Speaker 1: To a removed and deep speedways. Peace do hell peas.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex,
Speaker 1: this is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Please God my hands
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. What is up, dolphans and welcome to
Speaker 1: the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfeldon.
Speaker 1: On today's show, we are back in the film room
Speaker 1: for the all twenty two review of the Colts game,
Speaker 1: hopefully the last one we have to do. Talking about
Speaker 1: a non to tongue of I lool at offense. We'll
Speaker 1: break it down as we do every single Monday. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Bye daffirs. I apologize
Speaker 1: sincerely for the voice. My voice has been out of
Speaker 1: commission since about Thursday and then Sunday night about halftime
Speaker 1: the Jets game, the congestion came in, the sore throats
Speaker 1: start to come in, started to come on. So I
Speaker 1: am not doing well. Watching that tape today was not
Speaker 1: any easier. I think we got Can you go to
Speaker 1: Disney World and not get sick? Like there's no way
Speaker 1: you don't catch one of those little booger picking kids's germs, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I think I've adapted to all of the diseases that
Speaker 1: my kids bring home from daycare, and the immune system
Speaker 1: has built us up up for that. But I don't
Speaker 1: think Walt Disney, we haven't reached that far yet in
Speaker 1: terms of our immune system. So I'm gonna struggle through
Speaker 1: this podcast. I appreciate you guys staying with me that
Speaker 1: made it this far, especially with this content we're gonna
Speaker 1: do today. But we're gonna talk about this offense, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a glimmer of hope. I know
Speaker 1: that's that's what you get paid to do by the organization.
Speaker 1: It is not. And that's an automatic block on Twitter,
Speaker 1: by the way, because I don't want to hear that nonsense.
Speaker 1: You hear this podcast all the time, and you hear
Speaker 1: me tell you what's wrong with this team all the time.
Speaker 1: So I will not be hearing any of that. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I watched this tape and
Speaker 1: real quick before the information comes in, Tua had his
Speaker 1: press conference. I thought it was a little bit brazen.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little bit conflicting to what
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel said at his press conference, But nonetheless, we
Speaker 1: are going to probably see Tua on Sunday. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if he's not out there against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you why I think that
Speaker 1: this offense can get back on track. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest positive you can take away as we dive into
Speaker 1: this Colts tape, the biggest positive you can take away
Speaker 1: from this difficult stretch of games. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and tell you that you have to
Speaker 1: feel good about anything. I just want to make that clear.
Speaker 1: They have played really poor football through six weeks on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football, and there's nothing you
Speaker 1: can do to change that. You can correct it going forward,
Speaker 1: but it's been a very bad product for the first
Speaker 1: six game. Really. I mean, they did throw for over
Speaker 1: three hund yards again Jacksonville, and they got two explosive
Speaker 1: plays and they won the game, and it was ugly
Speaker 1: for two and a half quarters. So I won't couple
Speaker 1: that game in with the rest of them, because the
Speaker 1: rest of them have been a far cry from that
Speaker 1: game even but it's been a bad product. I just
Speaker 1: want to tell you that you're within your rights to
Speaker 1: be upset and not want to hear any of this,
Speaker 1: But if you come to this show, I imagine you're
Speaker 1: searching for the nuance that I try to provide. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the good and the bad, and
Speaker 1: what I saw on tape right and what I saw
Speaker 1: developed from this stretch is a much wider variety of
Speaker 1: run scheme from this offense and some really good execution
Speaker 1: doing it. And we'll get into this as we go along.
Speaker 1: But damn it, man, what I'm seeing on tape, with
Speaker 1: the way that Tua reads out the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and some of the stuff that's there as a result,
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, man, we are consistently getting flat
Speaker 1: footed linebackers and wide open end breakers against outside leverage
Speaker 1: cornerbacks with the hook zone, that intermediate part of the
Speaker 1: field completely vacated because of the attention of the run
Speaker 1: game is getting Go back to the Chargers game last year,
Speaker 1: all of those throws where Tyreek catches it off the
Speaker 1: end break and races across the field before the split
Speaker 1: field safety can find can fly him down and get
Speaker 1: him down for you know, fifteen more yards after the
Speaker 1: catch on a twenty yard air throw, it's pitching catch
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five yard completions. Those are those are there
Speaker 1: on tape with what we've influenced defenses with this run game.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious when he comes back because teams will
Speaker 1: know we have that. Now we have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can see the field. Now, I wonder how much more
Speaker 1: of the run game might even open up with Tua
Speaker 1: in the lineup, Like maybe it is another thirty rushing
Speaker 1: attempt game, because I don't I don't think the Cardinals
Speaker 1: can stop our running game. But let's let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get back to that later in the week. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are executing better on outside zone than they were
Speaker 1: early in the year. They're mixing in enough inside zone
Speaker 1: and duo to keep teams hon us that way. But man,
Speaker 1: their gap scheme is really really good. They are getting
Speaker 1: downhill drive. They are displacing teams vertically on the opening.
Speaker 1: For instance, they run this pin and pole concept, which
Speaker 1: is essentially, you block back against the grain of the
Speaker 1: run and you pin a lineman and you pull the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that's head up over that defensive lineman. You
Speaker 1: pin him with one guy and you pull the head
Speaker 1: up offensive lineman to the strong side of the formation,
Speaker 1: and they're hitting these blocks with conviction. On the first
Speaker 1: one I saw, Austin sends a man two gaps over
Speaker 1: and Brewer turns and seals a man, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: how good has he been at doing that all year long?
Speaker 1: And Teestead widens his man and creates a huge gap.
Speaker 1: And Liam doesn't have his best rep but he does
Speaker 1: enough to get up to that second level and wall
Speaker 1: off a linebacker and Raheem rips it for ten yards.
Speaker 1: We just got this displacement all day long and drove
Speaker 1: the point of attack two to three yards off the football,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the time that was just power football,
Speaker 1: not the And I hate the term smoking mirrors on
Speaker 1: outside zone because that is not what outside zone is.
Speaker 1: It's a well crafted running scheme that works in this league,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you want to just go north and south,
Speaker 1: and they can do that now. I think it's a
Speaker 1: strength of their game at this point. Now we have
Speaker 1: to prove that we will not continue to outsmart ourselves
Speaker 1: and go away from what works and throw in wrinkles
Speaker 1: that have proven fatal at seemingly the most inopportune times
Speaker 1: all year long. But I do think the forced adaptation
Speaker 1: of this run scheme could provide major dividends for this
Speaker 1: offense going forward. I think, you know, two and four
Speaker 1: is probably probably just barely too deep of a hole.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, you know Buffalo is gonna beat us, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they always do. But beyond that, the next
Speaker 1: four of the next five games are against teams I
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins are significantly better than. And then you
Speaker 1: get the Packers on a Thanksgiving Day game, which will
Speaker 1: be very tough. But then you get two against the
Speaker 1: Jets in a game against the Browns. I think Miami's
Speaker 1: better than those teams. And then you have Houston and
Speaker 1: San Francisco, which the Niners are reeling right now and
Speaker 1: just lost Ayuk for the year, and the Texans CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud through for thirty or for eighty six yards on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So think those will all be wins. But you can
Speaker 1: see the path, you can see where if this offense
Speaker 1: gets even remotely close to last year with the way
Speaker 1: this defense is playing, and I think they can because
Speaker 1: of the running game and what they've done and how
Speaker 1: the offensive line has geled and come together, I think
Speaker 1: there's opportunity there. We'll see. We don't want to get
Speaker 1: too far ahead of ourselves. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: about some of the misses here in a second. Excuse
Speaker 1: me struggling big time in a second in the passing
Speaker 1: game that I think Tua comes in and corrects just
Speaker 1: from the fact that he's too a tongue of bi
Speaker 1: Lowa first before that. I don't think you can blame
Speaker 1: Reek and Waddle for their production on Sunday because they
Speaker 1: know the ball's not coming. It's just not you can
Speaker 1: see it. And how they play the first Malik Washington
Speaker 1: dumped down on the crosser. Wattle never gets into more
Speaker 1: of a jog because the ball's not going there. When
Speaker 1: they're wide open, the ball's not going there. We had
Speaker 1: a first down run on the second drive after they
Speaker 1: got hit with that neutral zone fraction to move the
Speaker 1: chains and Tyreek just jogs right past the cornerback then
Speaker 1: realizes I could block that guy and runs back and
Speaker 1: by the time he gets him, the corner is making
Speaker 1: the tackle. Now, I don't want to say the effort
Speaker 1: wasn't good all day, because there were plays in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. We're both Reak and Waddle. We're hitting big
Speaker 1: blocks for this offense. But there are some instances where
Speaker 1: they kind of maybe take a snap off. And I
Speaker 1: can't say that I blame them. I really can't. It's
Speaker 1: I mean I can because it's your job and go
Speaker 1: be a pro. Like Travis doing his podcast when he's
Speaker 1: feeling crappy. I'm not comparing myself to football players. I
Speaker 1: am a giant p word compared to any of those guys,
Speaker 1: and probably compared to most human beings. That's a foul word,
Speaker 1: by the way, a woosie if you will. But you
Speaker 1: can just see the impact of the running game on
Speaker 1: this passing game, and that's his one on one as
Speaker 1: it gets, you know. Aaron Rodgers was asked by the
Speaker 1: way and five, we just get a quarterback that can
Speaker 1: play average footballs is gonna carry Yester Division title? They're
Speaker 1: two and vice. They suck, dude. Aaron Rodgers was asked
Speaker 1: about what the issues on offense are and he mentioned
Speaker 1: their inability to run the football and how that's impacted
Speaker 1: their ability to go play action. So the drive after
Speaker 1: our first touchdown, our only touchdown because we're a one
Speaker 1: touchdown per game operation, we are backed up on a
Speaker 1: third down and we fake this toss to a chan
Speaker 1: and you see the mic backer crash with like six
Speaker 1: false steps. I'm not exaggerating. He takes six false steps
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction and John who runs this little
Speaker 1: glance route and behind that and it's this easy rip
Speaker 1: for a chunk gain. And we had like four of
Speaker 1: those plays in the game and we missed like twelve others.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't use PFF stats in here anymore,
Speaker 1: because like Tyler Hunty was the fifth highest GRADO player
Speaker 1: on the offense. What what okay? Oh? That hurt my
Speaker 1: throat so bad. You can't kill the personality. Not even
Speaker 1: influenza can do that. But just the this run game,
Speaker 1: the variety and success of it, has opened more doors
Speaker 1: for easy throws to alleviate the pressure on your quarterback.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this in the offseason, and Kyle
Speaker 1: Krabs has mentioned a few times here how it's the
Speaker 1: job of the coaching staff is to create stress free
Speaker 1: throws for your quarterback so that when he comes time
Speaker 1: for those big plays that he has to make, it's
Speaker 1: he doesn't feel bogged down by the weight of the game.
Speaker 1: And for Tua, especially a guy that presses like nobody else,
Speaker 1: like that's a that's a big deal. I think and
Speaker 1: so I think when you start hitting those passes that
Speaker 1: Huntley did hit because you literally can't miss him did
Speaker 1: miss a few of them. With the ground game and
Speaker 1: with what Tua does from his antisia patron standpoint, I
Speaker 1: think it's going to open up some major splash play
Speaker 1: opportunities like the alec Ingold wheel route for instance, or
Speaker 1: those John wh Smith chunk plays in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. Those are wide open because of what you've
Speaker 1: created in the running game. Now, I simply cannot understand.
Speaker 1: We'll come right back to the core, but I'm going
Speaker 1: in order of the game with how I wrote things down.
Speaker 1: I simply cannot understand the alec Ingold play, Like the
Speaker 1: design didn't fumble the ball, But what the hell was
Speaker 1: that outside zone with dive action inside. I don't know
Speaker 1: how Aaron Brewer is supposed to block that because he
Speaker 1: has to sell the outside zone action to get the
Speaker 1: overplay that you want. So he has to cross face
Speaker 1: of that one tech, and the one tech just says, okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna seal me here, I'm gonna hang out,
Speaker 1: and he back doors the play on and hits alec
Speaker 1: in the backfield. It's an easy play for him. I
Speaker 1: just hated that entire setup, from from everything considered by
Speaker 1: from the design, from the fact that Right was ripping
Speaker 1: them and Right played six snaps in the game. I
Speaker 1: think he's the best running back on the damn team.
Speaker 1: I really do like and I love Raheem and h
Speaker 1: and I really do so that was that was frustrating
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Look, I'm done, pull the plug. Seriously,
Speaker 1: like we we only see Huntley or Boil again if
Speaker 1: two it gets hurt this year, right, and if that happens,
Speaker 1: then we don't need any more. You know, It's just
Speaker 1: put the season into the freaking furner. But it's it's awful,
Speaker 1: Like mechanically processing placement. Nothing is done well. And it's
Speaker 1: the reason for everything I've seen the takes on Twitter.
Speaker 1: And this could come back to bite me later in
Speaker 1: the week when if we don't play well on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I think that everything in this offense is directly
Speaker 1: traced back to the quarterback. And you can point back
Speaker 1: to the end of last year. You can point back
Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville and Buffalo games. You can do all that.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right now what I'm watching on
Speaker 1: tape is much more akin to the stretch of games
Speaker 1: last year to open the season, or the Panthers game
Speaker 1: and Giants game, the Commander's game and the Jets game
Speaker 1: and the Jets game. Like I think it's it looks
Speaker 1: a lot more like that on tape right now than
Speaker 1: what it did down the stretch last year or in
Speaker 1: Week one when our running game didn't really know what
Speaker 1: it was doing quite yet. So there are other issues
Speaker 1: I'm not in any way, shape or form excusing pre
Speaker 1: snap issues or the occasional protection breakdown, or you know,
Speaker 1: the receiver death being a serious issue, or the tight
Speaker 1: end position besides John who not playing well at all.
Speaker 1: And I think all of this was overcome. That's not
Speaker 1: a word. And you could have had it in this
Speaker 1: game and the Titans game in your four and two,
Speaker 1: and I would even add the Seattle game in there
Speaker 1: too that if you had average quarterback play. Now I
Speaker 1: sound like Joey freaking Jets. If you have average quarterback
Speaker 1: play in those games, I think you're on the same
Speaker 1: spot you were in last year at five and one. Again,
Speaker 1: Yes we commit too many fouls, too many pre snap
Speaker 1: alignment issues. Yes we had crippling turnovers. We cannot pass
Speaker 1: the football reak and Waddle had nineteen yards and we
Speaker 1: were driving for the win. Just by all of that.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you, Well, the tape told me
Speaker 1: it's the quarterback again. Yes, other issues, as every single
Speaker 1: team has in this league. But if we had Tua
Speaker 1: and his top ten skill set, talk to a wall
Speaker 1: if you disagree with that, because it's been proven for
Speaker 1: the last three years, this quarterback is one of the
Speaker 1: best in the league. He just can't stay healthy, right
Speaker 1: that's the knocks, that's the downside there. But if we
Speaker 1: had that, I nobody is firing off forty two tweets
Speaker 1: about how much of a disgrace this organization is. If
Speaker 1: you want to get mad, get mad about not having
Speaker 1: a better planet backup quarterback, fair game. I still think
Speaker 1: it should have been Mike White all along. Does that
Speaker 1: change any of these outcomes? Maybe? And maybe all you
Speaker 1: needed was one outcome to change, you know, I might
Speaker 1: say yesterday. So it's not you know, some world beat
Speaker 1: or change. But that's the long and the short of it.
Speaker 1: You are playing NFL games without NFL quarterback play, and
Speaker 1: that's why you're scoring eleven point six points per game
Speaker 1: right now, it's not any harder than that. And hell,
Speaker 1: let's call two's production one and a half games this
Speaker 1: year because he got hurt in the third quarter of
Speaker 1: the second game and called the other four and a
Speaker 1: half games to the other quarterbacks. That's six quarters for
Speaker 1: TUA and has not been good. But it was thirty
Speaker 1: points of our collective seventy. That's twenty points per game.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know what it is in the
Speaker 1: forty points and four and a half games the other quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: It's eight point eight points per game, Like, what do
Speaker 1: we expect? Eight point freaking eight. It's a miracle. We
Speaker 1: won one. And if we're being honest here, I am
Speaker 1: going over the plays and I don't want to break
Speaker 1: them down. I really don't like the first drawback of
Speaker 1: the game where Tyreek uncovers and you see Huntley start
Speaker 1: his throwing motion and second guess it, and just as
Speaker 1: he pulls it down, Tyreek runs neo a patch of
Speaker 1: grass twenty yards down the field, right over the football
Speaker 1: on a dig slant or a dig sale combination that
Speaker 1: is against perfect leverage with a proper, proper key that
Speaker 1: the linebacker falsely takes and pulls himself out of the
Speaker 1: hook zone and it's there's no Colts defender. He goes
Speaker 1: to throw at second, guesses himself, tucks the ball and
Speaker 1: runs away and runs into a negative play. I mean,
Speaker 1: we start hitting those, we won't just win these games.
Speaker 1: We'll go back to bowling these teams out. That's how
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. I'm probably going to predict a blow
Speaker 1: out for the Cardinals game because I'm watching this tape
Speaker 1: and the passing offense has every opportunity to throw for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards. All right, I'm not gonna do any
Speaker 1: more quarterback plays, I promise. I'm not gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the second down sack before the John new Smith play
Speaker 1: where Wattle runs this jerk route against inside leverage where
Speaker 1: the cornerback is literally getting posted up and Wattle pushes
Speaker 1: into him to get him on his heels, which means
Speaker 1: he cannot explode out of that stance out of the
Speaker 1: inside leverage, and Huntley is aligned, which he usually is not.
Speaker 1: This is a downside of his game. His mechanics and
Speaker 1: processing does not put himself in alignment in concert to
Speaker 1: throw the ball to the Reeds on time, but this
Speaker 1: time he is. He just doesn't throw the ball it's
Speaker 1: a crippling fear to me that he's gonna get picked
Speaker 1: six by leaving the ball too far inside. But you
Speaker 1: have to throw that. I'm not gonna talk about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about the third nine play
Speaker 1: at the minus forty four yard line with twelve minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the second quarter, when the Colts walked
Speaker 1: up seven, only sent four and had to dig the
Speaker 1: tyreek wide open or the spot to waddle wide open,
Speaker 1: both beyond the sticks for a first down with a
Speaker 1: perfectly executed protection scheme and a clean pocket to step
Speaker 1: up into and drive the football. Instead, we bail and
Speaker 1: scramble for a game of two. I'm not gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that. I was mad about the call on the
Speaker 1: throw to Beckham at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: but he's wide open if Huntley is on time. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think he scores. Go watch it again. The ball
Speaker 1: is two or three steps late, and a player like
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, you can't give him two or three more steps.
Speaker 1: He makes that play every time. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: talk about the third and twelve on the drive after
Speaker 1: the Raheem Moster at fumble where Odell Beckham is running
Speaker 1: a post between two split safeties and no one's getting
Speaker 1: vertical with him, and Snoop has a clean pocket and
Speaker 1: bells again, I'm not gonna talk about it. Gosh. I
Speaker 1: thought his one really good throw was the deep shot
Speaker 1: to Tyreek. You saw the Colts giving respect to John
Speaker 1: Whu over anybody else. They capped him, which means they
Speaker 1: double teamed him. They had a press press corner and
Speaker 1: a safety that was over the top of the corner,
Speaker 1: which typically indicates blitz, but they didn't blitz. And the
Speaker 1: it was a linebacker on a cornerback. They kept two
Speaker 1: guys on him, and I gave Tyrek a one on
Speaker 1: one slot fade, which is like if that if Tyreek
Speaker 1: or Wallall gets a slot fade against one on one
Speaker 1: coverage no safety help, it's got to be a touchdown
Speaker 1: every single time. Last year it was twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: It was he runs right past Kennymore, he stacks him,
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of stops like a Dennis
Speaker 1: Reynolds film Penetration Crime, Penetration Crime, and then it just
Speaker 1: kind of stops and the ball lands right in front
Speaker 1: of him. Brutal everybody in the sideline too. I love
Speaker 1: watching the film, because you get like this wide pan
Speaker 1: shot of reactions. Everybody has their palms to Jesus, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell was that? I did think Tyler showed
Speaker 1: a real comfort with some of the built in play
Speaker 1: action concepts, like when they would stack Reek with John
Speaker 1: Hu and Reek takes the first release and gets the
Speaker 1: double coverage attention and with the outside release and widens
Speaker 1: that premier cornerback and backs the safety way off. Then
Speaker 1: you throw the glance to John Hu Smith between the
Speaker 1: safeties that you've widened in that position. He's good when
Speaker 1: it's like predetermined and built in like that, But I
Speaker 1: just felt like we left so many timing and anticipation
Speaker 1: throws out there again. And I get that it can
Speaker 1: be tough to get worked into an offense within a
Speaker 1: month of being here, I really do, but it's where
Speaker 1: we are struggling to get things going. Those chunk play
Speaker 1: sustained drives. It changes the way defenses play you and
Speaker 1: obviously produces many more points. Our passing game is just
Speaker 1: really lacking, and that's why you're seeing the results you're getting.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there,
Speaker 1: come back and do the rest of the offensive standouts
Speaker 1: and the defensive tape. Next in the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AU donation
Speaker 1: segment to Colts tape review, taking a look at the
Speaker 1: individuals stand out to an offensive perspective, and I know
Speaker 1: this is not an individual, but the offensive line continues, Despy.
Speaker 1: You know some individual losses that you'll get every single
Speaker 1: game sporadically, but in terms of playing as a cohesive
Speaker 1: unit and creating lanes and doing plenty of good pass
Speaker 1: protection work. I come away from the game yet again
Speaker 1: impressed by this offensive line. Man. And we covered the
Speaker 1: nature of the scheme earlier, but man, the chip screen
Speaker 1: for six to John hus Smith, the Colts have two
Speaker 1: defenders of the goal line and knew is catching the
Speaker 1: ball at the eleven yard line. But here comes Toront
Speaker 1: Armstead and Aaron Brewer leading the charge, squaring up blocks
Speaker 1: in the open field and escorting him right in for six.
Speaker 1: It was so impressive and I'm not sure if anybody
Speaker 1: saw this, but Warren Sharp tweeted a clip of Josh
Speaker 1: Allen Hines trying to make a play on Ramandre Stevenson
Speaker 1: in the Patriots and Jags game and questioned his effort,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick replied to it, saying, I love your
Speaker 1: stuff most of the time, but you have no idea
Speaker 1: how hard it is to tackle those guys in space
Speaker 1: like that. And I'm thinking about that as I watched
Speaker 1: these two three hundred pound athletes square up linebackers who
Speaker 1: were ten yards away from them in open space. It
Speaker 1: is so impressive. And so Brewer and Tea Stead have
Speaker 1: been like Pro Bowl good this year. They really have.
Speaker 1: Those have been the two best tapes on offense all
Speaker 1: year from Miami. For my money, Brewer has probably been
Speaker 1: the best. His ability to fire out of his stance
Speaker 1: and catch that one shade. It's a player playing off
Speaker 1: of his outside shoulder that he has to get wide
Speaker 1: of and then work his feet back underneath him because
Speaker 1: you kin't have to reach into that block. It's literally
Speaker 1: called a reach block, and then not just seal it,
Speaker 1: but seal it and then drive him back the other
Speaker 1: direction like out of gaps. It's some of the best
Speaker 1: center play I've ever seen in this organization. And I've
Speaker 1: been watching a film since two thousand and eight. Shout
Speaker 1: out Samson Stelli. I thought I was done with the
Speaker 1: blurb and then I'm watching him fire off the snap again,
Speaker 1: get to linebacker, square it up, knock the backer back
Speaker 1: three steps on his initial punch, and then go get
Speaker 1: him again, like put him on the ground and carry
Speaker 1: the block and t bag him. Quite frankly, he t
Speaker 1: bagged his face mask at the end of it. Like
Speaker 1: that's how you ultimately disrespect somebody's offensive lineman, and Brewer
Speaker 1: does it all the time. Then Tea stead the way
Speaker 1: he attaches on blocks, whether he's working down on hill
Speaker 1: to the second level or getting width to the perimeter,
Speaker 1: it's Hall of Fame caliber every single week. There's there's
Speaker 1: a reason this guy is so good, and teams going
Speaker 1: back to the Saints have been willing to basically take
Speaker 1: a thirteen game player and sacrifice the other three or
Speaker 1: four games because he's that freaking good. I thought Liam
Speaker 1: had another really good game. He dominated his match up
Speaker 1: against Raikwon Davis, which is awesome to see. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was the best game of the year for
Speaker 1: Austin or rob but it wasn't bad. I feel like
Speaker 1: the floor of the offensive line has really really been
Speaker 1: high the last couple of weeks. John U. Smith Man,
Speaker 1: his balance and strength are so good, and I think
Speaker 1: you're starting to see him really understand the relationship of
Speaker 1: timing and his routes and the quarterbacks footwork for how
Speaker 1: to maximize the windows, like when to throttle down or
Speaker 1: speed up to hit those windows. I'm pretty excited about
Speaker 1: what's to come for him in this offense with you know,
Speaker 1: capable quarterback play a chan. I thought he was hitting
Speaker 1: it faster than he had in some previous games, getting
Speaker 1: getting outside I'm still good on the inside runs with him,
Speaker 1: but finding those small creases and hitting him with conviction.
Speaker 1: I thought he was fun to watch, especially running towards daylight.
Speaker 1: And then Jalen right, man, it's crazy. In a backfield
Speaker 1: full of track speed, nobody goes zero to sixty from
Speaker 1: pre snap to getting the ball faster than he does,
Speaker 1: and he makes decisions without really slowing down that big
Speaker 1: run there was nothing there, but he presses this small crease,
Speaker 1: hits it with conviction, and keeps his feet under his
Speaker 1: hips and accelerates out of it for an explosive run.
Speaker 1: Got me feeling nicy who special talent man some individual
Speaker 1: misses the quarterback. This was Skyler Thompson's Week three game.
Speaker 1: Bad I don't know what the hell PFF saw and Boyle,
Speaker 1: what the hell are those feet? Boil? Are there boils
Speaker 1: on the feet? You know? Rob Jones had more good
Speaker 1: blocks than we saw early in the year, but I
Speaker 1: thought he slipped off a few too many. He was
Speaker 1: up and down. I thought the same for Austin Jackson.
Speaker 1: He gets like ten reps a game where it's like whoa,
Speaker 1: that is really really good and even in a bad game,
Speaker 1: he's not getting like blown up. There's just a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks he didn't attach to Alec The fumble was atrocious,
Speaker 1: like there was a game changing play in the game,
Speaker 1: but he just missed like a lot of cut blocks
Speaker 1: that he usually hits. I thought he was not his
Speaker 1: best in this game. Julian Hill a drop and another penalty.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like you need an Adam Gay's
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen style reckoning here, Like I'm the last person
Speaker 1: to call for jobs right, Like I feel like you
Speaker 1: need to send a shot across the bow a little bit,
Speaker 1: like maybe call up Hayden Roucci and demote Julian for
Speaker 1: the consistent errors that are kind of mental mistakes. And
Speaker 1: Braxon's out for the going to be out for the year.
Speaker 1: I think with an ACL I think was the report
Speaker 1: he was put on IRS. That's not official, but U
Speaker 1: the injury takes care of that demotion because he didn't
Speaker 1: have a catch in six games. Penalize the guys to
Speaker 1: fumble the football, you know, take him out for a
Speaker 1: couple of series. I think you need to send some
Speaker 1: more kind of messaging that poor plays have consequences, and
Speaker 1: I feel like your best option for that is eighty nine,
Speaker 1: which is going to go down as an all time
Speaker 1: missing camp for me. With the way things are going.
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Kyle Krabs about how nobody changed
Speaker 1: our minds about a player in training camp more than
Speaker 1: Julian Hill did. And it's just been bad for pop
Speaker 1: ball for six games now, six penalties this year and
Speaker 1: two drops on seven targets. That's killing you. I thought
Speaker 1: both Reek and Waddle had some misses in the blocking game,
Speaker 1: but again I kind of get it. Snap counts the
Speaker 1: offensive line goes the distance Boil twenty three, Huntly forty six.
Speaker 1: Reac and Waddle played their highest snapcounts of the year
Speaker 1: sixty two and fifty nine. Maybe its because they didn't
Speaker 1: running them in deep routes. I don't know. The next
Speaker 1: receiver was Malik at twenty five, Obj at eleven. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we see Obj get back into the fold here. More
Speaker 1: and more as we go along. The tight ends went
Speaker 1: Julian thirty six, John New thirty four, you know, and
Speaker 1: Durham seventeen. Durham's holding call was a horrible call watching
Speaker 1: on tape that was that should not have been thrown
Speaker 1: on that play and it was really a shame because
Speaker 1: there was such good blocking across the board. The running
Speaker 1: backs went eight Chan forty, team twenty three and right six.
Speaker 1: I can't understand that. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break right there, come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and do the entire defense. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I don't Nation.
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense pitches another great game and right now is
Speaker 1: in the NFL in yards allowed per game at two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five and they allow first downs on
Speaker 1: third downs a quarter of the time. That is tops,
Speaker 1: tops in the NFL. My voice is bottom of the
Speaker 1: NFL right now. I think this defense has two things,
Speaker 1: actually three things that really make it tick and why
Speaker 1: they are leading the league in those categories. Stealer and
Speaker 1: Campbell's versatility are one, and you saw it from the
Speaker 1: first snap. I'm not saying they were never going to
Speaker 1: do this, but you go back to the Jacksonville game
Speaker 1: when JP and Agba were rolling at full speed and
Speaker 1: it was a lot of even fronts four down with
Speaker 1: those two and then Seiler and Campbell playing a combination
Speaker 1: of the one and three techniques. But to start this game,
Speaker 1: they open this even front and that they park Benito
Speaker 1: Jones in the nose tackle and Campbell slides out to
Speaker 1: a true four technique, which is head up over the tackle.
Speaker 1: And this is why I think the Dolphins can sort
Speaker 1: of survive the attrition at the edge position if they
Speaker 1: keep their proper nutrition for an exhibition, because Campbell and
Speaker 1: Steeler are plus edge in addition to being e elite
Speaker 1: like top ten defensive tackles. And seriously, for my money,
Speaker 1: the best duo in the NFL this year, maybe outside
Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh with what Cam Hayward and Larry Okujobi have done.
Speaker 1: But I'm taking our two guys. And of course we
Speaker 1: saw Seeler get wins from the five tech throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Did I say Cameron Jordan I met Cameron Hayward, most
Speaker 1: notably his pull swipe sack in Seattle. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: You have add bring you think about twenty five things
Speaker 1: at once. The next facet is the versatile nature of
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks, all three of Ramsey, Fuller and co who
Speaker 1: can play all three positions and a ligne anywhere from
Speaker 1: those spots. And I feel like Cater has really come
Speaker 1: on the last couple of games with his feel and
Speaker 1: recognition after I said a couple weeks ago like I
Speaker 1: didn't think he could do it because he wasn't doing it,
Speaker 1: but his ability to move around has helped Ramsey and
Speaker 1: Fuller move around, especially Ramsey, and make the most of
Speaker 1: their skill sets. I kind of hope we have these
Speaker 1: guys here for a long time, even though they are
Speaker 1: older with coach Weave, because this is like, this is
Speaker 1: really good and this is gonna work if they have
Speaker 1: those guys. Jalen blissed five times Sunday and got in
Speaker 1: for four pressures. It was the most blitzes by a
Speaker 1: defensive back this season per Next Gen Stats. We've seen
Speaker 1: him match up on tight ends. We've seen him cover
Speaker 1: the boundary X and boundary main short side of the field.
Speaker 1: You know that if you listen to this podcast. We've
Speaker 1: seen him man up. We've seen him play the curl
Speaker 1: flat zone. We've seen him fall into the deep third,
Speaker 1: the deep half. I don't have to go over every coverage,
Speaker 1: but he does all of that. I tweeted this one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four coverage snaps eighty four yards allowed
Speaker 1: at second in the NFL at a half a yard
Speaker 1: per coverage snap behind just Reek Wollen in Seattle. The
Speaker 1: third element of this is the range of the off
Speaker 1: ball linebackers. We saw it tenfold with Jordan Brooks on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think he's finally completely comfortable in the defense. And
Speaker 1: what a scary thought that must be for opposing offense
Speaker 1: is because he was already playing at a super high level.
Speaker 1: But I thought his reaction times on Sunday and the
Speaker 1: range getting into the vertical passing lanes, or rather getting
Speaker 1: vertical into the passing lanes was the best it's been
Speaker 1: as a Dolphin, his has been as a Dolphins linebacker
Speaker 1: since his peak Seahawks tape like he looks so good
Speaker 1: in the game on Sunday. Those are three really really
Speaker 1: good things to hang your hat on. As for the structure,
Speaker 1: more of the same. They mix things up. They kept
Speaker 1: Richardson kind of confused. I think where some of the
Speaker 1: misfit runs come from is well, it's just that, and
Speaker 1: I noticed it on this tape. It's typically guys trying
Speaker 1: to like backdoor things to the outside. It's okay to
Speaker 1: try it now and then, although coaches will tell you otherwise,
Speaker 1: because I'll never forget JJ Watt. It was like a
Speaker 1: month ago replying to Brett Coleman about how he used
Speaker 1: to backdoor plays from those two high looks to go
Speaker 1: make a play against bad rundown looks, and how the
Speaker 1: first time he did it in Houston, they said, great play,
Speaker 1: Never do that again. Then he did it again and
Speaker 1: made the play and they were like, hey, great play,
Speaker 1: but don't ever do that again. Then the third time
Speaker 1: he did, and they're like, okay, you can do that,
Speaker 1: but nobody else can. To me our ability to win
Speaker 1: pass rough situations one on one and the personnel we
Speaker 1: have to go to when you don't have Seiler a
Speaker 1: Campbell on the field, you know, it's the weakness of
Speaker 1: the defense is putting those guys on the sideline and
Speaker 1: the lack of range at the safety position with Poyer really,
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't think he was to beat
Speaker 1: with Javon Hall now, I thought that Marcus Man was
Speaker 1: very good those to me, and then the run defense
Speaker 1: and the misfits are the heels of this defense. But
Speaker 1: otherwise it's been really good. Some individual standouts here. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Brooks. His feel for those spot drops and coverage
Speaker 1: looked exactly like what I saw on Tap and Seattle
Speaker 1: and got me so fired up for him to come
Speaker 1: in here. He moves with anticipation in that position, which
Speaker 1: is incredibly difficult, and to me, it's what makes the linebackers,
Speaker 1: the great linebackers in this league really stand out from
Speaker 1: the rest. The Fred Warners, the Roquan Smiths, those guys.
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey kind of already covered it, but I did
Speaker 1: not mention that he took on a two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty pound tight end in Ogle Tree and tossed him
Speaker 1: to the ground and went made the play on Tyler
Speaker 1: Goodson and ran him out of bounds. And he probably
Speaker 1: scores in that play. Because if this tight end can
Speaker 1: wipe out a cornerback, that only five cornerbacks can defeat
Speaker 1: that block in the entire NFL. There was no one
Speaker 1: else there. It's probably a touchdown. He just he's the
Speaker 1: man he's been as advertised Kendall Fuller. The chemistry that
Speaker 1: him and Ramsey have together is unc Like there was
Speaker 1: a play where they motioned to play across the field
Speaker 1: and rams he was kind of late to get over there,
Speaker 1: and they just switched it at the snap, And I
Speaker 1: think that that's why he kind of slow played it
Speaker 1: to confuse the coverage for Richardson, and he slow plays
Speaker 1: it and they both just pick it up in perfect unison.
Speaker 1: He knows, you know, Fuller knows where he can give
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he like knows how to I guess,
Speaker 1: make the vulnerability of any particular coverage rep the least dangerous,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And I also have no idea
Speaker 1: how that DPI was calling him none whatsoever. He played
Speaker 1: a really good game, kalay Is Campbell. I mean it
Speaker 1: is uncanny how well he's able to figure out what
Speaker 1: a play is doing before it goes like he reads
Speaker 1: his keys, plays with quickness, and when he wins there,
Speaker 1: which is most of the time, you will not stop him.
Speaker 1: Because of his length and strength. He beats you with
Speaker 1: anticipation and then overpowers you with sheer mass. Cater Coho
Speaker 1: was great again. His breakup in the first quarter is
Speaker 1: one of the best reps I've seen from him. He
Speaker 1: tracks a three way go from the slot, which is
Speaker 1: no small task, squats at the top of the stem,
Speaker 1: and then in unison, works back down the stem with
Speaker 1: Josh Downs and breaks it up and Josh Downs has
Speaker 1: been killing people. The very next play, he runs vertical
Speaker 1: with Michael Pittman on the boundary, takeoff, staydon face the
Speaker 1: entire way and forces the incompletion. I've been so impressed
Speaker 1: with Marcus May's range and feel and how he gets
Speaker 1: covers ground from depth. He was terrific and continuously gets
Speaker 1: himself into passing lanes. After the game, Shane Steikin said
Speaker 1: that he didn't feel like things were open for Richard
Speaker 1: Zim and that's what this entire tape showed me, with
Speaker 1: all these guys covering up things so very well on
Speaker 1: that back end. So I'm excited about the future of
Speaker 1: this defense, and I think if they keep playing at
Speaker 1: this level, even with elite quarterbacks coming up, and the
Speaker 1: offense can just get back to baseline like no reason
Speaker 1: you can't go on a run. I think of the
Speaker 1: next five games, I will never pick us to beat
Speaker 1: Buffalo until we do it again. But today, if you
Speaker 1: had if you asked me, I would say the Cardinals, Rams, Raiders,
Speaker 1: and Patriots games are all games that you should win comfortably,
Speaker 1: even though Rams is Monday night, and even though they
Speaker 1: might get Nakuba back in time for that, you're a
Speaker 1: better football team. And all of those teams individual misses
Speaker 1: in this game. I thought Quentin Bell consistently gave up
Speaker 1: his chest and cannot stop his feet, which just means
Speaker 1: getting pushed around Jordan Poyer, same as always. Bad angles,
Speaker 1: bad depth and coverage, bad range, bad season. But Eto
Speaker 1: just offers so little to me. He's even doesn't even
Speaker 1: really eat space. That's like all he's supposed to do
Speaker 1: when he's got ninety two and ninety three next to
Speaker 1: him and twenty behind him. Chop, I feel like he's
Speaker 1: close still, but he's still working on that functional strength
Speaker 1: and a secondary rush move. You're getting some bad reps
Speaker 1: that are making for some bad highlights, and that makes
Speaker 1: Twitter go crazy. I get it, but it's going to
Speaker 1: slow start for him, I thought David Long jumps some
Speaker 1: gas looking for the big play and got caught a
Speaker 1: few times. The snap counts impressive list here going the distance, Brooks, May, Fuller, Poyer,
Speaker 1: and Ramsey all went the distance. We saw Cater go
Speaker 1: eighty percent at corner and that was that was it
Speaker 1: outside of one Saran Neil snap. It seems like they
Speaker 1: kind of found their guys and they're going to go
Speaker 1: forth with all of those guys in the secondary. And
Speaker 1: I hope I doubt it. I don't know, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say I doubt it. I just really hope that when
Speaker 1: Javon comes back, he's in for Pole, for Poyer, not May.
Speaker 1: The linebacker split went sixty eight percent for Long, thirty
Speaker 1: two percent for Walker, so you've got a two third
Speaker 1: split to one third split there. To me, that's part
Speaker 1: of like more base rundowns where Long can kind of get,
Speaker 1: you know, taken out of plays by bigger players. Makes
Speaker 1: sense to me. Off the edge sealer was eighty four percent,
Speaker 1: what a freaking beast sixty percent for Campbell, Chop sixty
Speaker 1: one percent, Bowser sixty percent. So basically the same rotation
Speaker 1: for Chop, Campbell and Bowser. We need a manual ogbab
Speaker 1: back and Chubb and Cam Goods. We can get more
Speaker 1: reps inside for Campbell and Seiler and reduce the reps
Speaker 1: of the depth in that position inside. Deshaun Han played
Speaker 1: sixty percent, but Hedi played forty four percent. That's the
Speaker 1: impact of having Seeler and Campbell on the outside, and
Speaker 1: then Mokamara played twenty five percent. Didn't really have to
Speaker 1: make a big splash in the game, but I thought
Speaker 1: he played well with his assignments. And Quentin Bell played
Speaker 1: fifteen percent of the snaps. My top five tapes, Aaron
Speaker 1: Brewer was number one. He was fantastic. Watched the tape
Speaker 1: and just tell me I'm wrong. He was really, really good.
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey number two, Jordan Brooks is number three. I
Speaker 1: put Kalays Campbell four and Toronto Armstead five because he
Speaker 1: had a couple of pass protection reps where he did
Speaker 1: kind of give up some pressure on the quarterback. So
Speaker 1: that's the All twenty two review podcast. I'm hoping to
Speaker 1: take a day off and get some rest and feel
Speaker 1: better because I feel like dog doodoo. But we'll come
Speaker 1: back on Wednesday with a deep dive podcast. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure exactly I might I might monologue that they probably
Speaker 1: gonna want to come back and check that out because
Speaker 1: it's kind of my kind of my favorite stuff that
Speaker 1: I do when I get a little bit hot, a
Speaker 1: little spicy Trav on the show. We'll do that on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: of course, a Thursday game preview, Friday Kyle crabs you
Speaker 1: know how it goes, and finally a game that I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch on Sunday against the Cardinals. In the meantime,
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