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Speaker 3: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: And on today's show, a couple of news items, the All.
Speaker 1: Twenty two review. I have a new format.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited to break out for y'all. Plus Coach McDaniel,
Speaker 3: sound bites and much much more from the Baptist Health
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Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Maggie Gaffe.
Speaker 3: It is tape review day. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 3: right to it. But first some updates. Coach says that
Speaker 3: Devon a Chain is going to be week to week.
Speaker 3: He avoided anything severe with his shoulder injury after a
Speaker 3: defensive lineman's weight landed on his entire body. Robert Jones
Speaker 3: and Eric Sobert both exited the game. Coach says that
Speaker 3: Rob Jones should be a little bit longer than Eric.
Speaker 3: Both are in the midst of rehab processes that could
Speaker 3: take more than a week or two Mike White is
Speaker 3: in the concussion protocol. The staff noticed something irreg irregularities,
Speaker 3: according to coach, so the whole process began and McDaniel
Speaker 3: was told he would not be available. Once that happened,
Speaker 3: the plan was to play Mike White the rest of
Speaker 3: the way when he got in the game, but he
Speaker 3: did not finish that obviously, and Skyler finishes up. In
Speaker 3: the meantime, the team brought back James black Men to
Speaker 3: give the team three quarterbacks this week as we surge
Speaker 3: on towards the end of camp, and the coinciding move
Speaker 3: with Blackman's return is the release of Tony Ellis, who
Speaker 3: has been with Miami a few times before. And then
Speaker 3: finally alec Ingold and Miles Gaskin, coach says, are both
Speaker 3: quote on the very close side of being able to
Speaker 3: participate in football once again.
Speaker 1: End quote.
Speaker 3: Said he expects to see both of them sooner then later.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and get to the Houston Texans preseason
Speaker 3: Week two film breakdown. I was grinding tape all day,
Speaker 3: watched a little bit on Sunday, but mostly took that
Speaker 3: day with my kids, and then got to the tape
Speaker 3: on Monday, and we're gonna do that in this way.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about the big plays, and we're only
Speaker 3: gonna do offense this time around, because they're were some
Speaker 3: big plays defense. But I don't want this podcast to
Speaker 3: get so convoluted because with ninety players to evaluate, it's
Speaker 3: a little bit long. So you guys already see that
Speaker 3: in the time on the podcast right now, and just
Speaker 3: want to go ahead and break these down and paint
Speaker 3: some pictures for you here with the big play breakdowns,
Speaker 3: starting with the opening interception.
Speaker 1: On the opening play that was in.
Speaker 3: The first quarter with fourteen to fifty four to go,
Speaker 3: it's a play that reads like four verts, only you
Speaker 3: had three verticals to the side of the field and
Speaker 3: you had Tyler Croft running up the seam. You had
Speaker 3: Tyreek running the takeoff with a spray release, and what
Speaker 3: that means is basically intight to the formation and then
Speaker 3: you widen your release and then get vertical. I noted
Speaker 3: this throughout the course of the game, how the Dolphins
Speaker 3: really did a lot of condensed formations and that gives
Speaker 3: them chances to really expand the defense post snap, and
Speaker 3: that helps give you your spacing with those two routes
Speaker 3: they ran on that play, but with the middle linebacker
Speaker 3: getting the depth that he got, he made the entire
Speaker 3: thing work.
Speaker 1: If Tua holds it longer.
Speaker 3: The best case scenario is probably a throwaway because if
Speaker 3: you watch the wide angle Tyreek and Durham coming across
Speaker 3: and split flow in flat, those guys are covered. Croft
Speaker 3: is pretty well covered except for that you know that
Speaker 3: space that Tua thought he probably saw without accounting for
Speaker 3: that linebacker. I'm not sure if Tua had the handoff
Speaker 3: option there. I think he did, but if he, if
Speaker 3: he does, it's really well blocked for Raheem Moster and
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson had a great turn and pin on his man,
Speaker 3: a theme throughout this game. Both Connor and Rob Nail
Speaker 3: a double team. The throw location was actually good if
Speaker 3: the linebacker had not made the great play like I
Speaker 3: like the way. It's an old Croft down into the
Speaker 3: backside of the zone. But obviously it's not a good
Speaker 3: throw because the linebacker jumps back and picks it off
Speaker 3: in that spot. But it would have prevented a big
Speaker 3: hit from the safety if that linebacker had bit up
Speaker 3: on the run. Again, we have to id that just
Speaker 3: didn't happen there. But obviously we did not, and you
Speaker 3: get the point there. Another big play I wanted to
Speaker 3: break down here the second drive, a fifteen yard completion
Speaker 3: from Tua to Akmed on third and two. A big
Speaker 3: conversion on that drive. And it's a little swing route
Speaker 3: and a great example of Tua's processing here because you
Speaker 3: have two nasty splits to the boundary, which is the
Speaker 3: short side of the field field is the wide side.
Speaker 3: Will cover that every time I mention it here on
Speaker 3: the podcast. With the two receivers and a receiver a Titan,
Speaker 3: I should say, going up against two dbs who were
Speaker 3: off and you can see they're in what's called a
Speaker 3: banjo call, and all that means is a zone coverage
Speaker 3: where you say, like, first guy in I got, second
Speaker 3: guy out is the one that I got. So you
Speaker 3: have to communicate this kind of switch released type of
Speaker 3: thing where they pass off the first in last out
Speaker 3: player on those routes. Both the routes break in and
Speaker 3: you see Tua his helmet is right at those dbs
Speaker 3: and you see them kind of squat and peek inside,
Speaker 3: and when he sees them have that depth, he knows
Speaker 3: instantly based upon the sign of the play, there's no
Speaker 3: one that's gonna be able to get to Zavon quickly
Speaker 3: enough to cut him down short of the sticks. And
Speaker 3: that's a big reason why he was afforded the chance
Speaker 3: to make that move in space and not just power
Speaker 3: his way through a tackle for three yards and a
Speaker 3: first down, but to make a move in space and
Speaker 3: create a fifteen yard play. And it's again good that
Speaker 3: Tua got it out fast because on that rep. And
Speaker 3: this is why I love playing at Demico Ryan's defense.
Speaker 1: All week.
Speaker 3: These guys gave him so many looks with a gap
Speaker 3: blitz's or double a gap look green dog blitzer is.
Speaker 3: There was one fake where a linebacker was mugged up
Speaker 3: in the A gap fake to pivot step back and
Speaker 3: then came on the rush. Just all kinds of stuff
Speaker 3: they gave you on this play. Mugged up in the
Speaker 3: A gaps. The A gap is the gap off of
Speaker 3: the center shoulders either side, right in the middle of
Speaker 3: the quarterback's vision, and it confused our pass pro and
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson wound up kind of working inside out and
Speaker 3: when he got back outside, his heels got clicked in together,
Speaker 3: which is not great pass protection technique, and it allowed
Speaker 3: the Bowl rush to really take him right into Tua's lap,
Speaker 3: and the ball was already out so it didn't affect
Speaker 3: the pass or even hit the quarterback. But the wide
Speaker 3: nine on that play was tough for Jackson to get
Speaker 3: out too. But good work by two, a good work
Speaker 3: by Savon and Space, and a cool play design. We'll
Speaker 3: talk more about how I think there's so many counters
Speaker 3: with this offense did effectively last year. In just a
Speaker 3: moment the first touchdown of the game, quarter one, six
Speaker 3: minutes to play, where Hee most It's two yard touchdown
Speaker 3: run legit one of my favorite eleven on eleven blocking
Speaker 3: executions I've seen from this team.
Speaker 1: Across the board. It was perfect.
Speaker 3: You get countertrey action working off the priest snat motion
Speaker 3: and what that means is a guard and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have a tight end pull to the playside to make
Speaker 3: those key blocks. And that pre snap motion is Durham
Speaker 3: just getting out of his stance and basically starting with
Speaker 3: a second headstart above everybody else. And you actually how
Speaker 3: the Texans react to this a few times in the
Speaker 3: game to jump off sides. But he gets that head start,
Speaker 3: he and Rob Hunt come across playside.
Speaker 1: You have Connor Williams.
Speaker 3: Whenever you have a guard pulling, you have to pin
Speaker 3: the man across from him to make sure he doesn't
Speaker 3: get in there and disrupt the entire timing of the play. Well,
Speaker 3: Connor pinned this three technique that Rob left alone, and
Speaker 3: he nails.
Speaker 1: It great block.
Speaker 3: Tyler Croft has a straight up seven technique right across
Speaker 3: from him, and he's able to get on the outside
Speaker 3: shoulder and pin him inside. Then you have Win and
Speaker 3: Lamb on double teams on the two technique, and Win
Speaker 3: does a great job of not firing his hands. He
Speaker 3: comes out of the stants, keeps quiet hands, and then
Speaker 3: once he gets aligned in a position where he can strike,
Speaker 3: then he throws the hands and gets on the outside
Speaker 3: part of that man and lets his feet bring him
Speaker 3: square to the block. And then he works around the
Speaker 3: inside and holds up so that Kendall Lamb can clean
Speaker 3: him up with the wash down block.
Speaker 1: That's very effective.
Speaker 3: And then here comes Rob Hunt just getting surge in
Speaker 3: that b gap that stacks everything up for the defense.
Speaker 3: Smyth peels back and walls off the corner and Raheem
Speaker 3: has an easy read with a bunch of bodies stacked
Speaker 3: up and it's an easy bounce and waltz into the
Speaker 3: end zone for six supreme supreme execution for six points.
Speaker 3: The play design takes care of Jalen Petrie, who looks
Speaker 3: like he's going to scrape off the edge and be
Speaker 3: the guy that Raheem has to beat. But because Raheem
Speaker 3: is flanked to the short side and kind of takes
Speaker 3: his initial track away from all the action, you see
Speaker 3: Peatree peek inside and gets caught in the wash. And
Speaker 3: you just cannot design the play better. You cannot block
Speaker 3: the play better. And we got lots of that in
Speaker 3: the running game in this game. Buddy, I am, I
Speaker 3: am fired up about what we saw in this game.
Speaker 3: How about the sack on Skyler the fumble that he
Speaker 3: recovered in the second quarter with fourteen forty one to play,
Speaker 3: not much to break down. It's basically Will Anderson having
Speaker 3: too good of a get off to allow you to
Speaker 3: have any sort of delay with that backside guard pull
Speaker 3: to wall off. Isaiah Winn tried to pull from his
Speaker 3: left guard spot and go wall off the edge, but
Speaker 3: he couldn't get out there because he got caught up
Speaker 3: in the traffic and by the time he did get
Speaker 3: out there. It was too late, and then Achmann had
Speaker 3: no chance either. There's zero chance for him to get
Speaker 3: into any kind of technique when the rushers that close
Speaker 3: in his face off of a play action. Sometimes good
Speaker 3: players make good plays, and that's what happened with will Anderson.
Speaker 3: How about a Chain's fifteen yard run on third and
Speaker 3: fourteen with ten minutes to play in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: I know you guys know what I'm talking about. The
Speaker 1: draw play.
Speaker 3: It starts with a great technique from Rob Jones, who
Speaker 3: has a two technique line up across from him. A
Speaker 3: two technique is going to be head up over your
Speaker 3: offensive guard. His first step takes him right into proper
Speaker 3: position where he gets wide, and then he throws that
Speaker 3: right handed punch and the rest of his weight kind
Speaker 3: of whips around with him to seal that b gap
Speaker 3: For a Chain to hit with authority, you get a
Speaker 3: good seal by a way he hit right tackle. Dan
Speaker 3: Feeney climbs up to get a piece at the second level,
Speaker 3: and then Eric Sobert, his best block of camp as
Speaker 3: a Dolph in my opinion, squares up his block and
Speaker 3: it's just the rookie hitting the hole with conviction. He
Speaker 3: was faster than the Texans could react. I don't think
Speaker 3: they expected him to come out of the gates like that,
Speaker 3: and that's why he got a first down. Really impressive
Speaker 3: on third and fourteen to convert on the ground. How
Speaker 3: about a sixty five yard rush by Savon Akman the
Speaker 3: second quarter. I think the key block there was River Craycraft.
Speaker 3: He has a down block on a linebacker, and that's
Speaker 3: a block that a linebacker has to beat. You cannot
Speaker 3: let a receiver wall you off. You have to run
Speaker 3: through it or get around it. And he couldn't and
Speaker 3: as a result, Savan's off to the races. Look at
Speaker 3: that Huskies and Cougars working together down here in South Florida.
Speaker 3: Isaiah Winn had a terrific seal. Keon Smith held his
Speaker 3: block for just long enough, and U Lave hit a
Speaker 3: key block at the second level as well to spring Achmed.
Speaker 3: Then it was just pure speed. The ensuing touchdown pass
Speaker 3: from Skyler to Savan not much to it. Savan got
Speaker 3: outside access, Skyler gets the ball to him early.
Speaker 1: That's something I've been harping on.
Speaker 3: He did it in this play, got to him early,
Speaker 3: and it was over to the pylon for a touchdown.
Speaker 3: The touchdown passed to Barrios from Skyler late second quarter.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what the dB covering Barrios was doing
Speaker 3: because he slowed down twice on the play, but it
Speaker 3: was pretty similar to the route that Burios caught from Tua,
Speaker 3: which we'll talk about here in a second on that
Speaker 3: second drive of the game, where he worked and worked
Speaker 3: to work to get on the upfield shoulder and then
Speaker 3: rounded it off coming back to the quarterback, which put
Speaker 3: the dB in a blind spot. And as he angles
Speaker 3: back to the quarterback, that's the key. If he doesn't
Speaker 3: come back to the quarterback there, that's a dangerous throw.
Speaker 3: But Skyler has time to deliver a good ball and
Speaker 3: because of really really good pass pro, you get away.
Speaker 1: He with one on one win. Key on Smith a
Speaker 1: one on one win.
Speaker 3: Same with Isaiah Wim and then Ulave and Feoene both
Speaker 3: doubled their guys for a win to get great pass
Speaker 3: pro for a lot of time on that third and
Speaker 3: eleven touchdown strike from Skyler to Barrios. How about Skyler's
Speaker 3: touchdown to Brooks the screen pass. The second level of
Speaker 3: Texans defense just didn't see the screen coming.
Speaker 1: There's not like a lot to say, Wow, what a
Speaker 1: great play here.
Speaker 3: It just was the defense will slow to react, That's
Speaker 3: really all it was and allowed us to get key
Speaker 3: on Smith and Alama and Feenie out in front with
Speaker 3: just one guy to block. Feoene gets the guy, River
Speaker 3: gets a key block downfield. Then there's just Brooks bouncing
Speaker 3: off a tackle at the five yard line with ease.
Speaker 1: He's tough to bring down. He's had some good damn
Speaker 1: tape down here.
Speaker 3: It's going to be tough decision for the coaches in
Speaker 3: that running back room because we've got some good ones.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Travis's ten favorite tapes.
Speaker 1: We'll do that.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and do that after the break. Actually,
Speaker 3: that's coming up next on the Draft Time podcast. My
Speaker 3: ten favorite individual player tapes from the game coming up next,
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Speaker 1: We've done the big plays.
Speaker 3: We're going to do that throughout the course of the
Speaker 3: entire season, breaking down the biggest moments and you're Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins twenty twenty three season. Also going to give you
Speaker 3: my ten favorite tapes, which hopefully is a little bit
Speaker 3: easier than it was here because we had so many
Speaker 3: guys to evaluate. But I broke it down to these
Speaker 3: ten guys, and we'll talk about the honorable mention in
Speaker 3: the PostScript on the other side here. So David Long,
Speaker 3: I don't think he had a bad rep. He's my
Speaker 3: number one guy on here. His very first play is
Speaker 3: the second down run stuff they bring. They bring a
Speaker 3: center downhill right at him at the goal line, and
Speaker 3: he's giving up eighty pounds to this man, and he
Speaker 3: bluffs a big collision and just side steps and throws
Speaker 3: a guy who weighs three hundred plus pounds to the ground.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how he did that. It was an
Speaker 3: incredible play. The next drive they run swing motion and
Speaker 3: dump the ball and Nico Collins and you see Jerome
Speaker 3: Baker run to the perimeter and get him to the
Speaker 3: ground with his great speed. And that's great job by
Speaker 3: Jerome Baker to do that. But you see Long before
Speaker 3: the snap motion get out, get out wide, and Baker
Speaker 3: runs all the way and starts early to help him
Speaker 3: get to that position. I just think David Long understands
Speaker 3: what offenses are trying to do, and he sees it
Speaker 3: before they do it. And you see it on the
Speaker 3: very next play when they motion away from the strength
Speaker 3: of the formation and the backers shift over a gap
Speaker 3: from their off ball positions. I believe that David Long
Speaker 3: shifted to a stack position behind Rayquan Davis on the
Speaker 3: defensive line, and then he immediately once he shifts, he
Speaker 3: shoots that backside B gap and before the center can
Speaker 3: get off his double team on Raquon Davis, which is
Speaker 3: why I think that he understood alignment. And Zach Thomas
Speaker 3: talked about this a lot, how important it is to
Speaker 3: be correctly aligned so you can make these kinds of plays.
Speaker 3: That late shift I think kind of hid him behind
Speaker 3: Rayquan on that double team, and he's able to just
Speaker 3: pull the trigger and get in that B gap and
Speaker 3: goes and knocks the running or the blocker out and
Speaker 3: then knocks him into the ball carrier, then retraces and
Speaker 3: makes the tackle on the ball carrier. Textbook Teach tape
Speaker 3: Linebacker play. Three plays later, they run a toss and
Speaker 3: once again, his anticipation is so good I froze it.
Speaker 3: When the running back caught the football, David Long starts
Speaker 3: has play five yards off the ball by the time
Speaker 3: the running back catches the toss sweep, which is like
Speaker 3: a half a second, he's already crossed the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage and by everybody else, big tackle for loss there.
Speaker 3: And then just two plays later he slow plays his
Speaker 3: trigger this time and then comes downhill and makes another
Speaker 3: stop at the line of scrimmage. He had two run
Speaker 3: stops on just five rundown wraps according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 3: and that just tracks with the production in Tennessee. He
Speaker 3: was one of the best run defenders in all of
Speaker 3: football last year. He had seven coverage snaps and no targets.
Speaker 3: And by the way, comparing tackles for loss for run
Speaker 3: defense is hilarious. David Long's a massive upgrade over what
Speaker 3: we had a year ago. Savon Achmed's number two, although
Speaker 3: he could easily be number one. Running backs jobs aside
Speaker 3: from reading blocks and finding lanes and decision making, which
Speaker 3: is the number one thing, is to execute the plays
Speaker 3: when they're blocked right, But when you're one on one
Speaker 3: in the situation, can you break the tackle? And boy
Speaker 3: did he. He caught the swing one yard behind the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage on third and three. The tacklers there,
Speaker 3: we already broke this play down on the other side
Speaker 3: of the line of scrimmage. And he slips him and
Speaker 3: runs for free fifteen more yards after the catch. The
Speaker 3: ten yard run he had on our second touchdown drive
Speaker 3: is the same action as the deep shot we just
Speaker 3: missed from Skylar to Cedric Wilson, only this time they
Speaker 3: do hand it off. So I love that balance of plays.
Speaker 3: It's the short side. Savanna is very much outflanked by
Speaker 3: the entire linebacking crew, and he still wins the angle.
Speaker 3: It's Gronkowski on Kenyan Drake ESQ speed you can clearly
Speaker 3: see on his touchdown catch. I just like how he paced.
Speaker 3: It was wide open, but didn't waste any time, like
Speaker 3: he knew he had space, didn't bother pressing the linebacker.
Speaker 3: Just get out wide and show the quarterback your numbers,
Speaker 3: and he throws the football right there. Good speed, pacing, feel,
Speaker 3: really everything. A great possession in a great game by
Speaker 3: Savon Ahmed. Then he goes back out there in the
Speaker 3: fourth courter and has back to back runs. One He's
Speaker 3: got a middle linebacker in the A gap.
Speaker 1: It's one on one.
Speaker 3: The plays well blocked except for this linebacker all alone,
Speaker 3: and he just jukes the jukes the jock off of him.
Speaker 3: It was crazy how much he left him in the dust.
Speaker 3: Then the next play he follows the track without decelerating
Speaker 3: and got key blocks from both Feeni and Elijah Higgins.
Speaker 3: For another big game where it's just no hesitation. He
Speaker 3: just sees it and feels it and hits it and
Speaker 3: goes We're going to play sound from McDaniel here in
Speaker 3: just one second that talks about how I think this
Speaker 3: running game is coming together. Year two, Pro Football Focus
Speaker 3: had him with three runs of ten plus yards two
Speaker 3: point four to six yards per route, ran five point
Speaker 3: five yards of yak per ketch per catch. He forced
Speaker 3: two miss tackles in total, and all of his catches
Speaker 3: went for first downs. In fact, three of his twelve
Speaker 3: runs did too, so sixteen touches for seven first downs.
Speaker 1: I want to play this sound from coach.
Speaker 3: I asked him, how do you assess the running game
Speaker 3: and how they've come together? Here in the second year,
Speaker 3: we're seeing the results in the statistics in the box score.
Speaker 1: How do you assess it? I love this answer here
Speaker 1: from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think you're starting to see some
Speaker 4: of the stuff that I've talked to you guys about
Speaker 4: to you know since day one that you know, what
Speaker 4: we're trying to do up front and specifically with the
Speaker 4: run game is demanding and it's very particular to you know,
Speaker 4: a certain degree of technical technical technicalities of I don't know,
Speaker 4: really physical fundamentals that are different than a lot of
Speaker 4: guys do in the past. And that's a that's a
Speaker 4: process and the you know, you don't just you know,
Speaker 4: get to where you want in a week, a month,
Speaker 4: sometimes a season, and a lot of times it takes
Speaker 4: a couple years of development of of a whole group
Speaker 4: to to get it to where you want. I think
Speaker 4: are our starting group really took a step forward from
Speaker 4: from that game. There's uh, the guys that are in position,
Speaker 4: battles that did good things and and bad things.
Speaker 2: That's all part of the process.
Speaker 4: I think that we are starting to exhibit some of
Speaker 4: the stuff that you know, I really hoped we we
Speaker 4: would this offseason, and it's kind of really met close
Speaker 4: to where I was hoping we'd be.
Speaker 2: To this point. What does that mean? It means you're you're, oh,
Speaker 2: in the process where where where you'd like to be,
Speaker 2: but it's not where you want to go. So I
Speaker 2: thought that there's some real.
Speaker 4: Positives that that is a direct correlation with complete and
Speaker 4: utter commitment by the coaching staff and and the players.
Speaker 4: I think you're starting to see some flashes of what
Speaker 4: we think we can be. But again, it was great
Speaker 4: work all week going against a different type of technique
Speaker 4: and a different front and as a result, we we
Speaker 4: did some good things on h on the game on Saturday,
Speaker 4: and and there's some definite things that we can improve
Speaker 4: upon that we'll be focusing on as we progress.
Speaker 1: My next favorite tape is River Craycraft. He is such
Speaker 1: a good blocker.
Speaker 3: I love that we can go to him when you
Speaker 3: have ten and seventeen getting a breather on the sideline
Speaker 3: after their you know, fourteen vertical routes they run per game,
Speaker 3: especially down in the red zone, where I know that
Speaker 3: A he can give me a key block to spring
Speaker 3: a touchdown and B he's going to be in the
Speaker 3: right place and give your quarterback a trustee target who
Speaker 3: will make a tough catch like the touchdown against Buffalo
Speaker 3: last year, like the touchdown against Baltimore. He also had
Speaker 3: three critical or the critical down block I should say
Speaker 3: on the linebacker where he sprung Savan for a big
Speaker 3: sixty five yard run up the sideline. It's just the
Speaker 3: little things, man. There's two plays later after that where
Speaker 3: Skyler throws what could have been a grounding ball, but
Speaker 3: River sprints back to the play and extends his hands
Speaker 3: as if to say, like, I had a shot at
Speaker 3: that ball, and the refs had like eighty fives in
Speaker 3: the area.
Speaker 1: Just these little details.
Speaker 3: And then his catch on third and eleven at the
Speaker 3: end of the third quarter reminded me so much of
Speaker 3: what he did in the air raid at Washington State.
Speaker 3: Go Koog's find space on an end breaker, make a
Speaker 3: tough catch. This ball's way off of his frame. He
Speaker 3: reaches out and plucks it and moves the sticks. Then
Speaker 3: he finishes the drive with that key block downfield on
Speaker 3: the Chris Brooks touchdown River Kreakkraft yourself a day. Julian
Speaker 3: Hill is my fourth tape on here. These aren't necessarily
Speaker 3: an order, but the first three ward but from here
Speaker 3: on I don't think i'd put him in an order.
Speaker 3: But he had a chip release where he immediately gets
Speaker 3: into the route and it's teach tape. Chip, get off
Speaker 3: the block, show the quarterback your numbers, and stay moving
Speaker 3: so you can get upfield and just catches it six
Speaker 3: yards short of the sticks, immediately gets into that run
Speaker 3: and turns it into fourth and one that we later
Speaker 3: converted later on that drive, he comes back and has
Speaker 3: a very good run block rep where he chips and
Speaker 3: climbs and takes out the safety on a Savon akhmed
Speaker 3: ten yard run. He's got some pretty damn good feel man.
Speaker 3: Very next play he pulls, catches a piece of the
Speaker 3: nose who won inside, and then continues on that track
Speaker 3: like I don't think he's supposed to hit the center,
Speaker 3: but he did it anyway, then attaches to the safety
Speaker 3: after he disengages for river Crai craft block our perimeter
Speaker 3: running game looks really damn good, man, Like, it looks
Speaker 3: really good. I think the work of a tight ends
Speaker 3: and receivers are.
Speaker 1: A big part of that.
Speaker 3: In fact, let's go back to coach McDaniel on how
Speaker 3: those guys did.
Speaker 2: There are some cool things. You know. That position.
Speaker 4: Is really at the point of attack at a lot of
Speaker 4: times in what we do in the run game, and
Speaker 4: I thought the tight ends utilize the opportunity to do
Speaker 4: some things from from tight ends positions. We we had
Speaker 4: them in the in the backfield as fullbacks sometimes, uh,
Speaker 4: and and it was something that that group wouldn't have
Speaker 4: been able to do three weeks ago. I don't think
Speaker 4: in its entirety. So uh, there in lies a success
Speaker 4: by itself, the fact that they were able to go
Speaker 4: out and and do some cool things. I think they
Speaker 4: we we have. We have some good players that have
Speaker 4: skills that we can really utilize in this offense that
Speaker 4: historically found ways to kind of utilize their skill sets,
Speaker 4: and guys are starting to kind of feel what those
Speaker 4: are within the offense making some plays in the run
Speaker 4: game and the past game. So they're a huge part
Speaker 4: in what we do offensively that sometimes relates to big
Speaker 4: box scores. Sometimes it doesn't, but it's a very very
Speaker 4: critical position that I thought some guys that we really
Speaker 4: believe in, whether they are vested veterans or you know,
Speaker 4: young players that are rookies in the NFL, I thought
Speaker 4: they all contributed to the offense, which is one of
Speaker 4: the reasons we were able to have some success.
Speaker 3: I thought Ryan Hayes had a really good cameo in
Speaker 3: this game. Obviously not a lot of reps for a
Speaker 3: seventh round pick playing late in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 3: he got my attention on the first rep where he
Speaker 3: had really good seal or surge, I should say, and
Speaker 3: then reattached and sealed his guy after losing the initial
Speaker 3: like engagement. Two plays later, he's finding work on the
Speaker 3: second level, like go get him. He fell off a
Speaker 3: block and then went and found somebody else and hit
Speaker 3: that block. I thought he looked really good in pass protection.
Speaker 3: He comes back a drive later and seals the edge
Speaker 3: on the eleven yard Chris Brooks run, and then again
Speaker 3: another sealed edge on a six yard run from Brooks.
Speaker 3: He was the top graded pass blocker no pressures on
Speaker 3: ten pass blocking stabs for Ryan Hayes. Putting together some
Speaker 3: good workout here. I thought Kendall Lamb looked the part.
Speaker 3: And we heard coach talk about how comfortable they are
Speaker 3: with a depth on the offensive line, and I tend
Speaker 3: to agree, because no one has good depth on their
Speaker 3: offensive line right now. But Miami has a bunch of
Speaker 3: guys who have played for a long time, and I
Speaker 3: think Kendall Lamb's the ideal swing tackle if he's not
Speaker 3: your right tackle to begin with.
Speaker 1: I do think that Austin Jackson's run.
Speaker 3: Game prowess is superior to Kendall Lambs and with the
Speaker 3: way two it gets the ball out. I can see
Speaker 3: why you would kind of take the hit and pass
Speaker 3: pro to get better mauling and run game work, because
Speaker 3: Austin can do such so many things out in space
Speaker 3: on all those toss plays to Raheem and a chain
Speaker 3: and all the guys that have speed, Austin can get
Speaker 3: out there and kind of knock out some dbs in space.
Speaker 3: But Kendall Lamb first stunt of the game just wipes
Speaker 3: it out, handles it perfectly with Isaiah Win. Next play,
Speaker 3: there's a screen to Eric Azukama where he does a
Speaker 3: little fake pass set which sells the upfield rush and
Speaker 3: then he gets wide. These are the veteran types of
Speaker 3: moves a nine year pro can make that puts you
Speaker 3: in good position. Very next rep does something similar where
Speaker 3: he gets he has forty five I don't know who
Speaker 3: it was, number forty five isolated with a slide protection
Speaker 3: away that puts him on an island like he would
Speaker 3: see with Toron Armston at left tackle. Lamb gets into
Speaker 3: his pass set, fake throws the hands and gets this
Speaker 3: forty five this player to show his pass rush move.
Speaker 3: Then he just punches the exposed chest that he gave
Speaker 3: him and locks down the rep.
Speaker 1: It was he looked really good. He's looked good.
Speaker 3: All Camp second highest graded pass blocker, which is a
Speaker 3: coincidence for me because for instance, they had River Craykraft
Speaker 3: with a second worst run blocking gray that I do
Speaker 3: not at all agree with. But nine pass blocking snaps
Speaker 3: no pressures for Kendall. Lamb Channing Tendall one of my
Speaker 3: favorite tapes as well. He can play that screen out
Speaker 3: wide where we really got a retrace from Malik Reid
Speaker 3: and Ignoginy Holts contain outside. You see Tendall recognize it
Speaker 3: early and pull the trigger and go make a big
Speaker 3: hit and a tackle.
Speaker 1: I think the.
Speaker 3: Rep on the swing that he thwarted demonstrates his growth
Speaker 3: because he worked over, kept his depth, and analyzed the
Speaker 3: play while he's still moving to get with in depth.
Speaker 3: Then he realizes once the route has kind of camped
Speaker 3: out there, he drives and gets himself on there for
Speaker 3: a pass breakup. Very next play has a man match play,
Speaker 3: which is a different technique altogether against a tight end,
Speaker 3: and I think that he was ready to carry him vertically,
Speaker 3: but he sat down, squatted, drove on the outbreaker and
Speaker 3: broke it up in the hook zone. He's playing really good,
Speaker 3: and he's breaking up passes and playing the run really well.
Speaker 3: He was the second highest graded player on defense from
Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus. Had a run stop on just three
Speaker 3: downs against the run and had sixteen plays in coverage,
Speaker 3: targeted just twice, and he broke both of them up.
Speaker 3: Braxton Barrios gets in the top ten tapes. His route
Speaker 3: on the first reception from Tua on that really good
Speaker 3: anticipation ball was the exact same as his touchdown. Where
Speaker 3: you have Perriman, the linebacker is walling off a crosser
Speaker 3: with inside leverage, and how do you prevent that player
Speaker 3: from reading your break and driving it undercutting the throw.
Speaker 3: You have to convince him you're gonna run the crossing route.
Speaker 3: So Braxton breaks this thing down and gets over the
Speaker 3: inside shoulder, uses the long arm in with the foot
Speaker 3: in the ground, and breaks it back to the perimeter.
Speaker 3: And Perriman is not in position to drive because he's
Speaker 3: not standing in an attacking position because he had to
Speaker 3: retreat to respect the threat of that crosser. It's a
Speaker 3: plus route running from Braxon burials he did all night long.
Speaker 3: I thought Cedric Wilson had a top ten tape two
Speaker 3: really good routes the fourth and one. On Skyler's first
Speaker 3: scoring drive, He's slot one on one, does a stutter release,
Speaker 3: sells the inside, gets the defensive back to take the
Speaker 3: cheese inside, and then gets back outside for a very
Speaker 3: easy first down conversion against that same man free look,
Speaker 3: single high safety man coverage. And I just want to
Speaker 3: hammer this point home because on the first two short
Speaker 3: yards plays on third and fourth down third or fourth
Speaker 3: and short, we get man coverage and one inside the
Speaker 3: slot position with outbreaking routes. This is just another thing
Speaker 3: that teams will have to contend with if they pull
Speaker 3: that outside corner down and it's a home run shot
Speaker 3: up the sideline. That fourth down win he had was
Speaker 3: the exact same thing on the last touchdown drive where
Speaker 3: Skyler is knowing where he's going there because the defense
Speaker 3: was shifted to the strength of the formation, so he
Speaker 3: has a two way go for Cedric in the slot
Speaker 3: and he sells the dB on this outside move and
Speaker 3: cross his face and the ball found him.
Speaker 1: I thought, Cedrick Wilson.
Speaker 3: Look at a very good NFL wide receiver in this game.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he can keep that going and then finally DeShawn Hand.
Speaker 3: This is a good player man. He's played lots of
Speaker 3: reps the last couple of weeks, and though the box
Speaker 3: score is not flashy, there's plenty of plays on tape
Speaker 3: where the back is essentially making an extra move because
Speaker 3: of the gap fit that DeShawn Hand has shown. So
Speaker 3: those are my top ten tapes. Deshan Hans, Cedrick Wilson,
Speaker 3: Braxon Barrios, Channing, Tyndall, Kendall lamb Ryan Hayes, Julian Hill, River,
Speaker 3: Crai Craftsavon Achmed and David Long. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: take our last break right there and come back on
Speaker 3: the other side and do additional notes. We're gonna talk
Speaker 3: about Tua game and the rest of the guys that
Speaker 3: I did not mention in my top ten tapes. That's
Speaker 3: next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 3: you by I don't knowation. We are into the third
Speaker 3: segment here of a Draft Time podcast and we have
Speaker 3: not talked about Tua Tongue Bailoa's game. Despite the interception,
Speaker 3: we did talk about that to kick off the show.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the rest of his game. The local
Speaker 3: on that Durham's My throw was perfect. There's brackets everywhere
Speaker 3: except for on Durham and Raheem. But Raheem would have
Speaker 3: to broken two tackles to get the first down, and
Speaker 3: the location got us the completion and the first down.
Speaker 3: It's a really good ball placement and we'll talk more
Speaker 3: about that here in a second. On the savan Achmed swing,
Speaker 3: it's a great example of two was processing those two
Speaker 3: nasty split wide receiver dbs up against off dbs. You
Speaker 3: can see the banjo coverage and Tua just works those
Speaker 3: guys and understands quickly that they're off and the Savann
Speaker 3: has a lane and gets it to him very quickly,
Speaker 3: and he got it out fast because the double a
Speaker 3: gap mug ups would have put pressure on him and
Speaker 3: had him hit if he did not do that. The
Speaker 3: anticipation throw to Brax and Barrows for the first down
Speaker 3: was just as nasty as it gets.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: What's cool about the anticipation.
Speaker 3: It's not just the throw reading the app you know
Speaker 3: the coverage and of that defender and knowing the underneath
Speaker 3: route to help clear the space for Braxton in that spot.
Speaker 3: Tua knows the development of his pocket and he hitches
Speaker 3: up to a cleaner part of the pocket. That is
Speaker 3: two a superpower man understanding of time and space on
Speaker 3: top of the location of the football obviously, but both
Speaker 3: as a thrower and pocket navigator, and the best part
Speaker 3: of the tape for me the throws to Barrios and Smyth.
Speaker 3: We're both against what was Cover six and what that
Speaker 3: means is essentially to what has to identify where the
Speaker 3: man coverages, like there's a single one on one look
Speaker 3: that he has. Everyone else is bracketed by zones, and
Speaker 3: you just throw it from the leverage of that defender,
Speaker 3: essentially the wall defender who's taking off the middle part
Speaker 3: of the field, which he's gonna see tons of this
Speaker 3: year because the Dolphins lived their bread and butter down
Speaker 3: the middle, So teams are going to run that cover
Speaker 3: six that takes away big intermediate portions of the field,
Speaker 3: you know, on the interior, and we saw the Chargers
Speaker 3: do loss of that two man that does some of
Speaker 3: the same stuff last year. If you can throw these
Speaker 3: routes that you know threaten the crosser but break back
Speaker 3: to the outside with that kind of timing and anticipation,
Speaker 3: there's no defense for this offense if you can do
Speaker 3: that consistently, looks like he has twice in one drive
Speaker 3: here did get picked off once, which you know it's
Speaker 3: not never a good thing. But I just think that
Speaker 3: that's a counter to what the Dolphins did so well
Speaker 3: last year. And I want to go to the SoundBite
Speaker 3: for McDaniel in a second, but first two of from
Speaker 3: PFF two for three with thirty one yards against pressure,
Speaker 3: two for two with twenty yards win blitz. That's really
Speaker 3: good numbers there when the defense turns up the heat.
Speaker 3: But back to that counter idea, let's go back to
Speaker 3: this audio from August ninth, when coach McDaniel was asked
Speaker 3: about showing stuff off in joint practice. I think this
Speaker 3: commentary on how a system should operate if constructed properly,
Speaker 3: is a good indicator of how this team needs to
Speaker 3: have a counter to.
Speaker 1: Those interior throws.
Speaker 3: The two was so good at last year, and we
Speaker 3: already have examples in the preseason right now of TWOA
Speaker 3: doing just that adding more to his tools.
Speaker 4: Here's coach, It's something that you have to kind of
Speaker 4: be forward thinking. I'm very aware when we have fan
Speaker 4: days of technology. I'm very aware of stadium practices. I'm
Speaker 4: very aware of joint practices. There's a balance, and for me,
Speaker 4: I'm less secretive then I think I would have thought
Speaker 4: it would have been early in my career, just because
Speaker 4: you know, they if the if the offense is constructed
Speaker 4: the right way, everything has a counter to it. So
Speaker 4: at this point we have to get good at stuff.
Speaker 4: I probably hide less, but there's definitely stuff that that
Speaker 4: you don't you don't want to put on tape, especially
Speaker 4: if you're iron iron the kinks out of it. So
Speaker 4: it's a fun balance. But for the most part, we're
Speaker 4: just trying to create situation, create situations that are competitive
Speaker 4: within offense that we do do so that with the
Speaker 4: idea of being you get to evaluate guys and guys
Speaker 4: are put in difficult positions like a game or hopefully
Speaker 4: more difficult positions.
Speaker 3: Next quarterback scholar Thompson, I think the creativity is the
Speaker 3: best part of his game because the on rhythm stuff
Speaker 3: just it might take some time for to get their
Speaker 3: scholars playing in a back different offense than he played
Speaker 3: in college. But he just needs the offscript stuff because
Speaker 3: it's just not still not quick yet. But that jump
Speaker 3: pass conversion to savon Achmed on the first touchdown drive.
Speaker 3: He had it in rhythm for a very easy catch
Speaker 3: and run, and it's a one on one for Savon
Speaker 3: with a safety if he does put it in there
Speaker 3: on time, but he doesn't see it and invites pressure.
Speaker 3: He makes up four by winning off script. But it
Speaker 3: gets frustrating sometimes watch the tape.
Speaker 1: Just cut it, loose, throw it.
Speaker 3: I liked the first play the second half when it
Speaker 3: looks like he had Cedric Wilson on a dig, but
Speaker 3: the Mike linebacker winds up carrying vertical to undercut it.
Speaker 3: I think Skyler saw his back and decided to step
Speaker 3: up and run the football. Then he gets pressure and
Speaker 3: Julian Hill gets off of his chip. I mentioned that
Speaker 3: earlier Julian Hill what a great game he had, and
Speaker 3: just shovels it forward again. Skyler's strength is that creativity
Speaker 3: when he can get to it. Pro Football Focus had
Speaker 3: him at four for seven against pressure for twenty five yards,
Speaker 3: three for six against the Blitz with thirteen yards. He
Speaker 3: did have two point sixty three seconds to throw. It
Speaker 3: was under pressure on eight of twenty four dropbacks, kept clean,
Speaker 3: eleven for fifteen with a buck thirty two and all
Speaker 3: three touchdowns, so scheme and pass blocking very good in
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 1: I thought devon a change. We mentioned savon Aukmann earlier.
Speaker 3: His ability to quickly accelerate after it has to stop,
Speaker 3: it's really popping right now. Like his ability to fall
Speaker 3: forward through contact at his size also so impressive. And
Speaker 3: then two plays later after I noted that he pushes
Speaker 3: the pile for an extra three yards and turns a
Speaker 3: second and twelve into a second nine. I just I'm
Speaker 3: so impressed by him three yards after contact on average
Speaker 3: missed two force tackles or force missed tackles twice on
Speaker 3: just six rushing attempts. I just wanted to note where
Speaker 3: he most are shiftiness and how nifty he is getting
Speaker 3: through small creases four point three three yards after initial
Speaker 3: contact really kind of bears that fruit. At receiver Tyreek
Speaker 3: Hill on the speed out, just watching him throttle down
Speaker 3: and the little things he does to find details blow
Speaker 3: me away so much. Because Desmond King is mirroring him
Speaker 3: and obviously is terrified of the deep release, and so
Speaker 3: Tyreek widens his release and King reacts to this by
Speaker 3: jumping to outside leverage like he overplays the outside leverage,
Speaker 3: but still is getting depth, and so what Tyreek does,
Speaker 3: I think in the moment is recognizes this and takes
Speaker 3: another jab step inside and this spun king all the
Speaker 3: way out and he took off run on the wrong
Speaker 3: way and then there's ten yards of separation on a
Speaker 3: five yard throws. The easiest completion of Tua's career because
Speaker 3: against this man free look, he can just find a
Speaker 3: way to threaten deep and get back to the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Reminded me of the.
Speaker 3: Lions play went to a hit Tyreek deep, but we
Speaker 3: have a conversion off of that in case the safety
Speaker 3: gets over the top, because that was zero coverage.
Speaker 1: This is cover one.
Speaker 3: The safety could have got over the top, So throttle
Speaker 3: down and get outside, threaten him vertically, threaten him to
Speaker 3: the perimeter.
Speaker 1: It's a lot to cover.
Speaker 3: I thought Eric Azukama just really glides in and out
Speaker 3: of his routes. But I do think there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of detail missing, and then that I think is
Speaker 3: kind of lacking from some of the other guys what
Speaker 3: I saw on tape. There's a throw to him from
Speaker 3: Scott Thompson. It's late and behind, but he reaches back
Speaker 3: and snatches it and just keeps gliding into the run
Speaker 3: after the catch him on drags and mesh and screens
Speaker 3: and things where he just kind of can keep cooking.
Speaker 1: I like that for him.
Speaker 3: It kind of looked like the seventy five yard touchdown
Speaker 3: play to Sherfield in San Francisco, and I think better
Speaker 3: timing and a better throw could have seen a similar
Speaker 3: result because he had one on one in open space
Speaker 3: to maybe go to the house. I thought he rushed
Speaker 3: that route later on the drive where he rounded it off,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of the detail I I talked about
Speaker 3: earlier at tight end. I mentioned Julian Hill Elijah Higgins
Speaker 3: cooked shat Griffin on a vertical route, swiped the hands,
Speaker 3: stacked him, but we did not get to see the
Speaker 3: throw because it didn't go there. On the offensive line,
Speaker 3: I thought Austin Jackson had some really impressive work mixed
Speaker 3: in with some not so impressive stuff.
Speaker 1: But he hit this great reach block where he basically.
Speaker 3: Had to cut off a two technique that's or a
Speaker 3: three technique rather, which is off the outside shoulder of
Speaker 3: the guard, and he put the guy on the ground
Speaker 3: by turning and sealing him on that first positive play
Speaker 3: after the first two nightmare plays. I just feel like
Speaker 3: Austin's kind of a throwback right tackle used to put
Speaker 3: guys in the position who would just knock heads in
Speaker 3: the running game and kind of be a road grader,
Speaker 3: except in addition to some really good plays at the
Speaker 3: point of attack. You know, Austin's like Tron Armstead, and
Speaker 3: he has athletic ability where he can get out wide
Speaker 3: on those toss plays. And there's a player where they
Speaker 3: cracked back with Ruver Craycraft and he goes out and
Speaker 3: pancakes the Sam linebacker. That's two really really good run
Speaker 3: blocking plays on the opening drive. But the recognition stuff
Speaker 3: is still some work. There's a play where he washes down
Speaker 3: a two I technique which is on the inside shoulder
Speaker 3: of your guard, and you know Rob Hunt didn't need
Speaker 3: help with that, and he comes in and cleans it
Speaker 3: all up, but it gives a free guy a run
Speaker 3: on the outside. Some stuff he could work on. But
Speaker 3: I think there's positives out there for Austin Jackson. Pro
Speaker 3: Football Focus had him with two pressures on nine pass
Speaker 3: blocking snaps. Both were hurries. We mentioned those and the
Speaker 3: stretch of the defense put on him twice. So some
Speaker 3: given take there with Austin Jackson. Rob Hunt had a
Speaker 3: phenomenal first drive, had a couple of pancakes on the
Speaker 3: first place, just move guys.
Speaker 1: And threw him to the ground.
Speaker 3: Had some slip ups, some pass protection, but for the
Speaker 3: most part was really good in this game. Thought Isaiah
Speaker 3: Winn had a really good game except for rush or
Speaker 3: some pass protection reps. There was a stunt pick up
Speaker 3: on the first third down. We'll see this later on
Speaker 3: with a change of direction skills while striking hands, he
Speaker 3: just he glides back and forth left to right to
Speaker 3: help pick up those stunts, and we've worried about that
Speaker 3: for so long in Miami picking up stunts on the
Speaker 3: offensive line. The movement he gets in the running game
Speaker 3: is a translation of the feet where he takes on
Speaker 3: contact from a slant A guy trying to cross his
Speaker 3: face from the three technique position, stands him up, displaces
Speaker 3: him still and Skyler's second drive, Isaiah gets a pass
Speaker 3: rush off his left shoulder from a three technique and
Speaker 3: he works over to four worth the move. The three
Speaker 3: reacts with a spin back inside, but because when did
Speaker 3: a good job staying back in his stance with a
Speaker 3: gorgeous drop step where he opens that right hip and
Speaker 3: gets himself some more depth. It just diminishes any chance
Speaker 3: with the defensive rusher to use him as leverage, and
Speaker 3: his spin moves goes for not. He settles into reposition
Speaker 3: set and snatches the rusher and brings him to the ground.
Speaker 1: Really good work there. He did get walked.
Speaker 3: Back a couple of times, and there was one hit
Speaker 3: on Skyla where his man got through the outside post
Speaker 3: that he could not protect. Could be what coach talks
Speaker 3: about here in his presser with up and down play
Speaker 3: from Isaiah win. But I come away from this game
Speaker 3: saying that's your left guard day one.
Speaker 4: That Isaiah got his feet wet in the system to degree.
Speaker 2: I think he did a real good job.
Speaker 4: Trying to attack our techniques, and there's stuff that he
Speaker 4: wants to improve upon. That's so the whole evaluation process
Speaker 4: in general, you know, just like a game doesn't end.
Speaker 2: After the third.
Speaker 4: Quarter, you know, I think right now you're taking the
Speaker 4: game tape and then you're you're applying it the pros
Speaker 4: and cons, trying to build on the real good stuff
Speaker 4: that he did and then trying to improve upon the
Speaker 4: stuff that he knows that you know, he can do
Speaker 4: better and then we'll evaluate that week or this week
Speaker 4: as it would be, and what he's what he's able
Speaker 4: to do in the game moving forward. So it was
Speaker 4: an important piece, but I can't emphasize piece more. The
Speaker 4: good games are are we're had by many, many players,
Speaker 4: and you want to see what they do with that
Speaker 4: moving forward. And you know, because the whole key is
Speaker 4: like a football team, you need to be your best
Speaker 4: at the end of the season. So you have to
Speaker 4: be a player that continues to progress week to week
Speaker 4: and we get better as as the season progresses.
Speaker 3: PFF had two pressures on twenty five pass blocking snaps
Speaker 3: for when Connor Williams is to climb and work off
Speaker 3: the help and attach at the second level is so
Speaker 3: good he has to be so frustrating for opposing linebackers.
Speaker 3: I had Keon Smith having a rough game, getting whipped
Speaker 3: a couple of times and kind of having a fall
Speaker 3: back game after his first one. Some not so good
Speaker 3: work from Dan Feenie either and Lave he's got to
Speaker 3: learn how to pass off games. Man. There's a couple
Speaker 3: of players they got him twisted up and he was
Speaker 3: on the ground a few times.
Speaker 1: Let's talk some defensive notes here.
Speaker 3: In general, I love that forty front to kick off
Speaker 3: the game, where you have a two technique and a
Speaker 3: four technique on either side, and then you bring both
Speaker 3: linebackers down to essentially give you six gaps accounted for
Speaker 3: the tight end short motions in and Ogba widens his
Speaker 3: technique by one like a four technique head up over
Speaker 3: the tackle, kicks out to a five technique over his
Speaker 3: outside shoulder, and it took him right to a play.
Speaker 3: I think this tape has a lot of team execution,
Speaker 3: eleven guys doing their job, staying true to their rules,
Speaker 3: and just getting the job done at honest, NFL is
Speaker 3: a former NFL personnel guy or something. I don't know
Speaker 3: what he did, but he's a great Twitter follow. He
Speaker 3: has a bunch of Vic Fangio tweets, and you can
Speaker 3: just see he said, you can see the scheme clicking
Speaker 3: already for Fanjo because he's in the scheme so many times,
Speaker 3: it's not going to have those growing pains. And you
Speaker 3: just didn't see things surprise guys, like when passing off.
Speaker 3: There was no free runners down the field. The few
Speaker 3: Texans positive plays were really just solid execution and some
Speaker 3: damn good throws by C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud. I think the best way I can explain it.
Speaker 3: They make their vulnerabilities positions that take a long time
Speaker 3: to get to, like slow developing four second routes, and
Speaker 3: a couple of times I saw guys come opening down
Speaker 3: the field on a deep crosser or a deep post
Speaker 3: or whatever it might have been. The pass rush is
Speaker 3: already there, though, which is the idea, right If you
Speaker 3: can get there in four seconds and we can't get home,
Speaker 3: then good for you. In fact, coach McDaniel was asked
Speaker 3: about Vic Fangio and his Monday press conference and had
Speaker 3: some enlightening commentary about technique and fundamentals, but also taste
Speaker 3: and music.
Speaker 1: Let's play that sound.
Speaker 4: Vick has been absolutely phenomenal for the players, coaches, the organization.
Speaker 4: It kind of fits exactly with what I saw from
Speaker 4: the beginning.
Speaker 2: I saw a lot of synergy and him and I.
Speaker 4: Ironically, I think a lot of people were like, huh
Speaker 4: when I say that, uh, you know, the the way
Speaker 4: we approach football, the way that that you know, our
Speaker 4: fundamental philosophies of how to teach accountability uh towards the
Speaker 4: player and then the the requisite accountability necessary from players
Speaker 4: to to what we're asking them to do.
Speaker 2: The commitment to.
Speaker 4: Absolutely the best fundamentals and and technique that you can
Speaker 4: that that that you yourself can really come up with over
Speaker 4: a lifetime of football.
Speaker 2: He's been He's delivered on that tenfold.
Speaker 4: I think that the it's been cool to offset you know.
Speaker 4: You know, we have we have quite different different musical tastes,
Speaker 4: so uh, you know, sometimes incorporate some of his his
Speaker 4: music into you know, team meeting situations, and I promise
Speaker 4: you the players know exactly whose musical tastes those are
Speaker 4: when they're being played.
Speaker 2: But I think that's.
Speaker 4: Important, you know, to have to have some you know,
Speaker 4: it just kind of speaks to the broader scope of
Speaker 4: and vision of what this organization can be, which is
Speaker 4: there's cut from many different cloths. There's one sole commitment
Speaker 4: that's to winning football games and really empowering players with
Speaker 4: their the best tools that they could have. So I
Speaker 4: think that it embodies that and you know, pretty much
Speaker 4: if it isn't already obvious, Ig Fangio and myself were
Speaker 4: the same guy in.
Speaker 3: Total on defense fifteen pressures on forty four dropbacks. The
Speaker 3: Texans had a passer rating of sixty two point two
Speaker 3: and average just four point four yards per attempt.
Speaker 1: A few more notes here.
Speaker 3: I thought Rake one had some good reps where he
Speaker 3: was a one ship and he whipped the guard and
Speaker 3: gets a piece of the ball. Carry and the second
Speaker 3: play of the game off the edge, Bradley Chubb was
Speaker 3: really good for just a few snaps. I've been a
Speaker 3: broken record all camp. Then he goes out in the
Speaker 3: first play and just does the same thing I've been
Speaker 3: talking about where he works downhill through a block to
Speaker 3: stack up a run. Then he comes off and makes
Speaker 3: the play alongside Cater Kohu, who just loves to stick
Speaker 3: his face in the fan and make plays with his physicality.
Speaker 3: Just two plays later you see him and his athletic abilities.
Speaker 3: He goes unblocked with the design of the plays to
Speaker 3: take care of him, with the traffic by the running
Speaker 3: back and the tight end on play pass whose route
Speaker 3: is kind of a natural chip, he just side steps
Speaker 3: both of.
Speaker 1: Them and then goes and hits c J. Stroud for
Speaker 1: the incompletion.
Speaker 3: PFF had him with a run stop on two run
Speaker 3: defense downs and a pressure on three pass rush downs.
Speaker 3: Pretty productive day for Bradley Chubb. I thought Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 3: and Zach Steeler did really good work to hold their
Speaker 3: blocks and shed when the ball carrier came their way.
Speaker 3: Ogba had two run stops on nine rundowns and a
Speaker 3: pressure on eleven pass rush downs. Didn't really notice this
Speaker 3: on the initial watch, but Malik Reid had two really
Speaker 3: good back to back reps. On one, he undresses the
Speaker 3: right tackle and you can see him get mad because
Speaker 3: he's going to come clean on the quarterback, but the
Speaker 3: plays ruled dead for a pre snap Texans penalty. Then
Speaker 3: he worked inside and beat a polar for a run
Speaker 3: stuff on the very next play. Two pressures on nine
Speaker 3: pass rushes and it could have been three on ten
Speaker 3: for a sack if it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't for the penalty.
Speaker 3: I sure do love Mitchell a gooday aggressively attacking the
Speaker 3: split flow block, beating it and going again at TfL.
Speaker 1: That was cool to see.
Speaker 3: I thought Cameron Good and Garrett Nelson showed off their motors.
Speaker 3: They combined with three pressures apiece for six total. I
Speaker 3: mentioned Tendall Long and the off ball linebacker top ten
Speaker 3: tapes and then defensive backs to Sean Elliott on that
Speaker 3: Chubb pressure on third and goal. He recognizes the tight
Speaker 3: end flat before it even happens and showed you excellent
Speaker 3: closing speed. He would have shut that down even if
Speaker 3: Chubb's pressure didn't force the incompletion. Then on fourth down,
Speaker 3: he fights around a pick and gets himself into good
Speaker 3: shape for a little jerk route, but Stroud throws the
Speaker 3: flat and it's incomplete anyway. The Dolphins red zone defense
Speaker 3: looks really good early on. He was targeted twice to
Speaker 3: not allow catch. That's eleven total coverage steps. I thought
Speaker 3: X and Cater on X's pass breakup played that stack
Speaker 3: switch perfectly on that Texans fourth down failure. Stays on
Speaker 3: the outside hip and carries Nico Collins vertically, and then
Speaker 3: X scraped off of that rub and fills the slant
Speaker 3: and just runs right off the hip and cuts in
Speaker 3: front of it and gets the pass breakup. Textbook play.
Speaker 3: I thought Eli Apple had a great game. I talked
Speaker 3: about him on the recap. His recognition of things unfolding
Speaker 3: just really stands out when you watch the tape from
Speaker 3: the wide shot. Did it twice in a three play span.
Speaker 3: I thought Verme McKinley had a really nice run fit
Speaker 3: on the Texan second drive playing in the box. We
Speaker 3: saw him mostly in the post last year, but the
Speaker 3: more you can do right then he does it again
Speaker 3: when he's severely overmatched from a size standpoint against a
Speaker 3: tight end, just beats the block and makes a tackle.
Speaker 3: Elijah Campbell. I still love that near pick, even with
Speaker 3: the illegal contact call. I can see why they called it,
Speaker 3: but the way he played that and keyed the quarterback
Speaker 3: and got that drop in coverage was very impressive. And
Speaker 3: then Perry Nickerson, he can play man those man beaters.
Speaker 3: We praised the offense for the Texans get one here
Speaker 3: with Davis Mills and Nickerson flips the hips and drives
Speaker 3: transitions very smoothly out of that back pedal and gets
Speaker 3: a pass breakup and Finn. That's the end of the podcast.
Speaker 1: A long one.
Speaker 3: It won't always be that long, but when you're breaking
Speaker 3: down ninety guys, it's going to be a long Podcas asked,
Speaker 3: But I like this format a lot more than last year.
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