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Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
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Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here to bring
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Speaker 1: today's show, we're gonna unpack another tough loss and get
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Speaker 1: want to kick this thing right off with the All
Speaker 1: twenty two review, as we do every single Tuesday here
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime Podcast, and we start with the quarterback
Speaker 1: because he made his first start since Week number two
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills. We saw basically four games without Tah.
Speaker 1: Now we have to games with two Ah and I
Speaker 1: just want to go through really the entire games. I
Speaker 1: kind of broke this thing down play by play and
Speaker 1: show you some of the best plays, some of the
Speaker 1: areas where he can improve and grow upon. And that
Speaker 1: was what Coach Flores talked about his press conference on Monday,
Speaker 1: that he thought to have played really well. There's always
Speaker 1: some throws you wish you could have back. I'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of the ones I think you wish you
Speaker 1: could have back, but also some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: coach said he saw that was good that I also
Speaker 1: saw was good in this game. But Number one is
Speaker 1: the feel for pressure and having the answer in regards
Speaker 1: to expedition of the process of that particular play. So
Speaker 1: when you have certain layers or progressions into a route concept,
Speaker 1: you have either high to low or low to high,
Speaker 1: or you can go scan from one side to the next.
Speaker 1: There's multiple ways to scan the field and your progressions
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. But one of the things I like
Speaker 1: about two of is that he knows where that short
Speaker 1: answer is and when the pressure arrives, how to get
Speaker 1: to that short answer when maybe his footwork is not
Speaker 1: quite set up and ready to go, or he's in
Speaker 1: the middle of the drop, how to interrupt that drop
Speaker 1: and get himself in position to where he can make
Speaker 1: the throat to that quick check to that hot and
Speaker 1: get the football out of his hands to not only
Speaker 1: negate a possible negative play, but to give you a
Speaker 1: positive play. On a play where maybe you know an
Speaker 1: instance where it looks like it might be a sack
Speaker 1: and a big negative play, he finds a way to
Speaker 1: not only not take the sack, but to give himself three,
Speaker 1: four or five six yards as a result. I love
Speaker 1: the eyes that to a displays. There's a play in
Speaker 1: this game where you see him start to the boundary
Speaker 1: dangerous because he does have an innate ability to keep
Speaker 1: his eyes down field and process coverage and not get
Speaker 1: away from the routes down the field. He's so good
Speaker 1: when he approaches the last scrimage, whether he's running the
Speaker 1: football as we saw three times for twenty two yards
Speaker 1: in the game on Sunday, or attacking with the pass.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about and play that the Dolphins would
Speaker 1: love to have back that they missed in this game
Speaker 1: on Sunday. But there's another play later in the game where,
Speaker 1: again this is TWA's responsibility as far as pre snap
Speaker 1: indicators and knowing what the defense is going to rotate
Speaker 1: to post snap, and they use Jalen Waddle on so
Speaker 1: much motion and those really helped give him the pre
Speaker 1: snap indicators. And he, of course, with Waddle, knows really
Speaker 1: well how to operate within the zones and creating space
Speaker 1: within those zones. I thought we saw some of that
Speaker 1: chemistry early on with two and Waddle, like on a
Speaker 1: first down completion on the opening drive where he basically
Speaker 1: is in the same neighborhood as Albert Wilson, but he
Speaker 1: works himself clear into his own to give himself a
Speaker 1: target for two to find in a big first down
Speaker 1: on that opening drive. Then they come right back with
Speaker 1: an r P O pop to mac Hollins for eighteen yards.
Speaker 1: And this is where the mechanics and the footwork come
Speaker 1: into play, because TWA starts this play facing to the
Speaker 1: left and he faces the handoff and he has to
Speaker 1: realign completely to get back to his right, and he
Speaker 1: does it without sacrificing any accuracy. Like go out in
Speaker 1: your backyard and try to stand with your back to
Speaker 1: your target and then flip around and throw that ball
Speaker 1: to your target and see how accurate you are. He
Speaker 1: does it so flawlessly. Obviously, NFL quarterbacks versus you a
Speaker 1: big difference, and there should be. But I love watching
Speaker 1: the consistency with which to a can get himself into
Speaker 1: that throwing position and then throw accurately from that position.
Speaker 1: And like I said, in this particular instance, he catches
Speaker 1: the ball for eight yards runs for ten more after
Speaker 1: the catch, and that's a product of good accuracy on
Speaker 1: a play where it's tough to have good accuracy when
Speaker 1: your baseline is not established before you make that throw.
Speaker 1: And there are so many plays where, however, I want
Speaker 1: to phrase this, not that the offensive line doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: but the ball is out literally before there's even a
Speaker 1: chance for the pass rush to get home, catch rock
Speaker 1: and throw. They called up so many plays I would
Speaker 1: say ten or twelve of these plays where the offensive line,
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to still play, but they basically
Speaker 1: have the playoff because the ball is out so fast
Speaker 1: that your pass rush is completely irrelevant. On that play
Speaker 1: later in the game was a deep crosser to Mike Gatsiki,
Speaker 1: while it's actually later in the opening drive where and
Speaker 1: I tweeted about this on my old Twitter account at Winfield,
Speaker 1: nf L, where the Jaguars are showing a five man
Speaker 1: pressure look up front, and the dime or the nickel
Speaker 1: back rather comes up and shows pressure as well. So
Speaker 1: you have six guys across the line scrimmage, all showing
Speaker 1: pressure and the the dime or the nickel back, I
Speaker 1: don't know, keep calling him dime. He actually comes on pressure.
Speaker 1: And Malcolm Brown does a great job of coming across
Speaker 1: the formation scan search, gets inside, looks inside nothing there,
Speaker 1: goes back outside, picks up that nickel blitzer. But the
Speaker 1: nose backer head up over the football. And we've seen
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker do this so many times here in Miami.
Speaker 1: He starts to get depth and coverage and he gets
Speaker 1: about ten yards down the field and if you watch
Speaker 1: two us throwing motion, he steps off to the right,
Speaker 1: and as he makes that stride to the right, you
Speaker 1: watch that linebacker he takes a step that direction as well.
Speaker 1: And then incomes Mike Kisiki behind him, who gets free
Speaker 1: and clear and to it. Puts the ball right on
Speaker 1: him and sets him down away from the defender who's
Speaker 1: on the other side of the zone, putting him in
Speaker 1: perfect position to make a catch for a big play.
Speaker 1: Influence the defense, not just with the eyes, but the
Speaker 1: feet and the body position type in at wingfield NFL
Speaker 1: on Twitter and type in two and maybe feet or
Speaker 1: body position. I've tweeted about that for like five years now.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite parts about his game. There's a third
Speaker 1: and four later in the same drive. The Dolphins were
Speaker 1: so efficient. There was somebody plays a point out here
Speaker 1: where they have Wattle in the stack position behind mac
Speaker 1: Hollins and Albert Wilson motions, and the guy follows him
Speaker 1: across the formation. So then you have what looks like
Speaker 1: man coverage, right, that's your pre snap indicator, and Waddle
Speaker 1: from the stack runs an out route and he throws
Speaker 1: the ball before the post snap picture would show you
Speaker 1: what the coverage is. So trusting the pre snap read
Speaker 1: and putting the football in a location based upon that
Speaker 1: pre snap read and doing it accurately, throwing it wide
Speaker 1: out of Harm's way on the speed out route to
Speaker 1: Waddle to convert another third down on this drive. A
Speaker 1: great throw and great process going into the throw. There's
Speaker 1: another play just a few plays later where he runs
Speaker 1: for the first down and then finishes with a touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to Gland Waddle, which, by the way, he checks
Speaker 1: out of a run pass on that or run play
Speaker 1: on that play. And I like to feet the footwork
Speaker 1: again on this play because he staggered under center, the
Speaker 1: right foot is back, the left foot is up, and
Speaker 1: he opens with a drop steps, so the right foot
Speaker 1: is already back right. He gets more depth with that
Speaker 1: right foot by taking it further back, and then he
Speaker 1: pivots all the way around a hundred and eighty degrees
Speaker 1: back to his left and brings the left foot with
Speaker 1: him and uses that as the plant slash drive foot,
Speaker 1: and the ball is right on time, right on target
Speaker 1: for a touchdown to Waddle throwing the ball to space,
Speaker 1: and Waddle's ability to create separation and kind of keep
Speaker 1: that defensive back honest on the takeoff or the out
Speaker 1: route of the in route helps create that space as well.
Speaker 1: Just good chemistry there between two and Waddle, and the
Speaker 1: footwork and mechanics helped to be accurate and on time.
Speaker 1: It's a treat to watch. Go watch game pass if
Speaker 1: you have not done so yet. There's plenty of examples
Speaker 1: just like this. On the very next drive, the first
Speaker 1: play we're starting this game hot for for the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Here a deep crosser of Mike Gasicki four Jags defenders
Speaker 1: are deep, looks like maybe quarters, and Mike works in
Speaker 1: behind that second shell, the ten yards shell where linebackers
Speaker 1: are at and to alaye this thing right out over
Speaker 1: the outstretched hand of the linebacker while he's getting hit.
Speaker 1: Big time throw and there was a few of them
Speaker 1: in this game. Then the mist third and two throw
Speaker 1: a lot to unpack their first I want to talk
Speaker 1: about how he's capable of creating these off script situations,
Speaker 1: and it comes from the footwork. Again. You see him
Speaker 1: at the top of the drop and the left foot
Speaker 1: kicks out away from the pressure, and the minute that
Speaker 1: foot hits the ground, he's so balanced and on balance
Speaker 1: that the spring in his next step. It's that quick twitch.
Speaker 1: We talk about how he gets from one spot and
Speaker 1: it's not teleportation, but it kind of looks like it.
Speaker 1: It's such a quick twitch ability because he's always balanced
Speaker 1: and square under his shoulders and the feet are so
Speaker 1: quick that he can get away from those dangerous situations
Speaker 1: and put himself into positive situations. Again, if you have
Speaker 1: game pass, please go watch it. But then the play
Speaker 1: gets even more interesting to me because he has waddle
Speaker 1: coming from the opposite side of the formation wide open,
Speaker 1: but he throws the ball before then. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why I thought this was the other way around when
Speaker 1: I first saw this, because he also has mac Hollins
Speaker 1: wide open on the same side of the formation as him.
Speaker 1: But I think waddle might have been a walk in touchdown.
Speaker 1: And originally I thought what it looks like to me
Speaker 1: was he didn't expect both of them to come open,
Speaker 1: and then he wound up kind of in between targets
Speaker 1: where you say, I'm gonna throw it to here, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to throw it to there, and it kind
Speaker 1: of gets in between, but then you slow it down,
Speaker 1: and the minute Mac works behind the defender, he has
Speaker 1: nothing but green grass in front of him, and to
Speaker 1: us sees it instantly, like the minute he gets behind him,
Speaker 1: he stacked and he just lobs this thing out there
Speaker 1: and he doesn't stop. But you see mac Hollins just
Speaker 1: kind of slowed down for a beat, probably thinking he
Speaker 1: has to come back and make a block for his quarterback.
Speaker 1: So you can't blame it on either guy. They just
Speaker 1: didn't communicate it at all. But that half beat was
Speaker 1: all it took for Matt to not be able to
Speaker 1: run under this thing and take that football basically uncontested
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line, one slip tackle away from
Speaker 1: a touchdown and you could see two his reaction after
Speaker 1: the play, he knew they missed a big one and
Speaker 1: it was just a misscommunication. So that's kind of one
Speaker 1: of those things where experienced more time together. This is
Speaker 1: the kids twelfth start in the National Football League, but
Speaker 1: man the processing to understand that and put it all together.
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed with what he can do in just
Speaker 1: twelve games into his career as far as understanding game
Speaker 1: situations like this and thinking under the heat of the moment.
Speaker 1: He's really quick in that regard and how he processes things. Luckily,
Speaker 1: the next play is another one of his big time throws,
Speaker 1: and back to mc hollins on the dig route at
Speaker 1: dig row if you're new to the podcast, is about
Speaker 1: fift anywhere from twelve to fifteen yards push up field
Speaker 1: taken en route across the middle. Used to call it
Speaker 1: down an end when you were a kid. It's called
Speaker 1: a dig route at this level. But he runs the
Speaker 1: dig from the from trips to the field side of
Speaker 1: the formation. So the field side is the wide side,
Speaker 1: the far hash mark. All that fun stuff, and they
Speaker 1: have trips to that side of the formation where both
Speaker 1: Mike and Waddle run crossers, and those guys are blanketed,
Speaker 1: completely blanketed. So the only option on fourth and two
Speaker 1: is a fifteen yard incut to Mac, and Mac stacks
Speaker 1: the cornerback for just a beat. Doesn't a good job
Speaker 1: of doing that, but the minute he stacks him two
Speaker 1: fires that thing into tight coverage into a spot where
Speaker 1: who knows how it's gonna play out, because if Mac
Speaker 1: doesn't continue to win that route, maybe the dB can
Speaker 1: undercut it. But he trusts his guy and throws a
Speaker 1: shot to that dig route to a spot and it
Speaker 1: meets Mac right on time, right on target for a
Speaker 1: big twenty yard reception in the first down and fourth
Speaker 1: and two. And honestly, that's the kind of anticipation that
Speaker 1: I thought we saw on the play prior. Where they're
Speaker 1: on different pages. You're gonna have some mishaps when you're
Speaker 1: kind of working the instill with new guys, and again,
Speaker 1: just twelve games into his career, it takes a while
Speaker 1: to develop that stuff, but it's there, and so I
Speaker 1: think if you can continue to build around that and
Speaker 1: get guys that can get on the same page as
Speaker 1: him and get familiar with him. Man the upside seems
Speaker 1: like it's very very high there. Fast forward to twenty
Speaker 1: six seconds left in the second quarter. He throws a
Speaker 1: deep route to mc collins where the ball is out
Speaker 1: before he even comes out of the break, and it
Speaker 1: almost looks like it's surprised Mac a little bit because
Speaker 1: the ball comes out and Matt kind of checks up.
Speaker 1: I just have such an appreciation for the anticipation because
Speaker 1: he's throwing the football to spots in anticipation without receiver
Speaker 1: getting there, and it's happened so frequently successfully in this
Speaker 1: game that you feel really good about it going forward.
Speaker 1: There's a third and nine a few plays later whereas
Speaker 1: a five man rush and they over to load their
Speaker 1: pressure off the right side and it gets home immediately.
Speaker 1: Then a looper from that side comes right down the
Speaker 1: pike down the middle, so to A has no escape
Speaker 1: route because he wanted to flush to the right, or
Speaker 1: excuse me, he wanted to climb up after the pressure
Speaker 1: off the right got there, but the pocket is muddy
Speaker 1: and he has to stop his feet as he tries
Speaker 1: to climb up, and just look at the feet. It's
Speaker 1: he's trying to climb, he's trying to reset, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's very pretty the way he can get himself
Speaker 1: into these throwing positions, and he does it. He gets
Speaker 1: into that position with bodies at his feet, with hands
Speaker 1: in his face, and this ball, my goodness, what a
Speaker 1: throw right on the money, away from the leverage of
Speaker 1: the defender and a tough, tough catch by Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: Another really impressive play there. From that to connection, the
Speaker 1: Albana connection to a two Waddle, I've got such high
Speaker 1: hopes for that man. And then later in the game
Speaker 1: it's another great different type of pass from to a
Speaker 1: touch pass on a steamshot to Derham Smith on the
Speaker 1: ninety one yard drive right between two high safeties. Run
Speaker 1: you're tight end between him, bust that thing up, force
Speaker 1: him out of that too high coverage. He just lays
Speaker 1: that thing out there and away from the leverage. Now
Speaker 1: his guy gets hit. Smith gets hit, But the location
Speaker 1: of the ball was Chef's kiss. Man. Some things I
Speaker 1: thought could have been better from two in this game.
Speaker 1: We're not talking all things positive here. He had Isaiah
Speaker 1: A Ford on a jerk route that he didn't throw.
Speaker 1: It was an eventual throwaway, and that might be judging
Speaker 1: him critically, but that's what I want to do here
Speaker 1: and be very honest and transparent about the entire process
Speaker 1: of this quarterback because you have to evaluate these guys
Speaker 1: all year, every year. And I thought that that ball
Speaker 1: could have gone to Isaiah Ford on that jerk route
Speaker 1: as he was kind of looking that direction and the
Speaker 1: throwaway went in that direction. Number Two, I stick route
Speaker 1: to mac Hollins, might get sick. He runs a backside
Speaker 1: slant that's open, but to a quickly went to the
Speaker 1: other side. Again, that could be the play call where
Speaker 1: it's like boom, catch rock throw, get that ball out.
Speaker 1: Don't even consider yourself with the backside of the formation.
Speaker 1: But when you see guys running open, you you asked
Speaker 1: the question, why didn't the ball go there? Right? Number
Speaker 1: three a completion, this time to Durham Smith where he
Speaker 1: might have had waddle in a situation where Andrew Winger
Speaker 1: the safety is basically ten yards off the line and
Speaker 1: it's like an even leaving situation. Whiles on a full
Speaker 1: sprint running right for him, and he takes the quick
Speaker 1: check on the outside to Durham Smith where he might
Speaker 1: have had a chance to put the ball under the
Speaker 1: end zone for like a twenty five yard possible touchdown
Speaker 1: throw to Waddle if it all worked out. But again
Speaker 1: that's kind of nitpicking. Number four after the hold on
Speaker 1: Seethan Carter, which by the way, I don't know about
Speaker 1: that one, but anyway, it's first and goal from a
Speaker 1: twenty two ago is quickly to Mike get Sticky on
Speaker 1: two yard speed route to the speed out route to
Speaker 1: the boundary, getting ahead of myself here, and he has
Speaker 1: Savan Achmed on a one on one option in space
Speaker 1: on a Texas route. I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: seen that route because it's basically a linebacker on Achmed
Speaker 1: with a bunch of space in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and he takes it to the outside. Might have
Speaker 1: been a big gainer up the middle. The fifth one
Speaker 1: that I like, I did not like as much on
Speaker 1: the short throw or the throw that was short of
Speaker 1: the sticks to Mike get Sicky the first time Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson's wide open on a crossing route over the middle. Again,
Speaker 1: you can't assess blame here because I'm not part of
Speaker 1: the play call on the huddle, but just telling you
Speaker 1: what I see. And then to be fair. Also, pressure
Speaker 1: was coming quick and it was in the end zone too,
Speaker 1: so get that ball out of your hands quickly. But
Speaker 1: he had a chance to go to Albert will some
Speaker 1: on that throw. Number six, a deep shot to Waddle.
Speaker 1: Now I saw people keep talking about Kirk mara on
Speaker 1: this play. Kirk Mary didn't play any offensive snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. It was Isaiah Ford and Waddle and Ford.
Speaker 1: When I switch release on the outside, which is one
Speaker 1: guy's inside, one guy's outside, and then they switch one,
Speaker 1: the outside guy goes inside, the inside guy goes outside,
Speaker 1: and the safety's back is to the post, so he's
Speaker 1: facing the sideline, which is where the ball goes to
Speaker 1: Jaalen Waddle and Ford's going to the post, and that's
Speaker 1: why the ball eventually runs into double coverage. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what he saw there, but forward to the post
Speaker 1: would have been the better option based upon leverage. When
Speaker 1: he threw the football number seven, the interception, I just
Speaker 1: don't think he accounted for that defender being there. They
Speaker 1: played a lot of too high looks and zone coverage
Speaker 1: throughout the course of this game, where the corners playing
Speaker 1: underneath and there's a flat route to hold him and
Speaker 1: that's typically what you need. You have to have someone
Speaker 1: to the corner or someone to the flat to kind
Speaker 1: of occupy that cover two type of look, or the
Speaker 1: safety up in the cornerback down, and the corner does
Speaker 1: a great job of falling off. And it's a bad
Speaker 1: job on our part by not see him fall off
Speaker 1: because Waddles right behind him all alone on a deep
Speaker 1: comeback where he ran the safety completely out of the
Speaker 1: play like I saw it five or six yards plus
Speaker 1: beyond Waddles location, So just a miss I d by
Speaker 1: two and it almost looks like a little flinch towards
Speaker 1: Malcolm maybe has him thinking if I sell this to
Speaker 1: the flat, he'll take it. But he never bit. He
Speaker 1: stayed in that area and that's why it looks so
Speaker 1: bad because he threw it to it where a defender
Speaker 1: was that he didn't think was there. And I'm not
Speaker 1: entirely shure that's the case. That's what I saw watching
Speaker 1: it from my own two eyes on the all twenty
Speaker 1: two and then finally number eight, the incomplete past two
Speaker 1: miles gaskon that was challenged and lost, which it was
Speaker 1: a drop actually. Albert Wilson once again was wide open
Speaker 1: on a crossing route, and again we don't know the progressions,
Speaker 1: but that would have been an easier throw and I
Speaker 1: thought he had time to get to it. But all
Speaker 1: things told, like at B plus a miles performance here
Speaker 1: from two, I thought he was very good. I think
Speaker 1: he continues to give you more of a chance on
Speaker 1: third and long and just the ability to kind of
Speaker 1: mitigate pressure. You know, no sacks in this game. Really
Speaker 1: good comeback here from two a tongue of BYLOA. All right,
Speaker 1: I apologize for the audio on this. I left my
Speaker 1: mic behind and had to make this addition because it
Speaker 1: was in my notes and I forgot to put it
Speaker 1: in the podcast when going back through my review. But
Speaker 1: some credit to the offensive line where credit is due.
Speaker 1: No sacks in this game, which obviously helps the offense
Speaker 1: in the passing game. Go to four thirty one total yards,
Speaker 1: keeping to a tonga by low upright his return back
Speaker 1: to the lineup and developing some continuity with the first
Speaker 1: back to back games with the same offensive line combination.
Speaker 1: We've talked about them and criticize their play that they
Speaker 1: should when they've been poor. You have to give credit
Speaker 1: where credit is due and talk about how this offensive
Speaker 1: line improve their play in this game and gave the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense a chance. Again, I apologize for the audio
Speaker 1: quality here. Back to your regularly scheduled programming. Across the
Speaker 1: offensive line, the biggest issue I see with regards to
Speaker 1: when they lose in past protection is late reaction and rotation.
Speaker 1: So games are causing some issues upfront with regards to
Speaker 1: running different stunts and slants and twists and loopers, and
Speaker 1: they're just a beat late on that stuff. Kind of
Speaker 1: a theme on this podcast. Will continue to come back
Speaker 1: to that. On the defensive side, there's a third and
Speaker 1: one play where the Dolphins bring Jacobe Brissette into the game.
Speaker 1: It was great execution by Brissette on the throw and
Speaker 1: I love the call because you see ten Jaguars defenders
Speaker 1: come up. To me, it was the best call of
Speaker 1: the year offensively because those guys were expecting run all
Speaker 1: the way. And we talked about getting explosive place third
Speaker 1: and short. It's a great opportunity for explosive plays. Miami
Speaker 1: took it and hit it. Good time stuff there, good
Speaker 1: time stuff, big time stuff. Liam Eichenberg had a rough game.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about on the numbers. He got beat a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the first two drives. Outside post
Speaker 1: was an issue for him all day, just trying to
Speaker 1: reach and get around that outside edge, and the past
Speaker 1: Russia Jaguars just kept getting home on him. Later in
Speaker 1: the game, he was dispatching our running player where he
Speaker 1: got stacked and chucked. Just not his best game. Same
Speaker 1: deal with Austin Jackson saw some of the same issues.
Speaker 1: He had a tackle with the punch and hand placement.
Speaker 1: That's when he's getting beat with the hands. It's just
Speaker 1: it's not been functional as far as the punch and
Speaker 1: the strength to throw those hands. And when he was
Speaker 1: on the move though, as a pulling guard or out
Speaker 1: in space. That's why that's where he was good and
Speaker 1: why I think it's probably his best bet to have
Speaker 1: a shot here at that guard position, at the running
Speaker 1: back spot. Man talking about past prol Malcolm Brown, we
Speaker 1: talked about the five man pressure nosebacker play where he
Speaker 1: scans and gets all the way across the formation. Fantastic
Speaker 1: work there by Malcolm Brown. And also his sixteen yard
Speaker 1: run was well blocked all around and he was responsible
Speaker 1: for making a guy miss in the gap. Will cover
Speaker 1: that in the PFF numbers. How important it is for
Speaker 1: running back Jesse Davis. I thought there was way too
Speaker 1: many instances of bending at the waist getting out over
Speaker 1: his skis, especially on a crossing route to Mike GASICKI
Speaker 1: that to a hit. He takes a big hit, But
Speaker 1: leverage is a problem on that play and as so
Speaker 1: often is for this offensive line when they get those pressures.
Speaker 1: Twenty in this game for the Jaguars, but still no sex.
Speaker 1: Good good number there. I thought Robert Hunt was really
Speaker 1: good in the running game and Greg Mans was good
Speaker 1: all around. I thought both of them had really good games.
Speaker 1: In fact, Hunt was playing a little bit faster. I
Speaker 1: thought this week quicker off the ball, arriving with real force,
Speaker 1: a couple of pole plays where he blocks out the
Speaker 1: sun and then on the receiver position. Mac Hollins he
Speaker 1: did so much right in this game, stack guys throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the day, getting on top of them,
Speaker 1: and so too did Jalen Waddle. I mean, he's so
Speaker 1: good at getting into the defensive back and putting them
Speaker 1: in a completely mysterious position with regards to where he's
Speaker 1: going to break that route next, Like Wattle dictates the
Speaker 1: pace of the route where he can say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cut left, right up or go back, and then you
Speaker 1: have to react to that and a guy the four
Speaker 1: to speed, that's tough to do. And also his ability
Speaker 1: to score on those flat routes by the pylon is
Speaker 1: such a great display of his athletic ability to stay
Speaker 1: on his feet reach the ball across is I'm just
Speaker 1: so impressed by him. And there's so many plays where
Speaker 1: if we had just a beat longer he could uncover.
Speaker 1: He uncovers right after pressure arrives and we could hit
Speaker 1: some of those big plays. So when you talk about
Speaker 1: being close, man, I think Wattle is is very close
Speaker 1: to having some some big plays go his way. Based
Speaker 1: upon what I'm seeing on the All twenty two this
Speaker 1: season as far as big plays, Mike Kasinki hit a
Speaker 1: few of them. His route running is the best on
Speaker 1: the team right now. For my money. He and Wattle
Speaker 1: are right there neck and neck. But he knows when
Speaker 1: to bend that thing back to the quarterback, how to
Speaker 1: flatten his routes on those crossers when two it gets
Speaker 1: out wide, where to kind of settle down just so
Speaker 1: rely able and trustworthy about where he's going to be.
Speaker 1: And then also the hands to make those catches eight
Speaker 1: for nine yesterday. That's a big time production day for
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki, Miles Gaskin. After the offensive past interference on Mac,
Speaker 1: he has a pass a swing route into the flat
Speaker 1: where he's got ten yards of separation from the next
Speaker 1: nearest defender, but he juggles the football and he got
Speaker 1: no yak after that. That one hurts so bad. That
Speaker 1: was a big position to get some yards and get
Speaker 1: back ahead of the change, but they kind of they
Speaker 1: lost it right there because of the juggle. Savan Akman
Speaker 1: I thought he looked the most explosive. He just gets
Speaker 1: it and goes. I'm very intrigued by his game. But
Speaker 1: he also had a killer drop in this one. My
Speaker 1: final note on the offense, I love the designs of
Speaker 1: getting Gasicki and Waddle together on different layers, like Wattle
Speaker 1: underneath Kasicki over the top. It gives the defense so
Speaker 1: much to think about because these guys are such productive
Speaker 1: players for multiple reasons. But it's the deep crossing route
Speaker 1: on the nine yard drive watched Wattle underneath and Gassicki
Speaker 1: over the top that really gave the Jaguars fits. I
Speaker 1: love that concept and design. Some of the better designs
Speaker 1: in this game, I thought from an offensive perspect TV
Speaker 1: and again the quarterback play and the rest of the offense,
Speaker 1: we saw a big jump in production, more than a
Speaker 1: hundred and one yards then the previous season high back
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Defensively, lots of situations where the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: are off the linebackers are responsible for the flat and
Speaker 1: lots of zone coverage. We covered that in the Sunday
Speaker 1: podcast or Monday podcast. But one problem that can arise
Speaker 1: in zone is when the quarterback sees it and fires
Speaker 1: it like when he feels it quickly, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a situation where you have receivers on the move against
Speaker 1: defenders standing still. And that happened on the Jaguars first
Speaker 1: drive a third and four. The receiver drops the football,
Speaker 1: but Lawrence got it to him right in that zone,
Speaker 1: right when he crossed face on Eric Rowe, and the
Speaker 1: ball just got dropped. But Rowe picked up a man
Speaker 1: and you kind of see him go to run with
Speaker 1: him and then passes it off and as that ball
Speaker 1: meets the receiver in the gap. Roe has to react
Speaker 1: after that, and the ball is just out before he
Speaker 1: can get there, and he has to recover. So that
Speaker 1: was a challenge I thought for this defense was some
Speaker 1: of those zone looks, and when Lawrence saw it ripped it,
Speaker 1: that's when they opened things up. And that's that's kind
Speaker 1: how zone works against. That's why you can't play against
Speaker 1: a guy like Tom Brady because he's gonna see everything
Speaker 1: and hit everything on you. Some players I love in
Speaker 1: this game Christian Wilkins. If you want to see specifically
Speaker 1: where his game was going to another level this year,
Speaker 1: watch the hands. He's gotten quicker with him if you
Speaker 1: ask me, and they're still very heavy as well. He
Speaker 1: has a rap on Cam Robinson that's right a left
Speaker 1: tackle where he invites the punch with a quick first
Speaker 1: step up field and then just shoots the hands right
Speaker 1: across Robinson's punch and knocks him over and knocks him
Speaker 1: to the ground. You see how he can stack and
Speaker 1: play off either side of that stack like a true
Speaker 1: two gap defender. Right stack him up, peek your head
Speaker 1: off the side and get into either gap. You have
Speaker 1: to go based upon where the running back goes. He's
Speaker 1: so strong in that area. He had a big strip
Speaker 1: sack where he came off the edge and played from
Speaker 1: that three technique position right off the outside shoulder of
Speaker 1: the guard, went the long way around around Juwan Taylor
Speaker 1: Jacksonville right tackle and cornered like a true pass rusher
Speaker 1: and got the football out for a big strip sack.
Speaker 1: He's having himself a heck of a year. I think
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips had a couple of plays where his edge
Speaker 1: was not very strong. Had one play where he forced
Speaker 1: games Robinson to reverse his field and go back for
Speaker 1: a TfL. I think Andrew Van Ginkle picked it up.
Speaker 1: But I continue to be impressed by Phillips's work mainly
Speaker 1: because of the attention that he's commanding. He's drawn lots
Speaker 1: of double teams guys, lots of chips, lots of attention
Speaker 1: in the past protection and the running game. I mean
Speaker 1: the play that I'm talking about where he's had a
Speaker 1: very strong edge, And there was some fun back and
Speaker 1: forth on Twitter about whether or not he did set
Speaker 1: a strong edge. They tried to crack him with lavisco chanal.
Speaker 1: He basically tosses the receiver aside, then takes on a
Speaker 1: long arm from the right tack or left tackle rather,
Speaker 1: gets that off of him, and then channel comes back
Speaker 1: and he tosses him aside again and says, I thou
Speaker 1: shall not pass. I'm standing right here. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get to my edge. And that ability, with the ability
Speaker 1: to take on so many blockers, I think has created
Speaker 1: more and more chances for Emmanuel Ogba, who is making
Speaker 1: the most of his one on one matchups. Bab basically didn't.
Speaker 1: He disappeared for the Buccaneers game, but other than that,
Speaker 1: he's been dominant. Like the length, the swat he had
Speaker 1: to Lion scrimmage, the sack that he had in this game.
Speaker 1: It's the patented cross chop. Will you put your hands
Speaker 1: on me. I'm gonna use that inside hand and swap
Speaker 1: those things away, dip that shoulder, get around the edge,
Speaker 1: corner and flat into the quarterback. And he did it
Speaker 1: very well. He continues to hold the point against the
Speaker 1: running game as well. Jacksonville did not have a great
Speaker 1: rushing day in this one, and some good playoff the
Speaker 1: edge was helpful for that from both Phillips and Agba
Speaker 1: as well as Wilkins also thought Zack Seiler did a
Speaker 1: good job fighting through double teams, and you know, his
Speaker 1: bull rush puts the lineman across from him and such
Speaker 1: so much conflict. He put a dude on the ground
Speaker 1: and had a quarterback hit in the second quarter where
Speaker 1: he basically just put those long arms out and leans
Speaker 1: on you and runs through you. And you better find
Speaker 1: the say in your pants to anchor, because if you don't,
Speaker 1: he'll run right through you. Brandon Jones I thought had
Speaker 1: a rough game this one. He took a bad angle
Speaker 1: on the very first play of the game that led
Speaker 1: to a big catch and run on a screen pass.
Speaker 1: He also got sucked in and caught in the wash
Speaker 1: as the end man on the defensive formation on a
Speaker 1: long James Robinson run which was called back for a
Speaker 1: hold away from the formation, but it didn't really impact
Speaker 1: the play. But if if Brandon Jones stays out wide,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the opportunity to get to the edge there.
Speaker 1: So just a tough couple of plays there for Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones thought. Jerome Baker was much better this week um
Speaker 1: than he wasn't the previous week. Good speedback on display,
Speaker 1: sure tackling in space. He was busy on a lot
Speaker 1: of crossing routes and mesh concepts where they just tried
Speaker 1: to go after the linebackers underneath, and he didn't give
Speaker 1: a whole lot to those guys in most situations. At
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, I thought Noah igban Agny had a
Speaker 1: nice stick in space on the opening drive, a good
Speaker 1: tackle in space, and he was in great possession on
Speaker 1: two of those throws that he gave up, just got
Speaker 1: to get around and beat quicker. And Brian Flores talked
Speaker 1: about this on Monday, how he's so close and that's
Speaker 1: the case in so many areas for this team, whether
Speaker 1: it's on the offensive side of the football and running lanes,
Speaker 1: or the passing game and spacing run fits on defense,
Speaker 1: or you know, a pass here, or they're like just
Speaker 1: so many plays where they're so close and just hasn't
Speaker 1: quite happening for them yet. And coach mentioned how that's
Speaker 1: the difference sometimes between a game of three yards and
Speaker 1: a game of six yards, those very fine details and
Speaker 1: just right now for a guy like no Eganogeny for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins team, it's just a fraction of the way
Speaker 1: off and those fine details of where you lose football games.
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman, I thought had his best game as a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin. Hit a near pick on a deep over route.
Speaker 1: Just a great job running the route for the receiver
Speaker 1: and undercutting that thing looking like xaviing Howard until the
Speaker 1: very end where he couldn't quite finish the catch. But
Speaker 1: a great play in a good game for Coleman. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: also thought Javon Holland was fantastic once again and his
Speaker 1: ability to help disguis coverages, like there was a second
Speaker 1: play in the second quarter where they show zero blitz
Speaker 1: and the last line of defense is like seven eight
Speaker 1: yards off the football. He's five yards off the ball,
Speaker 1: head up over the inline y tight end and he
Speaker 1: just takes off back to the post after the snap,
Speaker 1: and it was a nice disguise and post nap rotation
Speaker 1: to confuse the young quarterback. And the past breakup he
Speaker 1: had was so so very good. Second and fifteen in
Speaker 1: the second quarter, he's on the field side hash right
Speaker 1: side of the field and Lawrence wheels out of pressure
Speaker 1: to the boundary on an unblocked Immanual Ogba and gets
Speaker 1: himself based to throw with and he tries to throw
Speaker 1: the ball to Lavisco Shodal, who sets his route down
Speaker 1: from that same boundary side, and Holland comes all the
Speaker 1: way over from the other side of the field and
Speaker 1: gets around Chan for the PBu and the ball was
Speaker 1: right on his chest, but he still was able to
Speaker 1: reach around and poke that thing out without interfering on
Speaker 1: the hand on the back. A great play. Then he
Speaker 1: gets another pass break up a couple of plays later,
Speaker 1: but he was hit for a flag that I strongly
Speaker 1: disagreed with. Nonetheless, I really love watching this kid play.
Speaker 1: He is He's absolute looks the part of a strong
Speaker 1: of a really star safety in this league. I thought
Speaker 1: Jacksonville did a good job staying patient And you're probably
Speaker 1: asking Travis so many positives, where where do they lose
Speaker 1: the game? Well, I thought they did a good job
Speaker 1: staying patient and taking what was there and that and
Speaker 1: finding favorable matchups. An occasional nice run Trevor Lawrence getting
Speaker 1: out on the move and extending plays was really where
Speaker 1: their offense produced most of their of their plays and
Speaker 1: most of the time against structure. I thought Miami was
Speaker 1: in good sound position. I thought Wilkins defeated blocks with regularity.
Speaker 1: The AGAs pass rush and run game was just too
Speaker 1: much for them to handle toout the course of the game.
Speaker 1: Thought Jerome Baker had a lot of good reps and
Speaker 1: multiple roles and I thought Holland was super strong. Again,
Speaker 1: some other areas that need to be better, but some
Speaker 1: of the pick stunts they ran up front are just
Speaker 1: their hair away from working and getting big production as
Speaker 1: far as some of those games, and maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit tighter and better coverage in the back end, maybe
Speaker 1: X and Byron come back can help you get to
Speaker 1: those That's kind of the theme of this tape and
Speaker 1: the season for me through six games, close but just
Speaker 1: a hair away from turning those closes into big plays.
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough tape talk for this podcast. Let's
Speaker 1: get into the details and get the heck out of here.
Speaker 1: On Pro Football Focus to a deep passing was not
Speaker 1: good one for six thirty two yards and an interception. However,
Speaker 1: here's where Miami was able to get their best offensive
Speaker 1: output of the year and their fifth highest production day
Speaker 1: in the last five years, four thirty one yards in
Speaker 1: the tend to nineteen range. He was eight for eight
Speaker 1: with a hundred and fifty one yards. Yeah, that'll play
Speaker 1: good intermediate passing. I don't care much for PFF grades,
Speaker 1: but they were very high on to his game. Eighty
Speaker 1: three point nine in this game. That was a career
Speaker 1: high but it's not hard to see why he completed
Speaker 1: seven of ten passes when blitzed bol for touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: can pleted nine of seventeen when pressured for a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen yards and the bad pick we talked about,
Speaker 1: but I would argue that was not a product of
Speaker 1: the pressure because he escaped the pressure. He just made
Speaker 1: a bad decision when he confirmed, which he confirmed in
Speaker 1: his press conference after the game. So an average depth
Speaker 1: of target eight point five yards, adjusted completion percentage of
Speaker 1: seventy nine point five, no sacks on twenty pressures or
Speaker 1: pressured on twenty drop backs, I should say without the sack,
Speaker 1: average ball out time of two point four six seconds
Speaker 1: at the running back position. They only forced one miss
Speaker 1: tackle that was Malcolm Brown. He averaged four yards after
Speaker 1: initial contact, that big sixteen yard run where he won
Speaker 1: his matchup in the gap for a big run. Savan
Speaker 1: Akhmad two point eight six yards after contact, Miles gask
Speaker 1: At one point four. We rushed for four first downs
Speaker 1: on seventeen carries a receiver, yards per route run and
Speaker 1: yards per target Mike Kasiki three point one nine yards
Speaker 1: per route run, twelve point eight yards per target. What
Speaker 1: a big day. For him. Also Durham Smith one point
Speaker 1: eight four yards per out run and nine point eight
Speaker 1: yards per target. A huge day for Durham Smith. Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle just one point four six yards per route run
Speaker 1: five point three eight yards per yard per target. Again,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the product of his was being asked
Speaker 1: of him right now, and then mac Hollands one point
Speaker 1: to two yards per route run and twelve point two
Speaker 1: yards per target. Big day across the board for these guys.
Speaker 1: No sacks in the day, but pressure numbers. Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: had six according to Pro Football Focus, two of those
Speaker 1: were QB hits, Austin Jackson five, none of those were
Speaker 1: QB hits, Leam Eichenberg five one QB hit, Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: to no QB hits, and Greg Matt's one with no
Speaker 1: QB hits. Defensively, pressure numbers Jerome Baker and Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 1: four apiece, Zack Steeler and Jalen Phillips three apiece, Javon
Speaker 1: Holland and Nick need Um to apiece, and then five
Speaker 1: players had one pressure run stops five players had one
Speaker 1: as well. Wilkins, Van Ginkle, Roberts and Ogba had two
Speaker 1: apiece and then ray Kwon Davis and Jerome Baker all
Speaker 1: had or both had three run stops in this game.
Speaker 1: Some notable coverage stats. Nick need Um targeted just four
Speaker 1: times in this game for thirty six yards. Javon Holland
Speaker 1: allowed two catches on four targets for forty yards and
Speaker 1: a pass breakup. Noah Ignalgay five receptions on seven targets
Speaker 1: for sixty four yards and a touchdown. Justin Coleman just
Speaker 1: three for five thirteen yards, and Eric Rowe one for
Speaker 1: three with seven yards allowed. Some next gen stats to
Speaker 1: US two point five eight time to throw is the
Speaker 1: fifth quickest in the National Football League, and Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: is the only back on the roster with a positive
Speaker 1: rush yards overexpected. He is at point oh six yards
Speaker 1: overexpected per rush separation numbers, Waddles tied for eight and
Speaker 1: the NFL at four point one yards average separation. Mike
Speaker 1: Kasiki had a big jump this week from two point
Speaker 1: three yards last week to two point nine this week.
Speaker 1: He was getting open all game long, and that's really it.
Speaker 1: With the injuries and shared backfield work, we don't have
Speaker 1: guys that qualify in a lot of the next gen areas.
Speaker 1: Some of the snap counts here, just real quick off
Speaker 1: the end of the podcast. Offensively, the O line went
Speaker 1: wire to wire seventy snaps to have played sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Jacobe had the one snap in the passing game there,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown and Miles Gascon played twenty five reps apiece,
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Brown was up in those a gaps a
Speaker 1: lot like, aligned right behind the guard to just pick
Speaker 1: up interior pressure a law on the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: thought he did a great job with that. He was
Speaker 1: in the game a lot for that. And then Savon
Speaker 1: Akmed played nineteen snaps, So the most balanced game for
Speaker 1: the running backs of the season. Mac Hollands led receivers
Speaker 1: with sixty eight snaps, Deal and Waddle sixty five, then
Speaker 1: a big drop off Albert Wilson twenty three, Isaiah Ford five,
Speaker 1: so plenty of twelve personnel as you'll hear here during
Speaker 1: smyth fifty eight snap to lead tight ends Mike Gasicky,
Speaker 1: Fort Hunter long nine and uh Seethan Carter four snaps.
Speaker 1: So Holland's Waddle smithing Gasicki was basically your twelve personnel
Speaker 1: package with a three man rotation at running back. Through
Speaker 1: the most of this game. Defensively, Christian Wilkins forty six
Speaker 1: snaps led the way up front as far as interior
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, Ray Kwon Davis thirty six, Zach Seeler twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Adam Butler twenty six, and John Jenkins seven, So Butler's
Speaker 1: snap count goes down a little bit. He had been
Speaker 1: near the top of that list through the course of
Speaker 1: the season so far, but now Wilkins and Davis have
Speaker 1: a decent gap there between Seiler and Butler, and then
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips off the edge fifty four snaps, Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle forty six, Emmanuel at one, Brand Scarlett eight snaps,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker sixty five at linebacker, a Landon Roberts thirty one,
Speaker 1: Sam Aguavin fifteen, Duke Riley one snap, Coleman and Igbo
Speaker 1: in the secondary played sixty six snaps a piece that
Speaker 1: was out of sixties six, and the offense played seventy
Speaker 1: by the way, so both the cornerbacks played the entire game.
Speaker 1: Nick Needham had forty one snaps in the game. Javon
Speaker 1: halland played every snap all sixties six, Brandon Jones played
Speaker 1: forty eight, Eric Road nineteen and Jason mccordy played fourteen,
Speaker 1: so we saw some accordy at safety and cornerback as well.
Speaker 1: So some juggling there in the secondary. Being down X
Speaker 1: and Byron obviously makes it pretty difficult for you on
Speaker 1: that back end, But we have some depth there. I
Speaker 1: thought you saw that in this game. Some special team stats.
Speaker 1: Clayton Federalum twenty three snap counts, Brandon Scarlett twenty two, uh,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones nineteen, and Elijah Campbell eighteen. Scanning the Social
Speaker 1: my last segment here on this Tuesday podcast, and I
Speaker 1: apologize for the speed. There was lots of information to
Speaker 1: get to that I wanted to talk about, especially who
Speaker 1: was game. But scanning the social, well, I don't have
Speaker 1: one this week. I'm not sure there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: out there that I can dispute right now. At one
Speaker 1: in five, you kind of just have to wear that,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're gonna do here and get the
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