WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Commanders Preseason Week 2 Recap 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on the move, galling deep, speedless Peace doll from 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.120 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's joy my hav 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.440 hands in the playoffs. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.720 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.640 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.760 And then there was just one remaining one preseason game, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.480 that is, but the Dolphins do notch another exhibition win. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.040 They go right down the field on the opening drive. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.760 I'll tell you the things I liked from a general standpoint, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.760 go over the game numbers, hear from some of the guys, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.199 and break down the hits and misses on the night. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.840 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:01:01.800 This is the Draft Time Podcast. This is kind of 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.399 what you get in the preseason, right, A little bit 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.640 of fireworks early on, and then three or so quarters 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.760 of not much, and especially when you get so depleted 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.679 by the numbers that you wind up using a receiver, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.640 a rookie receiver nonetheless, as you're running back throughout most 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.039 of the second half of that game and being down 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.760 to one tight end in the game, previous and just 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.560 being so thin across the board that there's just not 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.920 much you can do from an offensive standpoint, and we 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.200 see teams that aren't that banged up have the same 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.119 number of struggles. But Jakwan Burton, tip of the cap 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.480 to you, sir. You got Seth Levitt's game ball on 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.000 the postgame show for the work you did. We saw 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.040 him on the sideline getting coached up from Eric Studisville 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.679 to go play running back up position that he actually 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:45.720 since high. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.880 School college has never played. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.040 So good for him for getting Miami through a game 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.640 that has to be played through the end of the 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.200 fourth quarter by NFL laws and rules. So that was 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.560 one of the things that most throughout the course of 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.200 the night and a thirteen to six victory for the 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.720 Miami Dolphins. Let's go over the numbers here. We'll talk 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.120 about some general thoughts and some individual evaluations and here 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.120 from TUA and head coach Mike McDaniel. So the Commanders 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.520 had twelve firs first downs to Miami's check that the 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.359 Commanders had seventeen first downs to Miami's twelve. They were 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.880 five for eighteen on third down, Miami just four for fifteen. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.960 The Dolphins did convert two fourth downs, however, both of 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.000 those on the Tua Tunga Bai Lowa drive to kick 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.240 off the game. The Commanders were one for two on 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.160 fourth down. The Commanders did outgain Miami three forty to 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.679 two eighty eight, and that includes two to twenty nine 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.880 through the air one eleven on the ground to Miami's 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.480 two two and eighty six through the air and on 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.720 the ground, respectively. Both teams turned the football over twice. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.000 Both teams had their quarterbacks sacked four times. The Dolphins 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.160 had six fouls for fifty five yards and possessed the 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.120 ball for twenty eight and a half minutes in the game. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.920 So not really worth going through all the stats in 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.000 a game like that, but worth the note of record, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.200 I think in any game that you cover here as 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.440 a podcaster and someone that covers this team. But more importantly, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.480 what these games are for is for the evaluation of 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.600 what you might get in a month from now, or 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.280 check that in three weeks, as when you hear this 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.760 podcast on Sunday morning or sometime on Sunday, you'll be 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.000 three weeks away from the opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.560 And some things that I liked about what I saw 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.320 in this game, just the design on both sides of 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:29.400 the football. I mentioned on the stadium walk and talk portion, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.960 or the second week of doing that walking from my 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.400 car in the parking lot up to the stadium, that 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.960 one of the very best things about this team is 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.080 the ability to scheme things up. And that's offensively and 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.520 defensively and for the offense. I mean and again like 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.120 I love, I love measuring this. It's a little bit 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.960 of tip of the cap to yourself on your own show, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.840 talking to yourself at twelve fifty one am in a 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.160 building where no one's in here, but you know, confirmation 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.080 of some of the things we talked about all camp long. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.000 Devon a chan being you utilized in more of a 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.520 receiving role, catching a pass up the perimeter against cover 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.280 two where he's flexed out and beating cornerbacks and safeties. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:12.080 Tua on the quick RPO pop that can flicts defenders 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.119 in so many ways where his eyes are going one 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.200 way and there's two routes and two positions, and he 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.119 can hold those defenders and manipulate them with his eyes 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.840 and his body position. The deadliness of our quick game 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.640 and John new Smith's incorporation in the quick game with 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.839 the jet motion pop pass or Julian hill on little 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.520 bootleg play action under route, or he catches that thing 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.680 and turns into a runaway truck on the freeway man. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.560 The way we can tilt the field with speed and 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.839 the counter of power to that. You really see the 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.839 areas this team went after this offseason, at least one 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.839 of them to better round out the offense. And truth 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.880 be told, we haven't really seen the next part of 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.440 that with Odell Beckham Junior, except for today we kind 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.120 of did. When Eric Azukama, who has leaping ability, vertical 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.839 threat ability, high pointing ability, all the things that not 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.120 many other guys on this roster feature, he kind of 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.880 gives you some of what OBJ offers in that vertical 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.560 threat in the presence of getting downfield on top of 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.200 having reek and waddle. I think you saw a proof 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.600 of concept in that with Eric Azukama in the game today, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.840 and hopefully he can keep going forward with that performance 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.480 and become a real threat on this team. We'll talk 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.840 about him more in just a second, but outside of 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.920 that vertical threat, the three receiver I mean eight chan 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.559 is a pass receiver and why you draft Jalen Wright 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.160 to give him more opportunities in that role. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.560 John Us Smith, I mean you've seen it now. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.040 I you know, we can't talk about it in training camp, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.680 but orbit motion, return motion, jet motion handoffs. It's doing 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.159 a lot of that stuff I talked about on the 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.080 postgame show. How I you know, you go back to 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.200 twenty twenty one when Mike McDaniel, you know, he was 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.159 a de facto OC slash like Kyle Shanahan's right hand man, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.320 but in twenty twenty one became the actual OC and 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.000 he was the one that was adamant about Deebo Sam 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.920 going from fourteen carries as a rookie to eight carries 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.480 as a sophomore to fifty one carries in this third 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.919 season and his a breakout all Pro fourteen hundred receiving yard, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.880 eight billion touchdowns whatever he scored that year in twenty 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.880 twenty one for the Niners en route to an NFC 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.640 Championship Game appearance. I thought that that was just super 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.640 instructive to what we've seen the John Ruis Smith and 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.080 how he can impact the game and have the flow 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.440 of his motion pre snap or his ability to lap 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.839 in the short screen game and catch balls and break 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.159 tackles off the backside of the formation when it's tilted 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.280 towards Reekan Waddle. It's really impressive. And then where I 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.120 think River Craycraft is right now with his game, I 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.960 think it could all be a glimpse of what's to come. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.360 Because that look you got from Craycraft there, and McDaniel 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.040 talked about the great route that he ran on that play, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.000 the release he had in the play, I should say 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.480 you're going to get that look from anybody that plays 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.520 that position. When you have Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.720 on the field on the opposite side of the field, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.000 they are going to send safety help to the speed 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.160 side and your backside, your boundary. The short side of 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.039 the field is going to be a one on one 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.760 coverage opportunity a lot of the time. And craig Craft 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.920 sells the inside slant, breaks the outside release and gets 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.080 that leverage and stack and makes a beautiful catch over 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.880 the shoulder on a perfect ball from to a tongue 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.840 of Iloa. That was something we didn't have in the 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.600 bag last year, whether it was craig Craft or Barrios 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.720 or Cedrick Wilson. We weren't making those plays last year, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.120 So for Craycraft to get in that position I thought 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.800 was really cool and a really good testament to his skill. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.080 So let's go ahead and hear from Tua Tongue of Iloa, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.040 who touched on where River Craycraft is right now the 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.640 best he's seen of the form Washington State Cougar. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.200 Going on to the third year that I've been able 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.320 to compete with River and see River, I think this 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.400 is probably the best training camp that Rivers had. The 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.520 mental stamina and the mental strength that he has to 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.520 come out every day and really work. I just think 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.360 that's where his growth has come from. A lot is 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:54.440 the mental aspect of it. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.840 And then additionally from this offense, you see the way 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.520 they can manufacture pockets in the short game. The very 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.480 first three that Scalar Thompson made was an errant deep 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.360 ball where he had space to throw that thing out 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.600 there for Brotheran Sanders, but he threw it too far 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.560 back inside off the hash when he had the defender 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.040 stacked on his back heading towards the perimeter, and also 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.960 had him a Leake Washington wide open on the crosser goal. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.920 In the other direction. It just looked like our offense 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.520 in general, though, whether it was two Oz with the 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.520 ones or Skylar with the ones. With those you know, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.040 impactful pre snap plays where the motion and the ball 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.320 quickness gets out and makes the offensive line completely irrelevant 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.640 in the play. It's weird how that works. Or the 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.439 play where they get a two man shot call in 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.160 the route concept with max protection where they give Scalar 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:43.360 Thompson a a whole century's worth of time to throw 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.520 from back there. I couldn't find the word it's twelve 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.600 fifty six am. I just think it looked like you're 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.360 going to see in the regular season, at least a 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.760 glimpse of it, and good execution and doing that when 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.679 you had critical or key parts of the offense actually 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.960 on the field for the Dolphins. I also thought the 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.240 defensive system around the two linebackers Jordan Brooks and David 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.880 Long Junior looked like I thought it was going to. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.680 Was there a play where Brooks did not come downhill 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.880 on a blitz, I don't remember, except for the second drive, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.480 he might have had a couple, but the first drive 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.160 he was mugged up and he was rushing and he 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.559 was setting picks and he was basically putting himself into 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.680 blockers to create runs and chances for other guys. I 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.520 can't wait to watch it on tape because the way 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.600 he played the game and how fast he played and 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.440 how physical and connected. I mean, the way that those 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.959 guys speed. It's the pillar, the pillars of this team, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.520 the words that are up on the wall in the building. Fast, physical, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:42.240 and elite technique. That's those three players, two players to 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.880 a t, or those those two players fit those three 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.960 things to a t. It's twelve fifty seven, Am, and 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.920 I don't think it's an accident that Joe Barry gets 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.160 the call as linebackers coach and run game coordinator. And 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.440 you see where he's been in the linebackers he's had 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.760 in Green Bay previously and Tampa going back to you know, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.199 the Derek Brooks day, like he wants guys to can 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.360 play vertical upfield and downfield and siling the sideline in 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.440 those instances, the cover two, the Tampa two pipe linebacker 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.200 running vertical down the field to take away seam shots 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.080 like yeah, that's where he came from and cut his 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 teeth in that cloth. But he still kind of utilizes 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.920 players that have similar skill sets because it expands how 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.880 much space the defense can cover, and those guys' ability 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.920 both Brooks and Long to impact the game as rushers 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.040 but also peel off into coverage is exactly what you need. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.320 There was a screen where Brooks went and took on 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.760 two blockers and freed up d Long. I just am very, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.640 very excited about what I think are two of the 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.680 most instinctive linebackers in the game, two of the fastest 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.679 linebackers in the game, and two of the most physical 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.360 linebackers in the game, and what they do for the system. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.160 And to that point, I thought we saw plenty of 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.280 the same pillars that we've long speculated on this podcast 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.680 of what Anthony Weaver's defense might look like. You know, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.240 the Cam Smith pass breakup was a very well timed 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.079 slot blitz from I think it was Cater Kohu. I 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.080 could be wrong on who that was. When you know 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.480 you're going to get the quarterback hot, it helps the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.320 defensive back commit to a specific route. I know they're 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.360 I'm pressed, they're probably gonna go vertical. I'm off, They're 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.160 probably gonna throw a short route and I can rally 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.560 up and tackle. There's not gonna be double moves. That 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.240 forces you to play with hesitancy. It allows everyone to 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.600 play fast and smart and see it and go get ball. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.000 And there was another stick check down where Cam was 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.440 in that off cloud position where he rallied up and 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.520 made a tackle short of the sticks on third and long. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.000 And then yeah, the speed off the edge, like that's obvious, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.240 but you saw real glimpses of that tonight with those 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.840 linebackers and with the edge rushers and Mow and Chop 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.080 both causing issues. More on those guys in the individuals. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 I just think we got more confirmation tonight on things 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.120 that we've talked about since February and March with the 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.199 coaching additions and free agent acquisitions into April with a draft, 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.280 and I'm really excited about what I'm seeing in that regard. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.720 I also was a fan of the short, poochy laser kickoffs, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.480 whatever the hell you want to call those things, and 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.200 the way we covered them, because we had four kickoffs 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.880 in this game, and their kickoffs or their drives after 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.720 kick returns began at the twenty, the twenty two, the 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.480 twenty three, and the twenty three yard line, and last 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.720 week in the preseason across the National Football League, the 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.040 average starting field position for all the teams was their 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.680 own twenty nine yard line, so every single play was 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.200 at least six yards behind that, and the average was 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.040 more like eight yards behind that. A couple of things 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.719 I didn't think were great. Not a lot of good 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.840 surge in the running game, with some guys that are 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.720 going to play some time, and notably you know, Kendall 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.240 Lamb and Austin Jackson on the offensive line are probably 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.200 gonna play this year, along with you know, Rob Jones 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:45.040 getting some time out there, and Lea Mikenberger center opposed 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.920 to being at right garb he has been most of camp. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.960 I thought there was just a lack of surge. And 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.000 you know, I'm gonna complain about the complaints about the 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.880 offensive line and how much it's going to, you know, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.800 make this team not be able to click, even though 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.959 it's you have two years of proof of concept. That's 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.440 not correct. But I will, Bill Cater, I will bend 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.280 the knee at the idea that where you get your 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.120 shortcomings from the way this team is built philosophically is 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.720 going to be in short yardage and when you have 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.520 true dropback situations on third and longs or in obvious 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.720 passing situations where you can get exposed on one on 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.360 one matchups. But my counterpoint is that you don't see 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.800 very many of those situations, and when you have John 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.360 Smith and Odell Beckham and Devon Hian in the passing game, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.000 with Jalen Wright in the additions, you have there that 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.959 can help you get out of those situations by being 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.360 more effective in the other situations, and it gives you 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.320 more answers when you are in those situations. I also 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.400 thought defensively, it was kind of annoying how unable they 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.439 were to stop Jeff Driscoll from running around. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:45.959 For instance. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.679 You know he's not a running quarterback, but he made 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.559 it look like it, even when Daniel Jones stumbling bumbling 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.480 all the way through the secondary and outran both Zee 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.200 Vandenberg and Duke Riley, so that was kind of just annoying. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.720 I thought Brian Robinson's ability to break tackles and the 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.319 kind of slow where run fits early on wasn't great either. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.440 I'm excited to go home and watch that on tape 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.920 and kind of see what it actually looked like, because 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.880 live it looked bad. But I want to get a 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.920 better look at it. Just two things that I wasn't 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.199 pleased with the overall surge and the offensive line and 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.679 the running game and short yardage and really overall all 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.640 night long, and then the inabilities top throw on the 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.760 other side of the football against a commander's team and 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.600 Brian Robinson, let's go ahead and take our first break 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.440 right there, come back on the other side, talk a 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.120 why the players it stood out the players that I 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.080 thought missed in this one. That's all Next Draft Time podcast, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.440 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by autotation. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.080 Probably the least amount of nerves that he's had the 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.640 first time stepping out on the football field. I thought 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:49.400 it was just us executing some some of our Day 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.160 one concepts and and he you know, didn't force any issues. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.600 I really liked his decisions. I like this ball placement. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.080 I thought he did a good job and his I 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.560 think eleven reps. So it was nice to see him 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:09.200 out there and connecting some passes. I know he was 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:09.640 fired up. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.880 That was head coach Mike McDaniel talking about his quarterback 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.040 playing his first action since the shoot the playoff game 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.120 back in Kansas City. In terms of playing a live 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.480 actual game. Tula goes five for five on the day, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.320 fifty one yards a touchdown pass, the only touchdown in 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.880 the entire game. No Reek, no Waddle, no te Stead, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.280 no win, no Aaron Brewer, and by the way, just 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.880 a casual, perfect drive with a perfect dot off the 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.400 top to start that drive. Also had a little no 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.720 look action on that first play of the game with 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.000 the quick best ball handling in the league to River 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.320 cray Craft, and then finish it off with the touchdown 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.480 pass to cray Craft on fourth down with a just 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.160 perfectly perfectly located football there from Twua, who played on 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.840 time in rhythm, mitigated pressure on a couple of plays 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.000 as well, just at everything that you've come to expect 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.280 from him. And the part of that McDaniel SoundBite that 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.640 I really thought was interesting was the limited amount of 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.120 jitters that Tua experienced or displayed early in this game, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.800 because that's something that he's kind of talked about and 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.680 you know, they've you know, bandied about it between Tua 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.160 and McDaniel and getting two down himself in certain spots. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.920 I just wonder how much of Tua having a full 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.600 commitment from the organization and the coaching staff and everyone 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.960 knowing this is his team, how much that might kind 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.400 of elevate his game, and the pushback on that I 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.280 might be, well, he shouldn't care about that stuff. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.760 Well, human beings are human beings. And I think that his. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.000 Being accepted by all those people I just mentioned are 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.920 going to go a long way into his confidence. And 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.800 when you play confidence, you play better football. And we 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.920 are seeing the fruits of that labor, if you will, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.160 And I am very excited for you guys to all 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.000 get a chance to see what I've seen this entire 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.000 summer and back in spring. A better version of Tua 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.360 and being even better than last year's quarterback that led 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.560 the NFL in passing yards and better than the twenty 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.360 twenty two quarterback led the NFL and passer rating. He 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.920 just looks like I expected a top seven or eight 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.800 quarterback in the National Football League. And just a quick 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.680 note right here, we're gonna play some sound from Tua. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.159 I saw this on the on the tweet that I 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.360 sent out of Tua coming out with the Dolphins lineup 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.080 out of the tunnel tonight. If Liam's playing center, you 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.320 better not play Tua. I just every year, you know, 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.840 I say that I say, can't we learn from the 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.280 previous year, And I just generally think it's not happening 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.880 a lot across like most fan bases, And it looks 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.560 like that'll be the case again this year because I 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.840 saw that argument, like if so and so is not playing, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:33.679 you can't play to a. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:35.640 Man. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.480 We just saw it. Why it doesn't matter at least 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.520 in this instance. But whatever, I have some thoughts on that, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.800 but I'll save my entire rant. I won't use it 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.239 on a preseason game where they executed one drive. I'll 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.000 wait until they come out and tear teams up and 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.240 go on another record's heading pace and score the most 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.119 points in the league and the most yards again, and 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.200 then I'll go ahead and do that rant once again. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.800 But even Tua is tired of hearing about how you're 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.560 doing this when certain guys aren't available. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.160 Yeah, that's not the first time we've not had those 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.399 guys in there, and we've played it and we've scored. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.200 You know, would it be good to have those guys. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.480 It'd be great to have those guys. It opens up 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.840 our game plan for a lot of deep things, and 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.119 it opens up the run game as well. With the 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.639 two shelves that we get with those guys in, but 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.560 outside of that, football is football. With whoever you got 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.400 in there. You got to call the play, you got 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.400 to see it, envision it, and then you go through 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.719 your keys. If it's one high, this is how I'm 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.000 going to read it. If it's too high, this how 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.560 I'm going to read it, regardless of who's in. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.680 I thought Mike White played pretty good in this game 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.880 as well, and there was some pushback late in the game. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.800 I saw some comments about it. But what you saw 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.280 from Mike White was the best command of the offense. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.880 I thought the best playing in rhythm and on time 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.560 of the offense that we've seen from a non to 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.399 a quarterback now in games in training camp in August 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.320 or July, and an Ota is back in the spring. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.280 That version of what we saw from Mike White was 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.280 the best version of any quarterback besides to a you've 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.199 gotten so far because of the command, because of the 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.320 pocket management. He made a play while he was in 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.440 the grasp and got out of that a nice see 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.560 it and rip it throw to Roucie before he cleared 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.320 the linebacker. Had one just like that later on in 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.719 the game where he threw it before the linebacker had 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.520 been cleared by the crossing route and put it on 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.040 time and in rhythm for a nice run. After the catch, 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.679