WEBVTT - Dolphins Ravens Week 2 Preview 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.360 To us fires touch style by waddle knocked into the 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.680 end zone of Miami Boy tight broke window. They had 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.760 to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.200 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.480 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.920 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.920 Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it's Thursday. That means 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.479 Week two is here with an excellent matchup tonight in 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.159 Kansas City. But we're only picking that game. We are 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.159 previewing all things Dolphins and Ravens this Sunday at one 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.840 o'clock in Baltimore with sunny skies and eighty five degree 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.440 weather on tap. We'll go position by position after introducing 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.200 you to the Baltimore Ravens, will measure what's at stake 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.120 and give you the three keys to the game from 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.320 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:08.600 This is the Drive Time Puts. It's game preview time, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.000 as we do each Thursday, we start with an introduction 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.399 to the opposition, the Baltimore Ravens, a team that has 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.360 long been well a thorn in the side of the 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.040 good guys here until last year anyway, But still Miami 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.200 has not won a game in Baltimore since seven and 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.600 in fact, that's the only victory for the aquand Orange 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.800 against the Purple People Eaters, Wrong City, wrong team. I 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.720 know that was the Vikings back in the seventies, but 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.400 I digress. It would be nice to buck that trend 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.280 this Sunday, wouldn't it? Get the two O heading into 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.640 the Buffalo game. The Ravens have been one of the 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.400 steadiest organizations in the league really going back to their inception. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.040 Every organization will go through some valleys, even the best ones, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.360 but under John Harbaugh they were able to pull out 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:55.960 of one of those valleys at the end of the 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.360 Joe Flacco era as they were kind of transitioning mid 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.080 season back in to the offense and team that they 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.120 became that they are today, I should say, and what happened, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.000 you might ask, Well, that quarterback arrived Lamar Jackson. He 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.160 would go on to win the MVP the following year 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.080 in twenty nineteen, and then followed that up with another 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.880 crazy good year in Then last year was his highest 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.119 interception rate of his career and the second lowest touchdown 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.680 rate since that rookie season or I guess the rookie 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.320 season was the lowest. That last year was the second lowest. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.480 But even with that, he was still seven and five 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.680 as the starter last year and was kind of the 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.960 final piece of glue holding that team together when they 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.200 were just like I can't remember a team that had 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.200 worse injury look than the twenty one Ravens. And the 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.920 reason Lamar is such a big part of this prelude 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.760 is that they are a team that has done a 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.880 great job of assembling an offense and a team for 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.840 that matter, around their star quarterback. A lot of what 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.280 they do operates off the running game. We heard coach 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.240 McDaniel say that he has learned a lot of about 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.240 designing run game by watching this Ravens team, and the 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.000 roster construction really adheres to what they do well. We 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.800 know that wide receivers are super expensive, right, but since 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.400 this offense operates out of more two back and two 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.799 tight sets than just about any in the league, they 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.680 are able to allocate resources throughout the rest of the 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.320 roster and kind of skimp at that position. Their top 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.320 two guys, Rashad Bateman and Devin DuVernay are both on 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.359 rookie deals, won a first rounder, won a third round 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.280 draft pick. They just know who they are. They build 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.680 through the trench trenches. They draft well seemingly every year. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.040 I mean, how often do you see a draft go 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.840 by and they got what a Ravens pick? That was? Well, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.280 it happened again this year too. They get ball hawks 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.480 on the back end with a deep, deep cornerback room. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.440 They find pass rush and dial up pressure, and they 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.640 run the ball extremely well and hit teams of play 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.000 action off of that. They are aggressive. They are one 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.280 of the most engaged teams when it comes to the 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.680 analytics and fourth down models. They are always sharp on 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.520 special teams and have the greatest kicker of all time. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.760 They're a tough out, a model of consistency, and one 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.120 of those teams you kind of aspire to emulate in 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.200 terms of their consistent success. And with that, let's go 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.320 ahead and dive into the matchups, starting with the Dolphins 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.000 on offense and the Ravens on defense, and the quarterback 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.680 for the Dolphins and the safeties of the Baltimore Ravens 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.960 to a tongue of by lower the Ravens had three 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:28.040 safeties playing at least forty two snaps in their season 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.560 open opening victory over the Jets. Marcus Williams, a newcomer 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.240 from New Orleans, and Chuck Clark both did not leave 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.080 the field eighty four snaps for both of those guys. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.839 Kyle Hamilton's, their first first round draft pick, was the 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.680 other one, with forty two. They were in dime personnel, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.360 which is six defensive backs on forty six point eight 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.640 percent of their snaps. That's by far the most in 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.800 the NFL so far, and in nickel defense with five 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:58.280 defensive backs thirty six point seven percent of the time. Look, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.159 I'm not a mathematician, as you well, no, but carry 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.600 the one that's eighty three point five percent. I obviously 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.400 did that beforehand, and just sixteen point five percent in 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.760 a base look right three four alignment. And that was 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.320 with the Jets running twenty seven point three percent of 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.400 their plays from packages with at least three receivers. So 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.719 what that tells you is there is a bit of 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:27.760 a not matching personnel type of philosophy in that game 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.159 plan last week. Will it happened this week? We'll find out. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.160 And the reason I tell you this is because Chuck 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.640 Clark has plenty of linebacker to his game. Kyle Hamilton's 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.320 can do a little bit of everything, at least he 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.440 did at college. We'll find out more about him as 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.560 a pro. And then Marcus Williams is one of the 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:47.040 best post safeties in the National Football League. The Jets 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.920 tried just one pass beyond twenty yards in that Week 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.600 one game, and it was a completion in a game 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.640 of just twenty four yards, So you know almost nothing 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.640 you know beyond the safeties in the passing game. A 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.240 lot of that has to do with the structure of 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.480 this Ravens defense. Baltimore was in too high for sixty 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.279 percent of the game, single high thirty six percent of 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.880 the game, and they dialed up two zero looks. You know, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.640 no safeties up top, so you'll see rotation. You'll see 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.599 them attempt to confuse to with bringing that extra hat 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.120 down on the box by wheeling out and rotating into 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.440 some of their cover three, Cover six type of looks 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.000 as well, and also get that extra hat in the 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.000 box from those nickel packages, because traditionally, if a defense 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.080 is in nickel and you have even eleven personnel or 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.440 especially twelve personnel, that's a good opportunity to run the football. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.640 It's not far off from what the Pats do and 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.640 really what the Bills do next week as well. So 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.560 he's getting a look at three of the best safety 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.800 rooms in terms of letting those guys be so integral 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.039 to the rotation post snap, with the pre snap disguise, 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.920 with those safety rooms that are three deep for both 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.839 of those For all three of those clubs, I should say, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.440 especially Buffalo with Foyer and Hide. As for the matchup 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:02.000 here though, being timely, being efficient, and again just taking 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.000 what's there. It's not sexy, but it definitely is effective. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.000 Joe Flacco was able to pick up a hundred and 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.200 thirty seven yards on passes under ten yards. He was 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.520 twenty two for seven and a hundred seven yards on 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.760 those intermediate throws in the ten to nineteen yard range. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.040 He was seven for fifteen on those throws against Baltimore. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.600 We'll see if they blitz a lot. Just seventeen on 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.560 Flacco last week out of sixty two drop backs. My goodness, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.520 but I don't think the keys have really changed all 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.200 that much for Tah. Get into good run looks if 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.520 you got it, take advantage of your box count, take 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.600 with the defense gives you and find that check down 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.040 when it's there, be efficient to open up opportunities and 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.560 take those shots when you got them. A lot of 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.480 the Ravens pressure comes from the perimeter, and I think 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.760 that's where Toa is best at navigating the pocket. When 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.600 it's that interior pressure and you kind of have to 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.720 quickly sidestep. I think having that longer runway for two 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.560 it to kind of wheel out of there or step 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.240 up and out that way, making place. He's be good 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.200 at making guys miss and extending from that position. So 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.040 hopefully the Dolphins can find a way to block up 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.320 the raven strength and that edge rush will get to 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.160 more of that here in just a moment. Now. As 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.640 far as the perimeter skill set or the perimeter matchups, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.560 I should say Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:20.440 Ravens corners. More on the Ravens defense. The structure again 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.120 was minimal personnel matching. You'd see dime defense, which again 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.640 six defensive backs, which limits you to five in the 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.600 front between your d line on linebackers verse plenty of 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.640 two back or even two tight sets against this Jets offense, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.160 and especially on third and long. They will go dime 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.400 on third and long, regardless of your personnel, because you'd 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.720 likely remove the option to run the football, you know, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.440 anything longer than third and five, except for you know 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.040 a few exceptions, but the two high or three high 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.400 looks where Chuck Clark would buzz, which means basically come 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.200 down and take the crosser or try to find a 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.800 stick route over the middle, get to that coral flat area, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.679 and then they would rotate into that too high and 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.160 robbed that crossing route. You know how much this offense 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.360 goes to the crossing route. So you saw it last 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.120 week the Patriots, that kind of backside cornerback falling out. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.920 This Ravens defense will use that safety, that big nickel 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.920 to come in there and buzz those crossing routes. And 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.000 when they didn't rotate and they rushed Chuck Clark, there 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.520 were some vacancies in the middle of the field, which 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.400 is an area that we know to a shines at. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.520 So there are a defense that will make you pay 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.480 for tips and overthrows. If you go watch a video 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.440 that I retweeted today of dan Orlosky breaking down the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.560 uh the forty two yard touchdown past the waddle last Sunday, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.559 he talks about them playing eleven funnel, which is a 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.600 nickel personnel, and they're gonna play outside leverage to kind 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.080 of funnel things inside to the help. That's what this 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.480 Ravens defense does a whole bunch. They play that outside 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.959 leverage and they want to force you inside because they 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.800 love what Marcus Williams and Kyle Hamilton's can do. And 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.199 especially if you get those tips and overthrows, they are 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.200 exceptional at pouncing on those to get takeaways, and they 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.080 kind of marriage up with that pass rush upfront to 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.480 create some takeaways at least when they're healthy. Last year 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:00.800 was kind of an off year for them because so 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.360 many guys were hurt, but they got back to it 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.600 on Sunday against the Joe Flacco Jets. Both those guys 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.920 are exceptional ball hawks, and we have to be sharp 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.520 with these balls and not give them those takeaways in 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.720 short fields. Now, No, Kyle Fuller, he's out for the season. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.480 We'll see about Marcus Peters. He practiced on Wednesday. We'll 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.840 find out about today and tomorrow as far as his availability. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.280 But even still, Marlon Humphrey is out there and he's 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.319 one of the best in the entire game. They are 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.760 just absolutely loaded at cornerback when they're fully healthy. Then 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.200 you go into the depth and Brandon Stevens could be 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.160 a potential fill an option and he played very admirably 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.400 in that season. Opener targeted eight times for just three 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.480 catches and twenty seven yards. That's a great number for him. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.480 He did get hit with a t d which was 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.360 like twenty five of those yards, but it was an 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.040 absolutely perfect throw over the top when Devin Duverney stacked 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.199 him for like a twenty something yard touchdown past. I 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.640 didn't see the exact yard on that watching the game, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.959 but it was in range, and you guys know, I 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.800 like to look at the tell of the tape. In 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.360 terms of styles, we know Tyreek and Jalen are quick, fast, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.880 and all the superlatives that you to describe speed well. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.400 Brandon Stevens was a nine two RAS Guy Relative Athletics 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.400 scorecard out of ten among cornerbacks, but the areas he 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.280 didn't grade in the elite green area was the three 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.200 cone six nine. Nine is slightly above average. Ten split 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.839 of one six two is well below average among cornerbacks 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.440 that have worked out since the late eighties. In Indianapolis, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.520 and the shuttle time of four to nine is slightly 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.439 below average, so it could be a quick game match 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.240 up there for the Dolphins if he does draw either 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.520 of those two jitterbug receivers. Marlon Humphrey is a nine 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.240 four RAS guy with an elite three cone number. Actually, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.640 all of his metrics were elite when he tested, and 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.360 that's how he plays. One of the very best. He's 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.920 He's a dang good cornerback and if you're without Marcus Peters, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.520 you could see Humphrey kind of getting an Xavian Howard treatment, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.319 like we're not gonna go towards that guy when there's 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.240 other options out there. Again, Marcus Peters is questionable last 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.599 week and did not play. He practiced on Wednesday. You 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.560 could get him back, but his shiftiness metrics didn't well either, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.440 And so coming off that injury, you know, significantly below 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.360 average seven point oh eight three cone time than an 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.640 average shuttle and below average ten yards split. And again 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.280 that's coming off the a c L that kept him 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.040 out on Sunday. Really curious to see if he plays 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.360 and what he looks like. If he plays. He is 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.440 a ball hawk to the nth degree, but he you 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.880 know that shiftiness against these guys, you can see how 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.520 that could be exploited potentially, Maybe we'll see The Jets 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.880 tight ends didn't get much of anything, just four for 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:32.320 fourteen receptions and yardage, all of that to Tyler Conklin 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.040 on seven targets, so just two yards per target. That's 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.720 about as efficient as you can defend it for a defense. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.720 They did get Humphrey and Stevens on Conklin a couple 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.960 of times, but it's largely the safety and linebacker positions. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.600 So Mike Asiki durham smythe the entire tight end room here. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.640 Could you draw a potential linebackers who will talk about 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.840 a second really like to kind of go downhill in 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.760 this defense. The Jets also kept a lot of max 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.160 protect slash tight ends in and past protection because that 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.600 Ravens three or front that often looks like a five 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.880 man rush with two stand up backers and requires some 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.320 help off those edges. You know, tight ends have to 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.360 be a big part of that, and your backs and 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.199 more on those guys off the edges. Right now, this 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.040 is such an interesting matchup because on one side, one 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.480 of the more athletic offensive lines and football and we'll 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.480 see about Torn Armstead and Austin Jackson's availability. Uh, they 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.360 did not practice on Wednesday. On the other one of 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.320 the bigger, slash, stronger defensive lines in the NFL styles 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:29.920 make fights and I cannot wait to see how this 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.839 one plays out. Justin Mattabuki was a second round draftic 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.880 a couple of years back. He had a monster game 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.280 on Sunday. He's a seiler type and that he's huge, athletic, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.000 explosive and can play multiple spots. He could be a 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.760 big key in the run game in terms of getting 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.560 around his edge. And then he and Justin Houston were 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.840 the guys that popped last week. Houston had a couple 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.640 of sacks in the game where he took advantage of 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.640 getting his one on one opportunities. Also had six pressures 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.959 on forty four pass rush reps. Him versus Tahrn Armstead, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.479 if toront can play in the game, is a premier 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.199 type of matchup and one that I think benefits Miami 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.520 for the fact that Houston almost always rushes that side 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.400 and frankly, I'm taking tease head against anybody in the league, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.280 and when you can get him one on one and 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.400 he slides some help the other way to Odafe Oway. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.120 That could be a big benefit for the Dolphins offensive line. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.359 Speaking of o Way, another one of these big explosive 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.160 length the ends with a good pass rush. Arsenal he 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.040 had fifty pass rush reps and five pressures, so a 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.400 big part of their pass rush game plan. We'll see 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.920 who goes at right tackle from Miami. Greg Little is 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.440 an interesting matchup because of his length thirty five and 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.840 a half inch arms against always length, but always super athletic, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.800 and that's not little game. Jackson does have that shared 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.320 athletic ability, so that could be a cool style fight 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.920 there as well. And then inside Michael Pierce is a 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.120 problem and another one of these styles make fights type 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.280 of matchups because we saw Connor Williams just one with 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.120 athletic ability getting out in space time and time again 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.120 on Sunday, but he also anchored. Really dang, will I 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.400 think you know that work against Rae Kwon Davis the 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.000 summer had to have been invaluable for him. But Pierce 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.120 is something of an endick six ft three d and 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.600 fifty five pounds. He controls the run game as well 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.920 as any nose in football. So if they can roll 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.840 him out of there. That's impressive, or maybe just kind 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.320 of try to seal him. I don't know. It's it's 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.760 a tough ask in the middle of the offensive line. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.440 And I was curious to look at this since we 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.400 have some data points this big Ravens front against the 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:21.120 similar wide zone stretch speed run games of the Rams, Browns, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.840 forty Niners, Jets, Packers, all those Shanahan McVeigh type of 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.800 tree coaches. Jets had eighty three yards on seventeen rushes Sunday. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.320 So your most recent example against this actual Ravens team, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.320 that's four point eight eight yards per carry. Rams last 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.720 year had seventy three on twenty carries. That's only three 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.000 point six five. The Browns had forty seventeen that's two 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.400 point three five. And the Packers had ninety six yards 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.640 on twenty five carries last year as well as three 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.240 point eight four yards. Remember how I said sometimes hypothesis 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.520 don't work out. Well, there you go. I thought I 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.160 was gonna be a big point there and it didn't 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.520 quite happen here. But now we know. And to be fair, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.440 the Ravens were so banged up in the second Dary 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.440 last year that opposing offenses went more through the air, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.840 like the Rams through for three, d Browns for two 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.200 two and Packers to fifty. The Browns did run last 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.440 year for one and one thirty three in those games 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.400 against the Baltimore Ravens. So I think that the power 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.040 and physicality is gonna be a big challenge up front 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.080 from Miami. You might be able to get the best 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.520 of them if you have some success early in the 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.360 running game and keep getting wide on that bigger front. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.040 Could be a big game for most and Edmund Speed. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.680 They did lose Travis Jones to an injury in camp. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.960 He was out week one. We'll see about this week, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.440 but either way, they got after the Jets upfront. Pumped 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.520 for the opportunity here of Eikenberg, Williams, and Hunt and 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.280 to get their real first look at a dominant, dominant 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.240 UH interior defensive line, running backs and linebackers. We end 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.200 here with guys that carry the football and based on 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.280 last week and their pedigree, helped provide that last line 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.200 of defense and pass protection, and Chase was awesome in 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.400 that department last week. He'll need to be here as well. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.920 Patrick Queen made some place for them last week. He's 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.720 fast as hell, but he loves loves to fly downhill 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.920 and thump, So a good play action game could be 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.160 important here. Joe Flacco through nine times on play action 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.200 completed eight of them for ninety seven yards. Good solid 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.240 run fakes and believable run concepts, which we know that 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.880 both the Florida McDaniel came from that same school of doing. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.040 That can create some open windows, especially against that too 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.880 high defense with outside leverage, that funnel style of defense. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.679 I mentioned the pass rushers. I like the idea of 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.560 running wide at Justin Houston, trying to keep him from 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.480 just going up field all game, and also staying away 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.480 from Michael Pierce and Calais Campbell. Stretched them out, get 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.200 them big boys rolling a little bit early, hopefully wear 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.040 them down. This defense played eighty four snaps last week, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.119 so it could be a test they're conditioning for a 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.760 second straight week. And then also I wanted to just 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.600 mention the use of receivers and end of rounds like 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.960 we saw it last week to give Patrick Queen and 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.320 those linebackers even more eye candy, uh and also the 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.399 backs in the passing game. That's gonna be very important 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.200 for the Dolphins. This one, I think, all right, so 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.400 go ahead and take our first break. That's your offensive. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.040 Look as far as the Dolphins, it's the Ravens defense 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.119 will do the other side. On the other side of 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.760 the podcast, that's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:15.200 brought to you by Auto Nation. We are previewing Dolphins 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.520 and Ravens Week two. A pair of one and oh 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.520 teams meet for the second straight year, and this time 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.000 it's in Baltimore for a game that's going to produce 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.160 a two and O team that's feeling really good about 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.479 themselves heading into Week three. How can the Dolphins make 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.480 sure that's them. Well, let's go ahead and look at 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.400 this Baltimore offense and find out the quarterback and safety matchup. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.159 I mentioned the dip in production last year and the 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.840 injury for Lamar Jackson, but I want to make it 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.720 abundantly clear that I do not care about that, because 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.520 even as the Ravens offense took a moment to get 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.560 going last week, turn on that tape and you'll see 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.360 Number eight making explosive plays. There was a scrambled play 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.240 to start the third quarter where he leapt over one tackle, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.520 out ran another, and got to the sticks was absurd. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:18:59.920 That was right after he had a dime for about 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.119 twenty five yards or so to Devon Duverney in the 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.520 first half for a touchdown that I mentioned earlier, and 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.520 then he later got Rashan Bateman alone downfield for a touchdown. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.200 So even if you play efficiently against him and this offense, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.200 and that's what we talked about so much, like, don't 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.640 focus on the twenty five yard and the seventeen yard run, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.199 focus on the other eight teen runs team had for 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.520 three or less yards. But against this team they can 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.560 hit that few explosives. They just give you enough points 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.720 to win games. There's gonna be a lot made of 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.560 the matchup last season. This week, Javon Holland and Brandon 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.080 Jones set the record and the next Gen stats era 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:35.760 for blitzes by safeties. Will that happen again? Your guest 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.520 is as good as mine, But I do know this. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.480 Lamar was on point when the Jets couldn't get pressure 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.240 and he was allowed to survey back there. That's when 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.240