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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show,
Speaker 1: we're we'reviewing the regular seaton finale by the numbers and
Speaker 1: by the tape. Plus we'll hear from head coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and his Monday afternoon press conference from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drive keep it off first with the offense and
Speaker 1: the all twenty two review. That's a wrap on the
Speaker 1: regular season from my tape watching eight teen game tapes
Speaker 1: in the HAAPA will definitely be using that this offseason
Speaker 1: to go back and look at some stuff, but starting
Speaker 1: off at the quarterback position as we do, and look
Speaker 1: like it's just obvious when you put the tape on
Speaker 1: that you're seeing a rookie quarterback kind of learning the
Speaker 1: you know, the grooves of the NFL. There's not very
Speaker 1: much manipulation or moving defenders stuff like that. The throw
Speaker 1: of Tyreek that was tipped and nearly picked on the
Speaker 1: deflection on that opening drive, that's a throw we've seen
Speaker 1: executed all year long, but his eyes took that hook
Speaker 1: backer right into the passing lane and nearly equal disaster
Speaker 1: for Miami. And that fourth down to open the game
Speaker 1: was also a miss where you have Tyreek running a
Speaker 1: hook up, which is just go to the sticks and
Speaker 1: hook or well not the sticks, but go to the
Speaker 1: hooks on the linebacker's shell drop and show the quarterback
Speaker 1: your numbers and he runs it right to the sticks,
Speaker 1: to the side of the formation that has fewer Jets
Speaker 1: defenders and the boundary despite the fact that it was
Speaker 1: the strong side of the formation for the offense, and
Speaker 1: that's where your progression should start. On that pressure arrives,
Speaker 1: ball's got to come out because it's not a situation
Speaker 1: where it's like a tough read for the offense. You know,
Speaker 1: just based upon my knowledge of of what I see here,
Speaker 1: it's the best wide receiver in the league at the
Speaker 1: three in the furthest inside receiver to that strong side
Speaker 1: with Tampa two coverage and a free release, so you
Speaker 1: have a middle linebacker running out deep safeties off the
Speaker 1: football and nobody pressing up. Tyreek runs to a vacancy
Speaker 1: shows the quarterback is numbers and it's It's the exact
Speaker 1: same play the Lions put the game away against the
Speaker 1: Packers on Sunday night, the one that I think it
Speaker 1: was almandros st Brown just run to the vacancy golf
Speaker 1: found him boom, first down, game over, exact same look.
Speaker 1: That's where the progression starts in every offense. These are
Speaker 1: the fine details that ultimately cost you plays, drives, and
Speaker 1: points off the score board at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I thought the first nice throw or nice play of
Speaker 1: the game was the third down conversion on the second drive.
Speaker 1: He did a good job to extend and eventually find
Speaker 1: Tyreek on a difficult throw and that was a big spot.
Speaker 1: And more on that just a moment. Now that said
Speaker 1: Tyreek was again open on the pivot straight away, and
Speaker 1: this is why it's difficult to put together sustained drives
Speaker 1: on offense. We're not anticipating open windows are opening vertically
Speaker 1: down the field, and we're not on time on what
Speaker 1: should be layups. Just a tough way to make a
Speaker 1: living when you don't have that as part of your offense.
Speaker 1: Like the defense, it's the idea of taking with the
Speaker 1: defense gives you. If you're gonna take what they give
Speaker 1: you and you're not explosive down the field, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have days where you score nine points offensively and kick
Speaker 1: a bunch of field goals. His best throw of the day,
Speaker 1: for my money, was the wheel route to Durham Smith
Speaker 1: early on in the game, and it was awesome spacing
Speaker 1: on a play that looked like it was quarters coverage
Speaker 1: to me with the three man shell underneath and rushing
Speaker 1: just four. I can't know that for sure, but waddles
Speaker 1: flag his corner route, brings Sauce Gardner off the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and then a flat from Jeff Wilson Jr. Pulls the
Speaker 1: curl flat defender down and that opens up the space
Speaker 1: of the wheel for Durham Smyth and Skyler had immense
Speaker 1: pressure in his face, had to throw from a fade
Speaker 1: away position and put the ball not just away from
Speaker 1: the defender and away from danger, but right where Durham
Speaker 1: could go up and get it to me. That was
Speaker 1: the best play of his NFL career so far. The
Speaker 1: miscommunication on the snap that ruined the drive seemed like
Speaker 1: just that Skyler making a check where he has both
Speaker 1: hands up to the helmet and Connor Williams fires off
Speaker 1: a snap that just was had too much pepper on
Speaker 1: it and was high and wide. But a great job
Speaker 1: by Skyler. I thought to fall on that ball because
Speaker 1: if he does not, might have been a touchdown for
Speaker 1: the Jets going the other way. Miami, you could not
Speaker 1: afford that in this game. I really liked the third
Speaker 1: and four conversion throwing on the move to Wattle on
Speaker 1: that out slash comeback. Good job getting outside of of
Speaker 1: inside pressure the right The end off the offense is
Speaker 1: right side slanted across the face of Brandon Shell and
Speaker 1: beat him pretty good. But he throws an accurate ball
Speaker 1: on the move here to move the chains in a
Speaker 1: big play. Again, just going back to this, lots of
Speaker 1: late stuff the out route to river Cracraft was way
Speaker 1: too late, uh in the third quarter or was it
Speaker 1: it was third quarter? The next drive in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: nine thirty six to play, it's a third down and
Speaker 1: eight and man Tyreek rants right past the coverage, which
Speaker 1: bust because you see a man follow him in motion
Speaker 1: from one side of the formation to the other. And
Speaker 1: then he didn't run with him, which the Jets defenders
Speaker 1: were surprised by because nobody else did until it was
Speaker 1: kind of late for Gardener to get deep on him.
Speaker 1: And he's he's two yards beyond Gardner and throw that
Speaker 1: ball as far as you can and let Tyreek go
Speaker 1: get it on the first play of the eventual game
Speaker 1: winning drive. As well, in another situation, Wattle wide open
Speaker 1: a deep out for a big game and Tyreek's open
Speaker 1: fifteen yards down the field on a curl coming back
Speaker 1: down the stems. So there's just too much of that.
Speaker 1: But all things told, I think the appreciation for Skylar
Speaker 1: was him not making the backbreaking mistake, Like we have
Speaker 1: to understand what you expectations should be for players, and
Speaker 1: great him against that expectation. He dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure from the Jets. He extended and made just
Speaker 1: enough ace to get us into the Winter circle. That's
Speaker 1: what you asked for. I suppose when you're down QB
Speaker 1: one and when we've gone two and eight in the
Speaker 1: ten games without two of the last two years, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you have to kind of appreciate the two
Speaker 1: wins you do get well. I guess last year against
Speaker 1: the Texans, the five turnovers was not really notable, but
Speaker 1: this one no turnovers and that was kind of the
Speaker 1: difference in the game. Big job for Scotlart Thompson, and
Speaker 1: he executed as much as he had to on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I continue to marvel at the job that
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt does and the way he plays so in
Speaker 1: control and because he's so aggressive and you know it
Speaker 1: just gets some of his best blocks, the big hit
Speaker 1: blocks you'll see across the National Football League. The way
Speaker 1: he does that but stays on balance with knees over hips,
Speaker 1: hips over knees, shoulders over hips and just finds a
Speaker 1: way to work into the strike zone. You know, the
Speaker 1: chest plate of his man. It's impressive. He's patient enough
Speaker 1: to let a slanting rusher across his face and just
Speaker 1: make sure that his feet get there before his punch
Speaker 1: and allows him to thwart these moves in a way
Speaker 1: that looks totally effortless. I'm not gonna sit here and
Speaker 1: tell you I've watched everything will snap from every single
Speaker 1: guard to give you a full you know, power rankings
Speaker 1: on this, but I know what good football looks like.
Speaker 1: I think you'd be hard pressed to find many guards
Speaker 1: with a better body of work the number sixty eight
Speaker 1: this season a great year. Just go watch Jeff Wilson's
Speaker 1: big run on that third and inches call my man
Speaker 1: buries his dude and opens up a massive crease. Also
Speaker 1: got good seals from shell Smith and Long on the
Speaker 1: other side of the block to open that lane. But
Speaker 1: just was consistently making plays of this all game. Long
Speaker 1: second level blocks there again pulling some action at right tackle.
Speaker 1: Like his second play at right tackle, he gets a
Speaker 1: pancake to seal the edge with great blocks from right
Speaker 1: guard Rob Jones and center Connor Williams as well to
Speaker 1: spring Wilson for sixty yards. He also got a great
Speaker 1: downfield block again from River Cracraft. But Hunt playing both
Speaker 1: those positions I think was so impressive. His right guard
Speaker 1: work is is a lot more impressive than right tackle,
Speaker 1: but he was you know, adequate at right tackle. I thought,
Speaker 1: uh leam Eichenberg had some good work early in the
Speaker 1: running game, especially connecting on those first level catching client
Speaker 1: plays where he helps um you know, either the left
Speaker 1: tackle or center you know, engage the band that he
Speaker 1: originally catches and climbs from. But gosh, there was some
Speaker 1: some rough reps in pass Pro, like forward lean punch
Speaker 1: fully extended out over his skis, where from that point
Speaker 1: it's just swiped the hands away and throw him off balance.
Speaker 1: It's little resistance on one on one situations, and that's
Speaker 1: a spot you can't afford to lose that quickly, and
Speaker 1: that badly against because you know, guards and centers always
Speaker 1: surrender far fewer pressures than offensive tackles due by nature
Speaker 1: of the position and the space you have to defend.
Speaker 1: But this is a type of rep that you just
Speaker 1: can't have. Like it's a it's a play ender, it's
Speaker 1: a drive ender. It's a potential turnover type of situation,
Speaker 1: and we see it often the deep shot from Skylar
Speaker 1: to smythe you know run action where the left guard
Speaker 1: pulls to pick up the front side edge and he
Speaker 1: just stops short of that landmark. You could have gotten
Speaker 1: that block, but we didn't get it, so it just
Speaker 1: needs to be more there. And also, you know, left
Speaker 1: tackle and right tackle were not the best tapes either.
Speaker 1: Um Brandon Shell, I thought before the injury was one
Speaker 1: of his rougher tapes. And he had three tapes to
Speaker 1: me that we're not great this year the two Jets
Speaker 1: games in the Vikings game. Otherwise, pretty solid effort from
Speaker 1: Brandon Shell. But hopefully he can get back and healthy
Speaker 1: for the game next Sunday. But this was not one
Speaker 1: of his better games on the offensive line. I thought
Speaker 1: cornor Williams is better in this game, had some pressures
Speaker 1: on in past probe I had some really big blocks
Speaker 1: in the running game. And speaking of the running game,
Speaker 1: the running backs will cover this in the stats portion,
Speaker 1: but man, we needed every one of those yards. Man,
Speaker 1: they were so imperative in this game, especially the ones
Speaker 1: after contact. I mean, even when they weren't breaking tackles,
Speaker 1: they were shifty and powerful enough to keep defenders out
Speaker 1: of their you know, figurative strike zone so they could
Speaker 1: spin off or forward lean to get the extra yard
Speaker 1: or two or three the second possession, second play, Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson is dead to rights at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but he gets three extra yards just fighting through the tackle.
Speaker 1: It goes from third and seven to third and four
Speaker 1: and we get a conversion of Tyreke on the very
Speaker 1: next place. So going from punting out of our own
Speaker 1: end zone to a first down at your own twenty four.
Speaker 1: The fine margins like that that gonna win games like
Speaker 1: this for you so important, and we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of them like that in this game. And then the
Speaker 1: seven yard run from Savan akhman I would argue the
Speaker 1: best blocks we've seen all year from two guys during
Speaker 1: a Smith and Rob Jones. You get split flow from
Speaker 1: smythe and he wipes out the edge and watch the tape.
Speaker 1: He gets up pumped up, fist pumping after the play.
Speaker 1: And then Rob Jones pulls in and squares up the
Speaker 1: force defender and really gave Savan all the room he
Speaker 1: had to work with. Just a little bit longer held
Speaker 1: on the block by Eikenberg and Savan could have popped
Speaker 1: that one for a bigger game, but either way put
Speaker 1: him in range for a field goal. At receiver, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyreek had his catches early in the game. Two of
Speaker 1: them were big ones too. On the first couple of drives.
Speaker 1: The route on the second grab was was premier player
Speaker 1: stuff because he actually opens up on his original route
Speaker 1: but doesn't quit on the play as Skyler scrambles and
Speaker 1: it's kind of a fire drill at that point. And
Speaker 1: what does he do? What does he do besides follow
Speaker 1: his quarterback to the sideline and as the Jets corner
Speaker 1: follows him there, he then keeps going, turns up field
Speaker 1: and it puts the defenders back to the quarterback and
Speaker 1: Skylar sticks it right on Tyreek. So great scrambled rill
Speaker 1: all along and a quick sidebar. Tyreek's blocking downfield and
Speaker 1: smythe on the Jet sweep to waddle to start the
Speaker 1: second half was absolutely awesome the keys of the play.
Speaker 1: I also thought the defensive past interference on the third
Speaker 1: down shot into the end zone where he was picked
Speaker 1: up by a linebacker or rather should have been d
Speaker 1: p I. It was close, but he ran through the
Speaker 1: catchpoint and didn't find the football. Linebacker did and I
Speaker 1: note that because it was a good job by Tyreek
Speaker 1: coming back to the football, but he didn't get the
Speaker 1: call and surprised there was wasn't more laundry that Jets
Speaker 1: played pretty aggressive and grab a lot, but they didn't
Speaker 1: seem to call it very often, although it happened a
Speaker 1: lot in this game. And waddle Man there's a play
Speaker 1: on third and eight where he sells uh dj read
Speaker 1: on the takeoff and then breaks it back out of
Speaker 1: the to the deep out and angles back to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's a really impressive route with the ball winds up
Speaker 1: going elsewhere, and that was kind of the story of
Speaker 1: this game. I thought waddle and Tyreek were open a
Speaker 1: few times and didn't get the next didn't get the targets.
Speaker 1: On the very next possession, he turns Sauce Gardener around
Speaker 1: on another brilliant route man safety help to the boundary
Speaker 1: where I sent this clip to O J. And he's like,
Speaker 1: that ball that that corner had no idea the ball
Speaker 1: was coming there, because based upon the priest nap alignment
Speaker 1: and the coverage, that ball should have not gone there.
Speaker 1: And uh so he turns around Gardner with safety help
Speaker 1: to the boundary where he's lined up, and it allows
Speaker 1: Gardner to play trail technique, and trying to run routes
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback on trail technique is about the
Speaker 1: hardest thing. The receiver can do. You have to convince
Speaker 1: him that you're going vertical and get him to flip
Speaker 1: his hips and start getting vertical himself, which Jalen does
Speaker 1: with you know, an inside release against outside leverage, which
Speaker 1: is also tough. But you immediately see him close distance,
Speaker 1: like lean into Gardener because it's easier to create separation
Speaker 1: when there's a shorter distance between you and your man
Speaker 1: because he has to wait longer to react because you're
Speaker 1: so close to him, and he just leans into him
Speaker 1: and breaks off the route that way. Just the way
Speaker 1: his his knowledge of leverage and spacing continues to get
Speaker 1: better was on display on that play. Then he fights
Speaker 1: through contact and it's a hold if you ask me again,
Speaker 1: no flag, and then angles his route back to Skyler
Speaker 1: and makes a huge catch on third down to set
Speaker 1: the Dolphins up in the red zone. Then on the
Speaker 1: game winning drive that catch to come back to the
Speaker 1: football and make the snag at some traffic going to
Speaker 1: the ground and stay beyond the sticks. What a player, man,
Speaker 1: Jelen Waddle is some kind of player. Thought Gaski's uh
Speaker 1: strength of his hands and contested catchability on the thirty
Speaker 1: two yard play was such a big difference in this
Speaker 1: game for field position, you see Skyler's arm get hit
Speaker 1: and Mike is Johnny on the spot. Ball goes right
Speaker 1: to him, but they catch through contact. Was most impressive
Speaker 1: if that had pass breakup written all over it. But
Speaker 1: good strong hands there from a D eight Eric Azokama.
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson has an eleven yard run on a stretch
Speaker 1: play in the first quarter and easy hit the block
Speaker 1: and stayed on it all the way down the field.
Speaker 1: You saw good blocks from receivers all game long here,
Speaker 1: which is usually the case when you run for more
Speaker 1: than a buck fifty. Speaking of blocking on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: Surefield does it every single week. That little short motion
Speaker 1: return motion to crackback on crack toss for Wilson coming
Speaker 1: around the edge for a game of five on second
Speaker 1: and six. It was the key block there, and he
Speaker 1: has so many plays where he is the key baller
Speaker 1: town the field just in general. Wanted to mention the
Speaker 1: second field goal drive the opening of the second half
Speaker 1: and how I thought the designs in the running game
Speaker 1: in addition to all the blocking did a good job
Speaker 1: to kind of fool the Jets front and take advantage
Speaker 1: of their aggressiveness with some whams and some inviting guys
Speaker 1: up the field and using some reverse action, some end around,
Speaker 1: some you know going after the edges, which was a
Speaker 1: big focus for us on the game preview, and Miami
Speaker 1: got a bunch of yards in that area. And then
Speaker 1: just also the common themes on some chunk runs. It's
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt blowing up defenders. It's Connor Williams heading tough
Speaker 1: reach blocks where he has to you know, beat pre
Speaker 1: snap leverage that's not in his favor and holding those
Speaker 1: blocks long enough for he most at, refusing to go down,
Speaker 1: and then key blocks at the point of attack by
Speaker 1: alec Ingold. There's obviously other factors where those are pretty
Speaker 1: regular occurrences on the big runs. On the fourth down
Speaker 1: and five run play conversion a huge one in this game.
Speaker 1: What a play that was. First, Surefield coming from the
Speaker 1: field to the boundary and motion. Miami had five to
Speaker 1: block five to that week's side, and that's what you got.
Speaker 1: Craycraft successful, cra seal Williams another clutch reach block to
Speaker 1: seal the one shade on his outside shoulder. Rob Hunt
Speaker 1: wipes out a linebacker completely out of the play. Surefield
Speaker 1: holds his block down the field and brand Shell goes
Speaker 1: out and makes just enough of a block to give
Speaker 1: Wilson that lane that he hit at top gear and
Speaker 1: didn't slow down to move the sticks. A great call,
Speaker 1: great execution, a first down. That was a massive shift
Speaker 1: in the game. In fact, my Yahoo Sports app in
Speaker 1: terms of win probability Miami's went from fifty percent to
Speaker 1: sixty percent after that play. Huge, huge moment and they executed.
Speaker 1: And just a few plays later on the reverse toss
Speaker 1: to Raheem again, Sherfield Craigcraft Williams with a convoy taking
Speaker 1: out all three jets on the perimeter and a chance
Speaker 1: to make a play, and then Raheem finishes the run
Speaker 1: for a big time you know trip into the red
Speaker 1: zone and eventual field goal there. So the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: running game was was fun to watch. Passing game was
Speaker 1: a bit of a slog fest. But we'll see what
Speaker 1: they have next week. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: first break and come back on the other side and
Speaker 1: to the defensive film review. That's next Drivetime podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by do Nation. Back
Speaker 1: here on a Tuesday wild Card round weekend coming up,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk about Week eighteen. One last
Speaker 1: time though, and get to the defensive film breakdown here,
Speaker 1: And I really enjoyed watching this front all year long.
Speaker 1: The run defense has been so good. Twenty carries thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards for the Jets in this game, and it
Speaker 1: usually looks like this front side stacks it up and
Speaker 1: holds the point and someone backside wins with quickness and
Speaker 1: pursues it and chases it down from the backside to
Speaker 1: make the play. And it happened consistently on Sunday. Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins has made both of these plays a million times.
Speaker 1: Zack Seiler involved in that as well, the entire edge,
Speaker 1: Ray Kawan, John Jenkins, they all have a part in
Speaker 1: making these plays. And I think the past rush has
Speaker 1: been really good too. I just hope we get a
Speaker 1: chance to see the same line up up front next
Speaker 1: year with a healthier or improved cornerback room, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, the path to improving the coverage on
Speaker 1: the back end. I want to see this pass rush
Speaker 1: have a chance in this run game, have a chance
Speaker 1: to be paired with really good coverage on the back end,
Speaker 1: because I think you could get something special, and I
Speaker 1: think that's the key to sparking more turnovers like we
Speaker 1: had the last couple of years. Good coverage, good play upfront.
Speaker 1: That's how you create splash plays. We've got one part
Speaker 1: of that really downpat. If we can get healthier or
Speaker 1: improved next year, maybe we get a return of that
Speaker 1: with the offense playing like it can and then gosh,
Speaker 1: the the the roof is the ceiling, as they say.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Zach Seiler a play where he's a
Speaker 1: three technique with a hesitation step and shuffle crossover step
Speaker 1: upfield where he fakes out the left guard. He just
Speaker 1: has a bunch of different clubs in the bag to
Speaker 1: get immediate wins like he has right here, and he
Speaker 1: faked the left guard all the way out to get that.
Speaker 1: That lane opened up for an early stuff along with
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe, who just continues to make plays in the
Speaker 1: running games, scraping and tight to the formation to pair
Speaker 1: up for a tackle for loss on the Jets first
Speaker 1: field goal. Seiler had a pass rush on third down
Speaker 1: the red zone where he literally got there the moment
Speaker 1: flackle hold it back off of play action off the
Speaker 1: mesh point, but somehow still got the pass out and
Speaker 1: completed it. I don't know how he does this. He
Speaker 1: had a few of these throws in this game, and
Speaker 1: like that scrambled player where he threw it getting tackled
Speaker 1: in the end zone, the ball comes out of his
Speaker 1: hand and like it like changes the trajectory midflight. Just
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. Like the way a Flacco
Speaker 1: was throwing those balls from those pressure situations was kind
Speaker 1: of unlike anything I've seen. And he has a definitely
Speaker 1: unique arm talent. His entire career, he's had that, but
Speaker 1: you saw in this game to kind of mitigate some
Speaker 1: potential big splash pressure on the Dolphins defense, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he completed them not just got rid of
Speaker 1: him was frustrating. Seiler, by my account, had four immediate
Speaker 1: wins in the first half, two against the run, two
Speaker 1: against the past. Big time player. Speaking of big time players,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Jayalen Phillips is a game seven pressures,
Speaker 1: four quarterback hits. His first hit is the Jets first possession,
Speaker 1: the second third down of that possession, and he just
Speaker 1: walks the right tackle right into Joe Flacco's lap and
Speaker 1: actually has a hit on Flacco before the football even
Speaker 1: comes out. It's caused a total miss from the quarterback,
Speaker 1: which is awesome, but I still don't understand how he
Speaker 1: didn't get a force fumble in the game, because Flacco
Speaker 1: not turning it over against that unrelenting pressure was absolutely wild.
Speaker 1: It happened all game long, and Wilkins got a piece
Speaker 1: of that ball on the deflection as well. Back to
Speaker 1: Phillips though. The next big shot was late second quarter.
Speaker 1: He blasts Flacco on a third down completion where the
Speaker 1: back broke a tackle to make the sticks, but Phillips
Speaker 1: chucks the tight end and then you see the acceleration
Speaker 1: as he closes to the quarterback. Man. He's been good
Speaker 1: all year. You see that acceleration we mentioned on the
Speaker 1: tackle for loss against the run on the Jets opening
Speaker 1: drive of the second half as well, like beat your
Speaker 1: man and then angle in close flatten with a full
Speaker 1: sprint to beat the back to his aiming point. It
Speaker 1: happened time and time again. His best chance for a
Speaker 1: sack was thwarted by the holding call that he caused
Speaker 1: because he crosses left tackle's face without anybody there had
Speaker 1: picked him up a free run down the b gap
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. It was the play that we challenged
Speaker 1: and lost. He was clean to Flacco and the left
Speaker 1: tackle ganked him down. To me, that's as good as
Speaker 1: a sack ten a loss, even though you don't get
Speaker 1: the loss of down, but ten yards is a big deal.
Speaker 1: The tackle for loss he had at the start of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter just got off the snap faster than
Speaker 1: everybody else and met the running back and smacked him
Speaker 1: for a huge TfL at that point in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, you know, got a couple of tip passes
Speaker 1: in this game, had to run stuffs early. He just
Speaker 1: continues to make plays. Man, he is so dang good,
Speaker 1: and the way he beats these tackles and guards with
Speaker 1: quickness never ceases to amaze me. He's truly a scheme
Speaker 1: transcendent player. Doesn't really matter what you ask him to do,
Speaker 1: he can do it. The first play second half, Wilkins
Speaker 1: lets the right tackle kind of condense him into the wash,
Speaker 1: and then once he sees the running back folded back,
Speaker 1: he just discards the man and makes the play. That
Speaker 1: happened time and time and time again. Ne only got
Speaker 1: that forced fumble there late in the game. They fell
Speaker 1: back onto but he just makes these plays where he
Speaker 1: knips in and meets the running back where they're not
Speaker 1: expecting it en route to tackles this year the most
Speaker 1: by defensive tackle s ray Kuan made a couple, or
Speaker 1: any defensive lineman rather, ray Kuan Davis made a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays in the running game in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: One a toss play or the back tried to bend
Speaker 1: it back, but Rae Kwon broke down in the gap
Speaker 1: and made the play. Same with John Jenkins. He just
Speaker 1: got off blocks and was a really nice pursuing, you know, tackler.
Speaker 1: I thought in this game, I thought Jerome Baker beat
Speaker 1: blocks as well as he has all year. In this
Speaker 1: one He's really played his best football down the stretch.
Speaker 1: That coverage on the wheel route to Conklin was just
Speaker 1: choice man, no panic, stayed in phase, didn't interfere. Perfect. Also,
Speaker 1: the challenge we won was him and Phillips beating the
Speaker 1: back and right tackle straight away. Without that pressure, Flacco
Speaker 1: probably could have stepped into that throw and made it,
Speaker 1: but because of Bacon Phillips winning immediately, I don't think
Speaker 1: he could. I just think Van Ginkl is as consistent
Speaker 1: as they come. He plays the same game like every week.
Speaker 1: It feels like at least that's a solid do your
Speaker 1: job effort set, strong edges, find routes not grass when
Speaker 1: you're falling into coverage, take advantage when they put a
Speaker 1: tighten on you, and pass rush game just solid all
Speaker 1: the way around. Alandon Roberts made that huge play on
Speaker 1: the screen at the end of the half just by
Speaker 1: recognizing screen action and and just anticipating the route of
Speaker 1: the running back. Big time play with the preparation meets
Speaker 1: his tenacity. He did get put on his butt on
Speaker 1: one play though by um uh. The other tight end
Speaker 1: Jeremy Rucker. In this game, Melvin Ingram just appreciation for him.
Speaker 1: He speeds up the clock on critical downs and those
Speaker 1: past rush situations for quarterbacks every single week. I also
Speaker 1: want to talk about kater Cohu and his hips, which
Speaker 1: is the best part of his game from my money.
Speaker 1: The way he transitions from squared up to cross overstep
Speaker 1: to contend with quick turns like slants for instance, is
Speaker 1: so impressive. Second play of the game, you see him
Speaker 1: on the balls of his feet jam, recognize the route,
Speaker 1: flip the hips, stay on that upfield shoulder to reach
Speaker 1: around the front and contest for an incompletion. And that
Speaker 1: wasn't the end of it for him. This dude draws
Speaker 1: their best receiver in Garrett Wilson, and I slot fade
Speaker 1: with no safety help. I'm not sure there's a tougher
Speaker 1: route to cover in football. And by the way, Xavian
Speaker 1: gets a legendary jam on Corey Davis in this play
Speaker 1: as well. There's not much to break down for Kater
Speaker 1: just stays in phase and plays the man without panic
Speaker 1: when the ball comes into the air and makes a
Speaker 1: play on the ball for an incomplete pass. Next drive,
Speaker 1: they run a rub for a little square and route
Speaker 1: to Corey Davis and Cater plays through the pick and
Speaker 1: again comes underneath for a pass breakup. What a game
Speaker 1: for him, and of course the open field tackle on
Speaker 1: that third down before the game winning drive as well,
Speaker 1: he did get hit within their flag for defensive pass interference.
Speaker 1: I thought I was unnecessary. That's the next phase in
Speaker 1: his development. Don't pack so much when you think you're
Speaker 1: beat down the field. That stick by key on crossing
Speaker 1: to cut the Jets short of a first down was
Speaker 1: excellent recognition. You see him start covering the two from
Speaker 1: a bunch set, passes it off immediately and fires out
Speaker 1: of his back pedal to close on the hook up
Speaker 1: and make a tackle short of the sticks. Maybe I
Speaker 1: like him more in his own coverage, smart football, good execution.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland's ability to get either vertical or vertical to
Speaker 1: either side like field or boundary from his cover one
Speaker 1: post position is crazy. The reaction and pair with closing
Speaker 1: speed is rare, rare stuff. Also his pass rush a
Speaker 1: rare one as well. This season. Uh, he got a
Speaker 1: hand on that ball and save potentially a pretty big
Speaker 1: play there. I think rose insertion into the run fit
Speaker 1: every single week stands out. What a tough dude. He
Speaker 1: gets in there and makes plays every single week. Thought
Speaker 1: X had a really rough game that for play man
Speaker 1: like Wilson sold him a bill of goods and the
Speaker 1: takeoff and was just way too easy coming back on
Speaker 1: the stem. You had cater and crossing in good shape,
Speaker 1: but X was not in good position. And I don't
Speaker 1: get it. With that five man rush against a team
Speaker 1: that has really minimal vertical game and an offensive line
Speaker 1: full of backups, I feel like the idea is make
Speaker 1: them beat you deep. I don't know, but the transitions
Speaker 1: at the top of the routes looked awfully slow all
Speaker 1: game long alongside Garrett Wilson. Now, the rep against Wilson
Speaker 1: that he caught but then dropped was really good work
Speaker 1: by X there inside hand. Jam kept that hand there
Speaker 1: to kind of fuel the receiver as you locate the football,
Speaker 1: play it rake it out in complete pass. As far
Speaker 1: as the defense, there are just too many instances for
Speaker 1: me of guys coming on rushes that don't make an impact.
Speaker 1: They hit Corey Davis for a nice catching run to
Speaker 1: the beginning of the the second quarter, and Jerome Baker comes
Speaker 1: on delayed blitz where he never had a chance to
Speaker 1: do anything, like he's just wasting a position like ten
Speaker 1: guys out there. If he just bluffs that rush and
Speaker 1: falls back into the hook zone, maybe he can impact
Speaker 1: the play. But I don't know. I just as something
Speaker 1: that stands out kind of weakly here on the tape.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the stats real quick before we go
Speaker 1: to the third segment here from Mike mcdan nal. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do end of regular season stats from PF next
Speaker 1: Gen and all the stuff we normally cover here that
Speaker 1: will be on tomorrow show. For now, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and focus on the Jets game. Independently Skylert Thompson twenty
Speaker 1: plus yard air yards two for three fifty eight yards.
Speaker 1: How big were those that flipping the field in the
Speaker 1: field position game? By the way, intermediate not so good
Speaker 1: ten ten to nineteen yard range two for five twenty
Speaker 1: six yards. When he was blitzed. He was two for
Speaker 1: four with negative two yards, also had a sack and
Speaker 1: under pressure eight for sixteen for a hundred and that
Speaker 1: was also the sack. There. He averaged three point oh
Speaker 1: four time to throw within depth of target average of
Speaker 1: six point seven. That is crazy low for how long
Speaker 1: of the T T T that was. I think the
Speaker 1: most impressive number for him in this game was the
Speaker 1: fact that he was under pressure eighteen of thirty three
Speaker 1: dropbacks and took one sack and did not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. The running backs where he most forced six
Speaker 1: miss tackles, had three point eight two yards after contact
Speaker 1: on average forty two total, and had three ten plus
Speaker 1: yard runs. Wilson forced four miss tackles, uh three point
Speaker 1: three one yards after contact fifty three total and also
Speaker 1: had three teen plus yard runs. Smith led the way
Speaker 1: with three yards per route, ran on average seven point
Speaker 1: eight yards per target. Kasicki had nine point to per target,
Speaker 1: and then Waddle and Tyreek had lows this this week.
Speaker 1: One point four two yards per route ran for for Jalen,
Speaker 1: point eight eight for Tyreek, just eight point eight yards
Speaker 1: per target for Waddle and just four point six for Tyreek.
Speaker 1: But good on him for gutting it out. He was
Speaker 1: definitely injured, you know, kind of getting through something with
Speaker 1: the angle this ankle in this game, and he also
Speaker 1: created a bunch of space for that big play for Gasicki,
Speaker 1: So good on him for for playing hard to the end.
Speaker 1: Pressures allowed Little three Eikenberg one on twenty nine pass
Speaker 1: blocks snap didn't play the whole game. Connor Williams had three.
Speaker 1: Rob Jones and Rob Hunt both had zero. Brandon Shell
Speaker 1: had five on twenty eight pass block snaps, and they
Speaker 1: gave two to Smith and one to Jeff Wilson. Runs
Speaker 1: to the right, A, B, and C gaps eighteen runs
Speaker 1: for seventy four yards. On defense, seven pressures for Phillips,
Speaker 1: three for stealer to for Baker. Five guys had one.
Speaker 1: Flacco had an average time to throw of two point
Speaker 1: three six seconds. That's not the lowest single game total,
Speaker 1: but for context, Tom Brady has the fastest T T
Speaker 1: T this year and that's two point four or five
Speaker 1: seconds via next Gen. So yeah, Flacco was getting that
Speaker 1: thing out like a hot potato. All game long run stops, Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Baker and e Rob had three. Holland, Seeler, Phillips, Duke
Speaker 1: and Row all had two. Five guys had one coverage
Speaker 1: snaps and yards allowed x thirty five and ninety five
Speaker 1: co who thirty five and negative thirteen. The only completion
Speaker 1: was a lateral play. There are one for five targeting
Speaker 1: kater co who Javon thirty three snaps twenty three yards,
Speaker 1: crossing twenty snaps five yards. McKinley and Roe both played
Speaker 1: eighteen coverage snaps a piece, and we're not targeted. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our last break right there and
Speaker 1: come back on the other side. Do snap counts and
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's Monday media availability. That's next Drivetime podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, segment
Speaker 1: number three on a Tuesday, and as we do weekly here,
Speaker 1: we pick it up with a snap counts before we
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday afternoon
Speaker 1: press conference a lot of shuffling on the offensive line
Speaker 1: dealing with some injuries. We had had three three guys
Speaker 1: go to wire sixty five snaps for Greg Little, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Connor Williams. That also true of Skyler Thompson. Liam
Speaker 1: Eichenberg missed just seven snaps before he turned to the lineup,
Speaker 1: and Brandon Shell played fifty three so he missed twelve
Speaker 1: snaps in the game, and that will give you Rob
Speaker 1: Jones for a total of nineteen snaps in the game.
Speaker 1: At wide receiver, Jitlyn Waddle led the way seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the workload, Tyreek Hill gave you sixty six percent,
Speaker 1: and Trent Sherfield sixty five percent, with River Cracraft playing
Speaker 1: fifteen snaps. Good and as Ukama played ten snaps in
Speaker 1: the game as well. At running back, Jeff Wilson led
Speaker 1: the way forty two snaps, that was sixty of the
Speaker 1: workload and Raheem Mostert was next with thirty two snaps
Speaker 1: in the game. Alec Ingold played just fourteen snaps. That
Speaker 1: it's tough to play that position with a club on
Speaker 1: your hand, but kudos to Ingld for for gutting it
Speaker 1: out and getting out there. Oh Savon Akmen also played
Speaker 1: four snaps in the game, and the tight end Durham
Speaker 1: forty six snaps. Snaps we've seen that have two to
Speaker 1: one balance here uh in recent weeks. And then Hunter
Speaker 1: Long played eleven snaps at the tight end position on defense.
Speaker 1: Three players with the distance Javon Holland cater Cohu Xavian Howard.
Speaker 1: That's pretty standard for those guys, and I can't believe
Speaker 1: this is standard, but it is. For Christian Wilkins, fifty
Speaker 1: snaps is of the workload. That's the same number as
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker played in the game. Just crazy. Zach Heiler again,
Speaker 1: same standard, forty five snaps for him. Jalen Phillips similar,
Speaker 1: forty eight for him. Uh. Let's see Wilson the defensive line,
Speaker 1: Ray Kwon Davis played twenty nine that's half the snaps
Speaker 1: in this game. John Jenkins played ten snaps in the game,
Speaker 1: and then off the edge of the linebacker position back
Speaker 1: to that spot, Ingram played fifty five of the reps.
Speaker 1: Van gekl was Bradley Chubb played just eighteen snaps forty
Speaker 1: two in the game. And then as far as your
Speaker 1: off ball linebackers go, Roberts gave you a sixty one
Speaker 1: percent of the workload behind Jerome Baker's eighty nine percent.
Speaker 1: We saw Duke Raley for thirty six percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: and then in the secondary of Samuegel Von gave you
Speaker 1: one snap and the second Dary finishing up with Keion
Speaker 1: Cross and playing forty six percent on the snaps. Do
Speaker 1: you get the two primary corners kind of a third
Speaker 1: safety being used frequently in there is kind of the
Speaker 1: big nickel position as well, which is how you wind
Speaker 1: up with Eric Rowe playing of the snaps in total,
Speaker 1: and then also at the position Ron McKinley of the
Speaker 1: snaps and Elijah Campbell gave you ten snaps and Clayton
Speaker 1: Federally gave you one as well. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: pick it up with Mike McDaniels Monday press conference, and
Speaker 1: we started off here with the question about the quarterback availability.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play a couple of those answers here.
Speaker 1: Coach talking about to Teddy and Skyler, is there some
Speaker 1: hope for Monday or for next Sunday. So um has
Speaker 1: not been cleared for that level yet. I'm hoping to
Speaker 1: with all three active roster quarterbacks UM, they all have
Speaker 1: injury related UM concerns. I'm hoping to have some clarity
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. UM, but as of right now, it's literally
Speaker 1: the aim if not more vague then when I just
Speaker 1: saw you guys last, I saw most of you guys last.
Speaker 1: Him saying he doesn't know about that process was asking
Speaker 1: if TA had been cleared to throw yet here's further
Speaker 1: clarification on to a status and where he's at currently. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what goes on. I do know
Speaker 1: there's UM. I've seen him post post whatever that time
Speaker 1: is called and he's sweating. I know there there's so
Speaker 1: UM tune two together. I try not to trying to
Speaker 1: stay in my level of expertise because again the primary concern,
Speaker 1: UM is that we lean on medical professionals for this UH,
Speaker 1: these medical opinions, and I don't want to influence by
Speaker 1: over asking or trying to micromanage what what the process
Speaker 1: is when he's ready to when when he's medically cleared
Speaker 1: to practice, will practice. Until then, I'm not doing anything,
Speaker 1: and so as Berry Jackson from Miami, Harold does want
Speaker 1: to do asks a great follow up question, do you
Speaker 1: have game plans in place? You'll put together tomorrow or
Speaker 1: today on Tuesday. With regards to to a Teddy and
Speaker 1: Skylert Thompson, here's coach about the game planning for a
Speaker 1: game when you really don't know who the quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, that I think that's the You know, UM,
Speaker 1: you're playing a division opponent who you're pretty familiar with,
Speaker 1: who you just played, UM a couple of weeks ago. Um,
Speaker 1: that gives you a little liberty to have, um, some
Speaker 1: variants in your plan for each particular quarterback. And then
Speaker 1: when you get concrete clarity, UM, you have one direction,
Speaker 1: um for your entire team to kind of go by,
Speaker 1: and that's what you stick with. Coach gave us updates
Speaker 1: as well on whereheem most to who had a bad
Speaker 1: broken thumb, he told us, and we'll have to get
Speaker 1: surgery this week and his availability doesn't seem very likely,
Speaker 1: but he said he wouldn't put anything past where he
Speaker 1: most dirt to get that. I'm ready to go, but
Speaker 1: we'll see about him. Same kind of situation for Toronto
Speaker 1: Armstead and Brandon Hill taking it right up to the game,
Speaker 1: he said. He did say both guys have unknown status
Speaker 1: is both have excited expectations this year, we could guards
Speaker 1: of their timelines. It will be more late week fund
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. And the injury report talked about
Speaker 1: Tyreek and Jalen, saying toughest, some of the toughest players
Speaker 1: he's been around, and he believes they'll both be able
Speaker 1: to put themselves in position to be able to go
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and then was asked about the difference between
Speaker 1: regular season games and a playoff game. Here's coach talking
Speaker 1: about just that. I think I think the team gained
Speaker 1: a bunch of valuable experience with this UH end the
Speaker 1: season stretched. A lot of the team hadn't been UM
Speaker 1: exposed to UH significant prime time games. They had not
Speaker 1: only UM a lot of exposure they had, they had
Speaker 1: UM uh failed expectations, which is tough. And then the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is winner go home. That you feel in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and that's definitely what they felt like yesterday.
Speaker 1: They knew that was the case. So UM, those are
Speaker 1: the biggest mountains that I was worried about outside of that.
Speaker 1: UM Yet, you know, it's going to be important for
Speaker 1: me to UH for those guys that haven't played in
Speaker 1: the playoff playoff game to remind them of the most
Speaker 1: obvious thing in the world. That is probably the thing
Speaker 1: that comes up the strong, especially with young teams in playoffs,
Speaker 1: is that it's a football game. So you prepare for it,
Speaker 1: UM to give your best effort, but you don't have
Speaker 1: to do things outside of yourself for the outcome that
Speaker 1: you want to exist. So you you have to make
Speaker 1: sure that guys don't press UM. I I would have
Speaker 1: been a lot more nervous had we not had a
Speaker 1: um A playing game. UM just a last Sunday for
Speaker 1: at least a taste, because it is different. One more
Speaker 1: here we'll go ahead and finish up with about a
Speaker 1: question that was posed to Mica about how the team
Speaker 1: was kind of riding high at a certain point of
Speaker 1: this season. The press clippings were really good and fun
Speaker 1: to read about, and now no one's really giving you
Speaker 1: a chance heading into Buffalo on Sunday. Here's coach talking
Speaker 1: about that element of it, expectations and how the players
Speaker 1: should approach things. Yeah, I think you learned that, um,
Speaker 1: it's cool when it's favorable, it's not as cool when
Speaker 1: it's not favorable. I think you learned that none of
Speaker 1: it matters, that that like you have control over the
Speaker 1: narrative and it's generally UM retroactive, or it's the narrative
Speaker 1: UH can be controlled by your actions on the field,
Speaker 1: and you just worry about your actions on the field.
Speaker 1: I think UM, I would again be more worried about
Speaker 1: either way had we not gone through the huge highs
Speaker 1: and lows. I think there is a positive in that,
Speaker 1: UM and that you uh, you really get to feel
Speaker 1: UM what it's like to possibly I'm not saying anyone did,
Speaker 1: but like your guard is down when people are singing
Speaker 1: your praises and it gets old when people are telling
Speaker 1: you how bad you are. UM. Both things are very
Speaker 1: natural consequences of black and white results. It will always
Speaker 1: be that way. You'll be praised when you win, and
Speaker 1: UM people will be critical when you lose. When you lose,
Speaker 1: why because people care so And you know what's even
Speaker 1: more maddening when you're winning or losing games is when
Speaker 1: you really care about something that can't control it. So henceforth,
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be a reaction either way, and I
Speaker 1: think that the more people live through that, the better
Speaker 1: they can circumvent that, not make it any part of
Speaker 1: the equation. UM. When there's a job to do when
Speaker 1: they only have each other to rely on to do
Speaker 1: that job. All right, there you go. You can find
Speaker 1: that press availability and its entirety up on the team
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. In the meantime, that is gonna be my time,
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