WEBVTT - Miami Dolphins 2022 Schedule Breakdown 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.360 To US buyers, touch style by waddle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.320 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.280 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.640 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:33.520 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the schedule is released. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.960 We're gonna get into each matchup, go down the schedule 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.400 game by game, talk about those matchups, the biggest questions 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.159 and storylines around those teams, and how the Dolphins do 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.440 ultimately match up with said team, and a whole heck 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.280 of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:53.960 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:01:00.160 That's another miamis office. So the schedule is out, Why 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.680 don't we go ahead and just kick it off off 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.760 the top here by giving you the entire Miami Dolphins schedule, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.920 and we start once again with the New England Patriots, 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.640 this time at home. That's a September eleventh game, one 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.360 o'clock kick in the nice hot heat, humidity down here 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.000 in South Florida week to September eighteen at the Baltimore Ravens. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.040 Also a one o'clock kick Week three back here in 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.600 Muggy miserable South Florida in September on to face another 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.039 division rival to a f C East games at home 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.759 in September the Buffalo Bills at one o'clock and then 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.680 Week four short week on the road at the defending 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.160 a f C champions, the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday Night 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.840 Football on September twenty nine. That's an eight pm kickoff, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.760 Week number five. Coming off the mini by there will 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.040 go back to the division and back on the road 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.800 to the New York Jets on October nine at one 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.000 o'clock against Gang Green. Week six, back home for back 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.400 to back games starting on October over the sixteenth against 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.760 the Minnesota Vikings for another one o'clock kickoff, and then 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.000 on October twenty three home for the Pittsburgh Steelers. That 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.840 is the dolphins first Sunday night football game since to 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.000 face the Pittsburgh Steelers eight twenty kickoff. Week number eight. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.240 Back on the road for two straight games, two straight 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.720 games against the NFC North October thirty at the Detroit 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.960 Lions a one o'clock kickoff. Week number nine November six 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.360 at the Chicago Bears for one o'clock kickoff, and then 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.360 week number ten back home November against the Cleveland Browns 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.040 another one o'clock kickoff. Week eleven is the bye weekend, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.760 nice late bye towards the second half of the schedule. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.560 There I believe the last by on the schedules week fourteen, 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.240 so Miami is just three weeks short of the final 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.320 by on the schedule. Week number twelve we're at home, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.880 so three straight weeks at home with the bye as 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.239 the middle part of that schedule. November home for the 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.000 Houston Texans another one o'clock kickoff. Then it's back to 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.280 back games on the West coast are California swing December 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.200 the fourth at the San Francisco forty a four o'clock kickoff. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.120 Then December eleventh, potentially stay on the West coast for 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.120 back to back games against the Los Angeles Chargers at 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.680 so FI Stadium at four o'clock. Week number fifteen has 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.800 flex potential. The game could either be on December seventeenth, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.240 a Saturday, or December eighteenth, the traditional Sunday kickoff. That 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.080 game is in Buffalo, so three straight road games here 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.640 in December to kick it off the Niners, Chargers, and 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.160 then at the Buffalo Bills. That time is tb D 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.480 because that game could be flexed to Saturday. Then Week sixteen, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.920 Christmas Day, the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers will 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.320 be in South Florida at hard Rock Stadium for a 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.760 one o'clock kickoff. I'm in town to play the Dolphins, dumbass. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.720 And then Week number seventeen is on New Year's Day, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.280 January one, at the New England Patriots, a one o'clock 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.280 kickoff there, and then Week eighteen always finished with a 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.000 game in the division, and there's why one division game left, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.160 the New York Jets, and that game also has flex potential, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.880 could either be January seventh or January eighth, Saturday or 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.240 Sunday a tb D kick off. That game could move 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.800 to Saturday as well. So there you go, Patriots at 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.080 the Ravens home for the Bills, at the Bengals, at 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.720 the Jets, home for the Vikings, home for the Steelers, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.359 at the Lions, at the Bears home for the Browns. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.919 By week week eleven, and then finishing up home for 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.880 Houston at the Niners, at the Chargers, at the Bills 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.440 home for the Packers at the Patriots at the New 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.400 York Jets. And before we take our first break and 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.400 then dive into the first half of the schedule, and 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:35.960 then second number three, I'll be the second half of 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.960 the schedule. Just want to go ahead and give a 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.800 couple of quick notes here on the schedule and some 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.000 interesting quirks and the way this thing lays out. So 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.000 by now, you guys know, I believe if you listening 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.120 to this podcast, you probably know this that the NFL 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:52.240 schedule has a cyclical rotation that predetermines fourteen of your 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.039 seven teen games every single year. Years in advanced you know, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.080 you play a certain division in the a f C Conference, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.200 you play a certain division in the NFC Conference, You 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.400 play your own division six times, and then you have 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.880 the two games in conference against teams that finished in 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.800 the same position of their division as you, and now 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.680 under the seventeen game format, the third game against the 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.680 NFC also determined by where you finished in your division. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.919 For the Dolphins, the home tilt versus the Texans and 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.599 then are both because the teams finished in third place, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.760 as well as the California trips. The Niners and Chargers 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.960 finishing in third place in their divisions brings those games 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.120 it could have been could have had some variants based 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.160 upon the way the final game of the season went 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.479 last year. The Chargers and Raiders could have been that 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.320 game swapped Niners and Rams as well with that game. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.520 Miami also is gonna face three new head coaches this season, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.520 with Matt eber Flews in the Chicago Bears, Kevin O'Connell 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.919 in the Minnesota Vikings, and love E Smith in the 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.760 Houston Texans. And you might see three teams with new quarterbacks, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.760 a pretty low number, uh in a year where the 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.800 quarterback carousel has been crazy. The Steelers, you'll definitely get 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.280 a new quarterback there, whether it's Kenny Pickett or whether 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.360 it is Mitch Drobiski. The Cleveland's definitely gonna get another 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.120 quarterback there, whether it's DeShawn Watson and Jacobe Brissette. And 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.960 then with the forty Niners, we'll see if it's Jimmy 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.599 Garoppolo or Trey Lance. But those are the three teams 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.839 that have potential for a new quarterback. Sands any injuries 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.560 or changes like that. After opening on the road for 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.440 two straight years. The Dolphins kick off their season at 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.800 home in Week one this year, but the opponent will 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.240 not change from the last two campaigns. The rubber match 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.839 here of opening day games against the Lincoln Patriots three straight, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.240 last two in New England, this one down here in Miami, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.280 and the Dolphins, speaking of road games, that's a home 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.440 game of Speaking of road games, will travel twenty five thousand, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.360 one d and seventy eight miles this season. That's the 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.800 fourth most in the National Football League. That includes the 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.520 back to back trips out west of the Chargers and 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.360 forty Niners. The biggest stretch on the road this year 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.600 comes in that stretch with Chargers, Niners, and Buffalo after 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.640 that California swing, and the longest home stretch comes in 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.680 weeks ten through twelve, with contest against the Browns and 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.679 Texans sandwiched outside of the week Evan by and after 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.479 a Week four primetime game against the defending conference champions, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.200 the Cincinnati Bengals, the Dolphins returned to Sunday night football 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.480 for the first time since seen with a Week seven 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.240 home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And speaking of that 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.240 Thursday night primetime game, at home last year on Thursday 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.440 night on the road in Jacksonville in twenty twenty for 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:27.239 a Thursday night game twenty nineteen. Shoot, now, I'm forgetting 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.120 there wasn't a Thursday night game in twenty nine. It 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.360 was the Monday night game against Pittsburgh Steelers. Eighteen had 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.320 a road game against the Houston Texans. Seventeen had a 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.000 rather was the Houston Texas, seventeen was the Baltimore Ravens. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.400 And my point here is going back to against the 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:47.000 Bengals was on the road against the Buffalo Bills. I'm 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.360 not mistaken. So the Dolphins for a long time had 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.600 a lot of Thursday night games on the road, had 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.720 the one home game against the Ravens last year, and 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.360 now back on the road for t nflos are tough games, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.840 especially against the defending a f C champions and the 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.200 Dolphins schedule feature is eight playoff teams from one but 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.520 a combined record for the seventeen opponents of one and 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.680 two and the four eight one win percentage of the 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.160 Dolphins opponents from last year ranks twenty one in the 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.760 NFL on strength of schedule. So those are some of 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.000 the interesting notes. Let's go ahead and take our first 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.800 break here quickly into this edition of the Drivetime Podcast 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.240 and come back on the other side and get to 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.760 the first half of the schedule breaking down everything about 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.240 the Dolphins opponents. Next here, Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:39.320 brought to you by Auto Nation. Really the last tent 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.920 pole event of the NFL off season, aside from the practices, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.520 which we know is some of the best content and 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.000 some of the best stuff to really observe and talk 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.360 about on the platforms and the social and all that 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.040 fun stuff. Look at me talking like an old man, 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.439 the platforms and social snap face that type of thing. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.440 But the schedule is the last big one, right and 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.440 it's out. We've got it. We've got matchups, talk about 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.760 football games, to talk about what you guys know, I 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.800 love doing here on the Drivetime Podcast. And we already 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.880 gave you the full schedule, which also was up on 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.400 Miami Dolphins dot com. It's also probably up wherever you've been. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.920 I'm sure you've seen it by now one thousand and 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.120 twenty five times. But let's go ahead and break this 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.079 thing down and give you some notes here. Now, I'm 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:23.400 not gonna give you the like potential trap game scenarios, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.480 and I hate using that phrase, but one of the 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.240 things we like to do in the schedule release was 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.720 podcast in the past couple of years was talking about 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.960 you know, how this team could be coming off of 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.719 this game and just the impact of that. But we 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.280 don't have that because the schedule are The recording of 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.280 this podcast is before the entire schedule comes out, So 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.800 I just have the Dolphins schedule here. But looking at 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.160 week number one against the Patriots, that one o'clock opener, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.000 they were tenant seven last year and lost in the 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.680 a f C wild Card round. They had the sixth 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.560 ranked offense and second ranked defense in terms of scoring. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.200 They added Malcolm Butler and DeVante Parker as a couple 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.000 of key veteran acquisitions, and their first round pick was 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.320 center Cold Strange. I talked about this being the rubber match, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.839 right the third game of the opening day schedule in 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.800 the last three years. Can the Dolphins find a way 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.160 to get the rubber match and get off to one 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.000 and I'll start for the second straight year. Can they 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.800 make it four straight over the Patriots? Can to uh 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.800 get his personal record to four no career against the Patriots. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.959 Want to mark that would be if he could do it. Also, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.440 a couple of teams who were separated for that last 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.319 playoff spot in the a f C last year by 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.200 just a game. So these games are gonna be massively important. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.480 The Dolphins can find two wins against the Patriots and 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.120 that'll go a long way towards potentially finishing in the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.840 top half of the a f C East and potentially 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.440 pushing for a playoff berth And we get a chance 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.760 to see the Patriots early and late, just like we 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.319 did a year ago, and I thought we saw two 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.040 really different teams, different Dolphins teams, I should say, against 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.240 those Patriots teams number week number one. Remember the Patriots 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.760 were going up and down the field on third down 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.240 conversions and we just could not get off the dang field. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.800 But they would find a way to clamp down in 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.880 the red zone and make them kick field goals. Very 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.320 successful game plan that worked that way. But the Week 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.760 eight team game, game Man, they put pressure on him, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.600 they picked him off, they returned it for a touchdown, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.000 They put him on his back and had a bunch 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.560 of sacks in that game and just kind of dominated 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.520 that game really from the start and We're able to 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.480 put it away late with some clutch uh scrambles and 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.400 runs from two A toungo by LOOA. Of course, they 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.360 early touched on to jayland Wild got them off to 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.600 a good start. But how do you defend this quarterback 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.560 after having you know, a full season worth of tape 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.959 on him, after having two of your own games of 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.320 tape against him, and really two different stages of his 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.880 career as an opening game rookie to the final game 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.880 of the regular season. I'll be interested to see how 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.800 the Dolphins play that. And it's gonna be new for 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.959 really the Dolphins offensively and possibly defensively too, with the 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.040 new O C and then Josh Boyer calling the game 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.120 down here or I should say, you know, doing his 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.800 own thing with this Miami Dolphins defense. But just looking 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 at some of the roster pieces for the Patriots here, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.680 we know about Mac Jones and the strong running backs 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.439 of Romandre Stevenson and Damian Harris to power backs that 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.040 can really kind of put it to you, and you 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.199 gotta find a way to stop those guys. Weapons on 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.240 the outside. Davante Parker, Kendrick Born, and Jacoby Myers probably 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.319 the top three guys there with Hunter Henry and uh 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.840 John H. Smith almost at herb Smith. The tight ends 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.440 the offensive line, despite losing Shack Mason and then um 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.560 Joe Tuoney last year, still has a bunch of guys 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.000 that can get the job done with David Andrews, Michael 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.840 and when you Cole Stranger as a hell of a player, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.680 Isaiah Win, Trenton Brown. They're loaded up there. They're loaded 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.079 in the front on defense with Christian Barmore, Lawrence Guy, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.599 Davon Gagea, Ronnie Perkins, you know, josh or josh U 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.040 j and Matt Judon Geese get your names right, Travis. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.360 And then that secondary that's where I'm most most interested 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.040 to see this defense come along. As without j C. Jackson. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.079 Can they find a way to replace j. C. Jackson 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.040 after losing him in free agency to the Chargers. They 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.840 drafted Marcus Jones and Jack Jones. Can those rookies quick 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.880 quickly get to speed to face a Dolphins receiving corps 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.160 that has Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Cedric Wilson Jr. Mike 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.560 Ga Sicky and many many more weapons there to feature 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.280 so interesting game. They're Patriots again for the third straight 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.240 year in the opening game now week number two on 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.880 the road against the Baltimore Ravens, who were eight and 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.920 nine last year, seven teenth on offense, nineteenth on defense. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.680 They added Marcus Williams, one of the great additions this 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.280 offseason in my opinion. Michael Pierce, Morgan, Moses, Mike Davis 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.880 were some more veteran acquisitions there, and then Kyle Hamilton's 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.040 and Tyler Linderbaum where their first round picks. I thought 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.600 the Ravens had a phenomenal draft this year, the best 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.360 draft really, I think of any team. And you know 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.200 the Dolphins only had four picks. We can put them 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.880 in that conversation with the Bravens just hit on pick 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.439 after pick after pick. I think Hamilton's and Marcus Williams 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.760 is an absolutely absurd combination there. It's gonna help that 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.680 defensive backfield that they have those so deep with Jimmy 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:40.600 Smith and Marcus, Marcus Peters and who's the thrown Marshawn Lattimore. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.600 They can roll out three safety packages now with Chuck Clark, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:48.360 Kyle Hamilton's as well as excuse me, Marcus Williams. They 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.000 they're gonna be able to do multiple things and get 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.120 pressure upfront and and just really find a way to 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.240 confuse you on defense and so getting all those injured 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.840 players back. I mean, this is a team that stayed 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.679 in contention last year despite all those crazy injuries, had 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.880 the more players on i R. I mean, they were 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.960 the one seed at the midway point when they played 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.679 the Miami Dolphins on Thursday Night Football, despite at that 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.960 point having the most players on i R. And they 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.600 did at the end of the season two and then 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.920 they lose Lamar Jackson and that's when things kind of went, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.800 you know, downhill. But they went from eight and three 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.280 to eight and nine. I believe it was. But I 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.800 mean it's not like they weren't scoring and competing with 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.640 teams like Green Bay. They had a great fourth quarter 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.880 run where they almost came back and beat the Green 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.440 Bay Packers. So they have depth with Tyler Huntley at 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.720 the position, and uh, you know, that could make for 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.520 some interesting quarterback discussions for them this offseason without Lamar 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.440 Jackson having that contract signed yet, But that's for another day. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.600 And they also find they get a full season of 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.720 Lamar Jackson and j K. Dobbins. I think that's gonna 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.480 be one of the most powerful one two punches in 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.400 the running game. So Dolphins gonna have to find a 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.640 way to come up with another game plan to stop 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.440 Lamar Jackson. But you know, have more running backs because 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.920 they were down so many guys that got injured early 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.080 on last season in training camp. You know, losing three 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.720 guys in training camp, Dobbins being one of them. Be 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.560 interesting and see how they defend that. You get more 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.440 speed at I'm backer position to deal with with Lamar Jackson. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.440 Is this a big game for Channing Tindall's kind of 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.960 indoctrination to the NFL. We saw what Jerome Baker did 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.280 playing inside outside in that game last year. Lots of 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.920 fun matchups on that side of the ball. And then again, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.920 the defensive dominant I think they're gonna have this year 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.240 is noticeable. I think that trading Hollywood Brown Marquise Brown 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.640 and then the running back depth, the combination of those 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.320 two things kind of shows you what kind of team 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:24.960 they want to be. So the Dolphin's gonna have to 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.560 buckle our chinch traps and play the run in that 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.840 game for sure, but also have to acknowledge the Lamar 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.320 Jackson's big arm to go down the field as well, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.720 and can the Baltimore Ravens come up with a game 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.920 plan to combat with the Dolphins into them last year defensively, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.520 because that was kind of when the Ravens offense kind 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:40.720 of took a step back and the rest of the 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.640 season and just couldn't quite get back to that same 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.480 level of competition they were before. They have a new 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.320 defensive cordnator there as well. Uh destroyed the draft and 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.040 free agency. How quickly does it all come together? Interesting 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.440 game here in week number two, Week number three, a 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.160 game I'm sure you guys all have circle on the 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.440 calendar against the Buffalo Bills at one o'clock kick off 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.960 eleven and six. Last year won the a f C East, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.440 lost in the divisional round. They were the third ranked 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.400 scoring offense and the first rank scoring defense. They made 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.840 a bunch of moves this year Von Miller, Roger Staffold 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.440 Kayer Elam their first round draft pick, and then James Cook. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.280 They also added O. J. Howard in free agency. Just 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.120 a really really strong roster up and down the skill positions, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.320 the running backs, the tight ends, the receivers. We know 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.000 Stefon Diggs and then now Gabe Davis kind of takes 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.800 on a more prominent role in the absence of Cole 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.600 Beasley as well as Emmanuel Sanders. And you know, I 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.880 think Isaiah mackenzie also will play a big role on 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.000 that team. A guy that I was interested in as 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.160 a free agent before he resigned to the Buffalo Bills. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.160 With his skill set and his speed and the jet 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.280 sweeps and the ability to get vertical thought. He kind 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.800 of made Beasley replaceable last year with the way he 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.000 performed when Beasley was down. And they also brought in 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.800 Jamison Crowders, so they're very deep at receiver. We know 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.280 Miami's very deep at cornerback. Finding a way to get 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.200 Josh Allen uncomfortable to get pressure on him. Can they 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.120 do what they did last year in the first half 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.200 of those Buffalo games and get Josh Allen uncomfortable, turn 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.520 him over, force him in the third lungs, and force 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.800 some inaccurate passes when he gets off the spot, and 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.640 then don't let him scramble once he gets off the spot. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.480 Interesting matchup there. Can Miami find a way to keep 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.280 this Buffalo defense from really really getting after it. They 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.000 have all the pass rush upfront with Epanessa Rousseau at Oliver. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.959 They added Von Miller to go along with Matt Milano 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.840 and Tremaine Edmonds. We talked about Kayer Elam on the 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.439 back end. He's gonna have a big role in that 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.359 defensive backfield this year. As Levi Wallace departed for the 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.119 Pittsburgh Steelers. I think it was, uh, we'll get to 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.440 that here in just one second. I forgot my notes 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.000 right here, but I forgot if he's on the Steelers 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.520 or somewhere else. Um, Michael Hyde and Jordan Poyer is 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.000 as good as it gets. So Elam could be the 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.000 guy that really has the you know, has to get 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.800 accomated quickly, and based upon what we saw in the 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.240 draft video and him talking about being the best NoteTaker 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.080 in the country, could be a guy that fits in 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.800 right away with them. But for the Bills, can they 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.760 get over that hunt Man? A couple of really tough 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.720 playoff losses for them against the Chiefs the last couple 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.840 of years. Do these pieces push them over the top? 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.440 Big early season match up here from Miami against the 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.560 Buffalo Bills at home too divisional opponents in September in 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.680 Miami here at the a f C East Week four 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.360 on the road for the Bengals eight team kickoff on TNF. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.920 They were tenants seven last year and made a miraculous 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.320 run to the Super Bowl, losing that game to the Rams. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.200 They were eight and scoring offense seventeenth and scoring defense. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.240 Offensive line remake because the big additions there for that squad. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.520 They went out and got Alex Cappa a great addition there, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.119 Lyle Collins another great addition, and then our former player 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.600 here and Ted Harriss to play some center for them. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.720 You know, that's a really good looking club they got 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.280 in in Cincinnati once again to rebuild that offensive line. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.680 But how quickly does it? Gel? Can that take some time? 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.119 Can Miami getting them early be a good thing? I 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.879 will see about that. Being on the road on Thursday 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.639 night certainly is no favorite of the Miami Dolphins, but 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.159 you can gotta find a way to go out and 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.000 get dubs when you can. Joe Burrow and Jamaar Chase. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.840 Can they recreate the magic they had last season? Isn't 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.200 more Tyler Boys, It more t Higgins. You know, Burro 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.000 is gonna be a full you know, two years off 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.080 the injury could be a nice little sign for him 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:49.960 to be completely back and really pick up where he 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.959 left off last year in the postseason. But with all 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.080 those new names up front, can they get the Dolphins 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.080