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Speaker 1: And on today's show, we are back in the film
Speaker 1: room for the eleventh time this season. Will come through
Speaker 1: every app and tell you what stood out on offense
Speaker 1: on defense, plus will update the numbers and leaderboards, visit
Speaker 1: the snap counts from the game. And here from head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel at his Monday media availability from the
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Speaker 1: is the Drivetime. You guys know the drill. Tuesdays are
Speaker 1: always very busy. Editions of the Drivetime podcast. So with that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump right in with the Offensive
Speaker 1: All twenty two review. And it was first half heavy
Speaker 1: for sure. And I know we went in depth on
Speaker 1: this on Sunday, but from the very first play of
Speaker 1: the game, we see it and I just want to
Speaker 1: break it down further about the way to AH does
Speaker 1: these subtle things that I think stand out in a
Speaker 1: in a way that isn't easily recognizable. So it's a
Speaker 1: play action to the offenses right and they'll throw the
Speaker 1: glance a slant route basically back to the right, and
Speaker 1: that's not all that common. But it's all about responsibilities
Speaker 1: to has on the play and the collection of talents
Speaker 1: that will see throughout this game and his tape and
Speaker 1: this particular play in particular the way the feet and
Speaker 1: the release work in rapid succession with the processing between
Speaker 1: the ears. We heard Coach Monday say that to A
Speaker 1: or Sunday, I should say do some things and O
Speaker 1: t A s that he had never seen executed within
Speaker 1: this within this system, and his twelve and thirteen years
Speaker 1: of operating solely within the confines of this type of
Speaker 1: system in which he spent most of his career within right,
Speaker 1: and if I had to put my finger on what
Speaker 1: that might be, I think it's what you saw. On
Speaker 1: the first play of the game. He has to drive
Speaker 1: three steps wide out of his you know, out of
Speaker 1: fronder center and extend the football on what is outside
Speaker 1: zone action. Then he angles back to the middle of
Speaker 1: the pocket, extending that drop really to five steps. He
Speaker 1: then turns his head before he's even hit the plant foot,
Speaker 1: and as he hits that plant foot, you see the
Speaker 1: hands separate and the balls comeing out before Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: is out of his break. And again, this is a
Speaker 1: glance route where the lion of scrimmage is the thirty
Speaker 1: four yard line, and Waddle breaks off his route at
Speaker 1: the forty one yard line. So as fast as Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: one of the five or six fastest players in the league,
Speaker 1: giver take as fast as he can run seven yards
Speaker 1: to a has executed a play fake, taken a five
Speaker 1: step drop, pivoted back to the defense without having any
Speaker 1: post snap information because his back is to the defense,
Speaker 1: set his feet and delivered the pass, which is right
Speaker 1: on the money. By the way, when I watched each
Speaker 1: and every one of his college snaps on slow mo
Speaker 1: full speed running back see at six or seven times.
Speaker 1: I always marveled at the operation of his footwork, how
Speaker 1: his feet took him to the solution to the problem
Speaker 1: the defense wants to create on every single play, something
Speaker 1: as innocuous as a speed out, a five yard out
Speaker 1: route boom one two ball out. Let's go make it
Speaker 1: quick where he takes the drop straight, so it's not
Speaker 1: the tip of defense about going to the left, going
Speaker 1: to the right, state down the middle of the pipe.
Speaker 1: Then pivot that plant foot in the same action that
Speaker 1: you take your drive foot and point it towards your target,
Speaker 1: so everything is aligned towards your target. Then stride and throw,
Speaker 1: and it's high and away off the outside shoulder, away
Speaker 1: from that inside leverage defender who can't make a play
Speaker 1: because the ball is located so well high in a way,
Speaker 1: just like to throw high and away to waddle against
Speaker 1: Cleveland with Eric Stokes driving underneath. This is something I
Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever be appreciated by your casual show
Speaker 1: up on Sunday Football Fan, which is a great way
Speaker 1: to watch the game right. Nothing against that approach at all,
Speaker 1: But that's why I do the podcast to try to
Speaker 1: explain what I see and give you the details if
Speaker 1: you are interested in them, and of course if you're here,
Speaker 1: I think you're interested in those things. But boy, I
Speaker 1: thought this is gonna be a quick tape watch and
Speaker 1: here I am almost five hundred words on the opening place.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. So what we do, baby, But
Speaker 1: we're going to use that as a temple to come
Speaker 1: back to because he accessed these skills time and time
Speaker 1: again throughout the course of this game. Like on the
Speaker 1: very next play, Tyreek is gonna run a little check slash,
Speaker 1: you know, check with me hook up where he releases
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage and gets his eyes back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback immediately. It's a free released from a
Speaker 1: condensed split, so he's in close to the formation with
Speaker 1: the outside corner outside leverage but to the sidelines, eyes
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback and playing eight yards off coverage
Speaker 1: to that same side of the formation. Derham Smith is
Speaker 1: attached to the line of scrimmage. So Smith runs a
Speaker 1: flat route and that pulls this hook middle linebacker out
Speaker 1: of the equation and you see Tyreek kind of filling
Speaker 1: where he is and just kind of getting eyes back
Speaker 1: to tah and the timing is a little bit wonky
Speaker 1: because it's a field type of play, like if the
Speaker 1: linebacker doesn't move a certain speed, we have to kind
Speaker 1: of adjust for that. And you see two u's feet
Speaker 1: just like Peyton Manning style stuttering the pockets. Center in
Speaker 1: the pocket, reset and get perfectly aligned to rip it
Speaker 1: the tyreek in the second window that opens up. And
Speaker 1: the coolest part about these plays is that it essentially
Speaker 1: eliminates the pass rush on its own because it happens
Speaker 1: in like one and a half seconds, and nobody ever
Speaker 1: gets to the quarterback in under two seconds. It's just
Speaker 1: not doable. And so to h by the nature of
Speaker 1: his inherent skill set, which he you know, he's been
Speaker 1: rapping since he was a child, to get it to
Speaker 1: that level of proficiency, because he offers that you have
Speaker 1: a handful of plays every single game where they cannot
Speaker 1: get pressure in your quarterback. It's not possible. Because the
Speaker 1: quarterback is so adept with the footwork, the processing, and
Speaker 1: the release, all three of those elements of his game.
Speaker 1: They might be the fastest in the NFL. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it is, it's up there. And
Speaker 1: because of that you get ten or fifteen reps of
Speaker 1: game where the pass rush is negated against your passing plays.
Speaker 1: It's it's high level. It's why his sack percentage is
Speaker 1: so good. It's why every year his sack percentage is
Speaker 1: way lower than any other Dolphins quarterback in the lineup.
Speaker 1: When he gets injured or gets taken out of the game,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. It's a superpower of his
Speaker 1: and gosh, the throw to Waddle just two plays later
Speaker 1: is another superpower. He has color in his face immediately
Speaker 1: as Austin Jackson gets pressed on the inside post like
Speaker 1: right off the snap, and two us work in the
Speaker 1: front side of the formation where the original read is
Speaker 1: and Waddle is one of the two options to the backside.
Speaker 1: And this all happens in the amount of time that
Speaker 1: it takes Jalen to get from the thirty three to
Speaker 1: the thirty yard line. So it's a three yard situation
Speaker 1: where Waddle covers three yards of ground And to what
Speaker 1: does all of this? So to his eyes are to
Speaker 1: tie reek to the field the front side, he whips
Speaker 1: his head back to the back side and the hands separate,
Speaker 1: which means, of course, the ball is coming within those
Speaker 1: three yards of Waddle getting depth. The ball is out
Speaker 1: as Waddle is splitting two defenders, and by the time
Speaker 1: the ball and he intersect, it's into this wide open
Speaker 1: pocket fifteen yards down the field. So you might see
Speaker 1: these wide receivers like wide open watching the game, but
Speaker 1: just know that a huge, the biggest part of it
Speaker 1: is the quarterback playing as fast as the mind conceivably
Speaker 1: can operate. Like the way he processes information in a
Speaker 1: game where like, have you guys been field level in
Speaker 1: NFL before? It moves very fast. That's why I like,
Speaker 1: I don't get too down on officials because it's a
Speaker 1: tough thing to do. Now, pick your playing quarterback and
Speaker 1: trying to put the football in this football sized you know,
Speaker 1: target operating at that level of speed and proficiency. From
Speaker 1: mental standpoint, those three elements of his game are the superpower. Okay,
Speaker 1: that with the accuracy I just said, Okay, like a coach,
Speaker 1: that's not my style. Okay with me, everyone, keep with me. Okay,
Speaker 1: those things with the accuracy, anticipation is why he's number
Speaker 1: one and everything right now. It's why this offense is
Speaker 1: functioning the way it is. I mean, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: every excuse out there because it's the easiest thing to do.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, those elements of his game
Speaker 1: or why this offense is averaging three point three points
Speaker 1: per possession under two A and it's down to like
Speaker 1: three points perssession when you factor in every possession of
Speaker 1: Dolphins have and the second place team is under three
Speaker 1: points per possession. So, like, the Dolphins offense with two
Speaker 1: is really really at a historic pace. And it's because
Speaker 1: of those traits. It's not like everything else helps, but
Speaker 1: two was the biggest factor of it. Guys like, understand that, please,
Speaker 1: because it's the It's very much the truth. That's why
Speaker 1: the guys that break the film down that you you
Speaker 1: love and respect say the exact same thing. So it's
Speaker 1: it's incredible to watch him do this, and it's to
Speaker 1: operate that way with a blue jersey right in his face.
Speaker 1: It's just man, it's high, high level. Then you get
Speaker 1: the second drive on one drive, the second drive, first
Speaker 1: playoff drive number two. I love the design Texans wheel
Speaker 1: into this cover three. Look, we have you know, three
Speaker 1: deep defenders covering a third or third or third from
Speaker 1: off coverage and both Jalen Waddle and Trent Sherfield just
Speaker 1: run right at the post safety. Then Waddle puts his
Speaker 1: foot in the ground and angles it back to the
Speaker 1: corner for a post corner route, and that pulls the
Speaker 1: post safety five yards back because he has to get
Speaker 1: death to contend with this wattle corner route, and it
Speaker 1: forces the outside corner and that deep third to flip
Speaker 1: his hips and lose complete sight of the play. And
Speaker 1: then from there it's just Trent Sherfield running away from
Speaker 1: the outside leverage zone, quarterback on the other side, and
Speaker 1: two of fires a thirty five yard line drive down
Speaker 1: the field to Trent Sherfield. It picks up twenty four
Speaker 1: yards because two had a deep drop on the play,
Speaker 1: but it's a design that creates an easy twenty four
Speaker 1: yard games. So there is some of that in the game,
Speaker 1: but it's not at all all of it. It's all
Speaker 1: when someone tells you, like, oh, they're only doing this
Speaker 1: because of this, just say that's cool. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: have elite receivers and elite play caller and elite quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's fun when you have all those things, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't care who's responsible for it, because it all works together.
Speaker 1: And that's why you're averaging three point three points per drive,
Speaker 1: which is an absurd figure. Two points is what you
Speaker 1: want to be. Three point three points per drive under
Speaker 1: this quarterback. I'm fired up today, can you guys tell? So?
Speaker 1: Then they come right back with a straight drop back
Speaker 1: from under center, and you see the linebackers influenced by
Speaker 1: Ingold from this offset I formation. I know you young
Speaker 1: Madden players out there back in my golden days of
Speaker 1: the early two thousand's know about some offset I formation
Speaker 1: or they show action to run off tackle because Ingle
Speaker 1: just angles his uh post snap track right off tackle
Speaker 1: and it creates these false steps. And with that quick
Speaker 1: process we talked about with to a one false step
Speaker 1: and it's game over. We're talking two or three false steps.
Speaker 1: Hit the top of the drop balls out before Tyreek
Speaker 1: hits the dig part of his inn breaker fifteen more
Speaker 1: yards design quarterback proficiency, it's it's all clicking, man. He
Speaker 1: creates these throwing windows so well for himself, Like there's
Speaker 1: a reason he's a six ft quarterback who never gets
Speaker 1: the ball by a down right. The fourth down pass
Speaker 1: to Trent Surefield is a good example of that. Texans
Speaker 1: bring four with a two man shell coverage, zone coverage
Speaker 1: general not too man so I'm sorry too high shell
Speaker 1: cover two two safeties up top, shell coverage underneath and
Speaker 1: you see two A look at two guys. First, it's
Speaker 1: Tyreek to the boundary and he's the two receivers. So
Speaker 1: you're one is the furthest out. Your two is the
Speaker 1: slot to the short side of the field and then
Speaker 1: to the field side the wider side. Trent sherfield is
Speaker 1: the three, which means one's furthest out. Two's next end.
Speaker 1: Three is closest to the line scrimmage and to A
Speaker 1: takes the shotgun snap and he wants to go now
Speaker 1: catch rock throw, but the hook defender on Tyreek is
Speaker 1: all over. He blankets. In fact, he drives on that
Speaker 1: because to A hitches and does this subtle pump where
Speaker 1: he just separates the hands and goes right back. And
Speaker 1: when TA does that, this defender drives on Tyreek and
Speaker 1: to A because he knows this, he has the answers
Speaker 1: to the rest of the test. Because if you give
Speaker 1: him the fifty fifty who wants to be a millionaire option,
Speaker 1: he's gonna say, okay, well, based upon this information, Now
Speaker 1: I have backside information and eliminate half of what I
Speaker 1: have to read as a result, So to A knows
Speaker 1: that him driving on that Tyreek route creates that inside window,
Speaker 1: which is where Trent Sherefield's coming from the field cross
Speaker 1: face of the defensive back. Now on a play like this,
Speaker 1: it's another one of these situations where we saw this
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game on Sunday, where the
Speaker 1: timing can be disjointed because you don't have in a
Speaker 1: situation like that, you don't have the luxury of perfect mechanics.
Speaker 1: He's padding, resetting, searching for the perfect time to let
Speaker 1: that ball go, and when he does, his feet are
Speaker 1: basically planted not towards this target. They're off to the right.
Speaker 1: He's thrown back to the left, and he's able to
Speaker 1: get on location from this un inventional setup, which is
Speaker 1: part of the ball handling RPO action and why he's
Speaker 1: so sharp and the quick game. When you just it's like,
Speaker 1: if I can describe it this way, it's like if
Speaker 1: you're guarding someone in basketball and he's like in a
Speaker 1: dribbling position and the ball is just up over your
Speaker 1: head before you can react to block the shot, and
Speaker 1: then it's gonna hit the bottom of the net because
Speaker 1: he's so accurate, like the release, it's it's Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: it's Dan Marie. It's like it is among the best
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Quite frankly, that that's all. That's all
Speaker 1: I gotta say about that. I thought the touchdown throw
Speaker 1: was one of the better plays in his career, the
Speaker 1: one to smithe as we continue to say that about
Speaker 1: various plays each week. Every single route is absolutely blanketed
Speaker 1: on us on this play, and luckily protection is great
Speaker 1: to a constant can scan, but there's still nothing there,
Speaker 1: so he has to move. He has to create because
Speaker 1: once you get off that spot, the defensive backslide, the
Speaker 1: receivers can open up. It becomes backyard football. And Derham
Speaker 1: Smith is a great job just showing his numbers to
Speaker 1: the quarterback and to a running away from a bunch
Speaker 1: of large men on the move, throws dot right on
Speaker 1: the numbers between the eight and the one for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Good job Durham, good job protection, Good job to Ron
Speaker 1: Armstead for a late block to free up to a
Speaker 1: And what a job by two of the thing we
Speaker 1: said about the glance route earlier, you get another example
Speaker 1: on the long Tyreek catch and run because to interrupts
Speaker 1: play fake action on the reverse pivot and sets up
Speaker 1: and throws and before before the Texans get even realize,
Speaker 1: they're taking false steps the passes behind their head. And
Speaker 1: the reason this creates so much space for Tyreek to
Speaker 1: show off that speed is very simple. I counted four
Speaker 1: false steps from that backside linebacker in the wrong direction
Speaker 1: after do you draw us halfway across the country and
Speaker 1: the wrong direction after two had thrown the ball. And
Speaker 1: it looks simple, but I promise you it's not. Take
Speaker 1: the snap, right foot, drop step, then open up with
Speaker 1: that second step with the left foot, which is the
Speaker 1: plant leg. So his first step with that left leg
Speaker 1: is his plant foot. So one two ball out back
Speaker 1: to the defense, get to the set up, and a
Speaker 1: matter of less than us second and that ball is
Speaker 1: already coming out again. I know it seems simple, but
Speaker 1: look around the league and you're not gonna find many
Speaker 1: quarterbacks doing this stuff. Man similar deal on the pop
Speaker 1: to river Cracraft balls out as Cracraft takes his first
Speaker 1: step around the reroute putt in the defense and extreme
Speaker 1: peril where if I if I take any step forward,
Speaker 1: the balls behind my ear hole, and I can't do
Speaker 1: anything about that. If I take a step back, I
Speaker 1: now am giving up leverage to an offensive line flowing downhill.
Speaker 1: Like it's to maximize as your ability to do that
Speaker 1: stuff and create that conflict. Now, Wattle had a pair
Speaker 1: of drops in this game. The second one was really
Speaker 1: really good stuff from tous Cedric Wilson runs a good
Speaker 1: clear out route to move the safeties and create a
Speaker 1: pocket behind the hook zone. But both linebackers have gotten
Speaker 1: what looks like proper depth. They're at the sticks ten
Speaker 1: yards down field, and to me, that's preparation. Knowing the
Speaker 1: Dolphins eat this part of the field for breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 1: and dinner. I better get more depth. But when your
Speaker 1: quarterback is playing almost perfectly, it don't matter. Because here
Speaker 1: comes Waddle breaking his route into eleven yards one yard behind.
Speaker 1: He could literally reach out and touch those hook linebackers.
Speaker 1: So what does TWA do? Does the exact same thing?
Speaker 1: It into the Gasecki throw against Baltimore. Put it up high,
Speaker 1: put it up over their arms. So the only guy
Speaker 1: that can make a catch is your receiver. It's right
Speaker 1: on Waddle's hands, just couldn't complete the catch. But what
Speaker 1: a freaking throw. Man. That's where you see the velocity
Speaker 1: that t has on those intermediate shots, those rip throws.
Speaker 1: He also does it, by the way, taking on water
Speaker 1: in the pocket as more pressure got to two, as
Speaker 1: was kind of the case in this game. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that here in a second. I love the
Speaker 1: deep shot to Sherfield, the almost hit that one. That's
Speaker 1: one of those plays where you hit that and the
Speaker 1: defense has to say to themselves, what the hell do
Speaker 1: we do? Man? We have to worry about Tyreek and Jalen,
Speaker 1: and now we got Trent Surefield running past us, Like
Speaker 1: who I love that idea. I think we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that again later in the year and see a
Speaker 1: potential opportunity there with Surefield going deep. The deep ball
Speaker 1: to Waddle that he did catch was really created by
Speaker 1: a pump fake on a cross to Tyreek Hill. It's
Speaker 1: coach talked AboutUs on Monday about Tyreek's commanding attention. Well,
Speaker 1: and we'll play that sound clip for you here at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. They're in too high and
Speaker 1: the boundary safety bites on the pump fake to it
Speaker 1: really sells this PUMPI to Tyreek and he comes up
Speaker 1: and takes himself out of the equation from that wide
Speaker 1: side of the field to open it up for Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: who's running that kind of post to the pylon. And
Speaker 1: right now, that doesn't make any sense. It's it's a
Speaker 1: crossing route that looks like it's going to the pylon,
Speaker 1: but it winds up going to the post. And you
Speaker 1: got to give the field safety credit because he did
Speaker 1: keep depth and stayed on top of the route. But
Speaker 1: you see the boundary safety drive hard on that pump
Speaker 1: fake and then to gave his guy a shot. And
Speaker 1: since Jalen's that dude goes up and makes a play
Speaker 1: for thirty four yards very next play man, they could
Speaker 1: boot right into a Texans free runner. It didn't work.
Speaker 1: The design of the play didn't work. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: need your players to make play when the play calls wrong.
Speaker 1: To who doesn't as much as anybody, He's got to stop,
Speaker 1: pivot and throw. And he throws from a possession, falling back,
Speaker 1: squared completely up with the middle of his shoulders both
Speaker 1: pointing towards his target, the apposite, the opposite of ideal. Right,
Speaker 1: but the balls there, Tres got out for a first down.
Speaker 1: It's so impressive because on plays like this, you're happy
Speaker 1: if the quarterback to avoid a negative. Not only are
Speaker 1: we doing that, we're generating positive plays and situations like
Speaker 1: this and doing it with regularity. The sacks that to
Speaker 1: avoid it in the final two minutes of the half
Speaker 1: backed up on that one play, that's great, great stuff
Speaker 1: from your quarterback, and then throw it away, live to
Speaker 1: fight another day because you come back in his twenty
Speaker 1: five yards River Cracraft like save the play because this
Speaker 1: offense is good enough to execute on second and ten,
Speaker 1: third and ten. Stay alive. That's the key, because you're
Speaker 1: so good and so efficient that you've got to stay
Speaker 1: alive because you always have a chance. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish here with another avoided sack from to a
Speaker 1: big completion at Cidric Wilson on the last drive of
Speaker 1: the first half. Pressure immediately to twos right. He steps
Speaker 1: up off the spot and with more pressure from the
Speaker 1: left side because both tackles got ran back into the
Speaker 1: quarterback to a does this accelerated throwing motion where the
Speaker 1: ball is just up and out before that clean defender
Speaker 1: has a chance to put his hand on the ball.
Speaker 1: He was substantially closer to to Ah than Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: was to Kyle Allen on his force fumble, and to
Speaker 1: hasn't lost a fumble all year. In fact, he only
Speaker 1: has the one I believe on the season opener, stuff
Speaker 1: like this is why, oh, by the way, a strike
Speaker 1: to such a Wilson to move the chains to Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about Skylart Thompson before take our
Speaker 1: first break. Nice to see him get some extended to work.
Speaker 1: Just thought I was a little bit off on a
Speaker 1: couple of throws and not his best day. It looked
Speaker 1: more like the Jets game to me than the Vikings game,
Speaker 1: where he was late on some stuff. The hookup timing
Speaker 1: was off. It never felt like he got into a rhythm,
Speaker 1: just off. He short hopped an open bootleg throw to
Speaker 1: Waddle and wasn't pulling the trigger on some open throws
Speaker 1: where we would take off and slide down for short
Speaker 1: gains opposed to trying to challenge the defense with the
Speaker 1: throwing the passing game. But again, this is the seventh
Speaker 1: round rookie, so it's not like some reason to panic
Speaker 1: or anything. It's just, you know, it's not like it's
Speaker 1: the second pick of the draft. He's got some some
Speaker 1: things on tape to work on now. And you did
Speaker 1: see some of the natural ability from Skyler that makes
Speaker 1: you excited about his future. The ability to quick twitch
Speaker 1: get off the spot, the arm strength to drive the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. I loved that deep shot to
Speaker 1: Waddle that I'll take that shot nine times out of
Speaker 1: ten to Jitlan Waddle. Uh So, yeah, I got some
Speaker 1: good experience there. Not as best tape, but definitely some
Speaker 1: stuff to work on there. For Scott Thompson, Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break, and we're on into
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and we're about twenty minutes into this.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take that break. Come back and
Speaker 1: to the rest of the offense and the defense planning
Speaker 1: to come. Here a Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 1: All twenty two review edition of the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield. We talked about two at length.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you let's go ahead and talk about the
Speaker 1: rest of the offense. Tyreek Hill. We mentioned this in
Speaker 1: the off season with the great Kurt Warner breakdown he
Speaker 1: did on YouTube. But the way that Tyreek is so
Speaker 1: detailed to take the extra steps to maximize windows and separation.
Speaker 1: I think, in addition to the speed obviously, is the
Speaker 1: real superpower of his game. Like, rather than accepting what
Speaker 1: a window is, he will drive and push the defender
Speaker 1: to the absolute brink, the absolute limit before making his
Speaker 1: critical move at the top of the route. And it
Speaker 1: creates just an extra fraction of a second of hesitation.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't just help Tyreek, it helps his teammates
Speaker 1: get open. A good example of that is the catch
Speaker 1: he had on the opening drive of the second half,
Speaker 1: just slides a little bit into vacated space to maximize
Speaker 1: the window that his quarterback had to throw into. He
Speaker 1: was open, but he moved to more open space. He's
Speaker 1: one of the most quarterback friendly receivers I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. Jalen Waddle just love the way he
Speaker 1: can adjust for the way teams want to reroute or
Speaker 1: try to disrupt him off the stem by zone positioning
Speaker 1: or by physically you know, moving him. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He has an answer for how to get through the
Speaker 1: contact or the obstacle without slowing his pace. It's big
Speaker 1: time stuff. I got to mention the two drops. I
Speaker 1: just think it's ridiculous to harp on them. Beyond that
Speaker 1: for a guy who's you know, fifth in the league
Speaker 1: in receiving, and I know nobody's more upset with himself
Speaker 1: than Waddle for those he'll catch him next time. In fact,
Speaker 1: he did just a few plays later. That little arm
Speaker 1: over move he does to avoid contact and like almost
Speaker 1: build acceleration like he's down shifting somehow as a sprinter
Speaker 1: is becoming one of my favorite moves of any player
Speaker 1: on this team. The only way to slow a player
Speaker 1: like that is to get hands on him, and he's
Speaker 1: able to avoid those strikes of the chess plate and
Speaker 1: it keeps him clean and it's it's just part of
Speaker 1: his great route writing skill set. How about that catch
Speaker 1: on the deep ball, Your five four two receiver conclimb
Speaker 1: the ladder and pull down a fifty ball garsh damn man.
Speaker 1: I think the touchdown. I think he had a touchdown
Speaker 1: on the pass right before the half where he slipped
Speaker 1: out of his break. That ball was right where it
Speaker 1: needed to be, and knowing Jalen making grabs like that,
Speaker 1: I think it's a touchdown if he does not slip,
Speaker 1: and it happened on one of those really torn up
Speaker 1: areas of the field. So luckily no more Canes games
Speaker 1: this year for the Packers and Jets games at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium, and hopefully some home playoff games as well.
Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield the catch on fourth down is so much
Speaker 1: better than I originally thought. We lauded too for the
Speaker 1: work that goes into locating the ball there, but it
Speaker 1: was a little bit out in front and Trent had
Speaker 1: to pluck it off of his frame and kind of
Speaker 1: catch the back of the football with his hands and
Speaker 1: survive a hit from a hook linebacker. You see that
Speaker 1: ball hit the turf all the time. Tough catch to make.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have that guy running that route and
Speaker 1: that spot. Shirtfield has been fantastic River Cracraft Go Cougars. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tough Apple Cup for me, But you know, same player
Speaker 1: I've always loved going back to Washington State. Baby, good
Speaker 1: release to get off the line and shows you the
Speaker 1: urgency to get to the soft spot in the zone.
Speaker 1: And then, like his coach Wes Welker, just show your
Speaker 1: numbers of the quarterback and he'll put the ball on
Speaker 1: you and you can get up field quickly. Nice hook
Speaker 1: up early in the second quarter to get back ahead
Speaker 1: of the chains after a deep miss ball to Trent Sherefield.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Two listing out of negative
Speaker 1: plays second and ten. We feel good about that, so
Speaker 1: we can take those deep shots. We can negate negative
Speaker 1: plays and get back a second and ten because we
Speaker 1: have weapons across the board that can move the chains
Speaker 1: on second and third and ten. Moving on to the
Speaker 1: running back position, Jeff Wilson wanted to note a play
Speaker 1: where he's in a nasty split on third and eleven
Speaker 1: on the last drive of the opening half. Nasty split
Speaker 1: means you're in tight to the formation, usually for extra
Speaker 1: blocking help, and that's what he does. He chips the
Speaker 1: end and then leaks out and picks up a first
Speaker 1: down on a reception on third and eleven. Great job
Speaker 1: by two of to find him on that check down
Speaker 1: and just a good job to do some dirty work.
Speaker 1: Wilson then get paid off with the first down reception
Speaker 1: on the offensive line to Ron Armstead of every game,
Speaker 1: there's little nuances that I just don't think you see
Speaker 1: frequently around the league. On two US touchdown, he gets
Speaker 1: this late hand on Jerry Hughes, who's trying to bend
Speaker 1: the edge and it looks innocuous, but it knocks him
Speaker 1: off balance just enough to give to the extra fraction
Speaker 1: of a second. I love the way he's so patient
Speaker 1: and waits. It's like a receiver having quiet hands at
Speaker 1: the catchpoint. He waits to throw his hands until the
Speaker 1: absolute last minute, and it just allows him to get
Speaker 1: in good positions, stay on balance, and get power behind
Speaker 1: that strike. He is an elite player, man. I hope
Speaker 1: he's gonna be okay. We'll have an update for you
Speaker 1: on that. Just one second earlier, on the drive, he
Speaker 1: sets his landmark and redirects back inside on a spin move,
Speaker 1: and the rep is just over. Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can fool that guy. And that's what we talk
Speaker 1: about quiet hands. Like you want to show that upfield rush.
Speaker 1: I know you cannot potentially go around the outside edge.
Speaker 1: I know you can potentially spin back inside, but I'm
Speaker 1: ready for you, big guy. Whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: let's do it. I'll shut you down right here. It's
Speaker 1: clockwork with him. Connor Williams. I have such an appreciation
Speaker 1: for the way he stays on blocks. The entire idea
Speaker 1: behind defensive line play and pass rushing is to create
Speaker 1: momentum one way and then snapped back the other way
Speaker 1: and hopefully eliminate the offensive lineman's ability to readirect with you.
Speaker 1: There's a rep where the three technique, you know, off
Speaker 1: the outside shoulder of the guard slants all the way
Speaker 1: inside trying to push poll Williams on his pass rush,
Speaker 1: and when he goes to disengage problem, Connor still latched
Speaker 1: on and the rep just sort of ends like crime penetration,
Speaker 1: crime penetration, and then just sort of ends. Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: I loved his work in the run game last year,
Speaker 1: and I thought we saw more of that in this game.
Speaker 1: I like the way he fires off the ball and
Speaker 1: seeks out contact. It's exactly what this offense calls for, right.
Speaker 1: A couple of good snaps for Austin Jackson, his first
Speaker 1: game doing just that. However, I did think it was
Speaker 1: a rough start back for Austin Jackson. Gave gave Way
Speaker 1: a lot of bull rushes. Guys got into his chest
Speaker 1: plate and took him back to the quarterback. He gave
Speaker 1: up the inside post on a one pressure on two
Speaker 1: a pretty early in the game, fell off some blocks.
Speaker 1: Just not his his best game. He seemed better from
Speaker 1: Auston Jackson before a lot of instances where he's trying
Speaker 1: to shorten the runway and the rusher initiates contact while
Speaker 1: he's still getting into that set up. As we talked
Speaker 1: about with the late hands from from Toron Armstead, you're
Speaker 1: showing your move early and it's causing the anchors never
Speaker 1: get dropped and he gets walked back into the quarterback
Speaker 1: as a result of that. We'll see about his injury
Speaker 1: here in a minute as well. Brandon Shell, it wasn't
Speaker 1: good at left tackle for him. It's not been pretty
Speaker 1: much out there at the left tackle position. Both perimeters,
Speaker 1: besides Armstead's reps were allowing bull rushes into the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: lap all day. Rob Jones really digging his work man.
Speaker 1: The mass he offers really compliments the quick set up
Speaker 1: passing game. A bigger service area to get around on
Speaker 1: catch rock throw just makes it tougher for those defenders
Speaker 1: to do anything from a pressure standpoint against guy that's
Speaker 1: three five pounds. It's it's nice when you have two
Speaker 1: of those guys at guard, by the way, both named Rob,
Speaker 1: which is perfect. He had a wall off block where
Speaker 1: he beat the guy to the spot so bad that
Speaker 1: he drove him to the second level. And it goes
Speaker 1: back to what Matt apple Bomb said about moving guys
Speaker 1: against their will with regards to Rob Jones, just pushing
Speaker 1: people around put them on their back. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: He had an awesome rep holding play side early in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter on a short Wilson run where he
Speaker 1: just wiped out the force defender. So some good stuff
Speaker 1: from sixty five. I thought Rob Hunt had an uncharacteristically
Speaker 1: off game in this one. There's a negative run play
Speaker 1: where he pulls and just runs over the backer in
Speaker 1: the B gap, or I should say overruns the backer
Speaker 1: in the B gap who winds up making the tackle.
Speaker 1: That's usually his bread and butter, but he just missed
Speaker 1: it here. His feet got staggnant on one pass rush
Speaker 1: rep where he is out over his skis and the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle repositions his hands and redirects back inside. He
Speaker 1: pushed Polls and leaves Rob on the ground. So just
Speaker 1: he's been great all year. Not his best game. That's okay, though.
Speaker 1: Alec Ingold great block to clear the lane and make
Speaker 1: it a very obvious opening for Heafa's touchdown run. Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson's touchdown run like, here's my target run off thirties back,
Speaker 1: cut it inside for a touchdown. He was the touchdown
Speaker 1: maker on that play. In my opinion, I thought Dr
Speaker 1: Smith had one of his best reps in the year
Speaker 1: on his split flow action where the low the edge
Speaker 1: tried to go low and he got even lower and
Speaker 1: pancake him on the first play. And I just love
Speaker 1: the way he made himself available for two on that
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, feels himself coming open and throws his hands
Speaker 1: up killa here man, I'm open. Good stuff. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and move on to the defense here. We'll do
Speaker 1: the film and then we'll go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break. They were doing some really cool stuff in
Speaker 1: this game from a rotation standpoint to get Javon Holland
Speaker 1: down around the football more like down around the box
Speaker 1: more where they were starting too high with him and
Speaker 1: McKinley and really almost playing interchangeable because McKinley is more
Speaker 1: of a free safety than like, you know, Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: for instance, but he's coming downhill more javan Is than
Speaker 1: he previously was. And I thought McKinley played a pretty
Speaker 1: heavy hand in that happening on Sunday. Both McKinley and
Speaker 1: Roe played some of the post and you see Holland
Speaker 1: just hovering around more being around the football as a
Speaker 1: result of that, which is obviously a good thing. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins had really good spacing in this game in terms
Speaker 1: of how the zone coverage is rotated and passed off
Speaker 1: and picked up players. There wasn't like these bust or
Speaker 1: big vacancies for guys to run into. It seems to
Speaker 1: me the communication was really good and some of the
Speaker 1: upside that comes from that is the takeaway opportunities where
Speaker 1: if you're playing effective zones and you're in the right
Speaker 1: spot and you're not turning guys free, gets more eyes
Speaker 1: in the quarterback, and when guys make a mistake like
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen to Van Gingol or to McKinley, it can
Speaker 1: create takeaway opportunities. As far as the players, it's rents
Speaker 1: repeat with Christian Wilkins. First play, chucks a guy out
Speaker 1: of the building and gets there for the stop. Next series,
Speaker 1: swims a man chases down the run from the backside
Speaker 1: for a tackle for loss. He collapsed the interior pocket
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and I feel the exact same
Speaker 1: way about Zach Seler. Every single week just dependable, does
Speaker 1: his job, is versatile, makes a couple of splash plays.
Speaker 1: Move on to the next game. Both of those guys
Speaker 1: are so good. I think ray Kwon Davis has quietly
Speaker 1: been going about his business now for a while. You're
Speaker 1: just not seeing a lot of movement when guys try
Speaker 1: to get down blocks on him, especially with double teams.
Speaker 1: He holds the point really well. He really has been
Speaker 1: utilizing the length to control reps early, like throw the
Speaker 1: hands and just be a tree stump. And because of
Speaker 1: the length he can lock guys out at a time
Speaker 1: and time again in this game, Jalen Phillips might be
Speaker 1: my favorite player. He's getting really close to it. Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle still my guy, but Jalen's there. I like the
Speaker 1: Jeelan's I guess I kind of like him all I
Speaker 1: kind of like my whole team really, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Phillips is his motor is crazy. The backside chased down
Speaker 1: that he had on Kyle Allen on that third down
Speaker 1: play is just the next example of his motor running
Speaker 1: as hot as anybody. I don't know what you can
Speaker 1: say about him anymore in that regard. He's been one
Speaker 1: of the most consistent players on the whole team this year.
Speaker 1: And what's cool about that is that it's not consistent
Speaker 1: in terms of his role. Like he'll rush the edge
Speaker 1: with speed, I'll do it with power. He operates as
Speaker 1: the screen center on pick stunts. He'll rush from the
Speaker 1: three technique. He'll set a hard edge outside. Like his
Speaker 1: sack was an upfield rush from the three technique where
Speaker 1: he swats the outside hand of the guard, puts a
Speaker 1: foot in the ground, and then spins into his body
Speaker 1: to get that inside force. And because you get pressure
Speaker 1: from Bradley Chubb off the other side, Alan stepped right
Speaker 1: up into that spin move for a big sack for
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips rookie class man. Gosh, it is hard to
Speaker 1: get much better than what Miami got from Waddle Phillips
Speaker 1: in Holland. It is. That's a It's an all time group, man.
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of those pass rush packages where
Speaker 1: you can really dial up anything you want. Third long,
Speaker 1: you know, we get Ingram Phillips, Chubb, Wilkins out there
Speaker 1: together with some Duke Riley running some rush games as well.
Speaker 1: There are some really awesome sub package opportunities this team
Speaker 1: has when it's third long. Speaking of Duke Riley and
Speaker 1: the linebackers, Baker Roberts and Duke, I thought are all
Speaker 1: playing really well. With Jerome, he's covering so much ground,
Speaker 1: which is nothing new, but he is like playing through
Speaker 1: contact at a level that, frankly, I'm not sure we've
Speaker 1: seen before. Like he's going and getting blocks. He's wriggling
Speaker 1: through when there's a chance to win with speed and quickness.
Speaker 1: But I think he's got some guys confused on best
Speaker 1: how to block him because at that second level, he's
Speaker 1: defeating blocks both with quickness and physicality, and that's that's
Speaker 1: as good as a running back that can do that, right.
Speaker 1: It's it's been cool to see him really take ownership
Speaker 1: of his his position here and really play some good
Speaker 1: football here for the Dolphins. Duke Riley running some rush
Speaker 1: games has been fun to watch. How a potential, you know,
Speaker 1: part of a sack there with Melvin Ingram running the
Speaker 1: long route around. I just love what his speed and
Speaker 1: explosiveness does to open some things up. He can turn
Speaker 1: that corner like an end and play backwards like a linebacker.
Speaker 1: It's just no surprise to see him getting an upticking
Speaker 1: snaps these last couple of games, Alanton Roberts absolutely obliterated
Speaker 1: the running back on his sack. He scrapes in tight
Speaker 1: to the line and runs right through the last line
Speaker 1: of defense, gets to the quarterback for a big sack.
Speaker 1: How about Melvin Ingram's crossover step putting guys and the
Speaker 1: absolute blender the first act, we have the right tackle
Speaker 1: sets wide and he just blows by with that crossover
Speaker 1: step to the inside post and it's over. That's the
Speaker 1: worst place you can get beat, and he's in there immediately.
Speaker 1: You've got similar action from Seiler inside and of course
Speaker 1: Duke ran that loop around the outside. Really, it was
Speaker 1: just a beautiful play that was executed and really doomed
Speaker 1: from three different gaps with Seiler, Ingram, and Duke all
Speaker 1: occupying one of those gaps. That edge that he set
Speaker 1: on the end around Melvin Ingram to start the third
Speaker 1: quarter was such a veteran play. Keep the outside shoulder free,
Speaker 1: key the flow and then sprint to the perimeter to
Speaker 1: make the back of the receiver bubble back inside. What
Speaker 1: a what a game from Melvin Ingram? What have an
Speaker 1: addition he has been Bradley Chubb's force fumble was a
Speaker 1: ridiculous display of athletic ability. The Texans dial up a
Speaker 1: bunch to his side, so he has this wide alignment
Speaker 1: to contend with a tight end and wide receiver on
Speaker 1: top of Larynietunsel being right there. Chubb negates that by
Speaker 1: just going a long way around, fights through a chip
Speaker 1: of the receiver, which is easy work for him, and
Speaker 1: then an instant pass rush win on the tight end
Speaker 1: also not a good matchup for the tight end. Then
Speaker 1: turn the corner and show the length to lay out
Speaker 1: and get a hand on the football. That's why you
Speaker 1: pay a first round pick for that guy. That's a
Speaker 1: rare play that can change football games, and a closer
Speaker 1: game probably would have Andrew Van Geeko cover a dump
Speaker 1: off pass coming from depth and cutting it down short
Speaker 1: of the sticks to create a third down, a third
Speaker 1: down that would get Miami a stop on defense play
Speaker 1: before the play candidate, he does stuff like that every
Speaker 1: single week. Did a great job on the pick of
Speaker 1: honoring the run, getting up field, but then quickly retracing
Speaker 1: and getting depth backwards and because of that puts himself
Speaker 1: in position to capitalize on a misfire from the Houston quarterback.
Speaker 1: I thought we got vintage Xaviing Howard on the dig
Speaker 1: that he nearly picked, no waste and movement going from
Speaker 1: depth to breaking in like he's getting depth to the receiver,
Speaker 1: you know, going upfield. And then the minute the receiver
Speaker 1: puts the foot in the ground and breaks it inside.
Speaker 1: Like the way he pivots and opens the hips to
Speaker 1: get to that spot was also smooth, like running the
Speaker 1: route for the receiver. The balls a bit behind, but
Speaker 1: I think that x was getting his hands in the
Speaker 1: ball anyway. Just a classic Xaviing Howard played to undercut
Speaker 1: that inn breaker and then his block on Van Ginkl's
Speaker 1: interception run back. That's a guy who loves his teammates. Man,
Speaker 1: great great example there of playing for one another. Another
Speaker 1: week more cater Co who playing off screens, he spins
Speaker 1: out of a block and forces the receiver to bubble.
Speaker 1: Then we come back in the next quarter and he
Speaker 1: damn near picks one off by keying it the entire way,
Speaker 1: and honestly he beat the receiver to the spot. But
Speaker 1: it's somehow wedges in there for a completion and then
Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. But man, I am impressed by
Speaker 1: something he does every single week. Eric Roe seems to
Speaker 1: have found a really nice role in this defense, hanging
Speaker 1: out in the curl flats and playing a more physical
Speaker 1: brand of rallying up and tackling in addition to his
Speaker 1: work in the running game. We know about the force fumble,
Speaker 1: but man, the effort is what gets me. Because it's
Speaker 1: third and twenty third and a mile. The play is dead,
Speaker 1: the series is over. The balls in the tight ends
Speaker 1: hands fifteen yards short of the sticks and there are
Speaker 1: three defenders there. But Roe doesn't rest on the laurels.
Speaker 1: He comes in and puts a perfect strike on Aikins
Speaker 1: and jars the ball free after Cohu has yet another
Speaker 1: textbook form tackle. Then of course X picks it up
Speaker 1: and it's a Sunday stroll into the end zone for
Speaker 1: the boys. I think you see this relationship between Javon
Speaker 1: Holland and Rohan McKinley starting to kind of take hold
Speaker 1: back there, the relationship of went to rotate when kind
Speaker 1: of cheat inside a little bit because you have me
Speaker 1: over the top on this play. They played really well
Speaker 1: as a tandem and I thought, you know, of course
Speaker 1: a trio when you factor in Eric rohe into the game.
Speaker 1: But McKinley's interception, you know, was an example of that
Speaker 1: where he wheeled out and Javon came down and robbed
Speaker 1: the potential crossing route. But his I N T. McKinley's
Speaker 1: looks like a routine catch, but you see him flowing
Speaker 1: before the balls even in the air. He was known
Speaker 1: for his prep in college. Got a taste of it there.
Speaker 1: And then Javon Holland man just always around the football,
Speaker 1: quick movement, shutting things down, capping off deep routes. People
Speaker 1: are not getting much completions in the ten plus yard
Speaker 1: range on this defense, and Javon Holland continues to be
Speaker 1: a big reason for that. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break right here. We'll come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and do some statistics for you. Got y'all,
Speaker 1: you guys, guys goals. That's next Draft Time Podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autnation, segment number
Speaker 1: three on a busy edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the stats, the leaderboards, and all
Speaker 1: that fun stuff from around the web. As twelve weeks
Speaker 1: are in the books, or eight and three. Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: first place Miami Dolphins to on twenty plus eight yard
Speaker 1: throws was two for four with fifty eight yards. He
Speaker 1: was eight for fourteen for one thirty one in the
Speaker 1: ten to nineteen intermediate range all ten plus yard air
Speaker 1: throws ten for eighteen one nine. Clockwork for that dude.
Speaker 1: He was blitzed uf on four of his attempts. He
Speaker 1: completed three of them for forty nine yards. He was
Speaker 1: not blitzed on thirty two attempts completed nineteen of those
Speaker 1: is for two hundred and fifty yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The touchdown pass that scramble sack evasion that came with
Speaker 1: six point seven seconds time to throw, which is the
Speaker 1: longest time to throw on a completion in his career.
Speaker 1: For the season, not much has changed. He's in first
Speaker 1: place in passer rating QBR, touchdown percentage, yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: adjusted yards per dropback, net yards per attempt, and e
Speaker 1: p A per play. The passer ratings one fifteen point
Speaker 1: seven the qbrs eighty two point seven. He's throwing touchdowns
Speaker 1: on six point seven percent of his passes, averaging nine
Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt, as e p A is still
Speaker 1: right back at that point one nine right above Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: which you know he's the top Mahomes and all these categories. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's two of Mahomes and most of these
Speaker 1: categories he is second completion percentage sixty nine point seven
Speaker 1: percent completion. His interception percentage of one point one is
Speaker 1: third behind Brady and Hurts. His two eight four point
Speaker 1: nine passing yards per game is fourth, and his four
Speaker 1: point one percent sack percentage also four, so top five.
Speaker 1: Like the twelve most important categories. Uh he thirteen in
Speaker 1: total yards, which is crazy because he missed two and
Speaker 1: a half games, and tied for sixth in total touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: His plus two point eight completion percentage over expected fourth,
Speaker 1: His two point six time to throw his fourth quickest,
Speaker 1: and his nine point to intended air yards is third
Speaker 1: more most in the NFL. Receiving Craikraft led the way
Speaker 1: with five point five yards per route rand. Remember we
Speaker 1: want to be over two yards. He more than double
Speaker 1: what's good in that number. Thirteen point eight yards per
Speaker 1: target a great number there as well, and twenty two
Speaker 1: yacht yards. Tyreek was next with two point four three
Speaker 1: yards per route ran, a great number for him. He
Speaker 1: leads the NFL in that category, also had nine point
Speaker 1: four four yards per target and twenty nine yacht yards
Speaker 1: of his own. Waddles at two point one eight yards
Speaker 1: per route ran so three guys really high production in
Speaker 1: the receiver room this week eight point five yards per target,
Speaker 1: thirteen yards after the catch. Cedric caught two for three
Speaker 1: for twenty six and Sherefield caught two of five for
Speaker 1: thirty three. The Dolphins will enter Week thirteen with two
Speaker 1: top five receiving leaders in terms of yards. Tyreke is
Speaker 1: one with one thousand, two hundred and thirty three and
Speaker 1: Waddle is fifth with nine hundred and sixty three. The
Speaker 1: rank is the same for first downs. Hill is first
Speaker 1: with fifty six, ahead of Travis Or tied with Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: and Waddles fifth with forty six first downs. Waddles also
Speaker 1: tied for seventh and touchdowns he had six, and of
Speaker 1: course Tyreeks eight seven catches lead the NFL rushing numbers.
Speaker 1: Not much room on Sunday one ten yard run from
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin, who also led the team with three point
Speaker 1: six yards after initial contact. Sorry with that uh quarterback pressures,
Speaker 1: Armstead none in twenty eight pass blocking snaps. The rest
Speaker 1: of the guys played every snap except for Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: missed one at the end of the game. But pressure
Speaker 1: numbers Armstead zero, Rob Jones three, Connor Williams one, Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt one, in Austin Jackson six and Brandon Shell five
Speaker 1: On just twenty three pass blocking snaps. There were seven
Speaker 1: team pressures on fifty one drop backs, a thirty three
Speaker 1: point three percent pressure rate. That number, as you know,
Speaker 1: is up from the last few weeks. Defensively pressures, Phillips
Speaker 1: had five, Chubb and Ingram had four, Wilcolms had, Welcomes
Speaker 1: Wilkins had three, and ray Kwon Davis had two. Eight
Speaker 1: guys had one pressure in the game. Phillips is tied
Speaker 1: for eight among all PFF edge defenders with forty five
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures. He's also tied for sixteenth run stops. Really
Speaker 1: blossoming here in your number two run stops. Phillips had
Speaker 1: an Era, both had four in the game. Seiler, Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Baker all had three. Apiece Cohu and Row had two.
Speaker 1: Five guys had one run stop in the game. Coverage
Speaker 1: snaps yards allowed and how many snaps there on the
Speaker 1: field four x was out there for forty seven snaps
Speaker 1: and did not allow a single yard over two passing
Speaker 1: against Xavian Howard where the Houston Texans is hometown Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland out there for forty six coverage snaps. He
Speaker 1: allowed just eleven yards receiving in the game. Cohu forty
Speaker 1: three snaps, twelve yards allowed, crossing thirty one snaps, twelve
Speaker 1: yards allowed, Eric Row thirty seven snaps, forty eight yards allowed.
Speaker 1: Good numbers across the board. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: you the snap counts here. Real quick talked about the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Three guys went distance. Hunt Jones and Williams
Speaker 1: Jackson played seventy of the seventies six snaps you had,
Speaker 1: whereas Brandon Shell thirty nine snaps for Shell, we had
Speaker 1: thirty seven for Toron Armstead and six snaps for Greg
Speaker 1: little To only played fifty five snaps. That's the workload.
Speaker 1: Skylert Thompson finished the rest of the way with one
Speaker 1: snaps of his own. Jeff Wilson saw a big bump
Speaker 1: and UH and snap counts this week. Forty six snaps
Speaker 1: lead the running backs. Up next was Miles Gasking with
Speaker 1: twenty six snap counts. That was it for the offense
Speaker 1: you had. Alec Ingold played thirty four snaps at receiver,
Speaker 1: Waddle forty seven lead the way, Just nice little break
Speaker 1: there for him and the rest of the guys. Trent
Speaker 1: Sherfield forty six snaps was second, Tyreek Hill forty five snaps. Again,
Speaker 1: those guys have been really neck and neck all the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. Here as your top three guys, said,
Speaker 1: Wilson got thirty three snaps and River Cravecraft got twenty five.
Speaker 1: On defense, Holland Cohu and Howard played the entire game
Speaker 1: all sixty one snaps. Rogue gets a big lift and
Speaker 1: snap counts fifty five for him is nine and then
Speaker 1: we get a big drop off here for guy to
Speaker 1: get some rest, which is good because Christian Wilkins plays
Speaker 1: a billion snaps every single week, got some time off
Speaker 1: this week. Forty four snaps is a decrease from his
Speaker 1: usual output. Forty three for sealer, Ray Kuan played twenty
Speaker 1: seven snaps, John Jenkins gave you sixteen, and Justin Zimmer
Speaker 1: gave you thirteen snaps as well. The newcomer there at
Speaker 1: the linebacker spot we had, let's go edge spot. Actually,
Speaker 1: Chubb played thirty eight, same as Phillips, same number of
Speaker 1: snaps there for those guys Ingram thirty six. Let's see
Speaker 1: Van Ginkal twenty three snaps. So there you go. Pretty
Speaker 1: good rotation there at the off ball linebacker position. We had.
Speaker 1: Duke Riley played thirty one snaps in the game, A
Speaker 1: big jump for him. There. Where's Jerome at on this list?
Speaker 1: Why can't I find him? Oh? He played thirty four snaps,
Speaker 1: and then Elandon Roberts played thirty So good mixed there
Speaker 1: for those guys as well, pretty much across the board.
Speaker 1: And then the defensive backfield talked about those guys that
Speaker 1: played most of the snaps in the game. Ronan McKinley
Speaker 1: gave you twenty two, Clayton Federland gave you two, and
Speaker 1: Elijah Campbell gave you one. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up here with three sound bites from head coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniels Monday afternoon press conference. He started by telling us
Speaker 1: that to Ron armstays Peck injury is one that we're
Speaker 1: going to monitor and kind of get some more information
Speaker 1: on after the injury settles a little bit. Season specialist
Speaker 1: gets some more information there, and he said he is confident.
Speaker 1: We'll see to rn arm said again this season, which
Speaker 1: of course is great news. But rested up. Get well soon,
Speaker 1: big fella. We need you. As far as Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: he said, it was the same injury, the same angle,
Speaker 1: but not the same injury. No timeline, they're either same
Speaker 1: story on Byron Jones and we'll go ahead and play
Speaker 1: three sound clips for you here. First, the question towards
Speaker 1: coach about the Niners game and going back home to
Speaker 1: face his former team. How he feels about that it's
Speaker 1: all about the players, says coach McDaniel. I will do
Speaker 1: everything in my power to make it UM another game,
Speaker 1: because I think that should be the objective of any
Speaker 1: head coach, is that you make it about the players.
Speaker 1: And I really straight away from UM making anything about me,
Speaker 1: I just don't believe in it. UM. I think that
Speaker 1: I have a very high and of the Forty Nights
Speaker 1: franchise and players, coaches, staff members, UM. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of love for anybody that I work with,
Speaker 1: especially for UM that that extended period of time, so
Speaker 1: that those relationships and people UM will always matter to me.
Speaker 1: But in terms of this week. Uh, I do it
Speaker 1: will be odd for a second, for sure to be
Speaker 1: in a different locker room, or pulling up UM on
Speaker 1: the bus in a weird area, or UM being on
Speaker 1: a different sideline. For for a second, I'm assuming just
Speaker 1: odd as an abnormal. But after that, you know, my
Speaker 1: my obligation is not to My obligation is to serve
Speaker 1: UM each in, every player and coach and and try
Speaker 1: to get the best out of them. And nowhere in
Speaker 1: that equation has anything to do with my past history
Speaker 1: and travels. So that's why I don't UM. When I
Speaker 1: say it's not what it's not about me, I really
Speaker 1: really mean it. Um. I do understand that there is
Speaker 1: um Ah, I do understand where people are coming from
Speaker 1: and thinking it's that way. That's just that's just me personally,
Speaker 1: and UM just a philosophy that I that i'm is
Speaker 1: strong and near my heart. I wanted to ask coach
Speaker 1: about Jalen Waddle's preparation, the comment that two of made
Speaker 1: after the game on Sunday about the way that Jalen
Speaker 1: works in the detailed direction of his game. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask coach about was there a time you know,
Speaker 1: obviously we knew you were a fan of his coming
Speaker 1: out of college and when you got here the Wattle
Speaker 1: Wattle comment on the LeBatard Show, But I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask him, is there a moment where you really really
Speaker 1: is to this guy is not just a physical freak,
Speaker 1: but also why are the right way? Here's coach talking
Speaker 1: about Jillen Waddles preparation. I love the way he worked
Speaker 1: in O T A S UM and you know, it's
Speaker 1: very very high on him coming out of college and
Speaker 1: had and it was obvious an no TIS that I
Speaker 1: really liked the human being and UM definitely believed in
Speaker 1: him really coming back from UM summer break and yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't have any time to learn or and you
Speaker 1: don't assume anything. I didn't know how he's gonna come
Speaker 1: back UM, because that can be a very, UM huge,
Speaker 1: huge time for a receiver, a young receiver, especially in
Speaker 1: a new offense. Is what do you do over UM
Speaker 1: between O T A S and training camp to prayer
Speaker 1: yourself for an NFL season? And and I was as
Speaker 1: encouraged by his UM. I was as encouraged by him
Speaker 1: as any other player UM in terms of how he
Speaker 1: came back ready to play. So it was obvious early
Speaker 1: and he's as we've gone on it, very talented players
Speaker 1: aren't always that that hungry to be coached. Um. You
Speaker 1: get you have a lot of success as a very
Speaker 1: talented player, uh, and a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: I've experienced players feeling as though coaching is an insult.
Speaker 1: He is UM quite the opposite. You know. He he
Speaker 1: keeps learning each and every week, and he is not UM.
Speaker 1: It's always a guy has a chance to be really,
Speaker 1: really good and chase greatness in this league. If you
Speaker 1: have a ton of talent, but you're constantly hoping that
Speaker 1: yesterday's version was um the worst version of yourself that
Speaker 1: you'll see moving forward, that you're constantly getting better. And
Speaker 1: that's something that he has proven to his teammates that
Speaker 1: he he's a really good player. We have to rely
Speaker 1: on him to make plays for us to play the
Speaker 1: style of football we want to play, and his teammates
Speaker 1: rely on him and trust him, and I know that
Speaker 1: each and every week he's going to do put his
Speaker 1: best foot forward, um too, to be the best version
Speaker 1: of himself. Yesterday offered a great opportunity for him to improve.
Speaker 1: There was some stuff in the game that he'll tell
Speaker 1: you that he definitely could have done better and some
Speaker 1: situations UM that he encountered. It was the first time
Speaker 1: in the offense that he encountered UH this season. So
Speaker 1: there's UH timing nuances and and route running nuances that
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to progress. And that's why we
Speaker 1: got the Dolphin's got a good one in him. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up here on a very long
Speaker 1: edition of the Drift Time podcast with a question for
Speaker 1: coach about Tyreek Hill's impact not just with what he
Speaker 1: does by himself, but what he does for the entire
Speaker 1: team in the entire offense. Here's Coach on Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: I guess the receiver position has always been unbelievably important
Speaker 1: because they you know, you look at a receiver in
Speaker 1: their average yards per catches generally longer than the first down,
Speaker 1: which means UM, uh, they they move the ball UM
Speaker 1: when they are when they're involved. They I think as
Speaker 1: are during my career, you've seen UM different applic cations
Speaker 1: of you utilizing the receiver position UM in the areas
Speaker 1: of the run game, pass protection, UM, the other phases
Speaker 1: two try to stay ahead of defenses. I think that's
Speaker 1: something that's growing to a degree. UM. Having receivers do
Speaker 1: some things that normally tight ends do UM. I think
Speaker 1: that's different. Uh. And I think UH in in general UM,
Speaker 1: people have found ways to get receivers the ball more. Henceforth, UH.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that the receptions UM a year
Speaker 1: record has gone up. I can't remember what it was
Speaker 1: when I first started UM, but it was incrementally. You've
Speaker 1: seen people UM get bigger and bigger numbers at that position.
Speaker 1: So when you are able to find ways to get
Speaker 1: people the ball more, they can be a bigger part
Speaker 1: of the offense. And I think that UM when push
Speaker 1: comes to shove the with the amount of talent at
Speaker 1: the quarterback positions league, where guys can put place the
Speaker 1: ball down the field in really tight windows, there's no
Speaker 1: coverage or UM, there's no coverage or defensive philosophy or
Speaker 1: matchup that can replicate having an elite player at that position.
Speaker 1: And Tyreek Hill is somebody that defenses have to account
Speaker 1: for on every play, and just by that, he can
Speaker 1: not only make plays for you, but he affects every
Speaker 1: other player on the field. When you talk about people affecting,
Speaker 1: whether it's a coverage check or UM. It's a the
Speaker 1: safety is cheating UM to a to his side. Start.
Speaker 1: UM being on the minds of every offensive player or
Speaker 1: every defensive player and coach. UH, you have indirectly affected
Speaker 1: the game and in an unbelievable way. So he he
Speaker 1: is a big time player for US, UM, but he
Speaker 1: affects the game specifically more than a stat sheet can
Speaker 1: really UM really do justice because every player he's in
Speaker 1: the game, UM, you know you're it would be hard.
Speaker 1: You'd be hard pressed to think that UM. In a
Speaker 1: majority of those the defensive coordinator would be calling UM
Speaker 1: the exact same call if he didn't exist or they
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be emphasize it. It's kind of like talking
Speaker 1: about UM. You know Nick nick Bosa in that regard
Speaker 1: where you're very aware of where where he's at. And
Speaker 1: I think that UM is a huge deal, but even
Speaker 1: bigger deal when he's a captain voted by his peers
Speaker 1: that continues to progress UM and his and evolve as
Speaker 1: a as a leader in a and someone that that
Speaker 1: dictates and sets the tone UM for the way your
Speaker 1: your team approaches football and when you're when you're when
Speaker 1: the highest paid player on your team, UM has no
Speaker 1: doesn't blank at doing the dirty work. Um, the residuals
Speaker 1: are profound for sure. All Right, I think we're pushing
Speaker 1: about an hour here on this edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. I'm gonna go ahead and get out of
Speaker 1: here right now. Subscribe, rate review, follow me all that
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