WEBVTT - Drive Time: Miami Dolphins 2024 Schedule Release Breakdown 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 Two on the move, going deep, speedless past Peas from 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 He's got my hands in the playoffs. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.160 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.199 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:36.640 twenty twenty four NFL schedule is out. We're gonna go 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.720 through it in its entirety. A long podcast for you 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.880 guys today two for the price of one. We're going 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.000 through the matchups, the interesting schedule notes. Go ahead and 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:46.920 break down the opponents for the first time in twenty 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.720 twenty four from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.720 Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, daff 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.960 you've certainly heard it by now. Let's go ahead and 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.840 give you the entire Dolphin schedule here as they kick 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.000 off the season September eighth at home against the Jacksonville 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.760 Jaguars for one o'clock kickoff, and then it's a short 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.440 turnaround Week two, back at home again for the Buffalo 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.440 Bills on Thursday night for an eight to fifteen kickoff. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.040 On September the twelfth, we have ten more days until 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.160 our next game, our first road game at four oh 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.600 five in the Pacific Northwest my Stomping Grounds the Seattle 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.320 Seahawks on the road, and then back home for another 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.680 primetime football game September thirtieth on Monday Night Football against 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 the Tennessee Titans, a seven to thirty kickoff as part 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.440 of the week four Monday Night Football double header. Week 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.600 five October seventh at the New England Patriots a one 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.200 o'clock kickoff there. Then the week six bye week is 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.840 the earliest bi week they've had in quite some time now, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.000 and then it's back on the road in week seven 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.080 for October twentieth against the Indianapolis Colts for one o'clock kickoff, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.480 coming back to South Florida for the week eight October 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.520 twenty seventh game against the Arizona Cardinals another one o'clock kickoff, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.880 and then week nine a couple of road games here 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.560 November third at the Buffalo Bills for one o'clock kickoff, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.880 and then Monday Night Football in week ten November eleventh 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.760 against the La Rams eight fifteen kickoff. There then we 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.040 have a couple of back to back home one o'clock 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.840 games down here in South Florida weeks eleven and twelve, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.440 November seventeenth and November twenty fourth against the Raiders and 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.040 Patriots before a Thanksgiving game and another short week in 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.519 Week thirteen on November twenty eighth at the Green Bay Packers. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.400 An eight to twenty kickoff for that one. Back home 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.000 for the first game of the year in Week fourteen 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.360 against the New York Jets December the eighth, a one 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.160 o'clock kickoff for that one Week fifteen at Houston December 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:36.960 the fifteenth to one o'clock kick there, and then the 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.600 Dolphins will conclude their home schedule on December twenty second 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.320 against the San Francisco forty nine Ers a four to 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.640 twenty five kickoff before a Week seventeen primetime game December 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.840 twenty ninth at the Cleveland Browns eight twenty on Sunday 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.480 Night Football, and then of course the TBD Week eighteen 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.160 game at the New York Jets. Let's go ahead and 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.360 get into each and every one of these and break 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.399 down the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty four schedules. So Week 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.360 one at home Jacksonville Jaguars a one o'clock kickoff. I 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.000 Love Me a one o'clock opening weekend game. Get right 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.000 to it right away. Last year weading until four twenty 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.280 five was brutal, even though it was the best game 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.239 of the entire year, most likely for I think a 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.200 lot of US Dolphins fans. So we're gonna go over 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.080 these key points for each of these teams. New coaching staff. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.120 They have a new defensive coordinator there in Ryan Nielsen. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.840 He came from Atlanta and replaced Mike Caldwell. And if 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.919 you go back over some of the Jaguars beat reporters, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.639 a lot of them are saying there was issues with 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.519 last year's coaching staff on defense and they hope to 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.800 get that change. I think Ryan Nielsen was great for 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.520 the Falcons. How quick can he get his scheme kind 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.280 of imprinted there in Jacksonville? Will we get ourselves a 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.000 brand new DC in week number one? Their climate there 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.440 same as US, so the only team on our schedule 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.640 who plays in weather as tough as US during training camp. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.440 So if you're going to try to catch these guys 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.120 being not conditioned, I don't envision that's a possibility. Again, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.320 new DC versus, your first game is as bad as 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.960 it can be. For to me, our offense is the 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.480 toughest to prepare for, so I think it's a big 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.240 advantage for Miami in that regard. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:06.240 They'll be eager. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.000 The Jaguars will to erase this hour taste of last season. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.840 They started eight and three, finished nine to eight. But 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.720 so will we to rewrite our narrative. I don't think 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.400 this supplies much in Week one, but the Bills are 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.479 four days away from this game. Do not get caught 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.760 peeking ahead as far as the matchup goes. Nobody in 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.640 the AFC has more to prove after how last season 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.440 ended than the Jacksonville Jaguars, and like us, injuries mounted 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.279 on this team, including one to the quarterback that knocked 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.520 him out of one and a half games and slowed 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.440 him down really for the rest of the season. And 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.920 that said, I think it's funny, how yet another one 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.200 of these picture perfect quarterbacks with the arm strength and 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.920 the elusive ability still hasn't had a single year of 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.960 his career that has been better than the last two 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.560 years of Tua Tunga Bai Looa. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:51.320 Isn't that funny? 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.279 I expect this to be a much improved offense for Jacksonville. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.080 They struggled at times last year. But they also had 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.560 some very narrow misses, like just go back the KC 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.839 game when they had four plays that were caught in 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.599 the end zone but just went either out the back 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.159 of the end zone by a few inches or maybe 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.640 the ball wasn't secured going to the ground. Just a 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.000 lot of slim margins they did not hit. They also 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.000 continue to change their receiver room that has been a 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.680 work in progress. They got rid as A Flowers, What 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.560 a terrible contract that was, but they bring in Gabe Davis. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.520 To me, it's kind of one for one swap. They 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.960 go get Devin DuVernay. They use their first round draft 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.240 pick on Brian Thomas Junior, so they're trying to help 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.480 to go along with Christian Kirk, Trevor Lawrence have all 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.200 the weapons he needs while he's still on that rookie contract. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.680 Their offensive line looks pretty good, so finding a way 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.840 to get pressure on Trevor Lawrence and speed him up 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.840 I think will be a key in terms of just 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.120 getting him off the spot will be a challenge and 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.640 a key in this game. But again, a team breaking 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.120 in this many new parts and a new defensive coordinator, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.240 I think that benefits Miami, who has a lot more 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.039 continuity aside from the fact we have our own New DC, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.480 but the team in general has a lot more continuity 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.480 I think for Miami than the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dude, defensively, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.479 so much has changed there again, New DC a ton 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.039 of personnel changes in the back end, but they're sort 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.040 of banking on breakout seasons from guys that haven't done 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.719 it yet, like Trayvon Walker. You know, Josh Allen the 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.599 only other edge of the roster who's really proven. So 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.159 for Miami, I think Miami does the best job of 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.280 anybody in the NFL of limiting the best pass rushers 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.240 in the NFL. But this team doesn't really have the bullets. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.640 But they did go out and get Eric Armstead, who 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.479 is one of my favorite moves any team has made. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.040 And if you go back to Nielsen's time in Atlanta, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.600 he had Kaleis Campbell there. I think there's some similar 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.320 play styles and visions with those two guys in terms 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.520 of how they could line up. So between Allen and 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.920 Eric Armstead, this defensive front has to be better because 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.880 it was bad last year, and the secondary I don't 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.160 see where it's gotten a. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.239 Whole lot better. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.520 It was atrocious last year, and I'm not sure I 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.159 see a lot of reason for change. They had a 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.080 very complex scheme They're going to bring in with what 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.760 the kids would call mid talent, right, so we should 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.839 be able to run the football, or rather I check that, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.120 run them out of the building with our vertical passing game. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.200 I mean Ronald Darby, Campbell Amario Rurier as the top 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.080 three cornerbacks. I just don't see a lot of hope 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.080 in terms of them being able to slow down Reek 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.040 Waddle and Odell Beckham. My final predictions or thoughts on this. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.160 I'm happy with this opening game. I was hoping for 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.560 a cupcake, but they're not that. But I think their 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.080 new defense will take some time to get adjusted to 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.600 some innovative stuff. They run and struggle to keep up 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.680 with us for sixty minutes. A forty four burger to 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.840 open the season forty four to twenty eight with a 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.760 late score from Jacksville. That makes a look closer than 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.360 it actually was. Like't your Week one matchup? Week two 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.800 at home again the Buffalo Bills on Thursday Night Football, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.880 the eight to fifteen kickoff. They have one new coach 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.520 in terms of coordinators, they promoted DC Bobby Babbitch was 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.200 the linebackers coach last year. This will be his first 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.720 time as an NFL DC, and they also have a 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.280 first full year offensive coordinator in Joe Brady, who I've 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 talked about his system on this podcast and how I 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.880 didn't think it was beneficial to alan skill set whatsoever. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.720 So curious to see how that develops in your number 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.600 two with them together. Look, it's going to be a hot, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.760 humid game, no sunshine though. I guess that call worked 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.560 because the last two Dolphins Bills games in Miami have 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.040 been at night, so I guess congratulations, you guys got 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.560 Osha to get on your side. It's a short week 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.560 for us for them on the road, I should say, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.800 first time we've gotten that against anybody since twenty twenty one. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.240 The Ravens on TNF. Home teams on TNF last year 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.480 were eleven and four. I don't count the Week one 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.040 game to Troit and Kansas City because that's not a 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.600 short week for anybody. This is the second straight night 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.440 game in the Miami Dolphins and Dolphins and Bills rivalry, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.560 and three of the last five have been night games. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.920 I just want to beat this damn team. Man. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.920 This was the case last year, and I believe it'll 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.240 be the same thing this year. That if we just 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.199 split with Buffalo, I think we'll win the AFC East. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.520 But that's not been an easy task. Tons of change 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.080 for Buffalo. They had every offensive lineman last year play 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.880 every snap. I mean, how that's not gonna happen again? 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.960 All five guys over one thousand snaps, the same offensive 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.840 line combination started every single game for them. Well, Mitch 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.800 Morris has gone and the new centers on the roster 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.040 are Will Clapp, who has been on every team in 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.960 the league pretty much in a fifth round draft pick, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.640 and Cedric van Pan's Van Pran Granger guy that actually 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.120 liked a lot, but he's a rookie. Rookie fifth round 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.600 draft pick. And their right tackle options aren't that great, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.760 either Spencer Brown or Lyo Collins. I mean, Spencer Brown's 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.680 gonna be the guy, but it's not that's not great. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.400 Osiris Torrance wasn't good last year. He played every snap, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.520 but he wasn't good. And then Connor McGovern at left 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.280 guard is a good player, but behind that it is 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.000 absolutely barren. So we'll see what the attrition looks like 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.560 in week two for them. I tend to think that 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.920 maybe by week eight when we play him again, it'll 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.640 be more so. But unless you get the exact same 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.360 luck two years in a row, you're gonna have to 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.559 deal with some of your own Liam and Lester combinations 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.360 as it were. And the receiver position looks way different 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.120 without Stefan Diggs and enter Keyon Coleman, Marquez Valdez, Scantling, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.880 mac Hollins, and Curtis Samuel. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:44.960 The ladder of. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.240 This group is the only guy that can actually get open. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.800 And Curtis Samuel and a lot of his routes in 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.040 the NFL have been kind of manufactured, and he has 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.320 way more medical concerns than the guy that everyone's up 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.800 in arms about the Dolphins signing and Odell Beckham because 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.760 of his injury history. Oh and they also run in 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.560 RPO based rhythm offense under Joe Brady, and that's not 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.680 Josh Allen's game. So that's evident by days where they 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.400 had two hundred and nine passing yards eighty five, one 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.320 point fifty four, one eighty nine and one eighty six. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.440 Just saying when two of throws for those kind of numbers, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.959 he gets absolutely torn apart, but Josh Allen has done 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.640 it several times, even just last year, they would go 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.240 entire halfs where they didn't move the football on offense. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.360 I think it's only gonna get worse this year because 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.520 I don't believe in the system, and I don't believe 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.240 the receiving corps is good at all, and I don't 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.840 believe they're gonna have the same luck at the offensive 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.640 line health that they had last year as well. So 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.800 those are my thoughts there. I think, you know, we 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.200 had a good plan in the Week eighteen game, just 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.240 didn't really have the bullets to get Josh Allen to 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.280 the ground because all the injuries. And I think this 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.240 new system and approach of adding rushers and speed on 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.600 defense can really help us flag this dude down because 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.079 Josh Allen's like the one thing, not even the Buffalo Bills, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.920 just Josh Allen's the guy who pretty much has stood 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.240 between you and playoff success and home playoff games the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.480 last couple of years. So if you can cut down 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.320 his off script work, and if you can do that, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:05.959 he goes one of the top three players in the 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 position to like middle of the Pack to me like 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.000 not an easy task at all. He's great, but if 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.880 you can do that, you can get him playing like 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.600 a middle old Pack quarterback. Defensively, they get some guys back, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.200 most notably Matt Milano de Kwon Jones, but tons of 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.439 chances change here again for them. The safety tandem that 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.840 kind of made that defense go is gone, and one 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.320 of those guys here in Jordan Poyer. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:26.520 No more Micah Hyde. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.120 It's rookie Cole Bishop and Taylor Rapp who I mean, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.040 like just a guy you know. That's the starting safeties 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.360 as of the recording of this podcast. All be curious 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.720 how they can rotate wheel out and change the picture 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.760 on TUA with the change they make in their coverages, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.080 because that was what made them so special before Trey 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.760 White is gone. They do have Russell Douglas and Christian 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.959 Benford and Terror Johnson still in tack. And we have 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.040 to score on this defense because you cannot expect to 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.800 just hold Josh Allen for sixty minutes like we tried 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.880 to do in the game last year. So when I 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.160 look at our success the game at Buffalo in twenty 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.640 twenty two, the game here last year, we had a 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.880 good commitment to the running game, but eventually got away 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.599 from it. That nickel heavy defense sort of invites that 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.400 style of play, and with the inexperience at safety, maybe 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.480 you can lure them up and sneak a vertical by 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.439 them when they least expect it. If you start two 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.320 to zero against the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills, you're 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.440 gonna get lots and lots of attention. My final thoughts 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.280 earlier prediction here, I hope we have our edges for 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.800 this game early Bradley Chubb and JP. I'm pretty sure 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.080 JP's gonna be out there. Beachub I think so too, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.200 but we'll find out them on a short week on 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.920 the road in this weather, tough ask for them, root 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.680 for them to play a tight game in Week one, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.760 preferably into overtime, and then of course them being a 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.160 thorn in our side. I think we finally get them. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.920 But I'm fired up for this game because of all 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.040 those reasons. I think it's a thriller. I think it 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.760 gives the NFL a very good Week two TNF game. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.600 I think it's the first of a lot of monkey 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.480 off the back moments for US twenty six twenty four 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.440 as Jason Sanders walks us off into the night. Week three, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.760 our first road. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.760 Game and a trip back home for Travis. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.040 Week three at the Seattle Seahawks, a four h five 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.800 kickoff in the beautiful Pacific Northwest new head coach new 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.120 OC New DC with Mike McDonald, Ryan Grubb who came 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.720 from you, Dub Grub Dub, and Aiden Durdey is the 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.080 defensive quarter of there. This is the perfect time to 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.840 play in Seattle. Well, week one really is, but September 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.480 if you can get it there, it's choice. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.280 It could rain. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.800 It rains a lot there, but it's going to be 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.960 scattered showers here and there if anything else most likely. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.240 So interesting notes of this timing. There's extra time off 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.880 to travel out west, which is super nice. If you 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.040 can wake up Friday morning two and zero and knowing 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.400 that you have a full week before you have to 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.760 actually even leave to go to Seattle, that would be 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.360 pretty sweet. I was hoping for the double dip back 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.040 to back and having a whole week in Seattle, but 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.120 I digress. Going back over the last few years of 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.000 this matchup, or looking at this matchup going back over 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.600 the last few years, the defensive systems that have given 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.600 the Shanahan Tree McDaniel as well, those offenses the most 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.960 problems with the variations of the Ravens defense and their offshoots. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.120 Those are the groups that have done that. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.400 I'm happy to catch them early because there's always a 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.960 feeling out period for these new coaches and new schemes. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.520 But I do think that McDonald will get that defense 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.440 humming by the time the year is up. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.160 Who knows when that happens, but Week three probably not. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:06.840 We'll see. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.880 He has the guys up front that Baltimore had, you know, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.160 Jiron Reed, Jonathan Hankins, Draymont Jones, Leo Williams, and now 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.240 Byron Murphy. That's a tough ask for the Dolphins offensive line. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.520 But Devon Witherspoon in the back end, he's the style 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.160 we thought he was. But the rest is not great. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.840 Rieke Wollen had a down year after a great rookie season. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.440 But they'll have, you know, competition for the nickel as well. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.720 And a big reason I love having Odell Beckham is here. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.680 We are going into a game against a team that 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.080 doesn't really have certainty with their dB depth. Can you 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.040 match up with Odell Beckham. I don't think you can 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.240 or Tyreek Hill when he goes inside. Definitely not that. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.000 I'm also curious what kind of offense Ryan Grubb wants 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.280 to bring and how that meshes with their personnel, because remember, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.960 this is a team that had been built the same 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.040 way for really over a decade, with ball control, run 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.520 the football, every drive, the engine. A kicker is a 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.280 good drive, right the nineteen ninety eight mentality. But Grub 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.360 came from the most electrifying offense in all of college football. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.800 So will those ideas mesh and how long does it 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:02.760 take for those to click? 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.200 This is his first. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.120 NFL job, and man, he has the bullets on the 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.320 outside with DK Lockett and Smith and Jigba. Does he 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.760 have the quarterback? Does he have the offensive line to 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.680 make that happen? I'm curious to see what it looks like. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.000 My early predictions for this one. I just love the 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.240 timing of this game. I'm gonna go and the weather's 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.560 gonna be great in September, and I don't want to 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.400 have more than two games to get their stuff buttoned 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:27.080 up for the Seahawks. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.440 I think it's a perfect spot for Miami. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.200 Tough place to play, but the roster disparity to me 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.280 is vast thirty three seventeen win for the Miami Dolphins, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.840 and that takes us into Week four and our second 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.320 primetime game already on the schedule as a Monday night 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.360 football doubleheader seven point thirty kickoff against the Titans, new 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.640 head coach, new OC new DC. It's Brian Callahan, Nick Holtz, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.280 and Denner Wilson, all first times in those roles. You 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.480 know it's going to be a tough I think early 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.080 part of the year for the Titans, and the climate wise, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.880 look they it's to me it's a tough acclimation for 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.120 them because Tennessee summers and much earlier than Miami summers do. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:05.880 But it is a night game, so you don't have 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.040 the sunshine boiling those guys over there on the opposite sideline. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.280 Second straight week of extra prep in terms of a 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.920 longer week for the Dolphins though, they get it too 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.200 in this game, and it's a double header for Monday 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.520 night football, which means early start and I selfishly I 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.800 love that because it means forty five minutes more of sleep. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.080 I get to have a late or early Friday morning. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.040 I should say they were a good mismatch with the 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.880 Dolphins last year, but that's all changed, So that's kind 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.960 of where I start with this matchup. And with coaching 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.400 changes comes personnel changes. Right, they're doing the classic second 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.200 year quarterback build it up around him. They added Tyler 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.880 Boyd and Calvin Ridley to DeAndre Hopkins. But that's a 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.880 slew of injury prone, slowed veterans who are not what 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.040 they used to be when they were stars. And frankly, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.120 they don't worry me, especially with will Lewis behind center 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.640 at that position. So if it was twenty fifteen, would 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.880 I be afraid of this roster or this receiving core. Yeah, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.200 but not in twenty twenty four. They went from Derrick 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.800 Henry to Tony Pollard with it's a completely different type 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.320 of back and we'll pivot to more. I imagine eleven 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.240 personnel offenses or personnel groupings with those veteran receivers, different 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.160 from their historical twelve personnel attack that had two tight 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.440 ends on the field. So it's not really the same 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.639 ground and pound, like wear your face off type of 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.520 Titans team under Mike Rabel. I love their first round 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.560 draft pick in JC Latham. Think they nailed that one. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.159 They took Pete Skeronsky last year and he struggled, So 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.320 they think they have their tackles, but I don't think 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:21.720 those guys. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.840 I don't think Scaronski can. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.000 Block Phillips or Chubb or Shack or even Chop. And 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.359 then on defense, Jeffrey Simmons is kind of the last 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.800 one remaining from a really good defensive line, so that's 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.560 kind of changed as well. And they added to and 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.679 Andre Sweat, but yeah, good luck with him, you know, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.040 chasing guys down here in the Miami heat. I don't 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.240 think it's gonna be a good a good look for him. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.120 Lots of turnover, not just there, but the entire defense. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.919 I know it's not the same, but the way that 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.479