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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it is preview day, the penultimate game of the season,
the final home game of twenty twenty five. We'll talk
Dolphins and Bucks with a heavy lean towardsure Miami Dolphins
and the evaluation portion of the show from the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is the Draft Time Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ye Daffy, if you can't tell, I am still a
bit under the weather. We went from stomach flu for
a week to immediate head cold and congestion and headaches.
And what a fun Christmas season it has been. My
kids had a blast. We got my daughter and my
son both these like blow up tent things. For my
son it was a train and for my daughter it

(00:56):
was an Elsa castle. So we had to sleepover in
those on Christmas night. And I'm just like trying to
stay alive as I get through these podcasts. And so
that's why you didn't get a show first thing Friday morning,
because I was in my deathbed on Christmas Eve when
I was last in the building.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
But here we are. We got coming off.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The worst three game holiday slate you'll ever get in
your life in National Football League. Three backup quarterbacks, three
third stream quarterbacks, one of them a winner, one of
them almost pulls it off against the Broncos in the
night cap, and the early game.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I guess the Commanders made a game too.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Can you believe Josh Johnson has won just one game
as a starter in the last ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Isn't that crazy? That kind of crazy to think about.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And the guy's still around kicking getting jobs, playing games,
playing NFC championship games. But yeah, I hardly watched. I
mean I watched all the games, but I was like,
not really paying attention to him, you know. So tough slate.
We got a good slate tomorrow. We picked the games
on the Wednesday show, went to and one on Thursday,
and then we got Packers over Ravens tomorrow and Texans Overchargers.

(01:59):
So before we get into all that, let's talk about
Dolphins and Bucks. And we'll do a heavy introduction here
to the Buccaneers because I want to talk more about
the Dolphins in the matchup portions and about our young
players that can have a chance to really make a
statement against some you know, big time players. So I
feel like the Bucks this year are one of the
more instructive lessons of the twenty twenty five season, at

(02:22):
least for me.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, maybe it's just me talking.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I distinctly remember doing the summer preview series and thinking,
and this could be the best roster in football, This
could be an NFC Championship super Bowl type of team.
And they had an embarrassment of riches at so many
key spots, like when you can draft Amika Agbuca or
Mecca eg beg.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Bo, Emika egg beg Bo, Amika egg beg Bo, Amika
eg beg.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Bo, when you can draft him, when you have Chris Godwin,
Chris Godwin, Mike Evans and Kate Aughten and Jayleen McMillan,
like more than Merrier, right, But then you realize almost
nobody is impervious to the luck of the draw on
any given season. As you play games without Tristan Wurfs,
without Luke a Decky, without the off four mentioned, Mike
Evans and Chris Godwin or the previously mentioned. They were

(03:06):
also without Zion McCollum, Elijah Cansey, Bucky Irving. Really the
only one you didn't miss time with was Baker Mayfield,
but much like his last year in Cleveland, he played
through his shoulder injury and that was what made the
Browns the freaking Cleveland brown Say, hey, franchise quarterback, we're good.
And he suffered the injury around Halloween, right, and the
offense just has not been the same. And what were

(03:28):
they five and one to start the season. Now they're
seven and eight, So they're two and six in their
last eight games. They also lost a really good coordinator
in back to back years with Canalis going to the
Panthers and Liam Cohen due. And now they've got former
friend of the Show Josh Grizzard, who I think is
gonna be a good OC in this league for some
time as well. It's just proof that you really never know, right.

(03:48):
This year has been bonkers. I mean, Broncos and Patriots
like what is the two thousand and five again?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
The Colts up there again? Like what the hell year
is it? You know?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
But all this is to say, I still think they're
winning the South, even if it's at nine and eight,
which I think it will be if they beat us
in Carolina. As long as they don't lose here with
the Panthers win in Seattle, then they'll get their Week
eighteen retribution matchup at home against the Panthers after losing
to Carolina this previous Sunday. Hey, NFL, stop putting teams
against each other two times in three weeks. Stop doing it.

(04:20):
Just stop doing it. I even think their five year
history is instructive. I will never forget.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I was down here in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I came to a couple of different games for the
Dolphins for the fans site coverage for Lockdown Dolphins, which
eventually got me the job here. And they had a
Saturday game that year during the Jamos thirty thirty season,
and watching that at Kim Bokamper's Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale,
bo Campers, and they lost by a field goal because
Winston threw four picks, which secured the thirty thirty season. Right,
And I bring that up because Winston threw some ups

(04:48):
and downs, has essentially deemed himself as a non solution
for them, right, which would have been what year five
for him? There instructive for the Miami Dolphins in a
year six. Now for the second straight quarterback in a row.
Drafted the first round by Gear six, you realize it's
time to move on, and within two months Bruce arians
recruits Tom Brady, and you know the rest, eleven wins
and a super Bowl the first year, thirteen wins, the

(05:09):
next year playoff win, division title. In twenty two, no
playoff win, and then Brady goes off under the sunset
but gets them a Lombardi, two division titles, four playoff wins,
and they maintain a lot of the good, solid roster
that they had built do in large part to Brady's
recruitment down there and getting a bunch of key parts
on that roster. And frankly, a lot of those pieces
are they're still there. I mean, and these guys weren't

(05:30):
recruited like Worf's and Goodecki because they were draft picks.
And Cody Mock and Mike Evans is already there. But
and Chris Goblin was there, and Vitaveo was there, and
Greg Gaines got drafted there, but Leavonte David sticking around,
Antwine Winfield, signing Shaq Barrett. They just consistently found guys
that fit what Brady wanted and needed, and it turned
them into like a consistent power in this league. But

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then they have to remake the quarterback room, and they
go into the twenty three season with the expectation of
possibly being the first pick in the draft that year
because they had the discarded Baker Mayfield and Trask competing
for starting quarterback reps. And here's another instructive thing we
can think about and maybe thinking back to the Caleb
Williams video of the summer of him trying to throw
into that accuracy net and missing and complaining like a

(06:11):
what looked like a little my five year old basically
complaining about her else attempt not having the right you know,
wrapping on the window, dressing like. There was a video
that year of Trask and Baker Mayfield trying to throw.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I was it routes on air.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It was some type of like quick individual half speed
walk through segment and it looked terrible and everyone's like, oh, yeah,
the Bucks are going two and fifteen this year.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
With Baker, they have won two more division titles and
they have a playoff win in there as well, and
they have a franchise quarterback. I don't care that he's
played worse this year because he's injured. That team has
had a lot of you know, negative things around it.
Third o C in three years. So after a run
from two thousand and eight twenty nineteen with no playoffs,
only one time finishing better than third in the NFC South,
only one double digit win season. Those were two different years,

(06:56):
by the way, six seasons with five or fewer wins,
then in five years, a super Bowl, playoffs every year,
four division titles, five playoff wins, and on the verge
of another division title in playoff berth. If you gave
me that at any five point five years point of
my Dolphins fandom, it can be this year, starting in
twenty twenty six, it could be when I'm eighty. Well,

(07:16):
I hope it's earlier than that. If you gave me
that one time, I'd be happy and content for the
rest of my life. If I got that type of
a run from the Miami Dolphins, I'd be good. And
maybe that speaks to you know how down bat it's been,
but I would take that in a heartbeat. The Bucks
got that and they won a championship about twenty years
ago as well. I remember that one also. That was
my high school years. Let's go ahead and talk about
the Bucks depth chart here. Baker Mayfield and Teddy Bridgewater

(07:39):
are the quarterbacks. The running backs are Bucky Irving and
Rashad White. Pretty decent one two punch there at receiver.
This is the best group in the league when they're healthy.
Mike Evans, Chris.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
GODWINMKA Big Boo, Jaylan.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
McMillan, and they get Tes Johnson or McMillan back to
kind of take Tes Johnson's job.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I like Tes Johnson.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
He was a guy that I was a big fan of,
and Kyle Krabs always gave me a crap for him
because he was one hundred and sixty pounds. He makes
plays at tight end. Kate Otten and Durham pay. The
tackles are very very good. Tristan Wurf's and Luke a
DECKI I think are the best in the National Football League.
Charlie Heck is a swing tackle that we talked about
on this preview show or this offseason show last year
about a possible swing tackle option for the Miami Dolphins.
On the interior, they're banged up. Michael Jordan not that

(08:16):
Michael Jordan and Dan Feede are the guards with Graham Barton,
the former first round draft pick in the pivot they
lost shoot Cody Mock and somebody else right. Ben Brettison's
out for the year as well, so they lost. There's
two turning guards, so they'll have their backups in those positions.
On defense, Vita Veya, Logan Hall and Greg Gaines and
Adam Goatsis are the defensive tackles. Vea's the straw that

(08:38):
stirs the entire drink there. The rest are kind of
ancillarious satellite pieces. Off the edge, yah Yad Diabi and
Hassan Reddick with Jason Pierre Paul they brought him back
and Chris braswell, Like that tells you how how really
shorthanded they are off the edge, and that's where a
lot of the defensive issues have come from because they
can't rush the passer. So Bowles is trying to blitz
even more than he usually does and they keep getting
left kind of short handed on the back end. They

(08:59):
can't really do a whole lot because Veya is the
only guy upfront that's really doing a lot. The pass
rush isn't there. It's been a lot for the Bucks
defense this year. They are struggling. Lavonte David still Rockins,
Servacia Dennis and Dion Jones, the o. The two cornerbacks
at cornerback, Jamil Dean and Benjamin Morrison, a rookie had
a Notre Dame. A guy that we talked about on
this show is a possible Day two pick for the
Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
He goes to Tampa.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
The guy that I liked even more than Morrison, I
think he was their third round pick was Jacob Parrish
out of Kansas State. That Nickel who has really like
Trent McDuffie chops, he's played well for them this year.
And then Kendall Vildore is a guy that if you
type him into Twitter, you'll find out every fan base
that's he's played for it doesn't have a good opinion
of him. At safety, Antoine Winfield and ty Kee Smith.

(09:40):
Antoine Winfield, you locked on Dolphins fans member that is
an all time Travis Draft favorite and he's paid off
for him. On the injury reserve, Colijah Canty, Cody Mock,
Ben Brettison's, Isle McCollum, and Cooke Keift the tight end,
So some big names missing there, although they've got a
lot of guys back as well. Injuries really have been
the story for this Bucks team. I mean they went
from one of the most loaded rosters in football needing

(10:00):
to lean into their depth at pretty much every position
throughout the season. Again, down Evans and Godwin for a
huge chunkago. He was hurt for a little bit of
time there as well. They've been without some of the
offensive linemen. I mean we talked about it mc Jaalen
McMillan just got back and uh, you know, without Worfs
and good Dicky Cody Maka. We talked about it already.
They've been banged up. Let's go ahead and talk about
the Bucks personnel here. But as we did last week,

(10:22):
I want to lean more into our guys given the
circumstances here, right, there's no there's no hope for twenty
twenty five. We were playing out the string, and it's
about trying to find out more information for twenty six
than you can the next two games, which I'm always
a little bit dubious on because I mean, you know,
like I've seen what was it. Sam Howell a couple
of years ago had to start in Week seventeen or
Week eighteen rather against the Cowboys, and everyone's like, well,

(10:44):
I don't know. We'll look out for Sam Howe. It's like, dude,
you really Joe Milton last year? Like, no, it doesn't.
I think the quarterback position is different than the rest,
like I can if I get two really solid games
of Kenneth Grant breaking out, that would be different than
you know, seeing quinn Ewers have like a go at
fifteen place script if you will, because quarterbacks it's a
lot tougher to translate, but other places maybe you can't. Anyway,

(11:05):
I'm getting off script again here. Their strength is all
over the formation. Offensively, man they are. Their production is
again more about the rash of injuries they've dealt with.
Are not a very good offense statistically, but this is
a sleeping giant and I kind of think they're gonna
wake up on Sunday. I think we start on the
perimeter and where we struggled Sunday against the Bengals, because
it's a bit of a chance to get back for
Jack Jones. But the body types of these receivers and

(11:27):
the skills are not that unlike what you saw with
t Higgins and Jamar Chase, and you had to pick
your poison there. I imagine although this defense doesn't really
do this. Most defenses in the league don't do this,
don't travel. You kind of play one side for the
most part, and you can mix it up. But I
would imagine you want to get Rasul Douglass on Mike
Evans more than Jack Jones because of that size and
high pointing ability of reflecting what t Higgins did against

(11:49):
Jack Jones. I think Jack can compete against the rest
of the lot, and I think it'll be a good
test for his prep, his eyes, his penchant to try
to find plays against the technician like Godwin who can
give you false tells and make all his routes look
the same. And for the rookie, I mean for Big
bo that's really his game too, and why I thought
he was possibly number one, the number one receiver in
this year's class coming out over you know, Ted McMillan,

(12:11):
or not over Travis Hunter.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I should probably walk that back a little bit.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
But besides Travis Hunter, I thought, eg big boo, heg
buka geez, I'm doing it now toomka eg buka. I
might have just played myself on this one, because now
I'm going to be saying a big boo the rest
of my life. I think you can learn about Rasoul
in this game as well, who's been terrific all year long.
But I think he's built to match Evans prowess more
that play strenk. So I'm kind of curious about these
two veteran cornerbacks, what we can learn about them and

(12:34):
are they possible solutions in twenty six and beyond for
this Dolphins defense. I think he'll getting emotionally charged Jack
and if he harnesses that, it could be a.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Really big day for him.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Might grab a pick, but if it goes the other direction,
it could be a really tough day for him. He's
kind of one of those guys where it's kind of
like feast or famine on the offensive line. The tackle
positions one of the one of the, if not the best.
What am I saying? I'm like, still kind of hallucinating, guys,
So stay with me here. One of the best tackle Tenemsootball,
Hug come Chuck on Roethlisberger football.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
They're they're gonna let Worfs win one on one because
that's what he does.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
And it's I mean, Bradley Chubb's not really threatening guys
like him at this stage. I'm curious to see if
they give some help to Goad Dicky or on Chop,
because like, I don't think that's a matchup that favors
us either, or they do they focus it all inside
where the backups are, and perhaps they just spread it
out and give Baker five eligibles and just let him
trust his protection against a pass rush that has been
non existent unless we blitz.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
And he's very adept.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Baker is in the quick game to you know, just
spread that thing out and make quick choices, and you
have to kind of pick your spots where you blitz,
and if he can beat those blitzers with hot routes,
we blitz at the sixth highest rate in football. That's
out of necessity more than scheme. Weaver does not want
to blitz that much. He prefers to be a bottom
ten blitz team, not a top ten blitz team. But
he has no choice because his best pass rusher is
now in Philadelphia. And besides that, it's pretty much been

(13:49):
a year two.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Let's call it what it is.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's been a flop this year for Chop, a chop flop,
if you will, and Bradley Chubb has not kind of
rediscovered the magic that made him a guy that you
trade a first round pick for make one of the highest,
you know, paid defensive ends in the league. And I
have some concerns about Chopman. There's there's some stuff on
the tape that's not it's not popping. It's not popping,
it's not chopping, it's kind of flopping. And if it
were me, I'd focus my attention inside if I'm the Buccaneers,

(14:12):
because Graham Barton is a mainstay, but Feenie and Jordan
are backups and have been around this league for a
while now as backups. I actually think our ability to
operate from games, primarily the pick stunts that Zack Steeler
has had some success with a combination of the power
and quick could be what gives them issues inside. But
then you're gonna have to run over running back too,
because they're gonna have you know, Bucky Irving and Rashad
White step up and fill that a gap and pass

(14:33):
pro I think this is a Kenneth Grant breakout game
because of these things I just talked about. His pad
level has been very consistent, especially in comparison to where
it was early in the season. He's getting push and
knock back so frequently he's lining up against Jordan and
hit it. There's an opportunity here for some power to
create some momentum and slingshot his rush right by the quarterback.
Wouldn't it be nice to watch Kenth Grant get like

(14:54):
three sacks in the last two games and then fell
like okay that guy. Now we have him next to Seiler,
next to Jordan Phillips, like, okay, let's let's do that
in twenty twenty six. I think it's going to play
a part in our ability to top the run as well.
I don't think they'll be able to move Jordan Phillips inside,
So think about one rookie creating pass rush ops for
the other with Jordan and KG, THOUGHKG is involved in
the running game as well. Now, I think where the

(15:15):
real chess match exists as Jordan Brooks versus the Bucks
run and screen game. They play off each other so well.
The way they set their screen game up off their
run game, and that's one thing they have. They're doing
well this year. But Jordan Brooks is an eraser of
all of that when he's going well, and he's always
going well. So Brooks on Irving is a key matchup
in this game and one that I like in our
favor as well. And just seeing Jordan Brooks kind of
continues to have the culture here over the course of

(15:37):
two games that are irrelevant for playoff meetings or twenty
twenty five purposes like Brooks can help us continue to
drive home like what it is to be an NFL player,
to be professional and to prepare the right way, so
and real quick on him. His five point six percent
stuff rate leads all high volume linebackers. That means guys
that play every down, as does his forty his minus

(15:57):
forty five run stop epas when he makes a run
stop the posing team as a negative forty five EPA
this year, he remains a high impact coverage linebacker who
denies middle of the field targets the other linebackers allow us.
Per ESPN and their research on Pro Bowl stumps, let's
go ahead and pause for a break, come back and
talk about the Bucks defense. That's next Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 2 (16:52):
And you know, that's just kind of what you're gonna
get when we're out of the playoffs in week seventeen.
Let's talk about the Buccaneers personnel here for a second.
We're gonna pa bucks every four years, so I'm gonna
get the most out of that Egnika boat drop that
I have.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
And I just decided to make a little song for you.
I hope you appreciated that. Vida Veya.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
That's it right, next segment, move it on. Just kidding,
but really, you guys know how much I love him.
I told the story about Veya on here at least
three times. Apple Cup biggest regular season game in Washington
state history besides maybe the Rose Bowl year in ninety eight.
Ryan Leaf eats your heart out A trip to the
pac twelve championship on the line. The game begins with
two Vita Vea run stuffs, then a pressure that forces

(17:30):
a throwaway of Gardner Minshew. The Huskies take it down score,
the Coups get it back Vea sas. Minshew then pressures
him on two more plays and gets him off the
field six consecutive plays creates a fourteen oh and leave
for the Huskies in that game. And we were in
Tampa for joint practices a couple of years ago, and
I think I told this story as well. I wound
up being sat at the same table as like all

(17:50):
the main coaches, the coordinators, and the top coaches on
the staff, and they're talking about Vida Veya, and I'm like,
funny story about Vidavea. I say that story, and McDaniel says,
is the funny part about that story that we have
to block via tomorrow Vita Veya tomorrow. I butchered that,
But yeah, cool story, Travis. He's one of my favorite
players in the entire league. He's a great test for us.
I want to see how Aaron Brewer attacks him. If

(18:12):
Aaron Brewer can play with his overtakes and reaches and seals,
that's a tough assignment for Brewer, and I think he
can do it. If you can run him off, then
I think we can have a lot of success in
the ground game. But if you try to play in
a phone booth, you're playing with fire there on Veya,
He and Greg Gaines are a good test for jonasavit
Naya because he needs his technique. It's tough to breathe
and you don't have your nostrils available. He needs a

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technique to be super sharp against Veya, who is you know,
all time, and then Gaines, who's a former wrestler who
can play that kind of low to the ground, you know, technician,
hand placement, handshooting type of deal. And he's come a
long way Jonah has in that area. I thought Jonah
played a lot better versus the Bengals and the Steelers.
I love that clip of him talking to Cam Hayward
after the Steelers game, and it looked to me like
he really took to the coaching he got there. So

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our ability to help Quinn to stay ahead of the chains,
to me, it starts up there. I think Paul and
Austin are good matchups on the outside against a really
banged up edge group of the Buccaneers. Austin matches up
well with Reddick and Paul with Diabi, so I don't
think it's much of a test on the outside as
it is on the inside, and it works on both
sides of the football here.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
With Zion McCollum out, I assume we get a good
mix of looks. For Wattle.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I have to imagine he sees plenty of double teams,
but he was opened a ton against the Bengals and
he's a tough cover for anybody out there. I think
he could exploit some matchups on a rookie like Morrison,
who's got a good season so far. But Wattle is
so good at the release and breakpoint, which is something
I think that was kind of you know, the quickness
and the long speed for Morrison wasn't on the tape
all the time. They're all physical Morris, Dean and Parish,

(19:40):
so playing with intent off the line of scrimmage, you know,
beating some reroutes. That's gonna be the key here. You've
got to account for Winfield at all times every snap,
you know, and the tight end game goes through beating
him a lot, which that's kind of where our passing
game was funneled right now. Besides Wattle, the Bucks have
drafted a lot of my favorite prospects coming out recently.
Man Like, they're kind of like my second team in
some ways, I don't have a second team, but if
I did, it would be them. But he may be

(20:01):
atop the entire list there. He will roll down, he'll
play in the post and work off of his own
side adjustments. He'll blitz Quinn. Just need to know where
thirty one is at all times. Because of that aggressiveness,
I think you get a lot of catch and run
opportunities for the tight ends, for Dulsitch, for Waller, and
for Julian. So keep an eye on that. The scheme
calling cards here the Bucks defense versus Dolphins offense zones, blitzes,
fire zones. That's the name of the game here. Man

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does guys present different pressure, bring different guys all the time.
They love dialing up slot blitzes with Parish when Winfield
rolls down and can match up in man coverage. They
love to bring the backers. They want to bring everybody
they can to the party. I imagine against a rookie
making a second start, we're going to see a ton
of people in the fit, which presents a unique challenge
for the line. But Quinn really needs to be privy

(20:44):
to where it's coming from and where his hots are.
That's where Devon a Chan can really help him. A
well time screen could pop in this one. I think
the angle screen that hasn't we haven't seen a lot
of it lately, but that's a big time successor in
you know, previous weeks or months of the Miami Dolphins.
A Chan being a big pass catcher could be a
big threat in this one. As for the structure of
it all, Nickels sixty three percent, thirty four to thirty
three percent.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
That's pretty much it.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
They play cover three to one third of the time
they play then cover their man free. Off of that
cover one fifteen percent, they're in quarters for about twenty
they'll play Cover two about sixteen percent. Little bit of
everything from the Buccaneers defense around five percent for all
three coverages of Cover zero, Cover six.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
And two man.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Just know that what you see probably not what you get,
and there will be a fifth rusher almost all the time.
Given our recent looks, I think Bowles has a chance
to really stifle this Dolphins offense. Here and get to
the Bucks feeling good about where they're going into a
Week eighteen pivotal game against the Carolina Panthers. As far
as the Dolphins defense, first, the Bucks offense, screen and
run games starting point. We talked about that, right they

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want to operate their stretching zone outside run game with misdirection,
false keys, dummy polls. It's a lot like Cohen did
it last year with the Police. The play sequencing. You
have to be aware that every play is a carrot
that could become a rinkle later on in the game.
So if you're aggressive on a certain look, they're gonna
note that in come back to it later on in
the game. The spacing and the rhythm hasn't been there
during this cold stretch, but I could see them, you know,

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attacking with a corps with base concepts and just trust
those receivers to win against a team that can't get
after the quarterback, a team that doesn't have their you know,
their communicator on the back end of Minka Fitzpatrick. The
safety play has been really struggling outside of Mica, so
I look for them to kind of get it pass
protected and get some shots against the Dolphin secondary that's
kind of wanting right now. They've got to be looking at,

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you know, the manipulation of those safeties against Tyrrel Donson.
That's how their offense operates, and that's kind of where
we're weak. So I don't feel great about the matchup here.
They do eleven personnel sixty eight percent of the time,
twelve personnel twenty one percent of the time, and then
they have a ten percent combination of twelve, twenty one
and thirteen personnel. You came today for the ignika a
big boot drop. Not my actual analysis on this podcast.

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As far as the quarterback position goes, Let's go ahead
and take our last break break there, come back and
talk about that the key to victory and my prediction
all of that next Draft Time podcast brought to you
by AutoNation. The quarterbacks in this game one of my
all time favorites. Baker Mayfield. Just like the way he
plays the game. I like the way he's He's got
a certain thing to him right, a certain ish to him,

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if you will, Despite a tough season, and I think
he's culpable here at times where he can drop his
eyes against the rush and really get baited into some
bad throws. He made a horrendous decision in that Falcons
blunder of a game, and they came back from down
fourteen in the fourth quarter where he tried to throw
the curl against Cover three but didn't have a flat
to hold the will backer who just drifted out there
and kept getting with, kept getting with and said, oh

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my goodness, there's the football.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'll take that for a room service pick.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was kind of like the pick that two of
threw against Pittsburgh without having that flat defender or flat
receiver to hold that flat defender, I should say.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
But despite all of that, he's a gamer. He's going
to compete. He's going to create.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
He's going to make big plays, a big plays and
take chances. If you play tethered in your own coverages,
you'll turn them over. So there's that opportunity here. If
you don't and if you if you don't convert pressures
into sacks, he'll get out. Then you've got a plaster
against one of the best creative receiving course there is
in football.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
It happened a lot versus the Bengals. It's on the
table again this week.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I expect Baker to make some plays outside of the
pocket across the street on Sunday, our quarterback Quinn viewers.
Everything we've heard from coach this week really matches what
I came away from. Just looked comfortable and poised. Thought
he forced one ball in the midst of a turnover
barrage there, the one to waddle. Those are the kind
of mistakes that happened for rookies. Outside of that, I
thought he managed it well and even built out some
bad calls. I'm really intrigued this week by how What

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I mean by that is like the if you watch
Jto Sullivan's Quarterback School channel on the Patreon. It costs
money subscribe, but it's worth your time because he teaches
you a lot about football. He's got a lot of
questions about the concepts and the spacing and the intent
of some of these plays, and Quinn sometimes gets out
of those bad looks because of some good processing and
some good playback there at the quarterback position. I'm super

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intrigued by how he handles blitzes this week. If he's
seeing it, you know, he could cook possibly because this
defense in the Bucks has not been good this year.
If he's not, it could be a multiple sack multiple
turnover game. But man, we're locking it well right now,
so I think he has a chance. I think he
does have a chance. No special teams are miscellaneous or
what's the stake to root for this sque because we're
just gonna get out of here before that though. Three keys,

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get the ball on the perimeter, make this front seven
chase the football to the edge. And that's also your
best player in devon Achen getting him wide. To just
do that, I guess. Number two identify quick game solutions.
Quinn has to know where the buloz is coming from.
He has to know where his hots are, and he
has to get the ball out fast, because that's how
this offense can get really going backwards if the Bucks
can get pressure and he gets confused on where his

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hots are.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Number three just challenge the catch point.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I don't want to see any more of these high
pointing fifty to fifty balls, Like that's not even good football.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Really, It's just like a rebound, right.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's like when a quarterback throws it up and the
guy makes a play, Like I never just give the
quarterback credit because it's like anybody could have done that.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
So I don't want to see that. It's not good football.
To me, I don't enjoy that. That's kind of my
whole point there.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
My prediction, too many defensive liabilities that Minko won't be
able to cover up. Pass rush is no existent, and
if we sacrifice coverage against this group of eligibles, we're
gonna get smoked. I think it's a get right game
across the board for the Buccaneers. I think they'll light
up a green quarterback and attack a defense it's held
together right now by an all pro linebacker without any
pass rush around him. Buccaneers thirty eight, Dolphins thirteen.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yikes.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Let's call it a podcast. Hope you guys enjoy your weekend.
Hope you had a great Christmas. We'll see you back
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