WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Chargers Week 1 Preview 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.240 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.440 is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.760 a looking clips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:17.360 The wide Dolphin touchdown time, Riquel, uncolievable, just blue fire. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.720 For a second time. Don't know where he was going 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:20.360 right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.239 I want to hit that the man. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.040 I want to help you. Someone will up on your 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:24.560 man wagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.080 Wattle, Wattle to a shot, Gutch back to throw, looking thumbs. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:34.120 Up, fires touchdown. It's Waddle his six touchdown paradoun. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:34.920 I'm this king. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.040 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.440 Now check your pulse if enough for two? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.640 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.560 And welcome to the Draft Time podcast, part of the 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:54.800 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.040 How's it going everybody? 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.280 I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:00.480 we made it. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:01.440 It is that time. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:06.040 The last game preview podcast we did was on January twelfth, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.240 almost exactly nine months ago. We are back out of 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.000 again and Daniel with a changed up format that I'm 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.319 really excited about. We're telling you the story of the 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.280 twenty twenty three Chargers, the key matchups and the key storylines. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:19.240 We'll also hear. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.480 From some of the guys on the matchup and much 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.880 much more from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:25.840 Health Training Complex. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:26.479 This is. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:29.080 The Drive Time podcast. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:35.040 May Caroline takes us right into our first game preview 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.480 podcast and at long last, we have arrived two game week. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.440 Let's go ahead and do a temperature check on the 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.600 locker room with wide receiver Tyreek Hill right now. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:50.400 You know, everybody's obviously happy and everybody's just the message 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.640 you know from all of the leaders is mindset, mentality 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.760 each and every day because at the end of the day, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.960 we still got to work you know, today, Wednesday, Thursday, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.320 Friday leading up to that point. So just trying to 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.120 keep all the young guys, you know, focus for the 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.120 guys that's that's like new to play in the league. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.079 So so far, everybody's excited. You know, I'm very excited. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.280 I can't wait to see you know, onno back on 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.680 the field and it's gonna be fun. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:19.400 It is gonna be fun. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.639 Off to the left coast, we go for a four 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.840 to twenty five eastern kickoff at Sofi Stadium in the 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.200 climate controlled environment where you know, Dolphins fans will travel 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.160 well and this is the beauty of having a transformative 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.239 superstar in your alumnus, your alumni, your alumnias, you get 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.760 fans from all over the country, a similar effect to 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.720 the Mariners with King Griffey Junior, and the same way 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.240 that Dan Marino helped the Finns fan base be so 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.080 well represented, California and New York seem to be the 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.040 two hubs for it all. The MetLife takeover, obviously, and 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.760 you're gonna see droves of Finns fans come Sunday before 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.720 we get into all the matchups. And since you've been 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.400 hearing about our team for the last nine months, let's 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.680 go ahead and get to know the Some are picking 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.200 this Chargers team to break through and get to the dance, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.120 most notably Greg Rosenthal of NFL Media, who picked a 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.120 Eagles Chargers Super Bowl. And I think the talent matches 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.120 out there in Los Angeles. It all starts with their 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.680 selection of their quarterback from what I think will go 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.799 down as the best class ever in twenty twenty, Justin 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.520 Herbert and he spearheads a remade offense under new offensive 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.760 coordinator Kellen Moore. After that group finished thirteenth in the 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.040 NFL a year ago in both total offense and scoring. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.000 Their offensive line is anchored by a draft grand slam 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.760 left tackle Rashaun Slater and a free agent hit in 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.560 Corey Linsley at center, Austin Eckler, one of the greatest 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.600 franchise fines in terms of the UDFA market. He has 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.280 produced thirty eight touchdowns over the last two seasons outside 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.920 or I guess inside For the receivers, Keenan Allen's one 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.120 of the best pure route runners in the game, while 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.839 Mike Williams plays above the rim. We saw that last 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.680 year in the matchup. On defense, they return a ton 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.880 of players from injury this year, including Anthony Johnson and 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.400 Sebastian Joseph Day, to a defense that really struggled inside 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.240 against the run. Adding reinforcements inside for Brandon Staley's defense 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.640 Eric Kendricks Day on Henley Go Koog's they offer speed 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.800 coverage and Bliss's ability to Kenneth Murray's thump inside Khalil 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.920 Mack and Joey Bosa one of the best edge rushing 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.880 tandems in the entire game. While the defensive backfield is 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.960 led by do it all safety Derwin James. You probably 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.120 recall the name Michael Davis. He made a name for 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.159 himself last year as a plus corner, really starting with 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.240 this Dolphins game, and they're hoping to get a bounce 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.320 back from last year's big free agent splash J C. Jackson, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.799 who was playing terrible for an injury, so I'm curious 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.000 to see him back on the field for the Chargers 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.680 in Week one. I think it's the most intriguing matchup 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.960 on the entire Week one docket. I think both teams 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.160 are double digit win outfits this year, and whoever gets 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.480 out with a victory is going to be riding as 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.760 high as any other team in the league going into 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.159 the Week two matchup, maybe the winner of Jets Bills 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.279 or some crazy upset that we don't foresee coming. But 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.960 I think if Miami gets this game, I think you're 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.680 looking at a trip to Orchard Park on October first 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.160 at three to zero. That's kind of how I see 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.599 this game tilting the skills from Miami over the next 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.599 couple of weeks. As for the Chargers road to get 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.800 here under Staley and even longer back Tom Telesco, this 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.159 roster has never been short on talent, yet things just 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.599 seem to pop up, whether it's injuries, missed field goals, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.040 or the craziest way to lose games late, all while 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.520 the chargering it slogan they've been tabbed with. They were 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.719 a playoff team last year but went one and done. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.960 That was their first playoff appearance after I devastating loss 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.760 in twenty twenty one in Houston in December that folks 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.839 don't seem to bring up in the quarterback conversation very often, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.680 but Herbert threw two backbrecking picks in that game which 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.000 crippled their pluss and chances that year. That was a 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.200 nine win season, preceded by seven and five win campaigns 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.719 ahead of a twelve and four to twenty eighteen season 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.040 that saw them get to the Divisional round before being 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.200 trounced by the Brady led Patriots. For twenty twenty three, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.120 CBS Sports has their win projection at nine and a half. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.440 There are six teams with overall better win totals k C, Cincinnati, Philly, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.359 San Francis, Go, Buffalo and Jacksonville, and they are tied 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.760 with eight teams. One of those teams is US with 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.640 nine and a half over under. So all the excitement 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.640 Dolphins fans. The Chargers fans feel the same way, all 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.039 twelve of them. Additionally, only seven teams are projected with 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.480 a better shot at the Super Bowl. Same goes for us. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.520 So that's the history. Let's go ahead and look at 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.960 some of the key storylines heading into this game. They 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.960 are a plenty. This is a team coming off their 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.640 last game, a twenty seven to nothing lead in the 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.400 first half of a playoff game that ultimately turned into 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.160 one of the biggest collapses we've seen in a postseason 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.800 game or game anywhere. So they've had that to chew 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.000 on for the last nine months. But for the Dolphins, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.159 they've had since last December chew on the contest against 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.920 this same team. And that's where it really all starts 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.680 with me. Are the narratives that were born from that game, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.359 despite the previous weeks of dominance. And that's how it 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.839 goes in this world, right, So we can't complain about 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.760 it too much, I guess. Let's go ahead and hear 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.200 from Tyreek Hill when I asked him how playing against 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.760 a Fangio defense every day in practice would prepare you 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.560 not just for the Charge and a coach that learned 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.719 under Fangio, but all the coaches across the NFL as 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.760 this is the most replicated off not duplicated defense ran 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.679 in the NFL. How does seeing that defense every single 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.720 day benefit you guys heading into the twenty twenty three campaign. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.840 It's definitely gonna help us because watching the film, you know, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.920 and going against the defense, you know, you bring up 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.480 a good point. There are a lot of similarities. So 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.160 you know, we we aren't gonna, you know, take our 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.400 foot out the gas. We're gonna continue doing what we've 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.920 been doing, you know, practicing fast, practicing deliberate, and you know, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.600 getting too our spots for our quarterback, you know, and 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.880 as far as the offensive line, you know, those guys 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.600 are going are going to take pride in, you know, 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.240 protecting our quarterback because he's clearly he's our key to 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.200 success and everybody knows that. So that's that's the plan. Baby. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.040 I think it was Chris Kaufman C. K. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.720 Parrott on Twitter had tweeted about this that, you know, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.760 the Dolphins offense in the entirety of it, seemed off 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.920 that night. They weren't their efficient selves in the running game, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.600 lots of no gains and losses on first down runs 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.640 that would eventually put them behind the chains. And then 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.760 the Chargers' ability to win with playing to their leverage 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.400 and the secondary and re routing some of the guys 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.239 getting hands on footballs. And the one I always talk about, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.680 the one where Tyreek got free at the start of 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.640 the second quarter down the middle of the football field. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.960 The ball was there, but it just looked like he 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.360 didn't see it or missed it in the lights. I'm 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.360 not really sure still to this day, but I tend 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.400 to think that we were just off that night, and 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.480 that's going to happen over the course of a seventeen 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.520 game season. Remember last year the Chiefs were stifled by 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.319 a Colts team who was dreadful in Week three, stifled 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.280 to the tune of three hundred and fifteen yards of 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.200 offense and just thirteen points on that day, when they 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.920 averaged four hundred and forty yards over the other sixteen games. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.760 Like it happens, and that was a night where the 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.040 Chargers were super thin on the defensive line because of injuries. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.480 That's also a defense that plays by the theory that 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.400 we welcome you to run the football any snap you want, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.320 because for yards a pop opposed to throwing the ball 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.079 every down where most quarterbacks average between seven and eight 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.319 yards per pass, or if you're too, nine and a 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.079 half yards per pass, and it checks out. I think 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.319 it's sound reasoning. But if a team can commit to it, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.480 they can obviously shorten the game, which I think is 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.720 an overrated trope. But you can shorten the game and 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.200 make your offense really have to be perfect, because if 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.200 you only have seven or eight drives, you better score, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.360 you know, on half of those in order to be 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.160 able to keep up with an offense that is moving 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.040 the ball consistently down the field and keeping your offense 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.920 off the field. I'm really curious to see how they 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.520 use last year's recipe to attack. If you guys saw 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.000 the great story from Jory Epstein on Yahoo's Sports where 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.720 she detailed how McDaniel sees offense as an ever evolving unit, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.040 and we know that's kind of how it works under 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.560 that Shanahan tree from all those offensive geniuses. You know. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.480 Jordan Rodrieg mentioned that on the podcast as well. I 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.920 just really, really really trust Mike McDaniel to have had 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.440 a full offseason to craft what this year's offense will 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.160 look like, and ultimately this week one game plan. Le's 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.000 go ahead and hear from coach real quick when he 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.240 was asked about playing into the Chargers planned a season ago. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.920 But just from a coach's perspective, and I told Brandon 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.800 this after the game, it was so impressive how there. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.120 It just tells a lot about that team, how they 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.840 didn't blink and they came out to challenge this and 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:24.400 they did so I think that goes to you know 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.680 that that's a lesson that can never fall to the 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:35.520 wayside for any coach or team that uh that you know, 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.440 it's it's all about the group of people coming together 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.240 and you know, they they were prideful, they they came 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.920 out with a chip on their shoulder, I would say. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:55.280 And it was cool from a coaching perspective to see, uh, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.400 see a team attack it that way and that will 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:06.280 happen nine times out of ten if if people have 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:12.080 that competitive edge on you and that that's something that 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.959 the second you forget in this league. You know, that's 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.960 a great thing about the National Football League is the 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.760 parody is so real. The the you know, the fact 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.640 that you know eighty plus percent of games come down 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:32.520 to turnover differential, like it just speaks to how it's 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:37.439 a communal effort by a bunch of individuals and if 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.520 you don't bring it, it will get brought on you. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.720 And on top of that, we know the previous comment 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.480 we talked about in the preseason and the Dolphins ability 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.840 to get the ball to Smythe and Burrios in that 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.160 Houston game against what was Cover six with that wall 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.280 off defender in the middle of the field, and that's 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.880 been a you know, point of contention for this offense. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.720 That just shows me that, okay, take away this, We've 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.080 got to adapt to it and then hopefully you know, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.400 two or three moves beyond that as well. That's the 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.720 genesis of coach McDaniel's offense, right, that's the genesis of 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.040 all the great offenses out there, thinking multiple steps ahead, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.600 and the Chargers will have to play guestwork as to 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.080 what our thoughts are in that regard for a week 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:16.480 one game. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.520 And it works both ways too. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.400 The next storyline, pupil meet teacher and Ronaldo Hill as well. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.000 I'm talking about Brandon Stalely and Vic Fangio here because 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.319 as we know, Staley got his start under Fangio as 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.400 a d C and eventually conported that system over to 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.320 the Rams, where he parlayed that work into the Chargers 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.680 head coaching job. And Fangio has said previously impressors that 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.440 he's always an available resource. And I just have to 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.040 imagine the conversation of hey, Vic, you know when you 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.400 were in this look and I do this, how would 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.400 you counter that? That has to have happened a few times, right, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.520 so now you get a chance to counter the counter 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.520 of the counter. And in fact, you know, coach Fangio 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.959 discussed this back in August when he was asked if 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.480 Mike ever comes to him for ideas and thoughts, well, I'm. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.000 There for any time Mike wants to use me as 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.000 a resource, and he does that on occasion. You know, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.600 I've got my hands full trying to run the defense 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.480 and I'm not going to try and impose my will 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.120 on things. But Mike's not reluctant to ask an opinion, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.640 and if he wants to use it, he can. If 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.960 he doesn't, he doesn't. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.439 I think the idea of having Fangio and Hill in house, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.360 and this is an extension of McDaniel's entire coaching philosophy, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.320 Let's get smart people, experience people who brings something to 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.720 the table that maybe not everyone else does. And back 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.520 to that Jory Epstein piece, McDaniel laid out what he 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.760 was looking for in a quarterbacks coach and it included 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.199 one having worked with multiple previous high profile quarterbacks Russell Wilson, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.200 Brett Favre, on and on and on for coach Bev, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.480 and two a former offensive coordinator Slash having play calling experience, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.360 which Bev checks both those boxes. And I think ultimately 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.160 it boils down to a complete trust and McDaniel to 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.000 maximize his resources, and in this game he has two 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.679 very very smart resources who were either in that building 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.200 next year or literally taught the man who's calling this 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.320 defense really what to do. So it's a hell of 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.719 a storyline as we have throughout this game. Before we 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.920 move on to the next one, some defensive metrics here 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.560 for the Chargers from twenty twenty two, sixty one percent 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.040 of the time in nickel, twenty five percent in their 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.480 base three four, and then eight percent in dime and 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.119 then other variations of sub packages there, which is pretty commonplace. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.800 And this goes back to what I mentioned with Staley 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.680 welcoming the run and the need for your middle linebacker 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.840 to be able to have insane range a lah. While 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.360 I think David Long is a great fit here in Miami. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.280 You know, they try to get that from Kenneth Murray. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.520 It hasn't worked out really great there. They've added Eric Kendricks, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.680 they drafted day On Henley, so clearly a point of 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.680 contention finding that speedy, rangy middle linebacker. And you know, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.680 Kendricks a little bit long in the tooth, and we'll 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.360 talk about him here a lot in this podcast. And Henley, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.520 as much as I love him, he's still kind of 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.120 a position convert, so I don't think you're going to 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.000 see much of him on defense in this opener. But 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.640 to tie it back to the you know, personnel in general, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.320 you're going to get personnel matching. That's like, you know, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.800 thirty of the three two teams, we'll do that. So 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.320 it's not uncommon, but you can sort of dictate against that. Right, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.200 So let's go ahead and revisit this. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.440 You bookmark that. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.760 We'll come back to that in the matchups portion. The 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.000 next storyline installing a new offense under Kellen Moore. It's 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.560 going to be a new system for the Chargers, no surprise. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 They list their depth chart in eleven personnel because just 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.880 like the defense, this is commonplace across the National Football 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.160 League and they work off each other. So one running back, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.320 one tight end, three receivers. That's eleven personnel. The two 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.560 numbers account for the running backs on the field and 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.240 the tight ends, and then you're left over for eligibles. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.120 The total numbers five is how many receivers you have, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.320 So eleven, one back, one tight end, what's one plus 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.960 one two? So there's three remaining three wide receivers, And 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.600 again customary for all teams across the league. Before we 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.600 get into some of the numbers and the personnel groupings, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.480 I want to look back at game ones for the 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.480 Cowboys under Kellen Moore, and we're on the wrong side 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.400 of a trend here, but I think you'll still appreciate 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.760 this point anyway. Last year they scored three points in 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.360 the openers had two hundred and forty four yards of offense. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.200 Both of those were season lows, and they don't play 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.240 their stars in the prese neither, So something's interesting to 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.320 chew on there for Kellen Moore and Cowboys and Chargers. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.600 Twenty twenty one was very good. Same Bucks team. They 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.880 lost both games, though, but twenty nine points and four 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.800 hundred and fifty one yards are obviously really good totals. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.240 In twenty twenty, just seventeen points in three hundred and 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.840 eighty yards. Those were both bottom five outputs for that 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.920 Cowboys team. Also a loss to the Rams back in 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.720 twenty nineteen, they went off thirty five points four hundred 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.480 and ninety four yards in this time a win against 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:27.840 a pretty good offensive production. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:29.760 Is there much to take from that? I don't know. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.160 I wanted to look further and go look at coaches 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.160 who were installing new systems on offense last year. And 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.880 this is not coaches who were promoted from a position 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.920 to OC guys that were brought in to install an 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.000 entirely new system. You know, think about Ken Dorsey and Buffalo. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.560 But from twenty twenty two. Here's the twelve teams point 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.960 outputs last year that had new OC's Bears nineteen, Broncos, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.480 sixteen Texans, twenty Colts, twenty Raiders, nineteen, your Miami Dolphins, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.760 twenty Vikings, twenty three Patriots, seven Giants, twenty one Steelers 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.200 had twenty. They scored twenty three and overtime so three 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.480 in the extra period. Seahawks seventeen, Buccaneers nineteen. I found 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.920 this interesting that only one team scored more than twenty 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.159 one points, and it was just twenty three, and the 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.159 average was eighteen point four points per game. If you 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.960 get eighteen points out of the Chargers on Sunday, you're 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:15.520 gonna win the game. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:16.639 That's that's how it's gonna go. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.560 And that includes the Miami offense that was a juggernaut, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.520 a damn good Vikings offense, a Seaattle offense that evolved 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.359 into a pretty good attack in its own right. I 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.160 think it's reasonable to expect some growing pains right out 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.600 of the gate. Only one of those teams adhere to 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.639 the non preseason playing time philosophy, and it was Brady, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.040 So the rust idea kind of comports itself there as well. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.679 But being able to capitalize on the Chargers potentially being 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.679 slow out the gates, I think it's very important in 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.879 this game, getting a couple of early scores against them 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.840 and then holding them on defense. I think if you 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.680 get out to a ten point lead or something in 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.679 the first quarter, I think you're going to cruise to victory. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.560 So really capitalizing on the potential of that rust if 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.920 it exists, and all of that takes us into our 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.960 next storyline here. But real quick, just some offensive splits 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.720 for Kellen Moore a year ago in Dallas sixty one 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.080 percent of the time and eleven personnel, so you're going 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.760 to see us match that likely with lots of five 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.720 dB personnel. But also they ran twelve personnel one back 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.920 two tight ends twenty two percent of the time, which 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.760 allows us to get into our depth in the front 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.280 seven play more. You know, Chubb Agba, Phillips, Baker and 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.440 long type of guys Seeler and Wilkins and Raq one like, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.600 keep those guys out there because you can stay with 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.000 that base against that personnel package and then just go 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:26.600 X and Cater and all of a sudden, you're not 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.600 getting into our depth in the cornerback room. So please 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.879 run twenty two personnel. You've got the possibility of matching 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.720 some big nickel with the safeties that we use to 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.680 come down and love to hit in the running game. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.880 De Shan Elliot's that guy, Brandon Jones is that guy. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.720 There's options. That's pretty much it, though nothing else more 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.080 than seven percent run from Dallas a year ago. We'll 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.280 do more on this next week, because I just don't 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.879 want to get into the weeds when it's predictive. We 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.640 don't have actual data to go off of the two 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.800 more storylines. Actually, we're at the break time right now. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.480 Let's go ahead and do that. Let's take our first 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.439 break and come back and finish up two storylines and 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.159 then get into the matchups for the game. That's all 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.240 next Draft Time Podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:06.960 you by Auto Nation. Tis the season for football Dolphins. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.800 Join your Miami Dolphins for our season kickoff party at 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.520 Oasis on Saturday, September ninth. Fans can enjoy giveaways and 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.240