Speaker 1: To remove Darlan Deep Speedways past helld From the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's gotta my havnds
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We are going to try our best today to take
Speaker 1: you through the all twenty two review from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: blowout defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Bills. I
Speaker 1: did find five tapes I liked, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: We are going to harp on some of the issues
Speaker 1: that plague this team and also complain a little bit
Speaker 1: about the state of Dolphins fandom. From the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 1: Draft Time podcast. Heyda going off script to kick things
Speaker 1: off here, because you know, we're good people like we
Speaker 1: support this team through thick and thin. I made it
Speaker 1: a life goal to work my way into a position
Speaker 1: where I could be around this team every single day.
Speaker 1: And I accomplished that mission and I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 1: But today I find myself asking myself, what's the point?
Speaker 1: Why do you even do this? Yeah, it's a fun job.
Speaker 1: I've always said that this job is only work when
Speaker 1: we lose and brother, is it work after a game
Speaker 1: like that? And I was prepared to come on the
Speaker 1: show last night, which, by the way, I know it
Speaker 1: was a terrible podcast. I appreciate those that stuck with
Speaker 1: me listen to it as I tried my best to
Speaker 1: get through that episode at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: And I was prepared to come in here and kind
Speaker 1: of thrash the team. And you know, I even told
Speaker 1: some friends before the game started, if they can't move
Speaker 1: the ball on this iteration of the Bills defense, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna he'll turn a little bit and say that the
Speaker 1: only thing they have left to redeem me is to
Speaker 1: go execute better, improve it, or get the guys back
Speaker 1: that I've been harping on to make it better. But
Speaker 1: quite frankly, with what we've seen, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can point to OBJ or to Malik Washington or he
Speaker 1: create Crafts and say that's the easy fix right there,
Speaker 1: because you're not moving the ball. And two games in
Speaker 1: with your starting quarterback before he got injured, and that's
Speaker 1: a whole separate case. We'll talk about that, really. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we were just talking about thirty one to ten
Speaker 1: and two was okay. You know, we'd bounce back, we'd
Speaker 1: be okay after the weekend of football games. But now
Speaker 1: you're looking at this process like what the hell's next?
Speaker 1: Because if he misses extended time, what do you have
Speaker 1: in this season? Is it going to be any better
Speaker 1: than it was last year?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: If he misses, if he goes an ir it's not.
Speaker 1: And I know we're not talking timeline right now, but
Speaker 1: you have to contemplate where you go from here because
Speaker 1: if he didn't play again, this is a ready to
Speaker 1: win roster. They wouldn't have a quarterback and you're not
Speaker 1: getting them on the veteran markets and the draft isn't
Speaker 1: full of them this year. I do think cam Ward's
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft, and that would be
Speaker 1: my preferred player. So are you going three and fourteen,
Speaker 1: because that's how you have to get it, That's how
Speaker 1: what you have to do to get him.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I just I'm at.
Speaker 1: A total loss today because, like my wife worked for
Speaker 1: a school district back in Washington and they once upon
Speaker 1: a time before I took this job, and I was
Speaker 1: working on my Lockdown Dolphins podcast, you know, part time
Speaker 1: or full time but not making enough money to make
Speaker 1: it a career. And she was like, do you want
Speaker 1: to be the Wapato School District social media manager? Like no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. That sounds terrible, but today doesn't sound too bad.
Speaker 1: I got people in the video staff here talking about
Speaker 1: their preference to do mindless work, to go do equipment
Speaker 1: or field crew or one guy even joked about, you know,
Speaker 1: being on the custodial staff. Like, trust me, brother, you
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. But that's where we're at today,
Speaker 1: because how can you be anywhere else? You know? My takeaway,
Speaker 1: the fifth takeaway in the podcast was we are not
Speaker 1: ready to compete in the AFC heavyweights. And that's abundantly
Speaker 1: clear with or without the quarterback, certainly without him. Another
Speaker 1: primetime showing and absolute shellacking. And as we pivot here
Speaker 1: into the tape, you know, this is again all off script.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan any of this. I just kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 2: Totally lost.
Speaker 1: I'm with all you guys, and you know, I see
Speaker 1: the comments on social I'm going to stay off Twitter
Speaker 1: for a while here. I don't I don't see tweeting
Speaker 1: doing any good. I know that's some people's agreeving process.
Speaker 1: But to read comments about how I'm slinging kool aid
Speaker 1: because I said, thinking about you oose like f all
Speaker 1: the way off, bro, Like that's a man that I know,
Speaker 1: I've met his wife and his kids, and like that's
Speaker 1: my concern right now. So I don't You're not gonna
Speaker 1: see me on social for the weekend because I just
Speaker 1: can't deal with that. But I think it's totally fair
Speaker 1: to wonder where the hell we go from here? As
Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan, which I twenty four hours ago, the
Speaker 1: question was the twenty four year playoff drought and beating
Speaker 1: and snapping that streak, not are we rebuilding? Are we
Speaker 1: going in a different direction? Is our quarterback going to
Speaker 1: play again? I just man, oh god, what did we
Speaker 1: do to deserve this? I also root for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know much about them? They're the laughing
Speaker 1: stock of baseball. My college football team got its conference revoked.
Speaker 1: The basketball team I used to root for moved, Like
Speaker 1: why do I even watch sports?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: In certainly not fun. All I can think about now
Speaker 1: is like other things to fill the time in September
Speaker 1: through Christmas, and we look forward to this all year long.
Speaker 1: The other eight months of the calendar is like pointless
Speaker 1: because you're just waiting for football start, and here we
Speaker 1: are five freaking days into the season and it's over.
Speaker 1: It feels like I know that's you know, not the
Speaker 1: team messaging, but I just want to be transparent from
Speaker 1: the fans perspective because I know how you guys feel.
Speaker 1: I am, I am you guys. Now, I do think
Speaker 1: some of the points about like, oh, the offensive line,
Speaker 1: they asked for this, like we're gonna get into that,
Speaker 1: not that that wasn't the reason too.
Speaker 2: It got hurt. Man, That wasn't the reason the game
Speaker 2: was bad.
Speaker 1: When you go into true dropback mode, you know, early
Speaker 1: in the third quarter because it's a blowout and that's
Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna happen. You're gonna take sacks in those situations.
Speaker 1: But they they've ran the ball in the first half,
Speaker 1: so that wasn't you know, that wasn't the problem. But
Speaker 1: let's just get into it. I'm battling at this point,
Speaker 1: so offensive general points. You know, I mentioned the two
Speaker 1: man beaters versus Jacksonville, and we saw it in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two the Charger game. They re route underneath they
Speaker 1: press you and they funnel you into safety help and
Speaker 1: you have deep hookbackers and you have to find ways
Speaker 1: to expose that. And the perimeter is the area that
Speaker 1: you do that with. And we saw it in the
Speaker 1: Chiefs playoff game last year. But we also saw Miami
Speaker 1: overcome that in the open against the Chargers last year.
Speaker 1: But Jacksonville went to that game plan, held you to
Speaker 1: twenty points. Buffalo went to that game plan and it
Speaker 1: looked terrible all night long to just ten points. That's
Speaker 1: all they did. That's how they limit Tyrek and Waddle.
Speaker 1: On the eight Chan touchdown, there are three defenders that
Speaker 1: clamp on Waddle to the boundary, and then they pass
Speaker 1: a bracket on Tyreek coming from the field over to
Speaker 1: the boundary from that same side, and he gets passed
Speaker 1: into another cluster of Bills defenders. So there's like five
Speaker 1: or six Bills defenders around Reak and Waddle, and that's
Speaker 1: why you get the walk in. That's why I was
Speaker 1: so gung ho about Devon a Chan's expansion in the
Speaker 1: passing game, about Jalen Wright's addition to the offense, about
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham and how he could expose the vertical element
Speaker 1: the deep out element with all the spaces created from
Speaker 1: Reagan Waddle, John new Smith being that spot guy, the
Speaker 1: hook guy over the middle of the football league, Washington
Speaker 1: in that same role, and you saw it here with
Speaker 1: a Chan But the rest of those guys haven't been
Speaker 1: here or done that. I think it's pretty clear the
Speaker 1: book on the current makeup of the passing game. You know,
Speaker 1: teams are doing what they did downe the stretch last year.
Speaker 1: Make Waddle and Hill beat double teams for this Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense to beat you. Because if that's what you need
Speaker 1: to do consistently, you know, those are two of the
Speaker 1: five or six best receivers in the National Football League
Speaker 1: for my money. But if you go back over time,
Speaker 1: like Antonio Brown in his prime is a guy that
Speaker 1: could beat brackets consistently, Calvin Johnson, you better be one
Speaker 1: of the best all time. And as much as I
Speaker 1: love Reek, I don't think that's his game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can run through brackets, we see him doing that
Speaker 1: plenty of times, but he's not going to consistently overwhelm
Speaker 1: you with physicality and his release and make you pay
Speaker 1: for doing that for playing press man like that. And
Speaker 1: through two games, we just haven't done it at all.
Speaker 1: You know, had that scramble at the end of the
Speaker 1: half against that two man look, and that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do. I think that's the thing that takes
Speaker 1: them out of that overplay because you have safeties twenty
Speaker 1: five yards off the football and cornerbacks who have their
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback. What's the one thing you can
Speaker 1: do to beat that. It's the quarterback run game, and
Speaker 1: that's not his strength. I think the scramble ability you
Speaker 1: saw in the game shows improvement in that area, but
Speaker 1: it's not the strength of his game. It leaves these
Speaker 1: massive areas of the field open for him to get to,
Speaker 1: and on that one he did. They did hit a
Speaker 1: throw against that two man on the drive after the
Speaker 1: pick six, but Tua has to throw those things with
Speaker 1: so much anticipation that if you're off by a beat,
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't work or it gets deflected and gets
Speaker 1: picked off like we saw against Grant Debos, and you
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of feel like maybe those early
Speaker 1: picks that you could possibly attribute to receivers not being
Speaker 1: in the right place. I think we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: chows and want to hear in a minute the Debo's
Speaker 1: played like, put your hands up, dude, and you're a
Speaker 1: receiver in the route, put your hands up. I could see,
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback looking at that and being like,
Speaker 1: now I'm going to hesitate because I don't have trust
Speaker 1: in those players in the timing offense. And that's all
Speaker 1: it takes to break up a where them offense. The
Speaker 1: fourth down failure before the James Cook touchdown, it's the
Speaker 1: same look on the earlier third down miss where they
Speaker 1: run these double end breakers. It's a stack and Reeked
Speaker 1: takes the first access and Waddle has a little pivot
Speaker 1: jerk to the outside where he takes one step to
Speaker 1: widen the corner and cross back across the face. And
Speaker 1: because he slips on the second one, they have a
Speaker 1: three man bracket in there where it's like two guys
Speaker 1: in man coverage and then the kind of hybrid zone
Speaker 1: player playing the high low. Because Waddle slips, he can
Speaker 1: cover both the high low and then from there two
Speaker 1: has got nowhere to go with the football and the
Speaker 1: pass protection can't hold up long enough for him to
Speaker 1: get to the backside of the red. It's just that
Speaker 1: type of night. One small mistake compounded by a larger one,
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I did like the
Speaker 1: creativity of the game plan early, more of that good
Speaker 1: action where you're selling one direction going the other way,
Speaker 1: like when you bring Julian Hill across the formation to
Speaker 1: act as a lead block on a toss to eight
Speaker 1: chand of the strength, only to have Tyreek Hill come
Speaker 1: back across the formation and he catches the flip instead
Speaker 1: and goes backside to go against all that overplay looked great,
Speaker 1: But then off of that, you know, and Juice made
Speaker 1: this point on the postgame show, it is a absolute
Speaker 1: principle in this offense. I've seen coaching clinics from the
Speaker 1: coaches here in the building, where you catch the football
Speaker 1: and you separate defenders upfield, you get upfield and run
Speaker 1: to space. That's why they love Jalen Wright's where they
Speaker 1: love Devon eh Chan. But from what we've seen from
Speaker 1: Wreaking Wattle on some of these plays is the lateral
Speaker 1: movement that they choose not to hit it up in there,
Speaker 1: and it creates these better angles and you'll lose valuable
Speaker 1: yardage for an offense that's struggling. You know, second and
Speaker 1: three is a lot better than second and six. So
Speaker 1: we do a lot of that. That's like a main
Speaker 1: coaching point. Catch the ball, get upfield, Like there was
Speaker 1: a wattle end around where he had a cm inside
Speaker 1: and just nope, went ahead and esdued that and took
Speaker 1: it outside wide and it cost him a couple of yards.
Speaker 1: I did love the flip to John new Smith on
Speaker 1: that same screen. Look where they fake the pump now
Speaker 1: throw and then flip it inside off the chip block.
Speaker 1: That's a cool sequence, you know, kind of to show
Speaker 1: that screen through five quarters and have that wrinkle off
Speaker 1: of it. And they had great connectivity in the run
Speaker 1: game really all throughout the first half over one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: That big rip to eh Chan was a wrinkle with
Speaker 1: power where Austin continuously just keep washing guys down off
Speaker 1: that right side. Liam had some good climbs up there.
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer I thought was fantastic in this game. Again,
Speaker 1: but where it stopped, like it was a full stop
Speaker 1: on that third and one stuff on alec Ingold. They
Speaker 1: sold out to stop that play. They get one stalemate
Speaker 1: right at the point of attack, and it happened to
Speaker 1: be a Brewer against a bigger defensive tackle and then
Speaker 1: it was linebackers flowing into that gap and they just
Speaker 1: never had a shot from there. It seemed like from
Speaker 1: that point forward, the Bills I discipline got much improved,
Speaker 1: or maybe they just knew, you know, we weren't threatening
Speaker 1: them in the intermediate areas. They stopped reacting so much
Speaker 1: to all the shifts and motions. And I thought a
Speaker 1: nice rinkle off of that was the Hill, the Julian
Speaker 1: Hill seam shot right before Tua got hurt, where they
Speaker 1: threw a little fake perimeter screen or pumped the perimeter screen,
Speaker 1: and you see a static second level not moving much,
Speaker 1: and then Julian Hill runs to see them behind that.
Speaker 1: We saw that with Mike Asiki over the years. You
Speaker 1: have to connect there. I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: enough throw and Julian Hill could have either taken one
Speaker 1: more step to get it in a better spot or
Speaker 1: just catch the ball because it hit both of his hands.
Speaker 1: So we have to hit those, you know, and I
Speaker 1: fast change here. I saw the complaints about the end
Speaker 1: of half clock management. I get it, because you know
Speaker 1: you're down by two touchdowns, and I get the concept of,
Speaker 1: you know, protecting the football and playing last shot. With
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I would do the same thing most instances.
Speaker 1: But when they got to second and six from the
Speaker 1: plus side, fifty seven seconds to go in the half
Speaker 1: and we lose three on that toss flip play running
Speaker 1: into the strength of the Bills defense, I just can't
Speaker 1: get behind that one. It looked like Liam was confused
Speaker 1: in the play because he reached the guard or the
Speaker 1: three technique I should say, and got outside of him
Speaker 1: and sealed him. But it just gave him a downhill
Speaker 1: run on Hien who couldn't bubble around it. So like
Speaker 1: I just felt like they played scared from that point,
Speaker 1: like after the early picks, after that third and one
Speaker 1: shut down, like they just kind of compounded from there,
Speaker 1: and it was more of the same what we've heard
Speaker 1: from the past, like what Jordan Poyer said, if you
Speaker 1: get down, if you get the Dolphins down, they can
Speaker 1: beat themselves more from there. That's what happened again, exact
Speaker 1: same thing happened again and then again compounding. Once the
Speaker 1: game got out of hand, they were able to pin
Speaker 1: their ears back and that's when most teams pad their
Speaker 1: sack totals, and that's what happened. It's very tough to pass,
Speaker 1: protect over and over and over again on the defense
Speaker 1: knows the pass is coming and so you get some
Speaker 1: stat padding on the pass rush element. That way the
Speaker 1: quarterback on his best game. Obviously this will go down
Speaker 1: in one of his worst games. I think the throat
Speaker 1: to Grant d Bos, though, was really really good. More
Speaker 1: of that elite processing anticipation we've come to love. But
Speaker 1: the timing issues with the new receiver burns you in
Speaker 1: the biggest way possible. Because Buffalo has this two man
Speaker 1: look with the two high safeties. Becomes cover three where
Speaker 1: they have three deep third defenders and they have these
Speaker 1: two deep hook droppers. That's what teams are going to
Speaker 1: do against us all year long. Well who knows now
Speaker 1: you know on the quarterback position, but he lets this
Speaker 1: thing go with elite anticipation to Debos, who's three yards
Speaker 1: shy of the sticks and it hits him eight yards
Speaker 1: beyond the stick, so eleven yards of extra out with
Speaker 1: the ball in the air and it hits him right
Speaker 1: off the chest and Granted out of the break, you
Speaker 1: want a few yards of separation, but that deep third
Speaker 1: corner is driving in tight and he never gets his
Speaker 1: hands up and a get a turnover like put your
Speaker 1: damn hands up, bruh. It's like you're on a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: The touchdown drive that two had after that was clinical
Speaker 1: work from two, which you've come to expect from this quarterback.
Speaker 1: Right the throw to Waddle down the middle, that one
Speaker 1: was a quick release, quick choppy feet to get himself
Speaker 1: in position to go from runner to quick snap off
Speaker 1: down the middle. Really impressive throw. And then the progression
Speaker 1: on the Hn touchdown, go full field scan see the
Speaker 1: heavy coverage tilt towards Wattle and Tyreek. You know you've
Speaker 1: got the one on one outside with Ingled hitting the
Speaker 1: key block. Just really good detail on that play. Impressive
Speaker 1: touchdown throw. But the more I watch the second pick,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the common ideology to across Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans on Thursday night was that it was Robbie Chosen's fault.
Speaker 1: I think two Wad just sailed that one because now
Speaker 1: the leverage of the defender is inside leverage, so he's
Speaker 1: driving inside and it makes the throw. You know, you
Speaker 1: want to throw against that. You want to throw to
Speaker 1: that blind spot because he can't get back there. Chosen
Speaker 1: didn't go that way, but the throw doesn't really go
Speaker 1: that wide. It was like on the outside shoulder of
Speaker 1: a hook route, but it just kind of looks like
Speaker 1: it was a high throw.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would probably chalk up to
Speaker 1: two on that one on the chosen pick either way,
Speaker 1: just a devastating spot because you had just scored and
Speaker 1: got back in the game to tie it up. The
Speaker 1: defense gets a stop and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's another short field for Allen and the Bills. The
Speaker 1: pick six, I mean, just cannot happen. We got caught
Speaker 1: on their rush games. The spot routes by Barrios and
Speaker 1: Hill are well covered, which is something you're not used
Speaker 1: to seeing static routes on the offense. Five yards over
Speaker 1: the ball and stop. That's not how this offense operates.
Speaker 1: But you see to a retreat because there's multiple signs
Speaker 1: of pressure there. Just eat the sack, though, dude, I
Speaker 1: don't see the benefit of throwing that ball away to
Speaker 1: save ten or twelve yards when it's already third down.
Speaker 2: The drive's over, it's over. Just eat it.
Speaker 1: I think the concept of two a pressing showed up
Speaker 1: and cost his team in that moment, and also cost
Speaker 1: his team in the next drive. With the decision to
Speaker 1: go headfirst and DeMar Hamlin. You know, I can't hate
Speaker 1: a competitor for doing what he does better competing, but gosh,
Speaker 1: it works so hard to overcome. This just freaking sucks, dude,
Speaker 1: it sucks so bad. So I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: wrote down with the scenarios are, but I kind of
Speaker 1: already covered that. I just think you're in a tough spot.
Speaker 1: Like things happen quick in this league. Things can change
Speaker 1: very quickly and all of a sudden future looks kind
Speaker 1: of bleak. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there, come back and do some more offensive notes,
Speaker 1: including Devon A Chan's a big night. We'll do the
Speaker 1: defense as well. I have some snap count gripes, as
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do all of that. Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Seems like Devon A Chan's gonna get his own segment
Speaker 1: on the show every single week because this guy looks
Speaker 1: like a bona fide star at the running back kind
Speaker 1: of and the receiver position, right, So I just watch
Speaker 1: his game and think what a perfect fit he is
Speaker 1: for this offense. Because the idea is you create these
Speaker 1: advantageous angles with misdirection and hesitation and eye candy for
Speaker 1: the defense and against a player like him. If you
Speaker 1: hesitate by a single beat, by half of a beat,
Speaker 1: even it is over. And the way this guy can
Speaker 1: attack angles, the way he sets up defenders, this is
Speaker 1: a very very special talent we are watching unfold right
Speaker 1: in front of our eyes. I have not seen many
Speaker 1: backs that can set things up while rolling at the
Speaker 1: speed that he does. The way he does, it's like
Speaker 1: one jab step at a defender in pursuit to cause
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a breakdown. I better drop
Speaker 1: my shoulder and make contact right here. But then his
Speaker 1: next step off of that once he breaks you down,
Speaker 1: is this elongated stride that has pure acceleration behind it,
Speaker 1: so that when he makes that one cut, they wind
Speaker 1: up diving at like the side of his leg and
Speaker 1: they just bounce off. And he has great contact balance
Speaker 1: that we saw in the game all night long, even
Speaker 1: some power runs where he's dropping the shoulder and bouncing
Speaker 1: off guys and staying on his feet, putting that hand
Speaker 1: in the ground and just keeping on rolling. He is
Speaker 1: an absolute superstar, and I think the offense is gonna
Speaker 1: have to go through him and Jalen Wright. Maybe the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, I don't know, we'll see a
Speaker 1: couple more individual standouts. I like John who Smith him
Speaker 1: on those chip releases is great addition to what this
Speaker 1: offense does with the lateral movement in fakes that keeps
Speaker 1: those rushers at bay. You get these edge taking false
Speaker 1: steps chasing all that eye candy. Then they have a
Speaker 1: chip from him, which is an easy block because they're stationary.
Speaker 1: They don't really know where they want to go at
Speaker 1: this point, and it's an easier assignment for a guy
Speaker 1: that's not known for his blocking. Then when they start
Speaker 1: to engage him, they lean into him and then he
Speaker 1: releases and all of a sudden they are off balanced
Speaker 1: and he can then kind of, you know, get rolling
Speaker 1: from there. I love that look for him in this
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense. I think Aaron Brewer, Aaron Brewer, sorry, has
Speaker 1: been brilliant through two games. Pancake on that waddle end
Speaker 1: around on the long touchdown driver, he reaches a backer
Speaker 1: out beyond the numbers and puts him on the ground.
Speaker 1: That is rare athletic ability at that position. He did
Speaker 1: it all night long. I thought he played with great
Speaker 1: angles and has enough power to hold guys. He does
Speaker 1: lose some of those matchups, but the plus plus athletic ability.
Speaker 1: It's like a quarterback that has just electric traits but
Speaker 1: kind of misses some layups here and there. He'll miss
Speaker 1: a lay up here and there, but he makes up
Speaker 1: for it in spades with a bunch of really good
Speaker 1: blocks out in space. I thought Austin Jackson had a
Speaker 1: similar game to like last week two really good stuff
Speaker 1: in the running game. He washed down that front side
Speaker 1: or the backside should say, on cutback runs all night long,
Speaker 1: had plenty of good pass pro reps. I didn't really
Speaker 1: dive into the tape when Skyler got in the game late.
Speaker 1: I watched it kind of just one time, one rep
Speaker 1: at a time. So if he got beat there my apologies.
Speaker 1: But he had one rep like last week where he
Speaker 1: got beat very quickly a swipe on von Miller in
Speaker 1: the game when sky was in the game for a sack.
Speaker 1: So I thought, by a large good game by Austin,
Speaker 1: but to get up one more sack in the game.
Speaker 1: I love the way Jaalen Waddle understands spacing as a
Speaker 1: route runner and how to throttle down in certain spots
Speaker 1: that near touchdown pass on the long touchdown drive, he
Speaker 1: flattened his route like he was running right towards the
Speaker 1: safety and he kind of peered into the space and
Speaker 1: flattened his route back to the quarterback and two have
Speaker 1: felt that and put it right on his chest behind
Speaker 1: the linebacker. A nice play there, and then Jalen Wright man,
Speaker 1: I thought the run on the armstet hole was what
Speaker 1: I saw all camp along where there's this crease the
Speaker 1: size of a piece of notebook paper and he hits
Speaker 1: it with ultimate conviction and comes out the other side.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about the future. Well, I'm not ex
Speaker 1: about anything right now, but conceptually A chan and Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright to me is going to be the best one
Speaker 1: two punch in the backfield the National Football League. And
Speaker 1: also the defender on that play had no protest on
Speaker 1: Armstead's hold because he swam himself into the hold, so
Speaker 1: I thought it was a pretty bogus call. My last
Speaker 1: note here is that at Oliver just kind of whipped
Speaker 1: anybody that he faced.
Speaker 2: He's really good.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's not the last note because I have
Speaker 1: plenty of individual misses too.
Speaker 2: On top of the good tapes.
Speaker 1: Rob Jones has been a rough start for him and
Speaker 1: on he played only half the game, got injured. He
Speaker 1: and he and Lester Cotton had some pretty rough reps.
Speaker 1: He got steamrolled on a couple of one on one
Speaker 1: true pass sets against Ed Oliver was an issue all
Speaker 1: night long, and another reason you just can't make these
Speaker 1: mistakes and get behind the chains all night because you're
Speaker 1: out matched against Ed Oliver in that spot and that
Speaker 1: reduces what this offense does to reduce those matchup issues.
Speaker 1: The reason the offensive line is an issue is because
Speaker 1: of those compounded mistakes. I never contended the opposite. I
Speaker 1: never said this as a team that can get in
Speaker 1: third and eleven consistently and come out and beat you.
Speaker 1: I just thought three years in we'd have a clean operation.
Speaker 1: But that hasn't been the case. So it compounds and
Speaker 1: it becomes an absolute disaster. Quite frankly, Dubos chosen terrible
Speaker 1: terrible Nights to a terrible Knight. Don't have to go
Speaker 1: any further than that. Played poorly. A couple of bad
Speaker 1: decisions or a couple of bad plays early I thought
Speaker 1: impacted Toua's decision making in Psyche and ultimately was his
Speaker 1: undoing at the end of the game. Julian Hill should
Speaker 1: have caught two touchdown passes. I thought the first one
Speaker 1: for sure, either take one more step or just make
Speaker 1: the catch because it hit both hands, and you know,
Speaker 1: if he can make those plays, it kind of changes
Speaker 1: how this offense can take advantage of the over play
Speaker 1: we talked about all the time. He did have plenty
Speaker 1: of good blocks, but also had a share of misses.
Speaker 1: I think the catches push him back into the red
Speaker 1: category here for me. Cotton and Lamb not good in relief.
Speaker 1: Tyreek I thought was slow all night. I thought they
Speaker 1: jammed and rerouted him all night and never really shook free.
Speaker 1: So just a bad night and the snap counts. Here's
Speaker 1: my biggest gripe before we take our last break and
Speaker 1: go to the defense. Austin, Liam and Brewer all go
Speaker 1: the distance. Armstead played sixty one, so Lamb played thirty
Speaker 1: nine percent. Rob Jones and Lester Cotton had a fifty
Speaker 1: three forty seven split, and then of course two win
Speaker 1: scholars seventy two and twenty eight split. There At quarterback,
Speaker 1: Wattle seventy two percent of the snaps, Tyreek sixty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps. I love this. I love keeping
Speaker 1: them fresh. It's worked in the past when you have
Speaker 1: OBJ or cray Craft or Malik, because we saw it
Speaker 1: what Trent Shirfield we shot. We saw it with River Craycraft.
Speaker 1: They had options that could let those guys take a
Speaker 1: couple of snaps off, but we just don't have that.
Speaker 1: So if you are going to have twenty one snaps
Speaker 1: where Wattle's not on the field, you're gonna have twenty
Speaker 1: four snaps where Riek is not on the field. Can
Speaker 1: we just stay in the groupings that don't require eighty
Speaker 1: four or eighty eight on the field. You know, twenty
Speaker 1: six snaps for Debos is thirty four percent, seventeen snaps
Speaker 1: for Chosen as twenty two percent. That's a third and
Speaker 1: a fifth of the game on two guys that quite frankly,
Speaker 1: don't know where they're supposed to be in the offense
Speaker 1: and aren't great players either. I like Dabosa's skill set,
Speaker 1: but I've long made a issue with Chosen on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but Dabosa doesn't know where he's going. And another forty
Speaker 1: five percent for Barrios, who by the way, had one
Speaker 1: target and no catches, so zero catches in two games
Speaker 1: running you know, thirty five pass pounds.
Speaker 2: It's horrible.
Speaker 1: Also has the lowest average separation rate in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I would rather that be Jalen Wright or John new
Speaker 1: Smith or Patrick Paul as a sixth offensive lineman. Even
Speaker 1: if it's third and twelve, I don't care. I'd see
Speaker 1: somebody else in the field in those guys. The tight
Speaker 1: ends split goes forty three percent for Durham, forty two
Speaker 1: for John Hu and thirty seven for Julian. That's kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting look and a different shakeup from last week.
Speaker 1: Running back split goes sixty two percent, twenty four percent right,
Speaker 1: and fourteen percent. Hefe who, of course got hurt. So
Speaker 1: I imagine we get plenty more right in the future and
Speaker 1: plenty more chan because that guy, what a stud he is?
Speaker 1: Last break right there? Come back on the other side,
Speaker 1: do the defense get the hell out of here? Draft
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Speaker 1: Auto Nation. Not a good night for the offense, little
Speaker 1: bit better of a night for the defense. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get it started here on their first touchdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe someone smarter than me can help me.
Speaker 2: Out with this.
Speaker 1: But you see the receiver in a stack to the
Speaker 1: field the wide side of the field where the ultimately
Speaker 1: throw that swing to James Cook and he points to
Speaker 1: Cater who is the point man against that stack. He's
Speaker 1: gonna either jam or come as a blitzer. And he
Speaker 1: was capped, which means the safety is behind him. And
Speaker 1: typically when you have that, he is coming, and that's
Speaker 1: what they had, and sure enough, that's he goes. The
Speaker 1: receiver points out his blitz and Josh Allen throws the
Speaker 1: ball right into that spot. They have a natural rub
Speaker 1: behind that that gives a linebacker no hope of getting
Speaker 1: over there. It's a walk in touchdown caught with your
Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar, which I'm okay. I'm okay
Speaker 1: going down swinging against a guy like that. Because we
Speaker 1: saw some plays where they did get them off the
Speaker 1: rhythm and gave the ball back to the offense, especially
Speaker 1: in that first half, all those short fields, I think
Speaker 1: they kind of kept you in the game until they
Speaker 1: didn't and then obviously the pick six late like there
Speaker 1: was the offense kind of didn't do the defense in
Speaker 1: your favors. They did have a conversion where Khalil Shaker
Speaker 1: checked up in the hook zone on third and six
Speaker 1: where he ran and David Long off of a vertical
Speaker 1: and that was between too high, which tells you it's
Speaker 1: a Tampa two backer. And I'm wondering why David Long
Speaker 1: is the one running that because that was like Jordan Brooks'
Speaker 1: specialty in Seattle, and I thought these two guys, actually,
Speaker 1: if anybody on defense, had probably the best games. But
Speaker 1: I don't want David Long running the Tampa two pipe
Speaker 1: because that's just not his game. On the very next play,
Speaker 1: we see why Jordan Brooks gets a wheel from Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel from the backfield and could not have covered it better.
Speaker 1: It's interesting usage and range there for those two backers.
Speaker 1: I just think that Jordan brook should be the one
Speaker 1: taking the deeper hook drops in those situations. Now, you
Speaker 1: can't always commit to that because you're gonna have different
Speaker 1: looks and you want to keep it disguised. But it
Speaker 1: just was interesting to me that David Long was in
Speaker 1: that role of not Jordan Brooks. I felt we were
Speaker 1: at a real numbers disadvantage, and this is where you
Speaker 1: kind of get beat on the look. On the forty
Speaker 1: nine yard James Cook touchdown, they have, let's break this down.
Speaker 1: They have double whys, which is two tight ends to
Speaker 1: that side of the formation, unbalanced personnel right twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: two tight ends both in the S side of the field.
Speaker 1: We line up with a zero technique which is a
Speaker 1: nose tackle head up over the center, a two I
Speaker 1: technique which is another player right next to that player
Speaker 1: inside shoulder of the guard, and a nine technique which
Speaker 1: is way outside the formation in general. And we have
Speaker 1: Fuller and Long as the only other players in the box,
Speaker 1: and Poyer is in the post as the single high safety,
Speaker 1: but also he is also a left of center. They
Speaker 1: seal the nine technique, which is Quentin Bell with one
Speaker 1: of those tight ends one on one took him out
Speaker 1: of the play. They seal the zero technique, which is
Speaker 1: Brandon Peeley with the center took him out of the play.
Speaker 1: They then get a triple team on the two Y
Speaker 1: technique which is Deshan Hand and then both Long and
Speaker 1: Fuller come in to scrape off of that play. But
Speaker 1: Cook is such a damn good runner like a chan is,
Speaker 1: and he knows where the where he can set guys
Speaker 1: up to hit their fit wrong, and he presses that
Speaker 1: gap which gets Fuller and Long to both drive that
Speaker 1: fit and it leaves the a gap unmanned at the
Speaker 1: second level. And if then Peelee can just get off
Speaker 1: a single block and slow him down, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like a two yard play. But he can't because well
Speaker 1: he's undrafted rookie. Who is your fourth defensive tackle, not
Speaker 1: a rookie second year player, But you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And then Ployer's angle from depth is awful. He runs
Speaker 1: the weirdest route, runs right past him. They got a
Speaker 1: good look. They executed the backman a special play. The
Speaker 1: anatomy of an overall bad play from the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: on that long touchdown, which really took the wind out
Speaker 1: of the sales at that point after the offense continuously
Speaker 1: puts you in bad spots all night. So that's the general.
Speaker 1: The individual standouts. David Long plays so fast and fluid
Speaker 1: and decisive. He shot a gap on that third down
Speaker 1: stuff to start the game where he sort of bluffed
Speaker 1: like he was gonna go get with and coverage and
Speaker 1: then crashes downhill right at the snap. Just smart and
Speaker 1: instinctive player.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the toughness and physicality in his game too,
Speaker 1: because he went and knocked Dion Dawkins backward for a run.
Speaker 1: Stuff on the bill second draft, and that's an eighty
Speaker 1: pound weight difference he's giving up. One drive later, he
Speaker 1: shoots the B gap and gets knocked back on Spencer
Speaker 1: Brown then finds the ballcarrier like he's out there whipping
Speaker 1: these tackles that have eighty ninety pounds on him. The
Speaker 1: way he crashes in there and still has his bearings
Speaker 1: to find things and locate ball carriers, to me, is
Speaker 1: so much fun to watch. And then the very next
Speaker 1: play he hits Khalil Shakur on that crossing route and
Speaker 1: sends Shakur three yards backwards. Huge collision, huge hitter. Tonestter
Speaker 1: love watching him play. I thought Jordan Brooks had some
Speaker 1: really good working coverage that Curtis Salley Pla talked about.
Speaker 1: The next play, he passes off a slant inside, then
Speaker 1: closes on the flat and forces Josh Allen to kind
Speaker 1: of clutch and throw an awkward short hop that he
Speaker 1: does sometimes when he gets a little bit jittery back there.
Speaker 1: I do think he runs himself into some bad fits
Speaker 1: for the first couple of weeks, but on a day
Speaker 1: full of bad tape. I thought he was one of
Speaker 1: the better ones out there. Chop Robinson also was a
Speaker 1: guy that I thought was worth mentioning. That speed on
Speaker 1: the Ray Davis screen where he was out flanked and
Speaker 1: ran that thing down is a glimpse of what he
Speaker 1: can offer.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He ran the loop from that back side and came
Speaker 1: all the way over and dragged down the running back
Speaker 1: for a TfL. He also looped and had a b
Speaker 1: line on Josh Allen on their first drive of the
Speaker 1: second half that forced to throw away on third down,
Speaker 1: and that will play against anybody because he takes these
Speaker 1: two steps upfield, resets the protection, then fires across face
Speaker 1: and you cannot catch up with him from that point.
Speaker 1: I also thought Javon Holland had some good feel for
Speaker 1: spacing on that long play to Ty Johnson. He feels
Speaker 1: Ramsey there and peels back and closes down the other option,
Speaker 1: which I thought was really heady of him. But Ramsey
Speaker 1: winds up losing eyes on Johnson, so it doesn't pay off.
Speaker 1: But I feel like his understanding of what he's doing
Speaker 1: back there just kind of looks the best of anybody
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield. Individual misses were a plenty. Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer two games in this one probably worse than the first.
Speaker 1: Late to react, late, to move, bad angles, just textbook
Speaker 1: bad safety play. On his late hit, both routes to
Speaker 1: his side and half field safety look break off quickly,
Speaker 1: and so he does. Then you see his head locate
Speaker 1: the front side crosser, but he doesn't go. He doesn't
Speaker 1: feel it and go. And then by the time he
Speaker 1: gets the he's late and he throws his head into
Speaker 1: Shakure's head for a late hit. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think Marcus may might be interesting at this point
Speaker 1: in that position. Jalen Ramsey, Dude, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know why you would come down on a cat blitz
Speaker 1: and just go one hundred miles an hour and jump
Speaker 1: through the air, Because since when does Josh Allen throw
Speaker 1: right into a blitz?
Speaker 2: He never does that.
Speaker 1: He just runs around you. He's gonna wiggle, shake and
Speaker 1: move you. I just don't get the thought process there.
Speaker 1: He also missed another TfL like he did last week,
Speaker 1: where he shot in great play to get there, but
Speaker 1: you got to finish and it turns into a positive play.
Speaker 1: Then that third downplay the thirty four yard conversion we
Speaker 1: just talked about with Javon Holland, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what we're doing there. I mean, he collisions the back
Speaker 1: fifteen yards down the field with Josh moving to his right,
Speaker 1: and it looks like he has eyes in the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but there's like three defenders that are there closer to
Speaker 1: the quarterback if he takes off and he can't reverse
Speaker 1: field because they're the pursuits coming that way as well.
Speaker 1: He just kind of like stops collisions of the running
Speaker 1: back and lets him run right past him, gets knocked
Speaker 1: off balance and gets shredded. Like that's not the guy
Speaker 1: that I'm to watching play football out there. Quinton Bell
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Ogbaugh had like no juice all night long.
Speaker 1: Quinton Bell's been that way really for all the games.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, hit the great start to training camp,
Speaker 1: but this is probably a special teams and you know,
Speaker 1: fourth or fifth rusher at best. I think Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: couldn't keep his his foot his feet in the ground
Speaker 1: most of the night. I thought his pass rush plan
Speaker 1: didn't really work out for him. But Nito Jones, you know,
Speaker 1: same as Emn and Q like not a lot of
Speaker 1: juice there. Deshaun Han couldn't couldn't shed single blocks quickly enough.
Speaker 1: They kind of boyed us in that way, and when
Speaker 1: he would cross face, they would just ride him right
Speaker 1: out of the play. Snap counts on defense, the general takeaways,
Speaker 1: we have way too many replacement level players or worse,
Speaker 1: playing a lot of snaps. And I mentioned it with
Speaker 1: the offense, you know, Pee Lee, Quinton Poyer. At this point,
Speaker 1: these are where a lot of the big plays occurred
Speaker 1: going after those guys. On top of beating stars like
Speaker 1: Ramsey or JP not keeping his footing all night and
Speaker 1: losing outside contained on an Alan rush. Everything I talked
Speaker 1: about all off season, it's not working because I thought
Speaker 1: these guys would be like ten percent snap takers, But
Speaker 1: here they are the first two games playing you know,
Speaker 1: twenty five thirty snaps or thirty five forty percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps, and those are the reps you're getting destroyed
Speaker 1: on tracks. Brooks along with the distance Fuller, halland Poyer,
Speaker 1: Ramsey all played all but four snaps. That's ninety one percent.
Speaker 1: Sealer gave you seventy eight percent. Again, he's that's that's
Speaker 1: what he does. Kala has played half the snaps to
Speaker 1: Sean Han played half the snaps and Peeley played at
Speaker 1: twenty percent off the edge, Ogbas sixty two, Chop fifty
Speaker 1: three percent, JP half the snaps, and Quentin Bell thirty six.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of players that I didn't think were
Speaker 1: going to contribute this year playing twenty thirty five forty percent.
Speaker 2: Of the snaps.
Speaker 1: My top five tapes were devon a chan how can
Speaker 1: you say anything else? And incredible contact, balance, the vision,
Speaker 1: the processing. He just sees things as fast as he plays,
Speaker 1: which makes for a star talent. I thought David Long
Speaker 1: played incredibly fast in the same exact way. Processing is
Speaker 1: a big part of this game. I love it. It's
Speaker 1: my favorite trait for a player. He has that in spades.
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewers athletic ability to get outside showed up again
Speaker 1: as he made several key blocks on the perimeter and
Speaker 1: opened some things up inside. The Dolphins ran for one
Speaker 1: hundred yards in that first half. Jordan Brooks I thought
Speaker 1: had really good reps and coverage, had some good run
Speaker 1: fits and had some misses, but you know, on a
Speaker 1: tape full of bad tapes, he's in there. And then
Speaker 1: I put Chob Robinson number five. Just those two plays alone,
Speaker 1: showing some of the explosion and quickness and had you know,
Speaker 1: two impactful plays that cut down bills drive. So yipee man,
Speaker 1: all twenty two in the can. Let's go ahead and
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