WEBVTT - Dolphins Panthers Week 12 Preview 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Looking down fail touchdown, Miami quarter? What is up? Dolphans 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.239 And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:23.400 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.520 it going? Everybody? Is Wednesday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.920 and as always I am here to bring you your 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.560 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.640 we're previewing the game on Sunday, one day early before Thanksgiving. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.559 We'll look at the matchups position by position. We'll give 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.919 you the three keys to this game, how Miami can 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.159 win the game, and an intro into the Panthers. Will 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.440 also pick the week twelve games. Here on this Wednesday 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.800 edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:56.200 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.760 Podcast Miami Dolphins. So it's a preview day and another 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.759 quick reminder that this is the last episode of the week. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.360 We're gonna take the next two days off for the holiday, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.800 and I hope you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving ahead 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.039 of a big game on Sunday, A big one that 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.520 basically is an elimination game between Miami and Carolina. In 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.720 many ways will recap the game on Sunday night, but 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.800 today we're previewing Dolphins versus Panthers. His Miami kicks off 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.720 a three game homestand here with a week in between 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.480 for the bye week, so a nice month long stretch 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.600 here at the beautiful hard Rock Stadium. It's year two 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.800 of the Matt Rule era in Carolina. He signed a 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.480 seven year contract two years ago to leave the college game, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.399 where he turned around two programs that were not having 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.520 a bunch of success before his arrival, both in Temple 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.199 and Baylor, and in both of his first two years 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.360 in Carolina, they started out strong, then hit some bumps 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.320 in the road last year never recovered. But this year 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.080 they got some new life with a mid season signing 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.360 of a familiar face and the former and now new 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.560 starting quarterback came Am Newton. And that's kind of the 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.880 crux of this rebuild, right the quarterback position. We obviously 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.080 won't see how it shakes out with Justin Fields or 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.320 even Mac Jones for another few years, but Carolina chose 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.119 to send some high picks for Sam Donald in lieu 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.880 of selecting one of those two key quarterbacks in favor 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.400 of cornerback j c. Horne, who was the best cornerback 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.200 in the draft. So not arguing that fact, but the 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.720 quarterback position pretty important, and they ultimately wind up bringing 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.680 back the same QB they had when Rule took over 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.919 and Cam Newton. To me, that is fascinating and really 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.320 their last playoff appearance was the last time Cam had 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.360 one of his big seasons. In His passing numbers didn't 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.680 pop that year, it was just an eighty point seven 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.880 passer rating, but his rushing numbers seven hundred and fifty 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.000 four yards and six touchdowns on the ground that eighteen season, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.480 you might recall he fought through some injuries and had 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.919 a better passing rater, better passer rating easy for me 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.800 to say, and better passing numbers all around, but he 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.440 did rush for two fewer, two t tds and three 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.120 hundred a few yards. Get through it, Travis. As the 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.680 Panthers regress from eleven and five to seven and nine, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.840 Cam then misses all but two games in twenty nineteen 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.840 and the trapdoor falls out to five and eleven and 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.320 that's the end of the Ron Rivera era. And in 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.440 year one of Matt Rule, they go five and eleven 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.680 and I think they were even three and three at 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.919 one point last year, so the back end of the 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.919 season kind of fell away got away from them there 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.000 in year one under Matt Rule, and the philosophy for 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.600 that team was to load up on the defense. Every 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.880 draft pick they made in that first campaign was on defense, 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.480 all of them, and boy did it work. They feature 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.120 one of the league's best defenses. And they would be 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.800 even stronger if they had their first round pick on 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.200 the field and J. C. Horne because he looked awesome 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.680 in limited action. But they also made some solid picks 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.520 on offense this year, so that roster is beginning to 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.800 round out for them, and I think this will be 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.200 a team to contend with in a year or two, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.760 provided they do find that long term answer at quarterback, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.840 which obviously is the toughest thing to do in the league. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.920 But they have their guy for right now in thirty 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.200 two year old Cam Newton, and who knows, that's not 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.400 that old. Maybe he is the long term answer there. Hell, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.760 he's still obviously an effective runner, which they have always 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.400 been a true has always been a true differentiator in 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.400 his m v P type of career, where he's posted 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.080 up some gaudy numbers year in and year out, going 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.200 back to his time with the Panthers the first time around, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.919 and that's where he kicked this thing off here the 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.720 Carolina quarterback versus the Miami safeties as we do every 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.600 week on the Preview podcast here, So the Dolphin's got 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.760 a chance to see Cam twice last year, which I 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.919 believe is somewhat beneficial this year, even if it is 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.000 in a different system with a different jersey on Josh 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.560 Bowyer talked about this in his Tuesday presser about how 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.560 with a quarterback like Lamar, there are some similarities in 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.840 that quarterback run game, but I think we can all 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.000 acknowledge they are different styles of runners, like Lamar is 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.279 gonna run by you, where Cam could drop that shoulder 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.560 and run right through you. And in a game where 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.320 I think most games are decided by red zone success 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.480 and those four point swings aside from turnovers and takeaways 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.839 and all that fun stuff, the quarterback run game in 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.960 that area is such a challenge to contend with. This 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.600 guy has seventy two rushing touchdowns, sixty of those with 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.440 the Carolina Panthers, twelve last year for the Patriots. Not bad, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.640 and we saw what that backfield was able to accomplish 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.359 in those real special years, whether it was Stewart and 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.080 Williams with Jonathan Stewart, D'Angelo Williams, or even today with 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.559 Christian McCaffrey. On Sunday, Cam rushed ten times for forty 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.919 six yards and a touchdown. He also rushed for a 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.599 goal to go touchdown the week prior and through for 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.960 one in that area of the field in a game 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.880 where he scored two touchdowns as a special package option 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.920 behind starter P. J. Walker. Now, I think the game's 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.200 last year show you how Miami was able to adjust 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.880 to what Cam does so well because the Patriots had 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.000 a lot of success on the ground end Game one 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.359 with that quarterback lead quarterback power tough to stop. And 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.800 he goes fifteen for nineteen in that game for one 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.440 fifty five and uh freshes for seventy five yards on 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.599 fifteen carries on the ground and two touchdowns in that game. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.719 Then in game number two down here in Miami, seventeen 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.360 for twenty seven for two oh nine and just nine 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.280 for thirty eight and no touchdowns on the ground. So 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.880 extra hats in the box, a man in every single 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.919 gap and bringing the gang tackling to the party, those 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.960 are your keys. Cam was one for one on twenty 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.520 plus yard throws last week for twenty seven yards, went 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.080 right down the middle. It was a Christian McCaffrey touchdown 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.440 reception actually, And he also completed five of six in 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.360 that ten to nineteen yard range for sixty seven yards. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.159 So he had plenty of success attacking the second and 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.000 third levels of that Washington defense. But against the blitz 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.159 he was six for nine for forty five yards with 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.800 no touchdowns and no picks. Fifteen for eighteen with one 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.200 forty four and two touchdowns when he was not blitz. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.360 So Miami blitz is a lot. Maybe that's the answer 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.960 here for Cam Newton, he was just three for six 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.400 with nineteen yards when he was under pressure from that 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.960 undermanned Washington defense. And when you blitz, you have to 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.800 stay gap sound and also clog up his escape routes 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.599 because we don't get him in the first wave. You know, 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.080 he's gonna find different lanes to get through. Continue to 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.839 bring that pressure through multiple gaps and where the safety's 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.520 coming to play here. I mean, that's kind of been 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.080 the script the last few weeks, right, A fun script 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.400 to follow as these two guys in Javon Holland and 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.800 Brandon Jones continue to provide pressure and contribute as pass 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.960 rushers in the run game and in coverage as well. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.880 And that translates to the running back position too, because 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.840 we'll go to that next year. The Dolphins linebackers versus 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.680 the Panthers running backs and Christian McCaffrey. I mean, this 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.160 guy does it all. He motioned out on Sunday and 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.560 caught that touchdown pass on a steam route, which is 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.560 basically like a tight end or a big slot receiver 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.800 type of play where he gets over the top of 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.720 the linebacker and makes a nice catch off the top 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.480 of the helmet. It was a great throw from Cam, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.240 but I think it speaks to McCaffrey's abilities to really 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.400 play any position on the offense. You have to locate 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.400 number twenty two every single snap. The only thing that 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.920 was basically holding him back from m v P type 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.560 of production every single year has been his availability. Forty 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.080 seven touchdowns in fifty one career games. He average is 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.400 a buck fifteen of yards per from scrimmage per game. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.080 In those fifty one games. He played just three games 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.360 last year. He's played six this year, so he's missed 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.000 some more. But when he's played sixteen games in nineteen 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.120 nineteen hundred sixty five yards from scrimmage and thirteen touchdowns, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.040 then twenty nine two yards from scrimmage and nineteen total touchdowns, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:26.680 he is a problem. He's elusive, he's decisive, he's got 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.720 tremendous hands, he can hit home runs. He's tough enough 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.160 to grind out yards inside. I don't know how many 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.160 other ways I can say it. You've gotta find number 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.480 twenty two and you have to tackle. He's averaging three 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.840 point oh four yards after initial contact. He was at 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.240 four point seven three on Sunday against Washington. And that's 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.800 just as a rusher, which is twelve in the NFL 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.400 among backs who have played over one hundred snaps of 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.560 this season. His fourteen runs of ten plus yards are 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.160 fifteenth most in the NFL. With just ninety rush attempts, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.439 Nobody else is in the top sixteen. Nobody else that's 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.719 in the top six team rather has fewer than one 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.600 and twelve rush attempts. So he hits big plays at 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.920 a high frequency. You have to find a way to 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.559 limit that. And the Patriots actually had the most success 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.760 against him this year just three point seven yards per 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.439 rush and no touchdowns. And they did it by crowding 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.000 the line of scrimmage and challenging the Panthers to beat 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.559 them through the air with that strong secondary. And again 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.880 that was Sam Donald, not Cam Newton, so a different 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.920 story there, but that is still the idea. In the 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.200 passing game. He caught four for fifty four in that 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.040 game and it was against linebackers and safety. So you 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.960 look at some of the speed Miami has between Holland 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.840 and Jones and Baker at those positions and the idea 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.280 of double teams, that's what I would do. That's what 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.800 New England did when he flexed out, double him, bracket him. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.680 I'll be curious to find out if Miami does the same. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.199 And also, don't forget about a Mere Abdullah or Cuba Hubbard. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.680 Both those guys have home run hitting ability to so 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.080 do not let those guys hit you for big plays 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.560 because if they do, that's when you're in some real trouble. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.760 And if you can do that, then you need to 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.880 win the one on one matchups. At our next position, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.560 preview Caroline receivers and tight ends versus the Miami cornerbacks. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.319 And again there's plenty more speed here to go around, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.880 and it largely funnels through two guys aside from the tailbacks. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.040 At least. D J. Moore has ninety nine targets this season, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.319 Robbie Anderson has sixty one, and the third highest targeted 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.280 receiver is Terrence Marshall Jr. At And then the highest 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.640 targeted tight end is Ian Thomas with nineteen targets. So 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.120 Dj Moore, Robbie Anderson, Christian McCaffrey all your top three 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.480 guys by a long shot there, and Moore and Anderson 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.840 are both speed merchants, but More is just a pure, polished, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.280 clean route runner across the board. He does it all 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.240 sure handed, seven hundred and fifty one yards and four 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.319 touchdowns this season with a sixty two point six percent 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.040 catch ray and ten point seven a dot. So he 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.160 gets vertical and he catches a lot of balls, and 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.440 that sounds like a good draw for me. For xaviing 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.840 Howard because of the physical nature of his game, the 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.280 reaction ability, and again the high volume of targets creates 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.840 more interception opportunities for x Right. We talked about that 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.560 earlier this pod. Earlier this season. If they want to 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.400 throw to a guy regardless of who you put on him, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.520 put X over there. If you get ten targets, you 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.240 have a good chance to get in a pick. So 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.280 do that, but also disrupt his timing, and if you 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.760 can really match up on more one on one, that 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.960 could change the entire game from Miami. If they can 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.160 wipe him out with Xavien Howard, and especially to disrupt 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.920 that timing with a new quarterback at the position, that 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.960 could cause some some chemistry issues when they probably don't 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.280 have that down just yet. Robbie Anderson leads the team 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.360 with twelve eleven point two yards of average depth of target. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.880 That's typically been the type of guy that Byron has 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.199 matched up on. But again, if guys don't travel in 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.360 the defense, and as those receivers move about the formation, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.920 then you're gonna see everybody at one point or another. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.000 But I think that Anderson on Jones is a good 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.400 matchup because Jones has a great recovery speed and he 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.120 can gamble a little bit on the short stuff and 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.480 then get back into phase and recover deep if you 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.440 have to. And the Panthers, you know, don't really have 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.600 a primary slot guy. That's where McCaffrey and Ian Thomas 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.280 or even Tommy Tremble operate a lot of the time. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.360 So I think that you can get some jams and 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.720 chips with brackets on McCaffrey when he does go out 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.560 into those condensed splits or those nasty splits in tight 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.320 but the rest of that interior portion of the field, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.040 if you can lock up those guys with brackets and 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.439 doubles and zone and you get your two best corners 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.360 on their receivers out wide, I think that's maybe the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.880 formula here, or at least one of the possible options. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.079 But I'll be curious to see what Javon Holland's role 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.800 is this week because there's a lot of areas they 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.559 could use him in, and since McCaffrey doubles as a receiver, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.960 maybe it's more of a three safety game where you 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.959 get Eric Rowe more of a full time workload in 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.640 addition to Jones and Holland playing full time, and what 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.679 he does best is matchup on the tight end. We're 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.480 providing a sure tackling safety inside against the Panthers run games. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.240 So I'll take a look at Eric road this week 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.120 and think maybe he plays some more snaps. But Carolina 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.880 has deployment on offense this year also makes them challenging. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.320 Eleven personnel of the time, that's one receiver or rather 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.760 one running back, one tight end and three receivers. Twelve 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.199 personnel is nineteen one back, two tight ends, and then 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.040 twenty one person snell is nine percent primarily McCaffrey and Hubbard, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.680 and then two personnel which is two backs, two tight 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.640 ends for seven percent with McCaffrey, Hubbard, Thomas and Tremble. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.280 And I'll invite that package that means only d J. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.520 Morris stays on the field. But it's a good package still. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.760 But the Dolphins will have to keep their substitutions on 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.440 point because they love to make those changes. But they 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.679 can also get to those different types of formations and 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.880 looks because of the flexibility of so many players they have, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.800 so like, really, if McCaffrey and Hubbard are both in 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.960 the game at the same time, you might think, well, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.400 we have to get linebackers out there, because two running 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.600 backs means a running play and you take your defensive 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.560 backs off the field. Then all of a sudden, they 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.480 flex McCaffrey out and he's one of the most dangerous 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.160 slot receivers in the game, and all of a sudden, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.200 you're against eleven personnel in your based defense, which means 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.520 linebacker on McCaffrey, and you can't have that. So it's 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.720 a challenge. Robbie Anderson's catching just forty five point nine 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.200 percent of his passes this season. We know he wants 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.040 to go deep and get the ball in the perimeter, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.720 up wide or up up top for those deep balls, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.840 and that and the sidelines are the two primary options 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.000 you want to look for against cover zero, and the 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.280 out routes are okay, we'll take those. He's got three 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.679 touchdowns this year, usually they come from deep. He has 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.160 a fifty seven yard but also a seventeen yard and 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.160 a seven yard of the season. But I think he's 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.920 the guy on this offense you can go one on 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.360 one against. Also, the best way to slow down all 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.480 that speed is to get after it in the pass 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.840 rush game. Which brings us to our final matchup on 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.080 this side of the football, the Carolina offensive line versus 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.120 the Miami defensive line, and Carolina has allowed the second 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.680 most pressures in the National Football League this year with 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.440 one d and forty four, and Cameron Irving is usually 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.680 one of the starring tacklers, but he's on I R. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.600 He's accounted for twenty one pressures and at right tackle, 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.040 Taylor Moten has allowed twenty one pressures but no sacks 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.920 and just two QB hits. John Miller is a guy 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.160 you might remember from the Buffalo days. He is also 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.400 on the starting lineup. He has twenty pressures allowed in 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.600 four sacks. On the interior center Matt Parrotis is also 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.040 down on I R. He had allowed six team pressures 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.080 this year, but his replacement, Pat l Line has allowed 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.760 just five pressures this season, so he's been solid. And 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.520 Michael Jordan has four team pressures allowed. Not that Michael 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.560 Jordan's three sacks and three hits, while Dennis Daily four 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.520 team pressures, two sacks and four hits. This offensive line 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.240 is banged up. Deontay Brown, their big rookie, also on 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.040 I R designated for return. We'll see if he comes 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.000 back this week or if not. But he's a massive, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.000 massive man at three and fifty pounds. So whoever the 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.960 quarterback is, they've been under drest this season. That's where 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.680 Miami really needs to win on defense here. If you 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.880 can take out Anderson and Thomas with one on one 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.080 and you can commit more attention to more McCaffrey and 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.800 get after their quarterback than you should have some success. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.240 But how do those numbers translate to what Miami does 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.680 well well? Molten pitch day shut out last week going 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.480 against Chase Young's back up in Washington. The best game 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.120 from an opponent against Molten was Charles Amena, who from 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.640 the Texans, and he's one of those long, heavy handed 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.920 guys like the two guys we have here in Phillips 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.120 and Agba, and something to note, he's their best lineman 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.400 at right tackle. He'll see plenty of Agba. Hopefully a 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.840 Manuel can have the same success Amena who did in 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.200 that game. Dennis Daily is the left tackle, so maybe 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.600 some Phillips and Van Ginkle over there. But he was 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.080 hit for four pressures against the Patriots three weeks ago. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.680 He's played three different positions this season and actually was 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.640 injured in the game last week against Washington, So maybe 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.760 they have to go even deeper into their tackle depth 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.480 and go to rookie Brady Christensen from b y U 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.200 and some Panthers fans on Twitter that I follow have not. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.280 He's been struggling so far this season in his rookie 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.280 year when he does get a chance. He did play 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.080 forty one snaps in that game and did not allow 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.680 a pressure on twenty six pass blocking snaps, but he 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.200 was removed from the lineup earlier in the season when 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.200 he was hit for twelve pressures and back to back 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.120 games against the Eagles and Giants. That's an area of 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.000 Miami needs to exploit here to help the defensive backs 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.360 on the back end and limit the Panthers from being 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.720 two dimensional on offense. If we can find a way 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.680 to take out the passing game, I would feel really 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.680 good about this matchup for Miami. Michael Jordan was called 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.400 up again, Not that Michael Jordan, guys, it's a different guy, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.680 even though the same Carolina Blue he was called upon 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.800 in Week six. He allowed no pressures against Arizona, but 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.600 it's been three, three to two and four pressures allowed 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.199 in the other games, the four last week against Jonathan 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.480 Allen and the boys up in d C. I'm looking 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.600 for similar success there from Seeler becaus I think he 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.160 kind of mimics what Alan does well and ray Kwon 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.399 Davis with the size and strength and power, but then 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.480 also obviously Wilkins and Butler and all the strengths they have. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.560 Elf Line has not a lot of pressure in his 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.600 last three games, which includes eighty one pass protection reps. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.760 So the tackle positions I think for on both sides 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.760 of the football here are going to be key in 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.840 this game for the Dolphins and Panthers. And we now 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.000 turn the page over to the Dolphins offense and start 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.600 with the Dolphins quarterback versus the Carolina safeties. And these 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.399 Panthers safeties, well, they're legit, much like much of their defense, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.760 especially Jeremy Chin. He's kind of your Christian McCaffrey on 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.399 the other side, and that you've got to figure out 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.400 where the heck he is every single snap. He's basically 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.040 Derwin James. Guys, He's really really good. He plays all 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.359 over the formation and that helps the Panthers create the 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.680 one on one matchups with their rush game the way 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.240 Holland and Jones can do that here and do what 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.080 does have the worth lowest sack per drop back rate 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.840 in the NFL, and think about that with the way 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.359 things have gone this year, what an upshot that is 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.320 for him. And he will have to be active in 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.119 that area again in this game because they bring the pressure. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.919 We'll talk about that here. More than just one second 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.960 they bring the extra rusher on blitz is thirty two 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.720 point one percent of their defensive snaps. That's the sixth 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.760 highest rate in the National Football League. Too has played 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.159 two of the other top ten blitz rate teams in 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.920 the NFL, and he had two of his best games 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.720 against Jacksonville and Baltimore earlier this season. He's starting games 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.520 really sound. He's taken Miami down for opening drive touchdowns 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.560 and four of six starts this season, and in the 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.000 fifth game against Buffalo took him down for a field goal. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.359 So you want to see that continue. But hopefully this 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.359 offense can keep that momentum going into the second quarter 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.640 where the offense has struggled before they pick it back 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.480 up in that second half. The splits between quarters one, three, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.920 and four and even overtime for twa compared to his 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.040 second quarter splits this year, they're completely different. I want 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.600 to see that change this week, hopefully. And Kirk Cousins 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.680 had the best day against them with three hundred and 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.880