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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: you know what time it is, It's the Autopsy. The
Speaker 1: Aftermath will take a look at the thrilling victory through
Speaker 1: the lens of the film. The all twenty two to
Speaker 1: get to three and o with the victory over the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Will peep the numbers from the game. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about snap counts and what they mean. All of
Speaker 1: that in a heck of a lot more plus hearing
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast. Let's go ahead and kick this thing off
Speaker 1: with the all twenty two review. As you can imagine,
Speaker 1: the defensive tape was nearly three times as long as
Speaker 1: the offense. I think it was twenty six minutes versus
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, UH defense versus offense. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: do the offensive side first. And I just thought the
Speaker 1: Bills had a plan and this would make sense, right
Speaker 1: given all the guys they were down. And this is
Speaker 1: also the benefit of having a pass rush that almost
Speaker 1: never blitzes, that can get pressure with the front four
Speaker 1: as you can play that zone coverage, sit back and
Speaker 1: prevent deep balls. And we look, we talked about the
Speaker 1: passer ratings allowed two quarterbacks since the start of and
Speaker 1: just one quarterback was over a hundred and their passer
Speaker 1: rating two had pass writing. So it's the best in
Speaker 1: two years against that Buffalo Bills defense. And that was
Speaker 1: with them doing a great job taking away Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: and there afforded the opportunity to do that to bracket
Speaker 1: two sides of the field with Jalen and Tyreek, because
Speaker 1: they're so athletic at the linebacker position, who just both
Speaker 1: exhales so much in coverage with their speed and athletic ability.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy what Edmunds and Milano can do in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field to occupy so much space.
Speaker 1: That's why this defense is so tough. It's why having
Speaker 1: those guys down in the second area was such a
Speaker 1: big opportunity for this Dolphins offense and team to get
Speaker 1: some points and get the victory because catching it it's
Speaker 1: all about catching teams at the right time, right, and
Speaker 1: you probably caught the Bills at a good time. They're
Speaker 1: despite the fact that the offense was cranking, and we
Speaker 1: saw how that played out. But that's for the second
Speaker 1: part of the podcast. Just so much fun design from
Speaker 1: the offense. The end around to Waddle. You see Smith
Speaker 1: split flow action, then he peels back the exact same
Speaker 1: way alec Engle did in the Baltimore game for the
Speaker 1: wheel route that he caught, where he peels back and
Speaker 1: it takes the edge of the Buffalo defense and they
Speaker 1: all suck into the formation and it gives that edge
Speaker 1: to Jalen Waddle and we know what he can do
Speaker 1: once he has the ball in his hands off the edge.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Derham Smith. On that play, you
Speaker 1: have Rob Hunt pulled to the other side of the
Speaker 1: formation because you have to sell your look, right. You
Speaker 1: can't run something just to run it. You have to
Speaker 1: sell it. You have to set it up and convince
Speaker 1: the defense you're going to do it. And on that
Speaker 1: play you can see Tremaine Edmunds chase Rob Hunt and
Speaker 1: flow directly at number sixty eight and fit the wrong gap,
Speaker 1: and then you have Derham Smith downfield with a great
Speaker 1: block on that particular play as well, Buffalo did have
Speaker 1: some success buttzing dbs against the run. That big negative play,
Speaker 1: the six yard loss that kind of was a drive
Speaker 1: killer there on Uh I think it was. I think
Speaker 1: it was play number two of the second half. It
Speaker 1: was just Teo Ron Johnson kind of pulling his best
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones where he timed up his blitz perfectly and
Speaker 1: gets in there for the impact play. Let's break down
Speaker 1: to his game. What say you right away? We get
Speaker 1: some high level stuff from tah in two areas. It's
Speaker 1: a variation of smash which you have one route that
Speaker 1: holds that cloud corner against Cover two and then you
Speaker 1: sneak someone into that corner or as John Gruden once
Speaker 1: called at the turkey hole of that cover too coverage.
Speaker 1: And to ah as we've come to learn from this quarterback,
Speaker 1: and you go back to my evaluation of his Alabama
Speaker 1: tape and how great he was at that. If you
Speaker 1: have a chance, type in at wingfield NFL to ah
Speaker 1: L s U and go back and watch the L
Speaker 1: s U tape that I broke down. We're starting to
Speaker 1: see a lot of that in the NFL tape where
Speaker 1: he uses not just his eyes to occupy that cloud corner,
Speaker 1: that underneath corner. He strides towards him, He puts his
Speaker 1: motion towards that guy and you see him take one
Speaker 1: false step up and that was all to A needed
Speaker 1: to fit it in between the corner and the safety
Speaker 1: twenty yards downfield. Now we didn't make the catch. It
Speaker 1: happens Alec will get that next time. But to U's
Speaker 1: ability to influence the defense on display from the first snap,
Speaker 1: the speed out to the field to Trent sherfield after
Speaker 1: the forced fumble and recovery by Javon Holland and Melvin Ingram,
Speaker 1: Surefield runs that flat route from trips bunch and the
Speaker 1: most outside corner is leveraged in the opposite direction and
Speaker 1: you see two take his eyes over there to see that,
Speaker 1: and he separates the hands, which tells you the ball
Speaker 1: is coming out before Trent even turns his head back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. The timing continues to be super, super impressive.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the r p O on the recap pod,
Speaker 1: it was even better on tape. There's a safety bearing
Speaker 1: down over the top and to us throw doesn't just
Speaker 1: settle waddle in away from that danger. It's on the
Speaker 1: backside shoulder, which allows him to wheel out and run
Speaker 1: after the catch, and he did just that. I thought
Speaker 1: the design of the next play was really cool, the
Speaker 1: same idea where the Bills take away Tyree over the
Speaker 1: middle and here comes Mike get sicky again, selling it
Speaker 1: off of split flow action which looks like a run play,
Speaker 1: and he just ducks the blocker right into the vacancy
Speaker 1: left of the linebackers who were keying on Tyreek. This
Speaker 1: offense is designed to give you a look that you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be and then playoff of that. It's
Speaker 1: the ultimate Mike McDaniel move. And then who boy the
Speaker 1: touchdown past the River Craigcraft. There's a diamond of Bills
Speaker 1: defenders against a trips bunch of Miami. So four verses
Speaker 1: three and Mike comes off inside first and holds Tremaine
Speaker 1: Edmonds and then River follows him inside while Raheem widens
Speaker 1: it out to the other direction trying to displace. And
Speaker 1: this is where to go super high level again, like
Speaker 1: you have to anticipate these types of throws into these
Speaker 1: tight windows so well, and it's been a strong suit
Speaker 1: of his game, a superpower in his game. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I think he's best in the league at,
Speaker 1: which is how you become you have to be you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be best at something the league. This
Speaker 1: is where I think two was gonna really shine. You
Speaker 1: see the outside they're their best player in the secondaries
Speaker 1: to Ron Johnson as well. Takes one step wide and
Speaker 1: that was all to Ah needed to see when he
Speaker 1: hits his back foot and to see that shot open
Speaker 1: up to it is throwing before Craycraft is even out
Speaker 1: of the break. The safety is driving on it and
Speaker 1: it's just absolutely perfect throw and it had to be
Speaker 1: and it was I think the best part was the
Speaker 1: number four to tomar Hamlin is playing three yards deep
Speaker 1: in the end zone and he's reacting to the route combination.
Speaker 1: You actually see him take a step to get more
Speaker 1: with too potentially deal with the route to the to
Speaker 1: the corner. I think it was a back pylon route
Speaker 1: by Raheem Moster, and that one step was all the
Speaker 1: space that Craig Kraft needed to make the catch. Really
Speaker 1: really good stuff from one strike up the band, Let's
Speaker 1: go Coogs, even though this weekend was brutal. On the
Speaker 1: next series, he gets away from a free runner to
Speaker 1: it does and throws on the move complete to Waddle
Speaker 1: and Armstead got beat this one time in the entire game.
Speaker 1: It was this one, but to a creates and Waddle
Speaker 1: comes back to help him move the chains. You're seeing
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything from to hear the big
Speaker 1: arm or I should say the accuracy downfield, I'll be
Speaker 1: more blunt about that. Uh. The creativity off the spot
Speaker 1: and the anticipation, timing and accuracy, it's all. It's all
Speaker 1: very very good. We talked about him settling Jalen Waddle down.
Speaker 1: He did the exact same thing to Tyreek on the
Speaker 1: first play of the second half and absolute dart twenty
Speaker 1: yards with anticipation out of the break but not leading
Speaker 1: him into the safety. Beautiful, beautiful throw. The corner route
Speaker 1: to Waddle for thirty three was another example of smooth
Speaker 1: pocket awareness to slide away from some pressure and drive
Speaker 1: a throw sort of backing away from that pressure. And
Speaker 1: the Bills, man, they disguised their coverage so well in
Speaker 1: this game, like these guys were coached up and communicated
Speaker 1: it pretty well, I thought, as far as being so
Speaker 1: many backups in there, they play a quarters look or
Speaker 1: that corner is bumping like you don't usually do that,
Speaker 1: and he has to fall. I don't think you're allowed
Speaker 1: to do that, and he winds up falling off of
Speaker 1: the coverage and getting depth and then waddle. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about him here in one second on that route.
Speaker 1: Let's come back to that. Actually, let's do the third
Speaker 1: and twenty two first. It's an awesome concept to sit
Speaker 1: sure field down about five yards short of the sticks,
Speaker 1: right around field goal range, like just short of the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line, to kind of occupy those backers because
Speaker 1: if they get depth, you can then just shoot that
Speaker 1: ball in there and take the three points. But they didn't.
Speaker 1: They closed on it, and then that gave the middle
Speaker 1: of the field open to Jalen Waddle. And on the
Speaker 1: other side of the formation, Tyreek is running a full
Speaker 1: speed clear out route that widens the field side safety.
Speaker 1: He hammers it down right at the sticks, and that
Speaker 1: safety takes the cheese and takes a couple of steps
Speaker 1: that way and to his hands separate. When Jalen's at
Speaker 1: the thirty seven yard line, he's also literally on the
Speaker 1: step to the flag to the seven route to the corner,
Speaker 1: which widens the safety. So you've got both safeties just
Speaker 1: inside the numbers at the twenty seven yard line and
Speaker 1: Jalen's at the thirty seven he's still ten yards away,
Speaker 1: and two is like, that's it. That's the spot. That
Speaker 1: is elite level anticipation to a drop sit right down
Speaker 1: the pipe at the eleven yard line. It's literally between
Speaker 1: the two hash marks where you would set up a
Speaker 1: field goal in your ideal position, right between the hashes.
Speaker 1: What a dime, What a time to drop that dime.
Speaker 1: How about these receivers man Tyreek and Jalen. The hitch
Speaker 1: that Tyreek caught and took a pretty good hit on
Speaker 1: this is just the type of impact that he has
Speaker 1: in in one tangible snapshot where he presses a ten
Speaker 1: yard cushion and still forces a retreat step by the corner.
Speaker 1: It's that speed, just tangibly showing up there and creating
Speaker 1: space for two to work with the effort on the
Speaker 1: clear out route. We talked about it, what a great
Speaker 1: effort that was from him, and it's just a great teammate,
Speaker 1: especially on a day where Buffalo was going to apply
Speaker 1: two men to him really throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: game and then back to Waddle. The pacing of his
Speaker 1: routes is sync up so well to too. His timing
Speaker 1: right now, it's so obvious they've played a lot of
Speaker 1: football together. He knows when to throttle down, when to
Speaker 1: hit the jets, how to set up his brakes, attack
Speaker 1: leverage relentlessly. His route running is so oh dang good.
Speaker 1: The thirty three yard drive starter going back to that
Speaker 1: corner route right before his forty five yarder which, by
Speaker 1: the way, doing the math in my head, seventy eight
Speaker 1: yards on one drive to a game winning drive. Talk
Speaker 1: about arriving the corner bails at the snap, talk about
Speaker 1: that press coverage he gets out and so Jalen just
Speaker 1: goes to work really chasing that blind spot. What I
Speaker 1: mean by that is a cornerback can't defend his back.
Speaker 1: Jalen sees him bail and he goes inside to that
Speaker 1: blind spot because he has or outside leverage. And then
Speaker 1: the minute he flips the hips, that's when you flip
Speaker 1: them back yourself and go to the corner, and that
Speaker 1: turns him goes to the post, I should say, and
Speaker 1: that turns him around. And what that was a bad
Speaker 1: Chris Burman, He's right back to the outside. It's spin
Speaker 1: cycle man. That's what he did. And then the route
Speaker 1: on the copper route, we talked about that the post
Speaker 1: or the corner to the post Chef's kiss man. The
Speaker 1: way he stayed vertical after his jab step to the
Speaker 1: corner and then didn't like go straight to the post.
Speaker 1: He kind of stayed inside to stay in that cornerbacks
Speaker 1: like to keep him in phase so that he could
Speaker 1: run further away from him. Does that make sense, like,
Speaker 1: rather than take the advantage of the distance you already created,
Speaker 1: stay tight so that that corner thinks he can stay
Speaker 1: tight with you, but then you can separate more from
Speaker 1: that point. It's elite level processing like that. That makes
Speaker 1: this guy an elite player on top of his elite
Speaker 1: level start stoppability. What a game for Jalen Waddle. What
Speaker 1: a game, and what a year so far for Toron Armstead.
Speaker 1: The way he shortens the runway for Von Miller to
Speaker 1: eliminate those speed rushes, those ghost rushes. The way he
Speaker 1: bends that corner. He just continuously redirected Von Miller's rush
Speaker 1: path right around two, and we saw that ghost move
Speaker 1: against the Rams and Joe Noteboom where he would just
Speaker 1: dummy a punch and then whoop dip right under him
Speaker 1: to Ron would go shorten that track and then just
Speaker 1: get the quick kind of pivot step or the drop
Speaker 1: step to open up and run him around the arc.
Speaker 1: It was elite stuff from Toron Armstead. The first run
Speaker 1: of the game, Chase Edmonds, he washes down the four
Speaker 1: eye technique, which is on the inside shoulder of Toron,
Speaker 1: so that means it's a reach block right, which is
Speaker 1: one of the toughest blocks you can make, and takes
Speaker 1: him across the entire formation before pancaking him. Then he's
Speaker 1: stone walled. Viller, Our Miller Viller, Detective Von Miller on
Speaker 1: the sherefield completion after the fumble that we got down
Speaker 1: to the six yard line. Their pressure is right into
Speaker 1: his face in the direction of the past, and he
Speaker 1: speeds up his drop to find the landmark to get
Speaker 1: that anchor right in front of his quarterback. And you
Speaker 1: see Miller, who has a speed rush speed to power
Speaker 1: completely thwarted. We're talking, I don't know. This tape is
Speaker 1: really good man. The completion of Tyreek where he takes
Speaker 1: a big hit afterwards once again goes out there and
Speaker 1: cuts down that runway on Vaughan and realizes that he
Speaker 1: actually lost the angle, but he has recovery ability to
Speaker 1: quickly shuffle back and get depth off of the pass
Speaker 1: rush landmark there. It's been teaching tape through three weeks
Speaker 1: here for Toron Armstead. He's a hell of a football player,
Speaker 1: just like we expected. So is Connor Williams. He just
Speaker 1: moves guys in the running game man gets him out
Speaker 1: of their gap. Go look at the first Edmonds touched
Speaker 1: and that is some kind of play by Williams. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen a play like a like that from a
Speaker 1: Dolphin center since Mike Pouncey was here. And then our
Speaker 1: big runs consistently. You just see fifty eight ceiling off
Speaker 1: where he's the first man off the snap and just
Speaker 1: wall somebody off. But even more than that, like all
Speaker 1: you gotta do is wall that off. But sometimes he
Speaker 1: gets a movement, which is just a bonus on those plays.
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt had two great anchor reps back to back
Speaker 1: against Tim Settle and his big behind Raheem's longest run
Speaker 1: came behind Rob clearing out a man with significant punch.
Speaker 1: He was excellent again. And then the push that he
Speaker 1: and Connor got on the double team on the second
Speaker 1: Edmond's touchdown. Man, I might have been able to score
Speaker 1: on that play, not really, but I mean you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And then what else that was my
Speaker 1: offensive line work. Greg Little had some great work on
Speaker 1: the second Edmond's touch on the seal that five technique,
Speaker 1: a huge block in a big moment, but also on
Speaker 1: the uh second shot on the first drive, he got
Speaker 1: beat inside by a spin move on von Miller. It's
Speaker 1: just too bad because we had guys open on that
Speaker 1: play sherfield and over route for him on an option
Speaker 1: out route. We had a miss block on too. Ron
Speaker 1: Johnson late in the game. The third on a third
Speaker 1: down that could have sprung him as well. One of
Speaker 1: those instances we heard about where the defense where there
Speaker 1: was lanes but one miss block kind of did us in.
Speaker 1: And then the running backs Chase. I love his change
Speaker 1: of direction that toss play to run inside where he
Speaker 1: gets on that track and gets to high speed quickly.
Speaker 1: I love that look, and I continue to be impressed
Speaker 1: by Raheem most starts feet. Matt Mulano chopped him down
Speaker 1: twice on one on one situations in the hole that
Speaker 1: I thought Raheem had a chance to spring a big one.
Speaker 1: I trust that next time he'll do that. But man,
Speaker 1: what a play by Matt Mulano on those couple of
Speaker 1: snaps there against Rheem Moster. All rightlet's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break here on the podcast. We'll come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and do the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. That's next kind of the Drift Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: back here on a turn the page Tuesday edition of
Speaker 1: the Drift Time Podcast, putting this game to bed, and
Speaker 1: we continue right here with a defensive All twenty two review.
Speaker 1: I thought the plan was so good. They just never
Speaker 1: busted a coverage to allow the Bills to get vertical
Speaker 1: on them. They asked so much of these speedy linebackers,
Speaker 1: this deep linebacker room in terms of playing coverage, keeping
Speaker 1: your eyes on Alan, the occasional pass rush. Real big
Speaker 1: tip of the cap to coach Campanelli and Tyrone mackenzie
Speaker 1: for the job those guys did, and just the plan
Speaker 1: in general from you know, Josh Boyer and the entire
Speaker 1: staff to have those guys mixed between getting depth coming
Speaker 1: up to the line. Alan made so many plays, but
Speaker 1: they just kept coming on the strip. Sacked by Javon
Speaker 1: Halloween broke that down on the podcast on Monday. But
Speaker 1: you have Holland and Baker communicating signals so well they
Speaker 1: wind up bringing eight which speaks very highly of the
Speaker 1: coverage that exaviing Howard, Nick Needham and Kater co who
Speaker 1: had on that back end because a mistake there with
Speaker 1: eight man rush and zero coverage that could be eighty
Speaker 1: eight yards of the house. Instead, you've got really good coverage.
Speaker 1: Every route is capped, everyone's on top of the route
Speaker 1: and driving on their breaks out of the stem. The
Speaker 1: beautiful part of all the pre snap checking is that
Speaker 1: Alan knows that Brandon Jones is coming off that strong
Speaker 1: side and he actually diverts his drop to kind of
Speaker 1: fade away from it. But the problem is Javon comes
Speaker 1: to and runs right around both Dion Dawkins and Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary and puts a hand on the football, which as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher, sacks are great, but getting the ball
Speaker 1: out that's a different ball game. Just a great play
Speaker 1: all around. Christian Wilkins is off to an all Pro start.
Speaker 1: He is an incredible, incredible player. Starts off very early
Speaker 1: with a quick crossover step to get right on Josh
Speaker 1: Allen instantly, which he evaded like he does, but just
Speaker 1: the the fake rush to the right and then cross
Speaker 1: order back to the left to kind of get the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman off balance and gain the momentum advantage is game.
Speaker 1: And the way he surfs down the line on those
Speaker 1: stretch runs to the outside is so damn good. He
Speaker 1: consistently disengages and makes the play on those plays, and
Speaker 1: then as arsenal of pass rush moves, it continues to
Speaker 1: get better every single year. He put a pressure on
Speaker 1: Alan in the second quarter in the red zone, where
Speaker 1: he used his outside hand and kind of threw that
Speaker 1: thing across the guard's body on the onto the inside shoulder.
Speaker 1: Then he rolls the outside part of his body under
Speaker 1: that block with a crossover step. It's like rare, rare
Speaker 1: balance with strength and heavy hands. He gets better every year,
Speaker 1: every game. And he took on double team after double
Speaker 1: team after double team and was still productive in this game,
Speaker 1: having one hell of a season. Melvin Ingram is a
Speaker 1: block destroyer. Whether it's physically running through a blocker or
Speaker 1: taking quick angles to get around them, he consistently does it.
Speaker 1: His first stack was a pretty crazy move, a little
Speaker 1: dummy step to the inside, a jab step back to
Speaker 1: the outside, back in crossing face when he gets the
Speaker 1: tackle to overset up field and that gives him a
Speaker 1: bee line to Josh Allen. But I would not overlook
Speaker 1: the importance of finishing that sack. He's a tough guy
Speaker 1: to get to the ground, and Melvin Ingram did it. Then.
Speaker 1: I talked about the effort on the final drive on
Speaker 1: every single platform so far, but I have to do
Speaker 1: it again because this entire defense was so good. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogball was so good. He kept winning again and again.
Speaker 1: You can see the conditioning seventy plus snaps in this game,
Speaker 1: and he gives you that effort down in and down out.
Speaker 1: There were so many snaps where they just didn't have
Speaker 1: an answer for what he was doing. And he was
Speaker 1: winning inside, which is just kind of how you do
Speaker 1: it against Alan, like if you were run around the
Speaker 1: arc on the outside. That allows him to step up
Speaker 1: and scramble and make big plays and drop that shoulder
Speaker 1: and just do what he does. So those direct shots
Speaker 1: are so very good to get after Alan, Ingram, Ogball, Phillips,
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers just kept coming and the effort was so amazing,
Speaker 1: especially Melvin on that final play Man Rush's mrs. The
Speaker 1: Sack retraces and it's his effort along with xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: walling off the sideline that keeps Mackenzie in the field
Speaker 1: of play. And once he went down out there, he
Speaker 1: wasn't getting back to the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: time game over, Dolphins win. And then just the goal
Speaker 1: line work was so so impressive. They never quit. E
Speaker 1: Rob was flying around down They're making plays, Wilkins, Seeler, Jenkins,
Speaker 1: og Bos standing things up. What an effort. Let's go
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and keep going back to a bay
Speaker 1: here though, because his processing is something that I just
Speaker 1: love in his game, where he has eyes in the quarterback,
Speaker 1: he'll slide, he'll shift pre snap to different positions. He
Speaker 1: lines up at different positions. Half the damn time he
Speaker 1: two gaps, He won gaps, he rushes, he stays true
Speaker 1: to his gap integrity. He's an awesome player and was
Speaker 1: an absolute steal and free agency three years ago. Go
Speaker 1: back and watch the field goal. By the way, got
Speaker 1: his hands on that ball. Have a day. Ninety one
Speaker 1: mentioned Trey Flowers. He had a big fourth down play
Speaker 1: last week and applied some pressure on Alan in this
Speaker 1: game you talk about playing through your man to the football.
Speaker 1: Performances like the one that he gave us is why
Speaker 1: teams with a quarterback like this might be so quick
Speaker 1: to bail on the running game. When you have a
Speaker 1: guy that can play the run on the way to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, it can make teams one dimensional. I thought
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's best game of the season happened on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He processed very very well while shortening the distance between
Speaker 1: he and the backs in that intermediate area, so dang well.
Speaker 1: The first down stop before the Hall enforced fumble. You
Speaker 1: see him get himself into a position to take on
Speaker 1: the block and then create distance so you can separate
Speaker 1: and then make the plant on the back. That was
Speaker 1: textbook play. I talked about the screen game a lot
Speaker 1: on the recap podcast. Baker's conditioning was also on display.
Speaker 1: The way he pursued and got so many tackles where
Speaker 1: he had to cover yard after yard it flashed on tape.
Speaker 1: And just the way that he played from depth to close.
Speaker 1: He ran some routes down the middle, even got a
Speaker 1: pass break up on one where he's going away from
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But the way he approached downhill towards the
Speaker 1: quarterback and tackled on backs on Josh Allen coming from
Speaker 1: that depth. He seems to have these breakout games every
Speaker 1: year after a few and it feels like this was
Speaker 1: that game for him. I thought aland and Roberts atone
Speaker 1: for that opening drive touchdown where he didn't pick up
Speaker 1: the back after we had the rush off that side
Speaker 1: from Melvin Ingram. With those goal line plays late in again,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and work through those plays. On the
Speaker 1: second to last drive of the Bills, first and two
Speaker 1: from the from the two yard line or first and
Speaker 1: goal Wilkins gets walked back where he takes his man
Speaker 1: three yards behind the line. Jenkins comes off a block
Speaker 1: and Roberts fils. Good team effort from those three guys.
Speaker 1: Second goal from the one seiler comes in unblocked and
Speaker 1: they miss blocks on Baker and e rob more of
Speaker 1: a failed offensive execution there. Third and two, it's outstanding
Speaker 1: coverage across the board. The play that x made was
Speaker 1: outright sensational, even without getting the pick. He chases Digs
Speaker 1: to the spot and then Digs changes direction, which when
Speaker 1: this happens in the quarterback moves off of his spot
Speaker 1: and gets away from the initial rush. It's almost always
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But not only does he stay on Diggs,
Speaker 1: he turns his head back, locates the ball and gets
Speaker 1: hands on it. If he makes that pick, it's seriously
Speaker 1: probably the best play of his career. So so good.
Speaker 1: And then fourth and two, Josh Allen missed it. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pressure on the Sunday podcast. He just
Speaker 1: missed that throw. Nothing more to it. Then the final
Speaker 1: play the game again, Ingram wins immediately on a twist
Speaker 1: and misses the sack. Phillips also splits a double team
Speaker 1: as the pick man. They both cannot finish, but you
Speaker 1: see the effort right afterwards. They both hopped to their
Speaker 1: feet immediately and sprint after the quarterback. And then what
Speaker 1: X did to follow that play back insides a big
Speaker 1: time from him as well. Duke Riley, I'm intrigued by
Speaker 1: his game. He had some some really good plays in
Speaker 1: this game. He damn near got a pick where he
Speaker 1: was in the hook zone and key to crossing route.
Speaker 1: He did break it up. His speed shows up every week.
Speaker 1: You're seeing him get more and more of a role.
Speaker 1: I think you need that speed in this defense. Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler his first play before the Holland forced fumble, where
Speaker 1: he holds off a double team and allows Baker the
Speaker 1: space to get in there. Then the very next play,
Speaker 1: he throws his punch, stands up Dan Dawkins, then sheds
Speaker 1: the block and makes the play. He is so dang strong.
Speaker 1: He controls guys one on one with such regularity. The
Speaker 1: past rush move on the play where Alan got free,
Speaker 1: it was either third or fourth down. I think it
Speaker 1: was actually fourth man. I think he's the only quarter
Speaker 1: back in the NFL that gets out of that. You
Speaker 1: gotta finish, but it doesn't take away from the rep
Speaker 1: where he uses that left hand to punch, then rips
Speaker 1: the right arm through and the guard is left stumbling
Speaker 1: over his skis. Grown man strength on display every time
Speaker 1: this dude straps it up. Javon Holland, the range, the
Speaker 1: ground that he covers. Even on the big run he
Speaker 1: comes from the far hash and saves a touchdown. He
Speaker 1: comes from depth and cuts down runs before they can
Speaker 1: get going. He's part of that rush package. He's willing
Speaker 1: on the back end to cover and cap so many
Speaker 1: of those deep route concepts the teams throw at them.
Speaker 1: He communicates it all so well. And then his breakup
Speaker 1: on that final play, first play I should say of
Speaker 1: the final drive was excellent coverage from him, especially with
Speaker 1: how tired he for sure was after playing snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. What an effort. Nick Needham had two big
Speaker 1: pass breakups on that last drive. The second one was
Speaker 1: negated by the hole on Emmanuel Ogba, but process right,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones man, He and Holland were so good and
Speaker 1: deep zones, different looks where they would crossers, like where
Speaker 1: you have too high safety, and then Holland goes to
Speaker 1: the post and Brandon Jones comes down and tries to
Speaker 1: rob the crossing routes where you basically just cut in
Speaker 1: front of them and say you're not throwing it here.
Speaker 1: He was doing that, but then he would fly downhill
Speaker 1: and put a hit on the quarterback or the running
Speaker 1: backs as well. Like that. Having multiple roles within one
Speaker 1: player is such a such a beneficial factor for this defense,
Speaker 1: and the corners did a good job funneling stuff into
Speaker 1: those safeties. I know Buffalo got lots of yards through
Speaker 1: the air, but man, this defense made them earn every
Speaker 1: single inch of it. And just Brandon Jones play so
Speaker 1: fast every single game. Keion crossing that pass breakup on
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis and the end zone saved us four points.
Speaker 1: It was sensational. Davis had that thing tucked away, but
Speaker 1: Kion stayed on him and found an avenue to shoot
Speaker 1: that hand across the bow and Jart Lewis want to
Speaker 1: play and then x was such a good game from
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard. I know we expect him to catch everything
Speaker 1: because he usually does. If he squeezes just one of
Speaker 1: those two potential picks, it's such a monster game. But
Speaker 1: it was still so good the way he was rerouting
Speaker 1: digs and the way he was clamping on zone looks,
Speaker 1: the way he was driving out of his back pedals
Speaker 1: and brakes. Very very good for a good game for
Speaker 1: Xaviing Howard kat Cohu. Look that ball that Alan threw
Speaker 1: on second nineteen. He was in such good shape and
Speaker 1: and Christian Wilkins beat a man, drew the running back,
Speaker 1: and drew a third blocker literally triple teamed on that play.
Speaker 1: And Caho's in good shape. But sometimes you get beat
Speaker 1: by a perfect throw. The second touchdown of the game
Speaker 1: there in zero and he just loses his man doesn't
Speaker 1: run with him off the snap, and it's the easiest
Speaker 1: touchdown of Josh Allen's career. So all in all, a
Speaker 1: couple of times guys got turned free. There was too
Speaker 1: many misstackles PFF had sixteen of them. But man, there
Speaker 1: was so much good in this game on this tape,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider how many snaps there were, that
Speaker 1: they were out there for ninety and simply just kept
Speaker 1: coming back. So impressed by the effort this team game,
Speaker 1: in this game, we love to see it. It's a
Speaker 1: proud performance, and by that I mean one that the
Speaker 1: fan base should be so very proud of. That's your
Speaker 1: all twenty to review, come back and get to the numbers.
Speaker 1: Next here from Pro Football Focus Snap Counts, and we'll
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Mike McDaniel. That's next on the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and look at the numbers here,
Speaker 1: starting off with Pro Football Focus to uh on the day,
Speaker 1: completed all three of his twenty plus air yard throws.
Speaker 1: He was three of five in their intermediate that's ten
Speaker 1: to nineteen yards. And on the season, throwing the ball
Speaker 1: twenty plus yards down the field, ready to kill some
Speaker 1: narratives nine three three yards, three touchdowns, one pick. It's
Speaker 1: a one eighteen passer rating. Throwing the ball twenty plus
Speaker 1: yards downfield ten plus that includes the twenty plus yards,
Speaker 1: but anything beyond ten yards of twenty seven that's right
Speaker 1: around sixty seven percent completion five two yards, six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: two picks. That's say one twenty nine rating. It's really
Speaker 1: really good, guys. Buffalo blitzed him just two times, a
Speaker 1: sack and one in complete, which was a drop by
Speaker 1: the way, So he's thirteen of seventeen for a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six yards and a touchdown against non blitzing
Speaker 1: plays and with really only six possessions seven if you
Speaker 1: count the butt punt possession uh touchdowns on half of
Speaker 1: those mentioned this in the Patriots game. If you get
Speaker 1: the average eleven possessions per game, touchdowns on half of
Speaker 1: those is four and a half. That's like thirty one points.
Speaker 1: That's more than ideal. Right, it was an efficient effort offensively,
Speaker 1: just eighteen throws, but so many big, big moments, and
Speaker 1: the yards per play continues to really poppy. Second NFL
Speaker 1: and yards per play right now. And speaking of pressure,
Speaker 1: how about the offensive line? Man? We knew that would
Speaker 1: be a key with Buffalo's injuries in the secondary and
Speaker 1: that ferocious pass rush still being there. Five pressures all
Speaker 1: game long Armstead zero, Eikenberg to William zero, Hunt zero,
Speaker 1: little to Rob Jones zero. We got one by the
Speaker 1: tight ends as well for the fifth pressure PFF has
Speaker 1: with a six yards average running off right guard. It's
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks in a row over six yards
Speaker 1: running behind big Rob Hunt. How about the running backs.
Speaker 1: The big stat for me here is four first downs
Speaker 1: and two touchdown. That's six conversions on just fourteen rushing
Speaker 1: attempts by your two running backs, and that second short
Speaker 1: to medium conversion range is a big deal to me.
Speaker 1: Convert those hit explosive plays. I'm happy with the running
Speaker 1: backs doing that, especially with their pass game production among
Speaker 1: wide receivers and tight ends. Buffalo did a good job
Speaker 1: keeping things in front and limiting yak yards. Waddle led
Speaker 1: the way with eighteen yak and Smith had sixteen. He
Speaker 1: was second just one yak yard for Tyreek. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine that's going to happen a whole lot this year.
Speaker 1: Twenty five point five yards per catch for Waddle. He's
Speaker 1: doubled his toll from last season up to eighteen per catch.
Speaker 1: Remember how I couldn't stop talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: he caught twenty targets in college on passes over twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards. Pure electricity from that kid. He also notch
Speaker 1: six point three eight yards per route run. That's absurd.
Speaker 1: Anything over two is good. It was Jalen's day back
Speaker 1: to back one dred yard games River Cracraft. All he
Speaker 1: does is catch touchdowns, two catches, twelve points for River.
Speaker 1: And how about this stat it was only our our
Speaker 1: only contestant catch in the day was his touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: which speaks of the offense ability to create separation. When
Speaker 1: he caught that ball, he had point nine yards of separation,
Speaker 1: which next gen gives us a completion probability of just
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent on that play. That'll work defensively. Forty
Speaker 1: six pressures as a team on seventy three allen dropbacks.
Speaker 1: Ogba had seven, Ingram had six, Phillips and Flowers had
Speaker 1: five apiece. Seiler and Wilkins had four apiece. Holland and
Speaker 1: Jenkins had three apiece. Need Hum, Brandon, Jones, and Baker
Speaker 1: all had to apiece, Crossing, Van Ginkel and Riley all
Speaker 1: had one. And can we just appreciate the conditioning of
Speaker 1: this team again, like rushing the quarterback is such an
Speaker 1: exhausting activity, especially when it's that quarterback. Og baft pass
Speaker 1: rush snaps, Wilkins forty nine, Phillips forty four, Sealer thirty four,
Speaker 1: Flowers thirty two, Ingram, thirty two Jenkins. That's unreal effort
Speaker 1: from those guys. How about run stops. They didn't run
Speaker 1: the ball a whole lot because we stopped it. Baker four,
Speaker 1: Ingram three, Holland, Phillips and Roberts to a piece and
Speaker 1: seven guys had one in coverage. We had nine pass
Speaker 1: defense as a team. Holland and X had two apiece.
Speaker 1: Holland played sixty nine coverage snaps allowed twenty yards. Needham
Speaker 1: played sixty nine coverage snaps eleven yards x harder from
Speaker 1: this position than safety and slot corner. Sixty five snaps
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards under one yards. Great against the fond.
Speaker 1: Diggs's great against anybody against the fon Diggs, It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones sixty sixty eight yards right above one yard
Speaker 1: per coverage snap. Kator Cohu fifty four eighty two yards allowed.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good for the rookie. Excuse me, Baker fifty
Speaker 1: four coverage snaps fifty four yards allowed some league leaders
Speaker 1: to a nine twenty five passing yards a second NFL.
Speaker 1: Eight touchdowns is tied for third. Seven point nine percent
Speaker 1: touchdown rate is second in the NFL. His interception rate
Speaker 1: is two percent among quarterbacks with at least one hundred
Speaker 1: pass attempts, at his thirteenth best in the NFL. Also
Speaker 1: just one fumble, just three potential turnovers in three games.
Speaker 1: Nine point two yards per attempt a second seventy one
Speaker 1: point three percent completion is fourth one. Seventeen point eight
Speaker 1: passer rating is second. Eighty two point eight q b
Speaker 1: R is first. His fourth quarter comebacks, he's got two
Speaker 1: of them. That's tied for first. His game winning drives,
Speaker 1: he's got two of them. That's tied for first. Jalen
Speaker 1: and Tyreek are one and two in yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: That's dynamic three point seven oh and three point four eight.
Speaker 1: Waddle has nineteen catches, that's eighteen in NFL. His three
Speaker 1: hundred forty two yards a second, his three touchdowns are
Speaker 1: tied for second, and his eleven point four yards per
Speaker 1: target is eleventh. Tyreeks twenty one catches our seventh. His
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventeen yards are third, his two t
Speaker 1: ds are tied for eleventh, and his ten point nine
Speaker 1: yards per target is eighteen. X has four passes defense
Speaker 1: that's tied for fourth the National Football League. Javon has
Speaker 1: three that's tied for fourteen. How about Thomas moore stead
Speaker 1: seventy four yard free kick? By the way, how big
Speaker 1: was that? Good stuff? Good special teams, good defense, good offense.
Speaker 1: You gotta get you know, compmentary in nature, you have
Speaker 1: to find multiple ways to win football games. This team
Speaker 1: continues to prove that they can do that. How about
Speaker 1: some snap counts here before you hear from coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and then get out of here. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pull that up real quick. I probably do that first.
Speaker 1: Travis on defense man Holland played all ninety two steps.
Speaker 1: That's wild need him played ninety. Brandon Jones played eighty three,
Speaker 1: so did Jerome Baker Xabing Howard played eighty one. Those guys,
Speaker 1: get them some massages, get them a conditioning or so,
Speaker 1: and I v get him a an ice bath. Odd
Speaker 1: bon Co who played seventy. That's so very good co
Speaker 1: when getting some war work. That kind of tells you
Speaker 1: how they view his role in this defense. Wilkins sixty three,
Speaker 1: Phillips sixty two, Ingram fifty seven. All those guys are
Speaker 1: big integral parts of that front seven rotation, Roberts forty seven,
Speaker 1: Stealer forty six, Flowers fresh off of the getting called
Speaker 1: up and he has forty one snaps in this game.
Speaker 1: Jenkins thirty seven, Riley, Eric rohe seven, Van Ginkal twenty one,
Speaker 1: Crossing eleven and Egglevan played three in the game. Offensively.
Speaker 1: Some interesting splits here. You had Eikenberg, Connor Williams to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead and Rob Hunt played forty Rob Hunt missed one. Sorry,
Speaker 1: the other guys played forty three. That was every snap
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt missed the one to a missed three snaps
Speaker 1: snap count there, which gives Teddy Bridgewater three snaps. Greg
Speaker 1: Little played thirty eight snaps playing without hand injury. Tyreek
Speaker 1: played thirty seven. Waddle played thirty two, the same number
Speaker 1: of Smith and Smith has kind of becoming tight end
Speaker 1: one here Kaski with seventeen snaps in the game. Sherefield
Speaker 1: had twenty seven snaps. Where is Craig Craft nine snaps
Speaker 1: for craig Craft and Wilson played just five snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. Among running backs most Edmonds nineteen, so a
Speaker 1: pretty even equitable split. Their Ingold played twelve snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. Just not a lot of options to get
Speaker 1: to multiple packages for the Dolphins in this game. Rob
Speaker 1: Jones gives you five snaps, Tanner Connor gives you one snap,
Speaker 1: and Larnel Coleman gives you one snap as well, So
Speaker 1: a lot of defensive snaps, not much on the offensive side.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear two comments from coach McDaniel,
Speaker 1: first about TWA and his confidence outweighing his perfectionism this
Speaker 1: year a big goal for him. We'll hear him talk
Speaker 1: about that, and then we'll come back right after that
Speaker 1: and hear him talk about the value of Armstead and
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard gutting it through injuries this week and playing
Speaker 1: in that It was a really cool last week. He
Speaker 1: That's the one. One of the things that I can't
Speaker 1: say enough about about two in general is how coachable
Speaker 1: he is. And it's one thing to say a coaching point,
Speaker 1: which is what you're alluding to, and it's another thing
Speaker 1: for a guy to take it by the teeth and
Speaker 1: run with it. And he had um. He he channeled
Speaker 1: that the end of the Baltimore game into a great
Speaker 1: week where he was you could feel his spirit, his command,
Speaker 1: his attention to detail, but also his confidence and I
Speaker 1: think it definitely um manifests itself in this game. You know. UM,
Speaker 1: that's why you can't just look at uh, you know,
Speaker 1: stat lines. His stats were nearly as impressive UM as
Speaker 1: the game before, but he definitely took a step forward
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Um. You could argue that Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would argue that it's probably that that in rhythm
Speaker 1: touchdown that he made to River Craycraft, that that I
Speaker 1: would put that up against any any play that he's
Speaker 1: made this year. UM. And I don't think going into
Speaker 1: the Baltimore game he might have made that play because
Speaker 1: it was a UM more than just a bang bang.
Speaker 1: It was he had to see the coverage right and
Speaker 1: UM really really hummed the ball in there because it
Speaker 1: was a tight window in in that low red area. UM.
Speaker 1: So that that's an example of him. UM. I think
Speaker 1: on the long Wattle catch, Uh, you know, people talk
Speaker 1: about all sorts of nonsense to me, but all I
Speaker 1: see is a guy that not only made the throw,
Speaker 1: but watch what he what he was doing priests or
Speaker 1: before the throw in his drop. Um. The only reason
Speaker 1: why there was any room from the field half safety
Speaker 1: was because he was eyeing him up the entire time
Speaker 1: and and really not even looking at Wattle to try
Speaker 1: to manipulate that guy. So what that tells me is
Speaker 1: that's a guy in a situation that, UM, it's not
Speaker 1: for everybody. Third and twenty two isn't exactly where you
Speaker 1: want to be. UM. But he saw that he recognized
Speaker 1: that he had a play call that that he owned.
Speaker 1: He got the look that UM, we were looking for,
Speaker 1: and he really, um really owned that moment. And it's
Speaker 1: you know who who would have known that that could
Speaker 1: have been one of the bigger plays in the game. UM.
Speaker 1: A guy that's confident, a guy that is not trying
Speaker 1: to force stuff but recognizes when his opportunity is there. UM,
Speaker 1: that's what that guy was there. So I think I
Speaker 1: think it was a a really really big week applying
Speaker 1: all that Baltimore, not all that gained moment them from
Speaker 1: the Baltimore game into this past week that I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if we would have won the game otherwise. And
Speaker 1: now on his captain's tehron arched at an Exhavian Howard
Speaker 1: gutting it through those injuries to play the entire game.
Speaker 1: There's this, there's a lot of inspiring. Our guys are
Speaker 1: really UM are really taking UM leadership and understand following
Speaker 1: leadership appropriately. UM and our captains UM specifically have done
Speaker 1: an unbelievable job setting the tone. And when you have
Speaker 1: two captains like that do everything they possibly can to
Speaker 1: contribute as much as they can to the team. UM.
Speaker 1: There's a trickle down effect that that I think really
Speaker 1: it's hard to just say their own play. Not only
Speaker 1: did they play very very well, both of them, um,
Speaker 1: but I think they, uh, you're also setting a towne
Speaker 1: own for your teammates to follow. Um and and I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of straining, a lot of grit um,
Speaker 1: a lot of battling in that game that is a
Speaker 1: function of a lot of captains really scratching and clawns.
Speaker 1: So um, that's the thing I was so pumped about
Speaker 1: was because they not only put their characteristic you know, um,
Speaker 1: top top shelf play on the on performance, but I
Speaker 1: think they they um show they lead by example in
Speaker 1: a way that you'd really hope, um your captains would
Speaker 1: and that's what we count on them for and they
Speaker 1: came through for sure. There you have it, really fun
Speaker 1: podcast here taking a look at a huge, huge Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins win. What a day that was. In the meantime,
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