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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we always call this the aftermath or the autopsy, the
Speaker 1: deep dive from the Dolphins Week fifteen loss in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: And if my voice sounds a little more chipper than
Speaker 1: usual on a deep dive after a loss, it's because
Speaker 1: this tape was very encouraging. And I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: in this podcast. Point out the key plays and how
Speaker 1: they happened, and what Miami did well, what they did
Speaker 1: wrong on the mischances, and so much more, plus the
Speaker 1: key stats from PFF and other advanced metrics sites, snap Counts,
Speaker 1: and Mike McDaniel's Monday press conference. Plenty more to come
Speaker 1: here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the drive Time. It's a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We're back full time here with you guys every day
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, or at least five days
Speaker 1: a week, and I think we should be getting three
Speaker 1: consecutive one o'clock kickoffs. We'll see what happens in week eighteen.
Speaker 1: But I am excited about this podcast because I just
Speaker 1: finished watching the tape and I tend to think that
Speaker 1: outside circumstances or where the Dolphins are not right now,
Speaker 1: one game back in the a f C East with
Speaker 1: a sweep over the Buffalo Low Bills, I think they
Speaker 1: were the better team, and the tape tends to agree
Speaker 1: with me. Let's go ahead and jump right in and
Speaker 1: you can tell me if you agree after hearing my
Speaker 1: breakdown of this game, I just want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and kind of track the run game success because as
Speaker 1: I was going through this tape, there are several plays
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins get hat on a hat and that's
Speaker 1: how you wind up running for seven point five yards
Speaker 1: a clip. The first play is a great example of that,
Speaker 1: where Connor Williams just buries his man off the snap
Speaker 1: on a reach block. And this happens all the time,
Speaker 1: so defensive tackles want to shoot across Connor Williams face
Speaker 1: or beat him to a gap that they have him
Speaker 1: out leveraged to get into that gap. But because of
Speaker 1: Connor Williams's quickness off the snap and then his work
Speaker 1: with his hands and the hand strength and his balance,
Speaker 1: he's able to connect with those guys where he's already
Speaker 1: you know, out favored in terms of the real estate
Speaker 1: that he has to operate with. But then he pulls
Speaker 1: the guy's chest plate down and gets him to the
Speaker 1: ground immediately. And there were several blocks in this game
Speaker 1: where exactly that happened. And unless first play of the game,
Speaker 1: both the guards hit square it up blocks down the field,
Speaker 1: Brandon Shell kicks out and seals and to Ron Armstead
Speaker 1: had a tremendous reach where they throw the button the gap.
Speaker 1: You spend that your hips and your butt around into
Speaker 1: the playside gap wall off the backside, and then from
Speaker 1: there alec Ingold gets a good lean on or a
Speaker 1: lead block. I should say on too, Ron Johnson. And
Speaker 1: this is why I really hope we see these guys again,
Speaker 1: because I think they're nickel defense. They're based defense against
Speaker 1: our two back personnel and twenty two personnel at times
Speaker 1: I think could be super deadly in a January game.
Speaker 1: And in fact, I think inclement weather would be more
Speaker 1: beneficial for Miami if that's how it goes. Stay in
Speaker 1: the nickel defense. We'll have alec Ingold block your your
Speaker 1: nickel back all game long and get seven and a
Speaker 1: half yards to carry. And I typed this after the
Speaker 1: first play of the game. Then the second play of
Speaker 1: the game, he goes out and hitch Johnson again and
Speaker 1: throws him to the ground. So I also wanted to
Speaker 1: track the number of block out the sun at the
Speaker 1: second level place for Robert Hunt, who, in my opinions,
Speaker 1: having a Pro Bowl caliber year. He's been fantastic and
Speaker 1: this was his best game. Don't tell me about two
Speaker 1: fall starts. I know that's gonna get cleaned up. But
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about the other seventy snaps he plays
Speaker 1: in a game. Like if we're talking about two snaps
Speaker 1: out of fifty seven, the Dolphins played well, Sure, I
Speaker 1: guess that's tangible, and you can tell from the stat sheeting,
Speaker 1: But if you look at the AL twenty two, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see Robert Hunt playing really, really good football. In fact,
Speaker 1: I tracked how many second level wipeouts he had where
Speaker 1: he climbed to the second level on linebackers and took
Speaker 1: a player out of the play. I had seven in
Speaker 1: this game. Holy cow. The block on Tremaine Edmunds on
Speaker 1: Savan ak Med's touchdown run. He approaches him, gets the
Speaker 1: initial punch or surge that knocks Edmund's back on his heels,
Speaker 1: and then Rob runs him right out of the frame
Speaker 1: like like Michael or in the blind Side and the
Speaker 1: movie on Disney, not the not the actual blocker, but
Speaker 1: the Sandra Bullock vehicle. What a game it was for him.
Speaker 1: First half is still in play, and I had six
Speaker 1: of those wipe out blocks the second level in the
Speaker 1: first half, six of them for Big Rob Hunt. He
Speaker 1: comes back on Savan's second half nine yard run and
Speaker 1: gets Edmunds in the exact same way, like he was
Speaker 1: doing this all night long. He's having a fantastic year,
Speaker 1: and the run game, on top of good execution, was
Speaker 1: just really creative. On the opening play of drive number two,
Speaker 1: you get Shell to pull and that kind of throws
Speaker 1: some confusion on the Bill's defensive line because Rob pens
Speaker 1: his man the three technique to open that gap inside
Speaker 1: and the six technique who's head up over the tight
Speaker 1: end or in this case an h back because it's
Speaker 1: alec Ingold, but he's lined up over the attached player.
Speaker 1: He gets caught in the mess right there on Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt because he's thinking he's getting contact from Brandon Shell,
Speaker 1: but shells out of there to the back side of
Speaker 1: the formation, so Hunt winds up ceiling two guys and
Speaker 1: it's a massive lane for another chunk of yards. That
Speaker 1: an excellent job winning at the point of attack by
Speaker 1: Hunt and Shell on the initial alec Ingold third and
Speaker 1: one conversion. I think that play calling shows you how
Speaker 1: valuable big Rob is because so many plays in this
Speaker 1: game ran right behind him. Just like the alec Ingold conversion.
Speaker 1: There was a fourth and one on the first scoring
Speaker 1: drive of the night where they run Raheem once again
Speaker 1: right behind the right guard and Rob removes his man
Speaker 1: from the Asian and it's a first down. You want
Speaker 1: to convert on short yards, saddle up number sixty eight
Speaker 1: and run the ball behind him. He is elite in
Speaker 1: those situations. Then we go back to some design elements
Speaker 1: of the offense and we see a quarters look on
Speaker 1: first and fifteen. What does that mean? Four deep defenders
Speaker 1: who each have responsibility of a deep quarter of the field.
Speaker 1: So it's a really take away, deep shot type of defense.
Speaker 1: And if you can run guys by them, that's great.
Speaker 1: Not many teams can, but when you have Tayrek and
Speaker 1: Waddle you can't. But this play quarters on first and fifteen,
Speaker 1: and it's Waddle and Sanders who run a four who
Speaker 1: run a four man shell twenty yards off the ball
Speaker 1: with their two routes, they run that entire quarters top
Speaker 1: the roof of the defense. They take it and stretch
Speaker 1: it all the way up to the penthouse, and that
Speaker 1: opens up where Hee Mostart on a swing route who
Speaker 1: just had everything cooking like good ball placement here from
Speaker 1: two on the upfield shoulder allowed him to catch it
Speaker 1: and stride and not slow down, and that put him
Speaker 1: in position for a little bit of an inside shuffle
Speaker 1: step that left Matt Milano in the dust, and then
Speaker 1: he outruns Edmunds for a twenty yard game in the
Speaker 1: first down. Let's talk about Raheem some more, because this
Speaker 1: was a performance from a Dolphins back that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen in a while, not just the stats, but the
Speaker 1: combination of speed and power he displayed. Man, he was
Speaker 1: good in this game. More designed first, there was a
Speaker 1: counter or there was plenty of counter in this game.
Speaker 1: Some inside zone, outside zone, some shotgun runs under center,
Speaker 1: I formation offset I you know, h back attached mode. Like,
Speaker 1: there was so much fun stuff in this game. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite plays was the achmed second down run
Speaker 1: before the field goal to kick the game off. We
Speaker 1: get great movement play side, but you see the backside
Speaker 1: Bills defense kind of fold up over the top of
Speaker 1: multiple wall offs because you kind of get Armstead at
Speaker 1: the point on the line of scrimmage, you get Robert
Speaker 1: Jones kind of a little bit further upfield, like two
Speaker 1: yards upfield, and then Connor Williams is the third man
Speaker 1: of that pillar trying to wall it off, and the
Speaker 1: Bills look content to stand there and just wait for
Speaker 1: the play to come back to him. And here comes
Speaker 1: Connor Williams over the top five yards downfield, extending that
Speaker 1: wall and just forcing them to stay on the other
Speaker 1: side of the formation having to get around blocks. That
Speaker 1: was the case all night long. Bill's defenders before finding
Speaker 1: the ball carrier had to contend with a blocker in
Speaker 1: front of them and offensive lineman obviously your best blockers.
Speaker 1: It's a tough way to get run stops. That's why
Speaker 1: you run for seven and a half yards to carry.
Speaker 1: And you also do that with Raheem moster which back
Speaker 1: to him real quick, that sixty seven yard gallop. He
Speaker 1: has one of the most impressive runs I can remember
Speaker 1: from a dolphin's back. First you get hat on a
Speaker 1: hat across the board, including a devastating climb, and he
Speaker 1: raced from Connor Williams. Big Rob just stays glued to
Speaker 1: at Oliver, who's one of the best defensive tackles in
Speaker 1: the league, and trying his darkness to get off the
Speaker 1: block and he can't do it. Shell and Smith get
Speaker 1: big seals and then here comes Raheem doing insane things.
Speaker 1: First contact is actually behind the line of scrimmage, excuse me,
Speaker 1: but he steps through it. Then he's got a safety
Speaker 1: who's got him squared up. And not just any safety,
Speaker 1: it's Jordan Poyer, one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: He puts a hesitation step on him that prevents Poyer
Speaker 1: from squaring him up, and then from there he drops
Speaker 1: the shoulders but keeps the leg turned driving and at
Speaker 1: a corner who's coming off of the block from Derham Smith,
Speaker 1: they both kind of converge on Raheem's outside of his
Speaker 1: shoulder pads and he keeps the legs churning and runs
Speaker 1: right through it. Then there's another tackle attempt up around
Speaker 1: the shoulders. Raheem stiff farms him to space, gets another
Speaker 1: broken tackle on Hamlin. Then he runs away from everyone
Speaker 1: until te Ron Johnson, who came from the other side
Speaker 1: of the formation, has a deep enough angle to get
Speaker 1: him corralled at the thirty, but Raheem puts a stiff
Speaker 1: arm on him and carries him all the way down
Speaker 1: to the ten yard line, plus the horse caller. I
Speaker 1: had him with five forced mis tackles there, six if
Speaker 1: you include dragging the safety for twenty yards, and every
Speaker 1: yard of that run was after contact as he was
Speaker 1: hit behind the line. What a freaking play. That was
Speaker 1: one of the best plays of the year. I thought
Speaker 1: the run after the more Stead roughing call was possibly
Speaker 1: his best, and obviously I was exciting. That's kind of
Speaker 1: that's disingenuous to say his best because it was the
Speaker 1: second best. But he's dead to rights behind the line
Speaker 1: about three yards and keeps the leg driving and gets
Speaker 1: a from a loss to a gain of four. That's
Speaker 1: critical stuff. And me running back. We go back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, who goes you know, second behind the run
Speaker 1: game this week, even though both were impressive. You know,
Speaker 1: the running game just kind of happened first. But with
Speaker 1: two of let's go ahead and talk about QB one
Speaker 1: pretty late into the Tuesday podcast. To start up talking
Speaker 1: about the quarterback, we haven't done that much this year,
Speaker 1: but here we go to uh. I like to track
Speaker 1: the big plays for good and bad, and not do
Speaker 1: much of in depth stuff in terms of like the
Speaker 1: innocuous or i should say, the inconsequential types of plays.
Speaker 1: And there was a couple of those, but for the
Speaker 1: most part, two US plays. We're very highly engaged in
Speaker 1: very high level in this game. I had him for
Speaker 1: like two or three mistakes, but other than that, a
Speaker 1: really good game from the Miami quarterback. After the raheem
Speaker 1: most start swing pass, we get twenty one personnel with
Speaker 1: twins two receivers, to the field the wide side of
Speaker 1: the formation. Cedric's the one, the furthest out waddle the
Speaker 1: two the next closest in the slot. Buffalo brings five
Speaker 1: with man free so you have man coverage underneath a
Speaker 1: free safety in the middle of the field and blitz
Speaker 1: up front. It's a double on waddle with trail technique
Speaker 1: from the underneath corner who runs waddle right into that
Speaker 1: slant into the middle of the field, safety capping that
Speaker 1: slam and this leaves Cedric one on one to the
Speaker 1: field with fordabus White and he runs a comeback route.
Speaker 1: And this is the reason I'm talking about this play
Speaker 1: first is because I think it's where to was game
Speaker 1: kind of began from the high, high level difficulty and
Speaker 1: execution standpoint of the game against pressure that produces a
Speaker 1: big hit right after he throws the football to his
Speaker 1: hands separate before Cedric has even throttled down the route.
Speaker 1: Anticipation was elite all night long. White is an all pro,
Speaker 1: so he plays it well and comes back down the
Speaker 1: stem with Cedric, but Cedric boxes him out and gives
Speaker 1: enough of a target to the quarterback and the ball
Speaker 1: could not be better on time or better located when
Speaker 1: he comes back down the stem, hits his man right
Speaker 1: in the hands and it goes incompletely. It's a big
Speaker 1: boy throw process over results right, it's not a completion,
Speaker 1: but pressure in your face, far hash comeback anticipation on
Speaker 1: a two man route. It's a great, great throw And
Speaker 1: that's what kind of got to a go and for
Speaker 1: the rest of the night. And what I love about
Speaker 1: to is he'll come back on the next play and
Speaker 1: get you. You know, get He'll get you after a
Speaker 1: play goes not his way. Sign of high level quarterback
Speaker 1: player where you catch your break and you gotta stop
Speaker 1: on like a drop pass or a misfire on one
Speaker 1: or two plays, but then you're still alive because the
Speaker 1: quarterback is dangerous and any down our distance. First we
Speaker 1: need to commend to Ron Armstead here and I put
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. Buffalo brings a delayed overload blitz against
Speaker 1: a slide protection from Miami. They're gonna keep Torn Armstead
Speaker 1: all by himself on an island, one on one against
Speaker 1: the Bills edge rusher, who in this case I think
Speaker 1: with shack laws in him, and they're gonna slide the
Speaker 1: protection to the other side of the formation. But Buffalo
Speaker 1: has a great call because they have two rushers from
Speaker 1: down positions to the right and just the one to
Speaker 1: the left. But they're gonna wind up bailing out and
Speaker 1: bringing Edmonds and Johnson off of that to Hron Armstead
Speaker 1: slide position. So you have three on one essentially in
Speaker 1: this play. And Tahron starts wide two handle his man.
Speaker 1: Actually it was Eponessa wasn't lost in It was fifty seven,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see Edmunds take his sprint inside of
Speaker 1: Tehron and you're gonna see Tehron Johnson come off the
Speaker 1: outside edge of that. So we guys three guys and
Speaker 1: he can only block one of them, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: literally spin into a piarette back into the middle and
Speaker 1: erased Tremaine Edmonds, who was the most immediate threat coming inside,
Speaker 1: and as a result, that makes the free erunner on
Speaker 1: to a a half second later right and then to
Speaker 1: handles the rest with again fantastic anticipation, an excellent expedited
Speaker 1: release for the balls up and out before it looks
Speaker 1: like he has even an opportunity to do so, and
Speaker 1: the confidence and accuracy to put the ball into a
Speaker 1: window that has not opened before he throws the football
Speaker 1: against that level of pass rush that is high, high
Speaker 1: level quarterback play, and it continued all night long. They
Speaker 1: go back to the quarters against empty and to it
Speaker 1: takes the speed out to Waddle and I think it's
Speaker 1: a good example of this tape showing good expansion off
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that Miami did really well early
Speaker 1: in the season. For that reason, I love this game.
Speaker 1: It's gonna, I think, pay big dividends going forward. The
Speaker 1: third and one sack on the first field goal drive
Speaker 1: was a great play by to Ron Johnson to buzz
Speaker 1: the flat on a whip route to Jalen Waddle. They
Speaker 1: got him one on one and he puts his foot
Speaker 1: in the ground inside takes it back to the outside.
Speaker 1: And we've hit that play before. Why open because teams
Speaker 1: didn't put the additional defender in there. But to Ron
Speaker 1: Johnson buzzes the flat and cuts off the throwing lane.
Speaker 1: Good on Tour for seeing that and not throwing it,
Speaker 1: because it's a pick six if he does. And then
Speaker 1: you get Tyreek and surefield blanketed. And that's a spot
Speaker 1: where you don't mind eating the sack because you're still
Speaker 1: in short field goal range and you want to see
Speaker 1: if something can open up. It did not. It's not
Speaker 1: really a saccupant on the offensive line, and in fact
Speaker 1: it's just a sack that It really the same as
Speaker 1: an incompletion because you lost seven yards and your field
Speaker 1: goal goes from thirty five yards to forty right, not
Speaker 1: a big difference. I think the two throws in the
Speaker 1: end zone just before the second field goal where some
Speaker 1: of his best work. The first one second and goal
Speaker 1: from the three, and the initial concept is completely blanketed.
Speaker 1: You get Mesh with Ghasicki and Tyreek, which we talked about.
Speaker 1: Mesh wanted to see more of that. We got it
Speaker 1: where Hemus to the front pylon to the left, waddle
Speaker 1: to the back pilon to the opposite side. So you
Speaker 1: have really good spacing stretching the Bill's defense across the
Speaker 1: entire end zone. But they covered it very well. So
Speaker 1: to it makes a decision, I have to make a play.
Speaker 1: Everything's covered up here and they make the right call
Speaker 1: execution for this wise, you know we need a perfect
Speaker 1: throw to beat it, and that's what to A did.
Speaker 1: He made a perfect throw. One of his best traits
Speaker 1: for my eyes is his ability to throw around blind defenders,
Speaker 1: and that means that their back has turned to the
Speaker 1: quarterback chasing receivers. It's man coverage, right, but your back
Speaker 1: is of the quarterback. You can't defend more than the
Speaker 1: width of your body because you don't know where the
Speaker 1: football is. And because of that, you can throw what
Speaker 1: looks like kind of chancey type of passes, but it's
Speaker 1: not when you know the defender can't put his hand
Speaker 1: up there and swatt it down. And so he throws
Speaker 1: this ball with the defensive backs back right to him,
Speaker 1: and he scrapes over the top of his helmet, buzzes
Speaker 1: his tower, and it gives Tyreka Chance, who does have
Speaker 1: his eyes in the quarterback to put his hands up.
Speaker 1: And this is all happening through a compromised pocket with
Speaker 1: an awkward platform, so he's not set. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: the perfect throwing motion. It's a really tough catch to make.
Speaker 1: But like we said, to beat great defenses, you need
Speaker 1: a better throw, and we got it, just didn't complete
Speaker 1: the catch. And that was kind of the difference on
Speaker 1: two field goal drives between seven and three early in
Speaker 1: this game. A somewhat similar story on the very next
Speaker 1: play a first it's a great route by Mike get
Speaker 1: sicky to execute a natural rub because he shows his
Speaker 1: numbers back to the quarterback after not putting his hands
Speaker 1: up on the defender. Keep your hands down at your side.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get called for the pick. It creates
Speaker 1: a window for Tuah. And let's make this abundantly clear,
Speaker 1: because apparently it needs to be made that way. I
Speaker 1: thought everyone that watched football knew these basics, but maybe
Speaker 1: we don't. I don't know. The quarterback on that throw
Speaker 1: is trained to take his receiver to the ground because
Speaker 1: there's nowhere after the catch in the end zone, So
Speaker 1: why do we carey about that? And putting the receiver
Speaker 1: on the ground naturally doesn't allow the defense to one
Speaker 1: tee off on your receiver to injure him too, to
Speaker 1: tee off to jar the football free. That is how
Speaker 1: it's been coached since I was playing peewee football. Man, Okay,
Speaker 1: we all get that good front of the end zone
Speaker 1: equals low. Back at the end zone equals high That's basic.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we don't know that, but I
Speaker 1: want to be very clear about it. Plus I promise
Speaker 1: you sure field appreciates the fact that the ball was
Speaker 1: down there because the opposite type of ball is what
Speaker 1: we call a hospital ball in the industry, anticipated well located. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a catch the Trent makes times out of a hundred.
Speaker 1: We just missed it, and too was dealing man the
Speaker 1: non call on the early contact on Tyreek. That ball
Speaker 1: was a little more inside than it could have been,
Speaker 1: but because it was out early, it puts pressure on
Speaker 1: the defensive back to make up ground doesn't get the call.
Speaker 1: Ball could have been more outside. But I like the anticipation.
Speaker 1: The very next play, the strike to Waddle for I
Speaker 1: think it was fifteen yards and we'll talk about Miami's
Speaker 1: star twenty two year old wide receiver's perspective on this
Speaker 1: play here in a moment. But the quarterback though at
Speaker 1: third and five, uh one hitch hand separate when Wattle
Speaker 1: is even. And the best part about this is to
Speaker 1: A is reading the two high pre snap shell because
Speaker 1: right at the snap, the safety to the field the
Speaker 1: wide side, which is opposite of where Wattle isn't the boundary.
Speaker 1: He turns to get depth but doesn't widen to the boundary.
Speaker 1: So to A knows I have a window to attack
Speaker 1: here to Waddle side. And this is another part of
Speaker 1: to his game that makes me believe his slumps will
Speaker 1: never last very long, just two games. In this instance,
Speaker 1: he takes that bit of information and discerns what he's
Speaker 1: getting from that part of the field that he's blind
Speaker 1: to or he's not looking that way. I'm looking left
Speaker 1: and based on the information I have to the left,
Speaker 1: I know what's happening to the right, and that safety
Speaker 1: wheels out to cover the other high safety who stepped
Speaker 1: down and try to jump anything in breaking to Jalen,
Speaker 1: so to a process is this having to see it
Speaker 1: because of that, and he can get it out early.
Speaker 1: So waddles hesitation step gets him past the corner and
Speaker 1: the throw is early with arc. Jalen goes up and
Speaker 1: snares it. It's underthrown by a half a yard by
Speaker 1: that's time because of arm strength. Is because throwing deep
Speaker 1: shots to guys that run four two is very difficult.
Speaker 1: That's why it happens every quarterback around the league every
Speaker 1: single week. Perfect not perfect throw, a good enough throw
Speaker 1: to get a conversion for thirty four yards on third
Speaker 1: and five. What a play for two of to know
Speaker 1: to get that ball? They're great play call for the
Speaker 1: double move to fake the inside where the Bills cheated,
Speaker 1: and then go back over the top. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Waddles role on that play here in just a second.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a fifteen yard play, was a thirty four
Speaker 1: yard player at the plan to attack linebackers in the
Speaker 1: passing game, both in front and behind them was really
Speaker 1: well done. Everybody knows that we can really work the
Speaker 1: ten to nineteen yard range behind linebackers. We've got a
Speaker 1: mesh down in the red zone early in the game
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. Then on third down conversion and
Speaker 1: plus territory, Tyreek runs his route directly at Tremaine Edmunds
Speaker 1: and typically be gone behind those guys and thrown in
Speaker 1: behind them. But Edmonds has an eight yard drop and
Speaker 1: Tyreek presses right at him and then angles his route
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback flattening at the first down sticks
Speaker 1: to catch it and move the chains. The very next
Speaker 1: play is a dot on third nine to move the
Speaker 1: sticks to a gets great protection against the blitz and
Speaker 1: throws a comeback to the field. Another player I thought
Speaker 1: he couldn't do right ball is out and on time
Speaker 1: with Tyreek coming back down the stem, and he makes
Speaker 1: the catch before the defender can drive on that ball.
Speaker 1: More instances of timing anticipation being the most important thing
Speaker 1: for a quarterback back to the offense and the quarterback
Speaker 1: in the offense. The wattles sixty seven yard touchdown. I
Speaker 1: think it was nothing short of a master class in
Speaker 1: terms of some tendency breakers for the Dolphins offense. Because
Speaker 1: once again the bill start in this two high coverage.
Speaker 1: They bring the boundary safety down to rob a crossing
Speaker 1: route that's a it's a typical robber call. Safety comes down,
Speaker 1: tries to take away the backside over out which you
Speaker 1: get from sherfield and you get from Tyreek to the
Speaker 1: field side, the same side that Waddle comes from from
Speaker 1: their three man receivers set three by one formation, and
Speaker 1: rather than crossing face, Waddle adjust and runs behind him.
Speaker 1: It's like a step at the linebacker and then acceleration
Speaker 1: upfield to a season and once again throws with anticipation,
Speaker 1: good location, and it's a massive play to bring the
Speaker 1: Dolphins within two points. That pure wet on the scrambles
Speaker 1: a nifty move, the same move we saw him do
Speaker 1: against the Ravens back in Week two. He just got
Speaker 1: got by the turf Monster after seven yards and then
Speaker 1: we go in completion on the next play. It's one
Speaker 1: of those tapes where if you're not checking the score,
Speaker 1: you would think Miami's offense is unstoppable, even with twenty
Speaker 1: nine points. Just a few plays away from a lot
Speaker 1: more in my opinion, two dozen trip, it's probably first down.
Speaker 1: They stay on the field that drive. Who knows what happens.
Speaker 1: The missed deep ball to Braylan Sanders hers so much
Speaker 1: because it was a perfect ball. I've been asked that
Speaker 1: question a lot. Braylon come back and gets a push
Speaker 1: on the dB, but he didn't have to do that
Speaker 1: to or through it perfectly upfield. He grows at forty
Speaker 1: yards from the spot he released the football to the
Speaker 1: landing point and Braylon's on top of the dB where
Speaker 1: to A goes to throw, and you see Sanders stop
Speaker 1: the track he's on and come back to the defensive
Speaker 1: back and that threw off the timing of it, whites
Speaker 1: out of position and it's a touchdown if he stays
Speaker 1: on that track and catches it and stride. Then we
Speaker 1: go sack, check down, punt pain. The touchdown past the
Speaker 1: tyreek was so so so so so so good, so
Speaker 1: good kind of the theme of the game here to
Speaker 1: a taking post nap rotation of one player and processing
Speaker 1: what he does for the rest of the defense. And look,
Speaker 1: we can't go inside the mind of a player, but
Speaker 1: just watch this play. You get that similar safety rotation
Speaker 1: to his helmet is keyed towards one defender, and the
Speaker 1: movement of that player leads him to flip his helmet
Speaker 1: back to the other side, all in one motion and
Speaker 1: throw the football. That's processing, that's anticipation, that's knowing his
Speaker 1: movement there means this in the backside. If then there
Speaker 1: therefore this it's a sure fire away to play really
Speaker 1: well and post Gaudi stats in this league for a
Speaker 1: long time. If you can do that consistently. This year
Speaker 1: he has maybe even better. The Bills show press man
Speaker 1: with that high safety. The stack to the field side
Speaker 1: of the formation brings the entire defense up to the
Speaker 1: line besides that one player and you see two and
Speaker 1: make a check at the line. Just adds another layer
Speaker 1: to it, and you love to see it. You've probably
Speaker 1: seen this by now, but the first play of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Gisicky is turned free on a bus for
Speaker 1: potential eighty three yard touchdown. Catch on third and three.
Speaker 1: It sucks, but you have to understand the rules for
Speaker 1: a quarterback in his progression. He had favorable leverage to
Speaker 1: tie Reek to the sticks on a speed out. That's
Speaker 1: your first read. If it's there, you throw it to
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson played it perfectly, but the Bills busted him.
Speaker 1: We never got to it more pain. He also had
Speaker 1: wattle on a backside over when he took a short
Speaker 1: completion to Tyreek later in the game. It's after the
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Phillips fumble recovery to from an eye formation,
Speaker 1: boots and throws short of the sticks to Tyreek. Right
Speaker 1: before that Smith play for a loss. But man, he
Speaker 1: had waddle coming across the formation, clear open, naked ten yard.
Speaker 1: It's further downfield, possibly run after the catch too. That's
Speaker 1: the first miss I had from two of this entire game.
Speaker 1: His first like obviously bad play, the rest was really good.
Speaker 1: Holy moly. The throw with nine minutes to go in
Speaker 1: the game, twenty two all or twenty nine, All tied up.
Speaker 1: Rolling to his left, Tyreek crosses Edmonds on an over
Speaker 1: route with the safety bearing down. Nobody's open. Tyreek is
Speaker 1: hardly opened, and you can't locate this ball in the
Speaker 1: windy snow any better than he did low so the
Speaker 1: safety cannot pop Tyreke out in front of him, so
Speaker 1: he can go get it away from the linebacker and
Speaker 1: he makes a great sliding catch. Like wow, that was
Speaker 1: a wild play. They had some high level execution plays
Speaker 1: in this game, man, And then the location on the
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson throw was absolutely beautiful too. And man, watching
Speaker 1: it back, what a great recovery from Johnson. When to
Speaker 1: will let that thing go. It looked like a walk
Speaker 1: in touchdown, but his effort allowed him to get back
Speaker 1: and contest and make the tackle. Outstanding catch by Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: The third and twelve play to Waddle was defensive past
Speaker 1: interference clear his day. White has his hand on Waddles
Speaker 1: back and you see Jalen's body turn in a totally
Speaker 1: unnatural way. He's running one direction, his hip turns the
Speaker 1: other way. You can't do that. It was the hand
Speaker 1: of the hip. You see both Tyreke Waddle and Trent
Speaker 1: Surefield all motion for a flag again more pain. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite tapes and to his career ultimately, I
Speaker 1: think gets defined by two or three mrs because the
Speaker 1: Bill's offense was able to match Miami, but this tape
Speaker 1: is literally with some great stuff that great quarterbacks do.
Speaker 1: The entire offensive tape was really good. And to finish
Speaker 1: that point, the blocking out wide by the receivers was
Speaker 1: once again really good Tyreek. And you know, he tweeted
Speaker 1: that he didn't have his best game. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: the end zone drop that he talked about, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good. On the play that to
Speaker 1: was scrambled, Tyreek took three defenders with him to the post,
Speaker 1: which cleared everybody out obviously. Then the next drive, his
Speaker 1: release in the touchdown catch, what a move you see
Speaker 1: White try to hit the inside hand jam, Tyreek bluffs
Speaker 1: to step inside, then gets his feet right back under
Speaker 1: him and takes off from there without contact. There's nobody
Speaker 1: in the league's gonna run with Tyreke on that play.
Speaker 1: Perfect ball, equal six waddle. The hesitation step to acceleration
Speaker 1: was on display on two straight plays, and man, it's
Speaker 1: good to see him back being that explosive after a
Speaker 1: couple of down week where he just didn't look right
Speaker 1: to that level of juice. The hesitation step on the
Speaker 1: deep shot put him in front of the dB in
Speaker 1: a matter of five yards, and then the deep ball
Speaker 1: tracking from there. The way he's high pointing the ball
Speaker 1: all year long has been so good. Then the long touchdown.
Speaker 1: His route running is really good. He comes out of
Speaker 1: the break like he's gonna just cross Pawyer's face and
Speaker 1: runs right at him. Then he takes one step upfield
Speaker 1: and jets behind him. The balls out early and it
Speaker 1: looks like Hamlin has an angle, but few people can
Speaker 1: erase angles like Jalen Waddle. He just flew right by him.
Speaker 1: What a special player. Alec ingoldman, what a game for him.
Speaker 1: He was going after their nickel number seven and getting
Speaker 1: key blocks all night long. Remember we talked about them
Speaker 1: playing their snaps and nickel defense. That's because Johnson is
Speaker 1: so talented and can insert versus the run. But Ingold
Speaker 1: had a handful of blocks on him man, including the
Speaker 1: Savan Akhmed touchdown. It wasn't just the nickel either. He
Speaker 1: had a block on another Akhmed run where he cleared
Speaker 1: Epinessa out of the play and it frustrated the Epinessa
Speaker 1: so bad that he threw Alec down After the fact.
Speaker 1: You should have been fifteen. They didn't call it. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Akhmed. That was some kind of run he had.
Speaker 1: Rob Jones has an excellent game and an excellent down
Speaker 1: block on Milano covers him up to the point that
Speaker 1: you could barely see any read on the play. Then
Speaker 1: Savan has tomar Hamlin one on one and has jump
Speaker 1: cut an explosion off that cut into the end zone.
Speaker 1: What a run that was. Love the way he pressed
Speaker 1: the gap and accelerated on his wide nine yard run
Speaker 1: of the third quarter as well, the whole line was awesome.
Speaker 1: So encouraged about what's being done by these front five
Speaker 1: guys right now. Armstead, Jones, Williams, Hunt Shell, great game.
Speaker 1: I thought Rob Jones had the best grap I've seen
Speaker 1: from him on the play after the Phillips strip sack.
Speaker 1: Moster gets a first down run and he reaches Oliver,
Speaker 1: gets turned into the gap and then finishes the play
Speaker 1: by throwing him to the ground. Williams multiple times in
Speaker 1: the game Hunt we talked about him. Shell had some
Speaker 1: good kickout blocks to a couple of dicey pass pro snaps.
Speaker 1: But man, this line is playing good. My last note,
Speaker 1: I would love a little more wiggle out of the
Speaker 1: tight end position run after the catch would be nice.
Speaker 1: At that spots, go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: and come back into the defense on the other side.
Speaker 1: We'll go through that quicker on this one. That's next
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. It's a Tuesday. We are deep into the podcast,
Speaker 1: just after the first break, which means you know, we
Speaker 1: have plenty more to come your way. I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to keep these podcasts under like forty five, but
Speaker 1: that's okay. Just means we have lots of notes to
Speaker 1: get to and we had a lot on the offense,
Speaker 1: not going to have as much on the defense. But
Speaker 1: I think we start here. I'm not gonna get on
Speaker 1: here and tell you all about the misplays and a
Speaker 1: secondary that is down to safety five at one position
Speaker 1: and calling on cornerbacks five and six the majority of
Speaker 1: the season. You just have to find a way to
Speaker 1: manage it. That's kind of how attrition in the National
Speaker 1: Football League works. Once you get to the end of
Speaker 1: the year. Almost every team has at least one position
Speaker 1: group that has been decimated by injuries. If you can
Speaker 1: avoid it, good for you, and the best teams find
Speaker 1: ways to overcome it, whether it's more production from a
Speaker 1: different position or just trying to cover it with your scheme.
Speaker 1: And Miami, obviously with the Bradley Chubb trade going after
Speaker 1: more pressure guys that can win one on ones up
Speaker 1: front have shifted a little bit in that way. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. The Bradley Chub you know, where
Speaker 1: is he in the stack? Production stuff? Like same thing
Speaker 1: with Phillips early in the season. Just chill, relax, it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's been productive, just not in the sack category, boy,
Speaker 1: but early on the play of the Bill's offense going
Speaker 1: after those you know players we talked about it was
Speaker 1: costly and it was costly late as well. So just
Speaker 1: know that we're not going to sit here and analyze
Speaker 1: it because to me, it's a dead horse. You guys know,
Speaker 1: I know. I don't think it's constructive when we all
Speaker 1: know that and continue to beat that dead horse. Kind
Speaker 1: of like a certain topic on Twitter that we talked
Speaker 1: about every single day regarding this team's quarterback. Now you
Speaker 1: can say, Travis, how did they overcome enough to get
Speaker 1: enough production to win enough games to get us in
Speaker 1: and keep us competitive from there? And that's totally fair.
Speaker 1: And I think you have to use these last three
Speaker 1: weeks to make that happen and get the production to
Speaker 1: win the games, to get yourself in possession to play
Speaker 1: those games beyond those three, and I do have confidence
Speaker 1: that will happen. Let's go ahead and start here at
Speaker 1: the ball off Javon Holland's hands on the opening series
Speaker 1: of the game, and you can see from the wide
Speaker 1: angle that he's clearly focused on laying a big hit
Speaker 1: to dislodge the football. I have to imagine that's the
Speaker 1: hardest part about playing defensive back, because you have to
Speaker 1: assume that every pass is going to be good. Right.
Speaker 1: In this case, Alan misfired high and by the time
Speaker 1: Javon had realized it, the ball's coming in sixty miles
Speaker 1: off the fingertips and falls for a harmless incompletion. Now
Speaker 1: to finish off that drive, we get a great key
Speaker 1: and trigger from a Landon Roberts to shut down a
Speaker 1: run for just one yard. Then Justin Bethel and Noah
Speaker 1: Egbonogeny have to contest with a stack and a switch
Speaker 1: on third and nine, which can cause lots of issues
Speaker 1: in man coverage. It was an issue against the Chargers
Speaker 1: last week, and Bethel's reroute and jam On Dawson Knox
Speaker 1: really disrupt a lot of that stuff. And then Noah
Speaker 1: Egbanogeny takes a great route underneath to undercut the throw
Speaker 1: just to fawnd digs and takes away that window. Ball
Speaker 1: is high punt team on. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: great start against a similar look that gave this team
Speaker 1: issues the week prior. And justin Bethel Man, every time
Speaker 1: he's out there, he seems to make big place. He
Speaker 1: had some work in the safety possess and after we
Speaker 1: talked about earlier with the safety play, you know, giving
Speaker 1: up some plays, and then Bethel came in and helped
Speaker 1: out in that spot too, So maybe we see more
Speaker 1: of that going forward. And by the way, Buffalo's first
Speaker 1: touchdown that one uh to the tight end who had
Speaker 1: never scored before in his career, that was the exact
Speaker 1: same type of play on the catch or the throw
Speaker 1: I should say the Tyreek hill in the endzone that
Speaker 1: did not go complete and cause so much debate, it
Speaker 1: was literally the exact same play. The safety is underneath
Speaker 1: the time Javon Holland and the tight end over the
Speaker 1: top knows the quarterback knows that Javon can only defend
Speaker 1: the width of his body, just throws it over the
Speaker 1: top of his helmet and they caught it. We didn't.
Speaker 1: But because of perception and narratives, one's a great throw
Speaker 1: and the other might not be. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: Get the g t FO man. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I feel about that. I just love the way kator Co,
Speaker 1: who plays screens and plays in space. His work staying
Speaker 1: wide helped a land in Robert's gay three yard tackle
Speaker 1: for loss on the opening play of Buffalo's third drive.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, who was great his Monday press conference, by
Speaker 1: the way, go check it out on the team YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: Even when he isn't winning, he's making an impact. There
Speaker 1: was a drop passed by almost said Dalvin Cook, James Cook,
Speaker 1: and they double him and he helps. It helps the
Speaker 1: center of the Buffalo Bill stay square to Christian, which
Speaker 1: is a tough place to win as a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: like you always want to rush one edge of the man,
Speaker 1: and he basically has to restart the rep once the
Speaker 1: double team clears, and now he's squared up at the
Speaker 1: nineteen yard line and by the time Alan hitches up
Speaker 1: to throw, it's like a beat. Wilkins has driven Mitch
Speaker 1: Morre's back five yards. I think it's his technique that's
Speaker 1: so excellent that allows him to play from behind the pads,
Speaker 1: play through the power, and pair it with those physical tools.
Speaker 1: That's how you get elite players. And again Christian talked
Speaker 1: about in his press conference on Monday, you should go
Speaker 1: check it out on YouTube. Not gonna play the highlight here,
Speaker 1: but check it out on the YouTube channel. That third
Speaker 1: and seventeen conversion is a good example of how hard
Speaker 1: this offense is to defend and how tough it's been
Speaker 1: on the back end this year. We saw Josh Allen
Speaker 1: go vertical against blitz Is, and here we rushed just
Speaker 1: four and they get a great pass protection and Alan
Speaker 1: can just survey and rip or strike to Davis on
Speaker 1: twenty yard Dick, so he can you know, damn if
Speaker 1: you do, Damn If you don't, you can send pressure
Speaker 1: on he'll throw it early. You get a DPI down
Speaker 1: the field, or he can stand there and scramble or
Speaker 1: throw from from the pocket. It's just a lot to
Speaker 1: ask for. I saw a lot of chatter about Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb in this game. This is all you need to
Speaker 1: know about Bradley Chubb. Dion Dawkins is their best pass protector,
Speaker 1: one of the best in the National Football League. A
Speaker 1: lot of the reps they played against Bradley Chub featured
Speaker 1: a chip to allow Dawkins to get to his landmark
Speaker 1: and get set, which doesn't even give him a chance
Speaker 1: to cross face or have to counter back inside so
Speaker 1: he can get the depth and the width he needs
Speaker 1: and settle into his pass set while Chubb has to
Speaker 1: restart and redirect after the fact. What else you need
Speaker 1: to know them that that tells you about the attention
Speaker 1: they give him, even with Jalen Phillips and Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Melvin Ingram across this front. And also how about this,
Speaker 1: We're averaging pressures per game over the last five games
Speaker 1: compared to fifteen per game across the first nine games.
Speaker 1: And if you think pressures don't matter, I don't have
Speaker 1: to tell you, but I've seen way word stuff on
Speaker 1: the local news. Better coverage would help the pass rush
Speaker 1: payoff a lot more. Just please know, continue to be
Speaker 1: so impressed by Bethel again. The pass breakup was some
Speaker 1: teach tape that he had stays in phase, gets out
Speaker 1: of phase on the break, but then breaks on the
Speaker 1: football and then slices his hand between the two hands
Speaker 1: of Dawson Knox and jars At Free. There are so
Speaker 1: many plays and going back to this guy again where
Speaker 1: Josh Allen just makes a freaking play. It's tough to
Speaker 1: get on your guys for that when that happens that
Speaker 1: play before the end of the half. It's just Josh
Speaker 1: Allen do and Josh Allen things. And there was another
Speaker 1: one on a third and four earlier, on that drive
Speaker 1: with forty two seconds to go, where it looked like
Speaker 1: Miami would get off and get the football back, you know,
Speaker 1: trailling by one point, which would have been a huge
Speaker 1: before the half obviously, and I thought they were mixing
Speaker 1: it and disguising it. Well. There was a man free
Speaker 1: you know, man coverage free safety, single high rep where
Speaker 1: Bethel was the robber and it's kind of spying the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But Alan breaks that contain and throws it after an
Speaker 1: eight seconds scramble. You just can't expect to cover guys
Speaker 1: that long. So that got them into the end zone.
Speaker 1: But then after a tough first half, how did Miami
Speaker 1: turn it around? Well, more mixing, more disguising, just better execution.
Speaker 1: I think better death in the sect at level on
Speaker 1: hooks Hook's own drops. There was a play in the
Speaker 1: first play where a land and Roberts got to that space.
Speaker 1: Now a few plays later him and Jerome Baker turned
Speaker 1: at Dawson Knox free and Bolts covered grass. But it
Speaker 1: was more prominent than it was not. There was a
Speaker 1: great man to man coverage on a hitch to Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis by xaviing Howard on a third down stop where
Speaker 1: he ran the route for him. We need to see
Speaker 1: more of that going forward. More open field tackling prowess
Speaker 1: from kater Co who gets a big stop on a
Speaker 1: second down short of the sticks. And then the next player.
Speaker 1: Wilkins worked off of Phillips's pressure so well. He would
Speaker 1: stack a two gap type of play, a block where
Speaker 1: he kind of keeps his eyes on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: holds the point and keys the land that's created by
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips by winning around the edge. Then he quickly
Speaker 1: gets to the b gap to cut off Allen's escape valve.
Speaker 1: It's a big reason they got to stop on the
Speaker 1: second drive and on a third and two where Phillips
Speaker 1: drew the hold in a wicked outside pass rush. Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Phillips teamed up on that play to really make
Speaker 1: it happen. On the very next play, he twisted with
Speaker 1: ingram Phillips did and one outside of Dawkins, and the
Speaker 1: pressure forced Alan to throw on the move and he
Speaker 1: misses an open Isaiah Mackenzie. That's how pressure can impact
Speaker 1: plays without making sacks. Wilkins makes a run stop on
Speaker 1: the Bills on their own two yard line, more teaching
Speaker 1: tape from two gapping where he stacks it and gets
Speaker 1: off the block and makes another big tackle eighty one
Speaker 1: this year, he is just eight shy of his own
Speaker 1: personal record from most tackles by defensive tackle in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Then Kater has a great pass breakup on a rep,
Speaker 1: A REP and a pass breakup I should say, then
Speaker 1: Javon on that spy rep coming from depth and getting
Speaker 1: Alan to the ground in space. Next play, next series,
Speaker 1: Steeler beats Docking across his face for a run stop
Speaker 1: for a three yard loss. Then Chubb gets a pressure
Speaker 1: on Alan to force a throwaway a deep in completion
Speaker 1: with really good coverage from both Ignogady and Cohu. Then
Speaker 1: on third and ten from the negative forty five on
Speaker 1: the next series, you get more great man coverage in
Speaker 1: man free and Alan's forced to try a deep shot
Speaker 1: to a covered receiver from an awkward platform, again because
Speaker 1: of pressure from Phillips and Wilkins. Then those two combine
Speaker 1: on the very next play, Phillip's effort to force that fumble,
Speaker 1: the hands to swipe, the athletic ability to shorten that
Speaker 1: angle and turn the corner, then finish the play and
Speaker 1: the ball bounces right to Riom who does so well
Speaker 1: to always keep his eyes in the quarterback. And speaking
Speaker 1: of good balances, man, we get another force fumble on
Speaker 1: the very next play from Chub and man, if we
Speaker 1: can just recover that one so close all game long.
Speaker 1: Some more individual place here. Zach Seeler played two of
Speaker 1: the second half second and one just wins instantly. The
Speaker 1: way he hits those backs when he gets through is
Speaker 1: so good. He is so consistent, and he either tackles
Speaker 1: him with the ball or he runs through my past
Speaker 1: protection and gets the sack. In the quarterback mentioned phillips
Speaker 1: hands are so so good. He's dispatching some really good
Speaker 1: tackles with their initial punch, And I thought Javon showed
Speaker 1: great toughness and more of that range playing through that
Speaker 1: neck injury. Some stats for you here too. On twenty
Speaker 1: plus yard throws was three for four for one nineteen
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. Pretty good, Pretty good man, ten of
Speaker 1: nineteen or ten to nineteen yards four for eight for
Speaker 1: sixty three so combined on ten plus are ard throws
Speaker 1: in cold temperature, which I was told back in October
Speaker 1: was the next hurdle he had to curse. He had
Speaker 1: to clear seven for twelve for one eighty two and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Okay, when he was blitzed eight for thirteen,
Speaker 1: he was once sacked once, a forty two percent blitz
Speaker 1: right this game can paired to just three blitz His
Speaker 1: last time around, he was eight for thirteen, win blitzed
Speaker 1: for yards and a touchdown when he was not blitzed,
Speaker 1: nine for seventeen for one thirty six and a score
Speaker 1: when he was pressured, just three for seven and eighteen
Speaker 1: yards receiving tyreek two point three eight yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: Remember two was always good two point three eights a
Speaker 1: great for a season. He's over that on the year,
Speaker 1: so less than his usual season stats and also just
Speaker 1: five point seven five yards per target, way below his
Speaker 1: season average. Waddle average just under five yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: He is insane sixteen point three yards per target, and
Speaker 1: he leads the NFL with eighteen yards per catch. We'll
Speaker 1: update you guys on more stats tomorrow. I think I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it today because this podcast is long.
Speaker 1: For the season, I should say Cedric Wilson two point
Speaker 1: six three yards per route ran, ten point five yards
Speaker 1: per target. Running backs where he most had seven four
Speaker 1: s miss tackles, although I think it's probably a higher number.
Speaker 1: I had him for six on the one carry one
Speaker 1: after contact, average eight point to nine yards after initial contact.
Speaker 1: Akmed had two miss tackles forced twenty eight yards after contact.
Speaker 1: He averaged four point six seven after contact. We average
Speaker 1: four team point eight yards running behind the right guard.
Speaker 1: That was, of course, the sixty eight yard run helped.
Speaker 1: Running right in general was twelve for one twelve pass
Speaker 1: pro t Stead, Jones and Williams zero pressures allowed, Hunt,
Speaker 1: Shell and Smith all had to just six pressures in
Speaker 1: this game. Very very good defensive pressures. Seiler and Phillips
Speaker 1: five apiece, Chubb had three, Wilkins, Jenkins, Ingram had two apiece,
Speaker 1: and two guys had one. As far as run stops go,
Speaker 1: Seiler and Wilkins had three phillips, Chubb, gink and Baker
Speaker 1: and e Rob all had two apiece two guys had one.
Speaker 1: And then as far as your coverage snaps and yards
Speaker 1: allowed in the defensive secondary, Kator Cohu and xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: both played fifty one coverage snaps co who allowed sixty yards,
Speaker 1: x allowed twenty six. Those are both really good numbers
Speaker 1: from your two starting cornerbacks outside. McKinley played forty four snaps,
Speaker 1: was not targeted, and Javon Holland played forty one snaps
Speaker 1: in coverage and allowed just fourteen yards. So those are
Speaker 1: your PFF stature advanced metrics. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break and come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and get you up on the snap counts. And here
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel, we have three answers my
Speaker 1: very good Monday press conference, including him touching on the
Speaker 1: narrative around QB one two A tongue of bloa. You
Speaker 1: don't want to miss this that's coming next Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Back here on a Tuesday edition of the Drift Time podcast,
Speaker 1: before we hear from head coach Mike McDaniel offensive snap counts,
Speaker 1: we once again go wire to wire on the offensive
Speaker 1: line and at quarterback fifty nine snaps for all six
Speaker 1: of those guys. Tyreek leads the way among receivers, playing
Speaker 1: eighty three percent. Waddle played six, so some shifting and
Speaker 1: moving around there. Sherfield thirty two snaps is fifty percent.
Speaker 1: That's been pretty common, and then both Cedric Wilson and
Speaker 1: Braylen Sanders played twenty two percent of the snaps thirteen total.
Speaker 1: At running back most gets seventy percent of the workload
Speaker 1: Savan gets, and then alec Ingold played fifty four percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps at tight end. Smith has a big
Speaker 1: advantage over Gasiki in this game, with sixty percent of
Speaker 1: the work world Giziki played and Hunter Long got out
Speaker 1: there for ten percent of the snaps. On defense, Cohu
Speaker 1: and X played all seventy eight reps. Javon Holland usually does,
Speaker 1: but he missed a few. He played sixty seven out
Speaker 1: of the seventy eight. Up front, Christian Wilkins gave you
Speaker 1: sixty nine snaps. Nice but also outrageous. Jerome Baker gave
Speaker 1: me the exact same number. At linebacker, McKinley played sixty
Speaker 1: seven snaps, so he's also in the eighties six percent
Speaker 1: snap told, just like Javon Holland was seiler again these
Speaker 1: him and Wilkins man sixty five snaps again, Phillips at
Speaker 1: linebacker and chub And gave you sixty and fifty six snaps.
Speaker 1: Duke gives you thirty three snaps, same with a Landing
Speaker 1: for thirty three snaps, and that was edit. Linebacker at
Speaker 1: corner key On Crossing played thirty seven. Eggnogny played thirty
Speaker 1: three and that was it. There. I'm just reading this list,
Speaker 1: guys sing with me. Ray Kwon Davis played twenty five,
Speaker 1: John Jakins twenty three, Melvin gave me twenty two snaps
Speaker 1: his linebacker spot, Bethel played seventeen. Wouldn't mind seeing that
Speaker 1: go up. Van Ginkle played fifteen Federal and played eight
Speaker 1: and then Justin Zimmer played three snaps in the game.
Speaker 1: So those are your snap counts. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to head coach Mike mcdani know who first told
Speaker 1: us that Jerome Baker should be good to go this week,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't expect much more of a day to
Speaker 1: day situation for him. They're similar stories for Eric Row
Speaker 1: and Jeff Wilson. They should be back in short order.
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg could return to practice this week. It's more
Speaker 1: of a if or when, not if with Liam Eikenberg,
Speaker 1: he says. And then coach was asked about coming back
Speaker 1: home to play back in Miami after a three game
Speaker 1: road trip, and that wasn't really the genesis of what
Speaker 1: he talked about. But I love what he talked about.
Speaker 1: And here's coach talking about what he talked about. I
Speaker 1: mean I kind of knew, I knew what it was.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, you know, I would love the I
Speaker 1: love the the home stadium. Um, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: lived in in Miami my whole life at this point.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's just um going to West Coast.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this dry stuff? I hate
Speaker 1: lotion now? Um, But yeah, I think I think I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was a relief though. Um you know
Speaker 1: the the point uh of that we we knew exactly
Speaker 1: what the what the trip was going to be. Like.
Speaker 1: We knew with those three games um against good opponents. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we knew it was a challenge, and you know,
Speaker 1: we we were kind of excited for that challenge. Um
Speaker 1: we know exactly what we ended up doing in those
Speaker 1: three games. So um, you know the that definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: the desired outcome. But at the same time, when when
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the team about and what I think
Speaker 1: is very important that I really really truly believe deep
Speaker 1: down to my core, is there's if you're going to
Speaker 1: lose football games, um, you know, you you should get
Speaker 1: something out of it. I do think that I just
Speaker 1: moving forward to make yourself better, to make that purposeful. Um, guys,
Speaker 1: I think I was very very proud of the effort.
Speaker 1: I was very proud of the lack of excuses um
Speaker 1: that that were made by the locker room, the players,
Speaker 1: the coaches in general. Um. Because now that I can
Speaker 1: talk about out in the open, yeah, that's difficult for sure,
Speaker 1: um times on switches and but you know, everybody has
Speaker 1: to go through their own stuff. Uh. But I didn't
Speaker 1: think I thought they approached it with a severity, um
Speaker 1: enough to uh, you know, get something out of it,
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna if you go half in or
Speaker 1: utilize excuses um uh and you you lose it doesn't
Speaker 1: really you can just say okay, we'll turn it up,
Speaker 1: you know, and that, and then you don't really get
Speaker 1: anything out of it. UM. I don't see that. That's
Speaker 1: not to say that I see it as like, uh, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I said something about asterix last last
Speaker 1: week about UM there's no asterix in the one lost
Speaker 1: column about inclement weather. There's also no um asterix for
Speaker 1: moral victories. So I'm not necessarily saying that as much
Speaker 1: as I'm saying that, I think we allowed ourselves um
Speaker 1: to uh to utilize every experience because of our intent
Speaker 1: and our commitment UM moving forward. And if we choose
Speaker 1: to do it, and if we we execute all the
Speaker 1: things UM that we haven't and utilize those experiences, will
Speaker 1: look back and say, um, those were very beneficial. And
Speaker 1: that's the point, because you know, when you go all
Speaker 1: in UM, you know, and and guys, guys really put
Speaker 1: forth their UM best effort um under under some challenging circumstances,
Speaker 1: you can you know, human nature is to kind of
Speaker 1: like here we go again. UM. But I'm very confident
Speaker 1: uh in the human beings UM on the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and the human beings in locker room that uh that
Speaker 1: that will be happy to play another game, and we
Speaker 1: love our home venue. But it's not not exactly like, oh,
Speaker 1: finally we're home. It's more that, um, we need another
Speaker 1: opportunity to play football because, uh, this is you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bad taste that you want to
Speaker 1: try to, um, try to get rid of. You need
Speaker 1: some scope. My buddy Mike here says you have to
Speaker 1: use crasp but I disagree. I say scope all the way,
Speaker 1: So agree with coach McDaniel. There. Next he was asked
Speaker 1: about the philosophy of how you approach the end of
Speaker 1: the schedule. Is it just the Green Bay Packers? Are
Speaker 1: we looking ahead to possible layoffs? I think you all
Speaker 1: know the answer here, but coach gave us a pretty
Speaker 1: good answer talking about the playoff atmospher. Is this team
Speaker 1: has experienced the last three I think the players have
Speaker 1: gotten reps um at what I was concerned about, uh
Speaker 1: that I really knew we need, which was football and
Speaker 1: playoff atmospheres. There's a lot of young guys that that
Speaker 1: it's different when when you have I mean that that
Speaker 1: crowd and Buffalo was awesome. It was rocking, It felt legitimate,
Speaker 1: um and that's the that's the type of environment that
Speaker 1: is that you get when you build upon UM a
Speaker 1: season and there's a lot on the line. UM. I
Speaker 1: think specifically at the end of the season, you look
Speaker 1: less big picture because with with with the in terms
Speaker 1: of the only way that you can really do the
Speaker 1: things that you want to accomplish, you have to give
Speaker 1: full intent to the next opponent. So I want them
Speaker 1: to see one team and one team only Green Bay Packers. UM.
Speaker 1: What I do know is that game UM matters more
Speaker 1: than any other game. And I think when you're down
Speaker 1: the stretch, it's almost like you do reverse. You can
Speaker 1: talk big picture and talk about the goals when things
Speaker 1: are far away. When stuff gets closer, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a UM. You're challenging yourself to be more locked in
Speaker 1: into the moment then other teams, players, individuals, because a
Speaker 1: lot of games are won and lost that way. When
Speaker 1: you start worrying about things that aren't right in front
Speaker 1: of you, UM, which happens a lot people. People can UM,
Speaker 1: you know, start talking what type of this game is this?
Speaker 1: And you got to do this to this? No, I
Speaker 1: think you have to learn how it's one game at
Speaker 1: a time, or you are UM severely punished in this
Speaker 1: league down late in the season. You have to learn
Speaker 1: how to UM fully attack an opponent. UM, because every
Speaker 1: single team that you play in these months have things
Speaker 1: to play for UM in one way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Whether it's seating, whether it's getting into the tournament or UM,
Speaker 1: whether it's taking out UH aggressive aggression on you know,
Speaker 1: whether their lack of involvement in the tournament. It's all UM.
Speaker 1: You know, players really are motivated UM and and you
Speaker 1: don't want to be You don't want to have self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds because you're thinking about UM some games after
Speaker 1: UH the next So I believe there's two games after
Speaker 1: green Bay. UM. They may or may not be in
Speaker 1: our division. But I don't know. UM. You guys would
Speaker 1: have to tell me. Uh, I all I all I
Speaker 1: think of is I'm like A. I'm like A. I
Speaker 1: don't know. UH, I'm like one of your guys children.
Speaker 1: And this time of year, all I think about is Christmas.
Speaker 1: Except this Christmas there's a football game, and a football
Speaker 1: game we need to win against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up here. With coach McDaniel,
Speaker 1: I asked him about two as performance and how he
Speaker 1: felt to have showed himself and responding to a couple
Speaker 1: of not up to Dolphins standards, not up to two
Speaker 1: a stairs performance on the West Coast swing, Coach's answer
Speaker 1: right here. Coach's answer was awesome. UM, this is this
Speaker 1: is one of This game was really cool for me
Speaker 1: because I think I had complete faith in it and
Speaker 1: and where he was going to go. I think it
Speaker 1: took or a couple of games he identified exactly UM,
Speaker 1: exactly what was kind of holding him back to a degree,
Speaker 1: and again it wasn't but it wasn't by a long
Speaker 1: shot him that was the reason for losing or you know,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a collective thing, and UM or offensive efficiency,
Speaker 1: that's a collective thing. And all the skill positions know
Speaker 1: where they played a part in it. But it's what
Speaker 1: to me that I see that UM is so unique
Speaker 1: about to ah UM. What he was able to do
Speaker 1: is identify UM something that he could control, and in
Speaker 1: this particular game, UM, I saw him completely correct the
Speaker 1: things that I thought were really holding holding them back
Speaker 1: in the two previous that that's a very rare thing
Speaker 1: to do UM in sports is to have control. UH.
Speaker 1: Really just the strength the mental strength and it takes
Speaker 1: to harbor all of the all of the pressure, all
Speaker 1: of the UM Really how how people just will undress
Speaker 1: UM every single play or really holds you incredibly responsible
Speaker 1: or have a narrative flip and in two games after
Speaker 1: playing however made It's a lot. And I think not
Speaker 1: too many people are built for that UM And I
Speaker 1: think we're seeing a young player that is exhibiting that.
Speaker 1: That game against Buffalo, he was exhibiting some of the
Speaker 1: things that I think make him so unique. And I
Speaker 1: feel so fortunate to coach him because he UM learned
Speaker 1: from the two previous games and was able in live
Speaker 1: speed to UM directly attack those I think case in point,
Speaker 1: there was a there was a sack in the I
Speaker 1: think it was the first quarter UM down by the
Speaker 1: UH being on the twelve yard line that he in
Speaker 1: game recognized that he hung on number one a little
Speaker 1: too long and then because of that UM kind of
Speaker 1: missed two and three, which in the two previous games,
Speaker 1: UM it would have really really affected how he played
Speaker 1: moving forward. UM it kind of reminded me of the
Speaker 1: Baltimore moment, to be honest, where he identified, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: forcing something and then immediately has the mental fortitude to
Speaker 1: to go back and um persevere. There was another one
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, I believe the first drive of
Speaker 1: the third quarter, UM, where he's um dropping back and
Speaker 1: he's hanging on wattle, um, and for a quick route
Speaker 1: and they're not on the same page. Which in the
Speaker 1: heat of the moment, you could either do one or
Speaker 1: two things. You could get down on yourself because you
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate what he was doing, or you could get
Speaker 1: down and wattle, or you can move on to the
Speaker 1: next play. Um. It was a throw that got batted
Speaker 1: down like directly, like a di CHEMMI motembo swat. The
Speaker 1: very next play he threw sixty seventy or a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So um and I don't know, UM, you can ask
Speaker 1: Christian what inspires me to, you know, really go above
Speaker 1: and beyond for players? Um. You know, maybe it's just
Speaker 1: seeing his cool sec dances. I transition completely. You just
Speaker 1: rattled me and I had no idea. I was like
Speaker 1: what what? Um? So that was a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1: But yeah, who you guys really want to hear from
Speaker 1: his h number ninety four, the People's Champion, Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: There you go. I think you have to love to
Speaker 1: hear that from your head coach Mike McDonnel talking about
Speaker 1: his quarterback, and it sounds like those guys could be
Speaker 1: together for a long long time. Alright, that's your podcast today.
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