WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Bills Week 9 Preview 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.040 Do I a move going deep Speedways Pass From the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.400 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:27.880 He's got my hands in the playoffs. What is up, 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.640 Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.680 your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, well, it's 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.680 Bills Week once again, and we're gonna break down a 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.320 game that we thought might be a big one for 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.479 the division right now, it kind of feels like an 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.960 attempt to keep the season afloat. At two and five, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.720 we'll break down the matchups, tell you about this Bill's team, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.199 how they got to where they are, all of that 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.120 much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.760 Help May Gaffs. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.520 Here we go again for Buffalo Bills Week. And also 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.240 I have another new microphone, so you will listen to 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.800 every damn word I have to say. No, I'm just kidding, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.120 I just I want to make you guys aware of 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.800 when I'm trying out new equipment. I found a new 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.160 USB mic that actually provides the same recording quality as 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.080 an XLR mic, which I won't bore you with the details, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.720 but that's essentially what is the industry standard. And I 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.360 found this pretty expensive, nice little USB mic, and so 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:25.840 I want to let you guys know that in case 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.680 the audio quality sounds different, we're trying it out. I 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.679 think it sounds pretty good, but we'll find out. And 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.000 the reason I say here we go again is because, 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.520 well it's the damn Bills once more from high Mark 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.240 Stadium in Buffalo, Week number nine at the Bills a 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.160 one o'clock kickoff on CBS. The Kevin Harlan Crue has 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.160 this one. Will that be enough magic for the Dolphins 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.520 to overcome their arch nemesis, their daddy. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.480 Let's call it what it is. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.240 It's going to be a fifty five degree day in 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.240 not so beautiful western New York. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.640 Why would you ever live in Buffalo? 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.760 Partly cloudy, tiny chance of rain, and minimal chance of 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.440 some wind. Is a rather minimal wind gust, I should say. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.000 But plenty of changed this year for the Bills as 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.280 we introduced this team, but the results they haven't been 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.840 any different. And that's largely thanks to the constants in 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.760 the organization in Josh Allen and Sean McDermott. And McDermott 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.840 came one year prior to Allen, which was a playoff 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.520 season with Tyrod Taylor. They go to Josh Allen four 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.040 games into twenty eighteen. They missed the playoffs that year, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.040 really the first of two years where Josh Allen wasn't 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.919 Josh Allen just yet, And as I say that, they 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.079 have not missed the postseason since that time. Ten wins, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.640 thirteen wins, eleven wins, thirteen wins, eleven more last year, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.160 one more trip to the AFC Title Game in twenty twenty, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.280 the brutal thirteen seconds game against those same Chiefs in 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.000 the Divisional round one year later, and make it three 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.800 straight division round losses. Now with the Bengals in twenty 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.280 twenty two, and then once again those Chiefs. The Chiefs 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.840 are to the Bills what the Bills are to the Dolphins, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.680 as they beat them again, this time at home in 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.720 twenty twenty three. But a lot of the mainstays from 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.119 those clubs. They don't year is here, Trojan horsing Us, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.200 Micah Hyde retired, Trey White is in Los Angeles, to 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.640 Fon Diggs is in Houston despite a torn ACL He's 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.800 gone either way, and he arrived back in twenty and 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.480 twenty when that team really took off. Mitch Morse is 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.000 in Jacksonville and earned Floyd with the Niners and Matt 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.959 mclonald's down for the Earth injury. It's a lot of 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.200 change there and entirely looking different looking Bills team. And 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.760 again yet here we are six and damn two, Alan 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.040 playing some of the most efficient ball of his career. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.200 He's not turned the ball over. They've paired that with 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.760 a running game and defense that despite whoever is in 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.000 the lineup, just continues to produce. Here reminds me of 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.120 the freaking Bilichick Patriots, which once again here I am 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.440 finding myself like resigned to the fact that we have 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.320 a superpower in our division that is not us and 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:50.040 cannot be overcome until there's, you know, significant change. That's 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.560 kind of how it feels. You've had this division dominated 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.320 by two separate clubs. And granted the Patriots was two 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.440 decades for twenty five years now so fun fun times 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.480 being a Dolphin and a Jets fan, and we bick 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.560 growth the Jets so much, and it's like we eventually 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.200 wind up back in the same place. Now we have 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.880 had more success. But I digress, And speaking of that 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.800 lineup that has all these changes and talking about the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.200 constant number five in scoring offense, number six and scoring defense, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.880 When will it ever end? That's a Coheaton Cambria Lyric 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.480 Bill's offense. It has changed entirely. We heard this from 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.720 Joe Marino on the show yesterday. And they went from 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.039 this site adjustment based passing attack where you have in 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.600 route reads based upon coverage and leverage, and I think 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.039 that produced more picks because there was more of a 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.640 freestyler in their offense and Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.800 who can be scattershot at times, and where I think 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.800 they found themselves in some slogs a year ago. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.040 I keep thinking about this. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.880 God last year was the year they would have games 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.840 where they would go like five six drives without points, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.680 without first downs, and they would lose games to bad 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.039 teams like Denver, like Jacksonville last year, and some of 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.320 those long droughts with offensive production I think was a 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.560 result of that. And I think that some of the 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.240 feeling or sort of feeling out period in terms of 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.280 you know, Joe Brady working newly with Josh Allen to 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.680 further read out the middle of the field and be 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.320 a bit more of an anticipator. That was kind of 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.400 what you saw at the end of the year, and 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.840 they grew into that, and I think they took that 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.080 and over the course of the offseason evolved their offense 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.159 to better tailor offense to alan strengths and also incorporate 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.000 a better running game and be more widespread. And the 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.119 Bills I think came to the conclusion they could pivot 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.040 off of the you know, funnel the ball to a 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.200 superstar receiver offense with this you know, successful pivot within 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.440 the offensive structure to accentuate Allen's ability as a visual thrower, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.280 which he's probably the most capable in the entire NFL 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.240 of doing that because of his rare physical traits, i e. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.000 The exceptional arm strength. I feel like arm strength is 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.520 so overblown until you get to a certain point, like 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.960 Jordan Love has this, Allen has this, Patrick Mahomes has this. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.040 There are unicorn arms out there that separate themselves from 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.480 the rest of the pack, and I think that's where 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.560 the discussion comes into play. And everybody else that doesn't 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.359 have that has to be great in other areas, and 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.400 they usually are if they get to this level. That's 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.520 helped this Buffalo team, all of that stuff really develop 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.280 their identity to play on schedule with Josh Allen and 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.400 then that along with the run game, has only extended 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.560 the number of plays where he can create and be 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.480 a playmaker. And just when you thought they might slow down, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.240 they've reimagined this offense and done it for the better. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.680 Their personnel groupings, it's changed this year. Eleven personnels fifty 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.440 four percent, twelve personnel's nineteen. They have a variation of 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.679 a bunch of other groupings as well, and it's interesting 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.200 because they do roll out some heavy personnel that allows 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.599 them to add multiple gaps in the running game, like 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.040 twelve heavy, which is one tight end or one running back, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.640 two tight ends, and then an extra offensive lineman which 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.000 means one receiver, and so you get two more tight 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.120 ends attached to the formation with an extra offensive lineman, Boom, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.400 three more gaps. And I was looking at the week 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.960 two preview notes in the offensive deployment was a forty 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.720 thirty split between those two groupings, so that has shifted 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.560 as the year has gone on. But the real takeaway 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.880 from that is they are adaptable to the defense they're 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.160 going to face. Which is interesting because the defense is 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.720 not that way. More on that in just a moment. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.040 When they played US, it was a lot of those 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.000 twelve personnel groupings. But I also think the addition of 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.880 Amari Cooper expands their ability to run more receiver groupings, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.440 more receiver heavy groupings. I should say, like, I know 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.920 they're pretty happy and comfortable with Khalil Shaker being this 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.880 premier slot receiver. Keon Coleman is producing at a nice level, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.280 but I still think that that's a limited player, I 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.360 will say. And then they get a lot more run 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.880 here with Amari Cooper, I think, who is flexible across 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.800 multiple positions the more he gets familiar with the offense. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.480 But that's kind of their base eleven personnel package with 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.560 Curtis Samuel providing the ability to spell those guys, to 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 get creative with backfield alignments and nasty alignments and play 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.280 flinker and the slot. It's just a lot they went 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.120 deeper opposed to being top heavy, and it's working out 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.760 for them. Teams played too high against this offense fifty 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.560 percent compared to forty three percent after the coaching change. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.240 There was a little bit of zero coverage in there 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.320 as well, but don't do that against Josh Allen because 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.280 we I mean, we did that in the it was 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.520 it the playoff game or was it the week when 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.040 was it the playoff game? I think we zeroed him 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.200 up a lot and he like missed a bunch of 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.120 downfield shots which kind of kept us in that game. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.080 But that game could have been a fifty burger if 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.840 he just was a little a little bit more accurate 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.480 on those. And his time to throw is twenty six 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.120 amongst starters and thirty first overall. He's got a two 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.560 point eight eight time to throw this year, which is 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.520 a strange dichotomy versus their RPO popitt offense that Joe 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.439 Brady ran at LSU. So it's like this marriage of 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.760 multiple offenses. And then just some further stats here for you. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.800 Josh Allen versus the blitz in twenty twenty four, thirty 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.320 five percent of his dropbacks eight point six yards per 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.240 attempt at sixty four completion, eight touchdowns and no picks, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.400 just four sacks compared to six sacks when not blitzed, Like, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.360 don't blitz him, don't don't do it. He saw this 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.600 team bliss Anthony Richardson and they were successful as hell 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.959 doing that, and Kyler Murray to a certain extent as well, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.960 and Richardson, you created bad throws down the field because 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.560 that guy just hasn't hit the broad side of a 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.760 bar in his entire career so far, and that's a 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.240 discussion for a different day about his development. But you 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.400 can't have that same plan because Josh, like Anthony Richardson 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.120 he did against us, will make you miss. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:22.760 He just will. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.920 He's too big and strong and fast and knows where 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.560 his vulnerabilities are against the pass rush, and he gets 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.480 the ball out too fast. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.360 So don't do that. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.920 Because he will beat you because he can run it 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.160 and he also can rip it with his arm and 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.960 defeat you that way. So you have to find a 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.800 way to get home with four and play coverage. Do 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.800 we have the guns to do that? I don't think so. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.560 But how do you attack it? You're gonna have to 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.640 have some different rush games and do some sim pressures. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:48.920 And I got into it a little bit there, but I 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.960 think you have to have a sort of static plan, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.120 and by that I mean just sort of react to 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.640 what they're doing. We saw in the second half against 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.600 the Cardinals, and what do the Cardinals do but score 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.440 on four five possessions. But their quick game and your 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.240 rush does you no good if Josh just pulls it 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.240 back and fires it in behind you, which he can 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.640 do that too, But also if you rush and he 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.959 tucks it, then you're chasing him on the back foot. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.080 But if you're mirroring him, and maybe you even utilize 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.280 a spy here or there, but that also removes a 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.840 body from coverage, like you have to pick your poison. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.120 If you do that, though, you get a little bit 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.320 more ability to match him, opposed to showing him your move. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.600 He adjusts and if he beats you, you're out of 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.880 the play. And that's where Chopp has lived most of 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.559 the year. Behind the quarterback. It's the worst place in 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.640 the football field to be. And the reason I think 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.760 the receiving corps desperately needed a vertical threat like Amari 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.720 Cooper is that I think you can commit an extra 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.480 hat into the box and contend with that. So as 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.480 I say don't blitz him, don't zero him, I do 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.439 kind of feel like you need to show him the 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.440 opportunity for a deep ball, like because that's the best 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.360 place to get incompletions and get them behind the chains, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.240 So how do you do that? Lots of cover one, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.960 challenge them to throw those deep shots. Mug your linebackers 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.480 up in the A gap, keep a spy and or 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.480 rush contain on Allen on any given snap. You know, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.120 if they hit one, maybe you get out of it. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.360 But I think they have to prove they can hit it. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.480 It's not that far off from that Ravens game in 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.440 twenty twenty one against Lamar Jackson. They just never got 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.480 a deep ball over the top, and we kept showing 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.400 the same look and they couldn't do it, and it 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.360 was one of their worst offensive showings in the Lamar 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.959 Jackson era. The Big Three versus the Bills offense kicks 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.800 off with number one, do not let Superman don his cape. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.600 It's the exact same key from Week two. Everything is 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.640 centered around the quarterback. If they didn't have Josh Allen, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.280 it's probably a five win football team. And if he's 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.760 off with his accuracy, they can go through some lolls 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.080 for a quarter, sometimes a full half at time. We 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.200 saw it in the Week eighteen game last year, and 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.720 that's where you have to go to put up points offensively. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.600 If he's on, you just have to try to outscore him, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.480 which is kind of the nature of the Beast against 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.520 all the top quarterbacks in the league. So how do 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.640 you force him into the off night? 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:55.640 That's the key. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.360 It starts with how you generate pressure and force him 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.640 out of rhythm and out of his one hitch timing. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.920 We covered his blitzes. I went back and looked at 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.520 his blitz blitz in good games are bad, and there 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.920 wasn't really a clear outlier. It was inconsistent across game plans. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.160 I do think if you squeeze the middle of the 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.640 field and see if he has a deep threat that 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.480 he can rely upon, because that used to be Diggs, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.240 they've sort of gotten Amari Cooper rolling in that regard. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.520 I think he is the guy that could be that 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.480 fixed for them. But I think it will just keep 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.880 getting better as they go along. In that connection, he 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.760 had nineteen snaps his first game. Cooper did thirty eight 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.200 last week. I imagine he's closer to a full time 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.480 workload of fifty plus snaps in this one. As for 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.600 the pressure ability, I don't think you concern yourself all 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.120 that much with trying to confuse Dion Dawkins because he's 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.800 seen everything he can squeeze to widen and to help 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.280 pick up outside delays and cornerback blitzes. I would, however, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.160 test their interior, and I think with these mugged up 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.560 a gap pressure looks we have, that's where you can 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.199 challenge that and force them off script immediately or preferably 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.720 into a rush contained out side. So with how Chopp 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.760 gets off the football on the right side, with how 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.440 we've seen them mix their rush and bluff looks, with 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.880 how we've seen this team blitter defensive backs, I kind 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.760 of feel like the best bet is to do it 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.800 from the front side and force Alan to flee towards 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.640 his left, towards his best pass protector and in a 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.360 position where he you know, creatively it takes him to 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.600 throws back to the middle across his body. It's why 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.959 I think the addition of Jordan Brooks has been such 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.480 a force multiplier in the middle of this defense for 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.880 his ability to play coverage and to blitz. And then 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.040 you've got all those safeties who I think you know 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.520 are probably a major key here, which hasn't been a 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.480 position of strength of the Dolphins this season at all. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.760 And we might have to do it without Javon Holland 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.760 after he left last game with his knee injury. He 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.040 had been a big part of some of those Josh 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.240 Allen game plans. But it could be Poyer in May 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.959 this week tasked with that, and Poyer versus Allen is 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.680 a tough draw. It is just so so integral that 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.520 you have good rush land integrity, and we have to 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:57.959 have that. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.120 We have to have that mindset. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.760 I think if they try to rhythm one hitch passing 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.320 game all day long, we'll do fine. It's when he 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.439 gets off the spot where he can, you know, kind 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.040 of put the game in his favor. Let's go ahead 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:10.800 and take our first break right there, come back and 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.480 finish the big keys two and three on the Bills offense. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.200 We'll also do the Bills defense and predict the game. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.920 What's at stake? All that much more. Draft Time Podcast, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.760 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.840 You can't let Superman don his cape, and you have 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.360 to commit to stopping James Cook in both the run 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.080 and the passing game. In fact, it was James Cook's 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.440 forty nine yard touchdown rush to kind of put that 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.200 game into the distance, right It wasn't out of reach yet, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.480 but it gave you the same old Dolphins and Bills feelings, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.080 which every like I remember watching that game, the freaking 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.040 Grant Debo's shoulder pop up pick and then they go 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.800 down the field to score on a fourth down play. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.880 It's like, here we go a game. Six minutes into 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.960 the ballgame, it's seven to nothing and we already got 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.480 the first possession of the half. It's just like, when 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.320 will it ever change? And you know, I kind of 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.120 went in on the James Cook stuff already, but I 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.560 think this is done by adding additional hats into the fit, 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.240 but also to be completely aware of Cook's ability as 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.200 a pass receiver. They love to sneak him out onto 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.120 the perimeter, pick a linebacker and get up over the top. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.360 And I'll be frank about it. We saw it in 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.600 the game on Sunday. That's gonna be David Long. They're 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.880 gonna try to isolate James Cook on David Long. He 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.200 has to find a way to minimize the damage in 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.280 that matchup, or Anthony Weaver has to find a way 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.560 to not let that matchup happen. Gotta find a way 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.240 to do it. And so if you if you do 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.440 go into the game with man free, that's a tough 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.080 route to cover from there, and with Josh's running ability, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.080 man coverage is like the most horrific proposition you can 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.760 possibly present. You always want to mix it up, but 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.520 I think you can get the run game sorted, Josh 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.280 Allen scramble ability and those quick hits by playing that 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.560 extra hat in the fit. What does that mean, Travis? 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.040 It just means you're not playing shells. You're playing single 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.720 high and you're bringing a guy down the box and 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.800 then also zoning things off and very very committed to 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.800 rush lane integrity, which is so hard, so much easier 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.400 said than done, but you have to find a way 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.760 to do it. All of that will allow you to 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.440 control gaps in the running game, and that is just 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.280 so paramount against this team. If you start forcing second Longs, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.200 you take away the running game. You make all the 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.560 things we've already touched on so much harder to accomplish. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.200 And that's where I think you have to get a 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.480 lot out of David Long as far as a mesh 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.160 point disruptor. Jordan Brooks is a spot drop, middle of 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.720 the field expander, and both of them on blitzes to 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.080 show the Bills those A and B gaps are not 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.360 open with the run. And if it's if d Long 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.480 is in the same place he was against the Cardinals 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.880 and not ready to do it, then get Anthony Walker up. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.760 That's why I want to see in that position, maybe 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:41.520 even changing tendall. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:41.840 I don't know. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.200 Let's go crazy and if we win rushes off the perimeter, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.640 then there are no escape patches. When you can do 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.080 that with A and B gaps, It's crazy how intertwined 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.080 I think this plan has to be to stop these guys, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.360 and we've done it. What the Josh Boyer twenty twenty 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.320 two Week three game plan was the only time it 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.040 ever happened, besides like his rookie year when he was 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.640 skipping passes all over the field. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.040 God, I'm so tired of this guy. Man. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.760 If we can play lighter, which calls upon Zach Seeler, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.040 who if he can play like that's a big boost 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.040 of the defense. Without him, I have zero faith in 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.959 stopping this offense. But you need him and Kalayas to 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.960 do their jobs of two gapping not getting washed against 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.479 that newer look interior offensive line. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.400 Then I like our chances. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.879 To get all that accomplished, but that is like twelve 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.679 things and they have to do like one thing. So 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.600 that's where the mismatch kind of comes from. And I 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.159 just really, I really hope of all things. Number one, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.840 I'm kind of beyond the belief that Tua can figure 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.119 out this defense because he just hasn't really done it. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:40.960 I mean, the twenty twenty two season was good. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.320 He played two really good games against that Bill's defense, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.000 but last year was like a quarter of a good 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.720 game and then the last game was horrific for him. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.320 But I'm kind of like, I feel like that ship 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.199 has already left the station, Like you know, I just 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.639 don't think like the Week two game was when it 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.439 was gonna happen, and it didn't happen. So but what 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.120 I want to see is can Weaver because he's put 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.919 down some bad offenses. But the test of a good 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.639 defense is how do you fare against one of these 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.840 elite quarterbacks. And I don't think anybody can stop elite 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.400 quarterbacks when they're on, but can you limit them enough 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:13.200 to keep you in the game. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.240 That's what I want to see. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.119 All last year, the elite quarterbacks stomped all over Vic 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.439 Fangio's bare naked butt, but you have to find a 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.200 way to do it. Number three tight end centric offense. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.639