1. Everyone is talking about disrupting the pocket. But Tua had the lowest average pocket time (2.1 seconds) last year. I don't care who you are on the edge, you aren't getting there in 2 seconds. If they get pressure, it will have to be interior pressure. That is part of what hurt them to end 2023.

2. As the year progressed, teams stopped being "afraid" and giving up the initial space. They tried to jam/disrupt the timing more of Tyreek and Waddle even after the motions. A lot of teams like Chiefs and Vikings would mix in a lot of press bail on top of that forcing the Dolphins to check into running plays. I would expect McDaniels to have a counter by now, but something similar with also expecting some counters will be key.

3. Those DB's will also be very important for contain on running plays. I would expect some wrinkles to mess with Jags given it is game 1, but they cannot be beat the 2nd time they see it, and they have to tackle cleanly to limit the damage of getting beat. Their run blocking uses a lot of a form of ZBS that hopefully the Jags can recognize and disrupt.

4. Protect the ball!!! Phins defense has huge question marks all over with unproven DC, their star edge players coming back from major injuries, a new scheme shift, and basically relying on Sacks/TO's last year despite giving up a tons of TD's and being bad on 3rd down and in Red Zone. If the Jags can protect the ball and do what we expect they can do, they should be able to score on the Dolphins.

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