Dolphins Ravens Week 10 Preview

be preview day. We'll go position by position and break down the key matchups for Dolphins and Ravens tell you how Miami can win this game. We'll give you the three keys, and since it is a short week, will move up the picks the week ten picks to this podcast. All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. It's Ravens Week. And I don't know about you guys, but the rivalries within the division still reigned

supreme to me. But for me, there are still two more rivals out there that we play in different divisions that I look forward to when we play them every year every other year or so and it's former a f C East resident Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens, and ironically one used to be the other. And it began for me back in two thousand one after the wild Card round defeat here at hard Rock Stadium formerly

Pro Player Stadium. I had always heard this story about what the Ravens players did on the field, and it was one of those things where you start to believe that as it gets more and more in the past, maybe that was one of those myths that you just never quite knew was a myth until you became old enough to realize it was, and it kind of was.

And I googled this and there's a story from the Baltimore Sun from January eight thousand two, and then head coach Brian Billock told the players during their Saturday walk through that they needed to mark their territory at Pro Player Stadium. So far different from the legend of the story of actually marking your territory on the field itself, but it gives you a sense of how those games

kind of went back in those days. Because you might remember the Dolphins beat down that two thousand Ravens team that would go on to the Super Bowl with a nineteen to six when I think it was, and that was two of the best defenses in the National Football League in those years, and Miami's defense held that Baltimore offense to just six points in that game with the two corners pass rush from Jason Taylor, Zach Thomas. You guys know the suspects from those teams. And that was

the second to last. So I guess penultimate home playoff game for us and the next one. Guess who Baltimore? Once again? The Wildcats season division champions eleven and five. They fumble the ball in the opening kickoff and I'm out here thinking, here we go again, baby, this miracle run continues for Chad Pennington, Ronnie Brown, Tony Sperrano and

these Wildcat Dolphins. It results in the field goal, and that was the last real fun moment from that game, except though I still contend if Ted Ginn doesn't bobble that end around snap when the game is twenty nine,

it might have become a game at that point. But I digress, because four I N T S two ed read picks in that game won for a touchdown, And again, this just felt like payback from Baltimore after we got them, and that thrilling two thousand seven thriller, the one game, the one win season, I should say, Camerie over the middle, got it, touchdown, Dolphins, They're gonna win this football game.

Since then, Miami has won just one game in this matchup, and that was a late season snoozer, a fifteen to thirteen final between Matt shob and a Dolphins team led by Dan Campbell. The fighting Dan Campbell's back then as the novelty kind of wore off late in that year after just a tumultuous season. Was one of my least favorite years as a Dolphins fan. Since that victory, though, Baltimore has won three straight by a combined score one thirty seven to sixteen, including a middle match on a

Thursday night up in Baltimore. Back in that game, a forty two zip result in Miami came into that. I remember flying high because Matt Moore was starting. A lot of us were not very thrilled with Jay Cutler's production so far at that point, four and too off of a big win in overtime or a comeback win against the Jets in the previous game. Fun times until that

game began. So plenty of symmetry here in the rivalry, and in fact, that two thousand eight playoff loss was the first year of current head coach John Harbaugh, who is one of the most accomplished coaches and best current coaches in the National Football League, and several things have helped the Ravens into the blue blood status since Harbaugh's two thousand eight arrival. I put them up there with the Steelers, the Seahawks, the Patriots. Who else goes into

that mix? The Packers, these teams that are regularly a top the NFL standings and in the content and contention every single year. The Chiefs are in that mixes. Well, uh, there's a couple of teams in that next I miss. But anyway, that started in earnest in two thousand and eight with Joe Flacco and John Harba's rookie season that brought them all the way to the a f C title game that season, and that was the first of

five straight playoff appearances for that Ray Wins club. And they would then win at least one playoff game every year. That sounds fantastic, and that culminated in a Super Bowl championship in that two thousand twelve season against his brother Jim Harbaugh. But after that a bit of a dip for this Ravens team. One playoff appearance in the next five seasons, and then something else happened to join with what the Ravens already did well and playing lights out

defense and stertling special teams Lamar Jackson. Since Lamar's arrival, or rather when he took over the starting role in mid two thousand eighteen, the Ravens are thirty eight and ten.

Nobody has a better record since that time, and at first, after that first round playoff exit in which the Chargers found a way to stifle the rushing version of Lamar Jackson enforcement of beat you from the pocket, that dynamic dime package defense that was spearheaded by Derwin James, helped them get into a position to really make folks think, well,

maybe during or maybe rather Lamar can't do this. All Lamar did was come back with a fourteen and two season in an MVP award and a first or second round exit after a first round by to the Ryan Tannehill lad Titans. But I digress now. This season, despite a league high twenty one players on I R. Baltimore six and two right back in that same position. They're aggressive, They trust analytics as much as anybody else. They go for it on fourth down as much as anybody else.

And they you know, they even though they have Justin Tucker, they still know that the best way to win games of scoring seven points over three, and they go aggressively

in that regard. And there are a threat to make a run to the Super Bowl every year because well, they usually play terrific defense, not as much this year, but again, injuries have depleted this team in so many areas they're normally balanced on offense, and again the running game is also depleted with just about every running back they had back in camp on I R. And everybody who had the opinion that the Ravens can't win games coming from behind, which in some ways is legitimate, but

all it was a commentary on Lamar Jackson. And if you do that, you're telling on yourself, because this kid's one of the most electrifying best players in the National Football League. That's all they've done all year long, come back from defice sits, and they do it because Lamar can basically do whatever the hell he wants with the football. In fact, last week, he became the first quarterback to throw for three touchdowns and rush for a hundred and

twenty yards and multiple games in the same season. Ever, not Kyler Murray, not Michael Vick, Lamar Jackson did that. Not Randall Cunningham, not fran Tarkenton. He's a monster. He's brought this team back from double digit deficits three times this season. So the Ravens are six and two. There

was dangerous as anybody. But if there's one thing that has sort of plagued them this year, it's the way they've started some of these games, and it's playing some games maybe a little bit closer than they should have been, Like they were a bad penalty away from losing in Detroit, which never should have happened for this talent with Ravens team.

And to top it all off, before we get into positional previews, it's a tough, tough ask for the Ravens to travel on a short week after playing a full fifth quarter on Sunday against the Vikings, going to the buzzer and overtime and that win over Minnesota, but their offense was on the field for plays the defense just for fifty two, as they dominated time of possession too in that game. So that's your intro and the small

footnote there. But as we do weekly, we start here with the Baltimore quarterback versus the Miami safeties in our week number ten game preview, over the halfway point, over the hump and heading into the mid November portion of the schedule. And I mean, I told you how it goes. Rushing, passing, play action, game zone read r p O, on the move from the pocket, QB, draw design runs, and the

red zone. He's an absolute problem. And I think that's one of the best players in the league, regardless of position, and I doubt I'm alone on that unless you haven't caught up yet. But he creates so much conflict for everything you want to do. Play Man coverage, well that's tough because if you make if he makes you miss on the initial rush, or even if the coverage is good and you just can't quite get home in the first three seconds of that rush, he can break contain

and get loose with his legs. Again, hundred and twenty yards rushing on Sunday play zone, He'll just hang out in the pocket and beat you that way too, gotten taking his game to another level in terms of the passing from the pocket in that sense, I never thought it was bad, but it's certainly gotten a lot better since that time. Byron Jones had a best like if he thought that he was only a one dimensional player

back then you had it wrong then too. I mentioned Derwin James earlier, and it's got me thinking about the Dolphins recent surge and safety is coming on blitz Is. That's a big test for these two young kids. Javon Holland to me, has some of that Derwin d n A in terms of versatility that dog to him and the ability to impact the game from multiple positions. And this Dolphins defense is capable of getting deep into their sub packages really as well as anybody across the National

Football League. We've seen a lot of it. Dime quarter half dollar. They won't shy away from unloading six, seven, even eight defensive backs onto the field, and that can be kind of a key for defending this track star offense. And I think I mentioned this in the season preview back in September August, whenever the hell that was. The loss of Dobbins was so big to me because for such a long time. The Ravens game ran as smoothly

as it did because of Lamar Jackson. And this is not a slight against you know, mark Ingram or Gus Edwards, but those are just kind of guys. Those are guys that are They're good players, but they're not game changers. And then getting Dobbins, a true game changer at the position, would make that defense, make the posing defense. So the Ravens have to pay equal mind to both options. Because when you have too key on on Lamar, it's obviously gonna open things up for running back X whoever the

case may be. But when you have a guy like Dobbins who can not only make tacklers miss, get skinny, have that wiggle in the hole, but hit the home runs and make guys miss in the second and third level, Gosh, that would have been difficult to defend. I'm looking forward to seeing it as a NFL fan in general next year when Dobbins comes back. But having to pay equal mind to both options on all that zone, Reed and ball face a king that Lamar does. What a tall

order that would be. And you can see that in their numbers right now, Lamar has six hundred rushing yards. Second place on the clubs Latavius Murray with two d and twelve, and that speaks to their injuries at the position. They got Levi on bella touchdown last week. Davonte Freeman also scored. Bell has just eighty two rushing yards this season and Freeman has one eight where Tyson Williams was kind of the guy that was supposed to kind of seize that role, but he's missed a few games, including

last week against the Vikings. At least he didn't play at all. I didn't see the injury report, but he had zero carries in that game. And all this is to say that it starts with number eight. So for Jones and Holland, two of their best traits have been coming from depth, the angles they take to the football and sound tackling. That's the big test here, maybe even the matchup of the game for me. Then there's the also the whole idea of the passing game, Like the

biggest way to hurt someone's with the passing game. Right e p A always favors passing game, like for example in Tennessee. As good as Derrick Henry is, they improve their odds of winning when they go to handed hill more because passing is more efficient than running. That's how

it works in football. And in the passing game, they will pump the football to their tight ends, which works so well to complement their running game because it helps keep them balanced, it keeps the defense guessing, and it stresses that middle part of the field. And when you also want to get your safety is involved in the running game, it creates conflict, not just for the linebackers,

but for those guys. So there's so much conflict within this offense, and real quick before we bleed that over into our next positional group preview here on the Wednesday special Drivetime edition of the Drivetime Podcast presented by Auto Nation. This is one of the most unique personnel deployment offenses in the entire national football They just thirty seven percent of their snaps come from eleven personnel. Most clubs run that anywhere from six all the way up to like

of the time. That's the second fewest to only us the Miami Dolphins at or rather reverse those two numbers, but Baltimore and they also run by far the least amount of twelve personnel just four percent of the time. Miami by comparison, which you take from that eleven personnel packaging most of the time is that fifty twelve personnel. It's the two back sets they run they leave the NFL and twenty one personnel atent. That's two backs, one

tight end. Patrick Recard their full back, gets plenty of work, and they've also Ransom two running back sets in there as well. The second most at that package is nineteen percent, and almost everybody else is in single digits. So they run it way more than the average in the NFL than the twenty two personnel package. What does that mean? Two tight ends, two backs, and that's eighteen percent. The next closest is eight percent. Most teams are anywhere from

zero to three percent in that uh. In that arena again, we'll talk about Patrick Recard their fullback in a few segments, but back to the Baltimore receivers and tight ends versus Miami corners. The thing about this team is despite the varied personnel groupings, they can get to really any look from all of those packages. Like they can go tight

and condense everything, or they can go empty. They run tons of empty even from those two back or two tight end heavy type of sets, so they cannot only line up they can yeah, they cannot only line up with their two back set. Go from the gun, from the pistol, under center, jet, sweep, single wing, double wing. I'm not joking. They can do everything and they will try everything to give them an advantage in the running game. And then from that Lamar is able to play pass

and attack the middle. Watching these guys on tape for me was stressful, Like I have to imagine coaches feel the same way across the NFL, and they watched this team on tape and it starts with that quarterback and when he attacks the middle of the field. Mark Andrews is a Pro Bowl tight end. He had to one yard games this season, a bit of a dip and touchdown production compared to his usual stats, just three so far this year, but he's good for at least a

handful of catches every single week. And when you look at his matchups and splits in the big one hundred yard games he had, he got on top of Bobby oka Riki for five catches. That's a smaller, super fast, but smaller linebacker. He also had a twenty seven yard reception on safe d Julian Blackman, who's one of the best young safeties in the National Football League, although he got hurt this year. Uh two for thirty six on Darius Leonard in that game and two forty three on

cornerback Isaiah Rogers. So what do all those guys kind of have in common? Not undersized, that's the wrong word, but lighter than the average typical matchup for your tight ends. There. Then in the Detroit game, he posted forty one yards on slot cornerback A J. Parker, thirty seven on mike backer Derek Barnes, and twenty four more on their will backer Jalen Reeves. Maybe, And why am I telling you

all this? Because if you want to commit to slowing Eric Mark Andrews, I almost said Aaron Andrews, it typically takes takes a multifaceted player, and that's what Miami has a few of them. Actually, Holland Jones, row and Jerome Baker. I think is also up to the task because of his speed and physicality in coverage. Get the head around though, So that is a key matchup I'm looking at Because

of all those players, I think there are options. Maybe you want to assign someone that follows him down to the line who can also kind of keep their eyes in the backfield and contribute in the running game, and that would require that excellent eye discipline. So perhaps it's a veteran like Eric Row. I like the idea of Javon Holland, but with how much he does elsewhere, especially in that deep post, maybe that's not the best usage

for his skill set. Maybe it is, but when a certain receivers on the field, I think you need that post safety, and that certain receiver is none other than Hollywood Florida Brown Mark Keys. Brown himself was such a great addition to help this offense stretch the field and

make you defend more grass than you would otherwise. He changes the way defenses defend that team, and you better be damn good in man coverage if you do want to bring those safeties down, kind of like Miami did all game long against the Texans, because he's a big

play machine. He's had a few drops this year, but he consistently gets on tops of defenses, and I thought one of his best performances with that playoff game last year against the Buffalo Bills, because he showed you that he can win underneath and create separation in short areas because of really refined route writing. He's a great player. Love watching him play, and that's kind a structure of this entire offense, like track speed all around their track

star quarterback. Lots of I candy and missdirection, tons of conflict, and it makes an incredibly challenging to defend, especially on a short week. Their top snaptakers last couple of weeks have been Marquis Brown. Around the season, I should say Marcus Brown, Mark Andrews, Rashad Bateman, Devin DuVernay, and Eric Tomlinson. The tight end. I think for Marcus Brown, I think you probably roll a safety a lot of the time there, but if you go in man coverage, I would probably

go more towards the idea of Byron Jones. You recall last time we played this team, we didn't have Byron Jones and they went He went off in that game for too long touchdown passes. I think Jones's athletic ability matches up with Brown really well in terms of what the Dolphins have at that position. Mark Andrews, I think I might cap him, I might double Mark andrew I don't know. That's that's a tough decision. They're gonna have

to make. But trying to get someone to reroute and then coverage over the top might be the best route on him. Rashad Bateman to me, if he's out there, down in and down, now, that's an Xaving Howard matchup for days, and just kind of lock that guy out and take him out of the game of the best you can. Devin Duverney one of these speed merchants. If he comes inside the slot, I have to think about kind of changing things up there because he has a lot of speed from that position and I'm not sure

how you would attack that. And then Eric Tomlinson, Look, you can't let him beat you, but he will play a lot. But if Eric Tomlinson beat you, that's that's bad news. So just finding a way to neutralize his impact and really focus on the other guys that have gotten way more targets in the passing game. And of course, the first way to really disrupt a passing game and to control the running game is up front and the and the trenches almost a chrenches. Baltimore offensive line versus

Dolphins defensive line. Man, They're they're banged up here. No. Ronnie Stanley, a All Pro level left tackle who got hurt again this season. I feel terribly for him. Two years in a row he ends up on on season ending i R no. Ben Cleveland and Patrick McCary did not practice on Monday nor Tuesday listed as a d NP in those practice reports. But as for the guys, they do have three hundred forty three pass blocking snaps for the Evens this year, so keep that number in mind.

With their overall snap counts. Only one guy has hit that mark. That's Kevin Zeitler, who also happens to be their best player on the offensive line right now. He's allowed nine pressures, no sacks or no hits on all three hundred forty three pass blocking snaps. At left tackle is the massive Alejandre Villaneueva thirty two pressures on three hundred thirty six snaps at six quarterback hits and five sacks.

Eleven times he's been responsible for a hit on Lamar Jackson, Bradley Boseman the center twelve pressures on three hundred thirty seven snaps, two sacks and two hits. Ben Powers ten pressures on just two four snaps, two hits and three sacks, and then Tyree Phillips is a guard who's playing tackle because of lack of availability on that position for this team. He's allowed six pressures, one QB hit on a hundred and seventeen pass blocking reps. I'm gonna be curious to

see how Miami wants to match up here. We talked about the length of Jalen Phillips and also condensing him inside, but I think I like to see him back more the traditional outside position here because of what he can match up with on Ale Handre Villaneueva, and because of phillips lateral agility and kind of getting heavier hands as we go along here at six ft nine, He's not bending real well, doesn't move real well. He's a huge,

huge human being. But if you can kind of work him in the finesse part of the game and the speed part of the game, which we saw Phillips really excel in last week, I like that matchup there is pressure numbers had been either really good or really bad this year. For for for Villaneuva against Vegas ten pressures against Yannik and Goackway and Max Crosby, but primarily in Gockway. In that game against Detroit, Romeo Aquara and Charles Harris put eight pressures on him together. Those are kind of

some speed guys. So it was in Gockway, Cincinnati. Trey Hendrickson does a little bit of everything, but he's really a technician. He got eight on him as well, or him him among other guys, but the Bengals got eight pressures in total, mostly from Hendrickson, then three against the Colts, and then one or zero against everybody else. So Jalen

Phillips keep an eye on him this week. Also keeping on Emmanuel og Bob because Tyree Phillips is the greenest of the group and he lines up at right tackle, where Miami's most experienced, slash accomplished ed rusher largely resides. Emanuel ogba on Phillips big on big, he's six ft five. I think speed to power to test the feet, to test the sand, the pants, but also the ability to kind of angle like he does and get that big

long arm the cross shop. This is my favorite matchup I think of this game from Miami, the two edge rushers against the two tackles of the Ravens. But inside, Kevin Zeitler has been so solid. Just three pressures of the last two weeks against the Vikings and barrass combined.

He gets them aligned inside, he communicates well. Detroit gave him the most problems back in Week three, and that came from a pair of defensive tackles and Michael Brockers and Nick Williams, who are right around three hundred pounds. So he's done well against the bigger types, like a ray Kwon Davis type. We'll see if that's a matchup the Dolphins can find a way to exploit. And then Ben Powers only allowed more than two pressures once, that was earlier in the season. He sat out of the

game last week, so that's tough matchup inside. I like the match up on the outside Baltimore running backs and Dolphins linebackers. We talked at length about this already, so not much to cover here, but it's tough for them to find a rhythm with how they've had to rotate guys, but they still managed to get production. Tyson Williams has the most receiving production, but he's in single digit with

just nine catches and eight passing or receiving yards. So it's part of their game plan, but not the biggest chunk that they go to. I think you absolutely have to find a way to take the backs production completely off the board in this game because of the rest of the weapons they have, and again most notably Lamar Jackson is that weapon. Their leading player in terms of forcing miss tackles is also Tyson Williams of seven. Davonte Freeman also has seven and the most on the team

besides running backs. Lamar Jackson is twenty four. Guy's elite man. So it's a challenge. The combination of speed and misdirection and the ability to be flexible formationally with that speed. It's so tough. It's a tall, tall order for this Dolphins defense. On Thursday night, onto the offense, we don't know who the quarterback is gonna be. Flora said on Tuesday that will come right up to the game time like it did last week, and he said there's been

a reduction in the swelling. There's some discomfort, but he's certainly made some progress. He also said that's a medical decision and he also has some saying that as well. Now. He also said up the game where Tuesday it would be Jacoby, So the Dolphins quarterbacks versus the Ravens safeties, and that kind of makes it a tricky one to preview. Right.

We talked about the differences in the games of Tua and Jacoby and what they both bring to the table, but I think since we aren't sure, it's worth exploring at least what the Ravens do well, and what they do well is get their hands on footballs. It hasn't been as prevalent this season compared to previous years, and

losing Marcus Peters will certainly contribute to that. But Deshaan Elliott and Chuck Clark have their shell of share of ball production seven total pass defense between them, and they can move. Chuck will certainly come down and play around the line of scrimmage. He's already got twenty nine pass rush reps this year with seven pressures including a sack, and they also has twelve run stops. Those are the

fifth most on the football team. Elliott can come up to seven team pass rush reps and six pressures with six run stops. Now, Justin Jefferson got behind their defense on Sunday for a long touchdown pass in that game, and Chuck Clark talked after the game saying it wasn't a miscommunication, just that it was a mistake Jefferson was was way behind them, and on that play you see Clark closing down like really, you know, taking away his

depth and Jefferson goes right by him. And earlier, I should say earlier in the week, Ravens coaches I found this in one of their um their transcripts discussed the third safety on the roster, Brandon Stevens. They talking about improving communication more pre snap and Clark talked about how it will come with more experience, and maybe that's something to keep an eye on in terms of getting some

of those vertical shots built in. And one last thing here, I'd assume you're gonna get a good showing from Clark because that Jefferson ball and then later a Dalvin Cook run for sixties six yards, he had really poor angles on both those plays. I just don't think that will be what we see continually going forward from him. But maybe Miami can find a way to get big plays in this game. They're definitely gonna need them. Now. We did mention Marcus Peters being out as he has been

all the year long. As we die into the Dolphins receivers and tight ends versus the Ravens cornerbacks and Marlon Humphrey is not out and he's one of the best in the game. I'll always remember that Manning cast on Week number one with the Ravens and Raiders, when Peyton kept saying this Ravens team and Wink Martindale are a man coverage team. Though you do want to mix it up. All the success the Raiders had in that game, Manning

said was coming against their zone coverage. So if they want to get in that zone, look, that's going to

be an important aspect for Miami to beat that. So if you pair that with the big play the Vikings hit, with the fact that Waddle continues to really have some of these chances we talked about on the All twenty two reviews, vertically, if they go man coverage, it's sure would helped to get them to go back to zone if you can get deep on them and beat them that way and then go back to kind of breaking them down play by play in the short to intermediate game.

In terms of their corners, Humphrey and Anthony Averett play almost every snap both over nine, and Humphrey is just smooth and everything he does on that long touchdown pass, he wasn't looking at the snap, so I think that wasn't really an indication of skill set. Just the vikings caught him off guard, and he's tremendu just at the line and the way he transitions and kind of changes direction to the top of the route and the way he challenges the catchpoint makes me wonder if you want

to guard Wattle with him. And although Avereite has sixty two targets against him the year, Humphrey has forty seven, both are holding opponents to less than sixty completion just fifty for Humphrey. But back to Waddle. Tavon Young plays in the slot and teams are twenty one of twenty six going after him, but for just nine point nine

yards per catch. They all tackle well. But again that being said, if Waddle can draw Humphrey, he averages just under four yards after the catch, while Humphrey has surrendered two five yak yards this season per Pro Football Focus. But kind of bringing that point back together, they don't really travel, so Miami can in this case if that's how they play it, dictate the matchups how they like. We talked about moving Wattle inside and out last week. Same deal here for Mike Kasiki, who can get those

one on ones into the boundary. The one handed catch you saw kick inside eat in the middle of the football field as well. The key for me here doesn't change it. Those two guys going is always going to be a big key to victory from Miami. And then a quick note the Bengals game, just looking at some target numbers and trying to figure out teams attack the Ravens. Tee Higgins have fourteen targets in that game against Anthony

aver alone. He had three otherwise too, so seventeen targets for te Higgins, So that might give you an idea how they want to take away the number one receiver and make you go to the number two or number three. And Jamar Chase and Tyler Boyd both had one against te Higgins, So sixteen total targets they're going up against Averitt, but also ten against Humphrey in that game, so really interesting splits across the board in that game. Let's go

inside to the trenches. Dolphins offensive line, Ravens defensive line. Klaias Campbell kind of changed the course of this franchise once upon time, didn't he That hit on Ryan Tannehill that knocked him out and basically left Miami had a quarterback for a season and a quarter or so. They're in a playoff game, our last playoff game. You gotta

have an answer for this guy. I'm excited to watch him against Rob Hunt because Rob has been really good so far, or i should say lately, especially last week, he was fantastic. He's staying on block so well this season. And this is not just one of the biggest, longest players in the league. He's also one of the most technically refined. It will be a good challenge for anybody. He has twenty one pressures and ten run stops this season, justin Mattabuki does it with does it more with quickness

in his game. I'll never forget scouting him at A and m Tasmanian Devil was the comp He's a He's an absolute fierce monster. He's only got seven pressures this year, but he will one gap and beat you to blow up plays immediately if you don't find a way to cut him off at the past and stop that from happening. And then Brandon Williams another one of these guys that's

just massive. You have to find a way to move him off the football, and you have to be ready for these guys inside their big and Mattabuki's quickness as well to set picks two pick stunt and free up the linebackers. You know, more onlinebacker pressure in here in just one minute. But they do blitz the fourth highest rate in the National Football League at thirty two point five percent. And we talked about this with our guys. You know, big bodies setting picks to help bring Patrick

Queen or a safety like a Chuck Clark. Some instances it's either Justin Houston or Tias Bowser as the extra rusher. Very exotic, very complex, and the quarterback and offensive line need to be on the same page to be prepared to face overloads, simulated pressures, cross dogs. They might green dog one of those guys. Sometimes cat blitz is it's all on the table. Back to the matchups outside, they are a challenge. Odolphe O Way is explosive and long

and he can angle around that corner. He leads that team with twenty four pressures. He has two forced fumbles, a game record already in his rookie season. He's a guy you might want to think about chipping and doubling and if you're in third and long, get those receivers into nasty splits and chip him like you gotta find a way to take care of him. There are a collection of players to round out their rush. Justin Houston

can still get done twenty pressures this year. He has lethal hands and Taias Bowser has seven team pressures in the season, he will drop more than the others coverage reps for him compared to fifteen for Houston and twenty for Way to last position. Here the running backs versus the Baltimore linebackers back to Patrick Queen, he can ruin things as a rusher. He can fire through for some TfL as at times. He's a speedy player with sideline

to sideline range when he's at his best. When he's at his worst, he's a little bit slow off the snap, but he leads them with seventeen run stops and really does it with diagnosed diagnosing and quickness off the snap. He's played Mike and Will and I continue to look at how teams cover backs in the passing game. He's been targeted twenty six times and allowed twenty one complation. So if you can displace him by flexing your back out and go after him in the passing game, but

also find a way to create more space. I like the way that can change the way they defend you on special teams once they crossed the forty, basically three points. Justin Tuckers in his career on three thirty eight attempts, that's outrageous. He's sixteen for seventeen this year, He's three for three from fifty plus and in the career he's forty five of sixty three from fifty plus. He's missed thirteen kicks in his career under fifty yards on two

seventy five attempts. Like, come on, he's so good. And they will also pump the ball well. Sam Cook averages just under forty six yards per punt their second and special teams d V o A and Devin DuVernay has average six point seven yards per punt return. Wow, it's a big number yards per kick return. He has Olympic speed, so you want to limit his opportunities in the kicking game. And with that said, they did surrender a kickoff touchdown last week, so maybe Jalen can find a way to

get loose. The Dolphins will win this week if they can solve the second and third quarter woes because the script for these teams have been similarly opposite. Does that even make sense? And that Miami has begun games hot and finished and finished games hot as well, with a bit of a lull in between, where the Ravens have started games slowly and come on, So get that same quick start with stand the near certain on thought that

will come at some point in this game. It's tough to hold these guys down for a sixty minutes, So fight Playing a sixty minute game obviously always your key, but more so in this one than any other. The Ravens will win if Lamar is able to be multidimensional. He cannot beat this team if he's running through the air and on the ground, running through the air, if he's competing and cooking you through the air and doing on the ground. They've got to find a way to

take away one of those two elements. My three keys to the game. Keep Jackson and the Ravens offense one dimensional. Just talked about that number two explosive plays on offense and defense quite frankly, gonna get some takeaway's gonna need some chunk plays in the passing game. How about some big plays in the running game for really the first

time this season. Need all that stuff against a team that is as good as Baltimore when you're struggling, the way of Miami is and number three, start fast and finish strong. We just talked about that as well. So those are your three keys, and really quick. Doing this on a Wednesday because we do not have a podcast until the wee early hours on Friday morning, going to be a real late one for you. Boy. Week ten picks Ravens over Dolphins, like the Cowboys over the Falcons,

and bounced back game for Dak Prescott. I like the Saints over the Titans because the Saints plays such a good defense in that secondary, and I think they can get after Ryan Tannehill and that one. Give me the Saints, Colts over Jags, the Browns over the Patriots. I think Nick Chub's gonna give the must any dose of running in that game, although I think they just went on the COVID list, so it's only Deernest Johnson still taking

the Browns anyway. Give me the Bills over the Jets, the Steelers over the Lines, the Bucks over the football team, the Cardinals where the Panthers with or without Kyler, Chargers over the Vikings, and that one, that's that's kind of a toss up for me. But give me the Chargers. The Eagles and Bronco is a tough one. But give me Philly in that one. I'll take the Packers over Seattle without Rogers, I'm taking the Seahawks. Do not hold

me to that if they change him. Chiefs over Raiders and Rams over Niners on a Monday night to drop the Niners three and six, hopefully and help improve that first round draft pick. All right, that is my time here on the Preview podcast again. The next time I talk to you guys, it'll be after the Dolphins and Ravens late late on a Thursday night. Actually again early on a Friday morning, so keep it posted there. Check

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