Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami board. Tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How are you doing? Everybody? I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're gonna
Speaker 1: open up the kimono and get all the details from
Speaker 1: the last game before they start to count. A rewatch
Speaker 1: the omissions of things we may have missed from the
Speaker 1: Reaction podcast, more a tape study than anything. We'll get
Speaker 1: to the PFF numbers, and we'll hear from head coach
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami's office. Well,
Speaker 1: didn't sleep a whole lot on Saturday night. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: new US that everyone knows about was a big part
Speaker 1: of that. And then like random smoke alarms going off
Speaker 1: in my house at four o'clock in the morning after
Speaker 1: I had just gone to beds. That was that was cool,
Speaker 1: But uh, I wanted to watch the game today to
Speaker 1: occupy the mind, and then again, you know, last night
Speaker 1: and today, I should say, to get a good feel
Speaker 1: for what we saw out there. And I feel good
Speaker 1: about a lot of the observations from the reaction podcast.
Speaker 1: But as always, the tape will always always give you more.
Speaker 1: So we go back and watch that. Let's just go
Speaker 1: down the notes here in kind of a random order.
Speaker 1: I just kind of jotted things down and filled them
Speaker 1: back in as I saw a fit. So stay with
Speaker 1: me here. We're gonna try to learn about some football
Speaker 1: here on this podcast. And I mean it starts from
Speaker 1: the first drive of the game, doesn't it first play
Speaker 1: of the game? I mean, now, do you not start there?
Speaker 1: To us said that he could have thrown that ball better,
Speaker 1: and maybe he could have, you know, sure, but man,
Speaker 1: that was a pretty damn good spot for that ball
Speaker 1: to wind up, because I think that if it's much further,
Speaker 1: you know, Tyreek didn't really slam on the brakes, He
Speaker 1: just kind of dove back across the middle of the
Speaker 1: field away from that defender. I'm not sure if he
Speaker 1: runs it down if it's five yards deeper than that.
Speaker 1: Perhaps most impressively, that that was a too high look
Speaker 1: that wound up his quarters post snap, and that means
Speaker 1: you have four deep trehek still random off of it.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. I'm trying to find ways of
Speaker 1: laugh today that that was one of them, especially the
Speaker 1: picture of Cavan Wallace and all the ice that he
Speaker 1: had on his body into and the Tyreek kills the
Speaker 1: fastest man he ever saw. Getta laugh, that's just beer.
Speaker 1: It's just beer. That's to kind of play that sets
Speaker 1: the tone in that game. It had the Eagles on
Speaker 1: the back foot the rest of the night, so much
Speaker 1: so that Miami were able to get two d three
Speaker 1: rushing yards and two fifteen passing yards just from play action.
Speaker 1: Pretty absurd statistics there, and I really covered two was
Speaker 1: game in depth on the last pot, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I truly appreciated the location of all those throws,
Speaker 1: I mean even the mist to craik Craft. Like one
Speaker 1: of the things I one of the most encouraging reps
Speaker 1: of the night was that miss I thought, and here's why.
Speaker 1: Because Crai Craft has a deep out route, a route
Speaker 1: that takes some time to try to convert a third
Speaker 1: and long situation, and the rush is going to arrive
Speaker 1: before too one can hit the top of his drop,
Speaker 1: hitch up and deliver, and you see him speed up
Speaker 1: the process. And man, those of you that were with
Speaker 1: me back in the Lockdown Dolphins days when I would
Speaker 1: gush over his college tape and that twenty or I
Speaker 1: guess nineteen college season, you know, Saturday Watch, I would
Speaker 1: do that such a big part of the podcast after
Speaker 1: the games on Sunday and two was always the forefront
Speaker 1: of that. It was that thing that I love more
Speaker 1: than anything else besides his ball place. But you see
Speaker 1: him chop the feet and get himself aligned to his
Speaker 1: target really ahead of when it should have been able
Speaker 1: to happen because he's he's so light on his feet, quick,
Speaker 1: quick twitch and quick glide and easy glide on those
Speaker 1: feet that if Craig Craft is able to get out
Speaker 1: of that break clean and the dB covers it well
Speaker 1: and kind of throws him off that route, I think
Speaker 1: it might have been a completion. So I was encouraged
Speaker 1: by that. I do have one note that is anything
Speaker 1: but gushing on him, and that was the sack. I
Speaker 1: think he could have maybe gone to miles on that
Speaker 1: little incut route that he ran from that plus split.
Speaker 1: It was well covered, but the rush arc of that
Speaker 1: left defensive ent, he really only had one lane that
Speaker 1: he could have taken for a sack because Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: ran him around the arc and behind the play. But
Speaker 1: the scramble kind of kept him alive as Jackson wound
Speaker 1: up pushing his man right to where to eventually moved to.
Speaker 1: That happens sometimes it's a good second effort by the
Speaker 1: pass rusher when you don't win your initial rep. So
Speaker 1: some bad luck there, But I just think too and
Speaker 1: maybe could have mitigated that with a decision earlier in
Speaker 1: the down. But that was it. Man. It's really tough
Speaker 1: to get on him for that. If there was one
Speaker 1: thing I would it would be that. But what a
Speaker 1: night for QB one. Let's go back with an eye
Speaker 1: on the non quarterback stuff here in first Trent Sherfield.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite players. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of his game. And by the way I saw someone
Speaker 1: saym I mentions that calling myself a fan of a
Speaker 1: player is like disingenuous. Wow, Like I just if a
Speaker 1: guy plays a certain style, I'm gonna appreciate that. And
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. Did you guys see the
Speaker 1: route that he ran on the Craycraft touchdown. He comes
Speaker 1: off and slow plays his release and walks him up
Speaker 1: to square him up. And that's a key because you
Speaker 1: have to have that d bills, that defensive backs hips
Speaker 1: parallel to the line of scrimmage, because if he opens
Speaker 1: those hips and does a drop step at all, he
Speaker 1: might get tipped off that we're throwing the ball right
Speaker 1: over his head to somebody else. And you actually see
Speaker 1: him start to be like, what's going on here, what's
Speaker 1: he doing? And then the minute he does that, Shurefield
Speaker 1: rips that round off to the outside and he has
Speaker 1: to close on that and it creates that window over
Speaker 1: the top for TWA and him and the offensive line
Speaker 1: and River Cracraft did the rest from there. I thought
Speaker 1: great Little was awesome in this game. I saw him
Speaker 1: going and getting blocks. Peep the long ball to Tyreek.
Speaker 1: He goes and gets his guy. Don't be patient wait
Speaker 1: for him to get to you, go get him. Doesn't
Speaker 1: give an inch and knocked back on that play because
Speaker 1: you shorten the runway of the pass rusher and you
Speaker 1: look over the other side with Austin Jackson. Really the
Speaker 1: entire line they're doing that all night. Go get your blocks, man,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it. They're hitting him two ahead, almost
Speaker 1: three seconds per drop back to throw in this game.
Speaker 1: I talked about it last week. Whether you're manufacturing pockets
Speaker 1: and all these rollouts and play action and using the
Speaker 1: flow of the running game to get the you know,
Speaker 1: the the blitzers or potential second level defenders eyes kind
Speaker 1: of in the wrong spot, or you're just going out
Speaker 1: there and executing. It's a combination of both. We've seen
Speaker 1: it for three weeks now. It's a good sign going
Speaker 1: into the season. There was a great film breakdown this
Speaker 1: summer by Kurt Warner on YouTube where he talked about
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hills find attention to detail as a route runner
Speaker 1: where there was you know, these options within certain plays
Speaker 1: where they're space or opening, and the receiver could find that,
Speaker 1: show the quarterback his numbers and just say, hey, let's
Speaker 1: get this window because it's here. But like the attention
Speaker 1: to detail that he would do would take that extra
Speaker 1: step to drive further, to force you know, a back
Speaker 1: pedal step or a got to flip his hips more
Speaker 1: than he would have if you took that space, And
Speaker 1: that fine attention to detail creates bigger windows within the offense.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of the point of Kurt Warner's
Speaker 1: breakdown of how polished he is as a route runner.
Speaker 1: And so with that mind, go watch the second catch
Speaker 1: of the game, that crossing route, because the backside safety
Speaker 1: comes down to cover that thing, which is the only
Speaker 1: way you're going to defend those those crossing routes as
Speaker 1: specially in man coverage, because you're just not going to
Speaker 1: chase that guy across the field and keep up with him.
Speaker 1: But the way Tygreek presses his route into the defender
Speaker 1: like he was open and had space to run too,
Speaker 1: but he took his route like it's like pressing the
Speaker 1: toes of the defensive back on a vertical route, press
Speaker 1: him because that makes him have to honor the fact
Speaker 1: that you could go by him and has to take
Speaker 1: that step backwards opposed to a drive step forward, and
Speaker 1: that just creates another half second, where that's a lifetime
Speaker 1: in this league and in the sport. He just understands
Speaker 1: the angles and the nature of space in this game
Speaker 1: so well. I thought we saw more of that in
Speaker 1: just two steps. He ran two routes. He ran two routes,
Speaker 1: and he caught two passes for sixty four yards. He
Speaker 1: had a third place where he ran block. It's it's
Speaker 1: so stupid, but like in the best way possible. What
Speaker 1: about Sethan Carter last night? What a block he had
Speaker 1: on Raheem most arts twenties six yard gallop and what
Speaker 1: a sealed by Austin Jackson on that play. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been talking about this for a while,
Speaker 1: but when you've got backs with Raheem speed Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: speed and you block it, well, you're gonna get explosive
Speaker 1: place twenty six yards in the ground. Game is a
Speaker 1: game changer, changes everything, especially with the way this offense
Speaker 1: functions right, and what a nice first glimpse at thirty
Speaker 1: one in the Dolphins uniform. But if you really want
Speaker 1: to go get Jazz, go check out his pass pro
Speaker 1: rep on two, his loan and completion, Like we can
Speaker 1: find positives and everything right on the incomplete pass. Go
Speaker 1: watch thirty one step up and pass pro bang, Go
Speaker 1: get him. Miles Gaskin's first run first off, Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: moves his guy and washes him down the line. Two gaps.
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg polls and seals the lane while Rob Hunt
Speaker 1: is up in the second level wiping out a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Durham Smith climbs to make a block of his own
Speaker 1: in that second level. Man, good work across the board boys,
Speaker 1: and gosh, that comeback route by Trent Sherfield later on
Speaker 1: in the game, he gets vertical stacks the defensive back
Speaker 1: where you get him on your back and you're you're
Speaker 1: you're staying vertical. So he's underneath the route. And when
Speaker 1: he's in that position where you eventually want to get to, like,
Speaker 1: you better be sharp, and you better sell a head fake,
Speaker 1: and you better get off that top of that route,
Speaker 1: off that stem quickly, and he sure as hell does
Speaker 1: bends it back in the balls right there when he
Speaker 1: gets back down that stem. That chemistry for two right now, Man,
Speaker 1: it's clicking. That's Cedric Wilson catch and run. The entire
Speaker 1: Eagles defense flowed with the play fake. The second level
Speaker 1: looked like it looks like a foosball table where you
Speaker 1: have three guys on the one you know, the one lever,
Speaker 1: and then when you kind of yank that lever back
Speaker 1: towards you try to block a shot. When you when
Speaker 1: your opponent has like a free shot of goal and
Speaker 1: they all move simultaneously because they're on that same track.
Speaker 1: That's what it reminded me of, Like they were all
Speaker 1: three four false steps in the wrong direction. Then on
Speaker 1: the quick pop to Mike GISICKI, you see a safety
Speaker 1: come up to fit the run and there goes Mike
Speaker 1: get Sick. You're right behind him. Very early returns. Is
Speaker 1: how simple this offense can make the keys for the
Speaker 1: quarterback because on that play you see the safety dropped
Speaker 1: down and that's all you need to know that your
Speaker 1: six six tight end is gonna be open without an
Speaker 1: eagle within five yards of him. His offense is fund man,
Speaker 1: which is which is crazy. Be use Mike. Like we'll
Speaker 1: hear from his press conference, coach said, this was all
Speaker 1: fundamentals and technique, Like this wasn't game planning or scheming.
Speaker 1: This is guy's going out and winning with technique. I
Speaker 1: mean they were for my money three and O and
Speaker 1: the practices, the joint practices, and you come out with
Speaker 1: that effort in that game two weeks, man, check your pulse.
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley second level block on a Miles Gaskin run
Speaker 1: just was indicative of the kind of preseason that he
Speaker 1: has had. The big band's moving, he's rolling now and
Speaker 1: Seethan Carter back to him. Really damn good in the
Speaker 1: In the run blocking game, Man, he had a good
Speaker 1: cut block on a Gaskin run on the second quarter
Speaker 1: where he kind of fakes a move to the left
Speaker 1: and then it's a wine back counter and he comes
Speaker 1: out and scoops out that backside unblocked rusher. Really impressive
Speaker 1: work from Seethan Carter also cut the touchdown pass in
Speaker 1: this game. I mentioned Hunter Long in the blocking game
Speaker 1: on the podcast yesterday. On Savon Akman's fourteen yard rip.
Speaker 1: He comes across the formation and split flow and he
Speaker 1: really had to sacrifice himself because he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: clean shot on the guy that he has to get blocked.
Speaker 1: He squeezed in tight to Greg Little at that left
Speaker 1: tackle position and you kind of just see him throw
Speaker 1: himself into the face of the fan there just to
Speaker 1: get a body on him, because like he wasn't like
Speaker 1: there wasn't a clean shot on him to come around
Speaker 1: and make that hit. So he just thought, like if
Speaker 1: I can get in the way of this, and he did,
Speaker 1: and it sealed that edge for a fourteen yard run.
Speaker 1: And then I just want to mention the timing and
Speaker 1: pacing of River Craycraft's routes. He is so savvy man
Speaker 1: the way he breaks off those things that angles back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, but just the timing of it within
Speaker 1: the offense, you can see he's a guy that has
Speaker 1: been in the system before. Let's go back to Greg
Speaker 1: Little here, who stayed in for the majority of the game.
Speaker 1: Haven't gotten extended look at him with the time that
Speaker 1: he's missed this training camp in preseason, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was really really good in this Game's got a
Speaker 1: wide base, very good hand placement, getting all kinds of
Speaker 1: drive at the point of attack in the running game.
Speaker 1: And that was an area we discussed last week, right
Speaker 1: that swing tackle spot. He sure has heck made his
Speaker 1: case for that job last night recording the podcast here
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I think him and Solomon Kindley, who was
Speaker 1: you know, who's had a really good preseason couple of
Speaker 1: weeks of practice now the preseason games, he's been great
Speaker 1: and all those Both of those guys stood out to
Speaker 1: me in the rewatch Hunter Long's touchdown that was not
Speaker 1: The notes are all over the place. I apologize for that,
Speaker 1: um not really because it's just kind of how I
Speaker 1: wrote with them down. But it's a pretty similar route
Speaker 1: to the one that coach praised last week in his
Speaker 1: press conference, those sort of post up, box out whip
Speaker 1: routes where you're tied end down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can throw it against the leverage there,
Speaker 1: which we know to what can do they can sure
Speaker 1: as he'll be fruitful. And then the shot from Skyler
Speaker 1: Thompson to him early in the third quarter. Wow, I
Speaker 1: like this guy. I really like this guy. That was
Speaker 1: some shot. And with Hunter a subtle little duck under
Speaker 1: the backer who's buzzing to the flat. You see that
Speaker 1: drill with receivers, and I see the linebackers do it
Speaker 1: all the time too in their individual drills where they
Speaker 1: work on pad level, operating under some type of apparatus
Speaker 1: that doesn't allow you to stand up all the way,
Speaker 1: like you have to kind of get into your crouch
Speaker 1: and shuffle shuffle slide. I saw that application on this
Speaker 1: route where you you run under like remember last year
Speaker 1: they had it. I haven't seen in this year where
Speaker 1: they have those. Like you know, it's got like a
Speaker 1: vertical post and then a crossbar of the top and
Speaker 1: the receivers would run under those to get in and
Speaker 1: out of their breaks. Sink your hips and get off
Speaker 1: the top of that stem. You saw Hunter Along do
Speaker 1: that on this play to avoid a reroute. Really good
Speaker 1: stuff from him. Get off the line, get that pad
Speaker 1: level low around the contact, and accelerate through that little
Speaker 1: hip sync. Good stuff they're from Hunter Long. Michael Dieter
Speaker 1: showed his ability to get out in space on a
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle run down on the red zone. Man, he
Speaker 1: had to get some width to get that block where
Speaker 1: he's kind of stretching wide outside the numbers. He goes
Speaker 1: and gets it. This entire offensive line, I mean, Rob
Speaker 1: Jones had some good work. Adam Panky had some run
Speaker 1: out left guard and he was good there. Remember he's
Speaker 1: a guy that's cross training at center, was a tackle prior,
Speaker 1: so he's looked pretty good at various points playing all
Speaker 1: five positions along an offensive line. Kept an eye on
Speaker 1: Kellen Dish late in the game. Man, he had some
Speaker 1: really nice spatial awareness, kind of has a good feel
Speaker 1: for the flow of the play, like when to help,
Speaker 1: when to climb, and always comes to balance and control
Speaker 1: in space. Thought Blaze Andrew's fired off the ball for
Speaker 1: good down block on a Jared Doakes first down run.
Speaker 1: Really everyone getting involved in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: And how about those backs, man, that they all played
Speaker 1: so well, Like even we didn't talk about the Quandrea
Speaker 1: White yet, the back to back runs that he had
Speaker 1: late in that fourth quarter super impressive with the burst
Speaker 1: a quick feet that cuts to accelerate through those cuts.
Speaker 1: This team is deep in so many spots, as we'll
Speaker 1: hear from coach McDaniel in just a little bit. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our first break, come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and do the defensive film breakdown and
Speaker 1: some PF data. That's next on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: We're rewatching the Dolphins preseason finale, a forty eight to
Speaker 1: ten victory over the Philadelphia Eagles with very heavy hearts
Speaker 1: this week with the loss of Jason Jenkins. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big part of the podcast going forward. Guys,
Speaker 1: he was he was my like, he was kind of
Speaker 1: like second in command on the podcast. That sounds funny
Speaker 1: to say, because he was like the boss of of
Speaker 1: so many people here because he you know, he's a
Speaker 1: high ranking executive who you know, earned his way into
Speaker 1: that role by working his butt off for for decades.
Speaker 1: And but he was like it was we talked sometimes
Speaker 1: about like this is you and me man in this podcast.
Speaker 1: So he was a big, big part of that, and
Speaker 1: you know he'll be a big part of it going
Speaker 1: forward to But uh, watching the game on Sunday was
Speaker 1: a nice way to get my mind off of that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick it up here with the defensive notes
Speaker 1: and starting with really that first team defense because I
Speaker 1: just kept going back and writing down more notes. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips got got Juice's game ball, and when he said
Speaker 1: that on the postgame show, I was like, really, I
Speaker 1: thought there was guys that had more of an impact
Speaker 1: than Jalen. But Red watching the film, no, No, he
Speaker 1: was really really really good. It really really got his
Speaker 1: dip and ripped to shorten that corner is so impressive.
Speaker 1: He ran a little cross chop on I think it
Speaker 1: was the second play of the game, and it's screen
Speaker 1: past the other way. He wins immediately, so he has
Speaker 1: to stay active and just kind of continue that rush
Speaker 1: arc back to the opposite side of the football, which
Speaker 1: he does, and he finds the ball carrier and cuts
Speaker 1: him down. It's ridiculous. He doesn't have the crazy sack
Speaker 1: numbers this preseason, but my goodness, he's been so impactful.
Speaker 1: The same way you notice his effort and appreciate the
Speaker 1: things that he does to help other guys make plays
Speaker 1: is what we see with Christian Wilkins, who on the
Speaker 1: second drive the first play, they ran at Wilkins and
Speaker 1: they get a little bit of movement with a double team,
Speaker 1: but the drops that anchor and gets back inside, coming
Speaker 1: back over the top of the block, and the bat
Speaker 1: cuts off of that and he teams up with Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker for a stop. In the running game, Wilkins had
Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome game. Him and Phillips gonna get some
Speaker 1: run here in the notes, very next play, Phillips, Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and Bonito Jones all win their past rush one on
Speaker 1: ones immediately and Minshew Gokogs just has to eat it
Speaker 1: and throw the football at the feet of his running
Speaker 1: back back to Phillips again here who I've made this
Speaker 1: point about his pass rush arsenal and the ability to
Speaker 1: cultivate a plan and exploit the knowledge that the opposing
Speaker 1: tackle has on him of that plan, after that cross chop,
Speaker 1: he fakes this lateral step inside then does a snatch
Speaker 1: and poll to get around the corner and hit Minshew
Speaker 1: to impact the past. I can't wait to watch him
Speaker 1: play forty snaps in the game. I said that a
Speaker 1: few weeks in a road now because I think that
Speaker 1: he has this idea in his head. If I do this,
Speaker 1: this and this, it can get me in this position,
Speaker 1: this part and later in the game that can do
Speaker 1: like I think he I think he operates on that
Speaker 1: high level of a football I Q standpoint. And you
Speaker 1: pair that with his his measurables and his strength and
Speaker 1: his speed and his motor A draft class last year, man,
Speaker 1: I think it might be legendary. Later back to Wilkins
Speaker 1: has a pick stunt on ray Kwon Davis's guy, and
Speaker 1: even after the pick, he flattens back to the quarterback
Speaker 1: and joins up with Melvin Ingram for a hit on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, who also won his pass rush rep with
Speaker 1: straight speed rush, which is you know, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can win with a bowl with power and speed
Speaker 1: that forces an errand throw. And you know about Wilkins,
Speaker 1: like the way he stays on his feet and like
Speaker 1: It's almost like Chase Edmonds as a running back where
Speaker 1: I talk about the ability to accel right through his cuts.
Speaker 1: Christian kind of does that as a pass rusher, but
Speaker 1: he does it through contact in a way where he
Speaker 1: stays on balance. It's kind of uncanny, man, Like, go
Speaker 1: back and watch the game and just watch the way
Speaker 1: he like like he'll squirt through this contact where it
Speaker 1: looks like there's no way he's gonna get through that gap,
Speaker 1: and he just does. He's like an octopus like getting
Speaker 1: through those little key holes even though he's you know,
Speaker 1: a massive human being. It's crazy, absolutely crazy. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that was the case, you know, talking about these past
Speaker 1: rush situations throughout the entire first half. Even when they
Speaker 1: had guys open, they couldn't get them the football because
Speaker 1: the rush just kept coming in waves. In the second Dary,
Speaker 1: let's see I'm scattered here again. No Ignogony's pass break
Speaker 1: up we saw, you know, get in there, make a play,
Speaker 1: get out of the game. What a good night that
Speaker 1: was for Ignogeny. Really good work to get his hands
Speaker 1: on the on the receiver to keep himself in phase
Speaker 1: while also disrupting the timing of that route. That was
Speaker 1: a big part of why that pass went incomplete. Back
Speaker 1: to Melvin Ingram again, very scattered here today, I'm all
Speaker 1: over the place. I'm trying to use some some humor
Speaker 1: and uh hearted stuff to diffuse my my real emotions here.
Speaker 1: So stay with me. But you can already tell the
Speaker 1: intangible impact that Melvin Ingram is going to have as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher here. He sets up a pick stunt
Speaker 1: to free up Christian, and he moved the guy that
Speaker 1: he picked pretty significantly. He's a powerful, powerful dude and
Speaker 1: still has lots of juice in the tank. Eric Roman.
Speaker 1: The edge that he set in the running game multiple
Speaker 1: times over and over was a big part of my
Speaker 1: takeaways on the Miami Dolphins dot Com piece and the
Speaker 1: Takeaways podcast on Sunday. But what I didn't see on
Speaker 1: that play that I talked about was Christian Wilkins go
Speaker 1: from backside three technique, which is, you know, inside the
Speaker 1: shoulder pads of the right tackle. The run goes to
Speaker 1: the left and Christian works all the way down the
Speaker 1: line and strings out the outside zone. Play. What that
Speaker 1: dude waste three fifteen pounds whatever it is like, that
Speaker 1: is not he shouldn't be able to move that way.
Speaker 1: Clayton Fedeland was a big part of Campbell's pick six
Speaker 1: that he had. The way he closed and took away
Speaker 1: the access from Reid Sinet on that wheel route to
Speaker 1: the running back, I think forced him into that bad
Speaker 1: decision because he wanted to go that spot and saw
Speaker 1: it's not there. But here comes the past rush. That's
Speaker 1: why you keep coming after a guy, keep coming after
Speaker 1: a guy, right, Eventually you force a bad decision because
Speaker 1: I don't want to get hit again. And it's a
Speaker 1: great play by Elijah Campbell to finish it off there
Speaker 1: at the end with the catch and with the run back.
Speaker 1: But you know, Jones had himself one heck of a game,
Speaker 1: didn't he Seeing lots of that pass rushing of phone
Speaker 1: booth ability we saw back at Old Miss. He gets
Speaker 1: a guy leaning, then uses the strength and really just
Speaker 1: increases the momentum and leverage advantage that he has based
Speaker 1: upon those heavy hands and that that low pad level.
Speaker 1: He's had a good run here in the preseason. And
Speaker 1: then my goodness, the egg Von sack that he had
Speaker 1: was the result of just pure effort. He had to
Speaker 1: come off three blocks to get his prize, which was
Speaker 1: a sack that dude. His motor doesn't quit. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of his game as well. Channing Tendall continues
Speaker 1: to show the flashes of what he's capable of. Man,
Speaker 1: he's playing fast and making some splash plays. That one
Speaker 1: long run from the touchdown. You know he missed that tackle.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I mean, you gotta get that corrected. But
Speaker 1: I think you take some of that with what he
Speaker 1: can do in terms of the flashes and the and
Speaker 1: the splash play potential he has. I don't have any
Speaker 1: exact notes on this, but Brandon Jones, Javon Holland, and
Speaker 1: Landon Roberts were also damn solid. Again, just a total
Speaker 1: team effort. Really here. How about some Pro Football Focus numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't have defense. I'll cover that on the next
Speaker 1: podcast we do because they're not posted yet, but offensively
Speaker 1: they're up and it's always fun to do these after
Speaker 1: a game like this. I mentioned the play action numbers.
Speaker 1: As a team, the Dolphins were twelve of fourteen on
Speaker 1: play pass for two fifty yards and three touchdowns. Two
Speaker 1: was six for six for one one in the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Two was five for six with a buck oh eight
Speaker 1: on passes that traveled at least ten air yards. He
Speaker 1: was four for five in the intermediate for fifty seven yards,
Speaker 1: and it feels good to get that confirmation on my
Speaker 1: training camp tweets right, sure Field for fifteen, Tygreek for eighteen.
Speaker 1: There's a SICKI for seventeen. Now he's got wattle for
Speaker 1: twenty one. It's been like that all camp. It was
Speaker 1: like that last night. He had two point nine eight
Speaker 1: seconds to throw on average the entire game. Not bad man.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hills yards per route ran thirty two. Two's good,
Speaker 1: by the way, the best guys in the league at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. That justin Jefferson's that Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hills are gonna be up around like two point five
Speaker 1: maybe so yeah, thirty two. Lynn Boden had thirteen. The
Speaker 1: long catch and run. The one game sample size is
Speaker 1: not a great example of this, but it is laughable
Speaker 1: to talk about because you know Tyreks Tyreek Craycraft had
Speaker 1: four point one four. That one's a little more, you know,
Speaker 1: translatedble because he played so many snaps. Mike a Sicky
Speaker 1: three point six. Some good numbers there. How about yack yards.
Speaker 1: Boden had thirty seven. Cracraft had twenty six. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: is a team, had eighty five after the catch forced
Speaker 1: miss tackles from running backs. Gaskin had four, that would
Speaker 1: have been a season high for him last year. Jared
Speaker 1: Dakes had three, White and Michelle had to each. Savant
Speaker 1: Akhman had one. We're talking about six carries for Miles
Speaker 1: and four four Smiths tackles, eleven carries for Dokes, three
Speaker 1: miss tackles, four for Savon a miss tackle, four for
Speaker 1: the Quandree White two miss tackles and five carries for
Speaker 1: Michelle with two miss tackles. That's pretty damn good work
Speaker 1: in the running back room. Yards after contact average Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskin five point eight three yards after initial contact, White
Speaker 1: and Achmed both had four point to five, Doakes three
Speaker 1: point seven three, and Pro Football Focus tabed the Dolphins
Speaker 1: with five pressures allowed in the game. Nobody had more
Speaker 1: than one. Coleman and Robert Jones one apiece on eight
Speaker 1: teen pass blocking snaps. It's a great number. Kinley eighteen,
Speaker 1: Deeter eighteen, Greg Little twenty three. Not a single pressure
Speaker 1: among those three, nor was there a pressure allowed from
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Rob Hunt, Connor Williams and Leam Eichenberg, who
Speaker 1: all played eight pass blocking snaps. Again. Defense numbers not
Speaker 1: yet posted, like like last week, will cover on the
Speaker 1: next edition here of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and get to coach Mike McDaniel's media availability
Speaker 1: from Sunday. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Before we get to Coach,
Speaker 1: there was a port of Trey Flowers signing with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. We'll talk about that more if and when
Speaker 1: it becomes official, but I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: put it here into the podcast. Let's get next to
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel, who first was asked about Byron Jones availability,
Speaker 1: which he gave us a good answer on said that
Speaker 1: his situation has a lot to do with not just
Speaker 1: him but other players in the team, and they're looking
Speaker 1: forward to having some clarity on that here in the
Speaker 1: near future. But he did say which, of course, Byron
Speaker 1: has to come off the pup by Tuesday in order
Speaker 1: to not be placed on the initial pup start the season,
Speaker 1: which would cost him the first four games of the year.
Speaker 1: Coach did say he's not coming off of his initial
Speaker 1: statement about feeling good about the progress and being on track,
Speaker 1: but to not happen. So we'll find out about that
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, if or if not Byron Jones comes off pup. Next,
Speaker 1: we'll go to coach for some audio. Here he was
Speaker 1: asked about the difficult decisions that were put on his
Speaker 1: plate with the way guys performed last night to make
Speaker 1: cuts on the fifty three man roster. Here's coach on
Speaker 1: how the game on Saturday night impacted. How difficult these
Speaker 1: decisions are going to be to make these cuts on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that you know, being in
Speaker 1: the business for a while that uh, you you hope
Speaker 1: to have these tough decisions. Yesterday did make it tougher.
Speaker 1: There was some, um, some guys that on both side
Speaker 1: of the ball that maybe hadn't got as many opportunities. UM,
Speaker 1: And for the most part there was there was guys
Speaker 1: that most players put their best foot forward yesterday. So, UM,
Speaker 1: that is a good problem to have, UH, but it
Speaker 1: is it is a problem uh that that only benefits
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. UM. So we're we're um leaving no
Speaker 1: stone unturned and making sure that we make the best decisions. UM,
Speaker 1: Chris and I have UH talked at length. I mean
Speaker 1: we've been talking for for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: UM and UH specifically on on these roster decisions. UM
Speaker 1: talked at length yesterday before the game to make sure
Speaker 1: we're on the same page and everyone got ample opportunity.
Speaker 1: Then UH talked again today. UM met met today a
Speaker 1: good amount of time. We'll we'll meet tomorrow morning, UM
Speaker 1: and as long as it takes. But yeah, it is
Speaker 1: the more good players you have, the more difficult that is. UM.
Speaker 1: But that's that's something that we UM embrace because we
Speaker 1: know we're on the right track. You know, it's funny,
Speaker 1: I quit fantasy football years ago. I did play in
Speaker 1: the UH the DCC League last year and should have
Speaker 1: won that thing, but Tyreek getting injured that Steelers game
Speaker 1: cost me might semifinal game, and then I had the
Speaker 1: most points the entire league on championship weekend in the
Speaker 1: consolation bracket. But I'm not going to complain. I did
Speaker 1: retire years and years ago, but came back for that
Speaker 1: just to get second or third place again. But you know,
Speaker 1: in fantasy like you have to make decisions about you
Speaker 1: know your your roster going into the season, and I
Speaker 1: remember thinking like how stressful to this to decide like
Speaker 1: do I trade this guy or do I pick up
Speaker 1: that guy? How do I make this decision in the draft.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that decision for these guys because there's
Speaker 1: so many good players in this football team and it
Speaker 1: must just be stressful thinking about how you have to
Speaker 1: get down to fifty three when you know that some
Speaker 1: of the guys are gonna cut and play. That's where
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from coach next here talking about the
Speaker 1: receiver and running back room. This first part where he
Speaker 1: talks about they knew this going into this that they
Speaker 1: were going to have to cut guys that are NFL players.
Speaker 1: Here's coach on the difficulty of making this roster as
Speaker 1: a running back or wide receiver in particularly those those
Speaker 1: two groups. UM have not only you know from the onset,
Speaker 1: we knew that it was going to be it was
Speaker 1: gonna be too Um. We we knew we were going
Speaker 1: to have more NFL players than roster spots available. UM.
Speaker 1: That that was we we knew from the onset. But
Speaker 1: what was also um really really enjoyable as a coach
Speaker 1: to observe as you always hope that you have the
Speaker 1: right type of people in a competitive room, that channel
Speaker 1: UM that competitive uh uh onslaught in the right direction.
Speaker 1: And so what that affords you as players getting better
Speaker 1: as a result of the competition. I think in both
Speaker 1: groups you've seen that you've seen um multiple playmakers, um
Speaker 1: really from top to bottom in both groups. That's what's
Speaker 1: super rare is you have uh you know, at your
Speaker 1: your final fifty three decision time, UM, every player in
Speaker 1: the position group has been on the field making plays.
Speaker 1: So that that does not make it easy. UM. They
Speaker 1: they've known that the whole time, which is why, uh,
Speaker 1: what I'm what I'm proud about and what I'm happy
Speaker 1: about is each and every player UM in those two
Speaker 1: groups I see as an NFL player. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the the one thing that you can rest, um, you
Speaker 1: can rest easy at night is I feel like they'll
Speaker 1: all have opportunities, regardless of which ones make it UM
Speaker 1: in the National Football League because they have taken their
Speaker 1: game uh to another level and put it on tape.
Speaker 1: Coach was also asked about Skyler Thompson and the difficult
Speaker 1: decision he has given the staff about keeping a third quarterback,
Speaker 1: And I just liked what Coach said about how it's
Speaker 1: not very often a seventh round draft pick gets recognition
Speaker 1: around the entire league. It shows you what Skyler has
Speaker 1: shown in this preseason. I always liked that he talked
Speaker 1: about it's not just the completion percentage of the quarterback rating, uh,
Speaker 1: the way he has just kind of taken on the
Speaker 1: responsibility of the quarterback position. Again, this team is just
Speaker 1: deep quarterback, running back, receiver like gold Jacket, green Jacket,
Speaker 1: They're deep across the roster. Man's a good football team
Speaker 1: this year. Let's go next here to this question about
Speaker 1: our guy Jason Jenkins, and man, the mood shifted when
Speaker 1: he started talking about j j once again. But we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and play here for you guys, because Coach
Speaker 1: does such a good job of kind of saying for
Speaker 1: me what I'm feeling a lot of the time here
Speaker 1: with with with Jason. So let's go to coach. You know,
Speaker 1: I was just especially moments like that, Y're it's hard
Speaker 1: to have it's hard to speak from anywhere, at least
Speaker 1: for me, from anything but the heart, um And it
Speaker 1: was just another testament of of who he who he
Speaker 1: was as a person, UM that you know, there's numerous
Speaker 1: people that UM, unexpectedly we're thanking me for what you know,
Speaker 1: I was just do it, speaking um to what I
Speaker 1: thought was right and you know, just kind of being
Speaker 1: UM transparent as I tried my my best to do.
Speaker 1: But I think it's even more telling how how many
Speaker 1: people have reached out instead of how much they appreciate that, um,
Speaker 1: and which doesn't surprise me, UM, but it just kind
Speaker 1: of doubles down. Uh. We should all be that fortunate
Speaker 1: um to leave a legacy like that, and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: there's it. It definitely hasn't gone away. I don't think
Speaker 1: it will for a long long time. And that's that's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest takeaway could have is that, UM, all right,
Speaker 1: I could only hope to leave a legacy like like
Speaker 1: he did with people UM that I work with. Man
Speaker 1: well said coach, and I do want to put some
Speaker 1: more work into this down the road, so I won't
Speaker 1: get into it right now. But the things that Jason
Speaker 1: accomplished here, like you know, PR media relations staff of
Speaker 1: the of the League or whatever that award was, he
Speaker 1: was a big part of that Dolphins units Like this dude,
Speaker 1: accomplished so much. Man. Yeah. Um, Next, coach was asked
Speaker 1: about some goals that you might have had for the
Speaker 1: preseason that you accomplished. Here's coach talking about how he
Speaker 1: feels his team did compared to his expectations this month
Speaker 1: of August. Um, I think we got better of a game.
Speaker 1: I think, UM, I think on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: There's a trick in the in the National Football League, UM,
Speaker 1: that you kind of have to excel at to do
Speaker 1: to do well and have your dreams realized. And that's
Speaker 1: to focus on the controllables and to not whether whether
Speaker 1: you do something well or you do something poor, to
Speaker 1: just focus on the process and getting better without ignoring
Speaker 1: the or with ignoring the noise, and not getting caught
Speaker 1: up in things that don't really matter. What matters is
Speaker 1: getting better, UM. And I think guys really focused on that.
Speaker 1: And that's the only way, UM. You know that you
Speaker 1: know all whether it was the first quarter or the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter last night, UM, I thought guys were we
Speaker 1: were making plays on both sides of the ball because
Speaker 1: of technique, not because of scheme, and that there's no
Speaker 1: short cut to that. So UM, that harness the goal, UM,
Speaker 1: that that I had from the beginning, which was that
Speaker 1: we focus on what actually matters, UM, and that's getting
Speaker 1: better at what we do, learning from everything and finding
Speaker 1: you know, there was probably there was a ton of
Speaker 1: examples in this, in this game and over the whole
Speaker 1: preseason of people turning what in the short term seems
Speaker 1: bad or seems his adversity using that UM two be
Speaker 1: the sale that helps him get better UM, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was on display last night. Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about if he intends to attending a high school or
Speaker 1: college football games locally during this next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: as they get away from the field a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he talked about work life balance and how it's
Speaker 1: going to be time to be daddy for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was awesome. Talking about swim since
Speaker 1: he's been his daughter has been taking and how he
Speaker 1: can go. Uh, he's more of a swim survivor, he said,
Speaker 1: not a swim enthusiast. I can make it to the
Speaker 1: side of the pool, he says, but I've there's no stroke,
Speaker 1: I've perfected. Just good stuff. Coach, we appreciate the levity,
Speaker 1: especially on a day like this. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here with a great quote about Greg Little,
Speaker 1: who I obviously praised in the film segment here on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but his his comments here about taking advantage
Speaker 1: of every potential rep opportunity for Greg Little and what
Speaker 1: he did this summer when he was, you know, down
Speaker 1: and injured not playing. Here's coach on Greg Little, his
Speaker 1: performance last night and his work so far in the
Speaker 1: month of August. Thought he did. I thought he did
Speaker 1: a great job. I was was proud of him. Um
Speaker 1: he uh he. You wouldn't have thought that he that
Speaker 1: he was um progressing through an injury. I thought that
Speaker 1: he You can't hide from the tape. And what I
Speaker 1: saw was a guy that while hasn't been getting UM
Speaker 1: physical reps, he's been getting mental represent and watching his
Speaker 1: teammates perform the desired tasks and learning from them. Because
Speaker 1: he came back um and played at a level that
Speaker 1: was higher, higher than when he left, which is um
Speaker 1: something that I never lose sight of. That is a
Speaker 1: big deal to me. UM and that uh, I was
Speaker 1: happy for him he was able to do Alright. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's all that is the podcast. I don't have an
Speaker 1: exact schedule for you guys, what's gonna be coming up next?
Speaker 1: I do want to get to a mailbag here shortly.
Speaker 1: We will have the fifty three man roster announcement on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: I believe, if not Wednesday morning. On that podcast, I'll
Speaker 1: get back to you guys. On that we'll do some
Speaker 1: fun uh season preview content stuff. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: Jason obviously, and just get you ready here for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: you know, eleven days away or twelve days or thirteen days,
Speaker 1: I don't know what day it is away from that
Speaker 1: Patriots opener. We can't wait to watch at will preview
Speaker 1: that game in full in depth as well, and give
Speaker 1: you some keys of that game where the Dolphins can,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe exploit some opportunities where they have to
Speaker 1: be careful against starting against vulnerabilities of their own. All
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