WEBVTT - All 22 Review Dolphins Raiders, Inside the Numbers and Coordinator Media 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:15.480 Fail touchdown, Miami lay was drawn. What is up, Dolphans, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.560 and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.880 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.720 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.960 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.240 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.400 on today's show, we take a dive into the weeds, 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.760 a deep dive into the numbers, the film, we'll hear 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.280 from the Dolphins coordinators. This is always our longest episode 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.400 of the week. Let's go ahead and not waste any 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.320 more time and jump right in to this Tuesday, December 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:56.080 twenty nine edition of the Drive Time Podcast Dophins. Hey 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.240 Dolphins fans, the New year starts now at Auto Nation. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.480 Let's skip the rest of and get two big New 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.240 Year's savings on your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's Fords, Toyota's Hondas, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.959 and a whole bunch more shops safely at the Auto 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.160 Nation store near you or auto nation dot com and 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.560 save now. So, how's everybody feeling? We had Christmas on Friday, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.720 that crazy, crazy game on Saturday night, and then a 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.640 Sunday in the NFL. That really went in the Dolphins 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.160 benefit across the board really as far as getting additional 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.200 help just in case Sunday does not go the way 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.520 we want to, as far as the game up in Buffalo. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.440 Now Miami can get in the playoffs and four different routes. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.040 Number one, beat the Buffalo Bills. You do that, You're in. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.920 You are the fifth seed in the a f C. Now, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.440 if the Dolphins do not win the game on Sunday, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.600 then three teams in the a f C all have 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.280 to win in order to kick Miami out of the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.560 top seven. If the Colts, Browns, and Ravens all win 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.160 their games on Sunday and Miami loses, we will miss 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.120 the playoffs. If one of those teams loses their game 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.480 and miamises as well, then the Dolphins will still get 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.640 into the dance into the January tournament. So lots of possibilities. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.679 Fifth seed, sixth seed, seventh seed, and the dreaded eighth 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.959 seed out of the playoffs are all in the realm 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.880 of possibilities. And one more sweetener for this season. Dolphins 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.040 currently owned the third pick in the NFL draft. This 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.880 season war to end today If the Texans lose on 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.760 Sunday to the Tennessee Titans, that pick will be locked 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.919 into the three seed as they are battling with the Falcons. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.480 There for some supremacy in terms of strength of schedule, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.720 but Houston's dip below Atlanta's in the Week sixteen games 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.240 the Week sixteen slate of action, so Miami could be 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.000 picking third in next April's draft. The last time a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.680 team made the playoffs and picked top five or top 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.640 three in both instances was the Washington football team. They 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.359 went to the playoffs in ninety nine and picked a 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.480 second and third in two thousand. Miami could follow that 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.480 up twenty years later here this year. If Week seventeen 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.240 goes all according to plan. We didn't have a podcast 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.079 on Monday, but I wanted to go ahead and mentioned 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.239 the anniversary of the Your Gray Hat game December back 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.760 in two thousand eight. Chad Pennington, Ted Gain, Philip Merling, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.960 Ronnie Brown, Ricky Williams, all those guys making plays in 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.160 that game. This is or yesterday. It was rather the 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.000 anniversary of the game in the Midowlands taking out Brett 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.280 farrv Eric Mangini and that Jets team with Tony Sperrano 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.600 and Company and winning the a f C East. Wanted 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.919 to go ahead and mention that just before we jump 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.880 into the team rankings. Here in individual metrics from the 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.919 Monday Inside the Numbers piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.880 you guys can find that right now. As for the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.639 Dolphins team rankings, Offensively, twenty five point two points per 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.359 game is fifteenth in the National Football League. Miami, you're 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.720 twenty three and total offense twenty two rushing and twenty 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.360 five in the passing game. Now, on defense, we are 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.040 one week away from securing the top scoring defense in 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.120 the National Football League. Miami currently sits first in that category, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.040 allowing just eight teen point eight points per game this season. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.920 The total defense ranks twenty, rushing ranks seventeenth, and passing 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.800 defense ranks nineteenth in the NFL. Miami's forty sacks this 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.000 year are tied for the ninth most in the National 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.160 Football League. The third down defense, allowing just thirty point 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.400 seven percent conversions, is first in the NFL, and the 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.000 twenty seven takeaways is tied for first with the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.200 And it seems like we say it every single week, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.560 but It's pretty much true that Dolphins defensive standing there 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.880 across the NFL continues to impress me and I'm sure 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.080 all of you as well out there in Dolphin Nation. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.080 It was the two d road win in Dolphins franchise history, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.320 and just the third time since two thousand two that 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.880 Miami has been ten in five or better after fifteen games. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.720 It last happened in twenty sixteen, the last playoff year 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.360 here for your Miami Dolphins. How about some recent streaks 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.080 here from Miami nine and two over the last eleven games, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.839 ten and three over the last third team, and fifteen 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.080 and nine over the last twenty four games. A win 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.640 on Sunday gets coach Flora's back to sixteen and sixteen 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.760 in his coaching career. Clayton Federlum. That fumble recovery at 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.400 the end of the game extended Miami streak of consecutive 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.920 games with a turnover up to twenty one that's best 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.360 in the league, and the Dolphins scored thirteen points while 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.719 trailing in the final five minutes of that game. The 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.039 last time that happened was remember twentieth, two thousand sixteen 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.840 at the Los Angeles Rams. I know You'll remember that game, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.960 Ryan Tannehill to Davante Parker over and over again, Parker 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.080 with the game winning touchdown in that game as they 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.760 scored fourteen points to come back fourteen ten in that crucial, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.799 crucial win. How about some snap counts and stats starting 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.080 here with your offense to a tongue of Volo played 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.760 forty six snaps. Ryan Fitzpatrick played seventeen in the game. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.200 At running back, Miles Gascon led the way with forty 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.760 eight snaps, Savan Akhmed had fifteen. At receiver, Lynn Bowden 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.200 Junior led the way with fifty eight reps. Mac Hollands 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.920 forty nine, Isaiah Ford thirty three, Jachem Grant nineteen, and 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.320 Malcolm Perry had one snap in the game. Plenty of 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.320 receiver and tight end action here for your Miami Dolphins 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.280 in this game. Mike Kasiki had forty five snaps, Durham's 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.400 my thirty, and Adam Sheheen fifteen. All five of your 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.599 offensive line with the distance, Austin Jackson, Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.560 Jesse Davis, and Robert Hunt and Julian Davenport came off 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.400 the bench for two snaps in the win. On Saturday 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.760 night for Fitzpatrick. It was the eighteenth game winning drive 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.280 of his career and thirteen come from behind vig three. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.640 The offense put together thirteen points when he was in 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.680 the game on thirteen dropbacks. He completed all four of 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.440 his passes when under duress for sixty seven yards, and 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.920 he was two for three on passes twenty or more 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.800 yards down field, with sixty five yards to boot on those. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.840 Quarterback two A Toungo Baloa continued his successful run throwing 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.800 against the blitz as he completed nine of eleven passes 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.240 against that extra rusher, including his touchdown pass to Miles 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.200 gas Kim. On the season, Tunga Baloa has seven touchdown 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.640 passes and just one interception when the opposition sends a 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.160 fifth or sixth rusher bringing that blitz after the young quarterback. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.799 Gaskin rushed for eighty seven yards and gained a season 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.000 high for the Dolphins one and sixty seven yards from scrimmage. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.560 He averaged three point three six yards after initial contact. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.839 That was the high for a Dolphins running back with 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.400 at least ten carries in a game this season, and 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.560 seventy four of his eighty two receiving yards occurred after 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.480 the catch. He became the first Dolphin running back with 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.960 multiple receiving touchdowns in a game since Reggie Bush did 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.839 it in And how about some cool data from our 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.599 ends up next Gen Stats. His fifty yards after the 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.719 catch on that fifty nine yard touchdown reception. He was 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.239 expected to get three yards after the catch with initial 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.720 tackles broken there, so he got fifty yards over expected 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.120 YAK on that play from next Gen Stats, that was 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.000 the third most YAK over expected on a reception this season. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.080 You stay with me on that most yards after the 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.880 catch above expected based upon NFL averages and speed and 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.600 stats and all that fun stuff. I have the tweet 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.320 available from next Gen Stats in the top news article 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.960 that was published on Tuesday on Miami Dolphins dot Com. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.280 Out at the receiver position. Three of Isaiah fords four 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.880 receptions in the game move the chains, including that critical 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.360 seventeen yard gain on a third down and five on 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.640 Miami's game tying field goal drive, the one that made 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.480 it sixteen to sixteen there in the fourth quarter, And 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.640 why receiver Mac Collins improved upon his team best PFF 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.440 run blocking grade at seventy eight point one. He and 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.280 Ted end Mike get sick He hit key blocks on 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.480 gaskins fifty nine yard touchdown catch and run. Hollins also 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.760 pulled in the third most improbable completion of the season 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.960 on Fitzpatrick's no look thirty four yard heave to go 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.320 ahead and put the Dolphins in position to win that 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.160 game Saturday night. On that play again, back to next 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.880 Gen stats, air distance of that throw forty five point 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.119 three yards quarterback under pressure. There was point four yards 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.480 between Hollands and the sideline when he made that catch. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.720 All of that adds up to a ten point nine 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.360 percent completion probability. That was the third most improbable completion 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.240 in the National Football League this season. We got it, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.760 We got the field goal, We got the dub. Tight 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.640 End Mike Kasicki pulled in four passes for fifty four yards. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.400 He's now fifth among tight ends with six hundred fifty 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.400 six receiving yards. His thirteen point seven yards per reception 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.440 ranks fourth among tight ends with at least twenty catches. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.760 If he can get one hundred thirty six yards in 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.559 the season finale and Buffalo next Sunday, he would surpass 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.199 Randy McMichael's seven nine one yards for the most yards 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.439 by tight end in Dolphins history. Center Ted Carris and 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.280 right guard Jesse Davis were charged with one pressure allowed each, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.480 and offensive tackles Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt combined to 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.320 allow five pressures, but none of those were hits on 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.680 the Miami quarterback keeping two and fits clean in that regard. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.240 On the defensive side. For the snap counts here, we 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.480 start off on the defensive line. Ray Kwon Davis has 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.920 fifty three snaps in this game, eight three pc of 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.840 the workload. Christian Wilkins gives you forty seven and Zach 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.400 Seeler gives you thirty in the game. But Ato Jones 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.080 also how to snap up front. Emmanuel Ogba played fifty 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.640 nine snaps in the game at linebacker, Kyle van Noy 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.400 played every wrap all sixty four. Jerome Baker gives you 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.240 sixty two snaps, and Andrew Van Geinkle gives you fifty 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.040 six in the game. Plenty of guys showing their conditioning, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.960 showing their late season Week sixteen, that endurance, the work 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.839 they've put in to get their conditioning. These guys playing 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.000 tons of snaps in this game and paying off huge 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.800 dividends for this Dolphins defense e Landon Roberts left the 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.480 game on the cart that was I did not like 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.720 seeing that scene. Man, that sucked. That guy works hard. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.400 He is a big part of this team, a big 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.760 leader on this team. Nineteen snaps for him in the game. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.679 Calvin Munson gives you six. Commu gruge A Hill plays one. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.200 In the secondary, Byron Jones played sixty three snaps. Xaving 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.480 Howard did as well. That was one snap short of 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 the total for the defense. Nick ed him played thirty 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.520 seven in the game, and safety Eric Rowe put every 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.600 snap all sixty four. Bubby McCain gives you sixty three, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.480 and Brandon Jones gives you sixteen snaps in the game. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.040 Hey Caroline, how's it going, baby girl? As for the 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.920 stats from Pro Football Focus, in this game, cornerback Xaving 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.280 Howard was targeted four times in the game. He allowed 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.920 to catch, but it went for negative one yard. That 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.079 performance improved upon his league best forty nine point four 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.520 percent completions allowed and dipped his league best pass rating 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.400 against down to forty eight point five that's best among 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.520 all NFL cornerbacks. He added two passes defense that gives 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.000 him nineteen for the season, also tops in the NFL 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.640 to go along with his legal nine interceptions this season. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.400 This The last time a Dolphins defender had nineteen pass 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.320 defense in a season was Andre Goodman in two thousand eight, 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.400 and no player has had more since Patrick Sir Tam 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.720 in two thousand good company there. Linebacker Jerome Baker made 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.600 ten tackles in the game, giving him better than one 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.280 hundred tackles for the second consecutive season. Six of Baker's 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.520 tackles were good for run stops. Those are tackles within 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.040 two yards of the line of scrimmage. He continues to 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 have a fantastic season. Andrew Van Giggle had a big, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.360 big game. He became the fifth different Dolphins defender to 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.720 record multiple sacks in the game this season. He also 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.439 had a career high five quarterback pressures and added three 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.280 run stops and batted a pass down at the line 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.080 of scrimmage. Defensive end Emmanuel Ogbo was second on the 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.959 team with three QB pressures. That gives him sixty two 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.320 on the season, the most in a single season by 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.559 a Miami Dolphins since Cam Wake in teen who had 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.800 sixty seven that year. So five more pressures from the 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.000 big man can help him get in Cam Wag's company 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.880 from that great, great season. Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins was 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.480 the highest grade defender on the Dolphins defense. He applied 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.680 two pressures and made two total tackles in the game. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.520 Zack Seelert ray Kwon Davis also added a combined three 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.480 quarterback pressures and both had two run stops each in 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.040 this game and as four. Miami specialist Jason Standers put 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.640 together his second game winning kick of the season, this 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.040 time from forty five yards out. Had the fifty yard 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.400 against the Cardinals back in Week nine with just one 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.880 second on the game clock. This time around. His thirty 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.599 four made field goals are the second most in the 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.040 NFL and second most Dolphins history. His one d thirty 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.719 six points scored this season are also second best in 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.079 franchise history. His nineteen field goals from forty plus yards 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.680 leads the NFL, and his eight field goals from fifty 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.679 plus yards are tied for most in the league. The 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.040 long range kicking of Jason Sanders comes up big, big 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.000 time and time again for your Miami Dolphins. Matt Hawk 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.520 has twenty four points down inside the twenty yard line. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.040 That's sixth best in the NFL, and Jachem Grants three 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.040 d and thirty punt return yards are still tops in 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.280 the National Football League. The Dolphins have one of the 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.000 most disciplined teams in the NFL under head coach Brian 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.720 Flora's top five last year in penalty yardage and fouls 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.240 committed against them this year third fewest penalties seventy two 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.360 times and six hundred and fifteen penalty yardage. That's fourth 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.040 fewest in the National Football League. Let's go ahead and 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.760 break down some films, starting here first with the offensive 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.240 side of the football, and we start here with the 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.520 offense and the quarterback, and two a tongue of Bloa 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.360 in general here and talking about him kind of reflecting 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.640 upon maybe taking some some opportunities to throw the football 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.240 where in this league it's covered but it's actually open. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.280 He's talked about that a few times. And on the 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.280 first play of the game, you've got the safety who's 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.440 pretty much in conflict with a corner route from one 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.199 side of the field to the wide side and a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.360 post route from the boundary to put him in a 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.600 bind to go for the corner or the post. And 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.160 I think it's one of those instances that to who 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.120 might be talking about, we're letting it rip a little bit. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.320 It's a leverage throw where you have to anticipate the 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.440 defenders lean and there might have been a big play 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.200 opportunity there. But there's also something he's shown the ability 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.120 to do plenty of times as well in that anticipation rip, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.360 the reading the leverage of the defender and throwing it accordingly. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.400 We've talked about that YouTube channel with JT. O. Sullivan 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.920 a few times on this podcast, and he goes back 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.120 to the Cardinals game when Gasicki gets behind a linebacker 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.920 and because a linebacker's back is turned to two, he 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.040 knows that in that instance he can only cover the 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.640 width of his shoulders, and so he's done it before, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.480 but it just might be an experienced thing where he 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.880 continues to get more reps and continue to see more 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.760 defenses at this level, which twenty two year old quarterback 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.960 here coming off of an off season where there was 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.600 only virtual meetings and programs. In that type thing. We've 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.040 see him do it in college. We've seen him doing 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.160 it here in the pros. It's literally the least of 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.440 my worries when it comes to this football team, but 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.160 you see those reps kind of start to add up, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.840 and maybe he can begin to create that catalog of 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.240 his own that Ryan Fitzpatrick always refers to. Now, for instance, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.640 a third nine conversion on the second drive of the game, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.800 Jachem runs a little cruel route at the sticks between 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.120 a quad of raiders defenders for defenders in the area, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.560 and you see two US hands separate from the football 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.920 before Jakeem gets to the top of the stem and 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.120 starts coming back down the stem on that curl route. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.400 The anticipation is there, just got to do it more consistently, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.320 and Las Vegas often wroth late in the formation or 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.080 late at the snap in this game to what ultimately 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.840 got them into what I think was covered too. I 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.080 don't know their defense, but you see the cornerbacks play 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.680 up tight, turn the receiver deep, and the two safeties 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.760 deep in the middle of the field take half the 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.040 deep half of the field. And there were some instances 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.360 where the receiver will release on a takeoff and got 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.040 turned free with that little ten to fifteen yard pocket 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.720 to rip that turkey whole shot. An area where cover 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.280 two can be beat sometimes and an opportunity for this 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.440 offense take to take advantage of those looks some more 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.520 to us stuff. You're on the second possession, second down 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.200 and ten, the Raiders get a well timed safety blitz, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:09.840 and I like the way to It does so well 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.520 to erase these negative plays and get you into even 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.080 if it's a one yard game like it was on 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.400 this one, to quickly flip the ball out and not 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.880 take that sack. And it was the only option because 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.360 it was looking like it was gonna be a sack 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.240 with a free rusher coming in onto who still was 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.840 not to the top of his drop yet, so he 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.120 doesn't have that twitch to be able to move because 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.840 he's not anticipating getting pressure that early. So you go 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.000 from an eight nine yard lost in that play to 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.400 a one yard game. I also love the quick rip 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.360 and the quick ability to drop the arm angle and 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.400 flip that thing out in a hurry, whether his feet 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.720 are set or not. There was a drag route to 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.360 Jachem Grant on the first field goal drive of the game. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.520 If he catches the football clean, he might have the 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.880 angle on the safety he's outflanked, but had about fifteen 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.360 yards or so to re establish that angle. But we've 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.920 seen what Jachem speed can do to those pursuit angles. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.120 I think maybe he catches that ball clean, he bobbles it, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.080 gets it and gets some yards. But maybe if he 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.040 catches a clean he might have gone the disk. And 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.160 on the very next play, it's an empty package. Raiders 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.320 are ten of them up on the line of scrimmage, 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.320 and all five routes are blanketed, manned up across the board. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.240 And that's what you get when you get man coverage 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.640 opportunities for the quarterback run too, finds a crease, steps up, 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.400 sneaks out and converts on fourth and two. Nice play 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.160 there from the rookie quarterback. And I don't know the 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.960 progressions of the play. I talked about this all time. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.600 I'm just telling you what I think I see, but 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.040 I don't know the actual calls. On the next snap, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.360 he lays one out to Lynn Bowden for six yards. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.800 With a couple of layered routes coming over. You've got 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.160 Linn Bowden coming under the formation for the little quick hitter, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.440 and then Mike Siki running a corner route and he's 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.560 got similar position with leverage on a downfield defensive back 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.560 ten yards deeper than that. Kind of back to that 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.360 first point about experience and seeing more, maybe letting that 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.800 thing fly down feel a little bit more. Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.680 comes into the game. His first pass play to Ford 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.680 was an example of that. Ford gets an outside shoulder 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.120 and fits, lets that thing fly and gets to the 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.120 point of the break with a defender out leveraged such 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.680 a big play in that game, backed up deep in 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.720 your own zone, third down, trailing in the fourth quarter. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.320 Nice player there from Ryan Fitzpatrick. He of course got 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.239 the ball out quickly and did what he does in 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.000 this instance. He's such a good reliever to come off 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.040 the bench when you need a spark on your offense. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.040 He gave it to Miami in this game. But going 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.040 back to to his game, I think there's plenty of 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.760 things you look at in this tape where you say 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.040 that's that's the quarterback we like, that's the quarterback we want. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.600 He's still making these big time reads, getting into correct 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.000 run call run calls at times, and continues to save 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.000 negative plays and make them positive plays, and still does 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.320 not turn the football over barely at all so far 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.119 at this point of his career at the running back position. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.879 Miles Gaskin, what a game this guy had just an 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.199 incredibly smart, instinctive runner that both gets to the correct 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.480 lane and at least the lane that met looks most 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.879 fruitful on certain plays and limited wasted movement, setting up 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.120 blocks before he gets to those points. And this all 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.200 happens in a flash, and it speaks to his feel 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.560 for the game, his smarts, his instincts. He largely avoids 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.280 negative runs as he recognizes and gets away from danger 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.200 to find a spot where he can get away from 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.840 that initial penetration and get north and south when that 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.040 instant penetration does arrive. He is obviously a monster in 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.960 the passing game. His first big rip, a fourteen yard 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.199 play he's pressing at play side, winds it backside, and 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.360 before he gets to the whole he throws a little 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.280 jab step that moves a linebacker over the top of 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.400 a Robert Hunt's second level block, and that simultaneous first 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.320 and seven second level block action just sets them up 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.400 for big runs and big gashes in the ground game. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.240 Love Miles Gaskin's tape. The touchdown on the screen pass 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.960 running through two tackles just a stroke of genius, a 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.080 nose for the goal line, and also a very nice 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.520 ball fake and quick flip by two on that play 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.679 to drop the arm angle and get that football to 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.200 him quickly immediately so he can make those guys miss. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.600