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Speaker 1: and on today's show a brutal film session. We'll take
Speaker 1: you through it, highlight the standouts. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: missus and try our best to explain where things went wrong.
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Speaker 1: with the offense in this one lowest yardage output under
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, lowest epa in a game offensively since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one in the Buffalo game when Tua got hurt
Speaker 1: on the first drive, the fame to put some respect
Speaker 1: on Just Davis's name game for good measure the two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven game at Buffalo had a higher EPA
Speaker 1: than this game did. Ever, when John Beck threw the
Speaker 1: ball backwards into Dante Whitner's hands for a touchdown. Now,
Speaker 1: that Jets game, I think it was the week prior
Speaker 1: to that we lost forty to thirteen. That EPA was
Speaker 1: just a few points more in the negative. Then this
Speaker 1: one was for the Dolphins. And guess what, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: didn't even have a turnover and they still got to
Speaker 1: that mark. That is the level of futility you're discussing
Speaker 1: right here. The first two plays I thought created a
Speaker 1: little bit of hope, a glance to devon a chan
Speaker 1: in the quick game, creating conflict with pre snap motion
Speaker 1: and a run fake at the linebacker level. Get that
Speaker 1: little weak flip play that we run a staple of
Speaker 1: this offense, even though it was like a hit or
Speaker 1: miss for a four yard loss or a eight yard
Speaker 1: game last year. And they react, giving the play side
Speaker 1: flow to create an angle for Jalen Wright, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you have the ball at the plus
Speaker 1: forty yard line of the opposition two plays into the game. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have a plan here for QB two, but then
Speaker 1: it was seemingly over the second and one play action
Speaker 1: had nothing there. I don't know what the thought or
Speaker 1: the design was that. I think there are too many
Speaker 1: plays in this offense right now where it's a one
Speaker 1: man route concept and then everyone else is kind of
Speaker 1: just like running to space. And it looks great when
Speaker 1: it works, but when that first read's not there or
Speaker 1: the quarterback's too late to get to it, it turns
Speaker 1: into some ugly, ugly plays. They get big hits in
Speaker 1: your quarterback because protection doesn't hold up for four seconds
Speaker 1: in this league. And then you get people clipping off
Speaker 1: plays of said plays and putting them on Twitter, seving
Speaker 1: past protection stinks. When that's not the case here. Then
Speaker 1: we go to a full back dive to Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: who plays that position for the first time on that rep,
Speaker 1: and that's all we've ran from that look, whether it's
Speaker 1: a chan Ingold or Jeff Wilson, and what do you know,
Speaker 1: it gets shut down. This is a trend that is
Speaker 1: developing or has developed. We outsmart ourselves and go away
Speaker 1: from what works and keep sticking to the things that
Speaker 1: don't work, like the fullback dive here. It's crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: I still don't want to hear from anybody about play
Speaker 1: calling unless you know how to draw up a front
Speaker 1: and how to get it properly blocked, and how you
Speaker 1: can marry your route concepts off of that run game,
Speaker 1: because that's what play calling is. If you don't know that,
Speaker 1: you probably can't weigh in. But I will concede that
Speaker 1: even though the calls for it maybe don't know why
Speaker 1: right now, they're right because this offense could have been
Speaker 1: a three yards and a cloud of dust, and actually
Speaker 1: it was more like eight yards and a cloud of
Speaker 1: dust and just grind out a football game and try
Speaker 1: to win in the fourth quarter. And I hate that
Speaker 1: style of football, but when you don't have a quarterback,
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do. That's what Dave Wantsta
Speaker 1: did because he didn't have a quarterback, right and you
Speaker 1: could have done that. You could do that on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: You could do that against the Patriots, you could do
Speaker 1: that against the Colton probably try to find a way
Speaker 1: to win all those games. Will that happened? I don't know,
Speaker 1: because you have this complex offense where the wrong routes
Speaker 1: get ran on the regular And I was talking to
Speaker 1: Kyle Krabs about this, like, is it just because everybody
Speaker 1: else besides Reek and Waddle doesn't have Well, we know
Speaker 1: there's time in the offense because I saw Tanner Connor
Speaker 1: run a wrong route and he's in his third year
Speaker 1: in the system, and Kyle's like, well, Reek runs a
Speaker 1: lot of wrong routes too. So you have this very
Speaker 1: complex offense that has a change at the main position,
Speaker 1: the guy that runs the entire thing, the extension of
Speaker 1: the offense itself in the quarterback, and rather than adapting,
Speaker 1: we continue the same things, which gives you the result
Speaker 1: you got yesterday. Where everything's too complex. You have all
Speaker 1: this ugly, ugly operation which we'll go ahead and get
Speaker 1: into where I just thought, if you just dumb it
Speaker 1: down and run the football and commit to it, and
Speaker 1: I even into bad looks, even into bad numbers, because
Speaker 1: that was one of the first thing we heard when
Speaker 1: coach got here was sometimes the defense knows you're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball, and you still have to run it. Anyways,
Speaker 1: if you're a good running offense, and this offense is
Speaker 1: a good running offense, right now, go watch the tape.
Speaker 1: I dare you go watch the tape and show and
Speaker 1: look at the running lanes, this offense had go look
Speaker 1: at the pocket when they had well designed concepts off
Speaker 1: of that for Skyler to throw from. Now, there was
Speaker 1: a couple of plays where it got ugly in pass protection,
Speaker 1: and that tends to happen when you get down and
Speaker 1: we'll come back to this, but it has just not
Speaker 1: been the main problem. But it got so ugly after
Speaker 1: those first couple of plays. The first play of the
Speaker 1: next drive, the snap is late, and this was a
Speaker 1: constant theme throughout for a split flow look where Liam
Speaker 1: pulls out, but because of how disjointed the timing was
Speaker 1: across the board. You know, Rob Jones is running zone
Speaker 1: to his right and Liam's doing split flow back to
Speaker 1: his left. They run into each other and they crunch
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson between them. It's comical. It's comical football. Then
Speaker 1: Skyler runs directly backwards into Devon e Chan at the
Speaker 1: mesh point and gives him a hug and the football
Speaker 1: and it goes for eight yards because the run blocking
Speaker 1: is very good and eight Chan's very good. But this
Speaker 1: just persisted all game long. The very basic operation the
Speaker 1: very day one of peewee football, getting off the snap
Speaker 1: was a challenge in this game. I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: have to detail each of these. I assumed you could
Speaker 1: see it on the broadcast or even those of you
Speaker 1: that go back and watch the tape if you do that,
Speaker 1: if you're brave enough to do it. For this game,
Speaker 1: we couldn't get off the snap. And that's how you
Speaker 1: turn an all time bad offensive performance in like we
Speaker 1: saw throw a screen into a two by two look
Speaker 1: and brought just one offensive lineman out there that was
Speaker 1: in track. Because you have a one on one block
Speaker 1: that Brewer has to now hit a reach block outside
Speaker 1: the numbers. And he's the most athletics in the NFL
Speaker 1: and he's playing his butt off. He's been one of
Speaker 1: my favorite players to watch so far. But literally no
Speaker 1: center can make that block given those circumstances where he's
Speaker 1: one on one against the player in space that's fifteen
Speaker 1: yards wider than he is. But Wattle reversus fields and
Speaker 1: make a play. And that's a good example of what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about to shrip things down. Maybe don't do
Speaker 1: it that way, but just put the ball in the
Speaker 1: hands of your playmakers and stop trying to run the
Speaker 1: same bells and whistles that you you know that made
Speaker 1: you so successful when everybody was healthy and going. I
Speaker 1: just feel like the offensive design has jumped the shark
Speaker 1: that way, like just all these different concepts, I do
Speaker 1: things to create bad eyes and fall steps, and then
Speaker 1: what you got was this convoluted, you know mess that
Speaker 1: you put out there on tape. Let me say this again,
Speaker 1: the offensive line complaints. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: try to call you guys out individually, and I know
Speaker 1: that I'm addressing people that don't listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I gotta stop doing that, but I see it. It's
Speaker 1: what permeates on my timeline. You know, the other this
Speaker 1: new wave of content creators that are getting behind microphones
Speaker 1: and we'll just basically have confirmation bias about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that I keep seeing on my timeline.
Speaker 1: So I apologize to the dedicated draft time listeners that
Speaker 1: know better, but gosh, it is tough to see on
Speaker 1: social because that is just not what is happening. And
Speaker 1: I don't again, don't want to call anybody out because
Speaker 1: you know who am I to sit here and be
Speaker 1: this wrong about this team this year? And you know,
Speaker 1: bitch you guys for it. But you know I will
Speaker 1: generally say, if that's your takeaway, you just straight up
Speaker 1: don't know like what you're watching. I'm sorry to say it.
Speaker 1: This is a complex game, and I saw a tweet
Speaker 1: asking what do we do one when they pulled Rob
Speaker 1: Jones backside on run action to pick up this front
Speaker 1: side nine technique and you pull the left guard to
Speaker 1: go pass block a wide nine technique rusher from that position.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most common core concepts in this
Speaker 1: offense and in this league in general. I just implore you,
Speaker 1: if you want to fire off those takes, just take
Speaker 1: take a minute. It reminds me of the tweet about
Speaker 1: how come the Dolphins didn't sign Tyler Hunting to their
Speaker 1: practice squad a month ago because they can't do that?
Speaker 1: And you're saying, like this team has no foresight, They
Speaker 1: literally can't do that, and you're getting mad about a
Speaker 1: rule that they can't do something on I just take
Speaker 1: a minute. Don't fire off a take. Go take five
Speaker 1: minutes and watch one video, watch read one article. There's
Speaker 1: all kinds of content out there to learn the game
Speaker 1: before firing off those takes. Otherwise it's just confirmation bias
Speaker 1: and you're repeating what you've heard. You know, the great
Speaker 1: Chris Career quote will get you a bunch of likes
Speaker 1: on Twitter if you say it. I know that's how
Speaker 1: it works. But the offensive line's been the best part
Speaker 1: of the way this offense is playing right now. The
Speaker 1: receivers haven't been good. The quarterback play was subpar before yesterday,
Speaker 1: and then yesterday it dove into the abyss deeper than
Speaker 1: the Titan submersile similar implosions there. But my god man,
Speaker 1: it's a non starter. None of that even matters. When
Speaker 1: you can't get out of the huddle, you can't get
Speaker 1: to the line, and you can't run a clean operation,
Speaker 1: nothing else matters. You can have Randy Moss, you could
Speaker 1: have Tom Brady, you could have Barry Standers, you could
Speaker 1: have Wes Welker, you could have the entire best players
Speaker 1: of their positions across the NFL. If you can't get
Speaker 1: that right, you will never ever go anywhere. And none
Speaker 1: of that happened throughout the course of the game, So
Speaker 1: you had no chance after the snap of the football
Speaker 1: for the majority of the game. And then from a
Speaker 1: design element, I complained a lot about the second one
Speaker 1: calls in that first two drives. The toss to eight
Speaker 1: chan you had a numbers disadvantage, which that's a quarterback thing.
Speaker 1: You gotta check out of that to the strength, run
Speaker 1: fake action to the same side, and then flipped it
Speaker 1: to that side, so you were out numbered, out hadded,
Speaker 1: as it were, and you false keyed them into that
Speaker 1: direction and ran them into the play that they were
Speaker 1: miss key into that direction. Over three bang bang bang,
Speaker 1: trek one trick two strike three, good night. It's the
Speaker 1: same things over and over on the negative plays. We
Speaker 1: just had a total lack of synchronicity the second and
Speaker 1: one flip to hun on the second drive, you can
Speaker 1: legit point out five different starts off the football at
Speaker 1: the snap. One guy pops up, one guy still in
Speaker 1: his stands, one guy's moving to the red. They're just
Speaker 1: playing at different times. And this offense, you know this,
Speaker 1: you all better be on the exact same string on
Speaker 1: the exact same timeline. We had a snap where one
Speaker 1: ref is winding the clock. You know, he's doing the
Speaker 1: windmill arm motion. The other is out of position, and
Speaker 1: Alec and Julian just flat out stop the play. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure because I don't have audio on the
Speaker 1: all twenty two if there was a whistle live there
Speaker 1: or they just couldn't hear it. But all game things
Speaker 1: like this happened for the Dolphins, However, Mixed in between that,
Speaker 1: there were some of the concepts that we've grown to
Speaker 1: know and love, and I thought plenty of good conflict
Speaker 1: created in those short spurts of football. And you know
Speaker 1: what I might eve gonna address. I got kind of
Speaker 1: crapped on for some of the positives yesterday. That's how
Speaker 1: I covered the team. Man, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: what happens on most plays, and if it's good, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you it's good. If it's bad, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it's bad. Okay, so we're not going to just like
Speaker 1: skip the good ones because there was way more bad.
Speaker 1: I'll do all of that. But they throw a glance
Speaker 1: where they put a will linebacker in two way conflict,
Speaker 1: a screen set up with a pull pass protection action
Speaker 1: that removes the second level of defense of the screen side.
Speaker 1: We had mesh open up on the first third down
Speaker 1: of the game, but we never got to it from
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks perspective. So I think that's how I described
Speaker 1: this game. Inconsistent at times, completely sloppy operation that puts
Speaker 1: you behind the eight ball in a game where the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks saw nothing at all at the course of the game,
Speaker 1: and that is how you wind up with two hundred
Speaker 1: yards and three points. It's that simple. At three forty
Speaker 1: six to play in the second quarter, we ran this
Speaker 1: two man route concept I talked about it earlier, where
Speaker 1: Waddle and Connor were in the same part of the field.
Speaker 1: They were on the same stripe of the grass twenty
Speaker 1: yards down the field. Offense is trying to maximize space.
Speaker 1: Defense is trying to decompressed that space, compress that space,
Speaker 1: and when you run your route to the same part
Speaker 1: of the field, you've done the defensive job for them.
Speaker 1: And Skyler throws it to Connor, who had to run
Speaker 1: around Wattle to get to a spot. And it was
Speaker 1: tander because this is a staple of our playbook that
Speaker 1: I've seen play out before. It's a it's a post
Speaker 1: between split safeties that's designed to create conflict there. And
Speaker 1: then off the side that that post comes from, you
Speaker 1: run the overroute from the other side of the formation
Speaker 1: and off of that and you pretty much free up
Speaker 1: that whole deep portion of the outside of the of
Speaker 1: the perimeter of the football field and they ran right
Speaker 1: to the same spot. Connor ran the wrong the round
Speaker 1: the wrong route there, Like dude, we stink. It's like
Speaker 1: Adam gase eras stuff. The next play, after a false
Speaker 1: false start, mind you, we have trips and they throw
Speaker 1: an illegal formation flag and the three receivers of the
Speaker 1: trip side stopped playing football. Again no audio, so I
Speaker 1: can't tell you what happened, but the officials never indicated
Speaker 1: they were shutting the play down. And what's worse is
Speaker 1: to the boundary. On that play, Tyreek is one on
Speaker 1: one versus Devon Witherspoon and he smokes him. Such as
Speaker 1: Life of Half calls blast those right into the sun.
Speaker 1: I will not put that on Skyler because they didn't
Speaker 1: run a route into the end zone. So what do
Speaker 1: you want him to do there? You know I was
Speaker 1: irate live because I saw him just holding the ball
Speaker 1: or anybody out there, and I don't want to throw
Speaker 1: the ball short of the end zone on triple zero's
Speaker 1: at the end of the half. Makes no sense. Let's
Speaker 1: cover the quarterback here, Let's take our first break. We're
Speaker 1: coming in hot. Let's take our first break, come back
Speaker 1: and do the rest of the offense. That's next Draft
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Speaker 1: on an All twenty two review. We've got fourteen more
Speaker 1: of these to do quarterback play, even the two plays
Speaker 1: that worked to start the game, like you could tell
Speaker 1: pure panic, choppy feet. Then we ran that flip play
Speaker 1: and he had no idea what to do with this.
Speaker 1: For go watch it on tape. He doesn't know what
Speaker 1: he's doing. We went through decades of quarterback play like this,
Speaker 1: and I kept saying, I wish you guys would appreciate
Speaker 1: two of more because even this little stuff like this,
Speaker 1: Tua is so adept and so nails at it, and
Speaker 1: when you don't see him out there, it really gets highlighted. Now.
Speaker 1: I thought he started off despite those reps just fine,
Speaker 1: but once he lost the handle on that third down
Speaker 1: snap and got blasted, it's you could the confidence meter
Speaker 1: was like in Mortal Combat when you're fighting you know,
Speaker 1: sub zero, and he hits you with an uppercut and
Speaker 1: like your health bar dwindles, That's what his confidence bar
Speaker 1: was doing in this game. It just looked a little
Speaker 1: too fast for him. Actually a lot too fast for him.
Speaker 1: On that play, he had Barrios coming over on a
Speaker 1: drag route and it was the most separation Bracks and
Speaker 1: Barrios has created since two thousand and four, and it
Speaker 1: would have been a first down based on the concept.
Speaker 1: I think it was an early read in the count,
Speaker 1: but when you have to look down to the football,
Speaker 1: that obviously changes the way you see the field and
Speaker 1: the play's over from there. It just reminded me so
Speaker 1: much of John Beck, and I think the time to
Speaker 1: throw in this structure, of the structure of this offense
Speaker 1: tells you where he's at with how he sees it.
Speaker 1: You know, two was under two point three seconds this
Speaker 1: year so far. Skyler yesterday was around three seconds again.
Speaker 1: And on that Cohu pick possession. After he got the
Speaker 1: pick at the six yard line, he's got Wattle on
Speaker 1: a very cut and dry route combination. The Seahawks flood
Speaker 1: the field with all their defensive backs and leave the
Speaker 1: boundary two on two Wattle versus or Wattle and Connor
Speaker 1: versus two defensive backs and the linebacker that could flat
Speaker 1: factor into like a slant route on that portion of
Speaker 1: the field. He vacates to the field right away at
Speaker 1: the snap, and they run this smash flat concept, and
Speaker 1: smash is typically an inbreaker or a hitch with a
Speaker 1: flag route behind it. So you try to pull a
Speaker 1: cloud defender up and run that out route against a
Speaker 1: half field safety. That's what they do, only the smash
Speaker 1: part of the route concept went to the flat. So
Speaker 1: a flag and a flat and Wattle just runs this
Speaker 1: awesome route to get open to the corner. But he
Speaker 1: looked it off and simultaneously bailed on a clean pocket,
Speaker 1: which is his whole game. In a nutshell, it was
Speaker 1: wide open for a touchdown. The little floater screen he
Speaker 1: threw to John new Smith. That got John, who blasted,
Speaker 1: you have to find a way to drop the arm
Speaker 1: angle and slot that thing in there. You can't just
Speaker 1: float it up in the air and have the ball
Speaker 1: in flight for two seconds because two seconds in this league,
Speaker 1: linebackers can cover twenty yards aground. And if we get
Speaker 1: that completed, he's got a big play. But because you
Speaker 1: see Aaron Brewer and toront Arms said both had the
Speaker 1: edge completely sealed, and if you look at their body language,
Speaker 1: they come off that play like you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1: We had that thing blocked perfectly. His touch on those
Speaker 1: throws reminds me of Ryan Tannehill. Tannehill on wheels and
Speaker 1: screens and plays where you had to kind of finesse
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, your wedge game when you want
Speaker 1: to take something off your swing. He has no ability
Speaker 1: to throw that ball with touch and feathered in there
Speaker 1: the very next play like, I don't know, do we
Speaker 1: have to do this? Do you guys want to hear this?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't need every example, I guess,
Speaker 1: but this performance should show you what you need to
Speaker 1: know about field vision. And don't get me wrong, there
Speaker 1: was a reason the teams are paying fifty million bucks
Speaker 1: a year for the best, a reason why the entire
Speaker 1: operation in this league is built around your quarterback, why
Speaker 1: they are more important than anybody else in your organization.
Speaker 1: There is no tougher task in sports to decipher what
Speaker 1: multi million defensive coordinator are doing from their structure standpoint,
Speaker 1: how the eleven multimillion dollar athletes move within that scheme,
Speaker 1: and how your concept is designed to attack it, and
Speaker 1: how it will play out two or three seconds into
Speaker 1: the future with anticipation. It is tough, and Skyler he
Speaker 1: hadn't done it, yet he can't do it through three years.
Speaker 1: It could not be more clear to me. That's just it,
Speaker 1: That's all it is. That was the whole game. It
Speaker 1: was Josh Rosen worse. Actually with Josh, he had the
Speaker 1: arm talent that fooled people into thinking he was a
Speaker 1: Round one quarterback, but it was all over his tape,
Speaker 1: playing out of rhythm, off time and just not seeing
Speaker 1: things develop. I don't know. I've got a pretty good
Speaker 1: run on quarterback scouting going back to twenty eighteen that class,
Speaker 1: and I can just tell you when a guy has
Speaker 1: that feel and that vision when he doesn't. And even
Speaker 1: with time in the system, it's not usually something a
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't have it eventually gains. You either have
Speaker 1: it or you don't, and it can grow from the
Speaker 1: guys that do have it. And we've seen that with
Speaker 1: guys like Gino Smith with a guy, for instance, like
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, who's gotten better at this stage of his career,
Speaker 1: with a guy Sam Darnold kind of has some of
Speaker 1: that feel as well, but trying to grow it into
Speaker 1: a player that doesn't have it. That's like Banksy Man
Speaker 1: trying to grow a flower and concrete. Okay, one last
Speaker 1: thing here. We hit Tyreek on that dig before the
Speaker 1: half like seventeen yards, and we started the third core
Speaker 1: with the exact same play. When we completed it, the
Speaker 1: ball was late as hell, and then in the third
Speaker 1: quarter it was there again and Skyler eats it. I
Speaker 1: just cannot watch this anymore. Pull the plug. I'm done.
Speaker 1: I I'm done. Do what you want, pull the plug.
Speaker 1: I'll kill you. I thought Boyle's throw to John hus
Speaker 1: Smith on the crossing route was the best example of anticipation,
Speaker 1: understanding of leverage and ball places when we got all
Speaker 1: game long. Then I liked his quick hookup to Julian
Speaker 1: Hill innocuous as it is a five yard hookup route
Speaker 1: over the football like seems obvious. But that was the
Speaker 1: lone two play bright spot in the position really all day.
Speaker 1: On the fourth and goal miss, he was so late.
Speaker 1: If he's on time to eight Chan on the flat
Speaker 1: that was wide open. By the way, if it's one
Speaker 1: hundred yard pick six the other way, just can't win
Speaker 1: that way. Individuals stand out's offensively. I thought Waddle that
Speaker 1: corner route took an inside release against outside leverage and
Speaker 1: still got to the outside. He does that all the
Speaker 1: time he keeps catching the football with his hands, he's
Speaker 1: getting yack after he does it. Aside from eighth, Gan
Speaker 1: Waddle has been the best skill player on offense, and
Speaker 1: both those guys have been really good. I thought Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright speed popped even though he doesn't know what he's
Speaker 1: going halftime. It seems like in certain pre snap alignments.
Speaker 1: He also had a great pass protection play where he's
Speaker 1: stone wall of blitz where he got the most immediate pressure,
Speaker 1: identified it, picked it up and actually stopped the rusher
Speaker 1: cold in his tracks. That looks great. Part of that
Speaker 1: with fast, you know, ball carrying speed, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: The offensive line I thought played really well in the
Speaker 1: game again, you know, consistent big lanes in the run game.
Speaker 1: Here's how the I'll give you some numbers if the
Speaker 1: tape talk doesn't do it for you. Here's how the
Speaker 1: runs went to start this game. Nine yards wise, nine
Speaker 1: four stuffed in short yards for nothing, nine four negative
Speaker 1: one eight thirteen halftime. Those are all good runs. More
Speaker 1: than half of those are great runs. If you're keeping
Speaker 1: track at home in terms of offensive versus defensive wins,
Speaker 1: that's categorized as forty percent of the yardage to go
Speaker 1: on first down. So if it's first and ten, if
Speaker 1: you get four plus yards as an offensive win. If
Speaker 1: you get three or less, that's a defensive win. And
Speaker 1: second down you want to get half the yard. So
Speaker 1: if it's if it's second and eight and you make
Speaker 1: it third and four, that gives you a win. If not,
Speaker 1: it's a loss. And third and fourth down you just
Speaker 1: convert or you don't win or loss based upon how
Speaker 1: you convert on third and fourth down. The Dolphins were
Speaker 1: six and two in their running game run plays in
Speaker 1: the first half, a success rate of seventy five percent.
Speaker 1: Usually you're thrilled with fifty percent, just FYI, and in
Speaker 1: pass pro there was plenty there too. The screen pass
Speaker 1: I mentioned to John news Smith earlier. The very next play,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks show the sim pressure look, and Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: I think takes the wrong assignment and scan protect. But
Speaker 1: that's why teams run those sim pressures. They show you
Speaker 1: six and send four, and a fifth rusher comes from
Speaker 1: a guy that wasn't even in the rush equation on
Speaker 1: a delayed blitz off the edge and a cat blitz,
Speaker 1: a cornerback blitz. The line squeezes it that means all
Speaker 1: five get tight and get your windows inside taken care of.
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks only bring four, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's an Aaron Brewer trade. He calls protections when two
Speaker 1: was on there, and I thought he did a great
Speaker 1: job with it. And you see Austin process the delay,
Speaker 1: and after he's successfully squeezed a five technique who crossed
Speaker 1: his face, he kicks back outside and shuts down the
Speaker 1: defensive back pressure where hefe should have been the guy
Speaker 1: out there. It's really, really, really good work by the
Speaker 1: five guys up front. And the reason I say I
Speaker 1: thought Jeff Wilson was wrong was he helped inside, which
Speaker 1: is your first order, scan inside to out take the
Speaker 1: immediate pressure away first. But when we squeezed it perfectly,
Speaker 1: he should have had that wide edge, but we still
Speaker 1: got it done. But Skyler rushed his throat into a
Speaker 1: double covered man and missed an open John new Smith.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of theme of this tape for
Speaker 1: Skyler trusting things to play out as they should and
Speaker 1: not playing on time. In the quick game, individually, Aaron
Speaker 1: Brewer was outstanding again. He's been good every game. I
Speaker 1: think Testead has been exceptional when he's been out there.
Speaker 1: Now his coming in another the lineup is rough to
Speaker 1: deal with because that offensive line continuity is so imperative.
Speaker 1: Same with Austin he was fantastic once again. I think
Speaker 1: leam Miikenberg has had the best three game run of
Speaker 1: his career, playing well above replacement level. His angles of
Speaker 1: attack in the running game have been terrific. Now that said,
Speaker 1: one on one in pass bro he gets beat in
Speaker 1: those situations and you try to get those out of
Speaker 1: the game and you can scheme around that for a guard.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point of having elite tackle play that
Speaker 1: can be on an island and a good center who
Speaker 1: can come in and help help in those positions. Now,
Speaker 1: the one that I will conceive, Rob Jones has not
Speaker 1: been good. His feet have gone down on contact, and
Speaker 1: that's an issue in this offense. Just it's I promise
Speaker 1: it's it's been good. Like the player where Rob Jones
Speaker 1: pulled that backside, he just took a horrible angle to
Speaker 1: that block. He went to where the player was not
Speaker 1: where he was going, and Durham got undressed on that
Speaker 1: play as well. So horrendous block angle, bad tight end play.
Speaker 1: That's the entire game is anticipation and we don't do
Speaker 1: that at that position. When Skyler got destroyed on that
Speaker 1: third quarter sack, that was a good delayed blitz that
Speaker 1: got our protection scheme and that, yeah, that happens. That's
Speaker 1: why Mike McDonald's hired. It's this whole game is sim
Speaker 1: pressure packages that creates confusion and your protection against a
Speaker 1: young quarterback that doesn't see the field, Well, it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that I'll get clipped off and be
Speaker 1: shared across Twitter to disparage the offensive line. Not to
Speaker 1: mention when they bring six and you had five and protection,
Speaker 1: it's almost like the ball has to come out on
Speaker 1: one hitch timing right, weird. Let's see what else? Oh
Speaker 1: eight Chan had a touchdown run on that first drive
Speaker 1: after the Coho on the first playoff for the Coho pick,
Speaker 1: but slipped down. But we were in a legal formation anyways. Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of quick individual misses here and they'll go
Speaker 1: to the defense. Julian Hill had a one hell of
Speaker 1: a game, just got destroyed on a first pass set
Speaker 1: gets hit for hole the next play. Had four penalties
Speaker 1: in the game at PFF gave him a great grade
Speaker 1: how I don't know, Tyreek. I thought he checked out
Speaker 1: of the game early. Then he dropped that screen pass
Speaker 1: and went even more downhill from there. Now I can
Speaker 1: see why, because holy hell, the quarterback play is atrocious,
Speaker 1: But dude, you make a lot of money. Got to
Speaker 1: have sixty minutes of hard competitive football, Rob Jones. The
Speaker 1: processing has just not been there. He got blown up
Speaker 1: on the second down run play by the goal line
Speaker 1: of the Tim Boyle drive, the second goal to gost
Speaker 1: situation we had in the game, got swam passed, and
Speaker 1: if he makes that block, we walk in for six.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Jeff Wilson saw his lanes well. I
Speaker 1: thought he had some pass protection, airs, bracks and burials.
Speaker 1: Alec Ingold missed a lot of angles. I doubt this
Speaker 1: is on Alec, but a lot of the disjointed stuff
Speaker 1: seemed to be centered around him. And then durham smyth.
Speaker 1: You know, on Ingold's fumble he got dog walked into Alec.
Speaker 1: The tight end problem this year is where I think
Speaker 1: everyone is where the complaints about the offensive line should
Speaker 1: be placed, which is fair because listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you never would have thought that because I thought tight
Speaker 1: ends were awesome all camp long, so man snap counts,
Speaker 1: Liam rob and Brewer went the distance. We had the
Speaker 1: injuries at tackle, so Austin missed one snap. T Stead
Speaker 1: played one third, Kendall played the other two thirds. I
Speaker 1: thought Kendall was fine. We saw the top receivers get
Speaker 1: their highest workloads in terms of percentage Wattle eighty four
Speaker 1: weeks seventy five percent, and I thought this game better
Speaker 1: reflected what it should have looked like against Buffalo. But
Speaker 1: I digressed because Burrios played twenty eight percent. Still way
Speaker 1: too high. Ee and es Gridge some late burn but
Speaker 1: ingled forty three percent, Julian forty one percent, John Who
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent, and Smyth eighteen percent. The depth chart
Speaker 1: is working out the way I thought it would. Just
Speaker 1: thought it would be good. It's not been good. And
Speaker 1: then eight Chan seventy four percent of the workload. I
Speaker 1: am worried about running that kid into the ground this year.
Speaker 1: He FA twenty three percent, Jalen Wright twenty one percent.
Speaker 1: I gotta see rights number go way up, even if
Speaker 1: he's lost half the time pre snap. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break, come back and talk about
Speaker 1: the defense. That's next Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Autoation, picking up the All twenty
Speaker 1: two review of the Dolphins defense and a twenty four
Speaker 1: to three loss at the Seattle Seahawks. And the first
Speaker 1: thing I noticed was early on in this game, they
Speaker 1: ran a play that was really well covered, but our
Speaker 1: pass rush didn't get in and as Gino Smith stood
Speaker 1: in there and surveyed, Tyler Lockett is running this deep
Speaker 1: over route, but he just stops and hooks up, and
Speaker 1: Gino finds him in that soft spot on the fly.
Speaker 1: Adjustments are the sign to me of finally tuned offense,
Speaker 1: and we just consistently don't see that in this complex
Speaker 1: run to a spot and all these things. Like again,
Speaker 1: I was the champion of how this offense operated, but
Speaker 1: I think that you need to find a curveball off
Speaker 1: of that and to have these in flight adjustments to
Speaker 1: make those types of plays happen. I was kind of
Speaker 1: jealous watching that They also ran this little spot hook
Speaker 1: up against Cover two with the mic linebacker floating to
Speaker 1: the field, which is the wide side, and the throw
Speaker 1: goes back to the boundary the short side, and on
Speaker 1: the spot he breaks out to sell the speed out
Speaker 1: route that the slot receiver, like, we're gonna run a
Speaker 1: vertical and we're gonna flash an out route to kind
Speaker 1: of pull that cloud corner off that way and move
Speaker 1: the linebacker inside and then just pivots back inside. Those
Speaker 1: kind of fine details like because it hitch, normally you
Speaker 1: turn back inside, but on this one he went outside
Speaker 1: shoulder and pivoted back inside to sell that out route.
Speaker 1: Those little things get me fired up as a true
Speaker 1: football X's and O stand and I saw that throughout
Speaker 1: Seattle's tape. They had some structure issues early the Dolphins did.
Speaker 1: I thought on that first touchdown drive, I think the
Speaker 1: long touchdown, the DK is a great sign, a really
Speaker 1: great play design to pull Ramsey down to that curl
Speaker 1: flat and then from that split safety look you know
Speaker 1: to and they hit that dig to DK so frequently
Speaker 1: that you can see why Javon would drive on that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes NFL teams drop good designs and execute them and
Speaker 1: you have to tip your cap. Now with seventy yards
Speaker 1: of grass behind you and no help, I'd probably prefer
Speaker 1: we don't sell out to stop the dig. Maybe I
Speaker 1: could be wrong there, Maybe maybe you know someone that
Speaker 1: knows ball better than I can can tell me that.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was a bad decision chasing big
Speaker 1: plays and got burned for it. I thought they did
Speaker 1: a really good job weathering it when Kendall Fuller went down,
Speaker 1: Cater Coohu kicking outside on base looks and Storm Duck
Speaker 1: going out there with Cater going back inside a nickel.
Speaker 1: We incorporated more big nickel with Marcus may getting by
Speaker 1: far his biggest workload of the season, so good adjustments.
Speaker 1: I thought the coverage on the back end was really
Speaker 1: good outside of the one gaff to DK. I thought
Speaker 1: rush lanes and the plan was good, especially the mix
Speaker 1: of pressure looks. He saw Sealer move outside and get
Speaker 1: a sack as a true five technique running the rush
Speaker 1: game that you know that an end runs, which is
Speaker 1: not really his game for the most part, but I
Speaker 1: guess it is now. I think this game showed you
Speaker 1: what this defense can be at its peak. Now. That said,
Speaker 1: they did create plenty of conflict and got us displaced
Speaker 1: with some good stuff, Like we had the second quarter
Speaker 1: blitz and the mic backer flares to the flat, but
Speaker 1: the corner was already there squatting, and they throw this
Speaker 1: little angle back to the middle of the field. A
Speaker 1: few reps of two guys in one spot you know,
Speaker 1: no one else in the other. But when that would happen,
Speaker 1: they would quickly iron it out and get it corrected.
Speaker 1: So even with some mistakes, I thought the ability to
Speaker 1: adjust in game defensively was there, which wasn't the case
Speaker 1: for the offense individually. I thought Deshaun Hann was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Like Seeler and Campbell when they tried to wash them down,
Speaker 1: they dropped the anchor and use their hands to disengage,
Speaker 1: locate the football and make the play on his sack
Speaker 1: really good. Short choppy steps to threaten the b gap
Speaker 1: of the right guard that widened him out. Then he
Speaker 1: uses his upper body strength to push him aside and
Speaker 1: had that straight line run to the quarterback and bang.
Speaker 1: And also Jalen Phillips closed down the escape lane there
Speaker 1: by walking the right tackle back into the quarterback on
Speaker 1: the cater Coohoo pick. We're talking about Zach Stealer now
Speaker 1: one hundred percent Zach Sealer's play. You see the Seahawks
Speaker 1: chip ogball with a tight end and the left tackle
Speaker 1: waiting for that chip release, and the left guard has
Speaker 1: Zach all alone and you immediately see Zach get his
Speaker 1: hands into the chest and just ragged all the right guard.
Speaker 1: He loves that pin and poll. He the push and
Speaker 1: poll type of pass rush move. And Zach's main intention
Speaker 1: here is that pick man for Ogball to loop off of.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if you convert to that game. I'd
Speaker 1: like to hear from Coach Vass or somebody else that
Speaker 1: knows this again better than I do, if you convert
Speaker 1: that rush game when you see that chip coming, because
Speaker 1: it was clearly going to be a max pro and
Speaker 1: Ogba is not going to get through a chip and
Speaker 1: a true drop back pass that by Charles Cross, So
Speaker 1: do you convert, like, let's run a game inside and
Speaker 1: take that chip out of the play. But Zach beating
Speaker 1: the guard as bad as he did and splitting him
Speaker 1: and the left tackle completely removes both players because the
Speaker 1: tackle didn't get a round that pile up to help inside,
Speaker 1: and the guard is in a fight for his life
Speaker 1: against Zach, and he actually tackles Seiler into Gino Smith
Speaker 1: and then Gino gets in the grasp of both Zach
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Ogba and tries to make this hero throw
Speaker 1: to an open back, but He's literally in the Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson what's that pose where he stands on his hippy
Speaker 1: toes and leans over like the leaning Tower of Pisa.
Speaker 1: When he throws the ball, it's high, it gets deflected
Speaker 1: and picked off his hand strength. Zach Seeler's is just
Speaker 1: so absurd. That sack from the five technique was akin
Speaker 1: to his pressure that he forced on the pick. He
Speaker 1: wins the punch, the hands get into the chest play
Speaker 1: of Charles Cross, one of the best left tackles in
Speaker 1: the damn game. Then he throws a push pull that
Speaker 1: puts Cross on his butt and finishes at the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Have a day s number ninety two. Speaking of Days
Speaker 1: ninety three, klays Campbell, they just couldn't prevent him from
Speaker 1: getting over the top of the zone runs outside, and
Speaker 1: they couldn't stop him from playing underneath it and back
Speaker 1: dooring it either. He's such a pro and amid a
Speaker 1: tough tough start, watching him and Sealer play together has
Speaker 1: been an absolute treat. No fall off in that spot
Speaker 1: from a year ago, despite a change at the position.
Speaker 1: I thought Kendall Fuller was all over the field in
Speaker 1: that pass break up, especially if Gino was accurate on
Speaker 1: that throw, it's a pick six. He read it all
Speaker 1: the way, had a great angle of attack, played through it,
Speaker 1: and got the hand on it. I also love the
Speaker 1: way he understands his role as the forced defender in
Speaker 1: the running game outside to keep that contained. He's been
Speaker 1: very good so far. I thought Jillen Ramsey was also
Speaker 1: really good. You could tell that he was frustrating DK
Speaker 1: on some of those reps, and nobody else even came
Speaker 1: close to getting a catch on him throughout the game.
Speaker 1: And most of DK's work came working against somebody besides
Speaker 1: Jylen Ramsey, so he was a true lockdown cornerback in
Speaker 1: this game. Individual misses, I thought there was plenty. I
Speaker 1: thought Brooks had a really rough game, kind of amped up.
Speaker 1: Maybe he took some chances and ran himself out of
Speaker 1: the fit and into the fit of his teammates with
Speaker 1: two guys in one gap, which is a great way
Speaker 1: to keep up explosives via the ground. That's what happened
Speaker 1: on the James Cook touchdown run last week. Him and
Speaker 1: David Long kept crashing that the Seahawks would peel off
Speaker 1: their combinations and put just one shoulder on them and
Speaker 1: send them flying like it was pretty kind of comical
Speaker 1: to watch the way they got sent through the air.
Speaker 1: They both got declear couple times early on on that
Speaker 1: and I'm on the second drive of the game when
Speaker 1: I wrote that down with David Long. He'll play that
Speaker 1: wall off role in the middle of the fields in coverage,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he has the vertical range to
Speaker 1: get back, so he plays like way off and then
Speaker 1: teams will throw these hookups and a good quarterback gets
Speaker 1: it there early enough where the receiver can make him
Speaker 1: miss because he has space and coming from such depth,
Speaker 1: you know, a linebacker probably not going to make a
Speaker 1: play on a receiver in space like that. JP. You know,
Speaker 1: as much as I commend him and think he had
Speaker 1: some good plays in the game, and as good as
Speaker 1: I think he was against the Jaguars back in Week one,
Speaker 1: the explosiveness just isn't what it was yet. I know
Speaker 1: he'll get there, but I've not seen him taken out
Speaker 1: of plays the way I thought he was in one
Speaker 1: on one situations against a guy like Stone Forsyth. Since
Speaker 1: his rookie year, Banito Jones was consistently dispatched by single
Speaker 1: blocks on the ground. Javon Holland had a very nice
Speaker 1: play where he sipped through some trash as the will
Speaker 1: linebacker when they walked him down there. And I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if you see more of that, because on that play
Speaker 1: with DK like that, you just can't do that as
Speaker 1: a safety. Chop needs two things. He needs more sand pants,
Speaker 1: we knew that, and better contact strength to push the
Speaker 1: pocket back upward after he wins the edge. I think
Speaker 1: you've seen teams happy to let him just burn that
Speaker 1: edge and they'll just go ahead and run him out
Speaker 1: of the play. And I think he will develop that
Speaker 1: as guys tend to do. Just wonder if it actually
Speaker 1: happens this year, But at this point, who cares. Just
Speaker 1: get it back, get it good for next year. Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer just slow, just continue to see late, to react
Speaker 1: to things. And that's tough for how much he's been
Speaker 1: asked to cover a lot of these split field looks
Speaker 1: with some of the field side deep half like he's
Speaker 1: got a big portion of the field. Snap counts. Brooks, Poe,
Speaker 1: and Holland went the distance. Ramsey did too, until the
Speaker 1: final drive ended up playing like ninety two percent. Cater
Speaker 1: gets a bump with Kendall Fuller going down he plays
Speaker 1: eighty six percent. Fuller played just a quarter of the snaps.
Speaker 1: That gives you thirty nine percent for storm Duck and
Speaker 1: nine percent for Neil. Curious see if we get some
Speaker 1: more Ethan Bonner down the road here. If Fuller can't
Speaker 1: play on Monday night, we did see Marcus may get
Speaker 1: some run. Probably time to make that switch there by
Speaker 1: the way, thirty percent for him. David Long played seventy
Speaker 1: five percent. Walker filled in for the other quarter of
Speaker 1: the snaps. It's seems like it'll be Brooks in Long
Speaker 1: full go and they're both healthy just based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, and their production's pretty good too.
Speaker 1: Even if Jordan Brooks didn't have a great game inside,
Speaker 1: Seiler had a reduction in play time because the way
Speaker 1: the game played out. Sixty nine percent Hand played half
Speaker 1: the snaps, Campbell played forty five. They started taking guys
Speaker 1: out the fielder towards the end of the game, but
Speaker 1: that was by far the best position group of the
Speaker 1: entire day. But Eti played thirty eight percent, Peelee fourteen percent,
Speaker 1: and again, Phillips playing seventy percent of the snaps is
Speaker 1: the most impressive part of his game OGBA sixty four,
Speaker 1: Chop forty five, and Quentin Bell played twenty two percent
Speaker 1: of the game. We talked on the preview podcast about
Speaker 1: trapdoors and you know teams that could have the rug
Speaker 1: pulled out from under them. This year it's us, man,
Speaker 1: It sure certainly feels that way. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you see, like without Tua and who knows? You know
Speaker 1: when he comes back, do you do? You see they'll
Speaker 1: win a game or two, But right now it looks tough.
Speaker 1: My top tapes, Zach Sealer was number one. He was
Speaker 1: this dominant all game long. Jalen Ramsey had a very
Speaker 1: very good day. Thought Aaron Brewer was fantastic again, so
Speaker 1: was Austin Jackson. He's the fourth top tape and Deshaun
Speaker 1: Hann barely beats out Kalaias Campbell for the five and
Speaker 1: six spots, respectively. And that is your Tuesday podcast. You
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