Dolphins Jets Week 11 Preview

days for this one. As the Dolphins travel up to MetLife and bring a bunch of rowdy fans with them, including myself, Seth Levin O J. Mcduffee for the MetLife Takeover. We'll break this game down with an introduction to the current Jets position by position matchups, the three keys to the game, and how Miami can win their third straight. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex,

this is the Drive Time Podcast. It's time for a preview podcast and a trip to Jersey to take on the New York Jets. As we do every week here on the preview edition, we start with an intro into our opponent the first time this season Dolphins and Jets, and they actually will break a deadlock in this game, provided there's no tie fifty five to fifty five to one all time in this series. And we're gonna see this team twice in a four week span. And I always like saying it's a team with the wrong shade

of green, and I know Aqua isn't technically green. I think it's more on the blue side of the spectrum, if I'm correct on that, but it still works, right. I mean, I remember seeing a promo for college hoops back in like I don't know, two thousand two. I used to be really into the Tar Heels and Blue Devil's rivalry, like the Antoine Jamison days, and I think

that was about as good as it ever got. Maybe I'm wrong on that, you basketball fans can't correct me, but anyway, there was a promo for that game that ran for like a week up to it, and the voiceover on the promo said something to the effect of two teams separated by only eight miles in six shades of blue or something like that. And now I apply it to my own personal most hated division rival. It is Jets weak. And as I mentioned on the Seth and o J podcast. The Rex Ryan years was what

really stirred up the victual for me. But since then it's been a rough road for our division rivals up to the North. They won fifty nine games the last ten years and only two teams had less victories over that span in Cleveland and Jacksonville. Are you guys fans of the Around the NFL podcast on NFL Media. I'm always privy to the successes and failures of our a

f C East rivals. But Dan Hans is the host of that podcast, is as die hard for the Jets as we all are for the Dolphins, and he has talked a lot about how devoid of joy the last deck Gata football has been for the Jet fan and even more so you know these last five or six years. And in fact, the first year I began listening to the A t N pod was the off season of ten, when they were coming off a ten win season in which they had a chance to go into Buffalo in

Week seventeen win and get in. And I believe that Buffalo team was either six or seven win team that season, and the Jets came up short behind the arm of

Ryan Fitzpatrick. He had three picks in that game. But since then, it's been a really rough go for them from steen to present five and eleven, five and eleven, four and twelve, seven and nine, which was kind of propped up at the back end of the schedule after a slow start and a softer part of the schedule, and they kind of won some games there down the stretch, then two and fourteen and now currently two and seven, But those wins this year came against the Titans and Bengals,

So don't think they won't pick you off. You cannot have that mindset. You have to get that in there. But this segment is more about how the Jets got to this current place and as we do every week on the Preview podcast, want to talk about this team, and actually I think they are on the right track. It's just too early into their process to truly evaluate the win lost total that first year on a kind

of tear down, rebuild, the wind lost whole thing. Not that big of a deal lot to me for the most part, but I think Joe Douglas has done a fantastic job of really maximizing the resources and assets that he had, namely parlaying Jamal Adams, you know, into a into a pair of first round draft picks for a guy who right now, you know, he's a pressure and run defense safety who's just not doing a whole lot

for the Seahawks on that side of the football. And to get two first rounders and possibly a top ten pick next year, which I believe will go below that because the seahawks current struggles will probably stop now that Russell Wilson's back at the controls. But that's besides the point. They maximize that resource the way Miami did with their resources back in twenty nineteen. Right. In a lot of ways, it was kind of Miami's approach in that same time span.

Anytime you're presented better than market value, or I should say at least the perceived market value, you want to capitalize on that. And if you do that enough times repeatedly, you'll start to see it kind of bare fruit for you. Process, process, process, Right. We talked about that all the time. It's kind of the theme of the Drivetime podcast. Now, some of their

draft capital has had some injury problems. McKay Beckton looked like a future All pro before the medical begin to take a toll on him and he's a big body, dude. I love Elijah Vera Tucker, although I'm not crazy about spending multiple mid round draft picks to go up for one guy on the offensive line when they really had multiple spots to fill this offseason, But at the end of the day, you get a good player and Elijah Vera Tucker. I thought Elijah Moore was an absolute steal

for them in the second round. Quentin Williams is a true shop wrecker, so was John Franklin Myers. Michael Carter the running back. They also have a cornerback by the same name is having a stellar rookie season, and I thought Corey Davis was a nice signing this offseason to give Zack Wilson some more weapons. So they're loaded with draft capital and have a very young team, and this

year is certainly one for building for them. But the one thing you always want to see in those kind of rebuild the years is the flashes, right and I mean we all pointed as Dolphins fans in twenty nine team to the Eagles and Patriots victories, and rightly so

as great signs of progress. And the Jets have a pair of wins over the best team right now as far as record goes in the a f C and Tennessee and another playoff contender in the five and four Bengals, who have kind of fallen off since that loss, but again, a competitive team, so this league, you always gotta bring your best. It'll be interesting to see how these two teams progress in their different stages of building under their young,

first time coaches. But enough of that. Let's get to the game on Sunday, and as we do weekly, we start with the Jet quarterback against the Miami Safeties and first off, major thanks to the Jets for announcing early on Wednesday before recording this podcast that it would be

Joe Flacco starting under center for the Jets. Robert Sala announced this citing Flacco's experience over Mike White, who threw four picks and their loss to Buffalo last week, after Jets fans were kind of excited to see if maybe he could up end Zach Wilson's early start here to his career. That obviously will not happen now, but Zack Wilson's at the four week mark of a two to four week injury, so giving him a little more time

to heal up. You have to imagine we'd see him in that game down here at hard Rock Stadium in about a month. But it's flat go for now. And this is intriguing to me for a number of reasons. I'm sure the topic of last year's game, a Dolphins shutout over Flacco in the Jets, will make its rounds on Twitter and the pregame shows and whatnot, but I don't think that plays here. Obviously, both teams are gonna be different from the year ago, but that system couldn't

be more different than it is now. And truthfully, I think the idea of Mike Lafleur coming from that NFL current predominant system, of that Shanahan McVeigh tree and system to kind of construct a play action slash boot heavy attack to maximize Zach Wilson's ability to kind of go off platform, off script and throw from different arm angles with the arm talent and mobility he has. But again, he's not in the lineup this week, So how does that system ish with what Joe Flacco does. Well, Flacco

isn't gonna be a part of designed runs. He's not gonna be your wildcat r P O or zone read quarterback out of the pistol. He's just not gonna beat your contain on rollouts. But he does have a giant arm and can drive the football field the football down the field, so you definitely have to be privy to

some of those deep passing concepts. He steps into an offense that currently operates almost exclusively out of two packages eleven personnel, which of course is the NFL's bread and butter, and then this year you've seen a huge increase in

twelve personnel across the league. That's one back, two tight ends, and two receivers at so if my math is right, that's eight nine percent, and honestly, it's a very standard look in today's NFL, not a bunch of two back sets, which was something Flacco had a bunch of success with up in Baltimore, as well as twelve personnel. And obviously he's made four stops with three teams since that time with Broncos, Jets, Eagles now back boom ringing to the

Jets once more. But they're only other offensive package with more than two percent utilization is ten personnel. That's one back, no tight ends, four receivers set. So you generally know what you're getting with this Jets offense as far as personnel goes, and we saw Miami have a bunch of success against both twelve and twenty one personnel. The heavy approach of the Baltimore Ravens obviously vastly different quarterbacks and offenses. But I'm really intrigued to see what they cook up

after that game plan they rolled out last week. It was brilliant, tasted great, five stars. But we get to the Miami safeties here Before we do, I should say here is exactly what Sala said of the decision to go with Joe Flacco. Quote Joe. One of the reasons we got Joe was the experienced part of it, not only for the playing ability for the room, but also situations just like this. Miami's got a dynamic coverage situation when it pertains the defense with Cover zero and all

the different coverages that they run. Joe has been kind of a kind of been there, done that, and just kind of steadying experience that we felt like a post in the best position to win this game. So there you go. We've covered a lot of the safety play for the Dolphins over the last few weeks, and that's because these two guys are just playing really good ball

right now. And actually it's three because Eric Rose having his best stretch of the season as well, and it's been through plenty of blitzing, as we've noted here on the podcast and otherwise. And while I don't have the blitz numbers on Flacco this year, because while he just took three snaps for the first time this season and mop up duty against Buffalo and he actually went three for three for forty seven yards and a teddy, good

for him, good for Joe. But last year in that game against Miami, the Dolphins sent an extra rusher on twenty two of his forty seven dropback, so a little less than fifty I know that math enough. At least against the blitz, Flacco was ten for twenty three with four sacks, eighty eight yards in a pick. So it was very effective against him a year ago. Will it be this year? He's got better weapons and a better offensive line in a different system, so we'll find out.

And just to finish it off, we talked about the La Fleur and Shanahan mckmcveigh connection there. Miami played both of those teams last year, the Rams and the Niners and had great game plans for really all those wide runs, the quarterback boots and blitzing to flash color. But then once you flash the color and force a Jared Goff or a Jimmy Garoppolo or a Joe Flacco to kind of hitch and tuck the ball and try to protect himself as he climbs and searches for an escape route.

That's when you can have a lot of success and put hits in the quarterback negatively impact there down in distant situation, maybe you force an Erran throw. And those were two of the Dolphin's most successful game plans a year ago, where they really pressured the naked boot option off the wide runs to really contain the edge from both the run and the quarterback trying to leak out and give himself a clean pocket, which I'm sure you'll see some of that in this game. I'll be curious

see how Miami goes after that. And really, if you look at the average points allowed, takeaways, third down comparison against those two opponents a year ago, compared to what they do what they did against everybody else, it was a huge departure for this Dolphins defense to get those

teams off track. So hopefully we see that again, but I'm just generally curious to see the planned adjustment for both sides, and Miami's gonna need both Holland and Jones to continue disguising the coverages and making plays on the back end moving out wide to the Jets receivers slash tight end versus the Miami cornerbacks. They made two additions this offseason that really bolstered this unit from the one

we saw a year ago. Corey Davis is a big, strong, physically gifted receiver, you know, physically gifted enough to go fifth overall in the draft a few years back to the Tennessee Titans. And before we get into these matchups, I found it interesting that in forty four coverage snaps a week ago, Tradavious White for Buffalo saw just two pass targets against the Jets, so they went away from him and you can watch it on tape. They didn't want any part of Trey White. Will the story be

the same here this week regarding Xavien Howard. I mean, Byron Jones is pretty damn good too, but x did get a pick in both Jets games. Last week's so might not be the worst idea. But as for Davis, a lot of his work came late in the game when the result was already in hand. He's been their go to guy for hundred forty two receiving yards in the season and four touchdowns, but he's catching less than six of his targets, while Elijah Moore has kind of

come on here late in the season. He has two hundred and seventy four yards and far more limited time, but he's starting to come on here. For this Jets offense, he's gonna get open. He's a tough ask inside. He's one of those glue hands guys that just catches everything

that doesn't really make sense to you. And in a game where you obviously want to get pressure on Flacco, he might be that quick outlet that you want to take away off the top to force Flacco into a secondary decision or to hold the ball for an extra beat and look elsewhere. They also love to get the football to Michael Carter in space or all those quick checkdowns.

More on that here in just one moment. So whether that's a bracket or a double team, or even chipping and disrupting the release of a Elijah More with a backer or an edge defender, I think you probably want to get hands on him early in the route and make him take some more time to get to that release. You don't want to get any quick access here for Elijah More in this game, and they're gonna find a way to stack him and to motion him and get him clear access. So just keep an eye on Elijah More.

I think he's kind of the key to the offensive game plan here for the Jets. After that, it's kind of a mixture of guys that they have made play slash been active options for the Jets this season. I mean Denzel Mims, he's only been up for six games after a rookie season where he looked like he might be a solution there. Jamison crowd of the same deal, six games. Keelan Cole, a guy that's only seen twenty

nine targets. So when I look at who takes who, I have to imagine the Jets will move guys around because they just are not beholden to one guy at one position with this receiving corps and kind of buying into that flexibility mindset, so they're gonna try to dictate matchups my thing here again, Elijah More, I think he's the answer to the quick game for them, And again, kind of one thing that this offense does is condensed the field and forces you to play inside, so that

can also kind of help Miami with regards to getting extra hats in the box, but also kind of the pressure package, and I think that's where the success came from a year ago, where you have, you know, this wide zone and kind of misdirection and get linebackers taking false steps and create knows in the passing game. With all that I candy, because of those condensed packages, you can then get even more creative with your rush and who bails out because there's not as much distance to

cover when you do bill out. So I think it's kind of beneficial to Miami in that regard. And of course, your primary answer for the Jet passing game is the blocking up front, which takes us to the Dolphins defensive line versus the Jets offensive line. Some pressure numbers here for these big dudes. Still no McKay Beckton back for the Jets, so we get to look at the fan slash Moses tackle combo with Vera, Tucker McGovern and Van

Rotten Rotten inside just the name power alone. Another tip of the hat here to Joe Douglas for getting this line at least partially turned around from what it had been in years prior. Obviously still some work to go, but getting Moses really kind of saved them from having to go to the practice squad for a swing tackle. With Chuma Adoga also down, Moses and Fan obviously playing a lot now at those positions, and that veteran presence inside I think can really help along with first rounder

Elijah Vera Tucker. So for four d and twenty three little snaps on this offensive line, Greg Van Rotten, Elijah Vera Tucker, and Connor McGovern have all played wire to wire. Moses on three nine two pass blocking snaps and pant three eight six, so pretty good continuity there. They just haven't had well those tackles they normally had for most of the season, but Fan four team pressures allowed, two sacks and no hits. He's been by far their best

offensive lineman in past protection. Vera Tucker twenty seven pressures, one sack and five hits. McGovern thirteen pressures, three sacks and no hits. Van roten thirty two pressures, three sacks and a hit, with Moses getting twenty nine pressures, two sacks and eight hits on him, and a few things here stand out to me. George Fan has been really good.

He was a guy that I actually targeted a couple of years back as a possible free agent idea just because of his athletic ability and lengthen the size composition that he fits with the Dolphins down here, but he wind up with the Jets. Moses has been solid despite the high pressure total and then the guard positions have been kind of vulnerable, not just in terms of total pressures allowed, but converting those pressures into sacks. And that's the sign that those guys kind of when they get beat,

it's not good for them. Even over the center position, where McGovern has allowed just third team pressures this season. So how do teams get those pressures? Well, Van wrote and allowed nine pressures the last two weeks against Indian Buffalo.

That's a Grover Stewart DeForest Buckner combination, which two different players ones long and strong and incredibly powerful with with wicked hands, and Grover Stewart's more of a squatty body power guy that can run three you, and then Buffalo has kind of the same mindset there At Oliver he's more of your Buckner where Starlatu Delay is more of

your Grover Stewart. But he had a two game stretch with third team pressures allowed back in weeks two and three versus Denver in New England, and those are completely different schemes stylistically, so I guess there's different ways to approach this. But to be fair, he did bounce back with one pressure allowed against that tough Patriots front slash

system just five weeks later. I'd be an area to dolf for the Dolphins to attack their Elijah Vera Tucker third team pressures over the last three weeks against the Bengals, Colts, and Wills obviously same as the above players, but his lowest PFF pass blocking grades occurred the last two weeks, so maybe there's something happening there. And you know what, as we kind of continue this, this is just a

theme for this team. A lot of the pressures have occurred over the last few weeks, and that coincides with the QB change. QB change quarterback change. Obviously, Zack Wilson was and is a very mobile quarterback so an adjustment period for them to get a little more familiar with a more of a pocket style quarterback, and no quarterback

is more of a pocket quarterback than Joe Flacco. But back to the offensive line, Moses twelve pressures last three weeks against that same group, six against the Colts, and Comoco to Ray had a great game there, so did Quitty Pay and you know Terray and Pay kind of Actually it's a bad round. I'm trying to go for a stupid rhyme. But Terray compares kind of in the same mold of Agba with the length and that first step quickness. But it was Quity Pay who had the

biggest game there. He had nine pressures, working both sides of the offensive line. And what does he have. He's an explosive first step rusher and the ability to really work through contact and shed blocks again, two things I think are real strengths of both of Jalen Phillips and Emmanuel Ogbass. So trying to find that matchup hairing there that looks good for the Dolphins and working off that left side. Fan has only allowed three pressures or more

in just one game, and that was last week. But obviously that was a ton of pass attempts because that game got out of hand quickly for the Jets up in Buffalo. Maybe it was in New York, I can't remember, but just one pressure allowed in two games against the Patriots. So I think the idea here I'm trying to get to is the interior rush kind of takes precedence, and that's where Miami is really really good and has a lot of those games they can call upon. Adam Butler's

first step quickness I think comes into play here. Christian Wilkins and what he's done all season long. Obviously Zax either getting after a rerae Kwon Davis. I like that matchup from Miami inside with those guys going up against

this kind of young and experienced Jets interior. So that's why I think Miami can exploit in this matchup, condensing guys inside and getting that kind of look where Phillips goes into three tech or the four eye, same Emmanuel Ogba showing pressure with backers and safeties mug up those games up inside, Butler setting the table, Wilkins getting the job done. Agba and Phillips pairing up together on the same side of the formation to get in position to

come off the edge or inside. Interesting matchup here. I like Miami's chances. Let's go ahead and finish up with the position group that has one of my favorite players in this past year's draft class, and that's the Jets running back versus Dolphins linebackers Michael Carter formerly of North Carolina, and I like Javonte Williams a lot too. Is up to of their workload, and that's actually been pretty consistent since the beginning of the season. He's got speed to burn.

If he gets clear into the second level, he can turn a chunk gain into a home run. Even though his season long is eighteen yards, he only has two runs of plus fifteen yards this season. Just don't let them get out of the gate, because we saw what he can do down at the Senior Bowl and mobile in that arena. Can't have that. Also, the passing game production he leads the team and receptions and they'll just

they'll do it almost exclusively from the backfield. He has just thirty seven of three snaps coming anywhere besides the backfield. So Texas routes flat screens that type of thing, and with Fara, Tucker is kind of a lead guy. You can see why. But once again, though, there's a spike in his workload based upon the change of quarterback and the old adage says that young quarterbacks rely on backs and tight ends more right, And since Mike White entered

the lineup, Carter has twenty nine targets. Where prior to that, in the first five games with Zack Wilson a rookie, he had just third team. So will that continue with Joe Flacco. I don't know the answer to that, but if it does, Miami has options, and I would imagine one of those options is to just directly blitz at him and force him to stay in like, hey, you

gotta pick me up. Because if you can't get into the route when your scan produces an alert like ping, gotta go get that guy in pass pro, then you're not gonna be able to get in your passing routes. That might be one way you can limit Michael Carter's receding production in this game. They also put the football a lot to Tie Johnson, the other running back that

plays the most. Uh. Well, we saw it last week with the speed at the linebacker position really benefiting Miami in that game with Jerome Baker, Andrew Van Gink, Goldiland Phillips. I think they need the same thing here this week against this Jets offense. Onto the other side. Hello from the and I'm not gonna do the adoo Dolphins quarterback

versus Jet safeties. To is expected to start this game, as Brian Florest holes on Wednesday, And if you haven't seen it already, make sure you go back and check out Tungo by Lois press conference on Wednesday and keep close eye on the very end when he does a little dance for us at the podium. It's I don't know how you can't love to. He's the best, but he sure does hold the attention of the press when he does media in that little room back there here

up in our building. But as for the game goes, Marcus May went on injury reserve last week and they went back to Jared Wilson last week after he didn't play since the Week five game in London against the Falcons. Wilson is a coverage slash run defender. In fact, both safeties are just four pass rush attempts on his one d and seventy six total snaps, and he's been pretty solid and run defense, which checks out because Ashton Davis is more of a coverage guy. He was a slot

safety combo at Cal. He was a coverage dynamo and a playmaker there, but it hasn't quite clicked for him here yet. One of my favorite players not that year's draft cycle, but he also does not blitz three pass rush attempts on three total reps. This season, it hasn't been as smooth of a transition. He's been targeted eighteen times and allowed seventeen catches this season. That's gonna be a theme throughout the podcast here for the Dolphins offense

as a whole. The Jets are surrendering explosive plays of their past plays. Those are twenty plush yard gains and that's thirty second in the National Football League in that ranking. And again to kind of bring this back to solos philosophy, philosophy, when he was with the forty niners, it was aggressive, one gap penetrating style to crank up the heat with those guys and play coverage. So perhaps Miami has a little more time to set up longer developing plays and

some shot plays down the football field. I mean, we saw Jalen Waddle catch some routes, some deep over routes from those deep crossers the last couple of weeks, and those came from max pro looks, working off play action or just finding ways to create those clean pockets. With the Jets on balance blitz of the time, it's actually middle of the pack, and that probably has a lot more to do with the personnel opposed what they had in San Francisco with Joey Bosa and DeForest Buckner and

Eric Armstead and all the guys. They had to bring pressure on the quarterback, but their pressure rate is twenty at three point nine. I'll be curious to see if they do that this time around, or if there's some adapting to try to maximize the opportunity with the big plays this Jets defense has allowed. You don't just show up and hit it. You've got to execute. But how will Miami try that, because as it pertains to toa I mean, we've seen teams approach him differently all season long.

Buffalo brought the heat and really helped limit the offense and both those outings, albeit for just a few snaps the first time around, but the Patriots played more coverage and rarely blitz to Uh in that game, and he made some big plays to thirty plush yard completions in that game, but the offense ultimately only had three scoring drives. And outside of those big plays and the three scoring drives,

wasn't much cooking for the Miami offense. And the Falcons did the exact same thing, played coverage any three for four touchdown passes in that game. And one way he can replicate that success is from some help from his friends. Taking us into our next matchup here, the Dolphins receivers and tight ends against the Jets cornerbacks again, Jalen Waddle.

He's seeing an increasing role at the receiver position. We heard coach Grizzard talk a little bit about him playing outside more last week, and to I talked about this Wednesday how having guys that played every position makes his job easier to identify matchups. And that's gonna be the theme of the week from me here. Who do the Jets having that back end? Well? Marcus may is out law. Marcus Joiner was hurt in Game one only who played nine snaps after signing here as a free agent, He's

gone for the season. Their best cover guy has been Bryce Hall, who they were able to get late in the draft because of an injury his final year there Virginia. He was like cornerback one, I think for a lot of folks before the injury. But he starts alongside Brandon Eccles last week and then Javelin Gidgerey played the same number of snaps as equals both twenty nine snaps each, so they're really going by committee there though Michael Carter not the running back, a different player is second and

snaps at the position with four and twenty six. This is a unit that was coming into the season an area they had to focus on, you know, next offseason, a little bit undermanned coming into the year because they're rebuilding, right, they can't do every position at once, but it has really been bitten by the injury bug. So I think

about finding matchups as it usually is. You know, I'll be curious to find out if Miami will find their rabbit, the guy they want to go after an attack relentlessly, or will it be more about feeding someone specifically on your own offense and just kind of looking at some of the numbers here from coverage standpoint, Bryce Hall three hundred and fifty six coverage snaps allowed three hundred thirty seven yards and three touchdowns Carter to sixty seven and

coverage three hundred nineteen yards seventy five point six percent completion rate, echoes two hundred and fifty seven coverage snaps just a hundred and twelve yards and javel and Gidrey one thirty six coverage snaps a hundred and seventy six yards. There So giddre mostly an outside corner eighteen reps in the slot equals has just two slot reps. And then Bryce Hall has not played in the slot at all, so to use a combination of backs and safeties to

help fill that role. But last week with Hole Beasley for the Buffalo Bills, he only saw two targets for fifteen yards. Both were catches. But teams have gone back and forth in terms of who they go after inside or outside Michael Carter, Bryce Hall, Brandon Eccles or Javelin Gudrey. So I just don't I don't think it's about trying to go over the matchups here in Miami likes to move people around, and I think it'll be a play by play deal to just find out who you want

to go after. There's options there. But in order to do that, how about the past protection upfront? Dolphins offensive line versus the Jets defensive line, and this is where the Jets strength lies on the d line, particularly inside with big Old Quinnin Williams. What an impressive player. Twenty three pressures this year, twenty run stops. He does everything, so does John Franklin Myers. One of the most underrated

players in the league. And I blamed that on a very generic name, like if it was skid bart boot Bop, he'd probably be a lot more popular, right, And that's you go ahead and isolate that sound for you for Twitter. But anyway, John Franklin Myers, this guy is outstanding. You have to find a way to not let these two

guys erect the game. The Jets were pretty excited back and Hamp with the prospect of wrecking things inside with those two guys and then Carl Lawson doing his thing off the edge, but Lawson was lost with the season back in training camp and after those two guys, there is a significant drop off in pressure numbers because Bryce Huff, the edge player, is third on the team with just

thirteen quarterback pressures. Luckily, for Miami. The pass pro on the interior has been solid this year, so it could be a big week for the tackles in their one on one matchups where you kind of slide to help with those interior bodies, which to me would say you might get some instances where you have either of your tackle and one on one situations with one pass rusher and you try to help. Otherwise it's gonna be a

big matchup there if that is the case. But John Frank la Myers had nine pressures and the win over Tennessee, and Williams had five in that game, So there you go. That's how they won at least one of their games, half of their games with those two guys inside piling up fourteen quarterback pressures. They had just three in the Bengals win, but that game was a shootout, the Mic White game, so you found out how they won that one is it's a little some weird bounces here and there.

But finally, we don't want to be one dimensional, right, So the Dolphins running back first as Jets linebackers, but first before we talk about the running game as pass rushers. Mosley leads all Jet linebackers with thirty nine pass rush reps and just three quarterback pressures. And I'll be curious to see how Miami wants to play this because you can obviously dictate defensive packages with your own personnel. We've seen Miami run more twelve personnel than anybody else in

the league. So do they want to get more linebackers on the field or they want to go after that secondary. Well, both matchups are pretty favorable. Both Mosley and Quincy Williams play a significant number of reps in coverage and they've combined to be hit for fifty nine catches on seventy targets Mosley thirty eight receptions on forty two targets combined. That's eighty four percent completion for five hundred and fifteen yards, and three hundred and ninety nine of those yards have

come after the catch. So tight ends and backs, I mean, really the whole gamut. There's really options across the board. But also you want to find a way to balance that in the running game. If it's not working, though, I would just find a way to go after these guys in coverage because they had a tough time all year long and over the last four games since nineteen sixty. Nobody's allowed more points in a four game stretch than that Jets defense, So there's your opportunity. Special teams d

v o A rankings Dolphins twenty five, Jets fifteen. Their punter, or rather their kicker, check that Matt a Mandola is ten for thirteen. He's over two though from beyond fifty yards. His other miss came in the forty nine yard range, and Thomas Moore Stead averages forty eight point two yards

per punt. With Braxton Barrios their primary return man, just six punt returns, they don't really get very many punt opportunities there, but he does average a nice twelve point eight yards per punt return and also twenty four point seven yards on thirteen kick returns. The Dolphins will win

this game if the defense keeps it up. I mean, if they play like they have the last three weeks, they're gonna suffocate the Jets offense, and if they can get pressure on the quarterback out of the multiple looks they've executed in those games over the last couple of weeks, it's gonna be another tough day of sledding for the

opposing offense. And then Miami can execute their complimentary game plan on the offensive side, the Jets will win if Quentnin will Hims and John Franklin Myer's ruined the game that Miami wants to execute by crashing the interior pocket and wiping out the run game. Can't have that. Don't hit the quarterback. Three keys of the game. Generate pressure on Flacco and account for Elijah Moore and Michael Carter

in the passing game. Get that pressure, take away the first option, force him into tucking the ball and hitching up, and get your quarterback pressure and mistakes from that big plays on offense. This is the thirty second ranked big play defense in terms of big plays allowed and the thirty first ranked big play defense on the running game. So both run and pass game can allow big plays and number three, don't let defensive tackles Quinnin Williams and

John Franklin Myer's ruin the game. Thursday Night Football Patriots and Falcons. I really want to take the Falcons here, but if Cordel Patterson can't go, which I don't know if you will, I probably gotta go Pats even on the world on the Thursday Night. I hate to say it, but I think I'm going Patriots here to beat the Falcons on Thursday Night football. All right, that's gonna be my time. You all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast. Leave us a rating, leave

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