WEBVTT - Will Fuller's Inclusion And Responding to Adversity 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:08.760 That's it. You're all looking down Cuts down, Miami Quaker run. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.840 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.080 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.680 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.680 Travis Wingfield and as I'm here to do each and 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.800 every day, ready to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.879 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're taking a 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.360 few deep dives. On Deep Dive Wednesday, we're gonna talk 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.040 about the comeback from the setback, plus will follower us 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.560 back in the fold how could he impact the team 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.200 and the offense. And that wraps into our final point 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.239 about how the offense can help to elevate the defense 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.000 with better production from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:03.440 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. Roster 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.760 news to get to here first on this edition of 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.840 Drive Time, Roderick Johnson was added to the Dolphins practice 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.800 squad in place of Bobby Hart, who was added recently 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.119 to that same practice squad. And Johnson was a fifth 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.960 round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns back in He's 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.080 played six hundred and twenty six career snaps over twenty 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.160 nine in his career, both with the Houston Texans, he 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.840 allowed twenty eight pressures on four hundred three pass blocking 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.240 snaps per Pro Football Focus. So some of your roster 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:40.280 activity on this week three edition of the Drivetime Podcast. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.840 We'll get to some possible roster and starting lineup shake 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.000 ups here in just a minute. But we started off 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.800 Tuesday with a assistant coach media availability, and I had 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.760 one specific thing that I wanted to discuss with everyone 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.520 that I could talk to, and it was about the 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.160 approach to coming back from a tough loss like the 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.320 Bill's loss. And to a man, whether it was defensive 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.720 line coach Austin Clark, cornerbacks coach Charles Burke's, wide receivers 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.240 coach Josh Grizzard, offensive line coach Lemil John Pierre co 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.400 offensive coordinator, and running backs coach Eric Studisville, it was 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.720 all the same to a man, and it's that you 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.840 have to have the same mentality, the same mindset, the 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.240 same even kill temperament. Whether it's a big win, a 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.720 big loss, a close game, whatever the case may be, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.680 players will follow their lead and Charles Burke Burke's I 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.880 thought said it the best when he said, it's a 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.520 leader's job to set the tone in the temperament for 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.799 the rest of his particular room, and in this case, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.080 panic creates panics, so we're not gonna sit there in panics. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.880 I thought that was an interesting opportunity to talk to 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.320 the coaches, and it's not like, you know, we're sitting 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:51.959 there and talking to each of them at the same time. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.799 I'm going from one coach to the next, and they 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.400 all had a very similar mindset in terms of how 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.240 you approach overcoming a tough loss like we had in 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.320 week number two against the Bill. So with that, I 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.399 wanted to go and look at some other setbacks over 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.440 the last couple of seasons here with Brian Flores and 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.880 how this team responded, because you know, I've always adopted 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.440 the purse the philo, the philosophy that the bad game 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.560 itself is not the story, it's what happens after that, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.200 and that's true for good games and winning production as well. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.480 And the Dolphins have a chance to prove that that 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.200 was not the team they're going to be. But can 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.120 they do it because you have to just you can't 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.840 just show up and do it. You have to earn it. Shoot, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.000 I'm old enough to remember articles in Week one asking 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 the question is Aaron Rodgers done? I mean, dude through 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.600 for nine point four yards per attempt on Monday Night 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.000 with an eight one point five percent completion rate and 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.840 a touchdown every like six point eight passes, with a 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.640 passer rating of one forty five point six. So I mean, nope, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.280 he's not done. Not not, not for Aaron Rodgers. But 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.920 you just don't get to show up again. You have 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.960 to go out there and prove it. And for Miami 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.000 that comes this week in Las Vegas, and then we 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.600 have to prove it again next week against Indianapolis, and 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.280 then against Tampa Bay and Jacksonville and so on and 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.280 on and on and on. It's a week to week league. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.440 And that's how this team last year was able to 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.239 come off a Week two lost to the Buffalo Bills. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.880 That was a three point game, but if you recall, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.840 Buffalo had seized control late. They were up by ten, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.719 going down the field pretty much at will in that 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.640 second half, and we had a late touchdown and I 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.480 don't want to call a garbage time because I had 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.320 a chance for an on site kick to recover that 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.000 and make it a game. But the Bills were definitely 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.680 in a softer defense, so they had a ten point 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.919 lead late in that game. You know, a game that 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.919 was after midway through the fourth quarter just about in 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.279 the books, and that had an impact that I know 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.720 you all will remember this because we all watched the 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.520 pregame show when the team's on national TV. But just 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.800 four days later on the road on a short week 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.800 in primetime a Thursday night in Jacksonville, the higher panel 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.680 before that game picked Jacksonville to win the game, and 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.560 I think it was rather convincingly too. And the discussion 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.000 was as Jacksonville playoff team and YadA YadA ya, so 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.720 on and so forth. We had a one in one 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.280 team versus now and two team. What's the result of 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.760 Miami in that game? Then the next week, first the 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.880 Seahawks lose a very tough game where you had chances 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.000 to win the red zone. Offense couldn't execute enough to 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.520 get Seattle in a position where they had to storm 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.320 and make, you know, put together a comeback late in 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.120 that game. But you fall to one in three with 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.000 again kind of a difficult fourth quarter, and boy, it's 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.640 a tough hold climb out of it one and three. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.000 A lot of pundits will claim that that's kind of 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.760 a death punch to the season, like you get O 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.239 and two is the first one. I think Ben Solak 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.320 from The Ringer, Who's does some of the best work 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.440 of anybody out there in the football stratosphere, you know, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.960 he had a good comment calling it oh and tombstone 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.720 because only ten percent teams in a sixteen game format 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.680 schedule have qualified for the playoffs in the past. I've 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.480 always argued against that because obviously, if you're a bad team, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.480 your chances are starting out oh and two are pretty good. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.400 But when a good team starts off oh and two, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.200 it's not the same thing. So I have always hated 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.880 grouping teams together like that in that regard. So I 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.440 don't think that ten percent applies to everybody, but it 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.960 is a tough hole to climb out of. And after 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.320 getting oh and two you win your week three game. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.240 If you go to one and four, it's like the 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.479 exact same thing. So one and three, oh and two, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.880 I guess two and five would be the next step 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.840 in that type of evaluation. But the whole point is 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.400 when you're up against the ropes, how do you respond, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.640 how do the Dolphins respond last year when they were 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.640 in that one in three hole, Well, they went into 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.760 the house of the defending NFC champion San Francisco forty 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.400 Niners who were getting back Deebo Samuel and George Kittle 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.320 and Jimmy Garoppolo for that game seventeen Dolphins win. How 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.359 about that very difficult loss in Denver without your starting quarterback. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.360 The following week, no less three win at the meadow Lands, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.640 you get a tough loss at him to Kansas City, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.920 where the Chiefs would jump out to a thirty three 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.240 to thirteen lead and Miami's comeback effort put them in 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.440 position to get the ball back with two minutes to 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.000 go in that game and just a six point deficit. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.120 But you know how Mahomes and that offense goes. They're 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.400 tough to stop in those moments or really in any moment. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.600 So even within that game, this team responded. And then 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.080 to have to come up short and then welcome in 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.200 the Patriots the following league, whose season was on the 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.880 line at that point, to get a convincing win off 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.720 that tough loss says something about your mental makeup. So 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.200 just last year alone, coming off lost Dolphins were four 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.480 and one, and technically, if you include game one of 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.360 this year with Week seventeen last year, which I don't 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.080 think really counts, but if you want to go ahead 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.440 and add it in there for the hell of it, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.960 that's five and one, So a chance to make it 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.640 six and one off of losses since the start of 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.840 under Brian Flora's with a win in Las Vegas. But again, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.240 you don't just get there, you don't show up and 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.000 it happens. You have to go out there and make 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.600 the corrections and execute those corrections, because execution is key 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.480 for sure, right and coach and the staff will certainly 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.560 say the ability to execute comes back on them. It 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.040 starts with Brian Flores and his coaching staff. So a 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.760 better job from everyone included. So how about some areas 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.160 that they can clean it up well. Penalties is the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.520 first one that stands out. It was the second highest 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.840 penalty total in the Brian Flores era. Nine penalties for 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.120 eighty three yards literally never happened last year. There was 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.920 only a quarter of the games four of the six 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.600 team that were even close to that eight for sixty 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.080 four against Cincinnati, seven for seventy five against Arizona, seven 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.199 for sixty nine in San Francisco, and five for seventy 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.040 six in Las Vegas. And wouldn't you know it, all 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.080 four of those games were w's. And even though again 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.600 you have to go out and prove it, history tells 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.120 us that we can expect that to be something of 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.680 an anomaly. It was the most penalties and yardage assessed 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:57.160 on penalties since Week twelve, nineteen in Cleveland, when the 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.199 Dolphins were in their first year under Brian Floress with 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.800 a completely different suster. How about drop passes last year? 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.920 Per Pro Football Focus, thirty two drop passes on the season. Obviously, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.439 easy math there tells you that's two per game Sunday 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.880 more than double that five drops in that game. And 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.000 we've already covered a few times the significance of a 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.800 couple of those drops, possible points on the board with 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.000 some of those and a fumble to No Less right 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.040 around the fourth and goal, fourth inches inside the five 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.760 yard And I should say, how about fourth down success? Right? 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.720 They were over four on Sunday their average in twenty 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.360 Did you know this? I didn't. I forgot about this. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.360 They were eight for ten on fourth down last year 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:40.959 in nineteen it was forty six thirty eight. So tendencies, history, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.480 all this stuff is instructive. So here's getting back to 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.560 those basics, your fundamentals, your techniques, your alignment, your assignment, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.040 the Brian Flores message. This is the week to really 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:56.280 hone in on that message. Then there's something else that 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.240 we get back this week that I think could provide 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.160 a nice shot in the arm for an offense. It's 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.280 off to a slow start. Obviously, thirty second points scored 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.480 right now is Will Fuller's returned to the lineup. Now, Granted, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.080 we'll see how quickly he can get up to full 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.440 capacity and full speed. And by that I mean the 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.840 workload you've seen with Davante Parker and Jalen Waddle as 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.920 your primary snaptakers at receiver. But first I wanted to 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.320 go back and look at success rate by package, and man, 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.360 the resources we have today with statistics is so good, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.960 like so so so so good. You know, I think 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.840 it's a fedor with Safari flaps. It's so good. Inside 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.560 joke for you guys. Eleven personnel from Miami success right, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.760 that has to get better, and it's the primary package. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.400 Sixty eight plays out of that package, only less than 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.480 a third of them have been successful. What that means 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.960 is how you cut down your yards to go on 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.400 first down. If you gain five yards, successful play because 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.600 you cut the distance in half. Second down, if it's 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.360 second and eight, you gotta get four yards for a 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.360 successful play. Cut the distance in half. Third down converting 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.160 is how you consider a successful play. Twelve personnel. That's 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.480 one tight end, two running backs, sorry, one running back 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.880 to tight ends, and two receivers. Fifty percent success right 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.640 on thirty eight plays. That's pretty good that you can 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.400 win with that. And then with third team personnel just 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.240 five plays ran eight percent success, twenty one personnel, just 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.160 four plays ran fifty percent success. And then twenty two 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.439 is two backs, two tight ends. They ran three plays 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.319 out of that and had zero successful plays in terms 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.920 of cutting the distance of the yards to go in half. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.200 So back to the eleven personnel package, your primary offensive 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.959 package for just about every team in the National Football League, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.079 unless you're the Patriots with your two tight ends with 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.040 Hunter Henry and John Smith or your forty Niners who 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.560 who still run a fullback out there. The majority of 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:41.040 the time, eleven personnel is primarily every team's primary package, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.920 and that's where I think Miami can make up the 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.040 most ground. And wouldn't you know it, that's where will 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.920 Fuller has traditionally made his biggest impact. Going back to 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.040 just last year at the Houston Texans, they had a 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.400 fifty one percent success rate and eleven personnel when Fuller 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.720 was in the lineup, and this is one of the 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.160 best offenses in the NFL last year. So fifty percent 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.079 success rate, it's not like overwhelming, but it's a good number. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.840 When he was down the last few weeks of the season, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.719 it dropped like a very significant drop in success rate 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.640 from the time Will Fuller was there to the time 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.160 he's not. And I think his inclusion gives you a 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.880 couple of things. Again, when he's full go, it gives 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.800 you the ability to separate quickly, which is so beneficial 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.200 in the scheme in the system that is predicated on 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.680 pre snap motion and shifts and getting guys free releases. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.160 And his release game is exceptional. He puts corners and 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.760 immediate conflicts just by the nature of his game and 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.680 what he can do with every route being in the 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.800 roll decks for what he can run. And we saw 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.199 Buffalo squatting on a lot of what looked like to 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.079 us first read, you know, coming off r p O. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.280 We talked about that first play of the game, the sack. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.160 There's two defenders bracketing Parker inside and outside and Fuller. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.319 Get just gives the defense another speedster like a Wattle, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.800 but also a technician to contend with. Like you have 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.800 to account for the deep speed, you have to account 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.920 for the ability to break in, to go out the 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.760 two way go of the screen game. He can just 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.000 do it all. I think the ability opens up some 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.679 options with route combinations to the same side of the 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.640 field because you've seen some one route stuff and then 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.559 you get you have to get to the backside once 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.440 that's taken away, and that really kind of is tough 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.560 to do when you have the RPO and guys possibly 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.000 blocking down field or a quick set up passing game 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.840 where you want to cut or chip or just try 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.400 to create two seconds of time for the quarterback to 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.720 throwback there. And we've seen, you know, the option to 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.520 to get two men routes on the same side of 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.080 the field can confuse the coverage. It can possibly pull 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.600 linebackers out of the possible rush zones if you can 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.160 beat them and replace those those spots with the football 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.319 and just a quick aside, real quick, you know. Peyton 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.920 Manning talked about this on the Peyton an Eli pod 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.600 uh Not podcast on the broadcast, and by the way, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.000 that thing could revolutionize the way we watch football games. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.760 I think that's the best. That's the pinnacle of sports programming. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.200 If you ask me, I'm mad that I let this 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.319 idea become a thing without making it known that I 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.680 had that idea several years ago. Talked about it last 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.800 week on the podcast. The Seattle Mariners did a player's 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.679 awnly broadcast like three years ago, So it wasn't my idea. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.240 I mean, I took it from the Mariners, but I 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.440 had it before football, did I think that? You know, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.319 it was like Mike Blowers and j Bunr and like 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.080 Dan Wilson talking. You know, there was no play by 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.240 play guys, so there was no and it comes from mirror. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.320 Is a two two pitch off the plate outside three 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.240 in two, it's a full count. It was just like, oh, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.720 nasty slider there. He snapped that thing off. Hey, when 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.080 you were pitching, how did you get to your breaking pitches? 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.880 On the late in account like they it was all 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.400 about the analysis of the game, and I was like, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.960 that's brilliant. It's like a podcast during a broadcast, which 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.800 is I think the future of sports broadcasting. But back 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.560 to the point Peyton said when Jared Goff that even 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.560 though he's a smart, studious quarterback, it's just not gonna 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.240 be second nature that quickly in a new system to 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.360 get to your second or third read like to know 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.360 in the back of your mind, Okay, if it's not 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.040 there to the right, I know, I come back to 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.960 this landmark in this position against this coverage, against this 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.040 leverage to the left, and he's gonna be there. I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.840 know where the ball has to be to make this play. Ha. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.720 But he said that that starts to happen or did 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.680 happen for him in your number two in a new system, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.160 And he was saying that lines, fans and golf need 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.320 patients in Detroit because as he gets comfortable in that system, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.560 he'll only get better. And that's obviously applicable to every 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.080 single quarterback in the history of the world. And this 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.000 is a new offensive system here, so something to keep 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.560 in mind. Back to will real quick he provides conflict 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.640 at the line, and again we know this offense utilizes motion. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.040 They've got crossers and the ability to go quick and 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.000 stretch the defense horizontally and create spacing that way. I 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.040 really think that Will's inclusion allows the Dolphins to kind 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.600 of mirror some of the stuff on the other side 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.160 with he and Wattle and that speed and ability to 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.040 quickly separate again four point six yards of separation last 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.560 week for a waddle, very very very good. Average can 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.280 only help dictate coverage either on one side of the 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.120 field or both sides. And if you have that take 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.160 the top off the defense type of speed on either side, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.800 then the defense has to chew used to contend with 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.040 one or both, And if it's both, then that can 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.920 open up the run game, which also opens up further 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.960 options in the R P O game. So we'll see 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.320 how quickly he can get acclimated. But a lot of 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.000 stuff we talked about on this podcast this offseason with 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.080 regards to the ability to be explosive and create constant 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.000 conflict for the defense and open up stuff for the 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.080 run game and other parts of the offense based upon 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.080 what you do well. That conversation was had with the 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.040 thought of both Wattle and Fuller in the lineup on 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.640 the field together. So I can't wait to see that. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.960 That's how I think this offense can really get back 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.640 to being successful and being explosive to help this team 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.520 win games. And one way they can do that is 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.400 to help the defense out. And just real quick, here 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.400 some cumulative defensive success rates against eleven personnel so far 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.160 the season. Check this out. Miami was what we say thirty. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:53.520 Let's go back up, which is low right. Defensively, success 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.640 like Miami's defense is shutting down the top personnel package 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.840 so far. Right now of the opposition of choice and 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.160 doing lynd didn't run it as much, but Buffalo that 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.280 was their primary package, a choice in Miami did a 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.080 good job against it, twelve personnel package. That's again you're 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.000 winning football right there. Against a Patriot team a week 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.920 one that ran primarily twelve personnel package, just thirty five 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.080 of their snaps were out of that package. So again, defensively, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.359 you're winning a down on a downbind down basis at 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.120 a better than average rate like significantly. And I think 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.240 these are very encouraging numbers going forward because if the 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.639 offense can find their rhythm and put more pressure on 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.960 opposing offenses like for instance, the mac Jones Patriots plan 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.600 was as effective as it was for them. And look, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.920 I think holding a team to six team points, regardless 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.560 of how you do it is a win regard like 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.680 doesn't matter if you hold somebody's sixteen points, you won 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.480 defensively that day. But they were able to stay with 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.000 that plan because the scoreboard allowed them to. And if 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.720 the offense could have put more pressure on the New 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.520 England offense, maybe they have to start making more taking 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.280 more chances. And we've seen what this defense can do 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.160 when the opposing offense takes those chances real quick. Back 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.200 to Peyton Eli Peyton talked about this against the Lions, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.200 how they always start off and too high, and next 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.440 gen stats can verify that one of their defensive snaps 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.960 start off and too high. Now they disguised their coverage 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:14.919 that way and they rotate off of that and just 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.200 real quick for the lesson of the day, too high. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.720 It refers to your safeties, and safeties will tell you 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.360 what the coverage is going to do most of the time, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.160 like if unless they have a good disguise on which 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.639 a lot of dcs do. But the safeties take you 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.840 to where you want to go. That's why myself and 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.360 everybody that watches film and watches a lot of football 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.119 complains when the broadcast doesn't show you the safeties on 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.679 the screen, because it tells you everything most things that 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.359 you need to get a read on what's gonna happen next. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.119 So they play out of too high every snap, and 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.200 they rotate off of that. But Aaron Rodgers, to Peyton's point, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.679 essentially had to stay patient to take the things the 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.320 defense was giving him, which was the run game and 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.720 the checkdowns. And you find your backs and your tight 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.640 ends in the passing game, right, And sure enough, Aaron 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.680 Jones six grabs forty eight yards, Robert Tonyan three for 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.199 fifty three, and Rogers only throws five in complations on 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.640 the night on twenty seven past attempts. Again, just twenty 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.119 seven past attempts tells you how efficient they were in 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.040 both areas of being balanced on offense. But you see, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.600 the key in rhyming today is to stay patient because 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.360 you'll eventually get your chances to attack and to be vertical. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.959 And I think two of those in completions from Rogers 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.040 not mistaken. One for sure, we're deep shots, and I 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.120 remember he had atoms with a step and a half 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.640 on the outside and the ball was just out of reach. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.680 And the reason I remember that was because Peyton was like, oh, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.840 you missed him. Like I love watching Peyton react to 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.160 the quarterbacks. He only cares about the offense. He wants 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.879 him to succeed every single play. But that was the 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.040 only in complation on the day to Davante Adams. He 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.320