WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Panthers Week 6 Preview 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:05.240 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.720 your pulse if you're not for though, What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.719 And welcome to the Draft Time podcast, part of the 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:17.720 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.680 How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.880 And on today's show, it is turned the Page Wednesday. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.720 It brings us to another preview podcast. Here we're looking 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.440 ahead at Sunday to the Carolina Panthers by assessing the matchups, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.640 looking at the biggest storylines and the keys to victory 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.559 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:44.120 This is the Drift Time Podcast. Magie Daffy Shush, another 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.640 sunny Sunday at hard Rock Stadium, and for those out 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.559 of town fans, you might be excited to learn that 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.680 it's supposed to be an absolute scorcher on Sunday. We've 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.120 had a tame October in terms of temperatures recently, but 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.720 that is out the window when the lot of Panthers 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.560 migrate south for this interconference affair. A heat wave is 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.240 currently pushing through South Florida that will have you ninety 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.400 degree temperatures on Sunday with seventy five percent humidity, and 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:16.200 that gives you a real feel of ninety six degrees yauzer. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.880 That's one of the many obstacles the windless Panthers will 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.520 face when they arrive in South Florida for this matchup. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.960 Coach McDaniel spoke about the dangers of facing a winless 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.600 team and how they kind of play with nothing to 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.759 lose and the being pushed up against a losing streak 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.440 like the Dolphins were last year on a five game 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.880 losing streak, the same thing that Panthers face this year. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.800 That you can get a little bit more production, a 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.319 little bit more gusto, a little bit more urgency when 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.480 you're coming off of those situations. So something keep an 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.080 eye on. Coach touched on that. He touched on Bryce 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.760 Young the Panthers as a whole in his Wednesday press conference. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.000 I'm not going to play the sound for you guys 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.919 here because I think that it's you know, coach speaking 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.200 about an opponent, and you can just find that on 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.080 the YouTube channel on his media availability. That's going to 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.840 be a brief history here of the Panthers before we 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.600 get to the storylines. Ahead of this contest, and the 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.360 two thousand and eight Panthers is where I wanted to 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.200 start this because that was one of my favorite teams 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.200 of all time. The backfield of Jonathan Stewart DeAngelo Williams. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.079 They had shades of Ricky and Ronnie, or of Camara 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.160 and Ingram and now Lens. The days of the two 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.000 headed run, heavy attack running back. That doesn't really exist anymore. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.480 You have committees nowadays, and some teams have their top dogs, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.760 but it's just different. Back then, it was like you 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.280 have one good one great. If you have two really 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.959 good ones, then you were kind of a unicorn across 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.760 the National Football League. But then fittingly, I also fell 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.320 in love with them from afar again. I used to 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.560 always pick like one NFC team every year that I 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.560 thought was going to exceed expectations and had players I liked, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.120 maybe went draft heavy on Travis's man crushes in the draft. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.679 I don't really do that anymore. I guess I just 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.200 don't care. I don't have the time now that I 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.600 have a family and kids to actually, you know, follow 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.760 around opposed to just being a full time football fan. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.680 But those Panthers teams often put themselves in that category, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.600 and ironically again with one of the best runners of 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.000 all time, but at the quarterback position with Cam Newton, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.360 and in those Newton years, they were playoff regulars, a 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.840 threat to make a run through the NFC playoffs every 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.560 single season since then, Man, it has been a slog 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.120 I just stinkly remember Cam bawling out in that twenty 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.480 seven team playoff game against the Saints in a very 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.880 very fun back and forth game with Drew Brees and 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.119 a very talented Saints roster. Wasn't that the Saints team 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.160 that got bounced by the no That was the following 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.320 year I digress and I bet one that Panthers, thinking 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.560 back to that game, think of rather fondly given their 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.000 recent run, because a seven to nine season followed that, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.280 and then the floor fell out in twenty nineteen, a 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.120 five and eleven campaign, Remember they still only played sixteen 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.120 games in the sport, and that brought the end of 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.560 the Ron Rivera era, the riv era. I'll be here 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.960 all week. Tip your watressus bartenders. Nine seasons, four playoff runs, 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.920 and offensive Rookie of the Year followed by a Defensive 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.840 Rookie of the Year followed by a Defensive Player of 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.360 the Year that was the same guy, Luke Keikley, Walter 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.520 Payton Man of the Year, and Thomas Davis and then 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.920 Cam Newton book ends his Rookie of the Year with 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.880 an MVP in twenty fifteen, and of course Rivera had 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.480 Coach of the Year in twenty fifteen as well. Enter 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.200 Matt Rule five and eleven, five and twelve, one and four, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.960 and then a coaching change and Steve Wilkes steps in 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.120 and guides them to a six and six finish, but 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.360 they move on and I was against that, but I 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.600 also love Frank Reich, so I understand that decision. Who 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.760 was kind of the surprise dismissal of the league last 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.680 year falling on the sword in Indianapolis sword sword. And 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.120 the reason I lay all of this out is to say, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.480 the type of turnover they've experienced typically creates a snowball 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.880 effect of conflicting ideals and puts you in a difficult 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.640 position from a roster construction standpoint. I mean, I told 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.960 you guys this, I told you guys this, and not 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.120 to victory lap here too hard five games in. But 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.760 it was always always glaringly obvious to me as it 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.599 was pre draft. They took the wrong guy. They just 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.919 took the wrong guy. They traded up eight spots and 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.320 were staring one of the most polished quarterbacks to come 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.159 out since twenty twenty when to and Burrow were coming 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.280 out as polish quarterbacks. They were staring another freak of 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.320 nature who quite frankly, might be the best ball of 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.360 raw clay the position has ever seen, at least since 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.560 Vick and Anthony Richardson. And they took the wrong guy. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.359 You know, I see Jets fans questioning why Zach Wilson 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.320 can't harness all this great talent that he possesses, and 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.920 that confusion is really just a symptom of not knowing 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.359 what the hell you're watching. Like sorry, not sorry, but 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.480 bailing on clean pockets and throwing cool pro day throws 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.800 down the field against for future insurance salesman doesn't really 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.840 move the needle at this level. Bubba. Bryce Young was 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.960 a master creator in college. He rarely won from structure. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.040 And isn't it crazy how that through line like never changes. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.240 That's my soapbox, No, it's not, because to me, it's 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.560 just so weird that CJ. Stroud is bawling and Bryce 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.200 Young is so weird and the worst part and why 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.840 I feel for Frank Reich. And it's pretty widely known 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.680 that Reich and Josh McCown one of the sharpest quarterback 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.320 minds in the business that we have. Josh McCown, they 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.000 wanted CJ. Stroud. There's a clip going around of McCown 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.440 saying to Straub, We'll find a court in Charlotte when 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.159 you get here. Didn't happen that way, as Dave Tepper, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.120 the owner, steps in and essentially turns the card in 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.320 on draft night, in the way that billy bunch of 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.680 numbers on Panthers Twitter might do. Might as well have 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.960 those TikTok analysts make your pick at that point. Arm 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.640 strength good forty times. Hey, send it in. That's good 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.880 quarterback play. All right, I'm done. Can you tell I'm 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:36.640 salty on that topic? Rookie quarterback struggling in an offense 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.640 that has seen a lot of turnover. They traded Dj 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.080 Moore to go get Bryce Young, and they've missed him. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.240 In the wide receiver room as well. Adam Fielin is 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.080 their current number one receiver and as far as proven players, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.560 that's about it at the wide receiver position. They have 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.640 some promising young guys on the perimeter, but add the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.600 fact in that they haven't developed yet, and Felan has 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.479 taking a step back in terms of his speed and 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.600 explosiveness and doesn't really constitute a huge threat anymore. But 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.120 you can just see on tape them mcnory or ironing 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.279 out some of the challenges that come with growing and 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.080 learning together as a young offense, and the early hits 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.520 of their last three draft classes have had issues staying 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.680 on the field. It's another reason why you wind up 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.960 with this win loss record they have, And that's kind 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.160 of the recipe of an zero to five team, right, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.520 like a building team who sees some bad luck wipe 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.920 out some of their most promising stars. Their best draft 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.760 pick of the last three years was j. C. Horn, 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.960 but he's had a bunch of bad injury luck. Same 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.720 with offensive tackle Brady Christensen. That same class produced Terrence Marshall, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.200 Tommy Tremble, Chuba Hubbard. Last year they get Iikei Kwanu, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.280 who had a rough first year. He's been better in 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.240 year two, but still hasn't taken that massive jump. Matt 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.440 Carrall was their next pick in that draft, and he's 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.560 not even there anymore. Then. The production from the rest 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.000 of the class has been, for lack of a better word, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:49.360 wanting this year young Mingo, DJ Johnson, Chandler Zavala, and 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.720 Jammie Robinson. Defensively, they're working in a new system. It's 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.400 driven by four really nice pieces and Brian Burns, who's 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.480 up for a new contract next March, Von Bell, Frankie 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.440 Luvu and Derek Brown. That gives them the makings of 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.560 a really nice defensive corps. They're still in the process 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.280 of getting up to speed. A new defensive coordinator, a 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.800 zero Everro's system, a guy that was a candidate for 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.440 the Dolphins down here in the DC role that eventually 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.400 was taken by Vic Fangio. So that's the Panthers. They're 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.440 currently zero to five. They've been one of the roughest 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.240 teams to watch on tape. Maybe they bounce back here 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.880 a little bit on Sunday, Maybe they don't. Here are 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.679 the key storylines I'm tracking heading into that game on Sunday, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.040 and it's all for the home side, like these preview games. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.400 Like don't get me wrong, I love that we have 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.080 them now that we're a really damn good football team, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.000 But you know, these are games you had to used 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.480 to think about certain advantages, you know, West Coast team 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 coming east, or the heat in South Florida, like that 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.960 stuff just doesn't really matter to me anymore because I 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.520 expected a certain standard here, and one of those is 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.160 the first five and one start in twenty one years. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.040 You might recall back in twenty or two thousand and 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.160 three that they had a chance to go five and one, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.360 didn't make it happen because of an overtime loss. But 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.880 with a win, you maintain your position atop the division. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.719 You maintain the tie or potentially overtake the Chiefs. Who 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.400 don't they are gonna lose tomorrow night on TNF. But 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.040 you never know, do you guys going back to that 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.840 three season, do you remember that sixth game? Boy? Do I? 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.800 You know those weird memories you have that just stick 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.040 forever for no apparent reason, Like it's not substantial, it's 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.720 not significant. I'll never forget. My brother brought me over 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.280 to his girlfriend's house one day after high school before 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.400 I could drive. He was a senior, I was a freshman, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.959 and I remember watching part in the Interruption the day 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.000 after we lost in overtime to the Patriots on that 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.880 long Troy Brown touchdown, And for whatever reason, I remember 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.640 sitting in that room watching that show when probably what 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.080 was going on in the other room I didn't wasn't 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.560 privy to the time, but now probably am a little 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.720 more privvy too. But Cornheiser and Will Bond were doing 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.400 an entire segment on why olindol Mario had missed two 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.679 kicks off the dirt despite that being his home field. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.720 I'll never forget that, and I hate that game. That 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.640 was the last time the Dolphins had a chance to 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.360 go or yeah, they think that was the last time 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:52.680 I had a chance to go five to one. Didn't 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.000 do it. They did do it twenty one years ago, though, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.040 back in two thousand and two. Next storyline, Bama v Bama. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.640 There are four Bama quarterbacks in the National Football League 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.360 right now. Two was one of them, and he's gonna 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.120 face all three of the others in the next three 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.280 consecutive games. He's already one to zero, beating Mac Jones 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.439 back in week two. Now he gets the latest highsman 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.240 winner there at Alabama, and of course he'll see Jalen 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.880 Hurts next week, and then Mac Jones again in week 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.720 number eight. Two trends that play into our defensive splits 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.199 here is in my next storyline, we struggled in two 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.000 games defensively. Those games were quarterbacked by top ten players 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.560 at their position in Herbert and in Josh Allen, and 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.120 those games were on the road. We allow seventeen points 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.280 seven points per game in the other three games, two 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.880 of those at home won against a broken Patriots offense, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.480 and I think that's super impressive considering that those two 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.320 games were multiple score leads in the third quarter. The Panthers, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.959 our next storyline here, are in search of win number one. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.760 Just to be privy of some tom foolery, playoffs are 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.199 probably out the window. Teams like this tend to have 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.360 nothing to lose. They tend to empty the playbook a 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.440 little bit. I think back to that twenty twenty one 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.719 game versus the Jets when they were down here, and 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.120 I want to say they went up to seventeen to 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.800 ten at one point in that game, despite being an 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.880 awful football team that year, and they were throwing double passes, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.400 they were going for on fourth and medium, and Zach 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.880 Wilson was doing Zach Wilson stuff, but they were still 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.880 like pushing the ball somehow just be weary of a 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.120 team with nothing to lose, and then finally here my 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.120 last storyline staying on pace offensively. This gets into the 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.880 privilege as a Dolphins fan right now, and Seth always 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.720 makes fun of me for this on the in the 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.800 press box, when we're watching games at the radio station, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.000 we're doing radio, whatever we're doing. He always gets on 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.840 me about this because I have a particular, you know, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.240 certain statistical interests that I think can kind of back 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.240 some of the things that I have claimed are going 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.280 to happen. And some of those things are like, hey, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.240 to go throw another touchdown pass here and boost your 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.040 passer rating, Like I wouldn't mind seeing that over a 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.240 two yard rushing touchdown sometimes. And when it comes to 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.680 the Dolphins all time pacing offense, I think it's worth 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.440 tracking to a pacing for over five thousand passing yards. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.719 I want to see that Tyreek pacing for close to 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.360 two thousand receiving yards. I want to see that. Can 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.839 we sustain a three hundred and fifty yards passing per 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.719 game mark one hundred plus for Tyreek five hundred on 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.640 total offense? Can we say he is the number one 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.440 rushing offense in the NFL and passing offense. I want 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.320 all those things to happen. So I want a five 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.520 hundred yard day, and these are the kind of teams 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.680 you can get those again, So those are a few 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.640 things I'm keying on. Let's go ahead and take our 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.080 first break right there and come back on the other side, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.880 and we will break down this matchup in terms of 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.959 offense and defense and how the Panthers line up on 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.240 both sides of the football. There. That's all next Draft 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.000 Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:34.079 Auto Nation. Can you guys sense a different sound today. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.440 I'm using a new microphone and I hope it works out. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.000 I'm very excited about the quality of the sound. Just 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.559 let me know a few noticed the difference. Let's go 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.160 ahead and get into the Dolphins offense versus the Panthers 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.480 defense here, and you guys know the matchups by now. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.480 The quarterback to a tongue by Lowa. The safeties he 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.920 will face Von Bell plays one hundred percent of their 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.240 snaps and Jeremy Chinn plays just fifty five percent. That 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.920 was interesting to me. He kind of is a essentially 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.240 nickel defender at this point in a defense that I 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.640 think should feature him some more. He's a freak athlete. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.080 He can do multiple things going front and backwards inside 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.320 the side. Just think you should see more of Jeremy 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.280 Chin and then Sam Franklin, a third safety, also plays 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.520 fifty percent plus of the snaps, So they run a 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.760 lot of that big nickel package with three safeties and 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.720 just two corners. Perhaps one of the reasons you do 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.800 that is because they don't They're down their top corner 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.320 right now. JC Horn's not playing, so CJ. Henderson is 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.440 their top perimeter guy. He plays seventy two percent of 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.280 the snaps. Actually, Dante Jackson plays more, sorry, seventy five 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.680 percent for Dante Jackson, seventy two for CJ. Henderson, and 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.640 then Troy Hills their primary inside corner at forty eight 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.079 percent of the workload. But most of Jeremy Chin's snaps 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.839 come in the slot as well, so interesting matchups there. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.880 In terms of athletic ability, all these guys can go 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.839 a little bit. We'll talk more about that here in 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.040 just one second, and then as far as their front goes, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.360 that's where I think they're probably best in this defense. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.280 Derek Brown is an absolute load and he plays eighty 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.720 seven percent of the snaps on the interior. That's impressive. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.439 Shy Tuttle plays sixty two percent. He's a very good 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.240 player as well. Keep an eye on those two guys. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.360 And then Deshaun Williams plays fifty two percent on the interior. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.760 Off the edge another place where they feature a like 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.760 all pro type of talent in Brian Burns. Man. He 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.480 is good, he is bendy, he is twitchy, he's explosive. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.400 He had a forced fumble in the game down here 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.000 back in twenty twenty one when he went up against 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.520 Jesse Davis. Luckily that won't happen again. But keep an 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.680 eye on Brian Burns and Derek Brown and then Von 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.920 Bell and Frankie Luvu kind of my key guys. Keep 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.920 an eye on. But back to the edge, Yettier Gross 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.200 Mottos is a length like Brian Flores front edge. You 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.080 might compare to like Emmanuel Ogba, but he has nowhere 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.480 near the juice of Ogba. He plays fifty percent of 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.640 the snaps, and then Justin Houston played forty five percent 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.680 of the snaps off the edge. It's it's to me, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.600 it's block. Brian burns and you'll be good. And the 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.480 Dolphins have done such a good job of printing edge 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.880 rushers from wrecking games so far this season, and then 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.960 running backs versus linebackers were down to know Moster and Aukmed. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.200 We'll see if Jeff Wilson gets activated, which, by the way, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.320 if you didn't hear the news already, devon Acham on 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.920 the injurieserve officially, and Jeff Wilson has had his twenty 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.680 one day window activated or he's been opened that window, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.600 and they can activate him at some point in the 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.800 next twenty one days. But Frankie Luvu eighty eight percent 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.120 of the snaps go Koogs. He is a fantastic linebacker 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.120 formerly of the New York Jets, and then a familiar 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.040 face Kammu Guruje Hill plays forty seven percent of the 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.000 snaps in that defense. Again operate primarily out of big 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.240 nickel packages. In fact, nickel is their sixty four percent 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.360 preferred defensive package, but they do run a lot of bass. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.640 There's not a lot of sub package beyond that twenty 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.560 four percent base in their three to four, which gets 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.200 them Derek Brown on an edge gets Shy Tunnel over 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.720 the nose tackle and then they operate with Brian Burns 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.080 primarily as their top rusher off the edge and Frankie 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.920 Luvu holding down that biddle linebacker spot. They do operate 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.880 from dime defense five percent of the time. They play 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.560 some zero coverage ten percent. I can't imagine they'll do 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:43.800 that in this game. You'd be crazy to do that 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.480 against the Dolphins offense. But they're in two high fifty 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.000 eight percent of the time and single high thirty seven 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.680 percent of the time, which is actually fifth most of 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.000 the National Football League. I think we'll see a lot 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.080 less of that this week as they again good try it, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.240 Try and play single high against Miami and see what happens. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.720 That's what happens when the Giants kind of went single 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.040 high or they busted, but they turned into what turned 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.640 out to be a single high look on that sixty 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.040 nine yard touchdown pass against Tyreek. We also had the 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.320 thirty five yard touchdown pass to Tyreek and single high 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.040 against the Chargers. And we also had the I don't 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.120 remember how the yards it was forty seven yard completion 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.240 to set up a game winner there against the Chargers. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.080 Again against single high with a man free coverage with 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.960 press coverage underneath. Don't do that. You can, I hope 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.200 you do, but I wouldn't do it. So they're almost 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.480 almost exclusively based on first down, almost exclusively nickel on 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.240 second down, So you can kind of manipulate how you 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.320 want to attack them with. You know, I love that 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.960 fast twenty one personnel. Or they get sometimes three backs 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.360 out there and go to work on teams stuck in 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.240 their base package with all the speed we have it 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.600 running back might be different now without a chan, But 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.080 then they influx a heavy use of dime on third down, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.520 regardless of the down and distance, So they play as 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.760 many light boxes as anybody else does. You know, we're 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.760 kind of in that category as well. But go back 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.840 to the Vikings tape and they ran six man or 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.920 fewer boxes eighty percent of their snaps. And that's with Jefferson, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.320 Addison and Osborne as the top three receivers. I like 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.720 Miami's a lot more, although Jefferson and Tyreek is probably 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.080 a take your pick option, but Addison Waddle that's where 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.159 the big standout is. And then obviously you know the 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.400 things that Barrios and Cedric and Craikkraft and those guys 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.240 can all do. Although crak Craft's now here right now. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.359 You get what I'm saying, but you never know. I'm 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.160 guessing they fear our deep passing game a little bit more. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.080 Maybe maybe not. If again, if not try it, try me. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.080 I wouldn't do it either way. Here are there season 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.240 numbers in those departments. So five man boxes is like 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.359 unheard of, and that's a lot of third down. So 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.920 that's thirteen percent, But six man boxes is their preferred 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.439 option thirty seven percent. Rahiem, you're up, big dog like, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.800 if they're gonna play that, you have to run the football. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.760 Seven man box is not light, but it's not heavy 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.600 thirty one percent, and then eight man boxes just twelve 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.320 percent of the time. So another game of deep balls 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.560 and running game. That was kind of my forecast last 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.400 week and that worked out pretty good. Will it work 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.040 out again here? I tend to think so, because I 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.320 don't think anybody can stop this offense. And they've also 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.679 struggled tackling, I think partially because they are banged up 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.800 on the back end. Their best cover corner is down 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.919 Hutch JC Horn, and so is their best linebacker, Shaq Thompson. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.920 That's a tough loss for those guys for posterity. They're 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.680 also without one of their better run defenders and Henry Anderson, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.440 and they're also down three offensive linemen, two starters and 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.840 Brady Christiansen and Austin Corbett, and then one of the 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.240 replacements for the starter at left guard and Chandler Zavalla. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.199