Speaker 1: Exactly touchdown Miami n What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time podcast part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each
Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we turn the page ahead and
Speaker 1: look to the Denver Broncos will preview that game. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from coach Flora's and some players, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna open up the context matters with stats file is
Speaker 1: I tell you why Miami has the ninth best points
Speaker 1: per game average compared to the total offense in terms
Speaker 1: of yardage, and why the first number is the only
Speaker 1: one that matters. All of that and more on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November eight edition of the Drivetime Podcasts A lot of
Speaker 1: times brought to you by Auto Nation, where Dolphins fans
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Speaker 1: dot com. And so. On Tuesday night, I was watching
Speaker 1: the broadcast copy of the game. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: some some statistical anomalies or maybe some statistical things that
Speaker 1: didn't add up, and it brought me back to a
Speaker 1: few comments we've heard from both Josh Boyer and Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: And first I want to go ahead and play some
Speaker 1: audio here from Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Bowyer back on
Speaker 1: November the tenth, so last Tuesday, when he was asked
Speaker 1: about which stats to him out of the most on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football. Well, I would say
Speaker 1: in order, I mean, for me, uh, when I look
Speaker 1: at it, one is that we do what we need
Speaker 1: to do to win the game. Uh to obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: we would like to keep the point totals down three.
Speaker 1: We we would like to get the ball back to
Speaker 1: the offense as soon as we possibly can so and
Speaker 1: obviously we're not trying to give up big chunkyards, big plays. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. But as far as the stats go, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said last week, I don't really pay any
Speaker 1: attention to him. Um, you know, it's more of a
Speaker 1: factor of us trying to put our players in position
Speaker 1: to six eed and for us to win the game.
Speaker 1: And really, ultimately is a defense, what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do is limit the points and get the ball back
Speaker 1: to the offense. So that's where Josh Bowyer weighs in
Speaker 1: back last Tuesday. On Monday, we had Coach Flora's talking
Speaker 1: about something similar with regards to interceptions from Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: and sacks from Emmanuel Augba. Here's what coach had to
Speaker 1: say about the flash plays on the box score. I
Speaker 1: think people, you know, put a lot into interceptions and sacks,
Speaker 1: and I know we've had these conversations before, and they're
Speaker 1: big plays. And he had a big play yesterday and
Speaker 1: he's made some big plays, but the rest of his
Speaker 1: game has really improved as well, getting off of blocks,
Speaker 1: tackling um, just pure coverage when the balls not being
Speaker 1: thrown his way. You know, you know, I have this conversation.
Speaker 1: I probably haven't had it with you guys, but over
Speaker 1: the course of the season, let's call it a starter.
Speaker 1: In the league, there's d end or receiver or dB
Speaker 1: get a thousand snaps thousands, So if you get ten
Speaker 1: interceptions with twenty sacks, you're talking about one two of
Speaker 1: the snaps. Roughly, my math is right, probably isn't because
Speaker 1: I'm not very good at math, But to me, it's
Speaker 1: the other ninety nine that really matters. Yeah, those are
Speaker 1: huge place they are, But you know, I try to
Speaker 1: focus on and get those guys really good at at that,
Speaker 1: and then I think the other two percent kind of
Speaker 1: one percent kind of happens. So I bring that up
Speaker 1: because Coach came back to this exact same question that
Speaker 1: was about xaviing Howard today he was asked about Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogball in the sack production. You heard him talk there
Speaker 1: about the things that x has grown on in his game.
Speaker 1: We saw him play that that deep third the cover
Speaker 1: three look, drives out of his back pedal, makes a
Speaker 1: big interception, changes the game, certainly a big time play.
Speaker 1: The plays you don't think about. The tackle off the
Speaker 1: edge on Jalen Guyton short of the sticks to put
Speaker 1: out the Dolphins in a position to get off the
Speaker 1: field on third down, which they would the charges would
Speaker 1: convert on fourth down, but the play that sets up
Speaker 1: a play to get off the football field. Coach talked
Speaker 1: about his tackling, getting off blocks off the edge. I've
Speaker 1: noticed that a few times on the tape, myself exaving
Speaker 1: Howard holding the point off the edge on the outside run.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach talking about Emmanuel Ogball, his sacks and more
Speaker 1: flash stats and again going back to that number one
Speaker 1: thousand snaps compared to ten sacks, one percent of your plays.
Speaker 1: Here's coach uh you know, yeah, we talked about it
Speaker 1: on Monday. I went back and did the math. So
Speaker 1: the course of the season, most guy, it's called a
Speaker 1: thousand plays. The twenty sacks season is an all time season.
Speaker 1: It's literally two percent of the players. I think we
Speaker 1: can all do the math. Um, everyone can do the math.
Speaker 1: But those are the plays that we, you know, are
Speaker 1: focused and focused on, and I'm focused on the other
Speaker 1: Those plays are fantastic. We love him, everybody loves them,
Speaker 1: but those are the flash plays and mh, it's those
Speaker 1: other players that uh, we as a stat try to
Speaker 1: focus on, try to get all those things right. Those
Speaker 1: those plays that you know no one's really watching, that
Speaker 1: really helped the team and you know, help your your teammates.
Speaker 1: I think does a great job from that standpoint, taking
Speaker 1: on blockers, taking on double teams, setting the edge, you know,
Speaker 1: getting in the gap, one on the game, or a stunt,
Speaker 1: getting his hands up, Um, no one could throws communication.
Speaker 1: And to finish that point up there with Coach Flora's
Speaker 1: we also heard Josh boy Or yesterday talk about the
Speaker 1: trust that the players and coaches have with one another
Speaker 1: to go ahead and make in game adjustments and hey,
Speaker 1: I saw this, here's what we can do as far
Speaker 1: as what I'm seeing on the football filled with the
Speaker 1: coach might not be able to see on the sideline
Speaker 1: and then make adjustments. And Boyer also mentions not just
Speaker 1: about things that can they can do to help free
Speaker 1: themselves up, but hey, I can do this and create
Speaker 1: an opportunity for a teammate because it's all about the
Speaker 1: eleven guys on the field and what's better for the
Speaker 1: bigger picture, not the individual. And so the reason I
Speaker 1: bring up these old clips and these old audios because
Speaker 1: I had a thought about, you know, the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: production late on Tuesday night that I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: on the Wednesday podcast. And obviously these points hold more
Speaker 1: power coming from Brian Flores than it does Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: But I've been telling people what coach just said for years.
Speaker 1: And just some background on me as a kid, I
Speaker 1: had a white board my bedroom, my childhood bedroom from
Speaker 1: age like six to well to like twenty when I
Speaker 1: first moved out because late Bloomer, I know, but I
Speaker 1: would re memberize lineups, stats, facts, everything I could about
Speaker 1: not just the Dolphins, but the NFL in general, and
Speaker 1: this eventually led to more research, the utilization of more resources.
Speaker 1: You see me use Pro Football Focus often in the
Speaker 1: articles and the podcast with their signature stats never grades,
Speaker 1: but the black and white statistics that are not really
Speaker 1: up for debate. I love to use those as far
Speaker 1: as like coverage numbers or pressures that type of thing.
Speaker 1: But I also spent time a few years back building
Speaker 1: and launching and operating a website that charted every single
Speaker 1: pass from every single quarterback in the NFL a few
Speaker 1: years back. This is all a long winded way of
Speaker 1: me trying to tell you that I've long wanted to
Speaker 1: know why things happen on a football field, not just
Speaker 1: the result. There it is, be done with it. No,
Speaker 1: not that I want to know why things are the
Speaker 1: way they are. Okay, that makes sense. And to put
Speaker 1: all of this into proper context. For the past fifteen
Speaker 1: years or so, let's call it, I still get texts
Speaker 1: and calls from my friends back home who always say,
Speaker 1: Travis when help settling a debate, we need our football guy.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of who I've been my whole life.
Speaker 1: This is what I care about. So I've been telling
Speaker 1: everyone for as long as I can remember, you want
Speaker 1: to judge a quarterback on the five or six I
Speaker 1: n t s he gets every year. And I once
Speaker 1: had a friend literally tell me, well, player X has
Speaker 1: more I n t s than player Why that's one
Speaker 1: percent of the plays, man? What about the other of
Speaker 1: the plays out there? So for me, it's been fun
Speaker 1: to hear coach talk about the last week or two
Speaker 1: and help drive the point home from an expert in
Speaker 1: the field, a PhD level football mind that it's not
Speaker 1: about the one percent, it's about of plays on the field.
Speaker 1: So thank you, coach. I could not agree more so.
Speaker 1: That diet tribe leads me into something I was looking
Speaker 1: into last night after watching the broadcast copy of the game.
Speaker 1: And so there's some more evidence for you saw the
Speaker 1: game in person on Sunday, watch the All twenty two
Speaker 1: on Monday, then watch the proadcast copy on Tuesday. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what I do, man, that's what I care about.
Speaker 1: I became interested in why there was such a discrepancy
Speaker 1: and yardage compared to points for the offense, and Flores
Speaker 1: talked about the Rams game and the yards discrepancy between
Speaker 1: the two teams in that game. How he said, the
Speaker 1: box score tells you that the Dolphins were dominated in
Speaker 1: that game, and he certainly did not feel that way.
Speaker 1: And he's right. Miami controlled that entire game, just like
Speaker 1: they did against the Chargers, and holding one of the
Speaker 1: game's most explosive passing offenses to one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: seven yards where Herbert averaged over three hundred yards coming in.
Speaker 1: They limited Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Jalen Guiton. They were
Speaker 1: confusing these guys into deciding to run the football so
Speaker 1: as to not put the ball in harm's way. And
Speaker 1: that's what Keenan Allen told reporters on Monday. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and check out Daniel Popper's Twitter. He said as much
Speaker 1: from Keenan Allen, we didn't want to pass the ball
Speaker 1: because something bad could happen. We were confused out there.
Speaker 1: So here's what I found. The Dolphins are ninth and
Speaker 1: points per game despite ranking and total offense. How does
Speaker 1: that disparity happen? The phrase hidden yardage sounds like a
Speaker 1: generic buzz phrase, but it's the integral part of why
Speaker 1: Miami's twenty seven point nine points per game, or being
Speaker 1: posted the best since the Dan Know era here in Miami,
Speaker 1: and during that three game period, since quarterback to a
Speaker 1: Tonk of Baloa took the controls, the Dolphins have had
Speaker 1: possessions that started at the opponent's forty seven, thirty three
Speaker 1: and one yard line twice. That's twenty four points. They
Speaker 1: scored three touchdowns and a field goal out of a
Speaker 1: possible twenty eight points on four scoring drives. They gained
Speaker 1: fifty yards out of a possible eighty two on those
Speaker 1: three drives, so twenty four points out of fifty yards
Speaker 1: of offense. That's not a bad thing at all, being
Speaker 1: set up in the opponent's territory and putting points on
Speaker 1: the board with touchdowns after turnovers. It's also not a
Speaker 1: bad thing that three possessions have essentially been taken away
Speaker 1: by the defense or special teams putting the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Over those last three games, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have nine turnovers. That includes the blocked punt and turnovers
Speaker 1: on downs. From those nine turnovers, they've cashed in six
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two field goals. That's a possible sixty three
Speaker 1: points right seven times nine sixty three. They've gained. They've
Speaker 1: scored forty eight points out of those nine turnovers. So
Speaker 1: when you only have to go thirty three yards or
Speaker 1: one yard on to two touchdown drives, or you have
Speaker 1: three touchdowns taken away from the offense because the defense
Speaker 1: or special team scored, you're not gonna get yardage out
Speaker 1: of those possessions, but you get the points. So that's
Speaker 1: why points rule. That's why they keep track of points
Speaker 1: and not yards on the scoreboard to find out who
Speaker 1: wins football games. It's pretty simple if you ask me,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to put context of that so we
Speaker 1: can understand why the Dolphins are a top ten scoring offense,
Speaker 1: but the yardage is not there. You need context of
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Let's go ahead and get back
Speaker 1: to coach for two more questions at his Wednesday morning
Speaker 1: media availability. We're gonna do a feature on Shack loss
Speaker 1: In this week and talk about the energy he brings
Speaker 1: this football team, both from a character standpoint and a
Speaker 1: production standpoint. So I wanted to ask coach Flora's about
Speaker 1: how he balances finding that balance between serious focus and
Speaker 1: let's kind of get to the task at hand, to
Speaker 1: being light and having things kind of not so serious
Speaker 1: at all the time, and how they can find that
Speaker 1: balance and how much shack loss and helps create that
Speaker 1: balance in the Dolphins locker room. And look, I think
Speaker 1: anytime you look what we do is it's not easy
Speaker 1: playing football. And yeah, you have to be demanding. It's
Speaker 1: a physical game, it's a violent game. So anyway you
Speaker 1: can make it fun. As a coach, that's I think
Speaker 1: you need to try to do that. I think each
Speaker 1: coach has their own different personality. My mind is different
Speaker 1: than a lot of other guys. M another, A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of other guys are different in mind,
Speaker 1: and each player is the same way. So but I
Speaker 1: think as a coach, the best approach is to let
Speaker 1: players know be themselves. Um, and coaches have to be
Speaker 1: themselves also. I think you know, if you're genuine and authentic,
Speaker 1: and I mean you can have you have peace with
Speaker 1: the things you say and how you interact with people.
Speaker 1: If you're making it up on the fly, then I
Speaker 1: think people see through that too. So look, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're young guys. They want to have they want to
Speaker 1: have fun. I mean, they're they want to laugh and
Speaker 1: joke around with each other, and they joke around with
Speaker 1: the coaches and h we jump back and shocks shocks,
Speaker 1: full of life shocks. Um, I've got a great laugh apparently,
Speaker 1: and uh, he's a lot of fun to be around. You.
Speaker 1: You don't want to temper that, you know, as a coach,
Speaker 1: you don't want to You want to let him be himself. Um,
Speaker 1: bring bring his energy to the rest of the group,
Speaker 1: and they feed off of it. And I think it
Speaker 1: makes sense a better team. And we'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: get one more question here for coach Flora's as a
Speaker 1: prelude into our Dolphins and Broncos preview with Drew Locks.
Speaker 1: Uncertain status for Sunday up in the air right now.
Speaker 1: Coach was asked about the challenges of preparing for two
Speaker 1: different quarterbacks. I mean, you watch more. We've they both played,
Speaker 1: so there's plenty of film on both quarterbacks. Were really
Speaker 1: really all three. So UM, we watch it and we um,
Speaker 1: we evaluate those guys that strengths and weaknesses in conjunction
Speaker 1: with our game plan and see at the games it's
Speaker 1: called differently with those guys in there. If it is,
Speaker 1: we don't have to adjust. But I think they do
Speaker 1: a good job working with the strengths of each different quarterback,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a tough test either way. And look,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of really good young skill players.
Speaker 1: Judy Hamler no fan good back, so I think that's
Speaker 1: it's to be a tough test for us. So that
Speaker 1: you have a coach Flores is Wednesday morning media availability
Speaker 1: a perfect prelude into our Dolphins and Broncos preview. Week
Speaker 1: eleven is already here, man, the season flying by as
Speaker 1: it does every single year. Six and three Dolphins at
Speaker 1: the three and six Broncos Sunday November four or five
Speaker 1: kickoff once again, the last four or five kickoff schedule
Speaker 1: for now, we'll see what happens in December, but the
Speaker 1: last four or five schedule kickoff for your Miami Dolphins, Denver,
Speaker 1: Colorado and power field forty two degrees partly cloudy nine
Speaker 1: mile prour wins. And I always like to look at
Speaker 1: the comparisons of where these teams are in their particular
Speaker 1: building process with a particular moment or I should say
Speaker 1: stage of their program. Are they in? And Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and Vic Fangio both were hired at the start of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to their first ever head coaching jobs, and
Speaker 1: since then both coaches have used high draft picks on
Speaker 1: a quarterback, Tongue by Lowa obviously going fifth overall and
Speaker 1: Drew Lock going forty to the Broncos. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are three and oh and game started by
Speaker 1: Tongue by Lowo the Broncos six and six with Drew
Speaker 1: Lock in the lineup. He came off the bench last
Speaker 1: year and went four and one down the stretch and
Speaker 1: has had some ups and downs this year with both
Speaker 1: injury and wins and losses for the Broncos uh this season,
Speaker 1: but they're in search for their first win at home
Speaker 1: this year. They're oh and four in Denver. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: are three and one in road games, so an interesting battle.
Speaker 1: They're back and forth. But one of Miami's keys to
Speaker 1: victories has been that strong special teams play. We talked
Speaker 1: about it with the hidden yardage in the context of
Speaker 1: Miami winning field position Jachem Grant having three punt returns
Speaker 1: of twenty one, nineteen and eighteen yards. That helps you
Speaker 1: flip the field and put the ball in oppositions territory
Speaker 1: to start your drive. And with the often strong performance
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Chargers, they have now jumped to
Speaker 1: the number one spot on Football Outsiders d v o
Speaker 1: A with special teams rankings and Danny Croftsman discussed the
Speaker 1: benefit of having a head coach with a background in
Speaker 1: the game's third phase and as a Dolphins fan, you
Speaker 1: know by now the coach Flora has got his start
Speaker 1: in the special teams part of the game. And on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman was asked about the benefit of having a
Speaker 1: head coach who does have such a rich background in
Speaker 1: special teams and how it kind of maybe opens up
Speaker 1: a dialogue and a conversation between the two. Here's Coach
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman on the conversations he and Brian Flora. Is
Speaker 1: having the benefit of having a head coach with such
Speaker 1: a good background and special teams play well. I think
Speaker 1: it's big, you know, with having that background that that
Speaker 1: flow has. Is the communication is I don't want to
Speaker 1: see simpler, uh, but it's an easier conversation because he
Speaker 1: understands a lot of the concepts techniques, both in terms
Speaker 1: of you know what we're looking for and you know
Speaker 1: how it's going to affect or what impact it could
Speaker 1: happen on the opposition because he understands both sides of it.
Speaker 1: So obviously having that background is is big for me
Speaker 1: and and big for us in terms of our communication.
Speaker 1: And so the Dolphins do jump to that number one
Speaker 1: spot on Football Outsiders d v O, a special Teams rankings,
Speaker 1: a nice honor to hold atop that perch in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And so that's always a matchup you look at. And
Speaker 1: in this game, we're gonna start off with the first
Speaker 1: matchup I'm looking at between the Dolphins and Broncos. To
Speaker 1: run the football. The Dolphins enter Week eleven with ranked
Speaker 1: rushing offense. The Broncos have the twenty three ranked running defense.
Speaker 1: Something's got to give there and behind running back savan
Speaker 1: achmed last week his eighties six rushing yards against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins had their second highest total this year, with
Speaker 1: a buck eleven on the ground. Of course, some of
Speaker 1: that given back at the end of the game with
Speaker 1: some kneel downs and some runs to kind of help
Speaker 1: shorten the game Towards the end of that contest, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are likely to dodge inclement weather. As we talked about,
Speaker 1: forty two degrees on Sunday on this mid November trip
Speaker 1: to the Rocky Mountains could be a lot worse out there,
Speaker 1: But as the weather cools down, running the football becomes
Speaker 1: increasingly important, as offensive line coach Steve Marshall said he
Speaker 1: likes the direction of this Dolphins run game where it's trending.
Speaker 1: He talked about it being a big emphasis on his
Speaker 1: press conference on Tuesday. We played that for you on
Speaker 1: the podcast yesterday, so I'll go back and check that
Speaker 1: out if you have not heard it. But the Denver
Speaker 1: defensive line has played so many different players up front
Speaker 1: this year. No defensive tackle for the Broncos has exceeded
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent of their defensive snaps. So forcing Denver
Speaker 1: into that deep dive rotation getting multiple guys in the
Speaker 1: field could only benefit the Dolphins to keep that running
Speaker 1: game turning and getting positive yards throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game. A successful run game creates more opportunities also
Speaker 1: in the passing game. A perfect segue into our second
Speaker 1: key matchup to build off that running game, and Tunga
Speaker 1: Bayla has been under pressure only fifteen dropbacks since assuming
Speaker 1: the starting role in Week eight. According to Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: A combination of solid pass protect him, a quick release
Speaker 1: that he has that quick trigger, and a scheme devised
Speaker 1: around getting the football out of his hands quickly, all
Speaker 1: play apart in Miami sturdy play up front. For the
Speaker 1: first time since eight team, the Dolphins did not allow
Speaker 1: a sack on their quarterback and had just five pressures
Speaker 1: in that game allowed. And for context, Miami's defense averages
Speaker 1: eighteen point eight pressures per game, so more than a
Speaker 1: third less of what the average Dolphins pressures are per game.
Speaker 1: They allowed that on their own quarterback. And we've seen
Speaker 1: Miami implement the run pass option, zone re looks, wildcat packages,
Speaker 1: fly sweet motion, plenty of diversity designed to keep the
Speaker 1: defense off balance, and Tongue of Byaloa is computing of
Speaker 1: his passes off play action for six point nine yards
Speaker 1: per pass, one touchdown and no interceptions. With the running
Speaker 1: game finding more success last week, perhaps play action could
Speaker 1: play a bigger role this week, and we talked about
Speaker 1: the quick release. NFL next gen stats has Tongue Byloa
Speaker 1: with the sixth quickest time from snap to throw two
Speaker 1: point five four seconds on average, And you go back
Speaker 1: to Ryan Fitzpatrick when he was playing. It's part of
Speaker 1: the scheme because he was fourth on that list with
Speaker 1: snap to time to throw. So the Dolphins quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: it out quick by design a good running game with
Speaker 1: play action, and that quick release can help slow down
Speaker 1: outside linebacker for Denver Bradley Chubb, who's thirty quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: and five and a half sacks are both in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And we heard coach Flores talk about
Speaker 1: preparing for a couple of quarterbacks that brings us into
Speaker 1: our third and final matchup preview here overwhelming the young
Speaker 1: quarterback whoever it is, because he Vic Fangio announced that
Speaker 1: Drew Lock would be questionable to practice this week's standing
Speaker 1: from that rib injury that he suffered in the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday at Las Vegas. If Lock can't go, it'll
Speaker 1: be another sophomore quarterback and Brett Rippon and Sunday the
Speaker 1: Dolphins through the kitchen sink at the Chargers rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. We talked about the confusion that Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: reported two reporters on Monday that Miami's many looks were
Speaker 1: confusing to the Los Angeles offense. If the Dolphins can
Speaker 1: come up with another defensive dive plan like that and
Speaker 1: execute on a variety of pressure looks once more play coverage.
Speaker 1: Mix it in both ways. It could make life tough
Speaker 1: on another young signal caller. Denver does utilize their fair
Speaker 1: share of condensed packages with multiple tight ends. You've got
Speaker 1: twelve personnel on the field with two tight end sets
Speaker 1: to help assist in their past protection and how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can combat those looks, whether it's calling the base
Speaker 1: defense for dbs are showing that Amba pressure package with
Speaker 1: multiple defensive backs, you know, eight defensive backs on the field.
Speaker 1: Mixing up the looks is always key for this defense.
Speaker 1: The Denver offense is, however, loaded with playmakers at the
Speaker 1: skill positions. Like coach Flora said, running backs Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: and Philip Lindsay have combined for eight hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two yards from scrimmage and six touchdowns. Rookie receiver Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy leads the Broncos with five hundred and fifty two
Speaker 1: receiving yards at sixteen point two yards per catch. He's
Speaker 1: a big play guy down the field, and tight end
Speaker 1: Noah fan is catching sixty six percent of his targets
Speaker 1: for three hundred and sixty seven receiving yards this season,
Speaker 1: but since Week five, the start of Miami's five game
Speaker 1: winning streak. The Dolphins defense is first in total quarterback
Speaker 1: rating against at thirty six point oh that's out of
Speaker 1: a hundred points per game allowed seventeen point two and
Speaker 1: second and quarterback pressures with eight six and completion percentage
Speaker 1: also a second place at fifty seven percent. So good
Speaker 1: on this young Broncos offense. Will be a good challenge
Speaker 1: for them to see how they go up against this
Speaker 1: tough Miami defense. So more Broncos personnel. Garrett Bowls was
Speaker 1: drafted four years ago and he has had a revelation
Speaker 1: this season, having a great year at left tackle. Has
Speaker 1: not allowed a sack and surrendered only eight quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: per Pro Football Focus. Three different tackles, however, have started
Speaker 1: at right tackle this year for the Broncos. That, of course,
Speaker 1: the predominant position that goes up against defensive end Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba when he lines up off the offenses right side predominantly.
Speaker 1: He does play inside two as well, obviously, and we'll
Speaker 1: flip sides now and then, but mostly off the offenses
Speaker 1: right side. Fangio also declared the defensive tackle Shelby Harris
Speaker 1: would be out for the game. He leads Denver interior
Speaker 1: a lineman in both quarterback shirts and run stops, But
Speaker 1: the guy that leads the team and run stops is
Speaker 1: linebacker Alexander Johnson. He has the second most snaps on
Speaker 1: the defense with six hundred and twenty three and has
Speaker 1: forty run stops, nearly double the next highest run stopping
Speaker 1: defender on that Broncos defense. He has seventy six tackles,
Speaker 1: that's eleventh most in the NFL. The player who's second
Speaker 1: run stops on Denver, for my money, is their best player.
Speaker 1: He has six hundred and twenty nine snaps played safety
Speaker 1: Justin Simmons. He's a fifth year safety putting together once
Speaker 1: again another fantastic season. Three interceptions, five passes defense and
Speaker 1: fifty eight total tackles on the year for Justin Simmons.
Speaker 1: More good production out of that safety and Denver's best
Speaker 1: cover corner has been Bryce Callahan, a jack of all trades.
Speaker 1: He's played three hundred and sixteen snaps out wide, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six inside in the slot, and fifty
Speaker 1: in the box. Per Pro Football Focus, He's holding opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to a fifty four point eight percent completion rate
Speaker 1: and just four point to four yards per target. Really
Speaker 1: good year so far for Bryce Callahan. As far as
Speaker 1: the Broncos scheme offensively twenty eight points and total offense,
Speaker 1: they are nineteenth in rushing and twenty three in passing
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right now. We talked last week about
Speaker 1: the Chargers predominant eleven personnel scheme, the fourth highest rate
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Denver's four hundred and seventeen snaps out
Speaker 1: of one running back, one tight end, three receivers is
Speaker 1: the seventh most in the NFL. That's a typical offense
Speaker 1: you'll get a nickel defense against with five defensive backs,
Speaker 1: maybe even more on those third long situations. In Miami
Speaker 1: did utilize five defensive backs on at least forty nine
Speaker 1: snaps to combat the Chargers three receivers look three receiver
Speaker 1: looks rather and brought that third safety Brandon Jones onto
Speaker 1: the field for twenty six snaps. So whether that's big
Speaker 1: nickel with three safeties and two cornerbacks or your dime
Speaker 1: defense with three safeties and three cornerbacks, Miami has options.
Speaker 1: But Denver's next most frequent package is the twelve personnel package.
Speaker 1: We talked about that in the past. Protection scheme portion
Speaker 1: of this preview. With two tight ends on the field
Speaker 1: and two receivers, they run that seven team pointe of
Speaker 1: the time compared to sevent of the time out of
Speaker 1: eleven personnel in Miami went from facing a top five
Speaker 1: blitz rate team and the Cardinals, to the least frequent
Speaker 1: blitzing team in the Chargers. Now they get a team
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the pack. Denver brings an
Speaker 1: extra rusher on of their snaps that's eighteenth most in
Speaker 1: the NFL. But it works out for Vic Fangio because
Speaker 1: only bringing pressure the eighteenth most, they have the fifth
Speaker 1: highest pressure rate in the NFL. They get pressure on
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks at twenty nine percent of the time per
Speaker 1: Pro Football Reference, and the Broncos defense ranks seven and
Speaker 1: scoring seventeen in total defense, with a rushing defense that
Speaker 1: ranks and a passing defense that ranks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So plenty more notes on the preview up on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot Com. Taking a look at Dolphins and Broncos
Speaker 1: on Sunday from Denver. Go ahead and check that out.
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins going for their sixth straight win. And with that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and finish up this podcast with some
Speaker 1: player media availability from this Wednesday, November. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here with the Vonte Parker, who first was
Speaker 1: asked about the explosion he had in the second half
Speaker 1: of last season and if he feels he has to
Speaker 1: do the same thing this year for the offense to
Speaker 1: really hit it stride to make a place I gotta
Speaker 1: do in you know, I'm not worry about like stats
Speaker 1: and at there. I just want to win. And that's
Speaker 1: what we're doing right now. He's gonna keep keep doing it.
Speaker 1: And how about his timing and rhythm with two a
Speaker 1: tongue of Valoa. Yeah, we know, spend a little time though,
Speaker 1: Darren pat Is like when we're not up something, get
Speaker 1: get passed on the side, you know, get the time
Speaker 1: and time and good and and just had to bring
Speaker 1: it over to the games. Let's go ahead and pick
Speaker 1: it up next here with Dolphins safety Bobby McCain, and
Speaker 1: he was asked in reference to the Keenan Allen quote
Speaker 1: about the Dolphins defense confusing the Chargers offense to the
Speaker 1: point where they wanted to run the football to avoid
Speaker 1: potential catastrophe. McCain was asked about that question or about
Speaker 1: that instance. Here's his response to that question. Just just
Speaker 1: applying pressure and putting pressure on the on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: on the aligned, on the coordinator, just putting pressure on
Speaker 1: those guys and making them up, making them feel less,
Speaker 1: making us because you don't know where we're coming from.
Speaker 1: You don't know what we're doing. And that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's good to hear. Um. You know that
Speaker 1: we have good game plans each and every week coming
Speaker 1: out starting off and and then the week some things
Speaker 1: may change. And the day before the game, you never know.
Speaker 1: But that's just being able to adapt. We have a
Speaker 1: big sign of back of our runnings and adapt to die.
Speaker 1: So um, not literally, but you understand, um. And just
Speaker 1: just just making sure that all the guys know like
Speaker 1: what where they're supposed to be, and you know, like
Speaker 1: it confuses offenses, man, they don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: and it confuses the quarterback, which is the exactly who
Speaker 1: we want to do. And both Pro Football Focus and
Speaker 1: Pro Football Reference have Dolphins safety's Eric row and Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain with a combined four miss tackles out of eighty
Speaker 1: two opportunities seventy eight tackles, only four misses. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask Bobby, if there was something consistent about the
Speaker 1: teams in football or just in general across all levels
Speaker 1: of football, if they're was a couple of trades consistent
Speaker 1: with quality tackling, here's Bobby definitely, definitely you have to
Speaker 1: practice tacking will and that's one of our pillers on
Speaker 1: our defense. Um, I'll set the edge tackle, communicating definity
Speaker 1: part of the field and understand that you know, tackling
Speaker 1: it when you tackle, when you when you make sure tackles,
Speaker 1: you know, that just puts the ball back down, that
Speaker 1: gives you opportunity to get the ball back. So if
Speaker 1: you're not your guys, you guys aren't making out there
Speaker 1: making sure tackles and out balls getting past you and
Speaker 1: breaking tackles and things of that nature, then those are
Speaker 1: big plays, and especially in the back end, like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, So just making like that's one thing we
Speaker 1: emphasize on each and every week, not just training camp,
Speaker 1: each and every week, just making sure we're sure tackling
Speaker 1: and we get the guys on the ground. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish this thing up with quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tungle by Loa and he was first asked about the
Speaker 1: pressure of being a rookie quarterback on a team that's
Speaker 1: six and three right now in the thick of things
Speaker 1: and trying to keep this winning streak rolling. Here's two
Speaker 1: on the pressure of playing with a winning streak. Well,
Speaker 1: I think which flow, um alleviates all of that. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he tells all of us rookies, just all
Speaker 1: of us players in general, to just come out and
Speaker 1: you know, perform to the best of our abilities. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's all they ask of us. I think
Speaker 1: for me, UM, I mean, I just myself to to
Speaker 1: you know, get the guys going and hopefully try to
Speaker 1: do good with what I need to to help our
Speaker 1: team become successful. UM. But but yeah, other than that,
Speaker 1: there's really no pressure. UM. I just think everyone on
Speaker 1: this team, offense, defense, and special teams. UM, I mean,
Speaker 1: we just all want to do good and we we
Speaker 1: fight for one another out there on the field, and
Speaker 1: we play, you know, as a family, and we play
Speaker 1: for one another as well. UM. So I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that alleviates all the pressure and all the
Speaker 1: outside talk. And earlier in the podcast, I talked about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins production off of turnovers special teams in defense.
Speaker 1: Here's two A tongue Valoa on the added urgency when
Speaker 1: the defense makes a play for him. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you you always want to end the drives and a kick, um,
Speaker 1: whether it's a field goal or or a punt. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you you always want to end it in
Speaker 1: a kick. But when the defense gives us the ball back, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just thinking opportunity. It's opportunity for us
Speaker 1: to go put points on the board. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: for what the defense did for us and so for
Speaker 1: us repaying it, you know, we need to put points
Speaker 1: on the board. So I would say yes to that question.
Speaker 1: And up next to it was asked to kind of
Speaker 1: break down two of US teammates and Jachem Grant, the
Speaker 1: receiver and running back Savan Akhmed. He starts here first
Speaker 1: with Achem Grant with a really cool note about brotherhood routes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what those were called or what they met,
Speaker 1: but here's two on Jachem and brotherhood routes and his
Speaker 1: selfless mentality. Is a phenomenal player. Um. You know he
Speaker 1: he does a lot of brotherhood ratty. And what I
Speaker 1: mean by brotherhood routes is, you know, he he runs
Speaker 1: routes knowing he's not going to get the ball, um,
Speaker 1: but to get other guys open. Um. And then also
Speaker 1: when his number is called, you know, he's he's there
Speaker 1: to make plays. And it's not just as a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: it's also in the kicking game as well. UM. But
Speaker 1: he's just a really good teammate at the same time.
Speaker 1: And then with Savan Um, you know, he he's a
Speaker 1: rookie as well. And I mean to any time that
Speaker 1: I can give someone like that, you know, some love.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's undrafted, um, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: he's just trying to make a name for himself. UM.
Speaker 1: And I think he did a really good job for
Speaker 1: us and um protection and then also you know on
Speaker 1: the ground when every time he got the ball running
Speaker 1: so um. You know, every time that I can give
Speaker 1: credit to the you know, all our other guys, um
Speaker 1: that I don't really have that opportunity, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it. So and so there he goes your quarterback
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. Very busy the fun episode here
Speaker 1: today on this Wednesday edition of Drive Time. I just
Speaker 1: finished up the Shack Lost an interview for the feature tomorrow.
Speaker 1: An exclusive on Drive Time. You're not gonna want to
Speaker 1: miss that. And I'm sure you guys know that Shack
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun to talk to, a very
Speaker 1: very funny, easy going, loving guy. He also has a
Speaker 1: TV show idea in mind. We'll talk about that on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's podcast. To finish this one up, the injury report
Speaker 1: for Wednesday is out for the Miami Dolphins. To check
Speaker 1: out the Broncos injury report, go ahead and check out
Speaker 1: top news on Miami Dolphins dot com. We have one
Speaker 1: player who did not practice, Kyle van Noy, Solomon Kinley
Speaker 1: was limited, and then a handful of other players Matt Brita,
Speaker 1: Cavan Fraser, Byron Jones, Shack Laws and Jamal Perry, Durham
Speaker 1: Smith and to a Tongue by Loa listed on the
Speaker 1: Wednesday injury report, but all full participants at Wednesday's practice,
Speaker 1: So Van Noid, d NP, Kinley limited and the other
Speaker 1: guy's full participants. That's gonna do it for this edition
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