Speaker 1: Factors, thro Alphins Traffick drowing touchdown. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team? Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I
Speaker 1: am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today show, we look back one
Speaker 1: last time at the Dolphins game on Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, falling to one and three on the day.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the numbers here, take a look at
Speaker 1: some of the tape and talk about what went wrong
Speaker 1: what went right? On this edition of the Drive Time
Speaker 1: Podcast will also hear from coaches on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football, the coordinators on this Tuesday, and some
Speaker 1: players as well. All of that and more on this Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: so we are going to hear from the Dolphins coordinators
Speaker 1: and offensive assistance on this edition of the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: Later on in the episode, Let's go ahead now, though,
Speaker 1: and first start with the aftermath, the inside the numbers
Speaker 1: from Dolphins and Seahawks, and checking where this team is
Speaker 1: statistically across the league individually, snap counts, all that fun
Speaker 1: stuff through the first quarter of the season. And so
Speaker 1: we start to dive in a little bit here to
Speaker 1: the aftermath from Dolphins twenty three, Seahawks thirty one. In
Speaker 1: this tightly contested game, we know the Dolphins had chances
Speaker 1: to grab the leading the fourth quarter, as they have
Speaker 1: in all four games this year, going up against three
Speaker 1: teams who are ten and two on the season in
Speaker 1: those losses, and of course getting the one victory over
Speaker 1: a one and three Jacksonville team convincingly last Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and update you at the quarter poll.
Speaker 1: Is that what you call it these days? I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure. Four games into the season of a sixteen
Speaker 1: game season, one fourth of the way through this NFL season.
Speaker 1: Here is where your Miami Dolphins stand. After putting up
Speaker 1: over four hundred yards against the Seahawks defense on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The offensive ranks really improved across the board, as they
Speaker 1: are twenty three and total offense twenty four yards per
Speaker 1: play in passing and twenty one and overall rushing. The
Speaker 1: scoring offense ranks twenty four at twenty three point three
Speaker 1: points per game, and the offense has been able to
Speaker 1: sustain drive so far this season. They have a forty
Speaker 1: six point nine percent third down conversion rate that's ninth
Speaker 1: best in the National Football League. They have nine touchdowns
Speaker 1: on fifteen red zone trips, three of those field goals
Speaker 1: coming in Sunday's game, but they still rank sixteenth in
Speaker 1: the NFL with a sixty conversion rate in that most
Speaker 1: critical area of the field and of the game. Dolphins
Speaker 1: average drive time here on the Drivetime Podcast is three
Speaker 1: oh five, sixth best in the NFL, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: two point three three points per drive are twenty in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I recall it must have been even five
Speaker 1: years ago you wanted to score two points per drive
Speaker 1: was enough to put you up over league average. So
Speaker 1: at two point to seven points per drive. Ranking nineteenth
Speaker 1: kind of tells you where the NFL is today with
Speaker 1: their offensive juggernauts across the league, Dolphins have ninety six
Speaker 1: first downs in four games. That's tied for ninth best
Speaker 1: in the NFL and both on passing an offense during
Speaker 1: the top ten in chain moving plays. They have thirty
Speaker 1: first downs on the ground that's tenth in the NFL
Speaker 1: and fifty seven first downs through the air that is
Speaker 1: twelve best in the NFL. And only five teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL have allowed fewer sacks than the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 1: They've only allowed six sacks through four games. That's an
Speaker 1: average of one point five sacks per game, down from
Speaker 1: three point six sacks per game last year, so better
Speaker 1: than two sacks less per game this season compared to nineteen.
Speaker 1: On the field goal unit, Jason Sanders is the only
Speaker 1: kicker in the NFL that has field goal rate. With
Speaker 1: nine made kicks, he has the most makes among the
Speaker 1: seven teams that have not missed a field goal this year.
Speaker 1: He'll so has the second longest kick at fifty two
Speaker 1: yards out of that group. The Dolphins are seven and
Speaker 1: total defense and passing and twenty in the league in
Speaker 1: total rushing defense so far and the twenty one and
Speaker 1: yards per carry. On the rushing defense part of the game,
Speaker 1: they allow twenty four points per game and that is
Speaker 1: tied for twelve best in the National Football League. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have faced four opponents who ranked pretty highly in
Speaker 1: scoring offense or three of the four do I should
Speaker 1: say Seattle second and scoring offense, Buffalo's fifth and scoring offense,
Speaker 1: New England twenty two, and Jacksonville And so going up
Speaker 1: against those four really good offensive teams, the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: tied for twelve in scoring defense in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: They have twenty one miss tackles through four games. That's
Speaker 1: fourteenth best in the NFL, and there are two teams
Speaker 1: on that list that only played three games so far.
Speaker 1: With the delays and the postponents. With a twenty one
Speaker 1: twenty point one percent pressure rate, the Dolphins are ranked
Speaker 1: tied for thirteenth and applying pressure on opposing quarterbacks, one
Speaker 1: of every five drop backs they get a pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. As for the snap counts in this game,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty similar low toy have been used to
Speaker 1: the first three weeks of the season. Fitzpatrick did not
Speaker 1: leave the field played all seventy one snaps, and that
Speaker 1: was true of four of the five offensive lineman. Of course,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson left the game for a few snaps in
Speaker 1: this one for twenty five snaps for Julian Davenport. Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson played forty six. Robert Hunt also played three snaps,
Speaker 1: but Flowers, Carriss, Kinley Davis, and Fitzpatrick, five players on offense,
Speaker 1: all played all seventy one snaps. In the backfield, Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskin once again paces the Dolphins running backs forty six carries,
Speaker 1: that was sixty of the workload. Matt Brita was next
Speaker 1: at seventeen carries that's of the workload, and then Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard and Chandler Cox both played eight snaps each in
Speaker 1: this game. At receiver. Davanta Parker, who talked about this
Speaker 1: on his Monday morning press conference, how he's just as
Speaker 1: he's gotten older and learned how to manage, you know,
Speaker 1: both pain and injury management. That he's learned that you
Speaker 1: can fight through and manage these small tweaks and knicks
Speaker 1: and injuries, and he's gonna get himself back out there
Speaker 1: and play and that's exactly what he did, fifty seven
Speaker 1: snaps of the workload, and on fifty seven snaps he
Speaker 1: produ is a hundred and ten receiving yards. Preston Williams
Speaker 1: played forty three snaps in the game. That's Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: had forty five snaps at sixty better or more than
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, and Jachim Grant played twenty eight snaps. That's
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent, with Lynn Bowden playing four snaps and
Speaker 1: mc collins playing two snaps. At wide receiver Mike ah
Speaker 1: Sick was on the field for forty five snaps, Durham
Speaker 1: Smith for twenty nine, and Adam Sheheen twenty snaps in
Speaker 1: this game. So the Dolphins offense or tight ends rather
Speaker 1: all three of them getting pretty heavily involved into the mix.
Speaker 1: As far as these stats for the offensive players, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins passing game under pressure produced both the best plays
Speaker 1: and the most detrimental players in this game. When Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: was under pressure, he was eight for twelve with one
Speaker 1: ten yards. He also had three scrambles that produced more
Speaker 1: than ten yards on each of those three runs, but
Speaker 1: his arm got hit twice under pressure, and both those
Speaker 1: balls got kind of adjusted. Fitzpatrick talked about it post
Speaker 1: games Sunday, and they eventually, of course, we're picked off
Speaker 1: the first a tip which you just can't control a
Speaker 1: f you the quarterback at all whatsoever. And half of
Speaker 1: Miles gaskins ten rush attempts move the chain on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He ran for forty yards in the game, with twenty
Speaker 1: five of those yards coming after initial contact. That's good
Speaker 1: for a two point five yards per contact per average.
Speaker 1: He's led the Dolphins running backs in that stat each
Speaker 1: of the first four games. Matt Brita average thirteen yards
Speaker 1: per catch with twelve yards average run after the catch.
Speaker 1: Two of his three catches moved the chains in the game,
Speaker 1: showing some bite on the passing game for Matt Brita.
Speaker 1: We talked about DeVante Parker ten of twelve targets he caught,
Speaker 1: He's got a nine point six yards per target rate
Speaker 1: right now. That's best in the team and thirty seventh
Speaker 1: best in the NFL. Durham Smith had a career high
Speaker 1: thirty receiving yards in the game. He also did not
Speaker 1: allow a quarterback pressure in the game, so a good
Speaker 1: day for the Dolphins tight end there. And Miami's interior
Speaker 1: three offensive lineman. Another stout day in past protection between
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss Solomon Kinley, Seattle only put pressure
Speaker 1: on Fitzpatrick against that Triumvirent two times the entire game
Speaker 1: and on the season, those three players have allowed a
Speaker 1: total of twelve pressures in this season. Solomon Kinley has
Speaker 1: two shoutouts so far through four games with zero pressures allowed.
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss was the highest graded run locker in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday per Pro Football Focus. Defensively, the snap
Speaker 1: counts upfront, Christian Wilkins once again leads the way with
Speaker 1: forty four reps, Devon god Shall thirty six, Zach Seeler
Speaker 1: had twenty six snaps, and ray Kwon Davis had nine.
Speaker 1: Team at defensive vent it's Ogba and Lawson for the
Speaker 1: most part, he had forty eight snap did Ogbah and
Speaker 1: Lawson had forty seven, making up seventy six and seventy
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins defensive workload. Kyle van Noy did not
Speaker 1: leave the field. He was one of three players with
Speaker 1: that distinction, also cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Noah Abanogamy playing
Speaker 1: sixty three snaps in this game, Jerome Baker had forty
Speaker 1: four snap that's seventy of the workload. E Land and
Speaker 1: Roberts had thirty two. Commu grug Hill had twenty three,
Speaker 1: and Andrew van Ginkl was out there for ten snaps
Speaker 1: in the game. At the cornerback spot, Nick Needum played
Speaker 1: forty four snaps against seventy for him and Jamal Perry
Speaker 1: had twenty three reps in the game, seven percent of
Speaker 1: the workload, some of that coming at safety, some of
Speaker 1: that coming at corner. Because Bobby McCain missed twenties three
Speaker 1: snaps in the game with the concussion evaluation, he played
Speaker 1: already snapped in the game. Eric Roe played fifty and
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones played nineteen on that defensive side. Speaking about
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain and Jamal Perry, who was his temporary replacement
Speaker 1: in the game, those were the two highest grade defenders
Speaker 1: on Pro Football Focus. McCain had two quarterback pressures, including
Speaker 1: a hit on Russell Wilson. He had a pass breakup
Speaker 1: and four total tackles in the game. A very solid
Speaker 1: day there from the last line of defense, trying to
Speaker 1: prevent those Seahawks deep passes and making some tackles and
Speaker 1: pressure in the quarterback two, which was a theme in
Speaker 1: this game from the defensive backfield. Miami dial up pressure
Speaker 1: with the DBS a few times, and Jamal Perry had
Speaker 1: five tackles in this game total. To round out that
Speaker 1: safety performance, the Dolphins defensive line provided consistent pressure on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Agba had a second sack of the season
Speaker 1: and two more pressures, a hit, a hurry, and a
Speaker 1: sack as well. He also made four run stops in
Speaker 1: the game without missing a single tackle. We saw Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson's first sack as a Miami Dolphin. He also had
Speaker 1: a run stop and an additional hit on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Up front, Zach Seler had a big day five pressures,
Speaker 1: all of him hurries, but the five pressures on twenty
Speaker 1: one p rush reps gave him an impressive twenty three
Speaker 1: point eight percent pressure rate. That's the second highest pressure
Speaker 1: rate in a game this year, behind Kyle Vanoi last
Speaker 1: week in Jacksonville with a thirty percent pressure rate. Speaking
Speaker 1: of van Noi, he had two pressures of his own
Speaker 1: and five total tackles without missing a tackle. Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: also had a pressure and two run stops and Nick
Speaker 1: Needham had two hurries on Russell Wilson and back to
Speaker 1: the safety spot. Eric Rowe was credited with thirty seven
Speaker 1: yards allowed on seven pass targets. They tried to get
Speaker 1: those tight ends going, but he was up to the task,
Speaker 1: good for a five point to eight yards per target
Speaker 1: rate there when going after Eric Rowe. He also made
Speaker 1: six tackles and had a run stop in this game.
Speaker 1: Eric row has been very solid so far this season
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. And to wrap this thing up
Speaker 1: with the penalty count, the Dolphins are six in the
Speaker 1: NFL and fewest penalties against, with sixteen against them. Green
Speaker 1: Bay eclipse that number on Monday Night's game against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's the Patriots, Rams, Titans, Texans, and Steelers, and so
Speaker 1: the Titans and Steelers on that list both have played
Speaker 1: one fewer game, and the Dolphins have one more penalty
Speaker 1: than Pittsburgh and three more than Tennessee, so could be
Speaker 1: moving into the top five there shortly when those games
Speaker 1: get made up. The yardage against the Dolphins and penalties
Speaker 1: is also very good. The one twenty six yards assessed
Speaker 1: against them ranks seventh in the National Football League but
Speaker 1: again Pittsburgh and Tennessee both on that list within striking
Speaker 1: range for the Dolphins to move closer into that top
Speaker 1: five penalty yards against. So another good season of not
Speaker 1: beating themselves with bad penalties and mistakes that way under
Speaker 1: Brian Flores. Alright, how about some tape dogg in here
Speaker 1: on the Drive Time podcast. Game Pass was kind enough
Speaker 1: to put the tape out for us on Monday afternoons.
Speaker 1: We got a good look at this Dolphins and Seahawks
Speaker 1: tape before he turned the page here on this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and jump into the assistant coaches and the coordinators for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team. We start on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. My notes kind of just went in order
Speaker 1: of the plays and I categorized it by who was
Speaker 1: who I was talking about on that particular play. We
Speaker 1: start with Chan Gailey, who I loved his game plan
Speaker 1: once again, first play of the game comes out of
Speaker 1: two personnel and they spread it out four wide until
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. We talked about this in the pregame show,
Speaker 1: the Cover three defense they've run for so long they're
Speaker 1: under Pete Carroll. You really read that group out. You
Speaker 1: get linebackers on the field, you have your best receiver,
Speaker 1: Devantay Parker round a comeback route. It's pretty much pitch
Speaker 1: and catch him there. I love that opening play of
Speaker 1: the game and the throwback pass to Durham smythe on
Speaker 1: that third and one. The conversion was a really cool look.
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers pulling to the play side, the tight end
Speaker 1: goes to the ground off a chip block intentionally and
Speaker 1: then gets up and leaks out to the other side
Speaker 1: of the field for a big eighteen yard pick up.
Speaker 1: On third down and one, there's a quick set up
Speaker 1: where they threw a slant pass Davanta Parker in the
Speaker 1: first window. It's a heavy personnel package, meaning six offensive
Speaker 1: linemen with Robert Hunt on the field, and Fits initially
Speaker 1: goes to show the play actions to the running back,
Speaker 1: but quickly stands back up and hits Parker in that
Speaker 1: first window, which gives him time to kind of set
Speaker 1: up the safety who's farther off the line scrimmage with
Speaker 1: a tackle breaking opportunity. There. So cool design on that one.
Speaker 1: And then Smith a twelve yard reception with three nineteen
Speaker 1: to go in the first half. He goes empty out
Speaker 1: of thirteen personnel. It's one back with Miles Gaskin and
Speaker 1: three tight ends and Gisicky Smythe and Shaheen you slide
Speaker 1: dog you Chan Gaily Robert Hunt. I put him out
Speaker 1: for him here the first snap of the game. I
Speaker 1: love the way he controlled the down block at the
Speaker 1: second level. That was all I had on him in
Speaker 1: this game. But he does get some good push off
Speaker 1: the outside of the offensive line some Jacchem grand note.
Speaker 1: Grant notes here on the first interception, he has a
Speaker 1: really good looking wheel route where he gets open deep
Speaker 1: on that Seahawks cover three forces the corner into come
Speaker 1: coming up into a flat footed approach and Fitz was
Speaker 1: trying to shoot that thing, but his arm got hit
Speaker 1: as he threw. I thought he might have had a
Speaker 1: shot a touchdown later in the game where he ran
Speaker 1: a deep over route to the back pylon. It was
Speaker 1: a play where fits when after Isaiah Ford on the
Speaker 1: back shoulder throw and almost got that completion in there.
Speaker 1: But Jachem really showing his speed off on that deep over.
Speaker 1: I thought that was cool to see. And then before
Speaker 1: the Jason Sanders field goal to make it seventeen twelve,
Speaker 1: the Pascal is incomplete Davante, but Jachim was coming across
Speaker 1: the field on a drag route and created some good
Speaker 1: separation there as well, with the defender pretty far in
Speaker 1: his hip pocket there or back off of his back
Speaker 1: pocket in trail technique. And then he had a big
Speaker 1: time catch on a third and seven where he uncovers
Speaker 1: early and shows that speed again explosiveness again off a
Speaker 1: line for a big catch to move the chains there
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Austin Jackson notes here, I love
Speaker 1: the play when Fits got flagged for the forward pass
Speaker 1: for Austin Jackson's work because he had to check a
Speaker 1: b gap pressure as they walked up Bobby Wagner onto
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. So he peeks inside and then he
Speaker 1: has to get back outside to the speed rush of
Speaker 1: the defensive end who has lined up in that wide
Speaker 1: technique a couple of gaps off the offensive tackle, and
Speaker 1: you really see Austin's athletic ability and the recovery speed
Speaker 1: on display there as he can check inside and then
Speaker 1: get back to the outside and run that rush around
Speaker 1: the quarterback. The athletics doesn't make him the number eight
Speaker 1: team pick in the draft on display right there. Then
Speaker 1: he had a really good second level block on a
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin run on the play where they hit Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers with a hold, he squared up a linebacker at
Speaker 1: the second level. Speaking of that Eric Eric Flowers hold,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get into his tape here. Love
Speaker 1: and watching this guy play very solid and pass protection
Speaker 1: communication and finding work among all three of those interior
Speaker 1: guys on the offensive line has been very strong so far,
Speaker 1: and I think Eric Flowers has been a big big
Speaker 1: part of that. On the holding call, head Carriss chips
Speaker 1: the man that Flowers is blocking, and it looks like
Speaker 1: that kind of shifts flowers hands to the outside of
Speaker 1: the shoulder pads there, but it also knocked the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle over and it kind of made it look like
Speaker 1: Flowers was the one that threw him down. But I
Speaker 1: thought that he really had a good block on that play.
Speaker 1: So a tough call, a tough look there for the
Speaker 1: officials to make a decision on that, because, like I said,
Speaker 1: the impact of Carress really shipped the way that block went.
Speaker 1: Hit an awesome block on the Lynn Bowden carry where
Speaker 1: he pulled play side and crushed his block, turned it
Speaker 1: and sealed it and created a gap there. He also
Speaker 1: hits a big block on the outside on kJ right
Speaker 1: on a screen pass to open up the third quarter,
Speaker 1: he displaces the nose on a two or like by
Speaker 1: two gaps two or three gaps on a nine yard
Speaker 1: miles gascon run in the fourth quarter. Really good day
Speaker 1: again for Eric Flowers. He's been solid through four games,
Speaker 1: and so is Ted Carriss. I talked about the communication.
Speaker 1: That's something that Ryan Fitzpatrick credits the Dolphin center, the
Speaker 1: guy that kind of is the ring leader of getting
Speaker 1: all that stuff communicated, watching him pass off and work
Speaker 1: and games and bluffs by the rushers up front. Ted
Speaker 1: Carriss has been very solid so far through these four games.
Speaker 1: And Solomon Kindley again solid and passed with these guys
Speaker 1: working up front and the interior. I love watching him
Speaker 1: find work when his guy drops out into coverage, when
Speaker 1: they show pressure and then drop out. He puts big
Speaker 1: hits on people when he can go over there and
Speaker 1: chip and find that work. The communication between these three
Speaker 1: again super super good. Put a guy on the ground
Speaker 1: on the dirham smythe throwback and that was the guy
Speaker 1: that Smith was gonna come up and help chip and
Speaker 1: kind of double team there with with Solomon Kinley, and
Speaker 1: he does but because Solomon puts him on his back,
Speaker 1: it makes the release for Smith super easy. So great job.
Speaker 1: And then on the Flowers hold again, I thought there
Speaker 1: was a bunch of good blocks on that play and
Speaker 1: you see Eric Flowers come off clapping thinking he had
Speaker 1: a good block, and the rest of his guys did.
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers or brother Solomon Kinley had a really good
Speaker 1: reach cut block on the the nose tackle of the
Speaker 1: Seahawks on that play. And then the Brita reception, the
Speaker 1: first one, he literally locks out and shuffles across a
Speaker 1: passenger trying to cross face on him with one arm.
Speaker 1: Doesn't lose any balance, doesn't look any panics, just super
Speaker 1: strong looking. Good weekend and week out for Solomon Kindley.
Speaker 1: On Fitzpatrick on the forward past call the illegal four pass,
Speaker 1: every part of the body has to be across the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, but literally only the football was the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, smacked down on the thirty one yard
Speaker 1: line and both of his feet were planted behind the
Speaker 1: thirty one yard line. And fits was definitely aggressive in
Speaker 1: this game, going after guys and coverage, throwing on his
Speaker 1: back shoulder throws. We talked about that cover three. He
Speaker 1: tried a couple of those. Got a lot of p
Speaker 1: bus in this game from the Seahawks. In this particular game,
Speaker 1: the Turkey whole shot on a smash concept where you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a wide receiver or the outside receiver run
Speaker 1: like a little hitch or a drag or a curl
Speaker 1: route inside, and then you run the second receiver closest
Speaker 1: to the slot there on a corner route and behind that.
Speaker 1: They ran that and fits through an absolute gem to
Speaker 1: Mike Kisiki for a big completion. On the completion to
Speaker 1: Chandler Cox for the first down, it looked like mac
Speaker 1: hollins was kind of coming free deep in the secondary,
Speaker 1: But it's hard to gauge whether or not you take
Speaker 1: that chot or go underneath. I'll be curious to ask
Speaker 1: somebody about that question this week with regards to what's
Speaker 1: the decision making there on third and short. Do you
Speaker 1: want to get the first down or do you take
Speaker 1: a risk and go deep up top? On the third
Speaker 1: intense scramble play on the field goal drive the eight
Speaker 1: up half the fourth quarter was such a nice run
Speaker 1: by Fitzpatrick. He looked dead to rights at about eight yards,
Speaker 1: but dove forward for that big first down for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. A couple of tight end notes here Durham
Speaker 1: Smith when they go six man protection and just with
Speaker 1: him in the offensive line, I think it looks really
Speaker 1: really good. Smith has been really good as an inline
Speaker 1: blocker this year. I thought Adam Shaheen had a nice
Speaker 1: game blocking off the edge as well. Matt Brita, there
Speaker 1: was a player where gets sick. He draws a double
Speaker 1: team with a the two hook linebackers kind of jumping
Speaker 1: onto him, and Brita just go his head out of
Speaker 1: the pistol formation and shuts up right in front of
Speaker 1: that double team, gets a catch, and then you see
Speaker 1: all speed from there for a big twenty plus yard game.
Speaker 1: And then another catch leader in the game just flat
Speaker 1: out escapes the linebacker who's around his waist completely and
Speaker 1: just gets rid of him and takes a dump off
Speaker 1: pass for a first down in the third quarter. Very
Speaker 1: strong and explosive that way. Miles Gaskin continuously slips tackles
Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage and runs through contact. I
Speaker 1: also love the way he gets in behind those big
Speaker 1: guards on double teams because he fights through arm tackles.
Speaker 1: Very easily, and you get a lot of those with
Speaker 1: guys like Solomon Kindley, Eric Flowers, and Ted Carriss on
Speaker 1: those double teams. I had Davantae Parker for a note
Speaker 1: with an awesome catch on a dig He was kind
Speaker 1: of stretched out over the middle of the field on
Speaker 1: an absolute fast ball from Ryan Fitzpatrick in the beginning
Speaker 1: parts of the second quarter. Big catch there for Devantae Parker.
Speaker 1: Mike Gasick. I had him running to the deep post
Speaker 1: on a third and four on the incomplete passage. Achem
Speaker 1: Grant thought that Gassicky did well to kind of get
Speaker 1: himself off the contact there from the linebacker and get
Speaker 1: free on that play. I just want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and make a note here how much better Mike is
Speaker 1: from year one to now as a run blocker. Completely
Speaker 1: different player in that area, and it's a credit to
Speaker 1: his work ethic. Speaking of work ethic, Isaiah Ford on
Speaker 1: the play before the fourth quarter, runs a little hesitation
Speaker 1: hook up route where it gets Bobby Waggon to sink
Speaker 1: down and lose his depth and then he speeds it
Speaker 1: right back up and runs around him for a nice
Speaker 1: looking catch and run for seventeen yards. Then he also
Speaker 1: runs a little pivot route on a big time third
Speaker 1: and tenant conversion in the fourth quarter, and despite the
Speaker 1: defensive bat grabbing his waist and turning him, he makes
Speaker 1: a big time tough contested catch. So a nice day
Speaker 1: again here from Isaiah Ford. Let's go ahead and gets
Speaker 1: the defense now on the A twenty two review and
Speaker 1: start off here with xaviing Howard on the interception there
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. I really thought that interception was
Speaker 1: just a good call from Josh Boy and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive staff there. They got immediate pressure on Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: which forced him to kind of fade back into his
Speaker 1: throw off that back foot, and that caused the throw
Speaker 1: to have a little bit less juice on it, and
Speaker 1: that gave x just enough time to undercut that pass
Speaker 1: and make a hell of a play on the football.
Speaker 1: We know he's one of the best ball hawks and
Speaker 1: playmakers on the ball in the air in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. With fourteen picks his last twenty six game.
Speaker 1: That's more than a pick every other game. That's really
Speaker 1: really good production out of a cornerback out there. Emmanuel Ogba.
Speaker 1: I've got several notes on him here at landon Roberts
Speaker 1: gets a TfL on an outside run, but Ogball is
Speaker 1: the one kind of working off the outside tackle and
Speaker 1: he forces the running back to bend back against the
Speaker 1: formation because he stacked it up and set the edge,
Speaker 1: and then Roberts is a good job to come back
Speaker 1: inside and clean the thing up. But Ogba really strong
Speaker 1: point there off the edge, and that was consistent throughout
Speaker 1: the game. He wipes out a kick off kickout block
Speaker 1: and makes a big tackle in the backfield there for
Speaker 1: another run stop. He stacks up and displaces the edge
Speaker 1: on the Chris Carson fumble working outside on outside run
Speaker 1: there to kind of get the tackle, reset back into
Speaker 1: the backfield, uses his hands to disengage and gets in
Speaker 1: there for the forced fumble. Had very vicious hands on
Speaker 1: the sack, works upfield and then swats the hands of
Speaker 1: the offensive tackle away from him, and then very impressive
Speaker 1: cornering ability to turn the edge there and get the
Speaker 1: sack on Russell and get the defense off the field.
Speaker 1: And then he had a four yard TfL on the
Speaker 1: second half of the game. Hard to top this. One
Speaker 1: man stacked it, reset it, disengaged and made the play.
Speaker 1: I just wrote down, Damn man What a play by
Speaker 1: that guy, Bobby McCain. I thought I had a really
Speaker 1: good game, his best of the year for my money.
Speaker 1: He had a very nice timed blitz on the Seahawks
Speaker 1: second drive, a second down and eleven. He comes in
Speaker 1: right at the snap free up the b gap. A
Speaker 1: nice call from Josh Bowyer there as McCain gets pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback and forces a throw over the head
Speaker 1: of the intended target. On the very next play, comes
Speaker 1: back with a huge hit on dk metcalf to force
Speaker 1: and in completion will give him a p BU for
Speaker 1: that one. That was seven man and cover John that
Speaker 1: play with a contained rush. Love the call there to
Speaker 1: kind of keep Russell in the pocket and engage and
Speaker 1: that's your defensive back squad and make a play they
Speaker 1: did on that particular play. Zack Seeler several notes here
Speaker 1: on him. His first pressure he oversets a guard and
Speaker 1: then cross his face with a powerful punch. Really impressive
Speaker 1: work on that one. On the ogg Boss sack, he
Speaker 1: bowls over the center and a double team to put
Speaker 1: a bunch of trash down around Russell Wilson's feet. You
Speaker 1: can see Russell kind of wants to step up when
Speaker 1: he sees ogg boss pressure off the edge, but he
Speaker 1: realizes he's got a bunch of trash around his feet
Speaker 1: and just kind of turtles into the sack because at
Speaker 1: that point the play is over. He puts a huge
Speaker 1: hit on Russell Wilson on the scramble play to open
Speaker 1: the third quarter. He scrambles for a first down, and
Speaker 1: the defense had great coverage on that play, but sometimes
Speaker 1: with Russ that just happens. He at least put a
Speaker 1: good hit on there and make him feel your presence.
Speaker 1: And then Seattle goes into the red zone on that
Speaker 1: drive and he beats a lineman across face and then
Speaker 1: when the back bends it back across the formation, because
Speaker 1: he locates it with his eyes, he beats him across
Speaker 1: face and spins back into the play and makes the tackle.
Speaker 1: I wrote down, Wow, what a play by Seiler. Wow
Speaker 1: Christopher walking aside Noah ig Monogamy. I had a good
Speaker 1: rep for him on a press and pin to the
Speaker 1: sideline on a takeoff slash come back route from from
Speaker 1: almost Ricardo Lockett from Tyler Lockett, Russell Wilson throws a
Speaker 1: deep over the top. Lockett came back down the stem
Speaker 1: for a comeback route. He was in the hip pocket there.
Speaker 1: He has some good reps where he got in the trail,
Speaker 1: got into phase on that particular game. But of course
Speaker 1: we talked about with Eric Rowe and Brian Floors and
Speaker 1: some of the communication mistakes in the back end leading
Speaker 1: to some big plays. We had John Conjenmy talked about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast yesterday as well. As Noah has
Speaker 1: had a lot of big tests so far early on
Speaker 1: in his career. Going to be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: he responds going forward in this rookie season. Still again
Speaker 1: the youngest player in the National Football League, staying in
Speaker 1: the secondary. Eric Rowe a few notes here on him.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a really good game. Off to
Speaker 1: a great start this season so far. His first two
Speaker 1: catches on him are just flat routes with a challenge
Speaker 1: him to make a tackle in the open field off
Speaker 1: the edge, and he does it with ease. And then
Speaker 1: he has really good coverage on a third and two
Speaker 1: conversion to Greg Olsen where the ball just takes a
Speaker 1: bad bounce in lands in Olsen's laugh after he gets
Speaker 1: a ebu It's where did you get a PBu? But
Speaker 1: the guy still ends up with a catch that happened
Speaker 1: on this play and then later in the game outstanding
Speaker 1: underneath coverage and I throw again to Olsen right before
Speaker 1: the turnover. On downs he has to kind of stay
Speaker 1: with the with the receiver because Wilson breaks the pocket.
Speaker 1: He carries his contact to the five yard mark, releases it,
Speaker 1: then has to turn and run upfield after Wilson extends
Speaker 1: the play, but he just stays in there right close
Speaker 1: into Greg Olsen. Shack Lawson on the fourth down stop
Speaker 1: the series. Right play before that, there's a second down
Speaker 1: two where they try to sneak Chris Carson into the
Speaker 1: flat for a little screen pass, but Lawson engages him physically,
Speaker 1: not the dentist system, but engages him physically enough to
Speaker 1: disrupt the timing of the play and causing incompletion. I
Speaker 1: thought his sack again like the other, like the interception
Speaker 1: for Howard, was a great call. He wins inside and
Speaker 1: Wilson has to escape a Nick Needham blitz coming clean
Speaker 1: off the corner on a cat blitz. Cat means corner blitz,
Speaker 1: and Shaq does well to break down the open field
Speaker 1: and get Wilson to the ground. Kyle Van Noy had
Speaker 1: a great play as a forced defender on the Chris
Speaker 1: Carson fumble, working off the edge, sets the edge of
Speaker 1: forces something to bubble, then gets his hand back in
Speaker 1: there when the back cut it up to help Ogba
Speaker 1: get the fumble out. And then he had pressure on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson on the third down before the turnover on downs.
Speaker 1: His arm over on the running back forces Wilson off
Speaker 1: the spot and forces him to scramble and make that
Speaker 1: throw that we talked about with Eric Rowe getting a
Speaker 1: hand on that football yesterday or Sunday, I should say,
Speaker 1: I said the Igbo and Van Noy were on the
Speaker 1: two man route combination on the deep pass at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half, but it was actually Nick
Speaker 1: need Hum with you know, and Eric Road talked about this,
Speaker 1: how this team is still working on the communication. I
Speaker 1: think that showed up there. They both kind of bit
Speaker 1: up on the underneath receiver. Talked about the play before
Speaker 1: the fourth down turnover on downs. Jamal Perry plays and
Speaker 1: safety in this game. On that third and three incompletion,
Speaker 1: he had some really nice closing speed and read there
Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson as he breaks the pocket and Perry
Speaker 1: takes off the same direction and gets the helps Eric
Speaker 1: Rowe get a p BU on that play, and then
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones had a really nice tackle I thought in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter where you saw his fet his play
Speaker 1: speed and his physicality and aggressiveness. It was an eight
Speaker 1: yard run, but you can really see him closed down
Speaker 1: that thing and get across the formation for a nice
Speaker 1: tackle in the open field. Overall review, love the past
Speaker 1: protection on offense. I think Matt Brida and Miles Gassing
Speaker 1: I put together some really nice tape so far. In
Speaker 1: the backfield. I think Jachem is itching to bring some
Speaker 1: explosiveness to the offense. We talked about this in the
Speaker 1: podcast earlier. Not that many twenty plus yard plays. I
Speaker 1: think Jachem's on the verge of getting one here shortly.
Speaker 1: I love this tight end group just all the way around, blocking,
Speaker 1: receiving smythe Shaheen and Giziki getting the job done defensively.
Speaker 1: Agba is who I thought he was. I was a
Speaker 1: big time fan of that signing. He is playing really
Speaker 1: good football. I'd like the decision to play some zone
Speaker 1: to help force some of those crossing patterns we've seen
Speaker 1: beat this defense in previous weeks. I thought the corner
Speaker 1: and defensive back blitzes were well timed and well conceived.
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe playing really, really, really good football. I've got
Speaker 1: Van Noy staying strong in his gaps in his assignments,
Speaker 1: with a good pass rush to boot and Zach Seiler
Speaker 1: as a total bowl been fun to watch him grow
Speaker 1: and progress into this defense since signing last December. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and here from the Dolphins assistant coaches and coordinator.
Speaker 1: Starting off here with Dolphins d C Josh Boyer, here's
Speaker 1: an interesting stat for you. Through the first four weeks.
Speaker 1: The top four corner backs on the average yards allowed
Speaker 1: per coverage snap are all rookie cornerbacks, Jeff Acuda, Jeff Gladney,
Speaker 1: Damon Arnette, and Noah Ignogady among them. Here is Josh
Speaker 1: Boyer on Noah for the first four weeks and how
Speaker 1: he can adjust and play better on game day. No
Speaker 1: is he's a diligent worker. Uh, you know, he'll come
Speaker 1: in and put a good day's work in and you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully things will improve. And you know, we
Speaker 1: asked out of all of our guys, so like, you know,
Speaker 1: the things that aren't going so well for you know, guys,
Speaker 1: we work harder to try to improve that and things
Speaker 1: that they're doing good we try to build on. So
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it, you know, goes to
Speaker 1: practice and really just focus on a play to play basis.
Speaker 1: Staying in that secondary, we had Eric Row on media
Speaker 1: availability on Monday, and he talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: communication and how the defense has to react to the
Speaker 1: offenses motion and shifts pre snap, and how they have
Speaker 1: to get communicated with a new alignment. They're gonna show
Speaker 1: you from what they showed you pre motion pre snap.
Speaker 1: Here is Josh Boyer on that communication element, the motion,
Speaker 1: the shifting of the offense and how there's another team
Speaker 1: come into town or I guess we're going to their
Speaker 1: town on Sunday. They'll do plenty of window addressing, misdirection,
Speaker 1: motion pre snap, plenty of stuff. With Kyle Shanahan and
Speaker 1: the forty diners offense. Well, I mean there's you know,
Speaker 1: the offenses. You know that we'll face them. We're going
Speaker 1: to see another one this week. That the motions you
Speaker 1: know as much as anybody in the league. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know there's always gonna be communication. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's from the front or the back end. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: a lot of that starts with us in practice, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I wouldn't say all of all
Speaker 1: of the airs that we've had have have have not
Speaker 1: been in communication. Some of them are just basic stuff
Speaker 1: that you know. It's it's a focused thing from playing
Speaker 1: play out from multiple players. And obviously, you know, for
Speaker 1: us to be good, consistent consistently on a down in
Speaker 1: and down basis, we have to be able to handle motion,
Speaker 1: We have to be able to know and understand our calls,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then once we can get to
Speaker 1: that point, you know, we've shown spurts or flashes of
Speaker 1: playing good defense from time to time, but on a
Speaker 1: down end, down out basis, we're all striving to improve.
Speaker 1: And like I said, that that starts with me and um,
Speaker 1: that's what we're working to do. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here with a comment about Dolphins defensive lineman
Speaker 1: Zach Seiler from Josh Boyer. Here's a cool fact on Seiler,
Speaker 1: six ft five heavier than two five pounds, with a
Speaker 1: sub eight five forty yard dash with thirty reps on
Speaker 1: the bench press, one dred and fifteen inches in the
Speaker 1: broad jump, and a three cone under seven one five
Speaker 1: three players have done that. Ever, it's Mario Williams, J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt and Zach Seiler. You pair of those physical traits
Speaker 1: with a strong work ethic, you might just get a
Speaker 1: good performance. On Sundays, we saw Zach had five pressures
Speaker 1: on twenty one pass rush reps on Sunday. Here is
Speaker 1: Coach Boyer talking about the work ethic, the relentless motor
Speaker 1: of Zack Seiler. You know, one thing that makes the
Speaker 1: job enjoyable is that we have a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that that that they put in a great day's work.
Speaker 1: I mean that they come in and they work as
Speaker 1: hard as as they possibly can. They're constantly striving for improvement.
Speaker 1: I think Zach and he is that. I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when you watch Zack on the field, he
Speaker 1: plays with great effort and that that's probably what sticks
Speaker 1: out most is you know, and I mean obviously you
Speaker 1: love and respect that about him. Um, and he's constantly
Speaker 1: uh and coaches offices, you know, trying to get better,
Speaker 1: trying to watch more film. And then he goes out
Speaker 1: and he practices as hard as he possibly can, and
Speaker 1: then he's gonna play as hard as he possibly can.
Speaker 1: And like everybody else, you know, there's there's some things
Speaker 1: that are good that you know that he's doing, and
Speaker 1: then there's some things that we're working on to try
Speaker 1: to get better. But uh, za Zack is a hard,
Speaker 1: hard worker, and he's a high effort guy. Uh and
Speaker 1: uh you really enjoy to be around and um, you know,
Speaker 1: and again, like I mean, I do, I feel lucky
Speaker 1: that you know, most of our guys are like that.
Speaker 1: And uh, they're they're very highly motivated and they're they're
Speaker 1: very diligent workers. So you know, and we know the
Speaker 1: task at hand in front of us. We just need
Speaker 1: to keep striving for improvement, try to get to the
Speaker 1: point where we can play down in, down out consistent football.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get to a question here for
Speaker 1: coach Danny Crossman about his place kicker Jason Sanders, perfect
Speaker 1: nine for nine on the season, has not missed a
Speaker 1: p a T. He has the most makes of any
Speaker 1: kicker with a percent kicking so far this season. Here
Speaker 1: is coach Crossman on what makes Jason Sanders such a
Speaker 1: special kicker. No, I think the biggest thing that jumps
Speaker 1: jumps out at just you know how coachable he is. Um,
Speaker 1: he's always looking Uh, to try and improve weekly, almost daily,
Speaker 1: every time we go out on their practice field. He's
Speaker 1: willing to to try and work on anything you're giving,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you you know, if you if
Speaker 1: you're scraping, you scrap it. But he's always open and
Speaker 1: willing to try whatever you may suggest. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. I really wanted to make it
Speaker 1: a point to ask questions about Eric Flowers on this
Speaker 1: particular Tuesday because I think that he's played so damn
Speaker 1: l at that left guard position, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times these rookies, the young guys that everyone's kind of
Speaker 1: curious about the draft picks and how they're performing well.
Speaker 1: The two guys we brought in via free agency, Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers and Ted Carriss, have played good football as well.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask chan Gailey about the performance
Speaker 1: of Eric Flowers. Here's the Dolphins O see on what
Speaker 1: Flowers has meant to that offensive room so far. Offensive
Speaker 1: line room checked that he's having a very good start
Speaker 1: to the season. He is a calming influence on on
Speaker 1: the line for us. He's very competitive on game day,
Speaker 1: but very quiet during the week and very calm and
Speaker 1: really very professional about the way he goes about his business.
Speaker 1: So I've been very happy with what he's brought to us,
Speaker 1: not only on the field playing block in run game,
Speaker 1: pass game, but what he brings as a as a
Speaker 1: leader to our offensive line. And one of the guys
Speaker 1: running behind that offensive line has been Dolphins running back
Speaker 1: second year pro out of Washington is Miles Gaskin. And
Speaker 1: we had Eric Studisville on to talk about what has
Speaker 1: really sparked Miles Gaskin's emergence in the offense and the
Speaker 1: opportunity he's received. It's all about his work ethic, says coach.
Speaker 1: I think the first skill that he possesses is a
Speaker 1: tremendous work ethic because that's something that he's broad and
Speaker 1: used and that's what's giving him the opportunity that he's
Speaker 1: in right now. Um. Physically, I think you see him
Speaker 1: on the field. I think you see as toughness, his
Speaker 1: ability to get on the edge of tackle, to finish
Speaker 1: on some guys. At the second level. We're still working
Speaker 1: on past protection and those things, but he's really really
Speaker 1: improved since last year. I'm catching the ball and working
Speaker 1: and running routes in space, and I think we're starting
Speaker 1: to see some of the production possibilities of that, but overall,
Speaker 1: he's it's it's his work ethic that he brings to
Speaker 1: work and what he does every day. He's passionate about
Speaker 1: it and he wants to be good and he continues
Speaker 1: is working in that direction. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: Eric Flower's comment because I wanted to again focus on
Speaker 1: this player and his leadership and his his work ethic
Speaker 1: and his performance. I love watching the way he hits
Speaker 1: a key block and then goes upfield, picks up us
Speaker 1: running back. He's clapping his hands, he's getting the crowd involved.
Speaker 1: Just a lot of fun watching Eric Flower's number seventy
Speaker 1: five at that left guard spot, as well as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line totality. But what does Eric Flowers as
Speaker 1: quiet demeanor and leadership and work by example do for
Speaker 1: the rest of the offensive line. Here's coach Steve Marshall
Speaker 1: on just that. Well, Eric Flowers is a quiet man, uh,
Speaker 1: you know from talking. But you know when he does talk,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's an experienced player. Uh, he's been
Speaker 1: through some ups and downs in his career. And uh
Speaker 1: he's you know, Ted and Jesse and Eric. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys have asked a lot about the young guys,
Speaker 1: but the real credit goes to those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as helping young guys, and Eric is certainly
Speaker 1: leadership wise, uh, and he's he does it with his play.
Speaker 1: He has played. He has played very well his first
Speaker 1: four games. I mean, we play four first four games
Speaker 1: and uh, I think he's uh uh, you know, he
Speaker 1: he's done well and done. He's exceeded expectations and we
Speaker 1: can you know, we're going to count on him moving
Speaker 1: forward as we are the rest of the guys and
Speaker 1: staying on that offensive line. I think one of the
Speaker 1: benefits of this Dolphin's roster the way it's currently constructed,
Speaker 1: is that you have some players who are serving in
Speaker 1: backup roles right now who are getting an opportunity to
Speaker 1: develop kind of in the shadows behind some veteran experience
Speaker 1: in front of them. That serves as an opportunity for
Speaker 1: those guys to kind of sit back and learn through
Speaker 1: mental reps and getting physical reps in practice. Well, we
Speaker 1: had Robert or the question for coach I was about
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt coming onto the field most heavy packages. Here's
Speaker 1: coach on why Hunt is a benefit in those heavy
Speaker 1: packages working off the edge, but also where he's at
Speaker 1: his development as a potential long term future starter. Dolphins
Speaker 1: second round draft pick this past April out of Louisiana Lafayette.
Speaker 1: Putting Robert Uh, you know, at at the and as
Speaker 1: an eligible tight end in our well, in our quote
Speaker 1: heavy package or whatever you want to call it, um
Speaker 1: gives us some advantage on certain things we like to do.
Speaker 1: So I think moving forward, we'll we'll you know again,
Speaker 1: we'll see each and every week. Each and every week
Speaker 1: poses different problems as the forty niners are this week.
Speaker 1: You know, they got a big old athletic front and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see kind of where we think we
Speaker 1: need to uh and you know where we need to
Speaker 1: put guys. Uh, moving forward. That's what I That's what
Speaker 1: I just left doing while before interviewing with you find gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Coach Marshall always such a delight to talk to. Up next,
Speaker 1: we had quarterbacks coach Robbie Brown. I asked him a
Speaker 1: question not about us quarterbacks, but about the communication aspect
Speaker 1: between the qbs and the offensive line, how important that
Speaker 1: is and kind of how that balance goes back and
Speaker 1: forth throughout the course of the week. In those meeting
Speaker 1: rooms with the quarterbacks and kind of how they evaluate
Speaker 1: the way the offensive line plays and where it allows
Speaker 1: them to make their opportunities or make their plays down
Speaker 1: the field. Here's coach talking about the relationship between the
Speaker 1: offensive line and the court back positions. We have parameters
Speaker 1: set up, um, so the offensive line kind of tries
Speaker 1: to know where we're gonna be. Are we gonna be
Speaker 1: setting up here, We're gonna be setting up here, And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of communication, uh that goes on. I
Speaker 1: remember my first years of quality control UH in New York.
Speaker 1: I sat in on one of the player meetings with
Speaker 1: the offensive line they would meet. I remember, I can't
Speaker 1: remember what day it was, but I was just that
Speaker 1: was my first go at it. You know, I was
Speaker 1: maybe three months into the NFL, and it was amazing
Speaker 1: at the communication between the center and quarterback. Then the
Speaker 1: center's communication everybody else. So I think it's very important
Speaker 1: that those guys are on the same page. They spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time talking to each other, uh, center, quarterback,
Speaker 1: everybody talking about, you know, different things that are gonna
Speaker 1: happen in the game. This protection versus this player, this
Speaker 1: protection versus this player, or this defense, So I think
Speaker 1: it's very important that we're all on the same page. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it does have an impact, and there's constant communication between
Speaker 1: those groups as to what they can handle, what they
Speaker 1: can't what that kind of stuff. Go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up with receivers and tight ends first, starting off here
Speaker 1: with receivers coach Josh Gizzard. He talked about DeVante Parker
Speaker 1: and the comment DeVante made earlier in the week about
Speaker 1: maturing into his role playing through some nix and bruises.
Speaker 1: Here's coach on his ability to perform well, maybe nicked
Speaker 1: up and bruise a little bit on game day, coming
Speaker 1: out of the game and going back in. Yeah, it's um.
Speaker 1: It's a testament to him that he's able to play
Speaker 1: through some of the things that he's been dealing with lately,
Speaker 1: and just to go out that early in the game
Speaker 1: and he's been having a good year and and gets
Speaker 1: nicked and then comes back and not only comes back
Speaker 1: but has a great game and plays well. It's it's
Speaker 1: good to see from him because you can tell that
Speaker 1: he's um maturing and that's the leadership role we've talked
Speaker 1: about on the past and here and for those young guys,
Speaker 1: whether it's Lynn or Malcolm or Kurt or Matt or
Speaker 1: any of those guys. Just to see that. I think
Speaker 1: it's a great example from the room and really not
Speaker 1: only for the room, but the whole offense and the
Speaker 1: team in general. And wrapping up here with coach George Godzie,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins tight ends coach. I asked him about the
Speaker 1: versatility of the tight ends room being able to go
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, spread the offense out and play those guys
Speaker 1: for twenty snaps or more each. Here's coach on the
Speaker 1: versatility of that room. Well, it's we're fortunate because those
Speaker 1: guys do a good job. You know, Travis is a
Speaker 1: good it's a good point because they're playing positions that
Speaker 1: maybe it's a position where usually it's Davante or Jackiemer
Speaker 1: one of the guys outside as a number one on
Speaker 1: that particular cat set. You're you're talking about number one,
Speaker 1: meaning the number one, the most outside extended receiver. UM,
Speaker 1: and those guys do a good job. And it really
Speaker 1: started last spring, uh too. Just take take the concept
Speaker 1: and and grasp it and not just your particular role
Speaker 1: maybe for that practice. UM. So that's how we teach it.
Speaker 1: That's how we do it in that room, um, because
Speaker 1: we we feel like we're versatile enough to play those rules. Um.
Speaker 1: And those guys accepted the code, and you know, unfortunately
Speaker 1: that was a that was a good play for us.
Speaker 1: It was a cash for first down. Alright. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Very busy Tuesday edition here of the Drive
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Speaker 1: entirety of those pressers here on the pod as we
Speaker 1: went over the numbers the film here for Tuesday for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks game on Sunday. As we turned the page
Speaker 1: here looking forward next week to the San Francisco forty,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have plenty of content for you the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. The feature piece will be on Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers this week. We're gonna have the game preview on Thursday,
Speaker 1: flashback on Friday with Randy McMichael, and of course the
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Speaker 1: their newest episode with Keith Jackson. So check all that out,
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