WEBVTT - Dolphins Raiders Preview and Roster Building for the Future 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:16.560 Touchdown, Miami Run. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.200 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.759 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.000 every day. How's it going to everybody? It is Wednesday. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.200 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.199 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.599 And on today's show, we have a busy one. We're 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.200 gonna take a look under the hood of this Dolphins 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.080 and Raiders game on Saturday night, the first primetime affair 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.000 for your Miami Dolphins this season. We'll get into the 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.160 matchups the Raiders, key elements of their game, the scheme, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.720 the personnel, all that fun stuff. We're gonna hear from 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.400 Coach Floras on this game and talk a little bit 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.560 about Christmas and the holiday season. Plus, we're gonna take 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.000 a look at some future draft capital and salary cap 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.760 positioning for your Miami Dolphins and do a little sneak 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.000 peek into the draft. Here for a second. All of 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.960 that and more on this Wednesday, December the twenty three 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:17.560 edition of the Drivetime Podcasts. They Dolphins Fans, The new 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.880 year starts now at Auto Nation. Let's skip the rest 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.120 of the and get to big New Year's savings on 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.600 your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's, Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, and a 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.640 whole lot more shops safely at the Auto Nation store 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.880 near you or Auto Nation dot com and save now. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.200 And we have a bit of a day by day 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.959 focus here on the Drivetime podcast. But I came across 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.399 an article that was part of the top news story 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.160 on Tuesday up on Miami Dolphins dot com. And the 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.360 article comes from over the Cap dot com and it's 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.600 called Salary Cap sunk cost in And the author of 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.880 this piece is Jason Fitzgerald, and essentially what he's looking 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.400 at is projecting available flexibility within the salary cap for 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.720 teams heading into this offseason. We know Miami did a 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.800 bunch last year to kind of turn some of those 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.400 those salary cap dollar resources into extra draft picks and 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.480 kind of push the can down the road to one 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.360 after the first year under Brian Flores and Chris Career 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.200 here in twenty nineteen, and the result of this piece 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.400 up on Over the Cap dot com is the Dolphins 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.239 have the third fewest amount of sunk salaries in the NFL. Basically, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.360 what you're looking at, there is the amount of salary 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.560 that's not contributing to your football product on the field itself. Again, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.560 we talked about this in twenty nineteen. The Dolphins did 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.480 so much to kind of to pay for salaries like 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.320 Ryan Tannehill or Robert Quinn in those trades, to acquire 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.720 draft capital and kind of clear the books a little bit, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.600 to get themselves in position to be able to acquire 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.880 players that fit the vision in the scheme of Brian 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.840 Flores and Chris Career, and to be active this past 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.280 free agency going out and getting Kyle van Noyen, Byron 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.480 Jones and Shack Lost and Emmanuel Agba, Eric Flowers and 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.519 Ted Carriss and you guys know the players the cast 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.360 of that list. But as we look at this list 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.040 again put together by Jason Fitzgerald on Over the cap 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.440 dot com, it gives you an idea of how Miami 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.000 remains flexible in the second year of this kind of process, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.840 the third year under Brian Flores and Chris Career. And 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.160 he has the Dolphins as the third the team with 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 the third fewest sunken cost. And he puts the Colts, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.280 Buccaneers and Dolphins kind of in this grouping together saying 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.360 how how much better advantageous of a situation they are 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.639 in from this standpoint, from a cap structure standpoint, and 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.440 the rest of the NFL. He writes this note, Team 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.280 three is the Dolphins who have really utilized their salary 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.600 cap purge better than anyone ever has thus far. They 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.040 have embraced a different approach which gives them a ton 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.880 of flexibility for a time when they want to create 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.800 a ton of cap room. So that again creates this 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.480 level of flexibility you have going into the off season 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.520 with team building in mind, how you can approach either 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.200 free agency or the draft. And going into the draft, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.800 the Dolphins have the most draft picks we also could 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.280 be We'll see how it takes out that they could 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.880 be the first team since the Slash two thousand Washington 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.120 football team to qualify for the playoffs but also wind 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.560 up with a top three pick in the NFL draft. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.840 The Washington football team went ten and six and won 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.240 the a f C East, and in two thousand they 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.640 actually had the second and third pick in the draft 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.520 and wound up with LaVar Arrington and Chris Samuels, a 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.000 pair of all pros. There in Washington, So how they 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.599 got those picks from New Orleans and San Francisco, that 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.080 is a fantastic job of putting yourself in position to 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.800 win now but also build for the future. Miami's in 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.000 a somewhat similar position, not gonna have two picks that high, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.920 but the current Houston Texans pick that came over part 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.360 of that Larry Mitunsel trade currently sits number six overall. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.719 The Texans do play the Bengals in Week sixteen and 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.440 then finish up with the Titans in Week seventeen, so 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.159 we'll certainly monitor that to see where that draft pick 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.520 lands is right now. It could fall anywhere from third 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.080 overall to twelve overall in this year's draft. And going 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.159 back to the draft in talking about having those high 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.160 draft picks, we know Miami has the two first round 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.400 picks and the two second round picks this year, and 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.120 again that that second round pick from Houston could also 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.560 wind up being in the top forty as that team 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.080 plays out the rest of the string plays out the 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.000 rest of the season this year. And it brings me 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.960 up to this upcoming draft class, something we haven't looked 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.640 at a whole lot. It's been a very, very different 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.480 season as far as evaluating college prospects with all the 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.679 college football games being canceled or postponed, or the opt 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.560 outs that we've had, just the the unpredictable nature of 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 the college football season has certainly changed things and will 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.159 certainly see a change in the way the Senior Bowl 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.720 and the scouting Combine has covered all that fun stuff 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.960 that we've all grown to know and love and really 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.400 was kind of my baby at first when I started 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.479 off doing the whole football podcasting and Miami Dolphins Focused 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.640 or Centric Focus podcast was taking a look at team 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.320 building and acquiring players. Well, here we are going into 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.200 one off season here in a few weeks, where to me, 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.880 this draft class is loaded in a few areas that 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.520 you know, I don't think we've seen it that way 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.279 for a long time. The running back and why just 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.039 here positions potentially in this year's class, depending on who 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.360 declares and who doesn't with all the talent available, whether 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.200 you're looking at Jamaar Chase from l s U who 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.720 opted out to prepare for the draft this year, or 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.839 Jalen Waddle and DeVonta Smith and Alabama, Darius Tony at Florida. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.400 Just talking about SEC receivers. See if you get entering 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.120 the NFL draft, there are so many loaded receivers in 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.760 this year's class, and the running back position looks pretty 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.200 dang good as well. You've got Naj Harris out of Alabama, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.160 Travis E. T N from Clemson. E t M was 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.680 possibly a first round projected picked by many last year 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.720 by mel Keiper and Todd McShay and Daniel Jeremiah coming 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.440 out of Clemson last season. He returns and just puts 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.800 together an even better season this year. I think the 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.120 offensive line class might be one of the deeper ones 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.919 we've seen in quite some time. There are some defensive 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.640 players I've got my eye on again. I want to 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.360 do some more studying on this as we go along 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.040 in the future. But guys like Boogie Bashman, for instance, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.359 out of Wake Forest Carlos Boogie Bashman, like two pounds 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.760 six ft five, kind of has that makeup off the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.040 edge to really rush the passer, impact the running in 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.160 that way as well. But just our first little primer 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.240 or glimpse into some of the top players according to 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.200 the Draft Network and other avenues that do this stuff 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.120 year round, just looking at the possible top picks Trevor 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.080 Lawrence and Justin Fields the top two quarterbacks that Jordan 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.280 Reid of the Draft Network has going off the board 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.880 to Jacksonville and the Jets respectively. Pine Seuled the tackle 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.760 out of Oregon. He has pretty much in his freshman 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.080 year there Oregan been just a people mover and an 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.000 exceptional athlete with great past protection skill sets. He is 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.000 a top most offensive line boards. Zack Wilson from b 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.600 y U. If you guys caught the Book of a 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.280 tone ball on Tuesday night, he really went ham on 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.800 the UCF defense. He has been a heck of a 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.200 player this year with some intriguing skills and traits as well. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.520 So three possible quarterbacks off the board here early before 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.600 the Dolphins. You know that number six pick currently in 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.400 this particular draft or mock draft from Jordan Reid. You've 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.880 also got Micah Parsons, a linebacker out of Penn State. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.080 He opted out this year as well, but he figures 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 to be in that top ten, top five range. And 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.600 that's where they have the Dolphins sitting at number six, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.960 which some receiver talent Jamar Chase Davante Smith. You've got 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.840 Caleb Farley and Patrick's Artan. The two cornerbacks who most 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.960 folks have along with j C. Horne atop their cornerback 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.120 big board. We mentioned Carlos Basham from Wake Forest, the 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.280 pass rusher Gregory rosso Rosal from Miami and Quitty Pay 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.560 from Michigan or the top two on Jordan Reed's list 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.559 here Ray Shawn Slater kind of joins that penais Seul 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.560 offensive line position. Jalen waddles in there as well to 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.080 ground out the receiving groove Rashod Bateman out of Minnesota. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.160 So there's plenty of talent at some key positions across 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.880 the offense, across the defense in this draft, as early 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.040 declarations have already began this year again in this funky 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.800 COVID season. But I do want to go more in 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.679 depth on the draft class with some expert help and 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.560 some expertise from around the NFL landscape once this season ends. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.280 Just want to go ahead and make a note that 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.520 we will have a strong emphasis on getting expertise on 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.480 the podcast and giving you guys some great opinions and 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.240 draft breakdowns and and talk about this class as a 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.760 whole as we ramp up towards the draft. But that's 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.679 that's a little bit ways off. We still have plenty 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.920 of ball left this season, plenty of meaningful football left 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.000 this season for your Miami Dolphins. But I thought it 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.040 was important sixteen or fifteen weeks into the season to 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.439 update where we are ahead of the off season, because 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.760 this season has flown by and the off season will 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.760 be here before you know it. Let's go ahead and 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.600 spend this thing forward. To Coach Flores Wednesday morning media availability, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.760 almost forgot what day it is, as he spoke a 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.840 little bit about the Raiders Christmas, some stuff on his 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.080 own roster. But I want to start there with Flora's 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.040 talking about Christmas, his traditions with his family, and just 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.880 the holiday season for Brian Flores. As far as the 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.679 second point that question, Christmas, you know, for me is 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.439 a lot of great memories. Again, like I've said before, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.080 similar Thanksgiving. You know, our family and my family would 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.560 get together all the time and just enjoy each other's company, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:50.240 you know, celebrate you know, Christmas, say Birth of Christ 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.760 and just enjoy enjoy one another. To me, Coach really 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.640 hits the nail on the head there with that last 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.360 comment about enjoying one another, because you know, get a 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.839 little bit personal here on the podcast. For a long time, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.719 my family hasn't been really a singular unit where I 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.200 get to spend the holidays around, you know, the people 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.480 that I grew up with. My my mother passed away 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.760 five years ago, and that kind of change the dynamic 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.520 of our Christmas season. I try to spend as much 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.280 time as I can with my brother. My one real 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.240 close true relative that I have is my brother, so 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.360 we spend most of the holiday together as well. But 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.640 the impact of having like an adopted family almost so 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.680 to speak. My wife's family has always welcomed me over 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.160 to their place and we do this tradition on Christmas 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.440 Eve that has become kind of a recent tradition in 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.480 years that I've really grown to know and love and 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.599 and will certainly miss it in years future when we 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.280 don't get to do it, you know, being down in 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.360 South Florida. But this year we do get to go 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.040 back for Christmas Eve. I get to go home and 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.959 be with my wife and my daughter and the family. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.199 So that's gonna be something I look forward to. Get 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.640 the spirits going, get the gifts going. We play these 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.920 games where you you have to like put oven myths 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.920 on and try to unwrap this Christmas gift and it 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.600 just it's a lot of fun to be around people 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.680 you love, people you care about and and and enjoy 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.080 the Hall Day season. So I hope all of you 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.480 out there as well can't enjoy the holiday season this 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.160 year and be around loved ones as much as you 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.360 can in this strange year. But I think Coach Floor 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.200 has nailed it on the head right there. It's about 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.520 being around those that you love this time of year. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.240 Let's go ahead and get back on track here and 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.040 talk a little bit more football on this Wednesday edition 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.120 of the Drivetime Podcast. And to kind of go back 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.679 to our opening segment, they were talking about team building 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.240 and Coach was asked this morning about the twenty offseason 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.640 and putting together this football team. And to me, this 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.560 kind of coincides with a few points we've hit on 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.320 all season long. We talked about, you know, the Dolphins 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.840 making room for for building this roster, the way the 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.240 vision that Brian Flores sees for the football team. We 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.959 had that clip from Brian Baldinger it was either two 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.280 or three weeks ago where he talked about the vision 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.640 of Perry, these physical, aggressive cornerbacks like xaviing Howard and 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.439 Byron Jones and rounding out the past brush with multiple 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.360 versatile people that could do several different things for you 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.559 and kind of fit that versatility Moniker. We talked about 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.880 all the time on this podcast, freeing up the roster 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.679 or the ability to go out and build the roster 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.240 to that vision, I think was an integral part of 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.040 what you're seeing right now with this nine and five 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.280 football team and the you know, second youngest team in 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.480 the NFL, building towards being you know, improving upon this 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.680 nine and five record here in the near future. I 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.840 think it really speaks of the Dolphin's vision to to 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.559 clear the space and clear the cap and get the 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.080 draft capital to go get the kind of guys you want, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.480 and those kind of guys. Brian Flora says, let's just 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.400 go ahead and here from coach, you know, we wanted 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:29.120 to add the right people guys so we're tough and smart, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.760 competitive not to play team first. So I think, you know, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.760 just with every addition that we had that in mind, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.800 familiarity was you mentioned that, but you know, guys like 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.120 Shack Lawson and h Wyn Jones weren't weren't as food 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.400 weren't you know, they've never been in this defense. But right, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.920 guys like you landed in vanoys. But we're just looking 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.160 for the right people, guys with the skill set. All 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.600 those guys are good players, they want to be coached, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.200 They work hard, and I think they worked hard this 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.360 this year and improved, and that's all we're looking really 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.400 looking forward. And we're going to hear from rookie quarterback 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.000 to a Tongue of Byloa here at the end of 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.160 this podcast. But first I want to go ahead and 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.200 get to Coach Flora's answer about the importance of ball 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.400 security when it came to evaluating the quarterback position this 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.480 past offseason and how important that was the decision making 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.280 to ultimately go ahead and draft tongue Bylowa. Fifth. Overall, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.640 here's coach. I think that's always at the top of 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:30.040 the priority list for anyone looking at any offensive position. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.240 Turnovers at the number one, um the reason why people 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.960 lose games. I would say that's hopefully at the top 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.079 of everyone on the Dolphin plan list, at the top 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.760 of your non um. So yes, at the top of mind. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.559 It was at the top of I think it's one 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.680 of those anyone who's doing an evaluation. If you feel 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.360 like this guy is gonna turn the ball over time 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.080 and time again, I don't see why you would take 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.679 a chance on somebody like that. The two has done 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.079 a good job from that standpoint. Um, it's something we 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.480 stressed on a daily basis. H and take care of football. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.640 I know it's not always perfectly. There's a lot of 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.120 good players in this league who are consciously trying to 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.679 take them all away. We're trying to do the same 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.080 thing defensively in the kicking game. So I mean, that's 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.720 the game. You know, defenders are Defenders are trying to 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 consciously trying to take them all the way, and offensive 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.880 players should be consciously trying to secure the ball. Um. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.920 So yeah, I would say that's very high my priority 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:40.800 list at any anyone who handles the football putterer, snapper, center, quarterback, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:47.040 running back, tight end, receiver. Do you intercept the ball? 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.360 You got to secure the football. We had that a 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.160 couple of weeks ago. We get an interception we fund with. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.160 Thankfully we got it back. But ye have ball securities 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.560 at the top of my list, and ball security certainly 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.240 provides an interesting segue into the game pre we were 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.360 gonna jump into here just real quick, but first I 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.840 want to go ahead and hear from coach Flora's on 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:09.400 the challenges presented by this Raider's offense. It's very multiple, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.720 a lot of personnel groups last years, our motions. Good players, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.640 so good run game, good past game. Yeah, you know, challenging, 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.760 very challenging for us. We got to the job, uh 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:28.080 communication wise on the mouse technique, I'm trying to limit them. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.160 But you know that's some explosive players, good backs, the quarterbacks, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.800 you know, regardless of which one is out there. And 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.560 that provides a perfect segue into the game preview that 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.960 we have up on Miami Dolphins dot Com for you guys. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.240 As I was researching the Raiders a little bit before 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.760 I wrote the preview and went back and looked at 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 the same thing that we saw last week with the 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:51.080 Patriots offense in terms of two back personnel utilizing a 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.400 fullback in the formation. We talked about Yakob Johnson having 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.240 the second most snaps among fullbacks in the NFL this season. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.880 Alec Ingold from Las Vegas is number heard in that category, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.520 behind Kyle us Check and Jakob Johnson. No offense operates 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.200 out of twenty two personnel. That's two running backs, two 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.240 tight ends, one receiver, more than Las Vegas. And you 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.360 might recall when John Gruden first got to Oakland, they 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.080 acquired a bunch of big, physical tight ends. They acquired 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.280 a big running back and Josh Jacobs later on the line. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.680 They also got Trent Brown, the three eighty pound offensive tackle, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.360 and that kind of lines up with the vision of 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.400 that offense. They average three hundred thirty nine pounds to 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.640 a man across the offensive line. That's the heaviest in 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.840 the entire National Football League. And it goes deeper than 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.880 just the twenty two personnel. They run one wide receiver 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.280 in the formation, a league high fifteen percent of the time. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.680 This is a league where three and four receivers is 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.840 pretty commonplace in the National Football League, but one out 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.600 of every oh man, I don't know math, fifteen percent 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.120 of the time they only have one receiver on the field. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.880 So because of that, the Radar offense ranks eleventh and 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.080 scoring point nine points per game, as well as total 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.440 offense at three hundred and seventy five yards per game. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.320 Their twealth in the ground game and fourteen through the air, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.359 so a top half of the league offense in every 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.640 single category. On defense, nobody blitzes are only two defenses 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.080 rather blitz at a lower rate than the Raiders. They 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.000 bring an extra rusher on just twenty five of their 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.960 defensive snaps, but the four man pass rush they utilize 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.800 provides pressure on twenty two point seven percent of opposing dropbacks, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.040 at seventeenth best in the league. So anytime you have 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.960 a higher pressure rate than you do blitz rate in 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.800 terms of ranking, that's always a great sign. Max Crosby 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.080 is a problem on that defensive line for the for 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.399 the Las Vegas Raiders, almost at Oakland, You've got to 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.639 get that guy blocked out of Eastern Michigan as a 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.960 defense they ran and scoring total defense. They are and 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.679 rushing defense and in the passing defense game, and that 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.960 brings us into the matchups for the scan that I'm 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.320 taking a look at, And the most interesting fact I 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.480 found was the money down. The Dolphins defense has formed 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.800 several habits this season, one of which is the league's 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.080 top third down defense, allowing conversions on just thirty two 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.280 point five percent of their oppositions third downs. On the 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.840 other side of the football, the Raiders enter play with 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.960 the number two ranked third down offense at forty nine 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.040 point one percent conversions. Way big battle there, and both 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.680 teams help set themselves up for success on third down 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.880 by winning early downs. The Raiders offense averages five point 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.679 one yards per play with a strong mix of a 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.600 power run game but also a vertical passing attack. And 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.440 what's interesting about their vertical passing attack going to guys 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.199 like Henry Ruggs and Darren Waller down the field, is 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.480 they won't utilize play action as much as you might 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.000 think off of that look. It's actually they have a 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.600 dip in production from yards per past attempt by two 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.840 point three yards from play action compared to nonplay action 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.280 pass It's kind of a upside down type of stat 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.200 there in the National Football League. There seven point nine 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.840 intended air yards ranks twenty in the NFL, so short 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.320 controlled passing game to kind of go along with that 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.960 running game, and they build those vertical shots in off 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.879 of that. Miami's third down defense does more than get stops, 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.440 though they create takeaways. Seven of miami sixteen interceptions this 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.000 year have occurred on third down and a passer rating 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.880 on third down of just sixty two point seven across 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.000 the entire national football he does best in the NFL 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.120 the number two match up here you heard coach Flores 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.480 talk about both quarterbacks the yen the yang is a 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.720 car is at Mariota. Either way, the Dolphins have killed 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.080 quarterback stat lines all season long. Opponents have a passer 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.320 rating against of eighty three point nine against Miami that's 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.840 third best in the NFL. And though both are effective 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.440 in twenty with Derek Carr having a one or two 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.760 passer rating that's ninth best in the NFL. And when 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.040 he gave way to Marcus Mariota, he throws for two 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.760 d and twenty six yards and as eighty six yards 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.240 on the ground in that loss to the Chargers. And 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.760 Mariota wasn't sacked in his first game as a Raider, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.000