WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Ravens Week 17 All 22 Review 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.120 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.039 your pulse if you're not. What is up? Dolphins And 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.879 welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.239 Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins a 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.759 very difficult one. On today's show, we're gonna go ahead 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.200 and bury the football and the tape after this podcast, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.800 Dolphins lose fifty six nineteen to the Baltimore Ravens. I'm 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.400 gonna go top five tapes. There are actually some good 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.440 tapes in this game, believe it or not. I'm gonna 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.000 tell you where things went wonky for Tua and where 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.920 he played really well. I'm gonna tell you about the many, many, many, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.920 many many coverage busts on the back end for the 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.479 Dolphins defense, and so much more from the Baptist Health 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.479 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.720 Draft Time Podcast. You guys know, are you guys? Silicon 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.000 Valley fans? The HBO vehicle The comedy starring Thomas middle 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.800 Ditch and TJ. Miller. Is that the guy? There's a 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.840 scene where Richard He's the CEO of Pied Piper, a 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:08.160 very popular startup basically new platform company, Compression company. He 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.360 wants to get some things off of his chest ahead 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.160 of an interview, and he asked me with the pr 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.280 lady pr pressional to discuss what he can and can't say. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.240 And he walks into the room and says, I just 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.920 want you to yell to know I'm not gonna yell 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.320 at you, but I probably am gonna yell that's me 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.280 on this podcast. Probably am gonna yell. No big play 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.280 breakdown Today, We're gonna jump right into the top five 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.600 tapes and the top best tape. The best tape of 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.120 the game for me was to Ron Armstead. I know 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.000 he wasn't happy about his game a while back. I 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.240 think it was I don't eve remember what game that was, Titans, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.960 maybe Jets, I can't remember. But he's been aces the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.360 last few weeks. Great rep one on one in space 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.120 on Odafe Oway on the Cedric Wilson touchdown where he 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.360 basically shut down any pass rush attempt that he could 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.240 possibly have there. He got outside of Patrick Queen on 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.480 a climb reach that was really difficult to get to 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.080 on that forty five yard devon a chan run and 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.720 pancaked him. He took the five technique all the way 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.400 from the hash out beyond the on another big run 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.600 from eight to ten yards on this one. I think 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.440 there's a lot to like about this group's this current 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.239 group's ability to get things going in the running game, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.480 and to me, Testad is at the forefront of that. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.160 He put his butt off top tape for me on 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.720 this game. He was charged with a sack late in 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.680 the game when the ravens Edge ran upfield by about 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.720 three yards and was off sides with the running start, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.919 kind of like when you turn off off sides and Madden. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.240 Not sure how it didn't get called, but it didn't, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.720 and it was a free run sack that got charged 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.600 to Ron Armstead. My second top tape I mentioned the 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.799 big run devon. Achang gets back into the mix here 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.080 after a long absence from the top five tapes. Man 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.400 his ability to accelerate off cuts, like he can really 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.440 dictate defensive line flow like stretch him to where if 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.920 they are vulnerable, and then exploit that vulnerability like his 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.160 long run was just great patience and then vision to 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.239 anticipate the lane opening up and then zero to sixty 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.040 speed top gear Let's go. I also really like his 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.440 ability to see what there is to get from a 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.920 play like an inside run, and just go get it, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.919 like bury your nose, put it in there for three 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.359 or four yards and live to fight another day. He's 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.520 never gonna push piles. I mean, well that's not true, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.080 because he kind of has. But the size difference in 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.240 this game with he and the Ravens into your defensive 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.200 line was a little bit funny to me. I mean 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.680 even despite that, despite that, we did have fourteen for 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.120 one h seven on the ground here from him. Big 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.720 time stuff. And then in the passing game, his route 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.880 on the touchdown catch, he shook Queen inside, but pressure 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.360 forces two to get out and he immediately whips the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.320 route back outside and shakes him again. And that's one 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.360 of the best players right now in the league. Patrick 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.720 Queen and Rokwan Smith are playing so good and then 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.720 he goes and high points to football and makes the catch. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.520 Good to see him back for a monster day and 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.680 my second best tape. He had seventy yards after initial contact, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.200 albeit on just two forced miss tackles. Best. The thing 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.120 about this guy, he can make one guy miss and 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.000 give you a forty five yard run as a result, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.600 five yards on average after contact, five first down rushes, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.600 seven point six yards per carry, also had forty two 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.600 yards after the catch on him four catches, four out 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.400 of five targets, six yards per target, one point five 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.320 to eight yards per route. Ram Dan Chan big game 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.000 against the Ravens. My third top tape is a combination 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.920 once again, a combination. It's a combination like we had 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.520 with Christian and Zach last week, and I just spoiled it. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.400 It's Durham Smith and Julian Hill. They could probably go 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.520 both go in individually here, but I think the pairing 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.280 works better because how they were both so critical on 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.680 some of the same plays and against a physical, big, powerful, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.320 long group of Ravens edge defenders, these guys moved the 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.719 line of scrimmage time and time again out there and 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.320 hit big blocks out in space. Let's talk about it. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.839 So Julian Hill, it's unbelievable to me to think this 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.880 guy was playing football at Campbell last year because on 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.640 a Chan's red zone run for a first down in 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.360 the opening series, he comes all the way across the 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.880 formation on that you know, sprint exit, cheat motion, whatever 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.960 the hell we're calling it, and the ball is snapped 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.320 when he is directly behind Rob Jones the right guard 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.640 and Jadevian Clowney in this setup is a nine technique, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.280 which means he's on the outside shoulder of the tight end, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.560 so he is three gaps away and Julian's job is 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.000 to go attack his outside shoulder, turn his butt outside 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.400 and pin him inside and we're gonna run off of 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.039 that lane. The critical block of the play designed around 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.200 Julian Hill's ability to reach Jadevian Clowney. Think about that, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.360 and it's the key block on a fifteen yard run 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.599 against Jadavian Clowney, who legit might be the best run 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.359 defender of the last decade off the edge. He also 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.560 blew up Odafe Oway on a forty five yard devon 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.680 eight chan run. So, Julian Hill, this guy, he's a 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.640 big part of the future to me in this offense. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.600 I think so is Durham smyth, and he has a 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.160 contract extension to prove that. Speaking of the block on 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.719 the eight chan run Julian and Durham is it's just 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.880 a nice gumbination. I don't think this pass catching element 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.240 of Durham's game is going anywhere either, because he's a 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.599 big stick target. What I mean by that stick is 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.680 essentially your bread and butter for a quarterback when they 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.200 blitz or when they devote attention to the perimeter, to 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.919 a receiver like Tyreek Hill or to a receiver like 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.839 a Jalen Waddell. And what I mean by that why 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.400 he's a good stick target. First, he has this very 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.799 calm sense about him when the ball is clearly designed 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.560 to come to him on a certain play where he 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.360 gets up the stem, but like doesn't attract attention by 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.560 how he gets off. It's always the same get off 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.080 as a blocking rep that he might have, and that 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.880 allows him to manipulate those zone pockets. He can kind 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.440 of throttle down, he can speed up, he can determine 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.359 where he wants to get his head back to the quarterback, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.600 and then Tua can just throw the thing at him, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.520 which must be kind of a nice change of pace 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.719 for him to have a big frame we can just 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.200 throw at opposed to having to anticipate and throw the 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.320 ball to spots like we have to do to this 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.960 receiving core. And I'm not saying it's a knock on 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.160 those guys. It's just probably nice to be able to 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.320 feel almost like a three to zero fast ball, right, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.320 let's go ahead and just we're taking right here. Let's 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.080 go ahead and paint this thing over the outside black 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.320 and get it back into the count. It's a change 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.960 up from our timing offense. But I think his ability 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.080 to both hit key blocks outside and then this added element, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.680 I think it gives you another answer to what defenses 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.120 takeaway and I think it could be big against the 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.440 Bill's smaller defense. We'll explain that on Wednesday, a different 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.360 podcast for a different day. And man, if you can 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.880 just add to this room a seam busting tight end 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.640 that's not Mike Gesicki, and it's not a knock on 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.440 Derma Smythe because I just I'm looking for a little 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.560 more explosiveness in that role, but more like Laporta from 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.040 the Lions. Then this tight end room can go from 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.800 pretty good to oh oh wow, that's the best tight 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.360 end room in the league for what they're asked to do. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.000 And I want to come back to that point. I 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.720 actually got my notes mixed up here a little bit, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.320 and I had a point earlier that was supposed to 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.120 play off of this, but we'll just come back to that. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.000 But put a pin in that and This is a 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.520 Tron Armstead and tight ends and Austin Jackson stat for 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.680 that matter, but mostly for Smyth and Hill. Here we 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.720 ran the ball for one hundred and forty yards and 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.120 one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty four yards 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.040 one hundred and forty of those came off tackle, So 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.640 pretty good job off the edges for the Dolphins in 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.320 this game. My fourth best is the only defender in 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.120 the lot, and it's Zach Sealer. I love watching this 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.840 guy play man. His sack is a microcosm of his 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.600 will and determination. They're behind the sticks, Baltimore are is. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.320 We bring four against their five, and Christian draws the double. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.080 So that means you have Chubb and gink manned up 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.600 as well as Zach Sealer, who you picking to win. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.800 You're one on one. There is it? The big plotting 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.880 defensive tackle. Probably not right, but when you have Zack 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.240 Seeler it can be. And he just works and works 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.600 and works and takes the left guard right into Lamar 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.000 Jackson's lap. But the job at that point is only 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.720 like twenty percent done against that quarterback. So he works 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.560 some more, sheds the block and finishes doing large part 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.440 to the help that Gink and Chubb gave him by 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.160 really honoring their rush lanes and not letting Lamar get out. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.080 He tried to step up, but Zach beat his block 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.240 right at that moment and gets the sack. I thought 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.200 that play was the most connected. The secondary was the 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.280 entire day looked like the defense on that rep that 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.000 we've seen for the last two months, and outside that 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.480 first series in the first half, which you could have 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.199 gotten off the field by better effort on the third 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.160 and sixteen screen more on that in moment. There was 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.360 a lot of good plays on defense in that first 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.120 portion of the game. It's why it was a close. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.760 It's why you had a ten to seven lead and 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.800 the ball driving for the Miami Dolphins offense, like it 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.800 was a possibility you could have made it a two 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.839 score game and gotten this defense back in position where 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.160 maybe the the flow of the games different. But it wasn't. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.880 I digress, just there was a few plays and Zack 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.360 Seler I thought was a big part of those plays 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.319 early on in this game. My fifth top tape goes 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.560 to Cedric Wilson in this No knock on Cedric, but 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:27.920 it tells you how bad of a game. This was 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.600 right because one, he had to step up in a 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.520 role that he's not usually playing, and that's not how 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.880 this offense was designed. But I think some of these 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.320 routes that he runs are pretty crisp and pretty nice 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.000 and tells you why the Dolphins kind of made him 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.839 a priority ahead of the Tyreek Hill trade. And his 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.079 ability to make catches in traffic is a skill that 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.360 I think he has above the rest of the receiving 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.080 corps just in terms of his size and stature among 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.560 that group. The touchdown catch exceptional route, the little nod 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.240 outside with eight Chan's underneath route really sells Patrick queen 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.040 to get out of that space. Then there's a half 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.840 field safety who gets on his hills and just gets 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.640 beat to touchdown. Then on the long eight Chan run 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.400 he cracks down and seals the edge. Physical player man. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.320 I thought this might have been the best run blocking 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.320 game we've got from a receiver all year. And he 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.480 made a couple of nice catches a touchdown and that 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.960 little back shoulder corner throw to get a drive going 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.760 there when we were down by what thirty five thirteen 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.200 was at eighteen points like simpressive stuff there from Cedric Wilson, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.200 my honorable mention tapes, Austin Jackson and Rob Jones, and 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.520 that's it. Nobody else on defense, we'll tell you about that. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.240 Why here in a moment, let's go ahead and do 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.640 some offensive notes first though, as we always do, and generally, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.319 here's where I think it went wrong. I think the 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.560 injuries to this Dolphins offense have hemmed them into a 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:46.560 box offensively, and I think that box is still incredibly fruitful, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.640 a top ten attack that you can win with. But 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.080 we thought this might be a generational record shattering offense. Right, Boy, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.720 that was a fun time, wasn't it. But watching this 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.800 team on tape, and I do think this is a 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.760 big part of being so depleted, Wattle especially, But man, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.920 they just never respected the backside seem vertical on some 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.480 of the stuff that we ran. And by that I 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.680 mean a nasty split. Once. A nasty split, Travis, it's 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.960 when you align your receiver or running back in close 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.199 to the tackle, like within an arm's length away from 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.000 the tackle. Nasty equals tight to the formation, and you 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.440 split that on the weak side of the formation, so 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.880 all the flow goes strong side, and the Ravens would 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.559 bring a safety down to hunt crossers or slants from 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.679 that side, but they never thought about getting depth or 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.960 running vertical. If we just hit one vertical seam on 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.920 the backside off of the slide glance action, which is 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.080 our bread and butter right go in motion to it 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.000 has the option throw the ball directly to the sideline 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.240 to durham Smythe or alec Ingold sometimes it's Devon eight Chan, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.480 or you can throw the glance route to Wattle or 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.880 Tyreek in behind that hook linebacker from that look. If 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.000 we can find a way to get the ball to 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.760 the backside, the vertical nasty split down the hash marks. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.720 It reminds me of the Titans recap we talked about 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.920 them just basically not honoring the out route to the 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.839 backside at all. Just take it away, go fit the 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.960 run from our nickel defense. You have to find ways 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.320 to hit these spaces that they're leaving for you, and 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.319 then you can get more from your bread and butter 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.320 and you can just expand the offense even more. It's 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.360 this was a big, a big reason in this game 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.880 why I thought the Ravens defense clamped down late in 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.800 the game. They adjusted and we did not adjust. To it. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.080 It's why I was never worried about Dallas, you know, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.559 in their defense. Watching on tape, sands a few drives 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.560 that Parsons can squash on his own. They just don't 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.880 adapt like that. But the Ravens do, the Titans do, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.200 the Bills will. Fortunately we saw this on tape and 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.199 can now work to exploit some of that. But you 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.960 have to find a way to fix it because teams 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.280 will keep doing that, and you're playing in that at 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.880 that point, like twelve on eleven or eleven on ten, whatever, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.440 you're down a man basically. But it also takes me back. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.480 This is the point I talked about the titands earlier. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.640 It takes me back to Greg Olsen on the Cowboys 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.160 broadcast on Christmas Eve when he said something really fascinating 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.120 to me that I hadn't heard anybody pick up after 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.720 the fact. He jokingly told coach McDaniel in their production meeting, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.800 I love the offense, coach, but we got to find 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.360 a way to get the tight ends more involved in 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.920 McDaniel jokingly, I think maybe some truth as well. Replied 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.040 back to him, that's year three of the offense, which 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.760 sort of goes back to the point I made on 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.520 the Sunday Recap pod. It's still just year two with 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.640 this group, and the best teams are usually hardened by 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.480 difficult experiences, right, Usually Patrick Mahomes is like the only 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.679 quarterback that just showed up and started winning right away 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.560 and super Bowls right away. Right. I guess Joe Burrow 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:33.880 had some of that, but he had some losses, lost 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.600 AFTCY Championship, lost a super Bowl, you get it. But 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.960 on top of that, we saw this offense evolve in 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.120 a great way this year. It's but as far from 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.640 its final form, so something to chew on because I 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.600 thought the Ravens game was a good example, and to 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.240 that point, Durham actually did start to hit some of 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.600 those team shots. I just I still can't believe the 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.880 one eighty I've done on durham smythe as a player. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.000 But man, think about inserting like a Charles Klay type 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.040 into that role, ideally a George Kittle, Right, But those 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.880 guys don't grow on trees. But I mean, just thinking 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.920 about it out loud, that seems to be one area 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.240 where Miami cannot just improve the depth chart, but holistically 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.280 make the defense defend an entirely different dynamic option. And 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.120 that's where I think that you can go back to 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.720 the records heating talk add add something to your offense 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.160 that you can exploit when the defense takes away our 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.320 best options. If you do that, and it doesn't have 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.880 to be a tight end, I think that's best. But 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.640 it really just about occupying this one area that can 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.640 remove the defense's attention from other portions of the field 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.280 to open up Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddell, on and on 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.840 and on. So more notes here offensively starting off straight 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.680 bully ball. And this is why I thought we had 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.080 ourselves a classic in the making between the two best 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.440 teams in the conference. And I fired off my freezing 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.120 cold take about these being the top two teams in 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.160 the AFC, and it ain't close because at that point 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.320 it was two nineteen to two PHO nine in yardage, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.760 same time on possession, like three or four plays difference. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.240 Miami starts this game walking them off the line, pinning 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.000 them at the point of the of the attack and 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.240 critical gaps out, scheming them with wide open receivers off 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.800 action that set them on one thing and gives them 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.720 another and a quarterback who's seeing it ripping it threading 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.760 it all those factors together. Man, take me back to 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.200 one ten PM when it felt like we're about to 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.040 roll up forty points with the way this offense is cooking. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.960 Let's keep it going here, and they did. The next 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.280 drive starts with the play action dig to tyreek for 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.240 fifteen or so yards. Then the next play you see 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.640 a hesitation at the second level on a toss to 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.000 a chan that helps him earn the edge and go 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.120 for forty five yards. Fantastic opening script and plan that 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.000 had the Ravens totally on their heels. The run game 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.120 was working. They were doing a great job manipulating the 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.720 hook zone coverage with some high low stuff. You hook 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.960 up short of the sticks and that draws the linebacker down. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.240 Sneak the glance in behind that and throw into it, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.480 or if it gets depth, throw the stick. All kinds 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.840 of cool creative designs. But here's my take on how 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.760 things got out of hand in these games, or how 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.320 they do get out of hand in these games, like 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.480 we've seen it against Baltimore and Buffalo this year, the 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.680 two teams who at the time to me were the 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.920 best teams that Miami has played this year. Week four, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.560 Buffalo week seventeen, Baltimore. I think the defense giving up 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.800 huge chunks and several touchdowns to start the game puts 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.680 the offense into a bit of a mode they want 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.680 to try to avoid where they press right, because you 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.920 see it all over the tape. But the good part is, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.000 I don't think that's who they are. I think who 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.960 they are is the team that has been so sharp 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.960 offensively like the other ninety percent of the season. But 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.360 that's what I see when I watch those games. I 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.840 think the offense would have sustained more efficiency and had 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.640 the score stayed tighter. Like the Rowan Smith pick just 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.520 forced a ball against the coverage you cannot force it into. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.920 I will explain that more in the to a portion 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.240 of the podcast, speaking of let's go ahead and get 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.000 to Tua, but first, let's go ahead and take our 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.680 last break before any of that. Though. I know it's 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.680 a big part of the offense and the confusion and 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.160 I discipline that kind of forces the defense to plan 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.120 for a lot of stuff. But man, can we just 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.280 like not do the end to rounds and a little 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.400 toss that's a Tyreek? Do they ever work? They always 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.240 seem to lose yards. They did it again in this game. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.840 Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.880 back on the other side and talk about Tua's game, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.560 the rest of the offense and the defense all that. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.440 Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.960 you by Auto Nation. It's two a time here on 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.479 segment number two. And I always come away from these 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.119 tapes more impressed by Tua. I think it's kind of 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.760 the style of his game, but this one there's a 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.640 lot to unpack in terms of how it devolved into 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.280 a not so vintage to a performance after it looked 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.959 like we were gonna get vintage to a here on 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.520 the road at the Baltimore even so, opening drive, fantastic 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.080 execution up and down. I thought he had Cedric on 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.280 the second down in completion, but quickly atones as he 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.359 widens the middle of the Ravens defense and makes the 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.320 safety weight a beat before ripping a capital a anticipation 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.600 heater to Hedrick Wilson again for six, big time throw, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.680 patient development of progressions on a third and goal from 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.800 the eight. That's a four point play. That's a big 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.520 time throw. That's a franchise quarterback player right there in 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.800 a big time game to go get seven opposed to 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.359 three to open the game. The throw on the drop 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.520 to Tyreek the exact same thing, big, big, big time stuff. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:00.399 Reek motions to the field to join a condensed What 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.800 does that mean? Remember the nasty split in close to 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.240 the formation condensed and type. But now we have three 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.159 receivers in a bunch set trips basically trips nasty or 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.160