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Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it is time for
Speaker 1: a game preview coming your way on a Friday. We'll
Speaker 1: dive in to the key matchups for this primetime showdown
Speaker 1: at so FI Stadium between the Los Angeles Chargers and
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. Dolphins and Chargers positioned by position, the film,
Speaker 1: the stats, what's at stake, three keys, and the week
Speaker 1: fourteen NFL picks. All of that and a heck of
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Speaker 1: had our baby boy on Tuesday, and again, I we
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Speaker 1: and my family. So thank you all very much for that,
Speaker 1: and we will have a new outro for you guys
Speaker 1: on the podcast going forward. It is Chargers week, and
Speaker 1: I've had myself an interesting relationship with the Sandy Yeah
Speaker 1: you go, Super Charger in my football fandom life because
Speaker 1: I don't have a second team and I don't believe
Speaker 1: in the fundamentals of a second team, Like, how is
Speaker 1: that even possible? When I like incorporated the Heat into
Speaker 1: my life. It took like fifteen years for me to
Speaker 1: be a real, like passionate Heat fan that cares about
Speaker 1: the outcome of games. I don't know how you adopt
Speaker 1: a second team and have the same level of love
Speaker 1: for that team. Now that said, I usually adopt a
Speaker 1: team each season, So it's not like I'm die hard
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings until I die. It's each year based upon
Speaker 1: their personnel, the coaches, whatever the case may be, that
Speaker 1: makes that particular team interesting. It's my bandwagon team, and
Speaker 1: the Chargers lead the other thirty one teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And that distinction from myself, I was actually a full
Speaker 1: blown Chargers fan back in two thousand and seven. Unique
Speaker 1: circumstances with a one and fifteen Dolphins team that couldn't
Speaker 1: compete with anybody that year. Plus you never met a
Speaker 1: bigger Chris Chambers fan than me, And let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and open the kimono. Cried a little bit when he
Speaker 1: got traded. That was my favorite player of that era.
Speaker 1: He was a lot of fun to watch. And then
Speaker 1: watching him catch clutch posts and touchdowns that year, especially
Speaker 1: against the Colts team that I've never liked. A a
Speaker 1: f C East in me goes beyond two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and so the Colts to me are like the Jets, Bills,
Speaker 1: and Patriots, and watching him catch big touchdowns in that
Speaker 1: divisional round playoff win that year was awesome. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned the Vikings earlier. They were another team, the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: At various points when Kyler Marie got drafted. I was
Speaker 1: very much in the pro Kyler Murray camp against people
Speaker 1: that were certain that he couldn't play or we get
Speaker 1: squashed like a bug was my favorite one that I
Speaker 1: always saw. Anyway, you get the idea. It's typically a
Speaker 1: strong correlation to my favorite D draft prospects and my
Speaker 1: second team. And those that know me know that one
Speaker 1: of my favorite all time prospects was Derwin James. I
Speaker 1: was also a huge Darren Sprawls guy. I thought that
Speaker 1: old odd front they ran for seemingly ten years with
Speaker 1: Igor Olshansky, Luis Castillo and Jamal Williams was the coolest
Speaker 1: because those guys were there again for like a decade.
Speaker 1: It seemed like I was probably five years who didn't
Speaker 1: love Danian Thomas, who didn't love Antonio Gates. I was
Speaker 1: a big Antonio Carmarti fan. I was a big Ryan
Speaker 1: Matthews fan the year we traded back with them to
Speaker 1: draft Jared Addrick and co Omici for Ryan Matthews, which
Speaker 1: should have been Earl Thomas for us, But I digress.
Speaker 1: I love me some Phil Rivers too. I know most
Speaker 1: people didn't, but I loved Phil Rivers, and much like
Speaker 1: a lot of football enthusiasts who do preseason predictions, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times I put that Chargers
Speaker 1: team all the way to represent the a f C
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, like every year up until like
Speaker 1: three or four years ago. It seems and times have
Speaker 1: changed since then. I still quite fancy the collection of
Speaker 1: talent they have. I think they have some of the
Speaker 1: coolest uniforms in football, and one thing hasn't changed. They
Speaker 1: seem to be among the most snake bitten franchises in
Speaker 1: all of sports. Injuries, crazy sequences they only seem to
Speaker 1: happen in Charger games. Chip shot field goals gone awry,
Speaker 1: sixty five yard field goals against them that split the uprights.
Speaker 1: It just seems like every year they're just one game away,
Speaker 1: with like four games to have some weird happenstance that
Speaker 1: would have been the difference how they won just one
Speaker 1: of them. Just go back to last year, the final
Speaker 1: game of the season, the Raiders are content to take
Speaker 1: a knee and take a tie and send that Week
Speaker 1: eight team game into a even draw that would put
Speaker 1: both teams in the postseason. Then the Chargers call in
Speaker 1: really an ill advised time out, and the Raiders say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get a first down here, and
Speaker 1: they do, and they kick a game winning field goal
Speaker 1: and knocks the Charges out of the playoffs for the
Speaker 1: third straight year. They were a playoff team last in
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, and they won a very fun wild
Speaker 1: card round game over rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson, but since
Speaker 1: then lots of turnover, keyed by their quarterbacks election of
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert number six overall. The aforementioned Derwin James is
Speaker 1: the catalyst for that defense. He was actually named All
Speaker 1: Pro at two different positions as a rookie in team
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa was a home run pick for them. He
Speaker 1: won't play on Sunday. They've also got another All Pro
Speaker 1: and Rashaan Slater, second year offensive tackle who also was
Speaker 1: out for the season, but as a rookie and All Pro.
Speaker 1: You get the picture there, right, Tom till Skill has
Speaker 1: drafted well. They also landed the superb Assante Samuel in
Speaker 1: the second round that same year. They've signed big names
Speaker 1: and traded for big names like Khalil McCoury, Lensley, J C. Jackson,
Speaker 1: They've made savvy moves, getting proven veterans like Kyle van Noy.
Speaker 1: They've utilized undrafted free agency to land, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best dual purpose back in football back in seventeen
Speaker 1: and Austin Ekeler. It's a talented team, a team that's
Speaker 1: going to force you to defend every blade of grass.
Speaker 1: A team that will, with as much top of the
Speaker 1: line talent, compete with you as anybody in the league.
Speaker 1: A team that plays the game by the numbers and
Speaker 1: will make you get stops on all four downs. With
Speaker 1: Brandon Stately at the controls there, although he's backed off
Speaker 1: that a little bit. What she would go back to
Speaker 1: the one Brandon Staley. Now you've gotten to known the Chargers,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and see how they match up with
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. Dolphins quarterback versus the Charger safeties and
Speaker 1: of course that includes Miami's offense and San Diegoes. Whoa
Speaker 1: there it is put a dollar in the jar Los
Speaker 1: Angeles defense. Mike McDaniel offense first, a Brandon Staley led defense.
Speaker 1: A fun matchup. It to me is the opposite of
Speaker 1: last week. Last week it was strength on strength, similar
Speaker 1: styles designed to excel in the same areas of the game.
Speaker 1: This one is the converse and that the Chargers play
Speaker 1: a completely different style of football. They feature the seventh
Speaker 1: highest blitz rate in the NFL. It's just under thirty
Speaker 1: blitz right. In fact, they are one tenth of a
Speaker 1: percentage point ahead of Miami and blitz frequency. They get
Speaker 1: to this with that five man front and typically bring
Speaker 1: both edges. Van Noy and mac are the two you
Speaker 1: have to contend with out there. But their seven team
Speaker 1: point three percent pressure rate is twenty eight And if
Speaker 1: you listen to the podcast every week, you know we
Speaker 1: usually have played teams where their pressure rate is better
Speaker 1: than their blitz rate, which is tough to contend with.
Speaker 1: And that rate there is the rub boys and girls.
Speaker 1: They just haven't had the personnel to execute this vic
Speaker 1: Fangio style defense they run. It requires a dominant front
Speaker 1: to maintain their gap control like Olshansky, Williams and kiss
Speaker 1: Deal would have done back in the day, hold blocks
Speaker 1: and make plays at the line. They're not getting that.
Speaker 1: They'll mix in blitzes from the back end, but that's
Speaker 1: not been effective enough either. They're going to zone you
Speaker 1: and they're gonna blitz you, those are two principles they
Speaker 1: live by. This is why I think we see a
Speaker 1: Yack explosion this week. I think there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: vacancies and the short to intermediate. I think they'll pull
Speaker 1: down their best tackler out of the equation frequently and
Speaker 1: Derwin James and I think to a tunguele By Lowa's
Speaker 1: ability to see things quickly will allow us to get
Speaker 1: the ball out, negate that rush and punish them for
Speaker 1: sacrificing guys off that back end. We've seen the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have success against both the blitz and zone this season. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how the Chargers might adjust for that.
Speaker 1: Do you want to play man? Probably not. They run
Speaker 1: a pretty distinct defense, so I'm not sure you'd see
Speaker 1: a major overhaul in terms of adjustments. Probably just tweaks
Speaker 1: to contend with what Miami has to offer, which is
Speaker 1: a lot. It's a defense that plays a majority too
Speaker 1: high and relies upon an odd front with those two
Speaker 1: overhang backers, essentially a five one front, sometimes five too
Speaker 1: depending on how their secondary personnel matches up. So they
Speaker 1: will start in too high and rotate to some single
Speaker 1: high looks. Some thoughts on those facts. It's a defense
Speaker 1: that invites the run with a light box, then sneaks
Speaker 1: that rat down the hole. But they are incredibly thin upfront,
Speaker 1: man like, they've been decimated by injuries up front. And
Speaker 1: you can also negate that edge rush with a successful
Speaker 1: outside run game, which teams have done to them all
Speaker 1: year long. They want to disguise you, but who has
Speaker 1: been better at deciphering disguise than our quarterback this year?
Speaker 1: Finding those soft spots quickly are key. This game is
Speaker 1: the opposite of last week, and that the Niners defended
Speaker 1: that intermediate middle portion better than anybody since Fred warner arrival.
Speaker 1: Only four teams have allowed more fifteen yard or more
Speaker 1: pass plays this season than the Chargers, where Miami LEAs
Speaker 1: a league was seventy five such throws in that area.
Speaker 1: Actually it's more now, right, No, it's seventy five. Maybe
Speaker 1: mine can get back on track there. As far as
Speaker 1: their pre snap alignments, single highest thirty four percent, too
Speaker 1: highest sixty percent, they've played zero six percent this year
Speaker 1: and they operate out of twenty six percent three four defense,
Speaker 1: which you know they'll take a lot of linebackers off
Speaker 1: the field, a lot of times, sixty percent nickel defense
Speaker 1: and ten percent dime which there is your rub to
Speaker 1: the additional three four looks at turner to three three
Speaker 1: two looks with extra dbs in the field. If the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can get the running game going and find that balance,
Speaker 1: that would be a massive boon this week because the
Speaker 1: Chargers run defense has not been good. They're allowing a
Speaker 1: league high five point four yards per rush and the
Speaker 1: fifth most overall rushing yards in the NFL. They are
Speaker 1: banged up on the defensive line. Teams have found a
Speaker 1: lot of success running the football in the second half
Speaker 1: as the game wears on. In fact, only Houston has
Speaker 1: allowed more second half rushing yards then this Chargers team.
Speaker 1: As for the positional matchup, we talked about two of
Speaker 1: taking those quick hitters against zones, taking advantage of clean pockets,
Speaker 1: and getting back to more explosive play style of offense.
Speaker 1: They want to dial up the blitz. Few teams have
Speaker 1: done that against Miami because one too is very good
Speaker 1: against the blitz, and two, blitzing means fewer people to
Speaker 1: run with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle common sense right,
Speaker 1: an interesting matchup and that if they stay true to
Speaker 1: that Miami must be sharp to make them pay or
Speaker 1: do they adapt a little bit to contend with this
Speaker 1: high powered offense. The key to it all to me
Speaker 1: is Derwin James. You gotta find number three out there
Speaker 1: in that defense of backfield or linebacker position. Really, he'll rush,
Speaker 1: he'll cover, he'll defend the run at the safety's position.
Speaker 1: This year, James has eight pressures on twenty seven blitz
Speaker 1: is so when he comes, he's effective and he's got
Speaker 1: He's been a part of four sacks. I don't know
Speaker 1: the exact sac total there, I didn't look it up,
Speaker 1: but on PFF he's been a part of four sacks,
Speaker 1: twenty six run stops for forty three are opposing teams
Speaker 1: passing against him for two and fourteen yards, so it's
Speaker 1: only like five yards per pop. One touchdown and one pick.
Speaker 1: Nasir Adder only another guy that I love coming out
Speaker 1: of the draft. Nine of fourteen are opponents passing against
Speaker 1: him for one nineteen a touchdown in a pick. He
Speaker 1: is the center fielder. He has not blitzed, and he
Speaker 1: has like eight run stops this year. He's always in
Speaker 1: the post, and then Derwin kind of dictates what type
Speaker 1: of shell they'll play. This is another reason why I
Speaker 1: think this defense has so many issues. They just can't
Speaker 1: disguise a lot of what they do because three takes
Speaker 1: you to the football. He takes you to the defense.
Speaker 1: It's not the interchangeable safety group we talked about last week,
Speaker 1: or what the New York Jets have or what the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills have. It's concrete and what they can do.
Speaker 1: And they will also bring a oh he Gilman is
Speaker 1: a third safety. He's got about two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: snaps this year. Former Golden domer who Kyle Crabs told
Speaker 1: me he was a big fan of his. A dolph
Speaker 1: a fit in this Dolphins defense. So kind of a
Speaker 1: similar look there in that sub package, big nickel look.
Speaker 1: He's strictly in the deep area of the field though,
Speaker 1: no pass rush reps, just a handful of run defense
Speaker 1: and in coverage six for seven, one forty seven a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a pick. Let's get to the guys too.
Speaker 1: What will be throwing too in this game? Wide receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends versus corners, a lot of milestone opportunities.
Speaker 1: This week two was just one d forty one yards
Speaker 1: away from three K on the season. Tyreek Hills eleven
Speaker 1: yards from breaking the singles he's in franchise records by
Speaker 1: Mark Dooper back and Waddle is twenty eight yards away
Speaker 1: from becoming the first Miami Dolphin with back to back
Speaker 1: one thousand yard receiving seasons. How crazy is that to say?
Speaker 1: The Chargers completed their secondary this off season with the J. C.
Speaker 1: Jackson signing, but he has since been lost for the season.
Speaker 1: They still have a strong compliment of corners though, starting
Speaker 1: with Asante Samuel Jr. He and Michael Davis don't leave
Speaker 1: the field, and Bryce Callahan plays about half the snap
Speaker 1: apps he's the nickel obviously, and some dime defense they
Speaker 1: do run some big nickel, so there's a lot of
Speaker 1: disparity there with those numbers. Samuel is an instinctive, reactionary
Speaker 1: corner who is adept at the style of defense, just
Speaker 1: like his pops from the Patriots back in the day.
Speaker 1: He can key against the quarterback and anticipate plays as
Speaker 1: they happen. It's a fun match up there with our
Speaker 1: wide receivers because to and because of how he excels
Speaker 1: in that same vein. It has been a rough year
Speaker 1: for Samuel Jr. Though This year forty of seventy a
Speaker 1: are teams throwing against him. That's actually a pretty good
Speaker 1: completion percentage, but six hundred and fifteen yards, six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in one pick. He's a quick twitch player out of
Speaker 1: four or four one and measure well and all the
Speaker 1: explosive testing metrics, albeit a three cone time in the
Speaker 1: fifties seven percentile, So not really the short area change
Speaker 1: of direction guy. You might think he can't play inside outside,
Speaker 1: but this defense asked so much of their corners, kind
Speaker 1: of like you see with the Denver Broncos, you know
Speaker 1: with passer Tan the second last year, like the way
Speaker 1: he came on as a rookie and playing that defense
Speaker 1: was so surprising. Similar with Houston Texans, like a lot
Speaker 1: of these Tampa two or Cover two type of defenses,
Speaker 1: there's just so much on the plate in terms of
Speaker 1: reading that curl flat that's seven route behind you, the
Speaker 1: you know tie down coming across, and split flow running backs.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot to keep your eyes active. And
Speaker 1: if that's the case against this offense, with with what
Speaker 1: it's designed to do, by creating certain levels of spacing
Speaker 1: and trench in the defense both vertically and horizontally, any
Speaker 1: bit of second guessing is going to be an issue,
Speaker 1: and that's we saw it work really in large part
Speaker 1: against the forty nis defense, it's probably the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL. We just you know, the quarterback didn't play
Speaker 1: his best game of the year, and he usually does
Speaker 1: play that well, so that's not a concern at all,
Speaker 1: but against this particular defense, to me, it's a good
Speaker 1: get right opportunity because a lot of thinking and processing
Speaker 1: is not a winning formula against these Dolphins wide receivers. Also,
Speaker 1: Michael Davis sixty eight yards and a touchdown allowed. He
Speaker 1: had a fun matchup with Davante Adams last week. He
Speaker 1: does a good job of limiting completions and that really
Speaker 1: popped off the tape when watching him. He just compete
Speaker 1: at every state step of the route. His relative athletics
Speaker 1: scorecard coming out of college was just five seven six,
Speaker 1: just a seven point three three cone and that does
Speaker 1: not bode well against really anybody in this Dolphin's offense.
Speaker 1: He had better success against bigger body guys and not
Speaker 1: as much against the speedy and shift you guys. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: running good routes like Tygreek and Jalen Do makes it
Speaker 1: tough on a player with this physical skill set. He
Speaker 1: did run a four four, but his Verton Broad's measured
Speaker 1: well below the league average. In fact, the vert was
Speaker 1: in the two percent tile two percentile across all players
Speaker 1: measure going back to the nineteen eighties. He also measured
Speaker 1: in just the twenty seven percent tile intense splits. So
Speaker 1: how you get off the football? And this is why
Speaker 1: I think if they play any man coverage, this is
Speaker 1: the way to attack if you can get him isolated
Speaker 1: on the boundary or condensed. Watch out just the Detroit
Speaker 1: game for Jalen Waddle from that slot fade touchdown. He
Speaker 1: scored Bryce Callahan's opposite smaller corner five nine five pounds.
Speaker 1: He is super nimble. They really have a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything in this corner room, which makes for an
Speaker 1: intriguing matchup style. Right. His numbers are thirty one, forty
Speaker 1: eight yards, three touchdowns and three picks. I one if
Speaker 1: this is a chance for maybe Cedric Wilson to get
Speaker 1: some opportunities outside because he's a bigger slot and could
Speaker 1: potentially take advantage of some one on one downfoad openings
Speaker 1: if he gets manned up against a smaller cornerback or
Speaker 1: Mike Gasecki. However, with how much zone they run here,
Speaker 1: it's probably more likely the guy we've been seeing all year,
Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield, doing what he does best and finding sauce
Speaker 1: spots in the zones and making every catch you can
Speaker 1: possibly make. Tackling has not been a strong suit either,
Speaker 1: which is why I think Yak is going to come
Speaker 1: into play in this game from Miami. You guys know
Speaker 1: how I look at this each week. I always like
Speaker 1: our guys. It's been a struggle for the Chargers, and
Speaker 1: a big part of that is the pass rush has
Speaker 1: not been getting home nearly enough, especially on their butts packages.
Speaker 1: Of course, not having Joey Bosa hurts a lot. Now.
Speaker 1: That said, the only team that eclipse three yards against
Speaker 1: them passing was the Kansas City Chiefs, and that's obviously
Speaker 1: aided by allowing three teams to go over two hundred
Speaker 1: yards on the ground and eight of the twelve opponents
Speaker 1: to go over one fifty on the ground. It could
Speaker 1: be like the Houston game, though, where you expect a
Speaker 1: big rushing output against a bad run defense, but because
Speaker 1: they're committed stopping that, you get more on the back end.
Speaker 1: We'll see on the offensive line versus defensive line. No Bosa,
Speaker 1: no Christian Covington, no Antonio Johnson, no Merril Agbania. Five
Speaker 1: good defensive lineman on the I on the injury reserve. Currently,
Speaker 1: it's a front that runs a lot of rush games
Speaker 1: and tries to manufacture pressure through the system. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that thought was scaling that back a little bit when
Speaker 1: they landed Khalil Mack. But of course without Bosa, you're
Speaker 1: a little more limited on your four man rush options,
Speaker 1: and the games just haven't really stuck, like they're not
Speaker 1: hitting with you know, a rotating group of players because
Speaker 1: of the injuries. So that's kind of benefit for a
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line. They're twenty nine against the run, seventh
Speaker 1: against the past, the two things that really work together.
Speaker 1: Let's look at some numbers here, starting with the three
Speaker 1: primary edge defenders. Khalil Mack is around a n snaptaker,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy's not far off that, and Morgan Fox
Speaker 1: has been a great addition for that team, playing around
Speaker 1: three four, So the team snaps pressures and run stops
Speaker 1: for those guys. Mac thirty seven and twenty one. He's
Speaker 1: their best player there. Van Noy sixteen and thirteen and
Speaker 1: then the Morgan box again very good values signing twenty
Speaker 1: nine pressures and thirteen run stops. If Mac is against
Speaker 1: Torn Armstead, that's as good as it gets. Good on good.
Speaker 1: They move those guys around a lot, and Morgan Fox
Speaker 1: is Honestly, it's sort of the catalysts and how he
Speaker 1: plays his size and ability to move people really just
Speaker 1: with his bul rushing and physical prowess helps the rush games,
Speaker 1: and by his pressure numbers you can see that he's
Speaker 1: having success in that department as well. We've got to deal.
Speaker 1: We've got to be able to deal with Kyle van
Speaker 1: Noy one on one. His past rush tank isn't what
Speaker 1: it used to be, and you can get him in
Speaker 1: coverage as well. He's a gotta target in this game.
Speaker 1: As much as I love Van Noy's game for a
Speaker 1: long time, it's been a bit of a step back
Speaker 1: this season here with the Chargers inside, Sebastian Joseph Day
Speaker 1: is the key. He plays about sevent of the snaps
Speaker 1: and with how wide their splits are between nose and
Speaker 1: like a frequently used four technique where you kind of
Speaker 1: have two gaps in there and linebackers have to come
Speaker 1: down and feel that unstacked that he has a ton
Speaker 1: of responsibility in the middle of that defense. As far
Speaker 1: as the defensive tackles, pressures and run stop numbers, Joseph
Speaker 1: Dave four team pressures, twenty two run stops, so not
Speaker 1: much interior pressure. And then the next two guys they
Speaker 1: have available Bride and Fijoko and Tyler Davidson one pressure
Speaker 1: and six run stops and zero and zero for Davison.
Speaker 1: Those numbers in the last two guys are more of
Speaker 1: us sometom They haven't played a lot of football obviously,
Speaker 1: which goes back to our original point about how banged
Speaker 1: up they are here. I never want to say this
Speaker 1: with conviction because we have one of the most prolific
Speaker 1: passing games in the league, but you have to imagine
Speaker 1: there's a concerned effort to get the run game going
Speaker 1: here this week. Because of that, I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: the style of matchup two. Is they have those bigger
Speaker 1: gaps inside they can fill and without the one gap
Speaker 1: style we saw last week, our guys should have a
Speaker 1: little more space to fire off the ball and climb
Speaker 1: to the second level on those chargers linebackers. The way
Speaker 1: they've done successfully in weeks prior, and it's been tough
Speaker 1: getting off blocks for those charges linebackers. Apologies to be
Speaker 1: here the kid running around starch right now. I don't
Speaker 1: have anybody to watch her, so to to to kid
Speaker 1: dad life, man, that's what we're doing. Go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here. Before our first break with running backs
Speaker 1: and linebackers, we mentioned the responsibility of the nose tackle.
Speaker 1: That primary linebacker Kenneth Murray has a ton on his
Speaker 1: plate as well, and he's super ath out of Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: one of the best athletes at the position. But man,
Speaker 1: it kind of reminds me of Patrick Queen, where if
Speaker 1: you can give them the cheese, that will work pretty well.
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate that not every linebacker crew can
Speaker 1: play as disciplined and disrupt as many plays as the
Speaker 1: Niners did with Warner in Green Law. Granted to it
Speaker 1: has to play better and had he we win that game.
Speaker 1: But this is a great get right spot right here.
Speaker 1: Murray twenty one run stops twenty nine for thirty four
Speaker 1: our teams targeting him for two yards a touchdown in
Speaker 1: a pick and then Drew tran Quill thirty seven run stops,
Speaker 1: thirty two for thirty eight two D and sixty eight
Speaker 1: yards allowed with a touchdown on a pick for most
Speaker 1: start Wilson in the backs. If they can get into
Speaker 1: some of those matchups in coverage paired with a strong
Speaker 1: running game, man, it could be a running back type
Speaker 1: of day from Miami, especially in the second half of
Speaker 1: this game, and especially if the Dolphins can pick up
Speaker 1: the many blitzes and games without the use of a
Speaker 1: back who can sneak into the backfield. I should say
Speaker 1: sneak out of the backfield. Teams have had success in
Speaker 1: the screen game against those Chargers defense as well. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our first break right there as
Speaker 1: the zoo was in full effect here, We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and come back on the other side and do the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense versus the Chargers offense. That's next Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 1: Friday here on the Drivetime Podcast. This week has flown
Speaker 1: by because I've been in the hospital all week. Man,
Speaker 1: Why do I tell you They're gonna discharge you at
Speaker 1: nine am and they make you sit there until three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon. I wrote this entire script in
Speaker 1: the hospital not really stoked about that, but here we are.
Speaker 1: And then also, why do they have fourteen different employees
Speaker 1: that come in and tell you, I am the hospital
Speaker 1: patient liaison. Just want to see how you guys are doing?
Speaker 1: What we were doing good before you came in here
Speaker 1: and woke us up again for the fourth time in
Speaker 1: the last two hours. What's the deal with that? Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense versus Chargers offense, quarterback and offense versus safety position.
Speaker 1: And we start here with a Charger offense that has
Speaker 1: had problems staying healthy all year long. A hamstring limited
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen until recently. Mike Williams missed a bunch of time,
Speaker 1: returned then injured his ankle in the first series of
Speaker 1: his reach hearn. The offensive line has been banged up,
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert had a rib injury early in the season.
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler is the engine that drives the offense, but
Speaker 1: we'll get to him in a moment. First. How the
Speaker 1: Chargers deployed their attack eleven personnel seventy one percent of
Speaker 1: the time, so not a ton of variety, But they
Speaker 1: do operate twelve personnel fifteen percent at the time, and
Speaker 1: they use two back personnel tempercent at the time seven
Speaker 1: personnel with two backs two tights is three percent of
Speaker 1: the time. They have a similar step to the Niners,
Speaker 1: and that they will use the extra offensive linemen in
Speaker 1: the game and take on you know, multiple varieties to
Speaker 1: different personnel packages. As you can see by the mathele
Speaker 1: on the account for nine percent of the offense. Therein
Speaker 1: lies the other four percent of the offense just extra
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. For the most part, they'll use a fullback,
Speaker 1: they'll run the football, they'll spread it out. But the
Speaker 1: catalyst is the guy we mentioned above, Eckler. Again, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about him more in a moment, but you can
Speaker 1: draw conclusions from the numbers in this offense that are
Speaker 1: confirmed by the tape. They throw the ball to him
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot and as a result they
Speaker 1: have one of the lowest intended air yards offenses in football.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a good sentence. Only Matt Ryan and Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield have a lower intended air yards than Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: What's perhaps the craziest part of the stat his average
Speaker 1: time to throw is two point eight seven seconds. Only
Speaker 1: ten quarterbacks hold the football longer, and when you watch
Speaker 1: them on tape gets indicative by what you see. They
Speaker 1: have issues separating downfield, and a big part of that,
Speaker 1: for sure is the injuries they've had a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: they don't hold up well in pass pro. More injuries
Speaker 1: there as well. And even though Herbert is adept at
Speaker 1: evading sax and getting the football out, he doesn't really
Speaker 1: do anything with it when he goes off script and
Speaker 1: scrambles and know you're gonna say, Travis, what the hell
Speaker 1: you're talking about? Yeah, you do see the one highlight
Speaker 1: real play a week that he'll he'll make. But watch
Speaker 1: a full game and you'll see throwaways, You'll see sacks.
Speaker 1: You'll see misguided off target throws, Throws into tight coverage
Speaker 1: that gets batted up and picked off. Happens a lot
Speaker 1: in this offense. Uh Yeah, And Herbert takes sex at
Speaker 1: the eighth lowest rate in the NFL. He's tough to
Speaker 1: get to the ground and has the speed to make
Speaker 1: you pay with his legs. Constant pressure, however, is typically
Speaker 1: the key to impact a quarterback, and that's no different
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert, even going back to his college tape.
Speaker 1: Make him uncomfortable and he'll put the ball in Harm's way.
Speaker 1: There was an Arizona State game against Oregon four or
Speaker 1: five years ago that I'll never forget because I was like,
Speaker 1: this is it. I think the most important thing here
Speaker 1: is to hit him early. He's not the type of
Speaker 1: quarterback to absorb that type of game and bounce back
Speaker 1: and stay in there all day. A bad day can
Speaker 1: snowballs what I'm trying to say. But if you let
Speaker 1: him get into a rhythm, he'll absolutely carve you up.
Speaker 1: By the numbers this year when blitz six for six
Speaker 1: and a half yards per pass, six touchdowns and two picks.
Speaker 1: When not blitzed, so four or less brushers six point
Speaker 1: six yards per tempt, fourteen touchdowns and five pick. I
Speaker 1: have never seen or not this year at least a
Speaker 1: near even yards per attempt like that against the blitz
Speaker 1: and not the blitz. The truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: the offense doesn't find explosive so if you can play
Speaker 1: patient and wait for the mistakes which will happen, you
Speaker 1: can really limit this charger's offenses. Most teams have this
Speaker 1: year when pressured fifty five here's I'm talking about making
Speaker 1: him comfortable five point five yards per past five touchdowns
Speaker 1: of four picks that's awful when not pressured. Seven point
Speaker 1: one yards per pass when not pressure that's also really low.
Speaker 1: But then fifteen touchdowns and three picks, and to me,
Speaker 1: this is the game to bring all the big dogs
Speaker 1: if they want to try to attack vertical one on
Speaker 1: one to potentially have banged up you know, Mike Williams, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take that challenge. They're not going to be an
Speaker 1: offense that slices you up, meticulously, goes through reads, generates
Speaker 1: longer pockets, or gets the ball out super hot by design.
Speaker 1: It's just not their game. Bring heat, hit Herbert, rattle
Speaker 1: him step three profit. I've been loving Javon Hollands game
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. The range he showed on the
Speaker 1: McCaffrey tackle but right before the Zack Seeler stack up
Speaker 1: on fourth down that didn't quite hold up was absolutely
Speaker 1: insane and indicative of his skill sets. Teams that have
Speaker 1: shown that zero pressure look against the Chargers all year
Speaker 1: have gotten some free hitters, including a Cardinals game where
Speaker 1: a third down Isaiah Simmons sack where he came free,
Speaker 1: unblocked and put Herbert on the turf, and then they
Speaker 1: gave the ball right back and lost the game. They
Speaker 1: should have won that game because of that play. That
Speaker 1: type of play has been happening to the Chargers all
Speaker 1: year long, and we've seen Javon Holland come down off
Speaker 1: the edge a lot in recent weeks. I expect him
Speaker 1: to get a couple more free runs of the quarterback
Speaker 1: here against these l A Chargers on Sunday. Not football.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting all day for Sunday night. Cut it,
Speaker 1: keep it, We'll keep it. Wide receivers and tight ends
Speaker 1: versus cornerbacks. The safeties continue over here a little bit
Speaker 1: into covering the Charger's tight ends because Gerald Everett and
Speaker 1: Trade McKitty are pretty good players. That could be a
Speaker 1: potential matchup for Eric Rowe. I just I think Eric
Speaker 1: Rose having a nice season in the role that he's
Speaker 1: kind of fell into here, especially after losing Brandon Jones elsewhere.
Speaker 1: This could be the healthiest the Chargers have been at
Speaker 1: wide receiver in a while. We'll see about Mike Williams availability,
Speaker 1: but he's been practicing on a limited basis this week.
Speaker 1: If he's healthy, they'll throw him deep shots all game,
Speaker 1: especially into that boundary. It's a big key. Don't let
Speaker 1: him go up and post arize you all game long.
Speaker 1: I'd take him over any receiver in the game on
Speaker 1: contested catches. He's twelve for twenty in that category this year.
Speaker 1: Then there's Keenan Allen, one of the true pros of
Speaker 1: route running, is one of the most underrated receivers in
Speaker 1: all of the football the last decade. He often requires
Speaker 1: a bracket, a chip, and a reroute because he's just
Speaker 1: too tough to cover one on one, especially from that
Speaker 1: condensed split. I would expect it to be the case
Speaker 1: this week, and exaviing Howard seems to be a great
Speaker 1: matchup to me for Mike Williams. They've got DeAndre Carter
Speaker 1: and Josh Palmer, who both have made some plays for them.
Speaker 1: That seems to me like the matchup for kat Cohu
Speaker 1: And then inside some attention to Keenan Allen, some doubles
Speaker 1: and brackets, like I mentioned, some reroutes, and that's really
Speaker 1: been the plan for a lot of defenses that have
Speaker 1: faced this team the last couple of years, including US
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when Allen was held in
Speaker 1: check in that game where he drew Nick Needham. But
Speaker 1: some frequent help there as well, and The fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is this they throw the ball all over
Speaker 1: the yard. Hunter targets for Eckler seventies seven for Palmer
Speaker 1: three more guys have better than fifty targets this year.
Speaker 1: Stay sharp, don't get lulled to sleep, and you're conditioning
Speaker 1: will be tested with how many routes they'll run against you.
Speaker 1: And again, it's largely a ten and under offense, so
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how they deploy roonn McKinley,
Speaker 1: Javon holland Eric Rowe throwing deep this year twenty plus
Speaker 1: eight yards. The Chargers are computting just thirty six percent
Speaker 1: of those passes eleven point eight yards per a tent.
Speaker 1: But they do have seven touchdowns and two picks, so
Speaker 1: eleven point eight yards per attempt is not a good
Speaker 1: number for how many times they throw it down the field.
Speaker 1: But the seven touchdowns is you can't completely cast it
Speaker 1: out because if you do, they'll hit you for a
Speaker 1: big play touchdown and that can obviously change football games.
Speaker 1: On the offensive line defensive line, it's tough to tell
Speaker 1: what you'll get from an availability standpoint, as the Chargers
Speaker 1: have been really hit by the injury bug at the
Speaker 1: spot this season. Last Sunday it was Jamari Slayler, Matt Filer,
Speaker 1: Will Clap, Zion Johnson, and Foster Sarell. Their pressures and
Speaker 1: pass blocking snaps this year are As Follows Sailor twenty
Speaker 1: eight pressures on four hundred forty eight He's been a
Speaker 1: really good conversion guard as a rookie out of the
Speaker 1: tackle position this year. Matt Filer thirty pressures five hundred
Speaker 1: eighty six snaps. He was a tackle converted to guard
Speaker 1: from the Steelers a couple of years back. Will Clap
Speaker 1: just eight pressures on two hundred and thirty nine snaps
Speaker 1: in the pivot. Zion Johnson, the rookie out of Boston College,
Speaker 1: love his game, but he struggled this year as well.
Speaker 1: Thirty pressures on five hundred and seventy eight pass blocking snaps,
Speaker 1: and then Foster Surrell twelve pressures a hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: pass blockings snaps. I think you'll probably see Corey Linsley
Speaker 1: back at the center of this week. That's big for them.
Speaker 1: He practiced on a a limited basis and working back from
Speaker 1: a concussion. He's a key cod getting those blitz is
Speaker 1: picked up, those games picked up and of course in
Speaker 1: the running game, just two pressures allowed from him on
Speaker 1: three pass blocking snaps. He's the best cent are in football.
Speaker 1: We also have to see about Trey Pipkins. He's been
Speaker 1: banged up a lot this year, like this whole unit
Speaker 1: has been. They might get some help back inside, but
Speaker 1: the tackle spot has really been hurt by those injuries,
Speaker 1: and they just don't have the guns out there for Miami,
Speaker 1: They've been stout in that department all year. I think
Speaker 1: they can have success in the running game, and what's
Speaker 1: more important is Eckler in the passing game. Tackle tackle,
Speaker 1: tackle man. And we highlight this all at the time
Speaker 1: as a great trait. I should say all the time
Speaker 1: is a great trait. But the screen game equals retracing
Speaker 1: steps right, and we've seen the effort this front gives
Speaker 1: in that regard. If they play with that effort all
Speaker 1: game long, they should be able to make some big plays,
Speaker 1: big game inside for Wilkins, Seiler and ray Kwon Sailor
Speaker 1: has been pressed into tackle duty and a quitted himself
Speaker 1: nicely out there. But I do believe this should be
Speaker 1: a big Bradley Chubb game against the rookie. It should
Speaker 1: be a big deal in Phillips game. Off the other edge,
Speaker 1: Melvin and Gek all those guys should get constant pressure
Speaker 1: in this game. They better full transparency Miami. He's dominant here.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest about Herbers. Matt sitting Duck back the
Speaker 1: year back there. This year, he's not responding to the
Speaker 1: pressure well and he's taking everything underneath. If Miami can
Speaker 1: win with multiple rush lanes consistently where you force him
Speaker 1: off the spot and then get that second guy home,
Speaker 1: akin to the Houston and the Cleveland game, this could
Speaker 1: be another game where he has to shave his head
Speaker 1: after the game. Running backs and linebackers, it's not often
Speaker 1: our key player comes in the final segment, although I
Speaker 1: suppose it was the case last week too with Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler is a shifty, smart, fluid runner with exceptional hands,
Speaker 1: contact balance and a nose for the goal line. Now,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker seen his role evolved this year as it
Speaker 1: has for years. We've seen more Duke Riley of late,
Speaker 1: and I think we need both of those guys speed here.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey had some success in the passing game last week,
Speaker 1: and you can understand how tough it is to give
Speaker 1: him attention with all those Niners weapons, right, If the
Speaker 1: Chargers have everybody back, the same thing will be true here.
Speaker 1: But if not, then give more attention to Austin Ekeler,
Speaker 1: Baker and coverage and a multitude of responsibilities off the edge,
Speaker 1: stack linebacker playing some of his best ball the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and then Duke to contend with the
Speaker 1: speed of both the quarterback and the running back. And
Speaker 1: then don't forget about a Landing Roberts, because the Chargers
Speaker 1: do operate some two back in full back game and
Speaker 1: that's where fifty two shines. Of course, they also give
Speaker 1: Joshua Kelly a decent workload, and he's more between between
Speaker 1: the tackle style of runners, so more Landon Roberts there.
Speaker 1: Eckler is just awesome. Man. Smith tackles as a ball carrier,
Speaker 1: twenty as a receiver. Again, tackling as a key to
Speaker 1: topping that guy and this offense on special teams. D
Speaker 1: v o A ranks Miami's dead last man. It's not
Speaker 1: been good. Chargers are twelveth not much to update you
Speaker 1: with Jason Sanders and Thomas Morstead. Sanders was perfect last week.
Speaker 1: For the second straight week. He's up to eighty one
Speaker 1: percent this year on field goals, one point four on
Speaker 1: p A T s, and t Stead had his shriff
Speaker 1: punts last week. He's penning opponents inside the twenty yard
Speaker 1: line at atto percent rate and a touchback rate of
Speaker 1: just five percent, and we're grossing just under forty yards
Speaker 1: per punt. This year. The Chargers have had injury issues
Speaker 1: of their owns and had to use three kickers, but
Speaker 1: Cameron Dicker looks to have stabilized that spot for them.
Speaker 1: He's a perfect ten of ten from under fifty and
Speaker 1: one miss from beyond that, and then J. K. Scott
Speaker 1: has a two percent touchback rate rate inside the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line and a gross of forty one point eight.
Speaker 1: So there you go. We're gonna go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break and come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and do what's at stake the three keys and pick
Speaker 1: the week fourteen games. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your
Speaker 1: host travels Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, Big
Speaker 1: big important football game on Sunday night in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: from SOFI Stadium. What's at stake in that game? Well,
Speaker 1: not to be overly dramatic, here, but everything. This is
Speaker 1: the week that we've made this segment for. Now. You
Speaker 1: might be saying to yourself, Travels, that's next week against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, that's when it's all on the line.
Speaker 1: If you win this game, granted it win against Buffalo
Speaker 1: after a loss, the charges would also be huge. But
Speaker 1: winning this game does two things. Number one, it keeps
Speaker 1: you in control of your own destiny. In fact, I
Speaker 1: venture to say that if Miami wins the next to
Speaker 1: no small task, they become the overwhelming favorites to win
Speaker 1: the division. And by that I mean that I expect
Speaker 1: them to take car of those final three opponents if
Speaker 1: they can get through these first two. And now perhaps
Speaker 1: you say, well, if you believe that in this game,
Speaker 1: isn't that important? Is it? Look, no singular game is
Speaker 1: ever that important until it is right, like until the tournament,
Speaker 1: or until Buffalo, or until Tennessee one. Like. You can
Speaker 1: lose and bounce back most of the time. But man,
Speaker 1: from a confidence and belief standpoint, and from my own
Speaker 1: goddamn sanity on social media and all these horrendous hot
Speaker 1: takes and woefully misguided discourse, damn it, I need to
Speaker 1: see a win in this game and then two, which
Speaker 1: is most important really is essentially it locks you into
Speaker 1: the postseason. I mean, you can't lose the last four
Speaker 1: and expect to get in at nine o eight. But
Speaker 1: from a playoff picture standpoint is a big one. But
Speaker 1: whenever the Chargers puts Miami at nine and four with
Speaker 1: a head to head tiebreaker over both teams and the
Speaker 1: current eight and nine positions, now the Patriots could jump
Speaker 1: to seven with a win on Monday and the Jets
Speaker 1: with a loss of the Bills on Sunday. Not at
Speaker 1: all inconceivable I expected actually, But even then end by
Speaker 1: beating the Jets in the finale, you could then get
Speaker 1: the divisional advantage over them. So this point holds true,
Speaker 1: and that's that by beating the Chargers, you essentially develop
Speaker 1: a two game lead with head to head tiebreakers over
Speaker 1: the nearest challengers with four games to go, and a
Speaker 1: step further if one of the Raiders, Browns or Steelers
Speaker 1: at five and seven makes a run, well, Miami has
Speaker 1: head to head tiebreakers on two of those teams and
Speaker 1: a vastly superior conference record to the other. The Raiders
Speaker 1: six and two from Miami four and five for the Raiders,
Speaker 1: and and if the Patriots lose in Miami wins, then
Speaker 1: it's a three game advantage with all of those head
Speaker 1: to head tiebreakers and four games left to play. It's here,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it is. Too long, didn't read version.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins enter Week four team with an eight seven
Speaker 1: percent chance to make the playoffs per five thirty eight.
Speaker 1: If they win, that number jumps to a loss down
Speaker 1: to sevent. So it's a very important game. Plus, like
Speaker 1: coach says, a chance to show your peers and really
Speaker 1: the nation what you've got. Never taken opportunity for granted,
Speaker 1: You really think I'm gonna go with this entire podcast
Speaker 1: without mentioning the quarterback battle here? I mean, we need
Speaker 1: a decisive victory in that department like we need air,
Speaker 1: don't we A chance for the entire nation to see
Speaker 1: that arm strength isn't the end all be all to
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, or even a top five quarterback traite
Speaker 1: for that matter. A chance to show everyone that playing
Speaker 1: the position of quarterback is guess what a talent gosh,
Speaker 1: I sure do hate when someone says a player is
Speaker 1: more talented because of tangible traits. I even saw a
Speaker 1: tweet from a beat writer from the Jets previously. This
Speaker 1: is Zack Wilson's more talented than two A. What like
Speaker 1: helly is it's a talent to see the field, it's
Speaker 1: a talent to anticipate, it's a talent to layer of
Speaker 1: the football. So here's hoping we get some more movement
Speaker 1: on that this week. And if not, I guess who cares.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. The three keys of victory. Number one,
Speaker 1: run the football. This defense has not defended the run
Speaker 1: well this year in Miami. Can help their their own
Speaker 1: defense and stay fresh and just dictate the pace of
Speaker 1: the game. And if you run the ball well, if
Speaker 1: this passing game is gonna be ontoppable as a result
Speaker 1: of that key. Number two process and attack defensive rotation.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is this defense it pretty
Speaker 1: much shows you what it's gonna do. So for two
Speaker 1: of to be sharp in those areas of the field
Speaker 1: like he has been all year, and just play at
Speaker 1: the level we've grown accustomed to. A post what we
Speaker 1: saw last week be a big key for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense this week. And number three pressure the opposing quarterback
Speaker 1: again justin Herbert, like most quarterbacks, just not the same
Speaker 1: under heavy dress. Put that pressure on the quarterback. You
Speaker 1: should have success as a defense. If you are the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and finish up with the
Speaker 1: Week fourteen picks. The Thursday night game already happened, although
Speaker 1: I'm taping this on six one on Thursday night, so
Speaker 1: uh Scout's honor. I guess you guys have to believe
Speaker 1: me that I took the Raiders over the Rams. Not
Speaker 1: that inconceivable to think about, right, I mean, the Rams
Speaker 1: are pretty dreadful at this point of the season. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: give me the Lions over the Vikings in an upset.
Speaker 1: Give me the Steelers over the Ravens. The Ravens offense
Speaker 1: I think is a little bit broken right now. Steelers
Speaker 1: seem to be coming on strong. I'll take the Bengals
Speaker 1: over the Browns, although Joe Burrow has not beaten the
Speaker 1: Browns before. But Deshaun Watson, I think is uh something
Speaker 1: It's gonna work out for him, because well it shouldn't. Uh.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bills over the Jets, Give me the
Speaker 1: Cowboys over the Texans. To give me the Eagles over
Speaker 1: the Lines. I'll take the Titans to really put a
Speaker 1: bow on the a f C South already over the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Give me the Chiefs over the Broncos, like the Seahawks
Speaker 1: over the Panthers, Niners over Bucks, as brock Purty keeps
Speaker 1: rocking and rolling, Take the Dolphins over the Chargers, and
Speaker 1: give me the Cardinals over the Patriots on Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: All right, that's my time back with you all early
Speaker 1: Monday morning. I believe I'll have the podcast done sooner
Speaker 1: this week, provided the kidos let me get done, because
Speaker 1: uh Seth and o J gonna be holding down the
Speaker 1: postgame show the next two weeks, and we'll have the
Speaker 1: same podcast schedule this week. Next week, I should say
Speaker 1: that we had this past week, and then back at
Speaker 1: it for the regular schedule come Packers week and Christmas.
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