Speaker 1: To on the Move, Darlin, Deep Speed, Liss past Hell.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please God Miamians in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we are going to take one last
Speaker 1: off season look at this thing. As we are now
Speaker 1: just one day away from the opening kickoff of the
Speaker 1: National Football League and four days away from your Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins teeing it up. We're gonna go round the schedule
Speaker 1: and give you updates on all seventeen Dolphins opponents, their
Speaker 1: training camps, their new faces, what to expect from these
Speaker 1: teams heading into week number one. Plus I did a
Speaker 1: deep dive on the value of quarterback and head coach continuw.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you some bold takes and get some
Speaker 1: media availability updates, all of that in a heck of
Speaker 1: a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast
Speaker 1: At long Last. Tomorrow begins the normal in season structure
Speaker 1: of the podcast, and since we move the preview pods
Speaker 1: to Thursday. Wednesday today is going to be what I'm
Speaker 1: calling Deep Dive Day, not to be mistaken with the
Speaker 1: fish Tank podcast dive into them on Tuesdays, but whether
Speaker 1: it's the previous game, the game coming up, a larger
Speaker 1: scale look at something, or even events with players off
Speaker 1: the field. As we focus on fins off the field
Speaker 1: in their events in the community, we will be peeling
Speaker 1: back the onion, opening the kimono to take you deeper
Speaker 1: inside bonk your favorite football team. To kick off our
Speaker 1: first deep Dive Wednesday of the season, We're gonna do
Speaker 1: that twice. First, I want to do a quick rundown
Speaker 1: on all of our opponents this year, because we've know
Speaker 1: you establish what you think a team is at various
Speaker 1: points of the calendar, right like after the season ends.
Speaker 1: You have the taste in your mouth from the team's
Speaker 1: last game. You have their I guess youth or age
Speaker 1: or however you want to classify where you think they
Speaker 1: are from an internal growth standpoint, and then that kind
Speaker 1: of gets flipped on its head come March, and then
Speaker 1: that kind of gets flipped on its head come April
Speaker 1: in the draft. Then you have OTAs that reshape your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Then you have training camp and everything seems to maybe
Speaker 1: be jumbled up at that point for most folks. What
Speaker 1: I wanted to do was go through all the camp reports.
Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of preseason games. I've watched some
Speaker 1: film from last year, anything that I can do to
Speaker 1: get ready for the season, and I just want to
Speaker 1: spend a little more time on the fourteen opponents you
Speaker 1: will see either here at hard Rock Stadium or on
Speaker 1: the visiting or as a home team when we visit them.
Speaker 1: Whoever's on the Dolphins schedule this year, that's who we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Try to get didn't work out, And since
Speaker 1: we play three teams two times each, our biggest rivals,
Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and just skip the second
Speaker 1: portion of those so they'll repeat part of that because
Speaker 1: there's no point in doing any team twice in this
Speaker 1: particular deep dive. Our other deep dive is going to
Speaker 1: take a look at that continuity between player or quarterback
Speaker 1: and coaches that have been together for three years, with
Speaker 1: Tua and McDaniel both having contract extensions and both here
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. All right, sound good, Let's do
Speaker 1: it first up Jacksonville, Jaguars, and we'll do this one
Speaker 1: brief since we're going to do a whole thing on
Speaker 1: them tomorrow. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked really comfortable in
Speaker 1: his very limited preseason action this season, and rookie wide
Speaker 1: receiver Brian Thomas Junior gives them a vertical element they
Speaker 1: just didn't have last year. I think the offensive line
Speaker 1: on paper looks good, but they had some issues against
Speaker 1: some not so great pass rushes or just kind of
Speaker 1: look disjointed at times, which if coach Weaver can get
Speaker 1: this defense, you know, playing the way we want them
Speaker 1: to right away, that could provide some issues for a
Speaker 1: Jacksonville offensive line that really got worked this preseason. And
Speaker 1: it's not like us. It's a totally different mindset and
Speaker 1: structure with how they run their stuff there, so it
Speaker 1: actually matters much more. We didn't see him, but Eric Armstead,
Speaker 1: I always call him Eric. Eric Armstead changes the complexion
Speaker 1: of their front. They really dodged serious injury all camp long,
Speaker 1: so we get them at full strength and new defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Ryan Nielsen kind of changes their complexion. More on
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. The Buffalo Bills in a week two they
Speaker 1: lose four pillars of their defense, and one is a
Speaker 1: guy that's still there, but he's down with the biceps
Speaker 1: injury in Matt Mulano. And if you go back to
Speaker 1: when he was lost for do he miss the rest
Speaker 1: of the year or I think he missed the rest
Speaker 1: of the season after an injury last season, or did
Speaker 1: he return towards the very end. I forget he When
Speaker 1: he went down that game in London, they were three
Speaker 1: and one and then they went six and six. Their
Speaker 1: total record went six and six, so they went two
Speaker 1: and five over the next seven games, and that took
Speaker 1: really a half the season for them to recover from that,
Speaker 1: And of course after the Tyler Done article, they bounced
Speaker 1: back and won the remaining five games of the season.
Speaker 1: And they'll replacing a lot of big time veterans on defense.
Speaker 1: I mentioned you know Milano, but Poyer's gone, Hidees gone,
Speaker 1: Trey White's gone. That's a lot of leadership and a
Speaker 1: lot of pelts on the wall. You lose with those
Speaker 1: guys exit. But Josh Allen's still there. And I think
Speaker 1: one of the craziest aspects of their team last year
Speaker 1: was they started the same offensive line the entire season.
Speaker 1: Will they get that luck again I doubt it. But again,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's there and he is the ultimate eraser of
Speaker 1: issues for the Buffalo. For the Buffalo Bills, I mean,
Speaker 1: he just he is. We have to admit that they do.
Speaker 1: Say goodbye is to Von Diggs and Keyon Coleman's preseason production. Weird.
Speaker 1: Who could have seen this coming? He caught thirty percent
Speaker 1: of his targets in the preseason and never looked good
Speaker 1: of doing any of it. So weird. The Seahawks. I
Speaker 1: am excited to see what Ben Grubbs does with an
Speaker 1: offense that has high level processing quarterback play and three
Speaker 1: dynamic weapons in the passing game between DK Metcalf, Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigba. How does the rest
Speaker 1: of the personnel match up with that? Though? Because after
Speaker 1: years of being built to play what was you know,
Speaker 1: essentially Dave Wantstead ball Wanni ball, can they adjust to
Speaker 1: a new approach on offense and how long will that take?
Speaker 1: And it's the same deal on defense to go from
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's cover three even front four man four down
Speaker 1: linemen get pressure with four to this era ex what
Speaker 1: almost at erotic, exotic style of defense that really empowers
Speaker 1: seven rushers or eight rushers on any given rep to
Speaker 1: kind of confuse the opposing quarterback. How quickly does that
Speaker 1: Mesh and Gael together. That's my big question for this team.
Speaker 1: But as far as their camp in preseason, the biggest
Speaker 1: sequence I think was when they traded away Darryl Taylor
Speaker 1: to Chicago thinking they were good at edge, and then
Speaker 1: literally the next day in practice or in the game
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, u Chenna Nuosa goes down with an injury.
Speaker 1: It's gonna cost him like half the season at least.
Speaker 1: And then they go back and get more depth by
Speaker 1: trading for Travis Gibson, which is a signif downgrade from
Speaker 1: the previous two names you just heard. So interesting dichotomy
Speaker 1: there at that edge position for the Titans in week
Speaker 1: number four. I want this game so bad. I want
Speaker 1: all these games. I think we're gonna start off really good.
Speaker 1: In fact, I do believe the Dolphins will start off
Speaker 1: the season five and oh and going to there by
Speaker 1: week at five and oh. But against the Titans, Will
Speaker 1: Levis's second year in a brand new offense, a brand
Speaker 1: new approach, more spread it out under Brian Callahan with
Speaker 1: his remade wide receiver corps of you know, DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: is there, but Tyler Boyd and Calvin Ridley. They also
Speaker 1: remade their defense with Caandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Lugerius Sneid,
Speaker 1: Chidobia Woose, Ernest Jones. They just got him from the
Speaker 1: Rams in that trade. Kenneth Murray, who we had an
Speaker 1: absolute hell last year in that opener, the linebacker, and
Speaker 1: then Tovandre Sweat all ads that they're gonna play. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of playing time, all those guys
Speaker 1: and how quickly will they gel once again? Injury wise,
Speaker 1: Hopkins had the hamstring and camp, but he should be
Speaker 1: good to go week number one. They are also starting
Speaker 1: eighty percent of a brand new offensive line for the
Speaker 1: new England Patriot. It's in week five, new coaching staff
Speaker 1: for the first time this century. They're going to start
Speaker 1: Jacobe Brissett for some reason. I think we'll probably see
Speaker 1: Drake may in this game. Though this figures to be
Speaker 1: one of the worst offenses in the league, if not
Speaker 1: the very worst. It's crazy that it actually got like
Speaker 1: a lot better than what it was last year, but
Speaker 1: it's still so far away from even league average. I
Speaker 1: like pop Douglas. I think he's a good player. I
Speaker 1: like Kendrick Bourne, think he's a very good player. I
Speaker 1: like Jalen Polk and Javon Baker, the two rookies. But
Speaker 1: right now, at this point in time, that's all threes,
Speaker 1: fours and fives, baby, And that reminds me of the
Speaker 1: Jeff Ireland comment about the twenty twelve receiving core and
Speaker 1: I got three fours and fives and I need one
Speaker 1: twos and threes. It's like, yeah, you think, dude, what
Speaker 1: do you think wins in today's NFL? And the line
Speaker 1: is bad. This is a team that's very heavily in
Speaker 1: play for the first pick in the draft. It's such
Speaker 1: a new program all across the board. And you know,
Speaker 1: they trade Judon and lose Christian Barmore to a very
Speaker 1: serious health scare with blood clots and hopefully he's back
Speaker 1: to being the beast that he is soon. But that
Speaker 1: is two massive losses on that Patriot defense, which was
Speaker 1: the only thing that kind of kept them relatively in
Speaker 1: games against US last year. I mean, they were down
Speaker 1: by fourteen points heading into the fourth quarter in both
Speaker 1: those games, so it's not like they were really close games.
Speaker 1: But I digress. You lose those two guys, your two
Speaker 1: probably best defensive players outside of Christian Gonzales, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. And Kyle Dugart to Kyle Dougart's very very good.
Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Colts. I am so bullish on this team.
Speaker 1: We are coming off the bye, playing an indoor game
Speaker 1: in late October, but I think that they're despite the
Speaker 1: fact that they're a little bit thin on the back
Speaker 1: of the defense a lot of teams are. I think
Speaker 1: that Anthony Richardson and Shane Stiken is going to be
Speaker 1: one of these next quarterback coach combos. I think that
Speaker 1: alone is good enough to really take this team to
Speaker 1: really great heights. Com pair that with Jonathan Taylor behind
Speaker 1: a good offensive line. I mean that the complexity of
Speaker 1: Richardson and jt in the running game together is just
Speaker 1: gonna be really tough for opposing defenses to deal with,
Speaker 1: as you get that extra hat in the equation. Lots
Speaker 1: of times with Ar's ability to run the football, they
Speaker 1: do lose Josh downs for the first part of the year,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna to be a special special
Speaker 1: player for them. But the reports are and you know,
Speaker 1: I take, I take anybody else besides my own training
Speaker 1: camp reports. Well, I shouldn't say anybody. I would trust,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyle to go somewhere Kyle Krabs to go
Speaker 1: to somebody else's camp and give me a good feedback back.
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. I don't really trust
Speaker 1: you know, beat guys to go out there and do it.
Speaker 1: But according to the Beat guys, ad Mitchell and Alec
Speaker 1: Pierce had really good camps, So that figures to be
Speaker 1: a pretty good receiving core. If that's the case, I
Speaker 1: think this is a division title contender in the AFC South.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals are not going to contend for the division.
Speaker 1: But the value of having Kyler Murray back for his
Speaker 1: first full camp really in a couple of years and
Speaker 1: a fully healthy season, because you know last year he
Speaker 1: came back was it after like Halloween. And the ripple
Speaker 1: effect of Marvin Harrison on a guy like Michael Wilson
Speaker 1: and Greg Dorch who were good players, but now that
Speaker 1: you slot them into like your boundary X and your
Speaker 1: slot receiver or however you want to slice it up, like,
Speaker 1: the ripple effect of that is really greater than some
Speaker 1: of its parts, because I think that Marvel is a
Speaker 1: true number one that can really dictate coverage that way,
Speaker 1: and you get more weapons on the offense as a result.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan Gannon, you know that defense, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be his baby, And I don't know how they're gonna
Speaker 1: build that thing because they are so so severely like
Speaker 1: undermanned from a personnel standpoint on the defensive side. And
Speaker 1: I think this is a game with the Dolphins run
Speaker 1: the ball for like two hundred plus yards. They also
Speaker 1: had some injuries off the edge of a spot that
Speaker 1: was already like criminally thin. That defense is It's Patriots
Speaker 1: offense bad. The Buffalo Bills will see them in week
Speaker 1: number eight, but or week number nine rather, but we've
Speaker 1: arobably talked about them. Let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 1: the halfway point of the season here with the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams in game number nine and week number ten.
Speaker 1: And this is a weird team, so I think they're
Speaker 1: a contender. But Stafford has been like in and out
Speaker 1: with this. I think the same elbow all training camp long,
Speaker 1: which is obviously terrifying if you're a Rams fan. Puka
Speaker 1: Nakua had that bursa sack injury, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: he is fine, although he did miss a good chunk
Speaker 1: of the training camp and then Kyron Williams returning punts.
Speaker 1: Is part of me wants to say like, that's fine
Speaker 1: because mcveigh's just trying to find more ways to impact
Speaker 1: the game with his best players. But if you ask
Speaker 1: the fantasy community, they are like up in arms over this,
Speaker 1: saying it's a bad sign for his future. I tend
Speaker 1: to disagree, but we shall see again. I think this
Speaker 1: is a title contender, namely for the weapons and McVeigh
Speaker 1: and Stafford together and the unique ability they have to
Speaker 1: be multifaceted to go to that power run game because
Speaker 1: of what they've done up front in the interior offensive
Speaker 1: line the Las Vegas Raiders, why am I still saying
Speaker 1: inherently trying to like say Oakland on these guys, that's
Speaker 1: what they should be. It was a bit of a
Speaker 1: tough watch offensively for the Raiders this preseason and Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew go Koog's he threw a pick and had like
Speaker 1: under five yards per pass attempt in the game that
Speaker 1: won him the starting quarterback job because surprise, Aidan O'Connell
Speaker 1: was even worse than that. But I think this team
Speaker 1: has players all over its roster. They stayed relatively healthy
Speaker 1: through our training camp. Though we're at the point in
Speaker 1: the schedule now where anything besides like a season ending
Speaker 1: injury probably does an impact the Dolphins game against that team,
Speaker 1: you know what, twelve weeks out from this point, so
Speaker 1: no big impact there. But the Raiders, to me, could
Speaker 1: be one of those teams where it's like, gosh, the
Speaker 1: roster is so good and you you like what you're
Speaker 1: seeing all up and down the roster, but what are
Speaker 1: they doing a quarterback? He reminds me of the Falcons
Speaker 1: last year, which, by the way, Desmond Ridder got cut
Speaker 1: from the Arizona Cardinals and they went with Clayton Tune
Speaker 1: as Kyler Murray's backup, and the Falcons went into the
Speaker 1: season last year without giving any competition to Desmond Ridder.
Speaker 1: That's why I always like kind of get a chuckle
Speaker 1: out of these former you know, NFC South scouts, says
Speaker 1: the Tuwatunga Maar lowercuse, like, yeah, you might work in
Speaker 1: this league, bro, but it doesn't mean you know what
Speaker 1: the hell you're doing. Because I saw a team go
Speaker 1: into a season last year with Desmond Ridder as their
Speaker 1: unquestioned starting quarterback. So I don't know about all that
Speaker 1: so so, but I think the Raiders could be this
Speaker 1: year's Falcons, where it's like, gosh, they have weapons all
Speaker 1: over the place on offense. Their defense has gotten a
Speaker 1: lot better. But you cannot compete in this league if
Speaker 1: you don't get competent quarterback play on a weekend, week
Speaker 1: out basis. I think Minshew can give you that in Spurts.
Speaker 1: I think he's like the twenty fifth best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league, which is, you know, it's good enough to
Speaker 1: start somewhere, but I don't think it's good enough to
Speaker 1: really move the needle and get a team over the hump.
Speaker 1: So that's a strange team. I think the Raiders this year.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there
Speaker 1: and come back and do the rest of the schedule,
Speaker 1: starring on Thanksgiving with the Green Bay Packers. That's all.
Speaker 1: Next to Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation. We left off with the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders Week eleven game. We'll see the Patriots
Speaker 1: in week twelve. We just talked about them, so go
Speaker 1: ahead and skip over that, and that takes us into
Speaker 1: this stretch run against the Green Bay Packers, than the
Speaker 1: New York Jets, Houston Texans, San Francisco forty nine Ers,
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, and then once again at the Jets in
Speaker 1: the final game of the year. And there was a
Speaker 1: piece of content that I had been contemplating doing for
Speaker 1: you guys, So a little peek behind the curtain here
Speaker 1: is be continue to do that on the deep Dive Wednesday.
Speaker 1: When I go to bed, you guys are gonna think
Speaker 1: I'm crazy for this. When I go to bed, I
Speaker 1: have a hard time like turning my mind off right
Speaker 1: the ADHD mind. One thing I do, like counting sheep,
Speaker 1: is I will go over the Dolphins schedule and kind
Speaker 1: of like pretend like I'm watching the highlights on you know,
Speaker 1: Sunday or NFL Primetime rather or whatever the recap shows
Speaker 1: are nowadays that you watch and like, as I do
Speaker 1: this throughout the course of the offseason, I kind of
Speaker 1: picture like a perfect year and my I was gonna
Speaker 1: write this like fan fiction, what a perfect year would
Speaker 1: look like, and I decided not to do it. But
Speaker 1: essentially I had us going sixteen and one to a
Speaker 1: throwing for five thousand yards and fifty touchdowns, and the
Speaker 1: one loss was actually on Thanksgiving against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: As it invites all these questions about, oh, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are eleven and one now and they lost an inclement
Speaker 1: weather are they going to be for real? And you
Speaker 1: get all these question marks, and then you literally go
Speaker 1: beat the Jets. You go beat the Texans on a
Speaker 1: game that could get flex in a primetime You go
Speaker 1: beat last year's NFC champion in the San Francosco forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. You go on the road in Cleveland and
Speaker 1: you win a game in the snow, in the horrible
Speaker 1: weather to clinch the AFC number one seed. And then
Speaker 1: against the Jets, who are playing for a playoff spot
Speaker 1: and you rest your starters, you beat them to get
Speaker 1: your sixteenth win of the season and knock them out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs with your backups, and then of course
Speaker 1: you go on to win the Super Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: like my perfect fan fiction season. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: what this game wise reminds me of, is the one
Speaker 1: loss in my cheap counting nighttime sleep method. Anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a crazy sidebar. The Green Bay Packers made it through
Speaker 1: the preseason. If I lost you guys, fair enough, I
Speaker 1: almost did my weave there. As I've heard recently described,
Speaker 1: they made it through the preseason without much shake up. Here,
Speaker 1: they did lose aj Dillon for the entire season. This
Speaker 1: is one of the deeper offenses in the NFL. That
Speaker 1: makes me think they're somewhat equipped. You know, no one's
Speaker 1: equipped to take on the injuries the Dolphins had at
Speaker 1: the edge group last year. But this team, if they
Speaker 1: lose a receiver, for instance, it won't be the end
Speaker 1: of the world because they have like four guys they
Speaker 1: can really count on, maybe five if you want to
Speaker 1: go that deep. The proof of concept is there. If
Speaker 1: run game, pass game, offensive line, the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: all that stuff is it looks good. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really, really dominant this year. I am curious
Speaker 1: to see how Jeff Haffley incorporates his defense. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll have an idea what it is come Thanksgiving. Right now,
Speaker 1: I really don't, but I think this could be a
Speaker 1: trend center in the NFL. With college football essentially having
Speaker 1: an every year like start over free agency period. That
Speaker 1: sucks with the portal. I'm all four player empowerment man,
Speaker 1: but it's hard. I hate how some guys play at
Speaker 1: four schools in five years now, just as stupid to me.
Speaker 1: But I think we'll see a lot of college head
Speaker 1: coaches do it this, taking a coordinator job at the
Speaker 1: next level to get away from it. Like, who wants
Speaker 1: to be part of that? I don't think most people
Speaker 1: probably don't if they have the choice too. The Jets,
Speaker 1: they had a camp similar to ours. A lot of
Speaker 1: key parts were either down or held out for precautions.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Mike Williams and Tyron Smith will play
Speaker 1: the opener against the Niners on Monday Night. The edge position, though,
Speaker 1: is where the story is here. Will Hassan Reddick be
Speaker 1: in the building come this game on December the eighth,
Speaker 1: because they went all in on getting him and lost
Speaker 1: really good players as a result of that in Bryce Huff,
Speaker 1: who they could have probably signed back if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for Reddick or not drafting Will McDonald the first round
Speaker 1: last year and John Frank la Myers. But the good
Speaker 1: news for them is that Will McDonald had a really
Speaker 1: good camp in preseason. I think he'll be okay. The
Speaker 1: Houston Texans offense is loaded they're in their second year.
Speaker 1: From mcontinuity standpoint with Bobby Slowick and Damico Ryans and CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 1: and I think that he'll probably be the next OC
Speaker 1: turned head coach in this league. Tank Dell has been
Speaker 1: clearly or fully cleared to go after his season ending
Speaker 1: ankle injury last year. What does this backfield rotation look like?
Speaker 1: Because because Damian Pierce did not have the second year,
Speaker 1: some folks thought he might have last year, and and
Speaker 1: then Joe Mixon also missed all of camp in preseasons,
Speaker 1: So what does that look like in the backfield? Does
Speaker 1: he come back? Does he play for them? The forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers Brandon Ayux deal has finally done. Trent Williams
Speaker 1: has still not reported as of my recording this. Maybe
Speaker 1: that changes come Wednesday when the practice reports comes out,
Speaker 1: or actually they want to have their first until Thursdays.
Speaker 1: That works out for me just fine since they're playing
Speaker 1: the Monday night game. But that's not going to matter
Speaker 1: come Christmas time. Right, They're not gonna Trent Williams is
Speaker 1: not going to star out the entire season. Shoot. They
Speaker 1: might even have Drake green Law back at this point
Speaker 1: after he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: doubt it, but maybe I'm happy he's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: happy that Ricky Piersall is even alive after what happened
Speaker 1: to him. You know this weekend he got shot in
Speaker 1: the chest at a mall in San Francisco. But he
Speaker 1: should be down for some time, I'd imagine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They had similar precautions and injuries as us. They had
Speaker 1: guys like Floyd and Bosa and Hargrave and yues Check
Speaker 1: missing some time in camp. So a Christmas game, not
Speaker 1: a lot of train camp updates to provide for you.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the Niners and their month of August.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns, Deshaun Watson has more shoulder soreness or
Speaker 1: whatever that missed some camp time. With that injury, is
Speaker 1: the shoulders going to be injured forever now? It kind
Speaker 1: of seems that way. Their second round pick Michael Halls
Speaker 1: on the Commission exempt list and David Nijok, who's been
Speaker 1: dealing with an injury as well. Their offensive line somehow
Speaker 1: had worse luck than us last year, missing like four
Speaker 1: of the final five guys to end the season, and
Speaker 1: they also already lost Hakeem Adeniji, who was in lining
Speaker 1: some playing time for them this year as well, so
Speaker 1: they've they've lost some key parts on that offensive front.
Speaker 1: They also lost was a Ethan Poschik went down for
Speaker 1: the whole year, and they went out and brought Nick
Speaker 1: Harris back. So Brown's offensive line a little bit beat
Speaker 1: up right now. And then the Jets the season finale,
Speaker 1: we already talked about them. So I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and spend the last part of segment two here
Speaker 1: taking a look at the deep dive that I did
Speaker 1: with regards to head coach and quarterback continuity in light
Speaker 1: of the McDaniel news on the extension on the heels
Speaker 1: of the two a tongue of Baila extension, and look
Speaker 1: at what teams have had in terms of their success
Speaker 1: with the same head coach and quarterback for three years
Speaker 1: compared to the rest of the league or maybe not,
Speaker 1: you know, comparatively, but just look at the records of
Speaker 1: those teams, as it's been pretty pretty successful for teams
Speaker 1: that have had that continuity. So what I did was
Speaker 1: go back over the last three seasons and take a
Speaker 1: look at teams that had three plus years of head
Speaker 1: coach and quarterback continuity. And here's what you had. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The Buffalo Bills went eleven and six,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens went thirteen and four, the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs went eleven and six, Dallas twelve and five. That's
Speaker 1: a total of forty seven and twenty one. I had
Speaker 1: two team exclusions on here, and maybe that's not what
Speaker 1: we should do here, Maybe we should keep them in.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think I did go back and keep
Speaker 1: men at the end of this argument, now that I
Speaker 1: think about it. But I excluded the Los Angeles Chargers
Speaker 1: at five and twelve because their coach got fired in seasons,
Speaker 1: so they didn't complete the third year. And then Cincinnati
Speaker 1: went nine to eight. And I debated keeping this one
Speaker 1: in or not because the quarterback missed, you know, more
Speaker 1: than a month, which is you know, a big enough chunk.
Speaker 1: He missed almost half the games last year. If we
Speaker 1: do put them in, then those teams went sixty one
Speaker 1: and forty In twenty twenty two, the Buffalo Bills went
Speaker 1: thirteen and four. The Cincinnati Bengals in their third year
Speaker 1: or yeah, the third year of having all those guys together,
Speaker 1: went twelve and four. The Kansas City Chiefs, which have
Speaker 1: had the same guys forever now fourteen and three, and
Speaker 1: then Green Bay was eight and nine, and the only
Speaker 1: team in this entire collection that had their quarterback the
Speaker 1: entire year and finished sub five hundred. Nobody else was
Speaker 1: fewer than eleven wins, except for the Niners in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, who missed Garoppolo for a couple of games,
Speaker 1: so that kind of you know, Rogers played the whole
Speaker 1: year and they went under five hundred. The Niners in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two went thirteen and four at sixty and
Speaker 1: twenty three. In twenty twenty one again, Buffalo eleven and six,
Speaker 1: that was the third or the fourth year of Alan McDermott.
Speaker 1: Baltimore went eight and nine, as Lamar missed the final
Speaker 1: five games a team that began the year eight and four,
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's what happens when you lose
Speaker 1: your quarterback, right The Titans twelve and five, Cheaps twelve
Speaker 1: and five. Packers did go thirteen and four the last
Speaker 1: time Aaron Rodgers was good, and San Francisco went ten
Speaker 1: and seven, and Arizona went eleven and six that year
Speaker 1: as well, So sixty seven and forty two for those
Speaker 1: teams combined and combined the last three years, teams that
Speaker 1: have gone into a year with a third year of
Speaker 1: head coach and quarterback continuity are one eighty eight and
Speaker 1: one ozh five. That's a six forty two win percentage.
Speaker 1: And teams that fit that criteria this season are Buffalo,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Dallas, Philadelphia, Detroit,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Rams. And if I
Speaker 1: go back to my season predictions podcast and thread or
Speaker 1: whatever that was called, those teams projected records combined were
Speaker 1: one fourteen and seventy three, or a six eleven win percentage,
Speaker 1: and that is about ten and a half wins on average.
Speaker 1: So that's the expectation when you return your head coaching
Speaker 1: quarterback on average. And if you remove you know, that
Speaker 1: Chargers team or that Bengals team with Jake Browning, or
Speaker 1: if you remove the Lamar Jackson list Ravens from the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one year, you pretty much get up to
Speaker 1: like eleven twelve wins per year for most of these teams.
Speaker 1: So what am I trying to say? There's value? There's
Speaker 1: money in the banana stand. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break right there, come back and
Speaker 1: do some bold takes and additional media availabilities. That's next
Speaker 1: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Not quite sure just yet if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna add media availabilities in here, but I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and end this Wednesday podcast like this with
Speaker 1: some bold takes for you guys and maybe just do
Speaker 1: a short episode and get the hell out of here
Speaker 1: and go on to the next So here's my bold takes.
Speaker 1: I wrote a few of these, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's not really that bold, because like Tua throwing for
Speaker 1: five thousand yards, which he would have done that last
Speaker 1: year if they just let him finish every single blowout,
Speaker 1: or like an MVP, Like that's not that crazy either.
Speaker 1: He was probably the MVP of the league last year
Speaker 1: after that Washington game. You know, like not that crazy
Speaker 1: to think about. But I do have a couple of
Speaker 1: bold takes and I want to read to you guys
Speaker 1: some bold takes, as I asked our content wing here
Speaker 1: to give me theirs just to have a talking point
Speaker 1: here on the podcast. So I have two that I
Speaker 1: actually believe in you can't really have a whole lot
Speaker 1: for a whole for a team, right because like what
Speaker 1: am I gonna predict everyone has like a career high
Speaker 1: or a record setting performance for the team like that,
Speaker 1: That's probably not gonna happen. So what I do have
Speaker 1: is Jalen Waddle leads the team in receiving. Is that crazy?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I just heard Tyreek Hill say he's
Speaker 1: going to be an All Pro, But I just could
Speaker 1: see it. I could. I just can see that happening.
Speaker 1: Do I have any real conviction behind it for why? No?
Speaker 1: But he was close in twenty twenty two. I mean
Speaker 1: he was only like three hundred yards off the pace,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, you never know. My other bold
Speaker 1: take is that Jalen Phillips is going to give us
Speaker 1: flashbacks to Cam Wake in twenty sixteen. What I mean
Speaker 1: by that is in twenty fifteen, and this was a
Speaker 1: game in late October, Cam Wake tore his achilles tendon
Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, he's thirty five or
Speaker 1: thirty six, whatever he was, that's probably gonna be it
Speaker 1: for him. Right. I was very very sad that night,
Speaker 1: and that was the first loss of the Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: era after those two games against the Titans and Texans,
Speaker 1: when we were like, oh, we're three and where were
Speaker 1: three and three or three and four, and we were
Speaker 1: all fired up thinking like, oh, he turns it around
Speaker 1: and then was like, nah, you just played the Patriots.
Speaker 1: You just put the Textans the times you didn't play
Speaker 1: the Patriots yet and did put the Patriots and you
Speaker 1: got smacked by like thirty points and you're freaking like
Speaker 1: only potential Hall of Famer of the last fifteen years
Speaker 1: Store's Achilles or ten years. Maybe I think JT played
Speaker 1: like what he played in twenty ten for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: So yeah, or twenty eleven for the Dolphins. I digress.
Speaker 1: The whole point here, the bull take is that Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips gives us a similar path to what Cam Wake
Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen when he came back from the
Speaker 1: Achilles injury and had eleven and a half sex. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that he tops that and gets at
Speaker 1: least twelve sacks. I said that last year he's gonna
Speaker 1: have fifteen, but injuries, you know, not even the season
Speaker 1: ending injury on Black Friday that ended up costing him
Speaker 1: the final six games of the season, which you're not
Speaker 1: going to get fifteen sacks playing eleven games. But he
Speaker 1: also had the you know, he missed that the New
Speaker 1: England game, he missed that Denver game, and he came back,
Speaker 1: I think for the Buffalo game. But he just was
Speaker 1: like the first really four or five games of the year,
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing a whole lot of football. And he
Speaker 1: finally came on strong once he got healthy and got back,
Speaker 1: and he peaked at that Jets game, and then that
Speaker 1: was the day he got hurt. So the bold take
Speaker 1: here is that Jalen Phillips gets twelve sacks one year
Speaker 1: off an achilles injury. So I asked around the content room,
Speaker 1: give me some of your bold takes, guys, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to lay out a couple of these ones.
Speaker 1: Some are legit. One was really funny that I just
Speaker 1: wanted to put in the show here real quick. So
Speaker 1: one was that David Long leads the NFL in tackles.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's good and it's bold too, because
Speaker 1: no one's going to predict that across the NFL landscape.
Speaker 1: But he's probably gonna play a lot and he's rangy
Speaker 1: as hell, and he makes a lot of tackles, so
Speaker 1: I like it. Tyreek does get his two thousand yards
Speaker 1: and the league MVP award that goes and start contract
Speaker 1: to my Wattle projection, but I digress good pick for
Speaker 1: that guy as well. I'm not going to throw any
Speaker 1: names out there, but that was one that I heard.
Speaker 1: The other one was kind of crazy to me. Tua
Speaker 1: is third on the team and rushing touchdowns and he
Speaker 1: said it was with four or five maybe, And now
Speaker 1: that I think about it, if if Tula got four,
Speaker 1: that might be third on the team. So I think
Speaker 1: Rahem will get more. I think that a Cham will
Speaker 1: get more. I want to say right will get more.
Speaker 1: But as you guys have heard me bandy about this,
Speaker 1: I don't really know what to expect from his workloads.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. And then the last one here is
Speaker 1: that Durham Smyth scores a touchdown, and like I know
Speaker 1: he scored before. I just thought that was such a
Speaker 1: funny answer because, like you know, let's go look up
Speaker 1: how many career touchdowns Durham's Smythe has in his career.
Speaker 1: Of course, PFR is not going to pull him up
Speaker 1: right away. So Durham did not find the end zone
Speaker 1: last year. Actually, you know what, he scored three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in six years, so maybe that is a bold take,
Speaker 1: you know what, I pull that back. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: apologize to the person that told me that take. Right now.
Speaker 1: I think you're all right. He will score a touchdown
Speaker 1: and that has a boltake. So there you go. Those
Speaker 1: are the bull takes with the season. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and skip media. Availabilis, who cares you guys can find
Speaker 1: him on YouTube. I don't have any way of weaving
Speaker 1: him into the story today anyway, So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and call it a podcast. Right there, we went hell along.
Speaker 1: My daughter, says Helen now, because she's four years old
Speaker 1: and she watches Taylor Swift Shake it Off like four
Speaker 1: times a day, and she always says to the fella
Speaker 1: over there with the Hella good hair, why don't you
Speaker 1: come on over baby, we can shake, shake shake. She's
Speaker 1: so precious, man, That little girl has my heart. What
Speaker 1: was I talking about? We're gonna get out of here
Speaker 1: because I lost my train. I thought we were off
Speaker 1: the rails here. Thirty minutes intol Wednesday, episode tomorrow, Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars preview. I also have to pick the game, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my Let's see, I think I'm doing
Speaker 1: the game picks on Thursdays, but just in case I forget,
Speaker 1: my Thursday night pick is the Chiefs. I'm picking the
Speaker 1: World Champs. I'm going out on a limb and saying
Speaker 1: the World Champs are gonna win their first game of
Speaker 1: the season, even though last year it didn't happen that way. Right,
Speaker 1: Usually this is a spot where teams get that win.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna pick the Ravens initially when I
Speaker 1: wasn't quite sure if Xavier Worthy was going to learn
Speaker 1: how to get off press coverage, and I was worried
Speaker 1: about Hollywood Brown's injury. He will not play in the game.
Speaker 1: I was worried about Rashi Rice's suspension, but he gets
Speaker 1: to play for some reason. So I think the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are going to be just fine. They're going to go
Speaker 1: fifteen to two, and it starts on Thursday Night Football
Speaker 1: with a win over the Baltimore Ravens. I'll have the
Speaker 1: rest of the picks for you guys later this week.
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