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Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns a team we have not seen since
Speaker 1: nineteen a comfortable Brown's win in Cleveland in that game,
Speaker 1: and that was a team that was in a particular
Speaker 1: phase of a rebuild that began in earnest with that
Speaker 1: season a couple of top five draft picks, but it
Speaker 1: went back well before that. Remember that was a team
Speaker 1: that had the second pick in ten and wheeled it
Speaker 1: to the Eagles for Carson Wentz and collected a bevy
Speaker 1: of draft picks in return, but almost none of them
Speaker 1: worked out. That was where this idea of like moneyball
Speaker 1: integrating into football and you know, kicking the can down
Speaker 1: the road and pushing your assets into the future became
Speaker 1: this thought of like, that's taboo, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: And then we saw the Dolphins do it and it
Speaker 1: works just fine. But that draft class was why that
Speaker 1: idea with great process and poor results became basically what
Speaker 1: analytics is now where everyone just says, you know, oh, analytics,
Speaker 1: I don't like those because I don't understand them. But
Speaker 1: Corey Coleman, Corey Coleman, Emmanuel Ogba didn't work out there,
Speaker 1: but now we know what he can do. Karl Nassib,
Speaker 1: Shawn Coleman, Cody Kessler, Joe Sholbert, Ricardo Lewis, Derek Kindred, Steath,
Speaker 1: devalved That's just rounds one through four in that draft class,
Speaker 1: and then they had four fifth rounders and the seventh
Speaker 1: round pick. They did get Richard Higgins out of that
Speaker 1: to be fair, but then in seen they picked first
Speaker 1: again after getting a miracle December win to stave off
Speaker 1: one winless season, but they were right back in the
Speaker 1: saddle the following year, going oh in sixteen. They bottomed
Speaker 1: out in twenty seventeen without winning a football game. They
Speaker 1: take Baker Mayfield number one overall and go into team
Speaker 1: with Hugh Jackson somehow, but he was then relieved in
Speaker 1: week eight after a two and five start, and they
Speaker 1: finish out five and three under Greg Williams. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to add up. That looks like seven and eight,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Yet, they promote Freddie Kitchens to head coach
Speaker 1: the next year, and as a team with all kinds
Speaker 1: of hype and hope, didn't quite have the year I
Speaker 1: think they were expected to have. But then, as is
Speaker 1: often the case, and we talked about my predictions, one
Speaker 1: I was very bullish on this Dolphins team. I was
Speaker 1: a year early happens a lot same with the Browns
Speaker 1: because they broke a two decade long playoff victory streak
Speaker 1: by drubbing the Pittsburgh Steelers in the postseason. Then they
Speaker 1: took the Chiefs to the brink, albeit against Chad Henny
Speaker 1: in the Divisional round playoffs. And from there you might
Speaker 1: think that's the nucleus of their team going forward, right,
Speaker 1: all those high picks coming off, you know, coming of age,
Speaker 1: I should say, in their careers, but it wasn't. After
Speaker 1: that eleven win season under then Rookie had coach Kevin Stefanski,
Speaker 1: they take a pretty significant step backwards last season as
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield played through that shoulder injury and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: got entirely too much crap for the way he played,
Speaker 1: you know, through that injury. As they falter to eight
Speaker 1: and nine, then we get to two and it's a massive,
Speaker 1: massive shift. They make a big trade for the worst
Speaker 1: person in football. Uh. They send Baker to Carolina. They
Speaker 1: depart from Jarvis Landry after doing the same with Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham the year prior. Longtime Pro Bowl center J. C.
Speaker 1: Trader is part of that shift, and they went to
Speaker 1: work shaping a new nucleus around some star talent, the
Speaker 1: market name of that group being, of course, Miles Garrett,
Speaker 1: the very first pick back in that draft. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive ends of all time. The same
Speaker 1: year they landed Baker, they got Denzil Award with the
Speaker 1: fourth pick in that year's draft. Although as much as
Speaker 1: I liked Baker coming out, Alan and Jackson were QBS
Speaker 1: wanted two for me and that's where the kind of
Speaker 1: going off course happened there. It's funny how one move
Speaker 1: can have a butterfly effect on the entire organization and
Speaker 1: the entire league as a result, because if you go
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen there, I mean, as Freddie Kitchen still employed,
Speaker 1: who knows? Is it still Hugh Jackson? Who knows? But uh.
Speaker 1: The same year they got Baker, they land the Denzil Award.
Speaker 1: He's back to return this week against the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: after missing sometime. He's one of the best young cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in football. So they've hit on some of these draft picks.
Speaker 1: On the other side, probably the best back in football
Speaker 1: with Nick Chubb, a second round pick a couple of
Speaker 1: years back, and he never saw an arm tackle. He
Speaker 1: couldn't slip. He's the crux of an offense that operates
Speaker 1: and a lot of similar principles to what we do here,
Speaker 1: but also utilizes a lot of tight ends, twelve and
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel packages. They add gaps and let Chub do
Speaker 1: his thing to work off that play action game, and
Speaker 1: the offense is somewhat tailored to what Deshaun Watson does
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, big play hunting, and they have,
Speaker 1: you know, not a dollar store version, but a lesser
Speaker 1: version of Jacoby Brisette doing that same idea. But at
Speaker 1: least Jacobey is a good human being. They remade the
Speaker 1: receiver's room around a great trade this offseason for a
Speaker 1: Mariy Cooper sending a fifth and sixth round pick to
Speaker 1: get a very town entwide receiver, a recent day to
Speaker 1: pick in the uber athletic Donovan People's jones and another
Speaker 1: day to pick in a rookie this year and David Bell.
Speaker 1: So it's Jacobe Brissette holding down the fort before the
Speaker 1: return of that starter, and he wants to be a
Speaker 1: big play hunter off the play action game as well. Finally,
Speaker 1: the strength of their football team where the resources have
Speaker 1: been poured in year after year is the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They drafted Jeddrick Wills in the first round the same
Speaker 1: year they signed Jack Conklin, and they have arguably, in
Speaker 1: my opinions, not that arguably the best guard combination in
Speaker 1: the National Football League with Joel Ptonio and Wyatt Teller.
Speaker 1: And they made that known by giving both those guys
Speaker 1: massive extensions before they could hit the open market. So
Speaker 1: strong in the trenches, typically playing or technically i should say,
Speaker 1: playing their backup quarterback with a roster that has pivoted
Speaker 1: off an original rebuild that began in Earnest six, seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Let's go ahead and see where the results
Speaker 1: have produced here heading in the two and the second
Speaker 1: half of this season. So the Dolphins offense versus the
Speaker 1: Browns d fense and the quarterback to a tungle by Lowa,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins offense versus the safeties and that Brown's defense.
Speaker 1: Miami enters this game with the hottest quarterback in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. He's playing pretty well to you know.
Speaker 1: The numbers on too. By now. The Browns defense is
Speaker 1: getting some reinforcements for a unit that started off inauspiciously
Speaker 1: but has really rebounded recently. The eighth top ranked past
Speaker 1: defense number fourteen against the run and fourteen in fewish
Speaker 1: yards per play. Structurally, pretty good mix. Two high looks
Speaker 1: is two d forty three snaps. One high look is
Speaker 1: two hundred and three snaps. And they've played cover zero
Speaker 1: twenty four times, so too high, uh, one high, and
Speaker 1: the rest cover zero they play their base for. That's
Speaker 1: a big number, a big chunk there in that four
Speaker 1: three base. They go nickel and they have one of
Speaker 1: the higher dime defensive package usages in the NFL eleven
Speaker 1: percent with six defensive backs on the field, and watching
Speaker 1: the last couple of games they played versus the Bengals
Speaker 1: and Rave, they tend to change the picture post nap
Speaker 1: with some rotation. They almost always start off in that
Speaker 1: too high look, and then one safety will buzz down
Speaker 1: and try to rob the crossing routes, run the seam,
Speaker 1: come from depth on hooks and curls, things of that nature. Essentially,
Speaker 1: think about what Rashad Jones did here for years. It's
Speaker 1: the same type of principle there. Ultimately they get into
Speaker 1: their deep thirds, look cover three, one defender for each
Speaker 1: of the deep thirds, and they've got some pretty good
Speaker 1: players doing it. They run two safeties out there on
Speaker 1: just about every snap, Grant del Pitt and John Johnson,
Speaker 1: and then Ronnie Harrison's the big nickel who packs a
Speaker 1: punch and factors into the run game like a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Former Alabama Crimson tied and Jacksonville Jagua. I believe Grant
Speaker 1: delpa is fifth on the team with thirteen run stops.
Speaker 1: There was a great clip of him trying to come
Speaker 1: from depth and put a stick on Joe Mixon in
Speaker 1: the C gap on that Monday night game, and he
Speaker 1: read it and got there well, but then he got
Speaker 1: ran over like a like a speed bump. That was
Speaker 1: a pretty funny rep. Johnson is tied for six on
Speaker 1: the team with ten run stops, and then Harrison has
Speaker 1: a pair of them. They don't call on him a
Speaker 1: whole lot, just a hundred and fourteen snaps and forty
Speaker 1: one within rundowns. With all the dbs they deploy, it's
Speaker 1: mostly cornerback heavy, so not a lot of safeties in
Speaker 1: the field. More on that here in the next position group.
Speaker 1: But their pre snap alignment for the two primary safeties,
Speaker 1: it gives you an indicator of how they want to play.
Speaker 1: Del Pit has two eight two snaps down in the
Speaker 1: box on the line and the slot position versus two
Speaker 1: thirteen at free safety, and then John Johnson has one
Speaker 1: eight inside and three twelve at free safety. So typically
Speaker 1: John Johnson is the guy that rotates to that center
Speaker 1: field position and that typical Cover three or man free,
Speaker 1: which is man coverage with a single high safety look.
Speaker 1: So that ultimately tells you the short perimeter portion of
Speaker 1: the field is going to be where you kind of
Speaker 1: can attack. We'll get more into that here in just
Speaker 1: one second, but it's really, you know, a little less
Speaker 1: pick your poison. You typically get what you think you'll
Speaker 1: get in terms of the rotation, and del Pitt wants
Speaker 1: to come up and hit, and given how Miami has
Speaker 1: attacked the middle intermediate portion of the field, I think
Speaker 1: he's the guy you play off of. You might remember
Speaker 1: him in college. He was a big, splash play guy
Speaker 1: that relied on taking chances and arriving with a try
Speaker 1: hard mentality and a motor that doesn't quit, which is
Speaker 1: a great trait, but it hasn't quite worked out in
Speaker 1: the NFL because these are the best athletes on the planet.
Speaker 1: I think you give him some cheese and you play
Speaker 1: off of that, and you can continue to work the
Speaker 1: middle of the field and potentially spring some big runs
Speaker 1: after the catch, since the man out of position, if
Speaker 1: he is in that position to be out of position
Speaker 1: is one of the last two lines of defense. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of that, a lot of that
Speaker 1: this year against this Dolphins offense, where one of the
Speaker 1: primary you know, forced defenders, the rat in the hole,
Speaker 1: is that strong safety coming up because typically teams want
Speaker 1: to keep those safeties off the field or you know,
Speaker 1: off the line because you have tenants seventeen. So against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, who run tons of motion as well, there
Speaker 1: was all kinds of pre snap shifting and rotating to
Speaker 1: counteract that motion. That's typically your indicator for the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and with the way to it has been seeing the
Speaker 1: field both pre impost snap this year, his opportunity to
Speaker 1: execute with that approach could potentially be there, and this
Speaker 1: one as well, I tend to think it will be.
Speaker 1: And off that we've seen the peril this offense can
Speaker 1: cause for opposing defenses and that man coverage, you get
Speaker 1: your man looks, you take your shots to this explosive
Speaker 1: receiving corps. I also think one of two OF's best
Speaker 1: balls that he's thrown or that he does through I
Speaker 1: should say, is the quick set up deep shot to
Speaker 1: the boundary the short side of the field, or the
Speaker 1: slot fade to the field, just condensing how far wide
Speaker 1: that ball has to go. Think about that Waddle touchdown
Speaker 1: against Detroit. That was a slot fade to the field.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up is that they played
Speaker 1: the Bengals one on one to the boundary and rolled
Speaker 1: the safety to the field against that press coverage with
Speaker 1: off coverage to the boundary. So you have your chances
Speaker 1: to take what the defense gives you short to that
Speaker 1: boundary with that off coverage. Now granted that was with
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase not in the lineup, but if you get
Speaker 1: these looks on Tyreek and Jalen to the boundary, you
Speaker 1: take them like whether it's a hitch, whether they come
Speaker 1: and they press on that hitch, double move and go vertical.
Speaker 1: Take those chances when you get them. It's lots of
Speaker 1: man coverage, lots of cover three lots of man free.
Speaker 1: But I just can't see them staying with that man
Speaker 1: coverage because I mean, why would you against these receivers
Speaker 1: And when they get to that zone coverage like here,
Speaker 1: go to Twitter and type in Delpit in the search
Speaker 1: bar and see what the search shows you. Fans of
Speaker 1: the Browns are constantly complaining about mix ups and blown
Speaker 1: coverage there and it shows on tape two and that
Speaker 1: you know, the Twitter search will find tweets to say
Speaker 1: like why is Delpit always barking with his hands up
Speaker 1: after a big plays? Pretty common occurrence there. So I
Speaker 1: think the offense, should they keep executing, will have another
Speaker 1: big day. It just might look a little different as
Speaker 1: they'll probably rely heavily on that cover three with the
Speaker 1: wide nine four man rush looks that tends to open
Speaker 1: up the short outside passing game. But as we've seen
Speaker 1: with this offense, we can stretch the hookbackers and displace
Speaker 1: them and still work that middle part of the field.
Speaker 1: Having three deep cover guys makes you one man light
Speaker 1: in the intermediate and that's a bad mix against the
Speaker 1: way this offense is playing. All defenses mix it up,
Speaker 1: but they do play man coverage more than most. They
Speaker 1: do play with a lot of cushion as well. In fact,
Speaker 1: NFL True Media says play press thirty percent and off
Speaker 1: coverage nice. But also back to the tape, they'll vary
Speaker 1: a lot, so you'll get pressed to the side, to
Speaker 1: one side with help and then off to the side
Speaker 1: that they slide away from. And that variation between the
Speaker 1: boundary in the field is kind of how they call it.
Speaker 1: So for Tuah and what he's been sharp with all year,
Speaker 1: keep those safeties, you know, key on those safeties and
Speaker 1: make those quick decisions based upon the movement and leverage
Speaker 1: of your conflict defender, which I think is Grant delpit
Speaker 1: in this game, we'll need another big game and a
Speaker 1: sharp game with a great game plan here from quarterback one,
Speaker 1: some coverage stats John Johnson ten of eighteen. Our team's
Speaker 1: targeting him for one fourteen and a touchdown on two
Speaker 1: three coverage snaps. That leads all safeties on their team.
Speaker 1: Grant del Pitt for eight teen with two hundred forty
Speaker 1: two yards, and the difference there, it's a big, big difference.
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns and a pick on two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine coverage snaps, and then Ronnie Harrison two of three
Speaker 1: twenty two yards on just sixty six coverage snaps. I
Speaker 1: asked coach McDaniel about Joe Woods, Brown's defensive coordinator on
Speaker 1: his Stay press conference. Here's what he had to say
Speaker 1: about Joe Woods telling you about the Cover three and
Speaker 1: Wide nine pairing together. Great stuff here from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 1: You know, it was it was. It was a cool
Speaker 1: part of the process because he you know, it was
Speaker 1: a kind of a minor football evolution at the time. Um,
Speaker 1: there was Seattle Seahawks. UM. You know, Uh, Pete, Guess Bradley,
Speaker 1: all those guys UM came up with the Seattle three
Speaker 1: deep um ear and just literally did that nothing else
Speaker 1: and crushed people for a decade. UM. And then we
Speaker 1: had faced a uh you know, in our history we've
Speaker 1: gone we were um the Wide nine, four man front
Speaker 1: penetrating defense Tennessee was kicking our butts and Houston back
Speaker 1: in the late two thousand's UM, and then they went
Speaker 1: to Detroit and all that. But we under Kyle Shane
Speaker 1: and Kyle kind of wanted to do to meld those two.
Speaker 1: So Joe was a part of that UM and it
Speaker 1: was such a cool part process too, because you have
Speaker 1: the problem solve. You know, it may not seem like
Speaker 1: a big deal, but um, in terms of gap integrity
Speaker 1: and how how you rule out your defense, it was
Speaker 1: a big deal and Um being there with him and
Speaker 1: seeing how Um he was such a problem solver in
Speaker 1: that process Um while also having a disposition and energy
Speaker 1: that that players gravitated to. UM. I had heard about
Speaker 1: him UM since I was like probably two thousand and
Speaker 1: thirteen because him and he Raheem Morris would always do
Speaker 1: an impression of him UM, so I like knew of
Speaker 1: him for like seven years before I met him and
Speaker 1: he but he lived up to the impersonation and the
Speaker 1: build up and you can see the influence that he
Speaker 1: got from his time in San Francisco, which was just
Speaker 1: one year, so it wasn't like that was where he originated.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know Robert Sala, Chris Custer, Rick and
Speaker 1: of course Joe was that one gap play with your
Speaker 1: hair on fire. Ideally pressure with four but also mixing
Speaker 1: plenty of blitz is. Speaking of blitz rate, they come
Speaker 1: at twenty five point seven percent rate. That's the fifteen
Speaker 1: highest in football. One of very four pass rush snaps.
Speaker 1: Their pressure rate is nineteen point eight, which is twenty two.
Speaker 1: So the last few teams we've played, it's been blitz
Speaker 1: rate lower than pressure rate. This is the first team
Speaker 1: you've played in a while where it's the converse of that,
Speaker 1: which is not a good thing for your defense. I
Speaker 1: also have to imagine that blitz figure reduces this week
Speaker 1: because two has been killing the blitz, but he's also
Speaker 1: killing non blitz is too, So we will see. As
Speaker 1: far as the receivers and tight ends versus corners. Back
Speaker 1: to that Bengals game, I mentioned the seventy thirty split
Speaker 1: with off coverage versus press, you can essentially trace that
Speaker 1: to third downs. If it was third, medium or long
Speaker 1: they were in man and they were pressing. Now last
Speaker 1: week we saw some of the same, and that's where
Speaker 1: Ta gets really aggressive and hit some of the biggest
Speaker 1: throws he's at all year. Right, it's been fun to
Speaker 1: see them not just convert but get splash plays and
Speaker 1: score touchdowns on third downs, which is how you wind
Speaker 1: up with a one forty seven passer rating, the all
Speaker 1: time best in the history of the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that, in terms of adjusted net yards
Speaker 1: per attempt going back to nineteen seventy two, has the
Speaker 1: best all time for a third year quarterback. So enjoying
Speaker 1: literally the greatest breakout season for a quarterback in the
Speaker 1: history of the National Football League, and it's been a
Speaker 1: bit of a struggle for the Cleveland Browns as they incorporate,
Speaker 1: you know, this system of Joe Woods here with this
Speaker 1: new look defense that kind of changes year to year
Speaker 1: because they've just had medical issues that haven't given them
Speaker 1: consistency in that part of the game. Their best guy,
Speaker 1: you know, Denzel Award missed three games, Greedy Williams has
Speaker 1: missed five games. They did get a hit on their
Speaker 1: first round pick one with Greg Newsom the second who
Speaker 1: has the flexibility to play both inside and outside, but
Speaker 1: ideally he's their slot guy. And then Martin Emerson has
Speaker 1: beginning most of the work out of anybody. He's played
Speaker 1: the second most snaps in the cornerback room behind Newsom
Speaker 1: and the four worth most in the entire defense. Real
Speaker 1: quick before some stats, just watching the tape. They would
Speaker 1: often press outside and playoff coverage on the inside is
Speaker 1: where you might bring a cat blitz, a cornerback blitz
Speaker 1: and fill that with safeties or linebackers, or sometimes they
Speaker 1: just strap trust their safeties and linebackers and coverage. Not
Speaker 1: unlike what we saw with the Bears where Jack Sanborn
Speaker 1: wound up one on one against Tyreek Hill that's where
Speaker 1: the ball goes there because but again that's without Ward
Speaker 1: and with Newsom playing out, why when they have all
Speaker 1: of them, Newsom will come up and press the slow
Speaker 1: as well. The stats of these guys Ward this season
Speaker 1: sixty five two hundred ninety three yards a touchdown in
Speaker 1: a pick on one hundred and sixty two coverage snaps.
Speaker 1: It's been a down year for him when he's been healthy.
Speaker 1: Newsom twenty one for thirty two two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six yards one touchdown on two hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: coverage snaps, so he's played pretty well. And then Emerson
Speaker 1: is forty five. It's a good completion percentage there for him,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty three yards a touchdown and two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four coverage taps. So weird that Ward
Speaker 1: has the worst stats of the three there, he's the
Speaker 1: best and most town the player. But as far as
Speaker 1: the man coverage and a big reason why it works,
Speaker 1: a few corners are more athletic than Denz Awards a
Speaker 1: marquee matchup when he draws either Tyreek or Jalen if
Speaker 1: he plays a crazy stat on him. Out of college,
Speaker 1: he had an athletic score via next gen of nine
Speaker 1: plus and a production score over eighty five, which Graadier
Speaker 1: College production. Only nine corners can say that going back
Speaker 1: to two thousand three, and they are award past Sortan
Speaker 1: the second Marshawn Lattimore, Shaquille Griffin, Jalen Ramsey, Trey Wayne's,
Speaker 1: Jason Verrett and the keep to lead. There's Hall of
Speaker 1: famers in there, there's pro bowlers in there. There's all
Speaker 1: pros in their couple. Not but you get the idea.
Speaker 1: So if they call upon Ward to win one on
Speaker 1: ones against our guys, that might just be the matchup
Speaker 1: of the game. Let's see how he did against some
Speaker 1: other guys that feature uh such speed and athletic ability.
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson for the Steelers six for ten with seventy
Speaker 1: five yards. He was the only guy that went up
Speaker 1: against Ward that day, and he also dropped a massive
Speaker 1: completion downfield, so it should have been seven for ten
Speaker 1: with like over a hundred yards. Now, he did shut
Speaker 1: down Drake London into mere bird with the Falcons the
Speaker 1: next week, three targets and no grabs, and against the
Speaker 1: Chargers he covered Williams, Carter and Palmer to the tune
Speaker 1: of five of six for eighty nine yards. It's been
Speaker 1: a tough year for him. Honestly, look at their schedule. Panthers, Jets, Steelers, Falcons, Chargers, Pats,
Speaker 1: Ravens Bengals sans Chase. They haven't seen anything close to
Speaker 1: what they're going to get here in Miami. So with
Speaker 1: that weather and war, just hasn't had the year you've
Speaker 1: grown accustomed to. Maybe the bye week gets them going
Speaker 1: in the right direction, but there have been busts and
Speaker 1: big passing days racked up on them. I think they're
Speaker 1: passing defense numbers are skewed by the opposition because the
Speaker 1: Ravens run the ball relentlessly. They had one sixty rushing
Speaker 1: but through for just nine four in that game. They won.
Speaker 1: The Bengals without Chase obviously a different team. The Patriots
Speaker 1: rolled up three D one passing yards the Patriots and
Speaker 1: the Chargers and their struggling group went for two seven. Falcons, Steelers, Jets, Panthers.
Speaker 1: They just haven't been tested like they will be this Sunday.
Speaker 1: We've seen the Dolphins do a masterful job spreading the
Speaker 1: football around the offense, rotating the school groups, and maximizing
Speaker 1: matchups and just effectively moving the football anyway they can.
Speaker 1: If we can keep executing that that same rate, we
Speaker 1: put the honors on the opposition to react. And of
Speaker 1: course it's a paramount importance to get wins in this
Speaker 1: next group to allow the skill group to to flourish
Speaker 1: offensive line verse defensive line. Stick our first break and
Speaker 1: come back and do that next. Here on the Draftime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: It takes us twenty five minutes. Twenty minutes to get
Speaker 1: through just two possession groups, but that's what we do here.
Speaker 1: It's a in depth podcast and frankly, I'm enjoying it
Speaker 1: more this year than I ever have previewing games because
Speaker 1: I look forward to these games this year so much.
Speaker 1: We look at the offensive line verse defensive line. One
Speaker 1: of the best players in all the National Football League
Speaker 1: exists in this position group for the Cleveland Browns, and
Speaker 1: they will take are they will base rather their entire
Speaker 1: past rush plan around him, Myles Garrett. Not many teams
Speaker 1: have a left tackle like to Ron Armstead, but even
Speaker 1: with a star to offset their star, it's never a
Speaker 1: bad idea to vary your looks against him. Last week,
Speaker 1: we saw ing gold factor and as he tends to
Speaker 1: do with chips, scan protect come across the formation on
Speaker 1: split flow action things like that. Everyone has to be
Speaker 1: hyper aware of where lines up. They'll move him across
Speaker 1: the formation and doesn't really matter where he is, he
Speaker 1: finds a way to disrupt things. They've also activated Chase
Speaker 1: Winovitch off the i R this week. Jadeveon Clowney is
Speaker 1: there and he's actually outrapped by Alex Right to six
Speaker 1: in terms of snaps played, but Clowney has him outproduced.
Speaker 1: Third team pressures on a pass rush snaps that's nothing special,
Speaker 1: seven run stops on sixties seven run snapdowns. That's actually
Speaker 1: pretty good, and that's what Clowny has been his whole career.
Speaker 1: Great run defender. Right has just eight pressures on one
Speaker 1: fifty seven and five run stops on a hundred run
Speaker 1: down reps. That's those are both not good. And then
Speaker 1: fourth at the position is Isaac Rochelle with six pressures
Speaker 1: and six run stops, so it's really it's kind of
Speaker 1: a one man deal off the edge here in terms
Speaker 1: of the production they have, like there's more talent than
Speaker 1: the production they have seth water of ESPN does these
Speaker 1: great pass rush productivity charts where he measures double team
Speaker 1: rate and pass rush win rate, and this is going
Speaker 1: to tell you exactly how this pass brush works. It's
Speaker 1: all Miles Garrett for the most part, because Garrett and
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons have actually forced Seth Walter to expand that chart.
Speaker 1: Nobody has doubled at a higher rate than Myles Garrett.
Speaker 1: And he's also second in past rush win race. So
Speaker 1: even if it's Tehran, I would help there and trust
Speaker 1: your rush, you guys to beat kind of you know,
Speaker 1: mundane pass rushers. On the year, Garrett has forty one
Speaker 1: pressures on two pass rush snaps. That's the best PRP
Speaker 1: pass rush productivity in the a f C, at second
Speaker 1: behind Michael Parsons in the NFL. He's also got fifteen
Speaker 1: run stops on a hundred and thirty two rundown snaps.
Speaker 1: He's a perennial defensive Player of the Year candidate. Teams
Speaker 1: have really instituted a go away from Miles Garrett philosophy
Speaker 1: in the run game and tracks. Baltimore ran the ball
Speaker 1: at nineteen times at the opposite edge that Garrett played.
Speaker 1: New England had seven runs left a center where in
Speaker 1: a game where Garrett played of his snaps all that side,
Speaker 1: they had twenty two right of center, Like, don't go
Speaker 1: to ninety five. That's what teams have done, and that's
Speaker 1: you know, un how they've attacked it. They are a
Speaker 1: solid run defense group though they are bigger body guys
Speaker 1: that can play that one gap penetration style and they
Speaker 1: have an uber athletic linebacker group at that second level.
Speaker 1: So we've seen the Dolphins do well to stretch out
Speaker 1: those bigger lines and test the conditioning with their own
Speaker 1: outside runs. I thought Jeff Wilson's added element of physicality
Speaker 1: was a thing of beauty last week with the combination
Speaker 1: of he and Raheem really expanding this offense and how
Speaker 1: much space opposing defenses have to be wary of. We
Speaker 1: can do that stretch play outside, we can get to
Speaker 1: the toss and bring it back inside with Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 1: Got to be prepared for all of it, and off
Speaker 1: the edge, I think you just you know, I would
Speaker 1: trust to run against anybody, but I would also think
Speaker 1: about backs and tight ends, chipping and helping just to
Speaker 1: just slow him down, like one little bit before you
Speaker 1: get into your route and then Brandon Shell playing so well,
Speaker 1: particularly against those body types. You know, Clowney's a six
Speaker 1: ft five to sixty guy, Alex right to six five
Speaker 1: two sixties seven, Isaac Rochelle six three to eighty, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Thomas goes to sixties six. So the bigger body guys,
Speaker 1: Shell has really handled them this year. It's the speed
Speaker 1: rushers that you have got him a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But frankly, you know, our tackles have dominated each of
Speaker 1: their matchups last three weeks, and on the inside it
Speaker 1: hasn't been a whole lot of different. Much of the same.
Speaker 1: For Cleveland. There are three primary guys on the interior.
Speaker 1: Jordan Elliott's a seventy percent snaptaker, Taven Bryan sixty and
Speaker 1: Tommy togi I, the former Buckeye whose game I love
Speaker 1: is a thirty percent snaptaker. Elliott and tab and Brian
Speaker 1: both have four team pressures each six run stops and
Speaker 1: five run stops, and then togy I two pressures this
Speaker 1: year and four run stops. The production is not there,
Speaker 1: so Elliott and Brian again that outside zone running system,
Speaker 1: trying to get that rotation into the third or fourth guy.
Speaker 1: That's the idea this might be the most fascinating matchup
Speaker 1: to me because you heard coach mentioned that wide nine
Speaker 1: thought with the pairing with the cover three look that
Speaker 1: entails one gap upfield, beat your man to the point. Well,
Speaker 1: we also play a style that fires off the football too,
Speaker 1: so if you can consistently thwart those rush attempts, you
Speaker 1: can gash them because they're going to be out of position.
Speaker 1: But that's much easier said than done, because if they
Speaker 1: consistently win, it'll be tough to get anything going with
Speaker 1: guys flashing color in the backfield on our backs, with
Speaker 1: constant disruption. It's a great battle inside for Connor Williams
Speaker 1: to keep his terrifics. He'son going, cutting off the past,
Speaker 1: leading blocks out wide, big test for him. And then
Speaker 1: with Rob Jones, I think his sheer mass shows up
Speaker 1: in this game. He's gotta play a little better. But
Speaker 1: in terms of his body style against this team, it
Speaker 1: it bodes well just having you know, just having him
Speaker 1: help on chipping before climbing could be an integral part.
Speaker 1: And that's true also of Rob Hunt. And then of
Speaker 1: course you get Rob Hunts, you know, penchant for five
Speaker 1: or six absolutely devastating blocks per game, which is fun
Speaker 1: to watch if you know, weren't for this staff just
Speaker 1: having answers to most everything, I think this matchup would
Speaker 1: scare me quite a lot. But I have the faith
Speaker 1: the faith I have in utilizing those guys aggressiveness against them,
Speaker 1: you know, incorporating wham blocks, false keys and polars line slides.
Speaker 1: And then if they stay in that wide nine man
Speaker 1: inside zone with Jeff Wilson, when those toss players going inside,
Speaker 1: those could consistently pop for big gains. And then Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson dropping his shoulder against you know, undersized linebackers and
Speaker 1: safety so finishing up with the running back in linebacker spot.
Speaker 1: I really, you know, gonna be monitoring the availability of
Speaker 1: j Ok Jeremiah Wusu Cormo because he's one of the
Speaker 1: best linebackers in football. It looks like he won't go.
Speaker 1: He didn't practice on Wednesday. The Browns when they're healthy,
Speaker 1: have a great linebacker group, but he's out, potentially Anthony
Speaker 1: Walker's out for the year. They traded for Dion Jones
Speaker 1: to replace him, and that was an interesting swat because
Speaker 1: Walkers B gap to B gap type of thumper like
Speaker 1: a Landed Roberts Dion Jones is more in that Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker mold. And in that Bengals game, they brought their
Speaker 1: back out wide for some snaps to see how Cleveland reacted,
Speaker 1: and they would run the backer out there. They vacate
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and play man coverage and
Speaker 1: they took one vertical shot to Chris Evans from that look,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking Raheem can do that. One way to
Speaker 1: attack aggressive defenses is with screen game. So a well
Speaker 1: time screen call could pay dividends if we, you know,
Speaker 1: can identify it and get to that look. I could
Speaker 1: see some big screens popping this week. Uh In In
Speaker 1: the absence of j Ok and Walker, it's been con
Speaker 1: Taki Taki who's played of the snaps. He has five
Speaker 1: pressures on twenty six pass rush snaps it doesn't really
Speaker 1: come very often, and fifteen run stops. He's pretty pretty
Speaker 1: smart player. Dion Jones is getting ramped up more and more.
Speaker 1: Played seventy percent of the snaps last game, but only
Speaker 1: has seventy four told snaps this year. Tough to get
Speaker 1: acclimated completely, especially against an offense that does all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And then Jacob Phillips has been on the i R.
Speaker 1: But he's played seventy front of the snaps, seventeen run
Speaker 1: stops on one and fifty one snaps. We'll see if
Speaker 1: he can come back this week. Those three in coverage
Speaker 1: combine thirty six yards, so backs in the passing game
Speaker 1: big key this week. We've seen the Dolphins backs get involved,
Speaker 1: you know, at various points. Could be a big time
Speaker 1: matchup here in terms of the run game to help
Speaker 1: slow down their past rush, but also trying to cultivate
Speaker 1: some of those matchups one on one in that passing game.
Speaker 1: Talkie Talkie plays on a hundred at all times. And
Speaker 1: then Jones, like I mentioned the pure speed, I wonder
Speaker 1: if he'll be more involved in their past rush plan
Speaker 1: that he has been coming off the BI with some
Speaker 1: more time in that defense. He was great at that
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Going over to the Dolphins defense versus the
Speaker 1: Browns offense, the quarterback and offense of the Browns versus
Speaker 1: our safeties. One thing that has really piqued my interest
Speaker 1: of late is time to throw of opposing quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: how much time our pass rushers are taking to get home.
Speaker 1: The great Kyle Crabs of Locked on Dolphins and the
Speaker 1: Draft Network shared the Mooney touchdown when Phillips put a
Speaker 1: hit on Justin Fields. The ball was out in two
Speaker 1: point two seconds. If you get the ball out as
Speaker 1: a quarterback and under two point five, or I should
Speaker 1: say if the rushier gets home and under two point five,
Speaker 1: that's a pass rush win. I mean, one more can
Speaker 1: you ask of a guy trying to factor other variables
Speaker 1: that said Russia cannot control like coverage. I don't get it, man,
Speaker 1: It's a fruitless endeavor. But you know, we do what
Speaker 1: we do. And the reason I bring this up now
Speaker 1: is that number one, the Browns pass game is built
Speaker 1: off of one of the game's best ground games, so
Speaker 1: you get some deep, deep drop play actions to search
Speaker 1: for one on one matchups in the vertical game. And
Speaker 1: the number two even on nonplay action passes. That's been
Speaker 1: Brissette style his whole career. We saw it last year.
Speaker 1: He can shake tacklers and extend because of his size
Speaker 1: and balance, but it's the not the four four speed
Speaker 1: we saw last week. His two point nine one time
Speaker 1: to throw this year is the seventh longest in the league.
Speaker 1: He holds the ball longer than all but six quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Now granted fields a sixth last week. But again it's
Speaker 1: different because fields scramble ability where he can side step
Speaker 1: and flush and loop around and attackle line scrimmage with
Speaker 1: the ability to throw and run, that's always going to
Speaker 1: take more time. Like, for instance, the other quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: top of that list, Zack Wilson, whose first instinct every
Speaker 1: single play is to run backwards seventy five yards. That's
Speaker 1: always gonna take some time. Daniel Jones is pretty athletic,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Marcus Mariota, Taylor Heineke is kind of in
Speaker 1: that Zack Wilson frame as well. Then you get two
Speaker 1: fields and then Brissette, so it's like a the Island
Speaker 1: of misfit toys. Bristit is the one is the one
Speaker 1: that's like the most misfit of that group. Then the
Speaker 1: next quarterbacks are Herbert Wilson and Bailey Zappy, So lots
Speaker 1: of pocket mobility and scrambling ability there. That's why my
Speaker 1: you know, bold prediction this week is that the past
Speaker 1: which is gonna go ahead and get off this week.
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins can build a lead and make
Speaker 1: them a little bit one dimensional. You can wind up
Speaker 1: with a game full of sacks, which is what I
Speaker 1: think the pass rush really needs to head into the
Speaker 1: bye week get their confidence going down the stretch. I
Speaker 1: think both Phillips and Chubb will get home this week
Speaker 1: and make an impact play. Contributing to that time to
Speaker 1: throw stat is the fact that Brissette just is not
Speaker 1: a rhythm quarterback. Again, you guys saw it last year
Speaker 1: straight up as chewing open targets, and when he does
Speaker 1: play in rhythm, it tends to be late anyway, So
Speaker 1: stack opportunities, take away opportunities. They're going to be there
Speaker 1: this week. He doesn't anticipate at all, so if you
Speaker 1: can read his eyes and as long as you just
Speaker 1: don't miss tackles on him, you can ruin their offensive plan.
Speaker 1: It's an offense that again doesn't fall far from our tree,
Speaker 1: with Kevin Stefanski operating a lot of the play action boots,
Speaker 1: plenty of twelve and thirteen personnel, condensed formations, lots of
Speaker 1: shifting in motion, and given the defense a lot to
Speaker 1: plan for. He's one of the top play callers and
Speaker 1: game players in the league, and everything is based off
Speaker 1: the run game, So finding a way to get those
Speaker 1: stops on early downs as it is every week more
Speaker 1: so this week is absolutely paramount. They open the Bengals
Speaker 1: game and heavy personnel, elephant package whatever you wanna call,
Speaker 1: six offensive linemen, and from there they use just about
Speaker 1: every grouping imaginable. So for our guys, our staff and
Speaker 1: our players need to be on top of your substitutions
Speaker 1: and potentially be ready to get deep into the playbook
Speaker 1: with various fronts because half the time they're in eleven
Speaker 1: personnel the most basic package, three receivers at one back,
Speaker 1: one tight end in twelve personnel, two tight ends. There
Speaker 1: in that eighteen percent of the time, thirteen personnel, three
Speaker 1: tight ends that's seven percent of the time. And then
Speaker 1: they're in two back sets eight percent of the time,
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel and twenty two personnel five and three
Speaker 1: percent respectively. They've also got snaps in OH three, which
Speaker 1: is no backs and three tight ends what and also
Speaker 1: ten personnel, one back, no tight ends, and a pretty
Speaker 1: good chunk of heavy personnel as well. Extra offensive lineman
Speaker 1: Jacobe this season against the blitz sixty five percent seven
Speaker 1: and a half yards per past three tudies and two
Speaker 1: picks not blitzed sixty four percent seven point two y
Speaker 1: p a four touchdowns and three picks. I've been doing
Speaker 1: these deep dive podcasts for like seven years now, going
Speaker 1: back to Lockdown Dolphins. I've never seen someone's categories against
Speaker 1: the Blitz and not against the Blitz so identical. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: But here's the road. When he's pressured forty six percent,
Speaker 1: six and a half yards per passed, no touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: four picks, So go ahead and make those extension plays
Speaker 1: because that's what we want him to do. When he's
Speaker 1: not pressured seventy seven point six yards per past, seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one pick. So again, pressure with four a big key here.
Speaker 1: How can Miami manufacture that? I found it interesting that
Speaker 1: in his three games with a passer rating over a hundred,
Speaker 1: they're all the division games, which is weird because he's
Speaker 1: a newcomer to the division, but the Bengals, Steelers, and
Speaker 1: uh Ravens of the games, there's also a ninety eight
Speaker 1: point nine passer rating game versus the Jets, and then
Speaker 1: the other four are all lower than eighties. So it's
Speaker 1: castle or outhouse with him and half. You know what's
Speaker 1: the common denominator there between the castle and the outhouse, Well,
Speaker 1: the Panthers blitz himcent the Falcons blitz him twenty one percent,
Speaker 1: the Chargers blitz him thirty three percent, and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So those two blitzing undercent games a sixty eight rating
Speaker 1: and a fifty five rating don't blitz maybe because the
Speaker 1: other blitz rates thirty one. And then there was one
Speaker 1: outlier fift So not as obvious as you'd hope, but
Speaker 1: definitely some comparisons there, And looking at that list, I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't the Patriots plan the one that makes the most sense?
Speaker 1: Like Josh Bowyer says all the time, the similarities in
Speaker 1: the system the four man play some coverage. See how
Speaker 1: many times Chubb, Phillips, Melvin Van ginkl Iman can win
Speaker 1: their one on ones. We needed this week flood the
Speaker 1: coverage with bodies and muddle that picture even more for
Speaker 1: Jacoby because you don't have to worry about the scramble ability.
Speaker 1: He'll put the ball in harm's way. And frankly, I
Speaker 1: like our matchups enough to get pressure with our four.
Speaker 1: As for our guys, I thought Eric Roe was fantastic
Speaker 1: last week. Javon continues to have an evolving role that
Speaker 1: takes on different looks and different approaches each week. His
Speaker 1: range and ability to eye the quarterback could come into
Speaker 1: play here. I love when we get him camped in
Speaker 1: a position where he can just stand there, drive on
Speaker 1: the football, read the quarterbacks eyes. Hopefully he gets one
Speaker 1: of those chances this week. Last week, we just didn't
Speaker 1: think the Bears could throw deep, and we were right.
Speaker 1: I mean we knew that from the Thursday preview pod, right.
Speaker 1: I think it was like eight for thirty two for
Speaker 1: downfield numbers. Same thing this week. Jacoby's twelve for thirty
Speaker 1: throwing down the field twenty plus yards with thirteen point
Speaker 1: nine yards per pass, a touchdown in four picks. That's
Speaker 1: a fifty nine passer ratings. So maybe there's a formula
Speaker 1: of bringing up those deep zones a little bit fat
Speaker 1: during those guys into the rush or into the hook
Speaker 1: zones and coverage. My game plan centers around not keeping
Speaker 1: Javon Park in center field and bring him up and
Speaker 1: let him read the quarterbacks eyes, let him make a
Speaker 1: big impact. This feels like a game where our defense
Speaker 1: could restake their footing sacks from fifteen and two off
Speaker 1: the edge take aways from eight. Big key for me
Speaker 1: this week. Receivers and tight ends versus corners. Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: is a fantastic route runner. X has gotta be on him.
Speaker 1: From my money, I don't want to see a rookie
Speaker 1: on Marie Cooper. He's too good of a route runner.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Keion crossing after the way
Speaker 1: the matchups went with Chase Claypool last week. Because Cooper
Speaker 1: uses his frame, excellent change of direction, and pure instinct
Speaker 1: and natural smarts to really create separation. And he's a
Speaker 1: great hands catcher who can pull in contest of footballs.
Speaker 1: I'm curious see if X draws him frequently because when
Speaker 1: he does get separation, great, but he doesn't do it
Speaker 1: very often. More on that in a moment. Donovan Peoples
Speaker 1: Jones is insanely athletic. They will shoot him a couple
Speaker 1: of deep balls every game in those instances where he
Speaker 1: draws one on one matchups. That could be a nice
Speaker 1: test for kator co who should he be the one
Speaker 1: that draws DPJ. In general, the Browns are one of
Speaker 1: the lower teams in separation created from next Gen, so
Speaker 1: holding up in coverage on those four men rushes could
Speaker 1: potentially be the difference. That extra three tenths of a
Speaker 1: second makes all the difference. There are coverage sacks a
Speaker 1: plenty to be had against this quarterback with the combination
Speaker 1: of receivers who don't separate a Marii Cooper is third
Speaker 1: from bottom this year. He's in Devonte Parker range two
Speaker 1: point two yards average separation and Donald's People Donald do
Speaker 1: the People Jones h two point five average yards of separation.
Speaker 1: That's thirteen from the bottom. If David and Joku is back,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see plenty more twelve personnel. Jesse, James
Speaker 1: and Joku was set to be some kind of two
Speaker 1: tight end set, but James on I R and and
Speaker 1: Joku returned to practice this week, but he hasn't been
Speaker 1: activated from I R yet. We'll see about him um,
Speaker 1: but People's Jones is Snaptaker, Cooper, David Belle, then you
Speaker 1: go and Joco at tight end. Austin Bryant and Pararell
Speaker 1: Brown have played a lot as well. It's an underrated
Speaker 1: skill group and they kind of fit with Jacobe strengths
Speaker 1: of keeping plays alive and going off script and winning
Speaker 1: contested balls for our guys, plastering, not grabbing and finishing plays.
Speaker 1: Don't pull guys by their hips and their waist and
Speaker 1: pull them down. Don't put Pust in that position again
Speaker 1: this week. X's pick last week was vintage X. I
Speaker 1: didn't agree with the call, but I'm hoping we can
Speaker 1: snag one back in this game to get him on
Speaker 1: the board for the season. I think he matches up
Speaker 1: well here and I'm curious to see what the Browns
Speaker 1: do inside with their slots and tight ends. It's tough
Speaker 1: to know without knowing which tight ends will play, but
Speaker 1: rookie David Bell plays in the slot seventies seven percent
Speaker 1: of his snaps. Then you get the two tight ends
Speaker 1: who check in between thirty and forty, and then Cooper.
Speaker 1: People's jones are both from the high twent so you
Speaker 1: kind of know how it's gonna go. Where guys line up.
Speaker 1: You can dictate the matchups as a result of that.
Speaker 1: I was a big David Bell fan coming out of
Speaker 1: per Due, but his athletic profile is no match for Cater,
Speaker 1: so Kater needs to have a big game inside on him.
Speaker 1: X gotta shut down Maury Cooper, and then to me,
Speaker 1: you roll help to done with People's jones and help
Speaker 1: out your other cornerback there. I like the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: this week a lot guys offensive line versus defensive line.
Speaker 1: This is a strength of the Browns football team, this
Speaker 1: spot and their backs, and it looks like their lines
Speaker 1: are getting healthier too. So Whyatt Teller missile two games,
Speaker 1: but he's been back at practice. Jack Conklin is back
Speaker 1: after missing some time as well. Teller and Benito are
Speaker 1: the best guard combination of football, and man, we gotta
Speaker 1: come ready to compete against those guys. They can operate
Speaker 1: in space, they can win in a phone booth, and
Speaker 1: they can create those creases for Nick Chubb to exploit.
Speaker 1: They are averaging six point six yards running left of center,
Speaker 1: five point nine running behind left guard, and five point
Speaker 1: nine behind the left tackle. It's a big matchup for Seeler,
Speaker 1: who tends to play that side. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: the bare front we deploy to take on those guys.
Speaker 1: Heads up, I should say, head up over the center
Speaker 1: and guards. It's a great matchup inside of one on ones.
Speaker 1: Christian and Zach have been great all year, so have
Speaker 1: Teller and Bonitos. That's a big time matchup. And then
Speaker 1: with ray Kwan playing the nose, continue to hold the
Speaker 1: point like he has because if he can disrupt ethan
Speaker 1: postage that will disrupt Botonio and Teller from getting out
Speaker 1: in space and operating why like they do. So, it's
Speaker 1: a big job for him up front to stack up
Speaker 1: bodies and get bodies to the party against Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: and pass pro. Uh. Jeddrick Wills snaps this year twenty
Speaker 1: one pressures. It's a rough year for him. Joel Betonio
Speaker 1: is fantastic. Nine pressures on three hundred four snaps post
Speaker 1: which has been good inside three four snaps as well,
Speaker 1: just seven pressures. Teller also has seven pressures allowed because
Speaker 1: only played one snaps. I have not been as good
Speaker 1: in pass pro. And then Jack Conkin also very good
Speaker 1: two fourteen snaps just five pressures off that right tackle. Again,
Speaker 1: I say this is the day that Philips and Chubb
Speaker 1: go off. Multiple sacks for them is my bold prediction.
Speaker 1: Jacoby percent holds the ball too long, slow to get
Speaker 1: off the spot. Just please don't miss him. Don't miss
Speaker 1: these tackles. He's strong, can stay on his feet, but
Speaker 1: he's not getting away from anybody with his athletic ability.
Speaker 1: And again, Jeddrick Will's great rookie year at right tackle
Speaker 1: not been good at left tackle. I think the Chubb
Speaker 1: narrative and how big that trade was will make itself
Speaker 1: now to be true this week with Chubb up against
Speaker 1: Jeddrick Wills, we need that consistent pressure. We need hard
Speaker 1: edges from a group that has done well with that
Speaker 1: all year. Hopefully another week in the system for Chubb
Speaker 1: just makes him even more effective. I really don't know
Speaker 1: what to expect from a blitzing standpoint, but ma'am, if
Speaker 1: we can get into third lungs, those can create a
Speaker 1: lot chances for the defense. And we do that by
Speaker 1: stopping the running backs versus linebackers, which is the best
Speaker 1: one to punch from football. Now. The Dolphins have allowed
Speaker 1: just two hundred yard rushers this year. Both of them
Speaker 1: are quarterbacks Lamar and Fields, who, in my opinion or
Speaker 1: two of the best quarterback runners of all time. Running
Speaker 1: backs average fifty five yards per game against Miami, Chubb
Speaker 1: is averaging one oh five for game, so something has
Speaker 1: to give. Chubb has outstanding contact balance, He's incredibly powerful,
Speaker 1: as smart and instinctive runner who always hits the right gap,
Speaker 1: and has a tremendous relationship with an offensive line that
Speaker 1: has largely been together for a while now. Chubb has
Speaker 1: fifty one forced tackles forced miss tackles this year. He's
Speaker 1: averaging just a smidge under four yards after initial contact
Speaker 1: and Hunt has fourteen miss tackles forced and averages just
Speaker 1: three yards after contact. So a big drop off there. Actually,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, we saw a good mix of
Speaker 1: linebacker usage last week. It's a big week this week
Speaker 1: for Landon Roberts. We need his aggressiveness and tone setting
Speaker 1: to set the tone against this run game. They'll also
Speaker 1: screen to the backs to so staying rush gaps down
Speaker 1: and keeping eyes as a key. To me, it's a
Speaker 1: four man pressure week. But we will see I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see special teams. Kad York is
Speaker 1: fourteen of eighteen. He has three misses from fifty plus
Speaker 1: one from the forty nine range, but he has three
Speaker 1: makes and each of those ranges, whereas Jason Sanders is
Speaker 1: leving for fifteen history mrs are from fifty plus and
Speaker 1: then one from twenty nine yards last week, bjorkes. They're
Speaker 1: punter twenty five kicks this year, forty seven point three
Speaker 1: average more steady one points, forty five point seven average
Speaker 1: d v o A. Browns or twenty two special teams.
Speaker 1: Dolphins are dead last, and I just realized I forgot
Speaker 1: to take my last break. Let's go ahead and do
Speaker 1: that here real quick and come back and tell you
Speaker 1: what's at stake and the three keys to victory. That's
Speaker 1: next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. What's at stake as the Dolphins
Speaker 1: take on the Browns one o'clock Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. Look,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with Josh Ellen's elbow and arm
Speaker 1: as we go along here. Perhaps we have some more
Speaker 1: news by the time you hear this podcast. They're calling
Speaker 1: him day today right now, and we'll see about his
Speaker 1: stass on Sunday. Gosh, if they lose with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins win, you're in first place in the
Speaker 1: first throw after that shaking of the arm and four
Speaker 1: on the tingling, I know you feel in your arm
Speaker 1: on an injury like that. If he does play, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of pain. Management is something to
Speaker 1: track the rest of the year, especially in that cold
Speaker 1: weather when it's tougher to get loose. Travis, why the
Speaker 1: hell are you talking about Josh Allen and our what's
Speaker 1: at stake right here? Well, because I thought the path
Speaker 1: the division was closed when two went down and we
Speaker 1: lost three straight. But if Alan's messed up, it definitely
Speaker 1: opens that back up. The Dolphins are tied for the
Speaker 1: most wins in the a f C heading into the game.
Speaker 1: Everything we want is in front of us. Keep winning.
Speaker 1: The a f C is wild this year. You essentially
Speaker 1: have nine teams that would make the graphic we start
Speaker 1: seeing the time of year right, division leaders, wild card teams,
Speaker 1: and in the Hunt the three column graphic. One win
Speaker 1: separates the number one seed in the conference, Buffalo, who's
Speaker 1: ahead of k C by virtue of their tie at
Speaker 1: six and two or their head to head win at
Speaker 1: six and two, and the number nine team currently in
Speaker 1: the a f C, the five and four Bengals. One
Speaker 1: win separates those teams. So what's to stay a three
Speaker 1: game winning streak, staying left of the in the hunt
Speaker 1: column and keeping paced with Buffalo and the freaking Jets
Speaker 1: in our in our own division? Jets are off this
Speaker 1: week again, so a win allows Miami to leap frog
Speaker 1: them in the division, and the Bills draw one of
Speaker 1: the top teams the NFL, The seven and one vikings.
Speaker 1: If it's case Keenum, you feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we'll see. But every week is big. This one
Speaker 1: is no exception. My three keys of the game, tackle, tackle, tackle.
Speaker 1: If you let Nick Chubb make big plays, it'll be tough.
Speaker 1: If you don't, you'll beat this team. It's as simple
Speaker 1: as that. Number two, create takeaways. The Browns turn the
Speaker 1: ball over a lot, and their losses they don't and
Speaker 1: their wins. Get your takeaways. Number three, keep to a
Speaker 1: clean of two is upright and throwing the football down
Speaker 1: the field. Nobody can stop us. Let's do that and
Speaker 1: keep Myles Garrett at bay and we should be able
Speaker 1: to get a Victor Ray my week ten picks. We
Speaker 1: are ninety and forty one on the season. How about
Speaker 1: that five? I can't count, I can't read, but it's
Speaker 1: going good right now on Thursday Night football, Give me
Speaker 1: the Falcons over the Panthers. Give me the Bucks in
Speaker 1: Germany over the Seahawks. Is a long flight for the
Speaker 1: Seahawks going all the way over to German. Give me
Speaker 1: the Dolphins over the Browns. Give me the Bears over
Speaker 1: the lines. I think Chicago's gonna go on a run
Speaker 1: here They're a good team, I think at this point,
Speaker 1: even after trading off their best defensive players. Give me
Speaker 1: the Broncos over the Titans, and a little about that one.
Speaker 1: If Tannehill plays me by change that we'll see. Give
Speaker 1: me the Vikings over a Buffalo and less Josh Allen plays.
Speaker 1: But even then, I want to see how the arm looks.
Speaker 1: Give me the Giants over the Texans. Give the Chiefs
Speaker 1: over the Jags. Stealers over the Saints. Don't feel great
Speaker 1: about that. Give me the Raiders over the Colts. Colts
Speaker 1: won't win a game the rest of the year. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'll score point the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: What are they doing? Give me the card Knows over
Speaker 1: the Rams. Give me the Packers over the Foul over
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Why am I doing that? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Give me the Niners over the Chargers, and give me
Speaker 1: the Eiggles over the Commanders. Lot of commers in Washington.
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Speaker 1: Up Caroline Daddy's He's coming over.