WEBVTT - Dolphins Bills Week 2 Preview 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:17.680 Touchdown Miami n What is up, Dolphans And welcome to 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.760 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.560 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.760 I am your host, Travis Winfield, and ahead of week two, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.800 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.000 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it is a 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.920 preview Thursday. We're gonna go position by position and break 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.640 down this matchup Dolphins versus the Bills at hard Rock Stadium, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.640 give you the keys to the game and tell you 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.040 what the Dolphins and Bills must do to claim victory. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.320 Plus we'll hear sound from quarterback to a Tongue by 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.040 Loa and receiver Will Fuller, who makes his return to 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.200 the lat up this week. And we'll break down coaches 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.720 Wednesday press conference and will also pick the Thursday night game. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.000 A busy, busy show from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:12.560 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.480 Before we get into this lengthy preview we have planned 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.800 on the podcast, let's go ahead and start here with 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.399 coach flores Is Wednesday morning press conference. At first, he 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.040 was asked about Ray Kuan Davis, and he just detailed 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.679 that he's not going to really go into detail on 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.880 a player's medical situation, so we're taking a day by day. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.639 And then coach kind of elaborated on why he feels 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.680 that way, and he just said, back when I played, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.800 I had injuries and we'd say, hey, it's a three 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.320 week timeline, we'd have setbacks, and then you just kind 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.120 of wind up not delivering on that particular expectation or timeline. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.720 So some insight there as to why coach believes that's 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.120 the best method to take. He also talked about Josh 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.960 Allen and this Buffalo Bill's team, saying you have to 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.280 give Josh Allen different looks, but you also want to 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.600 do what you do well and stick with that as well. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.240 So I thought that was a very interesting I mean 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.760 from coach, because we know about variety in this defense, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.000 but also they have certain things they do better than 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.720 other things, like any other team, any other defense across 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.800 the league. He also was asked our corrections easier to 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.160 make after wins, and he just said, corrections are corrections, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.240 and the best thing about it here is that guys 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.160 in this room, in this building are open to the corrections. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.280 They are open to the critiques to get better and improve, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.080 and they want to improve. Coach also said we'll know 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.440 what to expect from Will four this week after a 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.799 full week of practice. He of course returned to the 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.639 practice field after he was not here at practice last 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.160 week as part of his suspension for one week from 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.160 last season's p E D popping And we also, coach said, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.520 want to be aggressive. They talked about the first and 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.240 fourteen pass play from Tuah to Davante Parker, which actually 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.359 we learned later on in the day that to check 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.320 to that on his own accord, and we'll come back 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.440 to that here on the podcast later on. But coach 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.400 that we always want to be aggressive, especially in that situation, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.760 didn't want them to have the football back, and he 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.960 also said we'll have to be aggressive against flow as well. Finally, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.079 Adam Shaheen was back on the practice field on Wednesday 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.560 after missing week one on the covid I R list. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.840 The entire injury report is actually out and the Dolphins 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.000 had three players limited at Wednesday's practice, Adam Shaheen, Andrew 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.640 Van Ginkel, and Preston Williams, with four players as full 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.920 participants in practice. Clayton Federalum, John Jenkins, DeVante Parker, and 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.440 e Land and Roberts. For Buffalo, three players did not practice, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.359 two of them veteran rest days for Mario Addison and 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.560 Cole Beasley. Gabe Davis has an ankle and did not 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.240 participate in practice on Wednesday. Buffalo had three players limited 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.320 at Wednesday's practice, star La Tulay, Isaiah Mackenzie, and Matt Mlano, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.480 and Emmanuel Sanders was listed on the injury report as 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:48.000 a full participant in Buffalo's Wednesday practice. Speaking of the 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.120 Buffalo Bills, they say nobody's circles the wagons, but we'll 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.680 see about that comes Sunday. Hopefully they do have no 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.960 wagons to circle. What the hell am I talking about? 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:02.120 But this week was different. Prep for this week, having 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.640 an actual tape on the team made it different. But 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.160 one game is obviously never enough, so we go back 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.480 and look at last season as well, specifically, the second 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.360 most recent game this Miami Dolphins team played against the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.120 same Buffalo Bills team in the finale of Week seventeen, 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.040 and defensive coordinator Josh Bowyer talked about having seen that 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.520 tape several times. Bless his heart. What a tough task. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.919 That is that there's a takeaway every time you watch 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.640 film every session. You want to maximize what you can 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.440 take away from each tape. And I'm definitely with coach 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.920 on that thought, because you know, we do the Tuesday 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.919 Omissions podcast because you just cannot possibly gather a full 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:46.360 fifty three man roster evaluation. In addition to what schematically 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.520 teams were trying to accomplish, there is so much that 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.800 goes into one single football game. To think you can 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.760 come away from one broadcast copy watch maybe you're having 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.280 a couple of beers and some wings and you're going 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.120 to the bathroom between certain plays. To think you can 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.880 come out of that game with a full evaluation and 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.560 not have like several several questions, to me, is crazy. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:06.839 So I thought it was cool to hear from Coach 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.560 there about how you want to watch the same tape 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.320 a couple of times trying to maximize your ability to 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.640 get information from that tape. But it just made me 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.080 think about you can't really have a nuanced opinion or 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.760 a really informed opinion on the game until you at 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.359 least know what you're watching, but also watch that tape 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.880 several times. So That's kind of what I did here 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.440 this week with both the Buffalo Bills versus the Pittsburgh 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.640 Steelers as well as the Miami Dolphins at the New 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.440 England Patriots. And before we get into the matchups, I 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.719 want to just go ahead and talk a little bit 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.760 about the Bills and their current position or status, status 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.480 or standing in the NFL hierarchy. This is something I 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:42.960 want to do a little bit more of this year 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.880 compared to last season with regards to these season previews, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.039 because I think on top of the matchups and the 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.360 actual xs and ohs, which is, you know, my favorite 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.560 part of the sport we all love if you can't 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.680 tell from the podcast already, but a very close second 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.480 is the drama and the storylines that go into each game, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.039 Like there is no better drama than the National Football League. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.000 And I'm not talking about made up narratives or the 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.320 types of things that can be really overplayed or drawn out. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.640 Maybe just played up is the word I'm looking for here, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.039 the phrase I'm looking for. But what I mean by this, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.880 I like to look at the arc of the team 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.880 and despite the fact that they're a divisional foe and 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.640 a real thorn in our side the last couple of years. Man, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.960 I respect the hell out of Sean McDermott and what 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.400 he's done up in Buffalo. He came in back in 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.440 seventeen and quickly started to make the roster to his vision. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.599 And it's not all that different from the types of 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.320 characters that Brian Flores and Chris Career are looking forward 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.160 down here in Miami. Tough team first, guys who love 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.719 and prioritize football. McDermott and Brandon Bean worked to get 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.080 assets back for the talent they had in the roster 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.360 with guys like Sammy Watkins and Marcel Darius and Ronald 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.200 Darby trading all those guys a way ahead of that 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.840 seventeen season, which was greeted with backlash at the time, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.160 but you look at it now. I mean, shoot, even 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.359 in that seventeen season, they went to the playoffs that 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.120 year with Tyrod Taylor, and they struggled in that game 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.560 at ten of three loss in Jacksonville in that playoff run. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.680 But then they made their play for the quarterback next 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.440 season with Josh Allen, and they went up the draft 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.720 board to get this uber talented quarterback out of Wyoming 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.640 a much you know, not much maligned, but there was 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.800 a lot of critics of Josh Allen's game. And for 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.160 those of you that were with me back with the 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.560 lockdown Dolphins days, remember that I was a big, big 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.280 Josh Allen fan. I even wrote a story on l 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.760 o D dot com that he was the only quarterback 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.880 in that class that made sense for Miami to draft 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.000 because he could develop behind Ryan Tannehill. While you gave 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.080 Tannehill eighteen season to see if he could recapture form 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.880 that he had before that knee injury. But the Bills 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.280 make the play for Allen and he continues this path 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.640 too unique path, I should say, to superstart him. He 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.840 showed you the flashes of the physical brilliance, but ultimately 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.240 struggle with accuracy and just showing a little bit of 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.920 chaotic nature in the pocket to his game or at 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:01.360 the top of the drop to not really have a 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.360 plan when he saw pressure and when he had to 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.640 get off that spot. But I still thought you could 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.720 see that in twenty nine, his first playoff year, that 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.840 he was working with something that could eventually become great, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.240 which we saw last year and it did, but before 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.800 they had built a damn good defense at all three levels, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.000 especially that secondary, which was essentially remade in one off 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.679 season with Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde and Trey White 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.160 who were all still there. And last year was a 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.240 bit of a step back from a production standpoint, and 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.920 they had issues keeping some guys healthy. They contributed to that, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.760 but I think their improvement could make this truly one 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.840 of the contenders to represent the a f C in 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.760 the Super Bowl this season's let's go ahead and dive 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.480 into this crucial matchup on Sunday at hard Rock Stadium, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.920 one of old Dolphins oh and one Buffalo Bills at 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.840 one o'clock kick under eighty eight degree temperatures, partly cloudy 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.760 skies and about sixty humidity, and there is some possible 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.079 moisture in the forecast, as there always is this time 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.440 of year in South Florida. But we take a look 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.480 at the Pittsburgh game ask week to help us inform 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.680 ourselves of the Buffalo Bills, and we start here at 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.800 the Bills quarterbacks versus the Dolphins safeties. And I alluded 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.880 to Josh Allen's early career scouting and his ability to 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.960 break this habit in year three and what it was 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.040 was at the top of the drop. When pressure arrived, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.480 the hands would separate from the football, so the footballs 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.080 in one hand all of a sudden, and he would 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.640 get off the spot seemingly without a plan for where 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.560 he was going to go or where the next read 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.959 or decision came from. And what I mean by this 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.960 is that he would get himself into a position where 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.880 he's not a threat to throw the football, which is 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.319 ironic because this is a guy that can drive the 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.200 ball from quiet literally every single arm angle and every 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.240 single platform known to man on a football field. But 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.160 you kind of saw it again against the Steelers, and 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.920 that's where they did a good job. I thought of 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.600 having sound gap integrity on their rushes and getting in 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.319 Josh Allen's face and here's the key without letting him 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.600 escape that initial wave. Once that happens, you're so toast. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.920 You're so so toast. So it's an interesting dynamic. Do 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.000 you try to heat him up the blitz or do 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.880 you play coverage and force him to scan and make plays. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.720 Either way, you probably have to spy or have some 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.560 type of plan for him when he tries to get 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.040 loose with the legs and just looking back at his 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.679 rushing numbers against Miami over the course of his career 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.720 in six games, three hundred and forty yards in the ground, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.160 three touchdowns. Now, to be fair, two hundred and thirty 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.679 of those yards and two of those touchdowns as well 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.200 were before the current regime arrived here, back in before 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.400 the current structure or defensive philosophy we have now was 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.320 originally in place. So it's really more like a hundred 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.360 and ten yards and four games, which is a way 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.120 better production against the running quarterback like himself, and it's 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.559 far more sustainable if you want to beat this Buffalo offense. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.280 But he has gotten us through the air, So how 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.160 do we stop that? Well, the way Pittsburgh did it 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.360 was this. They blitzed him seven times on fifties six dropbacks, 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.240 basically not at all. They pressured with four and we 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.240 saw t. J. Watt and Melvin Ingram have success doing that. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.480 And we'll save that for the offensive line versus defensive 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.600 line portion. But when they did blitz, Alan was two 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.160 for six with nine yards, also took a sack, so 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.480 maybe there's something to that, especially with reguards to mixing 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.160 up how you do it. I remember the first game 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.680 against US back in with the Buffalo Bills, Bobby McCain 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.319 got him on a cat blitz. Remember he was a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.680 corner before a safety, and we saw some really clever 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.120 blitzes like that. Against New England, Byron Jones got home 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.240 on a kind of a sort of a sack and 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.800 eventually a fumble from mac Jones. So it's in the 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.680 bag of tricks. But you always wonder exactly what Flow 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.959 and Boyer and the staff wants to do. We heard 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.800 Brian Baldinger does great video work breaking down the game 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.839 every single Monday, Tuesday, really really every day. But he 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.040 had a comment in his post week one breakdown saying 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.600 the Dolphins defense is tough to get ready for. They're tough, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.600 they're multiple, they're talented, they scheme it up well, they 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.000 have talented players, and they do as much as any 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.800 defense in the National Football League with all the variety 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.559 they have. So giving Alan different blitzes or rushers that 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.599 can cross the wires with his pre snap, I d 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.440 compared to his post snap that's going to be crucial. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.640 And on the top of you know Dolphins safety's is 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.000 this kind of the position group we look at with 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.000 the quarterbacks. Interesting usage with those guys in Week one, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.120 and we'll see how that changes. This week. I talked 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.040 about the dichotomy of the Bills and Patriots offense, so 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.880 you could always see something completely different. But mccorty seventy 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.240 four snaps, Eric Roe sixty five snaps, Javon Holland twenty 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.240 four snaps, and we saw some Holland in the deep post, 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.320 and on some of those reps you'd see both mccordy 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.520 and row down in the hole, down close to the 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.720 box and by the line of scrimmage, And I mean 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.200 I knew what we also saw with Holland's versatility and 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.520 some work down in the muck. But with regards to 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.360 the safety deployment, Brandon Jones played eleven snaps that were 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.000 mostly in place of the injured Eric Rowe, who came 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.359 off but went back in. But yeah, man, mccorty's versatility 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.320 makes this defense even tougher than I thought. I love it. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.320 His range, the instincts, the cover skills. He creates a 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.000 whole other level of versatility because he can really play 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.600 every single position in your defensive secondary And speaking of 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.120 blitzing defensive backs and getting Josh Allen to the ground, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.280 man Javon hollandkin hit you, and he does it in 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.400 a controlled nature where you just haven't really seen those 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.640 big whiffs from him. He can come in under control 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.120 and get the big dudes down to the ground. Just 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.440 go back and look at the John H. Smith poppel 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.880 and forced fumble in the second quarter of that Patriots game. Now, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.280 last note here, and this involves our corners too, so 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.559 we'll go ahead and pivot to that breakdown next our 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.839 cornerbacks versus their skill players. But Miami still had six 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.600 defensive backs eclipse at least twenty four snaps in the 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.480 game against the Patriots team who hardly ran any three 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.920 wide sets in that game. And with the Bills and 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.360 all the ten personnel they can run and how much 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.120 they can challenge your defensive back depth, we could see 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.480 a bit more of Brandon Jones or Justin Coleman and 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.360 guys that were up and active but only played sparingly 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.880 in that game on Sunday. So so more blitz numbers 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.560 here for you. The Dolphins last year, in the Week 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.679 two game on thirty seven, Josh Allen dropback splits him 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.560 sixteen times. He was nine for sixteen with a hundred 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.240 and sixty seven yards and two touchdowns, and all four 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.040 of his touchdown passes in that game camp came when 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.640 he was under pressure. Are just a great game for him, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.520 despite the fact that he had two possible I n 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.840 t s. Not go the Dolphins way. Then in weeks seventeen, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.400 kind of a similar script, only twenty seven drop backs 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.160 this time, but twelve blitzes and once again ten for eleven, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.200 a hundred and thirty five yards and two touchdowns with 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.600 no picks. So basically over ten yards per attempt and 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.480 a couple of t D tosses against the blitz and 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.080 really a small amount of incompletion. So what does this 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.040 tell you? Well, I think you have to try to 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.640 find a way to generate pressure with him with four 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.160 guys and then be selective with the blitz. Is not 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.520 dialing up the blitz would be negligent because, like coach 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.000 Flora said, it's something you're good at, so you do it. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.040 But I think you picked your spots because we mentioned 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.640 the blitz numbers against the Steelers and his throwing against 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.080 pressure numbers. He was eight for nineteen with a hundred 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 and nine yards and touchdown and no picks. That's five 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.400 point seven yards per attempt and less than fifty complete. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.680 You do that, you're gonna have a great chance to 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.600 beat Buffalo and get out to that two no start 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.000 here in the a f C. East on the day, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.040 Alan was thirty two and seventy yards and a touchdown 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.560 pass just five point three yards per ten But watching 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.200 the game in general, you know they were playing cover Ridge. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.200 They were flooding to the second level, getting bodies in 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.360 that hooks or the hook zone, the curl zone, make 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.600 life difficult on Alan in that area of the field. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.800 May can be really proficient going down the football field, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.240 and they were moving Alan with power rushes and bull rushes, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.640 and they were willing to let Devin Singletary have some space. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.960 He had eleven carries for seventy two yards in the game. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.600 And Emmanuel standards with the guy. They seem to say, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.000 let's let him beat us because he got vertical a 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.520 couple of times. And also Cole Beasley, you know Beasley, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.720 the guy that he's just not gonna get vertical very often. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.480 He had one of the lowest A dots in the 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.160 league year after year. But Emmanuel Sanders had his chances 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.200 and they just couldn't quite connect. I'm sure we'll get 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.240 better as the year goes along. In his first game 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.080 with Josh Allen, but up front on that Bill's offensive 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.480 line versus the Dolphins defensive line as we pivot now 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.720 in our preview here pressure numbers allowed in Week one 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.800 for Buffalo. Dion Dawkins had five, John Feliciano had eight, 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:54.080 Mitch Morris had three, uh Cody Ford almost had, Kobe 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 Cody Ford had two, and Darryl Williams had five, so 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.040 a total of ten twenty three pressures from the offensive line. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.200 And Ike Bodeger came in and allowed the pressure as well. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.160 But power rush moves, bowl rushing guys. Melvin Ingram really 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.120 gave some challenges of Dion Dawkins. I also saw him 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.240 Cam hayk saw Cam Hayward due the exact same thing 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.320 to both Mitch Morse and John Feliciano up in the interior. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.400 So guys that get a lot of push with length 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.200 and power on the inside. Sure sucks that Rake Wan's down. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.040 That was his game. But this is why you build 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.960 out the depth and why you get a John Jenkins 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.240 into your building. I'm not saying he plugs in plays 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.120 for Ray Kwon Davis, but he still gives you the 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.520 opportunity to keep Christian Zach and Adam Butler all fresh. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.320 So with that mind, I really think that this is 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.320 Zack Seler's chance to make a big impact. You know, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.520 the Week two game last year, he only played sixteen snaps. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.000 Then he had twenty two snaps in the Week seventeen game, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.800 and nine of those were in run defense and thirteen 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.240 is a pass rusher, and he had two pressures including 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.560 a quarterback hit and a parent run stop, so effective 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.080 in that week's seventeen game. I think his length can 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.800 give those guys all they can handle at the other 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.200 interior spot. I like Wilkins and Butler's matchup with Cody 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.000 Ford for their wickness and ability to keep their frames clean, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.920 change direction, and really put the impetus on four to 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.760 make his decisions and be stout with his technique and 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.119 and and his urgency to get to those past sets 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.280 now off the edge. Emmanuel Ogba had seven pressures in 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.920 the two games last year, but only two of those 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.119 came against Darryl Williams. Now. Williams had his handful on 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.040 Sunday against Watt with five pressures allowed in that Week 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.560 one game, but Ogba worked inside two and that kind 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.720 of goes back to our point about the interior. I 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.359 think that's where you can attack. Plus you want Alan 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.359 going side to side. Once he steps up in the 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.840 middle and escapes through the middle of the pocket, that's 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.359 tough to defend. Also on the edge, Andrew van Ginko 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.520 had a nice game last year in the Week's seventeen finale, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.160 including a sack that got the Bills off the field. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.560 More of those drives also had two total pressures and 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.439 four run stops, and that was working against Dion Dawkins, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.440 so he has some success against the Bills left tackle. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.880 Dawkins goes six ft five three twenty and gain has 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.399 showing the propensity to get under the blockers with his 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.880 side with that have that size and length and dip 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.000 under those guys and corner and flat into the quarterback. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.639 Hopefully he can do that again. Last point here, and 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.280 this is purely my opinion and we'll see how it 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.640 plays out. I think this is the opponent for why 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.600 you draft Jalen Phillips. His ability to win as a 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.320 one on one pass rusher, at least in college and 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.439 as a prospect. Some of the things that t. J. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.880 Watt did with the swipes, the flash move to throw 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.560 the hands to draw out the hands of the tackle. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.560 That's some of I think Phillips's best traits and something 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.320 he can have success with he puts it together in 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.800 this game. We kind of saw a waddle in Holland 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.080 have their arrival moments last week with the big catches 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.399 and the big force fumble. I think we could do 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.880 the same this week from Jalen Phillips onto our next group. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.639 And this is a star Power on star Power group 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.920 here man Buffalo receivers and tight ends versus the Miami DBS. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.200 And going back to the Brian Baldinger video, you guys 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.320 all saw that, right, He said you couldn't even fit 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.040 in an American Express car between these guys. Talking about 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.200 how good Byron Jones and Exaviing Howard are in coverage, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.120 he said, they're as good as anybody, those two guys. Now, 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.679 we didn't have Jones after the third snap of the 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.800 Week two game last year, but we did have him 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.639 in Week seventeen and he got that big pick on 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.040 the first drive, but the rest of the game obviously 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.560