Drive Time: How the Run Game Can Reignite the Dolphins Offense

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Because the truth is, like anybody can do this. I mean, you have to put the time and research in, but anybody could do this. And I think that what makes for fun content is is knowing that team and what the fan based desires and how to deliver that information to them in a timely and entertaining way. So that's what we're going for here. And as I continue to, you know, gather data points on all of this, I think we just roll with it and let the chips

fall where they may. And essentially it's it comes down

to this. To me, the biggest reason we saw an offensive drop off in twenty twenty four aside from too A missing six and a half games, And that's like I mean, we've this has been the debate for months now, right like to A missed over a third of the season and we still were in the mix in Week eighteen like that, that's I think that's probably where the disconnect comes from from the from the national or rather like the NFL giving the Dolphins five primetime games and

the fan base that feels a little bit snake bitten right now. And I get it, trust me, I do. It's it's been that way for for quite some time for this organization, for this team. If you're a fan of this team for you know, twenty five thirty years, I get it. But I think that's why you know they're saying that two is only missed that many games. That's the most games he's missed in a single season, right So I don't think that's the expectations that every year.

But he has to stay healthy. And to reiterate the

point I've made so many times, on the show. I think the Cardinals game was really what the offense should have been from week one, right, and we got a little spoiled there for two years with these red Hearts red hot starts offensively, I mean, twenty twenty three was a four hundred and sixty six yard passing day from the quarterback, and then seventy points two weeks after that, And I thought the Week two game against the Patriots is one of two was best execution games just in

terms of running the offense and going to the correct read and putting the ball where it's supposed to be on time frequently against a different style of defense, and that three high look, it's twenty twenty two in twenty twenty two, Rather it was to come back against the Ravens, and then Tua gets hurt a couple of weeks later, but returns and we start rolling up thirty points every single game and the offense kind of carries us while the defense is kind of getting ran over by Detroit

in Chicago, right. But it was pretty much the same thing last year when Tua comes back for the Cardinals game after a really really challenging opening parts of the season with Scyler Thompson, Tim Boyle, and then eventually Tyler Huntley.

But after that twenty seven points against the Cardinals, twenty seven against the Bills, twenty three in a win over the Rams, and then thirty four and thirty four and back to back games his first five games back, So two games over thirty four or over thirty points, I should say, and then nothing lower than twenty three and two games right there at twenty seven, which if you ever twenty seven points per game in the league, you're probably going to the playoffs. So we need to find

a way to get back to being inventive. Inventive I should say, and ahead of the curve in week one, not what we saw last year with this, like I suppose deeper evolution of the screen game that didn't really work aside for a couple of fun like pop plays.

But aside from Tua being hurt, to me, what caused the offense to take a massive step in the wrong direction was not taking advantage of light boxes with the run game, because this passing game a fords you space in that way, and you have to make the defense respect the run game in order to get your shots down field. And passing game and in twenty twenty three, we excelled at this. When people ask like, why did we not have a downfield passing game, it's because you

couldn't run the ball. That's the only reason why teams are going to be happy to allow eight Chan to have one thirty yard run per game if I have eight other carries where he gets two yards or less, because that's consistently putting myself in an advantageous from a

defensive play calling situation. So you can have your even if you have three thirty yard runs a game, I really don't care because the other fifteen you're gonna put yourself behind the eight ball and have a negative play offensively. So I don't mind going fifteen to three on a play on a run game standpoint, and eight Chan was a big part of that, the biggest part of it I thought. I thought his rookie season vision was outstanding. I think that last year was a drop off in

that area. He wasn't as sharp with his reads and how he read blocks and kind of anticipated angles and how to attack them. But I don't think that means he's incapable of seeing things better, because we do have proof of concept and Devon talked about this watching cutups

last year. I felt like I left a lot of the yards on the table end quote, and in this system, the back's decision making and the track that he takes impressing the gap and really kind of you know, making things play out the way they're designed to and then reading the angle of the blocks and hitting the gap with good smart decisions.

to the fastball all the time. And we've talked about, you know this with with how Jalen Wright, Alexander Madison, Oli Gordon and their ability to make you know, to take a step ahead in the offense and reduce the true running back load of a chan. And allow me to make this abundantly clear, I don't want to reduce a chan's workload I just I think he's one of the best skill players receive a running back tight under

otherwise in the entire National Football League. But if we can get more wide receiver snaps, more swings and screens and varied pre snap alignments, and utilize more Jalen Wright in some of those single back sets as the true running back, I think defenses respect that more.

this offense. And that's why I think, you know, he probably got a little bit of an earful from the coaching staff because the number one rule of this offense is we're going to create overplay and then take advantage of how you've done that. It's like, I mean, that's that's all of sport, right, Get the opponent thinking one thing and then zag when they think you're gonna zig. So I think the tape don't lie. And I love

that he's attacking it head on. And it's akin to what John Embreys said about John hus Smith, who broke every franchise record right for tight ends last year, and the first thing Embry says about him in his first media availability is well, you know, he left one hundred and eighty five yards in the field after the catch that he could have had. And I'll never forget having a conversation with coach Embo about the after the Rams game when I was like, what do you think about

that tight end? That tight end run? Remember John who had that big right after catch? And he goes, well, I think it's about time he starts listening to me. I was like, okay, so we're coaching him hard then, even though he broke records and that's hey, you know that's complacency is a death neil in the NFL. Right. So I just love that after a record breaking season, that's what we're doing and asking the question what more

can we do? That's the type of grit that will make you better and progress your skills as a football team. Back to the run game here, it wasn't just some bad reads by Devaughan, again making that abundantly clear. This is a comprehensive picture. This is a comprehensive game that requires eleven people doing their job on every single snap. Because I thought some of the decisions were because the guard play would get beat too early on in the

snap and not get enough movement. And you know, they banked on continuity last year, and I tried to see that as a potential formidable solution and it wasn't. It wasn't, and they told you it wasn't because of what they did this offseason with James Daniels and Jonah sevit Naya with a top of the second round trade up player and a high price free agent. That tells you how they felt about that position and how it had to

get fixed. And on paper it looks fixed. And above all of that, I felt the tape showed an inconsistent ability to win on the edge in the running game, i e. The tight end position, and sometimes it tackle, And that tackle part really coincided with Austin Jackson's injury.

I mean, I'm gonna go back and watch these games here, probably over the summer, which tells you how psychotic I am, because I'm about to welcome in my third child and I'll be crazy busy and probably trying to get some golf rounds in there too while I'm watching, you know,

twenty twenty four Dolphins offensive tape. But I want to go watch that game again, because we got whatever we wanted on the ground game, really in the passing game every single drive after most Start's fumble to open the second half when we were up was at ten to six, I think it was at that point of the game. But then Austin gets hurt and the run game never got back to where it was in that one. So Austin's back Patrick Paul locked in a left tackle. We

improved the tight end position with Pharaoh Brown. And I'm a big believer in Jalen Conyers. And we heard John Embrase is a potential three down player. That's telling to me in terms of how they view him. I know that the team felt that he was a guy that probably should have been drafted more so than going undrafted. On top of the fact that I think that Julian will play better than he did last year, just as he played better last year than he did as a rookie.

We've gone over this how difficult the tight end position can be to kind of pick up from a mental standpoint, a mental load and how much you have to process in real time while you're trying to hit two hundred and sixty pounds moving targets who were run four four forties, right, Like, that's the average defensive entities NFL is quite the moving target. And to conclude the tape review with the numbers and

sort of bridge those two things together. You know, most negative runs in the league last year, right, we had eighty of them that lost Yardage's I mean you run, give or take a thousand plays per year, that's almost ten percent of your plays where you lost yardage. And that's the defense saying we're gonna take those wins all

day long. If we can get those because you can't take advantage of our light box and we can keep the roof on the defense, that's you're gonna have to go fifteen play drives, as the Dolphins did for much of the year. So the running game, it's funny because you think, like the way you get the more explosive quick strike offensive drives is you got to get your passing game cooking again. The way to do it is to get your run game going again. And I think

you can make strides right there. You reduce those negative runs, you reduce your need for true dropbacks, which reduces number of sacks. And this quarterback, if he's taking ten true dropbacks a game, with how quick he gets the ball out of his hands, he probably takes one sack of game. That's why his sack numbers are so ridiculously low. And you see when he comes out of the game for Skyler, if a Huntley or for Boil, the sack numbers go up. It's just it kind of derails the system in a way.

And that's not just a Shanahan offensive feature anymore. Every team wants to reduce their dropbacks and play quick gameplay pass or play action game. I should say, but when you're in second and twelve, you have to call true drop back game.

ten at midfield. And they're not gonna just sit back and be like, okay, we can we can watch them take eight minutes off the clock and kick a field goal and go up thirteen. They're gonna sneak a safety down in the box and they're gonna try to run blitch you, and then you get you know, potential miscommunications, you get potential one on ones in the secondary. And that's how Jalen Waddle catches an eight yard slant and

turns it into a forty yard play. And I mean it also means you're not gonna get a bracket on Reak and Waddle. You might vacate a middle of the field zone defender when we throw that slant, and that creates that one on one chance against the safety and open space. And then if you tackle us, like okay, it's a fifteen yard play. If you miss that tackle, well, it's a seventy yard touchdown on the backside. So that's where I go back to this offense being here we

go again to make a golf analogy. If my club path at the downswing is one degree off, it's a slight change that can make the biggest difference to keep your ball straight, reducing side spin and adding thirty forty yards of distance, which we all know we want that you want to hit your shot into the green with a nine iron, not a five iron. We love wedges into our greens and regulation attempts, right, that's the best

way to score low. And if we can just sort of, you know, reduce these negative runs and from a personnel change and incumbent improvement after self scouting and working at it, I think you can knock you know, the proverbial five or six strokes off your game with just this one minute change. Because I want to take a break real quick. We'll come back on the other side and break this down by the numbers, and just a heads up, this

podcast is going to go super long. I have a lot to get to here, so you're looking at a forty minute episode here today. First fifteen, you know the can Let's go ahead and take our break, come back and compare the Dolphins run game in twenty twenty three with yards before contact versus two high structures. All of that compare to twenty twenty four and give you more evidence as to how this Dolphins offense can go back to scoring thirty points per game.

adjust to it. That's what we're going for here. And the way you do that is running it against certain structures where there are certain down and distances, and they're going to say, we're not going to respect the run game here because we want to protect the Tyreek Hill seventy yard touchdown, and we're not so worried about a Devon eight chan six yard run because we know that, you know, fifteen of the eighteen times we can keep

it for a three yard gain or less. When you can get teams out of that mode of thinking and you can go to that Buffalo game and you can consistently put yourself in second three second two. They can't stop the passing offense either, because the short stuff remains there for them, and just that game plan is going

to fail. So the key to it all is to have an efficient running game, to give yourself a chance to have an efficient passing game that forces the defense to either change what they're doing or just get picked apart down the field while killing clock and scoring touchdowns. So that's where the value of the efficiency of the running game against those looks becomes so important. I'm not saying hand the ball off and bang your head into a wall against a base defense with a safety sneak

down with eight man boxes don't do that. But when they play those light boxes and give you two high structures, you have to find a way to get five plus yards per carry. And so I went back and looked at this twenty twenty three versus twenty twenty four the way box. I think it's important to kind of when you get too much info and data in a podcast,

to just mix it up a little bit. So there's a little Charlie Kelly for you hitting base balls drunkenly after getting off a flight, drinking fifty six beers in the air, Wade bog style. So in twenty twenty three, versus two high structures, Dolphins had two points three yards before contact. That means the running back was two yards beyond the last scammage before they got contacted. On average,

that was eleventh most in the National Football League. And against those structures they averaged five point two yards per rush that was seventh most in the NFL. Punishing two high looks at over five yards per carry and getting more out of what's even blocked there. Because when your yards before contact is lower than your rushing average, that means the running backs are doing a pretty good job.

And then this is in total total yards before contact was or rather average yards before contact was one point nine to five that was third in the National Football League. So that means we blocked it up at the third best rate for our running backs in total. Whether the structure was too high or whatever it was that that's the comprehensive number there. Yards after contact for our running backs was one than six hundred and thirty and eight.

Chan's average yards after contact was number one in the league five hundred and thirty four total yards but just under five yards every single rush after initial contact. Eight chan was awesome, The run blocking was awesome, most was awesome. The run game worked in every single aspect. In twenty twenty four, run game versus two high structures, yards before contact went down to one point nine to one. That fell from eleventh down to seventeenth. Now here's where the

real rub is. And this is why, again, they told you they wanted to replace the guards. They had to get better guard played. They told you that. That's no one's arguing that. But this is why there's so much pushback from myself, from Kyle Krabs, from people that really dig into the stuff. When you just say you have to fix the offensive line, it was more than that. It was the running backs. It was a tight ends. We've covered it and this is a good example of that.

Rush average was four point six yards per carry. That is twenty second in the National Football League. And that disparity where we talked about eleventh and yards before contact with a seventh ranked rushing attack. That means the running backs are getting more than what's blocked for them. And if it's the same number you're doing, you're doing the same. But now yards before contact seventeenth, rush average twenty second, that tells you that there's a disparity there in terms

of the running backs ability for the lack of rushing. Now, if you really boil it down and get into the nitty gritty of situational football, you can trace it back to shortcomings really all over like again, a league worst, and this is by a long shot, negative point h nine yards before contact on short yardage runs. And that's where the offensive line stuff really comes into play. Right, I totally am in agreeance across the board with all

the angry fans about that. You were right about the concept that we couldn't move people in short yardage, but the back couldn't do much on his own, and the edge was bad as well. It was all bad like John who had an awesome season, but he lost so many blocks across his face in short yardage or in pass pro. And then Darren Smyth was cut for a reason. It was just weekly film review was a challenge to watch there, and Julian Hill was a work in progress.

And by the way, the thirty first ranked team in the league in this category was in the positive. They were point five to three yards. We were the only team in the negative, and nobody was within a half

yard of being in the negative. Our total yards before contact twenty twenty four was one point oh four, so our run blocking gave us the twenty seventh best yardage before initial contact, and then our yards after contact fell to twelve fifty eight and eight Chan went from down to five ninety, but his average went to two point nine one, So in twenty twenty three he averaged four point nine to four yards after initial contact. Last year

it was two point nine to one. Almost half as many, I mean explosive runs went by the boards because of the backs more so than the offensive line, in my opinion. And I'm not sure what else you need you know besides this stat to prove that it was the most in the NFL among players with one hundred carries in twenty twenty three, and last year it fell to thirty seventh. And how did our play action passing game get impacted

by that? Well in twenty twenty three, And I'm only gonna use two because I don't care about anybody else in this category. One twenty four for one to seventy seven, that's a seventy point one percent completion rate. He had over sixteen hundred yards, it was nine point two yards per pass That is a really good figure. Eight touchdowns and two picks, a one to oh nine point one passer rating. He had eleven big time throw that's tight

window down the field shots. Recording to Pro Football Focus, he had four turnover worthy plays and he averaged two point seven to two seconds time to throw, so he had more time to throw because in this year that number went down, So seventy percent nine point two one oh nine passer rating, eleven big time throws, four turnover worthy plays and two point seven to two seconds time to throw. Last year he was seventy six for one oh four. And there's the injuries right that right, he

reduced his number by over seventy attempts. That was seventy three percent. But of course we threw the ball short to the line of scrimmage. Eight hundred and fifty two yards was eight point two yards per attempt, so a full full yard dip in YPA. Three touchdowns compared to eight and two picks and a ninety eight point seven passer rating. He had just three big time throws, which tells me he wasn't getting much influence on the defense down the field. He had the same number of turnover

worthy plays. That's four and he had a two point five seven second time to throw, so two tenths of a second drop off there, and he only completed point two percent higher a completion rate and one point four yards per attempt per yard higher in regular passing compared to play action twenty twenty four. But in twenty twenty three he had a one point six yard jumped on non play action passes. So, just to reiterate, aside from

the quarterback missing games, this is it. This is what you do, what you go into the offseason with and come away from yourself scouting when you ask where do we come up short? It was right here? And how do you improve it? That's the most important question? And their answer was James Daniels, Jonah Savit and Aaya, Nick Westbrook, Akine Farrell Brown, Ollie Gordon, Alex Madison, Larry Boram, and

we'll see what happens the rest of the way. And I subscribe to the idea that there's a reason every damn time they post one of those charts or a stat rundown, like I saw Warren Sharp post the highest EPA on third downs last year and two was sixth behind like Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, and like Jalen Hurts. He's always with those guys in those

categories on every single one of these charts. And if I may take it a step further on what is a very analytical podcast, and for that sake, we'll go ahead and do this real quick, because that is what's up. And what's up is the third down EPA is essentially a measure of how a quarterback makes plays in obvious passing downs, like they know what's coming. How can you play make it? Everyone says, well, you have to be

able to create off structure to do that. No, Tua just does it at a high level, playing from the pocket like most good quarterbacks do. And we have these stretches where the offense was really damn effective. When he first came back off the injury in the San Francisco game, if we just catch a damn football, that game's a runaway. In the fourth quarter after the first quarter of the Green Bay game. He played pretty well in that one, I mean really all but the Houston game and then

a pretty good chunk of that Green Bay game. And to do that with really not much of a running game from basically the Buffalo game on. Well, that's why I want to get the running game going. And this is kind of like how Tua goes. Like. Tua can play like top twelve quarterback level when he's got no

running game and minimal support around him. But when you get him like a highly functioning run game and an offense that clicks for him, he becomes like a top three quarterback production in production every single time you get that for him. And getting back to what we did in twenty twenty three, and we had a pair of athletic tackles, a center that could push, that could win on the edge, two guards who are as big as they are athletic and allow us to push you off

the football and run you on the perimeter. Both Isaiah Winn and Rob Hunt had first round athletic ability and first round size to go along with that. That's what Daniels and savit I Andaya have two wide receivers who are the number one on most teams across the NFL. You know, talk to a wall if you don't believe about it. In Jaylen Waddle, he's such a great player that needs to get more production. I'm with you on that a dynamic tight end, we didn't have that in

twenty twenty two. A dynamic running back like Devon a Chan, we didn't have a player like him in twenty twenty two. It kind of sounds like what we have in twenty twenty five, you know, from twenty three to twenty two. And because I just keep thinking about this more on the topic of Tye, you know, I saw this very interesting fantasy football stat about him. This is the part about fantasy football heads that I love, and there's a lot that I don't love, but this these in depth

research projects that provide real game value. So our defensive pass game opponents from year over year stats, and you know, nobody's getting a bigger fantasy point per game adjustment than Tyreek Hill and Wattle was fourteenth on that list. Essentially, it says that this year's average pass defense rank is lower, and that's a slippery slope slope because it's off last year's rankings. But this part is what really interests me. I wrote, soap, it's a slope slope, sippery, slippery soap.

issue more. Or if teams say we're not going to mess with that and then they call the defense that's not their bread and butter, well then you've already created an advantage by forcing them out of their game because of how your personnel threatens it. Again, I remain extremely bullish on this offense, to the surprise of nobody last break. Right there, we are deep into the podcast and I have a lot more content here to get to a lot of mel bad questions from y'all. I might save

somebody's for later on on the show. We'll do that next Here. Draft Time Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Okay, I had a bunch written out here, and so what I'm going to do is punt on one of these segments until later in the week. I should say a bunch of these questions. So if you don't hear your question today, I'm going to answer it by the Friday podcast. Sound good because we're gonna have this show tomorrow. We have a practice to cover OTA practice.

the show right there. Okay, that one, we can kind of just have some more time, so you guys hit up the mail bag thread early and often, so first, thanks for helping produce the show here, and I love when this happens. We got some questions from a couple of times, so I'm gonna start with this one here. It was asked by both coach O line Coach Smith sixty three, you guys know him as Eric Smith. He does great offensive line in general film cut ups for

the Five Reason Sports Network. I did his podcast with Hasam Patel a few months back. Really fun conversation there and then Ben Brown excuse me at Ben Brown ninety seven asked the same question, so Al Frankenstein the two questions together as one. Essentially, they asked this, does the return of Chubb and Phillips offset the loss of Ramsey and Fuller in the secondary? And I love this question because there's so many layers to it, and as you

guys know, this podcast loves to get into the weeds. Also, just heard Cam got put in the time out, so had a boy first. Ramsey is still on the roster today, right, And we had a lot of back and forth Coach Weave about this, and quite frankly, I thought the volunteers not hostages comment was the best part of the entire

press conference. But if he's moved, and it sounds like he will be, And with Greer saying so many times that we've been in contact with some of the other free agent cornerbacks out there, what I'm getting at is, I don't think it's going to be Cater and then a two man combo from the rest of the guys

we have here. I think it's more likely that it's Cater somebody who's brought in, and then someone else from the team, right, And maybe not even that because we've as we've covered at length, sometimes that extra defensive back

is a third safety, and I think both. I think the plan right now it's may so who knows, But I think the plan is for if he and Ashton to be starters, to be brought into play, and then I think that Patrick McMorris has a chance to get some serious run as a big nickel, you know, the fifth defensive back coming on the field, being a safety

opposed to a cornerback. And I could definitely see a world where you have that big nickel grouping of Iffy Davis mc morris and then with cater and like Jack Jones or Wassull Douglas or whatever it might be.

and Malik Jackson and Shaq Barrett. There just wasn't a lot that teams could do to manage that pass rush. If you have that an all time great pass rush, then I can say I don't really care who your cornerbacks are. But even that team had like a key to leave and Chris Harris right, so like they had Pro Bowl cornerbacks too. But unless you're generational that way, I think it's fool's gold to say it doesn't matter

who your cornerbacks are. Because we saw this in twenty twenty two and that was a big point of contention from me, and coming back in twenty twenty three say I'm like, oh, we're much better here at this position because of what we have at cornerback, and the pass rush is going to be better because of that too. They both were top ten that year after Chubb arrived.

If you break it down by like week eight on in past rush win rate, but that defense still gave up tons of points and it was because Byron Jones was a mystery all year. X was kind of you know, on the back end of his career. Needham and Trill both got knocked out for the year. Early on, we had two guys that signed a Special Teams aces and Justin Bethel and key On Crossing, And by week ten, both those guys were playing on the perimeter and they

played like Bethel played really well. I thought that year, Crossing not so much. But I mean they weren't signed to play cornerback every single like sixty snaps a game. They were supposed to play, you know, sparingly and then

go be special teams demons. And I wanted to pull some data on this, and I was just messing around with opposing quarterback time to throw and the I guess the correlation of the stats from that, but I don't think it works because as we heard coach, we've say, you know, teams look to take the short stuff against our system because our system with all the quarters and you know, two highs and the different uh you know, multi.

They're doing that because it's the best read in the progression for the quarterback at the time. And so sometimes quick game quick time to throw for a quarterback is bad for a defense because that means the quarterback was able to read pre snap where the ball had to go and didn't deviate from that. And we've seen Tua just destroy teams doing that. So it's not a great measure.

But you can toggle time to throw at one tenth of a second at a time, and the yards per pass or yards per play I should say, are always are always over like five, even down to one point five. So the league average is five point three. And here's what I found something useful. Almost uniformly, each extra tenth of a second the quarterback has equates to another tenth

of a yard per play. So like two seconds time to throw was five point eight yards per play, two point one seconds to throw was five point nine yards per play, two point two was six yards and so on and so forth a good time for this. So to answer your question, yes, obviously if we get to the quarterback faster, that can create more issues. But I think you have to look at it like this, and this goes back to the Denver comment. You know the guys that that could win one on ones at any

point and reduce the need to blitz. Now it does that mean you never blitz? No, of course not, because the key for any defense and the reason I think that Weaver is a brilliant game planner and game caller is he mixes it up so well. His staff is constantly feeding him tendencies throughout the course of the game. Hey, you've only blitzed Ramsey this many times. You've only you know, called on Seiler for or rather Jordan Brooks for it, blitz this many times and he deciphers what that means

and then he breaks up his cadence accordingly. And the sim pressure and blitz with all the rush games they run, all of that has so much value. But in a

base look which is our Nickel package right? For two, if I can line up with four of the five between Chubb Chop Chubb Chop, Phillips, Zach and kg All of those guys can be one on one pass rush or pass protectors, and then that gives us, you know, seven in coverage, and if you play connected, well communicated football, then seven is more than the eligible five.

season right when that that clicking point was. And by the way, three of the other teams in that mix, or rather the rest of the teams ahead of us in that mix were Philly, Baltimore, Seattle, Houston, Green Bay, and Minnesota. Like we know what Minnesota's defense dated last year, phiadel Fields was one of the best in the league. But how about Baltimore and Seattle being two other teams that you know, Mike McDonald and Zach Orr and then Anthony Weaver. Three teams off that Raven's tree that we

talked about so frequently. That's now the most in vogue defensive system in the NFL. Not to mention, you also get Houston and there with Tamiko Ryan. So those were like the best defenses in the league down the stretch last year. And I go back to this comment about Weaver. You know, whichever combination of eleven, however the shakes out, we will play good defense because of the conviction and the trust they have in one another. So that's kind of where I come down that. Let's do a couple

more things here real quick. I want to there's there was a review question on the Apple Reviews, which if you guys put a question in the Apple Reviews with the five star rating, I will answer it. So this comes from it's just Robbie, why is it so great to have Anthony Weaver as our DC if he's just most likely going to leave after the season to be a head coach, well, number one, if he does leave to be a head coach somewhere, that probably means we

had a pretty good year, especially defensively. And as you guys know, how I feel about the offense. If if Weaver gets a head coaching job next year, that tells me the defense was good and if twist Stay is healthy that I know the offense will be good. Then you might break your playoff drought Jet Robbie like. That's that's the that's the upshot of that. And if he leaves, you get two third round draft picks for him too.

So and I think what we has done with this defensive staff is he's built a really good report with the coaches beyond him and did a good job of bringing in his guys but also keeping the guys that he felt were, you know, of of value to him, like Austin Clark and not I shouldn't say a value of him, but guys that you know he thought were that he didn't have to replace them for those positions.

great football coach. I hope he doesn't leave here, but if he does, that probably means we did pretty good this year. Last one Here a short and sweet one from Kevin Duran at Kevin MD four. Which combo do you want protecting your millions? If you're Walter White? Is it Jesse and Mike from the show? Is it Hewle and QB from the Show? Is it KG and Jordan Phillips or Jonah and James? Or is it Richmond Webb and Keith Simms? My goodness, what a question. I'm going

to go process of elimination style here. So Webb and Sims they're legends, two of the best ever, but at this stage I want them to have cushy jobs. They're not being my muscle anymore. They're you know, their prime was a while ago. They've earned the right to kind of put their feet up. I can't have Jesse Pinkman attached to my projects. Too volatile and quite frankly, too easy to physically overtake. I think any of the other

three combinations would be acceptable here. Hewle and QB did it in the show, so and plus you got the smooth talker and Bill Burr and Hewl is just pure muscle. And then KG and JP might be the strongest two man combo on the entire damn planet. And then Jonah and James. They literally protect a two hundred and fifty million dollar atas set for their actual jobs, and for that reason, I'm taking the two guards Jonah and James. They are my official heel and QB from Breaking Bad.

keV also asked me who gets the most reps alongside Jordan Brooks this year. I believe that begins with Tyrrel Dotson. I think that he's got a pretty good leadership grasp in that room, and he's been playing some He played some good football down the stretch last year, and I think the team believes in him.

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