Speaker 1: To on the move Darlan Deep Speedless Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please gotta my havans
Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: we're getting ready for Dolphins and Bills. Later tonight across
Speaker 2: the street at hard Rock Stadium. We're gonna welcome in
Speaker 2: Sal Capaccio to break down this matchup from the Bills perspective.
Speaker 3: We'll pick the week two games.
Speaker 2: We'll also hear some soundbites from the Dolphins coaches and
Speaker 2: players and react to those comments to those sound bites.
Speaker 2: All of that and a heck of a lot more
Speaker 2: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Joining us today on
Speaker 2: the Draft Time Podcast. Friend of the podcast, Sal Capaccio,
Speaker 2: the host of Extra Point on WGR five point fifty
Speaker 2: in Buffalo. You can also catch him doing sidelines at
Speaker 2: Bills games. Sal, here we go again, my friend. I
Speaker 2: look forward to these games as much as I kind
Speaker 2: of loathe these games because they're tough, they're hard fought.
Speaker 2: They usually come down to the end, and lately it's
Speaker 2: been the wrong team winning. But man, here we go again, dude,
Speaker 2: just getting ready for Dolphins and Bills once more. How
Speaker 2: you doing out there from a beautiful Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Orchard Park right here at the stadium. The right
Speaker 1: team as.
Speaker 4: Far as we're concerned over here. It's out on top
Speaker 4: a lot of times here. But listen, you talk about
Speaker 4: you loving them and loathing them. Yes, for me, same thing,
Speaker 4: love hate relationship. This goes back to when I was
Speaker 4: a kid in the eighties and we all knew the
Speaker 4: scar tissue of the Dolphins being the Bills for twenty
Speaker 4: straight times in the seventies, and then the Bills get
Speaker 4: Jim Kelly and him and Marv Levy beat Dan Reno
Speaker 4: Donchulo quite a bit, and they had some back and
Speaker 4: forth and even the playoff games, and then you have
Speaker 4: the whole Brian Cox situation going against Bills fans.
Speaker 1: It's just been such a great rival. I'm glad it's back,
Speaker 1: Glad it's renewed.
Speaker 4: But man, so I think of an expectation from Bills
Speaker 4: fans if you better beat the Dolphins, right it's what
Speaker 4: you do, Josh Allen, but we all know it's not easy.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, the Bills go down there,
Speaker 4: they lose in the South Florida Sun and you know
Speaker 4: they had to go down there last year and get
Speaker 4: a punt return from Deonta Hardy to win the division. So,
Speaker 4: by no means, I think that you could expect either
Speaker 4: of these teams because they are two familiar opponents, they
Speaker 4: know each other very well, and this is going to
Speaker 4: be a hard, bough game on a short week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you took it right into my first question here
Speaker 2: about this game, because you say the expectation and why
Speaker 2: wouldn't it be for Buffalo to come down here and
Speaker 2: beat the Dolphins, because they've done that a lot in
Speaker 2: recent years. But as I would kind of contend, as
Speaker 2: this game sets up for the Dolphins, if you're going
Speaker 2: to get this team, this is when you probably have
Speaker 2: to do it because it is a short week at
Speaker 2: home earlier in the year when it's tough to get
Speaker 2: yourself turned around four days later. I'm curious from the
Speaker 2: Buffalo perspective, the challenge of going on the road on
Speaker 2: a short week just kind of take us through that.
Speaker 3: If you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, it's a challenge. It's also one of
Speaker 1: the longer flights, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean people talk about long plights going east coast,
Speaker 4: west coast and vice versa. This is a flight from
Speaker 4: all the way up, you know, in northern America, basically
Speaker 4: right in western New York to all the way down
Speaker 4: to the southern Tip.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a three hour plus flight.
Speaker 4: You say, there's not a lot of time on Wednesday
Speaker 4: to get as much work in for the team. They're
Speaker 4: gonna have to get on the charter and fly down
Speaker 4: there on Wednesday, get there Wednesday night, get ready for
Speaker 4: a game on Thursday, dual walk through at the hotel.
Speaker 4: A lot of challenges here, and of course that's recovery time,
Speaker 4: injury recovery time. You got some injuries we're dealing with.
Speaker 4: We could talk about Josh Allen, Taron Johnson, Duwan Smooth
Speaker 4: a few of those. But of course it's it's a challenge.
Speaker 4: I do think though, that the fact that you know,
Speaker 4: the two teams play each other every year, and they've
Speaker 4: had the same coaches now for the last few years,
Speaker 4: and the same personnel really over the last several years,
Speaker 4: it really helps out I don't know. There's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot of surprises here, Travis, right. I mean it's basically,
Speaker 4: you know what we do, we know what you do,
Speaker 4: maybe a wrinkle here or there, and we're just gonna
Speaker 4: get after it as best we can.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I think it makes the most sense, and from a
Speaker 2: content perspective, not that anybody cares about that, but you
Speaker 2: and I, I love this Thursday game in week two
Speaker 2: opposed it any other time of the year because I
Speaker 2: was able to get some work done on the front end.
Speaker 2: We're the beneficiaries of this, Whereas the team can't afford
Speaker 2: to look ahead to a Week two game a big one,
Speaker 2: but we can from content creation standpoint, so I kind
Speaker 2: of love it. But I also love the concept of
Speaker 2: if we're going to have these Thursday games and they're
Speaker 2: great for the league. It's a product that you know,
Speaker 2: gets a lot of money in our pockets, as it
Speaker 2: were for the league. I love that they do it
Speaker 2: from a divisional perspective because, like you said, the familiarity
Speaker 2: with each team I think on a short week makes
Speaker 2: the preparation a little bit easier. At least that's what
Speaker 2: I would glean from the concept right, Like, it makes
Speaker 2: sense that that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of how it works out for sure.
Speaker 4: And look, I mean I know that what's the cliche,
Speaker 4: one game at a time, we're not thinking about the
Speaker 4: last game. You know for sure that these two teams
Speaker 4: were preparing for each other in their own way before this, right,
Speaker 4: even before last week.
Speaker 1: You have to there's no way you can't.
Speaker 4: You have to have your practice schedule setup, You have
Speaker 4: to have a game plan already in as soon as
Speaker 4: that game is over on so day, Bam, you're hiting
Speaker 4: the gun running on Monday. So I'm sure they've been
Speaker 4: looking at well, I think in both cases here right,
Speaker 4: like new coordinators for both teams. Bobby Babbage obviously's running
Speaker 4: Sean mcdermot's defense. But Joe Brady, what does he bring
Speaker 4: to the table. I'm sure that you know, Anthony Weaver
Speaker 4: is looking at that. I'm sure that Joe Brady's looking
Speaker 4: at Okay, what do I know about Anthony Weaver For
Speaker 4: a new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: All those things have to be put in place before
Speaker 1: the week starts.
Speaker 2: And we heard from coach Weaver just a few minutes
Speaker 2: ago tapping this podcast on Tuesday, talking about the challenges
Speaker 2: of getting ready for a Jacksonville defense that, yeah, you
Speaker 2: have tape on their personnel, and yeah, you have tape
Speaker 2: of Brian Nielson in Atlanta doing his running his scheme
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, but you don't have a real concept of
Speaker 2: what that looks like together, and so you.
Speaker 3: Have to make those in game adjustments.
Speaker 2: I am curious who we get some of that here
Speaker 2: with Dolphins and Bills on a short week here. Like
Speaker 2: you mentioned Bobby Babbage, Anthony, we were both new pieces
Speaker 2: of that puzzle. But of course the offenses have some
Speaker 2: continuity there with Miami in their third year and the
Speaker 2: Bills coming into year two here with Joe Brady at
Speaker 2: of offensive coordinator. What's been the early returns there on
Speaker 2: Joe Brady and the way the system has gone. I
Speaker 2: know it's only one game, but we saw them kind
Speaker 2: of pivot in season. I have to imagine that's pretty
Speaker 2: tough to put together kind of a new concept and
Speaker 2: new like you know, scheme as far as Joe Brady's concerned,
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it. But what are
Speaker 2: the returns after a full off season, full training camp,
Speaker 2: and now one game in on what the offense looks
Speaker 2: like under Joe Brady.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I talk with Joe back in the off season at
Speaker 4: the owners meetings about the combat excuse me about you
Speaker 4: know that exact thing you just said, and trying to
Speaker 4: do that, and he said, look, it's not what it is.
Speaker 1: Really, it's Josh Allen's offense. What he likes.
Speaker 4: You have to mesh, you know, your concepts, what he likes,
Speaker 4: and then at the end of the year you can
Speaker 4: kind of put that all together a little bit more
Speaker 4: and kind of expand what you want to do.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we've seen here.
Speaker 4: And really the messaging that we've heard really was brought
Speaker 4: to light here on Sunday, which Travis is everybody eats.
Speaker 4: That's their mantra. Everybody eats in this offense. This is
Speaker 4: not about one guy or two guys. Step On Diggs
Speaker 4: at Gabe Davis, two hundred and forty one targets together
Speaker 4: walked out the door, and you know, for different reasons,
Speaker 4: this was not a team that was going to replace
Speaker 4: those targets with two people. It's replacing them with four
Speaker 4: or five people. That's what we saw on Sunday. The
Speaker 4: Bills threw the ball to ten different players, nine of
Speaker 4: them had catches. Every one of those nine had over
Speaker 4: double digit and yardage. I mean, it's pretty amazing actually,
Speaker 4: But that's what they want to be. They want to
Speaker 4: be this team where they can go to anyone at
Speaker 4: any time. It's not about forcing the ball to anyone.
Speaker 4: You know, step On Diggs, he's a great player, we
Speaker 4: know that, but with him comes an aura of hey,
Speaker 4: he's your number one, he's your alpha getting on the ball,
Speaker 4: just like Tyreek Killwood.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that. They're great players, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 4: But I think that the Bills wanted to go to
Speaker 4: this model where, look, we want to make sure that
Speaker 4: Joshua has come to going to anybody at any time,
Speaker 4: and we can spread the ball around. If you want
Speaker 4: to shut somebody down, somebody else is open. And that's
Speaker 4: what the Cardinals did. They took away what I think
Speaker 4: is the Bill's number one target this year, daltonkin Cage.
Speaker 4: I mean, he was getting double team, triple team, one
Speaker 4: catch eleven yards. Well, because of that, here comes Dawson
Speaker 4: Knox with a big twenty three yard game. Here comes
Speaker 4: you know, Khalil Shakir with a nice game, and the
Speaker 4: leading receiver for the team was rookie Keon Coleman. He
Speaker 4: only had four catches for fifty one yards, but that's
Speaker 4: because everybody else was also getting in on the act.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you.
Speaker 3: Mentioned that perfectly. The two tight ends there.
Speaker 2: In Keen Kid Knocks and my preview podcast that came
Speaker 2: out yesterday, I talked a lot about the matchup with
Speaker 2: those guys and how tough they are to contend, and
Speaker 2: I think that it almost lends itself, and I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear your perspective on that. To Josh allen strengths, which
Speaker 2: a lot of that is creating off script and running
Speaker 2: the football, Like I don't want this guy to ever
Speaker 2: tucket and run because he makes plays when he does,
Speaker 2: and he makes a lot of him against the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: When he does.
Speaker 2: Do you find kind of feel like this, you know,
Speaker 2: new wave of Bill's offense with James Cook in that
Speaker 2: running game and these two tight ends who are both
Speaker 2: damn good players. Do you feel like that kind of
Speaker 2: more fits the mold of what Josh Allen does.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: I think it fits the mold on what the Bills
Speaker 4: want to do here at this part of Josh Allen's career,
Speaker 4: So yes, it fits what he does because he gets
Speaker 4: spread it around. We all know he's got the big arm, right,
Speaker 4: but Josh is actually very good at dissecting defenses, finding
Speaker 4: the open man.
Speaker 1: He's a very high football IQ.
Speaker 4: And if we're gonna spread the field fifty three to
Speaker 4: third yards wide and you're gonna cover everybody, guess's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna open run lanes, right, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: able to get through those run lanes like he did.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, Travis.
Speaker 4: You know that One of the talking points this week
Speaker 4: here after Sunday was Bills fan saying, well, they needed
Speaker 4: Josh Allen to be Superman.
Speaker 1: No, they didn't. Actually he just was. They actually were
Speaker 1: very good on offense, even independent of what he did.
Speaker 4: He's just such a great player that if you look
Speaker 4: at the box score and go, well, there's Josh Allen
Speaker 4: again run in twice and throw two touchdowns. Boy, he
Speaker 4: had to put on the cape. He didn't have to
Speaker 4: put on the cape. He just happened to put on
Speaker 4: the cape because that's what he does.
Speaker 1: He's a great player.
Speaker 4: They actually played very well on offense. James Cook in
Speaker 4: the first half was averaging close to seven yards of carry.
Speaker 4: I mean, in the second half, the Cardinals did a
Speaker 4: nice job of shutting them down. Sure that lent itself
Speaker 4: to Josh having to make a couple of plays here
Speaker 4: and there.
Speaker 1: I also think it's interesting. Brandon Bean was on our.
Speaker 4: Radio program before the game on Sunday. He was asked
Speaker 4: about one player position that he's really kind of high
Speaker 4: on this year, and his answer was interesting to me.
Speaker 4: He said, I think this is the best running back
Speaker 4: room we've had since I've been here, and that just
Speaker 4: tells me that they're going to lean on James Cook,
Speaker 4: Ray Davis, and Ty Johnson to be a big part
Speaker 4: of this offense.
Speaker 2: And a couple of names though that I'm sure Dolphins
Speaker 2: fans aren't really that privy to you there, but you
Speaker 2: saw the success they had against the Cardinals and that opener,
Speaker 2: and a big part of that, of course Josh Allen's
Speaker 2: ability to run the football. But yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 2: they kind of have this spread the ball around, spread
Speaker 2: the wealth offense a kin to what the Dolphins have
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways with two of in the
Speaker 2: point guard stuff. And we saw a lot of that
Speaker 2: on Sunday with how they were able to in the
Speaker 2: first half, get the ball to different guys and then
Speaker 2: in the second half go back to reek and waddle
Speaker 2: for you know, both going over one hundred yards. That's
Speaker 2: pretty fun too. Before our first break here, Sally, I
Speaker 2: want to ask you, what's the word on Josh Allen's hand.
Speaker 2: We saw him getting that tape job after the rushing touchdown, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, for a guy, a two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty pound guy to go I don't know, eight feet
Speaker 2: in the air, however high he jumped and then land
Speaker 2: on the hand and just be like the look on
Speaker 2: his face as they were taping it up. I was like,
Speaker 2: is he not in pain right now? Like, how the
Speaker 2: hell is that possible? What's the latest on Josh Allen
Speaker 2: in that hand?
Speaker 4: By the way, they make murals of those shots and
Speaker 4: pictures of Josh here and Buffalo, like literally the side
Speaker 4: of buildings.
Speaker 1: He's jumping over things and people. They take those. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Really, He's just he is such a special, special player,
Speaker 4: but he's a little bit banged up.
Speaker 1: He hurt that hand when he came down.
Speaker 4: He had X rays after Sean mcdrrit Bill's head coach,
Speaker 4: told us yesterday on Monday that Josh is cleared to play.
Speaker 4: So whatever happened with those X rays, you know, good
Speaker 4: to go. And look, he did come back in the
Speaker 4: game and he did run the ball. He did take center,
Speaker 4: snaps under center, he did take snaps in shotgun. He
Speaker 4: did everything that a normal quarterback does. But hey, Jorenale's flowing.
Speaker 1: You never know. He got X rays. He is cleared
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 4: But I still wonder, you know, a little bit about
Speaker 4: ball security, especially if he's turning to his right to
Speaker 4: hand off with his left hand.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's compromised at all.
Speaker 4: But obviously the Bills feel very confident about Josh Allen's
Speaker 4: ability to do what he needs to do on.
Speaker 3: Thursday night, great stuff so far.
Speaker 2: My guest today is Sal Capaccio from WGR five point
Speaker 2: fifty up in Buffalo, also the Bill's sideline. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead and take a quick break right here. I
Speaker 2: have three more questions for you on the other side,
Speaker 2: talking about this Bill's defense and a lot of new
Speaker 2: faces in blue on that defense. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2: Picking it back up here on this Wednesday preview edition
Speaker 2: of Dolphins and Bill's actually check that it's Thursday. Sala,
Speaker 2: My days are all off on the short week with friend.
Speaker 2: I know you feel the same way, but get the
Speaker 2: w out of the way on Thursday and then go
Speaker 2: into a long weekend and enjoy that. We're all hoping
Speaker 2: that that's the case here, both Buffalo and Miami fans.
Speaker 3: Before I get to these two questions about the defense.
Speaker 2: And for those of you that are all of you,
Speaker 2: this is an audio platform.
Speaker 3: You can't see. So right now?
Speaker 2: Has the shades on right outside of high Mark Stadium.
Speaker 2: They're an Archard Park. He's got the shades brocking a
Speaker 2: beautiful tea.
Speaker 1: By the way, Can I can I show you something here?
Speaker 6: Real?
Speaker 1: Quock?
Speaker 4: I go for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching you.
Speaker 1: See that over there? That's the new stadium.
Speaker 3: There you go. How close are we on that?
Speaker 1: It's going to open in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 4: And if you can see the cranes over there, yep,
Speaker 4: So the new stadium for all your listeners, is this
Speaker 4: on video?
Speaker 1: For people? Are just audio?
Speaker 3: Just an audio?
Speaker 1: Oh man? Okay, so I'm showing it to you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I apologize, I thought, but.
Speaker 4: If people want to see it like it is, just
Speaker 4: to give an update. If you're coming to everybody's coming
Speaker 4: to Buffalo. We've got a lot of Miami fans to
Speaker 4: come here, a lot of a lot of Canadian Dolphin
Speaker 4: fans actually that come down across the border, and they're
Speaker 4: going to see this really big stadium that's going in
Speaker 4: across the street.
Speaker 1: And you, Travis, can see the lights behind me.
Speaker 4: The new stadium will be twenty feet higher than those
Speaker 4: lights at the top of it.
Speaker 2: Wow, is that those lights dwarf the stadium? Yes, looking
Speaker 2: at right behind you. That's a crazy, crazy stat there,
Speaker 2: stadium stat Didn't know we those but really good stuff.
Speaker 2: And yeah, to your point about the Canadian Dolphins fans,
Speaker 2: that's the dam An Reno effect.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 2: Whenever you have a star player like that, you get
Speaker 2: you get a generation of fans. That's where that comes from.
Speaker 2: Speaking of lights, let's let's go ahead and start here
Speaker 2: before the defense. Curious to get your perspective, the player's perspective.
Speaker 2: Just what do the Bills think about coming down here
Speaker 2: this time of year? I mean, the game famously a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago was hot and Muggy and the
Speaker 2: guys were getting ivs. But now they catch their second
Speaker 2: straight year of playing under the lights at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 3: Are they excited about that? Do they talk about do
Speaker 3: they care about it?
Speaker 2: Just take me through their perspective on playing a night
Speaker 2: game versus a day game here in hot, hot South Florida.
Speaker 4: You know what, players are always going to say, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter what the conditions are, It doesn't matter when.
Speaker 1: They tell us to play. We got to go down
Speaker 1: to play. We'll be ready, we'll take care of our bodies.
Speaker 4: But I'm sure that you know the preparation for what
Speaker 4: it takes to play in the South Florida sun in
Speaker 4: the middle of the afternoon is probably a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Eas of their mind.
Speaker 4: A little bit about playing at night doesn't mean you
Speaker 4: still have don't have to prepare, of course you do.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure that you know the back of their
Speaker 4: minds they'd rather be playing in this situation than on
Speaker 4: a sunny, high scorching Sunday afternoon, just like Dolphins fans
Speaker 4: would probably rather see the Dolphins play in Buffalo on
Speaker 4: November third, like they're gonna be playing here in Buffalo
Speaker 4: instead of December twenty eighth or January first, or whatever
Speaker 4: it is. Because you have much less chance, not no chance,
Speaker 4: much less chance or some sort of snow precipitation.
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like the rivalry should be play
Speaker 2: in Miami and September, play in Buffalo December. Let's let's
Speaker 2: maximize the polarization of this rivalry. To me, that's what
Speaker 2: makes the game so great in so many ways. But
Speaker 2: aside from the weather and the lights and the heat
Speaker 2: and all that fun stuff, two.
Speaker 3: More questions here for you.
Speaker 2: And every time I've asked to about the Buffalo defense,
Speaker 2: going back to my first year with the team, his
Speaker 2: first year in twenty twenty, it was always Poyed and
Speaker 2: Higher sorry Poyer and Hide. But the guy that he
Speaker 2: would also direct me to was Tarin Johnson. Without him
Speaker 2: in the game, We'll talk about the rest of the
Speaker 2: defense here in a second, but I'm curious what does
Speaker 2: it look like when the Bills don't have This guy
Speaker 2: is the kind of the straw that stirs the drink,
Speaker 2: and a defense that is almost exclusively a nickel defense.
Speaker 2: How do they combat his loss?
Speaker 4: He's a fantastic All Pro. He's the only All Pro
Speaker 4: the defense last year. I could make an argument he's
Speaker 4: their best defensive player. I think to Robert Dard is
Speaker 4: fantastic as well and could have that claim, but he's
Speaker 4: really really good. And look, the Bills are also in
Speaker 4: a fortunate situation though they have a backup Nickel and
Speaker 4: cam Lewis has been here for six years and I
Speaker 4: think cam Lewis could start on most teams in this league.
Speaker 4: The game on Sunday, cam Lewis was supposed to play
Speaker 4: the dim safety role in passing situations. Seven plays into
Speaker 4: the game, Taron Johnson went out, so suddenly cam has
Speaker 4: to go and play Nickel nickel corner the rest of
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: He was great.
Speaker 4: He did a great job. The Bills are very, very
Speaker 4: confident in cam Lewis. He's not Taron Johnson, but he's
Speaker 4: a really good player. He's smaller like Taron Johnson. He's
Speaker 4: tough as nails and he'll get after you, and he's
Speaker 4: not He's not a guy that's going to necessarily show
Speaker 4: up and making, you know, big interceptions. I know Tarren
Speaker 4: Blitz is a lot, but when you look up at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you're like, man, cam Lewis
Speaker 4: made three or four big tackles. He was very physical
Speaker 4: and that's what they expect him to do in this
Speaker 4: game that there's gonna be no drop off as far
Speaker 4: as IQ communication understanding the defense. This guy's been here
Speaker 4: for six years. He's done a really good job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't have this defense constructed that way and not
Speaker 2: have a contingency plan in case something happens to Terran
Speaker 2: right like, that would make no sense, So I would
Speaker 2: the Bills are too smart to let that happen.
Speaker 3: Makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up here because on that point,
Speaker 2: you mentioned Trell Bernard. That's one of the mainstays now
Speaker 2: on this Buffalo defense after a great twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: breakout season. We know about Daikwan Jones, at Oliver, Gregory Russeau,
Speaker 2: I mean aj Epanessa. The names upfront are pretty much
Speaker 2: the same. But give the Dolphins fans here the skinny
Speaker 2: on a pretty new look defense because I mentioned already
Speaker 2: hide pull you're white. They're all gone. No Milano, no Johnson.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are the guys that for the last
Speaker 2: six seven years I would go into this game and
Speaker 2: be I'm like again, here we go again, because these
Speaker 2: guys are so damn good.
Speaker 3: But now it's just different.
Speaker 2: So if you can catch us up on some of
Speaker 2: the new pieces you did Cam Lewis already what else
Speaker 2: is new with that defense if you can for.
Speaker 4: Us so well, one of the guys are gonna be
Speaker 4: maybe likely missing on Sunday is Duan Smooth. They got
Speaker 4: them from Jacksonville Jaguars, who had a really nice, you
Speaker 4: know run Jackson but he suffered a toe injury before
Speaker 4: the opener.
Speaker 1: And that's a guy they actually really like.
Speaker 4: Is a piece that they can move around the defensive
Speaker 4: line outside inside. So as you mentioned Greg grus So,
Speaker 4: he's not new, but Greg Grusso had three sacks last week.
Speaker 1: This guy is really ascending. He's in his fourth year now.
Speaker 4: Remember him and Jaleen Phillips came out together University of
Speaker 4: Miami the same season.
Speaker 1: There two excellent players.
Speaker 4: Phillips goes about Miami Ruso comes the Buffalo on the
Speaker 4: back end is where you really find most of the changes.
Speaker 4: No more hot hide employer. They did draft col Bishop
Speaker 4: of the second round. He's been dealing with an injury.
Speaker 1: He was not active.
Speaker 4: Now we go back to what I said about Teron
Speaker 4: Johnson and what happened with kaim Lewis, because Cam Lewis
Speaker 4: had to move from the dime safety to the nickel
Speaker 4: role last week. That forced JaMarcus Ingram, who's a third
Speaker 4: year corner made the actual active roster for the first time,
Speaker 4: to actually become the dime safety.
Speaker 1: He's normally a boundary corner.
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be some shuffling that they're going to
Speaker 4: have to do if they want to go dime defense,
Speaker 4: if they want to do And I wonder, now, Travis
Speaker 4: does does Cole Bishop get a jersey and actually see
Speaker 4: his first NFL action? Is he ready for that? Is
Speaker 4: he healthy enough for that? Because I think that could
Speaker 4: be the role that he fits in Tomorrow Hamlin started
Speaker 4: last week. Look tomorrow, Hamlin is not Hied, He's not Poyer,
Speaker 4: but it's a four year veteran and he knows the
Speaker 4: defense and they trust him to know where he's supposed
Speaker 4: to be. So that could be a guy that's gonna
Speaker 4: make a lot of plays on the ball, but he's
Speaker 4: gonna try and keep everything in front of him do
Speaker 4: his job. And then Mike Edwards came over also from
Speaker 4: Kansas City. He's a guy that they are expecting to
Speaker 4: ultimately be a starter at safety, but he's been banged up.
Speaker 4: He also he was active on Sunday, he didn't play
Speaker 4: that much. I do wonder did the Bills. I do
Speaker 4: the weekly radio interview with Sean McDermott every week, and
Speaker 4: I'm trying to ask him about those guys, and he said, well,
Speaker 4: there's some preservation involved. That tells me maybe they were
Speaker 4: holding them out knowing they had a game in five
Speaker 4: days against the Dolphins and they're gonna be used.
Speaker 2: Akin to Jalen Phillips and Jalen Ramsey both getting thirty
Speaker 2: nine snaps of the fifty and the week one win
Speaker 2: over Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: Sal, great stuff, man. We got a lot smart say.
Speaker 2: By the Buffalo Bills, some information that even I didn't
Speaker 2: know going into this game. So really helpful there. He's
Speaker 2: a reporter for the Bills. You can find him on
Speaker 2: the sidelines during the games. Also the host of Extra
Speaker 2: point on WGR five point fifty up in Buffalo. At
Speaker 2: Sal Sports on Twitter. Overall, great dude, Sal capaccio as always, man,
Speaker 2: we appreciate your time and we'll see you here tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh night, my friend.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to be rocking at Heart Rock. Thanks a lot, man,
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: It is always great to hear from Sal. Although I
Speaker 2: hate that team, I do like a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys that cover that team as they are good people
Speaker 2: and good podcast guest as he was there TOAs a
Speaker 2: lot about the Buffalo Bills. As of course, you can
Speaker 2: learn more from the Dolphins perspective on the Wednesday podcast
Speaker 2: that came out yesterday morning, taking a look at this
Speaker 2: game from a Dolphins and Bill's perspective in the matchups
Speaker 2: that I think Miami can exploit and go after. Let's
Speaker 2: finish up segment two here with the Week two picks.
Speaker 2: I am pretty happy about going ten and six in
Speaker 2: Week number one. That's typically a week where you just
Speaker 2: try to get over five hundred and get on too
Speaker 2: week two, because you learn so much about teams in
Speaker 2: the first game of the year. I will say I
Speaker 2: do think that overreactions are a very common occurrence in
Speaker 2: Week number one. But like you just don't know what
Speaker 2: you're going to get going into the season, Like, for instance,
Speaker 2: I thought Carolina might be better this year.
Speaker 3: I don't think that anymore.
Speaker 2: Like you change your perspective on a team Atlanta with
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, they didn't move them out of the pocket.
Speaker 3: They didn't run play action.
Speaker 2: They just had him static in the middle of the
Speaker 2: pocket hope that pressure wouldn't come. Can he move at
Speaker 2: thirty nine years old off that Achilles injury? It doesn't
Speaker 2: look like it, And so my perspective on their entire
Speaker 2: season has completely shifted. What I'm trying to say is
Speaker 2: we now have some information of these teams, and that
Speaker 2: allows us to hopefully be more accurate in our picks
Speaker 2: the rest of the way forward, chasing down one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety one wins, one ninety one and eighty one
Speaker 2: last year, but then seven and six in the playoffs. Gross,
Speaker 2: I digress. Let's go ahead and cue the music and
Speaker 2: do the Week two picks. And I have gone back
Speaker 2: and forth so much on this Dolphins and Bills Thursday
Speaker 2: night matchup that I actually recorded it with a Dolphins
Speaker 2: prediction loss on the show. But after going back over
Speaker 2: the tape and spending more time focusing on the matchup,
Speaker 2: I am going to pick the Dolphins. I had the
Speaker 2: Bills originally because I just think the Dolphins are in
Speaker 2: the exact same position they were offensively in Week eighteen
Speaker 2: last year. Of course, they have waddleback for the but
Speaker 2: as far as the depth at the skills spots, it's
Speaker 2: still depleted, and the offensive.
Speaker 3: Line is the exact same offensive line for the most part, So.
Speaker 2: I'm dubious about that prediction when I look at the
Speaker 2: loss of Arren Johnson, no Matt Malano, all the changes
Speaker 2: in the defensive backfield. They had communication issues back there
Speaker 2: on Sunday. I don't think it gets corrected in one week.
Speaker 2: I think this is the Dolphins chance to win this game.
Speaker 2: I think they get it done on Sunday. I'm taking
Speaker 2: the Cowboys over the Saints. I thought the Cowboys might
Speaker 2: fall off this year. I think that still could happen,
Speaker 2: But Dat getting his contract right before the season began
Speaker 2: was a kind of shifter on that.
Speaker 3: So I probably undersold their win total a bit this year.
Speaker 2: And I am not for a second buying the Saints
Speaker 2: after they beat a JV football team in Carolina on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Give me the Lions over the Bucks. How fine does
Speaker 2: the Lions have the exact same schedules start the year
Speaker 2: as they did the first two rounds of the playoffs
Speaker 2: last year? Rams and Bucks think both those games are
Speaker 2: at home, too, So give me the Detroit Lions to
Speaker 2: go to two and zero. I'll take the Colts over
Speaker 2: the Packers. I would have had Green Bay had Jordan
Speaker 2: Love played in that one, but I do not think
Speaker 2: Malik will can beat a team that has an offense
Speaker 2: led by Anthony Richardson and all that he can do
Speaker 2: from a scoring standpoint. The Jets and Titans. I really
Speaker 2: want to take the Titans here. I think coming off
Speaker 2: of a short week, getting some injuries in that game
Speaker 2: on Monday night, traveling back across the country, and the
Speaker 2: fact that they're just not that good of a football team,
Speaker 2: like everyone picked them go to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 2: that's hilarious again for the second straight year. I think
Speaker 2: they'll win a tight one over the Titans because I
Speaker 2: think Will Levis kind of stinks. The Niners over the Vikings.
Speaker 2: That's obvious to me that the Niners are going to
Speaker 2: roll all year long. The Seahawks over the Patriots as
Speaker 2: they travel way out East, and the Patriots probably had
Speaker 2: their their one win they're going to get in quite
Speaker 2: a while here to kick off the season. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: I'll take Washington over the Giants because I'm not going
Speaker 2: to pick the Giants probably all this year. The Chargers
Speaker 2: and they're boring a brand of football over a horrible
Speaker 2: Carolina team. I think Jacksonville bounces back and beats the Browns,
Speaker 2: and gosh, how fun is it to watch Deshaun Watson
Speaker 2: play horrible football every single week?
Speaker 3: Hope that continues all year long.
Speaker 2: The Ravens over the Raiders and a massive stomp beat down.
Speaker 3: That's going to be an embrassing one.
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Cardinals over the Rams because of all
Speaker 2: the Rams offensive line injuries no Puka and Dakua. If
Speaker 2: it wasn't for Matt Stafford, Matt Rams team would not
Speaker 2: win a game. He is the third best quarterback in
Speaker 2: the NFL for my money, behind Allen and Mahomes. But
Speaker 2: I think that the Cardinals can get enough here with
Speaker 2: those injuries on the Rams offensive line to disrupt their
Speaker 2: offense just enough and score points against the Rams defense.
Speaker 3: That man, it's not great.
Speaker 2: I don't think give me the Broncos over the Steelers.
Speaker 2: This is probably the toughest pick of the week for
Speaker 2: me because I don't like the Broncos offense. The defense
Speaker 2: is okay, but playing in Mile High in September is
Speaker 2: a tough adjustment for anybody, and I think Pittsburgh's offense stinks,
Speaker 2: and so I think they can win like a seventeen
Speaker 2: to sixteen game at home.
Speaker 3: Give me the Chiefs over the Bengals.
Speaker 2: The Bengals finally get Joe Burrow for an entire summer,
Speaker 2: entire training camp, and they come out and they still
Speaker 2: stink in September. So give me the former champs to
Speaker 2: win that one after coming off of a ten day break.
Speaker 2: Give me the Texans over the Bears and a throttling
Speaker 2: on Sunday Night football.
Speaker 3: The Bears should not have won the opener.
Speaker 2: The Titans gave them that game. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a rough start for the Bears in my opinion. And
Speaker 2: the Eagles over the Kirk Cousin camp move Falcons in
Speaker 2: a big romp on Monday. What a crappy Sunday Monday
Speaker 2: slate this one is this week, But I digress. Those
Speaker 2: are the Week two picks ten and six in Week one,
Speaker 2: trying to get twelve wins here this week we shall
Speaker 2: see and check back on that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our last break of the show right there. Come
Speaker 2: back on the other side and hear from some of
Speaker 2: the players and coaches and break down those comments. That's
Speaker 2: all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
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Speaker 3: It is the.
Speaker 2: Day of the game, Dolphins and Buffalo Bills, the biggest
Speaker 2: game of the year, really, I think until we play
Speaker 2: these guys again in November. And that's why I'm coming
Speaker 2: in kind of hot in this segment, a little bit
Speaker 2: annoyed by the way the press conference went with coach
Speaker 2: McDaniel and really throughout the entire week.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: Granted, I understand everybody has different goals with their media approach,
Speaker 2: and they're definitely not the same as mine. I am
Speaker 2: not traditional media in the I cover this team.
Speaker 3: And this game.
Speaker 2: I am all about the ball and everything that happens
Speaker 2: on the field, right, But I do want to address
Speaker 2: this because I'm only gonna touch it once and then
Speaker 2: we are finito with it. Because I just keep getting
Speaker 2: tweets under every single tweet that I send, under the
Speaker 2: YouTube videos. I see them under the Dolphins accounts, and
Speaker 2: I know they're just bots doing what bots do on
Speaker 2: this new version of Twitter. I get all that, but
Speaker 2: I do want to make my thoughts abundantly clear. My
Speaker 2: name's on the show, so you come for the Dolphins content.
Speaker 2: But you also come for the Travis Wingfield a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't care if Tyreek Hill was a little bit lippy.
Speaker 2: I don't care if he was a little bit disrespectful.
Speaker 2: I think he was those two things. None of that, absolutely,
Speaker 2: none of that constitutes being assaulted. That's what we witnessed
Speaker 2: out there, a legalized assault on someone that should have
Speaker 2: been something that should have been as simple as I
Speaker 2: have his license, he ruled his way back up, I
Speaker 2: scanned his plates, I issue a speeding ticket. Event over,
Speaker 2: go about your day. Go put two hundred yards on
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars. But that ain't what happened, man, because
Speaker 2: of a total power trip.
Speaker 3: It's not anti police, it's not any of that.
Speaker 2: It's an anti abuse of power and anti assault. Do
Speaker 2: not put your hands on another man unless he does
Speaker 2: the same thing to you. There is no reason for
Speaker 2: that in any situation. And I will not reply to
Speaker 2: a single one of those comments on Twitter. Go get
Speaker 2: a damn life, Go touch some damn grass. Quit spending
Speaker 2: all your time tweeting into the void, because notice how
Speaker 2: none of those tweets ever have any engagement attached to
Speaker 2: them whatsoever. I promise you the real world touching some
Speaker 2: actual physical sawgrass, although it's not the best grass in
Speaker 2: the world. Playing with your kids, I promise you it'll
Speaker 2: bring you more fulfillment than tweeting into an echo chamber.
Speaker 2: And that goes for both sides, right, But damn it, man,
Speaker 2: what happened to Tyreek Hill is in no way, shape
Speaker 2: or form deserved from anything that happened in that entire event.
Speaker 2: And just because he has a checkered past that makes
Speaker 2: it okay for a random punk to remove him from
Speaker 2: his car and then put him in cuffs and force
Speaker 2: him to the ground.
Speaker 3: Nah, Nah, fam, that ain't it.
Speaker 2: I know this is a sports platform, but I just
Speaker 2: don't f with that stuff, dude. So for everyone getting
Speaker 2: in my mentions, I'm not gonna reply there. So quit
Speaker 2: as all right, tough conversation to pivot off of, but
Speaker 2: we're going to do it here and close up this issue. Addition,
Speaker 2: I should say of the podcast with the latest from
Speaker 2: Dolphins coaches and players, including the injury report, we know
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills will not have Taran Johnson or Duwayne Smoot,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins will not have Raheem Mostert, and Devon Achann
Speaker 2: will be a game time decision. So that is basically
Speaker 2: where both these teams stand from an injury standpoint. Without
Speaker 2: eight Chan, I'll be honest with you, guys, my pick
Speaker 2: for the game flips. I will go back on that.
Speaker 2: Even after I talked about it in the open. I
Speaker 2: told you guys, I fled my pick from the Bills
Speaker 2: to the Dolphins after watching more tape.
Speaker 3: But without a CHAM.
Speaker 2: My concern about the lack of receiving options beyond Tyreek
Speaker 2: and Waddell, concerned about the ability to take advantage of
Speaker 2: how they're going to double them bracket those guys all
Speaker 2: night long is amplified when you remove who I think
Speaker 2: is receiver at number three. I do think Jalen Wright
Speaker 2: can handle the duties in the backfield for Raheem Moster.
Speaker 3: I don't think we.
Speaker 2: Have the bullets, even with the bills banged up defense
Speaker 2: and their loss of all these key veterans, I don't
Speaker 2: think that we have enough beyond that to give you
Speaker 2: more than twenty twenty four points against a team that
Speaker 2: typically holds team to that number of points, especially at
Speaker 2: division rival. So without a Chan, my prediction flips. Not
Speaker 2: that you guys care, but we'll see what happens come
Speaker 2: game time.
Speaker 3: Very important.
Speaker 2: It will be six forty five designation there before and
Speaker 2: actives come out. Let's go ahead and getting out of
Speaker 2: some press conference audio heading into this big matchup and
Speaker 2: start with QB one, who was asked about the additions
Speaker 2: of Jordan Poyer and Sirran Neil.
Speaker 3: Those guys help you out.
Speaker 2: He was also asked about Mike White and the concern
Speaker 2: about him relaying signals to the Buffalo defense, and two
Speaker 2: is like, no, it's not a concern. We don't have
Speaker 2: signals and he's not in the huddle to hear our
Speaker 2: play call, So what good does that do them? And
Speaker 2: if you notice we have two Bills defensive backs, what
Speaker 2: do the Bills have in their defensive backfield? Zero x
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, in fact zero Dolphins on that defense. So
Speaker 2: I think the advantage in that sense is Miami, and
Speaker 2: QB one agrees.
Speaker 5: They definitely can they know in the back end signals
Speaker 5: with what the Bills do and how they communicate things
Speaker 5: that they've done to stop us previous years, and then
Speaker 5: you know, just kind of the philosophy of that defense
Speaker 5: with what they try to accomplish against our offense uniquely
Speaker 5: different than a lot of the teams they would play against.
Speaker 5: So can take a lot of the information that I've
Speaker 5: been given from those guys earlier in the week and
Speaker 5: apply it to Thursday.
Speaker 3: Just a quick heads up.
Speaker 2: A lot of times the audio soundbites I have are
Speaker 2: turned all the way up, and that's the max volume
Speaker 2: I can get on those, So I do apologize if
Speaker 2: it's lighter than my audio. I don't want to drown
Speaker 2: myself down and make the whole show quiet.
Speaker 3: So that's why it sounds like that, if you guys
Speaker 3: have noticed that. Also.
Speaker 2: I think this is the best chance this offense has
Speaker 2: really had since twenty sixteen, when Sean McDermott wasn't there,
Speaker 2: when Rex Ryan was there, and then McDermott arrived and
Speaker 2: started putting these pieces in place on defense and incorporating
Speaker 2: his scheme. I think this is the Dolphin's best chance
Speaker 2: offensively to put Buffalo in a blender under Sean McDermott
Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen. I just it's never really happened here,
Speaker 2: and God, I wish we had our full complement of guys.
Speaker 3: I wish we had OBJ.
Speaker 2: I do think Devon a Champ plays in the game
Speaker 2: by the way I wish we had River Craycraft. I
Speaker 2: wish we had Raheem Moster, but they're so valuable. But
Speaker 2: I just think that if we had all those guys,
Speaker 2: I'd feel very confident about thirty five plus points in
Speaker 2: this game. Let's go ahead and go back to to
Speaker 2: on the importance of this matchup with the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 2: and how tuned in the team has been ahead of
Speaker 2: this massive, massive game.
Speaker 5: Guys that are in the locker room, guys are are
Speaker 5: in the right frame of mind, Guys are ready to
Speaker 5: play this game. And there's there's just been a lot
Speaker 5: of guys that have been here for their off days,
Speaker 5: not just getting working, but talking to each other, communicating
Speaker 5: things that we could get better with, and then going
Speaker 5: into this week talking personnel, talking you know, hey, this
Speaker 5: guy does this really well? You know, maybe this that
Speaker 5: or whatever. There's just been a lot of guys up
Speaker 5: here in the building the past day or so since
Speaker 5: since we've played. So I think that's that's a that's
Speaker 5: a good thing for us.
Speaker 3: Gosh, man, like I know it's early.
Speaker 2: I know One in one is not a death Neil
Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination, but from a narrative standpoint,
Speaker 2: it sure would be nice, wouldn't it. But also giving
Speaker 2: yourself a chance to go sweep them up in November.
Speaker 2: That's what is really what this is all about, and
Speaker 2: just kind of getting off on the right foot. I
Speaker 2: think with the long rest, the schedule the way it
Speaker 2: is the next few weeks, this is a really great
Speaker 2: chance for the Dolphins to put themselves in a good
Speaker 2: headspace going into the you know, final fifteen games of
Speaker 2: the season, on top of what it actually does in
Speaker 2: the tangible standings aspect of everything, and this game is
Speaker 2: gonna tell me a lot like I will be a
Speaker 2: bit panicked if they look sluggish offensively in this one,
Speaker 2: because there's no reason to. I know Buffalo's well coached,
Speaker 2: they know this offense very well, so there should be
Speaker 2: you know, division games tend to be tight, especially against
Speaker 2: a good, well coached defense like this, but even if
Speaker 2: they're undermanned, I just feel like this is a game
Speaker 2: where you need to be able to X K on
Speaker 2: offense because of the continuity, because of the star players.
Speaker 3: You didn't have Waddle in the Week eighteen game last year.
Speaker 2: You have him now, I think you're gonna have a
Speaker 2: chan which you had him in both the games last year,
Speaker 2: but we didn't have him in this capacity. Like, go
Speaker 2: do the damn thing, man, Tyreek is one hundred percent
Speaker 2: in this game like he was not in the Week
Speaker 2: eighteen game last year. Go look up on offense, go
Speaker 2: execute and get thirty points. Let's go back to the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the football here and ask coach Weaver,
Speaker 2: how long have you guys been talking about Josh Allen
Speaker 2: how to stop him?
Speaker 3: Just go back to February January when you were hired.
Speaker 3: What do you say, coach?
Speaker 7: Knowing what this game means to this organization? There are
Speaker 7: some things that really didn't need to be set as
Speaker 7: soon as the schedule came out and you saw this game,
Speaker 7: particularly a Thursday night game. Game two, it's when you
Speaker 7: kind of circle. So it's a short week. Thursday games
Speaker 7: aren't easy for anybody, but this one's going to be
Speaker 7: a little bit easier for our guys because of who
Speaker 7: our opponent is. It will it won't require a lot
Speaker 7: of motivation for me. These guys will be jacked up
Speaker 7: to play and the show who we are in front
Speaker 7: of a nationally televised audience.
Speaker 2: Highly recommend going to the YouTube Channel checking out coach
Speaker 2: Weave's entire press conference because he was fantastic. I hope
Speaker 2: this guy's here for five years, and I will wish
Speaker 2: him luck as a potential head coaching candidate that I
Speaker 2: think he will be one day. But I really hope
Speaker 2: we have this guy for quite a long time because
Speaker 2: he is great, and his answers about the Tyreek situation
Speaker 2: talking about his own experiences and his kids was very,
Speaker 2: very good. I highly recommend going back and checking that out.
Speaker 2: And then from the football perspective, I just can't wait
Speaker 2: to see what Weaver cooks up in his own right.
Speaker 2: I keep talking about this offense, but I think this
Speaker 2: thing was built for the Buffalo Bills with these guys
Speaker 2: in mind on either side of the ball. Just as
Speaker 2: the offense has a chance, I think the defense does too.
Speaker 2: Outside of Josh Allen heroics, which if he does that
Speaker 2: thing like, I don't think anybody in the league can
Speaker 2: stop a quarterback of his capabilities when he's on like that,
Speaker 2: So hopefully we don't get that. But he's a bit
Speaker 2: banged up, the hand is not one hundred percent short week,
Speaker 2: But most of all, this is just not the same
Speaker 2: offense they've had much like the defense. So let's make
Speaker 2: that play out on the field. Don't let this become
Speaker 2: a same old Dolphins and Bills thing. I implore you, God,
Speaker 2: I want this game. Can you guys tell already? Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and get two more soundbites here, both from
Speaker 2: Frank Smith. This one about the commonality across players perspectives
Speaker 2: from the issues in the game Sunday early on with
Speaker 2: offensive struggles about communication.
Speaker 3: Here's Frank Smith talking about that.
Speaker 2: But also the part I'm playing this for is how
Speaker 2: he describes a Week one opponent that you don't have
Speaker 2: a ton of familiarity with.
Speaker 3: Here's Frank Smith.
Speaker 6: A lot of it is just communication because if you
Speaker 6: have different plays have different variables, you know that you
Speaker 6: have to consider whether it's a movement or a play
Speaker 6: within a play that you're trying to get to versus
Speaker 6: a look. You know, it's the challenge of when you
Speaker 6: play a defense that's a first year of their staff
Speaker 6: and there's some variables that we as a staff as coaches,
Speaker 6: we're trying to make sure we're getting bed, trying to
Speaker 6: not chase the certainty, find the certainty inside of what
Speaker 6: they're trying to do, what their plan is and some
Speaker 6: of that was, you know, reflective, but ultimately, you know,
Speaker 6: when you regroup and you get together and you're going, Okay,
Speaker 6: here's what we need to do, we're able to do that.
Speaker 6: And the guys really responded and they did it together.
Speaker 6: I mean, you just can't talk enough about our guys
Speaker 6: and how they really bond together as a team and
Speaker 6: realize what they need to do to perform. And I
Speaker 6: think that was really exemplified in the first half. Hey,
Speaker 6: let's get together, let's fix what we need to fix,
Speaker 6: and now let's go play ball.
Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about this going into the Jacksonville game,
Speaker 2: and I was wrong about the total points for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: But you go back over the last two plus years. Now,
Speaker 2: Patriots and Bills games are the only time we've been
Speaker 2: held to a small number of points offensively in September,
Speaker 2: and I just keep thinking, you know, these divisional games
Speaker 2: tend to be tighter, but I just keep thinking, it's
Speaker 2: either going to look like that first half or it's
Speaker 2: going to look like the second half. And I'm eighty
Speaker 2: percent on the side of second half. The adjustments made
Speaker 2: kind of been preparing for this game all summer, built
Speaker 2: this team, I think to beat Buffalo, I want to
Speaker 2: believe that. I do need to see it, however to
Speaker 2: make it one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Oh the nerves man.
Speaker 2: And this answer right here to close the podcast is
Speaker 2: why I'm eighty percent compared to what I would have
Speaker 2: been probably otherwise at fifty percent.
Speaker 3: Frank Smith one more.
Speaker 6: Excellent, Excellent. They're very They're great communicators, and they're able
Speaker 6: to tell us what they're saying, what they're feeling, right,
Speaker 6: why things, Ay, why didn't you go here? Well it
Speaker 6: was because of this, Hey, why'd you do that? Well?
Speaker 6: He moved into the last second. Like, the guys have
Speaker 6: excellent communication skills, and that comes into the trust that
Speaker 6: you know, you build with the guys over through all
Speaker 6: their time here, and it's just it has to be
Speaker 6: an open communication because they're playing and they have to
Speaker 6: tell us what they're saying because you know, our vantage
Speaker 6: point is different, and they can't come off to the sideline,
Speaker 6: you know, until the drive is done, so they have
Speaker 6: to problem solve in the moment. So when they come
Speaker 6: off and they're problem solving with us, a lot of
Speaker 6: the time they kind of know and they're making their adjustments.
Speaker 6: So overall, I think that our guys in their communication
Speaker 6: was awesome and that's something that really you will be
Speaker 6: important as we go through the season.
Speaker 2: That was about the team's communication with adjustments coming off
Speaker 2: the field after series against the Jacksonville Jaguar.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. We'll have the game recap
Speaker 2: early on Friday morning. The All twenty two podcasts will
Speaker 2: be out Friday evening. We'll take Monday off and kind
Speaker 2: of let that All twenty two show permeate throughout the
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Speaker 2: Until next time, Ben's up, Carolyn and Cameron, Daddy, he's
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