This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.

What is up, Dolph fans?

And welcome to the Drive Time podcast.

I am your host, Travis Wingfield.

And on today's show, the great Daniel Oyefusi, former Dolphins beat writer now on the Browns beat beat, joins us to give us the opponent spotlight ahead of Dolphins and Browns on Sunday.

Plus, we will crack into a couple of segments or a couple ideas for a segment.

I was curious to kick around talking about Jalen Waddle's usage and his game.

We'll talk about the Dolphins' Offensive Evolution continuing some Patrick Paul talk and some building blocks talk, all of that and a heck of a lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, this is the drive time podcast. For this week's opponent spotlight, brought to you by Govi. We welcome in longtime friend of the show, former member of the Dolphins Beat. He is Daniel Oyefoussi, Browns reporter for ESPN. And Daniel, you took your talents from South Beach to Cleveland. The reverse LeBron James. How is life treating you out by the lake, man? Yeah, it's been really fun. Coming on a year or two in Cleveland, you know, I always say every year kind of takes on a life of its own. Last year it took on a life of its own that I've never really experienced.

And this year is no different.

So I'm really enjoying it. I'm having fun. Do you think kind of covering multiple teams across the league helps alter your perspective in a positive way? Because you've been with the dolphins, the Browns, and previously the Ravens. How is covering multiple teams and just short span kind of alter your perspective in this job?

Yeah, it does provide a perspective because I think that I always say like covering every team is the same in a sense because the schedules are the same. You know, it's going to be 17 games. You're going to have the bi-a-week and the week-to-week is very, is very similar. But obviously, you know, the players are different. The coaches are different. The front office is. The schemes are different. And the personality of the organization and the franchises are different. So it's been really cool to kind of compare and contrast all of them and use the past experiences that I've had to kind of inform my future experiences. Well, it's been cool to watch your career blossom to this point. And we always love having on the show. I remember having you on a couple years ago ahead of the Big Ravens game back in week 17,

and you always provided some good perspective and scheme and just in terms of how other teams operate.

So that's where I want to start with you, Daniel.

It's a perfect fit for our show here because we get pretty deep into the weeds.

And where I want to start is the evolution of the offensive scheme under Kevin Stofansky. Because obviously you have, you know, Baker Mayfield at first, who has, you know, gone on to do, you know, great things in his career. But that Deshawn Watson shift was where the offense really changed, you know, I think it's core fundamentals of what it was. But then you get the miracle Joe Flacco run on 23, and that kind of felt like more of the Stefansky offense. And he comes back this year, which kind of confirms that thought a little bit. I was just hoping you could kind of walk us through the evolution of the Kevin Stefansky offense and where it is today. You know, when Stefanski first came in 2020, you know, he had come from the Vikings where he had, you know, really, I want to say he majored in this, but he had a lot of experience and kind of like the West Coast principles and whatnot.

When we talk about the zone running scheme and then some of those gap concepts, and we saw him have a lot of success with that early on with Nick Chubb

and that really veteran offensive line that I'm sure we're going to talk about soon. But when you

bring in a player like Deshaun Watson, his skill set in the schemes that he's had success in,

that he had success in Houston and then obviously in Clemson, what was a lot different. So I think

that they tried to shift the scheme a bit and really major in what Deshaun felt

most comfortable with and had the most success with.

So you saw less two and three tight-end sets and more 11 personnel, more spread concepts,

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