WEBVTT - Dolphins Chargers Preview, Replacing Preston Williams' Reps, Tua Talks 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:15.239 Exact field cutsdown Miami Run. What is up Dolphins? And 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.640 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.520 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.240 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.280 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.680 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.320 And on today's show, we flipped the schedule a little 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.480 bit this week and going forward, it is now preview day. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.400 On the Wednesday edition of Drivetime, we'll dive into the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.479 Dolphins and Chargers matchup with the key schematics, personnel usage, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.760 and the matchups that can go a long way and 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.919 decide the outcome of the game. On Sunday, Plus, we'll 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.760 hear from Coach Flora's and some Dolphins players on their 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.200 Wednesday media availabilities. All of that and more on this Wednesday, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:06.360 November the an edition of the Drivetime podcast. The Drive 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.120 Time is brought to you by Auto Nation, where Dolphins 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.120 fans can sell their vehicle for cash now visit auto 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.000 nation dot com. Let's go ahead and kick off. Brian 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.319 Flores is Wednesday media Availability with a special shout out 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.720 to all the veterans out there, as all of us 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.200 here at the Miami Dolphins, wish you a happy Veteran's Day. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.240 I'm gonna start by today's Veteran's Day. So I just 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.360 wanted to shout out Adam with chances on our strength 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.640 and condition and staff. He's a veteran, and I wanted 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.800 to thank him for his service and all the veterans 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.720 for this service. So there is Flora's his opening message 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.880 at his Wednesday morning media availability. Up next, he was 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.880 asked about the offensive line. We heard coach Flora's speak 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.120 earlier in the week about how they have six guys 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.080 that really they feel great about they could put out 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.680 there in a moment's notice. Here's coach talking about the 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.720 offensive line, the weekly competition and different combinations they have. Well, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.760 I mean, it's always an open competition. We've got you 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.840 a number of guys we feel very it about. There's 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.840 a few different combinations you can go with. Jesse's Jesse 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.560 Davis is someone who's played multiple positions and played him 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.959 at a good at a good level. Also working in 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:16.000 the young guys Hunt, Tom and Austin. You know, we 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.040 feel good about all of them. We'll see how practice 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.440 goes this week and we'll see the group that's south 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.320 there on Sunday. And we did see seven offensive lineman 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.840 play in the game on Sunday against the Cardinals. Solomon 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.120 Kiley had fifteen snaps, Julian Davenport played one snap in 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.240 the game. Then you had Austin Jackson get in for 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.560 I think it was forty three snaps in the game 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.919 on Sunday. Then the other three guys played every snap 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.080 offensively for Miami. So plenty of options, plenty of combinations. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.440 You heard him mention Jesse Davis's versatility. Guy worked at tackle, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.920 guy works at guard. He even talked about playing some 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.480 center in the offseason this training camp, So plenty of combinations, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.120 plenty of options for the Dolphins with good offensive lineman 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.639 both in the top five and on the bench for Sunday. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.240 And by now on this Wednesday, I'm sure you've seen 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.720 NFL at work, ESPN, major major sports outlets talking a 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.480 lot about the Miami Dolphins in recent days, in recent weeks, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.480 and they've been one of the one of the headline 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.760 stories so far. And coach was asked about managing the 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.080 hype of the outside noise and and lot letting them 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.200 outside noise, get inside the building. Here's coach Flora's on 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.640 dealing with the hype and outside noise. I think the 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.799 focus is and we all understand. I understand that it's 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:29.000 there um that that you know, we're being talked about. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.400 But really the only thing that matters is what's going 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.480 on in our building. I'm not sure how much, um, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.240 anyone outside of our building really actually knows what's going 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.360 on inside the building. So the way we practice, the 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.280 way we prepare, how we walk through, UM, the only 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.640 people who can really tell them the truth about you know, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.400 how they played in a game, or how they played 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.400 in practice, or you know how they did in a 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.160 meeting is the people that are here. So that's that's 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.040 kind of my message. You know, I'm going to tell 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.040 them the truth. I mean, I'm not gonna blow smoke 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.400 up anyone's behind. I think they know that. And look, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.600 we've got a whole half of the season left, so 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.400 I think we need to focus on that. And you 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.000 know even more than that this week. Uh, you know, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.240 good team that we're playing this week and the Chargers, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.960 and you know, putting our energy anywhere else or listening 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.760 to anything else in a lot of ways is less 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.360 energy on a good opponent with a lot of good players, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.920 a lot of good coaches, and maybe they're gonna wish 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.120 they were Maybe hopefully it doesn't get to the point 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.920 where they spent too much time on something else and 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.400 not en not for on the Chargers, and they would 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.719 feel the effects of that on Sunday. So that's my 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.240 message and up next for coach Flora's On this Wednesday 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.440 morning media availability, he was asked to talk about the 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.239 progress of two a tongue of Baloa and what's impressed 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.200 him most as far as how far he's come through 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.080 the first half of his first season. It's the same 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.600 thing that but he did earlier in the year, and 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:02.800 his preparation is focused is one of his assets. The 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.000 way he asked questions, I wanted to learn, so m 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.240 you know, all that you know leads into I think 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.400 to me, in my opinion, gives you an opportunity to 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.719 a success on the field. So I think if he 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.640 just continues to prepare the way he has and even 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.520 taken up a notch, because as a rookie, you know, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.479 you don't know what you don't know. So in a 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.679 lot of in a lot of way a lot of instances, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.080 he's learning how to prepare and how to prepare better. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.360 And I think that's that's been the case relieving and 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.000 with a couple of weeks so e fectly he's a sponge. 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.279 I mean that I like and he's open to learning 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.720 different things and I'm learning from different views, whether it's 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.440 a defensive coach or offensive coach or something to kicking game, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.440 he's doing well. We'll go ahead and follow up on 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.440 the to a tongue of volow a note there as 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.880 on Tuesday, offensive coordinator Chan Guilly talked about the difference 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.039 as far as athletic ability and physical nature of his 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.680 game from to US College tape to what he saw 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.000 this last Sunday against the Cardinals, and coach was asked 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.000 the same question about the things that Chan had seen. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.239 Here's what coach has to say about two is physical 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.320 or physical nature of his game and the athletic ability 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.080 he displayed on Sunday. I think he looks good. I mean, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.720 I mean, I hadn't seen a dead leg from from 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.480 in college. I thought that was a nice movie made 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:21.600 the other day. So he's uh, I think he you know, physically, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.320 he looks good. I mean, we just got to continue 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.279 to take care of himself. I mean that's part of 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:31.520 being professional. Um. From a nutritional standpoint, from a weightlifting standpoint, again, obviously, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.000 from a preparation standpoint, all those things are important, you know. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.599 Is there a difference. I don't know. I guess I'm 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.320 not really thinking of it about it in those terms. Um, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.520 I just think he's he looks like he's healthy, you know, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.919 doing a good jobs preparation and leading the offense. And 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.200 it looks he looks healthy to me. And on the 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.279 topic of health, we'll go ahead and finish out. Coach 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.599 flores is Wednesday morning media availability with some talk about 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.960 Preston Williams, next man up, mentality, the skill positions on 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.440 offensive the Dolphins. First, here's coaches update on Preston Williams. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.400 I mean, look, we ran some tests. Preston is gonna 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.120 go to ir UM, so it's a little bit more 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.440 significant than we initially thought. Coach was then asked to 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.560 follow up about players that can step in and fulfill 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.760 the role left in the vacancy of Preston Williams and 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.800 the magnitude of his loss at wide receiver. It's a 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.200 big loss. I mean, Prestons, you know, made a lot 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.720 of plays for us um were the first half of 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.880 the season. Um, but you know we got you know, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.840 guys who will step in. Jokim stepped in for him 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.400 last week. Mc hans stepped in. And then you know, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.000 I had a big play. You know, Kirk Merritt was 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.360 up last week, played well in the kitting game, played 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.840 a little bit offensively. So um, and you mentioned Lynn 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.000 and so yeah, these guys, you know, I think we 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.440 u I think it's kind of how we have to 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.360 approach this. You know, someone could be down for COVID, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.280 someone gonna be down due to injury. You know, we 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.280 need the next person to step in, player, coach, you know, whatever, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:00.000 whatever it may be. So that's kinda as a team, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.000 you know, So take that approach, and I think those 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.120 guys will step in and get him coached up, put 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.800 him in positions to have some success. And so this 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.040 obviously one of the bigger stories of the day around 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.400 the Miami Dolphins, and we cover this in the top 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.680 news story up on Miami Dolphins dot com. And I 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.000 went back and looked at some of the some of 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.200 the stuff Coach talked about there with players stepping up 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.840 and fulfilling the role there of Preston Williams. I went 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.120 back to last season and actually this announcement, this injury 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.000 comes at the exact juncture last season when Williams went 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.240 down with the a c L. Obviously, coach mentioned the 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.559 gravity of the injury. He wouldn't go any further into 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.040 it than what it is, just at Preston's on injury reserve, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.120 which of course he can come back for him he's 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.640 eligible to come back from in three weeks. But in 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.920 that rookie season, Williams was tied for the Rookie league 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.760 with thirty two receptions. He was third among rookies and 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.400 receiving yards with four and twenty eight. The catches was 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.800 thirty two, and he also was tied for third with 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.319 four touchdown catches at the time of his Week nine injury. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.559 This season, also in eight games, Williams had eighteen catches, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.640 two hundred and eighty eight yards and four touchdown receptions. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.240 So coach Flora says, it's a big loss Preston mates 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.200 and big plays. Over the first half of the season, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.560 we saw some of the vertical passes from both fits 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.480 and to Ah going up top to Preston trusting him 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.280 to make those big plays, and he came down with 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.160 the football and losing a player of Williams caliber and 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.520 production is never going to be easy, obviously, but Miami's 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.880 next man up mentality has served this team well under 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.920 coach Flora's You just heard him talk about that the 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.720 team played the fourth quarter without the services of running 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.480 backs Miles Gascon and Matt Brita. Tight end Durham Smith 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.520 was out. Receivers Williams and Lynn Boone Jr. Were not 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.000 available at that point of the game, Bode missing the 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.360 game entirely, Williams injured in game, and that group of 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.520 skill players accounts for nine hundred and sixty one offensive 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.040 snaps through the first half of the season, and still 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.080 Miami mounted ten fourth quarter points to go down there 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.560 and win that football game. You heard coach talk about 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.400 some of the players that can step up and fulfill 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.760 that role and replace those reps of Preston Williams. He 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.040 talked about the depth not just on your roster, but 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.959 obviously you're coaching staff throughout the course. This last week 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.360 with the COVID restrictions and protocols and being forced to 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.960 play in that game, down a few coaches and obviously 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.840 down a few players as well, but the Dolphins provided 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.480 an early example in this game for the strength of 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.040 the roster from top to bottom. After Williams exited the game, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.040 Miami had five possessions that produced one hundred and seventy 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.000 six yards and thirteen points, not including the final drive, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.520 the kneeled down victory formation drive, and that thirteen points 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.120 on five possessions. That's good for two point six points 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.559 per drive. That's point one points better than Miami season 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.920 average this year at two point five points per drive. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.720 So they fulfilled the next man up mentality and produced 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.240 when they had to with what they had available, and 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.280 several players picked up their performances in William's absence. Davante 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.960 Parker pulled in five of his six receptions in that 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.800 game for sixty one yards after press and left. He 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.160 also had a twenty one yard pass interference call against 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.000 him after Press and left, So really eighty two yards 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.800 of production and basically a half of football without Preston 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.480 Williams out there. And recall last year, Parker really took 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.440 off in thee and half of the season as well. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.800 When Williams was lost for the season, so he has 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.800 a way of elevating his game when the team needs 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.760 him that way. All four of Jechem grants receptions for 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.000 thirty five yards occurred after Williams had to exit, and 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.400 you heard coach talk about mac Hollands making the big play. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.320 The first reception of his Dolphin's career is a game 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.920 tying touchdown in the fourth quarter. Malcolm Perry Lynn Bowden 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.200 also factor into that equation as you hear Coach answer 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.400 the questions about those guys. Perry made his NFL debut 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.960 two weeks ago against the Rams. He's played thirty offensive 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.240 snaps and fellow rookie Bowden Jr. Has twenty three snaps 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.880 on offense of playing time after coming over from Las 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.640 Vegas in that trade back in September. Go back to 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.760 what Shan Gailey said on October twenty about Lynn Bowden, 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.360 he kind of broke his game down a little bit. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.520 He said. Bowden has some natural route running ability, he 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.240 has some natural athletic talent. He's still just in the 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.640 process of learning everything the nuances of playing at this level. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.400 It's not the athletic talent, it's just learning the nuances 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.200 and being of being able to compete and quote, and 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.240 I go back to a quote here from Josh grizz Hard, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.679 Dolphins receivers coach on Malcolm Perry saying, quote, he's just 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.360 worked so hard since he's gotten here, and he's kept 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.720 his head down and just keeps improving from week to week. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.760 You can tell that he's committed to the details. End quote. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.240 And it's not just wide receivers that step in to 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.160 fill that void left by Williams after his foot injury. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.640 Flora's also talked on Wednesday about the usage of Perry 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.559 and Boden, but how Miami can get creative in their groupings, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.240 whether it's receivers, tight ends, or backs to help fill 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.400 out those reps. I think it's, you know, nothing changes 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.280 on our end from that standpoint. I don't think you 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.040 can just you know, hey, somebody went down, so you 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.040 go from playing ten places to plaint in sixty and 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.640 that I think that's how it goes. I think we'll 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.959 try to split the reps in some form of fashion. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.120 I think some of the guys have already been up 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.600 and practice in some of those roles. You know, like 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:52.120 I mentioned a Keen mc collins um. You know, Malcolm 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.160 Perry's been in there a little bit. I think, you know, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.840 to mix those with those other young guys. Um, you know, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.719 there's a few different ways we we can do this. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.040 You don't have to only just put one grouping in there. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.680 We've got some tight ends who can play, got some 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.199 backs who can play, so you can only play eleven 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.600 at a time, so it doesn't have to be three 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.400 and full wide receivers. I think everyone expects it to 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.840 show up that way, but doesn't necessarily have to be 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.640 that way. So I think we can we can handle that, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.920 um with the rest of the team. Again, it's a 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.720 team game. We need, you know, the tight ends, the backs, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.880 the receivers, and like I said, I it's it's it's 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.240 a it's a it's a different year. It's the year 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.360 of COVID. So we've had some other teams who have 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.000 been down, you know, multiple people at positions, and you 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:43.600 don't not play just so well just if we need to, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.080 and look, no one is down playing the loss of 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.600 Preston Williams obviously a big time playmaker for this Dolphins offense. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.559 But you heard coach talk about the ways they can 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.240 find find ways to fill out those reps. Talking about 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.720 how no one's gonna go from ten snaps to sixty snaps. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.400 They're gonna find different creative ways to get different personnel 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.679 groupings on of the field. Like, for instance, let's say 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.520 you go twelve personnel. You've got two tight ends on 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.960 the field, which means you only need two receivers. If 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.720 you would have had Preston and Parker out there, you're 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.440 kind of bigger body guys. Maybe mac hollins can fill 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.280 that role in that big body roll of the two 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.760 receiver sets. Maybe you go more speed looks like we've 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.760 seen recently with Malcolm Perry and jakeem Grant on the field. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.520 In those twelve personnel packages, they have different groupings, different 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.960 body types, different prototypes for those specific packages, but they 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.080 also have multiple packages they can go to, Like, for instance, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:33.240 the Dolphins have called exactly zero plays out of O, O, one, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.960 oh two or ten personnel. Those are all your five 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.840 and four receiver sets. Zero play calls out of those 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.280 looks this season. Eleven personnel, which is your three receiver look, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.880 you're one tight end, your one back, your three receivers. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.840 Miami has two two plays out of that package. That's 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.400 the second fewest in the National Football League ahead of 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.960 the Minnesota Vikings and just a few snaps below the 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.080 Cleveland Browns, which Kevin Stefanci coming from that Minnesota Vikings 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.200 twelve personnel heavy package. So we talked about twelve personnel, right, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.760 Dolphins every a hundred and seven team plays out of 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.880 twelve personnel, and that is tied for eleventh most in 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.560 the National Football League. With your two tight end personnel, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.440 Dolphins have also ran ten plays out of thirteen personnel. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.440 That's tied for eighteenth in the NFL. Not the most, however, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.880 Miami's twenty personnel package, which is two backs, no tight 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.200 ends on the field, they've run that grouping twenty eight times. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.880 That leads the National Football League. They've gone to twenty 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.960 one personnel, two backs, one tight end. They've ran that 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.920 one sixty one times. That is the sixth most frequent 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.000 calling of twenty one personnel in the NFL. And finally, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.760 twenty two personnel, two backs, two tight ends, I mean, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.120 just one receiver on the field. The Dolphins have gone 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.680 to that twenty four times. That's the eleventh most in 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.600 the National Football League. They've also called twenty three personnel, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 two backs, three tight ends. That's no receivers on the field, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.560 and they've also gone on some heavy personnel as well, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.840 with extra offensive lineman on the field. So Miami has 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.640 different offensive packaging and grouping and player types and positions 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.040 in general that they can use to replace those reps 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.720 from Preston Williams. That's what Coach Flores is talking about 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.160 there by saying it's not just plug and play receiver 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.520 and keep the same package and same offense going. We 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.440 have different ways in different contingencies to replace guys in 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.280 the event this happens. That's building depth, that's building a 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.800 next man up mentality. That's your Miami Dolphins here in 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.560 So there you go. Coach Flora's as Wednesday morning media availability, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.320 let's go ahead and jump now into the week ten preview. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.359 Dolphins will host the Chargers at hard Rock Stadium on Sunday, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.240 November the fifteen. It's a four oh five kickoff at 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:31.080 Miami Gardens, eighty three degrees mostly sunny. Might get our 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.800 our best sunshine game of the season this year. Sevent 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.480 humidity and twelve mile prior wins for the five and 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.000 three Dolphins hosting the two and six Chargers, and you 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.320 know last week was a really heart pounding game that 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.480 maybe took a couple of years off your life. As 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.560 Dolphins fans, We've been there before as football fans in general. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.800 That's what this league does to you, these tight wire, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.600 high stress games. They're fun when you come out victorious, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.000 but man, they are stressful when you're going through it. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.840 And the Dolphins will welcome another tough test to hard 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.920 Rock on Sunday as rookie quarterback Justin Herbert and that 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.920 high powered Chargers offense comes to town. And like Miami, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.359 the Charger spent a top ten pick in this past 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.399 April's draft on a quarterback and they're enjoying the fruits 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.600 of that selection. So far, Herbert has been on fire 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.480 to this point in his career. That offense is putting 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.480 up yards and points on the scoreboard, which creates tight 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.320 games down the stretch. But victory has found a way 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.119 to elude this team this season and last year in 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.120 the strangest ways imaginable. You saw the game last week 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.200 with the fade into the back of the end zone. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.080 Looked like the tight end came down with the catch, 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.320 the ball hits the ground, they wave it off and 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.720 listen to the Move the Sticks podcast this week. That 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.280 was the third time this year Matt money Smith, the 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.360 Chargers play by play man, had claimed victory and had 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.399 to go back and correct it because the change, the 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.600 call was changed by the officials, or something happened where 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.800 the play just didn't work out in their favor. They 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.480 are seemingly an impossible three and four team over the 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.960 last two seasons in these one score games, but it 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.080 tells you about the quality of this team and how 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.919 they can compete with pretty much any team in the NFL. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.000 They're just working on finding a way to close out 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.080 those games. So for Flores and the Dolphins, playing for 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.119 sixty minutes and finishing will once again be the message 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.840 for this team for this game. The Dolphins have won 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.520 four straight now, with the latest win coming down to 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.399 the wire, but they are going to be focused on 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.320 the task to hand. Nothing has been accomplished yet. As 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.040 Byron Jones had earlier this week, We've still got eight 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.560 more games against a bunch of really good opponents. So 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.800 the challenge for us is, yes, we've won a couple 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.960 of games in a row. It feels nice, but how 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.240 we got here was through hard work, and we're going 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.440 to continue to do that end quote and the season 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.560 lined up. Miami schedule to see both a f C 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.000 and NFC West divisions this season, which means lots to 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.560 travel from Miami, but also lots of travel for the 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.280 opposition coming from west to east. The Chargers are one 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.680 and two this season playing in the Eastern time zone 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.360 and three and three over the last two seasons combined, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.560 whereas the Dolphins are one and two at hard Rock 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.880 Stadium over the last two seasons playing against teams at 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.520 home from the Pacific time zone. That's a stat for 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.520 you there, the good old he's batting two three off 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.359 left handed pictures and dome stadiums in the month of 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.600 September fund inside Baseball type of stat for you there. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.840 The matchup highlights in this game. First, I put shoring 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.439 up the edge because this Charger's pass rush can get 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.560 after you. Nobody in the NFL Blitz is less than 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.800 the Chargers under defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, and he came 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.159 up in that Peat Carol system. We talked about it 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.800 in the Jacksonville game back in week three. We talked 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.320 about it in the Seattle game in Week four. Obviously there, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.119 but it's a heavy emphasis on zone looks, lots of 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.920 Cover three where you have three deep defenders taking one 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.240