Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, it's another all twenty
Speaker 1: two spectacular. Looking back at the tape of Dolphins and Giants,
Speaker 1: I'll break down the three biggest plays from the game,
Speaker 1: give you my top five individual tapes, tell you about
Speaker 1: how I saw better connectivity on the back end, and
Speaker 1: run down the entire list of performances. Here plus head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel ways in from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drift
Speaker 1: Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Maggie gaff.
Speaker 1: We've got some injury updates from head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and his Monday afternoon press conference almost head Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and check it out on YouTube. But you
Speaker 1: basically said that the timeline for Devon a Chan who's
Speaker 1: for a knee injury in the game, is unknown. They
Speaker 1: are evaluating that right now, as well as Jeff Wilson's
Speaker 1: availability in terms of the return from the IR and
Speaker 1: the twenty one twenty one day designation window also got
Speaker 1: updates that Rob Jones and Nick Needim are progressing nicely
Speaker 1: and the Isaiah win should be fine going forward. He
Speaker 1: of course returned to the ballgame, as did Devon Achan.
Speaker 1: As far as how the game breakdown went well, I
Speaker 1: have just consumed the tape and I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and spit out some facts for you guys over
Speaker 1: the next forty minutes or so. Here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: we start with the big play breakdowns, and we go
Speaker 1: with Devon a Chan's seventy six yard touchdown run in
Speaker 1: the second quarter and an order of things that had
Speaker 1: to happen for this play to work, which whenever you
Speaker 1: get a long touchdown play, you typically have eleven guys
Speaker 1: executing their job really well. And the order of how
Speaker 1: these things went was like this. Isaiah Wim gets an
Speaker 1: immediate seal on the play side two technique, which is
Speaker 1: the head up over him, the guy the head up
Speaker 1: over the left guard. Smyth has a one on one
Speaker 1: off the edge against a five technique who happen to
Speaker 1: be Cavon Thibadeau and he widens him, gets space and
Speaker 1: really generates movement there. Smyth's had a nice year, man,
Speaker 1: He's really found his niche in this offense. Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: reaches and seals a two technique which again lined up
Speaker 1: head up over him and has to get on the
Speaker 1: inside shoulder. He does that very very well. Connor Williams
Speaker 1: climbs up to the mike linebacker and wipes him out.
Speaker 1: Kendall Lamb climbs the second level and he races another linebacker.
Speaker 1: Then you get Cedric Wilson sailing off the corner back.
Speaker 1: Then there's a safety who has about ten yards of
Speaker 1: depth and is at the numbers with Devon a chain
Speaker 1: at the same time that he's on the numbers. So
Speaker 1: what is that thirteen yards of width from the numbers
Speaker 1: of the sideline and ten yards of depth. Devon wins
Speaker 1: that and he races the corner pretty easily. Good night,
Speaker 1: show him your tel light's long touchdown run. How about
Speaker 1: a sixty four yard screen pass to Tyreek Hill with
Speaker 1: three p forty one to play in the second quarter
Speaker 1: on first and fifteen when he catches the ball, and
Speaker 1: this is the impact that Tyreek has just by being
Speaker 1: on the field. Right number ten's out there, you have
Speaker 1: two safeties are both twenty yards off the football. Then
Speaker 1: the second level of the defense is at five yards
Speaker 1: of depth, so you have all this space for Tyreek
Speaker 1: to operate inside of. And go back to the game
Speaker 1: preview podcast, what was one of our keys in the
Speaker 1: game find the playmakers in space because the Giants give
Speaker 1: you lots of it and they don't tackle very well.
Speaker 1: That played out on this rep because you get tons
Speaker 1: of overplay, tons of overflow, and you wind up getting
Speaker 1: Smyth and Barrios getting key seals off the edge on
Speaker 1: the part of the where the screen was thrown to
Speaker 1: and then Austin Jackson climbs out there and he rass
Speaker 1: the Sam linebacker. What it's tape for Austin Jackson. Once again,
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt was also out there to help in the cause,
Speaker 1: and it gives Tyreek this window and the flow of
Speaker 1: the defense over pursues going over the top, and that's
Speaker 1: pretty much the only way you can stop that rail
Speaker 1: slash like hookup slash slide route. The bread and butter
Speaker 1: of our offense we usually go to which hasn't been
Speaker 1: as utilized in the last couple of weeks. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: a good thing here as we kind of find more
Speaker 1: deviations of that offense. But Tyreek winds back across the
Speaker 1: flow and it's just out the gate from there. Surprise,
Speaker 1: he got caught what he did. But Austin Jackson and
Speaker 1: the design and Tyreek's presence helped make that play happened.
Speaker 1: Then you get a sixty nine yard nice touchdown pass
Speaker 1: from two to the Tyreek at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, fourteen and a half minutes left to play
Speaker 1: on a third and four play, and the Giants like, so,
Speaker 1: this is a blown coverage and it's nice to take
Speaker 1: advantage of defenses blowing coverage because it's gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are one of the best in the league
Speaker 1: at capitalizing when the defense messes up, and so they're
Speaker 1: pretty discombobulated pre snap and they come out without a
Speaker 1: corner over Tyreek. He's all by himself and he kind
Speaker 1: of waves it to it like Hi Tua, you know,
Speaker 1: hi Patrick's what does SpongeBob say? I forget the guy's name.
Speaker 1: But they eventually run a corner over there. The release
Speaker 1: pulls the jam from the corner who is a rookie,
Speaker 1: and it's with wiff on both hands inside hand, outside hand,
Speaker 1: double hand. We whiff all three times and at that
Speaker 1: point you're not gonna catch him, and at that point
Speaker 1: you probably beat five yards into the route. The only
Speaker 1: hope here is that the safety to that side gets
Speaker 1: proper depth and walls that thing off because outside release,
Speaker 1: typically Tyreek's gonna run a go route, or he's gonna
Speaker 1: come back to the football. Maybe he'll cross face, but
Speaker 1: usually he takes an inside release there just not very
Speaker 1: frequently he takes an outside release. But I think it's
Speaker 1: a bus because they wind up having a linebacker clamp
Speaker 1: on a chan and that third safety who's part of
Speaker 1: the equation there, who I kind of thought was robbing
Speaker 1: the backside crossing route, he really kind of just gets
Speaker 1: downhill and goes and attacks the running back. And then
Speaker 1: there's a third safety who's twenty five thirty yards off
Speaker 1: the ball on the wrong hash, who's really just covering grass.
Speaker 1: Tua sees the release, lets it go in rhythm with
Speaker 1: Tyreek only ten yards down the field, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure i've ever seen a vertical throw to this guy
Speaker 1: to Cheetah that did less to break his stride. He
Speaker 1: didn't slow up one beat, And that's why I praised
Speaker 1: the accuracy, because folks came at me and told me
Speaker 1: I was stupid on Twitter for praising the ball being
Speaker 1: right on the face mask. Well, Tua lets this ball
Speaker 1: go from his own twenty three yard line and it
Speaker 1: hits Tyreek on the opposing thirty nine yard line. And
Speaker 1: again I get he's wide up in, but a perfect
Speaker 1: ball that doesn't break the receiver stride from thirty six
Speaker 1: yards away. I mean, this blows my mind every time
Speaker 1: we have to talk about it, because every time Tua
Speaker 1: throws a ball that's not like in the tire swing,
Speaker 1: he gets like hated on for some reason. But I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone that watches Dolphins also watches the rest
Speaker 1: of the NFL, and how we haven't cobbed to the
Speaker 1: fact that quarterbacks very frequently missed these throws blows my mind.
Speaker 1: But this one was right on the money, Like, it
Speaker 1: doesn't overthrow him, doesn't undershoot him to take away Yak.
Speaker 1: Perfect throw, big part of the reason why it goes
Speaker 1: for sixty nine yards. In pass protection, I thought Connor
Speaker 1: Williams had a fantastic rep here where he was kind
Speaker 1: of scanning to the left to see if a potential
Speaker 1: twist might come off the left side, while also holding
Speaker 1: up the inside post for Rob Hunt to cut off
Speaker 1: a potential twist from that guy. So Connor Williams' presence
Speaker 1: in the middle of the Dolphins offensive line, it makes
Speaker 1: a whole lot of difference. You also have Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: shut down his man, Win and Lamb double up on
Speaker 1: Thibadeau to get that taken care of Top five tapes?
Speaker 1: Did you ever think I would say this? The top
Speaker 1: tape of the game for me was Austin Jackson. They've
Speaker 1: harnessed and utilized his athletic ability in a pretty damn
Speaker 1: cool way. And I theorize this offseason, talked about it
Speaker 1: right here the podcast, how his ability to get to
Speaker 1: the edge faster than most would really accentuate this perimeter
Speaker 1: running game, which is how you can build in so
Speaker 1: much of the misdirection, play, pass and around, revert, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. And you see it on the first play,
Speaker 1: Austin literally climbs inside to the one technique, which is
Speaker 1: two gaps over where he lined up. I want you
Speaker 1: to think about that, two gaps to the left chips
Speaker 1: the one technique, wheels back out from the far Hash
Speaker 1: gets eight yards down the field and is at the
Speaker 1: numbers for a block on a dB that he wipes
Speaker 1: him out. That like Alec Ingle doing that as impressive
Speaker 1: at his size and speed, athletic profile and offensive lineman
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty pounds doing that, it's absurd. Then
Speaker 1: in pass protection, I just see a completely different player
Speaker 1: than what we saw the first three years of his career.
Speaker 1: There's a third down conversion of Tyreek where he's one
Speaker 1: on one and he gets the initial punch with some effectiveness,
Speaker 1: but the defender does what you want to do in
Speaker 1: pass rushing and generates space between he and Austin that
Speaker 1: allows you to use your hands to redirect a cross
Speaker 1: face if you have to. But Austin calmly just continues
Speaker 1: to get depth, drops into his anchor and reshoots the
Speaker 1: hand and perfectly strikes the strike zone and runs him
Speaker 1: right around the quarterback. Like like we said, Like if
Speaker 1: I said this, you know, if we can just get
Speaker 1: replacement level play at right tackle and left guard, we
Speaker 1: can be pretty good. But this is like plus plus
Speaker 1: play from seventy three seventy seven has been really good too.
Speaker 1: But I think seventy three has been like I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say Pro Bowl good, he's been really good. Maybe
Speaker 1: if he does it for you know, seven more games,
Speaker 1: we can start talking about that. But he has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: And I'm just having a really hard time not including
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt in my top five tapes. It's I had
Speaker 1: to include these other guys on offense, and I had
Speaker 1: to include some guys on defense as well, But I
Speaker 1: just want to acknowledge that Rob Hunt is playing at
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl level, elite stuff weekend week out. We'll
Speaker 1: come back to that here in a second. But Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson's PFF numbers thirty two pass block snaps no pressures
Speaker 1: allowed on the year. That's a ninety seven point five
Speaker 1: pass block efficiency, which takes your pressures allowed divided by
Speaker 1: total pass blocking snaps. Guys, that's twelfth among all offensive
Speaker 1: tackles who have at least one hundred pass blocking snaps
Speaker 1: not right tackles out of thirty two out of sixty
Speaker 1: four tackles. In fact, there are sixty five that have
Speaker 1: played that many injuries can obviously have an impact on that.
Speaker 1: The twelfth best tackle in terms of pass blocking and
Speaker 1: he's probably a top ten run blocker. My goodness Man
Speaker 1: number two tape, Tyreek Hill. I always note this with
Speaker 1: receivers in this offense, originally because we tend to get
Speaker 1: more plays in the running game early it seems like,
Speaker 1: but his competitiveness as a blocker and sealer on crack
Speaker 1: toss down the field is really really good. I also
Speaker 1: continue to just marvel by the way he sets up
Speaker 1: his moves, not just with the football to run after
Speaker 1: the catch, but without it in his route running. The
Speaker 1: attention that he draws like double coverage, bracket coverage, safety help,
Speaker 1: rolling guys over the top, and he still produces at
Speaker 1: this level leads the league. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that have their hat in this ring, but he's
Speaker 1: my most valuable non quarter back in football. The speed,
Speaker 1: the way he alters his landmarks and kind of changes
Speaker 1: up a certain route on a given play based upon
Speaker 1: a certain coverage, the effort he exudes, the attention he commands,
Speaker 1: how he wins when he finally does get the chance
Speaker 1: where he's not bracketed a sixty nine yard touchdown catch nice,
Speaker 1: The releases he has inside outside all equally impressive. Just
Speaker 1: an impressive, impressive player. He's heading towards like all time
Speaker 1: greatest dolphin like Dan Marino will probably never be topped.
Speaker 1: Tyreek's come from that number two spot. Man, if he
Speaker 1: does it for another five years like this, like goly
Speaker 1: ten point six yards per route ran, like if you
Speaker 1: average two in that category. Two, If you get two
Speaker 1: in that category, it's really good. He had ten in
Speaker 1: the game, twenty yards per target in the game. If
Speaker 1: you have eight, that's really good. It's crazy. This is
Speaker 1: crazy production. Devon ah Chan's my third top tape. What
Speaker 1: more can you say about him? The speed obviously garners
Speaker 1: all the attention, but the way he sees it and
Speaker 1: hits it is what creates that urgency that I feel
Speaker 1: like gets to flat footed or in the case of
Speaker 1: his long run, that safety was coming from depth, like oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a play right here. But because
Speaker 1: Devaughan was so decisive and hit it so fast, he
Speaker 1: quickly got on his toes and that wasn't the place
Speaker 1: to be. He should have been getting more depth to
Speaker 1: try to cut that angle off and save you know,
Speaker 1: a potential thirty yard run and not let it go
Speaker 1: for seventy six. But because of how consistent he is
Speaker 1: of making the correct decision and hitting it with conviction.
Speaker 1: I think it creates a lot of that urgency that
Speaker 1: causes bad decisions on the other side. He sets up
Speaker 1: his block so well and allows his speed to have
Speaker 1: maximum impact. With the decision making and style of running
Speaker 1: that he has, I really hope he's okay heading forward here.
Speaker 1: Number four is Zach Seeler. It's just the length every
Speaker 1: damn week. I mean, the moment he sees a guy leaning,
Speaker 1: he throws in a swim, a dip rip, an arm over,
Speaker 1: and the force that he generates with that shove, like
Speaker 1: the arm on the back, and then get my cleats
Speaker 1: in the ground and use that lower body strength to
Speaker 1: really generate the momentum to generate the leverage. He just
Speaker 1: throws guys on the ground. Like between Christian Zach and
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt, those guys are putting more bodies in the
Speaker 1: ground than a grave digger does. It's just impressive the
Speaker 1: power and strength and the way they play behind their
Speaker 1: pads every single week. And when it comes to Zach
Speaker 1: Sealer like it just he's in the backfield over and
Speaker 1: over in this game. And when him and Wilkins get
Speaker 1: these quick wins. Gosh, it makes the world of difference
Speaker 1: for the off ball backers. That's when Long and Baker
Speaker 1: are at their best. Additionally, the way that he holds
Speaker 1: his ground on double teams, I forget the terminology for this.
Speaker 1: There's a term for defensive tackles holding the double team
Speaker 1: point where they kind of go to the knee and
Speaker 1: just basically anchor against that look. He does it, but
Speaker 1: also stays on his feet and allows, you know, holds
Speaker 1: those guys from getting to the second level. Just over
Speaker 1: and over. The back to back TfL sack reps were
Speaker 1: absolutely comical. Again, let the bodies hit the floor. Man.
Speaker 1: It's a result of ninety two's work and his strength
Speaker 1: that he exhibits every single week. What a game, As
Speaker 1: my guy Seth Levet on the Fish Tank podcast says,
Speaker 1: grown ass man. The grip, strength, the leverage he creates.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about Zach Sealer. He is an impressive,
Speaker 1: pressive football player. He had five pressures in this game
Speaker 1: according to PFF, and seven run stops. Run stops are
Speaker 1: essentially wins for the defense in terms of they didn't
Speaker 1: gain the requisite yards to consider a win for the offense.
Speaker 1: Seven times Zach made the tackle or the defense got
Speaker 1: a win. That's a ridiculous number. Number five top tape
Speaker 1: is Christian Wilkins. I just wanted to put these two
Speaker 1: guys together here because I think they kind of set
Speaker 1: the table for everybody else to have the performances they had.
Speaker 1: But my first note was the first step quickness just
Speaker 1: jumps off the tape. He played this like two technique
Speaker 1: two I three technique position all game long, and he
Speaker 1: was just consistently finding ways looping across the guard's inside post.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if teams will adjust to that, because
Speaker 1: you know, the first four games of the year, we've
Speaker 1: kind of played those light interior looks where we kind
Speaker 1: of gave up the a gap on either side, and
Speaker 1: I thought teams took advantage of that. But the way
Speaker 1: Christian played with kind of looping inside off of that
Speaker 1: maybe gives you some more ability to fit that gap
Speaker 1: and then use linebackers and the b gaps to kind
Speaker 1: of come excuse me to kind of come down and
Speaker 1: you know, give you your run fits. But I wonder
Speaker 1: if teams will just to that move because he consistently
Speaker 1: had so many moves working. The one hand stab crossover
Speaker 1: and rip through. He was dominant in the twist game,
Speaker 1: looping across you know, an underneath pick. He held up
Speaker 1: against double teams, got wide against the outside runs, just
Speaker 1: a vintage Christian Wilkins game. Constant pressure, never gave an
Speaker 1: inch against the run. And again, these two guys set
Speaker 1: the table for everybody else in this defense. But Van Ginkel,
Speaker 1: Chubb Deshaun Cater were all in consideration for me on
Speaker 1: the defense, just like Rob Hunt was on offense. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: how alec Ingold was on the offense. Connor Williams. Really
Speaker 1: a lot of guys were in contention here for Top
Speaker 1: five tapes. His number is Christian Wilkins. Seven pressures, three
Speaker 1: run stops in the game. Fantastic. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break right there and come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and kick off the offensive tape. We
Speaker 1: also have the defense to get to and snap counts.
Speaker 1: All that ahead. Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. We've broken down the
Speaker 1: big plays. We've talked about the top five tapes, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Zack Sealer, Tyreek Kill, Devon a Chan and Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: get my top five tape. Let's go ahead and continue
Speaker 1: with general offensive notes here first, and I just put
Speaker 1: down that this is an absolute headache of an offense
Speaker 1: to deal with. The false keys are positively paralyzing you
Speaker 1: motion one way. You've got pullers going out the other direction,
Speaker 1: reverse options coming back the original way, with the football
Speaker 1: going back the other direction. Are you confused? I am?
Speaker 1: Where am I am? I? Travis? I think so. And
Speaker 1: a quarterback who just drills those fine details and uses
Speaker 1: slide of hand to put it all together. It's a
Speaker 1: lot to deal with. Man, Just the game plan of
Speaker 1: attacking the edge just was a pure thing of beauty.
Speaker 1: I lost count of how many plays we gave the
Speaker 1: n man on the line of scrimmage a free run
Speaker 1: at the quarterback and they'd take it, only to realize, ah,
Speaker 1: there's a reason I'm free. I'm naked here. And when
Speaker 1: they would take it, they'd realize quickly the ball had
Speaker 1: already gone out the back gate seconds earlier. I said
Speaker 1: in the preview podcast, this defense is super, super aggressive,
Speaker 1: and Miami use it against them. Something else I've really
Speaker 1: been kind of keeping an eye on is the Dolphins
Speaker 1: of Bill to get production from two back sets, and
Speaker 1: not just with Alec ingold in the game, which obviously
Speaker 1: is twenty one personnel, but two back sets that utilize
Speaker 1: two running backs, which gives you more speed and sure enough,
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel answered a question on Monday about
Speaker 1: what you call that grouping and when they replace the
Speaker 1: full back with a running back, it's called fast twenty one,
Speaker 1: at least here for the Miami Dolphins, So I looked
Speaker 1: into it. Nobody is utilizing two back sets right now
Speaker 1: like Miami, and again not just Alec, but the entire
Speaker 1: running back compliment with any twenty one personnel grouping, So
Speaker 1: it could be Alec, it could be a different running back,
Speaker 1: but all of them combined, Miami has a point two
Speaker 1: to two EPA that's double the second place team in
Speaker 1: that category, who is no one else other than the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. And for a little more digestible number,
Speaker 1: with two back personnel that does not include Alec, the
Speaker 1: fast twenty one personnel, they're averaging ten point three yards
Speaker 1: per pass and eleven point six yards per carry. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Chris Coffin for finding that for us on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I think through true media, I believe either way that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from coach on how that
Speaker 1: personnel grouping has been so productive this season.
Speaker 2: You know, they're the way they're playing football and really
Speaker 2: taken to various assignments, being able to multi train and
Speaker 2: get get you know, some receiver responsibilities from the running
Speaker 2: backs and some running back responsibilities from the receivers because
Speaker 2: of their football acumen. You know it. It does present
Speaker 2: a problem that you know, there's there's always some sort
Speaker 2: of uh, there's there's some sort of solution defensively, and
Speaker 2: so they have to be especially if you have a
Speaker 2: tel so in terms of what you like to do
Speaker 2: in it. So I think it's a it's a testament
Speaker 2: to all those guys commitment to the whole offense because
Speaker 2: we're able to run various different types of schemes runs, passes, dropbacks,
Speaker 2: and play actions and all sorts of things out of
Speaker 2: that because they like being out on the field together.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get to the tua tongue of
Speaker 1: Bilow a portion of the podcast, I thought this was
Speaker 1: his worst game of the season by quite a long shot.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of the Patriots game last
Speaker 1: year too. Many mistakes, too many head scratching decisions, and
Speaker 1: just not enough big time throws to really I guess
Speaker 1: negate that, although the sixty to nine yard pass was perfect.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the first play that caught my eye was
Speaker 1: the flip to Cedric Wilson on the opening drive, that
Speaker 1: little motion to wheel like quick now route. And I
Speaker 1: feel like this portion of the All twenty two gets
Speaker 1: long because you need descriptors to appreciate the nuance of
Speaker 1: Tua's game. So just real quick, you guys saw it
Speaker 1: was early in the game, right, the little all the
Speaker 1: edge motion stuff they were doing, all the screens and
Speaker 1: you know, flips and end a round stuff, and then
Speaker 1: you get Cedric in motion with a quick hitter from Tua.
Speaker 1: And I want to describe this best I can without
Speaker 1: having a video element. So raheems in the pistol behind Tua,
Speaker 1: and you have Chosen in a can dense split to
Speaker 1: the same side of motion too, and there's only one
Speaker 1: corner out there who's covering Chosen. So when Cedric goes wide,
Speaker 1: he's all alone. And the next closest guy is a
Speaker 1: safety fifteen yards off the ball and a linebacker five
Speaker 1: yards off the ball. But you're already outflanked. But the
Speaker 1: reason I wanted to talk about this is because Fedric
Speaker 1: gets seven yards upfield before the ball hits him right
Speaker 1: in the face mask, and Tua got the football to
Speaker 1: him in one point two seconds. Here's the things that
Speaker 1: he had to do in one point two seconds to
Speaker 1: throw the ball to the perimeter seven yards down the
Speaker 1: field to wedge it between Cedrick Wilson's face mask. If
Speaker 1: he didn't have hands, fake a handoff in a way
Speaker 1: that flips his feet in the opposite direction that he
Speaker 1: needs for clean mechanics. So you know, throwing a ball
Speaker 1: right handed to your left with your left foot forward,
Speaker 1: wof that makes sense. But as he flips the feet
Speaker 1: back to proper alignment, the throwing motion in his upper
Speaker 1: body has already begun. So he's putting these two cogs
Speaker 1: of the machine together at different varied timings, which wouldn't
Speaker 1: really necessitate muscle memory. It's just like a freak skill
Speaker 1: that you would have. And you guys know, I love
Speaker 1: to compare these moments to everyday activities. I would say
Speaker 1: it's like when you're cooking dinner and you're juggling multiple
Speaker 1: dishes and courses in a way that has them all
Speaker 1: come out fresh at the exact same time. It's a
Speaker 1: craft that you should appreciate but probably don't. So in
Speaker 1: one point two seconds, all these things occur. Snap the football,
Speaker 1: fake a handoff, flip the feet, one hundred and eighty degrees.
Speaker 1: Football comes out and if Cedric just didn't raise his
Speaker 1: hands like I said, it would have jammed between the
Speaker 1: opening and his face mask. Perfect location. Despite all the
Speaker 1: chaos of having to flip your entire mechanical operation in
Speaker 1: one point two seconds. Please, please, for the love of God,
Speaker 1: please appreciate this quarterback while we have them. Guys, I
Speaker 1: implore you. You endured Jay Fiedler and Brian Greasy and
Speaker 1: aj Feely and Cleo Lemmon and John Beck, and I
Speaker 1: mean you endured it all to get to this quick
Speaker 1: complaining about it. He's a great player. Now again, I
Speaker 1: thought it was twoa's worst tape of the season. Pretty
Speaker 1: high bar when you passed for two touchdowns on three
Speaker 1: hundred yards, right, But here's why. Other there were several
Speaker 1: occasions where he threw with anticipation before a defender peeled
Speaker 1: off where he thought they were and they got involved
Speaker 1: in the play. And what this does is an empowered
Speaker 1: ding dongs like Stephen Ruiz to say that this quarterback
Speaker 1: only throws predicated based on what he knows from the
Speaker 1: pre snap recognition, Like if you don't know how to
Speaker 1: count a potato, don't try to evaluate quarterback play because
Speaker 1: this quarterback doesn't do that. If you watch the tape,
Speaker 1: you know. But in this game he did three times.
Speaker 1: Three times. Okay, really, it's probably been about six times
Speaker 1: all season. But it began on the play before the
Speaker 1: first touchdown. The conflict linebacker never sinks into run action
Speaker 1: on that pass to waddle in the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone, but Tua still fires it back there on
Speaker 1: the crosser gets a hand on it pass breakup, and
Speaker 1: we'll see later later in the game that hands on
Speaker 1: footballs down there can have catastrophic results. Now, when you
Speaker 1: watch the end zone angle, it does look like Tua
Speaker 1: tries to settle him away from the flow with a
Speaker 1: back shoulder ball, so he damn near beat it. But
Speaker 1: it was a bit of a theme later in the game,
Speaker 1: throwing into pockets where the defense would peel back into
Speaker 1: the next one was the pick six, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna gonake of here. First we're get to the positive.
Speaker 1: Just try to jam a hookup route that wasn't there.
Speaker 1: In fact, nothing was there. It was good red zone
Speaker 1: defense by the Giants. The mic flowed that way, the
Speaker 1: slot peeled off and jumped it. I mean it really
Speaker 1: should have been picked originally, and I wish it would
Speaker 1: have been, because it would have been a touchback and
Speaker 1: they would have fallen down on the end zone and
Speaker 1: not ran back one hundred and two yards. But on
Speaker 1: this play, Tyreek and Waddle are bracketed and you've got
Speaker 1: little little bracks and burials to the top of the
Speaker 1: field one on one with no help at all, just
Speaker 1: purely a one on one matchup. I think he can
Speaker 1: win those. Let's go to him next time on that
Speaker 1: the second I int Tua is always going to take
Speaker 1: the blame, but his hand pretty clearly hits Connor Williams
Speaker 1: Helmet who was getting bull rushed back into the lap
Speaker 1: of Tua by Dexter Lawrence. And don't say that this
Speaker 1: Connor Williams can't play football because of one rep, don't
Speaker 1: You Guys should know better than that. He had a
Speaker 1: great game, He had one bad rep and it cost
Speaker 1: us a turnover. It happens. Nothing more to it than that.
Speaker 1: I suppose you get onto it for not finding a
Speaker 1: cleaner platform and being careless with the football. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't some crazy bad decision. So that was bad. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get back to the good here, because
Speaker 1: literally on the next play after the first bad is
Speaker 1: a great touchdown strike broken play two gets outside of
Speaker 1: structure and throws high to a covered man. That's the
Speaker 1: ticket in that part of the end zone. Throw it
Speaker 1: up and away from the coverage, just like the Baltimore
Speaker 1: game last year for the game winner. Does it again
Speaker 1: to Walla for a touchdown. I think my favorite play
Speaker 1: was the rep right before the eighth chan touchdown. He
Speaker 1: makes a free runner miss out of his own end zone,
Speaker 1: attacks the line of scrimmage with his eyes up and
Speaker 1: that pulls the hooked defender down to come prevent a scramble,
Speaker 1: and Tua just flips it with his feet facing the forward.
Speaker 1: No mechanical proficiency there, drop the arm angle, slide that
Speaker 1: thing around him to a vacated area for Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: for a first down. Not just erasing negative plays turning
Speaker 1: them into chain moving plays, and then a real quick
Speaker 1: analysis on the response drive after the pick. Awesome location
Speaker 1: on a hookup throw to Braxton Barrios that settles in
Speaker 1: between two defenders and leads him into a run after
Speaker 1: the catch. Actually then capital a anticipation on the glance
Speaker 1: route to Cedric Wilson, the balls out before he's even
Speaker 1: into the break. We see that all time with River Craycraft.
Speaker 1: Here it goes to Hedric Wilson, screen goes for one yard,
Speaker 1: but maybe his best throw of the day after that
Speaker 1: is a twelve yard shot to Wattle where the Giants
Speaker 1: show zone match with too high. Tua hits the back foot,
Speaker 1: fires with anticipation to waddle on a glance to the
Speaker 1: other side, and the defender is right on Wattles back.
Speaker 1: But the ball's perfectly located low in a way. And
Speaker 1: then there's some more awesome location in terms of throwing
Speaker 1: to a spot that it's not traditionally supposed to go to,
Speaker 1: and that's the end game processing you see with Tua.
Speaker 1: It's another glance route, so it should be out in
Speaker 1: front on the upfield shoulder right, but the Giants dB
Speaker 1: drives on it and so Tua throws it on his
Speaker 1: back ear hole and it pivots Cedric out of a
Speaker 1: collision and into it right after the catch, and he
Speaker 1: damn near finds the sideline on the top of the clock.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus had some stats on Tua's game wonder
Speaker 1: with the Giants blitz it to a whole bunch. They've
Speaker 1: been a forty percent blitz team this year they did
Speaker 1: just twelve point five percent. He was two for four
Speaker 1: for twenty yards. He also threw two passes of twenty
Speaker 1: plus air yards connected on one for sixty nine in
Speaker 1: a touchdown and the intermediate passing game and balls ten
Speaker 1: plus yards down the field four for eight one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards and a touchdown, and the red zone
Speaker 1: i int was his first since twenty twenty. He had
Speaker 1: thrown thirty eight straight touchdowns without a red zone pick
Speaker 1: before that, so pretty rare occurrence there. How about the
Speaker 1: eligibles Jalen Waddle the quick hit to Tyreek on the
Speaker 1: first drive. He holds a block for the entirety of
Speaker 1: the play. Does it every single week. The touchdown play
Speaker 1: is the payoff and more evidence of how awesome this
Speaker 1: guy is. He peels back with the movement of the quarterback,
Speaker 1: elevates at the exact right time, high points to football
Speaker 1: survives the ground six great play, Penguin, do your dance.
Speaker 1: Then he goes back to being selfless. HiT's a good
Speaker 1: natural rub on a mesh route to free up Cheetah
Speaker 1: for a first down catch on third and four. In
Speaker 1: the next drive, I just thought he caught the football
Speaker 1: really well. A couple of instances with the balls off
Speaker 1: of his frame and like low and away are up
Speaker 1: high and he pulled him in. Those are tough catches
Speaker 1: and he did it. Let's see Chris Brooks. I see
Speaker 1: a young man. You know, he's running some of that
Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield lead block motion we saw last year, and
Speaker 1: he's cleaning clocks doing it. It's impressive. Alec Ingold don't
Speaker 1: have any specifics on him, but just continuing to square
Speaker 1: out blocks and removing bodies from the equation. He is
Speaker 1: a good football player. Bracks and Barrios. I feel like
Speaker 1: he just does those tangibles that you don't really notice
Speaker 1: that much, but they add up to winning football. First
Speaker 1: play after the pick, he creates one at eight yards
Speaker 1: and in one motion just pivots upfield and lunges into
Speaker 1: extra yards for the first down. It's very Wes Welker
Speaker 1: like continue to be super impressed by Raheem. Most of
Speaker 1: its power teams just are not getting him down on
Speaker 1: first crack. He had a twenty one yard run where
Speaker 1: he made an unblocked man miss with a nifty move
Speaker 1: at the point like the safety came down on field
Speaker 1: and it was one on one Verheem and the safety
Speaker 1: and the gap. No chance for you there. And then
Speaker 1: the wiggle on that final third down conversion after the catch.
Speaker 1: Just love his nose for the marker, whether it's a
Speaker 1: goal line or the first down sticks offensive line. I
Speaker 1: had Rob Hunt at a pancake counter of three on
Speaker 1: the waddle twenty yard screen out in space, the eight
Speaker 1: chan run in the third quarter, and then a Raheem
Speaker 1: run late in the third quarter. I mean the number
Speaker 1: of times he has one on one blocks and puts
Speaker 1: his guy in the ground. He's the grave digger. I
Speaker 1: think you're hard pressed to find someone who's done it
Speaker 1: more than him. He is playing at an elite level.
Speaker 1: The guards in this team, Isaiah Win and Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: have been awesome. There are number two and number three
Speaker 1: in NFL in the NFL's pass blocking efficiency metric from
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. Among all guards, ninety nine point four
Speaker 1: and ninety nine point two. They've allowed a combined five
Speaker 1: QB pressures. It's three for Hunt, two for Win on
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five total pass blocking snaps. Not bad.
Speaker 1: Kendall Lamb just a pro of keeping his feet and
Speaker 1: hands active. He just has different tricks in his bag
Speaker 1: to get him wins. He consistently works to improve his
Speaker 1: position and finish his seals that are so imperative to
Speaker 1: the edges of the running game. The one sack was
Speaker 1: him giving up the inside post to Thibodeau, which you
Speaker 1: can't do that, man, Like you had some help there.
Speaker 1: It looked like maybe he expected more of Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: to help him on that spot. But it was a
Speaker 1: three man rush when we gave up a sack. We
Speaker 1: can't have those guys. So I'm not going to emphatically
Speaker 1: claim one way or the other whose fault it was.
Speaker 1: But let's clean that up. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: more from coach McDaniel on how this offensive line plays
Speaker 1: in space, because they were so damn impressive in this game,
Speaker 1: getting out beyond the numbers and making big blocks.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the strain. Three four seconds into
Speaker 2: a play and and those you know, those blocks that
Speaker 2: are occurring, you know, closer to the numbers or outside
Speaker 2: the numbers. That's if you if you're a successful offense
Speaker 2: running the ball, that's pretty much a staple. I think
Speaker 2: it's ah ah there, it's it's it's consistent with any
Speaker 2: good running team that you're having one hundred percent commitment
Speaker 2: to executing your assignments and that those you know, the
Speaker 2: second you start having success, guys start understanding how important
Speaker 2: each and every block is. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: as we do find success or we're finding more and
Speaker 2: more plays where guys are engaged in the appropriate with
Speaker 2: the appropriate leverage relative to the to the back, and
Speaker 2: you're seeing a lot of a lot of our ballhanders
Speaker 2: makes some plays and you're even seeing in lineman doing
Speaker 2: some pretty cool stuff on receiver screens as well. So
Speaker 2: I think that is a picture that if you're wanting
Speaker 2: to be successful in those phases, it will always kind
Speaker 2: of have those marks. And glad that it's showing up.
Speaker 2: Now did he.
Speaker 1: Say ballhanders just as a whole eligibles line design, all
Speaker 1: of it. It's so pretty. I want to just give
Speaker 1: more flowers to Durham Isaiah and Connor because I didn't
Speaker 1: talk about them individually. It's just been a full team
Speaker 1: execution and that's really the only way you set records
Speaker 1: like this group is doing is with eleven on eleven execution.
Speaker 1: The way the interior three is working together is just perfect.
Speaker 1: Connor does so much to help the guards one v
Speaker 1: one where he really cuts off a potential inside move
Speaker 1: which makes them one dimensional, which makes it easier for
Speaker 1: the guards to get their job done. So subtle but
Speaker 1: so important. Now, ball security needs to be a point
Speaker 1: of emphasis. But I don't really know how you can
Speaker 1: complain with this tape. Raheem a fumble, a chan of
Speaker 1: five to two bad decisions to put the ball in
Speaker 1: harm's way. Clean that stuff up, and like you're going
Speaker 1: to break the record because you are leaving me on
Speaker 1: the bone while you're being the best offensive all time.
Speaker 1: Think about that. Let's go ahead and take a break
Speaker 1: and come back and talk about the defense's best day
Speaker 1: of the year. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: does not allow a touchdown in this thirty one sixteen
Speaker 1: victory four and one after our fourth win in five
Speaker 1: starts this season, and I thought defensively, there were some
Speaker 1: really good examples on this tape of guys getting in
Speaker 1: shape to do what they do best. And what I
Speaker 1: think has been the biggest boon is getting Deshaun Elliott
Speaker 1: back or here I should say his range on the
Speaker 1: back end has really allowed Javon Holland to play closer
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage. There was a cover three
Speaker 1: rep on the Giants' second drive where we snuck both
Speaker 1: Cater and Javon Holland down into the curl flat hook zones.
Speaker 1: So think about like basically you know quasi linebacker roles,
Speaker 1: with how well both those guys process and tackle, that's
Speaker 1: a great way to eliminate deep shots while getting some
Speaker 1: of your best tacklers in position to cut down the
Speaker 1: checkdowns that teams might have. Also, I know, like people
Speaker 1: will point to opponent, but I thought the connectivity of
Speaker 1: coverage was so much better in this game. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Giants have struggled up front, but after a couple of
Speaker 1: early completions, a lot of Jones runs or incompletions were
Speaker 1: because that there wasn't anything opened down the field. I
Speaker 1: think that we really missed not having Elliott back during
Speaker 1: Week four. More on that in a moment, but coach
Speaker 1: touched on the defensive effort this week and also when
Speaker 1: I asked him about how the rush and coverage married
Speaker 1: up in this game, a detailed explanation of how that
Speaker 1: worked out in Miami's favor.
Speaker 2: Oh, they going hand to hand, for sure, there was
Speaker 2: a lot of it was really exciting. I thought. I
Speaker 2: thought the defense had the best week of practice they've
Speaker 2: had all all year, and I think it definitely translated.
Speaker 2: I think the player saw it, and there was a lot,
Speaker 2: you know, I think there was The quarterback hits were
Speaker 2: the most since a certain amount of time that was
Speaker 2: a while ago. And you know, I think that's a
Speaker 2: testament to team defense for sure. You know, you can't
Speaker 2: have one without the other, and you have explosive plays
Speaker 2: when the coverage isn't tied to the pass rush, even
Speaker 2: if you're getting home pretty quick. And you know, the
Speaker 2: idea of this, of our defense really in general, is
Speaker 2: that is that we when we're tied together, you know,
Speaker 2: you you force teams to have to execute at the
Speaker 2: highest level, or you make them pay by being a
Speaker 2: little too aggressive or you know, being too conservative. So
Speaker 2: I thought that it was there was the most examples
Speaker 2: of the vision of what we want to be as
Speaker 2: a defense last game, which is what you want to see.
Speaker 1: Pff tab the Fins with thirty eight total quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: and thirty five run stops in the game, just outright dominant.
Speaker 1: Most of the snaps went in the Dolphins favor. So
Speaker 1: I do want to get some more numbers to you guys.
Speaker 1: He will do that later in the podcast this week,
Speaker 1: like a Friday numbers recap or something something like that.
Speaker 1: But either way, upfront Bradley Chubb, we talk a lot
Speaker 1: on the show about unheralded things that guys do. Watch
Speaker 1: the way Chubb engages and then holds onto guys who
Speaker 1: want to chip and climb off of him. He just
Speaker 1: won't allow for it. He consistently beat split flow action,
Speaker 1: went and got the blockers. Underrated game for Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 1: he was excellent. Six QB pressures, three run stops. Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkel was He was in my top five, but
Speaker 1: I moved him to the last minute to put both
Speaker 1: d tackles in there. I just love the way he
Speaker 1: doesn't wait for the game to come to him. He
Speaker 1: goes and gets it. He plays the physicality aspect of
Speaker 1: the game as well as anybody. He resets lion scrimmage,
Speaker 1: engages chips with a ferocity that allows him to shed
Speaker 1: them better, like on the play where he went and
Speaker 1: got Daniel Jones and battered the ball back in his face.
Speaker 1: Doesn't let their hands get into his chest plate. The
Speaker 1: other thing that just looks immensely faster this year is
Speaker 1: the way he gets around the corner. It's I he
Speaker 1: didn't know he had that in his bag. Gosh, He's
Speaker 1: dipping under the outside arm without having any really breaking
Speaker 1: or you know, half to corner inside. He just does
Speaker 1: it fluidly and that allows him to maintain acceleration and finish.
Speaker 1: He's been the best finisher this year as a pass
Speaker 1: rusher on the team and turning himself into an invaluable
Speaker 1: part of the defense. He had eight QB pressures and
Speaker 1: three run stops per Pro Football Focus been a pretty
Speaker 1: positive podcast right but early in the game I was
Speaker 1: not very thrilled about the work of the two linebackers.
Speaker 1: David Long in particular. There is a rail seam slide
Speaker 1: that bread and butter. We run right, and he's getting
Speaker 1: beat pretty easily in coverage on this rep, but also
Speaker 1: in general, and like the stuff I've liked has shown
Speaker 1: up when he's just going silent the sideline. But right
Speaker 1: now I think he's getting the umbreare out on him
Speaker 1: in coverage because teams are going after Himan. You saw
Speaker 1: Deshaun Elliott kind of barking at him on one play,
Speaker 1: But where the heck you going? Bro? I thought two
Speaker 1: of his traits that you know. I loved the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans tape popped off that perimeter speed I talked about,
Speaker 1: but also block deconstruction. He got better as the game
Speaker 1: went along, a couple of run stuffs in support where
Speaker 1: he Key's early goes and whax the guard gets off
Speaker 1: the block and makes the play. So it was good
Speaker 1: to see some flashes of that. Hopefully that continues here.
Speaker 1: He had four run stops in the game and the secondary.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, I love the way our DB's fit when
Speaker 1: asked to be the forced defender against the running game
Speaker 1: so consistently. I think that Chubb gink Ogba JP when
Speaker 1: he's been out there, they dent the edge and create
Speaker 1: lots of free runs for Javon. Deshaun Cater and even
Speaker 1: Eli in this game. I won't put X in that category,
Speaker 1: just not his game, but those guys have been so
Speaker 1: good at filling and rapping and finishing those tackles off
Speaker 1: the edge. One of the things the Giants had success
Speaker 1: with was those inbreaking routes off of man or at
Speaker 1: least presenting his man coverage. I don't know the mechanics O,
Speaker 1: but it looks slow to react at times to drive
Speaker 1: on those inside throws. X got beat once when he
Speaker 1: got turned around. Eli gave up a couple as well,
Speaker 1: but other than that, like Deshaun Elliott, nothing short of
Speaker 1: an awesome tape. Once again, I think the rules of
Speaker 1: the scheme have clicked for him. He's playing traffic cop
Speaker 1: back there, and the way we've seen Javon Holland do
Speaker 1: in the past, he also frees up Javon in a
Speaker 1: big way. What I like most about him is he
Speaker 1: can play his technique, play his rules, but then take
Speaker 1: himself to an additional play outside of his job. That
Speaker 1: first run stop he had, he comes from depth to
Speaker 1: wipe out a little slide route they fake it to,
Speaker 1: but then it's a handoff, so he just works off
Speaker 1: of that and goes inside and makes a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: Cater Kohu. If you're tired of me praising his ability
Speaker 1: to cut down screen passes, let me say this. It's
Speaker 1: all part of his processing ability. That's just football, man.
Speaker 1: This player is doing that at a big time level.
Speaker 1: What information can I glean from what they're showing me.
Speaker 1: Cater peeps the release of his man across from him.
Speaker 1: He knows it's a block, which means the screen's coming.
Speaker 1: Let me go get that thing he does for a
Speaker 1: big TfL. I thought Apple had really good feel for
Speaker 1: contact for when to peel back in his eyes in
Speaker 1: the quarterback on that Van Ginkel pass rejection. The matumbo
Speaker 1: no no no no. Eli might have had to pick
Speaker 1: there if it got off with really good feel playing
Speaker 1: the original route, staying in phase and kind of continue
Speaker 1: the secondary route and staying in that back pocket to
Speaker 1: get a hand on the football that would have been coming
Speaker 1: that way. Did have a great pass breakup on Darren
Speaker 1: Waller later in the game as well, and then X.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Waller, I thought was one of his best
Speaker 1: reps of the year stands the I NT in New
Speaker 1: England where he squat on the short route wheeled off
Speaker 1: the double and then got his head back and broke
Speaker 1: up the pass. You can play that way when it's
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, maybe not when it's you know, a Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill type, which good things on our team, but a
Speaker 1: good matchup or a good hat off to x Amy
Speaker 1: and Howard there for knowing the matchup and what he
Speaker 1: can get away with. How about snap counts, then we'll
Speaker 1: get out of here. You kind of start to get
Speaker 1: a feel for what the team thinks they have internally
Speaker 1: with some of these snap count delineations. Here the offensive
Speaker 1: line went wired to wire except for Isaiah Win missing
Speaker 1: one snap, which Liam Miichenberg filled in for him. There
Speaker 1: we saw two ago the distance. Obviously, Smyth gave you
Speaker 1: forty four reps in this game. That's eighty one percent
Speaker 1: of the workloads, so he continues to see a big
Speaker 1: chunk of the workload there. Walla was a leading receiver
Speaker 1: in snaps. He played forty four That was again eighty
Speaker 1: one percent of the snaps, with Tyreek playing just twenty
Speaker 1: five snaps. Is that accurate, dang, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson played twenty nine snaps in the game, and
Speaker 1: then running back you still had you know, I know,
Speaker 1: Chan got banged up later in the game, but moster
Speaker 1: had thirty two compared to a Chan's twenty six. And
Speaker 1: then you also had Chris Brooks play seven snaps as
Speaker 1: that kind of motion jet sweep blocker. I was cool
Speaker 1: to see. And then of course, I think some of
Speaker 1: the emergence of both the backs together has cut into
Speaker 1: alec Ingold's work little a little bit. He played thirty
Speaker 1: five percent of the snaps. Braxon Barrios gave you thirty
Speaker 1: seven percent of the snaps as well, So they're just
Speaker 1: mixing all this stuff in. And it goes back to
Speaker 1: like the question I saw, you know, some people asking
Speaker 1: like why do they do all this like mixing and
Speaker 1: matching in the you know, in training camp. It's because,
Speaker 1: like they have a lot of different packages they use.
Speaker 1: And you can see that right here. Chosen played ten snaps,
Speaker 1: Julian Hill played fourteen snaps, So pretty good mix there.
Speaker 1: On offense. Defensively, this always is a little more you know,
Speaker 1: kind of I think scattered than an offense is. But
Speaker 1: you had actually five guys play the entire game here, Holland, Kohu, Baker, Elliott,
Speaker 1: and Howard common for your safeties and corners and your
Speaker 1: middle linebacker there, so that's not like a surprise, but
Speaker 1: it has been like two or three guys most of
Speaker 1: the year so far. David Long had his biggest workload
Speaker 1: of the season ninety two percent of the snaps this year,
Speaker 1: and I thought, again he got much more consistent and
Speaker 1: better as the game went along. There, Eli Apple played
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the snap so lots of nickel there
Speaker 1: for this defense. Andrew Van Ginkle played over eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps, so did Bradley Chubb right next to
Speaker 1: him with fifty seven snaps. So those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: without Jalen Phillips or your top guys, top go two
Speaker 1: guys there, and then ogbab played thirty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the snap, so you kind of see the rotation how
Speaker 1: they're thinking they're with those three guys. The once JP
Speaker 1: gets back, that should be a different mix altogether, because
Speaker 1: I think I would not take JP off the field
Speaker 1: ever if he is healthy. Inside Wilkins and Sealer, I
Speaker 1: was told there might be a little bit reduction there
Speaker 1: and workload. Maybe it worked out for those guys because
Speaker 1: they played forty nine and forty six snaps respectively. That
Speaker 1: sixty eight and sixty four, which typically those guys have
Speaker 1: been like eighty percent snap takers, which is a just
Speaker 1: crazy absurd high number of snaps for a defensive tack
Speaker 1: will to take. So those guys get a reduction and
Speaker 1: it leads to more production. Imagine that Rayqwan played thirty snaps,
Speaker 1: that's forty two percent of the workload. DeShawn Han played
Speaker 1: twenty six, maybe a little bit more him eating into
Speaker 1: ray Kwan's workload there. And then Bethel played just six
Speaker 1: snaps that dime defender and Cam Good gave you two
Speaker 1: snaps late in the game, so good stuff there. Elijah
Speaker 1: Campbell and Duke Riley both had twenty one special teams,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones had nineteen, Cam Smith and Chase Winnowich had
Speaker 1: fourteen a pop as well. So Brandon Jones, we'll see
Speaker 1: if he can get more defensive work going forward. We
Speaker 1: talked about the game against Buffalo not being his best,
Speaker 1: but you've got options, man, You've got reinforcements coming back
Speaker 1: off injuries as well. This football team is well well
Speaker 1: well positioned.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about how this team can, you know,
Speaker 1: unfold going forward. I am, though, trying to be mindful
Speaker 1: and present about enjoying what we have right now, which
Speaker 1: is a four and one football team, breaking all kinds
Speaker 1: of records offensively and starting to play some better defense too, hopefully.
Speaker 1: So that's your podcast. That's your breakdown, about forty five
Speaker 1: minutes for you guys here. We'll be back on Wednesday
Speaker 1: with the game preview, taking a look at Dolphins and Panthers.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to watching that tape. We'll do that on Wednesday.
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