WEBVTT - John Congemi Joins, Your Mailbag Questions and Week 17 NFL Picks 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:06.040 Two fires touch stop Waddles knocked into the end zone 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.920 of Miami Boy Tip bron Tike window. They had to 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.960 get that touchdown on that play they gain it. What 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.720 is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.120 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.080 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody, It's a Friday. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.600 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.760 am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.120 Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's a fan Friday. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.600 You know what that means. Your questions via the Twitter 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.720 mail bag, will answer those with John kN Jemmy will 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.480 break down this game on Sunday with John as well, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.840 and we'll also get into the NFL picks for week 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.400 number seventeen. Two more weeks to go, and we are 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.000 flying through the end of the season here on the 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.720 podcast from somewhere in South Florida. This is the Drive 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:07.360 Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and open this podcast as 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.040 we do on Fridays, by welcoming and my friend John 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.200 con Jemmy And after a week hiatus, I'm happy to 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.520 welcome back into the Drivetime Podcast, John kN Jemmy. We 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.640 didn't talk to you over the Christmas holiday, John, But 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.360 how was your holiday? How are things going for you? 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.839 My friend, Christmas was outstanding, Travis. Um, I hope yours 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.319 was as well. Um. Yeah, I had spent time with 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.720 the family. I got to get outside and and uh 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.480 enjoy the South Florida Winner, which was like you know degrees. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.920 It was cooler in the morning and nice in the afternoon. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.360 So I got to play some golf with my son 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.319 and my friends. So everything was safe and healthy, so 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.040 active focusing on football now. All of my friends back 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.080 home would be jealous of what you just said. Playing 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.200 golf around Christmas time does not exist where I'm from, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.080 and you mentioned the weather down here. I couldn't wait 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.880 to get back, John. It was nice to see everybody, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.760 but I couldn't wait to get back. And you know, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.360 the NFL, the way this league works, like the holidays, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.960 the work still comes and doesn't stop. So we're still 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.640 plugging away here and I'm glad you had a happy holiday. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.000 New Year's coming up, actually New Year's Eve right now 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.440 on this as we as we published this podcast on Friday, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.000 but let's go ahead and jump into the matchup on Sunday, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.799 because it's a big one. John, We've been kind of 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.480 angling towards this point of the season. During the course 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.120 of this winning streak, just keep basically keep saying, Hey, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.240 if they keep winning, the games keep getting more and 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.840 more important. So we come into this game against a 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.079 team that I believe they've punched their ticket to the postseason. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.400 If not, they're very close to having done so. So 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.120 one of these kind of higher level A f C teams. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.400 What are the keys to stopping Let's go on the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.400 offensive side of the football. Ryan Tannehill, A J. Brown. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.680 They got things cranking in that game on Thursday. What 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.680 do you think the keys are stopping that Titans offense. Well, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.400 they're a good team. They're a solid team. In most Sundays, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.120 they don't beat themselves. So I think for the Dolphins 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.040 this week, it's gonna be a lot of what they've 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.760 been doing in this seven game win streak is don't 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.160 give the Titans the easy interception or don't give the Titans, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.840 you know, easy field position where they don't have to 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:13.280 do too much to get points. And he goes back 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.640 to the quarterback always and Ryan Tannehill, we know him well. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.920 He's a tough kid. He's not a kid anymore, but 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.760 he is to me and um, you know it just 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.160 when you watch him play. The better they are around 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.600 Ryan Tannehill, the better he's going to play because he 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.840 doesn't have to risk the football. It's really a lot 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.560 of curls, a lot of slants, Uh, some tight end 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.720 play Uh. You get off of that play action if 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.760 they can run it a little bit. Uh. They remind 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.520 me of of the Miami Dolphins right now when you 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.840 take a look at their offense. You know they have 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.040 Foreman and McNichols and Hillard. I believe it is that 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.160 they have a trio that's getting it done. With Derrick 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.760 Henry out and it doesn't look like you know, he's 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.400 coming back anytime soon. Maybe next week before the play offs, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.120 if if everything goes well for the Titans. But you know, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.200 it reminds me of Johnson, Gaskin and Lindsay over the 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.960 last couple of weeks. If they get enough out of 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.200 that trio of running the football and whoever has the 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.440 hot hand is gonna go for both teams. That helps 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.920 to U, That helps Tannehill, That helps their their their 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.000 quick passing game, it helps their play action, helps the 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.520 r p O. It helps all that a quarterback is 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.000 looking for when they're not just primarily a past first 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.479 team So, um, I think you have to take that 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.600 into account. You know, since the Henry injury, you know, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.719 Ryan Tannehill's numbers, his percentages has been good around, but 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.960 the touchdown to interception ratio hasn't been only five touchdowns 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.240 to seven interceptions. So you feel like you've got the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.840 upper hand on defense, especially if they can shut down 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.440 the run that is the Dolphins defense and get to 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.960 that pressure package that has been really difficult on young quarterbacks. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.200 Let's see how it works on a on a veteran 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.240 guy this week hopefully. Yeah. I think that's a key 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.480 to this game is is multiple takeaways for this Dolphins defense, 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.840 and that that's what they've been doing. I went back 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.680 to basically after the o N seven start in twenty 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.400 nine team when Miami put together that run that gave 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.320 them a the NFL's longest streak of a consecutive games 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.840 the takeaway. They've only had two games this year without 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.640 a takeaway. So going back over the last thirty seven games, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.720 Miami's taking the football away sixty one times. It's what 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.600 they do and I think they have to do it 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.680 in this game. John, I have a few follow ups 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:30.880 for you there that I want to get to, But 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.240 number one, I want to ask you about play action 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.320 passing when the running game is not working, and how 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.719 you can thwart a team's play action passing game. Because 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.560 for the Titans, and John, you mentioned we know Ryan Tannehill, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.000 well that's what he was so good good at down 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.839 here in Miami that seen season twelve personnel hand the 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.160 ball off to a gi hit the play action passing game. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.800 And it's not like you have to have a dominant 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.040 running game to make that happen, because he's done that 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.440 with him without Derrick Henry the lineup. He's done it 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.720 throughout the course of his career. So my question is, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.440 how do you for a play action game is it's 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.640 got to be more than just stopping the run, right, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.520 you have to find ways to get him a third long. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.080 What do you think is the best way to stop 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.120 the play action game for the Titans. Well, the Dolphins 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.880 obviously have to win on early downs. You know, you 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.880 you have to take away Ryan Tannehill's first option. Most 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.560 times it's a J Brown, could be you know, a 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.559 checkdown on certain instances after play action, you play actually 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.800 don't like it. Get it to the tight end, you play, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.960 actually don't like it. You scramble a little bit, you 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.239 make a play with your legs. Those are the types 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.880 of things that Ryan Tannehill does really well. The ad 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.320 lib play and the on scheduled play. I think that 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.440 they go hand in hand. That's part of what the 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.000 Titans like to do on offense. Minus Derrick Henry. Now, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.760 if you can get him to hold the football, have 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.479 him squeeze the air out of it, which sometimes in 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.880 games that don't start off really well for Ryan, he 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.960 has a tendency to hold it. Now, the Titans have 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.000 given up forty five sacks. That means they're getting away 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.320 from the running game. They're putting more pressure on their 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.440 passing game. Uh you know that's that's fourth most in 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.920 the NFL. The Dolphins can get to that situation where 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.360 they take away the run, it really takes away your 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.680 play action game because you don't have to honor it 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.160 as much because the front four, the front five or 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.000 kind of handling, you know, the line of scrimmage. Now 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.080 you get to attack mode where you might put Xavian 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.400 Howard or you might put Jones exclusively on a j Brown, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.400 Hey have run around with them the entire afternoon, or 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.760 a combination of both of those guys, and you get 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.760 after the quarterback is if you can get into that scenario, 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.800 it goes back to stopping the run, stopping the play 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.640 action if it's non existent, boy advantage Miami, because now 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.080 they get into all that exotic defense and that exotic 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.160 look and you either going to hold onto it. You 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.040 either gonna throw it away or gonna throw it to 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.480 a different colored jersey at some point in that equation. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.960 I was telling a friend earlier this week how weird 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.040 it is to game plan, or you know, put a 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.040 podcast together and have these conversations about how to stop 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.240 Ryan Tannehill after seven years of talking about how he 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.560 can beat the opposition. It's it's kind of a bizarro 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.680 world from me, John, And I was going back on 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.280 my my Facebook memories of all things the other day, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.360 and I remembered that in that twenty nineteen season when 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.720 he turned things around with the Titans, there they had 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.080 run a CBF story on him, and they had a 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.160 b roll of some different articles written about Tannehill and 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.320 they focused on one that I wrote about when he 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.840 was traded and it was Ryan or Dolphins trade Tannehill 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.280 where things went wrong, and that was kind of a 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.760 nice reminder of like myself starting to get recognized more 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.760 and more here, and I found that very interesting. So 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.559 as I'm sitting here talking about Tannehill, we've kind of 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.559 beaten that horse. I think I want to just one 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.840 last follow up here about the Titans offense. And you 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.920 mentioned A J. Brown And I know Julio Jones is 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.640 back and he's been kind of banged up this year, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.439 but again, that offense really got going when A J. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.280 Brown got involved. What's the best way to handle him? 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.920 I mean, you've got so many options because of the 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.320 way the secondary is built. We've seen, I mean we 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.200 saw it on Monday, the way they doubled and took 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.000 Alvin Camara basically out of that game. Is that the 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.600 approach is a time for xaviing Howard to say, hey, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.679 you're an all pro quarnerback, go over there and handle him. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.800 Byron Jones is pretty good too, does he do it? Like? 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.040 What do you think is the best approach for slowing 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.120 down a guy that put up eleven catches on sixteen 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.040 targets for a Buck thirty five and a touchdown last week. Yeah, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.640 I mean a G Browns and alpha male, right, Like, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.200 this is a guy that's going to get his catches. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.560 He's going to get his targets. I just think you 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.880 have to make it consistently difficult and whether that means 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.839 xaviing Howard is is shadowing him the entire game, and 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.120 you feel like you can get away with, you know, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.600 the lesser evil of the two and let Ryan Tannehill 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.599 pick and choose where else he wants to go with 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.440 football or is he gonna try to you know, jam 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.360 it to a J. Brown because he has such a 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.440 big catch radius and he trusts him so much, you 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.760 know when the balls in the air, or is it 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.720 a combination of Howard and Jones? You know, I don't 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.760 know how the defensive scheme is going about, you know, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.240 with their pressure packages and what they've shown on film 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.520 and how much they're gonna vary from that. You know, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.920 sometimes you can outthink yourself and say, listen, we're going 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.079 more against the veteran. It's not rookie. It's not rookie 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.480 back to back weeks or a guy that's never taken 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.120 a snap in the National Football League, and we have 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.200 to depend on him throwing us to football on a mistake. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.280 You know, I would think that somewhere down the line. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.520 And I was having this conversation with Damn Reno the 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.480 other day. I was saying, somewhere down the line, if 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.520 I'm the offensive coordinator of an opposing team and the 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.120 Dolphins line up with seven across the board and they're 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.800 man coverage and it's zero, I'm telling a j Brown 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.280 it might be this week. You get on your horse 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.400 and you run as fast as you can right to 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.440 the outside shoulder xaviing Howard or right to the outside 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.200 shoulder of Jones, and you just get on your horse 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.920 and go. And I'm gonna throw it with a bunch 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.360 of air and it's gonna be meet you about forty 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.760 yards down the field. But I'm gonna do that three 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.920 or four times in the game to get the Dolphins out, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.800 because one of those times I might hit for six 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.439 and it might back him off the line of scrimmage. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.400 So if I'm the offensive coordinator and I see that 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.760 blitz coverage coming, and even if they bail out, I 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.920 still want to be able to have somebody my best 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.000 player going a million miles an hour down the field 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.280 to try to do something different because the heels of 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.439 the defender or planning firmly about eight to ten yards. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.959 And in that game against the Saints, they weren't moving. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.120 And if you if you watch the replay again, boy, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.800 that outside x ra Z receiver, he had a lot 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.480 of daylight when the ball was thrown underneath. But if 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.080 you hang some air underneath it, you just guess, right, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.000 you can guess for six. So that's how I would 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.720 combat the Dolphins defense. And for the Dolphins, they you know, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.960 they maybe not outthink themselves. They've got something that's working. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.640 Let's see how it works against Bryan Tannehill once you 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.400 shut the run down. Yeah, that vertical game certainly one 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.160 area that can they can back you off that cover zero. Look, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.600 I think the Titans post probably the best challenge so 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.559 far we've seen over the course of the winning streak 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.280 of doing that, besides maybe the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.199 They had that one chance early in that game that 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.760 didn't go to Sammy Watkins and they couldn't get back 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.640 to the rest of the game. So again you talked 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.160 about a J. Brown, that's xaviing Howard and Byron Jones. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.240 I like those matchups too, So let's go to the 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.600 other side of the football and talk about this Titans 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.840 up front. I mean, I'm curious about how you would 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.800 approach this, John, because if you look at their their frontline, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.760 guys play a significant majority of the snaps and the 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.760 production matches like Jeffrey Simmons and Dnico Autrey have insane 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.040 pass rush production. The same is true of Harold Landry 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.720 and Bud Dupree off either edge, and then beyond that, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.000 their depth hasn't had to play a whole lot this 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.480 year and thus the production is not there. I'm curious 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.200 if there's a way the Dolphins can force them to 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.640 get their depth onto the field and see if other 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.160 guys can beat you. Is there a way to tire 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.040 those guys down or find a way to get their 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.600 snap count way up there? The only way in my 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.960 mind that Dolphins kind of have the upper hand. I 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.000 think the offensive line needs to have their most complete 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.760 game of the year. Now that that doesn't mean it's 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.480 always in the run game or it's always in past protection. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.640 I'm talking about assignment football and not allowing you know 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.560 that that free blitzer or that guy that just wins 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.319 clean off the line of scrimmage. That's how that's how 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.800 you slow down the Titans defense in that front seven 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.880 because as you mentioned, you know, Harold Landry's coming off 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.760 the edge with his hair burn on fire. You know, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.880 he has eleven sacks on the ear Simmons. You can 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.800 move him anywhere along that defensive front. He can find 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.160 the quarterback, he can occupy multiple blockers. Uh. And then 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.199 I think Autrey's the guy. He may be out of 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.920 the game. He might have been on the COVID list, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.920 I think yesterday, So I'm not so sure if he's 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.520 you know where he's at in terms of coming back. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.440 But it's a formidable front. But I think I still 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.360 feel like you do a little bit, Travis. I think 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.480 the Dolphins they've got so much confidence right now, they 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.000 don't care which running back it is. Somebody get a 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.600 hot hand to still completes a high percentage of throws 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.760 over this seven game win Street. If that continues and 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.079 you you take out that one or two really bad 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.079 play instead of a turnovers incomplete or even to take 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.079 a sack, you know, just don't give it up and 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.280 make them earn what they get in terms of field position. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.840 I think the Dolphins, gosh, I like their chances against 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.920 this against this group. Yeah, if the offense can find 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.600 kind of find a way to get things clicking, that's 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.560 all I'm going to provide them with, you know, more 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.600 ways to win down the stretch here. And we saw 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.160 it on the Monday night game. I think it was 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.040 pretty clear they wanted to play a complimentary style to 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.720 really complement a defensive performance that had a good chance 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.920 to play at a high level, and they definitely fulfilled 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.920 that that outlook, and the offense was kind of just 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.280 you know, like you mentioned, don't give them short fields, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.440 don't turn the ball over easy in receptions, things like that. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.960 I'm curious to see if they get into a situation 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.880 in a game where they have to go make some plays, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.560 how they can go ahead and do that. And so, 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.400 speaking of that offensive side of the football, what do 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.000 you think is the key to making that happen here? 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.200 Because Jalen Waddle has, i mean really throughout the course 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.040 of the season, going back to training camp, it looks 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.680 like he was clearly going to be a guy on 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.600 this offense and he's taken that role to really another 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.960 level to where he's basically setting records every single week 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.160 for the Dolphins, for rookies across the NFL, whatever the 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.240 case may be. What about his usage in this game 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.560 some keys to the offensive success. You touched on the 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.160 running backs a little bit, just kind of give us 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.120 an overview about how you think this Dolphins offense might 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.280 look in this game. I think it's it's time for 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.680 two to have a dominant game, you know, in terms 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.880 of not that complimentary guy, but come out and use 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.880 that tempo a little bit, come out and really accentuate 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.640 what he does well, and have guys around him other 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.960 than Jalen Waddle, because Jalen is gonna be a focal 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.600 point of the offense. But have other guys kind of 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.800 make a play here there that that dictate how well 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.320 the Dolphins do offensively. You know, whether it's Mike Kisiki 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.520 making a tight catch, or or it's Germ mind, or 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:05.560 it's you know, it's outside with Devonte Parker. You know Hollands, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.160 Like a big play like Hollands made against New Orleans Saints. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.000 I mean, that's a hell of a catch at at 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.600 a critical time. But but that's a chain mover. I 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.240 mean that's a forty yard plus play. Plays like that, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.680 you have to stay consistent, you have to kind of, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.840 you know, pick and choose one to do it. But 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.880 those are the types of plays I think that are 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:27.800 gonna create some separation in terms of if the Dolphins 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:33.120 start fast, stay consistent, don't make those critical mistakes. Are 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.120 those errors early? I think they're they're as good as 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.080 the Titans, if not better. Right now. I think they're 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.160 on a more of a of a mojo role than 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.120 the Titans are right now, even though they're coming off 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.480 from a night Thursday night win and they have ten 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.040 wins on the season. I think the Dolphins believe they're 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.160 gonna every time they hit the field, they're gonna win now. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.720 And I think that's the mentality no matter if things 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.400 go poorly early or not. But more important this week, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.800 I think with the rain, the in the snow, all 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.160 the stuff that can happen on Sunday, and that's what 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.920 they're calling for, it would be good early and make 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.040 that a start point to have more success as the 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.720 game goes on, ye and kind of drive that confidence factor. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.960 Like you're talking about home right, A quick score could 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.200 really I think give the Dolphins all kinds of confidence. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.160 We saw on Monday night the defensive score. I really 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.359 thought that changed the complexion of the rest of that 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.560 ball game because all of a sudden, the back of 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.720 ian books mind like, I can't make a mistake like 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.040 that again. It cannot happen for us to have success. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.879 Do something like that. A big defensive takeaway and opening 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.359 drive score, I think would go a long way. John 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:35.600 has had a bunch here, but I want to go 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.640 ahead and compartmentalize it into one thing. The Dolphins will 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.040 win this game in your opinion, if fill in the blank, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.760 they win field position, special teams, and turnovers. So that's 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.679 my focus this week because I mentioned whether and most times, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.560 you know, you don't have that be a factor. Living 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.920 in South Florida, playing at hard Rock Stadium, and this 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.040 year the Dolphins have been very lucky when they have 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.080 gone on the road, haven't really faced any adversity in 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.359 terms of mother nature. This week, I think it's there. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.800 They're calling for, you know, a little bit of rain early, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.240 they're calling for snow flurries, and they're calling for wind 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.679 and gusts up to twenty five. Well, one thing that 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.639 does it affects throwing the football down the field, and 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.720 it affects your kicking game, and the kicking game is 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.879 about a draw in my opinion in terms of Brandy 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.840 Bullock and Jason Sanders. But Mike Palardy has been on 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.399 a little bit of a role if he can continue 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.840 his hot streak in terms of, you know, punts inside 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.080 the twenty last week he had three one inside the 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.280 five yard line. Great playing by Holland that you know 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.960 to get the football uh covered up inside the five 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.359 yard line. But it's field position, it's turnovers, and I 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.679 think it's kicking game. I think it's gonna play a 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.080 major factor in terms of where Ryan Tanhill starts, where 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.960 to a tongue of violis starts his offense, and and 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.440 how this game kind of progresses. If to only has 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.800 to go forty six yards with with a lot of success, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.520 he can do that. If you put Tannehill on a 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.800 long field for the majority of the game, you know, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.639 maybe the Dolphins win that field position and it it 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.920 kind of kicks the confidence in that in that short 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.719 field over to two. I think if that happens, you know, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.400 I think that the Dolphins can win this tough game 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.960 on the road and where points are going to be 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.240 in the premium to The Titans have only tried one 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.600 field will of fifty plus yards this year. I think 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.320 that could play a factor as well. See if they 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.560 get more aggressive in the kicking game or stay aggressive 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.120