September 24, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it is preview Day. We're moving this up one day
and the Wednesday programming gonna come out for you guys tomorrow.
But today, matchups, scheme, personnel, keys, predictions, what's at stake,
everything in between as we get you ready for Dolphins
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and Jets under the primetime lights from the Baptist Hill
Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
This is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The Draft Time Podcast. You guys know how we start
the Jets preview show every single year, and that's pretty
much what it's been for them for the last fifteen years.
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And it was fun to point fun at them at
their expense while we were cruising to playoff appearances and
winning double digit games and scoring thirty points per game.
But we've kind of joined them in that part of
the pack recently. Let's go ahead and break into our
New York Jets Week four preview Dolphins and Jets Monday
Night Football. It's a seven to fifteen kickoff, so at
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least we save an hour of sleep there in a
primetime slot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
For those that don't know, my game day coverage goes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Watch the game in the second half, At some point
I make my way to a radio station or to
the radio booth here at hard Rock Stadium, and then
I do two hours of postgame and then I do
the podcast after that. And so when the game kicks
off at eight to fifteen, your boy gets to bet
a round like three am. So every hour is critical
in that regard. Nobody cares about that struggle. What you
care about is how the Dolphins can get their first
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win against the New York Jets. So it's another week,
another AFC East foe. As we intro the Jets here,
this one a primetime kickoff in a stadium at night
where I love this stadium at night in primetime games
usually bigger games in these spots in recent years, but
two teams that desperately needed to get a win, right,
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The Jets thought they had their first win of the
Aaron Glenn era there for a couple of minutes in
Tampa Bay. And they are brand new from what you've
grown accustomed to the last four ish years. They hired
Robert Salah back in twenty twenty one, coming off the
two years of Adam Gase, which were just delicious, and
that bottomed out at two and fourteen in twenty twenty,
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And just real quick, is it interesting to anybody else
how the record of the number one picking team each
year seems to fluctuate And it feels almost like like
I feel like we've I mean, this is not really
a feels like this is more factual. But the middle
ground in the NFL is kind of gone these days,
and it does invite more teams to the contention party
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down the stretch. But you know, was last year's Dolphins team,
even if they had gotten in, gonna compete up in Buffalo,
up in Baltimore, up in Kansas City. The Denver Broncos
answered that exact same question when they went to Buffalo
in the playoff round and got waxed. I mean, actually,
the disparity here is a lot like the socioeconomic imbalance
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our country is currently undergoing. So perhaps the parallels are fitting.
But I think part of that is, you know, this
lack of middle ground and we're gonna go wait tangent here,
like we've gone from the days of where you would
like sign Mike Glennon and then draft Mitch Trubisky, right,
And that doesn't happen anymore. Now. It's you either just
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take the bullet for a year, or you only draft
the rookie and put him out there. And I say
that when the team that shares the stadium with the
Jets did the opposite of that with Russell Wilson, Jamis
Winston and Jackson Dart. But that's not the norm anymore.
And so what you lose in that pursuit, to me,
is this middle ground of teams that are just okay.
And now the teams that are just okay to me
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get propped up into the seven to eight to nine
win range because they get so many matchups against these
horrendous teams and the bottom the seller of the league.
And that's how you get these imbalanced two verse seven
matchups like Broncos and Bills a year ago on Wildcard Weekend,
and technically the twenty twenty two Wildcard weekend game Dolphins
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and Bills should have been that way was a two
touchdown spread, but Miami found four turnovers and a defensive
touchdown and stayed in that game till late. I digress,
but I do want to talk about this because it
might be prevalent to us this year revelant relevant to us.
The Jets go two to fourteen and twenty twenty, right,
and they don't get the first pick. If you lose
fourteen football games and don't get the first pick.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Pain.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I will never forget that either, because I was living
down here by myself in an apartment over in Miramar,
and my family hadn't moved down yet because the pandemic
kind of interrupted our plans to move to South Florida
as a family. And I'll never forget watching Frank Gore
get that first down for the Jets and won them
the first game of that season for them. They would
win the next week as well, but they beat the
Rams and a vaults them over the Jaguars to the
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number one pick in the draft that year, and celebrating
that big time because we just got Trevor Lawrence out
of the division, right, and he was like the highest
graded quarterback prospects since Andrew Luck, So it was a
big deal in hindsight. He didn't work out hasn't worked
out either. He's still there, but he's not working out
very well for them. But go back to twenty and
nineteen and two and fourteen was the record of the
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number one overall pick. You had two three and thirteen teams.
Fast forward to two years later in twenty twenty one,
you had two three win teams, three four win teams,
and then in twenty twenty two it was two three
win teams. Twenty twenty three only one team had fewer
than four wins, that was the Panthers, So you could
finish four and thirteen and get the second pick, which
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it feels like in the past there was always a
couple of teams that were in the one, two three
win range, and then last year there was three three
win teams. Like it just seems like nobody goes one
in sixteen or two and fifteen anymore. Maybe I'm cheriot picking,
maybe I'm delusional here, but I find that interesting and
I think it's worth noting for how future number one
picks could be decided in this league. Back to the point,
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Sala takes over as a long dangent. Sala takes over
a roster that needed total overhaul, total foundation up rebuild
from what Adam gas to that roster, and Mike mccagnan
as well. They win four games that year, but then
they have the twenty twenty two draft where they get
a pair of ones for Jamal Adams excuse me, and
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they get Sauce and they get Garrett Wilson. They win
seven games, and you might recall at one point that
year they were seven and four and Mike White was
throwing for four hundred yards in games at various points
them In twenty twenty three, they make the big play
for the quarterback, everyone picks them to go to the
super Bowl, and he gets injured in the fourth play
of the season. Zach Wilson steps back in and they
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win seven games once again, and then they're thinking, well,
our defense can win seven games with Zach Wilson playing quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Imagine if we get Aaron Rodgers and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You win seven games and it's gone and Sala lost
his job after four games. They bring Jeff Ulbrick up,
which I always didn't understand that he goes three to nine,
and that leads to the hiring of Aaron Glenn, who
flies Aaron Rodgers out to New York, which I guess
if there's one thing to like about the Jets, it's
the Aaron Glenn flew flew Rogers to New York to
say we're good, get out of here. To me, that's
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hilarious because you know, sociopaths don't love being treated like that.
No one does, but especially a sociopath. Aaron Glenn brings
some line staff with him to the Jets. Tanner Inkstrand
was the passing game coordator in Detroit. He's now the
OC with the Jets. Glenn brings back Steve Wilkes, who
had a year off of football basically as a volunteer
advisor for the University of Charlotte. But he was a
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DC previously and got fired by the Niners in their
Super Bowl year. He had a head coaching experienced in
a couple of stops as well, Panthers interim and the
Cardinals previously. But Glenn gets his OC as offensive line
coach and an assistant DB's coach from Detroit. That's where
Glenn's specialty was. He was a defensive back for the
New York Jets, and his playing days change their scheme,
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although it's still about aggression and the mindset of, you know,
dictating the terms and set in the tone. They had
a pretty decent draft, including the right tackle that where
did I have Membu? This year? He was my top
tackle him and Josh Simmons, and then there wasn't many
guys I had above him. In general, he was I
thought he was one of the clearest, most obvious players
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on tape this year and he looks like a future
All Pro. But as far as the twenty twenty five season,
it just hasn't provided a win yet. They're oher to
three looking to get their first win. Let's go ahead
and talk about the matchups that could help them get
that first win or possibly send them to zero and four.
So they have some injuries that are significant. Elijah Vera Tucker,
their right guard, has kind of taken on a similar
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career path to a former USC offensive line in the
with the Miami Dolphins and Austin Jackson, where half of
his seasons end on the injury reserve, and that caused
a bit of a shuffle on the offensive line as
they move Jake Myers into the center position and kick
Joel Tipman out to the guard position. Quarterback Justin Fields
had a concussion in the Buffalo game and missed the
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Tampa Bay game. Tyrod Taylor started in his place. Aaron
Glenn would not confirm one way or the other on
his most recent press conference, which I think was Tuesday,
about his availability to play, but did say that he
would start over Taylor if he were healthy. We'll get
more clarity on that as we go deeper into the week.
Wide receiver Josh Reynolds was their biggest get in the offseason,
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which tells you a lot in terms of receivers. He
missed last week. He's supposed to miss this game as well.
Alan Lazar doesn't get nearly the same run that he
got post Rodgers, just seventeen snaps last game. Arian Smith
has been the number two in snapcounts there, with Tyler
Johnson quickly behind him at number three or right behind him,
I should say at number three. Jermaine Johnson missed the
game on Sunday with an ankle injury. Probably the biggest
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win of track here except for our next one, because
he didn't play in Tampa and they just need him,
I mean, the option on the other side, Michael Clemons
has not hit so far in his career, but with
Will McDonald they have a pretty good bookend, and if
it's just McDonald, you can kind of plan for that
a lot better than you can when Jermaine Johnson's out
there as well. And then Quincy Williams is going to
miss some time here after suffering a shoulder injury in
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the game against the Bucks. He did not return. That
would be a big loss for them. He is so
good at anticipating and beating combination blocks that climb to
that second level, and it makes me bullish on a
player that. Quite frankly, I'm always bullish on an Aaron Brewer,
but even more so if Williams cannot go check out
this week's Dolphin's HQ episode because we're putting the film
up on Aaron Brewer and showing you how he makes
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the life of Mike linebackers in the run game absolutely miserable.
As far as the rest of the depth chart, so
fields on Taylor, the quarterbacks, Breese Hall and Braylan Allen
the running backs, I think there's just not a lot
of juice in that position, so you can kind of
not be worried about giving up home runs at that position.
Garrett Wilson is the best player on this offense besides
maybe armand Membu, but he's their big playmaker. Beyond that,
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Josh Reillins is out, Tyler Johnson, Arian Smith, Allen Lazard.
It's probably the worst receiving core beyond the number one
in the NFL. At tight end, I think think Mason
Taylor is an absolute stub. And then Jeremy Rucker at
the number two. On the offensive line, Olufashanu and armand
Membu a really good bookend tackle group there. John Simpson,
Jake Myers and Joel Tipman are the three interior. Do
I have the right name Myers? Yeah, his name is
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Josh Myer, as you freaking idiot. Sorry about that. We'll
keep it in. So those are the On the defensive
depth chart, Quincy Williams and Harrison Phillips are a pretty
good combination inside. Jawan Briggs has been kind of the
third and a nice rotational piece there.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I mentioned the edges.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's McDonald and Johnson and then a huge huge gap
to Clemens who starts in place of Johnson if he
can't go, and then at linebacker, Quincy Williams will be down.
Jamian Sherwood steps into the I guess primary linebacker position.
But this is where it gets interesting because the player
that has been in base and been the bane of
Jets fans existence so far in this defense under Aaron
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glenn Is Marcelino McCrary ball.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I had to go make sure I got that right.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
He has not been good and he will stay been
to the starting role for Quincy Williams, so that's a
big loss for them. And then strong safety Tony Adams
miss last game, but they brought up Malachai More to
start alongside Andre Cisco. The first thing I look for
with a young safety tandem or a new starter alongside
the other safety is that communication. So I'll be curious
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to see how Miami can kind of stress their communication
with their route distribution against a relatively new tandem. There
some of the matchups to look forward to. Let's actually
go ahead and take our first break comeback. We'll get
into the key matchups here that will decide this game
on Monday night. That's next Draft Time Podcast, brought to
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Speaker 1 (12:37):
Matchups.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
When it comes to the Jets offense versus the Dolphins defense,
that could help decide this game the edges. The undisputed
best aspect of this Jets offense in the offensive line
in general, is the edges of the offensive line. Olufashanu,
armand Membu are really really good players and this would
have been a good on good matchup for me coming
into the season, but we've just had such little juice
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off the edge. We are bottom tier across the board
in terms of our pass rush metrics from the edge
position and the interior quite frankly, So how do Phillips
and Chubb and Chop get it going? This might be
a weekend where it doesn't quite get there, but I
do think you can kind of confuse this quarterback and
get pressure on him with rush lane contained, because last
time we saw this quarterback he ran for one hundred
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and seventy eight yards his career high. But I think
that your best opportunity to really get pressure against this
group is exotics and pressures, which can be dangerous against
the running quarterback, especially when you're not executing your exotics
very well. I think this is one of the toughest
matchups on the entire field for Miami because Membu his
ability to play downhill, but also pair that with a
jump and quick set where he can kind of come
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out and snatch you right away. He's tough to read
and right now he's going to get a lot of
looks at Jalen Phillips and Chop Robinson and quite frankly,
I think he kind of has the advantage in that
in both those matchups and they don't really have to
help him. He can widen, he can absorb, He's really
adept at getting within the running game, and Fashanu is
just as good. I think Chubb has been our best
edge so far. But he can mix his pass sets,
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he can get vertical, he can handle the inside redirect.
I think the single most critical aspect of this matchup
will be the Dolphin's edges ability to condense the pocket
without creating rush lanes for the quarterback to escape through,
and hopefully finally get some interior presence from the inside
guys with Seiler and Kenny g and really our rush
across the board just hasn't been there yet. I think
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it'll get there eventually. I think that's one area of
this team that I think will see grow. And then
from there, I would expect, or I would hope, that
the running game would kind of be taken to a
different level and you can kind of have your two
calling cards be that creating pressure on the quarterback running
the football, just like we talked about on the Tuesday podcast.
But we're still waiting on it, Like I didn't like
doing this at the podium in week one, and I
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don't say it to disparage the player, but I kind
of wonder if the loss of a player that needed
to be planned for alongside Zach Steeler has diminished the
returns of his production early on his strengths and his game.
But then again, Wilkins and Campbell or a slow start
to Kenny Grant, Like, none of that describes getting put
on skates by Michael and Winnie against the Patriots, But
either way, we just have zero interior surge and not
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a lot of one on one wins on the outside. Like,
it's tough to get stops when you do that, especially
when you don't have like world beating cornerbacks out there
shutting guys down. We have to find a way to
reset the pocket against justin Fields, I think it's a
good game to again bring pressure and mix it up
five man to six man games delays. The problem with
Fields over his career has been the ability to see
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in process and play out the middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
In the passing concepts.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He can get to pre snaptaels that promotes the vertical throws,
but that's the easy stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Like when you see someone post a clip of a
quarterback throw a go ball on like a you know,
a three step one hitch timing or a three step
drop and it's just like a well placed ball. That's
impressive obviously, but it doesn't tell me about how the
quarterback plays quarterback. Like that's not you know, reading out
a defense. It's just a designed shot call that you
take from the before the snap. But like that's what
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Justin Fields does well. One to one to the backside X,
you know, vert combinations off play action and then you
mix that with electric running ability. But if you can
execute a good cage technique with your pass rush, which
essentially is too low cage too high cage players where
you want to get up field and kind of hem
the quarterback inside so he can't get out right or left,
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and then your defensive tackles have to be able to
essentially reset the line of scrimmage and then get off
those blocks and establish a two man wall in front
of the quarterback so we can't escape coming up and
you can't escape going out the side force and run
backwards a la Kaylea Williams style, Caleb had a great
game on Sunday and force them to beat you that way.
That's kind of how you have to get after this quarterback.
And I imagine we'll see some of that here against
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the Jets and their offense. But I mean, I think
that's the plan here with Jordan Brooks and Tyrrel Dotson
and hopefully we see more Willy Gabe, but I doubt it.
I think that's how you get after him. You know,
you can find a way to kind of if we're
going to cover the way we have in the hook zone,
like throw a spy on him because we're not covering
anybody anyways in those positions of the field.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe there's something there, but I don't really you know,
above my pay grade. But also factor in the nickel
and the safety's in the pass rush plan as well.
I think you see lots of Dante Trader and Minka
Fitzpatrick coming down. You have to make this passing offense
beat you because there's one receiver and a not very
good quarterback in terms of the process and throwing the
football down the field. You have to find a way
to make him beat you vertically and take away the
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short stuff, take away the running game, take away the quarterback,
run game fields. His completion percentage this year is the
exact same versus the blitz as it is against coverage
fifty eight percent. But when he's under pressure, he's four
for eleven with fifty yards. When he's kept clean, it's
fifteen for twenty two with one hundred and ninety five yards.
But double the YPA there, right, four and a half
yards under pressure to nine when you don't pressure him.
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So if Mami doesn't get pressure on this guy, he's
going to carve you up because he can. Now, we
just have to play tighter again, because I think you
can do that and have the safeties come down a
little bit, because again, there's not a real vertical threat
in the offense. They've thrown two passes over twenty yards
through the first two games, and then last game. I
didn't even charge it because it was Tyrod Taylor. But
it's an offense that's constrained to a box, and if
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you can take that away and force him to try
to play deep, you can get some incomplete passes and
some advantageous down in distances. Now, Garrett Wilson, he's the
guy He's the guy pal him and Mason Taylor. There's
not a single other skill player in this offense. I
would stay up at night game planning for, like, not
the running backs, not the tight ends, not the rest
of the receivers. I think there are a variety of
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ways to get brackets to funnel Wilson into zones. It's
gonna be a frushrating year for Garret Wilson because that's
how teams are going to play him. And basically, with
how the structure of this defense works, you can get
him to run into guys and it might even be
a man everywhere he goes situation where it's basically boxing
one technique when it comes to basketball, one guy in
man coverage. Everybody else has zones, and so you're essentially
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playing trail under him, funneling him to whatever zone he
runs himself into, and you pick it up from that position.
And it's a pretty common game plan against a team
that has like one top line play or even if
it's a team that has like a Jamar Chase or
a Justin Jefferson but not a sizeable target share elsewhere
across the offense, meg that guy man everywhere he goes
with Mason, it's his patience and nuance as a route runner.
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That's something to keep an eye on when it comes
to that intermediate game over the ball. We've struggled in
that area, and I can see right now on tight
end leak or an over route or a pivot or
a china or a whip something that these shifty slot
receivers can do. Mason Taylor can do that. And with
his size and with the way Tyrrel Dodson is getting
false keys right now, I'm struggling to get this out
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because I can just I'm envisioning this playing out where
Mason Taylor has like a thirty eight yard touchdown catch
and spikes that football in his former hometown. Like, I
love Mason Taylor, but I don't want to see that.
I don't want to see it, and I fear you're
going to see it. I think you can alternate sides
in terms of covering Garrett Wilson with Rasul Douglas and
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Jack Jones. I think Rasoul's skill set is an experience
is probably a little bit more of a compliment to
slow down Wilson, where you know, he just he torched
Jalen Ramsey last year, so that big physical body is
kind of I guess Garrett Wilson like against that last year,
but I don't think you're gonna try to shadow him
with one guy, So Rasseul Douglas physical reroute and then
funnel him in his zones is kind of my approach
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there on the Jets defense. I mean, Sauce Gardner is
kind of the sauce that stirs the drink, if you will,
and he's a long, aggressive, quick twitch corner. They're gonna
try to blanket one man with him most of the time.
And I apologize for getting repetitive here, but we've taken
advantage of that in the past. And it's not to
say that Sauce is not up to task. There's a
reason he's called upon to do this. But we've just
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been able to be even better with our vertical passing game,
and in particular, you know the downfield shots to reak
and waddle, but you're gonna see help slant it away
from him.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So if you find a chance, and these usually.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Occur in that third in medium to third and short
ish like a long short that's an oxymorn, but I'm
talking like four yards right, like third and four to
third and eight is third and four third, and sure
is that third medium. It doesn't matter third and four
to eight, just like Buffalo always does. That's when they're
going to walk their corners up, press you and try
to get you off your rhythm and reroute and disrupt
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the timing of the passing game. And that's where you
can get your shots in right, because they want to
take away your quick game. Okay, bet just see if
you can handle the vertical game while you do that
as well, and if they can id that and find
a deep shot you like, that's a chance to make,
you know, one of the game changing field flipping plays
that I don't think this Jets offense can can keep
up with. So you know, in all transparency, I would
do that, But also I would run this thing right
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at him. These great cover corners they don't like to tackle.
I'm using the wide running game because it's your bread
and butter. It's your strength against a defense that might
not have their MIC linebacker. It won't have their mic
linebacker and might not have their second best edge in
the game. And the guy that replaces that edge is
not a great discipline gap defender. That's you know, and
that's what you've always done against this Robert Sala one gap,
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get upfield approach. Aaron Glenn does the same thing, man,
And I'm going to force both those cornerbacks, whether it's
Gardner or Brandon Stevens, to come up and tackle my guys.
Make them get up off the ground ten times a
game like that's it wears on them. I think Sauce
would get wins on anybody, but and that includes Reek
and Waddle. But if you have five press man reps
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of Reek and or Waddle on Sauce Gardener, he gank
in about a thousand and on those particular plays. Can
we find them? Baker Mayfield found Mecha Pika bukag Buka.
I get that right, Chris Berman shout out Mecca Agbuka
for a couple of downfield shots, including the biggest play
of the game on the last drive, and he quite
frankly had another catch and they overturned. They didn't count
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as a catch even though he did catch it going
on top of Sauce Gardener. So that's how I'd look
to attack him. Quinn Williams is the next best guy.
He's quick, he's powerful, one gap extraordinary, but man. He
can also plant that flag and two gap against combination
blocks and dent the posts and you know, disengage at
the point of attack. He's the kind of guy that
could get wham trap treatment if you want to kind
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of throw a tendency breaker at these guys and say like, hey,
we're going to outside zone you and you can have
that gap for free.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Whoops, now you can't. Here comes a tight end.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Here comes Julian Hill coming back across you on the
crack back and put you on your big butt because
plug in that bucks tape and they just didn't move
him at all. He was a tree trunk out there,
and if that happens with our run game, it can
be tough to exploit those tight creases and find cutback
lanes for both a Chan and Olie Gordon. Jawan Briggs
been a nice rotational piece there. I put him in
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the part here because they find a way to get
him on the field next to Quinn and Harrison Phillips.
And he's a good spell He's got power game. The Dolphins'
ability to be adaptive and their scheme could be on
display in this one. So you have the parts to
be a speed or a power team. This is a
team that has power but can adapt to their speed.
Do you want to go Good on Good and attack
their power with power or do you try to kind
of make it a fun style of opposites? Right styles
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make fights. Can we finesse their power? Can you power
against their finess. I'm intrigued by that matchup there, and
then will McDonald off the edge. I think he's beginning
to blossom into maybe their best player. His bend is exceptional,
great get off. He's putting together his pass rush plan.
Now he had that blocked field goal where it was
like elite athletic ability. But what a matchup this would
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be with Patrick Paul. He does rush both sides, but
I think Paul can help you slide coverage, your slide
protection inside to Quinn Williams. But also you can help
McDonald when he goes to the right side on Larry Borum.
But I think Paul can negate a lot of those
skills because I think McDonald I think his plan in
this game will be to set Paul up to try
to change up on him in a critical moment late
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in the game. Like there's a little more experience there
for McDonald and I hope Paul's ready for that matchup,
because what I mean by that is like, I think
Paul can wipe him out for a game. But if
he shows speed and shows speed and shows speed and
then hit you with that crossover inside step on a
key third down in the second half, that could be
a big sack or a big fumble and like a
big game changing play. I'm excited to see how Patrick
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Paul handles not just the matchup early on in this game,
but how he adjust as a whole. I think you
can learn about your big left tackle and I think
he can do the job here for us, but they
do move him around again, Larry Borum has the foot
quickness to match that. I'd be watching that side with
more speed to power McDonald's redirect inside ability and kind
of ability to play under your chin strap. I think
is a bigger challenge for Larry Borum than it is
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for Patrick Paul. But I just want to say this also,
Larry Boram's played good football and no one talks about
it because we were all in on one narrative this offseason. Look,
I've been wrong about plenty, but like I just want
to call a spata s bade.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Larry Boram has played good football for you so far.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Another aside, the Dolphins lead the league in the drop
back game, and that's why some of these sack numbers
and pressures in the quarterback are what they are now.
Scoreboard dictates that when you go behind by a billion
against the Colts and twelve to the Patriots right away,
you have to call more true dropbacks. But that is
the complete opposite of how this team was constructed. They
want to run the ball and playoff, play pass and
get the quick game going and take away the edge
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rushers as a whole. They haven't done it all year long,
so I'm curious to see how that works out in
terms of the scheming up, scheming out the pass rush.
The areas of vulnerability for this Jets defense is all
over the damn field. Their safety play is not good,
their edge play is not good, their base back group
is not good. They struggle to pressure the quarterback from
sub or from base. And then I didn't even talk
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about this player, but Brandon Stevens. We watched the film
on this guy this offseason, thinking he might be an
option former Weaver player. No feel, he's grabby, he's slow,
go after him. Number twenty one. Jillen Waddle's releases should
destroy him. Watch this man try to get hands on guys.
I talked about sauce, but if they walk up Stevens
and he's across from ten or seven team, it's go time.
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It is absolutely alert time. Green the pins in the
front of the green, back of the green, I don't
even even know. Just go after that damn pin man.
There's no water hazards, there's no traps next to the green.
Go after that pin. Locate twenty one every single snap.
But if you see ten or seventeen out there, keep
your eyes on that matchup. I've watched this game from
your TV from your couch on Sunday from Monday. I
should say he constantly soft shoes, it turns down tackles,
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he's slow, he grabs if they start him again, that's
an indictment of their depth, maybe their program.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I think he's been unplayable. Twenty one look out for him.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And then I talked about McCrary ball earlier, would be
a nice matchup for Jonah Smith. Instead, I think you
try to get your two back personnel on the field
with Hn and Allie and get some passing game matchups
on this guy because they will allow you to dictate
it that way. I think he's also unplayable, and they
began to phase him out, but then Quincy Williams got
hurt and then Michael Clemons. I would say run at
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him with Austin Jackson, but we don't have that. But
he does love to expose his chest in the running game,
so maybe you do run out right at him, and
then Andre Cisco and Malachi Moore. I don't think that's
a good combination either. Some scheme calling cards here. When
it comes to the Dolphins offense versus the Jets defense,
they love to go man free. That's a single high
safety man coverage across the board, and from there they
can play cover three, which is of course three high
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defenders each covering a third of the depth portion of
the back part of the defensive backfield. They want to
be one gapping and aggressive upfield. They've got pieces at
every level and it's it's not really a departure schematically
from how they played under Sala. You'd be hard pressed
to find a more aggressive mindset coach on defense than
Aaron Glenn. But man, they'll sprinkle in cover three in one,
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and it's a carbon copy from what we've talked about
against the Patriots. A scheme that invites opportunities to hit verticals,
and we had three plays of twenty plus yards and
six plays of fifteen plus yards.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Same concept here.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You'll get slot fight opportunities to the field, fades to
the boundary for your X receiver typically waddle, take them
go vertical, be fun again. Be a team that we'd
like to come out here and watch again. They won gap.
They also play from the nickel with one of the
best slots in the game, and Michael Carter the second.
They've lost the edge in the running game in three
games I've seen, particularly off that right side.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
They want to backdoor you. They want to play upfield.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So okay, let them invite them, wham them, trap them,
take advantage of the aggressiveness areas of vulnerability here. The
linebacker depth, I mean, there's more of it. They the
way they call their defense. They have guys cover grass
and my favorite Jets study film study guy, Joe Blewett,
does a thing where he says, Jets linebacker's covering grass again.
Drink like you know, drinking game and Marcelen numbercurry balls
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ahead of that again, vertical shots against the outside man
looks an outside zone running game. Take advantage of all
their stuff and go after him. That way their scheme
calling cards. Defensively, the biggest issue for the Jets offense
is a quarterback that doesn't really know how to play
the position on a professional level. And what I mean
by that is the bad processing and progression, bad feet
under pressure, doesn't sync up with the receivers timing of
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the offense. They run into bad looks all the time.
If this quarterback cooks you, you're cooked. He's not an
effective player in this league. And unless it's with his legs,
I guess he can do that. But you got to
find a way to confuse this guy and hem him in.
I think the best part of the Jets' entire operation
right now is the route distribution and spacing. I like
the way Tanner Engstrant is calling things for them. They
can attack the soft vulnerabilities and two high presentations with
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soft zewn underneath, which is where we struggle. They love
to bring routes from the backside to hold the attention
of the cloud corners of the curl flat to prevent
them from getting depth into those intermediate throws, which we've
given those up to. When Tyrod was in, he was
two for two in that ten to twenty yard range
in the Buffalo game outside of the numbers. Conversely, Fields
was zero for two in the Buffalo game and he
just missed on both throws. But he wants to put
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the ball on the outside. I think this is a
game from Mika Fitzpatrick to make some plays. Let him
process from his half field drops, from Robert positions, from
the rat in the whole position, from straight up man
coverage against tight ends. As an insert player, I think
he could read eyes to the football and get his
hands on one in this game. There's a lot of
good run game design and diversity. They can go zone,
they can go power. They love to give false keys
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and that helps you when you have tackles like they do.
The eye discipline will be critical there for all the guys.
A player like Jordan Brooks tends to thrive in challenges
like these. Let's go ahead and take our last break,
come back and talk about the quarterback positions, what's at stake,
the keys to victory, and predict this game. That's next
Draft Time Podcast. Brought to you by a don'tation.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We are back.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I realize I haven't even talked about Darren Waller yet,
but I will wait until we see him on the
field before I incorporate him in these previous podcasts. Let's
go ahead and conclude here with the quarterback position. I've
talked a lot about justin fields, but I think the
best opportunity to get off the takeaway Schneid is this
week watching their tape. I think the process over the
middle continues to be a challenge. I see varied set
up some platforms on such throws at the side of pressure.
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When I watch fields, I see a player that doesn't
have that dual screen skill set in terms of keep
my eyes downfield while keeping the rush keying the rush
up in front of me. However, he does have the
rare athleticism to make you miss and he really really
wants to climb up the interior, which is why it's
so critical for your defensive tackles to find their way
off excuse me, to find their way off blocks, even
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if you rush contained with eyes up and try to
set up your disengage more so than trying to slip
blocks around the edges. Of the man, and that's one
of the things that I think we do best. Are
I disciplined at the defensive tackle position. I think Jordan
Phillips is a great asset in this game for that reason.
He's shown every week and that he's stronger than anybody
he sees across from him and has some real rag
doll reps. We talked about it, cage technique until your collapse,
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suck up in the hook zones, make them beat you, vertically,
change the rush, picture post snap. That's my book on
beating justin fields. If it's Tyrod Taylor, he also does
not see the field and doesn't pull the trigger, but
he wants to run, so just be ready to get
you're running shoes on our quarterback. There was a rhythm
to the short game, and quite frankly, when you watch
games across the league right now, a lot of the
league has become this progress to the one side of
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the formation, get a high low, or you come across
one to two read and then find that backside swing route.
And that was basically the entirety of TNF where it
was that way for Josh Allen. The Buffalo Bills too,
write something like one point five yards of depth of
target on the first down for both teams. Now that said,
I feel a lot of Tua's was not taking the
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keys that lent itself to opportunities to attack and look,
I read the reviews on the podcast. I read the
one on the listener who tapped out because I'm too
critical of Tua. Now, I don't know what you want
from me. I'm telling you what the tape shows you
shows me, and a step further, I'm far from the
only one who thinks that Tua's tape has been bad,
not just me, trust me, He's had a ton of
success against this Jets defense. I think the recipe is
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the same, just plugging that Bucks Jets tape, Baker to
Abuka one on one downfield all day. If the Dolphins
want to take their shots, they're gonna have ups, special
teams and miscellaneous. It feels crazy to say this. We
have three major special teams gaps one per week, and
yet it feels like it's so much better than it
was last year. Riley Patterson's been awesome. The kick return,
you know, has been pretty good too, a pretty good
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punt return. Also, we's got cleanupon mistakes. It's if not
for two penalties and a mistackle on the Antonio Gibson
touchdown return. I think you're seeing a much improved Dolphin
special teams unit. But that's like saying, you know, aside
from aside from the assassination Miss Lincoln, how was to play.
The Jets blocked a field goal and housed it in
the Tampa game, so critical to make sure that does
not happen. You can't win games doing that most of
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the time if you're on a good football team, especially
But a random miscellaneous note, the Jets and Bucks game
hit real field tempts of over one hundred and ten
degrees on Sunday, and that is a brutal tax on
your body on top of playing professional football, which is
about the toughest thing a human body can endure for
three hours in this world. But I bring this up
because even though it's a night game, anybody from South
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Florida knows if it's September sun up or sundown, you're
gonna sweat.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
It's hot, it's muggy.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I think it's pretty bad scheduling break here for the
Jets to get back to back September games in the
state of Florida. The two hottest days in the NFL.
Maybe Houston Texas has a dispute for that, but I digress.
So the ability to wear this team down and lean
on them and pull away in the fourth quarter and
test that condition, that's kind of my key here. What's
at stake? I don't know, dude. This was always for
playoff implications. But if you're gonna rescue this season, right
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and I talked about this yesterday, We're gonna do this.
You know we're gonna do it, even me, who's in
the freaking dumps right now. You win this game, you
beat the Panthers in Carolina, it sets up another one
of these games like we had all year last year
against the Chargers. And the thought is gonna be the
same as it was in the Packer game last year.
If they can just pull out this win, they're gonna
be back in And I feel pretty good about getting
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these next two. I do, even with the tape being
what it is. I think you're gonna see two Dolphins
inspired performances that get them dubs in the next two games.
But I'm not gonna allow myself to continue to go
further and say, like, well, if they can do this,
so what's the stake is the potential ability to resurrect
your season.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You lose this one, buddy.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You think we're talking too much draft right now for September,
just wait until October.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
If we're zero to four.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
My three keys to victory pound the quick game against
base looks they really struggle in intermediate zone coverages, particularly
from base when they have three backers in the field,
and now with Quincy Williams out, that gets even harder.
You can id the coverage by breaking the huddle with
plenty of time to get to your e motions and shifts,
identify coverage and the attack from there. It's so bad
for them. There's no real rhyme or reason to their rules. Defensively,
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they don't cap from zone to disguise. They don't match.
It's bad.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You should score against this team. They are bad.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Every team that plays the Jets has gotten to this
from twelve personnel packages that puts a backer out alongside Sherwin,
Sherwood and Williams and marcellne umccarry. Ball is going to
play a lot of football this weekend. Go after him.
If you have success here, then lean on them in
the fourth quarter. Get your format offense out early and
wear them down. You're off a mini by they are
off of a tough game in the Florida Heat. Use
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it to your advantage. Number two. Anticipate and drive on outbreakers.
They love to throw the ball outside the numbers, and
it's a smart design because that's where the quarterback is best.
Throws over the middle are late, sometimes off target. It's
a dangerous place to be late and inaccurate too, but
he can layer it and drive it to the perimeter.
If you can sift through the manipulation, you can get
your hands on football's here. Number three, maintain your eye
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discipline on defense. The run game sets up what they
do with their quarterback in the design run game, but
also the play action game. The second key carries over
here with concept designed to hold front side defenders with
backside routes in order to open up the front side concept.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That you hope to hit. My prediction Dolphins win.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I think they get off the schneid this week they better,
and I think it'll stay close around halftime, like a
thirteen to ten game or something that the Dolphins just
begin to pull away from slowly in the second half.
If they can stick to that script and commit to it.
I will say it's like twenty seven to seventeen or
twenty seven to thirteen with five minutes to go, and
the Jets get a late backdoor score to make it
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twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Dolphins win.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
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Crabs and maybe some locker room audio. We'll pick the
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it is preview Day. We're moving this up one day
and the Wednesday programming gonna come out for you guys tomorrow.
But today, matchups, scheme, personnel, keys, predictions, what's at stake,
everything in between as we get you ready for Dolphins
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and Jets under the primetime lights from the Baptist Hill
Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
This is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The Draft Time Podcast. You guys know how we start
the Jets preview show every single year, and that's pretty
much what it's been for them for the last fifteen years.
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And it was fun to point fun at them at
their expense while we were cruising to playoff appearances and
winning double digit games and scoring thirty points per game.
But we've kind of joined them in that part of
the pack recently. Let's go ahead and break into our
New York Jets Week four preview Dolphins and Jets Monday
Night Football. It's a seven to fifteen kickoff, so at
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least we save an hour of sleep there in a
primetime slot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
For those that don't know, my game day coverage goes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Watch the game in the second half, At some point
I make my way to a radio station or to
the radio booth here at hard Rock Stadium, and then
I do two hours of postgame and then I do
the podcast after that. And so when the game kicks
off at eight to fifteen, your boy gets to bet
a round like three am. So every hour is critical
in that regard. Nobody cares about that struggle. What you
care about is how the Dolphins can get their first
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win against the New York Jets. So it's another week,
another AFC East foe. As we intro the Jets here,
this one a primetime kickoff in a stadium at night
where I love this stadium at night in primetime games
usually bigger games in these spots in recent years, but
two teams that desperately needed to get a win, right,
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The Jets thought they had their first win of the
Aaron Glenn era there for a couple of minutes in
Tampa Bay. And they are brand new from what you've
grown accustomed to the last four ish years. They hired
Robert Salah back in twenty twenty one, coming off the
two years of Adam Gase, which were just delicious, and
that bottomed out at two and fourteen in twenty twenty,
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And just real quick, is it interesting to anybody else
how the record of the number one picking team each
year seems to fluctuate And it feels almost like like
I feel like we've I mean, this is not really
a feels like this is more factual. But the middle
ground in the NFL is kind of gone these days,
and it does invite more teams to the contention party
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down the stretch. But you know, was last year's Dolphins team,
even if they had gotten in, gonna compete up in Buffalo,
up in Baltimore, up in Kansas City. The Denver Broncos
answered that exact same question when they went to Buffalo
in the playoff round and got waxed. I mean, actually,
the disparity here is a lot like the socioeconomic imbalance
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our country is currently undergoing. So perhaps the parallels are fitting.
But I think part of that is, you know, this
lack of middle ground and we're gonna go wait tangent here,
like we've gone from the days of where you would
like sign Mike Glennon and then draft Mitch Trubisky, right,
And that doesn't happen anymore. Now. It's you either just
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take the bullet for a year, or you only draft
the rookie and put him out there. And I say
that when the team that shares the stadium with the
Jets did the opposite of that with Russell Wilson, Jamis
Winston and Jackson Dart. But that's not the norm anymore.
And so what you lose in that pursuit, to me,
is this middle ground of teams that are just okay.
And now the teams that are just okay to me
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get propped up into the seven to eight to nine
win range because they get so many matchups against these
horrendous teams and the bottom the seller of the league.
And that's how you get these imbalanced two verse seven
matchups like Broncos and Bills a year ago on Wildcard Weekend,
and technically the twenty twenty two Wildcard weekend game Dolphins
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and Bills should have been that way was a two
touchdown spread, but Miami found four turnovers and a defensive
touchdown and stayed in that game till late. I digress,
but I do want to talk about this because it
might be prevalent to us this year revelant relevant to us.
The Jets go two to fourteen and twenty twenty, right,
and they don't get the first pick. If you lose
fourteen football games and don't get the first pick.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Pain.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I will never forget that either, because I was living
down here by myself in an apartment over in Miramar,
and my family hadn't moved down yet because the pandemic
kind of interrupted our plans to move to South Florida
as a family. And I'll never forget watching Frank Gore
get that first down for the Jets and won them
the first game of that season for them. They would
win the next week as well, but they beat the
Rams and a vaults them over the Jaguars to the
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number one pick in the draft that year, and celebrating
that big time because we just got Trevor Lawrence out
of the division, right, and he was like the highest
graded quarterback prospects since Andrew Luck, So it was a
big deal in hindsight. He didn't work out hasn't worked
out either. He's still there, but he's not working out
very well for them. But go back to twenty and
nineteen and two and fourteen was the record of the
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number one overall pick. You had two three and thirteen teams.
Fast forward to two years later in twenty twenty one,
you had two three win teams, three four win teams,
and then in twenty twenty two it was two three
win teams. Twenty twenty three only one team had fewer
than four wins, that was the Panthers, So you could
finish four and thirteen and get the second pick, which
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it feels like in the past there was always a
couple of teams that were in the one, two three
win range, and then last year there was three three
win teams. Like it just seems like nobody goes one
in sixteen or two and fifteen anymore. Maybe I'm cheriot picking,
maybe I'm delusional here, but I find that interesting and
I think it's worth noting for how future number one
picks could be decided in this league. Back to the point,
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Sala takes over as a long dangent. Sala takes over
a roster that needed total overhaul, total foundation up rebuild
from what Adam gas to that roster, and Mike mccagnan
as well. They win four games that year, but then
they have the twenty twenty two draft where they get
a pair of ones for Jamal Adams excuse me, and
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they get Sauce and they get Garrett Wilson. They win
seven games, and you might recall at one point that
year they were seven and four and Mike White was
throwing for four hundred yards in games at various points
them In twenty twenty three, they make the big play
for the quarterback, everyone picks them to go to the
super Bowl, and he gets injured in the fourth play
of the season. Zach Wilson steps back in and they
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win seven games once again, and then they're thinking, well,
our defense can win seven games with Zach Wilson playing quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Imagine if we get Aaron Rodgers and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You win seven games and it's gone and Sala lost
his job after four games. They bring Jeff Ulbrick up,
which I always didn't understand that he goes three to nine,
and that leads to the hiring of Aaron Glenn, who
flies Aaron Rodgers out to New York, which I guess
if there's one thing to like about the Jets, it's
the Aaron Glenn flew flew Rogers to New York to
say we're good, get out of here. To me, that's
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hilarious because you know, sociopaths don't love being treated like that.
No one does, but especially a sociopath. Aaron Glenn brings
some line staff with him to the Jets. Tanner Inkstrand
was the passing game coordator in Detroit. He's now the
OC with the Jets. Glenn brings back Steve Wilkes, who
had a year off of football basically as a volunteer
advisor for the University of Charlotte. But he was a
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DC previously and got fired by the Niners in their
Super Bowl year. He had a head coaching experienced in
a couple of stops as well, Panthers interim and the
Cardinals previously. But Glenn gets his OC as offensive line
coach and an assistant DB's coach from Detroit. That's where
Glenn's specialty was. He was a defensive back for the
New York Jets, and his playing days change their scheme,
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although it's still about aggression and the mindset of, you know,
dictating the terms and set in the tone. They had
a pretty decent draft, including the right tackle that where
did I have Membu? This year? He was my top
tackle him and Josh Simmons, and then there wasn't many
guys I had above him. In general, he was I
thought he was one of the clearest, most obvious players
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on tape this year and he looks like a future
All Pro. But as far as the twenty twenty five season,
it just hasn't provided a win yet. They're oher to
three looking to get their first win. Let's go ahead
and talk about the matchups that could help them get
that first win or possibly send them to zero and four.
So they have some injuries that are significant. Elijah Vera Tucker,
their right guard, has kind of taken on a similar
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career path to a former USC offensive line in the
with the Miami Dolphins and Austin Jackson, where half of
his seasons end on the injury reserve, and that caused
a bit of a shuffle on the offensive line as
they move Jake Myers into the center position and kick
Joel Tipman out to the guard position. Quarterback Justin Fields
had a concussion in the Buffalo game and missed the
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Tampa Bay game. Tyrod Taylor started in his place. Aaron
Glenn would not confirm one way or the other on
his most recent press conference, which I think was Tuesday,
about his availability to play, but did say that he
would start over Taylor if he were healthy. We'll get
more clarity on that as we go deeper into the week.
Wide receiver Josh Reynolds was their biggest get in the offseason,
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which tells you a lot in terms of receivers. He
missed last week. He's supposed to miss this game as well.
Alan Lazar doesn't get nearly the same run that he
got post Rodgers, just seventeen snaps last game. Arian Smith
has been the number two in snapcounts there, with Tyler
Johnson quickly behind him at number three or right behind him,
I should say at number three. Jermaine Johnson missed the
game on Sunday with an ankle injury. Probably the biggest
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win of track here except for our next one, because
he didn't play in Tampa and they just need him,
I mean, the option on the other side, Michael Clemons
has not hit so far in his career, but with
Will McDonald they have a pretty good bookend, and if
it's just McDonald, you can kind of plan for that
a lot better than you can when Jermaine Johnson's out
there as well. And then Quincy Williams is going to
miss some time here after suffering a shoulder injury in
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the game against the Bucks. He did not return. That
would be a big loss for them. He is so
good at anticipating and beating combination blocks that climb to
that second level, and it makes me bullish on a
player that. Quite frankly, I'm always bullish on an Aaron Brewer,
but even more so if Williams cannot go check out
this week's Dolphin's HQ episode because we're putting the film
up on Aaron Brewer and showing you how he makes
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the life of Mike linebackers in the run game absolutely miserable.
As far as the rest of the depth chart, so
fields on Taylor, the quarterbacks, Breese Hall and Braylan Allen
the running backs, I think there's just not a lot
of juice in that position, so you can kind of
not be worried about giving up home runs at that position.
Garrett Wilson is the best player on this offense besides
maybe armand Membu, but he's their big playmaker. Beyond that,
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Josh Reillins is out, Tyler Johnson, Arian Smith, Allen Lazard.
It's probably the worst receiving core beyond the number one
in the NFL. At tight end, I think think Mason
Taylor is an absolute stub. And then Jeremy Rucker at
the number two. On the offensive line, Olufashanu and armand
Membu a really good bookend tackle group there. John Simpson,
Jake Myers and Joel Tipman are the three interior. Do
I have the right name Myers? Yeah, his name is
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Josh Myer, as you freaking idiot. Sorry about that. We'll
keep it in. So those are the On the defensive
depth chart, Quincy Williams and Harrison Phillips are a pretty
good combination inside. Jawan Briggs has been kind of the
third and a nice rotational piece there.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I mentioned the edges.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's McDonald and Johnson and then a huge huge gap
to Clemens who starts in place of Johnson if he
can't go, and then at linebacker, Quincy Williams will be down.
Jamian Sherwood steps into the I guess primary linebacker position.
But this is where it gets interesting because the player
that has been in base and been the bane of
Jets fans existence so far in this defense under Aaron
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glenn Is Marcelino McCrary ball.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I had to go make sure I got that right.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
He has not been good and he will stay been
to the starting role for Quincy Williams, so that's a
big loss for them. And then strong safety Tony Adams
miss last game, but they brought up Malachai More to
start alongside Andre Cisco. The first thing I look for
with a young safety tandem or a new starter alongside
the other safety is that communication. So I'll be curious
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to see how Miami can kind of stress their communication
with their route distribution against a relatively new tandem. There
some of the matchups to look forward to. Let's actually
go ahead and take our first break comeback. We'll get
into the key matchups here that will decide this game
on Monday night. That's next Draft Time Podcast, brought to
you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Matchups.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
When it comes to the Jets offense versus the Dolphins defense,
that could help decide this game the edges. The undisputed
best aspect of this Jets offense in the offensive line
in general, is the edges of the offensive line. Olufashanu,
armand Membu are really really good players and this would
have been a good on good matchup for me coming
into the season, but we've just had such little juice
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off the edge. We are bottom tier across the board
in terms of our pass rush metrics from the edge
position and the interior quite frankly, So how do Phillips
and Chubb and Chop get it going? This might be
a weekend where it doesn't quite get there, but I
do think you can kind of confuse this quarterback and
get pressure on him with rush lane contained, because last
time we saw this quarterback he ran for one hundred
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and seventy eight yards his career high. But I think
that your best opportunity to really get pressure against this
group is exotics and pressures, which can be dangerous against
the running quarterback, especially when you're not executing your exotics
very well. I think this is one of the toughest
matchups on the entire field for Miami because Membu his
ability to play downhill, but also pair that with a
jump and quick set where he can kind of come
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out and snatch you right away. He's tough to read
and right now he's going to get a lot of
looks at Jalen Phillips and Chop Robinson and quite frankly,
I think he kind of has the advantage in that
in both those matchups and they don't really have to
help him. He can widen, he can absorb, He's really
adept at getting within the running game, and Fashanu is
just as good. I think Chubb has been our best
edge so far. But he can mix his pass sets,
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he can get vertical, he can handle the inside redirect.
I think the single most critical aspect of this matchup
will be the Dolphin's edges ability to condense the pocket
without creating rush lanes for the quarterback to escape through,
and hopefully finally get some interior presence from the inside
guys with Seiler and Kenny g and really our rush
across the board just hasn't been there yet. I think
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it'll get there eventually. I think that's one area of
this team that I think will see grow. And then
from there, I would expect, or I would hope, that
the running game would kind of be taken to a
different level and you can kind of have your two
calling cards be that creating pressure on the quarterback running
the football, just like we talked about on the Tuesday podcast.
But we're still waiting on it, Like I didn't like
doing this at the podium in week one, and I
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don't say it to disparage the player, but I kind
of wonder if the loss of a player that needed
to be planned for alongside Zach Steeler has diminished the
returns of his production early on his strengths and his game.
But then again, Wilkins and Campbell or a slow start
to Kenny Grant, Like, none of that describes getting put
on skates by Michael and Winnie against the Patriots, But
either way, we just have zero interior surge and not
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a lot of one on one wins on the outside. Like,
it's tough to get stops when you do that, especially
when you don't have like world beating cornerbacks out there
shutting guys down. We have to find a way to
reset the pocket against justin Fields, I think it's a
good game to again bring pressure and mix it up
five man to six man games delays. The problem with
Fields over his career has been the ability to see
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in process and play out the middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
In the passing concepts.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He can get to pre snaptaels that promotes the vertical throws,
but that's the easy stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Like when you see someone post a clip of a
quarterback throw a go ball on like a you know,
a three step one hitch timing or a three step
drop and it's just like a well placed ball. That's
impressive obviously, but it doesn't tell me about how the
quarterback plays quarterback. Like that's not you know, reading out
a defense. It's just a designed shot call that you
take from the before the snap. But like that's what
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Justin Fields does well. One to one to the backside X,
you know, vert combinations off play action and then you
mix that with electric running ability. But if you can
execute a good cage technique with your pass rush, which
essentially is too low cage too high cage players where
you want to get up field and kind of hem
the quarterback inside so he can't get out right or left,
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and then your defensive tackles have to be able to
essentially reset the line of scrimmage and then get off
those blocks and establish a two man wall in front
of the quarterback so we can't escape coming up and
you can't escape going out the side force and run
backwards a la Kaylea Williams style, Caleb had a great
game on Sunday and force them to beat you that way.
That's kind of how you have to get after this quarterback.
And I imagine we'll see some of that here against
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the Jets and their offense. But I mean, I think
that's the plan here with Jordan Brooks and Tyrrel Dotson
and hopefully we see more Willy Gabe, but I doubt it.
I think that's how you get after him. You know,
you can find a way to kind of if we're
going to cover the way we have in the hook zone,
like throw a spy on him because we're not covering
anybody anyways in those positions of the field.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe there's something there, but I don't really you know,
above my pay grade. But also factor in the nickel
and the safety's in the pass rush plan as well.
I think you see lots of Dante Trader and Minka
Fitzpatrick coming down. You have to make this passing offense
beat you because there's one receiver and a not very
good quarterback in terms of the process and throwing the
football down the field. You have to find a way
to make him beat you vertically and take away the
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short stuff, take away the running game, take away the quarterback,
run game fields. His completion percentage this year is the
exact same versus the blitz as it is against coverage
fifty eight percent. But when he's under pressure, he's four
for eleven with fifty yards. When he's kept clean, it's
fifteen for twenty two with one hundred and ninety five yards.
But double the YPA there, right, four and a half
yards under pressure to nine when you don't pressure him.
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So if Mami doesn't get pressure on this guy, he's
going to carve you up because he can. Now, we
just have to play tighter again, because I think you
can do that and have the safeties come down a
little bit, because again, there's not a real vertical threat
in the offense. They've thrown two passes over twenty yards
through the first two games, and then last game. I
didn't even charge it because it was Tyrod Taylor. But
it's an offense that's constrained to a box, and if
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you can take that away and force him to try
to play deep, you can get some incomplete passes and
some advantageous down in distances. Now, Garrett Wilson, he's the
guy He's the guy pal him and Mason Taylor. There's
not a single other skill player in this offense. I
would stay up at night game planning for, like, not
the running backs, not the tight ends, not the rest
of the receivers. I think there are a variety of
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ways to get brackets to funnel Wilson into zones. It's
gonna be a frushrating year for Garret Wilson because that's
how teams are going to play him. And basically, with
how the structure of this defense works, you can get
him to run into guys and it might even be
a man everywhere he goes situation where it's basically boxing
one technique when it comes to basketball, one guy in
man coverage. Everybody else has zones, and so you're essentially
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playing trail under him, funneling him to whatever zone he
runs himself into, and you pick it up from that position.
And it's a pretty common game plan against a team
that has like one top line play or even if
it's a team that has like a Jamar Chase or
a Justin Jefferson but not a sizeable target share elsewhere
across the offense, meg that guy man everywhere he goes
with Mason, it's his patience and nuance as a route runner.
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That's something to keep an eye on when it comes
to that intermediate game over the ball. We've struggled in
that area, and I can see right now on tight
end leak or an over route or a pivot or
a china or a whip something that these shifty slot
receivers can do. Mason Taylor can do that. And with
his size and with the way Tyrrel Dodson is getting
false keys right now, I'm struggling to get this out
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because I can just I'm envisioning this playing out where
Mason Taylor has like a thirty eight yard touchdown catch
and spikes that football in his former hometown. Like, I
love Mason Taylor, but I don't want to see that.
I don't want to see it, and I fear you're
going to see it. I think you can alternate sides
in terms of covering Garrett Wilson with Rasul Douglas and
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Jack Jones. I think Rasoul's skill set is an experience
is probably a little bit more of a compliment to
slow down Wilson, where you know, he just he torched
Jalen Ramsey last year, so that big physical body is
kind of I guess Garrett Wilson like against that last year,
but I don't think you're gonna try to shadow him
with one guy, So Rasseul Douglas physical reroute and then
funnel him in his zones is kind of my approach
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there on the Jets defense. I mean, Sauce Gardner is
kind of the sauce that stirs the drink, if you will,
and he's a long, aggressive, quick twitch corner. They're gonna
try to blanket one man with him most of the time.
And I apologize for getting repetitive here, but we've taken
advantage of that in the past. And it's not to
say that Sauce is not up to task. There's a
reason he's called upon to do this. But we've just
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been able to be even better with our vertical passing game,
and in particular, you know the downfield shots to reak
and waddle, but you're gonna see help slant it away
from him.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So if you find a chance, and these usually.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Occur in that third in medium to third and short
ish like a long short that's an oxymorn, but I'm
talking like four yards right, like third and four to
third and eight is third and four third, and sure
is that third medium. It doesn't matter third and four
to eight, just like Buffalo always does. That's when they're
going to walk their corners up, press you and try
to get you off your rhythm and reroute and disrupt
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the timing of the passing game. And that's where you
can get your shots in right, because they want to
take away your quick game. Okay, bet just see if
you can handle the vertical game while you do that
as well, and if they can id that and find
a deep shot you like, that's a chance to make,
you know, one of the game changing field flipping plays
that I don't think this Jets offense can can keep
up with. So you know, in all transparency, I would
do that, But also I would run this thing right
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at him. These great cover corners they don't like to tackle.
I'm using the wide running game because it's your bread
and butter. It's your strength against a defense that might
not have their MIC linebacker. It won't have their mic
linebacker and might not have their second best edge in
the game. And the guy that replaces that edge is
not a great discipline gap defender. That's you know, and
that's what you've always done against this Robert Sala one gap,
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get upfield approach. Aaron Glenn does the same thing, man,
And I'm going to force both those cornerbacks, whether it's
Gardner or Brandon Stevens, to come up and tackle my guys.
Make them get up off the ground ten times a
game like that's it wears on them. I think Sauce
would get wins on anybody, but and that includes Reek
and Waddle. But if you have five press man reps
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of Reek and or Waddle on Sauce Gardener, he gank
in about a thousand and on those particular plays. Can
we find them? Baker Mayfield found Mecha Pika bukag Buka.
I get that right, Chris Berman shout out Mecca Agbuka
for a couple of downfield shots, including the biggest play
of the game on the last drive, and he quite
frankly had another catch and they overturned. They didn't count
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as a catch even though he did catch it going
on top of Sauce Gardener. So that's how I'd look
to attack him. Quinn Williams is the next best guy.
He's quick, he's powerful, one gap extraordinary, but man. He
can also plant that flag and two gap against combination
blocks and dent the posts and you know, disengage at
the point of attack. He's the kind of guy that
could get wham trap treatment if you want to kind
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of throw a tendency breaker at these guys and say like, hey,
we're going to outside zone you and you can have
that gap for free.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Whoops, now you can't. Here comes a tight end.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Here comes Julian Hill coming back across you on the
crack back and put you on your big butt because
plug in that bucks tape and they just didn't move
him at all. He was a tree trunk out there,
and if that happens with our run game, it can
be tough to exploit those tight creases and find cutback
lanes for both a Chan and Olie Gordon. Jawan Briggs
been a nice rotational piece there. I put him in
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the part here because they find a way to get
him on the field next to Quinn and Harrison Phillips.
And he's a good spell He's got power game. The Dolphins'
ability to be adaptive and their scheme could be on
display in this one. So you have the parts to
be a speed or a power team. This is a
team that has power but can adapt to their speed.
Do you want to go Good on Good and attack
their power with power or do you try to kind
of make it a fun style of opposites? Right styles
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make fights. Can we finesse their power? Can you power
against their finess. I'm intrigued by that matchup there, and
then will McDonald off the edge. I think he's beginning
to blossom into maybe their best player. His bend is exceptional,
great get off. He's putting together his pass rush plan.
Now he had that blocked field goal where it was
like elite athletic ability. But what a matchup this would
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be with Patrick Paul. He does rush both sides, but
I think Paul can help you slide coverage, your slide
protection inside to Quinn Williams. But also you can help
McDonald when he goes to the right side on Larry Borum.
But I think Paul can negate a lot of those
skills because I think McDonald I think his plan in
this game will be to set Paul up to try
to change up on him in a critical moment late
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in the game. Like there's a little more experience there
for McDonald and I hope Paul's ready for that matchup,
because what I mean by that is like, I think
Paul can wipe him out for a game. But if
he shows speed and shows speed and shows speed and
then hit you with that crossover inside step on a
key third down in the second half, that could be
a big sack or a big fumble and like a
big game changing play. I'm excited to see how Patrick
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Paul handles not just the matchup early on in this game,
but how he adjust as a whole. I think you
can learn about your big left tackle and I think
he can do the job here for us, but they
do move him around again, Larry Borum has the foot
quickness to match that. I'd be watching that side with
more speed to power McDonald's redirect inside ability and kind
of ability to play under your chin strap. I think
is a bigger challenge for Larry Borum than it is
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for Patrick Paul. But I just want to say this also,
Larry Boram's played good football and no one talks about
it because we were all in on one narrative this offseason. Look,
I've been wrong about plenty, but like I just want
to call a spata s bade.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Larry Boram has played good football for you so far.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Another aside, the Dolphins lead the league in the drop
back game, and that's why some of these sack numbers
and pressures in the quarterback are what they are now.
Scoreboard dictates that when you go behind by a billion
against the Colts and twelve to the Patriots right away,
you have to call more true dropbacks. But that is
the complete opposite of how this team was constructed. They
want to run the ball and playoff, play pass and
get the quick game going and take away the edge
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rushers as a whole. They haven't done it all year long,
so I'm curious to see how that works out in
terms of the scheming up, scheming out the pass rush.
The areas of vulnerability for this Jets defense is all
over the damn field. Their safety play is not good,
their edge play is not good, their base back group
is not good. They struggle to pressure the quarterback from
sub or from base. And then I didn't even talk
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about this player, but Brandon Stevens. We watched the film
on this guy this offseason, thinking he might be an
option former Weaver player. No feel, he's grabby, he's slow,
go after him. Number twenty one. Jillen Waddle's releases should
destroy him. Watch this man try to get hands on guys.
I talked about sauce, but if they walk up Stevens
and he's across from ten or seven team, it's go time.
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It is absolutely alert time. Green the pins in the
front of the green, back of the green, I don't
even even know. Just go after that damn pin man.
There's no water hazards, there's no traps next to the green.
Go after that pin. Locate twenty one every single snap.
But if you see ten or seventeen out there, keep
your eyes on that matchup. I've watched this game from
your TV from your couch on Sunday from Monday. I
should say he constantly soft shoes, it turns down tackles,
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he's slow, he grabs if they start him again, that's
an indictment of their depth, maybe their program.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I think he's been unplayable. Twenty one look out for him.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
And then I talked about McCrary ball earlier, would be
a nice matchup for Jonah Smith. Instead, I think you
try to get your two back personnel on the field
with Hn and Allie and get some passing game matchups
on this guy because they will allow you to dictate
it that way. I think he's also unplayable, and they
began to phase him out, but then Quincy Williams got
hurt and then Michael Clemons. I would say run at
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him with Austin Jackson, but we don't have that. But
he does love to expose his chest in the running game,
so maybe you do run out right at him, and
then Andre Cisco and Malachi Moore. I don't think that's
a good combination either. Some scheme calling cards here. When
it comes to the Dolphins offense versus the Jets defense,
they love to go man free. That's a single high
safety man coverage across the board, and from there they
can play cover three, which is of course three high
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defenders each covering a third of the depth portion of
the back part of the defensive backfield. They want to
be one gapping and aggressive upfield. They've got pieces at
every level and it's it's not really a departure schematically
from how they played under Sala. You'd be hard pressed
to find a more aggressive mindset coach on defense than
Aaron Glenn. But man, they'll sprinkle in cover three in one,
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and it's a carbon copy from what we've talked about
against the Patriots. A scheme that invites opportunities to hit verticals,
and we had three plays of twenty plus yards and
six plays of fifteen plus yards.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Same concept here.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You'll get slot fight opportunities to the field, fades to
the boundary for your X receiver typically waddle, take them
go vertical, be fun again. Be a team that we'd
like to come out here and watch again. They won gap.
They also play from the nickel with one of the
best slots in the game, and Michael Carter the second.
They've lost the edge in the running game in three
games I've seen, particularly off that right side.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
They want to backdoor you. They want to play upfield.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So okay, let them invite them, wham them, trap them,
take advantage of the aggressiveness areas of vulnerability here. The
linebacker depth, I mean, there's more of it. They the
way they call their defense. They have guys cover grass
and my favorite Jets study film study guy, Joe Blewett,
does a thing where he says, Jets linebacker's covering grass again.
Drink like you know, drinking game and Marcelen numbercurry balls
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ahead of that again, vertical shots against the outside man
looks an outside zone running game. Take advantage of all
their stuff and go after him. That way their scheme
calling cards. Defensively, the biggest issue for the Jets offense
is a quarterback that doesn't really know how to play
the position on a professional level. And what I mean
by that is the bad processing and progression, bad feet
under pressure, doesn't sync up with the receivers timing of
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the offense. They run into bad looks all the time.
If this quarterback cooks you, you're cooked. He's not an
effective player in this league. And unless it's with his legs,
I guess he can do that. But you got to
find a way to confuse this guy and hem him in.
I think the best part of the Jets' entire operation
right now is the route distribution and spacing. I like
the way Tanner Engstrant is calling things for them. They
can attack the soft vulnerabilities and two high presentations with
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soft zewn underneath, which is where we struggle. They love
to bring routes from the backside to hold the attention
of the cloud corners of the curl flat to prevent
them from getting depth into those intermediate throws, which we've
given those up to. When Tyrod was in, he was
two for two in that ten to twenty yard range
in the Buffalo game outside of the numbers. Conversely, Fields
was zero for two in the Buffalo game and he
just missed on both throws. But he wants to put
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the ball on the outside. I think this is a
game from Mika Fitzpatrick to make some plays. Let him
process from his half field drops, from Robert positions, from
the rat in the whole position, from straight up man
coverage against tight ends. As an insert player, I think
he could read eyes to the football and get his
hands on one in this game. There's a lot of
good run game design and diversity. They can go zone,
they can go power. They love to give false keys
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and that helps you when you have tackles like they do.
The eye discipline will be critical there for all the guys.
A player like Jordan Brooks tends to thrive in challenges
like these. Let's go ahead and take our last break,
come back and talk about the quarterback positions, what's at stake,
the keys to victory, and predict this game. That's next
Draft Time Podcast. Brought to you by a don'tation.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We are back.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I realize I haven't even talked about Darren Waller yet,
but I will wait until we see him on the
field before I incorporate him in these previous podcasts. Let's
go ahead and conclude here with the quarterback position. I've
talked a lot about justin fields, but I think the
best opportunity to get off the takeaway Schneid is this
week watching their tape. I think the process over the
middle continues to be a challenge. I see varied set
up some platforms on such throws at the side of pressure.
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When I watch fields, I see a player that doesn't
have that dual screen skill set in terms of keep
my eyes downfield while keeping the rush keying the rush
up in front of me. However, he does have the
rare athleticism to make you miss and he really really
wants to climb up the interior, which is why it's
so critical for your defensive tackles to find their way
off excuse me, to find their way off blocks, even
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if you rush contained with eyes up and try to
set up your disengage more so than trying to slip
blocks around the edges. Of the man, and that's one
of the things that I think we do best. Are
I disciplined at the defensive tackle position. I think Jordan
Phillips is a great asset in this game for that reason.
He's shown every week and that he's stronger than anybody
he sees across from him and has some real rag
doll reps. We talked about it, cage technique until your collapse,
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suck up in the hook zones, make them beat you, vertically,
change the rush, picture post snap. That's my book on
beating justin fields. If it's Tyrod Taylor, he also does
not see the field and doesn't pull the trigger, but
he wants to run, so just be ready to get
you're running shoes on our quarterback. There was a rhythm
to the short game, and quite frankly, when you watch
games across the league right now, a lot of the
league has become this progress to the one side of
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the formation, get a high low, or you come across
one to two read and then find that backside swing route.
And that was basically the entirety of TNF where it
was that way for Josh Allen. The Buffalo Bills too,
write something like one point five yards of depth of
target on the first down for both teams. Now that said,
I feel a lot of Tua's was not taking the
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keys that lent itself to opportunities to attack and look,
I read the reviews on the podcast. I read the
one on the listener who tapped out because I'm too
critical of Tua. Now, I don't know what you want
from me. I'm telling you what the tape shows you
shows me, and a step further, I'm far from the
only one who thinks that Tua's tape has been bad,
not just me, trust me, He's had a ton of
success against this Jets defense. I think the recipe is
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the same, just plugging that Bucks Jets tape, Baker to
Abuka one on one downfield all day. If the Dolphins
want to take their shots, they're gonna have ups, special
teams and miscellaneous. It feels crazy to say this. We
have three major special teams gaps one per week, and
yet it feels like it's so much better than it
was last year. Riley Patterson's been awesome. The kick return,
you know, has been pretty good too, a pretty good
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punt return. Also, we's got cleanupon mistakes. It's if not
for two penalties and a mistackle on the Antonio Gibson
touchdown return. I think you're seeing a much improved Dolphin
special teams unit. But that's like saying, you know, aside
from aside from the assassination Miss Lincoln, how was to play.
The Jets blocked a field goal and housed it in
the Tampa game, so critical to make sure that does
not happen. You can't win games doing that most of
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the time if you're on a good football team, especially
But a random miscellaneous note, the Jets and Bucks game
hit real field tempts of over one hundred and ten
degrees on Sunday, and that is a brutal tax on
your body on top of playing professional football, which is
about the toughest thing a human body can endure for
three hours in this world. But I bring this up
because even though it's a night game, anybody from South
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Florida knows if it's September sun up or sundown, you're
gonna sweat.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
It's hot, it's muggy.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I think it's pretty bad scheduling break here for the
Jets to get back to back September games in the
state of Florida. The two hottest days in the NFL.
Maybe Houston Texas has a dispute for that, but I digress.
So the ability to wear this team down and lean
on them and pull away in the fourth quarter and
test that condition, that's kind of my key here. What's
at stake? I don't know, dude. This was always for
playoff implications. But if you're gonna rescue this season, right
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and I talked about this yesterday, We're gonna do this.
You know we're gonna do it, even me, who's in
the freaking dumps right now. You win this game, you
beat the Panthers in Carolina, it sets up another one
of these games like we had all year last year
against the Chargers. And the thought is gonna be the
same as it was in the Packer game last year.
If they can just pull out this win, they're gonna
be back in And I feel pretty good about getting
(34:43):
these next two. I do, even with the tape being
what it is. I think you're gonna see two Dolphins
inspired performances that get them dubs in the next two games.
But I'm not gonna allow myself to continue to go
further and say, like, well, if they can do this,
so what's the stake is the potential ability to resurrect
your season.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You lose this one, buddy.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You think we're talking too much draft right now for September,
just wait until October.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
If we're zero to four.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
My three keys to victory pound the quick game against
base looks they really struggle in intermediate zone coverages, particularly
from base when they have three backers in the field,
and now with Quincy Williams out, that gets even harder.
You can id the coverage by breaking the huddle with
plenty of time to get to your e motions and shifts,
identify coverage and the attack from there. It's so bad
for them. There's no real rhyme or reason to their rules. Defensively,
(35:26):
they don't cap from zone to disguise. They don't match.
It's bad.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You should score against this team. They are bad.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Every team that plays the Jets has gotten to this
from twelve personnel packages that puts a backer out alongside Sherwin,
Sherwood and Williams and marcellne umccarry. Ball is going to
play a lot of football this weekend. Go after him.
If you have success here, then lean on them in
the fourth quarter. Get your format offense out early and
wear them down. You're off a mini by they are
off of a tough game in the Florida Heat. Use
(35:53):
it to your advantage. Number two. Anticipate and drive on outbreakers.
They love to throw the ball outside the numbers, and
it's a smart design because that's where the quarterback is best.
Throws over the middle are late, sometimes off target. It's
a dangerous place to be late and inaccurate too, but
he can layer it and drive it to the perimeter.
If you can sift through the manipulation, you can get
your hands on football's here. Number three, maintain your eye
(36:14):
discipline on defense. The run game sets up what they
do with their quarterback in the design run game, but
also the play action game. The second key carries over
here with concept designed to hold front side defenders with
backside routes in order to open up the front side concept.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That you hope to hit. My prediction Dolphins win.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I think they get off the schneid this week they better,
and I think it'll stay close around halftime, like a
thirteen to ten game or something that the Dolphins just
begin to pull away from slowly in the second half.
If they can stick to that script and commit to it.
I will say it's like twenty seven to seventeen or
twenty seven to thirteen with five minutes to go, and
the Jets get a late backdoor score to make it
(36:54):
twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Dolphins win.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Tomorrow, Connor Rogers joins me Friday, dan Orlowski and Kyle
Crabs and maybe some locker room audio. We'll pick the
games plenty to come your way here on the Drive
Time Podcast. Until then, subscribe, rate, review the show, follow
me on social at Winkle NFL, Follow the team at
Miami Dolphins, check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins HQ,
Media availabilities under the Sun, and so much more, and
(37:16):
last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Until next time, Fold's up. Caroline Card Willow Daddy coming Home.
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