WEBVTT - Drive Time - Dolphins Patriots Week 1 Preview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:07.280 Fractors were Dolphins faffords growing touchdown? What a win for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:12.640 this Miami Dolphin team. Wow me? What is up? Dolphans? 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.439 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.720 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.800 and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.040 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.479 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.360 And on today's show, I'm just gonna be honest, whoa 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.680 it is? Football season tonight? Baby? I mean, doesn't that 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.520 December trip to Foxboro feel like it was twentysomething years ago? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.080 We've got Chiefs Texans tonight on your television, but we 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.360 are focused on Dolphins and Patriots on Sunday. We're gonna 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.480 hear from coach some players, update, the injuries, and in 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.360 between all of that. Really get into the weeds on 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.680 this game. All of that and more this Thursday, September 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:08.920 tenth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Season opening game 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.320 is always a tradition unlike any other, and I continue 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.000 that tradition of saying the home team finds victory. You 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.080 just don't go against the defending champs, raising the banner 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.120 in their own building on opening night. Not to mention, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.960 we do own the Texans first and second round draft picks, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.360 so technically a loss on Thursday from Houston puts those 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.800 draft picks right at the top of each round, straight 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.240 out of the gate. That's something we're gonna monitor throughout 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.360 the course of the season, heading into Draft season one. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.440 But I've got the Chiefs tonight, and it's largely because 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.080 of their quarterback, of their m v P, of their 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.080 Super Bowl m v P, and Patrick Mahomes. And I'll 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.760 say this just before we get into coaches media for 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.440 Thursday morning. I understand that most of the time when 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.720 we talk about the all time grades, you have to 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.760 support those claims with a body of work. Right, people 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.400 want to know about the number of years of production, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.800 maybe x number of championship rings. And if you dare 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.040 propose that a player under the age of might be 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.720 the best of all time, then you're gonna be greeted 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.240 with the backlash of slow your roll, their son. But nah, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.320 my eyes don't deceive me. My eyes have never seen 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.040 somebody do what Patrick Mahomes can do on a football field, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.680 even though it's only been two years of course, he's 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.760 going to have to sustain that level of play. But 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.240 what I've seen so far in twenty five years of 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.040 watching this game, he's the best I've ever seen. That's 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.960 why I've got Chiefs tonight in the season opener. But 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.920 that is tonight. Sunday is our main focus here on 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.880 the Drivetime Podcast. And with that we turn now to 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.720 Coach flores Is Thursday morning media availability and up First, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.640 Coach was asked a two pronged question about the decision 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.520 to bring in Antonio Callaway, the receiver on the practice squad, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.720 and also the health status of cornerback Byron Jones staff 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.880 Chris Marvin Brandon. Um, you know, in our starting department 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.960 obviously does a lot of We did a lot of 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.880 work on Antonio Is along with a lot of other players. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:11.160 We felt like it was an opportunity to had a yeah, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.120 you know, a player, a talented player. You know, we'll 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.600 work with him over the next few weeks um in 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.040 the capacity that we can. Obviously not you know so 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.200 much because of the suspension, but when we can, we 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.239 will work with him. We'll see where it goes. Uh. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.160 The first part of your question with Byron Um Byron's working, uh, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.120 you know, extremely hard to um, you know, rehab and 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.280 we'll see where he is for for for a game time, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.200 but um, you know, something he's been dealing with and 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.800 but he's working to get back out there as quickly 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.560 as you can, and you know to day to day 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.000 to kind of the day to day thing and next 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.240 for coach a question that I thought was really good 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.640 just asking him about season opening game tonight, how everybody 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.000 around the country is so pumped to have football back. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.880 Can a football coach truly sit back and maybe crack 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.480 open one and just enjoy a football game? Or is 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.000 he always on with the football? What do you think? 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.480 Coach says here he is when I watched the game, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.280 it's you know, you can try to relax, but you know, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.280 what would you do in third down? What would you 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.000 do in this situation? Too? And you just your mind 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.560 kind of goes And I think that's how every coach is, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:18.479 uh you know, Pop Warner, high school, uh college, national 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.400 football leg Once you get into um, you know list 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.240 profession and those types of situations, your mind kind of 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.120 it goes there regardless. So you can try, but that 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.760 is relaxing in a lot of ways. For for coaches. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.599 So uh yeah, it's it's, it's, it's it's it's nice 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.880 to sit and watch a game. But yeah, your your 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.720 mind starts to wander a little bit and start to 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.440 work out how would you handle this situation? Of that 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.560 situation still, but it's it's it's gonna be fun to 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.360 have again to watch, you know, it's been such a 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.120 long time, whether it's pre season. I mean, like like 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.320 a lot of people, Um, you know, I love the sports, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.000 so um, I'll be watching you. I'll be working as well. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.440 So it's a nor with Thursday night ones back into 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.000 kind of a normal routine in season. And I'm with 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.640 coach on that. Obviously I'm not a football coach, but 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.839 that's why I watched the games to kind of trying 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.159 to put myself in the situation of how would I 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.440 do this, How would I handle this spot? What should 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.080 this team do? Right here? And again, obviously coach sees 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:18.800 the game in a different way than all of us do. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.960 But I do find that answer very intriguing because I've 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.920 always wondered that myself, like what is it like for 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.920 a coach to watch another game on television or why 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.920 they're getting ready for you know, the opponent that week. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.480 Is it enjoyable? Is that something they don't even think about? 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.640 But obviously Coach tells us there that he does, in 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.960 fact watch the game with a different eye, a different 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.840 lens than your average fan. Up next, Coach was asked 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.640 about the leadership on this football team, and notably the 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.800 three captains who are here with the Dolphins who were 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.520 with him previously in New England. Here's Coach talking about 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.040 his leaders on this football team. Well, I mean I 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.960 think they're all you know, good players are. They're smartt tough, Um, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.719 they care about the game. The team first to think, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.080 you know, they tried to relationships, Um, you know throughout 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.880 in the locker room and you know, on defense, on offense, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.800 on special teams. Um, there are guys who care about 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.600 those relationships. But um they also there's there's also a 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.320 number of other guys who who are very similar. Um, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.800 guys want former Patriots like Bobby like uh, fits like 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.359 gotcha out. It's always good to have those types of 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.080 players on the team. And you know, I'm happy to 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.359 have you know that the reformer Patriots, but also the 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.760 other guys we have it captains as well. And of 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.400 course heading into a season without preseason, without the benefit 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.240 of having the off season program, all the uncertainty we've 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.080 talked about all week long, annually, all month long. In 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.520 the lead up to this kickoff, this season opener on September, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.520 your Miami Dolphins coach was asked about are there any 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.000 benefits or anything that he likes about the uncertainty of 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.360 this game one as they can maybe go into the 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.400 matchup and maybe have some advantages that way. You know, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.239 there's uncertainty for everyone. Well, the thing I like about 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.400 it is, you know, you just go back to you know, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.680 your rules, your reads, um, your fundamentals, your technique, see 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.160 how how far you come along from from that standpoint. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.800 And you know, I think at the end of the day, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.640 when it comes in football, when you're you know, there's 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.800 a lot of different schemes, concepts, you know, defensive structures 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.880 and eventually you'll you'll see something that you haven't seen before. Um, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.240 and you have to rely on your rules and your keys, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.520 and if you do that, you should be okay. So 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.240 that part of it I like there that that unknown 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.280 is something that you know. A lot of players, uh, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.120 they need to feel that, the coaches need to feel 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.960 that also how to respond to that will well, well, well, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.440 I think you know, help us moving forward, Let's go 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.679 ahead and finish up with this one here from yours 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:53.280 truly good morning, coach. Earlier this week, Jesse Davis told 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.840 us that he thinks whoever makes in game adjustments the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.920 best would be the one that comes away with a victory. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.200 I'm just curious, are those mostly code observations player observations? 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.200 And how long does it take to make those adjustments? 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.160 If you could just talk about the communication and the 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.600 process of in game adjustments, I mean it's a little 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.080 bit of both player and coach. I think that you know, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.680 the players are out there on the field, you know, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.000 they hear things, they see things. Uh, And if you 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.520 can get the players and the coaches on the same page, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.640 then you can make some adjustments. Now, there have been 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.440 times where everybody's getting doubled. You know, there's only so 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.640 many people on the field. So you know, this guy 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.240 got doubled and I got double that I got double. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.760 They don't, they don't. They just don't have that many guys. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.319 So I mean, there's gotta be some honesty and transparency 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.160 there on both friends, you know, and then you look 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.280 at the tablet and we have films, so we just 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.319 try to tell them. Let's be honest, and you know, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.439 if you screwed up a play, then you know, tell 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.480 us about it, what happened, and you know we'll get 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.600 it fixed. I got cut, I got doubled. Eight guys 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.040 got doubled. You know. I mean, it's just just it's 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.400 not you know, that's I've been a game when that's 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.920 happened too, and that's it's not funny in the moment, 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.080 it's funny the day after after you watch the tape 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.800 and you see the one guy in that double, the 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.800 guys whore just you know, could beat the block. But yes, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.040 to answer your question, Travis, you know the end game adjustments, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.199 you can make them, but it's got to be the 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.439 communication on both sides has to be uh, it has 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.880 to be transparent, has to be honest. That that would 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.360 be my first time. But you know, thank you remind 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.400 our guys on that too. Hey, anyway I can help out, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.280 I'm more than happy to do it. So now you 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.160 have Brian Flores is Thursday morning media availability. Let's go 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.679 ahead and get into the game on Sunday. I've been 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.800 waiting for nine months to preview a football game, and 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.160 I just got chills, Like just saying that into the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.959 microphone gave me chills. And before we talk about Dolphins Patriots, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.880 let's first talk about some of the new changes to 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.760 I suppose league rules roster rules this year. And one 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.880 of those changes is, of course, the teams can now 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.160 activate forty eight players on game day. It used to 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.120 be forty six. You had to get down from the 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.160 fifty three down to forty six, but now you can 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.680 activate forty eight players on game day, so long as 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.200 you have eight offensive linemen on that grouping. If you 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.720 don't have eight lineman, if you dress only seven on 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.280 game day, then you can have forty seven active. But 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.800 I really can't imagine a team would do that, like 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.079 why not have the extra body out there for your 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.800 forty eight players. We also know about the six team 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.800 man practice squad this year, we of course, with Dervall, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.520 have the exemption, so we have seventeen on our practice 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.280 squad and you can protect four of those players each week, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.920 and that means you can protect them from Tuesday through 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.920 game day. But once Monday comes around, those players are 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.360 then eligible to be poached by other teams. Once again, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.280 as the rule has been in the past, you can 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.000 sign a player off another practice squad onto your own 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.680 active roster. That changes for game preparations this year under COVID, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.600 and you can also dress two players from the practice 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.440 squad on Sunday. Whereas in the past you had to 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.719 sign them off your own practice squad and get them 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.280 up to your active roster to dress them, this year, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.840 you can call up to players from the practice squad 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.280 to dress on Sunday. Unique season and one of my 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.600 favorite podcast out there, the Move the Sticks podcast with 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.959 Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. They talked about the practice 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.679 squad and something that Jeremiah has kind of been hinting 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.280 at now for what seems like forever, with the idea 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.960 of development and having a secondary process for development developing 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.360 players on your roster, and he mentioned on the podcast 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.400 earlier this week, how maybe some teams view this thing 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.040 as like a Triple A roster where you have, you know, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.200 in Triple A Baseball, you have your guys who are 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.120 basically big league ready at a moment's notice if somebody 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.720 goes down. How maybe some teams might treat the practice 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.520 squad that way, where you have veteran guys stashed on 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.080 that protected portion of the practice squad, so that when 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.000 somebody does get injured, maybe it's a positive test or 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.640 whatever it might be, you can pull guys off that roster. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.280 And how he says, other teams maybe treat up more 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.160 like a developmental system like your double A single, a 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.320 team where you want to develop players. Get them into 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.880 your building every single day, have them practice, work on 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.280 techniques you want to teach them, have them watch film. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.439 Maybe it's strength training, whatever it might be. There are 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.760 so many different approaches to practice squad this year, all 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.120 fascinating points, and I think it all just reminds us 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.319 once again that football season is back. And with that, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.440 how about our first preview of the season. We have 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.360 the piece on Miami Dolphins dot com as well Dolphins 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.280 and Patriots Week one preview. The O and O Dolphins 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.240 up against the O and O Patriots on Sunday, September 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:35.199 one o'clock kickoff in the East Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.400 Seventy four degrees, partly cloudy, chance of rain on this 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.600 Thursday as we check the weather report, and so much 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.720 has changed since that Week seven team game nine months 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.240 after Ryan Fitzpatrick finds Mike Gasicki for that go ahead touchdown. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.640 The last time the Dolphins took the field, we've seen 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.040 coaching changes, a draft and free agency hall and all 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.040 of that crammed around a global pandemic. But thanks to 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.800 the incredible work and unprecedented precautions here taken by the NFL, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.160 we have football once more. A very different looking Dolphins 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.920 team in year two under Brian Flora's travels to New 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.679 England to face a Patriots team with plenty of new 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.920 faces of their own. For Flores and the Dolphins, twenty 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.120 four of the fifty three players on the roster. We're 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.360 not here in twenty nineteen for that finale, with some 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.840 coaching turnover as well, with eight new assistants in charge 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.800 of their respective rooms. And the theme of change continues 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.840 on the other side of the ball as New England 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.840 replaces one former m VP quarterback with another in Cam Newton. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.400 Eight of the Patriots fifteen scheduled free agents for signed elsewhere, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.079 three of them with the Dolphins, prompting New England to 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.120 sign six free agents away from other clubs of their own, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.920 and all of that before selecting ten new players in 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.840 April's draft, so plenty of change on both sides. The 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.679 coaching staff in New England remains largely intact. There was 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.920 some shuffling on the positional roles there in the Patriots staff, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.640 but the most notable change was the addition of longtime 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.720 quarterbacks coach offensive coordinator really offensive guru both in college 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.320 and the NFL in Jet Fish and establishing continuity amidst 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.960 the significant change will be one of the early season 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.400 storylines across the NFL. As both Brian Flores and Bill 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.760 Belichick stated and their media availability this week, both teams 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.440 will throw new looks at one another in the absence 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.400 of traditional off season programs and preseason The mystery really 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.240 amplifies the intrigue of this game and talking about the 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.080 Patriots and the personnel change, no team did have more 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.560 opt outs for COVID nineteen than New England. Among the 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.800 eight players who did opt out where some of their 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.640 top snaptakers in nineteen. Marcus Cannon played a thousand eight 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.960 snaps last year, linebacker Dante hi Tower played seven dred 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.000 and twenty three snaps. Safety Patrick Chung played six hundred 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.200 forty two and tied end Matt Lacosse played four hundred 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.480 and thirty three. Those are four of their eight opt 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.640 outs for this season. But in the end, no team 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.800 demonstrates the understanding of next man up more than this 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.280 Belichick led Patriots team, and that will have to be 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.920 the approach here in the opener. For the Patriots last 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.840 two years, they had off ball linebackers finished one and 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.080 two and then two and three in quarterback pressures among 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.360 off ball linebackers according to Pro Football Focus. High Tower, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.200 who of course opted out, was in both of those pairings, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.640 and one year Kyle van Noid was part of that pairing. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.560 He then transitioned to more of an edge position, playing 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.800 more snaps down on the line of scrimmage for the 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.360 Patriots last season, So then to replace him on that 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.840 off ball rushing position at the linebacker was Jamie Collins, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.480 so he and Dante high Tower finished at two three 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.520 that following season. And the forward thinking team they are 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.000 the Patriots, they have reinforcements ready to take on bigger 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.200 roles in the middle of that defense. As is the 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.720 case they planned for the next year, the next game, 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.720 the next week, whatever it might be, as well as 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.280 anybody in the National Football League they went out and 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.440 drafted rookie josh j from Michigan who had a twenty 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.120 three point three pressure rate as a pass rusher his 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.000 final season in college there at Michigan, he was under 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.960 coach Campanelli here who coach line actors at Michigan, and 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.320 he talked very highly. Gave a lot of high praise 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.440 to coach Campanelli at the scouting combine back in February. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.200 Josh U j also has a former college teammate there 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.760 with Wolverines at Michigan and Chase Winovich, who was a 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.560 third round draft pick of the Patriots in twenty nine team. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.160 He played two snaps last year for the Patriots, had 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.560 a little bit of injuries and Nixon bruises, but he's 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.200 due for a larger role this year. He registered twenty 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.520 three pressures on two hundred and thirty four pass rush 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.840 reps as a rookie last year, so that's kind of 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.040 an idea where the replacements might come for that. They 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.000 do have guys like John Simon Dietrich Wise up front. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.600 You heard coach reference Adam Butler earlier in the week. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.800 They have some good depth and some good bodies up 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.480 front in that front. Seven to replace that production they've 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.040 gotten from previous guys who are no longer on the team. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.360 And then in the secondary, stylistically, Patrick Chung one of 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.920 the opt outs. He and Kyle Dugger are just flat 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.120 out different players. But the rookie safety just oozes the 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.720 traits that we've heard Brian Floors and both Bill Belichick 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.640 talk about in the secondary, athletic ability, ball skills, the 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.520 ath this is him that he has features, range, and 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.720 coverage that Belichick will cover it out there. Dugger registered 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.880 Scouting Combine testing metrics incentile or better in the ten 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.760 yards split, the vertical jump, and the broad jump, so 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.040 he is definitely a freak athlete. And despite all that change, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.720 the two main stays that really drove the Patriots success 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.479 in twenty nine, team remained largely intact. That secondary we 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.800 talked about, led by Defensive Player of the Year Stefon Gilmour. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.320 It's just chock full of athletic, aggressive cover guys that 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.240 can locate the football and take it away. Nobody had 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.840 more takeaways last year than New England with twenty five 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.840 interceptions on defense, and few teams, really, if any, can 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.160 claim a better offensive line than New England even without 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.440 right tackle Marcus Cannon and the opt out on the interior, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.600 they are loaded with guys. They they thought that Joe 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.880 Tuney was valuable enough at left guard and he would 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.520 have cashed in big time on the open market, but 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.520 he was franchise tagged this offseason. Center David Andrews is 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.119 back after missing last season with some blood claw and 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.960 his lungs. Great to see him back in healthy playing again. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.320 He has surrendered only seven sacks over a four year career. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.840 And right guard Shack Mason, once upon time, got a 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.600 big contract extension in New England. One of the best 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.320 right guards in all the National Football League. He's allowed 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.600 only three sacks over the last two seasons combined. Some 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.880 matchup highlights I want to talk about in this game 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.199 the Dolphins run defense versus the Patriots run offense. We 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.040 know by now Cam Newton has over five thousand career 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.480 rushing yards if you include the playoffs. He's moved the 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.640 chains just shy of four hundred times and has sixty 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.200 touchdowns on the ground. Again, all those stats playoffs included, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.480 and their backfield is deep. It produced the fourth most 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.359 two back sets in the NFL last year and running 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.400 back Rex burkehead average four point five yards per carry 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.440 and three point three two yards after contact. He led 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.919 the Patriots in both those departments according to Pro Football Focus. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.560 The Dolphins have a plethora of new bodies on their 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.399 defensive front to help combat that Patriots run game. We 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.240 know about rookie ray Kwon Davis seventy three career run 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.560 stops at Al Obama. On the interior of that defensive line, 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.280 veteran Emmanuel Ogba has a PF career run stop rate 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.440 of eight point six percent. One of the better ones 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.399 at his position group, Shack Lawson had thirteen tackles for 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.240 lost last year that was top ten among defensive ends 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.200 in the NFL. The Dolphins also added linebackers e Land 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.520 and Roberts, formerly of the Patriots. He has a ten 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.520 point eight career run stop rate on Pro Football Focus, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.960 and Kyle van Noy had thirty three run stops last 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.960 year again with the Patriots, and COMMU grug Hill played 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.320 more special teams than linebacker in his career so far, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.840 but he has eleven career tackles for loss in the NFL. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.119 The next matchup Dolphins offensive line versus the Patriots rush 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.359 Bill Belichick schemes pressure as well as anybody, any of 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.520 the defensive masterminds really in the history of the National 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.160 Football League. You think about Buddy Ryan in the past, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.359 maybe some Dean Ps and those Ravens defenses for so 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.480 many years there you go back to Dick Lebau with 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.280 the Steelers, Bill Belichick's right, and that entire group, and 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.399 probably the top of that group, of course, with the 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.480 six six Super Bowl championships and having a up six 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.399 scoring defense each of the last four years. It's not 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.800 all about getting sacks on the quarterback, which of course 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.000 are big game changing plays most of the time, but 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.760 making the quarterback feel uncomfortable disrupting the offense is timing, 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.760 and that's kind of been the theme of their past 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.359 rush the last few years. They get tons of pressures. 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.160 They don't leave the league in sacks, but they get 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.080 so many pressures to force the quarterback into being uncomfortable. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.359