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Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time podcast,
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Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Sweenfield. And on today's show, it is preview day
Speaker 1: for at least one more week. We'll put the final
Speaker 1: game under the microscope as we look at Jets Dolphins,
Speaker 1: position by position, the tail of the tape, the key stats,
Speaker 1: what's at stake, the three keys, and the week eighteen
Speaker 1: picks from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is much like last week. I don't
Speaker 1: feel much as needed here in the introduction section. We
Speaker 1: do know the deal by now. It's Dolphins and Jets
Speaker 1: and it all comes down to this for the home team,
Speaker 1: I don't want to see this season end yet, man,
Speaker 1: not this week, and we've got a chance to extend
Speaker 1: it with a win and some help from the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills on Sunday, presumably against the New England Patriots. We
Speaker 1: also have a defeat from October to avenge here, and
Speaker 1: I personally remember all the smack talk the Jets fans,
Speaker 1: even their own social account did to the Dolphins after
Speaker 1: that game. I remember the waddles they did after the
Speaker 1: game as well, So that's all in the back of
Speaker 1: my memory. And even though the Dolphins are not a
Speaker 1: full strength in this game, still really want to make
Speaker 1: that avenge that loss, a game that was tight into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter before the wheels just sort of fell
Speaker 1: off for the Miami Dolphins. And if there's one thing
Speaker 1: to learn here both sides, it's just how long long
Speaker 1: an NFL season is, which is kind of funny because
Speaker 1: it's also like the quickest four months on the calendar
Speaker 1: every year, isn't it. But it still feels like I
Speaker 1: was just writing my Patriots Week one preview podcast the
Speaker 1: other day, but from one book end to the next,
Speaker 1: another division rival here and everything on the line from
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, it's just a reminder of how long these
Speaker 1: seasons actually are, because if the Dolphins season feels like
Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings trilogy or the Godfather trilogy,
Speaker 1: then it feels like the Jets season would be the
Speaker 1: other one of that. And actually, I look at the
Speaker 1: run times on those two trilogies and they're actually very close.
Speaker 1: So I guess my analogy on trilogies falls short. And
Speaker 1: by that I mean the other day somebody was referencing
Speaker 1: I think it was the buff the first Buffalo game
Speaker 1: to me, first three games of the season, the three
Speaker 1: no start, And I said to that person, that feels
Speaker 1: like a different season than the one we're currently in.
Speaker 1: And the reason I said that, and that the Jets
Speaker 1: season feels like longer of the two trilogies is because
Speaker 1: of the roller coaster ride they've experienced at that quarterback
Speaker 1: position as well. Obviously we've been on a very similar ride.
Speaker 1: But to pull your former number two quarterback, get a
Speaker 1: spark from the backup, have to go back up to
Speaker 1: the number two pick, only to go back to the
Speaker 1: backup and have him play his worst game of his
Speaker 1: career with that flak jacket in Seattle in an elimination game.
Speaker 1: It's exhausting just writing it all out, so not to
Speaker 1: mention they used Joe Flacco when Zack Wilson got hurt
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and then Chris Traveler had a cameo
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Every NFL season has ups and downs.
Speaker 1: Every team deals with their own unique set of circumstances.
Speaker 1: For the Jets, they've ridden a top level defense to
Speaker 1: a near five hundred record this season. They are also
Speaker 1: on a five game slide, though, one that has left
Speaker 1: them eliminated from playoff contention heading into this game with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. But this is a team that saw a
Speaker 1: pretty similar flip from the Dolphins. Saw between ten and
Speaker 1: tons of draft picks, a big free agent hall, and
Speaker 1: you really restocked the talent cupboard that was barren and
Speaker 1: now is like NFL level in one off season. It's
Speaker 1: probably the second rookie class behind Seattle. They've got free
Speaker 1: agent contributions everywhere between Jordan Whitehead, LaMarcus Joiner, DJ Read,
Speaker 1: George Fant, Corey Davis. It's a competitive roster that's well coached,
Speaker 1: plays hard, and you have to imagine they'll be looking
Speaker 1: to play spoiler in this game. I recall our Week
Speaker 1: eight team game last year, being pretty fired up over
Speaker 1: that win, and it didn't even remove the Patriots from
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, the Jets would love to do
Speaker 1: the exact same here. Let's go ahead and get into
Speaker 1: a Dolphins offense first, Jets defense, and we start with
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and the Dolphins offense and the Jets
Speaker 1: safeties and their defense in general. And we don't know
Speaker 1: exactly who the quarterback will be at the time of
Speaker 1: this podcast, but we do know that Teddy Bridgewater was
Speaker 1: limited on Wednesday, and coach even told us in his
Speaker 1: press conference that Bridgewater was unable yet to throw a
Speaker 1: football with that pinky dislocation. So we'll talk in vague
Speaker 1: terms about the position, but I do want to highlight
Speaker 1: a couple of players specific things. And first, you know,
Speaker 1: McDaniel addressed this on Wednesday. Skyler playing as the starter
Speaker 1: with a week of reps versus coming off the bench
Speaker 1: cold has really been a night and day difference. And
Speaker 1: I look at this game. If we can get quarter
Speaker 1: one versus the Viking Skylar Thompson, I like the Dolphins
Speaker 1: chances if we get off the bench against the Jets
Speaker 1: or the Patriots I don't. It's as simple as that,
Speaker 1: and there's other factors that are, you know, heavily weighing
Speaker 1: as well. I think we saw in that Vikings game
Speaker 1: some off script plays. There was some on time and
Speaker 1: in rhythm type of throws. But I think the biggest
Speaker 1: difference in games like these, where you don't have your
Speaker 1: QB one and you're playing a team that has their
Speaker 1: own offensive struggles is the turnovers and like critical penalties
Speaker 1: that have just plagued Miami seemingly every single week, going
Speaker 1: back to you know, the San Francisco game. Can we
Speaker 1: go back to that moment? Please took me back to
Speaker 1: the Trencher field touchdown and just redo the rest of
Speaker 1: the rest of history there. And that was the difference
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, right, we turned it over twice, Patriots didn't.
Speaker 1: We had a critical illegal shift penalty that took us
Speaker 1: out of field goal range and a first and ten
Speaker 1: to a third and long outside of field range. And
Speaker 1: those are paramount importance and in a game like this,
Speaker 1: in a game like last week, and if we see
Speaker 1: that happen again, it's hard to imagine overcoming those things
Speaker 1: for victory. It's just it just is. If we button
Speaker 1: those up though. To me, it's I would say it's
Speaker 1: in the bag. Don't turn it over, don't ruin successful
Speaker 1: plays with needless penalties that you can easily correct by
Speaker 1: just lining up right, make your field goals, and you'll
Speaker 1: beat this team. It sounds simple, but it's plagued this
Speaker 1: team all year long. Like when two was in there,
Speaker 1: he was so good that we're able to overcome them,
Speaker 1: you know, without him, we haven't been able to do
Speaker 1: that so far. And it's as simple as the third
Speaker 1: and twelve Skylar Thompson interception last week. That's a turnover.
Speaker 1: We've seen the same situation multiple times where a third
Speaker 1: and medium becomes third and long. I'm thinking back to
Speaker 1: the Detroit game. I think it happened twice in that
Speaker 1: game where third and seven became third and six became
Speaker 1: third and eleven, third and seven became third and twelve
Speaker 1: and two. It would just dial up Tyreek and j Lynn,
Speaker 1: get the first down regardless, avoid those and win this game.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I also think we saw those examples
Speaker 1: in New England. When Skyler first came in looked a
Speaker 1: little bit disjointed, not on time, but as the game
Speaker 1: went on, he fell into a rhythm and played faster
Speaker 1: in that game, which is what we saw against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: So to facilitate a plan like that again, that's got
Speaker 1: to be the key. Now, the Jets defense is no joke.
Speaker 1: Neither was the Patriots. They've slumped a little bit over
Speaker 1: this losing streak, and it's been most notable in the
Speaker 1: takeaway department. And that's how these teams with bad offenses
Speaker 1: win in two right. It's why I've argued for three
Speaker 1: years now that championship rare level type of defensive production
Speaker 1: is just not sustainable. We saw it happen here. High
Speaker 1: powered offense though, is, and hell to go further, My
Speaker 1: point is that the NFL defenses are essentially as good
Speaker 1: as the offense they're playing against, in that you're not
Speaker 1: gonna go seventeen weeks and play lockdown defense all year.
Speaker 1: You won't play, you know, high wire type of offense
Speaker 1: all year either. But just look at the two comparatively,
Speaker 1: and look at us last year completely erased all those
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks we saw and bad offenses. Mike glennon Ian book,
Speaker 1: Who the hell else was? Who cares? Gold jacket? Green jacket?
Speaker 1: Joe Fly? It was one of them. It's easy to
Speaker 1: start pad against teams like that, but then you face
Speaker 1: a team with real weapons and real firepower. Different story.
Speaker 1: That's why the Buffalo Bills beat us by three thousand
Speaker 1: points last year. So the Jets offense is really bad,
Speaker 1: but they won games because of things that are not sustainable. Right.
Speaker 1: Elite defense weekend and week out, aided by turnovers through
Speaker 1: their seven and four start, fifteen takeaways over the five
Speaker 1: game slide just one, so protect the damn ball. As
Speaker 1: far as their approach, it's aggressive. They play one gap,
Speaker 1: they penetrate and move the pocket while playing excellent coverage
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. Sauce Gardner and d J. Reid has
Speaker 1: been the best perimeter corner duo in football, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's close. We'll get to that moment. Here's
Speaker 1: how they aligned defensively. Thirty four defense is four point
Speaker 1: five percent, forty three is twenty five percent. They stand
Speaker 1: in that base quite a bit. Their nickel defense is
Speaker 1: and they operate from dime five percent of the time,
Speaker 1: so they have some good mix there. Their pre snap structure,
Speaker 1: they have twenty four plays and zero coverage. They have
Speaker 1: single high safety fifty percent of the time and a
Speaker 1: two high structure. Of the time, they blitz fourteen point
Speaker 1: nine percent of their snaps, that's the lowest rate in football.
Speaker 1: But their pressure rate is ninth at twenty three point seven.
Speaker 1: So I gotta block their front four curious to see
Speaker 1: if that's how it goes. And this one you have
Speaker 1: to earn single high. Right, we talked about it all
Speaker 1: the time, and those numbers are not specific to situation,
Speaker 1: but they've played pretty well this year to the point
Speaker 1: of forcing teams into situations that allow them to get
Speaker 1: to too high. They're also super stout upfront, which helps
Speaker 1: dictate that portion of the game. And back in Week five,
Speaker 1: if we saw those numbers tilted significantly the other way.
Speaker 1: They were too high against Miami specifically on their snaps
Speaker 1: and that was Raheem's first one yard day of the season.
Speaker 1: So obviously, if they play it that way, you have
Speaker 1: to have success running the football. And just to bring
Speaker 1: it back to the quarterback situation, really, I don't think
Speaker 1: my focus in terms of keys, like, you know, playing smart,
Speaker 1: executing what's available, and protecting the football. You know that's
Speaker 1: true for either Teddy or Skyler, And that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: We got through two and a half quarters in New
Speaker 1: England and it produced a fourteen ten lead with the football.
Speaker 1: And if you hang on too that we are currently
Speaker 1: in the playoffs right now and don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about it. We can rest guys this week, but then
Speaker 1: a defensive score tilts the game. We can't let that
Speaker 1: happen again. If it happens, you're gonna lose. That's that's
Speaker 1: how that's how it's gonna go. At safety for the Jets,
Speaker 1: LaMarcus Joinner was back last week, but he reaggravated the
Speaker 1: hip injury that had him missed two games prior. Tony
Speaker 1: Adams replaced him to pair up with Jordan Whitehead on
Speaker 1: the back end, and those guys have both struggled mightily
Speaker 1: all year long. And here lies where the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: to get after them. Whitehead doesn't take good angles in
Speaker 1: pursuit and he misses law of tackles, whether it's the
Speaker 1: backs or Waddle and Tyreek, making guys miss in space.
Speaker 1: We need some yards after contact and after the catch.
Speaker 1: In this one, Whitehead being targeted for thirty two for
Speaker 1: two eighty three this year, two teddies and two picks,
Speaker 1: Adams just three for four and thirty one yards. They
Speaker 1: go with Adams over Ashton Davis, a player I was
Speaker 1: very high on out of the draft, but I obviously
Speaker 1: missed that one, and uh yeah, Joiners out of the
Speaker 1: lamp as well. So they go to Tony Adams and
Speaker 1: Will Parks is not there either, and you can see
Speaker 1: the two high structure plan based on their snap Sunday,
Speaker 1: Whitehead played thirty two snaps in the post, which was
Speaker 1: half of his workload. But then Tony Adams played thirty
Speaker 1: eight of his sixty up there as well, so even
Speaker 1: more too high than we're used to. And again that's
Speaker 1: not facing Tyreek and Jalen. Speaking of those guys receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends versus corners, I mentioned Sauce and read
Speaker 1: there's a chart that I saw the other day that
Speaker 1: showed all primary perimeter cornerbacks for their yards per target
Speaker 1: allowed and forced and completions by target, and Sauce was
Speaker 1: up in the corner of the chart on his own planet.
Speaker 1: Remember all those charts this year, and it's still that
Speaker 1: way because he was still very productive and very very
Speaker 1: effective this year, But those charts with two away up
Speaker 1: in that right hand corner, away from even Mahomes and Alan.
Speaker 1: That's where Sauce is on this chart. He might be
Speaker 1: the best cornerback in the league already, which is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: And also in that quadrant of the graph, only fourteen
Speaker 1: other corners are there. One of them is d J. Reid,
Speaker 1: So this is the best cornerback Tenant we'll see. Sauce
Speaker 1: is aggressive, he's long, he's a playmaker. Teams have just
Speaker 1: opted to not throw at him. He had the pick
Speaker 1: in the first game against US, you know, just winning
Speaker 1: at the top of the route and playing through the
Speaker 1: wide receiver and then read has been really good as well.
Speaker 1: And he brings the same style to play. He is
Speaker 1: aggressive and has a big bark, a big key. This week,
Speaker 1: you need to utilize that priestnap motion, use bunches and
Speaker 1: stacks and shifts to get free releases from Tenants seven team.
Speaker 1: But if you do that, you've got to get the
Speaker 1: calls in quick because it's been costing us timeouts and penalties.
Speaker 1: Cannot have it this week. Can't not do it. But
Speaker 1: if you can get clean releases, I like Tenants seventeen
Speaker 1: against anybody, even the best there splits this season. They
Speaker 1: play off coverage eighty percent of the time, so screen game,
Speaker 1: quit game, maybe they pressed twenty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Primarily a zone defense on the back end, and again
Speaker 1: we saw tons of that in the Week five game,
Speaker 1: which you know is pretty task quo to deal with
Speaker 1: tenants seventeen on balance for teams this year. But they
Speaker 1: also run a ton of hybrid coverages where it's you know,
Speaker 1: front side zone, backside man vice versa. They don't travel
Speaker 1: read is the right cornerback sauce as a left cornerback.
Speaker 1: But this that does change sometimes in the red zone
Speaker 1: as they play more manned principles and draw specific assignments
Speaker 1: down in that area of the field. So that's good
Speaker 1: on good, but it's only part of the matchup. And
Speaker 1: we've seen Sherfield involved. We saw Craive Craft back last week.
Speaker 1: We've seen Cedric Wilson get some chances here and there,
Speaker 1: and a lot of this is handled by you know,
Speaker 1: linebackers and safety combinations handling zones in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. So that's where I want to go after.
Speaker 1: Like their strengths on the perimeter, our strength is inside.
Speaker 1: Let's go after that, right, So whether you're getting it
Speaker 1: to them when the play breaks down off structure or
Speaker 1: if it gets out hot. I do think it's plausible
Speaker 1: to see elevated production from the backs and tight ends.
Speaker 1: We saw Teddy take his share of checkdowns in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, and Skyler certainly did too. It's tough
Speaker 1: to identify a weakness at this position for the Jets
Speaker 1: because the slot cornerback Michael Carter has been really damn
Speaker 1: good too. So we'll get to the backs in a moment.
Speaker 1: But teams have had success utilizing the Jets aggressiveness against
Speaker 1: them in terms of those whams and chips. Show the
Speaker 1: quarterback your numbers and dump it off, leaks, delayed drags.
Speaker 1: Remember last year in the game, Adam Shaheen converts a
Speaker 1: critical third and one on that first drive with the
Speaker 1: delayed drag route going against the flow of play action.
Speaker 1: All hands on deck, man, Like, those are the kind
Speaker 1: of things we have to get done, execute, just find
Speaker 1: a way to win the damn football game. Uh numbers
Speaker 1: this year Gardner thirty sixty nine. Our teams throwing at
Speaker 1: him one touchdown, two picks read for seventy nine. They
Speaker 1: are really good, man, four six yards, two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a pick and then Michael Carter fifty one of seventy
Speaker 1: three for four nine, a touchdown and a pick. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our first break right there and
Speaker 1: come back on the other side and get to the
Speaker 1: offensive line, defensive line, Dolphins offense, Jets defense. That's next
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Speaker 1: back up here with your Dolphins and Jets Week eighteen preview.
Speaker 1: It's all on the line for your Miami Dolphins. We'll
Speaker 1: see what we have here in terms of players available.
Speaker 1: Hopefully to Ron Arms that can get back out there,
Speaker 1: because you just feel the difference and the impact that
Speaker 1: he makes, like the wheels keep falling off. We don't
Speaker 1: have to rontot left tackle on the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: it was okay with Kendall Lamb, but then after he
Speaker 1: went down when they came back off again, and Lamb
Speaker 1: is not going to be available this week, So come on,
Speaker 1: t Stead, we need you, big dog. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of protection breakdowns in that Week
Speaker 1: five game and the and you know, situations where we
Speaker 1: had to pass, and that's that's why starting fast is
Speaker 1: going to be a key spoiler alert here. I don't
Speaker 1: think we can just let this Jets defense get into
Speaker 1: multi score lead scenario. That game featured the most pressures
Speaker 1: allowed in a game this year and obviously two fourth
Speaker 1: core turnovers. The guys they go, they call upon on
Speaker 1: the edge position, Carl Lawson forty six pressures, he leads
Speaker 1: all edge defenders and eighteen run stops. And this is
Speaker 1: why t Stead needs to play. We cannot afford to
Speaker 1: to to give him anyone besides Toront Armstead. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that Bryce Huff thirty two pressures, three run stops.
Speaker 1: He is a a situational sub package pass rusher, although
Speaker 1: I know Jets fans want to see a lot more
Speaker 1: of him. And then Jermaine Johnson hasn't been very effective
Speaker 1: twelve pressures, nineteen run stops on the interior, uh, Quentin
Speaker 1: Williams fifty pressures, leads the team actually in thirty one
Speaker 1: run stops, Frying Lan Myers forty six pressures, two run stops,
Speaker 1: and then Sheldon Rankings five. Those guys can all play
Speaker 1: that quasi end role to like. They're all kind of
Speaker 1: in that Wilkins and Seiler mold. They play all over
Speaker 1: the line well Williams and Franklin Myers rankings is more inside.
Speaker 1: But if we can win the matchup, man, this is
Speaker 1: the strength of our team and they play so so aggressively. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I think two of the guys we have that have
Speaker 1: been best all year our Hunt and Williams, and they
Speaker 1: did a good job cutting those guys off at the pass, ceiling,
Speaker 1: reaching all that fun stuff. We'll see what they do
Speaker 1: it left card, but it was Leah Mykenberg last time around.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, if you can't you just you just can't
Speaker 1: lose on early downs. You can't do it and allow
Speaker 1: these guys to wreck havoc by the way they have
Speaker 1: all year. The Seahawks ran for and it allowed them
Speaker 1: to control the entire game. Like obviously, running for two
Speaker 1: yards is great, and I'm not saying you have to
Speaker 1: do that because you usually don't do that, but getting
Speaker 1: rushing production it's gonna be a huge key in this
Speaker 1: game because of the defense you're facing, but also because
Speaker 1: of your own injury situation and to that point, running
Speaker 1: backs and linebackers, to me, the game plan is simple,
Speaker 1: run the football, run up war and then run out
Speaker 1: some more. Then throw at anybody besides sauce and read,
Speaker 1: don't even give him a chance to take it away.
Speaker 1: Just play safe, Like I don't trust the Jets offense
Speaker 1: to score more than ten or thirteen points in this game.
Speaker 1: And maybe that means we find different ways to create
Speaker 1: matchups for Tyrek and Jalen, you know, but maybe it
Speaker 1: means needing more support from the other cast more. We
Speaker 1: need a hundred and fifty yards in the ground, that's
Speaker 1: kind of my my bromer to win this game. And
Speaker 1: we need completions against their back backers, safeties and slots.
Speaker 1: That's the vulnerability. That's where you attack now Ken Raheem
Speaker 1: repeat his one hundred yard day from week number five,
Speaker 1: and also we didn't have Jeff Wilson in that game.
Speaker 1: A good dose of both in a successful ground game
Speaker 1: would go a long way towards winning this one. And
Speaker 1: the Jets, as we've mentioned, they play a lot of
Speaker 1: too high and they try to win with their front
Speaker 1: and they should. It's very good. But we also saw
Speaker 1: Seattle run the ball very well last week and it
Speaker 1: was really in the same vein that we found success
Speaker 1: with back in week five, running wide, and the reason
Speaker 1: they do this is because they compromise the edges to
Speaker 1: really get interior pressure forced the quarterback to deal with
Speaker 1: that and just try to clog things up inside. And
Speaker 1: they want you to. They want you to get wide
Speaker 1: like that's there, that's their focus. So oblige them and
Speaker 1: run those whams, Run those traps, run those chips. Kenneth
Speaker 1: Walker had that sixty yard run off a compromised edge
Speaker 1: to get their offense going. C J. Mosley is excellent
Speaker 1: against the run. He leads a team with forty eight
Speaker 1: run stops. Actually had a nice year in coverage to
Speaker 1: a touchdown in a pick and I would still I
Speaker 1: would still favor smart running backs against him in coverage,
Speaker 1: and he and Quincy Williams have actually been really good together.
Speaker 1: They never blitz, they had the lowest rate in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but they both fit the run and handle a running
Speaker 1: back tight end coverage responsibility fairly well. Uh tough task
Speaker 1: this week for Miami, but any chances that we can
Speaker 1: create mismatches and side would be really nice. It always is,
Speaker 1: but getting those matchups opposed to those two guys on
Speaker 1: lockdown corners would obviously be a big boon. Run the football,
Speaker 1: throw to the backs. It's a big week for these guys.
Speaker 1: The Jets don't put a lot of emphasis you know,
Speaker 1: in the run game or against the edge, like they
Speaker 1: want to win with their guys and one on one matchup.
Speaker 1: So to find a way to win against the offensive
Speaker 1: line one on one would be a huge key this week.
Speaker 1: And man, I just wish we had gotten to see
Speaker 1: two attack this defense because it's a lot like the
Speaker 1: Niners where they don't have those the differences, they don't
Speaker 1: have those freaks at the linebacker position to take away
Speaker 1: some of that stuff they did in that game. It's
Speaker 1: why I think we could have swept this team with
Speaker 1: no issues if we had our quarterback for both. But
Speaker 1: we don't, and we didn't, so we'll see. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: ran for nearly two hundred yards in their games, six
Speaker 1: for eighty three off left end, eleven for thirty seven
Speaker 1: off right end. That's eighteen for one twenty combined. Man
Speaker 1: in Week five, we had five for thirty six off
Speaker 1: left end and seven for thirty four off right end.
Speaker 1: That's twelve for eighty That would go a long way
Speaker 1: to winning the football game, especially because of what does
Speaker 1: to our play action boot game. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go Dolphins defense Jets offense. It'll be Mike White under
Speaker 1: center for the Jets. First time we've ever seen him.
Speaker 1: He replaced Zach Wilson a couple of months ago, played
Speaker 1: pretty well, had that rough game in Buffalo where he
Speaker 1: showed you how tough he was, and he's showing you
Speaker 1: how tough he is this week and last week by playing,
Speaker 1: you know, through the rib injury. A lot of respect
Speaker 1: for him, what he's doing, especially in this game. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything for the Jets. What's the book on
Speaker 1: this guy? Though? Well, I'll tell you, and I'm really
Speaker 1: curious to see how we defended, because what he doesn't
Speaker 1: do well is what we don't do. Just on our numbers,
Speaker 1: you know, against the blitz six nine point six yards
Speaker 1: per pass, one touchdown, two picks. When he's not blitzed somehow,
Speaker 1: that goes down to a nine point reduction, six yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, a three point six yard reduction, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: two picks. Look, I'm gonna be blunted by this again.
Speaker 1: This is an offense for the Jets that has scored
Speaker 1: one touchdown in four weeks. It's terrible. It's been terrible.
Speaker 1: The entire linees beat two s the line can't protect
Speaker 1: the quarterback is not playing well, their top back is
Speaker 1: out and they haven't had success without him, and they've
Speaker 1: got one productive wide receiver. And look at those numbers.
Speaker 1: It's it's time for the front four to go win
Speaker 1: a game. Go win a game. Go sack this dude
Speaker 1: four times, turn them over four, four times, three times.
Speaker 1: I don't know I put four, but let's let's go
Speaker 1: with three or two. Make him feel that pressure and
Speaker 1: win the game. That's got me thinking, what are the
Speaker 1: Seahawks do specifically against Mike White? They blitzed him nine times.
Speaker 1: He went six for nine with seven in the yards
Speaker 1: and a pick. They did not blitz in thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Check that forty one times and he went seventeen for
Speaker 1: thirty seven with a buck seventy and a pick, and
Speaker 1: all four of the Seahawks sacks came without blitzing. Got it?
Speaker 1: Good to your school? Season long depth splits twenty plus
Speaker 1: yard passes five of sixteen, one twelve, one touchdown, and
Speaker 1: three picks ten for nineteen ten to nineteen yard throws
Speaker 1: five five fifty seven and two touchdowns when he's pressured
Speaker 1: forty one and a half percent six point nine yards
Speaker 1: per past one t D two picks a twenty three
Speaker 1: percent completion reduction. But same y p A. Pressure him
Speaker 1: with four and you'll beat him. It's that simple. Usually
Speaker 1: it is, but against this quarterback in particular, it's really
Speaker 1: the case. Uh. They run eleven personnel sixty nine percent
Speaker 1: at the time. Nice they operate from twelve personnel two
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and they go two backs, one
Speaker 1: tight end four percent of the time. And they have
Speaker 1: pretty good variety. They actually ran better than two percent
Speaker 1: from O two personnel. That's no acts and two tight ends.
Speaker 1: That's a cool formation. Three receivers, two tight ends, a third,
Speaker 1: teen personnel, one back, three tight ends and twenty one personnel.
Speaker 1: It's Mike Lafloor. So it's off the Santa N Tree.
Speaker 1: Lots of priest Nat motion, they ranked top ten in
Speaker 1: that category, Lots of eye candy in the running game
Speaker 1: and quarterback boot game. Off of that, It'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how they attack and how they move. Mike White.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the Seahawks game. Talking
Speaker 1: about a lot here, but he wore military grade flak
Speaker 1: jacket and he just did not look the same. The
Speaker 1: ball came off his hand differently. He seemed a little
Speaker 1: bit gun shy under duress at times, and Jets fans
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of drops that happened early that
Speaker 1: they felt like he kind of got worse after that,
Speaker 1: like a lack of trust, which I hope was the
Speaker 1: case going into this game. And that's why this defense
Speaker 1: must must must go get it done. Like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep talking about it. You have to do what you
Speaker 1: did to the Patriots in the second and third quarter.
Speaker 1: Flush out the opening drive and that clinching drive. Hold
Speaker 1: this team to ten points. Man, it's doable. They're a
Speaker 1: dead man walking offense. Do not let them score multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns on you do that, don't let him score on defense.
Speaker 1: And my playoffs as simple as that White wants to
Speaker 1: hit the top of his drop and get the ball out.
Speaker 1: If you can disrupt them early, and given their struggles
Speaker 1: getting the ball deep, maybe it's achievable. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But disrupting the early timing, forcing him off that first read,
Speaker 1: pressuring with four that feels like the ticket here. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we get X and Chubb back. My prediction is that Chub, Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and Phillips go win this game for the Dolphins if
Speaker 1: they are allowed to. I thought White did his darndist
Speaker 1: to get the ball in some tight windows last week
Speaker 1: and it cost him. The Jets had one of the
Speaker 1: lowest separation totals in the league last week next Gen stats,
Speaker 1: and you saw White fitting some passes in but eventually
Speaker 1: was picked off. And if you can locate where he
Speaker 1: wants to go pre snap, you can do the same.
Speaker 1: I sure hope we find a way to free up
Speaker 1: Javon Holland in this game. Between not needing the blitz
Speaker 1: and the Jets failing to do anything downfield all year,
Speaker 1: it's a good chance to put eight in some playmaking situations.
Speaker 1: That receiver, tight end slash cornerback. Garrett Wilson has been
Speaker 1: as good as they come as a rookie. He's a
Speaker 1: polished route runner who's just a good football player. That's
Speaker 1: just a good show. Everybody loves Raymond. He catches everything,
Speaker 1: competes his ass off, and has own that he can
Speaker 1: play with NFL corners time and time again. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: get X back. If not X, you have to imagine
Speaker 1: Kater get some action against him. Kater has been so
Speaker 1: good this year, particularly in the slot. Wilson has played
Speaker 1: their of his snaps. Barrios is the top slot guy
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the time, but we can't afford to
Speaker 1: put X or cater on him because that's that's too
Speaker 1: many resources to that guy. Uh, those resources gotta go
Speaker 1: to Wilson from my him. When Elijah Moore targets, Wilson
Speaker 1: has a undred twenty two, Conklin the tight end has eighty,
Speaker 1: and then Elijah Moore has fifty eight, Corey Davis fifty five,
Speaker 1: the running back Michael Carter forty five, Barrios thirty one,
Speaker 1: and c j Usama twenties six. So it's basically Wilson
Speaker 1: and Conklin. Uh, those are your guys, like and Conklin
Speaker 1: lines up attached. Does a lot of his work in
Speaker 1: multifasted roles where he's a touchdown maker and pretty effective
Speaker 1: where he works off of chips releasing into the route.
Speaker 1: He's a good blocker in the running game, which plays
Speaker 1: into White getting the ball out fast. So that seems
Speaker 1: like a good role to me for Eric Roe, but
Speaker 1: we shall see. Last time we played, Conklin got just
Speaker 1: one target on Jerome Baker and no catches in the game.
Speaker 1: Usamo was kind of tight on one at the time,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of edition back to the tight end
Speaker 1: to the key here to me is more team based,
Speaker 1: the matchup based, find a way to disrupt the quick
Speaker 1: throws and when you're four man fronts with one on
Speaker 1: once and you'll have lots of success, which takes us
Speaker 1: to O line verse DeLine. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our second break though, and come back and do that
Speaker 1: on the other side. Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 1: and specialists and what's at stake in three keys and
Speaker 1: week eight team picks that's still to come here. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about Jets offensive line, Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: line and the pressure numbers and pass blocking snaps for
Speaker 1: Dwayne Brown twenty three on four fifty but he didn't
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday. Lake and Thominson thirty one on six,
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern twenty four on six seventy seven. So those
Speaker 1: two guys have played all year. But the injuries at
Speaker 1: Brown for for left tackle, right guard and right tackle
Speaker 1: have been you know, substantial. Uh lou Laurent duvern A
Speaker 1: tar Nief nine pressures on fifty one snaps just one
Speaker 1: one game last week, fant fifty seven rather twenty seven pressures,
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy two pass block snaps. They've had
Speaker 1: injuries all year at this position. Uh big, you know,
Speaker 1: bringing in Duvenate Tardif to play right guard, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: were able to get to you know, get constant pressure,
Speaker 1: limit the Jets running game. That's what Miami has to
Speaker 1: do in this game. Both those tackles are bigger players,
Speaker 1: So finding ways for our guys to get two way goes,
Speaker 1: you know, where you can kind of iso them out,
Speaker 1: slide protection and you get Bradley Chubb against Dwayne Brown,
Speaker 1: who's who's a little bit older and you know, heavy footed,
Speaker 1: this the stage of his career. And George Fan has
Speaker 1: always been that way off the right tackle positions. So
Speaker 1: if you get protection slides where Phillips is or you know,
Speaker 1: or even Ingram or Van Ginkle or Chub was one
Speaker 1: on one, we gotta win those. Gotta find a way
Speaker 1: to win those. Um, just get consistent pressure and then
Speaker 1: as you expect, you know, each week, Wilkins needs to
Speaker 1: put duvern A Tardif to school, like beat him every
Speaker 1: single snap. You should. Their left guard was a big
Speaker 1: free agent signing who hasn't worked out, and their tackles
Speaker 1: were slow, and the center is a career journeyman, so
Speaker 1: you need to whip them up front. Last time around,
Speaker 1: we did get pressure, but Zach Wilson was able to
Speaker 1: have ade a lot of that. White is not as
Speaker 1: fleet of foot, but he's more willing to pull a
Speaker 1: trigger on time. Faster they ca matchup and one that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have to go get. We finish up at
Speaker 1: running back in linebacker, and Zonovan Knight has been kind
Speaker 1: of the go to since the briefe Hall injury. He's
Speaker 1: averaging two point eight eight yards after contact with twenty
Speaker 1: eight four Smiths tackles. The Seahawks did not let him
Speaker 1: get going, and that's a key. By that, I mean
Speaker 1: early penetration, hit him before he can explode through his gap.
Speaker 1: Miami has been so sound in that department all year.
Speaker 1: You needed again. As for the linebackers, I think it's
Speaker 1: a big game for a land and Roberts because of
Speaker 1: that run game and the need to slow it. He's
Speaker 1: been playing some of his best ball in Miami. Will
Speaker 1: need him to play fast and aggressive as usual, and
Speaker 1: when Michael Carter comes into the game. You've got to
Speaker 1: be prepared for his involvement in the passing game. They're
Speaker 1: they're split favor zone one, so they' run a little
Speaker 1: bit of both of those special teams. Jason Sanders twenty nine.
Speaker 1: He's missed three p A t s as well the
Speaker 1: four misses from fifty plus, one from nine and one
Speaker 1: from under twenty nine more steads down to three point
Speaker 1: five percent touchback rape and his inside the twenty yard
Speaker 1: line rate. He's also at forty point seven net. All
Speaker 1: those numbers improved last week. Good game. Last week. Greg's
Speaker 1: airline for the Jets has six misses. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: get someone to miss a field goal against us this
Speaker 1: year opposed their way around four from fifty plus and
Speaker 1: two from nine. He's twenty for thirty four. Just miss
Speaker 1: a couple of kicks, great, come on, help us out.
Speaker 1: He's made twenty nine p t s. And then Brandon
Speaker 1: Man has a ten point three percent touchback rate ins
Speaker 1: had the twenty yard line rate oft, averaging forty point
Speaker 1: three net. What's at stake in this game? Everything? The
Speaker 1: entire season, you don't win, there's no Week nineteen that's it.
Speaker 1: Three keys, limit mistakes, it's gonna be one in the margins.
Speaker 1: We didn't win in the margins against the Patriots and
Speaker 1: we lost the game. You have to do it this week.
Speaker 1: These are two teams that are really limping into this game.
Speaker 1: Win in those margins and you should win the game.
Speaker 1: Number two, start fast. The Jets get a two score
Speaker 1: lead in this game, I don't want to see what
Speaker 1: happens so that defense against this offense. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and keep it a closer game, or get a lead
Speaker 1: ourselves and then do to them, but we don't want
Speaker 1: them to do to us. Start fast, and the number
Speaker 1: three win. You're one on one's up front on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. If they can find a way to handle
Speaker 1: somehow Quentin Williams and Sheldon Rankins and John Franklin Myers,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do just fine. If you can find a
Speaker 1: way to limit those guys from wrecking the game, you
Speaker 1: should win this game. Those are the three keys. Let
Speaker 1: the mistakes start fast and win. You're one on one
Speaker 1: matchups on the offensive front. My week eight teen picks,
Speaker 1: we went twelve and three last week. We are now
Speaker 1: one seventy seven and two at the sixty nine eight percent,
Speaker 1: and that means if we go twelve and four this week,
Speaker 1: we hit the goal of seventy and technically this should
Speaker 1: be the easiest week, right because we have seventeen weeks
Speaker 1: of evidence on these teams. We have lots of games
Speaker 1: that have you know, weited motivation for one side. We
Speaker 1: have plenty of games that probably won't see starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So can we get twelve wins? That's what we need.
Speaker 1: Here are the winners, Chiefs over Radars, Jags over Titans,
Speaker 1: Dolphins over Jets, and builds our Patriots. You know what
Speaker 1: that means to the playoffs. Bengals over Ravens. I'll take
Speaker 1: the Browns over the Steelers, Texans over the Colts. That
Speaker 1: might cost from the first pick if that happens, right,
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings over the Bears, who are starting
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman. There you go, Tampa over the Falcons, the
Speaker 1: Saints over the Panthers. The Cardinals are starting, uh David blow,
Speaker 1: give me the Niners on that one, Cowboys over wardman,
Speaker 1: give me the Chargers over the Broncos, the Seahawks over
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Eagles over the Giants, and the Packers
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