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Speaker 1: weekly here on the Tuesday edition, of Drivetown. We first
Speaker 1: start with where Miami ranks offensively defensively in some of
Speaker 1: the most important categories. After twelve weeks of play eleven
Speaker 1: games in the books, the NFL season heads to its
Speaker 1: final month in December. Heading into the twelfth and final
Speaker 1: month of the year, the fourth and final month of
Speaker 1: the regular season, there's a game in January, but December
Speaker 1: still counts for most of the remaining games. Here is
Speaker 1: where your Dolphins rank offensively. Miami's twenty five point eight
Speaker 1: points per game our fifteenth most in the NFL. Three
Speaker 1: eleven point nine yards is thirty point three yards on
Speaker 1: the ground is thirty two hundred and sixteen point six
Speaker 1: yards through the air per game is twenty five in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Miami have allowed twenty four sacks, that's right
Speaker 1: in the middle, tied for sixteen, and their third down offense,
Speaker 1: at forty point four percent conversion is twenty one in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Defensively, some good ranks here. Eighteen point six
Speaker 1: points per game allowed. That second in the NFL. Three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine point nine yards of total defense
Speaker 1: allowed per game, that's twenty in the NFL. One twenty
Speaker 1: nine point nine yards on the ground is twenty six
Speaker 1: to thirty nine point seven through the air is seventeen.
Speaker 1: Miami has twenty five sacks this year that's tied for fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Their nineteen takeaways our third most, and their thirty two
Speaker 1: point eight percent third down conversion rate by the opposition
Speaker 1: is number one in the National Football League. And also
Speaker 1: from the inside the Numbers piece up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com taking a look at all the snap counts
Speaker 1: and stats and direct advanced metrics from this game. We
Speaker 1: also have this The Dolphins allowed just ten first downs
Speaker 1: to the Jets on Sunday and two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: total yards. The ten first downs was the second fewest
Speaker 1: by a team in the NFL in a single game
Speaker 1: this season. Miami retains their plus eighty one point differential
Speaker 1: in the first halves of games, the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They're allowing nine point five points per game on defense
Speaker 1: in first half that's the third lowest mark, and offensively,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are averaging six team point nine points per
Speaker 1: game in the first half of games. That is the
Speaker 1: fifth best in the National Football League. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: continue to get things done in special teams and in
Speaker 1: the penalty yardage as well as fouls committed. Those small
Speaker 1: details add up so much Miami maintains their spot a
Speaker 1: Top Football Outsiders Special Teams d v O A statistics
Speaker 1: Defensive value over adjusted with the number one special teams
Speaker 1: in all of football and wide receiver jakeem Grant leads
Speaker 1: the NFL minimum ten returns with third teen point nine
Speaker 1: yards per punt return. He's also the only player with
Speaker 1: more than three d punt return yards on the season.
Speaker 1: He's got three nineteen. We talked about Jason Sanders and
Speaker 1: Sane Stats on the Sunday Recap podcast. His eighty five
Speaker 1: point seven percent field goal percentage from fifty plus yards
Speaker 1: is the best in the NFL so at least minimum
Speaker 1: ten attempts, and he also has the best field goal
Speaker 1: percentage at eighty six point seven in franchise history. Matt
Speaker 1: Hawk is eighth in net punting average forty two point
Speaker 1: six yards. His nineteen points down into the twenty yard
Speaker 1: line are tied for the fourth most in the NFL.
Speaker 1: In Miami's forty nine penalties and four penalty yards assessed
Speaker 1: against them are both third fewest in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Snap counts on the offensive side of the football quarterback
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick played the entire game, so too did Miami
Speaker 1: starting five offensive lineman Austin Jackson, Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss,
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis and Robert Hunt. Adam Pankey joined them for
Speaker 1: four snaps and heavy packages at the scale positions. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Washington leads the way. He gets about half the workload
Speaker 1: at thirty four snaps. That's forty. Matt Brito plays twenty three,
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird placed ten and a wide receiver. Listen to
Speaker 1: some of these numbers. Davante Parker almost never left the field.
Speaker 1: He played of the snaps at sixty seven reps in
Speaker 1: the game. Mac Hollins was number two with four seven reps.
Speaker 1: Jakeem Grant played twenty four, Lynn Bowden Jr. Played twenty two,
Speaker 1: Antonio Callaway thirteen, and Malcolm Perry, who of course left
Speaker 1: the game with that chest injury, played just six At
Speaker 1: tight end. Mike Asiki played fifty snaps, Derham Smith played thirty,
Speaker 1: and Adam Shaheen played twenty five. In the game, Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: did most of his damage when not under duress. He
Speaker 1: was sixteen for twenty four with one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one yards and through both of his touchdown passes when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive line kept him clean in this game.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the offensive line, the interior continues to
Speaker 1: get the job done in pass protection. Ted Carris and
Speaker 1: Eric Flower's combined for just three pressures allowed. That gives
Speaker 1: that pairing a combined twenty three pressures allowed on eight
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight combined pass balking snaps this season.
Speaker 1: Neither guy has missed a rep. That's a two percent
Speaker 1: pressure rate among your left guard and center. And also
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt joined the party with just one hurry allowed
Speaker 1: in the game. He also earned PFF's top run blocking
Speaker 1: grade among all Dolphins offensive lineman. At the skill spots,
Speaker 1: Davante par Er his tenth one hundred yard receiving game.
Speaker 1: That's six of his last eighteen games with over a
Speaker 1: hundred yards. His four thousand, sixty one receiving yards surpassed
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry for eighth most in team history. And tight
Speaker 1: end Mike Gasicki has eight touchdowns in his last seventeen games.
Speaker 1: That's tied for fourth most among all NFL tight ends
Speaker 1: since Week thirteen of last season, and his fifteen yards
Speaker 1: per reception is best among all tight ends. Minimum fifteen receptions.
Speaker 1: On the other side of the football, the snap counts
Speaker 1: go as follows the defensive tackles. Christian Wilkins leads the
Speaker 1: way with forty two snaps. That's good for eighty two
Speaker 1: percent of the overall reps, and the Dolphins only played
Speaker 1: fifty five snaps in this game, the lowest for the
Speaker 1: defense this season. Good job by the offense converting on
Speaker 1: half of their third downs eight for sixteen, but also
Speaker 1: obviously to the Miami Dolphins defense for getting them off
Speaker 1: the field, helping keep them fresh in this game and
Speaker 1: attacking Cincinnati Bengals next week with hopefully a fresher defense.
Speaker 1: Ray Kuan Davis played thirty three snaps that's sixty and
Speaker 1: Zach Heeler played twenty that's thirty six percent. Off the edge,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel A Ball leads away with thirty nine snaps. Shaq
Speaker 1: Lawson played thirty four, and Jason Strowbridge had four. In
Speaker 1: this particular game. At linebacker, Kyle van Noy did not
Speaker 1: leave the field, played all fifty five snaps. Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: after playing thirty percent last week, roughly, was up to
Speaker 1: seventy eight percent this week with forty three snaps. His
Speaker 1: roles ever changing and man he produces in so many
Speaker 1: ways for the football team. Andrew Van Ginkle played twenty
Speaker 1: nine snaps in the game. A Landon Roberts played eighteen,
Speaker 1: and he also had three run stops on those eighteen
Speaker 1: runs on thirteen rundowns, I should say so he was
Speaker 1: contributing big time when he was out there against the run.
Speaker 1: Cornerback Byron Jones played fifty five snaps. So too that
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard. Nick Needham was next with forty four reps
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins played four. Safety's McCain played every rep.
Speaker 1: Eric Rohe played fifty two snaps, Brandon Jones had twenty three,
Speaker 1: and Clayton Federland played one snap in the game. And
Speaker 1: Xavier Howard matched his career high with the seventh interception
Speaker 1: of the season. We talked about it on Sunday. He
Speaker 1: joined Sam Madison, Dick Anderson, and Jake Scott as the
Speaker 1: only players in team history with multiple seven intercept and
Speaker 1: seasons with the Miami Dolphins. They also tried exaviing Howard
Speaker 1: in this game ten times. He allowed three completions thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards, had an interception to pass break up, and
Speaker 1: a passer rating of two point nine in the game,
Speaker 1: Howard also made three tackles and one run stop. Those
Speaker 1: are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: His passer rating against this season is just fifty point three.
Speaker 1: That's best among cornerbacks with at least fifty targets this
Speaker 1: year per PFF. Nick Needum gets his first interception of
Speaker 1: the season, three of his career. He also made five tackles,
Speaker 1: with two checking in his run stops. Safety Eric Row
Speaker 1: allowed just three yards receiving in the game, and all
Speaker 1: three of his tackles came on run plays within two
Speaker 1: yards of the l os. That was our run stops.
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain pretty much had zeros across the board because
Speaker 1: he was good in coverage back there didn't target him.
Speaker 1: He also didn't come up and make any tackles because
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were so stout upfront, Like we talked about,
Speaker 1: fifteen of twenty three run plays going for three yards
Speaker 1: or less, helping Miami t off on those second down
Speaker 1: and third down and long. Linebacker Jerome Baker had two
Speaker 1: pressures and a half sack. Three of his five tackles
Speaker 1: were run stops. He also allowed just thirteen yards receiving
Speaker 1: on five pass targets. We saw that play out into
Speaker 1: the flat where he broke down and got the running
Speaker 1: back down short of the sticks. Good work again by
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker. And how about Emmanuel Ogba leads the team
Speaker 1: again with five pressures in this game. He now has
Speaker 1: forty six on the season that's tied for the fifth
Speaker 1: most in the NFL. His eight sacks are tied for seventh,
Speaker 1: and his twenty two run stops are tied for thirteen
Speaker 1: among all edge defenders per PFF. Linebacker Kyle van Ney
Speaker 1: had four quarterback pressures and a half sack. Three of
Speaker 1: his five tackles were run stops. He landed Roberts we
Speaker 1: talked about him thirteen rundowns and makes three tackles within
Speaker 1: two yards of the line, including that fourth and one
Speaker 1: stick in the backfield for a TfL and Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Damis and Christian Wilkins both had three run stops and
Speaker 1: Zach Steeler had two. So the three of those guys
Speaker 1: up front eight run stops combined helping Miami get get
Speaker 1: off the field early and oft him in this game
Speaker 1: against the Jets, and so offensively for your Miami Dolphins. First,
Speaker 1: a couple of notes on just some general ideas and
Speaker 1: and and plans. The Dolphins on the very first third
Speaker 1: conversion of this game came out unbalanced. That's where you
Speaker 1: move a tackle to the opposite side of the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and use a tight end like in this
Speaker 1: instance it was Adam Shaheen as the replacement left tackle
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson comes over the right side. They convert that
Speaker 1: for a first down. Like the way there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of creativity there in short yardage, an area where
Speaker 1: I'm sure Coach Flora's in the offensive staff would like
Speaker 1: to get more conversions on those short down attempts. On
Speaker 1: those short yards attempts, I should say, And they do
Speaker 1: it here to start the game. Later in the game,
Speaker 1: they have a first down pass to mc hollins, where
Speaker 1: I like the way the structure of the play creates
Speaker 1: space for mac hollins on a slant route. It's a
Speaker 1: fly sweep that vacates a cornerback off the side of
Speaker 1: the football they want to go to. Then you have
Speaker 1: r p O inside which forces a linebacker down to
Speaker 1: close on that play. R PO is all about putting
Speaker 1: guys in conflict that's the sport of football. Putting players
Speaker 1: in conflict. Your conflict player, make them go one direction
Speaker 1: or the other, make him choose. Dolphins did that on
Speaker 1: this play in the r p OH to get a
Speaker 1: nice first down rip to mac Hollins. And just in general,
Speaker 1: the RPO game was cranking early in this one. Pretty
Speaker 1: much the only past calls they had in the first
Speaker 1: drive was a lot of that r p O look.
Speaker 1: So you see the Dolphins getting better in that area,
Speaker 1: growing in that area. Offensive line kind of learning the
Speaker 1: ropes of that RPO game and putting it to use
Speaker 1: here late in the season for the Dolphins. Some individual notes.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson. I thought he had some really good bounce
Speaker 1: back reps early in the game, showing some good work
Speaker 1: against pass protection. There was a bowl rush early on
Speaker 1: where he kept his feet active through the contact. That's
Speaker 1: a great sign to watch, the way he keeps those
Speaker 1: feet moving and keeps himself in position to anchor and
Speaker 1: recover against those power rushes. Had some just great reps
Speaker 1: early on in past protection in general. Had a good
Speaker 1: powerful punch on a few of those reps. I also
Speaker 1: have picked up a play early in the game where
Speaker 1: they passed off a stunt. On second down, he picks
Speaker 1: up Quentin and Williams who crashes outside with an upfield
Speaker 1: power move, and I thought they made a lot of
Speaker 1: progress early in this game picking up those stunts compared
Speaker 1: to last week in Denver and blocking Quinn and Williams.
Speaker 1: This guy was dominant throughout the course of the game,
Speaker 1: so Austin Jackson gets a nice rap on him. Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: I thought, on the other side, had some nice protection
Speaker 1: plays as well. In pass Pro there's an incomplete third
Speaker 1: down the Jets kind of running delayed blits. The linebacker
Speaker 1: loops around from the inside and comes outside and he
Speaker 1: sees it, finds it, picks it up, handles it perfectly,
Speaker 1: and gets a nice pocket there. For Ryan Fitzpatrick, Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers and Space I thought was good in this game play.
Speaker 1: He pulled play side for a nice wipeout on a
Speaker 1: Matt Breeder run for a first down. Early in the game.
Speaker 1: He corners and seals well on those pulling plays, and
Speaker 1: then later on a screen hits enough of a defensive
Speaker 1: back to influence his his movement on the play and
Speaker 1: then gets to the next level and looks for additional work.
Speaker 1: He is consistent in that regard and staying on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Speaking of getting out in space, I just
Speaker 1: love watching Ted Carriss on tape for this reason. Every
Speaker 1: single week, a six yard screen passed DeAndrea Washington. He
Speaker 1: stands up and throws the initial man out of the club.
Speaker 1: And that's after you kind of invite the defensive the
Speaker 1: defensive lineman upfield. You invite them upfield and then toss
Speaker 1: him out of the way, and at best you hope
Speaker 1: to get him a step or two off their track.
Speaker 1: But he throws the guy on the ground, then gets
Speaker 1: upfield and buries number thirty to the safety at the
Speaker 1: second level. And just the way he in general hits
Speaker 1: double teams, the catch and climb. You catch onto that
Speaker 1: first double team block climbed to the second level. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing we see on screens. He's got a
Speaker 1: strong upper half where he can really chip and turn
Speaker 1: and toss, like on the tossing out of the club
Speaker 1: from the previous play. I'm just picturing Ted. He talked
Speaker 1: about his summer workouts in his garage. Maybe he's bailing hay.
Speaker 1: Is that a term? Hurling hay on a farm somewhere?
Speaker 1: Just throwing hay up over the top of the rest
Speaker 1: of a hay pile and gathering that upper body strength
Speaker 1: and that kind of twist and turn strength. And I
Speaker 1: even dropped a good old rick flair on one of
Speaker 1: his blocks later in the game where he gets downfilled
Speaker 1: on a screen pass. Speaking of DeAndre Washington, some nice shakes,
Speaker 1: some nice wiggle in the open field. Thought he had
Speaker 1: a good feel for leverage on some blocks on the
Speaker 1: screen passes that he converted on. He catches back to
Speaker 1: back passes and moves the chains as a pass catcher
Speaker 1: on those. The very next play after those two catches,
Speaker 1: picks up thirty two on a nice blitz pick up
Speaker 1: and pass protection, and then he closes things up or
Speaker 1: at least has a nice run in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: by sixteen yard rip with a little hot step to
Speaker 1: get outside. You just see the explosion step there from
Speaker 1: DeAndre Washington staying at the skill player spots. Mike Gasicky.
Speaker 1: We heard Josh Grizzard talk about brotherhood routes on the
Speaker 1: podcast last week, talking about guys that do things to
Speaker 1: set up other receivers to make plays. There was a
Speaker 1: play earlier in the game where mac Hollins does it
Speaker 1: where he kind of takes an outside release and slow
Speaker 1: delays that release so the cornerback doesn't want to get
Speaker 1: inside quickly before he breaks it off inside and it
Speaker 1: creates space form that way. There's a nice play later
Speaker 1: on in the game where Gasicki takes an inside release
Speaker 1: and create some space on derm Smys third catch of
Speaker 1: the game, and he talked postgame about running through contact
Speaker 1: and and finding different ways to vary the releases. I
Speaker 1: thought we we saw on this play as well, to
Speaker 1: create space for his best friend Dirham Smith for a
Speaker 1: reception on his corner route a third down and short conversion.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the game, Jachee runs another great route, a
Speaker 1: brotherhood route that pulls the corner down to the flat
Speaker 1: and creates that space for Mike. A very nice anticipation
Speaker 1: ripped there from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Gisicky, who shows strong
Speaker 1: hands and plucks that thing for a first down. Did
Speaker 1: the exact same thing a few drives later on I
Speaker 1: touchdown catch beats him twice really on this play where
Speaker 1: he runs through the route, initially gets on top of
Speaker 1: him and then has to come over the top and
Speaker 1: rebound the football off his helmet. Just excellent, excellent work
Speaker 1: there from tight end Mike A. Sicki. And then on
Speaker 1: a third and sixteen, he turns a linebacker around in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, nice little outside release, cross
Speaker 1: his face and gets those hips open and gets himself open.
Speaker 1: But pressure got to Fitzpatrick just as he went to
Speaker 1: through went to throw and they couldn't quite connect on
Speaker 1: the play. So I thought Mike Sicki had a good game.
Speaker 1: I thought Dion DeVante Parker had a huge game, just
Speaker 1: catching multiple routes, square ins, slants open on a couple
Speaker 1: of drag plays, back shoulders comebacks. They had double coverage
Speaker 1: on a back shoulder pass the reception after the one
Speaker 1: that was reviewed and stood that stood up. There, they
Speaker 1: roll a safety over the top to Davante Parker, but
Speaker 1: he still makes the catch. I talked about this on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Sunday night or possibly last week, where
Speaker 1: a number one receiver needs to be able to beat
Speaker 1: double coverage and catch balls on third down and catch
Speaker 1: passes in the red zone everyone knows the football is
Speaker 1: coming to them. Thought Parker did that throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this game. And a lot of these catches are
Speaker 1: such tight window throws and he's not only catching the football,
Speaker 1: he's ripping off big runs. Afterwards, he really just plagued
Speaker 1: within himself. Well, they're a guy that does so well
Speaker 1: in contested catches, and it was fun to watch a
Speaker 1: big time step up game for Davante Parker. And we
Speaker 1: later saw him hit a comeback route for a first
Speaker 1: down on second and ten, once again with safety coverage
Speaker 1: rolling over the top, so he has to find a
Speaker 1: way back down because you're not going to get vertical
Speaker 1: with that safety help. This is right after the Nick
Speaker 1: needed interception, works back down the stem, catches it for
Speaker 1: twenty five yards with pressure bearing down Fitzpatrick, who did
Speaker 1: a great job to get the ball out, and Parker
Speaker 1: had to uncover and win because at that point in
Speaker 1: the play with a pressure, he was really the only
Speaker 1: option in the play. He makes a big one and
Speaker 1: then finally catching another back shoulder in the fourth that
Speaker 1: helped Miami keep the clock moving with a ten point lead.
Speaker 1: Just such a crucial element of this game, those back
Speaker 1: shoulder throws and making those contested catches. They needed him
Speaker 1: in this game, and I thought he stepped up really
Speaker 1: big that way at receiver as well. Jachem Grant the
Speaker 1: separation he created on a first down conversion that he
Speaker 1: had in this game, just a hop step to kind
Speaker 1: of create some space between he and the defender. And
Speaker 1: it really shows you how much they feared that deep speed,
Speaker 1: because once he kind of throttles down, they're kind of
Speaker 1: thinking about the double moon and they take a couple
Speaker 1: of steps back and get more depth. He can really
Speaker 1: threaten those guys at the top of the stem and
Speaker 1: snap that thing off. And I think there's some more
Speaker 1: meat on the bone here. As far as Jachim in
Speaker 1: the passing game, it looks like, you know, several times
Speaker 1: he's created some separation in the game and just for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they haven't been able to connect on those.
Speaker 1: But there's so many instances, some isolation opportunities where he's
Speaker 1: so far behind the defender that the defender has to
Speaker 1: get on his tail and get up field. And then
Speaker 1: you can either throw the deep ball, throw the vertical ball,
Speaker 1: go back shoulder intentionally under throw it and you might
Speaker 1: get a defensive pass interference like the Dolphins did in
Speaker 1: this game late in the fourth quarter to really help
Speaker 1: them put it away with the Adam Shaheen touchdown reception.
Speaker 1: So just offensively and as a team as a whole.
Speaker 1: I think there are so many reps from these young
Speaker 1: guys you're seeing every game that are encouraging, Like it's
Speaker 1: a good feet from the offensive line, good hand placement,
Speaker 1: good blitz pick up by running backs and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: good routes from the receivers working hard for each other
Speaker 1: to get each other open. I just I think there's
Speaker 1: a good opportunity here for a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the vision, right You don't draft player
Speaker 1: for the for their first year production at all. You
Speaker 1: draft players to develop and grow them, like we saw
Speaker 1: with Devanta Parker and Mike Gasiki now in year three
Speaker 1: and your six respectively. For those two players, they developed
Speaker 1: and grew here. I think the other guys on this
Speaker 1: team can as well. Let's go ahead and turn this
Speaker 1: over to the defensive side of the film a little
Speaker 1: more enjoyable watch on defense. Three points allowed, ten first downs,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty yards, the second rank scoring defense,
Speaker 1: the first ranked third down defense, and I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching this Dolphins all twenty two from the three points
Speaker 1: allowed against the New York Jets, now three points in
Speaker 1: two games this season against Gang green and first off
Speaker 1: the block. The very first play of the game, ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis gets immediate knocked back and bubble and he
Speaker 1: did this pretty much consistently throughout the game. Thought he
Speaker 1: set good picks as a pass rusher and freeing guys
Speaker 1: up to loop inside and make plays that way. He
Speaker 1: also got some penetration himself. Just consistent disruption from ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis. Same thing was true of Zach Seiler. I
Speaker 1: mean early on the Jets pull the tackle and try
Speaker 1: to seal him with a tight end and he just
Speaker 1: takes him back into the lap of a running back
Speaker 1: and then fort end up from there. Ray Kawon and
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle a lot of times, I just love seeing
Speaker 1: defensive lineman get that knocked back and disrupting the play
Speaker 1: in some form or fashion. But he was getting off
Speaker 1: blocks and making plays in this game. More good stuff
Speaker 1: from the man with a new contract. He later comes
Speaker 1: back and disrupts the pocket from the three technique by
Speaker 1: working upfield, splits the garden tackle. The very next play,
Speaker 1: he walks the guard back in to the running back
Speaker 1: and Van Noi closes the play down on the backside.
Speaker 1: The first play of the second half, he splits the
Speaker 1: double team and overpowers the tackle for a tackle a
Speaker 1: stop right at the line. It's really impressive how many
Speaker 1: times he flashed in this game. Was a four or
Speaker 1: five there with just twenty snaps. Big impact plays again
Speaker 1: from Zach Seeler. Christian Wilkins had a very good game
Speaker 1: as well. Hell double teams really well throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game. I thought, you watch the way he
Speaker 1: has such a strong base and low center of gravity
Speaker 1: because of that flexibility he offers. He's stout and flexible
Speaker 1: with a really nice burst off the snap, and that
Speaker 1: kind of allows him to make to win immediately off
Speaker 1: the snap for some of those impact plays. He teamed
Speaker 1: up with the land and Roberts Fray run stuff and
Speaker 1: the third quarter doing just this. He also plays rundowns
Speaker 1: to the backside of the formation, chasing him across the
Speaker 1: formation by following the block to the football then disengaging.
Speaker 1: He does this pretty regularly too. I thought he did
Speaker 1: that well on a certain solo tackle in the third
Speaker 1: quarter up against Frank Gore and then Emmanuel Ogba. This
Speaker 1: guy makes impacts every single week, and early in the
Speaker 1: game he takes the right tackle right into Donald's lap
Speaker 1: on third and six, it draws a hold and the
Speaker 1: start of the next series he draws a tight end
Speaker 1: and works over the block, comes back inside to outside
Speaker 1: and gets a run stuff as well. He'll hear his
Speaker 1: name throughout the course of some of these big plays
Speaker 1: in this podcast. I thought Shaq Lawson had control of
Speaker 1: the edge throughout the course of the game, immovable at times.
Speaker 1: I thought Miami had really good edge run defense throughout
Speaker 1: the course of this game from Lawson, from Van Nou,
Speaker 1: Van Ginkel, and Emmanuel Ogba as well. Thought Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: again played well in space on routes, both in the
Speaker 1: hook or the flat. Whether he's in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field or out wide, he finds a way to
Speaker 1: get in that hip pocket and either prevent the catch
Speaker 1: or get the the past catcher down quickly after he
Speaker 1: makes the three set option. I thought you really saw
Speaker 1: his ability to smoothly transition in this game. Open up, drop,
Speaker 1: come forward. It's a nice pairing with his blitz and capabilities.
Speaker 1: And we saw the speed again later in the game
Speaker 1: when he stopped Ty Johnson in the open field on
Speaker 1: a flare route where he just follows him all the
Speaker 1: way across the formation to the wide side of the
Speaker 1: field and gets him down short of the sticks on
Speaker 1: third down. Jerome Baker Speed pays dividends often and Kyle
Speaker 1: Van Noy stopped me. If you've heard this before, like
Speaker 1: you've heard about Baker Speed. I just love watching Kyle
Speaker 1: Van Nooy do his job down in and down out.
Speaker 1: Hundred percent Snaptaker. In this game, there's a first and
Speaker 1: ten and the Jets are at the Dolphins plus eighteen
Speaker 1: yard line and they pull the backside guard as the
Speaker 1: tight end who's kind of up over Van Noy's inside shoulder.
Speaker 1: He tries to get to the second level for a
Speaker 1: reach block on the land and Roberts and get across
Speaker 1: his face, and Van Noy sees the guard come across
Speaker 1: the formation and just with absolute force, stops him right
Speaker 1: in his tracks. It forces the running back to cut
Speaker 1: up inside because otherwise he has to bubble deep in
Speaker 1: the backfield, and then you get pursuit there and it
Speaker 1: allows a gap to open up for your land and
Speaker 1: Roberts who comes in there and occupies it, knifeing inside
Speaker 1: and makes a tackle for a one yard game. It's
Speaker 1: just good football all around from Vanoy, Roberts, Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Davis was there his zac seeler Jerome Baker I put
Speaker 1: all at the party fifty five team football making big
Speaker 1: plays for this Dolphins defense. Vannoy also had a pass
Speaker 1: rush where he was able to get under the pads
Speaker 1: of the tackle and just power his way to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It forced Donald to escape the pocket, as he did
Speaker 1: throughout the course of this game with good schemed up
Speaker 1: pressure and on his half sack for van Noy, he
Speaker 1: gets there with ray Kuan Davis because both ray Kwon
Speaker 1: and aug Bas set nice little picks for him to
Speaker 1: work up field and then loop over the top and
Speaker 1: come inside on the quarterback. Both he and ray Kwan
Speaker 1: greet each other at Donald. Then a few plays later
Speaker 1: on the fourth and one stop, that was where Roberts
Speaker 1: just squares up in the hole with Frank Gore exactly
Speaker 1: on just exactly squares him up how you want to
Speaker 1: do it. An explosive game changing play and the first
Speaker 1: player the next series. He then beats a blitz from
Speaker 1: the running back to pick up a half sack along
Speaker 1: with Jerome Baker in the Jets backfield as well, staying
Speaker 1: at linebacker Andrew Van Ginkl I Meat out about the
Speaker 1: play where he tripped up Frank Gore, and I mean
Speaker 1: the Gangster is basically in what you would look at
Speaker 1: as like a simulated Oklahoma drill. You've got a guard
Speaker 1: pulling with a running back into so he has to
Speaker 1: get around that block and find a way to get
Speaker 1: to the running back, and he undercuts that block and
Speaker 1: sells out to just get a piece of Gore's ankle,
Speaker 1: who's basically full throttle for that gap because if he
Speaker 1: hits it hard, there's a one on one chance there
Speaker 1: with he and Bobby McCain, who's been terrific on those
Speaker 1: open field tackles at the second level when backs break
Speaker 1: through this season we saw many many times in previous games.
Speaker 1: But Van Gigel makes it irrelevant and just gets him
Speaker 1: down an awesome, awesome play. And then shortly after that
Speaker 1: he uses the same dip and angle to kind of
Speaker 1: get around that corner for a shot at a sack,
Speaker 1: but the tackle snatches the inside of that collar bone
Speaker 1: on the front side of the jersey and it's an
Speaker 1: easy holding call for the official ten yards push him back.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Bobby the open field tackling, he also just
Speaker 1: caps off so much stuff deep for opposing offenses like
Speaker 1: he did in this game, and it forces Donald to
Speaker 1: kind of go through multiple looks and hold the football
Speaker 1: for a little bit. It's been such a consistent element
Speaker 1: of this team this year, with him playing a lot
Speaker 1: of middle of the field stuff and playing the deep
Speaker 1: heart of the field. He's so consistent there in that tackling.
Speaker 1: It's been fun to watch his transition to that safety role.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones Xavian Howard, I just I've got so many
Speaker 1: notes around these guys. They're so good. I talked about
Speaker 1: them last week mirroring and running takeoff routes upfield with receivers.
Speaker 1: Saw the same thing here on a couple of deep
Speaker 1: incomplete shots first intended for Brashad Perriman on Jones. They're
Speaker 1: just both in the hip pockets of their guys on
Speaker 1: either side of the field. It looks like it's a
Speaker 1: mirror while they're in mirror coverage. They're trying to run
Speaker 1: the exact same route as the receiver, and you see
Speaker 1: x undercut this little curl route and it really just
Speaker 1: shows you how he's able to make so many big plays.
Speaker 1: He's so often positions himself in between the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the wide receiver at the catchpoint. It's just it's uncanny
Speaker 1: how often that happens. And the way these two guys
Speaker 1: work with their safety help is just a lot of
Speaker 1: fun to watch. It's like watching foodsball. Almost one one
Speaker 1: guy moves, they all move. There's a third and seven
Speaker 1: in completion where they try to get Xavian in a
Speaker 1: bit of conflict where they run Arounte underneath him and
Speaker 1: over the top of him, and he just carries it
Speaker 1: long enough until Eric Rowe comes over and closes the
Speaker 1: thing off, and by the time the football gets there,
Speaker 1: they're both in good shape up high and down low.
Speaker 1: There's a third and four takeoff route with Denzel Mims
Speaker 1: where xaviing Howard'll talk about him individually here a little
Speaker 1: bit where he just pins Mims to the sideline and
Speaker 1: Donald braces contain and tries to get him coming back
Speaker 1: down the sideline, but x is right there to force
Speaker 1: him out at the catchpoint, push him out of bounds.
Speaker 1: Talking about four to five seconds there a blanket coverage.
Speaker 1: It's just it's crazy how how much how long he
Speaker 1: can cover four and and have good coverage for extended
Speaker 1: periods of time When these quarterbacks break the pocket. On
Speaker 1: the next drive, they try and over route with him
Speaker 1: giving outside leverage, which is free inside access for the receiver,
Speaker 1: and he undercuts the route. And if this pass is flat,
Speaker 1: it's got a good chance to get his hands on it.
Speaker 1: But Donald does a good job on this particular play
Speaker 1: to put it high in a way. It's just in
Speaker 1: a tough spot so Perriman can't quite get to it.
Speaker 1: It creates both exaviing and Howard doing this creates both
Speaker 1: a small window and a chance for a game changing play.
Speaker 1: And it's like Byron Jones said, this freaking guy he
Speaker 1: gets his hands on the takeoff route later in the game,
Speaker 1: and it's the exact same thing. He creates a small window,
Speaker 1: and if the ball is off by just a little bit,
Speaker 1: he's in position to get his hands on the football.
Speaker 1: And this time he's got it. But you watch the
Speaker 1: slow mo replay, Perriman actually pokes out of x his
Speaker 1: hands when he lifts his hands up to try to
Speaker 1: catch the ball. Otherwise he might have made the catch
Speaker 1: on that one too. Then you see McCain come over
Speaker 1: and just clean it up with a perfect hit for
Speaker 1: a good measure. Talking about that communication, and timing between
Speaker 1: the cornerback and safety. Play Later in the game, x
Speaker 1: literally stacks Mims on a deep ball like a receiver
Speaker 1: were due to a cornerback runs the route and gets
Speaker 1: on top and stacks him so he can't get over
Speaker 1: the top to make the play, and so all Men's
Speaker 1: can do to prevent another possible interception is jump on
Speaker 1: his back and get that O p I. Then he
Speaker 1: punches one out where it looks like pairman might catch
Speaker 1: a forty four yard touchdown on a post. And then
Speaker 1: finally he finishes off this time by doing the exact
Speaker 1: same thing, getting undercut on a little flat throw underneath
Speaker 1: for his seven interception. He puts himself in possession four
Speaker 1: or five times throughout the course of this game and
Speaker 1: just finally got one paid off there at the end.
Speaker 1: But this was one of my favorite cornerback tapes I've
Speaker 1: watched in quite some time. He played really really good
Speaker 1: in this game, and just the secondary in general had
Speaker 1: so many plays where everything was just blanketed there was
Speaker 1: nowhere to go Byron Jones had nice disruption on a
Speaker 1: pair of over routes. Then there was that twenty seven
Speaker 1: yard completion to Perriman where I thought he was in
Speaker 1: good shape. Did most everything right on that play was
Speaker 1: in the hip pocket of the receiver gets his head
Speaker 1: around early. You see him snap early on the tape,
Speaker 1: but the ball is a little bit underthrown impairman is
Speaker 1: able to adjust, and that's something Byron has talked about
Speaker 1: working on locate in the football a lot this year,
Speaker 1: and I think he shows you a little bit of
Speaker 1: that growth on that play getting his head around so quickly.
Speaker 1: Nick need Um got a big interception in this game,
Speaker 1: a great example of just plastering downfield. The quarterback breaks
Speaker 1: the pocket and need Him finds a guy walls him off,
Speaker 1: and Donald throws one direction. The receiver breaks the other
Speaker 1: and need Him's right there to find the football and
Speaker 1: collect for his first pick of the year. Very nice play. Finally,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones the very first drive of the game. We
Speaker 1: talked about this on the Sunday podcast because I thought
Speaker 1: it was such a good example of how this team
Speaker 1: makes plays and finds different guys to make plays and
Speaker 1: gets pressure in different ways. On this play, again, Dolphins
Speaker 1: just blanket every option in the second dary with guys
Speaker 1: sitting on routes while the pressure arrives and the offensive
Speaker 1: line kind of fans out to block the Dolphins wide
Speaker 1: rush going upfield, and from zero to sixty in a
Speaker 1: flash comes Brandon Jones. You just you can't really tell
Speaker 1: that he's coming because he's just kind of standing off
Speaker 1: the football and not showing pressure in that a gap.
Speaker 1: But once the ball is snapped like a bullet, he's
Speaker 1: out of that stands and squares up a shot on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And also Emmanuel Ogball comes clean splitting the
Speaker 1: garden tackle on that play too, So just more of
Speaker 1: the same man Like Flora said, Josh Boy doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough credit. Great called game, good mix of everything fronts
Speaker 1: and coverage wise, and doesn't hurt when you get great
Speaker 1: play from those cornerbacks, that secondary communications on top of things,
Speaker 1: McCain and Road doing their work consistently, Guys like Kyle
Speaker 1: van noymaking plays and and doing his assignment play in
Speaker 1: and play out, not leaving the field, multiple contributing linebackers
Speaker 1: and defensive lineman. It's just been fun to watch this
Speaker 1: defense kind of come together and grow and they're playing
Speaker 1: good football and we'll see if they can continue it
Speaker 1: next week against the Bengals and into Thecember and finished
Speaker 1: off the season strong that way as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get two coordinators and assistant coaches
Speaker 1: media from Tuesday here December the first, the first episode
Speaker 1: of December on Drivetime. Let's go ahead and start with
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, who first was asked about
Speaker 1: what is it the MIxS exaving Howard the cornerback that
Speaker 1: he is. I would say that, uh, he's really put
Speaker 1: in uh you know, I would say, consistently some good
Speaker 1: all around performances from um a run game standpoint, a
Speaker 1: past game standpoint, as far as his technique at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, his leverage and past coverage, his his
Speaker 1: technique at the top of the route. I would say,
Speaker 1: in the run game, um, you know, making sure that
Speaker 1: he leverages the ball, being able to crack replace, I mean,
Speaker 1: really becoming a complete corner um, you know, and doing
Speaker 1: it very consistently for for a long period of time.
Speaker 1: And it's getting better and he's working hard at it.
Speaker 1: That's a credit to him. Um, you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't know our guys in the secondary, uh you know,
Speaker 1: Charles Burke's and g A. You know that that they
Speaker 1: work you know, extensively with those guys and Xaviens put
Speaker 1: in a lot of work and you know, and I
Speaker 1: think the good thing about Axavian he knows, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a week to week league, so he's got to
Speaker 1: put in that work each week and he's striving for
Speaker 1: improvement and uh, you know, it's really a credit to
Speaker 1: him and his work at that. Uh. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: seeing strides on a weekend and week out basis. And
Speaker 1: coach next answered a question about the growth of so
Speaker 1: many young players and what makes this team full of
Speaker 1: all these young players, whether it's Zach Seeler, Nick Needham,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, Ray Kwon Davis, all these young players in
Speaker 1: the defense making strides. What makes this young defense so
Speaker 1: hungry and able to improve that the course of the season.
Speaker 1: I'd say the credit to them and their work ethic, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and in their consistency of coming in and
Speaker 1: striving to be better. Um you know. Um that again,
Speaker 1: And I mean we preach this, and I know it
Speaker 1: sounds like a broken record. Is like things, they don't
Speaker 1: stay the same. I mean, you you either get better
Speaker 1: or you get worse. And you know, I mean you
Speaker 1: may hit some bumps in the road. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the foundation, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: like anything else in life. Uh, you know, it's your
Speaker 1: profession as your craft. If if you don't practice it,
Speaker 1: you don't work at it, your skill sets will diminish.
Speaker 1: And UM, I would say, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: our guys they put in, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: extra work or there's a lot of guys you know,
Speaker 1: um that maybe not playing, but you know you can
Speaker 1: see the improvement in practice, and um, you know, and
Speaker 1: we really push out with everybody. Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: I would I would say it's the same for the coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, we we try to get better from week
Speaker 1: to week. And like I said, sometimes you have bumps
Speaker 1: on the road here and there, but I think it's
Speaker 1: the process of constantly striving for improvement. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and here next from coach Danny craftsman of the Special Teams,
Speaker 1: and this group just gets better every single week. There
Speaker 1: ranked one and two across so many metrics on so
Speaker 1: many different sites or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Special teams getting the job done. One area is winning
Speaker 1: the kickoff coverage. I asked coach how the decisions to
Speaker 1: kick off consistently short of the goal on force returns
Speaker 1: and get those tackles down inside the twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: and that confidence to win the hidden yards battle. Here's
Speaker 1: coach on that. You know, we look at on a
Speaker 1: week to week, came to game basis, based on our opponent,
Speaker 1: based on other situations once we truly get into the game.
Speaker 1: But we feel good about Jason, We feel good about
Speaker 1: the coverage, guys. So there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: go into it, but you know, to be able to
Speaker 1: have some of that ability to maybe for lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, dictate, Uh, what's going on is something
Speaker 1: that that flow talks about and I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: have heard it from him time and time again. Uh,
Speaker 1: but that's an advantage we try and take advantage of.
Speaker 1: It was short and sweet with Dolphins offensive weren't our
Speaker 1: Chang geely who answered a question about to a pre
Speaker 1: and post game and his feelings about not being able
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday in the game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: I think we kind of all realized how competitive he
Speaker 1: is and um, you know, I didn't really get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him, uh, you know after the
Speaker 1: game about how he felt, but just knowing him. I
Speaker 1: know it really Uh they wanted to play so uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know uh til we get you know, back
Speaker 1: in the office lands d uh exactly what the status is.
Speaker 1: But you know, I know he's he's working hard to
Speaker 1: get ready. He's tough guy. Let's keep it rolling. Here
Speaker 1: with Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studisville, who I asked
Speaker 1: a question about DeAndre Washington his ability to get himself
Speaker 1: into a position where he was kind of lead back
Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter, getting those first downs and accending
Speaker 1: drives and catching passes. Here's coach students Fille on DeAndre
Speaker 1: washing Inton's worth at work ethic. Easy for me to
Speaker 1: say since he arrived. Well, I think there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things that are that are worth noting regarding DeAndre.
Speaker 1: I think the first one is this is a passionate
Speaker 1: guy who prepares. He came in to learn this offense.
Speaker 1: He did a great job of working. That's that's what
Speaker 1: you see manifested in his performance was the amount of
Speaker 1: work and time and effort that he put in to
Speaker 1: give himself a chance to go out there. And then,
Speaker 1: as all all players, I think doing coaches as well,
Speaker 1: we just want an opportunity to showcase what we can do,
Speaker 1: and he was waiting for that time and he was
Speaker 1: prepared for that opportunity when it came forward. And uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's a it's a credit to him and
Speaker 1: who he is, his work ethic, his preparation um and
Speaker 1: truly his patients for his time and opportunity that he
Speaker 1: was ready for it when it came up. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and here from coach Marshall along the offensive line,
Speaker 1: who talked about the growth and fundamentals and development of
Speaker 1: young offensive line and how toy the same for this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team for young guys as it is for the
Speaker 1: veterans in that development. As we as we do every
Speaker 1: week up front, you know, win loser draw. The fundamental
Speaker 1: part of of playing in the National Football League is
Speaker 1: utmost uh, especially where especially at the tackle position. You know,
Speaker 1: some guys are talented enough inside to kind of do
Speaker 1: what they need to do to get the job done.
Speaker 1: But out there, when you're going every week against very
Speaker 1: very you know, the top of the line rushers to
Speaker 1: to to that side, it's fundamentals, it's bend in your knees.
Speaker 1: It's the same same scenario every week. And how we
Speaker 1: get get those done, and that's that's with Austin is
Speaker 1: no different than than Rob or you know Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: for that matter. You know the young players that we
Speaker 1: have keep getting keep doing the fundamental thing, learning something
Speaker 1: new every week. Uh you know, am I in balance?
Speaker 1: You know as my my my hands and the rights
Speaker 1: each and every week, my playing going in every week
Speaker 1: against Pacific rushers, all that is some work on every
Speaker 1: single week. Let's go ahead and hear from Dolphins receivers
Speaker 1: coach Josh Grizzard who talked about Devanta Parker. I had
Speaker 1: a question for coach about DeVante's demeanor and temperament. But
Speaker 1: first we're gonna start off with the idea of playing
Speaker 1: man coverage and getting matchups in that man scheme for
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker. Here's coach Grizard on when teams do go
Speaker 1: man coverage against Dvante, they like that matchup. Dude, we
Speaker 1: like that matchup from week to week. Get changes on.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be a man scheme, Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be a press man scheme? Is it gonna be a
Speaker 1: zone scheme where you gotta find the devoted area? But yeah,
Speaker 1: we we we loved him matched up when we got
Speaker 1: all the confidence in the world in him. It was
Speaker 1: great to see that we not had a big game
Speaker 1: on on Sunday, but that's always a matchup that we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to take advantage. And I believe I played
Speaker 1: the sound for you guys on the Sunday Recap podcast
Speaker 1: where Mike Kasiki talked about him going crazy after a
Speaker 1: catch and DeVante just kind of shaking the head, quiet
Speaker 1: lean doing his thing. I wanted to ask Coach Gizzard
Speaker 1: about that temperament for Parker and the juice it gives
Speaker 1: to the rest of the team when he has that
Speaker 1: kind of quiet confidence. Here's Coach on Parker's temperament. I
Speaker 1: think with the headshaking, all that is what you get.
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't he doesn't say a ton but um.
Speaker 1: When he does say something and invoices his opinion, you
Speaker 1: know that it's coming from um, something he truly believes in.
Speaker 1: So whatever his reaction to having this success and going
Speaker 1: out there and just shaking his head and having it
Speaker 1: again the next play is what we're looking for. And
Speaker 1: I think that when guys see that kind of reaction
Speaker 1: from him, it gives juice to the rest of the unit.
Speaker 1: It could be the running backs, tight ends, and then
Speaker 1: I think the old line season. I mean they're in
Speaker 1: they're protecting for um, you know, whoever's throwing it to
Speaker 1: get him the wall. So it's a collective effort and
Speaker 1: they see it and sparks some juice for the next play.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and finish this thing up with
Speaker 1: one of my favorite coaches to talk to, tight ends coach,
Speaker 1: George Gadzi, and we'll go ahead and get an answer
Speaker 1: from him here on the growth of Mike ga Sicky.
Speaker 1: I talked about this again on the Sunday podcast with
Speaker 1: Mike working on varying his releases and playing through contact
Speaker 1: and and the growth occurs week to week because of
Speaker 1: the different variables each opponent offers. Here's George Garcia on
Speaker 1: what he's seen in the growth from Mike asiki and
Speaker 1: the ability to vary those releases against different opponents and
Speaker 1: different coverages. Yeah, that's uh, the releases. I think that's
Speaker 1: always evolving as a route runner um because you go
Speaker 1: against different guys, you go against or well you're presented
Speaker 1: a defensive linemen to get around when you're attached or
Speaker 1: inline when you're in the slot. It may be a
Speaker 1: different player than a corner outside playing you so uh.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the safeties are a little bit more physical,
Speaker 1: um when when matching the tight end. So all those
Speaker 1: change based on the person you're going against. UM. That's
Speaker 1: what's so fun about this is each week there's new variables, UM,
Speaker 1: and it's a challenge. So putting those guys in those
Speaker 1: positions during the week, making sure that they execute the
Speaker 1: techniques that we think will help them. UM and Mike
Speaker 1: send a good job of caring that to the game.
Speaker 1: I think it's Uh, it's a little bit easier to
Speaker 1: draw on the paper and get to the back pylon.
Speaker 1: But when he's avoiding a guy along with the rush
Speaker 1: getting two fits there on that throw that you were
Speaker 1: talking about and a high point it there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of individual technique that we've worked on for that
Speaker 1: play to be successful and there was a big play
Speaker 1: for us. And so there you have it. Another very
Speaker 1: very meaty Tuesday episode here of the Drive Time Podcast.
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