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Speaker 1: On today's show, it is a preview Thursday day. As
Speaker 1: we turned the page to Week nine of the two
Speaker 1: NFL season, we're breaking down all things Dolphins and Bears
Speaker 1: with a look at the matchups position by position, key
Speaker 1: stats and tape study. What's at stake this week, the
Speaker 1: three keys to victory, and we'll also hear from quarterback
Speaker 1: to what tongle by Loa from his Wednesday press conference.
Speaker 1: All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, A trip to the Midwest the Monsters of
Speaker 1: the Midway. First game in Chicago since a pretty resounding
Speaker 1: victory back in and if I recall correctly, Mike Wallace
Speaker 1: had a couple of touchdowns in that game. Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: had a long run on a designed zone read on
Speaker 1: fourth and short. Was that also the game where Tannehill
Speaker 1: got shoved and face planted into the grass and if
Speaker 1: you screenshot at it at the right time, he looked
Speaker 1: like the actual Dolphins logo. I think it was also
Speaker 1: played a crazy game back in ten with a dolphin
Speaker 1: is one at the buzzer on a Jason Sanders field goal.
Speaker 1: I believe that was for the Bears. Wins have been
Speaker 1: hard to come by since that ten season. They had
Speaker 1: that team that year who won twelve games and looked
Speaker 1: like a real threat, but the double joint kept them
Speaker 1: out of the divisional round that season, and that's where
Speaker 1: we'll pick it up. Since then, they have pivoted to
Speaker 1: a new head coach, GM Combo. After that twelve win
Speaker 1: NFC North title winning season. It's been eight Nate, eight Nate,
Speaker 1: and six and eleven enter Matt Eberflus, who operates one
Speaker 1: of the most creative defenses in the NFL and has
Speaker 1: consistently produced results with the Colts and then now with
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. The GM is Ryan Pulls, a former
Speaker 1: player who has been busy putting his fingerprints all over
Speaker 1: the roster and most recently with the acquisition of Chase
Speaker 1: Claypool of the Steelers or formerly of the Steelers, who
Speaker 1: is just the latest of a busy remake in the
Speaker 1: wide receiver room. This regime inherited the very talented Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: but then went to work adding receivers like Chase Claypool,
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle and to kill Harry Vellis Jones Jr. Equanimius st. Brown.
Speaker 1: They also brought in Ryan Griffin to pair with Cole Comet,
Speaker 1: and drafted David Montgomery and Khalil Herbert the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, so they have their young nucleus assembled around
Speaker 1: one first round graft pick and uber talented quarterback with rare,
Speaker 1: rare running ability, a player they also traded up for
Speaker 1: in Justin Fields. Now just because it's been a bunch
Speaker 1: of moves doesn't mean it's been, you know, all that effective.
Speaker 1: That wide receiver corps kind of reminds me of twelve
Speaker 1: Dolphins on hard knocks when Jeff Ireland said we've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of fours and fives and six is though
Speaker 1: I do feel the Bears have a bunch of threes
Speaker 1: and fours and Mooney is a dynamite number two. But
Speaker 1: you get the idea. And we've seen a little bit
Speaker 1: of a jump here from Justin Fields in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I think the offense is catering more
Speaker 1: and more to his skill set, particularly in these last
Speaker 1: few weeks. He has a lot to handle when he
Speaker 1: goes off script or keeps it on designed runs. He's
Speaker 1: adding in the in more explosive downfield passing elements, and
Speaker 1: we'll break his game down here in the preview, but
Speaker 1: he was far and away my QB two in that
Speaker 1: class behind Trevor Lawrence. It's not a great class so far,
Speaker 1: but I'm a big believer in what Justin Fields offers,
Speaker 1: and I still think that there's a path for I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the best quarterback out of that draft. Right now,
Speaker 1: I might take him over all of the other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So far in that twenty one class. They've invested the
Speaker 1: Bears a little bit into the offensive line, most notably
Speaker 1: a second round pick on Tevin Jenkins, who's looked better
Speaker 1: since kicking inside the guard from that right tackle to
Speaker 1: right guard position. But they've really had to shuffle up
Speaker 1: front with some injuries. It's good to see the roster
Speaker 1: overhaul on offense to pair with a defense that has been,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good for a long time, regardless of
Speaker 1: the personnel. They did lose stalwart Achem Hicks this offseason.
Speaker 1: They just traded Robert Quinn and Roe Kuwan Smith, so
Speaker 1: three really big losses and they've had a tough time
Speaker 1: replacing those guys. It is a big front, guys like Alcoin,
Speaker 1: Mohammed Mike Pennell, armand Watts, Justin Jones, Angelo Blackson, and
Speaker 1: Trevis Gibson. It's not all that dissimilar of what eber
Speaker 1: Flus had an Indianapolis, the big defensive line to free
Speaker 1: up their athletic linebackers. Even in a post ro Quan
Speaker 1: Smith world, they had Grover Stewart, DeForrest Buckner, Quitty pay
Speaker 1: gap control with good rush integrity to help keep your
Speaker 1: linebackers clean. They went heavy in the secondary of this draft,
Speaker 1: and a lot of folks said, hey, go get your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks some help, but they went with Kyler Gordon and
Speaker 1: Jakwan Brisker. More on them here in just a minute.
Speaker 1: They do give the Bears, in my opinion, the strength
Speaker 1: of their roster and that secondary as they pair with
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson and Jalen Johnson, it's a team that can
Speaker 1: burn you with the full complement of the running game.
Speaker 1: That's really you know, the secondary is probably the strength
Speaker 1: of the team, but the backs with the quarterback in
Speaker 1: the running game is how they operate. Uh offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Luke Getsy, who worked under Matt Lafleur in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: off that Shanahan Tree, so stuff we've seen here before.
Speaker 1: To power backs and a quarterback who's up there with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts and the athletic quarterback department,
Speaker 1: and a defense that generates takeaways under a great defensive
Speaker 1: minded coach and Matt Eberflus. His defensive coordinator is Alan Williams.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and dive into how they do it all.
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense Bears defense. Starting off here with the offense
Speaker 1: and quarterback of the Dolphins versus safety and structure of
Speaker 1: the Bears defense. So it's a region react defense. They
Speaker 1: like to control the point and play read and react
Speaker 1: on the back end, get disruption up front, and play
Speaker 1: top down football where they flow from the second and
Speaker 1: third level, using safeties and linebackers to clean things up
Speaker 1: and make all kinds of tackles. More on that here
Speaker 1: in just a second. It's why I think that this
Speaker 1: misdirection I Candy false keys offense could potentially give them issues.
Speaker 1: If we draw up a great game plan, you have
Speaker 1: athletes at key spots like look at what he had
Speaker 1: there in Indianapolis, and three critical areas that the three
Speaker 1: three of the most important positions in this defense from
Speaker 1: what I've you know, researched and found, is the three tech.
Speaker 1: The defensive tackle. They had to Forest Buckner there, your
Speaker 1: weak side linebacker Shack Leonard was the guy there, and
Speaker 1: your nickel which was Kenny Moore. All three of those
Speaker 1: guys were Pro bowlers. They put a lot on their
Speaker 1: plates and they executed a high level. So what are
Speaker 1: the analogs there or this Bears defense? Well, it was
Speaker 1: a Chem Hicks and Roquan Smith and then Kyler Gordon,
Speaker 1: who's still there in a good player. But for the Bears,
Speaker 1: you know, Nicholas Morrow is the will. Justin Jones plays
Speaker 1: that three technique, and then rookie Kyler Gordon, one of
Speaker 1: the best athletes I've ever seen that slot nickel spot.
Speaker 1: But he is a rookie and teams have gone after him. Accordingly,
Speaker 1: You'll see a lot of zone on this defense, lots
Speaker 1: of eyes back on the quarterback. They want to generate
Speaker 1: takeaways again, they did that. Indeed, they're doing it here
Speaker 1: in Chicago with thirteen takeaways, is tied for the sixth
Speaker 1: most in the NFL right now. And it's not just picks.
Speaker 1: They punched the ball out just like they always have
Speaker 1: done going back to the Peanut Tillman days. In fact,
Speaker 1: of their seven forced fumbles, six of them have come
Speaker 1: from defensive backs. Two hands on the ball after the
Speaker 1: catch is paramount, and if you can read the breadcrumbs
Speaker 1: at this point you can probably predict this. Their blitz
Speaker 1: rate is fourteen point two percent. That is the lowest
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. So four man rushes for
Speaker 1: to all day long on Sunday, so it's less than
Speaker 1: every one of every six snaps where they do the
Speaker 1: extra pass rusher. I would imagine they probably back off
Speaker 1: of that against the Dolphins, because as quarterback is slaying
Speaker 1: the blitz was also slaying the non blitz also slaying
Speaker 1: man coverage and zone coverage, and your mom's, your uncle's,
Speaker 1: your bob's, your uncle's ants and stuff like that. He's
Speaker 1: pretty much beating everybody right now. But they do generate
Speaker 1: pressure thirty second blitz rate and the nineteenth highest pressure
Speaker 1: rate at twenty two point three percent. They haven't converted
Speaker 1: those into many sacks, just thirteen, but again, pressure is
Speaker 1: about so much more than sacks, and they'll get those
Speaker 1: takeaways by disrupting the posing passing game. As a result,
Speaker 1: I do want to be abundantly clear that most of
Speaker 1: that pressure came from Robert Quinn's speed off the edge,
Speaker 1: giving heavy footed left tackles issues. That element is of
Speaker 1: course gone. Speaking of two of stats versus the Blitz
Speaker 1: and versus coverage against the Blitz, seven sixty completion nice,
Speaker 1: eight point four yards per pass, two touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 1: That's a one oh eight point to pass a rating
Speaker 1: on fifty three dropbacks against the non blitzing coverage looks
Speaker 1: se nine point two yards per past, ten teddies and
Speaker 1: three interceptions. It's a one fourteen point three ascerating on
Speaker 1: a hundred forty seven drop back. So pick your poison.
Speaker 1: It will be important for us to win those one
Speaker 1: on one rush matchups, and for too of a play
Speaker 1: like he has been in terms of the speed and
Speaker 1: processing and decisions that he has put out there so far,
Speaker 1: putting the ball into soft spots where you're basically throwing
Speaker 1: to a spot before your guy gets there with that
Speaker 1: pristine accuracy anticipation. It's akin to the Ravens game where
Speaker 1: I mentioned how tips and overthrows typically go back the
Speaker 1: other way, and we saw that with Marcus Williams getting
Speaker 1: that one tip ball on Tyreekill that turn into an interception.
Speaker 1: You have to be sharp there because this defense will
Speaker 1: keep their eyes in the quarterbacks and clean up mistakes,
Speaker 1: but it does offer some openings as well. So it's
Speaker 1: given take for a defense how they align. Of the
Speaker 1: time they're in the thirty four three of the time
Speaker 1: they're in the forty three, So it is a three
Speaker 1: four defense and base Nickel is s they do have
Speaker 1: two snaps and dime and two short yardage heavy personnel snaps.
Speaker 1: So it's two groupings, your three, four and your nickel.
Speaker 1: So does Miami want to go heavier? Do they want
Speaker 1: to go spread and open it up and force the
Speaker 1: Bears to get more defensive backs on the field. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of off coverage where they basically slot. They
Speaker 1: exchange their slot linebacker for rundowns and passed downs. Off
Speaker 1: coverage three to one ratio of off versus press. So
Speaker 1: for every four snaps they play, three is gonna be
Speaker 1: off coverage, one's gonna be pressed. Lots of zone, some man,
Speaker 1: but plenty of hybrids on both with zone on one side,
Speaker 1: man on the other side of the field. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot to kind of decipher, as Matt Eberflus is
Speaker 1: getting his fingerprints on this defense the way Mike McDaniel's
Speaker 1: getting his fingerprints on the Miami offense. In the Dallas game,
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys would get to their three by one sets,
Speaker 1: they would often isolate a one on one matchup to
Speaker 1: the boundary the short side of the field your ex
Speaker 1: receiver and Dallas trust of that receiver to win that
Speaker 1: matchup and they did time and time again in that game,
Speaker 1: and you can see the function of their defense based
Speaker 1: on how the next gen charts of the opposing quarterbacks look.
Speaker 1: It's almost exclusively passes between the numbers inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard bucks. For the teams going against the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: the zone turn, put their butt to the sideline eyes
Speaker 1: and the quarterback and funnel you inside. The good news
Speaker 1: for us is that too has been like he has
Speaker 1: been every single other element of the game, but he's
Speaker 1: been seeing those intermediate windows over the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and reacting before the defense can. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: light boxes, you're going to get inside access, and you'll
Speaker 1: run into some shoddy tackling in the back end. This
Speaker 1: feels like a run game, swings screens, quick pops, and
Speaker 1: a big yard after catch game. From my perspective, I
Speaker 1: think this is the week we see Raheem rip off
Speaker 1: a big run, and I would venture to guess we
Speaker 1: challenge our season high in YAK yardage. Those are kind
Speaker 1: of two areas I'm looking at. Really, the entire defense
Speaker 1: funnels through the safety play. They are getting Jaquan Brisker.
Speaker 1: He's had an up and down rookie season, but you
Speaker 1: can see the potential there. Sixty completion going after him
Speaker 1: with a hundred twenty two yards on two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four coverage snaps, a touchdown, a pick, four QB
Speaker 1: pressures on just third teen pass rush snaps. He is
Speaker 1: has a very quick burst and get off from the
Speaker 1: last scrimmage just thirteen pass rush snaps though, and he
Speaker 1: has twelve run stops too, so he can certain against
Speaker 1: the running game. Eddie Jackson, it's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: players in the entire league. Fifty completion with just fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards allowed on two d and fifty nine coverage snaps,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns allowed, but four picks and seven run stops.
Speaker 1: He is as good as it gets. Keep your eye
Speaker 1: on number four back there. He is the glue to
Speaker 1: that defense. They are uber athletic and can mask all
Speaker 1: kinds of potential mistakes with their speed. Now that said,
Speaker 1: Brisker and the backers sounds like a band will over
Speaker 1: pursue the running game. Briskers run fitting versus Dallas was
Speaker 1: not good. He also got caught and coverage several times.
Speaker 1: Like Dallas could I d their man coverage and would
Speaker 1: go after Brisker when they got the matchups they want.
Speaker 1: They scored a touchdown on Brisker with Ceedee Lamb in
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. I think the I candidate we
Speaker 1: can give the rookie will cause all kinds of problems.
Speaker 1: Whereas Jackson, I just probably stay away from him. He's
Speaker 1: a bad, bad dude. They rotate and feel really well
Speaker 1: to replace their blitz is uh. The defensive backplay has
Speaker 1: been solid. Brisker plays fast, Eddie Jackson has that range.
Speaker 1: I think we can force their corners out of man
Speaker 1: coverage though where they want to play. And as for
Speaker 1: their priest nap alignment, it's been fairly evenly split between
Speaker 1: single high and two fifty three percent of the time.
Speaker 1: They're in single high there and two high and they
Speaker 1: have sixteen snaps in zero coverage to dial up that
Speaker 1: pressure look. And they have one snap and a three
Speaker 1: high look that of course as the one of the
Speaker 1: two dime package calls they've made. So yeah, not a
Speaker 1: ton of variety. So hopefully the Dolphins had a great
Speaker 1: game plan ready to attack what they do best at
Speaker 1: the receiver and tight end versus cornerback match up. Here,
Speaker 1: Dallas went after Kyler Gordon when he was in on
Speaker 1: those one on one looks and they went after Kindall
Speaker 1: Vildoor as well. They completed four or four on him
Speaker 1: for just thirty nine yards, but they were critical downs,
Speaker 1: all first downs, and it was clear they were isolating
Speaker 1: that matchup in that game. You know, we love the
Speaker 1: relative athletics scorecard here on the podcast. Kendall villed Door
Speaker 1: is a four or four four guy, but he also
Speaker 1: measured the forty four percentile and short shuttlet in three
Speaker 1: cone and forty seven and ten splits and not a
Speaker 1: lot of burst in his game for Johnson four five
Speaker 1: forty not a lot of long speed there. He was
Speaker 1: seventy seven percent talent short shuttle, but fifty first on
Speaker 1: three cone and fifty five and ten split again short range.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a quick game for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins here, not a lot of change of direction skill.
Speaker 1: Then Kyler Gordon was elite just the four or five
Speaker 1: speed vertically, but ninety plus percentile and all the quickness measurements.
Speaker 1: So we get our when we get our race cars
Speaker 1: on the perimeter tenants seventeen. I think you can win
Speaker 1: quickly and get into run after catch positions, and then
Speaker 1: against Gordon maybe see if you can hit some of
Speaker 1: those slot fades. I think we can see a lot
Speaker 1: of stacks and bunches to create some of those free
Speaker 1: releases and also force the Bears to think. You know,
Speaker 1: thinking against speed can be costly, like if if they're
Speaker 1: not processing fastly, it's gonna be costly form in the end.
Speaker 1: The three top cornerbacks in terms of snaps play in
Speaker 1: their stats. Gordon to fifty nine snaps four ninety six
Speaker 1: yards allowed. You want to be around one per coverage snap.
Speaker 1: That is not a good number for him, but it's
Speaker 1: again rookies. It's tough to play a corner well in
Speaker 1: this league. It was a rookie, especially especially in the slot.
Speaker 1: Kindle willed or two forty six snaps to thirty two.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit better. Pretty good, actually, I should say.
Speaker 1: And then Jalen Johnson one d and fifty six coverage
Speaker 1: snaps and one hund in twenty yards allowed. Teams are
Speaker 1: going after the rookie, pretty obvious. Bildor and Johnson are
Speaker 1: bigger corners, longer corners that play with physicality. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say bigger, they just play more with more physicality. And
Speaker 1: Gordon is that superb athlete with with really good change
Speaker 1: of direction and you get in place primarily inside. But
Speaker 1: the crazy part about that is that Gordon's the biggest
Speaker 1: body of the group, So like, how does that how
Speaker 1: do you figure if you include Jalen Jones their fourth
Speaker 1: highest snaptaker cornerback, Gordon is the only one who tops
Speaker 1: six ft and two hundred pounds. He's right at those benchmarks.
Speaker 1: The other guys are five ten, five eleven between one
Speaker 1: and one. They don't run that fast, so it's like
Speaker 1: you have fast guys that are also small, Like I
Speaker 1: just I don't really see where the matchup is there
Speaker 1: for him in terms of positivity. They'll play off coverage
Speaker 1: eyes and the quarterback and they'll come up and tackle.
Speaker 1: They're really good tacklers, so it could be interesting to
Speaker 1: see if they counter to the off coverage in the
Speaker 1: screen game. And then from there, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: good on good in terms of what can tenants seventeen
Speaker 1: do with the ball in their hands. On top of
Speaker 1: the perimeter block we get from the entire room, most
Speaker 1: notably Trent Scherfield, who has a couple of great blocks
Speaker 1: every single week, we continue to see Tyreek and Jalen
Speaker 1: pushed the top of the defense off, removed the roof
Speaker 1: of the defense, and we see a lot of separation,
Speaker 1: and we've seen some good mix of getting the football
Speaker 1: to the rest of the eligibles, you know, Mike River
Speaker 1: Trent the backs. It's an interesting matchup, and then the
Speaker 1: Bears funnel everything inside and that's where Miami has been
Speaker 1: so so dangerous. So I like that matchup quite a lot.
Speaker 1: As the tight end position. We're seeing Mike get more
Speaker 1: involved in some key moments in the passing game and
Speaker 1: cashing in with some touchdowns. That sort of plays into
Speaker 1: their funnel funnel in top down defense. You know, Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz had six for seventy four last week, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that was quick passing game off free releases
Speaker 1: and finding soft spots in the zone. That's where Mike
Speaker 1: has picked up most of his production this season. You
Speaker 1: go back to Week four, a lot of the same
Speaker 1: for earth Smith of the Vikings. He had four for
Speaker 1: forty two in that game, doing a lot of that
Speaker 1: working into the flats off split flow action, which of
Speaker 1: course is what Miami does. We move inside to the
Speaker 1: offensive line versus defensive line, and boy, they sure felt
Speaker 1: the absence of Robert Quinn. Last week, the Cowboys ran
Speaker 1: right at that spot over and over again, and that
Speaker 1: was very effective. Dallas ran for two hundred yards last week.
Speaker 1: One oh two of that came running off left end.
Speaker 1: The next biggest gap of production for them was off
Speaker 1: right guard for thirty four yards east. You can tell
Speaker 1: they knew where to attack really in the run game
Speaker 1: in the passing game, were effective in both. They'll rotate
Speaker 1: the Bears arm On Watts, Justin Jones, and Angela Blackson.
Speaker 1: Inside they all have between ten and thirteen run stops
Speaker 1: and their pressure numbers there of those three three for Watts,
Speaker 1: ten for Jones, and three for blacks In. So not
Speaker 1: a lot of disruption inside. Justin Jones has been disruptive.
Speaker 1: But this is a team that gets their pressures off
Speaker 1: the edge primarily. And off the edge, they called upon
Speaker 1: Trevis Gibson to take on a lot of the workload
Speaker 1: left behind by Robert Quinn, and he's a similar build
Speaker 1: in terms of the length and power he plays with.
Speaker 1: He's not going to fire up the field and bend
Speaker 1: the edge of the same quickness and an urgency that
Speaker 1: Quinn did. I mean, who can but he's a smart
Speaker 1: player who can play off contact and keep eyes on
Speaker 1: the quarterback and running back. Again, the Cowboys just ran
Speaker 1: right at that. The Bears are general, are incredibly soft
Speaker 1: off the edges in the running game. And I think
Speaker 1: Miami can really hit that outside zone, quick passing game,
Speaker 1: jet sweeps, screen game, and really control the ball in
Speaker 1: this game and get whatever they want in the small
Speaker 1: chunks the five to fifteen yard range. Maybe maybe we'll
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I'm not gonna doubt this
Speaker 1: team's ability to go you know, vertical, but maybe it's
Speaker 1: less like vertical passing and more ball control. This week,
Speaker 1: the Bears also kept getting ro Quan Smith sucked up
Speaker 1: into the wash. But I think it's a function of
Speaker 1: their system to play that read and react defense. That's
Speaker 1: why I think a play action heavy team that uses
Speaker 1: you know, you know, counter looks and fake polls and
Speaker 1: stuff that sells the play action like Kellen Moore does
Speaker 1: in Dallas, I think can give them fits. In fact,
Speaker 1: that read and react style puts a lot of emphasis
Speaker 1: on their backers to get it right, and that's why
Speaker 1: play action passing has absolutely killed them. Thirty one of
Speaker 1: forty are opposing teams over the last four games on
Speaker 1: play action passing for three sixty three, three tugs and
Speaker 1: a pick. So getting the run game going and using
Speaker 1: play action off of that is going to be a
Speaker 1: very big part of that. They play so aggressively upfront.
Speaker 1: Uh that's that's how teams attack them. With that aggression,
Speaker 1: you use it against them to get them going one way,
Speaker 1: go back the other way. And there just has been
Speaker 1: no interior your pass rush for this Bears front, and
Speaker 1: without Quinn there's not going to be much off of
Speaker 1: to his left side either, So you need to get
Speaker 1: Jones inside blocked. But I think two was going to
Speaker 1: have another day of a pressure rate under ten percent,
Speaker 1: and we've seen what he does with that. He is
Speaker 1: really tough to beat when you can't pressure him consistently,
Speaker 1: and they offer, you know, varying size and styles inside
Speaker 1: to three hundred ten pounds of the sizes of Watts
Speaker 1: Jones and blacks him. Jones is incredibly explosive, So finding
Speaker 1: a way to cut him off and prevent him from
Speaker 1: creating creases in the running game, uh and and and
Speaker 1: also in pass pro. It's a tough matchup to watch,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of the guy. I'm keeping an eye
Speaker 1: on Jones inside. His work against Connor Williams and Big
Speaker 1: rob who typically he typically aligns that three technique to
Speaker 1: the right side of the offensive line, is a fun
Speaker 1: one to keep an eye on, but otherwise I expect
Speaker 1: Miami to get movement all day and really hold down
Speaker 1: the pass pro and just keep a focus on Justin
Speaker 1: Jones inside. Off the edge of the pressures and run stops,
Speaker 1: Trevis Gibson has nineteen pressures on just a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: one pass rush snaps, so he's been productive, but only
Speaker 1: seven run stops. Robert Quinn was next with four team pressures.
Speaker 1: He didn't do much in the running game either. Alkaden
Speaker 1: Mohammed has eleven pressures this year and six run stops
Speaker 1: and Dominique Robinson seven pressures and nine run stops. It's
Speaker 1: just not a lot of production off the edge in
Speaker 1: the pass rush game or against the run, and this
Speaker 1: defense is designed to create chances for the linebackers. Just
Speaker 1: looking at the raw tackle numbers, there never leave the field.
Speaker 1: Middle linebacker ro Kuan Smith led the team with eighty
Speaker 1: three tackles, and it was Eddie Jackson with fifty eight.
Speaker 1: A big drop off there between one and two. Then
Speaker 1: Nicholas Morrow the linebacker had fifty six. Then you get
Speaker 1: three more dbs. Then we get Justin Jones a d
Speaker 1: tackle with twenty four. And the first edge on the
Speaker 1: tackles list is al Kaden Mohammed, who has just eight
Speaker 1: teen tackles. He's tenth on the team. You have thirteen
Speaker 1: tackles Robinson, thirteen for Gibson, and then Quinn had eight.
Speaker 1: They do not make many tackles on their d line.
Speaker 1: Quinn and Armstead would have been a great heavy wait five,
Speaker 1: but I think this one with Gibson's pretty good too.
Speaker 1: Gibson has incredible length. We've seen how to Ron can
Speaker 1: cut that off when he goes and just gets his
Speaker 1: guy and shortens the runway. And if Gibson plays that
Speaker 1: upfield shoulder, that might just help to Ron like say, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead and go round the quarterback. I'll be right
Speaker 1: here waiting for you when you get back, and also
Speaker 1: give two of those clear lanes, but also minimize him
Speaker 1: in the running game the way teams have minimized his effectiveness.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know if myamy can get out
Speaker 1: to a lead is to just run the ball right
Speaker 1: at that spot. Run production hasn't been there. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: should dominate that matchup. Go ahead and finish up with
Speaker 1: Dolphins running backs versus Barras linebackers. We've got Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: in the house and coach said he will play. How
Speaker 1: much we will see, but Raheem Mostart has been rolling
Speaker 1: and we know Wilson knows the system pretty well too.
Speaker 1: So I have to imagine that your one to punch.
Speaker 1: Chicago held the Patriots to seventy rushing yards two weeks
Speaker 1: ago after getting out to that big lead, but their
Speaker 1: totals with Dallas and then the games before that two
Speaker 1: hundred yards against Dallas before New England seventeen to sixty
Speaker 1: two oh three one seventy six. Teams can run the
Speaker 1: all on this Bears defense. Nicholas Morrows signed there the
Speaker 1: spring after playing in Las Vegas for the first four
Speaker 1: years of his career. He has the athletic ability and
Speaker 1: speed to pursue wide against these fast Miami backs, but again,
Speaker 1: teams have gone after him in coverage as a result.
Speaker 1: And you know he's just two d and twenty five pounds,
Speaker 1: So you have to think if Miami can get downhill
Speaker 1: on him and block him up and wall him off
Speaker 1: with the work they've been getting from the interior three
Speaker 1: all season. It's another good matchup from Miami that does
Speaker 1: look like a strength of the Dolphins in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, handling the athletic speed outside, so good on
Speaker 1: good in that regard. They acquired a J. Klein in
Speaker 1: the trade, so I'm curious to see if he steps
Speaker 1: in for Smith right away because he's the closest analog
Speaker 1: on the roster. Smith was two thirty five six one.
Speaker 1: I don't know I did that backwards. Clients six to forties,
Speaker 1: so almost the same body type. Client is a far
Speaker 1: cry from Roquan speed four six six compared to four
Speaker 1: or five and Clients played just fifteen snaps this year,
Speaker 1: but he has blogged over forty career snaps and has
Speaker 1: been one of those downhill run game disruptors, kind of
Speaker 1: like a Lendon Roberts outside of a Joe Thomas. Playing
Speaker 1: snaps this year almost exclusively in the running game, with
Speaker 1: sixty two of his snaps coming against the run. He
Speaker 1: has nine run stops, and rookie Jack Sandborn has played
Speaker 1: just thirteen snaps all season long. Nicholas Morrow is the
Speaker 1: straw that stirs the drink. Now his numbers twenty run
Speaker 1: stops under ten percent but pretty good. Number three pressures
Speaker 1: on thirteen pass rush snaps and again targeted twenty four
Speaker 1: times in coverage on two and fifty three snaps. The
Speaker 1: results one twenty four for two oh seven. Throwing the
Speaker 1: ball against Bears linebackers should be fruitful, which plays off
Speaker 1: the running game too, so like the chances for the
Speaker 1: offense to put a number another thirty spot on the
Speaker 1: board this week. We've seen Raheem getting quicker, more decisive
Speaker 1: each week, and I feel that's certainly a credit to him,
Speaker 1: but the offensive line staff for joining the fundamentals and
Speaker 1: getting this run game and system more and more familiar
Speaker 1: each week. Again, my bold prediction this week is where
Speaker 1: Heem hits his first fifty plus yard run, or maybe
Speaker 1: it's like a forty yard touchdown, but it's a big
Speaker 1: run for him, his biggest as a Dolphins. My bold
Speaker 1: take for the Dolphins offense this week. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break way deep into the podcast,
Speaker 1: come back on the other side and talk about the
Speaker 1: defense that next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield brought
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Speaker 1: week long, you guys are getting basically double podcast. This
Speaker 1: week we pick it back up here in segment too
Speaker 1: on this Thursday, November, the third edition of the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: taking a look at the Dolphins defense. First, the Bears offense,
Speaker 1: week number nine, one o'clock kick off from Soldier Field
Speaker 1: in Chicago. We look at the Bears quarterback and offense
Speaker 1: Firsus the Dolphins defense and safeties. This is the Bears
Speaker 1: offense that's starting to find it's footing a little bit,
Speaker 1: finding out how to play the strengths of their quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they're scoring some points. After a pretty rough outing
Speaker 1: on TNF against the Commanders back in Week six, a
Speaker 1: twelve to seven barn Burner, they've scored sixty two points
Speaker 1: and gained seven hundred sixty one yards far and away
Speaker 1: the most over a two game period under Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: And in those games, Fields has a hundred forty two
Speaker 1: on the ground, three thirty through the air, five total
Speaker 1: tuddies and just one giveaway a pick, although he did
Speaker 1: have four fumbles in the Patriots game. More on him
Speaker 1: here in just a moment. How they line up a
Speaker 1: unique personnel grouping on offense as well, eleven personnel just
Speaker 1: fifty six percent at the time. That's about twenty percent
Speaker 1: below the average. They run twenty one personnel, two backs
Speaker 1: and one tight end with you know, fullback seventeen percent.
Speaker 1: They go one back, two tights seventeen percent, as well
Speaker 1: as lots of that two receiver sets thirteen personnels. You're
Speaker 1: one back, three tight ends. They run that five percent
Speaker 1: of the time. And how about two backs and two
Speaker 1: tight ends with one receiver twenty two personnel four percent,
Speaker 1: So half the time into eleven half the time not
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, and there's a lot to get ready for.
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of three and four defensive back
Speaker 1: looks from Miami last week, and you could get more
Speaker 1: of that with the Bears lining up in two or
Speaker 1: less wide receiver sets nearly half the time. Could get
Speaker 1: a first look at Bradley Chubb and how he slopped
Speaker 1: into that group up front with plenty of snaps to
Speaker 1: go around. I love his matchup this week. By the way,
Speaker 1: their offense has been a methodical approach all year, so
Speaker 1: if you can get red zone stops, you can keep
Speaker 1: the score pretty low on this team. Like less than
Speaker 1: twenty points. They have thirteen touchdowns on twenty five red
Speaker 1: zone trips, they've scored twenty plus points and four of
Speaker 1: their eight games each time they are better than in
Speaker 1: the red zone. That's how they got twenty points. So
Speaker 1: if you hold them below fifty percent in the red zone,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna have in the teens or even less.
Speaker 1: Red zone Stops and takeaways the surest fireway to limit
Speaker 1: their scoring. They do have a turnover in every single
Speaker 1: game and three games with multiple turnovers. Hold them to
Speaker 1: fifty in the red zone, get multiple takeaways, you should
Speaker 1: be just fine in this game. So with Fields an
Speaker 1: absolute dynamic runner, and the build of the offense off
Speaker 1: of that, I mean they add gaps with multiple attached
Speaker 1: inline blockers, they condense their formations. They use two back
Speaker 1: sets and run the ball behind a full back. They'll
Speaker 1: utilize zone read from the shotgun. You know, Fields catches
Speaker 1: a lot of flak and he has some wartz to
Speaker 1: smooth out for sure, But they would be lost without
Speaker 1: this guy. Everything is built off of him in the
Speaker 1: way the Baltimore Is Running game works through Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: to help give those backs more production. In the running game.
Speaker 1: Fields red zone running is where they ramp it up
Speaker 1: to another level. He gets even more carries down in
Speaker 1: that area. But then you also have the element of
Speaker 1: the scramble. He's just a lot to deal with. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys had him dead to rights in a play where
Speaker 1: he rolled to his left part of the design of
Speaker 1: the play, and then they left the backside edge unblocked
Speaker 1: and he comes right down the barrel into Fields's face
Speaker 1: and he just stepped around it like child's play and
Speaker 1: ran for like fifteen twenty yards on third and four.
Speaker 1: So you have to be you know, come in control
Speaker 1: and break down and get him to the ground. He
Speaker 1: did miss some underneath throws in that game. There was
Speaker 1: one ball that was high and carry his receiver out
Speaker 1: of bounds on an easy speed out first down conversion
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys just basically gave him, and he missed
Speaker 1: that throw. He put a few balls on the wrong
Speaker 1: shoulder that looked like it would limit yack ability, But man,
Speaker 1: you can work around that stuff and and you know,
Speaker 1: miss a few layups like he has wanted to do
Speaker 1: when you have that type of running ability. My plan
Speaker 1: this game probably looks a lot like Baltimore from last year,
Speaker 1: zero coverage, extra extra hats in the box off coverage,
Speaker 1: and see if fields can consistently one hit those layups
Speaker 1: in the short perimeter part of the field or to
Speaker 1: beat us deep over the top. They've been unable to
Speaker 1: do that all year long. Deep passes, They're just eight
Speaker 1: on deep passes two seventy eight yards, three touchdowns and
Speaker 1: three picks. When throwing twenty plush yards down the field,
Speaker 1: it's a sixty four point three passer rating. We know
Speaker 1: Javon Holland has played a big role in limiting deep
Speaker 1: passing this year, though it's obviously a team effort, but
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see Javon's usage this week. He had
Speaker 1: by far his highest number of snaps in the box
Speaker 1: last week, one compared to previously high being a fifteen,
Speaker 1: he could attack. He could be a good eraser off
Speaker 1: that scrambled ability, both as a blitzer and just coming
Speaker 1: from depth to attack fields. Number eight is a big
Speaker 1: key this week. They also have very little from a
Speaker 1: downfield threat standpoint, minimal separation and minimal ability to make
Speaker 1: contested catches at full speed on those verticals. They have
Speaker 1: some chances. They'd always convert them, though justin fields versus
Speaker 1: blitz fifty completion, seven point six yards per past, four
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two picks, thirteen sacks on sixty three drop backs,
Speaker 1: so they've gotten to him when you blitz him. Non
Speaker 1: blitz is also get to him sixty one seven point
Speaker 1: five y p a, three touchdowns, four picks, and eighteen
Speaker 1: sacks on one hundred and sixty five drop backs, so
Speaker 1: you can get fields under pressure, get him to the ground,
Speaker 1: and get some negative plays on offense. Last week it
Speaker 1: was a lot of Ronan McKinley deep when jave On
Speaker 1: came down. I think that his instincts serve him well there,
Speaker 1: but it's a lot to put on his plate if
Speaker 1: you're gonna play that zero. Look how about the guys
Speaker 1: that fields has to throw to the receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends versus corners. The majority of that room is built
Speaker 1: around big body guys who either excel with their contested
Speaker 1: catch ability or nuance to create separation. Darnell Mooney is
Speaker 1: a monster with the ladder. Vellis Jones Jr. I think
Speaker 1: is their fastest guy. He took a jet sweep around
Speaker 1: an unset edge for the against the Cowboys. For a
Speaker 1: big game, he also got on top of their defense
Speaker 1: and fields hit him, but he couldn't finish the catch
Speaker 1: going to the ground. If they can get those deep
Speaker 1: ball connections going, they might be tough to defend. But
Speaker 1: right now it's not working for him. The problem is
Speaker 1: that issue. You know that Vellas has not pulling that
Speaker 1: contested catch down the field. It's kind of unanimous across
Speaker 1: the board, like if you're in the area, you typically
Speaker 1: can get a p BU on it or just in completion.
Speaker 1: Even when their speed guys get verticals, they just don't
Speaker 1: make plays in the football, whether it's Pettis, st Brown, Claypool,
Speaker 1: that those guys don't separate. But the the vertical skill
Speaker 1: set got vertical speed guys have had trouble hanging onto
Speaker 1: footballs down the field. We saw Claypool here a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago the Bay do some of the same
Speaker 1: things that the Steelers did in terms of throwing that
Speaker 1: vertical pass to the X the short side of the
Speaker 1: field and three by one sets. Get your attention over here,
Speaker 1: get one receiver on the backside and throw him the
Speaker 1: football one on one. That's where Claypool made a lot
Speaker 1: of his big place with the Steelers. And George Pickens too.
Speaker 1: If they can get him in that spot, I'd imagine
Speaker 1: they at least think about some shots to chase Claypool
Speaker 1: against US, he went against X one for two on
Speaker 1: the targets and completions for eleven yards. Justin Bethel two
Speaker 1: of three for fifteen yards. Clayton Federalum was over one
Speaker 1: in terms of catching the ball. In Federalum that he
Speaker 1: caught a pair of passes that were attributed to Duke
Speaker 1: and Gink and coverage good for a total of fourteen
Speaker 1: yards on two of two. So a little bit interesting
Speaker 1: to see if he gets a heavy workload coming to
Speaker 1: a new team. Here. One guy that we know will
Speaker 1: is Darnell Mooney. Now, the Cowboys took him out of
Speaker 1: the game in the first half last week, but he
Speaker 1: responded with five for seventy in the second half. He
Speaker 1: doesn't by chasing blind blind spots, setting up his rouse
Speaker 1: with a purpose, attacking leverage, stemming and stacking like a
Speaker 1: ten year vetman. He is so good, really really good
Speaker 1: player on the areast. Just twenty five or forty one
Speaker 1: targets for three sixty four but no touchdowns. This team
Speaker 1: doesn't throw the ball very often. The team as a
Speaker 1: whole has just twelve d receiving yards and seven touchdowns.
Speaker 1: They are the definition of a run team as much
Speaker 1: as you can be here in kill Harry came back
Speaker 1: off the i R last week and caught all three
Speaker 1: of his targets for thirty eight yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And then Equanimius st. Brown has eleven grabs on twenty
Speaker 1: three targets for one, six, four and touchdown. That is
Speaker 1: like Davante Parker numbers. It's I've been in a productive
Speaker 1: group this year for the Bears. How do you approach it?
Speaker 1: The problem here is against a group that has had
Speaker 1: more success against Zoe and struggled separate against man coverage.
Speaker 1: Is this, You play man coverage and you don't maintain
Speaker 1: good rush lane integrity on every single play, fields will
Speaker 1: get you eventually. So trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: marry your man coverage with your effective rush package is
Speaker 1: going to be key. Their physical wide receivers across the board.
Speaker 1: From a style standpoint, you probably have to find a
Speaker 1: way to match up against that across the board. I
Speaker 1: absolutely love the way Kator co who plays from a
Speaker 1: competition and physicality standpoint, I think he's getting really close
Speaker 1: to us being able to go back to a place
Speaker 1: where it's like we have two really good outside corners
Speaker 1: with prominent man coverage. Because he's so good at being
Speaker 1: physical and disrupting timing inside or outside. He's really been
Speaker 1: only beaten on zone looks this year. But also you
Speaker 1: do have to be able to match our mix and
Speaker 1: match i should say, his zone and man to effectively
Speaker 1: disguise your coverage. So hopefully he's getting better in that
Speaker 1: area each week. I think he is. Last week we
Speaker 1: saw X play every snap co who all but three snaps,
Speaker 1: and then Nigbo played nineteen crossing fourteen with Bethel giving
Speaker 1: you eleven. So I'm curious to see if that's a
Speaker 1: look this week. X and cater full time with a
Speaker 1: mix for that third cornerback role. And this defense largely
Speaker 1: stays to their side, so as far as matchups, kind
Speaker 1: of up to the Bears to make that decision. Offensive
Speaker 1: line verse defensive line. It's tough to build great offensive
Speaker 1: lines in this league, and the Bears have invested their resources,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't really panned out for them. They've drafted
Speaker 1: Tevin Jenkins, who's getting you know, a bit of a
Speaker 1: baptism by fire. At right guard, he's played alongside Riley
Speaker 1: Reef in for the injured Larry Borom. Reef is a
Speaker 1: stabilizing force, but he can struggle with speed rushers. Braxton
Speaker 1: Jones at left tackles having a really tough time and
Speaker 1: his worst game was against a team that's kind of
Speaker 1: like us in terms of big, heavy defense eve vents
Speaker 1: like Zack Seiler and Christian Wilkins kicking outside six pressure
Speaker 1: night allowed versus Washington, and then Lucas Patrick the left guard,
Speaker 1: Sam must Offers the center, and the pressures allowed Braxon
Speaker 1: Jones twenty five. This year, it's a lot. Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: sixteen on just a hundred forty six pass rush pass
Speaker 1: blocking snaps. Sam Mustafer has eleven inside that's a very
Speaker 1: good number for two hundred forty pass blocking snaps. Tevin
Speaker 1: Jenkins just eight on on two hundred pass blocking snaps,
Speaker 1: and then Riley Reef was his first game last week.
Speaker 1: He allowed just one pressure in that game. He's been
Speaker 1: a nice stabilizing force for them, or for the one game,
Speaker 1: I should say, in the absence of Larry Borum, who
Speaker 1: had just ten pressures allowed on two hundred eight pass
Speaker 1: blocking snaps. That right tackle position has been their most
Speaker 1: productive this season. I think I'm most looking forward to
Speaker 1: Zach Seler matching up with Tevin Jenkins because they're both massive, strong,
Speaker 1: and play with a bit of an edge. Now on
Speaker 1: the other side, Patrick goes three fifteen, Jenkins and Mustafer
Speaker 1: are three five, and at tackle, Jones and Reef are
Speaker 1: both just three tens. So literally no left tackle left
Speaker 1: guard Comming has surrendered more pressures this year than Chicago,
Speaker 1: just in time for Bradley Chubb to get here. That
Speaker 1: left sides under size, I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: long day going up against Chub, Seeler, Wilkins, Ingram over there.
Speaker 1: And then you have the speed rush and speed to
Speaker 1: power for Jalen against Riley Reef watch fifteen this week.
Speaker 1: I bet you he gets a sack on speed to power.
Speaker 1: That's my defensive bold prediction, and that Bradley Chub gets
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure as well. That and a lot
Speaker 1: of tackles for loss and quick penetration from the left
Speaker 1: side of the Chicago offensive lines. When I'm thinking, those
Speaker 1: pressures they have surrendered don't necessarily mean success for the defense,
Speaker 1: though fields can absorb those and make big plays out
Speaker 1: of them. So the key is getting multiple wins and
Speaker 1: staying true to your rush lanes and keeping the bears
Speaker 1: and passing downs is obviously a key. When they get
Speaker 1: the run game cranking, they can really turn that on.
Speaker 1: So a big part of that. Our last position group
Speaker 1: here on this side of the football, running backs versus linebackers.
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert's alone man. You have to bring sound tackling
Speaker 1: against him. He's got three hundred and seventy three yards
Speaker 1: after initial contact on twenty three miss tackles force and
Speaker 1: four point one yards on average after initial contact. That's
Speaker 1: on ninety one to ten. It's one of the top
Speaker 1: ten missed tackles forced rates in all of football. So
Speaker 1: was David Montgomery, by the way, two ninety yards after
Speaker 1: contact on nine two carries with twenty six forced miss tackles.
Speaker 1: You must, must, must tackle against these guys. Between the
Speaker 1: two of them in fields, they have a combined sixty
Speaker 1: eight miss tackles force that as far and away than
Speaker 1: most by any tree of teammates in the NFL. Herbert
Speaker 1: is five ft nine to twelve, Montgomery five ft eleven
Speaker 1: to twenty four. They're bowling balls. They play low, They'll
Speaker 1: hit you in the face. They've also caught nineteen of
Speaker 1: their twenty targets combined this year for a buck ninety
Speaker 1: seven and a touchdown. So a big day for Baker
Speaker 1: Roberts Riley. The entire linebacking crew to recognize screens, take
Speaker 1: on blocks, and bring their lunch pails, and tackle in
Speaker 1: the running game. On special teams, Jason Sanders still perfect
Speaker 1: under fifty, eleven for eleven, still over three on fifty
Speaker 1: plush yarders, hasn't tried one since the Vikings game. He's
Speaker 1: nineteen for twenty on p A T s for the Bears.
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos is a perfect two of twelve this season,
Speaker 1: including four makes from fifty plus, although interestingly all of
Speaker 1: those are either fifty or fifty one yards. He's eleven
Speaker 1: for thirteen p E T s in the punting game.
Speaker 1: Thomas Morrison had one point last week, thirty eight yard
Speaker 1: that pinned the line to the eleven yard line. He's
Speaker 1: averaging forty five point five per punt on thirty kicks.
Speaker 1: His hang time has been great minimal returns. He's not
Speaker 1: hitting touchbacks hardly ever. For the Bears. Trenton Gills averaging
Speaker 1: forty eight point five per punt on thirty one points.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break right here,
Speaker 1: come back and tell you what's at stake, the three
Speaker 1: keys to victory pick the week nine games, and we'll
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback to a tongue by low all of
Speaker 1: that next on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. What's at steak when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins traveled to Soldier Field on Sunday? Really the
Speaker 1: same set up as last week. It's a cross conference game.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have an impact on tiebreakers in the a f C,
Speaker 1: but it certainly impacts the most important column, the win column.
Speaker 1: Another chance to prove that you can win on the road,
Speaker 1: outdoors and potentially crappy weather. We'll see about that though
Speaker 1: those Midwest weather reports change all the time, but current
Speaker 1: it says like winning gusts will see a two game
Speaker 1: streak is at stake now that we've crossed the or
Speaker 1: will cross the halfway point at halftime of this game.
Speaker 1: For the symmetry of the schedule, the Dolphins are currently
Speaker 1: in the wild card position number six, so maintaining that
Speaker 1: keeping pressure on the Bills atop of the division. There's
Speaker 1: always a lot at stake in these games, right, but
Speaker 1: in general not much in terms of anything outside the
Speaker 1: win or loss. My three keys of the game contain
Speaker 1: the explosive Bears running game. At first, I said, don't
Speaker 1: let Justin Fields beat you on design runs or on scrambles.
Speaker 1: But I have to add Herbert and Montgomery here, because
Speaker 1: those guys are just a load tackle. Well, get those
Speaker 1: guys to the ground. You hold that Bears running game,
Speaker 1: You're gonna win the game. Number to protect the football.
Speaker 1: Do not give this team extra possessions. You're more talented.
Speaker 1: You should beat them if you give the football away, though,
Speaker 1: The quickest way to have the game go the other direction.
Speaker 1: Just like last week, down fourteen nothing because of a
Speaker 1: turnover on our first drive. Number three, continue to utilize
Speaker 1: the play action passing game. Everything rides off the running game.
Speaker 1: The outside zone and the Bears fast read and react
Speaker 1: defense can potentially be susceptible to play actions and misdirections.
Speaker 1: So use that play action game in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field gets the defense that wants to zone turn
Speaker 1: and funnel everything inside. Week nine picks thirteen and two,
Speaker 1: last week Baby one and one on the season Dolphins Country.
Speaker 1: Let's right, Uh No, I was terrible edited out. Now
Speaker 1: I'll keep it in Philly over Houston tonight du Miami
Speaker 1: over Chicago. This is a tough one Chargers over Falcons,
Speaker 1: but I can see that one going either way. Packers
Speaker 1: over Lines, same deal there. I think the Lines are
Speaker 1: gonna get one eventually. Packers haven't looked very good. Take
Speaker 1: the Patriots over the Colts, although I do want to
Speaker 1: see the Colts win that game because I want them
Speaker 1: to win the a f C sal because it could
Speaker 1: be a potential five vers four matchup in the wild
Speaker 1: card round. Since over Carolina, Buffalo over the Jets, Big
Speaker 1: Vegas over Jacksonville, gave me the Vikings over Warkner Industry,
Speaker 1: Arizona over Seattle. It's a tough one to Tampa over
Speaker 1: the Rams, Chiefs over the Titans, and Ravens over the
Speaker 1: Saints on Monday night. Football's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: here with two A tongue of Iloa's Wednesday media availability.
Speaker 1: He was spicy, he was salty, he was fun. Uh.
Speaker 1: We shared a fun moment in the media room on
Speaker 1: the Mini Hoop talking about to a brick of Voloa
Speaker 1: to a ball or viola more like it. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk here first about two h's confidence level
Speaker 1: after the team traded away that first round pick and
Speaker 1: built around the roster in a way that says, we
Speaker 1: have our quarterback. Let's get the rest. I would say
Speaker 1: I felt supported. Um, you know, from the time you know,
Speaker 1: Mike came in, you know, getting guys like Tyreeke. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we had Jalen, we had Mike Gasecki.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing guys like um Raheem moster, guys that kind
Speaker 1: of understood the offense. Um, you know that have been
Speaker 1: with him, you know, with Trent and a River. So
Speaker 1: you know, I would say I felt supported. Um, you
Speaker 1: know before all of that. Next we see this quarterback
Speaker 1: have the highest passer rating on third downs in a
Speaker 1: single season of all time, and that stack goes back
Speaker 1: to one point seven. How are you doing that too? Uh? Why?
Speaker 1: I think we do a really good job in practice
Speaker 1: on you know, with with the scout team. The scout
Speaker 1: team gives us great looks on what their team plays
Speaker 1: on third and long, and um, we're also you know,
Speaker 1: talking about things that could potentially come up. So if
Speaker 1: they did come up, you know where could we go
Speaker 1: if this doesn't show up? So um, I would say
Speaker 1: we have a lot of answers for our third down place,
Speaker 1: whether it's third and long, third and short, um of
Speaker 1: potential coverages we could be getting. All right, there we go,
Speaker 1: another forty plus minute podcast for you guys this week.
Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying those as much. I'm enjoying doing
Speaker 1: all the research and all the planning for these shows.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, but it's fun to do, especially when
Speaker 1: the team is right like it is right now. We'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and come back with you guys tomorrow to
Speaker 1: get the perspective from Chicago. We'll hear from the assistant coaches.
Speaker 1: Might have some additional media. We'll see about that as well.
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