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We're going to look at Jacksonville and some of the things that they're going through, just a general primer on who Jacksonville is a football team this year. A lot of changes, fundamental changes. But I want to start with the Dolphins. In Miami, we got a boatload of updates and injury updates from the team, from Mike McDaniel, from players yesterday, open media, open practice, portion, got a chance to see. It seems like Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddle and Benito Jones and Anthony Walker, and these guys are all back. And the Dolphins did the successful thing with Tehran Armstead, keeping him on ice for the start of the regular season. So money obviously had their fair share of injuries in the training camp portion. What was alluded to by Mike McDaniel for many of them was we're not treating injuries right now the same way that we would in the regular season. A room brewer back yesterday as well as a participant in practice, Mike McDaniel saying that he was confident with the state of affairs there. So players that Miami will not see, Miami took advantage of the new rules for player cut downs, putting players on injured reserve, opened up a few extra spots for a team that had more than 53 players that you would like to have on a 53-man roster. They put Cam Smith on injured reserve as an IR for return, he obviously will not perform. Rear cray craft put on IR as an IR for return, Patrick McMorris stashed on injured reserve after cut downs. We won't see those players who made the initial 53. And then you have Isaiah Nguyen, Odell Beckham, and Bradley Chubb as players on the pup. It's a meaningful players for sure. Bradley Chubb played some of the best football of his career last year for the Dolphins. You look at the Jacksonville side of things and from a projected starters standpoint, they really don't have a lot of issues. Tashawn Gibson is probably a starter for this football team when he's healthy. He's on the suspended list, suspended a few games, I believe it was PEDs was what he was suspended for throughout the course of the off season. Andrew Wingard has played some meaningful snaps, he's on IR, IR designated to return. And then another safety for them, actually Doug Peterson said yesterday when talking to the media that they were kind of monitoring the health of Daniel Thomas is one of only three safeties on the active roster as things currently say, no, Darnell Savage came over from Green Bay and free agency. He was a former first round pick, he's played in the nickel, he's played safety. He's present there, but between him and Antonio Johnson, who was a fifth round rookie last year, those are two players for Jacksonville who are both probably better suited to play in the nickel as compared to playing high and then that leaves Andre Cisco as this ball hawking free safety that they have with excellent length and ball skills as a potential post defender for them. But the defensive backfield for Jacksonville is where they're a little pressed with guys that signed late in the process that you knew you were going to miss for a couple of games, your special teams type player like Wingard and now Dan Daniel Thomas is a third safety in that room that's just leaves a little bit of a question mark. The good news for Miami with their projected starters, Tyree Kill says he's fine. Jalen models out of a red non contact practice jersey that he practiced in all week last week. You're starting those tackle Benito Jones is back. Your starting center in a rubber was practicing yesterday. The only player who was not a participant, it's not a small player, it's Jalen Ramsey. From what I understand, there's not a lot of concern. This is I believe Jalen's first game against his old team. Every indication that I have been given is there's not a large sense of concern that Ramsey's going to miss the game. So yeah, Bradley Chubb is out. Odell as your third wide receiver is out. However, as your fourth wide receiver is out and Cam Smith is your fourth corner is out. So both these teams, all things considered, there'll be some players whose status is definitively out or in question. Miami's list is a little bit longer, but all the names that everybody was been sweating for the last two weeks, what's the deal with Tyree? He's got a thing on his hand. What's the deal with wattle? He hasn't practiced. What's the deal with Anthony Walker? He hasn't practiced. What's the deal with Benito Jones? He's in practice. What's the deal with Ann Brewery? He has a practice. They're all practice. As Mike McDaniel told you, several times throughout the past three weeks, we're not treating injuries in the preseason the same way that we would treat them in the regular season when you are playing games that tangibly matter. They count against your record for the season. I think the fortunate part of that for wattle and Hill and Walker and Jones, Brewer is a little different because of his circumstances and his role as a cog in the offensive mechanics because he's the first guy to touch the ball in every play. Most of those guys, they've been around the block, they understand what they need to do, and I would throw Jalen Ramsey in that bucket as well. You'd expect everybody's going to be ready to go. The big pressure cooker I think this week is with Aaron Brewer, your projected starting center. He's your starting center. Let's be honest, Brewer, as the player who's responsible for the snaps, there were some snap issues early in camp, it's the kind of stuff that you can't have happen in the first week of the season. They got to get on the same page. They got to make sure they're snap points. The good news is they had a sampling of it for about a week and a half, two weeks before he suffered the hand injury with two a tongue of a low. They had started to settle into two of them as the first couple practices and then he's back. They had about a week and a half of overlap between the two. Toronto Armstead, when speaking with the media before Aaron Brewer's injury happened, talked about we were talking with two about Aaron's snap point and how it's a little different and what he has to do, you can't just sit around and practice and take snaps. But it's probably something for Miami, you got to be mindful of shotgun snaps versus under center snaps. How often do you go under center? How confident are you under center? And if Brewer needs the extra time, do you just go with Liam for week one, knowing that you have an extra three days of practice in preparation where you can kind of sort that out going into week two, they did that several times last year. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen. But you're doing knowledge, there were times where guys could have played that the team ultimately said, hey, you know what, from a preparation standpoint, we want to put everybody in the best position to be successful and having the week of practice is an important piece of the puzzle. So if we're compromised there, we're just going to let the guy that we know can go, go. I don't, I don't expect that to happen, but you don't know until you know, and you don't know, you won't know for sure until you go out on Sunday and you line up and you take your first nap. I would expect Brewer out there based off of just kind of the speculation that we've heard about what the state of affairs was with his recovery, seemed like it was something that went okay, all severe, severe outcomes were avoided, just like I expect Jalen Ramsey to be out there, based off of speculatory things, things that you kind of talk with people who are a little bit more familiar with the situation, what they're willing to give you. So unless you're on a designated list, I kind of expect everybody to be out there for money. Now, we're going to get into some odds and ends a lot, I should say, a lot of odds and ends today, Jacksonville, who they are as a team, looking at their strengths, digesting what's new with them and contrasting it to what's new with Miami. So all of that's coming your way next year on this episode of Lockdown Dolphins. Make sure you stick with us. 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Just go to Indeed.com/lockdownnfl right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast, Indeed.com/lockdownnfl, terms of conditions apply. Need to hire? You need Indeed. Jacksonville was a team that started hot last year. You looked up week 12. They beat the Houston Texans in Houston. They were eight and three and they were getting ready to play the Cincinnati Bengals without your burrow. This was kind of the Jake Browning breakout game, really. Cincinnati have 491 yards of offense and 156 rushing yards. And Cincinnati won that game 3431 in overtime. A game that Jacksonville frankly should have won, I believe there's kind of a questionable penalty in overtime that costs Jacksonville possession to get them in scoring territory. And then Cincinnati wins game. Jacksonville went from eight and three to nine and eight. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's exactly what the Dolphins did in 2022. Doug Peterson in year two, you thought this was going to be the leap. They made it to the playoffs in Doug's first season. They come back from the, what was it, 27 to, it's a 27-nothing. 27-nothing deficit against the Chargers. Scores with 24 seconds left a touchdown to get on the board before halftime come back and beat the Chargers 31-30. And then they lose to the Chiefs. Give the Chiefs a really good game in the divisional round in 2022. Then they start eight and three. You feel like, okay, there's a breakout coming. This is the team that's kind of kind of going to commandeer a really competitive division. Then Houston gets hot and Jacksonville does what the Dolphins did the previous year in 2022 and finishes one and six down the stretch. There's some ugly stuff in that period too. Their only win was against the Carolina Panthers who finished the year two and 15 and would have had the no-one overall pick up. They didn't give it to the Chicago Bears to try and to acquire Rice Young. They won that game 26-nothing. Trevor Lawrence got banged up in this stretch, missed some time, played hurt, wasn't really himself. They lose to Cincinnati in overtime. They lose to Cleveland in a one-score game. They lose by 16 to Baltimore. They lose by 18 to Tampa Bay in Tampa. They turned the ball over four times against both Cleveland and Tampa Bay. They beat the Panthers to get 9-7 and then they lose to the Titans with the Titan season effectively over. They finished the 6-11, ruined a couple of teams' seasons there at the end of the year, Tennessee did. 28-20. Derek Henry runs wild in his final game as a member of the Titans in that contest and cost Jacksonville a chance into the division. That was the script last year for Jacksonville. It's a pretty talented team. I think they're probably more talented than 9-8 would indicate. I think if you are being fair to that team, they did absorb a lot of injuries down the stretch, but they also remade themselves in a number of different ways this offseason. A new defensive coordinator, Ryan Nielsen, who's very well-regarded defensive coordinator. They like to play aggressive and you pair that with a very physically talented defensive front with Trayvon Walker as the number one overall pick from 2022. Josh Heinz Allen, who had 17 and a half sacks last season. They add Eric Armstead in free agency to go with Devon Hamilton, who's a really good nose and then Roy Robertson Harris and a second round draft choice in Mason Smith. They get some bodies up front. I think they're more potent inside from a depth perspective where I think they're true outside talent rushing the pass or Josh Heinz Allen's underrated player, probably top ten edge rushing in the league from being honest. He had a new contract, but it was originally a franchise tag. I think that's where Miami and the matchups that they have from a skill group perspective can allow them to offset what I think Jacksonville does do up front. We'll get into early the crossover with Tony Wiggins, we're with lockdown Jaguars on Thursday. We'll get more into this team and these teams and how they match up against each other. But you acknowledge the injuries in the secondary with the safety group for Jacksonville. So they're a little thin there. I would expect that they're going to call up one of the safeties that's on the practice what I'd guess Terrell Edmonds who has some significant NFL playing time on his career. I'd expect they call somebody up to get another insurance body at safety, but Cisco's a really good player. Tyson Campbell had a down year last year, but it's a really good player. I think it's kind of a poor matchup for Campbell against either Waddle or Hill, whoever he draws in assignments, just because Campbell's more of a long player, he's not the best in transition. He likes to get his hands on you. He likes to get motion to get guys free releases. The rest of the group I have some questions with, with Ronald Darby and Antonio Johnson in the nickel. He's long, but can he play in short areas and trigger and attack throwing windows? Or is it Darnell Savage or do they choose to put him in space and play Johnson on the roof if they do? How good is his discipline if the dolphins choose to go up over the top of it and attack either Campbell or Darby on the outside and take some shots vertically down the field? And then the linebackers, I think, are probably more suited to play the run than they are to be really effective zone defenders in the middle of the field. Olacoon is a tackle machine. Devin Lloyd, I really like coming out of Utah in 2022. He's a first round pick for them. They doubled it and then took Chad Movement out of Wyoming. There's a lot of prototypical frames and length and linear explosiveness in a lot of spots on this defense, but it's linear explosiveness that I think Miami, if they play their skill guys off of each other, I think they can really take advantage of whether it's Tyrek and Jalen against the CB2 or against Tyson Campbell and attack the safeties and attack the middle of the field with the running backs and the agility that those guys have. That's what I expect Miami's going to try to do in this football game. Now, you look over at the other side of the ball and where Jacksonville has strengths, who Trevor Lawrence is as a player, we'll get into that a little bit next here in this primer for locked on dolphins as we get ready for the Jaguars in week one that's coming your way next, make sure you stick with us. 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One thing that stands out about Jacksonville is this was a team that was a little feast or famine last year offensively. They played San Francisco coming out of their buy week at home and lost by 31 points. They turned the ball over four times. They lost in Cleveland 31-27. They turned the ball over offensively four times. They played at Pittsburgh, won the game, 20 to 10. They turned the ball over three times. They had games against the Colts, the Texans, the Bills, the Ravens, and the Titans with two or more turnovers in addition to the ones that we already mentioned. They beat the Falcons with no turnovers. They beat the Titans with no turnovers. They lost in overtime the game that frankly they should have won against the Bengals. They did not turn the ball over in that game. They beat the Panthers with no turnovers. You talk about turnovers being a key point in the game, but there were times where it came in bunches for Jacksonville. That's where I have the question of they've got a really good nucleus of talent on both sides of the ball. There's a talented football team and not a team that you should sleep on. But when Gabe Davis is new, when Brian Thomas is new, endeavor Duganet is new, those players on the perimeter are key pieces for Trevor Lawrence to be the evolved quarterback that they're hoping he is when they made the contract commitment that they did. How on the same page are you? Because if you're not, this is a team that showed last year that turnovers and mistakes can come in bunches. And if the Dolphins can facilitate that, I think that's one of the big keys to victory and that's why that's one thing I like about this being a pressure oriented defensive scheme and system is I think games like this where your timing has to be pristine because we are going to force faster decisions. And if you're not on the same page and you make decisions faster, we see it with Tua. You have to throw with anticipation. You have to throw and anticipate what your guys are doing and know how they're going to take the break and how many steps they are into the break and when they're getting out of the break and what the spot and the placement of the ball has to be. If that's wrong, that's where mistakes can happen and mistakes happening in that case can lead to critical failed conversions on third down, critical misses and tight windows in the red zone or turnovers. So as I reflect on this potential matchup, I see ways in which Miami can successfully attack. I think you can successfully rush on Cam Robinson at left tackle. The team brought in Mitch Morse who the team should know quite well. Morse played the last several seasons in Buffalo. He plays center. If a second year player in Anton Harrison who looks really good looks like he's going to be a really good player for them. As a second year players, that's somebody that you throw different looks and pressure from second level and hope that he takes the end guy and turns the guy coming through the be gap free based on a big duel based on where the center is turning with how you set your fronts, those are the kinds of things that I'm looking for from a pass rush perspective. And forcing Trevor now, Trevor himself is a player, sneaky athlete. I don't think it's something that should be overlooked and he of course is back to fully healthy after getting banged up with a knee injury last year, but he had 339 yards rushing in four touchdowns last year, he averaged 4.8 yards per attempt, almost all that scrambles and getting off your spot. He's a second, second leading rusher on the team who's ETN had a thousand yards and average 3.8 yards per carry and then it was Trevor at 339 tank Biz Bigsby who was a mid round pick for them last year had 54 132 averaged 2.6 yards per attempt. So I think that's one thing where Mitch Morse, they're kind of hoping can help evolve that. They acquired Ezra Cleveland at the trade deadline last year, I got Brandon Shurf kind of close to end stage version of himself. I think Zach Sealy, this is a big opportunity to feast with his familiarity with Mitch Morse. Say what you will about Miami and their new center situation that dynamic does technically exist for Jacksonville too, although you've seen that they've had more snap opportunities in the preseason. So some really compelling matchups all across the board. I'll be interested to see who Jalen Ramsey ends up taking. Does he shadow somebody? Does he shadow Christian Kirk? Do you do the Stefan Gilmore Bill Belichick plan and press up and shade his safety over top of Christian Kirk and put Ramsey on Gabe Davis and then try to force maybe a little bit more of a raw and unrefined route runner but a dynamic player down the field in Brian Thomas to make big plays because you're putting Ramsey on one option and then you're not doubling but you're leveraging another option that's a top option. But then that leaves the middle of the field for Evan Ingram and Evan Ingram caught a billion passes last year, 143 targets, 114 receptions, it's an 80% catch rate on 143 targets. I believe there's a NFL record for receptions for a tight end. Now that came at 8.4 yards per touch, not a lot of down the field stuff but he's an athletic player and not somebody you can miss tackle. So they post some challenges and we're going to spend the rest of this week kind of looking at those challenges, how the Dolphins can solve those challenges but that sets the table and lets you know what kind of team football team you are dealing with, a team that's probably very hungry to get a bitter taste out of their mouth with how the season ended last year. Jacksonville going from 8 and 3 to 9 and 8 and missing the post season, Dolphins Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium Sunday, we're going to keep setting the table for it this week. Hope you guys enjoyed this look at the Jaguars, look at some of the injury updates from both teams as we get closer to first injury report, which drops a little later this week. We'll have that covered and the rest of the prep for the game here on Lockdown Dolphins. Make sure you keep it locked in. It's 13 every day. I appreciate you guys checking out the show, make it a good one and I am out of here. Go Fins. 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