WEBVTT - Week 14 Film Room, Dolphins Chargers — Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.399 is Drive Time with Travis Whinfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:16.560 a looking what wild clutchtop Clidrick cow Man. I want 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.840 to help you soon up on his way Wattle, waddle 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.400 to a shotguns back to throw looking ups up fires 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.760 too again, It's Waddle. It's six touchdown Canada up the TI. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.519 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.360 your pulse if you're not. What is up? Golf fans 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.840 and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.840 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.000 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.400 on today's show, we are looking back at the Sunday 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.480 night football game against the Charges, with the tape, the stats, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.480 where things didn't work, where they did, the full aftermath, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.880 plus snap counts, and Mike McDaniels Monday press conference coverage 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.640 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:16.000 This is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's kick it off 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.920 as we do every single Tuesday here on Drivetime with 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.320 the film and we start with the offensive side of 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.000 the football going chronologically here and covering the players as 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.760 we get to the plays and the big moments of 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.640 the game. And it feels for the second straight week 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.280 like the opening drive. Well, I shouldn't say that the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.760 opening drive, because Miami scored against the Niners on their 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.280 opening drive, but after that play and just the slow 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.360 start in general, after that was only a few inches 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.760 away from potentially getting the offense into a rhythm. Now 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.040 again against San Francisco, seven points early within ten seconds, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.120 but after that a couple of drives, think three the 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.240 next four we're three and outs where they had balls 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.600 that were just barely tipped by the middle linebackers are 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.480 just off target to the receivers in that second level. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.560 And the Dolphins first three plays all incomplete. It passes 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.200 really similar story. The first one was a great recovery 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.000 by the safety to get under that ball to Tyreek Hill. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.120 The second was another really good coverage rep where Waddle 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.560 couldn't get separation, and the third was arguably the to 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.120 me that one of the best throws of the night 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.880 from tongue Vola. Really nice timing to to Tyreek who 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.560 had cleared the hook linebacker and he throws it before 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.239 he cleared the hook linebacker ball meets him right on 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.680 time in the opening and we can't squeeze and finish 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.600 the play. I thought it was a great throwing one 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.560 that we need to finish and execute. So from the 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.120 start you can see what Coach McDaniels talking about with 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.080 the issues, you know, being widespread and not any one 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.840 individual thing, as we'll cover here on the rest of 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.480 the show. And it continued on the next series as 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.679 those quick throws where to is you know, riding the 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.679 back of the belly of the back and pulls that 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.359 thing out and pops the ball in behind the linebackers. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.520 The Chargers were just pressing the issue with outside leverage 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.680 and driving hard on those incuts, and our routes were 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.239 those a lot of times little grant glances or skinny 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.760 post or just quick catch rock throw or get off 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.839 the line, get into the soft spot and take off 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.640 after that, and it can be difficult against the type 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.600 of defense The Chargers played so frequently against those routes 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.200 to generate separation because there's not really a set up move. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.560 It's more so just get on the inside shoulder and 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.200 win with that spacing afforded to you based upon the alignment, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.840 and these guys were driving so hard, anticipating those balls 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.320 in the middle and getting over the top of the 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.200 play before our receivers could make the catch and get going. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.160 And they're making these windows awfully minuscule for our quarterback 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.440 and receiver to work with, and we just didn't hit 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.080 them consistently. But you had a lot of the same 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.760 where you were. The run action, the curl flat action 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.400 opened up space in the middle, but their corners just 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.040 blanketed our receivers. That's what it came down to on 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:48.920 a lot of these plays. To me, this is a 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.080 question for I guess a football coach or someone who 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.440 understands the xs and os better than I do. But 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.880 I'm curious what would the adjustment be to that type 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.960 of play from the corner where it's aggressive outside level 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.120 I should say inside leverage, driving in just selling out 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.160 to stop that glance route. I think we may have 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.000 seen some of that later on in the game, and 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.840 we'll cover that here on the podcast. I love that 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.760 first third down conversion to Tyreeke the hook route where 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.920 we are backed up to our own goal line. That's 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.840 a big time catch and throw there. A great pocket 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.320 has you know, the pockets had been really good the 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.680 first two series, and a good rip by two or 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.960 to throw the ball before Tyreek comes out of the break. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.320 That's a nice adjustment the Chargers made to deepen their 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.040 hook zones, and we found a way to throw it 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.480 in under that hook zone and still get the first down, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.520 kind of like the Niners did last week with those 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.120 deep drops of Fred Warner. We just didn't hold blocks 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.280 long enough early in the running game, and it happened 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.640 really all over the formation, you know, tackle to tackle. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.960 We struggled to get the edges sealed. We didn't get 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.640 movement at the point of attack with nearly enough consistency. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.760 There were some instances, but early in the game not 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.280 at all. I understand the desire to commit to the run, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.320 but man, it's tough to want to run the ball 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.080 when it's consistently second, nine second and nine second and ten. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.799 For an offense that has made more hey on first 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.080 on than any other offense in the league this year, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.240 it's just a different game than we've been playing all 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.719 year long, and so that put them behind the chains 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.080 and just it's tough to get going that way. Let's 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.960 go ahead and break down the post route that went 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.000 incomplete second and thirteen minus twenty two yard line balance 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.880 one personnel that means two backs, one tight end and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.200 uh ing Gold was kind of acting as the other 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.720 tied end on the other side of the formation with 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.400 Thurham Smith as both of those guys were attached to 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.920 either side of the line. Scrimmage single back and then 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.760 one receiver to either side of the field. Both Tyreek 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.159 and Jalen are in minus splits, that's where they're inside 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.680 the Numbers waddle to the boundary at the short side, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.600 Tyreek to the field the wide side, and the Chargers 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.400 are showing two man press coverage with the corners two 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.320 high safeties in that three four base shell. The Dolphins 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.279 do a fake toss along with Ingolds pre snap motion 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.360 that creates this again really nice clean pocket and it 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.760 identifies a safety driving down and creating a middle of 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.320 the field safety, which is where that post route was 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.840 perfect across his face because that boundary safety tries to 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.760 buzz a potential cross from Tyreeke and he runs past 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.600 that and basically takes him out of the play, and 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.680 all of a sudden, it's one on one in space 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.600 with Tyreek running full speed and that safety having to 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.200 change directions and it's perfect. That's exactly what you want 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.120 in that look, you freeze it with two loading up 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.000 at his own seventeen. Tyrek is at full speed at 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.640 the thirty five, hasn't broken in yet. The ball is 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.080 out super early before Tyreek makes that move to the post, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.320 and the ball hits the hash mark at the other 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.200 forty five yard line, and Tyreeke's at the forty six 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.080 yard line just outside the hash so you can tell 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.600 that he like never sees the football. The balls in 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.880 the air, and Tyreek has looked back at the safety 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.480 over the top before the ball hits and that safety 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.960 is falling down. So if he sees it and runs 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.800 under it, I don't think that safety has much of 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.440 a chance to tackle him. Forty five more yards after 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.440 the catch would have been a seventy eight yard touchdown 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.560 if they connect on it. I think it's a tough 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.880 pill to swallow there. And then the next play, I 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.960 think that might have been the first time all year 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.240 I've seen to run Armstead really beat in a one 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.880 on one situation. For that, Kyle Van noiss Ach a 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.880 really nice spin back inside by him. Just that kind 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.520 of night where things would pop up here and there 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.200 throughout the course of the night. I thought they created 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.320 some chances with shifts and motions, but a lot of 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.400 times it was shifting with no one moving at the 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.040 snap where they kind of came set and we run 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.840 the play from there. And then we had that one 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.600 deep shot to Ghisicky against man coverage. I just I'm 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.960 not crazy about that. Look that deep shot, and then 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.200 one later to trent sherfield where he got jammed out 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.600 of out of bounds. Those are the two plays where 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:32.960 I was like, all right, this might be a longer 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.280 night for the offense because Ghisicky, just his operations not 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.440 quick enough to to run that type of route where 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.960 you're gonna have, you know, you need three or four 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.920 seconds to pump the ball that deep down the field. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.160 It's not quick enough, the line not quick enough up 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.080 the stem anywhere to make that a possibility of anything 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.840 beyond you know, a fifty fifty high point catch. And 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.400 that's just not to his game. So it's kind of 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.840 a square peg round whole situation there. But after that 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.280 deep shot out of bounds to Gisicky, we get a 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.120 nice timing throw on a dig, but the corner is 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.800 driving before the ball is out. They anticipated our throws, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.640 like we've seen from our offense, anticipate their throws, and 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.240 they were able to contest all those throws and frankly 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.440 win just about all of them. If you can run 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.880 a seven route on them, like a flag or a corner, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.480 then maybe you prevent that type of squatting. The one 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.720 in particular was a defensive past interference against Waddle and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.160 that corner part of the field, the flag area is 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.400 completely vacant with a single high safety who's not really 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.119 paying attention to it. So you will see the Dolphins 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.040 come back that later, as we'll get to here in 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.760 a second. But the run game kind of got cranking 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.080 at that point as well. Back to back runs. Uh 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.000 we're big chunk games. The second one being the fumble 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.360 tyreek scoop and score with Rob Jones getting excellent reach 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.679 blocks and staying glued to his blocks on those, and 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.960 then the fumble scoop and score. What a great job 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.520 by Rob Hunt to get push shell climbs up to 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.079 the second level for a big block, but then he 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.199 just kind of leaves his man there and doesn't finish 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.480 the play. And that's actually the guy that forces the fumble, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.360 so it's kind of a tricky rep there, and you 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.559 also had Dirham Smith wipe out the edge on split 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.280 flow for Wilson to find that big lane. We talked 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.319 about it on the Monday Show. Just great effort and 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.599 finished from Tyreek to find that ball and take it 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.240 all the way around the edge. So despite that early reference, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.080 Ron Armstead, I thought he had a great game. Still. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.040 He did get beat later on in the fourth quarter, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.280 but just so good. He had a great down block 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.559 on a big Wilson run for twenty yards where he 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.720 works down the line, gets a little chip on Robert 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.920 Jones's man and then feels the Sam linebacker scraping up 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.280 over the top and Bank goes and wipes him out too. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.880 I thought two was first scramble the throwaway and watching 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.280 it back on tape was just an instance of things 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.880 we haven't seen all year at this offense. Both Tyreek 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.840 and Jalen get contact to the top of the route 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.480 and then it just kind of stops, like no secondary move, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.440 no off script potential to try to make things happen, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.079 and to was just kind of stuck, forced forced to 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.120 sit there and try to figure it out. It kind 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:46.480 of reminded me of last year and a little bit 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.480 where we run those one routes that are coming back 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.600 to the quarterback and if it's not they're just basically cut, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.480 baiton and move on. And we saw that a few 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.040 times in this game. I thought, a play later, we 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.640 get a beautiful dig route to Cedric Wilson with great anticipation, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.800 a throw where the balls out before the receiver clears 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.719 the hook backer meets him right at the chains for 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.360 a big third and ten conversion. On that play, there 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.320 was a potential deep shot open way through it early, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.040 so I'm not gonna get too bogged down in that 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.880 great great job and pass pro really throughout the course 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.400 of the night, outstanding work against the four man rush 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.199 on that play, including a stunt completely wiped out by 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.280 Connor Williams and Robert Jones. But as for the one 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.600 to one shot that I thought was there, Waddle has 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.880 a one on one opportunity to the field and got 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.040 on top of his man and stacked him. And like, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.160 you can't complain about first down conversions on third and ten, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.640 but I keep wondering how much the chargers have to 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.960 adjust if we can just hit one deep ball early 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.280 in this game, like on that play, then you get 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.480 a false start. Three plays later on third and ten, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.400 you get the Sherefiel attempt up the sideline. It's punting 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.760 time again. But to A throws that ball when the 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.439 corner jams and flattens because the half field safety to 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.600 that side follows Tyreek into the post, so it clears 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.840 the sideline. I'm thinking that's probably what to I saw 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.880 to take that shot to the sideline, but surefield stops 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.679 and you see the refs hat come off, which means 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.720 he would have been flagged for legal touching. So again 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.760 that kind of night, like you can't go out of 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.200 bounds there because Tyreek held the two men and the coverage, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.600 we need you to be part of the eligible portion 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.920 of the route because you're taking away pretty much the 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.640 conflict you've created by not being available. It's a big 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.640 miss right there. I thought the Chargers all night long 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.920 did so well with their man coverage of not getting 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.040 caught on rubs, but also like could have seen more 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.960 of them against that coverage, Like think about that Wattle 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.800 deep shot against the Bears that we missed, or the 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.080 slot fade against the lines that we hit to Wattle 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.240 plays like that where it's kind of like a natural 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.480 rub for the receiver. So you're gonna play press man 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.640 and you want to get rubbed against guys like Wattle 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.040 and Hill. It's a tough way to make a living man. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.400 I keep going back to Connor Williams a game because 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.720 he was excellent once again the way he attaches himself 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.800 to blocks in the running game. He's got a top 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.400 ten run block win win rate according to ESPN. I 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.400 thought we saw plenty of that in this game. Reach blocks, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.000 down blocks, holding the point, not letting guys get off 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.680 of his initial block. Another really great game from Connor 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.160 Willie him the dig that was broken up to Mike 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.840 Gisicky on the drive before the end of the first half. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.240 Jalen Waddle runs the corner open and throws the mailbox 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.960 up right where the hand goes up. Hey, I'm open 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.599 and right when he throws the mailbox up to what 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.160 was already throwing the football took a siki, so just 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.400 up and down the tape. It's different things like I 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.680 don't look at it as some talent deficiency or something 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.120 unfixable at all. It makes more sense to me what 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.360 coach said on Sunday about not playing up to their 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.880 talent level and to their standard just on a play 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.680 by play basis, something would go wrong at various spots 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.280 throughout the night, and that's how you wind up with 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.199 a comprehensively underwhelming offensive showing something we haven't seen much 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.000 of all year. Because Twa throws the ball to the 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.760 one guy that was kind of covered. You had an 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.800 out route open in a corner route for a potential 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.280 like forty plus yard play to Waddle. We gotta hit 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.080 those hit him last year. It's like the Baltimore game, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.520 right that corner route, the Titans game, that corner oute 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.520 to Waddle, similar throws, similar openings like that. We have 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.480 to find a way to exploit that area of the 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.800 field because teams are leaving that open, or I should 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.760 say the Chargers left that open all night long, and 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.559 I think teams will do it going forward. We'll see, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.719 but that's my expectation. And just as I say that, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.199 we get false execution on a deep ball. The motion 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.240 man holds the safety showing half field help to Tyreek 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.000 side who's in a plus split. But Tyreek takes the 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.720 outside release and two holds that safety just enough inside 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.520 by peeking to the short side of the field, and 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.679 then he comes right back to Tyreeke and lets it go. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.880 With Tyreke only five yards off the line of scrimmage. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.080 The ball descends twenty eight yards downfield, right on the money, 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.480 and Tyreek never really stacked the dB, who did a 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.040 good job staying in phase, but it's a perfect ball, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.440 gets his feet tangled and we get a cruise in touchdown. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.600 Big time, throw a good catch and good pass pro 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.480 all around. I go back to Connor Williams here opens 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.800 another big lane for a long raheem roaster run on 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.160 the next possession, and then to us scrambles. I thought 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.880 we're a big part of the offensive. Uh some of 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.520 the positives they did where he break those clean pockets 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.240 with a good downfield coverage and made three big plays 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.360 of those legs. That's an added element we haven't seen 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.439 much of this year. Big big time to get that 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.560 from the quarterback, especially against man coverage. That same possession, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.280 as the first scramble to a has wattle on those 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.120 little skinny posts we've hit all year, but some interior 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.199 pressure forces him to sidestep and by the time we 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.360 come back to look at it, it's too late to 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.880 take a check down, ball goes in complete. Next play 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.199 is the sacks, so you see a bit of the 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.760 protection issues pop up late in the game. As part 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.400 of the equation, McDaniel had mentioned they started running a 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.840 lot more outbreaking routes as the game went on. Talked 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.720 about that corners comebacks out that type of thing. So 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.120 I think that's an encouraging sign of endgame adjustments of 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.680 the Chargers playing that aggressive inside leverage from that man coverage. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.120 Look that speed out to waddle the catch and run 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.240 for twenty or whatever it was. Nineteen is a good 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.600 example of that for a completion. But some of two 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.200 US scrambles came on those types of route combos. I 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.360 think a week back home to work on that stuff 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.120 and obviously fine tune the rest of the offense. I 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.320 still feel good about them getting back on track because 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.360 of that, But that was kind of kind of at 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.120 the point. The screen of Tyreek Hill on third and 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.960 a mile came with twelve oh eight to play in 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.120 the game. They didn't get the football back until two 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.680 forty to go down by two scores, so tough to 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.360 overcome that. I think it's fixable. They have to make 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.960 an adjustment. Teams are gonna play this way against you 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.040 now going forward, take advantage and work driving the ball 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.480 to the perimeter. Whip routes, flag routes, corners, comebacks, double 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.520 moves back to the corner. That's how I think you 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.280 can beat teams out of the style and get them 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.320 back into playing the zone that you tore up all 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.760 year long as a result. Let's go ahead and take 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.160 our first break and come back and get to the 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.880 defense on the next side. That's next Draft Time podcast, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.520 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.280 So we heard about the offense. Let's go ahead and 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.680 pick it up with the defensive performance from the dolphins 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.360 seventeen defeat at the l A. Chargers, and they gave 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.560 a ton of attention to Bradley Chubbing this game. Man. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.360 He got chips all night long. That and getting wide 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.760 against our initial rush I thought were the keys, whether 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.680 it was designed or off script. And he didn't really 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.560 help with that because he kept jumping inside against those 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.800 outside runs or against plays where there was no other 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.640 outside contained the pocket for Justin Herbert, who would get 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.040 out there again. Whether it was a design bootleg or 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.400 against you know, off script, jump outside the B gap 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.080 and have all that space to operate with and process, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.600 you know, not just half the field for a quarterback 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.840 that expands the field on those plays because of the 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.120 arm strength, but just having him free to to either 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.480 do that or run the football, which then puts your 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.400 perimeter cornerbacks in a bunch of apparel. So it was 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.080 kind of two fold for those mistakes that kept offering 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.800 those opportunities for that charger offense, and it creates some 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.600 big plays for them. And man, we just I don't 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.040 know what much what more you can do with how 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.880 many injuries are in the secondary. I know it's like 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.480 other teams have injury issues as well, but you see 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.360 it every single week, playing so soft bell out coverage 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.960 giving the quarterback really simple solutions to some of the 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.240 answers or to some of the problems. I should say 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.960 that the past rush creates because they are getting into 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.720 the quarterback so quickly, you know, two point three or 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.760 two point four, two and a half seconds. Pressure on 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.320 the quarterback, but he's got answers, and that's part of 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.840 the secondary, you know, not marrying up with the rush 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.360 on a consistent basis, you have to find a better way, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.360 I think during of the hots and the answers of 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.560 the offense to let this rush flourish and really give 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.560 you the production that at the level they're playing with, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.080 because right now it's not happening. And I think it's 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.920 because a lot of it has to do with that. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.480 On the second level, man I love Zack healer swim 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.720 move and his dip and rip package. He wins so 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.879 many reps those two particular types of moves against the 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.960 run or the pass rush and then the dirty work 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.119 where he holds the point of attack against double teams. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.920 Such a selfless player, man, he doesn't go outside the 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.840 scheme looking to make a play in those types of plays, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.040 just does his job, drops the anchor so others can 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.399 take advantage of it. And we covered it plenty on 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.360 the Monday Show. But man, Christian Wilkins, what a night 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:41.000 he had. He's winning in every conceivable way. Quickness, first off, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.720 the ball, redirect, retrace, power, speed to power everything. He's crazy, man, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.760 and it's from every position to like a lot of 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.760 these are three techniques off the outside shoulder of either guard. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.000 Sometimes it's the four technique, the inside shoulder of the tackle. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.880 But on this particular play, excuse me, the Chargers opening drive, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.040 he plays the five technique kind of a uh who 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.800