sixty one. Do you see what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're gonna close that gap to all
Speaker 1: those teams, you know, sans Kansas City, who's ten percent
Speaker 1: back from you know, Buffalo and Seattle and Philly. But
Speaker 1: what if we can just get to KCS level. That's
Speaker 1: a twelve percent increase, which essentially means one more conversion
Speaker 1: per game, and maybe that's three more points per game.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's seven more points on a drive that extends
Speaker 1: and gets into the end zone backwards. Math was never
Speaker 1: my good suits in sales, but I think it tracks
Speaker 1: here in the podcast industry. Now. I wanted to give
Speaker 1: a bunch of data on defensive stats about third down,
Speaker 1: but I don't have a silver lining here because it's
Speaker 1: just been a struggle. Field position has suffered as a result,
Speaker 1: you know, minimal turnovers twenty nine in the NFL. In
Speaker 1: that department on third down defense, it's another thing that
Speaker 1: holds the offense back because you don't get the ball back,
Speaker 1: you can't go score points. So I do think the
Speaker 1: quarterback and the opponent in these last three games could
Speaker 1: see that stat give you an up swing it's been
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks. I mean this, this Dolphin schedule has been
Speaker 1: a murderers row of quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen twice,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Jared Goffs having a career year, Brock Purdy
Speaker 1: had a great game against US somehow, Herbert had his
Speaker 1: best game of the year against US justin fields. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of good quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: no slouch, yeah, but I mean I think that the
Speaker 1: final three opponents you could get a swinging back variance
Speaker 1: in the other direction. We'll see what Aaron Rodgers does
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and maybe a fourth re opponent in the
Speaker 1: wild card round, depending on how things go, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, you should be pulling for Miami to get
Speaker 1: all three wins to go to eleven and six, obviously,
Speaker 1: and for a Baltimore and Chargers loss on their fine
Speaker 1: three games. Baltimore has Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and since so one
Speaker 1: game that they could lose there. I think conceivably maybe
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game if Lamars not back, and then the
Speaker 1: Chargers have the Colts, Rams and Broncos not great there,
Speaker 1: although Herbert against Broncos defenses has not been good in
Speaker 1: the past. We'll see if that continues, and if that happens,
Speaker 1: Miami gets either Tennessee or Jacksonville and round one, which
Speaker 1: then tells you maybe you're not on that same track
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks, although Trevor Lawrence is pretty good, so
Speaker 1: we'll see about that. But to put a bowl on
Speaker 1: that thought after that, it's nothing about great quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the divisional round and beyond probably wild card round from Miami.
Speaker 1: So it needs to be corrected by then if we
Speaker 1: want to be a memorable team this season. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: does more on the pass rush in segment number two,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 1: and come back to things three through five. That's next
Speaker 1: on the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a Wednesday
Speaker 1: edition of the Draft Time Podcast. Thing things one through
Speaker 1: two are finished, Let's go ahead and get two things
Speaker 1: three through five and number three is that too. Has
Speaker 1: hit some milestones this season. Number one, he's leading the
Speaker 1: vote getting or he led won the vote the fan
Speaker 1: vote for Pro Bowl among all players, all positions of
Speaker 1: both conferences. I think it's been a season full of
Speaker 1: really high level quarterback play. I would say if I
Speaker 1: had to categorize the quarterback tapes for Tongue of Vola
Speaker 1: this season, they would go as follows. Elite tapes Ravens, Lions, Bears, Browns,
Speaker 1: and Bills Part two in Buffalo. That was a great
Speaker 1: tape in that game. Some of the best quarterback Dolphins
Speaker 1: tapes I've seen ever, and that goes all the way
Speaker 1: back to two thousand eight when Chad Pennington was the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I also think the first Bills game and Bengals games
Speaker 1: were really good, like not elite, but really high level
Speaker 1: quarterback play. I thought Houston and Pittsburgh were also good games.
Speaker 1: And then I have three bad tapes the opener against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, the game in San Francisco, and the game
Speaker 1: against the Charges I thought were bad tapes for the
Speaker 1: order back. But other than that pretty good. And five
Speaker 1: of those elite, two more of those really really good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, to two
Speaker 1: out of every three games the quarterback players he's playing
Speaker 1: at a super high level, and one of every four
Speaker 1: games he has a not so good game. UM, a
Speaker 1: quick update on his numbers because they've been so good
Speaker 1: on balance, this season. Uh to go with the fact
Speaker 1: that I prefer that method of how many good tapes
Speaker 1: and bad tapes do you have, because to me, that's
Speaker 1: more reflective of how your quarterback performed over the course
Speaker 1: of the season. But the numbers on balance, those also
Speaker 1: match up with what we're saying here. He's over three
Speaker 1: thousand yards passing, He's got twenty four touchdown passes fifteen
Speaker 1: his career now, by the way, and boy, I would
Speaker 1: love to see him hit four thousand and thirty. That
Speaker 1: would be a cool landmark, especially with just fifteen games
Speaker 1: played this season, and really fourteen and like a quarter
Speaker 1: he needs two touchdowns per game, which is currently his average,
Speaker 1: and two hundred and fifty four yards per game to
Speaker 1: hit four thousand, which he's averaging to sixty point eight,
Speaker 1: so on track to make both of those happen if
Speaker 1: he plays at his pace the final three games of
Speaker 1: the season. Through of teen weeks two, is first in
Speaker 1: passer rating one oh seven point eight. Geno Smith is
Speaker 1: next at one oh five point three, and Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: is next at one oh five. He's first in touchdown
Speaker 1: percentage six point four y p a eight point six
Speaker 1: adjusted yards per attempt nine point three and yet net
Speaker 1: yards per drop back, which includes sex seven point eight
Speaker 1: five yards every time two A drops back to pass,
Speaker 1: it's first in the National Football League. He's second in
Speaker 1: total QBR seventy one point eight. Mahomes is way out
Speaker 1: in front seventy nine point eight, Josh Allen one tenth
Speaker 1: of a point behind two and third at seventy one
Speaker 1: point seven. Two is second, and e p a per
Speaker 1: drop back at point to eight. Mahomes is first at
Speaker 1: point three oh and Alan's third at point to three.
Speaker 1: So two is closer to Mahomes for first than Allen
Speaker 1: is to two oh for second. He's seventh in yards
Speaker 1: per game at two sixty nine point eight, he's seventh,
Speaker 1: and sack percentage at four point eight percent, and he's
Speaker 1: fourth in completion percentage over expected at two point one percent.
Speaker 1: I just think that at age four, the high level
Speaker 1: player that he's shown in first year in the system,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about him continuing to grow and
Speaker 1: prove and learn lessons. As Mike mcdaland talked about on Monday.
Speaker 1: We covered that in the Tuesday podcast. What a fun year,
Speaker 1: best season by Dolphins quarterback and quite some time and
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what he does over the
Speaker 1: final three and beyond takeaway or big picture item Number
Speaker 1: four here is we talked about two in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Two was the top vote getter among all players, better
Speaker 1: than three hundred and six thousand votes. Alec Ingold won
Speaker 1: the fullback vote two hundred thousand for him. Tyreek was
Speaker 1: the top wide receiver vote get her a number two
Speaker 1: overall with two hundred ninety three thousand votes. We did
Speaker 1: a career day me and a couple of people here
Speaker 1: on staff at my wife's elementary school last week, and
Speaker 1: I my presentation started off by saying, who's a football fan,
Speaker 1: who's a Dolphins fan? Who's your favorite player? And that
Speaker 1: would go around and ask kids their favorite players, and
Speaker 1: everyone said Tyreek. Every single kid said Tyreek. A couple
Speaker 1: of them said Waddle too. And there was one kid
Speaker 1: that told me Javon Holland and Kyra co who which
Speaker 1: thought was awesome, but they all said Tyreek over to
Speaker 1: of which that's crazy. Toronto the top offensive tackle vote
Speaker 1: getter just a smidge under one thousand votes, So great job,
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans. Miami is gonna have their best Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: representation in a long long time this year. Number five
Speaker 1: thing I think is the past rush numbers, which saw
Speaker 1: a big jump really from the moment that Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb trade happened. Whoops, uh well, not entirely because
Speaker 1: the Bears game was not so great, but that's such
Speaker 1: a unique quarterback and a game plan that doesn't feature
Speaker 1: the same volume of passes or even the same style
Speaker 1: of passing game. When that quarterback him hit the top
Speaker 1: of his drop, take off and score from sixty yards?
Speaker 1: Did you guys see his run against the Eagles, by
Speaker 1: the way, the one that got called back. Nike needs
Speaker 1: to dust off the Mike Vick Experience commercial, but put
Speaker 1: justin fields in there, because my goodness, what a freak.
Speaker 1: So game by game pass rush rates this is gonna
Speaker 1: be number heavy, so I know it's not great for
Speaker 1: an audio platform, but just hang with me. First off,
Speaker 1: Miami average fifteen pressures per game pre Chubb trade twenty
Speaker 1: five per cent. That's obviously a huge uptick nearly a
Speaker 1: percent increase there. But how about pressure rate by per
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots was like a season low thirteen percent,
Speaker 1: Baltimore thirty four percent, Buffalo seventy that was a crazy game.
Speaker 1: The Bengals game forty four percent. The Jets UH The
Speaker 1: next lowest in the season was twenty eight percent. Minnesota
Speaker 1: sixtent against the Steelers thirty nine percent, Lions thirty eight percent,
Speaker 1: Bears twenty eight percent. That's where Chub got here, right,
Speaker 1: So lots of thirties and twenties some below won two
Speaker 1: high numbers of seventy three and sixty against the Bills
Speaker 1: and Vikings. Then Chub gets here for the Bears, right
Speaker 1: Cleveland eighty percent, Texans sixty seven percent, Nineers fifty one percent,
Speaker 1: Chargers sixtent, Bills fifty two percent. As a team, The
Speaker 1: past rush win rate from ESPNS forty nine percent. That's
Speaker 1: tied for third with the Denver Ancos. Number one is
Speaker 1: Philly and Dallas tied at fifty and fifth are the
Speaker 1: Rams at percent. So for posterity the individuals and their ranks,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb is tied for six pass rush win rate
Speaker 1: among all edges, Chilon Phillips has tied for eight, and then,
Speaker 1: just for further posterity, Christian Wilkins moved into first and
Speaker 1: run stop win rate among defensive tackles all alone at
Speaker 1: the top by the way, So the past rush is
Speaker 1: getting after it, but why is it not resulting it
Speaker 1: more sacks? Because quarterbacks time to throw numbers are very
Speaker 1: short against Miami. We talked about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: It's tough to cover when you're on players five and
Speaker 1: six and certain position groups. So again, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, the past rush thing is a process over
Speaker 1: results thing. Keep putting pressure on the quarterback and good
Speaker 1: things will eventually happen. I just don't know if you
Speaker 1: have a fixed for this year with the injuries amounting
Speaker 1: in that secondary, because you know, the cornerback spot we
Speaker 1: know is dire. The safety position and Eric Row and
Speaker 1: Elijah Campbell are both down. In absence of Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: who changes the way that defense can play, it is
Speaker 1: a lot to ask. Hopefully Miami can find a way
Speaker 1: to to scrape dealers from game plans here and just
Speaker 1: get a little better on defense. I think that they
Speaker 1: can do that. In the secondary. Pass rush is really good,
Speaker 1: offense is really good. It's kind of the missing piece
Speaker 1: at this point. I'm excited to see what happens over
Speaker 1: the final stretch of the season here. I believe in
Speaker 1: the coaches. I believe in the players to get it
Speaker 1: on the right track. There, let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break on this podcast and come back and
Speaker 1: do media availabilities. From Tehran Armstead, Javon Holland, and Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. Wednesday means we are onto the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers and we'll hear from head coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and to a tongue of by loa on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go back to Monday Monday and
Speaker 1: here from Tehran Armstead, Christian Wilkins and Javon Holland, we
Speaker 1: start with Miami's mountain of a man at left tackle.
Speaker 1: To Ron Armstead, who was asked about the running game
Speaker 1: performance against the Buffalo Bills. Why was it so effective
Speaker 1: in that game? Here's Torn. On a podcast we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about offensive line play. Here's Torn breaking it
Speaker 1: down like only an all pro type of left tackle
Speaker 1: can do. On the Dolphins running game Ring game. Ring
Speaker 1: game is always a combination of things, and really a
Speaker 1: combination of everybody being on the same page. Old line
Speaker 1: time and running backs, landmarks reads wide receivers, blocking a perimeter,
Speaker 1: all those things. I think we did a great job
Speaker 1: of just locking in really and trying to emphasizes on
Speaker 1: the importance of the other ring game and how it
Speaker 1: directly relates to the passing game. I love hearing opinions
Speaker 1: from experts like Torn and stuff like that. He's so
Speaker 1: well versed and explaining to us what he sees. And
Speaker 1: we learned so much this offseason about this offense from
Speaker 1: Torn Armstead. This next one here, I think you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna love us because he was asked about the
Speaker 1: three game losing streak and if you identify some bad
Speaker 1: habits of the losing streak and some good habits of
Speaker 1: the winning streak, how do you compare those types of
Speaker 1: things also compared to the earlier losing streak this season?
Speaker 1: And Toron gave us some great stuff here that kind
Speaker 1: of drives with the theme of the podcast about the
Speaker 1: growth and improvement we expect to see because of the
Speaker 1: youth within this on offense. Here's Toron talking about just that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're different, but they're similar in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. And I say, are shortcomings that have came
Speaker 1: from self infliction. Uh, and and some things that I
Speaker 1: feel like we got better at Saturday Night, the attention
Speaker 1: to detail, um, the standard that we want to play.
Speaker 1: I think we got a really good start of where
Speaker 1: we want to be Saturday Night. Not a thing is
Speaker 1: And the challenging part about this league is consistency. So
Speaker 1: going out to do it every week. We got the
Speaker 1: week and I think that is that that's the hard part.
Speaker 1: But us being so young in his system, especially offensively,
Speaker 1: when you see things work and and it's this is
Speaker 1: exactly how it supposed like. You have to experience it
Speaker 1: first and him all right, that's exactly what it needs
Speaker 1: to be. And that's how it so when when you
Speaker 1: get those moments, it carries over. He was also asked
Speaker 1: about his bookend. On the other side, Brandon Shell his
Speaker 1: arrival in September too prominent starter here for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: What has Brandon Shell met this Dolphins offensive one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: man has been a blessing, for sure, he's been. He's
Speaker 1: been a blessing to us. Uh. It's a great professional.
Speaker 1: The way he goes about his business, the way he
Speaker 1: orchestrates a plan and goes out and execute um. Even
Speaker 1: when everything isn't great or going, well, you know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna give him, You're gonna get a dog. It's
Speaker 1: gonna fight, and I'm rocking with him every every every
Speaker 1: day of the week. Finally, we're gonna hear from Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins just one second. But before we do that, why
Speaker 1: don't we hear from Tehron Armstead on what makes Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins such a great player? Ee technique, Uh, elite effort,
Speaker 1: he has a he has a great feel for the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: He mean, he's tough to deal with. He's relentless. I
Speaker 1: think his biggest attribute maybe plays he don't make initially,
Speaker 1: like um, when he's chasing the ball down the field,
Speaker 1: I think that is a an extreme asset to the team. UM.
Speaker 1: Other teams you have to keep that in mind when
Speaker 1: they're trying to get extra yards. So you see guys
Speaker 1: slow down and ball up before the guy in front
Speaker 1: of him get to him, that's because they feeling their
Speaker 1: pressure from behind from Christian and JP. And you know
Speaker 1: that that's that's a that's a really big advantage for us.
Speaker 1: We're lucky enough to get Christian in the room after that,
Speaker 1: And so I asked, Christian, when you see when you
Speaker 1: hear a player like to Ron Armstead praise your technique,
Speaker 1: a guy that's one of the best technicians of the
Speaker 1: National Football League, do you feel like the game is
Speaker 1: kind of starting to slow down for you here now
Speaker 1: and you're number four. Here's Christian talking about his production
Speaker 1: having two great years back to back, and whether or
Speaker 1: not the game actually does slow down for the game, Well,
Speaker 1: it never really fully slows down. You know. It's a
Speaker 1: fast game, and you know the way offenses try to
Speaker 1: attack defenses and specific players nowadays, it's never really slow um,
Speaker 1: you know. But I just try to work hard to
Speaker 1: slow the game down as much as I possibly can
Speaker 1: to make sure my technique is as sharp as it
Speaker 1: can be, um, you know. And just really starts in practice,
Speaker 1: players holding each other accountable in our d line room,
Speaker 1: Clark and Derek holding us to the highest standard, and
Speaker 1: really on ut and coaching this hard. You know, that's
Speaker 1: where it starts. And then you're able to do it
Speaker 1: on Sunday, um, And you know, I hold myself to
Speaker 1: a high standard of trying to get things right because
Speaker 1: I know it's what I need to do for not
Speaker 1: only myself before the team. So one of the coolest
Speaker 1: parts about Christian is his dedication to the craft. He
Speaker 1: does not put you know, negative or bad things in
Speaker 1: his body and keeps himself feel with good nutrition. Here
Speaker 1: he is talking about his process and how he's kind
Speaker 1: of taking the schedule based, process based routine and turned
Speaker 1: it into what he is as a player now in
Speaker 1: his fourth year. Yeah, I've always been a very routine
Speaker 1: oriented person um, but you know, I've kind of taken
Speaker 1: it to another level each year. You know, just as
Speaker 1: I learned my body, understand what works for me what
Speaker 1: doesn't for me. You know, my sleep schedule and my
Speaker 1: workout schedule and things like that. Like you pretty much
Speaker 1: know where to find me, you know, any day at
Speaker 1: any point based off my routine because it doesn't really change.
Speaker 1: You know, there's times where you know you might need
Speaker 1: a little wrinkle, if there's burnout, or if you know
Speaker 1: it's getting too tedious. But for the most part, just
Speaker 1: so I know that I'm as sharp as I need
Speaker 1: to be and everything all the work gets done that
Speaker 1: I need to get done week in week out. The
Speaker 1: schedule of the routine pretty much remains the same. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Christian about Jalen Phillips because we've
Speaker 1: heard so much about his workout regimen and how routine
Speaker 1: based he is. And Phillips is a guy that kind of,
Speaker 1: like Christian, had some good production early on but didn't
Speaker 1: get the notoriety of recognition or maybe the sack numbers
Speaker 1: weren't good enough for folks to really take notice. So
Speaker 1: I kind of think it's an interesting comparison there is.
Speaker 1: Those two guys have for my money, been the two
Speaker 1: best players on defense this entire year. Here's Christian talking
Speaker 1: about Jalen Phillips's process and routine and how he gets
Speaker 1: ready for Sundays. Uh, Jalen is you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: like me in a lot of ways. He has this
Speaker 1: process down, he has his routine, and you know, he
Speaker 1: has a way of going about his business that works
Speaker 1: for him. And it's you know, good to see because
Speaker 1: he's always you know, looking to me or asking me
Speaker 1: questions or how to improved things and whatnot. And and
Speaker 1: I'll help him in any way I can. But I
Speaker 1: think that's part of it, just you know, his his
Speaker 1: progress as a player and just you know, doing the
Speaker 1: things he's been able to do this year. It's just
Speaker 1: that you know, he loves the game. He cares about
Speaker 1: the game a lot and puts a lot into it.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty evident. Um, you know just how he
Speaker 1: you know how you know emotional he plays, how you
Speaker 1: know he how much he buys in each one, buys
Speaker 1: in each week. Uh, you know, to try to be
Speaker 1: the best he can be. Why not ask Javon Holland
Speaker 1: about Christian Wilkins and his schedule or I should say
Speaker 1: this is where the idea came from from Christian, But
Speaker 1: Javon told us he's the most scheduled based person he knows.
Speaker 1: Here's Javon Halland talking about Christian Wilkins preparation and on
Speaker 1: field production. UM, I'd say as a player first, Christian
Speaker 1: is probably the most um schedule based and process based
Speaker 1: individual we have on the team. Like you see him
Speaker 1: doing the same thing day in and day out, weekend
Speaker 1: and week out. UM, continue to organize himself accordingly so
Speaker 1: that he's always ready for a game day and even
Speaker 1: on game that he does the same thing over and
Speaker 1: over again. So I always know that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: locked in. I always know that he's gonna be prepared
Speaker 1: to go out there and play at a hundred ten
Speaker 1: percent as a person. Christian is by far, you know,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people in the in the building.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's always bringing you a positive attitude.
Speaker 1: Um always you know, ready to attack the day and
Speaker 1: joke around. Would needs to be joke around, but um not.
Speaker 1: Christian is a hell of a competitor, but definitely a
Speaker 1: better person. We will finish up here. As Javon was
Speaker 1: asked about his Instagram post offending quarterback to a tongue
Speaker 1: about Loa asking why y'all switch up on a player
Speaker 1: after maybe one or two games that wasn't at an
Speaker 1: elite high level like he played all year long. Here's
Speaker 1: Javon addressing that Instagram video preach my friend. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not so much for me personally, because you know people
Speaker 1: are gonna waiver regardless. Uh that was I was on
Speaker 1: Instagram Live on Court draw was like just some on
Speaker 1: my other account, but I was mainly talking about people
Speaker 1: on tour like two has been balling all year, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And we're in the NFL, which
Speaker 1: is a everybody's getting paid for a reason because everybody's
Speaker 1: in the league competitor and so there are gonna be
Speaker 1: games where sometimes the other guy getting paid on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball is going to have an advantage, um,
Speaker 1: and you know gets the best of you know of
Speaker 1: an an individual. UM. And so when two is out
Speaker 1: there balling and doing this thing, he's getting all the love.
Speaker 1: You know, he has one game and now he's the
Speaker 1: worst quarterback in the league. Not just kind of something
Speaker 1: that that that irritated me, Like you gotta have faith
Speaker 1: in somebody. You gotta believe in somebody, because like we
Speaker 1: have throughout his whole time here, we believe in him
Speaker 1: and we know that what he can do. And you
Speaker 1: guys see that what he can do because he's a
Speaker 1: hell of a player and he's he leaves us on
Speaker 1: the field and off the field. So that was that
Speaker 1: was basically that. It wasn't anything too for myself personally
Speaker 1: or nothing like that. Um. You know, somebody asked me
Speaker 1: like fell was from a cry and was not gonna cry.
Speaker 1: I was just laying down because I was laying down,
Speaker 1: you know, the laying on the floor he comingside, chilling whatever.
Speaker 1: But no, man, yeah, I was just dodges driver to
Speaker 1: it like that's our got you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is, and that right there
Speaker 1: is a great place to end. The podcast will come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow and preview Dolphins and Packers. It's a big game.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get a big w in that game.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you about that before we do that.
Speaker 1: Almost forgot. We gotta make Week sixteen picks because we
Speaker 1: hit on seventy percent for the year, dead on at seventy,
Speaker 1: which means we need thirty four wins over the final
Speaker 1: forty eight games to hit the goal we set out
Speaker 1: this year at sevent A massive Week fifteen at fourteen
Speaker 1: and two brings us to one fifty six sixty six
Speaker 1: and two on the year, thirty four wins over three weeks.
Speaker 1: Let's get ahead of that pace and get at least
Speaker 1: twelve here in this week. And that looks like this.
Speaker 1: Give me the Jags over the Jets on Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 1: And if the Jags do get that win in Miami,
Speaker 1: Beach Green Bay and then Beach, New England were in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, Baltimore over the Falcons. Root hard for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Don't expect him to get any more wins this year, though,
Speaker 1: So good for you, Baltimore, Detroit over Carolina, as the
Speaker 1: fighting Dan Campbell's make their push towards the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs over the Seahawks. I'll take the Browns over the Saints,
Speaker 1: although it's gonna be like sixty mile wind gusts in
Speaker 1: that game. That should be ugly to watch. Titans over
Speaker 1: the Texans, the Bengals over the Patriots. Give me the
Speaker 1: Vikings over the Giants. I'll take Buffalo in Chicago and
Speaker 1: a snowstorm. Give me San Francisco over the go Ahead
Speaker 1: and begin to start to think about taking Commanders. I'll
Speaker 1: take the Eagles over the Cowboys, the Raiders over the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Then on Christmas Day, give me Miami Big over Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Denver over the Rams, Tampa over the Cardinals, and pull
Speaker 1: for the Colts on Monday Night Football. But I'll take
Speaker 1: the Chargers and pick them to win the game. So
Speaker 1: not many upsets. It's a week of heavy favorites, which
Speaker 1: means we will for sure, we'll go eight Nate and
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