WEBVTT - Assessing the Coaching Change, Requested Candidates, What's Next and the Week 18 All 22 Review 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:06.120 Two fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.040 of Miami more tip brown tide window. They had to 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.400 get that touchdown on that play. They give it. What 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.919 is up, Dolph Fans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.120 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.200 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? It is officially 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.560 the off season. I am your host, Travis Winfield, and 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.560 as always, in season or off, I am here to 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.040 bring you your now three times a week dose of 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.360 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the off season 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.479 is here and we bring in the new year with 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.360 a change. We'll look at the news at the head 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.040 coach position. We'll look into the roster and why it's 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.120 a good tool to attract the next head coach of 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.680 the Miami Dolphins. And we'll do a quick review of 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.800 the tape from the season finale, the victory over the 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.880 New England Patriots. One more time for the all twenty 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.920 two review from somewhere in South Florida. This is the 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:11.959 Drive Time Podcast. So the news of the week was 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.440 the Dolphins made a change at the head coach position. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.720 Brian Flores after three years in charge of the Miami 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:22.280 Dolphins has been dismissed of that position. Stephen Ross met 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.120 with the media on Monday morning to discuss what went 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.399 into that decision, and he said, I've been looking at 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.360 this over three years now and watching the organization grow. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.920 I think an organization can only function if it is 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.920 collaborative and if it works well together. I don't think 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.560 that we were really working well as an organization that 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.319 it would take to really win consistently at the NFL level. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.760 So Brian Flores is out as head coach of the 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.080 Miami Dolphins, and you know, he had his his hand 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.200 in building up what we all really believe is a 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.040 talented young core here in South Florida. So thanks to 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.600 Brian Flores for his time here, and nothing but the 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.080 best to him in his future endeavors. I'm sure we'll 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.000 see him in a head coaching job sooner rather than later. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.640 So that move has been made and just kind of 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.600 put a bow on the era I suppose here. You know, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.240 I thought the things this team accomplished under Brian Floors 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.280 was building up a really strong defense that produced over 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.440 the last couple of seasons some good numbers in terms 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.080 of takeaways and the sacks and third down, getting that 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.359 pressure and having the identity of that defense to go 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.040 ahead and heat up opposing quarterbacks. And you can argue 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.360 whether or not it was successful against some of the 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.079 top line quarterbacks and Dolphins faced or not, but they 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.200 were overall productive in that time here, and that defense 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.120 will stay intact as far as a big majority of 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.680 that personnel with all the young players on that side 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.160 of the football. He also developed a discipline team that 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.600 would really be on the low end of the penalties 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.919 and making the mistakes to beat yourself. And also the 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.240 versatility within the roster. I think you have to take 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.400 your cap to that as well. Where do the Dolphins 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.320 go from here in terms of things they can maybe 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.720 improve upon. I think we'll probably see staff changes happens. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.520 I mean every time a coaching change happens, the staff 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.160 changes as well, but just the consistent change on the 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.880 offensive staff and the production that carried along with that. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.079 Just to struggle to score points and move the football consistently. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.040 The Dolphins have for a long time have been one 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.640 of the bottom third of the league ranking offenses in 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.119 this really for the last couple of decades, it's been 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.560 the majority of the time on that part of the hierarchy. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.680 But over these last three years the Dolphins did not 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.240 farewell in that department either. So that's really the solve 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.280 I think you're looking for. How do we get the 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.680 offense up to par or preferably above or I guess 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.120 the correct term would be under par. But how do 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.320 we do that while maintaining what this defense has produced 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.920 over the last couple of seasons. So the reports out 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.280 there from you know, NFL Network, ESPN insiders, the biggest 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.440 heavy hitters in the game have been very busy, as 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.760 they are this week every year on the calendar, updating 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.760 us on who has been interviewed, who has been requested 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.400 to be interviewed, and according to reports, the Dolphins have 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.600 requested interviews on three potential head coaching candidates. They are 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.760 Brian Dayball, the offensive corner with the Buffalo Bills. They 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.520 are playing in the post season for their second consecutive 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.600 a f C East championship and their third consecutive year. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 He was the offensive coordinator here in two thousand eleven. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.160 Might recall the left lane offense they called at the 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.560 high up tempo passing offense. He also was the guy 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.200 that coined the phrase keyhole type of accuracy onto a 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.760 tongue of by Loo when he was his offensive coordinator 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.680 back in twenty seventeen with the Alabama Crimson tied, and 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.440 that was actually a story about how he wanted to 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.200 get to a into the game earlier than they did 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.600 that season, and he was a really big fan of 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.960 the lefty quarterback. And then also he coaches Josh Allen 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.479 with the Buffalo Bills. And then of course, you know, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.760 Alan makes so many plays off schedule an off script 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.520 to really get that offense driving. But day Ball has 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.880 been the play caller there with that Buffalo offense and 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.640 the explosive nature that they bring. We see it every 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.680 year here, twice a year. Mike McDaniel a assistant with 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.919 the forty niners. He's an interesting one to a thirty 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.880 seven year old graduate of Yale. He's been part of 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.520 the shanaham system pretty much his entire career. He really 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.480 followed uh Kyle Shanahan almost said Mike everywhere he's been 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.839 in his career, and in fact, a couple of years back, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.200 Shanahan blocked him from an interview because he thought he 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.560 was too valuable to their coaching staff. To lose him. Now, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.799 last year he did kind of hit some interview circuits 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.280 there across the National Football League, but he was then 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.480 elevated to the offensive coordinator position with the forty Niners. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.240 So he's a reported head coaching or interview request candidate 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.880 there for the Miami Dolphins. Then finally dan Quinn, who 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.200 coached in a Super Bowl with the Falcons, and you 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.360 know that team as far as their win lost record, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.520 never really recovered from that Super Bowl that they lost 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.000 to the Patriots. But I think the most important thing 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.880 he's done really in recent memory is this Cowboys defense, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.520 and my goodness, are they good. I mean, Mike Michael 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.559 Parsons didn't really rush off the edge at Penn State. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.400 But that's what dan Quinn's got him doing in addition 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.159 to a million other things. And he had himself a 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.240 defensive Player of the Year type of rookie season where 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.960 he'll definitely run away with the Defensive Rookie of the 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.520 Year award. So those are the candidates have been reported 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.360 so far as of this Tuesday evening recording of the 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.880 Drivetime Podcast, and since it is Tuesday, and a Wednesday 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.200 edition of the Drivetime podcast every Tuesday during the season 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.600 we typically did are scanning the social segment. And there 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.640 was two things I wanted to address here before we 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.480 get into the All twenty two review, the final one 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.000 of the season. And I've seen these discussions out there 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.560 in regards to everybody wants to assign blame to whichever 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.840 party is responsible for move A, B, C, D, E, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.320 F G all the way down to Z right. Every 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.080 every move is so heavily scrutinized in this era of 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.520 the National Football League. And look, I don't think you 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.839 can say any move is any one person or that 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.000 you can even assign, you know, percentage points of blame, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.640 like hey, player X, was his callt my call, and 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.800 that's how we went ahead with it. But I will 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.280 say because two things I've seen complaints about our well 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.880 the major two player acquisition periods on the calendar of 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.640 the National Football League. Here's what Steven Ross had to 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.360 say about the Miami Dolphins roster on Monday. I think 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.560 if you look at our roster, I think we have 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.760 a very fine, excellent roster of young players. This was 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.880 all done in the last three years. We had an 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.800 old aging roster before that was leading us nowhere but 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.080 to mediocrity, and I think that if you look at 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.840 our roster today, you see our salary cap and our 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.760 players we have, I think we are well suited for 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.200 the future. More on that in just one minute. But look, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.720 there are certainly misses in those drafts. But if I 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.240 worked for any other team in the National Football League 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.240 and said that, it would still be true. You guys know, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.680 I mean we we did the Draft Comparison podcast back 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.400 in the bye week and talked about how Miami's hit 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.880 rate compared to other teams, and it was consistently one 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.400 of the best ones over the last four or five years. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.360 I mean, this is a team that has drafted Xavian Howard, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.640 It's an all pro Laramie Tunzils had Pro Bowl years 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.120 with the Houston Texans, and he also turned into Jaillen 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.440 Waddle and Javon Holland. By the way, as far as 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.360 his trade compensation coming back, Jerome Baker, we know what 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.280 he can do. Mike KASICKI, we know what he can do. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.240 Minka Fitzpatrick didn't play the majority of his career here, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.040 but he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins. Christian Wilkins, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.800 coming off of a fantastic season, Andrew Van Ginkl's played 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.240 two good years in a real rob hunt has really blossomed. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.160 Brandon Jones, Rey Kwan Davis, Jalen Phillips mentioned Waddle in 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.080 Holland to a tungle by Looa. There are all pros, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.560 Pro Bowls, and tons of promise in that list with 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.400 young players that haven't hit those marks yet but are 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.200 trending that direction. And that's not including more guys that 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.840 are coming along and developing in their own right. If 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.960 you want the full version, just go back to the 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.200 podcast about a month or so ago and check it out. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.679 It's the proof is in the numbers, So mrs be 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.480 damned man. It's it's like in baseball, where you fail 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.720 seven times out of ten and you'll go to the 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.200 Hall of Fame for your hitting prowess for batting three hundred. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.920 This is an exhaustive, twelve month process of evaluation with 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.160 a full team of professionals putting in countless hours. And 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.560 still if you bet five hundred, if you beat four 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.000 hundred in this draft game, you're a legend. So that's 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.400 my first take that previous drafting has created an attractive 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:11.520 roster for perspective coaches, but from scanning the social that's 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.760 not the opinion of everyone. So I'll give my thoughts 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.840 on that. And look, we've all been doing this for 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.240 a long time with this team, right, That's that's why 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.280 you're here. That's what you're listening to a podcast one 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.240 week after the season or four days after the season 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.400 has ended. You know, Miami hasn't had a top ten 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.240 offense in terms of overall ranking since n and that's 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.760 the longest stretch by twelve years. Did you know that? 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.360 I mean following this team since about that time, I 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:45.080 could tell you because besides those late nineties dudes like O. J. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.000 McDuffie and Irving Friar, and then Chris Chambers for a 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.160 couple of years in the late two thousand's your Brandon 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.280 Marshall for two years, but not only the best years 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.720 of his career. You get the point. There hasn't been 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.240 that big time game breaker consistently on the outsid side. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.520 This roster now has Jalen Waddle, who we heard Marlon 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.640 Humphrey praise as a future top ten receiver in the 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.000 National Football League, who set a record for receptions by 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.720 a rookie in the history of the entire league, who 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.560 broke franchise records for receptions and yards by a rookie 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.520 who was the focal point of the offense. The point is, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.959 this roster has that dude something that can help them 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.760 achieve something they have not done in decades because they 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.199 haven't had that type of point man, that type of 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.120 front man to be the leading man to get you 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.040 into that position. That was one rookie. Do you guys 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:39.640 remember a rookie recently making the impact that Javon Holland 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.439 made in his rookie season. I can't. I can't think 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.400 of one. I mean, am I crazy to go back 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.560 to the first pick in two thousand and eight with 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.880 Jake Long and the great rookie season that he had, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.880 And that's about where I'm thinking. I mean, oh, nine, ten, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.320 I think I think it had to be back that far. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.680 So another one, hey, Jalen Phillips went out and broke 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.720 the rookie sack record for this franchise. Check check check. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.720 That's three players who we won't label them of course 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.640 after their first season that be fools to do so, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.800 but based off of one year of tape, they look 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.080 like absolute hits at premium positions. And again the development 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.360 of other guys is coming to right. We see it 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.240 every year, we cover it seemingly monthly here on the podcast, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.560 if not more about the way guys have grown and 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.240 developed here. So then the second portion to that, and 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.640 it's intertwined with the second portion of why I think 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.920 this is an attractive head coaching job that's currently vacant 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.720 is the team is positioned with the most projected caps 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.040 based for the off season, and we have to acknowledge 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.000 thee free agent class was not a super fruitful one. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.480 It's tough to swallow the highest earning player getting hurt 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.640 and missing almost the entire season. Jason mccordy gets hurt 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.079 early on, but Nargerk McKinney wasn't a free agent, but 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.320 he doesn't make the team out of camp. Now, I 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.560 thought Adam Butler had a very nice first season here 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.160 in Miami, and Justin Coleman had a damn good run 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.160 in the middle of the season too, and on balance 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.559 had a good season. But on the other side, we 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.160 mentioned fuller Malcolm Brown missed a huge chunk of the season. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.320 Then you have Matt Skur also didn't make the team. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.240 Started fourteen games with the Giants, Germano Luminore played in 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.520 fourteen games for the Raiders after not making the team, 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.480 and d J. Fluker didn't even make it to camp 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.360 with the medical issue. I just didn't work out there. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.120 So you look back at class, we wind up with 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.120 Byron Jones as the big prize of the class, and 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.760 he's been as advertised and really the last few years 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.560 he was probably the premier guy of that crop. But 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.600 you got production from guys that were one and done 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.480 here in Van Noisen, Flowers and Shack Lawson, and I 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.480 think that brings us back to the earlier point about 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.559 flexibility to be able to pivot out of those deals 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.040 when the decisions were made to look elsewhere after just 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.120 one season within signing them, and again not here to 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.800 say those transactions were proof that someone was right and 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.680 someone was wrong, just that the guys that were acquired 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.760 here have had success either here or elsewhere in the 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.319 draft and free agency and showing their medal in this league. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.240 So the conclusion to me is that you have explosive, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.960 productive young players largely on their rookie deals up and 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.760 down this roster, every single position group, with future flexibility, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.880 draft capital and three draft capital to make a move 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.440 if you have identified one big move you have to 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.920 make after in new head coaches second season, we'll keep 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.840 you up to date on the latest here on Drivetime. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.760 With all of that, let's go ahead and take our 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.199 first break though, and then jump into a quick film 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.520 review from Sunday, one last time around the Horn on 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.760 the All twenty two Drivetime podcast. Travis Wingfield, We're back 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.920 here on Drivetime taking a look at the All twenty 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.319 two review of Miami's season finale victory over the New 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:46.400 England Patriots twenty four on Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.280 And I do want to make this a little bit 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.160 of an expedited version of the All twenties to review 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.320 with the focus on some individuals I thought had some 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.080 really strong showings in general takeaway. So we go ahead 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.160 and start this podcast, or this portion of the podcast 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.520 with two a ton of iloa. And you know, after 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.000 the bye week, I think there was a bit of 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.520 a dip from what we saw in that run before, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.280 when it was all really all kind of firing for 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.640 twa and all those one passer rating games and high 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.200 efficient games and the completion percentage games. And I'm not 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.559 saying this game was on really either side of that spectrum. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.000 I think that too, was more of a sidecar passenger 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.120 in this game plan because the running game was working 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.400 so well and the defense played so well, and just 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.760 wasn't a whole lot asked of him. And I'll never 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.840 hold that against the quarterback, but I think it's fair 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.960 to mention that you can kind of talk about other 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.600 folks games when it comes to that. But I continuously 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.520 see a few things here and I want to mention 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.800 that here on the podcast. When two has got a 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.880 clean pocket and can hitch up and get the ball out, Gosh, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.600 it's pretty and he can really generate the requisite power 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.000 needed for really any throw in those instances, and we 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.560 know about the ball placement. Now. The obvious objection to 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.280 that is, Travis, this is the NFL. It's never going 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.960 to be clean. Well, yeah, did you see this game? 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.160 Because those two third down conversions, even in the league 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.120 full of athletes at the position, half the quarterbacks can't 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.760 do what he did on those plays. And I'm not 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.240 even talking about the lengthy runs once he broke contain. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.640 I'm talking about the twitch under duress, that little shuffle 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.680 step on the twenty three yard of the hitch up 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.400 the light feet then to juke Kyle van Noy and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.000 the whole That was some nifty nifty stuff there from 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.080 tah And so, well, you're obviously not going to get 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.240 Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray type of runs because those 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.160 are one of the kind quarterbacks. I und just don't 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.840 understand this whole notion about mobility being a concern because 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.640 his ability to get out and do that, do just 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.160 that just means that when you want to play man 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.720 coverage and only rush for against him, that's just another 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.480 way that he can beat you, another coverage that he 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.000 has a solve for. So I liked that. A couple 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.960 of other plays. I liked opening drive completion to Wattle 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.280 his third reception. They went Wattle Wattle on waddle or 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.760 some combination of that, and to a pulls the ball 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.840 back from the mesh point on play action, which, by 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.360 the way, I see this all the time, but this 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.320 podcast is about football education, right. There's a difference between 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.200 r p O and play action or zone read, where 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.840 r PO is when the receivers are running routes because 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.320 they have options in the passing game, but the offensive 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.840 line is blocking for a running play because there's options 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.320 in the running game, so this is a play where 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.160 it's play action and to A rolls to his left, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.440 and no Patriots really had pursuit on him because they 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.080 did a good job to negate that potential pursuit on 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.520 that little role with a four man rush from the 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.560 Patriots and the run action to the right with two 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.720 to A rolling to the left, and the run action 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.640 was Duke Johnson on a little fake zone read to 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.280 the right side of the formation with the offensive line 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.200 sliding over there but still in pass protection mode dropping 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.000 into pass sets, so that's play action. It's not r 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.800 p O anyway. This gets to a to a free 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.000 space of land to operate with, and the Patriots are 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.280 three by two in their coverage to the field on 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 Parker and Waddle with a post safety on the hash 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.320 to the boundary, so the over the top coverage pre 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.720 snap the look is not a concern. Waddle is stacked 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.440 behind Parker and Parker runs a clear out route which 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.760 removes twenty seven J. C. Jackson, who's in trail technique, 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.120 takes him out of the equation, and then number two, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.080 the corner for the Patriots, gets depth kind of taking 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.880 an eye on that deep route and there's twenty one. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.879 Another Patriots defender is kind of the overhang defender, just 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.200 eyeing to A as kind of responsible for potential run 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.399 or maybe where he might try to undercut one of 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.560 those routes. He's the guy that to A is largely 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.280 responsible for most players you have. You know, everyone has 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.200 a responsibility quarterback. On this particular play, I think it 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.560 is probably that player, and to A does a good 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.680 job of When he rolls left, he kind of sees 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.040 the out that he wants to waddle, but he holds 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.160 that overhang defender in place by staring down the seam 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.320 vertical the Davante Parker is running and then whips back 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.879 out to the slow plate out route for Wattle for 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.320 an on target, on time completion. It's the eyes with 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.640 still minimal NFL experience that I think that he can 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.679 only continue to improve. But it's also another big factor 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.359 in my ultimate belief into his game. A few more 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.360 plays here from his game, a third and three conversion. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.760 On the opening drive, they bring a linebacker down to 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.160 reroute Mike Asiki, who is the point on a stack 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.520 formation with Parker, and then he chases the crossing route 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.600 to Parker, which creates a void right into that soft spot, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.280 and Miles Gaskins sets it up right there. Good job 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.320 of seeing it and getting it out early to extend 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.439 that drive. Then I just noted the footwork on the 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.800 next play, the slant route to Davante Parker, the glance route. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.960 He isn't a pistol, so he has to fake the 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.560 handoff to his right, which means the footwork is backwards, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.440 has to come all the way back to the left 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.399 with a strong, accurate throw. And that's tough to defend 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.679 because your key, as that potential hook defender, has to 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.879 honor that run. You have to be willing to go 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.760 and pursue the other side, the backside or the play 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.600 side run. When you're on the back side, it's tough 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.840 to get all the way back around with the correct mechanics. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.439 And two, I did it and does it routinely. On 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.800 the ball that Devin mccordy dropped for potential I n T. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.080 I thought it was actually really good. By two of 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.800 the Patriots are in what looks like one free or 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.280 man free whatever you wanna call cover one with a 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.760 with man coverag underneath the single high safety with Miami 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.920 having trips to the field, Wattle runs an out, Gasicki 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.680 runs an over across the formation, and Parker runs a 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.600 dig route where he presses up and then angles that 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.520 thing off square back to the quarterback, and he he 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.240 this portion of the field that he's trying to run. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.120 This two clears up because the over route with Gassicki 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.920 pulling the coverage down on kind of a levels concept, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.399 and the inside portion is accessible for DeVante because he 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.520 has stacked J. C. Jackson on an inside release and 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.600 has that leverage on him to where he should be 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.080 able to hold him off of his back and not 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.840