Speaker 1: Two fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami more tip brown tide window. They had to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown on that play. They give it. What
Speaker 1: is up, Dolph Fans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? It is officially
Speaker 1: the off season. I am your host, Travis Winfield, and
Speaker 1: as always, in season or off, I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your now three times a week dose of
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the off season
Speaker 1: is here and we bring in the new year with
Speaker 1: a change. We'll look at the news at the head
Speaker 1: coach position. We'll look into the roster and why it's
Speaker 1: a good tool to attract the next head coach of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. And we'll do a quick review of
Speaker 1: the tape from the season finale, the victory over the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. One more time for the all twenty
Speaker 1: two review from somewhere in South Florida. This is the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. So the news of the week was
Speaker 1: the Dolphins made a change at the head coach position.
Speaker 1: Brian Flores after three years in charge of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins has been dismissed of that position. Stephen Ross met
Speaker 1: with the media on Monday morning to discuss what went
Speaker 1: into that decision, and he said, I've been looking at
Speaker 1: this over three years now and watching the organization grow.
Speaker 1: I think an organization can only function if it is
Speaker 1: collaborative and if it works well together. I don't think
Speaker 1: that we were really working well as an organization that
Speaker 1: it would take to really win consistently at the NFL level.
Speaker 1: So Brian Flores is out as head coach of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and you know, he had his his hand
Speaker 1: in building up what we all really believe is a
Speaker 1: talented young core here in South Florida. So thanks to
Speaker 1: Brian Flores for his time here, and nothing but the
Speaker 1: best to him in his future endeavors. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: see him in a head coaching job sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: So that move has been made and just kind of
Speaker 1: put a bow on the era I suppose here. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought the things this team accomplished under Brian Floors
Speaker 1: was building up a really strong defense that produced over
Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons some good numbers in terms
Speaker 1: of takeaways and the sacks and third down, getting that
Speaker 1: pressure and having the identity of that defense to go
Speaker 1: ahead and heat up opposing quarterbacks. And you can argue
Speaker 1: whether or not it was successful against some of the
Speaker 1: top line quarterbacks and Dolphins faced or not, but they
Speaker 1: were overall productive in that time here, and that defense
Speaker 1: will stay intact as far as a big majority of
Speaker 1: that personnel with all the young players on that side
Speaker 1: of the football. He also developed a discipline team that
Speaker 1: would really be on the low end of the penalties
Speaker 1: and making the mistakes to beat yourself. And also the
Speaker 1: versatility within the roster. I think you have to take
Speaker 1: your cap to that as well. Where do the Dolphins
Speaker 1: go from here in terms of things they can maybe
Speaker 1: improve upon. I think we'll probably see staff changes happens.
Speaker 1: I mean every time a coaching change happens, the staff
Speaker 1: changes as well, but just the consistent change on the
Speaker 1: offensive staff and the production that carried along with that.
Speaker 1: Just to struggle to score points and move the football consistently.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have for a long time have been one
Speaker 1: of the bottom third of the league ranking offenses in
Speaker 1: this really for the last couple of decades, it's been
Speaker 1: the majority of the time on that part of the hierarchy.
Speaker 1: But over these last three years the Dolphins did not
Speaker 1: farewell in that department either. So that's really the solve
Speaker 1: I think you're looking for. How do we get the
Speaker 1: offense up to par or preferably above or I guess
Speaker 1: the correct term would be under par. But how do
Speaker 1: we do that while maintaining what this defense has produced
Speaker 1: over the last couple of seasons. So the reports out
Speaker 1: there from you know, NFL Network, ESPN insiders, the biggest
Speaker 1: heavy hitters in the game have been very busy, as
Speaker 1: they are this week every year on the calendar, updating
Speaker 1: us on who has been interviewed, who has been requested
Speaker 1: to be interviewed, and according to reports, the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: requested interviews on three potential head coaching candidates. They are
Speaker 1: Brian Dayball, the offensive corner with the Buffalo Bills. They
Speaker 1: are playing in the post season for their second consecutive
Speaker 1: a f C East championship and their third consecutive year.
Speaker 1: He was the offensive coordinator here in two thousand eleven.
Speaker 1: Might recall the left lane offense they called at the
Speaker 1: high up tempo passing offense. He also was the guy
Speaker 1: that coined the phrase keyhole type of accuracy onto a
Speaker 1: tongue of by Loo when he was his offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen with the Alabama Crimson tied, and
Speaker 1: that was actually a story about how he wanted to
Speaker 1: get to a into the game earlier than they did
Speaker 1: that season, and he was a really big fan of
Speaker 1: the lefty quarterback. And then also he coaches Josh Allen
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 1: Alan makes so many plays off schedule an off script
Speaker 1: to really get that offense driving. But day Ball has
Speaker 1: been the play caller there with that Buffalo offense and
Speaker 1: the explosive nature that they bring. We see it every
Speaker 1: year here, twice a year. Mike McDaniel a assistant with
Speaker 1: the forty niners. He's an interesting one to a thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old graduate of Yale. He's been part of
Speaker 1: the shanaham system pretty much his entire career. He really
Speaker 1: followed uh Kyle Shanahan almost said Mike everywhere he's been
Speaker 1: in his career, and in fact, a couple of years back,
Speaker 1: Shanahan blocked him from an interview because he thought he
Speaker 1: was too valuable to their coaching staff. To lose him. Now,
Speaker 1: last year he did kind of hit some interview circuits
Speaker 1: there across the National Football League, but he was then
Speaker 1: elevated to the offensive coordinator position with the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: So he's a reported head coaching or interview request candidate
Speaker 1: there for the Miami Dolphins. Then finally dan Quinn, who
Speaker 1: coached in a Super Bowl with the Falcons, and you
Speaker 1: know that team as far as their win lost record,
Speaker 1: never really recovered from that Super Bowl that they lost
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. But I think the most important thing
Speaker 1: he's done really in recent memory is this Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: and my goodness, are they good. I mean, Mike Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons didn't really rush off the edge at Penn State.
Speaker 1: But that's what dan Quinn's got him doing in addition
Speaker 1: to a million other things. And he had himself a
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year type of rookie season where
Speaker 1: he'll definitely run away with the Defensive Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year award. So those are the candidates have been reported
Speaker 1: so far as of this Tuesday evening recording of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, and since it is Tuesday, and a Wednesday
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime podcast every Tuesday during the season
Speaker 1: we typically did are scanning the social segment. And there
Speaker 1: was two things I wanted to address here before we
Speaker 1: get into the All twenty two review, the final one
Speaker 1: of the season. And I've seen these discussions out there
Speaker 1: in regards to everybody wants to assign blame to whichever
Speaker 1: party is responsible for move A, B, C, D, E,
Speaker 1: F G all the way down to Z right. Every
Speaker 1: every move is so heavily scrutinized in this era of
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And look, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can say any move is any one person or that
Speaker 1: you can even assign, you know, percentage points of blame,
Speaker 1: like hey, player X, was his callt my call, and
Speaker 1: that's how we went ahead with it. But I will
Speaker 1: say because two things I've seen complaints about our well
Speaker 1: the major two player acquisition periods on the calendar of
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Here's what Steven Ross had to
Speaker 1: say about the Miami Dolphins roster on Monday. I think
Speaker 1: if you look at our roster, I think we have
Speaker 1: a very fine, excellent roster of young players. This was
Speaker 1: all done in the last three years. We had an
Speaker 1: old aging roster before that was leading us nowhere but
Speaker 1: to mediocrity, and I think that if you look at
Speaker 1: our roster today, you see our salary cap and our
Speaker 1: players we have, I think we are well suited for
Speaker 1: the future. More on that in just one minute. But look,
Speaker 1: there are certainly misses in those drafts. But if I
Speaker 1: worked for any other team in the National Football League
Speaker 1: and said that, it would still be true. You guys know,
Speaker 1: I mean we we did the Draft Comparison podcast back
Speaker 1: in the bye week and talked about how Miami's hit
Speaker 1: rate compared to other teams, and it was consistently one
Speaker 1: of the best ones over the last four or five years.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that has drafted Xavian Howard,
Speaker 1: It's an all pro Laramie Tunzils had Pro Bowl years
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans, and he also turned into Jaillen
Speaker 1: Waddle and Javon Holland. By the way, as far as
Speaker 1: his trade compensation coming back, Jerome Baker, we know what
Speaker 1: he can do. Mike KASICKI, we know what he can do.
Speaker 1: Minka Fitzpatrick didn't play the majority of his career here,
Speaker 1: but he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins. Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: coming off of a fantastic season, Andrew Van Ginkl's played
Speaker 1: two good years in a real rob hunt has really blossomed.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, Rey Kwan Davis, Jalen Phillips mentioned Waddle in
Speaker 1: Holland to a tungle by Looa. There are all pros,
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, and tons of promise in that list with
Speaker 1: young players that haven't hit those marks yet but are
Speaker 1: trending that direction. And that's not including more guys that
Speaker 1: are coming along and developing in their own right. If
Speaker 1: you want the full version, just go back to the
Speaker 1: podcast about a month or so ago and check it out.
Speaker 1: It's the proof is in the numbers, So mrs be
Speaker 1: damned man. It's it's like in baseball, where you fail
Speaker 1: seven times out of ten and you'll go to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame for your hitting prowess for batting three hundred.
Speaker 1: This is an exhaustive, twelve month process of evaluation with
Speaker 1: a full team of professionals putting in countless hours. And
Speaker 1: still if you bet five hundred, if you beat four
Speaker 1: hundred in this draft game, you're a legend. So that's
Speaker 1: my first take that previous drafting has created an attractive
Speaker 1: roster for perspective coaches, but from scanning the social that's
Speaker 1: not the opinion of everyone. So I'll give my thoughts
Speaker 1: on that. And look, we've all been doing this for
Speaker 1: a long time with this team, right, That's that's why
Speaker 1: you're here. That's what you're listening to a podcast one
Speaker 1: week after the season or four days after the season
Speaker 1: has ended. You know, Miami hasn't had a top ten
Speaker 1: offense in terms of overall ranking since n and that's
Speaker 1: the longest stretch by twelve years. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: I mean following this team since about that time, I
Speaker 1: could tell you because besides those late nineties dudes like O. J.
Speaker 1: McDuffie and Irving Friar, and then Chris Chambers for a
Speaker 1: couple of years in the late two thousand's your Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall for two years, but not only the best years
Speaker 1: of his career. You get the point. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: that big time game breaker consistently on the outsid side.
Speaker 1: This roster now has Jalen Waddle, who we heard Marlon
Speaker 1: Humphrey praise as a future top ten receiver in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, who set a record for receptions by
Speaker 1: a rookie in the history of the entire league, who
Speaker 1: broke franchise records for receptions and yards by a rookie
Speaker 1: who was the focal point of the offense. The point is,
Speaker 1: this roster has that dude something that can help them
Speaker 1: achieve something they have not done in decades because they
Speaker 1: haven't had that type of point man, that type of
Speaker 1: front man to be the leading man to get you
Speaker 1: into that position. That was one rookie. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember a rookie recently making the impact that Javon Holland
Speaker 1: made in his rookie season. I can't. I can't think
Speaker 1: of one. I mean, am I crazy to go back
Speaker 1: to the first pick in two thousand and eight with
Speaker 1: Jake Long and the great rookie season that he had,
Speaker 1: And that's about where I'm thinking. I mean, oh, nine, ten,
Speaker 1: I think I think it had to be back that far.
Speaker 1: So another one, hey, Jalen Phillips went out and broke
Speaker 1: the rookie sack record for this franchise. Check check check.
Speaker 1: That's three players who we won't label them of course
Speaker 1: after their first season that be fools to do so,
Speaker 1: but based off of one year of tape, they look
Speaker 1: like absolute hits at premium positions. And again the development
Speaker 1: of other guys is coming to right. We see it
Speaker 1: every year, we cover it seemingly monthly here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: if not more about the way guys have grown and
Speaker 1: developed here. So then the second portion to that, and
Speaker 1: it's intertwined with the second portion of why I think
Speaker 1: this is an attractive head coaching job that's currently vacant
Speaker 1: is the team is positioned with the most projected caps
Speaker 1: based for the off season, and we have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: thee free agent class was not a super fruitful one.
Speaker 1: It's tough to swallow the highest earning player getting hurt
Speaker 1: and missing almost the entire season. Jason mccordy gets hurt
Speaker 1: early on, but Nargerk McKinney wasn't a free agent, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't make the team out of camp. Now, I
Speaker 1: thought Adam Butler had a very nice first season here
Speaker 1: in Miami, and Justin Coleman had a damn good run
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season too, and on balance
Speaker 1: had a good season. But on the other side, we
Speaker 1: mentioned fuller Malcolm Brown missed a huge chunk of the season.
Speaker 1: Then you have Matt Skur also didn't make the team.
Speaker 1: Started fourteen games with the Giants, Germano Luminore played in
Speaker 1: fourteen games for the Raiders after not making the team,
Speaker 1: and d J. Fluker didn't even make it to camp
Speaker 1: with the medical issue. I just didn't work out there.
Speaker 1: So you look back at class, we wind up with
Speaker 1: Byron Jones as the big prize of the class, and
Speaker 1: he's been as advertised and really the last few years
Speaker 1: he was probably the premier guy of that crop. But
Speaker 1: you got production from guys that were one and done
Speaker 1: here in Van Noisen, Flowers and Shack Lawson, and I
Speaker 1: think that brings us back to the earlier point about
Speaker 1: flexibility to be able to pivot out of those deals
Speaker 1: when the decisions were made to look elsewhere after just
Speaker 1: one season within signing them, and again not here to
Speaker 1: say those transactions were proof that someone was right and
Speaker 1: someone was wrong, just that the guys that were acquired
Speaker 1: here have had success either here or elsewhere in the
Speaker 1: draft and free agency and showing their medal in this league.
Speaker 1: So the conclusion to me is that you have explosive,
Speaker 1: productive young players largely on their rookie deals up and
Speaker 1: down this roster, every single position group, with future flexibility,
Speaker 1: draft capital and three draft capital to make a move
Speaker 1: if you have identified one big move you have to
Speaker 1: make after in new head coaches second season, we'll keep
Speaker 1: you up to date on the latest here on Drivetime.
Speaker 1: With all of that, let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: first break though, and then jump into a quick film
Speaker 1: review from Sunday, one last time around the Horn on
Speaker 1: the All twenty two Drivetime podcast. Travis Wingfield, We're back
Speaker 1: here on Drivetime taking a look at the All twenty
Speaker 1: two review of Miami's season finale victory over the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots twenty four on Sunday at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: And I do want to make this a little bit
Speaker 1: of an expedited version of the All twenties to review
Speaker 1: with the focus on some individuals I thought had some
Speaker 1: really strong showings in general takeaway. So we go ahead
Speaker 1: and start this podcast, or this portion of the podcast
Speaker 1: with two a ton of iloa. And you know, after
Speaker 1: the bye week, I think there was a bit of
Speaker 1: a dip from what we saw in that run before,
Speaker 1: when it was all really all kind of firing for
Speaker 1: twa and all those one passer rating games and high
Speaker 1: efficient games and the completion percentage games. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying this game was on really either side of that spectrum.
Speaker 1: I think that too, was more of a sidecar passenger
Speaker 1: in this game plan because the running game was working
Speaker 1: so well and the defense played so well, and just
Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot asked of him. And I'll never
Speaker 1: hold that against the quarterback, but I think it's fair
Speaker 1: to mention that you can kind of talk about other
Speaker 1: folks games when it comes to that. But I continuously
Speaker 1: see a few things here and I want to mention
Speaker 1: that here on the podcast. When two has got a
Speaker 1: clean pocket and can hitch up and get the ball out, Gosh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty and he can really generate the requisite power
Speaker 1: needed for really any throw in those instances, and we
Speaker 1: know about the ball placement. Now. The obvious objection to
Speaker 1: that is, Travis, this is the NFL. It's never going
Speaker 1: to be clean. Well, yeah, did you see this game?
Speaker 1: Because those two third down conversions, even in the league
Speaker 1: full of athletes at the position, half the quarterbacks can't
Speaker 1: do what he did on those plays. And I'm not
Speaker 1: even talking about the lengthy runs once he broke contain.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the twitch under duress, that little shuffle
Speaker 1: step on the twenty three yard of the hitch up
Speaker 1: the light feet then to juke Kyle van Noy and
Speaker 1: the whole That was some nifty nifty stuff there from
Speaker 1: tah And so, well, you're obviously not going to get
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray type of runs because those
Speaker 1: are one of the kind quarterbacks. I und just don't
Speaker 1: understand this whole notion about mobility being a concern because
Speaker 1: his ability to get out and do that, do just
Speaker 1: that just means that when you want to play man
Speaker 1: coverage and only rush for against him, that's just another
Speaker 1: way that he can beat you, another coverage that he
Speaker 1: has a solve for. So I liked that. A couple
Speaker 1: of other plays. I liked opening drive completion to Wattle
Speaker 1: his third reception. They went Wattle Wattle on waddle or
Speaker 1: some combination of that, and to a pulls the ball
Speaker 1: back from the mesh point on play action, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I see this all the time, but this
Speaker 1: podcast is about football education, right. There's a difference between
Speaker 1: r p O and play action or zone read, where
Speaker 1: r PO is when the receivers are running routes because
Speaker 1: they have options in the passing game, but the offensive
Speaker 1: line is blocking for a running play because there's options
Speaker 1: in the running game, so this is a play where
Speaker 1: it's play action and to A rolls to his left,
Speaker 1: and no Patriots really had pursuit on him because they
Speaker 1: did a good job to negate that potential pursuit on
Speaker 1: that little role with a four man rush from the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the run action to the right with two
Speaker 1: to A rolling to the left, and the run action
Speaker 1: was Duke Johnson on a little fake zone read to
Speaker 1: the right side of the formation with the offensive line
Speaker 1: sliding over there but still in pass protection mode dropping
Speaker 1: into pass sets, so that's play action. It's not r
Speaker 1: p O anyway. This gets to a to a free
Speaker 1: space of land to operate with, and the Patriots are
Speaker 1: three by two in their coverage to the field on
Speaker 1: Parker and Waddle with a post safety on the hash
Speaker 1: to the boundary, so the over the top coverage pre
Speaker 1: snap the look is not a concern. Waddle is stacked
Speaker 1: behind Parker and Parker runs a clear out route which
Speaker 1: removes twenty seven J. C. Jackson, who's in trail technique,
Speaker 1: takes him out of the equation, and then number two,
Speaker 1: the corner for the Patriots, gets depth kind of taking
Speaker 1: an eye on that deep route and there's twenty one.
Speaker 1: Another Patriots defender is kind of the overhang defender, just
Speaker 1: eyeing to A as kind of responsible for potential run
Speaker 1: or maybe where he might try to undercut one of
Speaker 1: those routes. He's the guy that to A is largely
Speaker 1: responsible for most players you have. You know, everyone has
Speaker 1: a responsibility quarterback. On this particular play, I think it
Speaker 1: is probably that player, and to A does a good
Speaker 1: job of When he rolls left, he kind of sees
Speaker 1: the out that he wants to waddle, but he holds
Speaker 1: that overhang defender in place by staring down the seam
Speaker 1: vertical the Davante Parker is running and then whips back
Speaker 1: out to the slow plate out route for Wattle for
Speaker 1: an on target, on time completion. It's the eyes with
Speaker 1: still minimal NFL experience that I think that he can
Speaker 1: only continue to improve. But it's also another big factor
Speaker 1: in my ultimate belief into his game. A few more
Speaker 1: plays here from his game, a third and three conversion.
Speaker 1: On the opening drive, they bring a linebacker down to
Speaker 1: reroute Mike Asiki, who is the point on a stack
Speaker 1: formation with Parker, and then he chases the crossing route
Speaker 1: to Parker, which creates a void right into that soft spot,
Speaker 1: and Miles Gaskins sets it up right there. Good job
Speaker 1: of seeing it and getting it out early to extend
Speaker 1: that drive. Then I just noted the footwork on the
Speaker 1: next play, the slant route to Davante Parker, the glance route.
Speaker 1: He isn't a pistol, so he has to fake the
Speaker 1: handoff to his right, which means the footwork is backwards,
Speaker 1: has to come all the way back to the left
Speaker 1: with a strong, accurate throw. And that's tough to defend
Speaker 1: because your key, as that potential hook defender, has to
Speaker 1: honor that run. You have to be willing to go
Speaker 1: and pursue the other side, the backside or the play
Speaker 1: side run. When you're on the back side, it's tough
Speaker 1: to get all the way back around with the correct mechanics.
Speaker 1: And two, I did it and does it routinely. On
Speaker 1: the ball that Devin mccordy dropped for potential I n T.
Speaker 1: I thought it was actually really good. By two of
Speaker 1: the Patriots are in what looks like one free or
Speaker 1: man free whatever you wanna call cover one with a
Speaker 1: with man coverag underneath the single high safety with Miami
Speaker 1: having trips to the field, Wattle runs an out, Gasicki
Speaker 1: runs an over across the formation, and Parker runs a
Speaker 1: dig route where he presses up and then angles that
Speaker 1: thing off square back to the quarterback, and he he
Speaker 1: this portion of the field that he's trying to run.
Speaker 1: This two clears up because the over route with Gassicki
Speaker 1: pulling the coverage down on kind of a levels concept,
Speaker 1: and the inside portion is accessible for DeVante because he
Speaker 1: has stacked J. C. Jackson on an inside release and
Speaker 1: has that leverage on him to where he should be
Speaker 1: able to hold him off of his back and not
Speaker 1: let it interfere with the flight of the ball. And
Speaker 1: McCarty over the top has too much depth to impact
Speaker 1: the route playing the overthrow, which in this case is
Speaker 1: what happened, but Parker has him stacked. And two of
Speaker 1: throws with that look before Parker has come out of
Speaker 1: the break, but you can see that he hasn't stacked.
Speaker 1: So I like the idea of seeing the way your
Speaker 1: receiver has the route one at that point it's like
Speaker 1: getting your hands into the plot and poker with the
Speaker 1: better hand, right, you always want to do that. The
Speaker 1: ball is to a spot, but Parker can't elevate to
Speaker 1: get through the what j C. Jackson is doing to
Speaker 1: disrupt him to get to the spot and based on
Speaker 1: the look, to me, that was the only open spot
Speaker 1: in the progression. The ball was out on time with
Speaker 1: good anticipation and he just gets tagged by a pass
Speaker 1: rusher as well. To me, this is why the ALL
Speaker 1: twenty two is important because the ALL twenty two told
Speaker 1: me a story that the broadcast version did not tell.
Speaker 1: It looks like a really bad throw from tah I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good one. Based upon the ALL
Speaker 1: twenty two, I thought the fate in the end into
Speaker 1: Davante Parker was not a good throw that j C.
Speaker 1: Jackson broke up. Thought it was left too short. Get
Speaker 1: that thing high in a way. That's the last two
Speaker 1: A note there, So we'll come back and you evaluate
Speaker 1: the entire season of all these guys here on a
Speaker 1: future podcast. But that was this game. And then Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle in this game, the touchdown catch that he made
Speaker 1: to me is just another example of his skills as receiver.
Speaker 1: You high pointed you keep the feedback, tapped me into
Speaker 1: the orange partion of the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: That play was the play we've talked about a lot
Speaker 1: that jet sweet motion kind of where the man just
Speaker 1: runs that wheel route and every now and then teams
Speaker 1: lose him up the sideline while dealing with the conflict
Speaker 1: of the possible run with Durham Smith coming across for
Speaker 1: either a split zone run play or a possible dash
Speaker 1: pass Parker on the slant. Then you kind of sneak
Speaker 1: Wattle behind all of it, same type of thing that
Speaker 1: happened in the Ravens game with Albert Wilson just a
Speaker 1: lot less field to work with. So that was a
Speaker 1: cool play design. Good job by Wattle to just secure
Speaker 1: that catch off his body, get the feet down, just
Speaker 1: does everything so well. And I also just the point
Speaker 1: about the Parker and the ball that two or three
Speaker 1: that mccordy didn't get didn't intercept. The way Waddle consistently
Speaker 1: creates separation in those situations I think is probably why
Speaker 1: he got so many targets this year, because it's throwing
Speaker 1: to those to those spots like you need to be
Speaker 1: able to know that ball is not gonna get picked
Speaker 1: off like that, and seeing Wattle do it consistently really
Speaker 1: made me appreciate it in this game and throughout the
Speaker 1: whole course of the season. And last note on Wattle here,
Speaker 1: he ran so many slow release out routes where he's
Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, helping move a guy off
Speaker 1: of a certain coverage and just kind of slow plays it.
Speaker 1: And then on the slant that Van Noyd tipped where
Speaker 1: it looked like he might have caught it and ran
Speaker 1: for a while, he widens his route like he's doing
Speaker 1: the exact same thing again. Then bang, he crossed his
Speaker 1: face with one step and hits the accelerator and he's
Speaker 1: out like Lewis Hamilton's off the line at Monaco, and
Speaker 1: if he catches that thing quickly, it's eighty five yards
Speaker 1: to the crib. And he can set those types of
Speaker 1: situations up at the course of the game. I like
Speaker 1: the way he's a methodical player and the way he
Speaker 1: has a game plan with the course of the game,
Speaker 1: in addition to the electricity that he provides. Next year, though,
Speaker 1: we gotta hit some of those and take advantage some
Speaker 1: of those opportunities were Wattle does that by running those
Speaker 1: routes look the same and then boom, snap it off
Speaker 1: for one quick one and you get that chance for
Speaker 1: a big play. Gotta hit those next year. Moving inside
Speaker 1: to the offensive line, Robert Jones, I have some things
Speaker 1: to say about his game. He seems to have a
Speaker 1: really good feel for the position or just the general
Speaker 1: idea behind playing the offensive line. Like when the Patriots
Speaker 1: would mug up and show pressure with linebackers or safeties
Speaker 1: or whatever, the extra bodies in the B gap or
Speaker 1: a gap, he was quick to squeeze, which means you
Speaker 1: condense in close to your guard to just eliminate gaps
Speaker 1: and force longer rush lanes to the quarterback. And when
Speaker 1: they would have a four eye defensive line, which is
Speaker 1: on the inside shoulder of the tackle, but not bring
Speaker 1: any rushers further outside than that, so no you know,
Speaker 1: five tech or No. Seven or nine technique out wide.
Speaker 1: So the only person he has to contend with as
Speaker 1: far as his outside post goes, is lined up on
Speaker 1: his inside shoulder. He would always squeeze those down and
Speaker 1: just help the guy next to him. I love seeing that.
Speaker 1: And on double teams, man, he gets the shoulder and
Speaker 1: the hip attached. And there's one on the second drive
Speaker 1: of the game, it's fourteen zero because excess pick six
Speaker 1: where Jawan Bentley is act behind a one technique. What's
Speaker 1: a stack, It's when your linebacker is directly behind the
Speaker 1: defensive lineman right in front of him. One technique is
Speaker 1: off the outside shoulder of either outside shoulder of the
Speaker 1: offensive center. So Deeter and Hunt double the one, and Jones,
Speaker 1: because there's no work for him at the first level,
Speaker 1: comes in for an extra chip because his assignment is
Speaker 1: at the second level, and he just helps and knocks
Speaker 1: this nose tackle off the football, knocks him over. Then
Speaker 1: from there he climbs and squares it up and sticks
Speaker 1: on the block, just completely square the entire time where
Speaker 1: Duke winds it back for a six yard game. I
Speaker 1: just so impressed by it. And then finally, the way
Speaker 1: he closes distance on guys, like he goes out and
Speaker 1: gets that wide nine or that stand up outside rush
Speaker 1: linebacker closes distance and creates a shorter runway for that rusher.
Speaker 1: But he's not lunging when he does it, and I
Speaker 1: think he also comes with pretty loose hips. There's a
Speaker 1: run play in the second quarter where he squeezes a
Speaker 1: gap with rob then has to open back up because
Speaker 1: Matt Judon is trying to flatten around the backside edge,
Speaker 1: and so he leases inside to help with the the
Speaker 1: interior surge and then uses that right foot and swings
Speaker 1: open the gate with the hips kind of popping and
Speaker 1: walls off that backside. I was very impressed by his
Speaker 1: performance in this game. I was also very impressed by
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt, as I have been all season long, just
Speaker 1: so impressed with his ability to play both in a
Speaker 1: phone booth and in space. I think it's because the
Speaker 1: techniques are just really have really stabilized this year and
Speaker 1: have been consistent for a long portion of the season.
Speaker 1: Plays behind his pads, stays low, common, confident, second level
Speaker 1: blocks pulling play side. He's really blossomed this season, and
Speaker 1: those guys helped out. Duke Johnson, who I you know,
Speaker 1: talked about this at length on Sunday. But the urgency
Speaker 1: he shows to get to his initial target point then
Speaker 1: the ability to cut off of that spot. He forces
Speaker 1: second and third level defenders into quick decisions, and that
Speaker 1: can create guesses which can then create misses. Let's take
Speaker 1: our last breaker. We'll come back and talk about a
Speaker 1: few of the guys in the defense. The Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: All twenty review here of the season finale victory over
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Just a few more notes here on the
Speaker 1: All twenty two review of this edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast, we're taking a look at the week eighteen
Speaker 1: victory over the New England Patriots. We pick it back
Speaker 1: up here on the defensive side of the ball with
Speaker 1: who else besides Christian Wilkins. I just noted that even
Speaker 1: when he's not, you know, backdoring a play on the
Speaker 1: front side, or when he's not working down three gaps
Speaker 1: to make a play in the running game, or he's
Speaker 1: not setting a pick for a big sack or bowling
Speaker 1: over a guy with a swim move or a club
Speaker 1: and rip move to get after the quarterback, he's finding
Speaker 1: ways to make plays when he probably shouldn't. Like there's
Speaker 1: a double team early in the game where he gets
Speaker 1: knocked back a little bit, but he recovers and anchors
Speaker 1: and gets off the off the block and makes the tackle.
Speaker 1: That's why he winds up with eighty nine tackles, the
Speaker 1: most by defensive lineman in team history, because he can
Speaker 1: always find a way to shed a block or shed
Speaker 1: a double team when he has to. There was a
Speaker 1: play in this game where him and Zack Seeler met
Speaker 1: at the ball carrier for a tackle for loss, and
Speaker 1: it was so pretty just to watch the synchronicity of
Speaker 1: it all. They're both playing the four eye position with
Speaker 1: her on the inside shoulder of the offensive tackle, and
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins does a little club and rip and just
Speaker 1: throws Shack Mason to the ground. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Zack s Heeler goes over the top of Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: with a swim move and you see him kind of
Speaker 1: looking back and chasing back to the play. The year
Speaker 1: those two guys had kind of embodied on that rip.
Speaker 1: I just wrote down it was awesome to see Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard on the pick. It's just like we talked about
Speaker 1: with him all the time. He's the kind of player
Speaker 1: while he's going to do his job on the majority
Speaker 1: of his one thousand snaps in the season, he's also
Speaker 1: going to find a way to make those impact plays five, eight, ten,
Speaker 1: twelve times a year, and this is one of those instances.
Speaker 1: So you've got split safeties with x and Byron and
Speaker 1: need him pressing up in man coverage or showing man coverage,
Speaker 1: and Byron looks like he's in man squared up to
Speaker 1: his man, so does need him but X has his
Speaker 1: butt turned to the perimeter, which typically indicates zone. It's
Speaker 1: called his zone turn. But then he flips with the
Speaker 1: snap and presses, and you see Mac Jones him to
Speaker 1: that side of the field to survey, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have rotated quickly into the zone. But X is kind
Speaker 1: of showing man coverage. And then you have Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: over the top, who's gonna take anything vertical on that
Speaker 1: split safety. Look to that side of the field, you've
Speaker 1: got Nick need Um squatting inside trying to pick up
Speaker 1: a backside crosser, and that slot receiver runs a little
Speaker 1: hook up off the inside leverage of Nick need Um.
Speaker 1: And so the entire outside portion of the fields there
Speaker 1: to work with. Because X took off right Nope, he
Speaker 1: planted his feet and just sneaks in right underneath it
Speaker 1: and no one saw him coming. After he turns his
Speaker 1: man free, he gets his eyes in the quarterback, steps
Speaker 1: in front, and then finishes it off with a thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard run for a touchdown. Special special play. Right there,
Speaker 1: I wrote down Jerome Baker and just an appreciation for
Speaker 1: the range he shows. I mean, he's always worn a
Speaker 1: ton of hats, but this year he played a lot
Speaker 1: more down on the line of scrimmage off the edge,
Speaker 1: and so for him to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: but then also like wheel out like he did right
Speaker 1: before the two minute warning in the first half and
Speaker 1: get twenty yards of depth on a crossing route and
Speaker 1: to kill Harry to disrupt that ball and make it incomplete.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's appreciative enough for Jerome Baker, and
Speaker 1: I'll put a more comprehensive bow on the season on
Speaker 1: the Friday podcast. We'll go ahead and just finish here
Speaker 1: with this. Holland and Jones man, the way they interact
Speaker 1: with each other, it kind of reminds me of Jones
Speaker 1: saying earlier this year that they can almost telepathically communicate
Speaker 1: at the stage, which is erie for how quickly it happened,
Speaker 1: but I think it's only gotten better since that time.
Speaker 1: They were a big part of all those coverage plays
Speaker 1: where Matt Jones had to kind of hold the ball
Speaker 1: or throw it away or get into his third or
Speaker 1: fourth option, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and their versatility to play
Speaker 1: a little bit of an interchangeable tandem. Very excited about
Speaker 1: what we can have there with those two guys for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. All Right, Friday, we're gonna start taking
Speaker 1: a look at the off season with some maybe Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl reviews or previous I should say, as far as
Speaker 1: the rosters go, we'll definitely take stock of our own inventory,
Speaker 1: all the fun stuff that comes this year, this time
Speaker 1: of year, I should say on the podcast. In the meantime,
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