Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check
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Speaker 2: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: And on today's show, a fun episode, a fun tape
Speaker 2: to come over. We're going over the all twenty two
Speaker 2: from Miami's twenty two to twenty win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you about the game plan, the top tapes,
Speaker 2: the explosive plays, the game winning drive, the key numbers,
Speaker 2: and so much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Mayie Daffy first, Typically.
Speaker 2: We start this thing with the explosive plays, but since
Speaker 2: the Dolphins and Cowboys offenses, known for their explosive plays,
Speaker 2: didn't have much beyond the first couple of series in
Speaker 2: the game, we're gonna just do two plays, and one
Speaker 2: of the being an actual big play. It starts with
Speaker 2: back to back dots from QB one to a tongue
Speaker 2: of bi loa. I think in a game of that magnitude.
Speaker 2: To start it off with a pair of deep shots
Speaker 2: from your own end zone, both right in the bucket,
Speaker 2: both right on stride to a pair of sub four
Speaker 2: to three receivers is a good reminder of what you
Speaker 2: have under center. Dolphins fans, the debate is over to
Speaker 2: a tongue of by Low is the best deep ball
Speaker 2: thrower in the National Football League?
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's that close.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that that should surprise anybody because
Speaker 2: it was the same stuff on Alabama tape every single
Speaker 2: week back when he was playing his football there. The
Speaker 2: one to Tyreek is mastery of the position because the
Speaker 2: Cowboys rotate into a three high look with the widest
Speaker 2: corner getting width to account for alec Ingold who had
Speaker 2: come across the formation and motion, and the middle of
Speaker 2: the field safety in this three high look squats right
Speaker 2: at the snap and you see twos helmet stripe locked
Speaker 2: onto that safety and he sees it immediately. So I
Speaker 2: decided I'm gonna put my timer on this because from
Speaker 2: snap to throw he sees that makes that decision cuts
Speaker 2: that thing loose. One hitch timing one point eight one
Speaker 2: seconds was my average on three times gets the football
Speaker 2: out from his own one yard line and Micah Parsons
Speaker 2: is hitting him before the ball leaves his hand and
Speaker 2: it hits Tyreek's hands at the forty one yard line
Speaker 2: from the far hash. I mean, there is a list
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks who have led the NFL in Bold completion
Speaker 2: percentage and yardage simultaneously in the same year, and that
Speaker 2: list is Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Brett Faarr,
Speaker 2: Kurt Warner, and Dan Fouts. All of those guys are
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame, or at least Drew Brees
Speaker 2: will be right. It's wouldn't de breathe retired. It should
Speaker 2: be coming up here pretty soon. This is why when
Speaker 2: you can put the ball in hand off position from
Speaker 2: forty yards away and throw it in one point eight
Speaker 2: one seconds, that that in and of itself is a
Speaker 2: unique unicorn rarefied trait that people don't even want to
Speaker 2: talk about. Now Tireek's credit, I'm pretty sure, and I
Speaker 2: can't know for sure because I'm not in the huddle.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the meeting room.
Speaker 2: That the numbers are the landmark for that pass and
Speaker 2: the ball sales wide of the numbers and tracking that
Speaker 2: thing back across your face is really really tough because
Speaker 2: because it changes the eye line at the last second,
Speaker 2: it's it's very difficult in all of sports. That's why
Speaker 2: you teach a catcher to not make a basket catch
Speaker 2: and a pop up behind home play with the glove
Speaker 2: above your head, because if you put it above your head,
Speaker 2: the eye line chain stays the same for the entire time,
Speaker 2: whereas if you go below the waist, you have to
Speaker 2: track the ball from looking up into the sky down
Speaker 2: below your belt.
Speaker 1: That changes the eye line.
Speaker 2: Same idea there, and also big credit to Rob Jones
Speaker 2: for coming across the formation and getting a second, a
Speaker 2: last second shot on Micah Parsons, which if he doesn't
Speaker 2: do that, I think Tua is taking a shot from
Speaker 2: Parsons that probably wipes him out and makes that ball
Speaker 2: flutter up in the air.
Speaker 1: But where this play belongs in here.
Speaker 2: Is the fact that Tua takes that shot from Parsons
Speaker 2: on his first drop back, and then after a delay
Speaker 2: of game, it's third and eight and again you're playing
Speaker 2: quarterback from your own end zone, from those beautiful orange
Speaker 2: en zones that we saw on Christmas Eve, And what
Speaker 2: does Tuwa do the Cowboys wind up in what I
Speaker 2: think is cover six quarter quarter a half with Stefan
Speaker 2: Gilmour as the quarterfield safety, so he's playing one fourth
Speaker 2: of the deep coverage to the short side of the
Speaker 2: field and Waddle just runs by him, and Gilmour is
Speaker 2: almost kind of flirting with giving the outside access on
Speaker 2: the fade and why not because it's a small window.
Speaker 2: Reminds me of playing recess football back in fourth grade
Speaker 2: when you would bait that one kid that you know
Speaker 2: can't make that throw into certain passes so you can
Speaker 2: get that pick right. But what he didn't realize is
Speaker 2: it wasn't the fourth grade recess kid. It was the
Speaker 2: most accurate quarterback to any level of football on the planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he is.
Speaker 2: Two was on three hitch timing this time, and the
Speaker 2: feet are so clean, so pretty, no crossing over, no
Speaker 2: heel clicking. Slightly expedites the entire process of that setup.
Speaker 2: With a good Dallas pass rush, and number eleven, who
Speaker 2: is unlike any player I've ever seen on tape my
Speaker 2: entire life and from the l in Dolphins in the
Speaker 2: end zone, loads up this shot to Wattle, who's the
Speaker 2: ball comes out when Wattles is his own fifteen yard line,
Speaker 2: so twenty yards away from Tua, and it descends between
Speaker 2: Wattle's arms at the forty five in stride. Play goes
Speaker 2: for forty nine yards and a massive first down to
Speaker 2: flip the field. That play is points right because you
Speaker 2: pump from your own end zone that typically directly leads
Speaker 2: to three points at least for the opposing offense if
Speaker 2: not a touchdown. But you're typically when you pump from
Speaker 2: your on en zone, getting the football at best at
Speaker 2: midfield or in plus territory. But this flips the field
Speaker 2: and Miami scores in this drive too, so really a
Speaker 2: six point.
Speaker 1: Swing at minimum. I love the concept.
Speaker 2: Tyreek runs the post corner that holds the other quarterfield
Speaker 2: safety for just a beat, which is all Wattle needs
Speaker 2: for that one on one matchups and access to the
Speaker 2: throw to the perimeter. Kendall Lamb does a great job
Speaker 2: of getting in front of an absolutely out of control
Speaker 2: Micah Parsons because Parsons sometimes just basically like hits the gas,
Speaker 2: like puts it to the floor and goes and not
Speaker 2: many guys can handle the speed and explosiveness.
Speaker 1: That he has.
Speaker 2: But on this rep he just throws a full speed
Speaker 2: bowl rush at Kendall Lamb and he absorbs that and
Speaker 2: puts him on the ground with some help from Rob Jones.
Speaker 2: Liam on the other hand, has a great twist pickup
Speaker 2: Cotton and Teestead shut down their one on one reps.
Speaker 2: Just great team football across the board and a superstar
Speaker 2: quarterback making a superstar throw who, by the way, had
Speaker 2: to climb and make himself skinny to get out of
Speaker 2: the way of the trash that Parsons put at his
Speaker 2: feet with that out of control pass rush to find
Speaker 2: his star receiver. So yeah, stars all over the field
Speaker 2: in South Florida. Right, big time completion there. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead into the top five tapes. Speaking of these stars,
Speaker 2: and number one is Andrew van Ginkel. The way he
Speaker 2: plays through guys with power like he can two gap
Speaker 2: off the edge in a way that I thought was
Speaker 2: exclusively on this team, reserved for Jalen Phillips, but also
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb's doing it. Melvin Ingram can do it as well,
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Ogbad does some of it, But Andrew Vankinkle is
Speaker 2: the one guy who doesn't fit the mold of the
Speaker 2: rest of the outside backers on this team right, And
Speaker 2: what I mean by that is they're all two sixty
Speaker 2: two sixty five beefed up dudes who can really hold
Speaker 2: that point, which is such a key in this defensive
Speaker 2: system that plays light boxes, because you have to one
Speaker 2: be able to two gap and get off blocks inside,
Speaker 2: and we have two of the best defensive tackles in
Speaker 2: the world at that, but you also have to be
Speaker 2: able to play inside outside and a two gap off
Speaker 2: the edge at your outside linebackers spot. And Van Ginkles's
Speaker 2: makeup and body composition would tell you that's not his game,
Speaker 2: but it is.
Speaker 1: He's great.
Speaker 2: He's great at it, and it helps him stay on
Speaker 2: the field for all three downs and ultimately become the
Speaker 2: productive pass rusher that he is and just productive player
Speaker 2: that he is. Ten tackles, one and a half sacks,
Speaker 2: four quarterback hits.
Speaker 1: He's awesome. But he's also so damn fast.
Speaker 2: Those games they run where he takes one step upfield
Speaker 2: to set the tackle in a certain a certain set
Speaker 2: and then takes the crossover step and slides all the
Speaker 2: way across to the opposing a gap or even to
Speaker 2: pursue it all the way to the perimeter to go
Speaker 2: make a tackle on a quarterback scramble.
Speaker 1: It's freaky fast. Those two traits pair together to make.
Speaker 2: A breakout candidate here for Andrew Van Ginkle, and I
Speaker 2: haven't seen much of this this year on him, but
Speaker 2: they would double team him with double wise in tight
Speaker 2: to the formation, twelve personnel unbalanced, put both wide tight
Speaker 2: ends on Andrew Van Ginkle and double it and he
Speaker 2: just holds the point and does not let them detach
Speaker 2: and climb to the second level, which on this particular
Speaker 2: play I'm talking about, allows Xavi and Howard to come
Speaker 2: off the edge and scrape as the force defender and
Speaker 2: make a tackle right at the line. So this entire
Speaker 2: front is tough to push around. They're physical, they get
Speaker 2: after you. They can beat you with speed and power.
Speaker 2: And Andrew Van Ginkle leading the charge in this one.
Speaker 2: Nine pressures, three stops, two targets on two yards in
Speaker 2: coverage he played five coverage snaps. Andrew Van Ginkle is
Speaker 2: your top tape from Miami's Big Christmas Eve win. Your
Speaker 2: second top tape if I told you back in September,
Speaker 2: Miami's winning a game against a ten to four football
Speaker 2: team to clinch a playoff berth and get their first
Speaker 2: eleven and four stars in thirty three years. Would you
Speaker 2: have guessed that Andrew Van Ginkel and Rob Jones are
Speaker 2: the top two tapes from that game. That's what you're
Speaker 2: getting because Rob Jones constant displacement in the running game
Speaker 2: and moving guys off the football and in critical spots
Speaker 2: late in the game when you know the Dolphins are running.
Speaker 1: The football didn't matter.
Speaker 2: Rob Jones just pushed you around and made you his well,
Speaker 2: it's b word. Also the pass protection if there was
Speaker 2: if he would see the three technique or the two
Speaker 2: or two iy whatever who's across the guard slash center,
Speaker 2: he would see them take one step inside, he would
Speaker 2: immediately get depth and go get ribs on Micah Parsons
Speaker 2: go help out. And it was such a critical chip
Speaker 2: or just additional block to help slow him down for
Speaker 2: another half beat. Just a fantastic job holding up in
Speaker 2: one on one pass protection, passing off on games.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was one of the best players on
Speaker 1: the entire field.
Speaker 2: And Parsons has this move and Brian Baldinger put it
Speaker 2: on his breakdown so you can go back and check
Speaker 2: it out on there where he he will line up
Speaker 2: in the A gap either on ball or off ball,
Speaker 2: and it essentially turns into press coverage for a receiver
Speaker 2: and defensive back with how he does this. But he's
Speaker 2: like the best at defeating press coverage in the NFL,
Speaker 2: even though he's a linebacker. He comes squared up to
Speaker 2: the offensive lineman, has this little stutter step and then
Speaker 2: explodes in one direction or the other, and the man
Speaker 2: literally teleports across a gap like it doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: how fast he moves one gap to the next. But
Speaker 2: Jones would just say, all right, I'm gonna play with
Speaker 2: physicality to match that and just go attach and ride
Speaker 2: him through the rep and just do a good enough
Speaker 2: job to carry him past the quarterback. Talk about stepping
Speaker 2: up to a big time challenge. Rob Jones had him
Speaker 2: on the podcast on Friday. He was fantastic. He was
Speaker 2: even better on Sunday. Two pressures on forty pass blocking snaps.
Speaker 2: Have a day, Rob Jones, he is your left guard
Speaker 2: for my money, when Rob Hunt gets back number three,
Speaker 2: gonna do something a little bit different here and combine this.
Speaker 1: I know it's a little bit cheating.
Speaker 2: I know Seth and OJ will say, Travis, you give
Speaker 2: out way too many game balls. You're giving out six
Speaker 2: top tapes in the top five tapes, but I cannot
Speaker 2: differentiate in this game Christian Wilkins and Zac Seelert's salt
Speaker 2: and Pepper baby. So Christian, we know he's having a
Speaker 2: great year, right, But how about plugging on a tape
Speaker 2: against Zach Martin and watching Constant walk back the ruffiing call.
Speaker 2: What a shame because he had a bull rush that
Speaker 2: took Zach Martin halfway through the end zone, halfway to Miramar,
Speaker 2: discards him and takes away any hope for Dak to
Speaker 2: make a throw a great play that was undone by
Speaker 2: a not so great call. Did the exact same thing
Speaker 2: in the running game reset shed make the play just
Speaker 2: an overwhelming presence on a down in, down out basis.
Speaker 2: And also, do not do not discount the value of
Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins' mind games, because in this game, he took
Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson's towel didn't give it back to him. He
Speaker 2: also on a false start where the Cowboys gave a
Speaker 2: little love tap to Tyler Biottish their center, and he
Speaker 2: didn't take Verry Kyle of that att and got a
Speaker 2: couple of swings.
Speaker 1: After the fact and then at the end of the
Speaker 1: half he put.
Speaker 2: A full on rep against Zack Martin on a kneel
Speaker 2: down play and Beadish tried to come after him, and
Speaker 2: Christian just turned around and ran back to the locker room.
Speaker 2: He is a master of getting us side the head
Speaker 2: of the opponent. He's a player that you would hate
Speaker 2: if he's not on your team, but because he is,
Speaker 2: you love him. How about Zach Steeler, who I thought
Speaker 2: was even better than Christian in this game, but they
Speaker 2: played together so well that it just made sense here.
Speaker 2: The control that he has of his man in a
Speaker 2: phone booth and when on one situation all American man
Speaker 2: wrestling alligator forearm grip strength is what is on display
Speaker 2: for Zach Steeler on a down and down out basis
Speaker 2: the eye discipline to go along with that, and the
Speaker 2: rush lane integrity. He's never going to sacrifice his rush
Speaker 2: lane for what he thinks might be able to go
Speaker 2: beyond the scheme to go make a play. And it
Speaker 2: helped out so much this week because the coverage was
Speaker 2: so good. We'll get to that here in a second.
Speaker 2: That Zach's two gapping and eyes in the quarterback were
Speaker 2: such a critical part of cutting down so many of
Speaker 2: those Dak Prescott scrambles. You have to tip your cap
Speaker 2: to the guy because he's not just the strongest person
Speaker 2: on the field. He also plays with very very good
Speaker 2: football acumen. And he forced a hold on a play
Speaker 2: where he was doing this because so frustrated by him
Speaker 2: just controlling the rep Sometimes you grab on and erases
Speaker 2: a first down, backs the Cowboys up and gets a
Speaker 2: punt out of their own end zone. So Christian Wilkins
Speaker 2: and Zac Seeler. For Christian two pressures and three stops
Speaker 2: for Zach four pressures and three stops.
Speaker 1: They were both excellent.
Speaker 2: Once again, my fourth top tape goes to David Long,
Speaker 2: and really these three guys I think are the epitome
Speaker 2: of how this defense functions under Vic Fangil. We'll come
Speaker 2: back to that, but his physicality and explosiveness just jumps
Speaker 2: off the tape every single week. And what's best about it,
Speaker 2: like Christian and Zach is the film study makes him
Speaker 2: even more of those two things because of the instinctive
Speaker 2: nature that he operates with. He impacts the game as
Speaker 2: a blitzer gets Dak Prescott off the spot on a
Speaker 2: play where Ceedee Lamb was running free at one point.
Speaker 2: His flexibility is such a key to our varied looks.
Speaker 2: Because of that play speed, the outright speed speed, We're
Speaker 2: able to go two man and reroute Kendall Lamb with
Speaker 2: hook linebackers and basically say, if you want to put
Speaker 2: Lamb on the slot, fine, we'll have cater Cooho cover him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to fight through a bunch of trash
Speaker 2: in the hook zone with linebackers rerouting him and walling
Speaker 2: him off, and safety's buzzing down to go play him.
Speaker 2: And one of the biggest reasons you can do this
Speaker 2: is because Long has the recognition and speed to get vertical,
Speaker 2: to get depth and take away a window on a
Speaker 2: twenty five yard over route in behind that second level
Speaker 2: of Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: He is so unique in the way he does that.
Speaker 2: And then he'll get tasked with man coverage on Jake
Speaker 2: Ferguson up the stem. And I talked about Ferguson's physicality
Speaker 2: and the nuance of his routes on the preview podcast
Speaker 2: right how he can really remove your power because he
Speaker 2: kind of forces you onto your heels. Well, David Long
Speaker 2: didn't let that happen because he dictated the terms of
Speaker 2: the matchup and greeted him with equal or greater physicality.
Speaker 2: On the day, three pressures as a rusher, one stop
Speaker 2: in the running game, and one for three passing completions
Speaker 2: and targets with seven total yards on seven on thirty
Speaker 2: four covered snaps.
Speaker 1: That was difficult. What we got through it.
Speaker 2: So, David Long, your fourth top tape and my fifth
Speaker 2: top tape goes to toront Armstead and he talked about
Speaker 2: not playing to his standard a couple weeks ago when
Speaker 2: he was coming off the injury.
Speaker 1: Well he's back.
Speaker 2: I mean collapsing the edge in the running game. He
Speaker 2: and Durham Smyth erased the edge completely a few times,
Speaker 2: and then DeMarcus Lawrence was silent all game long. He
Speaker 2: had three pressures, but none of those were on Teestad.
Speaker 2: In fact, he had twenty four pass rush snaps against
Speaker 2: Teestad without a pressure, and he had three on the
Speaker 2: other sixteen. But he didn't hit the quarterback a single
Speaker 2: time in the whole game. And the play that really
Speaker 2: put him here for me was the screen the Tyreek
Speaker 2: that gave Miami a critical first down on the game
Speaker 2: winning drive. He was in the just miscategory until I
Speaker 2: came across that play. But one of the best things
Speaker 2: about Tron is this jump set that he has where
Speaker 2: he goes and gets the long runway, the nine technique,
Speaker 2: the Cameron Wake who's all the way outside the tight end.
Speaker 2: He goes and gets it and shortens that runway to
Speaker 2: take away their speed their speed to power their long
Speaker 2: arm move. And on that play he bluffs the jump
Speaker 2: set on Micah Parsons, who takes the invitation to go
Speaker 2: get the inside gap and you'll make a short run
Speaker 2: to the quarterback because he'd been doing that all night long.
Speaker 2: But bluffs that and Parsons winds up basically diving face
Speaker 2: first onto the ground, and that's where the screen got ran.
Speaker 2: So Toront Armstead the intellect, the knowledge, the game plan
Speaker 2: throughout the course of a game to adjust and make
Speaker 2: that call. It kind of won you the game in
Speaker 2: some respects. So t Stead zero pressures in the game,
Speaker 2: clean sheet on forty pass blocking snaps.
Speaker 1: He's your fifth top tape.
Speaker 2: The just miscategory alec Ingold, Tyreek Hill, Tua Tongua Bailoa,
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey, and Bradley Chubb are also in my honorable mention.
Speaker 2: My six through ten if you will, And with that,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and take our first break rate there.
Speaker 2: Come back on the other side, do the entire offensive notes.
Speaker 2: We'll finish up with the defensive notes and the staff counts.
Speaker 2: All that coming away here on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Top five tapes in the books.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and open up the offensive notes here
Speaker 2: and start by some general concepts and philosophies that I
Speaker 2: thought were very impressive from Mike McDaniel and this Dolphins
Speaker 2: offensive staff, starting with the man beaters in short yarders,
Speaker 2: because nobody runs more man coverage than the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 2: and you have to have your answers, and quite frankly,
Speaker 2: I think those are the easier answers to come up
Speaker 2: with than beating zone coverage because you get your natural rubs,
Speaker 2: your slant flat, your mesh concepts, and we saw all
Speaker 2: of that in this game, including one of the coolest
Speaker 2: designs I've seen all year long by any offense on
Speaker 2: the raheem moster or touchdown reception.
Speaker 1: But on the opening drive, you.
Speaker 2: Face a third and three and you get a slat
Speaker 2: flat combo to Jeff Wilson, where Tyreek wins inside and
Speaker 2: forces all of the attention inside to the part of
Speaker 2: the field and it opens up that outside throwing lane
Speaker 2: to Jeff Wilson, who, if you remember last year, Wilson
Speaker 2: was a pretty valuable part of the passing game, and
Speaker 2: he also did something in this game that we haven't
Speaker 2: seen really all year from the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: More on that in a moment.
Speaker 2: That makes me think maybe there's a bigger role waiting
Speaker 2: for Jeff Wilson down the stretch here as he continues,
Speaker 2: or really his playstyle, I should say in this time
Speaker 2: of year really is conducive to physical December and January football.
Speaker 2: But I thought those man beaters were very impressive, especially
Speaker 2: the touchdown to Raheem Moster, where they basically ran what
Speaker 2: was like a double mesh concept and the Cowboys rushed
Speaker 2: four and played man coverage with brackets, and you had
Speaker 2: three guys that had eyes on Tyreek Hill and he
Speaker 2: and Durham run this, or rather he and Cedric Wilson
Speaker 2: run this dual mesh concept where they both run shallow
Speaker 2: crossing route shallow drags to kind of pull the attention
Speaker 2: away from that part of the field that you want
Speaker 2: to sneak Rahiem moster are out into and Durham consistently
Speaker 2: is just so on his details of his job, does
Speaker 2: a great job of feeling those routes and just kind
Speaker 2: of climbing to levels to where he knows he can
Speaker 2: put himself to set a legal pick without actually putting
Speaker 2: his hands on guys. He just carries that reroute and
Speaker 2: sifts his way through traffic to make himself big, and
Speaker 2: it's always effective when he does it. Now, he and
Speaker 2: Tyreek really took away the entire middle of the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 2: And then Raheem is all alone after a Dumby motion
Speaker 2: where he fakes going to the right at the snap,
Speaker 2: peels back and goes back to the left and just
Speaker 2: gets completely lost in the wash from the Dallas defense.
Speaker 2: And then Rob Jones another awesome rep, giving Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 2: help and then peeling back and picking up a slanting rusher.
Speaker 1: Two for one.
Speaker 2: Kendall Lamb has a beautiful anchor on DeMarcus Lawrence, while
Speaker 2: Cotton and Tea Stead both put Micah Parsons in avice
Speaker 2: for that touchdown. Speaking of Micah Parsons, you will not
Speaker 2: see a player like this on Miami's schedule the rest
Speaker 2: of the year for four more years, because I think
Speaker 2: this is the best player I've ever watched on tape.
Speaker 2: I guess you could see Miles Garrett and the Browns,
Speaker 2: it's pretty close, but this guy is a freak like
Speaker 2: he lined up everywhere and you just can't keep him
Speaker 2: from impacting the game because he's too dang good and
Speaker 2: too much of a unicorn for his position. We talked
Speaker 2: about the basically you crossover step wide receiver on cornerback
Speaker 2: release pass rush Movie has when he mugs up in
Speaker 2: the A gap. But I did think that Miami's effort
Speaker 2: and strain and awareness of Parsons was just good enough
Speaker 2: to prevent him from changing the game. He impacted the game,
Speaker 2: but he didn't make a game changing play. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and talk about the quarterback he was trying to
Speaker 2: get after here and two tongue of my low, who
Speaker 2: I thought, despite some misses, played a very very good
Speaker 2: football game. Playing play making through vision was something that
Speaker 2: was on the I guess on the docket last week
Speaker 2: from Darryl Bebble's press conference. But what I didn't really
Speaker 2: take into account with how vision is so imperative to
Speaker 2: the position. Is how you can have good vision in two.
Speaker 1: Areas of the field at quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: So on the play where Tua hits Cedric rolling out
Speaker 2: to his left, I'm not sure I've seen him do
Speaker 2: this before, but it's awesome to know it's in the bag.
Speaker 2: So the Cowboys run a game where the end loops
Speaker 2: inside to Tua's left, and tuas looking down the field,
Speaker 2: but he feels the rush so he can process the
Speaker 2: coverage right, but also the pass rush because he leaks
Speaker 2: out at the exact same time to the left that
Speaker 2: that end loops inside, so he feels that.
Speaker 1: And do you guys.
Speaker 2: Understand how insanely rare and valuable that is? Like Jets
Speaker 2: fans can't figure out why Zach Wilson stinks right with
Speaker 2: all those cool throws, bro cool Pro day throws. It's
Speaker 2: because he can't see and can't process and can't put
Speaker 2: the coverage and the rush together. And it's why you
Speaker 2: do not blitz to a front side. Blitz backside game
Speaker 2: won't be an extra rusher to the backside. So I
Speaker 2: know that once that end leaves that position of the field,
Speaker 2: I now have an open window to escape that way
Speaker 2: to get myself in a threatening position to throw the
Speaker 2: football down the field. To Cedric Wilson, I have answers
Speaker 2: to my test ahead of time. Let's escape and throw
Speaker 2: a dot. I like to think I know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, and I'm still very much an amateur with this.
Speaker 2: I'm not coach McDaniel or coach Frank Smith. But man,
Speaker 2: I've studied a lot of coaching clinics. I've watched a
Speaker 2: lot of tape. There's not more than five or six
Speaker 2: quarterbacks doing this. I'll just go ahead and say that
Speaker 2: also something that kind of I just think to his
Speaker 2: entire game is like a test of who knows ball,
Speaker 2: and it's the mastery of the seemingly innocuous. Kind of
Speaker 2: like that last point, but that's how I would describe
Speaker 2: two as game, the mastery of the seemingly innocuous. When
Speaker 2: I did his breakdown for the YouTube channel which you
Speaker 2: can go find that, and the Bradley Chubb and the
Speaker 2: Jayleen Ramsey breakdowns that we put up on the YouTube
Speaker 2: channel with me on a telestrader, go watch if you
Speaker 2: have not seen that where I show plays where Tua
Speaker 2: turns us back to the defense and gives a fake
Speaker 2: inside on an end around and then flips back and
Speaker 2: fires to a spot. And he did it again here.
Speaker 2: And this one was a touch throw the Tyreek hill
Speaker 2: between three Cowboys defenders right in stride and after a
Speaker 2: reverse pivot step. And I feel like I'm very much
Speaker 2: over using this point on the podcast today. But there's
Speaker 2: like a handful of quarterbacks who I would would trust
Speaker 2: to mechanically get themselves aligned and put the football right
Speaker 2: back in the right spot off of that action. It's
Speaker 2: impressive on its own, but the type of skill and
Speaker 2: ball handling that makes our run game even more dangerous
Speaker 2: makes it go to.
Speaker 1: A different level.
Speaker 2: Not to mention it's a player where you've sort of
Speaker 2: given the offensive line the rep off not to diminish
Speaker 2: their work, but the action on the fake gets the
Speaker 2: defensive line moving laterally.
Speaker 1: And then the quick throw.
Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to affect Tua when he's got that
Speaker 2: operation rolling, so he basically by himself can mitigate pressure
Speaker 2: on ten plus snaps on a given game.
Speaker 1: It's impressive. Man.
Speaker 2: How about the end of half, end of game drives.
Speaker 2: That's where I thought Tua really made his money in
Speaker 2: this one. So the Cowboys play this three deep coverage
Speaker 2: this entire time, the middle of the field safety's twenty
Speaker 2: five yards off the football. This is the end of
Speaker 2: the first half, by the way, with the perimeter of
Speaker 2: the three high coverage playing fifteen yards so deep show
Speaker 2: that's why you get smythe on stick and Tyreek layered
Speaker 2: in behind that runs the coverage off to a Seizon
Speaker 2: goes the short route because they ran with a deep route,
Speaker 2: smart quarterback play. They came right back to it, and
Speaker 2: this time Tua has to shoulder roll pump to Tyreek
Speaker 2: into the high window to create the vacancy underneath some
Speaker 2: hesitation the middle linebacker position creates a window to Durham.
Speaker 1: Smyth hits that one. Just fine.
Speaker 2: I just love what Tua did on these man. The
Speaker 2: hook would not widen and he would read that. So
Speaker 2: he would rip it inside to his number three receiver
Speaker 2: of alignment, right you your third closest receiver inside to
Speaker 2: that side of the field, Smyth, Cedric Braxton. Then they
Speaker 2: would flood the trip side and just now it's Tyreek
Speaker 2: against off coverage. Just throw a little now hitch route
Speaker 2: to him. So it's a play by play example of
Speaker 2: Tua's vision and the ability to get the football out early.
Speaker 2: It's so so critical on this drive that they have
Speaker 2: the ball early, and they do it every damn snap.
Speaker 2: Then the game winning drive more of the same design.
Speaker 2: Swing to a Chan face mask is the drive starter
Speaker 2: this time around, finds the grip on a low snap
Speaker 2: and rips a perfect slant et Cedric Wilson for nine
Speaker 2: yards on time on the stop route to Tyreek for
Speaker 2: a first down to Boom. Three plays were already in
Speaker 2: Jason Sanders field goal range, but now you need to
Speaker 2: manage the clock in the game, so you miss Tyreek
Speaker 2: on first down a little bit inside. Then another great
Speaker 2: call to minimize Micah Parsons by running play action away
Speaker 2: from him and sneaking alec Ingold into the route on
Speaker 2: split flow where Parsons thinks he might get picked up
Speaker 2: by Ingole, but then rather than doing that, you throw
Speaker 2: it to him. In fact, Dallas did the exact same
Speaker 2: thing to Jake Ferguson on the open drive of the game,
Speaker 2: where they fake the split flow block and throw it
Speaker 2: to him. Then the check to a now screen to
Speaker 2: Tyreek is the biggest play of the game. Right took
Speaker 2: another ninety seconds off the clock, allows us to make
Speaker 2: it a chip shot field goal. And that's a man
Speaker 2: coverage recognition from Tua. Check at the line scrimmage, make
Speaker 2: that call big time down.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This is part of the general plays and the general
Speaker 2: breakdown for the Dolphins offense inside the Tua portion of
Speaker 2: the podcast. Almost an inception here for you. But the
Speaker 2: run game, Man. Hefe's eight yard run gets excellent perimeter
Speaker 2: blocks from Reek and said Rob Jones had a great.
Speaker 1: Catch and climb.
Speaker 2: Lamb and Eikenberg held their reach blocks just long enough.
Speaker 2: And then great downhill running by Hefe himself. Then that
Speaker 2: third and two Man, they've used their timeouts, but they
Speaker 2: gonna stop here. They're gonna have about fifty five seconds
Speaker 2: left and just needing thirty five forty yards for a
Speaker 2: long field goal try. And that kicker never misses. That's
Speaker 2: an eternity of time, man. But they know, especially with
Speaker 2: how they move in the ball. Last couple of drives
Speaker 2: ten points on the Dolphins defense in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: but they know the run is coming. Everybody's in the
Speaker 2: box and how freaking cool is this. We are primarily
Speaker 2: a zone running team.
Speaker 1: Right outside zone.
Speaker 2: Inside zone, they go power, which is classic one back
Speaker 2: power Man gap scheme, Lamb Jones and Eichenberg all down
Speaker 2: block and make critical attaching blocks, and Robert Jones just
Speaker 2: completely displaces the B gap. Lester Cotton pulls in the
Speaker 2: backside and gets the crucial chip on DeMarcus Lawrence that
Speaker 2: makes the lane wide open for Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 1: He sees it, he hits it. Awesome call. Better execution
Speaker 1: wins you the game. Goosebumps man.
Speaker 2: I came winning for this game impressed by two of
Speaker 2: for three things. Well aside from the fact that he
Speaker 2: made Dallas decide to change their entire defensive philosophy, which
Speaker 2: is one thing on its own, but the three things.
Speaker 2: Number one, an understanding of defenses and coverages and how
Speaker 2: to attack them that gets better every single week, taking
Speaker 2: what the defense gives you and knowing what's there. And
Speaker 2: then two, the drive starters and the threat.
Speaker 1: Of play action.
Speaker 2: Because of Tua's ball handling and the ability to mess
Speaker 2: with the defense with his drops, his footwork, how they
Speaker 2: can change the launch point, how Miami can do different
Speaker 2: handoff type of techniques every single week. Because this quarterback
Speaker 2: is so adept in those fine details, and because you
Speaker 2: always know that he'll get back on balance and throw
Speaker 2: these anticipatory strikes down the.
Speaker 1: Field on time, on target.
Speaker 2: He threw an eighteen yard hook to Tyreek where his
Speaker 2: hands separate before Tyreek even sinks the hips to get
Speaker 2: into the route, and the off course is in a
Speaker 2: full sprint to the goal line. There's a middle field
Speaker 2: safety running full sprint to the goal line and a
Speaker 2: cloud corner who's getting depth at full speed trying.
Speaker 1: To impact that.
Speaker 2: The only way you get the ball into a triple
Speaker 2: team there is with elite anticipation and location. We were
Speaker 2: in scoring range all night long because of the ability
Speaker 2: to hit these chunk plays early in drives against that
Speaker 2: Tampa two cover three early down defense of Dallas, like
Speaker 2: I talked about in the preview podcast. And finally three,
Speaker 2: he was impacted by Parsons immediate pocket collapsing a few times.
Speaker 2: Thought he missed some throws he normally hits, and every
Speaker 2: time it's a sped up operation where he's not in
Speaker 2: the same mechanical alignment because eleven is relentlessly in his face.
Speaker 2: But then there were some adjustments. He just threw it
Speaker 2: earlier and took some gas off the throw. That's adjusting
Speaker 2: endgame in a way that I don't think many quarterbacks
Speaker 2: are capable of. He converted a third long at the
Speaker 2: plus thirty nine yard line in the third quarter. That
Speaker 2: I think is a difference between points and not kicking
Speaker 2: a field goal there at all. So although Sanders had
Speaker 2: hit from that range, but you get the idea just
Speaker 2: so pressure from Tua. I did think there was a
Speaker 2: few misses that were bothersome. The missed to Waddle on
Speaker 2: what looks like a site adjustment as well as running
Speaker 2: the glance, but they had that thing walled off backside,
Speaker 2: so he pivots out and Tua tries to throw a
Speaker 2: back shoulder ball, but it's just high and away. Base
Speaker 2: got a little bit wide. He pumped it and held
Speaker 2: it a beat longer, which got the rush into his face.
Speaker 2: Mechanics go awry, ball goes awry. He misses a speed
Speaker 2: out to Waddle where Parsons has immediate eight gap pressure
Speaker 2: and forces the footwork to change.
Speaker 1: Ball is wide.
Speaker 2: On the penultimate drive of the first half, he missed
Speaker 2: a speed out to a chan the opening drive of
Speaker 2: the second half, third and nine, Tyreek runs a slam.
Speaker 1: Tua throws the out.
Speaker 2: The safety had rolled down inside, but Parsons winning inside
Speaker 2: the tackle again speeds things up. He ruined plays all
Speaker 2: night long, and the worst one wasn't out to Cedric
Speaker 2: Wilson on third and seven at the plus seventeen in
Speaker 2: the third quarter with just two minutes to play, sixteen
Speaker 2: to ten game. He was wide in his base, he
Speaker 2: was early, and there was no pressure on this one.
Speaker 1: Just flat out and missed it.
Speaker 2: And I think that the game winning drive does not
Speaker 2: have to happen if he hits that throw. But all
Speaker 2: things told, solid grades Soliday for Tua. Parsons makes a
Speaker 2: big impact man. We'll see if the Ravens can do
Speaker 2: the same thing to him next week. But twenty plus
Speaker 2: air yard throws one for four his lowest pertentigs of
Speaker 2: the season fifty yards though, and then ten plus throws
Speaker 2: eight for sixteen for one to seventy seven.
Speaker 1: That's a great number right there.
Speaker 2: He was pressured eleven dropbacks, went three for ten fifty
Speaker 2: one yards, Parsons man, and then he was blitzed six times,
Speaker 2: went three for six for forty six yards. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take our last break right there. Come back
Speaker 2: on the other side, do all the eligibles and the defense.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 2: Next draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto Nation. Almost thirty minutes into the show.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of ground to cover here in
Speaker 2: the final SEGM. Let's go ahead and start with the
Speaker 2: eligibles and Tyreek Hill and what a freaking teammate this
Speaker 2: guy is.
Speaker 1: Man Dallas was not gonna let him see the ball. Early.
Speaker 2: Everything was a bracket. Sometimes a third backside defender would
Speaker 2: lurk to buzz a crosser or peel off when he'd
Speaker 2: stay front side, but he still ran every route with
Speaker 2: deliberate intention, right with purpose. Chosen's reception, zero chance Tyreek's
Speaker 2: getting the football on that play because Dallas has literally
Speaker 2: four sets of eyeballs, that's eight eyeballs on him, But
Speaker 2: he clears space for Chosen by running a full fledged
Speaker 2: clear out route with all the effort he can possibly give. Then,
Speaker 2: of course, the play that he makes just gliding around
Speaker 2: the field, his presence forcing some of these off coverages
Speaker 2: that opens up space for other guys and himself on
Speaker 2: those quick hook throws to get you in critical field
Speaker 2: goal range in the fourth quarter. Great to have him back.
Speaker 2: I know he didn't make the catch and was on
Speaker 2: different pages with two at one point the deep catch
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, But all these grabs came against doubles
Speaker 2: and brackets.
Speaker 1: That special.
Speaker 2: When you can defeat brackets and doubles, that's Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame stuff. Seven point zero seven yards per target honestly
Speaker 2: the lowest he's seen all year, I believe this season
Speaker 2: against that coverage that he saw, though, is amazing. To
Speaker 2: do that against constant double and triple team. Also just
Speaker 2: a cool two point six eight yards per route ran,
Speaker 2: which would have been third in the NFL on the
Speaker 2: entire year. I think, uh Nico Collins and who's the
Speaker 2: other one, Ceedee Lambs, somebody else is higher, but Tyreek
Speaker 2: in this game against double coverage as good as the
Speaker 2: best receivers in the NFL, well besides himself, because he's
Speaker 2: like four point six this year. Durham Smith helping the
Speaker 2: tackles hit those reach blocks every single week where he
Speaker 2: just holds him up for a beat to get that
Speaker 2: reach block attached. Then he detaches and climbs up to
Speaker 2: a nickel corner, a safety, a middle linebacker trying to
Speaker 2: flow over the top. He's so good, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do a segment on Durham Smyth later this week talking
Speaker 2: about his the microcosm that he is for the rest
Speaker 2: of the football team and how the coaching staff plays
Speaker 2: the strengths of the players.
Speaker 1: But every big run there's eighty one locking onto somebody.
Speaker 1: What a year he's having. And also about catching the football.
Speaker 2: Caught every target, eleven yards per target, one point nine
Speaker 2: to three yards per route. Ran great game for Durham Smyth,
Speaker 2: just like it was a great game for alec Ingold,
Speaker 2: who hit several critical blocks all game long, all over
Speaker 2: the formation.
Speaker 1: He gets put in.
Speaker 2: These difficult positions, and I think the design of the
Speaker 2: offense speaks to his competence, Like you can run these
Speaker 2: complex things because of alec Ingold, like a counterplay where
Speaker 2: he has to take two fall steps place before winding
Speaker 2: back and cutting off the free running, unblocked end elite
Speaker 2: combo of both vision and athletic ability. The entire Dolphins
Speaker 2: backfield is smart players and only you can only run
Speaker 2: these varied running games with.
Speaker 1: Them because of that.
Speaker 2: He also had a cut block on Parsons at the
Speaker 2: point of attack that sprung a fourteen yard where he
Speaker 2: most run on the opening play of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: He just did a little bit of everything, man. I
Speaker 2: do think though the league ALEC might be privy to
Speaker 2: that hurdle at this point.
Speaker 1: A little fun there.
Speaker 2: Cedric Wilson angles back to the quarterback as well as
Speaker 2: anybody on the roster, good hands, catches, survives contact a
Speaker 2: couple of times, some superb blocking off the edge. He's
Speaker 2: really stepped up in whatever role he's been asked to fulfill,
Speaker 2: and I thought had a real sense of urgency on
Speaker 2: both end of half scoring drives where they're playing that
Speaker 2: soft off coverage three deep zone. Get out of the blocks,
Speaker 2: you have to go now, show your numbers of the
Speaker 2: quarterback and then fall forward into the catch. There's value
Speaker 2: in catching the ball at five yards and then making
Speaker 2: it an eight or nine yard game to get second
Speaker 2: and two second one. Julian Hill, the thing I like
Speaker 2: about him is I know there's going to be one
Speaker 2: hundred percent straight on every single block, every ounce of
Speaker 2: effort he can give. He will still a really good
Speaker 2: blocker off the perimeter. And then Raheem Mostert in here
Speaker 2: as well. Backside vision keeps his shoulders over his feet
Speaker 2: on those cuts, leans into contact and a blocker trying
Speaker 2: to disengage at the point to get off the block
Speaker 2: and make the tackle.
Speaker 1: Good frigging luck.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I've seen Raheem get tackled by that
Speaker 2: one time this year. Arm tackle is not going to
Speaker 2: work on a guy with that speed. Makes him for
Speaker 2: a dangerous runner three point four or five yards after
Speaker 2: contact on average thirty eight total. One thing I can't
Speaker 2: get on board with the eligibles is Craycraft down for
Speaker 2: chosen just unwillingness to make tough blocks in the first
Speaker 2: drive put us behind the sticks, and I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Creycraft don't do that on the offensive line. Huge props
Speaker 2: to Liam meickenberg Man. The difference in picking up loopers
Speaker 2: and games inside is night and day difference from what
Speaker 2: it was his first couple of games. It looks like
Speaker 2: Connor Williams in a sense was out there in terms
Speaker 2: of the communication inside.
Speaker 1: Not quite as good, but closer.
Speaker 2: This is the fifth position this guy's played in his career,
Speaker 2: and more comfortable than ever I think right now, and
Speaker 2: I think the reliable pass pro and no day that
Speaker 2: made him a second round draft pick is showing up
Speaker 2: in these short spaces because he's so strong in these
Speaker 2: condensed spaces where he can throw a punch and absorb
Speaker 2: power and kind of keep his man in a pham booth,
Speaker 2: and with how the offense operates, that's not an effective
Speaker 2: form of pressure. Now, it does take away from a
Speaker 2: lot of your outside running game, but in these critical
Speaker 2: past pro situations it's a benefit. And then Rob Jones,
Speaker 2: he got himself in the top five at being a
Speaker 2: dominant beast that he was Kendall Lamb upon further review
Speaker 2: of the tape, Parsons had a pretty impact impactful game.
Speaker 2: Didn't change the game, but like on the Turn of
Speaker 2: Rundown series on third Down, Wilson is naked on a
Speaker 2: little pivot China route and Tua wants to go there,
Speaker 2: but Micah has already blown through Kendall Lamb into tu
Speaker 2: his face kind of like a zombie reaching around the
Speaker 2: boarded up windows and Apocalypse film, like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: kind of being held up, but the arm is reaching
Speaker 2: through the windows.
Speaker 1: Tough ask.
Speaker 2: I thought Kendall did enough, but Parsons definitely had the
Speaker 2: better of that matchup. On balance, I think you're continue
Speaker 2: to see the impact of coaching and a group that
Speaker 2: adheres so they're coaching. The connectivity was great finally get
Speaker 2: a little bit of continuity even without Austin Jackson the lineup,
Speaker 2: because I thought this was the best game they played
Speaker 2: with this combination, and that's encouraging heading into even more
Speaker 2: important games down the stretch. The numbers for these guys
Speaker 2: to Ron Armiston did clean sheet, Lester Cotton two pressures,
Speaker 2: was charged with a half a sack, Leam Miikenberg two pressures,
Speaker 2: no QB hits, Robert Jones two pressures, one QB hit,
Speaker 2: and Kendall Lamb three pressures, charged with a half sack
Speaker 2: and one QB hit. How about the defense quick pivot here?
Speaker 2: I think the variety that Lamb saw ultimately removed him
Speaker 2: from the game for two plus quarters of football, and
Speaker 2: they frustrated him to the point that there were some
Speaker 2: routes where he didn't really go that hard. They'd flash
Speaker 2: in front of him cap the top and just keep
Speaker 2: him guessing, regardless of his alignment inside or outside. I
Speaker 2: thought we sprung a couple of busts early on that
Speaker 2: led to those big plays that did get him four
Speaker 2: for ninety three in the first quarter, but then locked
Speaker 2: it down with great execution and adhering to the rules
Speaker 2: on a given play. We also dominated the trenches. Dallas
Speaker 2: is a big, physical, not fake Gucci bag team, right,
Speaker 2: gonna push us around?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good call, there a ding dong. We dominate the trenches.
Speaker 2: Had a really good play in the perimeter in the
Speaker 2: end in the hook zone with Ramsey X, David Long
Speaker 2: and Duke Riley and shut down the run inside. Impressive
Speaker 2: ability to get production up front without sending blitzers or
Speaker 2: even fit in the run with additional hats. He can
Speaker 2: be down a hat in the box and still win
Speaker 2: because Wilkins, Seiler, and Long are so critical to that
Speaker 2: aspect of your run defense. But also their ability to
Speaker 2: affect the quarterback with just four rushers. God, it's impressive.
Speaker 2: And I throw Duke in that mix as well. Very
Speaker 2: impressive down the middle. This Dolphins defense right now is
Speaker 2: humming and I can't wait for the big test on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and talk about the previous Sunday against
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. We talk about the retrace all off season, right,
Speaker 2: but it shows up on game days, and man, it
Speaker 2: shows up every single week. Wilkins had one on the
Speaker 2: first drive on the opening the first sack of the
Speaker 2: opening drive, and then Sealer on the Deshaun Elliott play.
Speaker 1: We've all talked about a million times.
Speaker 2: Zach is five yards behind the play and it looks
Speaker 2: like Pollard has a cruise in touchdown, but Zach never
Speaker 2: gives up on the play. In fact, he accelerates and
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if Deshaun's tackle keeps Paul out of
Speaker 2: the end zone without the cleanup hit of Zack Seeler.
Speaker 2: Just want to go ahead and make a mention of that.
Speaker 2: I think we won this game because of the combination
Speaker 2: of speed off the edge and the ability of ninety
Speaker 2: four and ninety two to consistently collapse the pocket inside
Speaker 2: that paired with really good communication and physicality to either
Speaker 2: absorb power routes or to make speedier routes take a
Speaker 2: beat longer. Just complimentary football and examples of individuals winning
Speaker 2: their matchups over and over and over again, that changing
Speaker 2: the calls. Duke Riley delays a blitz that puts the
Speaker 2: right tackle to squeeze the b gap and that allows
Speaker 2: Andrew van Geegle to flash his bendability around the edge.
Speaker 2: The backside safety shows too high but buzzes down the
Speaker 2: backside slant with an eye on the front side Crosser.
Speaker 2: Dak is such a great quarterback with elite vision, but
Speaker 2: you could tell Miami had him a little bit guessing
Speaker 2: and confuse out there. That's a tough task to do.
Speaker 2: Vic Fangio did it. How about the individuals, ray Kwon Davis.
Speaker 2: I thought his power and length was too much for
Speaker 2: Tyler Battish just overwhelmed him a lot.
Speaker 1: Beian just kind of got whipped in this game.
Speaker 2: Radley Chubb, I thought, you know, I still fail to
Speaker 2: understand how he bends the corner at the speed that
Speaker 2: he has with the body composition that he has because
Speaker 2: he's so thickly built and able to hold the point
Speaker 2: against the run. But then to the minute the tackle
Speaker 2: flashes any green grass outside, he takes it and wins
Speaker 2: with speed that can then turn to speed to power
Speaker 2: where he then resets the anchor of the right tackle
Speaker 2: or left tackle. I should say I think that's why
Speaker 2: he leads the league in four fumbles, because the tackles
Speaker 2: are often taken by surprise when he gets the arc
Speaker 2: and then resets it through speed, power, and he uses
Speaker 2: that physicality to impact the b gap too, which also
Speaker 2: helps Seeler and Wilkins get their pass brush production when
Speaker 2: they he slants across face and they loop around the
Speaker 2: outside edge because he's moved the entire edge inside and
Speaker 2: gives him a tighter line to the quarterback. He had
Speaker 2: six pressures and three stops in the game. The off
Speaker 2: ball linebackers already talked about Duke Riley a little bit,
Speaker 2: and David Long got in the top five tapes. But
Speaker 2: I think here's where things have changed for me is
Speaker 2: the coverage that has improved since these two guys got
Speaker 2: together back in the Washington game. The ability to get
Speaker 2: depth on some of these hook drops, but also locate
Speaker 2: quickly what happens. I think there's a lot more anticipation
Speaker 2: happening at that level than there was before, and really
Speaker 2: taking away reaching the quarterback and helping aid in more
Speaker 2: coverage sacks.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's some numbers for you.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins have thirteen sacks in three and a half
Speaker 2: games with Duke Riley in the lineup. The number is
Speaker 2: just slightly higher than the average before, but the tape
Speaker 2: tells me it's more indicative of improved coverage because, after all,
Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips, who is your best pass rusher bar none,
Speaker 2: The number didn't drop that much without him, So why
Speaker 2: is that the case? Why did Denver do that? I'm
Speaker 2: inclined to think that this is why. In fact, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 2: here you go. Time to throw against the Dolphins this
Speaker 2: year two point nine to eight seconds for Dack, Zach
Speaker 2: Wilson three point one five seconds, Will Levis two point
Speaker 2: seven to six seconds, Sam Howell three point twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Before that, Tim Boyle when they had Duke wasn't playing linebacker.
Speaker 2: Tim Boyle two point three to five, aid And O'Connell
Speaker 2: two point eight five, Mahomes two point eighty six, Mac
Speaker 2: Jones two point five one. Here's the discrepancies of those
Speaker 2: quarterbacks based upon their season average and the game against US.
Speaker 2: Dak held the ball for a quarter second longer, so
Speaker 2: did Zach Wilson. Will Levis held the ball for a
Speaker 2: tenth of a second longer. Sam Howe was way off.
Speaker 2: But that was a different game, disaster game for the
Speaker 2: Commanders before that without Duke Riley, Tim Boyle doesn't qualify
Speaker 2: for time to throw, so we remove him. Aidan O'Connell
Speaker 2: had one tenth of a second less time to throw.
Speaker 2: He held the ball less before the injury to Jerome
Speaker 2: Baker and Duke Riley in the field. Patrick Mahomes a
Speaker 2: decreas as well, and then mac Jones only jumped up
Speaker 2: point zero five seconds. The difference is stark. The coverage
Speaker 2: is creating more sacks. I think that that middle portion
Speaker 2: of the defense is a big reason why. And for
Speaker 2: Duke Riley, the coverage is fantastic. His ability to sift,
Speaker 2: condense and find the football because he's a bit smaller
Speaker 2: at that position, but he plays with so much physicality
Speaker 2: and instincts in speed and beat you the same way
Speaker 2: David Long does.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's been a drop off here.
Speaker 2: I think it's been better at middle linebacker and speaks
Speaker 2: to his work ethic and staying ready. He had two
Speaker 2: pressures and two stops in the game. Finally, the secondary
Speaker 2: Ramsey the play before the Deshaun play before the fumble,
Speaker 2: right Cooks has a path to the pylon, but Galen
Speaker 2: comes down and puts a lick on him. He makes
Speaker 2: a play with the physical aspect of the game every
Speaker 2: single week, and right here it helped induced a seven
Speaker 2: point swing. Also, his coverage Jake Ferguson, Ceedee Lamb playing
Speaker 2: out against Brandon Cooks, Camante Turpin like he was doing
Speaker 2: so much against so many guys. Twenty yards allowed on
Speaker 2: three targets and forty two cover snaps.
Speaker 1: He's the best in the business man.
Speaker 2: How much we miss to Sean Elliott the run fit
Speaker 2: the play then, gosh, the center field work.
Speaker 1: Does not get enough love in this defense.
Speaker 2: I think you really see it when Javon Hollins out
Speaker 2: there because he can go play make more because Deshaun
Speaker 2: can play the deep center part of the field, but
Speaker 2: he caps routes down the hash he's helping on bump
Speaker 2: and run outside seems to always force the quarterback to
Speaker 2: get out of their hitch timing and.
Speaker 1: Double clutch because he's in the vicinity.
Speaker 2: I think Xavi and Howard had a tough night and
Speaker 2: he's kind of not playing the ball in the air
Speaker 2: very well, but his work fitting the edge is the
Speaker 2: forced defender has been the best ever been in his
Speaker 2: entire career. Seventy seven yards on forty two covered snaps,
Speaker 2: got beat on that deep ball got be better there. Kanerko,
Speaker 2: who had some really good work inside, some good trail
Speaker 2: technique and funnel part of the Zeus concept where you
Speaker 2: play funnel underneath bump and run and funnel right into
Speaker 2: your help. He was very good in that regard twenty
Speaker 2: six yards on thirty five coverage snaps and then Brandon Jones, Look,
Speaker 2: I've been talking about it every week, like you know,
Speaker 2: I hope Javon's close. He worked out pregame. That's usually
Speaker 2: a good sign. But man, we are just I don't
Speaker 2: know what we're doing a lot of the time. He
Speaker 2: made the big play. The funble recovery is a good
Speaker 2: example of playing to the whistle because lots of DB's
Speaker 2: and those goal line plays they don't factor in. They
Speaker 2: peel off the minute the ball pops out, though Brandon
Speaker 2: Jones sees it and hits the gas and goes and
Speaker 2: gets it, because if it's a half second later, I
Speaker 2: think Dak recovers it and then second in goal with
Speaker 2: the two yard line instead of a turnover. But then
Speaker 2: it's just back to some nonsense like Ceede Lamb is
Speaker 2: the two to the field against Caterer who has outside leverage,
Speaker 2: so he's gonna run the over route and you better
Speaker 2: pick him up on the backside. But Brandon Jones comes
Speaker 2: down and plays the X out the out route to
Speaker 2: the X receiver, Like what are we doing there, but
Speaker 2: he's like eight yards away from the football but not
Speaker 2: fitting the run or playing anything, just covering grass and
Speaker 2: by the time he play pass, he's late to get
Speaker 2: back into the hook and it's a huge play to Lamb.
Speaker 2: Every week this happens. The very next play is a
Speaker 2: big game. But a horrendous angle gives him thirty more
Speaker 2: yards and a touchdown play. So Javon Holland hopefully coming
Speaker 2: back soon. But I thought that was a big, big
Speaker 2: issue early on in the game in that back end
Speaker 2: of coverage. But by and large, Dolphins defense gets after.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead to the stap counts here real quick.
Speaker 2: What do we learn from those in this game? Well,
Speaker 2: offensive line went wire to wire, so your quarterback, that's
Speaker 2: a great sign. Durham Smith, we talked about how big
Speaker 2: of a game he had. He had the most snaps
Speaker 2: besides quarterbacks in o lineman with fifty five. The other
Speaker 2: tight end Julian Hill, played eleven STAPs in the game.
Speaker 2: So durham smyth is a very critical part of the offense.
Speaker 2: As far as the receivers, Tyreek eighty five percent leads
Speaker 2: the way, Cedric goes sixty two percent with Wattle playing
Speaker 2: forty three because the injury. In fact, Barrios got two
Speaker 2: more snaps than Waddle, so Wattle in and out of
Speaker 2: lineup high ankle sprain. Hopefully he'll be back soon. Chosen
Speaker 2: had five snaps and Claypool had three. At running back,
Speaker 2: Moster leads the way. No, sorry, a Chan led the
Speaker 2: way with fifty five percent of the workload. Moster had
Speaker 2: twenty nine percent. I didn't wize he played that few snaps,
Speaker 2: but good for him for gutting it out getting back
Speaker 2: in the lineup. And then Ingold played forty three percent
Speaker 2: of the snaps there as well. So that's your offensive look.
Speaker 2: On defense, two guys go to distance, Duke and Jalen,
Speaker 2: and then Brandon Jones and Deshaun Elliott both played all
Speaker 2: but one snap in the game. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: stay their cornerback X played all but three snaps. You
Speaker 2: had Coohu playing three quarters of the snap. So there's
Speaker 2: your nickel versus base defense difference right there. And then
Speaker 2: Nick Neaedham played six snaps in the game and had
Speaker 2: a rough game in.
Speaker 1: That regard as well.
Speaker 2: Back to the front, the defensive ends, or rather the
Speaker 2: defensive tackles I should say Christian Wilkins played sixty one
Speaker 2: snaps ninety two percent. Zach Seedler played fifty six snaps.
Speaker 2: Those guys are unreal. Man DeShawn Ham played eleven snaps.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a.
Speaker 2: Rough game as well in that in that capacity off
Speaker 2: the edge, what have we got here? Van Ginkle leads
Speaker 2: away with fifty four snaps. That's eighty two.
Speaker 1: Percent of the workload.
Speaker 2: We saw Bradley Chubb get eighty percent, so just one
Speaker 2: snap fewer. And then we saw Melvin Ingram play twenty
Speaker 2: one snaps in his first game.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 2: I guess that's your JPP replacement there. And then Cameron
Speaker 2: Good had four snaps at linebacker, David Long played sixty one,
Speaker 2: and Duke Riley played all of them. Dang, So Duke
Speaker 2: was the primer backer in the game. That's pretty impressive
Speaker 2: there from him. Tells you how they think about him.
Speaker 2: And then finally, what other position do I have here?
Speaker 2: The nose tackle Rayqwan played thirty five percent of the snaps,
Speaker 2: So yeah, pretty good feel there. It's been that rotation
Speaker 2: for a long time this season. That's a long podcast.
Speaker 2: That's what happens when you get a big win. On
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve to clinch the playoffs and put yourself in
Speaker 2: position to win the division. Next week, We're gonna go
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