Speaker 1: Factors are all fits Fafrid Parford touchdown. What a win
Speaker 1: for this Miami Dolphin team. What is up, Dolph fans?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, it's Coordinator Day, as we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Chan Gaily, Josh Boyer, Danny Croftsman and the
Speaker 1: Miami defensive assistance after that swarming performance on Sunday in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Will also get you caught up on Miami
Speaker 1: standing by the numbers and we'll take an in depth
Speaker 1: dive into the all twenty two from that game. All
Speaker 1: of that and more on this Tuesday, October edition of
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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and jump right now into the rankings
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins after that seventeen victory over the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners, and we have the piece up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com, the inside the numbers, taking
Speaker 1: a look at snap counts, PFF grades and statistics and
Speaker 1: advanced metrics and the rankings there. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and account for the Monday night game last night and
Speaker 1: what a game it was between the Saints and Chargers,
Speaker 1: into overtime back and forth affair. We've got two really
Speaker 1: good primetime games this week with Seattle and Minnesota Prior
Speaker 1: to that, all of that the cherry on top of
Speaker 1: a big Dolphins victory, and with that victory, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: twenty seven point two points per game now ranked tied
Speaker 1: for twelve in the National Football League. As far as
Speaker 1: total offense, with total yards, Dolphins ranked twenty with three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty four point eight yards per game. The passing
Speaker 1: game ranks sixteen with two hundred sixty point six yards
Speaker 1: per game. And you go ahead and factor in two
Speaker 1: games where Miami basically had, you know, not much going
Speaker 1: in the passing game, the opener in New England and
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game. Just because it was so efficient, so
Speaker 1: quick that Fitzpatrick didn't put up big, gaudy yardage numbers.
Speaker 1: It really tells you how good he was throwing the
Speaker 1: ball down the field vertically and stacking up yards in
Speaker 1: the other three contest. The rushing offense for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins averages one hundred and four point two yards per
Speaker 1: game that is twenty one in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and on third down, the Dolphins offense is fourteenth, converting
Speaker 1: forty four point three percent of their third down attempts.
Speaker 1: On the other side of the football, the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: ranks ninth in the NFL, allowing just twenty two point
Speaker 1: six points per game. In Miami's total defense ranks seventeen
Speaker 1: in the NFL, allowing three hundred and seventy nine points
Speaker 1: six yards per game, and the passing defense ranks twenty
Speaker 1: one with two hundred and fifty three point six yards
Speaker 1: per game. The rushing defense is twenty in the NFL,
Speaker 1: with one and twenty six yards allowed per game. The
Speaker 1: sacks for the Miami Dolphins so far this season, We've
Speaker 1: got fourteen of those and that has tied for seventh
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And the takeaways for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: they've got eight of them and that's tied for six
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And speaking of sacks, one stat we
Speaker 1: glossed over there on the offensive side, the Dolphins offense
Speaker 1: has allowed just eight sacks on the season. That has
Speaker 1: tied for tenth in the National Football League. The snap counts.
Speaker 1: In this game, we had Ryan Fitzpatrick and the offensive
Speaker 1: line go the distance with sixty seven snaps. Of the snaps,
Speaker 1: Adam Pankey also played eighteen snaps on the O line
Speaker 1: and Julian Davenport played two. In the game. At running back,
Speaker 1: Myles Gascon had forty six, Matt Brita had twenty one,
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird played ten snaps, and Chandler Cox had twenty
Speaker 1: three snaps in the game. Wide receivers Davante Parker fifty three,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams forty, Isaiah Ford four, Jakeem Grant fourteen, Maccollins
Speaker 1: and Lynn Bowen both had ten each. Adam Shaheen played
Speaker 1: thirty eight snaps and Mike Gasicki had thirty in the game. Defensively,
Speaker 1: Zach Seiler led all Dolphins offensive lineman with forty four snaps.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins played thirty seven, Devon god Show six, Ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis eleven At defensive end, Manuel Ogbad played forty three,
Speaker 1: and Tyshon Render played eight. In the game. At linebacker,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker played sixty three snaps, Kyle van Noy played
Speaker 1: fifty six snaps, Andrew van Giegel had forty six, a
Speaker 1: season high for him. Commu gruga Hill played thirty seven
Speaker 1: and Landon Roberts played thirty in the game, and Sam
Speaker 1: mcguavan got on the field for eight snaps as well.
Speaker 1: In the secondary, Byron Jones played fifty six, Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: fifty four, Nick Needham thirty three, Jamal Perry thirteen, Noah
Speaker 1: Igny ten snaps in the game for the rookie and
Speaker 1: at safety, Bobby McCain played fifty six, Eric Row fifty five,
Speaker 1: Cavon Fraser and Brandon Jones both played nine snaps each
Speaker 1: in the dolphins seventeen win, and Ryan Fitzpatrick's eighty four
Speaker 1: point eight total QBR is fifth best in the National
Speaker 1: Football league, and it really didn't matter what the forty
Speaker 1: defense did against him because he was efficient under pressure
Speaker 1: without pressure throwing to the deep part of the field
Speaker 1: five for six for one ninety nine yards and two touchdown.
Speaker 1: On throws over twenty yards, he was seventeen of nine
Speaker 1: team for two hundred eighty nine yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: without pressure. Under pressure five of nine with sixty one
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown, So all those stats through Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. He was dominant throughout the game. Myles Gastony
Speaker 1: had the first twenty yard run of the season, a
Speaker 1: twenty one yard gallop from Miami. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in the film session of this podcast. He had three
Speaker 1: point six yards per carry, but Matt Brita led the
Speaker 1: way with two point five six average yards after initial
Speaker 1: contact per PFF. Mike Kasiki caught five of his six
Speaker 1: targets and all of those came against a different defender.
Speaker 1: He got work against two safeties, two linebackers, and a
Speaker 1: quarterback there for the forty Niners, and his fifteen point
Speaker 1: six yards per reception is second among all NFL tight
Speaker 1: ends so far in the NFL. Preston Williams is six
Speaker 1: in the NFL in yards per catch at nineteen point
Speaker 1: five minimum ten receptions. He caught four or five targets
Speaker 1: for one hundred and six yards. That's good for twenty
Speaker 1: one point two yards per target in the game. And
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker had just three targets, but he put up
Speaker 1: fifty yards on those targets with a touch down. He
Speaker 1: has an average of sixteen point seven yards per target
Speaker 1: in the game. And the Dolphins offensive line allowed just
Speaker 1: seven pressures on Fitzpatrick and he was hit only three
Speaker 1: times in the entire game. Some defensive stats on the
Speaker 1: other side of the football. Xaviing Howard earned PFF's highest
Speaker 1: grade on defense. He was targeted four times in coverage,
Speaker 1: did not allow a catch, had an interception, and broke
Speaker 1: up another. His counterpart, Byron Jones, targeted three times for
Speaker 1: just one catch in twenty yards in the game. In total,
Speaker 1: seven targets for twenty yards on the Dolphins two starting cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: an average of two point eight six yards per target.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker was all over the field and all over
Speaker 1: the stat sheet as well. He made eight tackles, four
Speaker 1: of those for run stops within two yards of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He had two quarterback pressures including a sack,
Speaker 1: and allowed just nineteen receiving yards on five targets. And
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Giegel also at linebacker two pressures, a sack,
Speaker 1: six tackles, five of those for run stops, a forced fumble,
Speaker 1: and Commu Gruga Hill had two quarterback pressures on nine
Speaker 1: pass brush reps as well, and then Zach Seeler, Emmanuel Ogball,
Speaker 1: you Land and Rob Bert's all had three pressures each
Speaker 1: for Miami that led the way, and they also all
Speaker 1: picked up a sack on the Niners quarterbacks and safety
Speaker 1: Eric Row continues his masterful work in coverage. He allowed
Speaker 1: just two receptions on six targets in this game for
Speaker 1: thirty one yards, including just one for twelve yards going
Speaker 1: up against George Kittle, and that included two pass breakups.
Speaker 1: And Bobby McCain, fellow safety back there, did not allow
Speaker 1: a completion and intercepted a pass in addition to three
Speaker 1: tackles with no misses in the game. Plenty of good
Speaker 1: performances for your Miami Dolphins. Throughout the course of this contest,
Speaker 1: we talked about Xaviing Howard and Byron Jones playing together
Speaker 1: as well. Xavian Howard has fifteen interceptions in his last
Speaker 1: twenty seven games, and he has a pick every eight
Speaker 1: point six targets over that stretch. A true ball hawk
Speaker 1: and a true playmaker there for the Dolphins in the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield at cornerback. And stats and the numbers are fun,
Speaker 1: but the film is more fun. And we're gonna go
Speaker 1: now into the Dolphins all twenty two notes here in
Speaker 1: the Week five win over San Francisco seventeen, and we
Speaker 1: start on the offensive side of the football, and with
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey, He's gonna go down my notes here. I
Speaker 1: take these notes in order of the plays as I
Speaker 1: watched them in chronological order, and then frame them together
Speaker 1: with each person I talked about. So Chan Galley up first,
Speaker 1: the offensive play calling. We heard Brian Flores on his
Speaker 1: Monday press conference talk about Chan's brilliant offensive mind. How
Speaker 1: even though coach Flora's does have some input, he largely
Speaker 1: leaves the offense up to Chan, who has many, many
Speaker 1: years of experience, and he's showing it here in this
Speaker 1: season so far. From the Miami Dolphins. Up first, the
Speaker 1: very first play of the game, you're gonna get Chandler
Speaker 1: Cox motion from one side of the formation to the other,
Speaker 1: and that moves the safety from the hash mark nearest
Speaker 1: Preston Williams to the opposite hash mark, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Preston has that one on one matchup and
Speaker 1: he won it rather significantly with a very nice catch there.
Speaker 1: On the back end of that play. Later in the drive,
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen scores a touchdown, does a nice little hop
Speaker 1: step into the defensive end to kind of show a
Speaker 1: fake little chip on him, and then leaks out into
Speaker 1: the flat and that hop step forces the linebacker to
Speaker 1: take one step forward, and that was all he needed
Speaker 1: to get to the flat and give Ryan Fitzpatrick that window,
Speaker 1: who of course found him. What a drive that was
Speaker 1: to start the game off. We come back to the
Speaker 1: Gaskin touchdown run, and there was just so many good
Speaker 1: plays on this particular play. This is just about execution.
Speaker 1: Here you get Jesse Davis down blocking the tackle and
Speaker 1: wipes him out. Davin Pour off the edge, the heavy
Speaker 1: package drives a man into the end zone. Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: comes outside and flattens the furthest outside player, the force defender,
Speaker 1: Chandler Cox, squares up his lead block in the main gap.
Speaker 1: There you have seven offensive line with a heavy package
Speaker 1: there too, offensive lineman extra in that package with a
Speaker 1: tight end and Adam Shaheen and then Chandler Cox and
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon no receivers in that formation. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: run the football and you're not gonna do a damn
Speaker 1: thing about it. On that play a tone that I
Speaker 1: touchdown run there for the Dolphins on the Jakeem Grant
Speaker 1: end around play, the action on the fake handoff to
Speaker 1: Gaskin just didn't hold the backside. That was good discipline
Speaker 1: there by the fort defense. Sometimes that just happens. And
Speaker 1: then the Preston Williams touchdown. You get Davontae Parker vertical
Speaker 1: on the other side of the field, and the Niners
Speaker 1: have those split safeties again, so you can attack that
Speaker 1: turkey hole off the side. You can go down the
Speaker 1: middle of the football field. You'll always hear Tony Rome
Speaker 1: will talk about that in CBS against Cover two, attack
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Davante gets deep in vertical
Speaker 1: and that holds the safety just enough for Fitzpatrick to
Speaker 1: fit it in there between those two safeties while he
Speaker 1: gets crushed. An awesome play call against too high and
Speaker 1: an awesome execution there from the quarterback and the receivers
Speaker 1: on that place. Speaking of Fitzpatrick on the first play
Speaker 1: of the game, an absolute dime. The ball just falls
Speaker 1: right there on the perimeter, up those hash marks along
Speaker 1: the side, right to where Preston Williams can get it
Speaker 1: and the cornerback cannot. Later on that first drive, I
Speaker 1: noted his throw to Isaiah Ford with Ghasiki taking a
Speaker 1: double team right over the middle, and then Ford breaks
Speaker 1: in behind him for a kind of two window tier
Speaker 1: throw there, and and Fitzpatrick does a really good job
Speaker 1: of anticipating that backside of that route opening up under
Speaker 1: the barrel, gets popped and throws a strike to Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: Then there's a play where he's roughed by Fred Warner
Speaker 1: and it's unblocked right up the middle, a free rusher
Speaker 1: up the middle, and he still completes it on third
Speaker 1: and three to Jachem Grant for six yards in a
Speaker 1: first down. He's just he's playing really well when he
Speaker 1: sees it out there that well, When he's seeing it
Speaker 1: that well and just lets it fly. Man, he is
Speaker 1: tough to stop. And we saw that with the near
Speaker 1: perfect passer reading in this game. For Fitzpatrick and then
Speaker 1: the third and twenty to play the touchdown to Devonte Parker,
Speaker 1: just perfect location with the end line kind of threatening,
Speaker 1: how deep and how much you can put air under
Speaker 1: that football. He throws it on perfect trajectory, perfect accurate,
Speaker 1: right accuracy, right for that backpile on myle My he
Speaker 1: was red hot in this game. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: him on some of these plays to the other guys.
Speaker 1: And then with Myles Gaskin. You know, Brian Flores talked
Speaker 1: about his past protection getting better this season and the
Speaker 1: deep shot to Preston that goes incomplete. In this game,
Speaker 1: the Niners are gonna stack a pass rush there over
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis, and Gaskin just kind of sings in behind
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis and then when Davis engages the first man up,
Speaker 1: the looper comes around and Gaskin works to find him.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really nicely done there, and pass
Speaker 1: pro from the Dolphins running back. He picks up fifteen
Speaker 1: yards on that third and six team play right before
Speaker 1: the Clayton Federalum fake punt, and it was really just
Speaker 1: a brilliant run. He presses the thing upfield like you
Speaker 1: would behind the offensive line. Only now you're in the
Speaker 1: secondary because you caught the little angle route behind the linebackers.
Speaker 1: He presses it up and then swings it outside and
Speaker 1: just beats the Niners defense at the corner and damn
Speaker 1: near gets the first down. Then on the twenty one
Speaker 1: yard run, he had just one of the honestly one
Speaker 1: of the prettiest plays in Dolphins football I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And it might sound like hyperbole, but when you get
Speaker 1: that money good executed blocks, it's hard to not get
Speaker 1: excited him. You get Eric Flowers who works his man
Speaker 1: inside one gap and then seals it off. Solomon Kindley
Speaker 1: pulls over and takes out the edge and seals that
Speaker 1: thing off. And then Chandler Cox leads it right up there,
Speaker 1: perfectly squared up block on the safety trying to fill,
Speaker 1: and Miles Gaskin just follows it for twenty one yards,
Speaker 1: the Dolphin's biggest running play of the season so far.
Speaker 1: Matt Brita. You really saw his speed on the screen
Speaker 1: pass that went for thirty one yards. Jimmy Ward basically
Speaker 1: broke down and had him squared up, and he just
Speaker 1: scooted right by him with that speed, And there were
Speaker 1: some awesome downfield blocks by both Chandler Cox and Ted
Speaker 1: Harris on that play as well. He has a twelve
Speaker 1: yard run in the fourth quarter where he finds himself
Speaker 1: one on one in the gap with Fred Warner and
Speaker 1: just drops the shoulder and bounces off the tackle. That's
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers in football, So Matt breed
Speaker 1: Um more than just a speed guy lowering the shoulder there.
Speaker 1: And on that play, by the way, Solomon Kinley and
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt had another double team a theme we'll talk
Speaker 1: about in this podcast, and Kimley carries that thing. He's
Speaker 1: kind of the off arm guy that has the one
Speaker 1: arm latched searching for extra work while Robert Hunt has
Speaker 1: him just locked up and driving him. Kiley catches that
Speaker 1: block and climbs the second level and wipes outle linebacker
Speaker 1: to those guys were fun to watch in this game.
Speaker 1: More on them in just one second. Preston Williams the
Speaker 1: first play, the touchdown, the defensive passenger ference. He just
Speaker 1: continuously got on top of guys vertically and caught the
Speaker 1: football when it was there and forced the flag on
Speaker 1: the other and the catch on the post route for
Speaker 1: the touchdown from Fitzpatrick. Two That was a really nice
Speaker 1: looking catch going to the ground there for Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Ford, I thought his catch. We talked about the
Speaker 1: anticipation of Fitzpatrick throwing in behind the double team on
Speaker 1: Mike Getsicki. The catch that Ford made on that play
Speaker 1: was even more impressive than I thought it was on
Speaker 1: the broadcast because that ball is down around his shoelaces
Speaker 1: and he has to go dig it out. Fitzpatrick was
Speaker 1: affected a little bit on the throw, so it comes
Speaker 1: up just a little bit short. But when you have
Speaker 1: a guy like Isaiah four that can consistently catch those footballs,
Speaker 1: you're gonna trust that guy on third down. Fitzpatrick did
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick does, and it moved the chains for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense. Jachem Grant caught one pass in the game,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about one that he didn't
Speaker 1: quite get. It was the first play of the second drive,
Speaker 1: and he has the cornerback is off about five or
Speaker 1: six yards on him, and he drives that thing downfield
Speaker 1: and breaks it back down the stem with a solid
Speaker 1: three or four yards of separation. So even with that
Speaker 1: off coverage, he's forcing guys to think about that deep
Speaker 1: speed get some separation there. They couldn't get the completion
Speaker 1: on the play, but I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: route there from Jachem Grant Davanta Parker. I almost forgot
Speaker 1: about that twenty eight yard player where he made a
Speaker 1: very signature Davanta Parker catch, just because of how much
Speaker 1: happened in this game. So going back and watching it,
Speaker 1: what a play by Davanta Parker. Fits always talks about
Speaker 1: giving this guys chances. He did on the first play
Speaker 1: to Preston Williams, and this play is just manned a
Speaker 1: man across the board, all the cornerbacks are up on
Speaker 1: the line, there's one safety in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: and Parker just makes a play. And that's where Fitz
Speaker 1: was going the entire time. He's so deadly. Parker is
Speaker 1: when he can get on top and stack the defensive back,
Speaker 1: and stacking means you just get behind the defensive back
Speaker 1: and try to line him up square with your back
Speaker 1: is between him and the end zone. And DeVante does
Speaker 1: that so well, and they either have to play through
Speaker 1: him or try to find a way to get a
Speaker 1: pass break up, and both of those are pretty much
Speaker 1: losing propositions for the defender because Davante is so good
Speaker 1: at coming back through the defender and making the catch
Speaker 1: and or drawing the DP. I call there, Mike GASICKI
Speaker 1: lots of notes on him here. I really have impressed,
Speaker 1: been impressed this season with his releases and how much
Speaker 1: fun they are to watch him get off the line,
Speaker 1: and something you can really tell that he's worked on
Speaker 1: from year one up through now. And the completion to
Speaker 1: Jachim Grant with the roughing call from Fred Warner, he
Speaker 1: gets a chip and impacts the rush, then releases into
Speaker 1: the flat. Later he catches a twelve yard pass where
Speaker 1: he comes across the formation and motion and continues at
Speaker 1: the snap to go to the flat. And then once
Speaker 1: the linebacker commits downhill to close down that flat route,
Speaker 1: Kausiki just cuts back across his face right into the
Speaker 1: seam and Fitzpatrick finds him with a perfectly thrown ball.
Speaker 1: His route running has just been a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to watch this year. And then right on Q I
Speaker 1: right here that he comes right back with a little
Speaker 1: stab to the inside to the post and then right
Speaker 1: back to the corner on the seventy yard play and
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick just puts that thing right on the money, and
Speaker 1: on that play, I tweeted about it on Monday nights.
Speaker 1: The entire Dolphins sideline. The guys that are standing up,
Speaker 1: there's there's guys standing the offensive players, defensive guys are
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench waiting for their turn to come
Speaker 1: back on the field. The guys that are standing all
Speaker 1: run down with him. The guys that are on the
Speaker 1: field all run down after him, and I see several
Speaker 1: arms go up into the air to celebrate the play.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves watching their teammates succeed on this team, and
Speaker 1: that kind of personality and that kind of engagement can
Speaker 1: be infectious. It's fun to watch as a fan, for sure.
Speaker 1: And then there's more work here on a third down
Speaker 1: on three to start the second half, where he releases,
Speaker 1: squares up the defense of back and breaks off the
Speaker 1: stem and Fitzpatrick finds him for the first down. And
Speaker 1: this is on Jaquiski Tart, not a linebacker but a
Speaker 1: safety and a damn good one. And Gaziki just shows
Speaker 1: you the patients and the wiggle at the top of
Speaker 1: the stem there for a nice route and conversion on
Speaker 1: third and three and moving inside to the offensive line,
Speaker 1: I had ted Carriss with relentless effort to get outside
Speaker 1: and move the gap on the six yard gas can
Speaker 1: run before the touchdown the play that sets up the touchdown. There,
Speaker 1: to Adam Shaheen, he just kept working and kept working
Speaker 1: to get himself outside of a reach block and get
Speaker 1: himself onto a latch himself onto the defender and really
Speaker 1: creates space there for Miles gaskhim. Then the second play
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, he has to reach a three
Speaker 1: technique and does it beautifully, gets himself out there. He's
Speaker 1: so quick out of his stant it allows him to
Speaker 1: execute those tough blocks where you have to really get
Speaker 1: to a spot before the defensive line can get off
Speaker 1: the snap. Solomon Kinley was just pushing guys in this
Speaker 1: game all game long. I highly recommend going and checking
Speaker 1: out Baldi's breakdowns on this offensive line performance. He talks
Speaker 1: about Solomon Kinley, Robert Hunt and the rest of the
Speaker 1: guys and his power and pad level combination is just
Speaker 1: flat out awesome. Guys can't They just can't get him
Speaker 1: to give ground because he's so low to the ground
Speaker 1: and so stout, and then he's got the footwork as
Speaker 1: well to kind of work to get himself into better
Speaker 1: position to maintain that leverage. The first player the third quarter,
Speaker 1: no exaggeration, drives this guy five yards off the football.
Speaker 1: Gaskin has a two yard run later in that quarter,
Speaker 1: and it's before the Preston Williams touchdown where he latches
Speaker 1: on his guy and drives him. And by the end
Speaker 1: of the play they have flipped sides completely where it
Speaker 1: looks like Kindley's on defense and the forty nine defensive
Speaker 1: lineman is on offense because he just keeps working and
Speaker 1: keeps grinding to get the right position on his man.
Speaker 1: He and Eric Flowers had a massive double team to
Speaker 1: start the fourth quarter. My goodness, I wrote down, hip
Speaker 1: to hip, shoulder to shoulder. Looked like they were on
Speaker 1: a blocking sled moving that guy, Eric Flowers, same as
Speaker 1: Solomon Kidley. The doubles with these guys are so impressive,
Speaker 1: the push they get in the running game. And Flowers
Speaker 1: just looks so imposing out there. He gets those massive
Speaker 1: myths on you and can almost just move guys with
Speaker 1: his arms because he's so strong in the upper body
Speaker 1: and just has that length. Robert Hunt his first start
Speaker 1: of his career, and you wouldn't know it from the
Speaker 1: first series because the very first rep of the game,
Speaker 1: on that deep shot to Preston Williams, he puts Eric
Speaker 1: Armstead on the ground. That's a Pro Bowl level defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Baldi talks about it, and that breakdown calls a two
Speaker 1: point takedown. Two plays later, he gets into a pass
Speaker 1: set again against Eric Armstead and draws out his punch
Speaker 1: by kind of throwing a dummy punch of his own,
Speaker 1: but keeps working to get into his pass set, and
Speaker 1: then once Armstead's arm comes in, he slaps that thing
Speaker 1: down and wins the rap right away. Just really impressive work.
Speaker 1: On the fourth drive of the game, I spotted at
Speaker 1: least the second slide where Robert Hunt was on an
Speaker 1: island by himself and he holds up and Fitzpatrick takes
Speaker 1: off for a seventeen yard run. So what a debut
Speaker 1: from the rookie right tackle Jesse Davis on Gaskin's screen.
Speaker 1: On the second touchdown drive, the first and goal from
Speaker 1: the seven, he gets downfield on that play and he
Speaker 1: races Dre Greenlaw, the San Francisco linebacker. Another really good
Speaker 1: player there. All this Dolphins offensive lineman had plays in
Speaker 1: this game. It was fun to watch on tape. And
Speaker 1: the final note, I guess we'll call it offensively even
Speaker 1: though with special teams, was on the federal Um fake.
Speaker 1: He did such a good job to pick his hole
Speaker 1: and get in there because he was contacted behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, but the hit because he was able
Speaker 1: to kind of shift there at the last moment, propelled
Speaker 1: him forward just enough for a first down to move
Speaker 1: the chain. So a great job there by Clayton Federalum
Speaker 1: as a safety playing running back on punt team onto
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football for this Dolphins seen
Speaker 1: win over the San Francisco forty nine. And it's a
Speaker 1: good time to remind you that this edition of the
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Speaker 1: where Dolphins fans drive pink and helped raise over twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars for cancer treatment and research. And we start
Speaker 1: on the defensive side, like we did on offense, talking
Speaker 1: about some of the calls and the game plan here
Speaker 1: for Josh Boyer and this Dolphins defense. And we saw
Speaker 1: plenty of looks in this game, talked about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Sunday night slash Monday morning. But go
Speaker 1: ahead and confirm that here on the film study portion
Speaker 1: of the Tuesday podcast, plenty of bear looks where you're
Speaker 1: gonna go head up over the center and both guards
Speaker 1: and then a couple of stacked linebackers behind that, and
Speaker 1: stacked means you're gonna line up directly behind one of
Speaker 1: those defensive lineman. Helped keep those guys clean. Saw plenty
Speaker 1: of that throughout the course of the game. On the
Speaker 1: second play of the game, you get that look both
Speaker 1: Kyle Van Noy and Andrew Van Ginkl off either edge,
Speaker 1: and my goodness, Van Ginkle made a heck of a
Speaker 1: play on that one. We'll go ahead and talk plenty
Speaker 1: more about him here in just one second. Then the
Speaker 1: very next play you get too down linemen, four linebackers
Speaker 1: and your five defensive backs, with Ogba and Seiler the
Speaker 1: down lineman, and then Gruge, Hill and Baker in the
Speaker 1: a gaps with Van Ginkl and Van Noy off either edge.
Speaker 1: Just so much variety in this game. You really saw
Speaker 1: the Dolphins versatility and depth in this game. We heard
Speaker 1: John Conjemmi on the recap podcast talk about that versatility
Speaker 1: and athletic ability on the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: He definitely was right about that with this All twenty
Speaker 1: two review. Those guys were getting after it all game long.
Speaker 1: The very next drive, you get that bare front again
Speaker 1: with Robert stacked behind Seiler and Baker behind Wilkins, and
Speaker 1: they cross dog it where one linebacker cuts in in
Speaker 1: front of the other one and second linebacker cuts around
Speaker 1: the other side and loops off that rush as well,
Speaker 1: and that that cross dog action gets a little bit
Speaker 1: of confusion from the Niners in the blocking scheme and
Speaker 1: Roberts comes clean without anybody picking him up. I just
Speaker 1: love the rush plan by condensing everything inside and blitzing
Speaker 1: those stacked linebackers because you knew the quarterback was coming
Speaker 1: off the injury report with an ankle, so heat him
Speaker 1: up inside and force him to take the decision to
Speaker 1: move outside and flee the pocket sideways for a quarterback
Speaker 1: that coming into the game was on the report with
Speaker 1: the ankle injury there. So just a good game plan
Speaker 1: I thought from the Dolphins and Josh Boyer and Brian
Speaker 1: Flores on the route on the land and Robert sack
Speaker 1: late in the first quarter, just an awesome scheme, pressure
Speaker 1: and sack on that play. Dolphins bring seven to the party.
Speaker 1: Both Van Noy and Wilkins kind of fan out to
Speaker 1: widen the offensive line to create those rush lanes inside
Speaker 1: for Roberts and for Baker, and Van Noy attacks the
Speaker 1: running back and Baker attacks the tight end to kind
Speaker 1: of force Garoppolo to come off those checkdowns because they're
Speaker 1: kind of getting engaged early and you plan on getting
Speaker 1: pressure quick gale, so go ahead and take away those
Speaker 1: quick checkdowns, and then Roberts just runs through a blocker
Speaker 1: and gets the sack. The coverage on the back end
Speaker 1: was absolutely stellar. Xavian Howard ran his man right into
Speaker 1: help where Bobby McCain capped it off and Jones was
Speaker 1: in tight coverage on his lonesome as well. Total team
Speaker 1: win on that Robert sack. I just love how they
Speaker 1: called this game that way for sixty minutes, with aggressive mindset,
Speaker 1: Go attack, go get the football. The nine er second
Speaker 1: to last drive in that fourth quarter, it's fourth and
Speaker 1: two and they ligne up with six guys on the line.
Speaker 1: They bluff to who pull out of the blitz package
Speaker 1: and into the hook zone, and they bring four rushers
Speaker 1: after the quarterback and once again, Jerome Baker, another linebacker,
Speaker 1: runs free on the quarterback to cause an errand throw
Speaker 1: there and in completion Eric Row individually, Oh man, what
Speaker 1: more can you say about this guy? The first third
Speaker 1: down stop of the game, he turns George Kittle free,
Speaker 1: kind of passes him off to Jerome Baker who picks
Speaker 1: it up. Then he closes down on an out route
Speaker 1: from Jerick McKinnon out of the backfield and he's in
Speaker 1: perfect position. In fact, if that throws a little more inside,
Speaker 1: he might have had his second pick six in his
Speaker 1: last six games. And we always look for tackles behind
Speaker 1: the line or for short gains, right the big plays
Speaker 1: that impact the chains in the down on distance. But
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a seven yard game that's impressive because what
Speaker 1: it could have been. And there was a play where
Speaker 1: he got where heem mostered down in the wide open
Speaker 1: field on the drive for just a seven yard game.
Speaker 1: So some of those safety tackles sometimes, even though they're
Speaker 1: big gains and you don't think about it during the game,
Speaker 1: they are really important to kind of that last line
Speaker 1: defense to get that guy down in the open field.
Speaker 1: And he's he's doing it in coverage too. He picks
Speaker 1: up a backside crosser with Kendrick Bourne, who's matched up
Speaker 1: underneath on Nick need Hum, and you can kind of
Speaker 1: see Row honoring the fact the fact that Born could
Speaker 1: go to the post, he could cross face and get
Speaker 1: that over route. And Born does cross face, and he
Speaker 1: closes down on the route horizontally and closes and smacks
Speaker 1: him for a pass break up. Just what a stud
Speaker 1: is what I wrote on the notes right here. Then
Speaker 1: the very next drive, he's fifteen yards off the ball
Speaker 1: and they turn kittle to him with kind of a
Speaker 1: two way go action, and he makes the right decision,
Speaker 1: closes down on it again and gets another pass breakup.
Speaker 1: I mean, just an incredible production and performance from Eric
Speaker 1: Row so far. Byron Jones. Cameron Wake once talked about
Speaker 1: plays that get made before the big play. Right in
Speaker 1: the Miami Miracle Game teen, he talked about that with
Speaker 1: a sack on the play before, or some a couple
Speaker 1: of tackles short on the Patriots previous drive that allow
Speaker 1: them to get the field goal team out there to
Speaker 1: kept to keep Miami within a one score game. Well
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, made an open field tackle right before the
Speaker 1: sticks on the play before we got that fourth and
Speaker 1: one stop on defense, and on that play also Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins was retracing the play with exceptional effort. I always
Speaker 1: get that out of ninety four. You'd love to see
Speaker 1: it from your first round DRAFTIC A couple of years
Speaker 1: ago later, for Byron Jones, a two hand jam delays
Speaker 1: an outside release and it makes the takeoff route for
Speaker 1: the receiver take far too long. It has to be
Speaker 1: an instant win on that route, and otherwise you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get the quarterback to look that way, and you're
Speaker 1: just not gonna take that shot with a sub four
Speaker 1: or four corner running in perfect phase with the receiver.
Speaker 1: They do test him later on on a deep shot
Speaker 1: to Brandon Ayuk, and they stacked the receivers this time,
Speaker 1: and really good communication by Jones and Nick need Um.
Speaker 1: Need Um takes the point and presses that guy and
Speaker 1: Jones just sits back in mirrors and once again runs
Speaker 1: the route right in the hip pocket of the receiver
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard. Now he gets called on for his turn
Speaker 1: to take a man without help. There was kind of
Speaker 1: that back and forth in this game. McCain did a
Speaker 1: great job capping everything with his help coverage back there,
Speaker 1: and you see Jones on this particular play, run his
Speaker 1: man right into McCain into the help and Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: runs all the way across the field with Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: for a pass breakup on an over route. Really good
Speaker 1: coverage there. And then the third and fourteen after Van
Speaker 1: Ginkl strip sack, it's another over route and x runs
Speaker 1: right with it, right in the hip pocket, right in
Speaker 1: the back pocket there, and Jones is right in phase
Speaker 1: on the takeoff route. These two guys just played really
Speaker 1: well together, knew their role, knew their coverages, and just
Speaker 1: shut the Niners passing game down throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game. Talked about Bobby McCain. The first note I
Speaker 1: had it was an open field tackle on a first
Speaker 1: down run on the Niners touchdown Dres the first one
Speaker 1: of the game, had plenty of open space to operate
Speaker 1: in and he got the running the running back down
Speaker 1: on that play. Then later in the game, a deep
Speaker 1: shot to Brandon Ayuk with George Kittle trying to cross face,
Speaker 1: and that's one of those things you want to put
Speaker 1: the safety and conflict by having two routes kind of
Speaker 1: go towards him and see if he takes the cheese
Speaker 1: on one. Then you throw the ball to the other guy,
Speaker 1: but Bobby keeps his death and drives on the shot
Speaker 1: to Ayuk and gets over the top before the ball.
Speaker 1: Does really good coverage from Bobby and then does something
Speaker 1: similar a couple of plays later to stay in position
Speaker 1: to drive both on a deep post and a crossing route,
Speaker 1: and the relationship and communication between he Xaviing Howard and
Speaker 1: Byron Jones just really good on that play, really good
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game. Talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about Christian Wilkins on a retrace and the effort which
Speaker 1: again is always consistent and relentless with that guy. But
Speaker 1: on the fourth down stop he does so well to
Speaker 1: get into his gap and then toss his man aside
Speaker 1: to get himself in position to stack that thing up
Speaker 1: and get that fourth down stop. He also had another
Speaker 1: hustle play in the third quarter on a run to
Speaker 1: the outside where the edge guys are out there to
Speaker 1: set it to force him back inside, and will Kins
Speaker 1: is pursuing his ass off to get the tackle out there,
Speaker 1: and he makes it happen. Nick need him here in
Speaker 1: the notes. A third and seven p BU late in
Speaker 1: the in the first quarter on Kendrick Born does a
Speaker 1: really good job on a pivot route by Born. I'm
Speaker 1: staying in there and not getting the hands on the
Speaker 1: receiver because that's a tough route to cover. Could go
Speaker 1: either direction, doesn't turn him, doesn't get grabby, and forces
Speaker 1: an incompletion and and a punt for the forty nine.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel ogbab back down to the defensive line on the
Speaker 1: fourth down play, he completely resets line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: forces the running back to change direction. If you have
Speaker 1: to change direction on that fourth down with all those
Speaker 1: guys in the box, bad things are probably gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And that was plenty enough for Roberts and god Shot
Speaker 1: to come in and clean that thing up. He also
Speaker 1: got himself a pass breakup in the second quarter, rushing
Speaker 1: from a three technique position just off the outside shoulder
Speaker 1: of the guard, and he just pushes that guard right
Speaker 1: back into the backfield and gets those big mits up
Speaker 1: for the p bu and then he puts a bow
Speaker 1: on the game with a swipe to get the force fumble.
Speaker 1: He rushed inside from that three tech spot a lot
Speaker 1: in this game, but he finishes off outside off the
Speaker 1: edge with a really ice rush and sack and strip
Speaker 1: the length on display there as well. Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: thought he had got got a great look at his
Speaker 1: length on a first and ten run late in the
Speaker 1: first quarter where the center tries to reach him. He
Speaker 1: stabs it and stacks it up and then does the
Speaker 1: arm over to win back inside. And that was where
Speaker 1: the running back was aiming off the mesh point and
Speaker 1: it forces a play for Devon god Show, who comes
Speaker 1: off of his block and makes the tackle. We talked about.
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkle got several notes here for him. On
Speaker 1: the early play in the game, Kittle fakes a chip
Speaker 1: on him, he swats the hand away and then goes
Speaker 1: to work on the pulling guards from the backside and
Speaker 1: just wins that, beats that block and wins around the outside,
Speaker 1: and man, that's the play. Strength. These guys talked about.
Speaker 1: Anthony camp and Nellie, Austin Clark, Mary and Hobby, Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer all talked about him in the weight room
Speaker 1: getting strength added to his game this offseason, and we
Speaker 1: really saw that in effect in this game. He had
Speaker 1: himself a hell of a football game. Later on, he
Speaker 1: matches up on George Kittle the middle of the second
Speaker 1: quarter and Van Gigle straight up stacks him, sheds him,
Speaker 1: and throws him off to the side and makes a
Speaker 1: tackle for a four yard game. You just don't draw
Speaker 1: a tougher tight end blocking assignment than George Kittle, and
Speaker 1: he goes out there one on one and gets the
Speaker 1: job done. Very next play, gets another tight end. It's
Speaker 1: not George Kittle this time, but he wins with the
Speaker 1: pass rush a gorgeous play. Immediately gets on the upfield
Speaker 1: shoulder and you can see the acceleration when he sees
Speaker 1: the back of a quarterback and knows it's coming. He
Speaker 1: accelerates and gets the big hit for the forced fumble.
Speaker 1: And then on a retrace play that I tweeted during
Speaker 1: the game where he, Christian Wilkins, and Zack Seiler all
Speaker 1: retraced the play and come back. The entire defensive line
Speaker 1: peels back and Van Giegel gets out there and outflanks
Speaker 1: the running back and gets it drawn out, strung out
Speaker 1: and takes all the way to the sideline for a
Speaker 1: no game. What a game he had. On Sunday. Other
Speaker 1: linebacker play, a Landing Roberts I thought had his best
Speaker 1: game as a Miami Dolphin. There was a play early
Speaker 1: on that where he impacted a throw from Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: where he scraped right off the pick from Zach Seeler
Speaker 1: for a free run on Garoppolo. Good job condensing that angle.
Speaker 1: I'm taking a short route to the quarterback. And he
Speaker 1: was so aggressive and in control in this game. He
Speaker 1: did really will to seek out contact and just go
Speaker 1: approach it and get it and clogged things up consistently throughout.
Speaker 1: I thought Zack Seeler played well. He plays so freaking hard.
Speaker 1: The pursuit on that sack to get Garoppolo to the
Speaker 1: ground I thought was impressive for Zach Seler. He led
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and snaps in this game, as we talked
Speaker 1: about in the first segment, or defensive lineman and snaps.
Speaker 1: I should say in this game, Jerome Baker on the
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain pick, he just runs step for step with
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon down the field. Is in perfect position if
Speaker 1: he has to get his head around for that ball,
Speaker 1: but luckily McCain was there for the pick. Huge defeated
Speaker 1: block when stacking and working back underneath for a stop.
Speaker 1: In the second half of this game, I think it
Speaker 1: was late third quarter or he stacks it up and
Speaker 1: works back underneath for a tackle. Good job to get
Speaker 1: off a block there, and then awesome closing speed on
Speaker 1: his sack. On the play, Dolphins go with eight down
Speaker 1: or not eight down, but eight players on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Four linebackers Wilkins and og bought the down lineman.
Speaker 1: Both Rowan McCain up in there as well, but they
Speaker 1: only bring four and it allows Jerome Baker to come
Speaker 1: clean as they slide to pick up Christian Wilkins who
Speaker 1: falls back into coverage, and they schemed up that sack
Speaker 1: using your linebackers. Great burst. Just an awesome call and
Speaker 1: execution there from the Dolphins defense. And then Kyle van
Speaker 1: Noy on the third and one play he makes a
Speaker 1: TfL where he just arm over Trent Williams and throws
Speaker 1: him to the ground and meets the ball carrier in
Speaker 1: the backfield for the TfL. Also thought he created a
Speaker 1: couple opportunities for pass rushers where he's kind of the
Speaker 1: guy that goes in there and gets that contact and
Speaker 1: sets that pick so guys can loop and scrape off
Speaker 1: of them, and does so much to confuse the rush
Speaker 1: of the blitz pick up the pass protection on these
Speaker 1: rush schemes. With all those backers walked up into different gaps,
Speaker 1: you never know who's coming, who's peeling back, and Van
Speaker 1: Noy's very aggressive and assertive and getting that contact and
Speaker 1: forcing those linemen to really kind of shoot their hands
Speaker 1: and allow linebackers to run around them when they scrape
Speaker 1: off the other part of the play. So really good
Speaker 1: work from all these guys. I just thought it was
Speaker 1: such an impressive game plan and impressive execution, and that's
Speaker 1: what happens. That's how you get seventeen three phases winning football.
Speaker 1: We saw it on Sunday for your Miami Dolphins. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and spend things forward now to the coordinators
Speaker 1: and defensive assistance for your Miami Dolphins. They spoke to
Speaker 1: the media on Tuesday. First we start with chan Gailey,
Speaker 1: who talked about the things that Ryan Fitzpatrick does that
Speaker 1: makes him able to perform on Sunday and put up
Speaker 1: such gaudy stats like we've seen in several games this
Speaker 1: year so far. He does things with um with this
Speaker 1: offense that we have um that are truly amazing to me.
Speaker 1: He really does he sees things. You know, he will
Speaker 1: call a route and he'll change one guy. Uh, and
Speaker 1: because he sees something and he'll change one little route,
Speaker 1: one little wrinkle to it and and be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the defense. Um, he saw that the
Speaker 1: other day. He saw the defensive end stand so he
Speaker 1: knew the coverage, so he changed one route and we
Speaker 1: get a touchdown. It's little things like that that he's
Speaker 1: just amazing with. He knows what the defense is doing
Speaker 1: and how to beat him, and that he's a special guy,
Speaker 1: very special guy in that respect. And how about one
Speaker 1: of Fitzpatrick's top targets on Sunday one and six yards
Speaker 1: at career for Preston Williams. Here's coach Gailey on Preston
Speaker 1: getting things going and the win over San Francisco. You
Speaker 1: know it was just a matter of time in my opinion.
Speaker 1: He Um, he's been practicing well, he's been working on
Speaker 1: his on his routes. He's been doing some good things
Speaker 1: that just when you got several good players, everybody didn't
Speaker 1: get the ball. This is one of those times where
Speaker 1: he got the ball and he took advantage of it
Speaker 1: and made plays. Um. And to me, that does nothing
Speaker 1: but help our football team. Now they gotta worry about him.
Speaker 1: They gotta worry about DP. On the other side, Jachim
Speaker 1: got Mike. They've got a lot of things to think about.
Speaker 1: And UM, I was glad we were able to get
Speaker 1: him more involved. UM and now it just creates more
Speaker 1: um open opportunities for everybody now that now that he's
Speaker 1: back on track. Use that term, because he won at
Speaker 1: all track. It just hadn't happened for in yet. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk to Dolphins special teams coordinator Danny Crossman,
Speaker 1: who first was asked about a Football Outsiders ranking that
Speaker 1: has the Dolphins special teams number two in the entire
Speaker 1: National Football League. He was asked, are you happy with
Speaker 1: the performance and what's led to the number two ranking
Speaker 1: in that particular category in that particular metric for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins special teams unit. I don't know if I'm ever happy,
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is I think our
Speaker 1: group is getting better every week. Um. And I think
Speaker 1: we're getting better, you know, in each phase, even though
Speaker 1: some of the plays that you'd like to have aren't
Speaker 1: necessarily showing up. But I think we're doing a better
Speaker 1: job blocking in the return game, even though we're not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of opportunities. I think our landmarks even
Speaker 1: though we're not getting opportunities, I think we're getting betting
Speaker 1: on better on understanding that um. But like we always say,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're to be good in the kicking game,
Speaker 1: your specialists have to perform well. Uh And I think
Speaker 1: when you when you look at the punter and the
Speaker 1: kicker of the snapper. Again, we haven't gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities in the true return game with with those specialists.
Speaker 1: But if you're specialists are performing well, you have a
Speaker 1: chance of being pretty good. And I think our specials
Speaker 1: start performing at a high level right now. Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: I want to go back something that coach Flora has
Speaker 1: talked about with Jason Sanders called him one of the
Speaker 1: most diligent workers of his craft he's ever been around.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to maybe get a follow up from
Speaker 1: you as a person's been around him every single day
Speaker 1: that's really helped lead him to now a franchise record
Speaker 1: for consecutive makes to start the season. He's got fourteen
Speaker 1: in a row. What have you seen from Jason Sanders?
Speaker 1: Well and again, and I think flows exactly right. I
Speaker 1: think you know what people don't realize is you know,
Speaker 1: the time that that Jason spends along with Matt, like
Speaker 1: the time he spends before we even ever get onto
Speaker 1: the field, both you know, from a mental and a
Speaker 1: physical standpoint, and making sure what we go onto the
Speaker 1: field that you know he's ready to performing a high level.
Speaker 1: Any performs and and executes and practice you know, we
Speaker 1: call him mini games. So you know every time your
Speaker 1: your opportunities come up, whether it be at uh you know,
Speaker 1: in practice end or a game. As a specialist, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of outside influences um as there are
Speaker 1: with some other positions. So if you can get that
Speaker 1: mindset and that that framework both physically and mentally on
Speaker 1: the practice field, you feel good about having good carry
Speaker 1: over into the game. And there is your Dolphins special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator. Let's go ahead and move onto the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. What a game this Dolphins defense had.
Speaker 1: Here's Josh Boyer and my question for coach regarding Dolphins
Speaker 1: safety Eric Rowe. Hey, coach, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about Eric Rowe, a guy you've been around since when
Speaker 1: he got to New England and you really saw him
Speaker 1: fight through you know, injuries in those early days. I
Speaker 1: just was curious what does it mean to you to
Speaker 1: see him really thriving here and can you turn that
Speaker 1: into something of a coaching point with how maybe the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys deal with an overcome adversity. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the good thing is for Eric
Speaker 1: that you know, he's a mentally tough kid. He's a
Speaker 1: hard worker. UM, he's constantly striving to improve, which is
Speaker 1: what we're ask him to do, and I think he's
Speaker 1: seeing uh, you know, some results of that. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: like everybody, there's there's things that he's got that he
Speaker 1: can continue to work on. UM. As far as you know,
Speaker 1: using as an example and stuff, I think each individual's
Speaker 1: case is a case by case uh study if you will. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think things, you know, sometimes things can
Speaker 1: start off good for a guy, then they have to
Speaker 1: deal with a little bit of adversity and then they
Speaker 1: can come back. Sometimes guys you know, just need a chance.
Speaker 1: And then there's other times that you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: start off so good and guys you know, work their
Speaker 1: way to that. I think it's different, uh, individual to individual.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, Eric is a hard worker. UM,
Speaker 1: he's been able to you know, handle the ups and downs.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a good professional, and he puts in
Speaker 1: a good day's work, and you know we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to asking to do that. And we talked about
Speaker 1: in the All twenty two review how many times the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had different guys walked up on the line and
Speaker 1: would send certain rushers, would pull certain guys back. Just
Speaker 1: a lot of confusion, Brian Baldinger talked about in his
Speaker 1: breakdown of the game on Baldy's Breakdowns. Here's Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: talking about the structure of the defense and how that works,
Speaker 1: but how sometimes it's up to the players to make
Speaker 1: their side adjustments and to play fast within the structure
Speaker 1: based upon the things they're seeing on the field on
Speaker 1: game day. Well, I mean ultimately, like again, I mean
Speaker 1: there's no coaches out there in between the white lines
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So I mean it's it's the players making decisions. UM.
Speaker 1: You try to build it in um so that those
Speaker 1: guys have flexibility within calls to change things, to see things, UM,
Speaker 1: so they can go out there and play fast at
Speaker 1: a high level. UM So, UM, you know, there there's
Speaker 1: a structure scheme that we put out there. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then you know within certain things or certain things that
Speaker 1: they seed. You guys can have the ability to adapt
Speaker 1: um based on certain parameters, which you know, I think
Speaker 1: our communications and proven as a group, UM, we still
Speaker 1: got a long way to go. We're working hard at that.
Speaker 1: We're working hard on that in the meetings and at
Speaker 1: practice and you know, hopefully it carries over to Sunday
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's a hard thing to get
Speaker 1: you know, eleven guys all on the same page, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're working to do, UM and then you
Speaker 1: can have a variety of different guys out there from
Speaker 1: time to time. So really, again it's a credit to
Speaker 1: the players putting in the time, the effort and energy,
Speaker 1: uh to get it right. And another thing we talked
Speaker 1: about in the All twenty two was that fourth and
Speaker 1: one stop. Here's coach Mary and Hobby, Dolphins defensive line
Speaker 1: coach on how that can help swing the momentum of
Speaker 1: a game and how Christian Wilkins and Emmanuel getting that
Speaker 1: knocked back was so crucial on that particular play man.
Speaker 1: It was a really big play fourth and one. I
Speaker 1: think it had already crossed pretty much mid field. It's
Speaker 1: a big turning point in the game. Man, it was
Speaker 1: pretty good knocked back that you can see both of
Speaker 1: those guys really came up the ball, knocked him in
Speaker 1: the backfield and made a heck of a play. Next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked about working with Dolphins defensive tackle to
Speaker 1: Von Godcha, I'll tell you what, working with him is
Speaker 1: a treat man. I think every coach wants to um
Speaker 1: work with with someone who really loves to play football.
Speaker 1: You know, he's very conscientious about practice, He's very conscientious
Speaker 1: about his play and one thing he man, he's a
Speaker 1: great leader. You know, his leadership in the room is
Speaker 1: is second to none. And um, you know, always count
Speaker 1: on him, um as a leader, always so counting me
Speaker 1: in first. It's big time. He's really progressed and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed coaching. And another guy that really popped on
Speaker 1: the tape on Sunday was Andrew Van Giggle. Here's Dolphins
Speaker 1: linebackers coach Anthony Campanelli on what Andrew Van Gigle did
Speaker 1: this offseason and the work he's put in taking himself
Speaker 1: in position to make plays on Sundays. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I had said something in regard today Gigle maybe two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Um, he's a tireless worker. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times at this level people think of
Speaker 1: professional football, Hey the guy has you know, you're obviously
Speaker 1: an elite player to get to this level. Um, but
Speaker 1: I don't think if people I don't think sometimes people
Speaker 1: understand that at this level guys still improved. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of the best players in football,
Speaker 1: they improve every day. And he's done that in a
Speaker 1: myriad of different ways. So I think he's done a
Speaker 1: really good job improving his game in the run game, uh,
Speaker 1: and as a pass rusher. And he's another guy who
Speaker 1: has a very multiple skill set and allows us to
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things when he's in the game.
Speaker 1: And Dolphins linebackers were responsible for several sacks in that game.
Speaker 1: Van Gegel, Baker Roberts all got themselves a sack in
Speaker 1: the game, so did Commu grug Hill, but that came
Speaker 1: off the board because of a penalty in the defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: Here's coach Austin Clark, outside linebackers coach on how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are getting more sacks in their past rushed the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Uh, first, I would say it's
Speaker 1: early man, So all those numbers, all that stuff. We're
Speaker 1: you know, we're focused on the Jets, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the players preparation effort, focus on execution, on
Speaker 1: what the plan is each week is the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I think, Um, all the guys, it's kind
Speaker 1: of been a group effort and a group contribution from
Speaker 1: all the players. It's not just one single guy rushing
Speaker 1: the passer. You know. Um, they're all winning their matchups,
Speaker 1: they're all executing the scheme properly, and they're all bought in.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's something we're really excited about. And we'll
Speaker 1: finish up on the back end here with Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: backs coach Gerald Alexander, he was first asked about Xavier
Speaker 1: Howard and his playmaking skill set. Well, the first thing,
Speaker 1: you know, to kind of get it as elementary as
Speaker 1: I can put it, he does his job. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's aligning the right places. You know, he does what's
Speaker 1: necessary for the play call. The communication to him allows
Speaker 1: him to understand his responsibility is whether it be man
Speaker 1: or zone. And then you know, especially when we're in
Speaker 1: zone defense, which was the call when he got his
Speaker 1: interception the other day. You know, a lot of it
Speaker 1: really came from the defensive line, you know, in their
Speaker 1: ability to affect the quarterback and and force a high throw.
Speaker 1: And that's why you know Russian coverage really go together.
Speaker 1: But more specifically the X and he's a guy that
Speaker 1: has no good ball skills from the balls in the
Speaker 1: air and there's a lot of guys a lot of corners. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can look at my playing career, there's
Speaker 1: so many layups that I've dropped that were right in
Speaker 1: my hands. And so a guy like him who has
Speaker 1: the ball skills to really um defend in the zone
Speaker 1: defense and catch those balls or even in the man
Speaker 1: to man kind of defending a nine route and going
Speaker 1: up there and catch the ball is highest point. He
Speaker 1: does a really good job hiss attacking the football once
Speaker 1: he's in phase. From one player with a great game
Speaker 1: on Sunday to another. And Dolphins safety Eric row I
Speaker 1: asked g A what he's seen from last year when
Speaker 1: he was a coaching intern here in camp to this
Speaker 1: year as the defensive back room, the coach of the
Speaker 1: defensive back room, what he's seen from Eric Rowe in
Speaker 1: that growth going from corner to safety and getting production
Speaker 1: on the field. Here's g a. We're just the feel
Speaker 1: of the position. I think safety is such a different
Speaker 1: position than corner one from obviously the communication standpoint, which
Speaker 1: he's gotten a hell of a lot better. You know,
Speaker 1: Eric naturally is a quiet guy, and when he's on
Speaker 1: the field he has to be very verbal and be
Speaker 1: be loud and be confident to give the communication to everybody.
Speaker 1: So you you get you get some some feel up.
Speaker 1: He's starting to get better, uh in that role as
Speaker 1: a communicator, and also in the run game, you know
Speaker 1: where he's got to have recognition of, you know, crack
Speaker 1: splits if he's a down safety and and and being
Speaker 1: able to fit in on the run game and seen
Speaker 1: pulling guards and so you know, when you're coming from
Speaker 1: the corner position, you don't necessarily you're not exposed to that.
Speaker 1: And so it's just different nuances within the safety position.
Speaker 1: We're different keys and different movement and things like that. Um,
Speaker 1: he's now continued to expose was himself on the week
Speaker 1: to week through practice. He's got to help a lot
Speaker 1: better since I was a little intern here just trying
Speaker 1: to get information. And there you have a very lengthy
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition here of the Drivetime Podcast. But hey, that's
Speaker 1: what you get when you get a blowout win. Plenty
Speaker 1: of information and I guess we want to talk about
Speaker 1: here with the all twenty two, the stat updates, and
Speaker 1: of course the coach is telling us what they thought
Speaker 1: about the game on Sunday and then going forward next
Speaker 1: week to the Jets, which we will pivot full stop
Speaker 1: here to the Jets on tomorrow's podcast, while here from
Speaker 1: coach and some players and get back into the Wednesday
Speaker 1: feature with Eric Rowe, Dolphins safety on this podcast. So
Speaker 1: plenty to come here on the Drivetime Podcast. In the meantime,
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