September 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Travis is back for the first in-season film review episode of the 2025 season. What worked, what went wrong and everything in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, our
first film review podcasts of the regular season will not
be very much fun, but we're gonna do it anyways.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We'll take a look at the tape from the thirty
three to eight.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Lost to the Indianapolis Colts from the Baptist Hill Studios
inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is the Draft Time Podcast, may gaffe.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't know about you, guys, but it has been
a lot of reflecting, a lot of reflection mode in
the last twenty four hours or so, kind of numb appetite,
not really popping off.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, how sad is that?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Like? Grow up?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You're almost forty, I will say a playing with the
kids last night, I thought always is a good way
to reset, to touch grass, as they say. But I
explained it to a friend of mine that it always
feels when you feel like you diehards from the analysis
and early lockdown days.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Remember this.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We used to have the funeral episode where the season
was over. It felt like and I'm pretty sure I
did that after the Titans game in twenty sixteen, when
the Dolphins and rattle off nine wins in their final
eleven But I digress. But like usually usually, the feeling
of the breakup like Broken Heart podcast, occurs after the
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funeral episode, the episode where it feels like things are
lost and man for one three hour football game to
sort of expose an underbelly of Wartz that I quite
frankly was blind to in a lot of ways. And
that's on me, I suppose, is almost like you're hopping
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on this roller coaster, and part of me wants to
be like, we'll see how they come out next week.
Week one can be a liar. I talked about that
in the podcast on Sunday night. But I just think
some of the way things have gone, the way the
tape looked, we'll get to that here in one second,
the way the quarterback played, the way the post game
pressers and the pressers on Monday went, it feels like that.
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And he mentioned my buddy that the worst part about
a breakup is the concept of starting over, which nobody
wants to do, especially when you're almost forty Are you
a man?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Are you almost forty?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And in this case, you know the reason I was
so bullish on all of this was the belief of
the underlying process.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But it feels like you can just let that go.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And whether that makes you sad for you know, the
media after effect, probably that's the emotion.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But maybe some relief, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then watching the game on Sunday night, it's almost like, oh,
this is all pointless because look how far away we
are from that, right and when it comes to like
moving on or letting go or restarting, like even if
it is a six year relationship in this case, this
began back in twenty nineteen. I'm really in earnest The
first year of like competitiveness from the Dolphins team that
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we've seen the current build was in twenty twenty. You know,
you tend to remember the good times and how when
a relationship comes to an end, you more in those
good times, right, But you should saddle yourself with the
toxicity of where it went wrong to remind yourself and
to learn from those mistakes and maybe they'll get it corrected.
On Sunday against the Patriots, And it is a crazy
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emotional swing that I come back and I'm like, oh,
playing the Bills on Thursday, But I really doubt that.
I really really doubt I'll feel that way even if
they win the game. I don't expect to project it
went over the Bills because you just saw what they
did to the Baltimore Ravens. Maybe that's what happens, but
I don't see it that way, and I'm going to
use the tape to tell you why. And this is
I suppose another reminder. I talk all the time about
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how football fans and media don't do a good job
of learning from you know, previous instances in the NFL,
you know, cut down day, joint practices, whatever it might be.
There's always lessons to be learned, but for myself, time
to look inward a little bit and take a lesson
based upon project things on paper. And I make the
comment every year about how in the preseason we have
all these grand thoughts about who teams are going to be,
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and then a couple of games end of the season,
it's all the rug gets pulled out from under you
and you're wrong about so many things. And I don't
feel that way about most of the National Football League
after Week one, but for the Miami Dolphins, it kind
of feels that way because you feel almost a little
bit duped, and shame on me, right, Shame on me
for accepting this idea of these changes in philosophical roster
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building shifts and you know, just to go back and
do the same exact things because you know, we spent
this year in therapy, right, We're gonna make it better, honey,
And then he or she the person in therapy reverts
back to their old habits and like this old dog
and can change. I got to get out of the relationship.
I'm not saying I'm like resigning or you know, ending
my Dolphins fandom. I'm sitting here wearing a Dolphins hoodie
and you know, I love the Dolphins more than anything
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in the world. And this opportunity I got was was
life changing me and my family. But at a certain
point you have to learn it. But extra emotions to
the actual reality of the situation. And I really, really,
really and this is why I get so upset about
like the you know, homework, you're just a homer type
of comments that they're hurled at me all the time. No, man,
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like I through study, I believe this stuff and being
close to the team, I believe this stuff. But I
just really really thought they were going to add to
their fastball this year after a departure in twenty four,
which that was kind of a smack in the face.
And then you kind of had two options, Right do
you take the fork in the road that says like
that's who they're gonna be. And that was my early
offeas and content was filtered through that lens. And then
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as they went about their off season and adjusted things
and built things, and they had the certain level of
you know, ish to them if you will, I was like, Okay,
I get this now, I can buy into this. But
not only did the off speed pitch never happen, the
fastball regressed and went completely off the rails. It's kind
of like my golf game this year, your boys having
a ban or twenty twenty five. I can tell you
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that my predictions offer a terrible start. My golf game sucks. Luckily,
my kids love me. Just brewed absolutely brutal. Let's go
ahead and get into this. And unlike Men's warehouse, I
don't think you're gonna like the way you look. I
can guarantee you that much. And honestly, this doesn't even feel.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Like we need to do a lot here. I mean
we will.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean that's the job, right, but you guys deserve
to know the nuts and bulls of everything. But it
goes down to this, our bread and butter, our game
breaking staples from twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
They've been caught up to. You guys have been telling
me that for a long time. I'm slow to the party.
So my apologies for that. I don't want to say
that it got figured out entirely, but kind of figured
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out right. And that Bobby slow It comment from last
week's you know, press conference sort of makes you think
he talked about teams running unscattered looks against this offense
more than anywhere else in the NFL. And that just
means the stuff that they've cooked up has not been
shown on film.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's brand new for the Miami Dolphins. And that may
be true.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It is true, Like that's what's made those Belichick defenses
so lethal over the two decades, right, the ability to
consistently reinvent yourself on not just a year to year basis,
but a week to week. For a more contemporary comparison,
it's like Sean McVay and Matt Lafleur in Los Angeles
and Green Bay respectively on the offensive side of the football.
And the way they tried to get to the stuff
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Sunday wasn't to do something different, which, if you're successful,
you could coax the defense out of that stuff right
and then you can get to it, but rather further
dress it up and further put lipstick on the pig.
And what was the one biggest issue last year get
into the lion of scrimmage too late, not having enough
time to get through all the shifts and motions and
pre snap checklists, and the quarterback has to get these
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answers within a five second window that allow him to
play fast.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's a lot to ask of the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And what did that get you again, more guys breaking
the huddle, leaving the wrong way, not privy to their assignments,
guys off the football, not doing enough, which we'll get
to that. And when you get to the line of
scrimmage as late as we tend to, it's tough to
get solves when you have this overload to the right
side of the formation, three players to the right of
the center.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Then zay R.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Franklin walks up down the left side B gap between
Paul and Jonah, and Jonah has to to his right
to help with the overload pressure, and that means that
Paul has to squeeze that B gap to help stop
the rush of Franklin. And then all of a sudden
it creates this one on one situation for DeForest Buckner
against Tanner Connor. And that's exactly what Lou and Aaruma
is trying to cook up. And because we're so late
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to the operation two.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Ball now, ball now, ball now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And when you do that, you are teeing up the
defense to read your cadence and fire off the football,
and so Tyreek breaks the huddle going the wrong way.
Not only do we have this protection dialed up for this,
look you're giving this Colts this you know, one two,
three go head start, come on in to crash across
your face. And then your third down back, who hasn't
had any success operating in pass protection from a physical
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standpoint and a processing standpoint, has no idea where to go.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It is just all across the board.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Like to me, it's not a oh this is a
week one is tough thing because that exists for some teams.
Look at the Saints last year, right the first two games,
it was like, oh, Clint Coobeck and Derek Carr, look
at those guys.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The Saints' operation last year was an absolute tire fire.
So I don't think this is that because it's a
continuation of what you seen previously. And I am really
curious to see if they continue to ride out this
thing and if it continues to pile up losses to
go down with the ship, or do you do what
my co host on radio yesterday said, j'mon bush Rod
and pivot and say what do we do well? Because
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let's lean into that and do just that. And for
that team, it was Jji outside zone and they were
able to develop the play action game off of that.
I thought it would be different, and sixty minutes him,
I could not have been more wrong. That mostly covers
the general offensive portion of the show, but I've got more.
Let's go ahead and dive into my actual film notes
here the way they played, Rather, they played in a
way that showed that they were not at all concerned.
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The Colt side is about our vertical ability. Like the
first drive, they call a zero cover look and give
no safety help on Waddle who was the X and
that's the lone receiver to the boundary the short side
of the field. It's second and twelve. I like getting
yards and getting back on schedule and giving yourself a
chance on third downs, maybe even make it a shorter
worth down in that kind of fringe no man's land,
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you can go for it. But on this particular play,
you know, the stuff that made the offense so dangerous
was the ability to burn you at any particular time
in the game. You can show these pressure looks, you
can back out and span the hook zones and the crossers.
But when we get those one on one chances on
the perimeter to a thirty million dollar wide receiver like
Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle, especially to the short side
of the field, where two was really adept to throwing
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the deep ball, or he used to be, at least
it was on game on let's go man up because
you're gonna have to run with this guy, and it
was let's see if you can match their vertical speed. Again,
I am not part of those meetings, I am not
part of those installs, but judging based upon how the
Colts called it, I think the best way to open
those windows inside was to hit one of these verticals
and change the complexion of the game defensively for the Colts.
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And I just thought it was interesting. On the fourth
play of the game, they were squatting on short stuff
without any help over the top. You could have taken
them out of that on the first drive of the
football game. And that's why they go out and they
get themselves a travarious ward to play the man coverage
without helping over the top. But man, I just think
back to those Jets games of old when we consistently
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would beat Sauce and DJ Reed, two of the very
best cornerbacks in the entire National Football League with Tyreek
with Jalen, when they called it that way, a potential
area of opportunity going forward. Will they adjust We'll find out.
We'll find out. But you know, we're eighteen games into this,
going back to last year, and it hasn't changed for you.
The concepts and the spacing struggled. The strip sack was
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a max protect nine in two in the route combination.
Hang on eight in because one's the quarterback eight in
two in the route combination, and they still get a
free run that cannot happen that cannot happen, and then
eight chan. You know, also the slow development of the routes,
that the fact that they were spaced no more than
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ten yards apart on that two man combination and tyreek
timing within it was like it took him forever to
get where he was trying to go because they re
routed him and he kept on going off the path.
It was the same as last year's offense man. The
run game mostly worked, but on a couple of plays
it didn't. It was mostly because of losses at the
point of attack, and like, look, they get paid to
make plays, too, right, but when they make plays, somebody
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has to lose.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And that just kept on happening to us.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Off the edge and at the running back position, critical plays,
you know, the critical block at the point of attack,
they would disengage and make the play right there. In
twenty two and twenty three, it was a death wish,
a death wish. You were right in your own your
own death warrant to blitz this offense. But now the
way they can put our tight ends and backs in
peril and pass protection, peril in pass protection, say that
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five times fast. It doesn't matter how the five pick
it up because it was largely good across the offensive
line outside of some Austin Jackson losses and a bunch
of key On Smith losses. But they can overwhelm those
other positions where you are at a massive deficit because
when it's eighty and twenty eight Connor and h Chan
and that used to be like as bad as I
thought it was with Durham Smyth, it was a more
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veteran guy that I guess could at least get in
the way sometimes maybe because it wasn't that way on Sunday,
but more so like I'm more so harping on the
position when it was you know Hem and hefe in
those spots, and you know Raheem was a healthy scratch
on Sunday, So that was you know, maybe he's passed
his time too, but when he was here, you got that.
You got those pass pro pickups with those two guys.
So I don't know, boys and girls, I don't know.
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Let's talk about the quarterback before the first break here.
Obviously not his best day. I thought it was his
worst day as a pro. As a matter of fact,
the first pick was the first mistake he distributed. It
well on the first two drop backs of the game.
But then Missus High and Kyle Krabs talked about this,
probably his content, but to me as well. You know
when he mentioned the progression could have had him come
backside to Jaylen Waddle in more space with that post
safety peeled out of the play because of two his
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backside eyes on Tyreek. But the more I watched this
man he had it. The hook defender is out leveraged
bad on the rap and Binum played the overthrow like
that's that's kind of bad football because if he puts
an accurate throw on Tyreek, Bynum took himself out of
the play by hoping for the overthrow, like I think
if Tua sticks him, I think it looked like that
touchdown that tyreekad against the Raiders. Was it last year
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or two years ago? I think it was two years
ago where he caught it coming across the field and
just outran everybody at the end zone. I think that's
what it would have looked like if Tua puts that
ball on him. The ball security on the sack fumble
is a compounding mistake, right pressing right, You can't say
you're not to it because I just saw it on tape,
which is something we've heard for years now. McDaniel talked
about it and that freaking Baltimore comeback after the first
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two picks, how he might the second pick was him
pressing like sometimes you just are who you are. You're
twenty eight years old, right. The next throw should have
been picked off too, And it was probably his worst
decision of the entire day, which the dig to alec Ingold.
Would you know, come on, what are we doing? But
Tua never once accounted for the post safety on that play.
He had two flats open and just blind through it.
On the end cut to Ingold and it was almost
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picked off. Should have been. They got him on the
blitz that led to the blind side sack. They convert
the nickel into a blitzer. When they motioned alec Ingold
out of the backfield from that side of the field,
he sets up thinking he has the blind side picked up.
Ho cone s trair, my friend, you do not hits
the top of the drop, goes to survey his progression
and wham gets absolutely hammered. I can't say this for sure,
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because again I'm not in the room. I'm not privy
to what they're asking, but it seems like the ball
is just like it's predetermined to where it goes pre snap.
In this game the Tyreek interception I mentioned there's a
flat to Devon ah Chan. They ran the same play
the previous play, and the first time the flats wide open.
The second time they play the flat because you just
ran this play, but this time Tyreek is all alone
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on the back side.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's naked.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But when I watch it more and the man on
eight Chan did look like he was coming and wound
up turning and running around with Davon a Hm, which
was an impressive disguise and execution on the Colts, behalf
and tip your cap to lou Anarumo. They had a
great plan and they executed it, but we did ourselves
no favors. Perhaps the biggest upshot of the entire damn
day was Olie Gordon hitting a third and one conversion.
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You know, Jonah runs his man off and to Lake
Michigan and Aaron Brewer pins and seals the nose. Easy
conversion for Allie Gordon. But we only got to the
one third and short, but it was nails the two
most Why is that in this part of the notes,
I don't have no idea. The two most uncharacteristic things
from Tua in this game where the location and timing right,
that's what he's made a career off of. He's not
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a creator, he's not a big arm guy. He wins
off timing, anticipation and accuracy beating you pre snap. But
both just seemed off. The lat Too pick he was
late to. That was a really nice play by him,
sifting through all that traffic and getting back into that range.
And there's plays where we're trying to drop into hook
zones off the edge and not picking up anybody just
covering grass. So tip your cap to the Autu latu,
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but you had somebody else open ahead of time. And
the two incompletions to Malik and Tyreek on the perimeter,
like there was an extra hitch in all these cases,
and actually going back and rewatching the Molik play, it
wasn't late. I just don't think there was enough ump
on the football to get it out there, because that
was a wide open pitch and catch for twenty five
yards and we didn't hit that like you got to
hit that. There was a slant flat combination where Wattle
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comes clean inside and it's as easy as you like
read came off of it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So I don't know, man, I don't know something happened
that made him not play in that way, because that's
not the quarterback that I've like fond over for five years.
And when you when you pair that right, I'll close
it with this because the reason I was so dug
in on Tua and now I'm not want to be
clear about that, I'm gonna kind of put myself in
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like what do you got going forward?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Dude? That's that's kind of where I'm at right now.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Was because I believed in you know, I believe the
general football cognacenti has a limited idea of what good
quarterback play looks like. I'm not calling out you guys
or anybody in particular, but like I've seen so many
like tweets where it's like, you know, in a college
game against Mercer, and it's like, look at this quarterback
role too is left and throw acrosses by to a
wide open wide receiver. Like that ain't what translates, big dog.
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You know, what does translate is Garrett Nussemeyer operating in
an outmatched offense against a very NFL style Clemson defense
on the road.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That's what it takes. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you've got that and the rare athletic traits see
Lamar Jackson, see Josh Allen, these guys that have dangerous
pocket processing like Lamar does, but also Randall Cunningham running
ability where you just cannot stop him.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You literally can't stop him.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Same thing for Josh Allen, who has these rare physical traits,
but as a rookie, was a mess from his mechanics
in the pocket right, And he's one of the few
guys that got that stuff fixed. Like Anthony Richardson, that
was kind of his bugaboo too, look at him now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It doesn't always happen that way. For Tua.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's always excelled in the other stuff beyond the traits
he plays, and it didn't matter because he could barbecue
you in the stuff that was ninety percent relevant, where
the other stuff is kind of like a ten percent
piece of your chunk of your playbook. And when he
plays like that, with the timing and location not being there,
you get these horrendous games that look like like AFL stuff,
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UFL whatever the hell the damn league is called nowadays.
But the other stuff will never save him. So if
he's not sharp in that category, it's gonna get off
the rails quick like it did on Sunday. Let's take
our first break talk about the rest of the offense.
We have the defense review as well. Drive Time podcast
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Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, killing play kind.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Of felt like an appropriate time for that. I don't
know put it in the podcast. Let's talk about the
individual's downs on offense. I had five, and that's probably
stretching a little bit. Patrick Paul I thought was the
biggest saving grace of the entire tape because he looked
like he did all summer long.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Excellent game from Patrick Paul.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Vertical displacement in the running game, had his hands in
the right place consistently. He really he won with the punch,
he won with the catch, pass protection technique, sunk his
anchor into pass pro played nails across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Loved the game. Fifty two head. I thought fifty five
had a good game.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Nice job digging out some stuff in the running game,
getting some surge that way, passing off well and pass
protection as well. I thought those two guys played well.
And Jonas of Ike and Aya. I thought early struggled,
but I thought settled into the game nicely. There was
some real flashes there, some things where I think the
speed of the game will eventually slow down for him,
like where he's not hitting the combination block in the
right way and kind of gets turned around before the
play even you know, happens in front of him. The
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dead feet with the hands can sometimes be a situation.
But I think he gave you a lot to like
in some pass sets and definitely his down blocks in
the running game. The misses were more combinations and things
that just happened fast, but I think that's expected for
a rookie in his first game. Overall, encouraged by Jonas
of ke Naya, Malik Washington limited opportunities, but I thought
the reps that he took from the backfield were something
you can kind of, you know, pin for the future,
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kind of like Eric Azookama that first game against the
Chargers a couple of years ago. Remember that, but get
him some chances to make catches on quick stuff out
of the backfield or behind the line of scrimmage because
it doesn't tip the screen that way and allows you
to kind of use his punt return ability and those
skills in the skill set. In those spots, I thought
Waddle was open a lot, didn't have any drops or
anything kind of pop off the tape. Negatively, he has
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a couple of routes that he should have had receptions on,
and that I mentioned the opportunity for a vertical throw
to him in the first drive of the game. But
whether it was not seeing it or the protection breaking down,
we just could not get the football to him consistently.
The fourth down failure wide open on that slant flat
Combo I talked about, he was open, just didn't give
him the football. Individual misses are much more vast Devon
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ah chan Man. I love the way he runs the football.
He's a threat to score every time he touches it.
But it creates this interesting dichotomy because he is so
lost in pass protection. Bro Like, we'll get to the
breakdowns that killed us. But the play that I talked
about in the open, the hitch to Waddle, there's no
technique to it. He steps up in the B gap
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and kind of challenges the mugged up linebacker, and you
could argue he's trying to get there to go greet
him before he can build momentum and shorten that runway.
That's a very common pass setup for tackles and you
know for running back as well. But you also had
a blitz being shown off the edge, and if that
guy had come, Devaughan took himself all the way out
of any position to help on him. And as we
would learn later, he's not making those pickups downhill either.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So it just it was.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It was not good, and it puts you in such
a deficit on third down when you can't trust, you know,
your last line of defense and pass protection.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Tyreek.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I thought there was a lot of stuff good there,
and I talked about him in the podcast yesterday, but
if you're going to break the huddle on the wrong
way and don't know where to line up, I'm not
putting you in the positive notes. We did the same
exact thing with Eric Azukama after a good preseason game
where he couldn't get lined up right. Tanner Connor, the
blocking at the point, the reaction, the landmarks. There was
just not a lot to write home for Tanner. You know,
chance for redemption next week, but even the catch he made,
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I thought I thought Tua led him too much. Upon
watching that game live. But when I went back to
the film and had the end zone copy the balls
right in his face mask and he goes to the
ground just like here the catch when there was all
kinds of rooms to run with the football. I guess
you know when you've he's got more career drops than catches, right,
And that's not like Shade, It's just a fact, I
guess emphasize making the catch first and foremost. And I
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once again, I guess I'm the jerk here because he
played twenty eight snaps, which was let's come back to this, sorry,
let's come back to this. No, let's do it right now.
Twenty eight snaps was one more than Julian Hill. It
was eight snaps more than Nick Westbrook Akine, more than
double the snaps of Aldi Gordon, and the same number
of snaps as Malik Washington. And here I told you
guys that tight end position would be relegated in importance,
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and that's why the John new Smith trade wouldn't hurt
this team. Hence you know, the handringing over the lesser
spot in terms of importance. Like you know, everyone talks
about Darren Waller, who I still think is like the
twelfth most important player in the offense. But then you
come out here and you run him out the twenty
eight and he has a really rough game. And that's
where it gets me, Like, it doesn't matter what you
have in front of you, It does not matter. The
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offense is gonna be the offense. We learned that last
year and for it to not change in game one,
that's a tough, tough pill to swallow. Keon Smith got
got taken back to the quarterback a lot in one
on one pass protection, the near to a pick after
the strip sack. He had a body in his face
because Keon got walked firing off the ball on climbs
and whiffing. Man, you got to help your tackle, man.
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I saw the Buffalo game with at Oliver playing the
three technique and the tackle is never gonna be able
to reach that player unless the guard just slows him
down a little bit. And go look at what Ravens
fans say about the right guard, Daniel Falley.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's how you say it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's the same thing you're gonna hear about this because
the same thing happened to us against the Forrest Buckner.
Like you have to put a hand on him, just
over and over and over again. It was it was
rough to watch you. We'll see it's James Daniels is
gonna miss a couple of weeks. Scoring to Mike McDaniel
Austin Jackson that the answer sounded dubious. I don't know
the timeline there. McDaniel didn't commit to any timeline. They're
still evaluating, but it didn't sound great. We'll find out.
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But I think Bora will be fine at right tackle,
but the right guard position, I would much rather see
brun Skill out there. Austin Jackson looked late to react
to some stuff. They had a good plan that confused
us all day, and he would like recover on some play.
Some he wouldn't, but I thought he got beat pre
snap a lot of times. It looked like his first game.
And you know what, almost almost twelve months again. Snap
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counts Paul, Jonah and Brew went the distance. Tua played
thirty eight snaps, Zach Wilson played nine, So there's your quarterback.
Toscrepancy Keon played all but three snaps. Those other three
were James Daniels to start the game. Larry Borham got ten.
H Chan played thirty four the most among your eligibles.
I mean, you know, there you go. H Wattle thirty snaps.
He out snapped Tyreek by one who had twenty nine
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Malik and Connor twenty eight, Julian twenty seven, Westbrook a
keen a twenty ingold thirteen has same as d. S.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Gridge and twelve for Ali Gordon.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So I'm so curious see what it looks like next week,
but I kind of have a feel like I know
how it's going to look. Let's take our last break
right there, come back and do a bad defensive performance
on the Drift Time film review from the Colts lost
thirty three to eight. That's next Drift Time, brought to
you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
What did they do that?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Just trying to keep you guys looking alive. The defense
that first drive was a combination of two things on tape,
the Colts having a really good plan and executing it
and us not like the little throws of the flat
just having eyes elsewhere and then being a step late
to the perimeter like a chip release that we play
as a run and don't go with him for Jalen Phillips.
Then Michael Pittman motions into the backfield and then returns
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back to where he came from after the snap, and
Jack Jones gets caught in the wash in that man
coverage and suddenly he's chasing the play from five yards
behind the play. The explosive the Tyler Warren was a
coverage bus where two go in and nobody goes out
for Storm Duck. Tough start and it's really difficult to
get stops when they can get easy yardage like that,
and just keep on rolling with those basics. Well, they
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answered the bell in the red zone. The Dolphins defense
did on that particular drive. Thought that was probably the
best entire part of the day for the Dolphins defense.
A run stuff with good fits from Chubb and Brooks
and t Dot, the one on one coverage win for
Storm Duck. And then on third down, an excellent job
with a pair of brackets, a really good reroute off
of two bunches, which is one of the keys of
the game. From you right, get to their bunches, reroute
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them and funnel them into your help and get home
with four. The first part happened a couple of times.
Getting home with four did not had good rushing integrity
though in for Staniel Jones to a scramble. I tried
to say escape and scramble together a scramble to his right,
and then you got good plaster coverage in the end zone. Again,
might have been the best play of the day from
the defense, which tells you how bad of a day
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it was for the defense. We did see a variety
of coverage and calls, especially coverages in the background like
Minko walking down into a weak side backer role with
Ashton Davis playing a quasi sam role like this three
to four from your big nickel with three safeties in
the field, and then Duck and Jones invert their coverage
into deep halves and if you mail a Faan Wu
steps down into what looks like a robber position but
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winds up kind of running the pipe like a Tampa
two linebacker. And all of this they forced a Jones
scramble for a couple of yards. So there was some
like fun exotic stuff in there, but by and large,
it was mostly kind of like they figured it out
and they went after us and attacked it accordingly. We
couldn't get around those tackles. Man Bernard Raymond and Braden
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Smith both had really good days. A lot of peer stalemates,
and it was really across the board with Judon who
got stalemated a lot, Galen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, and then
Chop Robinson was part of that as well, but he
was more washed out in the run game because the
pass rush. They kind of went after him with chips
and helping number forty four. I talked about this yesterday,
the fourth down conversion, the zero beater, the mugged up looks,
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the motions to reveal it, stick with it. We just
got picked apart where they didn't really have a secondary
option off of how the Colts adjusted, and maybe that's
a Week one thing. I'm more confident in the defense
being week one bad than the offense, like a lot
more so I think these guys can get it corrected,
maybe even as soon as next week against the Patriots.
It's the offense that I don't think we'll get back
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in that position. But man, the cross dog stuff. Every
time they hit a big run, we would cross dog it,
which is where the linebackers, you know, work around the
nose tackle or a certain gap, they slant in different directions.
And that was pretty much the only time, not the
only time, but their primary run success was off those
cross dog looks. Individual standouts I put down five more.
You can probably say Travish are crazy, but whatever I thought.
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Jordan Phillips continue to just show you what he's been
where he's resetting guys, getting into their chest and controlling
the rep kind of like the Pickle Rick episode of
Rick and Morty where he makes the cockroach like his
own personal vehicle as a pickle. You guy seeing that show,
Jordan Brooks. I saw him attack Quintin Nelson head on
and knock him back for a run.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I saw him Kerry Tyler Warren twenty five yards down
the field on an over route, just business as usual
for number twenty out there. Minka Fitzpatrick. I like the
way he sees things from depth and anticipates and gets
his angles.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
He tackled well. He played a variety of roles.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I like his usage because I think I think he'll
find a way to make plays in this defense with
how they're deploying him. Terrell Dotson, I thought he played fast.
I think that there was some chances where he couldn't
quite you know, get through the trash because of the Colts'
ability to climb off the defensive tackle position, but it
wasn't when it was at MESSI he got to good
spots and tackled well. I thought Jack Jones had a
couple of plays where it didn't go his way. The
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play I talked about with Pittman kind of pinning him
in on that first little slide route he ran on
the first drive. He also got beat on a third
down conversion where he got lost in coverage in the
second quarter.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But the way he played the two screens.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
There was a couple of more off ball reps without
targets where he was plastered all over those guys, including
the red zone stop on the first drive of the game,
he was running off some verticals getting back down hill
on stems.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I thought he had a pretty decent day.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
But man, you talk about, you know, the freelancing comment,
that was something else that you know, Bradley Chubb talked
about guys making things up, like you know that that
position has a new coach that's you know, a week old.
He's been here, but he's running the room now. So
kind of makes you wonder, like how big of an
impact that could possibly have. But also, like I saw
it with some of the plays where like we're chipping
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a tight end or the tight end chipping us rather,
and we like dispose of him and go after the quarterback,
which is like the same read as the screen game
where it's like if they're gonna let you get in
the backfield that easily, like you gotta know something's up.
So I saw that several times on this tape. I
would never, you know, put Zach Seeler on blast, but
I thought just just not his typical best game, which
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I don't think it was a bad game from Zach,
but you know, I don't think he deserves to be
like admonistering anything like that. But it's kind of strange
because you go back to the Chargers year and then
last year against the Jags too, Like his first game
is usually his worst. So that's if I was his
worst performance of the year. I'm cool with that across
the board though. Jalen Phillips I thought really struggled in
this game that first play of the game where he
misreads the Warren chip and release and loses contained for
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an easy fifteen yards to open things up. Kenneth Grant
I thought he played more reactive than proactive.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That was all.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I don't think he got dominated or anything, but just
didn't really make an impact. There was one nice run
stuff where he took a guy backwards, but not his
impactful self.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I think I think we'll see the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I thought Storm Duck really struggled in this game for
the limited time he was out there. Remember the touchdown
in Detroit in the preseason, the banjo call where he
got lost and got stuck inside. The exact same type
of deal happened on the explosive to Warren where he
carries his vertical seam inside, but there's a safety there
because you're in like what looks like half quarter quarter
and he's kind of playing the like the backside like
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curl flat zone, and he runs it all the way
to the post and just totally vacates his curl flat
responsibility and Warren just occupies it and it's an easy
pitch and catch for like was it twenty five thirty yards?
It's one on one stuff that were blowing there. And
there was another play leader in the game where he
lost contained on the touchdown to Michael Pittman as well.
If you Melafan Wu, if we're gonna buzz you know,
the crosser comes out of your area and the backside
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crosser's coming over, and the only other route behind you
is coming back to the quarterback, like get downhill man, Like.
It felt like watching our hook drops and our curl
flat drops, like the Colts lay out to Latu found
somebody to cover when he was in that position. We
just kind of like stood around for the most part.
I thought if he did it a few times. I
thought Benito Jones had a really rough game getting rolled
out of there. Chop Robinson got caught in the wash
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a lot. Just not good football man. The snap counts
Minka Jack Jones, t Dotton Brooks all went the distance,
playing seventy three snaps. Sealer led all defensive tackles fifty four.
KG played forty four. And that might be the only
damn thing I got right in the entire game, because
I said he was going to play two thirds to
Benito's one third. Forty four for Kg twenty for Bnido Jones,
Jordan Phillips got thirty three. I think they'll continue to
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climb for him here. Matthew Butler twenty. So we had
to kind of roll guys out because they got a
lot of plays against us JP and Beachubb forty snaps each,
Judon thirty three. Here's what I don't get. Willy Gabe
played no snaps and Judon had thirty three. Like Willy
gay was one of the best players in the field
all of camp long, and again we don't know what
happens in terms of the responsibilities and all that stuff,
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but I thought Willy Gaye deserved a chance to get
some play out there. Chop had thirty seven snaps, Jason
Marshall thirty four, Storm twenty nine. Trader had twenty two snaps.
Do you see more of him in that big nickel package?
Ashton Dave eleven snaps. So a lot of safety's got
play in this game, a lot of nicols kind of
rotating through. By and large, though I mean F for
the offense, we'll call it an F for the defense.
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I mean it just was not good on either side
of the ball. Defense a tiny bit better, and I
think the defense can get things corrected. My top five tapes,
Patrick Paul was actually really good in the game. I
think Jordan Brooks was two. That to me is where
like the really good tapes ended. I thought Brewer was good.
I thought Minka was good. I thought Jordan Phillips was good,
so Patrick, Paul, Jordan Brooks a bit of a drop
off than Brewer, Fitzpatrick and Phillips. Three four and five,
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I'm out of here, you guys. Enjoy the rest of
your night. We're gonna have the Wednesday podcast taking a
look at the Patriots. Taylor Kyle's will join me for
that episode, I believe. I think it's what we're gonna
do here, and we'll have the preview podcast on Thursday,
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, our
first film review podcasts of the regular season will not
be very much fun, but we're gonna do it anyways.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We'll take a look at the tape from the thirty
three to eight.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Lost to the Indianapolis Colts from the Baptist Hill Studios
inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is the Draft Time Podcast, may gaffe.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't know about you, guys, but it has been
a lot of reflecting, a lot of reflection mode in
the last twenty four hours or so, kind of numb appetite,
not really popping off.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, how sad is that?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Like? Grow up?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You're almost forty, I will say a playing with the
kids last night, I thought always is a good way
to reset, to touch grass, as they say. But I
explained it to a friend of mine that it always
feels when you feel like you diehards from the analysis
and early lockdown days.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Remember this.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We used to have the funeral episode where the season
was over. It felt like and I'm pretty sure I
did that after the Titans game in twenty sixteen, when
the Dolphins and rattle off nine wins in their final
eleven But I digress. But like usually usually, the feeling
of the breakup like Broken Heart podcast, occurs after the
(01:29):
funeral episode, the episode where it feels like things are
lost and man for one three hour football game to
sort of expose an underbelly of Wartz that I quite
frankly was blind to in a lot of ways. And
that's on me, I suppose, is almost like you're hopping
(01:50):
on this roller coaster, and part of me wants to
be like, we'll see how they come out next week.
Week one can be a liar. I talked about that
in the podcast on Sunday night. But I just think
some of the way things have gone, the way the
tape looked, we'll get to that here in one second,
the way the quarterback played, the way the post game
pressers and the pressers on Monday went, it feels like that.
(02:13):
And he mentioned my buddy that the worst part about
a breakup is the concept of starting over, which nobody
wants to do, especially when you're almost forty Are you
a man?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Are you almost forty?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And in this case, you know the reason I was
so bullish on all of this was the belief of
the underlying process.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But it feels like you can just let that go.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And whether that makes you sad for you know, the
media after effect, probably that's the emotion.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But maybe some relief, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then watching the game on Sunday night, it's almost like, oh,
this is all pointless because look how far away we
are from that, right and when it comes to like
moving on or letting go or restarting, like even if
it is a six year relationship in this case, this
began back in twenty nineteen. I'm really in earnest The
first year of like competitiveness from the Dolphins team that
(03:03):
we've seen the current build was in twenty twenty. You know,
you tend to remember the good times and how when
a relationship comes to an end, you more in those
good times, right, But you should saddle yourself with the
toxicity of where it went wrong to remind yourself and
to learn from those mistakes and maybe they'll get it corrected.
On Sunday against the Patriots, And it is a crazy
(03:24):
emotional swing that I come back and I'm like, oh,
playing the Bills on Thursday, But I really doubt that.
I really really doubt I'll feel that way even if
they win the game. I don't expect to project it
went over the Bills because you just saw what they
did to the Baltimore Ravens. Maybe that's what happens, but
I don't see it that way, and I'm going to
use the tape to tell you why. And this is
I suppose another reminder. I talk all the time about
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how football fans and media don't do a good job
of learning from you know, previous instances in the NFL,
you know, cut down day, joint practices, whatever it might be.
There's always lessons to be learned, but for myself, time
to look inward a little bit and take a lesson
based upon project things on paper. And I make the
comment every year about how in the preseason we have
all these grand thoughts about who teams are going to be,
(04:08):
and then a couple of games end of the season,
it's all the rug gets pulled out from under you
and you're wrong about so many things. And I don't
feel that way about most of the National Football League
after Week one, but for the Miami Dolphins, it kind
of feels that way because you feel almost a little
bit duped, and shame on me, right, Shame on me
for accepting this idea of these changes in philosophical roster
(04:31):
building shifts and you know, just to go back and
do the same exact things because you know, we spent
this year in therapy, right, We're gonna make it better, honey,
And then he or she the person in therapy reverts
back to their old habits and like this old dog
and can change. I got to get out of the relationship.
I'm not saying I'm like resigning or you know, ending
my Dolphins fandom. I'm sitting here wearing a Dolphins hoodie
and you know, I love the Dolphins more than anything
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in the world. And this opportunity I got was was
life changing me and my family. But at a certain
point you have to learn it. But extra emotions to
the actual reality of the situation. And I really, really,
really and this is why I get so upset about
like the you know, homework, you're just a homer type
of comments that they're hurled at me all the time. No, man,
(05:14):
like I through study, I believe this stuff and being
close to the team, I believe this stuff. But I
just really really thought they were going to add to
their fastball this year after a departure in twenty four,
which that was kind of a smack in the face.
And then you kind of had two options, Right do
you take the fork in the road that says like
that's who they're gonna be. And that was my early
offeas and content was filtered through that lens. And then
(05:34):
as they went about their off season and adjusted things
and built things, and they had the certain level of
you know, ish to them if you will, I was like, Okay,
I get this now, I can buy into this. But
not only did the off speed pitch never happen, the
fastball regressed and went completely off the rails. It's kind
of like my golf game this year, your boys having
a ban or twenty twenty five. I can tell you
(05:55):
that my predictions offer a terrible start. My golf game sucks. Luckily,
my kids love me. Just brewed absolutely brutal. Let's go
ahead and get into this. And unlike Men's warehouse, I
don't think you're gonna like the way you look. I
can guarantee you that much. And honestly, this doesn't even feel.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Like we need to do a lot here. I mean
we will.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean that's the job, right, but you guys deserve
to know the nuts and bulls of everything. But it
goes down to this, our bread and butter, our game
breaking staples from twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
They've been caught up to. You guys have been telling
me that for a long time. I'm slow to the party.
So my apologies for that. I don't want to say
that it got figured out entirely, but kind of figured
(06:32):
out right. And that Bobby slow It comment from last
week's you know, press conference sort of makes you think
he talked about teams running unscattered looks against this offense
more than anywhere else in the NFL. And that just
means the stuff that they've cooked up has not been
shown on film.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's brand new for the Miami Dolphins. And that may
be true.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It is true, Like that's what's made those Belichick defenses
so lethal over the two decades, right, the ability to
consistently reinvent yourself on not just a year to year basis,
but a week to week. For a more contemporary comparison,
it's like Sean McVay and Matt Lafleur in Los Angeles
and Green Bay respectively on the offensive side of the football.
And the way they tried to get to the stuff
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Sunday wasn't to do something different, which, if you're successful,
you could coax the defense out of that stuff right
and then you can get to it, but rather further
dress it up and further put lipstick on the pig.
And what was the one biggest issue last year get
into the lion of scrimmage too late, not having enough
time to get through all the shifts and motions and
pre snap checklists, and the quarterback has to get these
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answers within a five second window that allow him to
play fast.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's a lot to ask of the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And what did that get you again, more guys breaking
the huddle, leaving the wrong way, not privy to their assignments,
guys off the football, not doing enough, which we'll get
to that. And when you get to the line of
scrimmage as late as we tend to, it's tough to
get solves when you have this overload to the right
side of the formation, three players to the right of
the center.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Then zay R.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Franklin walks up down the left side B gap between
Paul and Jonah, and Jonah has to to his right
to help with the overload pressure, and that means that
Paul has to squeeze that B gap to help stop
the rush of Franklin. And then all of a sudden
it creates this one on one situation for DeForest Buckner
against Tanner Connor. And that's exactly what Lou and Aaruma
is trying to cook up. And because we're so late
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to the operation two.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Ball now, ball now, ball now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And when you do that, you are teeing up the
defense to read your cadence and fire off the football,
and so Tyreek breaks the huddle going the wrong way.
Not only do we have this protection dialed up for this,
look you're giving this Colts this you know, one two,
three go head start, come on in to crash across
your face. And then your third down back, who hasn't
had any success operating in pass protection from a physical
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standpoint and a processing standpoint, has no idea where to go.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It is just all across the board.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Like to me, it's not a oh this is a
week one is tough thing because that exists for some teams.
Look at the Saints last year, right the first two games,
it was like, oh, Clint Coobeck and Derek Carr, look
at those guys.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The Saints' operation last year was an absolute tire fire.
So I don't think this is that because it's a
continuation of what you seen previously. And I am really
curious to see if they continue to ride out this
thing and if it continues to pile up losses to
go down with the ship, or do you do what
my co host on radio yesterday said, j'mon bush Rod
and pivot and say what do we do well? Because
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let's lean into that and do just that. And for
that team, it was Jji outside zone and they were
able to develop the play action game off of that.
I thought it would be different, and sixty minutes him,
I could not have been more wrong. That mostly covers
the general offensive portion of the show, but I've got more.
Let's go ahead and dive into my actual film notes
here the way they played, Rather, they played in a
way that showed that they were not at all concerned.
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The Colt side is about our vertical ability. Like the
first drive, they call a zero cover look and give
no safety help on Waddle who was the X and
that's the lone receiver to the boundary the short side
of the field. It's second and twelve. I like getting
yards and getting back on schedule and giving yourself a
chance on third downs, maybe even make it a shorter
worth down in that kind of fringe no man's land,
(10:02):
you can go for it. But on this particular play,
you know, the stuff that made the offense so dangerous
was the ability to burn you at any particular time
in the game. You can show these pressure looks, you
can back out and span the hook zones and the crossers.
But when we get those one on one chances on
the perimeter to a thirty million dollar wide receiver like
Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle, especially to the short side
of the field, where two was really adept to throwing
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the deep ball, or he used to be, at least
it was on game on let's go man up because
you're gonna have to run with this guy, and it
was let's see if you can match their vertical speed. Again,
I am not part of those meetings, I am not
part of those installs, but judging based upon how the
Colts called it, I think the best way to open
those windows inside was to hit one of these verticals
and change the complexion of the game defensively for the Colts.
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And I just thought it was interesting. On the fourth
play of the game, they were squatting on short stuff
without any help over the top. You could have taken
them out of that on the first drive of the
football game. And that's why they go out and they
get themselves a travarious ward to play the man coverage
without helping over the top. But man, I just think
back to those Jets games of old when we consistently
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would beat Sauce and DJ Reed, two of the very
best cornerbacks in the entire National Football League with Tyreek
with Jalen, when they called it that way, a potential
area of opportunity going forward. Will they adjust We'll find out.
We'll find out. But you know, we're eighteen games into this,
going back to last year, and it hasn't changed for you.
The concepts and the spacing struggled. The strip sack was
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a max protect nine in two in the route combination.
Hang on eight in because one's the quarterback eight in
two in the route combination, and they still get a
free run that cannot happen that cannot happen, and then
eight chan. You know, also the slow development of the routes,
that the fact that they were spaced no more than
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ten yards apart on that two man combination and tyreek
timing within it was like it took him forever to
get where he was trying to go because they re
routed him and he kept on going off the path.
It was the same as last year's offense man. The
run game mostly worked, but on a couple of plays
it didn't. It was mostly because of losses at the
point of attack, and like, look, they get paid to
make plays, too, right, but when they make plays, somebody
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has to lose.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And that just kept on happening to us.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Off the edge and at the running back position, critical plays,
you know, the critical block at the point of attack,
they would disengage and make the play right there. In
twenty two and twenty three, it was a death wish,
a death wish. You were right in your own your
own death warrant to blitz this offense. But now the
way they can put our tight ends and backs in
peril and pass protection, peril in pass protection, say that
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five times fast. It doesn't matter how the five pick
it up because it was largely good across the offensive
line outside of some Austin Jackson losses and a bunch
of key On Smith losses. But they can overwhelm those
other positions where you are at a massive deficit because
when it's eighty and twenty eight Connor and h Chan
and that used to be like as bad as I
thought it was with Durham Smyth, it was a more
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veteran guy that I guess could at least get in
the way sometimes maybe because it wasn't that way on Sunday,
but more so like I'm more so harping on the
position when it was you know Hem and hefe in
those spots, and you know Raheem was a healthy scratch
on Sunday, So that was you know, maybe he's passed
his time too, but when he was here, you got that.
You got those pass pro pickups with those two guys.
So I don't know, boys and girls, I don't know.
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Let's talk about the quarterback before the first break here.
Obviously not his best day. I thought it was his
worst day as a pro. As a matter of fact,
the first pick was the first mistake he distributed. It
well on the first two drop backs of the game.
But then Missus High and Kyle Krabs talked about this,
probably his content, but to me as well. You know
when he mentioned the progression could have had him come
backside to Jaylen Waddle in more space with that post
safety peeled out of the play because of two his
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backside eyes on Tyreek. But the more I watched this
man he had it. The hook defender is out leveraged
bad on the rap and Binum played the overthrow like
that's that's kind of bad football because if he puts
an accurate throw on Tyreek, Bynum took himself out of
the play by hoping for the overthrow, like I think
if Tua sticks him, I think it looked like that
touchdown that tyreekad against the Raiders. Was it last year
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or two years ago? I think it was two years
ago where he caught it coming across the field and
just outran everybody at the end zone. I think that's
what it would have looked like if Tua puts that
ball on him. The ball security on the sack fumble
is a compounding mistake, right pressing right, You can't say
you're not to it because I just saw it on tape,
which is something we've heard for years now. McDaniel talked
about it and that freaking Baltimore comeback after the first
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two picks, how he might the second pick was him
pressing like sometimes you just are who you are. You're
twenty eight years old, right. The next throw should have
been picked off too, And it was probably his worst
decision of the entire day, which the dig to alec Ingold.
Would you know, come on, what are we doing? But
Tua never once accounted for the post safety on that play.
He had two flats open and just blind through it.
On the end cut to Ingold and it was almost
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picked off. Should have been. They got him on the
blitz that led to the blind side sack. They convert
the nickel into a blitzer. When they motioned alec Ingold
out of the backfield from that side of the field,
he sets up thinking he has the blind side picked up.
Ho cone s trair, my friend, you do not hits
the top of the drop, goes to survey his progression
and wham gets absolutely hammered. I can't say this for sure,
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because again I'm not in the room. I'm not privy
to what they're asking, but it seems like the ball
is just like it's predetermined to where it goes pre snap.
In this game the Tyreek interception I mentioned there's a
flat to Devon ah Chan. They ran the same play
the previous play, and the first time the flats wide open.
The second time they play the flat because you just
ran this play, but this time Tyreek is all alone
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on the back side.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's naked.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But when I watch it more and the man on
eight Chan did look like he was coming and wound
up turning and running around with Davon a Hm, which
was an impressive disguise and execution on the Colts, behalf
and tip your cap to lou Anarumo. They had a
great plan and they executed it, but we did ourselves
no favors. Perhaps the biggest upshot of the entire damn
day was Olie Gordon hitting a third and one conversion.
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You know, Jonah runs his man off and to Lake
Michigan and Aaron Brewer pins and seals the nose. Easy
conversion for Allie Gordon. But we only got to the
one third and short, but it was nails the two
most Why is that in this part of the notes,
I don't have no idea. The two most uncharacteristic things
from Tua in this game where the location and timing right,
that's what he's made a career off of. He's not
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a creator, he's not a big arm guy. He wins
off timing, anticipation and accuracy beating you pre snap. But
both just seemed off. The lat Too pick he was
late to. That was a really nice play by him,
sifting through all that traffic and getting back into that range.
And there's plays where we're trying to drop into hook
zones off the edge and not picking up anybody just
covering grass. So tip your cap to the Autu latu,
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but you had somebody else open ahead of time. And
the two incompletions to Malik and Tyreek on the perimeter,
like there was an extra hitch in all these cases,
and actually going back and rewatching the Molik play, it
wasn't late. I just don't think there was enough ump
on the football to get it out there, because that
was a wide open pitch and catch for twenty five
yards and we didn't hit that like you got to
hit that. There was a slant flat combination where Wattle
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comes clean inside and it's as easy as you like
read came off of it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So I don't know, man, I don't know something happened
that made him not play in that way, because that's
not the quarterback that I've like fond over for five years.
And when you when you pair that right, I'll close
it with this because the reason I was so dug
in on Tua and now I'm not want to be
clear about that, I'm gonna kind of put myself in
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like what do you got going forward?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Dude? That's that's kind of where I'm at right now.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Was because I believed in you know, I believe the
general football cognacenti has a limited idea of what good
quarterback play looks like. I'm not calling out you guys
or anybody in particular, but like I've seen so many
like tweets where it's like, you know, in a college
game against Mercer, and it's like, look at this quarterback
role too is left and throw acrosses by to a
wide open wide receiver. Like that ain't what translates, big dog.
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You know, what does translate is Garrett Nussemeyer operating in
an outmatched offense against a very NFL style Clemson defense
on the road.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That's what it takes. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you've got that and the rare athletic traits see
Lamar Jackson, see Josh Allen, these guys that have dangerous
pocket processing like Lamar does, but also Randall Cunningham running
ability where you just cannot stop him.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You literally can't stop him.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Same thing for Josh Allen, who has these rare physical traits,
but as a rookie, was a mess from his mechanics
in the pocket right, And he's one of the few
guys that got that stuff fixed. Like Anthony Richardson, that
was kind of his bugaboo too, look at him now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It doesn't always happen that way. For Tua.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's always excelled in the other stuff beyond the traits
he plays, and it didn't matter because he could barbecue
you in the stuff that was ninety percent relevant, where
the other stuff is kind of like a ten percent
piece of your chunk of your playbook. And when he
plays like that, with the timing and location not being there,
you get these horrendous games that look like like AFL stuff,
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UFL whatever the hell the damn league is called nowadays.
But the other stuff will never save him. So if
he's not sharp in that category, it's gonna get off
the rails quick like it did on Sunday. Let's take
our first break talk about the rest of the offense.
We have the defense review as well. Drive Time podcast
brought to you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, killing play kind.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Of felt like an appropriate time for that. I don't
know put it in the podcast. Let's talk about the
individual's downs on offense. I had five, and that's probably
stretching a little bit. Patrick Paul I thought was the
biggest saving grace of the entire tape because he looked
like he did all summer long.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Excellent game from Patrick Paul.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Vertical displacement in the running game, had his hands in
the right place consistently. He really he won with the punch,
he won with the catch, pass protection technique, sunk his
anchor into pass pro played nails across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Loved the game. Fifty two head. I thought fifty five
had a good game.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Nice job digging out some stuff in the running game,
getting some surge that way, passing off well and pass
protection as well. I thought those two guys played well.
And Jonas of Ike and Aya. I thought early struggled,
but I thought settled into the game nicely. There was
some real flashes there, some things where I think the
speed of the game will eventually slow down for him,
like where he's not hitting the combination block in the
right way and kind of gets turned around before the
play even you know, happens in front of him. The
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dead feet with the hands can sometimes be a situation.
But I think he gave you a lot to like
in some pass sets and definitely his down blocks in
the running game. The misses were more combinations and things
that just happened fast, but I think that's expected for
a rookie in his first game. Overall, encouraged by Jonas
of ke Naya, Malik Washington limited opportunities, but I thought
the reps that he took from the backfield were something
you can kind of, you know, pin for the future,
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kind of like Eric Azookama that first game against the
Chargers a couple of years ago. Remember that, but get
him some chances to make catches on quick stuff out
of the backfield or behind the line of scrimmage because
it doesn't tip the screen that way and allows you
to kind of use his punt return ability and those
skills in the skill set. In those spots, I thought
Waddle was open a lot, didn't have any drops or
anything kind of pop off the tape. Negatively, he has
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a couple of routes that he should have had receptions on,
and that I mentioned the opportunity for a vertical throw
to him in the first drive of the game. But
whether it was not seeing it or the protection breaking down,
we just could not get the football to him consistently.
The fourth down failure wide open on that slant flat
Combo I talked about, he was open, just didn't give
him the football. Individual misses are much more vast Devon
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ah chan Man. I love the way he runs the football.
He's a threat to score every time he touches it.
But it creates this interesting dichotomy because he is so
lost in pass protection. Bro Like, we'll get to the
breakdowns that killed us. But the play that I talked
about in the open, the hitch to Waddle, there's no
technique to it. He steps up in the B gap
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and kind of challenges the mugged up linebacker, and you
could argue he's trying to get there to go greet
him before he can build momentum and shorten that runway.
That's a very common pass setup for tackles and you
know for running back as well. But you also had
a blitz being shown off the edge, and if that
guy had come, Devaughan took himself all the way out
of any position to help on him. And as we
would learn later, he's not making those pickups downhill either.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So it just it was.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It was not good, and it puts you in such
a deficit on third down when you can't trust, you know,
your last line of defense and pass protection.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Tyreek.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I thought there was a lot of stuff good there,
and I talked about him in the podcast yesterday, but
if you're going to break the huddle on the wrong
way and don't know where to line up, I'm not
putting you in the positive notes. We did the same
exact thing with Eric Azukama after a good preseason game
where he couldn't get lined up right. Tanner Connor, the
blocking at the point, the reaction, the landmarks. There was
just not a lot to write home for Tanner. You know,
chance for redemption next week, but even the catch he made,
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I thought I thought Tua led him too much. Upon
watching that game live. But when I went back to
the film and had the end zone copy the balls
right in his face mask and he goes to the
ground just like here the catch when there was all
kinds of rooms to run with the football. I guess
you know when you've he's got more career drops than catches, right,
And that's not like Shade, It's just a fact, I
guess emphasize making the catch first and foremost. And I
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once again, I guess I'm the jerk here because he
played twenty eight snaps, which was let's come back to this, sorry,
let's come back to this. No, let's do it right now.
Twenty eight snaps was one more than Julian Hill. It
was eight snaps more than Nick Westbrook Akine, more than
double the snaps of Aldi Gordon, and the same number
of snaps as Malik Washington. And here I told you
guys that tight end position would be relegated in importance,
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and that's why the John new Smith trade wouldn't hurt
this team. Hence you know, the handringing over the lesser
spot in terms of importance. Like you know, everyone talks
about Darren Waller, who I still think is like the
twelfth most important player in the offense. But then you
come out here and you run him out the twenty
eight and he has a really rough game. And that's
where it gets me, Like, it doesn't matter what you
have in front of you, It does not matter. The
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offense is gonna be the offense. We learned that last
year and for it to not change in game one,
that's a tough, tough pill to swallow. Keon Smith got
got taken back to the quarterback a lot in one
on one pass protection, the near to a pick after
the strip sack. He had a body in his face
because Keon got walked firing off the ball on climbs
and whiffing. Man, you got to help your tackle, man.
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I saw the Buffalo game with at Oliver playing the
three technique and the tackle is never gonna be able
to reach that player unless the guard just slows him
down a little bit. And go look at what Ravens
fans say about the right guard, Daniel Falley.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's how you say it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's the same thing you're gonna hear about this because
the same thing happened to us against the Forrest Buckner.
Like you have to put a hand on him, just
over and over and over again. It was it was
rough to watch you. We'll see it's James Daniels is
gonna miss a couple of weeks. Scoring to Mike McDaniel
Austin Jackson that the answer sounded dubious. I don't know
the timeline there. McDaniel didn't commit to any timeline. They're
still evaluating, but it didn't sound great. We'll find out.
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But I think Bora will be fine at right tackle,
but the right guard position, I would much rather see
brun Skill out there. Austin Jackson looked late to react
to some stuff. They had a good plan that confused
us all day, and he would like recover on some play.
Some he wouldn't, but I thought he got beat pre
snap a lot of times. It looked like his first game.
And you know what, almost almost twelve months again. Snap
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counts Paul, Jonah and Brew went the distance. Tua played
thirty eight snaps, Zach Wilson played nine, So there's your quarterback.
Toscrepancy Keon played all but three snaps. Those other three
were James Daniels to start the game. Larry Borham got ten.
H Chan played thirty four the most among your eligibles.
I mean, you know, there you go. H Wattle thirty snaps.
He out snapped Tyreek by one who had twenty nine
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Malik and Connor twenty eight, Julian twenty seven, Westbrook a
keen a twenty ingold thirteen has same as d. S.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Gridge and twelve for Ali Gordon.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So I'm so curious see what it looks like next week,
but I kind of have a feel like I know
how it's going to look. Let's take our last break
right there, come back and do a bad defensive performance
on the Drift Time film review from the Colts lost
thirty three to eight. That's next Drift Time, brought to
you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
What did they do that?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Just trying to keep you guys looking alive. The defense
that first drive was a combination of two things on tape,
the Colts having a really good plan and executing it
and us not like the little throws of the flat
just having eyes elsewhere and then being a step late
to the perimeter like a chip release that we play
as a run and don't go with him for Jalen Phillips.
Then Michael Pittman motions into the backfield and then returns
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back to where he came from after the snap, and
Jack Jones gets caught in the wash in that man
coverage and suddenly he's chasing the play from five yards
behind the play. The explosive the Tyler Warren was a
coverage bus where two go in and nobody goes out
for Storm Duck. Tough start and it's really difficult to
get stops when they can get easy yardage like that,
and just keep on rolling with those basics. Well, they
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answered the bell in the red zone. The Dolphins defense
did on that particular drive. Thought that was probably the
best entire part of the day for the Dolphins defense.
A run stuff with good fits from Chubb and Brooks
and t Dot, the one on one coverage win for
Storm Duck. And then on third down, an excellent job
with a pair of brackets, a really good reroute off
of two bunches, which is one of the keys of
the game. From you right, get to their bunches, reroute
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them and funnel them into your help and get home
with four. The first part happened a couple of times.
Getting home with four did not had good rushing integrity
though in for Staniel Jones to a scramble. I tried
to say escape and scramble together a scramble to his right,
and then you got good plaster coverage in the end zone. Again,
might have been the best play of the day from
the defense, which tells you how bad of a day
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it was for the defense. We did see a variety
of coverage and calls, especially coverages in the background like
Minko walking down into a weak side backer role with
Ashton Davis playing a quasi sam role like this three
to four from your big nickel with three safeties in
the field, and then Duck and Jones invert their coverage
into deep halves and if you mail a Faan Wu
steps down into what looks like a robber position but
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winds up kind of running the pipe like a Tampa
two linebacker. And all of this they forced a Jones
scramble for a couple of yards. So there was some
like fun exotic stuff in there, but by and large,
it was mostly kind of like they figured it out
and they went after us and attacked it accordingly. We
couldn't get around those tackles. Man Bernard Raymond and Braden
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Smith both had really good days. A lot of peer stalemates,
and it was really across the board with Judon who
got stalemated a lot, Galen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, and then
Chop Robinson was part of that as well, but he
was more washed out in the run game because the
pass rush. They kind of went after him with chips
and helping number forty four. I talked about this yesterday,
the fourth down conversion, the zero beater, the mugged up looks,
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the motions to reveal it, stick with it. We just
got picked apart where they didn't really have a secondary
option off of how the Colts adjusted, and maybe that's
a Week one thing. I'm more confident in the defense
being week one bad than the offense, like a lot
more so I think these guys can get it corrected,
maybe even as soon as next week against the Patriots.
It's the offense that I don't think we'll get back
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in that position. But man, the cross dog stuff. Every
time they hit a big run, we would cross dog it,
which is where the linebackers, you know, work around the
nose tackle or a certain gap, they slant in different directions.
And that was pretty much the only time, not the
only time, but their primary run success was off those
cross dog looks. Individual standouts I put down five more.
You can probably say Travish are crazy, but whatever I thought.
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Jordan Phillips continue to just show you what he's been
where he's resetting guys, getting into their chest and controlling
the rep kind of like the Pickle Rick episode of
Rick and Morty where he makes the cockroach like his
own personal vehicle as a pickle. You guy seeing that show,
Jordan Brooks. I saw him attack Quintin Nelson head on
and knock him back for a run.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I saw him Kerry Tyler Warren twenty five yards down
the field on an over route, just business as usual
for number twenty out there. Minka Fitzpatrick. I like the
way he sees things from depth and anticipates and gets
his angles.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
He tackled well. He played a variety of roles.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I like his usage because I think I think he'll
find a way to make plays in this defense with
how they're deploying him. Terrell Dotson, I thought he played fast.
I think that there was some chances where he couldn't
quite you know, get through the trash because of the Colts'
ability to climb off the defensive tackle position, but it
wasn't when it was at MESSI he got to good
spots and tackled well. I thought Jack Jones had a
couple of plays where it didn't go his way. The
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play I talked about with Pittman kind of pinning him
in on that first little slide route he ran on
the first drive. He also got beat on a third
down conversion where he got lost in coverage in the
second quarter.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But the way he played the two screens.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
There was a couple of more off ball reps without
targets where he was plastered all over those guys, including
the red zone stop on the first drive of the game,
he was running off some verticals getting back down hill
on stems.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I thought he had a pretty decent day.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
But man, you talk about, you know, the freelancing comment,
that was something else that you know, Bradley Chubb talked
about guys making things up, like you know that that
position has a new coach that's you know, a week old.
He's been here, but he's running the room now. So
kind of makes you wonder, like how big of an
impact that could possibly have. But also, like I saw
it with some of the plays where like we're chipping
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a tight end or the tight end chipping us rather,
and we like dispose of him and go after the quarterback,
which is like the same read as the screen game
where it's like if they're gonna let you get in
the backfield that easily, like you gotta know something's up.
So I saw that several times on this tape. I
would never, you know, put Zach Seeler on blast, but
I thought just just not his typical best game, which
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I don't think it was a bad game from Zach,
but you know, I don't think he deserves to be
like admonistering anything like that. But it's kind of strange
because you go back to the Chargers year and then
last year against the Jags too, Like his first game
is usually his worst. So that's if I was his
worst performance of the year. I'm cool with that across
the board though. Jalen Phillips I thought really struggled in
this game that first play of the game where he
misreads the Warren chip and release and loses contained for
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an easy fifteen yards to open things up. Kenneth Grant
I thought he played more reactive than proactive.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That was all.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I don't think he got dominated or anything, but just
didn't really make an impact. There was one nice run
stuff where he took a guy backwards, but not his
impactful self.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I think I think we'll see the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I thought Storm Duck really struggled in this game for
the limited time he was out there. Remember the touchdown
in Detroit in the preseason, the banjo call where he
got lost and got stuck inside. The exact same type
of deal happened on the explosive to Warren where he
carries his vertical seam inside, but there's a safety there
because you're in like what looks like half quarter quarter
and he's kind of playing the like the backside like
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curl flat zone, and he runs it all the way
to the post and just totally vacates his curl flat
responsibility and Warren just occupies it and it's an easy
pitch and catch for like was it twenty five thirty yards?
It's one on one stuff that were blowing there. And
there was another play leader in the game where he
lost contained on the touchdown to Michael Pittman as well.
If you Melafan Wu, if we're gonna buzz you know,
the crosser comes out of your area and the backside
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crosser's coming over, and the only other route behind you
is coming back to the quarterback, like get downhill man, Like.
It felt like watching our hook drops and our curl
flat drops, like the Colts lay out to Latu found
somebody to cover when he was in that position. We
just kind of like stood around for the most part.
I thought if he did it a few times. I
thought Benito Jones had a really rough game getting rolled
out of there. Chop Robinson got caught in the wash
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a lot. Just not good football man. The snap counts
Minka Jack Jones, t Dotton Brooks all went the distance,
playing seventy three snaps. Sealer led all defensive tackles fifty four.
KG played forty four. And that might be the only
damn thing I got right in the entire game, because
I said he was going to play two thirds to
Benito's one third. Forty four for Kg twenty for Bnido Jones,
Jordan Phillips got thirty three. I think they'll continue to
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climb for him here. Matthew Butler twenty. So we had
to kind of roll guys out because they got a
lot of plays against us JP and Beachubb forty snaps each,
Judon thirty three. Here's what I don't get. Willy Gabe
played no snaps and Judon had thirty three. Like Willy
gay was one of the best players in the field
all of camp long, and again we don't know what
happens in terms of the responsibilities and all that stuff,
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but I thought Willy Gaye deserved a chance to get
some play out there. Chop had thirty seven snaps, Jason
Marshall thirty four, Storm twenty nine. Trader had twenty two snaps.
Do you see more of him in that big nickel package?
Ashton Dave eleven snaps. So a lot of safety's got
play in this game, a lot of nicols kind of
rotating through. By and large, though I mean F for
the offense, we'll call it an F for the defense.
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I mean it just was not good on either side
of the ball. Defense a tiny bit better, and I
think the defense can get things corrected. My top five tapes,
Patrick Paul was actually really good in the game. I
think Jordan Brooks was two. That to me is where
like the really good tapes ended. I thought Brewer was good.
I thought Minka was good. I thought Jordan Phillips was good,
so Patrick, Paul, Jordan Brooks a bit of a drop
off than Brewer, Fitzpatrick and Phillips. Three four and five,
(33:31):
I'm out of here, you guys. Enjoy the rest of
your night. We're gonna have the Wednesday podcast taking a
look at the Patriots. Taylor Kyle's will join me for
that episode, I believe. I think it's what we're gonna
do here, and we'll have the preview podcast on Thursday,
Football Friday, and the usual content as we go throughout
the week. Hopefully, hopefully this time next week is a
little bit more fun until then, subscribe, rate, review the show, Follow.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Me on social if you want.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I guess I'm the most hated man on social these days, though,
so maybe don't do that. Follow the Dolphins at Miami Dolphins.
Check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins HQ and much more.
Ten and last, butt not least, Miami Dolphins dot com.
Until next time, Worn Caroline Cameron a Willow Daddy's coming
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