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Speaker 2: Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of
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Speaker 2: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: And on today's show, the bye week is officially here.
Speaker 2: What do you do in the bye week? You look
Speaker 2: back at the season that has been, look forward to
Speaker 2: what we should expect the rest of the way, your
Speaker 2: self scout, you get ready for the stretch run. We're
Speaker 2: doing the offense today on the Draft Time Podcast, where
Speaker 2: you each position, look at some numbers and some trends.
Speaker 1: A whole lot more, plus my updated.
Speaker 2: Season predictions on this episode of the podcast from the
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Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time podcast May.
Speaker 2: Before we get going today, I want to address something
Speaker 2: very quickly that made the airwaves on Monday Night ahead
Speaker 2: of the Chargers and Jets thriller on Monday Night Football,
Speaker 2: when they had a four minute segment dissecting Miami's quarterback
Speaker 2: in the way that only this quarterback can be dissected
Speaker 2: because he didn't make two plays with the game on
Speaker 2: the line against the NFL or AFC's best team. I
Speaker 2: should say in a different country that he's scared, that
Speaker 2: he's scared to make a play in the pocket because
Speaker 2: he missed two throws really in the entire game. I mean,
Speaker 2: he had a couple more besides that, but you get
Speaker 2: the entire sense. And my good friend Kyle Krabs over
Speaker 2: at Lockdown Dolphins had a great segment on this, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad he did, but I'm just not going to
Speaker 2: really like dive into the details behind it on the
Speaker 2: show today because I just don't think it's worth giving
Speaker 2: validation to that type of rhetoric and that type of
Speaker 2: conversation because it's utterly ridiculous. So let's move on from
Speaker 2: that and go ahead and hear from or not hear from.
Speaker 2: Just update on Mike McDaniel's Tuesday press conference, he told
Speaker 2: some good news on the injury front. We talked about
Speaker 2: this before the game on Sunday, and I was talking
Speaker 2: about the potential of a scenario where you come out
Speaker 2: of that game seven and two, first place in the AFC,
Speaker 2: and if you don't have any major critical injuries, you
Speaker 2: could potentially have pretty much your entire roster back sans
Speaker 2: Isaiah Win and a couple of guys you know, practice
Speaker 2: squad and depth type of pieces. After your bye week
Speaker 2: and the injury stuff pretty much happened, except for we
Speaker 2: didn't win the game. But Rob Jones is going to
Speaker 2: be week to week. No surgery required for Rob Jones.
Speaker 2: That's great news on that front. We should be getting
Speaker 2: River Craycraft back after the bye week and running back
Speaker 2: to von A Chan, who I think is going to
Speaker 2: be a shot.
Speaker 1: In the arm.
Speaker 2: This defense, or rather this offense right now that has
Speaker 2: kind of hit a little bit, a tiny little bit
Speaker 2: of a loll the last couple of weeks, especially the
Speaker 2: running game in particular, I think a perfect shot in
Speaker 2: the arm here post bye week to see Devon get
Speaker 2: back out there. He looks really good, ready to go.
Speaker 2: Him and River Craycraft could be big boost to this offense.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty much it. Brandon Jones was back at
Speaker 2: practicing a red medical non contact jersey, So this Dolphins
Speaker 2: team heads into the bye week pretty healthy. And with that,
Speaker 2: speaking of the buye, I want to do a roster
Speaker 2: review here on the podcast and just kind of give
Speaker 2: you an update on where we are, where I think
Speaker 2: we're going, and what you can look forward to here
Speaker 2: in the second half of the season. We start first
Speaker 2: before any individuals, looking at some team stats and where
Speaker 2: they rank.
Speaker 1: Are you guys ready for this? Yards?
Speaker 2: Seven point one yards is not just first in the NFL,
Speaker 2: it would be the most all time if they finished
Speaker 2: at that mark. Total offense almost four thousand yards so
Speaker 2: far thirty.
Speaker 1: Nine to eighteen. That is first in the NFL.
Speaker 2: The twenty five one hundred and eighty seven passing yards
Speaker 2: is first in the NFL. The thirteen thirty one rushing
Speaker 2: yards is second. They average thirty one point seven points
Speaker 2: per game and that's most in the NFL EPA per
Speaker 2: play is point one four to seven. That's first in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Their fifty point one percent success rate is third.
Speaker 2: They're tops in red zone at seventy five percent. And
Speaker 2: then this is the one like off the wall stat
Speaker 2: here that's snowhere near the other ones. They're seventeenth and
Speaker 2: third down offense at thirty nine point six percent.
Speaker 1: Not bad, not bad at all.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and start here on the roster review
Speaker 2: at the quarterback position, where we always do on these
Speaker 2: roster reviews or film review editions of the podcast. Here,
Speaker 2: I think you start with this, and I tweeted it
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, much to the delight of Dolphins fans, maybe
Speaker 2: the misery a little bit of both. But we've had
Speaker 2: the same quarterbacks start every game this season and only
Speaker 2: exited the game for mop up duty in the blowout
Speaker 2: games we've had, and in fact, this is the first
Speaker 2: time the Dolphins have had the same starting quarterback for
Speaker 2: each of the first nine games since twenty sixteen. So
Speaker 2: that's a good thing, right, But where does he rank? Well,
Speaker 2: you probably know this as well. Passing yards for two
Speaker 2: two thousand and six ZHO nine, that's first nineteen touchdown
Speaker 2: passes is all alone in first place. His six point
Speaker 2: two percent touchdown rate is third. His two point three
Speaker 2: percent I rate is eighteenth. But I will say this
Speaker 2: in watching other games around the National Football League and
Speaker 2: a total aside here real quick, like I go on
Speaker 2: Twitter for you know, Jets discourse, because as I tell
Speaker 2: my friends here on the building and co workers, the
Speaker 2: only thing as sweet as Dolphins' success is Jets misery
Speaker 2: for me, And like there's a lot of Jets fans
Speaker 2: that think that Zach Wilson is there's something there, and
Speaker 2: that blows my mind. I would wagh way rather have
Speaker 2: a little bit higher of a pick percentage and actually
Speaker 2: threaten vertically down the football field than to play you know,
Speaker 2: scared you know, conservative football. No time and place for
Speaker 2: that in twenty twenty three. So what I'm saying is,
Speaker 2: I'll take Tua's two point three percent pick percentage, which
Speaker 2: is still a third of his touchdown percentage, to push
Speaker 2: the ball vertically and wind up averaging eight point five
Speaker 2: yards per ten which is second in the National Football League,
Speaker 2: and have the most touchdowns. To me, it's a very
Speaker 2: fair trade off. One hundred and thirty first downs is
Speaker 2: first the success rate fifty two point two percent is third.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the eight point five YPA is second. His
Speaker 2: net yards per dropback is also second, seven point eighty five.
Speaker 2: He gets sacked on three point four percent of his dropbacks,
Speaker 2: that's third lowest in the NFL. His passer rating is
Speaker 2: best one oh six point four, his QBR is sixth
Speaker 2: sixty five point three. EPA per play is fourth at
Speaker 2: point one nine to five, and his EPA plus completion
Speaker 2: percentage over expected composite is a stat at analytics. Folks
Speaker 2: love to use. His point one five to seven that's
Speaker 2: fourth in the NFL. So, anyway you splice it, this
Speaker 2: guy is a top three or four quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Throws twenty plus yards down the field, He's seventeen for
Speaker 2: thirty five. He's damn near fifty percent for six hundred
Speaker 2: and six yards, seven touchdowns, four picks. A lot of
Speaker 2: those picks are basically like third down punts, or quite frankly,
Speaker 2: two of them had passingerferences on the my thought, but
Speaker 2: I digress. A ninety four point eight passer rating on
Speaker 2: just the twenty plus yard air throws. That's very, very
Speaker 2: That's better than some quarterbacks total rating that includes their
Speaker 2: you know, their screen games, and they're built in completions
Speaker 2: throws of ten plus air yards, He's seventy.
Speaker 1: For one to eighteen. That's absurd.
Speaker 2: For fifteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns and five picks. That's
Speaker 2: a passer rating.
Speaker 1: Of one oh two point two.
Speaker 2: Take away all the throws under ten yards and he
Speaker 2: still would be the third highest.
Speaker 1: Rated quarterback in the NFL. This dude's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Against the blitz, He's seventy for one oh one with
Speaker 2: seven hundred and thirty two yards, eight touchdowns and no picks.
Speaker 1: We he blitzed Tua.
Speaker 2: He has a passer rating of one sixteen point four
Speaker 2: when you pressure him though, twenty one for fifty five
Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety yards, two touchdowns, two picks, a
Speaker 2: passer rating of fifty two point eight. But you already
Speaker 2: knew about all those stats, right, and we knew that
Speaker 2: he was doing that last year. But in terms of
Speaker 2: Tua's tape, I think there's been marked improvement in critical
Speaker 2: areas of any quarterbacks game. I think he's processing as
Speaker 2: fast as any QB in the NFL. He's expanded the
Speaker 2: offense into the third and fourth option when he has to.
Speaker 2: He's getting it too, is hot when he has to.
Speaker 2: That was always the area of Tua's game that was
Speaker 2: going to set him apart as a pro right, his
Speaker 2: ability to react before the defense, and I think that
Speaker 2: his development into the very best player in the NFL
Speaker 2: in that department has helped produce those stats. I just
Speaker 2: ran off to you in an offense that accentuates what
Speaker 2: he does well. And I'll argue this until I'm blue
Speaker 2: in the face. It's not the only thing that matters, but.
Speaker 1: It is the most important thing for a quarterback.
Speaker 2: That and accuracy, which when those two are really hardwired together,
Speaker 2: that's perfect. And I think that's where Tua is also
Speaker 2: the best in the NFL, which is why there are
Speaker 2: not five quarterbacks in the NFL. I'd rather take over
Speaker 2: this guy. So he has taken that trape and improved it,
Speaker 2: polished it. I won't say perfected it because he's twenty
Speaker 2: five years old. But I'm excited about what we have
Speaker 2: here for the long term, not just for this season,
Speaker 2: where I think the bye week and some extra study
Speaker 2: and some time off to rest and heal and mentally
Speaker 2: kind of refocus will help him perform even better down
Speaker 2: the second half of the schedule here, especially with how
Speaker 2: the schedule shakes out here in the second half of
Speaker 2: the season, but also beyond this season.
Speaker 1: Right, These are the types of skills that.
Speaker 2: Only improve and enhance when your quarterback gets older, has
Speaker 2: more reps and has just seen more football, especially when
Speaker 2: that quarterback is as dedicated to the craft.
Speaker 1: As to it has displayed.
Speaker 2: It's not like the you know, Russell Wilson, what was
Speaker 2: his entire game, right, it was movement and getting off
Speaker 2: the spot. It's the entire nature of his game kind
Speaker 2: of went backwards when he didn't have that in his
Speaker 2: back pocket anymore. And you know, like Lamar Jackson, one
Speaker 2: of the best quarterbacks in the world, he loses that
Speaker 2: running ability. Things change there a little bit, but not
Speaker 2: for Tua. I think he has the chance to be
Speaker 2: one of his guys that plays into his late thirties
Speaker 2: at a high, high level that's fifteen years down the road.
Speaker 2: I think he's shown a better propensity this year for
Speaker 2: creating off script. I don't think anybody would mistake to
Speaker 2: for one of the more fleet of foot quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: the NFL. And there are times where he gets a
Speaker 2: little bit stuck in quicksand under pressure when he has
Speaker 2: to like eat a sack.
Speaker 1: But that's okay.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I grew up watching Tom Brady and
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning swap MVP awards every other year, and they
Speaker 2: protected themselves against sacks and got down when the pressure
Speaker 2: was imminent every single time. That's how you play sixteen
Speaker 2: games a year for X number of years. The numbers
Speaker 2: against pressure have decreased this year. He was top five
Speaker 2: and passer rating last season against pressure. Not the case
Speaker 2: this year. I already told you by the stats there.
Speaker 2: But he's been under pressure far less frequently, and I
Speaker 2: think he's done a better job of just throwing the
Speaker 2: ball away. So you wind up with these games where
Speaker 2: he's like, you know, two for five with twelve yards
Speaker 2: versus pressure. And then he had like the pick six
Speaker 2: against the Giants, which just you know, de your numbers
Speaker 2: when you have a pick like that on a low
Speaker 2: sample size. So small sample size, but in an area
Speaker 2: he can improve upon. In the second half of the season,
Speaker 2: I think he's protected the football better this year. There's
Speaker 2: been almost no throws that were quote unquote dropped. I
Speaker 2: INT's In fact, his INT number is one fewer than
Speaker 2: his turnover worthy play number. I do think there could
Speaker 2: be better ball security in terms of fumbles, but he's
Speaker 2: also been tabbed with like six fumbles that aren't even
Speaker 2: his responsibility this year where it's a bad snapper, you know,
Speaker 2: raheem not putting the ball away in the belly.
Speaker 1: Where can he take his game to the next level.
Speaker 2: I think just continuing to sharpen up the operation, particularly
Speaker 2: in road environments.
Speaker 1: But that's really the whole team.
Speaker 2: I think you can tie the miss throws almost every
Speaker 2: time to the footwork, which is usually pristine and why
Speaker 2: there are so few bad throws here, but every quarterback
Speaker 2: has them. And with Tua, I think it's because he
Speaker 2: doesn't hitch up. He hits the top of that drop
Speaker 2: and kind of fades back into the throw and winds
Speaker 2: up having not enough club right, Like, you have one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards into the pin, you get the
Speaker 2: nine to iron at least that's what I hit the
Speaker 2: ball far, big dog, but you can fat and only
Speaker 2: goes one hundred and twenty yards. But even still, like
Speaker 2: the Chargers game, for instance, you know, thirty five yard touchdown,
Speaker 2: the Tyreek Giants game sixty nine yard touchdown the Tyreek
Speaker 2: Panthers game forty one yard touchdown to Tyreek. Eagles game
Speaker 2: twenty seven yard touchdown to Tyreek. Patriots game forty two
Speaker 2: yard touchdown to Tyreek. Every single one of those throws
Speaker 2: is they perfectly placed deep ball to the perimeter On
Speaker 2: each one, It's that the top of the drop, clean footwork,
Speaker 2: hitch up, dime touchdown. As far as the critiques for me,
Speaker 2: their minimal. He's played the best quarterback in the league
Speaker 2: for long stretches this year. Even his air quote down
Speaker 2: games categorically ranked with the middle of the pack quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in the NFL from a production standpoint. But really the
Speaker 2: film as well, I think he's really raised his floor.
Speaker 2: His worst tape for me this year was the Giants game,
Speaker 2: and I think that tape clears his worst tapes from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. In fact, I think it clears four
Speaker 2: of his worst tapes last year Patriots. In the opener,
Speaker 2: I hated that tape. The Niners tape bunch of misthrows.
Speaker 2: Chargers game was an abject failure from the entire offense,
Speaker 2: the Packers game, the three picks in the second half.
Speaker 1: I think each of those games.
Speaker 2: Was worse than his worst game this year, so he's
Speaker 2: raised the ceiling and the floor. I say it all
Speaker 2: the time, we should consider ourselves fortunate that this guy
Speaker 2: is the guy we get to watch every single week
Speaker 2: for the foreseeable future. How many times has he appeared
Speaker 2: in Travis's top five tapes this year? Seven out of
Speaker 2: the nine games, three times the first tape four in
Speaker 2: second place. I tend to put the quarterback up high
Speaker 2: when he plays well, so that's kind of a little
Speaker 2: bit waited for the position. But he's had a great year.
Speaker 2: Only the Giants and KC game did not produce a
Speaker 2: top five tape from me. And then I want to
Speaker 2: finish up every single one of these positional categories with
Speaker 2: where Travis Scott at right, where Traviscott it wrong, and
Speaker 2: here where I got it right.
Speaker 1: I mean Michael Jordan, security guard Jiff where Travis got
Speaker 1: it wrong?
Speaker 2: And I hate starting this way because it almost puts
Speaker 2: me in a position where I have to defend myself.
Speaker 2: But damn it, damn it, I feel like I've been
Speaker 2: pretty aligned to the truth. On two, going back to
Speaker 2: his Alabama days, pointing out the superpowers that have become
Speaker 2: evident the most acknowledging some of the shortcomings and where
Speaker 2: he can get better. Better mechanics on short throws, better creativity,
Speaker 2: better operation, and I promise the next segment I will
Speaker 2: talk about things I got wrong, not just.
Speaker 1: All about how right I am.
Speaker 2: Here, Mike White's thrown two passes, a touchdown and a
Speaker 2: pick feast or famine. That's hilarious to me. Skyler hasn't
Speaker 2: played in a games. Let's go ahead and move on
Speaker 2: to running backs. But let's go ahead and take a
Speaker 2: break first. On the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation, we are reviewing the
Speaker 2: Dolphins offense in the first half of the season here
Speaker 2: on this Wednesday edition of the Draft Time Podcast. Plenty
Speaker 2: more by week content coming your way, including JT. O.
Speaker 2: Sullivan and Channing Crowder here on the podcast. Cannot wait
Speaker 2: to talk to those guys. Let's go ahead and talk
Speaker 2: about some running backs here. I'm not sure how you
Speaker 2: can be anything but thrilled with how this room has
Speaker 2: performed this season. The only downside really has been the
Speaker 2: injuries they've had to overcome. Raheem has played through some
Speaker 2: Nixon bruises, Devon has missed some time, obviously, and that sucks.
Speaker 2: Jeff missed the first five games, Stavon missed some time,
Speaker 2: Chris Brooks currently on IR. But they've weathered the storm
Speaker 2: and helped contribute a top two rushing attack and score
Speaker 2: just as many touchdowns as the Ravens in the running game,
Speaker 2: but they have Lamar Jackson scoring some of those. So
Speaker 2: Dolphins running backs have the most total ted, especially when
Speaker 2: you include receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And then don't forget.
Speaker 2: The best fullback in football, baby alec Ingold, has been
Speaker 2: so instrumental in all this Dolphins success this season. I
Speaker 2: think the vision and feel for each guy in the
Speaker 2: system is better in year two. Obviously, both the rookies
Speaker 2: are new to the room. But with Raheem, and I
Speaker 2: say it all the time, it clicked for him last
Speaker 2: year down the stretch, coming off that twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: knee injury, playing behind a new line, a new team,
Speaker 2: he was a monster in the final five games. I
Speaker 2: thought that carried over into success this year. I think
Speaker 2: the whole group just has a smoother feel for the tracks,
Speaker 2: the gaps, and their decision making. It's been one of
Speaker 2: the top running back rooms in the NFL for ah moster, fast, aggressive,
Speaker 2: gets north and south, strong as hell, tough to tackle.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what else there is to say. He
Speaker 2: doesn't get squared up. He finds broken tackles all over
Speaker 2: the field. He has more rushing yards post thirtieth birthday
Speaker 2: than he did pre thirtieth birthday. Like a fine whine
Speaker 2: this guy twenty nine missed force tackles three point eighty
Speaker 2: six average after contact. What can you say about rookie
Speaker 2: Devon h chan Man. I think his speed, in addition
Speaker 2: to providing explosive plays with stunning regularity, I think some
Speaker 2: of the runs we've had the last few weeks would
Speaker 2: have been longer had he been in the game. I
Speaker 2: think it also opens up the passing game, though, I
Speaker 2: think you've just begun to scratch the surface with him
Speaker 2: in terms of ways to incorporate him in the offense.
Speaker 2: The kids played what Denver three games. He's got this
Speaker 2: impact already. I cannot wait to see what he does
Speaker 2: for the offense. He's the shot in the arms. Running
Speaker 2: game needs fifteen miss tackles forced seven point four to
Speaker 2: two yards after initial contact. Savon Akhmed provided some valuable
Speaker 2: depth early in the season, had some big plays in
Speaker 2: the charger game. Essentially every time that you needed to
Speaker 2: lean on him for some bang, he was able.
Speaker 1: To provide that.
Speaker 2: But I thought the last couple of weeks has slowed
Speaker 2: down a little bit, a little more indecisive. I think
Speaker 2: that his perfect role is that third down role with
Speaker 2: the kate with a focus on special teams, the best
Speaker 2: way forward. Four miss tackles forced three point one six
Speaker 2: yards after contact. For Jeff Wilson has not had a
Speaker 2: chance to get going. Looks a little bit slow out
Speaker 2: of the blocks in terms of coming back from the injury,
Speaker 2: but he's had some games down to get his conditioning
Speaker 2: to where it was pre rehab work. We all saw
Speaker 2: how explosive he was when he first got here last year.
Speaker 2: Haven't seen that same burst this year. But now with
Speaker 2: a week off in the bye week, hopefully he can
Speaker 2: get back to himself for the stretch run here just
Speaker 2: one mistackle force two point five seven yards after initial contact.
Speaker 2: Chris Brooks just loved the way he fulfilled that kind
Speaker 2: of h back role, but then the few carries showed
Speaker 2: some absolute physicality. He's got a future in this league,
Speaker 2: no doubt about that. To me.
Speaker 1: Eight miss tackles.
Speaker 2: Forced six point seven three yards after initial contact. Man,
Speaker 2: he's a good player. Alec Ingold is so selfless, so
Speaker 2: integral to the offense. Asked to fulfill a multitude of
Speaker 2: jobs on any given week, just an awesome player catches, passes,
Speaker 2: cleans out, defensive tackles on wam, solidifies the edge, attacks
Speaker 2: linebackers one on one.
Speaker 1: What more can you say?
Speaker 2: Top tape appearances here for this group, moster has two.
Speaker 2: I had him third in the Carolina game, fifth in
Speaker 2: the Patriots game that was in New England. HN has
Speaker 2: been all three games he's played.
Speaker 1: The Giants.
Speaker 2: He was third, Buffalo he was second, Denver he was first,
Speaker 2: and Aleck got one against the Patriots back on week
Speaker 2: number two. He was third in that game where Travis
Speaker 2: Scott right whereheem was plenty good and his speed to
Speaker 2: the edge was a fantastic compliment to the offense, as
Speaker 2: well as his physicality late in twenty twenty two would
Speaker 2: translate to this season and then h and a player
Speaker 2: I was very excited about, and that Dalvin Cook was
Speaker 2: washed and Miami would be foolish to give him any
Speaker 2: additional money.
Speaker 1: Where Travis got it wrong.
Speaker 2: I probably oversold the depth of the room a little
Speaker 2: bit in terms of Akmed's ability to be a like
Speaker 2: a spell for your starting running back again, I think
Speaker 2: third down back and special teams is the way forward there.
Speaker 2: At wide receivers, I mean, one of the best rooms
Speaker 2: in football. Once again, it's been tough for Jalen this
Speaker 2: year with the injuries and replacing River Craykraft. It's been
Speaker 2: a challenge, but it's nice to see Cedric step up.
Speaker 2: I think if there's one thing you could hope to
Speaker 2: see more, it's just general depth. Obviously, losing Azukamma and
Speaker 2: cray Craft plays into that. I think Miami does have
Speaker 2: a third receiver issue right now in terms of developing
Speaker 2: who that might be for you long term. But I
Speaker 2: think at times we've been a little bit too dependent
Speaker 2: on Tyreek. Could you stand to spread the.
Speaker 1: Ball out more?
Speaker 2: And that includes a lot more waddle for me than
Speaker 2: anything else. Speaking of the individual's, Tyreek has just been Tyreek.
Speaker 2: I mean over a thousand yards the first half of
Speaker 2: the season on pace to crush pffs yards per route
Speaker 2: ran Metric, all time, super efficient, very little wasted movement
Speaker 2: in his game. I think his release has been better,
Speaker 2: the timing of his routes has been better. He always
Speaker 2: angles back towards the quarterback on end breakers and outbreakers.
Speaker 2: His understanding of time and feel and route concept has
Speaker 2: always been good, but I feel like it's been great
Speaker 2: this year. Doesn't short change routes even as the clearout guy.
Speaker 2: He puts in full effort, electric with the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands. Seems to have helped our quarterback in terms
Speaker 2: of pre snap communication. Eyes follow him all over the field,
Speaker 2: which has helped our red zone offense even if he
Speaker 2: doesn't get the football, giving him his you know, helping
Speaker 2: Tua to understand coverage and kind of giving some feedback
Speaker 2: after the snap I think is critical if there's a
Speaker 2: couple of knocks, too many drop balls. But also the
Speaker 2: Case and Philly games I thought were his worst of
Speaker 2: the year. Those are the big games, big stages. Guys
Speaker 2: step up in those games. Sixty nine catches, one thousand
Speaker 2: and seventy five yards, eight touchdowns, eleven point four yards
Speaker 2: per target, three point nine to five yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I commend Waddell for gutting his way through some performances
Speaker 2: this year where he gets dinged up. The numbers have
Speaker 2: not been the same, but his effort. His competitiveness definitely
Speaker 2: is like Tyreek. The drops have been an issue at times,
Speaker 2: but this is one of the best weapons in the
Speaker 2: National Football League. I expect a monster second half from Waddell,
Speaker 2: though I've said that all year long. Forty catches, five
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two yards, three touchdowns, eight point five
Speaker 2: yards per target, two point three to three yards per
Speaker 2: route Ran Barrios, you know, I thought there would be
Speaker 2: a little bit more separation inside in terms of the
Speaker 2: one on one slot receiver role, and he's made some
Speaker 2: critical third down catches. I just thought it would be
Speaker 2: a little bit more expansive than it has been so far.
Speaker 2: Twenty grabs, one ninety four in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: For Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 2: I'm really curious to see how his role evolves here
Speaker 2: as the offense, you know, matures from the second half
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 1: He's been getting more and more involved.
Speaker 2: His size down the red zone has a lot of value,
Speaker 2: tough contested catches for touchdowns the last two weeks, and
Speaker 2: he knows the offense from every position, which is obviously supervalue. Valuable,
Speaker 2: I should say, in terms of the depth on this team.
Speaker 2: He has nine for one forty eight and two River Craykraft.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get him back his blocking and
Speaker 2: he always is going to be where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Sixty or six catches, eighty seven yards, one touchdown, top
Speaker 2: tape appearances for this group. Tyreek has four Patriots, Carolina, Giants,
Speaker 2: and Chargers. Waddle has two Patriots and Bills. Where Travis
Speaker 2: got it right, Tyreek is the best receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's kind of it here.
Speaker 2: I've been off on a lot of these where Travis
Speaker 2: got it wrong. Injuries didn't help, but I thought Azukama
Speaker 2: was going to be a the third receiver make a
Speaker 2: critical massive step this year. Barrios has not been the
Speaker 2: matchup winner I predicted either. And I've called for massive
Speaker 2: Waddle days pretty much every week and it's only happened
Speaker 2: one time. So a lot wrong there for you, boy
Speaker 2: tight ends. Not a lot to speak about here, but
Speaker 2: I think both Durham and Julian have been unsung heroes
Speaker 2: of the offense. Tons of dirty work that goes unnoticed.
Speaker 2: They have been tremendous helping the edge in pass pro,
Speaker 2: hitting correct angles on their blocks coming across and split
Speaker 2: flow and just awesome extensions of what's been a good
Speaker 2: offensive line. Durham has seventeen grabs for a buck sixty eight,
Speaker 2: Julian has one for four. Nobody here in the top
Speaker 2: tapes appearances, but it's tough to get in with that role.
Speaker 1: Just appreciate what those guys have done.
Speaker 2: Where Travis got it right here, Honestly, there's not any
Speaker 2: I suppose I didn't cry that the sky was falling
Speaker 2: when the position looked bad in camp where Travis got
Speaker 2: it wrong. I was a big Elijah Higgins fan. I
Speaker 2: said he'd be the best tight end on the roster
Speaker 2: by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Whoops. I also said Tanner Connor is gonna have a
Speaker 1: big role this year. Whoops.
Speaker 2: Also was out on durham smythe whoops over three across
Speaker 2: the board there, offensive line?
Speaker 1: What can you say here? Man?
Speaker 2: The connectivity in terms of knowing their roles, getting games
Speaker 2: and blitz is picked up, getting pushed in the running game,
Speaker 2: and to have done it through so much attrition a
Speaker 2: credit to everybody right. Personnel department, coaches, players just total
Speaker 2: buy in to reteach the way they do things and
Speaker 2: to be more and more emphatic about the way hands
Speaker 2: and feet and punch and all that stuff marries together.
Speaker 2: It's allowed this offense to flourish the way it has individually.
Speaker 2: To Ron Armstead changes the way you call a game man.
Speaker 2: He is superb and pass pro. He almost never gets beat,
Speaker 2: moves guys out in the running game. That his athletic
Speaker 2: ability off the edge. It's a different level than what
Speaker 2: Kendall Lamb gives you. As much as I love Kendall,
Speaker 2: t stads like Austin Jackson athletic obviously, the only thing
Speaker 2: here with him is availability. He's missed six of the
Speaker 2: nine games we need him the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: His pass block efficiency is ninety.
Speaker 1: Nine point four. He's elite. Isaiah Win was elite too.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he gets back this year.
Speaker 2: Been one of the best left guards in football with
Speaker 2: fantastic pass pro lots of one on one Wins super
Speaker 2: connected to Connor or Tehran or Liam or Kendall on
Speaker 2: his right and left post. He's been kind of a
Speaker 2: stabilizing force. And that pass block efficiency of ninety nine
Speaker 2: point one, it's top of the line man. Connor Williams
Speaker 2: has the exact same pbe ninety nine point one. The
Speaker 2: way he creates lanes in space, the way he hits
Speaker 2: those pivotal reach blocks like Tehran. He allows this offense
Speaker 2: to do things you just cannot do without him. Elite
Speaker 2: athletic ability, fantastic and solo pass pro tremendous at helping
Speaker 2: the guards in pass pro. Penalties and aborted snaps are
Speaker 2: the only downside, but has been a big downside this
Speaker 2: year so far. Robert Hunt, copy and Paste and the
Speaker 2: other three guys just enjoy watching him steamroll guys for
Speaker 2: pancakes every single week. I think he's a pro bowler.
Speaker 2: He's been beat like three times in pass Pro, and
Speaker 2: they're bad beats that result in sacks, but otherwise he's
Speaker 2: a perfect player. Ninety nine percent pass block efficiency. What
Speaker 2: a year for Austin Jackson. I mean, the elite athletic
Speaker 2: ability fits the profile of this line to a t.
Speaker 2: He's a critical part of our outside run game. He's
Speaker 2: also handled to his blindside as well as anybody could.
Speaker 2: I think, awesome, awesome season for Austin Jackson. How many
Speaker 2: guys can say they've gotten top performances out of six
Speaker 2: offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: I think Kendall Land gives you that.
Speaker 2: The patience that he displays in pass pro mean in
Speaker 2: the running game, just a total pro. We are so
Speaker 2: fortunate to have this guy ninety six point eight pass
Speaker 2: block efficiency, but I feel like that doesn't do.
Speaker 1: His game justice. Lester Cotton.
Speaker 2: I think he's done an admirable job in the role
Speaker 2: he's been asked to do. Gotten some good surge in
Speaker 2: the running game, but a couple of times in terms of,
Speaker 2: you know, connecting on stunts and games inside, I think
Speaker 2: the backups have strugged where the starters have been really
Speaker 2: good in that regard ninety five point seven PvE. For
Speaker 2: Liam I can Burn ninety seven point four. It's good
Speaker 2: that he's in the role he's in because I think
Speaker 2: your backup center should be just your backup center and
Speaker 2: not have to get plugged in a guard.
Speaker 1: Just focus on that position.
Speaker 2: Might even the stretch we'll see, but it's been a
Speaker 2: rough tape, but I think that there's a role developing
Speaker 2: there for Liam as the backup center. Rob Jones ninety
Speaker 2: eight point four pbe Gosh. I hate the injury because
Speaker 2: he such a good dude and works so hard, but
Speaker 2: he's played well when he's been out there. And then
Speaker 2: Keon Smith played five snaps, but I thought he was
Speaker 2: a guy that had no chance to make the roster,
Speaker 2: and he did so. He's been showing great improvement and
Speaker 2: growth over the course of camp. In the preseason top
Speaker 2: tape appearances. Here we have five guys that have appeared.
Speaker 2: Toront Armstead was fourth tape in Kansas City, his only appearance.
Speaker 2: Hunt had won in Philadelphia, he was fourth there. Isaiah
Speaker 2: Win has two appearances. He was fourth in both the
Speaker 2: Carolina and Denver games. Kendall Lamb appeared in the open
Speaker 2: against the Chargers of the fourth top tape. And how
Speaker 2: about this, Austin Jackson has four appearances in my top
Speaker 2: five tapes. I had him his number one against the Giants,
Speaker 2: three against the Bills, three against the Broncos, and three
Speaker 2: against the Chargers. T Stead was in there for the
Speaker 2: Denver game, but I took him out because he came
Speaker 2: out early and went with Connor or rather Austin to
Speaker 2: win instead. And then Connor has been like just outside
Speaker 2: the top five and pretty much every game he's played
Speaker 2: this year. Where Travis got it right that you guys
Speaker 2: freaked out way too prematurely about where this offensive line
Speaker 2: was going into the season and how the quarterback can
Speaker 2: mitigate some of the issues you thought you had. That
Speaker 2: Rob Hunt is an elite right guard, that Isaiah Winn
Speaker 2: was a great fit at left guard, that Connor's a
Speaker 2: top center, and that Lamb can flat out play.
Speaker 1: Where I got it wrong was the guy that's been
Speaker 1: probably the best.
Speaker 2: I thought, Austin Jackson, like you, probably didn't have it
Speaker 2: in his game, but he has clearly figured it out
Speaker 2: at this stage of his career.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's your first half of the season offensive review. We'll
Speaker 2: do a defense on I believe next Monday's podcast. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and take our last break right here, come
Speaker 2: back on the other side and update my twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three season predictions. We'll review where I stand, my original predictions,
Speaker 2: and where I'm going from here. That's next Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 2: Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you my autnation. So
Speaker 2: I've been tinkering with this for a while now because
Speaker 2: well forty eight hours because.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but Sunday.
Speaker 2: Night I couldn't sleep and was because my freaking brain
Speaker 2: kept on rattling through different scenarios and final records and
Speaker 2: what's see we might finish with I know that's premature,
Speaker 2: but you know, I was trying to find ways to
Speaker 2: cope because mentally and emotionally I was not in a
Speaker 2: good place after that defeat against the Chiefs. But I
Speaker 2: came to this conclusion, and I think Miami's gonna win
Speaker 2: the next five games. I've told you guys that for
Speaker 2: a long time now, especially after that Jets performance. Right,
Speaker 2: we know that they don't have a quarterbacks, so it's
Speaker 2: gonna be tough to win games. Even when your defense
Speaker 2: is elite like theirs is just score thirteen points, you
Speaker 2: should beat that team, and as long as you don't
Speaker 2: turn it over, you know, deep in your own territory.
Speaker 2: The Jets have only scored one touchdown since Week five
Speaker 2: that started on their own side of the field, and
Speaker 2: that was in Week five, a seventy two yard Breaste
Speaker 2: Hall rushing touchdown. They don't score points, but they don't
Speaker 2: have the ball on unless they're in your territory when
Speaker 2: they get the football. So at eleven and three, if
Speaker 2: you win the next five games, you would clinch the
Speaker 2: AFC East before the Dallas game, unless Buffalo goes three
Speaker 2: and two or better against this stretch of teams, Denver
Speaker 2: and the Jets. That's probably two wins at Philly at
Speaker 2: KC home for Dallas, and then if they don't do
Speaker 2: it there, they would have to beat the Chargers on
Speaker 2: set before the Christmas Eve game to keep alive in
Speaker 2: the AFC East Race. I think Miami clinches the division
Speaker 2: before that Dallas game. That's my prediction. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and view my first half of the season predictions, which
Speaker 2: were this going back to September eighth. Honestly, a lot
Speaker 2: of these are pretty much where I'm at right now.
Speaker 2: I had, Gosh, these are this is a pretty up.
Speaker 2: I had Buffalo at twelve and five. I think that's
Speaker 2: gonna be way off. I had Houston at four and thirteen.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be way off. Jacksonville nine and eight, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a little bit short. I think I had
Speaker 2: the God, these are all close, man. Washington seven and ten,
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit off. Green Bay ten and seven,
Speaker 2: that one's way off. Detroit nine and eight I think
Speaker 2: will be short by a little bit. I don't Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay three and fourteen is gonna be off. I rams
Speaker 2: four and thirteen. I was pretty spot on here, man.
Speaker 2: My playoffs were this Detroit or in the NFC, my
Speaker 2: number one seed was Philly, two seed was Seattle, my
Speaker 2: three seed was green Bay, My four sea was Atlanta.
Speaker 2: My wild cards were Dallas, San Francisco and Detroit.
Speaker 1: That's pretty close. Man. In the A I had one
Speaker 1: through seven.
Speaker 2: Seed was Case, Miami, Baltimore, Jacksonville, ISS your division winners,
Speaker 2: and then Buffalo, Cincinnati and Los Angeles. That feels pretty good,
Speaker 2: and I had the Dolphins over the Eagles in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Now my predictions now, I've changed them, not much, though,
Speaker 2: here's what I'm going with. In the NFC, I think
Speaker 2: Philly is the best team in football sixteen and one,
Speaker 2: Dallas ten and seven. I just think there's a tough
Speaker 2: games there for Dallas, even though I like him a lot.
Speaker 2: Washington's seven and ten, so I stayed there. The Giants
Speaker 2: I don't have winning a game the rest of the
Speaker 2: way two and fifteen, but I only had him with
Speaker 2: five wins in my other predictions, so not bad.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: In the North, I have Detroit eleven and six, Minnesota
Speaker 2: and green Bay both eight and nine. I was too
Speaker 2: high on Jordan Love Chicago three and fourteen. That's about
Speaker 2: where I was. In the South, I have the Saints
Speaker 2: at ten and seven and the Falcons nine in a
Speaker 2: only because they played the whole division like over again
Speaker 2: and that division's awful. Tampa six and eleven, Carolina three
Speaker 2: and fourteen. In the West, I have Frisco. I flipped
Speaker 2: it there. I had Seattle winning the division at the
Speaker 2: start of the year. Gave me San Francisco at twelve
Speaker 2: and five, Seattle eleven and six, Rams seven and ten,
Speaker 2: and Cardinals at three and fourteen now that they have
Speaker 2: Kyler back in the AFC, Miami twelve and five. I
Speaker 2: had them at thirteen and four, so one game less
Speaker 2: Buffalo actually, and you know what, I have Miami resting.
Speaker 1: Stars in Week eighteen losing the game to Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I would go thirteen and four, Buffalo ten and seven,
Speaker 2: Jets seven and ten, which is two games off where
Speaker 2: I had them in the preseason, and the Patriots five
Speaker 2: and twelve. I had them at six and eleven, Baltimore
Speaker 2: fourteen and three, Bengals twelve and five, Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: both eight and nine. In the South, Jacksonville wins eleven
Speaker 2: and six, Houston nine and eight, Indian Tennessee both seven
Speaker 2: and ten, and then the West case fourteen and three
Speaker 2: Chargers excuse me, ten and seven, Denver seven and ten,
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas five and twelve. So that gives you
Speaker 2: an AFC playoff picture of this number seven seed Buffalo
Speaker 2: at number two seed Baltimore, number six Chargers come to
Speaker 2: Miami for the three seeded Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 2: are the first wild card. They visit Jacksonville on wild
Speaker 2: Card weekend. I have Baltimore winning, I have the Dolphins winning.
Speaker 2: I have Cincinnati winning. But if Buffalo were to beat Baltimore,
Speaker 2: in that scenario, you would then host the AFC Divisional Round,
Speaker 2: and then after that, I have my beating Baltimore. I
Speaker 2: have KC beating Cincinnati, but in that scenario, if Cincinnati
Speaker 2: beats KC, you would host the AFC Championship game. In
Speaker 2: the NFC, there is not a seven seed that is
Speaker 2: deserving of it's it's gonna be six teams and then
Speaker 2: somebody else in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 2: It's like, go look at the NFC and tell me
Speaker 2: who you picked that seven seed. Like it's like Commanders Vikings,
Speaker 2: like there's not a good option for it. But I
Speaker 2: went Falcons against the Niners, Dallas number six at number three,
Speaker 2: Detroit number five, Seattle at the Saints in the NFC
Speaker 2: South Division winners. So in the division round, I have
Speaker 2: Seattle in San Francisco, Dallas at Philly, and then I
Speaker 2: have a repeat of last year's MC championship game at
Speaker 2: San Francisco. Who loses to Philly? And then I flipped
Speaker 2: my Super Bowl pick. It was Miami over Philly. I'm
Speaker 2: going Miami or Philly rather over over Miami. I think
Speaker 2: Philly is unstoppable. Man, They're just two good. So that's
Speaker 2: my updated predictions. I feel really good about this. And
Speaker 2: it's another feather in the cap of if you're process
Speaker 2: changes dramatically after one or two games, your process sucks.
Speaker 2: That's good to I guess another feather in the cap
Speaker 2: of the old tring field over here.
Speaker 1: All right, that's my time on the podcast. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: The next time I talk to you guys should be
Speaker 2: the JT. O. Solivan episode. Not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 2: on that, so no hold too that. In the meantime,
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