WEBVTT - Drive Time: Opponent Deep Dive and the Tangible Value of Continuity 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.080 To on the Move, Darlin, Deep Speed, Liss past Hell. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.400 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:18.560 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please God Miamians in 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:28.320 the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to the 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.680 Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.639 on today's show, we are going to take one last 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.720 off season look at this thing. As we are now 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.560 just one day away from the opening kickoff of the 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.320 National Football League and four days away from your Miami 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.800 Dolphins teeing it up. We're gonna go round the schedule 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.919 and give you updates on all seventeen Dolphins opponents, their 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.840 training camps, their new faces, what to expect from these 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.600 teams heading into week number one. Plus I did a 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.000 deep dive on the value of quarterback and head coach continuw. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.320 We're gonna give you some bold takes and get some 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.160 media availability updates, all of that in a heck of 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.800 a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:14.360 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.640 At long Last. Tomorrow begins the normal in season structure 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.720 of the podcast, and since we move the preview pods 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.880 to Thursday. Wednesday today is going to be what I'm 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.880 calling Deep Dive Day, not to be mistaken with the 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.720 fish Tank podcast dive into them on Tuesdays, but whether 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.360 it's the previous game, the game coming up, a larger 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.240 scale look at something, or even events with players off 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.000 the field. As we focus on fins off the field 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.760 in their events in the community, we will be peeling 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.160 back the onion, opening the kimono to take you deeper 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.720 inside bonk your favorite football team. To kick off our 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.600 first deep Dive Wednesday of the season, We're gonna do 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.600 that twice. First, I want to do a quick rundown 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.600 on all of our opponents this year, because we've know 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.680 you establish what you think a team is at various 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.040 points of the calendar, right like after the season ends. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.600 You have the taste in your mouth from the team's 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.200 last game. You have their I guess youth or age 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.480 or however you want to classify where you think they 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.040 are from an internal growth standpoint, and then that kind 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.720 of gets flipped on its head come March, and then 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.160 that kind of gets flipped on its head come April 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.240 in the draft. Then you have OTAs that reshape your thoughts. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.360 Then you have training camp and everything seems to maybe 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.920 be jumbled up at that point for most folks. What 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.760 I wanted to do was go through all the camp reports. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.280 I've watched a lot of preseason games. I've watched some 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.840 film from last year, anything that I can do to 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.240 get ready for the season, and I just want to 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.440 spend a little more time on the fourteen opponents you 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.160 will see either here at hard Rock Stadium or on 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.760 the visiting or as a home team when we visit them. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.079 Whoever's on the Dolphins schedule this year, that's who we're 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.480 talking about. Try to get didn't work out, And since 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.280 we play three teams two times each, our biggest rivals, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.079 we're going to go ahead and just skip the second 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.280 portion of those so they'll repeat part of that because 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.840 there's no point in doing any team twice in this 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.800 particular deep dive. Our other deep dive is going to 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.720 take a look at that continuity between player or quarterback 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.840 and coaches that have been together for three years, with 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.679 Tua and McDaniel both having contract extensions and both here 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.640 for the foreseeable future. All right, sound good, Let's do 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.480 it first up Jacksonville, Jaguars, and we'll do this one 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.280 brief since we're going to do a whole thing on 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.880 them tomorrow. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked really comfortable in 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.480 his very limited preseason action this season, and rookie wide 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.560 receiver Brian Thomas Junior gives them a vertical element they 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.040 just didn't have last year. I think the offensive line 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.000 on paper looks good, but they had some issues against 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.120 some not so great pass rushes or just kind of 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.840 look disjointed at times, which if coach Weaver can get 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.240 this defense, you know, playing the way we want them 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.640 to right away, that could provide some issues for a 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.280 Jacksonville offensive line that really got worked this preseason. And 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.040 it's not like us. It's a totally different mindset and 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.640 structure with how they run their stuff there, so it 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.760 actually matters much more. We didn't see him, but Eric Armstead, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.960 I always call him Eric. Eric Armstead changes the complexion 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.160 of their front. They really dodged serious injury all camp long, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.560 so we get them at full strength and new defensive 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.800 coordinator Ryan Nielsen kind of changes their complexion. More on 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.360 that tomorrow. The Buffalo Bills in a week two they 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.640 lose four pillars of their defense, and one is a 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.760 guy that's still there, but he's down with the biceps 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.919 injury in Matt Mulano. And if you go back to 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.760 when he was lost for do he miss the rest 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.440 of the year or I think he missed the rest 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.120 of the season after an injury last season, or did 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.120 he return towards the very end. I forget he When 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.880 he went down that game in London, they were three 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.880 and one and then they went six and six. Their 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.680 total record went six and six, so they went two 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.080 and five over the next seven games, and that took 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.640 really a half the season for them to recover from that, 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.000 And of course after the Tyler Done article, they bounced 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.000 back and won the remaining five games of the season. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.680 And they'll replacing a lot of big time veterans on defense. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.039 I mentioned you know Milano, but Poyer's gone, Hidees gone, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.280 Trey White's gone. That's a lot of leadership and a 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.279 lot of pelts on the wall. You lose with those 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.000 guys exit. But Josh Allen's still there. And I think 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.080 one of the craziest aspects of their team last year 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.080 was they started the same offensive line the entire season. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.360 Will they get that luck again I doubt it. But again, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.640 Josh Allen's there and he is the ultimate eraser of 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.960 issues for the Buffalo. For the Buffalo Bills, I mean, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.000 he just he is. We have to admit that they do. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.559 Say goodbye is to Von Diggs and Keyon Coleman's preseason production. Weird. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.120 Who could have seen this coming? He caught thirty percent 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.000 of his targets in the preseason and never looked good 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.160 of doing any of it. So weird. The Seahawks. I 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.000 am excited to see what Ben Grubbs does with an 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.640 offense that has high level processing quarterback play and three 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.200 dynamic weapons in the passing game between DK Metcalf, Tyler 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.760 Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigba. How does the rest 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.839 of the personnel match up with that? Though? Because after 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.480 years of being built to play what was you know, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:11.120 essentially Dave Wantstead ball Wanni ball, can they adjust to 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.599 a new approach on offense and how long will that take? 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.920 And it's the same deal on defense to go from 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.360 Pete Carroll's cover three even front four man four down 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.680 linemen get pressure with four to this era ex what 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.760 almost at erotic, exotic style of defense that really empowers 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.440 seven rushers or eight rushers on any given rep to 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.720 kind of confuse the opposing quarterback. How quickly does that 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.440 Mesh and Gael together. That's my big question for this team. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.920 But as far as their camp in preseason, the biggest 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.840 sequence I think was when they traded away Darryl Taylor 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.880 to Chicago thinking they were good at edge, and then 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.560 literally the next day in practice or in the game 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.279 against Cleveland, u Chenna Nuosa goes down with an injury. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.839 It's gonna cost him like half the season at least. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.280 And then they go back and get more depth by 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.800 trading for Travis Gibson, which is a signif downgrade from 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.080 the previous two names you just heard. So interesting dichotomy 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.520 there at that edge position for the Titans in week 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.560 number four. I want this game so bad. I want 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.560 all these games. I think we're gonna start off really good. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.640 In fact, I do believe the Dolphins will start off 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:14.920 the season five and oh and going to there by 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.120 week at five and oh. But against the Titans, Will 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.560 Levis's second year in a brand new offense, a brand 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.760 new approach, more spread it out under Brian Callahan with 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.480 his remade wide receiver corps of you know, DeAndre Hopkins 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.360 is there, but Tyler Boyd and Calvin Ridley. They also 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.280 remade their defense with Caandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Lugerius Sneid, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.000 Chidobia Woose, Ernest Jones. They just got him from the 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.520 Rams in that trade. Kenneth Murray, who we had an 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.440 absolute hell last year in that opener, the linebacker, and 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.960 then Tovandre Sweat all ads that they're gonna play. They're 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.920 gonna get a lot of playing time, all those guys 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.119 and how quickly will they gel once again? Injury wise, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.320 Hopkins had the hamstring and camp, but he should be 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.720 good to go week number one. They are also starting 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.360 eighty percent of a brand new offensive line for the 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.600 new England Patriot. It's in week five, new coaching staff 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.440 for the first time this century. They're going to start 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.080 Jacobe Brissett for some reason. I think we'll probably see 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.480 Drake may in this game. Though this figures to be 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.320 one of the worst offenses in the league, if not 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.840 the very worst. It's crazy that it actually got like 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.240 a lot better than what it was last year, but 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.200 it's still so far away from even league average. I 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.640 like pop Douglas. I think he's a good player. I 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.520 like Kendrick Bourne, think he's a very good player. I 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.280 like Jalen Polk and Javon Baker, the two rookies. But 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.720 right now, at this point in time, that's all threes, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.720 fours and fives, baby, And that reminds me of the 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.439 Jeff Ireland comment about the twenty twelve receiving core and 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.120 I got three fours and fives and I need one 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.640 twos and threes. It's like, yeah, you think, dude, what 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.800 do you think wins in today's NFL? And the line 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.880 is bad. This is a team that's very heavily in 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.839 play for the first pick in the draft. It's such 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.480 a new program all across the board. And you know, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.840 they trade Judon and lose Christian Barmore to a very 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.679 serious health scare with blood clots and hopefully he's back 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.640 to being the beast that he is soon. But that 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.920 is two massive losses on that Patriot defense, which was 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.080 the only thing that kind of kept them relatively in 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.080 games against US last year. I mean, they were down 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.120 by fourteen points heading into the fourth quarter in both 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.200 those games, so it's not like they were really close games. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.760 But I digress. You lose those two guys, your two 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.480 probably best defensive players outside of Christian Gonzales, it's gonna 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.600 be tough. And Kyle Dugart to Kyle Dougart's very very good. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.840 The Indianapolis Colts. I am so bullish on this team. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.320 We are coming off the bye, playing an indoor game 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.640 in late October, but I think that they're despite the 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.959 fact that they're a little bit thin on the back 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.120 of the defense a lot of teams are. I think 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.600 that Anthony Richardson and Shane Stiken is going to be 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.960 one of these next quarterback coach combos. I think that 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.640 alone is good enough to really take this team to 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.439 really great heights. Com pair that with Jonathan Taylor behind 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.640 a good offensive line. I mean that the complexity of 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.160 Richardson and jt in the running game together is just 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.800 gonna be really tough for opposing defenses to deal with, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.560 as you get that extra hat in the equation. Lots 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.640 of times with Ar's ability to run the football, they 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.080 do lose Josh downs for the first part of the year, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:00.960 and I think he's gonna to be a special special 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.719 player for them. But the reports are and you know, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.160 I take, I take anybody else besides my own training 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.320 camp reports. Well, I shouldn't say anybody. I would trust, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.120 you know, Kyle to go somewhere Kyle Krabs to go 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.520 to somebody else's camp and give me a good feedback back. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.360 But you get what I'm saying. I don't really trust 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.560 you know, beat guys to go out there and do it. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.960 But according to the Beat guys, ad Mitchell and Alec 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.840 Pierce had really good camps, So that figures to be 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.360 a pretty good receiving core. If that's the case, I 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.400 think this is a division title contender in the AFC South. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.080 The Arizona Cardinals are not going to contend for the division. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.000 But the value of having Kyler Murray back for his 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.559 first full camp really in a couple of years and 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.200 a fully healthy season, because you know last year he 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.200 came back was it after like Halloween. And the ripple 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.760 effect of Marvin Harrison on a guy like Michael Wilson 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.040 and Greg Dorch who were good players, but now that 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.160 you slot them into like your boundary X and your 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.040 slot receiver or however you want to slice it up, like, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.840 the ripple effect of that is really greater than some 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.480 of its parts, because I think that Marvel is a 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.079 true number one that can really dictate coverage that way, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.680 and you get more weapons on the offense as a result. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.079 But Jonathan Gannon, you know that defense, it's it's gonna 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.680 be his baby, And I don't know how they're gonna 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.680 build that thing because they are so so severely like 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.800 undermanned from a personnel standpoint on the defensive side. And 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.280 I think this is a game with the Dolphins run 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.360 the ball for like two hundred plus yards. They also 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.160 had some injuries off the edge of a spot that 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.680 was already like criminally thin. That defense is It's Patriots 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.600 offense bad. The Buffalo Bills will see them in week 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.880 number eight, but or week number nine rather, but we've 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.839 arobably talked about them. Let's go ahead and get to 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.040 the halfway point of the season here with the Los 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.199 Angeles Rams in game number nine and week number ten. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.520 And this is a weird team, so I think they're 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.079 a contender. But Stafford has been like in and out 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.000 with this. I think the same elbow all training camp long, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.199 which is obviously terrifying if you're a Rams fan. Puka 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.640 Nakua had that bursa sack injury, but it sounds like 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.840 he is fine, although he did miss a good chunk 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.680 of the training camp and then Kyron Williams returning punts. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.280 Is part of me wants to say like, that's fine 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.080 because mcveigh's just trying to find more ways to impact 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.040 the game with his best players. But if you ask 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.360 the fantasy community, they are like up in arms over this, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.800 saying it's a bad sign for his future. I tend 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.319 to disagree, but we shall see again. I think this 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.760 is a title contender, namely for the weapons and McVeigh 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.600 and Stafford together and the unique ability they have to 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.240 be multifaceted to go to that power run game because 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.160 of what they've done up front in the interior offensive 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.679 line the Las Vegas Raiders, why am I still saying 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.480 inherently trying to like say Oakland on these guys, that's 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.960 what they should be. It was a bit of a 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.199 tough watch offensively for the Raiders this preseason and Gardner 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.600 Minshew go Koog's he threw a pick and had like 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.200 under five yards per pass attempt in the game that 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.560 won him the starting quarterback job because surprise, Aidan O'Connell 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.360 was even worse than that. But I think this team 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.000 has players all over its roster. They stayed relatively healthy 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.880 through our training camp. Though we're at the point in 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.240 the schedule now where anything besides like a season ending 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.520 injury probably does an impact the Dolphins game against that team, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.560 you know what, twelve weeks out from this point, so 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.319 no big impact there. But the Raiders, to me, could 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.480 be one of those teams where it's like, gosh, the 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.880 roster is so good and you you like what you're 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.400 seeing all up and down the roster, but what are 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.440 they doing a quarterback? He reminds me of the Falcons 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.320 last year, which, by the way, Desmond Ridder got cut 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.840 from the Arizona Cardinals and they went with Clayton Tune 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.560 as Kyler Murray's backup, and the Falcons went into the 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.560 season last year without giving any competition to Desmond Ridder. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.160 That's why I always like kind of get a chuckle 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.040 out of these former you know, NFC South scouts, says 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.760 the Tuwatunga Maar lowercuse, like, yeah, you might work in 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.160 this league, bro, but it doesn't mean you know what 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.400 the hell you're doing. Because I saw a team go 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.079 into a season last year with Desmond Ridder as their 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.840 unquestioned starting quarterback. So I don't know about all that 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.240 so so, but I think the Raiders could be this 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.280 year's Falcons, where it's like, gosh, they have weapons all 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.160 over the place on offense. Their defense has gotten a 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.520 lot better. But you cannot compete in this league if 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.680 you don't get competent quarterback play on a weekend, week 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.480 out basis. I think Minshew can give you that in Spurts. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.760 I think he's like the twenty fifth best quarterback in 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.720 the league, which is, you know, it's good enough to 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.800 start somewhere, but I don't think it's good enough to 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.280 really move the needle and get a team over the hump. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.000 So that's a strange team. I think the Raiders this year. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.880 Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.120 and come back and do the rest of the schedule, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.840 starring on Thanksgiving with the Green Bay Packers. That's all. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.000 Next to Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:48.480 to you by Auto Nation. We left off with the 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.040 Las Vegas Raiders Week eleven game. We'll see the Patriots 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.160 in week twelve. We just talked about them, so go 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.720 ahead and skip over that, and that takes us into 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.320 this stretch run against the Green Bay Packers, than the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.360 New York Jets, Houston Texans, San Francisco forty nine Ers, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.120 Cleveland Browns, and then once again at the Jets in 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.760 the final game of the year. And there was a 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.200 piece of content that I had been contemplating doing for 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.360 you guys, So a little peek behind the curtain here 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.600 is be continue to do that on the deep Dive Wednesday. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.760 When I go to bed, you guys are gonna think 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:22.040 I'm crazy for this. When I go to bed, I 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.440 have a hard time like turning my mind off right 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.040 the ADHD mind. One thing I do, like counting sheep, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:35.360 is I will go over the Dolphins schedule and kind 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:40.680 of like pretend like I'm watching the highlights on you know, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.600 Sunday or NFL Primetime rather or whatever the recap shows 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.720 are nowadays that you watch and like, as I do 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.920 this throughout the course of the offseason, I kind of 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.640 picture like a perfect year and my I was gonna 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.800 write this like fan fiction, what a perfect year would 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.400 look like, and I decided not to do it. But 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.680 essentially I had us going sixteen and one to a 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.280 throwing for five thousand yards and fifty touchdowns, and the 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.720 one loss was actually on Thanksgiving against the Green Bay Packers. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.880 As it invites all these questions about, oh, the Dolphins 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.480 are eleven and one now and they lost an inclement 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.520 weather are they going to be for real? And you 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.080 get all these question marks, and then you literally go 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.920 beat the Jets. You go beat the Texans on a 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.960 game that could get flex in a primetime You go 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.200 beat last year's NFC champion in the San Francosco forty 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.560 nine ers. You go on the road in Cleveland and 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.160 you win a game in the snow, in the horrible 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.720 weather to clinch the AFC number one seed. And then 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.200 against the Jets, who are playing for a playoff spot 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.680 and you rest your starters, you beat them to get 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.720 your sixteenth win of the season and knock them out 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.800 of the playoffs with your backups, and then of course 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.240 you go on to win the Super Bowl. It was 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.480 like my perfect fan fiction season. So that's kind of 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.680 what this game wise reminds me of, is the one 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:51.000 loss in my cheap counting nighttime sleep method. Anyway, that's 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.200 a crazy sidebar. The Green Bay Packers made it through 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.480 the preseason. If I lost you guys, fair enough, I 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.400 almost did my weave there. As I've heard recently described, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.760 they made it through the preseason without much shake up. Here, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.679 they did lose aj Dillon for the entire season. This 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.720 is one of the deeper offenses in the NFL. That 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.080 makes me think they're somewhat equipped. You know, no one's 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.439 equipped to take on the injuries the Dolphins had at 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.960 the edge group last year. But this team, if they 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.040 lose a receiver, for instance, it won't be the end 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.639 of the world because they have like four guys they 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.280 can really count on, maybe five if you want to 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.200 go that deep. The proof of concept is there. If 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.240 run game, pass game, offensive line, the quarterback, you know, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.479 all that stuff is it looks good. I think it's 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.679 gonna be really, really dominant this year. I am curious 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.080 to see how Jeff Haffley incorporates his defense. You know, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.400 we'll have an idea what it is come Thanksgiving. Right now, 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.479 I really don't, but I think this could be a 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.760 trend center in the NFL. With college football essentially having 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.879 an every year like start over free agency period. That 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.360 sucks with the portal. I'm all four player empowerment man, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.280 but it's hard. I hate how some guys play at 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.439 four schools in five years now, just as stupid to me. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.520 But I think we'll see a lot of college head 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.040 coaches do it this, taking a coordinator job at the 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.680 next level to get away from it. Like, who wants 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.080 to be part of that? I don't think most people 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.320 probably don't if they have the choice too. The Jets, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.280 they had a camp similar to ours. A lot of 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.240 key parts were either down or held out for precautions. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.600 It sounds like Mike Williams and Tyron Smith will play 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.520 the opener against the Niners on Monday Night. The edge position, though, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.440 is where the story is here. Will Hassan Reddick be 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.760 in the building come this game on December the eighth, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.639 because they went all in on getting him and lost 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.320 really good players as a result of that in Bryce Huff, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.800 who they could have probably signed back if it wasn't 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.240 for Reddick or not drafting Will McDonald the first round 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.960 last year and John Frank la Myers. But the good 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.040 news for them is that Will McDonald had a really 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.639 good camp in preseason. I think he'll be okay. The 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.320 Houston Texans offense is loaded they're in their second year. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.480 From mcontinuity standpoint with Bobby Slowick and Damico Ryans and CJ. Stroud, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.119 and I think that he'll probably be the next OC 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.080 turned head coach in this league. Tank Dell has been 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.320 clearly or fully cleared to go after his season ending 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.720 ankle injury last year. What does this backfield rotation look like? 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.240 Because because Damian Pierce did not have the second year, 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.320 some folks thought he might have last year, and and 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.920 then Joe Mixon also missed all of camp in preseasons, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.720 So what does that look like in the backfield? Does 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.680 he come back? Does he play for them? The forty 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.800 nine Ers Brandon Ayux deal has finally done. Trent Williams 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.720 has still not reported as of my recording this. Maybe 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.160 that changes come Wednesday when the practice reports comes out, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.840 or actually they want to have their first until Thursdays. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.840