WEBVTT - Drive Time: Patriots Perspective with Mike Reiss 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.320 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.760 to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:11.720 The wide Dolphin. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.360 Touchdown time quel, uncolievable, just blue fire. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:18.280 For a second time. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.360 Don't know where he was going right away. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.239 I want to hit that man. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.520 I'm gonna help you. Someone will keep on your bandwagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.480 Wattle Wattle to a shotgun, back to throw, looking at 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:34.080 them's up fires touchdown. It's waddle his six touchdown paradom. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:40.000 I'll just sing. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins now. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.040 Let me check your pulse. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:43.440 What is up? 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.080 Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:52.239 the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.200 How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.040 And on today's show, Week two in the NFL kicks 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.840 off tonight, anybody else just like incredibly fired up about 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.200 all things football because your team looks like one of 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.280 the best teams in the NFL. We'll give you the 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.920 picks for the week. And since it's Thursday, that means 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.480 opponent's perspective. ESPN's Mike Reese joins us from Foxboro to 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.840 break it all down. Plus the weekly narrative focuses on 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.080 running routes without getting the football. We call him for 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.400 love of the game routes. And we conclude with some 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.400 audio from assistants and coordinators on Thursday who met with 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.400 the media from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.440 Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast, May Guff. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.440 Let's go ahead and kick this thing off with the 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.320 Patriots perspective for week two, Sunday night in Foxborough, eight 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.240 twenty kickoff a nice crisp fifty five degrees up there 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.480 in the Boston, mass area. Welcome to my guest today, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.760 Mike Reese joining me now is ESPN NFL Nation reporter 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.160 covering this week's opponent, the New England Patriots. He is 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.360 Mike Reese. Mike, thank you for your time today, Sir. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.800 A screet to be with you, Thanks for having me, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:03.960 Very happy. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.560 To have you on. I saw I can't remember who 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.320 it was. Might have been Evan Lazarre, might have been 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.440 Taylor Kyle's, I'm not sure, one of the local beat 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.440 guys up there who was sharing some of the notes 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.840 that you provide for training camp and kind of the 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.400 hustle that you produce up there during the month of August. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.320 I fancy myself a very what's the word I'm looking 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.480 for here? I guess acclaimed training camp reporter or cover 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.400 guy that takes a lot of pride in my notes. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.720 Is that something you've always done for a long time 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.000 is getting Patriots training camp notes out there to the fans. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.280 I love that, Travis, you know, I think with reporting, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.920 like the best time to get to know any team 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.919 is through training camp, right because you're watching the team 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.960 come together. And I don't know about you guys, your 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.440 crew down in South Florida, But once the season starts, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.600 we're limited with how much practice we actually get to 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.760 watch in New England, so you don't feel like you're 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.160 as dialed in as you are during training camp. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:58.480 So I do. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.400 I really do love that time the year. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.840 Yeah, the stretch and individual then get the heck out 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.120 of here. We got practice to run, so pretty pretty 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.280 common across the league, I believe I noticed for us, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.440 but it's it's really cool to see that, and it's 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.040 cool to see how fans really embrace this extended coverage. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.720 We have now really twelve months out of the year, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.799 but let's go ahead and pivot now to the game 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.160 on Sunday night, Dolphins at Patriots. The Patriots run, you know, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.560 as flexible of a defense as anybody going back over 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.800 a couple of decades now, and I was looking at 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.239 some of the numbers that they produce against to a 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.520 tongue of Iiloa, and it's it's kind of all over 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.520 the place in terms of how often they blitz him, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.960 how often they play man versus zone. I'm curious why 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.640 you think that plan might change maybe what we could 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.800 see on Sunday for this matchup. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.400 It's it's great thoughts, trevis, because two is four and 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.400 oh against the Patriots, as you know, and so what 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.560 they've done in the past hasn't produced necessarily the bottom line. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.960 Results that they are hoping for. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.640 So Bill Belichick talked about that a little bit earlier 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.560 this year week in terms of if you want to 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.040 devote more resources towards the rush, you better hope that 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.480 you can bring down Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddell and company, 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.000 because the fewer guys you have around them, you're really 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.920 susceptible to giving up the big play. So I think 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.080 from a just sort of a big picture standpoint, that's 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.360 sort of the main question they're probably going to be 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.120 asking themselves is you know, how much do we want 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.080 to bring pressure? Knowing that Tua can get the ball 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.840 out so quickly. He's very accurate. And the Patriots generally 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.640 are a defense that the first thing they say is 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.080 don't give up the big play. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.120 It's and we saw that down here for a couple 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.400 of years too, And it makes me really fascinated to 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.359 see how this game script might change on Sunday, since 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.320 it's always followed the same script for the last few years, Mike, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.080 where it's limited possessions, kind of keep the roof on 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.960 top of the defense and not a lot of explosive plays, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.880 and you know, both teams get seven or eight cracks 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.440 at it and by the end of it, it's like 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.040 a twenty to sixteen final. So I'm really curious to 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.160 see how that might change. And on the Patriot side, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.480 they have a pretty big change as well, bringing back 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.720 Bell O'Brien into the offense and being the OC there. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.040 How has Mac Jones and really the entire offense taken 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.080 to that new system. I know it's only one weekend, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.320 but going back to camp and preseason. How have you 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.480 seen them take to Bill O'Brien's system. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.560 It's been a notable difference, Travis, and I think it's 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.479 the best way to sum it up is it's basically 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.520 going back to the way it was before under Josh. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.120 McDaniels, but with you its own unique you know, twists 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:33.560 to it. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.760 And I know coach McDaniel mentioned this down there this 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.080 week that he can tell the connection already. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.960 You know that Mac and Bill O'Brien have. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.400 There's a lot of optimism up here in New England 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.559 after Mac regressed in his second year, that they're getting 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.000 him back on track. There were some real positive signs 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.520 in Sunday's season opening loss to the Eagles. In the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.240 second quarter, Mack put together a stretch that was as 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.320 good as anything that we've seen from him, you know, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.440 in his three years with the team. The challenge for 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.480 him now is going to be, you know, can he 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.480 do that consistently and avoid the killer turnover? You know, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.320 he had a pick six in the first quarter that 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.840 got away from him, a high throw and can he 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:18.800 come through in the clutch. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.360 I always hope that folks learn from history with regards 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.760 to the quarterback position. Because oftentimes surrounding you know, circumstances 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.559 can be you know, prohibit you from reaching your ultimate ceiling. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.359 And we saw mac Jones really thrive that rookie season, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.840 and I think that where he excels is kind of 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.800 akin to where two excels in ways that maybe are 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.120 not as obvious to you know, just a fan that 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.360 pulled up the games on Sundays and doesn't spend much 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.480 time otherwise, you know, studying the game. I think that 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.320 those are the areas that Matt can really excel and 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.400 potentially take his career to the next step as well 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.240 here in this new system. And of course, part of 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.000 the surrounding cast for any player is the offensive line. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.000 For a quarterback, I should say, And this Patriots line 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.120 pretty banged up right now. What do you think we 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.080 might see on Sunday? And with whoever the lineup is? 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:04.880 What can we expect to get from some of these 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.279 guys that I don't know much about. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.400 Mike, Yeah, So this has been their their achilles heel 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.480 since literally day one of training camp. They've had a 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:21.280 run of injuries, illness, and I would say inconsistency that 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.400 has really they had led me at one point to 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.880 write an article asking the question, you know, will the 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.720 offensive line ultimately be the thing that holds the team back? 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.400 And part of it is out of your control, right, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.520 Like you can't script up injuries. You can build as 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.680 much depth as you know possible, and sometimes you just 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.720 get a run of injuries where it seems like you 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.560 can't catch a break. So I will tell you, Travis, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.160 the one stat like, when they set their initial fifty 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.120 three man roster, they kept eleven offensive linemen. I mean 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:57.360 that's a huge number. The league averages nine. You know, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.800 they're down at ten now after putting one of them 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:00.800 on injured reserve. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.240 But so what will we see. It's a line that 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.080 hasn't played in a game together before. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.800 I can guarantee you that I'm probably not going to 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.080 see the starting left tackle Trent Brown, He's got a concussion. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.240 The big question is will the starting guards Cole Strange 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.400 at left guard, Michael Wenu at right guard. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.640 Will they be ready to go? They didn't play in 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:26.440 the season opener. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.200 If they play, I think that will help stabilize a 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.640 very unstable situation at the moment for the Patriots. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.920 Yeah, it's really interesting. I saw they were limited all 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.040 week last week in practice and did not go, and 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.520 they were limited as we taped this podcast on a 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.679 Thursday ahead of the injury report. They were also limited 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.080 in Wednesday's practice. So very interesting there, And it's funny 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.080 you mentioned that because I felt like, for as long 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.520 as I can remember, the Patriots offensive line was always 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.040 maybe not the strong suit of the team because the 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.440 defense has been so good for so long, but certainly 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.800 something they could bank on, as you know, a stabilizing 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.520 force on that offense, regardless of who's a quarterback outside 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.080 for the weapons and going back to that defensive side 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.120 of the ball. Two more questions for you here, Mike 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.760 Reese from ESPN my guest today on the Draft Time podcast, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.760 and does Patriots defense fascinates me for so many reasons? 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.000 But I'll start up front right here, because I just 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.480 feel like they have so many pieces that maybe don't 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.199 get the individual shine but ultimately makes up a cumulative, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.839 really good group. Up front, I'm talking about guys like 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.000 Lawrence Guy and Dietrich Wise that you know, they just 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.000 don't get national recognition, but they're dang good players. Obviously, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.679 Christian Barmore, Matt Judon, a lot of guys coming back 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.719 and returning to this front seven, how important do you 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.720 think that continuity is upfront for this Bill Belichick defense. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.839 Yeah, I think the continuity definitely helps. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.959 I'd add Devon Godschow, the former dolphin in there that 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.160 you know, fans listening to this will obviously remember him. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.480 But then I go back to something Bill Belichick says, like, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.480 you know, look, Travis, we could bring you and me 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.880 back and put us on the defensive line, and that 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.240 probably wouldn't look too good, you know, So I think 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.880 continuity gets you in a you know, in a good place, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.160 but you have to be good players, right, And they've 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.959 done a nice job, you know, combining continuity, meaning like 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.440 this defense retained every single player from last season other 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.400 than their longtime safety and captain Devin mccordy. And that's 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.559 relative to the league. That's a league leading stat by far. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.480 You know, no team brought us that many players back 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.280 on defense. So between that and the talent that they 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.520 have and the versatility that they have, they can do 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.000 a lot of different things, play a lot of different 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.480 you know, give a lot of different looks. They have 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.920 guys who can play different techniques at a high level, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.600 and it allows them to do some things like they 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.360 did in the season opener against the Eagles that had 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.240 Jalen Hurts and some of their players. Really i would 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.679 say tipping their cap, you know, to the plan and 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.559 execution that the Patriots had in Week one. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.160 Yeah, you want me right into my next question here 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.520 because to kind of follow up on that, And I'm 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.640 not sure how much it tracks because to your point, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.480 the Patriots are as amenables any team out there defensively 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.360 to be able to, you know, run one game plan 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.160 one week and then switched up entirely for a second week. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.040 And the Dolphins offense, you know, Jalen Hurts and Tuatungua 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.120 bai Looa could not be more different players in terms 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.679 of how they attack opposing defenses. And so I'm not 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.160 I'm not sure if the plan carries over at all. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.640 But how did they stop that Eagles offense that last 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.800 year seemed like for you know, twenty straight weeks could 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:23.480 not be stopped. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.559 So they you know, they they gave him a lot 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.839 of different disguise, and they held their disguise, you know, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.400 until really very patient with it, not given a lot 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.280 of pre snap indicators to him. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.520 So that's sort of the so detailed. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.360 That's sort of the simple answer, you know that, I 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.800 would say, And they were competitive in coverage. You know, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.800 they have a first round pick, Christian Gonzales out of Oregon, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.560 who played every snap and you know, seven tackles, a sack, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.920 a pass deflection, a big pass deflection late in the game, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.959 they give them the ball back, can give him a 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:01.719 chance to win. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.000 And I look at that as sort of a key, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:05.440 a key this week. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.920 Christian's a taller, longer, fast corner and I would say 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.560 he probably hasn't seen the speed you know, that he's 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.640 going to see from the Dolphins receivers. So what does 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.559 that matchup look like? And Travis, I will tell you this. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.440 I did peek a little bit at the Chargers Dolphins 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.640 game just to get familiar with, you know, the Dolphins. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.120 I have to believe the Patriots are going to have 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:29.480 a more. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.400 Say more competitive, but a more innovative plan, you know, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.760 to try to slow down what Miami's doing. I was 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.079 I thought, I thought there were some things that in 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.440 that game that looked like it almost made it too 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.120 easy for me, you know, for for the Dolphins. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.520 Yeah, Tyreek had a lot of one on one coverage, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.480 and he made them pay for that pretty much every 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.000 time they ran with it. And that makes it takes 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.200 me to my final kind of question or a cluster 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.800 of questions here. Mike is obviously going back into the 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.000 defensive secondary. I do want to follow up about that 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.319 point here in a second, but we'll circle back because 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.080 my question was, how is that defensive backfield which they 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.360 fascinate me every year, Mike with how often they can 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.000 run you know, dime packages even against you know, twelve 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.480 personnel where it's necessarily not matching up against what you're seeing, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.280 but they find a way to be competitive against the 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.439 run from these six defensive back packages. But now in 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.599 the post Devin McCarty world, how is it looking for 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.959 you know, Kyle Dugar is such a good player, but 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.160 Jabrill Peppers had a good season opening game, Adrian Phillips. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.400 How is that entire group kind of operating in the 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:33.760 post Devin McCarty world. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.960 Yeah, so they actually meet as a group, so they 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.880 don't do like corners in safeties. I don't know if 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.440 if the Dolphins do it similarly like it or if 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.760 they split up the corners in safeties, but the way 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.440 the Patriots do it it's sort of interesting. They lump 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.600 them all together, and so they meet as defensive backs. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.640 So start with the safeties. You know, last week it 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.760 was really Dugger, Kyle Duggar and Jabriel Peppers as the 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.440 main guys, and Adrian Phillips in a little bit more 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.600 of a minor role. They also have a rookie, Marte 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.600 Mapu who mixes between linebacker and safety. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.600 He's sort of one of those hybrid types. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.320 And so between those four and Jalen Mills of fifth, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.120 you know, mixing in there, they have different skill sets. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.520 I would say I'd be surprised if they do the 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:28.120 same thing this week with Jabrio and Kyle as the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.480 main guys. I think we might see more of Adrian 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.520 than we did last week. I think Adrian Phillips only 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:39.120 played seventeen snaps only because a lot more like those motions, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.080 Like you watch Miami's offense, Travis, I mean you see 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.520 it closer than me, Like it's fun to watch, like 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.720 a lot of motions and at the last minute and 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.960 it's so fast, and I think Adrian is sort of 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.400 like a prime communicator, right, like who's a glue guy? 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.800 And I can see them wanting to put him on 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.360 the field a little bit more, just when you're trying 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.280 to slow down, you know, such an innovative and exciting 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.240 offense that it looks like it's one thing. And then 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.120 I'd say, like, one second before the ball snap, do 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.120 you got a guy like jetting out in motion? 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.960 And next thing, you know, like it's like, okay, did 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.560 you how do you react to that? Right? 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:15.760 Like? 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.960 And so I think that'll be sort of a fun 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.840 chest notich to watch on Sunday. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.360 Night, Mike. We've waited a long long time for people 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.200 to talk about our offense that way. It was a 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.440 lot of years of you know, seventeen thirteen victories. Now 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.120 we have an offense that we feel can compete with 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.440 most teams across the National Football League. And obviously you 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.040 don't have the answer to this question, but I just 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.480 want to get your opinion on it because and I'm 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.400 trying to figure out myself, not that it matters, but 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.880 just for the fans slash like amateur coach and me, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.400 how would you defend this Dolphins offense when it comes 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.880 to hill and waddle Because we've seen in the past, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.000 like Jonathan Jones is one of the few guys that's 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.920 had success against Tyreek Hill. We've also seen when he 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.120 was with Kansas City bracket coverage. Do not let Tyreek 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.640 Hill catch a single pass on you. And there he 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.840 had Travis Kelcey to help take the load off of him. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.000 But what would then be the play for Waddle if 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.960 they went that direction? How do you see, in your opinion, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.440 the Patriots planning to deal with these two receivers. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.480 I think it's great. I've been thinking about it a lot, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.200 and I think, you know, the first thing is I 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:15.520 just think two is so. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.880 Accurate, you know, in my view, right, and and I 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.320 think he makes good decisions. I think I think I 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.960 would bracket Tyrek and I'd take my chances, you know, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:31.320 with Jalen and and maybe you know, see see where 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.840 that gets me because I think what I try to 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.880 do is take it, take away Tyrek and see how 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.000 Tua reacts to that. You know, when the first read 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:48.560 maybe isn't there. It's so much easier said than done, right, Like, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.920 if it was that easy, more people would do it. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.040 And I think they tried to do that. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.320 And I think Jalen got him, you know, quite a 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.920 bit last year and that first matchup, if I remember 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.480 off the top of my head, or maybe it was 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.160 two years go, Travis, but so I think. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.920 That that's probably where I would start. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:10.119 And it reminds me of one year when Tony Gonzalez, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.240 the great Chiefs tight end. It was like Bill Belichick 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.600 was so like determined to not let him beat him, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.719 Like he put like Rodney Harrison on top of him, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.679 and then another player right next to Rodney and almost 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.520 treated Tony like like a like he was a gunner 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.800 on the punt team and they viced him at the 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.600 line of scrimmage, you know, like like it's like literally 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.639 like okay, like where he is that explosive, he is 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:36.920 that important to what they do. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.200 Let's try that. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.600 And I think you can't do it every play, but 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.639 like that's sort of my thought process going in. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.119 Yeah, I've seen that. I've been watching some old clips 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.720 from the Kansas City games and they would do that 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.680 to Tyreek as well, and it's like, yeah, this is 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.280 gonna make us a man light, but we have to 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.760 do this otherwise this guy can go off for two 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.640 hundred yards in a game like he did in Week one. Mike, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.480 appreciate your time today, man, ESPN NFL Nation Patriots coverage. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.880 He's on Twitter at Mike Reese. If you're gonna follow 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.960 one person on the Patriots beat, I know it's hard 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:06.800 for you all to do that for as Dolphins fans, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.080 but this is your guy, Mike. Thank you for your 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.520 time today. We really appreciate it, sir. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.240 All right, Thanks Travis, and there he goes to great 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:13.760 Mike Reese. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.760 Let's go ahead and take our first break right there 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.399 and come back on the other side. And here from 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.080 the Dolphins assistant coaches and coordinators. That's next Draft Time podcast, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.920 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.080 Let's go ahead and do some Patriots preview content. Here 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.119 we got to hear from the coordinators and assistant coaches today. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.880 Let's first go to Dolphins quarterbacks coach Darryl Bevell, who 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.320 touched on the challenges the Patriots defense present to an offense. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.679 Well, I think, Roddie, you know that, like how well 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.280 their coach over there, you know, and those guys are 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.440 just their their coach so well. They play their techniques 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.159 very well there. They're multiple in the defense with with 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.680 with players in terms of you know, one time this 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.399 guy could be a safety, one time this guy is 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.320 a linebacker, and so being able to id all of it, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.680 being able to you know, to to kind of undress 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.760 it as best as you can to make to make 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.639 good decision. I think what make it challenging. They do 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.359 a great job of playing their techniques, and it's they're 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.240 just a very well coached team. Obviously, when you put 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.520 the players' abilities on top of being well coached, it 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:19.639 makes for a tough defense. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.280 And of course, the second straight week, the Dolphins will 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.600