Speaker 1: Do I remove galling deep speedwas Peace dot Hell. From
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Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my heavy
Speaker 1: hands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, the All twenty two review from
Speaker 1: the Buffalo lost the Dolphins fall to two and six.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you where it went right, where it
Speaker 1: went wrong, the things I love, the things I didn't love.
Speaker 1: Why I thought the quarterback played his best game or
Speaker 1: any Dolphins quarterback in the last I don't know thirty years.
Speaker 1: We'll break that down, tell you about how the defense
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field of much much more. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Mage some general points
Speaker 1: off the top here, and you know we'll start with
Speaker 1: the offense as we always do on these All twenty
Speaker 1: two reviews. I went in on this on the show
Speaker 1: yesterday off the broadcast, so I won't do it in
Speaker 1: detail again. But I just love the process and attacking
Speaker 1: areas of the field that were left vacant by the
Speaker 1: Bills defense. Like, okay, so look again, we're two and six.
Speaker 1: I get there's mostly frustration across the fan base. This
Speaker 1: team is just too talented to be in this position.
Speaker 1: All of that justified, But I'm telling you this was
Speaker 1: the next evolution for the offense to become an even
Speaker 1: better version of the group that finished first in total
Speaker 1: offense a year ago. I always felt like we needed
Speaker 1: to be able to take advantage of the way teams
Speaker 1: defend Tyreek and Waddle a little bit more, even if
Speaker 1: that means those guys have to go a game where
Speaker 1: they only get a handful of targets, or if they
Speaker 1: have a game where they have you know, four k
Speaker 1: just for eighty yards, it's pretty effective. It's not Tyreek's typical,
Speaker 1: you know, ten for one eighty, but it's pretty good
Speaker 1: and they have to be okay with that. I think
Speaker 1: that based upon their blocking efforts, it looks to me
Speaker 1: like they are and like we saw this with Tua
Speaker 1: before McDaniel got here, right. I think back to the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one game at the Jets, where he played
Speaker 1: a great game, throwing verticals to Mac Collins, getting his
Speaker 1: checkdowns to Adam Shaheen and Miles Gaskin getting his intermediate
Speaker 1: work to Isaiah Ford, Like he's shown that he can
Speaker 1: move an offense by just going to the open guy,
Speaker 1: even if it's not the most notably explosive group in
Speaker 1: the world. And quite frankly, those eligible groups were probably
Speaker 1: the worst in the NFL at the time. But if
Speaker 1: you can give me both of those worlds, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how you pull teams out of the bracket funnel
Speaker 1: two man approach we've seen, and sure enough what happened
Speaker 1: late in the game. But a vertical shot to Tyreek,
Speaker 1: a deep crosser like, a deep glance to Tyreek, a
Speaker 1: dig to John new Smith, a deep out to Waddle
Speaker 1: for a critical third down conversion, a scramble touchdown to Wattle, Like,
Speaker 1: you pulled them out of that by being perfectly efficient
Speaker 1: in your other stuff. So while they had the perfectly
Speaker 1: timed screen dialed up on three bills blitzes on two
Speaker 1: separate scoring drives, dammit, I just also loved the vision
Speaker 1: of this offensive attack, and you see it all the time,
Speaker 1: really good quarterbacks. They catch the snap, they hit the
Speaker 1: top of the drop and the ball starts to come
Speaker 1: out when I watch a broadcast and the opposing quarterback
Speaker 1: plays like that where it's catch rock throw and you
Speaker 1: can't see the coverage down the field because for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: someone in football broadcasting decided that you should only see
Speaker 1: the pass rushing quarterback and not the entire field. I'll
Speaker 1: never understand that, but you usually know it's a bad
Speaker 1: play when the quarterback's in rhythm because that means they
Speaker 1: saw it and they ripped it and it was to
Speaker 1: an open man when they play that fast, and that's
Speaker 1: what two was doing all game long, and it's not sexy.
Speaker 1: It's five and six yard throws, which we'll come back
Speaker 1: to the concept of average depth of targeting the difficulty
Speaker 1: of doing these things, because I think there's a large
Speaker 1: contingent of non football people that don't understand just how
Speaker 1: good that is or what goes into that. But it's
Speaker 1: because they know what's going to be there based upon
Speaker 1: the pre snap look with anticipation, and they can generate
Speaker 1: this you know, forward lean or even run after the
Speaker 1: catch to the receiver because they put the ball in
Speaker 1: a good location on the upfield shoulder away from the
Speaker 1: leverage of the defense, and you can steal seven or
Speaker 1: eight yards here or there with really easy over the
Speaker 1: football throws. It goes back to the concept that you
Speaker 1: know Kyle Krabs asked this to Daryl Bevell in the
Speaker 1: summer back in training camp about trying to lighten the
Speaker 1: load of stressful reads for the quarterback. That's part of it.
Speaker 1: When you can get those spot throws for eight yards
Speaker 1: to give yourself a second and two when it's a
Speaker 1: relatively easy spot, and it puts you in these consistent
Speaker 1: second three second two spots, which is a recipe for
Speaker 1: highly efficient football because you can attack explosives and keep
Speaker 1: ahead of the chains like you're not going to get
Speaker 1: stopped that frequently, especially when your quarterback plays at this level,
Speaker 1: your offensive line plays at this level. You have receivers
Speaker 1: willing to block, and they're good receivers as well, and
Speaker 1: you got a stable of running backs that can hit
Speaker 1: you in any cut type of way. So like just
Speaker 1: on the first drive alone, eight Chan goes for eight
Speaker 1: followed by a spot route to Tyreek for like four
Speaker 1: or five. That moves the chains. Easy first down. It's
Speaker 1: take that all the all the all day. The ball
Speaker 1: was out right away, Tua moves this rail defender just
Speaker 1: a little bit the sideline kind of like it's like
Speaker 1: a wheel route, but it's from the it's from the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, so it's not the you know, the
Speaker 1: out and up. It's just the straight kind of takeoff
Speaker 1: you call it. It's called a rail and the ball
Speaker 1: hits reek right out of the break away from the leverage.
Speaker 1: They take a sack and after that, on second and
Speaker 1: seventeen they have a spot throw to Odell Beckham to
Speaker 1: get you right back into the down and distance. It's
Speaker 1: not like a shot play. It's not like a give
Speaker 1: up running play. It puts you back in third long.
Speaker 1: This is our third manageable I should say, this is
Speaker 1: the offense that I liked, opposed to again trying to
Speaker 1: run the ball on second and ten, which they did
Speaker 1: that a couple times in this game, but they got
Speaker 1: away with it in some spent some spots, but typically
Speaker 1: I don't like to run the ball on second and ten.
Speaker 1: I digress. They also run this fake screen draw and
Speaker 1: it was, you know, a wrinkle off of the now
Speaker 1: throws where they stand up and throw the ball to
Speaker 1: the perimeter to the receivers and they it got us
Speaker 1: in this positive leverage situation and it pulls ed all
Speaker 1: over all the way upfield out of the play. They
Speaker 1: just had like answers and then answers to the adjustment
Speaker 1: to the answers, we cause confusion on a slow play
Speaker 1: screen to Raheem Moster, where they the receivers were all condensed.
Speaker 1: They were all inside the numbers, you know. And this
Speaker 1: is why it worked because they short motion. Malik Washington,
Speaker 1: he was the one receiver to the field, to the
Speaker 1: wide side of the field. He was the furthest out
Speaker 1: and he motions into a stack, which means he's right
Speaker 1: behind Jalen Waddle and he's doing it on the exit
Speaker 1: motion track. We know how he used to send Tyreek
Speaker 1: out and he would go upfield. And the motion kind
Speaker 1: of took the league by storm there for a whole season,
Speaker 1: and it caused this confusion between the hook defender and
Speaker 1: the curl flat defender. Travis, what does that mean? The
Speaker 1: curl flat defense is the perimeter defender, which he can
Speaker 1: play that like you know, eight yard curl zone, or
Speaker 1: he can play the flat on the quick stuff to
Speaker 1: the running back. And the hook defender is quite simply
Speaker 1: the linebacker or a slot defender sometimes a safety in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, so it's basically that middle
Speaker 1: level of the defense. Curl flat is outside, hook is
Speaker 1: on the inside. So they confuse those two guys in
Speaker 1: coverage against a Bill's three deep zone coverage, which you've
Speaker 1: earned from all the tape you have of Tyreek and
Speaker 1: Waddle beating teams deep. So what's the adjustment to that.
Speaker 1: And here's why it worked. They brought the lead block
Speaker 1: on the play for ahemoster from the backside, so the
Speaker 1: front side of their zone coverage can't identify that because
Speaker 1: they can only play what's in front of them within
Speaker 1: their zone. And so two A patiently back pedals and
Speaker 1: lets the rush get in before he flips it right
Speaker 1: over their heads. That's screen game one oh one. And
Speaker 1: you get John new Smith from the backside Malak Washington
Speaker 1: from the front side on these downfield blocks where they
Speaker 1: go hit unsuspecting defenders, and there's three defenders that are
Speaker 1: five or fifteen yards there was two there were fifteen
Speaker 1: yards and one that was five yards beyond the first
Speaker 1: down marker being out of the play, and then four
Speaker 1: pass rushers on the other side of the ball who
Speaker 1: are behind the football and out of the place. So
Speaker 1: you have seven defenders all the way out of the play.
Speaker 1: You've got well timed up and good angles for Malik
Speaker 1: and John who to execute their blocks in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, and Raheem just goes and gets it.
Speaker 1: It's when good scheme meets good execution and that is
Speaker 1: what makes me happy on a Monday morning watching this tape.
Speaker 1: Is Mike McDaniel back, I think you might be We're back.
Speaker 1: Who was that Sam Ellinger at Texas? That was a
Speaker 1: fun drop. Later we get downhill flow on split flow action,
Speaker 1: which you guys know what that is by now right.
Speaker 1: It's when you run your zone one direction and the
Speaker 1: tight end off the opposite side of the formation comes
Speaker 1: back and picks off the backside defender to kind of
Speaker 1: make sure they can't crash freely and cut down your
Speaker 1: play from the backside. And we run this under route
Speaker 1: to John U. Smith where he has a catch and
Speaker 1: run of ten yards. Like when you get the run
Speaker 1: game going like this, you can scheme up these walk
Speaker 1: in the park throws to make stuff easier in your
Speaker 1: quarterback and then you go ask your franchise quarterback to
Speaker 1: make five or six big time plays in a game.
Speaker 1: He had like three big time throws and two big
Speaker 1: scrambles and off script type of throws as well. That's
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. And this is exactly this is
Speaker 1: to a T to a T toungue mailoa. I wrote
Speaker 1: my three takeaways piece to day, and I wrote to
Speaker 1: a T on offense like T o a tee to
Speaker 1: a T and then parenthetical to a T to to
Speaker 1: you tu a whatever. Who cares? I lost the thread
Speaker 1: there again, this is what Drew Brees did his entire
Speaker 1: career en route to the Hall of Fame, right he
Speaker 1: you know, and the game manager stuff like I'll say
Speaker 1: it for Mike mcdaalelau I asked him about in his
Speaker 1: press conference. Which is the cool part about having this
Speaker 1: position is I can see what you guys are talking
Speaker 1: about and I can go ask the head coach about it.
Speaker 1: But there was a you know, it was. It was
Speaker 1: such a Drew Brees perform romans in terms of just
Speaker 1: you know, Drew used to be. He would go out
Speaker 1: four on bye weeks and he would go out at
Speaker 1: one o'clock in New Orleans at the super Dome and
Speaker 1: run the full game script. And that's just like the
Speaker 1: type of player he was. The way he visioned the game.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you guys right now some sideline
Speaker 1: feedback that when we're talking about player interaction and I
Speaker 1: guess demeanor on the sidelines, there's there's one guy that
Speaker 1: is always locked in on the game and asking questions
Speaker 1: about the game, looking at the tablet and coverages, and
Speaker 1: it's to a tongue of by Lowa. He is a competitor.
Speaker 1: He is locked in. He is the guy you want
Speaker 1: to lead your franchise because of how he's wired in
Speaker 1: that way. And that's where Drew Brees was obsessed with
Speaker 1: the process and the you know, the route concepts and
Speaker 1: the rush and the coverage and how all that comes together.
Speaker 1: And that's why Breeze took a while to develop and
Speaker 1: became the superstar quarterback in his late twenties and do
Speaker 1: his thirties, And here we are too at twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. It looks to me like he's unlocked that
Speaker 1: next level of his game. On top of the manipulation,
Speaker 1: on top of the anticipation, on top of the hibernation
Speaker 1: and the consternation and the fluggabration. I'm just kidding this point,
Speaker 1: but he like took this ability to know where things
Speaker 1: were going to be after the snap pre snap and
Speaker 1: maximized it. And that's why you get these massive scoring
Speaker 1: runs and touchdowns. And you're scoring on sixty six percent
Speaker 1: of your drives since he came back. You're averaging three
Speaker 1: point six points per drive since he came back, which
Speaker 1: is double the league average. Like this team is on
Speaker 1: one on offense, they just need more possessions which gets
Speaker 1: some takeaways, maybe get some stops from three and outs
Speaker 1: and that would go a long way. But the Cardinals
Speaker 1: and Bill's offenses both kind of got whatever they want,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half of games. But it's it's
Speaker 1: you know one o the kids say, it's giving Drew
Speaker 1: brees Man. It really is. Now. There was a single
Speaker 1: play that I hated on offense. It was the offset
Speaker 1: dive to Raheem Moster on third and one on that
Speaker 1: opening field goal drive. Without going in depth, that play
Speaker 1: required Tyreek Hill to cut off Taylor rap across his
Speaker 1: face when he was out leveraged by two steps. He's
Speaker 1: just not going to make that block. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any receiver in the league that does make that
Speaker 1: block much less year five to nine speedster, I don't
Speaker 1: know this for sure, but I think that Tua has
Speaker 1: autonomy to get out of that play, and in that instance,
Speaker 1: that's one mistake that he made, aside from a drop
Speaker 1: snap that he had. And then there was one more
Speaker 1: layer of the game that I forgot, But we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to the notes here just a second. We ran
Speaker 1: this a few times but never got to it with
Speaker 1: Reek and Waddle both getting open on stick nod and
Speaker 1: stick nod. If you are not familiar with that, it's
Speaker 1: the play that Waddle made against the Ravens two years
Speaker 1: ago when he caught it in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and took off like a fifty seven yard run
Speaker 1: and Ingold had that crushing block down field. You basically
Speaker 1: run stick, which is like a six yard route over
Speaker 1: the middle of the football, and then Nod is getting
Speaker 1: back up field vertical and the quarterback meets you at
Speaker 1: once you juke got that linebacker or slot defender in
Speaker 1: the middle, and we kept going to it and says,
Speaker 1: it's this great wrinkle off of all the short and
Speaker 1: quick game we hit over the perimeter, and sure enough
Speaker 1: they do come back to it on the deep ball
Speaker 1: to Reek, which wasn't stick nod, but it was a
Speaker 1: double move, a little out and up, which is similar
Speaker 1: to stick nod. So we saw something there and went
Speaker 1: after a relentless and Tua missed the throw by just
Speaker 1: a hair on that deep shot. But it wasn't as
Speaker 1: bad as they made it seem on the broadcast. Or
Speaker 1: maybe even two was getting on himself, which you should
Speaker 1: believe too, because he knows where the ball is supposed
Speaker 1: to go. But Damar Hamlin, are you guys familiar with
Speaker 1: the red line on the football field. It's on the
Speaker 1: practice field, it's not in game day field, but it's
Speaker 1: the line that receivers are supposed to hold when they
Speaker 1: run vertical that way. Tamar Hamlin was like one step
Speaker 1: away from where the red line would be, which means
Speaker 1: he was gonna converge. And if the ball's even a
Speaker 1: step further inside, I think Tyreek gets blasted. Now, there
Speaker 1: was a perfect spot he could have put it for
Speaker 1: a maybe a little bit more of a catch and run,
Speaker 1: but I really don't think it cost him more than
Speaker 1: like five or six yards, and it kept Tyreek Klan
Speaker 1: from taking a big hit. Now, it did put the
Speaker 1: ball into a contested catch spot, which I don't love that,
Speaker 1: but he made the catch, so all is good here
Speaker 1: on this one. Just a quick shout out to a
Speaker 1: few guys on the a Chan Texas screen. Touchdown. Obj
Speaker 1: has a great block downfield. Rob Jones has a crushing
Speaker 1: block at the point of attack to give him the
Speaker 1: initial space. Aaron Brewer winds up in the end zone
Speaker 1: before Devon a Chan does, which just shows you how
Speaker 1: much effort he puts into it. I love that stuff,
Speaker 1: and gosh, like, the big takeaway is kind of this.
Speaker 1: They lined up against a good football team that plays
Speaker 1: big boy football and plays connected and has coached well
Speaker 1: and usually beat you up in the trenches, and they
Speaker 1: took it to them. You lined up and went at them.
Speaker 1: There wasn't bells and whistles, there wasn't any cute bs.
Speaker 1: They just played football and took it to them and
Speaker 1: scored on like, what was it, six of the eight
Speaker 1: possessions or five, however many it was. I think I
Speaker 1: think that was the best part about the game, even
Speaker 1: if you came up short at the end. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing for me is, for the love of God, please
Speaker 1: learn from that and keep doing it as we go forward.
Speaker 1: That's my only thing. My final thought is this and again,
Speaker 1: I know there's a massive section of Dolphins fans that
Speaker 1: do not want to hear this, and that's okay. You
Speaker 1: are within your rights as a fan to well, for one,
Speaker 1: do whatever the hell you want, because you know that's
Speaker 1: your right in any sense. But as a fan, you
Speaker 1: can be upset about looking at black and white results,
Speaker 1: which that's not my job here. So when I tweet
Speaker 1: something about the game and you say one in three
Speaker 1: though whatever it is like that, I'm not for you
Speaker 1: go to the newspaper and read the box score, because
Speaker 1: that's not what I do. I provide nuance and contexts
Speaker 1: and critical context too, But I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: you learn some hard lessons this year. Lessons that and
Speaker 1: this is where I can get mad too. Should probably
Speaker 1: have only taken four weeks, but it took them eight
Speaker 1: and two. A injury is the caveat there. But still
Speaker 1: the offensive structure it was bad early on, Like it
Speaker 1: had me questioning things about the structure of the offense
Speaker 1: and what are we doing here in your number three?
Speaker 1: Like it was not what I expected coming in and
Speaker 1: that wasn't a quarterback dependent thing. It was bad for
Speaker 1: I thought all the quarterbacks early on didn't matter the
Speaker 1: personnel choices I didn't love either. I thought Malik, you know,
Speaker 1: he was hurt early on, but we've taken a lot
Speaker 1: longer to ramp him up than I thought was required.
Speaker 1: And you can't tell me that chose him. Braxton or
Speaker 1: Grant Dubos were better options than that guy early on.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, he looks to me kind of like
Speaker 1: River Craycraft two point zero in this offense, and probably
Speaker 1: with more juice as a receiver. What a boon that
Speaker 1: would be to the offense. So it's probably a little
Speaker 1: bit too late at two and six. If they had
Speaker 1: won yesterday or against the Cardinals Omber three and five,
Speaker 1: I would say, this is your seventh seed in the
Speaker 1: AFC playoffs. But I think you might have given yourself
Speaker 1: one game too much of a whole. But what does
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel always say, You have to make losing purposeful.
Speaker 1: Let's take this year, Okay, take it on the chin,
Speaker 1: get those few week spots buttoned up on the offense,
Speaker 1: play some really good offensive football all the way down
Speaker 1: the stretch, develop further continuity and Anthony Weavers system, and
Speaker 1: go remix some of the positions you're going to have
Speaker 1: to do this offseason, like go after the edge group,
Speaker 1: go after defensive line depth this offseason, and come back
Speaker 1: and be the offense you saw yesterday, but be that
Speaker 1: in week one and the defense that you saw in
Speaker 1: weeks three through seven. Be that from week one, Go
Speaker 1: win fourteen games, go play two home playoff games, and
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl. Okay, that's the vision. That's
Speaker 1: the basket I'm putting my eggs in when I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year, because last week I
Speaker 1: didn't know what to root for, because I didn't know
Speaker 1: if this team had the gumption to do what we
Speaker 1: saw yesterday offensively. Now that I've seen that, that's why
Speaker 1: I want the rest of the way. And again more caveats.
Speaker 1: I know Dolphins fans have the smallest patients of any
Speaker 1: fan base and again warranted, but you have to also
Speaker 1: be logical to understand that you cannot let twenty four
Speaker 1: years of futility impede your decision making today. Right, what
Speaker 1: happened prior to twenty twenty two is not relevant to
Speaker 1: the staff. So if it's a six game period where
Speaker 1: you looked like you were not NFL worthy and you
Speaker 1: learn from that. Okay, I can bite the bullets, so
Speaker 1: to speak, on that and invest myself into other loves
Speaker 1: I have while this season kind of plays its way out.
Speaker 1: My wife, my kids, my golf game. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big film and show buff, my golf YouTube channels,
Speaker 1: the Mariners, the Heat College hoops in March and April.
Speaker 1: I am more than willing to not think the world
Speaker 1: is over when the football season is kind of over
Speaker 1: at this point in life. If you can't get there
Speaker 1: with me, understandable again. But it does feel nice to
Speaker 1: have direction once again and to be able to cope
Speaker 1: with the perspective that sometimes otherwise good operations have years
Speaker 1: where it just does not go their way. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to do this on the Wednesday podcast where I
Speaker 1: talk about some teams that had one year hiccups in
Speaker 1: the road of otherwise good builds. And that's again the
Speaker 1: vision that I'm hoping for. I'm not saying it's going
Speaker 1: to happen, but that's what I think you can see
Speaker 1: as the positive end of the tunnel light with this
Speaker 1: whole situation. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right here, come back and talk about a quarterback that
Speaker 1: I think played the best game we've seen the Dolphins
Speaker 1: quarterback play in a very long time. The rest of
Speaker 1: the offensive notes, the snapcounts, defensive notes, as well all
Speaker 1: of that. Next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Autnation. Many many thoughts on this
Speaker 1: edition of the Draft Time Podcast because that game kind
Speaker 1: of brought me back to life a little bit, even
Speaker 1: a loss, I know, but I think I explained myself
Speaker 1: pretty well there. But usually the quarterback segment goes into
Speaker 1: the first segment of the podcast, but I had so
Speaker 1: much to say here that twe do it in the
Speaker 1: second segment, second sessant sesgment on the posecast here with
Speaker 1: DRIs Ton trist Swingfield. So again I mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 1: but you know who this tape reminded me of, and
Speaker 1: remember who he was compared to throughout the draft process.
Speaker 1: That was Drew Brees playing quarterback for your Dolphin yesterday.
Speaker 1: He knew the answers to the test before he went
Speaker 1: into the classroom. He was like me in high school
Speaker 1: with the water bottle and the rap on the back
Speaker 1: of the arrowhead bottle, having the answers written on the
Speaker 1: back of it. You unfold it, you peel it off.
Speaker 1: You look at it, write down your test answers, turn
Speaker 1: your test in, you get a passing grade. Congratulations, you
Speaker 1: cheated away through high school. I remember Breeze efficiently spread
Speaker 1: the football to Kamara and Ingram tight ends and receivers,
Speaker 1: maximizing that duo of Kamara and Ingram to full effect
Speaker 1: after it was Reggie Bush and Ingram before Kamara got there.
Speaker 1: And I think Tua has all of that. This will
Speaker 1: be a theme on the podcast this week, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm as excited about where this offense is
Speaker 1: right now as I've been during this entire three year run. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the two and six part sucks. It sucks. I made
Speaker 1: peace with the fact that the season's too late, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it was kind of when Tua got hurt
Speaker 1: back in Week two where I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this year ain't gonna be our year, just one of
Speaker 1: those years. But it's kind of continued that direction because
Speaker 1: they've only won one game since then, a barn burner
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. And you know, I suppose making my
Speaker 1: piece with it that early on made it a bit
Speaker 1: easier to swallow now. But all the last few weeks
Speaker 1: I kept saying, I just don't know what's best for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, But now I do know. It's this
Speaker 1: offense doesn't have to lose any parts sans maybe a
Speaker 1: left tackle that retires and he's playing the best ball
Speaker 1: of his career. And hopefully the guy you drafted in
Speaker 1: the second round is ready to take that spot in
Speaker 1: your number two. Which that's how it should work if
Speaker 1: you're going to be an effective franchise. Right, And then
Speaker 1: we get you know, we can add better depth across
Speaker 1: the offensive line, like that's really all you need at
Speaker 1: some key spots and make that third receiver spot or
Speaker 1: the depth in general a major point of contention because
Speaker 1: I'm tired of watching it play out the way it has.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, get better tight end depth
Speaker 1: behind John Ruys Smith. Think about that. You need what
Speaker 1: a couple of replacement level guards maybe maybe one. You
Speaker 1: need a backup center probably would help. You need a
Speaker 1: tight end two and like a receiver three ish. Like
Speaker 1: that's like when my wife sends me to publics and says,
Speaker 1: I need bread, milk and bread. It's the easiest shop
Speaker 1: than the list of all time. We can execute that,
Speaker 1: no problem. I back to the quarterback spot here. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of I've been really thinking about like future and
Speaker 1: tying it into today's team, so like, bear with me there.
Speaker 1: But I do have one mistake. For two on the day,
Speaker 1: it was the snap that he dropped. That's not true,
Speaker 1: I have I wrote these notes like in different times,
Speaker 1: so forgive me for that. But on tape, on that play,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson gets beat by von Miller straight away, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a stack of the way. Tua's only
Speaker 1: in completion that wasn't a throwaway was actually a drop
Speaker 1: passed by Tyreek Hill a third eleven on the opening drive,
Speaker 1: and you see Rasul Douglas's hand get in there, but
Speaker 1: it does hit Tyreek right in the chest at the
Speaker 1: sticks he drops it, And it wouldn't be a game
Speaker 1: against a really good team if Tyreek did not have
Speaker 1: a huge drop right. That's a cheap shot, but it's true.
Speaker 1: It happens every single time we play a good team.
Speaker 1: I mean, this game was just master for his feel
Speaker 1: for space and time all game long, getting deep into
Speaker 1: his progression, finding the outlet as the fourth and fifth option,
Speaker 1: putting it on the upfield shoulder to help guys run
Speaker 1: out for the catch, throwing with accuracy under the face
Speaker 1: of pressure, creating off script. I covered a lot of
Speaker 1: it in the general offense section, but let's start here
Speaker 1: in the end of the third with this throw to
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill that you've seen a million times on social
Speaker 1: from all the film junkie accounts, where he cuts this
Speaker 1: thing loose with Tyreek between the two hook defenders and
Speaker 1: you'll see them both leading to their left, and that's
Speaker 1: because Tua strides that way and displaces them with body positioning,
Speaker 1: but throws it back across his body to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: on the breaker and he gets clobbered by Ed Oliver
Speaker 1: on the play. The ball's right on the money and
Speaker 1: it goes for thirty one yards, a career highlight type
Speaker 1: of play from the quarterback, and he just got better
Speaker 1: from there. On that first touchdown drive of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I thought he was late on the third and five
Speaker 1: throw to eight Chan to the flat, late by like
Speaker 1: one step, which I think cost him a first down
Speaker 1: on that play, But he comes back and scrambles for
Speaker 1: a first on fourth down, So who really cares? Remember
Speaker 1: that nineteen yard seams shot the Tyreek Hill where Trent
Speaker 1: Green praised the adjustment. On the broadcast late in the game,
Speaker 1: you got curl flat displacement because Tua did this little
Speaker 1: shoulder roll to the Wattle square in it causes the
Speaker 1: byde up, but then he's able to get the ball
Speaker 1: up and down so fast when he resets. That's part
Speaker 1: of too a superpower. Where some quarterbacks take some time
Speaker 1: to get their feet right or put themselves in position
Speaker 1: to start their throwing motion, Tua doesn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: They have to see it and then they can operate
Speaker 1: the throwing motion and the release. But Tua can generate
Speaker 1: all of that at the same time, like simultaneously see
Speaker 1: it and hit it. And it's impressive as hell. And
Speaker 1: that's the best way I can describe what makes him special.
Speaker 1: He sees the field as well as anybody else in
Speaker 1: the National Football League and has the physical skills to
Speaker 1: rip it as fast as he sees it. And that
Speaker 1: third down throw to Wattle the out route was a
Speaker 1: thing of beauty. The blitz is on, he feels the
Speaker 1: press trail technique of the cornerback and puts the ball
Speaker 1: right on the outside shoulder right out of the break.
Speaker 1: That ball has to be perfect location and timing and
Speaker 1: it was third and seven game on the line. Conversion
Speaker 1: two plays later is the nineteen yard touch throw to
Speaker 1: eight Chan and Tua creates this by working through his
Speaker 1: progressions and then throwing the ball on the upfield shoulder
Speaker 1: so DeVaan doesn't slow down to stare down the barrel
Speaker 1: in order to hold the defense. Then to flip back
Speaker 1: to the perimeter and get that ball out in that location.
Speaker 1: All that quickly is flat out talent. He holds the
Speaker 1: defenders where they are and by the time he gets
Speaker 1: over there, their reaction to him because the ball's out
Speaker 1: so fast it's the same time that he goes, So
Speaker 1: he has them beat because he's faster with them with
Speaker 1: how quickly he can put the ball in that position.
Speaker 1: And then the second touchdown the primary is not there
Speaker 1: a little stick flag combination to wreak and waddle As
Speaker 1: he resets the pocket moves, but he moves with it
Speaker 1: and kind of feels how that pocket shifts around and
Speaker 1: his movement causes the rush lanes to fall out of whack,
Speaker 1: allows him to attack the line of scrimmage, and a
Speaker 1: tremendous job by Waddle to move with his quarterback tu
Speaker 1: what throws it across his body on the move to
Speaker 1: the right on the money bang touchdown tie game late
Speaker 1: in the game. That's the best tape I've seen from
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback ever. That's what it is, man, probably the
Speaker 1: best tape since number thirteen was here, almost without flaw,
Speaker 1: high level anticipation, manipulation, creativity, big time throws on third downs,
Speaker 1: maximizing space, in fact, one of the biggest pet peeves
Speaker 1: I have in this game. And I spoke to someone
Speaker 1: that does this at a high level, like they didn't
Speaker 1: give them credit because the average depth of target and
Speaker 1: like the lack of big time throws. Just by the way,
Speaker 1: there were three big time throws in this games. Me
Speaker 1: that Tyreek Hill shot over the middle. If that's not
Speaker 1: a big time throw, then redo your big time throw
Speaker 1: type of metrics. But it doesn't. Just because the throws
Speaker 1: are short doesn't mean it's not high level quarterback play.
Speaker 1: Like if they're gonna blitz and you and you identify
Speaker 1: the blitz and throw it into that vacancy to Devon
Speaker 1: eh Chan naked. I would rather do that than throw,
Speaker 1: you know, a covered forty yard deep shot that gets
Speaker 1: you know, a fifty to fifty ball that gets caught.
Speaker 1: That's a way more effective quarterback play. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: low risk, high reward quarterback play. And so I asked
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel on Monday, like, how would you push back
Speaker 1: against this idea that being a game manager has a
Speaker 1: negative connotation attached to it? And how would you also
Speaker 1: kind of reflect upon that when you consider, you know,
Speaker 1: Tua's game on Sunday and the fact that his brow
Speaker 1: chart only had x amount throws down the field, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you bundle all that together and describe what
Speaker 1: made his performance special? Let's go to the Miami head coach.
Speaker 2: We've found found the hard way going against a division
Speaker 2: opponent that's you know, at the top of of the
Speaker 2: class and defensive football for the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: that that you know, particularly the Buffalo Bills, UH will
Speaker 2: UH will force bad things to happen, sack fumbles, picks
Speaker 2: if you uh, if they want to take something away.
Speaker 2: And football in general is UH is about maximizing uh,
Speaker 2: you know, specifically our offenses maximizing overplay. And if you're
Speaker 2: going to overplay with depth, you have to execute in
Speaker 2: in high percentage completions and yards after the catch that
Speaker 2: aren't necessarily the cross court gigantic plays, but are the
Speaker 2: throw at for four and you get seven? Uh, and that,
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the art of that that particular
Speaker 2: style of defense when they want to play that, when
Speaker 2: they want to play the way they've proven to have
Speaker 2: success against our offense.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a.
Speaker 2: A great display of Tua's evolution of finding completions and
Speaker 2: utilizing his accuracy and challenging the areas of the field
Speaker 2: that weren't overpopulated. And you know, with a team that
Speaker 2: plays with a bunch of quarterback vision that relies on turnovers,
Speaker 2: it's absolutely absolutely imperative to be able to pass the
Speaker 2: pass the ball efficiently and take advantage of the areas
Speaker 2: where they're avoiding.
Speaker 1: So I think that's an art.
Speaker 2: What you're saying, managing the game against zone defenses, you
Speaker 2: usually can't against really good zone defenses. You can't manage
Speaker 2: the game in the way of just finding checkdowns because
Speaker 2: if you go to the checkdown too early in the play,
Speaker 2: they play deep and we'll sprint forward and you'll get
Speaker 2: you'll get a two yard game. So you have to
Speaker 2: play the position to get the appropriately to get the
Speaker 2: ball to the eligibles at the time of the play,
Speaker 2: and that is an art form that many many quarterbacks
Speaker 2: find very difficult, particularly against the Buffalo Bills. So I
Speaker 2: thought yesterday was a great example of aggressively taking what
Speaker 2: the defense gives you. And you know, he was able
Speaker 2: to do some have some success that we haven't had
Speaker 2: in the past based upon his commitment to his craft
Speaker 2: and being aggressive to all eligibles, based upon overplay.
Speaker 1: All right, so go ahead and finish up the offense
Speaker 1: here on this style. We'll take our last break into
Speaker 1: the defense. No snapcounts today, it's just we're getting too
Speaker 1: long on the podcast. Devon Hien is seeing it like
Speaker 1: I thought he saw it last year. With his vision.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the best on the team, but
Speaker 1: his explosiveness more than makes up for it. And it
Speaker 1: makes for a fun combination because he can hit those
Speaker 1: gaps and get through him with a pretty good conviction.
Speaker 1: He converted a third and one play in the second
Speaker 1: quarter where Taron Johnson squeezed down on the B gap
Speaker 1: and Hn does this like accelerated jump cut where he
Speaker 1: just runs right past him, and it looked so effortless.
Speaker 1: He is a smooth glider man I put Tyreek in
Speaker 1: here because the pacing on his routes. He blocked his
Speaker 1: ass off again, that catch on the sideline was terrific,
Speaker 1: so he gets into the notes this week. Waddle on
Speaker 1: the loan sack the second drive of the game, We're
Speaker 1: Austin got beat on the inside post by von Miller.
Speaker 1: Wattle ran that same stick nod route that he ran
Speaker 1: in Baltimore and completely jukes out the defensive back. There's
Speaker 1: also some routes where he's pretty clearly not part of
Speaker 1: the progression, like, for instance, we hit the rail glance
Speaker 1: wheel replaced, which that's a mouthful, but you basically run
Speaker 1: a deep route up the sideline, a deep route down
Speaker 1: the seam, and then the running backs wheel route is
Speaker 1: replacement of either the seam or the wheel. In this instance,
Speaker 1: it was the seam, and Waddle's the loan eligible to
Speaker 1: the other side of the field and he runs his
Speaker 1: butt off just to get to the area to create
Speaker 1: conflict and pull the play side coverage away. But he's
Speaker 1: not getting the ball and he doesn't look back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. So it's a love of the game route
Speaker 1: where you just you know, be there for your brothers.
Speaker 1: So He also had the critical third down and long
Speaker 1: conversion blocks his butt off as well, and helped create
Speaker 1: space with his effort on non primary routes. So Wattle
Speaker 1: did his job in this game as well. I thought
Speaker 1: Malik Washington could play. You know, he can play in
Speaker 1: this offense for fifteen years the way he blocks, and
Speaker 1: I know he's tud he's like nobody else's business. There
Speaker 1: was a toss player where Rahi Moster got like twelve
Speaker 1: yards where Eleak Washington comes under the formation as the
Speaker 1: sift man, where he kind of is like a full
Speaker 1: back of sorts and tries to find out who's the
Speaker 1: available block to him, and he's looking inside, but you
Speaker 1: see Tron Armstead and Jalen Waddle execute a crackback and
Speaker 1: a reach block for the two of them. So you
Speaker 1: see his head quickly pivot to the outside and there's
Speaker 1: a lone cornerback out there on an island, and he
Speaker 1: changes his track and goes and hits the block on
Speaker 1: a full sprint to spring raheem to that second level.
Speaker 1: I think in a year or two, we'll look at
Speaker 1: this guy kind of like a river Craycraft of sorts
Speaker 1: with more receiver juice. Which is a great thing for
Speaker 1: depth of this receiver room. Alec Ingold just massive props
Speaker 1: to the number of times he's asked to go wham
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle or play head up on a five technique.
Speaker 1: He's giving up seventy pounds two. He's a tough dude,
Speaker 1: a big part of this offense. I'm out of superlatives
Speaker 1: to give to Aaron Brewer, I said last week. I
Speaker 1: think he's on the AFC Pro Bowl squad in the
Speaker 1: sense that there aren't two centers playing better football than
Speaker 1: him in the conference. I'm gonna go ahead and call
Speaker 1: him the starter right now because he's just as awesome.
Speaker 1: You're talking about an out leverage linebacker the second level
Speaker 1: that he goes and gets and wipes out with five
Speaker 1: yards of depth down the field, twenty five yards of
Speaker 1: width across the field. You're talking about reaching and pinning
Speaker 1: one shades to the playsign on the regular, which is
Speaker 1: not a block. You should win all that often, much
Speaker 1: less every damn time. You're talking about flawless footwork in
Speaker 1: transition to pick up rush games across the front. You're
Speaker 1: talking about finding work and going and getting a rack
Speaker 1: of ribs and pass protection. You don't got anybody to block.
Speaker 1: Go hit the guy that's blocked up with your guard
Speaker 1: and make him regret that pass rush like it's the
Speaker 1: best center player you've had since Mike Pouncey. I said
Speaker 1: that in the podcast last week, I might have to
Speaker 1: start going back to Dwight Freak and Stevenson. With the
Speaker 1: way he's playing, it's elite tape after elite tape every
Speaker 1: single week. Austin Jackson is a great player too, Exceptional
Speaker 1: seals at the point of attack on many a big runs,
Speaker 1: more elite attacking defenders in space on the perimeter. He
Speaker 1: had one bad pass set where he got beaten gay
Speaker 1: up of sack, but his ability to get a piece
Speaker 1: with some quick movement and athletic ability and how that
Speaker 1: pairs with his edge that he plays with is such
Speaker 1: a fun player man. His block on the eighth Chan
Speaker 1: touchdown run, he's outflanked by a gap and a half
Speaker 1: wins across a one gap upfield. Edge's face who wants
Speaker 1: to play downhill himself, so he has to get off
Speaker 1: the snap, quick hold his balance, and play with physicality
Speaker 1: and run him off the spot while he's trying to
Speaker 1: run the other direction like he's trying to basically move
Speaker 1: a Ford pinto from you know, going twenty five miles
Speaker 1: an hour in a school zone and he fights like
Speaker 1: hell to stay on the outside shoulder and he seals
Speaker 1: it off. Maybe the best play of his entire career.
Speaker 1: Having another great year, really really good football weekend week out,
Speaker 1: Toront Armstead more of the same. I think it's his
Speaker 1: best year as a dolphin. He's going out and getting
Speaker 1: key blocks on screens. Looks to be in great shape,
Speaker 1: He's faster, he's more explosive. Great year for Toront Armstead.
Speaker 1: I think Liam and Rob have had a good month
Speaker 1: as well. They have really taken to the multiple scheme
Speaker 1: and hey, you know, the nice part about being so
Speaker 1: good in the running game is you remove the spots
Speaker 1: that rushers crave all day long on true drop back passes,
Speaker 1: and we barely had any of those because these guys
Speaker 1: are getting their job done and outside zone, inside zone, duo,
Speaker 1: pen and pool everything and they do it with connectivity
Speaker 1: and physicality. Again, however, please allow me to state this.
Speaker 1: I think the shortcoming of the offensive line are the
Speaker 1: true drop back sets from those two guard positions and
Speaker 1: sometimes Austin Jackson, but to Tyreek to a had tyreek,
Speaker 1: I should say on stick nod for a touchdown, but
Speaker 1: because Liam got abused in a one on one spot
Speaker 1: against at Oliver, he couldn't get the ball out there.
Speaker 1: But he did find the checkdown quite beautifully. So there
Speaker 1: are shortcomings, they're just not all detrimental until you get
Speaker 1: down by three touchdowns, which the game is usually over
Speaker 1: at that point anyways. So that's where my soapbox ends.
Speaker 1: I feel like you could put the entire offense here.
Speaker 1: John Nus Smith had a big day as well. Raheem
Speaker 1: was good until the fumble. Individual misses. It's gonna sound
Speaker 1: like I'm calling somebody out, but that's kind of what
Speaker 1: it was. There was one miss in the entire offense
Speaker 1: on balance, and it's a player That've been talking about
Speaker 1: this way for a while now. I mean, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at good pre snap leverage on outside zone against Casey
Speaker 1: two Hill, you know, not Casey three Hill, Casey two Hill,
Speaker 1: and you're a blocking tight end. He just throws on
Speaker 1: your butt like it just has to be better than that.
Speaker 1: For Durham Smyth, we missed Julian Hill, if you can
Speaker 1: believe that much. And that's the biggest area I need
Speaker 1: to address on the offense next year. Receiver three probably
Speaker 1: right there too. But I think that you just can't.
Speaker 1: You know, Odell Is I like him on tape. I
Speaker 1: don't think he can count on the guy and I
Speaker 1: don't think he's you know, fitting in quite well enough.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the shopping list from earlier. And you
Speaker 1: know Durham with the false start, with zero juice in
Speaker 1: the passing game and below replacement the whole point of
Speaker 1: attack play, it's just unplayable. Let's come back on the
Speaker 1: other side, talk about the defense quickly, get out of here.
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation. Defensively,
Speaker 1: we don't have the personnel that's the podcast now. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding it, but that kind of is the case.
Speaker 1: You know. I do love that there's a real emphasis
Speaker 1: on playing the style of game that your opponent calls for.
Speaker 1: Like the Dolphins played their most quarters coverage over a
Speaker 1: quarter of the snaps fittingly on the season, and also
Speaker 1: had no snaps in cover two, which is you know,
Speaker 1: you guys, help those coverages are and the reason you
Speaker 1: do that is is to not get man cornerbacks turning
Speaker 1: away and running off the perimeter, and for a quarterback
Speaker 1: that can beat with his legs, and when the quarterback
Speaker 1: takes off and runs, you're more likely to have defenders
Speaker 1: that can close from depth in those spots, especially when
Speaker 1: you can you have a robber peel off and do
Speaker 1: it from those quarters looks where you can play some
Speaker 1: four high and also protect the middle of the field
Speaker 1: against those crossers and deep digs and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: Whereas in too deep you typically get even deeper drops
Speaker 1: from those safeties, and those defenders can much more easily
Speaker 1: be ran off their post by vertical routes, whereas in
Speaker 1: quarters you can pass off and still you know, keep
Speaker 1: your eyes in the backfield and just respect the quarterback
Speaker 1: run a little bit more. The other thing from a
Speaker 1: design standpoint that I really liked was the emphasis on
Speaker 1: holding the edge against Josh Allen, especially that right edge.
Speaker 1: We saw it on the AGBA TfL early in the game.
Speaker 1: We saw it a couple times when we were able
Speaker 1: to effectively marry up the interior pressure with the cutoff
Speaker 1: escape patch off the right to not allow him to flee,
Speaker 1: and that's when he will just sometimes fade away from
Speaker 1: it and throw the ball away and live to fight
Speaker 1: another day, which is a great development for his game
Speaker 1: because he should be willing to take another down because
Speaker 1: any given down, this guy can smoke you. And don't
Speaker 1: turn it over and you give yourself more cracks at
Speaker 1: the apple. And that's what he's been doing for the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. I don't really have any qualms
Speaker 1: with how it looked from a scheme standpoint. I thought
Speaker 1: making the switch to Anthony Walker was the right move
Speaker 1: given David Long's I guess availability right now. I like
Speaker 1: how they used Cam on the perimeter exclusively, and they
Speaker 1: kind of used a healthy mix of both Ramsey and
Speaker 1: Fuller inside. I just think we are really, really, really
Speaker 1: shorthanded in some key areas. I know Jaln Phillips played
Speaker 1: a good chunk of the Buffalo game in this week two,
Speaker 1: but we've now played three straight games against Buffalo without
Speaker 1: Beach Ubb and an of those games two and a
Speaker 1: half those games without JP. We didn't have Javon for
Speaker 1: two of those games. Seler misses this one. It's like
Speaker 1: core pillars at every level of your defense and they
Speaker 1: just don't have the I mean, it's not a scheme
Speaker 1: like Buffalo's where everyone knows it for the last eight
Speaker 1: years and they have the development and depth to keep
Speaker 1: running it. Our depth is bad, and then that's what
Speaker 1: you're seeing right now. I do think there's a miscommunication
Speaker 1: with Neil and Fuller on the mac Hall touchdown, but
Speaker 1: that's what return motion can do to you, where they
Speaker 1: motion a player away from his original position and then
Speaker 1: back to it, and it causes this confusion in the communication.
Speaker 1: And then not only does Sarran Neil not run with him,
Speaker 1: he collisions Kendall Fuller, which creates a natural row on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. It's a good play call. They got
Speaker 1: us tip your cap and it was a big play
Speaker 1: in the game. Last note here, real quick. I thought
Speaker 1: cam Smith had his best rep as a pro on
Speaker 1: the Jordan Poyer personal foul. He stayed right on top
Speaker 1: of that double move, stayed in phase, and broke it
Speaker 1: up textbook coverage. It's just too bad Trojan Horse killed
Speaker 1: the play. Individual standouts Chop Robinson's first third down of
Speaker 1: the game. He smokes Dion Dawkins, a great left tackle
Speaker 1: off the football and forces Alan to basically throw the
Speaker 1: ball away. He just turned into a vacant area of
Speaker 1: the field in that one, so big impact play from
Speaker 1: the jump and defense gets off the field. The sack
Speaker 1: on the last drive was one of several instances where
Speaker 1: he put Dion Dawkins on skates, falling back on his heels.
Speaker 1: But that neutral zone infraction just cannot happen, dude. Like
Speaker 1: on that final he they just ran three verticals all
Speaker 1: into double coverage and Alan just said like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it a chance, and the Trojan Horse did it
Speaker 1: for him. But if you're third and fourteen, I wonder
Speaker 1: how different that might look. Ogba played a very emmanual
Speaker 1: ogball game. There's not really a lot of juice in
Speaker 1: the pass brush, but a true forced defender off the
Speaker 1: edge that he lost contained just one time and it
Speaker 1: was a big run, But for the most part he
Speaker 1: did a good job of really holding gap integrity off
Speaker 1: that edge. Kalayus Campbell continues to be dominant. You can
Speaker 1: just see it off the tape, like jumping off every week.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get displaced. He can one gap you, he
Speaker 1: can force your back into stopping his feet, or he
Speaker 1: can mess with the rhythm of your passing game and
Speaker 1: the quick game and he does it from so many positions. Man,
Speaker 1: the way the way he puts guys on the ground
Speaker 1: with both quickness and power, like his swim move and
Speaker 1: his crossover steps. He just messes with so much stuff
Speaker 1: on his own. And we got to get Seeler back
Speaker 1: because those two guys together were kind of holding things together,
Speaker 1: and without Sealer, some of Campbell's plays don't quite go
Speaker 1: as noticed Ramsey. I just find it so fun to
Speaker 1: track his pre snap alignments on down the down base.
Speaker 1: They have him come down and fit the run, blitz
Speaker 1: the edge, match up on a tight end, play head
Speaker 1: up over the X, cover the slot, play the curl, flat,
Speaker 1: play a deep fourth and quarters. He does everything at
Speaker 1: a high level. And that's why I don't think the
Speaker 1: proverbial cornerback cliff is a real thing for him. You know,
Speaker 1: most cornerbacks kind of fall off of a cliff, like
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard at age thirty. And the reason I don't
Speaker 1: think that applies to him is because I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a cornerback. I think he's a defensive player. He's
Speaker 1: the next Charles Woodson. And yeah, that pick, it's a
Speaker 1: drop pass, but the way he ripped it away was
Speaker 1: just flat out awesome. And then Kendall Fuller is the
Speaker 1: last one here. I just love his feel and spatial awareness,
Speaker 1: like he's so adept at passing off and picking up,
Speaker 1: and that's so valuable for a guy that plays as
Speaker 1: many positions as he does. I think right now with
Speaker 1: Sealer down, he and Ramsey as a pairing are the
Speaker 1: best element of this defense, one of the best tandems
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL. Individual misses, there was lots of them,
Speaker 1: the entire front, beyond Campbell, Ogbaugh and Chop like hand
Speaker 1: Benito Peelee. It was rough Feral. I don't see it
Speaker 1: there at all. He's constantly washed out. Without Seiler, we
Speaker 1: have almost no hope and shit short yardage, He's such
Speaker 1: a difference maker there and teams just kind of run
Speaker 1: the ball down our throats in third and short. May
Speaker 1: was not good. The mistackle on the radium a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He was also in great shape on Keyon Coleman on
Speaker 1: the two point conversion and he gets joked out by
Speaker 1: a guy who moved like a carnival cruise line. Can't
Speaker 1: have that. Jordan Poyer, He's made more winning plays for
Speaker 1: the opposition, you know, the drop pick last week, the
Speaker 1: personal foul this week, then he's made general plays for us.
Speaker 1: It's two to nothing right now, so I would you know,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Patrick mc morris get back and
Speaker 1: take that job. Cam Smith, I thought struggled. They ran
Speaker 1: this rub where he took the long way around the backside.
Speaker 1: You just can't do that. You'd be more aware of that.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't have, you know, a ton of reps,
Speaker 1: so I suppose that that's something he has to kind
Speaker 1: of grow with. Next play he gets flagged for a
Speaker 1: PI that I disagreed with. I'd like to see him
Speaker 1: keep playing, and that's probably the case for a lot
Speaker 1: of the younger guys here. I do think we can
Speaker 1: go on a run, especially if you beat the Rams.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, how do we do through the
Speaker 1: Jets game. I think you can win all four of
Speaker 1: those games as well, and if you do that, you'd
Speaker 1: be five or seven and six going to Houston with
Speaker 1: four more games to play and the season's back on.
Speaker 1: But I think that the bigger thing you should focus on,
Speaker 1: because you know, you can lose football games in any
Speaker 1: any type of way. Sometimes they don't always go your way.
Speaker 1: Is to you know. Give Jalen Wright the one B role,
Speaker 1: give them a leak Washington the receiver three role. Give
Speaker 1: Chop Robinson more of a role than he already has,
Speaker 1: which I guess you can't Wally to do so he's
Speaker 1: in a good spot. Give Mohammed Kamara a bigger role.
Speaker 1: I'd start Patrick McMorris when he gets back. I think
Speaker 1: the only one I would I would keep it the
Speaker 1: way it is is Patrick Paul because Tron Armstead is
Speaker 1: playing like a pro bowler and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: mess with two was offensive line Saran Neil. Shame on
Speaker 1: me for calling for more snaps on defense in August
Speaker 1: because he was brutal in this game. That third down
Speaker 1: holding call was key on cross and Esque like everything
Speaker 1: else was covered up. We had the right call, we
Speaker 1: won based upon the call, and you just bear hug
Speaker 1: the receiver and give him a free first down. Just
Speaker 1: game changing stupidity there. I thought Jordan Brooks had one
Speaker 1: of his more challenging games. The Ray Davis touchdown. I
Speaker 1: thought was mostly his issue because he never got out there.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I thought that was his responsibility.
Speaker 1: I thought Anthony Walker was better than David Long last week,
Speaker 1: but that was a low bar to clear because Long
Speaker 1: had a really rough game. He got stuck on that
Speaker 1: mesh that or that James Cook dropped that would have
Speaker 1: been an easy touchdown, and was just out of position
Speaker 1: a couple times, like the big key on Coleman play
Speaker 1: on their last touchdown drive. He just ran himself in
Speaker 1: the no man's land with faalse steps and Alan flips
Speaker 1: it over his head for a big play. If he
Speaker 1: could have got depth in the hook zone, could have
Speaker 1: made a play on the football there and created a negative.
Speaker 1: It was just bad man. We're playing with a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that I don't think she'd be playing really
Speaker 1: anywhere in the league. I think right now you've got Campbell, Seeler, Brooks,
Speaker 1: Ramsey and Fuller as true lunch pins. Caterer has come on,
Speaker 1: so I'm curious see what he looks like when he
Speaker 1: comes back. Javon has what is his third injury of
Speaker 1: the year. He had like three or four of them
Speaker 1: last year, and he's not been that impactful when he
Speaker 1: has played. We're going to get you know, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna get the edge help we need this year. Like
Speaker 1: it's that's just how it is. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: last December. It's it's just kind of over there. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be about this offense, kind of trying to carry
Speaker 1: the water the rest of the way and to do
Speaker 1: something special and run the table because that edge spot
Speaker 1: is just not repairable in season. Man, how quickly things
Speaker 1: change because you go from the deepest edge group in
Speaker 1: the NFL last couple years with Phil and Chubb and
Speaker 1: Van Ginkel and not having any of those guys in
Speaker 1: SHAQ barrett retirement, which was a bigger blow than I
Speaker 1: think we maybe thought myself especially I just don't know
Speaker 1: how you cobble it together going forward. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: bad really across the board. My top five tapes Number one, TUA,
Speaker 1: number two, Aaron Brewer, number three, Devon eight Chan, number four,
Speaker 1: Jayalen Ramsey, number five to Ron Armstead and five B
Speaker 1: just for a shout out to Chop Robinson. I thought
Speaker 1: he played his best game as a pro. You all
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