Welcome one, welcome all to PFF's NFL show's preview of week nine in the NFL.

I'm Trevor Sykima.

That is Dalton, Washington.

Get a rundown every single game that we have in week now.

Week nine, Dalton, we're halfway through the season.

Wild.

It feels like it's just going by in the blink of an eye.

It really does.

It feels like we're still kind of figuring out some teams. But this is the point where I think a lot of these teams start to reveal actually who they are. And it matters, certainly, when you're peeking in the second half of the season, when you're getting into the playoffs. But this is really where things start to get fun, in my opinion, where we have a lot of teams where you go, okay, you should win this game by a lot, do they? You have a lot of teams where you go, all right, you're probably not going to compete very well in this game. Do they surprise you a little bit? There's a couple of matchups that we're going to talk about this week that have to do with just that. But how are you doing, my friend? We're good. During our little intro there, I was kind of stretching out and I got a cramp in my back.

So I'm kind of working through that. We might be questionable for the rest of the show. But otherwise, otherwise pretty good. Like you mentioned, Trevor, maybe we get a few more close games this week after just one-one score game last week. But, you know, we'll see. That's the thing in the NFL is the stories change all the time. But you're right, this is the time of year when the really good teams start to separate

because they're the more consistent teams that can stack good weeks back to back. You're too young to be playing through back spasms. We can't have that. You've got to figure that out. I don't know if it's a, you got to get like a good stretching routine or you got to warm up a little bit better, but you can't be playing through

a back injury here. Unless you think you're Matthew Stafford. The 30s are tough, man. Do you think

you're Matthew Stafford? Do I think I'm Matthew Stafford? Yeah. No, that would be awfully

arrogant of me. They don't call you the Matthew Stafford of co-hosts on the PFF and of House show. Nobody said that yet? I don't have many co-hosts and you're one of only two of them that I have. So if you want to start the trend, we can try to get Max on board. It's just, you know, it just takes more than one. It takes the majority to vote on these things. And I'm sure the producers absolutely love whatever nickname you give me for sure. Okay, I'm going to give you that because Matthew Stafford's playing at elite

level this season, which means that through the rest of this season, you're absolutely going to be

an elite co-host. Wow, all right, we're living playing through injury and everything. We're good.

Or, you know, or I just went and maybe I just got to go on whatever one of those chambers that he was in in the preseason. Come back out. Come back out. Just a whole new Matthew Stafford. Oh, yeah. Right. Right. Dude, that's, that's honestly, we're going to get to the first game in a second. That's honestly when I thought it was over. When they pulled up with like the mobile chamber for him to go sit in instead of practice, that's genuinely when I thought it was over for Matthew Stafford. I'm very glad that it's not. I'm very glad that we actually get to see the Los Angeles Rams offense at its full potential, especially with Pooka and Kaka, Kua, getting more healthy and getting back. But hey, speaking of injuries, playing through some pain, that's what we got on Thursday night football here, especially with Lamar Jackson coming back. We think, right? It's not Thursday yet. Nothing's happened yet, but we assume that Lamar Jackson is going to be playing in this game here for the Baltimore Ravens who are coming off of a win. They're taking on the Miami Dolphins in Miami. And Miami's had some, you know, some ups and downs. But this past week was really good for them against the Atlanta Falcons. So it's two teams that are struggled and disappointed against their own expectations throughout the first half of the season, no doubt about it. But two teams coming off a wins. How do we feel about this one? You want to start

talking about Miami or do you want to talk about the Ravens side of things? I'm really intrigued with the Ravens defense and they've been playing a bit better the last couple of weeks. And ever since they traded for a Loe Gilman, they've kind of messed around like they did last year with the alignment of their safeties. Now last year when they went on a good defensive run in the second half of the year. They basically made Kyle Hamilton the single high free safety, the backbone of

the secondary,

and everything else was falling in line around that. This time around to make some adjustments,

trading for Gilman, moving the rookie Malachi-Starks into more of a free safety type role,

you've got Kyle Hamilton down operating in the in the slot again as the nickel,

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