Dolphins Jets Week 15 Preview

Giants game. It's preview day. We're talking Dolphins and Jets. Will go position by position and preview this matchup how Miami can make it back to back season sweeps over the Jets, a fifth win out of six tries against the rival under Brian Flores, and take the advantage in the regular season all time series at fifty five apiece

right now, at least in the regular season series. Will also give you the three takeaways, tell you how the Jets arrived at their current position they are in, and a whole heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast we have a busy edition of

Drive Time. Aheads, let's go ahead and jump right in, and once again it is Jets weak for the one twelve time all time in the regular season and the one time here between these two division rivals if you include the playoffs. Shout out to a f C championship

game and shout out to a j Doway. We did this a few weeks ago, right, but nothing really changed as far as the ten thousand foot view for the Jets, I mean, Joe Douglas arrives, starts going to work on that roster, maximizes his assets and accumulates a bunch of draft capital as well as salary cap space, and he unloaded a big name player in Jamal Adams for two high draft picks and has used that or began to

use that to really infuse this roster with talent. He lands his rookie quarterback with the second overall pick in the draft back in April. Then he immediately goes to work on the offensive line, trading a pair of picks and rounds two and three, or rather I think a pair of third round picks to go up and get interior offensive lineman left guard Elijah Vera Tucker after selecting their left tackle in the draft in Mackay Beckton out of Louisville. I think you see the plan to place

there right. We saw what rookie Elijah Moore can do in the game. Last time around, we saw Michael Carter do his thing out of the backfield as well. Now the ladder is back this week to supplement their backfield. The former is out and so too is another prize acquisition at the skill spots and receiver Corey Davis. But you can see where they're working to kind of build up the offense around their young quarterback, and they have all those future assets to put into the defense or

the team in general however they see fit. But eventually you have to put pieces on both sides of the football. Right. They've been offensive heavy the last couple of years. Maybe this season it goes more towards defense, or maybe in two years it doesn't. It doesn't really matter, but you get the point. They did some good business on the defensive side of the football this offseason and again in

season with two moves. Their biggest edition of the entire off season was lost back in training camp, and Carl Lawson, an absolute monster who's gonna get back and really terrorized the a f C East and years to come when he does get back and healthy. Then in season they locked up I think their best current player in John Franklin Meyers. So they have some pieces over there as well.

It's a three and ten football team, but they're still building their competitive They take on the mindset of their head coach and they play tough, smart football under Robert Sala. Let's go ahead and kick this thing off as we do each Thursday with the opponent's quarterback versus our safeties, and we'll kick it off here with the words from head coach Brian Flores on the Jetsbrookie quarterback. I think Za Wilson's uh, you know, very talented young player in

this league, big arm um, mobile um. And I think he's getting better every week. Um so. And I think this is uh, this is a player who's you know, ascending. I think, you know, it's like any young players has been some bumps. Um. I know he was out for a little bit, he came back, he's played well, and um, I think this would be a big challenge for us. So we're you know, that's what we're preparing for, for

and against. You heard coach mentioned some of the bumps in the road there for Zach Wilson, And you might remember his run up to the draft, the Pro day, all the impressive throws that he showed he can make falling away from his target on the move, changing the arms slot, you know, going down to three quarters, sometimes

even completely side armed. He's one of these new generation quarterbacks who I like to compare to shortstops in baseball, where it doesn't matter if there and if you're not a baseball fans day with me here sliding into center field into the center field grass to their left, they still find a way to clear their hips and whip that ball across the diamond, or if they have to go to the back end in the sixth hole the six holes between third base and shortstop for your non

baseball fans and go to the jump pass, like these quarterbacks that throw from those shortstop platforms seem to be more and more prevalent. So he's immensely talented. But as we've seen for just about every rookie quarterback to ever do it, and there's obviously some anomalies out there, Dan Marino certainly one of them. There is an acclamation and adjustment period to play this position at this level. And honestly, that's just a rookie thing, not just a rookie thing.

Like quarterbacks are always learning, but you're not just going to have all the answers until you've seen I mean, do we go with the Malcolm Gladwell route here and talk about breaking the ten hour rule. Maybe it's not ten thousand game snaps or practice some game reps, but ten thousand hours makes sense. And you just can't get there until you're at a certain point in life. So, I mean, even some of the most decorative young quarterbacks

will still have those dips in their consistency. Right. We've we've seen even Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have hit some valleys this season. And there are m v P type of quarterbacks Super Bowl m v ps in that discussion there, and where does that typically come from? You know, playing quarterback from the pocket is that that's where the

job is mostly done. Those off platform throws and the workout throws like a Pro Day or a combined workout or plays that make the highlight reel that you see for weeks in a row on Twitter or sports center. Those are the splash plays, and like coach Flores talks about with sacks and picks and things of that nature, those splash plays make up, you know, a fraction of your actual workload, like better than of what a quarterback does is boring. And I'm using air quotes heavily here

because I don't find it boring. But you get what the jeff I'm saying, right, And that brings me to a larger point, like the bumps along the road will flatten out when you can start to master that part of the game. Identifying the defense, read the coverage, knowing what you have in terms of your call and your concept the weakness of the defense that you're seeing a post to you, and the way you can exploit those defenses. Then quickly process the information as things move for you

post snap. Does you know your steam ral get carried? Does the curl flat defender take the bait on the flat and you have to go into the honey hoole back behind the underneath cornerback. Like there's so many different things that happened in the time you get the football to the time the ball comes out until like two and a half three seconds. Most of the time, but a lot happens in that time. And that's not so much an evaluation on Zach Wilson as it is just

about young quarterbacks in general. But that's where he and all young quarterbacks have to stress is finding ways to win from the pocket and play the position in the

traditional sense. Not to be the old guy here, but like those fun you know, they're they're basically Patrick Mahomes types of throws and he does them all the time, but defenses have taken those away from him this year and he's having statistically the down year in terms of what we're used to, which is forty thousand touchdown passes an eight million, two fifty seven yards. Like, there's things you can do to get away from those, and they still make up just a fraction of your overall place.

So what does that mean for Miami. Well, we're gonna see what the Dolphins have at the safety position here because Eric Rose availability is well, he's available. We'll see about Javon Holland, and then Brandon Jones missed the last two games with an elbow injury as well. And beyond that, we've talked about Nick Needham getting some reps and some

split safety looks. We know about Clayton Federlan providing depth at the position, and also Will Parks, a recent acquisition here to the roster, is in the mix as well. But I think the key here hearkens back to what we talked about in terms of the learning curve of

playing this position at this level. The Dolphins really excel in their ability to disguise coverage, who's in what role, who's coming, who's dropping, all of that, and with Roe and Jones and Needham's various usage and the depth at the position, Miami maintains that flexibility and uncertainty in the offense is mind change the picture post snap because you have players that can play forty two different roles. Right, So some quick Zach Wilson numbers here for you guys.

We know Miami blitz is a lot thirty eight point one percent of the time according to Pro Football Reference, which is second only behind Tampa. There's a one point two percent difference there, but at three point four percent difference between Miami and number three ranked Baltimore. So the Dolphins and Bucks blitz substantially more than anybody else in the NFL. Zach Wilson versus the Blitz forty five point

one percent completion. That's seventy one attempts, seven sacks, a four point nine yards per attempt average, zero touchdowns, and two picks versus pressure. So, whether it's four guys or Blitz getting after him, nine point five completion attempts on one dropbacks, that means twenty nine sacks, five yards per attempt, two touchdowns, and three picks. So I think it's gonna be a key to get that sorted for him. I mean, he's got to find a way to deal with pressure better.

And maybe it won't. Maybe there will be more of a four man pass rs. The Dolphins are certainly capable of playing coverage and and not coming out for the quarterback. That's not what they usually do. That's one of the things I'm looking for here as far as the storyline,

how does Miami attack the rookie quarterback? Because Pro Football Focus has Zack at and six point six yards per temp when kept clean, but four touchdowns and eight picks if he puts the ball in harm's way, capitalized when that turnover margin, and they'll go a long way towards victory. We mentioned this in the intro, but the Jets will be down a couple of their top receiving threats as

we move here to our next position. The Jets receivers and tight ends versus the Miami cornerbacks No Elijah More no Corey Davis. So it's Braxton Barrios, Keelan Cole, Jamison Crowder, and Denzel Mims in the receiver room with Ryan Griffin, tray Ron westco and Kenny Yoboa at tight end for

the Jets. As far as Wednesday goes for their active guys on their roster last week, let's go over their their snap percentage they played in the game and where they play in terms of inside outside and their season long stats. You ready for that. So Jamison Crowder played the snaps last week. He to go to guy there right him and Keelan Cole surpass. We'll get to that

here in just one second. But he plays eighty percent of the time in the slot, so he's their slot receiver, sixty four targets from that spot and a seventy percent completion rate when they throw to Jamison Crowder. Braxton Barrios is the other primary slot guy and he's played forty one percent of the snaps last week. Seventy percent of

the time he does play, he's in the slot. He has forty two targets this season and a seventy percent completion rate, So about three three fourths of the balls that go over the middle for the Jets to the slot receivers they get completed. Keelan Cole he played eighty three percent of the snaps last week, so you're probably gonna get a good mix of Coal and Crowder, and probably a mix of Barrios and Mims in there as well.

But Cole plays eighty three percent of his snaps out wide as well, thirty six targets, a fifty six percent completion. There's a theme there, right. Denzel Mims thirty three percent of the snaps last week. Eight percent of his workload this season comes out wide, fourteen targets, fifty seven percent can placent So when you force the Jets to throw wide, typically you get about a twenty percent reduction and completion percentage at tight end. Ryan Griffin of the snaps last week,

he plays total either in line or the slot. Six in line. In the slot, he has thirty nine targets this year, sixty four point one percent completion and then Daniel Brown played nine snaps last week. He was a practice squad call up, but the other tight ends did not play in the game. So among the current personnel getting the ball out wide, it's been a challenge. And of course we know that's where Xaviian Howard and Byron

Jones lurk for sixty minutes every single Sunday. So it really feels like a game where you ask those two studs on the outside to lock up one side of the field, in the middle of the fields where the Jets probably want to go. I mean, those are not good matchups out wide, So how do you make sure they can't nickel and dime you and sustain drives and pump the ball to those high catch percentage guys. Well,

this is a deep position from Miami. Even if Holland can't go and what he does on the inside of the form ration defensively, Eric Row can do literally every job at the at you know, safety or slot cornerback, uh cover tight ends, split safety, high safety, Brandon Jones much of the same, and their flexibility in that capacity could help unlock Justin Coleman to match up inside. Miami's just very deep there. Your options are a plenty again. You can play coverage. You can play zone and force

Wilson to throw against those seven man coverage looks. You can play a man and send pressure and see if they can win those one on ones on the outside. I'll be curious to see how Miami plays this. It's been hot this week here in South Florida, but Sunday is supposed to be eighty two degrees with a sixty percent chance of rain. Boo to that. I want to see a good weather game. But maybe that affects the way the Jets approached this as well. We'll see. So

some stats from those guys. Back in Week eleven, Crowder caught six of his seven targets for forty four yards. Cole and Barrios both had one target apiece no catches for them, and Ryan Griffin caught three of his four targets for thirty nine yards. If you keep their past production in that range, it'll be a long day for the Jets. How about up front on the offensive line?

The Battle of the Trenches. Will discuss that next, but first a break alright, So, as far as the Jets offensive line and Dolphins defensive line goes, here are the pressure, sack, hit and pass blocking numbers for the Jets up front, George flat Flant George Fant is their left tackle. Eight team pressures, one sack and three hits on five hundred and fifty five pass blocking snaps. He's been a decent little fine for them. There could possibly the right tackle

of the future, maybe a long term swing tackle. And McKay beck then comes back. I don't know. He's playing good ball though, and then Elijah Vera Tucker, I think one of their best players already thirty eight pressures allowed on five hundred and nine two pass blocking snaps, but

just one sack and five hits. Connor McGovern eight team pressures, four sacks and two hits at center he's played five two and uh Duverna Tarni Tardiff ten pressures allowed, one sack and two hits a hundred and forty five pass blocking snaps. So he just was a recent addition to of the offensive line. And then Morgan Moses forty pressures, three sacks and ten hits on five hundred and fifty

six pass blocking snaps. And then Greg Van Roten did not play last week, but he's got thirty four pressures three sacks, one hit, four hundred and forties having pass blocking snaps. You can see they've been relatively healthy upfront. You know, Sam's big, big Mackay Beckton going out early in the season, playing just thirty one snaps. But in the game against Miami back in week eleven, Laurent Duvernates r.

Def Was charged with seven pressures allowed. Then Pro Football Focus also credits four pressures to the running backs with Miami's ability to get either free runners with the quarterback or the last line of defense with the tailbacks and pass production protection. So finding a way to mix those fronts show Wilson something different on a consistent basis. To me, that's the secret sauce in terms of heating up the pressure and trying to force some quick decisions, which of

course can lead to bad decisions. So the Jets did have some success in the running game, and let's go ahead and finish up on this side of the foot ball with exactly that first off here and the Dolphins linebackers versus the Jets running backs. We went over the receiver snap counts for last week. They were down Michael Carter, the running back of the rookie running back last week and Ty Johnson stepped and employed forty eight of the

sixty six snaps. But that should change with the rookie Beck who has had a really nice first season here with Gae Green. But in that game, Michael Carter had just sixty three yards on nine or had six yards rather on just nine carries. He broke a thirty nine yard run that we all remember. Not our favorite moment

of that game. But you got to be better in regards in that regard in terms of limiting the big runs for the Jets here, keeping the Jets and long down and distance plays into Miami's hands quite well, I think, and it does every week, but especially in this game, like we talked about in the passing game matchup, you keep them in third and eight plus. That really benefits Miami if you can do that. And the success they had in the run game that day, it all came

off the left side. Here's their rushing and totals based upon which gap off left end two for ten, off left tackle one for four, not a big sample size, left guard three forty six. That's five yards average, four yards average, and then fifteen point three yards average and total on six runs off the left ten yards per carry, again tiny sample size, but the right side, in the

same sample size was a different story. The gaps working from center out to right end where two point five, two point oh, three point oh and three point oh. So trying to beat Vera, Tucker and Fant those are very big and very very athletic players. That's the key to me, trying to find a way to make sure those two guys don't create big gaps and give you a bunch of big runs in this game. As for the backs, Carter is a nice combo player, nice speed,

got some pop, He's a quick decision maker. They'll involve both him and Ti Johnson in the passing game as well, and that will typically challenge your backer speed but also the motor slash effort of your defensive line. And if there's one thing I know about this Dolphins defense, one thing I can count on with them, it's those guys up front playing their asses off. And it's really true of the entire team, but those guys hustle and play like animals each and every week. Offensively, the Jets play

eleven personnel of the time. That's one percent over league average, and they played twelve personnel of the time. That is league average, so a very common offense in the National Football League. It's the McVeigh and Shanahan system. They basically run. The only other package with more than three percent usage for the Jets is ten personnel. That's four receivers. It'll be interesting to see if they roll that out at

all with the injuries. They have a receiver and look, they've run at seventy three times in thirteen games, so it's not like again no mathematician, that's not like a crazy number of plays per game, about five or six per game, but still part of the game plan. And you know, Matt Lafleur off that McVeigh Shanahan system, window dressing, motions, shifts, play action, quarterback boot roll, get outside the pocket, creates some moving pockets for him. I like the way the

Dolphins defend the style of offense. We talked about it before with the last year's games against the Niners and the and the Rams. You know, pressuring those possible boots, blitz the edge of the worry back can't get wide. We'll see if Miami can keep that same approach and get some more success like they've had against this offensive system since Brian Flores arrived on the other side of

the football, Dolphins quarterbacks versus Jet safeties. We've touched on the four straight games here with a one hundred passer rating for two a tugle by Looa, and the first start of that period was against the Jets. Back in week eleven. He entered the Ravens game in the third quarter and a bad ball over the middle after the opening draft touchdown march in that game, but that was pretty much it, and it was pretty clean for him

the rest of the way. He finishes the two hundred and seventy three passing yards, a couple of touchdown passes, and twenty seven thirty three passing that's eighty one point eight per cent. And the interception, of course. But the Jets approach in that game, well, it's indicative to how Solo wants to play, right. We saw it in in the San Francisco game, or when he was back in San Francisco. I should say we've seen it here. One gap, play with your hair on fire, get up field and go

get the quarterback without committing extra rushers. And we saw Miami counter that in the running game with some wands and traps where if they want a shoot up field and get in the backfield first thing, you'll let them just take them where they want to go, but you bring someone from the side who's not in front of them for that block, if that makes sense. So it's usually a tight end. Sometimes it can even be a guard from the back side of the formation or even

a tackle. Get him up field, knock him off that spot with the one gap penetration, and then you can run right in that vacated gap after they left that gap. So that's kind of an idea there about how those wham blocks work, and we saw it last time around. The Dolphins rush for over a hundred yards in this game, but also defensively, the Jets blitz to eight times and two with seven for eight with a hundred seventeen yards, a touchdown in a pick, so the one mistake and

then really hitting everything else. He was also seven for eleven with one oh seven two touchdowns and to pick under pressure, but when he was kept clean hundred and sixty six yards and not blitzed. Four rushers are fewer a buck fifty six and a Tuddy, and one of the challenges will be something we can him excel in during this four game run, the decision making and influencing defense with the eyes, the feet, and everything else in between.

It's been a topic for us here on Drive time and with the running back room facing some uncertainty as far as availability this week, can they continue to have that success if the Jets take away the run. That's real quick here from Toua on the approach of facing a team you just saw four weeks ago. It helps, but I think what we try to do weekend and week out is try to prepare. Is if we don't know the team so we're going into this game, is

if we don't know this team. Obviously there's some familiarity, but you got to prepare like this is a new team. It's pretty interesting standpoint there as far as you approach each game as if you don't know them from the previous games, and that that's kind of how it works, right. Every game was its own independent clause, and so you approach it as such. You're not going to get the exact same game plan of the exact same team from

the previous time. Obviously you know some of the personnel, maybe some tendon sees, but every team adjust the depths on a week to week basis. So that's a good example of how it is a week to week league and you can't just roll at the same plan, the same idea every single week and expect to win football games. As for the Jet side of this equation, the second year safety acton Davis. He's the one that got to on the overthrow last time around. We'll see him plenty

of times, plenty of snaps. And another guy we saw for just about the entire game last time around was Elijah Riley U D F A. Davis was a third round draft pick that same year. In so all three of these guys in this particular preview group were draft picks to and the Jets two safeties and Riley never rushes two reps in pass rushing. In four games played, he has a hundred nine coverage snaps and a hundred

twenty nine against the run, and that's no accident. He's gonna insert himself in there against the run kind of in the way Brandon Jones or Eric Rohad does in terms of where they played down close to the line of scrimmage. And in fact, this is something he did every day in practice when he was an Army right a team that runs the football of the time, he's allowed just twenty seven yards and those one nine coverage reps no ball production yet as far as picks and

p bus four for four on catches and targets. Now for Davis, same deal with a pass rush. They're not gonna bring safeties six all year snaps and coverage to verse the run, and on those three one coverage snaps pretty effective if you want to go off of the one yard per coverage snap allowed two hundred and sixty

seven yards, that's less than one. Obviously, I can't give you number there eighteen for twenty completions and targets for two touchdowns, a pick and a p BU, but a pass a rating of one one point three, and that right there is telling of the type of defense they want to play, right they want to play man free cover one and obviously some zone and different looks mixed in.

But when it comes to pre snap alignment, you're most likely gonna have Davis in the post and Riley somewhere down in the box as the possible rat in the whole the line of scrimmage, whatever the case may be. Team's average eighty eight point six rushing yards per game against single high looks against this team. That's a great number. And then one thirty one point nine passing against those single high looks when they go too high forty eight

point eight rushing yards. That shows you how little they play it because too high always invites the run every damn time. They also allow one six team point two passing yards per coverage for per too high safety pre snap look. As far as the Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Jets quarterbacks out wide, Bryce Hall looks like he could be a nice fine for them in the fifth round. A couple of years back. He had his best game against Miami this season, just twenty one

yards on five targets and forty coverage snaps. Didn't see a whole on of wattle, and when he did waddle all three against him Brandon Eccles receptions allowed on forty four targets on two five coverage snaps, but three hundred ninety six yards allowed there. So there's been some production against him. One touchdown, no interceptions, but three pass breakup. So he has some ball skills. He's your other parameter cornerback inside. There's two guys here and they'll get Michael

Carter the second back. He missed last week, but Javelin Gidgerey play in the slot last week. Nineteen receptions allowed on tw nine coverage or targets rather two coverage snaps for two four yards the exact one point oh average there, two touchdowns allowed, no picks, two pass breakups. His game by game numbers have been really good. Now. He only

played four snaps against Miami last time. We'll see if he draws some more wattle when seven team plays inside, because like Wattle, Gidrea can scoot, but can he keep up with the route runn of waddle. We'll see if that's the case. That's a matchup. But again they should get Michael Carter the second back. He's a slot guy

as well. He's allowed forty five catches on fifty nine targets three d and fifties seven coverage snaps four hundred and sixty two yards, No touchdowns, are picks, three pass breakups, So teams have been able to find success through the air against this jet secondary. Hopefully Miami can keep suit. In the week eleven game, everybody had reps against everyone, so they don't travel. They play their position and that

allows the offense obviously to dictate matchups. And in that game, you know, obviously mac Hollins got deep on that coverage bust, which speaks to how important it is for coverage and rush to marry up because the Jets got home on that play. They just didn't covered up well and two of the able to get away from the initial pressure

and get vertical on that pass. And in that game, Waddle caught eight of nine targets for sixty five, had the rushing touchdown again, three for three on Bryce Hall, also caught one on Riley and Carter, and then two more against a couple of linebackers in the safety as well, So he caught the ball on everybody he faced. And that to me goes back to this idea that they don't move around Waddles. When your go to guy, find

the matchups with him, the motions, get him involved. It could be a nice could could be a nice day for Wattle if that is in fact the approach from Miami. That's there's not a lot of experience here in this room, so I think testing their ability to communicate, you know, whether it's switch releases, switch routes, the pre snap motion changed the picture. I think it's all very important part

of what Miami wants to do. Here. As far as the Dolphin's offensive line versus the Jets defensive line, John Franklin Myers leads them with forty three pressures, also has nineteen run stops. Quentin Williams. There are other beefy guy up front thirty one pressures, thirty one run stops. So both those guys very productive. Again here for the Jets. Fadu Kasi sixteen pressures, twenty three run stops, Nathan Shepard ten pressures, nine run stops. Shack Lawson, we know him.

He's got seven team pressures off the edge, eleven run stops. And Sheldon Rankin's back inside six team pressures and fourteen run stops in the matchup last time around. Look, this is a very good group for the Jets up front. And again they want a one gap, not a whole bunch of blitzing. They want to play with powers to

the quarterback. And the key is to anchor and make sure you're on your assignments with double teams, because this team, if you get caught on a pick, or if you get caught with a game or you know, t e stunt. That's a good chance for these guys to get clear free rushes down the middle. That's where you want to keep them clean as far as your quarterback here. And Miami got good push on the ground game last time around against this group, and that balance would be nice

to maintain here from Miami. But last time around they kicked out John Franklin Myers out wide quite a bit and even some Quinin and Williams out as a four I or five techniques sometimes, so they want to get those pass rushers out wide against the Dolphins tackles. But Miami only allowed six pressures from the interior from Austin Jackson, Austin Writer, and Robert Hunt inside, which obviously is a great way to let to a navigate the pocket. I think he's you know, it's harder to get away from

the interior pressure tackle pressure. You can find ways to slide and step up and do different things to get out of that pressure. And that comes from our next position group here as well, the Dolphins running backs versus the Jets linebackers. Well, see you at the running back room.

Looks like you know at the time of this recording, Lindsay Gascon and Auc met A on the covid I R. Duke is up on the active roster and he spoke about how excited he is to suit up as a dolphin at hard Rocks sat him for the first time. Obviously being from the three or five a big deal for him. But Miami in that game against the Jets average seven point yards seven point oh yards per carry

off left and that's you know we talked about. Liam Eichenberg had a big block on the Miles Gaskin run right before the sixty five yard touchdown past to mac Hollins.

That was a very key play in that game. Also five point eight yards behind lost in Jackson and four point eight yards behind Robert Hunt and Duke played in that game, and I thought he showed some stuff there and some some veteran presence at the position, falling forward, maximizing the yards and every single run, hit the whole quickly and just get the yards that are blocked for you. And honestly, if he just does that and the collection of backs here do that and it keeps the offense

on schedule, then that's a job very well done. Just day and and third and shortened medium and that's a good place for the Dolphins offense to live in this game. So we talked about the defensive line and what about the linebackers here as they factor into the equation. C J. Mosley, We talked about the lack of blitzing. He doesn't go very often, just fifty five pass rush reps and only four pressures to show for that. He does have forty run stops and plays very well against the run going downhill.

And he's a coverage backer too. I mean, his numbers haven't been great this year, but as far as you know, keeping on him and his spot drops does a good job of getting depth and process as well underneath. I think the stats don't bear out exactly how good he's been there, but fifty four for sixty sixty one yards and four touchdowns. So you want to talk about backs and tight ends in the passing game. That's what teams have done against the Jets defense and really the secondary

as well. And Quincy Williams. This is more of a run defending, tone setting type of linebacker. He's a squatty body five eleven two twenty six, explosive as hell, good downhill processing and flow. I like his game for thirty nine run stops on the season, just twenty six pass rush reps, so half as many as mos. His coverage numbers thirty five forty nine three thirty nine yards, no touchdowns, no picks. So those guys, you know, don't let them

flow downhill in the run defense game. That's that's kind of the key. Some some misdirections, some window dressing, get some false steps, and you can really take advantage of, hopefully of of that position group. Williams made seven run stops in the week eleven game, while Moseley had four, So again the eleven run stop for those two guys in that game, they are big run stuffers. Before we get to the team's real quick a quick break alright, special teams The Jets are twelve and special teams d

v o A Miami twenty seven. Their punter, Brandon Man has twenty punts this year, averages forty four point five per kick. They replaced Matt Amendola, who missed a few kicks in that game last time, with Eddie Pinero. He's three for three, two of those under forty yards and forty six yards as well. And return game Braxton Barrios, do you guys know him? Thirteen point eight yards per point return with twelve total, that's a good number. Also a twenty three kick returns for an average of twenty

eight point seven. He also had a seventy nine yard return too, so don't underestimate their punt and kick return game. The three keys this game from your retty simple takeaway Zack Wilson's first option and limit the running back slash tight end production. That's where he wants to go. That's kind of the first read for a younger quarterback. And if you can confuse the picture and take away those reads, that could create a longer day for the Jets offense.

Number two, stop Michael Carter and the Jets running game. Don't let him get out the gate again. Don't let those big runs happen, and you should be in good position. Number three, protect the football and offense. Don't give him short fields, don't turn it over, don't waste possessions. Protect the football, and again you should be in good position.

Dolphins will win this game if they avoid errors that give the Jets opportunities like takeaways and short fields and quick, easy scoring opportunities, and the Jets will win if they win the trenches, run the ball against Miami and get pressure on the quarterback that consistently impacts the passing game. So that's your preview for this game. I also want to tell you guys about a big, big deal that happened in the NFL on Wednesday, the NFL. You know,

let's go. I just read the press release following ratification by the International Committee. Today, the NFL announced that the Miami Dolphins have been granted access to three international home marketing areas I h m A across Brazil, the United

Kingdom and Spain. This groundbreaking new initiative grants clubs access to international territories for marketing, fan engagement, and commercialization as part of an important long term strategic effect to enable clubs to build their global brands while driving NFL fan growth internationally. So I know there's plenty of international fans out there, Brazil, UK and Spain. You guys hit a big today with the Miami Dolphins. And that's kind of the idea here, right grow, grow the fan base across

the world. The NFL is becoming this global brand. The Miami Dolphins are certainly a global brand that has fans all across the world. We see it in our download numbers and our traction on the website. We appreciate all of our fans from all over the world, and we are very excited about reaching the fans across the globe to develop those meaningful relationship with y'all. It's very important to us here and we also of course want to build upon our strong community efforts here in the South

Florida market to make international impact in each market. I'm very excited about this. I know that there's again so many of the UK fans of the Dolphin, There's so many of you guys out there. This is a big deal for you, and of course in Brazil and Spain as well. Alright, one more bit of note news here for the Jets game on Sunday. N f T s Baby.

All ticket purchasers for the week fifteen Dolphins and Jets home game on twelve nineteen, you're going to receive an exclusive commemorative digital non fungible token also known as an n f T, sent via email in the days following. All season ticket members, single game buyers, and secondary purchasers who attend the game will receive the n f T free of charge. Only one commemorative virtual ticket available per

account slash order. The digital ticket is the dolphins first ever n f T distributed during an in season matchup. First season in history where all thirty two organizations are launching club specific n f T s offered for purchase via the league's n f T marketplace. To check them out, visit NFL dot Live slash n fts dot com. Good stuff there, right, I think I did that right. Let's go ahead and make our Thursday night pick here that

we were thirteen and one last week. The car to know if did not give us the fourteen and no week, but we finished one and one through week fourteen this year. Feeling good about that. We're taking the Chiefs over the Chargers tonight in prime time, So let's go Chiefs. As for my time on the podcast, that's gonna be my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter at Wingfold NFL.

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