WEBVTT - Dolphins Falcons Week 7 Preview 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Looking down down Miami spokes Water drawn. What is up, 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.720 Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:24.280 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.120 How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.680 and I am here to bring you your daily dose 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.839 of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's preview 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.360 Day as we break down the matchup with the Atlanta 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.320 Falcons this Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. Will go position 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.000 by a position, get your key data, talk about the 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.479 film I watched this week. We'll look at the keys, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.880 how the Dolphins will win this game, and we'll kick 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.800 off the week seven picks tonight with Thursday Night Football 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.320 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:04.760 This is the Drive Time Podcast best and so the 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.400 Dolphins will attempt to right the ship after a tough 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.360 one in five start to the season and a familiar foe. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.320 You might say, how is that? How are they familiar? 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.360 Travis will come back to hard Rock Stadium after their 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.319 trip back in August for a pair of joint practices 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.840 and an eventual thirty seven seventeen exhibition victory for Miami 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.040 in the building across the street from me right now, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.600 and the Falcons didn't play their starters in that game, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.200 and the Miami Dolphins found their rhythm offensively in that contest, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.720 and so to the defense too. But of course it'll 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.080 be a lot different this time around, as the Falcons 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.440 are an interesting study coming into this game, as we 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.160 start every preview podcast here taking a look at the opposition, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.280 how they got to this point where they are in 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.680 their organizational build and foundation, all that fun stuff. And 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.840 we start here with a team that was one quarter 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.280 away from a championship just six years ago three blew 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.200 that lead in the Super Bowl, have had some tough 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.840 times since then, not able to replicate that success or 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.600 really anything close to it. And the interesting aspect of 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.960 it all to me is that the quarterback has been 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.000 the same through it all. How many quarterbacks survived multiple rebuilds, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.400 and I think the talent of Matt Ryan is the 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.720 reason why he has. And he's been one of the 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.919 best quarterbacks in the NFL of the last fifteen years. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.000 I think one of the most criminally underrated quarterbacks throughout 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.639 the course of his career. But we'll come back to that. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.639 Since that heartbreaking Super Bowl loss, Atlanta returned to the 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.919 postseason just once the following season, with a Divisional round 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.760 exit after a victory in the wild card round to 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.400 the upstart Los Angeles Rams and Sean McVeigh. And that 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.000 was coming off a ten win season. After the eleven 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.680 win season resulted in the Super Bowl appearance for Atlanta, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.960 they followed that up with a pair of seven win 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.200 seasons before really bottening out last year at four and twelve, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.160 which ultimately cost Dan Quinn his job and resulted in 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.320 Arthur Smith getting the job this year. But even though 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.440 seven win seasons the two years prior occurred in a 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.240 way where despite the fact that they ultimately finished just 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.800 a couple of games shy of the postseason, it was 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.440 over pretty quickly. And they began this season one and four, 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.200 got back to four and four, but then fell to 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.760 four and nine, and in nineteen they started one and seven, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.560 and in the four and twelve campaign last year they 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.840 began the season oh and five. So slow starts have 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.839 plagued this Falcons team, but this has been the time 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.760 of the year where they start to get things kind 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.040 of going a little bit, and that's going to be 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.680 critical to keep an eye on, do they get the 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.760 offensive weapons going like they should on this Falcons offense. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.480 Is the defense gonna bounce back and play a little 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.160 bit better football here down the stretch and that's also 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.400 kind of been the trajectory of this Dolphins team in 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.920 the last couple of years. Right, So an interesting matchup 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.200 here Sunday is Arthur Smith brings his team to hard 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.360 Rock Stadium. Let's get into it, starting where we always start, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:50.520 with the opposing quarterback and those training camp practices back 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.680 in August. We're a nice example of two guys with 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.960 PhDs in football doing battle. Matt Ryan talked about Brian 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.440 Flores texting with him or it was a phone call 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.280 I can't read all about joking about drawing up some 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.200 new stuff for him since Mattie Ice has seen everything 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.760 this game has to offer, and there was plenty of 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.400 that in those practices. Remember that two minute period where 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.240 Emmanuel Ogba had back to back sacks and another pressure 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.600 that forced Ryan to throw the football away. The Dolphins 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.040 brought the heat in that practice, but there were also 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.440 a handful of times where Ryan threw under the face 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.680 of pressure two spots and made the blitzing Dolphins defense 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.280 pay for it. That was a fun couple of practices 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.440 and a good chess match back and forth between those two. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.760 But how does how do those numbers bear out for 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.480 a game that actually counts in the standings? Well against 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.120 the blitz this year, Matt Ryan's efficiency, like most good quarterbacks, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.120 goes up, but he's more prone to the turnover. All 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.719 three of his interceptions this season have come when the 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.479 opposition sends an extra rusher in his face. And to 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.480 incorporate the Miami safety play here, you guys know how 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.160 impressed I've been with Javon Holland throughout the course of 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.799 really his tenure here since getting back arriving back in April, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.479 and I think his range is already very impressive and 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.480 the ability to disguise will only continue to get better 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.680 each week as we see him get more work and 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.240 more experience and more seasoning. And that play in the 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.200 Jacksonville game to drive on that broken play with the 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.880 Lawrence scramble on the other side of the formation man, 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.040 that was just beautiful. And looking at Matt Ryan's passing chart, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.800 particularly twenty plus yards, his only completions in that range 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.480 come right down the middle of the field, which typically 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 suggests two high beaters right to cover two beaters with 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.200 the two high safeties are not cover two, but just 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.960 having two safeties pie of formation, and you run that 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.880 tight end of your slot right on the seam. And 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.400 then Ryan certainly adept enough to recognize that matchup quick 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.799 enough to get the ball into that difficult location before 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.960 they can rotate and react. And think about two US 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.840 pass to Derham smithe this past Sunday, quick stand up 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.760 and throw it right over the top of the linebackers 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.479 who would be the pipe runner and the old classic 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.440 Tampa two where you had your two safeties kind of 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.000 split wide and then you run that linebacker down the pipe. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.799 But you can't do that so much in today's NFL 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.960 because there's too much speed in the receiving game. But 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.080 you beat the safeties with the quickness of the release 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.480 and throw the football early to make that happen. In fact, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.880 the Falcons average five point five five yards per play 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.400 against two high looks and four point nine seven yards 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.080 per play against single high looks, and I think that 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.280 jives with the strength of their offense, which takes us 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.440 into our next matchup. But real quick here Ryan is 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.440 three for six with a two yards passing and a 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.520 touchdown down the middle twenty plus yards beyond the line 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.040 of scrimmage, and then outside the numbers to the left 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.880 over two and right outside the numbers O for four, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.240 so O for six combined there and a total of 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.440 three of twelve throwing twenty or more yards down the field. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.920 That's the stat that I think Miami has to maintain 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.359 in this game because the options they have in the 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.840 horizontal game and the intermediate portion of the field with 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.479 Cordurell Paterson and Kyle Pitts, it's really challenging to defend 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.800 those guys, which brings us into the Falcons receivers and 0:06:54.839 --> 0:07:00.000 tight ends verse the Dolphins cornerbacks and Patterson. He's lit 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.080 did as a running back now and he was one 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.680 of my biggest draft crushes back even though he was 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.960 one of the most prolific return men in the history 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.400 of the National Football League the last several years. Can 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.880 I maybe finally celebrated victory on him as a draft 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.520 nick eight years after the fact, even though it didn't 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.000 work in Minnesota's a receiver, but he's got forty one 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.240 catches on the season and carry so he lines up 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.000 in the backfield, but he catches the football ton Four 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.840 of his five touchdowns have come on the through the air, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.240 I should say, with one on the ground, and he's 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.520 got just four point two yards per rushes a ball 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.280 carrier and eleven point eight yards per catch as a receiver. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.320 I thought this guy was gonna be a big play 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.040 vertical receiver coming out, but he's found his niche here 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.400 with the Falcons and Arthur Smith, and he dictates a 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.840 lot of what they do as he's used on motion 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.400 so frequently, which obviously helps Ryan get his pre snap 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.440 indicators for the coverage what the defense might do to rotate. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.080 But he's still much more than that. He's effective in 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.520 the screen game. He's valuable on jet sweeps and pop passes. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.520 He can straight uptake carries and run behind side zone 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.480 or duo. I mean, he's truly one of the most 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.040 versatile players in the National Football League, and I think 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.280 he creates this conflict between playing bass and sub when 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.960 he's on the field, and that obviously helps Matt Ryan 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.880 to decide whether or not he wants to run the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.400 ball or pass it depending on his checks or depending 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.840 on his matchups and the other weapon I think you 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.520 focus on most. It's not a receiver, it's a tight end. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.080 How many teams are tight end slash running back driven 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.680 offensively unique for sure, though I thought the most prevalent 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.840 instance of Pitts and Patterson led offense was in the 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.760 absence of Calvin Ridley, who missed the last Falcons game 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.520 for personal reasons. But he's back, So I want to 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.760 start with Kyle Pitts first, though. Matchup nightmare. We talked 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.800 about this all draft season long, right. He can post 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.599 guys up, he can run routes like a receiver, he 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.080 can attack leverage, he has quickness on the two way 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.319 goes to make you pay for that. He's just a very, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.000 very skilled player. One of four players and I thought 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.000 were just significantly different than the rest of the class 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.839 in terms of those skill players with Waddle, Smith, Chase 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.600 and Pitts. But he had his coming out party in London. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.960 In that game that Ridley did not play, nine of 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.600 ten targets were caught for a hundred and nineteen yards 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.559 and you can see the peril he was putting those 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.720 Jets defenders in because if you play him tight, he 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.840 can beat you with that quickness, and if you play off, 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.240 he's gonna just attack leverage and make contested catches when 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.440 you drive on the football. So it's a tough matchup 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.680 and that brings us back to the safety distribution. Seems 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.199 like a good opportunity here to for me to watch 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.760 Javon holl And cover the deep portion of the field 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.280 and load up with a second, maybe even a third 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.680 and big nickel packages or dime packages with your third 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.160 safety on the field down close to the line of scrimmage. Now, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.319 with Ridley back, it seems like it might be a 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.280 good time to let Xavian Howard travel, provided that he 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.120 plays in the game. He was limited in practice on Wednesday. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.800 But if he travels with Ridley, that guy's a technician 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.720 and he'll get his because the Falcons will not shy 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.160 away from targeting him. And you know how I feel 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.360 about targeting x double digit times in a game, and 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.560 that's ten plus times you're risking a turnover with the 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.559 best ball hawk in the that sational football league. Good 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.120 on good, Let's see who's good is better. And Ridley 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 does go inside to the slot of the time, so 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.719 it's not a Boocanneers situation where Antonio Brown can kick 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.280 in you know, thtent of the time inside he can, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.120 but he doesn't do it that often. And that's where 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.160 I think you have to consider the press trail with 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.280 a cap a double team technique on Ridley when he 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.560 goes inside. Pits, however, is from the slot, So the 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.560 idea of doubling there makes sense to on both those looks, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.480 whether it's Pits or Ridley. Otherwise, if Byron Jones is back, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.640 that could be a good matchup with Russell Gauge, who's 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.640 also questionable to come back for this game. I believe 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.120 he quietly has had a pretty good year and he's 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.960 a pretty good receiver, I should say in his own right. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.280 So this is a good on good type of matchup here. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.600 And this number real quick to close up is crazy 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.560 to me. The Cordill Patterson's A dot average depth of 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.680 target is three point eight yards and the averages three 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.319 point nine three yards per route run. That's like almost 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.520 top in the National Football League with one of the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.560 lowest A dots also averages seven point eight yards after 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.480 the catch on average. Watch out for that guy. Then 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.760 we go into the trenches. The Atlanta offensive line versus 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.680 Dolphins defensive line and their pressure numbers allowed are as 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.240 such Jake Matthews six pressures, one QB hit, no sacks, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.000 Chris Lyndstrom the exact same six pressures, one hit, no sex. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.240 Matt Hennessy, the former Temple Owl who had a really 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.960 good Senior Bowl a couple of years back, twelve pressures allowed, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.079 one sack allowed. Then the right side things get a 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.280 little bit more dicey. Jalen Mayfield, the rookie twenty pressures, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.439 four sacks, nine hits allowed. And Caleb McGarry, the former 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.600 you dub Husky Go Cougas baby four team pressures, two 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.840 sacks and four hits. They really hit on the left 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.120 side of this offensive line. It was a bit of 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.679 a slow burn for them, but both Matthews and Lyndstrom 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.920 have developed into really really good players on that left side, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.560 and Hennessey, I think is coming on to now. You'll 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.080 notice the other two players were also high draft picks. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:53.720 All five of these guys were. In fact, I think 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.880 Mayfield at pick this past season is the lowest of 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.559 the bunch. But they are not having as much success 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.040 on that right side this season, with the combined thirty 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.400 four pressures allowed off that right side of the offensive line, 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.680 So I look at some of the matchups here. We 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.600 talk all the time about Emmanuel Ogba's hands right, the 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.360 heavy hands, the cross chop, the ability to get that 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.040 tackle upfield, swipe the hands down corner and get to 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.600 the quarterback when you flatten that thing. And that's where 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.840 I think Kayla McGarry has had some struggles on tape 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.960 this year, so I'm very intrigued to see how they 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.400 approach Emmanuel Ogba and if he can go ahead and 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.560 take over this game off that right side. It's the 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.080 same deal inside to the position next to him. And 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.120 we talked about Christian Wilkins hands on the podcast this week. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.680 I swear he's he's faster and better with the hands 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.240 this year. It's produced more production for Christian Wilkins, but 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.360 that paired with the quickness off the football. I liked 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.280 them a lot as a tandem in the rush game 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.200 this week, especially if you can run some games off 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.560 that side and kind of mix things up. But just 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 using both those guys quickness, get off, lateral agility and 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.920 heavy hands could have a good impact off the right 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.480 side of the Falcon's offensive line. And Mayfield just kind 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.160 of look at some of the guys they've played against 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.760 this year. He had his hands full with the Eagles 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.800 early in the season and Fletcher Cox and a couple 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.800 of weeks ago against Washington and Jonathan Allen, two of 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.920 the better interior guys in the league. And his best 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.120 game was against the interior Giants defensive line that has 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.000 a guy like Dexter Lawrence who's more size and power 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.319 than he has quickness and speed. So I think Wilkins 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.800 is a good matchup there. And then McGarry struggles with 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.640 John Frank Lamers of the Jets and Montes Sweat of 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:27.080 the Football Team, both bigger, heavier handed guys like Emmanuel Ogba. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.959 Then finally, our last matchup on that side of the football, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.560 the Falcons running backs. First, the Dolphins linebackers. Mike Davis 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.640 is an absolute bowling ball who offers production the passing game. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.960 It's a pretty weird dichotomy there as far as he goes. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.800 He averages like three point three yards per carry, but 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.880 he's also forced sixteen miss tackles on the season. The 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.840 challenge here, I think is going to be those twenty 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.959 one personnel packages, and granted it's like ten snaps a 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.600 game at most, but it tests your different packages and 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.480 what you might roll with my personnel perspective, and that's 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.480 where Matt Ryan can kind of get you to either 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.360 get too many men on the field, maybe you get misaligned. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.040 That's where he really goes after you with his understanding 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.040 and knowledge of the games. You have to be careful there. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.480 But I think Jerome Baker and not like he ever 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.400 leaves the field anyway, could have a big role because 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.640 of what they can do with Patterson. But the other 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 linebacker reps I think will be interesting to see how 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.360 they divulge those. Do you want to load up and 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.920 stop the run more Land and Robert style of game? 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.080 Are you more concerned with the passing game more of 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.120 a Sam Egbon type of role as well, So how 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.880 they decide that will be intriguing in this game. Some 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.640 offensive notes for the Falcons, they run eleven personnel of 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.640 the time, but six success rate on the past nice 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.800 for them. Success rate on the running game, uh A 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.760 twelve personnel thirty seven percent of the time in that package, 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.280 So you get a lot of Pits, a lot of 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.040 hayden Hurst there as well. Only team higher is the 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.000 Miami Dolphins. But they have a seventy seventy percent success 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.800 rate in the past and percent success right in the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.720 running game. Out of one personnel, they run that twelve 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.000 percent of the time. Think Paterson and Davis together fifty 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.320 percent pass rate success and run rate success. So what 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.080 does that tell you? This team is a passing team first, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.440 pass first, all the way. And it's really been that 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.440 way since Shanahan left back on the other side of 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.120 the football. Dolphins quarterback and the Atlanta safeties and office. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.000 First game back in which I thought he was very good. Actually, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.200 you know what, why don't we go ahead now? And 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.720 here from Dolphins co offensive coordinator George Gatzi, who assessed 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.640 to a tongue about Lowe's first game back from the 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.080 rib injury that had him on injury reserve this last 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.760 week against the Jacksonville Jaguars. You know, I thought that 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.680 for a guy that had quite a bit of time off, 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.880 and uh, you know, it came out firing. We had 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.640 a couple of penalties that you know we were able 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.160 to overcome in the first series and uh, this core touchdown. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.880 I thought it was an impressive drive, to be Honestum, yeah, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.400 like I said, coming off of an injury and not 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.120 really being able to practice how he wanted to. I 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.160 thought I was a credit to him and as far 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.840 as you know, his his preparation, and uh, you know 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.400 there's another drive during the during a game where you know, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.840 we had turned had to turnover, they got the ball, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.600 we stopped him, and you know I had a really 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.760 impressive touchdown drive. Um, you know, over ninety yards. So 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.200 those two drives are really impressive. Um, you know from 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.120 our perspective, And like I said, he was able to 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:30.080 overcome some some negative plays offensively or you know, and 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.600 convert third downs, which is you know that that's what 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.400 the quarterback position is about. So um, we're gonna use 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.480 those as as far as uh things to build on 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.720 because um, you know, the more drives we have like that, obviously, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.680 the better off will overall be. And to also earned 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.920 the admiration of ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky, who said that 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.760 he charted to with four big time reaction throws under pressure, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.360 three great crossers, four awesome tight window throws, and they'll 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.120 need it again to try to match Matt Ryan and 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.240 the explosive Atlanta offense. As far as the Atlanta safeties go, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.639 Eric Harris and dron Harmon are their primary safety is 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.000 a pair of vets who are difficult to full, especially Harmon. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.600 They will operate in three safety looks quite frequently. Jalen 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.879 Hawkins has played of their snaps, and I thought two 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.560 did a fantastic job in his first game back of 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.760 manipulating the Jaguar safeties even in the face of pressure. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.280 Again twenty pressures and no sacks allowed in that game, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.359 and that will be the challenge here again for Tuah 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.360 to repeat that success. And one thing I think we'd 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.120 all love to see is to just remove that one 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.400 mistake that has hit to each of his first two 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.800 starts here this season, or two of the full games played, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.520 I should say, the two picks that take away those 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.320 two plays and TWA has ratings well north of one 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.840 hundred and certainly helps value or elevate all the other 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.120 good plays he has made so far in those two 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.119 full games. Now where to one needs the complimentary area 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.480 of the game to kick in the Dolphins receivers and 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.440 tight ends against the cornerbacks of the Atlanta Falcons. Davante 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.240 Parker was back at practice. Adam Shaheen and Preston Williams 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.719 to all three of them limited on Wednesday, but they 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.159 were out there for the walkthrough, so it could be 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.000 a nice full compliment for two of this weekend, sans 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.080 Fuller obviously, who remains on injury reserve for at least 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.480 one more week. But last Sunday we saw twenty two 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.480 targets to the combination of Waddle and get Sicky and 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.920 tight ends in general saw nineteen combined targets in that game. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.679 We know the Dolphins run more twelve personnel than anybody 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.359 else in the NFL, and that was heavily featured with 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.760 Waddle and Hollins as the guys, and that grouping four 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.439 catches on five targets for sixty one yards for Hollands, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.040 by the way. And so now as Mac continues to 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.679 show some of the stuff that I thought stood out 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.439 in camp that really impressed us this August, and the 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.600 possible inclusion of Davante in Preston to us suddenly has 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.320 some of the trees to throw the football too on 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.119 the outside. Not to mention Mike Getsicki, who continues to 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.080 go off the season, but you paired that with the 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.840 skill set of Waddle, we saw Albert Wilson get targeted 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.360 a few times and have his first few catches or 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.119 his second, third, fourth catch of the season. Miami had 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.040 a decent balance of side and speed on the roster 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.560 at this point. And the reason I mentioned this is because, well, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.800 we always say that styles make fights, right, and we 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.840 always look at the tail of the tape in our matchups. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.560 Here and Atlanta's three top snap takers at cornerback Fabian 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.520 Monroe or Moreau rather excuse me, six ft tall two 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:21.040 pounds A J. Terrell six, Isaiah Oliver six ft two 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.960 oh one, So some big dudes out there. And Moreau 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.040 does have the Loan Falcons interception. This season, he's been 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.679 targeted the most twenty four times. Torell on one fifty 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.040 one coverage snaps has allowed just six completions on six 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.720 team targets for forty two yards, and Isaiah Oliver, who 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.720 primarily plays in the slot, nine completions on fifteen targets 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.879