WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Giants Week 5 Preview 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.480 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.120 Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a looking 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:16.360 clips about the wide Dolphin touchdown trick call uncrelievable, just 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.239 blue fire for a second time. Don't know where he 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:21.919 was going right away? Want to hit that though, Man, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.560 I'm wanna help you. Someone will stup on the bandwagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.480 Wattle Wattle to a shotgun, back to throw, looking at 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.960 thems up fires touchdown. It's waddle his six touchdown. Pats 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:39.800 up this day. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.080 let me check your pulse if enough for what is up? 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.600 Dolphins And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:52.760 the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.800 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.200 And on today's show, we turned the page to the 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.360 New York Giants. We're previewing Dolphins and Giants Sunday at 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.080 hard Rock Stadium. But first before we do that, we're 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.880 gonna go ahead and evaluate the quarter pool of the season. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.800 Busy episode from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.760 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast may Caffe. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.800 We're gonna get to the Giants here in just a moment, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.720 even though you know the points spread in that game 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.399 kind of tells you the expectation of that game, and 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.160 we'll get into it here shortly. I don't really know 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.119 how to break games do like that. Honestly, it's really 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.440 tough to do games where I think the mismatch is 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.120 so lopsided. But you know, anything can happen any given 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.400 Sunday in the National Football League. But every year to 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 that point, the football season goes in a direction that 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.040 you did not expect. Right. Yeah, you'll be right with 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.959 some things, but you'll be wrong about a lot more. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.280 I thought we tarked the year three and one, but 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.080 I thought the l would come in the opening road 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.480 date with Tron on the sideline. But I digress. Still, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.720 you guys know, I spent a whole summer telling you 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.240 what to expect from ninety players, and not all of 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.760 that was correct. So here are some players that I 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.480 think have outperformed expectations and guys that I think we 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.920 can get more from. And the best part about this, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.400 I think at least three of the four on the 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.560 we can get more from list we'll turn things around 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:19.600 here very quickly. So quarter pole evaluations outperformed Devon a Chan. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.280 I mean, what else can you have to say about that? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.600 I just didn't think the mental would click as fast 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.919 as it has for him. It's been as fast as 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.840 his play speed has been and eighteen percent of his 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.560 runs have gone for fifteen plus yards this year. The 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.480 next highest percentage on that list is twelve percent. It's absolutely, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.000 absolutely insane. Julian Hill. It's very difficult to tell how 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.560 good the blocking is in training camp because it's not 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.360 full contact, it's not live, but he's been pretty damn 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.679 good there, very nice addition to that tight end two role. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.560 Durham smythe for me by far, the best year, by far, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.600 the best year of durham Smyth's career to date. He's 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.520 been hitting key blocks and I love the way he 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.960 times up his chip release game to give two of 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.080 that last option when the downfield options are not available. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.799 Austin Jackson. I thought we were in for more of 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.040 the same during training camp, and boy was I wrong. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.600 And I'm thrilled about it because I love Austin. He's 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.480 been kicking ass out there. Isaiah Wim I thought he'd 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.200 be replacement level at left guard, but he has been 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.799 much more than that. A huge success, and replacement level 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.920 would have been a huge success, but he's been significantly 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.440 more than that. Kendall Lamb the exact same thing as 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.639 Isaiah win Cut and Pace put it there. Andrew Van Ginkel, now, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.440 I just didn't know he had the pass rush moves 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.000 in his arsenal that he's displayed so far. And he's 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.360 been pretty what's the word I'm looking for here. He's 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.480 been a mainstay on the top pass rushing productivity lists 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.640 you see from multiple different websites. And then Deshaun Elliott. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.640 I knew he was a thumper who could come downhill 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.800 and pop folks in the running game. I just didn't 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 know how much coverage range he had in the back end. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.880 He's a key part of that quarter quarter half type 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.720 of system they like to run on the backside some players. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.200 I believe that we can get more from Jalen Waddle 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.480 and I this is why I'm talking about like guys 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.360 that I would I don't say this in disparaging way, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.320 just haven't had the productivity we used to have out 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.240 of those guys. Waddle missed some time back in training camp. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.080 But I think the Dolphins would be well served to 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.080 get him more involved, and he's been open. You can, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.799 you know, change your progressions in your primaries on certain 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.919 plays and get him more involved. I think that should 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.520 be a key number one for the offense to kind 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.080 of find new ways to continue to be explosive. Christian Wilkins. Look, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.440 it's a new defense. It's an entirely different scheme, a 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.919 lot more you know, one gapping than two gapping, but 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.320 taking on double teams. And it's been the same front 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.000 pretty much every call we've had light boxes. It's a 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.600 tough ask for him. He's played better than what he's 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.839 showing you so far this year. David Long, I just 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.760 didn't think that he was going to be wrong so 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.960 as much as he has in the running game, in 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.839 the fits, jumping out of gaps. But I expect it 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.440 as more time goes along here, he'll get that dialed. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.479 Bradley Chubb. I've said the pressure rate has improved since 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.240 he got here, but we need more one on one 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.839 from him. Dion Dawkins, you know, puts a lot of 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.400 gu in the zero column in the pass rush department. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.160 But if we want to be a serious pass rush 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.680 front that can get home with four you have to 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.920 win those one on ones and it just hasn't been there. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.719 And then Jerome Baker not really sure. It's been a 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.560 tough go there so far this season. So plenty to 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.160 work on, plenty to get better with a team will 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.120 progress and get better as we go along this season. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.279 A couple of chances to get right here before the 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.920 big game in Philadelphia, and then of course the biggest 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.240 game in about four weeks up in Germany against the 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.960 Kansas City Chiefs that could have some massive, massive playoff 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.279 implications there in terms of seating. Once we get to January, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.200 let's talk about the New York Giants. They come to 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.039 town on Sunday for a one o'clock kickoff here at 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.000 hard Rock Stadium, and they come into this game limping 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.359 at one to three. And let's go ahead and go 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.520 back further. Though. They had a bounce back year last 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.920 season after some really challenging years going back to twenty seventeen. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.479 Someone posted the picture of them on the boat before 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.760 that playoff game. You know, the week they had off, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.960 they did a couple of days they had off before 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.880 the playoff game against I think it was Green Bay 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.640 that year in twenty sixteen when they lost, and since 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.080 then their record is the worst in the National Football League. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.680 You know, twenty sixteen was the last time they made 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.760 the playoffs eleven and five that year, but since then 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.359 three and thirteen five and eleven four and twelve six 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.680 and ten, four and thirteen nine, seven and one, but 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.760 a playoff win there in Dables first year. And of 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.880 those you know, what is that seventy something games, probably 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.400 forty five of those been in primetime, So tough watches 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:26.160 for us, you know, not casual what's the word impartial 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.719 fans that don't have a preference there. This team that 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.880 they have right now began taking shape back in the 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.000 twenty nineteen draft class when they had three first round picks. Well, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.880 I guess twenty eighteen they brought Saquon Barkley and with 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.120 a second overall pick in a year where it was 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.960 supposed to be one of these generational quarterback classes, right, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.400 And it's kind of funny because twenty eighteen did produce 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.640 two of those guys, but they were the fourth and 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.640 fifth No, no, no, they were the third and fifth pick 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.839 among quarterbacks in that class. I think most folks projected 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.960 them to be fourth and fifth in that class, and 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 then you know, twenty twenty one, you got one good 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.680 quarterback out of that class. Right now, I still believe 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.480 in justin fields. That's a different conversation for a different day. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.880 The offense in Chicago, I think is kind of limiting 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.520 what he can do. And then what was the other one? 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.560 I guess this year coming up as the next big one, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.760 but twenty twenty was the only class that really hit 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.720 for multiple quarterbacks across the board there. But anyway, that 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.120 twenty eighteen team should have gone quarterback. They took a 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.200 running back, which you know that flies in the face 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.600 of pretty much every analytical measure you can make these days. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.480 But the funny thing about it is, you know what 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.080 should serve as you had another reminder of just how 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.280 little we know about the draft and what's going to happen. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.760 It goes back to my first part about we spend 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.880 you know, six months evaluating teams and having this perception 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.160 of what we think they are, and then one game 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.440 in for some people, you know, four games in for 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.160 the rest determine that you know, everything we talked about 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.000 all summer was bs. You know, some some people get 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.400 some of that stuff right, but for the most part 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.120 not really. But that draft class, I mean, everybody had 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.840 Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold. Not your boy, not your boy. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.280 That was my my mona, Lisa Man my rankings year 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.840 where Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield, Sam Donald, Josh Rosen. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.239 Go ahead and inflate the ego there a little bit. Anyway, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.960 the two best quarterbacks in that class wind up being 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.840 Allen and Jackson, so they rectify the quarterback position. The 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.040 Giants do by snagging Dan Jones with the sixth pick 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.720 in twenty nineteen, and he just got that big pay 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.200 day after guiding the Giants to the playoffs last year. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.440 But it is off to a miserable start this season. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.760 They did get their very best player in that draft 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.800 class in Dexter Lawrence, but they bookended him with DeAndre 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.400 Baker later in that first round. You guys think that 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.720 you have some issues with only getting you know, four 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.000 draft picks a year that hit on your roster. How 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.360 about that first round with Daniel Jones and DeAndrea Baker. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.079 As you're a six and thirtieth pick in that year's draft, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.120 there's been plenty of resources poured into the offensive line, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.040 and they've had a hit. Andrew Thomas is their second 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.559 best player for my money, behind Dexter Lawrence, a Pro 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.080 Bowl franchise left tackle. They missed him this year so far. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.439 He's not playing. He didn't practice on Wednesday. They've bookended 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.280 Thomas with Evan Neil last year with the I think 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.480 it was the sick pick. If I'm not mistaken, it 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.680 was top seven or eight. They added a really good 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.199 looking center prospect this year in John Michael Schmidt's in 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.640 the second round, but he didn't practice on Wednesday. Neither 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.760 did left guard Shane Lemieux, and Evan Neil has been 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.360 a disaster this year. We'll talk about that more in 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.160 a second. The skill positions outside of Barkley, they have 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.559 not invested heavily in. The only first round pick they 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.600 have in that group was Kadarius Tony, who got traded 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.680 for pennies on the dollar last year to Kansas City 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.440 Sterling Shepard was the highest pick among them, a second rounder, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.880 and Jalen Hyat a third rounder this year, the next highest, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.400 and it seems like he might be the best player 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.240 of them all, but they haven't really involved him so 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.840 far on the offense. Now, they did spend big on 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.400 Darren Waller with a trade this offseason and a contract 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.080 from Las Vegas. I'd argue that was the best move 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.600 they've made in that group since getting Barkley. And then 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.640 defensively it's completely front loaded. It still has fingerprints of 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.480 Dave Gelliman all over it. I mentioned Lawrence. They paid 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.959 Leonard Williams big and he's a great player. I think 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.200 Ashawn Robinson and rakeem Nuniez roaches are good players as 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.640 kind of your nose tackle and backup knows there. I 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.400 love Bobby Okeerik. Yeah, it was Okareky then Okhara Kaane 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.160 Okareki who came over from the Colts this offseason. I 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.000 was a big fan of his at Stanford. They also 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.679 got Isaiah Simmons cheap from the Cardinals and man I wish, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.920 I wish he would have been available earlier. And then 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.960 the secondary has seen a lot of resources port in 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.160 it as well. First round pick Deonte Banks this year, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.040 love his game, but taking a bit of time to 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.679 kind of marinate. Their third round pick, Cordell Flott, got 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.360 a lot of playing time on Monday Xavier McKinney was 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.200 a second round pick of few years back from Alabama. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.240 Love his game, and they spent big on a Dori 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.440 Jackson to play some slot for them as well. So 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.480 it's the second year under Dable with Wink Martindale. I 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.840 met Wing Martindale up in Indianapolis of the Combine. Really 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.320 cool dude, really really cool dude. But he dials up 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.040 blitzes like nobody else's business. But in a slow start 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.920 for the Giants. Looking to get things going, Let's go 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.880 ahead and talk about some of the key storylines here 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.520 before he turn it over to the offensive preview against 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.680 the Giants defense, and then a segment three will do 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.800 Dolphins defense first Giants offense. But for me, it's all 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.320 about the Dolphins here. I was not big on the 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.160 Giants all year. Last year, they probably cost me a 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.679 bunch of wins and the picks because they found victories 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.360 against you know, the bottom feeders, the commanders and the yeah, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.199 the commanders of the world, but just playing a pretty 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.200 soft schedule. This year, things have changed and things have 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.840 gone back the other direction. So for me, all about Miami. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.240 Just get right man, big game last week. Didn't like 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.480 you're capable of got a little bit of a not 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.080 reality check because I don't think it changes anything about 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.880 how good this team is. But maybe you got some 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.040 humility there, served your way go put it on somebody, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.320 just like you did the last time you played in 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.280 this building here across the street in Miami Gardens. And 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.079 I had this conversation with some of our my coworkers 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.520 here earlier today. I want to hear how you guys 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.640 feel about this. Do you like find yourself finding it 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.040 difficult to be present about this current game, cause, like 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.960 you know, three and one, you lost in the Bills 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.760 and everyone's kind of down you right now. But I 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.920 keep thinking about how, like there's not a whole lot 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.640 to gain from these next two games aside from the 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.400 obvious fact of getting wins, which is massive, but in 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.719 the perception aspect of it, like you expect to win 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.920 these games. And it reminds me of the Patriots in 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.760 a little bit of a way, like completely different but 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.480 kind of similar in terms of like theirs and didn't 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.040 start until the AFC Championship game for like eight years 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.920 in a row, because they would go thirteen to three, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.480 they would get that first round by they'd mop up 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.240 like the nine to seven Houston Texans in the divisional 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.600 round and then play the Chiefs, whoever the Steelers in 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.240 the AFC Championship game. Do you guys kind of feel 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.160 some of that, like for current time for the Miami Dolphins, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.120 like you expect to destroy these next two teams, then 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.079 you have a big game in week seven? Do you 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.920 kind of feel like you're not being present enough. I 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.440 need to do a better job myself just enjoying the 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.800 process of playing these teams that were supposed to beat 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.000 and enjoy winning those games. I think that's something we 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.600 can all stand to do, especially on social media. Back 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.720 to the podcast. You know, just get it right, go 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.280 put it on somebody like you did last time you 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.319 played in this building. And by that I just mean 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.840 better basic execution. Cut out the operation issues, the penalties, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.600 the mistackles. Let's get fundamentals short up and get better 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.520 in time for that Eagles game in a couple of weeks. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.760 That's not really a storyline. I mean, there aren't much 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.040 in this game. Two teams that play once every four 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.640 years or I guess now more recently with the seventeenth 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.720 game and having played them back in twenty twenty one 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.160 off the four year cycle. But I digress, and you 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.480 have them coming to town really struggling. So what really 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.240 are there? I guess Dable and McDaniel hired in the 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.120 same cycle. They get the playoff win. Last year, we 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.080 go to the playoffs, we have the three and one 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.400 start versus their one and three start, and you know, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.199 there's not a person on the planet right now. They'll 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.000 tell you the probably be the a giant situation than 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.640 the Miami Dolphin situation. But coaches will always tell you 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.640 it's about the players, right. But it's also nice to 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.160 go out and out coach and put it on a 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.880 team and a guy that was hired in the same 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.079 cycle as you would love to see Miami just get 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.640 back to deploying design that puzzles opponents, that makes you say, like, man, 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.440 they can't even keep up today. And then on the 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.400 other side, the exact same thing. Let's boggle this team 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.920 offensively because they have been terrible this year. Don't let 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.120 them get right against you. Another one here, do you 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.520 guys know this is the first time in the career 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.199 of two tongue by Lowa. He's gonna play in a 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.760 Week five game that to me is crazy. And I 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.839 just continue to say this like people, are you know, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.640 committing Harry Cary as it were this past week over 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.840 the Buffalo loss. But if we keep this guy healthy, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.959 I promise you will be just fine. And I'll give 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.560 you an update on that in a prediction I have 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.000 at the very into the podcast here, first four and 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.400 one start since two thousand and two. Chance to make 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.719 that happen first time in twenty years. Let's do that. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.080 How about thirteen and two in the last fifteen games 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.120 at hard Rock Stadium. Just keep winning at home, baby, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.120 make it a fifteen and two here over these next 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.200 two games against Carolina and New York. And then how 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.680 about this your defensive splits at home versus on the road. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.680 Over that fifteen game stretch this year, the Dolphins averaged 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.400 three point five yards per rush at home defensively and 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.680 four point five on the road, one full yard better. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.440 Passer rating home versus road eighty four versus one thirteen. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.880 It's a big gap there. Last year three point eight 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.920 yards on the ground, four point four on the road, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.320 about a half yard there or something, I don't know, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.200 something like that. And then eighty two passer rating versus 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.600 one oh nine, like Massive Gaps twenty twenty one, after 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.600 the winning streak started after the seven game losing or 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.080 the five game losing streak, whatever, the seven game losing streak. Jesus, 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.480 I'm all over the place. Four point three yards per rush, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.640 four point five on the road, so no big difference there, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.400 but a passer rating at home of sixty nine to 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.480 one oh three. My goodness, Why is this defense so 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.480 much better at home? Hopefully it can be that way 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.280 this week as well. Let's go ahead and take our 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.120 first break and come back and start on the Dolphins 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.080 offense versus the Giants defense. That's next Draft Time podcast, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:13.560 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoundation, picking 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.960 it back up for segment number two for Dolphins Giants 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.240 Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. Let's go ahead and start 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.360 with a Dolphins offense versus the Giants defense and the 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.200 safeties that are going to be trying to confuse to 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.480 a tongue of IOA or Xavier McKinney, former Alabama teammate, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.720 and I posted the clip on my Twitter timeline of 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.120 me back at the combine, which was like my first 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.240 day on the job here in the Miami Dolphins about 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.440 two weeks before the pandemic took over our lives for 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.840 a year plus. Was talking to Xavier McKinney, who gave 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.680 me a great sound bite go check up check me 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.480 out at Wingle NFL on Twitter, where I asked him 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.920 about what is practicing against two a tongue of I 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.120 looa every day done to improve your game, and he 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.760 straight up said the way he looked me off, I 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.640 didn't understand how he was seeing the field the way 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.720 he did. If you think Tua can't get off his 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.280 first read, like it's not what you're worth arguing about, 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.160 Like you just you don't know ball dog. So he's 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.240 back there. He's a really good player. And then Jason 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.600 Pennock has filled in for Bobby McCain who got injured 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.040 back in Week one, and it's been a pretty they've 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.960 had difficulty filling out McCain's bro Let's go ahead and 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.760 put it that way. A Dori Jackson plays ninety seven 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.240 percent of their snaps. He kicks inside, then Cordell Flott 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.800 comes in and plays a little bit inside outside. Deontay 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.120 Banks has played seventy two percent of the snaps. Hawkins 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.720 has played fifty six, and so you're gonna probably see 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.600 more of a Dori Jackson, Deontay Banks, and Cordell Flott 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.400 in this game at corner, and of course they go 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.360 up against Barrios and Smyth inside, but also Hill Waddle, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:37.080 Sedyrick and Chosen with Ee and River Craycraft still down. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.400 The biggest mismatch I think we have here if we 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.840 do not have Connor Williams, I think would be the 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.560 interior of the Giants defensive line because Dexter Lawrence is 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 a beast. He's played seventy percent of the snaps, Lendond 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.400 Williams sixty three, Roaches forty one, and a Shawn forty 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.080 so they have a prettye rotation up front of guys 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.840 that can mix in. But I think if Miami gets 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.200 their center back this week, the communication was much better 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.360 before when they had him in there, and the pass blocking, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.800 the run blocking, everything was just a lot more symbiotic upfront. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.680 So I like our chances to at least slow those 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.960 guys down if Connor comes back. If not, I think 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.199 it drastically drastically changes the game plan of what you 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.919 have to do off the edge. Cavon Thibodeau eighty four percent, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.600 Jihad Ward fifty percent, aziz O Jalari has been banged up, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.439 he's played twenty eight percent, but I think he'll be 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.360 the starter on Sunday in that game. And then Oshane 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.879 Ximinez seventeen percent, and their off ball linebackers going up 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.800 against our running backs, Bobby Okarikei one hundred percent of 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.040 the snaps, Micah McFadden seventy two and the Isaiah Simmons 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.720 has been getting more and more of a workload after 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.639 being traded back before Week one from the Cardinals. He's 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.119 played twenty seven percent of their snaps. Their personnel usage, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.399 lots of bass. They're in base forty three percent of 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.760 the time. That's three four thirteen percent and four to 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.399 three thirty percent. So a hybrid front up there, and 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.159 they'll mix up those fronts and kind of try to 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.679 confuse the quarterback that way to get different simulated pressure looks. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.480 That's wink Martindale. Confuse the quarterback with your fronts, your coverages, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.159 and then send the house and make it so he 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.040