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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to this one really since the
Speaker 1: Giants game. It's preview day. We're talking Dolphins and Jets.
Speaker 1: Will go position by position and preview this matchup how
Speaker 1: Miami can make it back to back season sweeps over
Speaker 1: the Jets, a fifth win out of six tries against
Speaker 1: the rival under Brian Flores, and take the advantage in
Speaker 1: the regular season all time series at fifty five apiece
Speaker 1: right now, at least in the regular season series. Will
Speaker 1: also give you the three takeaways, tell you how the
Speaker 1: Jets arrived at their current position they are in, and
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot more from the Baptist
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Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast we have a busy edition of
Speaker 1: Drive Time. Aheads, let's go ahead and jump right in,
Speaker 1: and once again it is Jets weak for the one
Speaker 1: twelve time all time in the regular season and the
Speaker 1: one time here between these two division rivals if you
Speaker 1: include the playoffs. Shout out to a f C championship
Speaker 1: game and shout out to a j Doway. We did
Speaker 1: this a few weeks ago, right, but nothing really changed
Speaker 1: as far as the ten thousand foot view for the Jets,
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Douglas arrives, starts going to work on
Speaker 1: that roster, maximizes his assets and accumulates a bunch of
Speaker 1: draft capital as well as salary cap space, and he
Speaker 1: unloaded a big name player in Jamal Adams for two
Speaker 1: high draft picks and has used that or began to
Speaker 1: use that to really infuse this roster with talent. He
Speaker 1: lands his rookie quarterback with the second overall pick in
Speaker 1: the draft back in April. Then he immediately goes to
Speaker 1: work on the offensive line, trading a pair of picks
Speaker 1: and rounds two and three, or rather I think a
Speaker 1: pair of third round picks to go up and get
Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman left guard Elijah Vera Tucker after selecting
Speaker 1: their left tackle in the draft in Mackay Beckton out
Speaker 1: of Louisville. I think you see the plan to place
Speaker 1: there right. We saw what rookie Elijah Moore can do
Speaker 1: in the game. Last time around, we saw Michael Carter
Speaker 1: do his thing out of the backfield as well. Now
Speaker 1: the ladder is back this week to supplement their backfield.
Speaker 1: The former is out and so too is another prize
Speaker 1: acquisition at the skill spots and receiver Corey Davis. But
Speaker 1: you can see where they're working to kind of build
Speaker 1: up the offense around their young quarterback, and they have
Speaker 1: all those future assets to put into the defense or
Speaker 1: the team in general however they see fit. But eventually
Speaker 1: you have to put pieces on both sides of the football. Right.
Speaker 1: They've been offensive heavy the last couple of years. Maybe
Speaker 1: this season it goes more towards defense, or maybe in
Speaker 1: two years it doesn't. It doesn't really matter, but you
Speaker 1: get the point. They did some good business on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football this offseason and again in
Speaker 1: season with two moves. Their biggest edition of the entire
Speaker 1: off season was lost back in training camp, and Carl Lawson,
Speaker 1: an absolute monster who's gonna get back and really terrorized
Speaker 1: the a f C East and years to come when
Speaker 1: he does get back and healthy. Then in season they
Speaker 1: locked up I think their best current player in John
Speaker 1: Franklin Meyers. So they have some pieces over there as well.
Speaker 1: It's a three and ten football team, but they're still
Speaker 1: building their competitive They take on the mindset of their
Speaker 1: head coach and they play tough, smart football under Robert Sala.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and kick this thing off as we
Speaker 1: do each Thursday with the opponent's quarterback versus our safeties,
Speaker 1: and we'll kick it off here with the words from
Speaker 1: head coach Brian Flores on the Jetsbrookie quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: Za Wilson's uh, you know, very talented young player in
Speaker 1: this league, big arm um, mobile um. And I think
Speaker 1: he's getting better every week. Um so. And I think
Speaker 1: this is uh, this is a player who's you know, ascending.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's like any young players has
Speaker 1: been some bumps. Um. I know he was out for
Speaker 1: a little bit, he came back, he's played well, and um,
Speaker 1: I think this would be a big challenge for us.
Speaker 1: So we're you know, that's what we're preparing for, for
Speaker 1: and against. You heard coach mentioned some of the bumps
Speaker 1: in the road there for Zach Wilson, And you might
Speaker 1: remember his run up to the draft, the Pro day,
Speaker 1: all the impressive throws that he showed he can make
Speaker 1: falling away from his target on the move, changing the
Speaker 1: arms slot, you know, going down to three quarters, sometimes
Speaker 1: even completely side armed. He's one of these new generation
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who I like to compare to shortstops in baseball,
Speaker 1: where it doesn't matter if there and if you're not
Speaker 1: a baseball fans day with me here sliding into center
Speaker 1: field into the center field grass to their left, they
Speaker 1: still find a way to clear their hips and whip
Speaker 1: that ball across the diamond, or if they have to
Speaker 1: go to the back end in the sixth hole the
Speaker 1: six holes between third base and shortstop for your non
Speaker 1: baseball fans and go to the jump pass, like these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that throw from those shortstop platforms seem to be
Speaker 1: more and more prevalent. So he's immensely talented. But as
Speaker 1: we've seen for just about every rookie quarterback to ever
Speaker 1: do it, and there's obviously some anomalies out there, Dan
Speaker 1: Marino certainly one of them. There is an acclamation and
Speaker 1: adjustment period to play this position at this level. And honestly,
Speaker 1: that's just a rookie thing, not just a rookie thing.
Speaker 1: Like quarterbacks are always learning, but you're not just going
Speaker 1: to have all the answers until you've seen I mean,
Speaker 1: do we go with the Malcolm Gladwell route here and
Speaker 1: talk about breaking the ten hour rule. Maybe it's not
Speaker 1: ten thousand game snaps or practice some game reps, but
Speaker 1: ten thousand hours makes sense. And you just can't get
Speaker 1: there until you're at a certain point in life. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, even some of the most decorative young quarterbacks
Speaker 1: will still have those dips in their consistency. Right. We've
Speaker 1: we've seen even Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have hit
Speaker 1: some valleys this season. And there are m v P
Speaker 1: type of quarterbacks Super Bowl m v ps in that
Speaker 1: discussion there, and where does that typically come from? You know,
Speaker 1: playing quarterback from the pocket is that that's where the
Speaker 1: job is mostly done. Those off platform throws and the
Speaker 1: workout throws like a Pro Day or a combined workout
Speaker 1: or plays that make the highlight reel that you see
Speaker 1: for weeks in a row on Twitter or sports center.
Speaker 1: Those are the splash plays, and like coach Flores talks
Speaker 1: about with sacks and picks and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: those splash plays make up, you know, a fraction of
Speaker 1: your actual workload, like better than of what a quarterback
Speaker 1: does is boring. And I'm using air quotes heavily here
Speaker 1: because I don't find it boring. But you get what
Speaker 1: the jeff I'm saying, right, And that brings me to
Speaker 1: a larger point, like the bumps along the road will
Speaker 1: flatten out when you can start to master that part
Speaker 1: of the game. Identifying the defense, read the coverage, knowing
Speaker 1: what you have in terms of your call and your
Speaker 1: concept the weakness of the defense that you're seeing a
Speaker 1: post to you, and the way you can exploit those defenses.
Speaker 1: Then quickly process the information as things move for you
Speaker 1: post snap. Does you know your steam ral get carried?
Speaker 1: Does the curl flat defender take the bait on the
Speaker 1: flat and you have to go into the honey hoole
Speaker 1: back behind the underneath cornerback. Like there's so many different
Speaker 1: things that happened in the time you get the football
Speaker 1: to the time the ball comes out until like two
Speaker 1: and a half three seconds. Most of the time, but
Speaker 1: a lot happens in that time. And that's not so
Speaker 1: much an evaluation on Zach Wilson as it is just
Speaker 1: about young quarterbacks in general. But that's where he and
Speaker 1: all young quarterbacks have to stress is finding ways to
Speaker 1: win from the pocket and play the position in the
Speaker 1: traditional sense. Not to be the old guy here, but
Speaker 1: like those fun you know, they're they're basically Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: types of throws and he does them all the time,
Speaker 1: but defenses have taken those away from him this year
Speaker 1: and he's having statistically the down year in terms of
Speaker 1: what we're used to, which is forty thousand touchdown passes
Speaker 1: an eight million, two fifty seven yards. Like, there's things
Speaker 1: you can do to get away from those, and they
Speaker 1: still make up just a fraction of your overall place.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean for Miami. Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: see what the Dolphins have at the safety position here
Speaker 1: because Eric Rose availability is well, he's available. We'll see
Speaker 1: about Javon Holland, and then Brandon Jones missed the last
Speaker 1: two games with an elbow injury as well. And beyond that,
Speaker 1: we've talked about Nick Needham getting some reps and some
Speaker 1: split safety looks. We know about Clayton Federlan providing depth
Speaker 1: at the position, and also Will Parks, a recent acquisition
Speaker 1: here to the roster, is in the mix as well.
Speaker 1: But I think the key here hearkens back to what
Speaker 1: we talked about in terms of the learning curve of
Speaker 1: playing this position at this level. The Dolphins really excel
Speaker 1: in their ability to disguise coverage, who's in what role,
Speaker 1: who's coming, who's dropping, all of that, and with Roe
Speaker 1: and Jones and Needham's various usage and the depth at
Speaker 1: the position, Miami maintains that flexibility and uncertainty in the
Speaker 1: offense is mind change the picture post snap because you
Speaker 1: have players that can play forty two different roles. Right,
Speaker 1: So some quick Zach Wilson numbers here for you guys.
Speaker 1: We know Miami blitz is a lot thirty eight point
Speaker 1: one percent of the time according to Pro Football Reference,
Speaker 1: which is second only behind Tampa. There's a one point
Speaker 1: two percent difference there, but at three point four percent
Speaker 1: difference between Miami and number three ranked Baltimore. So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Bucks blitz substantially more than anybody else in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Zach Wilson versus the Blitz forty five point
Speaker 1: one percent completion. That's seventy one attempts, seven sacks, a
Speaker 1: four point nine yards per attempt average, zero touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: two picks versus pressure. So, whether it's four guys or
Speaker 1: Blitz getting after him, nine point five completion attempts on
Speaker 1: one dropbacks, that means twenty nine sacks, five yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and three picks. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a key to get that sorted for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got to find a way to deal with pressure better.
Speaker 1: And maybe it won't. Maybe there will be more of
Speaker 1: a four man pass rs. The Dolphins are certainly capable
Speaker 1: of playing coverage and and not coming out for the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's not what they usually do. That's one of the
Speaker 1: things I'm looking for here as far as the storyline,
Speaker 1: how does Miami attack the rookie quarterback? Because Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus has Zack at and six point six yards per
Speaker 1: temp when kept clean, but four touchdowns and eight picks
Speaker 1: if he puts the ball in harm's way, capitalized when
Speaker 1: that turnover margin, and they'll go a long way towards victory.
Speaker 1: We mentioned this in the intro, but the Jets will
Speaker 1: be down a couple of their top receiving threats as
Speaker 1: we move here to our next position. The Jets receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends versus the Miami cornerbacks No Elijah More
Speaker 1: no Corey Davis. So it's Braxton Barrios, Keelan Cole, Jamison Crowder,
Speaker 1: and Denzel Mims in the receiver room with Ryan Griffin,
Speaker 1: tray Ron westco and Kenny Yoboa at tight end for
Speaker 1: the Jets. As far as Wednesday goes for their active
Speaker 1: guys on their roster last week, let's go over their
Speaker 1: their snap percentage they played in the game and where
Speaker 1: they play in terms of inside outside and their season
Speaker 1: long stats. You ready for that. So Jamison Crowder played
Speaker 1: the snaps last week. He to go to guy there
Speaker 1: right him and Keelan Cole surpass. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: here in just one second. But he plays eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the time in the slot, so he's their slot receiver,
Speaker 1: sixty four targets from that spot and a seventy percent
Speaker 1: completion rate when they throw to Jamison Crowder. Braxton Barrios
Speaker 1: is the other primary slot guy and he's played forty
Speaker 1: one percent of the snaps last week. Seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the time he does play, he's in the slot. He
Speaker 1: has forty two targets this season and a seventy percent
Speaker 1: completion rate, So about three three fourths of the balls
Speaker 1: that go over the middle for the Jets to the
Speaker 1: slot receivers they get completed. Keelan Cole he played eighty
Speaker 1: three percent of the snaps last week, so you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get a good mix of Coal and Crowder, and
Speaker 1: probably a mix of Barrios and Mims in there as well.
Speaker 1: But Cole plays eighty three percent of his snaps out
Speaker 1: wide as well, thirty six targets, a fifty six percent completion.
Speaker 1: There's a theme there, right. Denzel Mims thirty three percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps last week. Eight percent of his workload
Speaker 1: this season comes out wide, fourteen targets, fifty seven percent
Speaker 1: can placent So when you force the Jets to throw wide,
Speaker 1: typically you get about a twenty percent reduction and completion
Speaker 1: percentage at tight end. Ryan Griffin of the snaps last week,
Speaker 1: he plays total either in line or the slot. Six
Speaker 1: in line. In the slot, he has thirty nine targets
Speaker 1: this year, sixty four point one percent completion and then
Speaker 1: Daniel Brown played nine snaps last week. He was a
Speaker 1: practice squad call up, but the other tight ends did
Speaker 1: not play in the game. So among the current personnel
Speaker 1: getting the ball out wide, it's been a challenge. And
Speaker 1: of course we know that's where Xaviian Howard and Byron
Speaker 1: Jones lurk for sixty minutes every single Sunday. So it
Speaker 1: really feels like a game where you ask those two
Speaker 1: studs on the outside to lock up one side of
Speaker 1: the field, in the middle of the fields where the
Speaker 1: Jets probably want to go. I mean, those are not
Speaker 1: good matchups out wide, So how do you make sure
Speaker 1: they can't nickel and dime you and sustain drives and
Speaker 1: pump the ball to those high catch percentage guys. Well,
Speaker 1: this is a deep position from Miami. Even if Holland
Speaker 1: can't go and what he does on the inside of
Speaker 1: the form ration defensively, Eric Row can do literally every
Speaker 1: job at the at you know, safety or slot cornerback,
Speaker 1: uh cover tight ends, split safety, high safety, Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: much of the same, and their flexibility in that capacity
Speaker 1: could help unlock Justin Coleman to match up inside. Miami's
Speaker 1: just very deep there. Your options are a plenty again.
Speaker 1: You can play coverage. You can play zone and force
Speaker 1: Wilson to throw against those seven man coverage looks. You
Speaker 1: can play a man and send pressure and see if
Speaker 1: they can win those one on ones on the outside.
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see how Miami plays this. It's
Speaker 1: been hot this week here in South Florida, but Sunday
Speaker 1: is supposed to be eighty two degrees with a sixty
Speaker 1: percent chance of rain. Boo to that. I want to
Speaker 1: see a good weather game. But maybe that affects the
Speaker 1: way the Jets approached this as well. We'll see. So
Speaker 1: some stats from those guys. Back in Week eleven, Crowder
Speaker 1: caught six of his seven targets for forty four yards.
Speaker 1: Cole and Barrios both had one target apiece no catches
Speaker 1: for them, and Ryan Griffin caught three of his four
Speaker 1: targets for thirty nine yards. If you keep their past
Speaker 1: production in that range, it'll be a long day for
Speaker 1: the Jets. How about up front on the offensive line?
Speaker 1: The Battle of the Trenches. Will discuss that next, but
Speaker 1: first a break alright, So, as far as the Jets
Speaker 1: offensive line and Dolphins defensive line goes, here are the pressure, sack,
Speaker 1: hit and pass blocking numbers for the Jets up front,
Speaker 1: George flat Flant George Fant is their left tackle. Eight
Speaker 1: team pressures, one sack and three hits on five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five pass blocking snaps. He's been a decent
Speaker 1: little fine for them. There could possibly the right tackle
Speaker 1: of the future, maybe a long term swing tackle. And
Speaker 1: McKay beck then comes back. I don't know. He's playing
Speaker 1: good ball though, and then Elijah Vera Tucker, I think
Speaker 1: one of their best players already thirty eight pressures allowed
Speaker 1: on five hundred and nine two pass blocking snaps, but
Speaker 1: just one sack and five hits. Connor McGovern eight team pressures,
Speaker 1: four sacks and two hits at center he's played five
Speaker 1: two and uh Duverna Tarni Tardiff ten pressures allowed, one
Speaker 1: sack and two hits a hundred and forty five pass
Speaker 1: blocking snaps. So he just was a recent addition to
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. And then Morgan Moses forty pressures,
Speaker 1: three sacks and ten hits on five hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six pass blocking snaps. And then Greg Van Roten did
Speaker 1: not play last week, but he's got thirty four pressures
Speaker 1: three sacks, one hit, four hundred and forties having pass
Speaker 1: blocking snaps. You can see they've been relatively healthy upfront.
Speaker 1: You know, Sam's big, big Mackay Beckton going out early
Speaker 1: in the season, playing just thirty one snaps. But in
Speaker 1: the game against Miami back in week eleven, Laurent Duvernates r.
Speaker 1: Def Was charged with seven pressures allowed. Then Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus also credits four pressures to the running backs with
Speaker 1: Miami's ability to get either free runners with the quarterback
Speaker 1: or the last line of defense with the tailbacks and
Speaker 1: pass production protection. So finding a way to mix those
Speaker 1: fronts show Wilson something different on a consistent basis. To me,
Speaker 1: that's the secret sauce in terms of heating up the
Speaker 1: pressure and trying to force some quick decisions, which of
Speaker 1: course can lead to bad decisions. So the Jets did
Speaker 1: have some success in the running game, and let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up on this side of the foot
Speaker 1: ball with exactly that first off here and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: linebackers versus the Jets running backs. We went over the
Speaker 1: receiver snap counts for last week. They were down Michael Carter,
Speaker 1: the running back of the rookie running back last week
Speaker 1: and Ty Johnson stepped and employed forty eight of the
Speaker 1: sixty six snaps. But that should change with the rookie
Speaker 1: Beck who has had a really nice first season here
Speaker 1: with Gae Green. But in that game, Michael Carter had
Speaker 1: just sixty three yards on nine or had six yards
Speaker 1: rather on just nine carries. He broke a thirty nine
Speaker 1: yard run that we all remember. Not our favorite moment
Speaker 1: of that game. But you got to be better in
Speaker 1: regards in that regard in terms of limiting the big
Speaker 1: runs for the Jets here, keeping the Jets and long
Speaker 1: down and distance plays into Miami's hands quite well, I think,
Speaker 1: and it does every week, but especially in this game,
Speaker 1: like we talked about in the passing game matchup, you
Speaker 1: keep them in third and eight plus. That really benefits
Speaker 1: Miami if you can do that. And the success they
Speaker 1: had in the run game that day, it all came
Speaker 1: off the left side. Here's their rushing and totals based
Speaker 1: upon which gap off left end two for ten, off
Speaker 1: left tackle one for four, not a big sample size,
Speaker 1: left guard three forty six. That's five yards average, four
Speaker 1: yards average, and then fifteen point three yards average and
Speaker 1: total on six runs off the left ten yards per carry,
Speaker 1: again tiny sample size, but the right side, in the
Speaker 1: same sample size was a different story. The gaps working
Speaker 1: from center out to right end where two point five,
Speaker 1: two point oh, three point oh and three point oh.
Speaker 1: So trying to beat Vera, Tucker and Fant those are
Speaker 1: very big and very very athletic players. That's the key
Speaker 1: to me, trying to find a way to make sure
Speaker 1: those two guys don't create big gaps and give you
Speaker 1: a bunch of big runs in this game. As for
Speaker 1: the backs, Carter is a nice combo player, nice speed,
Speaker 1: got some pop, He's a quick decision maker. They'll involve
Speaker 1: both him and Ti Johnson in the passing game as well,
Speaker 1: and that will typically challenge your backer speed but also
Speaker 1: the motor slash effort of your defensive line. And if
Speaker 1: there's one thing I know about this Dolphins defense, one
Speaker 1: thing I can count on with them, it's those guys
Speaker 1: up front playing their asses off. And it's really true
Speaker 1: of the entire team, but those guys hustle and play
Speaker 1: like animals each and every week. Offensively, the Jets play
Speaker 1: eleven personnel of the time. That's one percent over league average,
Speaker 1: and they played twelve personnel of the time. That is
Speaker 1: league average, so a very common offense in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. It's the McVeigh and Shanahan system. They basically run.
Speaker 1: The only other package with more than three percent usage
Speaker 1: for the Jets is ten personnel. That's four receivers. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if they roll that out at
Speaker 1: all with the injuries. They have a receiver and look,
Speaker 1: they've run at seventy three times in thirteen games, so
Speaker 1: it's not like again no mathematician, that's not like a
Speaker 1: crazy number of plays per game, about five or six
Speaker 1: per game, but still part of the game plan. And
Speaker 1: you know, Matt Lafleur off that McVeigh Shanahan system, window dressing, motions, shifts,
Speaker 1: play action, quarterback boot roll, get outside the pocket, creates
Speaker 1: some moving pockets for him. I like the way the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defend the style of offense. We talked about it
Speaker 1: before with the last year's games against the Niners and
Speaker 1: the and the Rams. You know, pressuring those possible boots,
Speaker 1: blitz the edge of the worry back can't get wide.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Miami can keep that same approach and
Speaker 1: get some more success like they've had against this offensive
Speaker 1: system since Brian Flores arrived on the other side of
Speaker 1: the football, Dolphins quarterbacks versus Jet safeties. We've touched on
Speaker 1: the four straight games here with a one hundred passer
Speaker 1: rating for two a tugle by Looa, and the first
Speaker 1: start of that period was against the Jets. Back in
Speaker 1: week eleven. He entered the Ravens game in the third
Speaker 1: quarter and a bad ball over the middle after the
Speaker 1: opening draft touchdown march in that game, but that was
Speaker 1: pretty much it, and it was pretty clean for him
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. He finishes the two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three passing yards, a couple of touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: and twenty seven thirty three passing that's eighty one point
Speaker 1: eight per cent. And the interception, of course. But the
Speaker 1: Jets approach in that game, well, it's indicative to how
Speaker 1: Solo wants to play, right. We saw it in in the
Speaker 1: San Francisco game, or when he was back in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I should say we've seen it here. One gap, play
Speaker 1: with your hair on fire, get up field and go
Speaker 1: get the quarterback without committing extra rushers. And we saw
Speaker 1: Miami counter that in the running game with some wands
Speaker 1: and traps where if they want a shoot up field
Speaker 1: and get in the backfield first thing, you'll let them
Speaker 1: just take them where they want to go, but you
Speaker 1: bring someone from the side who's not in front of
Speaker 1: them for that block, if that makes sense. So it's
Speaker 1: usually a tight end. Sometimes it can even be a
Speaker 1: guard from the back side of the formation or even
Speaker 1: a tackle. Get him up field, knock him off that
Speaker 1: spot with the one gap penetration, and then you can
Speaker 1: run right in that vacated gap after they left that gap.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of an idea there about how those
Speaker 1: wham blocks work, and we saw it last time around.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins rush for over a hundred yards in this game,
Speaker 1: but also defensively, the Jets blitz to eight times and
Speaker 1: two with seven for eight with a hundred seventeen yards,
Speaker 1: a touchdown in a pick, so the one mistake and
Speaker 1: then really hitting everything else. He was also seven for
Speaker 1: eleven with one oh seven two touchdowns and to pick
Speaker 1: under pressure, but when he was kept clean hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty six yards and not blitzed. Four rushers are fewer
Speaker 1: a buck fifty six and a Tuddy, and one of
Speaker 1: the challenges will be something we can him excel in
Speaker 1: during this four game run, the decision making and influencing
Speaker 1: defense with the eyes, the feet, and everything else in between.
Speaker 1: It's been a topic for us here on Drive time
Speaker 1: and with the running back room facing some uncertainty as
Speaker 1: far as availability this week, can they continue to have
Speaker 1: that success if the Jets take away the run. That's
Speaker 1: real quick here from Toua on the approach of facing
Speaker 1: a team you just saw four weeks ago. It helps,
Speaker 1: but I think what we try to do weekend and
Speaker 1: week out is try to prepare. Is if we don't
Speaker 1: know the team so we're going into this game, is
Speaker 1: if we don't know this team. Obviously there's some familiarity,
Speaker 1: but you got to prepare like this is a new team.
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting standpoint there as far as you approach
Speaker 1: each game as if you don't know them from the
Speaker 1: previous games, and that that's kind of how it works, right.
Speaker 1: Every game was its own independent clause, and so you
Speaker 1: approach it as such. You're not going to get the
Speaker 1: exact same game plan of the exact same team from
Speaker 1: the previous time. Obviously you know some of the personnel,
Speaker 1: maybe some tendon sees, but every team adjust the depths
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. So that's a good
Speaker 1: example of how it is a week to week league
Speaker 1: and you can't just roll at the same plan, the
Speaker 1: same idea every single week and expect to win football games.
Speaker 1: As for the Jet side of this equation, the second
Speaker 1: year safety acton Davis. He's the one that got to
Speaker 1: on the overthrow last time around. We'll see him plenty
Speaker 1: of times, plenty of snaps. And another guy we saw
Speaker 1: for just about the entire game last time around was
Speaker 1: Elijah Riley U D F A. Davis was a third
Speaker 1: round draft pick that same year. In so all three
Speaker 1: of these guys in this particular preview group were draft
Speaker 1: picks to and the Jets two safeties and Riley never
Speaker 1: rushes two reps in pass rushing. In four games played,
Speaker 1: he has a hundred nine coverage snaps and a hundred
Speaker 1: twenty nine against the run, and that's no accident. He's
Speaker 1: gonna insert himself in there against the run kind of
Speaker 1: in the way Brandon Jones or Eric Rohad does in
Speaker 1: terms of where they played down close to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And in fact, this is something he did
Speaker 1: every day in practice when he was an Army right
Speaker 1: a team that runs the football of the time, he's
Speaker 1: allowed just twenty seven yards and those one nine coverage
Speaker 1: reps no ball production yet as far as picks and
Speaker 1: p bus four for four on catches and targets. Now
Speaker 1: for Davis, same deal with a pass rush. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna bring safeties six all year snaps and coverage to
Speaker 1: verse the run, and on those three one coverage snaps
Speaker 1: pretty effective if you want to go off of the
Speaker 1: one yard per coverage snap allowed two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven yards, that's less than one. Obviously, I can't give
Speaker 1: you number there eighteen for twenty completions and targets for
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, a pick and a p BU, but a
Speaker 1: pass a rating of one one point three, and that
Speaker 1: right there is telling of the type of defense they
Speaker 1: want to play, right they want to play man free
Speaker 1: cover one and obviously some zone and different looks mixed in.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to pre snap alignment, you're most
Speaker 1: likely gonna have Davis in the post and Riley somewhere
Speaker 1: down in the box as the possible rat in the
Speaker 1: whole the line of scrimmage, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Team's average eighty eight point six rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: against single high looks against this team. That's a great number.
Speaker 1: And then one thirty one point nine passing against those
Speaker 1: single high looks when they go too high forty eight
Speaker 1: point eight rushing yards. That shows you how little they
Speaker 1: play it because too high always invites the run every
Speaker 1: damn time. They also allow one six team point two
Speaker 1: passing yards per coverage for per too high safety pre
Speaker 1: snap look. As far as the Dolphins receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends versus the Jets quarterbacks out wide, Bryce Hall looks
Speaker 1: like he could be a nice fine for them in
Speaker 1: the fifth round. A couple of years back. He had
Speaker 1: his best game against Miami this season, just twenty one
Speaker 1: yards on five targets and forty coverage snaps. Didn't see
Speaker 1: a whole on of wattle, and when he did waddle
Speaker 1: all three against him Brandon Eccles receptions allowed on forty
Speaker 1: four targets on two five coverage snaps, but three hundred
Speaker 1: ninety six yards allowed there. So there's been some production
Speaker 1: against him. One touchdown, no interceptions, but three pass breakup.
Speaker 1: So he has some ball skills. He's your other parameter
Speaker 1: cornerback inside. There's two guys here and they'll get Michael
Speaker 1: Carter the second back. He missed last week, but Javelin
Speaker 1: Gidgerey play in the slot last week. Nineteen receptions allowed
Speaker 1: on tw nine coverage or targets rather two coverage snaps
Speaker 1: for two four yards the exact one point oh average there,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns allowed, no picks, two pass breakups. His game
Speaker 1: by game numbers have been really good. Now. He only
Speaker 1: played four snaps against Miami last time. We'll see if
Speaker 1: he draws some more wattle when seven team plays inside,
Speaker 1: because like Wattle, Gidrea can scoot, but can he keep
Speaker 1: up with the route runn of waddle. We'll see if
Speaker 1: that's the case. That's a matchup. But again they should
Speaker 1: get Michael Carter the second back. He's a slot guy
Speaker 1: as well. He's allowed forty five catches on fifty nine
Speaker 1: targets three d and fifties seven coverage snaps four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two yards, No touchdowns, are picks, three pass breakups,
Speaker 1: So teams have been able to find success through the
Speaker 1: air against this jet secondary. Hopefully Miami can keep suit.
Speaker 1: In the week eleven game, everybody had reps against everyone,
Speaker 1: so they don't travel. They play their position and that
Speaker 1: allows the offense obviously to dictate matchups. And in that game,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously mac Hollins got deep on that coverage bust,
Speaker 1: which speaks to how important it is for coverage and
Speaker 1: rush to marry up because the Jets got home on
Speaker 1: that play. They just didn't covered up well and two
Speaker 1: of the able to get away from the initial pressure
Speaker 1: and get vertical on that pass. And in that game,
Speaker 1: Waddle caught eight of nine targets for sixty five, had
Speaker 1: the rushing touchdown again, three for three on Bryce Hall,
Speaker 1: also caught one on Riley and Carter, and then two
Speaker 1: more against a couple of linebackers in the safety as well,
Speaker 1: So he caught the ball on everybody he faced. And
Speaker 1: that to me goes back to this idea that they
Speaker 1: don't move around Waddles. When your go to guy, find
Speaker 1: the matchups with him, the motions, get him involved. It
Speaker 1: could be a nice could could be a nice day
Speaker 1: for Wattle if that is in fact the approach from Miami.
Speaker 1: That's there's not a lot of experience here in this room,
Speaker 1: so I think testing their ability to communicate, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's switch releases, switch routes, the pre snap motion
Speaker 1: changed the picture. I think it's all very important part
Speaker 1: of what Miami wants to do. Here. As far as
Speaker 1: the Dolphin's offensive line versus the Jets defensive line, John
Speaker 1: Franklin Myers leads them with forty three pressures, also has
Speaker 1: nineteen run stops. Quentin Williams. There are other beefy guy
Speaker 1: up front thirty one pressures, thirty one run stops. So
Speaker 1: both those guys very productive. Again here for the Jets.
Speaker 1: Fadu Kasi sixteen pressures, twenty three run stops, Nathan Shepard
Speaker 1: ten pressures, nine run stops. Shack Lawson, we know him.
Speaker 1: He's got seven team pressures off the edge, eleven run stops.
Speaker 1: And Sheldon Rankin's back inside six team pressures and fourteen
Speaker 1: run stops in the matchup last time around. Look, this
Speaker 1: is a very good group for the Jets up front.
Speaker 1: And again they want a one gap, not a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of blitzing. They want to play with powers to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And the key is to anchor and make
Speaker 1: sure you're on your assignments with double teams, because this team,
Speaker 1: if you get caught on a pick, or if you
Speaker 1: get caught with a game or you know, t e stunt.
Speaker 1: That's a good chance for these guys to get clear
Speaker 1: free rushes down the middle. That's where you want to
Speaker 1: keep them clean as far as your quarterback here. And
Speaker 1: Miami got good push on the ground game last time
Speaker 1: around against this group, and that balance would be nice
Speaker 1: to maintain here from Miami. But last time around they
Speaker 1: kicked out John Franklin Myers out wide quite a bit
Speaker 1: and even some Quinin and Williams out as a four
Speaker 1: I or five techniques sometimes, so they want to get
Speaker 1: those pass rushers out wide against the Dolphins tackles. But
Speaker 1: Miami only allowed six pressures from the interior from Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: Austin Writer, and Robert Hunt inside, which obviously is a
Speaker 1: great way to let to a navigate the pocket. I
Speaker 1: think he's you know, it's harder to get away from
Speaker 1: the interior pressure tackle pressure. You can find ways to
Speaker 1: slide and step up and do different things to get
Speaker 1: out of that pressure. And that comes from our next
Speaker 1: position group here as well, the Dolphins running backs versus
Speaker 1: the Jets linebackers. Well, see you at the running back room.
Speaker 1: Looks like you know at the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Gascon and Auc met A on the covid I R.
Speaker 1: Duke is up on the active roster and he spoke
Speaker 1: about how excited he is to suit up as a
Speaker 1: dolphin at hard Rocks sat him for the first time.
Speaker 1: Obviously being from the three or five a big deal
Speaker 1: for him. But Miami in that game against the Jets
Speaker 1: average seven point yards seven point oh yards per carry
Speaker 1: off left and that's you know we talked about. Liam
Speaker 1: Eichenberg had a big block on the Miles Gaskin run
Speaker 1: right before the sixty five yard touchdown past to mac Hollins.
Speaker 1: That was a very key play in that game. Also
Speaker 1: five point eight yards behind lost in Jackson and four
Speaker 1: point eight yards behind Robert Hunt and Duke played in
Speaker 1: that game, and I thought he showed some stuff there
Speaker 1: and some some veteran presence at the position, falling forward,
Speaker 1: maximizing the yards and every single run, hit the whole
Speaker 1: quickly and just get the yards that are blocked for you.
Speaker 1: And honestly, if he just does that and the collection
Speaker 1: of backs here do that and it keeps the offense
Speaker 1: on schedule, then that's a job very well done. Just
Speaker 1: day and and third and shortened medium and that's a
Speaker 1: good place for the Dolphins offense to live in this game.
Speaker 1: So we talked about the defensive line and what about
Speaker 1: the linebackers here as they factor into the equation. C J. Mosley,
Speaker 1: We talked about the lack of blitzing. He doesn't go
Speaker 1: very often, just fifty five pass rush reps and only
Speaker 1: four pressures to show for that. He does have forty
Speaker 1: run stops and plays very well against the run going downhill.
Speaker 1: And he's a coverage backer too. I mean, his numbers
Speaker 1: haven't been great this year, but as far as you know,
Speaker 1: keeping on him and his spot drops does a good
Speaker 1: job of getting depth and process as well underneath. I
Speaker 1: think the stats don't bear out exactly how good he's
Speaker 1: been there, but fifty four for sixty sixty one yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. So you want to talk about backs
Speaker 1: and tight ends in the passing game. That's what teams
Speaker 1: have done against the Jets defense and really the secondary
Speaker 1: as well. And Quincy Williams. This is more of a
Speaker 1: run defending, tone setting type of linebacker. He's a squatty
Speaker 1: body five eleven two twenty six, explosive as hell, good
Speaker 1: downhill processing and flow. I like his game for thirty
Speaker 1: nine run stops on the season, just twenty six pass
Speaker 1: rush reps, so half as many as mos. His coverage
Speaker 1: numbers thirty five forty nine three thirty nine yards, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks. So those guys, you know, don't let them
Speaker 1: flow downhill in the run defense game. That's that's kind
Speaker 1: of the key. Some some misdirections, some window dressing, get
Speaker 1: some false steps, and you can really take advantage of,
Speaker 1: hopefully of of that position group. Williams made seven run
Speaker 1: stops in the week eleven game, while Moseley had four,
Speaker 1: So again the eleven run stop for those two guys
Speaker 1: in that game, they are big run stuffers. Before we
Speaker 1: get to the team's real quick a quick break alright,
Speaker 1: special teams The Jets are twelve and special teams d
Speaker 1: v o A Miami twenty seven. Their punter, Brandon Man
Speaker 1: has twenty punts this year, averages forty four point five
Speaker 1: per kick. They replaced Matt Amendola, who missed a few
Speaker 1: kicks in that game last time, with Eddie Pinero. He's
Speaker 1: three for three, two of those under forty yards and
Speaker 1: forty six yards as well. And return game Braxton Barrios,
Speaker 1: do you guys know him? Thirteen point eight yards per
Speaker 1: point return with twelve total, that's a good number. Also
Speaker 1: a twenty three kick returns for an average of twenty
Speaker 1: eight point seven. He also had a seventy nine yard
Speaker 1: return too, so don't underestimate their punt and kick return game.
Speaker 1: The three keys this game from your retty simple takeaway
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson's first option and limit the running back slash
Speaker 1: tight end production. That's where he wants to go. That's
Speaker 1: kind of the first read for a younger quarterback. And
Speaker 1: if you can confuse the picture and take away those reads,
Speaker 1: that could create a longer day for the Jets offense.
Speaker 1: Number two, stop Michael Carter and the Jets running game.
Speaker 1: Don't let him get out the gate again. Don't let
Speaker 1: those big runs happen, and you should be in good position.
Speaker 1: Number three, protect the football and offense. Don't give him
Speaker 1: short fields, don't turn it over, don't waste possessions. Protect
Speaker 1: the football, and again you should be in good position.
Speaker 1: Dolphins will win this game if they avoid errors that
Speaker 1: give the Jets opportunities like takeaways and short fields and quick,
Speaker 1: easy scoring opportunities, and the Jets will win if they
Speaker 1: win the trenches, run the ball against Miami and get
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback that consistently impacts the passing game.
Speaker 1: So that's your preview for this game. I also want
Speaker 1: to tell you guys about a big, big deal that
Speaker 1: happened in the NFL on Wednesday, the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: let's go. I just read the press release following ratification
Speaker 1: by the International Committee. Today, the NFL announced that the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins have been granted access to three international home
Speaker 1: marketing areas I h m A across Brazil, the United
Speaker 1: Kingdom and Spain. This groundbreaking new initiative grants clubs access
Speaker 1: to international territories for marketing, fan engagement, and commercialization as
Speaker 1: part of an important long term strategic effect to enable
Speaker 1: clubs to build their global brands while driving NFL fan
Speaker 1: growth internationally. So I know there's plenty of international fans
Speaker 1: out there, Brazil, UK and Spain. You guys hit a
Speaker 1: big today with the Miami Dolphins. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: the idea here, right grow, grow the fan base across
Speaker 1: the world. The NFL is becoming this global brand. The
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins are certainly a global brand that has fans
Speaker 1: all across the world. We see it in our download
Speaker 1: numbers and our traction on the website. We appreciate all
Speaker 1: of our fans from all over the world, and we
Speaker 1: are very excited about reaching the fans across the globe
Speaker 1: to develop those meaningful relationship with y'all. It's very important
Speaker 1: to us here and we also of course want to
Speaker 1: build upon our strong community efforts here in the South
Speaker 1: Florida market to make international impact in each market. I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about this. I know that there's again so
Speaker 1: many of the UK fans of the Dolphin, There's so
Speaker 1: many of you guys out there. This is a big
Speaker 1: deal for you, and of course in Brazil and Spain
Speaker 1: as well. Alright, one more bit of note news here
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Speaker 1: stuff there, right, I think I did that right. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and make our Thursday night pick here that
Speaker 1: we were thirteen and one last week. The car to
Speaker 1: know if did not give us the fourteen and no week,
Speaker 1: but we finished one and one through week fourteen this year.
Speaker 1: Feeling good about that. We're taking the Chiefs over the
Speaker 1: Chargers tonight in prime time, So let's go Chiefs. As
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