Speaker 1: Touchdown, miamis water run? What is up, Dolphans, and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: one day away from the big holiday Thanksgiving. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring
Speaker 1: you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on
Speaker 1: today's show, we are turning the page and getting onto
Speaker 1: New York. The dolphinship off to the Meadowlands for the
Speaker 1: second game this season with the Jets and a chance
Speaker 1: to pull within one game in the all time Dolphins
Speaker 1: and Jets rivalry. We're gonna hear from coach Flores on
Speaker 1: possible offensive line changes if a couple of starters can't go,
Speaker 1: improving the run defense, and his favorite holiday and the
Speaker 1: Flores Thanksgiving traditions. US will preview the game in depth
Speaker 1: as we do on Wednesdays, and finish up with some
Speaker 1: player media availability. All of that and more on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Hey Dolphins fans,
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Speaker 1: and turn this thing over to Brian flores Is Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning media availability. We got plenty of talk on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: but we also talked plenty of football here, and we'll
Speaker 1: start with Coach discussing the Dolphins potential contingencies in the
Speaker 1: absence or potential absence I should say of Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: or Solomon Kinley. Davis, of course, added to COVID I
Speaker 1: are earlier in the week, and Solomon Kinley was taken
Speaker 1: out of the game with an aggravated foot injury that
Speaker 1: he entered the game with on one day. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to Coach on some of the guys
Speaker 1: who have been on the offensive line this season. We
Speaker 1: just haven't seen very much of them because the starting
Speaker 1: offensive line has been relatively healthy and we don't have
Speaker 1: to see how this goes on practice. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got, you know, a few few guys who haven't
Speaker 1: played much but practice well in training camp, and you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. So you know you
Speaker 1: mentioned Dieter, Uh, Panky, Davenport. We gotta some guys who
Speaker 1: have played in games, have some experience, and we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes in practice. I think they're all reving
Speaker 1: for an opportunity if if that opportunity presents itself in
Speaker 1: we'll just at to see how it goes in practice
Speaker 1: and get the best five out there and the best
Speaker 1: combination of players. And like coach says, if that opportunity
Speaker 1: does in fact present itself, you could be getting a
Speaker 1: look at one of those three guys he mentioned, Adam
Speaker 1: Panky and Julian Davenport, who both have played Sperry Lead
Speaker 1: this season. Pinky has been an additional eighth offensive lineman
Speaker 1: when he's been active and and on the game day
Speaker 1: roster with not on the inactive list four game days.
Speaker 1: And Julian Davenport also came into the Seahawks game way
Speaker 1: back in Week four and played six reps and did
Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job out there at left tackle.
Speaker 1: And then you also heard him talk about Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: who we haven't seen him once this season. He's been
Speaker 1: a you know where you want your reserve lineman to
Speaker 1: be because again, good health on the offensive lines paramount.
Speaker 1: But I am curious to see what maybe Dieter looks
Speaker 1: like in his second year, if he is to get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to play a little bit down the stretch here.
Speaker 1: He played some guards, some tackle last year, even played
Speaker 1: some center in college. This guy has some versatility. He's
Speaker 1: a smart kid, a tough, tough kid, and a hard worker.
Speaker 1: And of course he had those consecutive start streak at Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Type of guy that you can really develop and grow
Speaker 1: in your program. And so with each of those three guys,
Speaker 1: as coach always talks about rookie, veteran or otherwise, you're
Speaker 1: always going to be developing these players on your roster,
Speaker 1: A little bit of me is curious to what we
Speaker 1: have in those three guys if the opportunity does in
Speaker 1: fact present itself. So again, one of these issues of
Speaker 1: depth a good problem to have, right It's a problem
Speaker 1: if you don't know who to play because you have
Speaker 1: so many good guys. That's a good problem to have
Speaker 1: if you're the Miami Dolphins. Up next, Coach discussed briefly
Speaker 1: here the engagement or interaction with two a Tungue Vyloa
Speaker 1: after the decision to go to Ryan Fitzpatrick on Sunday
Speaker 1: in the Denver game. Here's coach on Toa's response to
Speaker 1: the benching. He's been fine. I think it's it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of adversity that's never hurt anyone. He's fine.
Speaker 1: We did our normal Tuesday meeting yesterday. What's with the
Speaker 1: Jets and no issues. And up next, Miles Gaskin is
Speaker 1: eligible to come off the injured reserve this week if
Speaker 1: he is ready, if the Dolphins feel he is ready
Speaker 1: to be activated. Here's coach Flora's on the potential of
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin's return. Doing everything you can to get back.
Speaker 1: He's al jibuta to come off with. And we'll make
Speaker 1: a decision on that here whether or not come back
Speaker 1: to practice. So um, but he's he's definitely made some
Speaker 1: some games over the last few weeks and we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes. And let's get one more football question
Speaker 1: here for coach before we start talking about Turkey Ham
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving. Here's coach talking about the run game, both
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively. I just got to continue to practice, um,
Speaker 1: and then it's about execution. And I think we got
Speaker 1: to try to find different ways to you know, put
Speaker 1: the players in better positions to uh, to to have
Speaker 1: some success in the run game on both sides, offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. You know, there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways to do things in this league, you know,
Speaker 1: different personnels, different schemes. So we haven't we haven't tried
Speaker 1: every every avenue think any team has, but we have
Speaker 1: to do with um you know, keep keep looking for
Speaker 1: those those different ways to create some opportunities for ourselves,
Speaker 1: whether it's and if it's something that we were unfamiliar with,
Speaker 1: and maybe we do that. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, the things that there are always Hey, if
Speaker 1: we did if we've got one blog, we would just
Speaker 1: sprung that one. Or if you know, we handled that movement,
Speaker 1: we would have sprung this one. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: of back and forth on the best ways to to
Speaker 1: try to make those improvements. But you know they're constant,
Speaker 1: constant conversations and we've been having them. Um, we have
Speaker 1: them every day. M M. You know, not necessarily just
Speaker 1: on the things that we struggle with, but you know,
Speaker 1: even the things that we haven't struggled with, So you know,
Speaker 1: that's coaching. There's a lot of different conversations and communication
Speaker 1: and we're all just trying to get better, change Josh Danny,
Speaker 1: and they're just constantly trying to do everything they can
Speaker 1: to help you put these guys in position into to
Speaker 1: be successful. We'll continue to do that. I really enjoy
Speaker 1: hearing that note there from Coach about the single instances
Speaker 1: that can disrupt a play. We talk about a team
Speaker 1: game all the time on podcast All the Time with
Speaker 1: Coach about how play execution requires eleven guys most of
Speaker 1: the times to make it happen, and if you have
Speaker 1: one league or one problem, it can blow things up.
Speaker 1: And you know, watching the All twenty two, we talked
Speaker 1: about it on the Tuesday podcast. You see that a
Speaker 1: few times, whether it's the passing game, the running game, defensively, offensively,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. I think that there's so many
Speaker 1: instances where this team might be even closer to having
Speaker 1: more of a running game, better run defense, and playing
Speaker 1: better football. And that's funny to say off of a
Speaker 1: five game winning streak, you know, the previous loss in
Speaker 1: Denver notwithstanding, but a team playing good football. I've talked
Speaker 1: about it for weeks now that there is some more
Speaker 1: meat on the bone, and so it's cool to hear
Speaker 1: coach Flora's talk about how those one block or the
Speaker 1: one movement, if we handle something a little better, maybe
Speaker 1: we can get, if not significant, at least marginal improvements
Speaker 1: in these areas that can have a greater impact on
Speaker 1: the on the result of these games. On Sunday, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up here with coach Floress talking
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving says his favorite holiday. Gotta love him for that,
Speaker 1: but you also have to love this comment on the
Speaker 1: things that coaches thankful for this holiday season. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for health. I think the first thing that
Speaker 1: came to mind. I'm thankful for my wife puts up
Speaker 1: with my nonsense on a daily basis and handles our household.
Speaker 1: And here's a great mother to our kids and a
Speaker 1: great wife and great you know everything. So she's the
Speaker 1: first person that comes to mind. You know, my family.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful with the head coach of his team. I'm
Speaker 1: very blessed. My life could have gone a few different ways,
Speaker 1: and to be sitting in this position is I'm thankful
Speaker 1: for And how about the most important topic of the day,
Speaker 1: turkey or ham, or a turkey and ham family, so
Speaker 1: you'll see both on the table. Um, you know, my mom,
Speaker 1: this was her this was her holiday, so it's funny
Speaker 1: she actually had m I think Jenny stole a few
Speaker 1: of her recipes, so I still get a little taste
Speaker 1: of mom's cooking and Thanksgiving. So yeah, we're a turkey,
Speaker 1: ham stuffing, potatoes, greens. I mean there's a lot on
Speaker 1: the table. There's there's always too much. And so that's
Speaker 1: really a cool note. They're from Coach talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: his wife carrying on his mother's recipe so he can
Speaker 1: still have that taste of of back home and childhood,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what holidays and Thanksgiving are all about.
Speaker 1: And he talked about turkey and ham. There. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and drop my power rankings here for you
Speaker 1: guys on the best Thanksgiving dishes, And personally, I'm a
Speaker 1: turkey guy. I think the protein is the most important
Speaker 1: aspect because you've got to have protein at every single meal.
Speaker 1: But really there's only four dishes that actually matter on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and they are turkey. The ham is fine, but
Speaker 1: I think where the turkey really takes that's game to
Speaker 1: the next level is the mixture of turkey with the
Speaker 1: true champion of the entire meal, where the turkey really
Speaker 1: leaves the ham in the dust. It's the mashed tatoes
Speaker 1: and gravy, that combination of just kind of slathering it
Speaker 1: all together and eating it kind of like a KSC
Speaker 1: Famous Bowl like you're twelve years old. Again, that's my
Speaker 1: go to move. So turkey, mashed tatoes, and gravy and stuffing.
Speaker 1: You have to have stuffing, and I don't really care
Speaker 1: if it's stovetop or whatever. It's just good stuff regardless,
Speaker 1: and that goes into the mixed mash of the famous bowl.
Speaker 1: And then the fourth and final dish is the green
Speaker 1: being cast role. You can take everything else. Take your
Speaker 1: cranberry sauce, take your games, take your whatever. Also, please
Speaker 1: give me a dinner role. But those are the four
Speaker 1: things I need. Most importantly is the mashed tatoes and gravy,
Speaker 1: the turkey, stuffing, and the green being cast role. But
Speaker 1: most importantly it's the family of the football and the spirits.
Speaker 1: For me, my wife's family kind of adopted me as
Speaker 1: one of their own when we first met about five
Speaker 1: years ago, and that became a Thanksgiving Day tradition for
Speaker 1: us going over to her father's house. We would get
Speaker 1: the drinks going, get the food going, get the football
Speaker 1: on the television. That's the best part about having a
Speaker 1: wife with a father who loves football. Make sure you
Speaker 1: have that because then you can sit there and watch
Speaker 1: the games all day and not be preoccupied with parades
Speaker 1: or other nonsense that no one. No one wants to
Speaker 1: watch that stuff. Football is on the TV. That's the
Speaker 1: most important thing. But um, that tradition started about five
Speaker 1: years ago for us. Unfortunately, with the way the world
Speaker 1: is right now, it stops this year. Hopefully continue that
Speaker 1: in the future. But that's the best part about Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: spending time with the people you love and watching football.
Speaker 1: Speak of football, how about Dolphins and Jets on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and break down this game on the
Speaker 1: preview article up on Miami Dolphins dot com. And I
Speaker 1: know we have a six and four Dolphins team against
Speaker 1: o inten Jets team. Kickoff is at one o'clock. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: I'm so looking forward to a one o'clock kickoff again
Speaker 1: on Sunday, November twenty nine. That MetLife Stadium fifty degrees
Speaker 1: mostly sunny, chance of rain and seven mile an hour wins.
Speaker 1: And again, I know it's an O intent football team,
Speaker 1: but do you really need motivation to get up for
Speaker 1: Jets week? I certainly don't. Because the old adage in
Speaker 1: the NFL says that there are two outcomes to any game,
Speaker 1: winning and learning. And head coach Brian Flores is adamant
Speaker 1: that there was no such thing as a perfect game.
Speaker 1: So this team is always gonna be on the search,
Speaker 1: as you even heard him talk about in his press
Speaker 1: conference today, on the search for improvement in all areas
Speaker 1: of the game. And this is the first time in
Speaker 1: almost two months this Dolphins team has to go to
Speaker 1: the learning side of that adage. Again, they learned every week,
Speaker 1: but winning or learning, you come off your first loss
Speaker 1: in almost two months. I'm really curious see how this
Speaker 1: team responds to the game. And too, you know, a
Speaker 1: game they go into is as favorites as far as
Speaker 1: what the national media perspective is, and you know, all
Speaker 1: the talk about this team having a chance to get
Speaker 1: to nine and three. I want to see if maybe
Speaker 1: they can take some of that medicine and say, you know,
Speaker 1: we can't read the press clippings, we have to be
Speaker 1: a focus on every single day, and not to say
Speaker 1: that they're not that, but I am curious to see
Speaker 1: how they respond come out of the gates, keep playing
Speaker 1: well in the first part of games. In the first
Speaker 1: quarter in the first half, coach did say, hopefully we
Speaker 1: learned from that game. I think there are other plays
Speaker 1: throughout the game that we didn't make from drop balls
Speaker 1: a protection standpoint. Defensively in the running game, it looked
Speaker 1: like we came clean on a pump block and didn't
Speaker 1: make that one either. We've got to take advantage of
Speaker 1: our opportunities, so I want to see how they take
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunities. This game on Sunday presents them
Speaker 1: up in New York and the opportunity there to sweep
Speaker 1: a division rival. Things have not gone the way the
Speaker 1: Jets hope this season. Obviously, Oh and ten still in
Speaker 1: search of their first victory, but that doesn't mean they're
Speaker 1: breaft of talent on either side of the football. We
Speaker 1: saw how disruptive that defensive line can be. A few
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. They played well against my Amy
Speaker 1: in the second half of that game. They got after
Speaker 1: the Patriots a few weeks ago played well in that game,
Speaker 1: and last week against the Chargers, they were throwing into
Speaker 1: the end zone with a chance to tie the game
Speaker 1: after the two minute warning and had a chance to
Speaker 1: go win that football game too, So they're not far
Speaker 1: off from winning games. That's how this league goes. We
Speaker 1: heard Byron Jones on his Monday press conference talk about
Speaker 1: how down this stretch, this part of the season, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get tighter football games. You're not gonna have the
Speaker 1: benefit of jumping out to those early leads. You need
Speaker 1: to make sure you're playing silence, solid football every week,
Speaker 1: sixty minutes a week, and be ready for whatever the
Speaker 1: opposition is gonna throw you, whether they're trying to stay
Speaker 1: in the playoff race themselves or they're trying to spoil
Speaker 1: your playoff run. Things get tighter this time of year.
Speaker 1: And with that we go to our first matchup. Highlight
Speaker 1: of the week here and I just wrote down to
Speaker 1: beat the blitz on the article because Greg Williams, the
Speaker 1: Jets defensive coordinator, he loves to turn the heat up.
Speaker 1: He plays that single high look with everybody up on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, a safety about twenty yards off
Speaker 1: the ball. It's akin often to what Miami does with
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain playing that deep center field, They'll use that
Speaker 1: deep center and center fielder and Marcus Made to kind
Speaker 1: of patrol things back there. They send an extra rusher.
Speaker 1: They blitz at the tenth most frequent clip in the NFL,
Speaker 1: that's thirty point nine percent, and he'll draw up some
Speaker 1: some exotic things, whether it's mugging up the A gaps
Speaker 1: coming with cat blitz, double cat blitz. You have two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks coming off either edge. You watch the tape, they
Speaker 1: find different ways to generate pressure. Again, kind of like
Speaker 1: Miami does in terms of using different various looks and
Speaker 1: different fronts. Like Josh Bowyer talked about. Last year, they
Speaker 1: had the fourth highest clip of blitzing at thirty nine
Speaker 1: point two percent. So I'm sure there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of game plan strategy involved as far as how often
Speaker 1: they will send that blitz. But you know what's going
Speaker 1: to come. And the Dolphins counter to that is a
Speaker 1: quarterback who I've talked about all season long, all off
Speaker 1: season long, who excels against the blitz and two a
Speaker 1: tongue of Byloa. He has thrown four of his six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes against the blitz for a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred point six and an adjusted accuracy rating on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus that's on target footballs of sixty four
Speaker 1: point one percent. And also the best way to help
Speaker 1: fourth the blitz in addition to a quick release, a
Speaker 1: quick processor replacing the blitz with the football from the
Speaker 1: quarterback is blocking up the interior pass rush really helps
Speaker 1: give that quarterback that clean pocket in the front so
Speaker 1: he can pick and slide to his spots and and
Speaker 1: choose his his platform to get to to have a
Speaker 1: safe avenue to throw the football. This season, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: interior offensive line play with Eric Flowers and Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: not missing a snap at left garden center and then
Speaker 1: the right guard position of being a bit of a
Speaker 1: mixed match between Solomon Kindley and Jesse Davis. Those four
Speaker 1: guys at those positions have allowed just thirty four quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures and eleven quarterback hits this year on a combined
Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and thirty four pass blocking snap.
Speaker 1: So getting the interior blitz block of the Jets should
Speaker 1: give to a chance to excel in our second area
Speaker 1: of highlight here, let's get vertical and that talks about
Speaker 1: the offense and defense. The Dolphins have struggled to push
Speaker 1: the ball vertically in recent weeks. According to Sharp Football
Speaker 1: Stats Warren Sharp dost fantastic analytic stuff on sharp football
Speaker 1: dot com myame ranks and explosive passing offense. Those are
Speaker 1: twenty plus yard plays at a seven point one percent clip.
Speaker 1: The Jets rank in the same category, allowing nine point
Speaker 1: eight percent big plays on defense in the passing game
Speaker 1: tongue by lower back. In college, he was a downfield master,
Speaker 1: nineteen for thirty nine on throws twenty plus yards down
Speaker 1: the field, almost fifty on what traditionally is a low
Speaker 1: percentage throw, and he hit those for nine touchdowns and
Speaker 1: no picks. Well. As a member of the Dolphins. Here
Speaker 1: in the NFL, he's three of twelve on those deep throws.
Speaker 1: So I do expect that gap to be close here
Speaker 1: a little bit. Can it start this week? Hopefully? Per
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, four Jets cornerbacks have allowed better than
Speaker 1: fourteen yards per reception this season, so there's some opportunity
Speaker 1: to get deep on this defense. Again, we talked about
Speaker 1: the single high safety and everybody mugged up on the line.
Speaker 1: You get that thing block, you're gonna have one on
Speaker 1: one opportunities to whichever side the safety does not cheat.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be up to two to kind of
Speaker 1: hold that safety and to move him to the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the field and to create no help on
Speaker 1: guys like Davante Parker, maybe Mike get Sick or jackem
Speaker 1: whoever might be that wants to get vertical to us.
Speaker 1: Job is to move that safety and create that opportunity.
Speaker 1: And tied in Mike Kasicki, he's responsible for Miami's longest
Speaker 1: offensive play this season. That's seventy yard or back in
Speaker 1: Week five at San Francisco. But the next longest play
Speaker 1: for this Dolphins passing game among active players Preston Williams
Speaker 1: not counting because he does have a forty seven yard
Speaker 1: in a thirty two yard and a thirty five yard
Speaker 1: is a thirty yard completion to receiver Jakeem Grant. So
Speaker 1: I do expect this passing offense to get more vertical,
Speaker 1: to get better in that area. And because last season
Speaker 1: Davante Parker caught twenty passes of twenty or more yards
Speaker 1: through ten games, this year, he's only caught two of those,
Speaker 1: So there are areas for growth right there for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins deep passing offense. And the third and final note
Speaker 1: here is to make the Jets quarterback feel the heat.
Speaker 1: We kind of use this every single week, and there's
Speaker 1: a reason for it because the Dolphins defense has implemented
Speaker 1: the same recipe in the six victories this season. In
Speaker 1: six wins, one hundred and thirty three quarterback pressures per PFF.
Speaker 1: That's twenty two point two pressures per game compared to
Speaker 1: forty six pressures in the four losses, just eleven point five,
Speaker 1: almost half as many pressures in the losses, and that
Speaker 1: includes a season high twenty nine pressures in the Week
Speaker 1: six win over the Jets zip shutout that featured seven
Speaker 1: three and outs, a turnover, and three sacks, and quarterbacks
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco and Sam Donald both endure statistical drop offs
Speaker 1: when under durest this season. Flacco's passer rating under pressure
Speaker 1: is sixty three point five, while Donald's is sixty point one.
Speaker 1: We'll find out which quarterback plays here shortly this week,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. And in the Weeks six shutout of the
Speaker 1: Jets defensive end, Emmanuel Ogball collected a career high ten
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures and brought Flacco down for a pair of sacks.
Speaker 1: Fellow defensive ends Shack Lawson also had four quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: in that game, so a lot of pressures fourteen from
Speaker 1: your two main defensive ends in that game. If those
Speaker 1: guys can do that again, the Dolphins should have a
Speaker 1: good chance to put the Jets offense on ice, put
Speaker 1: the clamps on them and hold them to a low
Speaker 1: point total once again, and hopefully that helps them get
Speaker 1: back to the victory circle. The Jets scheme offensively, they
Speaker 1: ranked thirty second, scoring at fourteen point nine points per game,
Speaker 1: total yards at two sixty eight point six per game,
Speaker 1: and passing at one seventy point one seventy per game.
Speaker 1: There nine point six rushing yards per game is twenty
Speaker 1: six in the NFL. And under Adam Gates, we know
Speaker 1: about this. They love to run the eleven personnel package
Speaker 1: one or one running back, one tight end, three receivers.
Speaker 1: They've called that seventy five point three percent of their
Speaker 1: offensive snaps this year, and only one other personnel grouping
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, which is one back, two tight ends, two receivers.
Speaker 1: Only one other grouping has been called more than ten times.
Speaker 1: They've run twelve personnel ninety times, so you're gonna get
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, you're gonna get twelve personnel. That's basically the
Speaker 1: gist of the offense. And traditionally, eleven personnel is matched
Speaker 1: up by what your nickel defense, right five defensive backs,
Speaker 1: whether it's three corners and two safeties, or we've talked
Speaker 1: about this before, Miami with a big nickel package going
Speaker 1: to cornerbacks with X and Byron Jones, and you bring
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones onto the field and he works in that box.
Speaker 1: We heard Gerald Alexander on the Tuesday podcast talk a
Speaker 1: lot about his place, speed, his trigger, his his preparation
Speaker 1: and putting it on the field. I love watching that
Speaker 1: guy play, between both he and ray Kwon Davis Man.
Speaker 1: I think you've got some big hits there in the
Speaker 1: draft in a second and third round at defensive tackle
Speaker 1: and safety. But we're getting off track here. Traditionally eleven
Speaker 1: personnel is matched by the nickel defense. But the Dolphins
Speaker 1: multiplicity tends to throw a curveball into the equation. As
Speaker 1: Josh Bowyer said on Tuesday, we do numerous different things.
Speaker 1: Were very multiple with our fronts and as far as
Speaker 1: the Jets defense go The aforementioned Tounguel by Lois stats
Speaker 1: against the Blitz are very applicable against Greg Williams with
Speaker 1: the tenth highest pressure rate or Blitz rate I should say,
Speaker 1: at thirty point nine percent, but their pressure rate has
Speaker 1: been thirty second this year at fifteen point one percent,
Speaker 1: and few teams battened down the hatches and the red
Speaker 1: zone like the Jets. They're fifty two point two percent
Speaker 1: red zone touchdowns allowed, rate is fourth best in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. On the whole, the Jets defense is
Speaker 1: allowing thirty point two points per game, that's thirty one
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They ran and total defense allowing four
Speaker 1: yards per game in passing and eleven in rush defense.
Speaker 1: New York lines up in nickel defense five defensive backs
Speaker 1: eight percent of the time. That's the second highest rate
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. We talked about this off
Speaker 1: the top. The Dolphins have a chance to cut the
Speaker 1: Jets all time series lead to one. They currently leave
Speaker 1: fifty five to fifty three, with one tie in there
Speaker 1: as well. The Dolphins do have the loan post season
Speaker 1: victory over the New York Jets, and Tango Bloa is
Speaker 1: one of three rookie quarterbacks in the Super Bowl Era
Speaker 1: to not throw an interception in his first four career starts.
Speaker 1: He joins Gardner, Minshew Gokugs, and Dak Prescott in that category,
Speaker 1: and in his last twenty games. Since Week seven of
Speaker 1: last season, Davante Parker is seventh in the NFL with
Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred and thirty five receiving yards over
Speaker 1: that span. His ten receiving touchdowns since then are tied
Speaker 1: for tenth in the NFL. And he has a way
Speaker 1: of making big plays against this Jets team. Caught a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns against them last season, makes some big
Speaker 1: plays down the football field. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: some opportunities on those deep shots from too in this game,
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to connect on one or
Speaker 1: two of those deep shots. Kasiki ranks eighth among NFL
Speaker 1: tight ends with four hundred and fourteen receiving yards. His
Speaker 1: fourteen point eight yards per reception is the highest among
Speaker 1: all NFL tight ends minimum fIF team receptions, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense has a habit of limiting opposing offenses to
Speaker 1: some of the worst statistical days of the season. Miami
Speaker 1: held the Chargers to just two hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: net yards in week ten. They forced four turnovers against
Speaker 1: the Rams in Week eight and held the forty niners
Speaker 1: to one and twenty eight net passing yards in week five.
Speaker 1: So the consistent theme there. I hope. I think this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team can get back on track this week against
Speaker 1: the Jets on the road, get a big victory on
Speaker 1: the road, come back home for a three game homestand
Speaker 1: in December, would be a nice run there to head
Speaker 1: into that stretch. At seven and four. All right, there's
Speaker 1: your Dolphins and Jets preview. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up this podcast with some player media availability from Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with quarterback to a tongue
Speaker 1: of by Low, who first was asked about adjusting two
Speaker 1: different receiver types that he has here in Miami. Obviously,
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker is six ft three, Jachem Grant is five
Speaker 1: ft seven, some speed variants there to talks about the
Speaker 1: difference and the receiver types and how to adjust to that,
Speaker 1: and he starts the question or the answer rather by
Speaker 1: repeating the question, how do you make those adjustments? Exactly
Speaker 1: what you said at the end. I think that's what
Speaker 1: it is, It's all about adjusting. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: have we have a fast guy. I think all our
Speaker 1: guys are fast. Um. The thing is, you know, we
Speaker 1: we really have one really really fast guy that's Jaquem
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I think for for me, it's
Speaker 1: just finding who I'm throwing to, knowing the timing with
Speaker 1: those guys, understanding who's running that route, um, and things
Speaker 1: like that. So it's it's really just all about adjusting.
Speaker 1: So um, now that's why we have practice and I
Speaker 1: got to continue to be better on giving these guys
Speaker 1: opportunities to have good run after catches up. Next two
Speaker 1: was asked to reflect upon his initial meeting with Brian
Speaker 1: Flores back when the two first met and too now
Speaker 1: and how that relationship has evolved, and to kind of
Speaker 1: break down who Brian Flores is as a coach and
Speaker 1: as a person around the building every single day with
Speaker 1: his players. Yeah, coach fall Is is a very passionate
Speaker 1: He's very passionate as a coach. UM's and he's very disciplined.
Speaker 1: Um as a person. You know, if the things he does, um,
Speaker 1: I mean I would say as a team, you know,
Speaker 1: the more success we have, you know, the in a
Speaker 1: way the guys start to kind of lay back a little.
Speaker 1: But um, you know that has never been the case
Speaker 1: while I've been here with Flow. You know, we never
Speaker 1: change anything, um. And the recipe to success is how
Speaker 1: we go out and practice every day. And I mean
Speaker 1: it's really with his philosophy is you gotta work hard,
Speaker 1: you know, to to go out and you know, be successful.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and finish up here with the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: quarterback with the question I had for two uh about
Speaker 1: the advantage of having a tape against the Jets already
Speaker 1: in their back pocket, with Ryan Fitzpatrick there to walk
Speaker 1: him through the place he saw the defense he saw too,
Speaker 1: has a great answer here about taking ownership for himself
Speaker 1: and getting a film and getting the lessons applied himself.
Speaker 1: Here's to Uh. I would say it helps tremendously. It's
Speaker 1: has been out there and he's seen this defense. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's played against them. I've only had
Speaker 1: about like three snaps um against them the last game
Speaker 1: we played. And you know, just hearing his thoughts on
Speaker 1: where he would go with the ball, um, how to
Speaker 1: manipulate guys in the back end. And you know, also
Speaker 1: what where we want to attack these guys. UM. But
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, a big deal with with
Speaker 1: this too is I have to take ownership on, you know,
Speaker 1: being disciplined with seeing things for myself. As far as
Speaker 1: the film um looks that they give and whatnot, Um,
Speaker 1: And to me, it goes back to discipline kind of
Speaker 1: like with what you know, with what coach Saban actually said,
Speaker 1: you either self suffer from the pain of discipline or
Speaker 1: you suffer from the pain of defeat. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and move from the offense over to a defensive captain
Speaker 1: and safety Bobby McCain, who first was asked about the
Speaker 1: way coach Flora's is after a victory after a defeat
Speaker 1: and how tough he is on the team after either
Speaker 1: of those two things. He's tough on quote, even when
Speaker 1: you win football games, you still have to make corrections
Speaker 1: and you still don't even no one plays a perfect game,
Speaker 1: so you still have to you know, he still coaches
Speaker 1: either through wins and laws. We'll go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up here with Bobby with a question about what is
Speaker 1: it that makes coach Flora's unique in the way he's
Speaker 1: been coaching the past and now in the NFL here's
Speaker 1: Bobby on his head. Coach just you know, he demands,
Speaker 1: he demands what he asked for and as a defense,
Speaker 1: as a team, offensively spencer teams. While we all understand
Speaker 1: you have to be hard, smart and tough to play
Speaker 1: on this team, and you know play, you know, to
Speaker 1: do the things he asked. I mean, he's he's a
Speaker 1: unique coach in a way that he can get the
Speaker 1: best out of his players. And you know, he's a
Speaker 1: great teacher, a great coach, and um, you know, we um,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to just be the best week can
Speaker 1: each and every week for him and us. And that's
Speaker 1: the one thing you pretty much always hear when the
Speaker 1: players or people in the media or people that know
Speaker 1: coach Flora's talk about him, that he's demanding. He's the
Speaker 1: same guy every day. And so the consistency of Flora's
Speaker 1: the answer regarding coach Flooras is always consistent. I find
Speaker 1: that to be pretty intriguing. Alright, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: button up this podcast here, short and sweet on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: have a happy Thanksgiving tomorrow, everybody, we're gonna have the
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkle feature. That interview is in the books.
Speaker 1: He's a fun guy to talk to. You got to
Speaker 1: let the hair down a little bit in this podcast,
Speaker 1: so don't forget to check that out on Thursday. We
Speaker 1: also have the Flashback on Friday with Dick Anderson talking
Speaker 1: about the Jets Dolphins rivalry in the seventies as well
Speaker 1: as the late great Jake Scott on the podcast here.
Speaker 1: As for today's time, that's gonna be my time. You all,
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