Speaker 1: Factors are Alpis Pafford throw part touchdown. What a win
Speaker 1: for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, Thursday is preview day. No game
Speaker 1: in the NFL tonight, but we're gonna take a look
Speaker 1: at the New York Jets coming to town to take
Speaker 1: on your Miami Dolphins. Will look at the matchups, the personnel,
Speaker 1: the scheme for Sunday. Plus we'll get you updated on
Speaker 1: the latest injuries. We'll hear from Coach Flora's and some
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Speaker 1: four days out from kickoff as the New York Jets
Speaker 1: come to town. Always loved Jets weak. If you guys
Speaker 1: haven't heard the Fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice
Speaker 1: and Bart Scott, it's it's a perfect primer for Jets
Speaker 1: Week and talking about the rivalry and how it kind
Speaker 1: of originated in the seventies and eighties and then became
Speaker 1: really and I talked about this on the podcast with
Speaker 1: Ronnie Brown We're Gonna Have Tomorrow. How for me, the
Speaker 1: riv howay really became intensified in that mid two thousand's,
Speaker 1: the early aughts era with Rex Ryan and I think
Speaker 1: it was because they were so outspoken and brash in
Speaker 1: the whole we're not gonna come here and kiss Belichick's
Speaker 1: rings thing, and just the fact that there was a
Speaker 1: lot of trash talk back and forth between the two sides.
Speaker 1: I remember the game with Reggie Bush when they said
Speaker 1: they were gonna put some hot sauce on Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1: There was just always some talk back and forth between
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and Jets in that time, and it really
Speaker 1: read things up for me. I think maybe Jets fans
Speaker 1: didn't like us as much and so that really intensified
Speaker 1: things as well. So Dolphins and Jets for me always
Speaker 1: is always the game of the year on the calendar,
Speaker 1: just because you know, I think the best part about sports,
Speaker 1: and aside from watching your team win, is rooting against
Speaker 1: your rival. And that's true I think in most sports,
Speaker 1: especially in football college or the NFL. And the old
Speaker 1: T shirt said it best, right, My favorite teams are
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins and whoever is playing the New York
Speaker 1: Jets that week. And for me, that's always been the case.
Speaker 1: And I remember back in the two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: season when we have Ronnie Brown on, We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about a game from two thousand nine, but the Wildcat
Speaker 1: Division championship season that week seventeen game was on December,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget it because I usually got pumped
Speaker 1: up for Christmas. Even though I was in my you know,
Speaker 1: late means early twenties at the time, I didn't care
Speaker 1: about Christmas that week. All I cared about was the
Speaker 1: Dolphins Jets game on Sunday and Chad Pennington going in
Speaker 1: there and taking the division title from the team that
Speaker 1: cut him to bring in Brett Farve. I was so
Speaker 1: glued and plugged into that storyline. Couldn't wait for that
Speaker 1: game all day long. The Philip Merlin picks six the
Speaker 1: other direction right after a touchdown pass to get on
Speaker 1: the board first and take that lead into halftime. And
Speaker 1: then the Ted Gain catch in the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone, the Anthony Fasano catching the corner of the
Speaker 1: end zone, and then the Andre Goodman interception to put
Speaker 1: that game on ice man. That was a fun, fun
Speaker 1: Sunday to cap off a very fun year. That's my
Speaker 1: favorite Jets game of all time. Let me know what
Speaker 1: yours is on Twitter at Wingfield NFL and tell me
Speaker 1: your favorite Dolphins and Jets memory. I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of folks go back to the fake Spike game. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be up there for a a chunk of Dolphins fans,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. But let's go ahead now and talk
Speaker 1: about this week's game, Week six, and start here with
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Jets injuries from Thursday four. The Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: one player was not out there on Thursday Devon god
Speaker 1: Show with the biceps injury did not practice. We had
Speaker 1: three players who were limited defensive and Shack Lawson, tight
Speaker 1: end Durham Smith, and linebacker Kyle van Noy all out
Speaker 1: there on a limited basis, and five players were on
Speaker 1: the report but full participants on Thursday's practice, safety Cavon Frasier,
Speaker 1: cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Byron Jones, guard Solomon Kinley, and
Speaker 1: wide receiver Davante Parker. For the visiting New York Jets
Speaker 1: on Thursday, they had three players who did not practice,
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton the offensive tackle, Sam Donald the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: Frank Gore the running back. Had that Thursday day off
Speaker 1: not injury related for Frank Gore. They also had several
Speaker 1: players that were listed as limited and full participants on practice.
Speaker 1: Bless Austin the cornerback, John Franklin Myers on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: Alex Lewis on the offensive line, Brashad Perriman wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and defensive tackle Quentin Williams all were limited participants on
Speaker 1: Thursday's practice, and in four players were full participants. Offensive
Speaker 1: tackle Chuma Adoga was a full participant on Thursday, as
Speaker 1: was fellow tackle George Fant, linebacker Jordan Jenkins, and cornerback
Speaker 1: Byron Pool both were full participants on the Jets practice
Speaker 1: on Thursday. And let's go ahead and start. Coach flores
Speaker 1: Is Thursday morning media availability off with some kicker talk. Look,
Speaker 1: I started a kicking game, and that's where I got
Speaker 1: my breaking coaching. So I don't understand how important those
Speaker 1: those those uh guys, that those positions are, whether it's kicker, punter,
Speaker 1: long snap, or returners, ball security or those things of
Speaker 1: that nature. Uh. To have a guy who's dependable, guy
Speaker 1: who who uh you know he's gonna do everything he
Speaker 1: can't possible to make sure, um that he puts himself
Speaker 1: in the best position to um, you know, make a
Speaker 1: great kick, Make make the kick that we need, make
Speaker 1: the punt that we need, UM, give us a snap
Speaker 1: that we need and really want that at all positions. UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, no one really thinks about those specialists
Speaker 1: until you know we're down to the wire we need
Speaker 1: to kick. So UM, you know, Jason has done a
Speaker 1: great job. UM Again, I think it's important and he
Speaker 1: continues it's important to him that he continues to improve
Speaker 1: and get better and continue with his consistency. That's been
Speaker 1: you know, good, good thus far, and we need to
Speaker 1: just keep going in this direction. So Y has some
Speaker 1: very uh pleas of where he is and the job
Speaker 1: he's done really on on obviously field goals, but also kickoffs.
Speaker 1: He has done a good job from that standpoint, and
Speaker 1: just his every day he's his his just his attitude
Speaker 1: and his work ethic on a day to day basis,
Speaker 1: He's um, he's really done a good job really since
Speaker 1: I've been here. I think there's a really great nugget.
Speaker 1: And their coach talks about the fact that he got
Speaker 1: his start in the kicking game. That's how he really
Speaker 1: broke in to the coaching ranks. And you go back
Speaker 1: to last April, you heard him talk about getting good kicks,
Speaker 1: good punts, and good snaps in their Dolphin spent a
Speaker 1: sixth round draft pick on Blake Ferguson. Have we heard
Speaker 1: Blake's name yet? We haven't, And that's because that's what
Speaker 1: you want, right, That's a good thing. He hasn't had
Speaker 1: a bad snap yet. The ball has been perfect every time.
Speaker 1: And that impacts the kicking game too. It impacts the
Speaker 1: way the field goal kick er sees the hold and
Speaker 1: the way the holder gets the football down. And so
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders this season, you know, with the new battery
Speaker 1: he has there with a long snapper and Matt Hawk
Speaker 1: as the holder, hasn't missed a kick yet. So putting
Speaker 1: an emphasis on the small details has been a very big, big,
Speaker 1: you know, sticking point here with coach Flores since he
Speaker 1: got here. And the kicking games a big sticking point
Speaker 1: as well. And look at what they've got now, fourteen
Speaker 1: consecutive field goals. You can't ask for more than that
Speaker 1: out of your special teams unit. From talk of a
Speaker 1: third year kicker to a rookie long snapper, to another
Speaker 1: rookie but in a different position in the trenches on
Speaker 1: the defensive line on the interior, ray Kwon Davis. Coach
Speaker 1: Floores was asked about the potential of ray Kuan Davis
Speaker 1: and what they've seen so far out of the rookie
Speaker 1: through his first five NFL games. He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of talent. He's big, he's strong, he's athletic. But he's young,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a young players still learn how to
Speaker 1: play in this league against um a lot of good players.
Speaker 1: Still trying to find his way and find his uh
Speaker 1: his nichees role within within the scheme I think as
Speaker 1: a staff which on which to you know, put him
Speaker 1: into positions when the best positions to do what he
Speaker 1: does well. So you know, he's tough and he cares
Speaker 1: with the injury to catch out. You know, he should
Speaker 1: get some a few more opportunities along with some other
Speaker 1: guys and uh hopefully takes advantage of those opportunities. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's talent here. We just gotta get him to
Speaker 1: play with more consistency, which is you know, the case
Speaker 1: for all young players. And we have seen that talent
Speaker 1: shine through before at Alabama. He's had some big seasons,
Speaker 1: some big games, some big time moments, even in the
Speaker 1: National Championship once there ray Kuan Davos getting his hands
Speaker 1: in a football for an interception, got a sack a
Speaker 1: few plays earlier in that game. So he is no
Speaker 1: stranger to big moments in big spots. And you heard
Speaker 1: coach talk about the possible elevation and playing time there.
Speaker 1: We've seen ray Kuan Davis play a few snaps now
Speaker 1: so far to the first five games of this Dolphins season.
Speaker 1: And despite the fact that there's not much tape on him.
Speaker 1: We've seen him get doubled a few times, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the attention. A body like that commands that big,
Speaker 1: long frame and also thick and powerful. He has the
Speaker 1: long wingspan, so he can certainly engage and disengage off
Speaker 1: of a single block and make guys fall off those blocks.
Speaker 1: So I think the more you see rake Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: kind of get going here in his pro career and
Speaker 1: you see this coaching staff really kind of take a
Speaker 1: hold and get his development at that next stage, I
Speaker 1: think we could see big things that are from Rekwon Davis.
Speaker 1: And and like coach Flora said, he's gonna get some
Speaker 1: opportunities now with Davon God shows biceps injury and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up here, and you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a quote on tomorrow's Drive Time Flashback podcast from Ronnie
Speaker 1: Brown about how he connected with coach Tony Sperrano over
Speaker 1: boxing and he was a big boxing fan, believes in
Speaker 1: the toughness of boxing and how that maybe translated to
Speaker 1: a football field or was a parallel to a football field.
Speaker 1: We finish up here with coach from a question from
Speaker 1: Cam Wolf of ESPN, who asked Coach about a a
Speaker 1: Brooklyn native Hondurian descent boxer, Tito Fimo Lopez, who will
Speaker 1: fight on Saturday night. He asked Coach if he's a
Speaker 1: fan of that boxer. Yeah, brook guy from Honors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly. Is Uh good fighter. Look, I'm not
Speaker 1: really big in the boxing, but um, you know, you
Speaker 1: know side from Mike Tyson being right from the neighborhood
Speaker 1: I grew up in. Um, I was always a big
Speaker 1: fan of Is. But yeah, um, I know I know
Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, a Brooklyn guy from Honduras,
Speaker 1: I'm rooming for him no matter. You know what's going on.
Speaker 1: At the start of the question, Coach had a huge smile.
Speaker 1: At the end of the question, the smile got ten
Speaker 1: times bigger. So I thought it was cool to put
Speaker 1: it in there. If you guys want to see the
Speaker 1: video up on Miami Dolphins dot com or the YouTube
Speaker 1: page along with all the other press media availabilities here,
Speaker 1: you can check those out and see Coach get excited
Speaker 1: about a fellow Brooklyn, fellow Honduras native Uh in the
Speaker 1: boxing match on Saturday night. So good stuff there from Coach.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and spend this thing forward to the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday the New York Jets come to town.
Speaker 1: It's another late kickoff as the game will start at
Speaker 1: four oh five Eastern at hard Rock Stadium. Eighty five
Speaker 1: degree temperatures, scent humidity, fifty chance of precipitation, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a daily occurrence here in South Florida and
Speaker 1: fifteen mile prior wins, the two and three Dolphins verse
Speaker 1: the O and five New York Jets on Sunday, October
Speaker 1: and in the victories over Jacksonville and San Francisco this year,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins raced out to fourteen zero leads in a
Speaker 1: flash in both of those games, as the offense scored
Speaker 1: on the first two possessions of both of those games
Speaker 1: and the first three possessions in the Jacksonville game as well.
Speaker 1: They did it with violence in the passing game and
Speaker 1: the running game. We saw Miles Gas can really get
Speaker 1: going in that Jacksonville opening couple of series. We saw
Speaker 1: the passing game take off with these the opening play
Speaker 1: of the game last week, forty seven yards down the
Speaker 1: sideline from Fitzpatrick to Preston Williams. But we also saw
Speaker 1: the defense bow up and make three collective stops on
Speaker 1: those drives to create that collective zero lead. In those
Speaker 1: two games, they had a three and out at a
Speaker 1: fourth down stop and a four down series. Jacksonville picked
Speaker 1: up a first down and then got a three and
Speaker 1: out after that on one of those series. So Miami's
Speaker 1: defense really playing that complementary style of football to get
Speaker 1: this team off to a fast start. Coach Flores talked
Speaker 1: about playing fast, saying, we always talked about playing fast,
Speaker 1: starting fast. It's something we harp on on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: End quote there from Coach Flores, and from that point forward,
Speaker 1: the defense really just teed off. In the two games combined,
Speaker 1: Miami wrapped up eight sacks, four takeaways and allowed just
Speaker 1: thirty points. They have climbed all the way up to
Speaker 1: number ten in the NFL and points allowed as a result,
Speaker 1: And in those two games combined, Pro Football Focus credited
Speaker 1: Miami with quarterback pressures from thirteen different players, So it's
Speaker 1: a full team effort getting pressure on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: that when, of course, last week generated some good vibes
Speaker 1: and really helped to validate a good week of work
Speaker 1: on the practice field, in the film room, and in
Speaker 1: the classroom, and it also helps create confidence, something quarterback
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick believes is invaluable to this young team. He
Speaker 1: said this earlier this week. We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys on both sides of the ball, So having
Speaker 1: that feeling of offidence early and knowing that we're going
Speaker 1: to play well, I think it really helps out, especially
Speaker 1: with some of the youth and in experience we have
Speaker 1: on this team. End quote. And the Dolphins were scheduled
Speaker 1: to travel to Denver this week for a game with
Speaker 1: the Broncos, but of course, is a year of change,
Speaker 1: and Flora's address the change in schedule on Sunday just
Speaker 1: a few hours before the game, with all those sweeping
Speaker 1: changes to Miami schedule, talking about it being a different year.
Speaker 1: Everyone has to adjust and be flexible. Been talking all
Speaker 1: year about how we're going to have to do that,
Speaker 1: and the coaches were breaking down film on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: according to Flores, and he said he was sure the
Speaker 1: Jets are doing the same thing with the Dolphins, but
Speaker 1: he just ends with this quote, We've got to adapt
Speaker 1: and that's what we'll do. End quote. And that's what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are right now two and three, heading into
Speaker 1: Week six against the New York Jets. Welcoming in those
Speaker 1: Jets and head coach Adam Gaze, who announced that quarterbacks
Speaker 1: Sam Donald would not play in the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He's already been ruled out. That means it's Joe Flacco,
Speaker 1: the second consecutive misstart here for Donald on an offensive
Speaker 1: is battling several injuries. McKay Beckton has not practiced this week,
Speaker 1: Alex Lewis has not practiced, and den Zel Mims, the
Speaker 1: rookie receiver, was cleared to return to practice this week
Speaker 1: after missing the first five games of his NFL career,
Speaker 1: so we could see Mims make his NFL debut on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The receiver with the most snaps played this year for
Speaker 1: the Jets is Chris Hogan. You might recall him from
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks in seven eleven himself. He's the only receiver
Speaker 1: on the Jets offense with more than fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the offensive workload, so it kind of tells you how
Speaker 1: they've been healthwise at that position. Jamison Crowder is right
Speaker 1: below that attent. He's been their most productive receiver for
Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons now, and Alex Lewis on
Speaker 1: the offensive line we talked about him has not practiced
Speaker 1: this week. If he's out, that leaves the Jets offensive
Speaker 1: line with only one player who has played of the
Speaker 1: offensive snaps. That's free agent acquisition Greg Van Roten and
Speaker 1: former Dolphins linebacker Neville. Hewitt is second on the Jets
Speaker 1: with snaps played at nine point one percent. Safety Marcus
Speaker 1: May leads them at nine point seven percent, and Bradley
Speaker 1: McDougal is the only other defender with better than of
Speaker 1: the defensive snaps played he's played so far this season.
Speaker 1: So plenty of reshuffling and remaking and guys coming off
Speaker 1: the bench and playing for that Jets team so far
Speaker 1: this season. The matchup highlights in this game went over
Speaker 1: this carefully, tried to figure out where I wanted to
Speaker 1: go with it. My first one is to just run
Speaker 1: it back. This is a two pronged approach here for
Speaker 1: this matchup highlight. First, the Dolphins pass catchers got vertical
Speaker 1: repeatedly last week against the forty nine, and we could
Speaker 1: see something similar this week. Last year in the home
Speaker 1: game versus the Jets, Fitzpatrick completed three passes on throws
Speaker 1: that were twenty plus yards down the field for seventy
Speaker 1: two yards and a touchdown pass According to Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: Last week, he was five of six for one two scores,
Speaker 1: throwing the ball deep down the field twenty plus yards.
Speaker 1: This season, Fitzpatrick has an average intended air yards of
Speaker 1: eight point oh compared to an average completed air yards
Speaker 1: of six point seven. So intended air yards is your
Speaker 1: average depth of target, whereas the six point seven completed
Speaker 1: air yards is the average depth of target on completed passes.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins passing game, what that kind of tells
Speaker 1: you is they get plenty of yards through the air,
Speaker 1: but not much yac afterwards. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: that these guys can't run for the catch. It just
Speaker 1: talks about the isolation and fifty ball game that is
Speaker 1: really among the best in the NFL because you have
Speaker 1: guys like DeVante Parker six ft three and a thirty
Speaker 1: six and a half inch vertical, Preston Williams six ft five,
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki six ft six. These guys can go up
Speaker 1: and rebound the football off the opposition's helmet with the
Speaker 1: best in the entire league. And last year, in the
Speaker 1: first game, now the second game, we didn't have Preston Williams,
Speaker 1: and Davanta Parker was injured midway through the second game,
Speaker 1: so Willingly had Mike Gasicki for most of that game.
Speaker 1: But in the first contest to win at home against
Speaker 1: the Jets, those three players can bind for fifteen receptions,
Speaker 1: two d and twenty four yards and three touchdowns. Now,
Speaker 1: defensively on the running back portion, the Dolphins constantly put
Speaker 1: pressure on both quarterbacks last week, and Jimmy Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: CJ be third. Particularly on the interior. Of Miami's nine
Speaker 1: team pressures last week, only five of those came off
Speaker 1: players rushing off the edge. That, of course, according to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, interior pressure tends to be more volatible
Speaker 1: against elusive quarterbacks like Russell Wilson, Josh Allen, Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, all these guys that can flee the pocket
Speaker 1: to the left or the right. Well, Joe Flacco piled
Speaker 1: up forty career passing yards as a traditional pocket passer
Speaker 1: with the howitzer for a right arm, good decision making,
Speaker 1: good anticipation. So the key to those guys, like it
Speaker 1: has been for so many players before, you always hear
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady trope right, get pressure up the middle
Speaker 1: on Tom Brady. You want to put pressure on the
Speaker 1: interior on these traditional pocket passers, make them uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: force me to make decisions with trash down around their feet.
Speaker 1: Miami did a good job of that last week in
Speaker 1: the San Francisco game. Hopefully they can do the same
Speaker 1: this week against Flacco and the Jets. And perhaps the
Speaker 1: biggest loss for the Jets so far this season has
Speaker 1: been McKay Beckton, who looked like an absolute superstar at
Speaker 1: left tackle, but he has recently been injured and not
Speaker 1: been available for that Jets offensive line. So attack relentlessly
Speaker 1: make Flacco uncomfortable more fits Magic is the next one
Speaker 1: up here on the match up highlights. What can you
Speaker 1: say about this guy? He has the fifth total fifth
Speaker 1: highest total QBR in the NFL. On balance, he has
Speaker 1: the highest single game passer rating this year with nearly
Speaker 1: a perfect one fifty four point five. You might recall
Speaker 1: one fifty eight point three is perfect, not to mention
Speaker 1: the highest total QBR for a single game last week
Speaker 1: at nine point one and the fourth highest mark this
Speaker 1: year at nineties seven point two. Back in his Week
Speaker 1: three performance against Jacksonville, the sixteen year veteran is flat
Speaker 1: out dealing right now. Carefully choosing his spots against Pierre
Speaker 1: to sire might be a wise decision. His stats have
Speaker 1: been boomer bust this season. He is tied for third
Speaker 1: or tied for the league lead rather with three interceptions
Speaker 1: on the season, but pf has opposing receivers with six
Speaker 1: team receptions on twenty targets for two thirty five yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns on to see her so picks and
Speaker 1: touchdowns and yards. He's been busy both ways so far
Speaker 1: this year, on defense and with Fitzpatrick. We heard him
Speaker 1: talk about this on the Wednesday podcast about how, over
Speaker 1: the course of a sixteen year career, a lot of
Speaker 1: experience and film study and just kind of accumulating this
Speaker 1: catalog of plays in the back of his mind that
Speaker 1: he really likes has helped, as well as developing more
Speaker 1: chemistry and comfortability with this young Dolphins receiver corps. So
Speaker 1: he's seeing things, he's letting a fly. I highly highly
Speaker 1: recommend checking out Brian Baldinger's breakdown of the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: line and quarterback play last week. Getting it done, throwing
Speaker 1: the football down the field with anticipation, standing in under
Speaker 1: the gun, and making big time throws for Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: and to see here is second among all Jets cornerbacks
Speaker 1: with seventy seven point eight percent of the defensive snaps.
Speaker 1: Brian Poole has the most at eighty point one percent,
Speaker 1: but two hundred and three of those two eight five
Speaker 1: snaps come inside at the slot, so out wide it's
Speaker 1: pr to sere and then bless. Austin has been up
Speaker 1: next with sixty one point four percent of their snaps played,
Speaker 1: but he has been limited this week with a calf injury.
Speaker 1: The third matchup to watch is to keep Quentin quiet.
Speaker 1: Quentin Williams. In the run up to the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: NFL draft, his name was up there with Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and Nick Bosa as potential number one overall picks. He
Speaker 1: went third overall and the Jets became the benefit a
Speaker 1: series of that. He ranks top ten of both espns
Speaker 1: newly developed analytics for measuring pass rush and run stop
Speaker 1: win rates among defensive tackles, Williams ranks ninth and pass
Speaker 1: rush win rate that's hard to say at fifteen percent
Speaker 1: and fifth and run stop win rate attent and for
Speaker 1: comparison's sake and since this is a Miami Dolphins podcast,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins is third among defensive tackles and run stop
Speaker 1: win rate at seven percent. But on the Dolphins interior
Speaker 1: offensive line dealing with Quentin Williams, they have remade those
Speaker 1: three guys up front, with Eric Flowers, Ted Carris and
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley to free agent signings and a draft pick
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. Opposing interior pass rushers have six
Speaker 1: team pressures and one sack on those guys. Per Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus, that's a pressure rate on two on a
Speaker 1: six brother and twenty one pass blocking snaps. That's a
Speaker 1: pressure rate of two point five percent on those interior guys.
Speaker 1: Last year that number was at five percent. So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins remade those three positions up front and have literally
Speaker 1: cut that number in half. Through five games. The Jets
Speaker 1: scheme offensively. They've run three hundred and third team plays,
Speaker 1: with two hundred and twenty five of those snaps coming
Speaker 1: out of eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three receivers.
Speaker 1: We know about that, right, We've seen that here before.
Speaker 1: Seventy one point nine percent clip is the fifth highest
Speaker 1: rate in the National Football League. The only other offensive
Speaker 1: package they have with more than fifteen snaps are twelve
Speaker 1: and thirteen personnel. Those are your two and three tight
Speaker 1: end sets, So you're gonna see one tight end, two
Speaker 1: tight end, and three tight ends most of the time.
Speaker 1: Not very often you're gonna get multiple backs or four
Speaker 1: wide sets with this Jets offense. Greg Williams is one
Speaker 1: of the game's most aggressive defensive coordinators and play callers.
Speaker 1: His defense often puts ten guys up on the line,
Speaker 1: plays press, really challenges you to win physically off the line,
Speaker 1: and they always have that single high safety deep off
Speaker 1: the football too, so they're kind of last minded offense
Speaker 1: and then ten guys up on the ball. They have
Speaker 1: the twelve most frequent blitzing team this year in the
Speaker 1: NFL at thirty point seven percent. That courtesy of Pro
Speaker 1: Football Reference, and they are primarily a nickel team with
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six of their three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven snaps, that's vand eight point three percent of
Speaker 1: the time they're gonna be in that nickel defense. And
Speaker 1: so what that means is you go eleven personnel with
Speaker 1: let's say Parker Williams and Isaiah Ford with Mike Gassicki
Speaker 1: as the tight end. You're more more than likely going
Speaker 1: to get a linebacker on Mike Gasicki if they stay
Speaker 1: in that nickel package and they go three corners out
Speaker 1: on Ford Parker and Williams, or if Grants in the game,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, either gonna get a safety or
Speaker 1: a linebacker there on Mike Gasicki. And last year against
Speaker 1: linebackers in the Jets game, the first one, he caught
Speaker 1: three passes for sixty seven yards up against those Jet linebackers.
Speaker 1: Some final notes and thoughts here on this game, and
Speaker 1: you can read the preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Again,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald has been declared out, which means it is
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco making his second start as a member of
Speaker 1: the New York Jets last week. He completed eighteen of
Speaker 1: thirty three passes for one touchdown and no interceptions. It
Speaker 1: was his first start for the former Super Bowl m
Speaker 1: v P since last season when he was member of
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins defense. We talked about
Speaker 1: this coming off the biggest sack production output since in
Speaker 1: the Week sixteen game against Jacksonville. Linebacker Andrew van Ginkl
Speaker 1: and defensive end Emmanuel both had strip sacks, and the
Speaker 1: team picked up eight quarterback hits in that game. The
Speaker 1: win verse San Francisco was also Miami's lowest passing yards
Speaker 1: allowed since that Jacksonville game, with one twenty eight net
Speaker 1: passing yards against this Dolphins defense. The Jets lead the
Speaker 1: all time series fifty fifty two to one. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and try to cut that thing down to fifty
Speaker 1: three on Sunday, and we're gonna have all the recap
Speaker 1: and all the postgame reaction for you guys here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast with me, yours truly, Travis Wingfield, available
Speaker 1: on Sunday evening, and let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: this podcast with our Thursday media availability. We're gonna start
Speaker 1: here first with Dolphins defensive lineman Zach Seler, who plays
Speaker 1: multiple positions you'll hear in his answer here nose guard three,
Speaker 1: technique five, and whatever he might be. He was asked
Speaker 1: about the difference and the way he prepares for each
Speaker 1: of those positions, whether it's inside, outside, or other wise. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's things happen faster when you get down low and
Speaker 1: the close sheets the center. Um, but for me, it's
Speaker 1: just every wherever I'm at preparing wise and three tech
Speaker 1: nose guards, zero shade outside is just making sure I
Speaker 1: look at the player across from me. As in the
Speaker 1: offensive line, I'm just going against and learning their keys,
Speaker 1: So not just focusing on one guy, but focus on
Speaker 1: five of them. So I'm ready for whatever happens and
Speaker 1: whatever the game may call for. And up next, I
Speaker 1: asked Zack about the team first mentality and how excited
Speaker 1: guys get to play with each other. You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss talk about this here in just one minute.
Speaker 1: But I watched the San Francisco game on the broadcast
Speaker 1: copy again last night, and you just see guys losing
Speaker 1: their minds for each other. The fourth down stop Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noyd goes crazy. So where does that come from
Speaker 1: for this Dolphins football team. I guess it's kind of
Speaker 1: comes from the top down. I mean, the coaches preach family,
Speaker 1: and they preach be excited for anybody because you know,
Speaker 1: someone makes me go a play, I might give you
Speaker 1: an opportunity later on in the game for you to
Speaker 1: make a big plays. So for us, it's just it's
Speaker 1: an excitement. It's we're going through this together, or the
Speaker 1: team where family just keep crying and keep celebrating those
Speaker 1: big plays. And next you probably saw it all over Twitter.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, we found out mid question he dropped a
Speaker 1: bomb on us that he in fact lives in a
Speaker 1: fifth wheel and an RV. And I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to ask him if he is like Matt fully
Speaker 1: down by the river, but Zach didn't tell us A
Speaker 1: few notes and details here about his fifth wheel life,
Speaker 1: living in an r V campground, and if he's ever
Speaker 1: hosted Dolphins players at the old campground. I've had players
Speaker 1: overhang out for sure. Um. Yes, it's campgrounds are a
Speaker 1: little fit harvy parks. Um, nice, nice spot and find
Speaker 1: a little spot set up there for a few months.
Speaker 1: I mean Florida was great because you know, everyone comes
Speaker 1: down here in the winter to live, so there's plenty
Speaker 1: of spots, especially right now. How about if his neighbors
Speaker 1: know they live next to an NFL player? I love it. No,
Speaker 1: I usually kind of keep that little lower. You know,
Speaker 1: some some people will learning whatever and it usually theyone's
Speaker 1: great and me if you think about the guys that
Speaker 1: are in our campground, usually they're vacation, so everyone's happy.
Speaker 1: Everyone always waves. It's it's not a typical like people
Speaker 1: living their daily lives. Us are vacation. Um. It is
Speaker 1: kind of we're gett a new neighbor three or four
Speaker 1: times a week. Those are always really fun. I think
Speaker 1: the Austin Jackson ice cream thing a few months back
Speaker 1: was great. That one hard to top that when we'll
Speaker 1: see if we do beat that at some point this season.
Speaker 1: Up next, we had Dolphins center Ted Carriss, who first
Speaker 1: was asked about his teammate Zach Seiler and what he
Speaker 1: saw from him last year as an opponent preparing for
Speaker 1: Seiler upfront. I remember last year preparing um for the
Speaker 1: last game of the season. You know, they had this
Speaker 1: guy who kind of came in mid year. He was
Speaker 1: playing really well and plays with really high effort and
Speaker 1: and he's continued that this season. He's been very productive.
Speaker 1: And he's a great, great teammate and a great guy.
Speaker 1: And and I'm I'm really excited for him, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm rooting for him to continue the way he's
Speaker 1: been playing. And a lot of credit has been given
Speaker 1: to Steve Marshall from Chan Gailey and other coaches. We
Speaker 1: also have another assistant coach in the offensive line room
Speaker 1: named Lemiuelle Jean Pierre. He used to play for the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks in a playing days, And I asked Ted
Speaker 1: Carress about the balance of having someone like coach Marshall
Speaker 1: with forty plus years of coaching experience, but also having
Speaker 1: lem as he's called around the building here in the room,
Speaker 1: with playing experience, and how those two can balance each
Speaker 1: other as coaches. Yeah, I mean collectively, you know, we
Speaker 1: have coaches in the room with with a lot of
Speaker 1: NFL experience, and you know, I think it's serving us
Speaker 1: very well, especially you know, having a young old line. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's a you know, a testament
Speaker 1: to how hard you know, these these young guys are
Speaker 1: working and and e Flow and Jesse and I and
Speaker 1: and and all the vets to um. And I think
Speaker 1: we have a really good room and really excited, but
Speaker 1: we gotta keep you know, preparing like we have been
Speaker 1: and going and uh, you know, putting out our best
Speaker 1: performances when it counts the most. And then kind of
Speaker 1: back on that topic of the question we had for
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler about how guys really kind of rally around
Speaker 1: each other, around each other and what makes them so
Speaker 1: Why is it so desirable to be so excited for
Speaker 1: your teammates to make plays and where that comes from.
Speaker 1: Here's Ted Carress talking about the locker room, the people
Speaker 1: they have in that building, and the mindset in the
Speaker 1: Dolphins locker room. Well, I think it comes down to
Speaker 1: the guys we have in the locker room. And we
Speaker 1: have guys that work hard and want to do things
Speaker 1: right and care about each other and hold each other accountable,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, genuinely enjoy playing the game of football,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's been a it's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to come to work every day with guys in this
Speaker 1: locker room, many many close friends, and and you know,
Speaker 1: we get competitive, and you know, we we want to
Speaker 1: do our best for each other and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully you know you've seen a little bit that on
Speaker 1: the field, uh, these past couple of weeks. But we've
Speaker 1: gotta keep keep showing that and emphasizing you know that
Speaker 1: part of the game. And one theme we've had this
Speaker 1: week is teammates talking about what Ryan Fitzpatrick means to
Speaker 1: this Dolphins football team. Let's go ahead and hear Dolphins
Speaker 1: and our Ted Carriss on that topic. It's extraordinary. He's
Speaker 1: he's an extraordinary man. I am very fortunate to be
Speaker 1: able to you know, suit up with him. Um, and
Speaker 1: you know, I do love it when he can turn
Speaker 1: a third and eight scramble into a first down. That
Speaker 1: is a pretty uh that's a luxury as an no alignment.
Speaker 1: So UM, it's been a lot of fun playing And
Speaker 1: I've learned so much from him already, and I continue
Speaker 1: to learn, you know, every single day. And you know,
Speaker 1: as we grow and continue to you know, create continuity
Speaker 1: and and uh comfortability with each other. And from the
Speaker 1: sixteen year vet to the two and now three rookies
Speaker 1: that Ted Carress has played along the offensive line with
Speaker 1: and Austin Jackson, Solomon Kinley, and Robert Hunt most recently
Speaker 1: here in San Francisco, what has he seen from the
Speaker 1: rookies on that offensive line as well? Hear about Kinley,
Speaker 1: Hunt and Jackson here from Ted Carriss. Great men that
Speaker 1: want to do the right things, that are eager to
Speaker 1: learn and and um, I guess ego lists and trying
Speaker 1: to you know, get better. Obviously a very very talented group,
Speaker 1: all highly drafted, UM, and guys that came in and
Speaker 1: just want to listen and work and do the right
Speaker 1: thing and help the team win in any way they can.
Speaker 1: And on the topic of those rookies, we had Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley up next, and this is gonna be a theme
Speaker 1: this week. I have a feeling, but want to know,
Speaker 1: have you been to Zack Steeler's r V. Did you
Speaker 1: know people lived in r v's Solomon Kindley didn't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had no clue. I would. I would love to
Speaker 1: go visit and see how he's living and see how
Speaker 1: it did, because I've always seen them growing up. But
Speaker 1: I never really knew nobody the stands like staying inside
Speaker 1: and I thought he just traveled and everything. So I
Speaker 1: never knew that. And for the next question here, I
Speaker 1: think Dolphins fans are gonna love to hear this, and
Speaker 1: so would Brian Flores and the Dolphins coaching staff. You
Speaker 1: might recall we had Brandon Jones and a podcast Dolphins
Speaker 1: rookie safety out of Texas a while back, and I
Speaker 1: asked him about the quizzes the coach flow gives throughout
Speaker 1: the day on the practice field in the film room,
Speaker 1: a little little short quizzes to make sure you're paying attention,
Speaker 1: that you have the answers to the test you can
Speaker 1: play fast on Sundays. Well, here's Solomon Ckinley talking about
Speaker 1: how he and Robert Hunt prepare and the fact that
Speaker 1: they give each other tests on their free time at home. Um,
Speaker 1: throughout the whole week. We always we always talk to
Speaker 1: each other, even if he wasn't playing, as then if
Speaker 1: anybody goes down, he got to step up and get in.
Speaker 1: So we always talked to each other about this assignment.
Speaker 1: How do you say the look, how to be this aligned?
Speaker 1: Rotate and you know, pretty much like throughout the week
Speaker 1: we look at film and we do every little small
Speaker 1: we do small stuff with each other at home. Like
Speaker 1: we got tests that we do throughout the week and
Speaker 1: look at them throughout the whole week so we can
Speaker 1: get comfortable and the game could be slowed by the
Speaker 1: time we get that Sunday. Solomon, some of my favorite
Speaker 1: offensive line breakdown people on social media and whatnot like
Speaker 1: to talk about the way you punish jumpers and the
Speaker 1: way you finish your blocks and drive guys to the ground.
Speaker 1: I'm curious where you developed that mindset and that mentality
Speaker 1: and how you've been able to take that over now
Speaker 1: from your college career into the pros um pretty much
Speaker 1: me growing up, my history, how I came up, and
Speaker 1: how I live. It just puts me in a position
Speaker 1: that I am hi am today. I always want to finish.
Speaker 1: I always want to drive, like so that's just what
Speaker 1: I take. I take it from real life until on
Speaker 1: the football field, because it like it is, it's real life.
Speaker 1: So I just I never want to be one of
Speaker 1: the persons that coach can pick he's slacking, he's missing
Speaker 1: this block, or he's not doing this because he did
Speaker 1: it give enough effort. That's that's that. Like, that's my
Speaker 1: biggest critic of ever, that's my biggest creat ever. I
Speaker 1: never want to do that. So I make sure anything
Speaker 1: I do. I finished the hunt for Sick, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a great spot to finish the podcast right there.
Speaker 1: At one you heard from Solomon Kinley, Zack Steeler, and
Speaker 1: Ted Carress as well as coach Flora's and had the
Speaker 1: game preview. On tomorrow's podcast, we are going to go
Speaker 1: back to two thousand nine for Finns flashback and take
Speaker 1: a look at the game against the New York Jets
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football in the Orange Jerseys A big,
Speaker 1: big prime time win for your Miami Dolphins will do
Speaker 1: that with Ronnie Brown. As for today's time, that is
Speaker 1: going to be my time. You all please be sure
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Speaker 1: Scott episode, so so good and I know we don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about the loss, but the way he
Speaker 1: broke down the way those Ravens teams defended the Wildcat
Speaker 1: very good stuff if you're into the football XS and
Speaker 1: NO side of things. And also plenty of good trash
Speaker 1: talk as well. And of course Miami Dolphins dot com
Speaker 1: for all the content, the preview, the key to the game,
Speaker 1: plenty of stuff up on the website. And before I
Speaker 1: get out of here, one last thing, I want to
Speaker 1: wish a quick happy birthday to my brother Ryan, thirty
Speaker 1: five years old or thirty six now actually getting a
Speaker 1: old old man. Happy birthday, Ryan, and hopefully they enjoy
Speaker 1: if Dolphins win on Sunday. For you until then, Until
Speaker 1: next time, Guys finds up