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Speaker 2: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the Great Ted Winn
Speaker 2: joins us to break down Dolphins raiders from hard Rock
Speaker 2: Stadium on Sunday at one o'clock plus. We'll hear from
Speaker 2: the assistant coaches, We'll pick the week eleven games, and
Speaker 2: a whole lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. Hey,
Speaker 2: you know how we start. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 2: to my guest today. Joining me today on the Draft
Speaker 2: Time podcast is the great Ted Win, a staff writer
Speaker 2: at The Athletic, but to me, he's more of a
Speaker 2: modern day doctor Z. Go find his analysis both at
Speaker 2: the Athletic but also on Twitter at FB Underscore film Analysis.
Speaker 2: I know you now that handle back in like twenty eleven, right, Ted?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: Actually I was originally Raiders analysis, but I since moved
Speaker 4: on to become an NFL staff writer, so I couldn't
Speaker 4: stay with that handle anymore.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate the.
Speaker 4: Callback that doctor Z that he was my favorite football
Speaker 4: writer growing up.
Speaker 2: Oh he was the best man, Like, just the storytelling
Speaker 2: that paired with actual football analysis I think is probably
Speaker 2: still unrivaled to this day. So yeah, that's high praise,
Speaker 2: and that was intentional for each Ted. I love your work,
Speaker 2: made you do good stuff. So you kind of mentioned
Speaker 2: something there that I'm curious about because I take, you know,
Speaker 2: a great liking to the league in general, obviously my
Speaker 2: job as Miami Dolphins, but I've always been curious about,
Speaker 2: you know, someone that covers the league from that standpoint.
Speaker 2: But you obviously, have you know a little bit more
Speaker 2: of a I guess centered focus on the Raiders because
Speaker 2: you've just known them for so long. I'm curious how
Speaker 2: you balance those two things in terms of covering the
Speaker 2: league but also just having such a you know, in
Speaker 2: depth insight to the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 4: covered them for a long time. I've been you know,
Speaker 4: watching them my whole life, and but I still I
Speaker 4: still remain pretty objective. If anything, I'm more harder on
Speaker 4: the Raiders than I have other teams. But you know,
Speaker 4: I'm still doing a podcast about the Raiders with the Athletics,
Speaker 4: so I still have have to have a little bit
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say I focused more on them, but on Sunday,
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, that's definitely one of the games that
Speaker 4: are in my rotation because I have to do the
Speaker 4: podcast and know what's going on with them. But I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I tried to watch every rewatch every game,
Speaker 4: and I don't think it's too difficult to you know,
Speaker 4: focus on a league but still have a little bit
Speaker 4: a little bit more focused on the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense that there was I was doing
Speaker 2: a quarterback website before I got to the Dolphins and
Speaker 2: was also doing my Dolphins podcast that was before here,
Speaker 2: and I always found one side pulled me a little
Speaker 2: bit away from the other, and it was I enjoyed it,
Speaker 2: but there was definitely something I had to figure out
Speaker 2: in terms of how to make that, you know, more
Speaker 2: sustainable on both sides. But you do a great job
Speaker 2: with it. Enough about all that stuff here, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and start with Dolphins and Raiders Sunday here at
Speaker 2: hard Rock Stadium. And I always start my podcast with
Speaker 2: the cross town or I guess the oppositions reporter, analyst,
Speaker 2: you know, beat writer with the quarterback position. But I
Speaker 2: think it's time today to deviate from that plan. And
Speaker 2: maybe this is too much of a blanket question, but
Speaker 2: I trust you over anyone, to provide some insight here.
Speaker 2: What's been the biggest change going from Josh McDaniels in
Speaker 2: a three and five start to now coach Pierce and
Speaker 2: being two to zero under him. What's the biggest change
Speaker 2: there from that that coaching change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it sounds cheesy and cliche, but it's
Speaker 4: just culture, you know. I think with Josh McDaniels, clearly
Speaker 4: everyone felt like there was a dark cloud hanging over
Speaker 4: the facility. They couldn't have fun, they couldn't be themselves,
Speaker 4: you know, every day it was just about getting criticized
Speaker 4: and not being able to express yourself and just you
Speaker 4: know working and quote quote the Patriots away. But now
Speaker 4: with the Antonio Pierce and now with Josh McDaniel's gone.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was almost comical some of the quotes
Speaker 4: that some of the things that were coming out after
Speaker 4: Josh McDaniels was fired. I mean, you know, guys were
Speaker 4: like having impromptu wrestling matches in the locker room. You know,
Speaker 4: they put a basketball, little mini basketball hoop into the
Speaker 4: locker room. You know, I haven't seen DeVante's Adam smile
Speaker 4: in like months, and then he's in a locker room,
Speaker 4: you know, laughing it up with his guys, dancing and
Speaker 4: all these things. So it was just a cultural shift,
Speaker 4: and I think players are just at a much better
Speaker 4: place mentally, and that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 2: And winning certainly provides that, you know, culture boosts as well.
Speaker 2: The cigars have become quite a popular postgame habit for
Speaker 2: those guys after those last two victories there, And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's interesting in my podcast, preview in the game earlier
Speaker 2: in the week and talking about how this is a
Speaker 2: roster that kind of was assembled by you know, now
Speaker 2: at this point three different regimes in terms of Gruden
Speaker 2: Mayok to McDaniels and now in the post McDaniels era.
Speaker 2: So it's tough to cobble together a roster like that,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like or seems like they've found a
Speaker 2: way to make it work in the Antonio Pierce era. Here,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and get to the quarterback position. That's
Speaker 2: a big spot they made a change at this year
Speaker 2: after again a big contract for Jimmy Garoppolo this offseason.
Speaker 2: What have you seen from Aiden o'c and his two
Speaker 2: starts after some spot duty earlier in the season.
Speaker 3: I think he one, he's extremely accurate.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the first thing that jumps out is
Speaker 4: just how well he's able to place the ball exactly
Speaker 4: where he wants to. And that's two different skills, accuracy
Speaker 4: and ball placement. Accuracy is the ability to get the
Speaker 4: ball where you want, and ball placement is knowing where
Speaker 4: the ball needs to be relative to you know where
Speaker 4: the defenders are in the route. For example, you know
Speaker 4: if you're throwing a fade, You're not always going to
Speaker 4: put it right in front of the guy. If your
Speaker 4: receivers well covered, then you want to throw it back shoulder.
Speaker 3: So that's example ball placement.
Speaker 4: I feel like Ada O'Connell has a you know, he's
Speaker 4: very accurate and he's a strong sense of ball placement.
Speaker 4: And you saw that on his lone touchdown pass to
Speaker 4: Michael Mayer against Jets, where he was covered and he
Speaker 4: put it in only spot where Mayor.
Speaker 3: Could get it and it ended up being a touchdown.
Speaker 4: And that's another thing that separates O'Connell and garoppolo is
Speaker 4: O'Connell's giving his guys a chance. You know, he's taking chances,
Speaker 4: and he's a little bit more aggressive than Garoppolo. And
Speaker 4: I think that's one of the major reasons why he
Speaker 4: decided to make a change, just because they just needed
Speaker 4: a little bit more aggression and some more deep ball
Speaker 4: ability from their quarterback.
Speaker 2: He played quite a bit of snaps in college, right O'Connell.
Speaker 3: He did. He played a lot of snaps.
Speaker 4: I don't have the exact numbers in front of me,
Speaker 4: but he played a tons of snaps. He's very seasoned
Speaker 4: and you know, one of the first things that people
Speaker 4: noticed about him in training camp was just how well
Speaker 4: he handled the operation as far as play calls, and
Speaker 4: you know, the Patriot system which that are still running now,
Speaker 4: can't get pretty complicated at the line of scrimmage because
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks have so many responsibility, but O'Connell is able
Speaker 4: to handle that very smoothly, and it was one of
Speaker 4: the things that just got people talking a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I was going for there, because
Speaker 2: it seems like maybe the ball comes out a little
Speaker 2: bit harder, or maybe just the decision making happens a
Speaker 2: little bit faster, because it seemed like when garoppolos and
Speaker 2: that there was so many sets and O'Connor's taking his
Speaker 2: share of sacks as well, But just in terms of
Speaker 2: watching the tape, it seems like things happen a little
Speaker 2: bit faster with him under center there for the for
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Raiders, and you mentioned that the touchdown
Speaker 2: pass that Michael Mayer scored in the game against the
Speaker 2: Jets on in the night, which, by the way, I
Speaker 2: think all Dolphins fans were huge Raider fans that night.
Speaker 2: We always love seeing our division rival go down on
Speaker 2: in prime time. So that was a tip of the
Speaker 2: cap to the Raiders there. But you know, you mentioned Mayor,
Speaker 2: I mentioned him as well.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: This offense, like it features a lot of weapons. I
Speaker 2: think that gets overlooked across the league a lot from this,
Speaker 2: you know, non Raiders perspective. But what have you seen
Speaker 2: in terms of how you know this offense is operating
Speaker 2: at its best when they have Devonte Adams and Jacoby
Speaker 2: Myers and Josh Jacobs and Michael Mayer. That's a that's
Speaker 2: a really good list of eligibles. What does this offense
Speaker 2: do that makes that group function at its finest?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I would argue that, you know, we
Speaker 4: haven't seen them really function at their finance yet. I mean,
Speaker 4: they had a long streak where they couldn't even score
Speaker 4: twenty points and they couldn't score twenty points against the
Speaker 4: Jets this week. But I thought it was a pretty
Speaker 4: solid offensive performance considering the Jets might have the best
Speaker 4: defense in an NFL. But I think they're still trying
Speaker 4: to figure out how to best utilize everyone.
Speaker 3: DeVante Adams.
Speaker 4: Obviously, there's getting a lot of double teams, a lot
Speaker 4: of attention, but that doesn't mean you could.
Speaker 3: Just ignore your number one target.
Speaker 4: And they're kind of figuring out different ways of getting
Speaker 4: him the ball, but there's just too many stretches where
Speaker 4: he disappears for too long, and he's just too good
Speaker 4: of a player not to try to figure out a
Speaker 4: way to get him the ball. And you know, one
Speaker 4: of the ways you can't get him the ball despite
Speaker 4: throwing it throwing to him deep. The only way to
Speaker 4: beat double coverage is going deep. I mean, you guys
Speaker 4: see that with Tyreek Hill all the time. You know,
Speaker 4: if he's getting doubled, you got to run past that
Speaker 4: second safety or that second bracket defender.
Speaker 3: You can't do it short.
Speaker 4: So that's that's another reason why O'Connell is an upgrade
Speaker 4: over Garoppolo is he you know, he has the arm
Speaker 4: and deep accuracy to be able to take advantage of
Speaker 4: some of those things, and hopefully we see more of
Speaker 4: that to Kobe Myers has been really good at taking
Speaker 4: advantage of one on one matchups away from Adams, and
Speaker 4: Mayer is kind of finding his role within the offense.
Speaker 4: You know, for rookie tight ends is always tough. Is
Speaker 4: a very tough position to learn it and come in
Speaker 4: and be productive in your first year, but we're seeing
Speaker 4: flashes of him making place here and there, and Hunter
Speaker 4: Renfro is kind of making his way back into the
Speaker 4: offense after kind of getting blackballed by Josh McDaniel.
Speaker 2: I was watching Jtoshullivan's last aid and O'Connell break down
Speaker 2: and he was saying, de number thirteen, guys knew I'm
Speaker 2: not familiar with thirteen's game. It's like, yeah, he was
Speaker 2: there before, catching a bunch of passes in the previous regime,
Speaker 2: but he kind of got with the doghouse recently, or
Speaker 2: I should say before recently with the coaching change now.
Speaker 2: So it's good to see Renfro going back again. One
Speaker 2: more question on the offense here, Ted, because you know
Speaker 2: Colton Miller didn't play in the game against the Jets
Speaker 2: on Sunday, and just looking at the raw numbers in
Speaker 2: the tape as well, he's clearly the best offensive lineman
Speaker 2: on that team. Do you think he plays in the
Speaker 2: game on Sunday? I know it's early in the way here.
Speaker 2: Do you think he plays And what's the impact of
Speaker 2: having him versus not having him for the Raiders offensive line.
Speaker 4: My guess is he will play. I mean and I'm
Speaker 4: you know, I I don't know. I haven't been at
Speaker 4: practices or I haven't talked to my podcast hosts who
Speaker 4: are on the beat every day. But just based on
Speaker 4: his reputation and what he's done in the past as
Speaker 4: far as playing hurt and coming you know, getting playing
Speaker 4: so many games and just being tough, you know, I
Speaker 4: think he's going to make his best effort to I
Speaker 4: think he was closed last week but just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: So my guess is he does play.
Speaker 4: This offensive line is a you know, it's not a
Speaker 4: bad pass blocking unit, but they haven't They're not a
Speaker 4: very physical group as far as running the ball. The
Speaker 4: physicality comes more comes more from Josh Jacobs and and
Speaker 4: his ability to just run through tackles and just lower
Speaker 4: his shoulder and get yard after contact. But so far
Speaker 4: this group just isn't really able to move people off
Speaker 4: the ball. But since Pierce has taken over, they've really
Speaker 4: made a commitment to running the ball and trying to
Speaker 4: wear out defenses and pop some runs like they did
Speaker 4: against Jets, where you know, they weren't very efficient throughout
Speaker 4: the day, but later in the game they popped a
Speaker 4: few critical runs.
Speaker 2: You think that's a plan that can work against an
Speaker 2: offense that has as much explosiveness as the Miami Dolphins, because,
Speaker 2: like obviously the Jets, they want to play the game
Speaker 2: the same way, right, they want to put you in
Speaker 2: the mud and make it, you know, a sixteen to
Speaker 2: twenty ugly kind of defensive game. Do you think that
Speaker 2: can translate here against an offense that typically scores in
Speaker 2: the thirties.
Speaker 4: No, I think you have to be a lot more aggressive.
Speaker 4: I mean, unless you're getting stops, which I think will
Speaker 4: be extremely difficult against the Dolphins, and you want to
Speaker 4: shorten a game, but it's you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: hard getting stops against the Dolphins, and I think you
Speaker 4: have to be more aggressive and use Josh Jacobs in
Speaker 4: a different way, you know, maybe find some ways to
Speaker 4: get them some screens or use him as the receiver
Speaker 4: and have him punished the defense that way. But just
Speaker 4: trying to run up the middle against the Dolphins run defense,
Speaker 4: that I think is improving. I thought they had a
Speaker 4: pretty good game against the Chiefs. I don't think that's
Speaker 4: gonna be a winning business model.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's after that first game or so, they kind
Speaker 2: of had some leaks against the Chargers, but it's been
Speaker 2: a lot better since then, so trending up in that direction.
Speaker 2: I think the new scheme is kind of starting to stitch.
Speaker 2: It seems together a little bit here under Vic Fangio,
Speaker 2: Ted Winn here from the Athletic my guest breaking down
Speaker 2: Dolphins and Raiders on Sunday from hard Rock Stadium. We
Speaker 2: talked about the offense. Go ahead and go to the
Speaker 2: other side of the football here, and you'd be crazy
Speaker 2: to start anywhere else. Besides one of the best damn
Speaker 2: players in the entire league. You know, Crosby gets so
Speaker 2: much attention in terms of doubles and chips, just guys
Speaker 2: getting in his way. Yet here he is on the
Speaker 2: cusp of another double digit sack season nine and a half.
Speaker 2: It's crazy how productive he is. Like, I guess my
Speaker 2: question is simple, how does he do it? Because when
Speaker 2: I watched him on tape, I see, you know a
Speaker 2: lot of power people, movers that you know, really operate
Speaker 2: Patrick Graham's game heavy scheme to create these chances for Max, Like,
Speaker 2: is that what you see? Why is he so productive
Speaker 2: even though he gets as much attention as the Micah
Speaker 2: Parsons and the Miles Garretts of the World.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 4: He has, you know, freaky movement skills as far as
Speaker 4: burst and change his directions, and just so good with
Speaker 4: his hands. I mean, he's like, you know, if you
Speaker 4: just watch him and you watch how he uses his hands,
Speaker 4: he's like a judo master. You know, he's able to
Speaker 4: use blockers momentum against him, like he's he's just tossing,
Speaker 4: you know, three hundred pound lineman out the way, not
Speaker 4: with power, it's just you know, he just knows how
Speaker 4: to just move his body and get them to move
Speaker 4: one way and throw them in a different direction. And
Speaker 4: tight ends are just no match for him. But I
Speaker 4: think the one thing with him is she's just so relentless.
Speaker 4: And you know when you watch him at practice, you
Speaker 4: watch him in training camp, every single rep he's going
Speaker 4: one hundred and ten percent, and it shows up on
Speaker 4: game day. You know, he plays a one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of the snaps. He doesn't take any snaps off. And
Speaker 4: then you know, you saw late in the game against
Speaker 4: Late in every game, you know he's making plays in
Speaker 4: those on those last drives despite not taking a break.
Speaker 4: So he's relentless. He works extremely hard every single day.
Speaker 4: You know, his stamina, he might be the best conditioned
Speaker 4: defensive player in the league.
Speaker 2: Ninety eight percent snaps right, That's that's crazy, man. There's
Speaker 2: not many guys that can do that at that position.
Speaker 2: Like I always get hyped up when I see Christian
Speaker 2: Wilkins and Zach's either play on like eighty five percent,
Speaker 2: But man, ninety eight when you're you know, it's a
Speaker 2: full sprint. Every thirty seconds or so is is a lot,
Speaker 2: and he's he's impressive.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: It's fun to watch him play. Hopefully not too much
Speaker 2: against the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and finish up here.
Speaker 2: Two more questions. That's one in the secondary, because you know,
Speaker 2: Brandon Faison's been down for a while. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: a meet Robertson plays after that scene on Sunday Night.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's okay and doing better. Jack Jones just got there.
Speaker 2: How do you think this Raiders secondary will handle the
Speaker 2: Dolphins speed and the weapons they have on the perimeter
Speaker 2: with you know what relatively looks like a pretty inexperienced
Speaker 2: group right now, with you know, the aforementioned Jones and
Speaker 2: Jacorey and Bennett, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be a problem. Nate Hobbs, I feel
Speaker 4: like is a very underrated nickel corner and he's gonna
Speaker 4: be good in slot. But as far as the outside
Speaker 4: corners go, you have Marcus Peters, who you know, Marcus Peters.
Speaker 3: Marcus Peters. He's not the fastest corner.
Speaker 4: He's not great as a pure coverage guy, but he
Speaker 4: is very intelligent. He knows how to bate quarterbacks into
Speaker 4: uh you know, into batted passes and interceptions. But he
Speaker 4: just doesn't have that speed to hang with the fast receivers.
Speaker 4: And he's gonna be going against two of the fastest
Speaker 4: in Blattle and Hill. And on the other side you
Speaker 4: have Jacorey and Bennett who will probably be filling in
Speaker 4: for a Meek Robertson. And Bennett his an elite athlete,
Speaker 4: but you know, he has a long way to go
Speaker 4: as far as holding in on his technique and reads
Speaker 4: and things like that. Uh So, you know, the outside
Speaker 4: corner is gonna be a problem, and I think they're
Speaker 4: going to have to keep two safety deep a lot
Speaker 4: in this game, if not the entire game. The safeties
Speaker 4: for the Raiders have been playing pretty well. Epps from
Speaker 4: the Eagles and Trayvon Morig, who was the second round
Speaker 4: pick a few years ago, is having a career type
Speaker 4: of year. But it's gonna be a problem that they
Speaker 4: can't help in the run because the Raiders front has
Speaker 4: been pretty soft against the run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and with Devon a chanback, maybe the Dolphins
Speaker 2: can get a little bit more of their you know,
Speaker 2: balance to have an offense, you know, prior to his injury,
Speaker 2: with how they were cooking those few games that he
Speaker 2: was up and going ted. Your demeanor and kind of
Speaker 2: the answers of the questions sort of answered this final
Speaker 2: question for me already, But I'm gonna pose it because
Speaker 2: I do every single week when I interview a reporter
Speaker 2: analyst from the other sideline. The Raiders win this game
Speaker 2: if and then you fill in the blank.
Speaker 3: The Raiders win this game if Max Crosby sex two
Speaker 3: of five times and it's completely unblockable and is able
Speaker 3: to get to the quarterback in less than two point
Speaker 3: five seconds, consist on a consistent basis, and they somehow
Speaker 3: find a way to run for over one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty yards.
Speaker 2: That's to order to order. Yeah, dead win. The athletic man.
Speaker 2: We always learned something talking to you. I appreciate your time,
Speaker 2: and I want to promote some of your work here,
Speaker 2: so I have I'm very long winded with these. I
Speaker 2: kind of followed Mike McDaniel's lead on this. Three ways
Speaker 2: I want to pose this number. One, tell us the
Speaker 2: name of your podcast. I didn't check the name of
Speaker 2: your Raiders podcast. Two, what is something Dolphins, Ceddrick you've
Speaker 2: worked on this year, because I know you're doing some
Speaker 2: film stuff and the Dolphins have to be in there,
Speaker 2: I imagine. And then three, what are you working on
Speaker 2: coming up that you're excited about?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: So my Raiders podcast is called State of Nation and
Speaker 4: that's on Apple, Spotify, wherever you want to find your
Speaker 4: podcasts and.
Speaker 3: Be let it.
Speaker 4: I wrote an article last week actually about the Miami
Speaker 4: Dolphins and how they can kind of get over the
Speaker 4: hump and be these teams with winning records, which they
Speaker 4: have had trouble doing. You know. I talked about some
Speaker 4: of the things like just being able to get down
Speaker 4: to find the checkdowns a little bit quicker, and some
Speaker 4: improvements they can make in the run game. I talked
Speaker 4: about how I thought Vic Fangio's defense is starting to
Speaker 4: finally look like a Fangio defense.
Speaker 3: I thought they did some really good things against the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Obviously, getting that defensive back group healthy and together is
Speaker 4: a huge deal.
Speaker 3: So yeah, check that out on the athletic.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, man, I appy sure time today. Ted enjoyed
Speaker 2: the game on Sunday, No problem, you too, and there
Speaker 2: he goes, Ted win. Really fun conversation there ahead of
Speaker 2: Sunday's game against the Raiders. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 2: our first break right here. Come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about two a
Speaker 2: tongue of my Low's leadership. We'll also hear from the
Speaker 2: assistant coaches. That's all next to Draft Time Podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Second
Speaker 2: segment here on a Thursday edition of the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Big game tonight between Baltimore and Cincinnati. Want the Bengals
Speaker 2: to win that game, give the Dolphins a chance to
Speaker 2: make some ground up in the race among the divisional
Speaker 2: leaders in terms of seeding for the AFC playoffs coming
Speaker 2: up here in just two months. Man, it's coming up fast.
Speaker 3: Quicker than that.
Speaker 2: Actually, what eight weeks away? Seven weeks away?
Speaker 3: Either way?
Speaker 2: I digress, but yeah, you want the Bengals to win
Speaker 2: that game. Time we'll pick the games here on the
Speaker 2: third segment, But I was playing with some scenarios on
Speaker 2: the ESPN Playoff Predictor, which is back up, by the way,
Speaker 2: a lot better than the knockoff versions I've found. I've
Speaker 2: been really into that since the Chiefs game, because one,
Speaker 2: I've been bored that we'd had a game last week,
Speaker 2: but also just kind of want to see what my
Speaker 2: potential expectations should be for how not just the Dolphins
Speaker 2: season can play out from here forward, but how other
Speaker 2: clubs can. And basically it comes down to this for me,
Speaker 2: is that Miami, I think, is in a good position
Speaker 2: to make a run at the one seed. And if
Speaker 2: you go look at ESPN's Football is it the FPI,
Speaker 2: the Football Power Index or maybe the analytics, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure exactly what it's called, but they have percentage odds
Speaker 2: for each team's chances of finishing in each potential seed
Speaker 2: in the conference, and Miami's playoff odds are like ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent, and a lot of that is because of
Speaker 2: where we stand with our upcoming schedule, where the Bills
Speaker 2: stand and their upcoming schedule, it's pretty much not I
Speaker 2: don't want to say a guarantee because that's not true,
Speaker 2: but in terms of the numbers and the analytics and
Speaker 2: the models, they believe it's a shoe win that the
Speaker 2: Dolphins win the AFC East and their number one seed
Speaker 2: potential is like nineteen percent, which is there's one of
Speaker 2: three teams that have any percentage hope of that one
Speaker 2: seed right now. The two seed was like twenty nine percent,
Speaker 2: and then the three seed was like fifteen percent. So basically,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, according to thousands and thousands of simulations, should
Speaker 2: obtain one of the top three seeds. And you guys know,
Speaker 2: the one seed is the most important one because you
Speaker 2: get a week off, and if the Dolphins team can
Speaker 2: get a week off and then come back for a
Speaker 2: home game against the lowest remaining seed in the AFC, gosh,
Speaker 2: I like our chances at that point to qualify for
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship Game, or essentially the same thing with
Speaker 2: the two seed, where you would then host, you know,
Speaker 2: the highest remaining seed in the AFC if you win
Speaker 2: your two verse seven game. And I was just thinking
Speaker 2: about this, the possibility of maybe like Jacksonville getting the
Speaker 2: three seed. I'm trying to think about the best matchups
Speaker 2: for wildcard versus Divisional round weekend. Obviously, the one seed
Speaker 2: is the ideal thing because all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: get one upset, you get one you know, Steelers team
Speaker 2: that picks off somebody they shouldn't have, and you're playing
Speaker 2: in the AFC Divisional round against like Kenny Pickett, right,
Speaker 2: that would be pretty nice. Not likely, but it's a possibility,
Speaker 2: And so just kind of playing around with that, Like
Speaker 2: there are different avenues where you could potentially see a
Speaker 2: scenario where Miami like faces you know, Cleveland with PJ.
Speaker 2: Wahs Dorian Thompson Robinson in the first round, and then
Speaker 2: based upon how things play out from there, maybe you
Speaker 2: wind up getting Houston or Jacksonville in that second round.
Speaker 2: Like there's a world I'm trying to say that exists
Speaker 2: where you kind of have an Eagles like schedule in
Speaker 2: last year's playoffs. There's a possibility of that happening long
Speaker 2: way down the road. Take care of business, win your
Speaker 2: football games, and put yourself in position. And I've talked
Speaker 2: about it for weeks now. Eleven and three was always
Speaker 2: the minimum going into Christmas Eve to me, and that's
Speaker 2: still where we're at right now. So just some interesting
Speaker 2: stuff there I thought was worth talking about. It's the
Speaker 2: rest of these next eight weeks are gonna be so
Speaker 2: fun because you're gonna have Dolphins games to keep track of.
Speaker 2: But there's so many critical AFC matchups among the teams
Speaker 2: who exist near the top of the standings currently, and
Speaker 2: that should be there going forward, you know, into Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: it into December and into January, and a lot of
Speaker 2: those games are in primetime too, so it should be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun for us to, you know, as
Speaker 2: Dolphins fans and get a chance to really, you know,
Speaker 2: immerse ourselves in the National Football if you're like me,
Speaker 2: like I love watching NFL games and football games, but
Speaker 2: it's so much better when the Dolphins are good and
Speaker 2: you have a vested interest in games. The Buffalo Denver game,
Speaker 2: I was living and dine with that game. Man, that
Speaker 2: was like heart rate, like standing up. That was fun.
Speaker 2: It was fun to watch that. I really enjoyed watching
Speaker 2: a team that we needed to lose lose that game.
Speaker 2: And so just I think that's how the next eight
Speaker 2: weeks can go for Dolphins fans like enjoy it, embrace
Speaker 2: it and really try to soak it in this year.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit here about two a tongue
Speaker 2: of by Low's leadership, because Barry Jackson posted a great
Speaker 2: story on the Miami Herald earlier today. I think it
Speaker 2: was maybe it was on Wednesday night, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but it goes back to the snap in Germany, right,
Speaker 2: the failed snap, and to a you know, the minute something.
Speaker 2: The minute he takes to the podium for a press
Speaker 2: conference after a game, he always assigns the blame of
Speaker 2: whatever the biggest fault of the game was to himself,
Speaker 2: like a leader would, right. And then Connor Williams came
Speaker 2: out and mentioned that the snap was obviously bad. It's
Speaker 2: my fault, right, like I that was a bad snap.
Speaker 2: You can tell clearly off of his frame. And so
Speaker 2: Barry went around and asked some folks in the locker
Speaker 2: room about why that is important for the quarterback to
Speaker 2: do that. And so Austin Jackson, who was drafted to
Speaker 2: the same year as Tua, you know, seventeen or No.
Speaker 2: Thirteen picks after Tua was, was asked about it and
Speaker 2: Jackson said this, Tua has never once pointed the finger
Speaker 2: at anyone he's very respectful. And then Duke Riley popped
Speaker 2: up and had this to say. I know one thing.
Speaker 2: He will never say anything as anyone's fault. It's always
Speaker 2: his fault. Everything is always uplifting with Tua, uplifting with
Speaker 2: positivity and always reflecting how much he needs to improve.
Speaker 2: He's a great person to have on your team. Anyone
Speaker 2: would do anything for Tua. Everyone loves him. He spends
Speaker 2: his time with everyone on the team. Everyone on the
Speaker 2: team has been to his house. I love the guy,
Speaker 2: his family, everything about him. He's someone you want your
Speaker 2: kids to be Like, I mean, oh, man, like we
Speaker 2: debate this guy. I don't you guys know how I
Speaker 2: feel about the quarterback. There's debates about this guy that
Speaker 2: like what are we doing? Man? Like the kind of
Speaker 2: guy that you want your daughter to marry, right, And
Speaker 2: he's like an MVP candidate, and he has the Dolphins
Speaker 2: in the best position. Like I keep seeing these arguments
Speaker 2: about like, well, I don't know they beat the Jets,
Speaker 2: or oh, they're five and five. It's like, use your eyes,
Speaker 2: Just use your damn eyes and tell me the Dolphins
Speaker 2: are not superior to ninety percent of the teams in
Speaker 2: the NFL right now, like vastly superior, just based on
Speaker 2: the eye test. Your quarterback is the primary reason for that. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's all it comes down to. Your quarterback is awesome.
Speaker 2: He's twenty five years old. He's probably gonna get a
Speaker 2: massive extension here any day now. Not any day now,
Speaker 2: but in the you know, coming future. He's that character,
Speaker 2: He's that kind of leader. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 2: get it. Maybe I don't know. I know, it's like
Speaker 2: confirming priors and stuff, but like, what are we doing
Speaker 2: like this? We've been waiting for thirty years for this guy.
Speaker 2: That's that's the point. Let's pivot off that and hear
Speaker 2: from the assistant and I want to get a little
Speaker 2: bit of crowdsourcing production here on the podcast. I want
Speaker 2: to know what you guys think about the sound bites
Speaker 2: on the show. Do you like hearing more of coach
Speaker 2: and players and the assistants? Do you want to hear less?
Speaker 2: Is it right on par with what you want to hear?
Speaker 2: Just let me know in the comments. I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: three sound bites here highlights, one each from Vic Fangio,
Speaker 2: Frank Smith, and Butch Barry. Let's go ahead and start
Speaker 2: here with Butch Berry, who had the whole room laughing
Speaker 2: when he was talking a little bit about offensive line
Speaker 2: play and the importance in his belief of playing multiple
Speaker 2: sports to get those different body movements down. So I
Speaker 2: ask coach, because that's like right up my alley. I
Speaker 2: love hearing about that. And if my kids want to
Speaker 2: get into sports when they get old enough, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell them your best bet forward is to play as
Speaker 2: many sports as possible because those natural movements that come
Speaker 2: with different sports will benefit you the most in the
Speaker 2: long run. So I ask coach, what sport do you
Speaker 2: think lends itself the most carryover for offensive line footwork.
Speaker 2: He gave us this gem.
Speaker 1: People have always said wrestling because of the balance. I
Speaker 1: think you could take application. I think you can take
Speaker 1: application from both. Then there's a lot of people say
Speaker 1: pass protection and how you play defensive basketball would have
Speaker 1: application in terms of how you're trying to move your feet,
Speaker 1: leverage to the hoop and the guy with the ball
Speaker 1: because that's pass protection. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: you can take from every sport. In hockey, I know
Speaker 1: the movement would be different, but understanding how to leverage
Speaker 1: and have spatial awareness. Like, so every sport there's application
Speaker 1: you can take and move it to offensive line or
Speaker 1: move to any sport. Really, I mean started to learning
Speaker 1: how to try to play tennis. Get my picked by
Speaker 1: my wife, but you know, but anyways, good.
Speaker 2: Job and my man JT there giving us clean audio
Speaker 2: to make it a kid friendly show. Here on the
Speaker 2: Draft Time podcast, Let's go next to coach Frank Smith,
Speaker 2: who was asked about the challenges of the looks you
Speaker 2: get from a defense on a given Sunday. I always
Speaker 2: love this stuff because you spend the whole week game
Speaker 2: playing for what you expect you might get, and then
Speaker 2: if somebody throws a curveball that you have prepared for,
Speaker 2: which that's you know, part of the deal of coaching, right,
Speaker 2: But how you adjust the stuff that you didn't see
Speaker 2: on tape, it's so fascinating to me. So here's coach
Speaker 2: talking about the challenges of what you expect to see
Speaker 2: on tape versus the unknown that teams could throw at
Speaker 2: you any given week.
Speaker 5: Each week it kind of goes there's it's along those lines,
Speaker 5: I mean, each week it's kind of you assess your opponent, yourselves,
Speaker 5: where you're at, you know, your anticipated guys who can
Speaker 5: be available for the game. What's the defense trend to do?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: How can we, you know, use our matchup guys to
Speaker 5: attack the defense, you know, for the width of it,
Speaker 5: in the length of the field. So I think that
Speaker 5: each week the checklist is, you know, as we're talking
Speaker 5: about what we're trying to hit, maybe one works in
Speaker 5: front of the other others there, but ultimately it's kind
Speaker 5: of the same stuff we've been talking about as far
Speaker 5: as how a lot of times if you don't expand
Speaker 5: the field allows them to compress. And the ability to
Speaker 5: not compress to compress us allows us to create space
Speaker 5: in the defense. And I think ultimately that's what offense
Speaker 5: is trying to do and attack the space.
Speaker 2: And then I want to finish up here to promote
Speaker 2: some of my own work that we have coming up
Speaker 2: for you guys, The Too a Tongue of I Low
Speaker 2: a video breakdown we did about a month and a
Speaker 2: half ago, did over twenty thousand views. Very excited about
Speaker 2: that number. We have a feature coming up on Bradley
Speaker 2: Chubb talking about his work in the run game and
Speaker 2: how he creates chances for his teammates, both as a
Speaker 2: pass Rusher and in the run game. So keep an
Speaker 2: eye out on YouTube for that. I'll promote the hell
Speaker 2: out of that episode. But I want to go ahead
Speaker 2: and play Vic Fangio's audio here talking about the impact
Speaker 2: of Phillips and Chubb and when you know it, you
Speaker 2: love when this happens, confirming my previous hypothesis on Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in Jalen's case, he's just you know, he missed
Speaker 6: those four games and took him a game or two
Speaker 6: to get his timing back, his feel back, and you know,
Speaker 6: and I think he's playing really good now. And I
Speaker 6: think Bradley's played good the entire season. You know, everybody
Speaker 6: gets caught up in numbers at times, and he didn't
Speaker 6: have X amount of sacks early on, but he's had
Speaker 6: some here lately. But I think he's been playing good
Speaker 6: all year. It's good to see for him, happy for him.
Speaker 4: You know, he had.
Speaker 6: A tough stretching there endeaver to three years we were together.
Speaker 6: He was hurt a lot and never could get into
Speaker 6: a groove. And now I think everybody's seeing the player
Speaker 6: that he can be.
Speaker 2: One more break and then segment number three the Week
Speaker 2: eleven NFL Picks. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: segment three on a Thursday. You know what time that means.
Speaker 2: It is time to pick the games for week number
Speaker 2: eleven in the National Football League. And I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with you guys. I went ten and six last week,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad that I went ten six because the
Speaker 2: two losses that really changed the win loss total for
Speaker 2: your boy came on Sunday Night and Monday Night football,
Speaker 2: with the Jets and Bills both falling by the wayside.
Speaker 2: So we go ten and six. We fall to one
Speaker 2: oh four and forty eight on the season, which is
Speaker 2: a little bit under sixty nine percent nights, So gotta
Speaker 2: get that back up on the positive side of seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pick the games this week and
Speaker 2: cue the music right here. Starting tonight in Baltimore, I
Speaker 2: believe it is want the Bengals to win, taking the
Speaker 2: Ravens even though they're gonna be down. It looks like
Speaker 2: Ronnie Stanley Marlon Humphrey could be down as well, and
Speaker 2: they're missing somebody else to and I forget who it is,
Speaker 2: but either way, The Bengals also don't have T Higgins.
Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson will play despite that nasty look injury he
Speaker 2: took on Sunday, but big game in the AFC North.
Speaker 2: I think these teams in this division eventually will campbellize themselves.
Speaker 2: I think that's why Miami finishes above the AFC North
Speaker 2: champion in the seeding at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: and CINCINNTI winning this game tonight would help go in
Speaker 2: that direction. The Browns, ah Man, I'm taking the Browns
Speaker 2: over the Steelers. I don't think they won games because
Speaker 2: of their offense and their quarterback wasn't that good. And
Speaker 2: I think that they can make a game plan for
Speaker 2: DTR to beat what I believe is still a very
Speaker 2: pet Steelers team. Dolphins over Raiders, you guys know about that,
Speaker 2: The Lions over the Bears, Jags over the Titans. Titans
Speaker 2: like they have rough road ahead, and I don't really
Speaker 2: believe in their offense right now, so scoring six and
Speaker 2: thirteen points of games just not going to do it
Speaker 2: for you. Give me Jacksonville and that one to bounce back.
Speaker 2: Give me the Chargers over the Packers. I was big
Speaker 2: on the Packers this offseason, but it just hasn't worked
Speaker 2: out that well. The offense looks really really mundane. Houston
Speaker 2: over Arizona. Want to take the Cardinals here. I think
Speaker 2: that Kyler Murray's gonna get the Cardinals out of the
Speaker 2: top three picks of the draft, which I depending how
Speaker 2: you look at it, I guess I don't know is
Speaker 2: a good thing or bad thing. But it's nice to
Speaker 2: have a good quarterback back in the league because we
Speaker 2: don't have enough of those right now. Give me Dallas
Speaker 2: over Carolina, Washington over the Giants. I'm not gonna pick
Speaker 2: the Giants of the rest of the year. The Panthers
Speaker 2: maybe not either. We'll see the Niners over the Bucks,
Speaker 2: Buffalo over the Jets, and look like this is a
Speaker 2: game where the Bills are like vastly superior, but they
Speaker 2: always This is like the old Patriots and Dolphins rivalry.
Speaker 2: Like the Jets are never good, but they always beat
Speaker 2: the top team in the division.
Speaker 1: Somehow.
Speaker 2: They already got the win at home. I don't make
Speaker 2: it this week in Orchard Park. I think Buffalo bounces
Speaker 2: back in a big way this week over the Jets.
Speaker 2: Give me the Rams over the Seahawks. For the season,
Speaker 2: sweep with Matthew Stafford coming back. I like Seattle, but
Speaker 2: they play a lot of bad football, man, so I
Speaker 2: think this is the week where they kind of the
Speaker 2: Rams always get them, so they'll get them again. Here
Speaker 2: for a sweep the Vikings over the Broncos on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night football, and then a big, big, big game on
Speaker 2: Monday Night for Dolphins fans in the league in general,
Speaker 2: Eagles over the Chiefs, which would be really nice for
Speaker 2: that one seed pursuit to get back in place. So
Speaker 2: those are the week eleven picks. That is the Thursday podcast.
Speaker 2: We'll come back tomorrow and have the great Trent Green
Speaker 2: with us here. We'll also do some audio for you guys,
Speaker 2: so I think coach McDaniel. We have Kyle Crabs in
Speaker 2: the podcast as well, some fun stuff on tomorrow show.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, that's gonna be my time. You all.
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