WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Titans Week 14 Preview 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.040 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.119 your pulse if you're not. What is up? Dolphins? And 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.160 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:16.919 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.640 it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.440 And on today's show, it's a preview day. Once again, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.840 we have to wait one extra day for game day. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.280 But it is Wednesday, which means we'll turn the page 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.680 and get on to week fourteen. In introduction to the Titans, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.400 critical matchups, Keys to Victory, a brief Hard Knocks recap, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.599 and much much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:42.680 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.839 Maggie Jaffe, Sir, So Hard Knocks was last night, and 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.479 I liked this episode much more in the vein of 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.479 the first episode than the second one. And that's purely 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.400 just the sadness of losing Jalen Phillips for the entire season, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.959 despite how good the storytelling was, and speaking of that, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.800 how great is the storytelling? And how lucky is that 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.560 that Van Ginkel with his kids, his lovely wife the 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.080 watch party and then mister Hugh just goes off and 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.479 records a sack and a pick six in the game. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.399 Good or mister Wang, I should say, sorry, awesome, but 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.760 it makes the hair on my arm stand up just 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.520 thinking about it. In fact, the entire game portion did 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.200 that as well. I mean the deep balls coach saying 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.080 they're cheating Wallow, let's go. Then then Yatzi, and then 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.480 of course Tyreek having no idea what happened on the 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.520 second touchdown, only to be shown the tablet and the 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.280 immediate Mia Kulpa, that's perfect. Where's that ball? Tyrek? That's perfect? 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.760 How can you not love that? But to me, I 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.480 think the best part of the show was the in 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.120 depth analysis of Tuas game and his mechanics, coach comparing 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.040 the throwing motion to a golf swing. You know your 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.920 boy love that. The Drew Brees mentioned, Come on, what 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.639 was two was comp out of college? Left handed Drew Brees. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.320 You love to see it. His ability to rip it 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.600 without a real stride. That's part of the mechanism that 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.080 makes him one of the quickest releases the game has 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.880 ever seen. Right, but man, the channeled energy stuff, This 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.040 is exactly how you want your quarterback to be wired. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.240 There's those hair standing up again. I cannot wait to 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.000 watch this dude play in these big games down the 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.000 stretch because think you're gonna get the best version of 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.760 to a Tongua bai looa within those games. Finally, my 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.160 other favorite part. This is why I try to hand 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.080 out six game balls on radio every week and Seth 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.760 and OJ give me crap for it because I can 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.720 never choose. But McDaniel. At halftime of a game they 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.680 lead thirty one to seven, he says, this press forward, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.560 Let's show how we're different from everyone. Not let the 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.919 gas off and take pride in how we play football together. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.679 How about that? I mean, that's the kind of mindset 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.640 that wins championships, is not. It impairs so well with 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.799 his team meeting speech earlier in the episode about how 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.160 the opponent doesn't matter because that's not what every day 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.000 is about. And that's so good. You don't have to 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.120 worry about what your opposition is doing. You have to 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.760 focus on yourself. And if you approach every day with 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.399 that same singular mindset, you're gonna put yourself in by 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.800 the end of the year to be in the position 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.000 that you want to be in. And he's so focused. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.720 Mike is on the grander journey of it all, and 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.040 he uses that phrase all the damn time. And I 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.239 truly believe it plays a major major role in why 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.720 you've had this team come out and play teams that 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.680 they're supposed to beat and not just beat them, but 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.560 beat them by this much. Fifty points against Denver, fifteen 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.840 points against the Giants, twenty one against the Panthers, fourteen 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.480 against the Patriots who just beat the Chargers or lost 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.480 the Charges by six points, twenty one versus the Jets, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.880 thirty versus the Commanders. Literally the only game that didn't 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.680 go that way in terms of like lopside of potential 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.040 scores was the Raider game, because back in Week one, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.400 the Chargers were a Super Bowl pick. The Patriots in 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.760 Week two were coming off a game the loss of 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.320 the defending NFC champion Eagles by just five points. Like 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.720 after that, you've pretty much demolished every single lower level 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.280 team you've seen this year. So I think it's something 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.320 they emphasize, and I think it's something the players absolutely 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.240 unequivocally buy in on. Let's actually go back to coach 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.320 on the opening speech that he gave in front of 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.360 the team and the quote that I love more than 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.080 anything else, we waste no day because that's literally our formula. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.120 We don't give a talk about more playing. That's not 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.240 the objective. The objective is to progress our games. So 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.680 when it's elimination time, it's tucking on. We have no regrets. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.640 So that'll be the formula when the take on the 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.280 Titans on Monday Night football. Let's go ahead and get 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.160 into this Monday night football, first time since the Saints 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.400 game the Ian Book game back in twenty twenty one 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.320 for the Miami Dolphins on Monday night. Can you believe that? Gosh, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.200 that seems like a different lifetime ago. It's the first 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.200 home Monday night game since twenty seventeen when Kenyon Drake 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.080 scored two touchdowns and Xaviering and Howard picked off Tom 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.599 Brady twice as we uphit the Patriots. Gosh, another live 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.440 time ago. But we're back and a win keeps us 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.240 atop the AFC standings. So let's go ahead and get 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.080 to know the four and eight Titans. But first, hard 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.440 Rock Stadium hits different at night. I've always had that 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.080 said it for three or four times now, especially when 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.440 the forecast calls for nighttime temperatures of seventy degrees, a 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.360 slight breeze, a small chance of rain. Cloudy evening, perfect 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.000 football weather here in South Florida, and the Titans are 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.040 in a bit of a transition period. The season began 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.799 looking like we'd see the first return of Ryan Tannehill 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.880 to hard Rock Stadium, but they have since made the 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.200 switch to second round draft pick Will Levis. They traded 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.480 longtime All Pro Kevin Bayyard at the time the deadline, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.719 and running the game that we saw Dereck Henry go 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.920 no lower than ninety six rushing yards per game since 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.040 twenty eighteen, which also coincides with Tannehill's arrival. This year 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.920 is all the way down to just seventy per game, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.200 twenty six yards off of that pace from when he 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.640 was peaked. Dereck Henry his yards per attempt are right 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.800 in line with the last three years four point three, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 four point four now four point three again, but they 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.599 have not been able to run the ball as often. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.440 They're down sixteen attempts per game compared to twenty three 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.840 over the previous three years, and the scoreboard dictates that 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.240 I'm sure the tread on the tires dictates that a 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.040 little bit. And their number two running back ty J. Spears, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.440 who's a phenomenal looking prospect and pro player now, is 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.640 pretty good as well, so he dictates that too. But 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.839 you have to change. You have changes all over the 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.800 roster for this Titans team. The offensive line has been 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.440 completely remade the last two seasons. The receiver room underwent 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.880 a total overhaul post aj Brown trade, which I'm sure 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.880 they regret that one. Now, let's put it this way, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.960 it's a completely different team than the one we saw 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.840 one week after that Monday night game against the Saints 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.760 in Tennessee against the Titans. That team earned the one 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.880 seed that year in evidence of a transitional period. Entered 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.440 this game at four and eight off of a season 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.360 where they finished with seven consecutive losses following a seven 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.120 and three start. So it's been a rough road for 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.960 them in the last you know, thirteen months or so. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.279 What a start. Contrast, so, when Tannehill took over back 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.880 in week six of twenty nineteen to week twelve of 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.080 last year, when the losing treak began, they were thirty 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.440 six and seventeen in that stretch. That's like what the 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.719 Dolphins have done the last couple of years right since 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.800 that four wins and fifteen losses, the coming off a 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.400 brutal overtime loss that probably removed any semblance of hope 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.440 for a late season surge of the playoffs. It wasn't 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.000 gonna happen anyways, but they beat the Panthers a week 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.000 ago by a touchdown. Man like ugh, the had losses 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.760 of the Jags and Bucks before that. They lost to 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.480 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh by four and Levis's first start, and he 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.200 threw four touchdowns in his first game against the Falcons 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.840 in that first Star So we'll get to him in 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.320 the tape study portion of the podcast. Let's go ahead 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.000 first into a quick rundown of how the roster got 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.400 to the current state that it's in. Tannehill signed as 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.120 a backup to Mariota back in twenty nineteen, Willis was 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.040 a third round draft pick in that quarterback room in 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.840 twenty twenty two, and then will Levis is the second 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.520 round draft pick this year. So heavy investment into the position, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.080 and for a team that funnels its offense through the 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.040 running backs, right, Henry and Spears are the only backs 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.600 on the active roster They do have some practice squad 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.280 call ups they'll make, but it's not a name worth noting. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.520 They used to do a They used the pick they 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.360 got for aj Brown to get trail in Burks and 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.920 he hasn't worked out the way they hoped he would. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.120 He actually just returned from a long absence with an 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.480 injury he suffered in that Pittsburgh game. They brought in 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.520 new Hopkins this offseason, and the neck Nick Westbrook Akina 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.720 has kind of been the hidden gem of that group 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.640 for them. I love their fourth round pick from last year, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.200 tight end Chigakuonko He's kind of got Charles Clay vibes 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.480 to him. This line is where things really got flipped though, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.880 if you ask me, They went from in that game 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.680 in twenty twenty one against US when they ran the 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.800 ball down our throats with Derrick Henry and Deontay Foreman. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.400 They went from Taylor Lawan, Roger Staffold, Ben Jones, and 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.480 Jack Conklin to having to replace all four of those 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.200 guys over the last two years. They paid Andre Dillard 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.840 big money, which if you're a Koogs fan, you know 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.840 that he was one of the biggest bust in Washington 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.560 State history. Like he got drafted in the first round 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.760 by Philly and it hasn't worked out, even though he 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.400 got a big second contract from the Titans. He's been 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.440 replaced by left tackle Jaylen Duncan, a sixth round rookie. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.560 This year, You're big free agent signing got replaced by 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.920 a sixth round rookie Nikes. They took Pete Skarnsky in 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.920 the first round last year, Dylan Raddin's in the second 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.520 round two years back. Neither of those have worked out either, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.800 but the best one of the group is twenty twenty 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.920 UDFA Aaron Brewer in the pivot. I think it's proved 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.760 how difficult it is to rebuild an offensive line in 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.560 this league. Such a tough position. To find actual hits 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.320 at the defensive line is opposite. They invested and made 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.480 it into a top flight unit. They paid Denico Autry, 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.200 who's a stud, an absolute stud. They nailed their first 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.800 round pick back in twenty nineteen with Jeffrey Simmons, though 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.120 he's not going to play in the game, and Harold Landry, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.520 a premier edge rusher or he was before an injury 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.559 last year kind of reverted his skill set back a 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.800 little bit. Former second round draft pick who should have 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.840 gone in the top twenty of that year's class. I 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.199 loved the aziz Al Shaier signing, the former Niners linebacker. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.720 He's been an absolute hit for them, and as we mentioned, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.520 they traded the quarterback of the defense, Kevin Bayard, and 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.760 had some rough selections in the secondary as well. Christian 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.240 Fulton's had a rough year. Roger McCreery's probably the best 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.800 of the bunch, and then Sean Murphy Bunting was a 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.120 free agent acquisition from Tampa Bay and he has not 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.760 worked out at all. So that's the story on the Titans. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.840 Let's do some quick storylines here before you take our 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.400 first break some home cooking. In two weeks since we 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.440 last played at hard Rock Stadium and in games started 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.040 by two a tongue of II LOWA, the Dolphins are 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.400 eighteen and four in that building. They've won seventeen of 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.600 the last nineteen overall, they'll play four of the final 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.240 five in this building. If they win each game, well, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.320 that means that every game the rest of the way 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.000 until the freakin' Super Bowl would be in our building. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.839 Keep holding serve at home when one road game in 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.840 Baltimore and you'll play in Vegas. It's as simple as that, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.600 and starts this week against the Tennessee Titans the Tickle Monsters, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.120 David Long sees his former team. I'm very excited about 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.120 this matchup for him, because one, I always look forward 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.240 to seeing the energy that guys have in those spots, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.920 and David's never short on juice. But there was some 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.600 consternation over his departure in Tennessee because Mike Frable kind 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.760 of called him out last year. So I'm excited for 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.520 David Long to go smack somebody in their face mask 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.840 as a result of that, and then of course the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.120 pursuit of awards and accolades. Tyreek needs to average one 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.600 hundred and four yards per game to hit two thousand. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.320 That's very doable, especially when he goes for two hundred 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.000 this week. I'll preview there and then Tua. In the 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.000 thick of the MVP discussion, I was having this conversation 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.240 with Kyle Krabs, the Great Lockdown Dolphins host, and I said, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.320 if we win the final five games and Tua just 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.760 simply repeats his pro rated production right now, would that 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.800 make him league MVP? And Kyle said, We'll probably have 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.199 to factor in what Tyreek's involvement is in those final 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.520 five games, and it just stinks that two was going 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.560 to have to Essentially, you know, he's the only quarterback 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.320 in the league that's going to build. People are going 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.560 to say, well, his receivers is the main reason it happens, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.280 like they don't do it for brock Purty even in 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.040 San Francisco. So we'll see about that. But facing a 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.200 defense that struggles to get pressure even with Jeffrey Simmons, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.000 without him on the field, there's a chance to continue 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.880 pumping up those stats and put yourself in position to 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.640 make that push for record breaking numbers. Of course, you 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.600 won't get MVP recognition if you don't perform well in 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.080 those final games, but over these next two games against 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.000 two bad teams, a chance to boost the numbies, to 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.760 put you in a spot to go make a run, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.240 to go win those games and put yourself in a 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.079 very lasting impression in those voters' minds with the stats 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.679 to back it up. He might have to do it 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.880 though in three quarters of this game, because Tua, like 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.920 at Alabama, plays a lot of games where he doesn't 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.360 see much action in the fourth quarter. That's all I 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.240 got right there. Let's actually keep going here before the 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.240 first break and get into this Titans defense versus the 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.880 Miami offense, and guys, it's not gonna be pretty. I 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.800 told you wouldn't be pretty in Washington. It's not going 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.360 to be pretty here in hard Rock Stadium. So their 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.520 defense looks like this. Amani Hooker is their probably top 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.040 defensive back right now with Bayard going out to Philly, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.120 but he plays eighty eight percent of the snaps, and 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.600 then Kayvon Wallace plays fifty four. He's been the primary 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:44.080 replacement for excuse me, for Kevin Byard, but he's like 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.160 a strong safety type where that's kind of what Hooker plays, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.160 and Bayard was the traffic cop kind of in the 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.679 back part of the defensive backfield. So the explosive play 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.840 rate has gone through the roof. More on that in 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.520 a moment. And then Terrell Edmonds was a free agent acquisition. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.679 He's played fifteen percent of the snaps. They'll go big 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.680 Nickel sometimes, I'm not too frequently. The cornerbacks. I don't 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.880 think Christian Fulton's going to play. He has a hamstring injury, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.920 and if he does play, wrong team to face with 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.760 a hamstring banged up, Caleb Farley's out for the year 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.200 on IR so they are we say this like I 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.240 almost feel every week teams that play US are often 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.160 depleted at cornerback, and that's not a good thing to 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:23.320 do against Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle. Sean Murphy bunting 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.960 seventy five percent of the snaps. Roger McCreery also seventy five, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.160 though he primarily plays inside. I imagine you'll see lots 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.959 more of Elijah Molden in the slot role, former first 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.439 round draft pick who's been a little bit up and 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.800 down for them. But if they can't get Fulton to go, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.559 I think McCreary kicks outside and Molden plays the slot inside. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.400 As far as their front, Denico Autrey's a sixty six 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.679 percent snap taker, but out as Jeffrey Simmons, who's an 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.120 eighty five percent snap taker on the interior, He's like 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.320 Christian wilkins Man the same player basically at this point 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.760 of their careers. Tyer Tart's a good player forty percent, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.560 and then Peko forty percent defensive tackle as well. Off 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.360 the edge, Harold Landry played three quarters of the snaps, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.200 and then arden Key plays sixty three percent of the snaps, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.960 and Autrey plays inside and outside, so he's a little 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.000 bit more edged there as well, with Tartan Peco playing 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.560 the defensive tackle roles there. But Landry Man he just 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.920 hasn't had the same juice since the injury he suffered 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.040 last year, where arden Key kind of reminds me a 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.640 little bit of like remember peak Alvin Smith for the Niners. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.640 I'm not saying he's the same player, but his building 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.280 style is kind of like that length and speed and 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.000 get off and all that fun stuff. And then the 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.120 linebackers or asi's Al Shaier, a really good player from 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.040 the formerly of the forty nine ers I like a lot. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.520 And Jack Gibbons steps into the role that Monti Rice 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.080 previously filled, but he has been released since I wrote 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.480 the podcast script, so no more Buyer, no Jeffrey Simmons, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.320 let's see. And then Kavon Wallace took over the starting 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.880 safety's bought Caleb Farley out Christian Fulton. Hammy some personnel usage, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 thirty four front is six percent, forty three front is 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.000 a ten percent usage, So you're in your base about 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.520 fifteen percent of the time. It's pretty typical across the league. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.920 Your nickel package is sixty two percent, But how about 0:14:59.920 --> 0:15:02.840 the twenty two percent of the time they are in dime? 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.760 So take linebackers off the field. It's probably a little 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.520 bit of a reaction to the fact that their edge 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.080 group is not very deep, and really the defensive tackle spot, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 especially with Simmons down, is not super deep either, So 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.080 they'll roll out all these defensive backs. But again, I 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.040 just told you about three guys that could be out 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.840 of this game from the defensive backfield. If that's the case, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.360 and you run six defensive backs, you were on your 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.160 ninth defensive back in the game. Is there a team 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.200 in the NFL that would feel good about having their 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.880 ninth player on defense play twenty five percent of the snaps? 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.040 I don't think so. Defensive backflashes, No, that's defense defensive 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.680 backfield anyway. They've struggled with pressure or iguesst the pass, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.960 I should say, really really poorly lately. Some quick numbers. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.560 They have the thirteenth highest man coverage rate you can't 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.640 do that against US thirty one percent, and they have 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.160 the twenty fifth highest blitz rate at twenty three percent. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.400 But their pressure rate is twelfth best at thirty eight percent, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.360 but without Isaiah, without Isaiah Simmons, without Jeffrey Simmons, that 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.480 will reduce big time. He is the He's the straw 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.160 that stirs the drink man. They've out a passing EPA 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.880 of fifteen point seven the last five weeks. That's the 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.000 Buyard trag, which is thirty first, behind only Washington who's 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.960 at thirty one point three. But we literally put that 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.000 on them last week. Half of those points were because 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.360 of us, so you could see Tennessee and that same 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.840 exact spot. After we get done with him, all, let's 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.320 take a little break right here and come back and 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.520 wrap up the Titans defense versus this Dolphins offense. That's 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.760 next Draft Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:32.320 you by Auto Nation. We left off talking about the 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.600 Titans passing defense. Let's go ahead and talk about the 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.360 characters here a little bit. I mentioned Christian Fulton. I 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.120 just doubt that he plays. Even if he does with 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.000 the hamshing, it's bad news. And then Sean Murphy Bunting 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.840 is their kind of speedster, change a direction guy, but 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.080 he doesn't like play the game smart enough to be 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.160 able to handle someone like Tyreek Hill, much like you 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.080 saw Kwan Martin in the slot last week trying to 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.560 cover Tyreek. It didn't work out, but I do get 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.440 the sense that he's the guy you would put around 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.760 Tyreek just because he's the fact and quickest, but you 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.920 probably should double him. So I think that again another 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.560 opportunity here for Waddle to get to get some of 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.760 his production. But also this defense, it's not like Washington's 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.240 in terms of how disjointed Washington's consistently was. I told you, guys, right, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.639 it reminds me so much of that Chargers defense, and 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.960 what do we have but busts and terrible structures and 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.400 you're gonna cheat towards Waddle and not Tyreek. All right, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.280 go for it, guys, like this is not that, But 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.960 there are a lot of busts and miscommunications on the 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.240 back end. I think are more of the player responsibility 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.560 opposed to bad scheme from the defensive coaching staff. So 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.920 I'm curious how they want to attack the Dolphins because 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.800 Roger McCreary is like their most physical cater COOHU type, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.200 But anybody be put in the slot is a mismatch 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.320 for him too, So truth be told, it's sloppy, there's 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.159 lots of errors, tons of busts. Guys cannot run with speed. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.160 They don't communicate since the Buyard trade. And if we've 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.520 learned one thing about this Dolphins offense, it's that if 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.560 they get a bust, they're going to exploit it. Amani 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.480 Hooker's been awesome for them, but I just think that 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.480 you really, really really feel the absence of Buyard on 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.239 the back end. Hence the number I mentioned in how 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.120 much that jumped. There should be a chance for Tyreek, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.960 Waddle and Tua to all go off. In fact, I'm 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:08.800 gonna go ahead and stamp it right here. I think 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.679 that Tyreek and wadd will both get one hundred yards. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.760 And remember on hard knocks, when McDaniel said he thought 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.919 that Tula was gonna go off for four fifty, he 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.239 would have if he finished the whole game and had 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.320 a couple of drops that didn't happen. But I think 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.120 it's gonna happen in this one here, because I think 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.320 you're gonna see lots of explosive plays and he's probably 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.560 gonna have to get done in three quarters. But I 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.320 think Tua can go over four hundred yards in this game. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.560 As long as we're buttoned up in sharp, it's very possible. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.320 The run defense has been a lot better for the 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.240 Titans twelfth in EPA. Over that same timeline, they allowed 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.919 a couple of explosives against the Colts that made the 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.959 total look gaudy, but they will get their wins. One 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.000 of the top ten success rates against the run in 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.679 the NFL. But also who hits more big runs than 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.920