WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Raiders Week 11 All 22 Review 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.760 Two on the move, going deep speedways, Peace do hellas. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.360 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:18.400 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my advands 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:30.600 in the playoffs. What is up, dollphans and welcome to 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.959 the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.559 And on today's show, it's an all twenty two review 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.120 of the podcast. Will break down the biggest plays, how 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.880 two of the Creator has become a thing in my world, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.680 the vintage two of throws are back. We'll talk about 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.800 the offensive evolution even further, and I'll tell you where 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.760 things went wrong defensively and why it's not gonna be 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.800 that big of a deal going forward. From the Baptist 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.160 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:04.759 the Drive Time Podcast. May we kick it off as 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.760 we do every single week on the Review podcast with 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.280 the offense and just off the top. We heard coach 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.720 talk about this and Tua in his postgame press conference 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.759 about how the Raiders on tape were pretty much exclusively 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.920 a man coverage team. Despite Patrick Graham's previous stops and 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.440 his influence of man coverage, they have rolled out a 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.000 lot of zone this year, and I kind of wonder 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.720 if the man coverage element of that came because of 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.160 the fact that Nate Hobbs was down and he's such 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.039 a critical part of how they can run those zones 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.160 and invert those two deep looks. And they lose to 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.880 Cory and Bennett in the middle of the game as well, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.880 so they got so banged up at cornerback. I think 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.039 that probably issue ushered in some more man coverage, but 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.120 the Dolphins' ability to adjust off of that from the 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.360 third play of the game was what I found really impressive. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.640 They hit three rub routes on that opening drive touchdown, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.680 and it got me thinking about another two of SoundBite 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.960 where he referenced pulling up his mental roll index of 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.440 how teams have a us did from pre snap structures 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.880 and the different variations, and it's the exact is the 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.240 exact thing I wanted to hear with regards to my 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.000 assertion through various points of Tua's career that when this 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.400 guy gets into his thirties, you know, even late twenties, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.720 he's going to be such an adept quarterback at the 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.640 most critical elements of the position that you're gonna have 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.920 mid career Drew Brees, and that's where I think he 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.720 already is, because at age twenty six, he looks like 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.160 a quarterback that has three, five, ten, fifteen years of experience. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.600 He's taking those reps and banking them and adjusting to 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.639 future reps with that rolodex in mind. That is so impressive, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.880 and it's what made all the great quarterbacks of yesteryear 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.959 great before it was the TNA club that's a Hooters 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.680 and Booters, if you will, which is what Kyle Krabs 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:57.600 and I call the new wave of quarterback scouting, which 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.960 only seems to care about traits and not about actually 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.240 playing the quarterback position. And our good friend Ben Solak 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.680 went on Twitter and made an ask of himself talking 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.200 about Justin Herbert and Tua during the Chargers game, and 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.160 all Herbert did was proceeded to throw like six for 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.280 his next twenty four and have seven consecutive non scoring 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:14.920 drives in the second half of a game with a 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.400 fumble and he should have been walk off pick six 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.680 that he had dropped by Mike Hilton. I digress. It's 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.120 tough to confuse quarterbacks like two that have that experience, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:25.840 not so much a quarterback like Justin Herbert, who you 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.080 can confuse pretty easily, and when he gets in that 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.480 category where he is, he's only going to get better 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.200 from here. More on the quarterback in just a moment. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.200 I keep getting this question, and I totally get it. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.360 But I'll tell you, guys, the same thing I told 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.880 my brother, who was concerned about the fantasy team purposes 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:45.000 of this question, Wattle is he's been open, just like 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.840 he always was, but Tua was playing the position very differently. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.760 And it's kind of crazy because while the argument for 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.160 you Know too Long was that receivers made two of 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.400 I'm watching these tapes and thinking you could definitely go 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.920 the Chiefs team building approach with this quarterback and basically 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.240 a shoe the receiver position and focus on other areas 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.760 like your offensive line or your defense with your resources. Now, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.080 I think that's a waste of resources because I think 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.720 that two was one of his greatest strengths is how 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.320 he can mitigate offensive line play, whether it's good or bad. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.000 He just makes it not that relevant on a bunch 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.520 of his snaps. And it's why I argued all freaking 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.719 somewhere about this stuff and finally getting some payoff on 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.080 that deep into the season after his injury set that 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.839 argument back a little bit. But if you wanted to 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.839 do that, I feel like you could because this guy 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.560 has proven in the past that he can take Matt 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.840 Collins and Miles Gaskin and Isaiah Ford, Preston Williams no shade, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.440 a little bit of shade down the field and produce 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.719 enough offense to win more games than they lost in 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.280 twenty twenty one. And again, that's not my method of preference. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.960 I want to go after skill players and that's why 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.960 I think wins you football games in this league. But 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.799 you could, is what I'm saying. So with Waddell, for instance, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.600 in this particular rep, it's the first third down of 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.960 the game. Man free coverage, that's a single high st 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.920 was playing zone. He's trying to help the most immediate 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.039 threat vertically and then man coverage underneath. And the safety 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.760 on this play cheats towards Tyreek Hill side because well 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.320 he's Tyreek Hill and waddle wins inside access on a dig. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.960 What's a dig, Travis, It's basically pushing up anywhere from 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.680 twelve to eighteen yards you have different variations, and then 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.480 cutting across the middle of the field, but the corner 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.919 is in position to potentially make a play on the 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.120 back hip of Wattle, even though he kind of has 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.719 him stacked. It is an open window, and I feel 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.120 like in the past, Tua would have challenged that throw. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.400 And let's call that just for the sake of the argument. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.120 I don't know a seventy to thirty throw for a 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.279 catch that you know just arbitrarily put that number on it. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.480 But eight chan naked in the flat is a one 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.880 hundred percent throw because he's wide open, and Tua never 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.120 misses those throws. In fact, he threw the ball right 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.800 on the upfield shoulder that took him into the run 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.120 after the catch, which made it a seventeen yard gain 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.839 that you probably would have got eighteen from Wattle at most. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.440 That's consistent throughout this tape and the way this offense 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.680 is cruising right now, the best in the conference and 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.520 pacing the Lions for the best in football since Twua's return. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.479 Why on earth would I want to change that to 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.159 force the ball in hopes of making one guy happy. Now, granted, 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.039 I do want Watald to get his I think he 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.800 deserves it. I think that he keeping him engaged as 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.400 a critical element of the offense. But watch the body 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.600 language and the tape of Waddle because this is winning 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.880 football and he's having a great time. He's being a 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.520 great teammate, he's supporting the other guys, he's blocking his 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.520 butt off and committing his himself on his decoy routes. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.239 And that's why you pay a guy like Jeden Waddle, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.960 because yeah, you pay him for the thirteen hundred yards seasons, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.080 but you also pay him because of how he's wired, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:36.400 and that's the kind of guy he is. And I 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.919 think you're getting that engagement back now with his quarterback 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.320 back in the fold. That's my Waddle Dye tribe. On 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.680 the offensive line, it is nice when you can slide 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 your protection and get four eyeballs on an All Pro 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.599 because of the feet of the rest of your offensive line. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.040 The first third down conversion of the game, they slide 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.440 right towards Max. Crosby and Armstead, Jones and Brewer all 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.640 have to essentially reach on these pass pro assignments, which 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.360 is usually a run game effort. It's when you have 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.000 to get to a space before the defensive lineman does, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.200 when he's closer to that space than you are. Got 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.680 it that's a reach block, and they were able to 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.080 do this because they have those zone feet to get 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.640 themselves in position to make those good pass protections or 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.960 pass sets, I should say, to get good pass protection. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.920 They just continue to play very connected, very well, very communicative, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.560 and understanding where the biggest threats are and how to 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.080 thwart those big threats. I do have some negatives from 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.720 the Dolphins offense in this game, despite the fact that 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.200 they never punted the football. It was just the running game, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.560 the negative and zero yard runs. I wanted to go 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.080 through and check out what happened on those. I think 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.560 I missed the last two on that final drive because 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.680 I just didn't care enough to log those because it 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.480 was game over, just trying to get to the field goal. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.600 But the first one, Liam loses connection on a back door, 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.560 which is when you hit those reach blocks, right. If 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.920 you let that offensive lineman overplay the reach block and 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.880 go around the backside, that's called backdooring a play. It's 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.560 a criminal sin or cardinal sin. One on one. Do 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.520 not do that unless you're like JJ Watt and you 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.280 can win doing that regularly. But he got back doored 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.200 on outside zone left where he overran his block, and 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.480 then Julian Hill lost his leverage with dead feet upon contact. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.640 You have to keep those feet churning, and it went 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.400 for a one yard e Chan loss. Next one Lamb 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.720 over sets and gives up his inside posts. The edge 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.080 bursts right through and cuts a Chan down for no gain. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.520 Jalen Wright had a no gain run early on. Both 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.760 a Chan and Brewer lose leverage. It couldn't have been 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.280 a Chan. I had to have written the wrong name there. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.080 Oh man, I'm not sure who it was. I can't 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.559 go back now. Brewer and somebody else lost leverage and 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.120 did not stay connected on their blocks. A Chan loss 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.240 three later on a return motion sweep, and a lot 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.720 of these runs are like toss sweeps into the boundary 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.040 where you're not You don't have the numbers count, so 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.840 it's like you can get away from those by just 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.319 calling a different play. We had an unblocked defender who 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.480 made the play. I just I think that a lot 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.880 of those also happened that way when you don't have 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.400 alec ingold Raheem Mostert loses three. It's a low, low 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.680 red zone toss sweep into the boundary again unblocked force 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.000 defender Malik cannot hit the crack back on the slot, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.960 and that gets blown up from the start because that 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.920 crack player you're supposed to crack. The linebacker you're supposed 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.640 to crack. He runs into Julian Hill, who's trying to 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.920 get out wide to hit the forced defender, and he 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.840 blows up that too, So the whole thing was just 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.600 disjointed right lost two later in the game, Julian Hill 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.200 misses a rat block, but they have really good backside 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.240 pursuit and they just flew to the ball really well 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.880 all game long. Like that's part one of a million 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.000 parts why I hate when someone says, well, it was 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.080 just the Raiders, Like they're professional football players and while 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.760 they might not win a lot of games, pros are 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.160 going to win reps, especially when they play hard. And 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.800 that Radar defense played hard on Sunday eight, Chan's one 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.960 yard loss before the John who put away touchdown Kendall 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.920 Lamb fell off of his block. So to me, it's 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.400 mostly losing Austin Jackson because he's probably the best run 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.080 blocker on the team outside of Brewer, maybe maybe Toront 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.800 They're all really good. And then not having alec Ingold. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.160 That's pretty much it, and then some bad decisions to 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.920 run into bad counts. That's pretty much where the run 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.480 game I think has struggled. That's really it. Now you're 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.720 not gonna get Austin back, but you we'll get Ingled back. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.000 I think that can be a big deal. What else here? 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:04.720 We had a third and one conversion on the second 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.000 drive where we went four for four on critical blocks 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.120 to get an easy eight chan first down run. And 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.600 it's like, I think ck had tweeted about this, you know, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.840 three archs per carry, Chris Kaufman about like, just run 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.360 these simple downhill runs and you will convert a post 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.040 of being cute. And that's that's kind of I kind 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.200 of agree with that. It's an easy first down run 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.560 because we're so well connected. And again, it just has 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.040 me believing that we've hit this inflection point to where 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.800 the offense is so second nature for so many guys 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.520 that they can do this routinely. You get Rob Jones 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.480 connecting to Ron Armstead, doubles and washes down that player 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.719 out of the B gap completely, and then Smith and 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.760 Julian have a kind of tough combo they have to 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.240 sort through, and they do it perfectly and get both 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.640 the guys taken care of for a first down run. Also, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.200 I don't think we'll see that much man coverage the 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.120 rest of the year. I'm kind of surprised we got 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.520 as much as we did in this game. I thought 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.000 they had. I thought the Ofphins had perfect answers just 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.359 about every damn time, especially on the money downs. Favorite 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.559 sequence of the game from a play call perspective was 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.680 the eleven yard completion to Julian Hill within that ninety 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.319 seven yard touchdown drive, then racing up to the line 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.640 of scrimmage to get to that thirty yard eight chan 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.800 run with tempo. It was the first tempo of the 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.760 entire day. Because they were in the nickel package against 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.360 our twelve personnel package, one back, two tight ends. You 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.760 are outmanned from a physical standpoint. At that point. We 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.079 dial up a shot play, but it didn't work. However, However, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.840 they stay a nickel on the next play when all 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.839 we did was sub John U for Durham Smyth. Then 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.240 we run another pass play from that set, get the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.720 first down, and then we go tempo and tap or 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.320 trap them in that look. Not to mention, both plays 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.160 were long and the rush had to work on the 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.000 first and secondary and third moves, and the defensive back 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.280 got ran all the way down the field. Then they 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.160 run the split flow where the tight end comes across 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.600 the formation, but rather than run to that side, they 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.240 run to the other side, and you get displacement. It 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.200 creates these easy seals for Kendall Lamb and Rob Jones 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.400 with excellent seal blocks on Crosby and Adam Butler, and 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.439 that allows them to get double ti teams of the 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.040 linebackers with your offensive lineman, and that's where you get 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.480 big runs. A Brewer and Liam climb up, Julian hits 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.600 a down block, Tyreek has a nice seal, and then 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.120 a cham breaks tackles at daylight for thirty plus yards, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.040 and we end with the John u backbreaking touchdown. Tuwa 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 explained what he thought caused the bust in his postgame 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.040 press conference, and this is why you take your profit 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.800 all day long, especially against the defense that is so 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.600 good at shifting its rotation from strong to week, like 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.160 Ted Winn talked about on Friday, and they just finally 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.400 miscommunicated one. That's pretty much all it was, and it 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.600 sprung a room service fifty seven yard touchdown. For your Dolphins. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.600 You earned that by playing fifty seven minutes of discipline football. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:44.320 How about this quarterback? How about this quarterback? Man? If 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.720 people are arguing with you about Tua on Twitter, just 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:53.079 move on. There's it's over. They lost, so that's over. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.959 Like he's a great quarterback. It's gotta stay healthy, that's it. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.319 Gotta protect the ball a little bit better and crowded 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.640 pockets that's it. Maybe win a playoff game, but that's like, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.040 you know, that's out of his control to a certain extent, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.960 Like you can't just like win a playoff game. Like 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.640 everything that he can do right now he's doing except 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.880 staying healthy and protecting the ball and muddy pockets. But 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.720 he's an elite quarterback man off the top, Tua is. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.440 He sees it so damn well. And I get that 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.959 if you don't understand how that looks or what it's 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.920 supposed to look like, that you can't appreciate it. So 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.120 I get where the negative, you know, connotations come from. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.240 But we don't got to hear from those people. You 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.360 don't need to hear from everybody on Twitter. You got 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.600 Kyle Krabs, you got this schlub over here. To a 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.480 certain extent. You've got Chris Kaufman, you got the three 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.360 yards per carry. Guys got Eric Smith cranking out good 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.920 offensive line content. You don't need that stuff. It is nonsense. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.560 It is noise. His vision cone toua is expanding with 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.079 each start that he makes in this league. His first 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.079 throw of the game is to a wide open a 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.000 chant against Cover one, and there's a decent window on 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.560 the shot to Wabble talked about it already against an 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.520 outside leverage cornerback with a single high safety who's rolled 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.319 the other way. And the minute you see this linebacker 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.240 who is in man coverage on a chan try to 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.440 run around a rub route by Odell Beckham Junior, and 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.360 he squares him up and collisions him head on and 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.240 blows obj up, but it slows him down two or 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.680 three steps, and you see two his helmet. It's I 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.080 can't tell you what his eyes are doing because I 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:25.560 can't see inside his helmet, but you can see the 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.640 helmet stripe right on that linebacker, and the minute that 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.480 collision happens, the ball comes out. The only play I 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.480 hated was his fumble again coverage one play was over 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.400 pass protection. Breaking down, he tries to create in a 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.040 situation where there just wasn't anything there and punctuated it 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.320 by not putting the football away. And that's kind of 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.920 how he like how he escapes pressure. He kind of 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.400 dangles it out there, which he shouldn't do that because 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.120 he's too small to be able to protect it that way. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.440 And again here is where you see you know, Liam 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.720 setting with his eyes on that Lamb Crosby matchup, and 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.960 when he commits to go help, there's nobody left to 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.760 pick up the game, the looper coming from the other 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.280 side of the formation. And that's not something that should 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.640 be a surprise a tool because he knows the protection 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.360 call is for help on Crosby and he knows this 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.160 Raiders front under Patrick Graham likes to run lots of games. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.600 That to me is the next step for him, and 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.760 I know he'll do it because he's literally improved every 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.120 other element of his game every single year. But just 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.600 a better feel of when a play is dead and 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.800 how to mitigate the damage as best he can to 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.800 one get us out of negative plays, but to protect 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.560 yourself and a quick inside baseball mode for you guys. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.840 At one point last week at practice, I was just 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.720 kind of watching when it was over, and I saw 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.560 Tua and Obj talking to each other on a knee 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.960 after practice, and I couldn't make out what's being said, obviously, 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.120 but it was very clear to me that Toul was 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.120 like teaching something or exercising some form of leadership and 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.800 talking to Obj, who was doing more listening. And when 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.120 I watched this completion, he has on a first for 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.160 a first down to Obj with two raiders in his face, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.800 where he just splits the two hook defenders and Obj 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.560 paces the route perfectly to get there at the right time, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.320 not too early to draw him in, not too to 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.560 miss it. I get the sense that familiarity is growing 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.640 from there, and Tua is taking it into his own 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.880 hands to make that happen. Now, Tua had to throw 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.840 to Waddle right around midfield during that ninety seven yard 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.600 drive where Wattle is inside the numbers to the boundary 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.120 that's the short side of the field, the hashmark closest 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.360 to the sideline, and the raiders show six and they 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.560 bring them all and what basically turns into a man 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:22.680 zero look where Tua is hot and I don't know 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.720 if this is him or Brewer or what. I'm pretty 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.240 sure it's two at this stage because I can't make 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.600 the assertion for sure, but I think this quarterback knows 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.800 how to call his protections. If you're hot and you've 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.960 got a free runner, you want it to be in 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.920 your peripheral. You want to be in your face, not 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.800 blind to the backside. So he patiently takes his snap. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.920 He knows this rusher is not gonna get blocked. He 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.200 fades one step back and just flicks the thing out 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.000 there to the perimeter against an inside leverage cornerback who 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.720 can't get to the spot because he's playing man coverage. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.480 It's high level execution. He does this stuff every single week, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.160 pretty much every single drive. The ball is out under 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.080 a second and it's halfway to wattle before he turns 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.800 his head. But Tua doesn't rock at the balls in there. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.120 He layers it so it's easier to pick up in 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.480 flight and to make a catch on a football that 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.159 has less velocity and less RPM's. It's really good stuff. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.960 Let's go ahead and take our first break. I have 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.800 more Tua for you guys here, his vintage throws and 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.600 Tua the Creator that's coming up next Drive Time Podcast. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:22.679 Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by autoation. I 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.399 promise you some vintage TUA on the other side, and 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.399 we had a few of them. The opening drive, second 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.080 and three seventeen yards to Tyreek Hill. He cuts this 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.560 thing loose before Tyreek's final two steps, before even thuddles 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.879 it down. Man Ball is right on him right out 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.159 of the break. Bang, first down, Dolphins. How about a 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.600 third and eight up by five, last play of the 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.520 third quarter. It's dagger. All dagger is is you have 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.000 a either the two or the three, depending on how 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.520 many receivers you have to that side. The closest receiver 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.359 of the formation runs vertical and tries to displace the 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.240 safety to create an inside cut from the number two 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.399 or the number one receiver who's further out wide, either 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.639 in the slot or the furthest out to run a 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.840 dig inside of that clear out route. That's dagger, okay, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.120 And the hook defender respects the underneath route by Odell 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.920 just enough, because Odell runs this route at full speed 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.000 to help create that underneath displacement. And then you notice 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.879 John hu Smith pacing his route down the seam, which 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:17.679 is kind of like a shield like he's almost like 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.840 setting a moving screen. As he prevents that hook linebacker 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.520 from getting the underneath a jump that he needs on 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.480 that throw, and that one beat that they have to 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.680 slow up both in the short and the deep hook 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.000 is all that to and Tyreek need to make it 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.440 work because it's perfectly timed. It's a good catch by 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.680 Tyreek off of his frame, and that's a throw that's 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.760 gonna look sometimes maybe a little bit off because they're 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.560 throwing to a spot and with timing and so you 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.879 don't know exactly where he's gonna be. That's why I 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.640 think that ball was kind of like off the backside 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.280 of his frame. But either way, it's an explosive play 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.720 on third long used to see in that the corner 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.639