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Dolphins and 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.240 welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.600 Dolphins podcast networks covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.520 it going everybody? I am your host at Travis Wingfield 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.880 and on today's show, it's time to preview week number nineteen. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.400 Why off. We'll go position by position and look at 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.200 each matchup through the lens of the tape and the stats, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:12.080 plus the three keys and twenty three NFL playoff picks. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.600 All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.720 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:27.280 Time Podcast. Three weeks three division rivals on the other 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.679 sideline another week where I don't think an introduction into 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.120 our opponent is necessary. I recall doing this for the 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.399 season finale, and I like doing it again, you know, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.960 the first time we play each team each year. But honestly, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.480 the script hasn't really changed that much from Buffalo in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.360 that game. They were aggressive this offseason and pursuing and 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.120 rounding out a championship level roster, but the biggest piece 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.920 of that, Von Miller is out for the year. But still, 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.520 you know, Da Kuan Jones has been awesome for them, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.559 James Cook and added element to their offense. But really, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.440 for the most part, it's just been inherent growth from 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 their previous off seasons of good drafting and you know, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.679 acquiring veteran players that have been big boons for them 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.919 offensively and defensively. They entered the season as Super Bowl favorites, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.320 and I would imagine they're the postseason favorites as well 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.800 heading into the playoffs. Here, I'm not sure if they 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.480 actually are, but they remain my Super Bowl pick. They 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.360 just have way too many ways to win even if 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.400 they don't play well in you know, significant areas of 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.800 the game. They can strike in a second and flip 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.519 the game, just like we saw on Sunday against the Patriots. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.800 But they are also a good lesson in the journey 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.120 of an NFL season. I've been trying to get this 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.760 point across from my entire life. It feels like now, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.400 but they started off as favorites, enter the third season 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.799 as favorites. But recall those dips in the middle of 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.280 the season, the losses to the Vikings and Jets, the 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.160 Lions damn near knocking them off on Thanksgiving. Every team 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.920 every year faces adversity, but the truth is nobody remembers it. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.520 When you take care of business late. We know they'll 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.639 be motivated it. We know that place will be a madhouse. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.120 And just real quick on that point. You know the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.320 The rock Pile Report podcast. Couple of guys that I 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.440 used to do their show all the time before I 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.000 worked for the team, and I remember last year one 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.440 of the co host was upset about the loss to 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.480 Jacksonville say like they might not make the playoffs. Now 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.280 it's like, dude, calm down, You're gonna win the division. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.080 You'll be just fine. You guys are gonna win your division. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.600 They're getting to the playoffs, you'll be a force to 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.280 be reckoned with. And sure enough they had the most 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.000 epic playoff game really ever And what did it do 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.840 besides everyone kind of crowned Josh Allen as a new 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.120 great quarterback in the NFL and it put them in 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.960 this position this year where again, why are to wire 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.360 favorites to win the whole damn thing? So perspective understanding, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.000 the standard that you hold your own team too is 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:42.560 usually higher than what you hold the rest of the 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.920 league too, because everybody, every team, every player has dips 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.080 and valleys and adversity you have to overcome. These Buffalo Bills, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.280 who again are a stacked team, have experienced exactly that 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.880 as recently as six weeks ago, and for US third 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.560 playoff games since twent two thousand and one, the last 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.600 two did not go well and uh, you know, a 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.040 home loss after the two thousand eight division title and 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.840 a road loss after winning ten games and earned the 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.960 wild card spot back in. Now it sounds like it's 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.120 gonna be Skyler Thompson will find out later this week 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.160 who for sure is going to be under center. In 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.280 two thousand eight, we had our quarterback and m VP 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.560 runner up in Chad Pennington, but he played his worst 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 game of the season against a loaded Ravens defense. Four 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.360 turnovers in that one. But also remember two thousand sixteen, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.440 no Ryan Tannehill and playing with Matt Moore in a 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.160 game where you're one snap away from the third stream quarterback. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.840 And my question to Dolphins Nation right now, but does 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.440 anybody remember the quarterback who was going to replace him 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.880 if he couldn't get back in the game and we 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.200 saw him warming up on the sidelines. If you guessed 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.320 t J. Yates, you would be correct. So for Dolphins fans, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.760 playoff appearances seemed to come with injury riddled quarterback rooms. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.360 And it's about the most frustrating and just torturous thank 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.120 you can imagine as a football fan, you only get 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.000 so many of these games every year. You get seven 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.240 team for sure, and for Dolphins fans you get bonus 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.880 games really every two presidential campaigns, and the last two 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.320 times you didn't have your starting quarterbacks. So it's I 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.960 can understand the frustration. Um, it is what it is, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.480 but it definitely sucks. But going back even further in 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.800 the playoff animals with the Miami Dolphins, who recalls the 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.440 nineteen nineties. My first ever podcast appearance was with Sam 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.159 Markup and the guys at perfect Ville, and he would 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.640 always tell me the Bills ruined the nineties for him, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.320 and that's the case for doll fans of a certain age, right, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.880 all of all the Dolphins and that kind of you know, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.920 I guess coming up on I'm a man, I'm forty. Admittedly, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.760 I don't remember those early nineties seasons very well because 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.279 I am not yet a man. I am not yet 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.080 forty and thirty five. My first real memory was the 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.600 San Diego loss in nine four I was held when 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.320 I've been there six years old. My most vivid one 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.599 was the ninety nine playoffs and the win in Seattle 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.599 followed by the game we don't speak of that came 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.720 after that. But against the Bills. Man, this is a 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.160 I've always had the reason that Dan Marino didn't get 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.560 a Super Bowl ring. It's because of these freaking Bills. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:07.320 Divisional round thirty four loss in Buffalo, a f C 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.800 championship here in Miami to ten loss to the Bills 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.039 that would have been such a killer if I remembered it. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.320 I was only, you know, four years old. Thirty seven, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.680 twenty two lost in Buffalo and the wild card round, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:24.000 and the seventeen win over Buffalo and the wild card 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.080 round before getting stomped by Denver thirty eight three in 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.800 the divisional round. So again, Kelly Marino was the matchup, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.279 and it still pains me we did not get at 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.360 least one of those wins because the biggest obstacle between 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.360 Marino and his ring was these freaking Buffalo Bills, and 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.159 those were the only ones man. The Bills, you know, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.720 weren't a regular playoff team during the Dolphins peak in 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.000 the seventies and eighties. So it's three to one in 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.960 favor of Buffalo in the all time playoff series O 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.440 and two in games up in that little town in 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.120 western New York. Enough history, lesson, Let's go ahead and 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.800 get into it. Dolphins offense first, Bill's defense and the 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.000 quarterback in Miami offense versus the defense and safety position 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.880 of the Buffalo Bills. And this we've been over this. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.599 This is one of the most unique defenses in the 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.880 NFL in terms of their usage, and it's really built 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.040 around one player that allows them to do this, and 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.040 that's te Ron Johnson. It's one of the best players 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.400 in the on the field and calling him a nickel 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.720 or slot cornerback. Would you know it would be entirely 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.280 disingenuous to do that, And we'll cover his game more 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.120 in the cornerback section, but his name is required here 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.920 because of this. They run nickel of the time, less 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.000 than two percent. They run three four or four three 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.360 or dime packages. It's the same defense every time, and 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.760 so that allows you to dictate matchups based upon their personnel. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.080 And it's why I was confident, if you know, if 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.400 we have all of our parts back, because I think 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.360 the running game, you go twenty one personnel against the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.840 nickel defense that refuses to get at nickel defense. You 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.760 can still run the ball on that look even without 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.200 you know, Raheem most or even without even without two 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.080 of probably um, but you're gonna have to do it 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.720 well every single play to have a chance in this game. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.480 They run high safeties like the cover zero three percent 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.800 one high safety too high fifty pc of the time. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.640 It's a good mix of man and zone. It is 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.520 primarily a zone based defense, but they have up to 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.640 their man coverage after the loss of von miller Um. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.560 They've also been kind of on and off with rookie 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.000 cornerback Kayer Elam, and I think you know, ideally when 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.600 they have White and him go full speed together, they 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.880 become a better man coverage team. But I don't know 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.600 if you can expect that in a game like this, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.720 but as always, you do want to be prepared for 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.560 both because you know, White, Dane Jackson, Toron Johnson, Kayer Elam, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.760 They've all got man in zone skills. It's part of 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.800 that very versatile defense they can run as far as 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.200 what they do postnap, pre snap no versatility nickel defense 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.920 every time, but post snap there's a lot of versatility there. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.880 They do blitz nine team point four percent of the time, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.280 which is the tenth lowest rate in the league, but 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.679 their pressure rate is twenty two point four percent, which 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.280 is thirteenth best in the league. And again those numbers 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.439 have fluctuated with the loss of von Miller back in November, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.840 but they're blitzing more and haven't generated as much pressure 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.440 from their fore man fronts without Vaughn, but it's still 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.400 a key piece of their defense. With Rousseau Epanessa at 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.760 all over all being so dang good, they need to 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.640 pressure with four to really maximize their system for man pressure, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.840 complex zones, and guys that have played together for a 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.360 long time with really smooth pattern matching and communicating. They 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.720 blitzed us just eight times combined in the two games, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.960 and that's obviously with a different quarterback back there. But 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.400 if that's the plan again, Skylert Thompson is going to 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.720 have to be super sharp finding openings and attacking the 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.719 opportunities against man coverage when they are in fact there. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.559 We saw them dial up man a couple of times 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.120 and Tyreek got him on the deep ball and Waddle 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.280 ran across their zone one time, so you know, you 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.160 gotta find your spots. They are uber athletic at the 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.080 linebacker position. They know what they have to contend with 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.760 and Waddle and Hill that paired with their almost never 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.040 changes defense, means again Miami has to successfully run the 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.960 football to win this game. We saw him do it 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.720 last time. Even more important now as you go into 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.040 this game with a rookie quarterback in the lineup, let's 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.480 go ahead and cover this quarterback and safety matchup. It's 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.959 different without Micah Hide all the He did return to 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.760 practice with his twenty one day window opening up. No 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.760 word on if he plays this week. Just guessing here, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.080 I would imagine Buffalo kind of holds off until next 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.960 week with him, But Jordan Poyer is still They're doing 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.319 great things weekly. He makes plays man Ex Skyler has 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.120 to be sharp, has to identify where number twenty one 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.480 is lined up, not lock onto his target and hold 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.840 him on each each and every single play. It's got 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.560 four more picks this year, another handful of pass breakups. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.840 He gets four or five picks every single season. Now 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.240 he's playing in that deep center field more often this 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.560 year without Hyde, and I think that limits the true 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.240 strength of their defense with them both in there, and 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.960 they're virtually interchangeable because in Hyde's place was to mar Hamlin, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.079 who was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, some more 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.640 great news with him, but replacing him last Sunday. I 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.160 mean they're onto their fourth safety there. It's Dean Marlow. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.480 Uh you know, Michael Hyde and Hamlin would come in 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.280 on the pass rush quite often, but Hart Marlow has 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.880 just one pass brush rep to point your seventeen this year. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.760 That's just sixty nine snaps. Nice for Marlow, but um yeah, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.520 it kind of takes away from their interchangeability there a 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.520 little bit. Where Miami really needs to get after this 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.200 team is wide receiver and tight end versus cornerback. The 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.160 Bills are good in the secondary, but you know, Waddle 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:14.120 and Tyreek or both top five receivers, and they're gonna 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.600 have to go out and play like it and help 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.000 their quarterback out. We mentioned to Ron Johnson in the open, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:19.880 you know, there's only so much you can do to 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.760 get open, and if the ball's not there, it's not there. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.080 And we saw a Waddle open all game longest the Jets. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.000 But one of the true Jenga pieces in the NFL 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.640 is to Ron Johnson. He's just so important. I thought 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.680 we saw him match up with Tyreek and Jalen a lot, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.480 but back in you know, week three, we only saw 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.760 two targets against the two of them, and two more 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.640 targets against the two of them in week fifteen, so 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.480 both Tyreek and Jalan aligning the slot less than twent 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:42.440 the time. So that's kind of your answer right there, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.760 that you can dictate the matchup and not put you know, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.400 your best players on their best corner. But then again, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.679 Trey White's back too, so it's all kind of you know, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.960 compounding variables there. But Johnson really helps them kind of 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.640 key their disguises because he switches his roles to the line. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.040 He'll rush, he'll insert against the run, he'll blow up 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.200 the screen. He's a great player in a second day 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.000 that's been banged up all year. He's leading them in 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.880 coverage snaps by a mile. He's got six hundred fifteen 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.160 and has allowed just six hundred twenty three yards with 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.000 thirty five run stops. Again, he's a very, very good player. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.720 Dane Jackson has been the third starter when he's been healthy. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.560 Five hundred and fifty three yards on him on five 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.120 hundred and fifty two coverage snaps. That's like ideal two 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.000 picks nine p b U s than of course, Trey 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.160 White was one of the most competitive players you'll find. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.920 He wants to play physical, he wants to challenge you, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.240 and he's so dang adept at falling off his man 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.760 and winding up in a place he's not supposed to be, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:34.920 so you have to keep an eye out for him. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.920 Twenty seven. I'm really curious see how they aligned pre snap, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.679 because this Dolphins offense just gives you so many different 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.559 issues that most teams can't. But on the season, they 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.920 play press just thirty nine percent of the time and 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.120 they're off sixty one percent at the time. The biggest 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.800 thing to me is how do they defend Tyreek Hill. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.840 They gave him all the attention back in Week three 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.959 and we saw a waddle rice to the occasion and 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.880 that one. Then we saw both guys make a bunch 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.840 of players back in the week fifteen game. But I 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.520 think that had more to do with the Dolphins running 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.920 game getting owing and then taking advantage of their chances 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.680 when they got them in the passing game. And like 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.559 we say, every single week starts up front right offensive line, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.000 verse defensive line. Greg Russo has taken a giant step 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.080 forward and with Miller, man like they were tough to stop, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.800 but they still are. But it's obviously impossible to replace 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.920 a talent like von Miller. But don't get it twisted. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.960 You still need your best, you know, effort against these guys, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.480 because listen to these numbers for pressures and run stops. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:27.520 Russo forte, Epanessa and twelve lost in twenty and thirteen, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.800 bash them eighteen and eight. So really it's Rousseau who 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.360 gets the most production. But you know, these are big, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.840 heavy handed long powerful players that can play through you. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.480 And Miami whooped their butt in the running game last 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:39.960 time around, they're gonna have to do it again in 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.840 this game to have a you know, fighter's chance. Um, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.400 But that's how they play their style. They want to 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.040 play through you on the way to the quarterback and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.680 helps them play the run as well. But you know, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.560 if they're gonna play light fronts with that nickel package, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.720 like shoot man, do you do? You just stay in 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.920 twenty two personnel the entire damn game and run the 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.600 football in every single snap like I don't know? I there? Well, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.440 so I'm curious to what the plan looks like because 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.600 you're not gonna match points with this team, as you 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.600 heard Mike mcdown talk about in the Wednesday press conference. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.120 On the interior very good as well, even though Miami 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.440 kicked the crap out of at all over last time around. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.960 He does lead that group with thirty one pressures and 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.880 nineteen run stops. Day Kwan Jones is right behind him 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.840 with thirty pressures but more run stops with twenty. He's 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.280 been very, very good for them. We know about Jordan Phillips. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.360 He didn't practice on Wednesday, but nine team pressures and 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.840 thirteen run stops. Then Tim settle eleven and twelve for him, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.560 those four names and the four off the edge, even 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.280 without Miller, it's as good as it gets. Man inside, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.400 you know, our power and ability to stay on blocks 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.280 will be tested Oliver's and just an absolute specimen. And 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 you know, typically he's one on one and he's a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.560 tough matchup. But last time Connor Williams and Rob Hunt 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.359 took him to task. His length and get off and countermoves. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.960 He challenges in every single way. And I thought, you know, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.880 Oliver didn't play in the Week three game, and I 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.120 wrote in the podcast back then, this is his biggest 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.120 test of the year. Well he matched that with Flying 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.880 Colors Man, so I gotta do that again. We know Phillips, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.200 he plays his hair on fire, and it's just always 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.240 fired to play against us, the team that drafted him. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.320 He does like to anticipate the snap count, so hard 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.040 counts always an option against him, but that's sometimes really 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.560 tough in that environment. He will come clean seemingly a 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.160 couple of times a game, so you have to mitigate 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.240 his interior pressure and then settles a great space eater. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.320 De Kwon Jones one of the most underrated players in 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.000 the league. To me, he's there. Zack Steeler, consistent, tough 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.520 to move, makes a splash player to every single game, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.000 and then off the edge. They certainly have that type right, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.560 heavy handed long pass rushers who can collapse the pocket. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.040 Our quarterback Skyler are gonna have to be able to 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.840 move within the pocket because they tend to not really 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.240 offer up escape hatches with how infrequently blitz and how 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.680 athletic the linebackers are, and they're good safeties as well, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.200 so suddenly being mobile in the pocket but still winning 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.080 from the pocket are going to be big keys for 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.680 Sky Thompson in this game. Running backs and linebackers. Matt 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.360 Milano legit defensive Player of the Year candidate. The way 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.560 he's played, he just kind of keys everything, and uh 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.920 is your disguise buster as it were. He's a critical 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.320 piece of that defense, especially against an offense that wants 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.080 to create hesitation through you know, multiple conflict defenders. Tremaine 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.160 Edmonds lengthy, fast, explosive like the linebackers that gave us 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.880 issues earlier in the season. Second most rushing yards of 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.960 bills allowed this year, though, was that Week fifteen game. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.360 Miami needs more of that. The backs. I think we 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.080 need a big game both in the passing game and 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.800 as ball carriers. We mentioned the minimal blitz, is you 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.600 know see that and get out into the pattern or 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.040 if they come help us, you know, Skyler, get that 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.000 extra half second to find holes left in the coverage 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.160 from the blitz. Big, big game, and I can't wait 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.400 to see either side's playing here offensively and defensively. And 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.920 speaking of that, let's go ahead and take our first 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.240 break and come back on the other side and do 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.520 Dolphins defense versus Bill's offense. That's next Drivetime Podcast, your 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:52.000 host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.600 here on a Thursday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Matt 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.240 sucks without Monday Night and Thursday Night football, And we're 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.240 getting close to the end here man to the worst 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.800 part of the calendar. Go Mariners, though, coming up, go 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.320 Heat on the stretch run. That was a fun game 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:11.800 against Okay se either the not uh Dolphins defense Bills offense. 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.240 Let's go ahead and start with their personnel, which has 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.720 changed a lot from the last couple of years. UH 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.200 they run eleven personnel. The bread and butter of the 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.240 NFL one back, one tight end, three receivers sixty percent 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.520 of the time, nice four percent out of twelve personnel, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.359 fourteen percent out of twenty one personnel. And then they 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.320 run two backs, two tights. That's twenty two personnel three 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.600 percent of the time, and they have some work out 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.640 of ten one Do you guys know what that means? 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.919 Ten personnel, one back, no tight ends, four receivers. It's 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.560 always running back, tight end and then the leftover number 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.000 is your eligible receivers. Just interesting adaptation going from Brian 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.400 Dabal to Ken Dorsey and he's up for some potential 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.399 interviews for head coaching jobs as well this year. Um, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.680 but just the complete absence of ten personnel this year, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.200 that's a grouping that almost nobody eclipses one percent in annually, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.199 but the last couple of years it was always that 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.240 way for all but two teams Cliff Kingsbury's Cardinals and 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.720 Barfe Larber. But they're incorporating a fullback and going into 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.240 the complete opposite direction of that with Reggie Gilliam Dawson 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.240 Knox also a big part of that. To counter how 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.480 teams have played the Bills is a big part of that, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.679 as well, and it helps them get digs into one 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.560 on one situations and create more space for him, or 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.199 you double him and then you get Mitch Matches on 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.679 explosive backs and Dawson Knox, So it's kind of pick 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.920 your poison. Offense are loaded. Josh Allen has the longest 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.200 time to throw in the NFL among quarterbacks that played 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.120 the majority of the year, two point eight eight seconds 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.480 and gosh, fifty seven scrambles this year. Uh, and he's 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.919 been their best runner. He's the entire offense goes to 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.000 this guy, and it's I mean, can you make him 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.359 have a bad game? It's tough to do. Even when 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:48.879 he has bad games, he still finds a way to 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.080 put points on the board because he's so explosive. His 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:57.359 blitz splits. That's a fun phrasing to say. Blitz splits 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.960 are fascinating to me. This year. When he's blitz which 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.120 is twenty eight and a half percent of his dropbacks 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.080