Speaker 1: Exact touchdown, Miami Perfect. What is up, Dolphans And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, I told you on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: I was excited for this one for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: The numbers, the snap counts, the team rankings, advanced metrics.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from coordinators and offensive assistance on this podcast.
Speaker 1: But the real reason I'm most excited all twenty two
Speaker 1: has been grinded. It has been typed up in my
Speaker 1: quote unquote virtual notebook. We're gonna talk about that and
Speaker 1: much much more on this Tuesday, November the third edition
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Speaker 1: starting off this podcast this Tuesday edition, as we do
Speaker 1: weekly here on the Drivetime Podcast, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about the Dolphins current rankings after eight weeks in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Offensively and defensively, and on the offensive side,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins eleven and scoring at twenty six point nine
Speaker 1: points per game. When it comes to total offense, Miami's
Speaker 1: three d and twenty four point four yards per game
Speaker 1: is twenty eight in the National Football League. On the ground,
Speaker 1: the rushing offense is averaging yards per game that's in
Speaker 1: the nf FELL and when it comes to passing yards
Speaker 1: to twenty six point four per game, that is twenty one,
Speaker 1: and the thirty seven point eight third down percentage is
Speaker 1: right now in the NFL. On the offensive line, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterbacks have been sacked only eleven times. That's tied
Speaker 1: for ninth fewest in the National Football League. And on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, that's where things get really fun. Eight
Speaker 1: team points six points allowed per game, number one in
Speaker 1: the league, best scoring defense in the National Football League
Speaker 1: right now. Three hundred and seventy six yards allowed per
Speaker 1: game against the Dolphins, that ranks twenty in the NFL.
Speaker 1: On the ground game, Miami allows one d twenty five
Speaker 1: point one yards per game and that ranks twenty one
Speaker 1: in the league. And just real quick, a quick aside
Speaker 1: as far as rushing yards allowed, you see these numbers
Speaker 1: posted up here. All teams except for six allowed at
Speaker 1: least one hundred yards per game. The Falcon, Steelers, Ram, Saints, Colts,
Speaker 1: and Bucks are under one hundred yards per game allowed.
Speaker 1: The way I view rushing offense, especially in modern football,
Speaker 1: is not about the number of yards you allow. It's
Speaker 1: a number of plays you win. How many times do
Speaker 1: you put the offense in second and ten, or second
Speaker 1: and twelve, or even second and eight. Can you get
Speaker 1: stops like that to get enough wins to force them
Speaker 1: into long third downs? To me, that's the key in
Speaker 1: the running game, and I think we've seen that throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the last three Sundays plenty of plays
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins defense puts the offense into predictable into
Speaker 1: predictable passing downs based upon some stops early on in
Speaker 1: the game or in the down and distance in the series.
Speaker 1: As far as passing defense goes, Miami currently right now
Speaker 1: is allowing to fifty point nine. That's twenty in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to sacks, Miami has nineteen of
Speaker 1: those that's tied for tenth in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And overall takeaways, the Dolphins have registered thirteen this year
Speaker 1: that's tied for fifth and just one takeaway off the
Speaker 1: lead behind the Seahawks, Browns, Bucks, and Chiefs. And when
Speaker 1: it comes to third down defense, the Dolphins are tied
Speaker 1: for second, allowing just thirty three point three percent of
Speaker 1: third down conversions to be converted against them when the
Speaker 1: other team has the football. So really good, good defensive
Speaker 1: stats there for the Dolphins of the half of the
Speaker 1: season to the first seven games of the season. And
Speaker 1: so those are your team rankings currently through eight weeks. Individually.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with the snap counts, and
Speaker 1: there was quite a bit of discrepancy here between the
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive side. The Dolphins played forty nine snaps
Speaker 1: on Sunday two. A tonk of volo of the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and the five starting offensive lineman all played all forty
Speaker 1: nine snaps for your Miami Dolphins. Adam Panky also had
Speaker 1: two snaps on the offensive line, and Christian Wilkins had
Speaker 1: his one snap as a fullback. In this Miami offensive attack,
Speaker 1: running back Myles Gaskin led the way again with forty
Speaker 1: three reps. That's eighty eight percent. Matt Brita had eight
Speaker 1: snaps and Malcolm Perry had seven at the running back position,
Speaker 1: with Malcolm Perry a running back slash wide receiver designation.
Speaker 1: At receiver, Preston Williams led the way with forty four snaps.
Speaker 1: That was of the workload. Davante Parker was out there
Speaker 1: for twenty nine snaps on Sunday, Isaiah Ford seventeen, Jakeen
Speaker 1: Grant sixteen, and Mac Hollins two snaps. At tight end
Speaker 1: Durham Smith he played thirty two snaps, leading the way
Speaker 1: at sixty five percent. Mike Asiki was out there for
Speaker 1: twenty eight snaps, and Adam Shaheen out there for sixteen snaps.
Speaker 1: As far as some of the offensive metrics there for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, we talked about it on Twitter on Monday.
Speaker 1: Quarterback to a Tongue of Blois touchdown pass, the first
Speaker 1: of his career to DeVante Parker had a nearest defender
Speaker 1: a separation mark of point to eight yards per NFL
Speaker 1: next Gen Stats. That is the tightest window touchdown pass
Speaker 1: in the NFL this season. Of course, the defensive back
Speaker 1: was flagged for defensive pass interference on that play, but
Speaker 1: it did not matter. Parker hauls it in. It was
Speaker 1: the tenth touchdown and has past eighteen games played and
Speaker 1: going back to Week seven of last year, Parker's ten
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns are tied for ninth in the NFL. At
Speaker 1: running back Miles Gaskin lad the Dolphins and rushing for
Speaker 1: the sixth game this season, had forty seven yards and
Speaker 1: in his last nine games gas him has one five
Speaker 1: carries four hundred eighty five yards, three touchdowns on the
Speaker 1: ground and thirty three catches for two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yards and all purpose back there for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And on the offensive line, Pro Football Focus had Miami
Speaker 1: with four pressures allowed on quarterback tongue viola, and of
Speaker 1: those four pressures, the veterans Jesse Davis and Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: both pitched past protection clean sheets with no sacks, hits
Speaker 1: or hurries. No pressures allowed from Harris and Davis onto
Speaker 1: the defensive side, and I cannot wait to watch this
Speaker 1: defensive tape here with you guys on the Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 1: Snap counts on the defensive line. Zack Seeler played sixty
Speaker 1: five snaps on the on the Dolphins defensive line. That
Speaker 1: was sixty percent of the workload. Christian Wilkins not far
Speaker 1: behind him with fifty eight, Great Kwon Davis had fifty
Speaker 1: and Benito Jones got twelve snaps on Sunday at defensive end,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogball played sixty nine reps. That's good for seventy
Speaker 1: of the workload, and Shack Lawson played forty five snaps
Speaker 1: at linebacker. Plenty of snaps to go around here. Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy played ninety reps in the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: that was of the defensive workload. Jerome Baker played seventy
Speaker 1: five snaps, Van Gekl had forty six, Landon Roberts had nineteen,
Speaker 1: Cruge Hill had seventeen, and Sam Mguavin had seven reps
Speaker 1: in this game. So you see the idea there. The
Speaker 1: game plan specific for the week. Linebackers were crucial in
Speaker 1: this Dolphins game plan for Josh Boyer and Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and in the defensive secondary. Xavian Howard played every snap
Speaker 1: all ninety five out there. Of those snaps, Byron Jones
Speaker 1: played eighty eight, Nick Needham played sixty six, Hey Hayes
Speaker 1: had fifteen reps, and Noah Ignogeny was out there for seven.
Speaker 1: At safety. Plenty to go around here. Bobby McCain also
Speaker 1: did not leave the field nine snaps for him, Eric
Speaker 1: Rowe had eighty seven snaps and Brandon Jones played thirty
Speaker 1: nine in Miami seventeen victory, and defensive end Emmanuel Ogba.
Speaker 1: His hot shriek was not slowed down by any stretch.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the bye week. He wrecked up
Speaker 1: seven more quarterback pressures, a sack, a hit, and five hurries.
Speaker 1: He also batted a pass down at the line, made
Speaker 1: a run stop, and forced a fumble that led to
Speaker 1: a touchdown. His thirty two orderback pressures this year our
Speaker 1: fifth most among all edge defenders on Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: trailing only t J. Watt ofth Pittsburgh Cleveland's Miles Garrett,
Speaker 1: l A's Joey Bosa, and Tampa Bay Shack Barrett. That
Speaker 1: is the best of the best and edge rushers out
Speaker 1: there in the NFL right now, and his counterpart, Shack Lawson,
Speaker 1: piled up five pressures, a sack, a hit in three
Speaker 1: Hurries also had a run stop and a forced fumble
Speaker 1: which essentially put the Dolphins down, or it didn't. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it did put the Dolphins down at the one yard line,
Speaker 1: essentially leading to that touchdown from Miles Gaskin there in
Speaker 1: the first half. On the inside, Zack Seeler four more
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures, three and more run stops. This guy, to me,
Speaker 1: is becoming one of the more under appreciated, unherralded players,
Speaker 1: not just on this Dolphins defense or on the Dolphins team,
Speaker 1: in the national football Like, this guy is damn good
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about him a lot in the
Speaker 1: tape study as we do every week here. On drive time,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins had two pressures, had to run stop, and
Speaker 1: of course that big interception that really began Miami scoring.
Speaker 1: Scoring on slot there in the first half led to
Speaker 1: the first touchdown of the game. Andrew van Gikl had
Speaker 1: the scoop and score for the second longest or fumble
Speaker 1: return rather in Dolphins history. Jason Taylor had an eighty
Speaker 1: five yard return back in Week one of two thousand
Speaker 1: five against the Broncos. Van Ginkel also had a QB hit,
Speaker 1: two hurries and a run stop, and did not allow
Speaker 1: a completion and coverage. Also at linebacker, Van Noi had
Speaker 1: two quarterback pressures, made nine total tackles, and broke up
Speaker 1: two passes. Four of his tackles were for run stops.
Speaker 1: Those are stops within two yards of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He also had a twenty eight yard return on his
Speaker 1: fumble recovery that set Miami up at the Rams one
Speaker 1: yard line. At Land and Roberts made four tackles in
Speaker 1: the game, three of those were good for run stops
Speaker 1: and in the secondary, cornerback Nick Needham was targeted eight
Speaker 1: times in coverage, allowed just four receptions for fifty yards.
Speaker 1: That's an average of six point to five yards per
Speaker 1: target and fifty clip and Byron Jones allowed just forty
Speaker 1: five yards on seven pass targets on Sunday. At safety,
Speaker 1: these two guys are playing out of their mind right now.
Speaker 1: Eric Row had the most passes defense in an NFL
Speaker 1: game this season, or tied for it with five five.
Speaker 1: He is now tied with Jesse Bates of the Bengals
Speaker 1: with eight passes defense. That's the most among all safeties
Speaker 1: for Bates and Eric row and on the season, he's
Speaker 1: allowing just fifty eight point one percent of targets on
Speaker 1: him to go completed, for an average of four point
Speaker 1: five two yards per target and a passer rating of
Speaker 1: sixties six point six, quietly becoming one of the best
Speaker 1: safeties in the National Football League. He already is. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best safeties there is out there. Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: he's in that category too right now. He allowed just
Speaker 1: three yards receiving per Pro Football Focus, a passer rating
Speaker 1: of seventy nine point two, and two tackles without any
Speaker 1: misses and in the open field there for Bobby McCain. So,
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defense really turned the screws on opposing offenses
Speaker 1: as of late. They've allowed eleven point three points per
Speaker 1: game over the previous three games. In the three game
Speaker 1: winning streak, they also have eight takeaways, ten sacks, and
Speaker 1: have allowed the opponent to convert just of the third
Speaker 1: down plays over those three wins. Dominant, dominant defense here
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. And with that, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and turn the tape on and get to the all
Speaker 1: twenty two review. Here from the Dolphins offensive side of
Speaker 1: the football, and we'll go ahead and start as we
Speaker 1: do weekly on the All Review, talking about some of
Speaker 1: the scheme and structure of Changile's offense and the play
Speaker 1: calls and off the top the first play, I already
Speaker 1: liked what I saw, or what I see I suppose
Speaker 1: from a possibility standpoint, You've got Jachem Grant coming across
Speaker 1: the formation on a fly sweep, and you get a
Speaker 1: player in instant conflict. He has to honor the motion
Speaker 1: of both Grant and read to a right and the
Speaker 1: mesh point there with Miles Gaskin. All the linemen hold
Speaker 1: their blocks at the line, so to A can pull
Speaker 1: that thing and flip it out to Grant who's just
Speaker 1: staying there behind the last grimmage uncovered. So there's options
Speaker 1: built off that play. Another general note here of the offense.
Speaker 1: I love the way these guys connect with the twister
Speaker 1: or the looper coming in on stunts and twists. They
Speaker 1: always throw a punch and a lot of times it
Speaker 1: completely messes up the rhythm of that t e stunt
Speaker 1: or twist where you have the tackle going out in
Speaker 1: the end coming in and trying to get that game
Speaker 1: up front. The initial contact helps us wrap that timing
Speaker 1: of those stunts on the defense. We heard Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: say in his media this week that he'd like to
Speaker 1: have some blocks back and a couple of times they
Speaker 1: connected well to start but just couldn't stay on those blocks.
Speaker 1: I think that's what he's talking about. That's my assumption,
Speaker 1: but I think there were some opportunities there to get
Speaker 1: those blocks cleaned up and get some more yardage. In
Speaker 1: the running game. The Rams really covered things up well
Speaker 1: on the back end. There was a couple of layers
Speaker 1: looking plays where they had the underneath, the over the top,
Speaker 1: and the deep route, and they just covered everything up
Speaker 1: blanketed on all three layers of that particular play on
Speaker 1: the Miles Gascon fumble that might have been That play
Speaker 1: might have been the biggest hole this season. We saw
Speaker 1: in the running game a huge lane opens up between
Speaker 1: Harris and Kindley and you see a linebacker take a
Speaker 1: false step following Jachem across the formation on that jet
Speaker 1: sweep action. So all the I candy there part of
Speaker 1: the offensive attack. In Week eate with the Dolphins, Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry's catch, he got outside access on that play because
Speaker 1: the slot corner crashed on the fake so another nice
Speaker 1: schemed up first down there and then again on the
Speaker 1: conversion to Isaiah Ford the third down in one conversion.
Speaker 1: In the late in the game, the fourth quarter, they
Speaker 1: do rooming boomerang motion, so he comes inside and then
Speaker 1: goes back outside of motion and that causes the defender
Speaker 1: following him in man coverage to get out leveraged, and
Speaker 1: it's an easy throw and catch to move the chains
Speaker 1: there on third and one. As far as to us game,
Speaker 1: the first play or the second play, rather the sack fumble,
Speaker 1: there was some good rushes from both Larrd Floyd and
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, which forces too to climb and kind of
Speaker 1: hitch as he climbs up to find another platform to
Speaker 1: throw from, because if he stays home there, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get drilled by either Floyd or Donald. But as he
Speaker 1: climbs the windows on the windows he tries to find
Speaker 1: also closed down as so as he tries to reach
Speaker 1: back to throw, Donald comes in off the block and
Speaker 1: knocks the football loose. And look, this is a damn
Speaker 1: good defense you're facing. They're gonna have plays where several
Speaker 1: guys win, and that's what happened on this play. The
Speaker 1: completion to Preston Williams. The slant on the r P
Speaker 1: O later on the ball handling, how quick the process is.
Speaker 1: That part has me excited. I mean, I knew about
Speaker 1: it at Alabama, but it's been a while since I
Speaker 1: watched it on tape and the quick ball handling, that
Speaker 1: thing was out. I timed it three time, one point
Speaker 1: six six seconds snap to release that football is out.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins offensive line can handle that one point six
Speaker 1: six all day long. On the deep shot later to
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, I love the the way to his head works.
Speaker 1: As you watch the all twenty two working from one
Speaker 1: side of the field to the other. He starts right,
Speaker 1: comes back to the middle and you see the safety
Speaker 1: that's over to Preston's side. He runs the opposite direction
Speaker 1: back towards the middle of the field, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: when TWA takes his shot. But it's really good coverage
Speaker 1: downfield by thirty one Darius Williams, so the play goes incomplete.
Speaker 1: They come back a couple or the next series, rather
Speaker 1: a couple of plays later with a deep shot to
Speaker 1: Mike Asiki, and it was the same thing that I
Speaker 1: really liked about his game. He's so quick to get
Speaker 1: to that safety with you watch the end zone copy.
Speaker 1: You see his head pointed directly at the safety in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and he sees what that
Speaker 1: safety is doing, and the decision comes right after that. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the progression is of that place,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the play call or the design
Speaker 1: of the play, but you see him look at the safety,
Speaker 1: and when that safety makes his break, that's when TWA
Speaker 1: makes his decision. And so safety comes down on the
Speaker 1: middle of the formation and jumps the backside crossing route,
Speaker 1: which means to that point that Mike Asiki on that
Speaker 1: takeoff has a one on one opportunity. And as soon
Speaker 1: as the safety rips are breaks forward to a lets
Speaker 1: that thing ripped. I put it on the handheld timer
Speaker 1: because I was curious to see how fast it took
Speaker 1: him to process that information. And the football lands twenty
Speaker 1: five yards down field off the line of scrimmage with
Speaker 1: a snap to release time of two point one. That's
Speaker 1: anticipation ripping the football man and the ball was right there.
Speaker 1: Just a hell of a play once again by Williams
Speaker 1: to get the pass break up the completion to Joachim
Speaker 1: Grant on the comeback route before the touchdown throw to
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker. That ball was out just as Jachine was
Speaker 1: coming out of the break and right on the money.
Speaker 1: That was cool to see. The touchdown pass was six
Speaker 1: man pressure. The Rams brought six on the blitz against
Speaker 1: five and protection and two was quick release, really wiped
Speaker 1: out the free rusher and the throw was right on
Speaker 1: the money, just perfect, just as Parker's catch. Was awesome
Speaker 1: execution there from two h to Parker. We jumped forward
Speaker 1: to the second half. Now a second down and ten
Speaker 1: a quick shot two miles Gaskin for nine yards. The
Speaker 1: Rams have a great disguise to get a couple of
Speaker 1: rushers off the left side alone on Jesse Davis, So
Speaker 1: he takes the inside man the most urgent pressure as
Speaker 1: he should, and the outside guy becomes to us responsibility
Speaker 1: and he gets that thing out quickly with an accurate
Speaker 1: throw right in behind the blitz. Again things he did
Speaker 1: well in college. There was an A and M tape
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago at Alabama actually was twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen where they kept blitzing off the backside of the
Speaker 1: formation and he just kept throwing slants right behind those guys.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what this looked like right here, a
Speaker 1: quick shot to Gasking with pressure in his face and
Speaker 1: the ability to get the football around him. All in all,
Speaker 1: I thought the Rams did well to get pressure while
Speaker 1: playing that deep coverage and really cutting off from the
Speaker 1: deep opportunities the Dolphins had two took the two deep
Speaker 1: shots he did have, and and they'll get those balls eventually.
Speaker 1: They're gonna You're not gonna hold down DeVante Parker, Preston
Speaker 1: Williams and Mike Asiki on those, especially when they have
Speaker 1: those one on one chances and the ball is up
Speaker 1: early and out quick to got it out quickly. Most
Speaker 1: of the time, a couple of plays didn't work one
Speaker 1: reason or another, whether there was pressure or the or
Speaker 1: the past just didn't get completed. But I think there's
Speaker 1: plenty of stuff that can be corrected and see more
Speaker 1: offensive output next week. As far as some other guys
Speaker 1: on the offense, Solomon Kinley on the Miles Gaskin four
Speaker 1: yard run in the first half, he really connects well
Speaker 1: on a shoulder to hip combination block with Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: on Michael Brocker's he turns him and seals him and
Speaker 1: then comes off and gets to fifty nine Micah Kaiser
Speaker 1: at the second level to seal that thing off. Awesome
Speaker 1: work by the rook but then sixty nine Joseph comes
Speaker 1: off his block for the tackle. We heard Flora's talk
Speaker 1: on the Monday or the Sunday night postgame presser about
Speaker 1: how on special teams in the kicking game he felt
Speaker 1: they were one block away and they finally got that
Speaker 1: block and sprung Jachim. It looked like there was a
Speaker 1: couple of instances of that in the running game in
Speaker 1: this game as well. So the hope there as this
Speaker 1: team can get those things corrected and get those bigger
Speaker 1: chunk runs going in the future to help out to
Speaker 1: a tongue of Biloa. As Ted Carriss said in his
Speaker 1: Monday presser. Speaking of Ted Carriss on Gaskins run before
Speaker 1: the to a touchdown, he has a hell of a
Speaker 1: double team or a combo block where he catches and
Speaker 1: climbs at the first level and gets up to the
Speaker 1: second level and hits a cut block to get that
Speaker 1: defender down to the ground. Derham Smith back to that
Speaker 1: deep shot to Preston Williams where they couldn't connect. There
Speaker 1: was a protection slide to build an absolute wall in
Speaker 1: front of Aaron Donald and it puts Durham Smith in
Speaker 1: a one on one situation with Michael Brocker's Michael Brocker's
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle and he holds up really well on
Speaker 1: that one and pass pro and on that same Kinley
Speaker 1: block where he gets a double on Brockers with Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt on the same play, Derham Smith comes up and
Speaker 1: really pulls across the formation to hit a nice block
Speaker 1: there too. So Smith continues to make key blocks both
Speaker 1: on the running and passing game. Eric Flowers I had
Speaker 1: him down for a really nice combination block on a
Speaker 1: four yard run from Matt Breta in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of these good double teams on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins interior offensive line. It kind of goes in
Speaker 1: line in hand with the way I like their their
Speaker 1: ability to communicate those stunts and pick up those guys
Speaker 1: twisting and and looping around them. The good communication up
Speaker 1: front between Carris, Flowers and Kinley on the interior, and
Speaker 1: then Jachem Grant on the punt return. You get a
Speaker 1: number of critical blocks as that's going to be the
Speaker 1: case when you have a touchdown return on a punt return,
Speaker 1: but he gets a critical block from Noah Igbanogeny who
Speaker 1: comes in and it gets a little hip on the
Speaker 1: defender trying to make the the tackle before Grant makes
Speaker 1: his breakup field. You get a big block from Cavan
Speaker 1: Fraser on the punter, just enough to get in his way.
Speaker 1: But I like most about it was Cavan Frasier got
Speaker 1: put on the ground earlier, gets up, sprints down field
Speaker 1: and gets in the way of Johnny Hecker. On that play,
Speaker 1: Jachim does so well to run to space at that point.
Speaker 1: He also got really nice blocks from both Throham Smith
Speaker 1: and Andrew Van Ginkl to go ahead and spring him
Speaker 1: for the eighty eight yard touchdown. I also wish you
Speaker 1: would have gotten a chance on a crossing route on
Speaker 1: a third down and six. It's the second possession of
Speaker 1: the third quarter. He has some green grass to run there,
Speaker 1: but Aaron Donald was into his face again. It might
Speaker 1: have gotten his arm or his his hand on the
Speaker 1: arm onto his throw there. So offensively, you know, not
Speaker 1: the most production, but yeah, again, think about the fact
Speaker 1: that they had a one yard drive, they had a
Speaker 1: punt return for a touchdown, they had a funbl return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Several drives wiped out because of that,
Speaker 1: and then a couple of third down plays I'm sure
Speaker 1: Miami would love to have back to get some completions,
Speaker 1: move the chains, keep the offense on the field longer,
Speaker 1: and then obviously have more production that way. So offensively,
Speaker 1: plenty more on the bone to chew on there for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins offense, and defensively on the All twenty two
Speaker 1: as good as they played, I think that's the same
Speaker 1: case here. Let's go ahead and talk about this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive All twenty two tape and win over the Los
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Speaker 1: that we get into the defensive notes, and boy are
Speaker 1: there plenty of them. That's what happens when you produce
Speaker 1: seven points from your defense, you get four takeaways, you
Speaker 1: get a whole bunch of stops on the third down.
Speaker 1: You put pressure on the opposing quarterback all game long,
Speaker 1: starting as we do with the defensive calls and structure
Speaker 1: on Jared Gobbs very first throw. Nick Needham blitzes the
Speaker 1: backside so that when golf bootlegs out, there's a body
Speaker 1: in his face and it forces him to throw it away.
Speaker 1: A good plan against the NFL's highest rated passer throwing
Speaker 1: when outside the pocket per Pro Football Focus. And speaking
Speaker 1: of that game plan, the first instance of a free
Speaker 1: rusher was on the Rams third possession, rather the third
Speaker 1: down that got the defense off the field. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: comes clean up the middle against empty and empty formation
Speaker 1: where you have five offensive lineman, no tight ends, no backs,
Speaker 1: just the quarterback, five guys wide out into the formation
Speaker 1: and the Dolphin's line. With six guys on the line,
Speaker 1: the Rams have to slide and Baker comes clean inside.
Speaker 1: Beautifully done. And that was the case throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this game. On Christian Wilkins's interception, another one of
Speaker 1: those instances where you get six on the line against
Speaker 1: the Rams empty package, the five guys in the protection.
Speaker 1: So now not only do the Rams have to slide
Speaker 1: leaving Emmanuel Ogba on blocked, but both Wilkins and Baker
Speaker 1: back out into coverage into the hook zone and Goff
Speaker 1: doesn't see them and he throws it between the nine
Speaker 1: and the four on wilkins jersey as he's backing away
Speaker 1: from the rush after he fakes the rush inside. First,
Speaker 1: there was a couple of instances where they had Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson and Emmanuel Ogba on the same side of the formation.
Speaker 1: Nothing to note, they're just that note in general. The
Speaker 1: cover zero looks began on once the Rams crossed the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line in the early part of the second quarter.
Speaker 1: The first one they got fifteen yards out of it
Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup, but two plays later they get a throwaway.
Speaker 1: Miami's got eight up on the line. Lawson and Davis
Speaker 1: both fall into the hook zone this time, and McCain
Speaker 1: and Rowe blitz off either edge as Jerome Baker once
Speaker 1: again wins inside against the right tackle for the pressure,
Speaker 1: and he does so well to slip inside those blocks
Speaker 1: and close that distance between he and the quarterback very quickly. Alright,
Speaker 1: the fumble return again, it's empty against a six man front.
Speaker 1: Og Bad gets the free run this time, and he
Speaker 1: gets it done. The gangster comes off his block, scoops it,
Speaker 1: scores it, and finishes it up there. And that's really
Speaker 1: just it. Another great call and execution from the Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: On the third down and three before the half, Miami
Speaker 1: shows a pressure look again, but then they drop eight
Speaker 1: against a three men three men out in the route
Speaker 1: for the rams and Golf just has to throw it
Speaker 1: away there. So a good mix there of rush and
Speaker 1: coverage changing it up on Golf, changing the picture so
Speaker 1: he has a different look on every snap and man.
Speaker 1: So many of the passing yards they piled up there
Speaker 1: and late in that game was just catch rock throw
Speaker 1: against the defense playing off and keeping everything in front.
Speaker 1: We heard Brian Flora's on his Monday press conference say
Speaker 1: that he was a little bit leary of the stats
Speaker 1: in this game because if if you look at the stats,
Speaker 1: that says the Dolphins got dominated, but he said he
Speaker 1: felt that was not the case during the game, and
Speaker 1: it just tells you again all stats needs some context.
Speaker 1: And finally, you just love the coverage on the back end.
Speaker 1: Consistently they held up consistently enough for Golf to have
Speaker 1: to hitch and sometimes double hitch, and that was all
Speaker 1: the past rush needed to get home. Some individual notes.
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy sure do love the way he attacks
Speaker 1: blocks and reads which direction he has to disengage. The
Speaker 1: very first play of the game, he sets a hard
Speaker 1: edge and comes off inside to get Henderson down for
Speaker 1: a tackle. Emmanuel Ogba. He gets started by t Kimba
Speaker 1: Mtumbo rejecting a Jared Goff passed back into his face.
Speaker 1: That thing popped way up into the air. That happens.
Speaker 1: You know in the future you might get a chance
Speaker 1: for an interception on that ball getting batted way up
Speaker 1: in the air. Nick need Him the first third down
Speaker 1: stop of the game. He does an excellent job to
Speaker 1: stay over the top on an over route a intermediate
Speaker 1: crosser and you'll see Xaving Howard undercut these things as
Speaker 1: we'll talk about here in just one second. But need
Speaker 1: Him did very well to defend it the other way
Speaker 1: over the top and force the receiver to make a
Speaker 1: contest and catch if the quarterback can put it there,
Speaker 1: but the ball sailed high. Great work there. He has
Speaker 1: an incompletion later on Cooper Cup where he comes down
Speaker 1: and completely disrupts the timing of the route with a
Speaker 1: hard jam at the line in Miami's pass rush eventually
Speaker 1: affected the throw as Golf has to hold it because
Speaker 1: of that jam by need Him, he had a great game.
Speaker 1: I thought on Sunday ray Kwon Davis. There's a Henderson
Speaker 1: run for four yards right off the fumble, and you
Speaker 1: see the long arms. Recall the Brian Floras on draft
Speaker 1: night showing the long arms and disengage that thing off
Speaker 1: and you see the rams try to seal him, and
Speaker 1: he just washes his man right down into the gap
Speaker 1: with those strong arms, that powerful move for the tackle.
Speaker 1: Another one later in the game the second half where
Speaker 1: he just rips and gets through and the offensive line
Speaker 1: tries to push the side of him, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: budget at all because of how massive he is, and
Speaker 1: he forces the back to bubble for a short gain.
Speaker 1: On that play as well, Eric wrote, we have a
Speaker 1: few notes here on the same play as ray Kwon's
Speaker 1: first tackle he talked about right there with Darrell Henderson,
Speaker 1: he just steps up to the blocker, disengages it, and
Speaker 1: really gets his nose in there to make a play
Speaker 1: on the football. And this was consistent throughout the game
Speaker 1: for Eric Row. On the next drive on first down,
Speaker 1: he jumps right down in front of Gerald Everett and
Speaker 1: takes away a route. Very instinctive to know exactly what
Speaker 1: the what the route that Everett ran on that play
Speaker 1: and to jump in front of it to take away
Speaker 1: the option there for Jared goff and physical and fast
Speaker 1: is what I wrote down here because man Robert Woods
Speaker 1: gets loose on an under route coming across the formation.
Speaker 1: They play action bootleg it and throw it to Woods underneath,
Speaker 1: and he's one on one in the wide open field
Speaker 1: against Eric Rowe and what and Roe gets him to
Speaker 1: the ground, just an open field tackle against a really
Speaker 1: good runner in the open field. Two plays later, he
Speaker 1: hammers Tyler Higbee after a one yard catch. Then on
Speaker 1: the next play gets the interception, but that was from
Speaker 1: a pressure again on a hit arm as the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are in zero coverage, and once again it's Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: getting a clean run on the quarterback won a game
Speaker 1: he had. He hits Jared Goff, the ball waddles out
Speaker 1: and Row capitalizes. Row later gets another pass break up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the third quarter, and you see
Speaker 1: where his conversion really has where it has its benefits.
Speaker 1: Higby flexes out wide to the furthest split receiver, the
Speaker 1: number one receiver out wide, and there's no safety help
Speaker 1: over the top. But Row doesn't really have to concern
Speaker 1: himself with the quick vertical release because he knows he
Speaker 1: has plenty of makeup speed. If that is the case.
Speaker 1: If that's where Higby wants to go, so he squats
Speaker 1: on it, jams him and almost gets an interception four
Speaker 1: point to five yards per target allowed this year for
Speaker 1: Eric row so he can do that. Then on the
Speaker 1: very next series, the Rams bring Robert Woods inside the
Speaker 1: inline tight end to kind of help them block in there,
Speaker 1: and Rowe comes down, throws his hands, disengages and makes
Speaker 1: the tackle for a two yard game. What a freaking player, man.
Speaker 1: And on his near pick six, you see Joe Alexander
Speaker 1: on the bottom of the screen ready to run down
Speaker 1: there with Eric Rowe for the touchdown if he can
Speaker 1: picks if he can squeeze it and take it back
Speaker 1: for six, and then he just kind of turns and
Speaker 1: walks away any other direction. At of the game. G
Speaker 1: A tweeted out the the video of Vernon Davis Fate
Speaker 1: crying on ESPN saying, this is me when we dropped
Speaker 1: pick sixes. So that was pretty funny to see. Bobby McCain, man,
Speaker 1: this guy is seeing it so well. You'll see him
Speaker 1: kind of peek at a two man route combination of
Speaker 1: the Rams, and then they come off their stem and
Speaker 1: make their break and that's his key. He hits it.
Speaker 1: He goes the right way and takes away those over
Speaker 1: the top passes. The last three offenses are over fourteen,
Speaker 1: throwing in the football twenty or more yards down the field.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins on the series before his pick, he forces
Speaker 1: Golf into an errant throw with a pure power bull rush,
Speaker 1: gets a pressure in his face and forces a bad pass,
Speaker 1: and then later has some serious power off the nose
Speaker 1: tackle on a four yard cam Acres run where he
Speaker 1: just works his way into the gap and gets the tackle.
Speaker 1: Another good game for Christian Wilkins. Xavian Howard, the first
Speaker 1: note I have on him is for a tackle on
Speaker 1: a six yard Henderson run off the outside where he
Speaker 1: beats a block on the edge. He's the furthest offender
Speaker 1: outside beats the block and gets Henderson to the ground.
Speaker 1: I thought the Dolphins tackled really well off the edge
Speaker 1: on those outside on and against the Rams receivers out
Speaker 1: wide as well. I think the crosser to Reynolds would
Speaker 1: have been a pick nine times out of ten if
Speaker 1: you asked. Xavian beautiful undercut runs the route for the receiver,
Speaker 1: just couldn't quite squeeze it, which we've come so accustomed
Speaker 1: to him doing. A pick in four straight games before
Speaker 1: this game, Dolphins are in dime. On a third and ten,
Speaker 1: that's six defensive backs. Howard great coverage, Wilkins and Van
Speaker 1: Ginko both get pressure inside on a nice stunt, and
Speaker 1: then just before the half for X a really really
Speaker 1: good rep on a quick hitch where he stays in
Speaker 1: the hip pocket and drives and breaks the pass up.
Speaker 1: So thought X had another good game here as well.
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginko, we talked about the fumble return already
Speaker 1: on the near interception. He did so well to create
Speaker 1: separation between he and left tackle. On that quick pass.
Speaker 1: You see the quarterback rise up to throw get the separation.
Speaker 1: Elevate gets his hand on the football, sends it up
Speaker 1: into the air and almost comes down with it, nearly
Speaker 1: finishing that play. Zack Steeler got a few notes on
Speaker 1: him once again. On the first and tent at our
Speaker 1: own thirty six, the Rams run outside and Seiler walks
Speaker 1: his man down the line and backwards, getting that penetration
Speaker 1: and puts him right in the running backs face. From there,
Speaker 1: Van Noy had beaten his block off the outside as well,
Speaker 1: and they team up to get a stop. For no game,
Speaker 1: They're a big start to a series on the fringe
Speaker 1: of field goal range as Miami allowed zero yards at
Speaker 1: first and tent from the thirty six starting there with
Speaker 1: Seiler and Van Noy. In the second quarter, he beats
Speaker 1: a double team outright and gets outside for a tackle.
Speaker 1: Just sheer power and strength. And then later in the
Speaker 1: game two plays right before loss and strip sec he
Speaker 1: flows down the line once again and gets a big
Speaker 1: stop at a two yard game to help create that
Speaker 1: situation for shack loss and those are always big plays
Speaker 1: to me. And then again with the power in the
Speaker 1: middle of the third quarter, he walks the center right
Speaker 1: into Golf's lap as he shoots one into a bracket
Speaker 1: between Brandon Jones and Xavier Howard. Just a really nice
Speaker 1: team stop on that third down. Get off the land
Speaker 1: and Roberts have mercy on that tackle for lost before
Speaker 1: van giggles pumble return, he gets his key, pulls the
Speaker 1: trigger and wham, what a collision. That was love watching
Speaker 1: him do that. He comes back in the second half
Speaker 1: and does the exact same thing, only this time he
Speaker 1: uses the tight end going across the formation for a
Speaker 1: block to throw him into the running back for a
Speaker 1: three yard loss to create third and thirteen when he
Speaker 1: sees it and goes man. That's fun to watch. Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: We're never gonna talk about him because teams just don't
Speaker 1: throw at him, and when they do, it's usually not successful.
Speaker 1: Like on a take off route they try on third
Speaker 1: down and six, he just mirrors that thing, stays right
Speaker 1: in phase, and elevates at the catchpoint for the incompletion
Speaker 1: perfecto I wrote down. They come back and try it
Speaker 1: again with the Dolphins and cover zero and Jones once
Speaker 1: again is right there. Those guys X and Jones on
Speaker 1: the outside allow you get really creative with those safeties
Speaker 1: back there and Rowan McCain shack Lawson on the series
Speaker 1: of Eric Rose interception. He beats a block inside and
Speaker 1: closes that thing down after setting a very hard edge
Speaker 1: for the tackle inside on his strip sack. You've got
Speaker 1: X and Jones right in the hip pocket. To go
Speaker 1: back to that comment earlier, right in the hip pocket
Speaker 1: up the stem. As the receiver's break into the route,
Speaker 1: stay right in that hip pocket again. The tight end
Speaker 1: is bracketed. Lawson wins with speed and gets underneath Gerald
Speaker 1: Everett for a run on golf and he gets that
Speaker 1: ball out awesome rush. Good job beating a tight end.
Speaker 1: As a ass rushing you gotta get those. We saw
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle do it against the Niners. We see laws
Speaker 1: and do it here and Kyle van Noy a great
Speaker 1: job to scoop that thing and nearly score it. He
Speaker 1: had to have played some running back sometime in his
Speaker 1: past because that was a hell of a run. And
Speaker 1: then later in the game, Losson gets home on a
Speaker 1: third down and thirteen in the second half with a
Speaker 1: nice stunt inside to force another golf throwaway and a
Speaker 1: punt there for the Rams. My final note here for
Speaker 1: the defense, Commo grouge Hill makes a hell of a
Speaker 1: play to start the second half. Van Ginkle also beats
Speaker 1: a block to get there with him for a stop
Speaker 1: for no game came off his block Dove who made
Speaker 1: a tackle right there at the line. So plenty of
Speaker 1: notes there on the Dolphins defense. On the All twenty
Speaker 1: two review, they played their butts off. It was fun
Speaker 1: to watch. I couldn't wait to watch this tape and
Speaker 1: it did not fail to live up to the hype.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast by hearing
Speaker 1: from some Dolphins coaches, the coordinators and offensive assistance. Today
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday, November third edition of the Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and bring on our first coach on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday edition of Drive Time, and here from Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, and let's go ahead and talk
Speaker 1: to Josh. First out the goal of the defense in general.
Speaker 1: He was asked about the defensive run game production, but
Speaker 1: here he is on the goal of the defense to
Speaker 1: keep points off the board. Yeah. I think that the
Speaker 1: thing for us is, you know, we we try to
Speaker 1: be good against the run. Uh you know, we try
Speaker 1: to be good against the past, and you know, you know, statistics, numbers,
Speaker 1: all all those things. I mean, ultimately, what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do is win the game. Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: mean they don't give you points for yards. I know that.
Speaker 1: Um so you know, but I mean we're we're not okay,
Speaker 1: you know, giving up yards either. Uh So, you know,
Speaker 1: everything that we do has a rhyme and has a reason,
Speaker 1: and um you know, obviously we're trying to improve, Like
Speaker 1: I said, the things that that we don't do so well,
Speaker 1: and you know, the things that we have done well,
Speaker 1: we try to build off of that. So you know,
Speaker 1: as far as the numbers go and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, ultimately, what we're trying to do is win
Speaker 1: the game. We're trying to keep the point totals down
Speaker 1: and get the ball back to the offense. That's really
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do, and we're trying to improve
Speaker 1: on a weekend, week out basis. Speaking of the running game,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals bring a dynamic runner at the quarterback possession
Speaker 1: end of this game. The Dolphins will have their handsful
Speaker 1: with Kyler Murray. Here's coach Josh Bowyer's opinion and take
Speaker 1: on Kyler Murray. Yeah. I mean I think you're very
Speaker 1: aware of the things that he's capable of. And you know, uh,
Speaker 1: he and he's got it all. He's he's the total package.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's quick, he's fast, he has a strong arm,
Speaker 1: he's got a quick release. Uh, he can make plays
Speaker 1: in the pocket, he can make plays out of the pocket. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a big challenge in front of
Speaker 1: us this week. Um. You know, and like I said,
Speaker 1: each week is different. You know, how we approach it,
Speaker 1: how we attack it. Ultimately, what we're trying to do
Speaker 1: is to put our players in a position to succeed
Speaker 1: and that's you know what, we're working this morning very
Speaker 1: hard to make sure that that we can do that. Next,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to coach Crossman who talked
Speaker 1: about some of the veteran guys of his special teams.
Speaker 1: It's doing a good job not just producing on the field,
Speaker 1: but helping nurture the younger players on that unit. Again,
Speaker 1: I think that you know that anytime you're you're working
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, you know those blocks are
Speaker 1: always critical. H So you know, yeah, big block, but
Speaker 1: we had a bunch of good blocks and a bunch
Speaker 1: of critical, good technique blocks. You know, you're not necessary
Speaker 1: people looking for knockouts and be his but really be
Speaker 1: doing a good job of being able to get in
Speaker 1: the way. And then cave I was like, like a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, you know, they're playing on four phases
Speaker 1: and uh, giving great effort, you know, and really doing
Speaker 1: a good job during the week, especially you know with
Speaker 1: the younger guys. When you take our veteran players, you
Speaker 1: know he and Fed and Como and Mac, you know,
Speaker 1: those older players are really doing a good job nurturing
Speaker 1: the younger players. Let's go ahead next here and here
Speaker 1: from Dolphins offensive Cordin or Chan Gailey, who first starts
Speaker 1: off by talking about what he saw in two a
Speaker 1: ton of lows NFL debut. Well, he, Um, he made
Speaker 1: some good reads. He made he he did some good things.
Speaker 1: Uh as far as understand what we're trying to get
Speaker 1: done run game wise, which everybody thinks it's just past game.
Speaker 1: But he understands what we're trying to get done with
Speaker 1: the run game. And he's gotta he needs he needs reps.
Speaker 1: He just got to keep working timing with these guys
Speaker 1: and keep getting reps. At those reps that he got
Speaker 1: down the night were the other day were invaluable. And um,
Speaker 1: he'll get he'll start to I think he'll start to
Speaker 1: get better, um and bigger jumps as we go forward,
Speaker 1: because the more he sees, the more he understands, the
Speaker 1: more field he gets with the receivers. I think he'll
Speaker 1: I think he'll get better and better. And just he
Speaker 1: just get just needs to play and he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of talent. So I'm anxious to, um see what
Speaker 1: steps he's gonna take this week. The two things happened
Speaker 1: to me for young quarterbacks. UM, One they start to
Speaker 1: see defense is better and to the game starts to
Speaker 1: slow down form because it's at a hectic pace the
Speaker 1: first time you go out there, and then the game
Speaker 1: starts to slow down the more you play. And that's
Speaker 1: what that's what I see from young quarterbacks. So that's
Speaker 1: what I've experienced with young quarterbacks through the years, is
Speaker 1: they understand better what defenses are trying to do, and
Speaker 1: then they the game seems to slow down form. Let's
Speaker 1: keep it rolling here with Dolphins wide receivers coach Josh Bizzard,
Speaker 1: who was asked about Mac Collins and the work he
Speaker 1: puts in both in the receiver's room and the special
Speaker 1: teams units. Yeah, he works incredibly hard in terms of
Speaker 1: being in the meeting room. He's also really good for
Speaker 1: some of these younger guys because he's been around and
Speaker 1: he really uh he grinds for everything that he gets,
Speaker 1: and and that came through special teams even from the
Speaker 1: time that he was at Carolina. So to see that
Speaker 1: and show that you can carve out a roll and
Speaker 1: get you on the field and make plays on special
Speaker 1: teams and come in and do things we asked them
Speaker 1: to do on offense as well, I think it's a
Speaker 1: great example for everybody really to see the room, and
Speaker 1: he just brings juice every day. It's a great personality
Speaker 1: and great teammate. Let's go ahead and keep this thing
Speaker 1: moving right along. Here with Dolphins running backs coach Eric
Speaker 1: Studisville as he was asked about the r p O game,
Speaker 1: here's coach on the r p O. Yeah, Cam, it's
Speaker 1: a good question that it doesn't change. What it changes
Speaker 1: for us is there's always a free defender. That's the
Speaker 1: r p O concept, and so we just have to
Speaker 1: know who that is. Is it a linebacker or is
Speaker 1: it a defensive end for instance? Who is the free guy?
Speaker 1: So when we're talking about that during the week, that's
Speaker 1: who we're trying to really study and say, how does
Speaker 1: this guy play? How does he squeeze as a linebackers,
Speaker 1: at a defensive end, whoever. And it's but but that's
Speaker 1: all around the league. I mean, you can do that
Speaker 1: in multiple different plays. So it's not we do it
Speaker 1: all the time. Other teams do it all the time.
Speaker 1: But it's just that it doesn't change anything. We we
Speaker 1: have mechanics of every play that our eyes are in
Speaker 1: a certain place, we're trying to see different things and
Speaker 1: and that doesn't change them a few more coaches to
Speaker 1: go here, Let's go ahead and hear from Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: line coach Steve Marshall on the protection calls and how
Speaker 1: that might change from one quarterback to the next. We
Speaker 1: went from Fits who was probably dumb boast experience one
Speaker 1: of the most experienced quarterbacks in the NFL too too,
Speaker 1: who's obviously day one, first game. Uh, the calls or
Speaker 1: anything really don't change, um, you know, understanding what they're
Speaker 1: seeing in front of them, understanding you know, making sure
Speaker 1: that we can get get the right guys blocked. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, which We've done a heck of a job
Speaker 1: of this year and I'm I'm sure we'll continue to
Speaker 1: do that, you know, and get them protected, you know,
Speaker 1: but the calls really haven't changed any you know. It's obviously,
Speaker 1: um two was first time through getting a getting a
Speaker 1: a pro pass rush coming at him every minute. Obviously,
Speaker 1: is this thing that he'll get better and better at.
Speaker 1: And obviously, my the young guys we got up front
Speaker 1: of offense and continue to get better and better some
Speaker 1: of that knowing the different and a variety of blitzer
Speaker 1: is they get specially on third down, you know, And
Speaker 1: and Arizona is going to be no different. They've got
Speaker 1: they've got a really dynamic third down pressure packet that
Speaker 1: we've got to be ready from the offensive line to
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Coach Robbie Brown, our penultimate coach here on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday edition of Drive Time. Coach was asked about
Speaker 1: the things that he saw from Tah that he was
Speaker 1: encouraged from this past Sunday. Well, I think I was encouraged. Uh,
Speaker 1: he did some good things communication wise. I thought he
Speaker 1: was calm. I thought the coach to QB communication if
Speaker 1: we do that stuff in practice, but it's different doing
Speaker 1: it in the game. Uh. So I thought all that
Speaker 1: stuff went well. Um, it wasn't just uh a hundred
Speaker 1: percent smooth. We had some stuff where you know, he says, hey,
Speaker 1: I like this, don't like this during the week and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So I thought he communicated well
Speaker 1: with what he needed. And every guy's different, every quarterbacks different.
Speaker 1: Some guys want this little reminder, some guys want this.
Speaker 1: But I thought he did a really good job of
Speaker 1: saying what he liked, what helps him, what didn't help him.
Speaker 1: And that's what I've told him, uh to keep focusing on.
Speaker 1: And he does a good job of being himself overall,
Speaker 1: so he's not afraid to tell you. And I think
Speaker 1: that would be my focus, uh, to try to tell
Speaker 1: him to keep improving on is Hey, let's let's hone
Speaker 1: in our communication, because that's the first thing you have
Speaker 1: to do is be on the same page as the Dolphins, uh.
Speaker 1: And I think he did a good job with that,
Speaker 1: And I think that's somewhere that I would say we
Speaker 1: keep focusing on and let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: with coach George Godzi, the tight Ends coach. I asked
Speaker 1: coach about the relationship between Adam Shaheen and Mike Gisicki
Speaker 1: and Derham Smith because we know how close both Mike
Speaker 1: and Durham were coming into the NFL in the same
Speaker 1: draft class. But Shaheen has jumped right in here and
Speaker 1: kind of made it a three headed monster. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask coach about the relationship of those guys in
Speaker 1: that room. Here's Coach Gotzi on his tight Ends room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's excellent that you pointed that out, because, um,
Speaker 1: in that room, there's a lot of communication that has
Speaker 1: to go on, especially you know sometimes when you're in
Speaker 1: as a why and then you got a wing and
Speaker 1: then another wing, and all those guys are tight ends.
Speaker 1: We're trying to communicate from inside out, so one of
Speaker 1: them has got to get the call from you know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line or the center, and then you know
Speaker 1: it gets relayed finally out to the to the last
Speaker 1: man on the edge. So we talk a lot in
Speaker 1: that room. Um, there's also you know, the dynamic of
Speaker 1: a new player coming into an organization, organization where you know,
Speaker 1: two of the guys had been in here for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, so just being acceptance from Mike and
Speaker 1: Derham standpoint, and then obviously from from Adams standpoint, open
Speaker 1: and up and and I think the more we kind
Speaker 1: of get to know each other, the better off will
Speaker 1: be as a unit. So, um, they've worked at it.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to do, especially you know when it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when when by the time aneman had gotten here,
Speaker 1: there was an offseason that had already taken place, so
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not really just plug and play always.
Speaker 1: So those guys have worked at it, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: commend those guys. And you can check out all these
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