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Speaker 1: on today's show, we are looking back at the Sunday
Speaker 1: night football game against the Charges, with the tape, the stats,
Speaker 1: where things didn't work, where they did, the full aftermath,
Speaker 1: plus snap counts, and Mike McDaniels Monday press conference coverage
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's kick it off
Speaker 1: as we do every single Tuesday here on Drivetime with
Speaker 1: the film and we start with the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the football going chronologically here and covering the players as
Speaker 1: we get to the plays and the big moments of
Speaker 1: the game. And it feels for the second straight week
Speaker 1: like the opening drive. Well, I shouldn't say that the
Speaker 1: opening drive, because Miami scored against the Niners on their
Speaker 1: opening drive, but after that play and just the slow
Speaker 1: start in general, after that was only a few inches
Speaker 1: away from potentially getting the offense into a rhythm. Now
Speaker 1: again against San Francisco, seven points early within ten seconds,
Speaker 1: but after that a couple of drives, think three the
Speaker 1: next four we're three and outs where they had balls
Speaker 1: that were just barely tipped by the middle linebackers are
Speaker 1: just off target to the receivers in that second level.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins first three plays all incomplete. It passes
Speaker 1: really similar story. The first one was a great recovery
Speaker 1: by the safety to get under that ball to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: The second was another really good coverage rep where Waddle
Speaker 1: couldn't get separation, and the third was arguably the to
Speaker 1: me that one of the best throws of the night
Speaker 1: from tongue Vola. Really nice timing to to Tyreek who
Speaker 1: had cleared the hook linebacker and he throws it before
Speaker 1: he cleared the hook linebacker ball meets him right on
Speaker 1: time in the opening and we can't squeeze and finish
Speaker 1: the play. I thought it was a great throwing one
Speaker 1: that we need to finish and execute. So from the
Speaker 1: start you can see what Coach McDaniels talking about with
Speaker 1: the issues, you know, being widespread and not any one
Speaker 1: individual thing, as we'll cover here on the rest of
Speaker 1: the show. And it continued on the next series as
Speaker 1: those quick throws where to is you know, riding the
Speaker 1: back of the belly of the back and pulls that
Speaker 1: thing out and pops the ball in behind the linebackers.
Speaker 1: The Chargers were just pressing the issue with outside leverage
Speaker 1: and driving hard on those incuts, and our routes were
Speaker 1: those a lot of times little grant glances or skinny
Speaker 1: post or just quick catch rock throw or get off
Speaker 1: the line, get into the soft spot and take off
Speaker 1: after that, and it can be difficult against the type
Speaker 1: of defense The Chargers played so frequently against those routes
Speaker 1: to generate separation because there's not really a set up move.
Speaker 1: It's more so just get on the inside shoulder and
Speaker 1: win with that spacing afforded to you based upon the alignment,
Speaker 1: and these guys were driving so hard, anticipating those balls
Speaker 1: in the middle and getting over the top of the
Speaker 1: play before our receivers could make the catch and get going.
Speaker 1: And they're making these windows awfully minuscule for our quarterback
Speaker 1: and receiver to work with, and we just didn't hit
Speaker 1: them consistently. But you had a lot of the same
Speaker 1: where you were. The run action, the curl flat action
Speaker 1: opened up space in the middle, but their corners just
Speaker 1: blanketed our receivers. That's what it came down to on
Speaker 1: a lot of these plays. To me, this is a
Speaker 1: question for I guess a football coach or someone who
Speaker 1: understands the xs and os better than I do. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious what would the adjustment be to that type
Speaker 1: of play from the corner where it's aggressive outside level
Speaker 1: I should say inside leverage, driving in just selling out
Speaker 1: to stop that glance route. I think we may have
Speaker 1: seen some of that later on in the game, and
Speaker 1: we'll cover that here on the podcast. I love that
Speaker 1: first third down conversion to Tyreeke the hook route where
Speaker 1: we are backed up to our own goal line. That's
Speaker 1: a big time catch and throw there. A great pocket
Speaker 1: has you know, the pockets had been really good the
Speaker 1: first two series, and a good rip by two or
Speaker 1: to throw the ball before Tyreek comes out of the break.
Speaker 1: That's a nice adjustment the Chargers made to deepen their
Speaker 1: hook zones, and we found a way to throw it
Speaker 1: in under that hook zone and still get the first down,
Speaker 1: kind of like the Niners did last week with those
Speaker 1: deep drops of Fred Warner. We just didn't hold blocks
Speaker 1: long enough early in the running game, and it happened
Speaker 1: really all over the formation, you know, tackle to tackle.
Speaker 1: We struggled to get the edges sealed. We didn't get
Speaker 1: movement at the point of attack with nearly enough consistency.
Speaker 1: There were some instances, but early in the game not
Speaker 1: at all. I understand the desire to commit to the run,
Speaker 1: but man, it's tough to want to run the ball
Speaker 1: when it's consistently second, nine second and nine second and ten.
Speaker 1: For an offense that has made more hey on first
Speaker 1: on than any other offense in the league this year,
Speaker 1: it's just a different game than we've been playing all
Speaker 1: year long, and so that put them behind the chains
Speaker 1: and just it's tough to get going that way. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and break down the post route that went
Speaker 1: incomplete second and thirteen minus twenty two yard line balance
Speaker 1: one personnel that means two backs, one tight end and
Speaker 1: uh ing Gold was kind of acting as the other
Speaker 1: tied end on the other side of the formation with
Speaker 1: Thurham Smith as both of those guys were attached to
Speaker 1: either side of the line. Scrimmage single back and then
Speaker 1: one receiver to either side of the field. Both Tyreek
Speaker 1: and Jalen are in minus splits, that's where they're inside
Speaker 1: the Numbers waddle to the boundary at the short side,
Speaker 1: Tyreek to the field the wide side, and the Chargers
Speaker 1: are showing two man press coverage with the corners two
Speaker 1: high safeties in that three four base shell. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: do a fake toss along with Ingolds pre snap motion
Speaker 1: that creates this again really nice clean pocket and it
Speaker 1: identifies a safety driving down and creating a middle of
Speaker 1: the field safety, which is where that post route was
Speaker 1: perfect across his face because that boundary safety tries to
Speaker 1: buzz a potential cross from Tyreeke and he runs past
Speaker 1: that and basically takes him out of the play, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's one on one in space
Speaker 1: with Tyreek running full speed and that safety having to
Speaker 1: change directions and it's perfect. That's exactly what you want
Speaker 1: in that look, you freeze it with two loading up
Speaker 1: at his own seventeen. Tyrek is at full speed at
Speaker 1: the thirty five, hasn't broken in yet. The ball is
Speaker 1: out super early before Tyreek makes that move to the post,
Speaker 1: and the ball hits the hash mark at the other
Speaker 1: forty five yard line, and Tyreeke's at the forty six
Speaker 1: yard line just outside the hash so you can tell
Speaker 1: that he like never sees the football. The balls in
Speaker 1: the air, and Tyreek has looked back at the safety
Speaker 1: over the top before the ball hits and that safety
Speaker 1: is falling down. So if he sees it and runs
Speaker 1: under it, I don't think that safety has much of
Speaker 1: a chance to tackle him. Forty five more yards after
Speaker 1: the catch would have been a seventy eight yard touchdown
Speaker 1: if they connect on it. I think it's a tough
Speaker 1: pill to swallow there. And then the next play, I
Speaker 1: think that might have been the first time all year
Speaker 1: I've seen to run Armstead really beat in a one
Speaker 1: on one situation. For that, Kyle Van noiss Ach a
Speaker 1: really nice spin back inside by him. Just that kind
Speaker 1: of night where things would pop up here and there
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the night. I thought they created
Speaker 1: some chances with shifts and motions, but a lot of
Speaker 1: times it was shifting with no one moving at the
Speaker 1: snap where they kind of came set and we run
Speaker 1: the play from there. And then we had that one
Speaker 1: deep shot to Ghisicky against man coverage. I just I'm
Speaker 1: not crazy about that. Look that deep shot, and then
Speaker 1: one later to trent sherfield where he got jammed out
Speaker 1: of out of bounds. Those are the two plays where
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, this might be a longer
Speaker 1: night for the offense because Ghisicky, just his operations not
Speaker 1: quick enough to to run that type of route where
Speaker 1: you're gonna have, you know, you need three or four
Speaker 1: seconds to pump the ball that deep down the field.
Speaker 1: It's not quick enough, the line not quick enough up
Speaker 1: the stem anywhere to make that a possibility of anything
Speaker 1: beyond you know, a fifty fifty high point catch. And
Speaker 1: that's just not to his game. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a square peg round whole situation there. But after that
Speaker 1: deep shot out of bounds to Gisicky, we get a
Speaker 1: nice timing throw on a dig, but the corner is
Speaker 1: driving before the ball is out. They anticipated our throws,
Speaker 1: like we've seen from our offense, anticipate their throws, and
Speaker 1: they were able to contest all those throws and frankly
Speaker 1: win just about all of them. If you can run
Speaker 1: a seven route on them, like a flag or a corner,
Speaker 1: then maybe you prevent that type of squatting. The one
Speaker 1: in particular was a defensive past interference against Waddle and
Speaker 1: that corner part of the field, the flag area is
Speaker 1: completely vacant with a single high safety who's not really
Speaker 1: paying attention to it. So you will see the Dolphins
Speaker 1: come back that later, as we'll get to here in
Speaker 1: a second. But the run game kind of got cranking
Speaker 1: at that point as well. Back to back runs. Uh
Speaker 1: we're big chunk games. The second one being the fumble
Speaker 1: tyreek scoop and score with Rob Jones getting excellent reach
Speaker 1: blocks and staying glued to his blocks on those, and
Speaker 1: then the fumble scoop and score. What a great job
Speaker 1: by Rob Hunt to get push shell climbs up to
Speaker 1: the second level for a big block, but then he
Speaker 1: just kind of leaves his man there and doesn't finish
Speaker 1: the play. And that's actually the guy that forces the fumble,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of a tricky rep there, and you
Speaker 1: also had Dirham Smith wipe out the edge on split
Speaker 1: flow for Wilson to find that big lane. We talked
Speaker 1: about it on the Monday Show. Just great effort and
Speaker 1: finished from Tyreek to find that ball and take it
Speaker 1: all the way around the edge. So despite that early reference,
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead, I thought he had a great game. Still.
Speaker 1: He did get beat later on in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but just so good. He had a great down block
Speaker 1: on a big Wilson run for twenty yards where he
Speaker 1: works down the line, gets a little chip on Robert
Speaker 1: Jones's man and then feels the Sam linebacker scraping up
Speaker 1: over the top and Bank goes and wipes him out too.
Speaker 1: I thought two was first scramble the throwaway and watching
Speaker 1: it back on tape was just an instance of things
Speaker 1: we haven't seen all year at this offense. Both Tyreek
Speaker 1: and Jalen get contact to the top of the route
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of stops, like no secondary move,
Speaker 1: no off script potential to try to make things happen,
Speaker 1: and to was just kind of stuck, forced forced to
Speaker 1: sit there and try to figure it out. It kind
Speaker 1: of reminded me of last year and a little bit
Speaker 1: where we run those one routes that are coming back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and if it's not they're just basically cut,
Speaker 1: baiton and move on. And we saw that a few
Speaker 1: times in this game. I thought, a play later, we
Speaker 1: get a beautiful dig route to Cedric Wilson with great anticipation,
Speaker 1: a throw where the balls out before the receiver clears
Speaker 1: the hook backer meets him right at the chains for
Speaker 1: a big third and ten conversion. On that play, there
Speaker 1: was a potential deep shot open way through it early,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna get too bogged down in that
Speaker 1: great great job and pass pro really throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the night, outstanding work against the four man rush
Speaker 1: on that play, including a stunt completely wiped out by
Speaker 1: Connor Williams and Robert Jones. But as for the one
Speaker 1: to one shot that I thought was there, Waddle has
Speaker 1: a one on one opportunity to the field and got
Speaker 1: on top of his man and stacked him. And like,
Speaker 1: you can't complain about first down conversions on third and ten,
Speaker 1: but I keep wondering how much the chargers have to
Speaker 1: adjust if we can just hit one deep ball early
Speaker 1: in this game, like on that play, then you get
Speaker 1: a false start. Three plays later on third and ten,
Speaker 1: you get the Sherefiel attempt up the sideline. It's punting
Speaker 1: time again. But to A throws that ball when the
Speaker 1: corner jams and flattens because the half field safety to
Speaker 1: that side follows Tyreek into the post, so it clears
Speaker 1: the sideline. I'm thinking that's probably what to I saw
Speaker 1: to take that shot to the sideline, but surefield stops
Speaker 1: and you see the refs hat come off, which means
Speaker 1: he would have been flagged for legal touching. So again
Speaker 1: that kind of night, like you can't go out of
Speaker 1: bounds there because Tyreek held the two men and the coverage,
Speaker 1: we need you to be part of the eligible portion
Speaker 1: of the route because you're taking away pretty much the
Speaker 1: conflict you've created by not being available. It's a big
Speaker 1: miss right there. I thought the Chargers all night long
Speaker 1: did so well with their man coverage of not getting
Speaker 1: caught on rubs, but also like could have seen more
Speaker 1: of them against that coverage, Like think about that Wattle
Speaker 1: deep shot against the Bears that we missed, or the
Speaker 1: slot fade against the lines that we hit to Wattle
Speaker 1: plays like that where it's kind of like a natural
Speaker 1: rub for the receiver. So you're gonna play press man
Speaker 1: and you want to get rubbed against guys like Wattle
Speaker 1: and Hill. It's a tough way to make a living man.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to Connor Williams a game because
Speaker 1: he was excellent once again the way he attaches himself
Speaker 1: to blocks in the running game. He's got a top
Speaker 1: ten run block win win rate according to ESPN. I
Speaker 1: thought we saw plenty of that in this game. Reach blocks,
Speaker 1: down blocks, holding the point, not letting guys get off
Speaker 1: of his initial block. Another really great game from Connor
Speaker 1: Willie him the dig that was broken up to Mike
Speaker 1: Gisicky on the drive before the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle runs the corner open and throws the mailbox
Speaker 1: up right where the hand goes up. Hey, I'm open
Speaker 1: and right when he throws the mailbox up to what
Speaker 1: was already throwing the football took a siki, so just
Speaker 1: up and down the tape. It's different things like I
Speaker 1: don't look at it as some talent deficiency or something
Speaker 1: unfixable at all. It makes more sense to me what
Speaker 1: coach said on Sunday about not playing up to their
Speaker 1: talent level and to their standard just on a play
Speaker 1: by play basis, something would go wrong at various spots
Speaker 1: throughout the night, and that's how you wind up with
Speaker 1: a comprehensively underwhelming offensive showing something we haven't seen much
Speaker 1: of all year. Because Twa throws the ball to the
Speaker 1: one guy that was kind of covered. You had an
Speaker 1: out route open in a corner route for a potential
Speaker 1: like forty plus yard play to Waddle. We gotta hit
Speaker 1: those hit him last year. It's like the Baltimore game,
Speaker 1: right that corner route, the Titans game, that corner oute
Speaker 1: to Waddle, similar throws, similar openings like that. We have
Speaker 1: to find a way to exploit that area of the
Speaker 1: field because teams are leaving that open, or I should
Speaker 1: say the Chargers left that open all night long, and
Speaker 1: I think teams will do it going forward. We'll see,
Speaker 1: but that's my expectation. And just as I say that,
Speaker 1: we get false execution on a deep ball. The motion
Speaker 1: man holds the safety showing half field help to Tyreek
Speaker 1: side who's in a plus split. But Tyreek takes the
Speaker 1: outside release and two holds that safety just enough inside
Speaker 1: by peeking to the short side of the field, and
Speaker 1: then he comes right back to Tyreeke and lets it go.
Speaker 1: With Tyreke only five yards off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: The ball descends twenty eight yards downfield, right on the money,
Speaker 1: and Tyreek never really stacked the dB, who did a
Speaker 1: good job staying in phase, but it's a perfect ball,
Speaker 1: gets his feet tangled and we get a cruise in touchdown.
Speaker 1: Big time, throw a good catch and good pass pro
Speaker 1: all around. I go back to Connor Williams here opens
Speaker 1: another big lane for a long raheem roaster run on
Speaker 1: the next possession, and then to us scrambles. I thought
Speaker 1: we're a big part of the offensive. Uh some of
Speaker 1: the positives they did where he break those clean pockets
Speaker 1: with a good downfield coverage and made three big plays
Speaker 1: of those legs. That's an added element we haven't seen
Speaker 1: much of this year. Big big time to get that
Speaker 1: from the quarterback, especially against man coverage. That same possession,
Speaker 1: as the first scramble to a has wattle on those
Speaker 1: little skinny posts we've hit all year, but some interior
Speaker 1: pressure forces him to sidestep and by the time we
Speaker 1: come back to look at it, it's too late to
Speaker 1: take a check down, ball goes in complete. Next play
Speaker 1: is the sacks, so you see a bit of the
Speaker 1: protection issues pop up late in the game. As part
Speaker 1: of the equation, McDaniel had mentioned they started running a
Speaker 1: lot more outbreaking routes as the game went on. Talked
Speaker 1: about that corners comebacks out that type of thing. So
Speaker 1: I think that's an encouraging sign of endgame adjustments of
Speaker 1: the Chargers playing that aggressive inside leverage from that man coverage.
Speaker 1: Look that speed out to waddle the catch and run
Speaker 1: for twenty or whatever it was. Nineteen is a good
Speaker 1: example of that for a completion. But some of two
Speaker 1: US scrambles came on those types of route combos. I
Speaker 1: think a week back home to work on that stuff
Speaker 1: and obviously fine tune the rest of the offense. I
Speaker 1: still feel good about them getting back on track because
Speaker 1: of that, But that was kind of kind of at
Speaker 1: the point. The screen of Tyreek Hill on third and
Speaker 1: a mile came with twelve oh eight to play in
Speaker 1: the game. They didn't get the football back until two
Speaker 1: forty to go down by two scores, so tough to
Speaker 1: overcome that. I think it's fixable. They have to make
Speaker 1: an adjustment. Teams are gonna play this way against you
Speaker 1: now going forward, take advantage and work driving the ball
Speaker 1: to the perimeter. Whip routes, flag routes, corners, comebacks, double
Speaker 1: moves back to the corner. That's how I think you
Speaker 1: can beat teams out of the style and get them
Speaker 1: back into playing the zone that you tore up all
Speaker 1: year long as a result. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break and come back and get to the
Speaker 1: defense on the next side. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: So we heard about the offense. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: pick it up with the defensive performance from the dolphins
Speaker 1: seventeen defeat at the l A. Chargers, and they gave
Speaker 1: a ton of attention to Bradley Chubbing this game. Man.
Speaker 1: He got chips all night long. That and getting wide
Speaker 1: against our initial rush I thought were the keys, whether
Speaker 1: it was designed or off script. And he didn't really
Speaker 1: help with that because he kept jumping inside against those
Speaker 1: outside runs or against plays where there was no other
Speaker 1: outside contained the pocket for Justin Herbert, who would get
Speaker 1: out there again. Whether it was a design bootleg or
Speaker 1: against you know, off script, jump outside the B gap
Speaker 1: and have all that space to operate with and process,
Speaker 1: you know, not just half the field for a quarterback
Speaker 1: that expands the field on those plays because of the
Speaker 1: arm strength, but just having him free to to either
Speaker 1: do that or run the football, which then puts your
Speaker 1: perimeter cornerbacks in a bunch of apparel. So it was
Speaker 1: kind of two fold for those mistakes that kept offering
Speaker 1: those opportunities for that charger offense, and it creates some
Speaker 1: big plays for them. And man, we just I don't
Speaker 1: know what much what more you can do with how
Speaker 1: many injuries are in the secondary. I know it's like
Speaker 1: other teams have injury issues as well, but you see
Speaker 1: it every single week, playing so soft bell out coverage
Speaker 1: giving the quarterback really simple solutions to some of the
Speaker 1: answers or to some of the problems. I should say
Speaker 1: that the past rush creates because they are getting into
Speaker 1: the quarterback so quickly, you know, two point three or
Speaker 1: two point four, two and a half seconds. Pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but he's got answers, and that's part of
Speaker 1: the secondary, you know, not marrying up with the rush
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, you have to find a better way,
Speaker 1: I think during of the hots and the answers of
Speaker 1: the offense to let this rush flourish and really give
Speaker 1: you the production that at the level they're playing with,
Speaker 1: because right now it's not happening. And I think it's
Speaker 1: because a lot of it has to do with that.
Speaker 1: On the second level, man I love Zack healer swim
Speaker 1: move and his dip and rip package. He wins so
Speaker 1: many reps those two particular types of moves against the
Speaker 1: run or the pass rush and then the dirty work
Speaker 1: where he holds the point of attack against double teams.
Speaker 1: Such a selfless player, man, he doesn't go outside the
Speaker 1: scheme looking to make a play in those types of plays,
Speaker 1: just does his job, drops the anchor so others can
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And we covered it plenty on
Speaker 1: the Monday Show. But man, Christian Wilkins, what a night
Speaker 1: he had. He's winning in every conceivable way. Quickness, first off,
Speaker 1: the ball, redirect, retrace, power, speed to power everything. He's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: and it's from every position to like a lot of
Speaker 1: these are three techniques off the outside shoulder of either guard.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the four technique, the inside shoulder of the tackle.
Speaker 1: But on this particular play, excuse me, the Chargers opening drive,
Speaker 1: he plays the five technique kind of a uh who
Speaker 1: plays that spot a lot? I don't know, you'll see,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess Nick Bosa plays sometimes there for
Speaker 1: the Niners when he's not in the wide nine. But
Speaker 1: it's a defensive end position and they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: pull the split flow tight end split action coming back
Speaker 1: the other direction, and he goes in there and just
Speaker 1: wax him, puts him on the ground and then takes
Speaker 1: him right into the running back after turn of the
Speaker 1: corner and makes a play on the running back. So
Speaker 1: it's it's power, it's speed, it's recognition, it's smarts, it's everything. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just a random note here after watching some d B
Speaker 1: blitz as we sure do miss Brandon Jones is blitzing
Speaker 1: and the way he timed it up to help the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense maintain their disguise on defense because there's just
Speaker 1: too many instances now where they show it before or
Speaker 1: where it's too early and the offense can I D
Speaker 1: that and find their hot route because they run the
Speaker 1: line have to stop in the quarterback and make his
Speaker 1: checks from there. That happened, I thought too frequently in
Speaker 1: this game. Kator Co who made the big stop on
Speaker 1: that fourth down on the opening drive, but he was
Speaker 1: a big part of the tackle on that third down
Speaker 1: as well. Him and xaviing Howard both got through blocks
Speaker 1: to make that play the same way that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: play action offense can suck up linebackers and create those
Speaker 1: intermediate throwing lanes. The Chargers had way too much success
Speaker 1: doing that in this game. Some of it was just
Speaker 1: way too easy, like day one install stuff against air
Speaker 1: almost where xaviing Howard's playing inside leverage note with his
Speaker 1: butt to the sideline. Free access to the inside from
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, who just runs the simplest you know, free release,
Speaker 1: take the inside access dig route. Uh, put X on
Speaker 1: your back, cut it across the middle into an empty box.
Speaker 1: There's no linebackers there. Javon Hollands twenty five yards off
Speaker 1: the football, not threatened to play whatsoever. Easy pitch and
Speaker 1: catch for like a fifteen eighteen yard game. Whatever it was,
Speaker 1: I just wrote down. It was a rough tape for
Speaker 1: key on Cross and he kept getting kind of picked
Speaker 1: on some of those quick throws. That's the best call
Speaker 1: the night defensively from a from Josh Boyer's perspective, was
Speaker 1: Christian wilkins sack because Bradley Chubb falls right into the
Speaker 1: curl flat that Herbert wanted to go to. They drop eight,
Speaker 1: and you saw him kind of panic in the pocket
Speaker 1: despite just the three man rush. He has nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins has a great second effort after his initial
Speaker 1: rush is thwarted and he gets in for the sack.
Speaker 1: What a game from nine. He'll be in the notes
Speaker 1: a few more times, so will Jalen Phillips and his
Speaker 1: work on those backside stretch runs away from him. Sure
Speaker 1: do put the athletic ability on display. He can angle
Speaker 1: in there and stay tight into the line so he
Speaker 1: doesn't overrun the play and get those running plays to
Speaker 1: the ground as well as anybody in the business. That
Speaker 1: sack at the end of the first half was more
Speaker 1: a display of athleticism where you know, one of the
Speaker 1: quickest sacks in the NFL, where it's a short corner,
Speaker 1: great get off, finished the play in like two seconds.
Speaker 1: You just don't see that very often. After the Mike
Speaker 1: Williams touchdown on the next drive. After that, he comes
Speaker 1: in and makes another great play where he sets that
Speaker 1: edge and I talked about it on the podcast on Monday.
Speaker 1: Keep the outside arm free, play your inside shoulder into
Speaker 1: the tackle, get that outside arm free so you can
Speaker 1: get off the block and make the play. That's two
Speaker 1: for one right there. From one player, he is exceptional.
Speaker 1: I thought the Eric ro sack was a great job
Speaker 1: by two safeties him to engage the tackle and pass
Speaker 1: pro and then work back inside with eyes on the
Speaker 1: quarterback to recognize that Herbert had stepped away from that
Speaker 1: initial surge and tried to roll out again. But Rowe
Speaker 1: was quick enough to get off the block and make
Speaker 1: that play where some of our ends we're not able
Speaker 1: to do that with those initial pass rush surges inside.
Speaker 1: And then he finishes attackle really well on Herbert gets
Speaker 1: the legs wrap pulling to the ground, and then there
Speaker 1: was a crossing route that I thought Herbert wanted to
Speaker 1: go to, but Javon Holland felt it the entire way
Speaker 1: and left his post and cut it off and it
Speaker 1: forced Herbert to eat it for the sack. Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: hand usage is so good. Gets an immediate pressure by
Speaker 1: just swiping the hands away when guys are not flushed
Speaker 1: when they're not square like you see in a bear tech,
Speaker 1: a bare front where you have you know, head up
Speaker 1: over the center and the two guards. When Wilkins has
Speaker 1: just one show or two attack, guys don't punch him
Speaker 1: with a two handed punch or even a one handed
Speaker 1: punch and get effective hand usage because he's so quick
Speaker 1: to swipe those away from him. That I thought about
Speaker 1: big time in this game. I thought there were too
Speaker 1: many too easy solution situations for the Chargers offense, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, a third and four on their own,
Speaker 1: fifteen the dry before the half ten seven game, you're
Speaker 1: feeling like you're back in it, and they run Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen in motion and no, and he goes with him.
Speaker 1: We blitz to that side and it vacase the entire area.
Speaker 1: It gives Herbert knowledge of where the vacancy and the
Speaker 1: defense is going to go. It's the easiest catching throw
Speaker 1: of his career, and he had a few of those
Speaker 1: in this game. Some of these d B blitz is
Speaker 1: just served to leave us shorthanded, where Kater comes in
Speaker 1: on blitz mrs the sack and now Herbert says, okay, well,
Speaker 1: he was covering keenan Allen. I'll throw it to number
Speaker 1: thirteen all alone for eight more yards third and ten.
Speaker 1: That same drive from the plus twenty seven again a
Speaker 1: chance to get off the field, keep it a one
Speaker 1: score game. Herbert breaks contained after a pass rush win
Speaker 1: from Phillips, But then we're just covering grass. It was crossing.
Speaker 1: Was trying to determine whether to come up and make
Speaker 1: a play on the quarterback and a running game, or
Speaker 1: to fall back into cover. She winds up doing neither,
Speaker 1: stays flatfooded, and Herbert throws it over his head for
Speaker 1: a conversion that sequenced in the first half was a
Speaker 1: rough man. You get a Philip sack, a great pressure
Speaker 1: by Chub and Wilkins to force a bad screen setup
Speaker 1: which allows Rohaw to come from depth and make another TfL.
Speaker 1: But then the sixteen yards on third and goal from
Speaker 1: the seventeen. It's a four point play man, and it
Speaker 1: changes the entire equation of the game, doesn't it. Like
Speaker 1: at the snap, you've got three players five yards deep
Speaker 1: in the end zone. I don't. I don't get that.
Speaker 1: Five players at the two yard line, three rushing and
Speaker 1: this allows the Chargers offensive line to get out in space.
Speaker 1: Without having to worry about getting the initial block because
Speaker 1: Herbert just did it on his own with the space
Speaker 1: because he could, and it allows those three guys to
Speaker 1: essentially be not part of the play. And then you
Speaker 1: get a convoy of offensive lineman, three fifteen pound guys
Speaker 1: going downhill against a buck ninety weighing defensive backs. It
Speaker 1: was is bad opening drive. The second half, another sterling
Speaker 1: open field tackle by Kater cohogs the defense off the field.
Speaker 1: That's every week with this kid. I thought Jerome Baker's
Speaker 1: found a nice groove in the middle part of the season.
Speaker 1: He was covering a lot of ground in space. His
Speaker 1: tackle on Eckler on that third and goal long or
Speaker 1: third and goal long play say the touchdown, even though
Speaker 1: they score in the falling play. He did a good
Speaker 1: job on Herbert when he would roll out wide. Baker
Speaker 1: also has some nice reps coming down off the edge
Speaker 1: and playing more of an on ball sam linebacker type
Speaker 1: of position. We've seen him do that a few times
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Did it some more in this game.
Speaker 1: The second Philip sec which was negated, was the best
Speaker 1: pass rush rep I think of his career. They send
Speaker 1: a chip out wide to him on his outside shoulder,
Speaker 1: and he changes his rush path from a wide look
Speaker 1: to a foot in the ground, spin back inside right
Speaker 1: when the tackle throws the punch get him leaning out
Speaker 1: over a skis run that b gap right into the
Speaker 1: quarterback for the sack. An awesome clip and I don't
Speaker 1: think you can ask him to change one thing about it,
Speaker 1: even though he got flagged. Perfect rep from Phillips. He
Speaker 1: then gets in on the next play and teams up
Speaker 1: with Melvin Ingram and Christian Wilkins for a hit on
Speaker 1: the quarterback and man Herbert tried to throw it away
Speaker 1: but his arm gets hit and the ball still lands
Speaker 1: safely away from any defenders. We had a couple of
Speaker 1: plays like that where I thought, oh, we might get
Speaker 1: a cheap pick here, but it just was not meant
Speaker 1: to be. And that happened all throughout the night. I
Speaker 1: thought Xavian Howard had great coverage on that second deep
Speaker 1: shot to Mike Williams was just a perfect throw, but
Speaker 1: touch him down. At the same time, we saw Javon
Speaker 1: Holland's closing speed on a route by the back for
Speaker 1: the second straight week. Right after that big play, similar
Speaker 1: play too, right before they kicked the field goal to
Speaker 1: go up fourteen. They had Eckler and the flat after
Speaker 1: motioning across and Javan has to run all the way
Speaker 1: across the field again McCaffrey and he took away the
Speaker 1: option this time where the Niners through it and completed
Speaker 1: it short of the sticks. Herbert goes to a second
Speaker 1: and it's well covered there by Elijah Campbell in the
Speaker 1: end zone and he throws it high. How about Campbell's
Speaker 1: special teams played by the way, two huge plays by
Speaker 1: him there and a third down in completion force in
Speaker 1: the red zone. And then once again there's Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: getting off the ball first, winning across face Canna tackle
Speaker 1: for lost to play away from him. What a player
Speaker 1: he is. That sets up a big third and three
Speaker 1: where cater Co who occupies two blocks in space and
Speaker 1: a screen pass and keeps Jerome Baker clean and make
Speaker 1: the stop. What a play by both of those guys.
Speaker 1: So it was two times the defense got back to
Speaker 1: the offense down by six. Just couldn't find the complimentary
Speaker 1: nature of the game all night long. And then it
Speaker 1: comes down to that last drive and how heartbreaking was
Speaker 1: that one third and five over elevenments? To play fifteen
Speaker 1: yard line co who's right there, But it's a perfect pass.
Speaker 1: Just a million moments the last two weeks, we can't
Speaker 1: help but think what if we got that play, just
Speaker 1: that one, that was one of them. Then eight forty
Speaker 1: to go in the game, third and three, another one
Speaker 1: of those man beaters, with a quick throw to the
Speaker 1: motion man running away from us, the snap, easy pick up.
Speaker 1: It's chunk gains after that end of field goal range
Speaker 1: to all but ice it. But then you get life
Speaker 1: a fumbled snap, but they get it back and we
Speaker 1: get life again with the field goal and the on
Speaker 1: side kick and the original muff. But we can't land
Speaker 1: on it. Frustrating game that seemed like it had its
Speaker 1: moments to see it just never happened. Even when the
Speaker 1: Charges held the ball for two thirds of the game
Speaker 1: and nearly doubled up our yards total, it felt like
Speaker 1: Miami had chances. I'm not sure what the solution is.
Speaker 1: If I did, I guess I'd be working a different
Speaker 1: job in football. But it seems to be the same
Speaker 1: issues that offenses find success against the Dolphins and the
Speaker 1: games they lose, struggling to finish early down successes and
Speaker 1: the third down opportunities to get off the field, largely
Speaker 1: with the pass rush getting in but then missing the sack.
Speaker 1: And then it's the quarterback on the move against a
Speaker 1: secondary that has been stretched out by a broken play.
Speaker 1: Then those long drives, quarterback taking what's there and just
Speaker 1: staying on the field milk and the clock shorten the
Speaker 1: game and forcing our guys to play seven or eight snaps.
Speaker 1: That's your offensive and defensive film review. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and cover a few of the stats before we get
Speaker 1: to Mike McDaniel two of just one for seven on
Speaker 1: twenty plus air yard throws for six d yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, the one tyreek obviously just two for six,
Speaker 1: and the intermediate for twenty five yards. It's a lot
Speaker 1: like last year's stat line there. That's a killer combined,
Speaker 1: just three for thirteen on ten plus yard throws for
Speaker 1: eighty five yards and a touchdown. The ball was out
Speaker 1: quick in bowl scenarios two point three seven seconds in
Speaker 1: the deep shots two point three to the intermediate. He
Speaker 1: was two for six when he was blitzed for sixty
Speaker 1: yards and the touchdown when he was not blitzed, eight
Speaker 1: for twenty two and eighty five yards pressured three for
Speaker 1: eight for twenty six yards. For the first time in
Speaker 1: a while, He's not top of the league in passer rating.
Speaker 1: He's point two points behind Jalen Hurst for the league
Speaker 1: lead one oh eight point four to one oh eight
Speaker 1: point two. He's second total QBR behind Mahomes and third
Speaker 1: and e p A per play behind Alan and Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He dropped a second in touchdown right behind Mahomes by
Speaker 1: a tenth of a point six five to six four.
Speaker 1: He's seventh and lowest I n T rate, sixth and
Speaker 1: lowest sack rate. I give you these as a way
Speaker 1: to remind you it's been a very fruitful offensive season
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. Two games. Don't just wipe that away.
Speaker 1: Abnormally low receiving numbers, as you can imagine, Tyreek leaves
Speaker 1: the way with eight point one yards per target, lower
Speaker 1: than se an average, still a good number. Three point
Speaker 1: to four yards per route rand is still fantastic. He
Speaker 1: seems impervious to slumps even when the offense is not clicking.
Speaker 1: Waddle just seven yards per target another week with the
Speaker 1: low y p PR one point one one is criminally
Speaker 1: low for Jylan Waddle. Jeff Wilson was at one point
Speaker 1: seven three and nobody else cleared one or even point
Speaker 1: three three for that matter. Trent Sherfield, we saw the
Speaker 1: least amount of separation all year. Next Gen had them
Speaker 1: playing press on half of Tyreek snaps against him, similar
Speaker 1: number for Jalan Waddle. These two last two weeks are
Speaker 1: pretty unique in terms of the defensive styles compared to
Speaker 1: how most of the league operates. But it's not like
Speaker 1: it's something they never do and just started doing it. Remember,
Speaker 1: the Chargers signed one of the best man cover corners
Speaker 1: from football and J. C. Jackson, and they clearly coached
Speaker 1: up their depth to play with that style and play
Speaker 1: it well. In the game on Sunday, most Aret had
Speaker 1: three point three six yards after initial contact on four
Speaker 1: misstackles on eleven rush attempts. That's very good. Pressures allowed
Speaker 1: just six too, Ron one, Rob Jones to Hunt one,
Speaker 1: and Shell to Williams with none. Defensively, Phillips had seven pressures,
Speaker 1: Chubb had six, Wilkins, war Row three, Cohu and Baker
Speaker 1: two apiece. Seven guys had one thirty one total pressures.
Speaker 1: We have to finish those man run stops. Phillips and
Speaker 1: Wilkins had five apiece, Baker and Roe had four cohu
Speaker 1: and Steler had three apiece, Holland and e Rob had two,
Speaker 1: and four guys had one. Xavian Howard played fifty eight
Speaker 1: coverage snaps one hundred and six yards. He drew Mike
Speaker 1: Williams eighty two percent of the time per next Gen,
Speaker 1: and gave up three catches on ninety seven yards, all
Speaker 1: of those on vertical routes against single high coverage. That's
Speaker 1: where your star cornerback needs to excel, and he did
Speaker 1: in this game. Katr co who fifty six snaps eighty
Speaker 1: three yards, key on crossing thirty seven snaps thirty six yards.
Speaker 1: And that's short stats from this game for Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break and come
Speaker 1: back on the other side. And here from head coach
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel. That's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Before we hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel, let's go ahead and list the
Speaker 1: snap counts from the game. What we learned from those
Speaker 1: uh In this Chargers defeat the entire offensive line and
Speaker 1: the quarterback went wire to wire. Hasn't happened very frequently
Speaker 1: the season, but does in this one snaps for all
Speaker 1: six players. Waddle leads all receivers, playing eighty four percent. Tyreek,
Speaker 1: of course, managing the injuries and the ankle that he
Speaker 1: had thirty four snaps good for two thirds of the workload,
Speaker 1: and then Sherfield, so again those top three guys pretty consistently.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson gets twenty snaps, that's of the workload, and
Speaker 1: then Freddie Swain played seven snaps in the game. At
Speaker 1: tight end. Dirham Smith leads away with thirty snaps. Might
Speaker 1: get sick, he plays twenty in the game. Alec Ingold
Speaker 1: also gives you twenty at full back and in the
Speaker 1: running back position most diret plays seventy. After the Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson injury, he of course played just eight snaps in
Speaker 1: the game, and savon Akmed gives you five, so pretty
Speaker 1: much the same story. On offense, you go to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Holland played all eighty snaps. Man,
Speaker 1: he's getting his money's worth this year. Isn't name kator
Speaker 1: cohu Xaviing Howard played all but one snaps in the game.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker missed just four snaps in the game, seventy
Speaker 1: six total for him. And then we get those two
Speaker 1: guys up front that never leave the field at tough position.
Speaker 1: Seeler sixty seven snaps, Wilkins Sixte's six good for eighty
Speaker 1: four and eighty two percent of the workload. Phillips gives
Speaker 1: you fifty nine. So it's just those three guys have
Speaker 1: been so reliable. Eric Rowe with the injury, played two
Speaker 1: thirds of the snaps fifty three in the game. Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb played fifty. Keion Crossing was on the field for
Speaker 1: forty four snaps. That's that's more than half of the
Speaker 1: snaps of the cornerback position, and Elijah Campbell gave me
Speaker 1: twenty five snaps in the defensive back will Veron McKinley
Speaker 1: playing sixteen and Clayton Federal was out there for three
Speaker 1: as well. Other linebackers, Roberts played forty three, just over
Speaker 1: half of the snaps. Melvin Ingram pretty familiar or I
Speaker 1: should say, uh ordinary snap count for him thirty seven
Speaker 1: in this game. Duke Riley similar story, twenty six for him.
Speaker 1: Van Ginkl, Jenkins and Vernon McKinley all played sixteen snaps.
Speaker 1: And then Justin Zimmer gave you eight and Sam egg
Speaker 1: Von gave you once. Not a ton to learn from there.
Speaker 1: I think injuries is kind of the key, uh takeaway
Speaker 1: there in terms of how many guys were called upon
Speaker 1: to play crucial snaps. But that's your snap counts for
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel on Monday, who' said the Toronto
Speaker 1: armstead came out of the game film pretty good, so
Speaker 1: that's a good sign. As far as playing through that
Speaker 1: peck strand that he suffered mentioned Tyreek Hill did a
Speaker 1: good job of toughing it out, but he'll come in
Speaker 1: for treatment this week and from all indications it's just
Speaker 1: bumps and bruises and he should be able to work
Speaker 1: through it this week. Eric Rowe seems more up in
Speaker 1: the air day to day type of stuff and we'll
Speaker 1: have time to figure out this week. Same story for
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, who's also day to day. They avoided catastrophe,
Speaker 1: as coach said, we'll see about his availability this week.
Speaker 1: I want to play four sound bites here from Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel too. Are this kind of question and follow up
Speaker 1: will go ahead and play those back to back. He
Speaker 1: was asked about the importance of these must win games
Speaker 1: and how you kind of manage the team and message
Speaker 1: the your messaging to the team, I should say about
Speaker 1: these very important lace season games, and then he was
Speaker 1: asked to follow up, is that on the players exclusively?
Speaker 1: Here's coach one to back to back answers. I think
Speaker 1: you have to you try your best to condition your team.
Speaker 1: UM that that is always the case, only because you
Speaker 1: don't um, you're not promised anything and you don't know
Speaker 1: how things are gonna layout. I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the the my approach has been to two make sure
Speaker 1: that the each game, UM, you know, especially since the bye,
Speaker 1: each game was treated uh with the severity of a
Speaker 1: playoff game. UM. And you know, I think that that's
Speaker 1: something that a young team, you're you're worried about. UM.
Speaker 1: I think our our team has looked at things in
Speaker 1: terms of preparation, UM, and intent has looked at the
Speaker 1: past couple of games that way. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think part of where we're at, you know, sitting on
Speaker 1: a two game losing streak, has to do with um,
Speaker 1: you know, certain guys possibly pressing, pressing UM and playing
Speaker 1: outside of the outside of the scheme to a degree,
Speaker 1: UM to try to make plays and and you you know,
Speaker 1: really down the stretch of a season, it will always
Speaker 1: be this way. Every game will always matter in December
Speaker 1: and January if you're in contention because you're talking about UM, seeding,
Speaker 1: home field advantage, UM, all of those things. On top
Speaker 1: of you want to be playing your best ball. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're able to make the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be going in there limping into the tournament.
Speaker 1: So I think you know that it's been very, very
Speaker 1: valuable UM experience, UH going against UM specifically the last
Speaker 1: the last two weeks against some playoff caliber teams. And
Speaker 1: you know, whether or not that benefits us moving forward
Speaker 1: is for the team to determine. Do you learn from it?
Speaker 1: You know it's the hardest part of professional sports, UM,
Speaker 1: but football specifically, you do so much prep for your
Speaker 1: seventeen ops, right you you worked that whole week, UM,
Speaker 1: and then when the result doesn't end up the way
Speaker 1: you want it, UM, it's a lot easier to point
Speaker 1: fingers or give reasons UM, because you know, bottom line
Speaker 1: is it it's hard to UM. It's hard to digest
Speaker 1: that failure. You're talking a lot of waking hours and
Speaker 1: determination a lot of people in a concerted effort, and
Speaker 1: you fail, um at the at the task at hand.
Speaker 1: But those can be um the best things. And I've
Speaker 1: certainly been on teams where uh it's it's been the
Speaker 1: whole reason we were able to um get into the
Speaker 1: playoffs and do damage in the playoffs, UM and progress
Speaker 1: through the playoffs was because they they were able to
Speaker 1: take one or two of those um you know, late November, December,
Speaker 1: January law uses and learn from it. So that that's
Speaker 1: the that's the objective of the team right now. UM
Speaker 1: from my standpoint is to identify and um and avoid
Speaker 1: you know, the natural human reaction which is like, oh
Speaker 1: this hurts too much, this is this is too hard
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, I'm I'm not going to invest
Speaker 1: as much emotionally. No, this is this is where um
Speaker 1: you get to find out a lot about coaches, players
Speaker 1: and and really everybody we're working with, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity um uh that we have right
Speaker 1: now and moving forward, is that all on the players
Speaker 1: were is there something new and your staff can do
Speaker 1: to make sure they don't absolutely not. It's not all
Speaker 1: all the players. It's far from it. UM. I think
Speaker 1: the ideal what you really want in in your football
Speaker 1: team is you want the players to think it's all
Speaker 1: the players, and you want the coaches to think it's
Speaker 1: all the coaches, and it's somewhere in between. But not I.
Speaker 1: It's the furthest from that. I I don't UM, you know.
Speaker 1: I I try to lead by example, and I'm ill.
Speaker 1: I'm always the first one to be super critical of
Speaker 1: every single decision, you know, every single you know, trying
Speaker 1: to find the wise of why we're not performing. That's
Speaker 1: that's my job, UM, and and the job I don't
Speaker 1: think it's done very well when you're like, ah, it's
Speaker 1: somebody else's fault, you know, that's that. No, that's not
Speaker 1: how UM. It's trying to identify and trying to learn from.
Speaker 1: Because what I do know is the I've never witnessed,
Speaker 1: UM firsthand, any sort of team that hasn't gone through
Speaker 1: some sort of turmoil, adversity or UM losing games that
Speaker 1: they feel they're very capable of winning, or UM any
Speaker 1: of those things. I've never been around a team that's
Speaker 1: not gone through that and then had success you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay the piper at some point. UM. This
Speaker 1: is what what the National Football League is about. It
Speaker 1: is it's about UM giving your all, um, and when
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, getting better from it, not worse.
Speaker 1: So we have to find a way to do that. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, I was hoping that that would be the
Speaker 1: case this past game. It wasn't. So does that UM,
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I see it as an opportunity
Speaker 1: really because that that's I know that the only formula
Speaker 1: for the ultimate end result that everyone aspires for, the
Speaker 1: only formulas to go through that and come out the
Speaker 1: opposite end, um, uh, getting better from it, not worse.
Speaker 1: Two more here for head coach Mike McDaniel. He was
Speaker 1: asked what was the issue point blank also about how
Speaker 1: do you get the run game going? His answer was
Speaker 1: long and in depth, and I thought very you know,
Speaker 1: very instructive about how he thinks about two games losing streak.
Speaker 1: We talk about a frustrating uh, a frustrating UM film
Speaker 1: to watch. Was you know, just just taking that to
Speaker 1: the face because UM, you know, I think we're I
Speaker 1: think we're capable of UH executing on a multitude of
Speaker 1: fronts that we didn't and so then my job is
Speaker 1: to really assess, you know, what are the common denominators.
Speaker 1: One thing that stood out, UM on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball were UM in certain situations. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there were guys went from playing within their assignment on
Speaker 1: both offense and defense to getting into a mode where hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the play. And that is and understandable
Speaker 1: emotion from competitors that are highly invested. But you have
Speaker 1: to learn UM sometimes the hard way. And and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the case with us yesterday,
Speaker 1: that that you don't you don't do that UM in
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven football, Uh, with with any sort of
Speaker 1: consistency or success. So I saw UM, you know guys
Speaker 1: guys kind of you know on offense maybe uh maybe
Speaker 1: adjusting a route or um, you know, trying to strain
Speaker 1: another revolution before looking for the ball, or um maybe
Speaker 1: uh attacking a read that you know it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: primary in the progression or maybe UM. There was a
Speaker 1: couple instances of of guys really trying to UM engulf
Speaker 1: the defender at the expense of you know what our
Speaker 1: foundational techniques of how to how to block people and
Speaker 1: as a result, kind of got out of position. UM. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I saw guys be very um gap sound and and
Speaker 1: and rushed conscious when uh in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback, but then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: UM in one series, uh, you know, avoiding rush lanes
Speaker 1: or um, you know, jumping out of gaps. It wasn't
Speaker 1: one player, it wasn't one position, it wasn't um, it
Speaker 1: wasn't one side of the ball. So to me, that's
Speaker 1: very telling UM in terms of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys pressing UM, and you know, the job of the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, the job of the players, all of us
Speaker 1: collectively is to identify why and fix it because it's
Speaker 1: not no one else is going to fix it for us,
Speaker 1: and if we want different results, we're gonna have to UM,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of address things that are difficult. It's
Speaker 1: difficult to um, like I said before, fully invested into
Speaker 1: something and then fall short. But to me, that's where
Speaker 1: people are made or broken this league. It's how you
Speaker 1: respond to stuff. It's not no coincidence that my first
Speaker 1: mantras adversity as an opportunity. I saw you see this
Speaker 1: coming a mile away, and this you're not void of
Speaker 1: this UM in any sort of successful season. This is
Speaker 1: the name of the game. But you have to be
Speaker 1: able to UM as a group, have a collection of
Speaker 1: people that are willing to be accountable UM and and
Speaker 1: UH while also you know, being able to handle that
Speaker 1: that emotional letdown because it's a lot of investment guys,
Speaker 1: I mean guys were guys were in the tank. They
Speaker 1: did not expect that result. But the National Football League
Speaker 1: you have to learn that when certain things don't get done,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't expect anything less. That was a good football
Speaker 1: team that that had UM, that had all of their
Speaker 1: reasons to go ahead and try to win that game,
Speaker 1: and you know what they did. You have to live
Speaker 1: with that. I think if you UM, I think you
Speaker 1: have a chance UM to be happy with your game, season, year, career.
Speaker 1: If in those moments you say, okay, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is hard, that means this is just my style.
Speaker 1: I'm well willing to look look at myself in the
Speaker 1: mirror and see how we can adjust. UM and to me, UM,
Speaker 1: you all of those things will handle themselves if collectively
Speaker 1: we're able to do We're able to do that. It's
Speaker 1: a tough task, but you know, winning stuff. Last question
Speaker 1: here from Mike McDaniel. He was asked, is this something
Speaker 1: where in self scouting you need to make philosophical changes
Speaker 1: or just do what you do better? Here's Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: You know, I would be very worried if within uh
Speaker 1: you know, the framework of the things that we've been
Speaker 1: working on since August, if there wasn't answers through technique. UM.
Speaker 1: But as far as uh, you know, I don't look
Speaker 1: at any game. I look at every single game is
Speaker 1: how to apply our techniques. Um. But you don't you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily give the same presentation or you know that
Speaker 1: there's you're always adjusting to defenses that never stops. UM.
Speaker 1: And I think yet, yeah, you look at you take
Speaker 1: a hard look at, um why stuff isn't working. And
Speaker 1: I think you'd be a fool to continue to do
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't work. Um. You're trying to find the
Speaker 1: right formula for your matchups and and various things, UM well,
Speaker 1: positioning your players to be successful. Um. And UM, just
Speaker 1: I I don't look at it any different when you
Speaker 1: know you guys are high five and a productive offensive day,
Speaker 1: that that's in the past. To me, Um, that means
Speaker 1: nothing for the next opponent, um, And and you have
Speaker 1: to find a way to for your players to be
Speaker 1: successful against the next opponent. So that that is very
Speaker 1: much at the forefront of my mind, um, each and
Speaker 1: every week week, and of course it wouldn't wouldn't be
Speaker 1: anything less, you know, after you have results that aren't
Speaker 1: aren't really up to your standard. Alright, there you go.
Speaker 1: We were checking in right around a half hour before
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel spoke. But he's always so interesting
Speaker 1: and gives us valuable thought. There's I thought I go
Speaker 1: ahead and play some longer additions of his answers. There
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