November 10, 2025 • 30 mins
Travis is back in the film room to break down the Dolphins 30-13 thrashing of the Buffalo Bills. Standouts, schematics, top tapes - Travis takes you through how the Dolphins used a quality pass rush and coverage disguise plan to limit Josh Allen and the Bills attack, and balance on offense to drop a 30-burger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis wing Fields.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What is up, Dollphans and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
we're cracking into a film that was a lot of
fun to watch, breaking it down to do every Monday
night on the film review edition of the podcast. Here
from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I want to kick this off with a general team
thought off the top here and look, there is a
long way to go, but what we saw Sunday was
the optimistic viewpoint you heard on this podcast all along.
Forget schematics and pivots and what they have to do
to make this thing work, all the things we've covered
over the last what is it November eleven months? Really,
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I'm talking solely about the development and progression of a
young football team and Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Dante Trader junior,
Jason Marshall junior, Juju brenton his third year. By the way,
don't forget about that. Ollie Gordon barely played. But we
know what we have there. These guys either bald or
are balling, and you got star performances from a Chan
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and Waddle and Paul and Brewer and Brooks and Minka
and Tua played one of his best games of the year,
Like I'll be damned if you aren't watching this, and
I want to be very, very careful of my language here.
I'm going to use the term soft reset because it
wasn't a full rebuild, but it was an injection of
youth into the roster, and McDaniel talked about the importance
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of this year's class and the need to build through
the culture, the culture of the program, through the draft,
and after being aggressive in free agency and trades in
years past, it was time to kind of reset the
deck here and get a bunch of young players that
had a like minded, you know, mentality, and we're seeing
that come to fruition here, not in terms of the
overall record, but the performance and the growth and the
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development and where this team is compared to where they
were back in that Colts game in Week one. We
saw the Packers go undergo something similar a few years ago.
We tell the Rams do this to like a perfection,
like a master class of a soft reset.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And it took them some time too.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They got beat up early on in that was it
the twenty three season before they kind of took off
and got right that year and made the playoffs, and
then we're a very good football team last year and
now probably the best team in the NFL. I'm not
saying we're heading for that. That is crazy bullish to
think that way at this moment, But damn it if
you are not position with the best looking youth movement
you've had in quite a while, and with some veteran
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dogs who are big time players who play the game
the right way. So I'm excited about that. It keeps me,
you know, tuning in. I mean I would anyway, it's
my freaking job. But it keeps me very much engaged
with the direction of the program. And look, you know,
you beat a struggling Commander's team bye week, you come
back and you get the Jets or the Saints at
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home rather than the Jets, a chance to go on
a run here. If you play good football over the
next four or five weeks, maybe you get back to
six seven going into that Pittsburgh game, like that's a
real possibility if you keep playing the way I saw
this team play on tape. Let's go ahead and crack
into that here and talk about the game against the
Buffalo Bills. The first series offensively looked so different from
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the rest of the game, just out of sorts, but
I want to start with it because the evolution of
the game from that point is instructive of a good
game plan and good adjustments throughout. Like the first play,
Greg Dolswitch is out in front of the backside drag
to Wattle and he carries the seam. If you were
to carry the seam, you would have created conflict on
a hook defender, but he runs right at the hook
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and it takes the hook defender right into Wattle, kind
of like a design flaw. Then we run a little
angle screen to eight chan, but the Bills are all
over it. And that's where I want to get to
this because the screen design the rest of the game
was really nice, but also just the sequence of plan,
like we showed enough variety to help keep them on
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their heels and create these little creases through one step
of hesitation. The second drive was the total opposite. We
lined it up and ran it down their throats, but
did it with variety. Eight chan jet sweep followed by
Jalen Wright pressing outside zone and getting fullward lean to
get us to third and one instead of third and four.
If he takes the initial hit and goes down right away,
it opens up the menu for a full back dive,
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which Ingold carries for six yards in a first down.
The next play Pin and Poll, so four runs in
a row, all different schemes. I remember seeing the eighth
Chan catch on the game book and thinking, oh, that
was a screen pass, but going back and watching it
again was actually a beautiful job progressing by Tua with
a clean pocket and then that little flip, that little
touch throw over the top. There was a miss in
the Falcons game on a screen that was a walk
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in touchdown if he hit it, but he kind of
didn't throw the right touch pass on it. He did
exactly that on this play and it got fifteen yards
to de von eh Chan.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Two was on it. Man more on him in a moment.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The run where a Chan gets fifteen and then fifteen
more on a late hit I think was the very
next play of the drive. You had Aaron Brewer and
Patrick Paul pulling on ct counter, which is a man
concept with the backside tackle and the center pulling. Usually
it's GT with a guard, but when Aaron Brewer is
your center, pull that guy because he makes the most
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impressive blocks in space of anybody in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You got eight chm breaking tackles. Hang this drive in
the Louver Man. It was so pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The sequence directly off that drive was a thing of beauty.
We'll break down Lake Washington's touchdown catch and the two
a portion of the podcast, but the very next play
after the Lake touchdown is a two man route combo
off play action and the hook linebackers all suck up
the deep defenders give ground to Waddle, who comes screaming
out of the blocks on his route to push them back,
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then breaks it off. Two was on time, on target again,
fourteen more yards. You earned all this space with the
early game run design and that twelve play drive that
featured twelve runs on it, and then two plays later
he YAZZI gonna break that one down in the Wattle
standout portion as well, so we'll come back to that,
and then the Bills get some wins in this game.
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On defense, there was lots of negative runs and I've
seen the pushback against my Jonasavit Unaya tweet, I don't care.
I'm gonna double down that because what I saw was
growth in the footwork. And I was thinking about this
the other day, kind of a quick tangent, real quick.
I was thinking about how like, I feel like I've
gotten pretty good at analyzing what I see, but the
next take, the next step I want to take. As
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an analyst, I do this sometimes, but I want to
get better at it. Is like seeing things that aren't
clicking yet and then forecasting where they could go from there.
What I saw from Jonasavit Andaya's feet in this game,
and the way he had his weight back in terms
of a better distribution across the rest of his body
and sinking into some of the power that he absorbed
and redirecting on guys that rush half of his like
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a half post against him.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was better. It was a lot better.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And you're you're gonna tweet at me about the three
or four plays where he missed and there were some
miss assignments from him. I'm not gonna, you know, negate
that whatsoever or dispute that, but you can see the
his game. We'll get some more of that here in
just one second, and the Bills did get some wins,
it was usually on missed assignments and the running game
that led to a negative, whether it was an unblocked man.
There was a play where we had three guys all
get back doored. I don't think I've seen that before.
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All three offensive linemen that got back door created a
three man wall for a negative run against von eh Chan.
I did think most of the losses were off the
right side, with either Cole Strange or Larry Boram or
the tight end position at times, and that was kind
of the primary culprit on some of the negatives. Although
Jonah had three that I noted on my playsheet here,
the rest was pretty much off the right side. But
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moving ahead, here you get a full back trap carry
for a Jalen Wright, remember that one, the eighteen yard
run where he stiff arms a defensive tackle to the ground,
then drops his shoulder on a safety, runs him over
and gets five more yards out of it. Smash mouth
football variety of run schemes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Again.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I am having fun, and we're going to take a
look in the numbers here. I'm not gonna do it
yet because I want to just watch the film and
do that on this podcast, the show that comes out
on Wednesday, I'm going to take a deep dive look
into more data and from this game and see how
he can be instructive about learning about what comes next
for this Dolphins offense that has shown these signs and
glimpses and kind of reverted back to old ways. But
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I want to see how consistent it can be going
forward here as the schedule kind of lightens up against
some defenses that have not played good football this season.
They threw screens off those same two man route combinations
they hit for explosive plays, the long ball to Waddle,
the second longest play to waddle, the fourteen yard play
to wattle I just talked about. N had two big
catch and runs off that same look. It's a max protection.
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It's a like an outside zone variant off play action,
and you get the whole line washing down. They climb
back to the second level and takes his same running
track and then angles it back inside for that little
Texas arrow angle route whatever you want to call it.
There's multiple names for it. They ran that look to
get their vertical shots, but they also ran it to
get their screen looks in there. They got the ball
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to Greg Dolcich on a split flow action off of
a similar look where he comes down the formation on
a slide route against the and they turn them free.
So the sequence of plays, the success of the running
game creates these these layups, these these handoffs for Tua
where you can get explosive plays, and that's that's what
this league is. Man. You gotta you gotta earn the
right to get those looks, and the Dolphins got it
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consistently in this game against Buffalo. Later on that drive,
we run outside zone with toss action and fold back
elements from the front side of the formation. That means
you're gonna fake outside zone and they're gonna fold your
block back in and kind of like seal it and
kind of, you know, pin it back inside and eight
Chan just winds this thing beautifully off of a big
alec ingole block and a great effort from Daniel Brunskill
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to cut off a blocker a linebacker, I should say,
just execution across the board. My favorite thing about this game,
I think is that we closed it out with the
run seven minutes to play, up by ten, and they
just got dash dog. That's the fruit of the labor
of sticking with the run game and grinding out those
short runs. You get the three yard runs in the
second quarter. This is an old trope, right, you know,
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you get the three run yards, it's talk order becomes
a thirty yard brown on the fourth quarter. You can
salt a team away, especially with our home field advantage,
and who knew, Man, you build a team around the
culture of smash mouth football. In this weather, it can
wear on teams. And I have seen this Dolphins team.
My postgame show co host Jamon bush Rod, we talked
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about the twenty sixteen season on the postgame show. Every
damn week, it seems he talks about that. Remember the
Pittsburgh's either game, guys throwing up in the end zone,
Lawrence Timmins losing his lunch because Jaya Jaie was gashing him.
You do that in this weather, Man, teams that coming
from the north, they give they can't do it for
sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You can salt them away.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And by the way, a chance move at the point
of attack on his first touchdown run like Jamier Gibbs,
b jon Robinson, maybe Jonathan Taylor. Are the number of
guys in this league that can make that run. It
was an insane move and balance and explosiveness off that
balance to make a guy miss in the gap one
on one. It's a special, very special football player you're watching.
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I know you know that, but gosh, it is special
to watch. Let's talk about the quarterback here for a second.
I've got nothing but high praise for Tua in this game.
I get the thought on the deep shot to waddle,
and quite honestly, I commend to a for it. The
first one. It was a low percentage throw. There was
a checkdown wide open for him, and he could have
boosted the stats and taken a four yard gain on
third and what was it, third and nine, but it
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wasn't gonna make the sticks. There was two tacklers right
there ready to rally up and make a play. Tua
doesn't care about his stats, or perception of his play,
any of that, and I commend him for that. Some
quarterbacks do. A lot of quarterbacks do, as a matter
of fact. And like I thought, that was like a
good look into ta his mindset about how it's all
about winning football. And then all right, Tua, I've been
hard on two this year, but you got me feeling
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some things here again on this touchdown shot to Malakue Washington.
I talked about it on last night's show, but on
tape thing of Beauty man Chef's Kiss. I'm not sure
what this defense is called for the Bills on this look,
but essentially it's five birds on a fence across the
goal line and one post defender behind that with Jordan Poyer.
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They put Wattle to the boundary the weak side, the
short side of the field, right weak side of the
formation two, which gets the post defender to that side
because well it's Jalen Waddle. That's where I would go too,
and they wind up high lowing a hook defender to
the field the strong side of the formation to his
hands separate before Maleak has made his break. Dulcich route
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his route pulls that hook defender and Tua throws it
right over the top of his outstretched arm into that window,
right on time, right on target. That is franchise quarterback
throw type of stuff right there. You do that, you
get the big contract. That's what he's done in the past,
and it was awesome to see here in this game.
Then the touchdown ball to Wattle, I'm saying this with
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the most complimentary terms I can possibly conjure. I'm not
sure I've ever seen to be late and throw a
better ball than that. He kind of waited to see
Wattle clear, then just dropped it right in the bucket man.
He usually throws those things with big time anticipation, but
he played it out and handed it to Wattle forty
yards down the field.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He is a rolling at this point.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It goes back to what I've been saying about reducing
high leverage plays and playing with balance offensively. When he
gets those things, he plays very, very elite quarterback. He
quarterbacks elitely. The play in which two quarterbacks is elite.
In those instances, I don't know they're right phrasing for that.
The deep corner from the far hash thirty air yards
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right on Wattle's face mask, okay to a okay, big
dog more big time throws the third and sixth conversion
to Nwi. The half field safety drives from depth to
a plays with such anticipation that he beats him with
the football, and he could not have located it better.
A huge first down late in the game. And I
don't care about the second interception either. They were effective
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punts and on both of them. There was no other
option unblocked guys coming down the pipe right in his face.
You can take a sack or give your guy a shot.
One is a guaranteed punting situation. One you have a
chance for a DPI or a catch that hard, and
nothing more to discuss than that it killed his stat line,
which shrouds what was a really good performance for Tua
from perceptions standpoint. But outside of headlines, who gives a
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damn look, We don't care about it here, nor should you.
I also think you've got something here that you put
on tape. Because both those shots came with extra rushers
and a safety rolled down. The corner had to sprint
vertically to keep up with Waddle. And if we just
have Jalen put his foot in the ground and run
a curl on a dime which he can and to
a throat with anticipation, it's gonna be wide open. That
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play I think is coming good spot for a break
right there. Come back and do the individual sounds on offense,
talk about the defense. All of that and a heck
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
Buffalo fans.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Ass talk about the individual sounds on the offensive side
of the football.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Look, I know the record, I get it. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
We'm going to enjoy this one man individual sounds on
the offensive side of the football. Jonas Ivit and I
I talked about him a little bit in the open
of the show, but from the first pass pro rep,
I just noticed that he looked different. It looks like
something has clicked there. He's bringing his feet with him
in pass pro on jump sets. He looks way more
comfortable doing it. He overran the three technique backdooring him
on a play that looked like outside zone, but based
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on Tua and writes track, I think it was inside zone.
But that was the only mistake I saw in the
first half. He got beat pretty bad on a Tua
incomplete throw to Greg Dolcich in the third quarter, but
outside of that, and there was like one more snap
that I wasn't sure if it was his fault or not,
But outside of that, I thought it was a pretty
solid game for jonas Ivit Andaya And please don't tell
me about PFF grades. And your argument back to me
like that is, I just do not care. The growth
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to me is becoming more and more obvious. Cedric Wilson
blocked his ass off.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Cut the tape and there's nineteen hitting big block after
big block. He had a great crackback on the second
h Han touchdown run. So did Greg Dolcic. This is
a player, guys. Blocking is his moonlight skill. He's a
good receiver, but the blocking is all over this tape.
He also steamrolled Poyer on a catch and run in
the second half of the game, which was fun to watch.
Aaron Brewer, you can copy and paste this part here.
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Every single week right screens wide runs. We consistently see
him just hitting blocks with ease that not many guys
can get to. But man, the way he out leverages
the one shades and digs him out of that hole.
He is a special, special football player. So was Patrick Paul,
a top tier left tackle in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Already talk to a wall about it, man.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And if you're not watching, if you're not aware of
this guy yet, you're just not watching him. I did
a radio hit a while back and they were asking
me about the offensive line, like Aaron Brewers is the
only player that's playing good. I'm like, well, Patrick Paul
looks pretty damn good, and they're like really, I'm like, dude,
the tape is the tape.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Go watch the tape. Dog.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
His technique is awesome, and you knew about the physical traits.
He's going to be in that conversation among the best
left tackles in football before long. If he's not already
devan Acham. It feels criminal to get to him this late.
But I love what McDaniel said about him getting leaky
yards after attacking half the man, half the tackler, i
should say, and getting that forward lean. He got some
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run on some power concepts. They love that CT counter
man with brew and Paul on some inside zone obviously
the outside zone. But he's running it smart, running hard,
and keeping that forward lean going. The fifty nine yarder
was elite athlete stuff. Making a defender missed, unblocked the
point of attack, missing the gap, and then out running
everybody else after making Poyer miss special special stuff. There
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are so many tackle attempts where you think he's gonna
get brought down, and he just shrugs it off. He's
not a very big guy, but his lower body strength
and balance are so impressive.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The big plays from Waddle are great, but what makes
him a true number one and the guy that can
you can construct your entire offense around is what he
does without the football.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Watch the league touchdown.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Jordan Poyer could have gotten over the top on the
Leak's route if Waddle were lazy and took an outside
release on a corner route, because that would have given
away the information that Poyer didn't have to help inside.
But he takes out the inside release and it pulls
Poyer in for an extra couple of steps. He just
strains to stay inside the inside leverage cornerback who is
fighting like hell to get him to commit to the outside.
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But it forces player to stay home and to be
late to rotate over and it creates a window for
to jam it in there to Maleak and then his touchdown.
I mean the way he can sell an inside route
but then accelerate vertically off that inside move. Max Harrison
had no idea what hit him. Swipe the hands, stack
him track it make a contested catch. I cannot wait
to watch this offense just operate through Waddle for the
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next decade, because he's got that kind of skill set.
Then he hits the corner route for that twenty four
yard gain. Again the details man. He presses, press, his
presses and makes you commit to where you don't want
to be and then snaps it off right at the
moment you over commit to a spot you didn't want
to be in the first place, and then just leaves
you in the dust. And then Daniel Brunskill, I wonder
how much of a surprise all of this is to
him because he's out flanking out wide and blocking from
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a leak Washington on screen routes, screen passes. I saw
him release into a route he was open on one
of the plays, so maybe that's going to be coming
here too. He's getting tackle reps and sealing the side
edge for Tua to hit Waddle for a long touchdown.
As like the a one on one block against Greg Russau.
He's killing it and doing things he's ever done before.
So tip of the cap there, shout out to Daniel Brunskill.
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I thought Larry Borum struggled over ransom blocks lost some leverage,
fell off blocks overseet not his finest game. He's played
well for a lot of the games this year, but
not in this one. I thought Cole Strange had some
similar misses as well. I thought Hayden Rouchie was up
and down in this game too. Snap counts, Tua and
the offensive line went fifty three snaps. That's been the
case for I mean shoot a while now, Right since
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the Buffalo game when they traded out Keon Smith for
Daniel Brunskill late in that game, They've had the same
five guys, minus some substitutions late in games. Daniel Brunskill
played seventeen among the running backs eighth forty seven of
the fifty three. Jalen Wright played ten, Oli Gordon three,
and alec Ingole twenty one snaps. Waddle had forty four
of the fifty three, and then a big drop off
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to Westbrook a Ka for twenty five, Maleak for twenty four,
Said for fifteen, Tosh for five at tight end, just
Dolsi chin Rucci many two, two and twenty two for
the Dolphins tight ends. Let's kick this thing over to
the defense side of the football and do our general
takeaways here before the standouts on the other side of
the break. To me, the biggest difference today compared to
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games where teams were able to move the football and
score was just how connected Miami played in the back seven,
and a big part of that was the hook defenders
jumping the shallow stuff. Now you could argue the Bill's
lack of a true field stretcher allowed us to play
that with the safeties kind of closing down everything twenty
yards and in. But man, from the first play, we
were just ready for their short stuff. And that's kind
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of where Allen has been able to stay on schedule
over the years, get himself into second and four, and
then he can get to his highlight reel plays because
he has all kinds of options and the full menu
available to him. I led you all a little bit
of stray on the Sunday podcast. I thought there was
a lot more man calls. But quite frankly, we've just
punked me.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He confused me.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just like he did Josh Allen. I was flat out wrong.
We played zone more than eighty percent of the time.
They think it was like eighty two percent of the
snaps for zone coverage. But therein lies the beauty of
the game plan right the skis All game long, they
would show zero coverage and get into three deep just
variety like that all game long. And I asked Mike
McDaniel about this on Monday and he talked about the
ownership of the scheme and the freedom it gives players.
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We saw it all click on Sunday, and man, if
it stays that way going forward, we could really limit
some opposing passing games coming up here with the Commander,
Saints and Jets, because those teams have struggled and I
think we have a chance to really take advantage of
those matchups. But man, we were just on our rules
across the board and it was fun as hell to watch. Also,
the pass rush was awesome. Chubb was so good ten
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pressures but got a fifty nine grade from PFF. I
don't understand the conversion on that math. Judon and Bell
were awesome too. They consistently played off the upfield shoulder
and would widen the arc so much that Allen could
not escape exceptional pass rush integrity all game long. I
just can't get over the coordation between the deep coverage
and the intermediate level stuff throughout the game. The minute
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a route would cross into like a soft spot. They
would just pounce on it and pick it up and
carry it. I talked about it yesterday on Sunday, but
the fourth down stop on tape is just beautiful team football.
Brooks crashing the edge getting into the route, and Cook
is onto Cook and coverage is elite stuff. Minca re
routing and bodying. Dawson Knox, Tyrel Dotson taking a really
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good angle on a Josh Allen bootleg. Dante Trader being
in great shape on Dalton king Kaid, the defensive tackle
stacking the tush push. Look just eleven jobs getting done
for a turnover on downs. It's kind of funny. I
feel like we are built to stop this buffalo offense. Man,
the size, the interchangeability in the back end for safeties
and corners to play multiple roles to.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Invert your coverage.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It really showed with our pattern matching from guys playing
all over the formation. The way guys plastered off script
was so dang good. That's one of the toughest things
to do in football, and we did it snap after
snap after snap. Except that damn unicorn third and sixteen
Allen play. He's gonna get some of those that's what
he does. But I mean, you know, besides that thirteen points,
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I'll take it. The way they got to different rush
contained looks to help keep Allen's escape patches changing was
the thing of beauty as well. You'd have your traditional
four man rush contained looks, but then they would mix
in like a slant off the edge with a backer
delayed blitzing off the corner. Shut that down so he
couldn't get out from the step up and step out,
He couldn't wind out his way to the left.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Just unselfish coordated football.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I am so encouraged by this plan, this execution and
where weave can go from here. The connectivity in the
red zone was also great. And the zero look on
the Iffy pick with a seven manter rush one being
a green dog, a delay blitz that acts as a spy.
Just a perfect marriage of scheme and execution all across
the board. Last break right there, come back and talk
about the standouts individually on defense. What are the top
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five tapes as well? That's all next Drive Time podcast
brought to you by au Don'nation. A lot of defensive
standouts to talk about from the Dolphins thirty to thirteen
Thrashing of the Buffalo Jills. Juju Brents is up first
from the first nap. He was just locked in pressmer technique,
stays on top of a million moves by Keon Coleman.
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It's like that that clip of the bartender, like who's
just shaking his head, but he's not really actually going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That was Keon Coleman in this game.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Shuts his route down, tries to go off schedule, and
he just runs it with him. He's quick as a
hiccup out of his back pedal, so he can sink
off into those soft cloud positions and then drive back
downhill on the running back coming out of the backfield
on the swing route. I raved about the rush plan.
You can do that when you have a cornerback who
gets one on one coverage, no help assignments up over
the top, and he races a man five targets, two catches,
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twelve yards against him. They tried a back shoulder to
Keon Coleman against him, and you can't even see. The
blue jersey just blocks out the sun. Also, his pursuit
on the fumble recovery never quit on a play run
to the football and you'll get paid off, just like
Juju Brents did on this Sunday. Jordan Brooks, this guy
man the way he stays on his key but can
then react the moment something changes and then like put
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himself in the right position with the athletic ability to
hop a gap, dip a block, defeat with brute force,
a defeat a block with brute force. I should say,
I hope this guy gets the Pro Bowl recognition that
he deserves. He deserved it last year, even more so
this year. Let me put it to you this way,
watch interior offensive lineman climbing up to linebackers against him,
like watch our guys do it on our offense. And
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then notice how different it is for opposing teams against
Jordan Brooks, Like we are pretty good at those. Brooks
almost never gets got on those. He's all over the
tape spilling out runs and one on one in the
gap opportunities.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The one that I.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Retweeted is just truly one of the craziest run stuffs
you'll ever see, Like this is a special football player.
And then the coverage, like even the one that knocks
got him where he pushes off, Brooks is right there.
He keeps running off those crossers, but wasn't getting out
of position in the running game. An absolutely fantastic game
from Jordan Brooks. I think Jordan Phillips is a budding
like I don't want to say star, but a guy
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that like you can count on for thirty snaps. A
game of just really good, rugged, tough football. The tackle
he made on the James Cook run on the second
drive double team stack holds his ground, gets back in
position to work a block, sheds it, makes the tackle.
He is really, really, really good. Jack Jones played his
best game as a Miami Dolphin. He was excellent with
his rules, his landmarks, his spot drops, getting downhill on tackles,
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raking the football effort. A really good game and a
snapshot of how high performing he can be at his best.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
His force fumble is a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Great job playing to his job, then straining after the
fact and raking at the ball. It's pretty simple to me.
When he plays with want two against the run, he's
a plus starter in this league.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
When not, he's like not playable.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The trick is finding the consistency there, and I can
see how that could get frustrating if you can't get
to level out, get that to level out as a coach.
But he was on top of his stuff on Sunday.
The play that I tweeted about about Jordan Brooks, watch
Dante Trader on that one. On that clip, I just
love the way he crashes the party. In the running game,
Stealers sack, they shows zero coverage and then Trader wheels
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back out and winds up locating of vertical option and
runs it all the way down the field. His emergence
has coincided with the defense's ability to get more multiple
in their coverages. Zach Stealer had a good game, I think,
a pretty selfless game to continuously set picks and just
crash multiple parties as a slanter as a pick setter,
creating advantageous situations for his teammates as well as getting
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penetration in his own right. His sack was vintage Zack
Steeler overpower regard, get double teamed, work, work, work, and
then meet the quarterback and finish for a sack. Bradley
Chubb a lot of pride and Beachubb's game man. He
beat Spencer Brown and Dion Dawkins a lot on Sunday.
He got his pressures through the scheme. He didn't freelance,
he didn't get out of his gap. He did his
job and won over and over and over again. Mika
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Fitzpatrick did a little bit of everything. The fourth down,
the two point conversion of the fumble, recovery, some matchups
on tight ends and receivers. Big game for Minca and
Matt Judon. I thought his rush Land integrity brought the
was really impressive, and he also brought the thump to
set the edge in the running game. I think that
Jason Marshall had a couple of tough reps, Bido Jones
had an up and down day, Tyrold Dawson had some misses,
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and then Ethan Bonner played just five snaps, but that
was a pretty rough coverage rep on the touchdown to
Keon Coleman. I imagine that we've kind of figured out
our cornerback pecking order here with Rasull, Douglas Brentson, Jack
and Jason Marshall kind of rounding out the top part
of that group. Snap counts wise, Jack Jones the only
player who played all sixty eight snaps, Juju Brents played
fifty two, Jason Marshall played eighteen, and Ethan Bonner got
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five in the game at safety. Minka played all but
one sap sixty seven of them sixty seven. Tredo played
sixty six and if he played thirty six, Jordan Brooks
sixty five snaps of the sixty eight. Tyrrel Dotson played
all but one snap sixty seven, and then Willie got ten.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
kJ got one.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I just got a text my wife that said, please
tell me you have the race cars in your car. Yeah,
my son. If you don't have his race cars, he
going to be mad. But they are in my car.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So no worry. It's on that oh man. Okay, got
off track there.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Zach Seeler played forty seven snaps, Kenny Grant played twenty eight,
Jordan Phillips Jones twenty five, Zeke Biggers nineteen, Matthew Butler seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
A pretty healthy rotation up front.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're gonna see more of that because I think Seeler
playing more edge means more snaps for the other defensive
tackles because he kicks out of that five technique more.
With the trade of Jalen Phillips and then Bradley Chubb
fifty three, Matthew june On forty four big increase for him.
Quinton Bell twenty four I like to play Quintin Bell
played the edge in the running game and Cam Good
got ten snaps in the game as well.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The top five tapes is an impossible task this week.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I have six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve players
up for consideration, but I'm gonna go like this. Number
five was Juju Brentz, Number four was Bradley Chubb, number
three was Patrick Paul, number two was Jordan Brooks, and
number one was Devon a Chan. My honorable mentions which
most games this year, these guys would have been in there,
but because we had so many good performances they were not.
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Tua Minka Trader, Waddle Brewer, Jack Jones, and Jordan Phillips.
There was tons of choices. This week, We're gonna go
ahead and get out of here. On the Wednesday podcast,
We're gonna do a deep dive. I had a great
conversation with Logan paulsim former Commanders tied Up, who now
does analysis for them on their radio network I believe,
and their their team channels. We're gonna have Hugo Manaro
(30:07):
on the show coming up here, talking about his his
the president of the fan club in Spain struggling here
to close the podcast out, we'll also have the Commander's
preview on Thursday plenty to Coming Away this week on
the Drive Time podcast. In the meantime, you all please
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and Willow Daddy, He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis wing Fields.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What is up, Dollphans and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
we're cracking into a film that was a lot of
fun to watch, breaking it down to do every Monday
night on the film review edition of the podcast. Here
from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I want to kick this off with a general team
thought off the top here and look, there is a
long way to go, but what we saw Sunday was
the optimistic viewpoint you heard on this podcast all along.
Forget schematics and pivots and what they have to do
to make this thing work, all the things we've covered
over the last what is it November eleven months? Really,
(00:54):
I'm talking solely about the development and progression of a
young football team and Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Dante Trader junior,
Jason Marshall junior, Juju brenton his third year. By the way,
don't forget about that. Ollie Gordon barely played. But we
know what we have there. These guys either bald or
are balling, and you got star performances from a Chan
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and Waddle and Paul and Brewer and Brooks and Minka
and Tua played one of his best games of the year,
Like I'll be damned if you aren't watching this, and
I want to be very, very careful of my language here.
I'm going to use the term soft reset because it
wasn't a full rebuild, but it was an injection of
youth into the roster, and McDaniel talked about the importance
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of this year's class and the need to build through
the culture, the culture of the program, through the draft,
and after being aggressive in free agency and trades in
years past, it was time to kind of reset the
deck here and get a bunch of young players that
had a like minded, you know, mentality, and we're seeing
that come to fruition here, not in terms of the
overall record, but the performance and the growth and the
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development and where this team is compared to where they
were back in that Colts game in Week one. We
saw the Packers go undergo something similar a few years ago.
We tell the Rams do this to like a perfection,
like a master class of a soft reset.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And it took them some time too.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They got beat up early on in that was it
the twenty three season before they kind of took off
and got right that year and made the playoffs, and
then we're a very good football team last year and
now probably the best team in the NFL. I'm not
saying we're heading for that. That is crazy bullish to
think that way at this moment, But damn it if
you are not position with the best looking youth movement
you've had in quite a while, and with some veteran
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dogs who are big time players who play the game
the right way. So I'm excited about that. It keeps me,
you know, tuning in. I mean I would anyway, it's
my freaking job. But it keeps me very much engaged
with the direction of the program. And look, you know,
you beat a struggling Commander's team bye week, you come
back and you get the Jets or the Saints at
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home rather than the Jets, a chance to go on
a run here. If you play good football over the
next four or five weeks, maybe you get back to
six seven going into that Pittsburgh game, like that's a
real possibility if you keep playing the way I saw
this team play on tape. Let's go ahead and crack
into that here and talk about the game against the
Buffalo Bills. The first series offensively looked so different from
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the rest of the game, just out of sorts, but
I want to start with it because the evolution of
the game from that point is instructive of a good
game plan and good adjustments throughout. Like the first play,
Greg Dolswitch is out in front of the backside drag
to Wattle and he carries the seam. If you were
to carry the seam, you would have created conflict on
a hook defender, but he runs right at the hook
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and it takes the hook defender right into Wattle, kind
of like a design flaw. Then we run a little
angle screen to eight chan, but the Bills are all
over it. And that's where I want to get to
this because the screen design the rest of the game
was really nice, but also just the sequence of plan,
like we showed enough variety to help keep them on
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their heels and create these little creases through one step
of hesitation. The second drive was the total opposite. We
lined it up and ran it down their throats, but
did it with variety. Eight chan jet sweep followed by
Jalen Wright pressing outside zone and getting fullward lean to
get us to third and one instead of third and four.
If he takes the initial hit and goes down right away,
it opens up the menu for a full back dive,
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which Ingold carries for six yards in a first down.
The next play Pin and Poll, so four runs in
a row, all different schemes. I remember seeing the eighth
Chan catch on the game book and thinking, oh, that
was a screen pass, but going back and watching it
again was actually a beautiful job progressing by Tua with
a clean pocket and then that little flip, that little
touch throw over the top. There was a miss in
the Falcons game on a screen that was a walk
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in touchdown if he hit it, but he kind of
didn't throw the right touch pass on it. He did
exactly that on this play and it got fifteen yards
to de von eh Chan.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Two was on it. Man more on him in a moment.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The run where a Chan gets fifteen and then fifteen
more on a late hit I think was the very
next play of the drive. You had Aaron Brewer and
Patrick Paul pulling on ct counter, which is a man
concept with the backside tackle and the center pulling. Usually
it's GT with a guard, but when Aaron Brewer is
your center, pull that guy because he makes the most
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impressive blocks in space of anybody in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You got eight chm breaking tackles. Hang this drive in
the Louver Man. It was so pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The sequence directly off that drive was a thing of beauty.
We'll break down Lake Washington's touchdown catch and the two
a portion of the podcast, but the very next play
after the Lake touchdown is a two man route combo
off play action and the hook linebackers all suck up
the deep defenders give ground to Waddle, who comes screaming
out of the blocks on his route to push them back,
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then breaks it off. Two was on time, on target again,
fourteen more yards. You earned all this space with the
early game run design and that twelve play drive that
featured twelve runs on it, and then two plays later
he YAZZI gonna break that one down in the Wattle
standout portion as well, so we'll come back to that,
and then the Bills get some wins in this game.
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On defense, there was lots of negative runs and I've
seen the pushback against my Jonasavit Unaya tweet, I don't care.
I'm gonna double down that because what I saw was
growth in the footwork. And I was thinking about this
the other day, kind of a quick tangent, real quick.
I was thinking about how like, I feel like I've
gotten pretty good at analyzing what I see, but the
next take, the next step I want to take. As
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an analyst, I do this sometimes, but I want to
get better at it. Is like seeing things that aren't
clicking yet and then forecasting where they could go from there.
What I saw from Jonasavit Andaya's feet in this game,
and the way he had his weight back in terms
of a better distribution across the rest of his body
and sinking into some of the power that he absorbed
and redirecting on guys that rush half of his like
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a half post against him.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was better. It was a lot better.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And you're you're gonna tweet at me about the three
or four plays where he missed and there were some
miss assignments from him. I'm not gonna, you know, negate
that whatsoever or dispute that, but you can see the
his game. We'll get some more of that here in
just one second, and the Bills did get some wins,
it was usually on missed assignments and the running game
that led to a negative, whether it was an unblocked man.
There was a play where we had three guys all
get back doored. I don't think I've seen that before.
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All three offensive linemen that got back door created a
three man wall for a negative run against von eh Chan.
I did think most of the losses were off the
right side, with either Cole Strange or Larry Boram or
the tight end position at times, and that was kind
of the primary culprit on some of the negatives. Although
Jonah had three that I noted on my playsheet here,
the rest was pretty much off the right side. But
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moving ahead, here you get a full back trap carry
for a Jalen Wright, remember that one, the eighteen yard
run where he stiff arms a defensive tackle to the ground,
then drops his shoulder on a safety, runs him over
and gets five more yards out of it. Smash mouth
football variety of run schemes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Again.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I am having fun, and we're going to take a
look in the numbers here. I'm not gonna do it
yet because I want to just watch the film and
do that on this podcast, the show that comes out
on Wednesday, I'm going to take a deep dive look
into more data and from this game and see how
he can be instructive about learning about what comes next
for this Dolphins offense that has shown these signs and
glimpses and kind of reverted back to old ways. But
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I want to see how consistent it can be going
forward here as the schedule kind of lightens up against
some defenses that have not played good football this season.
They threw screens off those same two man route combinations
they hit for explosive plays, the long ball to Waddle,
the second longest play to waddle, the fourteen yard play
to wattle I just talked about. N had two big
catch and runs off that same look. It's a max protection.
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It's a like an outside zone variant off play action,
and you get the whole line washing down. They climb
back to the second level and takes his same running
track and then angles it back inside for that little
Texas arrow angle route whatever you want to call it.
There's multiple names for it. They ran that look to
get their vertical shots, but they also ran it to
get their screen looks in there. They got the ball
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to Greg Dolcich on a split flow action off of
a similar look where he comes down the formation on
a slide route against the and they turn them free.
So the sequence of plays, the success of the running
game creates these these layups, these these handoffs for Tua
where you can get explosive plays, and that's that's what
this league is. Man. You gotta you gotta earn the
right to get those looks, and the Dolphins got it
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consistently in this game against Buffalo. Later on that drive,
we run outside zone with toss action and fold back
elements from the front side of the formation. That means
you're gonna fake outside zone and they're gonna fold your
block back in and kind of like seal it and
kind of, you know, pin it back inside and eight
Chan just winds this thing beautifully off of a big
alec ingole block and a great effort from Daniel Brunskill
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to cut off a blocker a linebacker, I should say,
just execution across the board. My favorite thing about this game,
I think is that we closed it out with the
run seven minutes to play, up by ten, and they
just got dash dog. That's the fruit of the labor
of sticking with the run game and grinding out those
short runs. You get the three yard runs in the
second quarter. This is an old trope, right, you know,
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you get the three run yards, it's talk order becomes
a thirty yard brown on the fourth quarter. You can
salt a team away, especially with our home field advantage,
and who knew, Man, you build a team around the
culture of smash mouth football. In this weather, it can
wear on teams. And I have seen this Dolphins team.
My postgame show co host Jamon bush Rod, we talked
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about the twenty sixteen season on the postgame show. Every
damn week, it seems he talks about that. Remember the
Pittsburgh's either game, guys throwing up in the end zone,
Lawrence Timmins losing his lunch because Jaya Jaie was gashing him.
You do that in this weather, Man, teams that coming
from the north, they give they can't do it for
sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You can salt them away.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And by the way, a chance move at the point
of attack on his first touchdown run like Jamier Gibbs,
b jon Robinson, maybe Jonathan Taylor. Are the number of
guys in this league that can make that run. It
was an insane move and balance and explosiveness off that
balance to make a guy miss in the gap one
on one. It's a special, very special football player you're watching.
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I know you know that, but gosh, it is special
to watch. Let's talk about the quarterback here for a second.
I've got nothing but high praise for Tua in this game.
I get the thought on the deep shot to waddle,
and quite honestly, I commend to a for it. The
first one. It was a low percentage throw. There was
a checkdown wide open for him, and he could have
boosted the stats and taken a four yard gain on
third and what was it, third and nine, but it
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wasn't gonna make the sticks. There was two tacklers right
there ready to rally up and make a play. Tua
doesn't care about his stats, or perception of his play,
any of that, and I commend him for that. Some
quarterbacks do. A lot of quarterbacks do, as a matter
of fact. And like I thought, that was like a
good look into ta his mindset about how it's all
about winning football. And then all right, Tua, I've been
hard on two this year, but you got me feeling
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some things here again on this touchdown shot to Malakue Washington.
I talked about it on last night's show, but on
tape thing of Beauty man Chef's Kiss. I'm not sure
what this defense is called for the Bills on this look,
but essentially it's five birds on a fence across the
goal line and one post defender behind that with Jordan Poyer.
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They put Wattle to the boundary the weak side, the
short side of the field, right weak side of the
formation two, which gets the post defender to that side
because well it's Jalen Waddle. That's where I would go too,
and they wind up high lowing a hook defender to
the field the strong side of the formation to his
hands separate before Maleak has made his break. Dulcich route
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his route pulls that hook defender and Tua throws it
right over the top of his outstretched arm into that window,
right on time, right on target. That is franchise quarterback
throw type of stuff right there. You do that, you
get the big contract. That's what he's done in the past,
and it was awesome to see here in this game.
Then the touchdown ball to Wattle, I'm saying this with
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the most complimentary terms I can possibly conjure. I'm not
sure I've ever seen to be late and throw a
better ball than that. He kind of waited to see
Wattle clear, then just dropped it right in the bucket man.
He usually throws those things with big time anticipation, but
he played it out and handed it to Wattle forty
yards down the field.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He is a rolling at this point.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It goes back to what I've been saying about reducing
high leverage plays and playing with balance offensively. When he
gets those things, he plays very, very elite quarterback. He
quarterbacks elitely. The play in which two quarterbacks is elite.
In those instances, I don't know they're right phrasing for that.
The deep corner from the far hash thirty air yards
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right on Wattle's face mask, okay to a okay, big
dog more big time throws the third and sixth conversion
to Nwi. The half field safety drives from depth to
a plays with such anticipation that he beats him with
the football, and he could not have located it better.
A huge first down late in the game. And I
don't care about the second interception either. They were effective
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punts and on both of them. There was no other
option unblocked guys coming down the pipe right in his face.
You can take a sack or give your guy a shot.
One is a guaranteed punting situation. One you have a
chance for a DPI or a catch that hard, and
nothing more to discuss than that it killed his stat line,
which shrouds what was a really good performance for Tua
from perceptions standpoint. But outside of headlines, who gives a
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damn look, We don't care about it here, nor should you.
I also think you've got something here that you put
on tape. Because both those shots came with extra rushers
and a safety rolled down. The corner had to sprint
vertically to keep up with Waddle. And if we just
have Jalen put his foot in the ground and run
a curl on a dime which he can and to
a throat with anticipation, it's gonna be wide open. That
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play I think is coming good spot for a break
right there. Come back and do the individual sounds on offense,
talk about the defense. All of that and a heck
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
Buffalo fans.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Ass talk about the individual sounds on the offensive side
of the football.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Look, I know the record, I get it. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
We'm going to enjoy this one man individual sounds on
the offensive side of the football. Jonas Ivit and I
I talked about him a little bit in the open
of the show, but from the first pass pro rep,
I just noticed that he looked different. It looks like
something has clicked there. He's bringing his feet with him
in pass pro on jump sets. He looks way more
comfortable doing it. He overran the three technique backdooring him
on a play that looked like outside zone, but based
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on Tua and writes track, I think it was inside zone.
But that was the only mistake I saw in the
first half. He got beat pretty bad on a Tua
incomplete throw to Greg Dolcich in the third quarter, but
outside of that, and there was like one more snap
that I wasn't sure if it was his fault or not,
But outside of that, I thought it was a pretty
solid game for jonas Ivit Andaya And please don't tell
me about PFF grades. And your argument back to me
like that is, I just do not care. The growth
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to me is becoming more and more obvious. Cedric Wilson
blocked his ass off.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Cut the tape and there's nineteen hitting big block after
big block. He had a great crackback on the second
h Han touchdown run. So did Greg Dolcic. This is
a player, guys. Blocking is his moonlight skill. He's a
good receiver, but the blocking is all over this tape.
He also steamrolled Poyer on a catch and run in
the second half of the game, which was fun to watch.
Aaron Brewer, you can copy and paste this part here.
(16:09):
Every single week right screens wide runs. We consistently see
him just hitting blocks with ease that not many guys
can get to. But man, the way he out leverages
the one shades and digs him out of that hole.
He is a special, special football player. So was Patrick Paul,
a top tier left tackle in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Already talk to a wall about it, man.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And if you're not watching, if you're not aware of
this guy yet, you're just not watching him. I did
a radio hit a while back and they were asking
me about the offensive line, like Aaron Brewers is the
only player that's playing good. I'm like, well, Patrick Paul
looks pretty damn good, and they're like really, I'm like, dude,
the tape is the tape.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Go watch the tape. Dog.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
His technique is awesome, and you knew about the physical traits.
He's going to be in that conversation among the best
left tackles in football before long. If he's not already
devan Acham. It feels criminal to get to him this late.
But I love what McDaniel said about him getting leaky
yards after attacking half the man, half the tackler, i
should say, and getting that forward lean. He got some
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run on some power concepts. They love that CT counter
man with brew and Paul on some inside zone obviously
the outside zone. But he's running it smart, running hard,
and keeping that forward lean going. The fifty nine yarder
was elite athlete stuff. Making a defender missed, unblocked the
point of attack, missing the gap, and then out running
everybody else after making Poyer miss special special stuff. There
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are so many tackle attempts where you think he's gonna
get brought down, and he just shrugs it off. He's
not a very big guy, but his lower body strength
and balance are so impressive.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The big plays from Waddle are great, but what makes
him a true number one and the guy that can
you can construct your entire offense around is what he
does without the football.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Watch the league touchdown.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Jordan Poyer could have gotten over the top on the
Leak's route if Waddle were lazy and took an outside
release on a corner route, because that would have given
away the information that Poyer didn't have to help inside.
But he takes out the inside release and it pulls
Poyer in for an extra couple of steps. He just
strains to stay inside the inside leverage cornerback who is
fighting like hell to get him to commit to the outside.
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But it forces player to stay home and to be
late to rotate over and it creates a window for
to jam it in there to Maleak and then his touchdown.
I mean the way he can sell an inside route
but then accelerate vertically off that inside move. Max Harrison
had no idea what hit him. Swipe the hands, stack
him track it make a contested catch. I cannot wait
to watch this offense just operate through Waddle for the
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next decade, because he's got that kind of skill set.
Then he hits the corner route for that twenty four
yard gain. Again the details man. He presses, press, his
presses and makes you commit to where you don't want
to be and then snaps it off right at the
moment you over commit to a spot you didn't want
to be in the first place, and then just leaves
you in the dust. And then Daniel Brunskill, I wonder
how much of a surprise all of this is to
him because he's out flanking out wide and blocking from
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a leak Washington on screen routes, screen passes. I saw
him release into a route he was open on one
of the plays, so maybe that's going to be coming
here too. He's getting tackle reps and sealing the side
edge for Tua to hit Waddle for a long touchdown.
As like the a one on one block against Greg Russau.
He's killing it and doing things he's ever done before.
So tip of the cap there, shout out to Daniel Brunskill.
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I thought Larry Borum struggled over ransom blocks lost some leverage,
fell off blocks overseet not his finest game. He's played
well for a lot of the games this year, but
not in this one. I thought Cole Strange had some
similar misses as well. I thought Hayden Rouchie was up
and down in this game too. Snap counts, Tua and
the offensive line went fifty three snaps. That's been the
case for I mean shoot a while now, Right since
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the Buffalo game when they traded out Keon Smith for
Daniel Brunskill late in that game, They've had the same
five guys, minus some substitutions late in games. Daniel Brunskill
played seventeen among the running backs eighth forty seven of
the fifty three. Jalen Wright played ten, Oli Gordon three,
and alec Ingole twenty one snaps. Waddle had forty four
of the fifty three, and then a big drop off
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to Westbrook a Ka for twenty five, Maleak for twenty four,
Said for fifteen, Tosh for five at tight end, just
Dolsi chin Rucci many two, two and twenty two for
the Dolphins tight ends. Let's kick this thing over to
the defense side of the football and do our general
takeaways here before the standouts on the other side of
the break. To me, the biggest difference today compared to
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games where teams were able to move the football and
score was just how connected Miami played in the back seven,
and a big part of that was the hook defenders
jumping the shallow stuff. Now you could argue the Bill's
lack of a true field stretcher allowed us to play
that with the safeties kind of closing down everything twenty
yards and in. But man, from the first play, we
were just ready for their short stuff. And that's kind
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of where Allen has been able to stay on schedule
over the years, get himself into second and four, and
then he can get to his highlight reel plays because
he has all kinds of options and the full menu
available to him. I led you all a little bit
of stray on the Sunday podcast. I thought there was
a lot more man calls. But quite frankly, we've just
punked me.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He confused me.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just like he did Josh Allen. I was flat out wrong.
We played zone more than eighty percent of the time.
They think it was like eighty two percent of the
snaps for zone coverage. But therein lies the beauty of
the game plan right the skis All game long, they
would show zero coverage and get into three deep just
variety like that all game long. And I asked Mike
McDaniel about this on Monday and he talked about the
ownership of the scheme and the freedom it gives players.
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We saw it all click on Sunday, and man, if
it stays that way going forward, we could really limit
some opposing passing games coming up here with the Commander,
Saints and Jets, because those teams have struggled and I
think we have a chance to really take advantage of
those matchups. But man, we were just on our rules
across the board and it was fun as hell to watch. Also,
the pass rush was awesome. Chubb was so good ten
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pressures but got a fifty nine grade from PFF. I
don't understand the conversion on that math. Judon and Bell
were awesome too. They consistently played off the upfield shoulder
and would widen the arc so much that Allen could
not escape exceptional pass rush integrity all game long. I
just can't get over the coordation between the deep coverage
and the intermediate level stuff throughout the game. The minute
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a route would cross into like a soft spot. They
would just pounce on it and pick it up and
carry it. I talked about it yesterday on Sunday, but
the fourth down stop on tape is just beautiful team football.
Brooks crashing the edge getting into the route, and Cook
is onto Cook and coverage is elite stuff. Minca re
routing and bodying. Dawson Knox, Tyrel Dotson taking a really
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good angle on a Josh Allen bootleg. Dante Trader being
in great shape on Dalton king Kaid, the defensive tackle
stacking the tush push. Look just eleven jobs getting done
for a turnover on downs. It's kind of funny. I
feel like we are built to stop this buffalo offense. Man,
the size, the interchangeability in the back end for safeties
and corners to play multiple roles to.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Invert your coverage.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It really showed with our pattern matching from guys playing
all over the formation. The way guys plastered off script
was so dang good. That's one of the toughest things
to do in football, and we did it snap after
snap after snap. Except that damn unicorn third and sixteen
Allen play. He's gonna get some of those that's what
he does. But I mean, you know, besides that thirteen points,
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I'll take it. The way they got to different rush
contained looks to help keep Allen's escape patches changing was
the thing of beauty as well. You'd have your traditional
four man rush contained looks, but then they would mix
in like a slant off the edge with a backer
delayed blitzing off the corner. Shut that down so he
couldn't get out from the step up and step out,
He couldn't wind out his way to the left.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Just unselfish coordated football.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I am so encouraged by this plan, this execution and
where weave can go from here. The connectivity in the
red zone was also great. And the zero look on
the Iffy pick with a seven manter rush one being
a green dog, a delay blitz that acts as a spy.
Just a perfect marriage of scheme and execution all across
the board. Last break right there, come back and talk
about the standouts individually on defense. What are the top
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five tapes as well? That's all next Drive Time podcast
brought to you by au Don'nation. A lot of defensive
standouts to talk about from the Dolphins thirty to thirteen
Thrashing of the Buffalo Jills. Juju Brents is up first
from the first nap. He was just locked in pressmer technique,
stays on top of a million moves by Keon Coleman.
(24:08):
It's like that that clip of the bartender, like who's
just shaking his head, but he's not really actually going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That was Keon Coleman in this game.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Shuts his route down, tries to go off schedule, and
he just runs it with him. He's quick as a
hiccup out of his back pedal, so he can sink
off into those soft cloud positions and then drive back
downhill on the running back coming out of the backfield
on the swing route. I raved about the rush plan.
You can do that when you have a cornerback who
gets one on one coverage, no help assignments up over
the top, and he races a man five targets, two catches,
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twelve yards against him. They tried a back shoulder to
Keon Coleman against him, and you can't even see. The
blue jersey just blocks out the sun. Also, his pursuit
on the fumble recovery never quit on a play run
to the football and you'll get paid off, just like
Juju Brents did on this Sunday. Jordan Brooks, this guy
man the way he stays on his key but can
then react the moment something changes and then like put
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himself in the right position with the athletic ability to
hop a gap, dip a block, defeat with brute force,
a defeat a block with brute force. I should say,
I hope this guy gets the Pro Bowl recognition that
he deserves. He deserved it last year, even more so
this year. Let me put it to you this way,
watch interior offensive lineman climbing up to linebackers against him,
like watch our guys do it on our offense. And
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then notice how different it is for opposing teams against
Jordan Brooks, Like we are pretty good at those. Brooks
almost never gets got on those. He's all over the
tape spilling out runs and one on one in the
gap opportunities.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The one that I.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Retweeted is just truly one of the craziest run stuffs
you'll ever see, Like this is a special football player.
And then the coverage, like even the one that knocks
got him where he pushes off, Brooks is right there.
He keeps running off those crossers, but wasn't getting out
of position in the running game. An absolutely fantastic game
from Jordan Brooks. I think Jordan Phillips is a budding
like I don't want to say star, but a guy
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that like you can count on for thirty snaps. A
game of just really good, rugged, tough football. The tackle
he made on the James Cook run on the second
drive double team stack holds his ground, gets back in
position to work a block, sheds it, makes the tackle.
He is really, really, really good. Jack Jones played his
best game as a Miami Dolphin. He was excellent with
his rules, his landmarks, his spot drops, getting downhill on tackles,
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raking the football effort. A really good game and a
snapshot of how high performing he can be at his best.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
His force fumble is a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Great job playing to his job, then straining after the
fact and raking at the ball. It's pretty simple to me.
When he plays with want two against the run, he's
a plus starter in this league.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
When not, he's like not playable.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The trick is finding the consistency there, and I can
see how that could get frustrating if you can't get
to level out, get that to level out as a coach.
But he was on top of his stuff on Sunday.
The play that I tweeted about about Jordan Brooks, watch
Dante Trader on that one. On that clip, I just
love the way he crashes the party. In the running game,
Stealers sack, they shows zero coverage and then Trader wheels
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back out and winds up locating of vertical option and
runs it all the way down the field. His emergence
has coincided with the defense's ability to get more multiple
in their coverages. Zach Stealer had a good game, I think,
a pretty selfless game to continuously set picks and just
crash multiple parties as a slanter as a pick setter,
creating advantageous situations for his teammates as well as getting
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penetration in his own right. His sack was vintage Zack
Steeler overpower regard, get double teamed, work, work, work, and
then meet the quarterback and finish for a sack. Bradley
Chubb a lot of pride and Beachubb's game man. He
beat Spencer Brown and Dion Dawkins a lot on Sunday.
He got his pressures through the scheme. He didn't freelance,
he didn't get out of his gap. He did his
job and won over and over and over again. Mika
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Fitzpatrick did a little bit of everything. The fourth down,
the two point conversion of the fumble, recovery, some matchups
on tight ends and receivers. Big game for Minca and
Matt Judon. I thought his rush Land integrity brought the
was really impressive, and he also brought the thump to
set the edge in the running game. I think that
Jason Marshall had a couple of tough reps, Bido Jones
had an up and down day, Tyrold Dawson had some misses,
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and then Ethan Bonner played just five snaps, but that
was a pretty rough coverage rep on the touchdown to
Keon Coleman. I imagine that we've kind of figured out
our cornerback pecking order here with Rasull, Douglas Brentson, Jack
and Jason Marshall kind of rounding out the top part
of that group. Snap counts wise, Jack Jones the only
player who played all sixty eight snaps, Juju Brents played
fifty two, Jason Marshall played eighteen, and Ethan Bonner got
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five in the game at safety. Minka played all but
one sap sixty seven of them sixty seven. Tredo played
sixty six and if he played thirty six, Jordan Brooks
sixty five snaps of the sixty eight. Tyrrel Dotson played
all but one snap sixty seven, and then Willie got ten.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
kJ got one.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I just got a text my wife that said, please
tell me you have the race cars in your car. Yeah,
my son. If you don't have his race cars, he
going to be mad. But they are in my car.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So no worry. It's on that oh man. Okay, got
off track there.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Zach Seeler played forty seven snaps, Kenny Grant played twenty eight,
Jordan Phillips Jones twenty five, Zeke Biggers nineteen, Matthew Butler seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
A pretty healthy rotation up front.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're gonna see more of that because I think Seeler
playing more edge means more snaps for the other defensive
tackles because he kicks out of that five technique more.
With the trade of Jalen Phillips and then Bradley Chubb
fifty three, Matthew june On forty four big increase for him.
Quinton Bell twenty four I like to play Quintin Bell
played the edge in the running game and Cam Good
got ten snaps in the game as well.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
The top five tapes is an impossible task this week.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I have six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve players
up for consideration, but I'm gonna go like this. Number
five was Juju Brentz, Number four was Bradley Chubb, number
three was Patrick Paul, number two was Jordan Brooks, and
number one was Devon a Chan. My honorable mentions which
most games this year, these guys would have been in there,
but because we had so many good performances they were not.
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Tua Minka Trader, Waddle Brewer, Jack Jones, and Jordan Phillips.
There was tons of choices. This week, We're gonna go
ahead and get out of here. On the Wednesday podcast,
We're gonna do a deep dive. I had a great
conversation with Logan paulsim former Commanders tied Up, who now
does analysis for them on their radio network I believe,
and their their team channels. We're gonna have Hugo Manaro
(30:07):
on the show coming up here, talking about his his
the president of the fan club in Spain struggling here
to close the podcast out, we'll also have the Commander's
preview on Thursday plenty to Coming Away this week on
the Drive Time podcast. In the meantime, you all please
be sure subscribe, rate review of the show, follow me
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and so much more, and last button not least, Miami
Dolphins dot com. Until next time, Finzo, Caroline and Cameron
and Willow Daddy, He's coming home.
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