WEBVTT - Points Catching Up to Production, Tua's Crazy Season Perspective, Run Game Creativity, Winning the Trenches and Unsung Heroes 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.559 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:15.680 looking clips the water, Dolph touchtop ton Rick call man, 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.239 I want to help you soon up on his way, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.600 Wattle Waddle to a shotguns, back to throw looking stumps 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.800 up fires too Aday, It's Waddle. It's six touchdown parade 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:33.960 of this Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:40.120 me check your pulse. If not, what is up? Dolphins? 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.240 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:48.519 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.800 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.000 And on today's show, we've made it to the middle 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.120 of another week. We've made it to the turn the 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.880 page day. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.360 quarterback to a tong of Byloa. We'll look around the 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.560 web and see what folks are saying and do our 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.240 regular Wednesday thing with the five big picture items I 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.680 think about this football team from the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:16.160 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.520 Always loved this episode of the pod. Taking a big 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.040 picture step back look at the team and the perspective 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.240 of offense, defense, special teams in the collection of the 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.640 entire team nine weeks into the season now, and we 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.959 do that with five things I think. And the first 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.280 thing I think on this Wednesday, November the nine is 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.320 that the offense is point production is catching up to 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.920 what the yards they've gained all year would suggest they have. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.240 And let me go ahead and put my Brian win 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.840 Horse hat on here. Why is that? First? The reason 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.760 I wanted to get to this was because just two 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.240 weeks ago after the Steelers game, you know where we 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.000 went up and down the field but managed just six 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.800 team points on a day where it felt like the 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.440 offense was really clicking but just gotten his own way 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.480 a couple of times. I wanted to look back at 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.720 the last two games here for this Dolphins offense, and 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.760 if you look at the red zone conversion percentage, nine 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.320 drives seven touchdowns at seventy seven point eight percent conversion 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.400 rate in the red zone, it is difficult to beat 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.960 teams for the opposition's sake. When you're allowing touchdowns seven 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.679 out of nine drives into the red zone, you're not 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.160 gonna win many games doing that, and also on third 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.760 down for the Dolphins, thirteen of twenty two on third 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.160 downs in those two games. That's just a smidge below. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.440 So two very very efficient numbers and two of the 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.880 most critical areas you're gonna see in terms of a 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.480 box score, in terms of a stat count for a 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.280 football game and a football team. And so, you know, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.720 the Dolphins point production and really just general offensive production 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.760 has caught up to what that yards per play metric 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.079 would suggest that we talked about a couple of weeks 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.760 ago here on the podcast. They are tenth in the NFL. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.160 Right now in points per game at twenty three point seven, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.680 they are second in the NFL. How does that field 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.800 Dolphins fans? You have these second best passing game right 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.440 now in terms of yards per game, and I would 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.639 argue it could be probably better than that. You know, 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.240 if a certain player was here every single week at 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.800 two nine three point six yards per game, second best 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.120 passing attack in the NFL by that metric, rushing eighty 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.160 six point nine yards per game is NFL. We'll get 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.120 to that here in a second third down. We talked 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.239 about being sixty percent the last two weeks on the 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.040 season forty one point three percent, tied for four Also 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.840 going to get back to that stat here in a second. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.040 On the year in the red zone six nice That 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.120 is six the best in the NFL, and they're six 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.360 point three yards per play our second, so think about that. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.160 Yards per play is one of the most important stats 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.080 in football. Second points their tenth red zone they are six, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.680 and third down they're tied for fourteenth, which I'll tell 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.240 you why that's gonna get even better here in just 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.040 a second. But the running part of that stands out 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.440 a bit right the third downs too, obviously, which I 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.200 thought was strange given two US records heading pace on 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.760 third down pass this year, but also only one team 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.280 who has played nine games. Most teams in the league 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.560 have played eight games right now. We're one of the 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.560 few teams that haven't had their by yet, but most 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.720 teams have played nine games, and only one team that 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.560 has played nine games has ran fewer plays on third 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.360 down than us. The Falcons have a hundred third down plays, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.280 the Dolphins have one d four and no team has 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.400 more yards per play first downs or a higher passer 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.000 rating this year than the Miami Dolphins. So we're getting 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.840 to third down at one of the lowest rates, but 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.880 then executing them at one of the most efficient rates 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.719 in these last few games. Uh. As far as third 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.479 downs per game, the Dolphins have eleven point five five 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.360 That's tied with Buffalo, who have the fewest third down 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.120 attempts this season. From a volume standpoints, the Dolphins on 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.159 a per game basis have faced the second fewest third 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.800 downs in the National Football League or tied for it. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.400 That's why you look at fourteenth in the league and say, well, yeah, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.880 they're scoring points because they are as explosive as anybody 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.280 on the early downs and then they're highly efficient on 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.840 the money down. Not to mention the big plays were 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.280 on third down. You know, third and six, thirty nine 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.600 yards of Tyreek Hill. A third down you throw a 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.320 twenty nine yard touchdown pass to Jaalen Waddle. It's been 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.000 that way all year long. Third and twenty two you 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.839 get forty five yards to Waddle to basically beat Buffalo. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.200 As for the running aspect of that, I think it's 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.800 a kin to what we talked about with the yards 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.280 per play and how it tends to play out that 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.400 the points will catch up to the stat but more 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.640 so the eye test of just saying, hey, this looks 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.279 like more than a twenty one point per game offense, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.320 doesn't it. So from average yards per rush last four games, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.000 and this removes victory formation kneel downs at the end 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.360 of the game. I did not go back and look 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.400 at halftime, but I think there might be a couple 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.600 in there. But it's pretty pretty Uh, it plays out 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.440 pretty much the same. So the last six game rushing totals, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.799 where you subtract seven kneel downs for negative seven yards 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.320 for seventy seven, twenty six for one oh seven, seven 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:55.000 for one eleven, seventy three, six for one thirty seven 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.960 and eighty five. So for total, that's one and thirty 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.560 seven rushes for five hundred and ninety seven yards, which 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.000 is four point four yards per carry. So I think 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.240 you're getting plenty out of the run games, since you know, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.920 a bit of a slow start to the season in 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.360 that category. But even still those first three games, you know, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.720 and going back to the number of third downs that 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.080 we haven't had this year. In two of those games, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.279 the Baltimore and the Buffalo game, you're chasing points really 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.000 all the way until to the fourth quarter, and for Baltimore, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.160 up until the last play of the game, really and 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.320 we did get some success back in that Week one 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.320 game over the Patriots with fourth quarter running the football, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.400 and I want to hammer home the point that it's 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.640 really providing a great balance and compliment to the passing game. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.360 The ability to get to four point four yards a 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.000 clip is more than adequate enough in terms of capitalizing 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.680 on what this defense does best, which is makes a 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.920 lot of the variety of the playbook look the exact 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.680 same like it's like again back to my baseball references, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.640 Felix Hernandez was the best right handed pitcher in the 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.560 league for like ten years because his nine four mile 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.560 and our fastball looked identical to is eighty five mile changeup, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.920 and that nine mile hour difference in speed was impossible 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.360 for hitters to gauge, especially when the changeup just fell 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.120 off the plate, so that it was the same idea. Right, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.080 we're gonna run this play from this formation, and this 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.480 play from this formation one is a run. One of 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.320 the past one capitalized on this conflict defender. The next 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.680 one will take him and put him in a different 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.720 position of conflict. It creates some hesitation and that second 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.600 level and exploits any motor come of a false step 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.680 that you might take. And I mean, just look at 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.560 the flow of these games. They haven't exactly been, you know, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.400 again conducive to a run heavy attack. When you need 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.680 thirty points to win a game, you tend to see 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.000 the rush attempts go down a little bit. And that's 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.000 been the case in four of these six games. You 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.280 needed thirty points to beat the Bengals, you needed more 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.680 than forty points to beat the Jets, You needed thirty 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.720 points to beat Detroit and Chicago, so kind of harkens 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.360 back to that. And then I want to go ahead 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.280 and look at the stat that I'm sure everybody wanted 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.520 to hear here, uh with and without tah so with 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.440 doah again, this is a fun element where my hypothesis 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:58.880 did not play out the way I thought it would, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.160 but eventually got to a different point that helped carry 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.800 the point in general. But with two A in the 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.160 red zone, one drives fifteen touchdowns at seventy one point 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:13.200 four percent touchdown conversion rate in the red zone, fifteen 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.080 of fifty six drives got to the red zone. That's 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.000 twenty eight percent of your drives under two A without 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.640 too ah eight drives five touchdowns. That's a sixty two 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.320 percent red zone conversion rate, so just a nine point 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.320 four or nine point six drop off their percentage points 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.040 and red zone execution without TAH. And then also it 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.120 drives getting too the red zone eight of thirty seven 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.760 twenty one point six percent, so only again less than 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.719 seven percent drop off there. So my hypothesis was that 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.480 the red zone execution and getting to the red zone 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.520 is gonna be a lot higher. It's not, but here's 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.599 where it is. How about third downs with two a 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.520 thirty three at sixty nine, that's forty seven point eight 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:57.000 percent without to a ten of thirty five percent, So yeah, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.240 that's the rub. And then your points per game with 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.920 two point seven without to a six team point five. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.439 Pretty big deal there. My second thing that I think, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.920 how about a round of applause for Mike McDaniel, Frank Smith, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.120 and Matt Applebaum and really anyone that has any involvement 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.040 in the running game coordination, uh that puts puts their 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.880 part into the game plan, which I'm sure includes Eric 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.480 Sudsville as well, and in different offensive staff members that 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.319 I did not include here, but those three guys, you know, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.360 run game coordinator, offensive coordinator, uh, and obviously what Mike 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.360 has done, and then your offensive line coach. We did 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.880 the film review portion on the podcast every Tuesday, and 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.240 you guys hear my excitement about the run game in general, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.880 the design of the offense in general, I should say, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.160 and I would hate being a linebacker preparing for this 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.720 offense because there's just so much going on. Again mentioned 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.120 it in the first takeaway, so many false keys and 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.360 things that are designed to get you taking false steps 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.920 and if you get it wrong, you then are flat 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.120 footed against somebody like alec Ingold who's coming downhill ready 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.840 to put a hit right in your chops. And in fact, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.400 Sean Payton and I'm gonna lift this from the around 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.920 the Web portion I was going to do later on 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.839 he did calling Cowherd on Monday. I know, shame on 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.880 me for watching that show, but I'm not gonna promote 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.839 it on social. He said that when he was in 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.000 New Orleans every week, they would have two or three 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.439 other offenses around the NFL that they would study and 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.720 try to get ideas from. He said on the show 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.800 that if he were still coaching right now, the Dolphins 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.840 would be on that list of teams to cut up 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.400 every single week, regardless if they're your opponent or not. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.600 They want to get an idea for what other offenses 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.839 do for creativity and things to take away from them. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.880 He said the Dolphins would be in that list for 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.240 him as a head coach, and obviously Sean Payton is 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.600 one of the greatest offensive minds this league has ever seen, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.600 so pretty high praise and we don't have to deep 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.040 dive this, but a lot of it for me starts 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.760 with alec Ingold, who does just so much in all 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.360 aspects of the game. Hill align in a nasty split, which, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.760 as you know by now if you're a fan of 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.320 the podcast, means you're in tight to the formation, up 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.440 against the tackle tight end area close to the quarterback, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.560 and then chip the edge from that spot. He'll come 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.240 across the formation and split flow action and get that 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.200 last chance block before two it gets hit to afford 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.839 him the extra you know, three tenths of a second 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.160 to deliver one of the strikes that he's thrown all year. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.960 He'll lead you know, a running back on the outside 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.000 toss or in the screen game and the swing game. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.559 He just does so much and you look at the 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.520 offensive line. There were so many reps where the use 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.719 of the running game, and this ties into thing I 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.599 think number one where the function of play action the 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:18.040 full line slide. You've already just essentially men, you factured 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.280 a pocket for twa where he can turn his back 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.440 to the defense on play action, get to his drop, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.880 get his head back around and has room to survey, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.880 process hitch up and there's nobody even close to him. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.880 It has to be so comforting as a quarterback to 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.920 know you have those reps baked into the game plan. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.400 I think it all ties together with the run game 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.719 working off the past game and vice versa, and with 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.360 alec Ingold being a big part of that takes us 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.920 into our third thing. I think here on this Wednesday, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.199 heading into week number ten, is speaking of alec Ingold. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.160 This team has stars everywhere, but we are winning and 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.240 find margins think to some slightly unsung heroes we mentioned. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.440 Ingold just does so much for the offense. Trent Sherfield, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.439 you know, he's only he's only had one target this 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.440 year that he didn't catch. I think it's fourteen out 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.240 of fifteen. I mentioned those swings and tosses on outside 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.319 runs watch Trent Sherfield bust his ass to not just 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.480 get wide of the defensive formation and like, you know, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.120 be a guy that gets in the way. He gets 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.199 out wide, puts his foot in the ground and then 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.160 changes his momentum and leverage going back against the flow 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.320 of the play to make sure he doesn't just get 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.360 in the way but lays an effective seal block. It's awesome. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.720 One of my favorite things to watch each and every 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.320 week here on the Draft Time podcast. Uh Duke Riley 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.520 Special Teams tackles his speed to the perimeter, his ability 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.360 to spy quarterbacks, He's playing well in coverage, and he 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.719 can give you the occasional rush to the rest of 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.240 our guys are primarily here on this list. Special Teams 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.320 contributors Andrew Van Ginkla twenty five yard scoop and score 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.920 last week a franchise record off the punt block. He 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.240 makes a couple of plays on teams every week, it seems. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.800 And then his efficiency on defense has been really good too. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.080 Not as many snaps this year, but as he's working 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.559 back from the app end deck to me from the 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.600 end of camp, he's given you a lot of good 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.559 quality reps on defense as well, justin Bethel, what he 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.760 did in a pinch at corn Her when we were 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.480 so thin cannot be overstated. I'm not sure we win 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.280 that Pittsburgh game without the effort that he gave on 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.559 defense that day. And then he seems to have a 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.600 big special teams play every week, either making a tackle 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.199 or downing a punt inside the ten yard line. And 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.800 on that topic, Thomas more Stead has just been aces. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.079 We never really punt from in our own end, and 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.719 that's a credit to the offense for not having many 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.160 three and OUs. But he does hit forty five point 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.120 two percent of his punts down inside the twenty yard line. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.360 That is the sixth best rate in the NFL. And 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.720 his six team point one percent pinned inside the ten 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.319 yard line rate is eighth best in the NFL. So 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.640 there you go. Unsung heroes is my third thing I 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.880 think this week, let's take our first break and come 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.840 back and do the things I think four through five. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.000 That's next, and will also look around the web. Coming 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.160 up here on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:57.880 brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Wednesday here 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.840 on Brown's Week nine game in the books. We are 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.800 halfway home this week to game. Number ten goes by 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.800 faster every year, doesn't it. Thing I think number four 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.120 is I cannot remember the last time we had this many, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.120 you know, air quotes, players and the trenches producing at 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:18.520 this level. An update on espns, run block, UH, run block, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.040 run stop win rate, pass rush and pass block win rates. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.440 I wrote that down in a way that I thought 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:24.840 made sense in my head, but I read it back 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.120 and it doesn't make any sense. But basically, run, run defense, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.000 and pass defense in the trenches. So on the individual 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.520 portion among defensive ends and outside linebackers, Bradley Chubb is 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.440 third with his twenty seven percent pressure rate as far 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.560 as the run defense goes to that position group, Dyalen 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.080 Phillips is tied for seventh at run stop win rate. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.400 At defensive tackle, Christian Wilkins is sixth and pass rush 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.760 at six and he's also second and run stop win 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.880 rate at forty percent. On the offensive line to Ron 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.040 Armsteads tied for tenth at pass block win rate among 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.200 all tackles. Among the offensive guards and run block win 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.120 win rate, Rob hunt is tied for eight at nine percent. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.200 As far as centers go, Connor Williams and run block 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.880 win rate is tied for fourth at seventy four percent, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.800 so Chubb, Phillips, Wilkins, Tehron, Rob and Connor. And then 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.080 also I know that Zach Seeler is right on the 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.680 fringe of that. Uh. In terms of run stop win 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.720 rate as a team, pass rush win rate sixth at 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.600 forty percent and seventh and run stop win rate at 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.360 thirty two percent. Offensively, I think it's twenty one and 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.040 twenty seven, so uh yeah, it's been better on on 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.200 the defensive side in terms of pressures and run stops 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.720 from a team perspective than it has been on the 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.840 offensive side. The fifth thing I think are the fifth 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.840 big picture takeaway is that I just wanted to give 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.440 you further to a perspective and has worked on third 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.960 down just looking at some two of stuff because we've 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.160 not seen a run like this with the quarterback position 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.800 for the Dolphins since I mean, that's basically what it 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.400 goes back to. I thought this was really cool as well, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.640 Seek Parrott on Twitter. Chris Kaufman did the research here 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.360 to is twenty one of twenty five with two hundred 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.880 two passing yards, two touchdowns and no picks when targeting 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.360 wide receivers not named Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle, it's 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.760 a one twenty seven passer rating. It's better and better 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.320 than his rating with those guys. To is also forty 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.760 two of sixty three for three hundred and fifty eight 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.520 yards and two touchdowns and no picks. When he's throwing 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.000 two backs and tight ends. That's a passer rating of 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.520 one or two point five and throwing too players not 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.400 just wide receivers, players other than ten and seventeen a 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.120 one eleven point four passer rating. Pretty incredible on third 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.800 down this year, how about forty two of fifty seven, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.840 it's a seventy three point seven percent clip for six 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.040 hundred and one yards. That's ten point five yards per pass, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:48.080 eight touchdowns, and a one hundred and seven forty seven 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.720 passer rating for two uh on twenty yard throws this year, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.800 sixty four point three percent completion with a one seven 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.960 teen point six passer rating. That's first and second in 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.520 the NFL. And he has eighteen completions of twenty or 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.360 more yards, which is the most in the NFL, which 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.680 is so funny because last year he was from an 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.879 efficiency standpoint one of the most accurate downfield deep ball throwers. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:12.239 But everybody had to say, but not Bylesage. Well, now 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.800 he leads a league in that stat so shut up. Uh. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.440 Did you know the last time a Dolphins quarterback led 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.760 the league in passer rating was four? That's wild to 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.200 me to doing it through nine games eight more to go, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.080 of course, But did you also know that the only 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.200 quarterbacks with a higher passer rating for a season then 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:35.200 two was one fifteen point nine was Aaron Rodgers, Ryan 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.360 Tannehill in twenty nineteen, Matt Ryan in twenty sixteen, Nick 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.160 foles In, Aaron Rodgerslen Tom Brady in two thousand seven, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.440 and Peyton Manning in two thousand four. That is one, two, three, four, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:52.160 five six seven, the eighth best single season passer rating 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.000 of all time at this stage. And of those names, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.040 two guys didn't play the entire year, which too will 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.840 not have played the entire year having missed those two 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:04.600 and a half games, But Tannehill and foals In didn't 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.359 play the whole year. With the other guys the Aaron Rodgers, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.199 Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, they 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.919 all won the m v P just think about that unreal. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.880 Let's go ahead and look around the web here real quick. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.520 I moved the Sean Payton on Calherd segment up to 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.359 the big picture thoughts. I want to go ahead and 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.520 read this from Peter King's week nine Football Morning in America. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.760 So this segment that I do on Wednesdays is something 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.080 of a cheap rip off of Peter King's weekly column 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.600 and a fun fact. At a sports marketing class back 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.000 in my sophomore year of high school, that was basically 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.840 all the athletes at the school and our favorite teacher 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.200 doing cool projects that were related to sports, Like one was, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.440 you know, we drafted a fancy baseball leagan. Then you 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.800 had to actually like run the baseball team from the 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.760 tickets and concessions and promotions and all that type of stuff. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.520 And one time he showed us, for some reason, know 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.679 why the Longest Yard the Adam Sandler remake during class, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.680 and when they panned the press box in one of 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.200 the scenes, the teacher, Mr Judy offered extra credit points 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.920 if anybody could name the sports writer who had the 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.280 one line in the movie which was not bad crew 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.320 not bad, and it was Peter King, And I got 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.480 those extra credit points because he was my favorite writer. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.480 So that's why I'm telling you about that. Because in 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.760 his five Things he Thinks this week, he mentioned the 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.680 trade deadline and gave us this blurb. Since spring, Miami 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.480