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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it is the after Matthew Autopsy episode, as we unpack
Speaker 1: the week five loss at the Jets by looking at
Speaker 1: the film, the key metrics as a result from the game,
Speaker 1: the snap counts, as well as Mike McDaniels Monday press
Speaker 1: conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. I don't
Speaker 1: want to waste any time as we typically do not
Speaker 1: waste time on these Tuesday podcast taking a look back
Speaker 1: at the game. By the way, go Marin is the
Speaker 1: Mayor's moving on to the American League Divisional Series play
Speaker 1: in the Astros tonight. Let's go get that one, baby.
Speaker 1: That was the waste of time. Now we're not gonna
Speaker 1: waste any more time. Dolphins Jets All twenty two review
Speaker 1: and starting off with the offense here and piggybacking off
Speaker 1: of what coach Mike McDaniel said about how he doesn't
Speaker 1: recall a single first or second down play in the
Speaker 1: first half where the Jets played a single high safety.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of two or even three deep
Speaker 1: with that middle shell going four or five guys across.
Speaker 1: And then they would win with plenty of four man
Speaker 1: rushes against this dolphense pass protection scheme that was obviously
Speaker 1: without to run Armstead and Austin Jackson off either side,
Speaker 1: with Brandon Shell stepping up after being signed to the
Speaker 1: practice squad and elevated just the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and then at right tackle with Greg Little. And that's
Speaker 1: why I was so encouraged by the run game, because
Speaker 1: you know the way that they played this game that
Speaker 1: the Jets defense, it just didn't really afford a whole
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to throw the football into those areas.
Speaker 1: And if you are going to throw the ball into
Speaker 1: those areas, you have to be very precise with your
Speaker 1: timing and anticipation. And to expect a rookie quarterback you know,
Speaker 1: we'll use seventh round traffick, I guess, but just the
Speaker 1: rookie in general, to expect that time and time again,
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen that way for you. You
Speaker 1: have to, you know, have an elite process or an
Speaker 1: anticipator at the quarterback position to really take advantage of
Speaker 1: those those you know, coverage looks. Otherwise you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a game where it's tough to get the passing game
Speaker 1: going and your leading receiver has just forty seven yards. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you take advantage of those
Speaker 1: looks where they're lighter in the box enough times, especially
Speaker 1: as this team gets healthier going forward and we get
Speaker 1: the intermediate passing game going once again, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: awfully tough to stop, just like we were for the
Speaker 1: first three games this season. Being one of the most
Speaker 1: efficient offenses in the NFL. And a quarterback that was
Speaker 1: number two in the NFL, and e p A per
Speaker 1: play number one and pass the right number one and
Speaker 1: qb R and I think the fourth highest PF grade. Alough,
Speaker 1: we don't care about that, but you get the point.
Speaker 1: So into the actual plays of this game. For the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins offense, Teddy Bridge war is one play the safety.
Speaker 1: It's a nice blitz conversion there by the Jets playing
Speaker 1: in their typical zone look. They give you pre snap
Speaker 1: and the eligible receiver, which in this instance was alec
Speaker 1: Ingled the only eligible too, sauce Gardener's side. That makes
Speaker 1: him stay over there, and that's why you run these
Speaker 1: motions to keep people where they're supposed to be. He
Speaker 1: doesn't follow ingold, which tells you zone coverage. But he
Speaker 1: was over there to begin with because you have to
Speaker 1: put someone on the side of the eligible. But he
Speaker 1: motions away and so all Gardner does is convert a
Speaker 1: cat blitz and he has great closing speed, took a
Speaker 1: great route to Teddy Bridgewater to his ultimate drop back
Speaker 1: or the I guess where the ultimate destination was off
Speaker 1: that play action look. And it's just a great play
Speaker 1: for him because man, we had a receiver on a
Speaker 1: defensive back for all their DB's ten yards down the
Speaker 1: field for each guy ready for a block and a
Speaker 1: convoy out ahead of Raheem moster and one key block
Speaker 1: for Rob Hunt to hit in that portion of that
Speaker 1: screen for to get out the gate for potentially big play.
Speaker 1: But because Gardner closed so quickly and got Teddy, it
Speaker 1: winds up being an intentional grounding I guess, which I
Speaker 1: need an explanation for that, because he was throwing the
Speaker 1: screen past to Raheem, and the reason it went the
Speaker 1: wrong way was because he got hit Like Teddy wasn't
Speaker 1: even looking at Sauce on that play, never saw him
Speaker 1: in fact, So the whole intentional part of the intentional
Speaker 1: grounding doesn't make much sense to me. If anything, it
Speaker 1: was a fumble like way closer to a fumble to
Speaker 1: me than it was grounding I could. I would have
Speaker 1: been like I would have understood if they ruled out
Speaker 1: a fumble because it was hand moving forward, but it
Speaker 1: also was almost empty hand moving forward. But the grounding
Speaker 1: I don't understand that, So I guess better than seven points,
Speaker 1: but it was still still two points off the first play,
Speaker 1: and you lose your quarterback for the game, and that
Speaker 1: brings up Skyler Thompson, who, you know, let's look at
Speaker 1: some of the positives here with his game that he played,
Speaker 1: and I thought he, you know, all things considered, did
Speaker 1: enough to acquit himself to show that he belongs at
Speaker 1: this level and his first start when obviously coming off
Speaker 1: the bench like that, you kind of take some time,
Speaker 1: like he mentioned in his postgame presser, to get settled
Speaker 1: into the flow of things. Uh, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a tough spot for him to be in, but
Speaker 1: I thought that he did an awesome job of improvising
Speaker 1: at times and buying some time when things broke down
Speaker 1: a little bit like that throw to Jitalen Waddle where
Speaker 1: he basically, you know, had to get himself horizontal to
Speaker 1: the ground and throw that diving type of pass. It
Speaker 1: was a great play by Thompson. And then there was
Speaker 1: a throw before our second touchdown of the game, right
Speaker 1: before the end of the first half where I thought,
Speaker 1: watching it live, the ball was behind Tyreek where he
Speaker 1: catches it down in a ten yard and took a
Speaker 1: big shot down there, but it actually was perfectly located
Speaker 1: to settle Tyreek into that soft spot. Before running him
Speaker 1: into the hit. He still took the hit, but it
Speaker 1: could have been a lot worse if he leads him
Speaker 1: into it. And frankly, I thought it was his best
Speaker 1: anticipation throw of the day as well as he threw
Speaker 1: it before Tyreek came out of that break. And then
Speaker 1: the interception I don't think was on him. I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes things happened and his arm got hit on that play,
Speaker 1: and you know Greg Little, he gives a lot in
Speaker 1: that rush to speed to power that knocks him back
Speaker 1: quite significantly, and that kind of I think tipped off
Speaker 1: Raheem most to go help and chip on him, because
Speaker 1: Little did eventually settle that block and actually walled him off.
Speaker 1: But then Raheem's chip knocked him off of the block
Speaker 1: and that allowed the rusher to get in there and
Speaker 1: put a hand on Skyler's arm, which obviously causes the
Speaker 1: ball to flutter and gave sauce Gardner, who has a
Speaker 1: great trigger coming out of that back pedal, that extra
Speaker 1: tenth of a second to come up and make a
Speaker 1: play and he did. Great play by Sauce Gardner. He's
Speaker 1: a great pick for that team for the Jet so far.
Speaker 1: He had a throwaway that I thought was very impressive.
Speaker 1: You say Travis a throwaway really it? Well, yeah, because
Speaker 1: saving negative plays is a big deal as well. It
Speaker 1: was a play action boot the Jets blitz the edge
Speaker 1: that he was supposed to boot to, saw it stopped
Speaker 1: and just got the ball out over the head of
Speaker 1: his outlet wide receiver. That's a positive. When you turn
Speaker 1: a negative into a nothing, it's a net gain from
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be. Like you're looking at a
Speaker 1: negative play, all of a sudden it goes back to
Speaker 1: second and ten. We'll take that every single day when
Speaker 1: the play calls wrong, get us out of the disaster
Speaker 1: and get us back on schedule. Obviously, plenty of things
Speaker 1: to work on. After the defensive past interference on Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: we missed Tyreek uncovering on a dig route, just didn't
Speaker 1: see him. There was a double clutch on a checkdown.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the case all day. Just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll trust his eyes more as he goes.
Speaker 1: But again, first start, Like look across the league rookie's
Speaker 1: the last few years, it's not usually very pretty, especially
Speaker 1: early on. Look at what happened in Pittsburgh on Sunday,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough to come into this league and
Speaker 1: be effective right away at that position. Just take some
Speaker 1: time to see things, to get the experience, understand how
Speaker 1: NFL defenses rotate and move, and I thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: he got better as the game went along. There was
Speaker 1: a vert goal route he threw on a third and
Speaker 1: twenty where the route was capped. The defensive back was
Speaker 1: five yards on top of the receiver through it anyway,
Speaker 1: and Chase Edmonds was kind of opened on a design screen.
Speaker 1: But there was urgency in the pocket because pressure was coming.
Speaker 1: So again you understand some of the stuff here, but
Speaker 1: also just mentioning where maybe it could improve. Uh So,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of see it, then throw it,
Speaker 1: you know, the anticipation of throwing it before he uncovers.
Speaker 1: I just really grew appreciation over the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks for Tuah in that regard, and really watching the
Speaker 1: NFL in general, with how late some throws can be.
Speaker 1: Toa is so adept in that regard that the more
Speaker 1: you you see games without him, the more I think
Speaker 1: you appreciate just what he already can do. There was
Speaker 1: a bad miss to Kasicki on a third down right
Speaker 1: before our last points the Sanders field goal, an out
Speaker 1: route that short hops him that probably is a first
Speaker 1: down if Mike can catch it and turn up for
Speaker 1: an extra yard and a half. And then one frustrating
Speaker 1: play on third and six after we got the fourth
Speaker 1: down stop is Mike Gasicki once again uncovers on a
Speaker 1: little en route over the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: he's open immediately right in the line of path of
Speaker 1: where Skylar's helmet is facing. You know, who knows the
Speaker 1: progression where he's looking. But there's time for him to
Speaker 1: hitch up and throw. He hitch ups and and hesitates,
Speaker 1: and then it's a sack right after that. Little things
Speaker 1: like that go a long way, And I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: what Skylar's talking about when he said that I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to watching this tape and getting better from it.
Speaker 1: In the game on Sunday, we just weren't quick, weren't
Speaker 1: anticipating enough to take advantage of the zones the Jets ran.
Speaker 1: They played zone all day long, and we kind of
Speaker 1: had to just find our picks and spots here and there.
Speaker 1: Then the sack fumble. Obviously got to have better ball security.
Speaker 1: Another late read not getting out of the ball, the
Speaker 1: ball out of your hand with anticipation because Tyreek or
Speaker 1: was it Jalen Waddle uncovered on that play. By the
Speaker 1: time he locates the check down, you know he goes
Speaker 1: to throw it and then you have just one hand
Speaker 1: on the ball in the pocket. After three seconds in
Speaker 1: the pocket, you just can't do that. He'll learn that,
Speaker 1: he'll get better, no doubt about that my mind, that
Speaker 1: Scott Thompson takes this game and improves from it. But
Speaker 1: all in all, again I thought he played pretty well
Speaker 1: given the circumstances. Some throws a little bit late, a
Speaker 1: couple of off target throws, but he managed the game well.
Speaker 1: Every quarterback in every game has some off target throws
Speaker 1: in some time, some late timing place. But he made
Speaker 1: some nice scrambles and did his best to protect the
Speaker 1: ball up until that last trip sack again the pick
Speaker 1: hard to fault him on that. So an uneven day.
Speaker 1: But I think about what you expect from my third
Speaker 1: stream quarterback coming off the bench to to be your
Speaker 1: last available guy, I mean, the next guy up with
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson. So it just tells you about the attrition
Speaker 1: of this league and where the Dolphins were in this
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. But tip of the cap to Scarlett
Speaker 1: Thompson into that game very late. There a tip of
Speaker 1: the capt to the scouting staff and coaching staff for
Speaker 1: getting him ready and putting yourself in position with your
Speaker 1: third quarterback. You have a chance to take the lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter against the division arrival. The running
Speaker 1: game got going, didn't it. I was super impressed, and
Speaker 1: I always am by the design of the running game.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun. There's so many different looks where
Speaker 1: if I'm playing Mike linebacker, well that defense is in
Speaker 1: trouble first of all. But if I'm playing Mic linebacker,
Speaker 1: my eyes are very confused because I have the power
Speaker 1: of fast forward rewind here on my Mac computer to
Speaker 1: go back and say, oh, there was a miss key.
Speaker 1: There's auto cool looking pulling guard. There's a nice little
Speaker 1: side a level block. There's a lot of that. There's
Speaker 1: a lot for the eyes to kind of follow. In
Speaker 1: terms of this blocking scheme. There was one play early
Speaker 1: on where Greg little Down blocks the second level and
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt pulls in behind him to wipe out the edge.
Speaker 1: Like you change your assignments and you change the gap
Speaker 1: assignments of the defensive line. Then Gisicki, who's in a
Speaker 1: nasty split, also comes up to the second level. Connor
Speaker 1: Williams goes the opposite direction of all that flow and
Speaker 1: walls off the backside knows the one technique right there,
Speaker 1: with Liam Eikenberg pulling in behind him. So if you're
Speaker 1: trying to key the center of the offense like the
Speaker 1: center and to guard positions, two guys going one way,
Speaker 1: one guy going the opposite way, it's tough to track.
Speaker 1: And then you have Armstead off the other side climbing
Speaker 1: up to the second level, and then Ingold who motions
Speaker 1: out seals off the edge. It's just a lot of
Speaker 1: things to sift through. And speaking of Ingold in motion, man,
Speaker 1: they use him in so many different ways, and I
Speaker 1: think that as we go along, he's going to continue
Speaker 1: to be more valuable. But he already has been very
Speaker 1: valuable the motions and varied usages of his skill set.
Speaker 1: Like nobody else in the roster can do what he
Speaker 1: does in that regard, so it's very important that we
Speaker 1: have him. But attaching to the lion scrimmage, you know,
Speaker 1: operating out of the backfield that h back positions up back,
Speaker 1: deep back out wid as a receiver where he's coming
Speaker 1: in that brotherhood motion. The Niners ran all all year
Speaker 1: last year where they would bring Trent Williams in motion.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of plays where Ingold did that
Speaker 1: some of the counterwork. He's a very valuable asset. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to him getting more and more work here in
Speaker 1: this offense. How about the Raheem most touchdown run. That
Speaker 1: was a thing of beauty. First of all, how many
Speaker 1: times have I talked about this in the podcast Twitter Spaces,
Speaker 1: the postgame show about your ability and the Dolphins this
Speaker 1: preseason training camp running different receiver combinations with the first
Speaker 1: team offense. Because this touchdown run comes out of one personnel,
Speaker 1: which is two backs, one tight end, which means you
Speaker 1: have two receivers. Raheem and Chase are the backs, not
Speaker 1: alec Ingold. Your two tailbacks might get sick of the
Speaker 1: tight end River Craigcraft and Trent Shurtfield, like that's your
Speaker 1: red zone run the football, make tough catches offense. It's
Speaker 1: a good package to have down there close to the
Speaker 1: end zone. And Raheem is stacked behind Mike Gasicki in
Speaker 1: a nasty split. Nasty split when you hear me say
Speaker 1: that that means a receiver and eligible is in tight
Speaker 1: to the tackle, right next to the tackle. And then
Speaker 1: a stack is when you have a guy up on
Speaker 1: the line and then a guy right behind him, which
Speaker 1: prevents jamming. It gives you obviously a clear route to
Speaker 1: motion to go off that side, and it keeps you
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage to be able to go
Speaker 1: in motion and you don't have to shift and readjust
Speaker 1: as a result, y'all with me still on that play,
Speaker 1: he goes in motion and then they snapped the ball
Speaker 1: before he gets to the quarterback and immediately hands it
Speaker 1: to him. And because of that, because of that quick snap,
Speaker 1: he already has the entire box count out flanked. Great,
Speaker 1: so you've already designed yourself a play where the running
Speaker 1: back has already beaten the linebackers and defensive line to
Speaker 1: where he needs to get. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: all you need is two blocks from River and Trent.
Speaker 1: They crush it, absolutely kill their blocks, push their guys
Speaker 1: off the football and then raheem, we have to ask
Speaker 1: you one more thing here, sir, make one man miss,
Speaker 1: and he does us he makes I think it was C. J.
Speaker 1: Moseley miss in the hole. If it wasn't him, it
Speaker 1: was kwe Alexander, I forget. That's the recipe for a
Speaker 1: touchdown right there. Great play call, good perimeter, blocks back,
Speaker 1: makes one guy miss touchdown Dolphins. Problem is with a
Speaker 1: running game is there was lots of missus falling off blocks,
Speaker 1: you know, left guard, right tackle, tight end position. We Uh,
Speaker 1: there was the Tyreek Hill reverse man. We had a
Speaker 1: touchdown on that play if we finished the blocking. Like
Speaker 1: and there's a play where Liam peels back and tries
Speaker 1: to go block plays that are already behind him. If
Speaker 1: he goes out and gets the edge and blocks the edge,
Speaker 1: that eventually tackles Tyreek, I think it might have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Just go get somebody. Uh. That was frustrating
Speaker 1: to see that. Just these instances of one guy getting
Speaker 1: beat and it ruins the play, which obviously is the case.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's how you win football games on defenses.
Speaker 1: Have somebody win a big important matchup and get a
Speaker 1: stop right there. But it was just too frequent at
Speaker 1: those spots. And then off the edge, the Jets pressures
Speaker 1: and and quarterback rush, the one on one situations, the
Speaker 1: four man pressures off either edge was was too much
Speaker 1: to handle. Has to get better out there as well.
Speaker 1: Let's see. So Sauce Gardner is a hell of a player.
Speaker 1: We already talked about that. But Tyreek on that first
Speaker 1: dp I just got him, got off the top of him.
Speaker 1: And that's what we talked about, this urgency that his
Speaker 1: speed creates, always talking about it here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Like Sauce had to stay vertical, and the moment that
Speaker 1: Tyreeke adjust back to the ball in the air, it's
Speaker 1: almost impossible to not get flagged for, especially with Tyreek
Speaker 1: knowing well enough to go back and play the ball
Speaker 1: through the man because he's blind to the play and
Speaker 1: Tyreek can basically initiate that contact at that point, which
Speaker 1: is gonna draw the flag every single time. There was
Speaker 1: a play later in the game where it was either
Speaker 1: Conklin or Usama one of the Jets tight ends where
Speaker 1: he was downfield against Jerome Baker, and Jerome runs step
Speaker 1: for step and puts his helmet, hits the football and
Speaker 1: gets the pass breakup. If Usama just comes back to
Speaker 1: that ball and plays through Baker, it's a d p I.
Speaker 1: So Hill knew to do it. Usama or Conklin one
Speaker 1: of the two didn't know to do it. It's a
Speaker 1: difference there. But Tyreeks put you in positions like that
Speaker 1: time and time again. More on Tyreek. The Jets played
Speaker 1: a lot of Meg, which is man everywhere he goes
Speaker 1: where you're all in zone. But you have one guy
Speaker 1: matching up man, Tyreek. And that's why you got some
Speaker 1: of those d p i s because there was DBS
Speaker 1: trailing underneath Tyreek. Just basically, hey, cover Tyreek, don't worry
Speaker 1: about anything else. Just stick to him, don't track the ball,
Speaker 1: don't track our defense. Just go cover ten again, sixty
Speaker 1: one yards and d p i s a big reason
Speaker 1: for that because they were playing him and not the football.
Speaker 1: The catch he made on that sideline throw that was
Speaker 1: a bit back inside. The defensive back DJ Reid had
Speaker 1: his hands on it and Tyreek just took it from him.
Speaker 1: And you can see the sideline shot where he reaches
Speaker 1: his hands right back across the face and plucks it
Speaker 1: away from Reid and he has no idea what happens.
Speaker 1: He thinks Tyreek out of bounce, he thinks the ball
Speaker 1: is not caught. He looks over. Both of those are wrong,
Speaker 1: Like what the hell That's what Tyreek does. Man, he
Speaker 1: makes plays. And then the move that he put on
Speaker 1: on the reverse, the one that I was upset about,
Speaker 1: uh before our first touchdown man two defenders on either side,
Speaker 1: he just splits them and accelerate right through his cut.
Speaker 1: Such a rare breed one block away from a touchdown
Speaker 1: on that play. And the Jets did a great job
Speaker 1: on that throwback play where you give it to Tyreeke.
Speaker 1: He wants to throw back to Skylart Thompson. They actually
Speaker 1: put a man on Skyler so we can't throw it back.
Speaker 1: But then Tyreek just did more like we were one
Speaker 1: block away on that play from potentially going all the way.
Speaker 1: But that one I don't blame so much because Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt was trying to get out there, but Tyreek ran
Speaker 1: passed him so he couldn't finish the block, but he
Speaker 1: had to keep going with the speed because of the
Speaker 1: flow of the play. So good play by Kawan Alexander
Speaker 1: on that one awesome, awesome block on the edge on
Speaker 1: a Raheem most At twenty four yard run. Both Tyreke
Speaker 1: and Waddle hit key blocks there. Connor Williams also forced
Speaker 1: Kwan Alexander to retreat twenty yards before he was able
Speaker 1: to angle towards Raheem Connor is awesome man. The push
Speaker 1: that he got on that smith sneak touchdown run was
Speaker 1: chef's kiss. And then staying there with both Connor Williams
Speaker 1: and Rob Hunt the opening drive of the second half,
Speaker 1: Raheem most At rips a nineteen yard run, Connor and
Speaker 1: Rob double up a play a tackle, I should say,
Speaker 1: and Connor pancakes him and Rob peels off and drives
Speaker 1: a linebacker a gap off to the side and five
Speaker 1: yards downfield. Those two guys are getting it done in
Speaker 1: such a big way right now. Very impressive play out
Speaker 1: of the center and right guard. Combo here of your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. And then let's go back to the receiver position.
Speaker 1: My notes a little bit out of order here. The
Speaker 1: way that Waddle followed his quarterback like on that crazy
Speaker 1: broken play that Skyler Thompson had while getting driven back
Speaker 1: was was just awesome man. The catch to scoop it
Speaker 1: off the turf. Such a complete player, the way he
Speaker 1: competes and catches tough passes and finds the football and
Speaker 1: runs good routes. Then, of course that big thirty four
Speaker 1: yard defensive pass interference late was was big, big time
Speaker 1: where he gets on top stacks the receipts are the
Speaker 1: defensive back and then fights for the ball. And give
Speaker 1: him a lot of credit to because you can tell
Speaker 1: the way he's trying to gut that out out there.
Speaker 1: He's laboring a lot coming out of those breaks. It's
Speaker 1: just not the normal explosiveness we're used to with Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: Back to Raheem moster Man, he was cooking. There was
Speaker 1: an inside toss play early in the second quarter where
Speaker 1: we turned number free right at the line and Raheem
Speaker 1: does this hair of jump cuts and it works as
Speaker 1: an ankle breaker. Then he gets to the second level.
Speaker 1: He runs for twelve on a play later on where
Speaker 1: the plays blown up. They threw Liam on the ground
Speaker 1: right in front of his track and he just side
Speaker 1: steps to tackle and gets to full speed within a
Speaker 1: few steps. The way he wins the edge even when
Speaker 1: it's not there is so valuable, not just for the
Speaker 1: yards that it gets, but also the stress that it
Speaker 1: puts on defenses when we go to that stretch boot action,
Speaker 1: because I gotta get all the way over there to
Speaker 1: deal with Raheem speed. And then if they're gonna pull
Speaker 1: it out and play action in other direction. Now I
Speaker 1: have to get back that way too. I just liked
Speaker 1: the way both he and Miles Gasking ran the ball
Speaker 1: in this game, especially in short yardage where they found
Speaker 1: the sticks. You have to be able to do that
Speaker 1: consistently in today's NFL. Big running plays, first down conversions.
Speaker 1: Miami was very good in those two departments. Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: had two drops, took his eyes off the football before
Speaker 1: he secured it. I think he'll get that righted, like
Speaker 1: a little doubt in my mind, he'll figure that out.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to make a play for his team.
Speaker 1: Coach talked about guys pressing in the Bengals game once
Speaker 1: the quarterback goes down. I think a little bit more
Speaker 1: of that here, But I trust him to get it fixed.
Speaker 1: And then Tanner Conner know you don't need analyzing on
Speaker 1: the drop. It just went through the midst in a
Speaker 1: big spot. I trust those guys to get that fixed
Speaker 1: next time around. Back to Williams and Hunt and I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm so disorganized here, but they're double teams.
Speaker 1: Are teaching tape man low pad level, good drive hip
Speaker 1: to hip, shoulder shoulder. The Jets were playing that hair
Speaker 1: on fire one gap upfield penetration style, and we had
Speaker 1: some nice wham calls. What's that? It's where they want
Speaker 1: a one gap upfield and you just let a guy
Speaker 1: go free and you take the opposite side player and
Speaker 1: you just go take care of him, like basically take
Speaker 1: him where he wants to go, take him out of
Speaker 1: the play. Teams did that to and Dominican sue all
Speaker 1: the time down here, uh and it worked. So Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt in particular, just he's he's awesome, He's fantastic. On
Speaker 1: the series of the missfield goal, there's a first intent
Speaker 1: run that puts us at the plus thirty six where
Speaker 1: Rob is head up over a defensive tackle, a two
Speaker 1: technique who wants to one gap his way in, but
Speaker 1: Rob fires off the ball faster and gets the knock
Speaker 1: back that he was looking to get on Rob and
Speaker 1: then buries him with a pancake. Really good stuff to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead on the play where he had to exit
Speaker 1: with such a smart veteran play to grab a hold
Speaker 1: of Lawson who beat him inside. But take the ten
Speaker 1: yard holding call opposed to a hit on your third
Speaker 1: quarterback that you can't lose. It wiped out a scramble
Speaker 1: for a first down, but that scramble doesn't happen if
Speaker 1: if Lawson gets in there and puts a hit on
Speaker 1: your quarterback. I thought Brandon Shell had some good push
Speaker 1: in the running game, although again off the edges in
Speaker 1: the past past protection wasn't wasn't very sharp and a
Speaker 1: lot of walking back off the edge, which obviously condenses
Speaker 1: the pocket and makes life tough, especially again on your
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And my last note on the offense, keep
Speaker 1: throwing screens behind Trent Sherfield. He had two more in
Speaker 1: this gammer. He's locking up blocks for the entirety of
Speaker 1: the play ten yards downfield. He is fantastic. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break. Thirty plus minutes into
Speaker 1: the podcast here whoa twenty minutes. I don't know where
Speaker 1: we're at. It's late. Take our first break here. Come
Speaker 1: back on the other side, do the defense to the numbers,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. That's next Drivetime Podcast. Your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation back here on
Speaker 1: a film review Tuesday, week number five edition of the
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Speaker 1: here on the Draft Time podcast. We start with Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: who right off the top on a second and short
Speaker 1: run just throws the left tackle on the ground and
Speaker 1: into the gap where the running back wants to go.
Speaker 1: Then he flies further in and resets the left guard
Speaker 1: and stacks up the run with the Landon roberts On
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's sack that he had in the game. Phillips
Speaker 1: shocks left guard to the point that he's about to
Speaker 1: walk him right into the lap of Zack Wilson, but
Speaker 1: then the center sees it and comes over and helps him,
Speaker 1: and that frees up Baker, who did an excellent job
Speaker 1: of his own of finishing that sack. Phillips I thought
Speaker 1: had a bunch of big impact plays early in this game.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get four quarters of that from him
Speaker 1: going forward. He's he's I think he's playing so well.
Speaker 1: Just the stats aren't there yet. It's gonna happen eventually.
Speaker 1: Just stay patient with you, and Phillips is playing really well.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins is playing out of his mind as well.
Speaker 1: Batted pass early in this game just shows you how
Speaker 1: he can impact the game even when double teamed. It's
Speaker 1: a guard center double team on him, and he sees
Speaker 1: that recognizes he's not gonna win the pass rush pushes
Speaker 1: into them to create space between their bodies and that
Speaker 1: allows him to elevate and swap the ball down and
Speaker 1: get the defense off the field. Textbook more textbook stuff
Speaker 1: on the next drive as he rides the wave from
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the formation all the way outside
Speaker 1: the numbers to the field side of the formation for
Speaker 1: a tackle, and then literally the next play, it's the
Speaker 1: next drive, but it's the next play. Defensively on the tape,
Speaker 1: it looks like Michael Carter has the biggest cutback lane
Speaker 1: you've ever seen, but Wilkins disengages from the right tackle
Speaker 1: and makes a stop right at the line. It saved
Speaker 1: at least ten yards, if not more. And I didn't
Speaker 1: notice it on the broadcast, but Christian beat a double
Speaker 1: team on the third and two stuff right before the
Speaker 1: fourth down in completion. When Nick met him, people thought
Speaker 1: he might get flagged for DP I and Corey Davis
Speaker 1: on that play. The play before, Christian Wilkins beats a
Speaker 1: double team and gets a third and two stuff of
Speaker 1: the Jets running game, Melvin ingram Man. The play that
Speaker 1: he made on that TfL that got pulled back for
Speaker 1: a face mask was such a ridiculously good play before
Speaker 1: the face mask happened, where he swims one block and
Speaker 1: then split low action comes over and tries to wipe
Speaker 1: him out, but he goes and drops the shoulder and
Speaker 1: wipes that dude out. Really good play, just kind of finished.
Speaker 1: They'll grabb in the face mask insane with ray Kwon
Speaker 1: Davis on his sack splash face mask. He shocks his
Speaker 1: man and then waits for Christian Wilkins to come in
Speaker 1: and set the pick stunt from his three technique position,
Speaker 1: and then ray Kwan scrapes and tight to that congestion.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is in this game,
Speaker 1: like you obviously want to stay clear of any blocking
Speaker 1: or congestion, so if you go too far around that
Speaker 1: little pick, you're gonna not have enough time. You have
Speaker 1: to stay in tight and scrape off of that so
Speaker 1: you can get the quickest angle to the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: he did it so beautifully, just grabbed the face mask.
Speaker 1: And it's a game of inches, man. Neither guy had
Speaker 1: to do that to make the play. Their hands just
Speaker 1: round wound up in the wrong place. Emmanuel Ogbot pressured
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson on a third and goal misfire, and this
Speaker 1: looked a lot like the two a touchdown to Mike
Speaker 1: Gasiki where they kind of high load that end zone
Speaker 1: linebacker plopped in there. But of course our quarterback made
Speaker 1: the thrill. Another quarterback didn't. But Emmanuel had a quick
Speaker 1: pressure where he won in side and forced to throw
Speaker 1: high and out of the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: Not everybody can make that throw. Zack Seeler had that
Speaker 1: swim move several times in this game. He damn near
Speaker 1: blew up the Michael Carter touchdown run with it. Then
Speaker 1: the next drive he does barry Zack Wilson almost instantly
Speaker 1: off the snap. He got the throwaway. But man, you
Speaker 1: cannot win any quicker than Zach Seiler on that swim move.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's effort on the pass breakup forty yards downfield
Speaker 1: was absolutely superb. And then Brandon Jones too, who sprint
Speaker 1: into the football the entire play and wound up being
Speaker 1: three or four yards away from a potential gift interception
Speaker 1: as a result of that tip. Little things like that
Speaker 1: you'd love to see because you know if it tips
Speaker 1: up a little bit higher, he does get a pick
Speaker 1: and you have all kind of room to run with
Speaker 1: because he hustled to the football, run to the football,
Speaker 1: Good things will happen, I thought Baker speaking of him
Speaker 1: and e Rob showed really good patience and reaction to
Speaker 1: the briefe Hall directs snap play down the goal to
Speaker 1: ghost situation. Both kind of saw what was going on
Speaker 1: there and made the play for the stop. How about
Speaker 1: seeing Channing Tindal involved really nice form tackle along with
Speaker 1: Kater who on that third and long where they planted
Speaker 1: seven awkward jerseys right at the sticks, he fires up
Speaker 1: makes a big play there. Maybe we'll see more of
Speaker 1: him going forward, We'll see I'd love to see him
Speaker 1: get some work at some point. This rookie sees him
Speaker 1: and some things never changed man, And I love the
Speaker 1: way Andrew van ginkle plays tight to the line on
Speaker 1: the backside pursuit of outside runs away from him. He
Speaker 1: gets another run stop on a pivotal Jets drive. They
Speaker 1: eventually scored that drive, but Van Ginkl has a run
Speaker 1: stop to kick off a series and that in that
Speaker 1: particular drive. Unfortunately, though the Jets scored because on the
Speaker 1: very next play, we picked ourselves, uh with ig Monogamy
Speaker 1: setting a pick on Jerome Baker and Stanley Bruce Hall
Speaker 1: had some nice patient runs where he picked his way through.
Speaker 1: That hesitation that he would do would cause some of
Speaker 1: our guys to get caught on blocks in the second
Speaker 1: level and fifty two. Sometimes it's very good running, but
Speaker 1: getting off blocks is obviously key for linebackers. Brandon Jones, man,
Speaker 1: he timed that blitz on that sack so so well
Speaker 1: and then staying on the quarterbacks track without losing him
Speaker 1: such a big time playing a big spot this uh
Speaker 1: that on that particular moment. It's been a very big
Speaker 1: year here for Brandon Jones in his third season. You know,
Speaker 1: back to know Eggnogny. The first pass on him is incomplete,
Speaker 1: but only because it was a skipped ball over there.
Speaker 1: Then third and seven it's his zone dropping. He's just
Speaker 1: covering space and lets his man get free over there.
Speaker 1: There's a play later on where he runs down the
Speaker 1: field trying to cover somebody um and then the pick
Speaker 1: that he winds up setting on Jerome Baker like he's
Speaker 1: playing the man. It's just it's a tough responsibility out there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I will continued to build on that and use
Speaker 1: this tape to get better. I thought Nick Needa made
Speaker 1: a really nice stop on the jets first field goal
Speaker 1: drive when Bruce Hall bounced to outside and tried to
Speaker 1: make a move on him, and he wrapped up and
Speaker 1: brought him down. But otherwise, holding the edge has been
Speaker 1: an issue or a bug a booze this year, and
Speaker 1: they were again in this game tackling and setting the
Speaker 1: edge outside. A few more notes here kator Co, who
Speaker 1: missed a tackle on a little whip route by Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson in the middle of the second quarter. But man,
Speaker 1: I was impressed by him on an island in that
Speaker 1: slot position, putting his foot in the ground and changing
Speaker 1: direction in a very tough spot to cover with two
Speaker 1: way goes or three way goes. Really, he really wasn't
Speaker 1: that far from jump in the dang thing. Then he
Speaker 1: gets on Wilson immediately after the catch, but just doesn't
Speaker 1: finish the tackle. You have to finish. There has another
Speaker 1: rep just like that later in the game, middle third quarter,
Speaker 1: but I thought he did a great job again with
Speaker 1: the change of direction, but they flagged in a turn
Speaker 1: of the receiver. It's tough to see on the All
Speaker 1: twenty two, but I suppose he did. I didn't really
Speaker 1: see it, but you can't tell from that angle the
Speaker 1: long past debris. Obviously it was a missed assignment somewhere.
Speaker 1: Eric Roe kind of caught flak on Twitter, but you
Speaker 1: can't really who knows, you know who the responsibility it
Speaker 1: was there. It looked like it was him, but you
Speaker 1: can't know without on the defensive play call. But it
Speaker 1: was a cool design with the Jets to you know
Speaker 1: the value of having those two back sets where you
Speaker 1: like we have with Raheem and Chase, big part of
Speaker 1: that right there, it looks like a lead block on
Speaker 1: a little zone read run. But then he gets turned
Speaker 1: free and it's the easiest seventy nine yard past. Wilson's
Speaker 1: gonna have his entire career on the whole. Obviously, too
Speaker 1: many missed tackles. You don't need double labor that point,
Speaker 1: but you've got a pretty clear directive where you can
Speaker 1: get better. Better tackling equals fewer yards equals longer down
Speaker 1: on distances, which means more opportunities for the splash lays
Speaker 1: that we have been lacking. Not a bad tape through
Speaker 1: three quarters with the Levy for sure broken that fourth
Speaker 1: quarter with three quick changes in three short fields. That's
Speaker 1: a tough tough ask. Hopefully you can get one stop,
Speaker 1: but I mean starting at the five yard line, that's
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get stops there. Very often the next
Speaker 1: drive starts to the thirty yard line. It's a lot
Speaker 1: to ask your defense and the past rush, like if
Speaker 1: I can you know say what the defense needs to
Speaker 1: do better. The pass rush just has not been consistent
Speaker 1: enough in four man rush situations this year. You know,
Speaker 1: we go through all the games and blitzes, but winning
Speaker 1: true one on one four man rush situations with more
Speaker 1: frequency would really go a long way, especially while X
Speaker 1: and Byron are down. And also I think the corners
Speaker 1: actually played pretty well all things considered, some key situations
Speaker 1: where they had really good coverage. But I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see X and Byron back playing together again, hopefully
Speaker 1: sooner than later, because we all kind of got spoiled
Speaker 1: with all the press man looks that marry up so
Speaker 1: well with the pressure packages up front, which is the
Speaker 1: cause the cause of all the chaos we've gotten the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. All the takeaway is it's just
Speaker 1: not gonna be there when you're playing off and bail
Speaker 1: and as much zone as we have been. You know,
Speaker 1: Javon halland basically is forced to play twenty yards off
Speaker 1: the football is kind of a mop up guy back there.
Speaker 1: As a result of it all, it changes the way
Speaker 1: you do things when you're down your top two guys
Speaker 1: off the edge out there. Like imagine that same difference
Speaker 1: where if we didn't have Tyreek Hill and some of
Speaker 1: those deep concepts just don't work the same without the
Speaker 1: fastest player in the NFL. That's my notes. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our last break and come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and do some numbers, some snap counts
Speaker 1: as well. It's here from head coach Mike McDaniel. That's
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. Back here segment number three on
Speaker 1: Tuesday on the Drift Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: breeze through these pro football focused numbers here real quick,
Speaker 1: and just give me some stats from the game. Uh
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson twenty plus yard throws in this game was
Speaker 1: one for four for thirty yards. In the ten to
Speaker 1: nineteen range. He was two for three with twenty three
Speaker 1: yards and of course the interception, and and they only
Speaker 1: blitz three times on Skylar Thompson, well four if you
Speaker 1: count Teddy Bridgewater. And a big reason for that is
Speaker 1: it's tough to blitz when you have so much speed
Speaker 1: on the back end. So that's obviously a big impact
Speaker 1: of Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle against the Blitzky was
Speaker 1: one for three with negative one yard. As a team,
Speaker 1: this is our lowest yards per attempt output of the
Speaker 1: season at five point oh. Obviously you know too, it
Speaker 1: leads the NFL right now at nine point two, so
Speaker 1: hopefully we get back to that here soon. Tyreek caught
Speaker 1: all seven of his targets for forty seven yards plus
Speaker 1: the sixty one yards of d p I yardage. Waddle
Speaker 1: also caught all three of his for just twenty three
Speaker 1: yards plus thirty four yards of d p I of
Speaker 1: his own. Cedric Wilson caught two of four for twenty yards,
Speaker 1: Mike Kisiki one of two for thirty yards. We did
Speaker 1: have seventy four yacht yards on the offensive line. Brand
Speaker 1: Shell was hit with seven pressures, Greg Little with five pressures,
Speaker 1: Liam and Rob four a piece, and Corner Williams with three.
Speaker 1: I think Tehron had one in the backs and tight
Speaker 1: ends had a couple as well for twenty five total pressures.
Speaker 1: I think it was in this game Raheem slipped four
Speaker 1: tack cools with four point seven two yards after contact
Speaker 1: on average. What a day that was for him. Eighty
Speaker 1: five is a hundred and thirteen yards came after contact.
Speaker 1: He had four ten plus runs, five first down runs.
Speaker 1: What a great day. Myles Gascon had three yards after
Speaker 1: contact without any miss tackles, which kind of goes back
Speaker 1: to what coach alluded to with your forward lean on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night. Eight first down runs out of twenty five
Speaker 1: for this Dolphins team. That's pretty good, just under one
Speaker 1: third of your runs. Pro Football Focus defensive numbers pressures
Speaker 1: Ingram had two seiler Brandon Jones, Jerome Baker, and Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogball all had one. Just not enough pressure there on
Speaker 1: the On the defense run stops, Wilkins had four. Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones and Lendon Roberts had three. Apiece. Zack Seeler, Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips and nicked him all had two, and then six
Speaker 1: players had one apiece. Coverage numbers. Kater Co who played
Speaker 1: twenty five snaps twenty six yards allowed against him. It's
Speaker 1: a good figure for him. Ignogeny played eighteen had seveneen
Speaker 1: yards against him. Nick Needham twenty six coverage snaps, twenty
Speaker 1: one yards allowed, Brandon Jones nineteen for thirty four. That's
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Jerome Baker two coverage snaps twenty one
Speaker 1: and then Eric Rowe got hit for the seventy nine yards,
Speaker 1: so his number is not so good because of that.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland wasn't the nearest man on any pass attempts
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins here today. So I want to finish
Speaker 1: up here before you get to coach Mike McDaniel with
Speaker 1: scanning the social But first, how about some snap counts
Speaker 1: for you real quick. The offensive line went wire to
Speaker 1: wire except for the left tackle position, which obviously Brandon
Speaker 1: Shell played fifty nine snaps, so just eight snaps for
Speaker 1: Tron Armstead in this game. Uh Skyler played sixty six snaps.
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgeward just the one obviously, waddle leads to the
Speaker 1: receivers with fifty one snaps. That was se Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: played forty three snaps at running back, where he most played.
Speaker 1: Seventy of the snaps as the biggest work share of
Speaker 1: a running back this year for the Dolphins, Trent Sherfield
Speaker 1: played forty four snaps. Kaski out wrapped Durham Smith thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty three, alec Ingold played Wilson sixteen, Craycraft fourteen, and
Speaker 1: then the backs gas In thirteen chased Edmonds ten. So
Speaker 1: interesting splits there. At the offensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: The four defensive players did not leave the field. That
Speaker 1: was Javon Holland, Jerome Baker, Nick Needham and cater Cohu.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones only left for two snaps in the game.
Speaker 1: How about Christian Wilkins playing fifty snaps. What a conditioning
Speaker 1: job he has done in his career. Zach Heeler played
Speaker 1: forty a Landed Roberts played thirty nine. Agba and ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis both played thirty eight a piece. That's sixty
Speaker 1: for those guys. Melvin Ingram thirty six snaps, dealing Phillips
Speaker 1: thirty three. No Agnogamy played half of the snaps thirty one,
Speaker 1: and then Van Ginkl nineteen, Duke Raley ten, and then
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys had a small snap count. Eric
Speaker 1: Road just six snaps on defense and this game changing
Speaker 1: Tendell played two snaps in the game. So scan of
Speaker 1: the social I think this week was the week where
Speaker 1: Twitter sort of broke me. Not in the sense that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to use it anymore, but I suppose
Speaker 1: what I should say is that this time, this is
Speaker 1: the time where I've most seen it, you know, jump
Speaker 1: the shark, as it were, the uh, what are we
Speaker 1: even doing here anymore? Revelation. I don't really dive too
Speaker 1: deep into the depths. I use the mute mute tool
Speaker 1: with the heavy hand because there's just too much nonsense
Speaker 1: to sift through. From being quite honest with you guys,
Speaker 1: but one thing I noticed, and look, everyone's got their
Speaker 1: podcast on their YouTube shows. I know it's fun for
Speaker 1: the fan base to really have their choice of content,
Speaker 1: but man, here's the revelation I sort of had. Some
Speaker 1: of those videos do numbers, you know, most of those
Speaker 1: videos do numbers, and the double digits less than a hundred,
Speaker 1: not exactly viral. And sometimes those same accounts on social
Speaker 1: push narratives from that same feed that makes certain claims,
Speaker 1: and then those tweets get picked up by a few
Speaker 1: and it's a few likes here and there, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, it's overwhelmingly opposition. Get a load of
Speaker 1: this response. You know, as a result, something that is
Speaker 1: only seen by a few people and believe by substantially
Speaker 1: less people becomes this look at what dolphins Twitter thinks
Speaker 1: and believes. And the truth is, no one actually thinks that.
Speaker 1: It's just what if a few waves have been made
Speaker 1: to make you think that's the general narrative, But it's not.
Speaker 1: So my skin of social is Twitter is not real life.
Speaker 1: It's entirely manufactured representation of the truth. And look, everyone
Speaker 1: enjoys this game in their own way. I'm thrilled at
Speaker 1: football has billions of fans for so many reasons, but selfishly,
Speaker 1: none more than the fact that it created this platform
Speaker 1: that I could strive for and eventually, you know, achieve.
Speaker 1: Now that you're all buttoned up, here comes the hammer.
Speaker 1: The opinions you see, a tiny fraction of them are
Speaker 1: actually qualified. Just how it is. It's a hard game
Speaker 1: to understand. I don't know what I'm talking about half
Speaker 1: the time. It's I don't coach this league. It's how
Speaker 1: you wind up with quarterback X is the best quarterback
Speaker 1: on the roster takes because of a failure to understand
Speaker 1: even the slightest motor come of nuance. Look at the
Speaker 1: pressure numbers, Look at the increase and time to throw.
Speaker 1: It's a tenth of a second better or longer this
Speaker 1: past week, a little hitch, little hesitation, and look at
Speaker 1: the receiver production. Look at how the Jets play us
Speaker 1: on defense. If you can't see a clear difference in
Speaker 1: this tape, then you've got some homework to do a
Speaker 1: lot of it. At the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: means nothing, but man, it became too much from the
Speaker 1: weekend and not address it. Let's my scan the social
Speaker 1: just nuance would be nice here and there. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up here with coach Mike McDaniel, who
Speaker 1: spoke to the media on Monday, and we start here
Speaker 1: with some injury housekeeping items. Coach, let us know that
Speaker 1: to a is in a twelve to twenty four hour
Speaker 1: recurring evaluation process that he is not ready to take
Speaker 1: the steps to do some football on field activity. He said,
Speaker 1: talk to me every twelve to twenty four hours about that.
Speaker 1: He said, Teddy Bridgewater has no symptoms today, had no
Speaker 1: symptoms of a concussion yesterday, but per the rule change,
Speaker 1: he's being treated as though he has a concussion. To
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead, his back in South Florida, said the visit
Speaker 1: went well and he said that he knows to Ron
Speaker 1: will do everything that he can to play this Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings. I talked a little about the
Speaker 1: spot or the whole call to to pull Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: out of the game, saying that he's not in the
Speaker 1: business of evaluating spotters, and a lot of good conversation
Speaker 1: about him. With that, said that Tyreek Hill left the city.
Speaker 1: I'm looking good in the walking boot after the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, said the expectation is that Durham Smith, or
Speaker 1: rather that he believes Derham Smith will do everything in
Speaker 1: his power to get back to playing after exiting in
Speaker 1: the game as well. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: play these two audio clips here of coach here telling
Speaker 1: us about when asked will Skyler Thompson start the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Vikings. Here was his response. You know,
Speaker 1: it's too soon for me to to really pinpoint that.
Speaker 1: You know, there's um again. I I kind of have
Speaker 1: to wait and assess the whole situation, which I do
Speaker 1: not have in scope. What I do know is that um,
Speaker 1: Skylar relief practicing on Wednesday, and hopefully Wednesday I'll have
Speaker 1: a better better feel of the direction that we should
Speaker 1: we should go that's best for the football team. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have check back on Wednesday for updates on
Speaker 1: health and availability, as we do every single week, and
Speaker 1: of course throughout the course of the week heading into Sunday,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear from coach on the challenges
Speaker 1: of coming into that game for Skylar Thompson. He also
Speaker 1: alluded to the fact that Teddy was so prepared for
Speaker 1: this game and he was excited for him to play
Speaker 1: in a game and execute in a game that he
Speaker 1: was very prepared for. His teammates were excited to see
Speaker 1: him play. And the rules, you know, have been placed
Speaker 1: for players safety. That's what coaches all about. Whether he
Speaker 1: stumbled or not, the rules of the rules, and his
Speaker 1: only takeaways to form are from the whole process is
Speaker 1: his relationship with Teddy Bridgewater talking about how prepared he was,
Speaker 1: he was asked about Skyler Thompson coming into the game
Speaker 1: cold like that and the work that you do all
Speaker 1: week long to get your starting quarterback ready and how
Speaker 1: difficult it can be for the backup to come in,
Speaker 1: especially when the backup as a rookie. Here's coach UM,
Speaker 1: I really respected the fact of how you know, being
Speaker 1: being a backup quarterback in this league is not easy.
Speaker 1: And what people don't understand is you can't have you
Speaker 1: have to have a finite amount of reps during the
Speaker 1: week because you can't deplete your athletes and put you
Speaker 1: can't have endless amount of reps. So typically UM starters
Speaker 1: get anywhere from eight of the practice reps. So a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, especially a rookie, tremendous challenge because you have
Speaker 1: to own the old game plan, visualize it, be able
Speaker 1: to call it, be able to line people up and
Speaker 1: then execute appropriately. UM. I think he was way on
Speaker 1: top of the game plan, UM in a way that
Speaker 1: I don't think UM that typically I'm used to rookies
Speaker 1: being on top of UM And I think he uh
Speaker 1: he was also frustrated with his play, but confident that
Speaker 1: he It was more of like a frustration in the moment,
Speaker 1: like my feet are messed up, that wasn't the right timing. UM. Overall,
Speaker 1: it's exactly what I thought would be where I left
Speaker 1: the game knowing that um, the game is not too
Speaker 1: big for him, and that was probably if he has UM,
Speaker 1: if he has any saying it, it was probably uh
Speaker 1: the worst. That he will feel like he's he'll perform
Speaker 1: as a professional, and that was good enough to win.
Speaker 1: So I was very happy um with the player um
Speaker 1: because he It takes a lot of prep and it's
Speaker 1: a big stage that everyone's an up for. Alright, long
Speaker 1: podcast on Tuesday, as they typically are, getting you all
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty from the autopsy and the game. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: we heard from coach McDaniel, gave me some fun stats
Speaker 1: there as well. We'll come back for you guys on
Speaker 1: the podcast tomorrow and then of course the Thursday preview,
Speaker 1: the Friday perspective from the opposition the Minnesota Vikings this week.
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