WEBVTT - Film, Stats, Snap Count Takeaways from Preseason Week 3 at Cincinnati 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:16.880 Touchdown, Miami Run. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.920 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.560 I am your host, Travis Wingfield and as always I'm 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.400 here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.800 And on today's show, it's omission Tuesday. The game has 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.880 been rewatched a couple of times. I have some additional notes. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.160 We're gonna get to the snap counts, the advanced metrics takeaways, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.840 We're gonna punt on the scanning, the social segment. This week, 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.199 we're gonna hear from Coach Flores, some sideline audio from 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.640 a J Ross at the Dolphins game against the Bengals 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.600 on Sunday. Plus we'll play another clip from the post 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.600 game show on w q A M with Me, Seth 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.639 and O J McDuffie. All of that and a whole 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.200 bunch more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:12.000 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Somebody 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.880 holds the head coach Brian Flores on Monday, and we're 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.600 gonna get to that here in just one moment. But 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.640 before we even get started on the podcast. Coach did 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.520 say in that media availability that there would be some 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.880 cuts on Monday. All right, we're gonna get into the 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.200 omissions for the tape the rewatch, and I have more 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.399 than a few on that rewatch, but I wanted to 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.560 start with a player that was in our takeaways on 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.280 the recap podcast on Sunday night slash Monday morning, and 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.240 we did some extensive film talk on him in rookie 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.039 Jalen Phillips, and Coach kind of confirmed for us what 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.680 I said on the podcast about his work in that game. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.040 Here's Coach talking about Jalen Phillips, his usage and the 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.960 general usage for players in this Dolphins defense. Um, well 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:03.600 that uh, the way we structure the defense. Um, you know, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.280 it's not a four three where there's just full time 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.760 defensive ends on the field that at all times. So, um, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.920 we have a little bit more of a hybrid scheme 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.480 where we could be up, it could be down. It 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.519 could be we could be four down, but um, it 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.240 could be you know, base could be it could be 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.839 in a few different um fronts. So uh, I think 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.480 that we've we feel like Jalen can do a few 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.160 different things. I think maybe some different things in early 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.120 downs and some different things and some obvious passing situations. Uh, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.280 and you know, we wanted to just see him in 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:43.200 those roles yesterday. UM. I think that's the goal for 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.320 him is to play you know, a few different positions. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.240 But you know, right now we're just kind of checking, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.560 checking to see, you know, where he's comfortable. And then um, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.880 as the staff, we'll talk about it and kind of 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.320 review things and see what we want to use them 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.000 during the regular season. Getting players to speed in the 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 full complement of their skill set and the full ask 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.000 of this defense, working on every element and trying to 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.239 find out just how versatile these guys are and how 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.520 they can be. And a quick aside to that, I 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.440 just love that first sentence. I guess the fews the 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.320 first couple of sentences. The way we structure to the defense. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.120 It's not a four three where there's just full time 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.480 defensive ends on the field at all times. We have 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.400 a little bit more of a hybrid scheme where he 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.320 could be up, he could be down, it could be 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.880 four down, it could be based, it could be a 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.760 few different fronts. So some good insight there once again 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.040 from coach as he has want to do here in 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.280 these media availabilities talking about football and then something else 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.120 we talked about and really did an entire segment on 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.960 this on the postgame show with Seth and o J 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.200 on the five six w q a M postgame show, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.920 the Dolphins fifth Quarter post game show after every single 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.160 Miami Dolphins game, about how this is a tougher roster 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.760 to make than it was a year ago and certainly 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.480 two years ago, and Brian Flores his first season here 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.840 and coach really communicated that with us this year. He 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.520 touched on tough cuts they're gonna have to make, how 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.400 there are guys on this team that might not make 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.680 the fifty three, but we'll go somewhere else and catch 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.200 on somewhere else. But he also talked about the value 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.240 that this camp and that competition that this team had 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.880 and all those position groups, how it made this football 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.800 team better. At the end of the day, We've had 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:28.039 a very competitive group at all positions. I think you know, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.159 the players you're you mentioned the guys who um you know, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.520 we may have to move on from. I think, uh, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.039 you know, in a lot of instances, you know, just 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.800 in our conversations this morning, Uh you know, they've made 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.040 our team better because they've pushed some of the guys 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:47.200 on that we're gonna keep. Steve kind of mentioned this. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.640 I think that's you know, probably some of the things 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.200 that we're seeing is you know, there's been a lot 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.800 of good competition and that's pushed guys and um, help 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.280 some other guys play a little bit better. Um, so 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:07.360 we're you know, those guys think they're there. Like I said, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.680 there's gonna be some guys who we feel like our 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:14.200 our roster players in mistake and we have to move 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.200 on from them. But I think they certainly helped our 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.599 team in this training game. It's nice to have, whether 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.719 it's you know, fifty five, sixties, sixty five guys that 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.800 you feel like might have a chance to be Like 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.080 Coach mentioned their rosterable players, and I'm just putting, you know, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.880 potential fictional numbers out there. I don't know what that 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.440 number actually is, but just thinking about the tough decisions 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.640 they have to make it so many position groups, you 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.080 could probably argue that the you know, three or four 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.440 or five position groups have tough tough calls at each 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.240 of those spots. And I also loved Coach saying that 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.000 in this press conference, that he's honest with guys in 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:50.320 those conversations. You're gonna have several tough conversations in total 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.440 with guys. You're going to cut. You'll bring you know, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.479 sixteen of them back or hope to get sixteen of 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.760 them back on the practice squad. But I like the 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.279 way he just said it's about transparency and honesty. Tell them, Ruth, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.080 tell the player why we didn't think it worked out, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.760 things they can improve on, but also if he thinks 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.600 they have a good chance to catch on somewhere else. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.800 So that transparency, I think, And you know, we've heard 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.599 so many accounts of people that just love playing for 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.039 Brian Flores, and that right there has to be a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.000 big part of it. All Right, that's it for the 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.840 media on this Tuesday podcast. I want to get into 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:24.920 the omissions for the podcast recapping the final preseason game. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.800 That's right, the next time we do this, it will 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.160 be a game that counts in the win lost column. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.120 Read Sure was the story in that game, wasn't he? 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.560 But I thought that was cool to hear him talk 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.920 about his role in the Dolphins quarterback room and all 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.120 the throws he seemed to make that he wouldn't even 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.719 dare try to make out there on the practice field. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.600 And I tweeted before Reid came in against the Bears 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.320 in that preseason opener and that I think fans are 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.960 gonna have fun watching him play. And boy did they 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.080 get that chance to see that in Cincinnati, where he 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.800 was extending plays, rolling away from pressure, setting up in 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.599 the face of pressure, and throwing the football knowing that 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.200 he's gonna take that big shot. What a game again, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.200 most passing yards three forty three by any player in 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.760 the preseason since at least as for the main takeaway 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.960 on my rewatch, because Reid was so in your face 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.480 with the performance he put out there against the Bengals. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.800 It was the offensive line for me, and there was 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.360 several guys that got in the notes here, but as 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.440 a whole, as a collective, just the push they got 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.320 up front from some of those guys, and especially on 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.680 double teams, which has been really the case of the 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.400 preseason so far with some whether it's Robert Hunt and 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.360 Liam Eichenberg, or Austin Jackson and Solomon Kinley, or Greg 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.520 Little and Dervall Kidd as netto, whatever the case was. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.640 You see these guys getting that hip to hip, shoulder 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.520 to shoulder, foot to foot and driving guys off the football. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.440 But we start here with Solomon Kinley because I tweeted 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.720 about this in the On the Monday rewatch during my 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.520 rewatch that I thought that he showed not just the 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 power and poise and chippiness that you love from Solomon Kinley, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.720 Like when he gets a rep where he doesn't have 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.280 a a body to work on, a player to pass 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.600 protect on, he'll go find work and he'll go put 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.360 a big hit on a guy. And you always see 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.400 him play through the echo of the whistle in a 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.240 way that can kind of frustrate guys. And I think 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.080 that's really that's a really valuable asset to have on 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.800 your offensive line. One of those kind of nasty, mean 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.040 guys that gets under guy's skin. And I think that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.880 could be Solomon Kindley. Even though he's such a sweetheart 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.760 and a fan favorite as far as when he does 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.760 his great postgame press conferences and the like, he's kind 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.400 of kind of chippy out there on the field, and 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.760 I think you need that on the offensive line because 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.840 there was one clip where he came off of his 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.000 responsibility because nobody rushed his guy backed out and he 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.400 wouldn't put a chip on the left tackles man and 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.679 decleted him, and that was awesome to see. But then 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.040 later on he has a rep where the Bengals kind 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.200 of fake this game up front, fake a slamt and 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.280 he works inside and the player that kind of fakes 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.240 that slant inside goes back around the outside towards the 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.320 left tackle, and you see Solomon stay engaged and keep 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.440 those feet chopping and kind of race to the spot 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.320 to get himself in position to stay square. Has your 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.760 shoulder pads, got to stay over your feet otherwise you're 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.560 gonna be in tough shape. And watching Solomon at that 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.720 size get that accomplished, that's a really positive sign going 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.679 forward for the big Fish. Another guy was very impressed 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.839 with was Robert Jones. In fact, probably even maybe even 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.640 the most impressive offensive lineman in this game for my money, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.160 the push he got consistently getting guys out of their 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.400 gap in creating space, cut blocking some guys, and making 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 those blocks happen effectively getting up to the second level 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.839 where you catch that first level, climb to the second 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.720 level and take out a linebacker on the hunter long 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:37.160 drop he chipped a slant from the offensive lineman coming 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.320 in and then picked up a looper coming around the 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.960 inside and put that guy on the ground and then 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.360 kind of stood over the top of him like you 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.680 would do in the game Halo, for instance, when you 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.840 get that big kill and you kind of show off 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.960 about it. I thought that was a really cool, a 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.280 really cool look there from Robert Jones after a really 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.280 solid day, and of course I talked about it on 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.880 the Sunday podcast, but he had a play out in 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.240 space on a screen where he got out there and 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.200 tossed somebuddy out of the club. So Robert Jones, the 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.960 undrafted rookie out of Middle Tennessee State Man, I thought 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:06.720 he had himself a heck of a ball game, and 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.600 so did der Ball kidaz Netto. He and Greg Little 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.920 did so much work in the run game to push 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.760 guys off the football. We'll talk about the stats running 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.040 the football off the left side, plenty of that coming 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.560 behind der Ball and Greg Little. But he had a 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.240 great pin and seal in the second quarter on a 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.160 fourteen yard run from Jared Oakes where he got to 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.600 the tackle or the defense event I should say, got 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.840 outside the outside shoulder and pinned him inside. And speaking 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.760 of Greg Little, he got part of that double team 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.960 as well and then climbed up to a linebacker and 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.800 wiped him out to give Dokes some space for that 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.200 fourteen yard run. But I wrote down into my notes 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.079 that he has a really good looking kick slide where 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.520 he covers a bunch of ground and gets himself square 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.079 and comes to balance before that contact arrives of that rusher, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.439 and that's only gonna help him hold the point against 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.800 bull rushes or redirects or counter moves back inside. I 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.880 thought you saw plenty of that in this game. And 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.320 then just to push in the running game, like I 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.240 mentioned where he was wiping out that edge consists he 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.000 had several good blocks to spring some runs. And then 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.720 Adam Pankey just a veteran pro player in my in 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.760 my opinion, here a patient set in past protection can 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.079 get in the right position to just get in front 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.760 of guys and make sure they don't get to the quarterback. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.600 And he continues to get good push in the run 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.360 game too. He was one of the guys they would 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.120 come off the bench and heavy personnel last year and 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.720 come into the game six seven offensive lineman and get 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.120 pushed in those short yardage or goal line situations. Cameron 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.200 Tom and Matt Scura. I thought the center position was 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.880 good all day long. Coach Flores talked about it. Scura 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.960 started off the game and played strong and went and 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.960 then gave way to Cameron Tom, who I thought did 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.640 well as well with plenty of push and some of 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.559 those seal blocks where they just get that butt around, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.720 get it into the gap and fill and seal that 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.120 guy off and create space that way. Larnel Coleman had 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.680 some struggling moments early on in the game, but I 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.640 thought he had a really nice seal block on what 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.480 I thought was going to be a touchdown run on 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.200 that first possession by Patrick Laird where he creates a 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.760 path outside and there was no defender out there but 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.360 Patrick Lair jamda back inside. But I thought that was 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.960 good to see there from Larnel Coleman. Defensively, Nick need Hum, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.079 I mean, we'll talk about this in the snap count portion, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.199 but he played a lot of ball and just continues 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.360 to just show what he's all about. Relentlessness, toughness, perseverance. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.240 The guy just embodies a lot of the things that 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.679 Brian Floors and Chris career look for here in the 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.000 Miami Dolphin and you saw that on the second play 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.320 of the game, the Jamaar Chase screen that went in complete. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.240 He fought around that block and got his helmet onto 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.040 the football or hand on the football, helmet onto the chest. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.319 There just continues to find ways to get in the 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.640 right position to make plays. And then later in the 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.160 game there's a rep it's a third down in completion 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.520 going into the end zone for the Bengals are going 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.360 into the reds and I should say, and I talked 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.199 a lot about his feet and his the smoothness of 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.440 his transition from the back pedal to driving out of 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.360 that back pedal and then run up to the to 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.160 the draft after he was a U d f A 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.880 for this Dolphins team back in twenty nineteen, and the 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.160 feet continued to look impressive to me. On this particular rep, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.640 he's got inside leverage, so you're trying to wall off 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.680 the inside, and once the receiver tries to cross face 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.280 and go back inside on an incut, he flips those 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.800 hips and they just look so fluid, as Mike Mayock 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.400 would call them the oily hips back in his days 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.040 at the NFL Network as the lead draft analysts there 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.760 oily hips and smooth feet. And on that play in 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:21.480 the second half where Taylor got the deflection, Needham drove beautifully. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.320 Trent Taylor got the deflection reception for that big game. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.360 Nick Needham drove beautifully on that slant for the breakup 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.520 and normally you count that, but a fluke play where 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.200 it bounces right into another man's hands for a long 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.800 reception there for the Bengals. So Nick Needham continues to 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.520 just show you what he's all about. And then I 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.480 put down Sam aguav and same thing on the ability 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.120 to fight through a screen. First play of the game, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.800 did it where he got around the block and made 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.640 a play. And he was just a force throughout the 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.480 course of this game and has been all preseason long. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.360 I will say on the Bengal side, Fred Johnson for 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.040 the Bengals man, he put in some work. My goodness, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.640 he had himself one hell of a game. Some other 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.000 Dolphins players on here, Jonathan led Better just wrote down 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.280 that he continues to get off blocks really well. I 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.640 think he has the strong lockout where he can kind 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.400 of get under a guy's pads, jack them back up 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.000 and get that push back and then come off the 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.240 block as well. Saw that Georgia saw that his rookie season. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.680 Seeing some of that here now in Benito Jones got 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 some good push, particularly on a third and two conversion 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.040 of the Bengals, a running player that converted where he 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.920 kind of stood his guy up and knocked him back 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.200 into the backfield. Couldn't quite get off of the tackle 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.600 right at the line, but good work there from Benito 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.360 Jones and then John Jenkins. I mean, the story oldest 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.160 time with his push he gets in the running game. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.120 Saw him do some stuff as well as a pass 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.680 rusher win one on one, and we saw the heavy 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.360 hands where he's able to kind of strike a guy 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.680 with a cross punch and lock them out and get 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.520 them on their skates. You can get that kind of 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.400 pressure up the interior, man's gonna open up some opportunities 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.840 for guys off the outside. And that's kind of where 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.360 we go here. In this next part of the segment, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.360 Duke Riley had a great fill in a run play 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.160 where he shot the gap and got to stop right 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.040 at the line. In fact, it was his lone run 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.240 stop of the day. But the focus that I wanted 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.880 to put on there was how I think this d 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.120 defense we've seen so far in the preseason really gives 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.800 this linebacker opportunity a chance to feast and make some 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.360 plays because there's so many big guys that can put 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.280 up front that can play multiple roles. So when you 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.640 have I've talked about it so many times, Davis, Seeler, Wilkins, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.200 and Butler can play anywhere from the zero tech out 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.240 to the five tech and so many of these fronts 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.920 you can put them up in, like a bare front 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.680 where you go zero tech and then a pair of 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.440 two techniques, and what that means is a man head 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.440 up over the center and then to a defensive lineman 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.320 head up over either guard. And those guys are capable 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.920 of stacking up bodies and taking on double teams at 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.560 the point of attack, and it can free up so 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.280 many gaps and lanes for your outside linebackers and your 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.280 inside linebackers. And again those four guys I mentioned, they 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.840 can all do it. John Jenkins does it as well, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.720 and we saw a lot of that in the second 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.920 half lineup. I thought with John Jenkins, Jonathan led Better 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.960 and Benito Jones, three guys that can play multiple roles, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.640 and it goes back to a bit of what Brian 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.200 Flores said about varied fronts and multiple fronts this defense 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.120 can run and then finally last out here towards the 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.720 end of the game. I thought Noah Igmanogeny had a 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.400 really really good drive there towards the end, especially on 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.880 the final play of the game and pass coverage on 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.400 the game ending pass breakup he had, and then earlier 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.600 he had a pass breakup on that same series, and 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.800 the broadcast got on him for not intercepting the past, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.640 but I couldn't disagree with that more. I thought he 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.840 made a great play to drive and get his hand 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.240 in there for a big time p BU. So that 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.800 was the rewatch. Let's go ahead now and get to 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.960 our snap count takeaways and deep dive on the analytics 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.320 the PFF numbers and start there with the ladder first 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.520 offensive line play. Like to look at how many pressures 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.240 were given up. Dolphins allowed just ten as a team 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.440 collectively in this game. Larnel Coleman five, Robert Jones three, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.000 Dirve Ball kidd As Neto too, and that was it. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.920 None for Solomon Kinley, Adam Panky, Cameron, Tom Matt Skura, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.680 and Greg Little, So some really good work again by 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.240 the guys upfront tem pressures for a whole football game 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.200 with sixty five snaps, that's a good place to be now. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.760 Rushing direction stats again kind of coincides with what we 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.639 talked about in the observations from the rewatch on that 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.480 second run back through of the game. Dolphins offensive line 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.439 had three runs off left tackle or left end and 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.120 that was primarily off the Greg Little left tackle position 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.600 or portion of the game, i should say, and those 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.200 three runs went for twenty nine yards. We mentioned Little 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.320 in the game that he had no pressure and that 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.520 running statistic. Pretty solid day for the new Miami Dolphin. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.440 At the left tackle and then the middle right gap, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.399 which is what they're calling it here on PFF, a 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.719 gap off the center's right side. Robert Jones was the 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.400 primary culprit, actually the only guy that played right guard 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.720 all game. Four carry's sixteen yards and a touchdown off 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.639 that gap, and that touchdown was of course from Jared Oaks, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.520 who averaged two point four or four yards after initial 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.560 contact to lead the team. He also had to ten 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.440 plus yard runs and four of his sixteen runs were 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.639 for either first downs or touchdowns. We've talked about redsen 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.840 It's day a lot in this podcast when he was 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.520 blitzed four for four fifty three passing yards under pressure, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.879 six for eleven hundred and thirteen yards and a touchdown 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.200 no picks. He also averaged again back to the offensive 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.600 line two point seven six seconds to throw. Pretty good, 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.439 especially when you have an average depth of target of 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.240 ten point four yards. For read Senate, he was also 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.359 three of five for one hundred and four passing yards 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.600 and two touchdowns on passes thrown twenty or more yards 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.919 down the field, so the vertical attack was clicking on 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.080 all cylinders for this Miami Dolphins offense. He was five 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.280 of six for ninety five yards in the intermediate portion 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.920 between eleven and twenty yards as well, so a big 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.159 day there for read Senet. His pass catchers, Kirk Merritt 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.600 produced seventy two yards on five targets and average ten 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.320 point seven yacht yards per reception, and Malcolm Perry had 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.160 six point eight average yards after catch on his four 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.720 catches and produced sixty nine yards on those five targets. Defensively, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.120 four players had two pressures each. They were Jalen Phillips, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.560 Jonathan Ledbetter, Calvin Munson and Brennan Scarlett. Scarlett both of 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.640 his pressures where QB hits and Phillips had the other 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.239 quarterback hit of that group, and the fourth came from 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.240 Duke Riley now lad Better in addition to his two pressures, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.199