Speaker 1: Hey, doll fans, what's up?
Speaker 2: Not gonna do the intro here on these podcasts where
Speaker 2: the epic intro seems just a little bit to come
Speaker 2: up short for a team that's playoff life is kind
Speaker 2: of on life support.
Speaker 1: At the moment.
Speaker 2: We're gonna break down the film today for you guys offense, defense,
Speaker 2: Who stood out, who did not, All of that and
Speaker 2: more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is the drive time podcast. We kick
Speaker 2: it off as we do on these normally Tuesday episodes.
Speaker 2: This we'll run on either Friday night or Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. But we're gonna kick it off with the
Speaker 2: offense here in some general points to begin everything.
Speaker 1: I am glad I saw this tape.
Speaker 2: I mean I see them all, so it's not like
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna see it, but I'm glad I saw
Speaker 2: it because I haven't answer that explains to me. The
Speaker 2: offensive issues. It's the same thing that it always is,
Speaker 2: because this game wasn't sloppy beyond like the first quarter.
Speaker 2: From an operations standpoint for the Dolphins offense, it goes
Speaker 2: back to practice time last year. It was key parts
Speaker 2: not practicing really every single week down the stretch, whether
Speaker 2: it was Reek or Waddle, Reek and Waddle, most Aret
Speaker 2: eight Cham. They just had a lot of missing parts
Speaker 2: down the stretch that I think produced some offensive incontinuity,
Speaker 2: especially across the offensive line, and they sputtered at times
Speaker 2: because of that. We didn't have a single practice this week.
Speaker 2: Most teams don't on short weeks. It's usually just walked throughs.
Speaker 2: And think about that. We have three TNF games under
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel. Do you know what the record is of
Speaker 2: those games, zero and three. Do you know what the
Speaker 2: cumulative score of those games is? It's eighty eight to
Speaker 2: forty nine. And you could argue that Tua was trying
Speaker 2: to create plays in the Bengals game that caused him
Speaker 2: to get that injury that really sent that season off
Speaker 2: the rails for a little while. The Buffalo game, the
Speaker 2: same exact thing happened, and then in this one a
Speaker 2: little bit more of the same, but more from an
Speaker 2: operation standpoint and two it took some big shots. Luckily
Speaker 2: he's still healthy going into next week. The first two
Speaker 2: run plays they ran looked like nobody knew the play.
Speaker 2: Liam had this very strange technique and set then the
Speaker 2: draw that no one seems to understand what was going
Speaker 2: on there. This team needs time on the grass to
Speaker 2: rep this stuff and not just walk throughs at full speed.
Speaker 2: And that's why I believe that they got things going
Speaker 2: after a little bit of a ramp up period in
Speaker 2: the first quarter of the game. The only time we
Speaker 2: played well on a short week, I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: technically the Buffalo game a couple of years ago that
Speaker 2: was a really good contest, was a short week, But
Speaker 2: it was Black Fria last year, and you played Tim
Speaker 2: Boyle in that game, So I don't really put a
Speaker 2: lot of stock into that, despite what I thought looked
Speaker 2: like some early game confusion that led to some of
Speaker 2: the penalties and negatives and simple stuff right like the
Speaker 2: exchange on that draw, for instance. But what was also
Speaker 2: pretty simple was the well they kept going back to,
Speaker 2: and that was that little fake toss sweep throw to
Speaker 2: the backside glance.
Speaker 1: What is the glance?
Speaker 2: There are variations of inbreaking routes. Right, the dig is
Speaker 2: the hard cut inside ninety degree cut. A post is
Speaker 2: where you take it up field and go towards the goalpost.
Speaker 2: A slant is a hard press upfield and then slant
Speaker 2: across the linebacker's face. A glance is like a mini
Speaker 2: skinny post. If that works for you, Like get behind
Speaker 2: the second level and just kind of like run a
Speaker 2: little bit down the seam and the quarterback pops the
Speaker 2: football right in your chest pad and they wrinkled off
Speaker 2: of that or showed wrinkles off of that off the
Speaker 2: fake glands and then came back to the front side
Speaker 2: dig to waddle. That's just a good job of creating
Speaker 2: an exploiting space in the middle of the football field
Speaker 2: and it was by far our most effective play of
Speaker 2: the entire night. We hit it with variations or that
Speaker 2: exact play five times in the game. Alec Ingold's long
Speaker 2: catch and run was a cool drop action by Tua,
Speaker 2: who tied to the run fake. He took his drop
Speaker 2: like a right handed quarterback, and then Alex collisioned the
Speaker 2: force defender that's the furthest outside edge defender, which got
Speaker 2: him to turn flat. He turned alec Ingole as a
Speaker 2: receiver into the flat naked, which means wide open. Nobody
Speaker 2: on him, and Tua found him at the numbers and
Speaker 2: the nearest defender to him on that play when he
Speaker 2: caught the football was the line who was at the
Speaker 2: hash mark. He catches at the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 2: rumbles for seventeen yards. And what's cool about that fake
Speaker 2: action is you see the linebacker who could have covered
Speaker 2: him turn and sprint vertical to the hook zone. He
Speaker 2: thinks that Alex is staying in protection. Really well designed
Speaker 2: play to get that wide open seventeen yard completion. And
Speaker 2: what do you know, after a couple of bonkers run plays,
Speaker 2: the first normal looking run scheme outside zone left goes
Speaker 2: for thirteen yards.
Speaker 1: You can go figure. They had a really.
Speaker 2: Cool concept on the big Wattle completion when it was
Speaker 2: fourteen zero. Tyreek runs a Cover two buster right between
Speaker 2: the two safeties. That's how you attack splitfield safeties, right.
Speaker 2: But when the defense runs the middle linebacker on a
Speaker 2: straight vertical drop, that is your classic Tampa two defense.
Speaker 2: Split the safeties run the backer down the pipe. That's
Speaker 2: what Derek Brooks used to do. That's what Brian Urlacker
Speaker 2: used to do, It's what Zach Thomas used to do.
Speaker 2: Then Wattle runs a dig right off of that eighteen
Speaker 2: yard indcut off that seam buster, who lifts the pipelinebacker
Speaker 2: who lifts the two high safeties and Tua has work.
Speaker 2: That first progression to the front side comes back to
Speaker 2: this longer developing secondary progression, because you want your original
Speaker 2: progression to open up quick your secondary progression to take longer.
Speaker 2: It's kind of how you build the timing of the
Speaker 2: passing game to make sure the quarterback can scan through
Speaker 2: his protections and play on time and on rhythm. And
Speaker 2: that works in this instance because of really good pass protection.
Speaker 2: Then he rips it right over the linebacker's head and
Speaker 2: right on the money. So there was plenty of like
Speaker 2: really cohesive, good looking plays in this game. After a
Speaker 2: big play to waddle, Hn gets hit for the six
Speaker 2: yard loss on jet sweep and I feel like that
Speaker 2: will garner the old they got too cute in that situation,
Speaker 2: and maybe you could say some of that, but they
Speaker 2: also scored a long touchdown to Malik Washington doing something
Speaker 2: similar against the Rams a few weeks back, a few
Speaker 2: weeks back. But the truth is is the packer's edge
Speaker 2: just played it really well. Sometimes other guys make plays
Speaker 2: where he's playing that backside contained. He doesn't take the
Speaker 2: cheese and follow the inside action because we ran a
Speaker 2: fake handoff to I think it was Moster on the inside.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure entirely. I'd have to go back and look,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it live right now. But on
Speaker 2: that play, he just hangs out in his like five
Speaker 2: technique position, unblocked and just waits for a Chan to
Speaker 2: run right to him. I think the only option there
Speaker 2: for eight Chan is to try to angle upfield, but
Speaker 2: it's like two steps away from him at a full
Speaker 2: speed sprint, and he has to make that decision before
Speaker 2: you can blink. And if he stops, I do believe
Speaker 2: that edge which was Mosby, blows him up.
Speaker 1: So it's a tough spot there. He loses six yards.
Speaker 2: And I hated the next two plays because they essentially
Speaker 2: folded the tent or put up the tent, I should say,
Speaker 2: and fold it up shot because it was a screen
Speaker 2: to ma League Washington and then a check down to
Speaker 2: Raheem Moster. And on the Raheem Moster play they dropped
Speaker 2: eight and got pressure, So I'm not really sure what
Speaker 2: else you can do there. But the play design in
Speaker 2: general was basically saying, like this is a field goal drive.
Speaker 2: It looked like we ran more gap scheme and a
Speaker 2: couple of times I thought the Packers had us beat
Speaker 2: with their pre snap alignment, like running to the left
Speaker 2: side a gap, which is the gap between Brewer and
Speaker 2: Rob Jones. There's a one technique in there that's between
Speaker 2: those two players right off the outside shoulder of the
Speaker 2: center is the one technique, and Brewer climbs up to
Speaker 2: the linebacker, but Rob is out leverage and he can't
Speaker 2: turn him and he runs right downhill. The defensive tackle
Speaker 2: does unencumbered to the running back for a tackle for loss.
Speaker 2: And this run game has just been terrible the last
Speaker 2: three weeks, and I don't blame McDaniel for not calling
Speaker 2: on it because we can't execute it in a variety
Speaker 2: of ways. The vision I thought was bad. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about devon a Chan's night here in a second. I
Speaker 2: thought the blocking techniques were not great, and I think
Speaker 2: some of the calls stunk, like this one. It's a
Speaker 2: la carte bad and I want to get to this
Speaker 2: on the podcast later this week. But I think I
Speaker 2: have the solve for this offseason and teaser. It includes
Speaker 2: moving Tyreek and pivoting your offense to more of the
Speaker 2: traits that Tua has developed with his short game. Stay
Speaker 2: tuned for that later next week here on the podcast
Speaker 2: random Note, we had some slipping issues and it stood
Speaker 2: out to me on offense and defense, But the offensive
Speaker 2: one that really popped off to me was an end
Speaker 2: around to Raheem Moster when Aran Brewer tried to change
Speaker 2: directions and just went flying. I thought they'd created some
Speaker 2: pretty good intermediate throw options, and Tua hit a bunch
Speaker 2: of them, slam and glances and digs, but he also
Speaker 2: missed on three big ones we'll get to that here
Speaker 2: in one second that were pretty impactful in this game.
Speaker 2: And I keep getting asked about, like what happened to
Speaker 2: this base offense of yesteryear, and where are these deep
Speaker 2: shots and intermediate shots to Reagan Waddle? And you know,
Speaker 2: I kind of explained to on the show last week.
Speaker 2: I did the HQ breakdown showing you that these guys
Speaker 2: had open opportunities, but the balls going short to higher
Speaker 2: percentage throws. And this is why I think that you
Speaker 2: can make a philosophical change in the very near future
Speaker 2: next year, because we don't ask Reek and Waddle to
Speaker 2: win with their shake and suddenness in the quick game.
Speaker 2: They don't run quick game routes. That's not how this
Speaker 2: offense operates. We run them on wraps. Do you guys
Speaker 2: know what that means. It's where you basically take vertical
Speaker 2: releases vertical stems and you try to stretch that hook
Speaker 2: zone and then wrap your route around those guys. And
Speaker 2: most of the time their routes are coming off of
Speaker 2: like long stems where they can be on the move
Speaker 2: at full speed. So the possession and spot stuff is
Speaker 2: reserved for the other guys. Because Reakan Waddle's game is
Speaker 2: conducive to to lifting coverage and the way defenses play
Speaker 2: into that, we just keep taking the other stuff and
Speaker 2: so they get open sometimes on underneath throws, but we
Speaker 2: are not asking them to run those relief routes. That's
Speaker 2: reserved for John new Smith, for Devon a Cham, for
Speaker 2: the running backs, for you know, even a River Craycraft
Speaker 2: or a DRMS Like, it's for everybody else besides those
Speaker 2: two guys. So I guess that's how you change the
Speaker 2: offense if you want to get them more touches for
Speaker 2: the sake of getting them more touches. But there's just
Speaker 2: not like some secret code to opening routes fifteen plus
Speaker 2: yards down the field when teams are playing eighteen yard
Speaker 2: hook drops into you know, three high looks behind that.
Speaker 2: It is what it is. They can take away that
Speaker 2: part of the field. And those are the routes that
Speaker 2: Wreak and Waddle run Again, do you want to run
Speaker 2: hitch and flat and these routes to Waddle and Tyreek
Speaker 2: where those guys aren't tackle breakers? I mean, when was
Speaker 2: the last time you saw those guys like put a
Speaker 2: stiff farm on a guy and break a tackle. They
Speaker 2: run around people, and the best way to maximize that
Speaker 2: is to run ten plus yard routes and hit them
Speaker 2: on the move where they can then exploit safe he's
Speaker 2: in space and run past those guys. So you know,
Speaker 2: at that point, I think you can then say, all right,
Speaker 2: well where is the option to find one of those guys,
Speaker 2: because I think that's that's probably what Eric Azukama was
Speaker 2: supposed to be in some ways. I would say Malik
Speaker 2: Washington is probably supposed to be some of that as well.
Speaker 2: I won't put Obj in that category. He was more
Speaker 2: of a replacement I think on the perimeter for Reek
Speaker 2: or Wattle should they have gone down. But I look
Speaker 2: at someone like Jayden Reed, who was a mid round
Speaker 2: draft pick with speed and some skill to develop and
Speaker 2: some toughness to him, it would accomplish almost the exact
Speaker 2: same thing where he can help lift coverage and run
Speaker 2: those deeper routes and you don't have to pay you know,
Speaker 2: twenty eight million, thirty million dollars a year for it.
Speaker 2: And to continue that line of thinking, you know, I've
Speaker 2: you got to take your l sometimes, and I think
Speaker 2: one l that I can kind of hang I can
Speaker 2: take in this situation is I didn't really worry about
Speaker 2: rounding out your receiver call like a basketball team. I
Speaker 2: just thought, get the best players, and for someone like me,
Speaker 2: who's an absolute speed queen, I thought, get me more
Speaker 2: Reeks and Wattles. But I think I might concede that
Speaker 2: point at this point because the Packers have Dobbs and Wicks,
Speaker 2: who are both bigger players or you know, not super
Speaker 2: fast players. I should say the Niners have Juwan Jennings,
Speaker 2: who is is that how you say? Yeah, Jawan Jennings,
Speaker 2: who is an absolute demon blocking and being a possession
Speaker 2: guy off the perimeter for them. Deebo Samuel is not
Speaker 2: a super fast guy. He does a lot of the
Speaker 2: under these stuff as well. The rams, I mean one
Speaker 2: of their best guys is not a speed merchant in
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. So not all of these teams off the
Speaker 2: Shanahan Tree have just speed guys. In fact, it's kind
Speaker 2: of just us. So I can see the argument for that,
Speaker 2: especially in a post Tyreek Hill world where you try
Speaker 2: to use you know him as a massive resource to
Speaker 2: help rebuild multiple other positions, because right now it's just
Speaker 2: not the juice ain't worth the squeeze in terms of
Speaker 2: what you're paying and the type of resources you could
Speaker 2: probably get back from that with how this offense operates
Speaker 2: and how I mean, the biggest complment you can play
Speaker 2: to a quarterback is the way teams defend us, or
Speaker 2: the Bills or the Chiefs. They're not gonna let us
Speaker 2: beat them deep. And so if they're not gonna do
Speaker 2: that like the Chiefs did, this is my whole point.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put in the pods later. You don't need
Speaker 2: it then, not at that rate. You do need it,
Speaker 2: but you can do it for cheaper like Xavier Worthy
Speaker 2: does that. Hollywood Brown could have done that for them,
Speaker 2: like you can do it in cheaper ways. All right,
Speaker 2: put a pin in that we'll do on a show later.
Speaker 2: On this week or next week.
Speaker 1: So the goal to go.
Speaker 2: Plays that didn't work were both kind of doomed from
Speaker 2: the start, Guys falling down routes running directly into leverage.
Speaker 1: The third and fourth down.
Speaker 2: You know that everyone kind of got upset by down
Speaker 2: by sixteen points, a tough sequence. After the first down
Speaker 2: play got to the one yard bind and damn near scored.
Speaker 2: And on the second downplay Kendall Lamb just lost his
Speaker 2: block and got smoked. I wasn't a touchdown there, But
Speaker 2: you know, I think our true weakness as an offense
Speaker 2: the must throw a situation pass protection plays that kind
Speaker 2: of reared its head late, as as tends to happen
Speaker 2: in these blowout games. It happened in the Buffalo game,
Speaker 2: it happened in this one. It happened last year. Like
Speaker 2: it happens, you get bad communication, bad technique and lost
Speaker 2: blocks to a stack. Number starts to pile up and
Speaker 2: the game gets wonky. That's usually what happens when the
Speaker 2: Dolphins get behind late in these games. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Let's go macro first. I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 2: two from a macro perspective. We'll take a break and
Speaker 2: then do his game breakdown and comb through all the
Speaker 2: micro Nothing about this game moved the needle one way
Speaker 2: or the other for me. On the quarterback, the argument
Speaker 2: is big moments, you know, the one drive where they
Speaker 2: had to have it. He missed two throws and I
Speaker 2: thought he was late on a third miss to OBJ,
Speaker 2: so that's three misses and they were chunk plays.
Speaker 1: So that's not good.
Speaker 2: And that's why I agree he wasn't as good as
Speaker 2: his statlane would tell you. And I put a post
Speaker 2: up on Blue Sky the kind of graded each of
Speaker 2: his games this year, and I had this game. I
Speaker 2: think I had it as a seven along with Arizona.
Speaker 2: That's where this game kind of ranked for me in
Speaker 2: terms of his overall production. I had two games of
Speaker 2: the perfect ten, the game at Buffalo and the game
Speaker 2: home for New England. The Raiders game was a nine,
Speaker 2: the Rams game was a six, and then I think
Speaker 2: Jacksonville was a four, and I believe Buffalo was a two.
Speaker 2: So I kind of showed you how I felt each
Speaker 2: game went for Tua, and this one was, you know,
Speaker 2: on the upper side of his It wasn't the best performance,
Speaker 2: but it was like kind of middle of the pack
Speaker 2: for him, which which is above average if you ask me.
Speaker 2: But it's still this. The tape is still this. He's
Speaker 2: the adult in the room. He's a professional. He's prepared,
Speaker 2: he's got great knowledge of the way defenses react and
Speaker 2: how they want to attack, and he has total command
Speaker 2: of his system and what his system does.
Speaker 1: None of that change in this tape.
Speaker 2: He played that way for I don't know eighty percent
Speaker 2: of the game, but the other twenty percent were those misses,
Speaker 2: and then a trait that is not uncharacteristic to him
Speaker 2: because those misses were came up in some big spots.
Speaker 2: So he was I thought elite, stepping through pressure, attacking
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and layering those intermediate throws right
Speaker 2: on the money.
Speaker 1: Naw Chef's kiss. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2: But when he has to break contain on an edge
Speaker 2: that has the angle, that has the contain that hasn't
Speaker 2: gotten sunk too far inside, crossing face to the tackle,
Speaker 2: and contains their outside post, he's not doing that. That's
Speaker 2: not in his repertoire. I can live with that, but
Speaker 2: I can't live with it when you peel back and
Speaker 2: retreat further away and give yourself nine eleven yard sacks.
Speaker 2: That's the type of stuff that made me disavow Zach
Speaker 2: Wilson as a prospect and said, why do you guys
Speaker 2: care about this proday stuff?
Speaker 1: Go watch this BYU tape. It's terrible.
Speaker 2: And why I don't buy the hype on Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: Neither of those guys knew how to play the position
Speaker 2: from a quarterback standpoint, and Williams I think still can
Speaker 2: develop that, but that's a different discussion. We cannot have
Speaker 2: these seven, eight, nine, ten yard sacks. It's going to
Speaker 2: kill a drive step up and if it muddies, then
Speaker 2: we lose three yards when you get sacked, right because
Speaker 2: you're attacking the lane of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: I'll take that trade off for the explosives that we're
Speaker 2: getting as a result to when he does find space
Speaker 2: when he steps up to operate from because he's ripping
Speaker 2: some of those shots for eighteen twenty yard games down
Speaker 2: the field. But that's the root of Tua's primary issue
Speaker 2: that still remains in his game and really the only
Speaker 2: one that I think that he still holds control over
Speaker 2: that he can write. And that's like kind of the
Speaker 2: last step for me. The final boss if you will.
Speaker 2: He's never going to be a top RPM guy. He's
Speaker 2: not going to rip the ball of revolutions more than
Speaker 2: anybody else. He's not going to be a running quarter
Speaker 2: and that is totally fine. Most of the greats were
Speaker 2: not those things. But if we can mitigate the lack
Speaker 2: of willingness to give up on a play both for
Speaker 2: the yardage sake and the sake of our health of
Speaker 2: our quarterback, then I think we can say that he's
Speaker 2: fully developed and will help nudge him into that category
Speaker 2: that exists right behind Mahomes, Alan, Lamar, and Burrow, which
Speaker 2: to me are the top four quarterbacks. And actually I'll
Speaker 2: put Stafford in there as well, so those the top
Speaker 2: five quarterbacks. And he might be falling back into this
Speaker 2: category more, but I'm not going to take him out
Speaker 2: just because of a few games this year. But either way,
Speaker 2: that next category is GoF Love, Purty Murray, Herbert Stroud,
Speaker 2: and Hurtz, and that's sort of my non to ranking,
Speaker 2: and if I slot him in based on that, I
Speaker 2: mean it's the goth Love and Murray category or part
Speaker 2: of the territory top part of that second tier and
Speaker 2: the too long didn't read on why that is. You
Speaker 2: guys know the common threat in those quarterbacks, right, It's
Speaker 2: the ability to play the position. It's the one trait
Speaker 2: they all excel at a high, high level with. And
Speaker 2: if he had better physical traits, he would be in
Speaker 2: that elite category. It's the one thing that keeps him
Speaker 2: out of that category. For me, I have never once
Speaker 2: put him in that position because I don't think he
Speaker 2: does have elite physical traits. And you have to knock
Speaker 2: that at some point, even if you're like me and
Speaker 2: you think it's a very very deep secondary trait to
Speaker 2: have as a quarterback. And the last thing I'll say is,
Speaker 2: I don't think the results define Tua in terms of
Speaker 2: wins and losses, isolate his play, and he is not
Speaker 2: regressing in these spots. He has a collection of games
Speaker 2: in cold weather, on the road, primetime, YadA, YadA, yad
Speaker 2: check him off the blot whatever. Some of them are
Speaker 2: very good, right, the Buffalo games that we've talked about
Speaker 2: twenty two in this year. Some are good, some are
Speaker 2: just decent like the Rams game. Some are not so good,
Speaker 2: like every single quarterback has those different levels of games. Again,
Speaker 2: Buffalo was the same, and he was he was absolute
Speaker 2: nails the same game in the twenty two season, now
Speaker 2: the twenty one Titans game or the rookie year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty Buffalo game, abject disasters right last night, somewhere in
Speaker 2: between all of that, closer to a better version, but
Speaker 2: not his best. We good, all right, cool, Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take a break right there, come back and
Speaker 2: talk more to a to a talk tie. We'll also
Speaker 2: do the rest of the offense and the defensive film
Speaker 2: review here on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation. I just felt like
Speaker 2: it was a good spot there to have a bit
Speaker 2: of a tua dialogue as more of a big picture
Speaker 2: thought on his game. I didn't want to do on
Speaker 2: the show on Friday night or Friday morning because I
Speaker 2: felt the tape had to be watched, had to be
Speaker 2: grinded to a pulp to get that take for you guys.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and continue to go and talk about
Speaker 2: the micro this game itself. So the first sack that
Speaker 2: he ran into was was rough, terrible. Actually, I don't
Speaker 2: know what he was thinking on that play. He had
Speaker 2: a great pocket and he ran himself right into the sack.
Speaker 2: Nothing was really open, but I think if he gave
Speaker 2: it another beat, he would have had wabble for a
Speaker 2: tough layered throw behind the hook at like twenty five
Speaker 2: yards and that sack will go to Toront Armstead, but
Speaker 2: it's totally one's fault. Or actually no it won't because
Speaker 2: it was negated by off sides, but still it's on
Speaker 2: the tape. Watching Tua go through his progressions is the
Speaker 2: best treat you can ask for as a quarterback evaluator.
Speaker 2: And like this concept that the quick game system is
Speaker 2: the only way that he could excel. Like, dude, put
Speaker 2: this guy in Detroit and he would at minimum give
Speaker 2: you exactly what Jared Goff has given the lines right now.
Speaker 2: The way he plays from a clean pocket is untouchable.
Speaker 2: It's the best the entire National Football League. The way
Speaker 2: the vision is tied to pump fakes and the body
Speaker 2: action that sells the idea the ball is going to
Speaker 2: go to where he's gonna pump or try to influence you.
Speaker 1: You can see these.
Speaker 2: Zone defenders reacting to him very very dramatically, both pre
Speaker 2: and post snap. With all the stuff that he does,
Speaker 2: he's so good at clearing windows and why I think
Speaker 2: he is the pre eminent player in the league from
Speaker 2: a clean pocket, and it fits so well with what
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel wants to do right. Deception designed to create
Speaker 2: overplay and then play against the flow of that overplay.
Speaker 2: All those mechanics being hardwired together makes him so difficult
Speaker 2: to play because if you jump something, chances are you've
Speaker 2: taken the cheese he wants you to and done exactly,
Speaker 2: and move exactly because he wants you to, and the
Speaker 2: ball is going to go right to that spot that
Speaker 2: you've just vacated, and even if you don't move more
Speaker 2: than a step, he's throwing it right when you move,
Speaker 2: so that you cannot get momentum back in the direction
Speaker 2: to react and get a hand on the football and
Speaker 2: then just to hone in on the micro he's reading
Speaker 2: the defense. But then you have to be able to
Speaker 2: understand where the timing of the play and how it's
Speaker 2: broken down when you move off the spot, for instance,
Speaker 2: where it's put receivers in relationship to their route with
Speaker 2: your footwork, and the way you see his helmet stripe
Speaker 2: move from the defender to his target, and then how
Speaker 2: quick the succession is on that throw bang bang bang,
Speaker 2: It's so quick.
Speaker 1: It's such a treat to watch.
Speaker 2: Man. I really do enjoy watching this quarterback on tape.
Speaker 2: He's pretty special. Delay of game that hasn't happened in
Speaker 2: a while, but I will always go back to the
Speaker 2: quarterback for that. So I'm kind of like, what the
Speaker 2: hell was that? To a I reference the Tampa two
Speaker 2: beater in the general column and the offense. Another example
Speaker 2: of Tua's progression play is he pumps to one side
Speaker 2: and a linebacker reacts and vacates space, and then all
Speaker 2: in one motion, Tua's head comes back to the backside
Speaker 2: to locate Wattle while he's throwing while the motion to
Speaker 2: throw the football begins, so he's so in tuned to
Speaker 2: how it moves and how you know, like how it looks.
Speaker 2: He walks in the putt, meaning you know, before the
Speaker 2: ball falls in the cup, he's walking it down the field,
Speaker 2: meaning that he threw the ball and started walking towards
Speaker 2: the first down marker before Wattle caught the football, because
Speaker 2: he already knows that's where the next huddle is going
Speaker 2: to occur. I like it when he gets to the
Speaker 2: last progression, it's covered and he climbs to the lion scrimmage,
Speaker 2: and that's when he's seeing it the best. We saw
Speaker 2: that a few times in this game. I also get
Speaker 2: so tired of the arm strength argument because go watch
Speaker 2: the Raheem Mostert fourteen yard play up the sideline. It's
Speaker 2: classic cover to the cornerback bumps Raheem and turns him
Speaker 2: free and the safety and it's the boundary so it's
Speaker 2: the short side, so he's closer to that side. Reacts
Speaker 2: as to is throwing the football, which is anticipatory because
Speaker 2: he cuts it loose before the underneath zone corner has
Speaker 2: even turned hem from So if you want to bait Tua,
Speaker 2: you could try it. It's the only way you're gonna
Speaker 2: get him. But he's so quick at seeing the stuff
Speaker 2: that if you don't bait him, you have no chance.
Speaker 2: And the ball splits both he and the half field safety.
Speaker 2: It's this tiny, tiny window that he drills, and he
Speaker 2: does it so frequently. I think the Tyreek miss at
Speaker 2: the end of the first half was an example of
Speaker 2: when you're just one step off in this offense, it
Speaker 2: can make misses look really bad. What I see is
Speaker 2: the packer rotation into cover three and Tua throws the
Speaker 2: ball with Tyreek three yards away from even clearing the
Speaker 2: curl flat defender, and it looks like Tyreek takes one
Speaker 2: hard step inside and maybe to a thought he was
Speaker 2: going to just kind of keep it skinny up the post.
Speaker 2: And you know, Tyreek has told me so many times
Speaker 2: in press conferences, I ran the wrong route.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the play. I forgot the play.
Speaker 2: So like when I know that inherently going in, my
Speaker 2: initial reaction is to blame Tyreek, even if I don't
Speaker 2: know the result. That's my inclination. And that's kind of
Speaker 2: the place to attack on this look. When they're in
Speaker 2: deep third, you want to split those two safeties and
Speaker 2: you can throw it, you know, horizontally, which is not
Speaker 2: an issue either, but splitting those guys puts Tyreek on
Speaker 2: a path to split them for a touchdown, not just
Speaker 2: a twenty yard play, just different pages on that one
Speaker 2: step and the ball is on the back shoulder. And
Speaker 2: it's a shame because it was a chunk play for
Speaker 2: the offense. I did think two was high on the
Speaker 2: next one to Devon e Chan, I felt he might
Speaker 2: have had a chance to you know, hold it for
Speaker 2: a chan to clear the second window, which didn't have
Speaker 2: the underneath backer, which I thought forced the throw to
Speaker 2: go high. But that's so easy for me to say,
Speaker 2: and I'll say it, well, I'm sitting here eating chips.
Speaker 2: I'm not eating chips. Another deal. This is a third
Speaker 2: and third and three to open the second half. You
Speaker 2: worked so hard to put yourself in a third and
Speaker 2: short situation, and because you can't get the snap off,
Speaker 2: it turns right back into a tee off pass situation
Speaker 2: for the Packers. And then that led to the last miss.
Speaker 2: I thought he had to Odell Beckham Junior, who was
Speaker 2: open on that eighteen yard bread and butter dig rap,
Speaker 2: but we were a bit behind, a symptom of being
Speaker 2: just one hitch late with the football. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: I feel like these you know, the bad these last
Speaker 2: few plays has way down the earlier good. But it
Speaker 2: turned around beginning on the very next drive. The fourth
Speaker 2: down completion of Johnny Smith was a thing of beauty.
Speaker 2: Hits the top of his drop, eyes down the field,
Speaker 2: senses pressure and delivers a strike to keep us alive
Speaker 2: in the game at that point. Then the rip to
Speaker 2: waddle on our coolest design where he faked the toss,
Speaker 2: faked the screen and then threw that dig to seventeen
Speaker 2: that rhymes. Those throws and a collection of other plays
Speaker 2: really tell me that this cold weather thing is more
Speaker 2: perception for him, for him, not the Dolphins, but for
Speaker 2: him than anything else. The elements did not affect the
Speaker 2: way the ball came off of his hand. That's what
Speaker 2: you're looking for and talking about, like, is he affected
Speaker 2: by this now? It did in Kansas City in that
Speaker 2: game last year negative twenty five degrees. It did not
Speaker 2: against the Packers at you know, twenty degrees whatever it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the throw in the two point
Speaker 2: conversion play. That's an insane throw from your quarterback. The
Speaker 2: biggest game on those fake toss digs we were running
Speaker 2: was when Tua got pressures and drove up off of
Speaker 2: his spot with urgency and threw the ball to Tyreek
Speaker 2: on the move, an absolute dot, not to the connected
Speaker 2: to the ground. Big time throw there. I just thought
Speaker 2: the concept really illustrated a lot of twish traits his
Speaker 2: ball handling, his accuracy, his timing, and anticipation with a
Speaker 2: little bit of creativity mixed in there. And then the
Speaker 2: third and sixth conversion to Obj the slant against the
Speaker 2: cover zero when he was hot, he knows he's gonna
Speaker 2: get drilled. He reads that cover zero look and throws
Speaker 2: it before Obj's out of the break, balls right there,
Speaker 2: takes a huge hit, moves the sticks. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: thought TWOA played a seven out of ten in this game.
Speaker 2: Some really three throws took it from a ten because
Speaker 2: he was playing really well outside of those plays and
Speaker 2: then the one kind of couple bonehead sacks, but some
Speaker 2: of those late sacks that the game was already over
Speaker 2: and we're in true dropback situations and the coverage is good.
Speaker 2: So it's basically the chan tyreek and OBJ throws that
Speaker 2: I'm harping on that knock him because those were big
Speaker 2: misses in the game, and that's why he gets a
Speaker 2: seven for me out of ten in the grading department
Speaker 2: Individual standouts Offensively, I thought alec Ingold had a three
Speaker 2: play sequence and he didn't play many snaps, so this
Speaker 2: is why he gets in here. He makes two catches
Speaker 2: for twenty yards and then just obliterates contained defender the
Speaker 2: forced defender on a thirteen yard devon eight chan run.
Speaker 2: John new Smith sort of exemplifies so many things about
Speaker 2: the way this offense has evolved. The Shanahan offense has
Speaker 2: always top players to catch you, and then you get
Speaker 2: north and south and you remove the ability of the
Speaker 2: pursuit defenders to find you. When you do that, you
Speaker 2: just split defenders and get upfield. And he gets upfield
Speaker 2: in a hurry and guys just bounce off of him.
Speaker 2: He's so dependable. Him and Tua are on the same
Speaker 2: page on those quick hookup throws that look so easy
Speaker 2: when they can sometimes lead to tips and mistakes if
Speaker 2: you're not linked up. I do have to acknowledge the
Speaker 2: personal foul though, and the false start on the opening drive,
Speaker 2: like come on, big dog, But another big day for
Speaker 2: him forty nine catches in five hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 2: in his last seven games. I love the way he
Speaker 2: paces himself into soft spots and zone coverage where he
Speaker 2: kind of can throttle down and speed up at the
Speaker 2: right times. He's the true definition of a guy that
Speaker 2: understands zone coverage. As a pass catcher. I thought Rob
Speaker 2: Jones had the best game on the offensive line. Some
Speaker 2: of his losses I thought were alignment and leverage based,
Speaker 2: which I can't really fault him for that. He has
Speaker 2: a great block on the eight Chan touchdown catch and run.
Speaker 2: I thought he had good passpro for the most part
Speaker 2: and got the most surge in the running game throughout
Speaker 2: the course of the night.
Speaker 1: And then waddle.
Speaker 2: I thought he made some really tough catches, especially that
Speaker 2: two point conversion.
Speaker 1: What a great play that was.
Speaker 2: He continues to just bust his button block well and again,
Speaker 2: I really hope he's the receiver one next year. That's
Speaker 2: kind of where I'm leaning towards this this entire thing.
Speaker 2: I like the way that he is competing through this
Speaker 2: dip and production as well. It shows you kind of
Speaker 2: what he's all about right now. The misses, there were
Speaker 2: plenty of these Devon eight Chan, and he makes me
Speaker 2: feel like I'm a bad evaluator sometimes because I mostly
Speaker 2: wanted to give him a million touches because he's special.
Speaker 2: But then he has some of these bad vision plays
Speaker 2: where he takes the wrong track, and that compounds the
Speaker 2: lack of forward lean that makes me think we just
Speaker 2: need to have a little more from a secondary running back.
Speaker 2: And that was Raheem until the fumbles change that and
Speaker 2: the last thing on Devon, or maybe not the last thing,
Speaker 2: but I think the lack of patience or rather practice
Speaker 2: time hurts him as much as anybody else. I know,
Speaker 2: he's a young guy that is, you know, enjoying you know,
Speaker 2: South Florida. But then he does things like catching a
Speaker 2: checkdown and cutting it against the grain for fourteen yards.
Speaker 2: So it's hard for me to get too mad. Just
Speaker 2: give him a one B and that's to me to solve.
Speaker 2: And the more I got through this tape, the more
Speaker 2: I just hated his decisions. I thought his vision was,
Speaker 2: you know, bad decision on the on the big loss
Speaker 2: and the jet sweep, a bad decision on the first
Speaker 2: play of the next drive. He had a possible touchdown
Speaker 2: on a screen that was down in the red zone
Speaker 2: as well. Just not his best vision game in this one.
Speaker 2: I thought Kendall Lamb has been getting his butt handed
Speaker 2: to him the last few weeks. Bordering on disaster. He's
Speaker 2: getting no movement in the running game whatsoever, and his
Speaker 2: true passts have been bad also, Like I mean Aaron
Speaker 2: Moseby getting a pressure on you on a three man rush,
Speaker 2: dropping eight and the coverage and he dog walks you
Speaker 2: on third and long, a third and long goal, I
Speaker 2: should say like come on, dude, And then that's you know,
Speaker 2: that's that play. Shut down immediately stuff because you ate
Speaker 2: and coverage, you can't lose that block. To me, it's
Speaker 2: time for Patrick Paul. If we're going to sacrifice pass protection,
Speaker 2: we might as well get someone who can, you know,
Speaker 2: displace the line of scrimmage running game in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways. That game was lost when he couldn't hold
Speaker 2: his block on the second and goal run that got
Speaker 2: stuffed at twenty seven to eleven. That's a walk in
Speaker 2: touchdown if he does not slip off of that block.
Speaker 2: I thought Aaron Brewer had like his second bad game
Speaker 2: of the year. I think a lot of the help
Speaker 2: that Liam had to peel off and give Kendall put
Speaker 2: Aaron in some one on one spots versus bigger defensive
Speaker 2: tackles like Kenny Clark and DeVante Wyatt. On third and one,
Speaker 2: Raheem has a negative run where Brewer got walked back
Speaker 2: and it allowed the linebacker to shoot through and make
Speaker 2: that tackle.
Speaker 1: So not his best night.
Speaker 2: Tea Stead, you know, I can't even say it was
Speaker 2: injury aid because they made some bad reason a couple
Speaker 2: of plays, and some of those probably weren't his fault.
Speaker 2: Maybe they were, I'm not sure. But there's a third
Speaker 2: and eight with four to play in the first half.
Speaker 2: It's a fourteen to three game. If we convert that,
Speaker 2: maybe it's different, you know. And it's a huge, huge
Speaker 2: mist assignment. T Stead signals to Raheem like I thought
Speaker 2: you were gonna chip help never got there. He releases
Speaker 2: into the route. It's a walk in the park sec
Speaker 2: for Inogbray. I can't say that guy's name. And then
Speaker 2: the league obviously the punt the dropped the end of
Speaker 2: the first half. He just look a little bit slower
Speaker 2: on some screens rough night for him. Snap counts, your
Speaker 2: left tackle through right guard played the distance, so did
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Kendall Lamb played three quarters, Patrick Paul played
Speaker 2: one quarter. Waddle played ninety two percent, Reek eighty percent, moleak.
Speaker 2: This drop off is consistent every week now thirty eight percent,
Speaker 2: Obj played twenty percent and great Craft thirteen percent, John
Speaker 2: New seventy two percent. And this is where I thought
Speaker 2: maybe you'd see a little bit more because Durham played,
Speaker 2: or rather Julian Hill played thirty four, Durham played twenty percent,
Speaker 2: Ingle played twenty five. You think in these games, with
Speaker 2: the more running game opportunities you might get more tight
Speaker 2: ends and backs, but didn't go that way. And then
Speaker 2: run eight chan sixty nine percent nice most are thirty
Speaker 2: five percent, and then both Right and Wilson got one
Speaker 2: carry a piece, So those guys are that backfield split
Speaker 2: seems to be pretty set and stone at this point
Speaker 2: with how it's going to go the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 2: right there. Come back on the other side and to
Speaker 2: the Defense Set's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation. Okay, Defense, First off,
Speaker 2: want to go ahead and shout out Chris Kaufman on
Speaker 2: I think it was Blue Sky, maybe Twitter as well,
Speaker 2: but he talked about the Dolphins having tired legs. I
Speaker 2: just wanted to agree with that entire thread, and I
Speaker 2: thought it was really well put out or thought out
Speaker 2: and written out there on those social media sites to
Speaker 2: go check him out. I feel like we played pretty
Speaker 2: damn good football on the first two series of the game.
Speaker 2: The game plan, you know, early was pretty clearly to
Speaker 2: me to run games up front with slants and twists
Speaker 2: and stunts and all that fun stuff, which tracks with
Speaker 2: what I covered on the preview show. Given their many
Speaker 2: offensive line combinations, now they have settled into this one,
Speaker 2: going with Sean Ryan at right guard over Jordan Morgan,
Speaker 2: and we attacked him successfully on three of the first
Speaker 2: six plays of the game, quite frankly, a Campbell run
Speaker 2: stuff and a Zach pressure on the first drive you know,
Speaker 2: the would be sack fum that was overturned. Then Benito
Speaker 2: had a stack and shed on him at the goal
Speaker 2: line right before the touchdown play. The first two were
Speaker 2: games and the third was Benito just winning out and out.
Speaker 2: But we got negative plays, we got pressure, we held
Speaker 2: up against the run, and the only really positive play
Speaker 2: that Packers had through the first six plays of the game.
Speaker 2: They did have a Jacob's run on the first and
Speaker 2: goal play that was nice, but we stack up the
Speaker 2: second down play, and really the most effective play they
Speaker 2: had was just an insanely good throw by Jordan Love
Speaker 2: to read on the outside. If that ball is a
Speaker 2: foot further inside, it's a ninety nine yard pick six
Speaker 2: by Storm Duck, who I honestly thought covered it as
Speaker 2: well as he could. Because they got Jaden Reid, who
Speaker 2: has a really good burst out of his brakes, they
Speaker 2: were able to isolate him in a one on one
Speaker 2: situation where he's able to square up Storm Duck and
Speaker 2: have a two way go from there. And he ran
Speaker 2: right with re on that play, but it was a
Speaker 2: perfect throw just out of his reach for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They had some really well timed calls, man like, Lafleur
Speaker 2: is pretty damn good at this right he's one of
Speaker 2: the best coaches in the league. They had a Tucker
Speaker 2: Craft chip release screen called on a play where Chopp
Speaker 2: was going to peel back into coverage on his sim
Speaker 2: pressure look, and all that did was allow the offensive
Speaker 2: line to climb further downhill on him, and just really
Speaker 2: well timed and kind of lucky for you know, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. They ran some two man flat
Speaker 2: rubs at the right time against pressure looks and short
Speaker 2: yards to create some easy completions for Jordan Love. They
Speaker 2: went after our areas of substitution, be it with injuries
Speaker 2: or just you know, rotating guys up front in and
Speaker 2: out of the lineup for Campbell and Seedler. I still
Speaker 2: love our ability to get to unique coverages from different looks,
Speaker 2: Like there was a play that was quarter quarter half,
Speaker 2: which is a variation of cover six, or it can
Speaker 2: be where you know your deep coverage is a quarter
Speaker 2: of the field, a quarter of the field, and then
Speaker 2: another player has half of the field and deep and
Speaker 2: three deep with Ramsey, Cater and Holland, and I think
Speaker 2: you can withstand the loss of one of our three
Speaker 2: very versatile cornerbacks speaking of Ramsey, Coho and Fuller. But suddenly,
Speaker 2: you know, those veteran, multifaceted players go from three down
Speaker 2: to one when Cohu gets hurt. And no knock on
Speaker 2: the young guys, but there's no way they have the
Speaker 2: same knowledge and experience as a two nine year Vets
Speaker 2: and a third year player. In general, I thought our
Speaker 2: pass rush just looked tired, like, which is pretty pretty
Speaker 2: common symptom of playing on the road on a short week,
Speaker 2: especially when the fourth quarter of the game on Sunday
Speaker 2: played out the way it did against the Patriots. On
Speaker 2: some reps with four rushers, you would see our initial
Speaker 2: move just kind of like like kind of you know,
Speaker 2: lean into the block and then not really have any
Speaker 2: type of secondary move or really even you know, leg
Speaker 2: drive to try to push the block backwards, just kind
Speaker 2: of like give up and hope if the quarterback scrambled.
Speaker 1: I can get off this block and make the play.
Speaker 2: But there's a reason when the schedule came out that
Speaker 2: this was a game you pointed out and said, that's
Speaker 2: probably the toughest game on the entire twenty four Dolphins schedule.
Speaker 1: I bet you know, as most fans do.
Speaker 2: You go, you get the schedule, you go win, win, lost, law,
Speaker 2: that's a win four wins right there. I would venture
Speaker 2: to guess this game was the most frequently picked l
Speaker 2: by Dolphins fans doing that exercise back in April or
Speaker 2: May or whenever the hell of schedule comes out. And
Speaker 2: to this point, the Packers run game clicked when we
Speaker 2: made our line changes. You know, ninety two and ninety
Speaker 2: three got breathers. They blocked Neil Ferrell to Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Speaker 2: on the first rep of the game at twelve yard
Speaker 2: Jacob's run. So that's been consistent all year long. You
Speaker 2: have to have at least one of Sealer or Campbell
Speaker 2: on the field otherwise things get dicey pretty quick. And
Speaker 2: I still believe that af Seiler had played both the
Speaker 2: Arizona and Buffalo games, we would have won both of
Speaker 2: those games. Contrasting, I think it's It's like a yard
Speaker 2: at one point eight yards per carry better when one
Speaker 2: of those guys is off the field for the opposing offense.
Speaker 2: And I think we would have those two extra wins
Speaker 2: had seeler and not got poked in the freaking eye
Speaker 2: man this season, I tell you what I think the
Speaker 2: way they blocked us on the perimeter, tracked with the
Speaker 2: missed tackles like they would they hit this end around
Speaker 2: to Jaden Reid. I think in the second quarter where
Speaker 2: both Christian Watson and Tucker Craft drove Javon Holland and
Speaker 2: Cam Smith ten yards off the football and they never
Speaker 2: got off the blocks even after the whistles echoed, and
Speaker 2: then we missed two tackles to afford him ten more yards.
Speaker 2: It's a tough, tough way to make a living, you know.
Speaker 2: I feel like these allegations of cold and checked out
Speaker 2: kind of starts with twenty one, and you know, maybe
Speaker 2: eight and twenty four a couple of guys that fit
Speaker 2: that mold as well.
Speaker 1: That's what this tape showed me.
Speaker 2: Anyways, sometimes really good players make really good plays too,
Speaker 2: like the deep ball from Love to Watson on Storm Duck.
Speaker 1: It's such a tough assignment.
Speaker 2: Man, They're like, he gets single coverage, and I thought
Speaker 2: he was in pretty good shape. But Watson is a
Speaker 2: pretty damn good player for a reason. He had a
Speaker 2: last second acceleration to kind of run through the football
Speaker 2: and get that second gear and Jordan Love through it
Speaker 2: in a really good spot to allow him to separate.
Speaker 1: At the catch point. Tip of the cap to those
Speaker 1: guys for that play.
Speaker 2: So some bad alignments, some well time plays against our calls,
Speaker 2: some really bad tackling, some high level plays by a
Speaker 2: damn good offense and a good quarterback, and that's how
Speaker 2: they were able to control the game on that side
Speaker 2: of the football. If you ask me individually, I thought
Speaker 2: Ramsey stood out in a big way. I've got I've
Speaker 2: got five guys this week on the standouts list. It's
Speaker 2: pretty short defensively, who goes there? Sorry, I'm doing this
Speaker 2: podcast from home. Ramsey is here every single week for
Speaker 2: good reason.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the coverage versatility that we have through our
Speaker 2: multi skilled cornerbacks, but you watch the way that he
Speaker 2: can cover routes with vertical stems that can threat to
Speaker 2: break in either direction or work back down the stem
Speaker 2: or go vertical for the long ball. His ability to
Speaker 2: cover all those different break opportunities and flip his hips
Speaker 2: without losing acceleration allows him to get in position to
Speaker 2: funnel the route to where he wants to go and
Speaker 2: then jump where that route goes. It's like so impressive
Speaker 2: the way he moves, you know, nine years into his career,
Speaker 2: shows no signs of slowing down. In my opinion, Zach Seeler,
Speaker 2: It's funny to watch him because I saw a bad
Speaker 2: rep on the second drive where he got washed out,
Speaker 2: and it stands out because you never see it. I
Speaker 2: saw him lose his feet when he tried to put
Speaker 2: him in the ground for the anchor on that second drive,
Speaker 2: and like, whoa, Zach got displaced.
Speaker 1: That never happens.
Speaker 2: But then like the next ten reps or him, you know,
Speaker 2: splitting a double team, holding the point against double team
Speaker 2: in the running game, getting knocked back, hitting the corner
Speaker 2: back to the ground. What a special player he shows
Speaker 2: up every single week. Quintin Bell continues to really impress
Speaker 2: me with his work in these small sample sizes. I
Speaker 2: think he's showing you more as a good edge run defender,
Speaker 2: and I think he's playing that curl flat drop that
Speaker 2: he gets like three or four times a game each week,
Speaker 2: really really well. We've seen him get home on a
Speaker 2: few pass rushers over the last month or so as well,
Speaker 2: so Quinton Bell might be something there to develop further
Speaker 2: in the future. Jordan Brooks I thought played downhill with
Speaker 2: control and beat blocks and was anticipatory had TFLs was
Speaker 2: hitting the quarterback a couple of times. He was by
Speaker 2: far the most in tune back seven player I thought
Speaker 2: we had in this game. A lot of those run
Speaker 2: stops we did have were led by by him in
Speaker 2: the middle. Barito Jones had a really solid couple of
Speaker 2: weeks here more run game penetration and pass rush, but
Speaker 2: the misses were a vast Emmanuel ogbaugh Man, those legs
Speaker 2: were tired, brother. I mean the rush opportunities where he's
Speaker 2: basically just you know, engaging and then being like, all right,
Speaker 2: where you gonna go, Jordan, I'm gonna stay right here
Speaker 2: and hang out and wait for you. He also had
Speaker 2: a tackle opportunity three minutes to go in the half
Speaker 2: second and two behind the line of scrimmage where it's
Speaker 2: fourteen to three and Jacobs breaks that tackle and goes
Speaker 2: for twenty yards. You got to make these plays in
Speaker 2: these games, Javon Holland, he just came off of two
Speaker 2: really good games. I thought, so I don't want to
Speaker 2: go too far in terms of, like, you know what's
Speaker 2: going on there, but what is going on there? Because
Speaker 2: I remember him like coming downhill and laying out Devin
Speaker 2: Duvernet in that Baltimore game in twenty twenty one, or
Speaker 2: like his first rep against the Patriots when he up
Speaker 2: ended the John hus Smith for a forced fumble, flashing
Speaker 2: hoog zones and forcing quarterbacks a double clutch and then
Speaker 2: rushing the quarterback and making sex Like everything that's not
Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage to me looks a beat slower,
Speaker 2: the hesitation to make a hit, to jump into a
Speaker 2: passing lane.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It looks like a different player to me in that regard,
Speaker 2: But I do like the way he's playing down the
Speaker 2: box at this point of his career. Tyrrel Dotson. He
Speaker 2: tried to sink and stack a few times as a
Speaker 2: linebacker and scrape off of those plays and just kept
Speaker 2: getting glued to blocks. The way he got him down
Speaker 2: on the third and four from the high red zone
Speaker 2: on a Josh Jacob's fourteen yard run was really really bad.
Speaker 2: He got picked off by his own man. Plus he
Speaker 2: got shook to the shadow realm on that big Jacob's
Speaker 2: catch and run. It's a tough ask for your first
Speaker 2: start in this game in a short week. But one
Speaker 2: thing I was looking for was, you know how certain
Speaker 2: guys played into contact situations or the way that they
Speaker 2: would approach the pile when things got stacked up, Like
Speaker 2: Elijah Campbell came flying in and jumped on top of
Speaker 2: the pile, like, Okay, that's the guy that wants it.
Speaker 1: He was kind of patty Cake in it.
Speaker 2: Dotson was which I thought would be the opposite of
Speaker 2: what we get, given how pissed off he was that
Speaker 2: these Hawks cut him free. That to me was like
Speaker 2: David Long gets the Cardinals bag. I just don't get
Speaker 2: Neil Ferrell believe it that Jordan Poyer, I mean wide
Speaker 2: receivers drive this guy to Sheboygan like their mulling guards,
Speaker 2: mauling guards, mulling guards. On the Packers second touchdown drive
Speaker 2: back to back plays, he got displaced a combined five gaps.
Speaker 2: I kind of laughed about that, and then Cam Smith,
Speaker 2: I am rapidly moving towards this ain't gonna work territory.
Speaker 2: I mean, besides his rookie camp. It's it hasn't been good.
Speaker 2: Like there's never one thing to point back to him, like, oh,
Speaker 2: that was pretty good. He's grabby down the field. He's
Speaker 2: not playing fast and with confidence. His tackling is a
Speaker 2: liability on the completion he allowed where he got hit
Speaker 2: for DPI. Everything else on that play was sharp, and
Speaker 2: it shows you that all it takes is one missed
Speaker 2: to Simon or one filled coverage to make things happen
Speaker 2: the way they did. All right snap counts, the safeties,
Speaker 2: Ramsey and Dotson all went the distance. Elijah Campbell did
Speaker 2: play nine snaps at safety, Jordan Brooks miss I think
Speaker 2: it was three snaps in the game, and Duke Riley
Speaker 2: played those those extra snaps that he missed Storm Duck
Speaker 2: ninety two percent, a career high for him. So ran
Speaker 2: Neil played one third of the snaps. I played a
Speaker 2: fifth in snaps. Cater Coo who played just like two
Speaker 2: snaps less than cam So right in that same ballpark
Speaker 2: after getting hurt, Ogbag gave you eighty percent, Chop sixty
Speaker 2: six percent, Quentin Bell forty two So Quentin Bell's rep
Speaker 2: count keeps going up here. Seeler played eighty percent, Bonito
Speaker 2: played sixty four percent. His has been going up a lot.
Speaker 2: Kalay is fifty eight percent, Deshan Han thirty eight percent,
Speaker 2: and then Neil Farrell gave you four snaps in the game.
Speaker 2: My top five tapes, I thought Jordan Brooks was the
Speaker 2: best player on the field for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I liked alec Ingold number two.
Speaker 2: I had Zach Steeler coming in at third, John hus
Speaker 2: Smith at number four, and Tua Tongue I Loa was
Speaker 2: my fifth top tape for the Dolphins in this game. Subscribe,
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