Speaker 1: Tour Fires touch stop by Waddle stocked into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami tight pro tide window. They had to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown on that play. They gave it what
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Speaker 1: it's an All twenty two Tuesday, my favorite day of
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Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. The offense, the defense, the individual's areas
Speaker 1: of improvement, the most critical moments in which Miami executed.
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Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast, as we do here
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday show talking about the All twenty two.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and dive right in sit hut and
Speaker 1: we're going twelve personnel package early in this game that
Speaker 1: featured Preston Williams and savan Akhmed flanking to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Byloa with Durham Smith and Mike Gasicki as the
Speaker 1: balanced inline tight ends that means on either side of
Speaker 1: the formation, and then you get an Albert Wilson jet
Speaker 1: sweep pop pass on the run. Thought he was a
Speaker 1: little bit indecisive attacking the whole. But the idea here
Speaker 1: I'm looking at is the mix of personnel, the utilization
Speaker 1: of this pretty unique skill set of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing more and more of it here
Speaker 1: as we go along, and it makes me very curious
Speaker 1: to see what they cook up for this final four
Speaker 1: game stretch with a week off to kind of put
Speaker 1: some more tendency breakers self scouting into the fold and
Speaker 1: get all that stuff accomplished. Also, I think we saw
Speaker 1: maybe some jokes about this earlier in the season with
Speaker 1: this deep tie end room, but it finally happened. Wildcat
Speaker 1: with four personnel, that's one back Miles Gaskin, with four
Speaker 1: tight ends. They got Hunter long Seethan Carter, Durham Smith
Speaker 1: and Mike get Sick all four active tight ends that
Speaker 1: were dressed on Sunday. We're in the game for this
Speaker 1: very crucial four or five yard pickup to help set
Speaker 1: up that third and short, which later went as a
Speaker 1: touchdown from Tuah Tunga by Loa to Isaiah Ford. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Tah, let's go ahead and get to his game.
Speaker 1: I thought the ball handling and the ability to get
Speaker 1: to multiple reads throughout his progression were very important in
Speaker 1: this game, on top of ideal ball placement, which got
Speaker 1: away from him a couple of times in this game.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that, but for the most part, once
Speaker 1: again one of the more accurate quarterbacks in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, he was accurate again, and that ball placement
Speaker 1: does so much to create yards after the catch, not
Speaker 1: just on slants where you see guys, you know you
Speaker 1: talk about the Wattle fifty seven yard catch last week.
Speaker 1: It's not just those. It's the three, four or five
Speaker 1: yard hitch routes, the speedouts where he puts the ball
Speaker 1: in the outside shoulder and leads the runner into extra yardage,
Speaker 1: which on a third and four can give you the
Speaker 1: difference between coming up short. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: one play and picking up a first down. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that in another play. And on the very first
Speaker 1: play you get Albert Wilson motion across the formation two
Speaker 1: has the round option in RPO with gasking from the pistol,
Speaker 1: but he keeps that mesh point pulls that thing out
Speaker 1: and you see it. Derham Derham Smith get turned free
Speaker 1: down the seam into that second level, but there's a
Speaker 1: safety capping it over the top and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a headache ball if he throws it, so he does not.
Speaker 1: But because too was kind of deciphering between going to
Speaker 1: the flat, going to the hook, going to the seam,
Speaker 1: there's a free rusher who is trying to process all
Speaker 1: of that at the same time, and all these ball
Speaker 1: fakes get him to leave his feet and creates a
Speaker 1: passing lane to get the football out wide to Wattle.
Speaker 1: And that pump also influenced the flat defender to give
Speaker 1: Battle room to make a run after the catch for
Speaker 1: nine yards. Also on that play, really good blocking up front,
Speaker 1: solid double teams prevented penetration. That's gonna be a theme
Speaker 1: throughout this review of the Dolphins win over the Giants.
Speaker 1: I thought a floater to Durham smythe up the sideline
Speaker 1: the wheel route was a nice throw. Thought Durham misstime
Speaker 1: that jump a bit, but Devonte Parker came clean over
Speaker 1: the middle behind the second level linebackers who pulled up
Speaker 1: on the play fake, thought too had a chance to
Speaker 1: make that RiPP put him in an easier, more high
Speaker 1: percentage throw. That third down miss on the opening drive
Speaker 1: was uncharacteristically behind Jalen Waddle and Austin Jackson had an
Speaker 1: awesome rep here where he's stone walls the first man
Speaker 1: then passes off and picks up a second block, and
Speaker 1: the same thing happened for Michael Dieter thought both those
Speaker 1: guys played pretty well in this game on the instances
Speaker 1: where they did have to go to more of a
Speaker 1: traditional drop back game, because you know, basically a fifth
Speaker 1: or a fourth of this offense is is pretty well
Speaker 1: mitigated by the quick game with the quarterbacks quick release
Speaker 1: in the play call. There was another quick hitter in
Speaker 1: this game to Mike get Sicky where he got hit immediately.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys recall what I'm talking about, and
Speaker 1: it's a two man route combination a flattened hook and
Speaker 1: Devontae checks up on the hook up route. All that
Speaker 1: means the hook zones the middle portion of the field
Speaker 1: like five or six yards off the football. They call
Speaker 1: that the hook zone, where you know the hook defender
Speaker 1: defends that area and you can try to kind of
Speaker 1: capitalize against zone coverage in that area. So Devantae checks
Speaker 1: up on the hook and Mike runs the flat and
Speaker 1: there was a cover to look there with an over
Speaker 1: the top safety in the underneath corner, and I thought
Speaker 1: maybe the corner behind that, but behind that flat route,
Speaker 1: a seven route was opened for an opportunity there, but
Speaker 1: it's not and it goes for a short game there.
Speaker 1: On the second quarter, there was a slant to DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker his first catch of the game, and to Ah
Speaker 1: wants him in the first window, but he doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: So he rolls left and fakes the ball to the
Speaker 1: flat and once again the free defender is influenced by
Speaker 1: the ball fake up twa. So it's not just the
Speaker 1: eyes and the hips and the feet and the stuff
Speaker 1: before he throws the football. It's the use of the
Speaker 1: football as a pump fake to get defenders off their feet,
Speaker 1: to get them to take false steps, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. And then after that he comes right back
Speaker 1: into that second window to Parker for a catch and
Speaker 1: a first down. And these details will never really get
Speaker 1: talked about by you know, your general mainstream type of coverage,
Speaker 1: but they matter so much. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: that some folks out there are missing the boat on
Speaker 1: this quarterback because they aren't seeing those fine details that
Speaker 1: really make a difference between winning and losing. And it's
Speaker 1: on a play by play basis, kind of like Davante's
Speaker 1: next catch. We talked about this already, a seemingly innocuous
Speaker 1: five yard hitch route on third and two, and James Bradberry,
Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: is playing off coverage. He has eyes in the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He knows they want to go short, and he thinks
Speaker 1: he might have a chance to drive inside for a
Speaker 1: pick six here. But not so fast. My friend too
Speaker 1: throws this ball wide, which spins Parker not just away
Speaker 1: from play on the football, but from any kind of hit.
Speaker 1: It gives him a free run to the sidelines. You
Speaker 1: don't gotta take a hit, you have a catching a
Speaker 1: conversion to move the sticks up the sideline. He did
Speaker 1: it again two plays later to Jalen Waddle on a
Speaker 1: hook up from the field side slot and to put
Speaker 1: him in between a pocket of Giants defenders right out
Speaker 1: of harm's way. That's gonna make receivers make more better,
Speaker 1: tougher catches for you. The short, hot throw to Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson on third down, and there wasn't much there for
Speaker 1: him to work with, But I thought he could have
Speaker 1: planted and driven the ball to get more behind it
Speaker 1: on that throw, because he's slid in kind of in
Speaker 1: one motion to a little hot step and then throw
Speaker 1: us from those flat feet, and I think it cost
Speaker 1: him some velocity. That's an area I think two it
Speaker 1: can maybe work on over the bye week is finding
Speaker 1: more free space in the pocket to set those feet
Speaker 1: and throw with more velocity on some of those throws.
Speaker 1: That's the only time I ever see his arm kind
Speaker 1: of lose velocity on those particular throws. Then some good
Speaker 1: stuff here the first touchdown drive man, the ball was out,
Speaker 1: the ball was on target, It was meeting guys right
Speaker 1: as they hit the top of the route, very precision,
Speaker 1: like he completes eleven of twelve passes on the drive,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where you really saw him kind
Speaker 1: of settle into the game. They're all different kinds of platforms,
Speaker 1: are angles, and yet the ball is right where it
Speaker 1: needs to be each and every time. There was a
Speaker 1: concern about his height coming out. I don't really get
Speaker 1: into that. I don't care. As long as you can play,
Speaker 1: you can play. But you would think for a six
Speaker 1: ft quarterback that he would have all kinds of passes
Speaker 1: swatted back in his face of the line, right remember
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill back in his rookie season. It happened over
Speaker 1: and over again. It was six ft four. But two,
Speaker 1: what does a good job to manipulate the coverage and
Speaker 1: the defensive line with those ball fakes and the footwork
Speaker 1: in the pocket, and he's very adept at finding those
Speaker 1: passing lanes and adjusting to get it through, said Lane.
Speaker 1: I loved the read on the past to Mike Gisicky
Speaker 1: in the corner of the ends, one that hit him
Speaker 1: in the helmet. He was even he was leaving to
Speaker 1: a lays it out there and it was just beyond
Speaker 1: the defensive back's reach. But I won't blame Mike here
Speaker 1: because the defensive back's hand is directly between his two hands,
Speaker 1: and that's tough to make a catch that like it
Speaker 1: hits him in the face, So you say he should
Speaker 1: have caught it, But when the ball was going towards
Speaker 1: his hands. The DBS hand was right there too, so
Speaker 1: tough to make that play. I praised the location of
Speaker 1: two in the first half, the third down ball early
Speaker 1: in the third quarter to Jalen Waddle where he comes
Speaker 1: up short of the sticks and the punt team comes on.
Speaker 1: That's a good example of what happens when the ball
Speaker 1: does not take the receiver on an out route to
Speaker 1: the sideline. Ball placement is so critical, both good and bad.
Speaker 1: On the very next play, a crossing route to Mike Gatsicky,
Speaker 1: a dime over the top of that second level linebacker
Speaker 1: trying to get depth, but it's too late, but the
Speaker 1: football is dropped, I think across the whole offense and
Speaker 1: to A talked about this a little bit, but he's
Speaker 1: glad they won, but he felt they left some chances
Speaker 1: out there. Thought this play was a very embodiment of
Speaker 1: that type of game. Pretty evident on tape. Something to
Speaker 1: work about here going down the stretch. Something to work
Speaker 1: on going down the stretch. I'm flying baby. Jalen Waddles
Speaker 1: drop was a nice catch, rock throw right into the run.
Speaker 1: After the catch, he rips another strong one to Wilson
Speaker 1: on the next play, but Julian Love makes a great
Speaker 1: play to put his hands on it and prevent a
Speaker 1: third and eight conversion. But on that wattle one, he
Speaker 1: I think he was gone. I think he was going
Speaker 1: for for a house call on that one. But it's okay.
Speaker 1: We got one soon after the twenty five yard rip
Speaker 1: two waddle. It's a double over cross deep crossing routes
Speaker 1: from either side of the formation and Jalen has nothing
Speaker 1: but green grass out in front of him to run
Speaker 1: to and two has that football come out early. Great timing.
Speaker 1: Now the throw could have been there a little bit
Speaker 1: more out in front to keep him running maybe, but
Speaker 1: the pass pro was terrific. And I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of these split zone looks where you fake the handoff.
Speaker 1: Tight end comes across the formation to join the running
Speaker 1: back on the same side of the formation, and they
Speaker 1: go up and chip the outside tackle while the rest
Speaker 1: of the line slides the opposite direction. So you get
Speaker 1: better and more favorable one on one matchup and you
Speaker 1: take on their edge rusher with a two on one look,
Speaker 1: and that on top of the possibility of a possible
Speaker 1: false step laterally, it just helps out the line so much.
Speaker 1: That's been a big part of these game plans recently,
Speaker 1: helping the offensive line of past protection and onto that
Speaker 1: ball came out before wild begin to make the cross
Speaker 1: of the crossing route, but again a little bit better
Speaker 1: location I think maybe has a bigger play there. On
Speaker 1: the same drive, the little flip out wide to Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson going in towards the end zone. Man two arrides
Speaker 1: that mesh point for quite a minute there and it
Speaker 1: influences the edge who had one around the outside. To me,
Speaker 1: that's two is best trade in this particular game. His
Speaker 1: ability to manipulate the defense, you have to imagine that's
Speaker 1: very frustrating for a defense try to defend that. Also
Speaker 1: with a quick set up and throw where he's not
Speaker 1: set non ideal mechanics, but still he manages to put
Speaker 1: the ball out wide, which turns Albert Wilson into a
Speaker 1: cutback for a nice catch and run. Again. Placement is
Speaker 1: so very critical on the Isaiah four touchdown just a
Speaker 1: couple of plays later. As a matter of fact, you
Speaker 1: know what Isaiah talked about this in his press conference.
Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and go to Isaiah to talk
Speaker 1: about the touchdown catch. They really put the Dolphins out
Speaker 1: in front by Lomon points in that fourth quarter. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear from the Dolphin's receiver. It was
Speaker 1: weird because I hadn't ripped that play all week. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just something that we put in the game plan.
Speaker 1: Um and uh it was for Jalen, but he was
Speaker 1: scramping and everything. So they trusted me to go in
Speaker 1: there and uh know what to do. Um and went
Speaker 1: out then executed. But that the Giants actually covered it
Speaker 1: pretty well. Uh til I did a extremely good job
Speaker 1: buying some time and kind of deceiving the defense with
Speaker 1: his eyes a little bit and gave me up time
Speaker 1: to boil bag right at the front hil Hunt and
Speaker 1: he he uh threw a great ball and I was
Speaker 1: able to make the catch. Now he's not going to
Speaker 1: talk about it himself. I'll go ahead and do it
Speaker 1: for him. Great toe tap and awareness to make sure
Speaker 1: he knew where his feet was before making the catch.
Speaker 1: Attempt to make sure that it counted when he secured
Speaker 1: that thing and pulled it in good time or big time.
Speaker 1: Touched on there. I should say for the Dolphins quarterback
Speaker 1: to receivers, go ahead and finish up with the two
Speaker 1: third down throws to ice this game here late Devanta
Speaker 1: Parker talked about this on Monday as well, said he
Speaker 1: loves how to recognizes one on one situations and gives
Speaker 1: his guy a chance, and that's what this was. The
Speaker 1: Giants had bracketed the field side trips with zone and
Speaker 1: then man on the backside to the boundary to Davante Parker,
Speaker 1: who got on the upfield shoulder of that corner and
Speaker 1: turned him into a full sprint to catch up to
Speaker 1: the potential deep ball, which then allows him to slam
Speaker 1: on the brakes come back to the football. It's a
Speaker 1: terrific route. The throw is just as good and even
Speaker 1: better catch from Devanta moving that or bringing that thing
Speaker 1: into his body away from his body while contorting towards
Speaker 1: the sideline, getting the feet into the same time then too, Mike,
Speaker 1: this one was also very nice. The Giants switched up
Speaker 1: to man free and they pressed across the board man
Speaker 1: on man coverage, a single high safety up top and
Speaker 1: Ghasicky stacks his man and blocks him out. It's a
Speaker 1: four man pass rush to Ah throws a perfect ball.
Speaker 1: Had to do it right, Go ahead and try it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll blash, so there's a perfect pass, but not before
Speaker 1: sliding up in the pocket to mitigate a little bit
Speaker 1: of pressure off the edge, throwing it in rhythm. Really
Speaker 1: nice touch pass. That's a dime to put the game away.
Speaker 1: Great job, young man, and again Mike Gasicki his best
Speaker 1: route and catch of the game. Boom baby, let's go.
Speaker 1: Jillen waddle the second catch, the toe tap on the sideline,
Speaker 1: short motion to stack, gets himself a little bit of
Speaker 1: a chip on the defender just to kind of get
Speaker 1: his route set up there, and then he shows his
Speaker 1: number two, plants his feet in bounds. Some nice nuance
Speaker 1: there from the ricky receiver, more veteran type work from him,
Speaker 1: and the location is very very good, just as it
Speaker 1: was all day on those perimeter throws away from danger
Speaker 1: but still in reach for his wide receiver. The second
Speaker 1: and ten first down conversion on that opening drive, he
Speaker 1: just sets down the in between a giant zone. He
Speaker 1: presses outside, and this is what I like about this play.
Speaker 1: He presses outside and you see the corner get with
Speaker 1: and immediately turned his butt to the sideline, which the
Speaker 1: time indicates stone coverage and he flattens it right back
Speaker 1: in behind that curl hook defender at the sticks, and
Speaker 1: the ball is out right when he hits the brake
Speaker 1: and right on him as he turns to the football.
Speaker 1: That type of stuff to force the cornerback to show
Speaker 1: their hands early only helps to I D coverage post snap.
Speaker 1: That's why one of the many, many things about Wattle
Speaker 1: you have to love, and we talk about me on
Speaker 1: the bone, just watch him run all of his reps,
Speaker 1: because even when the ball is not going there, you
Speaker 1: see some of his best reps in the game. The
Speaker 1: Parker first back shoulder ball, they try to reroute Waddle
Speaker 1: with a linebacker in addition to the coverage he has
Speaker 1: by the cornerback. He gets on top of the reroute,
Speaker 1: completely sheds it, stacks the slot, and breaks that thing
Speaker 1: off inside. He's open. Obviously we've got sixteen yards on
Speaker 1: that play, but he's open for a potential big game
Speaker 1: there as well. Very pretty work. His third down conversion
Speaker 1: on the first touchdown drive towards the end of the half.
Speaker 1: He takes a slow release and then a quick explosion
Speaker 1: step inside with a nice little rube designed from Davonte Parker.
Speaker 1: I just don't know how you cover that. He slow
Speaker 1: steps off the line of scrimmage and basically he sets
Speaker 1: that cornerback up for that kind of I have a
Speaker 1: headstart because I'm moving and you have to react to me.
Speaker 1: With his speed and explosiveness, you can't react fast enough.
Speaker 1: And I love the location from two to lead him
Speaker 1: into the ground to get both the first down past
Speaker 1: the sticks, but also protect his receiver. On the Mac
Speaker 1: Collins touchdown, you see both the flat and deep defender
Speaker 1: come up and take the cheese on the flat to waddle.
Speaker 1: They're focused on him. Awesome play designed to play off
Speaker 1: of that focus and sneak that receiver in back to
Speaker 1: the back pylon. That's a very good throw from two
Speaker 1: to the back corner, and Mac makes a tough catch
Speaker 1: for six. And we saw to a or rather Wattle
Speaker 1: get really upset after that loan drop. I have to
Speaker 1: say I think it's because he probably thought he was
Speaker 1: going to score on that play. The safety is coming
Speaker 1: straight downhill. Parker's man, who's right there as well, doesn't
Speaker 1: have an angle if he can run at full speed,
Speaker 1: which I think he could have because the ball was
Speaker 1: right on the money, I think it might have been
Speaker 1: a sixty one yeard touchdown if he runs the same
Speaker 1: way he did in the Carolina game. As for Davonte
Speaker 1: Parker kind of covered his game a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he really caught everything. I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with. Obviously the body control on the sideline grounds,
Speaker 1: with the concentration, the feet, all of it, but even
Speaker 1: on the other throws, he just vacuums that thing and
Speaker 1: it protects it his quarterback and that first back shoulder throw,
Speaker 1: just nice timing to see it, feel it, break it
Speaker 1: off at the time of arrival, and again, terrific location
Speaker 1: on that ball. Thought. Savon Akhmed had the best run
Speaker 1: of the day. Nice patience and a great jump cup
Speaker 1: after pressing inside to help Jesse Davis sustained a block
Speaker 1: and then a really nice run outside for twelve yards.
Speaker 1: Big Rob Hunt had a downfill block on a linebacker
Speaker 1: that was terrific, and Jalen Waddle also had a nice
Speaker 1: outside block on that run. Austin Jackson I think continues
Speaker 1: to get better. I mentioned this in his pass pro
Speaker 1: mentioned his passport, I should say. On the very next
Speaker 1: play after that play we talked about the next series,
Speaker 1: he catches a double team with Michael Dieter. It's perfectly
Speaker 1: played hip to hip, shoulders shoulder, and he climbs up
Speaker 1: to the second level and blocks out the sun on
Speaker 1: that second level linebacker. Him and deeeder Man. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about this in the stats portion. They were getting some push,
Speaker 1: a nice seven yard pop on that drive to end
Speaker 1: the first half, and a nice call to run the
Speaker 1: ball there. With three time outs in plus territory, a
Speaker 1: minute forty five and the clock, you both take time
Speaker 1: off the clock and get yourself into a second and short,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a very fortunate position to be in.
Speaker 1: Later on, he gets himself a pancake on a short
Speaker 1: gas and run. I thought he was driving guys off
Speaker 1: the football pretty continuously and consistently throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this game. In general, I think the doubles on this
Speaker 1: line are really good across the board. There's lots of
Speaker 1: opportunities there where they create situations where the running back
Speaker 1: is one on one at the second level with a linebacker,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can start winning some more of those matchups.
Speaker 1: Hunter Long, I think there's something there with him in
Speaker 1: the run blocking game. Early on, he had a really
Speaker 1: good rep on Leonard Williams, which he did enough to
Speaker 1: keep him at Bay while Robert Hunt pulled backside to
Speaker 1: help wipe him out on a double. That's a tough
Speaker 1: ask for a tight end, though much less a first
Speaker 1: year player against a guy Leonard Williams. She's played like
Speaker 1: a hundred and seven straight games in his pro career,
Speaker 1: keeping one on number eighty four in the run blocking game.
Speaker 1: Going forward here and then Rob Hunt really good day
Speaker 1: in pass bro I liked how when Dexter Lawrence would
Speaker 1: try to one gap him and shoot upfield for a
Speaker 1: quick run stuff or even a pass rush, he would
Speaker 1: just take him where he wanted to go. He didn't
Speaker 1: lose power against him, and he would just basically use
Speaker 1: that speed against him and ran him out of the
Speaker 1: play completely. A nice game here from Big Rob. I
Speaker 1: also like how Hunter long got north and south. I
Speaker 1: just skipped this note, but on his one reception in
Speaker 1: the game, the way he got north and south after
Speaker 1: the catch, was impressed by that good stuff there from
Speaker 1: the rookie. Let's move on to the defense here, as
Speaker 1: it was a pretty busy one as pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: got in the notes here because of production across the board,
Speaker 1: but as a whole the way they rallied and tackled
Speaker 1: all game long. Personally, I love this usage of Nick
Speaker 1: need Um and Eric Rowe at their safety slash nickel
Speaker 1: cornerback positions slot cornerback positions. They've really stepped up to
Speaker 1: fill the role slash void left by Brandon Jones and
Speaker 1: his absence last couple of games. As you have seen
Speaker 1: a big increase in safety snaps for Nick need Um,
Speaker 1: which then puts Eric Rowe in more of a slot
Speaker 1: cornerback position. So he's playing a little bit of both
Speaker 1: finding his way under the football field, not just in
Speaker 1: sub packages here, but also in base and that's kind
Speaker 1: of the compliment of this Dolphin defense and the cross
Speaker 1: train they have done all really since Brian Flores got here.
Speaker 1: The more you can do, the more you can help
Speaker 1: your team, and I think that's a big reason why
Speaker 1: the Dolphins kind of survived the attrition of a season
Speaker 1: so well and have a seventeen and six post Halloween
Speaker 1: record here under Brian Flores. Guys go down, next man up.
Speaker 1: It's a big mentality down here, and they execute it
Speaker 1: very well. M I think one of the greatest elements
Speaker 1: of this defense right now is the communication between the
Speaker 1: second and third level of the defense. The way they
Speaker 1: pass off without missing a beat and then they rally
Speaker 1: up and tackle on the short game. It's just so
Speaker 1: hard to beat this defense with the way they're playing.
Speaker 1: You have to stay patient, you have to try to
Speaker 1: compete on first downs. More on that in just a moment,
Speaker 1: And if you come up short on those first down
Speaker 1: plays and get behind schedule, it unlocks all the games
Speaker 1: and complex rush packages this defense has at their disposal.
Speaker 1: But the shirt tackling and sound communication within that second
Speaker 1: level sure is a big key for this defense right
Speaker 1: now and cutting down those four or five yard plays,
Speaker 1: not letting me go out the back door for ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve yards and first downs. And say Kwan Barkley in
Speaker 1: this game, he consistently had to stop his feet and
Speaker 1: change direction upon approaching the line of scrimmage. In Miami
Speaker 1: played that bare front which is going to cover up
Speaker 1: the center and the two guards with Ray Kuwan on
Speaker 1: the nose seeler and Wilkins at the two or two
Speaker 1: eye techniques that's either on the head up over the
Speaker 1: guard or on the inside shoulder of the guard, and
Speaker 1: they just got no push the Giants on those looks. Again,
Speaker 1: more on the first down defense and run defense coming up.
Speaker 1: But Andrew Van Ginkle also in those looks, plays a
Speaker 1: hell of an edge to kind of rush the passer
Speaker 1: play and coverage play the run. And so is Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker with a kind of evolving role playing some more
Speaker 1: weak side edge basically going back to that Ravens game
Speaker 1: back in week ten and these looks, and you can
Speaker 1: really see his speed and ability to cut down angles
Speaker 1: really come into play in this position. This staff right
Speaker 1: now is pushing all the right buttons on how to
Speaker 1: use these weapons on defense. And again more on the
Speaker 1: first down defensive success here in a minute. But there's
Speaker 1: a run play second and ten, early second quarter, and
Speaker 1: you just have Eric Row, Jerome Baker, and Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: to a man, all attacking their blocks and that allows
Speaker 1: them to stack them up and again Barkley has nowhere
Speaker 1: to go. And then Xavian Howard comes in and sticks
Speaker 1: his face and the fan to the toughness, the tackling,
Speaker 1: the beating blocks have all been keys to this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive turnaround, and I thought they schemed up pressure so well.
Speaker 1: From about the second quarter on, Baker has multiple free
Speaker 1: runs that create pressure on the quarterback throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the second half, and his fourth quarter pass rush
Speaker 1: really took off in this game. One other thing I
Speaker 1: really like is how they can load up with four
Speaker 1: defensive backs and their seven man front and compete against bullyball,
Speaker 1: or they can go to their seven defensive backpackage and
Speaker 1: do it there as well. They're they're very well versed
Speaker 1: in multiple looks and very deep in all those spots.
Speaker 1: Some of the individuals ray Kwon Davis kicked off the
Speaker 1: first two plays and the first two drives shed shedding
Speaker 1: a tackle or a block rather and making a run stop,
Speaker 1: then stacks up another one later on to help out
Speaker 1: his friends. He's playing with so much power right now,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of the one that gets the least
Speaker 1: amount of stat production here, but he consistently plays well
Speaker 1: and a strong nose tackle here from Miami Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: it's more the same for him. He stays on balance,
Speaker 1: the feat stay active, his hands are in position to
Speaker 1: disengage and make plays, whether it's at the point against
Speaker 1: a power running team or down the line, making you know,
Speaker 1: seven or eight crossover steps against his own Such a
Speaker 1: solid player against every kind of look you can throw
Speaker 1: at him. He also picked up a TfL or I
Speaker 1: guess it was a no gain in the third quarter
Speaker 1: by completely dismissing a polling guard. He swipes the hands
Speaker 1: down and sidesteps and when you see the guard just
Speaker 1: basically fall over the front of his skis because of
Speaker 1: that work. Zach Seeler first splash play of the game
Speaker 1: for him was on the Javon Holland near interception. He
Speaker 1: just chucks his man and gives himself a free line,
Speaker 1: a free run to put a big hit on Mike Glennan.
Speaker 1: The very next drive as a four technique, he has
Speaker 1: an absolutely devastating swim move on the guard, who again
Speaker 1: stumbles forward out over his skis after a heavy handed
Speaker 1: slap to the back. Steiler hits Glennon and forces a
Speaker 1: throwaway on that play, staying up front. Adam Butler his
Speaker 1: sack was awesome. First of all. Jalen Phillips inside pressure
Speaker 1: completely removes the guard from the equation and Butler just
Speaker 1: waits for that pick and comes around the edge and
Speaker 1: explodes downhill, showing that first step quickness to put a
Speaker 1: big shot on the quarterback for a big time sack
Speaker 1: and a great celebration following up that as well. Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Giggle. What a game he had, I thought, one
Speaker 1: of the best games of his entire career. He starts
Speaker 1: off with a shoe string tackle on safe Kwon Barkley
Speaker 1: on a screen pass where he might have been able
Speaker 1: to get around that corner and move the sticks. Instead,
Speaker 1: it goes for a no gain as they had just
Speaker 1: gotten to plus territory as well, so kind of a
Speaker 1: crucial points type of drive right there. The very next drive,
Speaker 1: he works so hard to stay on the upfield shoulder
Speaker 1: of the tight end on an off tackle runner, off
Speaker 1: end run, and Barkley tries to string this thing out,
Speaker 1: but Geink's tackle attempt forces him to bubble backwards negative
Speaker 1: two yards, and then here comes a landing Roberts to
Speaker 1: cleaning that thing up. On a Kenny Golladay catch early
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, Van Ginkle loops inside and you
Speaker 1: see that lateral agility and the ability to cut down
Speaker 1: the angle to put a good shot on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I just noticed that because he's playing so fast right now,
Speaker 1: you can see forty three playing a different speed than
Speaker 1: he was earlier in the season, I think. And then
Speaker 1: a drive later it looks like he tries to steal
Speaker 1: one by kind of shooting across the face of the tackle,
Speaker 1: and that's one of those things where you play within
Speaker 1: the scheme, but you start to get more comfortable within
Speaker 1: the scheme and then you can start taking some more chances.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was by design, but it looked to me
Speaker 1: like he tried to take a chance here and give
Speaker 1: himself a big play. And he gets there and Barkley
Speaker 1: sidesteps out of it, but not far enough, as Van
Speaker 1: Ginkel lays out and makes another run stop right there.
Speaker 1: Pretty Much every play he made in the run game
Speaker 1: was right at the line. Had a few quarterback hits
Speaker 1: as well, so we had a fantastic game for Andrew.
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle also covered it well. Jalen phillips first sack
Speaker 1: Byron Jones had tremendous coverage on the read that Glennon
Speaker 1: wanted to go to, but the closing speed of Phillips
Speaker 1: really stood out on this sack. He saw his line
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and he took off and Glennon could
Speaker 1: not get through the tight coverage. The downfield reads quick
Speaker 1: enough and he has to eat that sack. On the
Speaker 1: very next play. He does a great job of staying
Speaker 1: true to his rush lane. You can tell that he
Speaker 1: wants to disengage and was ready to do it, but
Speaker 1: because of a nice little step up window they had
Speaker 1: given him Mike Glennon, he doesn't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: disengage right and then have glann sneaker on the left
Speaker 1: or vice versa. So he didn't choose the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: just kept pushing the tackle into the quarterback, and then
Speaker 1: once Mike Glennon made his choice, he comes off the
Speaker 1: block and gets there. He took the drive over and
Speaker 1: basically wiped out that entire possession and gave Miami great
Speaker 1: field position on the other end on the next drive.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba didn't have tons of chances in the pass
Speaker 1: rush game. Here they chipped in, they doubled him, but
Speaker 1: he really impacted the game that way. But also his
Speaker 1: run defense off the edge of a stout. Once again,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker mentioned him off the top of this segment.
Speaker 1: Here in the first quarter, he has a really nice
Speaker 1: rep against a now route, which is a catch the
Speaker 1: football with the quarterback and get it out of your
Speaker 1: hands quickly where he gets wide and that forces Darius
Speaker 1: Slate into bubble and change direction for a loss on
Speaker 1: the play, and again his fourth quarter pass rush was ferocious,
Speaker 1: consistent pressure in that period. I thought Duke Riley filled
Speaker 1: well in the running game all game long. He's taken
Speaker 1: on a bigger role here and played very well. A
Speaker 1: Landing Roberts, same deal with him. He played so aggressive
Speaker 1: in this game and was the freeman in the gap often.
Speaker 1: I know he wants that interception opportunity back because he
Speaker 1: did a great job getting depth getting to his landmark.
Speaker 1: You then see his head whip around and locate the
Speaker 1: route right next to him. He breaks on it but
Speaker 1: just cannot quite squeeze the football. But a big game
Speaker 1: from a land In Roberts. Sam Ego Von has a
Speaker 1: crucial pressure on a third down in completion, running the
Speaker 1: pipe as the looper off a game where Adam Butler
Speaker 1: kind of set that pick and creates a lane. As
Speaker 1: eg Van comes from the three technique, it loops around
Speaker 1: inside for a pressure on the quarterback and the second
Speaker 1: dary Eric Rowe at the play on the now route
Speaker 1: out wide to Darius Slayton on drive number two where
Speaker 1: he comes from depth and makes an open field tackle.
Speaker 1: He looks so fast on that play. The very next
Speaker 1: play they sneak one behind him, and if one more
Speaker 1: step of depth, could have gotten the defense off on
Speaker 1: third down and really helped flip the field earlier in
Speaker 1: the game. But that was about as much as the
Speaker 1: Giants got cooking and Eric Row I thought played very well.
Speaker 1: We talked about the run defense off the top. He
Speaker 1: talked about this openly back in two thousand nineteen, two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty about how far he's come or how far
Speaker 1: he had to go against the run in his transition
Speaker 1: to safety. I see a really confident and aggressive player
Speaker 1: in the way he attacks things. He kind of plays
Speaker 1: the linebacker mentality down in the mess, and it's showing
Speaker 1: up for him here in recent weeks. Xavian Howard on
Speaker 1: the pick. You can see the corner route that's supposed
Speaker 1: to design to pull Xavian Howard down off deep coverage
Speaker 1: with him and Javon Holland, but Mike Gland loads up
Speaker 1: and takes a shot anyway, and right when x sees this,
Speaker 1: he gets back and gets depth, He finds the football,
Speaker 1: he high points it makes an unreal catch. The way
Speaker 1: he makes those catches, you just do not see that
Speaker 1: very often from a defender and throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this game, consistently good coverage where he not only is
Speaker 1: in position but disrupts the route and eventually the timing.
Speaker 1: At think it's a big reason why when quarterbacks go
Speaker 1: after him he has such a high propensity for interceptions.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones a lot of the same here. I like
Speaker 1: the way he presses the receiver into decisions and into
Speaker 1: their routes quickly, and because of his long speed, he
Speaker 1: can kind of pin them to the perimeter, get his
Speaker 1: eyes back to the quarterback, and then he has the
Speaker 1: recovery speed to get vertical if he has to, or
Speaker 1: drive back down the stem. Another big game for Jones
Speaker 1: and X and then Javon Holland the speed to the
Speaker 1: quarterback as a blitzer that first pressure on Mike Glennon.
Speaker 1: He was moving and it made Glennon pay for letting
Speaker 1: that route develop a little bit and hang onto the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit and take a big shot there
Speaker 1: from Javon Holland. Literally the next player on the next
Speaker 1: drive or the next play, which is on the next drive,
Speaker 1: he's reading Mike Glenn's eyes and a crosser off play
Speaker 1: pass and he drives on that thing, drops the shoulder,
Speaker 1: makes a clean hit to separate the football. Seems like
Speaker 1: every week this guy comes up with a textbook level
Speaker 1: hit on the near pick with he an X and
Speaker 1: the end zone. This time he he goes right as
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon starts to throw the football and gets himself
Speaker 1: in position make that play to make a pick. But
Speaker 1: there were six hands in the equation with the receiver
Speaker 1: and X, so it goes down as a pass breakups.
Speaker 1: That's your film review. Let's go ahead and do the
Speaker 1: stats now from this game. I had to put some
Speaker 1: counting stats, some volume stats in here because there's some
Speaker 1: pretty impressive ones this week. And his passer rating splits
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter to a Tonga that is it's
Speaker 1: the best among all quarterbacks since n when stat had
Speaker 1: that's as far back as they go. It's one on
Speaker 1: nine point seven, the best over a twenty eight year
Speaker 1: period for Tongua by Loa. On the season, he ranks
Speaker 1: second in completion percentage seventy point nine and eight and
Speaker 1: total QBR at fifty eight point one. His completion percentage
Speaker 1: is second, his total QBR is eight right now, his
Speaker 1: passerrating fifteen, his touchdown percentage fift, interception percentage also fifteen.
Speaker 1: He has the seventeen highest y p A yards per
Speaker 1: attempt and his sack percentage two A Tonga by Loa
Speaker 1: is sacked the sixth lowest rate in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle is tied for second in the NFL, not
Speaker 1: among rookies, among all receivers with eighties six grabs He's fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and receiving yards Jalen Phillips is tied for eleventh, and sacks. Phillips,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba, and Andrew Van Gigel are all top fifteen
Speaker 1: and quarterback hits. Miami is allowing currently five point eleven
Speaker 1: five point one one yards per play on first down.
Speaker 1: That's tenth best in the NFL this season. Since Week nine,
Speaker 1: the start of the winning streak, their tops at four
Speaker 1: point one nine yards per first down play. That early
Speaker 1: down success teas up the splash plays later in the series,
Speaker 1: as Emmanuel Ogba nineteen QB hits, Andrew Van Gingle eighteen,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips with sixteen, again all in the top fifteen.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins also have three players in the top twenty
Speaker 1: and passes defense. Xavian Howard has fourteen, Emmanuel Ogba has nine.
Speaker 1: There's no other defensive lineman in that category. Javon Holland
Speaker 1: also has nine. Holland leads all safeties not rookies, all
Speaker 1: safeties and QB pressures with fifteen. He's also tied for
Speaker 1: third among all safeties not rookies with nine passes defense.
Speaker 1: Some Pro Football Focus numbers two on throws twenty plus yards,
Speaker 1: one for two twenty five yards in the ten to
Speaker 1: nineteen yard range, eight for thirteen a buck oh six
Speaker 1: and a touchdown, pass in the short zero to nine
Speaker 1: yards eighteen twenty one one oh nine and one touchdown.
Speaker 1: All those pass ratings were ninety five or better. In
Speaker 1: the mid range, it was one thirteam if you combine
Speaker 1: all the throws ten plush yards, nine for fifteen a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one yards and a touchdown, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins dropped free ball, so twelve for fifteen on target balls.
Speaker 1: There on throws ten plush yards under pressure, four for
Speaker 1: six forty three yards when blitzed, eight for twelve seventy
Speaker 1: four yards and a tuddy when he was kept clean,
Speaker 1: twenty six for thirty five with two oh one two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and p F credits minaded me with four drops. So
Speaker 1: again kept clean thirty of thirty five on target throws
Speaker 1: on the season. His adjusted completion percentage actually ranks the
Speaker 1: same as his actual completion percentage. P F has him
Speaker 1: seventy nine. That stat wipes away all the drops, so
Speaker 1: he's on target four out of five of his throws.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Kirk Cousins the only one higher in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. Receiverstavante Parker called all five of
Speaker 1: his targets. That's twelve point one yards per target, one
Speaker 1: point nine four yards per route run number two yards
Speaker 1: is about where you want to be on that stat.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle nine for eleven for nine yards per target,
Speaker 1: two point four three yards per route ran. Mac and
Speaker 1: Ford each caught one pass. They're both touchdowns. Mike ga
Speaker 1: Sicky seven for ten ten yards per target and one
Speaker 1: point three five yards per route ran and pressures allowed.
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg, Austin Jackson, and Michael Dieter all allowed one apiece.
Speaker 1: That sack where Jackson didn't get over enough before on
Speaker 1: the green Dog blitz, they gave him the sack. The
Speaker 1: other sack went to two a toungo by lower from
Speaker 1: PFF Rob Hunt. No pressures allowed. Jesse Davis four pressures allowed.
Speaker 1: The rushing direction bests right end off right tackle. There
Speaker 1: was one carrier for eleven yards as an eleven yard average,
Speaker 1: but the middle left Jackson and Dieterer, who I thought
Speaker 1: played fantastic in this game in the running game, had
Speaker 1: a four point oh average. Defensively, Phillips leads the way
Speaker 1: with five pressures. Jerone Baker has four, Adam Butler has three, Seiler, Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and Van Ginkel all have two apiece. Javon Holland, Sam Ego,
Speaker 1: Von Duke, Riley and Eric Rowe all had one apiece.
Speaker 1: As far as run stops go, Van Ginkel and Roe
Speaker 1: had four apiece wow, Seiler, Phillips, Wilkins, and Roberts had
Speaker 1: to apiece, and a lot of guys had one. Needham,
Speaker 1: Y Kwon, Bake, Butler, Duke, and Byron. How about some
Speaker 1: coverage stats Byron Jones forty eight snaps and coverage forty
Speaker 1: seven yards allowed. That's very good. Eric Roe forty seven
Speaker 1: coverage snaps, forty five yards allowed. Nick Needham twenty eight
Speaker 1: coverage snaps, forty three yards allowed. How about these two
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard forty eight coverage snaps Javon Hall and forty
Speaker 1: five coverage snaps goose egg for both no yards allowed,
Speaker 1: no catches allowed. Next Gen has two at a two
Speaker 1: point five time to throw. That's the second quickest this
Speaker 1: year in the National Football League behind Ben Roethlisberger. His
Speaker 1: seven teen point eight percent aggressive percentage, which tracks at
Speaker 1: catch point a defender being within one yard of the receiver.
Speaker 1: His aggressive rate is the sixth highest. His completion above
Speaker 1: expected is plus three point two percent. That's also sixth
Speaker 1: best in the National Football League. Some snap counts here
Speaker 1: quarterback in offensive line all went wire to wire. They
Speaker 1: played sixty nine snaps nice that's a percent of the
Speaker 1: work Jillen Waddle leads receivers with fifty three snaps seventy
Speaker 1: seven percent of the workload. Davante Parker plays forty nine
Speaker 1: back in his return, Albert Wilson plays forty snaps on
Speaker 1: the game, Isaiah Ford had fourteen, Preston Williams eleven, and
Speaker 1: Mac Hollands nine snaps. At running back, Myles Gaskin plays
Speaker 1: forty four of the workload. Savan akmed gets an increase
Speaker 1: after Patrick Laird goes down. He plays twenty two snaps.
Speaker 1: Laird has the two at tight end, Mike Sick forty
Speaker 1: six snaps, that's sixty seven percent of the workload. Durham
Speaker 1: Smith Hunter long played ten seeth and Carter played three.
Speaker 1: On defense. Christian Wilkins thirty seven snaps. That's fifty seven
Speaker 1: percent of the workload. Davis thirty four, Sealer thirty three,
Speaker 1: Butler thirty three. All those guys giving you a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps in this game. Off the edge, Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: leads the way with fifty four snaps a three percent
Speaker 1: of the workload. Emmanuel Ogba plays thirty eight, Phillips twenty
Speaker 1: nine and Vince Beagle two At linebacker. Jerome Baker missed
Speaker 1: I believe let's see two snaps. He played sixty three
Speaker 1: in the game. That's percent. Roberts played thirty five, Riley
Speaker 1: thirty three, big increased role for him, and egg Von
Speaker 1: played three. Both Byron and X played every snap all
Speaker 1: sixty five, need Him thirty eight, Coleman twenty two, and
Speaker 1: only two safeties had snaps on defense. Holland and Row
Speaker 1: both played every single snap. As far as specialists go,
Speaker 1: Beagle played twenty five Fedulu so Van Gigel in addition
Speaker 1: to his what was it fifty four defensive snaps also
Speaker 1: gave you twenty two special team snaps. Holland's egg, Von, Riley,
Speaker 1: and Carter all played eighteen apiece. Eggbo played seventeen Smythe
Speaker 1: and red Wine had fifteen special team snaps in this game.
Speaker 1: Should we scan the social I was going to, but
Speaker 1: it seems pretty harmonious out there, So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and punt that to next week sixty five yards out
Speaker 1: of here, just like a Michael Pollardi career long punt
Speaker 1: like he had in the game on Sunday. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time on the film review the
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