NFL Week 3 : Buffalo Bills @ Miami Dolphins Preview & Predictions

Julian Martinez: [00:00:12] So the most exciting game away to hands down was that Dolphins Ravens game. Oh, my God. If you are part of tuned on, this is where you break out the tinfoil hat. You are right. You're praising down. You're bowing down. You are not worthy to the greatness that is Tua Tagovailoa. I mean, God bless. Six touchdowns I was not expecting. That is his marquee game. Hands down. There is nothing that he's done in the NFL to this point that tops that game. That's his signature in this very young. Because it is a very young still three year NFL career for to that game against the Ravens. How impressed were you in that obviously. Hey, bragging rights. Bragging rights here. You know, your boy picked them against the Ravens. You know, I got to get that one in this. [00:01:01][48.6]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:01:02] This was the perfect outcome because I walk away from that game saying Baltimore Ravens have the third best offense in the NFL. Hands down Baltimore Ravens behind Buffalo and behind Kansas City. Third best offense in the NFL Buffalo. Baltimore Ravens are incredible. Not only did they score 38 points, they got stopped on the one yard line that would have gave them 45 against the really good Dolphins defense. Baltimore is excellent. They have three very good receivers. They don't have a true number one, but they have DuVernay, who is excellent Rashod Bateman who is excellent, and Mark Andrews in the middle of the field. Rashod Bateman and Devin DuVernay coming into this year were viewed as like, Ooh, the Ravens have one of the worst receiving corps in the NFL. No longer. Those two are excellent. So I walk away from that saying Baltimore at my AFC North pick. Excellent. And we got the most fun game of the season because everything like the most perfect two and on completion of that game came true, which is the Dolphins had like a 2% chance to win that game. And not only did everything have to break right, with four Ravens corners being out and Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle having more receiving yards between the two of them than any tandem in the NFL since Julio Jones had 300 yards back in 2017. It is incredible how great they were in that game and the Miami Dolphins end up winning even though they probably shouldn't have won that game. They ended up winning that game behind the incredible performance. So to that, I say game of the year, everyone wins. We know Baltimore is amazing and Miami got to have a super fun performance. [00:02:43][101.4]
Julian Martinez: [00:02:44] And they go into this one. So we we talk about the expectations for Miami in the offseason. Right. We made that video and we're saying, what can the Dolphins do to establish that they're here to be a playoff team this year? And we looked at week two and we said, that is a big game. That could be a signature game. And obviously it started off ugly for them. Then they make their comeback and we see that the greatness, the untapped potential is there. The defense saw it going against a tough quarterback to play in Lamar nonetheless. But they button down, they burn it down when it mattered most. And then you talk about the offense. What could Mike McDaniel bring to the Dolphins offense? Well, he can scheme guys open. He got guys that were wide as open. You talk about the corners being out. Sure. You talk about Tyreek Hill's electric speed. Sure. But I think it really is telling that Mike McDaniels could scheme guys where there are guys not even within ten yards of them. Right. So you all two needs to do at that point is display, right. Tyreek Hill said in the offseason he's one of the most accurate quarterbacks or he's the most accurate quarterback I've ever played with. And he hit Tyreek that second deep ball. Okay, we talked about it a little bit in the weekend to the first deep ball. Not as good, but the second deep ball. That was fantastic. But he's going against this week a guy that throws the best deep ball in the National Football League and that is Josh Allen. Josh Allen. So the bills are coming off a short week. That is something the kind of plays in this game. But is it really a short week when you beat the brakes of the Tennessee Titans like they did on Monday night? Not even a this in two games. The Buffalo Bills really haven't had a contest. And that's saying, okay, I know you don't like the Titans. We'll talk about the Titans, another video. But I think the Titans, you know, they're still a playoff team last year. I don't think they've got that much worse. And then you go back to week one, they beat the Rams, the defending Super Bowl champions. They made it look easy. Actually, they didn't make it look easy. They made it look hard in the first half because they decided to turn the ball over three times. And if they hadn't turned the ball over three times, what would that game score have been? [00:04:49][124.3]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:04:50] Know it would have been it would have been 45 to 10 and Buffalo would have. I mean, they did dominate, but Buffalo, they gave up zero points to other than turnovers. They gave up zero points off turnovers in that game. They gave up seven to the Titans. And they're putting up 40 a game. The Buffalo Bills are in the same space as the Kansas City Chiefs have been for the last three years, which is the entire purpose of the regular season, is to get healthy for the playoffs and possibly learn to run the football. But if you don't learn to run the football, it's not the end of the world. Because once you come to the playoffs, you can let Josh Allen be your RB one and let him just be larger than most linebackers. [00:05:30][40.3]
Julian Martinez: [00:05:31] Let me ask you this, because the line is currently six points in the Bills favor. Do you think Vegas is looking at this and just saying the bills have just been so damn good or are they looking at the Dolphins still and with a little hesitancy to buy in? [00:05:45][13.9]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:05:45] Well, let's remember that before the fourth quarter. Well, I guess third quarter before the second half of this game, the Miami Dolphins had scored 27 points in six quarters. And I know the Patriots game was a little wonky because once they took the lead, they just kind of like screamed the ball into oblivion to end the game and they just kind of like neutered the offense and played ground control. But they didn't really do much in the first six games of the season. Their running game has been awful to start the season so far. As I said, it would be going back to the start of the year. They just have not been able to move the ball on the ground. [00:06:17][31.8]
Julian Martinez: [00:06:17] But what they have started do and I think the Ravens are going to be a good run defense throughout the course of the year. And I think obviously the Patriots are a team that focuses on taking away what your strength is as a team, which I think is going to be the running game. They start to get the ball more Terry he mostert we saw where he most are make appearance he led the dolphins that carries 11 carries I think if they didn't use him give him ten carries a game that's going to be a successful Miami Dolphins offense. You want to keep them upright. But I think that that's what they're going for. They're hoping for from them. [00:06:47][29.8]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:06:48] Yes, I think that they should. I mean, I don't I don't know what you do. I just don't think their running game is going to do great, because I don't think Edmonds or Mostert is a game changing, running back and even the McDaniel scheme. Although we'll talk about their offensive lineman a little bit later. But I do want to talk about Buffalo real quick about your question with the line. I do think that this is about Buffalo can put up 30 points with their eyes closed and they can do it without Gabriel Davis either. So like Buffalo is just walking backwards. [00:07:13][25.2]
Julian Martinez: [00:07:14] Yeah, that's kind of what they're looking like this season. [00:07:16][2.7]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:07:18] Yeah, Buffalo is totally overwhelming and we expect that they'll win every game. They won't win every game this year, but they'll be favored in every game that they play. And I think that's just a byproduct of Vegas is always putting the line where they can make money. So it's not about what they think or don't think. Obviously it's early in the week, so the line will move. But this is about making money. And so a seven point favorite is about where they feel like they can make money. Either way, Buffalo is that much of a favorite against Miami because I know everyone's high on Miami right now. By the end of the season, Miami is going to be either like sitting pretty with the sixth wild card or they're going to be battling it out for the last playoff spot by one game difference. There's like a one game difference between being comfortably in the 65 or fighting for the SEC. [00:08:04][46.9]
Julian Martinez: [00:08:05] You needed one game. You're happy that you got the one game ahead of the Baltimore Ravens, which are going to be another team that's going to be competing in that space. So the Dolphins are doing it right now. The big question about this game, as you're facing your main competitor in the AFC East now going into the season, we could be wrong. Who knows? I mean, Buffalo, again, they're walking out of this world this year. They're going into the season. We thought Buffalo was miles better than the Miami Dolphins. I think the gap is closed. So the gap is closed because Miami is showing that they have the right pieces to compete. If you go into this game and I'm not saying they win, but you go into this game and you make it a close game, you make it a game the buffalo has to think about. Then that also kind of continues to build on what you're building in Miami. And I think that that would be a good take away. So if they could get this within the Vegas line of being under six points, within six points of the Buffalo Bills, I think that's that's where they want to be. I think the hell you know what, betting wise, I am taking the dolphins plus six. I will take the dolphins plus six and I will pay the bills to win. But I will think the bills to win this game. You know. [00:09:14][69.2]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:09:15] I do as much as this is talk about too and McDaniel and the changes that the dolphins made this I feel like it can be as simple for my mom to get my let's acknowledge the 2% chance Miami is to know Miami should be one in one. No. Even if they get three touchdowns or four touchdowns in the second half of that game, they should be one and one. Let's point that out. But at the same time, isn't it super easy to look at the Dolphins year to year and say, oh, I guess just adding a top five wide receiver and a top five right tackle because I will point out through two games, Tyrann Armstead has the fourth highest pro football focus. Great of any offensive tackle in the NFL. Isn't it interesting how bringing in a top five offensive tackle and a top five wide receiver totally changes how your offense looks. [00:10:01][46.7]
Julian Martinez: [00:10:02] Another point to that, I saw this floating around Twitter that the Dolphins. And make the smarter wide receiver trade than the Las Vegas Raiders with Davante Adams. Because while Davonte may need the ball like 10 to 14 times to truly make an impact in the game, Tyreek Hill only needs 1 to 2 times touching that ball to change the entire course of how you look at a game. [00:10:25][23.2]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:10:26] Yeah, so the Davante Adams thing I think is too small of a sample size one. There's no reason he should have only had two catches for 12 yards in that Cardinals game, which I will point out lowest catches and yards total for Davante Adams since September of 2017. But the first game, Davante Adams played well and Derek Carr played shit like a late game. Touchdown is going to make Derek Carr stats look better, but Derek Carr had like a 34 quarterback rating in that Chargers game. Like he played awful and that's not going to usually happen. We don't think of Derek Carr being awful, so too small of a sample size for both guys, Tyreke and Forte. [00:11:02][36.1]
Julian Martinez: [00:11:02] But the point itself, their playstyle I think is the grander thing. You notice that Tyreke has the ability to change the game and if you're two two, you have to feel good about this man, right? You had a whole ass. You had a whole three years of people questioning your ability. Were you worth that, the fifth overall pick? Why was this guy taken ahead of Justin Herbert this that the other you know what you go out there and have a game like this. It cements your place in the NFL. It's to you know, we talk about what can to be in the long run of things is he going to be a ten year starter backup on another team down the road or is he going to be truly a difference maker quarterback too early? He talked about small sample size, too early for me saying for sure. But if you're Tua you did it in your mind, right? You did it on the fill. So you have you. [00:11:56][54.2]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:11:56] Did it one time. Yes. [00:11:57][1.0]
Julian Martinez: [00:11:58] So in your mind you're like, you know what, I could beat a team like Baltimore. Why can't I beat a team like the Bills? You know, moving up the confidence because I feel like Tua his confidence had to be at an all time low as a player, you know, when you're getting benched, pulled back and forth with Ryan Fitzpatrick your first year and then last year, you know, you have all the Brady rumors and you have Bryant flaws, not fully trusting you and the GM even make some comments that are questionable about your future American. [00:12:26][27.8]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:12:27] Ribs in the first game of the season. [00:12:28][1.7]
Julian Martinez: [00:12:29] People question how tough you are, you know, and he's making spin moves making sack in third reason this game you feel good about that and I think that that's important I think that's why McDaniels is was the right hire because this is what people say back to his time with San Francisco, that he empowers players, that he makes people believe in themselves. And it sounds hokey. It sounds like a thing on a Christmas card, you know, or something like that, a Hallmark movie. But I like that's important for a guy that, like I said, has had his confidence beaten into the ground, like to or has over the last three years. [00:13:04][35.4]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:13:05] Mike McDaniel makes people believe in themselves, even though the Dolphins didn't believe in Tua and the Dolphins also didn't believe it. Mike McDaniel Because I will remind people they wanted Sean Payton, then they wanted Brian Daboll, then they got Mike McDaniel, they used their Plan C head coach. [00:13:20][14.9]
Julian Martinez: [00:13:21] The Rams didn't know what they had when they hired the youngest head coach in the NFL in 2017. Sometimes, you know, you walk into it, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good at hiring people. [00:13:30][9.5]
Kyle Ledbetter: [00:13:31] I think the Rams were good at the hiring process and they ended up with a generational coach. All this to say, yeah, Buffalo's going to win, Buffalo is going to defeat the Miami Dolphins in this game. And I'm not going to bet against Buffalo the entire season because I will win more often than I will not. But think about this week. We've gone from to being the guy who is the like the most polarizing person in the NFL. The Dolphins spent two years trying to replace him with three different quarterbacks. And now the Miami Dolphins might give him the Jared Goff extension. [00:14:03][31.4]
Julian Martinez: [00:14:04] Yeah, and time will tell how that goes. But you know what? Last year we questioned whether or not the Cincinnati Bengals were a good team or not. After the game against the Green Bay Packers in week two or three, you know, maybe this is the Ravens game was their turning point moment. Who knows? I'm going to buy in on the Dolphins. But guys, are you buying in on the Dolphins? Are you buying in on the Buffalo Bills? Where are you going for this Sunday? Who do you think's going to get the win in Miami? Drop below in the comment section we were like in the video, subscribe to the channel post and social media from Juju and Kyle. Stay safe, happy and healthy and we will see you next time. I don't know what that was. See you next. [00:14:04][0.0]
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