WEBVTT - Dolphins Broncos Preview, Context for Offensive Stats, Flores, Tagovailoa, McCain Media 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:15.640 Exactly touchdown Miami n What is up? Dolphins? And welcome 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.040 to the Drive Time podcast part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.639 official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.160 and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.200 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.519 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.159 And on today's show, we turn the page ahead and 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.440 look to the Denver Broncos will preview that game. We're 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.000 gonna hear from coach Flora's and some players, and we're 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.120 gonna open up the context matters with stats file is 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.640 I tell you why Miami has the ninth best points 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.160 per game average compared to the total offense in terms 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.880 of yardage, and why the first number is the only 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.320 one that matters. All of that and more on this Wednesday, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:05.640 November eight edition of the Drivetime Podcasts A lot of 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.559 times brought to you by Auto Nation, where Dolphins fans 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.600 can sell their vehicle for cash now visit auto nation 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.400 dot com. And so. On Tuesday night, I was watching 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.800 the broadcast copy of the game. I was thinking about 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.600 some some statistical anomalies or maybe some statistical things that 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.440 didn't add up, and it brought me back to a 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.880 few comments we've heard from both Josh Boyer and Brian Flores. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.600 And first I want to go ahead and play some 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.080 audio here from Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Bowyer back on 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.880 November the tenth, so last Tuesday, when he was asked 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.959 about which stats to him out of the most on 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.720 the defensive side of the football. Well, I would say 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.520 in order, I mean, for me, uh, when I look 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.640 at it, one is that we do what we need 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.800 to do to win the game. Uh to obviously, uh, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.600 we would like to keep the point totals down three. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.280 We we would like to get the ball back to 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.440 the offense as soon as we possibly can so and 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.560 obviously we're not trying to give up big chunkyards, big plays. Um. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.400 You know. But as far as the stats go, you know, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.440 like I said last week, I don't really pay any 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.560 attention to him. Um, you know, it's more of a 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.880 factor of us trying to put our players in position 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.040 to six eed and for us to win the game. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.880 And really, ultimately is a defense, what you're trying to 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.079 do is limit the points and get the ball back 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.840 to the offense. So that's where Josh Bowyer weighs in 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.400 back last Tuesday. On Monday, we had Coach Flora's talking 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.240 about something similar with regards to interceptions from Xavian Howard 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.120 and sacks from Emmanuel Augba. Here's what coach had to 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.520 say about the flash plays on the box score. I 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.400 think people, you know, put a lot into interceptions and sacks, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.839 and I know we've had these conversations before, and they're 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.920 big plays. And he had a big play yesterday and 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.800 he's made some big plays, but the rest of his 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.800 game has really improved as well, getting off of blocks, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.399 tackling um, just pure coverage when the balls not being 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.760 thrown his way. You know, you know, I have this conversation. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.959 I probably haven't had it with you guys, but over 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.359 the course of the season, let's call it a starter. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:19.520 In the league, there's d end or receiver or dB 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:26.639 get a thousand snaps thousands, So if you get ten 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:33.360 interceptions with twenty sacks, you're talking about one two of 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:38.839 the snaps. Roughly, my math is right, probably isn't because 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.160 I'm not very good at math, But to me, it's 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:47.560 the other ninety nine that really matters. Yeah, those are 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.760 huge place they are, But you know, I try to 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.600 focus on and get those guys really good at at that, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.280 and then I think the other two percent kind of 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.800 one percent kind of happens. So I bring that up 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.680 because Coach came back to this exact same question that 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.840 was about xaviing Howard today he was asked about Emmanuel 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.280 Ogball in the sack production. You heard him talk there 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.600 about the things that x has grown on in his game. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.320 We saw him play that that deep third the cover 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.640 three look, drives out of his back pedal, makes a 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.279 big interception, changes the game, certainly a big time play. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.400 The plays you don't think about. The tackle off the 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.720 edge on Jalen Guyton short of the sticks to put 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.680 out the Dolphins in a position to get off the 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.279 field on third down, which they would the charges would 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.520 convert on fourth down, but the play that sets up 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.800 a play to get off the football field. Coach talked 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.279 about his tackling, getting off blocks off the edge. I've 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.400 noticed that a few times on the tape, myself exaving 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.599 Howard holding the point off the edge on the outside run. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.920 Here's Coach talking about Emmanuel Ogball, his sacks and more 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.520 flash stats and again going back to that number one 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.000 thousand snaps compared to ten sacks, one percent of your plays. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.240 Here's coach uh you know, yeah, we talked about it 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.200 on Monday. I went back and did the math. So 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.760 the course of the season, most guy, it's called a 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:06.080 thousand plays. The twenty sacks season is an all time season. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.240 It's literally two percent of the players. I think we 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.680 can all do the math. Um, everyone can do the math. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.599 But those are the plays that we, you know, are 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.200 focused and focused on, and I'm focused on the other 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.760 Those plays are fantastic. We love him, everybody loves them, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.760 but those are the flash plays and mh, it's those 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:31.320 other players that uh, we as a stat try to 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.479 focus on, try to get all those things right. Those 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.760 those plays that you know no one's really watching, that 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.680 really helped the team and you know, help your your teammates. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.599 I think does a great job from that standpoint, taking 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:52.000 on blockers, taking on double teams, setting the edge, you know, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.279 getting in the gap, one on the game, or a stunt, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:02.440 getting his hands up, Um, no one could throws communication. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.640 And to finish that point up there with Coach Flora's 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.039 we also heard Josh boy Or yesterday talk about the 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.400 trust that the players and coaches have with one another 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.839 to go ahead and make in game adjustments and hey, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.000 I saw this, here's what we can do as far 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:16.640 as what I'm seeing on the football filled with the 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.960 coach might not be able to see on the sideline 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.800 and then make adjustments. And Boyer also mentions not just 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.200 about things that can they can do to help free 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.159 themselves up, but hey, I can do this and create 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.760 an opportunity for a teammate because it's all about the 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.000 eleven guys on the field and what's better for the 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.160 bigger picture, not the individual. And so the reason I 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.640 bring up these old clips and these old audios because 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.200 I had a thought about, you know, the Dolphins offensive 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.320 production late on Tuesday night that I wanted to bring 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.280 on the Wednesday podcast. And obviously these points hold more 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.280 power coming from Brian Flores than it does Travis Wingfield. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.840 But I've been telling people what coach just said for years. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.479 And just some background on me as a kid, I 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.320 had a white board my bedroom, my childhood bedroom from 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.320 age like six to well to like twenty when I 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.560 first moved out because late Bloomer, I know, but I 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.839 would re memberize lineups, stats, facts, everything I could about 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.440 not just the Dolphins, but the NFL in general, and 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.200 this eventually led to more research, the utilization of more resources. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.720 You see me use Pro Football Focus often in the 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.800 articles and the podcast with their signature stats never grades, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.400 but the black and white statistics that are not really 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.800 up for debate. I love to use those as far 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.520 as like coverage numbers or pressures that type of thing. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.800 But I also spent time a few years back building 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.120 and launching and operating a website that charted every single 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.600 pass from every single quarterback in the NFL a few 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.040 years back. This is all a long winded way of 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.840 me trying to tell you that I've long wanted to 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.120 know why things happen on a football field, not just 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.280 the result. There it is, be done with it. No, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.520 not that I want to know why things are the 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.000 way they are. Okay, that makes sense. And to put 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.760 all of this into proper context. For the past fifteen 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.200 years or so, let's call it, I still get texts 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.280 and calls from my friends back home who always say, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.040 Travis when help settling a debate, we need our football guy. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.600 That's just kind of who I've been my whole life. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.760 This is what I care about. So I've been telling 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.520 everyone for as long as I can remember, you want 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.680 to judge a quarterback on the five or six I 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.720 n t s he gets every year. And I once 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.120 had a friend literally tell me, well, player X has 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.600 more I n t s than player Why that's one 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.520 percent of the plays, man? What about the other of 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.640 the plays out there? So for me, it's been fun 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.640 to hear coach talk about the last week or two 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.320 and help drive the point home from an expert in 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.720 the field, a PhD level football mind that it's not 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.559 about the one percent, it's about of plays on the field. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.160 So thank you, coach. I could not agree more so. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.959 That diet tribe leads me into something I was looking 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.040 into last night after watching the broadcast copy of the game. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 And so there's some more evidence for you saw the 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.360 game in person on Sunday, watch the All twenty two 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.920 on Monday, then watch the proadcast copy on Tuesday. I mean, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.959 this is what I do, man, that's what I care about. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.319 I became interested in why there was such a discrepancy 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.480 and yardage compared to points for the offense, and Flores 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.679 talked about the Rams game and the yards discrepancy between 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.720 the two teams in that game. How he said, the 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.720 box score tells you that the Dolphins were dominated in 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.680 that game, and he certainly did not feel that way. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.480 And he's right. Miami controlled that entire game, just like 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.520 they did against the Chargers, and holding one of the 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.480 game's most explosive passing offenses to one hundred and eighty 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.480 seven yards where Herbert averaged over three hundred yards coming in. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.800 They limited Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Jalen Guiton. They were 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.320 confusing these guys into deciding to run the football so 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.040 as to not put the ball in harm's way. And 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.800 that's what Keenan Allen told reporters on Monday. Go ahead 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.440 and check out Daniel Popper's Twitter. He said as much 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.280 from Keenan Allen, we didn't want to pass the ball 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 because something bad could happen. We were confused out there. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.360 So here's what I found. The Dolphins are ninth and 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.160 points per game despite ranking and total offense. How does 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.960 that disparity happen? The phrase hidden yardage sounds like a 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.080 generic buzz phrase, but it's the integral part of why 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.640 Miami's twenty seven point nine points per game, or being 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.600 posted the best since the Dan Know era here in Miami, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.800 and during that three game period, since quarterback to a 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.160 Tonk of Baloa took the controls, the Dolphins have had 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.480 possessions that started at the opponent's forty seven, thirty three 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.000 and one yard line twice. That's twenty four points. They 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.679 scored three touchdowns and a field goal out of a 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.160 possible twenty eight points on four scoring drives. They gained 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.680 fifty yards out of a possible eighty two on those 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.840 three drives, so twenty four points out of fifty yards 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.240 of offense. That's not a bad thing at all, being 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.720 set up in the opponent's territory and putting points on 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.800 the board with touchdowns after turnovers. It's also not a 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.080 bad thing that three possessions have essentially been taken away 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.079 by the defense or special teams putting the ball in 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.680 the end zone. Over those last three games, the Dolphins 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.880 have nine turnovers. That includes the blocked punt and turnovers 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.000 on downs. From those nine turnovers, they've cashed in six 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.079 touchdowns and two field goals. That's a possible sixty three 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.920 points right seven times nine sixty three. They've gained. They've 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.040 scored forty eight points out of those nine turnovers. So 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.640 when you only have to go thirty three yards or 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.280 one yard on to two touchdown drives, or you have 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.360 three touchdowns taken away from the offense because the defense 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.319 or special team scored, you're not gonna get yardage out 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.640 of those possessions, but you get the points. So that's 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.040 why points rule. That's why they keep track of points 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.280 and not yards on the scoreboard to find out who 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.240 wins football games. It's pretty simple if you ask me, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.600 and I wanted to put context of that so we 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.319 can understand why the Dolphins are a top ten scoring offense, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.880 but the yardage is not there. You need context of 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.000 that kind of thing. Let's go ahead and get back 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.800 to coach for two more questions at his Wednesday morning 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.679 media availability. We're gonna do a feature on Shack loss 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.800 In this week and talk about the energy he brings 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.679 this football team, both from a character standpoint and a 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.439 production standpoint. So I wanted to ask coach Flora's about 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.920 how he balances finding that balance between serious focus and 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.920 let's kind of get to the task at hand, to 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.360 being light and having things kind of not so serious 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.240 at all the time, and how they can find that 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.320 balance and how much shack loss and helps create that 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.520 balance in the Dolphins locker room. And look, I think 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:02.160 anytime you look what we do is it's not easy 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.840 playing football. And yeah, you have to be demanding. It's 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:13.880 a physical game, it's a violent game. So anyway you 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.040 can make it fun. As a coach, that's I think 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.280 you need to try to do that. I think each 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.720 coach has their own different personality. My mind is different 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.240 than a lot of other guys. M another, A lot 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.680 of a lot of other guys are different in mind, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.959 and each player is the same way. So but I 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.160 think as a coach, the best approach is to let 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.959 players know be themselves. Um, and coaches have to be 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.040 themselves also. I think you know, if you're genuine and authentic, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.160 and I mean you can have you have peace with 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.079 the things you say and how you interact with people. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.520 If you're making it up on the fly, then I 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.240 think people see through that too. So look, they're they're 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.040 they're young guys. They want to have they want to 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.840 have fun. I mean, they're they want to laugh and 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.880 joke around with each other, and they joke around with 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:07.000 the coaches and h we jump back and shocks shocks, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.920 full of life shocks. Um, I've got a great laugh apparently, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.360 and uh, he's a lot of fun to be around. You. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.440 You don't want to temper that, you know, as a coach, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.000 you don't want to You want to let him be himself. Um, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.600 bring bring his energy to the rest of the group, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.840 and they feed off of it. And I think it 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.079 makes sense a better team. And we'll go ahead and 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.400 get one more question here for coach Flora's as a 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.959 prelude into our Dolphins and Broncos preview with Drew Locks. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.800 Uncertain status for Sunday up in the air right now. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.800 Coach was asked about the challenges of preparing for two 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.480 different quarterbacks. I mean, you watch more. We've they both played, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.560 so there's plenty of film on both quarterbacks. Were really 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:53.079 really all three. So UM, we watch it and we um, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.600 we evaluate those guys that strengths and weaknesses in conjunction 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.080 with our game plan and see at the games it's 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.679 called differently with those guys in there. If it is, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.200 we don't have to adjust. But I think they do 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.960 a good job working with the strengths of each different quarterback, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.959 so it'll be a tough test either way. And look, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.000 they got a lot of really good young skill players. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.120 Judy Hamler no fan good back, so I think that's 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.080 it's to be a tough test for us. So that 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.120 you have a coach Flores is Wednesday morning media availability 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.880 a perfect prelude into our Dolphins and Broncos preview. Week 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.880 eleven is already here, man, the season flying by as 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.720 it does every single year. Six and three Dolphins at 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.800 the three and six Broncos Sunday November four or five 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.440 kickoff once again, the last four or five kickoff schedule 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.680 for now, we'll see what happens in December, but the 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.800 last four or five schedule kickoff for your Miami Dolphins, Denver, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.600 Colorado and power field forty two degrees partly cloudy nine 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.960 mile prour wins. And I always like to look at 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.520 the comparisons of where these teams are in their particular 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.400 building process with a particular moment or I should say 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.000 stage of their program. Are they in? And Brian Flores 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.840 and Vic Fangio both were hired at the start of 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.640 twenty nineteen to their first ever head coaching jobs, and 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.880 since then both coaches have used high draft picks on 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.200 a quarterback, Tongue by Lowa obviously going fifth overall and 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.560 Drew Lock going forty to the Broncos. In twenty nineteen, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.720 the Dolphins are three and oh and game started by 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.400 Tongue by Lowo the Broncos six and six with Drew 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.560 Lock in the lineup. He came off the bench last 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.840 year and went four and one down the stretch and 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.720 has had some ups and downs this year with both 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.200 injury and wins and losses for the Broncos uh this season, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.280 but they're in search for their first win at home 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.200 this year. They're oh and four in Denver. The Dolphins 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.000 are three and one in road games, so an interesting battle. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.360 They're back and forth. But one of Miami's keys to 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.120 victories has been that strong special teams play. We talked 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.360 about it with the hidden yardage in the context of 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.360 Miami winning field position Jachem Grant having three punt returns 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.120 of twenty one, nineteen and eighteen yards. That helps you 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.960 flip the field and put the ball in oppositions territory 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.080 to start your drive. And with the often strong performance 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.560 on Sunday against the Chargers, they have now jumped to 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.320 the number one spot on Football Outsiders d v o 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.520 A with special teams rankings and Danny Croftsman discussed the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.000 benefit of having a head coach with a background in 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.960 the game's third phase and as a Dolphins fan, you 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.160 know by now the coach Flora has got his start 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.720 in the special teams part of the game. And on Tuesday, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.240 Danny Crossman was asked about the benefit of having a 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.600 head coach who does have such a rich background in 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.800 special teams and how it kind of maybe opens up 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.440 a dialogue and a conversation between the two. Here's Coach 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.560 Danny Crossman on the conversations he and Brian Flora. Is 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.720 having the benefit of having a head coach with such 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.160 a good background and special teams play well. I think 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.400 it's big, you know, with having that background that that 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.600 flow has. Is the communication is I don't want to 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.720 see simpler, uh, but it's an easier conversation because he 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:59.640 understands a lot of the concepts techniques, both in terms 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.600 of you know what we're looking for and you know 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.440 how it's going to affect or what impact it could 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.040 happen on the opposition because he understands both sides of it. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.280 So obviously having that background is is big for me 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.560 and and big for us in terms of our communication. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.800 And so the Dolphins do jump to that number one 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.240 spot on Football Outsiders d v O, a special Teams rankings, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.560 a nice honor to hold atop that perch in the NFL. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.320 And so that's always a matchup you look at. And 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.320 in this game, we're gonna start off with the first 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.440 matchup I'm looking at between the Dolphins and Broncos. To 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.520 run the football. The Dolphins enter Week eleven with ranked 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.880 rushing offense. The Broncos have the twenty three ranked running defense. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.720 Something's got to give there and behind running back savan 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.240 achmed last week his eighties six rushing yards against the Chargers, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.000 the Dolphins had their second highest total this year, with 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.679 a buck eleven on the ground. Of course, some of 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.199 that given back at the end of the game with 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.080 some kneel downs and some runs to kind of help 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.560 shorten the game Towards the end of that contest, the 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.879 Dolphins are likely to dodge inclement weather. As we talked about, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.760 forty two degrees on Sunday on this mid November trip 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.800 to the Rocky Mountains could be a lot worse out there, 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.800 But as the weather cools down, running the football becomes 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.320 increasingly important, as offensive line coach Steve Marshall said he 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.320 likes the direction of this Dolphins run game where it's trending. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.520 He talked about it being a big emphasis on his 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.080 press conference on Tuesday. We played that for you on 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.240 the podcast yesterday, so I'll go back and check that 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.000 out if you have not heard it. But the Denver 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.000 defensive line has played so many different players up front 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.000 this year. No defensive tackle for the Broncos has exceeded 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.680 thirty seven percent of their defensive snaps. So forcing Denver 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.359 into that deep dive rotation getting multiple guys in the 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.159 field could only benefit the Dolphins to keep that running 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.840 game turning and getting positive yards throughout the course of 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.960 the game. A successful run game creates more opportunities also 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.879 in the passing game. A perfect segue into our second 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.879 key matchup to build off that running game, and Tunga 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.680 Bayla has been under pressure only fifteen dropbacks since assuming 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.000 the starting role in Week eight. According to Pro Football Focus. 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.240 A combination of solid pass protect him, a quick release 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.840 that he has that quick trigger, and a scheme devised 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.440 around getting the football out of his hands quickly, all 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.600 play apart in Miami sturdy play up front. For the 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.240 first time since eight team, the Dolphins did not allow 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.960 a sack on their quarterback and had just five pressures 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.000 in that game allowed. And for context, Miami's defense averages 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.000 eighteen point eight pressures per game, so more than a 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.280 third less of what the average Dolphins pressures are per game. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.880 They allowed that on their own quarterback. And we've seen 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:32.080 Miami implement the run pass option, zone re looks, wildcat packages, 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.800 fly sweet motion, plenty of diversity designed to keep the 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.800 defense off balance, and Tongue of Byaloa is computing of 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.639 his passes off play action for six point nine yards 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.000 per pass, one touchdown and no interceptions. With the running 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.400 game finding more success last week, perhaps play action could 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.639 play a bigger role this week, and we talked about 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.920 the quick release. NFL next gen stats has Tongue Byloa 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.720 with the sixth quickest time from snap to throw two 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.440 point five four seconds on average, And you go back 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.840 to Ryan Fitzpatrick when he was playing. It's part of 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.320 the scheme because he was fourth on that list with 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.040 snap to time to throw. So the Dolphins quarterbacks get 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.280 it out quick by design a good running game with 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.160 play action, and that quick release can help slow down 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.280 outside linebacker for Denver Bradley Chubb, who's thirty quarterback pressures 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.560 and five and a half sacks are both in the 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.080 National Football League. And we heard coach Flores talk about 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.919 preparing for a couple of quarterbacks that brings us into 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.239 our third and final matchup preview here overwhelming the young 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.600 quarterback whoever it is, because he Vic Fangio announced that 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.040 Drew Lock would be questionable to practice this week's standing 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.240 from that rib injury that he suffered in the game 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.200