Speaker 1: Two on the move, gLing deep, speedless, peas doing Hell.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my advands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, he is here. He
Speaker 1: is glorious in the building. He is Odell Beckham Junior,
Speaker 1: and we are talking to him on the podcast. Here,
Speaker 1: really fun interview. We'll also go ahead and play some
Speaker 1: soundbites from his press conference with the South Florida Media.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about playing with Tua joined the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: how he fits in this Miami offense, and so much more,
Speaker 1: plus some additional schedule notes. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: about playing against the best teams in the NFL at
Speaker 1: home versus on the road, and why last year's Dolphins
Speaker 1: is not a good example of what you can expect
Speaker 1: going forward. All of that and more from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is.
Speaker 2: The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Maggie Daffy.
Speaker 1: First, let's cueue up. First here with my interview with
Speaker 1: the great Odell Beckham Junior?
Speaker 4: What is up?
Speaker 2: Dolphins?
Speaker 1: Welcome back into the Draft Time podcast. My new guest
Speaker 1: today here is new Dolphins wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior.
Speaker 2: Odell Welcome in man, Yes, I appreciate.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: First off, the suit looks great. I feel a little
Speaker 1: bit underdressed being next year right here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well just a little little blewis suit. The Miami
Speaker 4: Vice had to go all white, right yehead?
Speaker 1: I think I think Jayleen Ramsey had the exact same
Speaker 1: Miami Vice white get up on his first day back
Speaker 1: in Miami.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm upset, you know what I mean? Then I
Speaker 3: feel like I look like him, and I always want
Speaker 3: to look a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, if that makes sense. This is from the middle
Speaker 1: aged dad catalog that I have here. If you want
Speaker 1: to get into some of that, but I don't think
Speaker 1: you do. Yeah, you're getting there, getting there. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start here with football though the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Why why, Miami? Why do you want to come down
Speaker 2: here and enjoy up his crew?
Speaker 3: It honestly was God. When you follow him that, I
Speaker 3: feel like no mistakes can really happen. And this year
Speaker 3: it just it was the opportunity that kept presenting itself.
Speaker 3: It never left my mind, my thoughts or anything like that.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm super excited about the opportunity. You know,
Speaker 3: I got brothers here, like I said, Jalen Dug, a
Speaker 3: couple of other guys on the team, and coach Mike
Speaker 3: kind of sold me as far as when we were
Speaker 3: speaking football, when you were speaking life and he was
Speaker 3: speaking my career, it seemed like, you know, this is
Speaker 3: absolutely the right.
Speaker 4: Place to be.
Speaker 1: I know, no two offenses in the NFL are the same,
Speaker 1: but you had a lot of success in a similar
Speaker 1: offense from Sean mcvagh with the Rams in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: At least there's some conceptual crossover there between him and
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel. Right, How excited you to play for Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel on this Dolphins offense?
Speaker 3: Very Again, like I said, I think it was a
Speaker 3: major of the decision sitting in the meetings in here,
Speaker 3: in some of the verbiage and the plays and all
Speaker 3: that you could definitely LA was my favorite place that
Speaker 3: I had been because of everything that I had been through,
Speaker 3: and it reminded me how much I loved football, And.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what this is here. This is, you know,
Speaker 4: strictly football.
Speaker 3: Obviously there's fun and all that, but the idea of
Speaker 3: what that offense is and just being able to hear
Speaker 3: that and see the concepts and do all that.
Speaker 4: It's what got me most intrigued about coming here.
Speaker 1: When you think about an eleven personnel package that has Tyreek,
Speaker 1: Waddell and yourself and you guys can all kind of
Speaker 1: play different positions, move across the formation. I'm curious, how
Speaker 1: do you think that you guys having three game breakers
Speaker 1: who can line up anywhere.
Speaker 2: How does that challenge a defense? In your mind?
Speaker 3: I think it's just dangerous. You know, It's like you
Speaker 3: got those two guys that everybody's gonna worry about, and
Speaker 3: then you know, maybe one day everybody forgets about me.
Speaker 3: I would absolutely love that. I'm catching passes wide open
Speaker 3: and turning up and going crazy, and then you know,
Speaker 3: you do that and it's like, all right, we got
Speaker 3: to focus on that a little bit. And I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't forget about I mean, no, you won't, but
Speaker 3: you definitely can't forget about ten and seventeen. They're you know,
Speaker 3: liable to score anytime they touched the ball, and not
Speaker 3: even a minut the whole running backer, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, it's just I've really seen an actual opportunity.
Speaker 3: When I came here to be around a bunch of playmakers,
Speaker 3: bull gets spread around. It's just it seems like it'll
Speaker 3: be something very hard to stop. And I think one
Speaker 3: thing about coach. I always you know the old quote
Speaker 3: they say, offense wins games, defense wins championships.
Speaker 4: I think Coach takes.
Speaker 3: It semi personal to to change that statement and be like,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to outscore us, and our defense is
Speaker 3: gonna get stops, but you're gonna have to outscore us.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's always fun as an offensive player
Speaker 4: to be in a high powered offense.
Speaker 1: Thirty points per game last year, hoping to get even
Speaker 1: more this year with you in the fold there and
Speaker 1: speaking of that, the quarterback that was behind all that
Speaker 1: to a tongue, Bai Lowa posting video game stats the
Speaker 1: last couple of years here in Miami, and when I
Speaker 1: watch a lot of your big plays from your career,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of similarities between what Reagan Waball have
Speaker 1: done with their big plays. You know, go ball slams,
Speaker 1: taken run after the catch, a lot of similarity there.
Speaker 1: How excited are you gout playing with two and how
Speaker 1: he can kind of get the most out of your game.
Speaker 3: Absolutely again, you know, Coach Mike and I were talking
Speaker 3: about that and he was he was just telling me
Speaker 3: all about too, because you know, I've seen the numbers
Speaker 3: and all that, but when you don't really get to
Speaker 3: watch the film and see what they're doing, because when
Speaker 3: you're in the season, you're watching out the team's defense,
Speaker 3: so you don't it's not much time for you to
Speaker 3: tap in. But we sat up there and watched film
Speaker 3: for an hour and a half and we were just
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, the plays in my career and
Speaker 3: how you're catching it run away and I'm watching all
Speaker 3: the plays, you know, Water and Tyreeq, and it's it's
Speaker 3: a lot of everything that's all timing, you know, like
Speaker 3: real football, detailed stuff that happens catching the ball and
Speaker 3: you know you're catching it out of your break, that's
Speaker 3: when you have the most separation you catch it. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm catching it and I got two yards to run away,
Speaker 3: And you know, they were just telling me how accurate
Speaker 3: he is, how good of a ball he throws. You know,
Speaker 3: all of those things so I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 3: I met him today, great person. Seems like his energy
Speaker 3: is just infectious. Maybe we're supposed to catch around and
Speaker 3: golf or get something to eat. So I'm just excited about,
Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity to get to know him and
Speaker 3: be a part of his journey as well.
Speaker 1: Pretty good on the golf course, I have to ask him.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with the game myself.
Speaker 3: You know, I was all right, and then the ACL
Speaker 3: and then you have to rebuild a second so you know,
Speaker 3: I've had the bug, but then I've been I've.
Speaker 4: Been stopped in my process.
Speaker 3: But I can swing them, you know, I just need to,
Speaker 3: you know, have some more patience.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, you're in a great place for a tons of
Speaker 1: great courses down here, as I'm sure you will know.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the McDaniel meanting, because
Speaker 1: you talk about going up there and watching film with him.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of an uncommon visit compared to what
Speaker 1: you've done in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, just for him to be able to
Speaker 3: talk about football and to show me to like open
Speaker 3: my eyes as to.
Speaker 4: Why he wanted me here, how you want to use me.
Speaker 3: It was excited you know, it was exciting. It was
Speaker 3: exciting to see myself being able to see what's for coming.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of really how it all happened.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed to hear you talk about kind of
Speaker 1: the evolution of your not just your football career, but
Speaker 1: you as a man over the course of a decade plus.
Speaker 1: The NFL and the Dolphins drafted a couple of rookie
Speaker 1: receivers this year, so I was curious to ask you,
Speaker 1: as you look at the way you've evolved as a
Speaker 1: man and a leader, just what the NFL has taught
Speaker 1: you about your leadership and paying it forward to the
Speaker 1: guys that come after you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, for me, I kind of was forced
Speaker 3: to become the leader at a very very young age.
Speaker 4: You know, I was a rookie.
Speaker 3: The catch happens next thing, you know, you know, I
Speaker 3: was I was only able to have Victor Cruz for
Speaker 3: I think two years or so or something like that,
Speaker 3: or maybe a little bit more than that, but I
Speaker 3: didn't really have much of the.
Speaker 4: Role model that was in a receiver room.
Speaker 3: So just being able to give what I've learned my
Speaker 3: experience is, you know, never teaching them anything but giving
Speaker 3: them your experiences so they can learn on their own.
Speaker 3: I know my role is important in that part, and
Speaker 3: now that I've been in that place, it's kind of
Speaker 3: something that I look forward to.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of those guys grew up watching you and
Speaker 1: tyreken Wet was probably pretty surreal for those guys to
Speaker 1: come into a room with.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they you know, they killed me with that one
Speaker 4: now I used to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that hurts a little bit.
Speaker 1: Speaking of some of your past accomplishments, you were a
Speaker 1: key part of a championship team just a couple.
Speaker 4: Of years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm curious when you think about that and just being
Speaker 1: again in the league for so long, what do you
Speaker 1: think this team has in terms of their DNA for
Speaker 1: a championship contender.
Speaker 3: You know, when you look at it, there was two
Speaker 3: games away from first place last year before going up
Speaker 3: to Baltimore. You know, if that game goes a different
Speaker 3: way than you know, Dolphins get a first round by yea.
Speaker 3: The games are at home. You don't travel to KC
Speaker 3: in a record freezing you know game, it's just a
Speaker 3: different thing. So obviously I think it was first and
Speaker 3: offense and scoring and the defense is what it is,
Speaker 3: and it just it just seems like this team is
Speaker 3: is complete and they're in a place where they are
Speaker 3: ready to compete for a championship, you know, So I'm
Speaker 3: just excited to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: Also heard you talk a little bit about coming back
Speaker 1: off of the ACL after the Super Bowl when you
Speaker 1: obviously had that defictiting injury and you don't play in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Then last year is your first time
Speaker 1: back off the injury playing, I have to imagine a
Speaker 1: full offseason of being full go. Is that kind of
Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air for you?
Speaker 4: It definitely is.
Speaker 3: And you know, even even last season after you know,
Speaker 3: you're toured, you trained, and you got to the season
Speaker 3: and it was just it was just really hard. And
Speaker 3: then on top of that, I wasn't really playing, so
Speaker 3: you're like, you're in and out. It's hard for you know,
Speaker 3: a receiver to get a flow. It's like a three
Speaker 3: point shooter specialist. You know, if you don't get to
Speaker 3: put up you know, two or three threes in a game,
Speaker 3: you know, he's not he's not.
Speaker 4: What he is. So it wasn't the easiest situation for
Speaker 4: me there.
Speaker 3: But I feel like obviously I handled that well, and
Speaker 3: just now being able to be in a place where
Speaker 3: you're free and just be able to train.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about how my body feels. I don't really feel.
Speaker 3: Like I'm in pain or anything at all right now,
Speaker 3: so I'm excited about that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Man, I really enjoyed watching your film,
Speaker 1: even even last year with Riems. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on there that's going to translate
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, and a couple of those plays put
Speaker 1: you in the end zone where you spike the football
Speaker 1: and you do your dancing. So I think you are
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league at that. But
Speaker 1: the Dolphins last year, in my opinion, set the standard
Speaker 1: for celebrations. What do you think about when you consider
Speaker 1: a collaboration of Dolphins twenty twenty three celebrations and what
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham brings to the end zone?
Speaker 3: You know, like I said, like you said, I've been
Speaker 3: doing it since my first touchdown. It's just kind of like,
Speaker 3: you know, I love dancing. I love having fun. It
Speaker 3: was never to like gain more attention or this that.
Speaker 3: It was what is in my heart, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean to cut up to have fun, Like that's
Speaker 3: just where we're from like New Orleans. We just we
Speaker 3: just kind of like that. We're just you know, loose energy,
Speaker 3: high energy people. But seeing the celebrations and even you know,
Speaker 3: being on hard knocks and listening to them talk about it,
Speaker 3: you get excited about that because you think about all
Speaker 3: the hard work and preparations that you put into it
Speaker 3: just to score. In the NFL, I don't think people
Speaker 3: actually comprehend that concept.
Speaker 4: You know. It's like, oh, yeah, you're supposed to score touchdowns,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 3: Like no, every every eleven people have to do the
Speaker 3: right job just for the opportunity for a receiver to
Speaker 3: catch up pass or running back to run, score whatever.
Speaker 3: It is so excited to be able to add some
Speaker 3: ideas to the celebration station.
Speaker 4: You know, I know that they've been holding it down
Speaker 4: and it's just an exciting opportunity.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you really are all about being who you are,
Speaker 1: being yourself. You're gonna fit in really well here with
Speaker 1: with this coach and this team. Magnet said what they're
Speaker 1: all about here in South FLORTHA.
Speaker 2: So welcome in.
Speaker 1: Man Odell Beckham, junior new Dolphins wide receiver, Thanks Agiver
Speaker 1: for joining us.
Speaker 2: Man appreciate it. Appreciate I mean, how good was that.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and pick it back up here with
Speaker 1: OBJ and his introduction press conference with the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and we kick it off here with a question for
Speaker 1: him about head coach Mike McDaniel, what you think his
Speaker 1: offense can do. And yes, we did cover this briefly
Speaker 1: in my interview with Odell, but come, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and play the audio at the press conference and him
Speaker 1: talking about Mike McDaniel and that pre signing film session
Speaker 1: with the head ball.
Speaker 3: Coach alive just watching the film just seeing what it is,
Speaker 3: it kind of reminds me of, uh, well, a place
Speaker 3: where I had a lot of success. And as far
Speaker 3: as the giants and timing and all of those things
Speaker 3: that he talks about and preaches, it's just, you know,
Speaker 3: he was speaking football. We sat down for hours and
Speaker 3: we was just talking football, and it just it just
Speaker 3: got me excited thinking about it. You know, he pulled
Speaker 3: up my film compared to what you know they're doing
Speaker 3: here and just kind of you know, married the things
Speaker 3: and I've seen an opportunity and I think Tom will
Speaker 3: till in the end this is.
Speaker 4: The right decision.
Speaker 1: I say it all the time on the show, and
Speaker 1: that's probably a bit of the ego inflation that happens
Speaker 1: on the podcast here. But I mean, did I not
Speaker 1: talk about exactly that on the podcast just last week
Speaker 1: talking about the third down opportunities that I felt like
Speaker 1: Miami missed on and had a vacancy in terms of
Speaker 1: someone who could beat certain types of coverage and exploit
Speaker 1: the space created by both Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's nothing better than some vindication
Speaker 1: from the PhD level experts who do this stuff. When
Speaker 1: you're an amateur ding dong like myself trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on the football field. When you get
Speaker 1: that confirmation, it feels pretty good. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: move next here to probably my favorite answer from Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham during his press conference with the media, because he
Speaker 1: touched on this concept of being the number one receiver
Speaker 1: or the number of targets you get. And we've heard
Speaker 1: in the past about you know, will he be happy
Speaker 1: with Baker Mayfield and Jarvis Landry and David Najoku and
Speaker 1: all the weapons of the Cleveland Browns have.
Speaker 2: That's just not where he is.
Speaker 1: And you can get that from his interview with me,
Speaker 1: and you can get it from his press conference here
Speaker 1: with the media. Let's go ahead and hear him talk
Speaker 1: about the competition in the receiver room and just the
Speaker 1: balance of having so many stars within that room.
Speaker 4: I think you just all push each other, you know.
Speaker 3: And for me at this place in my life and
Speaker 3: my career, you know, I haven't been the number one
Speaker 3: in a minute. You could go look at targets, you
Speaker 3: can go look at anything. It's not really that's not
Speaker 3: really where I've been at. So just understanding your role
Speaker 3: and how can you be the very best at that role,
Speaker 3: maximize those opportunities, don't look for more or less, like
Speaker 3: just stay within that you know, present moment, and I
Speaker 3: think you'll find a way to succeed.
Speaker 1: We finish up here with the question that I think
Speaker 1: is on everyone's mind, and it goes back to the
Speaker 1: third down concept and the slot idea.
Speaker 2: And he hasn't played a ton in the slot.
Speaker 1: He has, but I just think that this perspective, once
Speaker 1: again understanding it's a different game from that position. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear from Odell Beckham on his idea
Speaker 1: of playing in the slot with both Reek and Waddle
Speaker 1: on the perimeter.
Speaker 2: But again remember.
Speaker 1: Both Reek and Wadle can play inside too, and that's
Speaker 1: the real value of Odell Beckham. It's easier to find
Speaker 1: slot guys, it's not so easy to find guys that
Speaker 1: can beat one on one coverage on the perimeter and
Speaker 1: get vertical. That's what Odell Beckham does, and that alone
Speaker 1: frees up in League Washington to do what he does
Speaker 1: best in the slot. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. I'm playing multiple positions, but in particular the slot.
Speaker 4: I don't mind getting in there.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I've actually had an opportunity to
Speaker 3: play in the slot much, and it's just such a
Speaker 3: different it's a different game in there. I've been very
Speaker 3: much x by yourself, clouded, you know, decoy ish over there.
Speaker 3: And I think that you know, you got Jalen and Tyree,
Speaker 3: who guys are going to focus on so much that
Speaker 3: there's room for, you know, opportunity. Like I said, when
Speaker 3: I really sat down and watched the film and I
Speaker 3: understood what Coach was talking about, I think I just
Speaker 3: along with you know himself, I think I see something
Speaker 3: that you know, other people aren't seeing. At the moment,
Speaker 3: and just like always, time will te.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham content in the books, we probably won't talk
Speaker 1: about him much until OTA's come up we get a
Speaker 1: chance to watch him on the football field, because we
Speaker 1: have given you a lot about Odell Beckham. I do
Speaker 1: believe it's a critical, critical signing to a team that
Speaker 1: needed some depth at that position, and just an overall
Speaker 1: great fit for the Dolphins in that spot. So very
Speaker 1: fired up. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there. Come back on the other side and do
Speaker 1: some more NFL schedule notes. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: I want to pivot back here to the NFL schedule
Speaker 1: that came out on Wednesday night. I have some additional
Speaker 1: notes about the Miami Dolphins, but also about the rest
Speaker 1: of the NFL and the Wednesday podcas has comes out
Speaker 1: right at eight o'clock, and so I had the show
Speaker 1: preloaded and had a chance to rattle off the Dolphins
Speaker 1: breakdown for you guys right at eight o'clock. But now
Speaker 1: I've had a chance to digest some content and provide
Speaker 1: further interesting notes about the rest of the league, how
Speaker 1: it impacts the Dolphins games. And I also want to
Speaker 1: take a look at the prime time schedule because that's
Speaker 1: a very important thing for someone that works in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins have the second most mileage traveled on
Speaker 1: their schedule, and they're the only team among the top
Speaker 1: five without an international trip. So MIMMI making two trucks
Speaker 1: of the West coast YEP, that'll do it. And I
Speaker 1: already knew it's because of the Seattle JOHNT literally the
Speaker 1: longest flight in the continental US. It will travel just
Speaker 1: a hair under twenty six thousand miles and crossed sixteen
Speaker 1: time zones of travel, I believe is the correct way
Speaker 1: to phrase that, because like in Seattle, you go three
Speaker 1: time zones away, travel back three more time zones. That's six,
Speaker 1: and then the LA trip gives you six more, so
Speaker 1: that's twelve. And then you have one each way for
Speaker 1: the Houston and Green Bay games. So sixteen time zones traveled.
Speaker 1: Really it's not that bad. It's basically two long flights
Speaker 1: and then the rest the schedule is pretty manageable from
Speaker 1: a short flight perspective. The Chargers, for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: have thirty six time zones covered eight time zones each
Speaker 1: way just to get to England for their international contest.
Speaker 1: Also Warren Sharp. You know, I know there's probably lots
Speaker 1: of opinions on Warren Sharp's content, but I think that
Speaker 1: this is where he really shines as the go to
Speaker 1: schedule breaker downer of schedule breakdowns. He produced some interesting
Speaker 1: nuggets on the fins. He did a breakdown of the
Speaker 1: easiest and toughest schedules based upon projected win totals, and
Speaker 1: that formula is concocted as a game handicaper right from
Speaker 1: how Vegas does it. I know there's some interesting dynamics
Speaker 1: there about promoting Vegas and betting games and the league
Speaker 1: where it's not allowed for the employees, but I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the best way to It's the best way to
Speaker 1: grasp the most accurate projections you can get because we
Speaker 1: can go listen to Mike Greenberg's projections. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: the Jets at fourteen and three and the Dolphins at
Speaker 1: three and fourteen.
Speaker 2: So it's like, do you trust that?
Speaker 1: No, you don't, So you go to a guy that
Speaker 1: actually has math based models, and not just Warren Sharp,
Speaker 1: but just Vegas in general, and we have an entire
Speaker 1: segment coming out talking about win totals projected over unders
Speaker 1: and how the Dolphins' schedule plays out that way in
Speaker 1: their home schedule versus their road schedule. That's in the
Speaker 1: third second. Let's go ahead, though, and talk about Warren
Speaker 1: Sharp here, who has the Dolphins at nine point nine wins.
Speaker 1: I know you can't have fractions of wins, but that's
Speaker 1: how the math works out in this instance. So he
Speaker 1: says the Dolphins have the second easiest schedule in terms
Speaker 1: of opponent projected win total from weeks one through twelve,
Speaker 1: but the second most difficult schedule from week thirteen through eighteen.
Speaker 1: Again not a math major, but six weeks of the
Speaker 1: second toughest schedule versus twelve weeks of the second easiest schedule.
Speaker 1: It's a two to one balance, right. It's like, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna be on the idea of picking games, if
Speaker 1: someone gave you two to one odds on picking a
Speaker 1: straight up winner in a game, you like those odds.
Speaker 1: And speaking of balance, on balance, it is actually the
Speaker 1: fifth easiest schedule in the National Football League. More on
Speaker 1: that in just a moment, and look, just a disclaimer,
Speaker 1: these are hardly an end all, be all thing, but
Speaker 1: there's also just little advantages and disadvantages baked into a schedule.
Speaker 1: I talked about this in the Dolphins the Wednesday schedule recap,
Speaker 1: playing the first five teams against first five games against
Speaker 1: teams that have brand new defensive coordinators, and how difficult
Speaker 1: it is, in my opinion to get ready for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense, and when you have a new DC it
Speaker 1: makes it just a little bit more difficult, like stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But now we have the entire schedule, so
Speaker 1: I can tell you about some potential look ahead games
Speaker 1: or sandwich games or trap games, all that fun stuff.
Speaker 1: So the first one I have is that before the
Speaker 1: Week nine game against Buffalo, they are in Seattle before
Speaker 1: that game, and it just starts the week a little
Speaker 1: bit late when you have to travel all the way back,
Speaker 1: like they won't be getting home from Seattle for a
Speaker 1: four to twenty five kickoff on Sunday. Game gets over
Speaker 1: at seven thirty, give or take. You take a couple
Speaker 1: hours to get onto the bus onto the plane. Let's
Speaker 1: say you leave by ten o'clock at night Pacific time
Speaker 1: that is, or sorry, East Coast time.
Speaker 2: You get back at.
Speaker 1: Three am, right four am, and then your sleep is interrupted,
Speaker 1: your Monday is impacted. So it's the same thing as
Speaker 1: pointing out a short week playing from that Sunday night
Speaker 1: football window. Like, it's kind of the same idea. It
Speaker 1: just starts your week a little bit later, and every
Speaker 1: single hour in the NFL is counted in terms of
Speaker 1: advantages in preparations. That's how they view it. That's how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and tell you guys about it.
Speaker 1: There's a few more of these, Like Seattle is in
Speaker 1: New England the week before they play us, so coming
Speaker 1: back across the country the other direction has that same impact.
Speaker 1: New England is at San Francisco before we play them
Speaker 1: up in Foxboro, so they have that long travel back
Speaker 1: before our game, and the Packers play the Niners before
Speaker 1: us on a short week. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: very interesting because you can go back last year to
Speaker 1: teams that collapsed, whether it was Jacksonville or the Eagles,
Speaker 1: after they played the Niners, their season fell apart. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of a trend almost for teams, because teams
Speaker 1: that played the Niners last year went five to twelve
Speaker 1: the following week, and that's a trend that actually extends
Speaker 1: a couple of years under Kyle Shanahan. Something about their
Speaker 1: physicality and their play style. To me, I think it's
Speaker 1: a defensive thing with their one gap upfield just kind
Speaker 1: of beat you up for sixty minutes and being so
Speaker 1: good in all three levels and firing off the football.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like playing us in a way. But
Speaker 1: they have a better defense than we do obviously, But
Speaker 1: I suppose you know, that makes the bounce back a
Speaker 1: little bit tougher playing a team like that, and so
Speaker 1: maybe something of an equalizer for us being on the
Speaker 1: road and losing those crucial hours in the air on
Speaker 1: a short week going up to Green Bay. Just something
Speaker 1: to think about there. And the Cardinals are off a
Speaker 1: short week coming into the game against US. They play
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football, the game before they see us
Speaker 1: for a cross country trip. No less, that's a brutal
Speaker 1: a brutal look for those guys. And this one was
Speaker 1: interesting to me as well. It's more of a handicapping thing,
Speaker 1: I think when you consider, you know, looking ahead or
Speaker 1: sleepwalking or whatever. But we play two games where we're sitting,
Speaker 1: we are sandwiched between two divisional games for that opponent.
Speaker 1: So the Indianapolis game they play at the Titans and
Speaker 1: at the Texans before and after they play the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: which can sometimes be like, Okay, those are the more
Speaker 1: important games and divisions, maybe we sleep walk a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't think it really exists for the Dolphins because
Speaker 1: we are one of the best teams in the NFL
Speaker 1: and no one's gonna take us.
Speaker 4: Lightly.
Speaker 1: Cleveland late in the year is book, and then by
Speaker 1: games at Sincy and at Baltimore. So those are two
Speaker 1: not so interesting topics spot I thought they were myself.
Speaker 1: The Raiders and the Texans are both off of a
Speaker 1: bye before they play us. We had zero teams off
Speaker 1: by last year, two this year, and the Niners have
Speaker 1: a mini buy before they come to us. They are
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football, the week before they make the
Speaker 1: trek across the country to Miami. I also put this
Speaker 1: note in here. The Jets are in primetime and six
Speaker 1: of the first eleven games of the season, and that
Speaker 1: is not just the most in the league, not just
Speaker 1: tied for the most in the NFL this whole year.
Speaker 1: That's the most ever through the first eleven weeks of
Speaker 1: a schedule. And the Jets are my second favorite team
Speaker 1: to watch because I love watching them lose on national
Speaker 1: TV no less, and they're gonna get to do that
Speaker 1: for us a lot this year. So watching the Jets
Speaker 1: get be always fun. You're gonna get and lots of
Speaker 1: opportunities to do that. And then my last general thought
Speaker 1: here is just again the primetime slate. Since I'm only
Speaker 1: watching the Dolphins when they are on. So the Dolphins
Speaker 1: play at one o'clock on Sunday, I miss half the
Speaker 1: damn games that happened that week. Probably more than that
Speaker 1: because I also miss the four o'clock games because I'm
Speaker 1: doing postgame radio and the podcast for you guys, right,
Speaker 1: what's my job. So I usually am working till about
Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night on the one o'clock kickoffs, and
Speaker 1: so that primetime slate, you know, once the kids get
Speaker 1: to bed and I get some dinner in me, it's
Speaker 1: super valuable because it's a long workday and then it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I finally get a relax and do my
Speaker 1: favorite thing in the world and just watch some football
Speaker 1: and it's not work. And I know for a lot
Speaker 1: of you it's probably the same, whether you're going to
Speaker 1: the games here and you're driving home, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple hours to wherever you're from, or you're just locked
Speaker 1: in and only watching the Fins, And if you're like me,
Speaker 1: I think many of you are. The best games to
Speaker 1: watch Besides Dolphins games are the ones that have playoff
Speaker 1: implications within the AFC. I love love to root again
Speaker 1: teams that positively impact US. I don't think I cheered
Speaker 1: more last year than when the Broncos missed that field
Speaker 1: goal that Bill's had too many men in the field
Speaker 1: and the Broncos bring the field goal team back out
Speaker 1: and put it through the uprights, and a huge upset
Speaker 1: in a game that was so unexpected for Buffalo to lose.
Speaker 1: That was probably my favorite game to watch of the
Speaker 1: entire year, outside of some of the fun Dolphins games obviously,
Speaker 1: So I wanted to go ahead and just talk about
Speaker 1: the primetime schedule because it's super valuable to me. So
Speaker 1: right off the bat, the Baltimore KC opener is fantastic, obviously,
Speaker 1: but the rest of the way you get some NFC
Speaker 1: matchups in there, but we do get. Of the six
Speaker 1: primetime teams, one is an AFC team and it's the
Speaker 1: Monday night game Jets and Niners. How much better of
Speaker 1: a Week one can you get than beaten Jacksonville at home?
Speaker 1: And then on Monday night, you come home from work
Speaker 1: and you get to watch the Jets lose embarrassingly to
Speaker 1: a way better football team than in the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Fort Nits. I cannot wait to watch that with a
Speaker 1: one to zero record in our back pocket, watching the
Speaker 1: Jets lose on mon than at football once again for
Speaker 1: or they won last year, but they lost their quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I was like a perfect fotball game last year. But
Speaker 2: I digress.
Speaker 1: Week two, it's US and then two more NFC games boo.
Speaker 1: Week three, the Jets and Patriots are in primetime. I'll
Speaker 1: be pulling for the Patriots in that game because I
Speaker 1: assume they're going to be zero to two against a
Speaker 1: one to one Jets team. Always fund the root against
Speaker 1: the Jets, Like I said, then we get the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and Falcons. Anytime you get an AFC team versus an
Speaker 1: NFC team, especially one that you know is gonna be
Speaker 1: in contention to compete for you for seating down the stretch,
Speaker 1: run root against the Chiefs. There we get Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the It's one of the Monday night. It's
Speaker 1: a Monday na'll doubleheader. I'll be watching that one over
Speaker 1: Washington vers Cincinnati, but go Jaguars, and week three over
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. In Week four, we get Buffalo and
Speaker 1: Baltimore on Sunday Night football. What a gem of a
Speaker 1: game that is. And you're watching football all day that
Speaker 1: Sunday ahead of a Monday night game for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: We play Kings of the Titans in week four, but
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Buffalo and Baltimore. Man, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, but hopefully we can knock off Buffalo
Speaker 1: in week two.
Speaker 2: I think that will happen. But then if they can
Speaker 2: lose to.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville in Week three and then get knocked off by
Speaker 1: Baltimore in week four, we could be looking at a
Speaker 1: one to three Bills team after the first four games
Speaker 1: if it goes that way. Hopefully in Week five it's
Speaker 1: NFC NFC, and then the Chiefs play the Saints on
Speaker 1: Monday Night, So go Saints, but I mean come on,
Speaker 1: and then oh, Sunday night's actually Dallas and Pittsburgh, so
Speaker 1: go Cowboys.
Speaker 2: In that one.
Speaker 1: Week six we have an NFC game and then the
Speaker 1: Bengals and Giants, and then the Jets and Bills is
Speaker 1: the Monday night game that week, so another time where
Speaker 1: you get a chance to root against two teams at once,
Speaker 1: maybe get the same exact result from last year. That'd
Speaker 1: be great, but I don't know. Week seven Denver and
Speaker 1: New Orleans is the Peyton Bowl obviously, but like two
Speaker 1: snooze fest of a team on Thursday night football, So
Speaker 1: thanks for that one, NFL. Then we get the Jets
Speaker 1: and Steelers again, which is another great one to watch
Speaker 1: if you're a Dolphins fan. And then Baltimore and Tampa
Speaker 1: and the Chargers and Cardinals are the Monday night doubleheader there,
Speaker 1: so another AFC vers NFC split. Love those games. It
Speaker 1: tells you exactly who to root for if you're a
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan. In Week eight NFC NFC, and then Giants
Speaker 1: and Steelers, that's a terrible primetime slate. Week nine, Houston
Speaker 1: and the Jets is the Thursday game, and again love it.
Speaker 1: I have to love that one. Houston's getting some serious
Speaker 1: pop here, but I just they look good on paper,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. I always feel like the darling who
Speaker 1: finished the year strong that wasn't that good last year
Speaker 1: but finished strong with a good quarterback like Thoseth. Teams
Speaker 1: always get propped up, like look at the Jacksonville jaguarsprints,
Speaker 1: as with Trevor Lawrence, Like it's never really been that good, right,
Speaker 1: I think Trout's a lot better, But I digress. Then
Speaker 1: you get Jacksonville and Philly, Tampa Bay and Kansas City,
Speaker 1: another AFC versus NFC team that you know who to
Speaker 1: root for. In Week ten, Cincinnati and Baltimore. Put them
Speaker 1: on primetime every time they play. That's a great game.
Speaker 1: A great matchup usually has a big impact on the
Speaker 1: playoff race in AFC. You'll love to see that. Then
Speaker 1: Detroit and Houston and the Dolphins and Rams on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football. In week eleven, Washington Philly on Thursday Night boo.
Speaker 1: But then the Colts and Jets again. The Jets are
Speaker 1: all over this damn schedule. Houston and Dallas on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football, So go Cowboys there. In week twelve, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Cleveland Thursday Night tilt. That's usually gonna have playoff implications.
Speaker 1: Most likely the Sunday game is a early sun night
Speaker 1: game is an NFC matchup, and then the Monday night
Speaker 1: game is Baltimore and the Chargers, the hardbabble. Probably go
Speaker 1: Chargers there. I think they'll be out of playoff contention
Speaker 1: early in the Baltimore wins. Is gonna be right there
Speaker 1: again like they always are. Week thirteen is the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: game with US on primetime with obviously the earlier Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: games two, and then San Francisco Buffalo is a Sunday
Speaker 1: night game, so you get to watch a whole day
Speaker 1: of Sunday football, hopefully coming off of Dolphins win. And
Speaker 1: then Root against the Bills with a very good opponent
Speaker 1: coming into their house. And then Cleveland Denver on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: I guess go Broncos, but I think both those teams
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be good this year, so who cares? Week
Speaker 1: fourteen NFC, and then the Chargers and Chiefs on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night football is always a fun matchup. Probably go Chargers there,
Speaker 1: like what I just talked about. And then Bengals and
Speaker 1: Cowboys Monday Night again AFC vers NFC, Go Cowboys. Week
Speaker 1: fifteen NFC game, NFC game, NFC game, and then Atlanta
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Oh, woof, that's rough, and then think it's good.
Speaker 1: I love these new Saturday slates that they've been rolling
Speaker 1: out the last couple of years. In Week sixteen and seventeen,
Speaker 1: so Cleveland Cincinnati's Thursday night fantastic. I love that matchup
Speaker 1: Houston k C on Saturday, Baltimore and Pittsburgh on Saturday
Speaker 1: boom AFC afc AFC, and I think I think four
Speaker 1: of those teams will be in playoff contention. So that's
Speaker 1: a really fun slate to watch. And then Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Bucks and Packers and Saints two NFC games who cares?
Speaker 1: And then Week seventeen Casey and Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is like
Speaker 1: gonna get some love this year, but they they're gonna stink.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 2: It's Russell Wilson. He's been terrible for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: And Justin Fields can't see the field, so like cool
Speaker 1: that he has a lot of talent, but if you
Speaker 1: can't see the field, you can't play quarterback. Baltimore and
Speaker 1: Houston's another Saturday game there. You have to love that one.
Speaker 1: Then we get an NFC game, and then we are
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football, and then another NFC game on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. So plenty of fun primetime slates to
Speaker 1: look at remember last year, like there were some some
Speaker 1: slates where it was like all these AFC games that
Speaker 1: impacted Miami. I was like, this is just heaven, dude.
Speaker 1: So I think it's fun to talk about that. Maybe
Speaker 1: you don't feel that same way. I'm sorry if you don't,
Speaker 1: but we'll go ahead and get out of the segment
Speaker 1: now and finish up with our third and final segment
Speaker 1: here in this edition of the Draft Time Podcast, I
Speaker 1: have a research project I did looking at playing good
Speaker 1: teams on the road versus at home. That's next the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. I wanted to conclude with something I've
Speaker 1: actually been sitting on for a little bit now, a
Speaker 1: segment that I brainstormed and researched quite a while ago,
Speaker 1: but today feels like the ideal time to drop it.
Speaker 1: With a schedule coming out earlier this week and last year,
Speaker 1: this whole project, the Dolphins' opponent's record saw a very,
Speaker 1: very stark contrast when separating it into home and road.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins went seven and two at home against teams
Speaker 1: that finished with a thirty or rather a three to
Speaker 1: ninety three win percentage. They went four and four on
Speaker 1: the road against teams with a four seventy eight win percentage,
Speaker 1: And I do think it's naive to say we were
Speaker 1: the same team on the road because we had more
Speaker 1: pre snap penalties, we scored fewer points per game. And
Speaker 1: your eyes, eyeballs were a good thing I have in
Speaker 1: the sport, right, they can just flat out tell you
Speaker 1: it was not the same elite efficient offense in those
Speaker 1: road games, and the entire operation just looked a little
Speaker 1: bit more stagnant, and that had big ramifications in terms
Speaker 1: of the results you saw in those scores. And we've
Speaker 1: kind of become used to these high powered offensive attacks
Speaker 1: that I think that in comparison these road games where
Speaker 1: they score twenty points or seventeen points or you know,
Speaker 1: fourteen points, nineteen points, not great numbers, but there are
Speaker 1: still more offensive production in those games in terms of
Speaker 1: yards and scoring opportunities than what we've seen from many,
Speaker 1: many Dolphins offenses in the past.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to go back and look, you know, well,
Speaker 1: going back to twenty twenty two, because the last couple
Speaker 1: of seasons, you know, the home and road splits were
Speaker 1: kind of stark.
Speaker 2: But if you look at the twenty twenty two road slate.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins did score forty two in Baltimore, thirty one
Speaker 1: in Detroit, thirty five in Chicago, and twenty nine in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: albeit in a losing effort, which actually kind of supports
Speaker 1: my whole argument here that the narrative, this narrative based
Speaker 1: around Miami's inability to compete on the road, is a
Speaker 1: farce that was perpetuated by a very difficult road schedule
Speaker 1: balanced across or balanced against I should say, a softer
Speaker 1: home schedule in twenty twenty three, And so I wanted
Speaker 1: to look at how other teams fared in this department
Speaker 1: to compare it, because we can talk about the Dolphins
Speaker 1: results and numbers and all this stuff, but it's never
Speaker 1: really that valuable unless you have the comparisons to put
Speaker 1: it up against. So first I think to really kill
Speaker 1: the narrative, we must first identify exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: And it's good teams on the road, right, So when
Speaker 1: we beat Detroit and Chicago in twenty twenty two, they
Speaker 1: were one and six and two and six, respectively. Buffalo
Speaker 1: was a good team later on in the year, but
Speaker 1: we didn't win that game, and Baltimore was a good
Speaker 1: team too, But I also think September games can be
Speaker 1: a little bit surprising even by NFL standards, and the Ravens,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, their defense got it figured out pretty much
Speaker 1: after that game and going forward, and they were banged up,
Speaker 1: and it was early and cramping and tyreek like. It
Speaker 1: just was a lot in that game for a normally
Speaker 1: very good Ravens defense. So the four road losses last
Speaker 1: year came to teams that were at the time of
Speaker 1: those games two and one, five and one, six and two,
Speaker 1: and twelve and three. A combined twenty five and seven,
Speaker 1: and I mean twenty five and seven is that would
Speaker 1: be the one seed over a two year span, right,
Speaker 1: thirty two games. It's the old sixteen game schedule, But
Speaker 1: that's an average of twelve and a half wins per year.
Speaker 1: That's like a one seed most years, or maybe a
Speaker 1: two seed at worse an accumulative two year schedule. So
Speaker 1: we lost games to the best team in the NFL
Speaker 1: in a certain sense, right, Two of those games were
Speaker 1: not competitive. Two of those games were decided in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, one on the final drive of the game.
Speaker 1: I'd like to believe another year of continuity, another year
Speaker 1: of improving, another year of just learning from your losses
Speaker 1: and taking those lumps and growing from those losses, would
Speaker 1: help us narrow the gap in those games to get
Speaker 1: to two close ones that you win and make the
Speaker 1: two runaway games competitive that maybe you come up short
Speaker 1: and maybe you get one of them. Because if you're
Speaker 1: even just two and two in those games, and you
Speaker 1: beat Casey and Philly last year and then you lose
Speaker 1: narrowly to Baltimore and Buffalo on the road, the entire
Speaker 1: perception completely flips. First, well, you're now a thirteen and
Speaker 1: four team, which that you can't argue against that, But
Speaker 1: nobody would have this. They can't win a game in
Speaker 1: January and Baltimore take because they if they would have
Speaker 1: kept that same pace, they would have had home games
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, right and so, And not just that,
Speaker 1: But if I'm going to do this whole research product
Speaker 1: I'm talking about right now, basically tells you that good
Speaker 1: teams against good teams on the road don't even win
Speaker 1: half the game. So we'll get to that here in
Speaker 1: just one second. But that's why I look at this
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four schedule as a great chance to really
Speaker 1: reshape this narrative, if you go off projected win totals
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins schedule, here's what bet MGM has for
Speaker 1: their over under totals. And we'll say it again here
Speaker 1: in a minute, but there's a reason that Vegas has
Speaker 1: all those bright lights, right. So the Jacksonville Jaguars eight
Speaker 1: and a half is their projected win total. Buffalo ten
Speaker 1: and a half the most on the schedule that game
Speaker 1: at home, of course, on the road in Seattle seven
Speaker 1: and a half wins for them, the titan six and
Speaker 1: a half, Patriots six and a half, The Colts are
Speaker 1: projected at eight and a half wins, the Cardinals also
Speaker 1: six and a half, back to Buffalo ten and a half.
Speaker 2: Again, the Rams eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Then you get the Raiders at six and a half,
Speaker 1: Patriots again five and a half, Packers nine and a half,
Speaker 1: Jets and Texans are both nine and a half, And
Speaker 1: I lied. The Niners are actually the highest win total
Speaker 1: at eleven point five in Week sixteen, and then the
Speaker 1: Browns are eight and a half and the Jets, once
Speaker 1: again on the road, at nine and a half. Did
Speaker 1: you know the cumulative projected opponent win total of one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two wins, and that's using the half's
Speaker 1: there is the fifth lowest or tied for the fifth
Speaker 1: lowest in the National Football League. No big deal, just
Speaker 1: one of the easiest schedules in the entire NFL. Based
Speaker 1: upon Vegas's projections. If you remove team's divisional games, ours
Speaker 1: would actually be tied for the easiest schedule in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And yes, some of these will be wrong, but I
Speaker 1: promise you nothing will be as accurate as a bookmaker,
Speaker 1: because once again, there's a reason that Vegas has all
Speaker 1: those chandeliers. And I think we can provide context by
Speaker 1: looking at other teams, even the best teams, and how
Speaker 1: they fared on the road against the other top tier teams.
Speaker 1: So what I did was I went back the last
Speaker 1: couple of years and looked at teams that won double
Speaker 1: digit games and looked at their games on the road
Speaker 1: against other teams who also won double digit games. We
Speaker 1: track in that teams that won ten or more games
Speaker 1: on the road against opposition that also won ten plus games.
Speaker 1: And here's twenty twenty threes less. Buffalo was two and
Speaker 1: one in those games. The Ravens were one and one.
Speaker 1: The Browns were two and one and the Steelers went
Speaker 1: oh to three. I removed the Week eighteen Baltimore game
Speaker 1: because they rested everybody in that game, and that to
Speaker 1: me was not the thirteen win Ravens that they beat.
Speaker 1: The Texans went oh to one. The Chiefs didn't play
Speaker 1: a game on the road against a ten win team
Speaker 1: last year. Oh and oh, the Eagles went two to one,
Speaker 1: Cowboys went oh to four. My heamy Dolphins did. The
Speaker 1: Lions went one and two, the Niners went two and one,
Speaker 1: and the Rams went oh to two. And I also
Speaker 1: moved their way Week eighteen game because it was Blaine
Speaker 1: Gabbert versus I don't even remember who was the quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Rams in that game, Stenson Bennett. I don't,
Speaker 1: I literally don't remember. But nobody won more than two games,
Speaker 1: and in total they went ten to seventeen. That is
Speaker 1: a three to seventy win percentage. The takeaway here for
Speaker 1: me actually became that we had four of those games,
Speaker 1: tied for the most of the NFL with Dallas, who
Speaker 1: was also zero to four. The Chiefs did not have
Speaker 1: a single one. But even though the results are a
Speaker 1: little less than what I was thinking, I thought the
Speaker 1: record would be worse than that. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: the best teams in the NFL, right and they went
Speaker 1: to win went on to win thirty seven percent of
Speaker 1: these games. That's not good. Now we went over and
Speaker 1: had four cracks added, obviously, and that must get better. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that has to get better. But it's hard to win
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's hard to beat the best teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's the hardest to win in the
Speaker 1: NFL when you play the best teams on the road.
Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty four, off of the projected win totals,
Speaker 1: we have four road games against teams projected to win
Speaker 1: better than nine games. We have one against a team
Speaker 1: with a projected record of better than ten wins. Last
Speaker 1: year we had four of those games, And I get
Speaker 1: the pushback will be but we're gonna have to beat
Speaker 1: those teams on the road in the playoffs, or will we?
Speaker 1: Because if the schedule provides us a little bit of
Speaker 1: an easier path and we can get to twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen wins, guess what, bucco, The playoffs go through hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium, maybe except for the AFC Championship game. But
Speaker 1: if I told you today that we are at Arrowhead
Speaker 1: for the AFC Championship Game. You're gonna sign up for
Speaker 1: that right now and take it today because why because
Speaker 1: you're a Dolphins fan that hasn't seen that since the nineties.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, Buffalo went two to one in
Speaker 1: these games. The Bengals went oh to two, and one
Speaker 1: of those losses was to the dakless Dallas Cowboys. The
Speaker 1: Ravens went oh to one, the Chiefs went two and one.
Speaker 1: The Chargers and everyone's golden boy quarterback that is so
Speaker 1: great went oh to two. That's pretty common for his
Speaker 1: career so far. The Eagles oh to one, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: one in one, Minnesota one and one, and the Niners
Speaker 1: that year did not play a game against a team
Speaker 1: that had double digit wins on the road. So for
Speaker 1: the total six and ten, that is exactly thirty seven percent.
Speaker 1: Once again, so the two year total is sixteen and
Speaker 1: twenty seven, a three seventy two winning percentage. It's hard
Speaker 1: to win. It's hard to win on the road. It's
Speaker 1: hard to win against good teams. It's the hardest to
Speaker 1: win on the road against good teams.
Speaker 2: Fien.
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