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Dolphins And welcome to the Drive Time 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, I hope you guys are enjoying the bye week. I've been watching some horror films. I've been looking at a little bit of tape. I've been spend a lot of time with the family, play a little bit of golf as well. But today I am
so pumped up about my guest, the Great JT. O. Sullivan, who, for my money, is the best film analyst right now in the business. He joined us talk all things to a tongue, I looa Dolphins offense and what we can expect here in the second half of the season, plus the week ten picks at the end of the show from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. Without further ado, my guest today, Jto Sullivan, joining me today on the Drive
Time podcast is the creator of the QB School. I wasn't gonna say YouTube channel, but really it's an entire brand. But check out the channel on YouTube, several million views at this point. I believe he can correct me on that. When I welcome home in former Frankfurt Galaxy quarterback jt os Sullivan.
JT.
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What's going on? Yeah, you guys were back in my old stopping grounds recently. I love that Frankfurt Stadium.
It felt too fitting to not bring up on this podcast, coming off the heels of that near comeback to victory that didn't go our direction. But I was curious to ask you just about your time over there. I know you had a couple of stints playing in the old NFL Europe League, but also just kind of your time around the league. How did that compare compared to what you know you dealt with in the States playing in the NFL.
Well, it was great for me personally, went over there and played well enough both times to kind of stay in the league. And you know, as a backup guy or a guy who's not a first round guy, you've really got to kind of bide your time for your opportunity if it ever comes. And so the league, that Europe League was great for me because I got a chance to play. You know, you get to the point in your career as a backup, as a young guy
where you need to play to get better. And it timed out both times for me to be really little trampolines in my career. That gave me probably extra years in the league. So I'm very thankful for that opportunity. I had a blast over there, and I still have a bunch of buddies that I played with from over there.
I know the squad had a good time. I'm over there and too with all the not just the players, but the entire you know, football support staff and all the content team and all that stuff too. So cool to get a chance to travel abroad from this league. I think Christian Wilkins said he never thought he'd got to travel to Germany through football, But last year we are in twenty twenty three and things have expanded quite
a bit. And JT you mentioned the you know, getting reps in terms of you know, growing as a young player. I think it's a good place to start there with the Dolphins quarterback to a tongue Bi loa who every time you drop a new episode and I see him up there, I get pretty excited about it, and not
gonna lie. It's a nice little peak in to, you know, kind of the explanation to some of the things that we think we see in terms of trying to make sense of film, as you say yourself, and so I know Dolphins fans really appreciate it, but I want to start here. You know, with your videos, you talk a lot about two things with Tua that you know, I
don't call myself to an JT. I have always thought he had a lot of good skills that go back to what he excelled with the Alabama But if you were to consult to and on, they would tell you anticipation and accuracy are really the the the pillars of his game, and obviously, you know, the footwork to kind of change the launch points and just the momultiple things that he does to put himself in position to succeed.
I was wondering how you would describe, you know, from guy has done this for so long playing and now analyzing, how would you describe the delicate balance of being able to mirror the drop and the footwork with the timing of the route to make that anticipation possible. Because on tape it seems like he's seeing it as fast as we are evaluating it, but I'm sure it happens a lot faster when you're down there on the field.
Yeah.
I think you do a really nice job of describing it right there. I think the thing that I would add on to it is, you know, not only is it the anticipation in the accuracy, but it is a
dance with how they do it. So as the modern game evolves in Miami's at the forefront this year, with the motion with the horizontal stretch to marry that with the play action, so the timing and dance of the footwork with the perimeter speed and the down the field kind of intermediate chunks that they've been accustomed to just
making so precise. That's the part that is really kind of cut tip of the spear for what the Dolphins do offensively that I just love to And really he continues to evolve and push the envelope with how well he does it and how surgical he is the vast majority of the time.
And you know what you mentioned growth earlier and talking about when you were younger in the league and Tua coming up, and I guess first couple of years probably didn't go as playing the terms of the production and just I guess the perception of where he was and standing in the NFL. But then you know, Mike McDaniel gets here and the offense starts to care and more towards his skill set and what he does really well.
But now we're in this portion of his career where he's in the second year of the same system for the first time really since high school back in Hawaii. When you put him on tape last year compared to this year, what do you see that stands out in terms of his growth from year one to year two under Mike McDaniel.
Cool I would say the thing that you know, I've always been a big fan of Tua. If you go back shoot to where I think I have videos probably of him playing in college coming out, I was a big fan of just what you mentioned. The anticipation and accuracy is something that I think translates from Saturday to Sunday. And so the thing that I think with Tua that for the first couple of years, you know, fighting through the different staffs, through the different you know, offensive coaches.
He also was seemed like he never was quite as healthy as maybe he was when he first started going in college football, and so now it looks like he's not even healthy, but even a better athlete, a little
bit better moving, a little bit stronger. And so you couple that with obviously the health concerns of what happened last year, and just the fact that he can move and looks more comfortable back there and a little bit more dynamic of an athlete to be able to create a little bit more and get out of some bad situations. I think that has added just another little sprinkle to what he's already done and done at a really high level. You just want to see it consistently. You want to
see it travel. You know, you want to see it in some bad, rough weather games end of season. But I mean, what can you say from when when things are looking good and they're out there and he's healthy and he's feeling good, they're as fun and as dynamic as anybody in the league.
You mentioned, you know, the athletic ability almost kind of being the part of his game that has advanced the most, and that almost seems like the converse of how it usually works, right, Like I think about someone you know, going back to this is going to age me, you know on the podcast here, but going back to like Ben Roethlisberger in his early days, like he was so talented physically, but once he got Todd Haley in his corner and had you know, an offensive system that was
a little more you know, I guess based upon his mental aptitude, then he really hit these peak years of mass production. But it seems like too has kind of been the opposite where he always had that you know, mental aptitude, but now the athletic ability, like you talk about coming off the hip injury, is starting to catch.
Up a little bit. Yeah, I think it's one of those things that was just unfortunate for Tua. You know so much.
And this is hard for people to get outside the building, outside the league. But I think if you asked a lot of guys who played, they would say that they would agree with me when I say there's a lot of luck that goes into your ability to stay healthy. Now, obviously, you know the guys who have done it for a long time across professional sports, they take it to the next level nowadays with they're taking care of their body
all that type of stuff. You're assuming that you're doing that, but you still need some luck to be able to stay healthy. And if you're not healthy, that time to get right is different for everybody, and so there's not a lot of patients across professional sports, let alone the NFL, and so to go out there and try to battle when you're not feeling great, I think there is a testament. There is a part of that, especially playing quarterback that
you're expected to do. But when you're feeling good and you're surrounded by talented guys and you're in a system with that you're familiar with and people believe in you, you can kind of see that kind of surge and start to bubble out of two on what he's been doing.
Dolphins fans know all too well about not having their quarterback for the entirety of a season. I mean, I just put a tweet on the other day that said that this is the first year Dolphins have had their starting quarterback start the first nine games of the season since twenty sixteen. So it's been a minute they've had anybody healthy for the duration of the season. But I think one way the Dolphins have help to in that Regard has helped himself was getting the football ot of
his hands quickly. And JT, I want to kind of go in the weeds here a little bit talking about something that you described so well on your videos that I've seen Josh McCown before he got back into the league as a quarterbacks coach talk about this with an underdog is too us vision and how rare his vision is to be able to process the field the way
he does. And he told a story about being in the same quarterback room with Kurt Warner and that was when he realized, I'll never see the field the way that Kurt did, you know, in the peak of his career. And that's not the question here, But I guess maybe I want to simplify that for someone who's never played the position or the sport, Like, how special is that vision to be able to, like I talked about earlier, to marry up your throws into those tight zone pockets
and to see things that maybe other guys can't. Had you ever been around a quarterback that saw it in a way that you're like, I don't understand what you're seeing because I don't have it that way.
Maybe, I mean, I would say that it is rare that a lot of guy, not a lot, what's the right word. Many people that come into the league playing quarterback. You get to that point in your care where you get an opportunity in the league, and sometimes the guys who are drafted really high, or maybe maybe the prototypical guy in this regard, they just the freaks of freaks, you know, And that goes across all the NFL roster.
But guys who are playing quarterback in the league have probably had the strongest arm in their area, been the number one guy their whole career, and so you don't necessarily have to anticipate, you don't have to be precise with your ball location consistently if you're back there running around like its recess and just creating all the time. You're going to have guys wide open on scrambled drills. Where for Tua, I don't think that ever was his game.
It certainly wasn't his game in college. He had that precision, He had that anticipation baked into it. I don't know necessarily where he got it. He probably got it from, you know, detailed work and being prepared and feeling confident in the trust in his own skills to be able to let it rip. But when for me personally, when I got to the league, it really helped to see other people make anticipation throws. Is it's not just in person,
it's on film. When you're watching tape, you're like, man, he lets that thing go, you know, three steps before the guy comes out of that post or that comeback or that deep shot. And so you can just start to experiment with it. And as you're a pro and you've got those off seasons at that time to be able to master it and fine tune your craft. I
think some guys lean into that more than others. But to his vision, I mean, it's one of those things that you know it pops off the film and and to your point earlier, they allow him to do that. There are some systems where it's very much you know, hit the top of your drop, Look here, next, hitch, Look here, next, hitch, look here, or when you turn on the film and you know I'm not in there
building at all. But it looks like they give him some grace and some freedom even on like first level RPOs, which is what I would consider one of the harder ones to do, where they allow him to use his vision to see what's open and make a decision as opposed to have kind of concrete like back in the day, you know, pure progression one, two, three, must look here.
It's more what's the space look like? I know, my guys, I know where I can be precise with the ball, and allows him to flourish and use that vision like really no one else in the league.
And I think it allows me to play with a certain level of confidence too. That's really fun to watch. And you know whenever you like pause your video and you do the capital A and you underline it and you just kind of marvel about when he's letting that thing rip and where the receiver is in the route at that particular time. It's my favorite thing to watch
in your entire channel. But the confidence that he is required for him to play like that, I feel like that has to be not just something that he has internally,
but something that's maybe reinforcing him. And it takes me back to when Mike McDaniel first arrived in Miami and he put on like a big seven hundred play clip of two of making you know, these big time throws that he was a fan of, and he went around to the entire building and showed everyone, look at this, look at this tape of this guy that plays with such high anticipation. Let's go out and get you know, play makers on the outside to really maximize that. What
can that do for a player's confidence? Like, for Tua to maximize his game, I feel like he has to play that high level of confidence. How much do you think that really helped him to just take that to another step and really you know, drive that thing in there when he has to.
I mean, I think it's a it's a huge testament to coach McDaniel. I mean, it's one of those things where I don't necessarily think that this is unique to to in his relationship. I think This is a really good example of you know, high level leadership and management across sectors where you intentionally and publicly you know, acknowledge high level performance.
And you try to promote it.
And you can do that by you know, building him up internally in the quarterback room, in the team meeting room, but you can also do it in the media. You can also do it across the in the building, you can do it in the hallway, and those types of things,
you know, resonate especially for a guy. And you know, I'm not pretend I don't know to it at all, but I would imagine a guy who you know probably wasn't at his peak confidence, you know, when Mike McDaniel first got that job, and so he really did you know, influence to it to step into this space, and now he seems to own as far as being so you know, on top of it with his anticipation and leaning into his strengths allows him to play, you know, to his
absolute peak as we move towards it. The other thing I would add, and this is just me as a fan of quarterback play and TUA, is you know, there's this huge elephant in the room as far as we
need him to stay healthy. We talked about the Dolphins starting quarterbacks not staying healthy, but for him, especially especially with the concussion, things leaning in too, getting rid of the ball and whether it be the quick release or how they're doing it with kind of the use of motion and the spread element of what they bring to the table and how they just seem to collect speed
with their perimeter players. Allows Ta to just play just a little bit faster and lean into kind of protecting him and not taking some of those hits off where you're kind of like, don't want to be back there, hitch, hitch, hitch, you know, waiting on things to open. You lean into his strengths, and as kind of a corollary element, he gets rid of the ball, he doesn't get hit all those types of things that we're trying to to protect him.
It hasn't even been close this year, man, Like, he hasn't even really taken one of those big hits where you're like, oh no, it seems like maybe this could be one that you know, puts him on his back, but the ball comes out so fast, or he just has, you know, outlet options, Like there was a play in the Germany game where he rolled to his left and didn't have his you know, his primary and he came
back to the far side. He actually got hit for a grounding call, which you know, we can you know, deliberate that at a different time, but he knew exactly where heem moster was to get rid of the football and just kind of, you know, basically grounded it that way, you know, at Raheem's feet, but got hit for the flag. So it seems like there's a good understanding of how to get rid of the ball faster as well. So it's been really cool for us to see that encouraging
going forward for sure. Let's go ahead and take a quick break right here in my guest today, jto sold Over from the Quarterback School. It's the Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield back here for a second number two of my special guest today, jtos hold Over from the QB School, breaking down all things to and this Dolphins offense and JT one more like weird theory I have for you here that I wanted to run by, you know, former NFL quarterback before I talk about some
more general Dolphins offensive topics. And you know, I'm sure you've seen some of the headlines talking about Miami's victories versus the teams they've lost to this year. And I've been, you know, putting together different ideas and thoughts and segments for the podcast, trying to make sense of what the first nine games of the season means. And I went back over Tua's career and there was a trip in
twenty twenty one to London. They lost to the Urban Meyer Jacksonville Jaguars, and since that game, they have not lost a game that Tua has quarterbacked where they were greater than a field goal favorite to win the game. And to me, I think the common thread there is is to a playing because they've had games against those teams without two in the lineup and they've lost those games. And my theory JT is that his skill set translates
to a super high floor in terms of performance. In fact, I think there was a stat a couple weeks ago before what was the doubt like the Philly game, maybe had a low passer rating, and it was he had not had a game below ninety passer rating all season long. And so my theory is that he his floor of a bad game is so high that you find your way to victory against these maybe lesser teams in the NFL.
Are you know, middle of the road teams. I'm curious what you think about his floor and how his skills translate to, I guess being able to be productive pretty much every Sunday.
I think cutting to what the core of that probably is is the the argument that they can't necessarily be
the premier teams in their conference. And for me, the answer to that is, and this is tough in football because I used to get pissed at coaches in installs about this, but football is a small sample size game, and so if you have a small sample size and you, you know, go zero for three in that situation, well it looks like you're terrible in that but in reality, it's just a small in and so it's hard to live in that world when you only get to play
once a week. But that's my take on it. I think, you know, I think that they will be fine in those games. Not fine, I mean, you have to win those games eventually, but I think it's hard to live in that world where that's a good enough excuse sometimes, but I can remember, like the example I always use is in the league, for a long time. I don't know how they do it anymore. But the breakdowns that you would get would often be off numbers of the
last four games. So you'd get like your third down breakdown and your third and ten plus it would be like, well, this team plays Tampa two seventy five percent of the time. And you look at the breakdown and there's only four snaps in the last four games, and they played three snaps of Tampa and one snap is zero, and you're like, well, that doesn't really mean they play seventy five percent Tampa in that That just means in the last month, that's
what they did. Because when we go out there and our plays are designed for Tampa two and all we get is middlefield closed man, we better have some answers, you know. And it's stuff like that where it's like small sample size distorts reality, and so just trying to hold that idea knowing that, hey, it is what it is at this point. You know, you hope that you play better versus those teams when it matters most, and
the reality is it's hard to hold that. But most good teams, Yes you care about the results, Yes you'd love to go seventeen and zero. But you want to be playing your best football through Thanksgiving, into the holidays and into January, and so just continuing to get better at that mindset, you know, is where I think the Dolphins need to live.
It seems like that's been the or it has been the message at you know, recent press conferences in the bye week, and you know, Tron Arms had took to the podium and talked about how there's no waving of confidence.
Have you ever been around a situation like that where you know you're a you're a top of your division, you're leading, you know, you're on top of a team that I guess was projected and maybe finish ahead of you in Buffalo, and you have everything in front of you, but yet the perception is that you're not good enough. I guess you kind of touch on that with the
sample sized discussion, and that's a really good tidbit. But I'm curious, have you ever seen something like that and how does a team internalize that or do you just don't even think about it.
I think in the best case scenario, you hope you just put your kind of nose down in work, and I think that the coaches can go a long way to reinforcing that message. You know, whether it be in meetings, individuals at practice, you know what the focuses as far as trying to get better. There's a lot of coach speaking that, but there's also a lot of truth when you look across the landscape of the league and the teams that have played their best at the end of
the year. There is this kind of connection between, yeah, we'd love to win in October, but we sure would prefer to be playing our best ball and continue to get better at the end of the season. And so you really do have to balance that. I think, you know, being a veteran guy or veteran team or going through it a few times, or having some older cats in the locker room to be able to lean on to give examples of how that's transformed teams over the course
of the season matters. But you know, I think it's one of those things though, when you're in it, when you're in the NFL and you're leading, you know, living and breathing every single rep, every single game like it's your last and that's what you have to do to survive. It's hard to take that macro perspective, but that's what you know, coaches get paid for, and they have to reinforce that message and drive that home and hope that you continue to get better over the course of the season,
because I know I'm sure Dolphins fans would. Yeah, you would love to be the best team in September, in October, but you'd really prefer to see this offense, this team play its absolute best in January. You know, maybe you're going to have to go the road, on the road in a really tough environment. Does this offense travel? You know, those types of things came to a rise to the occasion and match one of the best premier quarterbacks in the league on the road in the playoffs, that type
of stuff. That's where this will really kind of separate itself. And you just hope that you're continuing to build so that when you get that opportunity, you're able to take advantage of it.
Yeah, I suppose the fortunate part about the schedule so far as they have had a few most chances to you at least test their metal in those arenas, and you know, they've been competitive and closers haven't quite sealed the deal yet, but they will get three chances to finish the season almost aff a little playoff stretch before the playoffs with Dallas Baltimore and Buffalo Baltimore being on the road there so some good games coming up on the Dolphins schedule in the back end to get their
defense offense, I think defense is rolling right now a little bit. Offense has had a bit of a role here, but still on the number one offense across the board. And with that in mind, JT. Two more questions for
you here before I let you go. What's something that you look at on tape of this Dolphins offense that they have really gotten down, Maybe not perfected or maybe close to perfected, But what's something you think they can count on the second half of the season just keep on churning and hitting their bread and butter.
I mean, for me, it's it's the health thing, you know, It's it's if we can They have to, you know, I think you have to intentionally create opportunities for your guys to thrive. But you could see I mean, or at least I thought watching that game this past weekend Wattle. You know, I think McDaniel essentially collects speed and now with uh, I'm gonna mispronounce his name because they changed it.
But a Chanah Wattle not maybe not playing it the normal snaps that he has and maybe fighting through some issues. You know that that can really impact you know what this what the kind of peak of this offense is. So you just got to find a way to do you like to do you and that that means taking advantage of what Tua does. That means doing what they do in the run game as far as with the horizontal stretch, the RPOs, the zone stuff, and find a way to stay healthy and take advantage of what that
speed does to a defense. The other thing I would say about the speed thing just from watching that last game and I try to get away from the recency bias of it, but man, the Chiefs really got up in this in their face a few times. It made life difficult at the line of scrimmage on the perimeter, and so having an answer for what that looks like and it just can't be you know, lining Tyreek up in the wing and let him you know, crazy motion
out of there. They got to find different ways to stack and move and maybe incorporate some tempo to be able to allow him to kind of not get jacked at the line of scrimmage as much as it seemed like he was being impacted.
You mentioned wadd That's that's a really good point there because the Dolphins have had so many games this year where either he's been banged up and had to exit or an offensive lineman has had to exit midgame. What's the challenge of getting up you know, because like, if you have a guy you knows down, you can game plan the entire week and put in your third down, you ris and all that stuff of him and then getting number one reps. Right, what's it like to lose
a key piece in a game. I know Wattle came back and played in the game, but there was, like you said, Hilly played about fifty four percent of the snap. So what does that do to an offense when you lose a key guy in game like that?
I mean, it's it's a challenge. I think that the coaches probably will continue to learn from these types of things and have things caked in where you know, you look across their depth at that position and they're so dynamic at the top, right, Like there just isn't speed like that with Wattle and Hill anywhere else in the league. And then the pieces that they've tried to figure out
what's next. There to be a little bit more intentional to say, hey, Claypool, if you've got to play, we need you to be really competent at this and this
and this and lean into that. And because you know, inevitably the season is so long that all these guys are going to be asked and forced to contribute, you just have to be intentional with having everybody have their role their piece, because right now, it looks like when they lose a little bit of speed, and this is not like a huge intuitive leap, you lose that elite speed, everything comes a little bit more down to earth, and so just having a plan for what that looks like
as they continue to kind of make sense of what this next few weeks looks like, I think is a perfect time to experiment with that. Get more guys involved, find out what those guys do well, and then if those situations arise, you've got a little bit better plan to be able to take advantage of some new opportunities for other guys.
It seem that the bye week kind of came at the right time of year for both of points. You just made those last two questions I'll finish this JT. Conversely, because I love the praise and stuff you do on the show is always great, but also you kind of give us an idea of where things can get better. What do you think is one thing this Dolphins offense can do to get better? And have you know number one offense passing a number one total offense on what's scoring offense?
Oh man, put me on the spot. I don't know.
If there's a whole I'll be honest, I don't know. If there's a whole lot, we'll take it. I think the other thing is to is the teams are going to try to get up in the face of the speed and jack these cats at the line of scrimmage and so just continuing to evolve what they do pre snap and I love what they I mean, they've essentially lit the league on fire with that motion that Tyreek
Hill does going out. You know, it's a little inside joke there, but like the idea of you know, continuing to lean into the edge of the innovation aspect of pre stap movement. What's the next iteration? How can they continue to be the tip of the spear with that because it gave them such a huge kind of like wait, what the hell everyone?
What is that? Now? Everyone does that? Right?
Like it's pretty wild, and so what is the next iteration of that? Can they continue to be the front edge of that? Because I think that stuff is kind of what separates them scheme wise when you combine it with two strengths and their speed, all those types of things together.
Yeah, I'm super fire up see what they have with a week to self scout and come out of the bye week with next shirt. You know, time to prepare for a game plan as Alip in the Quarterback School on YouTube and across social appreciate your time so much today, man, I know you have a busy schedule and the conference and time out for us. It's definitely appreciate it. Man, Thank you so much for your time.
Jat Yeah, no problem. I enjoyed it. Travis tick care and the.
Way he goes one last break right there. We'll come back on the other side and do the week ten game picks. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Annation. I'm still feeding a little bit off of that interview.
What a great chat.
That was maybe the best we've had here on the Draft Time podcast breaking down this Dolphins offense. Let's go ahead and finish up the show here on a Friday with the Week ten NFL picks. I am recording this at nine to forty four Eastern Time on Thursday the ninth. I put the tweet out there for you guys, teasing the JT appearance on the podcast here, and also went ahead and told you I took Carolina over Chicago on Thursday night. Football just swallowed all the air in the room.
And the reason I'm doing that is because as bad as it's been for the Panther offense, and I think Bryce Young has struggled, but also hasn't had any help in what he's been doing this season, I believe that the quarterback on the other side. Do you guys remember my takes about Zach Wilson before the Monday night game and can we do this again?
Can we talk about this again?
Like there are Jets fans that argue that Zach Wilson just needs more help or the offensive line has to play better. Like if you ever need to understand how misguided most fans are about what actually happens at the quarterback position.
On a football field.
Just go check check out Jets Twitter Like. It doesn't take more than a few plays to realize that Zach ain't it right. Doesn't take more than three or four snaps. The first two snaps of that game on Monday night, the overthrow on the speedout, which is like lay up built in. You have to hit that one hundred percent of the time if you want to play at this level. And then the next ball he throws where he's three beats late and damn near gets his receiver killed over the.
Middle of the field.
It doesn't take long to figure it out if you know what you're looking for with that guy. And there is like a lengthy debate about whether or not he can do it. The kid in Chicago, cool story, Sheppard University, all that fun stuff. His parents came to see him make his first start against the Chargers on Sunday night.
Football. Cool man.
But let's be real here and watch this has a chance to age like milk. Because I'm recording this on Thursday. This is the Friday Podcast. Maybe he goes off and I look so stupid, but I'll take my chances here. Panthers on TNF in the Germany game, I'm taking the Patriots here, and I'm gonna this is gonna pay me to say this. I like Bill Belichick's opportunity to scheme up a good game plan. I should say to take down Gardner Minshew, who does a great job of winning
with anticipation. But Belichick, I like the way he defends Tua and what he does well. Gardner Minshew's a poor man's Tua, So I like Belichick's ability to kind of stick it to Gardner Minshew. Go Koog's I'll take the Patriots over in Germany, Baltimore and Cleveland like this has the chance to be a good spot for the Dolphins to pick up some ground on.
The top teams in the AFC.
With a potential Ravens loss this week, I'm just not seeing it because that Cleveland offense is awful, that quarterback is awful. I believe in karma in this sense, and it's great to see Ravens over Browns. I'll take the Steelers over the Packers. I think I talked about this on the Was It the Wednesday podcast about how the Packers were probably my biggest miss in terms of preseason predictions so far. The Steelers, I can't believe they're over five hundred. They are, but I think they're one of
the ten worst teams in the NFL. But these are the games they win. They always win these games, and that's why they hover around eight to nine or nine and eight every year. Give me Mike Tomlins squad over the Green Bay Packers. I'll take the Niners over the Jags. In fact, that's my pick of the week. It's I think it's a three point spread. The Niners are on the road, both team's coming off of bye, and this is the game the Dolphins fans I think need to
tune into the most. I don't believe Jacksonville will usurp Miami's ultimate position in the AFC standings among division winners, because I still believe it's gonna be case Baltimore, Miami, and Jacksonville who win the divisions. You want to stay out of that four seed because if you get the four, you're gonna wind up playing probably Cincinnati or Baltimore, the loser of the AFC North battle in that first round.
And I'm just not all that interested in doing that.
I'd like to see one of the teams that sneaks into the backside, like a Pittsburgh or a Cleveland where a Chargers. Give me one of those teams down here in South Florida in the second weekend of January.
So give me San Francisco in a row up over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Give me the Saints over the Vikings. I don't think fighting strikes twice there for Josh dobbson company. Although it's a great story and the Saints have found a little something on offense.
But that defense is fantastic. Give me the Saints in that one. I'll take the Bengals over the Texans, although.
I'm watching that in my third screen on Sunday on the ultimate NFL watching weekend for a Dolphins content careator who goes to every game. Now I'll get to sit at home watch them games. I will have Bengals and Texans up on the screen.
But give me the Bengals to.
Win that one.
I think they're gonna roll here for a few weeks in a row.
Will the Bengals Give me the Bucks over the Titans. This is probably the one that I had the most consternation over. But the Bucks are at home. I think Will Levis has been good so far, but I think that team is not good, and I think that the quarterback will see a little bit more of a depreciation in his production various performances this year from what we saw in that first game.
Because that's typically how it goes rookie quarterbacks. Give me the Lions over the Chargers.
I also had some consternation on this one, but I'm.
Taking the road team.
Typically when the Lions travel, if it's outdoors or bad weather, I go against them. But Goff likes the friendly confines of SOFI Stadium. I think the Chargers are vastly over not overrated. I shouldn't say that because and you know, Ck Parrot on Twitter or Chris Coffin had a great tweet.
About how the Chargers are.
This team that everybody loves to fawn over their quarterback justin Herbert so great when they don't score points, when he throws for one hundred and thirty yards on thirty passing attempts, we talk about how great of a job.
He did managing the game.
Gtfh out of here on that one all the way. But the funny thing about it is they fawn over the quarterback, like Chris mentions, but they don't give Miami credit for a valuable win against that team.
I think that they are being held back by their quarterback.
Right now, quite frankly.
So that said, I'll take the Lions on the road at the Chargers, although if the Chargers do win, Miami has a win over a winning team, so either way, I'll take it. But uh, yeah, give me the Lions in that one. Let's go Atlanta over Arizona. I really
wanted to pick Kyler Murray. I just think that the operation in Atlanta right now is silly from top to bottom in terms of decision making, and you know, not throwing the ball to Kyle Pitts and Drake London and Bajon Robinson, Like, let's draft these guys and then not use it makes a lot of sense. But give me the Falcons because I think the Cardinals are awful and I'm not taking Kyler Murray and his first game back maybe down the road when he shows me he's back
to normal Cowboys in a romp over the Giants. It's a sixteen and a half point spread. Holy Molly, Seahawks over the Commanders at home. I think that's pretty self explanatory.
I really debated on this one.
Back and forth Jets and Raiders, but I'm taking the Jets just because I think.
That their ability to shut down Aiden O'Connell.
Will be the biggest mismatch in this entire game, where I think Zach.
Can put you know, ten points on the board and get.
A nice ten to million win or something.
And then Buffalo over Denver on Monday night. But I'm not like right that off as an automatic win for the Bill, but I will take them to.
Win the game in this spot. So there you go.
Those are the week ten picks. That's my time on the podcast this week. Tomorrow is Saturday, so you're not gonna hear from me. However, on Monday, we'll be back with the second part of the off season review. The defensive side of the football will go under the microscope on that one. Plus we'll give you all the updates from Monday's media they're at the Baptist Hell Training Complex. Plus we'll have Channing Crowder, I believe for the Tuesday episode.
I think we'll have that podcast recorded by then. I can't promise it, but I'm pretty sure I will, so I'll keep you posted on that and then Wednesday right back to the same old schedule you're used to. Raiders Preview coming up next Wednesday on the podcast All Right, go ahead and get out of here, subscribe, rate, review
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