WEBVTT - Dolphins Jets Week 18 Preview 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Wheenfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:16.119 looking gipstla wa open touchtop click call, waddle, waddle to 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:21.600 a shotguns back to throw looking ups up fires, It's waddle, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:28.840 It's six touchdown Paddy. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.760 Now let me check your pulse if you're not of them? 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.320 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.120 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network covering your team, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.800 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.280 Travis Sweenfield. And on today's show, it is preview day 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.680 for at least one more week. We'll put the final 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.440 game under the microscope as we look at Jets Dolphins, 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.320 position by position, the tail of the tape, the key stats, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.320 what's at stake, the three keys, and the week eighteen 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.160 picks from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:10.720 Training Complex. This is much like last week. I don't 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.720 feel much as needed here in the introduction section. We 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.839 do know the deal by now. It's Dolphins and Jets 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.800 and it all comes down to this for the home team, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.479 I don't want to see this season end yet, man, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.440 not this week, and we've got a chance to extend 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.200 it with a win and some help from the Buffalo 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.640 Bills on Sunday, presumably against the New England Patriots. We 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.680 also have a defeat from October to avenge here, and 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.880 I personally remember all the smack talk the Jets fans, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.360 even their own social account did to the Dolphins after 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.360 that game. I remember the waddles they did after the 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.000 game as well, So that's all in the back of 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.600 my memory. And even though the Dolphins are not a 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.000 full strength in this game, still really want to make 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.280 that avenge that loss, a game that was tight into 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.440 the fourth quarter before the wheels just sort of fell 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.760 off for the Miami Dolphins. And if there's one thing 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.280 to learn here both sides, it's just how long long 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.120 an NFL season is, which is kind of funny because 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.400 it's also like the quickest four months on the calendar 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.960 every year, isn't it. But it still feels like I 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.000 was just writing my Patriots Week one preview podcast the 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.160 other day, but from one book end to the next, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.240 another division rival here and everything on the line from 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.680 Week eighteen, it's just a reminder of how long these 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.720 seasons actually are, because if the Dolphins season feels like 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.320 the Lord of the Rings trilogy or the Godfather trilogy, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.480 then it feels like the Jets season would be the 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.760 other one of that. And actually, I look at the 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.320 run times on those two trilogies and they're actually very close. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.560 So I guess my analogy on trilogies falls short. And 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.160 by that I mean the other day somebody was referencing 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.560 I think it was the buff the first Buffalo game 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.400 to me, first three games of the season, the three 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.720 no start, And I said to that person, that feels 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.680 like a different season than the one we're currently in. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.080 And the reason I said that, and that the Jets 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.400 season feels like longer of the two trilogies is because 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.160 of the roller coaster ride they've experienced at that quarterback 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.800 position as well. Obviously we've been on a very similar ride. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.680 But to pull your former number two quarterback, get a 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.840 spark from the backup, have to go back up to 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.960 the number two pick, only to go back to the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.080 backup and have him play his worst game of his 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.280 career with that flak jacket in Seattle in an elimination game. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.840 It's exhausting just writing it all out, so not to 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.440 mention they used Joe Flacco when Zack Wilson got hurt 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.040 in the preseason, and then Chris Traveler had a cameo 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.680 two weeks ago. Every NFL season has ups and downs. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.200 Every team deals with their own unique set of circumstances. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.680 For the Jets, they've ridden a top level defense to 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.360 a near five hundred record this season. They are also 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.840 on a five game slide, though, one that has left 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.360 them eliminated from playoff contention heading into this game with 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.480 the Dolphins. But this is a team that saw a 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:49.240 pretty similar flip from the Dolphins. Saw between ten and 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.680 tons of draft picks, a big free agent hall, and 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.760 you really restocked the talent cupboard that was barren and 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.080 now is like NFL level in one off season. It's 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.360 probably the second rookie class behind Seattle. They've got free 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.760 agent contributions everywhere between Jordan Whitehead, LaMarcus Joiner, DJ Read, 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.480 George Fant, Corey Davis. It's a competitive roster that's well coached, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.160 plays hard, and you have to imagine they'll be looking 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.760 to play spoiler in this game. I recall our Week 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.080 eight team game last year, being pretty fired up over 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.160 that win, and it didn't even remove the Patriots from 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.240 the playoffs. You know, the Jets would love to do 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.360 the exact same here. Let's go ahead and get into 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.480 a Dolphins offense first, Jets defense, and we start with 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.919 the quarterback position and the Dolphins offense and the Jets 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.560 safeties and their defense in general. And we don't know 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 exactly who the quarterback will be at the time of 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.880 this podcast, but we do know that Teddy Bridgewater was 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.719 limited on Wednesday, and coach even told us in his 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.440 press conference that Bridgewater was unable yet to throw a 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.080 football with that pinky dislocation. So we'll talk in vague 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.239 terms about the position, but I do want to highlight 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.240 a couple of players specific things. And first, you know, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.200 McDaniel addressed this on Wednesday. Skyler playing as the starter 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.920 with a week of reps versus coming off the bench 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.880 cold has really been a night and day difference. And 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.599 I look at this game. If we can get quarter 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.839 one versus the Viking Skylar Thompson, I like the Dolphins 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.480 chances if we get off the bench against the Jets 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.040 or the Patriots I don't. It's as simple as that, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.239 and there's other factors that are, you know, heavily weighing 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.120 as well. I think we saw in that Vikings game 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.120 some off script plays. There was some on time and 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.400 in rhythm type of throws. But I think the biggest 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.560 difference in games like these, where you don't have your 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.960 QB one and you're playing a team that has their 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.320 own offensive struggles is the turnovers and like critical penalties 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.720 that have just plagued Miami seemingly every single week, going 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.920 back to you know, the San Francisco game. Can we 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.240 go back to that moment? Please took me back to 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.800 the Trencher field touchdown and just redo the rest of 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.480 the rest of history there. And that was the difference 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.159 against the Patriots, right, we turned it over twice, Patriots didn't. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.240 We had a critical illegal shift penalty that took us 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.160 out of field goal range and a first and ten 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.440 to a third and long outside of field range. And 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.200 those are paramount importance and in a game like this, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.039 in a game like last week, and if we see 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.280 that happen again, it's hard to imagine overcoming those things 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.039 for victory. It's just it just is. If we button 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.040 those up though. To me, it's I would say it's 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.880 in the bag. Don't turn it over, don't ruin successful 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.760 plays with needless penalties that you can easily correct by 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.640 just lining up right, make your field goals, and you'll 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.760 beat this team. It sounds simple, but it's plagued this 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.479 team all year long. Like when two was in there, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.800 he was so good that we're able to overcome them, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.599 you know, without him, we haven't been able to do 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.680 that so far. And it's as simple as the third 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.520 and twelve Skylar Thompson interception last week. That's a turnover. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.440 We've seen the same situation multiple times where a third 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.080 and medium becomes third and long. I'm thinking back to 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.800 the Detroit game. I think it happened twice in that 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.360 game where third and seven became third and six became 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.080 third and eleven, third and seven became third and twelve 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.440 and two. It would just dial up Tyreek and j Lynn, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.560 get the first down regardless, avoid those and win this game. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.920 In my opinion, I also think we saw those examples 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.320 in New England. When Skyler first came in looked a 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.800 little bit disjointed, not on time, but as the game 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.200 went on, he fell into a rhythm and played faster 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.400 in that game, which is what we saw against the Vikings. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.600 So to facilitate a plan like that again, that's got 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.800 to be the key. Now, the Jets defense is no joke. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.360 Neither was the Patriots. They've slumped a little bit over 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.840 this losing streak, and it's been most notable in the 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.320 takeaway department. And that's how these teams with bad offenses 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.160 win in two right. It's why I've argued for three 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.400 years now that championship rare level type of defensive production 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.960 is just not sustainable. We saw it happen here. High 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.920 powered offense though, is, and hell to go further, My 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.520 point is that the NFL defenses are essentially as good 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.080 as the offense they're playing against, in that you're not 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.120 gonna go seventeen weeks and play lockdown defense all year. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.240 You won't play, you know, high wire type of offense 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.840 all year either. But just look at the two comparatively, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.680 and look at us last year completely erased all those 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.600 backup quarterbacks we saw and bad offenses. Mike glennon Ian book, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.600 Who the hell else was? Who cares? Gold jacket? Green jacket? 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.400 Joe Fly? It was one of them. It's easy to 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.440 start pad against teams like that, but then you face 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.840 a team with real weapons and real firepower. Different story. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.840 That's why the Buffalo Bills beat us by three thousand 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.520 points last year. So the Jets offense is really bad, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.960 but they won games because of things that are not sustainable. Right. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.400 Elite defense weekend and week out, aided by turnovers through 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.600 their seven and four start, fifteen takeaways over the five 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.280 game slide just one, so protect the damn ball. As 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.000 far as their approach, it's aggressive. They play one gap, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.920 they penetrate and move the pocket while playing excellent coverage 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.440 on the perimeter. Sauce Gardner and d J. Reid has 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.440 been the best perimeter corner duo in football, and I 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.800 don't think it's close. We'll get to that moment. Here's 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.559 how they aligned defensively. Thirty four defense is four point 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.320 five percent, forty three is twenty five percent. They stand 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.480 in that base quite a bit. Their nickel defense is 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.120 and they operate from dime five percent of the time, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.720 so they have some good mix there. Their pre snap structure, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.080 they have twenty four plays and zero coverage. They have 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.800 single high safety fifty percent of the time and a 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:03.160 two high structure. Of the time, they blitz fourteen point 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.360 nine percent of their snaps, that's the lowest rate in football. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.840 But their pressure rate is ninth at twenty three point seven. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 So I gotta block their front four curious to see 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.400 if that's how it goes. And this one you have 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.240 to earn single high. Right, we talked about it all 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.160 the time, and those numbers are not specific to situation, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.600 but they've played pretty well this year to the point 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.640 of forcing teams into situations that allow them to get 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.680 to too high. They're also super stout upfront, which helps 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 dictate that portion of the game. And back in Week five, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.320 if we saw those numbers tilted significantly the other way. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.400 They were too high against Miami specifically on their snaps 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.000 and that was Raheem's first one yard day of the season. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.560 So obviously, if they play it that way, you have 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.480 to have success running the football. And just to bring 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.240 it back to the quarterback situation, really, I don't think 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.080 my focus in terms of keys, like, you know, playing smart, 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.679 executing what's available, and protecting the football. You know that's 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.120 true for either Teddy or Skyler, And that's what I thought. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.800 We got through two and a half quarters in New 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.520 England and it produced a fourteen ten lead with the football. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.480 And if you hang on too that we are currently 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:06.920 in the playoffs right now and don't have to worry 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.640 about it. We can rest guys this week, but then 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.120 a defensive score tilts the game. We can't let that 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.439 happen again. If it happens, you're gonna lose. That's that's 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.880 how that's how it's gonna go. At safety for the Jets, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.679 LaMarcus Joinner was back last week, but he reaggravated the 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.480 hip injury that had him missed two games prior. Tony 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.679 Adams replaced him to pair up with Jordan Whitehead on 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.480 the back end, and those guys have both struggled mightily 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.720 all year long. And here lies where the Dolphins have 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.960 to get after them. Whitehead doesn't take good angles in 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.160 pursuit and he misses law of tackles, whether it's the 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.200 backs or Waddle and Tyreek, making guys miss in space. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.880 We need some yards after contact and after the catch. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.719 In this one, Whitehead being targeted for thirty two for 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.280 two eighty three this year, two teddies and two picks, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.679 Adams just three for four and thirty one yards. They 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.959 go with Adams over Ashton Davis, a player I was 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.840 very high on out of the draft, but I obviously 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.360 missed that one, and uh yeah, Joiners out of the 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.080 lamp as well. So they go to Tony Adams and 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.120 Will Parks is not there either, and you can see 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.280 the two high structure plan based on their snap Sunday, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.880 Whitehead played thirty two snaps in the post, which was 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.800 half of his workload. But then Tony Adams played thirty 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.080 eight of his sixty up there as well, so even 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.560 more too high than we're used to. And again that's 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.640 not facing Tyreek and Jalen. Speaking of those guys receivers 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.280 and tight ends versus corners, I mentioned Sauce and read 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.120 there's a chart that I saw the other day that 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.880 showed all primary perimeter cornerbacks for their yards per target 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.960 allowed and forced and completions by target, and Sauce was 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.280 up in the corner of the chart on his own planet. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.680 Remember all those charts this year, and it's still that 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.959 way because he was still very productive and very very 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.079 effective this year, But those charts with two away up 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.640 in that right hand corner, away from even Mahomes and Alan. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.080 That's where Sauce is on this chart. He might be 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.040 the best cornerback in the league already, which is absolutely crazy. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.920 And also in that quadrant of the graph, only fourteen 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.920 other corners are there. One of them is d J. Reid, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.200 So this is the best cornerback Tenant we'll see. Sauce 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.760 is aggressive, he's long, he's a playmaker. Teams have just 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.800 opted to not throw at him. He had the pick 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.079 in the first game against US, you know, just winning 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.440 at the top of the route and playing through the 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.000 wide receiver and then read has been really good as well. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.600 And he brings the same style to play. He is 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.160 aggressive and has a big bark, a big key. This week, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.000 you need to utilize that priestnap motion, use bunches and 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.880 stacks and shifts to get free releases from Tenants seven team. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.319 But if you do that, you've got to get the 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.720 calls in quick because it's been costing us timeouts and penalties. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.640 Cannot have it this week. Can't not do it. But 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.160 if you can get clean releases, I like Tenants seventeen 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.040 against anybody, even the best there splits this season. They 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.600 play off coverage eighty percent of the time, so screen game, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.040 quit game, maybe they pressed twenty percent of the time. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.760 Primarily a zone defense on the back end, and again 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.160 we saw tons of that in the Week five game, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.120 which you know is pretty task quo to deal with 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.440 tenants seventeen on balance for teams this year. But they 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.920 also run a ton of hybrid coverages where it's you know, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.559 front side zone, backside man vice versa. They don't travel 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.280 read is the right cornerback sauce as a left cornerback. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.680 But this that does change sometimes in the red zone 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.760 as they play more manned principles and draw specific assignments 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.560 down in that area of the field. So that's good 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.640 on good, but it's only part of the matchup. And 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.880 we've seen Sherfield involved. We saw Craive Craft back last week. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.200 We've seen Cedric Wilson get some chances here and there, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.320 and a lot of this is handled by you know, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.439 linebackers and safety combinations handling zones in the middle of 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.000 the field. So that's where I want to go after. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.480 Like their strengths on the perimeter, our strength is inside. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.440 Let's go after that, right, So whether you're getting it 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.240 to them when the play breaks down off structure or 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.960 if it gets out hot. I do think it's plausible 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.480 to see elevated production from the backs and tight ends. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.520 We saw Teddy take his share of checkdowns in the 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.320 game on Sunday, and Skyler certainly did too. It's tough 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.040 to identify a weakness at this position for the Jets 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.040 because the slot cornerback Michael Carter has been really damn 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.080 good too. So we'll get to the backs in a moment. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.720 But teams have had success utilizing the Jets aggressiveness against 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.559 them in terms of those whams and chips. Show the 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.600 quarterback your numbers and dump it off, leaks, delayed drags. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.040 Remember last year in the game, Adam Shaheen converts a 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.240 critical third and one on that first drive with the 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.800 delayed drag route going against the flow of play action. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.600 All hands on deck, man, Like, those are the kind 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.079 of things we have to get done, execute, just find 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.560 a way to win the damn football game. Uh numbers 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.360 this year Gardner thirty sixty nine. Our teams throwing at 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.240 him one touchdown, two picks read for seventy nine. They 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.160 are really good, man, four six yards, two touchdowns in 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.240 a pick and then Michael Carter fifty one of seventy 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.640 three for four nine, a touchdown and a pick. Let's 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.280 go ahead and take our first break right there and 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.960 come back on the other side and get to the 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.640 offensive line, defensive line, Dolphins offense, Jets defense. That's next 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.720 Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:40.200 Auto Nation, Dolphins, OH Line, Jets, d Line. Picking it 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.240 back up here with your Dolphins and Jets Week eighteen preview. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 It's all on the line for your Miami Dolphins. We'll 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.120 see what we have here in terms of players available. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.240 Hopefully to Ron Arms that can get back out there, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.760 because you just feel the difference and the impact that 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.720 he makes, like the wheels keep falling off. We don't 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.000 have to rontot left tackle on the offensive line, and 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.560 it was okay with Kendall Lamb, but then after he 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.800 went down when they came back off again, and Lamb 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.920 is not going to be available this week, So come on, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.120 t Stead, we need you, big dog. Um. You know, 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.960 there was a lot of protection breakdowns in that Week 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.120 five game and the and you know, situations where we 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.000 had to pass, and that's that's why starting fast is 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.400 going to be a key spoiler alert here. I don't 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.440 think we can just let this Jets defense get into 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.120 multi score lead scenario. That game featured the most pressures 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.680 allowed in a game this year and obviously two fourth 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.440 core turnovers. The guys they go, they call upon on 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.240 the edge position, Carl Lawson forty six pressures, he leads 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.080 all edge defenders and eighteen run stops. And this is 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.120 why t Stead needs to play. We cannot afford to 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.560 to to give him anyone besides Toront Armstead. I'll just 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.920 say that Bryce Huff thirty two pressures, three run stops. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.760 He is a a situational sub package pass rusher, although 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.320 I know Jets fans want to see a lot more 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.400 of him. And then Jermaine Johnson hasn't been very effective 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.320 twelve pressures, nineteen run stops on the interior, uh, Quentin 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.240 Williams fifty pressures, leads the team actually in thirty one 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.520 run stops, Frying Lan Myers forty six pressures, two run stops, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.760 and then Sheldon Rankings five. Those guys can all play 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.000 that quasi end role to like. They're all kind of 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.360 in that Wilkins and Seiler mold. They play all over 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.240 the line well Williams and Franklin Myers rankings is more inside. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.280 But if we can win the matchup, man, this is 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.720 the strength of our team and they play so so aggressively. Meanwhile, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.320 I think two of the guys we have that have 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.600 been best all year our Hunt and Williams, and they 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.120 did a good job cutting those guys off at the pass, ceiling, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.160 reaching all that fun stuff. We'll see what they do 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.480 it left card, but it was Leah Mykenberg last time around. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.240 Bottom line, if you can't you just you just can't 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.520 lose on early downs. You can't do it and allow 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.440 these guys to wreck havoc by the way they have 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.800 all year. The Seahawks ran for and it allowed them 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.960 to control the entire game. Like obviously, running for two 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.480 yards is great, and I'm not saying you have to 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.760 do that because you usually don't do that, but getting 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.360 rushing production it's gonna be a huge key in this 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.000 game because of the defense you're facing, but also because 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.720 of your own injury situation and to that point, running 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.960 backs and linebackers, to me, the game plan is simple, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.600 run the football, run up war and then run out 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.240 some more. Then throw at anybody besides sauce and read, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:04.800 don't even give him a chance to take it away. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.000 Just play safe, Like I don't trust the Jets offense 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.920 to score more than ten or thirteen points in this game. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.880 And maybe that means we find different ways to create 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.560 matchups for Tyrek and Jalen, you know, but maybe it 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.439 means needing more support from the other cast more. We 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.280 need a hundred and fifty yards in the ground, that's 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.280 kind of my my bromer to win this game. And 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.560 we need completions against their back backers, safeties and slots. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.639 That's the vulnerability. That's where you attack now Ken Raheem 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.000 repeat his one hundred yard day from week number five, 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.280 and also we didn't have Jeff Wilson in that game. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.639 A good dose of both in a successful ground game 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.840 would go a long way towards winning this one. And 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.480 the Jets, as we've mentioned, they play a lot of 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.000 too high and they try to win with their front 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.120 and they should. It's very good. But we also saw 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.199 Seattle run the ball very well last week and it 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.640 was really in the same vein that we found success 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.440 with back in week five, running wide, and the reason 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.919 they do this is because they compromise the edges to 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.720 really get interior pressure forced the quarterback to deal with 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.760 that and just try to clog things up inside. And 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.399 they want you to. They want you to get wide 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.320 like that's there, that's their focus. So oblige them and 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.920 run those whams, Run those traps, run those chips. Kenneth 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.480 Walker had that sixty yard run off a compromised edge 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.119 to get their offense going. C J. Mosley is excellent 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.919 against the run. He leads a team with forty eight 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:13.960 run stops. Actually had a nice year in coverage to 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.879 a touchdown in a pick and I would still I 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.600 would still favor smart running backs against him in coverage, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.880 and he and Quincy Williams have actually been really good together. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.800 They never blitz, they had the lowest rate in the NFL, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.720 but they both fit the run and handle a running 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.240 back tight end coverage responsibility fairly well. Uh tough task 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.520 this week for Miami, but any chances that we can 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.240 create mismatches and side would be really nice. It always is, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.240 but getting those matchups opposed to those two guys on 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.840