Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check
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Speaker 2: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the
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Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody?
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take one look back at the night in Philly,
Speaker 2: the film review of the key data points that went
Speaker 2: for and against Miami, a snap count review and hearing
Speaker 2: from head coach Mike McDaniel, and his day after press
Speaker 2: conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. May gaff In Season
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins twenty twenty three, Pretty dang cool looking forward
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 1: Its gonna be a lot of good content that comes
Speaker 1: off of that.
Speaker 2: Of course, I believe every Tuesday night covering this team,
Speaker 2: and maybe after the way things went in Philadelphia and
Speaker 2: the league having two previous Hard Knocks appearance teams in
Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals who were basically like eliminated by Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: and made a product not really worth watching and the
Speaker 2: Colts who collapsed prior to the playoffs back in.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can get some of the calls in our
Speaker 2: favor to ensure they get some playoff hard knocks. Good idea, right,
Speaker 2: I think they'll get it anyways, But just kind of
Speaker 2: the optimist in me thinking they're the Dolphins is gonna
Speaker 2: be on end season hard knocks after the bye week.
Speaker 1: One quick note here.
Speaker 2: Before we jump into the all twenty two tape. I
Speaker 2: just noticed this this morning when I was thinking about
Speaker 2: how few plays the Dolphins ran and how infrequently they
Speaker 2: had the football. They had eight possessions in that game
Speaker 2: last night. Punt, field goal, punt, touchdown, punt, turnover on downs, interception,
Speaker 2: turnover on downs. That's three possessions fewer than the league
Speaker 2: average per game per team. So consider that when you
Speaker 2: think about ten points is never good. I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: get that out in front right now, and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why they only score ten points here in the breakdown.
Speaker 2: But eight possessions, that's tough.
Speaker 1: Living.
Speaker 2: Defense has to find a way to get off the
Speaker 2: field faster. Like I thought, it was a good game
Speaker 2: for the defense, but you make it hard up for
Speaker 2: the offense to score a lot of points when you
Speaker 2: don't get any three and outs and well, actually, you
Speaker 2: know what, they got takeaways and they scored, so I
Speaker 2: take that back.
Speaker 1: I take that back.
Speaker 2: But the two long drives in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 2: those those were the killers. So the big play breakdowns
Speaker 2: Tua the Tyreek for a twenty seven yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: It starts the quarterback right first.
Speaker 2: The footwork is clean, and you won't see that same
Speaker 2: situation on the pick he threw.
Speaker 1: Not clean footwork there, but clean.
Speaker 2: Hitch up, one hitch timing, chuck it down the field, heels,
Speaker 2: don't click, not crossing our feet, just a clean operation altogether.
Speaker 2: And quite honestly, the work to hold the middle of
Speaker 2: the field safety is irrelevant because the inside bracket safety
Speaker 2: is not even looking at Tua and you get that
Speaker 2: on bracket coverage, you're just covering the man. Hey, if
Speaker 2: Tyreek tries to go inside, don't let him go inside.
Speaker 2: And he's focused on not lging Tyreek cross his face.
Speaker 2: And the great part about this is this is an
Speaker 2: answer to teams taking away our bread and butter action
Speaker 2: that glance for out, that dagger route, all the stuff
Speaker 2: over the middle of the field. He's squatting on the
Speaker 2: dagger and Tyreek has produced hundreds of yards on that
Speaker 2: route this season. And then the fantastic, just ridiculously drippy
Speaker 2: stutter release to widen the corner. He slow plays it,
Speaker 2: which helps Tua get into his timing further right. It
Speaker 2: kind of condenses the or I guess creates more space
Speaker 2: for two to throw into a condensed part of the
Speaker 2: field where he can out throw the end zone from
Speaker 2: that spot.
Speaker 1: So give your quarterback more time.
Speaker 2: But the way he slow paces that stutter release outside,
Speaker 2: you see the cornerback widen and that creates that gap
Speaker 2: for him to then just that was my accelerator f
Speaker 2: one driving books, books, books off the rails already. But
Speaker 2: Tyreek just running straight line down the red line that
Speaker 2: you would see on a practice field with that full
Speaker 2: acceleration after widening that corner and just basically eras in
Speaker 2: that middle of the field safety and Tua lets this
Speaker 2: thing go on one hitch timing when Tyreek is at
Speaker 2: the twenty yard line. It reminds me to a of
Speaker 2: the old Russell Wilson deep balls. Just put it out there,
Speaker 2: tons of air under it, and let your guys go
Speaker 2: and catch it. He catches it. Exactly five yards deep.
Speaker 1: In the end zone.
Speaker 2: He didn't squeez them up against the back pylon. He
Speaker 2: didn't throw him short and have to come back and
Speaker 2: make a contested catch.
Speaker 1: He didn't put him on the sideline.
Speaker 2: He just throw it right over that outside shoulder, away
Speaker 2: from the over the help top up, over the underneath coverage.
Speaker 2: In elite throw, elite release, elite catch, and the pass
Speaker 2: pro you get Durham Smyth locking up Brandon Graham one
Speaker 2: on one. We talked about Graham having a little bit
Speaker 2: less juice in the tank, and so when Durham Smyth
Speaker 2: is matching up with you, good on Durham, but you
Speaker 2: have to win those matchups as a pass rusher one
Speaker 2: on one. That leaves Kendall Lamb to pick up a
Speaker 2: blitzing linebacker, which he does. Lester Cotton had his best
Speaker 2: rep of the night in this one one on one
Speaker 2: versus a condensed inside Josh Sweat. He wins that matchup. Now,
Speaker 2: Jalen Carter whips Eikenberg, but Tua throws it right before
Speaker 2: he gets hip. So there was color flashing in his face,
Speaker 2: as there was all night long. That's the one loss
Speaker 2: we had was Carter on Eichenberg a common theme in
Speaker 2: this game, and Austin Jackson down Fletcher Cox and you
Speaker 2: get a massive touch on that changes the course of
Speaker 2: the game at that point. Our next big play two
Speaker 2: on defense Chubb force fumble Wilcom's recovery on the Eagles
Speaker 2: second drive of the game. And the key here was
Speaker 2: a key all night with good rush lane integrity to
Speaker 2: help make this play happen. Miami has just a four
Speaker 2: man rush on this play and drops eight into coverage
Speaker 2: and DeVante Smith actually comes free on the dig route
Speaker 2: where he crosses over the middle of the field and
Speaker 2: Javon Hollins on his back and doesn't really have space
Speaker 2: to kind of run with him over the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. But the Dolphins reset the line of scrimmage
Speaker 2: with bull rushes across the board and Hurts has to
Speaker 2: kind of tuck the football and find clean space in
Speaker 2: the pocket to operate from. Then Miami just outworks the
Speaker 2: Eagles offensive line. We had guys kind of quit on
Speaker 2: the play quite frankly, but Chubb keeps playing and goes
Speaker 2: and gets the hand in the football. JP gets his
Speaker 2: hand across the ball as well. It does go in
Speaker 2: the books for Chubb, but JP had a hand on
Speaker 2: that shoulder of Hurts as well, and then Christian great
Speaker 2: job falling on the football there, big takeaway.
Speaker 1: Wish we could with a.
Speaker 2: Touchdown, but nonetheless, Dolphins hide the game after a big
Speaker 2: takeaway on the Eagle second drive, and then their second
Speaker 2: takeaway of the Knights, just their third pick of the year,
Speaker 2: goes back for six the other way and ties the
Speaker 2: football game late in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Everyone's feeling good at this point, and I think that this.
Speaker 2: Play was just good team Football's ourpo action run pass option.
Speaker 2: Miami literally has a man in every gap in the
Speaker 2: correct leverage position you want them to be. With Wilkins,
Speaker 2: raekwan Seler, Gink, they all win their leverage. Chubb comes
Speaker 2: clean and wipes out Swift the running back. Cater blitzes
Speaker 2: with a free run and Jalen hurts his face and frankly,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where he's throwing it, because Long David
Speaker 2: Long gets over a natural rub route on slant flat
Speaker 2: and he's all over it. And then Javon Holland is
Speaker 2: closing in on the AJ Brown route too. Maybe he's
Speaker 2: throwing the ball away, I'm not sure, but Cater swats it,
Speaker 2: it lands right in Drome Baker's bradbasket. Johnny on the
Speaker 2: spot sprints in for six.
Speaker 1: You'd love to see it.
Speaker 2: And with that it's time for Travis's my top five
Speaker 2: tapes of the game. We start with the linebacker position
Speaker 2: with David Long and this tape was the guy that
Speaker 2: I scouted with the Tennessee Titan over the course of
Speaker 2: the off season. What a game he played on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Just outstanding effort, beating blocks of guys much much larger
Speaker 2: than he is with both quickness and physicality. He was
Speaker 2: initiating the contact and they just engaging in the blocks
Speaker 2: more so than the offensive line most of the time.
Speaker 2: And he and Jerome Baker played so well in tandem together.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the best tandem off ball linebacker games.
Speaker 2: I would say the Dolphins I've had since Jack Thomas.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's been a long time, long time since you
Speaker 2: got that good a linebacker play. There was a DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift run in the mid red zone on the first
Speaker 2: drive where Long slips past a Jordan Mylotta block. If
Speaker 2: you don't know about Jordani Lata, he's about seven hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty pounds. He's about nine feet too tall, a
Speaker 2: tough guy to get around, and he gets around him
Speaker 2: with really good quickness, just kind of slips off the block,
Speaker 2: and then Jerome Baker comes over the top of that
Speaker 2: presses that block, and then Dallas Goddard, because of those
Speaker 2: guys causing it a pile up of sorts, tries to
Speaker 2: come in and split flow and wipe them both out
Speaker 2: and whiffs and that allows Jerome Baker to step in
Speaker 2: and fill in for the run stuff right there. So
Speaker 2: they had that kind of stuff working consist throughout the night,
Speaker 2: a big reason why Miami allowed less than one hundred
Speaker 2: yards rushing on the ground on thirty four carries against
Speaker 2: this vaunted Eagles attack. He also impacted the game as
Speaker 2: a blitzer. That tip pass he had was just more
Speaker 2: downhill speeds to the quarterback where he saw it and went.
Speaker 2: And then in coverage the long ball that Cater defended
Speaker 2: it and nearly picked off. I think it was in
Speaker 2: the second quarter. He has a vertical stem down the middle,
Speaker 2: but he recognizes the safety coming over to help, so
Speaker 2: he's playing more instinctively in tune to the rules of
Speaker 2: the defense, passes it off to the safety. Then he
Speaker 2: immediately jumps out into the deep curl flat area, which
Speaker 2: is the underneath portion of the potential route that aj
Speaker 2: Brown could run. So that gives cater Cooho the freedom
Speaker 2: to know, I don't have to take the cheese on
Speaker 2: this double move. I can stay patient and stay off
Speaker 2: and get vertical.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 2: They try it deep and he's there to make a
Speaker 2: play on the football and break it up.
Speaker 1: So good team defense.
Speaker 2: But David Long all over the field, four stops in
Speaker 2: the game, two pressures on just three blitz reps, a
Speaker 2: pass breakup, and allowed twelve yards on twenty coverage snaps.
Speaker 2: He gets my top tape of the week against the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles, Tape number two.
Speaker 1: Tua Tongua bai Loo a man.
Speaker 2: He made some big time throws in terms of situation,
Speaker 2: down in distance what the defense gave him, and most
Speaker 2: of them on third and long plays as well. He
Speaker 2: threw a third and seven corner route to Jalen Wattle
Speaker 2: against what looked to me like Cover eight, which is
Speaker 2: a variation of man to one side, zone to the
Speaker 2: other side of the formation, and the side he attacked
Speaker 2: had a cloud corner a guy that's playing zone and
Speaker 2: getting depth and kind of keying the eyes of the
Speaker 2: quarterback with half field safety help. So akin to what
Speaker 2: we talked about with David Long and Cater Kohu on
Speaker 2: the previous snap, they have that coverage and that is
Speaker 2: the definition of an NFL throw in the honey hole
Speaker 2: against that two man zone. Look there, I think you
Speaker 2: want to high low that thing corner flat combo that
Speaker 2: pulls the cloud corner down and holds that curl flat
Speaker 2: defender closer to the line of scrimmage up post to
Speaker 2: getting depth. But for whatever reason, Raheem Moster winds up
Speaker 2: right next to Jalen Wattle, and I think actually makes
Speaker 2: the throw look even better because he had to layer
Speaker 2: it over that cloud corner who never should been there
Speaker 2: in the first place, right underneath the halfield safety. That's
Speaker 2: a big time throw and it kind of got going
Speaker 2: for two of from there. The next big time throw
Speaker 2: was the very next third down on that same drive
Speaker 2: for six points, but waved off on a holding call
Speaker 2: by Lester Cotton to his hands separate on this throw
Speaker 2: before Tyreek even makes the break inside, which is every
Speaker 2: damn week we say this, he's at the five yard line,
Speaker 2: the ball meets him three yards into the end zone
Speaker 2: right on top of the helmet, an absolute dot.
Speaker 1: But again it's coming back.
Speaker 2: And what's funny about that holding call was it was
Speaker 2: a hold, but it was the exact same hole they
Speaker 2: didn't call on David Long when he shot that gap
Speaker 2: for potential big run stuff early in the game as well.
Speaker 2: Back to Tua, I just think we've seen him do
Speaker 2: so many things this year you've been told that he
Speaker 2: cannot do, like the throw on the rail route the
Speaker 2: tyreek to the perimeter, where if he throws that ball
Speaker 2: three inches inside of where it was, it's probably a
Speaker 2: pick six by Darius Slay, who has a nickname for
Speaker 2: making a big play like that big play Sleigh, and
Speaker 2: he tried to jump it, but the ball was just
Speaker 2: a little bit too far outside right on the money.
Speaker 2: And he's gassing these throws up with more velocity than
Speaker 2: I've ever seeing him throw with personally. There were some
Speaker 2: no look throws as well, some more master of manipulation,
Speaker 2: putting the Dolphins in scoring range before the first half.
Speaker 2: Then they do strike gold, but we already broke that
Speaker 2: play down for you guys, the deep shot that tyreek
Speaker 2: for a touchdown, So we move on here to the
Speaker 2: play before that. Actually the quarterback. You know, when was
Speaker 2: the last time the Dolphins had a quarterback that you
Speaker 2: felt like Third and eighteen wasn't the end of the drive.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now, it's been twenty four years
Speaker 2: since old Danny Marino walked through those doors.
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed with Tua's accuracy.
Speaker 2: As the game went on, color kept flashing in his face,
Speaker 2: pass rush, kept getting through and beating guys on the
Speaker 2: interior offensive line, even on the long touchdown throw. Then
Speaker 2: a throw early in the third quarter where he fakes
Speaker 2: a toss sweep, sets his feet and fires with Josh
Speaker 2: Sweat right in his face, and the ball once again
Speaker 2: is on the face mask of Tyreek Hill coming out
Speaker 2: of the break on that dagger route over the middle
Speaker 2: of the field. Really, prior to the pick, I didn't
Speaker 2: see any passes where he went outside of what I
Speaker 2: think are his progressions or structure of the offense. So
Speaker 2: he really played fundamental football, some of the short stuff
Speaker 2: and checkdowns on these vertical routes or crossing routes into
Speaker 2: these walled off zones. And credit to Sean Deci, I
Speaker 2: thought the Eagles defense kind of found something in this
Speaker 2: game that clicked for them in terms of their communication
Speaker 2: and really covering well on the back end to pair
Speaker 2: well with that pass rush they have up front. But
Speaker 2: Tua sees that doesn't force it, avoids taking a big hit,
Speaker 2: checks it down, lives to fight another day. If we
Speaker 2: get that for seventeen games from two, we're going to
Speaker 2: be just fine because his health is how far the
Speaker 2: season can go. Right. But the Tyreek, he'll drop another
Speaker 2: world class anticipation rip to him in space for a
Speaker 2: potential touchdown, once again, color flashing right in his face.
Speaker 2: They ran games all night long, and we'll cover this
Speaker 2: on the offensive line portion that we just could not
Speaker 2: pick up. And the left guard was Leicester Catt on
Speaker 2: this play, oversets and winds up picking the man who's
Speaker 2: rushing on Kendall Lamb and just opens this free lane for.
Speaker 1: Josh Sweat to loop in.
Speaker 2: But once again Tua just plays in rhythm and again
Speaker 2: the hand separate before Tyreek even begins the break, catches
Speaker 2: the football, but then his knee collides with the ball
Speaker 2: is what bumps it and sends it flying through the
Speaker 2: end zone for a mad scramble with some Benny Hill
Speaker 2: music there as he and both Brax and Burrios could
Speaker 2: not fall on the football incomplete pass. I loved the
Speaker 2: decision to go back shoulder on that fourth and three
Speaker 2: throw to Cedric Wilson because Bradbury was completely horizontal with
Speaker 2: the goal line, like his name plate was straight up
Speaker 2: to his back was to to his face right, and
Speaker 2: so you can't cover what's behind you. It's a perfect
Speaker 2: spot for a back shoulder throw. Puts it on the
Speaker 2: right spot. Cedric gets tackled by the face mask. Nothing
Speaker 2: you can do about that. I actually thought his worst
Speaker 2: throw before the interception was the first play of that
Speaker 2: drive on a Gland sproute to Waddle that he did catch,
Speaker 2: but it was just on the back hip. And the
Speaker 2: more I watch other games and see how late quarterbacks are, like,
Speaker 2: you know, watching who was it the other night on
Speaker 2: Thursday night football?
Speaker 1: Gosh dang it? Who played on Thursday? Oh, Derek Carr
Speaker 1: was just late? Every damn throw was late.
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert often so late on these reads and these
Speaker 2: you know, trying to put the ball on these tight windows.
Speaker 2: And then on top of that a issues where balls
Speaker 2: are often on the back hip or on the wrong shoulder,
Speaker 2: Tua doesn't do that, but on this throw he did,
Speaker 2: and Waddle still caught it. So it's like we have
Speaker 2: one miss and we make the catch anyways, But then
Speaker 2: the second Tyreek drop another absolute seed right back on
Speaker 2: his stuff, right on the face mask with a defensive
Speaker 2: back in close quarters, throws it well before the break.
Speaker 2: It's just commonplace with this quarterback right now, Like it does.
Speaker 2: It happens every single week, multiple times a week. He
Speaker 2: comes right back and drills a third and long rip
Speaker 2: to Jalen Waddle to move the chains. Very next play
Speaker 2: is the back shoulder completion to Cedric on the move.
Speaker 1: Throws pretty much the same ball.
Speaker 2: He threw against Bradbury on the previous drive and puts
Speaker 2: it right on the money on the move.
Speaker 1: Just playing so well, so smooth.
Speaker 2: And how about another accurate throw after fielding a ground
Speaker 2: ball that gets rolled back to him, picks it up,
Speaker 2: throws for five yards. I just don't know what more
Speaker 2: you can ask of this, dude. If we don't get
Speaker 2: top shelf quarterback play in this game and in Buffalo
Speaker 2: as well, which you lost by twenty eight and fourteen points,
Speaker 2: it's funny to say the game is a total laugher
Speaker 2: like Miami is blown out by five touchdowns if they
Speaker 2: don't have, you know, a quarterback of Tua's caliber in
Speaker 2: this game. Which is funny because all we ever hear
Speaker 2: about is how Tua is propped up by his teammates.
Speaker 2: But he really carried the offense that had no running
Speaker 2: game and couldn't block anybody from the center over to
Speaker 2: the left side of the line for most of the night.
Speaker 1: Then we finally get the bad play.
Speaker 2: It was defensive pass interference, but I don't think that
Speaker 2: changes the decision or the throw itself.
Speaker 1: Actually I liked the decision.
Speaker 2: He just made one mistake and put it short because
Speaker 2: he had pressure in his face and couldn't step into
Speaker 2: the throw. But he has to know that, he has
Speaker 2: to know what his limitations and what the circumstances were.
Speaker 2: But he made one mistake and he paid for it dearly.
Speaker 2: Also running a stutter go with a wheel into the
Speaker 2: same area. That's not something you do by design on purpose.
Speaker 2: When Waddle flashes to the post like he runs a
Speaker 2: double move back to the corner like a what is
Speaker 2: it called a post corner?
Speaker 1: Is a shoe? I forget the name of that anyway.
Speaker 2: Post corner route and it slave flips his hips to
Speaker 2: run inside to the other safety help. If he just
Speaker 2: keeps running that way, it's going to open up the
Speaker 2: back pylon for Raheem Moster, who's going up against number
Speaker 2: fifty two.
Speaker 1: I think that's Nicholas More if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: But the ball's underthrown, and if Slay's not there, I
Speaker 2: think the DPI call comes out, obviously because it's one
Speaker 2: on one tackle job on the receiver. But with how
Speaker 2: this game was called, who the hell knows, but bad spacing,
Speaker 2: bad throw, bad no call, just bad all around. But
Speaker 2: if he plays like this on this stage, if we
Speaker 2: have our healthy compliment of guys, if we clean up
Speaker 2: some of the mundane stuff that has plagued us, if
Speaker 2: we get a little bit more even better officiating, you
Speaker 2: will start.
Speaker 1: To win these games.
Speaker 2: I know it's easy to point to the quarterback in
Speaker 2: these spots, but this is one of the better tapes
Speaker 2: of the season. I would rank them as such. Chargers, Panthers, Patriots, Eagles, Broncos.
Speaker 2: I thought all five of those tapes were great, really
Speaker 2: good tapes. I thought Bills was good. I thought Giants
Speaker 2: was his worst, right around average so this quarterback's playing
Speaker 2: very very well. And you know he on passes twenty
Speaker 2: plus yards two for four, fifty six yards touchdown and
Speaker 2: a pick, ten plus yards nine for fourteen, one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty yards touchdown and a pick. When pressured, he
Speaker 2: was three for eight with thirty eight yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure where Benslock is get these number
Speaker 2: in terms of you know, sixteen passer ray and that's
Speaker 2: not true at all. Also, I love Ben, but his
Speaker 2: evaluations crazy because Tua was by far the better quarterback
Speaker 2: in this game, especially from a processing standpoint, accuracy standpoint.
Speaker 2: Hurts has the running stuff in the tush push, which
Speaker 2: obviously helps. But he was blitzed just four times or
Speaker 2: five times sacked once, went three for four to twenty
Speaker 2: seven yards. So Tua is our second top tape. Our
Speaker 2: third top tape is Jerome Baker, Dolphins linebacker. I thought
Speaker 2: he processed and pursued as well I have ever seen from him,
Speaker 2: like in his entire career.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic. Also thought he played a physical.
Speaker 2: Brand of football that you don't typically see from a
Speaker 2: guy at two hundred and thirty pounds at linebacker. He
Speaker 2: condensed he scraped, he filled, he made tackles. I think
Speaker 2: he was often set up by the playoff David Long,
Speaker 2: and the two of those guys playing together just was
Speaker 2: fun to watch. He had four stops and a pick
Speaker 2: six on defense. My fourth top tape goes to Robert Hunt.
Speaker 2: He was the one offensive lineman to me who physically
Speaker 2: dominated his matchups routinely in this game. When he needed
Speaker 2: to go get someone to go somewhere, like take him somewhere,
Speaker 2: he did that.
Speaker 1: He got placement, got movement.
Speaker 2: He was able to hip toss Fletcher Cox on one
Speaker 2: where he most run and throw him out of the club.
Speaker 2: He would find extra work in pass Pro, allowed zero
Speaker 2: pressures in the game, able to get off double teams
Speaker 2: and climb up to the second level, which was not
Speaker 2: a frequency a frequently occurring matter for the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 2: line in this game. Rob Hunt having a hell of
Speaker 2: a season. My fourth tape in this game and my
Speaker 2: fifth top tape goes to Christian Wilkins. You can't wash
Speaker 2: over the neutral zone fouls. You just can't line up there, man,
Speaker 2: you can't do it. And I will wash over the
Speaker 2: ref from the passer call because it was a flot
Speaker 2: from the opposing quarterbacks and only one of the back
Speaker 2: judges threw a flag, which to me like they're both
Speaker 2: watching that, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: But otherwise he was really good.
Speaker 2: He got doubled on almost every damn play and made
Speaker 2: a bunch of plays. He and Rayquan and Sealer were
Speaker 2: pivotal in holding Philadelphia to ninety eight rushing yards on
Speaker 2: thirty four attempts. Very good game for the Dolphins in
Speaker 2: that standpoint. He also took Lane Johnson for a ride
Speaker 2: and made him look silly a couple of times. He
Speaker 2: destroyed the right guard in a one on one pass
Speaker 2: protection opportunity on the one that Chubb hit hurt on
Speaker 2: that you know, throwing while getting hit that wound up
Speaker 2: round up a completion of Devonte Smith. He shut down
Speaker 2: the run and had some pass rush wins quickly as well.
Speaker 2: Four pressures one stop for Christian Wilkins in this game,
Speaker 2: just on the periffery for me. Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Zach Steeler, and Javon Holland all
Speaker 2: got consideration for top tapes from this game. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take our first break right there, and come
Speaker 2: back on the other side do offensive notes. On the
Speaker 2: third side, we'll do defensive notes and snapcounts so much more.
Speaker 2: That's next dravetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto Nation Top five tapes in the books,
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and talk about some offensive notes. Who
Speaker 2: did not make the top five tapes and generally speaking,
Speaker 2: I mentioned it earlier. I thought Sean Deci really uncovered
Speaker 2: his defensive identity in this game in terms of the physicality,
Speaker 2: but also just good communication on the back end. Had
Speaker 2: some great calls, those little traps on speedouts to you know,
Speaker 2: take away those slot routes that we would throw winning
Speaker 2: leverage in the running game. We just got beat in
Speaker 2: a lot of those areas. That's all it really comes
Speaker 2: down to, man like that, and they matched our quickness
Speaker 2: off the ball in the front, but brought more power
Speaker 2: than we could withstand We couldn't execute some of the
Speaker 2: blocks we have this year that sets up the running
Speaker 2: game and the run games and ability to get going.
Speaker 2: I think impacted our ability to throw the football. They
Speaker 2: just got beat and hopefully it's a good thing to
Speaker 2: have on tape, and frankly, they won't see a team
Speaker 2: the rest of the year who's better up front unless
Speaker 2: they go back to the Super Bowl and see this
Speaker 2: team or the forty nine ers for that matter, on
Speaker 2: either side of the ball. Really offensive line as well.
Speaker 2: We already did two in the top five tapes. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and get to the eligibles. And I thought
Speaker 2: that Smyth and Moster were frequently on the wrong page.
Speaker 2: In fact, the tight ends in general, Hill and Smythe
Speaker 2: not their greatest games, but them ceiling blocks to cut
Speaker 2: back inside and most are bouncing like that happened a
Speaker 2: couple of times. And a five yard tackle for lost
Speaker 2: in the opening drive gets your way behind the chains.
Speaker 2: Rahiem just had a bad night, man, those routes that
Speaker 2: kind of got, you know, mixed up in multiple spots.
Speaker 2: Not great in pass pro. Not his best running effort.
Speaker 2: He had one really nice run. I thought Achmed had
Speaker 2: a rough game as well, in decisions slow at times.
Speaker 2: Also he could play on that rail throw man, like
Speaker 2: that was a good ball from Tua. We got to
Speaker 2: go and make that catch. Other eligibles, I thought Waddle
Speaker 2: I mentioned he was on the Periffherrey. He had a
Speaker 2: I think he ran the wrong route but I can't confirm,
Speaker 2: so I don't want to knock him too much for it.
Speaker 2: But other than that, the tough third down catch on
Speaker 2: the field goal drive is an example of his route
Speaker 2: running prowess. He has to win inside to create that
Speaker 2: space on the corner route, and he does it.
Speaker 1: He sells it inside.
Speaker 2: Both he and Tyreek are so good at beating the
Speaker 2: leverage that's built to stop them from getting to that spot.
Speaker 2: Nobody else on this team is close in that regard,
Speaker 2: and most guys across the league are not close in
Speaker 2: that regard. But he gets that space by pressing the
Speaker 2: safety to keep him off the pylon and then breaks
Speaker 2: it out without rounding the route to kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: not make it. Oh, he's gonna run that route here
Speaker 2: Like it's all so sudden. It happens quickly in the
Speaker 2: quarterback sees that the defensive bat cannot react. He looked fast,
Speaker 2: even coming back from the back injury that knocked him out.
Speaker 1: He caught the ball cleanly, including.
Speaker 2: One tough glance route that was well behind him, and
Speaker 2: he blocked his ass off.
Speaker 1: Good game for Jill and Waddle.
Speaker 2: I thought Cedric Wilson's out on the twenty nine yard
Speaker 2: completion was fantastic, and I think there's something brewing here
Speaker 2: with Cedric Wilson as kind of a nice role piece
Speaker 2: beyond the guys that have carried the heaviest loads in
Speaker 2: this offense. He thwarts a reroute, dummies to the posts
Speaker 2: that turn sleigh all the way around in the spin cycle,
Speaker 2: then whips it back out to the perimeter and makes
Speaker 2: a tough contested catch on a ball high because he
Speaker 2: angled back to the football. Good stuff from Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 2: On the offensive line, we had some issues. I thought
Speaker 2: you could tell it was a new line combination from
Speaker 2: left tackle all the way through center. They had some
Speaker 2: simulated pressures with mugging up in the a gaps from linebackers,
Speaker 2: and it would cause like an over set or a
Speaker 2: jump set or indecision that would put us in spots
Speaker 2: where we're kind of on our heels against these quick,
Speaker 2: powerful pass rushers. Gosh, Philly is nice in the middle
Speaker 2: man and much like that, that's the death for the
Speaker 2: opposing defense against our offense with all that action, it's
Speaker 2: the same for Philly if you get one false step,
Speaker 2: one position out of place. With all the games they run,
Speaker 2: they're too big, too strong, too quick to have a
Speaker 2: half step advantage, and I thought that happened with regularity
Speaker 2: in this game, particularly off the left side of the
Speaker 2: offensive line. It happened a lot on our toss action
Speaker 2: or outside action where he just could not cut off
Speaker 2: those reach blocks we've been hitting all year. Like Connor Williams,
Speaker 2: you know, when a one technique is outside of him
Speaker 2: and he has to get outside that shoulder. He's so
Speaker 2: good at that. When you lose that, it's a key
Speaker 2: element to this offense. I think this is a much
Speaker 2: different game if you have your line because the lost
Speaker 2: blocks we had from sixty six and seventy four, to me,
Speaker 2: was the difference often between success and failure in the
Speaker 2: running game, and then from there the passing game kind
Speaker 2: of flows off of that. Right, I think we would
Speaker 2: have had more chances to neutralize their front and pass
Speaker 2: reugh situations had we had more success in the running game.
Speaker 2: So those two losses were critical, man. And finally, I
Speaker 2: think the bigger issue is we all had to call
Speaker 2: so many max protects to kind of mask those, you know,
Speaker 2: true passet.
Speaker 1: Issues we had.
Speaker 2: And this isn't that uncommon with the healthy offensive line,
Speaker 2: but there were a lot of two and three man
Speaker 2: route combos where there's just nothing there for Tua and
Speaker 2: we have to run it that way to make sure
Speaker 2: he's not getting hit and getting killed. Because quite frankly,
Speaker 2: I come out of this game just happy that two
Speaker 2: was still upright because the way those guys played against
Speaker 2: that front twoa never took a bad hit, which was
Speaker 2: the best thing possible. And also, I don't know the
Speaker 2: mechanics of the plan to be able to give you
Speaker 2: a correct take on this, but there were some instances
Speaker 2: of guys not coming off the snap at the right time,
Speaker 2: like the first drive.
Speaker 1: On that third down throwaway.
Speaker 2: Towards the end of it, Austin is super late to
Speaker 2: get off the snap, and that's all Hassan Reddick almost said.
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick needed to beat him off the edge because
Speaker 2: there wasn't like a synchronousy in the timing of the snap.
Speaker 2: And finally, I thought they were late to disconnect from
Speaker 2: doubles at the point of attack. There's a savon Achmed
Speaker 2: run where the two linebackers of Philly are clean with
Speaker 2: free runs down either a gap and Achmed works off
Speaker 2: the seal and runs right into a defender and it
Speaker 2: looked to me at first like he chose the wrong gap,
Speaker 2: But upon further review, you just can't have clean backers
Speaker 2: awaiting you on either side.
Speaker 1: There's no win there for the running back.
Speaker 2: That's gonna make running the football very tough, I thought
Speaker 2: Austin Jackson. You know he lost the edge on that
Speaker 2: first third long play where he's laid off the snap
Speaker 2: that gets a speed rusher around him. But damn it, man,
Speaker 2: he was into with a snap count. He played at
Speaker 2: a high level when he was continuously drew last year's
Speaker 2: NFL sack leader in Hassan Reddick and kept him at
Speaker 2: bay and a lot of one on one reps. He's
Speaker 2: done a great job in that regard. Since Tron Arms
Speaker 2: had went down. He's been asked to do more one on
Speaker 2: one work, allowed one pressure a hurry. What a great
Speaker 2: night for Austin Jackson. Again, he's a new contract. Lester
Speaker 2: Cotton got beat on the third play of the game
Speaker 2: that was a holding call that his holding call was
Speaker 2: a hole, but again exact same holding call that didn't
Speaker 2: get called on David Long false start before the twenty
Speaker 2: nine yards Headrick Wilson play, But to his credit, he
Speaker 2: bounced back and dominates the next rep and puts Carter
Speaker 2: on the ground to give us a big thirty yard completion.
Speaker 2: On the Tyreek touchdown, he absorbed power from Josh Sweat
Speaker 2: and then redirectly to shut that down a second time.
Speaker 2: So the two big plays he had his best reps,
Speaker 2: but other than that, it was tough sledding. On two
Speaker 2: his pick, he gets walked right into to his lap
Speaker 2: and has to have to a throw off his back
Speaker 2: foot as a result. That's the reason he didn't get
Speaker 2: any driving the football. Four pressures and a QB hit.
Speaker 2: Kendall Lamb three pressures in a sack. Liam Eichenberg just
Speaker 2: one pressure. But I'm gonna tell you right now, comeback.
Speaker 2: Connor like the snap issues in terms of getting them
Speaker 2: off at the right time. That's gotta be on a
Speaker 2: new center. Big part of several run failures. First and
Speaker 2: goal on that field goal drive is a touchdown if
Speaker 2: he just gets off the block and catches the second
Speaker 2: part of the catching climb with the linebacker, but he
Speaker 2: is late and turns and tries to reach back and
Speaker 2: grab him. You know, he drives the double team three
Speaker 2: steps before finally peeling off and just watches Nicholas Marrow
Speaker 2: go feel his gap while Raheem is forced to peel
Speaker 2: back into an unblocked man off the edge. Go watch
Speaker 2: him on the Tyreek touchdown, just gets chucked aside to
Speaker 2: put pressure into his face. And here's why we lost offensively.
Speaker 2: I thought bad connectivity on the left side of the
Speaker 2: offensive line. Could not decipher matchups, had no clue on games,
Speaker 2: couldn't hit reach blocks we normally do, got overpowered and
Speaker 2: out quicked, had too many operational airs, and then the
Speaker 2: key drops and bad decisions on the pick, and of
Speaker 2: course the horrible officiating. No chance to win with that
Speaker 2: combination of things, even when your quarterback played awesome. But
Speaker 2: like five of those seven things are Connor Williams is
Speaker 2: the fix to it. Interesting statistical note here that I
Speaker 2: think tells you how much closer this game was. In
Speaker 2: the final score. Dolphins had five point one yards per play,
Speaker 2: which is not great. But the Eagles had five point two,
Speaker 2: which is also not great. Miami four for eleven on
Speaker 2: third down, Philadelphia four for twelve. Now, they did get
Speaker 2: the fourth downs and ten penalties compared to zero. It's
Speaker 2: a big change. Otherwise, pretty even game. Let's take a
Speaker 2: break right there and come back on the other side
Speaker 2: and tell you about the defensive notes and the snap
Speaker 2: count totals and kind of a forest for the tree
Speaker 2: situation I'm looking at right now. That's all next Draft
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Speaker 2: Eagles Dolphins fall to five and two thirty one seventeen score.
Speaker 2: On defense, the Eagles hit some good route combinations that
Speaker 2: challenged our rules and I thought created some busts and coverage.
Speaker 1: On the first drive.
Speaker 2: They hit Dallas Goddard on a deep over the first
Speaker 2: play after his long catch and run where Eli Apple
Speaker 2: just jogs after him and you see Baker pick it
Speaker 2: up and pass it off and as he starts to
Speaker 2: cross the formation and hashes. I can't know those for certain,
Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure that Bake is supposed to carry
Speaker 2: that vertical and pass it off whole horizontal. But because
Speaker 2: they ran Smitty on a little drag route under that
Speaker 2: to give him a layer's look, David Long then clamps
Speaker 2: down on that and Goddard springs free. We talk about
Speaker 2: our design all the time, other teams do it too,
Speaker 2: and they did a good job of it right here.
Speaker 2: And to that point the well time screen for that
Speaker 2: Goddard touchdown. But gosh, I can't get over that sequence.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You go from third and ten to thirty five yard
Speaker 2: line to first and ten at the twenty because of
Speaker 2: Wilkins roughing.
Speaker 1: That's rough.
Speaker 2: That should have been a potential field goal or punt
Speaker 2: opportunity there, maybe even turnover on downs, who knows, but
Speaker 2: you never get a chance to see it upfront. Some
Speaker 2: notes here Rayquon Davis, I thought got off blocks and
Speaker 2: reset the line of scrimmage better than he has all
Speaker 2: year long. Couple of run stuffs that would create some
Speaker 2: chances for our guys. Had good hand placement, didn't play
Speaker 2: too high like it typically happens, winning the reset portion
Speaker 2: of the rep like good job by Raykwon Davis. I
Speaker 2: thought Jaln Phillips had a good showing in a more
Speaker 2: prominent role in this one. Thought he played really strong
Speaker 2: edge all game that really helped the performance of the linebackers.
Speaker 2: We saw split some double teams, beat some blocks for
Speaker 2: some big collisions, got that sack. I thought he had
Speaker 2: one bad rep and it was costly. He jumped inside
Speaker 2: on an outside contained play by Jalen Hurts where he
Speaker 2: got out of the pocket through to aj Brown for
Speaker 2: the big completion that was originally rule a touchdown brought
Speaker 2: back to the one yard line. They scored a play later,
Speaker 2: but at the last moment he just jumps inside. Hurts
Speaker 2: sees it immediately and flees to his right, his most
Speaker 2: dangerous spot on the field. But he had four pressures
Speaker 2: and five stops. Did Jalen Phillips Bradley Chubb. It's seriously
Speaker 2: been a that kind of year for Chubb. Like the
Speaker 2: force fumble awesome, but he damn near had an even
Speaker 2: more impactful play on the Eagles drive that made the
Speaker 2: game seventeen to three in the second quarter. He hit
Speaker 2: a diabolical pass rush after a gritty rundown win on
Speaker 2: first down. He then draws mylotta one on one in
Speaker 2: an empty set. That's what you get when you win
Speaker 2: your rundowns. He throws a cross chop. The inside arm
Speaker 2: goes over the outside arm of the tackle to swipe
Speaker 2: him down, then hooks him and holds him there to
Speaker 2: use the leverage of my lotta to corner into Hurts.
Speaker 2: He hits Hurts at the top of the throw. The
Speaker 2: ball turns into a pop fly into the infield. Baker
Speaker 2: gets a hand on it, but then Smith catches the deflection.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, we saw this later in the game.
Speaker 2: The ball bounces one more foot inside. Baker has a
Speaker 2: maybe a second touchdown too. For Chubb, seven pressures, two sacks,
Speaker 2: three stops.
Speaker 1: Great game for him.
Speaker 2: Second level off ball linebackers both my top five tapes,
Speaker 2: so no conversation there. And the secondary Eli Apple. They
Speaker 2: got him turned around on comebacks and hitches all night,
Speaker 2: and I get it. Their vertical game is where they
Speaker 2: bury you. And it's very tough to stay with Smitty
Speaker 2: when he's pressing the gas full throttle, then slams on
Speaker 2: the brakes and has that insane catch radius. They caught
Speaker 2: us on a mesh a couple of times, some natural
Speaker 2: rub routes, including that first drive with a big hitter
Speaker 2: to Goddard. But man, you have to run after the football.
Speaker 1: Go get it.
Speaker 2: Nothing worse on tape than jogging when the play is
Speaker 2: still going. The change of direction is bad, and so
Speaker 2: is the reaction slash instinct, which is where I thought
Speaker 2: he was best with the Bengals. So I don't know
Speaker 2: why he's still playing any perfectly honest with you guys.
Speaker 2: Good thing need UM's back next week and Ramsey is
Speaker 2: either back this or the following week, because I don't
Speaker 2: think we'll see him on the defense very long the
Speaker 2: way he's playing, in the effort he's giving. They threw
Speaker 2: a hitch to aj Brown the first play of a
Speaker 2: drive with you know, nine forty five to go in
Speaker 2: the second quarter. You know how Tua throws it so
Speaker 2: that like by the time the receiver looks back, the
Speaker 2: ball is right on them. A Brown comes back down
Speaker 2: the stem on a hitch route and the ball has
Speaker 2: not left hurts his hand.
Speaker 1: That's late.
Speaker 2: That should be picked, if not just at least broken up,
Speaker 2: but he's late to feel it. Then when he it's
Speaker 2: time to drive downhill, he's stuck.
Speaker 1: In mud, just not going anywhere, just not moving anywhere.
Speaker 1: And then that should have been a pick, but it's
Speaker 1: a catch. And then we miss a tackle too.
Speaker 2: One hundred and four yards on him on thirty eight
Speaker 2: coverage snaps and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Terrible.
Speaker 2: Perry Nickerson been a nice fine for US. I thought
Speaker 2: he competed really well, looks good as a blitzer. He
Speaker 2: was willing and depending, a willing and dependable tackler as
Speaker 2: well on the perimeter. Twenty five coverage snaps, no catches allowed,
Speaker 2: Plus he had a stop on a screen and a
Speaker 2: pass breakup that was negated by a penalty that should
Speaker 2: not have been called. Cater Kohu, It's a tough ask,
Speaker 2: but he was left on AJ Brown a lot, and
Speaker 2: he I don't know where he's going on the big
Speaker 2: play that was almost touchdown where he just is covering
Speaker 2: Brown and leaves him to go make a tackle on
Speaker 2: the quarterback and it's a wide open throw for a
Speaker 2: long play. I don't know what he's doing there. It
Speaker 2: just looks terrible, brutal game outside, just like a Buffalo game.
Speaker 1: I think the Ramsey return an Xavier return as.
Speaker 2: Well has a ripple effect that bumps Cater back in
Speaker 2: side where he's best, and obviously getting Ramsey back helps too.
Speaker 2: But a really rough game for Cater Coo who one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five yards, thirty seven covered snaps in
Speaker 2: a touchdown, and then brand Jones just four snaps.
Speaker 1: But he is he looks low. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he's going.
Speaker 2: Half the time. Snap counts Leam Eikenberg, Kendall, Lamb Hunt
Speaker 2: and Jackson all go the distance. Win plays just five
Speaker 2: snaps to Cotton's forty four two It goes the distance
Speaker 2: as well. Receiving breakdown Hill seventy eight percent, Barrios and
Speaker 2: Wilson both twenty nine percent kind of tells you about
Speaker 2: how much we're hurting when we don't have our top
Speaker 2: two guys. Wilad did play forty five percent, but you
Speaker 2: just don't have the depth you usually do in the
Speaker 2: receiving core. Clay Poole played four snaps, Smyth played ninety two,
Speaker 2: and Julian Hill played twenty nine, so that's kind of
Speaker 2: your offset to Wilele going down. Maybe some more pass
Speaker 2: protection reps for Durham Smyth running back rotation Moster at
Speaker 2: fifty three percent, Ahmed thirty seven, Ingle twenty four and
Speaker 2: Hefe fourteen percent. Wilkins played all but three snaps, Sealer
Speaker 2: all but seven, and Ray Kwan played fifty four snaps,
Speaker 2: while DeShawn Han played our fifty four percent. I should
Speaker 2: say DeShawn Hand played five total. So we went back
Speaker 2: to the high workload for Wilkins's Chubb ninety percent of
Speaker 2: the snaps, JP sixty nine percent.
Speaker 1: Some good workload there.
Speaker 2: Van Ginkle sixty but some off ball linebacker stuff. Ogball
Speaker 2: played three snaps in the game. Jerome Baker played every snap.
Speaker 2: David Long was out there for a lot but got
Speaker 2: injured and played fifty one percent. Duke Riwley played eight percent.
Speaker 2: We saw more Van Ginkle off ball. Coho and Apple
Speaker 2: went the distance. Nickerson the third corner was sixty two
Speaker 2: percent of the workload. Elliott went the distance halland missed
Speaker 2: just four snaps. Those were Brandon Jones's snaps, and Elijah
Speaker 2: Campbell played five snaps. And look, the tape was better
Speaker 2: than the broadcast. I thought we should not be concerned
Speaker 2: about how this we come out of this game. I
Speaker 2: think it's all correctable stuff. I thought Buffalo was substantially worse,
Speaker 2: and damn it. If we ever get just like most
Speaker 2: of our key parts back, I think will be in
Speaker 2: good in good shape. I am personally like a little
Speaker 2: bit concerned about winning big games, especially on the road,
Speaker 2: but I think circumstances would tell you Miami played pretty
Speaker 2: well in this game all things considered, and had a
Speaker 2: chance to win the game late. So that's your all
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