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Speaker 1: we peeled the curtain back with the All twenty two
Speaker 1: review from Sunday's loss at San Francisco. Will revisit the
Speaker 1: key numbers, the snap counts, what worked, what didn't, and
Speaker 1: here from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday evening
Speaker 1: press conference. All of that and more from the Baptist
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Speaker 1: d All twenty two review and we kick it off
Speaker 1: as we do every single Tuesday here with the offense,
Speaker 1: and I think this week I'm just gonna go in
Speaker 1: chronological order of the plays that I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about instead of going player by player, because this tape
Speaker 1: it frustrated the crap out of me. And it sure
Speaker 1: started with the bank. It was fun out the gate,
Speaker 1: seventy five yards out the gate in fact, and to
Speaker 1: what talked about the play, and you'll see Tyreek he'll
Speaker 1: go in motion and the Niners they don't react, they
Speaker 1: don't follow him. So then he returns in motion or
Speaker 1: I should say, goes and return motion back to the
Speaker 1: original side. And again twas recall every single week blows
Speaker 1: us away on the postgame show and me personally here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. He mentioned the Niners bringing pressure off
Speaker 1: that edge with Dre Greenlaw showing pressure at the snap
Speaker 1: to us sees it. And here's the craziest part. This
Speaker 1: Dolphin's offense has generated false steps from posing linebackers all
Speaker 1: year long to create those gaps in the intermediate middle
Speaker 1: part of the field. Warner doesn't even fall step here.
Speaker 1: You do see Telenoah who fongo widen and essentially cover
Speaker 1: the same portion the corner. Trevarious Ward is covering Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill and two pulls the ball right out of the
Speaker 1: belly of the back and rips it right before Warner
Speaker 1: can get over the top. It's a really bad angle
Speaker 1: from there from that post safety and then Trent just
Speaker 1: outruns everybody. Kind of had us thinking it would go
Speaker 1: that way all days. The flow action of the play
Speaker 1: really wash that Niners rushed down and took him out
Speaker 1: of the play with a scheme. Between that and the
Speaker 1: quick trigger, it looked like it was gonna be a
Speaker 1: great day. But of course we knew that would not continue,
Speaker 1: or should say, we know now with hindsight that would
Speaker 1: not continue. And look, some of you are not gonna
Speaker 1: want to hear this, and we'll acknowledge the plays where
Speaker 1: Miami left the meat on the bone. But the Niners
Speaker 1: are good, man. This defense is really really good. And
Speaker 1: still contend that all things equal, nothing can stopped a polished,
Speaker 1: perfect offense in today's NFL. But that's not what Miami
Speaker 1: was on this particular day. Even on some place where
Speaker 1: it looked like it was going to go that way,
Speaker 1: the Niners defense just rose up and made some plays.
Speaker 1: On the second series after the Sutfield touchdown, you see
Speaker 1: them get a run stuff where they shoot a gap
Speaker 1: vacated by a polling guard, then get an effort play
Speaker 1: swimming over the top of a block at the left
Speaker 1: tackle position. Just nothing fundamentally wrong with the call or
Speaker 1: the execution. The Niners just had two guys make a
Speaker 1: play on that run. On the very next play, a
Speaker 1: Fred Warner pass breakup on a ball over the middle
Speaker 1: of Trent shut field. This play was elite processing from
Speaker 1: the best off ball linebacker in the NFL. He passes
Speaker 1: Tyreek off to the safety and the Dolphins are in
Speaker 1: trips with a nasty bunch that means a bunch of receivers,
Speaker 1: three of them in trips close to the right tackle
Speaker 1: to the wide side of the field, the field side
Speaker 1: of the formation, and you see Fred Warner loc eight
Speaker 1: Tyreek after originally seeing Durham Smyth in that trips stay
Speaker 1: in as he did most of the game to help
Speaker 1: on Nick Bosa, and so he processes, Okay, he's in,
Speaker 1: I've got two guys that contend with and while he's
Speaker 1: getting depth, he carries Tyreek seven yards and carries him
Speaker 1: up to the safety before passing him off and then
Speaker 1: instantly locates Trent Sherfield coming in off of that clear
Speaker 1: out route from Tyreek Hill, flattens back out and gets
Speaker 1: to his landmark at twelve yards and gets a finger
Speaker 1: on the football. If that's not Fred Warner right there,
Speaker 1: and maybe like two other linebackers in the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: probably at least a twenty yard reception, and it's probably
Speaker 1: one mistackle away from going right back to the dwelling
Speaker 1: seventy two yards down the field. I just don't think
Speaker 1: we can be upset about that. It's good on good.
Speaker 1: We get him on the first play of the game.
Speaker 1: They get us here for the past breakup and the
Speaker 1: big stop. Also, the ball had to come out when
Speaker 1: it did because Bosa somehow stays on his feet after
Speaker 1: a really wicked chip knocked him off balance from or
Speaker 1: I'm smythe But then he like turns it into the
Speaker 1: spin move back inside and actually propelled him right into
Speaker 1: two's laps. So just Warner and Bosa made plays all
Speaker 1: game long for this Niners defense. In fact, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys up front to the very first play of
Speaker 1: the next drive is another good example of how well
Speaker 1: coached this Niners defense is. Usually you see players react
Speaker 1: right at the snap, and if you go to the
Speaker 1: tight shot of this Jeff Wilson's only rush of the
Speaker 1: entire day, by the way, the opening play of the
Speaker 1: third drive, they don't move initially, but then like this
Speaker 1: beat after the snap, you see fifty four, fifty seven,
Speaker 1: and fifty one all move at the exact same time.
Speaker 1: They key it as quick as you can, and then
Speaker 1: fifty one closes down for the stop on the back side.
Speaker 1: The deal with the run game all day was pretty consistent.
Speaker 1: And what was wrong with it? They kept shooting gaps,
Speaker 1: in particular the B gaps. They were knifing into the
Speaker 1: B gaps and causing disruption against pulling guards, against some
Speaker 1: of the reach blocks that Connor Williams wants to hit,
Speaker 1: and we just couldn't protect those inside post a tackle
Speaker 1: positions frequently, if at all. And you would see throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the game nine all making plays at
Speaker 1: various junctures, just shooting the gaps, getting up field that
Speaker 1: Chris kusaick upfield one gap penetration style. You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about it in the preview. Could the Dolphins be
Speaker 1: the first ones off the ball and to gate that
Speaker 1: action against them? They made it tough on the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line doing that, and it made the run
Speaker 1: game really non existent throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 1: So that was a tough thing to overcome. And we
Speaker 1: heard to a talk about the angles and the communications
Speaker 1: being off on some of the throws. Man. There was
Speaker 1: a second and seventh throw on the third possession where
Speaker 1: another chance goes by the boards. Two A gets a
Speaker 1: clean pocket on a play that's well covered down field
Speaker 1: and it's actually like flow to Ingold for a screen
Speaker 1: and then two men down field and one of those
Speaker 1: guys is Tyreek and they're covered originally, which has to
Speaker 1: kind of scrambling within the pocket, and you see Tyreek
Speaker 1: run to the post and man, he might have a
Speaker 1: long touchdown there, and it looked like to a coming
Speaker 1: up off the pressure from nick Bosa once again off
Speaker 1: that right tackle. Uh to A hitches up and it
Speaker 1: looks like he can load up for a deep shot
Speaker 1: to Tyreek, kind of running against a similar defense that
Speaker 1: we saw on the touchdown against a vacated post there
Speaker 1: with outside leverage and Tyreek running to space there, but
Speaker 1: he chooses not to go in that direction and he
Speaker 1: pulls it back down and scrambles further, and then Waddle
Speaker 1: comes across the field on this like delayed over route
Speaker 1: into this pocket of of space away from the hook
Speaker 1: zone where you have a linebacker kind of camping out
Speaker 1: waiting to pick him up. But Jalen outruns that and
Speaker 1: takes his right his route right down the line at
Speaker 1: the forty yard line. To A throws it from his
Speaker 1: own twenty three and the ball goes to a location
Speaker 1: like upfield, where if Jalen had angled his route upfield,
Speaker 1: he might catch it and go the distance. So where
Speaker 1: where he was and the where the ball that to
Speaker 1: a tungle by Lowa through just we're not on the
Speaker 1: same page. It's a good opportunity for a correction and
Speaker 1: to get better from that one. But you know, I
Speaker 1: wonder what the thinking was there on that play, because
Speaker 1: one guy was thinking one thing, one guy was thinking
Speaker 1: the other. And that was the case a few times,
Speaker 1: and it was costly in this game. The next play
Speaker 1: is either a bad ball or another instance of just
Speaker 1: not being on the same page. Wattle runs his hook
Speaker 1: up route five yards beyond the sticks and the ball
Speaker 1: short hops him. It's really good timing anticipation because to
Speaker 1: A throws it into this pocket again, this vacant space
Speaker 1: of grass before Waddle comes out of the break, and
Speaker 1: by the time the ball is there, the pockets open.
Speaker 1: That's like threading tight windows with anticipation. Has been to
Speaker 1: his game, his entire life, and he does it here
Speaker 1: and they've been connecting that play all year long. But
Speaker 1: because Waddle is five yards beyond the stick, the ball
Speaker 1: short hops him. Now I can't tell you who if
Speaker 1: Wattle should have been closer, or if two should have
Speaker 1: thrown it further. Either way, they're not on the same page,
Speaker 1: almost back to back place, and it basically shut down
Speaker 1: a drive. So it's it's costly, very frustrating. And Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt had a really good rep on Nick Bosa with
Speaker 1: an inside spin move on that play from a three
Speaker 1: tech pass rush position. He also had a second level
Speaker 1: block pulling from the backside where he wiped out green
Speaker 1: Law earlier in the second quarter to so some fun
Speaker 1: stuff here from Rob Hunt on this particular tape for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. On the very next drive, another crossing
Speaker 1: route to Waddle that we cannot find a hook up on,
Speaker 1: and once again there's Fred Warner falling fifteen yards back
Speaker 1: into the hook zone. You just don't see middle linebackers,
Speaker 1: off ball linebackers getting that kind of depth. And then
Speaker 1: with his length and athleticism to to leap and use
Speaker 1: those long arms, man, he really impacts a significant window
Speaker 1: on those throws. And he does it here, And I
Speaker 1: wonder if Waddle could have run under this particular one
Speaker 1: opposed to jumping and kind of doing that acrobatic purouette
Speaker 1: spinning back for the football, kind of like the long
Speaker 1: ball that drew the defensive past interference in Chicago. Now
Speaker 1: it would have required an adjustment, so it's tough, but
Speaker 1: the ball did get through there, and you all know.
Speaker 1: I think Waddle is like damn near a perfect player.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best receivers in the
Speaker 1: d FELL top five. But I think this is a
Speaker 1: good learning tape to maybe not high point everything, maybe
Speaker 1: don't go up for everything and try to adjust and
Speaker 1: keep your feet on the ground, or at least time
Speaker 1: those leaps a little bit better, because he's been getting
Speaker 1: airborne just a little bit too early when when I
Speaker 1: don't think he necessarily has to do that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's a tape to watch and hopefully correct.
Speaker 1: I I trust they will, because it was just very
Speaker 1: un characteristic throughout the course of this game for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense. Had a really nice rip to Durham Smythe
Speaker 1: on the next possession, who hangs on through a big
Speaker 1: hit two opens the window by pumping hard to the
Speaker 1: flat and then bringing it right back on time and
Speaker 1: throwing the ball before Durham even crossed his face on
Speaker 1: Fred Warner over the middle of the field. So there
Speaker 1: were some big time, tight window anticipation throws we've we've
Speaker 1: grown so used to seeing. This year, it just wasn't
Speaker 1: as frequent as you're used to, and of course the
Speaker 1: picks will give you a bad, you know, feeling about
Speaker 1: the game. But I thought that some of those miscommunications
Speaker 1: and overthrows a couple on to it. But I think
Speaker 1: a couple of those as well were just him putting
Speaker 1: the ball in the spot where he thought his guy
Speaker 1: would be and his guy wasn't there. Also, on that
Speaker 1: throw to Durham Smith a fantastic rush game pick up
Speaker 1: between the interior three, Rob Robin Connor. Uh. Those three guys, man,
Speaker 1: they've really settled into a good trio. On the interior.
Speaker 1: Next player get Alec Ingle drop and it just seemed
Speaker 1: like every other play it was something man that would
Speaker 1: have been good for a first down, and those negative
Speaker 1: plays or plays you don't make. I should say the Niners,
Speaker 1: you know, defensively, it's it's like a great baseball team,
Speaker 1: a great basketball team, like don't give him four outs
Speaker 1: to work with, don't give him an extra offensive possession
Speaker 1: off of an offensive rebound, and by dropping a pass
Speaker 1: and turning you know, potential first and ten to second
Speaker 1: and ten, those things will add up. And it just
Speaker 1: happened too frequently in this game, like on this alec
Speaker 1: Ingold play, the location on the very next play, on
Speaker 1: the tyreek Hill back shoulder throw, the one handed catch,
Speaker 1: you just can't defend that. What a play. It was,
Speaker 1: coming in motion at the snap and throwing it against
Speaker 1: the outflanked corner, chasing Tyreeke and man coverage across the formation.
Speaker 1: He's not going to be into the spot, so let's
Speaker 1: catched the snap and throw it right on that back shoulder.
Speaker 1: I think there was a little bit of an opportunity
Speaker 1: for an adjustment from Miami here going forward, because on
Speaker 1: those plays, a little wheel routes where to it catches
Speaker 1: rocks and throws it if we can like shut those
Speaker 1: down and just run hitches and comebacks and back shoulders
Speaker 1: and not carry that route up field. Those corners are
Speaker 1: bailing all the way out. It was consistent in this game,
Speaker 1: and it helped them take away some of the shots
Speaker 1: we had down the field. I think throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this game, there was a running play, you know,
Speaker 1: that action where two kind of turns his back to
Speaker 1: the defense and puts the ball behind him and hides
Speaker 1: it on play action, but sometimes gives it on the
Speaker 1: sweeping run. There was an outside run by Raheem most
Speaker 1: where I thought he should have pressed that all the
Speaker 1: way outside and stretched it outside, but he cut it
Speaker 1: back inside. It was a little bit too slow to
Speaker 1: make the cut and Dre Greenlow cut him down for
Speaker 1: like no gain. Also on that play, Tyreek and great
Speaker 1: little miss key blocks that could have helped sprung him.
Speaker 1: Just was things like that all throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game. And oh man, we might have had Wattle
Speaker 1: for a touchdown on the field gold drive late in
Speaker 1: the first half as well. There's a short pass to
Speaker 1: Ingold where he's the third catch of the drive for
Speaker 1: alec Ingold and Waddles coming across another one of those
Speaker 1: over routes and two just did not see him. I
Speaker 1: think it was a high degree of difficulty on the throw,
Speaker 1: but he's made that throw all year long. Kind of
Speaker 1: like again, going back to the Chicago game, that touchdown
Speaker 1: passed you through to Waddle, where Waddle came back and
Speaker 1: undercut the defensive back to make the touchdown catch there
Speaker 1: later on a drive the Niners had on that same drive,
Speaker 1: Niners had twelve men on the field on third and
Speaker 1: one on the sack before that field goal, and we
Speaker 1: motion opposed to calling a play or to snap in
Speaker 1: the football. If you just snap it and throw it
Speaker 1: away would have been an easy first down, but we
Speaker 1: let the Niers defense get off the field, and on
Speaker 1: that play, man Jeff Wilson had a rough rep. He
Speaker 1: takes his first step out wide, and that was all
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa needed to get back inside to get to
Speaker 1: to a because if he had any sort of time,
Speaker 1: once again, Waddle is coming open across the field to
Speaker 1: that pylon in the front part of the end zone
Speaker 1: for what could have been an open shot for six.
Speaker 1: It could have been as simple as just like standing
Speaker 1: the way and basically seal off boasts Ah and allowed
Speaker 1: to it to roll around you. Even if Botha has
Speaker 1: to run through Jeff Wilson on that play like it
Speaker 1: still would have been an effective block. We just needed
Speaker 1: a speed bump and it wasn't even that, and it
Speaker 1: allows Bosa to end the drive. The frustration continues. Then, gosh, man,
Speaker 1: that missed to Wilson. The deep shot to Wilson. Really
Speaker 1: that one really really hurt. They wind up getting him
Speaker 1: on a little wheel route against green Law with Waddle
Speaker 1: running the safety completely out of the play to the
Speaker 1: post and to us, timing could not have been better.
Speaker 1: The past protection on that play was was really good.
Speaker 1: And the ball meets Wilson twenty yards downfield with the
Speaker 1: nearest defender five yards behind Wilson. But we can't connect.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's in the right, who's in the
Speaker 1: wrong there. We're not gonna speculately on that one, but
Speaker 1: it looked like the ball drifted outside a little bit
Speaker 1: for where Wilson was headed. That one hurt the most
Speaker 1: very next play to A tries Craycraft, but he's covered well.
Speaker 1: And on this play, Tyreek comes open in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field and he should have thrown that one
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill toobody couldn't get the football to him
Speaker 1: because they turned him free from the backs out of
Speaker 1: the formation and Fred Warner was chasing to keep up.
Speaker 1: But that's obviously tough for anybody to do, especially a
Speaker 1: linebacker against Tyreek Hill. Next drive, we get a deep
Speaker 1: dig to Tyreek Hill open again and this throws two highs.
Speaker 1: This is one of the two was Mrs Man. We
Speaker 1: had what two dred and seventy five yards passing It
Speaker 1: could have been four hundred in this game, and and
Speaker 1: watching it back, you get a sense for why to
Speaker 1: us says this game sucks. Have we had a chance
Speaker 1: to kind of show the world what was going on
Speaker 1: with us and the opportunities were there? I think in
Speaker 1: another universe this game is a thirty three seven team
Speaker 1: win for the Dolphins and two has four hundred yards
Speaker 1: passing and three touchdowns And we feel much differently today,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. Chance to get better.
Speaker 1: We discuss, you know, going back to some of the positives,
Speaker 1: nuance and intricacies on this podcast. A lot with the
Speaker 1: quarterback position and the ball handling, the play action fakes,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. It creates the need for a lot
Speaker 1: of different setups and different footwork for the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And that's a prelude to me saying that the comeback
Speaker 1: route where Bosa got flagged for roughing the passer, that
Speaker 1: was a great throw by two a tongue by Loa.
Speaker 1: He's getting his feet right after Ingold and Williams collide
Speaker 1: in the backfield, so he has to make this flat
Speaker 1: foot and the throw because he has to get away
Speaker 1: from pressure and kind of get his feet aligned with
Speaker 1: his progression, reads to the front side of the formation
Speaker 1: and come backside, and he layers this beautiful throw flat footed,
Speaker 1: really between three Niners defenders, and a great job by
Speaker 1: Tyreek to run the route to depth, press the safety
Speaker 1: and come back and make a tough catch. It's a
Speaker 1: thirty yard air throw from the far hash, flat footed
Speaker 1: and he peppers it out there. The first interception was
Speaker 1: threefold and a microcosm of the entire day. Uh Auric
Speaker 1: Armstead gets a good pass rush on Rob Hunt and
Speaker 1: is bearing down on to A and his first and
Speaker 1: twenty five, so you're right on the fringe of field
Speaker 1: goal range. After you know the holding call on the
Speaker 1: Raheem Moster play took away a first and ten from
Speaker 1: the thirteen yard line. Now it's first and twenty five
Speaker 1: from like the forty two yard line or forty three
Speaker 1: yard line, so I think two will probably pressed on
Speaker 1: that play a little bit, but even still I don't.
Speaker 1: The receiver falling down is why that ball got picked off. Now,
Speaker 1: Tyreek was opened down field, but it's not doable because
Speaker 1: Arms said gets pressure beating rob Hunt inside pretty quickly
Speaker 1: with the red jersey into his face. He can't step
Speaker 1: into that throw, so he slides and throws an off
Speaker 1: platform ball. And it might look like a rushed or
Speaker 1: panic decision, but the ball is right where it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Wilson just slipped and fell out to the ground.
Speaker 1: That's really all it was. So a rough sequence fall start,
Speaker 1: twenty yard run negated by a hold, and then a
Speaker 1: breakdown and pass pro and a kind of off platform
Speaker 1: throw and a receiver falling down leads to a big
Speaker 1: play for the Niners. It was just that kind of day.
Speaker 1: Then the second interception just the most unto alike throw
Speaker 1: I've ever seen from him his entire career. I didn't
Speaker 1: see one of these balls on tape in college, not
Speaker 1: as a pro here at the Miami Dolphins. Tyreek runs
Speaker 1: a delayed speed out route with two of rolling his way.
Speaker 1: It's as pitch and catches. We've seen the corners five
Speaker 1: yards off lay up for a throw and he missed it.
Speaker 1: He missed it high and behind and it gets tipped
Speaker 1: up and picked off. I don't think you'll see him
Speaker 1: do that again, like he never has. And if he
Speaker 1: does it again, I'd be I'd be absolutely floored. I'm
Speaker 1: floored that he did at one time. What I love, though,
Speaker 1: is how deflating that moment it felt. And with the
Speaker 1: defense getting a huge stand right there and a long
Speaker 1: just a field goal on the opposite side of that interception,
Speaker 1: the offense comes right back and it's three completions back
Speaker 1: to back to back, including a nice chunk on a
Speaker 1: rip to Tyreek to put us at the plus forty
Speaker 1: five yard line, and then the big strike, a very
Speaker 1: subtle hitch and pump pulls who fonga the middle of
Speaker 1: the field safety out of the post, closing down on
Speaker 1: the sherefield over route and from there it's Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: and a foot race with char various ward and there
Speaker 1: is not a human on earth and football pads. I
Speaker 1: like to beat Tyrek and a foot race ball is
Speaker 1: perfect cruise in for six. The best part about this
Speaker 1: to us hands separate when Tyreek is the twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard line and Ward still is on top. He's at
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line, but he's outside leveraged and with
Speaker 1: the ball going back inside and descends at the six
Speaker 1: yard line. Ward is still behind it at the four
Speaker 1: yard line, but he's on the hash and tyreeks directly
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, so he's basically got
Speaker 1: him stemmed and stacked the entire way. Cruise in. Good
Speaker 1: job bleeding reever leverage, good job reading who Fonga, squatting
Speaker 1: and driving and then low hating the ball perfectly to
Speaker 1: Tyreek to run under it for a big touchdown. Really
Speaker 1: good job against the four man rushed too, as Durham
Speaker 1: Smith had a great chip on Nick Bosa on that play.
Speaker 1: The third down throw to Surefield that was overturned was
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty, throwing against leverage with anticipation, great location,
Speaker 1: gotta finish the catch, and then appreciation of Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: for hanging on through the contact on that fourth down conversion, which,
Speaker 1: by the way McDaniel mentioned it was a great place
Speaker 1: or a play call he felt great about alec ingolds open.
Speaker 1: Probably could have ran it for a first down. And
Speaker 1: if Twa pumps that to Tyreek and he had time
Speaker 1: to do it and the corner on the outside squatted,
Speaker 1: he would have had Mike Kaski probably on a touchdown
Speaker 1: if he throws up over the top. Just that kind
Speaker 1: of day. Man. I'm not gonna fault the quarterback for
Speaker 1: taking a first down and fourth down, but he might
Speaker 1: have had a big play if he had gone hunting
Speaker 1: for it there. Then he has a nice location throwing
Speaker 1: a quick pop to Crai Craft, kind of like that
Speaker 1: throw to Tyreek on the game winning drive against Baltimore
Speaker 1: where he runs to a space and to just catch
Speaker 1: rock throw and puts it into a space and he
Speaker 1: kind of goes up and catches it off his frame.
Speaker 1: Good catch there by River Crai Craft. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: on the first down most it run. Just a few
Speaker 1: plays later, Rob Jones had an awesome wipe out block
Speaker 1: coming across the formation on Nick bosa Um. And then
Speaker 1: we get to the Mike Kasiki ball. The ball is
Speaker 1: just a hair outside. I think if it's wider, it's
Speaker 1: a completion. But that wasn't the case. It stinks, man,
Speaker 1: it was the right call, but I think we had
Speaker 1: that and I was just so confident. They go down
Speaker 1: and score after that conversion, but the wheels fall off
Speaker 1: from there. It's a frustrating tape. Had every chance to
Speaker 1: make it six straight wins, lots of yards left on
Speaker 1: the field, did not execute enough to make it a
Speaker 1: game late. But I think this is a good tape
Speaker 1: to learn from, and one they'll feel like they could
Speaker 1: have had with just two or three more plays. But
Speaker 1: that's the league, man, and that's how this game goes.
Speaker 1: A quarterback I didn't think played very well. I don't
Speaker 1: think we got him to help when he could have
Speaker 1: used it. Run game didn't do anything, and some of
Speaker 1: the executions on doubles and chips and handling of Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa was not good enough. Pressure was a little bit
Speaker 1: too frequent at times, although for the most part it
Speaker 1: was good. But the running game some inside post give
Speaker 1: ups from the offensive line, some drops, and some miscommunications.
Speaker 1: I think this game is the anomaly, not the norm.
Speaker 1: Trash to tape. Move on, Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: the defense. But first before let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break on the Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We made
Speaker 1: it through the offensive tape. Let's go ahead and buzz
Speaker 1: through the defensive tape before we get to the stats.
Speaker 1: As the Dolphins fall thirty three seventeen to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco four Niners, eight and four on the season. Again,
Speaker 1: everything right out in front of the Miami Dolphins on
Speaker 1: this defensive tape, I thought it was pretty clear that
Speaker 1: the directive, regardless of the quarterback was to shut down
Speaker 1: the running game. Even on that opening drive with Jimmy
Speaker 1: g I thought a lot of plays where you wound
Speaker 1: up with press man free looks with Javon as the
Speaker 1: free safety into the post, and even taking matchups like
Speaker 1: linebackers on Christian McCaffrey flexed out wide because they wanted
Speaker 1: to beat gap sound and add extra guys to those
Speaker 1: extra gaps. As the Niners create those extra gaps, like
Speaker 1: we talked about on the Thursday preview podcast, they run
Speaker 1: a ton of formations and will add extra offensive lineman
Speaker 1: off of those varied formations. So you saw safe he's
Speaker 1: coming down into the box. You saw linebackers mugged up.
Speaker 1: I liked Miami's plan to make sure they were never
Speaker 1: light in the box in that way. It did bite
Speaker 1: Miami a couple of times in the passing game because
Speaker 1: you get you know, McCaffrey on a linebacker and he
Speaker 1: led to a couple of big plays. Two third down
Speaker 1: conversions and that big play on the opening drive and
Speaker 1: one on one coverage against linebackers. There was a good
Speaker 1: mix of coverage out the course of the game. We
Speaker 1: saw plenty of man man free, man free that converted
Speaker 1: to cover zero with Holland you know, buzzing down on
Speaker 1: this angle route by Christian McCaffrey, and man if Purty
Speaker 1: throws that one, it's a pick six the other way.
Speaker 1: I even saw one inverted two looks, so plenty of
Speaker 1: zone man looks to skies. I did think Party made
Speaker 1: some really nice throws man, like the touchdown to Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Really good timing and feel on that one. I can't
Speaker 1: say you normally expect that from a rookie Mr Irrelevant
Speaker 1: no less coming off the bench and his first action
Speaker 1: of the season. Also a really smart offensive staff over
Speaker 1: there in San Francisco, right, stuff like the tunnel screen
Speaker 1: to McCaffrey before that touchdown catch where Miami's walked up
Speaker 1: that pressure look and they just throw it right away
Speaker 1: from the blitz and it kind of gets out the
Speaker 1: back end the other way. Gonna be lots of Zach
Speaker 1: Seiler and Christian Wilkins on this podcast. The very first
Speaker 1: play of the game, Zach rides the wave with Trent
Speaker 1: Williams on outside zone and as they're flowing away, he
Speaker 1: asked to then put his foot in the ground and
Speaker 1: keep williamsplementum going while stopping his own, and he throws
Speaker 1: the future Hall of Fame off at the tackle off
Speaker 1: of him and makes the play along with Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: who beat his block on the other side of the
Speaker 1: formation inside to team up with his best buddy for
Speaker 1: the first of many run stuffs and Christians you know.
Speaker 1: Next play, same drive, stack and shed McGlinchey for a
Speaker 1: tackle at two yards. Next drive, double team gets off
Speaker 1: it and brings down McCaffrey. After a game of three,
Speaker 1: there was a third down conversion on that drive. Christian
Speaker 1: comes off and they hit a twelve yard run with
Speaker 1: that rookie running back the backup I forgot his name,
Speaker 1: bending it back to the backside with no backside contained
Speaker 1: and he checks back in the next play, and then
Speaker 1: it gets right back to the more of the same.
Speaker 1: Like on the Niners third possession, McCaffrey has a bend
Speaker 1: back run and it's just Holland and McCaffrey with fifteen
Speaker 1: yards of green grass and this wide open lane as
Speaker 1: the only man in his path to prevent him from
Speaker 1: the end zone. But there's number ninety four who stops
Speaker 1: his flow, gets off the block and makes the stop
Speaker 1: while McGlinchey is still engaged on the inside shoulder half
Speaker 1: of his body. Some kind of game by number nine.
Speaker 1: He had out there several plays in the backfield, as
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about those here in the third down section.
Speaker 1: Seiler was also just awesome. He ran through a man
Speaker 1: for a tackle for loss on that tripping call on
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram, which was not right call. The next play,
Speaker 1: he has an arm over that just leaves left guard
Speaker 1: flat footed wondering what the heck just happened. Just got
Speaker 1: flashed by uh SAC running by and in a flash,
Speaker 1: I should say, he got a quarterback hit on a
Speaker 1: quick slant. Think about how quick you have to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback to make that happen. His combo sack
Speaker 1: with Van Ginkle was vintage play from both of those guys.
Speaker 1: Seeler sets the pick on Williams and that brings Aaron
Speaker 1: Banks the left guard uh to to Van Ginkl's are
Speaker 1: over to that side, and then Van Ginkl slants right
Speaker 1: and behind that off the pick, and when the guard
Speaker 1: comes back open to try to get Van Ginkle handled,
Speaker 1: he just stays on the inside post and crashes in
Speaker 1: and they both get in there for the sack and
Speaker 1: they draw a holding call on Banks as well. I
Speaker 1: want to just cover the third down plays because I
Speaker 1: thought independently they were basically the key of the game here,
Speaker 1: and this is where the Niners won the game on
Speaker 1: this side of the ball. First one of the game,
Speaker 1: you gets free running mesh on that first third down
Speaker 1: play of the game. If you can't get pressure on
Speaker 1: that mesh concept and they run that drag all the
Speaker 1: way across the field, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: handle that. And that's that's a man coverage look in
Speaker 1: Miami did mix it up more after that. They get
Speaker 1: a sack from a coverage zero look on third and
Speaker 1: six on Jimmy Garoppolo. Maybe we're gonna see more man
Speaker 1: coverage against Garoppolo. Who knows what it would have looked like.
Speaker 1: They wind up bringing four and springs a free runner
Speaker 1: who's Jerome Baker, and everything is bracketed down field, and
Speaker 1: they used defensive tackles dropping into the hook zones in
Speaker 1: this game, something I actually called for in the Thursday
Speaker 1: podcast with Christian Wilkins, this time in the hook zone.
Speaker 1: And it was also a great job on the other
Speaker 1: side of the formation by Jalen Phillips who had a
Speaker 1: one on one situation with McGlinchey and he won his
Speaker 1: pass rush upfield to help him. Garoppolo in to help
Speaker 1: Baker finish that play for the sack there that eventually
Speaker 1: wound up injuring Jimmy Garoppolo. The first Purty drive, third
Speaker 1: and three, McCaffrey one on one against Duke Riley runs
Speaker 1: a jerk route. It's an easy first down. You're that's
Speaker 1: not a good matchup. Defensive passion interference on Katerko who
Speaker 1: let me just say this, this game was not decided
Speaker 1: by officiating, but this one I thought. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a bad call because or just that it was
Speaker 1: an unfortunate call because it looked like Miami had pretty
Speaker 1: dead to rights. Everybody's plastered up on the original rollout,
Speaker 1: all covered up on the back side of the play.
Speaker 1: He puts his foot in the ground and commits the
Speaker 1: cardinal sin throws it late back over the middle and
Speaker 1: not just that, Yuke's running away from him the other
Speaker 1: direction and Cater sees it follows it. Now, if Kater
Speaker 1: got his eyes back and recognized that this ball is
Speaker 1: gonna float because he's kind of drifting from the throw,
Speaker 1: probably could have picked it off. But the reason the
Speaker 1: flag comes out is because Kater is playing the man.
Speaker 1: But I thought his timing was good. He put his
Speaker 1: hand between a yuks to separate them. He just came
Speaker 1: back to the ball and so the contact was attacked early.
Speaker 1: But I thought very good coverage and a really bad
Speaker 1: break there for Kator. Co who third and two? After that,
Speaker 1: guess who? Christian Wilkins wins with quickness and gets to
Speaker 1: tackle for loss. That brings out the punt team third
Speaker 1: and five. In the next possession, they try a quick
Speaker 1: flat to Deebo Samuel, but Keian cross and just reads
Speaker 1: it the whole way and puts his hand the football
Speaker 1: for a pass breakup It's looking really good the majority
Speaker 1: of that first half until we get to that drive
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, and on the
Speaker 1: third and ten after that, Van Ginkle and Seiler sack
Speaker 1: zero coverage, walked up seven into the rush, Seiler and
Speaker 1: ray Kwan both back out, Holland comes clean off the edge,
Speaker 1: and Purdy gets a completion short of the sticks. Really
Speaker 1: good job on the back end with Xaving Howard kind
Speaker 1: of playing that sticks zero coverage, keep it in front
Speaker 1: of your seat, in front of you, rally up and tackle.
Speaker 1: He sees it developed and drives forward to make that
Speaker 1: stick on the receiver short of the first down marker.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the best angle by Javon Holland on that pass
Speaker 1: rushing and then that a few times now, which is
Speaker 1: not what we saw from him last season. That allowed
Speaker 1: Pergy to get wide out of that play, and it
Speaker 1: probably cost Miami some field position because I got the
Speaker 1: takeaway after that, but they could have backed him up
Speaker 1: for a punt on their own side of the field.
Speaker 1: But then the way x pays it off on the
Speaker 1: following play after a good play on third down gets
Speaker 1: that pick vintage xaviing Howard one on one to the boundary.
Speaker 1: You know, we put the help of those side of
Speaker 1: the field, so it's X all alone. He presses inside
Speaker 1: hand jam flips the hips, pins you to the sideline,
Speaker 1: stays in phase, locates the ball, makes the play like
Speaker 1: every phase of that route. He won it decisively. There's
Speaker 1: a third and ten on the drive again before the half.
Speaker 1: This is following the X pick. This is a throw
Speaker 1: where I thought Perty arrived. We get a free runner
Speaker 1: off the snap and he throws a seed to Kittle.
Speaker 1: Just impressive as hell. I thought there were several critical
Speaker 1: points of the game that went to the Niners, and
Speaker 1: this was kind of the start of that beginning. There
Speaker 1: was a big one at the end of the half
Speaker 1: as well, at four point play the completion of McCaffrey
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. They created space and pretty read it
Speaker 1: all the way. There's not much more to say about
Speaker 1: it than that we had the shell in the end
Speaker 1: zone and guys were playing pretty deep over the top,
Speaker 1: and rather than making them part of the play seven
Speaker 1: yards deep in the end zone, San Francisco just ran
Speaker 1: their two routes at the closest defenders to create, you know,
Speaker 1: more of a cushion for McCaffrey. I settle that route
Speaker 1: down and he did. Pretty saw it through it right
Speaker 1: on the money touchdown for the Niners four point play
Speaker 1: there to not have a field goal and get a
Speaker 1: touched on out of it. The third and five on
Speaker 1: the opening drive of the second half, they go to
Speaker 1: Jennings for fifteen yards. Pretty does a good job here
Speaker 1: holding the hook backer the way we praised to it
Speaker 1: for doing it, and through it with good timing into
Speaker 1: the window. I would have called you crazy if you
Speaker 1: told me this kid would come off the bench and
Speaker 1: play at this level. He played really well. It's it sucks,
Speaker 1: but he did third and six the same drive Ingram
Speaker 1: wins a dip and ripped, turned the corner and finish
Speaker 1: off a sack because on the other side Bradley chubbed
Speaker 1: into the edge and forced Pretty to double back. I
Speaker 1: thought there was a lot of examples of that where
Speaker 1: two guys would win, where Pretty tried to change directions
Speaker 1: and get to a different part of the pocket. But
Speaker 1: we had one that side of the pass brush as well.
Speaker 1: You get a third and three on the next drive,
Speaker 1: and this is where I just didn't know Pretty could
Speaker 1: do this stuff. We get a free run with a
Speaker 1: delayed Duke Riley Blitz Pretty wheels out against a zero look,
Speaker 1: and McCaffrey takes his route wide after faking the run
Speaker 1: inside and then angling back to the perimeter, and Pretty,
Speaker 1: against his body with three defenders bearing down, whips it
Speaker 1: out to turn a fourth and long potentially outside of
Speaker 1: field goal range, into fourth and one from the twenty five,
Speaker 1: which they would convert on the sneak. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the effort on that fourth and one sneak, that's not
Speaker 1: that's not this team. Man Seiler did a great job
Speaker 1: of stacking that up and really making the play. But
Speaker 1: we had guys standing around just watching the play and
Speaker 1: allowed Pretty to make the second effort and get the
Speaker 1: first down. That's gonna be I'm sure a chewe job
Speaker 1: on the tape. Third and fourteen, good pursuit to get
Speaker 1: a yuke down on a screen. Here comes the field
Speaker 1: goal team to keep it UH twenty to ten, and
Speaker 1: then we get the short field and a quick change
Speaker 1: third and five right away after a great Row pass
Speaker 1: break up on a Christian McCaffrey throw. Then you get
Speaker 1: Row and Holland carrying deep routes into the endz on
Speaker 1: third and five. It forces Purty to check it down.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker comes up and makes a tackle, so it
Speaker 1: stays twenty three ten stays a two score game after
Speaker 1: that bad pick from Tah Then another critical one here
Speaker 1: third and three on our own forty two seventeen game
Speaker 1: after the touchdown pass to tyreek Hill eleven forty five
Speaker 1: to go, they tried this rub and wheel route, but
Speaker 1: it gets congested and eventually opens up. But by the
Speaker 1: time it does, Phillips's pass rush had one and it
Speaker 1: put a hit on Purty and forced the throw to
Speaker 1: be errant. Then on the final one, the final key
Speaker 1: third down of the game, third and one, nice play
Speaker 1: action boot to get kindled one on one coverage against
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, Purty hits some first down and they would
Speaker 1: get that big McCaffrey run a couple of plays later.
Speaker 1: That was it. The first down run kind of put
Speaker 1: it out of reach. Williams had a great block, taking
Speaker 1: advantage of our assiveness where he got Seiler to the
Speaker 1: ground like threw him down, and that opened up that
Speaker 1: big bend back lane for Christian McCaffrey to find it
Speaker 1: and get thirty yards and put them into field goal range.
Speaker 1: To go up by two scores. Some more individual notes here.
Speaker 1: I thought a land and Roberts had some moments, some
Speaker 1: not so good moments, but he continues a scrape off
Speaker 1: of the stack really well, where you're staying close to
Speaker 1: the bodies and make your hit on the ball carrier.
Speaker 1: I think ray Kwon Davis his pass rush has been
Speaker 1: heating up a little bit. He had this wicked push
Speaker 1: pole rush move where he left the center in the dust,
Speaker 1: got him to the ground and got a quarterback hit
Speaker 1: out of it on an incomplete pass. And I feel
Speaker 1: like for the defense as well. Kind of a similar
Speaker 1: story a day of close but no cigar. I thought
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram had that interception man, but Kittle on the
Speaker 1: first drive of the game does a good job staying
Speaker 1: with the play and batting the football down. Speaking of Ingram,
Speaker 1: the tripping call sucked, and not because I thought it
Speaker 1: was some egregious call, but you see it on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: His cleat gets attached to the offensive line of the
Speaker 1: Niners cleat and it literally pulls his leg back and
Speaker 1: makes it look like he did it on purpose, but
Speaker 1: he didn't. He just got pulled away from it. Turned
Speaker 1: a third and seven into a first down. That's that's
Speaker 1: drive changer man brutal back to close, but no cigar.
Speaker 1: That tipped ball early the third quarter where Justin Zimmers
Speaker 1: the one chasing it. If that's anybody besides like Justin Zimmer,
Speaker 1: it's probably a pick. Just that kind of game man.
Speaker 1: Exaviing Howard's pass breakup on that first pretty touchdown drive
Speaker 1: was really high level stuff. Javon buzzes the crosser and
Speaker 1: flies upfield, and X has to get back underneath Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel after playing outside leverage, and there's nobody in football
Speaker 1: I'd rather have undercutting an inbreaking route than exaviing. Howard
Speaker 1: balls a little bit behind, which I think helped generate
Speaker 1: that contact, but X puts his foot in the ground
Speaker 1: and drives on its textbook play. Really good job covering Samuel.
Speaker 1: I also hated the dp I call on X later
Speaker 1: in the game that ball was uncatchable. I don't like
Speaker 1: it at all. Chubb had some nice stack in shed
Speaker 1: plays in the running game, although him jumping inside on
Speaker 1: that outside Deebo Samuel run on the final drive that
Speaker 1: the final field goal drive to make seen that was
Speaker 1: a critical mistake there at the end of the game
Speaker 1: that gave the Nights a freshet of downs in when
Speaker 1: you could have made a third down to get back
Speaker 1: in the game. I thought John Jenkins had a nice
Speaker 1: game from him as best of the season. Some nice
Speaker 1: to two gap textbook lockout reps thought Van Geko had
Speaker 1: a great edge on the first play of the final drive,
Speaker 1: keeping the outside arm free and strung that play out.
Speaker 1: A couple of miss tackles get the Niro some hidden
Speaker 1: yards in this game. That's what they do. But man,
Speaker 1: they had some chances for some big negatives that were
Speaker 1: undone and brought back to the Lion scrimmage because of
Speaker 1: miss tackles. This is the first game where I think
Speaker 1: I'll take a bit of a Mayakoba on the pressure
Speaker 1: and sack argument. I still think pressures are vitally important,
Speaker 1: but man, we saw the Niners finished sacks of their own,
Speaker 1: and we had chances to do the same thing with
Speaker 1: some good coverage downfield. Just too many plays where pretty
Speaker 1: stood in and learned from a clean pocket. All things told,
Speaker 1: I feel like they had their chances. Even watching the
Speaker 1: tape back, I still find myself saying, man, we could
Speaker 1: have won this game or had this or that, and
Speaker 1: the game goes differently. Tough one to swallow, but you
Speaker 1: move on to the Chargers. I thought they should have
Speaker 1: won this game. I felt that way about all the
Speaker 1: losses so far. I just hope it's not another one
Speaker 1: of those years we go back and look at the
Speaker 1: end of the year and say, man, these one or
Speaker 1: two games I regret the way those finished. Margin for
Speaker 1: air for the division is now gone. The play off
Speaker 1: race gets really interesting if you can't get it right
Speaker 1: in next week. You have to beat the Chargers. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, you beat them to get a two game
Speaker 1: lead on the seven seed, with head to head tiebreakers
Speaker 1: over both teams them and the Patriots, and just four
Speaker 1: games to play after that. So Miami's current playoff odds
Speaker 1: eight percent will go well into the nineties with the
Speaker 1: victory over the Chargers. And of course it makes for
Speaker 1: a big week fift team matchup if you can't get
Speaker 1: that one. So hurry up and get here please. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get some of the stats before
Speaker 1: I spent it forward to coach Mike McDaniels Monday press
Speaker 1: conference to h in this game, just one for five
Speaker 1: on twenty plus yard air throws forty five yards and
Speaker 1: the touchdown to Tyree Hill. He was nine for fifteen
Speaker 1: throwing the intermediate ten to nineteen yard range for two
Speaker 1: d five yards and touchdown. Both picks came on throws
Speaker 1: under ten yards, just five of nine on those throws
Speaker 1: total ten plus yard throws ten for two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: no picks. He was blitzed only three times, one sack,
Speaker 1: one for two passing and seventy five yards and the
Speaker 1: touchdown to Surefield under pressure, three for having thirty eight
Speaker 1: yards and a pick. Three sacks, as well a couple
Speaker 1: of fun data points. His five touchdown throws of forty
Speaker 1: plus yards are second most in the NFL behind Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow six. His seventy five completions of fifteen or more
Speaker 1: yards is the most in the NFL. His season rankings
Speaker 1: through thirteen weeks number one in passer rating, number two
Speaker 1: in total QBR, number one in net yards per attempt
Speaker 1: and yards per attempt and touchdown percentage. He is number
Speaker 1: three and e p A per play behind Mahomes and Alan.
Speaker 1: He is tenth lowest and interception percentage at one point
Speaker 1: six percent, and his four point five percent sack percentage
Speaker 1: is tied for fifth. Tyreek Hill had eleven point two
Speaker 1: yards per target four point to nine yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: Those are still such absurd numbers. A surefield twenty five
Speaker 1: yards per target one catch helped that two point eight
Speaker 1: eight yards per route Ran. Waddle a really uncharacteristic game.
Speaker 1: One point eight yards per target for a guy. Top
Speaker 1: two in the league in yards per target, point four
Speaker 1: five yards per route ran obviously season lows for him.
Speaker 1: Craig Craft caught two of twenty two for twenty nine
Speaker 1: on three targets. That's nine point six seven yards per target,
Speaker 1: great number for him, and one point nine three yards
Speaker 1: per route Ran and Durham caught both of his targets
Speaker 1: for twenty one yards. Tyreek leaves the NFL with ninety
Speaker 1: six catches hundred and seventy nine yards sixty two first
Speaker 1: down catches one hundred and fourteen point nine yards per game,
Speaker 1: is eight and a half yards per game better than
Speaker 1: anybody else, justin Jefferson. He's third in the NFL with
Speaker 1: ten point seven yards per target among receivers with fifty targets.
Speaker 1: Waddle is fifth with nine hundred and seventy two receiving yards.
Speaker 1: His ten point eight yards per target is second in
Speaker 1: football minimum fifty targets. He's eight in the NFL with
Speaker 1: eighty one yards per game and his forties seven first
Speaker 1: down catches our seventh and football. We had one miss
Speaker 1: tackle in the game from our running backs forced. It
Speaker 1: was Jeff Wilson's only carry of the game where he
Speaker 1: most are average two point four three yards after initial contact.
Speaker 1: On seven rush attempts, pressures allowed one to one, one three.
Speaker 1: That's little Jones, Williams, Hunt and Shell so Shell with three,
Speaker 1: Jones with two, the other three had one. Pressure allowed
Speaker 1: just eleven pressures in the game on thirty seven pass
Speaker 1: blocking snaps is a good number. Defensively, Seiler had four pressures,
Speaker 1: Phillips had three, Chub, Holland, Riley and Ingram all had two,
Speaker 1: and six guys had one run stops. I think Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins might had a PFF record for a defensive tackle
Speaker 1: ten ten run stops. He was great. Jerome Baker had five,
Speaker 1: Jenkins had three, Seiler, Campbell, Chubb and e rob all
Speaker 1: had two. Apiece. Six guys had one. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in coverage in this game. Howard forty
Speaker 1: eight coverage snaps fifty nine yards allowed. They were four
Speaker 1: for seven throwing at him with a pick katur Cohu
Speaker 1: forty eight coverage snaps, just thirty six yards allowed, five
Speaker 1: for eight going after him, they tabbed halland with twenty
Speaker 1: three yards allowed on forty five coverage snaps, twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards allowed on forty five coverage snaps from Eric row
Speaker 1: and then Duke Riley had twenty coverage naps sixties seven yards.
Speaker 1: They went after him in the passing game. All right,
Speaker 1: those are your numbers. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break. We'll come back on the other side. Do
Speaker 1: snap counts. And here from head coach Mike McDaniel to
Speaker 1: wrap up this podcast. That's next Drivetown podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis ing Field, brought to you by Auto Nation. A
Speaker 1: couple of news items back in this side of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast for you guys. A Dolphins signed offensive tackle
Speaker 1: Eric Fisher, formerly of the Chiefs and Colts, for number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. He should come in and help as
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson goes back to the injury reserve. Just a
Speaker 1: short season here for Austin Jackson. Sucks to see it,
Speaker 1: but he is gonna be down for some time. Now
Speaker 1: we also get flexed on week fifteen. It gets Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills eight fifteen kickoff on Saturday night in Buffalo. So
Speaker 1: a short week and gon'll be a rough rough go
Speaker 1: there flying all day Monday morning, basically wasting your Monday
Speaker 1: and then coming back and trying to get ready for
Speaker 1: a short week to go back to Buffalo on Friday.
Speaker 1: That is a tall order. Snap counts. Before Mike McDaniels
Speaker 1: Monday press conference, we had the offensive line went why
Speaker 1: are to wy are? Just forty six snaps from those
Speaker 1: guys in the game too, took all but one snap,
Speaker 1: of course Scaler had the other one. We had Tyreek
Speaker 1: thirty nine snaps, Surefield thirty and Waddle played just twenty four,
Speaker 1: so half the game for Waddle fighting through injuries there,
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's gonna be okay. The running back workload goes
Speaker 1: back to Raheem Moster. He had sixty percent of the workload.
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson had thirty seven percent of the workload. Finishing
Speaker 1: up the receiver position there, Cedric Wilson nine snaps. Where
Speaker 1: is River Craikcraft on here? Oh? Twenty snaps River Craikcraft
Speaker 1: and then tight ends Durham Smith twenty seven, Mike Kisicky
Speaker 1: just nine snaps in the game for Gisicky and Tanner.
Speaker 1: Conner played two snaps. On defense, uh three guys went
Speaker 1: the distance, Holland, Cohu and Howard. That's pretty uniform these days.
Speaker 1: That's eighty four snaps. Eric Role played eighty. How about
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins and zax Ei They're both giving you nine
Speaker 1: percent workload. Seventy six snaps for both of those guys insane.
Speaker 1: Also on the defensive line, Ray Kwon Davis gave you
Speaker 1: forty nine. We got twenty six from John Jenkins and
Speaker 1: thirteen from Zimmer. In the linebacker room, Jerome Baker leads
Speaker 1: away for seventy four snaps. That's eight percent. E Rob
Speaker 1: plays fifty six snaps. Phillips played fifty five at sixty
Speaker 1: five percent of the workload. Chubb gave you forty eight,
Speaker 1: Van Ginkal thirty one, Duke Riley thirty. Lots of snaps
Speaker 1: go on here, Melvin Ingram twenty one snaps, and then
Speaker 1: the defensive secondary Eric Rohe played eighty snaps of the workload,
Speaker 1: and then a big drop off from those top four
Speaker 1: guys down to the next one's uh Veron McKinley played
Speaker 1: seven snaps and Elijah Campbell played five in the game.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get to Mike McDaniels Monday press conference.
Speaker 1: A couple of big news items on this Monday. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins signed offensive tackle Eric Fisher. Also got the sun
Speaker 1: the week fifteen game, I should say against the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills flex to Saturday night prime time. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from coach on both of those. But first before that,
Speaker 1: he did update us on Tehran Armstead when he was
Speaker 1: asked about the Eric Fisher signing. He'll tell you about
Speaker 1: that in just one second, but it sounds like torn
Speaker 1: arms so that it has a chance to go on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Chargers. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: coach on that idea and also the signing of Eric Fisher.
Speaker 1: This is something we were working on for uh, it
Speaker 1: seems a couple of weeks. So it was it's more, um,
Speaker 1: you know, with the with the idea that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: our intentions to have our season longer than the regular season.
Speaker 1: In that being um both pretty thin on the roster
Speaker 1: and seeing an opportunity to add a a player of
Speaker 1: high quality with UM with a big time game experience,
Speaker 1: So it wasn't necessarily reactionary to UM Toronto as much
Speaker 1: as it was, you know, trying to uh take advantage
Speaker 1: of there being a player out there on the market
Speaker 1: that can make sure that there you know anything, I'm
Speaker 1: foreseeing UM that we can we can have a high
Speaker 1: quality pay play in the most important time of the year.
Speaker 1: I went ahead and spliced this next question a little
Speaker 1: bit that was posed a coach about how you expressed
Speaker 1: the importance of this game to the team against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: All pretty important, UM, But I thought the way he
Speaker 1: attacked this question was indicative of the feeling around the
Speaker 1: football team about a missed opportunity, one that kind of
Speaker 1: went by the boards, but also the eagerness and the
Speaker 1: I guess ability to respond in a way that's going
Speaker 1: to make Dolphins fans very happy and very proud. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear this from Mike McDaniel, and this
Speaker 1: would be a theme throughout this press conference. You'll hear
Speaker 1: from him when he talked about corrections in the passing
Speaker 1: game later on as well. You can tell he feels
Speaker 1: they missed an opportunity in this game. Here he is
Speaker 1: talking about the importance of the Chargers game and how
Speaker 1: fired up guys are already on a Monday to play
Speaker 1: next Sunday. And the biggest thing is that, you know, guys, really, um,
Speaker 1: I really wanted uh to to try to get the
Speaker 1: victory against a very good opponent in this pass game,
Speaker 1: and um, you know that didn't happen. But we feel
Speaker 1: like there's uh some definite places where we can get
Speaker 1: better from it. And you know, the next game can't
Speaker 1: come fast enough, So UM, guys are eager to get
Speaker 1: started on on the Chargers and you know you you
Speaker 1: you always um try to uh really basque in the
Speaker 1: opportunit you need to play in front of the national audience.
Speaker 1: So I think the team really relishes the opportunity to
Speaker 1: play a good football team and um get get back
Speaker 1: on track after the one week hiatus. And of course
Speaker 1: the question about the Buffalo game getting flexed to Saturday
Speaker 1: night in a short week coming up, which sucks, and
Speaker 1: coach acknowledges that. But here he is talking about that
Speaker 1: short week and the Buffalo game, the quick turnaround, flying
Speaker 1: all day Monday morning, playing a game the following Saturday
Speaker 1: night on the road. Yeah, now that You're right on
Speaker 1: both fronts. Uh. We are very much focused on the charters,
Speaker 1: but there will be an adjustment to the schedule, will
Speaker 1: be somewhere in between what a normal game is and
Speaker 1: what a Thursday night game is, because that is that
Speaker 1: will be a challenge, but that that's something that you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's important across the board for when when
Speaker 1: when we get to that point that that players coaches,
Speaker 1: they take it as as a as a challenge that UM,
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody spend any time feeling sorry for
Speaker 1: themselves and I don't think our team will. UM. Bottom
Speaker 1: line is as we have two opportunities UM to play
Speaker 1: in front of the national audience, UM, something we've been
Speaker 1: building towards for the whole season in terms of how
Speaker 1: we play, UM, but only one of which we can
Speaker 1: really do anything about in the immediate future. So UH
Speaker 1: that it's definitely challenging, but not something that UM anyone's
Speaker 1: going to spend any time feeling sorry for themselves about
Speaker 1: because it's the UH that that's not our decision to make.
Speaker 1: We're UH, We're happy to have the opportunity to play
Speaker 1: in front of our our peers and the national audience
Speaker 1: will do our best to take advantage of that. Two
Speaker 1: more here for coach, as promised the question about corrections
Speaker 1: in the passing game, I think you all are gonna
Speaker 1: love this one. You know, you want to be hitting
Speaker 1: on all cylinders all times. And UM, the thing about
Speaker 1: a passing game as it can be very potent when
Speaker 1: all cylinders are are hitting and I think, UM, there
Speaker 1: you know clearly it wasn't in terms of um our
Speaker 1: completion percentage, the the throwing it to the opposing team
Speaker 1: as opposed to our own team, and um just really
Speaker 1: being as consistent as we we needed to be, and
Speaker 1: that I think, uh, from my estimation, there was as
Speaker 1: I told the team, I thought there was times that
Speaker 1: uh really guys were pressing. There was some sometimes that
Speaker 1: we did have time to um to uh go ahead
Speaker 1: and make a play, and you know, the eligibles got
Speaker 1: their depths and were available in the time of the play,
Speaker 1: and other times that they weren't. UM we kind of
Speaker 1: let plays linger and uh and really overlap to further
Speaker 1: existing place. So these are things that um, from my
Speaker 1: vantage point, are very very correctable that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we needed that um stage, that environment that um,
Speaker 1: you know, one of those things where hey, you have
Speaker 1: a really good team, one of the best units in
Speaker 1: the league that are trying to defend you in a
Speaker 1: certain area and UM really pushing all resources towards it
Speaker 1: and what what you have to do to be able
Speaker 1: to combat that in the level that you have to play.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of guys learned stuff. I
Speaker 1: think guys uh did did learn various things without losing confidence.
Speaker 1: They they were very accountable today, UM, which is which
Speaker 1: is one of the reasons I UM so deeply invested
Speaker 1: and confident in this team and expect expected to look better,
Speaker 1: UM and take a step forward this this next coming week.
Speaker 1: Finishing up here with a question, I asked coach about
Speaker 1: that hustle play from Christian Wilkins, tracking that play down
Speaker 1: from twenty yards down the field, and he gave me
Speaker 1: some cool insight on how this team kind of approaches
Speaker 1: trying to get eligible to stop their feet. Here's coach
Speaker 1: on that hustle play from Christian Wilkins. You know something
Speaker 1: that we've been getting better at during the course of
Speaker 1: the year. It's something that we point out in all
Speaker 1: of our team meetings because it's uh, you know, making
Speaker 1: that's team defense because what happens that happened a little
Speaker 1: further down the field, and we would like it to happen.
Speaker 1: But if you get a uh an eligible to stop
Speaker 1: his feet because you have aggressive tackling UM down the field,
Speaker 1: if that defender or if the offensive player has to
Speaker 1: stop you, really good defenses make them pay and get
Speaker 1: turnovers UM in those type of situations. So that's something
Speaker 1: that as a captain, we've counted on Christian. He's done
Speaker 1: a ton UM during the during the season. I think
Speaker 1: one of the bigger hits of the year came against
Speaker 1: UM Buffalo in a similar situation against Knox, I believe,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the strengths to his game to
Speaker 1: have consistent strain and that that affects UM players. They
Speaker 1: feel it, they hear it, Um, and you know it's
Speaker 1: part of the physicality of our defense that UM. You
Speaker 1: know we we really when we're going at our best. Um,
Speaker 1: there's Uh not just him, but Um the whole deal
Speaker 1: line is able to get get some action chasing the ball.
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Speaker 1: amount of time they were supposed to be when we
Speaker 1: originally began this venture back in I Digress And speaking
Speaker 1: of that, we only have three episodes this week and
Speaker 1: three episodes for y'all next week. And the reason for
Speaker 1: that is because by the next time you hear my voice,
Speaker 1: I will be the proud papa of a second beautiful baby,
Speaker 1: a little boy. No podcast until the Friday preview of
Speaker 1: the Chargers game. No mail bag this week either, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the hospital for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: I'll be back with you guys on Friday and then
Speaker 1: again on Sunday to recap. I will not be doing
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Speaker 1: get a chance to to spend time with a family there.
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