WEBVTT - Dolphins Patriots Week 17 Preview 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Whingefield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:14.080 looking gips the delta wind it open, touchtop tonic call. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.760 Un believable, just flu by for a second time. Don't 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.319 know where he was going right away ahead of that 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.800 the man I want to help you soon up on 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.360 his band away and wattle waddle to a shotgut back 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.680 that's throw looking SUPs up fires, totop again it's waddle. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:37.400 It's six touchdown pass this day, Drive Time with Travis 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.240 Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if not 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.320 far of what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.040 Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.040 your team nor Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.360 am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, Thursday 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.280 Preview Day, we take a look at the New England 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.040 Patriots for the second time this season, to tape the 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.520 stats where they've grown since that Week one game, the 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.160 three keys to Victory, What's at stake, and the week 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.400 seventeen NFL picks from the Baptist Health Studios. Inside the 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:15.400 Baptist Health training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.960 Here we go, heading into a familiar venue with everything 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.959 on the line. Sort of. It's been a rough month 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.560 and the guys can partially at least exercise those demons 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.039 with a big win on a trip to the postseason, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.680 likely with the win per the New York Times Playoffs 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.440 simulator with a victory on Sunday, and could conceivably punch 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.119 our ticket to the playoffs as early as seven thirty 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.200 ish on Sunday evening, depending on what happens in Seattle, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.080 and enter the New England Patriots, arguably the most heated 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.120 arrival for the Dolphins going back a couple of decades now, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.200 and we've turned the tide with recent success four straight wins, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.160 five of six, and we know about these Patriots, dominant 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.680 for two decades, six rings, nine conference titles, and annual 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.960 resident vasion in the a SC title game for what 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.000 was it eight years in a row. The season never 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 really began for them until Division Round weekend. Then they 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.720 have a down year and returned right back to the 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.239 postseason last season. And if they can beat a pair 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.400 of teams who have given them fits the last couple 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.639 of years, Miami and Buffalo seven consecutive losses to both 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.799 of those teams. If they can beat those teams back 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.880 to back, they'll get right back into the postseason when 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.639 it seemed like the year was lost several times over earlier. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.799 This season is an organization that has always retooled via 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.760 the draft, but a team who took a d tour 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.880 from that approach one and went absolutely nanners and free agency, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.000 and that's a good bulk of their team right now. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.720 They also got their quarterback from that same year's draft class, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.720 and he had another good class this time around the 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.880 Patriots did. They're a young team. They still run the 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.280 ball really will, they still play really smart, sound, fundamental football. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.720 They're still solid in the trenches, and they play really 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.600 good defense, and apparently they drafted the second coming of 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.560 Troy Brown in terms of a versatile two way player 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.880 in Marcus Jones. The one thing that doesn't pair with 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.840 what they've done or been for years is the offensive strategy. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.960 Josh McDaniels leaves to Las Vegas, and it's been a 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.880 struggle to put together any consistency or identity on offense 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.520 this season, and if we're without our quarterback, it's going 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.040 to be incumbent on the defense to hammer that point home. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.760 A defense that held the same team to seven points 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.639 and scored seven of its own or six and the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.440 p a t back on opening Day. We need that 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.959 this week? Can we get it? Let's find out Dolphins 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.720 offense first, Patriots defense, and of course the quarterback versus 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.360 the safety position, and just general offense and defensive talking points. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.480 I don't think you'll find two more similar types of 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.120 systems on tape, and Josh Boyer said as much earlier 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.000 this year talking about the similarities from the Dolphins defense 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.040 and the Patriots defense, so you kind of know what 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.360 to expect there. Of course, each team in each game 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.680 will take on its own individual identity, but generally speaking, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.080 heavy man principles, lots of odd fronts, you know, bear 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.000 fronts with Judean and j attacking the two point stance 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.840 from that quase a five to look, it's a defense 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.920 that disguises really well, they communicate really well, they draft, pay, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.560 treat players right for that secondary. And but that we 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.680 mean tough, smart, physical, good tacklers who can run and 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.720 play to the system. Whoever the quarterback is from Miami. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.120 I think you point to the Bengals tape. Joe Burrow 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.840 was patient and took what was given and put together 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.440 drive after driving that first half. Now again, this is 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.640 where the Patriots are tough, because they made halftime adjustments 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.040 and they buckled down in that second half, and not 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.520 only did they give their team a chance to mount 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.240 the comeback, they began it with the scoring on a 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.200 long pick six. Where I thought Burrow was most successful 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.760 in that game was finding the backs on checkdowns. The 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.000 Patriots love to stay in that too high look up 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.120 until you get to the high red zone where they 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.160 convert to more press man coverage. But I also liked 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.919 how the Bengals would get too empty from really any formation, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.840 and if the Patriots stayed too high, then Burrow would 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.280 anticipate middle of the field throws because you're too high. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.480 Structure has the middle of the field open tech most 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.760 of the times, and it wasn't about ripping it or 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.279 jamming it in there. He was throwing with layered touch 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.040 and timing to make explosive play like the touchdown to 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.400 Trenton Irwin was a great example on a ball that 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.559 man to hits that type of thrill all the time, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.120 and I was watching that game obviously before our game 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.040 on Sunday, Thinking too has a chance to really kind 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.400 of put some numbers up in this one. We'll see 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.840 what happens if it's To or Teddy. But my keys 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.240 for either patients make them come up and tackle on 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.000 the perimeters and run the football against favorable looks, anticipate. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.159 They almost never blitz To when he's in the lineup. Now, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.400 I'm not sure that looks like for Teddy, but it 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.400 makes some tight windows against seven and sometimes eight man coverages. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.760 It's kind of how they funnel together all those picks 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.080 by staying patient and and really taking advantage with quarterbacks. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.280 Get impatient. You have to be right, you have to 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.240 be precise, and you must anticipate against this defense. If 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.839 they do camp out in that too high structure, Miami 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.880 is gonna have to find some success on the ground. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.440 You do not want to allow them to dial up 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.520 their pressure scheme on third and longs. One coverage that 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.800 is slowly building popularity around the league is that two men, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.680 two high safeties UH cover a deep half each and 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.800 then underneath man cover ridge with a lot of times 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.440 press coverage. It's a tough defense to pass against, but 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.600 it opens up running lane avenues, and we saw it 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.000 some that Green Bay game in Miami had a bunch 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.800 of success in the first half run of the football 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.000 in that game. I liked how Miami got to some 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.159 empty looks last week against that look with their spread looks. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.240 Kind of a similar conversion for the Bengals and Patriots game, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.560 and then obviously in that first half the running game 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.800 was absolutely cooking. But it's not the same scheme, but 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.320 there are similar similarities in terms of the heavy use 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.600 of dime extra defensive backs and forcing the offenses to 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.440 play patient. If you're talking about Packers and Patriots. The 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.080 thing the Patriots do really well as limit explosive plays. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.360 We got you know, we've been getting those every game now. Shoot, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.960 going back to I guess the Cleveland Houston game didn't 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.440 really have long explosive plays. But the thing the Patriots 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.640 do well is stopped that. We got them on that 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.799 fourth down back in Week one, but that was really 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.920 it in that game, the Waddle touchdown. That makes red 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.120 zone execution absolutely paramount. Let's look at some numbers here. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.599 They blitz twenty three point two percent of the time. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.560 They've kind of gotten with you know more modern style 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.040 of approach, the middle of the pack boitzing percentage, that's 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.680 fifteenth most in the NFL. They pressure twenty four point 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.400 seven percent of the time, that's the most, are tied 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.720 for the most in the National Football League. So it's 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.320 a big challenge. They've got rushers for days. We need 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.920 to avoid negatives, turnovers and big sacks on those plays 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.280 because they will get in and you're gonna have to 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.760 accept the fact that you're gonna have to eat some 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.920 sacks on some place. These games are always rock fights, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.760 right The seven score in Week one was the biggest 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.080 differential since week to nineteen when they blew the doors 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.040 off of us. They're usually seventeen sixteen type of games 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.560 in the NFL. Feature features an average of just over 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.720 twenty two possessions per game for both teams. These teams 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.840 have averaged six team possessions possessions possessions per game among 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.720 the two teams over the last five meetings, none more 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.880 than seventeen, none fewer than fifteen, right at your average 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.360 eight possessions per game per team. So avoiding negatives because 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.040 every drive is critical in these games. Winning in the 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.720 fine margins, you know, hidden yardage and special teams and 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.440 penalties and things of that nature. Those are big, big keys. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.160 This week. I mentioned the red zone importance earlier, a 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.240 little bit of a departure from the norm. Just fifteenth 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.360 and red zone defense for the Patriots at fifty five 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.360 point six percent stop rate on third downs. Again, if 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.640 you can win in those areas and special teams and 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.120 protect the football, you'll get out of here with a victory. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.120 Personnel wise, thirty four they go eight point three percent. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.440 Forty three is one point three percent. Again, it's like 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.600 our defense in a lot of ways, sent Nickel. But 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.560 this is different than what we've been in past years. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.360 But of course Miami has like forty five injuries. In 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.920 the secondary, they play twice seven percent dime. We don't 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.760 do anywhere near that. They play quarter two point two percent, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.720 have a handful of snaps and half dollar and dollar. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.960 It's eight and nine dbs in the field their pre 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.160 snap structure. They've ran twenty one place from cover zero. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.400 They've ran fifty percent of their place from cover from 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.839 single high should say, and then too high, and forty 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.840 four percent at safety. The same dude who's been there forever, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.280 Devin mccordy, one of the best in the NFL, and 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.280 then one of my favorite non players in the NFL. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.520 I know Sacrilege just had that about a Patriots player, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.720 but that just tells you how much I respect Kyle 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.559 Dugger's game. He's a secret superstar man. That pick six 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.720 he had against the Raiders is a microcosm of the 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.800 type of player that he is. Studious, twitchy, and a playmaker. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.040 Then their big nickel Adrian Phillips, who's played six hundred 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.679 thirty four snaps this year. He's a terrific rat in 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.240 the whole force defender type who can hang out in 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.720 that hook and play the curl flat, essentially a buck 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.880 linebacker type of role. This might be their best position group, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.000 along with those edge rushers. Mccordy is thirty three snaps 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.600 away from surpassing one thousand snaps played for the twelfth 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.080 time in thirteen seasons, and the one year he didn't 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.040 was when he played nine hundred and sixty snaps. He 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.800 is as reliable as they come. He's played free safety 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.280 on six hundred eighty nine of those snaps. He's your 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.720 single high cover, one middle of the field player, and 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.640 he will camp back there and try to pick off 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.640 those deep passes. So for Teddy, being accurate and precise 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.000 and making sure he knows where thirty two is is 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.000 a big key in this game. He's one of the 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.000 best in the league man career passer rating against the 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.920 eighty point eight thirty six career picks he's got three 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.240 this year and a rating aloud of just eight seven 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.320 point three. And in a league where it's you know, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.360 quarterbacks are going up in the high nineties. He never rushes, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.079 just two pass rush reps and only six run stops. Again, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.160 he's typically ten yards off the football. Dougglers got two picks, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.960 one for a touchdown. He's got eight pressures on just 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.800 twenty seven pass rush reps twenty three run stops. He's 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.480 missed a little bit of time this year, so his 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.280 snap counts are down, but he's just over four hundred 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.439 snaps in the box onety one and the slot sixty 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.800 three in the post. He's also given them forty nine 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.440 snaps out wide. Adrian Phillips remember that pick that Fitzpatrick 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.920 threw back in the season opener. It was a great 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.040 read and reacting the hook zone, fall into that that 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.000 route concept and make the play. It's the kind of 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.880 stuff that he does. It's kind of kind of a 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.160 key to what they do in a lot of ways. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.480 His splits are spread across the board, so he's essentially 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.440 got a revolving job based upon the defensive call. They'll 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.400 play him in the post on that third and long 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.840 situations when they drop everybody hundred and seventy eight snaps there, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.760 three hundred down in the box, one in the slot, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.160 eighteen at corner will also cover up your tight end. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.280 So Smithing sicky kind of match up there for Phillips 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.400 moving to our receivers and tight ends versus their corners. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.920 The safety group is full of grizzled vets. The cornerback 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.200 room is not. But man, you talk about a position 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.160 group that has shown significant improvements since that week one meeting, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:11.960 And that's not meant to be like a slight at 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.800 all because you want your rookies a show growth. But 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.920 it just starts with Marcus Jones right in terms of 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.440 going from one player week one to now who he 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.520 is this year or this week. I should say he's 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.520 the star of the group. Given his pensiont for big 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.720 plays in all three phases of the game. He's only 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.480 played three snaps this year, but a hundred and fifty 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.080 of those are the last three weeks. He's a starter 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.000 now and the defense is better. For in those three 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.520 games he's got two picks, two more pass breakups, and 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.400 three run stops and only one touchdown allowed in coverage. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.959 He's literally keeping up with the Jones is because Jonathan 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.120 Jones has been probably the best Patriots corner since Stefon 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.360 Gilmour left. He's almost exclusively a wide corner, just forty 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.800 five snaps inside, which is consistent with a number of 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.080 snaps a perimeter cornerback will go inside with twin packages 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:58.320 and unbalanced formations, etcetera, etcetera. Another rookie, Jack Jones, He's 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.520 played well recently too. It's really an entirely different secondary 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.520 because you had so many rookies in their first career 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.240 game and now they've taken big steps in a positive direction. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.160 The numbers for these guys Jonathan fort four hundred thirty 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.520 six yards, five touchdowns allowed, three picks, Jack Jones twenty 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.600 thirty nine. That's a great percentage, three hundred and six yards. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.600 Some big plays there. He's aggressive, one touchdown, two picks, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.680 and then Marcus Jones twenty one for thirty two six yards. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.120 The explosive plays in these young corners are there. It's 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.240 kind of boom or bust, one touchdown, two picks. They 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.440 play press and off, and of course the numbers tend 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.520 to shift for this defense as much as any because 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.480 they'll attack, you know, the team they're playing in a 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.000 way that's unique to that team. They do have more 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.720 capable corners than just those top three snaptakers. Jalen Mills 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.520 started a bunch of games last year and especially against Miami. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.040 He's got four hundred and sixty eight snaps this season. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.679 Miles Bryant has played just under six hundred snaps. It's 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.960 a back to front defense. Like we mentioned, they used 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.200 dbs substantially more than any other position group in terms 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.640 of snaps played, and it shows it bears out right 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:06.760 here against Bryant this year. Forty fifty three touchdowns and 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.160 a pick, Mills three thirty three, two touchdowns and two picks. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.640 They all get picks. They're all versed in both man zone. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.760 It's a good group. You can get yards and go 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.960 and down the field on them, but they really clamp 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.800 down the red zone, or they used to at least 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.760 and I wish, I wish one was for sure playing 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.880 offensive line defensive line. It gets even tougher here. Matt 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.160 Judon leads the a FC with fifteen and a half sacks. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.240 He's second in the NFL, and man, he's got the 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.440 whole package. Is a pass rusher, full arsenal of rush moves, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.640 counter speed, speed to power either side of the formation, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.880 executing rush games. He's an elite player, and Josh j 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.040 benefits from the fact that he's also a beast, but 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.040 also the attention that Judeon commands. They'll operate from both 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.600 sides of the formation. They'll loop inside a lot of 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.760 the rushes built around their versatility and the ability to 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.000 run so many games, but also just get pressure from 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.400 the outside. Their very gap sound and they really have 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.360 their gap integrity in line. And Frenny Jennings is a 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.000 player I like a lot. He's a nice depth piece 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.920 who comes into sub packages even some base because of 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.200 his ability with the run with that length in the 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.440 shock that he has in the hands. Will also include 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.719 Dietrich Wise here in this group. He's technically an edge, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.640 but he condenses inside and plays that nickel interior rush 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.600 roll a lot when they get to those sub packages. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.760 He's been a really good player for a long time, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.520 but he's having a bit of a breakout year here, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.240 evident by the numbers pressures and run stops him on 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.640 that group. Jude On sixty five pressures, thirty four run stops, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.320 he is a production machine. Wise fifty pressures, twenty four 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.720 run stops also very damn good, forty four pressures and 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.560 nineteen run stops. And then Jennings nine and ten. Christian 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.520 bar More inside, he's the complete package. He's so quick 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.280 off the football and plays behind his pads. He kind 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.000 of reminds me of Christian Wilkins in a lot of 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.120 ways in terms of his skill set. Next is Devon Gatco. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.400 We know about him, one of the best run stuffing 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.320 defensive tackles in football. He typically comes off in pass 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.960 rough situations when Wise kicks inside. Then another familiar face, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.080 not that he played here, but Dietrich Wise has been 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.120 there forever. Likewise, I should say Lawrence Guy. We tried 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.400 to get him a couple of years ago. I think 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.200 these guys play such a good gap control football. Among 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.760 those players, pressures and run stops twelve and twelve for 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.360 bar More, he was injured for a lot of the year, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.000 Gotchase thirteen and twenty seven and then guy Is seventeen 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.160 and eighteen. For our guys standing on blocks and really 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.040 trying to wipe out that first level. That first line 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.000 of defense is so good at you know, stack shed 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.960 two gaps kind of like our guys. If you can 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.120 swallow them up and get consistent staying on blocks, you'll 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.400 spring guys into the second level and get those blockers 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.840 and those linebackers. That's where Miami has to win this game. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.840 They've been good, good at it the last couple of weeks, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.600 staying on blocks in the Packer game, the Buffalo game, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.720 and not so much the second half of the Packer game, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.040 but staying on blocks and driving guys off of the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.840 line and driving him off of gaps. If we can 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.120 do that again this week, I think we have a 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.000 chance to win the game. And that's where like Rob 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.320 hunt breakout year comes into play. It's where Rob Jones 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.520 hopefully can play one of his better games and Connor 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.440 Williams get back on track. If those three guys can 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.080 play like we know they can, Miami has a good 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.840 shot here. Running back in linebacker Jawan Bentley was a 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.920 three year captain at Notre Dame and a big hitter. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.960 That's what he's been as a pro. He leads the 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.720 team with thirty nine run stops, has six team pressures 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.400 on just a hundred and eight pass rush reps. So 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.560 he's a really good blitzer who can both get after 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.760 the quarterback but also occupy blockers in a very meaningful 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.200 way for his teammates. Running Backs don't like going up 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.160 against him in past protection. His missed tackle percentage of 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.800 just eight percent when you want to get him though, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.800 is in past coverage. He's not a really good change 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.120 of direction skill set, and that's a big part of 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.120 why the Bengals were able to get underneath and just 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.880 eat him up in that part of the field. They 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.160 don't cover that portion of the field particularly will because 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.200 the linebacker spot is a little bit of a vulnerability 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.480 when it comes to coverage on those types of things. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.800 July to Vy, Mack Wilson, and ray Kwan Davis all 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.680 get snaps the deep position group and they fulfilled different 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.560 types of roles, but they want to go with Bentley 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.760 and more dbs and more of that front, so those 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.600 guys don't play a whole bunch of snaps. When McMillan's 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.880 in the game. You guys know about that, Like, he's 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.400 a run defender, right, so throw at him too. That's 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.120 kind of the approach there. Let's go ahead and take 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.880 our first break and come back on the other side 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.080 and assess the Patriots offense first, the Dolphins defense. That's 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.200 next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:10.920 you by Auto Nation. The final Thursday night football game 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.560 of the season coming up tonight, Titans and Cowboys. What 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.600 a bad one that is? It's been Primetime has been 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.800 rough this year. Man. Let's go ahead and talk about 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.800 a big game on Sunday though, Open Foxboro Dolphins and Patriots. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.280 Let's look at the Dolphins defense first. The Patriots offense 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.159 here um led by second year quarterback Mac Jones. The 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.600 numbers have dropped from last year. The tape wasn't great 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.240 early in the year. It's been a little bit better 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.720 since then. He's really dialed some deep shots to a 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.439 receiver corps that's just not built to consistently do that 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.560 and stretch defenses in that manner. It's kind of been 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.600 the saving grace of their offense to be honest with you. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.000 He throws a pretty good go ball to that boundary 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.600 X receiver. He hit one against US in Week one 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.960 to Jacoby Myers. He throws a bunch of them to 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.080 Devanta Parker. But we'll see if Deavanta plays this week. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.560 I don't know if you will. To me, max best 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.200 trape is his ability to keep his eyes downfield against 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.720 the rush and moved to new platforms and extend the 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.080 clock long enough to get the football out. He gets 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.240 the ball out in two point four eight seconds on 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.040 average against the Blitz. So it's give or take because like, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.000 if he doesn't have that first read, you can take 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.720 it away. Man, you can light this dude up with 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.679 a pass rush. He's not gonna move and be nimble 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.840 to evade, you know, collapsing pockets. So to me, like 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.879 keeping the pressure on him, however you have to do 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.840 it is the key. You pressure him a bunch. It's 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.320 gonna be a negative day for their offense, especially if 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.040 you can stop the run and create those pressures on 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.400 obvious passing downs. But against the Blitz, he's fifty, so 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.760