Speaker 1: To on the Move, Darling, Deep Speedways, Peace Do Hell.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my hav
Speaker 2: hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolph Fans and welcome to the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfold. On today's show,
Speaker 1: we are diving into a preview that I am as
Speaker 1: excited up, excited up, as excited and fired up as
Speaker 1: I've been, I want to say, since the Week two
Speaker 1: Buffalo game.
Speaker 2: But we know how that went, so maybe the Cowboys
Speaker 2: game last year. It's gonna be a great game on Thanksgi.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about every single aspect of this matchup
Speaker 1: and why I think it could be an instant classic.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the bat Do Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Ye you know, now with the benefit of hindsight hearing
Speaker 1: Carolinees Dolphins first down drop after she has now been
Speaker 1: to the stadium to hear Kenny Walkers.
Speaker 2: That's another Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it even more now and I
Speaker 1: like this matchup on Thursday night as much as I
Speaker 1: have any Dolphins game this entire season, and it's because
Speaker 1: I think we have two really really good offenses set
Speaker 1: to do battle in a game that is going to
Speaker 1: come with the expectation of low scoring running game action
Speaker 1: because of the temperature, and I think that is utter
Speaker 1: hogwash bowl pucky, as my late great mother used to say.
Speaker 1: Week thirteen, at the Green Bay Packers lambeau Field eight
Speaker 1: to twenty kickoff, make it earlier on NBC. Twenty seven
Speaker 1: degrees at kickoff, a five percent chance of snow, and
Speaker 1: roughly eight to twelve mile an hour per mile per
Speaker 1: hour wins. It's not going to be much of a
Speaker 1: factor outside of a little bit of chilly weather, which
Speaker 1: if you're typing in the press box and you have
Speaker 1: to have fingerless gloves, maybe it impacts you then. But
Speaker 1: for football players, like OJ McDuffie says, you're not thinking
Speaker 1: about the temperature.
Speaker 2: You're playing football.
Speaker 1: You're having fun, You're out there and you're hot because
Speaker 1: you're running around. So I don't think it's gonna matter
Speaker 1: all that much. I saw a great article and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do the ultimate Cardinals sitting here. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna reference who wrote it because I don't remember who
Speaker 1: wrote it, And I'm not gonna look it up right
Speaker 1: now because it's four point thirty on Tuesday, and I
Speaker 1: have a couple more things before I get to go home,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to work.
Speaker 2: On Wednesday, and I want to go home.
Speaker 1: Yes, but the article was that the cold weather narrative
Speaker 1: on TUA is a farce and basically points to that
Speaker 1: Bill's game, I think from twenty twenty two when it
Speaker 1: was freezing cold and he balled out in that game.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and get into this and meet
Speaker 1: the Packers here. As you heard me say on the
Speaker 1: Tuesday episode with Wes, if I had to pick an
Speaker 1: NFC team, I think it's between the Packers and Cardinals
Speaker 1: in terms of who I just like the most. And
Speaker 1: I used to be like, remember back when the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were always on the outside looking in, And maybe you're
Speaker 1: not like this, but I always found myself trying to
Speaker 1: find a secondary team and the passion and the love
Speaker 1: and all that stuff wasn't the same, but just someone
Speaker 1: to be like, I want them to win. And it
Speaker 1: was the Chargers for a long time with Chris Chambers
Speaker 1: when he got there, and it has been the Packers
Speaker 1: a lot of times in the past, but right now
Speaker 1: it's the Packers and the Cardinals. I love the two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of those teams, and I just love the way
Speaker 1: the Packers were built. I love their head coach, and
Speaker 1: it's been pretty consistent outside of the pivot to their
Speaker 1: third straight franchise quarterback covering thirty years.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: They acquired Brett Favre, who it revealed himself to be
Speaker 1: an actual garbage human being, but they acquired him in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two and haven't had a season without a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback since then. I mean, they literally went from
Speaker 1: him to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love, like whoa oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: oh my, and this next one, Jordan Love like he
Speaker 1: has every opportunity to be the best of the three.
Speaker 1: And I know that's probably crazy, because you know, people
Speaker 1: forget how great Aaron Rodgers was before he became or
Speaker 1: before he was revealed to be an absolute sociopath. But
Speaker 1: Jordan Love has harnessed elite traits with good football acumen
Speaker 1: and become one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think you can make the argument the top half
Speaker 1: of the or the half of the top like ten
Speaker 1: or twelve quarterbacks in the league. We're drafted in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty like pretty crazy to think about. When it's all
Speaker 1: said and done, I think we're going to look at
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty three rather two thousand and
Speaker 1: four and twenty twenty in similar veins. As for Lafleur, well,
Speaker 1: all he does is win. I'm not going to play
Speaker 1: the drop, and maybe seeing Rodgers dismantle another organization should
Speaker 1: make us respect Lafleur's years there with Rogers even more.
Speaker 1: He takes over in twenty nineteen, he inherits a six
Speaker 1: to nine to one team that that quarterback got Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy fired, and then he goes to the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game in back to back years with thirteen wins each
Speaker 1: of those years and damn near beats. Tom bradyes Buccaneers
Speaker 1: that second time around, wins thirteen games the next year
Speaker 1: with a very disappointing Divisional round exit with ten points
Speaker 1: in in Green Bay against San Francisco and Mike McDaniel's Niners.
Speaker 1: Then the season finale lost in twenty twenty two to
Speaker 1: miss out on the postseason at eight to nine against
Speaker 1: Detroit the departure of Rogers, Jordan Love comes in right
Speaker 1: away and they start two to five and people think
Speaker 1: that Jordan Love can't play, and then he goes absolutely
Speaker 1: nuclear and finishes that campaign. I believe they went eight
Speaker 1: and two the rest of the way and got themselves
Speaker 1: a blowout victory as well, and nearly eclipped the Niners
Speaker 1: in the divisional round of the playoffs last year. And
Speaker 1: then here we are and they're eight and three in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And those Niners teams have been the
Speaker 1: bane of Lafleur's existence, haven't they, Even without Perdy and
Speaker 1: Bosa and Ayuk and Trent Williams. On Sunday, I imagine
Speaker 1: that drubbing of the Niners was a bit of an
Speaker 1: exercised demon for that football team. And then with the
Speaker 1: Lions coming up next week on Thursday, so it's not
Speaker 1: a mini buye for the Packers, they have to get
Speaker 1: right back to work on Friday. In some ways, I
Speaker 1: think that we are the overlook game, as crazy as
Speaker 1: that sounds, because I think that we are like a
Speaker 1: top five football team today in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: But I also know that staff is too good to
Speaker 1: let that be a thing. And they also are aware
Speaker 1: of Mike McDaniel. I mean, Matt Lafleur knows him as
Speaker 1: well anybody. And they're not going to sleep on this
Speaker 1: coaching staff and this talent. So as far as how
Speaker 1: this thing was assemble for the Packers, it's classic Packers fashion,
Speaker 1: draft and develop. They brought up a bunch of young
Speaker 1: receivers with Jordan Love. Jaden Reid's kind of the Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel type of guy for them. He gets carries and
Speaker 1: motions and pre snap that helps them dictate how the
Speaker 1: defense moves because teams typically have an eye on where
Speaker 1: he might be pre snap. He was their second round
Speaker 1: draft pick in twenty twenty three. Their second round draft
Speaker 1: pick in twenty twenty two is kind of next in
Speaker 1: the pecking order and Christian Watson and he's a built
Speaker 1: in a lab receiver six foot three, four to three speed.
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs is going to miss the game from a
Speaker 1: concussion on Sunday. Dolphins catch a break by missing him.
Speaker 1: And then Dantavian Wicks was a fifth round draft pick
Speaker 1: in twenty three also, and he's a really good player.
Speaker 1: Luke Musgrave he's down and he was an awesome player
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. And his draft mate, third round
Speaker 1: pick Tucker Craft, is also very good and he leads
Speaker 1: the team with six touchdown receptions. And then the big
Speaker 1: eligible free agent was Josh Jacobs, who just brings the
Speaker 1: entire He's the rug that brings the whole room together, right,
Speaker 1: the big Lebowski. That's what they did on defense as well.
Speaker 1: They built this core around draft picks like Kenny Clark,
Speaker 1: Rashaan Garry, Lucas van Ness, Jay r Alexander and they
Speaker 1: go out and they drop the big free agent in
Speaker 1: the secondary and Xavier McKinney, who has what a league
Speaker 1: leading seven interceptions this year. It's a damn good football
Speaker 1: team and a great test for your red hot Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start off as we do every
Speaker 1: single Well, it's not Thursday. The show's on Wednesday, but
Speaker 1: we did the previous shows on Thursday with the Packers offense.
Speaker 1: You kind of know this part. It's one of the
Speaker 1: more complex, creative, difficult to prepare for run games in
Speaker 1: the entire National Football League. I'm sure if you watch
Speaker 1: that Niners game after our drumming of the Patriots, you're like,
Speaker 1: whoa that looks familiar. I remember asking Kalaius Campbell how
Speaker 1: tough this Dolphins offense is to play against, and he said,
Speaker 1: for a guy like me that's so big on tels
Speaker 1: and reads and anticipation, it makes me go back to
Speaker 1: like my rookie year before, I had the sixteen year
Speaker 1: rollodex of knowledge of how to play certain looks and
Speaker 1: how to at certain pre snap alignments. And it's more
Speaker 1: read and react because they have so many false keys
Speaker 1: that can take you out of the play if you
Speaker 1: let them do that. And I'm watching this tape and
Speaker 1: my goodness, are they in full form. They hit the
Speaker 1: Niners with the first one hundred yard rusher they've allowed
Speaker 1: in fifty four games. That's a great stat that I
Speaker 1: stole from yesterday's show with Wes Hodwitch. And then you
Speaker 1: get your super athletic, elastic armed quarterback who has games
Speaker 1: where he sees it literally as well as anybody else
Speaker 1: and goes for these just bonkers games, Baby Billies, Baba Bunkers.
Speaker 2: The key is going.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Righteous Gemstones again right now, so you might
Speaker 1: get small references here on the show. Highly recommend anything
Speaker 1: Danny McBride does. Recommend watching that the key is going
Speaker 1: to be making him not see it that well, how
Speaker 1: do you do that? I mean, they're gonna run man
Speaker 1: beaters at you. They're gonna have pressure beaters, They're gonna
Speaker 1: have outside zone with play action game Max protection shot plays.
Speaker 1: You know what it is, you know how to attack it.
Speaker 1: You have to play incredibly disciplined and pretty much back
Speaker 1: close to one thousand with your pressure looks in terms
Speaker 1: of how you marry up your coverage with that pressure.
Speaker 1: Like against the Patriots, for instance, on that one pressure
Speaker 1: look where Drake may just completely missed pop Douglass in
Speaker 1: the slot, you can't have that because Jordan Love is
Speaker 1: gonna hit that receiver. You can go back to last year,
Speaker 1: even like the Chiefs game, when Spagnolo came after Love
Speaker 1: time and time again, and he was just getting pressure
Speaker 1: and having answers to those pressures after answer to those pressures,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that was because the Packers' receivers
Speaker 1: were either able to win at the catch point, which
Speaker 1: sometimes you're just gonna have to tip your cap they
Speaker 1: do that, or get open before time and being on
Speaker 1: the same page timing wise with Jordan Love, they can
Speaker 1: get to their concepts from various formations, but I do
Speaker 1: think the loss of Luke Muskgrave makes things a little
Speaker 1: bit more one dimensional in terms of how.
Speaker 2: They present it.
Speaker 1: Musgrave played one hundred and eight snaps in the three
Speaker 1: and a half games that he was healthy for, and
Speaker 1: the next tight end has played one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two snaps all year long. So they do reduce their
Speaker 1: twelve personnel groupings big time that way, and as a result,
Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft is a player that went from like fifty
Speaker 1: percent snaps last year to eighty six percent this year,
Speaker 1: and that could be part of the rookie to sophomore
Speaker 1: year development. But I think it has something to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that they don't really have another tight
Speaker 1: end behind him they like besides Luke Musgrave, who's down
Speaker 1: right now now. They also do not roster a fullback,
Speaker 1: but they will use these tight ends and or f's
Speaker 1: in that capacity. Keep an eye on Ben Simms in
Speaker 1: that regard, but I don't really think that he's a
Speaker 1: problem for us. And then even some Chris Brooks, they'll
Speaker 1: throw him out there in some of those weird roles
Speaker 1: at times as well.
Speaker 2: You guys know who he is. I think you have
Speaker 2: to force the issue off the edge.
Speaker 1: We saw the Packers do this against the Niners offense,
Speaker 1: where they would blitz the backside of the run play
Speaker 1: action game and the quarterback when he pulls it on
Speaker 1: the boot, he's immediately hot and brock purty like he
Speaker 1: handles that. But Brandon Allen could not handle that, and
Speaker 1: with love he can make you miss, but he can
Speaker 1: also alter the armslot and beat you that way too.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about that Ramsey sack when we sim
Speaker 1: pressure with delayed blitzer from both he and Tyrel Dotson
Speaker 1: and just cut off all the escape avenues.
Speaker 2: For Drake May to move to his right.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I'm kind of glad we saw May ahead
Speaker 1: of this matchup because in terms of pocket mobility, stature,
Speaker 1: and strength and balance to absorb those hits, it's kind
Speaker 1: of similar. Let's go ahead and take a look at
Speaker 1: the big three against the Packers offense, and number one
Speaker 1: is you have to play with impeccable gap discipline against
Speaker 1: both the run and the pass because that Niners tape
Speaker 1: had a bunch of great stuff from the run game perspective.
Speaker 1: If they do a lot of orbit and jet and
Speaker 1: return motion that we do where they can get you
Speaker 1: playing a beat slower, and if you get that, if
Speaker 1: you get slowed down at all, you're gonna wind up
Speaker 1: getting out leveraged. And then the open that opens up
Speaker 1: these massive holes for a back that is really smart, quick,
Speaker 1: and super powerful, like he is an absolute load. Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs is I saw Mina Kaimes tweet about good backs
Speaker 1: behind good offensive lines and how effective that has been
Speaker 1: around the league this year with Philly, Green Bay and Detroit, Like,
Speaker 1: that's what you're dealing with here, a very good offensive
Speaker 1: line that has a very good running back and a
Speaker 1: very good quarterback and very good receivers. This is one
Speaker 1: of the best offenses in the NFL. They do have
Speaker 1: their les and their slumps, and you have to find
Speaker 1: a way to get him into one of those. In
Speaker 1: this game, they have continuity and talent up front with
Speaker 1: a play car that has designed these run concepts for
Speaker 1: years with these same guys, so it's gonna be second
Speaker 1: nature for guys like Elton Jenkins, who's a top guard
Speaker 1: or just a top offensive lineman in this league. And
Speaker 1: we talk about this system and drafting offensive line right
Speaker 1: Jenkins is literally the highest drafted interior offensive line for
Speaker 1: anybody who's ever operated the Shanahan system. They don't take
Speaker 1: him in the first round. They take him in the
Speaker 1: second at highest and it's Elton Jenkins or at least
Speaker 1: the ones that you're intimately aware of.
Speaker 2: You know, the.
Speaker 1: Mcvay's, the McDaniels, the Papa Shanahans, the Stefanski's ect and
Speaker 1: he plays etc. I don't know, and he plays like it.
Speaker 1: So he's been there since twenty nineteen. Zach Tom was
Speaker 1: a center at Wake Forest. I think he was a center,
Speaker 1: maybe a guard, but he played both, and he's playing
Speaker 1: tackle for the Packers. He's been there since twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two and he's awesome. Rashid Walker's been there since twenty
Speaker 1: two as well, and I was crazy about his game.
Speaker 1: And then center Josh Myers has been there since twenty one,
Speaker 1: a soon, super tough, smart athletics center in the pivot.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because we harp on the importance of continuity
Speaker 1: in the offensive line, but the Packers having Jenkins and
Speaker 1: Tom has allowed them to plug and play so many
Speaker 1: different combinations. Both of those guys play all five spots,
Speaker 1: but they have no issues moving them around to replace
Speaker 1: injury players like a Jordan Morgan, their first round draft pick, who,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I kind of wish he was up because
Speaker 1: I think that Sean Ryan, the replacement for him, has
Speaker 1: played better when he's replaced Morgan in games this year,
Speaker 1: and they've settled into this lineup that I think will
Speaker 1: probably be their move going forward, and they communicate well,
Speaker 1: they run block well, and they're pretty good in the
Speaker 1: drop back game. Just watching the last few games, I
Speaker 1: thought teams really struggled to get with against their outside game,
Speaker 1: and once you can hit a few of those runs
Speaker 1: off the edge, gosh, it opens up the inside. And
Speaker 1: I look for Jordan Brooks to have an important role
Speaker 1: in this game. And I also love the way Dotson
Speaker 1: played in relief of Anthony Walker. And McDaniel's already basically
Speaker 1: declared Walker out for this game, so he's going to
Speaker 1: be dots in this one. So you have to be
Speaker 1: able to slow Jacobs before he builds up his speed,
Speaker 1: but you also need to be able to get vertical
Speaker 1: and deal with these middle of the field options they
Speaker 1: have in the passing game, whether it's Tucker Craft, be
Speaker 1: it these receivers off in breakers. We just have to
Speaker 1: play very attached and smart and anticipatory in the hook
Speaker 1: zone and with our safety play over the middle. Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer scares the crap out of me in this game.
Speaker 1: Need his best game as a Dolphin by a long shot.
Speaker 1: You guys know how it goes when this system gets
Speaker 1: the run game going and has short down in distances,
Speaker 1: It's so dangerous to deal with. So let's give ourselves
Speaker 1: a chance by winning some early downs and really playing
Speaker 1: with the best gap discipline you've had all year. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take a break right there, come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and get to the second and
Speaker 1: third points of emphasis against this Packers' offense. We'll also
Speaker 1: talk about Tua against the Packers defense, and I think
Speaker 1: that our boy can absolutely shred for a third straight game.
Speaker 1: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation. I cannot tell you how
Speaker 1: happy it makes me to play that gobble pickup transition sound.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself for that one, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite. You know how in Jeopardy they have the
Speaker 1: contestants tell stories about themselves during the break between the
Speaker 1: in the first in the Jeopardy round, And one time
Speaker 1: there was a guy that was his He was a
Speaker 1: one day champion, So they asked him a story about himself,
Speaker 1: and the second most important story he could think to
Speaker 1: tell about himself was that he does a great turkey impression.
Speaker 1: And by the end of it, Ken Jennings is like,
Speaker 1: are you gonna do the turkey impression for us? And
Speaker 1: he just breaks out this and it wasn't even good.
Speaker 1: It sounded like that, and I'm like, that's the second
Speaker 1: most interesting thing about you. A bad turkey impression. Oh man,
Speaker 1: the way my friend and I that were watching that
Speaker 1: show laughed for quite a while. It's kind of how
Speaker 1: I laughed thinking about that turkey transition sound. Speaking of turkeys,
Speaker 1: Jordan loves a turkey out there, isn't he. We have
Speaker 1: to make his head spin. That's key number two against
Speaker 1: this Packers offense. It's a key every week you have
Speaker 1: to mix up your coverages. But I just want to
Speaker 1: show you love splits this year and the offensive output
Speaker 1: in accordance with his production, which yeah, Travis, obviously the
Speaker 1: quarterback plays well, the offense probably plays well. But he
Speaker 1: had four giveaways in his first game back against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: a loss where they got back into it late, but
Speaker 1: it was a blowout. Early against the Rams, he threw
Speaker 1: for just two hundred and two yards and had a
Speaker 1: really bad pick six where he threw blindly when he
Speaker 1: was wrapped up in the grasp running away from the
Speaker 1: defensive pass rush in the end zone, where he just
Speaker 1: threw it blindly to op to a cornerback who walked
Speaker 1: in for six. And that was a Rams team where
Speaker 1: they beat him twenty four to nineteen without cup Nakua
Speaker 1: and three starting offensive linemen. Then against a Houston team,
Speaker 1: it's not playing good football. They had three turnovers, two
Speaker 1: picks from Love and his production has sort of seen
Speaker 1: an uptick from that moment to recently. As you heard
Speaker 1: wessay on Tuesday, he believes that Love is getting healthier
Speaker 1: from that week one injury he suffered back in Brazil.
Speaker 1: But even still, Man, they have plenty They've played a
Speaker 1: lot of close games and just tells me that if
Speaker 1: we can bait Love into a turnover or two and
Speaker 1: protect the ball ourselves, that could be the deciding factor
Speaker 1: of this entire game. So how do you do that? Well,
Speaker 1: we talked about the offensive line. I think their adept
Speaker 1: at handling a lot of games. You know, slants and
Speaker 1: twists and different ways to create communication breakdowns, and we
Speaker 1: have really gotten after teams with those looks this year.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best parts of the Anthony Weaver
Speaker 1: defense is the game package. But even going back to
Speaker 1: the Niners tape, I saw plenty of mugged up linebackers
Speaker 1: where it's you know, you basically can bring multiple players
Speaker 1: down to the line of scrimmage to simulate who might
Speaker 1: come and who might drop as far as the rush goes,
Speaker 1: and some immediate pressure that Love was able to at
Speaker 1: least survive with throwaways, some scrambles and the occasional hot throw. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing I saw that really peaked my interest was
Speaker 1: them going with a nosebacker and he was picking off
Speaker 1: Josh Myers the center and creating these one on one
Speaker 1: situations for their guards, which is where I want to
Speaker 1: get to, not Elton Jenkins, but mostly the right guard
Speaker 1: Sean Ryan to get and then I guess left tackles well, Rashid,
Speaker 1: I think you can create that through putting someone like
Speaker 1: Chop Robinson, for instance, who played a lot of that
Speaker 1: nosebacker position at Penn State, right over the top of
Speaker 1: the center, and then also can we flip him to
Speaker 1: the Packers left side of the formation to get him
Speaker 1: rushing a three hundred and forty pounds two heavy footed
Speaker 1: rashid walker. So I think moving Chop was something we
Speaker 1: all talked about this offseason. I'm tempted to not do
Speaker 1: it because of how good he's playing, but if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, this kind of feels like the game
Speaker 1: that you should do it. And once you do that,
Speaker 1: like gosh, you have to prevent this guy from creating
Speaker 1: because he has a dangerous arsenal to throw at. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish we had Kendall Fuller for this game, man,
Speaker 1: I really wish that he was back for this one
Speaker 1: just makes I think it makes for a perfect good
Speaker 1: on good matchup if you have Ramsey, Fuller and Cater.
Speaker 1: But we'll have to go with Storm Duck into the game,
Speaker 1: who has a big challenge for himself as well. But
Speaker 1: with Ramsey, there's no point in talking about specific matchups
Speaker 1: because he's going to play all over the formation in
Speaker 1: the entire game. I do think Christian Watson is probably
Speaker 1: the guy that I want to try to erase the
Speaker 1: most with your your unique profile cornerback where there's like
Speaker 1: five guys built like Ramsey in the entire league. But
Speaker 1: if you do that, I'm probably thinking about extra attention
Speaker 1: to Wicks because I'm sorry to Jayden Reid because he's
Speaker 1: so shifty and crafty. I'm not sure there's a one
Speaker 1: on one matchup on him that I love, just because
Speaker 1: route runners like that are so tough in one on
Speaker 1: one spots. I'm curious to see if Dotson gets some
Speaker 1: work on Tucker craft. I know that Brooks can do it,
Speaker 1: and I think that maybe that's a man matchup you
Speaker 1: look at there a couple of times, but I also
Speaker 1: think that Dodson can do some of that too. And
Speaker 1: then Javon Holland. I think it's a big, big Javon
Speaker 1: Holland game to be able to execute those disguises, play
Speaker 1: some man on that tough tight end. They have cover
Speaker 1: some slot receivers because they're gonna bump those guys inside
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game. And I think you
Speaker 1: need a guy like Javon Holland to help you cover
Speaker 1: that way, but he kind of you remove him from
Speaker 1: the post. That creates some some vulnerabilities in a deep
Speaker 1: passing game against an offense that can get vertical, so
Speaker 1: that's a bit of conflict there, and of course he
Speaker 1: can rush the quarterback. I think that this is the
Speaker 1: game where Anthony Weaver has to have his deepest bag
Speaker 1: of tricks, and like this might be the game where
Speaker 1: he gets himself a head coaching job next year. You know,
Speaker 1: if he does that, we need to win one on
Speaker 1: ones constantly in this game, which makes me curious how
Speaker 1: they might deploy Chot because I think that the bigger
Speaker 1: mismatch for his favor is not where he's played this year,
Speaker 1: so that's part of what makes it a fun matchup.
Speaker 1: My third key is a mental thing, a mentality thing.
Speaker 1: Get your head right, that's the key. I'm going to
Speaker 1: that title because this is going to be about tackling
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, and I don't think that really applies to
Speaker 1: professional athletes the way it would apply to a Measley
Speaker 1: Sports where I was saying in a press box wearing
Speaker 1: fingerless gloves, that's me, by the way, But to me,
Speaker 1: hitting a big back all night in the cold does
Speaker 1: not sound fun. But you cannot let Jacobs put his
Speaker 1: mark on this game. The KC playoff game last year
Speaker 1: kind of got sideways when the offense couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: But when Isaiah Pacheco got going for that Chiefs offense
Speaker 1: because their passing game kept making a mistake after mistake
Speaker 1: after mistake, and then they're like, let's just run the
Speaker 1: ball because they can't score and they don't want to
Speaker 1: tackle Pacheco. We cannot let that happen, and we don't have,
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of you know, off the street
Speaker 1: free agencies game that are chopping up with their Chiefs
Speaker 1: friends after the game, which still makes me sour, But
Speaker 1: I think we're better equipped for that.
Speaker 2: And Chris Brooks is a hammer too.
Speaker 1: Though I suspect they're gonna lean more on Jacob since
Speaker 1: the two and the three on their depth chart in
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lloyd and aj Dillon are both down. But they
Speaker 1: sure have a type running back, don't They like a big,
Speaker 1: physical bruiser. But also maybe because it's a short week
Speaker 1: and you have a Lions game next week, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you reduce Jacob's workload after a big workload against the
Speaker 1: Niners on Sunday. I think it's so imperative for our
Speaker 1: two monsters in the middle, Seiler and Campbell to be
Speaker 1: able to hold the point and keep those linebackers clean.
Speaker 1: We know this scheme wants to catch and climb to
Speaker 1: the second level. If ninety two and ninety three can
Speaker 1: win consistently, we can stop their run game and really
Speaker 1: get to our fun stuff with the overload pressures and
Speaker 1: sim pressures. I think this is all a mindset, and
Speaker 1: I think we have the dudes in that locker room
Speaker 1: to do it right now. These guys are fired up
Speaker 1: right now. Man, you're gonna get a different approach and mindset,
Speaker 1: and I think a more calming mindset. Like one of
Speaker 1: the things two of we've knows in the past in
Speaker 1: big games, maybe he plays a little bit too amped
Speaker 1: up and can get a little bit off kilter. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna see that in this game. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have a focus from the opening whistle
Speaker 1: and it's gonna make the Dolphins a tough out. The
Speaker 1: Packers are a good team, but they're gonna get our
Speaker 1: best shot in this game real quick. For instance, Jacobs
Speaker 1: has the highest force miss tackle rate on the Packers
Speaker 1: by a long shot, and his highest force miss tackle
Speaker 1: game before Sunday was five and he had twelve against
Speaker 1: the Niners.
Speaker 2: Twelve.
Speaker 1: We cannot have that and expect to win this football game.
Speaker 1: And that was the first game under forty degrees for
Speaker 1: them this year, so we have to tackle. He's averaged
Speaker 1: three and a half yards after initial contact. He is
Speaker 1: a really, really good player. Additional parts on offense. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Romeo Dobbs is down. That's a big break for us.
Speaker 1: Bo Melton is the guy that kind of fills in there.
Speaker 1: They're so deep at receiver, but we really covered it.
Speaker 1: John Fitzpatrick is one of the other healthy tight ends.
Speaker 1: It's not on ir right now because I should say
Speaker 1: he's not healthy because he hasn't practiced this week. The
Speaker 1: injury report act and actives are gonna be very important
Speaker 1: for a short or for this game because of the
Speaker 1: short week factor of it. All right, So yeah, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. On Thursday, it'll be at what
Speaker 1: six fifty five? Those will come out. All right. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and shift gears here and talk about this
Speaker 1: Packers defense. And this is where I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have a fun opportunity to do something special here. So
Speaker 1: the genesis of this defense is this, how many different
Speaker 1: ways can we get to cover two? I saw one
Speaker 1: Packers film head say that he's counted seven different variations
Speaker 1: of pre snap presentations that eventually got to Cover two
Speaker 1: this year for the Packers. Now that's a little bit
Speaker 1: interesting because one of those main variations is multiple different
Speaker 1: versions of Tampa two. Tampa two is two high safeties
Speaker 1: that widen out and take the deep half, and then
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker that runs down the pipe and basically
Speaker 1: covers and turns it into Cover three in a certain sense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna really affect them because the
Speaker 1: pipe runner on this defense and Edrin Cooper is out,
Speaker 1: it's gonna miss the game. And to me, that's a
Speaker 1: huge deal because it's almost like us being down Alec
Speaker 1: in the sense that it scraps a massive chunk of
Speaker 1: your playbook. We cannot run two back personnel. We can
Speaker 1: run you know, eight chan and write an a Chan
Speaker 1: and Moster or whatever, but you don't have a full
Speaker 1: back that replaces out like Ingold. So you essentially take
Speaker 1: away the Tampa two defense from them, unless you want
Speaker 1: kway Walker doing it who is slow and not playing
Speaker 1: good football, or Isaiah McDuffie who can't who's not sued
Speaker 1: to do it either.
Speaker 2: You just don't have that option now.
Speaker 1: They disguise their coverage with pressure looks and then bail
Speaker 1: droppers and some pretty basic zones, like you're not gonna
Speaker 1: see Cover six from these guys. They don't run palms,
Speaker 1: they don't even really run quarters. They run a lot
Speaker 1: of Cover two and Cover three and it's it's basically
Speaker 1: just like, here's a very basic coverage that we dressed up.
Speaker 1: So I think that Tua is the kind of quarterback
Speaker 1: who's elite and all that stuff, and I think that
Speaker 1: he can get after them now their ability to play
Speaker 1: up at the last scrimmage, it creates some vulnerabilities. One
Speaker 1: thing it does for them is it gives them more
Speaker 1: hats in the run fit how to attack it just
Speaker 1: real quickly. First, a unique defense man. They run base
Speaker 1: forty three thirty one percent of the time. I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest base defense percentage we've seen this year.
Speaker 1: I think they run nickel sixty five percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and they've ran dim a few times on long down
Speaker 1: and distances, so it's it's base and nickel.
Speaker 2: So not a lot of variation there.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these coverages asked players to get
Speaker 1: vertical all the way to the roof of the defense
Speaker 1: from walked down alignment. So you're gonna see defenders that
Speaker 1: are down like within five yards of the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and they're gonna sprint back to cover the deep
Speaker 1: part of the field. And think about that, think about
Speaker 1: the dolphin speed for a second. I think you open
Speaker 1: up the perimeter in the passing game because and again
Speaker 1: we've seen Tua take a massive stride in that that area.
Speaker 1: There was game plans last year the Titans game, especially
Speaker 1: where they would vacate certain, you know, parts of the
Speaker 1: perimeter of the field because we would work middle to
Speaker 1: the other side and they wouldn't really occupy that other
Speaker 1: out the other perimeter part of the field in the
Speaker 1: passing concept.
Speaker 2: But Tua has added that to his bag this year.
Speaker 1: And you know, I did that whole segment about waddle
Speaker 1: winning routes against outside leverage to the outside on Monday.
Speaker 1: I think that plays here because, as you know, corner
Speaker 1: corner routes, comebacks out routes, like if they're trying to
Speaker 1: get vertical with a five yard head start against a
Speaker 1: release and vertical stem by Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: running full speed, how the hell are you going to
Speaker 1: guard the deep shot, which maybe they don't maybe they
Speaker 1: do get a little bit antsy, or maybe you force
Speaker 1: them into that and you can open up the vertical shots.
Speaker 1: But how are they going to run full speed backwards
Speaker 1: and then change directions on a comeback, on a corner,
Speaker 1: on a hitch, a curl and out from tyreek or waddle.
Speaker 1: I think that you have a lot of openings in
Speaker 1: the intermediate to deep part of the field with their
Speaker 1: lack of range of middle linebacker and they're inexperienced and
Speaker 1: just pre snap alignments from the safety position, and then
Speaker 1: you've got these cloud cornerbacks that are the reason they
Speaker 1: can do that. But there has not been a better
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league at influencing underneath coverage than to
Speaker 1: a tongue of Iailoa and I spoke to to a
Speaker 1: one on one today in the locker room, a little
Speaker 1: bit of advantage to work with the team, and I
Speaker 1: was like, how do you process, Like, what's your how
Speaker 1: do you know when you're gonna hit the no look throw?
Speaker 1: Like is it something that you plan before the snap?
Speaker 1: And he's like, it's by structure, basically, it has more
Speaker 1: to do with kind of how things move. So I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about that, like to a hit that no look
Speaker 1: glance in less than a second. So this guy's this
Speaker 1: guy's processing speed is man, He's like an original IBM
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety eight. I just I think that we
Speaker 1: are so equipped to stress this defense in a way
Speaker 1: they have not been tested this whole year. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get into the big three real quick, and
Speaker 1: then we'll take a quick break after the first one.
Speaker 1: So the Big three against the Green Bay defense go
Speaker 1: back to the well and or test their cornerbacks. I'm
Speaker 1: saying go back to the well because that was the
Speaker 1: key against the Patriots, the short efficient passing game. I
Speaker 1: say it because the Packers cannot take away both. And
Speaker 1: we'll get to that point by the end here. This
Speaker 1: offense has been so good taking what the defense gives it,
Speaker 1: and it's so much more nuanced than what the description
Speaker 1: probably tells you on the surface, like yeah, throw checkdowns,
Speaker 1: Like no, it's it's decipher coverage. Let the coverage play
Speaker 1: out and remove and lift certain pece of zone and
Speaker 1: then throw into those vacancies that you create from your
Speaker 1: route concepts, and the quarterback understanding the progression as it's
Speaker 1: designed to be but the way we've been playing is
Speaker 1: how the Packers structure operates the chess match between Tua
Speaker 1: and then Haflee and McKinney the safety and defensive coordinator there.
Speaker 1: I don't imagine they'll give us a lot of man.
Speaker 1: I imagine they'll flood zones and rotate post snap every
Speaker 1: damn play you have to to keep up with to
Speaker 1: a tongue by Loa, I was watching the Packers tape
Speaker 1: in this Evan Williams guy, which is not a whiskey.
Speaker 1: He's a football player, is a heady player that seems
Speaker 1: to let his film say, take him right to the ball.
Speaker 1: So when Tua makes those quick decisions, it'll be paramount
Speaker 1: to be aware of the possibilities of them cheating and
Speaker 1: trying to jump plays. And you can get burned doing
Speaker 1: that and just have a quick eye on how things
Speaker 1: maybe change based upon what you saw pre snap. But Man, McKinney,
Speaker 1: Javon Bullard, Evan Williams is the big nicols sometimes the dime.
Speaker 1: They can rotate in disguise so well with the beautiful
Speaker 1: blend of athletic ability, and they prepare really well. Chris
Speaker 1: Twitter was talking about this breakout game from Javon Bullard,
Speaker 1: but I don't sure. I mean it was against Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen without Trent Williams without without Brandon Ayuk and a
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel and George Kittle and Christian McCaffey.
Speaker 2: That are all banged up.
Speaker 1: You have not seen what you're about to see on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. And those guys, you know, I talk up
Speaker 1: and down about them. They have combined for three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: allowed eight picks this year, but seven McKinney's.
Speaker 2: They're also big hitters.
Speaker 1: Bollard wants to come down and play physically, and he
Speaker 1: did that against the Niers at a very high level.
Speaker 1: So that was good to see for him. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think this matchup is the same. I thought
Speaker 1: we saw a bit of an over correction against the
Speaker 1: Patriots in terms of them playing more man coverage and challenge,
Speaker 1: challenging us more and inviting more intermediate throws. I don't
Speaker 1: think that will be what the Packers do. And we
Speaker 1: have to be sharp because that offense can score, right,
Speaker 1: but if we can execute offensively, it's just not a
Speaker 1: winning formula to keep us to you know, a seven
Speaker 1: or eight possession game where we score on six or
Speaker 1: seven of those. They're gonna have to be a perfect
Speaker 1: on offense. I think the Dolphins defense is good enough
Speaker 1: to make you not be perfect, So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a good approach for them. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be more aggressive. I think that puts Jonathan Smith right
Speaker 1: back in play, especially with how they use their backers
Speaker 1: with you know, these small and fast profiles, to pursue
Speaker 1: and chase more so than to go win up with
Speaker 1: straight up physicality.
Speaker 2: I think that invites the Ingold and Julian Hill of
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 1: While you're at it, and let's finally get to the
Speaker 1: point about the cornerbacks, I think you need points. I
Speaker 1: think your passing game is the best way to get
Speaker 1: those points. Again, you're gonna see some tweets about run
Speaker 1: the football, and just know, ignore those tweets because those
Speaker 1: folks don't know football. Okay, Okay, They're gonna be without
Speaker 1: JayR Alexander again. Drin Cooper was that pipe dropper and
Speaker 1: the Tampa two looks he's not gonna be out there.
Speaker 1: And as a Packers as as Packer fans, what area
Speaker 1: of their team has been their their their fatal flaw? Right?
Speaker 1: Every team has one potential fatal flaw, if not more,
Speaker 1: it would be their cornerback play without JayR Alexander, Keishawn Nixon,
Speaker 1: Carrington Valentine, and Eric Stokes the names you have to know,
Speaker 1: and they have struggled big time this year. Val team's
Speaker 1: been kind of He's feisty. He has this like Tasmanian
Speaker 1: devil ability to his game that I like with slot cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: But Keishawn Nixon, he doesn't see anything. He takes the cheese,
Speaker 1: not the chee's heads. He takes the cheese in the
Speaker 1: football field. I could see two of going after him relentlessly.
Speaker 1: You know. The more I think about this man when
Speaker 1: the team, when opposite teams have bad cornerback play, two
Speaker 1: carves them up. Like when the Ravens had to take
Speaker 1: off all their corners back in twenty twenty two and
Speaker 1: two three for four hundred and sixty yards and six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you know, or that Cardinals game but in his rookie
Speaker 1: year when he went crazy in that one. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about another game recently too, who had who was down
Speaker 1: the Raiders game. They were down a couple of cornerbacks
Speaker 1: and he carved them up. I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: feel like two was about to go nuclear in this game.
Speaker 2: I really do. I don't know. Eric Stokes is often
Speaker 2: lost too.
Speaker 1: He just seems like he's like often getting guys in
Speaker 1: his blind spot and we can attack that. It makes
Speaker 1: me think they're gonna really help those cornerbacks as much
Speaker 1: as they can. But don't get it twisted because McKinney's
Speaker 1: a vet. Both Bullard and Williams are rookies, so maybe
Speaker 1: you can bake them into a bust or two. But
Speaker 1: if that's what happens, if it's you know, two man
Speaker 1: or cover two all day with trail technique under Waddle
Speaker 1: and Reek funneling those guys into bracket coverage, that means
Speaker 1: you got one on one matchups against bad linebackers for
Speaker 1: Jonas Smith and Devon eight Chan. And I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody wants their backers on those two guys, especially when
Speaker 1: they're bad linebackers, Especially when your best linebacker is hurt
Speaker 1: and your green dot is pretty bad and pretty slow,
Speaker 1: and the other two backers are minimum free agent signings
Speaker 1: like I don't know, guys, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think we can score.
Speaker 1: Speaking of those linebackers, let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break, come back on the other side and talk
Speaker 1: about things two and three, what's at stake, our game prediction,
Speaker 1: keys to victory, all of that. Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by autodation. My
Speaker 1: second big thing to accomplish for the Dolphins offense against
Speaker 1: the Packers defense is to put their young linebackers, and
Speaker 1: let's be real, their replacement level line in peril. It's
Speaker 1: really a continuation of the first point because they're green
Speaker 1: in the back seven in general, and it's bad. Guys
Speaker 1: like it's bad. They're without their best cornerback, their best linebackers.
Speaker 1: The other linebackers aren't good players, and they have two
Speaker 1: rookie safeties and only Rare Shaun Gary has been an
Speaker 1: impactful pass prushure. We got to score thirty points in
Speaker 1: this game. And here's how they played the Niners game.
Speaker 1: It was kway Walker at Mike, Isaiah McDuffie at Sam,
Speaker 1: and shoot I lost his first name, Eric Wilson at
Speaker 1: the will linebacker position. They don't have Edrian Cooper. He
Speaker 1: missed last week. He'll miss this game as well. He's
Speaker 1: kind of the Fred Warner in that defense, not in
Speaker 1: terms of skill set, but I mean play style in
Speaker 1: the sense that he can get vertical and horizontal to
Speaker 1: defend your outside zone game, but also the deep hook
Speaker 1: zone in the passing game. I just don't think the Niners,
Speaker 1: with all their injuries, were able to take advantage of
Speaker 1: what this Packers defense has, which has relied upon takeaways
Speaker 1: all year long. It was a hamstring injury for Cooper
Speaker 1: last Wednesday, so it's a quick turnaround to get back.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna play.
Speaker 1: Eric Wilson is the one who steps up in the
Speaker 1: Isaiah McDuffie is a guy that stepped up in his
Speaker 1: place in sub packages and kway Walker where's the green dot?
Speaker 1: The reason I highlight this area I have to imagine
Speaker 1: the Packers are going to help their cornerbacks, and if
Speaker 1: you do that, it creates those one on one matchups
Speaker 1: for guys that I don't think are equipped to handle that.
Speaker 1: And from that how to attack it portion. We've just
Speaker 1: seen Tua attack correctly when he has high low looks
Speaker 1: with Johnny and eight Chan underneath with Reek and Waddle
Speaker 1: over the top. But I think that you can do
Speaker 1: it in the running game as well by stretching them
Speaker 1: horizontally and forcing those cornerbacks to play your step or
Speaker 1: two downhill. Against both that and the screen menu that
Speaker 1: we have at our disposal, Key number three against this
Speaker 1: defense is to play a turnover free game. If we
Speaker 1: do this will win the game. To me, it's that simple.
Speaker 1: It's been the Packers saving grace. If they don't turn
Speaker 1: us over. I don't think we'll punt more than two
Speaker 1: or three times, and that means, you know, four or
Speaker 1: five six scoring drives, and if those can be touchdowns
Speaker 1: on four of those and the other ones field goals,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get your thirty points.
Speaker 2: I think you can win this game.
Speaker 1: I think they've made plenty of mistakes and errors that
Speaker 1: have helped offenses pile up from yards. But they are
Speaker 1: ball hunters and they find it. And McDaniel mentioned on
Speaker 1: Tuesday the effort and strain and the way they coach
Speaker 1: it is why they are able to consistently create takeaways.
Speaker 1: But as we've seen in the past, some defenses that
Speaker 1: rely upon that can go cold, and that can be
Speaker 1: you know, a big step in the wrong direction when
Speaker 1: they don't get those takeaways. They have four games this
Speaker 1: year with fourteen plus points off turnovers. If you do that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose. They have twenty two takeaways. It's already
Speaker 1: more than they had all of last year. They had
Speaker 1: three takeaways in five of their first six games, and
Speaker 1: that other game was two takeaways. They had three against
Speaker 1: the Niners on Sunday. They've had multiple takeaways and eight
Speaker 1: of their eleven games, and those numbers don't correlate with wins.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a game where both offenses are
Speaker 1: really good. I think the takeaways will decide the game.
Speaker 1: They are one and one in games this year without
Speaker 1: a takeaway. The loss was to Detroit. The win over Houston,
Speaker 1: who's been awful for the last month and a half.
Speaker 1: Rashan Gary is their biggest issue as a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: We have to account for him at all times. He
Speaker 1: has tremendous size and speed combination, and I think that
Speaker 1: you need him. You need to help on him as
Speaker 1: much as you possibly can, because I don't really fear
Speaker 1: anybody else, and I think with the way that we
Speaker 1: operate our offense in this quarterback, I'm just not that
Speaker 1: worried about the pass rush now. I think it would
Speaker 1: be a key to me to win against someone like
Speaker 1: Lucas van Ness one on one all night long to
Speaker 1: give you options to help on Rashaan Gary as much
Speaker 1: as you can.
Speaker 2: And same with Preston Smith.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got much juice in the tank either,
Speaker 1: but if you give them three takeaways, you can kiss
Speaker 1: this game goodbye. Don't turn it over. I think you'll
Speaker 1: get thirty plus points and win the football game. Additional
Speaker 1: parts on defense, The part I really didn't mention was
Speaker 1: the defensive tackles, and it's probably my favorite group on
Speaker 1: their defense. Funny how that goes. I freaking love Kenny Clarke,
Speaker 1: even though he slowed down a little bit. Davante Wyatt
Speaker 1: has been up and down good against the run. Not
Speaker 1: much of a pass rusher, but I think you can
Speaker 1: stretch him and wear him down with all that Brewer
Speaker 1: can do in terms of like his Pro Bowl, you know,
Speaker 1: skill set. Carl Brooks is another space either that I don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that you can depend on him
Speaker 1: to get wide on a consistent basis. So the outside
Speaker 1: running game is key to set the passing game up
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: What's at stake?
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, you know, not to do too much
Speaker 1: here and I read a column the other day that
Speaker 1: was titled that Mike McDaniel and two legacies will be
Speaker 1: defined in this game. I choose to not live and
Speaker 1: die with every single game, but that's an optics thing
Speaker 1: right now. I prefer to operate more in the reality
Speaker 1: of the situation, and the reality is this. I don't
Speaker 1: think a loss sinks the season. I think they could
Speaker 1: easily win the last five games after a loss here.
Speaker 1: But I said it on Wednesday, I think a win
Speaker 1: here puts us in the postseason comfortably.
Speaker 2: I would actually guarantee you.
Speaker 1: I think we blast the Jets twice and Cleveland as well.
Speaker 1: I think we are a better football team than both
Speaker 1: Houston and San Francisco, and we'll get at least one
Speaker 1: of those games, if not both. This is the hardest
Speaker 1: game left on the schedule. If we win this one,
Speaker 1: I believe we'll seize hold of a playoff spot by
Speaker 1: the end of business in Week fourteen after beating the
Speaker 1: Jets and then back to the optics, I mean optics.
Speaker 1: It's funny, how much does it play here right? Primetime
Speaker 1: game even the Rams game wasn't like the prettiest game offensively,
Speaker 1: the previest game winning team eight and three.
Speaker 2: Check that off the big board as well.
Speaker 1: Below thirty degrees, you can kill every single narrative in
Speaker 1: one fell swoop right here. You can do it, and
Speaker 1: I really hope we do it, and I keep thinking
Speaker 1: about this. I've gone on the air this week and
Speaker 1: just rave to you about the maturity and the growth
Speaker 1: and the professionalism of Tua Toungua Bailoa. I think the
Speaker 1: final step in the evolution of a guy that's locked in.
Speaker 1: He's the principle of the building, the ultimate pro the
Speaker 1: Drew breeze of it all the Tom Brady almost it
Speaker 1: won't go that far, but let's uncover that aspect of
Speaker 1: his game. Because when the game has been on the
Speaker 1: line since Buffalo, all this dude has done is come
Speaker 1: up with big throw after big throw, big drive after
Speaker 1: big drive. The two gotta have it touchdowns there points
Speaker 1: on every second half drive against the Rams, with them
Speaker 1: scoring on the other side to make it a one
Speaker 1: possession game every single time, scoring on literally every possession
Speaker 1: against the Raiders, and then putting the Pats away in
Speaker 1: the first.
Speaker 2: Half of the game last week.
Speaker 1: I want to win by a lot, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but imagine two taking us down the field to win
Speaker 1: it at the buzzer in this one, allow yourself to
Speaker 1: imagine that dream of a weekend you could have from that.
Speaker 1: So everything is sort of at stake, but the consequence
Speaker 1: is not the absolute end. But I think you can
Speaker 1: build a little bit of a cushion with the win here,
Speaker 1: and it would be nice to relieve some of that
Speaker 1: pressure with the win. The range of outcomes. I like
Speaker 1: the matchup. I love where this team is at. I
Speaker 1: think they've been hardened by their experience this year. I
Speaker 1: really think this could be the spot where it turns around.
Speaker 1: But then again, what kind of fool would I have
Speaker 1: to be to come in here and just keep doing
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again. I'm gonna finally
Speaker 1: heed my advice. I'm gonna heal turn after I just
Speaker 1: spent forty minutes here telling you guys how great we are,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say that, for whatever reason, the situation
Speaker 1: is just too much to overcome all those narratives in
Speaker 1: one fell swoop on a short week. No less, I
Speaker 1: think this game is close either way, and the range
Speaker 1: covers either side winning this ball game by a field
Speaker 1: goal or a touchdown, And I don't think the cold
Speaker 1: air will prevent offenses from moving the football. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just really worried about their offense, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Packers thirty four Dolphins thirty one. Probably should end the
Speaker 1: episode there by didn't have my key yet. Number one
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle. Number two play with elite I
Speaker 1: discipline on defense, and number three maintain efficient, explosive passing
Speaker 1: game and just spread the ball to your playmakers and
Speaker 1: go after this Packers' defense. Maybe maybe that's how I
Speaker 1: reverse the curse pick against the Dolphins. That's what we're
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Speaker 2: Please be a win. I'm hoping so much for that.
Speaker 1: Until next time, fins up Calin Cameron Daddy, He's coming
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