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Speaker 5: And on today's show, we're gonna take a look at
Speaker 5: week number four, fourteen that kicks off tonight. Can you
Speaker 5: believe that we're already just five weeks left in the
Speaker 5: NFL season? Well for some teams, not for us. My goodness.
Speaker 5: We'll pick all the games. But first, the Austin Jackson
Speaker 5: extension is official. We'll go in depth on his breakout season.
Speaker 5: Here from the head coach on what makes Austin the
Speaker 5: perfect right tackle for this football team. Plus I'll give
Speaker 5: you a little bit of an off season primer and
Speaker 5: looking at some of the potential contracts coming up for
Speaker 5: this Miami Dolphins team. We'll also hear from ESPN's to
Speaker 5: Ron Davenport. It talks some Titans, and of course more
Speaker 5: commentary from Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 5: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
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Speaker 5: News to start the show, Austin jackson brand new contract.
Speaker 5: The reported figures are three for thirty six. Of course,
Speaker 5: that can always be give or take on either side
Speaker 5: of the deal, which, if you're keeping track at home,
Speaker 5: is less than the twenty two twenty four cost of
Speaker 5: what Austin Jackson's fifth year option would have been at
Speaker 5: fourteen point two million, So your apy is lower on
Speaker 5: the extension. Chris Greene, you've done it once again. You
Speaker 5: lock down one of the most critical positions, and you
Speaker 5: did it for way lower than what market value dictates,
Speaker 5: because if you take all tackles into account, and I
Speaker 5: was looking at this thinking like, well, yeah, but right
Speaker 5: tackle money is less than left tackle, and it is,
Speaker 5: but both tackles are pretty.
Speaker 6: Much the same in today's NFL.
Speaker 5: Especially especially when you have a left handed quarterback, that
Speaker 5: right tackle pretty important. Right, So he is actually the
Speaker 5: thirtieth highest paid apy tackle in the NFL. What he's
Speaker 5: eleventh among right tackles. You know, I mentioned this as
Speaker 5: a possibility somewhere back along the line that you might
Speaker 5: get in Austin Jackson DeVante Parker level hometown discount after
Speaker 5: what was a tough start to the career and then
Speaker 5: a promising breakout season.
Speaker 6: Only it happened.
Speaker 5: But I can tell you from a sustainability standpoint, I
Speaker 5: think Austin's is sustainable because of the way he studies,
Speaker 5: the way he.
Speaker 6: Understands the game.
Speaker 5: I had a podcast with him this summer where he
Speaker 5: talked about how he woke up every single day this
Speaker 5: offseason and plugged on tape, and he said the mental,
Speaker 5: the mind was the most important, and next is the physical.
Speaker 5: He said he would stretch and do cardio and try
Speaker 5: and improve his flexibility and that shows up and of
Speaker 5: course his mindset pops off the tape every single week
Speaker 5: with some bullyball man night and day difference there between
Speaker 5: the guy I mentioned with the hometown discount contract extension,
Speaker 5: I think this guy's a lot more sustainable in that regard,
Speaker 5: and if he hit the open market, I think it
Speaker 5: would have been a lot more expensive for somebody else
Speaker 5: to bring this guy in the eighteenth pick in the
Speaker 5: draft in twenty twenty, the fifth offensive tackle off the
Speaker 5: board that year. Gives Chris Career and this front office
Speaker 5: yet another feather in the cap. From the exercise we
Speaker 5: did back during the bye a week or was it
Speaker 5: in the offseason, I can't remember, but I went through
Speaker 5: every team and determined draft hits and misses based on
Speaker 5: second contracts, Pro Bowls, various accolades the determined hits and misses,
Speaker 5: and Miami since Chris Greer took over in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: was third in that exercise. And of course, you know
Speaker 5: the ultimate rebuild that went underwent in twenty nineteen post
Speaker 5: that the Dolphins have the third most wins in the
Speaker 5: National Football League. So you know, like every way you
Speaker 5: slice this, this GM is one of the top five
Speaker 5: executives in the NFL, him and his staff putting together
Speaker 5: a roster and they've shown you that with right now
Speaker 5: what me looks like the best roster in the AFC
Speaker 5: and the prohibitive favorite in the conference to advance to
Speaker 5: the big game in February. So fun stuff, you know
Speaker 5: what it was coming into the year because I remember
Speaker 5: Austin being in my we don't know yet category TBD category,
Speaker 5: and there's no way I would have had him there
Speaker 5: at the bye week because he's been shut down all
Speaker 5: year long. In fact, let's go ahead and look at
Speaker 5: some of the guys he's faced this year. Week one,
Speaker 5: Khalil Mackenjoey Bosta both took shots at him off the
Speaker 5: right side of the offensive line. Combined thirty four pass
Speaker 5: blocks naps against those two guys. Two pressures allowed. By
Speaker 5: the way, Khalil Mack has fifteen and a half sacks
Speaker 5: this year. Week two, Matt Judon for f team pass
Speaker 5: blocking snaps. I think he got hurt in that game.
Speaker 5: Zero pressures allowed. Week three, no pressures against Randy Gregor
Speaker 5: or Nick Potonio. Week four, Leonard Floyd did get him
Speaker 5: for two pressures on twenty eight pass rush snaps. Week five,
Speaker 5: Cavon Tibodeau blanked. Week six, Brian Burns got one pressure
Speaker 5: on him on twenty one pass rush snaps Hassan Reddick
Speaker 5: in week seven. These are like the top of the
Speaker 5: top of the food chain of pass rushers besides Parsons
Speaker 5: and Garrett. Burn Reddit got two on him on twenty
Speaker 5: seven pass rush attempts. Week eight, no pressures from the Patriots,
Speaker 5: but no Matt judon clean sheet week nine. George Karloftis
Speaker 5: got him for two pressures on twenty seven dropbacks.
Speaker 6: Week eleven.
Speaker 5: Max Crosby he's probably the next guy between Parsons and
Speaker 5: Miles Garrett. He had two on thirty seven pass rush attempts,
Speaker 5: and then Bryce Huffe thought had the best game against him.
Speaker 5: He got two on nineteen, but there was a sack
Speaker 5: in there as well, and then week thirteen, last week
Speaker 5: clean sheet against the Commandos. He's always been he's always
Speaker 5: had this talent inside and he's also the exact type
Speaker 5: of person that you want to build around. I love, love,
Speaker 5: love an Austin Jackson press conference because we get something
Speaker 5: informative about offensive line play every time he's measured. He
Speaker 5: approaches the game like a ten year pro and he
Speaker 5: just gets it. He's smart as hell, he's tough, he's physical,
Speaker 5: he's violent, downright nasty. There are clips of him playing
Speaker 5: through the echo of the whistle and just burying people
Speaker 5: six feet from the edge, no, six feet under the turf.
Speaker 5: Pull up the commander's tape. You think the defense wanted
Speaker 5: any part of that Mike White led offensive drive for
Speaker 5: nine straight runs into the end zone. No, the Dolphins
Speaker 5: broke their will, and it's because of people like Austin
Speaker 5: Jackson who play every single snap like it's the most
Speaker 5: important snap of their life, pushing you around and physically
Speaker 5: beating you up for fifty snaps. That's why he's getting
Speaker 5: second and third level pancakes in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 5: a game that winning by thirty points. He's passing off
Speaker 5: games where he shoves the looper and knocks him to
Speaker 5: his butt like Robin Connor are like, all right, I
Speaker 5: guess I'm just chilling this rat because the guy that
Speaker 5: was supposed to peel back across is on the floor chilling.
Speaker 5: Then he heils back wide and picks up the exterior looper.
Speaker 5: I think that's where you see how his fundamentals have
Speaker 5: really clicked in this offense. The way he transfers his weight, which,
Speaker 5: by the way, I've seen this guy every August for
Speaker 5: the last four years, he never looked better than he did.
Speaker 5: This August looks slimmer in the face, just slimmer all around,
Speaker 5: a better physical composition. He can work inside to the
Speaker 5: right guard and initiate that type of force that sends
Speaker 5: somebody to the turf and then get back wide on
Speaker 5: those heels and slide the feet and get vertical depth.
Speaker 5: That is tough, tough to do for a three hundred
Speaker 5: and ten three hundred and twenty pounds man. You see
Speaker 5: so many offensive linemen out over their skis. He used
Speaker 5: to be one of them, losing momentum to make those
Speaker 5: types of sudden movements. He used to be one of them.
Speaker 5: But Austin has captured the balance he needs to throw
Speaker 5: around his weight and capitalize on the very rare athletic
Speaker 5: traits that he features, which if you go back to
Speaker 5: the combine, eighty ninth percent tile in the forty yard dash,
Speaker 5: ninety second percent tile in the twenty split, ninety fourth
Speaker 5: percent tile in the tense, and you see that across
Speaker 5: the entire roster ten split very important. It's a good
Speaker 5: measure of speed. Also, ninety seventh percent tile in broad jump,
Speaker 5: which is in the same category as the ten split.
Speaker 5: The two best testing metrics that you can get in
Speaker 5: terms of how you come out of your stance and
Speaker 5: how you fire off the football. Eighty eighth percent TILE
Speaker 5: in the vertical jump eighty second percent TILE in the
Speaker 5: composite size heightened weight combination, which is as impressive as hell.
Speaker 5: When you factor in all these ninetieth percent testing metrics
Speaker 5: at that size and also eighty third bench press, you
Speaker 5: know he's strong. He's playing the smartest football of his career.
Speaker 5: You see it on games with how he IED's blitzes,
Speaker 5: squeezes that B gap first before getting back wide, because
Speaker 5: inside out is the way you want to protect things.
Speaker 5: His ability to attach, engage, detach, and climb on doubles
Speaker 5: has been.
Speaker 6: Chef's kiss choice.
Speaker 5: There were like five reps against Bryce Huff where I
Speaker 5: thought he didn't look super comfortable, but other than that,
Speaker 5: it's been set and forget at right tackle. I don't
Speaker 5: even think about the position during games now because as
Speaker 5: I know we're straight there, we're good to go. Let's
Speaker 5: go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel on
Speaker 5: what Austin Jackson's development and sticking at the right tackle
Speaker 5: position has meant for him in this offense.
Speaker 3: All I took from my interaction with him is a
Speaker 3: very ambitious, goal oriented, driven professional athlete.
Speaker 4: It's great to be picked in the first round as
Speaker 4: a twenty year old.
Speaker 3: There's also a lot of burden with that, and so
Speaker 3: then you know, you look at the film, you match
Speaker 3: it with the person that you're meeting. And I think
Speaker 3: it's important to treat every individual with full trust because
Speaker 3: I'm tough enough. If they break trust, you treat them
Speaker 3: with full trust and see, you.
Speaker 4: Know, give them the opportunity.
Speaker 3: Don't harbor past things against people that have nothing to
Speaker 3: do with those things.
Speaker 4: And to me, there's like this, this guy.
Speaker 3: Is playing multiple positions and he started doing it before
Speaker 3: he legally could drink alcohol. It's a ton of weight.
Speaker 3: And then you have a lot of people talking. You know,
Speaker 3: it's you know, heavy as the crown, as they say,
Speaker 3: and you just have a lot of people interjecting on
Speaker 3: what you are. And I don't know about you, guys,
Speaker 3: but or you a finished product at twenty years old,
Speaker 3: meeting him, understanding where his motivation was.
Speaker 4: And the yearning to have just to be coached.
Speaker 3: You know, who am I to put a ceiling on
Speaker 3: that or to say he is this, that or the other.
Speaker 3: So you keep an open mind and let people, you know,
Speaker 3: take it upon themselves to to dictate what the narrative
Speaker 3: is or what what they can be. And you know,
Speaker 3: I think I think this year in particular, like he had,
Speaker 3: he had a strong off season, We felt good about him.
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: You have an injury right when you're feeling like, hey,
Speaker 3: I can prove a lot of these people wrong. Then
Speaker 3: you just got to sit and listen more. And what
Speaker 3: you're seeing now is I mean, it is the reason
Speaker 3: why you do it, to see those type of journeys.
Speaker 3: It's much much much like you know, the ones we
Speaker 3: talk about with two all the time. There's there's plenty
Speaker 3: of the journeys like that, and it's really awesome to
Speaker 3: see someone someone take the reins of deciding who they
Speaker 3: are and not listening to other people along the way.
Speaker 3: You know, that's and I think it's very very hard
Speaker 3: to do. It's awesome for me to say I believe
Speaker 3: in you, Austin, But when when he you know, this
Speaker 3: is just my opinion, when he really believed it was
Speaker 3: probably after the second week of Phase two. In twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, Tron Armstead, a guy that has done it
Speaker 3: at the highest level for.
Speaker 4: Literally half of his life.
Speaker 3: Saying, no, dude, you can be different. That's what you're
Speaker 3: feeling amongst the team is there's a bunch of shared journeys.
Speaker 3: A lot of people feel a part of that, a
Speaker 3: lot of people are proud of that. He's probably got
Speaker 3: the least exuberance of everybody today about it, because that's
Speaker 3: not how he got it. He's thinking about Wednesday, technique, fundamentals, assignments,
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 5: And by the way, you can send Austin Jackson and
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Speaker 5: you can cast votes via social media. Just tweet the
Speaker 5: first and last name of the player, use the player's handle,
Speaker 5: or create a hashtag with the players first and last name,
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Speaker 6: Congrats Austin. I'm super proud of that guy.
Speaker 5: Have a pretty good relationship with him, and I really
Speaker 5: like talking football in life with him. He also has
Speaker 5: told me several times that Martin Stadium was the toughest
Speaker 5: to play in the former Pac twelve for a road team.
Speaker 5: It's gone now though, Before we get to my guest today,
Speaker 5: I was kicking this idea around for a Thursday topic,
Speaker 5: and I think now is the time to do it
Speaker 5: as we get into extension season, right with Austin Jackson
Speaker 5: getting the contract extension. Because you've been told a million
Speaker 5: times by the same folks that told you this was
Speaker 5: the same team from last year. Ten wins, ceiling, maybe
Speaker 5: maybe one and done in the playoffs. They also told
Speaker 5: you the Dolphins have to get it done this year
Speaker 5: because it's Super Bowl or bust.
Speaker 6: The window is now.
Speaker 5: They can't possibly be a competitive team next year. Right, wrong, wrong,
Speaker 5: It never made sense. Never Mind the June one options
Speaker 5: you have at like left tackle, defensive end, cornerback, you know,
Speaker 5: seventy two, ninety one, twenty five. Never Mind that you
Speaker 5: can save upwards of fifteen million dollars at the quarterback
Speaker 5: position for next season when you give to his extension.
Speaker 5: That is inevitable at this point to me. Never Mind
Speaker 5: that you can structure things, move money around that allows
Speaker 5: you to take on what looks like a lot of
Speaker 5: cash commitments next year, which is a good problem to have,
Speaker 5: right too many mouths to feed to hopefully reset your
Speaker 5: draft success to kind of push those numbers into the
Speaker 5: future when you're paying more young, productive rookies as you
Speaker 5: have draft success. So that's going to be a critical
Speaker 5: part of this next stage of this build. So going
Speaker 5: into the season, I would have told you you're crazy
Speaker 5: to let Christian Wilkins leave because he's the top priority.
Speaker 5: And I still kind of feel that way. And it
Speaker 5: sucks that the original deal couldn't get done because of
Speaker 5: a few million apart negotiations, right reportedly that's what we heard.
Speaker 6: But back to but to.
Speaker 5: Christian's credit, like he's played to that level, so he's
Speaker 5: earned it. He's the only one that I look gap
Speaker 5: as a potential fly in the ointment in terms of
Speaker 5: getting the band back together because you've now locked down
Speaker 5: your right tackle at well below market value.
Speaker 6: His tape is top five.
Speaker 5: Right tackle, no question, and your he's and your fifth
Speaker 5: highest paid right tackle in the NFL is Braden Smith
Speaker 5: from Indianapolis, who's getting seventeen point five apy. It's literally
Speaker 5: five and a half million less per year. That's a
Speaker 5: that's a starter that's a starting guard. To be fair,
Speaker 5: when you drop down to ten, it goes to eleven
Speaker 5: point five, So he's right in that range, like eleven
Speaker 5: was the overall APY. But I promise you had this
Speaker 5: guy hit the market with this tape playing out for
Speaker 5: the rest of the year, you're looking at a lot
Speaker 5: closer to seventeen, eighteen, nineteen million per year. But gun
Speaker 5: Austin's representation to recognize what this system does for his
Speaker 5: game and his skill set, because it's better to play
Speaker 5: you know where you're going to be productive, and you're
Speaker 5: gonna be a free agent again at age twenty eight.
Speaker 5: If his tape is just played for the next three years,
Speaker 5: go ahead and double that APY in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: So to me, the next priority is right next to him,
Speaker 5: both Connor Williams and Robert Hunt. As much as I
Speaker 5: love Austin, the truth is we actually have four offensive
Speaker 5: tackles in the top thirty of the pass block Efficiency score,
Speaker 5: which I think is really really translates to effective pass blocking.
Speaker 5: Keon Smith and Tron Armstead are both just as smidge
Speaker 5: below one hundred, which is impressive as hell for Tron
Speaker 5: because he's one hundred and seventy nine pass block snaps
Speaker 5: doesn't qualify for the rankings. That's a lot of snaps
Speaker 5: to be almost perfect in pass pro, and that's been
Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks where he's been a little
Speaker 5: bit shaky, right, and then Keon at one hundred with
Speaker 5: less than thirty snaps Lamb is thirty second among all tackles.
Speaker 5: But again we've seen what difference it can be made
Speaker 5: when you don't have Connor Williams compared to not having
Speaker 5: those tackles, right, So he is my top priority. This
Speaker 5: is just me, not the team talking me. Then Robert
Speaker 5: Hunt and I have this approach because I'd rather pay
Speaker 5: for offense in twenty twenty three, especially in this offense
Speaker 5: with this quarterback and this team, like the Chiefs, scaled
Speaker 5: back their cost at wide receiver and built up the
Speaker 5: offensive line and look at their offense right now.
Speaker 6: It's been good, but it's not great anymore.
Speaker 5: For us. We know this quarterback can mitigate some of
Speaker 5: the offensive line stuff, and we have the stud receivers already,
Speaker 5: so I think you can go cheaper there, which is
Speaker 5: why I think you could make a case that Keon
Speaker 5: Smith and Liam Eichenberg are your left tackle left guard
Speaker 5: combination for next season. But I have to have Connor
Speaker 5: Williams and Rob Hunt is just such a damn good
Speaker 5: fit for what we do. And when you pair him
Speaker 5: in Austin together and actually a factor in Connor from
Speaker 5: a center to right tackle, there's not a more devastating
Speaker 5: run blocking right side of the offensive line in the
Speaker 5: National Football League. I love Isaiah Win, but he's ended
Speaker 5: two fourths of his season two out of four seasons
Speaker 5: in his career on IR could be three out of
Speaker 5: five if he goes this year, so that's got to
Speaker 5: be cheap.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 5: There are some other names where a cray Crafts have
Speaker 5: on Ahmed, but that's not going to break the bank,
Speaker 5: right And then on defense again, Christian the big one.
Speaker 5: I'm just not quite sure yet. There the way I
Speaker 5: look at it, letting him walk or a tag in
Speaker 5: trade to get you a first all all the Niners
Speaker 5: via you know, DeForest Buckner. You could take care of
Speaker 5: pretty much everyone else if you just do this. Of course,
Speaker 5: it's a big piece of lop off, but it is
Speaker 5: kind of the solution that.
Speaker 6: Would make the most sense, I think.
Speaker 5: But he's also everything you want in a player, so
Speaker 5: it's so difficult. I don't want to lose him at all,
Speaker 5: but just understand the business side of what it could
Speaker 5: mean for the rest of the football team if you
Speaker 5: have to, and then to further break your guys' heart,
Speaker 5: because I'm already doing that right now with Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 5: I think there's one very obvious he's gonna walk that
Speaker 5: could keep you flexible in your cap and that's mister Wang.
Speaker 6: Look.
Speaker 5: I only say this because I think someone is going
Speaker 5: to make Hugh Hwang very very well compensated next year,
Speaker 5: and since you're paying Chubb, and since I think Jalen
Speaker 5: Phillips is going to become the highest paid defender in
Speaker 5: NFL history when he comes up for a contract, because
Speaker 5: that's where the top edge will do on the market. Right,
Speaker 5: it's probably not good asset allocation to have three players
Speaker 5: paid that well at that position. We'll see, but those
Speaker 5: are the two that I kind of look at and
Speaker 5: say they might be able to go get their bag
Speaker 5: somewhere else. And that's how it works, like sometimes you
Speaker 5: have say goodbye to superstar talent like that. And Van
Speaker 5: Ginkle's playing himself into a big contract, so we'll see.
Speaker 6: That's not a given.
Speaker 5: That's a given, but not so much on Wilkins in
Speaker 5: terms of him and Van Ginkle.
Speaker 6: I'd also get to Sean Elliott back.
Speaker 5: He's a big priority to me because it's a little
Speaker 5: bit cheaper for a safety, and he's been so critical
Speaker 5: in terms of how he pairs with Javon Holland. And
Speaker 5: then you're kind of done, like there's some cheaper targets
Speaker 5: Kendall Lamb. I'd look at Braxon, Barrios, Nick Needum. I
Speaker 5: think you can certainly make market value offers and get
Speaker 5: those guys back. But to conclude this, I think in
Speaker 5: terms of generalities is that word.
Speaker 6: I think this is the.
Speaker 5: Off season to restock your draft capital. You need to
Speaker 5: start getting back to finding three or four hits every
Speaker 5: April like we did from twenty sixteen through twenty twenty
Speaker 5: one sans twenty seventeen. I love the aggressive approach, like
Speaker 5: with Tyreek and Chubb and you know all these guys
Speaker 5: they traded for Ramsey. But the only way you can
Speaker 5: maintain this star talent is to start hitting on depth picks.
Speaker 5: Of course, the first round or next year probably needs
Speaker 5: to be a key starter early on for the way
Speaker 5: this is gonna work out. But if you sit out
Speaker 5: a free agency and then you swap Wilkins for a
Speaker 5: one and Van Ginkle walks and gets twelve million ap
Speaker 5: y somewhere else, you probably get a fourth round comp
Speaker 5: pick back. Now, all of a sudden, you've retained pretty
Speaker 5: much the same roster sans Van Ginkel and sans Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 5: which that opens a huge hole defensive tackle. I'm very
Speaker 5: well aware of that. But now you've got two ones,
Speaker 5: A two, a four, a five, two six, and a seven.
Speaker 5: It's a good start to getting back to good, cheap
Speaker 5: young talent to round out the superstar high top market
Speaker 5: value players you do have like a Tyreek Hill like.
Speaker 6: At John Ramsey and on and on and on. So
Speaker 6: that's kind of how I view the off season.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take a quick break rate here,
Speaker 5: because we have more important things to talk about, like
Speaker 5: football this season. But I thought it was critical or
Speaker 5: paramount to get that conversation started here as we get,
Speaker 5: you know, close now closer to the off season. Let's
Speaker 5: go ahead and get back to end season mode though,
Speaker 5: and welcome in my guest next to Arn Davenport from ESPN.
Speaker 5: My guest today is ESPN NFL Nation reporter covering this
Speaker 5: week's upon the Tennessee Titans. Taran Davenport Ron, Welcome in,
Speaker 5: my friend.
Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate you having me. Travis is definitely a
Speaker 1: long time coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: We communicate over the summer about a potential David Long episode.
Speaker 5: Didn't happen. But I've been looking forward to this week
Speaker 5: to get you back on for that very reason. And
Speaker 5: I won't start with the linebacker possessions because I always
Speaker 5: start with these podcasts the QB position. And you know,
Speaker 5: watching Will Levis's tape for me was a lot like
Speaker 5: you know, was a lot like most highly drafted rookies,
Speaker 5: some serious flashes of upside, but also the difficulty of
Speaker 5: getting acclimated to the NFL game speed.
Speaker 6: But what say you, like you've been around this.
Speaker 5: Guy, what's the thought of Levis from the organization, from
Speaker 5: the fan base, from your own eyes, what's the thought
Speaker 5: about him six games into it now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a lot of confidence in his ability.
Speaker 1: A lot of us have seen the way he pushes
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. His natural arm strength is
Speaker 1: something that has jumped out tremendously. There are some things
Speaker 1: that he has to work on as far as not
Speaker 1: trying to be overconfident with where he puts the football.
Speaker 1: He understands he has supreme Marnin strengths, so sometimes he'll
Speaker 1: fit into spots where it's like, yeah, you might not
Speaker 1: want to do that. But for the most part, from
Speaker 1: a leadership perspective, the operation side of things, he's been
Speaker 1: golden on that. That operation is something he wanted to
Speaker 1: improve upon, getting in and out of the huddle a
Speaker 1: little bit quicker, to get the line of scrimmage, survey everything, hey,
Speaker 1: selling fifty ones that mic you know, and sliding, change
Speaker 1: in the protection and all that stuff. So overall, it's
Speaker 1: definitely been a positive from him, and again there's some
Speaker 1: things to improve, but six games in, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that he's the quarterback of the future.
Speaker 6: That's how I feel too watching him.
Speaker 5: And I can't stress enough for fans or people that
Speaker 5: are interested in getting to know more about the game
Speaker 5: just how hard it is for a rookie to make
Speaker 5: that jump and all the additional things on your plate
Speaker 5: as a quarterback, mike points and slide protections, all that
Speaker 5: stuff is. It is a lot, and of course it's
Speaker 5: always helpful to have a big time back alongside your
Speaker 5: quarterback when he's growing up into the league. And for
Speaker 5: the better part of a decade, this offense has funneled
Speaker 5: through one of the greatest running backs in the history
Speaker 5: of the league. But I noticed that the yards per
Speaker 5: carry are the same, but the volume is down this
Speaker 5: year for Derek in terms of the last couple of
Speaker 5: years of the yards per carry is similar, but the
Speaker 5: volume is down from like twenty five rushes a game
Speaker 5: to like sixteen per game. I'm curious how you see
Speaker 5: in this offense evolve with Henry's usage, but also has
Speaker 5: it been impacted by the quarterback switch from Tannehill to
Speaker 5: Will Levis just kind of tell us about the Titans
Speaker 5: running game and where it's, where it's been, and where
Speaker 5: it's gone like today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so before the quarterback switched, there was a little
Speaker 1: variance there as far as away from that twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty carry game that Henry would consistently get.
Speaker 2: That's because ty J.
Speaker 1: Spears is a guy that they drafted in the third
Speaker 1: round and I don't call him running back.
Speaker 2: I just call him a weapon. You know.
Speaker 1: They'll use him actually on that cheap motion a lot,
Speaker 1: like what the Dolphins do with Tyreek Hill. Obviously different results,
Speaker 1: but still they use him in that way. His touches
Speaker 1: have kind of cut into Henry's a bit. But then
Speaker 1: you mentioned that the shift right the from Tannehill to Levis,
Speaker 1: And there's one thing I saw. So in six of
Speaker 1: Levis's starts, he has attempted thirty nine passes or more. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's at least twice. It might be three times. I
Speaker 1: think it's twice.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at tan Hill's game logs
Speaker 1: dating back to twenty twenty one. From twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: until Week six of this year, Tannehill attempted three thirty
Speaker 1: nine or more passes three times. So there is a
Speaker 1: subtle difference there, a shift. That's something I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask to oc about next week. I want to see
Speaker 1: what happens in this game, get just a better picture
Speaker 1: before I ask him about that. But we've seen it,
Speaker 1: so I think that's a big thing as far as
Speaker 1: how the offense has changed. And you know, they get
Speaker 1: away from the run, whereas it used to be like
Speaker 1: under Arthur Smith, especially like they would just keep running
Speaker 1: the ball, running the ball and trusting that. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: It may be one yard here, two yards there, but
Speaker 1: guess what it's going to get blocked up, right, He's
Speaker 1: going to hit that hole. He has speed like a
Speaker 1: literal deer, so he's going to be able to pull
Speaker 1: away from everybody and then that three carries for seven
Speaker 1: yards will turn into four carries for eighty, you know.
Speaker 5: And that's how I've always compared Derek Henry to I
Speaker 5: don't know if you played Mario Kart when you were younger,
Speaker 5: but like Bounser, the character took a while to get
Speaker 5: up to full speed. Once he did, you weren't going
Speaker 5: to catch him. That was Derek Henry for so many
Speaker 5: years there and probably still is. I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 5: Taj Spears because I had three backs this draft that
Speaker 5: I was absolutely in love with, Jamiir Gibbs, Devon a
Speaker 5: Chan and Taj Spears, and so I'm glad to see
Speaker 5: he's having success. Not a surprise to me at all
Speaker 5: that he is. But there is another position on this
Speaker 5: team that has gone a complete overhaul on the offensive
Speaker 5: line over the last couple of years, And I go
Speaker 5: back to the twenty twenty one game when the Titans
Speaker 5: took care of the Dolphins in pretty handily fashion, and
Speaker 5: that offensive line was full of star talent. But there's
Speaker 5: been changes in the last couple of years. What about
Speaker 5: the changes we've seen in season here, like the change
Speaker 5: from Dillard to Duncan at left tackle. How have you
Speaker 5: seen that group progress to where they are right now?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the thing is both Dillard and Orodre
Speaker 1: Dillon and Jalen Duncan, they were both pretty solid run blocking,
Speaker 1: but the pass pro is it's been an issue.
Speaker 2: For Dillard.
Speaker 1: It was mainly he was catching instead of bringing the
Speaker 1: punch to the defensive lineman, and it just wasn't working.
Speaker 2: And it's I don't know, man, Like.
Speaker 1: Some guys, they just don't seem to have that inner
Speaker 1: killer in them, you know what I mean. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to question his character, his toughness, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's there, at least with Duncan.
Speaker 2: You know you're seeing some things.
Speaker 1: He and Scorrosky the eleventh pick overall, those two on
Speaker 1: the left side run block and wise. I posted a
Speaker 1: clip on Twitter of those two together and they were
Speaker 1: killing it. But past pro has been a little bit
Speaker 1: of an issue. Apucom God Ebenezerpucom as well as Quitty
Speaker 1: paid last week. They gave him all types of fits
Speaker 1: with speed off the edge and just a cold bull rush,
Speaker 1: and that's something that has.
Speaker 2: To be fixed.
Speaker 1: But you know, Aaron Brewer is a Christian Wilkins, he
Speaker 1: probably will be able to do some things this week
Speaker 1: just because of his brute strength. Brewer is not the
Speaker 1: biggest center. They like to get him on the move
Speaker 1: and run blocking and things like that, but dropping the
Speaker 1: anchor and taking on that bull rush a lot of times,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if you see Wilkins lined up
Speaker 1: right over top of them like they're going to probably
Speaker 1: cover up the center.
Speaker 2: You see that a lot.
Speaker 1: And then you look at the right guard, Daniel Brown
Speaker 1: School it's been solid for them.
Speaker 2: He's dealt with an ankle, so it's been up and down.
Speaker 1: Dylan Raidings was a second round pick a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and he's at right tackle now and it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like by default, Chris Hubbard had the job.
Speaker 1: They signed him during the just before camp and he
Speaker 1: came in and kind of took over the job there.
Speaker 1: But he has a shoulder entry and he's out for
Speaker 1: the year. So now it's deal in ratings, and you
Speaker 1: know he's had some solid games.
Speaker 2: The main thing with them penalties, too many false starts.
Speaker 1: You know they're getting legal man downfield an Lgimire receiver,
Speaker 1: but it's a lot of false starts with those guys.
Speaker 5: It speaks to how tough it is to build an
Speaker 5: offensive line, especially when you have to kind of restart
Speaker 5: the Titans have with all those you know, older guys
Speaker 5: that moved on to either retirement or different teams in
Speaker 5: free agency. It's so tough to I mean, there's there's
Speaker 5: not thirty two good offensive lines. There's probably not fifteen
Speaker 5: good offensive lines in the NFL with now just you know,
Speaker 5: that's probably one of the positions that has the least
Speaker 5: amount of overall talent in the league. So it's tough
Speaker 5: to get that continuity built up. And we've enjoyed it
Speaker 5: down here, even though we've had multiple line combinations this year.
Speaker 5: But it seems like having that continuity, the same system
Speaker 5: back to back years and those guys being together has
Speaker 5: made a big difference for Miami. So I think I
Speaker 5: see it kind of coming together there for the Titans.
Speaker 5: But like you mentioned, it's a new grouping this year man,
Speaker 5: So it's kind of tough to get things all on
Speaker 5: the same page there on the other side of the football,
Speaker 5: this is a team that has always been good at
Speaker 5: defense under Mike Rabel. But I'm curious to get your
Speaker 5: take here on the Kevin Bayer trade or at the deadline,
Speaker 5: because it seems to me like that was kind of
Speaker 5: the glue piece in the back end. How have things
Speaker 5: changed without their longtime start there on the back end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if you watch the first drive by the
Speaker 1: Coats last week, it's a good example. There was a miscommunication.
Speaker 1: Kevon Wallace had a tackle and then he got flagged
Speaker 1: for personal foul for taunting. They took him out, and
Speaker 1: then Elijah Molden came in. Now, this is his first
Speaker 1: transition to safety. He played it some at Washington and
Speaker 1: he did at times, but a consistent transition.
Speaker 2: He's a safety now, not a cornerback. He's a safety.
Speaker 1: So he came in and there was a miscommunication between
Speaker 1: he in the corner. I think it was Christian Fulton
Speaker 1: and Alex Pearce just got opened on the post thirty
Speaker 1: six yard touchdown. I don't think that happens with Kevin Barron,
Speaker 1: it's not likely to so you're losing that, you're losing
Speaker 1: a bit of leadership. He's a playmaker too. Byron is
Speaker 1: still a playmaker. So it was the deal that they
Speaker 1: had to make. Though as far as from their perspective,
Speaker 1: getting additional draft picks, the fifth and sixth round pick,
Speaker 1: and it allows them to save about six men in
Speaker 1: the salary cap space. I don't know that that Barr
Speaker 1: would have been back here really, like I think he
Speaker 1: might have been one of those posts June first releases
Speaker 1: or something along those lines. So that's really what has happened.
Speaker 1: But the secondary they definitely they.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been I mean, to your point though, it's
Speaker 5: kind of a win win trade because the Eagles get
Speaker 5: a good player and like you said, the Titans get
Speaker 5: draft capital for a player like.
Speaker 6: You mentioned, probably isn't coming back anyways.
Speaker 5: And we have a guy here, Javon Holland, who to
Speaker 5: me was like the biggest shift in how this communicates.
Speaker 5: He's a phenomenal player and you just don't see busts
Speaker 5: in this defense. I think that he's a big part
Speaker 5: of that. Like Bayern was there in Tennessee for so
Speaker 5: many years. My penultimate question. Here goes back to the
Speaker 5: front of the defensive line and a guy who's not
Speaker 5: gonna be in there. I'm just curious how you think
Speaker 5: this defense looks without Jeffrey Simmons. Because toront this is
Speaker 5: one of the best players at any position in the
Speaker 5: National Football League. He's so much fun to watch. He
Speaker 5: recks offensive lines every single week. How do they adjust
Speaker 5: to not having him out there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walter Peyton Manner a year nominee for for the Titans,
Speaker 1: and he's a guy he's good in the community, but
Speaker 1: he's not nice to the terry offensive line. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that much like I've seen him like fold guys
Speaker 1: backwards say, man, he's a playmaker. You know, he's something
Speaker 1: he gets into the backfield. He you know on running plays.
Speaker 1: You know there's a if you go back and watch
Speaker 1: the Jaguars game, he got in the backfield and he
Speaker 1: just popped Travis ettin and I'm talking about one of
Speaker 1: those hits where it was it's comical going back and
Speaker 1: watching that.
Speaker 2: Not having them is going to hurt them a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously the pass rush and I said the
Speaker 1: run defense, but he's also someone that consistently gets his
Speaker 1: hands up, matches hands with the quarterback. They practice that
Speaker 1: so much, you know, throughout the week, and match hands
Speaker 1: get the tip pass and it's supposed to lead to interceptions.
Speaker 2: But it hasn't always done that.
Speaker 1: And then he'll also get you to strip sacks too,
Speaker 1: So he's just a phenomenal player. He used the heartbeat
Speaker 1: of the defense. But you know there are some other
Speaker 1: good players, like the Nico Artry. He leads the team
Speaker 1: in sacks. He actually became only the second Titans Titans
Speaker 1: only player when I'm talking about you know, the oilers,
Speaker 1: because the guy behind me did it a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But Titans wise, he's the only the second one to
Speaker 1: have eight or more sacks in three seasons.
Speaker 2: And he is just.
Speaker 1: One of those players that no flash, there's no he
Speaker 1: just consistently just comes and comes and combs and comes,
Speaker 1: and he's somebody that on inside and outside, you got him.
Speaker 1: Tier Tart is really good against the run. You'll see him,
Speaker 1: you know. He actually he has a because Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: uses a swim move a lot too, and he has
Speaker 1: a swim move just like that where they get in
Speaker 1: that backfield quickly and they tackle the running back so
Speaker 1: those are the main ones.
Speaker 2: You know, Ardie Key and Howrold Landry.
Speaker 1: They're bringing pressure from time to time, but not having
Speaker 1: Simmons it hurts it all because he gets double team
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 5: Your Denico Autry scouting report reminds me so much of
Speaker 5: Zack Sealer, who you guys will see excuse me on
Speaker 5: Monday night in that game. And also, man you mentioned
Speaker 5: like Jeffrey Simmons and Christian Wilkins. That twenty nineteen defensive
Speaker 5: tackle class is outrageous. Quinn Williams and there as well
Speaker 5: at all over part of that class too, Like what
Speaker 5: a great class that was? Yeah, Mark, Yeah, how do
Speaker 5: I forget Him's probably the best one of them all?
Speaker 5: Good stuff there. It's a crazy class in twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: for defensive tackles. My last question I asked us to
Speaker 5: every guest I have every week, the Titans will win
Speaker 5: this game if and then you get a fill in
Speaker 5: the blink, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the Titans will win this game if Jesus
Speaker 1: is with him, I'll see No, I mean they could
Speaker 1: win the game if they if they run the football
Speaker 1: I successfully and consistently.
Speaker 2: And work some play action off of that. That's really
Speaker 2: the main thing.
Speaker 1: They'll have to get a turnover as well, So there's
Speaker 1: a lot that this is a game if they were
Speaker 1: to win, you know, it's going to have to be
Speaker 1: in the margins.
Speaker 2: You know, the field position, the turnovers and those things.
Speaker 1: Maybe work a big play action pass or off of that,
Speaker 1: so that would be the way. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just smiling and excited because I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: David Long Jr. He's one of my favorite players and
Speaker 1: I love watching him play.
Speaker 2: Man. He plays literally like he is on fire.
Speaker 5: We never get tired of having guests in the podcast
Speaker 5: who had the first reaction you did when I asked
Speaker 5: you the Dolphin or the Titans win this game if
Speaker 5: because we've had a lot this year. So I appreciate
Speaker 5: that it brings some revy to the show and we
Speaker 5: always enjoy So Tarn Davenport, Titans, ESPN, ESPN Radio at
Speaker 5: t Davenport Underscore NFL Tron, You're the man.
Speaker 6: I appreciate our time today. We'll see you on Monday night.
Speaker 2: All I appreciate you, man, see you Monday, and.
Speaker 5: Off he goes our last break right here, we'll come
Speaker 5: back on the other side and here from head coach
Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel and make the week fourteen picks. That's next
Speaker 5: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 5: by I Don't need you little end show evaluation of
Speaker 5: the show itself. I think those first two segments were
Speaker 5: pretty freaking awesome, wouldn't you agree. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 5: keep this thing rolling. Here, I have two soundbites from
Speaker 5: Coach McDaniel. We're going back to Austin Jackson. But I
Speaker 5: took it out of the Austin Jackson segment because I
Speaker 5: think it relates more to the football team. And it
Speaker 5: was a question that I intended to ask Mike, And
Speaker 5: kind of the framing behind my question was, how would
Speaker 5: you measure the residual effects of the rest of the
Speaker 5: roster seeing a player like Austin Jackson and all the
Speaker 5: turmoil he's gone through to come out on the other side,
Speaker 5: you know, one of the top paid tackles in the
Speaker 5: National Football League and investment into his future here with
Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: What are the.
Speaker 5: Residuals of that impact? And so that wasn't the question
Speaker 5: that got asked to coach, but he got there on
Speaker 5: a question that was posed in the sense of do
Speaker 5: you view this as a check off season checklist that
Speaker 5: you've hit one of your check marks on by getting
Speaker 5: Austin Jackson done. Here's coach talking about that and the
Speaker 5: residual impact of a player like Austin going through the
Speaker 5: turmoil and coming out on the other side like Andy Duframe.
Speaker 3: You're defining your team real time by those type of investments.
Speaker 3: And if you want, if you want people to come
Speaker 3: to work every day and decide their own level of
Speaker 3: happiness because of their accountability to themselves and their teammates
Speaker 3: and a complete devotion to what the responsibility is, then
Speaker 3: you should reward that. And you know, there's you wish
Speaker 3: there wasn't a salary cap, and there's a lot of there.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of guys in the locker room. That's
Speaker 3: what's really cool about what's going on. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of guys that have It's hard to be an NFL
Speaker 3: player and not have in the back of your mind,
Speaker 3: you know, like like it's all like, you know, I
Speaker 3: I need to earn a living h and at my dream.
Speaker 3: But with the way business works and how important these
Speaker 3: investments are and the way negotiations go, they don't all
Speaker 3: happen at once, and I don't think I haven't felt
Speaker 3: a single person feel anything but just complete. I don't know, satisfaction,
Speaker 3: pride just pumped up that because they've seen it every day.
Speaker 3: This This is a guy that fully commits, that decided
Speaker 3: on his own to be all in, to believe in,
Speaker 3: you know, everything we're doing here, and then to believe
Speaker 3: in butching Lemon, Mike Judge. And it's cool when people
Speaker 3: are teammates. The coaches give him the right information, gives
Speaker 3: them the tools, and he takes those tools and helps
Speaker 3: him fulfill his dream.
Speaker 5: So there you have the head football coach of your
Speaker 5: Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and wrap up the Thursday
Speaker 5: show as we do every single week here on Drag
Speaker 5: Time with the game picks a fruitful week for your boy.
Speaker 5: Last week I did miss the Monday night football game,
Speaker 5: but we'll take that one and stride because it was
Speaker 5: helpful and beneficial to your Miami Dolphins. My other loss
Speaker 5: was Pittsburgh and Arizona, Like, come on, now, who saw
Speaker 5: that coming. I know Pittsburgh's terrible, but Cardinals have been
Speaker 5: much much more terleribleler this year. As we go, so
Speaker 5: eleven and two last week. That brings us to one
Speaker 5: hundred and forty and fifty seven. Nailed the Packers upset
Speaker 5: for the second straight week as six plus point dogs.
Speaker 5: It brings us to a seventy point eight percent winning percentage.
Speaker 5: Can't we get to the all time undefeated seventy two mark?
Speaker 6: That's the goal? Actually, seventy really was the goal. I digress.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and pick these games, and it starts
Speaker 5: tonight with a game that I have no idea who
Speaker 5: the hell to pick, because I think we're gonna see
Speaker 5: a game that winds up about eight to seven, maybe
Speaker 5: seven to six, something like that. I am taking the
Speaker 5: Patriots if Mac Jones starts, but I don't think he is.
Speaker 6: I think they've actually announced Zappi.
Speaker 5: I don't know why, but they have, so if it's Zappi,
Speaker 5: I'm taking the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mitchell Trubisky, who I
Speaker 5: think in an upgraded quarterback over.
Speaker 6: Their injured starter.
Speaker 5: And can you pick it?
Speaker 6: Give me Houston over the Jets, duh.
Speaker 5: Give me the Ravens over the Rams, although that's what
Speaker 5: I'm hoping I lose this week, and they're going out
Speaker 5: to the East.
Speaker 6: Right, It's it's in Baltimore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like the Ravens or the Rams chances
Speaker 5: and make that Trek, especially facing that defense with.
Speaker 6: That offensive line. I think it's supposed to be like
Speaker 6: rainy and userble in Baltimore this weekend too.
Speaker 5: So give me the Ravens to maintain their position with
Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins. Take the Saints over the Panthers. I
Speaker 5: will not pick the Panthers the rest of the year.
Speaker 5: Give me the Bengals over the Colts. And this is
Speaker 5: like one of the most important games of the year
Speaker 5: in terms of who might get those last positions for
Speaker 5: the wild Card round.
Speaker 6: And I think it's very important for Dolphins.
Speaker 5: Fans to track because of the potential of us seeing
Speaker 5: one of those teams. I do think Miami gets the
Speaker 5: one seed, but if you get the two seed, I
Speaker 5: hope that seventh seed is Indeed or Sincy, Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: And so in this game, I'm taking the Bengals because
Speaker 5: I have been very hard on Jake Browning back to
Speaker 5: his U dub days.
Speaker 6: He was one of those guys that ran away.
Speaker 5: From the line scrimmage when pressure arrived and not never
Speaker 5: ever works. See Zach Wilson with the Jets, but he
Speaker 5: played really well against the Jaguars, and Zach Taylor.
Speaker 6: Had a great game plan for his quarterback in that game.
Speaker 5: And because the Colts are coming off of thrilling overtime victory,
Speaker 5: the Bengals are too. I'm going to take the Bengals
Speaker 5: to win this one. Both teams are on Saturday Football
Speaker 5: next week. They both need wins to kind of put
Speaker 5: themselves in position to strike for that seventh seed. I'll
Speaker 5: take the Bengals because I like their opportunistic defense against
Speaker 5: Gardner Minshew, who can be a little bit reckless at times.
Speaker 4: Go Koogs.
Speaker 5: Let me go ahead and get the Bucks over the Falcons.
Speaker 6: Like, who cares. Someone's gonna win that division. It's gonna
Speaker 6: be those two teams or the Saints.
Speaker 5: They're gonna get bounced by the Cowboys in the first
Speaker 5: round by a billion points. But give me the Bucks
Speaker 5: to win this one, just because they lost last week
Speaker 5: and the Falcons won last week, So swap those around
Speaker 5: Cleveland over Jacksonville. I will not pick CJ.
Speaker 6: Bethard, even though it might be Joe Flacco, I'm still
Speaker 6: not picking CJ. Beththard.
Speaker 5: Give me the Bears over the Lions at Soldier Field.
Speaker 5: Goff and that Lions offense GoF has never traveled well,
Speaker 5: especially in inclement weather. I think they have kind of
Speaker 5: hit their peak this year. I think the Bears could
Speaker 5: win some games here late with Justin Fields getting on
Speaker 5: track and they play in some inclement weather for a
Speaker 5: bad Lions road team. Give me the Niners big over
Speaker 5: the Seahawks. Give me the Raiders over the Vikings. Almost
Speaker 5: in the Vikings are with Raiders, but I like the
Speaker 5: Raiders to win an ugly, ugly football game. They're just
Speaker 5: better at winning those games. And the Josh Dobbs experience,
Speaker 5: it's gone back to where it was before the couple
Speaker 5: of games he had this year.
Speaker 6: Right Chargers over the Broncos.
Speaker 5: We'll flip that pick when the game goes back to Denver,
Speaker 5: But because it's in so Fi, give me the home team.
Speaker 6: I'm taking the Bills over the Chiefs. The hardest pick
Speaker 6: of the week to meet. I think Buffalo is gonna
Speaker 6: get really hot.
Speaker 5: I know you guys don't want to hear this, but
Speaker 5: I think they could potentially rattle off their next four
Speaker 5: wins and come into the game against US looking for
Speaker 5: a potential division championship. But luckily we'll have taken care
Speaker 5: of business by then. But give me Buffalo to give
Speaker 5: us a lot of breathing room over the Chiefs. He
Speaker 5: give us a game of error over the Chiefs the
Speaker 5: rest of the way if Buffalo can steal this victory
Speaker 5: and Casey plays nobody else the rest of the way.
Speaker 5: So root for Buffalo in this one. Give me Philly
Speaker 5: over Dallas. I have to see the Cowboys beat Philly
Speaker 5: before I pick them to win. That kind of like
Speaker 5: us in Buffalo. Give me the Packers over the Giants
Speaker 5: because duh, and you already heard Dolphins over Titans on
Speaker 5: Monday Night Football.
Speaker 6: That's my time.
Speaker 5: Let's get out of here because long podcast tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have a fun chat with some of the guys
Speaker 5: about the My Cause, My Cleats initiative this weekend. Very
Speaker 5: excited to get to know those guys a little bit
Speaker 5: more and what's important to them and bring it to
Speaker 5: you here on the podcast. Plus the Great, the Great
Speaker 5: I cannot wait for the Great Lewis Riddick on the podcast.
Speaker 5: He joins me on Friday to breakdown all things Miami
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Speaker 5: be back next week with us to do a more
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