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Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's the All twenty
Speaker 1: two Review Tuesday. We're gonna break down the tape, tell
Speaker 1: you where I thought it went right, where I thought
Speaker 1: it went wrong, will contextualize the data from PFF and
Speaker 1: next Gen Stats, will scan the social We'll look at
Speaker 1: snap counts. We're gonna do a whole lot on this
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Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is you Guessed at
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast The Jury Knows. To kick off the
Speaker 1: podcast here, Brian Flores declared on his Monday press conference
Speaker 1: that Jason mccordy and Malcolm Brown would go to the
Speaker 1: injured Reserve. It was reported earlier on Monday by Ian
Speaker 1: Rappaport that mccordy had a suffered had suffered a foot
Speaker 1: injury and was likely to miss some time. Here, Flora's
Speaker 1: confirms at least three weeks for both he and Malcolm Brown,
Speaker 1: and he also declared Jerome Baker Day today after Bake
Speaker 1: left the game playing just ten snaps on Sunday against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. That means we're talking about ALL twenty two
Speaker 1: and the tape here for the Miami Dolphins and becoming
Speaker 1: really my favorite day of the week to even after
Speaker 1: a loss, to go back and look at the tape
Speaker 1: and just kind of get a better field for what's
Speaker 1: going on. Really enjoying watching this quarterback on the ALL
Speaker 1: twenty two because I think very highly of a couple
Speaker 1: of things that he does well with with a nuance
Speaker 1: and the subtlety of his game, and that's where he
Speaker 1: kicked off this podcast here taking a look at the
Speaker 1: day from Dolphins quarterback to a tongue Voloa. His thirteenth
Speaker 1: start in the National Football League on balance, probably about
Speaker 1: his twelfth total game when you consider the fact the
Speaker 1: Buffalo last or back in Week two. He played two
Speaker 1: series in that game, so the first completion to Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle and the Dolphins converted three times on third down
Speaker 1: on this opening drive and one of my favorite traits
Speaker 1: of two US I think has really shown up the
Speaker 1: last two weeks and in general more this season, a
Speaker 1: little bit more time removed from the injury that he
Speaker 1: suffered back in twenty nineteen. And actually Brian Flores commented
Speaker 1: on this about to his development in his Monday press conference.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, go check out the YouTube
Speaker 1: channel and watched Brian Flores in his entirety. But he
Speaker 1: touched on the idea of having two for the last
Speaker 1: eighteen months here in the program and the development of
Speaker 1: the quarterback and how he's grown in so many areas,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned the hip injury and all the just
Speaker 1: kind of unique circumstances to it has been through since
Speaker 1: he's been here in Miami with that injury, last year's
Speaker 1: injury obviously as well. And you know you watch him,
Speaker 1: I mean, he made moves last year in that Cardinals game,
Speaker 1: making Buddha Baker miss and open space. We saw plenty
Speaker 1: of it this week and this season in general. And
Speaker 1: I am loving the fact that he's sliding very well,
Speaker 1: like going into second base on a stolen base looks
Speaker 1: very good in that regard. But the mobility within the
Speaker 1: pocket was always an area of strength that I really
Speaker 1: really became quite admirable to with two a tongue of
Speaker 1: blow back to his college day, just having free rushers
Speaker 1: come in. He had that move where the he would
Speaker 1: separate the ball from his hands and kind of take
Speaker 1: a longer step like he's going backwards, and then quickly
Speaker 1: change directions off of that plant foot. And it still
Speaker 1: works for him in that regard and as a scrambler,
Speaker 1: making guys miss an open space. And we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about it from the pocket here because on this very
Speaker 1: first third down completion, you see him have the ability
Speaker 1: to kind of put his feet wherever he wants, whenever
Speaker 1: he wants, as fast as he wants. And when I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this, you see him get towards the top
Speaker 1: of that drop, and that left foot it just swings
Speaker 1: back and because of that new position, it becomes the
Speaker 1: dry foot to move him out to the left. He's
Speaker 1: now in a position to vacate that spot quicker than
Speaker 1: the incoming pass rusher can get to it to disrupt
Speaker 1: his past or even sacked the quarterback, and this will
Speaker 1: out him to get to a spot where he could
Speaker 1: throw on time and give the football to Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: out in space. He does it, makes the catch and
Speaker 1: it's a first down. We come right back a couple
Speaker 1: of plays later the second third down conversion of this
Speaker 1: this drive and the Falcons are going to cross dog
Speaker 1: the nose and the mic linebacker. What that means is
Speaker 1: the nose, the nose tackle head up over the center
Speaker 1: will crash one gap and the linebacker will come around
Speaker 1: him and crash off the opposite gap. You're trying to
Speaker 1: confuse the protection call there up the middle of the line,
Speaker 1: and so the nose gets up field and to his
Speaker 1: only real option here is to the left on a
Speaker 1: field side throw. The longer story you can make right
Speaker 1: the far hash and he hits the top of the
Speaker 1: drop and takes a little shuffle step to the left
Speaker 1: to clear himself and get himself once again to that
Speaker 1: clean platform where he can throw not just on time
Speaker 1: to the perimeter, but the location of the football. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a lot about location today, because I thought
Speaker 1: this this was peaked to AH. As far as location goes,
Speaker 1: the location brings Jalen back away from the perimeter outside
Speaker 1: or inside from the sideline and sets him up for
Speaker 1: a move on the over pursuing cornerback who was beat
Speaker 1: at the top of the route at the stem, who
Speaker 1: got left behind. He then has to overpursue and because
Speaker 1: of the location, because Jalen comes back and catches it
Speaker 1: and turns back inside, it leads to eleven yards after
Speaker 1: the catch for an eighteen yard gaining Dolphin's first down
Speaker 1: another third down conversion opening drive. It's an RP O
Speaker 1: pop to Mike Gasicky. And I've seen the quote multiple times.
Speaker 1: It was Brian day ball back when he was with Alabama,
Speaker 1: about how some guys can hit the barn, some guys
Speaker 1: can hit the door on the barn, some guys can
Speaker 1: hit the door knob, some guys or rather twa can
Speaker 1: hit the keyhole on the door knob. And you talk
Speaker 1: about the keyhole accuracy. There it was and to a
Speaker 1: has to get the ball from the mesh point and
Speaker 1: up and out before you can blink. And Dion Jones
Speaker 1: has Gassicky in a negative separation like there, he's all
Speaker 1: over him and the football. There's literally one position like
Speaker 1: on the entire field of ball can be from Mike
Speaker 1: to have a good chance to stave off the coverage
Speaker 1: and make a tough, contested catch and that's where it was.
Speaker 1: And he had another one of those on the very
Speaker 1: next drive to Mike gasicky keyhole accuracy on those RPO hops.
Speaker 1: If you can put the ball in that spot, there's
Speaker 1: just not many ways to defend that, like to defend
Speaker 1: the run inside, to defend the outside zone read if
Speaker 1: two wants to keep it himself and go around the outside,
Speaker 1: or if you want to throw that pop over the
Speaker 1: middle and you want to cover from from the backside
Speaker 1: with the cornerback playing underneath, maybe a safety closing on top.
Speaker 1: If that ball is that accurate, it makes that package
Speaker 1: infinitely more difficult than it already is to defend. And
Speaker 1: then I also want to talk about his athletic ability
Speaker 1: on scrambles. I mean, we talked about it in the pocket,
Speaker 1: but making a guy miss in space with a juke
Speaker 1: move and then the first down when he rushed for
Speaker 1: a key third down conversion after a broken tackle, and
Speaker 1: mind you doing this coming off a broken ribs injury,
Speaker 1: and not just that he gets stood up one yard
Speaker 1: short of the line to gain winds up trucking Eric
Speaker 1: Harris who has to exit the game with an injury,
Speaker 1: and then he dives forward for three or four additional yards.
Speaker 1: Like the heart, the the talent, the skill set, the recognition.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want? I'm left at a loss.
Speaker 1: What do you what more do you want than that?
Speaker 1: That's that's such big time stuff there from your quarterback
Speaker 1: twenty years old doing that kind of stuff. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to some more stuff here. So I love the
Speaker 1: late I action you see from two us so frequently
Speaker 1: on tape where you can hold. You want to hold
Speaker 1: the particular route you're looking off as long as you
Speaker 1: possibly can, right until the very last second. There's this
Speaker 1: little flip past to savan Akhmed out in the flat
Speaker 1: on a two man route combination to the boundary. The
Speaker 1: boundary is the short side of the field. You should
Speaker 1: know that if you're a Drivetime podcast fan. It's the
Speaker 1: balls in the right hash the boundaries to the right side.
Speaker 1: So the falcons on this cover three look, which means
Speaker 1: you're safety is in the middle of the field typically,
Speaker 1: and the two cornerbacks also get depth and they cover
Speaker 1: the deep portion of the field. And thirds. I got
Speaker 1: the left third, you have the middle third, the right
Speaker 1: guy has the right third, and they're in this coverage
Speaker 1: playing really soft coverage underneath as well, so you basically
Speaker 1: have six zone defenders taking up or taking care of
Speaker 1: two guys in the route combination. The rest is match
Speaker 1: protect and then Savon Akhmed comes up to chip and
Speaker 1: then get off the route into the flat. So the
Speaker 1: DBS are playing off on that side where Waddle and
Speaker 1: Preston execute what's called a scissors concept, and all that
Speaker 1: means is once you get downfield, you cross, and so
Speaker 1: you scissors is downfield, whereas a switch release is at
Speaker 1: the line. Just some more football jargon for you guys,
Speaker 1: But they run this scissors concept down the field. It
Speaker 1: takes the DBS all the way down the field and
Speaker 1: to keeps his eyes on that scissors concept down the
Speaker 1: field until Savant chips the outside edge and then releases
Speaker 1: into the flat. And then the minute he does that,
Speaker 1: to his he's over there sound effects on the podcast,
Speaker 1: they're over there, and he rips that thing into the
Speaker 1: flat and it creates so much room for Savan to
Speaker 1: pick his way, set up blocks. He catches the ball
Speaker 1: three yards behind the line of scrimmage and winds up
Speaker 1: with the first down on second and seven. So I
Speaker 1: just I'm so impressed by the ability to create yardage
Speaker 1: with nuance and subtlety. And on this particular play, you
Speaker 1: watch the boundary cornerback check the flat and then he
Speaker 1: bills and gets depth the moment to checks it down.
Speaker 1: To me, this is why there's such a disconnect between
Speaker 1: some of the perception of two A's game out there
Speaker 1: and what he actually is, and why you have people
Speaker 1: crying poor for poor performance in the midst of a
Speaker 1: four touchdown game, or even better, a two week span
Speaker 1: with six passing yards and six touchdowns for two A
Speaker 1: tongue la three interceptions and we'll talk about those. You
Speaker 1: have to get those cleaned up. But six touchdowns, six
Speaker 1: hundred yards. When's the last time Dolphins quarterback did that? Guys,
Speaker 1: I'll let you look it up and let me know. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, one quarterback, one other quarterback through four
Speaker 1: touchdowns this Sunday towards Tom Brady just saying okay, before
Speaker 1: the interception, there's a blown r P O play where
Speaker 1: to tucks it and runs right up the middle. And
Speaker 1: you might have asked yourself during the game, what the
Speaker 1: heck was he doing? Why did he do that? Just
Speaker 1: to run straightforward and slide like he's still in second
Speaker 1: base once again. And the reason for that is if
Speaker 1: the r p O, if you don't give it and
Speaker 1: then you don't pop it right away on the past,
Speaker 1: after that, you're gonna wind up with ineligible guy's downfield.
Speaker 1: The only option from that point after you you tuck
Speaker 1: it after the initial reads not there is you have
Speaker 1: to throw it away or you have to run it,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get a flag for that, And so
Speaker 1: he just takes off, gets positive yards and then protects himself.
Speaker 1: I love that aspect of that. So second and seven
Speaker 1: opposed to even even second and ten, or if you
Speaker 1: run and lose yards, even second and worse, there's a
Speaker 1: throw and we're gonna get to the negatives after this.
Speaker 1: So this is why you're skipping over the interceptions. But
Speaker 1: there's a throw in the third quarter on an out
Speaker 1: route to the boundary to waddle where two one gets
Speaker 1: pressure in his face, and even though the pressure is
Speaker 1: in his face in the direction that he wants to throw,
Speaker 1: he just takes a slide step backwards, plants that dry
Speaker 1: foot in the ground, and throws back across the field
Speaker 1: the other direction with an absolute strike. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like a laser, but it's on time and on
Speaker 1: target and it works. Plenty of quarterbacks have had success
Speaker 1: doing that for a long long time in this league,
Speaker 1: and two has been doing it now for thirteen games.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's doable. You don't have to throw the
Speaker 1: thing as hard as you can to knock over the
Speaker 1: old clown off the carnival game with your you know,
Speaker 1: trying to win the soft animal like you can just
Speaker 1: you can layer balls. You can put them there on time.
Speaker 1: That's that's just as effective as throwing the ball through
Speaker 1: someone's chest. And so I thought we saw plenty of that,
Speaker 1: and the ability to throw away from his movement was
Speaker 1: all so impressive. We'll come back to more of that
Speaker 1: here in just a second. After the second interception, it
Speaker 1: was dime after dime after dime boundary double wise. That
Speaker 1: means two tight ends into the short side of the field.
Speaker 1: Mike Ga Sicky and Dirham Smith. They're gonna run the
Speaker 1: switch release. This is not the scissors, it's off the
Speaker 1: line switch immediately, and then they both run vertical, one
Speaker 1: up the sideline, one down the numbers. Mike was on
Speaker 1: the numbers, Dirham down the sideline and he throws it
Speaker 1: up over the top of the defensive back and right
Speaker 1: into the bucket for Dirham to make a catch and
Speaker 1: tap the feet. What a throw Wet then over routes
Speaker 1: from either side of the formation. On the very next
Speaker 1: place you have the two slots are running deep crossers
Speaker 1: basically behind the mic linebacker. They're gonna cross their patterns
Speaker 1: and to slides away from pressure and throws twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards in the air. Falling away from the throw because
Speaker 1: he has pressure to the left, he wants to throw
Speaker 1: left again, slides back to his right from the right
Speaker 1: hash mark to the left numbers twenty seven yards of depth.
Speaker 1: That's roughly thirty forty yard throw dime. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I was Trent Dilford, I'd be putting flames on this
Speaker 1: and graphics you'd be calling them Dilford dimes. Then the
Speaker 1: very next play, it's a zone look from the defense,
Speaker 1: and whenever you are running the or passing against his zone,
Speaker 1: you don't concern yourself too much with where the receiver is.
Speaker 1: Just put the ball in between the two defenders and
Speaker 1: split them and let the receiver adjust. He does that
Speaker 1: on the very next play to Mike get Sicky. Next
Speaker 1: it's an out to waddle. He reads the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. The footwork and this is again another one
Speaker 1: of these traits that I love. He has to speed
Speaker 1: it up because the rush is getting there, so you
Speaker 1: see him really expedite the footwork. And if you don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about it, you can think I'm
Speaker 1: making it up, like whatever. If you just go look
Speaker 1: at a normal drop back where there's no pressure versus
Speaker 1: this one. It's on the the second to last touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: the penultimate touchdown drive that starts with a deep throat
Speaker 1: of Durham Smithe on that drive, So go back and
Speaker 1: look at that. He speeds it up and gets the
Speaker 1: ball out quick to the boundary to waddle on time,
Speaker 1: on target, expedited drop in footwork, very very nice stuff.
Speaker 1: Then how about us scramble on third and sick we
Speaker 1: talked about off the broken ribs, drops the shoulder, runs over,
Speaker 1: Eric Harris picks up the first down. Then the very
Speaker 1: next play on the touchdown past of Miles Gaskin. I
Speaker 1: originally thought he was a hair late on this, but
Speaker 1: after watching the tape, you actually see him peek back
Speaker 1: to the middle of the field because Waddle runs the
Speaker 1: jet motion to take the eyes to the left, and
Speaker 1: then Gaskin runs the little release route or the little
Speaker 1: swing route to the right, and you see like it's
Speaker 1: open right away, but two doesn't throw it right away.
Speaker 1: And after watching it on tape, you see him kind
Speaker 1: of look back for the peel back defender like a
Speaker 1: tight end and the stick route right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, and you see the two defenders that
Speaker 1: are out widest they kind of take that cheese. They
Speaker 1: both take one false step and that was all Miles
Speaker 1: needed to get to the corner of the pylon for
Speaker 1: that touchdown. Then on the go ahead touchdown drive, they
Speaker 1: come right back after a tunnel screen. Didjitalan Waddle is
Speaker 1: going backwards after ineligible man down? Phil, I think it
Speaker 1: was first and twenty It's a nice completion to the
Speaker 1: field on an out route, but we get a procedural penalty,
Speaker 1: so now it's first and twenty one. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was first and sixteen. Then first and twenty one, right,
Speaker 1: So they pick it up with a screen and a
Speaker 1: run play, So two good plays. They're just in general
Speaker 1: for the offense to convert first and twenty one into
Speaker 1: a first down. Then we get back into third and fifteen.
Speaker 1: And if you're a Dolphins fan, how many times we've
Speaker 1: seen these comeback attempts wiped out by something like that
Speaker 1: or just overall failure to get it done, but especially
Speaker 1: third and fifteen. Nope, not this one. Kasicki gets turned
Speaker 1: free and two of fires the ball right to meet
Speaker 1: him at his landmark. Another note on Gasicki on that
Speaker 1: in just one second. But then we come right back
Speaker 1: with a touchdown past to mac Hollands. Good job to
Speaker 1: sell the flat to Miles gascon to pull the conflict
Speaker 1: defender who's possibly going to be in the passing lane
Speaker 1: for mac Hollins. He bites up on the look to
Speaker 1: the flat, boom opens the window layer right behind him
Speaker 1: for the go ahead score. What a tape. I thought
Speaker 1: it was one of the best quarterback tapes we've seen
Speaker 1: for this football team in a long, long time. And
Speaker 1: there are four negative plays I want to break down
Speaker 1: real quick for you get to everybody else. I know
Speaker 1: it's a long podcast here, but your quarterback throws the
Speaker 1: ball forty times. That's what you get um there. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna call him airs, but just things I think
Speaker 1: that could have gone better. First off, second drive, first throw.
Speaker 1: It's a comeback to mc collins. Just thought he was
Speaker 1: a little bit late. Mac creates some separation on the
Speaker 1: curl route and the ball is a little bit late
Speaker 1: in the defensive bat got his hand around the backside
Speaker 1: and broke that thing up. Number two, second quarter, second
Speaker 1: and fourteen throws the ball to Preston Williams, does that
Speaker 1: little spin move or whatnot, and waddle clears the second
Speaker 1: window of the zone defense on a little seam pot
Speaker 1: pass opportunity. And two has the protection and it's too
Speaker 1: high safeties underneath umbrella, so he finds himself in that
Speaker 1: kind of fifteen yard range clear of any defender, and
Speaker 1: he gets into that space pretty quickly with some more
Speaker 1: space behind him. I think there's an opportunity to hit
Speaker 1: that opposed to the quick ball out on the perimeter
Speaker 1: to a stationary target, get the ball to Wattle fifteen
Speaker 1: yards downfield on the move, opposed to a seven yard
Speaker 1: or so hitch route to a stationary target who's not
Speaker 1: working his way downfield, and I just prefer that. Again,
Speaker 1: don't know the progression, but I would like to see
Speaker 1: or hopefully they can find a way to get the
Speaker 1: ball to that read on that particular look, and then
Speaker 1: number three, both these ex players are gonna be interceptions
Speaker 1: the first I and T. It looks to me like
Speaker 1: Durham's not expecting the ball and there and kind of
Speaker 1: lies the first fault in my opinion, I don't think
Speaker 1: the ball is supposed to go there because the safety
Speaker 1: catch the tight end. And it's again another one of
Speaker 1: these cover two looks, and smythe is the one receiver
Speaker 1: to the boundary, the furthest out receiver to the boundary,
Speaker 1: and they're in Cover two. There's a soft corner getting
Speaker 1: depth on the outside, so it's a tough throw to
Speaker 1: sneak that into the turkey hole anyway. But if you
Speaker 1: look at to his head, he's looking to the back
Speaker 1: to the boundary. Who's Miles Gaskin, who runs the flat
Speaker 1: route And as you guys know, on that cover to
Speaker 1: your flat is supposed to pull that cornerback, playing that
Speaker 1: kind of flat slatch, deep hook zone or deep curl zone.
Speaker 1: You want to pull him into the flat. And then
Speaker 1: Durham's kind of plant drive step off the top of
Speaker 1: that route. It just looks to me like he's not
Speaker 1: expecting the ball. He kind of just drifts backwards into
Speaker 1: the end zone. Not backwards, but he kind of drifts
Speaker 1: into the end zone without real urgency. And I even
Speaker 1: think that if he sticks his foot in the ground
Speaker 1: and flattens that thing, or even just continues to run
Speaker 1: the route, he might have a chance to make a catch.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't go that way. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a bad decision to make that throw based upon the
Speaker 1: rules of route versus coverage from my own knowledge, and
Speaker 1: when I think I saw on that play, I could
Speaker 1: be wrong. I asked a lot of people about this play,
Speaker 1: including including coach Flora's we're gonna hear from here in
Speaker 1: just one second, but I also think you've got to
Speaker 1: help your quarterback out on that particular play. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Brian Flowers, who I asked about this on Monday
Speaker 1: his press conference about that interception, and asking him about
Speaker 1: the kind of philosophy behind wanting your quarterback to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: as he had mentioned earlier in the media availability, but
Speaker 1: also trying to calibrate when to be more cautious and
Speaker 1: how to balance that with a young quarterback. Especially asked
Speaker 1: coach about that. Here's his response. I think that's a
Speaker 1: very valid point I think you want to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: but you also you want to make smart decisions and
Speaker 1: not put the team in position where, um, you could
Speaker 1: potentially turn the ball over or create a negative play.
Speaker 1: So um, that's a that's that's that's a fine balance.
Speaker 1: I think every quarterback kind of goes through that. That
Speaker 1: that that thought process. I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: is is based on what defense you're seeing, the players
Speaker 1: you have on the field, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it is based on how you practice it. I
Speaker 1: think if you you can see those those areas that
Speaker 1: the field where you can create some chunk plays and
Speaker 1: you hit him in practice, and you have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to him in the game if you get the same look. So,
Speaker 1: but something we practice, something we we uh try to
Speaker 1: put an emphasis on and and then players gotta go
Speaker 1: out there next cute if I could just follow up
Speaker 1: on that real quick to a talked about being a
Speaker 1: miscommunication on that particular throw. Is that something where there's
Speaker 1: a site adjustment post snap where they can kind of
Speaker 1: both read something and make an adjustment based upon the
Speaker 1: original call. Um, which player are you talking about? We
Speaker 1: might be thinking of two different The first interception with
Speaker 1: dirt when Durham Smith is in the area, Okay. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's you know, there's missing miscommunication on
Speaker 1: that one. Um, you know, unfortunately, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I think it's one that you know too wishes
Speaker 1: he had back, Durham wishes he had back, And I
Speaker 1: think it's something we gotta learn from. Yeah, there's you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you when you look at it that way,
Speaker 1: you know, there's some other places we could have went
Speaker 1: with it. Um. But you know what I like about
Speaker 1: like about most about that was tools response, Durham's response,
Speaker 1: and being able to turn it around and create some
Speaker 1: positive plays after that mishappen, so that you have coach
Speaker 1: on the first interception the second interception, This one was
Speaker 1: a lot worse to me personally. I think you just
Speaker 1: cannot put the ball into harm's way in that position
Speaker 1: because the best case scenario there is that Jalen catches
Speaker 1: the ball and gets blown up, and you are a
Speaker 1: tad bit unlucky that the minute to have flips the
Speaker 1: thing out there. Jalen then moves in the opposite direction
Speaker 1: and makes it a room service pick for the linebacker.
Speaker 1: But you just you can't do that, not in that spot,
Speaker 1: not on first down especially, I think you're just pressing
Speaker 1: a little bit too much there off the quick change,
Speaker 1: because Miami had just gotten the takeaway and could have
Speaker 1: gone down taken the lead right there. And you know,
Speaker 1: part of the press is that Grady Jarrett and he's
Speaker 1: white right into his face off the snap and he
Speaker 1: has to get rid of that ball quickly. So that
Speaker 1: is the tongue by a lower review here on the
Speaker 1: All twenty two Tuesday podcast on the Drivetime podcast part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network presented by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: talking about the rest of the players on offense, Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: I'm just really a big fan of the way he
Speaker 1: can again some of these nuanced aspects of his game
Speaker 1: for such a young player, attacking leverage but also stacking
Speaker 1: and chasing blind spots. There's a second and ten can
Speaker 1: version in the third quarter where he stacks the underneath corner,
Speaker 1: presses inside to kind of get on that blind spot
Speaker 1: and lose him because he's got eyes in the quarterback
Speaker 1: and he whips that thing right back out to the
Speaker 1: outside to space and there's all kinds of separation and
Speaker 1: an easy pitch and catch for a first down. He
Speaker 1: just does that every single game, and we saw a
Speaker 1: deeper depth of target in this game. Hopefully we continue
Speaker 1: to see that grow and increase from here. Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: very first play of the game, it's a wide uh
Speaker 1: wind's back a split zone run backside, and it first
Speaker 1: thought I thought Robert Hunt fell off of his block.
Speaker 1: But if Malcolm just presses that thing play side, then
Speaker 1: Rob's in perfect position. And that's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know the design of these plays obviously, or
Speaker 1: where he's supposed to hit that, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a reminder that on first glance, especially without having all
Speaker 1: the knowledge of the call or the coaching points of
Speaker 1: the rules, you can't really assign blame on a particular
Speaker 1: play or you know, especially not seeing the in the
Speaker 1: first time. But I think it's a good example of
Speaker 1: how two guys on a different page would be. One
Speaker 1: guy doesn't hit the right the job of the right way,
Speaker 1: just taking turns, just having these small mistakes that cost you.
Speaker 1: That's what I get cleaned up and fixed to become
Speaker 1: more consistent, become a better football team as we go
Speaker 1: along here. Now, Austin Jackson, However, I'm not sure the
Speaker 1: technique that's that's causing this. But so many times he's
Speaker 1: I called the you know, I knew it was you, Fredo.
Speaker 1: He throws the hands wide and puts himself in position
Speaker 1: to get his hands on the outside of the shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: and that's where they're gonna call holding the most. So
Speaker 1: I kind of watched him doing that a little bit
Speaker 1: too often, and hopefully he can get that that fixed
Speaker 1: and corrected. But as far as like pulling him as
Speaker 1: a pulling guard, he's very smooth and actually hits a
Speaker 1: lot of good blocks in that area, super smooth and
Speaker 1: and flew out of the first step. But then after that,
Speaker 1: on this particular play, he takes this gather step and
Speaker 1: kills all the momentum he had and the unblocked man
Speaker 1: beats him for a tackle for loss. That was quite
Speaker 1: prevalent in this game. Uh some TFLs coming from that
Speaker 1: defensive tackle position up over the left guard. I counted
Speaker 1: at least five times where his reps where his hand
Speaker 1: star outside in the rep. I hope that gets fixed
Speaker 1: here soon. I also thought he had the best repent
Speaker 1: entire career in this game. On the first touchdown of
Speaker 1: the second and half where he chips and doubles Grady
Speaker 1: Jarrett with Liam Eichenberg. Then he comes off that block
Speaker 1: and digs out Dion Jones on the other side of
Speaker 1: the gap to create a gap. Then he showed some
Speaker 1: juice and energy. Was good to see Austin Jackson enjoying
Speaker 1: himself after that after a couple of big blocks there.
Speaker 1: But this team just again, there's often so often one
Speaker 1: block away. There's a second play of the game. It's
Speaker 1: a screen pass where Robert Hunt. He gets out there
Speaker 1: and we've got some space. But when he has to
Speaker 1: engage initially it's just it's he misses him and it's
Speaker 1: hit or missing this position, and you just want to
Speaker 1: see more hits. I do think in general for rob
Speaker 1: he's better when he's moving towards this target opposed to
Speaker 1: being stationary. And you know, his run blocking was so
Speaker 1: good throughout the course of this game. He took a
Speaker 1: man all the way across the formation, just took him
Speaker 1: out of the play. Then he climbed up to the
Speaker 1: second level and has good patience and control on that
Speaker 1: approach where he's not making contact right away but rather
Speaker 1: getting to a guy on a pole or a reach
Speaker 1: or getting in space, climbed to the second level, hands
Speaker 1: under his feet, just you know, some good technique and
Speaker 1: some good fundamentals. Just a few more are rap notes here.
Speaker 1: I think he had a really good game and execute
Speaker 1: different kinds of blocks throughout the course of the game,
Speaker 1: especially in the running game where the pulling action I
Speaker 1: thought was really fantastic. Liam Eichenberg on the very first
Speaker 1: play of the game, the initial stunt that he sees,
Speaker 1: he loses the inside post and then I look back
Speaker 1: at my notes and about the third quarter of the
Speaker 1: game and just thought, I haven't written down anything about Liam. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great thing for an offensive lineman. So I'm
Speaker 1: back and looked at some of the players and he's
Speaker 1: handling isolations, he's picking up stunts. Thought he had a
Speaker 1: very good game. Austin Ryder I thought had a good game.
Speaker 1: I think maybe he's good to recovery. On the on
Speaker 1: the initial one on one rep from Grady Jerry, he
Speaker 1: anchors and kind of locks him out there. He has
Speaker 1: a play where he gets a second level climb and
Speaker 1: he goes and gets them, doesn't let them come into him.
Speaker 1: He goes and gets them. I like that mentality. I
Speaker 1: think he stayed on blocks better than anybody else in
Speaker 1: this game. From Miami, I'm intrigued by a possible tough
Speaker 1: decision they might have to make when you know Dieter
Speaker 1: Manson and Austin Ryder are all back. I think all
Speaker 1: three have played well this year. From Miami. Thought it
Speaker 1: was Jesse Davis his very best game. A lot of
Speaker 1: one on one blocks for him and he executed him.
Speaker 1: That's all you gotta say about a good dub good game, Jesse.
Speaker 1: I thought Myles Gascon was very a decisive pressing the
Speaker 1: gap often to the course of those games, how he
Speaker 1: ran very well, just kept coming back to decisive watching
Speaker 1: him run, hitting the gap and getting that thing to
Speaker 1: the second level to get himself a nice rushing day.
Speaker 1: I think Savon Ahmed it's just a different speed than
Speaker 1: every other back on the roster. He's got this urgency.
Speaker 1: And we talked about the hip hop style running analogy
Speaker 1: from running backs coach at You dubbed their Keith on
Speaker 1: Offa on the podcast last year, saying that he's hip
Speaker 1: hop in your face. Now you've gotta deal with it
Speaker 1: right now. He's an angle eraser. There's a run in
Speaker 1: the second quarter of the linebacker has him out flanked
Speaker 1: and savon just he erases the angle, beats him to it,
Speaker 1: gets into the into the gap, and turns up field
Speaker 1: for a nice game. So I like his game a
Speaker 1: whole lot. And then Mike get sicky. We talked about
Speaker 1: Wattles nuance to us. Nuance similar for him in terms
Speaker 1: of the subtlety of his game. He just knows how
Speaker 1: to create. We can talk about attacking leverage, but he
Speaker 1: can create and attack the leverage contested catches. He knows
Speaker 1: how to put himself in position to go up clean
Speaker 1: where you're not interfered by the contact, where your hands
Speaker 1: don't get kind of like jostled. He gets himself into
Speaker 1: a clean position up high to high point that thing
Speaker 1: to where contact doesn't matter. It's better functional strength. And
Speaker 1: he's really put it all together now, and you're number four.
Speaker 1: I want to give him a shout out on that
Speaker 1: third and fifteen conversion. So I was gonna come back
Speaker 1: to it. Here we are coming back to it. He
Speaker 1: catches that thing and just gets forward to get past
Speaker 1: the sticks. He was right at the sticks catching it,
Speaker 1: but he didn't leave any doubt. He just jumped forward
Speaker 1: two or three extra yards. Great awareness there by Mike Gasicky,
Speaker 1: and then Durham had I thought his best game of
Speaker 1: the season the run after the catch on that second
Speaker 1: down stick route. Very nice work there. He can denses
Speaker 1: on a block inside on an outside Miles Gas can
Speaker 1: run and dense the edge and gives Miles a quick
Speaker 1: access to the outside edge. So both passing game and
Speaker 1: running game for Durham, thought this was his best game
Speaker 1: of the season. So there you go. Offensively onto the
Speaker 1: defense here real quick. Lots of unique groupings in this game,
Speaker 1: even before some injuries kind of forced their hand to
Speaker 1: do so. On the very first third down of the game,
Speaker 1: they were in a four safety quarter package, seven defensive
Speaker 1: backs with two safeties ten yards off the ball and
Speaker 1: a third safety fifteen yards off the ball. The next
Speaker 1: Avian Howard, Eric rowe Byron Jones, and Nick Needham played
Speaker 1: tight man coverage and they ran them right into that
Speaker 1: safety help. It was beautifully executed as far as a
Speaker 1: eight man coverage goes, and Ryan tried to extend but
Speaker 1: he couldn't get anything going. Agba had one of the
Speaker 1: six pressures in the game on this play. We saw
Speaker 1: more zero defense, some post snap rotation to disguise it,
Speaker 1: to show it and get out of it, and some
Speaker 1: pressure looks as well. I think the variety is getting
Speaker 1: more and more incorporated to this defense. Each week. We
Speaker 1: saw plenty, plenty of double teams on Kyle Pitts, a
Speaker 1: press and trail with over the top like he commands attention.
Speaker 1: He's a beast, and we saw why. In this game.
Speaker 1: It looks to me like there's a lot of chunk
Speaker 1: plays on the ground where you get an initial fill
Speaker 1: from a linebacker or someone that you know playing the point,
Speaker 1: like a safety who comes in and fills and digs
Speaker 1: out the lead block, but then there's no one coming
Speaker 1: over the top to scrape that or fill that gap.
Speaker 1: That's been kind of my assessment on the big running plays,
Speaker 1: good good stacking up front, a nice feel, but no
Speaker 1: one to kind of make that final scrape and fill
Speaker 1: that final gap for you on those big plays. As
Speaker 1: far as those guys up front, I continue to be
Speaker 1: impressed by all of them, really, but Ray Kwon Davis.
Speaker 1: There's a play reruns of the four technique, which means
Speaker 1: your head up over the offensive tackle and so the
Speaker 1: guard has to get wide on a reach block. A
Speaker 1: reach block is when you want to cross the face
Speaker 1: and you have to you're outflanked, but you still have
Speaker 1: to get to that block, and he just knocks the
Speaker 1: guy right back into the running back. In the second
Speaker 1: quarter had an absolute grown man rep on a running
Speaker 1: play that went nowhere. He's playing the nose. He shoots
Speaker 1: his hands to the chess plate and just takes control
Speaker 1: of sixty one Matt Hennessey, and the guard tries to
Speaker 1: move him off of that spot with a double team.
Speaker 1: It doesn't budge him at all, and then Ray Kwan
Speaker 1: just tosses Hennessey to the ground and makes the play.
Speaker 1: I wrote down wows because that's how I felt about it.
Speaker 1: The very next snap, he snatches Pennessey in the exact
Speaker 1: same way on a pass rush, then rips the inside
Speaker 1: arm through and gets to Matt Ryan for a pressure
Speaker 1: who has to rush the throw and then it's batted
Speaker 1: down by Emmanuel Ogba. Speaking of Aga, we talked about
Speaker 1: the cross chop all the time here. On the Falcon's
Speaker 1: first drive after their touchdown to start the third quarter,
Speaker 1: on third down, he runs a straight bul rush right
Speaker 1: into the right tackle and he runs him right into
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan to cause incompletion. Good work there from Agba
Speaker 1: and then Christian Wilkins. My goodness, this guy is playing
Speaker 1: out of his mind. He goes right over the center
Speaker 1: on the nose with his swim move and winds up
Speaker 1: in Matt Ryan's lap on I think the second play
Speaker 1: of the game. Then the retrace that we talked about
Speaker 1: where he chases the screen wide, reverses field. He comes
Speaker 1: back over to the receiver reversing field and pits him
Speaker 1: to finish him off there. I just love watching this
Speaker 1: guy play the hustle. He shows an effort every single week.
Speaker 1: Then later you see some of the previously you know,
Speaker 1: unquantifiable stuff I was talking about the first two years
Speaker 1: of his career start to turn into more production. Here
Speaker 1: working down the lion scrimmage on an outside rome run play,
Speaker 1: plants the foot, pushes his man aside to make sure
Speaker 1: he keeps going, but Christian stops to shed the block there,
Speaker 1: gets into the gap and makes the tackle. He is
Speaker 1: positively destroying reach block attempts with consistency, and that's really
Speaker 1: nice to see. Adam Butler's mistackle on the potential TfL
Speaker 1: I cannot shake that. One had to mention it again
Speaker 1: that one hurt. I thought a land in Roberts had
Speaker 1: tough day. In term is a finding and staying in
Speaker 1: his gap. Just a beat later a hair laid at
Speaker 1: step away from where he needed to be or when
Speaker 1: the play would happen where he You know, ideally you
Speaker 1: want to be just off by a little bit. A
Speaker 1: few times. Andrew Van Gigla think has been playing well
Speaker 1: off the edge in the running game, but he was
Speaker 1: a step late as well in coverage a few times,
Speaker 1: reacting on some of the split zone or wide zone
Speaker 1: with the boot action off of that where you fake
Speaker 1: the run one way, you bring the under round across
Speaker 1: the formation and the quarterback peels off that way also
Speaker 1: and kind of has the layers concept to throw too.
Speaker 1: He made a he just kind of gets lost on
Speaker 1: that flat area. Sometimes he made a fantastic pay playoff
Speaker 1: the edge against double wise that's two tight ends of
Speaker 1: the formation where he beats the block and gets Cordell
Speaker 1: Patterson tripped up on an outside run. And then the
Speaker 1: next play he damn never got in the passing line
Speaker 1: for a pick six, but overran the thing once again.
Speaker 1: Not really find the landmark there in coverage. In the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield. I love how Javon Holland can work to
Speaker 1: depth but then click and clothes immediately and fire out
Speaker 1: of that back pedal. I mean, we've already seen a
Speaker 1: bunch of big hits from this guy, some bubble production
Speaker 1: and that sack on Sunday, but I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot more coming and by that I mean interceptions hopefully
Speaker 1: here in the near future. On the sack, I just
Speaker 1: like the way he snuck up to the line and
Speaker 1: timed his run really perfectly. It's a good job by
Speaker 1: Van Gigl to flatten the edge to winning inside and
Speaker 1: taking on the back to help create a lane to
Speaker 1: run through for Javon. On the long touchdown pass the
Speaker 1: Javan was involved in, I'll chalk it up to growing pains,
Speaker 1: but he tried to jump a potential dig or crosser
Speaker 1: route from Russell Gauge and he just ran right past him.
Speaker 1: But on balance, love Javon Holland's game every single week. Um.
Speaker 1: There's a great rep in general from the Dolphins defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: It was the Emmanuel Ogba force fumble, which again talk
Speaker 1: about effort man. What a play. The Falcons are in
Speaker 1: trips and the Dolphins match it. With their with three
Speaker 1: of their cover guys and Eric Roe, Byron Jones, and
Speaker 1: Nick need Um, and they play staggered off the line.
Speaker 1: Nick need Ums up on the point right across from
Speaker 1: the point man uh Brian Jones is a second and
Speaker 1: aligned outside, Eric Rose third and aligned inside, and they
Speaker 1: all pick a man and plaster immediately off the top
Speaker 1: of the stem and that forces Matt Ryan to tuck
Speaker 1: it and then the second effort there from Ogba in
Speaker 1: the pass rush pays off. I was so impressed by
Speaker 1: that and think it could be indicative of them beginning
Speaker 1: to kind of get the grasp of what they want
Speaker 1: to do and defensively, and then just watching x and
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, you want to see the targets, but also
Speaker 1: plays where they aren't targeted so you can see how
Speaker 1: they're taking things away. And there's one on xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: where he has the post the corner of the curl
Speaker 1: like everything a three way go, and he just closes
Speaker 1: that thing down and takes away all three options. It
Speaker 1: winds up being a curl route and he's there with
Speaker 1: basketball type of defending the low post position like you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get this access on this pass down to
Speaker 1: the post. You're gonna have to go over the top
Speaker 1: or swing it and try to get this thing in
Speaker 1: their eats. It's impressive. And the same deal with Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: There's a field side rep against the one the furthest
Speaker 1: out receiver with no safety help. He stays mirrored on
Speaker 1: an outside release and then beats Gage who tries to
Speaker 1: come back and cross face and get to the ball
Speaker 1: before he can or before the ball can even be
Speaker 1: thrown because it's taken away. There's just so much put
Speaker 1: on those guys as plates and they can beat their
Speaker 1: asses off every week. Jason mccordy had fantastic technique I
Speaker 1: thought in the past break up against Kyle Pitts and
Speaker 1: those are my notes. I mnna start doing this. My
Speaker 1: favorite tapes and the game to a Kisicky Waddle, Rob Hunt,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, Ray Kwon Davis, Emmanuel Ogba, Xavien Howard, and
Speaker 1: Javon Holland. How about some Pro Football Focus metrics here?
Speaker 1: Long podcast on this Tuesday took a lot of notes here.
Speaker 1: Interesting metric from Ben Baldwin the Computer Cowboy on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It takes a look at sack rate compared to a
Speaker 1: team pass blocking grade on Pro Football Focus, and there's
Speaker 1: a cluster at the top of this chart which featured
Speaker 1: features Tongue by Loa Kirk, cousins, Josh Allen, and Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan as the best currently this year at mitigating pressure,
Speaker 1: and that coincides with last season as well, because you
Speaker 1: might recall that he was second and pressure evaded rate
Speaker 1: at twenty four point four percent, behind only Josh Allen
Speaker 1: six point one percent. Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray and Derek
Speaker 1: Carr were three through five at one percent, nineteen point
Speaker 1: four percent, nineteen point one percent. So continues to mitigate
Speaker 1: pressure some more advanced to a stats he was one
Speaker 1: for one throwing the ball twenty plus yards for twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards. We talked about Atlanta playing lots to cover
Speaker 1: two and cover three deep cloud coverage UH in this
Speaker 1: game an average depth of target just six point three yards.
Speaker 1: It was eight point nine coming and I think in
Speaker 1: the ten to nineteen yard range. Eleven for fourteen one
Speaker 1: and thirty two passing yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
Speaker 1: Against the Blitz, he was six for eight forty five yards.
Speaker 1: Against pressure, he was eight for ten eighty six yards
Speaker 1: and the interception twelve pressures and just one sack in
Speaker 1: this game. I thought the line was very very good
Speaker 1: in this one their best game of the season, and
Speaker 1: the one sack was just late eyes to react to
Speaker 1: a nice pressure package there from DPS, like he's gonna
Speaker 1: cook you up. He's gonna have different looks for you.
Speaker 1: He'll get you once or twice. Just once in this game.
Speaker 1: It killed a drive, But all things considered, I think
Speaker 1: it's a good day from your offensive line to really
Speaker 1: only have one drive negatively impacted by the pass rush. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it was two because of the pick as well.
Speaker 1: But Leah Mikenberg two pressures, no hits, Austin Jackson four pressures,
Speaker 1: one hit, Austin Rider two pressures, no hits, Rob Hunt
Speaker 1: three pressures, it was a sack. Jesse Davis one pressure,
Speaker 1: it was a hit. Average yards after contact is rushers
Speaker 1: to a three point to five yards Malcolm Brown three
Speaker 1: yards average miles Gascon two point to some on Achmed
Speaker 1: one point seven yards per route run and yards per
Speaker 1: target savon Akmed average two point three six yards per
Speaker 1: route run, Waddle two point two four, Gasicki two point
Speaker 1: two four, and Smythe two point oh six as far
Speaker 1: as yards per target savon average thirteen yards per pass target,
Speaker 1: Waddle ten point for Gasicki ten point six, and Smith
Speaker 1: nine point two five. So those were your four most
Speaker 1: productive guys in the passing game. Defensively pressures, Agba had
Speaker 1: six continues to do it, Man, Wilkins and e Ra
Speaker 1: both had three, Van Ginkel and Butler both had two,
Speaker 1: and five players had one. One of those five players
Speaker 1: was Javon Holland. Sack run stops Seeler, Wilkins, and Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle all had three. Holland, Roberts and Eric Rowe had
Speaker 1: two apiece, and Riley and Ogba both had one. Xaviing
Speaker 1: Howard was targeted eight times and allowed one catch for
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards to one point or a two point
Speaker 1: one pass aready against on him Byron Jones forty three
Speaker 1: yards on six targets. Javon Holland got hit for three
Speaker 1: for three seventy one yards and the long Russell Gage touchdown.
Speaker 1: A couple of season long stats here. Ogba's fourteenth among
Speaker 1: edge defenders with twenty seven pressures. Wilkins the second and
Speaker 1: run stops that means tackles within two yards of the line.
Speaker 1: Among interior defensive line with twenty four and Zack Steelers
Speaker 1: with fifteen. Some next Gen stats two was eleven point
Speaker 1: nine percent. Completion over expected rate was the third best
Speaker 1: in the league this weekend, and it gives his season
Speaker 1: total a surge up to plus two percent, which is
Speaker 1: eleventh in the National Football League. Mayfield his tenth at
Speaker 1: two point five. Lamar Jackson is twelfth at one point eight.
Speaker 1: His time to throw two point five seconds is third
Speaker 1: quick as in the NFL Big Ben and Bradier one
Speaker 1: and two. His seventeen point eight percent aggressive rate on
Speaker 1: next Gen is seventh highest in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And then rush yards over expected per rush Miles Gascon
Speaker 1: negative point one two yards. It's a little bit below
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. Miles Sanders mark Ingram are
Speaker 1: some of the guys around him. Nobody else qualifies on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins right now separation numbers, Jalen Waddle averages four
Speaker 1: yards per route that's tenth in the NFL, Mike Kasicki
Speaker 1: two point eight, and nobody else qualifies. Kausiki gets a
Speaker 1: seven point one yard average cushion and Waddle six point nine.
Speaker 1: That's twelve and thirteenth, respectively. Kassicks a dot is nine
Speaker 1: point one, Waddle is five point to ninth fewest among qualifiers.
Speaker 1: Surrounding names, They're Cole Beasley, Jamison Crowder, John new Smith,
Speaker 1: snap counts, the quarterback in the offensive line all played
Speaker 1: seventy three snaps. Wire to wire receiver Waddle sixty one,
Speaker 1: Holland's thirty nine, Preston Williams played thirty, Isaiah Ford played nineteen,
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson played three. Mike Gasicki played sixty snaps two
Speaker 1: A nice bump there. Get him out there as much
Speaker 1: as you possibly can. Shaheen fifty one snaps. Durham Smith nine,
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin played forty six snaps, Savon akmed twenty two,
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Brown five. On defense, Wilkins played forty three
Speaker 1: snaps at sixty percent of the total. Ray Kuan Davis
Speaker 1: played thirty three, Adam Butler thirty one, Zack Healer twenty six.
Speaker 1: Off the edge, Van Ginkle leads the way this week
Speaker 1: with forty eight snaps. Ogbad played forty two, then Scarlet eighteen.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips just fifteen snaps in this game at linebacker.
Speaker 1: Sam maguav And fifty three snaps of the total. Landon
Speaker 1: Roberts played forty four, Baker ten, Riley six at cornerback,
Speaker 1: Byron and X both put every snap, all sixty three
Speaker 1: of them. Needham played twenty four. Holland at safety played
Speaker 1: every snap all sixty three, Row forty four, Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: thirty nine, Jason mccordy tent nine. Let's finish up with
Speaker 1: scanned the social here talking about offensive line improvement. Talked
Speaker 1: about a little bit last week. I thought some of
Speaker 1: those pressures that didn't result in the sacks obviously were
Speaker 1: there were some work of two a tongue by lower
Speaker 1: to get out of the pressure. Quarterbacks and offensive line
Speaker 1: at all kind of goes in terms together in terms
Speaker 1: of who's at fault for pressures and sacks. But just
Speaker 1: twelve pressures allowed this Sunday a nice positive step in
Speaker 1: the right direction and what is slowly becoming a trend
Speaker 1: in that right direction. They passed off pretty well, not
Speaker 1: the guards pulled very well, got they slid protection and
Speaker 1: communicated well. I thought Liam had his best game as
Speaker 1: a pro. I thought was the best game of the
Speaker 1: year for both Hunt and Davis, and I thought Ryder
Speaker 1: filled in very admirably at center, and so on that thought,
Speaker 1: it has me thinking about develop admit and things coaches
Speaker 1: at about Tah and his development on Monday, and how
Speaker 1: one player's development has nothing to do with someone else's development,
Speaker 1: how it's not linear, how it's not overnight. But if
Speaker 1: they can continue this trend for the next ten games,
Speaker 1: that would be a huge boon to give you some
Speaker 1: possible answers. On the offensive line, I think Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: who has always been a good player from day one,
Speaker 1: but the way he's putting it all together in year three,
Speaker 1: I think he's a good example of that of the
Speaker 1: development that kind of comes along with the player's progression.
Speaker 1: And we saw Mike GETSICKI have very little productions rookie season,
Speaker 1: then something clicked and he's gotten better every year since then.
Speaker 1: Nick need Um, I mean, we've done this before, guys Exaviing, Howard, Miles, Gaskin,
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker, examples all over the place. And when you
Speaker 1: look at a guy like Mike, guy like X and
Speaker 1: you see how it really clicks for them in year two,
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season, like twenty five
Speaker 1: games into their career, it makes me think about Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt makes you think about Austin Jackson in a little
Speaker 1: bit being the first half of year two, about Liam
Speaker 1: Eichenberg being the first half of his rookie season, about
Speaker 1: Deets Michael Dieter when he gets back here being on
Speaker 1: a similar timeline in terms of playing time in this
Speaker 1: third season. Look, I thought Halloween was gonna be a
Speaker 1: game for first place in the division when the schedule
Speaker 1: came out, and obviously in training camp as well. And
Speaker 1: this season it's not gone the way many of us
Speaker 1: had wanted it to or expected it too. But that's
Speaker 1: what has me excited to watch every game down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Young players attempting to show their development in the way
Speaker 1: many of the mainstayer players on this roster did early
Speaker 1: in their careers as well. That's it. Let's get out
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