WEBVTT - Dolphins Texans Week 9 Recap 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:15.520 Actual looking down field, clutchdown, Miami Run? What is up? 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.720 Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.200 the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.560 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.280 and as always I am here to bring you your 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.200 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.920 I think you guys already know when win win win. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.320 When the Dolphins are off the schnide with their second 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.840 victory of the season, snapping a seven game losing streak 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.720 here against the Houston Texans on Sunday with a seventeen 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.720 to nine victory, losing streak is no more. A win 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.680 is a win, is a win is a win, and 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.720 the Dolphins got one of those wins. We'll break it 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.120 down with the five takeaways, some individual mentions as plenty 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.440 of dudes bought out in this game today, and if 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.480 we have some time, we'll play a segment from the 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.759 post game show on five sixty with myself, Seth Levitt 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.679 and O Jim McDuffie from the Fish Tank Podcast. We'll 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.520 talk about Saturday night at bow Campers plenty to come 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.480 here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:27.360 Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, So I 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.280 want to go ahead and begin this podcast with just 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.600 some interesting stats and nuggets that we learned throughout the 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.720 course of this game heading into the game. Now the 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.880 conclusion of the game, and the first thing I want 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.880 to mention is something I'm sure all of you saw 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.200 watching the game at home. Was that interesting graphic they 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.040 displayed towards the I think end of the first quarter 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.760 up on the television on the TV broadcast that Miami 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.560 and you know, of all the teams with two or 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.720 fewer wins coming into the game, had the highest percentage 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.440 of leads held within the course of a game in 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.360 Miami coming into this game had the lead forty of 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.200 the games this season, trailed for forty one, and tied 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.840 for twenti seven percent. So Miami tells you there they've 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.680 been competitive and close in these games, and they finally 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.880 were able to pull one out late in this game 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.280 and close out of victory. And they also took the 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.000 lead in this game with sixty one to play in 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.320 that first quarter and never gave it back. So that 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.560 percentage has to have increased big time. For the Dolphins 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.200 as they get their second win of the season and 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.680 first win back home here at hard Rock Stadium. Some 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.520 other statuments game. If you look at the staff book, offensively, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.960 it was not pretty, but also the Dolphins defense on 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.080 that end really provided the Dolphins offense with opportunities to 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.560 put this game away because they too made the Texans 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.239 stats offensively quite ugly in their own regard twenty two 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.119 first downs to fourteen Miami wins. That battle the big 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.280 difference in this game for me third downs nine for 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.880 sixteen to Houston six for seventeen. The Texans did convert 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.120 once on fourth down to sixty two offensively for Miami 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.160 to seventy two for the Texans. Miami pass for two 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.200 fifteen and rush forty seven. Houston through for and ran 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.760 for seventy three. Dolphins ran five more plays than the 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.720 Texans in this game. The turnovers the most turnovers in 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.880 a game in the NFL since two thousand and sixteen. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.919 The Dolphins commit five. They had one on special teams, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.760 a fumble from Miles Gascon, a fumble from Jacoby Brissette, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.919 and two Brissette interceptions. The Texans have four of their 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.000 own as Javon Holland gets his first career pick, Brandon 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.680 Jones recovers a fumble that was taken off of the 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.239 force fumble of Eric Rowe. We also get a Jerome 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.919 Baker interception as well as the pick from Justin Coleman, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.720 his first as a Miami Dolphin, and then five to 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.440 four in sacks. Also, Miami had five sacks, Houston had 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.840 four on Jacoby Brissette. The Dolphins penalties cleaned it up 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.960 big time this week, two for thirteen in the game. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.080 Houston committed eight fouls for sixty yards. So interesting stuff 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.600 there as far as they found their way into the 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.800 winner's circle. Defense definitely created enough plays. There was some 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.720 complimentary football there as well as one of those takeaways 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.560 produces they touchdown in Miami's best drive of the game, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.200 going eighty yards early on in that game after the 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.120 Javon Holland interception, so complementary football, strong stowing from the 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.800 defense and then just real quick before the five takeaways. Here, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.760 I want to go ahead and mention the fact that 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.160 Jacoby Brissette starts this game over to a tongue of 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.080 Valoo who was active and available as the number two 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.040 quarterback and they did not elevate the new quarterback called 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.240 or signed up rather to the practice squad Jake Dela Gala, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.520 he was not available. He was still on the practice squad, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.560 so they wind up going with Brissette, who filled in 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.479 for two because of a finger injury that he suffered 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.039 last week in the Buffalo game. Finished the game, was 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.200 limited in practice all week and the Dolphins thought he 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.039 had a chance to play today, but it did not 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.080 happen that way because he came out and worked out, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.960 couldn't quite get the distance on the throws. He wanted 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.760 the correct spin to make all the throws, as coach 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.240 Flores told us after the game on Sunday night. So 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.760 Jacobe Brissette comes in and gets his first win as 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.280 a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. And we jumped right 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.920 into the five takeaways from this game, and number one 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.960 was kind of the offensive concepts, plans and approach. And 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.440 there will be a theme with a few of these, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.520 and we're starting with offense first for a reason. But 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.040 these first couple of takeaways, it's that doubles is best. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.480 Triples is great, but doubles are good too, And so 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.360 as far as the offense, goes the doubles of Waddle 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.279 and Gassicki. I mean that first touchdown drive of the game, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.520 eighty yards on twelve plays, nearly six minutes off the clock. Waddle, Waddle, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.880 Gasicki one handed catch, Gasicki attempts another one handed catch, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.040 didn't make it, But I love that plan to go 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.640 right back to Waddle after that to get those two 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.720 guys who have been the most involved all year long, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.200 they've played the most, they've produced the most. To get 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.680 those guys active and involved early, I thought was a 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.840 great plan for the offense. And then just back to 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.760 Waddle real quick, because he winds up in this game 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.000 with eight catches for eighty three yards on ten targets, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.760 highly efficient, made some big explosive plays, converted some third downs, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.200 move the chains, and I liked how they moved him 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.240 around the formation, and that's kind of one of the 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.440 big takeaways overall. Here's how the Dolphins young players in 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.440 this game, notably their rookies, really showed out in this game. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.000 And I thought with Waddle it really showed a level 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.640 of growth in his game because I thought he played 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.080 inside outside maybe more than he has all seas and 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.400 I don't I can't confirm that yet, but I am 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.080 excited to see the splits on that when we do 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.520 the Tuesday review, the AL twenty two and the and 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.880 the stats from Pro Football Focus to give us an 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.840 idea of his inside versus outside splits. And o J 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.960 McDuffie talked about this in the post game show on 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.599 five sixty, which you should definitely check out every single 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.080 Sunday on five six w q A M, as well 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.680 as Kiss Country with myself and Seth Levitt and o 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.680 Ji McDuffie of the Fish Tank podcast here on the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.520 Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. O J talked about how that's 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.240 a great sign of growth for a young man to 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.000 do so much from so many positions, but what it 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.760 really does is it just creates more avenues to get 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.040 him the football right because he can take jet sweeps, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.920 he can take screens, you can pitch him the ball 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.200 out of the backfield, you can throw him vertically, you 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.520 can throw him the intermediate short. Whatever you want to do, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.080 this kid can do it. And to see him kind 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.160 of take on some of those snaps into the boundary 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.520 or Devonte Parker would typically be when he's healthy and again, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.880 boundary short side of the field, so balls in the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.799 left hash you light him up off to the left. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.400 And when that can sometimes do in that exposition is 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.560 sometimes the safety has to roll to the other side 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:03.800 of the field if you're going to be in that 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.960 single high safety look, and that creates opportunities for that 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.000 guy to get one on one opportunities down the field. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.640 It gives him a two way go inside outside sometimes. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.520 And I thought Waddle with that look, with some of 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.320 the speed outs and the quick hitters they threw to 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.280 him in this game that they have thrown to him 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.400 in a couple of the previous games, can create some 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.480 chances down the road for some possible double moves, some 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.440 possible vertical action and again just create those one on 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.200 one chances for your four two Ferrari in the garage 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.600 and see if he can win a foot race. At 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.840 one point there was a play that they dang near 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.160 got to him on a deep ball. Jacoby wanted it. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.040 You could see him loading up for it. It was 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.280 a play I think in the second quarter of this 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.800 game where they're split safeties too high safeties and Wattle 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.040 this time from an inside split. A slot receiver split 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.560 runs right down the middle of the field and you 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.480 could just see like even he's leaving right, the safety 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.520 did not have He was not ready to turn around 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.240 and run, and Wattle flew past him. I thought that 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.920 was the best example of his speed. And Jacoby was 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.480 loading up to get it out, but he hits the 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.720 top of his drop and just cannot quite get the 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.840 ball out because the protection wasn't quite there. There was 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.920 a body in Jacoby's face right away. He breaks that contained, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.320 rolls out and still tries to fit it into Wattle. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.160 And when he threw it, I was thinking to myself, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.160 he looks open. I thought he had a chance to 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:16.960 get it to him. But because of all that time 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.920 for guys to move around and kind of recover, the 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.600 ball goes up, the safety closes and makes the pick 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.040 and it's a turnover there. But we saw some opportunity, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.119 we saw some chances for it. We saw him split 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.720 those two safeties and just fly right past them. And 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.880 you know, Jacoby had a chance to get the ball 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.559 down there and it just it didn't quite work out 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.680 for him. But to be able to do that and 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.959 to incorporate these different looks, like you score a touchdown 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.520 on a miles gaskin wildcat play. There was a play 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.520 in the second quarter I think it was where they 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.920 went with Miles Gascon and Savan Akhmed, both from the 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.480 backfield two back personnel. Haven't seen a whole lot of 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.560 that this year. Love seeing that, and Acmed motions from 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.000 his position to the right of the quarterback over to 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.680 the left flat and then they run the inside handoff 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.480 back to Myles Gask In the other direction. False steps 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.520 put your linebackers and some peril give them conflict. I 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.760 loved seeing that for this offense, with some of the 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.760 double moves, the deep routes, the crossing patterns. Waddle had 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.439 a seven teen yard reception on one of those crossing patterns. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.560 So just I thought the offensive game plan sequencing in 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.960 this contest was very good. Now, of course the turnovers 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.920 and execution you have to do better with regards to that, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.319 so not quite up to par in the production standpoint, 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.360 But eventually I think we're gonna see this whole thing 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.520 kind of come together and get the production you want. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.280 Hopefully it starts on Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.680 But in this game, structurally, game plan wise, I thought 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.640 the plan was solid, especially when you kind of make 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.280 a switch their last minute to go to your second 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.720 quarterback when you can't go to two to start this game. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.240 But for the Dolphins offense, Jacoby goes this game forty 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.000 three four passing yards, one touchdown, two picks, and the 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.240 four sacks and for a sixty four point five passer rating. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.920 I mean that's kind of you know, for the defense too, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.800 to win a game where the passer rating was at 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.440 that level of efficiency, and that's not a quarterback number, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.040 like passer rating incorporates the entire passing game because there 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.520 are players that tip ball friends and some pressure wire 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.480 Jakobe winds up getting the ball batted up in the 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.439 air and gets picked off. Like that's not nothing he 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.840 can do about that. So it's a passing offense number. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.880 And to win this game really not handily, but like 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.160 the Dolphins were always in control, right, they always had 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.560 the lead that it never felt like it was close 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.840 to kind of slipping away from them at any point 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.280 in this game. To me, that's a credit to the defense. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.160 And that is our second takeaway on this podcast and 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.800 really the main one that I wanted to get to, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.240 but the structures podcast away I wanted to we had 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.280 to do it this way. With the second takeaway is 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.680 the defensive creativity with Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, and 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.839 since doubles is best also with Phillips and Agba. I mean, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.480 we saw it all day long. These four guys just 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.400 continuously put pressure on the quarterback, lockdown on the back 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.320 end and coverage, stopped the run, executed games together, rush 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.200 the quarterback together, and made plays as a pairing in 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.559 terms of their position groups. The interception from Javon Holland, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.720 First of all, thank you guys for going out there 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.480 and do that one or I think three days after 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.080 the drive time snippett off the podcast, and I spent 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.199 a lot of time last week talking about Javon Holland 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.200 and Brandon Jones. Thank you for going out there and 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.600 producing big time because that makes the podcast look good 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.360 and we love that. We love that you guys played 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.400 good and the podcast looks good too. So on that interception, 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.960 you know, Brandon Jones comes into this game with a 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.800 league leading amongst safeties nine QB pressures. Chavon Holland comes 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:28.080 into this game with a safety rookie class leading three 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.880 pass breakups. He registers two more in this game, including 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.000 an interception, and on that play. What I loved about 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.800 that and I cannot wait to watch the all twenty 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.880 two of this What I saw on that play was 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.000 they both showed pressure off the same side of the formation. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.720 And what you it wasn't pressure. Rather they both are 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.640 on the same side of the formation capping the slot receiver. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.040 And what that typically means if you cap them, that 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.600 means the cornerback lines up over the receiver and then 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.640 the safety behind that lines up behind the cornerback because 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.520 you typically will blitz that corner and you have to 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.440 have a defender there to fill and of her right. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.160 And so when you cap like that, it says blitz. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.920 Both Dolphins did with that was they brought Brandon Jones 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.400 on that blitz. But Javon Holland got the heck out 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 of there and wrote hit a deep to center field, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.160 and Tyrod Taylor didn't worry about that slot receiver being open. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:16.680 He looked at the other side of the field because 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.840 there was no safety help over there. But when you 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.920 have Javon Holland getting on his horse, he flies back 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.240 to the middle of the field deep post safety and 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.720 doesn't stop there. He continues all the way over to 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.280 the other side of the formation and winds up getting 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.880 an interception at the back pylon and the end zone. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.240 What a heck of a play, What a heck of 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.760 a design, What a heck of a marriage between those 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.200 two safeties in Javon Holland and Brandon Jones, who in 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.839 this game they were doing, Man, they were doing all 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.960 kinds of different stuff. And I'll never forget talking to 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.120 a tongue by Loo back in Week two about Jordan 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.679 Poyer and Micah Hyde up and Buffalo who, even though 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.960 they lost the game on Sunday, allowed just nine points 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.000 in that game. Nobody has success against that Buffalo defense. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.040 And it's for a number of reasons, but Mike A. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.480 Hide and Jordan Employer being the best safety combination in 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.040 the NFL for my money, is a big reason for that. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.600 And a big reason for them being that is because 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.280 they're basically interchangeable. You can put one in the whole 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.960 being the rat in the hole. You can put one 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.840 in the deep post, you can put one on the slot. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.880 You can play one as a dime linebacker. You can 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.880 do both of those. Are all of those things, Rather 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.800 with both of those guys, super impressive, versatile players that 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.360 are creating big plays and producing. Brandon Jones coming on now, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.360 Javon Holland been coming on all season. Jones winds up 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.400 in this game rather on the first two drives two 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.600 solo tackles and a quarterback hit that helps cause that interception, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.480 and within that same drive Holland a pick and a 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.280 pass breakup on the second drive to get the Dolphins 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.920 defense off the field on a Tyrod Taylor p BU. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.720 Fantastic work for both these guys. They finished the game 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.640 five tackles for Brandon Jones solo, one assist, one pass defense. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.640 He also had a Phonel recovery at the end of 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.640 the game. And then Javon Holland of course has a 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.439 tackle and assist as well, and a pass breakup and 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.240 an interception to cap this thing off. So great work 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.680 from both of those guys to get at work done. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.559 And then just another note I put in here later 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.240 in the game, and Brandon Jones does this a lot 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 of the time too, But Javon Holland on a first 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.320 and goal play ran downhill and fit a gap and 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.600 just smacked the ball carrier. I think he didn't get 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.679 the tackle, but it lands and Roberts did on that play. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.880 But again, you can just see the fact that he 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.160 can do that and fly twenty five yards down the 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.080 field and make a pick. I sure do like that 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.600 combination of those players back there, so they're looking fantastic. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.400 And then you can't really quantify this because there's no 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.360 stats to go off of it, but their coverage was 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.320 so good throughout the course of the game. Having that 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.160 press box view helps you see that, especially on those 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.760 red zone plays. Tons of split safety looks down there, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.920 and they were just plastering as Taylor would kind of 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.160 break the pocket and try to extend down there around 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.800 the goal line, around the ten fifteen yard line going in, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.880 and they were just there. They had answers for it 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.200 all really all game long, and it was good to 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.640 see those guys working in tandem. And it goes perfectly 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.400 off of what Jerald Alex aeran tol Us last week 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.480 about how both those guys are coming along and really 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.200 showing some stuff here and you're two and you're one respectively. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.840 Now still on the same concept of d defensive creativity 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.520 and the production of doubles. Doubles as best Barracuda's Nova. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.000 The double deal is now complete. It's now official. That's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.640 a good thing. Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips. The what 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.280 series was this late in the first half? Yeah, it 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.840 was right before the first half ended. There was back 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.280 to back plays then I thought were indicative of what 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.600 these two guys can be together as pass rushers, as 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 defensive ends, or just defensive lineman. Because on this particular 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.280 series they got a sack, an Emmanuel Ogbas sack and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.640 then on Jerome Baker pick And here's what happened to 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.040 set those up. So the first play, you go five 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.360 technique off the outside shoulder of the tackle. That's where 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.400 Emmanuel Ogba lines up. The three technique the outside shoulder 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.880 of the offensive guard. That's where Jalen Phillips lines up. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.120 On a defensive end. That's a defensive tackle position. But 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.320 five tech and three tech and they're gonna run games 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.600 off of that. What's a game A stunt, a twist, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.080 a slant, just finding different ways to kind of confuse 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.840 the offensive protection by changing places, changing gaps, setting picks, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.840 and creating gaps and opportunities for your teammate to run through. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.080 And on the first one, the stunt they ran a 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.720 te stunt. Jalen Phillips makes that three tech position, rushes 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.400 the outside shoulder of the offensive guard and takes him 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.120 out because of his speed, getoff and power forces that 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.320 guard to retreat and get up field on a vertical set, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.320 and that opens a massive lane for Emmanuel Ogball, who 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.920 takes two steps upfield crossover, great lateral A jilie there 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.560 from Ogball, the longest, heaviest, strongest due on the defensive 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.640 line terms of edge rushers. He crosses over and closes 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.800 on Tyrod Taylor for a big sack to get the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.200 Dolphins into great position on that first or the first 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.160 play of that drive. Very next play. I love this 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.560 one even more because it really showed you the freakiness 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.680 of what Jillen Phillips can do. There's two plays in 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.880 this game that I thought showed you why he is 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.040 the first defensive end, first pass rusher off the board 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.600 in this entire draft class. Back in April, same thing, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.320 five tech and three tech. This time, Phillips, rather than 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.920 going up fielding on the guard, attacks the center, pounds 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.800 center and he bulldozed him, bull rushes him, puts him 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.680 on his back, and runs right through him. So there's 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.880 the power, right, the speed to power, the ability to 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.880 condense inside and over a center, like you can speed 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.880 to power attackle And I get that because you have 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.360 that runway. But to do it from that position, I mean, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.480 that's where the Aaron Donalds of the world's live, That's 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.120 where the Christian Wilkins of the world live. Like, that's 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.000 not that's a unique thing to be able to do. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.000 So he comes down in the middle, runs over the 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.840 center and then it gets better, guys, Like it gets 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.600 better from there. He chases Tyrod Taylor step first step 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.080 and flags him down in a foot race and forces 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.200 Taylor not just to go out of bounds and give 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.040 up on the play, but to try to flip that 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.800 thing as a throwaway. And there's Jerome Baker who has 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.119 fantastic awareness to know his foots on the line to 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.840 put the foot back inside to re establish his position 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.640 there and make the catch fall out of bounds turnover 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.440 leads to points there for the Dolphins at day of 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.600 the half. Great great play from Emmanuel Ogba, from Jalen Phillips, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.399 from Jerome Baker, but it just shows you the bite 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.879 of this rookie defensive end. This rookie pass special, the 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.119 rookie outside linebacker, whatever the heck you want to call him, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.840 because he does so many things. He's coming along now. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.120 I thought we saw in this game. He also gets 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.800 a sack later on in this game. So he has 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.200 a big, big day and that was awesome to see 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.440 and just to kind of continue that thought process there, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.320 we talked about the rookie class. Jalen Waddle eight catches, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.280 eighty three yards, Jalen Phillips a sack of two game 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.280 changing plays. Oh the playoff forgot to talk about option play. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.760 Tyrod Taylor takes the ball out left and he's got 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.159 David Johnson out wide and Tyrod Taylor, who's reading that 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.080