WEBVTT - Deep Dive on Miami's Takeaways, Vertical Passing Game and How it Started vs. How it's Going 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:17.000 Down, Miami, n What is up, Dolphans And welcome to 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.560 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Official 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:26.680 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.680 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.120 am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.720 Dolphins football. And on today's show, we have Coordinator Media 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.600 and the story of the week through their eyes and 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.239 through their words. We're gonna discuss the vertical game with 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.400 George Godzi, the takeaway oriented mindset with Josh Boyer, and 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.919 the expectation of the teams from Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.199 Plus the drive of the week and a look at 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.800 how it started versus how it's going with the guys 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.040 who arrived here in twenty nineteen and been here through 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.040 all thirty three games of the Brian Flora's era and 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.880 talk about their progress and contributions to the team. Will 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.800 get us some additional data and stats from this week's 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.679 game plenty to come here from the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.720 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:19.839 Time Podcast. Far more notes and numbers that I found 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.800 interesting from this past week that I want to go 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.840 ahead and talk about here on the podcast. This is 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.200 the third time that somebody beat the Patriots under Bill 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.399 Belichick in a season opening game since the Chiefs did 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.760 it in seventeen we did it ineen, So just the 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.560 third time over those last what is that fifteen sixteen years? 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.600 Impressive feet Also impressive is Miami's new road streak going 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.360 on here. The Dolphins have won three of their last 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.240 four road games going back to last season, and this 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.240 was the first back to back victories over the Patriots 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.760 going back to Week fifteen last year in Week one 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.200 this year since the nine and two thousand seasons, first 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.840 time beating New England and back to at games in 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.520 two decades, and the takeaway streak is now up to 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.800 twenty three games for your Miami Dolphins, the longest active 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.239 streak in the NFL, and the last time a team 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.280 had a streak it was that long was thirty six 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:16.800 games from the Patriots. In impressive streak there from Miami 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.200 getting the football back on their side. Also, three of 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.040 two a ton of VALA's four rushing touchdowns in his 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.280 career in ten games have come against the Patriots. And 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.760 the thought on this was tough man coverage from the 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.920 Patriots defense, they will lock you up on the back 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.280 end and that's when it's the best time to run. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:39.320 If you guys watched the fantastic, highly highly recommended Peyton 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.840 and Eli broadcast from the Monday night football game with 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.240 the Ravens and the Raiders this past Monday, and what 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.079 a game. That was a crazy, crazy finish. But those 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.280 guys talked a lot about Weink Martindale's aggressiveness playing that 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.400 cover zero and how they want to play more man coverage, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.359 and Peyton kept saying like they got to get back 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.400 to man because it's so much better than when they 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.880 run zone. And they talked about this with the other 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.720 side of the formation and the Raiders, and if you 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.600 play man coverage, you really free up Lamar Jackson to 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.040 beat you because with guys in man coverage, your back 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.720 is turned to the quarterback and that creates spaces and 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.840 gaps for him to run through once he breaks the 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.040 initial pressure of the defensive line. So for the Dolphins 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.640 to adjust to what the Patriots do in terms of 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.920 their defensive plan and coverage, thought it was very, very 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.880 impressive for two of to get three of his four 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.200 rushing touchdowns in his career and just ten games so 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.240 far against a man heavy type of defense and the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.160 Patriots who last season in that Week fifteen game, nineteen 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.040 of the twenty nine dropbacks this, according to Sports Info 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.320 solutions came out of man coverage looks. And then this 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.280 season a little bit more of the same twenty nine 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.720 dropbacks once again, and sixteen of those were in man coverage. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.520 So a good job of finding vulnerabilities and creating in 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.520 that way. And real quick back to the Peyton Eli broadcast. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.480 I remember a couple of years ago, I was watching 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.240 a Marriner's game, you know, big Seattle Marriers fan for 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.280 baseball fans out there, and they had a special broadcast 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.200 where it was players only. They didn't have a play 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.680 by play guy which I could use that I would 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.040 like to have that. But I was thinking to myself, man, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.240 maybe this is the future of broadcasting for for sports, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.240 sporting events, for games of any type baseball, football, basketball, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.200 whatever the case might be, where it's almost like a 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.440 podcast setting. And I thought to myself back then, that's 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.960 kind of a cool idea, especially in a baseball game 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.480 where there's so much downtime and not a whole lot 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.280 to really break down until something actually happens in the 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.520 game of baseball. And here I turned on Peyton and 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.039 Eli and that's basically what it was, man Like. I 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.440 think that might be the future of broadcasting right there, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.640 a podcast type setting in a live sporting event. It 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.320 was so very good, and I hope they do it 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.359 every single week, and I hope they have it for 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.960 Week sixteen when the Dolphins take on the Saints. No 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.000 weeks seventeen when the Dolphins take on the Saints later 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.000 on this season. Back to some of the numbers here, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.440 Jalen Waddles sixty one receiving yards with the third most 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.680 by a Dolphins player in his rookie debut, and then 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.000 also Davante Parker went over three hundred catches in this game. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.839 His three hundred and two receptions are ninth most in 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.599 team history and his four thousand, two hundred forty three 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.239 receiving yards are seventh most in team history. How about 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.760 Miami's number record in the last x number of games. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.760 Over the last thirteen games, Miami are ten and three. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.200 Over the last nineteen games, Dolphins are thirteen and six 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.080 and over the last twenty six games. Now Miami is 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.000 sixteen and ten, so some fun data points there. Let's 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.000 go ahead and pivot now and here from the Miami 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.799 coaches in this segment as we get into our first 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.040 of a couple of deep dives here into a couple 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.679 of topics. But first the takeaways, and this bears repeating 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.600 because Miami again extended its league leading streak to twenty 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.120 three straight games with a takeaway on defense. And what 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.720 might be most impressive about this is that nobody has 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.520 a lower fumble rate over the last decade than the 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.960 New England Patriots, and it's not even close. For a 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 half decade run there, the Patriots where the only team 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.760 with a fumble per play rate of greater than one 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.600 hundred plays, so every one hundred and five plays they 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.880 would have a fumble to be exact. Then over the 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.960 next five years it was actually much of the same. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.120 They had one year where it peaked up like twenty 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.560 six fumbles, but over the last five seasons just that 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.599 one year with a considerable fumble number nineteen, last year, thirteen, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:25.159 in nineteen just eleven, they had twenty six and seventeen 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.839 and then fourteen back in twenty sixteen. So this team 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.000 does not put the ball on the turft very frequently, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.520 but the Dolphins got it out four times and they 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.360 forced three of them. But the Mac Jones backwards passed 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.400 is a fourth caused by well pressure from a blitzer 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.000 that Jones just could not quite get away from in time. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.760 Then he threw the ball backwards and the dolphins propensity 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.200 to create takeaway opportunities is neither a coincidence nor a fluke. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.520 It's the result of meticulous training on that very critical 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.280 element of the game. You practice third downs, red zone takeaways. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.800 These biggest, the players that have the biggest e p 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.160 A swings, the biggest simate a probability of of of 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.440 winning the game. That's what you got to focus on 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.400 the most. I mean, every detail matters with these players 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.440 ultimately decide the game. And you know, as Josh Bowyer says, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.800 and to further that point, it's not a position specific thing. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.640 It's one group of coaches' or it's not. Rather one 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.360 group of coaches working with a group of players. It's 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.440 all about that collaboration. Baby, Let's go ahead and go 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.280 to Josh Bowyer. Weren't good to see you. I wanted 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.120 to ask me about the fumble production you guys got 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.360 in the game, and particularly the defensive backs. You know, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.160 three of the four force fumbles came from defensive backs. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.120 I was just wondering if there's a coaching point or 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.680 something you can tell us about how Coach Alexander and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.880 Coach Brooks can I get those guys coached up to 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.160 get so many balls on the turf? Well, I would 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.280 I would say it's one of those things that we 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.000 work with all of our guys as a group. We 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.559 start practice every day with tackling turnover circuit. Um. So, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.720 and uh, the unique thing about that is we have 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.400 all of our coaches coach all of our players. So 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.680 as we go through the circuit, which I'm sure you 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.880 guys have seen out of practice. Um, you know, it 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.440 could be a number of guys that are that are 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.559 coaching different techniques. Um. Obviously, it's something that we believe 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.200 in very strongly. Our players believe in. They work at it, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.080 uh tremendously hard and uh, you know, we were able 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:24.840 to see some production from that on Sunday Tackling Turnover 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.200 circuit and we do see it every day of practice. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.920 I've covered it in training camp and we kind of 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.840 give you guys the full scope of those practices. But 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.120 it doesn't mean because we don't talk about it that 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.400 it's stopped or anything. They definitely go through it every 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.680 single day, like Coach mentioned there, and you're seeing the 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.280 fruits of that labor on this takeaway streak. And something 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.480 else we talk about all the time is the Dolphins 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.080 emphasizing the takeaways. They play complimentary football and we've covered 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.200 this on the podcast every week last year. The play 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.800 before the play that contributes to the overall success of 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.240 the team, and in this case, the play before the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.600 play in the case of the fumbles to a finding 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.880 DeVante Parker with a nice job of attacking the off 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.240 coverage of Jalen Mills when the Dolphins got the football 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.000 after the exaviing Howard forced and recovered fumble when Mills 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.400 on Davante Parker, they did a good job of attacking 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.480 that off coverage of Jalen Mills. And on the tape 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.520 you see Mills open up too early and what that 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.600 means not too early, but he opens up early, and 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.840 what that means is you're gonna see his basically his 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.079 butt go to the sideline to open the hips to 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.000 the inside of the formation and that creates inside access 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.120 for Devanta Parker, a great time to throw an inbreaking route. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.160 He did it, and it was right on the mark 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.920 as Davante ran through the catch and put the Dolphins 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.520 and literally the best position they could have been in 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.360 that spot, like a ninety whatever you are touchdown gives 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.720 the ball back to the Patriots, down by only eight 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.600 if you kick the p a T. So getting themselves 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.480 in a position where they can run the clock and 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.720 take the air out of the football and prevent the 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.320 Patriots from touching it again, that's very much ideal. So 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.000 you force that time out and you're in second down 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.400 and one where a first down is greater than like 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.199 to happen within those next two downs to gain one 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.480 yard on two downs. But that was the play after 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.559 the play. The play before the play, Well, it probably 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.959 seems innocuous because it was actually a first down completion 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.800 to John Yu Smith, but Jerome Baker got him to 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.320 the ground quickly, and you just never know what could 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.240 have happened if he didn't get that tackle. And maybe 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.600 Smith gains three or four extra yards on that play 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.440 by slipping the tackle. Maybe the run goes the opposite direction, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.960 Maybe it's a past play, maybe something changes to where 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.480 Xaving Howard can't get his hands on the football and 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.840 force the fumble and get the ball back to the Dolphins. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:43.000 So every single thing that happens really correlates to what 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.280 happens later on in the game. I thought we saw 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.600 that once again here with your Miami Dolphins. And how 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:53.400 about the flip and probability or win probability from those 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.160 couple of plays. Prior to the fumble, the Patriots had 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.720 a seventy point seven percent chance or probability i should say, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.600 of winning the football game, and the fumble obviously changes 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.680 that dramatically. Now after to get the fumble back, Miami's 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.440 advantage spikes up to sixty four point four percent chance 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.520 of victory, a very nice thirty five point three percent 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.680 swing their significant But you might see that sixty four 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.160 point four percent figure and say, how the heck is 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.440 it not more than that one first down? Two first downs? 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.560 This game is over? Well, because four minute offense is 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.360 one of the toughest things to execute on a football field, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.000 and especially in the National Football League, and especially when 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.800 the opposition has all three of their time outs, as 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.520 New England did, and so after the holding call on 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.520 two was nine yard run, which I thought was a 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.520 brilliant design and call. Right there, the win probability took 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.160 a nearly five percent hit because you go from first 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.760 and ten to first and fourteen, which means you didn't 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.040 have to average again no mathematician, but five yards per 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.520 rush to move the chains in the next three carries. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.960 So it's damn near a coin flip at this point 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.720 of the game that Miami's win according to win probability. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.240 If Miami can't get off their own goal line and 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.080 have to punt from that spot, the Patriots are now 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.960 just a couple of first downs away from having a 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.160 shot at a game winning field goal. So the past 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.559 to Parker to set up that two yard first down 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.120 plunge by Malcolm Brown, and you love his effort to 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.000 close out the game, by the way, you talk about 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.400 all fifty three guys in the roster contributing, what a 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.120 great example this is. And after his first down run, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.920 the win probability spikes again, going from fifty nine eight 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.920 percent up to seventy four percent from before the past 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.520 to Parker. And so while the passing game with Tow 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.240 and Parker kind of stoked the flame. The offensive line 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.760 and backs had the you know, proverbial lighter fluid nearby 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.439 to keep that thing rolling, and the Patriots took a 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.760 time out with toe takes him down to two time 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.800 outs in the game plus the two minute warning, so 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.320 they still have a chance to get the ball back 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.319 with plenty of time. So you need another first down 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.520 to put the game on ice, and it has to 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.120 be a run, right There's no way you can throw 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.360 the ball right here. I mean you could, but the 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.040 run makes way more sense. And with that knowledge, Malcolm 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.960 Brown still finds five yards a big, big, important run there, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.480 and boy, he got some great push play side from 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.000 Miami's front offensive lineman there. Liam Eichenberg has a tough 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.240 reach block on the backside, so he does enough to 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.960 cut off Lawrence Guy to create a gap, and a 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.840 nice block from Solomon Kindley helps spring a gap there. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.360 You've got good push from Michael Dieter and Robert Hunt 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.760 who takes his man over a gap, and Jesse Davis 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.360 does the same thing to help give Malcolm that crease 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.800 for five yards. So Patriots time out. Then it's Malcolm 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.080 Brown's effort. On the next play, he stood up on 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.760 the second and five play, after about one yard looking 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.000 like a third and four, he then pushes the pile 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.640 three more yards to give you a third and one, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.640 and the Dolphins get third. They get that conversion obviously, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.960 and get thirteen yards on four carries when everybody in 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.280 the building knew what was coming. That's impressive. And speaking 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.680 of the fifty three man roster coming through in the clutch, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.160 here comes Jacoby Brisett on that third and one to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.160 move the chains again too, for two in the game 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.040 on those sneaks the dial up victory formation. Let's go home, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.120 And what did Brian Flores have to say about that 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.679 close out drive. Let's go to the head coach specifically, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:09.079 at the end of the game, we needed some first 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.280 downs running the football to run the clock out. That 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.520 was good to see us finished the game with the ball. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:18.920 They knew were gonna run it. We knew we were 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.160 gonna run it, and we're able to pick up a 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.920 couple of first downs there. So that's that's always good. Um, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.720 I thought Myles ran Hard, I thought Savan ran Hard 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.560 at the Malcolm ran Hard, I think it's there's a 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.240 lot to build on there, but we can block it better. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:41.080 We can run, you know a little bit better. We're 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.560 making those uh, making those corrections now, and I'm gonna 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.120 put it into action in the field again. You love 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.080 to see that there is Brian Flores covers the Dolphins 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.000 ability to execute the formative offense and get that victory. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.320 So I considered using that for our Wednesday Drive of 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.880 the week here on the Drivetime podcast. But we have 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:02.680 to go back to the drive to open up the 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.520 third quarter for our drive of the week, a drive 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.760 that featured a deep shot to Davante Parker for thirty yards. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.920 But before we get into that, Coach Gotzy on Tuesday 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.320 had some great insight when I asked me about the 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.280 philosophy on downfield shots versus certain looks and landmarks and 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.720 ball location. I'll just go ahead and play the question 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.120 and answer for you guys here with myself and Dolphin's 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.240 co offensive coordinator George Gotzi. Hey, good morning, coach. I 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.280 had a question for your regarding just vertical passes in general, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.360 and particularly the thirty six yard pass from Twa to Waddle. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.280 You know, it's kind of he came back on a 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.280 back shoulder type of throw and it looked like you 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.240 maybe had a step on top of the defender. I 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.160 was just kind of curious what the rules of the 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.960 teaching points are on that particular type of look where 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.080 you get the step and they try to make an 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.480 adjustment for back shoulder to go vertical over the top, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.560 like how do heal? And he and Jalen kind of 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.160 communicate what to do on that particular look, and that's 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.600 it really comes from practice quite a bit. Um in 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.000 that look and Accordy was a little bit tilted over 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.240 to where he gets sick. He was on the single 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.880 receiver side, so that put the three receivers in a 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.720 one on one situation where you know, the ball the 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.600 more the longer travels, uh, you know, the more accurate 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.520 we've gotta be because that ball hangs up in the 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.920 air for everybody to see what angle it's coming down. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.160 Jalen did a good job of adjusting to it. Um, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.760 you know, it was a big play. It was. It 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.680 was a play that got us you know eventually, uh 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:30.280 first points so changed the field position and um, you 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.320 know that's a tough throw and inside it was an 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.160 inside fade is really what we call it. So Um, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.600 it was good to see that that ball get connected 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.000 the slot fade, one of the plays that I've always 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.400 thought was one of the more prevalent ones when you 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.080 have a speed merchant like a Geland waddle, and Dolphins 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.600 certainly putting that to work in this game. And there 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.560 you hear from Coach Godzi himself. I mean, that's a 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.960 pretty good explanation of what they're looking for on that play. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.200 So you can debate it all you want, but there 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.080 is from the man himself, Coach Godzi. And let's go 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.040 ahead and get back on the road here after that, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.720 quick detour for our drive of the week. So a 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.400 ten ten ball game, Dolphins get the kick to open 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.399 the second half, and this is where our drive of 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:16.879 the week starts. So first two plays are wins by 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.200 the Patriots defense. A two yard miles gas can run 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.560 and then an incomplete pass from two to smythe as 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.600 TWA gets off of his spot, attacks line scrimmage and 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.240 throws a nice ball a little bit off the frame 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.520 of Duran Smith, but it looked intentional away from the 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.200 coverage inside ball goes outside, but it was very close quarters, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.719 lots of zip, tough play to make goes incomplete, and 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.040 then we get rolling and where we broke down the 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.760 long pass to Waddle on yesterday's podcast and the Patriots 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.399 as coach Gods he told us earlier the Pats had 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.040 a post safety over the top of the boundary side, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.040 giving Wattle all that space to work with. And what 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.520 I like on this play is the Patriots have a 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.760 split safety and it looks like two men at the snap. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.840 It's basically two defenders over the top of man coverage underneath. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.680 But the boundary side safety and the boundary side again 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.199 short side of the field, the near hash mark to 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.159 the short side of the field. The field side is 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.879 the wider side. The boundary side safety winds up acting 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.200 as a robber, and what that means is the robber 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.479 will often come down and try to close on a 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.320 backside crossing route and try to rob any past. The 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.000 quarterback throws in that area and they want to rob 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.040 that front side cross or which again to the field 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.600 side of the formation. On this particular instance was Mike 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.000 get sicky. So you play the backside, you look over 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.359 to the front side if that crossing route comes over, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.399 and the quarterback thinks, all I have to do is 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.119 beat the man coverage across from him. All of a sudden, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.840 here comes the backside robber, and you've got all kinds 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.840 of problems. So what that does with his eyes on 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.600 the front side of the formation is creates a chance 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.360 on the back side for a one on one opportunity 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.400 for Davante Parker on J. C. Jackson. And that's probably 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.880 what the Patriots want, right, I mean, their best cover 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.880 guy on the most accomplished dolphin receiver. Plus you see 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.520 Jones drawing Wattle from a matchup perspective. I happen to 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.000 think that four to eight speed has a lot to 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.960 do with that. We will never know because we're not gonna, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.240 you know, get that intel. But that's my thinking there, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.200 and we'll get back to that later on this tribe. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.159 It's very crucial, important part of the drive. But Wattle 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.159 goes in motion and you see that safety who plays 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.880 the robber role on the opposite side of the formation. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.399 It looks like he's gonna come down and match up 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.400 with Wattle when he goes in motion. So your pre 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:33.320 snap indicators for information gathering and the application of that information. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.640 It's a nice little nod there from two a tongue 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.240 of viola, your second year quarterback just making his tent start, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.440 so Wattle goes back in return motion back to where 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.160 he came, and the boundary side safety reacts and goes 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.000 right back to where he was in that split safety look. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.000 Then he closes down on that front side, crossing from Giziki, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.720 who is running that crossing route from the field side 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.320 three position. Remember yesterday one is the furthest outside receiver 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.399 to the next inside and then three year closest in side, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.480 so Ghasiki from the closest inside position to the wide 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.119