WEBVTT - Week 6 Film Room, Dolphins Vikings - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.399 is Drive Time with Travis Wheatfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:16.239 a looking gla wine open touchdop Toneric Kill unbelievable. Just 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.200 flu bire for a second time to know where he 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.320 was going right away. Ahead of that the man I 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.120 want to help you soon up on his way. Wattle, 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.720 waddle to a shotgut back, that's throw all looking stuffs 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:34.840 up fires touchtop again, it's waddle. It's six touchdown pa day. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.519 Drive Time with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:46.519 your pulse if what is up? Dolphins and welcome to 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.320 the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.960 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.720 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.400 we look at the aftermath from week number six, where 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.760 things worked, where they didn't, and everything in between. On 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.480 the All twenty two recap, plus we'll look at the 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.959 key numbers, snap counts, and here from head coach Mike 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.080 McDaniel on his Monday media availability from the Baptist Health 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.560 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:25.399 Drags Podcast let's jump right in here to the All 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.400 twenty two review, taking a look at this tape and 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.720 start off as we do weekly, with the offense and 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.480 a few notes that I thought were just kind of 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.840 interesting as far as how the offense is structured and 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.120 designed in the play sequencing. And I continue to be 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.400 a big fan because the very first play of the game, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.280 and we talked about this on the preview podcast about 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.920 how this Viking zone defense finds landmarks, gets their deep 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.840 drops and kind of has some space you can pick 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.720 apart in the middle. And from the very first play, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.120 I thought you saw the equality of the pacing and 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.680 the timing of the routes in this offense. You go 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.600 back and watch that play all four eligibles, it's the 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.760 go into the pattern, sink their hips and got into 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.800 the route at the exact same time. It is like 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.519 watching synchronized swimming, and I think it speaks highly to 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.480 the synchronicity of the offense and how the design of 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.280 each play is predicated on the idea of creating spacing. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.440 Every route has a purpose. Go watch any of the 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.160 great film evaluators we have out there, and right now 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.519 there's hundreds of them. In this in this space and 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.960 dollars to donuts. When you see an interception where it's 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.440 difficult to understand why would the quarterback throw the ball 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.040 to that spot, what was his read? What was his 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.160 thinking there? You will almost always see the absence of 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.840 a particular route that should be holding a defender who 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.600 sinks into the coverage comes off there man. Whatever the 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.480 case may be, the lack of a route designed to 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.480 create the space for the route you want to throw 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.519 can be the reason a lot of the times and 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.800 the vikings, as we learned in those podcasts on Thursday 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.160 and Friday, want to play coverage and keep the roof 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.880 on top of the defense, and Miami did so well 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.640 throughout this game with the spacing and timing to create 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.959 easy windows for their quarterbacks. It's why I believe, you know, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.760 when we get to a back in the fold, we 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.520 can continue to put in those hours over the course 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.560 of several weeks of an NFL season with him working 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.240 with this first team offense. Again, I have no doubt 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.120 in my mind this offense is still not even close 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.560 to reaching its peak form and what we can get 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.079 from this group, But I do think we'll see that 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.880 sooner rather than later, maybe even this week, Like I 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.840 think it's coming very soon. An offensive explosion with what 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.560 you have in terms of spacing and timing the receivers 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.080 we have in the in the building as far as 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.360 you know, creating space and what you're getting back in 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.240 terms of your quarterback and potentially offensive lineman hopefully coming 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.920 up this week. The thirty yard ball to Waddle to 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.120 start the second drive from Skylar Thompson. You see Tyreek 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.400 Hill take his motion across the formation straight into a 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.440 vertical route. He seen that this time this year, plenty 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.040 of times right where he gets that full speed running 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.560 start and then just boom, he's off and he's getting vertical. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.800 He's doing up ground immediately. And you also see on 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.920 the other side of the formation Tanner Connor who takes 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.720 a full sprint down the seam from his attached alignment. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.640 That why position the tight end right next to your 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.240 offensive tackle, and both of those vertical routes with Tyreek's 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.000 four to speed and the headstart and Tanner Conner's four 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.360 four speed from that attached position, it completely removes the 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.360 top of the defense and that allows Waddle to run 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.159 his deep over into a completely vacated space. When scotlar 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.000 Let's the football go, Wattle is between the hash mark. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.920 He's in the middle of the football field at the 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.880 thirty yard line. The closest defender is the underneath hook 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.480 who is eight yards in front of Jalm, and then 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.360 the three deep. Each deep player is covering a third. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.279 Each of the deep thirds are sprinting towards the end 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.440 zone ten yards away from him because they have to 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.920 worry about Cheetah and Tanner Connor. You've never seen a 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.640 player that wide open thirty yards down field. It's part 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.719 of the offensive structure. It's why I'm so excited about 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.960 the few drow of this offense, even just six games 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.760 in here under Mike McDaniel. Then there's a wheel route 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.039 to Trent Shurefield. I know you guys recall it got 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.719 called back on a penalty where Waddle runs a slant 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.920 that displaces the curl defender. That creates that space for 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.080 shure Field up the sideline. Again, timing and spacing continues 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.040 to create these nice opportunities for whoever is playing the 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.800 quarterback position. The coolest part about it is that Surefield 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.080 is the fly sweet motion running behind Waddle to the boundary. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.640 The short side of the field. Remember boundaries not referring 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.919 to the perimeter. It's the short side of the field 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.920 and Tyreek is in a nasty split to the field. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.280 What's that means? The fields the wide side of the 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.760 field and the nasty split means you're in close to 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.880 the offensive tackle basically a tight end position, and he 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.640 runs split flow at the snap. What does that mean? 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.360 It means he comes across the formation like you would 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.600 uh to kind of mix up your zone looks in 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.480 the running game, which just gives the linebackers so much 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.840 to keep their eyes on. You have a potential hand 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.160 off to sherefield, a potential inside shovel to Tyreek running 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.000 that same direction just from a more delayed pattern, a 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.760 potential quick hitter slant inside to waddle, and then the 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.480 forgotten route winds up being the most dangerous one, a 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.880 wheel route fifteen yards downfield before the balls to him, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.520 or I should say the ball gets there when he's 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.040 fifteen yards downfield and the nearest dB is three or 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.200 four yards away. So there was multiple instances where guys 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.000 are just wide the heck opened in this offense, and 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.800 man on the play where Teddy got tripped on his 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:34.200 drop back Jalen Waddle comes wide open on an over 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.560 route and I'm not sure where the progression would have 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.960 taken him, obviously, but if we see if we see 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.600 that route and we hit that route, it's minimum first 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.960 in goal. If not a touchdown, we wind up making 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.880 a field goal. But it's just that's how frustrating this 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.760 tape was. Like, if your right guards, you know, left 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.239 foot kick slide is three inches further up the field 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.599 that doesn't trip Teddy Bridgewater, you potentially have the opportunity 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.479 to see that route and hit it for a big play, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.680 maybe even a touchdown. Uh. Those are the some of 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.400 the offensive structures I was looking at that I thought 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.520 were really pleasing to the eye. Let's go ahead and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.640 get to the individuals. Here's talking about Skylart Thompson at 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.480 the quarterback position. I thought his very first play of 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.680 the game was really good progression where he got to 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.440 the backside after crossing off his front side checklist. So 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.600 that's a good uh, you know, look for the young 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.440 quarterback to be able to get through that. There was 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.440 a corner route on the second play of the game 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.160 where we took Tyreek Hill to the flat with a 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.240 cloud corner before Skyler separates the hands has already made 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.120 up his mind that he's going to close and take 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.560 away the short route, which frees up Mike on the 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.120 flag route, the corner route, and Skyler is rolling that 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.560 way and has time and plenty of armed talent to 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.239 get it there, but he took tyreek. I'm not gonna 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.120 blame you for throwing the ball trick ever, but I 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.720 think Kisiki had about fifty more yards on that play. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.880 And you know that's the point of these evaluations, right, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.280 we talked about every single play. On the next one, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.680 his scramble first down, great play, great job getting the 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.400 first down, moving the chains, and again we're not gonna 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.000 complain about success, but we're talking about what we see, right, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.920 and he had the right look, the right leverage, the 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.120 right coverage for a big chunk once again to Mike 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.400 Gasicky where he hits the top of the drop, hitches 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.720 up and if he lets it RiPP in timing and rhythm, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.560 it's gonna be a huge play. But that's not the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.120 same level of trust, you know, for as you might 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.560 have from a third year quarterback and leap processor that 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.640 you would have in a rookie. We make a play 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.960 either way. It's great. But man, watching these tapes last 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.360 three weeks just continues to really make me appreciate. Number one. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.120 The throw to Mike on the first possession, you know, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.640 Gassicky heavily involved, was absolutely absurd, a real positive sign 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.200 of growth even within the progression, or that I should 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.280 say within within that same possession, learning from a previous 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.560 look on the scrambled play, I thought he had Gassicky 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.319 but as shoot it for the throw, and then he 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.760 comes right back with a similar look and Zing rips 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.719 that thing right in there, this time on time, in 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.600 rhythm and off the back foot, or I should say 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.000 off off that first hitch up. And then you know 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.560 I mentioned the design of the thirty yard hit to waddle. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.600 Really nice throw right there to put some air under 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.040 it and get Jalen clear of any potential hit or 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.959 contact from that underneath the fend or so there's you know, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.839 it's going back and forth. Some good. Some things you 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.600 can say, hey, here's where we can get better. That's 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.079 every game for every player. But you know with a 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.400 rookie quarterback especially, you point those things out. There was 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.280 a play on a hook up route to Tyreek Hill 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.400 just a little bit late. Just get the ball out there, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.520 you know, one hitch earlier, and you can maximize the 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.040 yak that you get, which we saw in this game. Again, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.120 there was another play later, like some of these plays 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.400 were called back on penalties. Right with the scramble slashed 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.199 off script throw to River Cracraft was his best of 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.440 the day on the move trail defender on that downfield hip, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.839 the underneath hip of Craik Craft and he just throws 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.120 it right on stride upfield to create craft exceptional throw, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.760 especially after we're standing a hit in the pocket after 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.520 everything was covered up with an immediate pressure right in 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.559 his face. The big game to waddle right before or 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.400 on the that same drive, the flag barrage drive. Again, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.400 we're just a moticum late, a step late because Wattle 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.559 has to stop on the ball with the middle of 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.520 the field open. Their safeties were not in the middle 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.320 of the field. He could have caught this thing on time. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.240 And I think you know, the offensive pass interference call 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.800 on Ingold, for instance, is because we hitched up one 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.559 too many times where you know, Tyreek catches what looks 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.559 like a flare route completely flat footed, standing still and 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.600 on both of these things just a little bit sooner 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.640 anticipation can make all the difference in the world. Again, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.640 something to learn to learn off of from his first start. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.840 The next drive, we take a deep shot the Tyreek 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.760 Hill with two defenders in the area at second down 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:28.559 and eight. It's off coverage, a full sprint vertical from 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.400 the cornerback on this play and running it right into 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.320 a safety who shaded to that side of the field 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.880 as well. So two guys capped over the top and 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.880 we let it rip. Like you can't waste those downs 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.640 because you had a great pocket and options underneath. Don't 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.599 just throw it just to throw it. We did on 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.640 that play. There were a couple of plays that just 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.120 could have been a little bit quicker, But man, I 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.560 think you saw some really good potential there to develop 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.520 out of Skylar Thompson. Some of the traits that he's 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.760 putting on tape makes it a little bit mind blowing 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.240 to think that he was on the board for you 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.240 there in the seventh round. How about Teddy Bridgewater thought 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.400 his best throw perhaps was the first one, an absolute 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.079 missile into a tight window to Mike Gasicki on that 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.640 little rounded slant route that he runs down the seam 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.800 just beyond the linebacker, right before the safety who can't 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.080 close on it. Because of that, you see Teddy's hands 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.000 separate before Mike clears the curl defender. We love that anticipation. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.520 Here on the Drivetime podcast. The play at the two 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.120 minute warning, it's seven to three first and ten at 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.480 the plus thirty four yard line. Right, you're you're in 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.280 field goal range. Right, Tyreeke and Jalen run a switch 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.520 release to the wide side of the field the field 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.440 and Chase Edmonds runs a swing route against an Outflakes 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.199 linebacker chases three steps outside the HASH and the man 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.800 covering him is not just ten yards downfield and on 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.880 the far HASH on the other side of the field, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.160 so at least ten yards of depth and at least 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.280 ten yards of width, and Waddle is almost coming out 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.640 of his break ten yards down the field with again 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.160 middle of the field open, but Tyreek is double covered 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.280 with a cornerback literally all over him. He's touching him. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.439 There's no separation. Ball sales high out of bound, and 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.840 then you go to the end zone angle. Jordan Hicks, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.679 the linebacker, literally points out Chase and says get over there, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.960 like right as Teddy pulls the ball back from play action. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.440 He's yelling get out there. Number two is wide open. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.480 You see Eric Kendricks react super late, killer miss right there. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.880 We then go run for no gain incomplete pass missfield goal. Brutal, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.240 absolutely brutal. Such a frustrating tape to watch. Not to 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.000 mention there was a clear lane for him to step 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.800 up into and throw a you know what was a 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.439 third down check down route, but we expedite the process 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.160 to get that throat to the back who hasn't even 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.439 made his break yet out of the out of the route. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.360 So frustrating sequence there. In the third quarter, there were 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.520 two balls behind Jitaln Waddle. The first one Patrick Peterson 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.839 nearly jumps it. The next one is broken up with 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.360 some room to run after. I like the way he 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.720 bounced back after that was really impressive. But man, there 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.160 was a chance to hit Waddle on a big play there. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.480 The play that he does make to Tyreek on the 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.800 twenty eight yard catch and run is so beautiful. He 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.240 sidesteps immediate pressure, then throws across his body to an 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.000 all alone Tyreek hill. And then perhaps the best throw 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.160 I thought was the one on the Wattle fumble where 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.880 he drops the armslet and just slot and just flips 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.760 it out there, opposed to a longer wind up because 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.439 there's immediate pressure. Has to get it out quick. He does, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.160 puts it right on the money for Wattle. Let's move 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.160 on to the receivers now, Tyreek hill Man, he is 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.400 just a solution to so many issues. You might have 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.800 third and ten short of the midfield stripe, two straight 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.959 immediate pressures forced Teddy to throw the football away and 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.440 then Tyreek gets single coverage, runs the corner five yards 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.080 beyond the sticks before he throttles down and the ball 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.079 is right there in time for a big conversion and 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.319 an extra seven yards after the catch. He did that 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.559 all day long. He makes a tough catch later on 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.800 going to the ground where he has solid five or 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.720 six yards of separation and the ball is impacted by 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.040 Teddy getting hit on the play. But I just always 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.800 appreciate a receiver securing those catches off the ground. That's 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.199 not easy to do at all. I sure do love 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.679 that little gatherer step that he does when working back 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.599 to the quarterback where he kind of catches it and 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.920 then you know, puts the ball away and takes a 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.360 jump step backwards to create more oparation. On the twenty 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.160 eight yard play twenty of it's after the catch because 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.719 he does that hop step and the corner falls off 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.120 to the wrong side. Tyrek sees it and just goes 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.920 zero to sixty, eating up yardage in the blink of 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.640 an eye. On the fourth and five man, he's getting press. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.719 The safety is bracketing him double coverage. He beats the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.120 press with his release and he wins it so quickly 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.440 and so obviously that the corner then takes off says, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.440 I have to get deep because Tyreek can run by 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.880 all of us. And then Tyreek hits the brakes. It's 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.200 five yards of separation coming back to the quarterback, and 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.720 Teddy cannot ask for an easier throw, and he just 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.040 keeps coming back to the quarterback. Big time stuff there 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.160 from your top dog receiver. How about Waddle. His understanding 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.800 of landmarks and steps and timing is such high level. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.440 The way he stems and sets up his route at 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.200 the top of the route is very nuanced. The ball 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.920 off of his shoulder that gets picked off, you see 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.680 him peek at the defense just before he secured the catch, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.920 and a ricochets in the worst way possible, So a 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.560 mistake there for waddle. But on the one where the 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.440 ball is a bit behind and broken up I referred 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.240 to it earlier second and ten, middle third quarter. He's 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.480 the point in trips, the highest man up on the 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.640 line of scrimmage, and he wants to run a crossing 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.520 route off the safety who's getting depth and what looks 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.560 to me like Cover one, which is your single high 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.760 safety man coverage underneath. Not only does he stay on 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.840 the stem to push that safety deeper, he takes one 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.120 last step inside at the top of the stem that 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.440 widens Peterson to create that separation. Once he breaks the 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.480 route off of the top, the balls out on time, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.960 but it's on the back shoulder and broken up. At 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.800 the time of the breakup. Jalen is at the hash 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.120 at the thirty yard line. The safety is between the 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.200 hash marks, so trailing behind the play at the thirty six. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.520 There's one more corner on the other side of the 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.200 field with sure field right there for a block, and 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.160 so if Jalen can make the safety miss in open space, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.440 it might be an eighty eight yard touchdown. And he 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.200 set it up all with that little nuance in his 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.680 route running It's something we talked about this offseason with 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.920 Tyreek and how he does that. To me, it says 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.400 a lot about Jalen to really incorporate those little details 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.720 into his game, because clearly he's getting that from Tyreek 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.600 Hill and he's putting it into his game. What do 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.320 you use your resources then? Man? He had a touchdown 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.160 later in the game to first play after the vikings 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.600 made at sixteen to three. He runs to the flag 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.920 on the opposite side of the field. He's in the 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.560 short side of the field and he runs across the 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.800 entire thing. There's the middle of the field safety and 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.480 the corner to that side jumps Tyreek Hills dig route 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.880 that the ball eventually goes to for a first down, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.200 by the way, So that's good. But Waddle was all 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.800 alone with nothing but green grass in front of him. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.360 And speaking of man the fumble, it's a great play 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.160 by Harrison Smith, but Jalen was out of that tackle. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.280 He just didn't secure the ball. You see him try 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.320 to resecure the ball and that's when he goes down. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.760 But he had the angle of the sideline kind of 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.760 like Kenyan Drake and the Mighty Miracle Man. That one 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.160 hurt running backs for he most are the first carry 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.320 of the game, makes an unblocked man miss in the backfield, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.200 turns it right into a three yard game. What an 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.960 impressive runner he is. I sure liked his patient on 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.840 that patience on that sixteen yard run on the toss 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.440 left where Ingold comes in motion and wipes out the 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.640 man the Hunter Long originally engages with, and then Hunter 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.440 climbs and gets the dB out of the play. Liam 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.480 Eikenberg stays on his block the entire time. Greg Little 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.600 walls off the mic linebacker and the safety comes down 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.520 and makes the play like that's perfect. You're just you know, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.840 your first contact is the safety twenty yards away. That's 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.360 his job to make that tackle. But springing your back 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.160 untouched to that post shape post safety, that's chef's kiss 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.199 man onto the offensive line. Obviously, not the best day 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.239 I thought Connor Williams and Rob Hunt, who have had 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.520 really good seasons, just not not their best days. Like 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.000 high bars for both those guys, But I didn't think 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.800 either of them stayed on blocks the way we've gotten 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.239 used to through the first five games. That ineligible man 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.080 down field flag on Connor Ah, that was rough. I'm 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.199 not really sure what happened on that play and against 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.080 same with Rob didn't sustain in blocks like we're used to. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.080 Got fool a couple of times from the Vikings Rush games, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.280 including the hit that got Skyler knocked out of the 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.640 game on Leah Meikenberg, a couple of times where he's 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.320 kind of slow to come off the chip and double 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.320 and gets beat inside by a fitting backer. The first 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.720 sack of the game is a late reaction to a 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.720 twist once the man's all the way by him for 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.960 a free run of the quarterback knocked out a field 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.560 goal range. The hold on the Craycraft play just an 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.120 absolute killer. The pressure is the reason Scholar is able 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.520 to kind of create that way, but getting walked back 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.280 right off the jump causes that hold because he was 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.359 retreating from the word go Greg Little. There was just 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.800 a lot of oversets inside access beat around the post 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.159 bull rushes. Just not his best tape either, obviously. I 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.679 thought Brandon Shell played really well. The way he kind 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.720 of shortens the runway the same type of way that 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.920 Tehron Armstead does is impressive. He did really well to 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.160 give himself all kinds of room to work in those 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.159 one on one situations, which we asked him to do 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:38.920 quite a bit of that, and he won for the 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.960 most part. On the deep shot that we tried to 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.119 tyreek to start the third drive of the game, the 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.120