WEBVTT - Dolphins Giants Week 13 Preview 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:06.360 Fires touch stop by Waddles knocked into the end zone 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.239 of Miami Boy type pro tike window. They had to 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.920 get that touchdown on that play. They get it. What 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.120 is up, Dolph fans and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.880 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.440 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.280 Travis Wingfield and as always, I am here to bring 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.360 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. On today's show, 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.560 it's preview time. We're taking a look at Sunday's matchup 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.720 with the New York Giants, a chance to make it 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.000 five straight victories for the second time in as many years. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.919 Will break it down position by position, tell you how 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.120 Miami can secure that fifth straight dub, give you the 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.120 three keys of the game, and a whole lot more 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.440 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:02.880 This is the Drivetime Podcasts Miami. A. Yeah, it's preview 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.040 day and is it just me or has this week 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.320 been kind of a fun one. I've watched last week's 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.640 game several times, but now I'm on to the Giants. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.560 We got another chance to make it a fun week 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.560 with the Giants coming to town, and we'll have to 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.640 wait to find out which quarterback is gonna be under 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.480 center for Big Blue. As Joe Judge addressed the next 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.400 train suffered by Daniel Jones in the game Sunday, and 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.800 he was limited in practice on Wednesday and will be 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.399 all throughout the course of this week, but he would 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.440 not rule Jones out as previous reports had said they 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.520 were going to do. So we'll see who plays on Sunday. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.440 Their backup as Mike Glennon, and they just signed Jake 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.200 from from the Buffalo practice squad, so we should find 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.640 out sometime this weekend, either the Friday practice report, maybe 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.000 it's a game time decision. We shall see. But before 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.480 we get into the quarterback versus the Miami safety's matchup, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.480 how did the Giants get to their current position. They 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:57.000 brought Dave Gentleman in as GM as they searched for 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.760 a return to the winning ways of really the early 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.320 and before that, with that ferocious defense, the four man 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.800 pass rush they could provide Plexico Burris Eli manning all 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.640 those star players they had back in those Super Bowl years. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.400 They did make the postseason back in twenty sixteen, but 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.440 then dropped to five wins in seventeen, opting to bring 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.359 Gentleman in from Carolina, and that was also it the 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.240 end of the road for Ben mcado, a two year 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.480 stint there with the Giants, and Gelman was joined by 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.959 Pat Shermer for a year, but he lasted just that 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.160 one season before the Giants went after special teams coaching 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.400 whiz and something of a disciplinarian up there in New 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.040 England and Joe Judge to fill that big chair. Gelman 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.600 was clear from day one about his initiative. He wanted 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.920 to build a team that runs the ball and stops 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.200 the run, and they drafted like it first four picks, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.800 say Kwon Barkley with the number two pick in that draft, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.120 and that was bandied about a lot in the pre 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.160 draft process, because you might recall that teen draft class 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.840 at the quarterback position produced five first rounders, and two 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.799 and a half of them have been very successful. So 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.880 we'll find out on Baker Mayfield. The other two not 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.280 as much, with Rosen and Sam Donald going into backup 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.720 gigs at the stage's of their career. Donald has been 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.480 injured and lost the job that way. But you get 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.359 what I'm saying. Here's that's kind of the general point there. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.480 But in that draft class, sake Quombarkie number two with 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.320 only Mayfield off the board, Will Hernandez, Lorenzo Carter a linebacker, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.799 and b J Hill so running back, O line linebacker, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.560 d tackle nineteen, they do get their quarterback this time 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.959 around Daniel Jones, who Dave Gentleman said was in full 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.160 blue love going through the draft process of evaluating this 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.960 quarterback from Duke. He takes him at number six overall. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.760 Then in the first round Dexter Lawrence the defensive tackle 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.520 and a cornerback in DeAndre Baker. And then back to 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.080 the front seven with Oshane him and Az another cornerback, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.560 slash safety and Julian Love. Then back to linebacker Ryan Connolly. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.000 They finished off receiver, corner tackle, defensive tackle. They've draft 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.400 the same three or four positions pretty much every single year. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.640 Andrew Thomas kicked off draft number four, the first tackle 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.760 taken off the board in that loaded tackle class. Xavier 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.840 McKinney back at safety in the second round, then back 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.880 to the offensive line Matt Pert, darn A Holmes a cornerback, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:10.120 then this guard, linebacker, linebacker, linebacker, cornerback, linebacker, then one 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.080 Darius Tony the receiver, as these Oglari the outside backer 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.200 slash defensive events slash really damn good player out of Georgia. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.760 Then cornerback, linebacker, running back, cornerback, so you get it. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.520 A lot of resources spent on the trenches, plenty of 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.640 cornerbacks in that mix, which is truly a position of 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.839 strength for them in defensive backfield in general when they 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.360 are healthy right now a little bit banged up. And 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.599 we also go along into as they enter this four 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.200 and seven, or this game rather at four and seven, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.400 and like Miami, they've been bitten by the injury buggets 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.960 some of those skill positions on offense because when they 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.960 have them, as Brian Flores stated on Wednesday, it's name 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.640 after name in that line up. But they've not been 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.120 healthy all year long since that eleven win sixteen season 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.720 for the Giants three wins, five wins, four wins, and 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.360 six wins. So they are in position right now with 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.520 a strong December to match or even surpass that high 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.000 watermark of these last five years. But with six games 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.400 to go, they're gonna have to get some w Let's 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.480 go ahead and get to this game here in Miami 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.120 and start as we do weekly with the Giants quarterbacks 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.040 versus the Dolphins safeties, and since there is a fair 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.799 amount of uncertainty about who it will be under center, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.360 and Flora said they are preparing as if Danny Dimes 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.000 will be up, we'll spend some time on both quarterbacks 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.320 in this segment, but I think it's more about us, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.080 and so we talk about these safeties like Javon Holland, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.280 Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, and of course Jones missed the 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:34.840 game last week, but as we talked about in the 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.760 pods earlier this week, I thought you really saw the 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.960 versatility of that room on display because of the absence 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.760 of Brandon Jones. Has Holland and Roe have their roles 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.720 adapted to fill that void? And that versatility constantly reminds 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.640 me of the question I had for two of back 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.400 in Week two about the Buffalo Bill safeties and their 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.520 interchangeable nature and how to us said, it was tough 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.200 to decipher what the defense is because they can line 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.640 up in one place and then wind up something somewhere 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.200 completely different after the snap, And I think the same 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.800 thing here applies with Miami, and the key there is 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.919 to continue to force take away opportunities, which is obviously 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.039 a complete team effort. But the Giants quarterbacks have thrown 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.520 a collective nine picks this year and taking twenty three 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.719 sacks and fumbled the football eight times. That's seventeen potential 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.640 turn over opportunities and twenty three sacks, working out to 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.599 one point five five potential t o s per game 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.440 and two point one sacks per game. Now, Miami over 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.640 these last four weeks are averaging two point seven five 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.760 takeaways and four sacks per game. So you have to 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:36.680 think that the Dolphins are kind of gearing up hoping 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.080 they get the same kind of production in this contest. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.840 And we'll see if those averages play out in the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.120 game on Sunday. But how do you create that chaos? 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.120 How do you get to those numbers? Well, to the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.799 numbers again. Mike Glennon is three for nine with twenty 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.880 nine yards this year in a touchdown pass and a 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.000 pick against the Blitz, where Daniel Jones a much greater 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.960 sample size is sixty averaging six and a half yards 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.680 per pass one touchdown. That all sounds good, right, But 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.480 or picks and that's been something of a formula to 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.040 kind of force the issues, and not to mention fifteen 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.200 of the twenty two sacks on Jones come when sending 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.800 that extra rusher and with them the way Miami can 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.640 cover on the back end. Perhaps that's the formula, but 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.000 also when kept clean, Jones has eight touchdowns and five picks, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.480 and five of the total picks are in that ten 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.400 plus yard range. So when he throws the ball deep 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.680 down the field or if there's an extra rusher coming 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.840 at him, or even kept clean, there's opportunities for interceptions there, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.640 and at least as far as what he's been so 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.000 far in the season. You can always improve and get better. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.760 You can play a better game too, So I think 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.840 about what we saw with Javon and the interception and 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.880 kind of trying to put him in conflict, but he 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.160 just kept his eyes on the quarterback's eyes and drove 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.520 on the football and made a big time play. So 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.640 I'm not so sure it's not quite as obvious with 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.960 regards to sending the extra rushers or playing coverage and 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.400 let the thing come to you. Opposing teams have blitz 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.000 Jones of the time, which is more than twelve percent 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.840 fewer than Miami's season average of thirty eight point four percent, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.560 which is just point eight percent below the Bucks for 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.680 the highest rate in the NFL. So again, this dichotomy 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.800 exists between what the Giants do well or what kind 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.440 of makes them vulnerable, and what the Dolphins do well. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.920 And that's something Brian Flores has talked about, finding the 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.840 balance between going after their weaknesses and doing what you're 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.040 doing best. But what the Dolphins do best is unrelenting 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.640 pressure over the last month or so. So again, very 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.240 interesting dichotomy to me. But our next position group gives 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.760 you something of an indicator for how the best attack 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.120 like the Giants receivers and tight ends versus the Miami cornerbacks. Look, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.360 Darius Tony is a separation creating machine. He moves in 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:44.240 ways that many guys cannot. And I mean, we talked 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.800 about Jalen Waddles impact. Tony has not been quite on 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.559 that level, but he's been very impactful for that Giant's offense. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.400 And that was kind of his game coming out of Florida. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.120 A slippery guy who runs these routes that will put 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.040 you in the blender. He's tough to cover, and this 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.160 group really is kind of when healthy that bass get 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.679 ball line up we've talked about on the podcast for years, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.760 going back to Lockdown Dolphins days, and they've got unique 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.719 skill sets across that group, and that Kenny Golladay is 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.640 that big, go get the football type of guy, contested 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.400 catch guy. He's actually competed with DeVante Parker in that 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.000 realm for a few years now, previously with the Lions, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.600 now with the Giants, and next gen separation stats has 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.680 him at two point oh which is the fourth fewest 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.400 among qualifying past catchers. Stirling Shepherd is a sure handed, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.280 primarily slot guy with an average separation of two point 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.480 seven yards. Darius Slayton up to three point oh and 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.280 then cold Darius Tony at three point four, and then 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.720 tight end Evan Ingram leads the crew at three point eight. Now, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.959 some of that has to do with the routes these 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.439 guys run. Some of the quick hitters can be more 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.240 separation because you're just if they're playing off coverage, you 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.240 catch the ball with an automatic built in three or 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.360 four yards of separation. How about the yak yard? And 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.640 this is where I really look at this Giants offense 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.599 as a possibility from Miami to rally up tackle and 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.120 have some success their yak above expected. So when you 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.880 catch the football, data from decades of football gives you 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.240 an idea of what they're expected to do with that 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.559 football based upon previous data and big seth Wils tell 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 me that that has nothing to do with any given 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.800 player on any given game. But I digress, I love you, bro. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.679 All jokes aside, but yak above expected Darius Tony is 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.080 plus one point eight, then a drop off negative point 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.600 oh two for Goladay, negative point oh three for bull 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.600 Shepherd and Ingram, and negative point oh four for Slaton. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.200 And we talked about how Miami's tackling has come along, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.480 especially in the secondary and really beginning in that Baltimore 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.000 game with those guys just tackling everything on the perimeter 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.040 up to a season best last week just two miss tackles. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.480 So what does this all say, Well, it looks like 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.880 a recipe for being conscious of the deep ball, forcing 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.880 them to play underneath and rallying up and tackling, because 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.080 if they're not gonna make the big play after the catch, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.360 then it would serve you to kind of playoff and 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.520 force them to do that and be consistent in that way. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.199 Then you really clamp down and win against him in 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.360 the red zone on the occasions they get there. We'll 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.280 talk about that here in just one second. We'll see 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.480 how Miami wants to play it, because, as is the 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.240 case every week, the Dolphins flexibility gives them options. So 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.440 how do you match up? First? Who was available last week? 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.800 No Shepherd, no Tony, No Kyle Rudolph. That gave John 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.959 Ross eleven reps. It gave Pharaoh Cooper thirty five snaps. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.319 But Sae Kwon Barkley did play despite his questionable designation, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.600 and he played eight seven percent of their snaps. We'll 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.959 talk about that as well in a later segment, but 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.600 they're usedage as far as inside outside is also interesting. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.559 Cooper eighty eight point two percent inside, he's a slot receiver. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.599 Shepherd that's also a slot receiver. Evan Ingram much like 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.520 Mike get Sick sixty in the slot, and then can 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.160 Darius Tony in the slot. But he can play satellite, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.120 he can play that kind of offset h back, he 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.240 can play in your backfield. He does it all. Then 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.520 there's a massive drop off. The next is Kyle Rudolph 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.040 at thirty seven percent in the slot. In line, he's 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.040 more of your kind of Drham Smith, Satellite, Ross, Golla Day, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.840 and Slayton are all outside eighty percent of the time 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.439 or more. And while we talk about versatility, well, you 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.800 typically wind up with Jones and X on the outside right. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.560 So Kenny Golladay's game physicality, the downfield contestant catch us. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.559 He wants to beat you with with basically being able 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.160 to win at the top of the route, and that's 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.160 where X really excels among other areas obviously, So I 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.000 kind of like that matchup there as far as trying 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.480 to pick which way you want to go. And of 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.160 course the Dolphins don't typically travel, so you'll get different matchups, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.960 but that might be an idea that you look at 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.120 in terms of where to go, where not to go 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.959 when they do line up in that particular position. And 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.280 Slayton has a bit of an expanded route tree compared 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.000 to Gola Day, a little more elusive. Laterally, that to 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.240 me matches up with Byron Jones, who is an athletic 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.520 phenomen broking breaking records at the combine you know several 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.360 years ago. John Ross he's a deep target, That's that's 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.120 what he does. He runs down the field. We'll see 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.120 how much he plays if the Giants get other guys 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.760 back this week, but you want to account for that 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.480 speed regardless if he's out there. That's the thing about 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.079 four three four two speed, Like it doesn't matter what 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.240 the guy's production is, you have to account for it. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.360 Some slot options, I mean Nick need Um, justin Coleman. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.199 The safeties have all played in those roles and they've 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.439 played well. So Cooper it's just five ft eleven but 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.600 over two pounds, so he kind of has that thick 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.200 lower half and maybe you want to play more physical 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.640 against him as well. Kind of an option they're thinking 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.679 about how to match up on him. Evan Ingram is 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.880 always also rather size, but he's also very athletic and 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.880 can move. So is that Jerome Baker is that Eric Row? 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.080 I tend to lead more towards an Eric Row type 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.439 and tied end. Maybe you get some chips off the 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.120 line and help that way as well. Darius Tony is 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.319 the tricky one because again he moves so well, so 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.520 you need to be able to match that. Maybe you bracket, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.560 plus you don't want to let him catch the ball 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.440 in space and get free. Everybody else is not as 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.680 much of a threat to go big run after the catch, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.160 but he certainly is. And then Shepherd's the most polished 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.040 route runner of the bunch, So you probably want to 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.839 get a cornerback that can again move and and not 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.520 take the cheese on fakes and sluggos and double moves 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.480 and that type of thing. Now, we talked about those 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.800 matchups a lot last week, but the next position really 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.240 kind of took center stage as Miami heat up the 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.360 Panther's passing game and really didn't make the outside stuff 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.080 all that event with good coverage as well. So can 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.160 they replicate that success. Let's go ahead and move on 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.240 now to the Giants offensive line verse Dolphins defensive line. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.040 And here are the players they started against Philly and 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.240 their pressure numbers. This is out a four hundred and 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.679 seventy four pass balking snaps. You get an idea of 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.640 how much time there guys have missed up front. Andrew 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.560 Thomas ten pressures on two snaps. It's a two set 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.360 to hit one sack. A huge jump from year one 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.880 for him. Matt Scurrow, we know who he is. Eight 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.840 teen pressures, two snaps, five hits, one sack. He's played well. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.680 Billy Price sixteen pressures on four hundred and twenty nine snaps, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.200 four hits in one sack. Will Hernandez. The right sides 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.880 where things kind of get dicey here Will Hernandez, twenty 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.280 five pressures allowed on four hundred and seventy four pass 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.720 walking snaps. Well, I guess that's pretty good compared to 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.200 the averages of the left side three hits and four sacks. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.840 And then they sold our thirty pressures allowed four hundred 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.360 and fifty snaps, six hits, six yeah, six hits and 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.160 four sacks. Almost got that mixed up. I wrote some 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.920 of these backwards. I don't know why do that. But 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.960 Andrew Thomas has three pressures allowed since returning after missing 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.240 four weeks, and that was against Tampa Bay and Philly. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.440 That's a good defensive line play right there. He's really 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.280 turned to the corner and becoming that franchise left tackle 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.480 you expect to get when using the fourth overall pick 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.920 on the player. He hasn't surrendered more than two pressures 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.720 in the game this entire season for Matt Scura, not 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.960 a lot of pressure early on from him, but the 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.680 last two weeks eight pressures and a lot of that 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.160 Within Dominican Sue Fletcher Cox and Javon Hargrave. They overwhelmed 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.320 him at times and past protection. Something to keep an 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.520 eye on. Billy Price. He's kind of settled in with 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.840 his new team here after coming over from the Bengals 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.440 in the off season, a former first round pick. Five 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.440 pressures in the opener against Washington. That's different, different season 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.440 almost at this point against all those big interior defensive 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.800 lineman they have, like John Allen and never more than 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.800 two pressures since, including just two against the Bucks and 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.520 their stout interior front even without Vida Veia, Will Hernandez 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.560 kind of similar to Matt Scura. Strong start, some tough 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.960 matchups lately. Tampa Bay had six pressures against him, Philly 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.000 had two, case He had four, Carolina had three, and 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.160 a game with the Raiders Sandwich in between. He allowed 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.560 just one pressure in that game. But you see a 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.440 lot of the same things power Derek Brown and Carolina, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.200 Chris Jones and Casey Sue and Tampa Bay, Cox and 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.200 Hardgrave in Philadelphia and then out Wide Soldier. He's kind 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.440 of also found his rhythm the last couple of weeks. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.840 PF did not like his game against Las Vegas three 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.680 weeks ago, just three pressures allowed, however, in the last 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.680 two games, but Shaq Barrett did get him for a 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.280 sack versus the Bucks. So the common theme is that 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.800 teams with a lot of power and bull rushing experts, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.720 so to speak, have given the Giants more problems than 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.160 the fleet of foot guy the one gap penetrator types. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.280 And that's well. The former is what the Dolphins do 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.440 so well, both inside and outside. I don't have to 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.760 break down the power of Ogba, of Phillips, of Wilkins, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.680 of Davis of Seiler, as we've seen several rush moves 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.360 from each of those guys produce some production in these 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.920 recent weeks. I'll be curious to see how Miami wants 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.640 to go, how often they want to go to their 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.040 grush games they have upfront. The Giants just haven't had 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.439 a ton of continuity up front because of those injuries. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.560 I mean, Matt pert has missed a bunch of games, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.280 Nick Gates and Shane Lemieux, those three guys were supposed 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.000 to be starters going into the season, and the last 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.680 two guys have been out on i R for some 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.520 time and Matt Perch missing some games and not playing either. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.000 So tough tough call there for the Giants in terms 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.960 of getting that continuity. Can Miami dive deep into their 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.040 game operation with the twist slants and stunts and the 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.440 loopers and the green dogs and the delays, so many 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.119 options there? Will they go to it? We'll see At 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.560 the other position here on offense, Dolphins linebackers versus Giants 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.160 running backs, And y'all know about se Kwon Barkley. He's 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.680 as talented as they come, but he's played just two 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.440 D nineties seven snaps this season, fifty two of those 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.480 last week, and perhaps his most effective game last game, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.800 even though it's just three point one yards per carry 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.360 and a half yard departure from his three point six 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.440 season average, but he averaged three point six two yards 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.240 after initial contact. And one of the craziest stats is 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.399 that PF didn't credit him with the forced miss tackle. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.360 In fact, he hasn't had one of those in Week 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.280 four against New Orleans. He's only carried the ball twenty 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:05.879 one time since that time, but you still get the 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.160 point like that's usually what his game is, especially behind 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:12.119 an offensive line that hasn't played consistently. Just five runs 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.239 of ten plus yards all year for him, and never 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.280 more than one in the single game, so no real 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.880 explosive element of this running game. Davante Booker has nine 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.520 of them, but that's fourteen in twelve games. It's not 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.879 very many. And that's such an important element of what 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.640 Miami does to set themselves up for success on defense. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.880 Get into third and long, send that pressure, bad things 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.719 happen for the offense. So obviously this is more than 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.399 just about the linebackers and running backs. But Christian Wilkins 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.480 had a quote on Wednesday about how he can have 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.200 the game of his life and the run to game 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.600 and not make a tackle. And I think we've seen 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.840 that play out in recent weeks with how Jerome baker 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.080 A laying, the Roberts and even Duke Riley have played 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.320 in their all their roles, all really kind of hitting 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.119 their stride here in the month of November going into December. 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.520 So their speed is gonna be tested, their physicality will 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.560 be tested. They'll have to have an answer for sake 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.199 Qua when he flexes out two small sample size that year, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.280 but he's been either in the slot or out wide, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.800 and they can bind twenty five snaps. It's just less 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.440