Miami Dolphins 2022 Schedule Breakdown

We're gonna get into each matchup, go down the schedule game by game, talk about those matchups, the biggest questions and storylines around those teams, and how the Dolphins do ultimately match up with said team, and a whole heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast.

That's another miamis office. So the schedule is out, Why don't we go ahead and just kick it off off the top here by giving you the entire Miami Dolphins schedule, and we start once again with the New England Patriots, this time at home. That's a September eleventh game, one o'clock kick in the nice hot heat, humidity down here in South Florida week to September eighteen at the Baltimore Ravens.

Also a one o'clock kick Week three back here in Muggy miserable South Florida in September on to face another division rival to a f C East games at home in September the Buffalo Bills at one o'clock and then Week four short week on the road at the defending a f C champions, the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday Night Football on September twenty nine. That's an eight pm kickoff,

Week number five. Coming off the mini by there will go back to the division and back on the road to the New York Jets on October nine at one o'clock against Gang Green. Week six, back home for back to back games starting on October over the sixteenth against the Minnesota Vikings for another one o'clock kickoff, and then on October twenty three home for the Pittsburgh Steelers. That is the dolphins first Sunday night football game since to

face the Pittsburgh Steelers eight twenty kickoff. Week number eight. Back on the road for two straight games, two straight games against the NFC North October thirty at the Detroit Lions a one o'clock kickoff. Week number nine November six at the Chicago Bears for one o'clock kickoff, and then week number ten back home November against the Cleveland Browns another one o'clock kickoff. Week eleven is the bye weekend, nice late bye towards the second half of the schedule.

There I believe the last by on the schedules week fourteen, so Miami is just three weeks short of the final by on the schedule. Week number twelve we're at home, so three straight weeks at home with the bye as the middle part of that schedule. November home for the Houston Texans another one o'clock kickoff. Then it's back to back games on the West coast are California swing December the fourth at the San Francisco forty a four o'clock kickoff.

Then December eleventh, potentially stay on the West coast for back to back games against the Los Angeles Chargers at so FI Stadium at four o'clock. Week number fifteen has flex potential. The game could either be on December seventeenth, a Saturday, or December eighteenth, the traditional Sunday kickoff. That game is in Buffalo, so three straight road games here in December to kick it off the Niners, Chargers, and then at the Buffalo Bills. That time is tb D

because that game could be flexed to Saturday. Then Week sixteen, Christmas Day, the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers will be in South Florida at hard Rock Stadium for a one o'clock kickoff. I'm in town to play the Dolphins, dumbass.

And then Week number seventeen is on New Year's Day, January one, at the New England Patriots, a one o'clock kickoff there, and then Week eighteen always finished with a game in the division, and there's why one division game left, the New York Jets, and that game also has flex potential, could either be January seventh or January eighth, Saturday or Sunday a tb D kick off. That game could move

to Saturday as well. So there you go, Patriots at the Ravens home for the Bills, at the Bengals, at the Jets, home for the Vikings, home for the Steelers, at the Lions, at the Bears home for the Browns. By week week eleven, and then finishing up home for Houston at the Niners, at the Chargers, at the Bills home for the Packers at the Patriots at the New

York Jets. And before we take our first break and then dive into the first half of the schedule, and then second number three, I'll be the second half of the schedule. Just want to go ahead and give a couple of quick notes here on the schedule and some interesting quirks and the way this thing lays out. So by now, you guys know, I believe if you listening to this podcast, you probably know this that the NFL schedule has a cyclical rotation that predetermines fourteen of your

seven teen games every single year. Years in advanced you know, you play a certain division in the a f C Conference, you play a certain division in the NFC Conference, You play your own division six times, and then you have the two games in conference against teams that finished in the same position of their division as you, and now under the seventeen game format, the third game against the NFC also determined by where you finished in your division.

For the Dolphins, the home tilt versus the Texans and then are both because the teams finished in third place, as well as the California trips. The Niners and Chargers finishing in third place in their divisions brings those games it could have been could have had some variants based upon the way the final game of the season went last year. The Chargers and Raiders could have been that game swapped Niners and Rams as well with that game.

Miami also is gonna face three new head coaches this season, with Matt eber Flews in the Chicago Bears, Kevin O'Connell in the Minnesota Vikings, and love E Smith in the Houston Texans. And you might see three teams with new quarterbacks, a pretty low number, uh in a year where the quarterback carousel has been crazy. The Steelers, you'll definitely get a new quarterback there, whether it's Kenny Pickett or whether it is Mitch Drobiski. The Cleveland's definitely gonna get another

quarterback there, whether it's DeShawn Watson and Jacobe Brissette. And then with the forty Niners, we'll see if it's Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance. But those are the three teams that have potential for a new quarterback. Sands any injuries or changes like that. After opening on the road for two straight years. The Dolphins kick off their season at home in Week one this year, but the opponent will

not change from the last two campaigns. The rubber match here of opening day games against the Lincoln Patriots three straight, last two in New England, this one down here in Miami, and the Dolphins, speaking of road games, that's a home game of Speaking of road games, will travel twenty five thousand, one d and seventy eight miles this season. That's the fourth most in the National Football League. That includes the back to back trips out west of the Chargers and

forty Niners. The biggest stretch on the road this year comes in that stretch with Chargers, Niners, and Buffalo after that California swing, and the longest home stretch comes in weeks ten through twelve, with contest against the Browns and Texans sandwiched outside of the week Evan by and after a Week four primetime game against the defending conference champions, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Dolphins returned to Sunday night football for the first time since seen with a Week seven

home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And speaking of that Thursday night primetime game, at home last year on Thursday night on the road in Jacksonville in twenty twenty for a Thursday night game twenty nineteen. Shoot, now, I'm forgetting there wasn't a Thursday night game in twenty nine. It was the Monday night game against Pittsburgh Steelers. Eighteen had a road game against the Houston Texans. Seventeen had a rather was the Houston Texas, seventeen was the Baltimore Ravens.

And my point here is going back to against the Bengals was on the road against the Buffalo Bills. I'm

not mistaken. So the Dolphins for a long time had a lot of Thursday night games on the road, had the one home game against the Ravens last year, and now back on the road for t nflos are tough games, especially against the defending a f C champions and the Dolphins schedule feature is eight playoff teams from one but a combined record for the seventeen opponents of one and two and the four eight one win percentage of the Dolphins opponents from last year ranks twenty one in the

NFL on strength of schedule. So those are some of the interesting notes. Let's go ahead and take our first break here quickly into this edition of the Drivetime Podcast and come back on the other side and get to the first half of the schedule breaking down everything about the Dolphins opponents. Next here, Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,

brought to you by Auto Nation. Really the last tent pole event of the NFL off season, aside from the practices, which we know is some of the best content and some of the best stuff to really observe and talk about on the platforms and the social and all that fun stuff. Look at me talking like an old man, the platforms and social snap face that type of thing. But the schedule is the last big one, right and

it's out. We've got it. We've got matchups, talk about football games, to talk about what you guys know, I love doing here on the Drivetime Podcast. And we already gave you the full schedule, which also was up on Miami Dolphins dot com. It's also probably up wherever you've been. I'm sure you've seen it by now one thousand and twenty five times. But let's go ahead and break this

thing down and give you some notes here. Now, I'm not gonna give you the like potential trap game scenarios, and I hate using that phrase, but one of the things we like to do in the schedule release was podcast in the past couple of years was talking about you know, how this team could be coming off of this game and just the impact of that. But we don't have that because the schedule are The recording of this podcast is before the entire schedule comes out, So

I just have the Dolphins schedule here. But looking at week number one against the Patriots, that one o'clock opener, they were tenant seven last year and lost in the a f C wild Card round. They had the sixth ranked offense and second ranked defense in terms of scoring. They added Malcolm Butler and DeVante Parker as a couple of key veteran acquisitions, and their first round pick was

center Cold Strange. I talked about this being the rubber match, right the third game of the opening day schedule in the last three years. Can the Dolphins find a way to get the rubber match and get off to one and I'll start for the second straight year. Can they make it four straight over the Patriots? Can to uh get his personal record to four no career against the Patriots.

Want to mark that would be if he could do it. Also, a couple of teams who were separated for that last playoff spot in the a f C last year by just a game. So these games are gonna be massively important.

The Dolphins can find two wins against the Patriots and that'll go a long way towards potentially finishing in the top half of the a f C East and potentially pushing for a playoff berth And we get a chance to see the Patriots early and late, just like we did a year ago, and I thought we saw two really different teams, different Dolphins teams, I should say, against

those Patriots teams number week number one. Remember the Patriots were going up and down the field on third down conversions and we just could not get off the dang field. But they would find a way to clamp down in the red zone and make them kick field goals. Very

successful game plan that worked that way. But the Week eight team game, game Man, they put pressure on him, they picked him off, they returned it for a touchdown, They put him on his back and had a bunch of sacks in that game and just kind of dominated that game really from the start and We're able to put it away late with some clutch uh scrambles and runs from two A toungo by LOOA. Of course, they early touched on to jayland Wild got them off to

a good start. But how do you defend this quarterback after having you know, a full season worth of tape on him, after having two of your own games of tape against him, and really two different stages of his career as an opening game rookie to the final game of the regular season. I'll be interested to see how

the Dolphins play that. And it's gonna be new for really the Dolphins offensively and possibly defensively too, with the new O C and then Josh Boyer calling the game down here or I should say, you know, doing his own thing with this Miami Dolphins defense. But just looking at some of the roster pieces for the Patriots here, we know about Mac Jones and the strong running backs of Romandre Stevenson and Damian Harris to power backs that can really kind of put it to you, and you

gotta find a way to stop those guys. Weapons on the outside. Davante Parker, Kendrick Born, and Jacoby Myers probably the top three guys there with Hunter Henry and uh John H. Smith almost at herb Smith. The tight ends the offensive line, despite losing Shack Mason and then um Joe Tuoney last year, still has a bunch of guys that can get the job done with David Andrews, Michael and when you Cole Stranger as a hell of a player,

Isaiah Win, Trenton Brown. They're loaded up there. They're loaded in the front on defense with Christian Barmore, Lawrence Guy, Davon Gagea, Ronnie Perkins, you know, josh or josh U j and Matt Judon Geese get your names right, Travis. And then that secondary that's where I'm most most interested to see this defense come along. As without j C. Jackson. Can they find a way to replace j. C. Jackson after losing him in free agency to the Chargers. They

drafted Marcus Jones and Jack Jones. Can those rookies quick quickly get to speed to face a Dolphins receiving corps that has Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Cedric Wilson Jr. Mike Ga Sicky and many many more weapons there to feature so interesting game. They're Patriots again for the third straight year in the opening game now week number two on the road against the Baltimore Ravens, who were eight and nine last year, seven teenth on offense, nineteenth on defense.

They added Marcus Williams, one of the great additions this offseason in my opinion. Michael Pierce, Morgan, Moses, Mike Davis were some more veteran acquisitions there, and then Kyle Hamilton's and Tyler Linderbaum where their first round picks. I thought the Ravens had a phenomenal draft this year, the best draft really, I think of any team. And you know the Dolphins only had four picks. We can put them in that conversation with the Bravens just hit on pick

after pick after pick. I think Hamilton's and Marcus Williams is an absolutely absurd combination there. It's gonna help that defensive backfield that they have those so deep with Jimmy Smith and Marcus, Marcus Peters and who's the thrown Marshawn Lattimore. They can roll out three safety packages now with Chuck Clark,

Kyle Hamilton's as well as excuse me, Marcus Williams. They they're gonna be able to do multiple things and get pressure upfront and and just really find a way to confuse you on defense and so getting all those injured

players back. I mean, this is a team that stayed in contention last year despite all those crazy injuries, had the more players on i R. I mean, they were the one seed at the midway point when they played the Miami Dolphins on Thursday Night Football, despite at that point having the most players on i R. And they did at the end of the season two and then they lose Lamar Jackson and that's when things kind of went, you know, downhill. But they went from eight and three

to eight and nine. I believe it was. But I mean it's not like they weren't scoring and competing with teams like Green Bay. They had a great fourth quarter run where they almost came back and beat the Green Bay Packers. So they have depth with Tyler Huntley at the position, and uh, you know, that could make for some interesting quarterback discussions for them this offseason without Lamar Jackson having that contract signed yet, But that's for another day.

And they also find they get a full season of Lamar Jackson and j K. Dobbins. I think that's gonna be one of the most powerful one two punches in the running game. So Dolphins gonna have to find a way to come up with another game plan to stop Lamar Jackson. But you know, have more running backs because they were down so many guys that got injured early on last season in training camp. You know, losing three guys in training camp, Dobbins being one of them. Be

interesting and see how they defend that. You get more speed at I'm backer position to deal with with Lamar Jackson. Is this a big game for Channing Tindall's kind of indoctrination to the NFL. We saw what Jerome Baker did playing inside outside in that game last year. Lots of fun matchups on that side of the ball. And then again, the defensive dominant I think they're gonna have this year

is noticeable. I think that trading Hollywood Brown Marquise Brown and then the running back depth, the combination of those two things kind of shows you what kind of team

they want to be. So the Dolphin's gonna have to buckle our chinch traps and play the run in that game for sure, but also have to acknowledge the Lamar Jackson's big arm to go down the field as well, and can the Baltimore Ravens come up with a game plan to combat with the Dolphins into them last year defensively, because that was kind of when the Ravens offense kind of took a step back and the rest of the season and just couldn't quite get back to that same

level of competition they were before. They have a new defensive cordnator there as well. Uh destroyed the draft and free agency. How quickly does it all come together? Interesting game here in week number two, Week number three, a game I'm sure you guys all have circle on the calendar against the Buffalo Bills at one o'clock kick off eleven and six. Last year won the a f C East, lost in the divisional round. They were the third ranked

scoring offense and the first rank scoring defense. They made a bunch of moves this year Von Miller, Roger Staffold Kayer Elam their first round draft pick, and then James Cook. They also added O. J. Howard in free agency. Just a really really strong roster up and down the skill positions, the running backs, the tight ends, the receivers. We know Stefon Diggs and then now Gabe Davis kind of takes on a more prominent role in the absence of Cole

Beasley as well as Emmanuel Sanders. And you know, I think Isaiah mackenzie also will play a big role on that team. A guy that I was interested in as a free agent before he resigned to the Buffalo Bills. With his skill set and his speed and the jet sweeps and the ability to get vertical thought. He kind of made Beasley replaceable last year with the way he performed when Beasley was down. And they also brought in Jamison Crowders, so they're very deep at receiver. We know

Miami's very deep at cornerback. Finding a way to get Josh Allen uncomfortable to get pressure on him. Can they do what they did last year in the first half of those Buffalo games and get Josh Allen uncomfortable, turn him over, force him in the third lungs, and force some inaccurate passes when he gets off the spot, and then don't let him scramble once he gets off the spot. Interesting matchup there. Can Miami find a way to keep

this Buffalo defense from really really getting after it. They have all the pass rush upfront with Epanessa Rousseau at Oliver. They added Von Miller to go along with Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmonds. We talked about Kayer Elam on the back end. He's gonna have a big role in that defensive backfield this year. As Levi Wallace departed for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think it was, uh, we'll get to that here in just one second. I forgot my notes right here, but I forgot if he's on the Steelers

or somewhere else. Um, Michael Hyde and Jordan Poyer is as good as it gets. So Elam could be the guy that really has the you know, has to get accomated quickly, and based upon what we saw in the draft video and him talking about being the best NoteTaker in the country, could be a guy that fits in right away with them. But for the Bills, can they get over that hunt Man? A couple of really tough playoff losses for them against the Chiefs the last couple

of years. Do these pieces push them over the top? Big early season match up here from Miami against the Buffalo Bills at home too divisional opponents in September in Miami here at the a f C East Week four on the road for the Bengals eight team kickoff on TNF. They were tenants seven last year and made a miraculous run to the Super Bowl, losing that game to the Rams. They were eight and scoring offense seventeenth and scoring defense.

Offensive line remake because the big additions there for that squad. They went out and got Alex Cappa a great addition there, Lyle Collins another great addition, and then our former player here and Ted Harriss to play some center for them. You know, that's a really good looking club they got in in Cincinnati once again to rebuild that offensive line. But how quickly does it? Gel? Can that take some time? Can Miami getting them early be a good thing? I

will see about that. Being on the road on Thursday night certainly is no favorite of the Miami Dolphins, but you can gotta find a way to go out and get dubs when you can. Joe Burrow and Jamaar Chase. Can they recreate the magic they had last season? Isn't more Tyler Boys, It more t Higgins. You know, Burro is gonna be a full you know, two years off the injury could be a nice little sign for him to be completely back and really pick up where he

left off last year in the postseason. But with all those new names up front, can they get the Dolphins games and and really relentless pass rush and multiple guys they have to throw pieces at you. Can they get that blocked up? That'll be interesting to see. Just curious see how this Bengals team comes together after a tough Super Bowl loss. Typically those teams haven't always fared as well.

But the Bengals are young, they have a really good quarterback, they have good weapons, they have a really, really good, underrated defense, and they'll be interesting to see this match up here with a couple of tough games off the top here for the Miami Dolphins, Week number five at the New York Jets, who were four and thirteen a year ago, ranked scoring offense thirty second ranked scoring defense.

Can Miami keep it rolling eight and two since four straight wins now I think it's five of the last six as well. Can they find a way to just keep Zack Wilson in the second half performance of that game he played last year compared to the first half performance, because now he has a bunch more weapons. We saw Elijah Moore really have a good game in that game against the Dolphins last season. Corey Davis was out in

that game as well. Getting both those guys on the field, getting Garrett Wilson on the field, c j Uzama a big addition there. They made a bunch of changes on the offense, Usama tight end, Lake and Thomas in the guard. They added to that d line that just keeps getting deeper and deeper. Sheldon Rankings to go along with Quin Williams and John Franklin. Myers will get Carl Carl lost

him back off the edge. Hill part nicely with Jermaine Johnson, the rookie out of Florida State first round draft pick. They also took Sauce Gardner in the first round. We mentioned Garrett Wilson traded up for Bruce Hall. They signed DJ read to kind of go along. There was Sauce Gardner at the cornerback position. That was a position where they really got thin quick last year and they rebuilt

it in a big way this year. So can they compete at a different level and really helped keep this keep opposing offenses at bay And then on the other side of the football, can they can they minimize the Dolphins damage with the rush games they got after them. Last year's Dolphins had so much success getting after the quarterback,

creating takeaways and making the big plays. Interesting matchup there with the Jets on the road in Week number five, Week number six, back home for the Vikings eight and nine a year ago, fourteenth ranked offense, twenty four ranked defense, and for them, they went out and added Chris Read on the offensive line, and then Zadarius Smith and Jordan Hicks, and the defense drafted Andrew Booth Jr. And Louis Seen

to the defensive backfield. And that's scenario that I'm curious about with this, uh you know, this first team on the schedule for a new head coach against the Miami Dolphins, they went from Mike Zimmer to now Kevin O'Connell. But on defense, you know, they drafted dbs and signed dbs year after year after year, and that was an area where they they those guys didn't always work out and they had to find a way to get production back there. And the Vikings defense twenty fourth last year in scoring

was just not the defense we came to know. And they have so many guys up front, with Danil Hunter, with Dalvin Tomlinson, dj one of them. They've got Patrick Jones up there as well, Eric Kendricks and Jordan Hicks at linebacker, a bunch of good defensive backs as well. So I think this team is gonna be on the rise, a better Vikings team than they were a year ago.

And then on offense, Dalvin Cook and Justin Jefferson, I have to imagine this kind of Sean McVeigh level offense with Kirk Cousins on the boot, some naked action finding those guys and playing off the running game gonna be a tough, tough offense to stop. Similar system in terms of horizontal movement to play action boots. Could Miami possibly see what's coming having a better field for that system but also works both ways. Interesting matchup there for that reason.

And then just how quickly does you know GM questy a Dopo Mensa's roster come together. It's always curious to see about how new coach, new GM's kind of put their roster together and how quickly acclimates. Always the case here with a new coach and a new GM Week seventeen Primetime Football against the Pittsburgh Steelers at home here at hard Rock Stadium. They were nine seven and one a year ago and lost in the a f C

wild Card round. Had the twenty first rank scoring offense, ranks, scoring defense, and Mica Fitzpatrick's first game against the Miami Dolphins. That's that's one of the obviously headlines there. Who's the quarterback going to be? Will Kenny Pickett have taken the job by then? Will you start opening day? Will it be Mitch Drabinsky who gets his starting job or starting status back in the NFL back on track? And then you know they have so many weapons on the outside.

I'm curious about George Pickens because this Steelers team has drafted receiver after receiver after receiver that has hit big time. Can they make him the next one to go? Along with Deonte Johnson and Chase Claypool. Really explosed weapons there, Pat Friars, Nag Harris, good looking offense, offensive line. Will see how far it comes. That was an area they tried to address last couple of years. They went after Mason Cole this offseason. Can those guys get up and going?

And then Miles Jack and Carl Joseph and Levi Wallace on defense are some nice additions there as well. So this matchup. I'm looking at how the Dolphins can get get that front seven blocked, because we know what those guys can do in the rush game finding multiple bodies on t J. Watt. He is an absolute monster. Week number eight. We'll take our break after this one. The Detroit lines three and thirteen and one a year ago,

twenty fifth ranked offense, twenty first rank defense. They've been patient at the quarterback position, didn't draft on the last couple of years, going full team ahead with Jared Goff into three season, and uh, will they do what they did a year ago so many times where they just took the air out of the ball and ran the football relentlessly and kind of helped develop Dan Campbell's culture there in Detroit as a team that's tough and once to get after you and bite your knee caps off,

and man, they played hard for him, so you know they're gonna play hard against this Dolphins team as well. But I think Miami matches up well with their new strengths because they went out and got DJ Chark, they went out and drafted Jamison Williams. Miami obviously has the horses on the defensive backfield to help keep up there as well. They got Mike Hughes and de Shaun Elliott in the defensive backfield and Josh Pascal on the front

in the draft as well. That team interesting game. They're on the road in Detroit, get to play indoors obviously, but we'll see if if it's a run heavy team, a past heavy team. I'm not really sure what that lines offense will look like this year. Jared Goff's production this year is he can kind of take that next step and really take hold of that lion's job. Be curious to see how that goes with they established the culture year ago. Will the wins follow this year? Hopefully

not against our Miami Dolphins. Will find out Week number eight. All right, go ahead and take our break right here and come back and get to the rest of the schedule here on the schedule release edition of the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nations. Keep on rolling here on the schedule release edition of the Drivetime Podcast. We pick it back up in week

number nine. Chicago Bears, who were six and eleven a year ago, twenty seventh ranked offense, twenty two ranked scoring defense. New head coach Matt eber Flews new GM Ryan Poles. That means a new looking team there, and what can they do to build around Justin Fields and your number two? They really went defense in the draft and in free agency, and you know, I thought, what Fields does best is extending make plays and has a chance to be a

really good quarterback with that. But also his on structure stuff is the Dolphins we talked for a long time about the struggles against running quarterbacks. Thought last year was really kind of a turning point for them in terms of how they defended those quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson. So can they do it again against a guy like Justin like a Justin like Justin Fields? I should say almost got that backwards there, but um, that's that's the big

thing there. Then, Also, how do they protect Justin Fields because he took a lot of hits last year behind that offensive line they threw the ball a lot, or I should say ran the ball a lot early downs and put that offense in the third long situation. So a new offensive staff, they're a new really roster and

team and just a new vision. Curiously, how that all comes together for the Miami Dolphins on the road in Chicago and week number nine, but taking a look at justin fields against this defense, it's kind of what I'm most curious about in that particular matchup week number ten against the Cleveland Browns eight nine last year offense. On defense, we know about Deshaun Wattson the big acquisition they made there also brought in Jacoby Brissette to see which one

of those guys plays quarterback in this game. But a very talented team and a tough division, a tough conference who kind of pushed their chips in and can they get back to that team that was so effective and one one big games and found a way to get into the playoffs and win that first playoff game in a long time, and then one a bit of a step back. But Kevin Stefanski to Kevin Stefanski is gonna have those guys playing hard, kind of playing right. He's

gonna have a good game plan for you. So you have to prepare for that that running game with Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt and the Ernest Johnson, they have a pretty much brand new receiving corps. When they brought in a Marii Cooper for that trade from the Cowboys, bringing Jachem Grant as well, and also Donovan People's Jones and that receiving corps, so they have kind of changed that group. The offensive lineman's really really good. That's a that's a good on good matchup there in this game.

Brown's offensive line Dolphins defensive line. We'll be I'll be curiously how this team comes together, you know, kind of a new piece, new quarterback there. Will he be able to come in right away and make an impact? And will they go more towards play a passing team than they were the running team the last couple of years or does it all kind of play off each other. I'm sure it does, But this is an interesting matchup

here for both these teams. We gleven buy a week week number twelve, Houston Texans one o'clock kick off four and thirteen. Last year thirty ranked offense, seventh ranked defense. Sneaky good rivalry here, right. I mean, the Dolphins had issues with Houston up until about but have beaten them twice since then. And you know, the Larrymie Tonsil trade was really that's that's going to tie these teams together for a long time because a significant portion of Miami's

roster in the top part of the roster. Waddle Hill Holland came from the Houston Texans trades. That's interesting that it's worked out that way. Now we'll get a chance to see tons All back here in Miami against the Dolphins for the first time since that trade. And they made a bunch of great trafhics. I was one of the best trafts this entire year with Derek Stingley, Kenyan Green, Jalen Petre and John Mechi. I think all four of those guys play significant snaps and play well in their

rookie season. They got interesting receiving corps there with Brandon Cooks, who's one of the most underrated players in the entire NFL. And then I'm also curious about Davis Mills. Will he take hold of this job because the depth in that quarterback room is it's Kyle Allen and Jeff Driscoll, So they really kind of leaving Davis Mills there. How can he work for Lovey Smith, who's back in the head coaching chair. Will he go back to more of his

Tampa two looked while he changed it up? Interesting to see how the Houston text and shake out this year. Week thirteen at the San Francisco forty nine against Kyle Shanahan and that team. They were tenant seven last year, lost in the NFC Championship game. Thirteen ranks scoring offense, twelve ranks scoring defense. And we know about the matchup there with with McDaniel going back to his old stomping grounds, John Embrey, West, Welker Raheem most are all those guys

going back to their former team. But I'm more interested here in just the matchup and also talking about the Houston Texans trade. The Tray Lance trade kind of came about from the Miami Dolphins, and again that's how the Dolphins were able to get Wattle and Hill. There so more symmetry with regards of how both these teams were built. But Trey Lance, is he gonna be the guy? Are they gonna go to him? Is it gonna be Jimmy

Garoppolo open or well? This week thirteen, but I would have to imagine by this time it's it's Trey Lance. But you never know. The Niners have had success with Jimmy Garoppolo. They know how to coach that team, they know how to play hard. They win a lot of football games. One of the better teams in the NFL. Is it gonna be Lance's offense? Is it gonna be Garoppolos is one question? And then also what does Deebo Samuel look like in that encore to that fantastic year

he had a season ago. I'm sure he's a guy you have to game plan for. And I'm excited to see how the Dolphins defend a guy like Deebo Samuel, but also George Kittle and that strong running game defense will have their work cut out in that football game. Week fourteen, Los Angeles Chargers, and they're one of these twenty draft class matchups again like Week number four against

Joke with Joe Burrow. Now justin Herbert, they were nine an eight a year ago, fifth ranked offense, twenty ninth ranked defense to have got The Dolphins won that first matchup against the Charges back in so this is the second matchup against those two. And then I'm curious see how this game plays out from a management standpoint, because we know Brandon Staley and that Chargers offense they're gonna go for it on fourth down as much as they

possibly can. Went way more than anybody else last year had a bunch of success going for it on fourth down, and just looking at the Chargers roster like can they stay healthy? Because I mean they went out and added J. C. Jackson and Khalil Mack. What a great duo that was to add also got Sebastian Joseph Day and Ion Johnson and the draft class and Kyle van Noia and Troy

Reader and Gerald Everett. They are just loaded, Justin Herbert, Austin Ekeler, Isaiah Spiller, Joshua Kelly, I mean, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Jalen got Guiton, Josh Palmer. They're loaded. They're absolutely loaded. Can the offensive line kind of get get up to the level of the rest of the roster there in terms of the skill players and the quarterback in the running back position and make that offense hum like a top unit? They mean, there were fifth in

the NFL last year. They could get even better with better protection, and we saw what Frank Smith was able to do for that offense in terms of their old line production from last year compared to twenty. Hopefully has the same impact here. But I'm curious to see how the Dolphins defend. Justin Herbert they did a great job on him in this rookie season. You're number three. Different

story there. We'll see how they can defend him with mixing their coverage is getting some different hopefully some some mistakes made by by the quarterback and get some takeaways as a result. I'm also really curious see what the Chargers you know, surrounding games are on this one, because you know they have such a tough schedule. Excuse me against the a f C West. Is it sandwiched by the Broncos or by the Broncos Chiefs. If that's the case,

maybe that's a game in between there. You catch him in a good time, So that's always how it goes in the schedule. It's not about who you play, it's when you play him. Right, Well, these these teams will look drastically different in week number fifteen than they do in Week number one, that's for sure. Week fifteen, Buffalo Bills, we already broke them down. Week sixteen, Green Bay Packers Christmas Day thirteen and four a year ago, lost in

the Divisional round. Tenth ranked offense, fourteenth ranked defense, and Davante Adams. What does life look like without Davante Adams who steps up in his absence, Christian Watson, Alan Lazard, you know Randall Cobb is still there, a bunch of young guys not receiving corps and Aaron Rodgers has a way of moving that offense regardless of who's on that offense.

But you also have to keep an eye off for that one to punch in the running game with with a j. Dillon and with Aaron Jones, two of the really good running backs in the NFL, And how do you play Rogers? Do you blitz him? Do you play coverage? Interesting matchup there. It could be a fun game of cat and mouse on Christmas Day as the Packers look to finish off another strong regular season here and the Dolphins hope to as well. Week seventeen Patriots broke them down.

We eighteen New York Jets already broke them down as well. So that's your schedule. Check out Miami Dolphins dot com. I believe we have a five things piece about the schedule up there as well, so don't miss that. We're gonna have the U d F A podcast for you guys with Emery Hunt coming out on Monday, taking a look at all the rookies that are here this weekend for Rookie Mini Camp. Will have coverage of that on Twitter as well, so follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL.

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