WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Chiefs Wildcard Playoffs Preview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on remove Goling, deep Speedways, Peace do hell. From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.480 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's jo my hands 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:31.800 in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins And welcome to 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.520 the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.640 And on today's show, and then there was a playoff 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.879 game and your Dolphins are in it. We'll do our 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.120 eighteenth game preview of the season by looking at the matchups, 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.280 the game by the numbers, and a whole heck of 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.159 a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.320 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.880 Maybe gaff so I've been looking at these weather reports 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.840 and start the podcast with these weather reports on the 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.760 show for these last several game previews. Don't really do 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.640 it in October and November as much as September and 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.560 January and December. But it is January, and since we 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:17.119 are within the extremes of climate change, going from fifty 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.399 degree to temperatures just a couple of weeks ago to 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.280 now negative degree temperatures. Fun times we live in. But 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.240 I think this is the most apt week to talk 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:32.080 about weather. As of this recording, I'm seeing four degrees 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:37.240 it's expected temperature with wind chill and the negative temperatures 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.080 and gusts up to thirty miles per hour. Some chance 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.759 of snow, but that's not until after midnight, but that 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.680 can change and shift and arrive early, right. I'm not 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.040 really sure how weather works like at all, but I 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.520 know in the past I've I've had golf plans on 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.560 a Saturday and it was supposed to rain on Saturday 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.600 and the rain didn't come until Sunday, or maybe it 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:01.440 got there on Friday. That happens, I think. I'm not sure. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:03.880 Did you guys like the new intro by the way, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.440 I thought it was pretty cool. Made that myself. I'm 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.120 not sure if you need much of an intro on 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.600 the Chiefs. You know who they are and where they've been. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.799 So let's go ahead and do a cliffs notes version 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.240 of this portion of the podcast. So Patrick Mahomes is 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.000 their quarterback, two time MVP, two time Super Bowl champion, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.079 and really one of the biggest unicorns to come into 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.800 the NFL in the Last Ever in the Last forever. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.519 He was drafted in twenty seventeen and only started the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.480 season finale with the Chiefs when they were locked into 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.519 a playoff position. That year, that team won ten games 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.120 and lost in the wild card round, and that was 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.600 the last time you could say that about them. They've 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.400 won twelve, twelve, fourteen, twelve, and fourteen games under Mahomes 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.280 until they're eleven and six mark this year. Eleven and 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.600 six down year. It must be nice, right, They've gone 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.200 ten and three in the playoffs playoffs during that time. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:00.440 There isn't a franchise that would not take ten and 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.320 three to start their regular season, and they've done that 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.400 against the league's best teams year in and year out. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.000 In the postseason. Their loss is coming to the Brady 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.800 led Bucks in the Super Bowl, the Burrow led Bengals 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.119 when they were red hot to close out twenty twenty one, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.239 and the Brady led Patriots in overtime of that legendary 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.760 AFC Championship game back in twenty nineteen. That's it for 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.239 playoff losses. Hopefully Miami twenty twenty three gets add to 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.400 that list. Mahomes is the constant, so is Travis Kelcey, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.640 who was picked back in twenty fifteen and is one 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.320 of the greatest tight ends in the history of the 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.600 National Football League. Probably maybe I'm still taking Gronkowski, I think, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.760 and you know I'm from the Gates in Gonzales era, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.480 Jimmy Graham, so those guys have a say as well. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.120 But Kelsey's right up there right. He leads He marks 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.760 with receivers in the receiving category every single year up 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.160 until this year. And that's probably something you can attach 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.080 back to the Chiefs struggles this year is the fact 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.920 that Kelsey hasn't had a Travis Kelcey year. Now again, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:00.840 it's changed, it's changed a lot. This year. They won 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.040 their lowest amount of games in the Mahomes era. The 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.920 eleventh win was with Blaine Gabbert edging out East and 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.480 Stick last week over the Chargers. Damn it, Chargers. If 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.280 you could have won that freaking game against Buffalo and 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.960 none of the crap would have happened. We'll talk about 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.240 the regression, and I use that with air quotes. Imagine 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.520 winning eleven games being a regression, right, But we'll talk 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.440 about that in the matchup breakdown, So we'll also cover 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.400 this in the matchup portion. Replacing Tyreek Hill has proven 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:26.960 to be a bit of a challenge for the Chiefs, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.479 they've used more receivers with like significant workloads than anybody 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.120 else in the National Football League because why they don't 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.640 really have a top dog, or at least they didn't 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.400 until Rashi Rice became that. But beyond that, they're still 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.920 in search of their two and their three and they're 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.400 like one, two to the three to the four. Like 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.360 it's it's a challenge for this team. Last year they 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.920 won the Super Bowl, So like, I guess it's ridiculous 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.640 to question their process, right, but I still wouldn't have 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.919 traded Tyreek Hill. But the storyline around the Chiefs this 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.960 year has been the wide receivers who lead the NFL 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.080 and drops by Like I think that I saw a 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.440 stat they had like forty something drops going into last 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.440 week and Larry Fitzgerald dropped twenty six passes in his career. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.040 What they just don't create the same separation they did 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.920 in the past. Weird how when you lose Tyreek Hill, 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.440 you don't have separators anymore. Separators separators, and they don't 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.800 give Mahomes the easy solutions that help keep drives on 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.120 schedule and generate those situations where he can create and 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.719 be superman. He still does that, but it's so much 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.480 fewer and far between because they're often behind the chains 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.520 and bad positions and they're just not making plays for him. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.840 I mean, Marquez Valdez Scantling has been a bust of 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.000 a free agent signing. Sky Moore's on IR, but he's 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.839 a second round pick who has not worked out at all. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.680 They went out and got Kadarius Tony in a trade 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.200 last year. It's been a disaster. Justin Watson, you know, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.839 nice player, I guess, but talking about limited skill sets. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.400 And then Rashi Rice, you know, I think I think 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.599 the world of that guy. He's that catch he made 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.840 on the Chiefs long touchdown drive they did in the 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.960 first half back in Germany. It was like a third 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.040 and five or whatever. It was, back up on their 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.040 own goal line and he makes a diving catch on 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.920 a speed out that was, besides the Tygreek fumble, to me, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.840 the biggest play in the game as far as the 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.160 difference of the game. Mcole Hardman is back off IR. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.159 He left to the Jets and came back because you 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.320 go to the Jets, you always leave because things don't 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.920 happen positively there. Anyway. The entire group was acquired within 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.280 the last two years for Kansas City the line. The 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.360 offensive line in a league where there is no stability 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.160 on the offensive line pretty much league wide, has been 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.839 the stabilizing force. Juwan Taylor brought into replace Orlando Brown. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.320 Hasn't been great, but he's you know, he's a name. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.640 Donovan Smith is in it left tackle for Andrew Wiley, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.760 who also exited a free agency and he has been 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.720 injured as of late, and Janya Morris, his backup, was 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.279 filling in not so well. But Smith is supposed to 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.840 come back for this game with Janya Morris in concussion protocol, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.600 so something to keep an eye on. And we have 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.800 street free agents right now. They're gonna play significant reps 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.880 of that position. But if something happens to Smith and 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.919 Morris isn't available, they're getting very deep into that position 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.840 as well. So it's interesting, but they know they can 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.120 survive the pass rush losses off the edge even despite 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.880 their investment into the position. Right Like Taylor was a 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.760 big acquisition, Donovan Smith is not that. But they didn't 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.680 re sign Wiley or Brown for those reasons. And I 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.360 think the reason is because they know that if they 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.720 keep the interior pocket clean Mahomes' creativity and the eyes 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.480 in the back of the head and the feel and 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.360 just the overall balance and scramble ability and ability to 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.000 keep your eyes downfield while navigating the rush. That's where 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.760 you can afford to be a little bit softer when 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.360 you have a trio inside of Tony, Humphrey and Smith. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.920 It's the best in the National Football League now defensively, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.160 and this is where it gets really interesting, crazy right, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.840 because they have a Hall of Fame quarterback, a Hall 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.320 of Fame coach, and a Hall of Fame tight end. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.840 And defense is where it gets interesting. In my best 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.840 Al Michael's voice, go figure. But they never had a 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.720 air quotes good defense during all that success we just 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.560 talked about. It was always a potentially fatal flaw as 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.680 we like to call them heading into the postseason. They 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.520 never ranked better than sixteenth in defensive EPA during that 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.400 ten to three playoff record and their average of thirteen 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.040 wins per year. But now the defense is more efficient 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.280 than the offense, and it starts with Chris Jones, an 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.960 absolute beast. They supplemented him upfront with two lengthy, strong 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.200 edges in George Carl loftis last year's first round pick 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.680 and Charles Amenehu, a nice free agent acquisition this offseason. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.000 They also drafted another edge in the first round this 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.920 year and Felix and aduque Uzama, who hasn't played much 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.160 but he's got skills inside with Chris Jones another draft pick, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.240 with Derek Nandi who's a great freaking player. They're just really, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.480 really good upfront. Nick Bolton was a recent draft hit 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.400 of theirs in twenty twenty one as the green dot 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.480 in the middle of the defense. They also brought in 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.040 Drew Trankwill who is probably better this spring. They're so 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.959 deep in that good spot. And what have teams done 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.559 to disrupt the Dolphins offense the last few weeks? It's 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.400 been stout interior linebacker play. And how did the Bills 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.680 replace Matt Malono? Man like Terrell Bernard's freaking just as 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.560 good as he is and Tyrrel Dotson left that game, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.240 but he was playing pretty well too. Roquan Smith and 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:18.280 Pressure Queen frustrating. Man, gosh, we should win the division. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.520 But they also added a very good cornerback in Trent 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.840 McDuffie no relation to Oj McDuffie. They found former WSU 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.439 star Jalen Watson as the UDFA last year. They signed 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.280 Justin Reid last year and developed a fourth rounder and 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.920 Lugerious Snead into one of the best cover corners of 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.679 the National Football League. So they are an example of 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.160 retaining a few core parts from teams of old and 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.520 then hitting on key draft picks and free agents to 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.800 cobble together in impressive unit, something Miami I think will 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.760 have to do over the next couple of draft classes 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.440 as well as I could very well see a run 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.120 at back scenario where you just drop in your draft classes, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.079 which I would be very much in favor of. Anyway, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.080 Andy Reid still at the controls, no more Eric b Enemy, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.080 Matt Naggy as back as OC. Maybe maybe Eric Bamy 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.760 had more than we thought Steve Spagnolo in his fifth 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.360 year as DC cooking up all those blitzes. So they've 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.520 really built a team to his vision on that side 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.599 of the football, and the continuity I think shows while offensively, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.840 the lack of such continuity on offense has caused for 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.600 a down year for them. They look disjointed at times, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.600 and I would ever doubt them to get it right. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.880 But I just don't think it's gonna be humming in 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.280 this like we're used to seeing, which opens an opportunity 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.240 for Miami. Right, let's go ahead and talk about the 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.680 storylines heading into this critical. I mean we talked about 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.679 critical in the regular season. What's more critical than loser 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.680 out games? I mean, this is what must win games 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.400 actually are, right, and the storylines are, Well, you're one 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.400 to five against winning teams this year. You can buck 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.560 that trend. You can buck the narrative with a win 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.640 this weekend. I think if you go to Baltimore and 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.160 get waxed again, maybe that opens up some conversations. But 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 I'm telling you what right now, man, it's gonna be 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.120 a long seven months no matter what happens, unless you 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.200 are hoisting the Lombardi in Las Vegas. I think, just 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.280 because of the expectations this year and the Nick Saban quote, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.640 man that I've I'm as guilty as anybody about this, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.280 and I think I've learned my lesson finally, Expectation is 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.040 the thief of joy. Right cause I was having a 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.520 lot of fun telling people this team might go to 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.199 the super Bowl this year, they're that good, and then 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.160 you lose half your damn rostered injuries and you don't 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.719 get to go to the super Bowl. But having those 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.960 expectations in a league, in a sport where anything can 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.400 happen in any week, that can take those expectations and 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.200 crumble them up in your hand like a piece of 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.040 rock that turns rubble. It's not smart to have those lofty, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.080 long term expectations when you know that just each week 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.960 is what you have to get done. It's fun to 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.040 talk about for podcasts and stuff, but don't buy in 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.560 because anything can change. And for the Miami Dolphins, what 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.760 can change? And how cool would it be? And maybe 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.320 this would be a fun hard knocks storyline to follow 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.040 that you could potentially rematch all the teams you lost 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.160 to in the regular season and beat them all in 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.640 the playoffs on the road, no less, in implement weather. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.840 Is it going to happen? The odds are against you, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.679 but you're one and five this year against winning teams. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.040 Get it going this week. Go beat the Chiefs. They 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.839 are vulnerable. That's the biggest storylines to me in this game. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.240 The other one is that's going to be the coldest 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.680 game in our franchise history and their franchise too, for 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.120 that matter. It's supposed to be negative degree temperatures. How 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.480 does Miami handle it? We shall find out. Adversity is 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.440 an opportunity, right. I know some of you guys are 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.600 tired of hearing that, but I think that if you 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.400 want to be authent authentic to yourself as a coach 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.920 and genuine and reflect to your players in a way 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.160 that impacts them, you have to be yourself every time. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.480 And that's what coaches entire ethos is built upon. So 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.800 dog it all you want, but it's not. It's not 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.000 fu gazy, it's not nonsense, it's not bs. It is 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.920 his entire being and that's what this team is built upon, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.240 and that's what the roster's built upon. You know. It's 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.760 funny in a year that all I wanted this whole 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.080 year was for the first time in fifteen years, and 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.360 even that quarterback like you need to talk about limitations, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.920 Chad Pennington, good player, but man, limitations. All I wanted 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.360 for the first time in fifty years was for the 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.319 starting QB to start a playoff game. And now we're 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.120 the most injured team in the NFL. Go figure, can 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.720 you overcome it? You almost did in the Buffalo game 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.000 last year. Dam near overcame an offense that couldn't drive 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.439 the ball more than forty yards and eat on a 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.800 possession in that game, and you had to go ironically 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.200 forty yards to go win it. But either way, the 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.000 Tyreek reunion, we do get the reunion. After all, after 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.000 all the talk this offseason about how we weren' going 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.800 to see him back at Arrowhead, Now you do get it. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.560 And don't forget Immanuel Ogbaugh won a Super Bowl there 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.280 as well, and Melvin Ingram played there as well. Oh 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.720 and Justin Houston did too, all the old heads. And 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.800 then finally, the last storyline I have here is just 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.320 the interesting nature with how these offenses were built and 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.079 constructed and complete opposite molds. This is not apples to 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.240 apples because Mahomes is on that second contract and Tua 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.400 is gonna get that soon. But that's me speculating. I 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.120 don't know anything. But you've seen these two teams attack 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.640 the structure of the offense entirely different. After Case lost 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.000 the Super Bowl in twenty twenty, where they were just 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.200 decimated on the offensive line with injuries. It happened sometimes, guys, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.199 Sometimes it happens. They went out in inked Joe Tuney 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.480 to the biggest guard deal ever. They later signed Orlando 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.880 Brown and have since moved on in inc Juwan Taylor 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.320 to a similarly massive deal. They hit home runs on 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.240 Humphrey and Smith in the draft, while Miami, on the 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.760 other hand, well, they have invested plenty in the offensive 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.880 line of their own, with big deals for Tistet and 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.520 Connor Williams. A first rounder on Austin Jackson, a second 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.480 rounder on Rob hunt Liam a second round pick Isaiah 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.520 win Wance a first rounder, not a big investment, but 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.920 his one year dealan fregency to come here formerly of 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.160 a first round draft pick. We know about the famed 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.880 McDaniel seven hundred play clip for Tua. Let's surround this 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.640 quarterback with weapons to maximize the processing and accuracy, but 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.360 also his ability to get the football out quick, which 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.960 helps an offensive line for ten to fifteen snaps a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.800 game to basically not take the rep off but kind 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.720 of take the rep off. I think it's just an 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.880 interesting dichotomy there as these two teams get set to 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.400 face off. So before we turn the page to the 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.560 offense and defensive matchups, let's go ahead and revisit the 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.760 game back in November. So Miami had twenty first downs 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.400 to the Kansas City sixteen first downs in that game, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.080 we outgained them two ninety t Q to two sixty seven. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.160 And I put on Twitter after that loss that the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.040 Dolphins had gotten better in the big games despite losses, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.320 and so they outplayed Kansas City and got greeted with 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.160 some backlash to that. I mean, they now gained them. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.000 What are you talking about? The turnover battles even won 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.080 a piece, they scored theirs. That's the difference in the game. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.160 And the time the possession was also dead, even just 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.960 about by twenty three seconds or something like that. So 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.360 TUA in that game saw the highest amount of blitzing 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.440 this year against anybody, thirteen times thirty four percent, which 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.760 is right on track with Steve Spagnolo's blitzing percentage, and 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.640 it's about thirty percent more than what two A typically sees. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.000 And I asked coach McDaniel about this in his Wednesday 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.440 press conference, and he talked about how blitzing typically generates 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.840 a big play on offense or on defense, and how 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.760 he says he kind of hopes they do blitz because 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.320 there's opportunities for that and that's where two atypically shines, right. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.880 But also they are so well coached they can also 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.840 generate negative players in their own right. It's a fun balance. Now. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.920 We blitzed Mahomes seventeen times. He went thirteen for sixteen 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.560 with eighty eight yards, a touchdown, one sack. We pressured 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.800 him eleven times and he was two for eight with 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.920 a fumble in eight yards passing. So Wilkins and see there, man, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.840 let's go. Kelsey saw just three targets, clearly a focal 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.960 point for US. Jalen Ramsey saw some of those reps 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.840 as well. Those came against Gink one and Elliott two 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.360 and they caught them both, all three of them for 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.880 fourteen yards. If you do that in this one, I 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.960 think it won the game. Rashee Rice caught two of 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.280 two targets, both of those against Kohu. But he has 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.120 really emerged out, so that might change the way that 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 you play it. Hill drew McDuffie on six of his 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.960 ten targets, six for forty five. Hey, can we get 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.600 a big Tyreek game? Maybe? Please? Waddle got a healthy 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.080 mix of everybody in coverage. Their run game went twenty 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.760 four for ninety three. They want to run it inside. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.440 Twelve of their twenty four runs we're in the A 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.480 gaps where they got twelve rushes for fifty nine yards. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.760 Our run game, on the other hand, twenty one for 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.240 one seventeen. We had lots of success running right at 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.560 their top rushers, seven for sixty three going at gaps 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.440 man by Chris Jones and five for fifty three going 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.600 at gaps controlled by George Carl Loftis. Carl Loftis did 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.720 get five pressures, while Jones, Amenahu and Dana all had 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.680 two each caught and allowed four. He's not gonna play. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.440 Rob Jones had two and that was with Connor healthy. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.800 So that was the old one of the seventeen offensive 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.520 line combations we had in Liam played eight snaps and 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.639 relief in that game, but t Staid and Jackson one 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.160 pressure allowed each, so they did a good job keeping 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.240 the perimeter pressure to a minimum. Sealer and Wilkins both 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.880 had four and two pressures alike, and said JP had 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.600 four and Chubb had two in that game, which we 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.120 had those guys. If we had those guys, I would 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.800 be predicting a blow ut victory. But we don't. So 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.920 there's that. Let's go ahead and take our last break 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.600 rate there. Come back on the other side and do 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.600 Dolphins offense versus Chiefs see Chefs defense. That's next Draft 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.320 Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:43.040 Auto Nation. So we dug into the matchups a little 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.639 bit on that side of the podcast. There, Let's go 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:50.000 ahead and get even deeper into Dolphins offense versus Chiefs defense. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.000 And a little bit of a change here from last time. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.400 They will not have Brian Cook in this game, which 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.000 is kind of a big deal because they like to 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.280 run a lot of defensive back oriented packages and they'll 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:02.960 blitze those guys and they'll move them around, the'll this 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.240 guy's coverages. And without Brian Cook, that changes a little bit. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.400 On the back end. They do still have Justin Reid 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.600 w's a hell of a football player, Mike Edwards, and 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.120 then Chamari Connor is the new third safety, the dime 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.640 safety they bring into the field in a twenty four 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.080 percent dime defense that they run. They run six defensive 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.080 backs more than any other team in the National Football League. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.919 The other corners, Lugerius need never leaves the field. He's 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.640 a phenomenal player. And then Jalen Watson plays about thirty 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.119 four percent of the snaps on the perimeter, but inside 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.640 Trent McDuffie will travel in there. So if you get McDuffie, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.560 like he matched up sometimes one on one versus either 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.119 Tyreek or Waddell in that last game, and I mean, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.679 you gotta win those he's a good player, but Tyrek 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.200 and Watta, you've gotta win those matchups, So he plays inside. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.359 Chamarai Connor plays some slot as well. Up front, Chris 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.320 Jones has increased his rep count and since the last 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.480 game by like twenty percent. He's up to like sixty 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.600 eight percent after his holdout and getting back into the 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.520 flow of things. Derek Nandy forty six percent, Tray Shawn 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.439 Wharton thirty seven percent. Loftus plays seventy percent off the edge, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.000 well a Menu who plays thirty seven but he missed 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.320 a chunk of the year, so he's kind of the 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.680 other starting edge. But Mike Dana, their third kind of 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.720 nickel pass rusher, comes into the game and he's a 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.000 pretty good player to sixty eight percent of the workload 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.440 for him, and then the rookie Fau twenty percent at linebacker, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.480 Nick Bolton missed a bunch of the season on IR 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.359 he played forty percent of their snaps, train Quill sixty 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.679 six percent of the snaps, and Willie Gay sixty percent, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.600 so it's a really good defense man. They essentially used 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.600