Speaker 1: Two on the move, going deep, speedless past Peas from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four NFL schedule is out. We're gonna go
Speaker 3: through it in its entirety. A long podcast for you
Speaker 3: guys today two for the price of one. We're going
Speaker 3: through the matchups, the interesting schedule notes. Go ahead and
Speaker 3: break down the opponents for the first time in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 3: Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, daff
Speaker 3: you've certainly heard it by now. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: give you the entire Dolphin schedule here as they kick
Speaker 3: off the season September eighth at home against the Jacksonville
Speaker 3: Jaguars for one o'clock kickoff, and then it's a short
Speaker 3: turnaround Week two, back at home again for the Buffalo
Speaker 3: Bills on Thursday night for an eight to fifteen kickoff.
Speaker 3: On September the twelfth, we have ten more days until
Speaker 3: our next game, our first road game at four oh
Speaker 3: five in the Pacific Northwest my Stomping Grounds the Seattle
Speaker 3: Seahawks on the road, and then back home for another
Speaker 3: primetime football game September thirtieth on Monday Night Football against
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans, a seven to thirty kickoff as part
Speaker 3: of the week four Monday Night Football double header. Week
Speaker 3: five October seventh at the New England Patriots a one
Speaker 3: o'clock kickoff there. Then the week six bye week is
Speaker 3: the earliest bi week they've had in quite some time now,
Speaker 3: and then it's back on the road in week seven
Speaker 3: for October twentieth against the Indianapolis Colts for one o'clock kickoff,
Speaker 3: coming back to South Florida for the week eight October
Speaker 3: twenty seventh game against the Arizona Cardinals another one o'clock kickoff,
Speaker 3: and then week nine a couple of road games here
Speaker 3: November third at the Buffalo Bills for one o'clock kickoff,
Speaker 3: and then Monday Night Football in week ten November eleventh
Speaker 3: against the La Rams eight fifteen kickoff. There then we
Speaker 3: have a couple of back to back home one o'clock
Speaker 3: games down here in South Florida weeks eleven and twelve,
Speaker 3: November seventeenth and November twenty fourth against the Raiders and
Speaker 3: Patriots before a Thanksgiving game and another short week in
Speaker 3: Week thirteen on November twenty eighth at the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: An eight to twenty kickoff for that one. Back home
Speaker 3: for the first game of the year in Week fourteen
Speaker 3: against the New York Jets December the eighth, a one
Speaker 3: o'clock kickoff for that one Week fifteen at Houston December
Speaker 3: the fifteenth to one o'clock kick there, and then the
Speaker 3: Dolphins will conclude their home schedule on December twenty second
Speaker 3: against the San Francisco forty nine Ers a four to
Speaker 3: twenty five kickoff before a Week seventeen primetime game December
Speaker 3: twenty ninth at the Cleveland Browns eight twenty on Sunday
Speaker 3: Night Football, and then of course the TBD Week eighteen
Speaker 3: game at the New York Jets. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: get into each and every one of these and break
Speaker 3: down the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty four schedules. So Week
Speaker 3: one at home Jacksonville Jaguars a one o'clock kickoff. I
Speaker 3: Love Me a one o'clock opening weekend game. Get right
Speaker 3: to it right away. Last year weading until four twenty
Speaker 3: five was brutal, even though it was the best game
Speaker 3: of the entire year, most likely for I think a
Speaker 3: lot of US Dolphins fans. So we're gonna go over
Speaker 3: these key points for each of these teams. New coaching staff.
Speaker 3: They have a new defensive coordinator there in Ryan Nielsen.
Speaker 3: He came from Atlanta and replaced Mike Caldwell. And if
Speaker 3: you go back over some of the Jaguars beat reporters,
Speaker 3: a lot of them are saying there was issues with
Speaker 3: last year's coaching staff on defense and they hope to
Speaker 3: get that change. I think Ryan Nielsen was great for
Speaker 3: the Falcons. How quick can he get his scheme kind
Speaker 3: of imprinted there in Jacksonville? Will we get ourselves a
Speaker 3: brand new DC in week number one? Their climate there
Speaker 3: same as US, so the only team on our schedule
Speaker 3: who plays in weather as tough as US during training camp.
Speaker 3: So if you're going to try to catch these guys
Speaker 3: being not conditioned, I don't envision that's a possibility. Again,
Speaker 3: new DC versus, your first game is as bad as
Speaker 3: it can be. For to me, our offense is the
Speaker 3: toughest to prepare for, so I think it's a big
Speaker 3: advantage for Miami in that regard.
Speaker 2: They'll be eager.
Speaker 3: The Jaguars will to erase this hour taste of last season.
Speaker 3: They started eight and three, finished nine to eight. But
Speaker 3: so will we to rewrite our narrative. I don't think
Speaker 3: this supplies much in Week one, but the Bills are
Speaker 3: four days away from this game. Do not get caught
Speaker 3: peeking ahead as far as the matchup goes. Nobody in
Speaker 3: the AFC has more to prove after how last season
Speaker 3: ended than the Jacksonville Jaguars, and like us, injuries mounted
Speaker 3: on this team, including one to the quarterback that knocked
Speaker 3: him out of one and a half games and slowed
Speaker 3: him down really for the rest of the season. And
Speaker 3: that said, I think it's funny, how yet another one
Speaker 3: of these picture perfect quarterbacks with the arm strength and
Speaker 3: the elusive ability still hasn't had a single year of
Speaker 3: his career that has been better than the last two
Speaker 3: years of Tua Tunga Bai Looa.
Speaker 2: Isn't that funny?
Speaker 3: I expect this to be a much improved offense for Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: They struggled at times last year. But they also had
Speaker 3: some very narrow misses, like just go back the KC
Speaker 3: game when they had four plays that were caught in
Speaker 3: the end zone but just went either out the back
Speaker 3: of the end zone by a few inches or maybe
Speaker 3: the ball wasn't secured going to the ground. Just a
Speaker 3: lot of slim margins they did not hit. They also
Speaker 3: continue to change their receiver room that has been a
Speaker 3: work in progress. They got rid as A Flowers, What
Speaker 3: a terrible contract that was, but they bring in Gabe Davis.
Speaker 3: To me, it's kind of one for one swap. They
Speaker 3: go get Devin DuVernay. They use their first round draft
Speaker 3: pick on Brian Thomas Junior, so they're trying to help
Speaker 3: to go along with Christian Kirk, Trevor Lawrence have all
Speaker 3: the weapons he needs while he's still on that rookie contract.
Speaker 3: Their offensive line looks pretty good, so finding a way
Speaker 3: to get pressure on Trevor Lawrence and speed him up
Speaker 3: I think will be a key in terms of just
Speaker 3: getting him off the spot will be a challenge and
Speaker 3: a key in this game. But again, a team breaking
Speaker 3: in this many new parts and a new defensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: I think that benefits Miami, who has a lot more
Speaker 3: continuity aside from the fact we have our own New DC,
Speaker 3: but the team in general has a lot more continuity
Speaker 3: I think for Miami than the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dude, defensively,
Speaker 3: so much has changed there again, New DC a ton
Speaker 3: of personnel changes in the back end, but they're sort
Speaker 3: of banking on breakout seasons from guys that haven't done
Speaker 3: it yet, like Trayvon Walker. You know, Josh Allen the
Speaker 3: only other edge of the roster who's really proven. So
Speaker 3: for Miami, I think Miami does the best job of
Speaker 3: anybody in the NFL of limiting the best pass rushers
Speaker 3: in the NFL. But this team doesn't really have the bullets.
Speaker 3: But they did go out and get Eric Armstead, who
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite moves any team has made.
Speaker 3: And if you go back to Nielsen's time in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: he had Kaleis Campbell there. I think there's some similar
Speaker 3: play styles and visions with those two guys in terms
Speaker 3: of how they could line up. So between Allen and
Speaker 3: Eric Armstead, this defensive front has to be better because
Speaker 3: it was bad last year, and the secondary I don't
Speaker 3: see where it's gotten a.
Speaker 2: Whole lot better.
Speaker 3: It was atrocious last year, and I'm not sure I
Speaker 3: see a lot of reason for change. They had a
Speaker 3: very complex scheme They're going to bring in with what
Speaker 3: the kids would call mid talent, right, so we should
Speaker 3: be able to run the football, or rather I check that,
Speaker 3: run them out of the building with our vertical passing game.
Speaker 3: I mean Ronald Darby, Campbell Amario Rurier as the top
Speaker 3: three cornerbacks. I just don't see a lot of hope
Speaker 3: in terms of them being able to slow down Reek
Speaker 3: Waddle and Odell Beckham. My final predictions or thoughts on this.
Speaker 3: I'm happy with this opening game. I was hoping for
Speaker 3: a cupcake, but they're not that. But I think their
Speaker 3: new defense will take some time to get adjusted to
Speaker 3: some innovative stuff. They run and struggle to keep up
Speaker 3: with us for sixty minutes. A forty four burger to
Speaker 3: open the season forty four to twenty eight with a
Speaker 3: late score from Jacksville. That makes a look closer than
Speaker 3: it actually was. Like't your Week one matchup? Week two
Speaker 3: at home again the Buffalo Bills on Thursday Night Football,
Speaker 3: the eight to fifteen kickoff. They have one new coach
Speaker 3: in terms of coordinators, they promoted DC Bobby Babbitch was
Speaker 3: the linebackers coach last year. This will be his first
Speaker 3: time as an NFL DC, and they also have a
Speaker 3: first full year offensive coordinator in Joe Brady, who I've
Speaker 3: talked about his system on this podcast and how I
Speaker 3: didn't think it was beneficial to alan skill set whatsoever.
Speaker 3: So curious to see how that develops in your number
Speaker 3: two with them together. Look, it's going to be a hot,
Speaker 3: humid game, no sunshine though. I guess that call worked
Speaker 3: because the last two Dolphins Bills games in Miami have
Speaker 3: been at night, so I guess congratulations, you guys got
Speaker 3: Osha to get on your side. It's a short week
Speaker 3: for us for them on the road, I should say,
Speaker 3: first time we've gotten that against anybody since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: The Ravens on TNF. Home teams on TNF last year
Speaker 3: were eleven and four. I don't count the Week one
Speaker 3: game to Troit and Kansas City because that's not a
Speaker 3: short week for anybody. This is the second straight night
Speaker 3: game in the Miami Dolphins and Dolphins and Bills rivalry,
Speaker 3: and three of the last five have been night games.
Speaker 2: I just want to beat this damn team. Man.
Speaker 3: This was the case last year, and I believe it'll
Speaker 3: be the same thing this year. That if we just
Speaker 3: split with Buffalo, I think we'll win the AFC East.
Speaker 3: But that's not been an easy task. Tons of change
Speaker 3: for Buffalo. They had every offensive lineman last year play
Speaker 3: every snap. I mean, how that's not gonna happen again?
Speaker 3: All five guys over one thousand snaps, the same offensive
Speaker 3: line combination started every single game for them. Well, Mitch
Speaker 3: Morris has gone and the new centers on the roster
Speaker 3: are Will Clapp, who has been on every team in
Speaker 3: the league pretty much in a fifth round draft pick,
Speaker 3: and Cedric van Pan's Van Pran Granger guy that actually
Speaker 3: liked a lot, but he's a rookie. Rookie fifth round
Speaker 3: draft pick. And their right tackle options aren't that great,
Speaker 3: either Spencer Brown or Lyo Collins. I mean, Spencer Brown's
Speaker 3: gonna be the guy, but it's not that's not great.
Speaker 3: Osiris Torrance wasn't good last year. He played every snap,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't good. And then Connor McGovern at left
Speaker 3: guard is a good player, but behind that it is
Speaker 3: absolutely barren. So we'll see what the attrition looks like
Speaker 3: in week two for them. I tend to think that
Speaker 3: maybe by week eight when we play him again, it'll
Speaker 3: be more so. But unless you get the exact same
Speaker 3: luck two years in a row, you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: deal with some of your own Liam and Lester combinations
Speaker 3: as it were. And the receiver position looks way different
Speaker 3: without Stefan Diggs and enter Keyon Coleman, Marquez Valdez, Scantling,
Speaker 3: mac Hollins, and Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 2: The ladder of.
Speaker 3: This group is the only guy that can actually get open.
Speaker 3: And Curtis Samuel and a lot of his routes in
Speaker 3: the NFL have been kind of manufactured, and he has
Speaker 3: way more medical concerns than the guy that everyone's up
Speaker 3: in arms about the Dolphins signing and Odell Beckham because
Speaker 3: of his injury history. Oh and they also run in
Speaker 3: RPO based rhythm offense under Joe Brady, and that's not
Speaker 3: Josh Allen's game. So that's evident by days where they
Speaker 3: had two hundred and nine passing yards eighty five, one
Speaker 3: point fifty four, one eighty nine and one eighty six.
Speaker 3: Just saying when two of throws for those kind of numbers,
Speaker 3: he gets absolutely torn apart, but Josh Allen has done
Speaker 3: it several times, even just last year, they would go
Speaker 3: entire halfs where they didn't move the football on offense.
Speaker 3: I think it's only gonna get worse this year because
Speaker 3: I don't believe in the system, and I don't believe
Speaker 3: the receiving corps is good at all, and I don't
Speaker 3: believe they're gonna have the same luck at the offensive
Speaker 3: line health that they had last year as well. So
Speaker 3: those are my thoughts there. I think, you know, we
Speaker 3: had a good plan in the Week eighteen game, just
Speaker 3: didn't really have the bullets to get Josh Allen to
Speaker 3: the ground because all the injuries. And I think this
Speaker 3: new system and approach of adding rushers and speed on
Speaker 3: defense can really help us flag this dude down because
Speaker 3: Josh Allen's like the one thing, not even the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 3: just Josh Allen's the guy who pretty much has stood
Speaker 3: between you and playoff success and home playoff games the
Speaker 3: last couple of years. So if you can cut down
Speaker 3: his off script work, and if you can do that,
Speaker 3: he goes one of the top three players in the
Speaker 3: position to like middle of the Pack to me like
Speaker 3: not an easy task at all. He's great, but if
Speaker 3: you can do that, you can get him playing like
Speaker 3: a middle old Pack quarterback. Defensively, they get some guys back,
Speaker 3: most notably Matt Milano de Kwon Jones, but tons of
Speaker 3: chances change here again for them. The safety tandem that
Speaker 3: kind of made that defense go is gone, and one
Speaker 3: of those guys here in Jordan Poyer.
Speaker 2: No more Micah Hyde.
Speaker 3: It's rookie Cole Bishop and Taylor Rapp who I mean,
Speaker 3: like just a guy you know. That's the starting safeties
Speaker 3: as of the recording of this podcast. All be curious
Speaker 3: how they can rotate wheel out and change the picture
Speaker 3: on TUA with the change they make in their coverages,
Speaker 3: because that was what made them so special before Trey
Speaker 3: White is gone. They do have Russell Douglas and Christian
Speaker 3: Benford and Terror Johnson still in tack. And we have
Speaker 3: to score on this defense because you cannot expect to
Speaker 3: just hold Josh Allen for sixty minutes like we tried
Speaker 3: to do in the game last year. So when I
Speaker 3: look at our success the game at Buffalo in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, the game here last year, we had a
Speaker 3: good commitment to the running game, but eventually got away
Speaker 3: from it. That nickel heavy defense sort of invites that
Speaker 3: style of play, and with the inexperience at safety, maybe
Speaker 3: you can lure them up and sneak a vertical by
Speaker 3: them when they least expect it. If you start two
Speaker 3: to zero against the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get lots and lots of attention. My final thoughts
Speaker 3: earlier prediction here, I hope we have our edges for
Speaker 3: this game early Bradley Chubb and JP. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: JP's gonna be out there. Beachub I think so too,
Speaker 3: but we'll find out them on a short week on
Speaker 3: the road in this weather, tough ask for them, root
Speaker 3: for them to play a tight game in Week one,
Speaker 3: preferably into overtime, and then of course them being a
Speaker 3: thorn in our side. I think we finally get them.
Speaker 3: But I'm fired up for this game because of all
Speaker 3: those reasons. I think it's a thriller. I think it
Speaker 3: gives the NFL a very good Week two TNF game.
Speaker 3: I think it's the first of a lot of monkey
Speaker 3: off the back moments for US twenty six twenty four
Speaker 3: as Jason Sanders walks us off into the night. Week three,
Speaker 3: our first road.
Speaker 2: Game and a trip back home for Travis.
Speaker 3: Week three at the Seattle Seahawks, a four h five
Speaker 3: kickoff in the beautiful Pacific Northwest new head coach new
Speaker 3: OC New DC with Mike McDonald, Ryan Grubb who came
Speaker 3: from you, Dub Grub Dub, and Aiden Durdey is the
Speaker 3: defensive quarter of there. This is the perfect time to
Speaker 3: play in Seattle. Well, week one really is, but September
Speaker 3: if you can get it there, it's choice.
Speaker 2: It could rain.
Speaker 3: It rains a lot there, but it's going to be
Speaker 3: scattered showers here and there if anything else most likely.
Speaker 3: So interesting notes of this timing. There's extra time off
Speaker 3: to travel out west, which is super nice. If you
Speaker 3: can wake up Friday morning two and zero and knowing
Speaker 3: that you have a full week before you have to
Speaker 3: actually even leave to go to Seattle, that would be
Speaker 3: pretty sweet. I was hoping for the double dip back
Speaker 3: to back and having a whole week in Seattle, but
Speaker 3: I digress. Going back over the last few years of
Speaker 3: this matchup, or looking at this matchup going back over
Speaker 3: the last few years, the defensive systems that have given
Speaker 3: the Shanahan Tree McDaniel as well, those offenses the most
Speaker 3: problems with the variations of the Ravens defense and their offshoots.
Speaker 2: Those are the groups that have done that.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to catch them early because there's always a
Speaker 3: feeling out period for these new coaches and new schemes.
Speaker 3: But I do think that McDonald will get that defense
Speaker 3: humming by the time the year is up.
Speaker 2: Who knows when that happens, but Week three probably not.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 3: He has the guys up front that Baltimore had, you know,
Speaker 3: Jiron Reed, Jonathan Hankins, Draymont Jones, Leo Williams, and now
Speaker 3: Byron Murphy. That's a tough ask for the Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 3: But Devon Witherspoon in the back end, he's the style
Speaker 3: we thought he was. But the rest is not great.
Speaker 3: Rieke Wollen had a down year after a great rookie season.
Speaker 3: But they'll have, you know, competition for the nickel as well.
Speaker 3: And a big reason I love having Odell Beckham is here.
Speaker 3: We are going into a game against a team that
Speaker 3: doesn't really have certainty with their dB depth. Can you
Speaker 3: match up with Odell Beckham. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: or Tyreek Hill when he goes inside. Definitely not that.
Speaker 3: I'm also curious what kind of offense Ryan Grubb wants
Speaker 3: to bring and how that meshes with their personnel, because remember,
Speaker 3: this is a team that had been built the same
Speaker 3: way for really over a decade, with ball control, run
Speaker 3: the football, every drive, the engine. A kicker is a
Speaker 3: good drive, right the nineteen ninety eight mentality. But Grub
Speaker 3: came from the most electrifying offense in all of college football.
Speaker 3: So will those ideas mesh and how long does it
Speaker 3: take for those to click?
Speaker 2: This is his first.
Speaker 3: NFL job, and man, he has the bullets on the
Speaker 3: outside with DK Lockett and Smith and Jigba. Does he
Speaker 3: have the quarterback? Does he have the offensive line to
Speaker 3: make that happen? I'm curious to see what it looks like.
Speaker 3: My early predictions for this one. I just love the
Speaker 3: timing of this game. I'm gonna go and the weather's
Speaker 3: gonna be great in September, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: have more than two games to get their stuff buttoned
Speaker 3: up for the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: I think it's a perfect spot for Miami.
Speaker 3: Tough place to play, but the roster disparity to me
Speaker 3: is vast thirty three seventeen win for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 3: and that takes us into Week four and our second
Speaker 3: primetime game already on the schedule as a Monday night
Speaker 3: football doubleheader seven point thirty kickoff against the Titans, new
Speaker 3: head coach, new OC new DC. It's Brian Callahan, Nick Holtz,
Speaker 3: and Denner Wilson, all first times in those roles. You
Speaker 3: know it's going to be a tough I think early
Speaker 3: part of the year for the Titans, and the climate wise,
Speaker 3: look they it's to me it's a tough acclimation for
Speaker 3: them because Tennessee summers and much earlier than Miami summers do.
Speaker 3: But it is a night game, so you don't have
Speaker 3: the sunshine boiling those guys over there on the opposite sideline.
Speaker 3: Second straight week of extra prep in terms of a
Speaker 3: longer week for the Dolphins though, they get it too
Speaker 3: in this game, and it's a double header for Monday
Speaker 3: night football, which means early start and I selfishly I
Speaker 3: love that because it means forty five minutes more of sleep.
Speaker 3: I get to have a late or early Friday morning.
Speaker 3: I should say they were a good mismatch with the
Speaker 3: Dolphins last year, but that's all changed, So that's kind
Speaker 3: of where I start with this matchup. And with coaching
Speaker 3: changes comes personnel changes. Right, they're doing the classic second
Speaker 3: year quarterback build it up around him. They added Tyler
Speaker 3: Boyd and Calvin Ridley to DeAndre Hopkins. But that's a
Speaker 3: slew of injury prone, slowed veterans who are not what
Speaker 3: they used to be when they were stars. And frankly,
Speaker 3: they don't worry me, especially with will Lewis behind center
Speaker 3: at that position. So if it was twenty fifteen, would
Speaker 3: I be afraid of this roster or this receiving core. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but not in twenty twenty four. They went from Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry to Tony Pollard with it's a completely different type
Speaker 3: of back and we'll pivot to more. I imagine eleven
Speaker 3: personnel offenses or personnel groupings with those veteran receivers, different
Speaker 3: from their historical twelve personnel attack that had two tight
Speaker 3: ends on the field. So it's not really the same
Speaker 3: ground and pound, like wear your face off type of
Speaker 3: Titans team under Mike Rabel. I love their first round
Speaker 3: draft pick in JC Latham. Think they nailed that one.
Speaker 3: They took Pete Skeronsky last year and he struggled, So
Speaker 3: they think they have their tackles, but I don't think
Speaker 3: those guys.
Speaker 2: I don't think Scaronski can.
Speaker 3: Block Phillips or Chubb or Shack or even Chop. And
Speaker 3: then on defense, Jeffrey Simmons is kind of the last
Speaker 3: one remaining from a really good defensive line, so that's
Speaker 3: kind of changed as well. And they added to and
Speaker 3: Andre Sweat, but yeah, good luck with him, you know,
Speaker 3: chasing guys down here in the Miami heat. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's gonna be a good a good look for him.
Speaker 3: Lots of turnover, not just there, but the entire defense.
Speaker 3: I know it's not the same, but the way that
Speaker 3: the Dolphins responded against the Chargers last year after a
Speaker 3: bad game in twenty twenty two, I don't think that's
Speaker 3: a one off for this staff and team. So I
Speaker 3: expect Miami to have a great plan and to kind
Speaker 3: of take it personally a little bit here with the Titans.
Speaker 3: So my thoughts are they're gonna go ahead and eviscerate
Speaker 3: this team and get it back to what it should
Speaker 3: have been last year. Their whole secondary is slow and
Speaker 3: playing in September weather going through cramping. I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be what Week fourteen should have been last year,
Speaker 3: forty nine to twenty as the Dolphins improved to four
Speaker 3: to ozho and everyone is drinking the Miami kool aid
Speaker 3: as they head on a short week to New England
Speaker 3: for a one o'clock kickoff in week number five. And
Speaker 3: they too have a new head coach, a new OC
Speaker 3: and a new DC, all first times in these roles
Speaker 3: for Gerrod Mayo, Alex Van Pelt, and DeMarcus Covington. And
Speaker 3: this is a good time to go there for this
Speaker 3: as far as weather's concerned, right, You avoid a late
Speaker 3: season cold game. You get it when it's beautiful in October.
Speaker 3: Up there interesting notes here? Will it be Brissette still,
Speaker 3: will it be Drake may I don't care either way.
Speaker 3: It's still a win to me. This is usually when
Speaker 3: teams do turn to their rookie quarterback after they start
Speaker 3: one to three, which is probably where Patriots will be
Speaker 3: right here. It's our fifth straight game against the team
Speaker 3: with a new defensive coordinator or system, right which good
Speaker 3: luck for teams trying to get acclimated to the NFL
Speaker 3: with their new systems against the third year of Mike
Speaker 3: McDaniel and too a DOUN buy log like good luck,
Speaker 3: good luck and against short week road game here, but
Speaker 3: the matchup a lot has changed for the Patriots. Every
Speaker 3: preview I did for the last few years centered around
Speaker 3: the idea of their ability to shorten the game and
Speaker 3: keep the game close and maximize the importance of your
Speaker 3: possessions typically eight to nine per game opposed to the
Speaker 3: league average of ten to twelve per game. Maybe it'll
Speaker 3: be the same way with an ex Belichick player there
Speaker 3: in the big chair of Gerard Mayo, but he has
Speaker 3: been steadfast about doing things his way, his own way,
Speaker 3: so I tend to think that times are a changing
Speaker 3: big time there in New England. And on the offensive side,
Speaker 3: Alex Van Pelt comes from the Cleveland Kevin Stefanski tree
Speaker 3: of coaches, and with his arrival came more complexity in
Speaker 3: the running game, adding more wrinkles to a zone heavy scheme,
Speaker 3: which could be a challenge for a new Dolphins front,
Speaker 3: but it also could work the other way. And I
Speaker 3: have to imagine Mayo has some influence from the Belichick system,
Speaker 3: And I never really thought anybody was better at figuring
Speaker 3: out how to limit our explosive plays, but that always.
Speaker 2: Invited the running game. Of course.
Speaker 3: Two hundred and twenty three yards on the ground against
Speaker 3: them in two games last year. I think their strength
Speaker 3: still exists in the trenches. There's minimal experience, though I
Speaker 3: think that they added some much needed talent at the
Speaker 3: skill spots. Kyle Dugger is the player on defense to
Speaker 3: watch for me his ability to generate splash plays. It's
Speaker 3: sort of how they've stayed in games last couple of years,
Speaker 3: whether it's against us or otherwise when the offense was awful.
Speaker 3: You know, Matt Judong, Christian Barmore, the top pass rush threats.
Speaker 3: We've done a good job of getting on top of
Speaker 3: them quickly in games, and it's been tough for them
Speaker 3: to come back. With Max Jones at the helm, I
Speaker 3: think it comes down to can they keep up with
Speaker 3: the Miami offense, And the answer to that is still
Speaker 3: a strong no, because their best receivers or rookies and
Speaker 3: their quarterback is who knows what they have. Their offensive
Speaker 3: lines not great, running games not great. It's a bad offense.
Speaker 3: So final prediction here, this is my pick for a
Speaker 3: game that we struggle in one of the early ones,
Speaker 3: but not enough to lose. With the buy coming up
Speaker 3: in a four and oh mark, maybe we can look
Speaker 3: ahead a little bit in a short week on a
Speaker 3: team that will be favored of ten plus points against.
Speaker 3: I'll go Dolphins twenty two to sixteen in an ugly
Speaker 3: win to go to the buy at five and zero.
Speaker 3: We'll go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 3: on the podcast as well, and come back on the
Speaker 3: other side and talk about weeks seven through.
Speaker 2: We'll see. I don't know how far I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: But that's all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. Picking it back up
Speaker 3: here on the Wednesday schedule release twenty twenty four edition
Speaker 3: of the Draft Time Podcast. Week number seven, the Dolphins
Speaker 3: travel to Indianapolis for a one o'clock kickoff against the Colts.
Speaker 3: No coaching changes here, and the game will be played indoors.
Speaker 3: And that's one you would have loved to have seen
Speaker 3: late in the year because we don't want to see
Speaker 3: bad weather, right. We kind of have our feelings about
Speaker 3: how that looks for our timing offense, and I'd just
Speaker 3: prefer to not do the cold weather thing as much
Speaker 3: as we don't have to road games though sandwiched around
Speaker 3: a bye week is nice. Kind of helps to travel
Speaker 3: there a little bit, and again another indoor game that
Speaker 3: could have been later. Matchup wise, I'm probably gonna pick
Speaker 3: Indy to win their division this year. I love how
Speaker 3: they've built things up there. I love Anthony Richardson. I
Speaker 3: think Shane Steichen is a wizard. I like Gus Bradley enough.
Speaker 3: Now does he stay in his classic cover three that
Speaker 3: he's always ran, Because while yes, that will keep the
Speaker 3: roof on the defense for the most part, we've also
Speaker 3: seen Miami pound those deep comebacks against that look and
Speaker 3: then pair that with the deep over routes that can
Speaker 3: turn into huge catch and runs. Think about Waddle against
Speaker 3: the Packers in twenty twenty two against that Cover three look.
Speaker 3: They have one of the best slots in football on
Speaker 3: Kenny Moore. So they're one of the few teams here
Speaker 3: on our entire schedule that I think have the ability
Speaker 3: to match up on us. Though, to be honest, I'm
Speaker 3: still taking Miami receivers over anybody else in the league.
Speaker 3: Juju Brents is one of the starters there, and I
Speaker 3: think the cover three with some press and trying to
Speaker 3: disrupt could be an interesting dynamic for how they have
Speaker 3: their skill sets out there. But the other perimeter cornerback
Speaker 3: is not really a known quantity, so this exercise of
Speaker 3: preview in these games serves as a reminder of just
Speaker 3: how dang tough we are to defend.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I really really like their front with the Forrest Buckner,
Speaker 3: Grover Stewart and then adding Latu a lot too. I
Speaker 3: thought was the best edge in the entire class, and
Speaker 3: a group of young and hungry edges we who haven't
Speaker 3: quite taken off yet in Quitty Pay and Odingabo. I
Speaker 3: don't I said that wrong, so I apologize, but they're
Speaker 3: looking to get going.
Speaker 2: Still.
Speaker 3: Look us indoors against a scheme that I think favors
Speaker 3: our skill set and an unproven group of corners and edges.
Speaker 2: That's a tough draw for the home team.
Speaker 3: And offensively, I think Indy's gonna take off between Richardson
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor. In the backfield, I think that they have
Speaker 3: enough at wide receiver with some recent heavy investments. The
Speaker 3: line still has some stalwarts and Quentin Nelson, Ryan Kelly
Speaker 3: and Braden Smith. But then the recent additions of Bernard
Speaker 3: Raymond and Bryce Freeland haven't really worked out for them,
Speaker 3: so we'll have to be good on the interior. But
Speaker 3: I think that both of those tackles, like I don't know,
Speaker 3: I think they can run the ball and it's maybe
Speaker 3: a little bit, but the nice thing about our offense
Speaker 3: is they're gonna have to you know, if they get
Speaker 3: behind the scoreboard, they're gonna have to try to attack
Speaker 3: us with two tackles that I don't think can hold
Speaker 3: up against JP and Chop and probably Chubb back and
Speaker 3: Shaq Barrett like good luck there. So my final predictions
Speaker 3: and thoughts here, I think we're that team this year, guys.
Speaker 3: I think we're the team that.
Speaker 2: Takes the undefeated.
Speaker 3: Were the last unbeaten team in the National Football Like,
Speaker 3: I think this game does stay close and competiti maybe
Speaker 3: even gives you some nerves going into the third quarter,
Speaker 3: but then we take it over offensively in that quarter.
Speaker 3: It takes them out of the game offensively into the
Speaker 3: fourth and we start to get some sacks and picks
Speaker 3: and take this one away thirty seven to twenty four
Speaker 3: to get to six and oh for a Week eight
Speaker 3: matchup against the Arizona Cardinals for one o'clock in Miami.
Speaker 3: No coaching changes second year with each the head coach,
Speaker 3: OC and DC. They have their desert dry heats, they
Speaker 3: come out here for the moisture field humidity of South Florida.
Speaker 3: An early start for a West Coast team or close
Speaker 3: enough to the West Coast. They I think they'll have
Speaker 3: probably a good version of continuity in terms of being
Speaker 3: midway through their second year together. So hads to benefit
Speaker 3: for the Cardinals here and not playing US earlier, and
Speaker 3: of course that leads to more time and reps for
Speaker 3: Kyler post knee injury and surgery. And it's our third
Speaker 3: straight game at one o'clock of four consecutive after a
Speaker 3: week two through four stretch of all different kickoff times.
Speaker 3: The matchup here, I think Marvin Harrison Junior and Kyler
Speaker 3: are going to become a top tier connection immediately, and
Speaker 3: they better be because the rest of the offense ain't
Speaker 3: looking so good, although I do think that Greg Derch
Speaker 3: and Michael Wilson are good like role pieces for them.
Speaker 3: And then say Jones was the addition with you know,
Speaker 3: whatever I can take or leave that with James Connor
Speaker 3: coming off another good year and then adding Tray Benson
Speaker 3: his explosiveness of the offense. The Benson and Murray backfield
Speaker 3: could be fun to watch. They've got weapons there, at
Speaker 3: least I guess kind of right, They kind of have some,
Speaker 3: but they'll They've been adding parts of the offensive line
Speaker 3: for a while and that hasn't really worked out for them.
Speaker 3: They got Jonah Williams, who wasn't good in Cincinnati. He
Speaker 3: joins Paris Johnson who hasn't been good for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Kelvin Beacham's old and then Dennis Daly was a kind
Speaker 3: of a swing tackle. They've all played a lot, so
Speaker 3: they have depth there, I guess, but they're awful on
Speaker 3: the interior. I think Kyler's going to be doing a
Speaker 3: lot of running the season, whether it's by design or not.
Speaker 3: Sometimes with teams like this, it's can you stop the
Speaker 3: quarterback from making superhero plays? And besides Mahomes, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure that anybody in the NFL is better at it
Speaker 3: than Kyler Murray. The defense slasher though, was a problem
Speaker 3: for them, and it did not get any better. I mean,
Speaker 3: they don't really have a proven player up front. The
Speaker 3: lot of cast offs, their linebacker Corps, even with an
Speaker 3: insane level of investment Isaiah Simmons and Zavan Collins hasn't
Speaker 3: been good.
Speaker 2: They have good safeties.
Speaker 3: I love Buddha Baker from UDUB and Jill and Thompson
Speaker 3: from WSU go Koog's, and I like Sean Murphy Bunting
Speaker 3: in that acquisition.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, it is barren. And if you
Speaker 2: go ahead, I'm gonna point to Pete. Guys, say it
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 3: If you're thin in the defensive backfield, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: a bad time against Miami. It's a young building defense
Speaker 3: with two good safeties and not a whole heck of
Speaker 3: a lot else. The final predictions here not enough on defense,
Speaker 3: like not even close enough. Good guys, take this one
Speaker 3: at home forty two to twenty four, and we go
Speaker 3: to Buffalo seven to zero. Travis is a homer, I know,
Speaker 3: tell me about it. I know. One o'clock kickoff week
Speaker 3: number nine to face a team we just talked about.
Speaker 3: We did Bubby Babbage, the whole thing. The weather, the
Speaker 3: weather for this game. You never know, but this probably
Speaker 3: is about as good of a stretch to get Buffalo
Speaker 3: week nine before it gets too bad. In early November.
Speaker 3: We are done with the Bills by November three until
Speaker 3: January at least, we're actually we're done with them on
Speaker 3: Halloween in twenty twenty one, best their earliest time we've
Speaker 3: been done with the Bills in the schedule with two
Speaker 3: games since twenty fifteen. It's our fourth straight one o'clock
Speaker 3: kickoff game. We covered the matchup. My prediction here, I
Speaker 3: cannot pick a win in Buffalo until that happens. My
Speaker 3: first l of the season shows up here as a
Speaker 3: Dolphins fault the seven and one with a thirty four
Speaker 3: to twenty seven loss in Buffalo to the Jills. Week
Speaker 3: ten at the Rams for Monday Night Football eight to
Speaker 3: fifteen kickoff. They have a new defensive corner there and
Speaker 3: Chris Shulo who replaces Raheem Morris. Almost Sid Mostert. It's
Speaker 3: the first time NFL DC for him. The game is
Speaker 3: indoors and mid November.
Speaker 2: Not bad at all.
Speaker 3: I would like it maybe a little bit later than that,
Speaker 3: but I digress. You don't get it back to back
Speaker 3: West Coast wing, which is kind of strange to me.
Speaker 3: It creates a short week with a late travel. I
Speaker 3: have of a one pm kickoff in week eleven. Don't
Speaker 3: love that, And you're not leaving LA until two or
Speaker 3: three o'clock in the morning at best, after you get
Speaker 3: everything packed up and on the bus on the plane,
Speaker 3: and then it's a five hour flight, so you're already
Speaker 3: into Tuesday when you get home at like eight am.
Speaker 3: And teams want to have their game plans done by
Speaker 3: Tuesday night for a Wednesday start to the week of practice,
Speaker 3: so it's gonna be a long day for McDaniel and
Speaker 3: Frank Smith on Tuesday. However, always nice to get the
Speaker 3: extra day of prep going into this game heading out West,
Speaker 3: opposed to it being a Sunday kickoff, So I think
Speaker 3: that's a benefit for the Dolphins the matchup. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna find many teams I have more respect for and
Speaker 3: how they operate than the Los Angeles Rams. They adapt,
Speaker 3: they show conviction, and they are swift in their decisions.
Speaker 3: Remember this is a team that cratered at five wins
Speaker 3: coming off of a Super Bowl win. Injuries to your
Speaker 3: quarterback and other stars will do that. And they come
Speaker 3: into last year with this ding Dong pick and I
Speaker 3: think it was four wins for them. They have a
Speaker 3: billion rookies, a ton of undrafted rookies, and the defensive
Speaker 3: depth chart was full of guys you had never heard
Speaker 3: of like them, and the Cardinals were so bad on
Speaker 3: paper defensively, but the Rams played well good enough, I
Speaker 3: should say, on that side of the ball. And then Stafford,
Speaker 3: he stays healthy. And it turns out that less sneed
Speaker 3: and Sean McVay with picks, not fing them picks, know
Speaker 3: how to do it. They turned their draft haul into
Speaker 3: Kobe Turner, Steve Avila, Byron Young and this guy named
Speaker 3: Pooka and Nakua and you add him to Cooper Cup
Speaker 3: and the emergence of two to two at well with
Speaker 3: Tyler Higbee and Kyron Williams. It's a loaded offense man
Speaker 3: and an emphasis on a man gap scheme with Steve
Speaker 3: Avila being a guy that I just knew was gonna
Speaker 3: be a stud from TCU and boom, they're back offensively
Speaker 3: and they're good enough on defense. I think this is
Speaker 3: gonna be one of the biggest tests on defense because
Speaker 3: of their ability to be multiple on the offensive or
Speaker 3: to be multiple an offensive line that can really grind
Speaker 3: you down. They focused on getting that offensive line big
Speaker 3: and beefy and one of the best quarterbacks and play
Speaker 3: callers in all the NFL. That's a lot even for
Speaker 3: a good defense. Now, can we score with them? My
Speaker 3: answer to that is always yes against any defense with
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins, but I love their vision to pair
Speaker 3: verse with Fisk, even though I didn't love Fisk game.
Speaker 3: I think the idea of sharing their chemistry and getting
Speaker 3: that built from day one is a good idea. Ernest
Speaker 3: Jacks Ernest Jones I put Jackson has developed into a
Speaker 3: gem of an off ball linebacker. And they went hard
Speaker 3: after DB's bringing back Darius Williams, getting Cameron Curle and
Speaker 3: Cameron Kitchens to Cameron's and Tredevius White on the defensive backfield.
Speaker 3: This might be my NFC pick for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: And man, they just have great pieces at so many
Speaker 3: key parts. What a great primetime matchup this is for
Speaker 3: the NFL. My thoughts and predictions here. Do you think
Speaker 3: Dolphins fans are capable of calling for the falling sky
Speaker 3: for seven and two if it's after a seven and
Speaker 3: it'll start, You bet they are. I'm going back to
Speaker 3: back road losses as the Rams outscore US thirty three
Speaker 3: to thirty one, as the Dolphins fall and this predictions
Speaker 3: schedule to seven and two, just in time to come
Speaker 3: back home for a layup, right, that's gonna come back
Speaker 3: to by me. Watch Week eleven versus Las Vegas Fraireers,
Speaker 3: one o'clock kickoff, new offensive corner of Luke Getzy. That's
Speaker 3: why I'm predicting the win already. Man, Luke Getsy. What
Speaker 3: did he do last year? He was the Chicago oh
Speaker 3: c Lesterers.
Speaker 2: What he was?
Speaker 3: It's the first full year of Antonio Pierce, and I
Speaker 3: didn't think that was a good decision either, but I digress.
Speaker 3: They come from a desert, dry heat like the Cardinals deu.
Speaker 3: So they'll come down here and get some good South
Speaker 3: Florida moisturizing for their skim. A mountain time zone team
Speaker 3: coming east for an early cook and of early early cook,
Speaker 3: early kickoff, and of course the aforementioned short week for
Speaker 3: your Miami Dolphins, who had a better off season then
Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew go Koog's most had a quarterback peg to
Speaker 3: the Raiders in either freegency or the draft, and they
Speaker 3: didn't do that. So they'll go into camp with Gardner
Speaker 3: Minshew battling Aiden O'Connell. I guess Minshew was the free
Speaker 3: agent for that job, and I'd be surprised if it
Speaker 3: isn't the former koug because I don't think O'Connell can play.
Speaker 3: He Minshew has DeVante Adams, Jacoby Myers, Michael Gallop and
Speaker 3: Jillen Guiden. I'm a huge fan of that top four
Speaker 3: receivers you think you drop in and Brock Bauers. It
Speaker 3: kind of feels like they're taking the build the entire roster,
Speaker 3: drop the quarterback in later approach here and we'll see
Speaker 3: how that works out for him. But they've struggled drafting
Speaker 3: on the offensive line recently, most notably Alex Leatherwood, who's
Speaker 3: out of the NFL after being picked just three years ago.
Speaker 3: And it's created a competition of the tackle spot opposite
Speaker 3: Colt Miller, and they're gonna get, you know, JP, Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 3: all these guys to come after that tackle spot that
Speaker 3: doesn't have a guy right now. They do get Jackson
Speaker 3: Powers Johnson in the draft, and they add Address Pize
Speaker 3: to the offensive line. I think has some help there,
Speaker 3: but the depth is a concern on the line, and
Speaker 3: by Week eleven, who knows what you have there. But
Speaker 3: I think they can score some points but will they
Speaker 3: be able to get stop? I mean it starts with
Speaker 3: Max Crosby, right, But Miami does such a good job
Speaker 3: on the best edge rushers in football because that's how
Speaker 3: the system is designed. It takes away really good pass
Speaker 3: rushers by and large. Christian Wilkins is there now too,
Speaker 3: so he figures to get his one on one chances
Speaker 3: because of Max Crosby. It's a good test for the
Speaker 3: offensive line against those two. And man, if they get
Speaker 3: Tyree Wilson playing like the number four pick in the draft,
Speaker 3: then they'll really have something there. Last year they really
Speaker 3: struggle on the back end, and just based on the changes, well,
Speaker 3: there weren't really a lot of them, so I don't
Speaker 3: trust there will be a lot of changes in the results.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of speed. There's like no off
Speaker 3: ball linebackers outside of Splane, who's okay.
Speaker 2: He's okay, but I think that.
Speaker 3: He's very this he's you know, he's a guy that
Speaker 3: you can exploit as far as his skill set. But
Speaker 3: then the defensive back depth is atrocious, which in Miami
Speaker 3: is never a good thing. My final thoughts and predictions here.
Speaker 3: I thought last year's game was shockingly bad for Miami
Speaker 3: and should not have been that close to seven point
Speaker 3: win for the Dolphins. They make it right here. Thirty
Speaker 3: eight twenty a big win to get back on track
Speaker 3: after two straight losses. Week twelve versus the Patriots a
Speaker 3: one o'clock kickoff. In this one, we talked about the
Speaker 3: new coaching staff, Mayo Van Pelton Covington.
Speaker 2: The weather is.
Speaker 3: Decent, not too hot this time of year for the
Speaker 3: Dolphins in South Florida, so that I guess the Patriots
Speaker 3: will have to come from cold weather to that, which
Speaker 3: is a tough adjustment. Always tough to have two games
Speaker 3: in five days. So keeping your focus here is the
Speaker 3: key to me because getting the Thursday night game against
Speaker 3: the Packers after this this is a more important game
Speaker 3: than that. I know primetime against the Packers is everyone's
Speaker 3: going to be all about that game. But you have
Speaker 3: to beat the teams in your division first, and NFC
Speaker 3: games are the least important. So go get this win.
Speaker 3: I think if you want to win the division, getting
Speaker 3: five wins get you there, and sweeping the Patriots is
Speaker 3: a must to do that. We cover this matchup in
Speaker 3: the league five games, so that's where I'm going with
Speaker 3: this one. But As far as my prediction, I think
Speaker 3: Dolphins role of the Patriots are not good enough to
Speaker 3: score with Miami, So I'll go thirty one to seventeen
Speaker 3: the Dolphins win, just like the score down here last
Speaker 3: year in that game. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 3: last break right there. Come back on the other side.
Speaker 3: Get to the rest of the schedule, and I'll also
Speaker 3: go ahead and tell you what I love the most.
Speaker 3: Schedule About the schedule, all of that and more on
Speaker 3: the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 3: you by Auto Nation. We've covered eleven games and twelve
Speaker 3: weeks so far on the twenty twenty four schedule release
Speaker 3: edition of the Draft Time Podcast. We pick it back
Speaker 3: up here in week thirteen at the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 3: for Thanksgiving nine, an eight to twenty kickoff. They have
Speaker 3: a new DC there and Jeff Hafley, and in fact,
Speaker 3: their DC is here in coaching our linebackers, and Joe Berry,
Speaker 3: he's a first time NFL DC. Could be poor winter conditions,
Speaker 3: we'll find out when we get there. Short week road
Speaker 3: game that is tough. But I'm also glad that our
Speaker 3: short week road games are against NFC teams because the
Speaker 3: games that cost you the least when you lose them.
Speaker 3: Our NFC games, you don't want to lose games. But
Speaker 3: that's something to think about. I just put weather on
Speaker 3: here for some reason which we already covered that. Not
Speaker 3: sure why I did that. The Packers have traditionally been
Speaker 3: a road Thanksgiving Day team at the Lions usually, but
Speaker 3: now they get to host their first Thanksgiving games since
Speaker 3: probably back in the forties or something stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But you know that place is going to be just rocking.
Speaker 3: So this is our first two of versus Love game.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge Jordan Love fan, as a lot of
Speaker 3: you probably know, and I love how they've built the
Speaker 3: offense around him with young, dynamic receivers who have grown
Speaker 3: up with Jordan Love. And it's funny how they weren't
Speaker 3: good until a certain guy left, right, I'm just saying now,
Speaker 3: I do think people exhibit a lot of recency buys,
Speaker 3: both with Miami and Green Bay. And forget that there
Speaker 3: were stretches of games last year where the offense could
Speaker 3: not do a single thing, like so bad that people
Speaker 3: were like, Jordan Love can't play, and now here we
Speaker 3: are and he's the next great thing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It's just funny how quickly opinions change in this league.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the move to swap off the backs
Speaker 3: to go from Aaron Jones to Brandon Jacobs. I didn't
Speaker 3: get that, and I think Jordan Morgan was a massive
Speaker 3: reach in the first round. Who I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: that's the answer there, So we'll see what happens, but
Speaker 3: I think there's been some questionable moves. You wonder where
Speaker 3: this offense falls in twenty twenty four though, because the
Speaker 3: red hot group down the stretch or the struggling first
Speaker 3: half outfit, probably somewhere in between, although I do think
Speaker 3: that Matt Lafleur really knows what he's doing and has
Speaker 3: a good job another good of getting the most out
Speaker 3: of his pieces. They've had to go deep into their
Speaker 3: offensive line depth, and I'm not sure that's the team
Speaker 3: strength as of today, but we'll see what that looks
Speaker 3: like in August. Defensively, I just think they've done a
Speaker 3: fantastic job here. Lucas van Ness, where Sean, Gary Preston Smith,
Speaker 3: Kenny Clark, and they're just loaded in the pass rush group.
Speaker 3: Then they've got some young promising backers along with the
Speaker 3: secondary that at Xavier McKinney is one of the biggest
Speaker 3: moves of the offseason. But they have to get more
Speaker 3: out of Jyre Alexander and Eric Stokes, two high picks
Speaker 3: who had good starts to their careers but have been
Speaker 3: up and down since then. We've talked about areas team
Speaker 3: to me lack some depth. Then everybody has a couple
Speaker 3: of spots that they're not deep in, right, That's how
Speaker 3: it goes. But man, so many teams on the Dolphins schedule,
Speaker 3: it's the DB's and then obviously I'm curious how quickly
Speaker 3: a first time NFL DC gets his scheme to so
Speaker 3: into place, because if it's not against Miami, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be an issue. Short week road game against a tough offense.
Speaker 3: I need us to perform in this environment before I
Speaker 3: confidently say win. So I'm gonna give us our third
Speaker 3: loss of the year here twenty six to twenty as
Speaker 3: the Dolphins fall to ten three on the season. No.
Speaker 2: Nine and three, nine and three right there.
Speaker 3: That takes us to Week fourteen, a home game with
Speaker 3: extra rest against the New York Jets.
Speaker 2: One o'clock kickoff.
Speaker 3: The weather gonna be nice here, most likely for the
Speaker 3: Dolphins in Jets in the Week fourteen game. It's the
Speaker 3: first Jets game in Week fourteen, the latest first game
Speaker 3: against them in team history?
Speaker 2: Do you know that?
Speaker 3: But extra rest is also nice. It's also you know,
Speaker 3: playing them for the first time in Week fourteen. I
Speaker 3: just went and looked at this. The last time that
Speaker 3: Tyron Smith made it to Week fourteen without playing Week
Speaker 3: fourteen was twenty twenty one. The last time Mike Williams
Speaker 3: or no, I'm sorry, twenty nineteen. The last time Mike
Speaker 3: Williams made it to Week fourteen was twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: The last time Aaron Rodgers made to Week fourteen was
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. But the last time he was good
Speaker 3: in Week fourteen was twenty twenty one, Right, what do
Speaker 3: I know? So the matchup here a team like this
Speaker 3: is why I love the Odell Beckham signing so so much,
Speaker 3: because we saw it in both games last year. They
Speaker 3: want to challenge us at the lion scrimmage and not
Speaker 3: give safety help to one side to get another hat
Speaker 3: down in the box your single high safety and we
Speaker 3: proper earned them. Tyreek and Wadall both had thirty five
Speaker 3: plus yard catches in the first game, Wada had the
Speaker 3: sixty yard score in the second game, then try that now,
Speaker 3: and there's another vertical element in the slot. So I
Speaker 3: just wonder if they adapt to more of what the
Speaker 3: rest of the league does, and then I think that
Speaker 3: opens up the potential of the run game, which we
Speaker 3: also destroy the edges of the running game against the
Speaker 3: Jets as well against a one gap fire up field
Speaker 3: and kind of you know, pin your ears back type
Speaker 3: of approach.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I think that we can match up really well there
Speaker 3: with their offense.
Speaker 2: We'll see. But is Roger still that guy? I don't
Speaker 2: think he is.
Speaker 3: It's been since twenty twenty one, the last time he
Speaker 3: had a pass rating over ninety one. He's forty one
Speaker 3: years old, coming off an achilles tear, like okay, and
Speaker 3: he's doing like Tucker Carlson. I don't think he's focused
Speaker 3: on the right things.
Speaker 2: Man. We'll see.
Speaker 3: Plus Nathaniel Hackett, you know, no real plan. They're just
Speaker 3: kind of throwing names at what their offensive scheme might
Speaker 3: look like. There's just no there's no coordination with how
Speaker 3: this team has ran. And I can't I just can't
Speaker 3: see past that their offensive line is a lot better.
Speaker 3: I'll give him that than it was in the two
Speaker 3: games where you just wrecked shop against them. They're good
Speaker 3: in all three levels of the defense, but the offense
Speaker 3: has improved. Just comes down to the quarterback. And of
Speaker 3: course I think the coaching is what people overlook all
Speaker 3: the time. You're like, it's Daniel Hackett. Guys like he
Speaker 3: just doesn't It hasn't been effective, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Enjoy being projected to the playoffs again. Jets fans, this
Speaker 3: is your time of year to shine. Joey Jets loves
Speaker 3: this time of year. Will play two games and we'll
Speaker 3: get you Molly woop Biden. I can get sixty four
Speaker 3: to thirteen score and we'll see you again next for
Speaker 3: me to do it all over again.
Speaker 2: Sound good? Everyone loves the Jets.
Speaker 3: I say, hey, they hired someone to look after their
Speaker 3: OC and nobody wanted to do that because you also
Speaker 3: have to deal with the nonsense of your conspiracy theorist quarterback.
Speaker 3: It's another Dolphins win, another sweep. Later on thirty twenty,
Speaker 3: Dolphins get to ten and three right here, and they
Speaker 3: travel to Houston in week fifteen to face the Texans
Speaker 3: for a one o'clock kickoff. No coaching changes an indoor game,
Speaker 3: you liked it. It's late here in the Dome in
Speaker 3: Houston and Energy Stadium indoor games in December. Always welcome
Speaker 3: to the Dolphins, and the Texans have made wholesale changes
Speaker 3: to the roster, So in that sense, maybe you prefer
Speaker 3: to play him later on, but I don't know. We'll
Speaker 3: see how that turns out. I think these two quarterbacks
Speaker 3: and two and Stroud are both very similar in how
Speaker 3: they both play the pre snaps so well and beat
Speaker 3: you there most of the time. I always go against
Speaker 3: the grain of the popular pick, so I'm not as
Speaker 3: high on Houston as most.
Speaker 2: But I also said they go.
Speaker 3: Four and thirteen last year, so what the hell do
Speaker 3: I know? I think if you asked a general fan
Speaker 3: who was better, you would get Houston eight times out
Speaker 3: of ten. But we currently have the exact same projected
Speaker 3: win total from Vegas at nine and a half, though
Speaker 3: we are negative one fifteen and they are negative one twenty,
Speaker 3: so they're saying the odds are the Dolphins are better
Speaker 3: just by a little bit. I'm curious to see how
Speaker 3: this defense comes back together with Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 3: Folo Fotoicasi Danico Auchery, Derek Barnett.
Speaker 2: Like Damn dude, they are loaded.
Speaker 3: They also added aziz Al Shaiers a linebacker crew and
Speaker 3: the Kamari last year in the draft. To the cornerback spot,
Speaker 3: they returned Derek Stingley, Jal and Petrie Miles, Bryan, m J. Stewart,
Speaker 3: Jimmy Ward. This might be the best defense in the
Speaker 3: damn schedule. Then offensively they adds to Von Digs. Maybe
Speaker 3: I am as bullish on them as everybody else. To
Speaker 3: go with Tank Dell who I love, and Nico Collins
Speaker 3: who I love, and John Metchi who I love, and
Speaker 3: Robert Woods and Joe Mixon and Damian Pierce. Like Diane Meyer,
Speaker 3: this has Game of the Year potential to me, fun
Speaker 3: one and a great late season road test for your
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. With Bobby Slowik at the controls on offense,
Speaker 3: he's a lot like Mike McDaniel, and then Demico Ryans
Speaker 3: on defense is a lot like Anthony Weaver to me,
Speaker 3: and Matt Burke is the defensive coordinator. That's a name
Speaker 3: for you, guys you'll love, But so many similarities here.
Speaker 3: My final predictions and thoughts. I think we clip them
Speaker 3: and the Dolphins begin to really change their narrative with
Speaker 3: a twenty five to twenty four win to improve to
Speaker 3: eleven and three on the season heading into a home game,
Speaker 3: the last home game of the year in Week sixteen
Speaker 3: against the San Francisco forty nine ers for a four
Speaker 3: to twenty five kickoff. They have a new DC. They
Speaker 3: have fired Steve Wilkes after the Super Bowl and Nick
Speaker 3: Sorenson is in. He's the first time DC who was
Speaker 3: promoted there from the staff previously. Essentially, it's a night
Speaker 3: game in late December, so probably perfect weather. You'd imagine,
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit chilly. We'll see West Coast team
Speaker 3: coming east, but not for a one pm kickoff and again,
Speaker 3: final home game of the season. No two teams probably
Speaker 3: look more similar from the Dolphins and Niners. Loaded skill groups,
Speaker 3: talented defense, is excellent, coaching both very much in the
Speaker 3: contender's bucket. I think our quarterback is way better than
Speaker 3: their quarterback, and I think brockx luck will eventually run
Speaker 3: out because that guy throws so many balls that get
Speaker 3: dropped from the defenders that I just can't fathom it.
Speaker 3: They play that aggressive, one gap, get up the field
Speaker 3: defense and our ability to win and exploit the edge
Speaker 3: kind of dictates how it goes for our offense in
Speaker 3: this one, and it kind of works for them in
Speaker 3: the same way.
Speaker 2: It's the same.
Speaker 3: Ideals, and you need to stay out of obvious passing
Speaker 3: downs because there's you know, change with or Eric armste
Speaker 3: At leaving, but Bosa Javon Hargrave. They added Leonard Floyd,
Speaker 3: Austin Bryant, Etier Gross Meadows, and then like Dray Green
Speaker 3: Low probably comes back into the foll by this time,
Speaker 3: Fred Warner my favorite all time linebackers besides Zach Thomas.
Speaker 3: I'm curious how quickly Lenard Green, that rookie cornerback has
Speaker 3: to play. But that's always seems to be the spot
Speaker 3: on this Niners team. That an offensive line where I'm wondering,
Speaker 3: how are they going to hold up? It doesn't look
Speaker 3: good on paper, But then they turn over some new
Speaker 3: stones and fine guys like Travarius Ward, Diamador Lenor this
Speaker 3: is a safety but Tealafongo Hufonga, I got that wrong.
Speaker 3: Ambry Thomas's are all nice parts, and just watch. They're
Speaker 3: gonna get the most out of someone like Rocky A.
Speaker 3: Sin they just signed, or Isaac yatam. These guys that
Speaker 3: were kind of draft bust and they kind of got
Speaker 3: forgotten about. Those are the kind of guys they tend
Speaker 3: to turn over and get production out of. Offensively, I
Speaker 3: think it's like looking in a mirror. Even though I
Speaker 3: don't think that perty and two are I like really
Speaker 3: at all, but I mean loaded skill groups one and
Speaker 3: two in the NFL. For my money, I think both
Speaker 3: offensive lines on paper most fans look at like they're
Speaker 3: not enough there, but both teams have developed a style
Speaker 3: and continuity to hone in on, and that style is
Speaker 3: where you get great production from. So I don't know
Speaker 3: how much of a breakdown besides that, it's just good
Speaker 3: on good in another game that's gonna be great late
Speaker 3: in the season, another great test, and finally one of
Speaker 3: those at home.
Speaker 2: My prediction.
Speaker 3: Back to back wins over Houston and San Francisco gets
Speaker 3: the ball really rolling on Dolphin's Super Bowl hype. We
Speaker 3: don't have to hear about the whole can they win
Speaker 3: important games anymore? As the Dolphins execute a late drive
Speaker 3: to continue to his MVP campaign and a giant middle
Speaker 3: finger to all these who douted him. Dolphins win thirty
Speaker 3: three twenty nine to get to twelve and three on
Speaker 3: the season ahead of a Week seventeen game at the
Speaker 3: Mistake by the Lake. The Week seventeen game at Cleveland
Speaker 3: is right now scheduled to be on Sunday Night FOOTBALLT
Speaker 3: eight twenty, but that can also get flexed. Obviously, they
Speaker 3: have a new offensive coordinator and Ken Dorsey he's under Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know Kevin Stefanski, who's the guy that really generates
Speaker 3: most of it. There could be potentially horrible conditions rightly
Speaker 3: anytime a year, but mostly late December. You just flex
Speaker 3: it is gonna be a crappy weather game. And some
Speaker 3: interesting notes about the timing of this games. The Browns
Speaker 3: have had injury issues last couple of years, and they
Speaker 3: return a lot of the same guys that have those issues,
Speaker 3: particularly an older offensive line that gets banged up every year,
Speaker 3: a quarterback who can't stay healthy with his shoulder and
Speaker 3: has various nicks and bruises, and also is a terrible
Speaker 3: human being that I think karma's kind of catching up there.
Speaker 3: So this late who knows what these teams look like.
Speaker 3: This also creates another short week sort of for us
Speaker 3: on the road in Week eight. Team provided this game
Speaker 3: stays on Sunday Night football. Would it be a shame
Speaker 3: if the quarterback you gave two hundred million dollars guaranteed
Speaker 3: fully two and multiple first round picks two sucked?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that suck? Couldn't be me?
Speaker 3: You figure they have to have Nick Chubb back at
Speaker 3: this point. They're big ad on offense was Jerry Judy,
Speaker 3: so that's not great. But the best player on offense
Speaker 3: is David Nijoku, and so they have this flexibility and
Speaker 3: how they want to attack you. And I always love
Speaker 3: a Kevin Stefanski game plan, but make no mistake, it
Speaker 3: is a run first team. I just don't think they
Speaker 3: have the same weapons and quarterback play for that matter,
Speaker 3: that the Dolphins do. Where I'm really intrigued though, is
Speaker 3: by their defense and Jim Schwartz, because he's fantastic. He
Speaker 3: always gets great production. Miles Garrett the straw that stirs
Speaker 3: the drink. They've got Zadarius Smith back in the fold.
Speaker 3: But I also I like how we handle top pass rushers.
Speaker 3: It kind reminds me of how Eric Spolster handle's top
Speaker 3: scorers in the NBA for the Miami Heat, right. But
Speaker 3: I think their best on the back end with Jeremiah
Speaker 3: Wusu Koramo at linebacker, Denzel Ward, Greg Newsom, Grant Delpit,
Speaker 3: Wan thorn Hill, Rodney McLeod and company. You never know,
Speaker 3: but you just get the sense that a late December
Speaker 3: game in Cleveland probably going to be miserable and the
Speaker 3: Browns are quote unquote light on defense. It's probably on
Speaker 3: the interior. So maybe it lends itself to a ground
Speaker 3: and pound game here for Miami to develop their winning
Speaker 3: game with moster a Chan and Jalen Wright going into
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Or maybe it's a fifty degree beautiful night
Speaker 3: for football.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 3: But my final predictions here is that after all that
Speaker 3: goodwill of two big wins against Houston and San Francisco,
Speaker 3: that Miami dumps a strange game that kind of gets
Speaker 3: their minds right heading into the stretch run of the
Speaker 3: playoffs here against an underachieving Browns team who's already out
Speaker 3: of it. And actually I think the game gets flexed
Speaker 3: out because of that, like you have like a you know,
Speaker 3: like a five and ten Houston or Cleveland team and
Speaker 3: a good Miami team.
Speaker 2: Maybe they picked another game this week to put in
Speaker 2: that spot.
Speaker 3: But I'll give the Browns a dub here in a
Speaker 3: crazy win rain or snow game for our fourth loss
Speaker 3: twenty to seventeen the Browns, and that takes us to
Speaker 3: the Metal Lands to finish up our season against the
Speaker 3: Jets and no coaching changes.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: You figure it's gonna be windy, possibly wet, maybe some
Speaker 3: snow late in the year. It's our last. Our last
Speaker 3: season finale at the Jets was actually two thousand and
Speaker 3: eight that turned out pretty nicely. Could it be Rogers's
Speaker 3: last career game like Brett farv two. I hope that
Speaker 3: would be the case. I think it's very much in
Speaker 3: the flex zone, Like if they make it Saturday, that
Speaker 3: would turn it into a real short week for us
Speaker 3: with primetime on Week seventeen.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I covered the matchup in the Week fourteen game stuff.
Speaker 3: My final thoughts and predictions on this one. I have
Speaker 3: the Jets with slim playoff hopes here, so I have
Speaker 3: them flexing the game to Saturday, and the Jets need
Speaker 3: to win to get in and US having a chance
Speaker 3: to lock up a top seed, which puts this game
Speaker 3: on like Saturday at four thirty or something, and we
Speaker 3: get to end Aaron Rodgers' career in front of a
Speaker 3: national audience, or maybe force him off to the Vikings
Speaker 3: like we did with Brett Favre. Dolphins win thirty four,
Speaker 3: twenty three and get to thirteen and four. Some general
Speaker 3: schedule thoughts before I get out of here for the podcast.
Speaker 3: Short week home game and versus Buffalo no less is
Speaker 3: something I love. Let's do the things I love. First,
Speaker 3: playing a short week home game against Buffalo three of
Speaker 3: four of the year to start at home is great.
Speaker 3: And if we play our game, I think we should
Speaker 3: go into the bye week unbeaten at five Oh that
Speaker 3: would be cool, right. And then also getting extra time
Speaker 3: ahead of the first West Coast trip Thursday night ahead
Speaker 3: of the Seahawks game. That's a really beneficial aspect of
Speaker 3: the schedule. And the first five games of the year
Speaker 3: being against new defensive coordinators.
Speaker 2: I love that fact.
Speaker 3: I also love that both Jets games are in December
Speaker 3: against probably the most injury prone roster in the National
Speaker 3: Football League. I love that our first six games are
Speaker 3: against teams with tackle issues. That's a good time to
Speaker 3: not have Bradley Chubb or Jalen Phillips. If you don't
Speaker 3: have them on PUP. So a couple of things I
Speaker 3: love there by the schedule, A couple things I don't love.
Speaker 3: Two September home games are both at night. Don't love
Speaker 3: that three dome games on the road only one of
Speaker 3: them is beyond Thanksgiving, which they were both or all
Speaker 3: of them were after Thanksgiving. I don't love and early
Speaker 3: by a week. I don't love a short week heading
Speaker 3: to the Jets on Week eighteen, even though it's just
Speaker 3: like a few hours of a short week. West Coast
Speaker 3: trips are split up, including a Monday night football game
Speaker 3: that creates a short week coming back on the return game.
Speaker 3: I don't love that. I don't love finishing with three
Speaker 3: of four on the road. And I don't love two
Speaker 3: short week road games Patriots on six days rest week
Speaker 3: five and the Packers on four days rest in Week twelve.
Speaker 3: WE good long podcast there. We'll do some additional stuff
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Speaker 3: Come on, Cameron, Daddy, he's coming old.