Speaker 1: To on the move, galling deep speedways, peace Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got by having
Speaker 1: us in the playoffs? What is up?
Speaker 2: Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 2: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, well it's
Speaker 2: game week yet again. Our fourth edition of the season
Speaker 2: will take you all the way inside the brilliant Dolphins
Speaker 2: and Titans matchup, piece by piece here on Monday night
Speaker 2: football What From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 2: Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Hee Gaffir, lose my.
Speaker 2: Mind a little bit here, That's how I keep myself
Speaker 2: saying on the podcast. Before we get started. The week
Speaker 2: four picks will be on tomorrow show. But since we
Speaker 2: have a football game tonight, and what a riveting one
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Don't you guys love the NFL?
Speaker 2: Isn't this cool? Isn't this fun? Taking the Cowboys over
Speaker 2: the Giants? Who cares?
Speaker 1: And something else?
Speaker 2: Before we get started, So I write these preview copies
Speaker 2: on Wednesdays, That's my new process this season, and they
Speaker 2: go out on Thursday. Mornings typically, so I could be
Speaker 2: wrong here, and I actually gave myself a little bit
Speaker 2: more time, but didn't give myself enough time to hear
Speaker 2: from coach McDaniel at his press conference today to decide
Speaker 2: for who was going to be at quarterback if we
Speaker 2: get clarification. But I decided on Wednesday I was going
Speaker 2: to write this preview with the assumption that it will
Speaker 2: be Tyler Huntley at quarterback for the Dolphins on Monday
Speaker 2: Night football, because frankly, if it's not well, the needle
Speaker 2: moves on the faith meter in the wrong direction a
Speaker 2: few more notches. I watched every single snap of Huntley's
Speaker 2: career this week, not even in the same stratosphere of
Speaker 2: what I've seen from the other two quarterbacks the roster.
Speaker 1: It's just not now.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's elite or even all that good,
Speaker 2: but Tyler to me is closer to Tua than he
Speaker 2: is to Skyler and Tim Boyle.
Speaker 1: Like if Tua were Texas.
Speaker 2: Or Georgia or Bama right a blue blood program, whatever,
Speaker 2: then Tyler is well, I hate to say it, but
Speaker 2: Washington State go coops and the others, well, that's South
Speaker 2: Central Louisiana State University mudogs.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 2: So the disclaimer here is if it's not Huntley, well
Speaker 2: you probably can just go ahead and scratch all of
Speaker 2: this and just know that I'll be predicting a twenty
Speaker 2: to ten, maybe a seventeen to six loss, and that
Speaker 2: touchdown probably comes late in the game.
Speaker 1: Now, all that said, there's no way, no way, no way.
Speaker 2: Right, We'll see Week four Tennessee Titans ESPN seven thirty
Speaker 2: kickoff at hard Rock Stadium. And man, I gotta say
Speaker 2: real quick, I think the two Monday night football crews
Speaker 2: and it's a shame that one of them is just
Speaker 2: this kind of afterthought broadcasting crew that gets a few
Speaker 2: games a year. I think they're among the best in
Speaker 2: the league because Fowler is freaking elite, Ridick is the
Speaker 2: absolute best. Orlowsky is a weirdo, but he's got some
Speaker 2: good football content that he produces. I haven't heard Tom
Speaker 2: Brady yet. I thought Burke Gartin Olsen was probably the
Speaker 2: best in the league. Harlan and Charles Green is or
Speaker 2: Charles Green geez, Travis Trent Green is elite as well.
Speaker 2: I love Charles Davis as a color commentator. But Buck
Speaker 2: and Aikman I was talking to a buddy here in
Speaker 2: our content studios about how buck has evolved because somebody
Speaker 2: shared the kickoff return from Brian Mitchell for the Eagles
Speaker 2: back in the two I think it was two NFC
Speaker 2: Championship game, and it's like a sixty yard return and
Speaker 2: he goes Mitchell, Mitchell Mitchell, and I's like the whole
Speaker 2: call and then the David Tyree call, Manning escapes, throws it,
Speaker 2: ball is caught first down. Giants Like those were Joe
Speaker 2: Bucks calls to me back in the day, but now he's.
Speaker 1: Like dogs, Dougs Vikings win or.
Speaker 2: The call to uh, the call on Jaden Daniels to
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin touched on Monday Night last week.
Speaker 1: That was elite stuff. So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2: Even though I don't get to watch the games on television,
Speaker 2: I'm in the press box, so I'll watch it after Well, no,
Speaker 2: I won't. I'm not gonna watch that broadcast again unless
Speaker 2: it goes a certain way. The weather for the game,
Speaker 2: for you non Florida residents who don't tap into the
Speaker 2: news and weather, we had a hurricane roll up the
Speaker 2: Gulf coast. In fact, it should be making landfall really anytime.
Speaker 2: As I'm taping this on Thursday morning somewhere in the
Speaker 2: Tallahassee Panhandle area, and that means South Florida got dumped
Speaker 2: down with rain and wind all week, or it should
Speaker 2: because I'm speaking in future tense, but we had a
Speaker 2: tropical storm warning in effect. My wife actually had her
Speaker 2: day at school canceled today as I'm writing the script.
Speaker 2: But the rain is supposed to chill out by Saturday.
Speaker 2: Could be a sloppy Hurricanes game tomorrow night against Virginia
Speaker 2: Tech as cam Ward goes off for four more touchdowns
Speaker 2: than four hundred more yards. And then come Monday, you
Speaker 2: get the post storm humidity, baby, so eighty degrees in
Speaker 2: the evening light, chance of rain, eighty one percent humidity.
Speaker 2: Dolphins and Titans. Let's go ahead and meet this Titans team.
Speaker 2: And you probably know pretty well about these guys, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, they're AFC, but they're not in the division.
Speaker 2: After the best run the franchise has enjoyed since the
Speaker 2: days of Javon Curse and Steve McNair, it's been a
Speaker 2: challenging couple of years for the boys in Powdered Blue.
Speaker 2: They were six and eleven last season, spelled the end
Speaker 2: of the Mike vrabel Era. I think that was a mistake,
Speaker 2: who was seven and ten the year prior. But they
Speaker 2: earned the top seed in the AFC back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, only to be upset in the divisional round
Speaker 2: by the Cincinnati Bengals. Even though they had three picks
Speaker 2: and six sacks, or I should say Tannehill threw three
Speaker 2: picks and took six sacks. They were still in that game,
Speaker 2: and that was probably the worst game of Tannehill's career, honestly,
Speaker 2: besides maybe a couple of games against the Bills with us.
Speaker 2: But they had the ball at the end of the
Speaker 2: game with a chance to win to go to the
Speaker 2: AFC Championship Game for the second time in three years.
Speaker 2: That was, of course, their second straight division title and
Speaker 2: fourth trip to the playoffs in a five year span.
Speaker 2: This is where I thought we were going, and I
Speaker 2: would take all of that. I would take Division round playoffs,
Speaker 2: AFC Championship Game appearance, four playoff trips, two division titles.
Speaker 2: I would take that in a heartbeat, wouldn't you. Of course,
Speaker 2: their best run in almost fifteen years coincided with the
Speaker 2: arrival of Ryan Tannehill. Who remade his career and played
Speaker 2: as a top ten quarterback for the better part of
Speaker 2: three seasons, but then the bottom fell out on him.
Speaker 1: And consequently the team too.
Speaker 2: Now they start second year quarterback who is struggling really,
Speaker 2: really bad, Will Levis with a new head coach who
Speaker 2: came from the variation of the Shanahan tree in Brian Callahan,
Speaker 2: son of Bill Callahan, who worked with Zach Taylor in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: They're zero and three, but honestly should have beaten the
Speaker 2: Bears and the Jets if not for catastrophic mistakes from
Speaker 2: the quarterback position. They remade their defense this offseason. Seven
Speaker 2: of the starters are new, six of them are free
Speaker 2: agent acquisitions, and they have some real matchup problems they
Speaker 2: can present to you. Let's go ahead and get into
Speaker 2: their offense here and start with the scheme. One of
Speaker 2: the more and I put this in quotes, but what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Is I don't love it.
Speaker 2: Is kind of the hit message behind this one of
Speaker 2: the more. What you see is what you get offenses
Speaker 2: in the NFL. You might recall this idea when we
Speaker 2: preview the Bengals a couple of weeks back, or you
Speaker 2: probably a couple of years back, I should say, but
Speaker 2: you probably don't, because that would be impressive if you did.
Speaker 2: But they rarely get out of their eleven personnel grouping.
Speaker 2: It's eighty percent eleven, ten percent twelve, and no other
Speaker 2: package has more than two percent play call. So it's
Speaker 2: like a handful of plays in three games that have
Speaker 2: been outside of eleven or twelve personnel, and they love
Speaker 2: to big play hunt and it's kind of worked for them.
Speaker 2: They currently have the ninth highest explosive play rate in
Speaker 2: the NFL at nine point three, and part of that
Speaker 2: is deep route concepts. Part of that is play style
Speaker 2: of the quarterback, but they like to hit deep drops
Speaker 2: and attack high to low with an emphasis on vertical
Speaker 2: and intermediate passing. I don't think quick game is a
Speaker 2: strength of Will Levis, so that accentuates that concept in
Speaker 2: my opinion. There's also not a lot of motion, one
Speaker 2: of the more static offenses in the NFL, currently operating
Speaker 2: twenty second lowest motion in the NFL. So they should
Speaker 2: allow Miami to disguise coverages and get to their blitz
Speaker 2: and sim looks without giving a young quarterback too much intel.
Speaker 2: Not to mention it's a young quarterback with minimal NFL
Speaker 2: offense experience behind a new center, Lloyd Cushionberry, who is
Speaker 2: learning a brand new scheme. He's not the only new starter.
Speaker 2: In fact, eighty percent of the offensive line is either
Speaker 2: a new player or in a new position from last year,
Speaker 2: and they are enduring some severe growing pains going into
Speaker 2: the year. However, Titans fans were excited because they pivoted
Speaker 2: from a somewhat antiquated style and focused on you know,
Speaker 2: trench play and run game and never had enough weapons outside.
Speaker 2: And that's a big reason why they haven't produced a
Speaker 2: thirty point game since the end of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one season. And you know, either laugh or cry. It
Speaker 2: was actually the game against US that ruined our twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one season that year. They started to the process
Speaker 2: last year by bringing in DeAndre Hopkins. Then this year
Speaker 2: they go get Tyler Boyd, they get Calvin Ridley, and
Speaker 2: they're trying to advance to the more modern game. In fact,
Speaker 2: here's a quote from Brian Callahan when he got the job.
Speaker 2: The teams that win the most are generally teams that
Speaker 2: passed the ball the best, usually because they have really
Speaker 2: good quarterbacks and usually because they have guys that can
Speaker 2: make plays on the football outside, and so you're seeing
Speaker 2: teams invest in that part of the game really across
Speaker 2: the board, and we are no different. We spent really
Speaker 2: two top thirty five picks on receivers Jamar Chase and
Speaker 2: t Higgins, and on a quarterback Joe Burrow, so we've
Speaker 2: invested in it as well. Talking about this time with
Speaker 2: the Bengals, I do think that's the shift in the
Speaker 2: league these days. The passing game has become the focal point. However,
Speaker 2: that does leave you opportunities to be really effective and
Speaker 2: efficient running the football because defenses do the same thing.
Speaker 2: And of course they went out and got Ridley, they
Speaker 2: went out and they got Boyd and last year they
Speaker 2: got Hopkins.
Speaker 1: So they've kind of adapted to the modern game.
Speaker 2: After losing AJ Brown, What were you doing in drafting
Speaker 2: trail On Burks? What were you doing? Now they're here
Speaker 2: with some decent receivers. How do you attack this scheme?
Speaker 2: I think you have an opportunity to sort of roll
Speaker 2: out the kitchen sink and heat up Levis to force
Speaker 2: him into the quick game. Now, if you miss when
Speaker 2: you blitz, he can exploit that deep and that's the
Speaker 2: best element of his game, his size and balance. To
Speaker 2: you know, I guess kind of withstand pressure or get
Speaker 2: out and create. I look at his splits against the
Speaker 2: against blitz and coverage, and I think it tells the story,
Speaker 2: like show plenty of pressure, occasionally bring it, but make
Speaker 2: him decipher when is that coming, and then read through six,
Speaker 2: seven and eight man coverages. I think you can also
Speaker 2: do that while playing with light boxes because of how
Speaker 2: infrequently they add extra extra gaps in the running game.
Speaker 2: It's traditional, it's static, it's eleven personnel, it's routes back
Speaker 2: to the quarterback. I just really don't like it. I
Speaker 2: really don't like it, and it's minimal presnat motion. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and actually get into that with our first
Speaker 2: point here into the Big three verse. The Titans offense
Speaker 2: number one is to disguise coverage and rush sim packages
Speaker 2: with a great deal of variance. We've sort of covered this,
Speaker 2: but the ability to play from a light box against
Speaker 2: this offense should afford Miami some chances. And it starts
Speaker 2: up front. We saw how dominant Zach and Kalayis were
Speaker 2: on Sunday in Seattle. I think you could go into
Speaker 2: this game with a similar expectation inside cushion, Barry has
Speaker 2: been pretty solid and they've really struggled at the other spots.
Speaker 2: Dylan Raidns has a seven pressures allowed at right guard,
Speaker 2: Pete Scaransky eleven at left guard. They're both tackle converts
Speaker 2: who I don't think are playing against power very well
Speaker 2: right now exactly where both Seeler and Campbell excel. And
Speaker 2: we saw Miami often fan out, especially on third downs
Speaker 2: against the Seahawks, and that's where you basically leave the
Speaker 2: A gap vacant and just rush off edge and B
Speaker 2: gaps and that forces the center to declare which direction
Speaker 2: he wants to help and you can kind of find
Speaker 2: your two x two pass rush situation. That that was
Speaker 2: what happened on the Cater Kohou pick. It was Ogba
Speaker 2: and Sealer versus the left tackle, left guard, and Connor
Speaker 2: Williams went to help the right side, as both Jaleen
Speaker 2: Phillips and Kalais Campbell had their own twist on that
Speaker 2: side of the formation. So you fan them out, create
Speaker 2: a two by two situation and just go hunt the
Speaker 2: quarterback and you should have some success do it that,
Speaker 2: And if you go back and watch that tape. They
Speaker 2: got Connor Williams a few times on exactly that the
Speaker 2: right tackle position has been a major issue with Nicholas
Speaker 2: Petit Frere, who has the highest number of pressures allowed
Speaker 2: right now in the NFL sacks allowed and pressure rate,
Speaker 2: so not going so well, and just real quick to
Speaker 2: kind of piggyback here or Pyle on. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: guys have followed you know Kyle Crabs, you probably follow
Speaker 2: him as well. He's in this like battle right now
Speaker 2: with a guy that I haven't become familiar with until
Speaker 2: I saw this tweet exchange about like true pass sets
Speaker 2: and Kyle just eviscerated this fella on social media about
Speaker 2: boiling down. You know, this this argument and this concept
Speaker 2: about the offensive line to this one stat that does
Speaker 2: not wholly reflect anything. If you get a chance, go
Speaker 2: check it out, because Kyle spoke exactly how I would
Speaker 2: Spook speak about the situation and really good stuff there.
Speaker 1: So go check it out.
Speaker 2: But if you think you know, you know, help him right,
Speaker 2: help out petit Frere and slide your ISOs to JC Latham,
Speaker 2: who's been awesome. He was my favorite tackle on the class.
Speaker 2: Him and Joe All I thought were top top tier
Speaker 2: in the class and they went that high, so that
Speaker 2: makes sense. But that's a rookie left tackle with limited experience.
Speaker 2: I think chops speed could present problems there for JC.
Speaker 2: I think he's well equipped to combat you know, Emmanuel
Speaker 2: Ogba's power. But JP off the other side, when I
Speaker 2: watch Petite Frere kind of hate saying that name, it's
Speaker 2: a mouthful. I see the feet often stop on contact.
Speaker 2: I see a right post that doesn't anchor against speed
Speaker 2: off the edge, and I see that bending at the waist,
Speaker 2: like all the things that equate to bad offensive line play,
Speaker 2: and I think JP's game is built to exploit to that.
Speaker 2: Then you add in our fast linebackers behind those big
Speaker 2: defensive tackles against guards that have struggle with speed, you know,
Speaker 2: all year long. I think this is a pretty tough
Speaker 2: matchup for the Titans, and the numbers dictate what you
Speaker 2: can do. So when he's blitzed it's twenty percent of
Speaker 2: his drop backs, he only completes fifty five percent for
Speaker 2: five point three yards per past one touchdown, two picks,
Speaker 2: just one turnover worthy play, so one of those picks
Speaker 2: was not really deemed his fault. When he's not blitzed,
Speaker 2: it's it's the eighty percent obviously seventy one percent completion,
Speaker 2: but just six point four one three touchdowns, three picks
Speaker 2: and four turnover worthy play. So sometimes when there's not pressure,
Speaker 2: he like panics and makes worse decisions, or when he's
Speaker 2: not blitzed, I should say it's kind of crazy, But then.
Speaker 1: Under pressure it's atrocious.
Speaker 2: Four point five yards per past two turnover worthy plays
Speaker 2: on twenty eight throws forty seven dropbacks, that gives you
Speaker 2: fifteen sacks. The Titans have the worst sack allowed ray
Speaker 2: and Levis has the highest pressure to sack rate at
Speaker 2: thirty one percent. We only blitzed Trevor Lawrence ten times
Speaker 2: in the opener, Josh Allen seven times, and then Gino
Speaker 2: eleven times. We're sitting right around this twenty five percent
Speaker 2: blitz rate. That's probably a perfect number for what I would.
Speaker 1: Do for Will Levis.
Speaker 2: He holds the ball regardless, which is a key stat
Speaker 2: for all of this. When blitzed two point nine to
Speaker 2: six seconds time to throw that is way too high.
Speaker 2: You can now expect to execute consistently at that number,
Speaker 2: And it's two point eight two when not blitz and
Speaker 2: that's also crazy high. We saw the worst example of
Speaker 2: off field vision from a field vision, I should say,
Speaker 2: from a quarterback in the game I've ever seen last
Speaker 2: Sunday from the Dolphins, Like that was the worl first
Speaker 2: job seeing the field have ever seen. This quarterback is
Speaker 2: not that far off from that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our first break rate there. Come back on the
Speaker 2: other side, get to keys two and three. We'll do
Speaker 2: the defense will predict the game. All of that and
Speaker 2: much more coming on the Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. Second topic here
Speaker 2: with the Titans offense, I want to break down or
Speaker 2: how the Dolphins can find victory is to prevent the
Speaker 2: big play. The small amount of offensive production they've gotten
Speaker 2: have come from big plays. That's why I think number
Speaker 2: two is so important here. The big plays have come
Speaker 2: in the intermediate portion of the field. Levis is ten
Speaker 2: to fifteen in that ten to nineteen yard range, and
Speaker 2: I think the design of the offense and the skill
Speaker 2: sets of these receivers are conducive to that style and approach.
Speaker 2: The deep ballgame is not typically in rhythm. It usually
Speaker 2: comes from broken plays, so you won't get released for
Speaker 2: the receiver one hitch from Levis ball out one on
Speaker 2: one situations, it's usually after the fact from a scramble
Speaker 2: and shoot, but when they do hit those three and
Speaker 2: five step, they want to attack in behind that second level.
Speaker 2: And that's why Kendall Fuller's availability is a big deal
Speaker 2: on this one because their two weapons on the upside
Speaker 2: are Nuke and Ridley, And normally I wouldn't worry about
Speaker 2: Tyler Boyd. I think he's old and slow at this
Speaker 2: point of his career. You know, no knock on him.
Speaker 2: I was a huge fan of his game for a
Speaker 2: long long time. But I think that we have an
Speaker 2: issue in the slot that I wasn't going into the
Speaker 2: year thinking we did, which is again a miss on
Speaker 2: my part. And this is where I might even get
Speaker 2: more Javon hauling down in the box count maybe even
Speaker 2: straight up align him in the slot and play slot cornerback. Actually,
Speaker 2: that is what I would do. If Fuller can't go
Speaker 2: activate Bonner, roll Javon the slot, let may play the
Speaker 2: post and go with Ramsey, Duck, Bonner, holl And Poy
Speaker 2: and mayor or Poyer in may. I just think that's
Speaker 2: been really rough so far. For number four in the slot.
Speaker 2: I think Ramsey alone can really combat this, especially if
Speaker 2: we play from some too deep and quarter structures with
Speaker 2: varied robbers that create those small windows in that bread
Speaker 2: and butter area of the field for them. Robbers are
Speaker 2: guys that play from too high look and come down
Speaker 2: and buzz in the middle of the field and try
Speaker 2: to take away crossing routes from the other side of
Speaker 2: the formation. That would free up Ramsey to do some
Speaker 2: of what jay R Alexander did last week and just
Speaker 2: key Levis and go big play. Hunt got himself a
Speaker 2: pick six in that process. If he can just kind
Speaker 2: of camp out and zone, you can do hybrid coverages
Speaker 2: man one side, zone one side, and mix up your
Speaker 2: zones on either side of the coverage. If Ramsey can
Speaker 2: just kind of hang back and read the quarterback's eyes,
Speaker 2: I like his odds to go snatch one this week.
Speaker 2: So keep the roof up, mix up your coverage looks,
Speaker 2: your rush looks, and bait Levis into trying to decipher
Speaker 2: post snap what the coverage is, because again the pre
Speaker 2: snap doesn't really do a lot of that for him
Speaker 2: in this offense, and let Ramsey go hunt big plays.
Speaker 2: I like that quite a lot, actually, even though Kalais
Speaker 2: Campbell told us that Weaver showed the entire team clip
Speaker 2: after clip of guys chasing big plays, which is kind
Speaker 2: of where they got burned. That's where they've been burned
Speaker 2: on the big plays they have allowed. And outside of that,
Speaker 2: the defense has been really good. So if they can
Speaker 2: correct those things, they can go from the middle of
Speaker 2: the pack defense to a top ten defense, which this
Speaker 2: team right now, if they want to win football games,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to be a top ten defense, a
Speaker 2: top ten running game, and hope that the quarterback, hopefully Huntley,
Speaker 2: can hit a few big splash plays. That is the
Speaker 2: key to getting a few wins over the next couple
Speaker 2: of games. But who knows into the future, so whatever.
Speaker 2: The third thing is tackle, tackle, tackle. The Titans rank
Speaker 2: twenty six and average yards before contact in the running game,
Speaker 2: but they're second in yards after contact.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Offensive line sticks running backs are pretty good two point
Speaker 2: two yards before two point five after. That's kind of
Speaker 2: remarkable when you think about it. They do better job
Speaker 2: after they get to get shut a first tackler than
Speaker 2: they do before they meet that first tackler.
Speaker 1: Taj Spears.
Speaker 2: I love his game. He was the guy that I
Speaker 2: wanted last year. Again I was wrong. Davon Ahrian is
Speaker 2: a better player, but Taj Spears is a fantastic tackle breaker,
Speaker 2: he has great speed pass catching ability, and Tony Pollard
Speaker 2: is plenty elusive in his own right.
Speaker 1: And then Will Levis. I mean, you've seen it.
Speaker 2: The man has no problem going airborne trying to get
Speaker 2: five yards to move the chains. He usually gets tackled
Speaker 2: after about a yard and a half of that. But
Speaker 2: I've not been a big fan of Levis's game going
Speaker 2: back to college, and I want to emphasize how much
Speaker 2: this next thing I'm about to say is a compliment
Speaker 2: because he plays the position like an absolute lunatic. It's
Speaker 2: Josh Allen esk without nearly the same level of polish
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. To me, I'm the biggest Mahomes fan. I
Speaker 2: used to before I worked in the league. I used
Speaker 2: to tell my buddy, like, we're taking Texas Tech today
Speaker 2: because watch this quarterback. Like I was a huge Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes fan. I think Josh Allen is the best quarterback
Speaker 2: in the league right now. Allry about it. So if
Speaker 2: you tackle those three guys I think you'll you'll create
Speaker 2: bad down and distances, You'll open up your ability to
Speaker 2: get creative, and you'll force takeaways and keep them off
Speaker 2: the scoreboard more than a couple of times. Additional parts
Speaker 2: on the offense, I just want to mention the tight
Speaker 2: end position because it's more of an F spot.
Speaker 1: Their top one is.
Speaker 2: Is Chigakuonko, who's an F not a why he had
Speaker 2: seven catches for forty six yards and a touchdown this year,
Speaker 2: But I think that role has changed with the coaching
Speaker 2: and scheme change. In fact, that's a guy that I
Speaker 2: would look forward like next off season for the Dolphins
Speaker 2: is chiga Quonko. If he not going to be using
Speaker 2: this offense, like you take a six round pick for him,
Speaker 2: because that's a pretty healthy mix of there's been a
Speaker 2: pretty healthy mix with the other.
Speaker 1: Two guys they've used.
Speaker 2: Josh Wiley and Nick Vannette have eleven targets or ten
Speaker 2: catches and eleven targets for seventy six yards, so they've
Speaker 2: been reliable security blankets. But at seven point six yards
Speaker 2: per catch, I will take those throws compared to seventeen
Speaker 2: yards per catch from Ridley or twelve for nuke or
Speaker 2: even ten for Tyler Boyd. That's the offense the Titans defense.
Speaker 2: It's better scheme wise. I think I'm gonna cover this
Speaker 2: one a little more Dolphins slanted because of the uncertain
Speaker 2: nature of the quarterback. But we are going to proceed
Speaker 2: as if Tyler Huntley is going to start the game.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Maybe this preview podcast doesn't even make any sense now.
Speaker 2: It is another scheme we are familiar with. Dennard Wilson
Speaker 2: was the Ravens defensive backs coach last year. Now he's
Speaker 2: the DC in Tennessee. He spent years to prior to
Speaker 2: that with the Eagles running offshoots of that Fangio scheme
Speaker 2: under Sean Decai. So there are some influences that we
Speaker 2: know well. And what do we know about the Mike
Speaker 2: McDonald influence is that you blitz blitz again and you
Speaker 2: no more. They've been just a hair under thirty percent.
Speaker 2: I think you would expect more from them, but the
Speaker 2: blitz rates across the league are just way up this year.
Speaker 2: That's barely top ten in the NFL and all that blitzing,
Speaker 2: the pressure rate they get is just sixteen point five percent.
Speaker 1: Now, if it's Skyler or Boil.
Speaker 2: Maybe stay home. I have to imagine that number increases
Speaker 2: a pretty new member of the offense. Boil, someone that
Speaker 2: holds the ball for way too long Skyler, that would track.
Speaker 2: But if it's Huntley, I'd be curious because watching all
Speaker 2: of his dropbacks over the last few days, these are
Speaker 2: three things I learned about Huntley. One, he's perfectly happy
Speaker 2: to catch rock throw hookups if it's over the football,
Speaker 2: which is where those mugged up linebackers will blitz. I
Speaker 2: have to imagine it's him to the tight end position
Speaker 2: and the backs for that matter, getting more involved in
Speaker 2: the passing game. I'm super curious to see, if it's him,
Speaker 2: how he adjusts to some of the middle of the
Speaker 2: field concepts, because I like the way he sees the field.
Speaker 2: But we've also never seen him run an offense like this.
Speaker 2: But I do think that he can't hit some of
Speaker 2: those balls, especially with how wide open Tyreek Hill was
Speaker 2: on some of those routes last Sunday. Number Two, he
Speaker 2: will make rushers miss and he will run. You can
Speaker 2: tell that he's been that dude from an athletics standpoint
Speaker 2: for a while now, because his feel for pressure is
Speaker 2: and when to go is really really good. He has
Speaker 2: a good inherent sense of when things are getting bad
Speaker 2: around him in the pocket. And number three, he has
Speaker 2: no problems going after one on one matchups when he
Speaker 2: gets them, and he got them all the time in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Like to Rashad Bateman, who can't separate down the field.
Speaker 2: I doubt he gets the same looks on these guys here,
Speaker 2: But if they do, I think he'll on cork it
Speaker 2: and hit a couple of deep balls.
Speaker 1: That was his game at Utah in college.
Speaker 2: Run, run, run, keep them you know, on the field,
Speaker 2: and then wait for a one on one matchup and
Speaker 2: chuck it deep and get big explosive plays. You can
Speaker 2: see why the Ravens liked him for the backup behind
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson. Let's go ahead and bypass how to attack
Speaker 2: that scheme and get into the big three here. Number one,
Speaker 2: stay with what's working. I beg of you. The inside
Speaker 2: run game is there. The lanes are there, Take them,
Speaker 2: just take them now. That might be tough for this
Speaker 2: week with Jeff Simmons and to Andre Sweat, but my god, man,
Speaker 2: it is there. Keep going after it. It's quite simple.
Speaker 2: If the overplay is from the perimeter running game. The
Speaker 2: only way to get him out of that is to
Speaker 2: come back inside and keep doing it until they adjust.
Speaker 2: My biggest thing last week was that I think the
Speaker 2: assumption was because we hit one successfully in there and
Speaker 2: they would adjust, but I would run it until they
Speaker 2: stop it like burn a play to go for one
Speaker 2: yard to prove they've adjusted. This idea is established the run,
Speaker 2: which I cannot believe I'm saying here on the podcast.
Speaker 2: But do it establish that run inside? And we saw
Speaker 2: it against the Ravens last year. You make those big
Speaker 2: two gappers run wide, you take advantage of the rush
Speaker 2: games they want to play. You get the ball off
Speaker 2: the edge. So I guess, as much as it's stay
Speaker 2: with what's working, what I think will work is a
Speaker 2: mixture of outside zone and man gap schemes, so very
Speaker 2: up those schemes. Try not to let Simmons and Sweat
Speaker 2: take over the game inside number two, play the hits,
Speaker 2: the intermediate passing game between the numbers. Again, if it's
Speaker 2: Tyler Huntley, I'm not gonna talk about the alternative because
Speaker 2: it's not good. There's an element of his game that
Speaker 2: we haven't seen in this offense, and quite frankly, really
Speaker 2: in the history of this system, going back to Mike Shanahan,
Speaker 2: I suppose he had Jake Plummer. But the modern day
Speaker 2: version of these quarterbacks isn't exactly the most athletic. You know,
Speaker 2: Jordan Love features some of that, but Tua, Purdy, Stafford Burrow,
Speaker 2: these are not quarterbacks that you run zone read with. Right,
Speaker 2: we saw the Niners go after Trey Lance, and I
Speaker 2: was so pumped to see what element he could add
Speaker 2: to this offense, my favorite system to watch the entire league.
Speaker 2: He just didn't develop the critical parts of his game
Speaker 2: enough for them to even get to that point. And
Speaker 2: now maybe we do get that shot again. If it
Speaker 2: is Huntley, regardless of quarterback, Reek and Waddell can win
Speaker 2: in those areas. And if you hit those throws, if
Speaker 2: you can hit some of those over the ball, catch
Speaker 2: rock throw hookups I talked about earlier, I think that
Speaker 2: can entice them to possibly play some man coverage maybe,
Speaker 2: And if we get to that deep routes, quarterback run
Speaker 2: game season all day long, baby, I'm intrigued by that possibility.
Speaker 2: There are three Titans players to discuss within this segment.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray.
Speaker 2: First, you might recall the linebacker last year of the
Speaker 2: Chargers went after him in that season opening game. The
Speaker 2: middle of the field passing game and running vertical portion
Speaker 2: of that position is just not his game. He wants
Speaker 2: to come downhill, he wants to go with sideline, and
Speaker 2: sideline does not want to turn his back to the football.
Speaker 2: And the addition of Ernest Jones allows them to play
Speaker 2: more in that role, or Canneth to play more in
Speaker 2: that role, I should say, and they will use both
Speaker 2: those guys mugged up, they will come, they will back
Speaker 2: out on edges. I mean, you've seen it. And that's
Speaker 2: why I think the tight ends are so important. I
Speaker 2: think about the skills of Tanner Connor that he features.
Speaker 2: We've seen him get some run. I think the tight
Speaker 2: end position has really struggled this year. But man, if
Speaker 2: there's one guy in this league whose game is not
Speaker 2: matching a vertical three, which is like a a slot
Speaker 2: receiver basically, it's Jamal Adams, and I think you might
Speaker 2: be able to shoot some shots into the hook, get
Speaker 2: him creeping up and then go vertical over the top.
Speaker 1: And I think Huntley can hit those throws.
Speaker 2: And I think Tanner Connor could be that guy, or
Speaker 2: maybe it's John Ui Smith and we get our first
Speaker 2: like John new Game of the Year, the third player
Speaker 2: Lugerious Sneid. Of course, Adams and Murray are middle of
Speaker 2: the field players, but Sneed loves to play two and
Speaker 2: two man and get all up in Tyreek Hill's grill.
Speaker 2: So with the quarterback run game, if you get him
Speaker 2: on jet sweeps and how teams have to overplay that,
Speaker 2: now you have a quarterback who can pull that thing
Speaker 2: out of the jet sweep or the end a round
Speaker 2: and zone read that thing around the back side and
Speaker 2: force another hat into the fit. I think that changes
Speaker 2: the way teams have adjusted to the carries we give
Speaker 2: receivers off the perimeter or players on end to rounds.
Speaker 2: Like you can really expand things in the running game
Speaker 2: with hunting in the game. But again, if they want
Speaker 2: Snead playing man coverage and they blitz and the quarterback
Speaker 2: can make those blitzers miss with the DB's and man coverage,
Speaker 2: that's how you get explosive runs from the quarterback. So
Speaker 2: like Tyler Huntley, playing gives me a reason to go
Speaker 2: to the ballpark. Otherwise I don't have one, and we
Speaker 2: don't have an explosive run all year. We led the
Speaker 2: NFL explosive runs last year runs a fifteen plus yards.
Speaker 1: We don't have any this year. I think we get
Speaker 1: some of those in this game.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take the last break right there
Speaker 2: and come back and do thing three.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the what's at stake.
Speaker 2: The keys of the game, and make a prediction here
Speaker 2: on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Auto Nation. My third key to Dolphins
Speaker 2: offense first Titans defense. If Tron Armstead cannot go, I
Speaker 2: think you can lean on Austin Jackson, who's been fantastic
Speaker 2: out there sans one quarter against Von Miller in a
Speaker 2: twenty one point deficit with SCOTTR. Thompson in the game,
Speaker 2: I digress. He's been great in space in the run game.
Speaker 2: He's been really good recognizing things in the rush game,
Speaker 2: and if you do slide against a good pass rush,
Speaker 2: I think Austin is equipped to iso things up out there.
Speaker 2: But also I think Aaron Brewer has an argument to
Speaker 2: be made that he's been the best player on the
Speaker 2: Dolphins offense through three games. But the last thing you
Speaker 2: want to do is have him in true drop back,
Speaker 2: true pass sets, trying to anchor against this big Titans
Speaker 2: interior defensive line. It's not a knock on Aram. Those
Speaker 2: are just two of the biggest, strongest defensive tackles in
Speaker 2: the league. Anybody would struggle against those guys. But that's
Speaker 2: also just not his game. And the reason we see
Speaker 2: him killing him is that he's been in position to
Speaker 2: do what he does best, get out in space and
Speaker 2: beat second level defenders to the spot. Now he has
Speaker 2: done a marvelous job of pinning and walling off, but
Speaker 2: I think he's seen a player. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: seen a player like Simmons from a skill set standpoint,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's seen someone like Sweat yet
Speaker 2: from a pure size standpoint. So horizontal stretch I think
Speaker 2: can create conflict for both of their best players and
Speaker 2: their players that you think might be able to go
Speaker 2: after them, like the guys that you can create conflict
Speaker 2: for the Murrays the Adams of the world on this defense.
Speaker 2: Additional parts I didn't talk about in the defense. Cheetoh
Speaker 2: Woose is a physical cornerback that I quite like, and
Speaker 2: they will leave him on an island.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a matchup they can trust.
Speaker 2: All game against Waddle, So when they inevitably roll Adams
Speaker 2: down to the box, if you get that matchup to me,
Speaker 2: that's an alert.
Speaker 1: Hey seventeen, you're hot right here. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a shot.
Speaker 2: Amani Hooker is a terrific safety who plays with really
Speaker 2: good anticipation, So if it's not Huntley, I would expect
Speaker 2: him to make a play. We didn't even mention Harold
Speaker 2: Landry or Arden Key. Landry's been a great pass rusher.
Speaker 2: Key has not been that guy so far for them
Speaker 2: this year. You'll hear from the guys on a Friday's
Speaker 2: podcast that they really missed Denico Autry. But these guys,
Speaker 2: their strength and size and power allows them to run
Speaker 2: a lot of picks off of games and use speed
Speaker 2: to power and play the run on the way to
Speaker 2: the quarterback, which are all hallmarks of this defense. What's
Speaker 2: at stake here? We just have to get back on track, right.
Speaker 2: You got to get this one. Get back to two
Speaker 2: and two. Go on a short week up to New
Speaker 2: England for a chance to get back over five hundred
Speaker 2: into the by with reinforcements. Hopefully on the way, you
Speaker 2: could conceivably get you know after shoot it could be
Speaker 2: after this game. Chubb, obj good Win, creak Craft, Campsmith
Speaker 2: are all eligible to return after the Titans game. This
Speaker 2: is a find away game, and you know what, the
Speaker 2: conference is in tatters right now, so finding a way
Speaker 2: to get back to two and two kind of put
Speaker 2: you back in the mix. Like I said before, it's
Speaker 2: a long season. Let's get this one and see what
Speaker 2: we can get from a health standpoint these next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Also, it's a conference game.
Speaker 2: Those are important in tie breaking scenarios, and gosh, the
Speaker 2: way Buffalo looks right now, it might be for a
Speaker 2: wild card spot at this point. This is all spoken
Speaker 2: from the concept that Tui returns, which who the hell
Speaker 2: knows what happens. I still think it's very dubious at best.
Speaker 2: And if it's not Tua in the future, then you know,
Speaker 2: I'm more curious about a top draft pick. Keys to victory,
Speaker 2: explosives in the running game.
Speaker 1: We have to get those this week. You absolutely have to.
Speaker 2: No matter who plays quarterback number two, Varier, rush and
Speaker 2: coverage against Titans offense, Confuse will Levis, make him think,
Speaker 2: make him pat the ball, make him look for the
Speaker 2: second and third read because he can't do it. Number three,
Speaker 2: get eleven hats to the football and tackle these guys.
Speaker 2: Their best offense is ty J Spears, Tony Pollard and
Speaker 2: Will Levis breaking tackles. Don't let them do it. The
Speaker 2: range of outcomes and predictions. I think this is a
Speaker 2: close game no matter what. I give us no chance
Speaker 2: if we don't have Huntley at quarterbacks, so just know
Speaker 2: that's the case. I will pick the Titans. I'll probably
Speaker 2: say like sixteen to six or sixteen to ten, something
Speaker 2: like that. If we start Huntley Huntley, I think we
Speaker 2: win by a touchdown, like seventeen ten, maybe twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: something like that. I think they will start Tyler. I
Speaker 2: think he'll add enough to the running game. I think
Speaker 2: Mike will make the adjustments he has to write, and
Speaker 2: I think they'll pull this one off. I'll go seventeen
Speaker 2: thirteen final with Huntley sixteen to ten without him with
Speaker 2: a loss.
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