WEBVTT - Dolphins Browns Week 10 Preview 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Whinfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:16.279 looking waf touchtop click call hit that there man. I 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.079 want to help you soon up on the bandwa wattle 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:24.080 wattle to a shotguns back to throw, looking up fires, touchdops, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:31.320 It's waddle. It's six touchdowns day. Drive Time with Travis 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:38.680 Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if what 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.560 is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.280 of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.360 Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.160 Travis Winfield. And on today's show, it's another Thursday, another 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.640 game previewer taking a look at the tape and the 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.360 stats to break down Sunday's one o'clock kickoff against the 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.959 Cleveland Browns at hard Rock Stadium. Will go position by position, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.120 matchup by matchup. We'll give you three keys, tell you 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.120 what's at stake, and we'll make the week ten picks 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.720 across the National Football League. From the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:22.360 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.240 The Cleveland Browns a team we have not seen since 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.040 nineteen a comfortable Brown's win in Cleveland in that game, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.600 and that was a team that was in a particular 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.080 phase of a rebuild that began in earnest with that 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.320 season a couple of top five draft picks, but it 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.080 went back well before that. Remember that was a team 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.280 that had the second pick in ten and wheeled it 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.960 to the Eagles for Carson Wentz and collected a bevy 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.200 of draft picks in return, but almost none of them 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.240 worked out. That was where this idea of like moneyball 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.720 integrating into football and you know, kicking the can down 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.680 the road and pushing your assets into the future became 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.800 this thought of like, that's taboo, that's not gonna work. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.200 And then we saw the Dolphins do it and it 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:14.320 works just fine. But that draft class was why that 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.160 idea with great process and poor results became basically what 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.560 analytics is now where everyone just says, you know, oh, analytics, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.760 I don't like those because I don't understand them. But 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.800 Corey Coleman, Corey Coleman, Emmanuel Ogba didn't work out there, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.760 but now we know what he can do. Karl Nassib, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.560 Shawn Coleman, Cody Kessler, Joe Sholbert, Ricardo Lewis, Derek Kindred, Steath, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.880 devalved That's just rounds one through four in that draft class, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.919 and then they had four fifth rounders and the seventh 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.280 round pick. They did get Richard Higgins out of that 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.480 to be fair, but then in seen they picked first 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.920 again after getting a miracle December win to stave off 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.440 one winless season, but they were right back in the 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.320 saddle the following year, going oh in sixteen. They bottomed 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.800 out in twenty seventeen without winning a football game. They 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.840 take Baker Mayfield number one overall and go into team 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.000 with Hugh Jackson somehow, but he was then relieved in 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.680 week eight after a two and five start, and they 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.120 finish out five and three under Greg Williams. That doesn't 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.679 seem to add up. That looks like seven and eight, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.000 but whatever. Yet, they promote Freddie Kitchens to head coach 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.280 the next year, and as a team with all kinds 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.560 of hype and hope, didn't quite have the year I 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.239 think they were expected to have. But then, as is 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.920 often the case, and we talked about my predictions, one 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.200 I was very bullish on this Dolphins team. I was 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.680 a year early happens a lot same with the Browns 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.520 because they broke a two decade long playoff victory streak 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.720 by drubbing the Pittsburgh Steelers in the postseason. Then they 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.640 took the Chiefs to the brink, albeit against Chad Henny 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.320 in the Divisional round playoffs. And from there you might 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.920 think that's the nucleus of their team going forward, right, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.800 all those high picks coming off, you know, coming of age, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.880 I should say, in their careers, but it wasn't. After 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.120 that eleven win season under then Rookie had coach Kevin Stefanski, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.960 they take a pretty significant step backwards last season as 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.840 Baker Mayfield played through that shoulder injury and in my opinion, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.520 got entirely too much crap for the way he played, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.040 you know, through that injury. As they falter to eight 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.200 and nine, then we get to two and it's a massive, 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.479 massive shift. They make a big trade for the worst 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.680 person in football. Uh. They send Baker to Carolina. They 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.880 depart from Jarvis Landry after doing the same with Odell 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.800 Beckham the year prior. Longtime Pro Bowl center J. C. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.120 Trader is part of that shift, and they went to 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.320 work shaping a new nucleus around some star talent, the 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.919 market name of that group being, of course, Miles Garrett, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.240 the very first pick back in that draft. He's one 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.480 of the best defensive ends of all time. The same 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.960 year they landed Baker, they got Denzil Award with the 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.760 fourth pick in that year's draft. Although as much as 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.600 I liked Baker coming out, Alan and Jackson were QBS 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.440 wanted two for me and that's where the kind of 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.440 going off course happened there. It's funny how one move 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.880 can have a butterfly effect on the entire organization and 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.840 the entire league as a result, because if you go 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.919 with Josh Allen there, I mean, as Freddie Kitchen still employed, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.200 who knows? Is it still Hugh Jackson? Who knows? But uh. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.839 The same year they got Baker, they land the Denzil Award. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.080 He's back to return this week against the Miami Dolphins 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.640 after missing sometime. He's one of the best young cornerbacks 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.559 in football. So they've hit on some of these draft picks. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.120 On the other side, probably the best back in football 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.800 with Nick Chubb, a second round pick a couple of 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.600 years back, and he never saw an arm tackle. He 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.760 couldn't slip. He's the crux of an offense that operates 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.599 and a lot of similar principles to what we do here, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.159 but also utilizes a lot of tight ends, twelve and 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.440 thirteen personnel packages. They add gaps and let Chub do 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.120 his thing to work off that play action game, and 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.440 the offense is somewhat tailored to what Deshaun Watson does 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.040 in terms of, you know, big play hunting, and they have, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.320 you know, not a dollar store version, but a lesser 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.080 version of Jacoby Brisette doing that same idea. But at 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.440 least Jacobey is a good human being. They remade the 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.960 receiver's room around a great trade this offseason for a 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.040 Mariy Cooper sending a fifth and sixth round pick to 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.160 get a very town entwide receiver, a recent day to 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.960 pick in the uber athletic Donovan People's jones and another 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.920 day to pick in a rookie this year and David Bell. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.800 So it's Jacobe Brissette holding down the fort before the 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.240 return of that starter, and he wants to be a 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.000 big play hunter off the play action game as well. Finally, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.240 the strength of their football team where the resources have 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.160 been poured in year after year is the offensive line. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.760 They drafted Jeddrick Wills in the first round the same 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.360 year they signed Jack Conklin, and they have arguably, in 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.880 my opinions, not that arguably the best guard combination in 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.120 the National Football League with Joel Ptonio and Wyatt Teller. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.480 And they made that known by giving both those guys 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.320 massive extensions before they could hit the open market. So 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.400 strong in the trenches, typically playing or technically i should say, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.480 playing their backup quarterback with a roster that has pivoted 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.480 off an original rebuild that began in Earnest six, seven 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.080 years ago. Let's go ahead and see where the results 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.200 have produced here heading in the two and the second 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.479 half of this season. So the Dolphins offense versus the 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.240 Browns d fense and the quarterback to a tungle by Lowa, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.599 and the Dolphins offense versus the safeties and that Brown's defense. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.400 Miami enters this game with the hottest quarterback in the 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.600 National Football League. He's playing pretty well to you know. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.040 The numbers on too. By now. The Browns defense is 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.920 getting some reinforcements for a unit that started off inauspiciously 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.239 but has really rebounded recently. The eighth top ranked past 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.960 defense number fourteen against the run and fourteen in fewish 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.760 yards per play. Structurally, pretty good mix. Two high looks 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.800 is two d forty three snaps. One high look is 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.440 two hundred and three snaps. And they've played cover zero 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:41.360 twenty four times, so too high, uh, one high, and 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.120 the rest cover zero they play their base for. That's 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.640 a big number, a big chunk there in that four 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.640 three base. They go nickel and they have one of 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.240 the higher dime defensive package usages in the NFL eleven 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.600 percent with six defensive backs on the field, and watching 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.640 the last couple of games they played versus the Bengals 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.320 and Rave, they tend to change the picture post nap 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.360 with some rotation. They almost always start off in that 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.200 too high look, and then one safety will buzz down 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.640 and try to rob the crossing routes, run the seam, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.400 come from depth on hooks and curls, things of that nature. Essentially, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.760 think about what Rashad Jones did here for years. It's 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.960 the same type of principle there. Ultimately they get into 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.520 their deep thirds, look cover three, one defender for each 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.440 of the deep thirds, and they've got some pretty good 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.480 players doing it. They run two safeties out there on 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.320 just about every snap, Grant del Pitt and John Johnson, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.839 and then Ronnie Harrison's the big nickel who packs a 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.600 punch and factors into the run game like a linebacker. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.600 Former Alabama Crimson tied and Jacksonville Jagua. I believe Grant 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.240 delpa is fifth on the team with thirteen run stops. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.920 There was a great clip of him trying to come 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.960 from depth and put a stick on Joe Mixon in 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.960 the C gap on that Monday night game, and he 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.679 read it and got there well, but then he got 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.839 ran over like a like a speed bump. That was 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.080 a pretty funny rep. Johnson is tied for six on 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.240 the team with ten run stops, and then Harrison has 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.839 a pair of them. They don't call on him a 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.040 whole lot, just a hundred and fourteen snaps and forty 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.079 one within rundowns. With all the dbs they deploy, it's 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.160 mostly cornerback heavy, so not a lot of safeties in 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.800 the field. More on that here in the next position group. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.680 But their pre snap alignment for the two primary safeties, 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.720 it gives you an indicator of how they want to play. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.880 Del Pit has two eight two snaps down in the 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.640 box on the line and the slot position versus two 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.600 thirteen at free safety, and then John Johnson has one 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.280 eight inside and three twelve at free safety. So typically 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.920 John Johnson is the guy that rotates to that center 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.840 field position and that typical Cover three or man free, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.400 which is man coverage with a single high safety look. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.960 So that ultimately tells you the short perimeter portion of 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.439 the field is going to be where you kind of 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.400 can attack. We'll get more into that here in just 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.560 one second, but it's really, you know, a little less 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.319 pick your poison. You typically get what you think you'll 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.720 get in terms of the rotation, and del Pitt wants 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.240 to come up and hit, and given how Miami has 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.560 attacked the middle intermediate portion of the field, I think 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.800 he's the guy you play off of. You might remember 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.800 him in college. He was a big, splash play guy 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.920 that relied on taking chances and arriving with a try 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.440 hard mentality and a motor that doesn't quit, which is 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.599 a great trait, but it hasn't quite worked out in 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.600 the NFL because these are the best athletes on the planet. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.960 I think you give him some cheese and you play 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.599 off of that, and you can continue to work the 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.480 middle of the field and potentially spring some big runs 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.360 after the catch, since the man out of position, if 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.480 he is in that position to be out of position 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.839 is one of the last two lines of defense. We 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.120 haven't seen a lot of that, a lot of that 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.400 this year against this Dolphins offense, where one of the 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.240 primary you know, forced defenders, the rat in the hole, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.920 is that strong safety coming up because typically teams want 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.720 to keep those safeties off the field or you know, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.199 off the line because you have tenants seventeen. So against 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.680 the Bengals, who run tons of motion as well, there 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.079 was all kinds of pre snap shifting and rotating to 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.800 counteract that motion. That's typically your indicator for the quarterback, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.640 and with the way to it has been seeing the 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.680 field both pre impost snap this year, his opportunity to 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.160 execute with that approach could potentially be there, and this 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.240 one as well, I tend to think it will be. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.400 And off that we've seen the peril this offense can 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.240 cause for opposing defenses and that man coverage, you get 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.720 your man looks, you take your shots to this explosive 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.440 receiving corps. I also think one of two OF's best 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.880 balls that he's thrown or that he does through I 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.680 should say, is the quick set up deep shot to 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.040 the boundary the short side of the field, or the 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.680 slot fade to the field, just condensing how far wide 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.400 that ball has to go. Think about that Waddle touchdown 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.480 against Detroit. That was a slot fade to the field. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.839 The reason I bring this up is that they played 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.400 the Bengals one on one to the boundary and rolled 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.679 the safety to the field against that press coverage with 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.160 off coverage to the boundary. So you have your chances 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.840 to take what the defense gives you short to that 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.000 boundary with that off coverage. Now granted that was with 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.360 Jamar Chase not in the lineup, but if you get 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.560 these looks on Tyreek and Jalen to the boundary, you 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.839 take them like whether it's a hitch, whether they come 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.320 and they press on that hitch, double move and go vertical. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.720 Take those chances when you get them. It's lots of 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.000 man coverage, lots of cover three lots of man free. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.480 But I just can't see them staying with that man 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.480 coverage because I mean, why would you against these receivers 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.720 And when they get to that zone coverage like here, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.640 go to Twitter and type in Delpit in the search 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.680 bar and see what the search shows you. Fans of 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.320 the Browns are constantly complaining about mix ups and blown 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.880 coverage there and it shows on tape two and that 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.400 you know, the Twitter search will find tweets to say 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.600 like why is Delpit always barking with his hands up 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.079 after a big plays? Pretty common occurrence there. So I 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.280 think the offense, should they keep executing, will have another 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.679 big day. It just might look a little different as 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.000 they'll probably rely heavily on that cover three with the 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.760 wide nine four man rush looks that tends to open 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.480 up the short outside passing game. But as we've seen 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.360 with this offense, we can stretch the hookbackers and displace 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.680 them and still work that middle part of the field. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.880 Having three deep cover guys makes you one man light 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.680 in the intermediate and that's a bad mix against the 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.520 way this offense is playing. All defenses mix it up, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.839 but they do play man coverage more than most. They 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.360 do play with a lot of cushion as well. In fact, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.040 NFL True Media says play press thirty percent and off 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.880 coverage nice. But also back to the tape, they'll vary 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.560 a lot, so you'll get pressed to the side, to 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.520 one side with help and then off to the side 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.920 that they slide away from. And that variation between the 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.320 boundary in the field is kind of how they call it. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.240 So for Tuah and what he's been sharp with all year, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.760 keep those safeties, you know, key on those safeties and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.600 make those quick decisions based upon the movement and leverage 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.320 of your conflict defender, which I think is Grant delpit 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.760 in this game, we'll need another big game and a 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.840 sharp game with a great game plan here from quarterback one, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.560 some coverage stats John Johnson ten of eighteen. Our team's 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.200 targeting him for one fourteen and a touchdown on two 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.120 three coverage snaps. That leads all safeties on their team. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.920 Grant del Pitt for eight teen with two hundred forty 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.920 two yards, and the difference there, it's a big, big difference. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.160 Two touchdowns and a pick on two hundred and seventy 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.840 nine coverage snaps, and then Ronnie Harrison two of three 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.760 twenty two yards on just sixty six coverage snaps. I 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.640 asked coach McDaniel about Joe Woods, Brown's defensive coordinator on 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.719 his Stay press conference. Here's what he had to say 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.960 about Joe Woods telling you about the Cover three and 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.080 Wide nine pairing together. Great stuff here from coach McDaniel. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.400 You know, it was it was. It was a cool 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:15.400 part of the process because he you know, it was 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.800 a kind of a minor football evolution at the time. Um, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:26.240 there was Seattle Seahawks. UM. You know, Uh, Pete, Guess Bradley, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.760 all those guys UM came up with the Seattle three 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:35.960 deep um ear and just literally did that nothing else 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:41.000 and crushed people for a decade. UM. And then we 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.160 had faced a uh you know, in our history we've 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:50.520 gone we were um the Wide nine, four man front 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:57.160 penetrating defense Tennessee was kicking our butts and Houston back 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.200 in the late two thousand's UM, and then they went 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.560 to Detroit and all that. But we under Kyle Shane 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.280 and Kyle kind of wanted to do to meld those two. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.040 So Joe was a part of that UM and it 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.680 was such a cool part process too, because you have 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.160 the problem solve. You know, it may not seem like 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.000 a big deal, but um, in terms of gap integrity 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.760 and how how you rule out your defense, it was 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.920 a big deal and Um being there with him and 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.720 seeing how Um he was such a problem solver in 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.320 that process Um while also having a disposition and energy 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.640 that that players gravitated to. UM. I had heard about 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.000 him UM since I was like probably two thousand and 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.880 thirteen because him and he Raheem Morris would always do 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.520 an impression of him UM, so I like knew of 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.880 him for like seven years before I met him and 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.040 he but he lived up to the impersonation and the 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.240 build up and you can see the influence that he 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.440 got from his time in San Francisco, which was just 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.920 one year, so it wasn't like that was where he originated. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.680 But uh, you know Robert Sala, Chris Custer, Rick and 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.120 of course Joe was that one gap play with your 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.880 hair on fire. Ideally pressure with four but also mixing 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.400 plenty of blitz is. Speaking of blitz rate, they come 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.000 at twenty five point seven percent rate. That's the fifteen 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.040 highest in football. One of very four pass rush snaps. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.120 Their pressure rate is nineteen point eight, which is twenty two. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.240 So the last few teams we've played, it's been blitz 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.280 rate lower than pressure rate. This is the first team 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.080 you've played in a while where it's the converse of that, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.640 which is not a good thing for your defense. I 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.160 also have to imagine that blitz figure reduces this week 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.720 because two has been killing the blitz, but he's also 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.480 killing non blitz is too, So we will see. As 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 far as the receivers and tight ends versus corners. Back 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.360 to that Bengals game, I mentioned the seventy thirty split 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.480 with off coverage versus press, you can essentially trace that 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.120 to third downs. If it was third, medium or long 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.560 they were in man and they were pressing. Now last 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.520 week we saw some of the same, and that's where 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.560 Ta gets really aggressive and hit some of the biggest 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.720 throws he's at all year. Right, it's been fun to 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.639 see them not just convert but get splash plays and 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.359 score touchdowns on third downs, which is how you wind 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.640 up with a one forty seven passer rating, the all 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.639 time best in the history of the National Football League. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.479 And speaking of that, in terms of adjusted net yards 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.639 per attempt going back to nineteen seventy two, has the 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 best all time for a third year quarterback. So enjoying 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.639 literally the greatest breakout season for a quarterback in the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.720 history of the National Football League, and it's been a 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.719 bit of a struggle for the Cleveland Browns as they incorporate, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.159 you know, this system of Joe Woods here with this 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.440 new look defense that kind of changes year to year 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.240 because they've just had medical issues that haven't given them 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.800 consistency in that part of the game. Their best guy, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.479 you know, Denzel Award missed three games, Greedy Williams has 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.479 missed five games. They did get a hit on their 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.720 first round pick one with Greg Newsom the second who 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.240 has the flexibility to play both inside and outside, but 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.080 ideally he's their slot guy. And then Martin Emerson has 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.840 beginning most of the work out of anybody. He's played 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.360 the second most snaps in the cornerback room behind Newsom 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.880 and the four worth most in the entire defense. Real 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.640 quick before some stats, just watching the tape. They would 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.359 often press outside and playoff coverage on the inside is 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.520 where you might bring a cat blitz, a cornerback blitz 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.359 and fill that with safeties or linebackers, or sometimes they 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.159 just strap trust their safeties and linebackers and coverage. Not 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.280 unlike what we saw with the Bears where Jack Sanborn 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.200 wound up one on one against Tyreek Hill that's where 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.800 the ball goes there because but again that's without Ward 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.320 and with Newsom playing out, why when they have all 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.200 of them, Newsom will come up and press the slow 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.800 as well. The stats of these guys Ward this season 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.399 sixty five two hundred ninety three yards a touchdown in 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.800 a pick on one hundred and sixty two coverage snaps. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.800 It's been a down year for him when he's been healthy. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.960 Newsom twenty one for thirty two two hundred and twenty 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.360 six yards one touchdown on two hundred and seventy one 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.360 coverage snaps, so he's played pretty well. And then Emerson 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.560 is forty five. It's a good completion percentage there for him, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.320 two hundred and fifty three yards a touchdown and two 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.679 hundred and thirty four coverage taps. So weird that Ward 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.199 has the worst stats of the three there, he's the 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.199 best and most town the player. But as far as 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.280 the man coverage and a big reason why it works, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.080 a few corners are more athletic than Denz Awards a 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.119 marquee matchup when he draws either Tyreek or Jalen if 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.399 he plays a crazy stat on him. Out of college, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.520 he had an athletic score via next gen of nine 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.439 plus and a production score over eighty five, which Graadier 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.480 College production. Only nine corners can say that going back 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.119 to two thousand three, and they are award past Sortan 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.920 the second Marshawn Lattimore, Shaquille Griffin, Jalen Ramsey, Trey Wayne's, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.439 Jason Verrett and the keep to lead. There's Hall of 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.440 famers in there, there's pro bowlers in there. There's all 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.800 pros in their couple. Not but you get the idea. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:35.800 So if they call upon Ward to win one on 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.400 ones against our guys, that might just be the matchup 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.440 of the game. Let's see how he did against some 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.560 other guys that feature uh such speed and athletic ability. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.040 Deante Johnson for the Steelers six for ten with seventy 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.000 five yards. He was the only guy that went up 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.879 against Ward that day, and he also dropped a massive 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.040 completion downfield, so it should have been seven for ten 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.640