WEBVTT - 2022 NFL Preview and Predictions 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.360 To us fires touch style by Waddle snucked into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boyd tight pro tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.880 What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.960 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.680 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.159 Travis Winfield, And on today show, the two season starts 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.120 in just two days. We'll have the Dolphins and Patriots 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.040 preview for you on Thursday, but today we are previewing 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:46.600 all things two NFL season, division winners, wild card picks, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.279 super Bowl Pick, everybody's record, m v p s, and 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.120 all the awards. I'll discuss my favorite storylines and thanks 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.080 to watch from the year and each team this season. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.920 A fun, fun show. A small departure for Dolphins talk, 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.000 but I think that's okay for just one episode from 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.800 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:16.959 This is the Drivetime Podcast. Today's show is a practice 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.800 that I have been exercising since shoot, I don't know, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.840 at least at least my junior year of high school. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.399 Because I nailed that two thousand and four Super Bowl 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.240 with the Patriots and the Eagles, even though that was 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.399 chalk as the Patriots coming off of two of the 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.840 last three Super Bowl victories already in their back pocket 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.000 and the Eagles, with a loaded roster, had just brought 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.880 in Terrell Owens. But it's still pretty hard to get 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.560 it right. I think last year was Ravens and Rams 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.200 was my pick. So I got half of that right, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.840 and I felt pretty good about the Ravens, but those 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.080 injuries kind of took them out, as they were the 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.960 one seat at one point last season. Just trying to say, 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.000 this is a very hard to exercise to practice, and 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:06.400 you know, even with all the technological advances, I always 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.200 find it funny when someone says I'm a pencil and 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.440 paper person, because you know, I sometimes maybe wish that 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.119 I was, But between typing ten times faster and my 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.720 handwriting being hardly legible, it's just inefficient for me, and 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.960 I think largely for most people, except for in this 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.560 one instance where I break out my notepad and a 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.240 piece of paper that's the same thing and a pen, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.040 and I go over the NFL schedule and I pick 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.120 every single game, and I've learned some lessons about doing 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.160 that because you have to do that to get all 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.320 two d and seventy two games right. You have to 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.079 make sure that every game, every way and loss is 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.040 accounting for. You can't just say, well, I think I 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.000 think the New York Giants are gonna go five and 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.720 twelve this year. You have to go through the whole process. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.800 And here are some lessons I have learned from doing that. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.320 Number one, don't be a contrarian just to be a contrarian. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.919 No one likes that kind of person. But also it's 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.520 gonna veer you in the wrong direction. Number two, don't 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.919 pick games in the way that you want to see them. Frankly, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.760 I have you know. It's less now, but when I 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.280 used to be at Locked On and it was more 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.560 about trying to get your individual picks right and everything, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.440 and you're scouting reports and your teams that were gonna 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.600 be good and bad. I would veer away from the 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.120 teams that I thought might be disappointing and more in 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.000 favor towards the teams that I thought would help the 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.480 Dolphins get into the postseason. Part of that's being contrarian, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.480 but also just try to take the fan angle out 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.520 of it. Number three. You've gotta present more nuanced than 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.080 I believe that Team X is better than Team why 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.760 therefore they're gonna win travel schedule, previous and next opponents 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.120 specific matchups. Here's a very deep cut for you an 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.720 example of that, and I'm curious who here remembers this example. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.720 Season The Dolphins began the year on the road at 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.320 Buffalo and then in Minnesota. It's actually a really nice 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.640 road start, one outdoor game in September and one at 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.560 a dome and two cold weather towns. But the Bills 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.040 were home dogs against US, and the Dolphins got the win. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.440 But the farv led Minnesota Vikings were only one play 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.320 away from the super Bowl the year prior. And I 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.080 would never forget saying Phil load Holt, the tackle from 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.920 Oklahoma who was a good prospect, but his name was 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.560 as fitting as his play style. Load Holt a good player, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.320 but he was a massive people mover who struggled with 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.600 speed around the edge. And I specifically recall writing on 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.040 a message board that Cam Wake would be the reason 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.040 the Dolphins won that game and got off to their 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.240 first two and oh start since the two thousand and 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.520 three No. Two thousand two season. Oh three loss of 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.760 the Texans an opening day. Sure enough in Roy en 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.800 route to a fourteen sack, twenty one tackle for lost, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.359 three forced fumble too, Second team All Pro, I should 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.520 say season Gosh, what a beast he was. Cam gets 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.160 a striped sack that co a messy scoops up in 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.560 the end zone. Then he puts a bunch of pressure 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.680 on far as the Vikings are trying to come back 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.640 from fourteen down, and he just puts it away. So 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.600 the idea is that that matchup, even though the Vikings 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.480 were a better team in the Dolphins that year, that 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.880 matchup did the Vikings in and got the Dolphins that too, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.920 and oh start And finally, if you do it this 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.720 way like me, and the reason I mentioned the technological 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.960 advances because you can go on NFL dot com and 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.400 I think you can do the playoff predictor. But it's 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.240 just not for me, just inefficient that way. It's not inefficient, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.440 it's just not doesn't give me the same feel. So 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.240 if you do it this way with a notebook, I 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.479 went through the schedule one time and didn't really care 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.719 for my results. I think you have to wrap it 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.240 a few times to kind of get a feel for 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.960 the flow of the schedule of each team's potential ups 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.440 and downs in the seasons. One trap I think you 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.720 can fall into is evening the scores, well, this team 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.680 lost this week to look at a win the following week. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.040 You have to avoid that stuff. That's not how it goes. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.320 And then finally, just have fun with it. You have 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.600 plenty of time to stress about playoff calculator exercises come 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 Thanksgiving on the dot com. Like I mentioned, I love 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.840 doing these each year and measuring my picks versus the 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.960 actual results, and I always trying to come within two 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.840 games of every single team. Last year had the Rams 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.200 and Ravens. Of course the Rams that probably the Ram 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.680 Ravens probably had the worst injury luck of any team ever, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.839 but we did get the Rams. But my goal ultimately 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.640 is to get every team within two games of their 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.680 eventual win loss records. So if you're interested, what I 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.839 want you to do is drop your picks on my 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.000 timeline at Wingfield NFL with your division winners, your wild 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.160 card teams. You can do the whole records too. I'd 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.160 love to see it if you can fit it into 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.279 one tweet, and then we'll come back and revisit that 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.800 thread or your tweets. I should say, in a few 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.799 months when the season comes to an end, how about 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.200 some of the more generic storylines. I want to do 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.520 team by team storylines, but some of the things that 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.440 really kind of pique my interest this season, and there 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.920 always are these things every year, but this first one 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.960 is this in balance between the a f C and 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.080 NFC in terms of talent and football teams that are 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.560 superior to others. Going through my predictions, I have a 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.279 hard time finding a seventh playoff team in the NFC, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.480 where I'm booting out teams in the a f C 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.760 that I feel are very, very worthy potential title contenders, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.640 the title contenders that have to go by the boards 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.080 because the a f C is so deep. Now, this 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.640 is a pendulum that swings heavy. For a while there, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.800 the a f C was a little brother to the NFC, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.960 but the last few years that has swung back, and 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:34.080 even in that the more favorable inner conference record does 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.320 go to the a f C, but it's never that significant. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:43.120 But this year it just feels like this a f 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:49.080 C is so much more significantly well set up to 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.600 dominate the inner conference matchups. This year we'll see the 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.320 plays out that way. But you never really know because 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.400 every single year you find things that go off of 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.240 the reservation. Because find me one persons year who thought 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.720 the Bengals would come out of the a f C, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.040 and I will show you a liar if you show 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.240 me that person. Now that said, I'm writing this before 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.920 doing my predictions and putting them into the notebook. But 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.160 the last one I did have five teams in the 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.520 a f C with twelve wins. I have to fix 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.080 that because there's no way that's gonna happen. This is 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.880 why you do it a few times. And I can 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.200 see the a f C once against, you know, spinning 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.239 out a random winner that comes from the unexpected because 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.600 of how deep this conference is. Speaking of favorites, how 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.320 about that opener on Thursday night. The Bills in the 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.760 Rams are the most picked Super Bowl teams in either conference, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.840 and we get them week one to kick the season 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.400 off on Thursday night. We'll have the picks for you 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.520 guys on the Friday show. But we have to pick 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.720 that game now. And my rule is unchanged. Always take 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.000 the team hanging the banner and the season opener. So 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.440 the first pick of the year. What was my record 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.000 last year? I mean, I can pull my phone up. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.840 The goal was when I deleted it. I think I 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.120 did delete it. I think we got right around seventy 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.959 three percent by the end of the season. We'll try 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.160 to beat that this year. But the first pick, I'm 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.680 taking the Rams over the Bills. Let's go ahead and 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.560 take our first break here on the season preview podcast. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.840 I'll come back and talk about some things that I'm 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.559 most excited to watch this season, but also team by 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.520 team storylines. We'll do that next here on the Drivetime Podcast, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.640 your host Travis Wingfield. Brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.440 I'm not sure why I chose that spot for the break, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:33.920 but it was in my notes to do it, So 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.360 there it is. Back here on the season preview this Tuesday, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.320 September six edition of the Drivetime Podcast. No podcast for 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.760 you guys. Tomorrow Thursday, we'll have the preview Dolphins and Patriots, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.960 and Friday is Football Friday, taking a look at the 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.880 picks around the league, college football landscape, and the last 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.520 word on Dolphins and Patriots, which is almost here. Let's 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.120 go ahead and get back to the storylines. The Ravens 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.040 and Lamar Jackson in general are a big storyline for me. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.760 We'll do each team here in a second, but just 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.480 in general, they are so intriguing to me because last 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.839 year he has them at eight and three, they hit 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.880 that small slump, you know, basically beginning with the Dolphins 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.480 game down here on Thursday night. Then he gets injured, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.920 and even though Tyler Huntley played super well, they essentially 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.680 couldn't win but one game in Lamar Jackson's absence. They're 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.079 a fascinating team, one I'm very high on, as you'll 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.280 learn here in just a moment, but I think the 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.360 economy of last season and how it ended makes them 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.880 just a fascinating plot line. Then you have the potential 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.920 contract dispute going on there. Lamar wants to get paid 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.760 that guaranteed money. We saw Russell Wilson just got the bag. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.319 We saw what de Shaun Watson got with the Cleveland Browns. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.839 Gross Uh, Lamar should probably get something, you know, in 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.160 that similar vein as Watson got with the Browns. But 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.360 he's gonna play out this season potentially without getting that contract, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.880 and could that mean he goes somewhere else next year. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.080 It's it's a crazy thing to look at that's a huge, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.400 huge storyline this year, but also in the future of 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.560 the National Football League. Speaking of quarterbacks, the last three 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:08.120 quarterback classes are insanely intriguing to me. The group all 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.520 three teams, in my opinion, have built up championship caliber 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.560 rosters around there around their young quarterbacks, and I think 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.719 all three fan bases are pretty excited to see what 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.000 it might look like this year from Joe Burrow from 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.120 TWA Tongue Biloa and Justin Herbert, and I think all 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.600 three of those guys are going to really show you 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.640 this year that they are. That class was as good 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.000 as we hoped it would be with those three guys, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.840 group just in general excited to see what happens with 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.880 Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields and Mac 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:41.520 Jones and Davis Mills. How about his terrific you know, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:47.079 based upon expectations, terrific season. That group was by in 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.360 large part of massive letdown. I mean, Trevor Lawrence was 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.120 supposed to be the next Andrew Luck and his rookie 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.040 season did not go well at all. Zack Wilson was 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.280 an abject hire fire. He was bottom of the league 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.240 in multiple categories and one of the rookie production seasons 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.120 of all time. Now he's gonna be injured coming into 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.600 this year. Trey Lance only saw a tiny, tiny, minuscule 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.760 bit of action, and he only had seventeen starts in college. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.560 He's gonna have to take some time to grow. Justin Fields, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.680 that's a rough situation in Chicago for Justin Fields, Mac Jones, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.800 we'll talk about them here just one second. And then 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.120 Davis Mills kind of comes out of the woodwork and 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.679 frankly probably had the second maybe third best season of 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.520 all the rookies last year. And then of course this 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.760 year's rookies, when does Kenny Pickett get the nod? You know, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.400 Malik Willis won the backup job in Tennessee. Will he 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.280 see time at any point this year? Remember last year 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.680 the Titans were a team that got hit pretty bad 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.640 by the injury bug, but Ryan Tannehill was the only 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.800 real stabilizing force on that offense. So interesting dichotomy there. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.520 And then Desmond ritterd does he get big playing time 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.560 this year? I think, just in general, we're in this 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:55.000 very fascinating point of the NFL's cycles. I suppose as 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.800 we continue to wave goodbye to some of these legends 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.680 of the sport at the position. Every year we've said 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:05.800 avoa to Eli Manning, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.320 Will you know whether it's this year in a future year. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.000 You've got Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan at thirty eight 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.880 and thirty seven, respectively. I think both have a lot 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.680 of football left in them. But the big storyline here 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.920 to me is the transition towards the aforementioned groups of 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.200 all these young quarterbacks with so much promise in the 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.559 wake of you know, quite frankly, a bunch of future 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.600 Hall of famers either in the clubhouse or approaching that 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.840 eighteenth green here in their career. How about the expansion, 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.840 and this goes back to the mac jones and Patriots 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.000 thing a little bit, the expansion of the McVeigh and 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.320 Shanahan coaching trees. These have really become the norm in 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.040 the NFL, and we get a couple more extensions off 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.240 of it this season with O'Connell from the Rams, McDaniel 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.640 coming here from the Niners, between you know, Michael la 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.080 Fleur and Green Bay, Matt Lafleur, his brother with the Jets, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.640 Zach Taylor and Cincinnati Kevin Stefanski with the rounds. It's 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.480 all over the league. It's the most popular coaching tree 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.600 and system that there is out there right now, and 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.200 I think that's relatively instructive of what's been successful recently 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.160 in the National Football League. It makes me wonder what 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.640 will become the next fruitful tree in this league. What 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.120 does it look like? It's probably something we haven't even 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.480 seen yet. What else here? How about the wide receiver 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.280 activity this offseason. We talked a little bit about how, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.280 you know, there's this big stink about contracts to Tyree 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.160 Hill and Davante Adams and how much money they got, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.520 But really, look at Tyreek's contract that last year is 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.080 really just a you know, a sweetener, so to speak. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.600 And so your a p y for Tyreek Hill is 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.680 marginally more than what it is for Christian Kirk. So 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.360 that was a big win for the Dolphins. I think 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.400 I'm just interested to see how this plays out. You've 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.280 got Kansas City and Green Bay trading away their top guys, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.360 two guys who are in my opinion, the best too 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.600 in the NFL. You've got the big deal for Christian 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.600 Kirk and Jacksonville. We saw Drake London, Chris Alave, Garrett Wilson, 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.000 trayl On Burke's all go league in the draft. And 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.040 how about the guy that Burkes replaces with A J. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.960 Brown going to Philly. You got Marquis Brown going to 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.960 the Cardinals from the Ravens. I'm just really curious see 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.960 how these these results this year justify those moves and decisions. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.280 Is it feasible when you have that top quarterback like 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.480 Mahomes and Rogers and the forty million dollars that comes 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.760 along with that per year to your cap to strip 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.280 away their top targets or should you enhance those guys 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.080 with premier targets. I would argue you should enhance those 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.680 guys because you know, quarterback can make a throw, but 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.000 a receiver does the rest of it after that. I 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.760 think it's a pretty important spot in this uh this 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.560 here sport. And I had this conversation with Kyle Crabs 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.440 in the day to rank the positions in order of 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.280 one's you value most, and he said that was crazy 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:42.840 for this, but I told him, man, in a big 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.400 play league that continues to be full of dynamic passing 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.960 more and more each year, give me receivers number two. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.160 Give me the guy that can shorten a drive by 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.560 seven or eight, place from twelve plays down to four 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.600 and get me into the end zone before I have 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.320 a chance to bog down with a procedural penalty or 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.480 drop path, a missed assignment, whatever the case may be. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.360 We saw it all year. The last couple of years 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.400 it was twelve played. Drives are few and far between 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.440 because it's hard to overcome first and twenty when you 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.920 play twelve snaps might have a holding out there. At 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.880 some point, I think it's good for now, let's do 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.280 a few more in the speed round here, just some 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.000 interesting team by team ones will do that next here 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.200 after a short break, and we'll come back and also 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.280 get actually know what, Let's go ahead and skip the break. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.920 Let's just keep this chugging here. We have to take 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.360 a break for the predictions come along. Um some additional 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.440 things I'm excited to see play out this year in 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.000 a speed round Buffalo. The expectations this year are super Bowl, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.480 that's the takeaway. But I'm also curious to see what 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.600 the cornerback position looks like. It's pretty thin beyond Trey White, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:43.960 as he is going to be down for the first 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.480 four weeks, potentially longer than that coming off the injury 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.240 last year. In top spots behind him are two rookies 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.200 and Kayer Elam and Christian Benford, who split time this 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.080 preseason at the perimeter cornerback spots. We know they're solid 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.360 with to Ron Johnson in the slot, but can their 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.960 cornerback death keep up with receiving corps across the league. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.040 Curious to see that playout for this team that has 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.640 expectations to go all the way and probably the best 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.879 roster in the NFL with that one spot. Something to 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.920 keep an eye on. The Patriots Matt Patricia as the 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.000 O C is fascinating to me, whether it pays off 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.679 or not, because you switch from defense to offense for 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.400 this long in your career. Joe Judge doing something similarly. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.879 They're gonna try to install the wide zone system we 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.480 talked about earlier in the podcast this offseason that hasn't 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.920 gone very well for them. Can they make that work? 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.000 We'll see about that. I'm curious see how that works. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.000 From Mac Jones here in year two, A little bit 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.080 barish on that prediction, as you'll find out here in 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.320 just a second with the New York Jets when Zach 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.560 Wilson returns. Is it a good thing for the Jets? 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.520 Is Joe Flacco cooking with the right sauce? And ken 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.119 Zach Wilson take that that year two steps that he 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.480 needs to to keep the Jets off the quarterback market 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.879 next year. It's a loaded class next year. That's a 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.840 fascinating one for me with the Jets and then the Dolphins. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.600 Of course, it's too How he plays in year three 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.800 is a very intriguing storyline with this really good roster 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.119 around him. I think great things are gonna happen, But 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.000 will it happen? At has to go out there and 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.280 prove it. On Sunday in the a f C North 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.119 the Bengals was magic carpet ride last year. Is this 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.960 team a year in, year out contender or was that 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.239 a flukey run. I'm curious to see how these new 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.240 offensive line pieces take hold. Reports out of camp have 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.960 not been kind to Lyle Collins made a big deal 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.200 about Ted Carriss. Ted Carress, great guy, been on three 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.359 teams in three years, and then Alex Capp was a 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.600 really good addition for them too. So was it really 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.680 a effective overhaul? Or just overhaul on that offensive line 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.000 goes Joe Burrow still got hit a lot last year. 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.040 That can't happen again. And can they write another magical 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.120 defensive performance, you know, with multiple takeaways in the postseason 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.240 all the way back to the Super Bowl. I think not, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.040 But we'll see Cleveland. How many wins can they find 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.680 before Thanksgiving? How many finds can they how many wins 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.040 can they find after Thanksgiving? I'll have that answer here 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.920 in just a second. The Pittsburgh Steelers the quarterback position. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.680 Does Drubisky have that career resurgence? Does Kenny pick it 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.600 hit immediately? My guess is no to either, But what 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.880 what the hell do I know? Baltimore Lamar Jackson coming 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.359 off that injury I mentioned earlier, probably one of the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.040 most fascinating individual storylines this entire season. If he's right, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.160 if he's going, they're a super Bowl contender. If he's wrong, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.480 he's unhappy. You saw what can happen last year. Indianapolis 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.600 quarterback changes every single year under Frank Reich after the 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.520 Andrew Luck retirement, but this is the best one he's 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.760 had since Luck. I think the Colts are going to 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.480 be a good football team this year. The Titans, they 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.040 seemingly outperformed national expectations every single year. Can they do 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.320 it again this year? We'll find out. I tend to 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:30.919 think not so much. We'll get to that here in 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.320 shortly as well. The Houston Texans with Davis mills Man, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.320 they gave him the keys for your number two. They 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.920 don't really have anything behind him on that quarterback depth 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.080 chart that could threaten or take that job in the way. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.199 You know, Joe Flacco with the Jets, because sees it 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.240 up there. But he played as well as any of 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.479 the rookies last year. And how how NFL would that 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.800 be if he became the crown jewel of that draft 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.600 class that was so celebrated. It would be hilarious to me. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.680 The Jacksonville Jaguars Trevor Lawrence in year two. But really 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.760 more about Doug Peter sine Rey icing the horrible, horrible 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.320 Urban Meyer. A big fan of Doug Peterson. I think 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.480