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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis wingfielding on today's show, reviewing
Speaker 1: the tape from another Dolphins victory, taking a look at
Speaker 1: the All twenty two. The snap counts the key metrics
Speaker 1: from PFF and other websites to tell a story behind
Speaker 1: the game via the numbers from the Baptist Health studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, Ye Dafe. Caroline kicks us off as she
Speaker 1: does every single Monday here on the All twenty two
Speaker 1: Review podcast. Let's go ahead and talk about some of
Speaker 1: the news that occurred in Dolphins Land on Monday, as
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel met with us in the media and gave
Speaker 1: us updates on injured players, including Devon a Chan who
Speaker 1: was pleading to get back into the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but the team held him out because it was the
Speaker 1: same need that he just got back from and coach
Speaker 1: said he could play Friday, he could miss Friday. It's
Speaker 1: more of a day to day thing right now. Did
Speaker 1: say there's no surgery needed involved, So it sounds like
Speaker 1: we should get Devon back at some point this season.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give you timelines because I just don't know,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like it's a little bit positive in
Speaker 1: that regard. With regards to the rest of the team,
Speaker 1: coach said that all the players that missed the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday will be questionable for the game on Friday
Speaker 1: because there's not really any real practices this week. Mostly
Speaker 1: it's walkthroughs and just trying to get yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: ready to play on a short week. But did say
Speaker 1: in that press conference that the idea behind having those
Speaker 1: guys out for the game, the vision was to have
Speaker 1: them ready to go for Friday, because, as we know,
Speaker 1: big big divisional game here on the road in New York.
Speaker 1: I feel like, if you get this one, you have
Speaker 1: to feel very very strongly about your prospects of getting
Speaker 1: through till Christmas Eve without a blemish on the record.
Speaker 1: Even though this you know, the Jets are going to
Speaker 1: start Tim Boyle in the game, which good luck. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's worse they're here or the alternative option
Speaker 1: at this point. But that's for a different podcast down
Speaker 1: the road. But the point is these divisional games because
Speaker 1: of Buffalo losing to both New England and New York
Speaker 1: this year, you know, if you beat Buffalo in the
Speaker 1: final game of the season. I guess if you beat
Speaker 1: the Jets both games and you beat Buffalo, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna win the division just based upon that alone, if
Speaker 1: that would give you the tiebreaker over Buffalo, which obviously
Speaker 1: they have a tall, tall hill to climb to overtake
Speaker 1: us in the AFC East. But you will be Bills
Speaker 1: fans in two or three weeks, I think, because they
Speaker 1: play the Chiefs here coming up, and that could be
Speaker 1: a game you want the Chiefs to lose.
Speaker 2: But I digress. We're all the way off the reservation.
Speaker 1: And those injuries on the offensive side of the football
Speaker 1: I thought were the biggest reason for the lack of
Speaker 1: production in terms of points on Sunday, which, of course,
Speaker 1: a turnover on downs at the three yard line, a
Speaker 1: miss field goal, you kind of feel like that could
Speaker 1: be ten points right there you could have had on
Speaker 1: the board. So you know, thirty points if you get
Speaker 1: those and then you do that with your guard number
Speaker 1: four and number five playing in the game, you're really
Speaker 1: only top line functioning tight end that you have in
Speaker 1: terms of playing every snap and eleven personnel. Some of
Speaker 1: those twelve and twenty one personnel packages was not out there.
Speaker 1: I never thought i'd say this last year even that
Speaker 1: Durham Smyth was a key missing component, but he was
Speaker 1: in this game, as were the guard positions and eventually
Speaker 1: the running back spot as well that lost to eight
Speaker 1: Chan and for moments in the game Savon akmed. So
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and start as we do on the
Speaker 1: podcast here on Mondays breaking down this tape with the
Speaker 1: big play breakdowns. We go here back to back dig
Speaker 1: routes to Tyreek Hill that produced sixty seven yards and
Speaker 1: seven points. And it's funny because I was talking to
Speaker 1: my guy Seth Levitt Fish Tank Podcast check them out
Speaker 1: on your podcast apps, as I do every single game
Speaker 1: in the press box, I was telling him, you know,
Speaker 1: we haven't had a lot of those in breaking routes,
Speaker 1: like those eighteen yard digs or some of the glances
Speaker 1: or skinnies or bang eights that we throw that take
Speaker 1: advantage of the space.
Speaker 2: That we create in the middle of the football field
Speaker 2: based upon.
Speaker 1: Our design and spacing, and it just hasn't really gone
Speaker 1: that way until those two plays. Like I literally said
Speaker 1: it before those two plays, and they hit him back
Speaker 1: to back for sixty seven yards and a touchdown. The
Speaker 1: first one you see two was hands separate right before
Speaker 1: Tyreek has throttled down into his break. We say it
Speaker 1: every single week, and it's just working one side of
Speaker 1: the field because you have Wattle on a slide off
Speaker 1: of jet action, you know, the jet sweep action. Then
Speaker 1: he just kind of continues that action to the flat
Speaker 1: and that's designed to hold that curl flat defender. Maybe
Speaker 1: you get the attention of the hook defender as well
Speaker 1: to open up that space in the middle portion of
Speaker 1: the field, and then it's just Tyreek on the dagger
Speaker 1: in behind.
Speaker 2: That ball was a little bit.
Speaker 1: High and outside or inside rather which was kind of
Speaker 1: a theme for Tua in this day, but Tyreek still
Speaker 1: corralled it and we got a big chunk of yards
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: Then they go right back to it.
Speaker 1: And what I love about it is the same exact
Speaker 1: route for Tyreek, but a entirely different concept to get
Speaker 1: to it. And I love the spacing on this one
Speaker 1: because where it was Wattle and Tyreek in a two
Speaker 1: man route combination, this one had all five eligibles out.
Speaker 1: You get motion from the one that's the furthest out
Speaker 1: receiver right, he motions down coming down the line Scrimmage
Speaker 1: to run a basically like drag or a mesh type
Speaker 1: of route over the middle, just runs the Mike linebacker
Speaker 1: and that holds Robert Splaine at that depth, does not
Speaker 1: allow him to get the depth he's pretty good at.
Speaker 1: I probably undersold him on the preview show with how
Speaker 1: good he is at getting depth going vertically backwards, and
Speaker 1: that allowed Tyreek to work underneath the safety and you
Speaker 1: get Croft and Raheem run.
Speaker 2: A levels type of concept to the other side.
Speaker 1: That widens that field side corner who was kind of
Speaker 1: on outside leverage against Tyreek on the play. And I
Speaker 1: gave you maximum spacing. And then once again, the ball
Speaker 1: is just right out at the break a tad high again,
Speaker 1: but because it was high, you see both the defenders
Speaker 1: in the frame kind of hesitate, and I think that's
Speaker 1: probably why Tyreek scored after making a great catch up
Speaker 1: above his body.
Speaker 2: Just a three man rush.
Speaker 1: But Tron Armstead drew Max Crosby one on one, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've seen Max Crosby handled like he
Speaker 1: was on that rep. Like he tried to first move, no, sir,
Speaker 1: second move uh uh. And then, like Dennis Reynolds says,
Speaker 1: there was penetration fighting crime. Penetration fighting crime, and then
Speaker 1: it just sort of ended. He just kind of stopped
Speaker 1: his rush right there. But impressive work there from a
Speaker 1: top line left tackle, shutting down one of the best
Speaker 1: edge rushers in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And they moved Max.
Speaker 1: I don't know how often they do this on tape
Speaker 1: and other games, but they moved him from either side,
Speaker 1: trying to get some rushes on t Stead, trying to
Speaker 1: get some rushes.
Speaker 2: On Austin Jackson. And it didn't really have a lot
Speaker 2: of an impact in the game. So we have two
Speaker 2: damn good tackles here.
Speaker 1: Man three weeen you account Kenda Lamb the Savon Ahmed
Speaker 1: touchdown literally the perfect play call for the defense they called.
Speaker 1: They blitzed five times in the game. On this particular play,
Speaker 1: the only play all game they rushed more than five players.
Speaker 1: They brought six, and that includes a safety who vacated
Speaker 1: the middle of the field right where.
Speaker 2: Our pass went.
Speaker 1: You love when that happens, But this play happens because
Speaker 1: of Connor Williams.
Speaker 2: And I get the snap concerns.
Speaker 1: I get that it frustrates you at home, but please
Speaker 1: please understand how valuable Connor Williams is to this offense.
Speaker 1: This play doesn't happen if you don't have him on
Speaker 1: your roster. There's probably five centers in the NFL that
Speaker 1: you can execute this play on because it's a college concept.
Speaker 1: It's a Texas route with a screen component built in
Speaker 1: the middle screen where Connor has to kind of hook
Speaker 1: the nose tackle and prevent him from getting a clean
Speaker 1: run down. The a gap on your quarterback. He has
Speaker 1: to hook him and keep him in that spot, but
Speaker 1: also be able to climb to the second level. And
Speaker 1: when he does get up to that final block, he
Speaker 1: knocks it right out of the park and clears Savan
Speaker 1: for a walk in touchdown. And it was a good
Speaker 1: job by Savon on the Texas route, which is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite routes in all of football. All it
Speaker 1: is is you angle out wide and then cross face
Speaker 1: in the linebacker once you widened him with your initial
Speaker 1: outside like pressing outside It's just a little angle arrow route,
Speaker 1: Texas route.
Speaker 2: It's got eighteen names, like all routes do.
Speaker 1: Savon does a good job of angling this thing out,
Speaker 1: making the block easier on Connor, and then for Tua,
Speaker 1: just that soft, little touch on those little flip throws
Speaker 1: underrated element of his game. I say that as a
Speaker 1: person that watched every snap of Ryan Tannehill's career and
Speaker 1: he could not, for the life of him, finess a
Speaker 1: pass to save his life. Also, Julian Hill key blockdownfield
Speaker 1: as well. The first Ramsey pick is our next big
Speaker 1: play to break down. This one was even more impressive
Speaker 1: on tape because he had no business even being in
Speaker 1: that spot to begin with. But if the coverage is
Speaker 1: what I think it is, and quite frankly, I wrote
Speaker 1: it down that way because I want to be like
Speaker 1: a little bit ambivalent on it.
Speaker 2: But it was quarters.
Speaker 1: He had four guys lined up fifteen yards off the ball,
Speaker 1: all on a deadlined birds on a fence style, and
Speaker 1: the Raiders run three routes that push it vertical. So
Speaker 1: in your cover four Adams runs this post clear out
Speaker 1: that I'm sure he wants to occupy both the middle
Speaker 1: safeties and then run the dig route with number eleven.
Speaker 2: I didn't see his name. I don't even know who.
Speaker 1: That is. A dig route in behind that against outside
Speaker 1: leverage of Jalen Ramsey. So they got that, they got
Speaker 1: the post, they got the clear out. The far side
Speaker 1: route was a comeback. That's irrelevant to the equation. Now,
Speaker 1: if this throw is to a tongue of I Lowa
Speaker 1: level anticipation, it's a completion. I don't think Ramsey has
Speaker 1: a chance to get over to make a play on
Speaker 1: the football. But he knows this route is not vertical.
Speaker 1: How I'm not sure, because he plays it like he
Speaker 1: knows it's never going to go deep into his quarter.
Speaker 2: Which that's so impressive because if you can do that,
Speaker 2: if you can.
Speaker 1: Play a stroke sure and say I'm gonna jump out
Speaker 1: of my responsibility here and go do that, those are
Speaker 1: like season changing plays, like results of your season are
Speaker 1: better because of that. And I'm talking about winning more
Speaker 1: games into January and making a push for that game
Speaker 1: in February that we all want to see this team
Speaker 1: play in. But he comes off of his outside leverage
Speaker 1: and drives before the quarterback has even separated the hands.
Speaker 1: So he's got eyes in the quarterbacks and he breaks
Speaker 1: on the receiver at the same time as the receiver
Speaker 1: does around the route.
Speaker 2: I should say, and it looks.
Speaker 1: Like a complation when lets the ball go, but he
Speaker 1: dives across the face of the receiver and makes the catch,
Speaker 1: like with his chest parallel to the ground, like to
Speaker 1: hang on to that ball, to land on top of it,
Speaker 1: roll over and can maintain control.
Speaker 2: This guy's I've never seen something like it. I really haven't.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jalen Ramsey our top five tapes, number one,
Speaker 1: who do you think it is?
Speaker 2: It's Jalen Ramsey, the.
Speaker 1: Perfect perfect defender for the system man zone turn eyes
Speaker 1: of the quarterback, the break slash, anticipation to make those
Speaker 1: breaks go from PBUs to game changing interceptions like an
Speaker 1: incompleation second they could get a first down. The next
Speaker 1: play you take the ball back like it changes the
Speaker 1: freaking game. It's like, I can't describe it. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of freaking out right now. But then he'll go press
Speaker 1: up and DeVante Adam's face and get one of the
Speaker 1: best route runners and release guys in the game to
Speaker 1: not be able to do that, playing the forced defender
Speaker 1: on their early outside run attempts and giving Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: a chance to cheat inside and go make plays, or
Speaker 1: Cater Kohu to slot slide down on there and go
Speaker 1: make plays. It's just it's fantastic. What can this guy
Speaker 1: not do then to call game like that? I mean,
Speaker 1: those catches on both those interceptions are tough grabs for
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Dbs are not supposed to make those catches.
Speaker 1: It's not four kids. The way he got vertical on
Speaker 1: that flea flicker. Do you guys ever understand the references
Speaker 1: I make here? I know like my buddy Noah does,
Speaker 1: and half of them are for you, Noah, So hats
Speaker 1: off to you. That is I think you should leave
Speaker 1: the Ghost Tour sketch. The Night Tour is not four kids,
Speaker 1: but the flea flicker they ran like Adam slow played
Speaker 1: it and and Jalen just kind of stood there with
Speaker 1: him and was waiting for the results of the play.
Speaker 1: Then he takes off and he just gets on his
Speaker 1: horse and shrank the window to zero. Quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: think Aidan O'Connell should have underthrown the ball because Ramsey
Speaker 1: probably would have had to run through Adams for DPI,
Speaker 1: but just the way he did that was so impressive.
Speaker 1: And then the fourth down play that he got to
Speaker 1: stop on the Jakobe Myers attempt, the way he pressed
Speaker 1: him and pinned him to the sideline and then kind
Speaker 1: of said, you're not gonna get on my upfield shoulder.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run the route for you, and then boxed
Speaker 1: him in and then ran up the hash marks on
Speaker 1: the perimeter for him like chef's kiss.
Speaker 2: It's perfect.
Speaker 1: And then finally I didn't put the interception to end
Speaker 1: the game in the big play breakdown because it's simple.
Speaker 2: It's just four deep.
Speaker 1: O'Connell wants to throw a post route between split field safety,
Speaker 1: which is the throw. That's the throw against middle of
Speaker 1: the field open. But Elliott got over there. I think
Speaker 1: Ramsey kind of baited him into that play because he
Speaker 1: was just getting depth and stayed in that position and
Speaker 1: he knew that, you know, a fifty yard throw, I
Speaker 1: can close that ground that fast. He went before the
Speaker 1: ball even go up in the air, closing speed, erases
Speaker 1: the throw and again pulls in catches the football right
Speaker 1: takes it away. Have an absolute day. How about these numbers?
Speaker 1: Ten targets? They got one ball on him? They were
Speaker 1: ten percent throwing at him for four yards. They averaged
Speaker 1: point four yards per target. Tyreek Hill averaged thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half yards per target.
Speaker 2: Two of those were picks. He also had a stop
Speaker 2: in tackling defense.
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, dude, I'm just blown away guys like this
Speaker 1: is one of the best football players I've ever watched
Speaker 1: in my entire life. I remember coming to training camp
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen being like, Oh, Monterrey Harder, that's a
Speaker 1: guy that I like. Like, dude, we've come a long way.
Speaker 2: We have come a long way.
Speaker 1: Second top tape, Tyreek Hill. I liked Monterrey harderch He
Speaker 1: was an undrafted player out of Northwestern, very nice kid,
Speaker 1: talked to him. Didn't last in the league. And that's
Speaker 1: just what we're talking about here in terms of talent.
Speaker 1: This team has turned out since they rebuilt this roster.
Speaker 2: That's the difference there.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. I thought this was his best game as
Speaker 1: a Dolphin from a hands standpoint, pretty important trait for
Speaker 1: a receiver. He just caught everything, and some of those
Speaker 1: balls were not on the face mask like they usually are.
Speaker 1: His ability to snatch the ball off of his frame,
Speaker 1: I think is a very very underrated element of his game.
Speaker 2: And if you ask Chiefs fans, like, what's his problem?
Speaker 1: He drops too many balls, they would tell you, But
Speaker 1: I mean he's got like a couple, but nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: The detail in his route running does not get enough love.
Speaker 1: In the third quarter, the drive after two was pick.
Speaker 1: They're in cover six, which is quarter quarter half. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? You have one defender covering a deep quarter,
Speaker 1: another defender covering a deep quarter, and one defender covers
Speaker 1: a deep half.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Two quarters and a half is four quarters? So you
Speaker 1: have your cover four structure from three high. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? If not, go figure it out. Tyreek has
Speaker 1: the two quarters to his side of the field, so
Speaker 1: they're giving more attention to Tyreek. In case they want
Speaker 1: to run the post, they're going to cover that. If
Speaker 1: he wants to run vertical, they're going to try to
Speaker 1: cover that. But they run a twenty five yard out
Speaker 1: route and this is why Tyreek's route running is so good.
Speaker 1: So he's the one to the field. But in a
Speaker 1: condensed split, which is inside the numbers on the football field,
Speaker 1: the ten twenty thirty to forty with the widest quarters
Speaker 1: defender the number so he has outside leverage on Tyreek's
Speaker 1: pre snap alignment and he wants to get outside of him.
Speaker 1: So how do you convince him that you're going to
Speaker 1: run inside of him? Well, he widens his release right
Speaker 1: to the numbers and gets on the exact same plane.
Speaker 2: Because if I'm.
Speaker 1: Even with you, then I have a fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: proposition to go inside or outside.
Speaker 2: You have to figure out what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Then ten yards upfield, he just angles that route slightly
Speaker 1: inside to kind of get on the inside of.
Speaker 2: Marcus Peters' jersey.
Speaker 1: I guess is the best way to say that, and
Speaker 1: it puts He puts his shoulders parallel to the goalpost
Speaker 1: like I'm running a post route, running right to the goalpost, right.
Speaker 2: But then the.
Speaker 1: Minute he sees Peters like commit to the post, it's
Speaker 1: slam on the brakes, break it back outside. And I
Speaker 1: posted a still shot of Jalen Waddle last week two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, three weeks ago, turning around Jonathan Jones or
Speaker 1: maybe it was j C.
Speaker 2: Jackson. This is what ty Reek did.
Speaker 1: To Marcus Marcus Peters on this play, turn him all
Speaker 1: the way around. And he did that with little stab
Speaker 1: step inside and then whips it back out to the
Speaker 1: outside two lets it fly very early, and when he
Speaker 1: gets to the spot, the ball's right there with the
Speaker 1: corner ten yards away. It's these little intricacies and understanding
Speaker 1: of leverage and space, paired with elite speed that makes
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill the best receiver.
Speaker 2: In the National Football League.
Speaker 1: A couple drives later, it's the exact same play to
Speaker 1: the other side of the field and does the exact
Speaker 1: same thing, but instead of the hard stab step inside,
Speaker 1: he stabs outside, then cross his face and that gets
Speaker 1: the other corner. I think it was Nate Hobbs committed
Speaker 1: to covering inside and the exact same thing happens. He
Speaker 1: winds up running towards his own goal line, not knowing
Speaker 1: where Tyreek Hill is.
Speaker 2: It's he can.
Speaker 1: Vary the route on the same route and still get
Speaker 1: to the real estate he's trying they're trying to take away.
Speaker 1: He's one of the Him and Ramsey I think are
Speaker 1: the best football players I've ever watched in my life.
Speaker 1: In person, it's freaking I watched Tom Brady, which is
Speaker 1: you know, but I didn't put this kind of detail
Speaker 1: into his work, But it just like blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Ten for forty six in a touchdown on eleven targets.
Speaker 1: That's thirteen point three yards per target and a cool
Speaker 1: five oh three yards per route ran. The record for
Speaker 1: that from PFF is two seven to two, so he's
Speaker 1: almost double over that number. Again, he's almost a full
Speaker 1: yard better than that. On the season, he had just
Speaker 1: four yards of yak per catch, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the routes he just wins running the route down the
Speaker 1: field for an eleven point three average depth of target.
Speaker 1: My third top tape goes to Jalen Phillips. The impact
Speaker 1: off the edge is just something you feel. The way
Speaker 1: that he re routes tight ends or works them over
Speaker 1: in the run rush game, the depth that he can
Speaker 1: get in coverage. They completed one to Mayor that I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna have a JT in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six in Chicago pick six.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember that one?
Speaker 1: Rex Grossman just snatched it out of the air and
Speaker 1: took it back on a stiff arm for a six,
Speaker 1: but just out of his reach. But man like guys
Speaker 1: feel his presence. He shocks them with those long arms
Speaker 1: in the punch to reset the line of scrimmage. Then
Speaker 1: he has the quick burst to accelerate around the edge
Speaker 1: or through the contact inside. He can go with speed,
Speaker 1: he can him with power, with length, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. And then he just unleashed his rush
Speaker 1: arsenal in that fourth quarter. The first oversets the tackle
Speaker 1: with a great upfield first step, then cross his back
Speaker 1: face inside because he overset him and wins with power
Speaker 1: to get to O'Connell. The second one, he gets past
Speaker 1: the tackle upfield, then again puts his foot in the
Speaker 1: ground and uses the right hand to shove the tackle
Speaker 1: back towards his own goal line. All the momentum he
Speaker 1: creates to shove him that way, and then the speed
Speaker 1: rush back inside and finds O'Connell. What a game for Jay.
Speaker 1: Then Phillips and then the pick right place, right time.
Speaker 1: Two sacks, four pressures, three QB hits, four stops in
Speaker 1: the running game or pass pass hand run game.
Speaker 2: And an interception. That's a have a day fifteen.
Speaker 1: Fourth best tape Christian Wilkins utterly dominant from ninety four
Speaker 1: and he's playing better than he did last year. Guys,
Speaker 1: hate to break it to you, but he is the
Speaker 1: way he plays under guys like he just gets under
Speaker 1: their chest play and it has to be a nightmare
Speaker 1: for them because once he gets his hands inside of
Speaker 1: those guys, I mean, put your hand up, Kermits. Butt
Speaker 1: Man becomes a puppet master at this point, like he
Speaker 1: is controlling this guys and takes them wherever he wants
Speaker 1: them to go. It's fun to watch the way he
Speaker 1: can sustain two gaps but then also get off a
Speaker 1: block and make a play. It's such a critical element
Speaker 1: of our light box fronts that we operate from and
Speaker 1: then to do that A ninety five percent clip of
Speaker 1: the snaps awesome, awesome, awesome player. The Phillips pick is
Speaker 1: a sack for him that would have been five and
Speaker 1: a half on the year, a career high, but because
Speaker 1: O'Connor knew it was fourth down and a pick is
Speaker 1: just as bad as a sack. There like he just
Speaker 1: you know, threw it up in the air, but he
Speaker 1: bowled over his managed Christian Wilkins eight pressures, two hits
Speaker 1: a stop should have had the sack, but I digress.
Speaker 1: My fifth top tape goes to Connor Williams. What an
Speaker 1: awesome game for him and the way that he gets
Speaker 1: displacement when he attaches on a double team. Like there
Speaker 1: are a few reps where Connor rather Lester Cotton or
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg have a two technique a tackle headed up
Speaker 1: right over the front of them, right like they latch
Speaker 1: onto those guys, but there's no displacement because it's tough
Speaker 1: to get movement on a guy right acrossrom because you
Speaker 1: can't like use momentum to run into them. And then
Speaker 1: here comes Connor And it's probably one of the easiest
Speaker 1: things for a center to do to just bulldoze a
Speaker 1: guy who's already engaged in a block. But you usually
Speaker 1: see those guys like topple over them, so's it's like
Speaker 1: we wipe out two for one.
Speaker 2: That's a win for the defense.
Speaker 1: But to run him off the point like just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna knock this guy off of you, Liam, and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get that linebacker and put him on
Speaker 1: his butt two Like he comes off in perfect shape.
Speaker 1: And it's a testament to his fundamentals and the work
Speaker 1: at his craft that Connor puts in drilling those fundamentals
Speaker 1: until they are second nature. And then in pass pro
Speaker 1: he's playing awesome too. Two technique over the guard, Go
Speaker 1: get him, go find him snatch him, trap and put
Speaker 1: him on the ground. Awesome tape for Connor Williams. I
Speaker 1: asked coach about him in the Monday press conference. If
Speaker 1: you guys around YouTube, go check it out about how
Speaker 1: Connor opens up more for your offense, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a few centers in the NFL that can do that.
Speaker 1: And the fact that Connor is doing that with his
Speaker 1: athletic ability and pass pro combination, like the fact that
Speaker 1: he's a new center just a year and a half
Speaker 1: into it, is very very impressive. One pressure on forty two,
Speaker 1: pass block snaps, no hits, no sacks. My just missed
Speaker 1: the cut on the tapes where, in no particular order,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle I thought I had a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about him in the second segment.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Bradley Chubb, Xavian Howard and cater co who
Speaker 1: We're all just off the mark, but a lot of
Speaker 1: good tapes out there. This team is hard to do
Speaker 1: this with man back in twenty twenty, twenty nineteen, I'd
Speaker 1: have been doing this with maybe top three and had
Speaker 1: a hard time finding them. I'm having a hard time
Speaker 1: keeping under ten with these guys, because this team is
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Let's go ahead and take a break right
Speaker 1: there and come back on the other side and do
Speaker 1: the offense. We'll talk about the offensive notes and defense
Speaker 1: on the third side. That's all next Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought.
Speaker 2: To you by Autoundation.
Speaker 1: Segment two means it's time to talk some Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense from there twenty to thirteen victory over the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders, And we used to the whole first segment
Speaker 1: and didn't talk about to a tongue by low. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that we'll go ahead and pick up this
Speaker 1: segment talking about not to But let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about some general notes here that I wrote down.
Speaker 1: Kind of realized watching this tape just how depleted we
Speaker 1: were in this game. The tight end position as thin
Speaker 1: as it is, right because Durham and Julian are pretty
Speaker 1: much the only guys that have played this year, and
Speaker 1: so Durham being down was a guy that played pretty
Speaker 1: much like a ninety ten split to Julian Hill just
Speaker 1: in terms of experience in the system. Like without Durham,
Speaker 1: it just changed the scope of a lot of the
Speaker 1: running game action or execution some of our bread and
Speaker 1: butter stuff that we do. Obviously, you're down your opening
Speaker 1: day left guard, you're starting right guard who I think
Speaker 1: is one of the top guards in football, and then
Speaker 1: also your top swing guy and Rob Jones. You're down
Speaker 1: to guard four and five. You lost eight Chan Savan
Speaker 1: went down for a few plays. You have just one
Speaker 1: healthy running back at that point. You're just deep into
Speaker 1: your depth against what was a pretty good Ridder defense
Speaker 1: that again, I think I might have undersold to you
Speaker 1: guys a little bit, and I think that's how you
Speaker 1: wound up with some plays that just flat out didn't work,
Speaker 1: like where the Raiders had more hats to the perimeter
Speaker 1: than we could block. Like Raheem taking a toss play
Speaker 1: and having to make a man miss without any real runway.
Speaker 2: To beat up to build up speed three.
Speaker 1: Yards short of the line of scrimmage. That it's just
Speaker 1: not typical for him and for us. Usually we are
Speaker 1: the ones that dictate the terms out there and force
Speaker 1: the issue with our speed. But when the back cannot
Speaker 1: get up to speed, those plays are not going to
Speaker 1: go anywhere. The fourth and one stop the Raiders had
Speaker 1: in the low red zone is tough because I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's like a give option there for Tua
Speaker 1: on that play, but it's blocked so well inside that
Speaker 1: you would if he could have given it off, would
Speaker 1: have been a walk in touchdown. But of course we
Speaker 1: can't know that, and he can't know that until after
Speaker 1: he makes the decision. But I think the Raiders just
Speaker 1: played it really well. You see the inside defender of
Speaker 1: on Craik Craft really aware of like crack action, like
Speaker 1: the crack tossing me run because his head's moving back
Speaker 1: and forth before the snap. Then the off corner just
Speaker 1: triggers instantly. He read his keys and made a good
Speaker 1: play and Tyreek actually kind of gets out of the
Speaker 1: tackle sort of from that corner, but the pursuit was
Speaker 1: what put him down. And River appeals off the inside
Speaker 1: guy and tries to go get the wide block, where
Speaker 1: I think the best option for him would have been
Speaker 1: to just go commit to one block and let Tyreek
Speaker 1: make one man miss, because he didn't do that, and
Speaker 1: then he had two guys on him, which he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna get out of that. But full head of steam
Speaker 1: downhill on Tyreek, who was stationary. That's a tough tackle.
Speaker 1: To break there and I get your banged up on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, so I fully understand not trying to
Speaker 1: you know, jam it up inside and get it wide
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. Because like every football fan wants to
Speaker 1: question play callers. And by the way, the people calling
Speaker 1: him boy genius on Twitter as like some kind of
Speaker 1: slight like you're showing your cards that you're an old
Speaker 1: boomer dude, Like you're probably the same guy that said
Speaker 1: the term tannakill at some point, right, Like, let's chill
Speaker 1: on that, because Mike McDaniel, you should be like you've
Speaker 1: been waiting for this guy for thirty years, like stop,
Speaker 1: just stop, stop before.
Speaker 2: You embarrass yourself.
Speaker 1: Okay, sound good, all right, But the quick game like
Speaker 1: that worked really well against the Panthers and the Giants
Speaker 1: like it worked, sometimes doesn't work, so and it's fair
Speaker 1: to question, like why didn't it work. It's just let's
Speaker 1: not take these general overarching themes from a couple of
Speaker 1: play calls it didn't work and make definitive statements off that,
Speaker 1: because definitive statements in this league, in this in this
Speaker 1: sport make you look silly. As we learn every single week,
Speaker 1: look at teams that win and lose their like your
Speaker 1: opinion of teams changes so much. Just try to remember
Speaker 1: that this is long season and sample sizes are small
Speaker 1: on football, and over the course of the year you
Speaker 1: can then begin to evaluate what you saw. But to
Speaker 1: make rash decisions off a seven to three first place
Speaker 1: football team, just be careful.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and talk about Tua.
Speaker 1: I talked about the two throws Tyreek on the touchdown
Speaker 1: drive already, the first note I have for him start
Speaker 1: and the first play of the second quarter on a
Speaker 1: shot between a trio of Raiders defenders, on a play
Speaker 1: where Tyreek pinballed off some tacklers and just kept going
Speaker 1: the guys, he's crazy. I screenshot the play when Tua's
Speaker 1: hand separate on the third and eight and Tyreek is
Speaker 1: legitimately between a triangle of Raiders defenders, and then the
Speaker 1: location of the pass that gets there like what two
Speaker 1: seconds later.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long the ballflight takes.
Speaker 1: Like it's one thing to throw into open windows with
Speaker 1: the anticipation, like the Charger game, for instance, But this
Speaker 1: throw is not just into a triangle. It's a condensed
Speaker 1: triangle where it's also on Tyreek's back shoulder, because right
Speaker 1: in front of Tyreek is a stationary defender who's just
Speaker 1: waiting to wall him off and put a big lick
Speaker 1: on our star receiver, and not just cause an incompletion,
Speaker 1: possibly tip it up into the air and pick it off,
Speaker 1: but to hurt him right. And so it's even more
Speaker 1: impressive when you look at the coverage structure because it's
Speaker 1: eight yards to go, they don't have to play the run,
Speaker 1: so they have three hook or curl flat defenders to
Speaker 1: you know, off at right around the sticks, and they
Speaker 1: all just plant their heels at the sticks. They start
Speaker 1: in that too high, but the boundary safety to Tyreek's
Speaker 1: side buzzes a crossing route from Cedric Wilson and so
Speaker 1: it rotates to one high. So Tua has to process
Speaker 1: that and it all happens in less than two and
Speaker 1: a half seconds. To process the rotation, to process the
Speaker 1: hook defender location, to process you know, where Tyreek's timing,
Speaker 1: if its route's going to be. And the reason I'm
Speaker 1: spelling this all out is that this play personifies Tua's
Speaker 1: superpowers and to you you're watching the game, you know,
Speaker 1: having a couple of beers thinking like, hey, cool, catch Tyreek.
Speaker 1: But it's elite quarterback play that drives a play like this.
Speaker 2: You know, third and long.
Speaker 1: How many games do you watch? Did you watch the
Speaker 1: Broncos game on Sunday night? Like the rush gets in,
Speaker 1: the quarterback has a tucket and just throw check down
Speaker 1: so Sam a GP Ryan or try to scramble for
Speaker 1: a first down like it happens all the time around
Speaker 1: the league.
Speaker 2: But this quarterback.
Speaker 1: There are a few guys that can test super tight
Speaker 1: windows and you either have to throw fastballs that you
Speaker 1: are not great at anticipating, or you have to see
Speaker 1: it before it happens. Tua is exceptional. Exceptional in the
Speaker 1: latter category, and we saw it right here. We saw
Speaker 1: a lot in the first half because his offense was
Speaker 1: humming in the first half. Besides the one turnover and
Speaker 1: low red zone, the very next plays more of the same.
Speaker 1: A rail glance one of our bread and butters, right,
Speaker 1: it's the route up the perimeter, and it's the route
Speaker 1: that goes in the scene like a little slant glance route.
Speaker 1: And Tua widens that conflict defender that's between both those
Speaker 1: routes by locking onto the rail to Tyreek Hill. It's
Speaker 1: basically a flat for all intents and purposes, like he
Speaker 1: just runs to the sideline pretty much doesn't really run
Speaker 1: the wheel to the side. Actually it's Julian Hill, not
Speaker 1: Tyrek Kill, and that gives him space to throw the
Speaker 1: glance into Cedric Wilson. But splane is getting with and
Speaker 1: tries to jump it.
Speaker 2: So what does Tua do.
Speaker 1: He alters the ball placement and throws it off of
Speaker 1: Said's back shoulder to make a spinning adjustment catch and
Speaker 1: Spelaane dives and you can see a like distraught like
Speaker 1: I was there for that play, What the hell happened?
Speaker 2: Like you got to it? Bruh, you got to it.
Speaker 1: The more tape I see on two of the more
Speaker 1: I kind of know what I'm going to like and
Speaker 1: dislike on tape when I watch the game live on Sundays.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because just leaving the ballpark, I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, I don't think I'm gonna like this tape
Speaker 1: very much. And we still have to get to the
Speaker 1: second half, so there's a chance I will get there.
Speaker 1: But the thing of it is like the guy misses
Speaker 1: three or four throws in a game, We're like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: just not the usual tour. We're used to and that's
Speaker 1: where we're spoiled, like that's a good thing. But I've
Speaker 1: got another no look past here on a glance to Wattle,
Speaker 1: just baffling defenders like you want to flip your butt
Speaker 1: to the sideline with a zone drop and key to
Speaker 1: his eyes. Yeah, I don't think that's smart, bro, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna move you off that spot. One of the
Speaker 1: best in the business, one of the best I've ever
Speaker 1: seen to do that. And that's where the tape kind
Speaker 1: of didn't go well. After that, only the second half
Speaker 1: things got worse, starting with one of the strangest interceptions
Speaker 1: I've ever seen this guy throw. Wattle runs another amazing route,
Speaker 1: and my only thought here was that there was a
Speaker 1: sight adjustment that they had on different pages for both
Speaker 1: the So the Raiders are in cover six, which is
Speaker 1: quarter quarter half we've described that.
Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty sure Tyreek.
Speaker 1: And Wattle run like a kind of crisscross from opposite
Speaker 1: sides of the formation. But the man covering the deep
Speaker 1: half runs with Tyreek, which frees up half of the
Speaker 1: field deep to Wattle to flatten his route to the sideline.
Speaker 1: Now that said, the way he comes off the line
Speaker 1: looks like he's running a post route, and that's probably
Speaker 1: why the dbs ended up where they were, because it
Speaker 1: looks like a post route, which is the route that
Speaker 1: toa threw. But if he flattens that route like a
Speaker 1: deep over like I think the best way to describe
Speaker 1: it is that Wattle is changing it on Tua.
Speaker 2: That made for the room service pick.
Speaker 1: But I think Tua should have seen what Wattle saw,
Speaker 1: which was a patch of uncovered grass on a flattened
Speaker 1: out route. And if we lay it out over there,
Speaker 1: it's like throwing the ball into the chuck e cheese ballpit.
Speaker 1: It's like a thirty yard shot for a thirty yard
Speaker 1: play with all kinds of you know, gazing grazing pastures
Speaker 1: of grass to throw to. I thought the miss to
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson before the Sanders missfield goal was his worst
Speaker 1: throw of the day. He got off a spot, attacked
Speaker 1: the line of screen, threw on the move. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: great creativity to but then he misses him like he
Speaker 1: hasn't missed those throws. He was open for a first
Speaker 1: down on third down in the red zone. Critical miss.
Speaker 1: There nothing more to it. You can count the number
Speaker 1: of misses Tua has like that in his career. On
Speaker 1: one hand, so whatever next drive hits an RPO pop
Speaker 1: glance to Waddle just wanted to note the ball handling
Speaker 1: quickly on him, the trigger off of RPO or zone
Speaker 1: read or play action. It just to forged you to
Speaker 1: really stress the second level of defense off of those
Speaker 1: looks because of how quick he gets to all of it.
Speaker 1: Not many quarterbacks can do that. The splane drop pick
Speaker 1: another terrible decision, but really he did a good job
Speaker 1: of knowing where he was going, like Tua was reading
Speaker 1: that front side and he was playing backside like will linebacker,
Speaker 1: which is why I assumed Tuo just never figured him
Speaker 1: part of the equation, and he just got all the
Speaker 1: way over there and got a hand on the football.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really that close to being pick it off
Speaker 1: the fingertips, but still a really good play from Roberts Splain.
Speaker 1: Two balls that I didn't realize were pretty damn good
Speaker 1: a third and seven mid third quarter where Waddell went
Speaker 1: to the ground to make the catch and had to
Speaker 1: scoop it up but could not. Then something similar on
Speaker 1: the next drive to Ingold. Both guys got their hands
Speaker 1: under the ball and if you slow it down the
Speaker 1: balls between their chests and their hands, they just don't
Speaker 1: finish the catch. But the location I thought was good
Speaker 1: because in traffic to guys like that, you want to
Speaker 1: throw a low to protect your receiver from a big hit.
Speaker 1: Although on the ingle one, crey Craft was open downfield
Speaker 1: and Tua can make that throw. I wish he would
Speaker 1: have tried it, but he didn't. A last we miss,
Speaker 1: he made a rip to Cedric for twelve yards where
Speaker 1: he surveyed the front side, didn't like it, snapped its
Speaker 1: head back backside, and rips a shot again on an
Speaker 1: inbreaking route that settles Cedric down before contact. And that
Speaker 1: was a big theme in this game because the Raiders
Speaker 1: were all over those inbreaking routes, and he did a
Speaker 1: good job of settling guys down into zones to protect them.
Speaker 1: So tough good catch from Tedrick Wilson there and the
Speaker 1: only place we're going to get a completion from that
Speaker 1: location from Tua. Another example of process, location, release, all
Speaker 1: that stuff I thought he had savon on a wheel
Speaker 1: route on the play that he got tabbed for grounding.
Speaker 1: Then the next drive he threw a swing away when
Speaker 1: I thought he had Tyreek on a second window, dig
Speaker 1: just a few things. I'm sure he'll go back and
Speaker 1: see on tape and be better for But all things told,
Speaker 1: not my favorite to a tape. I'd say this is
Speaker 1: probably my second worst game, behind the Giants game, or
Speaker 1: ahead of the Giants game, I guess. But again, that's
Speaker 1: a super high floor. And to go back to my point,
Speaker 1: this team just beats teams it's supposed to because of
Speaker 1: that high floor. Two is now twenty and five in
Speaker 1: games the Dolphins are favored in. So it's nice to
Speaker 1: be able to have those misses but still get your
Speaker 1: explosives and win games as a result. PFF had him
Speaker 1: three for four on throws twenty yards downfielder more for
Speaker 1: eighty six yards. The miss was the pick. On throws
Speaker 1: ten plus yards eight for thirteen, one hundred and eight yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one pick. When pressured, he was four for
Speaker 1: eight with sixty three yards. When blitzed, he was five
Speaker 1: for five with forty eight yards and two touchdowns. Probably
Speaker 1: don't blitz that guy. Let's wrap up the offense here
Speaker 1: and talk about the eligibles.
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: I just love when he catches a screen, shows you
Speaker 1: the wheels and then lowers the shoulder and runs a
Speaker 1: safety over at the sideline and then just starts flexing.
Speaker 1: To his teammates and coaches, I talk about temperature changers
Speaker 1: on the show all the time, He's one of them. Man.
Speaker 1: There's a rhythm and pace to this guy, especially to
Speaker 1: his routes, to the way that he can tempo his routes.
Speaker 1: Like I saw someone talk about the difference between Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase coming out and this year's top prospect and Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior. How Chase was going to melt your face
Speaker 1: off going one hundred miles an hour with pure physicality
Speaker 1: all game long. But Marv can like alter his pace
Speaker 1: and timing to find spots and zones and use the
Speaker 1: acceleration when he needs it. Wattle has a little bit
Speaker 1: of both of that. He caught a glance spout where
Speaker 1: he slow plays it then just hits the jets right
Speaker 1: when he turns around the corner around that hookbacker into
Speaker 1: a right on time with it. That's hard to stop
Speaker 1: when they can vary their.
Speaker 2: Speed like that.
Speaker 1: The very next play, he's got what I think is
Speaker 1: either a choice or just him selling run action. I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure, but he climbs up to the linebacker
Speaker 1: like he's gonna block him, and then just puts his
Speaker 1: foot in the ground and breaks it to the outside
Speaker 1: before he engages, like foot in the ground, snap it off.
Speaker 1: The linebacker's like, what the hell. It's just such a
Speaker 1: fun route running combination to watch between he and Tyreek.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing I've been totally wrong on this
Speaker 1: year about this team, it's Wattle's production. I call the
Speaker 1: breakout every damn game and we've only gotten it one time.
Speaker 1: But damn it, I'm gonna push back on the team here.
Speaker 2: And say he's being underused.
Speaker 1: I think that there's more meat on the bone there
Speaker 1: for mister Wattle hitting key blocks on cracked tosses on
Speaker 1: divine diablo a guy that has thirty pounds on him
Speaker 1: Like games like this is why Waddle is my favorite
Speaker 1: player in the nfl raheem moster, tough, running, smart, decision
Speaker 1: making quick. I thought he looked fresh off the bye week,
Speaker 1: good lateral cuts, just ran smoothly all game. The thing
Speaker 1: I mentioned in the general portion how they had extra
Speaker 1: hats sometimes you know, the running back hats to beat
Speaker 1: those guys, And there was a handful of examples of
Speaker 1: him doing that, like he's manned up with Robert Splain
Speaker 1: in the gap and just makes him miss. Really good
Speaker 1: running from him all game long. The run before the
Speaker 1: Julian Hill fumble, drop the shoulder, run through your man,
Speaker 1: textbook stuff for him.
Speaker 2: Great game from him, thought.
Speaker 1: Alec Ingold consistently makes good decisions on where to go
Speaker 1: with his two way go block options, consistently wipes out
Speaker 1: a gap or a second level defender. Such a pardon
Speaker 1: my French, such an effing good player man. Julian Hill
Speaker 1: not his best game, whipped on some blocks, had inside
Speaker 1: help on Max Crosby and just let him split it
Speaker 1: for a pressure on Tuo that forced a check down
Speaker 1: that had an open Tyreek Hill twenty yards down the field,
Speaker 1: or rather Wattle. It was Tyreek Hea threw the ball
Speaker 1: to in the check down, but Wattle's twenty yards downfield
Speaker 1: open and we can't get the ball off because of
Speaker 1: pressure on Julian Hill.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: I should have mentioned he was one on one with
Speaker 1: Max Crosby, but like, at least make him go the
Speaker 1: long way around, don't give up the inside post. I
Speaker 1: guess he's blocking to his help. So really just a
Speaker 1: failure offensively across the board, but he missed some key
Speaker 1: blocks in this game. I had the fumble as well.
Speaker 2: Tyler Croft I.
Speaker 1: Thought earned some more reps in the event that drum
Speaker 1: Smith cannot go. Some good work on the perimeter, primarily
Speaker 1: on the screen to waddle for nine yards offensive line.
Speaker 1: You know, Crosby switch sides both ways and they would
Speaker 1: slide away from Austin Jackson.
Speaker 2: Like, think about that.
Speaker 1: Austin's locking down isolation blocks one v one against some
Speaker 1: of the best rushers in football. That's pretty crazy. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and stay there, because the trajectory of.
Speaker 2: This guy is just unreal.
Speaker 1: You go from not knowing what you have at right
Speaker 1: tackle this camp, right, it was fair, a fair assessment
Speaker 1: to say he might not work out. Then he plays
Speaker 1: well and you're like, okay, they have a quality starting
Speaker 1: to right tackle all of a sudden, Then he keeps
Speaker 1: getting better, and now all of a sudden, you're like,
Speaker 1: is this is this one of the best right tackles
Speaker 1: in football? There it might be.
Speaker 2: It might be one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to go there for his performance this season
Speaker 1: because after the game yesterday, like the ISO work, the fundamentals,
Speaker 1: the knowledge of space and what to do with his man.
Speaker 1: Max tried to win with a speed rush, so that
Speaker 1: AJ just went out there and lengthened the track and
Speaker 1: ran him all the way around the quarterback like he's
Speaker 1: playing super smart football. There's a rep on a Tyreek
Speaker 1: reception where Tyree Wilson tries to crash inside. AJ shoots
Speaker 1: the hands and the feet follow just put a at typewriter
Speaker 1: and then the action goes back outside and he just
Speaker 1: changes directions and wait transfer and gets back out to
Speaker 1: the outside. Wilson tries to spin out there and it
Speaker 1: just chops him down and it takes it away. He's
Speaker 1: on balance, good panch, good punch, hands and feet working together.
Speaker 1: Austin like this gives me goosebumps talking about this because
Speaker 1: this is my dude. We've been buddies since we both
Speaker 1: got here in twenty twenty. He's been through hell and
Speaker 1: back to the first three years of his career. To
Speaker 1: do this in year four. It speaks to his mental toughness,
Speaker 1: to his character. He's the kind of player that brings
Speaker 1: me pride. As weird as that sounds, I'm proud that
Speaker 1: he's on my team.
Speaker 2: I love this guy. Great job.
Speaker 1: Austin Toron Armstead some good but more bad than usual.
Speaker 1: Got beat by Malcolm Coots on that third and long
Speaker 1: holding call that wiped out a Raiders stop on us
Speaker 1: early in the game. I just wrote down because I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him get beat like that before. I thought
Speaker 1: he fell off some blocks more than usual in this
Speaker 1: game too. It's oddly not his best game here. Liam
Speaker 1: Eikenberg I thought was his best game as a Dolphin,
Speaker 1: but that.
Speaker 2: Bar is not very high.
Speaker 1: There was the usual ice skates and pass pro reps,
Speaker 1: but he got some some pretty good surge and some
Speaker 1: running plays and had some dents where he was creating
Speaker 1: some lanes. I thought our connectivity inside on games was
Speaker 1: as good as its bends as we lost both win
Speaker 1: and Hunt.
Speaker 2: I thought Liam was a big part of that.
Speaker 1: But again, like before the savonn Akhmed touchdown tool was sacked,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was a short game not a sack,
Speaker 1: but Liam just gets pulverized after over s heading to
Speaker 1: the right. It gives up the a gap inside excuse me,
Speaker 1: and ruined the entire play. Those are in there every
Speaker 1: single week. But if he can play at this level
Speaker 1: and we get rob hunt back and you have, you know,
Speaker 1: one guy that's the replacement level. I think that's about
Speaker 1: the level of a swing interior play, like he can
Speaker 1: be your top guy off the bench and be okay
Speaker 1: for a few games.
Speaker 2: That's her lineup.
Speaker 1: But disappointing trajectory for a second round pick, but it
Speaker 1: is what it Lester Cotton.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, not not a good game.
Speaker 1: He had a reach block in the first play of
Speaker 1: the game but just overran it. The degree of difficulty
Speaker 1: wasn't very high on that and that was consistent throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the game. Just fell off blocks and
Speaker 1: situations where had he made the key block, it would
Speaker 1: put Raheem Moster one v one in the gap with
Speaker 1: a safety for like a long touchdown run, and if
Speaker 1: he gets three of those, I love his odds to
Speaker 1: hit at least one of them, at least one. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of mental stuff too, like motion removing second
Speaker 1: level defenders. Then we're just out there taking terrible angles
Speaker 1: with those guys. Doesn't lend itself to success. The first
Speaker 1: level rob hunting this spot Liam back to left guard
Speaker 1: or hopefully Rob Jones soon or even win down the road. Obviously,
Speaker 1: to me, that's where the fixes come from. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if we'll see the run game get back to
Speaker 1: levels it was. If this is the lap they have
Speaker 1: around there, and that's just something you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: overcome with other game planning and passing games.
Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll see that change.
Speaker 1: We'll see PFF numbers Tea stead one pressure caught in
Speaker 1: just the two Connor Williams, Liam Eichenberg, and Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: all had won apiece. In fact, the only hits in
Speaker 1: sacks that PFF attributes to the offensive line or to
Speaker 1: the team was to Tua, which makes sense because the
Speaker 1: sacks and pressures were placed where he held the ball
Speaker 1: longer than usual. Oh boy, long podcast, last break right here,
Speaker 1: We'll come back on the other side and talk about
Speaker 1: the defense and the snap counts. That's next Draft Time
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Speaker 1: Twenty two edition of the Draft Time Podcast. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and wrap up the defense here, because man, the
Speaker 1: structures were just top notch all day long. The only
Speaker 1: real chunk plays they got came from bunches and stacks
Speaker 1: where they maybe didn't communicate it well enough on a
Speaker 1: banjo call and you would get a tight end leak
Speaker 1: out into the flat naked alone. First play of the
Speaker 1: game that happened. There was a third downplay on the
Speaker 1: second drive they were able to get Michael Meyer out
Speaker 1: into the flat unmanned.
Speaker 2: He'd gained some yards doing that.
Speaker 1: Then, of course the long DeVante Adams touchdown as well
Speaker 1: was a big gaff is there too, But Javon Hollin
Speaker 1: spoke to the media said it was a vision air
Speaker 1: and you just see him, Elliott, Ramsey and x all
Speaker 1: playing the sticks in quarters, the Raiders running a two
Speaker 1: man route combo with a little crosser action in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Deshaun jumps the front side wide
Speaker 1: receiver who checks up and then it looks like Javaon
Speaker 1: is expecting him to run vertical because he slows down
Speaker 1: for just one step and that was all Adams needed.
Speaker 1: But it was a great throw by O'Connell. Didn't know
Speaker 1: he had that in his bag. Hats off to you, rookie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the first long block that we'd been
Speaker 1: up in a long time. Here. I don't expect that
Speaker 1: it happened very much going forward either upfront Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 1: Did you guys watch the YouTube breakdown? Yet like copy
Speaker 1: paste man run game pursued down the line as the
Speaker 1: unblocked man from the weak side setting the tackle wide
Speaker 1: to set the edge and then work back over the
Speaker 1: top to make the play. It happens time and time
Speaker 1: and time again. I think where you see the stats
Speaker 1: begin to pile up for him in terms of tackles
Speaker 1: is the fact that he can still play when engaged,
Speaker 1: like he can still get off those blocks. He has
Speaker 1: no problem just staying on the block until the action
Speaker 1: eventually flows to him. Then he can disengage and get
Speaker 1: in on the stop. They did it a few times
Speaker 1: on Sunday also after the turnover on downs we had
Speaker 1: them backed up. They have a wide open drag route
Speaker 1: that comes open on a coverage bust. That would have
Speaker 1: been an easy conversion, but O'Connell misses the throw because
Speaker 1: Chubb gets in the in like two point one seconds
Speaker 1: and hits O'Connell's arm back to the run d real quick.
Speaker 1: There's a rep where I laugh because a left tackle
Speaker 1: sets up and tries to pin him and Chubb goes
Speaker 1: in with the cross stab and the elt.
Speaker 2: The left tackle just buckles.
Speaker 1: Like he was sniped, and Halo it was funny to
Speaker 1: watch comical on tapes. To me, he had five pressures
Speaker 1: and three stops. Ray Kuan and Zach were both really
Speaker 1: good against the run. Pass rush wasn't really there for
Speaker 1: them in this game, but both got knocked back when
Speaker 1: singled and then held the point when they were doubled
Speaker 1: in double teams. Zach had a deflected pass and Rayquon
Speaker 1: had a great screen retrace in this game. Rayquon had
Speaker 1: a pressure and a stop. Seiler had four pressures and
Speaker 1: a stop in this game as well.
Speaker 2: Second level players. Look, three of our top tapes were.
Speaker 1: Defense, so a lot of these guys have already been
Speaker 1: taken off Christian Phillips and Ramsey, But David Long like
Speaker 1: he's the Tua of the defense. To me, I've never
Speaker 1: seen a Miami quarterback process like Tua does. I didn't
Speaker 1: have Marinos all twenty two, so I can't say that.
Speaker 1: But I've also never seen a linebacker key and go
Speaker 1: like this guy does.
Speaker 2: Didn't have Zach Thomas either, did I.
Speaker 1: But second play screenplay he beats everyone there and forces
Speaker 1: Adams back into the trash where Raykwan is there for
Speaker 1: that good retrace I mentioned. I always wind up loving
Speaker 1: the way he sinks into the trash and then kind
Speaker 1: of pulls an offensive lineman out of his gap or
Speaker 1: out of his track and then just creates enough separation
Speaker 1: between he and that guy to flow and go make
Speaker 1: a play. Just has a natural feel and knack for
Speaker 1: the position in for the game and is by far
Speaker 1: our best off ball linebacker in the secondary. The perimeter tackling,
Speaker 1: but the Baker effort, I'm aware of it. It's not
Speaker 1: good enough, right, That's all it's gotta be said about that.
Speaker 1: The perimeter tackling in the secondary has been awesome. X
Speaker 1: coming downhill to dump Adams right away, rams that we
Speaker 1: know about him, co who we know about him. But
Speaker 1: all this just makes you a tough to run wide
Speaker 1: on and b makes you nearly obsolete in the screen
Speaker 1: game and against these offenses with younger quarterbacks, which we're
Speaker 1: gonna see the next four weeks here, it's if you
Speaker 1: take that away, there's not much else they can go
Speaker 1: to consistently. It's the easiest way to give quarterbacks built
Speaker 1: in completions, and we shut that stuff down a lot,
Speaker 1: Cater kohu the screen game work. I just like when
Speaker 1: players can use context clues from other parts of the
Speaker 1: field and Cater reads the screen action from what he
Speaker 1: sees playing out in front of him. That's the only
Speaker 1: way you can go as the quarterbacks hands separate is
Speaker 1: because of the process and how in real time you
Speaker 1: can see things play out that way. Then how about
Speaker 1: the third and eight rep one v one right before
Speaker 1: the halftime on their field goal attempt.
Speaker 2: It's DeVante Adams with a two.
Speaker 1: Shoot a little choice route. Why can I think of
Speaker 1: the words A three way go?
Speaker 2: My bad?
Speaker 1: And Cater stands on the upfield shoulder is all over it,
Speaker 1: jumps over the top, forces the incompletion, gets the field
Speaker 1: goal team out there. They targeted him five times, four catches,
Speaker 1: thirty six yards, thirty seven covered steps. I also thought
Speaker 1: Xaving Howard was in great position all game long. Thought
Speaker 1: Deshaun and x or Deshaun and Javon rather really communicated
Speaker 1: well after the deep ball to Devonte Adams. So that's
Speaker 1: your film review. Really good from the defense, really across
Speaker 1: the board. Offense injuries are killing you at some spots.
Speaker 1: The interior offensive line play wasn't great, position wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Tua had more downs than ups than usual, but Waddle
Speaker 1: and Tyreek both were awesome, so that really helped big
Speaker 1: time there. Snap counts wise, the entire offensive line went
Speaker 1: a distance sort of.
Speaker 2: The quarterback.
Speaker 1: Waddle was the leading receiver. He's healthy, man, he looks good.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a big second half of
Speaker 1: the season. Keeps saying it gonna happen eventually. But he
Speaker 1: played eighty three percent of the snaps. Tyreek played fifty
Speaker 1: nine percent of the snaps. Cedric Wilson actually out snapped Tyreek,
Speaker 1: he had sixty four percent of the snaps, and then
Speaker 1: Craig Craft played twenty one snaps and Chosen played five
Speaker 1: snaps in the game. At running back, Mostert led the
Speaker 1: way with eighty percent of the workload, played fifty five snaps.
Speaker 2: Geez, hopefully he's good to go for Friday. It's a
Speaker 2: big workload there.
Speaker 1: And then Savon was next at twenty and of course
Speaker 1: eight Chan had three. Have to imagine we'll see Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson on a Friday in New York. Ingold played fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps, and then Julian Hill played two
Speaker 1: thirds of the snaps forty seven reps in total, and
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft gave you thirty percent of the snaps, so
Speaker 1: it just speaks the attrition. They're nothing to take away
Speaker 1: from that, really, just they're banged up man defensively though,
Speaker 1: really interesting change here, So five guys went the distance.
Speaker 1: It's Holland, Baker, Ramsey, Elliott Howard, your entire secondary with
Speaker 1: your Mike linebacker there, but David Long was the one
Speaker 1: that left the field twenty eight snaps in the game,
Speaker 1: forty six percent of the workload, though that was strange
Speaker 1: to me. Up front, Wilkins played ninety five percent, and
Speaker 1: see they played eighty nine percent.
Speaker 2: Those guys are crazy.
Speaker 1: And then Ogma just played eleven percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: like some of the stuff that he has to do
Speaker 1: in the scheme just does not really his game. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what it looks like going forward for him.
Speaker 1: Ray Kwan played thirty four percent of the snaps on
Speaker 1: the nose.
Speaker 2: Cater played three coreters of.
Speaker 1: The snaps seventy four percent in the game. Bradley Chubb
Speaker 1: and Phillips both played fifty two fifty four for Phillips
Speaker 1: fifty two for Chubb and then Deshaun han had three snaps,
Speaker 1: Riley had one, and Nick Needham had won in the game.
Speaker 2: So it's there.
Speaker 1: They're telling you who they like on either side of
Speaker 1: the football with the snap counts. But I think offensively,
Speaker 1: it's more about getting healthy and defensively, just keep these
Speaker 1: guys out there, man, because this unit we have right now,
Speaker 1: if it stays intact like this, we are going to
Speaker 1: be tough, tough to score on all right. Long a
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