To on the Move, Darlin, Deep Speed, Liss past Hell. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please God Miamians in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we are going to take one last off season look at this thing. As we are now just one day away from the opening kickoff of the National Football League and four days away from your Miami Dolphins teeing it up. We're gonna go round the schedule and give you updates on all seventeen Dolphins opponents, their training camps, their new faces, what to expect from these teams heading into week number one. Plus I did a deep dive on the value of quarterback and head coach continuw. We're gonna give you some bold takes and get some media availability updates, all of that in a heck of a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast At long Last. Tomorrow begins the normal in season structure of the podcast, and since we move the preview pods to Thursday. Wednesday today is going to be what I'm calling Deep Dive Day, not to be mistaken with the fish Tank podcast dive into them on Tuesdays, but whether it's the previous game, the game coming up, a larger scale look at something, or even events with players off the field. As we focus on fins off the field in their events in the community, we will be peeling back the onion, opening the kimono to take you deeper inside bonk your favorite football team. To kick off our first deep Dive Wednesday of the season, We're gonna do that twice. First, I want to do a quick rundown on all of our opponents this year, because we've know you establish what you think a team is at various points of the calendar, right like after the season ends. You have the taste in your mouth from the team's last game. You have their I guess youth or age or however you want to classify where you think they are from an internal growth standpoint, and then that kind of gets flipped on its head come March, and then that kind of gets flipped on its head come April in the draft. Then you have OTAs that reshape your thoughts. Then you have training camp and everything seems to maybe be jumbled up at that point for most folks. What I wanted to do was go through all the camp reports. I've watched a lot of preseason games. I've watched some film from last year, anything that I can do to get ready for the season, and I just want to spend a little more time on the fourteen opponents you will see either here at hard Rock Stadium or on the visiting or as a home team when we visit them. Whoever's on the Dolphins schedule this year, that's who we're talking about. Try to get didn't work out, And since we play three teams two times each, our biggest rivals, we're going to go ahead and just skip the second portion of those so they'll repeat part of that because there's no point in doing any team twice in this particular deep dive. Our other deep dive is going to take a look at that continuity between player or quarterback and coaches that have been together for three years, with Tua and McDaniel both having contract extensions and both here for the foreseeable future. All right, sound good, Let's do it first up Jacksonville, Jaguars, and we'll do this one brief since we're going to do a whole thing on them tomorrow. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked really comfortable in his very limited preseason action this season, and rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas Junior gives them a vertical element they just didn't have last year. I think the offensive line on paper looks good, but they had some issues against some not so great pass rushes or just kind of look disjointed at times, which if coach Weaver can get this defense, you know, playing the way we want them to right away, that could provide some issues for a Jacksonville offensive line that really got worked this preseason. And it's not like us. It's a totally different mindset and structure with how they run their stuff there, so it actually matters much more. We didn't see him, but Eric Armstead, I always call him Eric. Eric Armstead changes the complexion of their front. They really dodged serious injury all camp long, so we get them at full strength and new defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen kind of changes their complexion. More on that tomorrow. The Buffalo Bills in a week two they lose four pillars of their defense, and one is a guy that's still there, but he's down with the biceps injury in Matt Mulano. And if you go back to when he was lost for do he miss the rest of the year or I think he missed the rest of the season after an injury last season, or did he return towards the very end. I forget he When he went down that game in London, they were three and one and then they went six and six. Their total record went six and six, so they went two and five over the next seven games, and that took really a half the season for them to recover from that, And of course after the Tyler Done article, they bounced back and won the remaining five games of the season. And they'll replacing a lot of big time veterans on defense. I mentioned you know Milano, but Poyer's gone, Hidees gone, Trey White's gone. That's a lot of leadership and a lot of pelts on the wall. You lose with those guys exit. But Josh Allen's still there. And I think one of the craziest aspects of their team last year was they started the same offensive line the entire season. Will they get that luck again I doubt it. But again, Josh Allen's there and he is the ultimate eraser of issues for the Buffalo. For the Buffalo Bills, I mean, he just he is. We have to admit that they do. Say goodbye is to Von Diggs and Keyon Coleman's preseason production. Weird. Who could have seen this coming? He caught thirty percent of his targets in the preseason and never looked good of doing any of it. So weird. The Seahawks. I am excited to see what Ben Grubbs does with an offense that has high level processing quarterback play and three dynamic weapons in the passing game between DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigba. How does the rest of the personnel match up with that? Though? Because after years of being built to play what was you know, essentially Dave Wantstead ball Wanni ball, can they adjust to a new approach on offense and how long will that take? And it's the same deal on defense to go from Pete Carroll's cover three even front four man four down linemen get pressure with four to this era ex what almost at erotic, exotic style of defense that really empowers seven rushers or eight rushers on any given rep to kind of confuse the opposing quarterback. How quickly does that Mesh and Gael together. That's my big question for this team. But as far as their camp in preseason, the biggest sequence I think was when they traded away Darryl Taylor to Chicago thinking they were good at edge, and then literally the next day in practice or in the game against Cleveland, u Chenna Nuosa goes down with an injury. It's gonna cost him like half the season at least. And then they go back and get more depth by trading for Travis Gibson, which is a signif downgrade from the previous two names you just heard. So interesting dichotomy there at that edge position for the Titans in week number four. I want this game so bad. I want all these games. I think we're gonna start off really good. In fact, I do believe the Dolphins will start off the season five and oh and going to there by week at five and oh. But against the Titans, Will Levis's second year in a brand new offense, a brand new approach, more spread it out under Brian Callahan with his remade wide receiver corps of you know, DeAndre Hopkins is there, but Tyler Boyd and Calvin Ridley. They also remade their defense with Caandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Lugerius Sneid, Chidobia Woose, Ernest Jones. They just got him from the Rams in that trade. Kenneth Murray, who we had an absolute hell last year in that opener, the linebacker, and then Tovandre Sweat all ads that they're gonna play. They're gonna get a lot of playing time, all those guys and how quickly will they gel once again? Injury wise, Hopkins had the hamstring and camp, but he should be good to go week number one. They are also starting eighty percent of a brand new offensive line for the new England Patriot. It's in week five, new coaching staff for the first time this century. They're going to start Jacobe Brissett for some reason. I think we'll probably see Drake may in this game. Though this figures to be one of the worst offenses in the league, if not the very worst. It's crazy that it actually got like a lot better than what it was last year, but it's still so far away from even league average. I like pop Douglas. I think he's a good player. I like Kendrick Bourne, think he's a very good player. I like Jalen Polk and Javon Baker, the two rookies. But right now, at this point in time, that's all threes, fours and fives, baby, And that reminds me of the Jeff Ireland comment about the twenty twelve receiving core and I got three fours and fives and I need one twos and threes. It's like, yeah, you think, dude, what do you think wins in today's NFL? And the line is bad. This is a team that's very heavily in play for the first pick in the draft. It's such a new program all across the board. And you know, they trade Judon and lose Christian Barmore to a very serious health scare with blood clots and hopefully he's back to being the beast that he is soon. But that is two massive losses on that Patriot defense, which was the only thing that kind of kept them relatively in games against US last year. I mean, they were down by fourteen points heading into the fourth quarter in both those games, so it's not like they were really close games. But I digress. You lose those two guys, your two probably best defensive players outside of Christian Gonzales, it's gonna be tough. And Kyle Dugart to Kyle Dougart's very very good. The Indianapolis Colts. I am so bullish on this team. We are coming off the bye, playing an indoor game in late October, but I think that they're despite the fact that they're a little bit thin on the back of the defense a lot of teams are. I think that Anthony Richardson and Shane Stiken is going to be one of these next quarterback coach combos. I think that alone is good enough to really take this team to really great heights. Com pair that with Jonathan Taylor behind a good offensive line. I mean that the complexity of Richardson and jt in the running game together is just gonna be really tough for opposing defenses to deal with, as you get that extra hat in the equation. Lots of times with Ar's ability to run the football, they do lose Josh downs for the first part of the year, and I think he's gonna to be a special special player for them. But the reports are and you know, I take, I take anybody else besides my own training camp reports. Well, I shouldn't say anybody. I would trust, you know, Kyle to go somewhere Kyle Krabs to go to somebody else's camp and give me a good feedback back. But you get what I'm saying. I don't really trust you know, beat guys to go out there and do it. But according to the Beat guys, ad Mitchell and Alec Pierce had really good camps, So that figures to be a pretty good receiving core. If that's the case, I think this is a division title contender in the AFC South. The Arizona Cardinals are not going to contend for the division. But the value of having Kyler Murray back for his first full camp really in a couple of years and a fully healthy season, because you know last year he came back was it after like Halloween. And the ripple effect of Marvin Harrison on a guy like Michael Wilson and Greg Dorch who were good players, but now that you slot them into like your boundary X and your slot receiver or however you want to slice it up, like, the ripple effect of that is really greater than some of its parts, because I think that Marvel is a true number one that can really dictate coverage that way, and you get more weapons on the offense as a result. But Jonathan Gannon, you know that defense, it's it's gonna be his baby, And I don't know how they're gonna build that thing because they are so so severely like undermanned from a personnel standpoint on the defensive side. And I think this is a game with the Dolphins run the ball for like two hundred plus yards. They also had some injuries off the edge of a spot that was already like criminally thin. That defense is It's Patriots offense bad. The Buffalo Bills will see them in week number eight, but or week number nine rather, but we've arobably talked about them. Let's go ahead and get to the halfway point of the season here with the Los Angeles Rams in game number nine and week number ten. And this is a weird team, so I think they're a contender. But Stafford has been like in and out with this. I think the same elbow all training camp long, which is obviously terrifying if you're a Rams fan. Puka Nakua had that bursa sack injury, but it sounds like he is fine, although he did miss a good chunk of the training camp and then Kyron Williams returning punts. Is part of me wants to say like, that's fine because mcveigh's just trying to find more ways to impact the game with his best players. But if you ask the fantasy community, they are like up in arms over this, saying it's a bad sign for his future. I tend to disagree, but we shall see again. I think this is a title contender, namely for the weapons and McVeigh and Stafford together and the unique ability they have to be multifaceted to go to that power run game because of what they've done up front in the interior offensive line the Las Vegas Raiders, why am I still saying inherently trying to like say Oakland on these guys, that's what they should be. It was a bit of a tough watch offensively for the Raiders this preseason and Gardner Minshew go Koog's he threw a pick and had like under five yards per pass attempt in the game that won him the starting quarterback job because surprise, Aidan O'Connell was even worse than that. But I think this team has players all over its roster. They stayed relatively healthy through our training camp. Though we're at the point in the schedule now where anything besides like a season ending injury probably does an impact the Dolphins game against that team, you know what, twelve weeks out from this point, so no big impact there. But the Raiders, to me, could be one of those teams where it's like, gosh, the roster is so good and you you like what you're seeing all up and down the roster, but what are they doing a quarterback? He reminds me of the Falcons last year, which, by the way, Desmond Ridder got cut from the Arizona Cardinals and they went with Clayton Tune as Kyler Murray's backup, and the Falcons went into the season last year without giving any competition to Desmond Ridder. That's why I always like kind of get a chuckle out of these former you know, NFC South scouts, says the Tuwatunga Maar lowercuse, like, yeah, you might work in this league, bro, but it doesn't mean you know what the hell you're doing. Because I saw a team go into a season last year with Desmond Ridder as their unquestioned starting quarterback. So I don't know about all that so so, but I think the Raiders could be this year's Falcons, where it's like, gosh, they have weapons all over the place on offense. Their defense has gotten a lot better. But you cannot compete in this league if you don't get competent quarterback play on a weekend, week out basis. I think Minshew can give you that in Spurts. I think he's like the twenty fifth best quarterback in the league, which is, you know, it's good enough to start somewhere, but I don't think it's good enough to really move the needle and get a team over the hump. So that's a strange team. I think the Raiders this year. Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there and come back and do the rest of the schedule, starring on Thanksgiving with the Green Bay Packers. That's all. Next to Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We left off with the Las Vegas Raiders Week eleven game. We'll see the Patriots in week twelve. We just talked about them, so go ahead and skip over that, and that takes us into this stretch run against the Green Bay Packers, than the New York Jets, Houston Texans, San Francisco forty nine Ers, Cleveland Browns, and then once again at the Jets in the final game of the year. And there was a piece of content that I had been contemplating doing for you guys, So a little peek behind the curtain here is be continue to do that on the deep Dive Wednesday. When I go to bed, you guys are gonna think I'm crazy for this. When I go to bed, I have a hard time like turning my mind off right the ADHD mind. One thing I do, like counting sheep, is I will go over the Dolphins schedule and kind of like pretend like I'm watching the highlights on you know, Sunday or NFL Primetime rather or whatever the recap shows are nowadays that you watch and like, as I do this throughout the course of the offseason, I kind of picture like a perfect year and my I was gonna write this like fan fiction, what a perfect year would look like, and I decided not to do it. But essentially I had us going sixteen and one to a throwing for five thousand yards and fifty touchdowns, and the one loss was actually on Thanksgiving against the Green Bay Packers. As it invites all these questions about, oh, the Dolphins are eleven and one now and they lost an inclement weather are they going to be for real? And you get all these question marks, and then you literally go beat the Jets. You go beat the Texans on a game that could get flex in a primetime You go beat last year's NFC champion in the San Francosco forty nine ers. You go on the road in Cleveland and you win a game in the snow, in the horrible weather to clinch the AFC number one seed. And then against the Jets, who are playing for a playoff spot and you rest your starters, you beat them to get your sixteenth win of the season and knock them out of the playoffs with your backups, and then of course you go on to win the Super Bowl. It was like my perfect fan fiction season. So that's kind of what this game wise reminds me of, is the one loss in my cheap counting nighttime sleep method. Anyway, that's a crazy sidebar. The Green Bay Packers made it through the preseason. If I lost you guys, fair enough, I almost did my weave there. As I've heard recently described, they made it through the preseason without much shake up. Here, they did lose aj Dillon for the entire season. This is one of the deeper offenses in the NFL. That makes me think they're somewhat equipped. You know, no one's equipped to take on the injuries the Dolphins had at the edge group last year. But this team, if they lose a receiver, for instance, it won't be the end of the world because they have like four guys they can really count on, maybe five if you want to go that deep. The proof of concept is there. If run game, pass game, offensive line, the quarterback, you know, all that stuff is it looks good. I think it's gonna be really, really dominant this year. I am curious to see how Jeff Haffley incorporates his defense. You know, we'll have an idea what it is come Thanksgiving. Right now, I really don't, but I think this could be a trend center in the NFL. With college football essentially having an every year like start over free agency period. That sucks with the portal. I'm all four player empowerment man, but it's hard. I hate how some guys play at four schools in five years now, just as stupid to me. But I think we'll see a lot of college head coaches do it this, taking a coordinator job at the next level to get away from it. Like, who wants to be part of that? I don't think most people probably don't if they have the choice too. The Jets, they had a camp similar to ours. A lot of key parts were either down or held out for precautions. It sounds like Mike Williams and Tyron Smith will play the opener against the Niners on Monday Night. The edge position, though, is where the story is here. Will Hassan Reddick be in the building come this game on December the eighth, because they went all in on getting him and lost really good players as a result of that in Bryce Huff, who they could have probably signed back if it wasn't for Reddick or not drafting Will McDonald the first round last year and John Frank la Myers. But the good news for them is that Will McDonald had a really good camp in preseason. I think he'll be okay. The Houston Texans offense is loaded they're in their second year. From mcontinuity standpoint with Bobby Slowick and Damico Ryans and CJ. Stroud, and I think that he'll probably be the next OC turned head coach in this league. Tank Dell has been clearly or fully cleared to go after his season ending ankle injury last year. What does this backfield rotation look like? Because because Damian Pierce did not have the second year, some folks thought he might have last year, and and then Joe Mixon also missed all of camp in preseasons, So what does that look like in the backfield? Does he come back? Does he play for them? The forty nine Ers Brandon Ayux deal has finally done. Trent Williams has still not reported as of my recording this. Maybe that changes come Wednesday when the practice reports comes out, or actually they want to have their first until Thursdays. That works out for me just fine since they're playing the Monday night game. But that's not going to matter come Christmas time. Right, They're not gonna Trent Williams is not going to star out the entire season. Shoot. They might even have Drake green Law back at this point after he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl. I doubt it, but maybe I'm happy he's you know, I'm happy that Ricky Piersall is even alive after what happened to him. You know this weekend he got shot in the chest at a mall in San Francisco. But he should be down for some time, I'd imagine. I don't know. They had similar precautions and injuries as us. They had guys like Floyd and Bosa and Hargrave and yues Check missing some time in camp. So a Christmas game, not a lot of train camp updates to provide for you. But that's that's the Niners and their month of August. The Cleveland Browns, Deshaun Watson has more shoulder soreness or whatever that missed some camp time. With that injury, is the shoulders going to be injured forever now? It kind of seems that way. Their second round pick Michael Halls on the Commission exempt list and David Nijok, who's been dealing with an injury as well. Their offensive line somehow had worse luck than us last year, missing like four of the final five guys to end the season, and they also already lost Hakeem Adeniji, who was in lining some playing time for them this year as well, so they've they've lost some key parts on that offensive front. They also lost was a Ethan Poschik went down for the whole year, and they went out and brought Nick Harris back. So Brown's offensive line a little bit beat up right now. And then the Jets the season finale, we already talked about them. So I want to go ahead and spend the last part of segment two here taking a look at the deep dive that I did with regards to head coach and quarterback continuity in light of the McDaniel news on the extension on the heels of the two a tongue of Baila extension, and look at what teams have had in terms of their success with the same head coach and quarterback for three years compared to the rest of the league or maybe not, you know, comparatively, but just look at the records of those teams, as it's been pretty pretty successful for teams that have had that continuity. So what I did was go back over the last three seasons and take a look at teams that had three plus years of head coach and quarterback continuity. And here's what you had. In twenty twenty three. The Buffalo Bills went eleven and six, the Baltimore Ravens went thirteen and four, the Kansas City Chiefs went eleven and six, Dallas twelve and five. That's a total of forty seven and twenty one. I had two team exclusions on here, and maybe that's not what we should do here, Maybe we should keep them in. In fact, I think I did go back and keep men at the end of this argument, now that I think about it. But I excluded the Los Angeles Chargers at five and twelve because their coach got fired in seasons, so they didn't complete the third year. And then Cincinnati went nine to eight. And I debated keeping this one in or not because the quarterback missed, you know, more than a month, which is you know, a big enough chunk. He missed almost half the games last year. If we do put them in, then those teams went sixty one and forty In twenty twenty two, the Buffalo Bills went thirteen and four. The Cincinnati Bengals in their third year or yeah, the third year of having all those guys together, went twelve and four. The Kansas City Chiefs, which have had the same guys forever now fourteen and three, and then Green Bay was eight and nine, and the only team in this entire collection that had their quarterback the entire year and finished sub five hundred. Nobody else was fewer than eleven wins, except for the Niners in twenty twenty one, who missed Garoppolo for a couple of games, so that kind of you know, Rogers played the whole year and they went under five hundred. The Niners in twenty twenty two went thirteen and four at sixty and twenty three. In twenty twenty one again, Buffalo eleven and six, that was the third or the fourth year of Alan McDermott. Baltimore went eight and nine, as Lamar missed the final five games a team that began the year eight and four, So there you go. That's what happens when you lose your quarterback, right The Titans twelve and five, Cheaps twelve and five. Packers did go thirteen and four the last time Aaron Rodgers was good, and San Francisco went ten and seven, and Arizona went eleven and six that year as well, So sixty seven and forty two for those teams combined and combined the last three years, teams that have gone into a year with a third year of head coach and quarterback continuity are one eighty eight and one ozh five. That's a six forty two win percentage. And teams that fit that criteria this season are Buffalo, your Miami Dolphins, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Dallas, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Rams. And if I go back to my season predictions podcast and thread or whatever that was called, those teams projected records combined were one fourteen and seventy three, or a six eleven win percentage, and that is about ten and a half wins on average. So that's the expectation when you return your head coaching quarterback on average. And if you remove you know, that Chargers team or that Bengals team with Jake Browning, or if you remove the Lamar Jackson list Ravens from the twenty twenty one year, you pretty much get up to like eleven twelve wins per year for most of these teams. So what am I trying to say? There's value? There's money in the banana stand. All right, let's go ahead and take our last break right there, come back and do some bold takes and additional media availabilities. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Not quite sure just yet if I'm gonna add media availabilities in here, but I want to go ahead and end this Wednesday podcast like this with some bold takes for you guys and maybe just do a short episode and get the hell out of here and go on to the next So here's my bold takes. I wrote a few of these, and I was like, that's not really that bold, because like Tua throwing for five thousand yards, which he would have done that last year if they just let him finish every single blowout, or like an MVP, Like that's not that crazy either. He was probably the MVP of the league last year after that Washington game. You know, like not that crazy to think about. But I do have a couple of bold takes and I want to read to you guys some bold takes, as I asked our content wing here to give me theirs just to have a talking point here on the podcast. So I have two that I actually believe in you can't really have a whole lot for a whole for a team, right because like what am I gonna predict everyone has like a career high or a record setting performance for the team like that, That's probably not gonna happen. So what I do have is Jalen Waddle leads the team in receiving. Is that crazy? Maybe it's because I just heard Tyreek Hill say he's going to be an All Pro, But I just could see it. I could. I just can see that happening. Do I have any real conviction behind it for why? No? But he was close in twenty twenty two. I mean he was only like three hundred yards off the pace, and that's you know, you never know. My other bold take is that Jalen Phillips is going to give us flashbacks to Cam Wake in twenty sixteen. What I mean by that is in twenty fifteen, and this was a game in late October, Cam Wake tore his achilles tendon and then it was like, oh, he's thirty five or thirty six, whatever he was, that's probably gonna be it for him. Right. I was very very sad that night, and that was the first loss of the Dan Campbell era after those two games against the Titans and Texans, when we were like, oh, we're three and where were three and three or three and four, and we were all fired up thinking like, oh, he turns it around and then was like, nah, you just played the Patriots. You just put the Textans the times you didn't play the Patriots yet and did put the Patriots and you got smacked by like thirty points and you're freaking like only potential Hall of Famer of the last fifteen years Store's Achilles or ten years. Maybe I think JT played like what he played in twenty ten for the Dolphins, So yeah, or twenty eleven for the Dolphins. I digress. The whole point here, the bull take is that Jalen Phillips gives us a similar path to what Cam Wake did in twenty sixteen when he came back from the Achilles injury and had eleven and a half sex. So I'm gonna say that he tops that and gets at least twelve sacks. I said that last year he's gonna have fifteen, but injuries, you know, not even the season ending injury on Black Friday that ended up costing him the final six games of the season, which you're not going to get fifteen sacks playing eleven games. But he also had the you know, he missed that the New England game, he missed that Denver game, and he came back, I think for the Buffalo game. But he just was like the first really four or five games of the year, he wasn't playing a whole lot of football. And he finally came on strong once he got healthy and got back, and he peaked at that Jets game, and then that was the day he got hurt. So the bold take here is that Jalen Phillips gets twelve sacks one year off an achilles injury. So I asked around the content room, give me some of your bold takes, guys, and I just wanted to lay out a couple of these ones. Some are legit. One was really funny that I just wanted to put in the show here real quick. So one was that David Long leads the NFL in tackles. I mean, that's that's good and it's bold too, because no one's going to predict that across the NFL landscape. But he's probably gonna play a lot and he's rangy as hell, and he makes a lot of tackles, so I like it. Tyreek does get his two thousand yards and the league MVP award that goes and start contract to my Wattle projection, but I digress good pick for that guy as well. I'm not going to throw any names out there, but that was one that I heard. The other one was kind of crazy to me. Tua is third on the team and rushing touchdowns and he said it was with four or five maybe, And now that I think about it, if if Tula got four, that might be third on the team. So I think Rahem will get more. I think that a Cham will get more. I want to say right will get more. But as you guys have heard me bandy about this, I don't really know what to expect from his workloads. So we'll see. And then the last one here is that Durham Smyth scores a touchdown, and like I know he scored before. I just thought that was such a funny answer because, like you know, let's go look up how many career touchdowns Durham's Smythe has in his career. Of course, PFR is not going to pull him up right away. So Durham did not find the end zone last year. Actually, you know what, he scored three touchdowns in six years, so maybe that is a bold take, you know what, I pull that back. I'm gonna go apologize to the person that told me that take. Right now. I think you're all right. He will score a touchdown and that has a boltake. So there you go. Those are the bull takes with the season. Let's go ahead and skip media. Availabilis, who cares you guys can find him on YouTube. I don't have any way of weaving him into the story today anyway, So let's go ahead and call it a podcast. Right there, we went hell along. My daughter, says Helen now, because she's four years old and she watches Taylor Swift Shake it Off like four times a day, and she always says to the fella over there with the Hella good hair, why don't you come on over baby, we can shake, shake shake. She's so precious, man, That little girl has my heart. What was I talking about? We're gonna get out of here because I lost my train. I thought we were off the rails here. Thirty minutes intol Wednesday, episode tomorrow, Jacksonville Jaguars preview. I also have to pick the game, so I'm gonna do my Let's see, I think I'm doing the game picks on Thursdays, but just in case I forget, my Thursday night pick is the Chiefs. I'm picking the World Champs. I'm going out on a limb and saying the World Champs are gonna win their first game of the season, even though last year it didn't happen that way. Right, Usually this is a spot where teams get that win. And I was gonna pick the Ravens initially when I wasn't quite sure if Xavier Worthy was going to learn how to get off press coverage, and I was worried about Hollywood Brown's injury. He will not play in the game. I was worried about Rashi Rice's suspension, but he gets to play for some reason. So I think the Chiefs are going to be just fine. They're going to go fifteen to two, and it starts on Thursday Night Football with a win over the Baltimore Ravens. I'll have the rest of the picks for you guys later this week. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever get your podcast from. Go ahead and leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on social at Wingfold NFL. The team at Miami Dolphins. Check out the fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice. Check out the YouTube channel for medi availabilities, Dolphins Today, Draft Time Content, Dolphins HQ, Not Dolphins Today, and so much more, and last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot Com. 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To on the Move, Darlin, Deep Speed, Liss past Hell. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please God Miamians in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we are going to take one last off season look at this thing. As we are now just one day away from the opening kickoff of the National Football League and four days away from your Miami Dolphins teeing it up. We're gonna go round the schedule and give you updates on all seventeen Dolphins opponents, their training camps, their new faces, what to expect from these teams heading into week number one. Plus I did a deep dive on the value of quarterback and head coach continuw. We're gonna give you some bold takes and get some media availability updates, all of that in a heck of a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast At long Last. Tomorrow begins the normal in season structure of the podcast, and since we move the preview pods to Thursday. Wednesday today is going to be what I'm calling Deep Dive Day, not to be mistaken with the fish Tank podcast dive into them on Tuesdays, but whether it's the previous game, the game coming up, a larger scale look at something, or even events with players off the field. As we focus on fins off the field in their events in the community, we will be peeling back the onion, opening the kimono to take you deeper inside bonk your favorite football team. To kick off our first deep Dive Wednesday of the season, We're gonna do that twice. First, I want to do a quick rundown on all of our opponents this year, because we've know you establish what you think a team is at various points of the calendar, right like after the season ends. You have the taste in your mouth from the team's last game. You have their I guess youth or age or however you want to classify where you think they are from an internal growth standpoint, and then that kind of gets flipped on its head come March, and then that kind of gets flipped on its head come April in the draft. Then you have OTAs that reshape your thoughts. Then you have training camp and everything seems to maybe be jumbled up at that point for most folks. What I wanted to do was go through all the camp reports. I've watched a lot of preseason games. I've watched some film from last year, anything that I can do to get ready for the season, and I just want to spend a little more time on the fourteen opponents you will see either here at hard Rock Stadium or on the visiting or as a home team when we visit them. Whoever's on the Dolphins schedule this year, that's who we're talking about. Try to get didn't work out, And since we play three teams two times each, our biggest rivals, we're going to go ahead and just skip the second portion of those so they'll repeat part of that because there's no point in doing any team twice in this particular deep dive. Our other deep dive is going to take a look at that continuity between player or quarterback and coaches that have been together for three years, with Tua and McDaniel both having contract extensions and both here for the foreseeable future. All right, sound good, Let's do it first up Jacksonville, Jaguars, and we'll do this one brief since we're going to do a whole thing on them tomorrow. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked really comfortable in his very limited preseason action this season, and rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas Junior gives them a vertical element they just didn't have last year. I think the offensive line on paper looks good, but they had some issues against some not so great pass rushes or just kind of look disjointed at times, which if coach Weaver can get this defense, you know, playing the way we want them to right away, that could provide some issues for a Jacksonville offensive line that really got worked this preseason. And it's not like us. It's a totally different mindset and structure with how they run their stuff there, so it actually matters much more. We didn't see him, but Eric Armstead, I always call him Eric. Eric Armstead changes the complexion of their front. They really dodged serious injury all camp long, so we get them at full strength and new defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen kind of changes their complexion. More on that tomorrow. The Buffalo Bills in a week two they lose four pillars of their defense, and one is a guy that's still there, but he's down with the biceps injury in Matt Mulano. And if you go back to when he was lost for do he miss the rest of the year or I think he missed the rest of the season after an injury last season, or did he return towards the very end. I forget he When he went down that game in London, they were three and one and then they went six and six. Their total record went six and six, so they went two and five over the next seven games, and that took really a half the season for them to recover from that, And of course after the Tyler Done article, they bounced back and won the remaining five games of the season. And they'll replacing a lot of big time veterans on defense. I mentioned you know Milano, but Poyer's gone, Hidees gone, Trey White's gone. That's a lot of leadership and a lot of pelts on the wall. You lose with those guys exit. But Josh Allen's still there. And I think one of the craziest aspects of their team last year was they started the same offensive line the entire season. Will they get that luck again I doubt it. But again, Josh Allen's there and he is the ultimate eraser of issues for the Buffalo. For the Buffalo Bills, I mean, he just he is. We have to admit that they do. Say goodbye is to Von Diggs and Keyon Coleman's preseason production. Weird. Who could have seen this coming? He caught thirty percent of his targets in the preseason and never looked good of doing any of it. So weird. The Seahawks. I am excited to see what Ben Grubbs does with an offense that has high level processing quarterback play and three dynamic weapons in the passing game between DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigba. How does the rest of the personnel match up with that? Though? Because after years of being built to play what was you know, essentially Dave Wantstead ball Wanni ball, can they adjust to a new approach on offense and how long will that take? And it's the same deal on defense to go from Pete Carroll's cover three even front four man four down linemen get pressure with four to this era ex what almost at erotic, exotic style of defense that really empowers seven rushers or eight rushers on any given rep to kind of confuse the opposing quarterback. How quickly does that Mesh and Gael together. That's my big question for this team. But as far as their camp in preseason, the biggest sequence I think was when they traded away Darryl Taylor to Chicago thinking they were good at edge, and then literally the next day in practice or in the game against Cleveland, u Chenna Nuosa goes down with an injury. It's gonna cost him like half the season at least. And then they go back and get more depth by trading for Travis Gibson, which is a signif downgrade from the previous two names you just heard. So interesting dichotomy there at that edge position for the Titans in week number four. I want this game so bad. I want all these games. I think we're gonna start off really good. In fact, I do believe the Dolphins will start off the season five and oh and going to there by week at five and oh. But against the Titans, Will Levis's second year in a brand new offense, a brand new approach, more spread it out under Brian Callahan with his remade wide receiver corps of you know, DeAndre Hopkins is there, but Tyler Boyd and Calvin Ridley. They also remade their defense with Caandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Lugerius Sneid, Chidobia Woose, Ernest Jones. They just got him from the Rams in that trade. Kenneth Murray, who we had an absolute hell last year in that opener, the linebacker, and then Tovandre Sweat all ads that they're gonna play. They're gonna get a lot of playing time, all those guys and how quickly will they gel once again? Injury wise, Hopkins had the hamstring and camp, but he should be good to go week number one. They are also starting eighty percent of a brand new offensive line for the new England Patriot. It's in week five, new coaching staff for the first time this century. They're going to start Jacobe Brissett for some reason. I think we'll probably see Drake may in this game. Though this figures to be one of the worst offenses in the league, if not the very worst. It's crazy that it actually got like a lot better than what it was last year, but it's still so far away from even league average. I like pop Douglas. I think he's a good player. I like Kendrick Bourne, think he's a very good player. I like Jalen Polk and Javon Baker, the two rookies. But right now, at this point in time, that's all threes, fours and fives, baby, And that reminds me of the Jeff Ireland comment about the twenty twelve receiving core and I got three fours and fives and I need one twos and threes. It's like, yeah, you think, dude, what do you think wins in today's NFL? And the line is bad. This is a team that's very heavily in play for the first pick in the draft. It's such a new program all across the board. And you know, they trade Judon and lose Christian Barmore to a very serious health scare with blood clots and hopefully he's back to being the beast that he is soon. But that is two massive losses on that Patriot defense, which was the only thing that kind of kept them relatively in games against US last year. I mean, they were down by fourteen points heading into the fourth quarter in both those games, so it's not like they were really close games. But I digress. You lose those two guys, your two probably best defensive players outside of Christian Gonzales, it's gonna be tough. And Kyle Dugart to Kyle Dougart's very very good. The Indianapolis Colts. I am so bullish on this team. We are coming off the bye, playing an indoor game in late October, but I think that they're despite the fact that they're a little bit thin on the back of the defense a lot of teams are. I think that Anthony Richardson and Shane Stiken is going to be one of these next quarterback coach combos. I think that alone is good enough to really take this team to really great heights. Com pair that with Jonathan Taylor behind a good offensive line. I mean that the complexity of Richardson and jt in the running game together is just gonna be really tough for opposing defenses to deal with, as you get that extra hat in the equation. Lots of times with Ar's ability to run the football, they do lose Josh downs for the first part of the year, and I think he's gonna to be a special special player for them. But the reports are and you know, I take, I take anybody else besides my own training camp reports. Well, I shouldn't say anybody. I would trust, you know, Kyle to go somewhere Kyle Krabs to go to somebody else's camp and give me a good feedback back. But you get what I'm saying. I don't really trust you know, beat guys to go out there and do it. But according to the Beat guys, ad Mitchell and Alec Pierce had really good camps, So that figures to be a pretty good receiving core. If that's the case, I think this is a division title contender in the AFC South. The Arizona Cardinals are not going to contend for the division. But the value of having Kyler Murray back for his first full camp really in a couple of years and a fully healthy season, because you know last year he came back was it after like Halloween. And the ripple effect of Marvin Harrison on a guy like Michael Wilson and Greg Dorch who were good players, but now that you slot them into like your boundary X and your slot receiver or however you want to slice it up, like, the ripple effect of that is really greater than some of its parts, because I think that Marvel is a true number one that can really dictate coverage that way, and you get more weapons on the offense as a result. But Jonathan Gannon, you know that defense, it's it's gonna be his baby, And I don't know how they're gonna build that thing because they are so so severely like undermanned from a personnel standpoint on the defensive side. And I think this is a game with the Dolphins run the ball for like two hundred plus yards. They also had some injuries off the edge of a spot that was already like criminally thin. That defense is It's Patriots offense bad. The Buffalo Bills will see them in week number eight, but or week number nine rather, but we've arobably talked about them. Let's go ahead and get to the halfway point of the season here with the Los Angeles Rams in game number nine and week number ten. And this is a weird team, so I think they're a contender. But Stafford has been like in and out with this. I think the same elbow all training camp long, which is obviously terrifying if you're a Rams fan. Puka Nakua had that bursa sack injury, but it sounds like he is fine, although he did miss a good chunk of the training camp and then Kyron Williams returning punts. Is part of me wants to say like, that's fine because mcveigh's just trying to find more ways to impact the game with his best players. But if you ask the fantasy community, they are like up in arms over this, saying it's a bad sign for his future. I tend to disagree, but we shall see again. I think this is a title contender, namely for the weapons and McVeigh and Stafford together and the unique ability they have to be multifaceted to go to that power run game because of what they've done up front in the interior offensive line the Las Vegas Raiders, why am I still saying inherently trying to like say Oakland on these guys, that's what they should be. It was a bit of a tough watch offensively for the Raiders this preseason and Gardner Minshew go Koog's he threw a pick and had like under five yards per pass attempt in the game that won him the starting quarterback job because surprise, Aidan O'Connell was even worse than that. But I think this team has players all over its roster. They stayed relatively healthy through our training camp. Though we're at the point in the schedule now where anything besides like a season ending injury probably does an impact the Dolphins game against that team, you know what, twelve weeks out from this point, so no big impact there. But the Raiders, to me, could be one of those teams where it's like, gosh, the roster is so good and you you like what you're seeing all up and down the roster, but what are they doing a quarterback? He reminds me of the Falcons last year, which, by the way, Desmond Ridder got cut from the Arizona Cardinals and they went with Clayton Tune as Kyler Murray's backup, and the Falcons went into the season last year without giving any competition to Desmond Ridder. That's why I always like kind of get a chuckle out of these former you know, NFC South scouts, says the Tuwatunga Maar lowercuse, like, yeah, you might work in this league, bro, but it doesn't mean you know what the hell you're doing. Because I saw a team go into a season last year with Desmond Ridder as their unquestioned starting quarterback. So I don't know about all that so so, but I think the Raiders could be this year's Falcons, where it's like, gosh, they have weapons all over the place on offense. Their defense has gotten a lot better. But you cannot compete in this league if you don't get competent quarterback play on a weekend, week out basis. I think Minshew can give you that in Spurts. I think he's like the twenty fifth best quarterback in the league, which is, you know, it's good enough to start somewhere, but I don't think it's good enough to really move the needle and get a team over the hump. So that's a strange team. I think the Raiders this year. Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there and come back and do the rest of the schedule, starring on Thanksgiving with the Green Bay Packers. That's all. Next to Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We left off with the Las Vegas Raiders Week eleven game. We'll see the Patriots in week twelve. We just talked about them, so go ahead and skip over that, and that takes us into this stretch run against the Green Bay Packers, than the New York Jets, Houston Texans, San Francisco forty nine Ers, Cleveland Browns, and then once again at the Jets in the final game of the year. And there was a piece of content that I had been contemplating doing for you guys, So a little peek behind the curtain here is be continue to do that on the deep Dive Wednesday. When I go to bed, you guys are gonna think I'm crazy for this. When I go to bed, I have a hard time like turning my mind off right the ADHD mind. One thing I do, like counting sheep, is I will go over the Dolphins schedule and kind of like pretend like I'm watching the highlights on you know, Sunday or NFL Primetime rather or whatever the recap shows are nowadays that you watch and like, as I do this throughout the course of the offseason, I kind of picture like a perfect year and my I was gonna write this like fan fiction, what a perfect year would look like, and I decided not to do it. But essentially I had us going sixteen and one to a throwing for five thousand yards and fifty touchdowns, and the one loss was actually on Thanksgiving against the Green Bay Packers. As it invites all these questions about, oh, the Dolphins are eleven and one now and they lost an inclement weather are they going to be for real? And you get all these question marks, and then you literally go beat the Jets. You go beat the Texans on a game that could get flex in a primetime You go beat last year's NFC champion in the San Francosco forty nine ers. You go on the road in Cleveland and you win a game in the snow, in the horrible weather to clinch the AFC number one seed. And then against the Jets, who are playing for a playoff spot and you rest your starters, you beat them to get your sixteenth win of the season and knock them out of the playoffs with your backups, and then of course you go on to win the Super Bowl. It was like my perfect fan fiction season. So that's kind of what this game wise reminds me of, is the one loss in my cheap counting nighttime sleep method. Anyway, that's a crazy sidebar. The Green Bay Packers made it through the preseason. If I lost you guys, fair enough, I almost did my weave there. As I've heard recently described, they made it through the preseason without much shake up. Here, they did lose aj Dillon for the entire season. This is one of the deeper offenses in the NFL. That makes me think they're somewhat equipped. You know, no one's equipped to take on the injuries the Dolphins had at the edge group last year. But this team, if they lose a receiver, for instance, it won't be the end of the world because they have like four guys they can really count on, maybe five if you want to go that deep. The proof of concept is there. If run game, pass game, offensive line, the quarterback, you know, all that stuff is it looks good. I think it's gonna be really, really dominant this year. I am curious to see how Jeff Haffley incorporates his defense. You know, we'll have an idea what it is come Thanksgiving. Right now, I really don't, but I think this could be a trend center in the NFL. With college football essentially having an every year like start over free agency period. That sucks with the portal. I'm all four player empowerment man, but it's hard. I hate how some guys play at four schools in five years now, just as stupid to me. But I think we'll see a lot of college head coaches do it this, taking a coordinator job at the next level to get away from it. Like, who wants to be part of that? I don't think most people probably don't if they have the choice too. The Jets, they had a camp similar to ours. A lot of key parts were either down or held out for precautions. It sounds like Mike Williams and Tyron Smith will play the opener against the Niners on Monday Night. The edge position, though, is where the story is here. Will Hassan Reddick be in the building come this game on December the eighth, because they went all in on getting him and lost really good players as a result of that in Bryce Huff, who they could have probably signed back if it wasn't for Reddick or not drafting Will McDonald the first round last year and John Frank la Myers. But the good news for them is that Will McDonald had a really good camp in preseason. I think he'll be okay. The Houston Texans offense is loaded they're in their second year. From mcontinuity standpoint with Bobby Slowick and Damico Ryans and CJ. Stroud, and I think that he'll probably be the next OC turned head coach in this league. Tank Dell has been clearly or fully cleared to go after his season ending ankle injury last year. What does this backfield rotation look like? Because because Damian Pierce did not have the second year, some folks thought he might have last year, and and then Joe Mixon also missed all of camp in preseasons, So what does that look like in the backfield? Does he come back? Does he play for them? The forty nine Ers Brandon Ayux deal has finally done. Trent Williams has still not reported as of my recording this. Maybe that changes come Wednesday when the practice reports comes out, or actually they want to have their first until Thursdays. That works out for me just fine since they're playing the Monday night game. But that's not going to matter come Christmas time. Right, They're not gonna Trent Williams is not going to star out the entire season. Shoot. They might even have Drake green Law back at this point after he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl. I doubt it, but maybe I'm happy he's you know, I'm happy that Ricky Piersall is even alive after what happened to him. You know this weekend he got shot in the chest at a mall in San Francisco. But he should be down for some time, I'd imagine. I don't know. They had similar precautions and injuries as us. They had guys like Floyd and Bosa and Hargrave and yues Check missing some time in camp. So a Christmas game, not a lot of train camp updates to provide for you. But that's that's the Niners and their month of August. The Cleveland Browns, Deshaun Watson has more shoulder soreness or whatever that missed some camp time. With that injury, is the shoulders going to be injured forever now? It kind of seems that way. Their second round pick Michael Halls on the Commission exempt list and David Nijok, who's been dealing with an injury as well. Their offensive line somehow had worse luck than us last year, missing like four of the final five guys to end the season, and they also already lost Hakeem Adeniji, who was in lining some playing time for them this year as well, so they've they've lost some key parts on that offensive front. They also lost was a Ethan Poschik went down for the whole year, and they went out and brought Nick Harris back. So Brown's offensive line a little bit beat up right now. And then the Jets the season finale, we already talked about them. So I want to go ahead and spend the last part of segment two here taking a look at the deep dive that I did with regards to head coach and quarterback continuity in light of the McDaniel news on the extension on the heels of the two a tongue of Baila extension, and look at what teams have had in terms of their success with the same head coach and quarterback for three years compared to the rest of the league or maybe not, you know, comparatively, but just look at the records of those teams, as it's been pretty pretty successful for teams that have had that continuity. So what I did was go back over the last three seasons and take a look at teams that had three plus years of head coach and quarterback continuity. And here's what you had. In twenty twenty three. The Buffalo Bills went eleven and six, the Baltimore Ravens went thirteen and four, the Kansas City Chiefs went eleven and six, Dallas twelve and five. That's a total of forty seven and twenty one. I had two team exclusions on here, and maybe that's not what we should do here, Maybe we should keep them in. In fact, I think I did go back and keep men at the end of this argument, now that I think about it. But I excluded the Los Angeles Chargers at five and twelve because their coach got fired in seasons, so they didn't complete the third year. And then Cincinnati went nine to eight. And I debated keeping this one in or not because the quarterback missed, you know, more than a month, which is you know, a big enough chunk. He missed almost half the games last year. If we do put them in, then those teams went sixty one and forty In twenty twenty two, the Buffalo Bills went thirteen and four. The Cincinnati Bengals in their third year or yeah, the third year of having all those guys together, went twelve and four. The Kansas City Chiefs, which have had the same guys forever now fourteen and three, and then Green Bay was eight and nine, and the only team in this entire collection that had their quarterback the entire year and finished sub five hundred. Nobody else was fewer than eleven wins, except for the Niners in twenty twenty one, who missed Garoppolo for a couple of games, so that kind of you know, Rogers played the whole year and they went under five hundred. The Niners in twenty twenty two went thirteen and four at sixty and twenty three. In twenty twenty one again, Buffalo eleven and six, that was the third or the fourth year of Alan McDermott. Baltimore went eight and nine, as Lamar missed the final five games a team that began the year eight and four, So there you go. That's what happens when you lose your quarterback, right The Titans twelve and five, Cheaps twelve and five. Packers did go thirteen and four the last time Aaron Rodgers was good, and San Francisco went ten and seven, and Arizona went eleven and six that year as well, So sixty seven and forty two for those teams combined and combined the last three years, teams that have gone into a year with a third year of head coach and quarterback continuity are one eighty eight and one ozh five. That's a six forty two win percentage. And teams that fit that criteria this season are Buffalo, your Miami Dolphins, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Dallas, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Rams. And if I go back to my season predictions podcast and thread or whatever that was called, those teams projected records combined were one fourteen and seventy three, or a six eleven win percentage, and that is about ten and a half wins on average. So that's the expectation when you return your head coaching quarterback on average. And if you remove you know, that Chargers team or that Bengals team with Jake Browning, or if you remove the Lamar Jackson list Ravens from the twenty twenty one year, you pretty much get up to like eleven twelve wins per year for most of these teams. So what am I trying to say? There's value? There's money in the banana stand. All right, let's go ahead and take our last break right there, come back and do some bold takes and additional media availabilities. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Not quite sure just yet if I'm gonna add media availabilities in here, but I want to go ahead and end this Wednesday podcast like this with some bold takes for you guys and maybe just do a short episode and get the hell out of here and go on to the next So here's my bold takes. I wrote a few of these, and I was like, that's not really that bold, because like Tua throwing for five thousand yards, which he would have done that last year if they just let him finish every single blowout, or like an MVP, Like that's not that crazy either. He was probably the MVP of the league last year after that Washington game. You know, like not that crazy to think about. But I do have a couple of bold takes and I want to read to you guys some bold takes, as I asked our content wing here to give me theirs just to have a talking point here on the podcast. So I have two that I actually believe in you can't really have a whole lot for a whole for a team, right because like what am I gonna predict everyone has like a career high or a record setting performance for the team like that, That's probably not gonna happen. So what I do have is Jalen Waddle leads the team in receiving. Is that crazy? Maybe it's because I just heard Tyreek Hill say he's going to be an All Pro, But I just could see it. I could. I just can see that happening. Do I have any real conviction behind it for why? No? But he was close in twenty twenty two. I mean he was only like three hundred yards off the pace, and that's you know, you never know. My other bold take is that Jalen Phillips is going to give us flashbacks to Cam Wake in twenty sixteen. What I mean by that is in twenty fifteen, and this was a game in late October, Cam Wake tore his achilles tendon and then it was like, oh, he's thirty five or thirty six, whatever he was, that's probably gonna be it for him. Right. I was very very sad that night, and that was the first loss of the Dan Campbell era after those two games against the Titans and Texans, when we were like, oh, we're three and where were three and three or three and four, and we were all fired up thinking like, oh, he turns it around and then was like, nah, you just played the Patriots. You just put the Textans the times you didn't play the Patriots yet and did put the Patriots and you got smacked by like thirty points and you're freaking like only potential Hall of Famer of the last fifteen years Store's Achilles or ten years. Maybe I think JT played like what he played in twenty ten for the Dolphins, So yeah, or twenty eleven for the Dolphins. I digress. The whole point here, the bull take is that Jalen Phillips gives us a similar path to what Cam Wake did in twenty sixteen when he came back from the Achilles injury and had eleven and a half sex. So I'm gonna say that he tops that and gets at least twelve sacks. I said that last year he's gonna have fifteen, but injuries, you know, not even the season ending injury on Black Friday that ended up costing him the final six games of the season, which you're not going to get fifteen sacks playing eleven games. But he also had the you know, he missed that the New England game, he missed that Denver game, and he came back, I think for the Buffalo game. But he just was like the first really four or five games of the year, he wasn't playing a whole lot of football. And he finally came on strong once he got healthy and got back, and he peaked at that Jets game, and then that was the day he got hurt. So the bold take here is that Jalen Phillips gets twelve sacks one year off an achilles injury. So I asked around the content room, give me some of your bold takes, guys, and I just wanted to lay out a couple of these ones. Some are legit. One was really funny that I just wanted to put in the show here real quick. So one was that David Long leads the NFL in tackles. I mean, that's that's good and it's bold too, because no one's going to predict that across the NFL landscape. But he's probably gonna play a lot and he's rangy as hell, and he makes a lot of tackles, so I like it. Tyreek does get his two thousand yards and the league MVP award that goes and start contract to my Wattle projection, but I digress good pick for that guy as well. I'm not going to throw any names out there, but that was one that I heard. The other one was kind of crazy to me. Tua is third on the team and rushing touchdowns and he said it was with four or five maybe, And now that I think about it, if if Tula got four, that might be third on the team. So I think Rahem will get more. I think that a Cham will get more. I want to say right will get more. But as you guys have heard me bandy about this, I don't really know what to expect from his workloads. So we'll see. And then the last one here is that Durham Smyth scores a touchdown, and like I know he scored before. I just thought that was such a funny answer because, like you know, let's go look up how many career touchdowns Durham's Smythe has in his career. Of course, PFR is not going to pull him up right away. So Durham did not find the end zone last year. Actually, you know what, he scored three touchdowns in six years, so maybe that is a bold take, you know what, I pull that back. I'm gonna go apologize to the person that told me that take. Right now. I think you're all right. He will score a touchdown and that has a boltake. So there you go. Those are the bull takes with the season. Let's go ahead and skip media. Availabilis, who cares you guys can find him on YouTube. I don't have any way of weaving him into the story today anyway, So let's go ahead and call it a podcast. Right there, we went hell along. My daughter, says Helen now, because she's four years old and she watches Taylor Swift Shake it Off like four times a day, and she always says to the fella over there with the Hella good hair, why don't you come on over baby, we can shake, shake shake. She's so precious, man, That little girl has my heart. What was I talking about? We're gonna get out of here because I lost my train. I thought we were off the rails here. Thirty minutes intol Wednesday, episode tomorrow, Jacksonville Jaguars preview. I also have to pick the game, so I'm gonna do my Let's see, I think I'm doing the game picks on Thursdays, but just in case I forget, my Thursday night pick is the Chiefs. I'm picking the World Champs. I'm going out on a limb and saying the World Champs are gonna win their first game of the season, even though last year it didn't happen that way. Right, Usually this is a spot where teams get that win. And I was gonna pick the Ravens initially when I wasn't quite sure if Xavier Worthy was going to learn how to get off press coverage, and I was worried about Hollywood Brown's injury. He will not play in the game. I was worried about Rashi Rice's suspension, but he gets to play for some reason. So I think the Chiefs are going to be just fine. They're going to go fifteen to two, and it starts on Thursday Night Football with a win over the Baltimore Ravens. I'll have the rest of the picks for you guys later this week. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever get your podcast from. Go ahead and leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on social at Wingfold NFL. The team at Miami Dolphins. Check out the fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice. Check out the YouTube channel for medi availabilities, Dolphins Today, Draft Time Content, Dolphins HQ, Not Dolphins Today, and so much more, and last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot Com. 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