Speaker 1: As you can tell, no intro music on the show.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's a little bit misplaced
Speaker 1: to run this hype music and talk about Dolphins playoff
Speaker 1: pushes with the product you're seeing right now on the field.
Speaker 1: So Joe Robbie in my reviews, who said please change
Speaker 1: the intro music about a thousand times, or I think
Speaker 1: your screen name is, it's still Joe Robbie to me,
Speaker 1: you're getting your wish this week, my friend, I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to find a new intro and roll with that.
Speaker 1: But for now, we'll break down the All twenty two
Speaker 1: tape here from the Dolphins loss in Houston. That's what's
Speaker 1: coming up today on the Draft Time podcast from the
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Speaker 1: is the aforementioned Draft Time podcast maybe ugly Ugly tape
Speaker 1: Offensively and we'll start there. And I thought the Texans
Speaker 1: plan defensively was actually really good and took away a
Speaker 1: lot of what we were trying to do off the top.
Speaker 1: The primary look they would show this man free coverage,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, they're one of the bigger cover
Speaker 1: one teams in the NFL. Single high safety, middle of
Speaker 1: the field and coverage on the outside. It's their most
Speaker 1: run defense, and they run it almost as much as
Speaker 1: anybody else in the NFL. But when we would have
Speaker 1: Rob Jones tap Aaron Brewer before the snap your road
Speaker 1: game indicator to get the snap off, those pressed up
Speaker 1: cornerbacks would see that, they would bail out and invert.
Speaker 1: And what that means is they would play basically a
Speaker 1: Cover two look, but because of their ability to play
Speaker 1: kind of zone turn off of the perimeter, they could
Speaker 1: then work vertically down the stem or up the up
Speaker 1: the stem, I should say, and prevent deep shots from
Speaker 1: happening behind them, but also turn back downhill and come
Speaker 1: play the short underneath game. And it basically gave them
Speaker 1: like thirteen defenders with how we were unable to adjust
Speaker 1: to what they were doing. And then they could also
Speaker 1: spam the middle of the field because that middle of
Speaker 1: the field safety wouldn't gain depth. And I suppose that
Speaker 1: is maybe part of the Tua tungueo ii looa evolution
Speaker 1: we have to see, and you can probably say, like
Speaker 1: limitation in terms of his ability to drive the ball
Speaker 1: down the sea might kind of cause some of this consternation.
Speaker 1: But they just weren't that concerned about us attacking the
Speaker 1: deep middle portion of the field with those perimeter cloud
Speaker 1: cornerbacks being so fluid to play both deep and short,
Speaker 1: and they would squat on the crossers over the middle
Speaker 1: with that middle of the field safety and prevent those
Speaker 1: checkdowns and swing routes to getting big yards. Most of
Speaker 1: the time we did hit a few of those, but
Speaker 1: for the most part they held that stuff in check.
Speaker 1: I thought the mix of that look playing with you know,
Speaker 1: man free where they would come down and play that
Speaker 1: pressed up coverage look and have that safety get depth
Speaker 1: and play this the deep field part of the field.
Speaker 1: They would then use that to bring an extra pass rusher,
Speaker 1: so they would spam the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: get basically two way perimeter players with their four man
Speaker 1: rushes on the outside, and then play that single high
Speaker 1: look with their pressure looks and bring five or six players.
Speaker 1: And they did a good enough job with their four
Speaker 1: man rushes to affect Tuoa before those could open up.
Speaker 1: And then on their blitzes they got in enough to
Speaker 1: make him have to move off the spot away from
Speaker 1: where the opening was in the coverage. Does that all
Speaker 1: attrack to you, Guys like for instance, third and long
Speaker 1: second drive of the game, Wattle gets outside leverage against
Speaker 1: a press cornerback, so he is inviting Waddle to run
Speaker 1: an inbreaking route into the middle of the field to
Speaker 1: the backside of the formation. And there's a middle of
Speaker 1: the field safety who had been, you know, clamping down
Speaker 1: on these crossing routes all game long to this point.
Speaker 1: But he gets vertical and gets that depth. So the
Speaker 1: incut is there. But what do they do but send
Speaker 1: the overload pressure from that same side where Wattle is open,
Speaker 1: because if they can cause confusion, which off of Leam
Speaker 1: Mikenberg and Jackson Carmen was pretty much whenever they wanted
Speaker 1: to do it, it would force Tua to have to
Speaker 1: move to his left. And there isn't a quarterback on
Speaker 1: the planet that can move off the spot to his left,
Speaker 1: Not even Josh Allen can do this and throw that
Speaker 1: eighteen yard incut to the backside without it getting picked off.
Speaker 1: It was a great plan. It was great executed, really
Speaker 1: well executed. I can't even say freaking words. It completely
Speaker 1: stifled our offense and has been the case. There was
Speaker 1: minimal ability to adjust or simplify and find man beaters
Speaker 1: and part of that is the structure of it, but
Speaker 1: part of that is also the personnel you had up
Speaker 1: front on the offensive line, which just off that right
Speaker 1: side was not good enough to compete in an NFL game.
Speaker 1: One nice adjustment that was there because they had a
Speaker 1: few adjustments that tracked and worked, was throwing the hookups
Speaker 1: and sticks to tight ends like we found John Ewis
Speaker 1: Smith a couple of times. I think Durham got one
Speaker 1: in the game. There was one to a running back
Speaker 1: as well, where you split those second level defenders and
Speaker 1: you know this one area of space where they play
Speaker 1: that style where the mic linebacker gets more depth and
Speaker 1: helps that safety when he gets vertical or just gives
Speaker 1: a second player in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Like if you if you peel.
Speaker 1: Back and look at the Texans coverage, most of the
Speaker 1: time you would see a what would you call it,
Speaker 1: like a two to one two formation almost if you're
Speaker 1: talking about soccer or volleyball or I guess even basketball,
Speaker 1: Like two linebackers in the five yard hook area, another
Speaker 1: linebacker in like the ten yard hook area, and then
Speaker 1: two split field safeties at the numbers like fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: yards down the field. Just basically saying, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball to this direction, and we have the
Speaker 1: best cornerback in the NFL and Derek Stingley that we
Speaker 1: can play no safety help because he's gonna beat Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill all game long. And he did that. So that's
Speaker 1: what happened, and we had guys play like crap. We
Speaker 1: adjusted a little bit. Those stick routes kind of worked
Speaker 1: and they would find some space in those hook zones,
Speaker 1: but the Texas would eventually adjust and we could not
Speaker 1: Readjust to the readjustment. I thought there was another really
Speaker 1: good adjustment though, where John Wu, and this was kind
Speaker 1: of like the evolution that had to happen more. I
Speaker 1: think in the game where John Wu ran what looked
Speaker 1: like a crosser from an inline why position, and they
Speaker 1: would bring a receiver who was in the slot, you know,
Speaker 1: further to the left of John U, to the left
Speaker 1: side of the formation, and he would run that same
Speaker 1: crosser path. But then Johnny would just stop his route
Speaker 1: and sit down between the two linebackers covering and zone,
Speaker 1: and that one receiver would kind of widen that middle
Speaker 1: of the field coverage and create space for Johnny. We've
Speaker 1: got the fourth down conversion on a play just like that,
Speaker 1: and there was another stick throw that we had on
Speaker 1: that same look. That was a nice game for the offense.
Speaker 1: But even then, the Texan zones were so well connected,
Speaker 1: like they could have that you know one that cover
Speaker 1: one Tyreek to the outside, but he also has inside
Speaker 1: eyes that could peel off and go downhill and make
Speaker 1: that tackle on the leak Washington when he runs that
Speaker 1: little pivot route that breaks to the outside. So you're
Speaker 1: covering the one vertical, but you also have eyes on
Speaker 1: the two because that vertical is designed to get the
Speaker 1: cornerback running with him to create that out route throw
Speaker 1: for Tua that we hit against the Jets all day long.
Speaker 1: But because they're so good at zone turning and having
Speaker 1: you know, really four to three vertical speed, which if
Speaker 1: you go back to like the Brian Flores defense and
Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick defense, really one of their core principles
Speaker 1: at cornerback was you have to run four to three
Speaker 1: because that allows you to be able to get vertical
Speaker 1: and take away deep passes but also come downhill and
Speaker 1: cut down backs and tight ends or slot receivers on outs.
Speaker 1: It just expands the field defensively and gives you extra
Speaker 1: defenders really against the count because you're not having to
Speaker 1: play these three high safety looks where we're going to
Speaker 1: basically just give you all the underneath work. We're going
Speaker 1: to cover that and have the skill set to be
Speaker 1: able to come back down the stem and make those
Speaker 1: plays so you can hit those against this coverage, against
Speaker 1: these looks. But it's like five and six yard gains,
Speaker 1: and that's a really tough way to make a living
Speaker 1: in this league, especially when you commit you know, ten
Speaker 1: penalties in the game, and you have drop passes, you
Speaker 1: have a misthrow from a quarterback. Every single miss will
Speaker 1: ruin one of those drives if you try to make
Speaker 1: it that way, and that's never going to lead to
Speaker 1: more than points in the team.
Speaker 2: So it's not a good way to make a living.
Speaker 1: And just to get into this more like you know,
Speaker 1: I've been complaining about it on various you know, channels whatnot.
Speaker 1: But if you want to defeat this, you're going to
Speaker 1: have to lift that middle of the field camping safety
Speaker 1: and you need to throw corner routes, which I think
Speaker 1: we've proven would be a better option for a catch,
Speaker 1: you know, a catch point pass catcher, someone that can
Speaker 1: go out rebound the defenders, and Travis has to take
Speaker 1: an l ry here because for years I thought it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how big your receivers are, just get open.
Speaker 2: You throw to open guys.
Speaker 1: But when they run certain structures and coverage, I have
Speaker 1: learned and have had to adjust my approach to analyzing
Speaker 1: football and just evaluating in general that sometimes those throws
Speaker 1: do require a certain pass catcher. I talked about it
Speaker 1: even in the Jets game when Tua tried Tyreek on
Speaker 1: a couple of those contested plays. He ain't making those catches.
Speaker 1: Those balls are getting knocked down. But my biggest gripe
Speaker 1: of the entire game tape is the effort. This is
Speaker 1: an offense that and you heard coach say this right
Speaker 1: has to play very well connected for it to work.
Speaker 1: And that's a whole other can of worms I don't
Speaker 1: feel like getting into right now. I feel like Ck
Speaker 1: Parrott on Twitter kind of spelled that out for you
Speaker 1: if you want to go check out how troubling that
Speaker 1: might be and how much you know you put on
Speaker 1: the quarterback's plate to get to the line scrimmage and
Speaker 1: you know, get the snap off by the time he
Speaker 1: goes through his you know rolodex of checks he has
Speaker 1: to make. And while that might have been over emphasized
Speaker 1: in this scheme, you know the idea to play so connected.
Speaker 1: It's true for everybody. But like a poker player, you know,
Speaker 1: you install your false keys, your play, you're ball handling,
Speaker 1: you run your decoy route. These are the pre the
Speaker 1: pre flop rays that you make. You carry out your action.
Speaker 1: After the flop comes out, you make a bet on
Speaker 1: the turn that kind of indicates you're still playing that
Speaker 1: same hand. You have to convince the defense that what
Speaker 1: you're doing has merit, that your bets have merit, that
Speaker 1: you have the hand that you're saying you have. On
Speaker 1: this bluff on the first drive of the game, to
Speaker 1: what tries a glance to waddle but throws it high
Speaker 1: as the middle linebacker gets depth on the pass play
Speaker 1: on play action, I should say you're trying to get
Speaker 1: him to fall step downhill one or two steps to
Speaker 1: create that throwing window over the middle for your quarterback
Speaker 1: against an outside leverage cornerback. It's how you spring big plays.
Speaker 1: The false steps on play action. Throw the endbreaker. Hopefully
Speaker 1: Wattle can make a safety miss and we're off to
Speaker 1: the races right, but on this particular play we fake
Speaker 1: the give and the running back, which in this instance
Speaker 1: was devon a. Chan jogs through the lane and you
Speaker 1: can see number forty three. He takes like a half
Speaker 1: step forward. He very clearly sees the balls not going
Speaker 1: to eight Chan, who's not selling the fake run at all,
Speaker 1: and he backs off and puts his hand right in
Speaker 1: the passing lane and to his throw goes right over
Speaker 1: the top of his hand, which is too high for waddle.
Speaker 1: He was able to impact the play because we did
Speaker 1: not sell the run action hard enough. And that's why
Speaker 1: I say, like, it's not this tear down rebuild to
Speaker 1: make things work. It's just these fine little details. And
Speaker 1: when you say that, ultimately that comes back to the top.
Speaker 1: So if you want to think it's intangible, I think
Speaker 1: it kind of is in some regards. I think that
Speaker 1: McDaniel's certainly within his ability to make those changes, or
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to be, because you can't keep doing
Speaker 1: this right. And I think that you can go to
Speaker 1: him and say, you know, or to anybody that wants
Speaker 1: to get this thing corrected, and say like, this is
Speaker 1: what has to be corrected, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make some changes to make it happen. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's very well within you know, again his skill set.
Speaker 1: But that's what has to happen, regardless of who it is.
Speaker 1: That is what has to happen. You have to find adjustment,
Speaker 1: and you have to find better effort and just more
Speaker 1: strain in those particular moments because you are not doing
Speaker 1: enough to execute those fine details.
Speaker 2: And again I'll go back to Cee K.
Speaker 1: Parrott that he wrote that out in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the off seas and decisions, and I'll leave
Speaker 1: him to give you, I think a pretty good glance
Speaker 1: at how some of those things can change. And then
Speaker 1: how about this that third down play on the first
Speaker 1: drive where Tua just scrambles out of bounds. You see
Speaker 1: Tyreek bunched right next to Malik Washington and they both
Speaker 1: run in cuts at the exact same depth down the field.
Speaker 1: And then Tyreek changes where he's going because I think
Speaker 1: he realizes he probably ran the wrong route, which happened
Speaker 1: three or four times in this game. Then he starts
Speaker 1: blocking thirty yards down the field with the flat defender
Speaker 1: in front of Tua, and Tua's not gonna make anybody miss.
Speaker 1: We know that, so why we block him? Like all
Speaker 1: he had to do was come back downhill and run
Speaker 1: towards the sideline and Tua would have had a target
Speaker 1: and you could have found him for a first down.
Speaker 1: But instead it goes for a short run or a
Speaker 1: negative run for like one yard and we're punting.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I can't have that.
Speaker 1: The next drive, the Tua scramble both Reek and maleik
Speaker 1: Okay that rams occupy the same five yards of space
Speaker 1: after they break off the stem. Somebody ran the wrong
Speaker 1: route once again, not for nothing. I think Derek Stingley
Speaker 1: again might be the best cornerback in football. The fourth
Speaker 1: quarter pick wasn't the only rep where they trusted him
Speaker 1: without safety help on Tyreek hill. And the way he
Speaker 1: can flip his hips and get vertical at that four
Speaker 1: to three speed then change direction right back down the stem.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody in the league that does
Speaker 1: it like him. And the way they run to the
Speaker 1: football and hit they pack a punch. That's a damn
Speaker 1: good defense that has taken on the personality of their
Speaker 1: head coach. Go watch Demiko Ryans play a middle linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans and go watch the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: play that game yesterday. It's the exact same thing. You
Speaker 1: are a reflection of your head coach. That has been
Speaker 1: true since day one, back in freaking nineteen ten football,
Speaker 1: and it is today in twenty twenty four. And look,
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of issues that tie
Speaker 1: back to that, you know, the top. And this is
Speaker 1: not my platform to, like, you know, say make this
Speaker 1: change and hire this guy, like I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's fair to say that we were
Speaker 1: soundly out coached. And that is a freaking theme my
Speaker 1: friends in these games. If you want to see a
Speaker 1: great example, And look, I praised some of the adjustments, right,
Speaker 1: but pull up third quarter, eight thirty seven. We run
Speaker 1: all stick. It's five end of the route, empty formation.
Speaker 1: They all run five yards down the field and turn
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback. And it looks like when you're
Speaker 1: playing pick up basketball with your mates and nobody wants
Speaker 1: to like do anything to get open. Everyone just stands
Speaker 1: around and looks at each other and nothing happens. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it just wasn't a good plan.
Speaker 1: It wasn't well executed, it wasn't well adjusted and that's
Speaker 1: why you got beat. And I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: a theme that has developed for this team in the
Speaker 1: last three years. And again not to I saw someone
Speaker 1: that doesn't like my work but listens to all the podcasts,
Speaker 1: first of all, said.
Speaker 2: Whoa, it's me. No, it's the saying is woe is me? Dude,
Speaker 2: and not whoa, it's woe woe is me.
Speaker 1: I thought that was hilarious that they came at me
Speaker 1: so hot and had that commentary. I'm assuming he'll hear
Speaker 1: this podcast as well. Not to like, you know, complain
Speaker 1: about being a Dolphins fan for thirty years and getting
Speaker 1: no fruit from it, but rather than getting my whole
Speaker 1: career made by working for the team. But you know,
Speaker 1: like I was talking to Crabs about this on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: and like, dude, this perpetual cycle, especially when we go
Speaker 1: from Brady to Josh Allen, right, you know, not even
Speaker 1: a season's break there, we got like the you know,
Speaker 1: you couldn't get like one division title layup for yourself
Speaker 1: in the one off year. You go right from one
Speaker 1: great to the probably like Josh Hallin's is the best
Speaker 1: quarterback of all time right now, My goodness, but it
Speaker 1: was nice to have that two year reprieve right where
Speaker 1: it wasn't like eight to nine, nine and eight in
Speaker 1: the hunt column, which was the worst place to be
Speaker 1: those I've talked about on the podcast, those you know,
Speaker 1: twenty really nine to like twenty eighteen Dolphins. That's the
Speaker 1: worst place to be in the entire National Football League.
Speaker 1: And grant that we're we're kind of back there right
Speaker 1: now with some you know, mitigating circumstances that have caused that,
Speaker 1: and luckily, you know, better quarterback play will typically get
Speaker 1: you out of that. And we have that even though
Speaker 1: he missed four games, and you can argue that those
Speaker 1: are the four games that.
Speaker 2: Kept out of the playoffs. YadA YadA yah.
Speaker 1: But the whole point is this, Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: it has to be this doom and gloom, like we're
Speaker 1: only going to be this nine and eight team again forever.
Speaker 1: I think that you're not that far away from making
Speaker 1: some tweaks and adjustment, but you will, you know, it
Speaker 1: will require some philosophical core changes, maybe some big pieces
Speaker 1: going on, maybe addition by subtraction, just all the things
Speaker 1: that you look at with this team. I don't advocate
Speaker 1: for anything in particular. I'm, you know, here to go
Speaker 1: with the motions and basically go with the flow of
Speaker 1: what they decide. But I think that we can all
Speaker 1: agree that there has to be something that changes. You
Speaker 1: can't just roll back the same program, same philosophy, same
Speaker 1: concept in year number four. You just can't do that right.
Speaker 1: It hasn't worked. You have to make an adjustment. That's
Speaker 1: my plea. Let's come back here and do the quarterback
Speaker 1: and the rest of the offense, and the next segment,
Speaker 1: third second, we'll do the defense. It will be a
Speaker 1: quicker show today than the Tuesday show usually is Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. All right, let's get to the quarterback talk here.
Speaker 1: Segment two, Film review podcast. Dolphins lose twenty twelve to
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Gosh, should have won that football game. Man,
Speaker 1: offense gotta be better than that, and the quarterback has
Speaker 1: to be better than that too. He had some accuracy
Speaker 1: issues early on that I thought kind of brought back
Speaker 1: some of those same feelings about big game moments for
Speaker 1: Tua Tounguaailoa, and I do think that those are a
Speaker 1: little bit overstated because there's a lot of the things
Speaker 1: I just talked about, But he certainly has his hand
Speaker 1: in this issue as well. Twenty six year old quarterback.
Speaker 1: Is this who's going to be forever in terms of
Speaker 1: some of the misthrows in these spots. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's how it works, but I can certainly understand your
Speaker 1: concern if you do feel that way. And he had
Speaker 1: accuracy issues early on, and the Texans clearly wanted to
Speaker 1: flood the interior with pressure, and I thought he did
Speaker 1: a good job early of getting off the spot and
Speaker 1: moving to his left. The first instant had no route
Speaker 1: peeled back with him. But then the second one, the
Speaker 1: one that Tyreek Hill kicked, which hey, if you can
Speaker 1: get a foot on it, you can probably get a
Speaker 1: hand on.
Speaker 2: It, you know.
Speaker 1: But Tua's throw was way off the market. It should
Speaker 1: have been a much easier pitching catch than it was.
Speaker 1: To have missed that one cost us a first down
Speaker 1: on that spot. Then he missed on a corner to Tyreek,
Speaker 1: and frankly, I thought it was their best play design
Speaker 1: early in the game of the day because the Texans
Speaker 1: had been holding that cloud corner that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: ad nauseum here and I'm just so impressed by that
Speaker 1: ability to do that, and I realizing, you know, the
Speaker 1: athletic ability they have at the position. As much as
Speaker 1: I love and praise the Dolphins cornerbacks, we don't have
Speaker 1: that change of direction skill set to get back downhill.
Speaker 1: But the cornerback was able to get some depth and
Speaker 1: take away up to like ten yards on the outbreaking stuff,
Speaker 1: and Tua shoots one for Tyreek with Wattle running an
Speaker 1: out from the slot, and Tua pumps the ball to Wattle,
Speaker 1: who's the two, right, the second receiver from Again, if
Speaker 1: you listen to the show, you know this, but for
Speaker 1: your first time listening, the one receiver is the closest
Speaker 1: to the sideline, the two is the next closest inside,
Speaker 1: three is the next. It just keeps going inside until
Speaker 1: you get to you know, three or four, maybe even five,
Speaker 1: but nobody runs five zero formations is three by one,
Speaker 1: sometimes four by one, sometimes sometimes two by two. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so Reek is the one and he takes this uh.
Speaker 1: He runs this corner route with an inside release back
Speaker 1: to the corner, and Wattle's job as the two is
Speaker 1: to run a speed out and to pull that cloud
Speaker 1: corner back up to create space in the to the
Speaker 1: corner throw for ty. But if he gets depth, you
Speaker 1: throw the out route, and in this particular instance, to
Speaker 1: a pumps to waddle and that does bring that cornerback
Speaker 1: up a little bit, not as much as I would
Speaker 1: like to, but he did bring him up. But then
Speaker 1: he sails the throw. And the reason he sails the
Speaker 1: throw to me is because he has to reset his
Speaker 1: feet after the pump, and you see his base get
Speaker 1: too wide, and that can change your arm slot, and
Speaker 1: the ball winds up high when the arm slot dips
Speaker 1: lower than you're used to when you cut that thing loose.
Speaker 1: So a miss, miss mechanic, mechanical myss there, I should say.
Speaker 1: On the sack fumble, I thought that's where you started
Speaker 1: to see the way their effective game plan made to uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: They did such a good job of challenging us at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and mixing it up that you
Speaker 1: actually say, to a normally one of the best processors
Speaker 1: and decision makers, double clutch make him think, and you
Speaker 1: don't want your quarterback having to do that too often.
Speaker 2: And it was most of his dropbacks.
Speaker 1: It was, uh, you know, I think Kyle talked to
Speaker 1: Darryl Bevell this summer about you know, RBIs in the
Speaker 1: in the at the quarterback position and giving him reps
Speaker 1: off where he doesn't have to make high level, stressful
Speaker 1: reads like this was not one of those games. It
Speaker 1: was consistently having to parse through a lot of coverage
Speaker 1: and that's a lot of mental strain on your quarterback,
Speaker 1: and of course he has to be tough enough to
Speaker 1: handle that, but you want to make it easy. I
Speaker 1: think the entire job of the play caller is to
Speaker 1: reduce that from the quarterback. And on this particular play,
Speaker 1: he has Kraycraft on an out to the field from
Speaker 1: the one. But the way they would show man and
Speaker 1: flip back to the zone, I don't think Tua knew
Speaker 1: if the slot cornerback would carry his man or peel
Speaker 1: out into the curl flat, so he double clutches. The
Speaker 1: protection breaks down against the four man rush, and the
Speaker 1: play just totally falls apart. Their defensive tackle bull rushes
Speaker 1: Liam right into his lap, which Liam not in this game, buddy,
Speaker 1: But he's able to get out of that. But the
Speaker 1: problem is when he bubbles back. So usually two of
Speaker 1: steps up and through pressure. On this one, he retreats
Speaker 1: a couple of yards and because of that, Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 1: who Jackson Carmen had a pretty good rep on this
Speaker 1: particular play, when he bubbles back, that gives Hunter the
Speaker 1: ability to shed that block and go get the sack
Speaker 1: fumble on Tua didn't have good ball security either, so
Speaker 1: that's really it. They just made him uncomfortable, made him
Speaker 1: double clutch, and that pass rush against what we had
Speaker 1: in terms of a available bodies. It's a really, really
Speaker 1: tough way to make your offense go. I think on
Speaker 1: the first pick you saw more of what we talked
Speaker 1: about with how the Texans were able to expand their
Speaker 1: hook drops that hook linebacker in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and actually this is maybe, you know, probably it
Speaker 1: probably should have been in legal contact in the play
Speaker 1: he hip checks Tyreek Hill before the ball gets out
Speaker 1: and it's eight yards down the fields. That's a flag
Speaker 1: to me, and I think that's what causes the route
Speaker 1: to round off the way it did. Now you do
Speaker 1: have to flatten that route out and you have to
Speaker 1: work for the defender. In fact, I texted to OJ
Speaker 1: and he was like, you have to cross his face.
Speaker 1: You cannot go around him that way because that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen on that throw because that will draw
Speaker 1: the flag if you go through him, run through the
Speaker 1: guy because he's standing there, it's going to be I
Speaker 1: legal contact. And this is another reason to say the
Speaker 1: Dolphins probably need more size at the position and Travis
Speaker 1: takes a big, fat l guys that can get to
Speaker 1: spots with their physicality, because this has been a theme
Speaker 1: for three years now and Tua and I mean he
Speaker 1: has to be able to see that and not throw
Speaker 1: it as well. I get that you got the look
Speaker 1: you wanted, but man, Tyreek was never even close to
Speaker 1: get into that spot, so he let the reroute work.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong for saying two I should see that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, but it's just bad football all around.
Speaker 1: They got him off his game pretty early, and that's
Speaker 1: where I thought the mistakes happened. You know, he worked
Speaker 1: Raheem on a little flat route on I think it
Speaker 1: was the touchdown drive, maybe the field goal drive. I
Speaker 1: forget where Tyreek ran stick nod and it would have
Speaker 1: been it was before the Johnny touchdown pass. Tyreek runs
Speaker 1: stick nod and we should have run that play all
Speaker 1: game long because that's how you open up the middle
Speaker 1: of the field when they're doing what they're doing, and
Speaker 1: John here runs a slant off the backside of that
Speaker 1: was also open. He didn't see any of it, went
Speaker 1: to the other side for Raheem Moster. Now, the touchdown
Speaker 1: throw to Johndrey Smith was picktime. Quarterback play extends a
Speaker 1: play that was dead, which has happened a lot. And
Speaker 1: you know two is not a creator, right, he does
Speaker 1: has a little bit of his game, but there's too
Speaker 1: many play calls that die out for him where he
Speaker 1: has to find a way to create. And this time
Speaker 1: he does it and puts the ball in the perfect
Speaker 1: location for that particular play.
Speaker 2: What a throw gets us back into the game.
Speaker 1: And on the pick the two picks to end the game,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he saw on the first Stingley pick.
Speaker 1: That one's on him to me. And also a non
Speaker 1: human level change of direction skill set from Stingley. Good
Speaker 1: play by him, bad play by our guy cost us
Speaker 1: in a spot where you could have tied the game
Speaker 1: right there on the final pick. Listen, if you're nitpicking
Speaker 1: about the ball being throw a foot shorter than it
Speaker 1: had to be, I think that you probably just have
Speaker 1: an agenda right, because that's a good football. It's not
Speaker 1: a perfect ball, but it's a good ball. Catch the ball, man,
Speaker 1: there's a moment where it's in only Tyreek's hands and
Speaker 1: not in Stingley's at all strong hands. Pull it away.
Speaker 1: Keep that football for yourself. But we've dropped balls in
Speaker 1: every single big game we've played the last three years.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was two's worst game of the year.
Speaker 1: He's played to me two bad games this year. But
Speaker 1: I don't even sweat it because you know that he'll
Speaker 1: put in three hundred hours of work this offseason to
Speaker 1: fix that part of his game, to attack the type
Speaker 1: of coverage to make the throws he has to make
Speaker 1: to get over that hump, and he'll make it our strength.
Speaker 2: He always does.
Speaker 1: I think when you can pressure as frequently as they
Speaker 1: did with three and four and then mix up your
Speaker 1: looks and make him hesitate, that's literally the aim of
Speaker 1: every defensive game plan you've ever heard.
Speaker 2: So tip your cap to them.
Speaker 1: They lead the league in takeaways and negative plays for
Speaker 1: a reason, and we were not good enough.
Speaker 2: That's all it is.
Speaker 1: That's how you lose football games. Individual standouts, there were
Speaker 1: not many. Patrick paul I continue to be very encouraged
Speaker 1: about what I see with him. I thought he connected
Speaker 1: well on some reach blocks. I thought he held his
Speaker 1: blocks in the running game as well as anybody the
Speaker 1: entire game. And the one area I was hoping to
Speaker 1: see some growth from was when rushers would overset him
Speaker 1: and then cross face, and there was a rep on
Speaker 1: Will Anderson where he locked that exact move down. Now,
Speaker 1: he did get beat inside on a glance throw to
Speaker 1: Waddle where to had him and it forced an incomplete pass.
Speaker 1: He had a holding call they picked up for some
Speaker 1: reason where he got beat on that same look. Not
Speaker 1: sure why, but to me, another good showing from Patrick Paul.
Speaker 1: I think left tackle, center, and quarterback have been the
Speaker 1: most consistent positions on the offense this year, and Patrick
Speaker 1: Paul has contributed to quality starts to that list. I
Speaker 1: thought Malik Washington did some good stuff in the run
Speaker 1: blocking game. He ran hard with the football. I thought
Speaker 1: Wattle was sharp before he got hurt, and thought Rob
Speaker 1: Jones had one of his better games. He had some
Speaker 1: nice blocks at the point of attack. Really really tough
Speaker 1: day for the offense, though, like even these tiny little details,
Speaker 1: we throw a little chip release screen to John hus
Speaker 1: Smith and Brewer has a block lined up. The cornerback
Speaker 1: ducks the block and is able to trip John new
Speaker 1: Smith like he's run through way horror tackles and Brewer's
Speaker 1: made way tougher blocks.
Speaker 2: It was just one of those days.
Speaker 1: Now, individual misses, there were plenty Liam Eikenberg, so you
Speaker 1: know how he's always in the ground like it happens
Speaker 1: because of poor balance, and you see that on reps
Speaker 1: when guys go for their shed move or if they
Speaker 1: overwhelm him with power. The minute a guy engages in
Speaker 1: a two gap role and then detaches, Liam falls off
Speaker 1: like a stick of melting butter in the microwave.
Speaker 2: He reads.
Speaker 1: His reads and pass protection were terrible all game long,
Speaker 1: turning the a gap free with no defenders slanting his direction.
Speaker 1: He also consistently failed to get his half of the
Speaker 1: man blocked on combinations. This is one of his worst games,
Speaker 1: even by the standard the Dolphins fans have for him
Speaker 1: in general. There were drop eights where they got pressure
Speaker 1: held the play before the first two a pick was
Speaker 1: a two man rush and they still moved to off
Speaker 1: the spot by bull rushing. Liam protection slide was bad,
Speaker 1: but geez man, you know I've said I think that
Speaker 1: Liam's a good three position backup on the interior next year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's super durable, tough as hell. You know, he
Speaker 1: played through a tough injury last year. He can play
Speaker 1: five positions in a pinch. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: him at center, but I think that if you make
Speaker 1: him your sixth man on the interior, that's not a
Speaker 1: bad place to be. But this game made me think
Speaker 1: like that looked like last year at center. Not a
Speaker 1: good look, but it wasn't It wasn't good in this one.
Speaker 1: I still hold out hope for that long term, you know,
Speaker 1: backup role, maybe the seventh offensive lineman. But you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Jackson Carmen. There's not a need to
Speaker 1: do a deep dive here. It's just not an NFL player.
Speaker 1: Let's just leave it at that. I thought Aaron Brewer
Speaker 1: missed a lot of blocks were used to him hitting
Speaker 1: at the second level. He looked human in that regard.
Speaker 1: Julian Hill lost the point of attack more than usual.
Speaker 1: I thought Alec kind of got bounced around a little
Speaker 1: bit tyreek. The effort was just in freelancing. Can't do it.
Speaker 1: And then a Chan that one effort play just drove
Speaker 1: me crazy. Snap counts for the offense, the quarterback and
Speaker 1: O line go the distant sixty eight snaps. Tyreek played
Speaker 1: all the snaps but two. Malik Washington played fifty nine percent,
Speaker 1: Wattle thirty eight percent after the injury, of course, Craig
Speaker 1: Craft thirty one and Do both sixteen percent. John new
Speaker 1: Smith played two thirds of the snaps, Julian Hill played
Speaker 1: forty percent, m twenty four percent. A Chan again your
Speaker 1: lead back at two thirds of the snaps, Most played
Speaker 1: one third, and Jalen Wright had three snaps and alec
Speaker 1: Ingold had sixteen snaps in this football game. Last break
Speaker 1: right there, come back into the defense Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoundation. All right,
Speaker 1: defensive review. I think this was just a lot of
Speaker 1: out execution on our part. I mean, not a ton
Speaker 1: of mixture in disguise or anything like that. We play
Speaker 1: a lot of that Cover three, our primary coverage. We
Speaker 1: roll out by running it at the second highest rate
Speaker 1: in a game we have in this season. The Rams
Speaker 1: game was number one, but we just beat them up
Speaker 1: up front time and time again. And as I say
Speaker 1: that on the first play of the other side of
Speaker 1: the two minute warning in the first half, they run
Speaker 1: that exact same inverted two middle of the field buzz
Speaker 1: safety look I talked about with the Texans defense, which
Speaker 1: fits because they run a Bobby Slowik offense off the
Speaker 1: Shanahan tree. Right, we didn't have anybody travel and I
Speaker 1: thought that there was you know, more so mixing roles
Speaker 1: in different matchups and playing zones and man and blitzing
Speaker 1: your slot cornerback here and there. And I thought that
Speaker 1: produced way better connectivity than we did last week with
Speaker 1: several coverage busts when we had Ramsey, Cater and Kendall
Speaker 1: all healthy and practicing all week together. I think the
Speaker 1: secondary plays really good football despite some kind of shaky
Speaker 1: safety play the whole year. I thought our rushes were coordinated.
Speaker 1: I thought our backers were reading the way our defensive
Speaker 1: line was engaging and shedding blocks and scraping off of
Speaker 1: those blocks. Accordingly, just a really sound, well executed game
Speaker 1: plan that mixed it up more as the game went on.
Speaker 1: But they just kind of outplayed the Texans in that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, if not for the fake punt, we're probably
Speaker 1: talking about a thirteen point day for the defense and
Speaker 1: shoot the touchdown we scored after that fake punt drive
Speaker 1: that led to a touchdown, and you know, who knows
Speaker 1: if the game plays out this way, but that would
Speaker 1: have been to make it thirteen to twelve, pending a
Speaker 1: pat that we would miss.
Speaker 2: So who knows how different?
Speaker 1: It looks really good showing best players played really good
Speaker 1: games and kept us in it. And speaking of those
Speaker 1: standout players, Cater Kohu is one of the tops on
Speaker 1: the list. He studied his butt off this week. Man,
Speaker 1: he knew what was coming on a couple of the
Speaker 1: big plays he made. He punched out the fumble on
Speaker 1: the opening drive and watching that back, Javon Holland is
Speaker 1: a fraction of a second from scooping that thing up
Speaker 1: just like Jordan Brooks did later in the game and
Speaker 1: taking it back for six. So he knocks that football
Speaker 1: free on a screen. He blows up a block on
Speaker 1: a screen two drives later and gets a TfL. Then
Speaker 1: on the drive right before the half, he knows where
Speaker 1: his help is, plays outside leverage, anticipates the outbreaking route
Speaker 1: and drives on to challenge Tank Dell and break up
Speaker 1: the pass. One of the best games I've seen Ko
Speaker 1: Kohou play probably since his rookie year Chop Robinson. You
Speaker 1: can see his impact before they even get to the production.
Speaker 1: Watch how the other team plans for him, how he
Speaker 1: influences the way they call games. They are sliding, they
Speaker 1: are chipping, they are flat out dedicating multiple bodies on
Speaker 1: straight up double teams to take care of your rookie
Speaker 1: edge rusher, and he still wins.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I think about what a healthy Jalen Phillips could do
Speaker 1: to just not just to bookend him, but playing some
Speaker 1: three technique next to him in some of the ways
Speaker 1: that he can run games and create picks for Chop.
Speaker 1: Get well soon, JP, because man, that combination is going
Speaker 1: to be fun to watch if we get JP back
Speaker 1: healthy a sealer. It started early for him in the
Speaker 1: two technique positions, slants off the inside guard's face and
Speaker 1: just runs right past him with peer speed and forces
Speaker 1: Stroud to throw the ball away. So when a man
Speaker 1: like this, with his size, power, length and motor, when
Speaker 1: he beats you with speed on the second staf of
Speaker 1: the game, that's got to be a pretty hopeless feeling.
Speaker 1: Because he can basically go five or six pitches deep
Speaker 1: into his bag and he can get you out with
Speaker 1: all of them.
Speaker 2: He can throw them all in three two counts.
Speaker 1: And I know baseball is not everyone's favorite sport here,
Speaker 1: but it's important to have multiple pitches to get outs with.
Speaker 1: And that's what Zach Sealer has. On the individual sack
Speaker 1: he had, he jab steps upfield, has a violent arm,
Speaker 1: over rips his way into the gap, and closes on
Speaker 1: a downhill line to the quarterback finish the sack. What
Speaker 1: a great game for Zach Seiler. He would get plenty
Speaker 1: more pressure in the backfield, including a critical holding call
Speaker 1: on him, and another half of the sack to help
Speaker 1: keep the Dolphins alive.
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks is a hell of a football player, really
Speaker 1: really good football player. Starts the game off where he
Speaker 1: matches Joe Mixon on a slow play wheel route. You
Speaker 1: see mix and slow roll what he's trying to sell
Speaker 1: as a flat route. Then he just turns on the
Speaker 1: Jets and he gets on top of Jordan Brooks. But
Speaker 1: Brooks does a good job of widening the route by
Speaker 1: staying in phase just enough to squeeze mix unto the perimeter.
Speaker 1: But Stroud's ball is fine, but the way Jay the
Speaker 1: way that Jordan Brooks pinned him to the sideline, it
Speaker 1: made the throw go out of bounds. On the next drive,
Speaker 1: when I Seeler sack, you see a mug up in
Speaker 1: the A gap and slant his rush right into the
Speaker 1: left guard and the running back steps up to pick
Speaker 1: him up and pass pro but he gets past him
Speaker 1: with speed and that creates this natural pick that allows
Speaker 1: Seiler to scrape off and close on Stroud for that sack.
Speaker 1: The very next play makes a TfL in the next
Speaker 1: drive where he goes from a stack off ball linebacker
Speaker 1: position all the way to the sideline where he splits
Speaker 1: a block, defeats a crackback from a receiver, and finishes
Speaker 1: by getting mixed into the ground. These last two games
Speaker 1: have been as good as you can play off ball linebacker.
Speaker 1: I still can't believe he scooped that ball off the
Speaker 1: turf from the phone recovery. He scoops it up while
Speaker 1: doing a jumping one ad to avoid all the bodies
Speaker 1: at his feet. Unreal athletic ability. I think Quentin Bell's
Speaker 1: to development arc is pretty interesting. Big combine testing guy
Speaker 1: didn't find his way onto a defense to play a
Speaker 1: serious role in the first couple of years in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: gets here makes a great impression as a practice squad guy,
Speaker 1: a good scout team guy, has a great camp and
Speaker 1: makes the team, doesn't play much, gets more and more ops,
Speaker 1: and starts to play better and better as the year
Speaker 1: goes along. He sets such a hard edge in the
Speaker 1: running game. He's a guy that I love to have
Speaker 1: in the rotation down the road so you can have
Speaker 1: your big guns, like you know, Chop and Phillips. Give
Speaker 1: him a breather on first and second downs here and
Speaker 1: there between a couple of series, because you know, you
Speaker 1: can get fifteen snaps from Quentin Bell playing the run game,
Speaker 1: and you can get you know, equal run production and
Speaker 1: get your guys a couple of plays off to get
Speaker 1: them a breath there in the game. He really resets
Speaker 1: that thing and gives himself the opportunity to get off
Speaker 1: the block both in the B and C gap, and
Speaker 1: that's how you have to play the edge. And then
Speaker 1: a good game from Javon Holland. I like it when
Speaker 1: they sneak him down to the box and let him
Speaker 1: fit the run, fly up field against screens and jet
Speaker 1: sweeps and just let him play the hook coverage role.
Speaker 1: He has some big sticks and they're tight end of
Speaker 1: this game, even out Dalton Schultz for a couple of
Speaker 1: plays individual misses. I just thought Walker looked really slow
Speaker 1: on that tank Dell jet sweep. I mean he also
Speaker 1: got lost in coverage in the first touchdown. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: banged up, and you know, him and Ployer had a
Speaker 1: kind of weird communication or coverage in that play. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into Poyer talk because we've
Speaker 1: done it so much this year, but I thought it
Speaker 1: was rough for him as well. And then Emmanuel ogbad
Speaker 1: just the juice on four man rushes just as not
Speaker 1: there opposite Chop it would be, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen when you lose your top two guys to
Speaker 1: injury and the third guy never makes it to camp.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphin's edge and tackle groups are so banged
Speaker 1: up that I don't know what more you can ask for.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 1: You can say they brought in too many injury prone guys.
Speaker 2: I guess if you want.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna be able to go four, five,
Speaker 1: six deep at these positions and still be productive.
Speaker 2: So that was it.
Speaker 1: The snap counts Javon Holland, Jordan Brooks, Anthony Walker, Kendall Fuller,
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poyer all went the distance. Elijah Campbell played
Speaker 1: twenty percent of the snaps. He was kind of a
Speaker 1: big nickel in this game, or that they ran more
Speaker 1: big nichol I should say, and that was his role.
Speaker 1: Sealer plays ninety two percent, Campbell sixty four, Benito fifty two,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Hand forty percent of the snaps. And that's the
Speaker 1: workload you get when this team feels they're kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, thin at the edge position without Tyas Bowser.
Speaker 2: Obviously they like to.
Speaker 1: Run Campbell off the edge a little bit more and
Speaker 1: some sealer two so that gives Benito and Hand more
Speaker 1: snap counts. Ogbab played eighty four percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: Chop fifty six, Quentin Bell played forty percent, and Mo
Speaker 1: Kamara gave you two snaps. No other linebacker played in
Speaker 1: the game. And then cater Co who played fifty four percent.
Speaker 1: It's a slot and then mc morris, Duck, Saran and
Speaker 1: Duke all had one snap on defense. My top five
Speaker 1: tapes were Jordan Brooks, Zach Seeler, cater Coohu, Chop, Robinson
Speaker 1: and Javon Holland fin Let's Get out of Here podcast
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Speaker 1: season preview of sorts even though we're still alive. People
Speaker 1: will talk about the scenarios just for the hell of it.
Speaker 1: I said I wouldn't do it on the show yesterday,
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Speaker 1: season's over, we'll do that for you, and we'll talk
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Speaker 2: Why not?
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