WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Raiders Week 11 Preview 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.560 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.080 Now let me check your pulse if you're not. What 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:09.640 is up? Dolphins? 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.680 And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.439 Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:18.599 How's it going to everybody? 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.000 I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:22.680 it's a preview day. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.200 Feels good to get back to the actual football. The 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:26.640 bye week is bye bye. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.200 Now it's eight games to the finish line and then 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.320 three or four more. We'll see how it goes, but 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.879 it starts Sunday at home versus the Raiders. We'll look 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.640 at the lineups, the matchups, the scheme, the keys to victory, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.440 and a whole lot more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.680 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:47.640 This is the Draft Time Podcast. May Daffe. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.040 Finally a Dolphins game back in our lives and the 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.800 bye week was awesome. I got a chance to spend 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.600 more time with the family. I got a chance to 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.080 just watch some movies and be alone for a little bit, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.840 which you fathers of multiple kids know how difficult that 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.720 is to find that kind of time. But like didn't 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.920 really I missed talking Dolphins football, especially like relevant, you know, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:12.840 prevalent things that are coming up down the pike. It 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.880 was great to talk to jt. O. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:14.360 Sullivan. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.680 Uh missed out on the guest for the Potential Tuesday podcast, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.600 wound up taking that day off as far as the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:20.480 podcast goes. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.360 But on top of that. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.959 The bye week was as sweet as it could have been, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.120 right even though it was the longest week of the 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.280 year in terms of how slow it went by, since 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.680 for me, July probably feeled that way for anybody else, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.600 I'm sure it did. But even though it took forever, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.240 the Dolphins will now play every single Sunday except for 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.160 a Monday game and a Friday game, I suppose, for 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.120 the next two months plus, so we have that in 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.360 our lives. Plus, the bye week was absolutely fantastic. I 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.280 think I last left you guys saying I hope the 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.840 Bills can lose tonight, and now that they have lost 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.040 that game, you know, we'll talk about that scenario here 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.000 once again, because I talked about in the podcast last 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.600 week that if you know, Miami takes care of business 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.320 over the next five games, Buffalo has to find their 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.680 way to a five hundred record against really good slate 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.639 of competition just to prevent Miami from clinching the division 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.680 before the Christmas Eve game against Dallas. We'll get back 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.960 into that. Let's go ahead and start here. Excuse me, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.240 with the raiders in town and the locals know, the 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.000 rain and lower temperatures this week have been welcome. In fact, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.000 as I record this, it is a downpour on Wednesday. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.360 I doubt practice goes outside today. But the good news 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.040 for those coming into town looking for a nice little 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.760 late fall get away from your cold weather is the 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:42.640 sunshine comes back for Sundayenen, the rain ceases on Thursday, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.200 and then we head right into an absolutely beautiful weekend 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.760 and week of South Florida weather. We wait all year 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.919 for this, starting on Friday through next Thursday, Thanksgiving, when 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.440 the team leaves for New York. It's sunny every day, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.720 and the high never eclipses eighty three, and most days 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.919 it does not eclipse eighty and the lows are pretty 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.840 much sixty three, sixty four, sixty five across the board 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:04.639 every single day. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.880 This is the payoff for those six. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.360 Months we have of boiling heat down here. Let's go 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.440 ahead and get to know these raiders who come from 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.080 a very warm climate themselves. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.000 Turnover and tumultuous. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.080 Times have been the theme for the Raiders since they 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.679 moved to Vegas, and it's kind of a bummer. I 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.680 think the league is better when the Raiders are good, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.359 and they're a team that I don't have any ill 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.959 will towards, you know, in general. I think some folks 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.840 that maybe grew up as fans of the league in 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:29.680 the eighties. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.000 Feel that way. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.959 But you know, it's hard to hate a team that's 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.040 you know, won three or four games a year for 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.920 like fifteen years straight, and like, if you want to 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.200 talk about all time pain rankings, that twenty sixteen season 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.560 where they finally got off the mat and made something 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.360 of themselves and had like I think they won twelve 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.880 games that year, but their quarterback, Derek Carr, he got 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.000 injured I think the penultimate game of the season, and 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.520 they wind up starting Connor Cook in a playoff game 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.480 and lose to the Brock aust Weiler led Texans. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.960 That would be like if the Bills started. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.600 Kyle Allen in that game last January and we still 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.960 lost it with Skaler Thompson playing in that game, But 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.800 then they revert right back to the prior thirteen years 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.640 that they had had before that, a period where they 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.040 averaged just four point nine wins a year, and they 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.599 had back to back eight win seasons in that mix. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.240 That really propped up what was annually two three four 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.160 wins a year, so twelve and four and twenty sixteen 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 and then six wins, four wins, seven wins, eight wins 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.120 the next four years. Then back to the playoffs with 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.880 an interim coach, which is where they're at right now, 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.720 trying to make that same push for the second time 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.360 in three years, and they're throwing into the end zone 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.200 in Cincinnati to tie that game in the wild card 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.640 round to the eventual AFC champions They wind up going 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.720 four and out and followed that up with a six 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.800 and eleven season last year. But now they're five and five. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.920 They've beaten the Giants and Jets. Yeah, get a little 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.640 bit of context there to get Antonio Pierce's career off 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.840 to a two and zero star as head coach, and 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.600 you know, you can talk about the opponents all you want, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.920 but they did what they had to do to put 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.919 themselves in position to maybe make a run with this 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.560 saying down the stretch, but they have a big, big, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.360 big road test down here in Miami Gardens. Thirteen point 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.680 dogs in this game, So that's those games usually don't 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.120 go in your favor. But let's go ahead and keep 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.400 this intro rolling. How was this roster assembled for LV, Well, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.120 it's cobbled together by multiple decision makers and that's usually 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:17.800 when you get. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.479 A pretty rough roster. Right. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.479 They're still in the post Gruden Mayock era in terms 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.960 of holdovers from those rosters, and now they'll be in 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.160 the midst of another turnover with a dismissal of Josh 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.440 McDaniels just one and a half years into his run there. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.000 It's a tough way to make. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.320 A living when you consistently turn over your coaching staff 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 because everybody has different flavors, right. But a good example 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.239 is they signed Jimmy Garoppolo to a three year contract 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.520 with a ton of guaranteed money to reunite with his 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.839 former OC in New England, McDaniels, And now he's gone, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.799 and they make the switch to Aidan O'Connell, a fourth 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.320 round pick this year, and his top target is an 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.599 All Pro receiver who signed to play with the previous 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.279 quarterback his former college teammate at Fresno State, Derek Carr. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.920 You see how this is all kind of getting muddled together, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.159 Jacoby Myers. I'm sure a lot of that his acquisition 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.560 had to do with Josh McDaniels coming from the Patriots. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.240 I thought he was their best offseason move. And why 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.520 the hell the Patriots let that guy go for that 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.400 cost to bring in Juju Smith Schuster is beyond me, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.600 but we'll take it maybe their best move besides drafting 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.600 Michael Mayer in the first round from Notre Dame, who 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.200 I think is gonna be pretty good player. But their 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.200 offensive line has also seen a ton of turnover. That 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.680 twenty sixteen team I talked about, that team was good 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.360 because of an awesome offensive line, and I thought they 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.919 really propped up like Derek Carr year that year. But 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:35.840 it hasn't been the same for a couple of years. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.560 They voluntarily cut off pieces like Rodney Hudson, and all 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.839 of a sudden they have this cobbled together offensive line 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.080 that's not playing very well. Their best player was a 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.800 Day three pick in Max Crosby out of Eastern Michigan. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.560 And if you follow the Lockdown Dolphins podcast back in 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.240 my time, He was a guy that when I was 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.680 watching four college football games every single window, every single Saturday, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.320 I would watch, you know, Purdue versus Eastern Michigan because 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.320 a little scratch on the game, and I was like, damn, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.480 miss Max Crosby. Guys pretty good. And he turned out 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.440 to be pretty good. But he anchors a defensive line 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.600 that was again built through free agency. John Jenkins, you 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.560 guys know about him. Adam Butler you know about him. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.240 Jerry Tillery, a former first round draft pick that didn't 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.600 pan out for the Chargers, but then also the sixth 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.600 pick in the draft, and Tyree Wilson who has not 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.040 played well or barely played it all this year. That's 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.239 how it goes all the way to the back seven. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.720 This is a roster where you can just see the 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.640 lack of draft hits from that previous regime because almost 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.480 every major contributor is a recent free agent signing, and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.120 you've already dismissed the half of the pieces in terms 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.720 of where the scheme was supposed to match up with 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.840 those players coming in, or for instance, a guy that 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.920 was a free agent acquisition that's playing one of their 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:42.840 playing one of the best on the team right now 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.520 is linebacker Robert Splaine, who I know all you guys 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.400 know about because you watched that Jets game and loved 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.120 that pick that he had on Zach Wilson to put 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.840 that game to rest. In the defensive backfield, Marcus Epps, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.480 again brought in from Philly, might be the next guy 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.880 in terms of the best offseason acquisitions. They did a 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.240 good job of remaking a defense that has struggle for 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.960 years with this free agency period. But we'll see how 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.280 long they can hold up at the course of the 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.280 season because it's not deep in a lot of areas. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.120 And his counterpart, Trayvon Merrig was a guy they did 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.240 draft in the second round under Mike Mayock, an absolute 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.160 stud from TCU. Marcus Peters another guy they signed in 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.040 free agency this summer. I imagine you'll see rookie Jacory 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.840 and Bennett along with Nate Hobbs riding out the secondary, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.640 and those are two of the guys that play a 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.680 lot or Bennett will in the absence of a meek Robertson, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.559 who went into the fencing posture on Sunday night against 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.160 the Jets, the same posture that Tua took when he 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.560 was injured against the Bengals. I can't imagine he plays 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:34.719 because that would seem to be. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.439 Crazy to me. So if it is Jacoreyan. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:42.360 Bennett and and Nate Hobbs, sorry, that would be two 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.520 guys in their defensive backle they actually drafted that are 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.600 back there. So and along with treyvon merreg gives them 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.839 a three. But you get the idea. It's a roster 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.880 that is gonna see a ton more change over next year, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.320 in a couple of years in the future, because you'll 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.080 get a new head coach. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.280 And this is a what's the word I'm looking for? 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.360 A merry go round? A you know, musical chairs that 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:03.240 you just don't want to be on. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.000 Man tough to make a living that way. How about 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.840 some storylines for this game? This feels like we don't 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.440 talk about this as much as we used to. Maybe 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.480 it's because air travel has gotten better, and you know, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.520 sports science has gotten better. But the cross country eleven 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.240 am body clock off of a short week used to 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.480 be ten am. But they're in the Mountain time zone now, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.960 I believe, I think. But you're probably saying to yourself, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.640 trave a short week, not exactly, but you know Sunday 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.360 night is seven hours later than a one pm kickoff, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.160 and that just kind of pushes things back a few hours. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.600 So you get the game finished, let's say local time 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.560 in Vegas by ten pm. You're not gonna unwind after 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.720 playing an NFL football game for a few hours. So 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.360 maybe you go out and you get some dinner, maybe 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.640 you go back home and ice up and watch you know, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:45.800 Scott van Pelton. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.679 You don't get to bed until one or two o'clock. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.600 In the morning, and so your Monday morning alarm clock 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.400 comes a little bit earlier than you want. Corrections on Monday, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.080 can you kind of get pushed back a little bit. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.160 But the real data point here is just the one 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.880 pm kick for a West Coast operation or again formerly 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.679 West Coast, now I guess Southwest. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.240 But how have the Raiders fared in such games this year? 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.840 They played one East Coast game in the one o'clock window, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.200 a thirty eight to ten drubbing up in Buffalo. Last 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.160 year Eastern time zone at one pm, they were zero 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.400 to three, oh to four in total because they played 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.920 a Saturday night game against Pittsburgh. But now I'm curious 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.520 to go back further, because this seems to be a 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.959 thing right. They beat Pittsburgh in Week two in Pittsburgh 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.800 back in twenty twenty one, that was the last time 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.920 they won a one o'clock kickoff on the East Coast, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.160 but since then they have lost five straight one. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.760 Pm kicks in the Eastern time zone. And also, the 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.679 heat used to be a thing. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.240 And though Vegas is a dry heat, this isn't the 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.760 old Bay Area climate right, so acclamation will be there, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.760 but not as it is for other teams. I think 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.480 another storyline here is the former Finns connections. Did you 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.679 guys realize how many former Dolphins they have on their 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.440 coaching staff. I bet you didn't because their interimc slash 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.720 QB's coach Bo hart Agree spent some time here. I'm 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.880 pretty sure that most you guys remember the name Jerry 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.320 sh Plinsky. He was the first quarterbacks coach that Brian 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.960 Flores brought in. He coaches the tight ends out there. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.839 Matt Lombardi is an assistant receivers coach. He was here 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.080 for a minute. Patrick Graham, I know you guys know 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.880 about him. He's the DC out there. Rob Leonard coached 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.440 our outside linebackers last year. He's on the defensive line 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.960 out there and then Danny am Mondola is also an 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.520 assistant on their staff to the roster. Brandon Bolden Germaine 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.280 Iluminor spent a camp here. John Jenkins has had a 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.320 lot of stops here. Adam Butler. There's ten total guys 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.760 here that used to be in the Dolphins program. Another storyline, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.640 the bye week broke in our favor. Can we capitalized? 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.920 I've quite literally never experienced a weekend that good in 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.560 which the Dolphins didn't play. The entire division lost. The 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.920 North and South leaders lost the team I think is 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.280 the biggest challenge to that. North leader also lost the 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.480 Ravens and Bengals. We found out today that Shawn Watson 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.080 has a shoulder season ending shoulder injury. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.480 That's so sad for him. Man, I that sucks. That's sarcasm. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:57.880 So we'll see about them. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.679 But Casey was idle or else they had lost, it 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.280 would have nearly undone the loss we had the previous week, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.360 because you basically catch a game on literally everybody you're. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.880 Contending with in the standings. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.360 But now you've spin it forward to the Dolphins playing 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.240 a football game and capitalizing. Miami's in a position to 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.559 take care of business. And you know, scoreboard watching to me, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.000 it makes the game way more fun. I love having 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.960 multiple games, like having the Jets and Bills in primetime 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.160 was awesome, like having invested interest there, and that Bill's game, 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.199 Like my heart sank when that field goal missed man 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:28.800 then then the flag came out and I went back 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.120 the other direction. Those emotions are so much fun, and 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.520 it kind of reminds you, Like I was really down 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.680 to dumps after that Chief's loss, right, I just couldn't 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.840 get over the fact that I still think it's going 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.160 to cost us the one seed I really do, which sucks. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.920 But you know, I was really down to dumps about that. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.920 But that Bill's game, you appreciate that those lows make 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.560 you realize that those highs are around the corner as well, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:50.959 especially when you have a good football team like the 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:51.599 Miami Dolphins do. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.720 So that was a great, great week. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.599 We'll start scoreboard watching more and more as we go 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.400 along with the whole idea here is if the Dolphins 0:12:58.440 --> 0:12:59.720 just handle their business. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.400 Over the next month, the AFC East is going to 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:01.800 be theirs. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.280 Dolphins. We've talked about it a million times. Raiders, Jets, Commanders, Titans, Jets, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.199 like you should go five to zero. With the way 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.800 this team plays, the way this quarterback has a super 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.040 high floor. It never seems to lose these games. Really 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.720 pays into your benefit. All of a sudden, the Bills 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.520 now face the Jets, They're at the Eagles bye week 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.520 at the Chiefs home for the Cowboys, and in the 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.360 scenario that Miami does take care of business and wins 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.680 all five of those games, Buffalo has to go. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.080 At least at least. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.080 Three and one during that stretch to prevent Miami from 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.520 clinching the division prior to the Dallas game. Now, assuming 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.199 five straight wins, Yeah, may be dumb. I don't think 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.760 it is here, but you can see why all the 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.200 analytics models now have Miami's division title percentage odds over 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.600 seventy five percent. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.559 Right now, it's our division to lose. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.240 Baby. We'll see how it plays out, but this could 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.800 potentially be the first time that Buffalo and New England 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.040 don't win eleven plus games one of the two since 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.240 two thousand and two. In fact, the number has been 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.800 twelve plus game every year except for two thousand and eight, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.880 when we won the division tie with the Patriots at 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.280 eleven and five. And twenty twenty one when the Bills 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.280 went eleven and six. Finally, the AFC East is not 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.400 a juggernaut outside of Miami. Finally, let's go ahead and 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.120 take our first break rate there, come back on the 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.800 other side and preview the Raiders defense against this Dolphins offense. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.280 That's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.160 Brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.160 Recently, I started grabbing my microphone and holding it up 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.200 to my face and sitting back and relaxing, and I 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:32.960 feel like it makes the podcast better. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.360 Do you guys notice that at all? 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.760 I don't know, just a little uh trick of the 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.320 trade here inside baseball. Let's go ahead and get to 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:44.240 this Dolphins offense versus Raiders defense matchup here. And I 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.560 you know, if you guys haven't noticed, the best way 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.280 to make me sensitive on Twitter is to say that 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.400 I'm biased against for the Dolphins, because yeah, I'm a 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.080 fan of the team, and I do tend to see 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.520 things on the positive side of things, but I also 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.400 like the way I feel about this team has been 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.200 a progression going back to twenty twenty because I've always 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.960 thought that Chris twenty nineteen really with the acclamation or 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.640 accumulation of draft picks and just general capital because I 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.320 believed in the process. I believed in the players they had. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.520 I believe the coaching staff previously had been holding back 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.560 a lot of talent they had, and now you've seen 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.440 that all kind of come to fruition. You've seen the 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.760 current iteration of this, you know, group attack star players 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.040 and round out your team with game changing talent, like 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.040 a Tyreek Hill, like a Toront Armstead, like a Jalen Ramsey, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.160 and on and on and on. So I get so 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.880 sensitive when I see that on Twitter because it's not true. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.240 I just think the Dolphins are a damn good football 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.960 team and that's where that comes from. And it's easy 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.240 for detractors to say, like Travis is a homer, Travis 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.760 gets paychecks from the team. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:49.000 Those are both true. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.760 But I'll tell you what, in twenty twenty one, when 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.800 this team was one and five, go listen to those podcasts, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.280 and go listen to the Zacobe Brissette breakdowns, and tell 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.040 me how I felt about the team back then. So 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.080 the reason I bring this up is because I'm going 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.840 to tell you I think the Dolphins are going to 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.360 absolutely roll in this game, and it feels like I 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.800 say that every single week. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.480 I have picked him every game. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.760 I flipped the Eagles pick because Connor didn't play, so 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.440 I did win that pick. Technically didn't want to win, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.800 but I did. I thought they would perform better against 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.640 the Chiefs. They kind of let us down on that one. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.480 I can think we all can agree on that, even 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.560 though they were close to winning it late. But you're 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.040 gonna get more of the same. Man. I think the 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.360 Dolphins are gonna roll down the back half of the schedule. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.000 I think there's. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.520 Really one game that right now where we're at, I 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:32.440 would pick us to lose. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:33.440 It's the Baltimore game. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.840 Other than that, I think Miami right now, with the 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.920 way things are, I would predict thirteen and four. I 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.200 told you about that in the podcast already last week. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.120 So that's just kind of a preamble into why I'm 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.960 gonna tell you how Dolphins are gonna roll in this game. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.560 So Dolphins offense, so this Raiders defensive backfield's banged up. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:51.720 Man. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.200 I mentioned Trayvon Merrick. He's played every snap in Marcus 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.320 Epps has played ninety eight percent of the snaps. They 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.600 never go three safety, so it's those two guys and 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.120 those two guys only, and then at corner they are 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.960 super super thin. Marcus Peters ninety six percent of the snaps. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.720 He's he's a great player. He's a gambler. I think 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.639 you know, two on and Tyreek could get him on 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.520 one of those single man coverage plays that we get 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.800 every single week if he takes the cheese on a 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:14.240 you know, a. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.680 Short move or doesn't get enough depth. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.199 And then Jacorey and Bennett is kind of next in 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.440 line because Brandon face On is on IR. He was 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.400