WEBVTT - Week 15 Film Room, Dolphins Bills — Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Wheatfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:17.319 looking gips the water open, touchdown, click kill. Unbelievable, man. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.280 I want to help you soon. Up way, wattle, waddle 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.360 to a shotguns back, let's thro all looking stumps up 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:31.920 fires Touchpa, It's waddle, It's six touchdown, Papa. Drive Time 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.400 with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:42.879 if what is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.440 Drive Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:51.080 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.120 I am your host, Travis Winfield, And on today's show, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.240 we always call this the aftermath or the autopsy, the 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.480 deep dive from the Dolphins Week fifteen loss in Buffalo. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.160 And if my voice sounds a little more chipper than 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.679 usual on a deep dive after a loss, it's because 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.440 this tape was very encouraging. And I'll tell you why 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.080 in this podcast. Point out the key plays and how 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.720 they happened, and what Miami did well, what they did 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.679 wrong on the mischances, and so much more, plus the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.279 key stats from PFF and other advanced metrics sites, snap Counts, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.319 and Mike McDaniel's Monday press conference. Plenty more to come 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.840 here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:36.560 Training Complex. This is the drive Time. It's a Tuesday. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.800 We're back full time here with you guys every day 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.039 the rest of the season, or at least five days 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.960 a week, and I think we should be getting three 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.280 consecutive one o'clock kickoffs. We'll see what happens in week eighteen. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.920 But I am excited about this podcast because I just 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.080 finished watching the tape and I tend to think that 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.240 outside circumstances or where the Dolphins are not right now, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:58.760 one game back in the a f C East with 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.200 a sweep over the Buffalo Low Bills, I think they 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.640 were the better team, and the tape tends to agree 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.480 with me. Let's go ahead and jump right in and 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.400 you can tell me if you agree after hearing my 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.760 breakdown of this game, I just want to go ahead 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.960 and kind of track the run game success because as 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.919 I was going through this tape, there are several plays 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.520 where the Dolphins get hat on a hat and that's 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.400 how you wind up running for seven point five yards 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.320 a clip. The first play is a great example of that, 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.360 where Connor Williams just buries his man off the snap 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.560 on a reach block. And this happens all the time, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.639 so defensive tackles want to shoot across Connor Williams face 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.000 or beat him to a gap that they have him 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.359 out leveraged to get into that gap. But because of 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.440 Connor Williams's quickness off the snap and then his work 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.560 with his hands and the hand strength and his balance, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.560 he's able to connect with those guys where he's already 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.200 you know, out favored in terms of the real estate 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.760 that he has to operate with. But then he pulls 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.520 the guy's chest plate down and gets him to the 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.320 ground immediately. And there were several blocks in this game 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.359 where exactly that happened. And unless first play of the game, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.239 both the guards hit square it up blocks down the field, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.280 Brandon Shell kicks out and seals and to Ron Armstead 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.200 had a tremendous reach where they throw the button the gap. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.280 You spend that your hips and your butt around into 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.280 the playside gap wall off the backside, and then from 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.040 there alec Ingold gets a good lean on or a 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.760 lead block. I should say on too, Ron Johnson. And 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.320 this is why I really hope we see these guys again, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.560 because I think they're nickel defense. They're based defense against 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.480 our two back personnel and twenty two personnel at times 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.480 I think could be super deadly in a January game. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.079 And in fact, I think inclement weather would be more 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.840 beneficial for Miami if that's how it goes. Stay in 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.360 the nickel defense. We'll have alec Ingold block your your 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.480 nickel back all game long and get seven and a 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.680 half yards to carry. And I typed this after the 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.680 first play of the game. Then the second play of 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.040 the game, he goes out and hitch Johnson again and 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:48.880 throws him to the ground. So I also wanted to 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.360 track the number of block out the sun at the 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.920 second level place for Robert Hunt, who, in my opinions, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.760 having a Pro Bowl caliber year. He's been fantastic and 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.800 this was his best game. Don't tell me about two 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.440 fall starts. I know that's gonna get cleaned up. But 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.840 I'm more concerned about the other seventy snaps he plays 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.120 in a game. Like if we're talking about two snaps 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.240 out of fifty seven, the Dolphins played well, Sure, I 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.320 guess that's tangible, and you can tell from the stat sheeting, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:16.840 But if you look at the AL twenty two, you're 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.240 gonna see Robert Hunt playing really, really good football. In fact, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.440 I tracked how many second level wipeouts he had where 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.240 he climbed to the second level on linebackers and took 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.440 a player out of the play. I had seven in 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.760 this game. Holy cow. The block on Tremaine Edmunds on 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.200 Savan ak Med's touchdown run. He approaches him, gets the 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.760 initial punch or surge that knocks Edmund's back on his heels, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.880 and then Rob runs him right out of the frame 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.440 like like Michael or in the blind Side and the 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.800 movie on Disney, not the not the actual blocker, but 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.040 the Sandra Bullock vehicle. What a game it was for him. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.320 First half is still in play, and I had six 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.760 of those wipe out blocks the second level in the 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.760 first half, six of them for Big Rob Hunt. He 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.719 comes back on Savan's second half nine yard run and 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.880 gets Edmunds in the exact same way, like he was 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.640 doing this all night long. He's having a fantastic year, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.520 and the run game, on top of good execution, was 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.360 just really creative. On the opening play of drive number two, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.119 you get Shell to pull and that kind of throws 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.000 some confusion on the Bill's defensive line because Rob pens 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.960 his man the three technique to open that gap inside 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.200 and the six technique who's head up over the tight 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.160 end or in this case an h back because it's 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.440 alec Ingold, but he's lined up over the attached player. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.719 He gets caught in the mess right there on Rob 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.360 Hunt because he's thinking he's getting contact from Brandon Shell, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.240 but shells out of there to the back side of 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.080 the formation, so Hunt winds up ceiling two guys and 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.120 it's a massive lane for another chunk of yards. That 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.400 an excellent job winning at the point of attack by 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.359 Hunt and Shell on the initial alec Ingold third and 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.280 one conversion. I think that play calling shows you how 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.720 valuable big Rob is because so many plays in this 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.120 game ran right behind him. Just like the alec Ingold conversion. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.240 There was a fourth and one on the first scoring 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.559 drive of the night where they run Raheem once again 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.520 right behind the right guard and Rob removes his man 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.720 from the Asian and it's a first down. You want 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.120 to convert on short yards, saddle up number sixty eight 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.800 and run the ball behind him. He is elite in 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.240 those situations. Then we go back to some design elements 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.560 of the offense and we see a quarters look on 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.520 first and fifteen. What does that mean? Four deep defenders 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.640 who each have responsibility of a deep quarter of the field. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.600 So it's a really take away, deep shot type of defense. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.479 And if you can run guys by them, that's great. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.160 Not many teams can, but when you have Tayrek and 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.920 Waddle you can't. But this play quarters on first and fifteen, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.920 and it's Waddle and Sanders who run a four who 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.800 run a four man shell twenty yards off the ball 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.160 with their two routes, they run that entire quarters top 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.320 the roof of the defense. They take it and stretch 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.400 it all the way up to the penthouse, and that 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.520 opens up where Hee Mostart on a swing route who 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.440 just had everything cooking like good ball placement here from 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.719 two on the upfield shoulder allowed him to catch it 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.080 and stride and not slow down, and that put him 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.520 in position for a little bit of an inside shuffle 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.200 step that left Matt Milano in the dust, and then 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.320 he outruns Edmunds for a twenty yard game in the 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.800 first down. Let's talk about Raheem some more, because this 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.960 was a performance from a Dolphins back that we haven't 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.839 seen in a while, not just the stats, but the 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.760 combination of speed and power he displayed. Man, he was 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.640 good in this game. More designed first, there was a 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.520 counter or there was plenty of counter in this game. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.880 Some inside zone, outside zone, some shotgun runs under center, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.360 I formation offset I you know, h back attached mode. Like, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.360 there was so much fun stuff in this game. One 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.400 of my favorite plays was the achmed second down run 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.560 before the field goal to kick the game off. We 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.840 get great movement play side, but you see the backside 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.160 Bills defense kind of fold up over the top of 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.200 multiple wall offs because you kind of get Armstead at 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.640 the point on the line of scrimmage, you get Robert 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.600 Jones kind of a little bit further upfield, like two 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.760 yards upfield, and then Connor Williams is the third man 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.720 of that pillar trying to wall it off, and the 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.320 Bills look content to stand there and just wait for 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.280 the play to come back to him. And here comes 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.400 Connor Williams over the top five yards downfield, extending that 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.800 wall and just forcing them to stay on the other 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 side of the formation having to get around blocks. That 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.440 was the case all night long. Bill's defenders before finding 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.920 the ball carrier had to contend with a blocker in 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.920 front of them and offensive lineman obviously your best blockers. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.680 It's a tough way to get run stops. That's why 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.280 you run for seven and a half yards to carry. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.360 And you also do that with Raheem moster which back 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.640 to him real quick, that sixty seven yard gallop. He 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.840 has one of the most impressive runs I can remember 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.080 from a dolphin's back. First you get hat on a 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.320 hat across the board, including a devastating climb, and he 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.320 raced from Connor Williams. Big Rob just stays glued to 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.400 at Oliver, who's one of the best defensive tackles in 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.520 the league, and trying his darkness to get off the 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.679 block and he can't do it. Shell and Smith get 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.680 big seals and then here comes Raheem doing insane things. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.160 First contact is actually behind the line of scrimmage, excuse me, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.320 but he steps through it. Then he's got a safety 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.400 who's got him squared up. And not just any safety, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.319 it's Jordan Poyer, one of the best in the league. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.760 He puts a hesitation step on him that prevents Poyer 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.480 from squaring him up, and then from there he drops 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.080 the shoulders but keeps the leg turned driving and at 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.319 a corner who's coming off of the block from Derham Smith, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.160 they both kind of converge on Raheem's outside of his 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.880 shoulder pads and he keeps the legs churning and runs 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.840 right through it. Then there's another tackle attempt up around 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.000 the shoulders. Raheem stiff farms him to space, gets another 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.120 broken tackle on Hamlin. Then he runs away from everyone 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.600 until te Ron Johnson, who came from the other side 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.080 of the formation, has a deep enough angle to get 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.760 him corralled at the thirty, but Raheem puts a stiff 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.280 arm on him and carries him all the way down 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.480 to the ten yard line, plus the horse caller. I 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.600 had him with five forced mis tackles there, six if 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.480 you include dragging the safety for twenty yards, and every 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.560 yard of that run was after contact as he was 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.880 hit behind the line. What a freaking play. That was 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.800 one of the best plays of the year. I thought 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.160 the run after the more Stead roughing call was possibly 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.240 his best, and obviously I was exciting. That's kind of 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.800 that's disingenuous to say his best because it was the 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.320 second best. But he's dead to rights behind the line 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.800 about three yards and keeps the leg driving and gets 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.400 a from a loss to a gain of four. That's 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.600 critical stuff. And me running back. We go back to 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.200 the quarterback, who goes you know, second behind the run 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.640 game this week, even though both were impressive. You know, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.679 the running game just kind of happened first. But with 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.520 two of let's go ahead and talk about QB one 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.920 pretty late into the Tuesday podcast. To start up talking 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.000 about the quarterback, we haven't done that much this year, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.120 but here we go to uh. I like to track 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.000 the big plays for good and bad, and not do 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.920 much of in depth stuff in terms of like the 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.880 innocuous or i should say, the inconsequential types of plays. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.360 And there was a couple of those, but for the 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.480 most part, two US plays. We're very highly engaged in 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.439 very high level in this game. I had him for 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.880 like two or three mistakes, but other than that, a 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.360 really good game from the Miami quarterback. After the raheem 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.040 most start swing pass, we get twenty one personnel with 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.040 twins two receivers, to the field the wide side of 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.199 the formation. Cedric's the one, the furthest out waddle the 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.600 two the next closest in the slot. Buffalo brings five 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.360 with man free so you have man coverage underneath a 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.640 free safety in the middle of the field and blitz 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.480 up front. It's a double on waddle with trail technique 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.520 from the underneath corner who runs waddle right into that 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.160 slant into the middle of the field, safety capping that 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.439 slam and this leaves Cedric one on one to the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.160 field with fordabus White and he runs a comeback route. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.040 And this is the reason I'm talking about this play 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.680 first is because I think it's where to was game 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.719 kind of began from the high, high level difficulty and 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.240 execution standpoint of the game against pressure that produces a 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.559 big hit right after he throws the football to his 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.120 hands separate before Cedric has even throttled down the route. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.560 Anticipation was elite all night long. White is an all pro, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.000 so he plays it well and comes back down the 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.880 stem with Cedric, but Cedric boxes him out and gives 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.400 enough of a target to the quarterback and the ball 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.760 could not be better on time or better located when 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.680 he comes back down the stem, hits his man right 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.679 in the hands and it goes incompletely. It's a big 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.840 boy throw process over results right, it's not a completion, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.240 but pressure in your face, far hash comeback anticipation on 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.800 a two man route. It's a great, great throw And 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.400 that's what kind of got to a go and for 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.800 the rest of the night. And what I love about 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.079 to is he'll come back on the next play and 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.120 get you. You know, get He'll get you after a 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.400 play goes not his way. Sign of high level quarterback 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.080 player where you catch your break and you gotta stop 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.240 on like a drop pass or a misfire on one 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.400 or two plays, but then you're still alive because the 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.959 quarterback is dangerous and any down our distance. First we 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.880 need to commend to Ron Armstead here and I put 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.640 it on Twitter. Buffalo brings a delayed overload blitz against 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.600 a slide protection from Miami. They're gonna keep Torn Armstead 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.559 all by himself on an island, one on one against 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.600 the Bills edge rusher, who in this case I think 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.400 with shack laws in him, and they're gonna slide the 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.760 protection to the other side of the formation. But Buffalo 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.280 has a great call because they have two rushers from 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.480 down positions to the right and just the one to 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.599 the left. But they're gonna wind up bailing out and 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.959 bringing Edmonds and Johnson off of that to Hron Armstead 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.240 slide position. So you have three on one essentially in 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:46.520 this play. And Tahron starts wide two handle his man. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.240 Actually it was Eponessa wasn't lost in It was fifty seven, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.360 and you're gonna see Edmunds take his sprint inside of 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.199 Tehron and you're gonna see Tehron Johnson come off the 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.319 outside edge of that. So we guys three guys and 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.680 he can only block one of them, so he's gonna 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.360 literally spin into a piarette back into the middle and 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.840 erased Tremaine Edmonds, who was the most immediate threat coming inside, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.160 and as a result, that makes the free erunner on 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.599 to a a half second later right and then to 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.760 handles the rest with again fantastic anticipation, an excellent expedited 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.840 release for the balls up and out before it looks 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.160 like he has even an opportunity to do so, and 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.000 the confidence and accuracy to put the ball into a 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.640 window that has not opened before he throws the football 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.040 against that level of pass rush that is high, high 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.840 level quarterback play, and it continued all night long. They 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.240 go back to the quarters against empty and to it 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.440 takes the speed out to Waddle and I think it's 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.920 a good example of this tape showing good expansion off 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.640 some of the stuff that Miami did really well early 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.320 in the season. For that reason, I love this game. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.880 It's gonna, I think, pay big dividends going forward. The 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.360 third and one sack on the first field goal drive 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.839 was a great play by to Ron Johnson to buzz 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.760 the flat on a whip route to Jalen Waddle. They 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.480 got him one on one and he puts his foot 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.360 in the ground inside takes it back to the outside. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.959 And we've hit that play before. Why open because teams 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.600 didn't put the additional defender in there. But to Ron 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.040 Johnson buzzes the flat and cuts off the throwing lane. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.120 Good on Tour for seeing that and not throwing it, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.840 because it's a pick six if he does. And then 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.640 you get Tyreek and surefield blanketed. And that's a spot 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.680 where you don't mind eating the sack because you're still 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.880 in short field goal range and you want to see 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.080 if something can open up. It did not. It's not 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.360 really a saccupant on the offensive line, and in fact 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.960 it's just a sack that It really the same as 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.440 an incompletion because you lost seven yards and your field 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.880 goal goes from thirty five yards to forty right, not 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.160 a big difference. I think the two throws in the 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.880 end zone just before the second field goal where some 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.080 of his best work. The first one second and goal 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.200 from the three, and the initial concept is completely blanketed. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.400 You get Mesh with Ghasicki and Tyreek, which we talked about. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:43.960 Mesh wanted to see more of that. We got it 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.800 where Hemus to the front pylon to the left, waddle 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.000 to the back pilon to the opposite side. So you 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.560 have really good spacing stretching the Bill's defense across the 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.200 entire end zone. But they covered it very well. So 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.760 to it makes a decision, I have to make a play. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.440 Everything's covered up here and they make the right call 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.000 execution for this wise, you know we need a perfect 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.960 throw to beat it, and that's what to A did. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.920 He made a perfect throw. One of his best traits 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.560 for my eyes is his ability to throw around blind defenders, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.000 and that means that their back has turned to the 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.880 quarterback chasing receivers. It's man coverage, right, but your back 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.640 is of the quarterback. You can't defend more than the 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.320 width of your body because you don't know where the 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.600 football is. And because of that, you can throw what 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.280 looks like kind of chancey type of passes, but it's 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.880 not when you know the defender can't put his hand 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.480 up there and swatt it down. And so he throws 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.000 this ball with the defensive backs back right to him, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 and he scrapes over the top of his helmet, buzzes 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.640 his tower, and it gives Tyreka Chance, who does have 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.840 his eyes in the quarterback to put his hands up. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.320 And this is all happening through a compromised pocket with 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.680 an awkward platform, so he's not set. He doesn't have 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.440 the perfect throwing motion. It's a really tough catch to make. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.520 But like we said, to beat great defenses, you need 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.320 a better throw, and we got it, just didn't complete 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.080 the catch. And that was kind of the difference on 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.000 two field goal drives between seven and three early in 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.680 this game. A somewhat similar story on the very next 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.720 play a first it's a great route by Mike get 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.920 sicky to execute a natural rub because he shows his 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.320 numbers back to the quarterback after not putting his hands 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.320 up on the defender. Keep your hands down at your side. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.120 You're not gonna get called for the pick. It creates 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.720 a window for Tuah. And let's make this abundantly clear, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.960 because apparently it needs to be made that way. I 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.240 thought everyone that watched football knew these basics, but maybe 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.040 we don't. I don't know. The quarterback on that throw 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.000 is trained to take his receiver to the ground because 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.080 there's nowhere after the catch in the end zone, So 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.960 why do we carey about that? And putting the receiver 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.320 on the ground naturally doesn't allow the defense to one 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.280 tee off on your receiver to injure him too, to 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.680 tee off to jar the football free. That is how 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.640 it's been coached since I was playing peewee football. Man, Okay, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.960 we all get that good front of the end zone 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.560 equals low. Back at the end zone equals high That's basic. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:48.960 I don't know how we don't know that, but I 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.520 want to be very clear about it. Plus I promise 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.400 you sure field appreciates the fact that the ball was 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.560 down there because the opposite type of ball is what 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.680 we call a hospital ball in the industry, anticipated well located. Well, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.240 that's a catch the Trent makes times out of a hundred. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.399 We just missed it, and too was dealing man the 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.720 non call on the early contact on Tyreek. That ball 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.600 was a little more inside than it could have been, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.840 but because it was out early, it puts pressure on 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.680 the defensive back to make up ground doesn't get the call. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.880 Ball could have been more outside. But I like the anticipation. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.960 The very next play, the strike to Waddle for I 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.760 think it was fifteen yards and we'll talk about Miami's 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.840 star twenty two year old wide receiver's perspective on this 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.040 play here in a moment. But the quarterback though at 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.919 third and five, uh one hitch hand separate when Wattle 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.119 is even. And the best part about this is to 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.600 A is reading the two high pre snap shell because 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.240 right at the snap, the safety to the field the 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.920 wide side, which is opposite of where Wattle isn't the boundary. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.680 He turns to get depth but doesn't widen to the boundary. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.679 So to A knows I have a window to attack 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.960 here to Waddle side. And this is another part of 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.080 to his game that makes me believe his slumps will 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.560 never last very long, just two games. In this instance, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.400 he takes that bit of information and discerns what he's 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.960 getting from that part of the field that he's blind 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.280 to or he's not looking that way. I'm looking left 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:08.840 and based on the information I have to the left, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.159