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Speaker 1: very difficult one. On today's show, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and bury the football and the tape after this podcast,
Speaker 1: Dolphins lose fifty six nineteen to the Baltimore Ravens. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go top five tapes. There are actually some good
Speaker 1: tapes in this game, believe it or not. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you where things went wonky for Tua and where
Speaker 1: he played really well. I'm gonna tell you about the many, many, many,
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Speaker 1: breakdown Today, We're gonna jump right into the top five
Speaker 1: tapes and the top best tape. The best tape of
Speaker 1: the game for me was to Ron Armstead. I know
Speaker 1: he wasn't happy about his game a while back. I
Speaker 1: think it was I don't eve remember what game that was, Titans,
Speaker 1: maybe Jets, I can't remember. But he's been aces the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. Great rep one on one in space
Speaker 1: on Odafe Oway on the Cedric Wilson touchdown where he
Speaker 1: basically shut down any pass rush attempt that he could
Speaker 1: possibly have there. He got outside of Patrick Queen on
Speaker 1: a climb reach that was really difficult to get to
Speaker 1: on that forty five yard devon a chan run and
Speaker 1: pancaked him. He took the five technique all the way
Speaker 1: from the hash out beyond the on another big run
Speaker 1: from eight to ten yards on this one. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like about this group's this current
Speaker 1: group's ability to get things going in the running game,
Speaker 1: and to me, Testad is at the forefront of that.
Speaker 1: He put his butt off top tape for me on
Speaker 1: this game. He was charged with a sack late in
Speaker 1: the game when the ravens Edge ran upfield by about
Speaker 1: three yards and was off sides with the running start,
Speaker 1: kind of like when you turn off off sides and Madden.
Speaker 1: Not sure how it didn't get called, but it didn't,
Speaker 1: and it was a free run sack that got charged
Speaker 1: to Ron Armstead. My second top tape I mentioned the
Speaker 1: big run devon. Achang gets back into the mix here
Speaker 1: after a long absence from the top five tapes. Man
Speaker 1: his ability to accelerate off cuts, like he can really
Speaker 1: dictate defensive line flow like stretch him to where if
Speaker 1: they are vulnerable, and then exploit that vulnerability like his
Speaker 1: long run was just great patience and then vision to
Speaker 1: anticipate the lane opening up and then zero to sixty
Speaker 1: speed top gear Let's go. I also really like his
Speaker 1: ability to see what there is to get from a
Speaker 1: play like an inside run, and just go get it,
Speaker 1: like bury your nose, put it in there for three
Speaker 1: or four yards and live to fight another day. He's
Speaker 1: never gonna push piles. I mean, well that's not true,
Speaker 1: because he kind of has. But the size difference in
Speaker 1: this game with he and the Ravens into your defensive
Speaker 1: line was a little bit funny to me. I mean
Speaker 1: even despite that, despite that, we did have fourteen for
Speaker 1: one h seven on the ground here from him. Big
Speaker 1: time stuff. And then in the passing game, his route
Speaker 1: on the touchdown catch, he shook Queen inside, but pressure
Speaker 1: forces two to get out and he immediately whips the
Speaker 1: route back outside and shakes him again. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the best players right now in the league. Patrick
Speaker 1: Queen and Rokwan Smith are playing so good and then
Speaker 1: he goes and high points to football and makes the catch.
Speaker 1: Good to see him back for a monster day and
Speaker 1: my second best tape. He had seventy yards after initial contact,
Speaker 1: albeit on just two forced miss tackles. Best. The thing
Speaker 1: about this guy, he can make one guy miss and
Speaker 1: give you a forty five yard run as a result,
Speaker 1: five yards on average after contact, five first down rushes,
Speaker 1: seven point six yards per carry, also had forty two
Speaker 1: yards after the catch on him four catches, four out
Speaker 1: of five targets, six yards per target, one point five
Speaker 1: to eight yards per route. Ram Dan Chan big game
Speaker 1: against the Ravens. My third top tape is a combination
Speaker 1: once again, a combination. It's a combination like we had
Speaker 1: with Christian and Zach last week, and I just spoiled it.
Speaker 1: It's Durham Smith and Julian Hill. They could probably go
Speaker 1: both go in individually here, but I think the pairing
Speaker 1: works better because how they were both so critical on
Speaker 1: some of the same plays and against a physical, big, powerful,
Speaker 1: long group of Ravens edge defenders, these guys moved the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage time and time again out there and
Speaker 1: hit big blocks out in space. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: So Julian Hill, it's unbelievable to me to think this
Speaker 1: guy was playing football at Campbell last year because on
Speaker 1: a Chan's red zone run for a first down in
Speaker 1: the opening series, he comes all the way across the
Speaker 1: formation on that you know, sprint exit, cheat motion, whatever
Speaker 1: the hell we're calling it, and the ball is snapped
Speaker 1: when he is directly behind Rob Jones the right guard
Speaker 1: and Jadevian Clowney in this setup is a nine technique,
Speaker 1: which means he's on the outside shoulder of the tight end,
Speaker 1: so he is three gaps away and Julian's job is
Speaker 1: to go attack his outside shoulder, turn his butt outside
Speaker 1: and pin him inside and we're gonna run off of
Speaker 1: that lane. The critical block of the play designed around
Speaker 1: Julian Hill's ability to reach Jadevian Clowney. Think about that,
Speaker 1: and it's the key block on a fifteen yard run
Speaker 1: against Jadavian Clowney, who legit might be the best run
Speaker 1: defender of the last decade off the edge. He also
Speaker 1: blew up Odafe Oway on a forty five yard devon
Speaker 1: eight chan run. So, Julian Hill, this guy, he's a
Speaker 1: big part of the future to me in this offense.
Speaker 1: I think so is Durham smyth, and he has a
Speaker 1: contract extension to prove that. Speaking of the block on
Speaker 1: the eight chan run Julian and Durham is it's just
Speaker 1: a nice gumbination. I don't think this pass catching element
Speaker 1: of Durham's game is going anywhere either, because he's a
Speaker 1: big stick target. What I mean by that stick is
Speaker 1: essentially your bread and butter for a quarterback when they
Speaker 1: blitz or when they devote attention to the perimeter, to
Speaker 1: a receiver like Tyreek Hill or to a receiver like
Speaker 1: a Jalen Waddell. And what I mean by that why
Speaker 1: he's a good stick target. First, he has this very
Speaker 1: calm sense about him when the ball is clearly designed
Speaker 1: to come to him on a certain play where he
Speaker 1: gets up the stem, but like doesn't attract attention by
Speaker 1: how he gets off. It's always the same get off
Speaker 1: as a blocking rep that he might have, and that
Speaker 1: allows him to manipulate those zone pockets. He can kind
Speaker 1: of throttle down, he can speed up, he can determine
Speaker 1: where he wants to get his head back to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then Tua can just throw the thing at him,
Speaker 1: which must be kind of a nice change of pace
Speaker 1: for him to have a big frame we can just
Speaker 1: throw at opposed to having to anticipate and throw the
Speaker 1: ball to spots like we have to do to this
Speaker 1: receiving core. And I'm not saying it's a knock on
Speaker 1: those guys. It's just probably nice to be able to
Speaker 1: feel almost like a three to zero fast ball, right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and just we're taking right here. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and paint this thing over the outside black
Speaker 1: and get it back into the count. It's a change
Speaker 1: up from our timing offense. But I think his ability
Speaker 1: to both hit key blocks outside and then this added element,
Speaker 1: I think it gives you another answer to what defenses
Speaker 1: takeaway and I think it could be big against the
Speaker 1: Bill's smaller defense. We'll explain that on Wednesday, a different
Speaker 1: podcast for a different day. And man, if you can
Speaker 1: just add to this room a seam busting tight end
Speaker 1: that's not Mike Gesicki, and it's not a knock on
Speaker 1: Derma Smythe because I just I'm looking for a little
Speaker 1: more explosiveness in that role, but more like Laporta from
Speaker 1: the Lions. Then this tight end room can go from
Speaker 1: pretty good to oh oh wow, that's the best tight
Speaker 1: end room in the league for what they're asked to do.
Speaker 1: And I want to come back to that point. I
Speaker 1: actually got my notes mixed up here a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I had a point earlier that was supposed to
Speaker 1: play off of this, but we'll just come back to that.
Speaker 1: But put a pin in that and This is a
Speaker 1: Tron Armstead and tight ends and Austin Jackson stat for
Speaker 1: that matter, but mostly for Smyth and Hill. Here we
Speaker 1: ran the ball for one hundred and forty yards and
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty four yards
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty of those came off tackle, So
Speaker 1: pretty good job off the edges for the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: this game. My fourth best is the only defender in
Speaker 1: the lot, and it's Zach Sealer. I love watching this
Speaker 1: guy play man. His sack is a microcosm of his
Speaker 1: will and determination. They're behind the sticks, Baltimore are is.
Speaker 1: We bring four against their five, and Christian draws the double.
Speaker 1: So that means you have Chubb and gink manned up
Speaker 1: as well as Zach Sealer, who you picking to win.
Speaker 1: You're one on one. There is it? The big plotting
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Probably not right, but when you have Zack
Speaker 1: Seeler it can be. And he just works and works
Speaker 1: and works and takes the left guard right into Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's lap. But the job at that point is only
Speaker 1: like twenty percent done against that quarterback. So he works
Speaker 1: some more, sheds the block and finishes doing large part
Speaker 1: to the help that Gink and Chubb gave him by
Speaker 1: really honoring their rush lanes and not letting Lamar get out.
Speaker 1: He tried to step up, but Zach beat his block
Speaker 1: right at that moment and gets the sack. I thought
Speaker 1: that play was the most connected. The secondary was the
Speaker 1: entire day looked like the defense on that rep that
Speaker 1: we've seen for the last two months, and outside that
Speaker 1: first series in the first half, which you could have
Speaker 1: gotten off the field by better effort on the third
Speaker 1: and sixteen screen more on that in moment. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of good plays on defense in that first
Speaker 1: portion of the game. It's why it was a close.
Speaker 1: It's why you had a ten to seven lead and
Speaker 1: the ball driving for the Miami Dolphins offense, like it
Speaker 1: was a possibility you could have made it a two
Speaker 1: score game and gotten this defense back in position where
Speaker 1: maybe the the flow of the games different. But it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I digress, just there was a few plays and Zack
Speaker 1: Seler I thought was a big part of those plays
Speaker 1: early on in this game. My fifth top tape goes
Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson in this No knock on Cedric, but
Speaker 1: it tells you how bad of a game. This was
Speaker 1: right because one, he had to step up in a
Speaker 1: role that he's not usually playing, and that's not how
Speaker 1: this offense was designed. But I think some of these
Speaker 1: routes that he runs are pretty crisp and pretty nice
Speaker 1: and tells you why the Dolphins kind of made him
Speaker 1: a priority ahead of the Tyreek Hill trade. And his
Speaker 1: ability to make catches in traffic is a skill that
Speaker 1: I think he has above the rest of the receiving
Speaker 1: corps just in terms of his size and stature among
Speaker 1: that group. The touchdown catch exceptional route, the little nod
Speaker 1: outside with eight Chan's underneath route really sells Patrick queen
Speaker 1: to get out of that space. Then there's a half
Speaker 1: field safety who gets on his hills and just gets
Speaker 1: beat to touchdown. Then on the long eight Chan run
Speaker 1: he cracks down and seals the edge. Physical player man.
Speaker 1: I thought this might have been the best run blocking
Speaker 1: game we've got from a receiver all year. And he
Speaker 1: made a couple of nice catches a touchdown and that
Speaker 1: little back shoulder corner throw to get a drive going
Speaker 1: there when we were down by what thirty five thirteen
Speaker 1: was at eighteen points like simpressive stuff there from Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: my honorable mention tapes, Austin Jackson and Rob Jones, and
Speaker 1: that's it. Nobody else on defense, we'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1: Why here in a moment, let's go ahead and do
Speaker 1: some offensive notes first though, as we always do, and generally,
Speaker 1: here's where I think it went wrong. I think the
Speaker 1: injuries to this Dolphins offense have hemmed them into a
Speaker 1: box offensively, and I think that box is still incredibly fruitful,
Speaker 1: a top ten attack that you can win with. But
Speaker 1: we thought this might be a generational record shattering offense. Right, Boy,
Speaker 1: that was a fun time, wasn't it. But watching this
Speaker 1: team on tape, and I do think this is a
Speaker 1: big part of being so depleted, Wattle especially, But man,
Speaker 1: they just never respected the backside seem vertical on some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that we ran. And by that I
Speaker 1: mean a nasty split. Once. A nasty split, Travis, it's
Speaker 1: when you align your receiver or running back in close
Speaker 1: to the tackle, like within an arm's length away from
Speaker 1: the tackle. Nasty equals tight to the formation, and you
Speaker 1: split that on the weak side of the formation, so
Speaker 1: all the flow goes strong side, and the Ravens would
Speaker 1: bring a safety down to hunt crossers or slants from
Speaker 1: that side, but they never thought about getting depth or
Speaker 1: running vertical. If we just hit one vertical seam on
Speaker 1: the backside off of the slide glance action, which is
Speaker 1: our bread and butter right go in motion to it
Speaker 1: has the option throw the ball directly to the sideline
Speaker 1: to durham Smythe or alec Ingold sometimes it's Devon eight Chan,
Speaker 1: or you can throw the glance route to Wattle or
Speaker 1: Tyreek in behind that hook linebacker from that look. If
Speaker 1: we can find a way to get the ball to
Speaker 1: the backside, the vertical nasty split down the hash marks.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the Titans recap we talked about
Speaker 1: them just basically not honoring the out route to the
Speaker 1: backside at all. Just take it away, go fit the
Speaker 1: run from our nickel defense. You have to find ways
Speaker 1: to hit these spaces that they're leaving for you, and
Speaker 1: then you can get more from your bread and butter
Speaker 1: and you can just expand the offense even more. It's
Speaker 1: this was a big, a big reason in this game
Speaker 1: why I thought the Ravens defense clamped down late in
Speaker 1: the game. They adjusted and we did not adjust. To it.
Speaker 1: It's why I was never worried about Dallas, you know,
Speaker 1: in their defense. Watching on tape, sands a few drives
Speaker 1: that Parsons can squash on his own. They just don't
Speaker 1: adapt like that. But the Ravens do, the Titans do,
Speaker 1: the Bills will. Fortunately we saw this on tape and
Speaker 1: can now work to exploit some of that. But you
Speaker 1: have to find a way to fix it because teams
Speaker 1: will keep doing that, and you're playing in that at
Speaker 1: that point, like twelve on eleven or eleven on ten, whatever,
Speaker 1: you're down a man basically. But it also takes me back.
Speaker 1: This is the point I talked about the titands earlier.
Speaker 1: It takes me back to Greg Olsen on the Cowboys
Speaker 1: broadcast on Christmas Eve when he said something really fascinating
Speaker 1: to me that I hadn't heard anybody pick up after
Speaker 1: the fact. He jokingly told coach McDaniel in their production meeting,
Speaker 1: I love the offense, coach, but we got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get the tight ends more involved in
Speaker 1: McDaniel jokingly, I think maybe some truth as well. Replied
Speaker 1: back to him, that's year three of the offense, which
Speaker 1: sort of goes back to the point I made on
Speaker 1: the Sunday Recap pod. It's still just year two with
Speaker 1: this group, and the best teams are usually hardened by
Speaker 1: difficult experiences, right, Usually Patrick Mahomes is like the only
Speaker 1: quarterback that just showed up and started winning right away
Speaker 1: and super Bowls right away. Right. I guess Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: had some of that, but he had some losses, lost
Speaker 1: AFTCY Championship, lost a super Bowl, you get it. But
Speaker 1: on top of that, we saw this offense evolve in
Speaker 1: a great way this year. It's but as far from
Speaker 1: its final form, so something to chew on because I
Speaker 1: thought the Ravens game was a good example, and to
Speaker 1: that point, Durham actually did start to hit some of
Speaker 1: those team shots. I just I still can't believe the
Speaker 1: one eighty I've done on durham smythe as a player.
Speaker 1: But man, think about inserting like a Charles Klay type
Speaker 1: into that role, ideally a George Kittle, Right, But those
Speaker 1: guys don't grow on trees. But I mean, just thinking
Speaker 1: about it out loud, that seems to be one area
Speaker 1: where Miami cannot just improve the depth chart, but holistically
Speaker 1: make the defense defend an entirely different dynamic option. And
Speaker 1: that's where I think that you can go back to
Speaker 1: the records heating talk add add something to your offense
Speaker 1: that you can exploit when the defense takes away our
Speaker 1: best options. If you do that, and it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a tight end, I think that's best. But
Speaker 1: it really just about occupying this one area that can
Speaker 1: remove the defense's attention from other portions of the field
Speaker 1: to open up Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddell, on and on
Speaker 1: and on. So more notes here offensively starting off straight
Speaker 1: bully ball. And this is why I thought we had
Speaker 1: ourselves a classic in the making between the two best
Speaker 1: teams in the conference. And I fired off my freezing
Speaker 1: cold take about these being the top two teams in
Speaker 1: the AFC, and it ain't close because at that point
Speaker 1: it was two nineteen to two PHO nine in yardage,
Speaker 1: same time on possession, like three or four plays difference.
Speaker 1: Miami starts this game walking them off the line, pinning
Speaker 1: them at the point of the of the attack and
Speaker 1: critical gaps out, scheming them with wide open receivers off
Speaker 1: action that set them on one thing and gives them
Speaker 1: another and a quarterback who's seeing it ripping it threading
Speaker 1: it all those factors together. Man, take me back to
Speaker 1: one ten PM when it felt like we're about to
Speaker 1: roll up forty points with the way this offense is cooking.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it going here, and they did. The next
Speaker 1: drive starts with the play action dig to tyreek for
Speaker 1: fifteen or so yards. Then the next play you see
Speaker 1: a hesitation at the second level on a toss to
Speaker 1: a chan that helps him earn the edge and go
Speaker 1: for forty five yards. Fantastic opening script and plan that
Speaker 1: had the Ravens totally on their heels. The run game
Speaker 1: was working. They were doing a great job manipulating the
Speaker 1: hook zone coverage with some high low stuff. You hook
Speaker 1: up short of the sticks and that draws the linebacker down.
Speaker 1: Sneak the glance in behind that and throw into it,
Speaker 1: or if it gets depth, throw the stick. All kinds
Speaker 1: of cool creative designs. But here's my take on how
Speaker 1: things got out of hand in these games, or how
Speaker 1: they do get out of hand in these games, like
Speaker 1: we've seen it against Baltimore and Buffalo this year, the
Speaker 1: two teams who at the time to me were the
Speaker 1: best teams that Miami has played this year. Week four,
Speaker 1: Buffalo week seventeen, Baltimore. I think the defense giving up
Speaker 1: huge chunks and several touchdowns to start the game puts
Speaker 1: the offense into a bit of a mode they want
Speaker 1: to try to avoid where they press right, because you
Speaker 1: see it all over the tape. But the good part is,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's who they are. I think who
Speaker 1: they are is the team that has been so sharp
Speaker 1: offensively like the other ninety percent of the season. But
Speaker 1: that's what I see when I watch those games. I
Speaker 1: think the offense would have sustained more efficiency and had
Speaker 1: the score stayed tighter. Like the Rowan Smith pick just
Speaker 1: forced a ball against the coverage you cannot force it into.
Speaker 1: I will explain that more in the to a portion
Speaker 1: of the podcast, speaking of let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to Tua, but first, let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break before any of that. Though. I know it's
Speaker 1: a big part of the offense and the confusion and
Speaker 1: I discipline that kind of forces the defense to plan
Speaker 1: for a lot of stuff. But man, can we just
Speaker 1: like not do the end to rounds and a little
Speaker 1: toss that's a Tyreek? Do they ever work? They always
Speaker 1: seem to lose yards. They did it again in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and talk about Tua's game,
Speaker 1: the rest of the offense and the defense all that.
Speaker 1: Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. It's two a time here on
Speaker 1: segment number two. And I always come away from these
Speaker 1: tapes more impressed by Tua. I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: the style of his game, but this one there's a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack in terms of how it devolved into
Speaker 1: a not so vintage to a performance after it looked
Speaker 1: like we were gonna get vintage to a here on
Speaker 1: the road at the Baltimore even so, opening drive, fantastic
Speaker 1: execution up and down. I thought he had Cedric on
Speaker 1: the second down in completion, but quickly atones as he
Speaker 1: widens the middle of the Ravens defense and makes the
Speaker 1: safety weight a beat before ripping a capital a anticipation
Speaker 1: heater to Hedrick Wilson again for six, big time throw,
Speaker 1: patient development of progressions on a third and goal from
Speaker 1: the eight. That's a four point play. That's a big
Speaker 1: time throw. That's a franchise quarterback player right there in
Speaker 1: a big time game to go get seven opposed to
Speaker 1: three to open the game. The throw on the drop
Speaker 1: to Tyreek the exact same thing, big, big, big time stuff.
Speaker 1: Reek motions to the field to join a condensed What
Speaker 1: does that mean? Remember the nasty split in close to
Speaker 1: the formation condensed and type. But now we have three
Speaker 1: receivers in a bunch set trips basically trips nasty or
Speaker 1: trips condensed, whatever you want to call it. Cedric basically
Speaker 1: clears out the hook defender by running to the goalpost.
Speaker 1: It's a clear out route, Brotherhood route, Love of the
Speaker 1: Game route. Barrios runs a speed out against inside leverage,
Speaker 1: which widens that man defender as well, and that opens
Speaker 1: up the window inside and Tyreek runs this great route
Speaker 1: that leaves the corner falling off back onto his heels
Speaker 1: and out of the break to a season. He cuts
Speaker 1: that thing loose before Tyreek even throttles down. Exceptional throw
Speaker 1: right on the face mask. And we're talking about a
Speaker 1: six of seven start with eighty four yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Lamar did all game long, right,
Speaker 1: and we'd be going back and forth here, but instead
Speaker 1: it's five for seven for seventy seven yards. And one touchdown, Like,
Speaker 1: still a good start, but it could have been perfect.
Speaker 1: You could have not envisioned a better start than that.
Speaker 1: It goes back to my point about how this team
Speaker 1: has multiple ways to win. A lot of the success
Speaker 1: in within that, and then the scheme of this game
Speaker 1: and the running game was out scheming them and dominating
Speaker 1: at the point of attack and getting good positive runs.
Speaker 1: But when a drive stalls and you're called upon your
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback to go execute third and long because it's
Speaker 1: only passing that situation, and on third and eight in
Speaker 1: mid red zone and third and seven in mid red zone,
Speaker 1: the two toughest plays to execute in the NFL, down
Speaker 1: in condensed areas with long yards to gain. Tua makes
Speaker 1: his two best throws of the quarter. One's a touchdown
Speaker 1: and even easier should have been touchdown. But then what happens.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting it to get bad at this point, but
Speaker 1: it hadn't yet because I thought the ensuing misses were
Speaker 1: explainable up until the pick, which we'll get to as well.
Speaker 1: But there's an off target ball to Cedric Wilson on
Speaker 1: third down. Looks like a difference of where he was
Speaker 1: versus where Tua thought he would be then a screen
Speaker 1: pass a tyreek that comes off of his hand funky
Speaker 1: and flies overhead. But then it's an absolute sniper shot
Speaker 1: to Durham for sixteen yards on a third and seven.
Speaker 1: And this is with six minutes left in the half
Speaker 1: of a fourteen to ten games. So your win probability
Speaker 1: this point is forty nine percent right here. And we're
Speaker 1: ripping these big time throws and having these big third
Speaker 1: and media and third long conversions. It's why I initially
Speaker 1: planned a satirical takeaway in my notes before halftime called
Speaker 1: the two a legacy game because he was making these
Speaker 1: big time throws over and over and over again. The
Speaker 1: best part of that third down shot to Durham is
Speaker 1: Barrios runs a hook right at the sticks and Tua
Speaker 1: no looks this thing downfield. He strides towards Braxton and
Speaker 1: you see Patrick Queen jump out of the window. As
Speaker 1: a result, Man, we got twenty five minutes. I'm frustrated
Speaker 1: because we have twenty five minutes into this game and
Speaker 1: it's two Juggernauts blow for blow going back and forth.
Speaker 1: And then later on the drive fourth and five, you
Speaker 1: need another big play from your quarterback after what I
Speaker 1: thought was really good execution against a simulated overload pressure.
Speaker 1: Look where the Ravens rushed four but got themselves a
Speaker 1: free run because of the pre snapped disguise and Tua
Speaker 1: slides protection. And when you get a free runner, you
Speaker 1: want to be in your face so you can see
Speaker 1: it and make a move. And he gets that, and
Speaker 1: he delivers in the face of that pressure, a good
Speaker 1: back shoulder ball, but chosen just I don't know what
Speaker 1: he does half the time, just never comes back to
Speaker 1: the football. But on the fourth down play you get
Speaker 1: more of a true rush. The Ravens spam the middle
Speaker 1: of the field with three hook defenders, so Tua goes,
Speaker 1: all right, I've got tyreek one v one outside and
Speaker 1: drops an absolute pearl right in the bucket. Again like
Speaker 1: this is an a maybe a minus quarterback performance to
Speaker 1: this point. But that's where things got a little bit sideways.
Speaker 1: The first interception the Raving I did with the shot
Speaker 1: to Durham with the complete opposite here, because you see
Speaker 1: Smith getting depth and width to that side of the field,
Speaker 1: which is already a stop sign to not throw the ball.
Speaker 1: If that linebacker cheats, you cannot throw that pass because
Speaker 1: in this spot, typically that ball gets batted into the
Speaker 1: air and then you hope you survive it. But Queen
Speaker 1: just makes a crazy one handed catch. But Tua even
Speaker 1: pumps at this point, and that turns Smith not just
Speaker 1: into a cheat, but into a full sprint in that direction,
Speaker 1: and it, like I said, could have been a PBu
Speaker 1: but he makes a great one handed catch and we
Speaker 1: pay the ultimate price for really our first really really
Speaker 1: true bad rep of the day. Bad look, but you
Speaker 1: can still survive that if the defense can bow up.
Speaker 1: They can't. But there's a lesson to be learned from
Speaker 1: that first pick one. When the mic aligns the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the center of where you want to throw
Speaker 1: the football, that's usually an indicator that window is going
Speaker 1: to be there. And it's why I think we put
Speaker 1: teams with bad off ball linebacker play in hell, because
Speaker 1: they can't compete with getting over there. But teams that
Speaker 1: have really good ones, like this team. He shows that
Speaker 1: and then he immediately begins to work the side that
Speaker 1: two is working, and he's so quick and instinctive that
Speaker 1: he can get the depth while keeping eyes on the
Speaker 1: rest of the play. So you kind of got out
Speaker 1: quarterbacked here by a really good defensive quarterback, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense. And to the point about those linebackers. On
Speaker 1: the very next drive, we are about to have first
Speaker 1: and ten to the plus forty with thirty three seconds
Speaker 1: left to maybe make it a twenty eight sixteen game.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get back into maybe even score a touchdown
Speaker 1: and it's twenty eight twenty maybe who knows. But Patrick
Speaker 1: Queen right there makes an outstanding breakup on a ball
Speaker 1: that Tua puts right on Jeff Wilson. So it just
Speaker 1: wasn't our day. The second play, like Tua talked about this,
Speaker 1: the pick just forcing it. And this is in the
Speaker 1: second half after a fumble that maybe gives you some
Speaker 1: momentum in a thirty five to thirteen game. But this
Speaker 1: is part of the game situation and the urge to press.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that pressing is the worst thing
Speaker 1: you can do because it plays right into what the
Speaker 1: defense is doing. It's a first and ten twenty one personnel,
Speaker 1: but the Ravens are in too high because it's an
Speaker 1: eighteen point game, right and that score also allows Rokwan
Speaker 1: Smith to get depth at the snap. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: worry about a run if you get six yards compared
Speaker 1: to the four that you would have gotten. That's a
Speaker 1: win for me. When Tua cuts this thing loose, Smith
Speaker 1: is ten yards off the lion of scrimmage. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's honoring the run and is two yards closer
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, this is an eighteen yard completion.
Speaker 1: But he's not. He's a great player and Tua needs
Speaker 1: to recognize that and take what's there. He didn't, He
Speaker 1: forced it and he paid the ultimate price. Once again.
Speaker 1: I'll end with this on Tua my theory as to
Speaker 1: why these games get this way, and he's twenty five,
Speaker 1: which means he'll learn. I think he's come such a
Speaker 1: long way in general game management, and we saw it
Speaker 1: last week in total command on that game winning drive,
Speaker 1: to the point that he has the awareness to address
Speaker 1: Tyreek but while talking to Braxton so as to confuse
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to where the play is going. But damn man,
Speaker 1: every time this defense is getting dog walked, and it
Speaker 1: happens too often. Right Tua tries to stretch his game
Speaker 1: into something that he's not. It reminds me of the
Speaker 1: Mariners star prized player Julio Rodriguez. We had zero bats
Speaker 1: this year, the manners did around Julio, So every time
Speaker 1: he sees a first pitch in a big spot runners
Speaker 1: on base, he was swinging out of his shoes because
Speaker 1: he felt that if he wasn't driving the baseball into
Speaker 1: gaps and over the fence and piling up runs, then
Speaker 1: we as a team wouldn't score. And he was right
Speaker 1: about that. But Tua is such a good quarterback, one
Speaker 1: of the best. Every quarterback has their limitations. For Tua,
Speaker 1: it's the ability to thread tight windows downfield without anticipation,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. I'd rather that be my weakness than
Speaker 1: to not be able to see the field at all,
Speaker 1: like a lot of these quarterbacks can't do a certain
Speaker 1: quarterback in Los Angeles, for instance, But when they can
Speaker 1: cheat on these drops, Tua has to. He must take
Speaker 1: the underneath stuff. I love you, man. You've been my
Speaker 1: favorite quarterback to watch on tape for this franchise ever,
Speaker 1: because I didn't watch the Amrina on tape. But you
Speaker 1: are not punching twenty five yard throws into a defense
Speaker 1: that's playing to take away twenty five yards. Most quarterbacks aren't.
Speaker 1: You're not doing it either, So I think that he
Speaker 1: inherently presses when the defense is getting dog walked, and
Speaker 1: if he just took a little more measured approach, we
Speaker 1: could hang around in these tight games and give ourselves
Speaker 1: a chance to climb back. In really good tape for
Speaker 1: the first twenty eight minutes, excellent even, I would say,
Speaker 1: But then a really bad choice compounded by a worse one,
Speaker 1: and you go from an AA minus down to a
Speaker 1: seed rather quickly. But I will say this, if you
Speaker 1: know ball and you watch this tape, you will not
Speaker 1: come away from this game thinking it's a quarterback problem.
Speaker 1: I get being frustrated he could not get us into
Speaker 1: the third quarter, get us going in that third quarter,
Speaker 1: but like it's a secondary issue. It was a reaction
Speaker 1: to what the bigger issue was, which we'll get to
Speaker 1: here in a minute. The best example of stretching the
Speaker 1: defense on our last touchdown drive. We had this third
Speaker 1: and five and converted a sort of back shoulder throw
Speaker 1: to Cedric who's running like a slot fade sort of,
Speaker 1: but it's more like run to space and two adrills
Speaker 1: this thing to the plus thirty throwing from the far
Speaker 1: hash from his own forty five yard by it, so say,
Speaker 1: twenty five yard rip. This is what I mean by
Speaker 1: expanding with the defense can defend if we can get
Speaker 1: to these more consistently. When they drop four defenders between
Speaker 1: the numbers and span the middle of the football field
Speaker 1: ten plus yards down the field, this is the winning play.
Speaker 1: It's how you get them out of that. It's how
Speaker 1: you gain yards while they're in that, because then we
Speaker 1: come back to Braxon burials on a fourth down speed
Speaker 1: out and convert that. I can't say it for every opponent,
Speaker 1: but when these throws are given, we have to hit them.
Speaker 1: Because Baltimore adjusted that for the first few drives, and
Speaker 1: the adjustment was taking personnel away from those areas of
Speaker 1: the field and moving them inside. I said I was
Speaker 1: going to finish up on two a one more hit
Speaker 1: thing for you. Here the last play for him, the
Speaker 1: shot to Chase Claypool looks like a desperation heave, But
Speaker 1: the Ravens sort of just got lucky in the timing
Speaker 1: because the corner falls off, like almost accidentally at the
Speaker 1: same time that Tua throws this thing and throw it
Speaker 1: right on top of that coverage. With the ball, it
Speaker 1: couldn't have been more perfect. It was a perfect ball,
Speaker 1: and we drop it gross. So two drop touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the day, one for three on twenty plus yard throws
Speaker 1: for twenty five yards, that's not very common for us.
Speaker 1: On ten plus yard throws in the intermediate six for
Speaker 1: fifteen one hundred and ten yards, but two picks. In fact,
Speaker 1: he had just one pick and the ten to nineteen
Speaker 1: yard range coming into the game tripled out him out
Speaker 1: with two in this game, just out of character, he
Speaker 1: was blitz three times, one for three for sixteen yards.
Speaker 1: He was pressured on ten dropbacks. That's four sacks, one
Speaker 1: for six passing for seven yards. To me, that's the
Speaker 1: next progression into his game, kind of learn how to
Speaker 1: protect ourselves, but also not giving up on play so early. Right,
Speaker 1: It's a conundrum. It's tough, but also getting the ball
Speaker 1: out quicker to checkdowns and on the perimeter tough result.
Speaker 1: That's the next progression for two. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our last break right there, come back and do
Speaker 1: all the eligibles in the defense and the snap counts.
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Autoation. This should be a little bit briefer of
Speaker 1: a third segment than usual because we used four of
Speaker 1: the eligibles in the top five as well as one defender,
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna talk too much about the defense
Speaker 1: because we've already talked about how terrible it was. So
Speaker 1: Alec ingold spoiler. We're doing a breakdown on Alec for
Speaker 1: the YouTube series this week. On the fourth play of
Speaker 1: the game, you get a look into how unique this
Speaker 1: player is from in terms of the options that he
Speaker 1: gives an offense. He gets naked in the flat purely
Speaker 1: because of the unique design built around his skill set
Speaker 1: little face fake toss action left. But Alec is the
Speaker 1: one who sells this from an upback position in the
Speaker 1: I formation because he takes three counter steps left and
Speaker 1: you watch the Ravens defense just completely fold and wash
Speaker 1: over that side and then pivots back and counters back
Speaker 1: into the flat and two of finds him for eighteen
Speaker 1: yards in the opening drive, one of the most unique
Speaker 1: weapons in the game. And we get the matchup of
Speaker 1: he and Tarn Johnson next week. Always a pivotal matchup
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins and Bill's face off for Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: on that ingle catch, Let's hustle to that block. Let's
Speaker 1: run to the block. Okay, don't jog after it, run
Speaker 1: to the block. Also the drop. Yikes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I get it, it happens, but yikes. Then the very next play,
Speaker 1: the third drive, he runs the wrong right out him
Speaker 1: in two on different pages. I just don't get the
Speaker 1: lack of lock in in these games, he said to himself,
Speaker 1: the worst game ever played. Inclined to agree, but play
Speaker 1: better next week, please. He did have a great response
Speaker 1: after that, dropping the catching the fourth and five ball
Speaker 1: up the sideline, beautiful release, good late hands, good over
Speaker 1: the shoulder, tracking the attention, he commands. Man, it's palpable.
Speaker 1: Like in the red zone. It's always two guys bracketing
Speaker 1: either side at all times. With the Ravens two point
Speaker 1: zero five yards per route, ran six point three yards
Speaker 1: per target twelve yards after the catch. Okay, it might
Speaker 1: be time to stop using these stats because they said
Speaker 1: Tyreek did not have a drop in the game. Zero
Speaker 1: drops for tygreck kill. What the we're talking about? Chosen,
Speaker 1: I'm all good there. Tua took a sack on a
Speaker 1: two man route combo where they had three bodies on
Speaker 1: Tyreek and just one for Chosen, and it took eight
Speaker 1: point nine seconds for Chosen to get off the reroute
Speaker 1: that's not an accurate time, but it took forever two
Speaker 1: a loads up to throw there. But when he realized
Speaker 1: his chosen is about twenty yards away from where he
Speaker 1: needs to be, just tucks it and takes the sack.
Speaker 1: I'm good there on the line. The protection was actually
Speaker 1: really good in this game, even in the way they
Speaker 1: distributed games inside, which is been a steady improvement since
Speaker 1: the Connor Williams injury happened. Some of those big two
Speaker 1: of throws came from totally clean pockets. But I thought
Speaker 1: there was a disconnect in some blocking assignments in the
Speaker 1: running game. And look, the Ravens interior is so damn good.
Speaker 1: Like Michael Pierce is a breed. They just don't make
Speaker 1: him like that anymore. Three sixty it moves like that, okay.
Speaker 1: He also defeated a lot of blocks, and it looked
Speaker 1: like the interior three We're having conversations after some of
Speaker 1: those blocks, like Liam and Lester would argue a lot
Speaker 1: of plays about detaching and climbing and who you want
Speaker 1: to attach you to the second level. Just that those
Speaker 1: two players were rough in this game. The rest I
Speaker 1: thought was pretty good, but the absence of Waddle and
Speaker 1: Raheem I think impacted more than anything else. Your second
Speaker 1: best separator and truthfully a top ten separate in the NFL,
Speaker 1: plus a top pass protector slash receiver from the backfield.
Speaker 1: Tough to overcome that. For sixty minutes, Miami could not
Speaker 1: do it. I thought Austin Jackson was great again. Good
Speaker 1: blocks in space, a bit of a nastiness that he
Speaker 1: brings to the running game was back. Plus several Ravens
Speaker 1: rushers just putting him on the turf with a good
Speaker 1: balance and power, and then his set to finish with
Speaker 1: a punch and carry them around the arc. Good game
Speaker 1: for Austin Jackson. I mentioned Liam and Lester. There's a
Speaker 1: technique issue with Liam where he leans into some of
Speaker 1: these blocks and you just can't do that against NFL defenders,
Speaker 1: much less the biggest interior defensive line in the league.
Speaker 1: Like get another step under you and then fire into
Speaker 1: that rep. Because he got controlled all day and got
Speaker 1: no knockback, that was enough to get him beat over
Speaker 1: and over again by Michael Pierce. I'm not really interested
Speaker 1: in telling you about left guard spot because it's been
Speaker 1: a weak point on the line for over a month
Speaker 1: and it's costing several yards and drives at this point, though,
Speaker 1: I will hear because on the last drip of the
Speaker 1: first half, dude one on one head up against Michael Pierce.
Speaker 1: That's not a guy that you lose pass rush to
Speaker 1: when you're even with him, and he does quickly. I
Speaker 1: do like Rob Jones for what he is, a good,
Speaker 1: powerful people mover, but there's things in this offense he
Speaker 1: can't get to, Like the first sack of Tua. He's
Speaker 1: the poler to go dig out the front side edge
Speaker 1: and it's just a laborious process one that he ultimately
Speaker 1: cannot get done. It makes a second and ten for
Speaker 1: a throwaway, a second and fifteen with a sack. But
Speaker 1: I did think Rob Jones played a really good game
Speaker 1: on balance. But getting Rob Hunt back will be huge
Speaker 1: because he can make a big difference. There is long
Speaker 1: as as well as rareheem moster in pass protection Testad
Speaker 1: one pressure, the sack that shouldn't have been a sack,
Speaker 1: Cotton two pressures a sack, Iikenburg one pressure in a sack,
Speaker 1: Jones two pressures. Austin had four pressures, though I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about that. They did give him their highest pass
Speaker 1: blocking grade. But whatever behind Teasa, I should say, all right, defensively,
Speaker 1: the Ravens did a really good job of getting their
Speaker 1: shot plays against our base front right. The Wilkins, Davis,
Speaker 1: Sealer Chubb front still a good rushing group. You usually
Speaker 1: don't want number ninety eight rush in the passer, but
Speaker 1: that's a rundown front. And the Ravens dial up these
Speaker 1: two man route combos with two leaks where they would
Speaker 1: help in protection then get out into the flat, and
Speaker 1: that with Lamar's ability to scramble, they would get doubles
Speaker 1: on Chubb and Wilkins and have a helper on Sealer.
Speaker 1: It would give Lamar these five second pockets. And you
Speaker 1: wind up with Flowers running a free lance corner route
Speaker 1: against a Sean Elliott whose role is to play the
Speaker 1: deep half, and you wind up putting him in a
Speaker 1: position where he's basically man covering Za Flowers. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna win that. That's not his skill set. But Lamar's
Speaker 1: ability to just constantly change the launch point I think
Speaker 1: is where he got us because the rush you figure
Speaker 1: eventually will get home. But how well versed that line
Speaker 1: has in terms of playing with Lamar for the last
Speaker 1: several years and knowing how he moves about, how will
Speaker 1: they know his mobility. It just makes plays like this
Speaker 1: so difficult to defend. So like we were rolling early on,
Speaker 1: but the Ravens also had a very good plan and
Speaker 1: throughout the entire game. Honestly, the lack of adjusting to
Speaker 1: things is just like everyone is mad about all the
Speaker 1: offense today, but go watch those two tape men. It
Speaker 1: ain't freaking close. Those were JV mistakes on the defense,
Speaker 1: getting caught on a rub going underneath it five plays
Speaker 1: after they just did that on the previous four plays earlier,
Speaker 1: or getting busted on the exact same cheat motion that
Speaker 1: we run our offense runs. How on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: I thought Christian Wilkins continues to find ways to make
Speaker 1: a splash on the stat sheet every single week. Double
Speaker 1: and run away from him. Okay, he'll ride the wave
Speaker 1: and go over the top and make a play four
Speaker 1: yards down the field. Double him in pass pro Fine,
Speaker 1: doesn't go on the stat sheet, but he'll he'll work
Speaker 1: like hell to make sure you both those blockers and
Speaker 1: sustain it for a chance for somebody else to win
Speaker 1: their one on one. He had two stops and no
Speaker 1: pressures in the game. They took care of him pretty good.
Speaker 1: Double them up, Bradley Chubb. I'm devastated for this guy. Man,
Speaker 1: He's such a good dude. He made a tackle on
Speaker 1: Lamar on a third down scramble where we were up
Speaker 1: ten to seven, where he came from several yards behind
Speaker 1: the play and caught it and because of guys making
Speaker 1: Lamar change directions, Cobb to it, but effort and straight
Speaker 1: on the retrace. It's why you love him out There
Speaker 1: were some one on one pass rush chances where he
Speaker 1: kind of got caught in quicksand not his best game
Speaker 1: in that department. He did four stops and two pressures
Speaker 1: in the game though, so on balance, you know, wasn't
Speaker 1: our biggest problem. Andrew Van Ginkle just such an appreciation
Speaker 1: for the way that he has made additions to his
Speaker 1: game over the years. It showed up in this game
Speaker 1: a big, physical team that tried to wham, trap and
Speaker 1: crack him, and he just didn't lose his feet and
Speaker 1: kept coming back for more. I really thought the front
Speaker 1: was fine in this game, not great, but fine. The
Speaker 1: mistakes in the back end I thought just really flipped
Speaker 1: this game on its head. But I will say, I
Speaker 1: think they were so hyper aware of Lamar's running threat
Speaker 1: that we didn't have much of a pass rush plan
Speaker 1: and it hurt us a lot. Chub to Wilkins, to Melvin,
Speaker 1: anybody besides Zach and Gink really kind of didn't have
Speaker 1: a plan how to counter those second rush moves. Gink
Speaker 1: had three stops and one pressure in the game. Raekwon
Speaker 1: Davis was a rough one. Melvin Ingram that was a
Speaker 1: rough one. We'll just leave it at that second level.
Speaker 1: Off ball linebackers. Duke has been so good, but this
Speaker 1: was a tough game for him. It's a tough ask
Speaker 1: for a linebacker on those running back wheels and against
Speaker 1: this offense. I get the need to be able to
Speaker 1: crash the line of scrimmage in a moment's notice because
Speaker 1: of the running game and the quarterback. But going underneath
Speaker 1: the rub wheel is a zero percent chance you'll run
Speaker 1: vertically with that running back. You're never gonna do it,
Speaker 1: never going to run with Justice Hill taking that angle.
Speaker 1: And then the very next series he has awesome fuel,
Speaker 1: scrapes and explodes down to the line scrimmage and finishes
Speaker 1: on an outside run from Justice Hill. So there are
Speaker 1: good plays there, but man, they went after him and
Speaker 1: coverage in a very very bad way. David Long on
Speaker 1: the Hill screen. This has surprised me because this is
Speaker 1: not who I've seen on tape all year long, but
Speaker 1: on the on the Justice Hill screen. I need some
Speaker 1: damn charged up effort that you showed all night against
Speaker 1: the Titans back on Monday Night football, because when Hill
Speaker 1: cut up, he's still six yards shy and Deshaun Elliott's
Speaker 1: behind Long and he's the one that gets there. I
Speaker 1: cannot fathom not having urgency in that moment. Generally speaking,
Speaker 1: I feel like they just got us mixed up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field passing game, we'd pass off
Speaker 1: and leave somebody alone. We'd get too much depth. Like
Speaker 1: it was just always something against a quarterback that I
Speaker 1: think you're so aware of the run that maybe you
Speaker 1: don't honor some of the passing stuff like you normally do.
Speaker 1: But the way Lamar has developed this year and taken
Speaker 1: a big step and killing teams from the pocket like
Speaker 1: he did in this game, a lot of man beaters.
Speaker 1: It got the best of us. So Long had three stops,
Speaker 1: Duke had one. Long was in coverage eighteen snaps for
Speaker 1: fourteen yards one for two. Passing duke coverage for twenty
Speaker 1: six snaps sixty two yards four for four in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Not a good day. Secondary was the worst part of
Speaker 1: the tape by far. I don't think a lot has
Speaker 1: to be said here. The story was similar all day long. Confusion,
Speaker 1: or at least the body language would indicate confusion. Rashan
Speaker 1: Bateman catches a slant on the creative way to get
Speaker 1: to slant flat one that we are all too familiar with.
Speaker 1: Exit motion. You see Javon call for something and you
Speaker 1: have to assume a switch inside banjo. You take first in,
Speaker 1: I'll take first out. But then he runs to the
Speaker 1: flat and Ramsey's already playing the flat because Bateman catches
Speaker 1: it in a patch of grass and runs for more
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. We just chased ghost all day long.
Speaker 1: The long touchdown, we both jumped the same route, Eli Apple,
Speaker 1: were you paying attention in meetings this week? Leave one open?
Speaker 1: You lose one of your best players in the four
Speaker 1: snap of the game. Javon is back in the lineup
Speaker 1: for the first time in over a month, so maybe
Speaker 1: there was an adjustment period there. But it was awful
Speaker 1: and it has to be a lot better this week.
Speaker 1: Holland twenty six covered snaps forty eight yards on three
Speaker 1: for three passing in two touchdowns. Elliott twenty six for
Speaker 1: thirty one, Apple twenty two for one oh four in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Yikes, Ramsey twenty six to twenty five, He's great.
Speaker 1: Cater twenty one for thirty one in a touchdown. I
Speaker 1: thought Javon had maybe his worst game as a pro.
Speaker 1: To mention the banjo call. Like on that play, javan
Speaker 1: is equipped to squat on the hook and Ramsey's equipped
Speaker 1: to run the vertical on the sideline, and they did
Speaker 1: the opposite. And Ramsey comes off that play losing his
Speaker 1: damn mind. Cater coo, who has just not been a
Speaker 1: good year. He got caught in bad spots all game long.
Speaker 1: We just looked like crap man X gets roast on
Speaker 1: the first play of the game, no safety help and
Speaker 1: you buy it on a slant on the first play
Speaker 1: of the game and gets run by then on the screen,
Speaker 1: both Cater and Javon take awful angles in the football
Speaker 1: and open up that backside windback run from Hill. Let's
Speaker 1: get out of here. Forget the snapcounts. I'm gonna go home.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go watch the college playoffs. This was a
Speaker 1: terrible tape defensively. They have to get it fixed next
Speaker 1: week and you can still win the division championship. Let's
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