Speaker 1: Down, Miami, n What is up, Dolphans And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Official
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I
Speaker 1: am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, we have Coordinator Media
Speaker 1: and the story of the week through their eyes and
Speaker 1: through their words. We're gonna discuss the vertical game with
Speaker 1: George Godzi, the takeaway oriented mindset with Josh Boyer, and
Speaker 1: the expectation of the teams from Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman.
Speaker 1: Plus the drive of the week and a look at
Speaker 1: how it started versus how it's going with the guys
Speaker 1: who arrived here in twenty nineteen and been here through
Speaker 1: all thirty three games of the Brian Flora's era and
Speaker 1: talk about their progress and contributions to the team. Will
Speaker 1: get us some additional data and stats from this week's
Speaker 1: game plenty to come here from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. Far more notes and numbers that I found
Speaker 1: interesting from this past week that I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about here on the podcast. This is
Speaker 1: the third time that somebody beat the Patriots under Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick in a season opening game since the Chiefs did
Speaker 1: it in seventeen we did it ineen, So just the
Speaker 1: third time over those last what is that fifteen sixteen years?
Speaker 1: Impressive feet Also impressive is Miami's new road streak going
Speaker 1: on here. The Dolphins have won three of their last
Speaker 1: four road games going back to last season, and this
Speaker 1: was the first back to back victories over the Patriots
Speaker 1: going back to Week fifteen last year in Week one
Speaker 1: this year since the nine and two thousand seasons, first
Speaker 1: time beating New England and back to at games in
Speaker 1: two decades, and the takeaway streak is now up to
Speaker 1: twenty three games for your Miami Dolphins, the longest active
Speaker 1: streak in the NFL, and the last time a team
Speaker 1: had a streak it was that long was thirty six
Speaker 1: games from the Patriots. In impressive streak there from Miami
Speaker 1: getting the football back on their side. Also, three of
Speaker 1: two a ton of VALA's four rushing touchdowns in his
Speaker 1: career in ten games have come against the Patriots. And
Speaker 1: the thought on this was tough man coverage from the
Speaker 1: Patriots defense, they will lock you up on the back
Speaker 1: end and that's when it's the best time to run.
Speaker 1: If you guys watched the fantastic, highly highly recommended Peyton
Speaker 1: and Eli broadcast from the Monday night football game with
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Raiders this past Monday, and what
Speaker 1: a game. That was a crazy, crazy finish. But those
Speaker 1: guys talked a lot about Weink Martindale's aggressiveness playing that
Speaker 1: cover zero and how they want to play more man coverage,
Speaker 1: and Peyton kept saying like they got to get back
Speaker 1: to man because it's so much better than when they
Speaker 1: run zone. And they talked about this with the other
Speaker 1: side of the formation and the Raiders, and if you
Speaker 1: play man coverage, you really free up Lamar Jackson to
Speaker 1: beat you because with guys in man coverage, your back
Speaker 1: is turned to the quarterback and that creates spaces and
Speaker 1: gaps for him to run through once he breaks the
Speaker 1: initial pressure of the defensive line. So for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to adjust to what the Patriots do in terms of
Speaker 1: their defensive plan and coverage, thought it was very, very
Speaker 1: impressive for two of to get three of his four
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns in his career and just ten games so
Speaker 1: far against a man heavy type of defense and the
Speaker 1: Patriots who last season in that Week fifteen game, nineteen
Speaker 1: of the twenty nine dropbacks this, according to Sports Info
Speaker 1: solutions came out of man coverage looks. And then this
Speaker 1: season a little bit more of the same twenty nine
Speaker 1: dropbacks once again, and sixteen of those were in man coverage.
Speaker 1: So a good job of finding vulnerabilities and creating in
Speaker 1: that way. And real quick back to the Peyton Eli broadcast.
Speaker 1: I remember a couple of years ago, I was watching
Speaker 1: a Marriner's game, you know, big Seattle Marriers fan for
Speaker 1: baseball fans out there, and they had a special broadcast
Speaker 1: where it was players only. They didn't have a play
Speaker 1: by play guy which I could use that I would
Speaker 1: like to have that. But I was thinking to myself, man,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the future of broadcasting for for sports,
Speaker 1: sporting events, for games of any type baseball, football, basketball,
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be, where it's almost like a
Speaker 1: podcast setting. And I thought to myself back then, that's
Speaker 1: kind of a cool idea, especially in a baseball game
Speaker 1: where there's so much downtime and not a whole lot
Speaker 1: to really break down until something actually happens in the
Speaker 1: game of baseball. And here I turned on Peyton and
Speaker 1: Eli and that's basically what it was, man Like. I
Speaker 1: think that might be the future of broadcasting right there,
Speaker 1: a podcast type setting in a live sporting event. It
Speaker 1: was so very good, and I hope they do it
Speaker 1: every single week, and I hope they have it for
Speaker 1: Week sixteen when the Dolphins take on the Saints. No
Speaker 1: weeks seventeen when the Dolphins take on the Saints later
Speaker 1: on this season. Back to some of the numbers here,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddles sixty one receiving yards with the third most
Speaker 1: by a Dolphins player in his rookie debut, and then
Speaker 1: also Davante Parker went over three hundred catches in this game.
Speaker 1: His three hundred and two receptions are ninth most in
Speaker 1: team history and his four thousand, two hundred forty three
Speaker 1: receiving yards are seventh most in team history. How about
Speaker 1: Miami's number record in the last x number of games.
Speaker 1: Over the last thirteen games, Miami are ten and three.
Speaker 1: Over the last nineteen games, Dolphins are thirteen and six
Speaker 1: and over the last twenty six games. Now Miami is
Speaker 1: sixteen and ten, so some fun data points there. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and pivot now and here from the Miami
Speaker 1: coaches in this segment as we get into our first
Speaker 1: of a couple of deep dives here into a couple
Speaker 1: of topics. But first the takeaways, and this bears repeating
Speaker 1: because Miami again extended its league leading streak to twenty
Speaker 1: three straight games with a takeaway on defense. And what
Speaker 1: might be most impressive about this is that nobody has
Speaker 1: a lower fumble rate over the last decade than the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and it's not even close. For a
Speaker 1: half decade run there, the Patriots where the only team
Speaker 1: with a fumble per play rate of greater than one
Speaker 1: hundred plays, so every one hundred and five plays they
Speaker 1: would have a fumble to be exact. Then over the
Speaker 1: next five years it was actually much of the same.
Speaker 1: They had one year where it peaked up like twenty
Speaker 1: six fumbles, but over the last five seasons just that
Speaker 1: one year with a considerable fumble number nineteen, last year, thirteen,
Speaker 1: in nineteen just eleven, they had twenty six and seventeen
Speaker 1: and then fourteen back in twenty sixteen. So this team
Speaker 1: does not put the ball on the turft very frequently,
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins got it out four times and they
Speaker 1: forced three of them. But the Mac Jones backwards passed
Speaker 1: is a fourth caused by well pressure from a blitzer
Speaker 1: that Jones just could not quite get away from in time.
Speaker 1: Then he threw the ball backwards and the dolphins propensity
Speaker 1: to create takeaway opportunities is neither a coincidence nor a fluke.
Speaker 1: It's the result of meticulous training on that very critical
Speaker 1: element of the game. You practice third downs, red zone takeaways.
Speaker 1: These biggest, the players that have the biggest e p
Speaker 1: A swings, the biggest simate a probability of of of
Speaker 1: winning the game. That's what you got to focus on
Speaker 1: the most. I mean, every detail matters with these players
Speaker 1: ultimately decide the game. And you know, as Josh Bowyer says,
Speaker 1: and to further that point, it's not a position specific thing.
Speaker 1: It's one group of coaches' or it's not. Rather one
Speaker 1: group of coaches working with a group of players. It's
Speaker 1: all about that collaboration. Baby, Let's go ahead and go
Speaker 1: to Josh Bowyer. Weren't good to see you. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask me about the fumble production you guys got
Speaker 1: in the game, and particularly the defensive backs. You know,
Speaker 1: three of the four force fumbles came from defensive backs.
Speaker 1: I was just wondering if there's a coaching point or
Speaker 1: something you can tell us about how Coach Alexander and
Speaker 1: Coach Brooks can I get those guys coached up to
Speaker 1: get so many balls on the turf? Well, I would
Speaker 1: I would say it's one of those things that we
Speaker 1: work with all of our guys as a group. We
Speaker 1: start practice every day with tackling turnover circuit. Um. So,
Speaker 1: and uh, the unique thing about that is we have
Speaker 1: all of our coaches coach all of our players. So
Speaker 1: as we go through the circuit, which I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys have seen out of practice. Um, you know, it
Speaker 1: could be a number of guys that are that are
Speaker 1: coaching different techniques. Um. Obviously, it's something that we believe
Speaker 1: in very strongly. Our players believe in. They work at it,
Speaker 1: uh tremendously hard and uh, you know, we were able
Speaker 1: to see some production from that on Sunday Tackling Turnover
Speaker 1: circuit and we do see it every day of practice.
Speaker 1: I've covered it in training camp and we kind of
Speaker 1: give you guys the full scope of those practices. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean because we don't talk about it that
Speaker 1: it's stopped or anything. They definitely go through it every
Speaker 1: single day, like Coach mentioned there, and you're seeing the
Speaker 1: fruits of that labor on this takeaway streak. And something
Speaker 1: else we talk about all the time is the Dolphins
Speaker 1: emphasizing the takeaways. They play complimentary football and we've covered
Speaker 1: this on the podcast every week last year. The play
Speaker 1: before the play that contributes to the overall success of
Speaker 1: the team, and in this case, the play before the
Speaker 1: play in the case of the fumbles to a finding
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker with a nice job of attacking the off
Speaker 1: coverage of Jalen Mills when the Dolphins got the football
Speaker 1: after the exaviing Howard forced and recovered fumble when Mills
Speaker 1: on Davante Parker, they did a good job of attacking
Speaker 1: that off coverage of Jalen Mills. And on the tape
Speaker 1: you see Mills open up too early and what that
Speaker 1: means not too early, but he opens up early, and
Speaker 1: what that means is you're gonna see his basically his
Speaker 1: butt go to the sideline to open the hips to
Speaker 1: the inside of the formation and that creates inside access
Speaker 1: for Devanta Parker, a great time to throw an inbreaking route.
Speaker 1: He did it, and it was right on the mark
Speaker 1: as Davante ran through the catch and put the Dolphins
Speaker 1: and literally the best position they could have been in
Speaker 1: that spot, like a ninety whatever you are touchdown gives
Speaker 1: the ball back to the Patriots, down by only eight
Speaker 1: if you kick the p a T. So getting themselves
Speaker 1: in a position where they can run the clock and
Speaker 1: take the air out of the football and prevent the
Speaker 1: Patriots from touching it again, that's very much ideal. So
Speaker 1: you force that time out and you're in second down
Speaker 1: and one where a first down is greater than like
Speaker 1: to happen within those next two downs to gain one
Speaker 1: yard on two downs. But that was the play after
Speaker 1: the play. The play before the play, Well, it probably
Speaker 1: seems innocuous because it was actually a first down completion
Speaker 1: to John Yu Smith, but Jerome Baker got him to
Speaker 1: the ground quickly, and you just never know what could
Speaker 1: have happened if he didn't get that tackle. And maybe
Speaker 1: Smith gains three or four extra yards on that play
Speaker 1: by slipping the tackle. Maybe the run goes the opposite direction,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a past play, maybe something changes to where
Speaker 1: Xaving Howard can't get his hands on the football and
Speaker 1: force the fumble and get the ball back to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So every single thing that happens really correlates to what
Speaker 1: happens later on in the game. I thought we saw
Speaker 1: that once again here with your Miami Dolphins. And how
Speaker 1: about the flip and probability or win probability from those
Speaker 1: couple of plays. Prior to the fumble, the Patriots had
Speaker 1: a seventy point seven percent chance or probability i should say,
Speaker 1: of winning the football game, and the fumble obviously changes
Speaker 1: that dramatically. Now after to get the fumble back, Miami's
Speaker 1: advantage spikes up to sixty four point four percent chance
Speaker 1: of victory, a very nice thirty five point three percent
Speaker 1: swing their significant But you might see that sixty four
Speaker 1: point four percent figure and say, how the heck is
Speaker 1: it not more than that one first down? Two first downs?
Speaker 1: This game is over? Well, because four minute offense is
Speaker 1: one of the toughest things to execute on a football field,
Speaker 1: and especially in the National Football League, and especially when
Speaker 1: the opposition has all three of their time outs, as
Speaker 1: New England did, and so after the holding call on
Speaker 1: two was nine yard run, which I thought was a
Speaker 1: brilliant design and call. Right there, the win probability took
Speaker 1: a nearly five percent hit because you go from first
Speaker 1: and ten to first and fourteen, which means you didn't
Speaker 1: have to average again no mathematician, but five yards per
Speaker 1: rush to move the chains in the next three carries.
Speaker 1: So it's damn near a coin flip at this point
Speaker 1: of the game that Miami's win according to win probability.
Speaker 1: If Miami can't get off their own goal line and
Speaker 1: have to punt from that spot, the Patriots are now
Speaker 1: just a couple of first downs away from having a
Speaker 1: shot at a game winning field goal. So the past
Speaker 1: to Parker to set up that two yard first down
Speaker 1: plunge by Malcolm Brown, and you love his effort to
Speaker 1: close out the game, by the way, you talk about
Speaker 1: all fifty three guys in the roster contributing, what a
Speaker 1: great example this is. And after his first down run,
Speaker 1: the win probability spikes again, going from fifty nine eight
Speaker 1: percent up to seventy four percent from before the past
Speaker 1: to Parker. And so while the passing game with Tow
Speaker 1: and Parker kind of stoked the flame. The offensive line
Speaker 1: and backs had the you know, proverbial lighter fluid nearby
Speaker 1: to keep that thing rolling, and the Patriots took a
Speaker 1: time out with toe takes him down to two time
Speaker 1: outs in the game plus the two minute warning, so
Speaker 1: they still have a chance to get the ball back
Speaker 1: with plenty of time. So you need another first down
Speaker 1: to put the game on ice, and it has to
Speaker 1: be a run, right There's no way you can throw
Speaker 1: the ball right here. I mean you could, but the
Speaker 1: run makes way more sense. And with that knowledge, Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown still finds five yards a big, big, important run there,
Speaker 1: and boy, he got some great push play side from
Speaker 1: Miami's front offensive lineman there. Liam Eichenberg has a tough
Speaker 1: reach block on the backside, so he does enough to
Speaker 1: cut off Lawrence Guy to create a gap, and a
Speaker 1: nice block from Solomon Kindley helps spring a gap there.
Speaker 1: You've got good push from Michael Dieter and Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: who takes his man over a gap, and Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: does the same thing to help give Malcolm that crease
Speaker 1: for five yards. So Patriots time out. Then it's Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown's effort. On the next play, he stood up on
Speaker 1: the second and five play, after about one yard looking
Speaker 1: like a third and four, he then pushes the pile
Speaker 1: three more yards to give you a third and one,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins get third. They get that conversion obviously,
Speaker 1: and get thirteen yards on four carries when everybody in
Speaker 1: the building knew what was coming. That's impressive. And speaking
Speaker 1: of the fifty three man roster coming through in the clutch,
Speaker 1: here comes Jacoby Brisett on that third and one to
Speaker 1: move the chains again too, for two in the game
Speaker 1: on those sneaks the dial up victory formation. Let's go home,
Speaker 1: And what did Brian Flores have to say about that
Speaker 1: close out drive. Let's go to the head coach specifically,
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, we needed some first
Speaker 1: downs running the football to run the clock out. That
Speaker 1: was good to see us finished the game with the ball.
Speaker 1: They knew were gonna run it. We knew we were
Speaker 1: gonna run it, and we're able to pick up a
Speaker 1: couple of first downs there. So that's that's always good. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought Myles ran Hard, I thought Savan ran Hard
Speaker 1: at the Malcolm ran Hard, I think it's there's a
Speaker 1: lot to build on there, but we can block it better.
Speaker 1: We can run, you know a little bit better. We're
Speaker 1: making those uh, making those corrections now, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put it into action in the field again. You love
Speaker 1: to see that there is Brian Flores covers the Dolphins
Speaker 1: ability to execute the formative offense and get that victory.
Speaker 1: So I considered using that for our Wednesday Drive of
Speaker 1: the week here on the Drivetime podcast. But we have
Speaker 1: to go back to the drive to open up the
Speaker 1: third quarter for our drive of the week, a drive
Speaker 1: that featured a deep shot to Davante Parker for thirty yards.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, Coach Gotzy on Tuesday
Speaker 1: had some great insight when I asked me about the
Speaker 1: philosophy on downfield shots versus certain looks and landmarks and
Speaker 1: ball location. I'll just go ahead and play the question
Speaker 1: and answer for you guys here with myself and Dolphin's
Speaker 1: co offensive coordinator George Gotzi. Hey, good morning, coach. I
Speaker 1: had a question for your regarding just vertical passes in general,
Speaker 1: and particularly the thirty six yard pass from Twa to Waddle.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of he came back on a
Speaker 1: back shoulder type of throw and it looked like you
Speaker 1: maybe had a step on top of the defender. I
Speaker 1: was just kind of curious what the rules of the
Speaker 1: teaching points are on that particular type of look where
Speaker 1: you get the step and they try to make an
Speaker 1: adjustment for back shoulder to go vertical over the top,
Speaker 1: like how do heal? And he and Jalen kind of
Speaker 1: communicate what to do on that particular look, and that's
Speaker 1: it really comes from practice quite a bit. Um in
Speaker 1: that look and Accordy was a little bit tilted over
Speaker 1: to where he gets sick. He was on the single
Speaker 1: receiver side, so that put the three receivers in a
Speaker 1: one on one situation where you know, the ball the
Speaker 1: more the longer travels, uh, you know, the more accurate
Speaker 1: we've gotta be because that ball hangs up in the
Speaker 1: air for everybody to see what angle it's coming down.
Speaker 1: Jalen did a good job of adjusting to it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a big play. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a play that got us you know eventually, uh
Speaker 1: first points so changed the field position and um, you
Speaker 1: know that's a tough throw and inside it was an
Speaker 1: inside fade is really what we call it. So Um,
Speaker 1: it was good to see that that ball get connected
Speaker 1: the slot fade, one of the plays that I've always
Speaker 1: thought was one of the more prevalent ones when you
Speaker 1: have a speed merchant like a Geland waddle, and Dolphins
Speaker 1: certainly putting that to work in this game. And there
Speaker 1: you hear from Coach Godzi himself. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good explanation of what they're looking for on that play.
Speaker 1: So you can debate it all you want, but there
Speaker 1: is from the man himself, Coach Godzi. And let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get back on the road here after that,
Speaker 1: quick detour for our drive of the week. So a
Speaker 1: ten ten ball game, Dolphins get the kick to open
Speaker 1: the second half, and this is where our drive of
Speaker 1: the week starts. So first two plays are wins by
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense. A two yard miles gas can run
Speaker 1: and then an incomplete pass from two to smythe as
Speaker 1: TWA gets off of his spot, attacks line scrimmage and
Speaker 1: throws a nice ball a little bit off the frame
Speaker 1: of Duran Smith, but it looked intentional away from the
Speaker 1: coverage inside ball goes outside, but it was very close quarters,
Speaker 1: lots of zip, tough play to make goes incomplete, and
Speaker 1: then we get rolling and where we broke down the
Speaker 1: long pass to Waddle on yesterday's podcast and the Patriots
Speaker 1: as coach Gods he told us earlier the Pats had
Speaker 1: a post safety over the top of the boundary side,
Speaker 1: giving Wattle all that space to work with. And what
Speaker 1: I like on this play is the Patriots have a
Speaker 1: split safety and it looks like two men at the snap.
Speaker 1: It's basically two defenders over the top of man coverage underneath.
Speaker 1: But the boundary side safety and the boundary side again
Speaker 1: short side of the field, the near hash mark to
Speaker 1: the short side of the field. The field side is
Speaker 1: the wider side. The boundary side safety winds up acting
Speaker 1: as a robber, and what that means is the robber
Speaker 1: will often come down and try to close on a
Speaker 1: backside crossing route and try to rob any past. The
Speaker 1: quarterback throws in that area and they want to rob
Speaker 1: that front side cross or which again to the field
Speaker 1: side of the formation. On this particular instance was Mike
Speaker 1: get sicky. So you play the backside, you look over
Speaker 1: to the front side if that crossing route comes over,
Speaker 1: and the quarterback thinks, all I have to do is
Speaker 1: beat the man coverage across from him. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here comes the backside robber, and you've got all kinds
Speaker 1: of problems. So what that does with his eyes on
Speaker 1: the front side of the formation is creates a chance
Speaker 1: on the back side for a one on one opportunity
Speaker 1: for Davante Parker on J. C. Jackson. And that's probably
Speaker 1: what the Patriots want, right, I mean, their best cover
Speaker 1: guy on the most accomplished dolphin receiver. Plus you see
Speaker 1: Jones drawing Wattle from a matchup perspective. I happen to
Speaker 1: think that four to eight speed has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with that. We will never know because we're not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, get that intel. But that's my thinking there,
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to that later on this tribe.
Speaker 1: It's very crucial, important part of the drive. But Wattle
Speaker 1: goes in motion and you see that safety who plays
Speaker 1: the robber role on the opposite side of the formation.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's gonna come down and match up
Speaker 1: with Wattle when he goes in motion. So your pre
Speaker 1: snap indicators for information gathering and the application of that information.
Speaker 1: It's a nice little nod there from two a tongue
Speaker 1: of viola, your second year quarterback just making his tent start,
Speaker 1: so Wattle goes back in return motion back to where
Speaker 1: he came, and the boundary side safety reacts and goes
Speaker 1: right back to where he was in that split safety look.
Speaker 1: Then he closes down on that front side, crossing from Giziki,
Speaker 1: who is running that crossing route from the field side
Speaker 1: three position. Remember yesterday one is the furthest outside receiver
Speaker 1: to the next inside and then three year closest in side,
Speaker 1: so Ghasiki from the closest inside position to the wide
Speaker 1: side of the field runs that crossing route, and that
Speaker 1: split safety on that side of the on the other
Speaker 1: side of the formation closes down and creates the long
Speaker 1: ball opportunity for Parker. So once that happens, Parker versus
Speaker 1: Jackson and he's not open. Jackson's in great position, which
Speaker 1: means you're gonna need a pretty much perfect ball, and
Speaker 1: you got it. Go watch the all twenty two on that.
Speaker 1: It's it's very evident that ball had to be in
Speaker 1: that location where it was. He puts it to the
Speaker 1: white on the perimeter the sideline there, up and away
Speaker 1: from danger, and then DeVante does what he always does best,
Speaker 1: and you can't have a perfect ball completed in the
Speaker 1: situation without a great catch as well, but he shields
Speaker 1: Jackson away from him with that big frame and high
Speaker 1: points the football, then has the awareness to get the
Speaker 1: feet down inbounds. A great, great play by both one
Speaker 1: and eleven and exactly the kind of completion I talked
Speaker 1: about in the preview last Thursday. You have to hit
Speaker 1: those throws against that Patriots defense if you're going to
Speaker 1: beat them, because they will drop seven or eight and
Speaker 1: force you to hit those tight window throws down the
Speaker 1: field to climbs the pocket and throws as he approaches
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Everything else in the fields bracketed.
Speaker 1: Every single receiver out there has underneath and over the
Speaker 1: top coverage because of all the defensive backs on the
Speaker 1: play that are dropping into coverage. And it's such a
Speaker 1: tough ask to make that play on third and eight,
Speaker 1: and he hits it in a tie game with field
Speaker 1: position and a possible lead going back the other way
Speaker 1: at risk if you punt and give the Patriots good
Speaker 1: field position. So that's how it starts to drive. Then
Speaker 1: we get another Patriots win, a one yard run up
Speaker 1: the gut, So second down and nine, and now it's
Speaker 1: second uh it's it's second nine, and we utilize another
Speaker 1: one of our guy's strengths and Miles Gaskin. Dolphins motion
Speaker 1: Gaskin from the backfield out wide to the boundary again
Speaker 1: short side of the field, and he lines up in
Speaker 1: the one position the furthest wide position to the short
Speaker 1: side of the field and Miami goes empty. Nobody in
Speaker 1: the backfield beside your quarterback and another indicator of man
Speaker 1: coverage here, Linebacker Jowan Bentley follows Gaskin all the way
Speaker 1: out wide and there's a single high look and a
Speaker 1: post a post snap. It looks like the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: getting cover one based upon what I saw. Again, I
Speaker 1: cannot confirm without knowing the call, but that's what it
Speaker 1: looked like to me. And the safety is rolled up
Speaker 1: to the field side of the formation. So Parker takes
Speaker 1: an outside release to get his man the two to
Speaker 1: Miles gaskin side of the field. He gets him to
Speaker 1: flip his corners or his his hips rather to the
Speaker 1: corner route or the possible out route, which creates inside
Speaker 1: space for Miles Gaskin. Does that make sense? So Parker
Speaker 1: wants that outside release so that inside cornerback gets out
Speaker 1: of that area for Gaskin to run in off of
Speaker 1: that in behind that route on the slant, and because
Speaker 1: Jawan Bentley is has no safety help over the top,
Speaker 1: he has to play off because you cannot afford to
Speaker 1: lose at the line and let Myles Gaskin run right
Speaker 1: by you. But he runs that quick slap and two
Speaker 1: has that thing up and out immediately. Good recognition of
Speaker 1: that coverage, of that leverage and the quick release on display,
Speaker 1: and then it's a catch and run of thirteen yards
Speaker 1: to set up another first intent at the plus thirty.
Speaker 1: Then we go back to the run game for some success.
Speaker 1: We get Jesse Davis hits a fantastic seal block off
Speaker 1: the right edge, and you see gaskins feel and vision
Speaker 1: on this run because he takes an inside run going
Speaker 1: left and winds it back to the right outside with
Speaker 1: great backside vision to anticipate what's there, having your priest
Speaker 1: nap indicators tell you what how this how this defense
Speaker 1: might move and shift, and he gets all the way
Speaker 1: back there, turns the corner for fifteen yards and another
Speaker 1: first down. Then it's wildcat from the plus fifteen yard
Speaker 1: line in the red zone. Robert Hunt hits a key block,
Speaker 1: Michael Dieter has a catch and climb and Hunter Long
Speaker 1: digs out a man off the edge and Savon Akhmed
Speaker 1: burrows ahead for an eight yard run. Stay in Wildcats
Speaker 1: second and two, Malcolm Brown takes this one for four
Speaker 1: yards off the right side once again, this time Hunter
Speaker 1: Long Dirham Smith and there again on the lead blocks.
Speaker 1: Then the touchdown pass and once again waddle, like we
Speaker 1: talked about on the Davante Parker deep Shop, is going
Speaker 1: to go and return motion. He starts to come across
Speaker 1: the formation and you see Jonathan Jones get on his
Speaker 1: horse trying to match the speed to get over to
Speaker 1: the side of the formation because so often teams can
Speaker 1: run that motion and if you don't get over there
Speaker 1: in time, you get outflanked. It's an easy catch, rock
Speaker 1: throw and just throw it to the guy already in
Speaker 1: full speed motion, easy touchdown to that pylon. But that's
Speaker 1: what Jonathan Jones wants to prevent, so he runs over there.
Speaker 1: You get Wattle going back over and return motion and
Speaker 1: because of that, because he has to react to Waddles
Speaker 1: change of direction, he gets out flanked pre snap. And
Speaker 1: this was after Durham Smith had already shifted from the
Speaker 1: back side to the play sides. You have a pre
Speaker 1: snap shift, a return motion before the snap, giving to
Speaker 1: all the information he needs to make decisions, and then
Speaker 1: from that point after Smith comes over has a very
Speaker 1: important role. We talked about this in the podcast yesterday,
Speaker 1: where he's not allowed to make a block down field
Speaker 1: because that would be an eligible man down field. But
Speaker 1: he basically runs a route where he just walls off
Speaker 1: two guys and gives Wattle a chance at the pylon.
Speaker 1: You also get a clutch key block from Mike Gasicki
Speaker 1: right at the point of attack the balls on the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder. Waddle catches it and bubbles to give himself
Speaker 1: a chance to process. He has to make his move.
Speaker 1: He makes it, he wins it, wins the race, touchdown Dolphins,
Speaker 1: And that was your drive of the week. Nine plays,
Speaker 1: seventy four yards, four minutes and nine seconds off the clock,
Speaker 1: and essentially the game winning touchdown. The Dolphins never gave
Speaker 1: the lead back after that play. That's your drive time
Speaker 1: drive of the week. Who wants to do another deep dive?
Speaker 1: You got it, Let's do another one here. I couldn't
Speaker 1: narrow it down this week, so we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: bit of a grab bag here with two deep dives.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about, should I look at someone
Speaker 1: something on tape? Should I break down some numbers? Should
Speaker 1: I break down something? And I thought to myself, why
Speaker 1: don't go back to some of the o g s
Speaker 1: of the Brian Flores regime, some guys who arrived in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and have earned significant roles on this team.
Speaker 1: In and we start with Eric Rowe. You talk about
Speaker 1: his ability to match up on tight ends. I mean
Speaker 1: neither John H. Smith or Hunter Henry really went off
Speaker 1: in this game forty two yards for one, thirty for
Speaker 1: the other. And the work against the run. I mean
Speaker 1: he's consistently putting his face into the fan, coming down
Speaker 1: and playing even inside sometimes the outside linebacker at a
Speaker 1: point where he has to go jam a tight end
Speaker 1: or get involved in the hand fight, and really hold
Speaker 1: that point and hold his gap and and fit a run.
Speaker 1: And he returns to the game after getting nicked up.
Speaker 1: He's tough as hell. He's played in all thirty three
Speaker 1: games under Brian Flora's here, and that includes a position
Speaker 1: change as well. One of the league's top tight ending racers.
Speaker 1: In fact, number two a year ago and yards per
Speaker 1: target allowed when matched up on tight ends as far
Speaker 1: as safeties go. That from Pro Football Focus, and I
Speaker 1: continue to be more and more impressed every time we
Speaker 1: get a tape with Eric row out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's such a crucial part of this defense and this team.
Speaker 1: He earned an extension after signing a one year deal
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen that was basically a prove it deal
Speaker 1: to say, can you come back from the injury history
Speaker 1: you've had in your career, and especially by cornerback standards
Speaker 1: like one year three million dollars I think it was
Speaker 1: with three and a half million dollars. That's a guy
Speaker 1: that I think you point to and say, look, this
Speaker 1: is what can happen if you do it right and
Speaker 1: you buy into the Miami Dolphins principles, if you put
Speaker 1: in the work, you take your coaching, you trust that
Speaker 1: they have the best interests of the team in my mind,
Speaker 1: and you're a team guy yourself. I just can't say
Speaker 1: enough about Eric Rowe and his in this game. You know,
Speaker 1: he was doing everything playing the hook, curl zone, point
Speaker 1: on bunches or trips or different types of stacks in
Speaker 1: there against the run, playing man coverage, zone coverage. Just
Speaker 1: another complete game from number twenty one. How about Nick
Speaker 1: met him third most tackles in the game from Miami
Speaker 1: despite playing just thirty five snaps. He was targeted three
Speaker 1: times in coverage for just nine yards. Gets on the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder so frequently on outside runs and funnels that
Speaker 1: thing back to the teeth of the defense. Very much
Speaker 1: a team oriented player in that way too, And he
Speaker 1: detailed this himself back when he got to camp in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteens a rookie that he was out of shape,
Speaker 1: didn't know how to properly nutrition or eat, or didn't
Speaker 1: know how to nutrition himself. I don't know, but he
Speaker 1: had he had. You know, the fans will recall a
Speaker 1: rough preseason that year, goes to the practice squad, gets
Speaker 1: the end season call up. He had some flash moments,
Speaker 1: but like most rookies, it was an up and down
Speaker 1: season for him. Then he comes in last year and
Speaker 1: moves inside and has a great season success against the
Speaker 1: likes of Tyler Boyd, Jamison Crowder, h Cooper Cup some
Speaker 1: of the game's top slot guys. And now he's playing
Speaker 1: everywhere for this defense, corners, you know, inside, outside, I
Speaker 1: should say from undrafted free agent to key cog in
Speaker 1: the defense. Another feather in the cap here of Flores
Speaker 1: Boyer and anyone that had a hand of bringing this
Speaker 1: kid in from you tip tip of the cap there,
Speaker 1: and then from the actual draft class. I mean Michael
Speaker 1: Dieter looked the part to me. I mentioned the cut blocks,
Speaker 1: the catching climb to the second level. I thought his
Speaker 1: communication upfront was largely good in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't have free rushers flashing with Lineman looking around like, hey,
Speaker 1: what the hell happened there? Just didn't happen in this game.
Speaker 1: And he's got good length for a center, and I
Speaker 1: think you saw that play to his advantage in this
Speaker 1: game a bit, as he was able to reach and
Speaker 1: seal on a couple of occasions. And his pass pro
Speaker 1: has been solid from from the start of camp really
Speaker 1: onto this game. I talked about him anchoring at times
Speaker 1: against ray Kwon Davis Uh in practice and then into
Speaker 1: the joint practices with the chem Hicks and Grady Jarrett.
Speaker 1: I think you could look at deep is another one
Speaker 1: of those poster boys for development here and how it's
Speaker 1: a process. It's a process. It's a process. From twenty
Speaker 1: two snaps last year to day. One starter at center
Speaker 1: of this camp and a strong debut. Definitely something will
Speaker 1: keep an eye on going forward. Long season to go,
Speaker 1: but that's one of the toughest fronts in football, and
Speaker 1: I thought Deets acquitted himself quite well in this game.
Speaker 1: Then quickly there was a couple of in season additions
Speaker 1: that season. Mac Collins was one of them. He played
Speaker 1: the seven snaps in the game on Sunday offensively, but
Speaker 1: you see his presence on every dang punter and not
Speaker 1: really every dang special teams player. They have out their
Speaker 1: first guy down there most of the time, Number eighty six.
Speaker 1: We've talked about his leadership, the spirit, the example he sets,
Speaker 1: what he brings to the club that way in the
Speaker 1: locker room, a team captain, a player that guys gravitate
Speaker 1: towards a true Miami Dolphin and Mac Collins. And then
Speaker 1: also an in season acquisition that year, Zach Seeler comes
Speaker 1: over off waivers from the Baltimore Ravens and he made
Speaker 1: a splash in that first game in Week fifteen against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Only played like fourteen snaps and had a
Speaker 1: couple of pressures and was in face of Eli manning
Speaker 1: that game. Then the next game was an absolute force.
Speaker 1: One and a half sacks, two batted passes, four run stops,
Speaker 1: five pressures in that win over the Bengals right around
Speaker 1: Christmas time. Just unblockable in that game, and both he
Speaker 1: and Hollins would go on to earn contract extensions the
Speaker 1: next year with the Miami Dolphins. I just think that
Speaker 1: history is instructive, and you can look back at that
Speaker 1: kind of foundation laying season, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: tough at times, it was difficult at times, but those
Speaker 1: bricks that were laid continue to pop up just about
Speaker 1: every game with something you can look back at and say, man,
Speaker 1: there was value to that and how they did it,
Speaker 1: and you can see it today with how it plays
Speaker 1: out on the field on Sundays. Let's do a quick
Speaker 1: sneak peek of the Buffalo Bills here before we get
Speaker 1: out of here for the podcast. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start with Josh Bowyer's early evaluation of this Buffalo Bills offense. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think one thing to take into consideration
Speaker 1: when you're looking at Buffalo, they're very much a game
Speaker 1: plan oriented offense. So one week week they could look
Speaker 1: different from the next. Uh, they're gonna attack what the
Speaker 1: what they perceive, um, you know, to be your weaknesses.
Speaker 1: Um So, I mean in a given week, their their
Speaker 1: game plans can look different and very um you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: um they're they're very talented group, they're very well coached.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Brian Dable is one of the best
Speaker 1: coordinators in the league. Um So I would expect, you
Speaker 1: know that we'll see some different stuff than they showed
Speaker 1: in the Pittsburgh game. Obviously Pittsburgh, those guys defensively, they
Speaker 1: played well, they tackled well, they made plays when they
Speaker 1: needed to. But again, I would say each game with
Speaker 1: Buffalo is a very unique thing in and of itself,
Speaker 1: and of course we know that's the mantra down here
Speaker 1: as well. It's it's a fascinating dichotomy to get New
Speaker 1: England and Buffalo and back to back weeks, because you
Speaker 1: really could not have two more diametrically opposed teams. In
Speaker 1: terms of their approach. Buffalo was damn near a primary
Speaker 1: ten personal team that means one back, no tight ends
Speaker 1: for whiteouts, and nobody else was even close. Like even
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, who ran that package a lot, they had
Speaker 1: a significant gap between the Cardinals and the third team
Speaker 1: with the most ten personnel calls, and even they were
Speaker 1: a far cry from how often Buffalo ran that package.
Speaker 1: So you go from a game where a guy like
Speaker 1: you know, for instance, Justin Coleman plays two snaps and
Speaker 1: the Patriots essentially replaced their slot receiver with tight ends.
Speaker 1: You you have kind of adjusted that, But thirty five
Speaker 1: of their seventy plays in this game for the Patriots
Speaker 1: came from twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends, two receivers,
Speaker 1: and then you had another handful of plays out of
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel or third team personnel or even heavy
Speaker 1: offensive line packages. Essentially eleven personnel, which is most teams
Speaker 1: based in the NFL, is a sub package and ten
Speaker 1: personnel packages are basically non existent. And now you go
Speaker 1: to the complete opposite of that here with Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: based upon one week of data and evidence. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into it tomorrow, but expect the Bills to do
Speaker 1: their thing and we'll see if this very good, very
Speaker 1: deep secondary can match it. Though they did well throughout
Speaker 1: the game last season in Miami and Week two, and
Speaker 1: that was without Byron Jones Beyond the third snap of
Speaker 1: that game, so we'll have that on tomorrow's podcast. A
Speaker 1: couple of quick notes for you guys here real quick.
Speaker 1: We got the news across the desk on Tuesday night
Speaker 1: recording this podcast. Ray Kwon Davis has gone to the
Speaker 1: injured reserve, so he'll be out for a minimum of
Speaker 1: three games with that knee injury he suffered in the
Speaker 1: win over the Patriots. The Dolphins also brought back Will
Speaker 1: Fuller to the active roster and Jamal Perry goes to
Speaker 1: the practice squad as a result. I have a show
Speaker 1: recommendation before we get out of here if you have
Speaker 1: not seen it yet. The next the Netflix documentary called
Speaker 1: Untold Crime and Penalties. It's about a hockey team back
Speaker 1: in like two thousand four, a minor league hockey team.
Speaker 1: The father of this hockey player, and the father was
Speaker 1: called the real life Tony Soprano, like a mob boss.
Speaker 1: So his kid gets injured playing hockey. So he goes
Speaker 1: out and buy some my minor league hockey team and
Speaker 1: the kid just becomes a GM slash marketing whiz. I
Speaker 1: promise you you will have fun watching this documentary. Go
Speaker 1: check it out Netflix. Untold Crime and Penalties. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time, Caroline, Daddy is coming home.
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