Drive Time: Dolphins Browns Week 7 Film Review

Travis is back in the film room to breakdown everything that happened in the Dolphins 31-6 loss in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield, and on today's show are breaking down the
all twenty two from the dolphins thirty one to six
loss in Cleveland from the Baptist Hell Studios inside the

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Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Maybe Daffy, Sir, probably not gonna give you the usual
forty minute breakdown that we do on the show. Here,
We're gonna go ahead and be concise as we possibly can.
Week seven at the Browns offense. General points here for
Miami in general, the quick passing game it ain't working.

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And in a six point two hundred yard output. You
can usually attribute that to multiple things, right, never just one.
Typically it's one or two players on a given play
that don't execute, and that's happening. But there are also
instances where we are running plays into outnumbered looks at
the snap and run into a number's disadvantage. On the
first drive, after the missed deep ball to Waddle and

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real quick on that, I'd be curious to know what
happened on that deep shot because he runs the curl
and It was a lot like the Panthers deep ball
where he widens the cornerback pressed up, no safety help
gets on top, stacks him, has him beat to what
takes the shot, but he breaks the route down and
runs a curl. He had him stacked, he had him beat.
I would be curious to know what happened on that.

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But back to the next play. We throw a screen
to eight chan who is aligned five yards deep in
the backfield to the field the wide side of the
formation behind Julian Hill as the only other eligible out there,
and the Browns match that with three defenders behind the
hand in the dirt edge. And if you draw a
line down the middle of the field, take the stripe
on Brewer's helmet and draw a line down that there

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are five defenders to the left of Brewer against three
Dolphins blockers and the running back who has the football. Obviously,
Devon drops the football, and since it's a backwards lateral
that's a fumble automatic loss of five yards. But even
if he catches the ball, there are two Browns ready
to tackle him in the backfield and three more defenders
who are well leveraged. In the instance that DeVaughn makes

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a miracle move and makes those two guys miss. There
are so many plays all over this tape where you
can point to something and just say that makes no
sense from a design angle, from a philosophical angle. The
first play of the game is this designed swing route
with an escort blocker, one of our favorite go to
plays in the last two years. Yet you look up
inside and Tua has the ball out faster than it

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took for him to catch the snap, like the ball
comes out to his hands in a shorter amount of
time than the ball traveling from Aaron Brewer's hand into
his hands, and Cole Strange stands up and pass blocks
on air for us alid two seconds after Tua has
let the ball go, and it looks like someone unplugged
his controller and the mic linebacker runs the play down. Now,

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I don't think he could have made a block on it,
but I don't understand why we're blocking for a quarterback
two seconds after he threw the ball in passbrod just
doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And that's
before you get into the fact that it was a
diamond formation into the boundary with short motion that effectively
created three separate stacks on top of one. Another look
at the first play of the game. Larry Borum is

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in his set at right tackle, Julian Hill's right behind him,
alec Ingolds right behind him, and Devon a Chan's right
behind that. The next play, on third and long, we
throw another screen. This one is inside the numbers, and
the idea here is to get the edge out of
the play, but we leave them unblocked and the throw
action is supposed to get them upfield and behind the football,

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but they're hip to it and retrace it and they
flag the receiver down before he could even make a
move on a short gain on third and ten. So
the screen game, the whole concept, right is to get
the rush past your first line of blockers and take
those guys out of the play and get your blockers
to the second and third level and let the running
back of the receiver create. But like, we're not even
getting out of the gates on these plays, probably because

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it's a big time tendancy that you can see on
tape every single week. Talked about this in the show
on the Takeaways yesterday. There are a lot of instances
of lacks a lack of execution on these plays, but
there's also a huge chunk of them. They're being run
into bad looks where it's a non starter from the snap,
like you've got no chance when you're running three on five.
I mean, I don't you know it's a two man

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power play basically separately, a lot of these plays and
this was the case last year, that goes for a
negative yardage, there's an unblocked man that's frequently paired with
a blocker who was working on a defender who's already engaged,
or sometimes just blocking nobody like everybody. It seems like
there's a lot of confusion on a lot of these
plays they run. Remember the pin pole concept we broke

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down on Dolphins HQ last week. If you didn't see that,
go back and check out the episode. We're gonna do
that on the show here going forward, trying to find
some evergreen content because it's tough to find things right
now to get into. But we're looking at different schemes
and just kind of teaching you about the NFL and
football in general. On that pinpoll concept, it went for
forty nine yards in a touchdown last week, and they
called it on the second drive, and once again there

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it is you get big time polls from Aaron Brewer
and Cole Strange. The Strange brew at it again and
Devon has a lane, but he gets tripped. I think
it was a twenty yard touchdown if he does not
get tripped because it's well blocked. It's sealed. It's kicked
out by Larry Borum and sealed by Julian Hill and
Larry Borum, and then Strange and brew pull out playside
to make the key blocks down the field, but Devon

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just gets tripped over his own guy. There's another swing
for a loss with six minutes left from the first
half on a first and fifteen play, and the formation
is twins right to the boundary. That's two receivers to
the short side of the field and they have an
attached why that's a tight end in the formation to
the strength to the field. He's on the other side
of the formation. And then Ingold is a side car

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shotgun alongside to a tongue of Iiloa there running back
next to the quarterback. And then Devon e Chan is
in the pistol behind Ingold. So it's two guys in
the backfield with Tua. You've got twin receivers and then
attached why to the strong side. Everything else is to
the weak side in the boundary, and they fake a
four dive on first and fifteen. By the way, they
fake the toss to Devon a Chan, But you see

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the defense flow that way with Devon because most likely
I'm guessing again tendency breakers, like every time this offense struggles,
they scheme up place to Devon eh Chan and it's
it's you can't, like, you have to mix up your
sequencing to do that. Otherwise teams are gonna get hit
to it. And when you fake it to him and
then go back to him, you're not removing anybody out

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of the equation because they're all flowing that way from
the original fake. It's like that he fakes the fake
concept and so he runs the swing route, which is
also tipped off that they're going to be squatting on
the play because we have short motion on the snap
and they didn't run with the motion man. What's the
number one rule for a quarterback is if they run
with the motion man, you've got man coverage. If they don't,

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you've got zone coverage. And then there's two over routes.
Two slants from that twins set the two receivers of
the boundary and they're capped by two split safeties and
get picked up. They run capped right into these defenders.
The routes are completely out of the place. So the
only option now for Tua. The only option he has
is to throw the swing route to Devon eighth chen,
which he blindly does because he knows that's the progression

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of the play. If those two over routes are capped,
I have to come back to the swing route. But
because of the design of the play and the fake
toss that way, and the fact that you're running to
the short side of the field, those two zone defenders
are just chillin'. They were never influenced on the play
to go anywhere else. And for him to make for
Devon to make it back to the line of scrimmage,
he's gonna have to make two guys. Miss, I mean,

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you know that's not gonna cut it anywhere. On the
next play, we try to boot Tua into the unbalanced
twelve look to the boundary. What does that mean? Twelve
personnel is one back, two tight ends right. Unbalanced means
you put both tight ends on the same side of
the formation, but the Browns rush for and they add
a fifth off the edge, the weak side edge to
the backside to run off. They either want to pursue

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the run from the backside and they can get around
that and just basically cut down the backside or the
cutback line, I should say. Or if if you see
the quarterback pull the ball out in play action, you
just keep on that track and close in the quarterback
and take away his escape patch. And we run alec
Ingold on a corner route from that position and try
to flood it with the other routes coming over to
that side of the formation. But it's all slow developing

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and the brown zone coverage is all over it, and
you're waiting for alec Ingold against a blitz. It takes
two seconds to get in to run a three second
route your fullback. So I mean, I don't know what
two was supposed to do with that, you know. And
I'm not just trying to point out all the plays
that didn't work, but rather just pointing out how some
of this is defeated at the snap before the ball

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even gets put into play, you're just running. I mean,
it's almost like running the play scout team wise into
the coverage that you want. Like we talked about in
training camp about how like let's run this play into
a look that's not advantageous for it. It's almost like
the opposite of that, Like the Browns are saying, hey,
we have this look for this hopefully this offensive play.
Run that offensive play so you can feel good ourselves

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because they have nowhere to go on that play. And
I think this is where the quarterback at this point
in the game decides to kind of start throwing to
spots blindly because that's what his last two picks were.
He's got no chance and look, he's not playing well.
Ten picks not good. Mike McDaniel called him out again
at this press conference saying, like we're going to start
him and hopefully doesn't throw ten picks and if you know,
if we're joking about that, then that's something differently, but

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no one is going to succeed in that setup. It's
doing stuff just to do it. A lot of the times,
I'm not saying Tua is the next you know, Darnold
or Mayfield to you know, have this regression and you know,
major comeback, set back, comeback, But he might be because
this offense right now, I don't think there are many
folks out there that could operate in the way it's
going right now. The next play is third and fourteen,

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and look, there's nothing in the playbook that you love
for third and fourteen, but we actually get Nick Westbrook
Akine on a dagger concept. What is that your number
two receiver, the slot runs a takeoff a vertical to
lift the safety, and then your number one receiver, the
wide receiver to the side of the field, runs a dig.
It's a fifteen sometimes eighteen yard incut off of where
that safety was, and he has to beat the cornerback

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who hopefully is outside leverage. It's dagger concept. It's one
of the most common concepts in the National Football League.
But the five man pressure completely bust our protection, which
is actually six on five because Julian Hill stays in,
but we can't get a block with six. Tua has
to throw a back foot fade away and anticipates the
location of the ball, hoping that Nick runs his route
at the right depth in the correct area, and he

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throws it before Nick even sinks his hips on the
dig because the pressure is all over him and the
ball is there, but Westbrook Akine comes out of his
break and shuts down the route as if there was
no chance the ball was coming his way. On top
of that, ds Gridge takes his release on a clear
out route and you need to threaten the safety wherever
that safety is run right at him, and the cornerback

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that he's going up against in possibly trail technique in
that position is outside leverage on the outside shoulder of
ds Gridge. The safety is capped right at him, and
what does he do. He takes his release outside of
the outside leverage and runs himself into Nick's route. Perhaps
that's why Nick shut things down because there was two
more bodies in his route stem than he was expecting

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when the visual was right there for Eskridge to run
the vertical at the safety and he takes this wide
release and puts himself in harm's way of that route. Luckily,
the safety still took the cheese on that vertical clear
out and got the heck out of there. If he
doesn't do that, he says like he's running that wrong
and jumps down on the dig. It's a routine walk
in pick six, So I mean, either way, you do it,

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man like It reminds me of the Geico commercial. It's
like a bad horror movie. He intentionally ran himself into
the shed full of chainsaws when there was a running
vehicle right there to get away. Let's give some props
to the Browns defense too, a really good defense that's
really well coached. They had what I think was an
alert to blitz when we exit motion, the motion that
took the leag by storm in twenty twenty three, right,

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they would convert that corner to a blitz off of
that motion. So rather than run with the receiver that
motions across the field, they're just gonna bring that guy
in tight to the formation and they're gonna blits up
at the quarterback. And if that guy can close out
like a basketball defender, you know, hand in the air,
you know, get both your feet down, kind of chop
step to the shooter, Tua can't make them miss or
get the ball over them because that's not his game.

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It's a good solve to that. Look if you're a defense.
They also did that against our tight and nasty alignments.
What does that mean? It means our receivers are in
tight to the formation, like right alongside the tight ends
or the tackles, and it was a smart reaction to
how we kept chipping their edges. Our receivers were chipping
Miles Garrett all game long. If you do that with
the receiver, it's going to add a second or so

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to their route development, so they could get free runs
from tight split corners where they're they're reducing the amount
of runway they have to come on those cap blitzes
because they know the play is going to take two
and a half three seconds to develop because we chip
and then get to our over route or our cross,
our drag route, our mesh like whatever it is, and
they can get home before that route can develop. So

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smart coaching on the brown side as well. They you know,
they get paid to do this as well. It's not
just the Dolphins making mistakes. They made their play too.
But there is something on this tape that's working. It's
the same thing that works last week and previous weeks.
It's the man gap schemes. We showed you the forty
nine yard touchdown run last week on Pin and Poll.
They run it again on that eight chan getting tripped
play that I talked about, and then the second and

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twenty one it's basically like a power like it's basically power,
but there's also I guess it could be construed as
a possible zone concept. It's hard to differentiate sometimes the
run schemes, but it looked like power because you had
the center and the left tackle both pulling playside and
the assignments. You know, you're pulling and sifting for second
level defenders from Aaron Brewer and Patrick Paul, and then

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the right tackle Larry Boram, just kicks out the sixth
technique and then the the right guard, Cole Strange, seals
the one shape, which is an easy block for him.
It's well defined. You just have to basically throw your
right hip in front of that guy and wall him
off and they're gonna run off that b gap off
your butt with Boram doing the same thing to the
sixth technique, and then you pull Brewer and Paul into

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that gap and it pops for a twenty one yard run.
There when we run our you know coach climb playbook
as I call it, where he fakes the fake, no
he pretends to fake it. Just it doesn't have a
lot of success. It's a lot of the negative plays
and the penalties and the miss assignments and the blocking game,
whereas we just line up and play football, that tends
to work a lot more so that's instructive. And then

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we go back to our power running game to Ali
Gordon that on the one Ollie Gordon drive right the
three consecutive carries for a first down and he gets
eight yards on the first downplay where both Paul and
Jonah displace at the line of scrimmage and you get
a good Julian Hill seal and a nice dig out
block by ds Gridge. After we convert that with Ali
though gets right back to outside zone into three unblocked

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defenders of the Weeks side of the formation. Like it's
it's right there on tape for you. It's it's so
obvious to see. Then on the next drive backed up,
we do the exact same thing and run weak side
zone into three defenders who basically have a gap to
themselves and no one to block them. So really difficult
tape to watch. We'll come back and talk about the
quarterback and the offensive standouts on the next side. We'll

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get to the defense as well. All that next Drive
Time podcast brought to you by AutoNation I hope the
first segment of the podcast there was not construed as
me making excuses for the quarterback because he had plenty
of his doing in this tape as well. I thought
Tua came out playing pretty well early up until the
incomplete third down ball to Malik Washington in the red zone.

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He made a nice throw to Waddle on a little
boot over the on the over route to move the
chains on the third down prior to that, and then
on this snap they cat blitz again we talked about this,
and leave the safety who's out flanked by Malik by
a solid five yards out leverage to the out route
that he is running. So it's a perfect call for
the Dolphins. The brown show seven. They bring five on

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a sim pressure, but Tua, knowing he's hot because of
the look, because the look they show you, he throws
two steps before Malik breaks off the route, puts it
on the money, but Malik could not squeeze it. I
went over the first half that I thought was a
lot of the Browns having us out schemed, but then
I felt two up presses after that, especially after his
pick six, which was an out and out miss by him,

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and we've seen that before, right, the mistakes compound on
top of each other. But we hadn't seen previous to
this season. What we hadn't seen previous to this season
was the mechanics and how it directly attributes to these misfires.
And when I watch this tape, I see a lot
of it. It's it's over and over again. And this
starts in the second quarter. The deep shot to Waddle
that was in the end zone was actually a perfect

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ball at the end of the first half, good coverage,
but Wattle had a shot at it and just couldn't
quite finish the play. And then the first play after
the foul on the missed field goal, Tuba can't catch
a snap and we lose nine yards like it's a
four point play because you're not overcoming second nineteen in
the offense right now, it's a four point play just
to drop the snap after you get new life. It's
tough to watch that stuff, man. Then the throw on

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the pick to Devon ah Chan, there's no breakdown. It's
just a high ball that gets tipped in traffic, and
that's almost always a disaster. But here's why I don't
get It's basically another one of these design touch touches
for Devon ah Chan or screens for Devon eh Chan.
He short motions to a stack and then pushes his
route up feel opposed to running it in the backfield
like we had earlier in the game in those drop
passes that way and two has a far hash rip

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and the ball travels like twenty five yards in the air,
and if Devon catches it, it's a gain of two.
So it's a low percentage throw to me with a
percentage chance greater than zero. That is a turnover and
the upside is a two yard gain. The ball to
Tanner Connor on the over route that he dropped. That
was another really nice throw from two against tight coverage
and taking him to the ground to protect it from

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a tip and also giving him a spot that only
he can get to, compared to the defender having a
chance to put a hand on that ball. Now by
the end of it, they were jumping everything in the
middle of the field, including the last pick. The second pick.
I don't know how to break that down because he
was under duress and just kind of threw it to
a spot right to a Browns defender. I've watched it
a few times and still quite frankly, don't know what
he was doing. There, really a bad quarterback play, but

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you saw it on the Eleiku fourk down stop and
the third pick he's not moving defenders and they just
squat and drive on these throws. The last pick, it's,
you know, have you seen that Tom Brady commercial. It's
it reminds me of old school commercials when the guy's like,
if Harold or whatever the hell's name is, you know,
if he I'm gonna butcher this. But basically, if he
had all this to study football, he still wouldn't hold

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a candle to Tom Brady's football knowledge. And then he's
watching his kids play football out in the backyard and
he says like, just just you gotta look off the safety,
and Brady goes, if they walk the safety down, just
rip the seam. So on this particular play, they show
single high coverage and Tua rips the seam, but they
pick up waddle on the backside dig with a linebacker drop.

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So that middlefield safety who's starting to kind of close
on that wattle dig, he just gets off of that
and goes and jumps the seam before Tua even throws it.
He's moving that direction to a still rips it and
steps right in front of it for an easy pick.
He was just making blind reads by the end of
the game, which I think is something that happens in
these getaway games from him. That's why the turnovers come
in bunches, and you can only throw that if you

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move the safety to the dig. You have to get
him off his spot. You have to see his feet
go that direction and get his momentum lean in that direction,
because then he can't get back to the other side
and you can make that rip up the scene did
the proper read, had the eyes and the dig, but
didn't move him and just still through it. Anyway. That's
like my high school basketball coach used to tell us
all the time, and his favorite call in the playbook

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was to run eight, which is a pass and cut
and get out stall offense. One time, we went ahead
by two points on the road in overtime and it's
a five minute overtime period. We scored the first bucket
of overtime and got a stop on defense and he
then called he called eight. He wanted us to run
four minutes of clock and just stall the game out
from there. That's how bad of a coach, this dude was,

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and we would go over this and practice and kind
of walk through it, and he was telling us about
how like this is our press break play, you know,
when we're up late in the game. But like in football,
he would always compare us to football. In football, if
you make a catch on the sideline and you're supposed
to run the clock and get down in bounds or
even go out of bounds to stop the clock, if
they're nobody in front of you, just run to the

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end zone. He would tell us that's the same concept.
If they break a lane and you have a wide
open layup, take the two points. Take the layup. And
when it comes to Tua on these types of plays,
like I know that I have to look off the
safety and throw the seam, but if I do it,
it should work. I'm just gonna look off the safety
and my next reaction is to throw the seam whether

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or not he moves or not. Like he didn't take
Coach Rose as coaching there back in high school on
the on the hardwood and just through the seam, regardless
of it not moving anybody at all. And then Quinn,
you were checks into the game and his first throw
is the exact same didn't hold the cloud corner who
on a sale flat combo. A sale flat is a
route to the flat, you guys know what that means.
And then a sale route is a seven route, a

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corner route. You run basically ten, twelve, fifteen yards up
the field and angle it towards the pylon. That's a
sail flat, trying to put conflict on that cloud cornerback
and a cover two or two man situation. And Quinn
goes to throw the sale route, never never checks the flat.
That cornerback sinks into that particular throwing lane and he
throws it right to him, but it's dropped. Then he

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drops the snap. Then his next ball is a throw
to Waddle that almost gets him killed. And that, to
me is an example why you can't start Quinn Yewers yet. Like,
I know two was playing bad. I know he's turned
the ball over. I know all that stuff that we're
hating on, But I mean we've seen this offense in
the end, in the in the non tol world. That's
what you're asking for if you make that switch, because
I saw it on this tape. Now, his deep shot

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was a really good throw but that's one of those
defined like I saw people going crazy over Fernando Mendoza's
throwing up the sideline like one on one, like you know,
fifty to fifty ball, Like you can play them well
and it can be impressive, but it's not like high
level quarterback play. So I never get impressed by those.
And in terms of like, oh, it's high level quarterback play.
Good ball places, but in accuracy, sure, but that's a
whole different animal from saying this guy can like see

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it and read it out and play a high level
quarterback position. Individual standouts After a tough day from the quarterbacks,
Aaron Brewer was up and down, and it feels like
we start these every single week with him. He actually
made an incredibly difficult reach block on the play side
one shade. That's a block that you have to get
around him because he's got you outflanked on that big
eight chan run. But he also had, like last week,

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some really terrible pass protection reps. He's had some wonky
snaps the last couple of games too. He's not been
oc one the last few weeks like he was the
first five weeks of the season, but he's still one
of the best players on the offense. I thought Patrick
Paul was okay, had some wins, some losses. They helped
a lot on Miles Garrett, and you know Miles also
aligned damn near everywhere in this game defensive tackle, either edge,

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they were chipping, they were helping on him. He had
some crushing blocks on the power schemes we ran, which
makes me curious to see about more of those going forward.
Here and watch Davon a Chan's twenty one yard run
if you pull up the tape like he's he is
mauling people. Patrick Paul is twenty yards downfield, but by
and large, pretty rough day for the offensive line. I
also didn't think Waddle had his best day as he

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leads off our misses. Just a tough day for Jayln
Waddle stopped on that go ball when he had the
corner stacked and couldn't make that end zone catch and
then was kind of blanked the rest of the game.
Jonas Ofvite you, it's the same thing each week in
terms of the negative or the stuff that he has
to work on. He's trying to do these quick set
jump sets and these guys they both rush him and
he's like the momentum of his footwork and his body

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and the synchronicity. Going back to a golf swing, He's
just out of sequence, which is going to cause you
to slice the ball or hook the ball. He's trying
to get out there and quick set them. Jumps at
them and they throw power into his chest and it
knocks his chest back, but his feet are still stuck
like ahead of him, and then he has to recover,
and that's how he either gets knocked on his butt

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or his the feet just get wonky and he can't redirect.
I just don't think that right now, the way the
system runs is beneficial to Jonah and hit where his
skill set is. Right now, he's also turning down and
getting beat at the point of attack in the running game.
And then he climbs the second level and just leaves
a three tech unblocked in like a short yards play.
Go watch Alli's third down run, I think the one
that they didn't rule a first down that was a

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first down. He leaves a three tech and he completely unblocked.
Cole Strange has kind of reached that Skyler and Huntley
status from last year. There's just no point talking about it.
I mean it's there are some power plays again, some
man schemes, man run scheme plays where it works for him.
But I mean there are a handful of snaps on
this tape where he's just getting thrown or knocked off

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of his spot or misses. It's just there's no point
in talking about it. Devon Han, the pass pro effort
was back on display for me late in the game.
Not good enough. I think the effort was, you know,
not front of mind for him and a few guys
like Westbrook. A Kine kind of shut down some routes
Waddle I thought too. The sack Tua took on the
drive after the pick six with a totally non effort
in pass pro by eight chan. His details were just

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not that great either, bad reads and tracks outside of
the couple of big runs. Some bad routes in there
as well. And then Larry Borham got a lot of
help with chips, but still was nowhere near good enough
at the right tackle position. Snap counts TWA played forty six,
Quinn Youwers played twenty two. The offensive line went the
distance fifty eight STAPs for all five guys. Waddle played
forty four. Say number as Nick Westbrook Akinne Malik played

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thirty seven d s Gridge played seventeen eight Chan had
thirty two snaps. Ollie Gordon played eighteen snaps. We did
see Jalen Wright for nine snaps in the game. Alec
Ingold played twenty and at tight end, Julian Hill thirty five,
Darren Waller sixteen, tanner' connor eighteen snaps in this game.
Last break, come back into the defense. That's next Draft
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ahead and get through cruising through this defensive tape real quick.
I don't think this translates over to the offense in
the way some of these early game swings can change things.
But man, they were dominant up front at the line
of scrimmage early in this game against the Browns running game,
and quite frankly, they were blanketing the pass coverage as well.
And Dylan Gabriel that's a tough tape to watch from

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him as well. But I wonder how much different this
game looks on that side of the football alone. I'm
not even talking about the outcome of the game, just
the Dolphins defense in general. With some of the calls
they got in this game too, in particular the illegal
contact they called on Chop but it was actually Rasul
Douglas and the defensive passion apference on Minka Fitzpatrick third
down on Rasoul Douglas that leads to a field goal

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and then a turnover off the board that leads to
a Quinn Shawn Judkins forty six yard touchdown run. I
mean they had two hundred yards offense on the day,
right and forty six of that one fourth of that
was the Judkins run that came after an egregious DPI call.
This should have been a pick for Ashton Davis. And
maybe if it's a six to three game, those picks
with two a fourth in the ball doesn't happen later on.
Maybe I don't know. I'm trying to say that I

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felt they played pretty well up front, which that should
be expected against an offense that hadn't surpassed eighteen points
over the last eleven games going back to last season.
But a pick six and an int returned to the two,
that's fourteen points. The offense was essentially responsible for the
Dolphins offense for giving up. And I think if we're
sitting here looking at a seventeen point game with two
hundred yards of offense. You're probably pretty happy with that

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if you're Anthony Weaver. I'm still not sure how that
ball got through Rasoul Douglas and two Jerry Judy's hands
on the near pick. The timing from Gabriel on that
play was so late and off that the route stops
like Jerry Judy stops running and Rasseull Douglas undercuts. It's
right there, and it's got the cradle, like the alligator
arm kind of cradle to you know, catch a punt.
It goes through the hands and then through his elbows,

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off of his like chest and into Jerry Judy's hands.
Crazy play to watch on tape. Had to slow it
down several times. Another play later, Zach Seeler goes unblocked
on that screen and winds up getting a hand across
Dylan Gabriel's helmet, which didn't It didn't hurt him. That
didn't hurt tough enough, right, they say it to your
younger brother. I don't know what Zach's supposed to do there,

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just bad luck. We talked about the importance of being
buttoned up in the run fits, you know, last week
on the show, the first time Quin Shawn Judkins found
a little bit of space on the bend back run.
We crashed down across the formation in one gap slanting across.
He finds the cutback lane against that flow. But we
have Ashton Davis there who comes down spills the tight
end trying to fit that sea gap, and it creates
this one on one situation with quin Shawn Judkins and

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Jack Jones. But Jack slips on the play, you know,
doesn't get doesn't close depth and close ground, and it
creates all the space for Judkins to make his moves,
which he does and makes Jack Jones miss. It was
really sound before that play, but you can see how
bad fits on just a handful of plays can burn you,
because you know, outside of the that twenty yard run
and a forty six yard Judkins run, the Browns offense

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didn't do anything. But it's two plays where you don't
get your right fit, your right technique, and it burns you.
And there really wasn't a lot schematically to get into
in this game. Their pass game didn't do anything outside
of the penalties. We played a lot of single high
safety ash and if he were down in the box
a lot. Now there's like maybe five teams in the
league you can do that against, and with Michael Pennix,
Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and Jayden Daniels on deck, you

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can't do it until part of that Jets and Saints
run here in late November into December. But yeah, a
lot of cover one, Cover three. I think one of
the best elements of this game was was Zach Steeler
doing more one gapping where he's just shooting up field
and beating with penetration and length and power and quickness.
He got a tackle for a loss on an arm
over that looked a lot like last year's Seeler playmaking.
That's probably good. I think if if it's a different

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quarterback or a different team, you know, there's probably twenty
five other quarterbacks in the league where this is probably
a fifty burger just because of our some of the
penalty that got called against us, and some of the
opportunities in the passing game that Gabrielle just flat out miss.
Like there was two touchdowns that he just turned down,
never looked at to throw, and I'll tell you about
those here in just one second. Individual standouts. I like
the way Jordan Brooks sees things through trash like and

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maybe especially alongside Tyrel Dotson, like he can be at
the second level against a slow developing outside run and
he'll see the back stick his foot in the ground
through a blocker and defender engage right in front of him,
mind you, and then stick his cleats in the ground
and work back over the top or under the gap,
however he has to do it. There was also a
simple little curl flat the Browns ram, and you so
often see the will linebacker in these situations go under

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that curl route the pick route that basically is trying
to just you know, set a screen for the wheel
route to the running back and they get caught in
chase mode underneath it. This happened to Tyrell Dotson in
this game. It happened to Tyrell Dotson in the Buffalo game.
It happened to Tyrel Dotson in the Patriots game. But
Jordan Brooks on this gets over the top of it,
and he's proficient, working smarter, not harder, right, anticipates it,
goes over the top and gets in great shape and

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they can't throw the wheel route. Mika Fitzpatrick covers up
a lot in the high post, and that's not even
his primary spot in this defense right now, I still
hate the DPI call. It was great technique and execution.
He dominates the press, the reroute, the trail, perfect play,
and the ref waits until we pick it off and
the play's over. Then he reaches into his pocket and
throws the flag. I hate complaining about officiating, but come on, dude, like,

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come on, but back to Minka. He's helping these corners
in safeties a lot when they mess up. Just please
remember that as you talk about Minca in your discourse.
As you go along here, Jordan Phillips continues to look
like a veteran with his technique. To me, the way
he plays up through his man and kind of shocks
him and jolts him and gets that power going in
that direction. Like watch his single blocks. He usually dominates them.

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They can sometimes get him off the spot on double teams,
but not that often. Kenny Grant plays his best game
as a pro I think he's still playing high at times,
and even he even said today his technique could be
cleaned up in the press conference. But I think this
is a nice development in terms of probus because when
he does get there with those details, He's gonna come
out on the other side of this a very productive
three technique for us. To me, that was the best

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showing of the year and had the production there to
follow Jack Jones, the up and down game was more
down today, But he's at riverboat gambler man. You saw
the up with the back door run on the outside
zone play. That was a big chance he took, but
it paid off for a six yard TfL. And when
he flies in there as a blitzer it's usually pretty good.
But playing the run from depth is as bad as
I've seen back there. Individual misses here Tyrel Dotson, the

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number of times he just lets the flow come to
him rather than going to make the play, to me,
is so frustrating. I wrote that before the Judkins long
touchdown run. But first remember the play where he decked
the spot route on the third down red zone in
completion and Dylan Gabriel throws it to the pick man
on the ground who successfully picked Tyrel Dotson, who tried
to run under the pick. Like I talked about with

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Jordan Brooks Well, Tyrel takes the wrong angle gets bailed out.
Speaking of poor angles, watch forty six yard Judgkins touchdown run,
he starts to scrape, runs back to the wrong gap,
and then tries to go back over to the correct
gap and runs himself right into the wash and all
the way out of the play. The next drive, he
carries a vertical stem twenty yards down the field and
leaves the back naked on a checkdown and he carries

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the route right into a safety who's just waiting for
him there, like there's no need to carry him that far.
This is the other ten guys doing a job, and
because we have zero anticipation getting off of our initial
coverage responsibility, it just blows the entire complexion of the play.
And then I put down the chop and Benito got
displaced frequently in the game. So much chops rundown stuff
is why he can't get in the game in passing downs.
And he's off size on one of the passing downs

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as well. Not good tapes there snap counts. The Davis
is the only player that played the entire game fifty
seven snaps. Minca had fifty two, Dotson and Brooks both
had fifty six rasull Douglas played the most corner snaps
at fifty one, although I guess Minco's Your Nickel Corner.
Jack Jones played thirty four, Ethan Bonner played twenty, Kendall
Sheffield and Juju Brentz both played six each. If Emala

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Fan who played twenty three snaps no snaps for Dante
Trader in the game Sealer played forty seven, Jordan Phillips
thirty two, kg thirty, Bonito Jones twenty four, Matthew Butler twelve,
Off the Edge Phillips forty six, Beach Up thirty nine,
Chop twenty five, and Quentin Bell played six in place
of Matthew. Judon and then Willie Gay had three snaps
and kJ Britt and Cam Good both had one snap

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a piece. Top five Tapes number one, Minka Fitzpatrick, number two,
Jordan Brooks number three, Kenneth Grant number four, number four.

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