WEBVTT - Drive Time: Texans Perspective with DJ Bien-Aime 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.760 To on the move gLing deep speedways, Peace do hell Peas. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.360 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 He's got my advands in the playoffs. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.320 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.440 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.760 djb Enemy, the Texans reporter for ESPN, joins me to 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.640 break down this matchup and like me, he likes to 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.320 get into the weeds. Like me, he goes on several 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:46.960 tangents and so you're gonna learn a lot about the 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.600 Texans and this Dolphins Texans matchup coming your way on Sunday. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.240 It's a big one. Can we finally win this one? 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.760 That's the big question. We'll also talk about the AFC 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.880 playoff picture from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:58.960 --> 0:00:59.840 Health Training Complex. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.840 This is. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.520 The Drive Time podcast right. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:08.959 Big game means we're bringing out the big guns this 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.039 week with South Florida native DJB Enemy. He covers the 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.319 Texans for ESPN. DJ Welcome in man, Hey man. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.959 Thank you for having me. I've been looking forward to 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.000 this week for some time. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.840 I just you know, would have thought the Dolphins would 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.440 had a better record, but you know, those darn injuries. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.360 I know, I know. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.640 It always seems to be something because this team is 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.040 very talented and playing some of their best ball right now, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.600 and so hopefully they can keep this rolling here against 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.399 the Houston Texans that you cover. But before we get 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.119 into that, DJ, you're wearing this hat, and I have 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.040 such a fond memory of that game, not because of 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.280 the game itself, but I distinctly remember DJ's wearing a 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.600 ninety five Super Bowl hat Chargers and Niners, and the 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.760 Niners blew the doors off the Chargers in that game. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.560 I'll never forget riding my bike around the neighborhood at 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.400 halftime because the game was already over. So you found 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.040 that hat, you said, in a thrift store. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.880 Yeah, thrift story in Brooklyn, New York, about two years ago. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.800 That's pretty impressive. One of my earliest football memories here 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.639 coming back to life. But I want to go ahead 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.560 and get to the Dolphins and Texans game because it 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.120 is a big one. But I do want to start 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.560 with the bye week, DJ, because and what that means 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.560 for the Texans. If you can give us the latest 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.840 on the Texans maybe getting healthier, and perhaps how valuable 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.920 this break might have been for the Texans football team. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:17.600 Yeah. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:22.200 I think it's valuable, mainly for the mental break that 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.040 they needed because they started training camp before everybody else, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.639 like ten days could have started believing on July fifteenth, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.800 and most teams reported mid twins of July they had 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.280 the Hall of Fame game. So they've basically been at 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.480 it for approximate almost five straight months with very little breaks. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.519 The only mini break they had was many buy after 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.120 they played the New York Jets on Thursday Night football. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.000 So they've been in a constant grind talking to a 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.760 lot of guys. Every time I would say, man, you're 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.120 ready for that bye week, They're all look at me 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.399 and be like, man, who you telling? So I think 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.959 for them it was more mental than anything because there's 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.919 not many There's not much they can do schematically to 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.680 change things because they are who they are. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.320 If not really I mean change that. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.600 They can make a particularly on the old line, to 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.960 improve path detection and run blocking, or improve safety, help 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.880 or play or cover standpoint. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.040 There's not really that much they can do there because 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:15.800 we are and weak. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.520 I don't know what we're in week fifteen or fourteen, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.800 but regardless, you know, there's only so much that they 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:21.600 could do at this point. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.200 So for them, it was more about the mental aspect. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.560 Yeah, you mentioned the mental break, and I saw just 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.200 scrolling your X timeline there before we came on the 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.720 on the air here that you had been I saw 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.400 that fans were kind of discussing back and forth with 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.680 you the possible impact of an emotional lift without a 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.160 zz Alshay year, and I'm curious how the team has 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.040 kind of taken that information, taken the suspension and what 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.360 do you think that could mean for not just this game, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.760 but going forward for the Texans. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.800 I think it's more just the next guy up. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.760 I don't see it as a allying cry or guiding 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.920 the life. Oh we're gonna band together that do this 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.080 for disease. I don't really get that vibe. And it's 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.960 not because they don't love disease, because these obviously he 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.120 is a great player him, But I think it's more 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.680 of a cliche like this. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.000 Is this is pros and this is college maybe, but 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.800 this is the pros. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.560 Like and on top of that, I think some guys 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.920 do feel like, all right, you know not the substanially justified, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.080 but you can't be hitting a quarterback like that because 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.240 if the roles were reversed and CJ got hit like that, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.320 everybody would have won ballistics. So I think it's in 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.880 today's NFL you got to protect the quarterbacks fair or not, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.799 and I just don't see. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.080 That in a rally and cry. I think it's just 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.040 more like next guy up. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.159 They got Christian Harris back, who caught a pick six 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.880 in the playoff game against the Keevan Browns last year, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:38.880 so they getting him back. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:39.640 But this is gonna be the. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.400 First time he's practiced with team since he got hurt 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.400 in I believe August, so he doesn't played much football 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.160 since the playoff game is the Ravens. It doesn't even 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.159 hit anybody since the Ravens game, so I don't anticipate 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.159 he'll play this week, but he could be a move 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.080 for them once to get to the playoffs. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.720 It was him and Kenyon Green were both activated this week. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.960 You think we will play at left, left guard right. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.039 So that's an interesting one, Demico. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.479 When asked about it, he said that they're not going 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.320 to make any decision on any offensive line changes in 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.280 this moment during the press conference, I think so. I 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:13.840 think they're going to go through the weekend and see 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.360 because while King Green is a liability and end up 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.600 in past blocking he struggled with stunts and things of 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.800 that nature, he is an upgrade over ju Scruggs at 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.240 a guard in the running game, like a legitimate upgrade. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.320 It's not even close. Juic struggles to move people off 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.679 the ball, and I think. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.560 In a game like this that might be viable to 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.600 have a guy like Kenyan Green out there to be 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.599 able to handle Kalis Campbell, handle Zach Zeeler, because if 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.000 you can't run the ball against Miami with. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.640 The way Houston's currently structured, there's going to be a 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.799 long day offensively because they struggle on third and longs 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.360 for various reasons. Because the pressure can get to see 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:53.160 your pretty quickly. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.480 If you do a lot of cloud coverages and take 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.479 away Nico, he can get a little bit murky because 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.640 sometimes he likes to go big play hunting a lot, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.040 so you intend to pat and hold the ball trying 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.280 to make go for the big play, which leads the 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.400 high varians type of plays right, and it needs to 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.359 bring from being exclosive work it leads to incompletion and punts. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.880 So I think for them, they're going to have to 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.680 be able to run the ball in this game. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.600 I think Kenyan Green could be very valuable in that aspect. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.280 Yeah. In quick spoiler for the preview podcast, one of 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.080 the keys is going to be to force the Texans 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.760 in a third down long situations because of what you 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.040 just talked about right there, trying to get them behind 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.359 the sticks and create some negative plays for a Dolphins 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.360 defense that right now is kind of struggling to find 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.320 those at the current time. I'm always curious DJ about 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.360 this question, and we could do it every single week 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.960 across the National Football League, because hell, our next three 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.240 opponents are featuring Bobby Slowick, Kyle Shanahan, and Kevin Stefanski. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:43.960 It's a case in point. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.320 With this offensive system that all the coaches has produced 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.120 across the NFL, you're gonna find familiarity every single week. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.400 It seems like, how do you think that familiarity with 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.320 the offensive system on either side of the ball can 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.640 add intrigue to this matchup? 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.400 Yeah, so I'm ready. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.280 I was talking to somebody about this yesterday on Mike 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:05.599 duguar our guy athletic, and I was just, you know, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.560 I was like, man, I'm curious to see what anything 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.640 Weaver does against Bobby Sloyds, mainly because I want to 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.080 see it's gonna use a lot of the same game 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.560 plan that he had against the Rams. Were they able 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.000 to slow down that offense and hold him to only 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.680 fifteen points. So I'm really curious in that aspect for 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.440 you to go a bunch of too High to the 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.480 Texans offense actually has struggled a decent amount on a 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.520 yard per play standpoint against too High. They run the 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.440 ball very effective against that, especially against teams that are 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.640 good stopping round. Obviously, some of the numbers gonna be 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.200 a little juiced since they did, you know, see some 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.880 of the cowboys in Jags, and they're able to run 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:38.720 pretty effectively. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.239 But those two teams struggled at everything on the defense. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.640 So against better teams, I guess the Titans, Joe Mixon 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.040 had fourteen carries for twenty two yards, you know what 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.760 I mean. So I'm incaid to see what the game 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.880 plan is going to be there in terms of cause 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.120 obviously he's seen that offense already goes against a variation 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.720 of the offense in practice we kept week after week. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.520 So I'm curious that aspecting him Demko knowing Mike McDaniel, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.600 so they're on the same coaching staff back in San Fran, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.080 he kind of knows what Mike like to do. He 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.040 was the I guess, the first guy that I was 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.440 able to start to slow down Miami's offense going back 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.680 in twenty twenty two when they went against them in 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.760 San Francisco. So I'm really curious to see, like what's 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 that going to be. But I think the difference between 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.840 twenty twenty two team, what he had with San Fran 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.880 versus this Texas team right now is currently constructed. I 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.440 don't know if he has the same amount of horses. Obviously, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.079 I think on the D line there's some comparable comparable 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.120 responssiblity have a friend. Obviously, Jimmy War was a lot younger, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.680 and in that aspect, I think they still have War 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:48.160 at that point. Steaming warded comparable Sting having a phenomenal year, 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.040 but Lufanga like they don't have that right now. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:53.840 You know what I'm saying. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.440 You have Armori is a is a good corner, talented corner, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.840 but he's still young, so I'm really curious to see, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.600 like what else, what's that going to look like? Because 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.000 the Texans they play a lot of quarters on early 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.400 downs and that's when teams can hit their shot place 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.880 against them. They're gonna play a lot of quarters, and 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.320 I'm curiously how Miami is gonna attack that because the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.360 Texans safety struggle and coverage down the field, Like there's 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.080 been a lot of times where teams have been able 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.760 to exploit that. The Titans game when if you go 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.520 back and watch that one, well, Levis had a career 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.400 day because Brian Callahan was just calling up shot plays, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.280 putting the safeties and buy and putting the safeties in 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.520 one on ones down the field and they were just losing. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.760 And even mac Jones even last well not like well, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:36.240 I guess. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.360 You said, technically last week when they went against the Jags, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.599 he stepped in, Doug Creeterson cast some shot plays and 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.120 is able to get Brian Thomas down the field for 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.400 some one on ones they didn't conneence. But still that 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.400 kind of goes back to the point of if you 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.920 really want to attack the Texans defense, you attack up 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.559 the spine. And that's why I felt like the Z's 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.719 lost is going to be a big one because he's 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.200 pretty smooth and coverage. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.800 And the Dolphins obviously love it's tack in the middle 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:02.400 of the field. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.199 That if the spine of your defense is weak in 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.560 terms of past coverage, Doll, I mean, you know that's 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.640 going to be a problem against a team like Miami 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.680 who thrives and throwing in between the numbers. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.280 Yeah, they love to throw those deep shots against brackets. 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.920 So we've seen Tyreek beat a couple of those over 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.760 the years. And they tried to slant and go to 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.720 waddle on the game tying field goal drive. But DJ 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.160 Rea did a good job of staying with him and 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.640 getting vertical to not let him split that bracket. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:28.440 So good stuff there. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.040 And just for clarity, Mike Dugar writes for The Athletic 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.319 covers the Seattle Seahawks. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.480 He went to Washington State. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.880 He says, go Koog's on my favorite podcast, the Head 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.160 the Call podcast all the time, I say on my 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.520 show all the time. So a good company there, DJ 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.000 and microor Tight, So good stuff. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:42.160 Man. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.400 Let's let's go back to the quarterback here, because you 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.560 know this is this is my setup here, DJ for 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.640 telling you. I loved CJ coming out and still love 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.960 his game. I had this content idea where I wanted 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.920 to like compare him into for how they process and 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.839 their accuracy. It just I just think they're really good 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.880 in the critical areas of the position. But my question 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.160 is what's been different for him? And remove all the 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.600 you know, this is probably kind of you know, cheating 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.040 the process, but like remove the external factors between the 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.120 offensive line, the play calling, the receipt, whatever you want 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.800 to say, is impacting CG. I know that the offensive 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.680 line play hasn't been great, but from his perspective, what's 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.400 been different between rookie year CJ. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.680 Stroud and sophomore year c J Drowd good or bad? 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.640 So I think he's actually a better quarterback now he 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:21.640 has more on his plate. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.760 I think the piece around him obviously has kind of 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.880 gotten a little bit worse, especially the offensive line, But 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.680 I would say that just kind of leaning more on 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.920 playing boying football. I think he's kind of at the 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:40.080 stage within this offense that tool was in where you know, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.520 pushing the ball down the field you have a lot 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.959 of success, and then team started taking away. Sometimes you 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.360 should try to force that and the way too is 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.679 playing now where he's just all right, that's not there. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.840 I'm gonna just hit this Ki John Smith unerneath. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.559 I'm on hit Chen and the backfield or on the 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.800 hit just you know, on the kneath route and keep 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.720 the offense on schedule. I think sometimes he still trying 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.319 to fit it in because he's still averaging almost ten 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.720 yards per tenth in terms of the air yards. So 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.080 I think he's at that point of his maturation where 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.640 now he says, okay, things going around. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.600 Me are in great in terms of pass detection. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.880 All right, if this isn't there, let me just hit 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.160 the check down and let's let's keep the offense on track. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.480 So he's more playing more fishing football in that aspect, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.320 because you know, I was talking to a coach a 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.160 couple of weeks ago who coached not coach, but the 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.720 game plan against CJ. And one thing he said is 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.520 he's a big play hunter, so he doesn't necessary plays. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.000 He isn't play boring football all the time. He can 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:36.440 do it. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.520 That's what sometime he could be kind of I don't 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.000 want to say frustrating, but intriguing to watch his maturation 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.079 in that aspect because he even admitted that sometimes he 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.600 could play better by just taking the checkdown. But he's 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.600 such a big play hunter, dating back to what he 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.920 did back at our state and his first year in 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.040 the NFL, where he was able to really strike team 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.720 the park well actually let the league in passing yards 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.400 FORER game at two seventy four. So I think for him, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.120 it's more about just trying to take him what the 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.760 defense gives you and kind of go from there. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.920 I think he sees the feel extremely well. He's rare 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.079 where he like gets fooled, like like. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.800 I haven't there haven't been Like even all the interceptions 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.440 he's throwing this year, he throw nine's compared to the 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.240 only five last year. The majority of it has been 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.920 like you can see what his thought process is that 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.120 he just missed the throw or someone makes a great play, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.960 you know, but you can see the thought process. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.240 Like it's really rare. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.840 Where like he thinks he's gonna be discoverage and it's 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.040 not that he forces the ball into that coverage now 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.280 like most of the times, it's he's seeing it pretty well. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.920 He'll be a little off on the throw or you know, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.880 he'll force the throw that doesn't need to be like 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.160 one against the Titans. He's trying to hit a dagger 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.360 when it did coming across and the linebacker sinks Undernico 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.240 and he's all right, I'm gonna try to throw it 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.920 and whoop it over the linebacker, and the linebacker made 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.480 a great play, like he made a full extension intercept 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:53.600 that he called intercept and he. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:54.959 Had a full extension right. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.200 Granted, he probably wouldn't throw that ball, but again he 0:13:58.360 --> 0:13:59.680 wasn't fooled by the coverage. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.160 You know, Yeah, I mean that that tracks to I 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.960 guess where the struggles have happened, because, like you to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.720 your point earlier, like some interior offensive line struggles for 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.640 a big play hunter who's not you know, CJ's athletic 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.559 and has mobility to get around in the pocket, but 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.520 he's not gonna, like you know, Lamar Jackson, beat you 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:15.959 off the edge with his legs. So I think that 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.960 kind of tracks with where the struggles have been this year. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.080 Let's take a real quick break, come back on the 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.960 other side and talk more about this matchup in the 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.680 Texans defense. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.960 brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here with my 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.840 guests from ESPN Houston DJB enemy talking Dolphins and Texans, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.880 and let's go ahead and pivot to the defensive side 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.160 of the football here, DJ. You know, it sounds like 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.520 that could be a possible benefit for the Dolphins this matchup. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.800 But one area of the Texans are probably kind of looking, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.640 you know, licking their chops with here is the Dolphins 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.880 could be down both their starting tackles if Toron Armstead 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.840 cannot go. Austin Jackson obviously out for the season, So 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.080 in that case, it would be Kendall Lamb and Patrick Paul, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.000 who both played really well in that Jets game. But 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.320 let's be real, I mean, the Texans have maybe the 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.480 best edged combination of the NFL with the you'll Hunter 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.040 and Will Anderson. What do you think about that match up? 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.400 And can they just fly out wreck this game for 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.040 the Texans? 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.440 Yeah, that can be problematic for the for the Dolphins 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.800 because the Texan right now, they're fourth and pressure rate. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.280 I just to go and double check that because the 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.160 Cowboys might have you know, jumped them. But either way, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.840 they're both you know, almost at forty percent per drawback. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.800 And both of them all have over ten tacks. I 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:26.400 think like ten and a. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.360 Half to both and Will Anderson missed like three games, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.880 so he's at ten and he's missed a few games, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.040 so that could be a massive problem. I think what 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.560 Demiko would try to do is make to a hitch 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:44.600 and try to beat his reads to the spot, beat 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.320 the spot to the reader or how do you want 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.960 to put it? And then because I know dred Buberg 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.920 was saying because they run a very similar scheme and 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.000 in that aspect that you know, if was hitting his 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.600 back foot like it's kind of hard to get to him, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.680 but the way it gets him is, you know, make 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.400 him hold the ball. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:00.560 So I think that. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.240 If it's going to really start with the coverage, I 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.080 always say when you're when you're going against a guy 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.760 like to a it's not about your front It's more 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.160 about your coverage. It's more about your back end spot. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.920 But they have to be able to make to hold 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.120 the ball for more than two point six seconds, so 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.200 then you have time to get to him if you're 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.880 not if the coverage on the back end isn't good or. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.920 It's not doing supposed to do, because you get the 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:23.320 ball out. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.520 So many games I remember arguing with a bunch of 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.280 people like that before they played the Eagles last year, 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.680 and I was like, they were like, Oh, the d 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.400 Lion is gonna get in to it, and then that's 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.000 gonna be what I'm like, No, it's gonna be about 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.680 the coverage on the back end making them hold the 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.800 ball long enough for God to get to them. So 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.360 it's really still even though yes Danil and yes will 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.600 you rec Havoc, they're gonna it's still gonna come down 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.200 of sting Jum not Jeleen PG, but Jimmy Warden Slot 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:51.000 and Kamari Last on the outside being able to force 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.920 too to hold the ball just for a smide it 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.440 so then those guys can get to him because if not, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.360 it doesn't really matter, because it doesn't really matter to remember, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.200 I know, you remember last year Week one against the Chargers, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.680 Khalil Mack and Joey Bolsa coming off the edge with 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.919 no armstead. It didn't matter because you can get them 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.840 all out, you know exactly, you know, And even last 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.479 week the judge of a good defensive line like Will 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.400 McDonald is to the topping sacks. You have Quinn Williams 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.600 and you have Hassan Reddick zero quarterback hits zero sack 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.400 because if he's hitting his back foot and he's seeing 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.480