Speaker 1: Touchdown Miami n What is up, Dolphans And welcome to
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winfield, and ahead of week two,
Speaker 1: I am here to bring you your daily dose of
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it is a
Speaker 1: preview Thursday. We're gonna go position by position and break
Speaker 1: down this matchup Dolphins versus the Bills at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: give you the keys to the game and tell you
Speaker 1: what the Dolphins and Bills must do to claim victory.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll hear sound from quarterback to a Tongue by
Speaker 1: Loa and receiver Will Fuller, who makes his return to
Speaker 1: the lat up this week. And we'll break down coaches
Speaker 1: Wednesday press conference and will also pick the Thursday night game.
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Speaker 1: Before we get into this lengthy preview we have planned
Speaker 1: on the podcast, let's go ahead and start here with
Speaker 1: coach flores Is Wednesday morning press conference. At first, he
Speaker 1: was asked about Ray Kuan Davis, and he just detailed
Speaker 1: that he's not going to really go into detail on
Speaker 1: a player's medical situation, so we're taking a day by day.
Speaker 1: And then coach kind of elaborated on why he feels
Speaker 1: that way, and he just said, back when I played,
Speaker 1: I had injuries and we'd say, hey, it's a three
Speaker 1: week timeline, we'd have setbacks, and then you just kind
Speaker 1: of wind up not delivering on that particular expectation or timeline.
Speaker 1: So some insight there as to why coach believes that's
Speaker 1: the best method to take. He also talked about Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and this Buffalo Bill's team, saying you have to
Speaker 1: give Josh Allen different looks, but you also want to
Speaker 1: do what you do well and stick with that as well.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a very interesting I mean
Speaker 1: from coach, because we know about variety in this defense,
Speaker 1: but also they have certain things they do better than
Speaker 1: other things, like any other team, any other defense across
Speaker 1: the league. He also was asked our corrections easier to
Speaker 1: make after wins, and he just said, corrections are corrections,
Speaker 1: and the best thing about it here is that guys
Speaker 1: in this room, in this building are open to the corrections.
Speaker 1: They are open to the critiques to get better and improve,
Speaker 1: and they want to improve. Coach also said we'll know
Speaker 1: what to expect from Will four this week after a
Speaker 1: full week of practice. He of course returned to the
Speaker 1: practice field after he was not here at practice last
Speaker 1: week as part of his suspension for one week from
Speaker 1: last season's p E D popping And we also, coach said,
Speaker 1: want to be aggressive. They talked about the first and
Speaker 1: fourteen pass play from Tuah to Davante Parker, which actually
Speaker 1: we learned later on in the day that to check
Speaker 1: to that on his own accord, and we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that here on the podcast later on. But coach
Speaker 1: that we always want to be aggressive, especially in that situation,
Speaker 1: didn't want them to have the football back, and he
Speaker 1: also said we'll have to be aggressive against flow as well. Finally,
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen was back on the practice field on Wednesday
Speaker 1: after missing week one on the covid I R list.
Speaker 1: The entire injury report is actually out and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had three players limited at Wednesday's practice, Adam Shaheen, Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkel, and Preston Williams, with four players as full
Speaker 1: participants in practice. Clayton Federalum, John Jenkins, DeVante Parker, and
Speaker 1: e Land and Roberts. For Buffalo, three players did not practice,
Speaker 1: two of them veteran rest days for Mario Addison and
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. Gabe Davis has an ankle and did not
Speaker 1: participate in practice on Wednesday. Buffalo had three players limited
Speaker 1: at Wednesday's practice, star La Tulay, Isaiah Mackenzie, and Matt Mlano,
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders was listed on the injury report as
Speaker 1: a full participant in Buffalo's Wednesday practice. Speaking of the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, they say nobody's circles the wagons, but we'll
Speaker 1: see about that comes Sunday. Hopefully they do have no
Speaker 1: wagons to circle. What the hell am I talking about?
Speaker 1: But this week was different. Prep for this week, having
Speaker 1: an actual tape on the team made it different. But
Speaker 1: one game is obviously never enough, so we go back
Speaker 1: and look at last season as well, specifically, the second
Speaker 1: most recent game this Miami Dolphins team played against the
Speaker 1: same Buffalo Bills team in the finale of Week seventeen,
Speaker 1: and defensive coordinator Josh Bowyer talked about having seen that
Speaker 1: tape several times. Bless his heart. What a tough task.
Speaker 1: That is that there's a takeaway every time you watch
Speaker 1: film every session. You want to maximize what you can
Speaker 1: take away from each tape. And I'm definitely with coach
Speaker 1: on that thought, because you know, we do the Tuesday
Speaker 1: Omissions podcast because you just cannot possibly gather a full
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster evaluation. In addition to what schematically
Speaker 1: teams were trying to accomplish, there is so much that
Speaker 1: goes into one single football game. To think you can
Speaker 1: come away from one broadcast copy watch maybe you're having
Speaker 1: a couple of beers and some wings and you're going
Speaker 1: to the bathroom between certain plays. To think you can
Speaker 1: come out of that game with a full evaluation and
Speaker 1: not have like several several questions, to me, is crazy.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was cool to hear from Coach
Speaker 1: there about how you want to watch the same tape
Speaker 1: a couple of times trying to maximize your ability to
Speaker 1: get information from that tape. But it just made me
Speaker 1: think about you can't really have a nuanced opinion or
Speaker 1: a really informed opinion on the game until you at
Speaker 1: least know what you're watching, but also watch that tape
Speaker 1: several times. So That's kind of what I did here
Speaker 1: this week with both the Buffalo Bills versus the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers as well as the Miami Dolphins at the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. And before we get into the matchups, I
Speaker 1: want to just go ahead and talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the Bills and their current position or status, status
Speaker 1: or standing in the NFL hierarchy. This is something I
Speaker 1: want to do a little bit more of this year
Speaker 1: compared to last season with regards to these season previews,
Speaker 1: because I think on top of the matchups and the
Speaker 1: actual xs and ohs, which is, you know, my favorite
Speaker 1: part of the sport we all love if you can't
Speaker 1: tell from the podcast already, but a very close second
Speaker 1: is the drama and the storylines that go into each game,
Speaker 1: Like there is no better drama than the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about made up narratives or the
Speaker 1: types of things that can be really overplayed or drawn out.
Speaker 1: Maybe just played up is the word I'm looking for here,
Speaker 1: the phrase I'm looking for. But what I mean by this,
Speaker 1: I like to look at the arc of the team
Speaker 1: and despite the fact that they're a divisional foe and
Speaker 1: a real thorn in our side the last couple of years. Man,
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of Sean McDermott and what
Speaker 1: he's done up in Buffalo. He came in back in
Speaker 1: seventeen and quickly started to make the roster to his vision.
Speaker 1: And it's not all that different from the types of
Speaker 1: characters that Brian Flores and Chris Career are looking forward
Speaker 1: down here in Miami. Tough team first, guys who love
Speaker 1: and prioritize football. McDermott and Brandon Bean worked to get
Speaker 1: assets back for the talent they had in the roster
Speaker 1: with guys like Sammy Watkins and Marcel Darius and Ronald
Speaker 1: Darby trading all those guys a way ahead of that
Speaker 1: seventeen season, which was greeted with backlash at the time,
Speaker 1: but you look at it now. I mean, shoot, even
Speaker 1: in that seventeen season, they went to the playoffs that
Speaker 1: year with Tyrod Taylor, and they struggled in that game
Speaker 1: at ten of three loss in Jacksonville in that playoff run.
Speaker 1: But then they made their play for the quarterback next
Speaker 1: season with Josh Allen, and they went up the draft
Speaker 1: board to get this uber talented quarterback out of Wyoming
Speaker 1: a much you know, not much maligned, but there was
Speaker 1: a lot of critics of Josh Allen's game. And for
Speaker 1: those of you that were with me back with the
Speaker 1: lockdown Dolphins days, remember that I was a big, big
Speaker 1: Josh Allen fan. I even wrote a story on l
Speaker 1: o D dot com that he was the only quarterback
Speaker 1: in that class that made sense for Miami to draft
Speaker 1: because he could develop behind Ryan Tannehill. While you gave
Speaker 1: Tannehill eighteen season to see if he could recapture form
Speaker 1: that he had before that knee injury. But the Bills
Speaker 1: make the play for Allen and he continues this path
Speaker 1: too unique path, I should say, to superstart him. He
Speaker 1: showed you the flashes of the physical brilliance, but ultimately
Speaker 1: struggle with accuracy and just showing a little bit of
Speaker 1: chaotic nature in the pocket to his game or at
Speaker 1: the top of the drop to not really have a
Speaker 1: plan when he saw pressure and when he had to
Speaker 1: get off that spot. But I still thought you could
Speaker 1: see that in twenty nine, his first playoff year, that
Speaker 1: he was working with something that could eventually become great,
Speaker 1: which we saw last year and it did, but before
Speaker 1: they had built a damn good defense at all three levels,
Speaker 1: especially that secondary, which was essentially remade in one off
Speaker 1: season with Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde and Trey White
Speaker 1: who were all still there. And last year was a
Speaker 1: bit of a step back from a production standpoint, and
Speaker 1: they had issues keeping some guys healthy. They contributed to that,
Speaker 1: but I think their improvement could make this truly one
Speaker 1: of the contenders to represent the a f C in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this season's let's go ahead and dive
Speaker 1: into this crucial matchup on Sunday at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: one of old Dolphins oh and one Buffalo Bills at
Speaker 1: one o'clock kick under eighty eight degree temperatures, partly cloudy
Speaker 1: skies and about sixty humidity, and there is some possible
Speaker 1: moisture in the forecast, as there always is this time
Speaker 1: of year in South Florida. But we take a look
Speaker 1: at the Pittsburgh game ask week to help us inform
Speaker 1: ourselves of the Buffalo Bills, and we start here at
Speaker 1: the Bills quarterbacks versus the Dolphins safeties. And I alluded
Speaker 1: to Josh Allen's early career scouting and his ability to
Speaker 1: break this habit in year three and what it was
Speaker 1: was at the top of the drop. When pressure arrived,
Speaker 1: the hands would separate from the football, so the footballs
Speaker 1: in one hand all of a sudden, and he would
Speaker 1: get off the spot seemingly without a plan for where
Speaker 1: he was going to go or where the next read
Speaker 1: or decision came from. And what I mean by this
Speaker 1: is that he would get himself into a position where
Speaker 1: he's not a threat to throw the football, which is
Speaker 1: ironic because this is a guy that can drive the
Speaker 1: ball from quiet literally every single arm angle and every
Speaker 1: single platform known to man on a football field. But
Speaker 1: you kind of saw it again against the Steelers, and
Speaker 1: that's where they did a good job. I thought of
Speaker 1: having sound gap integrity on their rushes and getting in
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's face and here's the key without letting him
Speaker 1: escape that initial wave. Once that happens, you're so toast.
Speaker 1: You're so so toast. So it's an interesting dynamic. Do
Speaker 1: you try to heat him up the blitz or do
Speaker 1: you play coverage and force him to scan and make plays.
Speaker 1: Either way, you probably have to spy or have some
Speaker 1: type of plan for him when he tries to get
Speaker 1: loose with the legs and just looking back at his
Speaker 1: rushing numbers against Miami over the course of his career
Speaker 1: in six games, three hundred and forty yards in the ground,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Now, to be fair, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: of those yards and two of those touchdowns as well
Speaker 1: were before the current regime arrived here, back in before
Speaker 1: the current structure or defensive philosophy we have now was
Speaker 1: originally in place. So it's really more like a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten yards and four games, which is a way
Speaker 1: better production against the running quarterback like himself, and it's
Speaker 1: far more sustainable if you want to beat this Buffalo offense.
Speaker 1: But he has gotten us through the air, So how
Speaker 1: do we stop that? Well, the way Pittsburgh did it
Speaker 1: was this. They blitzed him seven times on fifties six dropbacks,
Speaker 1: basically not at all. They pressured with four and we
Speaker 1: saw t. J. Watt and Melvin Ingram have success doing that.
Speaker 1: And we'll save that for the offensive line versus defensive
Speaker 1: line portion. But when they did blitz, Alan was two
Speaker 1: for six with nine yards, also took a sack, so
Speaker 1: maybe there's something to that, especially with reguards to mixing
Speaker 1: up how you do it. I remember the first game
Speaker 1: against US back in with the Buffalo Bills, Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: got him on a cat blitz. Remember he was a
Speaker 1: corner before a safety, and we saw some really clever
Speaker 1: blitzes like that. Against New England, Byron Jones got home
Speaker 1: on a kind of a sort of a sack and
Speaker 1: eventually a fumble from mac Jones. So it's in the
Speaker 1: bag of tricks. But you always wonder exactly what Flow
Speaker 1: and Boyer and the staff wants to do. We heard
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger does great video work breaking down the game
Speaker 1: every single Monday, Tuesday, really really every day. But he
Speaker 1: had a comment in his post week one breakdown saying
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense is tough to get ready for. They're tough,
Speaker 1: they're multiple, they're talented, they scheme it up well, they
Speaker 1: have talented players, and they do as much as any
Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League with all the variety
Speaker 1: they have. So giving Alan different blitzes or rushers that
Speaker 1: can cross the wires with his pre snap, I d
Speaker 1: compared to his post snap that's going to be crucial.
Speaker 1: And on the top of you know Dolphins safety's is
Speaker 1: this kind of the position group we look at with
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Interesting usage with those guys in Week one,
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that changes. This week. I talked
Speaker 1: about the dichotomy of the Bills and Patriots offense, so
Speaker 1: you could always see something completely different. But mccorty seventy
Speaker 1: four snaps, Eric Roe sixty five snaps, Javon Holland twenty
Speaker 1: four snaps, and we saw some Holland in the deep post,
Speaker 1: and on some of those reps you'd see both mccordy
Speaker 1: and row down in the hole, down close to the
Speaker 1: box and by the line of scrimmage, And I mean
Speaker 1: I knew what we also saw with Holland's versatility and
Speaker 1: some work down in the muck. But with regards to
Speaker 1: the safety deployment, Brandon Jones played eleven snaps that were
Speaker 1: mostly in place of the injured Eric Rowe, who came
Speaker 1: off but went back in. But yeah, man, mccorty's versatility
Speaker 1: makes this defense even tougher than I thought. I love it.
Speaker 1: His range, the instincts, the cover skills. He creates a
Speaker 1: whole other level of versatility because he can really play
Speaker 1: every single position in your defensive secondary And speaking of
Speaker 1: blitzing defensive backs and getting Josh Allen to the ground,
Speaker 1: man Javon hollandkin hit you, and he does it in
Speaker 1: a controlled nature where you just haven't really seen those
Speaker 1: big whiffs from him. He can come in under control
Speaker 1: and get the big dudes down to the ground. Just
Speaker 1: go back and look at the John H. Smith poppel
Speaker 1: and forced fumble in the second quarter of that Patriots game. Now,
Speaker 1: last note here, and this involves our corners too, so
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and pivot to that breakdown next our
Speaker 1: cornerbacks versus their skill players. But Miami still had six
Speaker 1: defensive backs eclipse at least twenty four snaps in the
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots team who hardly ran any three
Speaker 1: wide sets in that game. And with the Bills and
Speaker 1: all the ten personnel they can run and how much
Speaker 1: they can challenge your defensive back depth, we could see
Speaker 1: a bit more of Brandon Jones or Justin Coleman and
Speaker 1: guys that were up and active but only played sparingly
Speaker 1: in that game on Sunday. So so more blitz numbers
Speaker 1: here for you. The Dolphins last year, in the Week
Speaker 1: two game on thirty seven, Josh Allen dropback splits him
Speaker 1: sixteen times. He was nine for sixteen with a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven yards and two touchdowns, and all four
Speaker 1: of his touchdown passes in that game camp came when
Speaker 1: he was under pressure. Are just a great game for him,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that he had two possible I n
Speaker 1: t s. Not go the Dolphins way. Then in weeks seventeen,
Speaker 1: kind of a similar script, only twenty seven drop backs
Speaker 1: this time, but twelve blitzes and once again ten for eleven,
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty five yards and two touchdowns with
Speaker 1: no picks. So basically over ten yards per attempt and
Speaker 1: a couple of t D tosses against the blitz and
Speaker 1: really a small amount of incompletion. So what does this
Speaker 1: tell you? Well, I think you have to try to
Speaker 1: find a way to generate pressure with him with four
Speaker 1: guys and then be selective with the blitz. Is not
Speaker 1: dialing up the blitz would be negligent because, like coach
Speaker 1: Flora said, it's something you're good at, so you do it.
Speaker 1: But I think you picked your spots because we mentioned
Speaker 1: the blitz numbers against the Steelers and his throwing against
Speaker 1: pressure numbers. He was eight for nineteen with a hundred
Speaker 1: and nine yards and touchdown and no picks. That's five
Speaker 1: point seven yards per attempt and less than fifty complete.
Speaker 1: You do that, you're gonna have a great chance to
Speaker 1: beat Buffalo and get out to that two no start
Speaker 1: here in the a f C. East on the day,
Speaker 1: Alan was thirty two and seventy yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: pass just five point three yards per ten But watching
Speaker 1: the game in general, you know they were playing cover Ridge.
Speaker 1: They were flooding to the second level, getting bodies in
Speaker 1: that hooks or the hook zone, the curl zone, make
Speaker 1: life difficult on Alan in that area of the field.
Speaker 1: May can be really proficient going down the football field,
Speaker 1: and they were moving Alan with power rushes and bull rushes,
Speaker 1: and they were willing to let Devin Singletary have some space.
Speaker 1: He had eleven carries for seventy two yards in the game.
Speaker 1: And Emmanuel standards with the guy. They seem to say,
Speaker 1: let's let him beat us because he got vertical a
Speaker 1: couple of times. And also Cole Beasley, you know Beasley,
Speaker 1: the guy that he's just not gonna get vertical very often.
Speaker 1: He had one of the lowest A dots in the
Speaker 1: league year after year. But Emmanuel Sanders had his chances
Speaker 1: and they just couldn't quite connect. I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 1: better as the year goes along. In his first game
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, but up front on that Bill's offensive
Speaker 1: line versus the Dolphins defensive line as we pivot now
Speaker 1: in our preview here pressure numbers allowed in Week one
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. Dion Dawkins had five, John Feliciano had eight,
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris had three, uh Cody Ford almost had, Kobe
Speaker 1: Cody Ford had two, and Darryl Williams had five, so
Speaker 1: a total of ten twenty three pressures from the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And Ike Bodeger came in and allowed the pressure as well.
Speaker 1: But power rush moves, bowl rushing guys. Melvin Ingram really
Speaker 1: gave some challenges of Dion Dawkins. I also saw him
Speaker 1: Cam hayk saw Cam Hayward due the exact same thing
Speaker 1: to both Mitch Morse and John Feliciano up in the interior.
Speaker 1: So guys that get a lot of push with length
Speaker 1: and power on the inside. Sure sucks that Rake Wan's down.
Speaker 1: That was his game. But this is why you build
Speaker 1: out the depth and why you get a John Jenkins
Speaker 1: into your building. I'm not saying he plugs in plays
Speaker 1: for Ray Kwon Davis, but he still gives you the
Speaker 1: opportunity to keep Christian Zach and Adam Butler all fresh.
Speaker 1: So with that mind, I really think that this is
Speaker 1: Zack Seler's chance to make a big impact. You know,
Speaker 1: the Week two game last year, he only played sixteen snaps.
Speaker 1: Then he had twenty two snaps in the Week seventeen game,
Speaker 1: and nine of those were in run defense and thirteen
Speaker 1: is a pass rusher, and he had two pressures including
Speaker 1: a quarterback hit and a parent run stop, so effective
Speaker 1: in that week's seventeen game. I think his length can
Speaker 1: give those guys all they can handle at the other
Speaker 1: interior spot. I like Wilkins and Butler's matchup with Cody
Speaker 1: Ford for their wickness and ability to keep their frames clean,
Speaker 1: change direction, and really put the impetus on four to
Speaker 1: make his decisions and be stout with his technique and
Speaker 1: and and his urgency to get to those past sets
Speaker 1: now off the edge. Emmanuel Ogba had seven pressures in
Speaker 1: the two games last year, but only two of those
Speaker 1: came against Darryl Williams. Now. Williams had his handful on
Speaker 1: Sunday against Watt with five pressures allowed in that Week
Speaker 1: one game, but Ogba worked inside two and that kind
Speaker 1: of goes back to our point about the interior. I
Speaker 1: think that's where you can attack. Plus you want Alan
Speaker 1: going side to side. Once he steps up in the
Speaker 1: middle and escapes through the middle of the pocket, that's
Speaker 1: tough to defend. Also on the edge, Andrew van Ginko
Speaker 1: had a nice game last year in the Week's seventeen finale,
Speaker 1: including a sack that got the Bills off the field.
Speaker 1: More of those drives also had two total pressures and
Speaker 1: four run stops, and that was working against Dion Dawkins,
Speaker 1: so he has some success against the Bills left tackle.
Speaker 1: Dawkins goes six ft five three twenty and gain has
Speaker 1: showing the propensity to get under the blockers with his
Speaker 1: side with that have that size and length and dip
Speaker 1: under those guys and corner and flat into the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can do that again. Last point here, and
Speaker 1: this is purely my opinion and we'll see how it
Speaker 1: plays out. I think this is the opponent for why
Speaker 1: you draft Jalen Phillips. His ability to win as a
Speaker 1: one on one pass rusher, at least in college and
Speaker 1: as a prospect. Some of the things that t. J.
Speaker 1: Watt did with the swipes, the flash move to throw
Speaker 1: the hands to draw out the hands of the tackle.
Speaker 1: That's some of I think Phillips's best traits and something
Speaker 1: he can have success with he puts it together in
Speaker 1: this game. We kind of saw a waddle in Holland
Speaker 1: have their arrival moments last week with the big catches
Speaker 1: and the big force fumble. I think we could do
Speaker 1: the same this week from Jalen Phillips onto our next group.
Speaker 1: And this is a star Power on star Power group
Speaker 1: here man Buffalo receivers and tight ends versus the Miami DBS.
Speaker 1: And going back to the Brian Baldinger video, you guys
Speaker 1: all saw that, right, He said you couldn't even fit
Speaker 1: in an American Express car between these guys. Talking about
Speaker 1: how good Byron Jones and Exaviing Howard are in coverage,
Speaker 1: he said, they're as good as anybody, those two guys. Now,
Speaker 1: we didn't have Jones after the third snap of the
Speaker 1: Week two game last year, but we did have him
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen and he got that big pick on
Speaker 1: the first drive, but the rest of the game obviously
Speaker 1: didn't work out that way. Now, We've covered this at length,
Speaker 1: but the Bills are going to operate almost exclusively in
Speaker 1: eleven personnel and ten personnel Sunday versus Steelers, they gained
Speaker 1: only five yards on packages other than those two packages.
Speaker 1: Ten personnel provided a hundred and fourteen yards and eleven
Speaker 1: personnel provided two hundred and fifty two yards. And actually
Speaker 1: they do go five wide more than most, but they
Speaker 1: actually lost yardage out of that package on Sunday negative
Speaker 1: nine yards, because two of the three sacks came when
Speaker 1: the Bills were in empty packages. So something to think
Speaker 1: about there as well. But from ten personnel twenty four plays,
Speaker 1: eleven personnel forty one plays, and then oh personnel where
Speaker 1: you have five receivers, that's nine plays and the rest
Speaker 1: was just eleven place. So they basically go three wide
Speaker 1: every play, if not four wide or five wide. So
Speaker 1: what does that mean, Well, it means this. Stefon digs
Speaker 1: seventy nine snaps in the game, Emmanuel Sanders seventy nine
Speaker 1: snaps in the game. Cole Beasley seventies seven snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. Gabe Davis had forty three, and Isaiah McKenzie
Speaker 1: had fifteen. He left with the shoulder injury and came
Speaker 1: back all within that game. Dawson Knox also played forty
Speaker 1: eight snaps the Buffalo tight end. And let's get to
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe here, because Knox had zero catches on Eric
Speaker 1: Rowe last year in the first game they went elsewhere,
Speaker 1: just one target, no catches. Week seven team, well they
Speaker 1: try him this time. Seven targets against Eric row one catch.
Speaker 1: But you know they obviously had offensive success elsewhere, So
Speaker 1: we go to the other matchups. They moved their receivers
Speaker 1: around to alter the matchups. So X and Byron both
Speaker 1: had five targets in that week's seven team game against
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, Stefon Diggs, Cole Beasley. Now they add Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders basically in place of John Smoke Brown. But you
Speaker 1: look at the styles of these players going up against
Speaker 1: each other. Byron Jones matches Stefon Diggs's profile more than
Speaker 1: anybody else. And I think xaviing Howard matches up well
Speaker 1: with the Gabe Davis. And of course you're gonna have
Speaker 1: your doubles, your brackets, your different plans. But again, those
Speaker 1: guys don't really travel. They stand on one side of
Speaker 1: the fields. By Aroon Jones told us earlier, So the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills can then kind of create their matchups as
Speaker 1: they did last year in both those games, moving both
Speaker 1: those guys or all those guys I should say, all
Speaker 1: across the formation. But this is the real premier matchup
Speaker 1: of the game. Can Miami prevent those big crossing routes
Speaker 1: slasher that killed them? Can they stay in man coverage
Speaker 1: and prevent the rub routes and the pick routes and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's ability to buy time to create more time
Speaker 1: for those man cover routes to uncover. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: the key. Mixing up some zone here and there as
Speaker 1: well to get Josh Allen uncomfortable office spot. Man. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch that matchup. Moving to the beef
Speaker 1: of the field, the middle of the field, the Bills
Speaker 1: running backs versus Dolphins linebackers now running the football just
Speaker 1: really isn't their preference. I mean, at least it wasn't
Speaker 1: in the Week one game. Devin Singletary had eleven rushes
Speaker 1: but did go for seventy two yards to have two
Speaker 1: fumbles too, and the Steelers very rarely crowded the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. We mentioned the blitz numbers but there really
Speaker 1: wasn't even simulated pressure. They would show guys in the
Speaker 1: gaps or in the a gas rather or coming off
Speaker 1: the edge, or safeties down in the box back out.
Speaker 1: They put bodies in the hook zone and they kept
Speaker 1: him there in that second level to help protect against
Speaker 1: the Bills spread and quit game. Put more pieces in
Speaker 1: that line of sight of the quarterback and get yourself
Speaker 1: between the man and the football. And then also they
Speaker 1: were hanging out largely in split safety looks throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the game, which I thought really helped them
Speaker 1: keep the football in front of them and not let
Speaker 1: Buffal look at those biggest posts of plays that they
Speaker 1: have just really torn teams apart with the last year
Speaker 1: or so. Now, a split safety look will often call
Speaker 1: for the running game. But even in a game where
Speaker 1: they were leading through three quarters and within one score
Speaker 1: all the way till late in the fourth, they went
Speaker 1: to or with a fifty six past a run ratio,
Speaker 1: and Alan did have nine runs in there as well,
Speaker 1: but only a few of those were designed largely scrambles.
Speaker 1: With his runs. As for the personnel, Zack Moss was
Speaker 1: a healthy scratch and all of Singletary's runs came from
Speaker 1: the shotgun, and he likes to press the line and
Speaker 1: change direction quickly at the line when he finds his gap.
Speaker 1: So being gaps dound not just in your past rush,
Speaker 1: but in the running game is going to be so
Speaker 1: critical in this game, because if you can get him
Speaker 1: to bubble or change directions before he hits the line,
Speaker 1: then you can really limit that run game, get into
Speaker 1: those third down the longs, and that's when you hope
Speaker 1: you can get Josh Allen to press and make some mistakes.
Speaker 1: Now in this way, I liked Jerome Baker in this
Speaker 1: game a lot because he's built to play a game
Speaker 1: plan that can rely on speed and spacing and do
Speaker 1: some blitzing and covering the backs and some tight ends
Speaker 1: dissecting the run game. It's more about box count than
Speaker 1: just straight up winning hat on a hat and getting
Speaker 1: physical and climbing your guard to that second level. I
Speaker 1: think Bakes do for a big game in this one,
Speaker 1: and I'll be curious to see how it Land and
Speaker 1: Roberts has used because this offense typically requires a lot
Speaker 1: of sub packages and plenty of nickel and dime and
Speaker 1: even quarter defenses, and when you add defensive backs somebody
Speaker 1: has to come off from the front seven. I'll be
Speaker 1: curious to see how much we see from the land
Speaker 1: and Roberts and Brendan Scarlett in this game, who had serious,
Speaker 1: serious roles and snap counts last week in New England.
Speaker 1: Overall offensive thoughts. Here, they can go tempo, they can
Speaker 1: go quick counts on on second down and short if
Speaker 1: they if they get a second and two, they'll come
Speaker 1: to the line and snap that thing, run and get
Speaker 1: a first down and start all over. So you have
Speaker 1: to get lined up and get ready. They're quick passing game.
Speaker 1: Win behind the chains. They like to go if it's
Speaker 1: like a first and twenty, get a quick hitter for
Speaker 1: six or seven yards and give themselves back, you know,
Speaker 1: in amageable down distance. And then also one of the
Speaker 1: players of the game, I thought Alan had standers deep
Speaker 1: down the field and overshot him. If he hits those,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be tough to beat. But if he misses those,
Speaker 1: and you can maybe hope to take your gamble that
Speaker 1: he does miss a couple of those, that's when you
Speaker 1: have a real chance to beat this Bill's offense. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a fifty two point three percent blitz rate
Speaker 1: week one from Miami that was number two behind just
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. And interestingly enough, Pittsburgh's was one eight percent
Speaker 1: dead last in the NFL and blitz right, but they
Speaker 1: also got plenty of pressure on Alan. So different opposing
Speaker 1: attacks there with the Steelers and Dolphins. Will see how
Speaker 1: Miami wants to attack them on Sunday. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the football, how about this Dolphins offense, you
Speaker 1: know rewatching that we're going with the quarterbacks versus safety.
Speaker 1: Here are two a tongue of Byla Michael Hide Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer rewatching the tape a couple of times. I really
Speaker 1: only saw three or four plays. I think too it
Speaker 1: would like to have back. But I thought he really
Speaker 1: changed a lot of the misnomer's out there, like his
Speaker 1: a dot over ten yards, he threw the ball to
Speaker 1: the perimeter law and effectively, he threw the ball deep
Speaker 1: and effectively. Now the Steelers got the ball out quickly
Speaker 1: against Buffalo two point three seconds on average was actually
Speaker 1: the fastest in the NFL this week for Big Ben
Speaker 1: too was at two point five nine seconds, which was
Speaker 1: ninth most or ninth quickest per Next Gen Stats, and
Speaker 1: Ben had a similar aggressive rating. In fact, this combo
Speaker 1: both of those guys put together is what you want.
Speaker 1: A quick ball out time and a good aggressiveness percentage
Speaker 1: without sacrifice and aggressiveness. Ben's was thirty one point three
Speaker 1: percent and two US was twenty five point nine percent.
Speaker 1: Ben had the second highest aggressive rate and two of
Speaker 1: the fourth this week in the National Football League. But
Speaker 1: tous eyes are going to be critical this week. And
Speaker 1: the thing about this defense with Hide and Poyer is
Speaker 1: that they are interchangeable in terms of what they can do.
Speaker 1: And to talked about this. We'll get to the sound
Speaker 1: here and just a little bit. They can both kill
Speaker 1: you with showing up in places you will expect, like
Speaker 1: the robber roll for instance. So to A needs to
Speaker 1: be able to move those two guys and account for
Speaker 1: them at all times. And you know I wrote this
Speaker 1: part of the script before I talked to Toa today.
Speaker 1: Say that five times fast, and then to gave me
Speaker 1: a great quote kind of confirming what I had put
Speaker 1: here on tape and on my my notes. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go to Dolphins quarterback to A Tonga Byla
Speaker 1: on the Bills. Safeties and defense in general. Have a
Speaker 1: couple of safeties have been together for a long time
Speaker 1: there with Mica Hyde and Jordan. I just wondering what
Speaker 1: kind of challenge they present for you and your your
Speaker 1: pre snappers and your post nap kind of going through
Speaker 1: your checks, like what what kind of challenge do they
Speaker 1: provide to your your games? Yeah, they they provide a
Speaker 1: good amount of problems for us. Um, it's a veteran defense,
Speaker 1: you know. So with Jordan's on one side and Johnson
Speaker 1: on the other side, Milano in inside Edwards on the
Speaker 1: other side, I mean, you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They could spin the coverage they could they could bring
Speaker 1: you know, forty or fifty eight or forty nine. I mean,
Speaker 1: you never know what's gonna happen. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: for us offensively, you know, if you don't know, you
Speaker 1: just gotta stick to your routs. Just always revert back
Speaker 1: to your rules and uh, you'll be fine. I love
Speaker 1: hearing them talking about how they can spin into different
Speaker 1: coverages because that was my takeaway to these guys are
Speaker 1: interchangeable in the skill sets they have. Now against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: here was their high safety look counts zero safeties, which
Speaker 1: we all know cover zero five of those reps with
Speaker 1: one safety single high in the post, thirty six of
Speaker 1: those reps, split safeties, two up high. They had fourteen
Speaker 1: of those reps, and then three safeties, which is typically
Speaker 1: sub sometimes big nickel, but usually means off zero of
Speaker 1: those reps. So primarily a single high, a lot of
Speaker 1: two high safeties as well, and then five snaps and
Speaker 1: cover zero and hide is usually the one camping down
Speaker 1: around the line of scrimmage. So I'll be curious to
Speaker 1: see how you might want to try to influence his
Speaker 1: role in this game. When the Steelers would go nasty splits,
Speaker 1: and that just means you're gonna be tight and bunched
Speaker 1: in close to the offensive line with the receivers and
Speaker 1: tight ends, he'd come. He'd come down right there and
Speaker 1: match up whether it was Juju or Friar Muth or
Speaker 1: even Naji Harris. He's kind of the chest piece of
Speaker 1: that defense, so keeping an eye on him is going
Speaker 1: to be key. And I actually thought two. I did
Speaker 1: a good job with this in the game later on
Speaker 1: and again in Week one, finding ways to discount the
Speaker 1: safeties from the equation and attacking the open space by
Speaker 1: moving them off with your eyes and hitting a couple
Speaker 1: of long balls like he did against the Patriots will
Speaker 1: go a long way towards this defense, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: keeping Micah hide away from what he loves to do
Speaker 1: and to create more opportunities for this passing offense to
Speaker 1: find space in the middle of that defense. But I
Speaker 1: also think using Mike gets Sicky to kind of bust
Speaker 1: that scene. And then also utilizing a second tight end,
Speaker 1: whether it's Shaheen or Long or Smith, just to simply
Speaker 1: get him to come down off of that to safety
Speaker 1: look or the robber position. I think that could have
Speaker 1: some value as well. Now, however, our next position group
Speaker 1: match up Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Bills DBS.
Speaker 1: This is maybe why you don't call on two tight
Speaker 1: end sets. It will be interesting to see which direction
Speaker 1: they go with. Levi Wallace was targeted ten times and
Speaker 1: that was by far the most of the Buffalo defense
Speaker 1: on Sunday, allowed just six catches for thirty five yards
Speaker 1: or so. A great day for Wallace, but that's kind
Speaker 1: of been how teams have attacked this Buffalo defense over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. You know, it's not a
Speaker 1: knock on Levi Wallace at all. He's had a very
Speaker 1: nice career at this point and done it as an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, no less. But it's kind of like
Speaker 1: my man Channing used to always say when you're on defense,
Speaker 1: was Zach Thomas Jr. Say, Oh, Sam Madison Patts or
Speaker 1: tam Brock, Marion and Jason Taylor up front, they're gonna
Speaker 1: go out for Channing Crowder. So both to Ron Johnson,
Speaker 1: as you heard two A mentioned there in Trey White,
Speaker 1: both those guys were targeted six times. So the Steelers
Speaker 1: went to work on those guys with the receiving core
Speaker 1: that it's just damn good. Chase Claypool, Deante Johnson, Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster. Can Miami do the exact same with their depth,
Speaker 1: because I think Miami is is equipped to do the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. And you look at the comparisons or
Speaker 1: I guess call them analogs to those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: Parker can be your Claypool. Claypool had an absolute mossing
Speaker 1: of Trey White in that game. Juju. Maybe some Will
Speaker 1: Fuller there. I don't know. It's tough to say because
Speaker 1: both Will and Jalen are faster, but he's very versa
Speaker 1: in what he can do and vertical and short game.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of a good comparison. Deonte Johnson has
Speaker 1: great speed as well, so maybe he's your Jalen Waddle analog.
Speaker 1: It's not tip for tap, but it's close. But now
Speaker 1: if they play that split safety look, I think you
Speaker 1: look to attack with tight ends or maybe some more
Speaker 1: of those inside fades or slot fades that gods he
Speaker 1: was talking about. Now Trey White, he's as good as
Speaker 1: there is out of his back pedal and in transitions.
Speaker 1: You know, if you make a mistake on Trey, why
Speaker 1: do you let him bait you? He can get picks.
Speaker 1: He's very good at that. He's got to be careful
Speaker 1: throwing his direction. But Devantae Parker on in breaking routes,
Speaker 1: make him physical up, make him challenge Devantae on those
Speaker 1: physical stuff when he gets that matchup. Now, trying Levi
Speaker 1: Wallace vertically, I think that's the move. Anytime you can
Speaker 1: get one of your speechers on him, his length and
Speaker 1: aggressiveness or his calling card. So when you see him
Speaker 1: follow seventeen or three or two or nineteen, think about
Speaker 1: a deep shot there to Ron Johnson slot receiver. He's
Speaker 1: really good in the slot and his testing numbers though,
Speaker 1: three cone seven oh three, forty six percentile, shuttle time
Speaker 1: four to eight that's forty second percentile, nine ft in
Speaker 1: on the broad jump that's thirty nine percentile. And the
Speaker 1: film kind of backs up the thing we talked about Wallace.
Speaker 1: He's not going to show you the twitchiness in a
Speaker 1: phone booth. He wants to get hands on you and
Speaker 1: be aggressive. So again, slot fade or jerk whip pivot
Speaker 1: routes challenge that athletic profile. And maybe you don't. Maybe
Speaker 1: you don't get some of your four wide sets to
Speaker 1: test that depth. Maybe you do. I don't know, do
Speaker 1: they have the fourth corner who can cover them, because
Speaker 1: it's to me it's worth finding out. Stats say, well,
Speaker 1: there's not much stats to go on because the Steelers
Speaker 1: only targeted five defensive backs in this game, and Buffalo's
Speaker 1: defense played pretty much all the same guys, like there
Speaker 1: was not a lot of disparity except for a few
Speaker 1: guys up front, but the linebackers and defensive backs pretty
Speaker 1: much all play the entire game all game. And you know,
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson is the other cornerback on the roster. That's it.
Speaker 1: Then they have some safety Siren Neil, Damar Hamlin and
Speaker 1: Jokuan Johnson. I might try to find a way to
Speaker 1: get any of those guys in the field and go
Speaker 1: after them force the Bills out of what they want
Speaker 1: to do. Then I'd also just challenged their ability slash
Speaker 1: willingness to come up and tackle. This offense is tough
Speaker 1: to tackle, tons of guys that can break tackles. See
Speaker 1: if those guys can can pete and that arena for
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. Now, if you do that, that means you
Speaker 1: have to get your front five and the back in
Speaker 1: pass protection to be very good in this game. And
Speaker 1: that takes us to the Miami offensive line versus the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's defensive line. This will be a bigger test
Speaker 1: this week, and not just because I think they're better
Speaker 1: or anything. But the Patriots opted for more coverage in
Speaker 1: that game, and I'll be curiously what the Buffalo Bills do.
Speaker 1: I actually think they'll be more inclined to do the
Speaker 1: same thing and rely on pure pass rush wins because
Speaker 1: I think they're better at doing that and you can
Speaker 1: really impact the passing game with Milano and Edmonds dropping
Speaker 1: into coverage. Now, Jerry Hughes is the best guy they
Speaker 1: got power, redirect, veteran pass rush. Arsenal just knows how
Speaker 1: to win with the hands. I would focus on him,
Speaker 1: Identify that guy, chip him, get a backup to help
Speaker 1: on him. He's a good player. Take care of Jerry Hughes.
Speaker 1: F a Obada comes in, and I thought Carlos Bashan
Speaker 1: would get some run. He didn't play at all in
Speaker 1: the game. F a Obada is huge, heavy handed, long,
Speaker 1: not crazy athletic lateral side to side movement, but he
Speaker 1: might be a guy you think about slatting your protection
Speaker 1: away and try to beat him one on one because
Speaker 1: not having the athletic or lateral agility, that's the kind
Speaker 1: of guy you want to put on an island. But
Speaker 1: he can win those. But if you can neutralize that,
Speaker 1: that would be a great way to help on other
Speaker 1: guys like a Gregory Russo who's similar, big but also
Speaker 1: very athletic, one of the effective pass rushers of this
Speaker 1: draft class already. And then a j Epinessa another same deal,
Speaker 1: big guy, not overly athletic, but in terms of like
Speaker 1: his burst and the hips and the little lateral agility.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson saw him in a bullgame A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and they traded off some wins and losses
Speaker 1: in that game. But this entire edge group, it's they're
Speaker 1: kind of like Zack Seiler s. There's not like a true,
Speaker 1: like dear type of pass rusher. They're just all big
Speaker 1: guys that can put hands on you and beat you
Speaker 1: up that way. Now, they only had a few pressures,
Speaker 1: but again Pittsburgh got it out so quick. But you
Speaker 1: can really see the traits we talked about above in
Speaker 1: this game and in their past tape. They use hues
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. He was working on
Speaker 1: the Steelers left tackle a lot in this game, so
Speaker 1: that could be Austin Jackson. Let's go ahead and talk
Speaker 1: about the interior here with Michael Dieter. He had himself
Speaker 1: a pretty good game on Sunday, and he'll have his
Speaker 1: work cut out for him out there with Ed Oliver,
Speaker 1: who can present lots of problems. But again I go
Speaker 1: back to what we talked about with a Chem Hicks
Speaker 1: and the joint practices, Great Jarrett and the joint practices
Speaker 1: Ray Kwon Davis and our own internal practices. Deeter showed
Speaker 1: the ability to anchor. He's dealt with length and he's
Speaker 1: been good at that second level get into that climb
Speaker 1: both in the preseason and the regular seasons. Those are
Speaker 1: two matchups I'm looking at the most because the next
Speaker 1: level of the Bills defense is the one where I
Speaker 1: think they really shine. Dolphins running backs at Bills linebackers
Speaker 1: versus Bills linebackers, and Matt Mlana was so instinctive and
Speaker 1: consistent at beating blocks with quickness and instincts to shut
Speaker 1: down the primary run lane that the running back aims for.
Speaker 1: But he can also go forward cover the flats where
Speaker 1: I would try to exploit his game. He's an absolute stud,
Speaker 1: but going backwards that's where I try to get him
Speaker 1: if he can. He played twenty nine snaps in coverage,
Speaker 1: was targeted just three times. But I think between Miles
Speaker 1: and Savan, you might be able to challenge him a
Speaker 1: little bit more than Pittsburgh could with their bringing backs. Now,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Edmonds is a freak, a certified freak, going forwards
Speaker 1: or backwards, side to side tackling. He's just not quite
Speaker 1: added the splash play to his arsenal yet, but his
Speaker 1: ability to infl it's the passing lanes in the middle,
Speaker 1: it's an absolute key the ability that influenced him with
Speaker 1: r p O. I think that will be crucial. And
Speaker 1: let's go off topic here and here from Will Fuller
Speaker 1: who spoke to the media on Wednesday talking about a
Speaker 1: lot of things, and check out the media availabilities on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Very good stuff there from the Dolphins and Will Fuller
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins YouTube channel. But I want to play
Speaker 1: this response from Will with reguards to the r p
Speaker 1: O game. Yeah, it really tough on the defense. You
Speaker 1: know you're putting you putting someone in the bond. You
Speaker 1: know he has to make the right decisions. So um,
Speaker 1: you know if we if we, you know, play it
Speaker 1: right that the defense is never right. So um, I
Speaker 1: love r p os. You know, like like I said,
Speaker 1: you put a linebacker in a bond and safety and
Speaker 1: a bond, so um, if they make that wrong decision,
Speaker 1: we can go seventy or like like last week, we're
Speaker 1: hitting big runs, so it's fun. The RPO influences both
Speaker 1: the run game but also gives you a chance to
Speaker 1: break tackles after the catch. And there was some instances
Speaker 1: on the All twenty two or man, they were close
Speaker 1: to springing one of those things for a big, big game.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that as we go forward. I
Speaker 1: want to go back to two a toungo by Lowa
Speaker 1: here and get his take on the Dolphins throwing out
Speaker 1: of the shadow of their own goal post there with
Speaker 1: a game kind of on the line at the end
Speaker 1: of that game after the Exhabian Howard forced and recovered fumble.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to to a talking about
Speaker 1: aggressiveness down there around the goal line. It wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: a pass play um it was. It was really a
Speaker 1: run play. But you know, there's there's force in the
Speaker 1: box and we can't take care of it. We don't
Speaker 1: have enough guys unless you guys want me to block,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to do that. So by taking
Speaker 1: care of that, you know, that's how we do that
Speaker 1: is by taking well, we we had that in so
Speaker 1: that's that's what that's They had the past play option
Speaker 1: in there, and that's what we later confirmed an oppressor
Speaker 1: with a TA did in fact check to the past
Speaker 1: there on an original run call. And it's actually a
Speaker 1: fake RPO because I think people get confused between what
Speaker 1: RPO and play action are the differences between the two
Speaker 1: RPOs When you actually have a running play you can
Speaker 1: go to play action. You do not have that because
Speaker 1: you're gonna get ineligible guys downfield, or you might not
Speaker 1: have the ability to run what you want to run.
Speaker 1: But in fake RP you see two have put the
Speaker 1: ball out there and the linebacker sucks up and then
Speaker 1: he comes right off of that, doesn't even finish the
Speaker 1: mesh point, gets the ball up and out to fake
Speaker 1: the r P O, look to draw that defender up
Speaker 1: on the r P O and then pop it in
Speaker 1: right behind him. That was high level stuff, great stuff
Speaker 1: there from two, a tonga Byloa and a great check
Speaker 1: to go to that and get themselves off the goal
Speaker 1: line there a first down and to basically put that
Speaker 1: game on ice. So I think that's a crucial element
Speaker 1: of this game. Holding the linebacker's eyes, and I think
Speaker 1: Miles and Savan's horizontal speed at that running back position
Speaker 1: can play a big part in that. Whether it's catching
Speaker 1: passes out, why pressing outside on stretch runs, or even
Speaker 1: just motion from the backfield, you know, across the formation
Speaker 1: going empty. There are different ways to do that. Final
Speaker 1: defensive thoughts on the Bills. Their boots rate was twenty
Speaker 1: eight point six in Week one. That was fourteen most
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. They were top half the
Speaker 1: league in terms of not missing tackles just four in
Speaker 1: the game. They allowed seventy two yacht yards. Remember Miami
Speaker 1: had one ten out of their two passing yards, so
Speaker 1: finding guys in space could spark some big plays and
Speaker 1: then final special teams in Miami or eighth right now
Speaker 1: on d v O A on Football Outsiders Buffalo, Isaiah
Speaker 1: McKinzie is a dangerous, dangerous return man. You gotta get
Speaker 1: that guy contained kick away from him. Tyler Bass is
Speaker 1: a damn good kicker. Three for three last week forty
Speaker 1: two the longest he was twenty eight for thirty four.
Speaker 1: Is a rookie. Last year he missed only one kick
Speaker 1: in the of nine in the forty forty nine yard range.
Speaker 1: He was four for six from fifty plus, but he
Speaker 1: did miss three thirty nine yards and under. We know
Speaker 1: about Matt Hawk three points on Sunday for an average
Speaker 1: of forty five point seven, two points into the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line, one touchback and a blocked punt. You gotta
Speaker 1: tackle well, you need to maximize the hidden yards because
Speaker 1: there's always you always need to do that stuff against
Speaker 1: a good team, to find those small advantages to get
Speaker 1: your w three keys of the game maintained, pass, rush, gap, integrity.
Speaker 1: The worst place to be in football is behind the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen can make this happen to a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. Number two, keep everything in front of you.
Speaker 1: On defense, more Bills plays equals more opportunities for them
Speaker 1: to make bad plays and more chances at picks like
Speaker 1: the ones we did not corral last year in the
Speaker 1: Week two game. And finally, number three finished drives phil
Speaker 1: goals are not gonna be enough to beat this team.
Speaker 1: Score touchdowns against this Buffalo Bills team. Dolphins will win
Speaker 1: if they can get pressure with four and tackle Josh
Speaker 1: Allen when they get to him on blitz Is. Bills
Speaker 1: will win if they establish a consistent running game that
Speaker 1: makes Miami think about both dimensions of the offense. All Right,
Speaker 1: NFL picks last week not great, not in seven, Week
Speaker 1: one terrible. Gotta be better even though Week one is
Speaker 1: full of craziness. That's still so bad. But I'm taking
Speaker 1: Washington football team over the New York Giants on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: even without Ryan Fitzpatrick. That defense against the Giants Front.
Speaker 1: I like that matchup for the football team and they
Speaker 1: have enough playmakers offensively to allow Heinik to manage the
Speaker 1: game and drive them into the winner circle. Will pick
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