Dolphins Bills Preview

Will preview the game, get to the matchups, the schemes, the keys. Plus we'll hear from head coach Brian Flores on the Dolphins preparation, the challenges the Bills present, and trying to keep Josh Allen inside the pocket. Plus we'll hear from twa Tongue by Loa coach Flores discusses his NFL best or lowest interception rate, and we'll hear from additional players from their Wednesday media availability. All of that and more on this Wednesday, December the thirty edition of

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or Auto nation dot com and save. Now, we're gonna roll into this Dolphins Bills preview here at which you can find also up on Miami Dolphins dot com, with the written element taking a look at some of the schemes and the matchups in this game that are very critical to the result on Sunday. Let's go ahead and start here though, with some questions for coach Flora's and for Sean McDermott over in Buffalo about how the Bills

will approach this week's seven team game against the Miami Dolphins. First, Sean mcdernot was asked about his approach this week and he had two responses, I think, are I guess noteworthy here to mention on the podcast. He first said that yes and no in regards to asking if the Steelers announcement that they'll rest their starters and their game has

any impact on what the Bills will do. So a little bit of ambiguity there, a little bit of discreet nature from Sean McDermott, just like his overwriting answer regarding that question, he said they're going to keep their plans internal for Sunday as far as how players are playing, since he hasn't spoken to the players himself yet. So

that's where the Bills thinking is that currently. How about where head coach Brian Flores and the Miami Dolphins mindsets that for where Week seventeen will go as far as how Buffalo decides to approach this game, Yeah, I mean I expect everyone to play. Shawn is a competitor, Brian day Ball as a competitor, Josh Howns a competitor, digs Poyer High. I mean I expect them all the play.

That's how and that's how we're preparing. No surprise. Their Dolphins always going to prepare for every possible avenue, every possible contingency they could see in a possible game, whether it's the opposition or for themselves. They've talked all year about how they prepare for all fifty three players on the roster, regardless of the opposition. So no surprise there from coach Flores. Let's go ahead and next here from coach about the tough challenges a head coach at any

level really faces with your guards too. Difficult decisions because at the course of a season, obviously the head coach kind of overseeing the entire operation will obviously run into some decisions that maybe you're difficult to make in the moment. But for head coach Brian Flores, his motivation for those

decisions is very clear and apparent. Here's coach. Look, I have a lot of peace with the decisions that UM we make because it's sincerely, genuinely and authentically based on winning football games and people in this organization, UM our fans. That's that's I mean, I have a lot of peace

with the decision because of that. I mean there's people here who work hard, from you know, the ground's crew too, equipment, to the medical staff too, people work in the camp tire area to Hubert who you know, it was here every day. M h. It's important to them, So it's important to me that we try to do everything we can to win football games. And in order for the Dolphins to win a football game. On Sunday, one of the keys, Coach Flora says, we'll be keeping Josh Allen

in the pocket. Let's go ahead and first hear from coach Flora's on the challenges this builds offense, Josh Allen, Brian day Ball builds offensive coordinator present to this Dolphins defense on Sunday. Then we'll go ahead and roll into the game preview from there, and then we'll circle back to the end of the podcast on a comment Coach floor has made about two was low interception rate. As

we hear from two later on this podcast. But first, here's coach on the Buffalo quarterback and keep him in the pocket if he gets out, to cover them a little bit longer and try to chase him down. Look, this guy's, you know, one of the top players in the league, and I think he's really he's really made a lot of improvement. I think uh Sewan and Brian Dabo done a great job with with him, and um, these guys he's he's he's tough to deal with, very

very very good, good player. I mean, I mean, I know Dave all well, you know I can see a lot of it's almost like day Ball playing football from

a mind standpoint, So he's done a good job. That comment there kind of reminds me back to two thousand eleven when Brian day Ball was the offensive coordinator here, and I'll never forget that Monday Nights he's an open against the Patriots that year when the Dolphins went down the field in the opening drive and scored a touchdown, and the announcers could not stop talking about the left lane offense, the passing offense of Brian day Ball as

they kind of played up tempo and went aggressive. And you've seen that with the Buffalo Bills this year and it really definitely marries up well to how Josh Allen plays. You heard coach talk a little bit there about trying to find ways to keep Josh Allen into the pocket because he's so dangerous once he can break that initial contain because he has that arm strength to really fight through the awkward platforms and awkward arm angles he might see when he does escape the pocket, whether it's to

the left or to the right. We saw that touchdown pass in the Monday Night game where he was fading away to the left and just through an absolute strike to the back of the end zone from like the fifteen yard line. I saw twenty five yard throw falling away to his left right handed. I mean, just an absolute laser. The guy's arm is unreal unmatched in the National Football League, and you heard coach talk about the

challenges of keeping him in the pocket. And when you look at how to defend today's modern quarterback, these mobile quarterbacks that can make somebody plays off script. Sure, the ones that can play within the structure, and Josh Allen certainly can, and guys like Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, these guys that are having these m v P level seasons,

you can certainly see them play within the structure. But where they're most dangerous, where they most can strike you downfield, is when they break that initial rush and break that contain and get outside and force the defensive backs to cover for an extra three or four seconds, because frankly, it's impossible to cover NFL receivers for beyond five seconds. It just doesn't happen. And that's why you get so

many these big plays down the football field. Once the core the back breaks contain, if they can manage to get to a spot where they can deliver the ball down the field to those guys who break off the routes,

and it just becomes sand lot football from there. Maybe that's a little bit of what coaches talking about with Brian day ball with his mind kind of working in the way Josh Allen plays, because man, he makes these highlight level real throws every single week, it seems now, and that's kind of who he was back in Wyoming.

The big playability had him being drafted in the top ten by this Buffalo team, and now you've seen it kind of come together as he has grown and matured and developed into this player that has been just an absolute force this season. Now with regards to keeping him in the pocket, how do you accomplish that? How do you have this rush scheme that hems him in and finds a way to make him even if he wants to get off that top spot of his drop to

throw still within the confined areas of the pocket. Well, that's part of where this vision for this defense comes into play. Guys like a Manuel Ogba and Shack Laws and if he can get back for this game on Sunday, these big, physical, brute force guys that can rush directly

through a player to the quarterback. As we know, one of the worst places on the football field to be is two yards behind the quarterback, especially today with the athletic quarterbacks we see in the National Football League so you want to rush them and force them to step up and through the pocket. Basically, view it as like a running system type of thing where you have a gap,

B gap, C gap. If you can get the quarterback to escape through the B gap which is between the defensive end and the defensive tackle that way, opposed to getting around the outside out the edge where he breaks the outside contain off the outside of the defensive end, that's when you get these problems because then they can attack a line of scrimmage and really work towards the line and attack both with the run and with the pass.

Whereas if they have to slip through that B gap, so to speak, they have to attack horizontally and are as big as a threat to run and also they have to make a much more challenging throw going that direction as well. So there are certainly different ways to accomplish that. Obviously, coach Flora's and coach Josh Boyer and this defensive staff will be working on the ways they

can find to get that done. But one of the ways you also can maybe have some success in terms of once you force him off that spot upwards in the pocket before he escapes right or left is to rush those spots with linebackers like a Kyle van Nei friends, it's like a Jerome Baker. Guys that have had success bloss in that way. It's gonna be a tough task no matter what. You're gonna have to marriage up the coverage with the pass rushian find success that way against

this team. If you want to find victory, let's go ahead and hear one more note from Coach on the Buffalo Bills before we jump right into the game preview, which of course is up written on Miami Dolphins dot com as well. Here's Coach on the Buffalo Bills, something of a general synopsis plus what the Dolphins have to do to go up there and get a victory on Sunday. Yeah.

I mean, Buffalo is a good team. They are, you know, they play well offensively, defensively in the kid game, they well coached, the tough to physical and a good players. So we got a great challenge ahead of us, and we just got to prepare ourselves the best way we can. Ye go up to New York and play our best game of the season. We tried to. That's what it's gonna take against a team like this and think everyone

seen him. Great players that well coached, They're tough, play good situationally, they play aggressive fakes in the kicking game, and the good returners they play well. We'll try to play well, which you know starts with our preparation this week today and hopefully if we if we can build on that on a daily basis, and we'll do ourselves a chance. So there is from coach again, Dolphins up

in Buffalo on Sunday, January. The third season extends this year into January before the postseason, for a one o'clock kickoff Bill Stadium. The temperature and weather reports kind of back and forth a little bit. As I'm told it tends to be up in the state of New York, but right around thirty thirty five degrees, some snow showers and rain off and on nine mile prower winds expected out there at Buffalo or Bill Stadium rather so, maybe not the most pleasant day, but I suppose it could

be much worse. We have seen much colder and much snow here games up there in Buffalo. And as I like to do on the game previews up on Miami Dolphins dot com, it's take a look at kind of where these two teams are in terms of their progress or maybe how they mirror each other or how they're different from one another. I look at these Dolphins and Bills teams and I see a lot of similarities as

far as how these teams want to be ran. You heard coach talk a lot about Sean McDermott and the way he runs his football team and Brian day Ball. I think it's interesting to compare the two because Brian Flores and Sean McDermott were hired two years apart McDermott and twenty seventeen Flora's and twenty nine team. They both were aligned with general managers Chris Greer and Brandon Bean in those seasons, and they both took these measured, holistic

approaches upon accepting their respective positions with either club. And you saw, you know, we saw trades last year for the Dolphins that maybe weren't greeted with the most receptive mindset from a national media standpoint, And we saw the same thing happen with Buffalo back in seen regarding trading Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby and moving guys off that football team that had produced for them in the past.

Because McDermott and being had this vision in mind for how they wanted to build their football team, and they wanted to go out and acquire both the cap space and the draft capital to make that happen, to get the right people to establish a culture that way. Doesn't that sound kind of familiar with Brian Floors and Chris Career getting the right people, getting smart, tough, disciplined football players, established a vision that was based on that culture and

the right people in your program. Both clubs kind of recognized the need to kind of take a step back and and view it from a bird's eye perspective to find out which moves were necessary to arrive at this current position both teams find themselves in and for the Buffalo Bills, you're number four. A twenty five year a f C East Championship drought ended this year for them

and a remarkable accomplishment for the Buffalo Bills. They've also been to the playoffs three out of the four years there with McDermott and Being at the Helm, and this is a team that was hadn't been to the playoffs since before that two thousand seven in appearance, So three out of four years ending a playoff drought in an

emphatic way. Now for the Dolphins, of course, they are two years earlier in their progress in their Brian Floors and Chris Greer regime than Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott are. But they're just one win away from an eleven win season and a first ticket to the postseason. In your number two here, we could be on the precipice here for the reignition, hopefully of a legendary Dolphins Bill's rivalry that really began back in the nineteen nineties with those

great Marino and Kelly clashes and Marv Levy and Don shula. Um. I would love to see that nothing more than the Dolphins Bills rival We're getting heated back up. I would love to see that here in the a f C East. But first this critical game Sunday and what should be a frigid Orchard Park on up in Buffalo. Some match

up highlights to look at here. I want to talk about how the Dolphins need to be able to communicate upfront on the offensive line, now that that's a new thing this week, are compared to any other week across the National Football League and in the landscape of things, but talking about how this Bill's pass rush is multiple and it comes in a way wives and it has production throughout the unit, kind of like Miami's in that way.

They have six players who have at least three sacks this season and eight pass rushers who have at least six quarterback hits this season, and in the absence of pressure from the opposing rush, to a tongue of Byloa has ten touchdown passes without an interception this year, and per Pro Football Focus, he's the only quarterback without a pick from a clean pocket this season. He's also effective against extra rushers, with a passer rating of nine point

four against the Blitz. Now, Miami starts two rookies on the offensive line, and the growth has been measurable via their production. Over the last two games. Dolphins quarterbacks have been under pressure just twenty one of seventy two dropbacks

in those two victories. Via PFF. There, Buffalo's leader and quarterback hits his defensive and Jerry Hughes he has eleven this year, but a pair of linebackers again kind of like Miami, with Van Noy getting those pressures on quarterbacks and Van Ginkel and guys that get pressure from that stand up position. Buffalo's two linebackers, Matt Milano and A. J. Klein, are tied for second on the team with nine worter

back hits a piece. So it's a very skilled, very multiple pass rush here from the Buffalo Bills and identifying where that blitz comes from. This is the eighth most frequent blitzing team in the NFL. Passing off the games and the stunts and the twist and the delayed blitz is the multiple looks. Getting the football into the hands of the playmakers early should help Miami sustained drives and keep the Buffalo offense off the field, two very important

elements of this game to find victory. And talking about the Dolphins allowing limited pressures over the last couple of weeks, we talked about this on Tuesday's Top News column. How the running game helps balance and create more of a complementary football style. Dolphins have ran the ball for three yards last two weeks, and you have that that season low to game pressures allowed on your quarterbacks. Those two

things go hand in hand. Find that balance on offense matchup number two, strength on strength man receivers on defensive backs, opposing quarterbacks have a cumulative passer rating of eighty five point three against Miami this season. That's fourth lowest in the NFL. We're just point one points behind Washington at

eight five point two. That neither here nor there. Josh Allen's one and six point four passer rating is fifth best in the NFL this season, and in the Week two game against Miami, cornerback Byron Jones exited that game without growing injury after the first series. He of course forced in completion on third down to get the Dolphins defense off the field in that game, but would not return to that game. He also would miss the next two games, and over that course of those three games,

Dolphins allowed twenty five points per game. In the twelve games they've had Byron Jones on the field, seventeen point

three points per game allowed. So he makes a big, big impact on this defense and something we've covered here on the podcast at length talking about Brian Baldinger mentioning the vision of this Dolphins team to play physical, good man coverage and good mixed coverage out on the outside with jot with Byron Jones and xaviing Howard kind of being the vision of this defense to free up all those games and pressures, and Blitz is up front for Miami, so he's a very key point. He's back in the

fold here. Miami's four most frequently targeted defenders Xaving Howard, Nick Needham, Eric Row and the aforementioned Byron Jones allowed complete collective completion percentage of sixty one point eight. Now the Bill's top four wide receivers and targets Stefon Digs, Cole Beasley, John Brown, Gabe Davis, they catch seventy one point four percent of their target That's best in the National Football League among the top four receivers for a

given team. So identifying which matchups are most attractive is one of the many challenges Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer

faces This week. He discussed that approach on the Tuesday Podcast, talking about how a combination of all things, how you sometimes have an idea for what you might like going into the week, then sometimes can change as you get more information and more film, thinking quote, this might be a little bit better, but ultimately he says, it comes down to putting the guys in the best position to succeed, and based upon what they've done and based upon what

the opponent does. So I can't wait to watch that strength on strength matchup and our third matchup in this game, going for the Turkey man and bowling. You get three strikes in a row, you get yourself a turkey. And I haven't been bowling in years, and when I do go, I'm absolutely terrible, trying to get just like a one fifty at best if I can. But I always loved as a kid getting the turkey up on the screen if you could find it way to get three strikes,

which I never did because I was terrible. But you can see what I'm talking about here. For the Dolphins, another stout showing in the ground game would make it three straight. I mentioned three eighty rushing yards over the last two weeks at five point seven yards per clip. That is big time for your running game. And it's cliche, but it's also true. The importance of running the football this time of year is magnified. The Dolphins welcome Miles Gasking back into the fold in a big way Saturday

in Las Vegas. The one hundred and sixty nine yards from the scrimmage with the most buy Miami Dolphins this year, and that of course followed up by performance by fellow running back and fellow Gaskin college teammate there at the University of Washington, Savon Akhmed, when he went for one hundred and twenty two yards on the ground back in week fifteen. Speaking of Akhmeded Miles Gaskin keep it locked

on the Thursday edition of the Drivetime podcast. We are going to feature both those guys as well as here from the running backs coach at the University of Washington, Keith Bonafa. That's a good podcast. You won't want to miss that one. But Jan Gilly talked about this on his Tuesday press conference about how they're kind of going with a hot hand. That's how they've been doing it this year. Myls did not start the game on Saturday

because of Savan's good performance the previous week. Within Miles started getting the football, getting some creases, making some plays, got the hot hand, so they went in that direction. So that's definitely something to keep an eye on as far as how this backfield rotation is juggled. But regardless of who touts the rock, a strong running game drives very well with Miami stingy defense top ranks scoring, top third down defense, number or tied for number one and

takeaways this season. That kind of helps create that level of desired balance on offense. If the game situation calls for the Dolphins commitment to the ground game could pay off. As Buffalo allows four point seven yards per carry this season. That's seven in the National Football League. So three matchups run the football, communicate up front and get that the quarterback protected, and the strength on strength with receivers for

Buffalo against the defensive backs of the Miami Dolphins. Really just the passing game of the Bills against the past defense of the Miami Dolphins. Some Bills schema here. They are sixth and scoring and fourth and total offense. They scored twenty nine points seven points per game and nearly four hundred yards per game. It's three point five this season. The running game ranks nineteen and they are second and passing at two eighty two point nine yards per game.

Only two teams in the NFL have ran more than one hundred offensive snaps from ten personnel. That's one running back, no tight ends for wide receivers. The Cardinals lead the way with two hundred twenty snaps from that grouping, while the Bills are second at They've also ran seven hundred five place from eleven personnel, the most ran personnel package in the NFL. One running back, one tight end, three receivers.

It's the fifth most snaps in the league from that grouping, which provides an intriguing matchup for a Dolphins deep secondary. Buffalo rarely utilizes two backs or three tight ends or heavy personnel, which is an extra offensive lineman. Those groupings combined account for less than forty snaps collectively, so you know what you're gonna get as far as spreading it out and throwing the football all over the lot. On defense, Buffalo is thirty five point one percent blitz rate, is

the eight highest in NFL. There twenty two point one percent pressure rate is twenty three in the NFL. Their defense is tied for fourteenth and scoring their tenth and total defense. They are twenty in rushing defense and eighth rather in passing defense. Now Miami can finish anywhere between fifth and eight in the a f C standing depending

on how the results of Sunday's action plays out. You know, by now a Dolphins win or lost by the Browns, lost by the Ravens, or lost by the Colts clinches of Dolphins playoff birth for the first time since And boy, I'm excited about this game. One more game left to go in the regular season, all the marbles on the table. I cannot wait to see how this team shows up, how they perform, and where we wind up when all

the chips come down. At the end of Sunday's action, let's go ahead and pick it back up here on Brian floress Wednesday morning media availability, who was asked about two a tongue of by Lowa's NFL low leading the most the NFL low interception rate among quarterbacks belonged to a tongue of Bylowa. Coach was asked about that and how important that is in the evaluation of his rookie quarterback. Yeah, I mean that's a that's a that's a good place

to start on the quarterback position. Think you've done a good job from that standpoint. Obviously, there's you know a lot of other factors, like at every every position. That's just that's one of them. Um, you know, once we evaluate and I think he's done a good job in a lot of areas. You know, I think it's like every position, there's eighteen twenty different things that you're looking for, UM at every position, but obviously the turnovers are are a big, big one. UM, and he's done. He's done

a good job from that thing point. Definitely a very good job. With the two interceptions this season from tongue Bolo once again the lowest interception rate among quarterbacks in the NFL this season. And you look at the way too has performed this rookie season, and you know, I know, we live in a society of of takes and and instant gratification microwave society as it was called, to find out whether or not you've got something, or whether or not you don't have something and you have to go

replace it right away. But man, rookie quarterbacks, it's it's always been the same evaluation. What can they show you from a flash standpoint? What are the traits they exhibit? And do they flash those traits and spades? And for me, I mean a broken record. Man, I've said this all along since his college day, since his freshman year back at Alabama. If you see two of strengths, you know, if you see to a play, you know his strengths

have been timing, anticipation, accuracy. He's got that good quick twitch in the pocket. We've seen him break away from pressure this season with the Dolphins and attackle line scrimmage and throw the football downfield. We talked about Tony Romo's evaluation of Towa on the Chief's game when he was

there in Miami to call that game. We talked about dan Orlovsky breaking down to his game with his ability to manage the pocket and make quick decisions and throw the football before receivers are out of their breaks as they are still working up the stem on the original part of that route. He throws the football with that timing anticipation, throws against the leverage of the defense. And I think we saw that in college with what made him a high level producing quarterback, what made him a

top five pick in the NFL draft. And to me, he's shown plenty of those flashes in a rookie season where there was no off season program. Ouse had a virtual learning where he was still in the midst of coming off that hip injury which occurred just over a year ago, so no full offseason workouts or on field production or in classroom training outside of virtual learning, and he's showing you those same flashes less than a year

after that injury. And to me, that's everything you want to see from a young quarterback developing at the age of twenty two, still here in his first season. So with twa very excited about his future, very excited about his present heading into this week seventeen game, I win an in game up in Buffalo. We've been here before. Hopefully we get the results we want. We got them back in sixteen, did not get them previously in prior years. Have another chance here in to make that happen on

Sunday with a victory. And with that, let's go ahead and hear from two A Tongue Baloa, who met with the media on Wednesday, and Tool was asked about his high school and college experience and all the big game he's played, all the big wins he's registered both in high school and in college, and how that might prepare him for a rookie season in the In the trials and tribulations of a rookie season heading into a big game in week seventeen, here's to talking about the learning

experience of every day in the world of football. I would say my freshman yet you know I played junior varsity because in our league you couldn't play you know, varsity right away. Um. But just it's it's all about, you know, what you can gain from everything, and for me, it's it's learning experience, you know. And like I said, you know in all of the previous UM interviews that I've had, it's it's not like a one and done thing, you know, It's just it's continuous, especially doing you know,

you know you're rookie here too. And continuing on talking about Sunday's game in Buffalo, I'd say for me, there's there's really you know, no extra added pressure for me. Um, I would say the expectation for myself is very high in you know, how I perform and how I go out there and try to lead the guys to victory.

Obviously this past weekend, you know, I didn't play to that standard, and you know, it's it's it's it's more so like me knowing that you know, we we gotta go out there and you got to get the job done. And if you can't get the job done, then that's

that's on you. That's on no one else. Up next to a discuss the quarterback decisions of Brian Flores and how they've managed that position, that quarterback room throughout the course of the season, you know, with with that whole with well, like with our whole quarterback situation, I think Flow does a good job and in communicating with you know, knee fits Um as well as our coordinator and our quarterbacks coach, you know, and kind of seeing like, hey, are you in a groove or you know, what can

we do better? And if not? You know, it's it's all. It's always communicated. There's really good communication between all of us. And you know, I I trust that he has, you know, the interest not just for us, but um just in in the whole team. He has the best interest for those teams. To a couple of questions here for Dolphins there Ted Carriss who was asked about playing up in Buffalo and also if he was aware of the Dolphins

playoffs scenarios and how he's approaching Week seventeen. Well, I think you know, the fans are two sided with that. You know, they have great fans up there, and the drive ins always pretty entertaining with you know what they got going on in the parking lot, But you know it is it is nice with no fans up there because they do make a very It's a loud stadium. Um. Nice is it still called New era or this year?

I don't think it is, but great stadium. Um. Gonna be a big matchup division opponent Week sevent, team with a lot of invocations, were excited, ready to roll. Um. I'm aware that if we don't win, we'll need some help. But you know, the main thing that I'm you know, folksing on is going up there and and and kind of kicking the door in on playoffs ourselves. So you know we're going up there in a huge game. I'll play in game really, and you know we're gonna need

our player best Sunday afternoon when we am. And we mentioned earlier in the preview piece that the Bills will bring linebackers on the pass rush and they will get home. I wanted to go ahead and ask head Carriss about how you get a pass rush block that brings so many linebackers on that pass rush on the blitz. Yeah, they had great linebackers, Edmunds, Mulano, Klein, Um, you know they bring they bring those guys a lot. They're good pass rushers. Um, you know, accomplished pass rushers more so

than a lot of linebacking corps. And you know, we're gonna have to set these guys um, you know, with good technique and fundamentals and get our hands on him and uh, you know, finished blocks. Let's go ahead and finish up our Wednesday media availability with Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker, who was asked about the challenges the Buffalo Bill's offense presents and what he might have learned about them, both from a personal standpoint and a team standpoint in the

game back in Week two in Miami. A personally offer me, it's just, you know, my eyes they feel a lot of different. I can be my eyes right. Everything goes to the line as a team, uh, with a very completely different team honestly. Uh, you know we played them too too, and we're just a pretty different team and awesome needs to have to play together as a team.

And that's all. Let's go ahead and finish up with Bak here with a question about his production as a pass rusher going up this year compared to his first two years in the NFL. Here's what he attributes his pass rush success to this season here in Miami. I say it's more credit to our D line. Um, you know, just having having Check, have having Kyle the office, have to gear until it's blocking them first, and it just helped me with more opportunities. And but I say it's

definitely Dvine. You know those guys they take up sometimes two or three guys, and for me, as you say, one of one battle is sometimes I'm just free. So I definitely give it all credit to D Line. And so there he goes Jerome Baker, Dolphins linebacker, finishing up this busy, busy Wednesday edition of the Drive Time podcast. As for my time today, that's gonna be my time.

We're gonna come back tomorrow for a New Year's Eve edition of feature edition with Vaughan Akhmed, Miles Gascon, and the running backs coach at the University of Washington, coach Keith Bonafa. Go ahead and check out that podcast the rest of the week's podcast. We'll be back with you guys on Thursday and Friday as well for the flashback and of course Sunday night for the recap edition of

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