Dolphins Steelers Week 7 Preview

let me check your pulse. I what is up? Dolf fans and welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it's preview Day a Thursday, to take a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers and the matchups at each position. What we can learn from the tape, the key numbers, and a whole heck of a lot more, Plus what's at stake, the three keys and the week

seven NFL picks. All of that and a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts. So the Steelers come back to hard Rock Stadium for the first time since a surprise Dolphins victory after a one and four start to that season that spawned a six game winning streak for the Dolphins, and it was the first game in a stretch for Miami one nine out of ten en route to their most recent playoff appearance.

But this part of the episode is to tell you about the Steelers and how they arrived at their current state two and four after a big win over the

Buccaneers on Sunday in Pittsburgh. This franchise has been a picture of consistency, the model NFL franchise really over the last couple of day gids and really even going further back than that, never a losing season under Mike Tomlin, one of the greatest coaches we've ever seen in this league, a super Bowl, accountless, countless deep playoff runs, and an organization that has drafted and developed star after star. I

mean the way this team has drafted receivers. Really going back to what Plexico buris or no he yeah, he was at the Steelers. First, they just they always do it hinz Ward like that far back. They've always had really good receiving corpse. I think it's the strength of

the roster right now. But things have changed quite a lot at the spotlight position, right the quarterback Ben Roethlisberger enters an oh four, plays a billion games, wins a championship, and calls it a career after last year's kind of magical playoff run they made to get in and then to get walloped by Kansas City. So you enter Kenny pick Att, the first round pick, the only quarterback this

year taken in the top eighty five picks. Moleique Willis was picked eighty six to the Titans in this past draft class, and Pickett took over as the starter two weeks ago in Buffalo after coming off the bench and injecting some life into an offense that had been struggling at that point in the loss to the Jets when

he threw three interceptions. They lost to Buffalo by a lot, but beat Tampa behind a strong defensive performance and Mitch ter Biscuit coming off the bench for an injured Kenny Pickett. Mike Tomlin has said that Pickets in the concussion protocol, but he will practice and start if he's clear to play on Sunday night. As for the Steelers roster, it's

almost always been about the draft for this team. The quarterback like you mentioned Nag Harris at tailback, Deonte Johnson, Chase Claypool and George Pickens and Pat Friar Muth their top four passing options, all recent draft picks. On the offensive line, a position that has undergone some turnover the last few years, but that's been the position most infused by free agency, with Mason Cole, James Daniels, and Trent Scott On defense a little more turnover from the recent years.

Chris Warmly, Tyson a Lulu Larry Ogan job joined the great Cameron Hayward. A bit of a mix at linebacker with Miles Jack signing, but also the drafting of Devin Bush, who hasn't played up to that first round status in his career so far, but he's showing some some growth

this year. And the very very underrated Alex Highsmith. Minka Fitzpatrick, of course, trader from the Dolphins back in twenty nineteen to Pittsburgh, and then Levi Wallace signed as a free agent Cam Sutton and Tremaine Edmunds both were draft picks

in the secondary. All of this is to say the Steelers utilize really all avenues of team building to construct their roster playoffs last year to and four start to this year, and frankly, I think, based upon their records over the last decade or so and runs into the postseason, probably a little bit shy on the postseason success you would expect from a team that has so consistently gotten there.

And I you know, I go back to that season when they lost when the Dolphins beat the Steelers here in hard Rock Stadium, went to Hinesfield and lost up there in the playoffs, and then Pittsburgh. No, it was the following year, I should say, in seventeen when they lost that divisional round game at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars, one of their best teams they had with Antonio Brown, Levy on Bell and a obviously much more healthy Ben Roethlisberger back in and it didn't result in any deep

post season runs. So it's been an interesting study for the Steelers team who has had a lot of success in the regular season, had some post season wins for sure, but maybe not as many as they would hope under Mike Tomlin. Either way, though, he finds a way to coach that team up and get the most out of the roster that he has. What she is working to do right now, evident by the win last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We kick it off here Dolphins

offense and Steelers defense. Quarterback versus safety to uh Tongue go by Loa is back in the lineup. We heard from him on Wednesday his press conference. You can find that up on the team YouTube channel and catch the highlights of that press conference on the Wednesday episode of Drive Time. In his first game back, he draws a

defense that has really struggled so far this season. They're allowing five point seven yards per play, that's twelfth most in the NFL, and there's just gaps throughout the course of this defense and the coverage standpoint. Before we get into the positional matchups here, let's look at some defensive structure numbers. They use the three four front eighteen percent of the time, the fourth three front one percent of

the time, so not really a hybrid. Look there. They're in their nickel package sixty six percent of the time, and then twelve percent in dime, which is of course six defensive back, so it's lots of flexibility there. They play off coverage two thirds of the time and one third of the time up and press. These are all numbers through NFL True Media. It's a very weird defense in the sense that it's lineback or heavy, which not many defenses are these days. They run that three four

front more than anybody else in the NFL. I know it doesn't sound like it, but base defenses are nickel these days. Your three or four or four three makes up you know, usually ten percent or less of your overall snaps. For the Steelers though, it's almost a fifth of their snaps. And even when they remove that front seven member kind of got stuck there for a second. When they remove that front seven employer for a another defensive back, it typically comes out of the defensive line,

so it goes to a three three five look. And going back to the Keith Butler days, he was a DC there for a long time. He has since been replaced by Terrell Austin. They still love to put their linebackers in and worked into coverage roles, whether it's zone

or man. You will so often find Devon Bush running in man coverage, for instance against the Buffalo Bills on a player like Khalil Shakur, a receiver from Boise State who tested really well, and frankly, it's a match, a mismatch from an athletic standpoint, and this creates avenues down the middle of the field both for your speed but

also the size matchup. They invite these routes to get on top of the linebacker where he's playing trail technique and can only defend the width of your shoulders when you're back to the quarterback right. I think between our play action game with those deep digs and over routes and crossing routes, and then the opportunity to throw high point back shoulder shots to someone like Mike a Sicki

or maybe Cedric Wilson gets involved. Finally, I'm excited to see to attack this defense because the throws that I think he excels the most with have given the Dealer's defense the most issues so far this year. Last week, it was a lot of off coverage and zone, but I think that had as much to do with the fact that Cameron Sutton and Levi Wallace were down as

anything else. They should be back this week. Both those guys when they played against Buffalo together, there was a lot more variety and plenty of disguise in that defensive tape. There was one snap against the Bills with four guys down, one player up in the post, Minka Fitzpatrick, and then the other six defenders were all on second and ten like a foosball table, just six guys straight across the

first down marker that the sticks. So we need to be sharp in the pre snap to get pertinent information to see how it will rotate and change and on play action looks with the quarterback turns his back to the defense, it's important for two to have that pre snap acumen to be able to apply a postnat because they will change the look. I just can't help but notice that Flora is influence with how they disguise the looks and how they give the quarterback these false keys.

It's always been a strength of Brian Flores and he's doing it again this year for that Pittsburgh defense. And last week, despite being down all those guys, you know, Manka Fitzpatrick to the corners played really one of the the defensive Backfiel, I should say played one of the best games of the season, consistently getting the Bucks offense off the field with four a man rushes off coverage

and just challenging the short intermediate game. Now they use their backers in a variety of coverage and rush rolls going forward and back. So that's where I think the play action game can maybe entice them into some false keys.

With Ta we've been over what he does well. His key here to me is I Ding his former teammate at Bama Minca Fitzpatrick, who covers so much ground on the back end and can really erase some big plays and take away windows that you think are there because of his range and instincts to get to those positions. Now where you can get him if he inserts into the box or if you get him in space on a catch and run. He's missed some tackles, some of those digs and slants and curls. Maybe we can really

expand that yak yardage this week. He has just two misses this year, but he has seventeen last year, fourteen and averages right around fifteen per year, so it's been pretty much one miss tackle per game. You do that against this team at safety, it could be a touchdown on the other end, like we saw in the Patriots game to Waddle his usage sent in the post, fifteen percent in the box, ten in the slot and with

Terrell Edmonds is funny. Used to be able to just say, well, you know, Minca sevent in the post, that means the Terrell Edmonds is in the post and in the box. But it's not like that anymore because there's all these two high coverage looks. We've seen the use of Cover three expanded back into more of the fold this year, like teams got away from it, but now you're seeing more of it and the way it drives to cover

six as well and even quarters. We just aren't seeing the true like the safety does this and this safety does that. It's you know, it's really interchangeable with a lot of these teams now. And Edmonds is in the deep portion of the field of the time with an even thirty percent split between slot and box, so he is the more box enforcer. But they built they both will play in the post or you know, in too high structures a lot, and neither of them comes as

a blitzer almost ever. Eleven can bind pass rush snaps for both those guys. They do blitz at a team clip of twenty four point five percent, which is the twentie highest rate, so twelfth lowest rate in the NFL, and they have a pressure rate of sixteen percent that's the fourth lowest in the NFL. Like this is why I think the Dolphins have a chance to kind of

get going here offensively this week. With those safeties and their flexibility, they are really good to get into those three deep looks with a third, a third, a third of coverage and then that robber and those two high structures coming down and picking off those crossing routes, which we know is a premier man beater, and that can be the way the defenses counter those very difficult routes

to defend. So I don't know if we'll see man coverages such a ballsy move against the Dolphins receiving corps. If they do that, though, and potentially have those safeties robbing, that could be one way to entice some turnover worthy throws, but hopefully to can avoid those this week and just continue to go after the matchups that favor him. I think it's a fun match up here for two because he's he's obviously a smart player than Minca and Edmonds

are both smart players. Uh their numbers two four coverage snaps from Minca this year, just eleven targets and seven catches a buck thirty eight, one touchdown and three picks. So he's playing fantastic again. Tremaine and or Trail Edmonds, I should say sorry, d ninety six coverage snaps, He's eight eleven ninety yards and two touchdowns. And then Trey Norwood plays a lot of their big nickel looks. They do go that three three, five with a big nickel

over the slot cornerback. Forty seven snaps in coverage four of eleven for fifty eight yards. Those guys are really doing a good job in coverage this year, also defending the deep ball because they just don't give it up all about often the receivers and tight ends versus corners.

Of course, this position group jives with the first group, and Pittsburgh should be getting healthier here this week, just like getting Minca back to practice this week, Sutton and Levi Wallace are both getting back and then Arthur Mallett has they're getting better every single week because they're getting more experienced together, and like I mentioned, they seem to incorporate new stuff and more disguises each week. They really put the clamps on Tampa last week with James Pierre

and Josh Jackson filling in on the perimeter. Uh The week prior was a tough matchup with the Bills and things didn't quite go as well there. And there's this common theme with their cornerbacks that is the part of the reason, along with the structure of the defense, for why I think the Dolphins can really up some numbers this week. I hope is that their physicality takes a precedent over speed, and we've seen some really athletic receivers

make haste against them this season. It's a lot of free access to where you want to go, which if the Dolphins can get that with Tyreek and Waddle, it's a dangerous, you know, proposition for the defense, and a precision passing attack like we have seen with TWA can really chew up some yards and chunks like fifteen eighty five yard gains court uh Not Courtland Sutton, Cam Sutton ran a four or five to leave by Wallace ran of four six three and Arthur Mallett ran of four

six too, like there's not a lot of speed in that secondary. Sutton had an elite three cone time at six eight one. Wallace didn't test, but on tape. I know a seven plus three cone when I see it, and then same Dill fer Malla. It's similar as Wallace. Probably more than seven seconds on the three cone. This is a really big opportunity again for our passing game to get going with volume. I really hope we can avoid the penalties that stall drives, the drop passes, pass

protection breakdowns, misfires from the quarterback like. You're never going to completely avoid all those, but if we can to a certain extent, this could be a where you push for upboards of four passing yards if you're sharp and precise. Of course, it starts for the Dolphins with ten and seventeen. There's lots of outside leverage where they take away the perimeter, cap the top of the defense and try to funnel

things into that linebacker heavy defense. Like we mentioned, they are super athletic a linebacker and rely on those guys take away a lot of space in those hook and curl zones. So the relationship between the cornerbacks and the linebackers has to be really symbiotic for this defense to really hum at the level it wants to and for us, I mean, it's not different than most weeks. You know,

create matchup opportunities for those guys. If the Steelers take away Wattle and Tyreek, then just go to the rest of your very capable eligibles with the other receivers, tight ends and backs that we have here. And one other thing I've noticed on their tape with those backers, they play both forward and back a lot, and a lot of that results in that trail technique when they're playing underneath to funnel to those deep zones, which opens up some those quick pops into the seam, either before the

window closes or on that back shoulder look. So I'm curious to see it, but I just I think a lot of these matchups favor the home team. Some coverage numbers Sutton two D and nine snaps, Wallace and Mallett have played a hundred and forty each. On Sutton sixteen of twenty five for a buck ninety four. He has three touchdowns allowed and two picks. Wallace is fifteen for twenty six yards a touchdown in a pick and then mala Is twelve of sixteen for a buck ninety seven.

So let's slot position has been vulnerable for the Steelers this year. Let's go ahead and take our first break right here and come back on the other side and get to the rest of the Dolphins offense for Steelers matchup, and then we'll also do the other side of the ball pick the games in week six, Week seven as well. Plenty more to come here Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,

brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a Thursday as week number seven kicks off tonight on Thursday Night Football with the foulcon Nope, the Cardinals and the Saints, and we pick it up here with the Dolphins and Steelers matchup and then the trenches, and this is where the Steelers defense really gets a lot of their wins. It's a tough, tough group up front, and it all starts with Cameron Hayward. He's listened as a defensive end,

but he plays everywhere. He's a load on the nose, the nose tackle position in their nickel rush packages where he can dent the interior and then create more opportunities for those backers to blitz or ends to twist off of his action inside. It's a big matchup for Connor Williams this week, which, by the way, his snapping is fine. He's a great center. Um that argument was really exhausting on Wednesday morning. Uh yeah, he's fine. Who He's been very,

very good this year. One way you can take away some of those sheer power in Haywards game is with those stretch runs and then action off of that like boot in misdirection and some end a rounds. So I'm curious to see what the answers are for him that double teams, sticking running backs up into those A gaps, you know, fullbacks up, alec ingold, those ends that work off of him, Larry Oak and Job. He's a monster

of a pass rusher. He was a more complete player the last like a few years ago, but the last couple of years he's been more of a past rush specialist for the Bengals. Now the Steelers, Chris Warmly similar build that. He's heavy, heavy end that can occupy and create space for that second level montrevious Adams plays on the nose and eats up blocks like an absolute fiend they have. Then you have the backers who insert into the line of scrimmage equation as much as any team,

and that starts with Alex high Smith. He's a total beast. He has a variety of rush moves, excellent burst, he can redirect and play through contact. So impressed by his tape. He's a fantastic player. It's gonna be a good challenge for the Dolphins offensive line with the power and strength

they play with. They want to too gap occupy gaps, create chances for those linebackers, and that's evident by the production that high Smith and Miles Jack have more on that here in just a moment, but we can, you know, move a if we can move the line and get pushed that wants to play that way. We did a pretty job with that against the Jets. Have had some

moments this year where it wasn't quite as successful. But if they can get to push against this team again, I think that that will open up a lot of things for this offense. Tehron if he can play versus Highsmith is a great matchup and one of those instances where we are so fortunate to have to run Armstead

against these you know, top of the line rushers. We saw the impact last week, so hopefully he can go and give us a full game with him, you know, totally comfortable with out him, the game plan has to change a little bit. I think their quarterback pressure numbers high Smith has nineteen, Hayward has eighteen, Oak and Joe b eleven and the Malik reads seven. So high Smith and Hayward, man, those are the guys you have to really focus on and run stops. High Smith has twenty

and Hayward has thirteen. And then the other guys that have the most miles Jack has twenty two and Devin Bush has nine. So that's the running back in linebacker position group here, and it's Jack and Bush. What a what a great combo that it sounds like a bad sitcom as the primary guys. Then Robert Spillane who gets plenty of run to a bad punt here. But Jack is a jack of all trades. What a great player

he is. But running routes behind him is the best way to neutralize him since he wants to fit the run but also has so many coverage responsibilities that you can kind of exploit the fact that he has to do so much and can you know, one false step can get him out of position in this defense, you know quite a lot like it reminds me of the Patrick Queen breakdown and matchup we had like a week ago or back in week number two that applies here in terms of Miami's chances to get to those advantageous

looks with the run and pass working off each other. This is such a dependent deal in terms of the line creating chances. But the athletic traits of you know most are Edmunds versus those linebackers is good on good. Their run stuff numbers and occasional pass rushes are effective. But in coverage Jack two of thirty for one fifty two and Bush thirteen of nineteen for one nine neither has a lot of touchdown or has a pick. But you see teams going after their their linebackers and coverage

quite a lot. Dolphins defense and Steelers offense and the quarterback first safety position match up here. It's the third start for Kenny Pickett, who came off the bench against the Jets and has given the Steelers offense a little bit of juice. I'm most impressed by his ability to

replace the blitz with the football. His processing is really good for a rookie, like he got a lot of reps in college, so he took that progress that he made that senior year at Pittsburgh and basically put himself into the first round of the draft and has continued that into his rookie season. That paired with a quick release, can really help the Steelers stay on schedule, and that's

what the Dolphins have to try to avoid here. The best way to take him out of that rhythm is to stop the run and get them into long down on distances and of course be able to confuse him with re ards to where the blitz is coming from. It's a fun chest match for he and Josh Boyer

this week. Their personnel is eleven. It's one back, one tight end, three receivers, and nineteen percent twelve personnel, which is one back, two tight ends, two receivers, and just a little bit of everything else sprinkled in for a couple of snaps here and there. It's a lot of condensed formations, stacks and bunches with motion, and from that motion they will go with end around jet sweeps, just trying to find ways to get the ball into the

receiver's hands. Because to me, that's the strength of the football team, and it's a good way to ensure they get touches. Claypool has eight rush attempts this year, Johnson has four, Oshofsky has two pickings, and Sims both have one. A piece that is twelve fourteen sixteen rush attempts from wide receivers. Now with Pickett, the ball does hang up a little bit when they go vertical. It's mostly one on one to the boundary the short side of the field. Throw a jump ball and then see if Pickens or

Claypool can go up and get it. It's high risk reward, but if they try X or Javon can get over there, I'm hopeful we can see our second pick of the season if that's the case. Additionally, I think the accuracy kind of goes off and on. The velocity requires him to be perfect with timing each time, which for a rookie is tough to do. So maybe we can jump some routes this week. You have to keep your eyes on pick it as a runner because against the Bucks, he was smart to kind of scan the front side.

If it's closed up, just take off and go. It's a pass rush that can get after you, and he did a good job of mitigating that with his quick decisions. I don't know if you want to spy or not. I don't think it's worth that because it's not like Lamar Jackson anything, But I leave that's up to the

coaches to begin with. If you're in man and he gets by the first wave, he can pick up chunks of yards, so you don't want to have him run for you know, ten plush yards on any given play, But the majority of their stuff is quick game backs and receivers on screens and swings pick it running the football. Twelve percent of his throws or twenty plus yards down the field. Three of those ten were picked off, four

completed for five yards, so it's not productive downfield. Nineteen percent of those passes in the intermediate the ten to nineteen yard range, and then of their passes have gone ten yards and in or behind the line. He's eighty three percent between zero and ten yards and an average of three point eight yards depth of targets. So the ball comes out hot pretty obvious there. Javon Holland and Brandon Jones I think continue to play really, really well

this year. I'm intrigued by this matchup in the sense that Pittsburgh has not tested vertical all that much, and if you look at Miami's opponent passing charts, teams are not trying us deep. And when you watch the tape, Javon Holland has a lot to say about that because he covers so so much groundback there, and of course that helps free up Brandon Jones, who is really enjoying a breakout campaign here in his third season in every

aspect of the position. But despite the fact we've been so thin at corner with these crazy number of injuries, I think this is the game where you can perhaps perfull, you can pull Javon down to get a little more uh you know, Gambly like splash plays with Javon Holland,

because I think that's the difference here. They the need for him to up top reduces our chances at tips and overthrows or him just flat out making a play, whether it's in coverage or coming down off the edge hot like having him in that that back field duty takes away a lot of your chances to do that up front. Maybe this is the week where you can do more of that for Picket this year against the Blitz seventy three percent, eight point one yards per pass,

one touchdown, no picks. That's good for anybody, much less a rookie not blitzed. Five point six yards per pass, no touchdowns and four picks when he's pressured five point one yards per attempt, no touchdowns in a pick. When he's kept clean, seventy six point five yards per pass,

one touchdown, three picks. So what that tells me is that, uh, they the ball just comes out hot basically, So if you can clamp down quickly and get and get in completions on those quick, hot throws, you're gonna challenge their offense and do something that makes them really uncomfortable. I think that's what Miami's plan should be here. But they're pretty equipped a hand on those blitzes. So we'll see.

Curious see what it looks like. Let's go ahead and take our Now, let's let's keep going receivers and tight ends versus corners. I mentioned this earlier to me, this is the strength of the team. Curiously, what what xaviing Howard's role looks like this week? I thought he had his best game of the season last week against the Vikings. They don't really pump the ball to any these guys more than anybody else, but is a declaration of who

their starters are. Because after Johnson, Claypool, and Pickens, who all play more of their snaps, the number four we fevers under ten percent. And where I think Miami has a big advantage is teams that play these condensed offenses the Vikings last week. It allows us to be more creative with our pass rush plan and to disguise better in those tight areas. With Pickings and Claypool, they are both physical and as good at the catch point as

they come. While Johnson is an incredibly crafty route runner who has some drops the last couple of years, but man, he also makes the tough catches too. He's my favorite of the bunch. He sets up as routes with timing, sinking the hips, snapping out of those breakes can align all over the formation. It's one of the harder games for me to kind of guess the matchups. That's before you even consider Miami's injuries at the cornerback position. Johnson is their hot option a lot, so identifying him as

a big key he had. He has fifty five targets for two yards this year, so that's a lot of short game work. Claypool has thirty five targets two and twenty five yards, and he has six contested grabs on twelve opportunities soft but he's tough and then pickings more of the same. He's caught five of nine contested passes and he's at thirteen point nine yards per catch. Their only receiver with better than ten yards per catch. They want to play a ten yard bucks try to win there.

Pat friar Muth is also over ten yards per catch. He's one of the game's best tight ends. He and Johnson are the go twos in the quick game we talked about in Miami. Needs to be able to reroute him and disrupt him because he's both strong as hell and very good at getting off the press expeditiously. They'll run some twelve personnel. Last week with friar Muth out, Zach Gentry played sixty six percent of the snaps and Connor Heyward played forty seven, so they have lots of

personnel they like up there. Let's go ahead and take our last break here and come back and finish up this position group. Tell you what's at stake and get to the Keys. That's next Drivetime podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a

Thursday preview edition. This part of the Steelers roster on the offensive line versus Dolphins defensive line has undergone a lot of construction in recent years, as we mentioned off the very top, and here's start starting lineup with pressures allowed. This year, they've all played two D and fifty pass blocking snaps, with the exception of Mason Cole he's at two forty five, so they've been extremely healthy up front.

But Dan Moore junior ten pressures, Kevin Dotson the left guard four pressures, Mason Cole eight, James Daniels six, and Chocoma Okora four with twelve. That quick game helps those pressures numbers a lot, but there are rock solid inside, which we know Miami has what they have there with Wilkins and Steeler and Ray Kwan playing some of the best balloys seen out of him in recent weeks. It's

good on good there. If Miami can get consistent knocked back, and I think they can this week, it would go a long way towards a really strong showing defense once again here against the Steelers, but their tackle possessions have been a major problem for them so far. They put a lot of effort into helping them out. If Pickett has to clutch and hitch up, bad things typically happen there. So if we can aliminate that first read and then unleash Jalen Melvin eman, like, I love our chances there

to be really consistent on defense. This week we've seen Phillips coming on really strong rushing all over the formation. The Steelers do give a considerable amount of help off the edge with backs and tight ends, so I kind of like the way our guys can bluff those field rushes and then loop inside like Phillips and Ingram do

so well. It can force the offense into committing an extra blocker for a rusher that's just not there, and that obviously gives you advantages and other parts of the formation. So again, Jalen Melvin both very strong in that department this year. Hopefully you'll see more of that here on Sunday Night. Finishing up here in the backfield running backs and linebackers, and the player that the offense really funnels

through his nag Harris. His averages haven't been a eye popping, but man he earns every yard both as a runner and a receiver, an absolute touchdown maker, a key part of their past blocking schemes, and really just all around good player. Last week he played se Warren was the rookie was so a seven to three workload share there.

Miami has to play discipline against the screen because in college he ran routes, flexed out all over the field, but not doing a lot of that this year, just seventeen snaps from non running back positions, but they screened the ball to him a heck of a lot. So it's important for our backers to have good eyes and to sift through the trash to find number twenty two. That's been a strength of Jerome Baker. There. So a fun matchup from Miami in that regard special teams deep

d A ranks. Dolphins are in dead last three seconds, Dealers are in twenty. Jason Sanders has three misses this year, all of them are from fifty plus. He has fourteen of fifteen on extra points Chris Boswell's eleven for fifteen. He has a miss from fifty plus, two from the forty to forty nine range, and one from under thirty

nine yards. He's perfect on extra points this year. More Stead averages forty six point six yards per punt on twenty three kicks time and time again, putting teams down deep in their own zone and then harvar for them forty four point nine average with thirty punts. What's at stake here to me getting up off the mat and responding to a three game losing streak, And what better way to do that than in the throwback uniforms in primetime when the entire nation, the entire league is watching you.

On Sunday night football hard Rock is a little bit different at night, and a chance to pick up a conference win, get back over five hundred with a win, I think would be a nice little boost to our confidence heading into those two game road trip out to the Midwest, taking on half of the NFC North in the Lions and Bears. It's still way too early start looking at standings, but stacking some wins here would be really nice to do that right now, starting on Sunday.

My three keys of the game defend the quick passing game. Take away that first read forced me to get to a second read. Take Away the outlets in the running game, for him for Kenny Pickett, and I think the defense should be just fine. And then three generated explosive plays on offense, whether it's that way in the running game, throwing down vertical. Just want to see some fireworks here on Sunday Night. My Week seven picks for Week seven. Funny how that works. We're gonna take Arizona over the

Saints on Thursday Night football. Give me the Bengals over the Falcons. That's a tough one to pick. By the way, my record this year, it's last week was rough. I think I was what was it eight and six, sixty and thirty three and one on the season. Cardinals over Saints, Bengals over Falcons, Cowboys over Lions. Give me the Titans over the colt and that big a f C South matchup to see who can potentially take a step forward as the division champion. There, Green Bay over Washington, Tampa

over Carolina. Not very many fun matchups this week. Give me Jacksonville up to the Giants. Give me the Ravens over the Browns. I'll take the Broncos over the Jets, with or without Russell Wilson. I guess I don't know. I'm still I'm still kind of picking the Bronchos a lot, even though they're not playing very well. Give me the Raiders over the Texans, Chargers over the Seahawks, Chiefs over the Niners, Dolphins over Steelers, and the Patriots over the

Bears on Monday Night football. Let's go ahead and get the heck out of here. Tomorrow we have the mail Bag the College Football three Pack my guest for perspective on the Steelers as well as the Assistant coach Media Availabilities. Look forward to that podcast. In the meantime, 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. Follow the team

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