Speaker 1: Looking down, Touchdown, Miami Quarters Run? What is up? Dolph Fans,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday. Players were off on Tuesday, coaches met with
Speaker 1: the media, so we're gonna take a look at the
Speaker 1: matchup in Foxborough on Sunday through the words of George Gottzie,
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer, the Mule, John Pierre, and many many more.
Speaker 1: Plus our Wednesday Deep Dive takes us into the film
Speaker 1: room to take a look at Christian Wilkins. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why he's far more valuable than he gets credit for.
Speaker 1: And we'll scan the interwebs for some season slash season
Speaker 1: prediction content from some of my favorite content creators from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcast, so there's no real news
Speaker 1: or anything like that to get to today, so why
Speaker 1: don't we just dive right in. We had a chance
Speaker 1: to speak to the Dolphins assistance and man, we got
Speaker 1: some good stuff on Tuesday and morning, let's do a
Speaker 1: preliminary preview of Sunday's game that we just all cannot
Speaker 1: wait to get here. Let's go, we hurry on up
Speaker 1: through the words of the coaching staff, and tomorrow will
Speaker 1: do a unit by unit matchup breakdown and have John
Speaker 1: Knjemmy on to help us out with that as well.
Speaker 1: But today we'll start here with Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer.
Speaker 1: And to me, this was the quote of the day
Speaker 1: and it speaks to both the prep work but also
Speaker 1: just how tough the Patriots are to prepare for. We
Speaker 1: talked about this in the podcast yesterday, and the ability
Speaker 1: to morph your schematics and your game plans and the
Speaker 1: courage that takes well. Nobody has been better at that
Speaker 1: over the last two decades than the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: And I always think back to Jonas Gray, for instance,
Speaker 1: the two dred yard rusher one game and you don't
Speaker 1: even hear from him the next game. I remember Garrett
Speaker 1: Blunt and days where he would do something similar with
Speaker 1: you know, thirty five carries or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: and the following week you have a team that is
Speaker 1: a little bit thinner in the secondary, and so la
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt goes on the shelf, or maybe he's more
Speaker 1: of a past protector in there on passing downs and
Speaker 1: you spread the football all over the field via the air.
Speaker 1: Or how about when they were forced to go to
Speaker 1: their third screen quarterback back in who just so happens
Speaker 1: to be Jacoby Brissette New Miami Dolphin this year, but
Speaker 1: in his rookie season as a third round draft pick,
Speaker 1: after the Tom Brady suspension and Jimmy Garoppolo injury, they came.
Speaker 1: They show up on a Thursday night on a short week.
Speaker 1: They had a game plan that Jacoby engineered just to
Speaker 1: pure perfection, but it was based lye in the run game,
Speaker 1: and they just steam rolled the Houston Texans in a
Speaker 1: game that most people thought might go the other way
Speaker 1: because of the Patriots on their third stree quarterback, but
Speaker 1: they found a way to scheme a victory around said quarterback.
Speaker 1: So what does Josh Boyer say about what you can
Speaker 1: expect from the Patriots this Sunday, Well, it's not about
Speaker 1: what you can expect, but rather to expect the unexpected.
Speaker 1: I think we're guaranteed to see something that we were
Speaker 1: not preparing for week one. I mean, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I think that was the case last year. I think
Speaker 1: that was the case the year before. I mean it,
Speaker 1: you know that you prepare for a lot of things,
Speaker 1: and you look at a lot of a lot of history,
Speaker 1: a lot of things that they've done with certain personnel
Speaker 1: group beings. UM. But there's always an element of unknown
Speaker 1: going into it. UM. So I think you just have
Speaker 1: to be ready to adjust and be ready to adapt, um,
Speaker 1: you know when we're playing on Sunday, to get things
Speaker 1: handled that you weren't quite you know, ready to see.
Speaker 1: And then coach was asked a follow up question about
Speaker 1: the page for its personnel groupings and the options they
Speaker 1: have to go to multiple personnel groupings. Here's Coach Boyer, Well,
Speaker 1: you know again, I think I think it starts with, um,
Speaker 1: you look at their personnel group as a whole, uh,
Speaker 1: even with all their additions. I think you look at
Speaker 1: the coordinator and things that he's done with certain personnel
Speaker 1: group beings, and you try to relate that to guys
Speaker 1: that he's had in the past and how he may
Speaker 1: use them. UM. So you know, again there will be
Speaker 1: an element of unknown to it. I think we've prepared,
Speaker 1: you know, for a lot of different scenarios. UM. Again,
Speaker 1: in the preseason, they didn't have everybody available to them
Speaker 1: that they will have available this Sunday. UM. So again,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little bit of a guess on that. UM.
Speaker 1: I would say it's an educated guest. You know, we've
Speaker 1: spent some time on you know, what they've done in
Speaker 1: the past. But again, there's also gonna be an element
Speaker 1: of unknown that you know that we'll have to handle
Speaker 1: and be ready to prepare for. What we do know
Speaker 1: is they're gonna be very well coached, they're gonna play hard,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play for full sixty minutes, and then we
Speaker 1: gotta be ready to match that, and we've gotta be
Speaker 1: ready to go. I still think the most the reason
Speaker 1: I began the podcast with the quote, I think we're
Speaker 1: guaranteed to see something that we're not preparing for Week one.
Speaker 1: Just really insightful stuff there from the Dolphins defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: The d C of last year's number one ranked takeaway defense,
Speaker 1: number one ranked third down defense, and number six ranks
Speaker 1: scoring defense. Now coach also said they prepared for Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Brian Hoyer, and Jared Sidham at quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to put that in there because I
Speaker 1: think it's a bit of a nod of an appreciation
Speaker 1: you have to have for these coaches and the time
Speaker 1: they put in. It's one of the more tiring professions
Speaker 1: you can imagine, and it's at times, especially with positional coaches,
Speaker 1: somewhat thankless, at least on the outside perspective. And to me,
Speaker 1: it's it's impressive, and it's league wide across all thirty
Speaker 1: two clubs, and it really kind of, at least to me,
Speaker 1: opened your eyes to the discourse you see on social
Speaker 1: media or the like, almost feels kind of ridiculous to
Speaker 1: debate these guys. It's it's almost like, you know, let's
Speaker 1: call it a high school degree level graduate compared to
Speaker 1: a PhD in terms of the experience and knowledge in
Speaker 1: this particular outfit. So, finally, the best part about Josh
Speaker 1: Boyer besides that first quote was Joe Shadd asked him
Speaker 1: a little bit about Elijah Campbell, the Dolphins new acquisition
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire last week, who had spent some
Speaker 1: time in both the A a F and the XFL
Speaker 1: and Joe was kind of given coach a little bit
Speaker 1: of a not a rasing, but just trying to find
Speaker 1: out what animals coach might go to to find tape
Speaker 1: on a guy like that, and Coach just said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of film, Joe, I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of film. I love that answer from coach and
Speaker 1: fund discourse there with he and Joe shadow the Palm
Speaker 1: Beach post. Whtch up? Joe, good job on that question. Today.
Speaker 1: I also had a chance to ask coach Burke's something
Speaker 1: similar with regards to how do you prepare for a
Speaker 1: team that's so known for rolling out new things and
Speaker 1: the in game adjustment mentality? How do you prepare for
Speaker 1: what will likely be an game adjustment, as Coach Boyer said,
Speaker 1: because we're expecting to see something that we don't expect
Speaker 1: to see. Here's coach Burks. So you know, the main
Speaker 1: thing is we know that they're gonna be well coached.
Speaker 1: We know they're gonna be disciplined. You know, uh, mistakes
Speaker 1: would be limited. So regardless of the personnel, the personality
Speaker 1: of the team, it is what it is, you know,
Speaker 1: So that that's what we prepare for. That's what we expect.
Speaker 1: You know, they've been this way for the past twenty years,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a hard fought fourth quarter game.
Speaker 1: So that's that's something you always love to hear about
Speaker 1: the coaching staff focusing on just the overall picture there
Speaker 1: and that is no different there and the messaging from
Speaker 1: coach Burk's next I had a chance, staying on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball to talk to coach Austin Clark,
Speaker 1: who has been very insightful in my conversations with him,
Speaker 1: and that did not change on this Tuesday. For the
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Speaker 1: Tank with Feth Levin o J McDuffie. But back to
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, I wanted to ask him about the Patriots
Speaker 1: offensive line and their ability to use their size, their
Speaker 1: play experience, and their familiarity with one another to help
Speaker 1: thwart the games and the past rush packages upfront that
Speaker 1: you might want to throw it then because the Patriots
Speaker 1: offensive line for as long as I can remember. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a twenty five year obsessive fan of this league.
Speaker 1: They seem to always roll out very, very good offensive lines.
Speaker 1: So I asked Coach Clark, how do you deconstruct that line,
Speaker 1: the communication, they probably have, the experience playing together. How
Speaker 1: do you get production against the line that's so good?
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Clark. Yeah, I would say, uh, they work
Speaker 1: well together. They're very very experienced group. Um. You know
Speaker 1: the addition of getting getting Brown back, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's huge for him. Um, And and they come
Speaker 1: off with with low pads. They play really hard, and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a big challenge for us.
Speaker 1: You heard him talk a little bit about Trent Brown there,
Speaker 1: the addition they made back at tackle, a player that
Speaker 1: was with the Patriots once upon time and then went
Speaker 1: to Oakland. Now he's back with New England. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask him about that guy, because Trent
Speaker 1: Brown is a three d and sixty pound dude. How
Speaker 1: difficult is it to get a guy like that, you know,
Speaker 1: either over as skis or off momentum, or just how
Speaker 1: do you get through him on a bull rush. There's
Speaker 1: so many different things you have to contend with with
Speaker 1: a guy of that size and stature. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask coach, you know, how do you approach a
Speaker 1: guy that's maybe unique in the sense that he is
Speaker 1: so large and so difficult to get around. Here's Coach Clark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for for some guys, yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's an elite level talent. And uh in terms of uh,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's different, and every player on defense is
Speaker 1: going to be different, you know, and so depending on
Speaker 1: who that is lining up on him, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he may have a different mentality. Um, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the guys are really excited about the challenge.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Trent Brown, Michael and when it
Speaker 1: was a massive, massive human being too. Along with Shack
Speaker 1: Mason has been one of the best right guards in
Speaker 1: the NFL for a long long time. David Andrews is back,
Speaker 1: Ted Carress is back up there. You also got Isaiah
Speaker 1: went at left tackle. A very tough offensive line. We'll
Speaker 1: get into those guys on the podcast tomorrow and break
Speaker 1: that all down. But over to the offensive side and
Speaker 1: kind of some of the attacking the Patriots defense questions.
Speaker 1: I went to George Godzie here he was asked about
Speaker 1: early season production and getting off to a fast start
Speaker 1: with regards to the offense executing. Here's coach Gotzi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think through training camp it's um. You know, you
Speaker 1: have some good days, you have some bad days. You're
Speaker 1: going against your a lot of the same guys, UM
Speaker 1: for a majority of it. You know, we had some
Speaker 1: good experiences with other teams, UM, but preseason is one
Speaker 1: one thing and this is the regular season and we
Speaker 1: know that they're going to give us their best, and
Speaker 1: you know, we want to make sure it's competitive and
Speaker 1: at our best every snap. We need to be on
Speaker 1: blocks when we were called or asked to do it, UM.
Speaker 1: And you know, we need to find the open guy,
Speaker 1: deliver an accurate ball, cast the ball, and get yards.
Speaker 1: In the pass game, running backs need to run hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, it's not a complex formula. But
Speaker 1: going back to your original point, you know, we talk
Speaker 1: about technique fundamentals, and you know they're well coached and
Speaker 1: they'll be guys in position and it's up to us
Speaker 1: to block them. You know, get open kets and football,
Speaker 1: deliver an accurateball and this is kind of going away
Speaker 1: from the theme of these questions with regards of the
Speaker 1: Patriots and how to attack them, and you know, like
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier season fast starts and kind of the
Speaker 1: execution of the offense. Coach was asked about two A
Speaker 1: Tongo by Loa some of the strengths that he thinks
Speaker 1: the quarterback offers and some of the things that maybe
Speaker 1: attracted the Dolphins to the former overall number five overall
Speaker 1: pick in the draft out of Alabama. Here's coach on
Speaker 1: his quarterback. I mean, you know, it's it's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of variables there. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's pretty good, a lot of different phases in
Speaker 1: college as far as executing for that team, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, play action regular boot game. You know, so
Speaker 1: that was part of the reason, you know, we looked
Speaker 1: at him and liked them. And you know, so that
Speaker 1: this is obviously and jump in and personnel and who's
Speaker 1: playing and strategy. You know, so a lot of those
Speaker 1: variables kind of play into that more than it does
Speaker 1: just actually copy paste and if you will to play
Speaker 1: that's a little bit harder to do. So he was
Speaker 1: talking there a little bit about the r p O
Speaker 1: game and some of the other type of offensive concepts
Speaker 1: and action that two excels with. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was some good insight there from coach god c Dolphins
Speaker 1: co offensive coordinator. Let's go ahead and flip this thing over. No,
Speaker 1: check that. How about some of the other problems that
Speaker 1: Patriots present on that defensive side of the football and
Speaker 1: their ability to be multiple upfront and rush with a
Speaker 1: bunch of different guys is one of the key problems
Speaker 1: I personally have identified. And it's not a secret I
Speaker 1: don't think from people that watched this league, But I
Speaker 1: had a chance to ask coach Lemille John Pierre, offensive
Speaker 1: line coach here in Miami, a couple of questions. Number one,
Speaker 1: how do you prepare for a team that has all
Speaker 1: of the different things that Patriots can do. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start there. For coach lamil Jo Pierre, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know everybody knows every week brings you different challenges,
Speaker 1: for sure, and you got a team where they let
Speaker 1: you know what it's gonna be. Kind of one thing
Speaker 1: you already gotta assume as a coach is that what
Speaker 1: they're showing you isn't just what they want you to know.
Speaker 1: So sometimes my guys prepared for the unknown, and sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes you work that in there so they present that challenge.
Speaker 1: But the best way to attack is like you gotta
Speaker 1: just film study for sure, trying to see if you
Speaker 1: just see see until here and there, which they're very
Speaker 1: good at not giving you that, and then you just
Speaker 1: keep repping them, repping them like high speed competitive competitive repetition.
Speaker 1: That way we're gonna work out the kings and see
Speaker 1: a if you're getting a bapetition, how you gotta recover?
Speaker 1: Because one of my releases, I can't always praise my
Speaker 1: guys at um being in the perfect position because that's
Speaker 1: not football. You want to make sure be praising if
Speaker 1: we're get in this position, how you recover, not panics.
Speaker 1: A lot of times you get panicked. That's what bad
Speaker 1: things happened. Gosh, I really think the Dolphins are in
Speaker 1: good hands there with coach Lemil John Pierre. He has
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to talk to and break this
Speaker 1: game down like we'd love to do here on the
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast and you heard him say there, which
Speaker 1: I found so very interesting that teams want to show
Speaker 1: you stuff they want you to see in order to
Speaker 1: and this is me going on now to possibly manipulate
Speaker 1: manipulate you later on in the game. And that's the
Speaker 1: beauty of football. I think I even said in my
Speaker 1: follow up question to coach Lem, They're like, that's what
Speaker 1: we love this game so much, right, because it is
Speaker 1: so complex that way, and there's so much of a
Speaker 1: chess match as far as like here's what I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, so I'm gonna react this way, and
Speaker 1: this can possibly have this impact later on in the game.
Speaker 1: To me, it's like a batter versus picture matchup where
Speaker 1: the picture is trying to think about Okay, last time
Speaker 1: I was one two to this guy, I threw the
Speaker 1: curveball off the plate away then came back in with
Speaker 1: the fastball under the hands. Like, all of the data
Speaker 1: you have goes into the data bank, so you can
Speaker 1: then project what might happen in the future. It's a
Speaker 1: tough job, a tough task. That's why of these coaches
Speaker 1: are so good at what they do. So here's a
Speaker 1: question for coach about preparing for guys like for instance,
Speaker 1: Josh you j and Chase Winovitch who maybe you know,
Speaker 1: have their best ball out ahead of them, and you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know what kind of player they are coming
Speaker 1: back in year two or year three as guys that
Speaker 1: have developed over the off season. Since you're seeing them
Speaker 1: in game number one and your tape that you do
Speaker 1: have from last season, well it's probably outdated on those
Speaker 1: guys because they have had a whole off season to
Speaker 1: grow and prepare and learn the system and lift weights
Speaker 1: in condition and just get better at their craft. How
Speaker 1: do you prepare for guys who probably have their best
Speaker 1: football still to come and decide what they're best at
Speaker 1: when you haven't seen that yet on tape. You take
Speaker 1: all the tape you can. And for both those guys
Speaker 1: that you mentioned, you know you got you do Judeans
Speaker 1: and um van Noord because he's been here. Think about
Speaker 1: those two I'll take specifically because I had part of
Speaker 1: my job last year was like a passionate study. So
Speaker 1: those two guys were never hidden like they might be
Speaker 1: shown them now. Last year he looks at the tape,
Speaker 1: they were always there. Now they just more experienced, more confidence.
Speaker 1: They're probably showing you everybody else more so, at least
Speaker 1: from an online coach perspective, because I'm focusing on those guys.
Speaker 1: Those guys aren't surprising me like last year, like I said,
Speaker 1: you look at the Rams tape. You know they showed
Speaker 1: the quickness. You know, they show of the ability to
Speaker 1: kind of verst the pasture same time showing physics physicality.
Speaker 1: They're very good up front and they're a good discipline
Speaker 1: defensive team. So we know that once again, you know
Speaker 1: that from the tape and just them, and so we
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for him, and that's why
Speaker 1: we got to prepare how we repair. And let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up here on the offensive side with
Speaker 1: coach Josh Grizzard, Dolphins wide receivers coach I had a
Speaker 1: chance to ask grizz about the Pats and the difficulty
Speaker 1: again this type of defense with the rush games up
Speaker 1: front that pairs with numerous coverage looks and different disguises
Speaker 1: and the ability to get to all those different looks
Speaker 1: because of how loaded that secondary is. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and turn this over to coach Gizard. We tried to
Speaker 1: um tell them, hey, this is what they've shown, but
Speaker 1: we know with this group that you can't expect anything.
Speaker 1: So you got to be able to execute your fundamentals
Speaker 1: and techniques and lean on the things that you developed
Speaker 1: all the way through camp, just because you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna see once we get into it.
Speaker 1: You might know in the first quarter and then it
Speaker 1: could change. So it's all about leaning on all your
Speaker 1: preparation through camp and seeing coverage the same way and
Speaker 1: ultimately seeing it the same way through through each position
Speaker 1: group to know exactly where we need to be on
Speaker 1: time and ready to ready to uncover. So there you
Speaker 1: go the preview from the coach's perspective. I think expect
Speaker 1: the unexpected was kind of the theme of those interviews
Speaker 1: and of those conversations. Again, a big thanks to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins coaching staff for just talking football with me. I
Speaker 1: love these assistant coach pressers because it puts you in
Speaker 1: a position where you can just kind of talk to
Speaker 1: the guys, and number one, it gives me a chance
Speaker 1: to get to know the coaches. I mean, me and
Speaker 1: Coach Campanelli talked about food. I kind of took off
Speaker 1: at Dean's place in that regard on the beat this
Speaker 1: year talking to coach about food. I talked to Coach
Speaker 1: Gazzard a little bit about his hometown or his home
Speaker 1: area in the Carolinas. I kind of talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about my drive this last week and going through
Speaker 1: the mountains and Tennessee and down through Georgia and just
Speaker 1: you know, getting to know the guys. It's always I
Speaker 1: like to know the people that I'm covering, and also
Speaker 1: you know, kind of pulling four here in the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and and just all the good guys in this building.
Speaker 1: It makes it. It makes it more fun and more
Speaker 1: enjoyable for me. So a big thanks to the Dolphins
Speaker 1: coaching staff are really just being receptive to my questions
Speaker 1: and open and honest about everything there. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pivot here. Outside of the coach's media availability,
Speaker 1: you can find all of those up on YouTube on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins channel right now, as well as Dolphins Today.
Speaker 1: I'm on Dolphins Today once a week for you guys
Speaker 1: that we have two episodes a week, but you can
Speaker 1: find me on the Thursday episodes, so I do not
Speaker 1: forget to check those out as well. But let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and move on now to the Dolphins depth chart
Speaker 1: which came out with the weekly release. Here offensively to
Speaker 1: a tongue by lower your first stren quarterback with Jacobe Burtt,
Speaker 1: the backup Miles Gaskin, Malcolm Brown savan Achmedric running backs
Speaker 1: at receiver, Parker Waddle Grant listed as the starters, with Williams, Wilson,
Speaker 1: and Hollins the three behind. Gaski, Shaheen Smythe, Sethan Carter
Speaker 1: and Hunter Long makeup your tight end room. Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: Solomon Kimley, Michael Dieter, Robert Hunt, and Jesse Davis the
Speaker 1: top five. On the offensive line. You've got Great Little
Speaker 1: as your left tackle on the depth chart, and Robert
Speaker 1: Jones is the backup at both guard spots, with Greg
Speaker 1: Mans at center and Eikenberg the right tackle position. Emmanuel Ogba, Ray,
Speaker 1: Juan Davis, and Christian Wilkins make up your three down
Speaker 1: on the depth chart up front. Then you have Adam Butler,
Speaker 1: John Jenkins and Zach Seeler the three behind, with Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: a Landon Roberts and Andrew Van Ginckel at linebacker. This
Speaker 1: is a three by three look on the depth chart,
Speaker 1: with Duke Riley, Sam eg Von Brandan Scarlett and Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips behind at cornerback. The top three are Xavian Howard,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and Justin Coleman with Nick Needham, Noah Eganogeny,
Speaker 1: uh Elijah Campbell, Jamal Perry on the back end, and
Speaker 1: then in safety you've got Jason mccordy and Eric Rowe,
Speaker 1: with Javon Holland, Brandon Jones and Clayton Federlin falling up behind.
Speaker 1: As far as the return specialist go Jachem Grant, Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle and Noah Iggy. How about the Patriots depth chart,
Speaker 1: we'll go over the players listen as starters and as
Speaker 1: well as second team here that could see some considerable
Speaker 1: playing time, but at the quarterback position, Mac Jones listed
Speaker 1: no quarterback in behind him on the depth chart. On
Speaker 1: the offensive line, Isaiah Win, Mike on Wino, David Andrews
Speaker 1: starting center, Shack Mason, and Shrent Brown at tight end
Speaker 1: to tight ends listed as starters here, Hunter Henry John
Speaker 1: Who Smith no surprises there. Nelson Aglar Jacoby Myers are
Speaker 1: the starting receivers in this twelve personnel package available here,
Speaker 1: and also two running backs with Damian Harris and James
Speaker 1: White with j J. Taylor in there behind, as well
Speaker 1: as Jack Jacob Johnson at fullback, Kendrick Borne and gunner
Speaker 1: Olshefsky of the third and fourth receivers listed here on
Speaker 1: this list. On defense, Dietrich Wise, Lawrence Guy, and Devon Gtscha,
Speaker 1: with Henry Anderson across the defensive line, Chase Winovich, Kristin Barrowmore,
Speaker 1: Carl Davis and Chase Winovitch. The three are the four
Speaker 1: rather behind those guys. At linebacker, Matt Judeon with rookie
Speaker 1: Ronnie Perkins behind him, Donte high Tower the middle linebacker
Speaker 1: with Jawan Bentley behind him, and then Kyle van Noy
Speaker 1: and Josh you j the linebacker behind him. At cornerback,
Speaker 1: we know know Stefon Gilmour on pup, so it's j C.
Speaker 1: Jackson with Jalen Mills the opposite cornerback. Aside Jackson, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Jones likely managed the slot, or that they could put j. C.
Speaker 1: Jackson inside with Jones outside when they go Nichols, so
Speaker 1: Jackson plays outside and two or two cornerback packages maybe
Speaker 1: kicks inside against or when they go three quarnerback and
Speaker 1: that Nickel, Adrian Phillips and Devin mccartery or two safeties.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Dugger the third safety on here, He's gonna
Speaker 1: play a lot he's a heck of a football player.
Speaker 1: So those are Patriots depth chart, and you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna have the three keys on tomorrow's podcast, but I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and tease that real quick. To me,
Speaker 1: the key is heating up mac Jones and to speed
Speaker 1: up that clock for the rookie quarterback. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that again in all the parts and matchups that
Speaker 1: can accelerate that point tomorrow. But today I want to
Speaker 1: talk about a deep dive on a player who is
Speaker 1: a part of heating up that quarterback in the rush
Speaker 1: package plan and doing a good job of creating chances
Speaker 1: for other guys. In our deep dive here on this
Speaker 1: Wednesday podcast, a guy who has quietly had a huge
Speaker 1: hand in the plan for getting pressure, getting turnovers a
Speaker 1: play who I think is criminally undervalued in Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and look at him and the
Speaker 1: forties sacks last year and twenty nine takeaways and what
Speaker 1: his role was on those plays. And number one takeaway
Speaker 1: here is that he did it from multiple positions three
Speaker 1: tech to tech, one tech where you're shading the outside
Speaker 1: of the center, five tech off the outside, and four
Speaker 1: tech up over the tackle, the four eye. He plays
Speaker 1: so many spots. I had so many examples here I
Speaker 1: wrote these all down, Like, for instance, the first one
Speaker 1: he's involved in, he's a three technique. Emmanuel Ogba gets
Speaker 1: a one on one chance right next to Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: Wilkins takes up a double team and occupies both blockers.
Speaker 1: So not only on this play does he help create
Speaker 1: a one on one chance for one of your better
Speaker 1: pass rushers, he pushes that double team back into the
Speaker 1: quarterback and around the outside of the tackle position, so
Speaker 1: the Ogball can redirect, comeback inside and scrape for that sack.
Speaker 1: And there was strong coverage on the play to allow
Speaker 1: all that to happen. But it's plays like this where
Speaker 1: Wilkins is not gonna get any stats on the stat sheet.
Speaker 1: And Brian Flores talked about this last year. A player
Speaker 1: can have a great game with no tackles, no sacks,
Speaker 1: no tipped passes, whatever it might be. You can have
Speaker 1: a great game if you do your job every single play.
Speaker 1: And it's hard to imagine a player that does more
Speaker 1: to create chances for his teammates and help the defense
Speaker 1: excel overall without the individual statistics go along with it
Speaker 1: like a Christian Wilkins. So, for instance, you come back
Speaker 1: later on the Jets game, the second Jets game, I
Speaker 1: should say, uh, Christian Wilkins is the nose tackle Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: The safety is stacked behind him and Wilkins wins across
Speaker 1: the face of the center, which forces him to get
Speaker 1: back and get vertical to match the speed of that
Speaker 1: get off, and it opens up a lane for Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones to come clean on his first career sack. I
Speaker 1: have another example here of him eating up a double
Speaker 1: team with a guard slides over a gap and create
Speaker 1: space for a linebacker rushing on the inside. More examples
Speaker 1: of the center trying to deal with that get off
Speaker 1: he has in the explosion we saw at Clemson, where
Speaker 1: he could one gap, penetrate and shoot into the backfield
Speaker 1: and take advantage of lesser talents as far as guys
Speaker 1: that cannot match his quickness and get off. But the
Speaker 1: thing I noticed the most was how much urgency he
Speaker 1: creates on the interior of opposing offensive lines to get
Speaker 1: into position to just block him and get him. Because
Speaker 1: the number one responsibility for pass protection take care of
Speaker 1: the most immediate danger, and that's for running backs usually
Speaker 1: like which guy do you go pick up the inside
Speaker 1: rusher that has the most immediate danger to your quarterback?
Speaker 1: And with Christian he accelerates that thought. Whether it's the center,
Speaker 1: whether it's a guard, whether it is the running back
Speaker 1: stepping up out of the position to help protect the
Speaker 1: edge and come in there and chip on big number.
Speaker 1: And that creates so many opportunities for linebackers to fly
Speaker 1: in the a gaps, for edge rushers to win outside
Speaker 1: without the worry of a chip from that pesky little
Speaker 1: running back. He just does so much to impact the
Speaker 1: game as a pass rusher. And again I wrote down
Speaker 1: all I see there's thirty seven of these. I believe
Speaker 1: because he thirty eight of them because he was the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had two sacks in the games he didn't play
Speaker 1: last year as part of the COVID nineteen reserve list,
Speaker 1: but he had He had his hand in on thirteen
Speaker 1: of the forty sacks the Miami Dolphins had, plus the
Speaker 1: one and a half he did so fifteen total plays there.
Speaker 1: But he misses the Chargers and Broncos games, and in
Speaker 1: those games, Dolphins had two sacks and three takeaways. In
Speaker 1: the fourteen games with Christian, Well, you had thirty eight sacks,
Speaker 1: so that is one sack per game compared to better
Speaker 1: than two sacks per game with Christian Wilkins in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, twenty six takeaways is not quite
Speaker 1: as good as the three takeaways in two games. That's
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a skewed sample size, but
Speaker 1: you get the point. With Christian Wilkins in the game,
Speaker 1: the defense is much better because he helped guys out
Speaker 1: so much. And the case was the same with the
Speaker 1: takeaways too. I mean instances where he eats up blocks
Speaker 1: and pushes the pocket. I've got three examples here of
Speaker 1: him getting directly into the quarterback's face with pressure on
Speaker 1: balls that were picked off. Seven plays where I thought
Speaker 1: he directly impacted the play as far as making the
Speaker 1: quarterback leave the spot or throwing the football before he
Speaker 1: wants to. Plus he had an I N T N
Speaker 1: fumble recovery of his own. So nine total plays call
Speaker 1: it nine turnover plays where number ninety four is directly involved,
Speaker 1: and fift team plays with sacks. That's twenty nine takeaways
Speaker 1: and forty six That's a significant chunk of both of
Speaker 1: those numbers. He played six hundred and thirty seven snaps
Speaker 1: last year, and we're obviously not counting you know, his tackles,
Speaker 1: his run stops. That number clearly goes up significantly because
Speaker 1: it's one of his best traits. He was the number
Speaker 1: six player last year and ESPNS run stop win rate
Speaker 1: among interior defensive linemen on ESPN. But twenty four out
Speaker 1: of six hundred and thirty seven plays, and those twenty
Speaker 1: four plays have massive e p A swings right Expected
Speaker 1: points added swings turnovers are among the biggest in terms
Speaker 1: of that number we see in the NFL, and e
Speaker 1: p A is a great number to go off of,
Speaker 1: But twenty four of his six hundred thirty seven plays
Speaker 1: had massive e p A swings attached to it, almost
Speaker 1: four percent of his snaps. So if you play fifty
Speaker 1: snaps in a game, which Christians certainly capable of doing,
Speaker 1: that's two plays a game at one play a half.
Speaker 1: That you take that all day long. So we'll be
Speaker 1: doing these on Wednesday, and I have my list here.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go through the whole thing because it
Speaker 1: might be kind of dry and boring, but the overall
Speaker 1: takeaways is to get into this deep dive to uncover
Speaker 1: the true value of a player and chart these things
Speaker 1: to give you, guys, more context as far as how
Speaker 1: the player performs relative to what you might have as
Speaker 1: your expectation based upon just the box score, which can
Speaker 1: be what a lot of you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: have time to go over all. This stuff is what
Speaker 1: you kind of rely on. So hopefully this podcast creates
Speaker 1: more context for those plays. And we'll do this on
Speaker 1: Wednesdays again to take a deep dive on certain players,
Speaker 1: whether it's from the game we just watched, or a
Speaker 1: possible comprehensive look at a player from the whole season
Speaker 1: or a stretch of games, whatever it might be. We
Speaker 1: remain flexible. But a little project here that takes, you know,
Speaker 1: a few hours to put together for a nice little
Speaker 1: ten or five minutes segment on the podcast. That's what
Speaker 1: you can expect going forward. I hope you enjoyed this
Speaker 1: one ahead of our Week one game, So let's pivot
Speaker 1: again and move on to something else. What have we
Speaker 1: got here? Last week? Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Media Moved
Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast does a little bit of everything. Fantastic
Speaker 1: broadcaster and communicator and podcaster and live draft analysizer. That's
Speaker 1: not a word, but we're gonna go with it. But
Speaker 1: at the time of roster cut down last week, he
Speaker 1: sent a tweet out and he's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Twitter follows as well. At Move the Sticks, he put
Speaker 1: out his checklist for building a championship team. And what
Speaker 1: else do we do here besides bring it back to
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. So Jeremiah's list for a championship contender
Speaker 1: checklist is your quarterback. I think that's pretty clearly obvious.
Speaker 1: Two pass rushers, three offensive playmakers, three defensive playmakers, and
Speaker 1: three good offensive linemen. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: reiter rate here that even though DJ has forgotten way
Speaker 1: more football than you or I will ever know, I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure I agree with him in this and
Speaker 1: that it's short changes the work of the entire fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster, the coach staff, the entire organization, because
Speaker 1: we know it's never just one guy or even in
Speaker 1: this case, eleven guys. It's everybody. So with that disclaimer
Speaker 1: out of the way, I think you've just about got
Speaker 1: that checklist down and then some because I'm looking at
Speaker 1: two a tongue of by low. You guys know, I
Speaker 1: believe in the Dolphins quarterback of the future there Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogbat number three on PFF and edge rusher pressures last season,
Speaker 1: and then Jalen Phillips goes in the list too, because
Speaker 1: of course he's a rookie, but projecting from college projection,
Speaker 1: his ability to recognize what an offensive lineman does to
Speaker 1: him and his past rush plan and to adapt and
Speaker 1: apply those adjustments in game in college has me so
Speaker 1: excited for his profile. You add to that his physical
Speaker 1: makeup and the Pro day and the metrics and the
Speaker 1: get off and the speed, the strength, all that stuff
Speaker 1: to me, I mean the first past which we're taking
Speaker 1: in this year's draft, to me projects high upside. So
Speaker 1: Agba Phillips there for me. Offensive playmakers again, going back
Speaker 1: to the rookie well, Jalen Waddle highest college yards per
Speaker 1: game last year, highest yards after catch average, the best
Speaker 1: deep threat in terms of GPS metrics and speed, elusiveness, separation,
Speaker 1: creating scoring from deep, catching twenty one of twenty six
Speaker 1: deep balls, throwing twenty plush yards in his college career.
Speaker 1: He's been number one guy on there with Will Fuller,
Speaker 1: who had nearly nine hundred yards and eight touchdowns and
Speaker 1: eleven games last year. Mike get sicky, you know, the
Speaker 1: top of the tight end leaderboard each of the last
Speaker 1: two seasons in the major statistical categories among tight ends,
Speaker 1: plus the highlight players we've seen, the one handed catches,
Speaker 1: the touchdowns, the posterizations. He gets open, as to us
Speaker 1: said in his postgame press conference after the first preseason game.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the guys like Miles Gascon, Devanta
Speaker 1: Parker and Jachem Grant. You know, an all t all
Speaker 1: pro specialist and Miles Gascon at three down back in
Speaker 1: Devonte Parker twelve hud yards season just two years ago.
Speaker 1: Defensive playmakers Exaviing Howard led the league in picks last year.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker had the second most sax among off ball linebackers.
Speaker 1: Last year. Javon Holland had tied for the fourth most
Speaker 1: interceptions over his two years at Oregon between eighteen and
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The offensive line is essentially all projections, and
Speaker 1: not for the lack of ability. It's just at the
Speaker 1: jury is out on pretty much any player in the
Speaker 1: National Football League and year one year too, even some
Speaker 1: in year three, which is essentially what the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: line is now Michael Dieters in year three, but he
Speaker 1: hardly played last year and year two. But I'll put
Speaker 1: down here Robert hunt, Leam Eikenberg, and Austin Jackson, and
Speaker 1: again that could be any of the five guys, depends
Speaker 1: We'll find out who emerges this year up front for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team. But then, you know, as far as
Speaker 1: this topic to put a bow on it, that I
Speaker 1: think about, like where do I slide in Eric row
Speaker 1: and Byron Jones and Andrew Van Ginkl and Zach Seiler
Speaker 1: and Ray Kuan Davis and Christian Wilkins and Adam Butler,
Speaker 1: and even then we're still short changing. But this goes
Speaker 1: back to yesterday's podcast and we don't need to rehash that.
Speaker 1: Just listen to it again. The depth on the show.
Speaker 1: You gotta love it. Continuing on for another blurb, I
Speaker 1: want to run here from my content that I absorbed
Speaker 1: myself as a fan as a you know, broadcaster myself,
Speaker 1: and one of my favorite shows is The Ringer NFL Show.
Speaker 1: What a terrific podcast, and the addition of Ben's Soulock
Speaker 1: really got me into it. But they add not just
Speaker 1: been Solac but also Stephen Ruiz and I just can't
Speaker 1: get enough of that because it's very in depth football
Speaker 1: knowledge that those guys provide, along with what Kevin Clark
Speaker 1: and Nora oh Man. I'm gonna butcher her last name,
Speaker 1: Pete uh. Let's we'll go. I'll come back to it.
Speaker 1: But they both presented a fantastic podcast and it got
Speaker 1: even better for my money. So I truly really became
Speaker 1: intrigued when Ben and Stephen agreed on their big preseason
Speaker 1: takeaway from a podcast about a few weeks ago was
Speaker 1: that too has shown the signs this August that he
Speaker 1: looks the part of the prospect that most folks loved
Speaker 1: coming out of Alabama. And we talked about that on
Speaker 1: the podcast a whole hell of a lot, don't we.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to play this sound clip from Ben
Speaker 1: on his season preview podcast that dropped on Monday on
Speaker 1: The Ringer NFL Show as he went division by division
Speaker 1: and Ben projected Miami as a wild card team that
Speaker 1: competes with Buffalo in the a f C East. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Ben, I think they're building a really good
Speaker 1: offense under two. I love what I've seen in terms
Speaker 1: of what they're doing schematically in the preseason. I do
Speaker 1: like their collaborative approach. It's a little bit unorthodox, but
Speaker 1: they seem to be building out a really nice offense
Speaker 1: for to a skill set. Obviously, Kevin, when you, me
Speaker 1: and Steven had the pot and we all were just like, hey,
Speaker 1: that to a preseason game, like that's what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to look like, Like Like it is noticeable what they're doing
Speaker 1: throwing the fact that I just think that defense is
Speaker 1: a threshing machine, and I think the Patriots defense can
Speaker 1: be and should be as well. But the Dolphins showed
Speaker 1: us it last year and then mostly retainous talent, added
Speaker 1: a couple of spots as well. Rookie Jalen Phillips comes
Speaker 1: along on the edge. To me, they're they're deep in
Speaker 1: their study at all three levels, and so I have
Speaker 1: the Dolphins as a double digit win team. They were
Speaker 1: very close to the wild card last year. They just
Speaker 1: need a couple more wins early in the season to
Speaker 1: get there, and I think they do again. That's The
Speaker 1: Ringer NFL Show with Kevin Clark and Nora prince Ciati.
Speaker 1: I hope I got that right as the host and
Speaker 1: Ben soul Like as the guest here, and they also
Speaker 1: have against Stephen Rees. He does the podcast a lot
Speaker 1: to highly highly recommend Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your
Speaker 1: podcast from. That's the NFL Ringer Show again, wherever your
Speaker 1: podcasts are available. And then also this blurb from ESPN
Speaker 1: s Power Rankings. The Dolphins come in at number a
Speaker 1: ELEVN on the ESPN Power Rankings. And I had a
Speaker 1: chance to meet today new ESPN Dolphins reporter Marcel Louis Jacquez,
Speaker 1: and he was a fun guy to meet and talk
Speaker 1: to you for the first time today. But he wrote
Speaker 1: this blurb. The Dolphins defense features in the elite secondary
Speaker 1: that could make life tough for opposing quarterbacks, and that
Speaker 1: combined with two a tongue of by lower leading an
Speaker 1: upstar offense, helps Miami break their playoff streak. In one man,
Speaker 1: just seeing all this content, it has me filling a
Speaker 1: live football is here. It's right around the corner and
Speaker 1: it's coming your way this Sunday. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here with some bulletin board for this Sunday. First,
Speaker 1: I want to start here with this segment on the
Speaker 1: Tuesday no the Monday Calling Cowherd Show. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and play this audio for you major skepticism regarding two
Speaker 1: um in Miami their quarterback. Only eleven executives in the
Speaker 1: NFL put Miami eleven in the a f C, said
Speaker 1: one executive with TWA all believe. But when I see
Speaker 1: it now, you know I've been skeptical of this because
Speaker 1: I don't see the special. I don't see it in
Speaker 1: the arm I don't see it in the athleticism. I
Speaker 1: don't see it in in the size um. And it
Speaker 1: should be noted this team went out all right, that's
Speaker 1: about enough of that. If you don't see the special,
Speaker 1: I do not know what to tell you. How about
Speaker 1: this blurb from five thirty eight, which does playoff odds.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have a coin flips chance at the playoffs
Speaker 1: on the strength of their defense number eight in e
Speaker 1: p A last year and it improved arsenal weapons for
Speaker 1: two A toggle boy load of target and his second
Speaker 1: NFL season. Now that's the part that really gets me.
Speaker 1: It's this parenthetical to end the blurb, assuming to remains
Speaker 1: the starter bolton board material. Let's keep it coming. How
Speaker 1: about Peter King, one of my favorite all time writers,
Speaker 1: literally my idol as far as football riding goes. At
Speaker 1: a young age. Him and dr Z were like the
Speaker 1: two goats in my opinion, but everything is fair game.
Speaker 1: In the Bolton Board segment, Peter King wrote this on
Speaker 1: his recent Monday Morning Quarterback. I didn't pick the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs simply because I don't have enough
Speaker 1: evidence to trust to a tongue by loa not saying
Speaker 1: he won't be good. I just haven't seen it and
Speaker 1: the blurb and just so you know, the Patriots are
Speaker 1: his number five seed with a rookie quarterback all right
Speaker 1: on Tuesday player Day off. I saw this last year,
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot. Saw Miles Gas can run
Speaker 1: some routes out there today getting some extra work in.
Speaker 1: That's what he does. The guy never stops working. I
Speaker 1: also saw ray Kwon Davis getting some extra laps and conditioning,
Speaker 1: and so good to see that stuff here at Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. Coming your way this week Thursday, the
Speaker 1: preview show, we're gonna take down, or breakdown rather every
Speaker 1: element of that Dolphins and Patriots matchup in week number one.
Speaker 1: On Friday, we're gonna come back and pick the games
Speaker 1: the week this week in the NFL, as well as
Speaker 1: some college picks. Talk about some prospects and fun stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and also gets your questions on the Twitter mailbag.
Speaker 1: Plenty to come this week, Plenty to come this season.
Speaker 1: The season is now right around the corner, and in
Speaker 1: the meantime that it's gonna be my time, Caroline, Daddy
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