WEBVTT - What to Expect from Year 2 in Mike McDaniel's Offense 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.200 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.600 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:15.840 looking us at fla wide dolphans touchdock cleric kill, unbelievable. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.160 Just flue fire for a second time to know where 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.800 he was going right away ahead of that nun man. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.120 I want to help you soon up on his band 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.880 away wattle, waddle to a shotgut back to the throw, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.880 looking stumps up fires, touchdop again, it's waddle. It's six 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:39.320 touchdown padout of the two. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.640 Now let me check your pulse if you're not further 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:48.560 of what is up? Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.040 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.720 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.320 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're going back over 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.040 to the offensive side of the football. I want to 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.920 review three items that have me believing that year two 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.360 in the offense could be even better than the number 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.400 six ranked offense we saw in year number one. We'll 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.920 discuss that hypothesis and conclusion, plus some more mail bag questions, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.280 and we begin to get ready for Indianapolis by taking 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.760 a look at our first offensive positions and what we 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.600 expect from them at the combine tight ends and running 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.800 backs as we continue the offensive theme on this pod 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.039 from the PFF Top one hundred big board, and see 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.920 who to keep an eye on during those workouts in 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.560 Indianapolis from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:45.800 Training Complex. This is the drivetime. So we've been on 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.720 a defensive kick for a few episodes, really about a 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.640 week and a half now in a row. So let's 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.240 go ahead and go back to the other side of 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.240 the football. And something I had mentioned at the end 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.720 of the season, wanting to do a deep dive at 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.520 the end of the year, And we talked to coach 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.760 Fangio on the podcast last Friday and I asked him 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.680 what about this offense gives opposing defensive coordinator's fits and 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.119 he mentioned the wide receivers and the year that two 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.040 had under center, and obviously starts there with a trigger 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.480 man in his top weapons. Then we also had Jerome 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.360 Baker on a podcast this past week, the Varsity House Podcast, 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.079 and he was asked about when he really realized just 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.920 how fast Tyreek hill is and he detailed a play 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.760 in training camp where Tyreek ran a short indbreaker and 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.440 Jerome knew he had to get to his landmark and 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.360 make the tackle elementary stuff right or tag off, not 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.959 actually make a tackle. But he said that because Tyreek 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.520 can get to full speed by like his third step 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.720 or sooner, that he had to completely change his angle 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.320 and that landmark that had become so second nature on 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.440 that particular route from that particular zone drop to then 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.560 having to run and chase to meet him further downfield 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.160 to improve his angle and give himself a chance to 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.400 make the tackle or in this case a tag off. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.040 He said that Tyreek and Waddle both offer that. And 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.040 when you have to protect the deep part of the field, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.440 it makes you vulnerable somewhere else. If you're going to 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.120 add extra pieces one spot, you're going to be vulnerable 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.680 somewhere else. And every time you drop a defense, you 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.760 have vulnerabilities. And that's why the best offensive minds can 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.680 find ways to a tackles vulnerabilities regardless of the personnel 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.400 they have. But when you have to protect an area 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.480 of the field so significantly, and the most dangerous area 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.640 of the field, it's going to create chances elsewhere. I 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.720 think we saw that throughout the course of the season, 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.880 but I think there's even more meat on the bone. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.120 To use a phrase we like here on the podcast, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.160 to expand that in your number two. So Tyreke and 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.280 Waddle together and in their second year, that's where I 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.400 really start to get excited about what this offense can be. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.760 I mean, we saw glimpses this year. We saw a 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.840 record setting pace this year, four straight games, thirty points. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.600 Last time that happened for this franchise. It's been a 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.160 long long time. I want to circle back to all that, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:12.520 but first he also Jerome Baker discussed Tuah and he 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.960 said that he saw all off season was just two 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.960 of putting his head down and putting in the work, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.200 regardless of outside noise anything, just put the work in. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.360 And Jerome said he really appreciated the way that Tuah 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.440 comes into the locker room with his head high because 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.239 after everything the media says or all the narratives, Tua 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.719 just goes about his business and does his thing. And 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.039 he said there was a tangible impact behind that. He 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.160 said that Tua took accountability when he made a mistake, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.960 he would own the airs from the quarterbacks perspective, and 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.400 how far that reached the rest of the locker room 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.960 in terms of a leader who's accountable. Jerome touched on 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.240 all of that and how valuable that is. That's why 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.640 this podcast, this sort of monologue I'm putting together, is 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.440 becoming more about the right kind of people and how 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.159 continuity with those people can push a team forward better 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.360 than really anything else. And I've talked about it many 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.200 many times here on the show that I believe the 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.000 best route to improvement in a given off season is 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.600 improvement from your own incumbents. We saw Jalen Waddle take 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.839 a big step last year. We saw Christian Wilkins get 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.960 even better than he was in year three. We saw 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.800 two a tongue of Bloa take a big jump. That 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.000 type of stuff, and yeah, don't get me wrong, Tyreek 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.359 Hill to Ron Armstad, Connor Williams massive massive impacts. But 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.560 Rob Hunt's development at right guard that was a big 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.600 deal as well, because when you hear this type of speak, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.039 going back to the podcast from someone like Jerome who's 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.920 been here for five years and everybody respects what Jerome's about, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.440 so to hear him talk about the quarterback, the way 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.719 that he detailed, the level of respect that he and 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.599 the rest of the organization has for number one, I 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.200 just think that bodes well for the example that you 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.760 have to follow if you're going to be a member 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.240 of the Miami Dolphins, the right type of guys. So 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.560 to bring it back to the receivers, and you know what, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.120 I have mentioned this quote so many times, So why 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.000 don't I go ahead and run the audio for you here. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.120 I want to go back to Mike McDaniel, and I 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.120 asked him this question on November twenty eighth, what was 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.640 the most notable sign of growth that Jalen Waddle showed 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.080 you this year? And it was following I think the 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.719 Texans game. Yeah, the Texans game, and Tua had mentioned 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.480 Waddle's attention to detail in his postgame press conference, and 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.080 so the following Monday, on the twenty eighth, I asked 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.599 McDaniel about the most tangible or most notable sign of 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.359 growth he saw this year from Jalen Waddle. Let's go 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.840 ahead and play that sound real quick right after the break, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.120 you know, over the break. I really I was interested. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.960 He's an I love the way he worked in OTA's 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.200 and you know, it's very very high on him coming 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.880 out of college and had and it was obvious an 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:02.520 OTAs that I really liked the human being and definitely 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:10.320 believed in him really coming back from summer break and 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.840 you don't have any time to learn or and you 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.880 don't assume anything. I didn't know how he's going to 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:26.200 come back, because that can be a very huge, huge 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.800 time for a receiver, a young receiver, especially in a 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.080 new offense. Is what do you do over between OTAs 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.520 and training camp to prayer yourself for an NFL season? 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:44.240 And I was as encouraged by his I was as 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:48.760 encouraged by him as any other player in terms of 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.680 how he came back ready to play. So it was 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:58.600 obvious early and he's as we've gone on, very talented 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:08.240 players aren't allays that that hungry to be coached. You 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.160 get you have a lot of success as a very 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:16.440 talented player, and a lot of times, you know, I've 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.880 experienced players feeling as though coaching is an insult. He 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:28.160 is quite the opposite. You know, he keeps learning each 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:35.160 and every week, and he is not. It's always a 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.319 guy has a chance to be really really good and 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.800 chase greatness in this league, if you have a ton 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:49.640 of talent, but you're constantly hoping that yesterday's version was 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.160 the worst version of yourself that you'll see moving forward, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.960 that you're constantly getting better. And that's something that he 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:04.120 has proven to his teammates that he he's a really 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.920 good player. We have to rely on him to make 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.520 plays for us to play the style of football we 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.320 want to play, and his teammates rely on him and 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.240 trust him, and I know that each and every week 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:22.400 he's going to put his best foot forward to be 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.200 the best version of himself. Yesterday offered a great opportunity 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.000 for him to improve. There was some stuff in the 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.160 game that he'll tell you that he definitely could have 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.640 done better, and some situations that he encountered that was 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.800 the first time in the offense that he encountered this season. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:49.320 So there's timing nuances and route running nuances that he's 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.559 going to continue to progress. And that's why we got 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.320 the Dolphin's got a good one in him. And the 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.840 reason I wanted to play that sound drop and the 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.840 reason I'm talking about all this, The way I am 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.560 is really multifaceted. In fact, it's three prong For the 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:10.320 sake of specificity. Specificity number one is the proof in 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.120 the pudding in terms of previous Shanahan McDaniel stops and 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.280 the second year jumps they've experienced in their offensive production. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.120 And this is where I really wanted to start and 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.880 kind of the I suppose the driving force behind this 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.880 little research project I put together to show you the 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.960 tangible increases in production for teams playing in the second 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.200 year of this particular offensive system. And granted they always 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.480 are different with their own fingerprints on them, but generally speaking, 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.120 the same offensive principles exist across the board with these 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.920 same coaches, right Shanahan, McDaniel, O'Connell and mcveagher, Kim in 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.720 that same vein you get it, Lafleur, all those guys. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.280 But as I researched it more, I realized my point 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.240 was actually more about two other things as well, and 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.520 they are this number two. The conventional wisdom shared by 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.960 so many of the greats, the typical does take some 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.520 time to really get your offense to become second nature. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.920 We're talking about being able to understand the verbiage, the 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.360 checks concepts without having to give it a second thought 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.959 to it makes a change. I know right away. Boom. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.760 That means I have to take this whip route and 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.720 turn it into a conversion to a corner route to 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.360 make sure I hold that cloud corner on the flat 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.160 rob we want to throw underneath to Jaylan Waddle, That's 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.080 just an example, right, Like, think of it this way. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.560 You get a new job, or you move to a 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.080 new house, all of a sudden, you have new paths 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.120 to take on your commute. You have a new grocery 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.320 store you have to go to. You have to find 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.360 the route to your favorite new restaurant you're going to 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.600 go pick up from You have to find the route 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.640 that's best to go pick up your kids from school. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.679 It can be overwhelming, right Or learning a new job, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.240 learning the new process. It's learning a new operating system 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.600 within your company, you know, especially for me the moving 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.080 aspect moving from rural central Washington to busy Broward County. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.360 All those U turns and freeway entrances and exits, the 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.360 commutes got confusing and I had to look at my 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.880 phone for g PS often. Now being here for a 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.199 little while, I barely ever use my GPS. I went 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.000 to Tamrack to play golf last weekend at Colony West 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.360 didn't need to use my GPS. I just looked up 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:13.840 the address and said, oh, I just have to go 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.640 down seventy five. I have to take the Sawgrass exit 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.920 or through towards Parkland and just take that exit right 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:24.440 there off of is it Broward Boulevard and the courses 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.120 right there off the left, So like, same idea, like 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.679 rather than thinking about where it is and having to 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.439 process and then react. Second year in the offense is 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.280 like second year in a new house or a new job. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.360 I know how to get to public's, I know the 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.840 best route to take to work. If the you know, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.800 if there's an accident, our things are backed up. It 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.720 becomes second nature, not just in the original thought, but 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.400 the way you adapt and adjust on the fly. And 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.480 the third thing was I think we have the right 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.840 people here to make that jump very noticeable. What coach 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.600 said about Jalen Waddle, We've heard that before. I've been 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.440 rewatching the games. I just rewatched the Steelers game, and 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.120 you heard Collinsworth on the NBC broadcast mentioned his pre 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.600 production meeting with Mike McDaniel and how Tyreek Hill taught 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.240 them how to practice. He just meant, you know how 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.360 to compete on a rep by rep basis like, No, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.200 this is how you do it when you're a seven 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.200 time All Pro or seven time Pro bowler. I mentioned Waddle. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.120 I mentioned the Baker Podcast for this reason too. Seeing 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.120 Tua go through his pregame visualization each week five hours 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.880 before kickoff. You see the way the guys talk about 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.880 their quarterback. It's clear that they believe in what he's 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.720 all about. And you earn that through your actions. Torn Armstead, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.200 we spoke about him earlier. Another guy like this, and 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.120 you know, speaking of Tarn at his last presser, I 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.200 asked him what it says about the locker room that 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.160 twenty five percent of the players earned a vote for 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.240 our annual Good Guy Award, which is the player that 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.640 is the easiest to work with and exhibits the most 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.360 professionalism during their media availabilities with the press, and so 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.000 Torn won that award, But twenty five percent of the 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.680 locker room received vote. That was the most ever. And 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.480 I asked heron about that, What does it say about 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.880 the guys you have here in that locker room. Yeah, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.160 we're getting the right people in the building. We're getting 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.920 the right people in the building. You know, people that 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.240 respect the game, respect that has played, and all the 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.480 nuances of it on and off the field. It's important. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.960 It's extremely important to have that in the locker room. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:26.600 Guys that can articulate communicate showed that respect, you know, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.280 through the ups and downs, because we went through five 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.280 year one streak, five game losing streaks. So to have 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.520 so many guys that up for an award like this 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.440 speaks volumes to the team. So why do I spend 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.320 all that time covering all of this? Because I think 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.440 the combination of the complexity of an offense that a 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.920 significant portion of our returning personnel made to be the 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.960 number six ranked offense in the NFL. Now they get 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.520 a full calendar year with their own tape to go 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.920 off of. They're not watching someone else execute this offense. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.720 They're watching themselves do it. They I have to say, oh, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.080 that's a movement unnatural to me. I made that move. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.040 I can correct that this way, I can drill that 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.720 this way. I think that pays dividends more than just 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.600 about anything you can do this offseason unless you bring 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.480 another Tyreek hillin. I've been saying this for years. Your 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.920 biggest improvements year over year typically come from improvements of 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.640 the incumbents. And that's the case here, and if it's 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.920 the case here, I think you have to feel very 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 good about where the number six offense in twenty twenty 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.320 two can go to in number twenty twenty three. Let's 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.040 go ahead and take our first break right there and 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.360 come back. We'll revisit the two bullet points that I 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.600 mentioned already. I think we already kind of proved number 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.360 three with the right kind of people here. We'll go 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.400 back and revisit bullet points number one and two. That's 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.840 next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:56.240 by Auto Nation, doing something of a deep dive here 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.800 on the podcast, taking a look at expectations for a 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.239 year number two and the possibilities of growth and improvement 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.160 and the continuity that could contribute to that potential improvement. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.960 So we talked about the third bullet point right getting 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.120 the right kind of people in the building. Tyreek Hill 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.120 giving you the perfect example for how to practice to 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.200 a tongue of byloa just putting in work after work 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.400 after work, all off season before the games, to run 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.640 armstead being an extension of the coaching staff on the field, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.200 an example of how to be a pro and go 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.960 about your business, and on and on and on. The 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.360 first bullet point, though, was the idea that this offense 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.200 is relatively complex, and the more time you spend in it, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.440 the more time you know. To take the right before 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.600 the busy intersection to get to publics because it's a 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.160 quicker access driver on the backside of the building. You 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.120 don't have to deal with the shopping mall traffic ahead 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.960 of the publics. These are things that I do to 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.720 get to my public's faster. You see what I'm saying. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.280 I know this because I have familiarity with my surroundings 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.200 and my situation, so I go back frequently to something 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.280 I heard ESPN's Jeff Darlington's say on a local radio 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.800 show down here. I want to say it was Zach 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.520 Krantz's Instagram show, but he said the Dolphins are knocking 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.760 on the door. When it comes to Mike McDaniel, that 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.520 was his first year, and a system like McDaniels or 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.200 Shanahan out in San Francisco, it requires some time both 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.000 in instituting the system and another offseason to keep adding 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.240 guys that fit that system. They've got a lot to 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.240 build upon. I think what we saw this year was 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.160 a blueprint, not a conclusive outcome of what this team 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.080 can be and quote and that blueprint comment is the 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.000 one that I really harkened back to Tom Harkin, the 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.240 one that made me rubberneck a little bit. I've heard 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.480 that same sentiment not just from people I know in 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.200 the media sphere, but people that I classify to be 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.359 expert analyst of the game. The difficulty of the system 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.760 and of making it seem like it's second nature to 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.320 you to know to cut that public's cut short that 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.080 turned to the public's parking lot, take the first one 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.280 off the second one. And I think about, you know, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.040 scoring those thirty points in four straight games while you're 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.000 still making all that happened to me, that's a lot 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.520 of reason for optimism. And I asked coach about this 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.280 at the end of the year presser, and he described 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.520 the offensive line play as having to retrain everything you 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.400 had previously learned in your football life. And I think 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.240 about how that could probably speak to some of the 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.359 waves you saw in moments during the running game this 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.800 year and the ups and downs and potentially putting that 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.040 together more consistently. Man, we had some games where it 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.879 looked like you were creating lanes like Ricky Williams had 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.800 in two thousand and two other games. It was just 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.080 a struggle. You have to imagine another year, another offseason 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.479 to not just work on the fundamentals of that style, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.919 but to have a full year of tape on yourself 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.840 to evaluate. I just have to imagine that plays dividends. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.200 And so I got to looking at year one to 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.959 year two jumps for every stop that McDaniel was, you know, 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.000 at in his career, among the places he was at 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.960 for two years, and it starts in Washington in two eleven, 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:57.800 two twelve, from sixteenth and offense to fifth. Pretty good. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.880 He was in Cleveland for twenty fourteen. They were only 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.840 there for that one year, but man, that Brown's team 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.159 was the most fun Browns team to watch in like 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.720 a decade. At that point. They went seven to nine. 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.320 It was their most wins in seven years to that point, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.600 and the most wins they would have for another four year. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.000 So literally their best record in ten years was the 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.560 one year that they had McDaniel and Shanahan there. And 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.440 we've heard the accounts of Andrew Hawkins and Nate Burlison 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.200 and the other receivers who played in that room. I 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.479 think Taylor Gabriel was another. Just they loved what Mike 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.679 McDonel's all about in Atlanta twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.400 from seventh to second, I mean, you see what we're 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.240 going forward. That's that's kind of your I think baseline 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.720 looking at here is the twenty sixteen Falcons which went 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.919 to the Super Bowl and had that twenty eight to 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:47.280 three lead. From an offensive perspective, if you can see 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.199 a similar jump there, and that was the same. They 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.760 had Matt Ryan and established good quarterback like we have here. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.080 They had a pretty good offensive line that they continue 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.600 to put pieces around. They had a really solid running game. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.520 That's where I think Miami has some ground to make 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.280 up in the tight end room as well. But they 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.919 also had Julio Jones, like we've got Tyreek Hill. Shoot, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.960 who was our second option that year in the receiving game. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:07.560 I don't I can't remember who it was, but it 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.920 wasn't Jalen Waddle. They can tell you that much. Then 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.320 they took the head job Kyle Shanahan did and Mike 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.199 McDaniel the running game quarrier job for the Niners in 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.000 twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, they were from twelfth to sixteenth. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.639 And that's the one regression, but you know context because 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.040 twenty eighteen was the year they traded for Jimmy Garoppolo, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.320 and what did they do in his second year of 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.440 the system in twenty nineteen when they found their quarterback. 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.440 Just the number four offense in the NFL. Something I've 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.480 taught myself in this little study, as they always started 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.840 off really well, because look at the year before they arrived. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.160 The twenty ten Washington team was twenty fifth. So Washington 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.320 went from twenty fifth before their arrival to sixteenth in 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.520 their first year to fifth in their second year. The 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:53.080 twenty fourteen Falcons were twelfth, then to seventh, then to 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.200 second in the second year, and the twenty sixteen nine 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:02.280 ers thirty first up to twelfth to sixteenth. It's pretty 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.600 good growth. It's not just Jeff Darlington who notes the 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.639 importance of continenting offense. It's former players and coaches who 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.440 have done at a high level as well. And that's 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.560 bullet point number two. Quotes from people talking about year 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.200 two in an offense, and I refer often to Peyton 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.840 Manning in the Manning cast and it was a Lions 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.919 and I think Packers game two years ago, and he 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.199 was talking about Jared Goff in the twenty twenty one 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.560 Lions offense and how for him it was always sometime 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.480 around year two where the offense felt second nature. Well, 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.760 Jared Goff this year in the Lions start off one 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.240 and six and then what do they finish? It was 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.680 at nine and eight, eight and nine, maybe it was 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.520 their final record, and their offense was absolutely on fire 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:45.720 in the second half of the season, as we saw 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:47.359