Dolphins vs Colts Week 4 Preview

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Registration is now open at Dolphins dot com slash Don Shula. And who did Don Shula coach for the majority of his career? Well, the greatest football team and the Indianapolis Colts or the Baltimore Colts, I suppose, But now indeed, and let's go ahead and start there as we do weekly with the preview and a quick overview of the incoming opponent for the Miami Dolphins. And I've long found the Colts one of the more interesting studies since Frank

Reich's arrival there in Indianapolis. And that really co insides with Chris Ballard, who has built one of the best rosters top to bottom in the National Football League over the past three years. But that's where the intrigue really

comes into me. In the quarterback position. Since Andrew lux retirement, they've been stuck in that unenviable position of having a strong roster without their long term definitive answer at the position, which then forced their hand towards some unconventional paths to feeling that quarterback position. Like to go out last year and to get Philip Rivers. I love that. That was I thought their best possible option in that season to put themselves in position to contend for a deep playoff run.

And they got to the playoffs and they probably should have won that game, and Rivers played really well in that game, just couldn't quite capitalize on some of the

Bill's mistakes and their own opportunities in that contest. Then this year, again not really in position to make a move into striking distance from one of the top quarterbacks in this quarterback heavy draft class of one, so they go the veteran route once more and repair Frank Reich and Carson Wentz and that magical season where he was the m v P of the league for my money, before tearing up the knee in that Rams game in like week fourteen, and then we all know what happened

with Nick Foles and that Eagles team from there with the Super Bowl, and we'll swing back into the quarterback position there with Wentz. But first I think it's important to address their injury situation because this is a very banged up Colts team. Right now, as the injury report came out late on Wednesday afternoon and taking a look at Miami's Will Fuller was not at practice on the Wednesday with a shoulder and elbow injury that he sustained

last week. He missed practice. Jerome Baker and Michael Dieter both were limited participants in Wednesday's practice, while Xavien Howard, Brandon Jones, and DeVante Parker were on the injury report but full participants at Wednesday's practice. For the Colts, three players were limited. They are guard my Mark Glowinski, running back Jonathan Taylor, and quarterback Carson Wentz. But a handful of players one to three, four, five, six, seven, eight

nine did not participate in Wednesday's practice. Jack Doyle, the tight end, tackle Eric Fisher, linebacker Darrius Leonard, guard Quentin Nelson, defensive end Quitty Pay, tackle Brandon Smith, safety Carry Willis, defensive tackle Antoine Woods, and cornerback Rock your sin Now. Quittin Nelson isn't just the best left Garden football He's not even just the best offensive lineman in the league.

He's one of the best overall players pound for pound, regardless of position in the sport, and how often can you say that about a guard. He's just not normal. But he was carded off last week and Frank Reich says it's not looking good for him to return this week. And he also mentioned that Wentz would be limited at Wednesday's practice after a pair of ankle injuries that he played through a week ago against the Titans. And we'll talk about the performance he had in that game with

those two bum ankles. Quitty Pay very impressive rookie off the edge for them. He missed the Titans game with a hamstring injury. Zach Keefer reports he's on the Colts beat that he and safety Carry Willis and cornerback Rock your Sin are all going to be monitored as the week goes along and they'll make it a decision, of course, on Friday about their game status. Is Quarterback Xavier Rohays played last week, but they expect him to be out there this week. He was not on that report we

just mentioned we talked about. Right tackle Brandon Smith did not practice Wednesday either, and receiver type T Y Hilton is still out and will not come off the injury reserve this week for the Colts. So a very banged up Colts team, but they certainly have a deep roster, are very very well coached, in fact, one of the most I think one of the best coaching staffs in the league with Frank Reich and Marcus Brady and Matt

eber Fleus. So with that, we jump in to the position by position breakdowns and we start here with the Colts quarterback as we do the oppositions quarterback against the Dolphins safeties, and Carson Wentz has been one of the trickiest evaluations at the position for my personal for me. For me, I didn't like his game coming out. I thought his rookie year was an indicator of that evaluation.

He missed way too many layups that year, and that was actually the year that I charted quarterbacks for third and ten dot Com for the first time, and I linked it back to mechanical issues in the lower half. And then comes around and he jumps up my grading charts and also kind of fixes that. I'm like, all right, I didn't know what the hell I was talking about with this player because he looks like a bona fide superstar.

Then he has a tough bounce back season after the injury and then twenty nineteen basically carries a skill set of players that's made up of mostly practice squad players, Like all the guys contributing late in that season, we're

call ups or free agent signings. Like greg Ward was a college quarterback turn pro receiver, and he was making big catches for that team down the stretch and the playoffs in nineteen and then it completely falls apart in largely going back to some of the mechanical flaws with the base in terms of how he sets up to the football. You'd see his feet widened. That's never a good thing. And I likened it to in baseball. You're at the plate, you overstride for a pitch and you realize,

oh no, that's a change up, not a fastball. I'm out over my skis. I've now got no power to generate through my hips through my lower half off, and I can't get through the zone with any sort of strength or power. It's awfully tough to do, and chances of the chances that all your mechanics of the swing

are gonna be in line are slim and none. Like your back shoulder drops, your hands are slow through the zone, and then you wind up rolling over a week groundball to shortstop, or you pop it up to second base, or you just flat out miss, which is probably the best example or the best outcome of that particular situation. But in football at quarterback, when you lose that stride and your base widens, it drops the arms law, and just like it affects the swing in baseball, it affects

the release point and ultimately the grand point. Here your accuracy balls will sail. And that was a big reason why Wentz had so many turnovers last season. Balls got high on him and it caused for tips or deflections or just flat out overthrows that went right into the defensive backs arms that are behind those receivers. And you can tell us something that Wentz has worked on this offseason because the first couple of weeks he looked better mechanically.

But I think it bears monitoring in this game because on those two wobbly ankles last week, it started to show up again as far as I saw on tape. So what is his mobility gonna look like? I think you can test that and see how he reacts to the pressure that you deploy against him. My either knock on Wentz coming out was the decision making amid the chaos.

So if you can create a number of those situations, the averages should play in your favor to get some big plays, maybe some takeaways and some sacks and the

big splash plays on defense. Now that said, a few quarterbacks can make as many plays amid chaos the way Carson Wentz Can and I used to do those grades for third and ten dot com, and the whole purpose of the website was to evaluate what happens on third and six plus because that's where every single scout, every single personnel person with quarterback evaluation starts their third and

long reel. Because I think Mitchell Schwartz covered this, the former Chiefs tackle who's now a free agent out there along the offensive line, he had a great tweet talking about how that's where you really get your tree evaluation of the quarterback because all the other situations in the game, and this is football in a nutshell, you can scheme things up, you can play within certain confines to protect

that quarterback. But when you get to third long, that's usually when the quarterback has to find a way to make a play, either instructure with a big time read or or a big time read and throw or going outside the structure and creating on his own to make that big play. So he was the top ranked quarterback that season on my grade chart on third downs because he was just Houdini time and time again, finding ways out of pressure, throwing the football down the field, and

really making the defense pay for missing on their initial rush. Now, as for the matchup with the Miami safetyes, I mean, it's hard to forecast who's gonna be in what role, isn't it. I mean that's coach is not lying about the multiplicity of this team's plans and the positions or this position rather sort of exemplifies that fact, Like good luck guessing with the Dolphins safety deployment and snap counts and and their position they play where they're going to be.

Good luck finding that out ahead of time. But just watching the Titans tape from last week Colts versus Titans, there were some since says of him passing up on potential open targets, and the Titans cover heavy coverage, heavy four man rush scheme, and they're playing some zone looks where he would come off a read quickly and then just kind of panic from there and turf the ball or worse, find his way into the past rush for

hits and sacks. So Miami's ability to mix it up with moving around Holland and Rowe and Jones and mcquardy all of the formation that with the potential for scattershot throws, and how the Dolphins safety has made big plays when rushing the quarterback. Last week, Eric Rose pressure led to a pick and Brandon Jones had a pair of sacks. I really like that matchup for Miami. So some once data here before our next position group. The ball comes out of his hands at two point eight four second average.

That's the twenty three longest held ball time in the National Football League. That's kind of winks his game. It's kind of like Ben Roethlisberger, right like in his prime or even now. Hold the ball and try to create because you're tough to bring down and the plays just do not really die with him at the helm. So you have to bring the party and you have to get him down to the ground. Average depth of target six point three yards. That's the thirtieth lowest in the

National Football Leaguer thirtieth highest ranked. A tot Jacoby is a six point six for instance, two was his eight point three. So the short game has been their go to and looking at Wentz is deep and intermediate splits twenty plus yard passes. He's four for ten with a hundred and sixteen yards, no touchdowns, no picks, so pretty successful actually down the field. That's a good number, just

a limited number of shots. They've been really close to the vest to spite the fact that he holds a football for so long, ten to nineteen yards, the intermediate range ten for seventeen, and that intermediate middle portion of the field between the numbers, like right down the middle of the football field has been his bread and butter eight for eleven ninety nine yards and all three of his touchdown passes have come in that area of the field. So that kind of plays into our matchups. We talked

about with the safeties. Do you play a robber, do you play more umbrella or cloud coverage? Do you go straight man see if those guys can uncover. That's my personal preference because of the Dolphins matchups in that secondary versus the Colts receivers and those guys ability to separate or not separate. I like I am these defensive backs in that matchup Now, Carson Wentz is aggressive rate we talked about this going downfield is seventeen percent, actually ninth

highest in the National Football leagues. So they just haven't had the opportunities to go down the field. With regards to the ten shots he takes the ten shots, he has taken twenty plus yards down the field, and that also has to do with separation as well, so it's kind of a collective score there, so it's not all correlating from the aggressive and A dot numbers. When he's blitzed seventeen for thirty a buck seventy seven, that's only five point nine yards per pass with two touchdowns and

a pick. When he's pressured, you're gonna like this number nineteen forty three passing yards. That's four point nine yards per pass, zero touchdown, zero pick. So get pressure on Carson Wentz. Kind of the key there. I mean most weeks it is, but this week for sure. Now Brent Hunley serves as the backup quarterback according to a couple of Colts Beat guys I read on Twitter on Wednesday, and that will be the direction they go on Sunday

as well, with Jacob Easton as the other option. He was a second round draft pick last year out of the University of Washington. Down Dog gokus. Which leads into our next matchup, which is sort of the key before the Key, the Indianapolis offensive line versus the Miami Dolphins defensive line. Indy is a bit banged up here. Sam Tavy is out, Quentin Nelson training that direction as well. Eric Fisher his second game back off a torn achilles he suffered last February in the Super Bowl or was

it January? No, it was it was in the Conference championship. Gigs that didn't have their their offensive line for the Super Bowl. But he has surrendered nine pressures and just a little more than one game. And Julian Davenport has six team pressures and three games. We know about Julian Devenport down here. Mark Glowinski has third team pressures allowed in three games. Ryan Kelly seven off the center in three games. He's their best offensive lineman that's healthy right now.

And then Chris Reid three pressures in place of Quentin Nelson last week. We know about Chris Reid. Was a big fan of his game when he was down here in Miami. But Carson Wentz has been hit twenty eight times. That's the most in the National Football League, and Nelson had gone a hundred one snaps without a pressure allowed. So that's I put l on my notes. It's hilarious. What a stud. But it sounds like he'll be down.

But I think there's an opportunity here. If there is one, it's off the outside against a couple of players who were supposed to be swing tackles or backup options for the Colts this year who have been forced into playing time because of injuries, and Julian Davenport and then Eric Fisher, who I thought maybe he started the year on pup but he's back earlier than he than I anticipated, so good for him. But again, coming off the Achilles a

year ago. He actually had a veteran resting on Wednesday, which I assume is linked to that Achilles injury from last year, but he played his first full game on Sunday. To me, this is offensive line and defensive line play in general, but the change of direction is something to look at, and I thought we saw Jalen Phillips kind

of show out in that area last week. His lateral steps and you know, the stab step and the crossover the stab step to widen and kind of get your offensive lineman's momentum going in the wrong direction and then use that momentum against them. That's offensive line play in a nutshell, and to me, with a lot of evaluation of Davenport's game was something he struggled with as well as Eric Fisher's game, just just because of the injury

and coming back off that. Now, we also talked a little bit about Emmanuel Ogbah and his ability the last three games and really his entire tenure here in Miami to get on that upfield shoulder of the right tackle so quickly, and Wentz loves to get out of the trash and escape to his right, So I think a manual can take that away, but also possibly find himself into a big playoff. Wentz rolls into that direction kind of like Kyler Murray did in the Cardinals game last year.

He gets that ball out for a strip sack and it goes back to the way for six. Now, I'm sure the Colts will keep plenty of tight ends and use backs in to chip and help on the edge. They've trended towards some more match protect stuff as their line has been banged up so far this season, and don't forget about Gek in that mix either, like he's a forgotten man sometimes in this three man pass ushed

rotation even though he shouldn't be. I think it's a good chance to have all hands on deck rush plan here, and I would include the linebackers and that mix as well. More on that in just one second, but first let's go ahead and finish up this defensive line talk here, because Wilkins and Seiler and Jenkins holding the point against the run again will be another key in this game.

Get those run down wins. They're gonna have their successful runs of course too, but get those majority rundown wins, like if you can win two of the three rushing downs, you feel good about that. And I also think their pass rush will show up this week big time. All the games they run can hopefully test the communication and protection assignments of an offensive line that's working in new parts and trying to kind of go through their depth

and getting backup guys into lineup. Both communication and talent standpoint, you can test those two things. Even though Ryan Kelly, for my money, is one of the smartest players in the league. That will be a nice chess match up front from Miami and Flores and Boyer up against Frank reag and Marcus Brady and Carson Wentz and Ryan Kelly of that Colts battery there so to speak. But onto our next matchup. The Colts are, yeah, the Colts running

backs versus the Dolphins linebackers. They love to get the ball to their backs and tight ends in the passing game and the run game. Two for the backs, but Michael Pittman Jr. Leads the team and targets with a lot, but number two is tight end. Zach Pascal. Number three and number four are tied between a tight end and a running back and Jack Doyle and Niheim Hines. Nike Hines is a freaking stud by the way, so I'll imagine they'll want to find favorable matchups for those guys.

And this goes back to our first point. I really like the chances to defend those tight ends with our safeties. Now, Hines is so, so, so good and someone you have to keep an eye on. They're probably gonna want to get Miami in some bass looks which you know, three or four or four three year seven players on the front into the game with only four defensive backs or even two back looks to try to get Hines matched

up that way on linebackers. Like I think this makes Sam egg Van's role a little more pertinent this week, perhaps after playing just five snaps a week ago. I think you might see him back doing what he does best and rushing the quarterback in this game from that linebacker position. We also need Bake to do what Bake does and just play a lot of a lot of snaps and draw a lot of tough responsibilities whether it's playing downhill in coverage and definitely keep an eye on

nih Hinds he can burn you. And then interesting factor here is how do you attack that Colts eleven personnel package when they run the ball so well out of that package, which usually brings the nickel defense onto the field just two linebackers in the game most instances, sometimes less than that, and you go to work in the running game. Because as we finish up this group from the data points here, the Colts run eleven personnel eight

percent of the time. That it's like all they run sixty percent of the time they pass out of that package, but only a forty percent success rate thirty four percent of the time they run the ball, so you know, a little more than one third, and they're successful on the runs out of that package at a fifty eight percent clips. So running the ball out of eleven personnel, spoiler, it's gonna be one of our keys of the game.

Twelve personnel just nine percent, not enough of a sample size factor to to consider as far as success rates. And then thirteen personnel, three tight ends in the field. They run that five percent of the time. Again, not enough of a sample size there, so just keep in mind eleven personnel, it's almost strictly three y with a back in the tight end, and by far their most offensive success comes from running the football out of that

eleven personnel against typically nickel defenses. So I'm curious to see how you land in Robert's role kind of material lises in this game, and how the Colts will split their time between Taylor and Hines, because Hines is averaging a league a team leading rather two point one six yards per route run like a really good number, and Taylor only has nine targets on the season, so they'll throw to them both, but Hines will flex out, whereas

Taylor runs pretty much strictly routes from the backfield, but the rushing differences. Taylor has forty two carries and Hines has six teams, so typically Hines equals past, Taylor equals run. So adjust your personnel accordingly. With Taylor, you gotta get bodies to the party. He's already forced ten miss tackles this season, averaging two point six nine yards after initial contact, and he's got tremendous feel and vision, like if they

block it up, he's gonna find it. And you've got to get someone there because if he gets free, he's tough to tackle. You have to force the change direction and bubble and let our guys get off those blocks and make plays on this very talented second year back

from Wisconsin. Very critical element to this game is that running game with Jonathan Taylor, and with that we finish up on this side of the football before going over the Dolphins offense versus the Colts defense, the Indie receivers and tight ends versus Miami cornerbacks, and again Michael Pittman go to go to target twenty five targets, seventeen grabs, two D three yards. Think Davante Parker for his build

slash athletic profile. He's six ft four, runs good. Not a blazer, but he runs good and can really attack leverage with his size and route running nuance and go out and snatch that football. He's also known to make plays after the catch, and he's the focal point. Imagine. I imagine that he'll get matched up plenty with Xavian Howard and even some double teams because he's really the

go to guy in that passing game. But what's interesting about the number of eleven personnel they run is that Jack Doyle the tight end, played thirty five snaps last week, Moiley Cox, one of the best blocking tight ends in football, played twenty eight, and Kyl and Grandson played twelve snaps in that game. So seventy five tight end snaps when

they only played sixty three in the game. A k A plenty of eleven personnel throughout the course of the game and the occasional twelve and thirteen personnel packages to get all those guys all those snaps. But again, I like Miami's matchup there once again with the safeties matching and matchup and blitzing wise, if Miami can find a way to vary those looks in a way the Colts cannot see coming. Could be a big, big day for the defense. In fact, I think it will be a

big day for the defense. Otherwise it's Michael straight Chan. How about that name for a receiver for a football player, Michael straighthand straight Chan. He has three targets, Ashton Dolan has two. In Paris Campbell has five, although he did miss a game, so Paris Cambell keep it on him too, because he's pretty quick and shifty and can make some plays, but it's mostly tight ends and backs in the passing game.

I really like Miami's defense this week. In this matchup, let's slip it over to the offensive side of the ball and the Dolphins quarterback versus the Colt safeties. Now, Jacoby was at his best last week creating and when he started to attack vertically. Both those things together I thought were his best attributes in that Raider's loss, which

also helped the team create some space in the intermediate. Now, he made a handful of big plays like the scrambles, the keyhole shot to Parker on fourth and a and then of course the fourth and twenty rip to Mike get sicky. But you don't want to have to rely on those, and if we get them, we'll take them. But ideally we're sharper on the structured and lay up throws that's preferable in this game, like the mist to Miles, gasket on the swing route, the highball to Wattle, and

the endzone. We have to hit those this week, and I think he will this week. And this might be something. It might be nothing. There's probably nothing, but it's worth mentioning. He's played a lot of football down here, and if you know this area, it's pot it's humid, sweaty, it's sticky, and we know how that humidity can affect the grip on a football. At least if you touched football down here, you know that. He's a local kid, so he's used

to it. Where a team from Indie and they might have to adjust to how that football kind of gathers moisture throughout the course of the afternoon. As for their safeties, I love, love, love, love love Julian Blackman one of my favorite players in the draft. Couple of years ago. I had a chance to talk to him at the combine. He was fantastic. He plays all over the place. He's a former cornerback transition to safety, and he can match up, he can fit the run, he can play the poet.

He does it all. So keep an eye on thirty two. But he has been playing majority in the post so far this season. The post made single high safety guys like the field goal post like you're playing the deep center field portion of the field. And that brings us to the Miami Dolphins tight ends and receivers versus the Colts cornerbacks, and PFF has the Colts with a seventy

five point three percent completion percentage allowed this year. That's one of the tops in the National Football League, possibly a chance for the Miami passing game to get healthy. Kenny Moore is in the slot primarily for this team. He's allowed fifteen completions on nineteen targets for a buck seventy four, two touchdowns and a pick. And you go

back to the Rams game. They went to Cooper Cup on more four times, all four caught, Robert Woods kicked inside three times, caught to the woman was a drop that he didn't catch, and Darl Henderson caught both of his targets on more. All of that for a total of one oh six and the long the loaning completion, I should say it was a drop, So we'll see if Miami can get some matchups in there they like.

I like Wattle on Kenny Moore on this matchup. He had his best showing last week against Tennessee and that team is based more in two receiver sets or at least throwing the ball to Julio and A J. Brown more often. But I think Waddle in the slot could be a real good option when he draws Kenny Moore. Rocky Sin is a physical, physical cornerback, tough as hell, but teams have been able to get him on some contested catches over the course of his career, like locating

and play the football. It's a tough ask for young cornerbacks. That's where he can be vulnerable at times, and now they might be where Davanta Parker can win at the catchpoint and do what he does best in those matchups. But for the most part, Rocky Sin has been strong this season. Nice little growth here in his I believe third year in the National Football League, as teams just

haven't targeted him that frequently. But I think Miami could go after him with Davante Parker if they find that matchup on the perimeter, but teams have gone after the Colts primarily on the end slide, both against the slot corners and safety positions. Kari willis the the player who does not practice on Wednesday is also frequently targeted at

the safety position. So I would see if you can stretch the scene with Ghaziki and also attempt to see if Waddle can split two high safety formations when that's the look they go with, but also when they go Ingle high and they roll coverage to a certain direction if they roll away from Wattle, some of those slot fades might be an opportunity for some big plays, and

that is their preferred method. Typically black men single high up in the post and then they roll him to either direction whichever they feel they need help at in that defensive secondary. So I really like Jalen Waddle and Mike Gasicky in this game. Miami running backs versus Colts linebackers. Darius Leonard is often the best player on the field whenever he straps it up, and one of the craziest things about him is that he never ever comes, but when he does, he usually gets home. So keep an

eye on fifty three and pass rushing. PFF has him with eight pass rush reps and pressures on half of those. They just don't blitz very often. Pro Football Reference has them at twenty one blitzes on eight pass attempts. Matt eber Fleus has a great feel for calling defense and dialing it up at the right time. So I like the way he feels the game and approaches it accordingly. So Miami has to be aware of that and combat

that with their own calls. But he plays. Leonard does plays in coverage and against the run, and is so often a counteract to the speed of the modern game, both on wide runs in the running game, but also trying to get the defense to declare with some of that pre snap motion or get them outflanked with that priest snap movement in motion. He keys so well on guards or tight ends or whatever whatever it is he

has the key on. He does it very well, and you might want to have to throw a wrinkle at him just to kind of get him taken that false step to get him off of a spot. It's a tough guy to prepare for. Darius Lner a big time linebacker there for the Colts, and that's how this defense operates man speed and instincts. In the second level, Bobbiokareki can flat out fly, He's so quick. Last week, I loved the Backs in the passing game and man, if we hit Myles Gasket on that swing route, I should

look like a genius for it. But alas and not as crazy about it this week because I think they're fast enough to handle that, and they're good enough in coverage. But I think you go after them with size and physicality. Adapt your personnel to their personnel, right. I like the idea of trying to match up their nickel package on the field and then getting Mike at Sicky matched up on one of those guys. Again, I like this game

from Mike. Also think we could see Shaheen and smythe and maybe you can hunter along on some quick hitters and down in the red zone. I think they match up well in those areas. Moving onto the Dolphin's offensive line versus the Colts defensive line, it all starts with the Forest Buckner. What a study he is. You might want to get two guys on him. He has ten pressures and four run stops this year. A filthy arsenal of pass rush moves with length and grip strength. Man,

he does it all. He's a master of the snatch and arm over move. So it's a challenge for the offensive line because you know that when he puts that weight on you, you have to be careful to not lean back into him because that's what he wants, because then he uses those big long vines and the grip strength to help your momentum forward as he uses that kind of snatch arm over move as a sling shot of of sorts to get you into the backfield. Trying to say a sling shot of sorts, sling schlot of schlortz.

That's how it sounds. Camiko Toure is very capable of winning one on ones of his own off the other edge. Buckner's more of an inside outside guy, but to raise strictly outside. At least it looked that way after a twenty nineteen season, but you go back last year there's a drop off as he started to see lesson last playing time and now he has just only two pass rush reps this season and only one pressure so far. But that was a nice pressure on Sunday against Taylor Lawan.

He got a hit on Ryan Tannehill in that game. I'm curious to see him go up against Austin Jackson, who I thought improved big time on Sunday from his first game back, which, of course, coming back from COVID, you kind of built some strength up and you kind of get back to full health and full strength. And Austin talked about that and said, yeah, he felt much stronger in the second game for him this season. But I expect him to continue that trend of getting better

really keeping on seventy three. This week, I think he's gonna be the week he gets it going for the Dolphins offensive line. Then on the inside, one of the most underrated players and all the football is Grover Stewart. There's some in Dominican sude of this guy's game. He's explosive, country strong. My god, is he's strong. You're probably not going to move him off the spot. And Derrick Henry had just four yards per rush on Sunday in Tennessee,

and he was a big, big part of that. He can stack and shed as a two gapper, he can work down the line and zone runs outside zone like he's fluid. He's strong, does a little bit of everything. He can put his foot in the ground and work back across the block while keeping his frame clip Like, I just don't like anything you want to do against him. Maybe trap wham where you bring an unsuspecting tight end across him and whack him across the side of the face.

Maybe you run away from him. I don't know. He's very, very tough, But those those three guys you really have to look at first. And I wonder if the Colts propensity to play more coverage and their general lack of depth from the rush so far this year might entice some more empty packages or full field ideas with four or five man route concepts. I just like this matchup from Miami. Let's so that's that's it. That's the preview. Let's get to the keys in the game. The three keys.

Number one forced Carson Wentz off that first read because there was some a lot of reps in that Titans game, or once he came off the first read, he would kind of drop the eyes and dropped the football and then getting the mechanics all back and sorted from that point, it's a challenge. So you do that to him, you could generate some splash plays on the defensive side of the football. Number two, limit the Colts running game out

of eleven personnel. That's their bread and butter. You cannot let Jonathan Taylor beat you from that package because then they can build off that in the passing game as well. So just keep that under four yards per rush, you'll

have a great chance to win this game. At number three, when the offensive one on ones on the perimeter, talking about Davante Parker, Jalen Waddle, if Mike get sicky flexes out will full or if he's healthy and ready to go, those are gonna be some keys for Miami to get the passing game going and to keep the offense on the field, convert some third downs, and do what they

do best and win this football game. So the Dolphins win if they can limit Jonathan Taylor's production from eleven personnel, and two for here, if they can protect the quarterback without keeping the whole gamut of maximum pass protection in the lineup four or five guys into the pattern, the Colts will win if well, obviously the converse of those two things, but more specifically, if Buckner and Stewart wrecked the game and generate long fields and turnovers, that'll be

tough to overcome for this Dolphins offense. All right, there you have it, Dolphins and Colts preview in the barn the hey, isn't the bar? I think? Or it's in the bucket or something like that. Before we get out of here, I want to pick my Thursday Night pick for the Thursday Night game pick, toping four last week again, that's two weeks in about a row twelve and four. I'm taking the Jaguars again. Fool me once, you know, pull me twice, something like that. But I'm taking the Jags.

The Bengals are down Jesse Bates and t Higgs. I think Jesse Bates is one of the best players in the entire National Football League. On a short week against the Jacksonville Jaguars, give me the fighting Myers and fighting Trevor Lawrences to get their first win of the season. On t NF. They burned me back against the Broncos. Wasn't the Broncos? Yeah? I think it was taking the Jaguars regardless, So Jaguars over Bengals. Caroline Daddy is coming home.

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