November 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Travis is back in the film room after the Dolphins made it three wins in four games heading into the bye. As always, Travis tells you about the game plan and schemes, evaluates the individual performances 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 Drive Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
you know the drill. It's the All twenty two film
review from Madrid. Let's get right into it. From the
Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm gonna point to Pete again. It's the moneyball reference
here from the first play pinpooll concept. As we break
into the week eleven Washington Commander's tape. Offensively here, brunskill
the tight end with your heavy personnel downhill, simple assignment football,
Just be better than the man across from you. Aaron
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Brewer doing all pro stuff in space as usual, Patrick
Paul reaching the mike linebacker, Larry Borum sealing the edge,
Cole Strain washing out a corner. Beautiful football and I
kick it off with that because that was the theme
of the game. The Dolphins maximize their versatility in the
running game with versatile scheme calls with different running backs
and usage of those running backs in different ways and
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defined roles across the tight ends and crackback blocks.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of the wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
This team has an identity and they leaned into it
and it made for productive offense that bogged down in
key spots because of some ill timed mistakes, some misfortune calls,
and some bad quarterback play at times.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get into all that here real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But they ran the exact same action off of that
earlier play, the pinpoll concept with the Commanders in that
soft cover three coverage we talked about on the Thursday show,
and it's a timing ball to waddle right out of
the break anticipation ball from Tua, and then we go
into the trigger ration, which I think is exactly how
you sequence this. The trigger ration, the kind of you know,
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pie in the sky design. It works when you go
traditional traditional rug pull, like you can't go rug pool
rugpool traditional because then they're like, what the hell is
this I don't have You didn't give me the information
pre flop and post flop and after the turn to
make me buy your bluff on the river. That's a
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poker comparison there, right. You have to sequence this thing
that makes a story believable to get to the rug
pool stuff. And in this particular play on the first
rug poll of the game. Daniel Brunskill is in the
full house backfield with a Chan and Olie and he
runs counter action and hits the kickout split flow block.
You crack the end with Cedric Wilson. Then you get
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Larry Borum, Aren Brewer and all the Gordon all leading
Devon Hchan on the sweep and the first time eh
Chan gets touched is seventeen yards down the field. These
guys anticipate your downhill, inside zone, your pinpoll, your power,
your lead ISO, you do all that stuff. It creates
opportunities to get a Chan on the corner. And that's
what this team id needs to be henceforth man and
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they can do it now next year going forward, all
available to them if they commit to the style of football.
I just think there's something to be said about the
continuity here on the offensive line. And if you want
to go check out Mike McDaniel's press conference, those of
you that have wondered where the soundbites have gone, like
I've kind of injected more analysis and personality of the show,
and you guys can go on YouTube and find the
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press conferences there because they take up a lot of
time here on the show, and I want to hear
more Travis. Quite frankly, that's a joke, but I mean
it's also true. I'm it's my show. I have the microphone,
so you will listen to every damn word I have,
for sure, but real in reality, they're like, go check
out Mike's answers on those those questions about the continent
on the offensive line, because it's it's the longest stretch
of games since McDaniel got here that we had the
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exact same starting lineup from week eleven all the from
Week four all the way to week eleven. We have
never had that in the last four years, and the
connection there is palpable. I think Larry Boram has shown
to be a pretty valuable piece. We'll get to more
on him in just one moment, and he's one of
the guys like, you know, I'm gonna sit here and
take some l's on some takes. I think a lot
of Dolphin fans gotta take some l's on Larry Boram.
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He's been a very valuable addition to the offensive line,
especially losing Austin Jackson in the first game of the season.
They come right back to that little chip slide release
route for Greg Dolcic an area of vulnerability and the
short flats against those soft cover three looks. They occupied
the cloud corner with a corner out from alec Ingold,
which is Dicey running the full back on a corner route,
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trying to lift coverage that way, and it gets dull.
Such a little five yard game like this sequencing, you
consistently showed something to create space and then attacked that
space on these first couple of drives, the third and two.
On that first drive, split split flow zone tighter splits.
You gets your offensive line closer together and hammer that
thing downhill, create less gap for the gaps for the
defense to expose in your downhill running game. I just
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thought it was a really good mix early in this game.
And by the numbers, eighteen gap scheme runs, ten zone runs.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. The zone runs become
so much more valuable when you can threaten teams by
playing bully ball downhill. That's the second most gap runs
in a game in the McDaniel era, the first being
the Atlanta game that we broke down. You know the
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entirety of the four year run here because of that
one game. Even the fourth and one delay of game
was downhill power scheme. They just couldn't get the snap
off in time. The next drive they run dagger off
play action. That's a the number two to the side
that they're trying to attack. The slot receiver runs a vertical,
the one runs a dig row off of that, and
you get a chan releasing the flat because once again
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you've lifted that coverage against soft three. I'm gonna point
to the tipede again.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Look in your packets. It's in there. What's open against
soft cover three? The flats we get eight chan all
alone there. Sequence that with an RPO slide glance rail, which,
if you're not watching HQ and the breakdowns you doing
with your life, go pack and watch the RPO slide
glance rail combination. They over commit to the perimeter because
Miami had been gashing them there, so you throw the
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glance inside to dulcig.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
This is how this thing goes.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Man, it's poker, it's chess, right, you're setting people up
for your next move. I think there's been an evolution
an Ollie Gordon's game because he was getting some different
alignment run in this game, especially operating as the crackback man,
as an attached player to the lion of scrimmage, essentially
a tight end, and he can do that because he
kind of is like an f tight end in the
way he's built, and I love seeing that for him,
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he could be a valuable part of the running game,
not just when he touches the football, but as a blocker.
I think there's quite a few instances of the offense
running some one option plays and a few of the
sacks were like that where it's like there's one option
on the route progression Fortua and then he has to
make somebody miss and that's the limitation right there in
the drop back game, right like he's not going to
do that, And that was kind of where you got
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behind the sticks and a few of these drives that
didn't work out, But after that, the variety just kept
on coming. We get GT counter, which is Larry Boram
your right tackle and Cole Strange your right guard.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Guard tackle counter.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You pull him across the formation, and that tells you
about the versatility the offensive line. Because we raved on
the Friday Show with Patrick Paul and you'll see it
on this week's HQ.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The video component of that interview.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Watch Patrick Paul's face when I ask him about CT counter.
Now they're doing it with Strange and Borum the other directions.
So think about how the defense has to process that. Right,
You have to think about, well, they're gonna pull Patrick
Paul and Aaron Brewer this way, and on the next
play they can pull Cole Strange and Larry Boram this
back direction. Like it's it's like three ways of chaos
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circling these guys's heads as they're trying to process and
read their keys. And when you get all of this going,
it sparks the very next play, a third and three
conversion to Malik Washington for eighteen yards where Tua gets
all day versus a three man rush.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It creates a one on one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Two way go from Alakue Washington who wins his route,
catches the football and moves the sticks right back to
the ground. After that and Allie Gordon on lead ISO
again every play, it's different more to think about, and
it's simple football. It's Jimmy's and Joe's. It's not coach
glanf football. It's Jimmy's and Joe's. There was a run
where Aaron Brewer had a difficult reach block, gave some
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ground and displacement, and then Malik Washington comes screaming across
the formation. I'm guessing to kick out the backside edge,
but the play was so far away that he didn't
even have to do that, Like he didn't have to
do the oral because his kid was already already had
a chance to win the competition. That's I think you
should leave for those that don't get the reference. But
he winds up colliding with Aaron Brewer, who goes down
and his man makes a tackle for loss. These are
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the little things you can clean up, And by cleanup,
I mean maybe just throw in the trash because everything
else is working. And when you get these two cute elements,
it backs you up in certain ways. I'm going to
tell you right now, though you're right, no man watching
a lot of these concepts. There are some opportunities for
a guy like Darren Waller if he comes back from
injury reserve, and I don't know if he will or not.
I just I'm pontificating about the possibilities here. There's that
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word again. Someone check me on that. But the possibilities
for a really good stretch vertical element to your f
position from these bigger groupings. Because I love what Greg
Doltwich has done. I think he's earned a role here
long term, Like he does a great job. But Waller
is a different type of athlete, right, I think if
he comes back, you could get real creative and thirteen
personnel groupings and you can almost make it your base,
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something we almost never do with three tight ends. But Waddle, Dulcic,
Waller and Rouccie with a Chan, let's roll baby, because
we can get these downhill running concepts. Maybe you can
make it twenty two personnel with Dulsic and Waller, a Chan,
Alie and Waddle. Like you got options to reduce your
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speed element to two players ah Chan and Waller who
were both or sorry, h Chan and Waddle, who are
two of the fastest players in the league. And then
you have the ability to play big boy football too
with Oli, Gordon and h Chan as your running backs.
I think there's a lot to chew on there. All right,
let's go ahead and fast forward here to the third
down stop on the turnover run downs drive. I just
thought we ran that ball into a bad look, which
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you call a time out, call a check get out
of that look because we try to wash the defensive
line and then insert Julian Hill and Alec Ingold against
linebackers and Julian loses Frankie luvlu knocks him to the ground.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Go Koogs, but not in this instance.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Alec does win his block, but Luvu was right there
after defeating Julian Hill to stand Allie up and then
by the time he does that, the cavalryel arrives and
it's a dead play. But pre snap, it was three
on four with the Commanders having the four man advantage
to that side of the football, and it essentially becomes
two on three because Patrick Paul Combo's on Jonasoviti Naya's
man and they wash him down. But it creates a
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gap for those second level defenders to play clean and
play free. We didn't have numbers of the strength either.
Like it was a bad look all around. So check
to a pass because they were selling out to stop
the run on that play, or call a time out
and do it again, because there was a bust to
play from the start when we ran right into the
teeth of the defense. But man the fourth down on tape,
the mist to waddle That's one that Mike and Tua
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gotta be sick about because we had Waddle on a
drag against Bobby Wagner, great player. Mash up with Wattle
and coverage not a good look for them. It's a
spot drop with nobody else near them. They got exactly
what they wanted in terms of the backside clear out.
They had two routes breaking to the outside to kind
of create that window for two for Wattle to cross
face and beat Wagon or across his face there, but
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to he had time, but his feet got stuck. He
anticipates pressure off the left side and never gets his
feet reset and winds up throwing a ball that's on
the back hip of Wattle and it goes incomplete. And
we'll get to more of that here in the quarterback portion.
One of my favorite plays was the third and seventh
conversion to Malik Washington. They motion Waddle to the trip
side to the field the wide side right, and it
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isolates maleak backside as your y ISO of sorts, although
it's more of a flanker ISO or maybe it's an
x IO I guess on this point. But they don't
react to the motion, so you know they're soft and off,
so it's catch rock throw on a slant with free
access from Lake Washington, easy first down conversion there. Would
love to see more of those quick hitters were using
motion to identify the zone coverage in those spots. As
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far as the quarnerback, I talked about that fourth down play.
We'll get to that here in one second, but I thought,
really the first throw of any real consequence or analysis
was the mist to Dulcich on the back pylon on
the second drive of the game, the second field goal
of the game. Before that, it was like a run
heavy plan with some play action two man route combos
predetermined one man routes like screens or just quick hitters
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designs that was up to Tua to execute within those confines.
That was the first one that seemed like I had
a conflict defender to read and making a location throw too.
Dulsicg Now he did hit Dulsuge on the glands earlier,
which was a nice play, a nice throw, but I
think he overshoots this one. I could be wrong, Dulsuch
could have had the wrong landmark, but the ball looked
high to me. Regardless of where the landmark was. It
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just never had a chance to go complete the very
next play. We got what we wanted on that two
man route combo on a sale concept and Tua takes
a sack on third down. The cell is a corner
route and a flat route to kind of put that
cloud cornerback. Who's in between both those two routes put
him in conflict. Does he get depth, throw it short
because he sync down low, throw it high over the top.
We had a good look there, but Tua continues his
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boot action right into the free runner. We need to
be able to make that play because you had two
on two in the route. You had either the option
to put your foot in the ground and throw a
back pile on fade to dulcitch, which I think could
have worked because the cloud corner had eight chan in
the flat that he had to be concerned about. Or
if you don't like that, put your foot in the
ground and throw an absolute frozen rope to a chan
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on the upfield shoulder, because he could have made the
defender miss in space rate there, or make the free
runner miss and get a play from there. None of
those things happen. He tries that little spin move that
he does. I think defenses are privy to that now
because it's really his only escape move that he has,
but he winds up taking a sack. Like we have
three chances to make a play there, and to me,
it's kind of a damning play because like, that's a
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winning play in the NFL, and we didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So that was a big concern to me.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I thought the fourth down incompletion was a product of
sensing pressure. We talked about that a little bit in
the offensive portion. Overstrides to a route that he didn't throw,
doesn't reset his feet, then throws the ball off Wattle's
back hip when he had nothing but space out in
front of him.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That was a bad, bad miss.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So a couple of bad plays that took points off
the board there at the quarterback position. That first down
near pick on the deep shot to Waddle, I averaged
over the top and leverage to the wide side of
the field. Now there was nowhere else to go with
the football on that play. But it's in the defender's
hands late third quarter, down by a touchdown near midfield
on first down and he just dropped the football. There's
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nothing on the tape that says to throw that football.
I don't care. I don't care so much on third
and thirteen, but on first down Man tried to giving
the ball away in a big spot there. He also
sailed the slant on goal to go on the Dulc
miss early in the fourth quarter. Now, one of his
best throws was the drop that Waddle had where he
influenced the window and rips it on time and on target,
but wadd will drops it then on the sack, his
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last sack of the day. He had two curls at
the sticks, and I'm used to seeing him throw those
routes with anticipation. He did it to Tyreek Hill, to
Jaquem Grant, to Isaiah Ford, to Devonte Parker all over
his entire career. But here he gets happy feet, doesn't
rip it eats the sack. It was a rough tape.
That was a really really rough watch at the quarterback position.
That was the last time to let him throw the football.
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The rest of the game was all runs besides those
two throws late in the game when it was kind
of like out of reach and in the fourth quarter.
But uh yeah, you kind of had to call around
his game because he was not seeing it and not
feeling it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
In this game. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Come back into the rest of the standouts offensively, we'll
get to the defense as well. All that coming up.
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discussed from the Dolphins sixteen thirteen overtime win in Madrid,
the offensive operation, the quarterback play. Let's go ahead and
talk about the standouts, and in this one you're gonna
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get all five offensive linemen a clean sweep.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It starts with Aram Brewer. Has there been a game
where he wasn't in here? Pull up that first drive.
You can count on the number of on one hand
the number of centers that can do what he does.
Look at his displacement on Alli Gordon's twenty yard run
late in the fourth quarter. Two.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This guy is awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
He is so so good. He is center one in
the NFL this year. What a game for Larry Boram
and quite frankly, what a year he's had. The athleticism
in space stands out. He was just awesome. Those runs
off the right side as a the eat in space,
pulling back to the left side and hitting critical key
punishing blocks for h Chan inside. He did everything in
this game. I thought jonahsavit Naya got a lot of
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pushback on my take last week, saying that I saw
real growth in his game. Well, a joke's on you,
because that growth like manifested itself into more growth this week.
And sometimes, like you know, I think, sometimes, especially if
you're trying to analyze some forecast, you have to see
the growth despite the production. And in this case, I
feel a little bit vindicateings. I thought the feet just
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looks good on tape last week, despite some misses. On
Waddle's big catch and run, he compos with Aaron Brewer
and then flattens to the line of scrimmage so as
to not wind up downfield for an eligible man downfield call.
You just see these little things in his game that
click more and more each week. But the feet playing
more gathered more control. He can actually attach himself at
the second level, where previously he was overrunning those plays
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and getting himself in a lot of trouble. Patrick Paul
is so good, rock solid. His one on one pass
rush reps where Piercetell mates zero movement, they isolate him
frequently on island. In pass protection, he at reach blocks.
He widened plays on outside zone, caught bodies in space.
He is an elite left tackle in this league. Cole
Strange also in the grouping here it's a five R
on the offensive line. They were really really good. I
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thought he brought the punch in pass pro and was
connecting on combinations, combinations, climbs and polls. His block on
the Ali Gordon touchdown was chef's kiss, exceptional pad level
and leg drive. Now on the turnover on downs he
had back to back gas, which kind of derails is
great a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Kyle Krabz got on me for that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He was big mad that I said that Cole Strange
played well because of those two plays. But he got
beat bad in the third and fourth down plays. But
still a good game for Cole Strange. And then the
other two players I have for standouts were a tight
end in the running back Julian Hill is an example
of investing in a player and watching that growth materialize.
The way he approaches those rat blocks and the adjustment
of landmarks off those rat motions, it's all so much
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cleaner and smoother this year. And how about the way
he finished that run off that play action boot slide
in space. He he like destroyed three tacklers on that run.
He did did get beat badly on the third and
goal stop you mentioned earlier, critical critical drive block on
the Ali Gordon touchdown run though, So some ups and downs,
but a good day for Julian Hill, who's a big
piece of the offense for me going forward. And then
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Devon h Cham, I mean, what else can you say?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Special?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Special, special, special player That pop pass with the fake
from Tua, He's running away from the goal line to
his own goal line, no momentum, He's got two defenders
right in front of him, makes them both miss, reverses
field runs back by them, makes two more guys miss.
Also the conviction he's never run with better vision and
decision making than he has this year. He's every bit
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as good as Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, Bjehn Robinson. That
run on the final drive and the fourth on the
toss play where Tua has some issues with a snap
like rare rare ability to start and stop and make
guys miss in a small small amount of space. As
far as miss as I had three alec Ingold had
a lot of just whiffs and was playing in no
man's land a lot. Waddell went from one drop to
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on the season. We can call that uncharacteristic now, but
they have had a pretty big impact on two plays
the second one. The first one caused an entire drive
to go could put. The second one took away the
opportunity for potential rolly potish and game winning field goal
at the end of.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He was a good pursuit away from a sixty five
yard touchdown on that slant catch and run.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And then Westbrook a Kine.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I had one play where I got him in the
notes here there was a run on the last drive
in regulation where he doesn't do anything. He just goes
up to his guy, doesn't block him, and his guy
makes the play. He got less snaps than Cedric Wilson too.
Don't trust me on number three receiver evaluations anymore. I'm
gonna cut myself off because I get him wrong every
single year, snap counts two in the offensive line. They
went the distance all fifty six snaps. Waddle played forty
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seven of Lake twenty eight, Cedric seventeen and Wi fifteen
and Taj two. Then you get Dulsitch for thirty and
Julian for twenty six, So the two tight ends are
kind of like receiver two and three at this point.
Right there with my league Washington Rouchie got two snaps
in the game, So if Waller comes back, I imagine
that becomes even more of a discrepancy there. This is
a tight end running game team right and Hm played
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forty five snaps all a twenty two. Jalen Wright just
won alec ingole twenty three snaps in the game. Let's
go ahead and should we do one more segment. Let's
go ahead and pause it right there. We'll come back
into the defense and top tapes in the final segment.
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about all things Dolphins defense and a sixteen to thirteen
win over the Commanders. I think there was some really
good front variation in this game, especially in some of
those short yard situations. Some bear fronts where you get technically, well,
you know, really three bears in Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips,
and Zach Seeler. A bear front is where you cover
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up the center and both guards. It's a zero technique
and two to two techniques, a lot of hybrid coverages,
which to me speaks to further growth in the defense,
man to one side, zone to the other. I think
we could have been more sharp, sharper, and more connected
on the routes from bunches and stacks. They got some
natural rubs that create easy throws early in the game
that we kind of struggled to communicate and get through.
Those require so many reps and continuity to get things right,
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and you're working in you know, Ashon Davis got back
in the lineup over Dante Trader, which I don't think
I would. I don't agree with it quite personally, but
who the hell care, is what I think. And then
also a juju Brents getting some run in that position
as well as kind of a newer player in that defense.
But it felt like this was a new part of
the menu type of game. From the defensive standpoint, there
was a cover six rep and cover six his quarter
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quarter half, three deep defenders, one corner steps down and
plays the curl flat zone, and then you get kind
of a hybrid of zone coverage across the hook zone.
It was in the second quarter, and I thought Brent's
he got big eyes on a post route that took
him out of his deep third responsibility, and they fit
a corner throw for like twenty five yards in on him.
There you see him flip his hips and get back
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and again second start. So it's understandable, but I think
it's it's fair to see some you know, miscommunications and
busts in those circumstances. We had a few more in
this game than we have in recent weeks. I am
really intrigued though, by how they're calling things right now.
I think you're a lot closer to the personnel that
makes Weavers defense go now that you were back in
September working in all these new parts and guys that
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were injured up and down that cornerback position. Lots of
reps with inverted coverage, different zone variation, tons of disguise.
They'll invert it with Minka and if he pressed up
in coverage or in the curl flat in zone with
Brentz and Jack bailing back into deep thirds in their
zone coverage. I am intrigued to watch this the rest
of the way because I think there's so much variety that
can only continue to grow and get better from here,
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especially with a bye week to self scout and then
quite frankly, the Saints, Jets, Steelers don't really have dynamic
passing attacks. You can kind of get things ramped up,
hopefully to win three games there before you get the
real true test with the Patriots and the Bucks and
Bengals are to finish the season. So I'm really really
curious to watch that play out here. But ma'am, these
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long physical corners man real quick. There was one rep
at the end of the first half where Brooks and
Brent's wound up in the same spot and vacated the
deep hook where Mario took a shot and a completion
on a dig for fifteen yards, So there was some
miscommunications there. But in total, these long physical corners, we
had a two man rep, two high safeties, man coverage
across the board, funnel your help coverage to the safeties
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right or your man coverage into the help where the
safeties are, and it was across the board erasing white
jerseys and man coverage with two high safeties, back t
dot and a spy roll. He closes down for the sack,
executed in a big spot to not just get off
the field there, but to make the field goal longer
which was missed. And then my last note from a
general standpoint on the grounding call that was not He
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gets contacted in the tackle box and they spin him
out of the tackle box right off the edge, so
it was super super close. I feel like it was
a good spot to kind of give a makeup call
for the DPI on Jack Jones earlier, but they opted
not to in that spot. And also the fact that
he got that ball off is kind of a miracle
because Chop had him in the grasp and threw him
down on the ground and he just spun out of
that thing and threw it blindly. It was kind of
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a miracle that he got it off. As far as
the standouts, Jordan Phillips once again, Yeah, I think we
struck gold in the fifth round. Here, guys, the pad level,
the get off, the violence. I mean, there is rep
after rep next to Seiler where he looks like Seiler
and Seiler does not the way he shoots his hands
and controls. Guys, there's double team snaps where he's got
one foot off the ground and the other foot is
just hopping up and down trying to stabilize an anchor,
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and he just never gives up ground even playing on
one foot. He is outstanding. I cannot say enough good things.
I need the apologies from those that wanted Shadu in
that spot because you were so wrong. You were more
wrong than I was about Odell Beckham Junior and Nick
Westbrook Akine Kenneth Grant. I want the miracle run more
than anybody else in the world, but I'm telling you
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it's almost secondary to me to the growth of some
of these young dudes. Jonah had the light come on,
and so did Kenny g In my opinion, the pad
level the first step quickness, and the power to prevent
guys from recovering once he beats them initially off the football.
This looked like his Michigan tape. That stuff on the
Mariota keeper. He drives the center from Madrid to Barcelona.
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I have no idea how far apart that is, but
I know it's not in the same ballpark, and it
causes all the blocks off the edge to get stacked
up on top of each other. It causes a fourth down,
they fallse start kick the field goal. He's a car
crash causer. CCC Kenneth Grant Up and down day for
Zeke Biggers. I know Omar was a big fan of
the one play he made. It was a very nice
job overpowering the center who tried to reach him as
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a three technique, which is a really tough block to make,
but his length stands out that way. But the rest
of the game he kind of got washed on a
few times. We're not trying to fill agendas here, man,
We're just gonna tell how it is. Jordan Brooks, I'd
like to begin my multiplayer multiple part apology for saying
that he didn't have a great gamer today.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He's unreal. He was awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, he had a couple of plays that he missed,
but the conviction of his study, paired with his play
speed makes for a damn all pro. He is outstanding.
He plays tight to blocks, then he explodes off of
one step and just goes stays clear of the block,
arrives with violence. He like always finds his way into
the tackle, gets guys cut down to the ground. He
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cuts down a that looks like a massive play against
a blitz, just any eraser of problems in the middle
of your defense. The way he beats blockspan he waits
for guys to get right up on him. Then he
unfurls his move. It reminds me of like a late
hands receiver of the catch point. These big offensive linemen
think they have this kill shot lined up. Then he
just ducks them, covers two gaps and then makes the play.
It's insane. It's sensational to watch on the Jack Jones DPI.
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He steam rolls the running back and pass protection and
forces Mario to throw that ball into a dangerous window
which should have been good for incompletion. He's the best
mic linebacker in football this year, Jack Jones. The way
he plays his man anticipates the move then snaps to it.
It is so freaky fast man. He's quick to itch
with the knack for the football. He wasn't a racer.
Nothing open all day against him. Nearly scraped to pick
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off the ground. Earlier in the game, blows up a
screen for a loss of three where he does his
work in the film room, then makes the play, and
then the interception man play changes its picture with a
late shift, winds up on Ertz, feels the over route,
sprints under it, undercuts it, gets there and makes a
play above his head in the football game winner. What
a game for Jack Jones. I think he's earned himself
a chance to compete for a job here again next year.
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Juju Brents the press man work the stuff we talked
about with the hybrid coverages. He has the goods to
make that go because he's so good impressed with speed
to recover vertically. The run game support was awesome too.
Supremely bummed out by his injury, which sounds like it's
gonna be a season ending for him. I think he
had a chance to really play his way into it,
like a cemented role possibly next year. Never going to
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go as far as to say that he would for
sure get it, but it felt like he was building
towards a chance to really compete for a starting job
in twenty six. Now the evaluation becomes a two game
sample size and you have to add another injury onto
that tag for him, So difficult stuff for him there.
But he's got all the tools in the world, and
I think if you can build your depth in the
room with him, that's a good place to be for
a Dolphins cornerback room going forward. Minka Fitzpatrick, there is
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so much variety this defense can get to because of
Minca also the way he works through the mental checklist,
then goes on broken plays in the back end the
player where Mariota was dead to rights and Bradley Chubb
misses the sack mink up plasters for like four seconds
on that play. All of that after playing traffic cop
as the middle of the field safety, big time blitz
on the second down in completion at the stop at
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the end of regulation before the missfield goal. Then he's
in phase on the deep ball and third down. Big
game from Maka Fitzpatrick. And it was for Jason Marshall
Junior too. He had three critical plays that helped the
Dolphins defense stay in this game late. I like what
he did closing down from depth as a run defender
in tight to the formation that looks natural for him.
He made the big first down run stop before the
gay missed field goal at the end of the fourth quarter.
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Then he gets a pass breakup in phase and second
down on a hot throw from Mariota, and then on
Jack Jones's pick on the game clinching drive. There he's
in phase and comes right back down the stem on
the comeback and Marioda wanted that throw has to come
off at double clutches goes back over the middle late
without that, he never goes to Earth's and never gives
Jack Jones the chance. So Jack Jones makes the play,
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but Jason Marshall helped him give a chance to make
that play. The misses individually, Matthew Judon everything just lacks
you to me, like he's not undressing tight ends and
backs the way you should in protection, the backside, sift
pursuit like never arrives, overshooting gaps in the run game,
taking chances that puts other guys in peril. I don't
like it. Ashton Davis has always been to see it,
then go guy. That's a problem. He's tackling without his arms,
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that's a problem. He made a great play on the
third down before the fourth and goal stop, but he
was way at a position on the fourth down, overruns
the little angle route on Zach Ertz. Luckily Ertz slipped
and we get the ball back Steeler.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's strange because he's just been overpowered so much this year.
Another thing that does make sense though, is like he
was a pick stunner and he did that one time
in this game where Kenneth Grant couldn't get free.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
He does it so.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, but there's not other guys making the plays off
of that. So I think that like maybe a shift
and approach has kind of cost him this year. But
he gets he's on the ground a lot man and
then Shop Robinson just not stout enough against the point
of attack. He got pushed around. His pass rushes have
been speed around the corner, gets ran around the quarterback,
which there's you don't do anything back there. It's like
you just boogie board at that point. He did have
a great pass rush on the grounding that was not called.
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Speaking of no pass rush, Bradley Chubb, he got stood
up by Laramie Tunzel all game, got dented in the
running game a lot condensed inside and got taken off
of his gap. Off of his best game, one of
his worst tapes of the year, I would say.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And then Willie Gay, I think the big.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mariota run was kind of on him in that spot
for forty three yards on a critical third down. Snap
counts Minka Brooks and t dot All go the distance
sixty seven snaps Ashton Davis fifty two compared to Trader's
fifteen snaps at safety. If he played forty snaps in
the game. This was a bigger Commander's offense, so I
kind of get that, but I don't know. I think
Trader kind of got pulled back a little bit there.
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Jack Jones played sixty six of the sixty seven, Brents
played forty nine, Marshall nineteen, and Ethan Bonner one snap
sealer took fifty three snaps, a big departure from Kenneth
Grant who played thirty four, and then Jordan Phillips thirty
with Biggers playing twenty three and Bonito seventeen. Let's go
with that the rest of the way, the young guys
getting those snaps over twenty per game, and then Chubb
fifty two, Jude On thirty eight, Chop thirty seven, and
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Cam Good seven. My top five tapes for this game.
Number five Jason Marshall Jr. Just eighteen snaps in the game, right,
but he made him count huge plays down the stretch.
He gets number five, his first top tape of the
season of his career. Larry Borum first top tape of
his season two. He's number four on this one. Jordan
Brooks number three in the game for me, Devon Han
number two and number one Jackie Jones played his best
game as a Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Let's go ahead and call the day. That's my time here.
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, Dolphans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
you know the drill. It's the All twenty two film
review from Madrid. Let's get right into it. From the
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is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm gonna point to Pete again. It's the moneyball reference
here from the first play pinpooll concept. As we break
into the week eleven Washington Commander's tape. Offensively here, brunskill
the tight end with your heavy personnel downhill, simple assignment football,
Just be better than the man across from you. Aaron
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Brewer doing all pro stuff in space as usual, Patrick
Paul reaching the mike linebacker, Larry Borum sealing the edge,
Cole Strain washing out a corner. Beautiful football and I
kick it off with that because that was the theme
of the game. The Dolphins maximize their versatility in the
running game with versatile scheme calls with different running backs
and usage of those running backs in different ways and
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defined roles across the tight ends and crackback blocks.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of the wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
This team has an identity and they leaned into it
and it made for productive offense that bogged down in
key spots because of some ill timed mistakes, some misfortune calls,
and some bad quarterback play at times.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get into all that here real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But they ran the exact same action off of that
earlier play, the pinpoll concept with the Commanders in that
soft cover three coverage we talked about on the Thursday show,
and it's a timing ball to waddle right out of
the break anticipation ball from Tua, and then we go
into the trigger ration, which I think is exactly how
you sequence this. The trigger ration, the kind of you know,
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pie in the sky design. It works when you go
traditional traditional rug pull, like you can't go rug pool
rugpool traditional because then they're like, what the hell is
this I don't have You didn't give me the information
pre flop and post flop and after the turn to
make me buy your bluff on the river. That's a
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poker comparison there, right. You have to sequence this thing
that makes a story believable to get to the rug
pool stuff. And in this particular play on the first
rug poll of the game. Daniel Brunskill is in the
full house backfield with a Chan and Olie and he
runs counter action and hits the kickout split flow block.
You crack the end with Cedric Wilson. Then you get
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Larry Borum, Aren Brewer and all the Gordon all leading
Devon Hchan on the sweep and the first time eh
Chan gets touched is seventeen yards down the field. These
guys anticipate your downhill, inside zone, your pinpoll, your power,
your lead ISO, you do all that stuff. It creates
opportunities to get a Chan on the corner. And that's
what this team id needs to be henceforth man and
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they can do it now next year going forward, all
available to them if they commit to the style of football.
I just think there's something to be said about the
continuity here on the offensive line. And if you want
to go check out Mike McDaniel's press conference, those of
you that have wondered where the soundbites have gone, like
I've kind of injected more analysis and personality of the show,
and you guys can go on YouTube and find the
(03:17):
press conferences there because they take up a lot of
time here on the show, and I want to hear
more Travis. Quite frankly, that's a joke, but I mean
it's also true. I'm it's my show. I have the microphone,
so you will listen to every damn word I have,
for sure, but real in reality, they're like, go check
out Mike's answers on those those questions about the continent
on the offensive line, because it's it's the longest stretch
of games since McDaniel got here that we had the
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exact same starting lineup from week eleven all the from
Week four all the way to week eleven. We have
never had that in the last four years, and the
connection there is palpable. I think Larry Boram has shown
to be a pretty valuable piece. We'll get to more
on him in just one moment, and he's one of
the guys like, you know, I'm gonna sit here and
take some l's on some takes. I think a lot
of Dolphin fans gotta take some l's on Larry Boram.
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He's been a very valuable addition to the offensive line,
especially losing Austin Jackson in the first game of the season.
They come right back to that little chip slide release
route for Greg Dolcic an area of vulnerability and the
short flats against those soft cover three looks. They occupied
the cloud corner with a corner out from alec Ingold,
which is Dicey running the full back on a corner route,
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trying to lift coverage that way, and it gets dull.
Such a little five yard game like this sequencing, you
consistently showed something to create space and then attacked that
space on these first couple of drives, the third and two.
On that first drive, split split flow zone tighter splits.
You gets your offensive line closer together and hammer that
thing downhill, create less gap for the gaps for the
defense to expose in your downhill running game. I just
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thought it was a really good mix early in this game.
And by the numbers, eighteen gap scheme runs, ten zone runs.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. The zone runs become
so much more valuable when you can threaten teams by
playing bully ball downhill. That's the second most gap runs
in a game in the McDaniel era, the first being
the Atlanta game that we broke down. You know the
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entirety of the four year run here because of that
one game. Even the fourth and one delay of game
was downhill power scheme. They just couldn't get the snap
off in time. The next drive they run dagger off
play action. That's a the number two to the side
that they're trying to attack. The slot receiver runs a vertical,
the one runs a dig row off of that, and
you get a chan releasing the flat because once again
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you've lifted that coverage against soft three. I'm gonna point
to the tipede again.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Look in your packets. It's in there. What's open against
soft cover three? The flats we get eight chan all
alone there. Sequence that with an RPO slide glance rail, which,
if you're not watching HQ and the breakdowns you doing
with your life, go pack and watch the RPO slide
glance rail combination. They over commit to the perimeter because
Miami had been gashing them there, so you throw the
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glance inside to dulcig.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
This is how this thing goes.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Man, it's poker, it's chess, right, you're setting people up
for your next move. I think there's been an evolution
an Ollie Gordon's game because he was getting some different
alignment run in this game, especially operating as the crackback man,
as an attached player to the lion of scrimmage, essentially
a tight end, and he can do that because he
kind of is like an f tight end in the
way he's built, and I love seeing that for him,
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he could be a valuable part of the running game,
not just when he touches the football, but as a blocker.
I think there's quite a few instances of the offense
running some one option plays and a few of the
sacks were like that where it's like there's one option
on the route progression Fortua and then he has to
make somebody miss and that's the limitation right there in
the drop back game, right like he's not going to
do that, And that was kind of where you got
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behind the sticks and a few of these drives that
didn't work out, But after that, the variety just kept
on coming. We get GT counter, which is Larry Boram
your right tackle and Cole Strange your right guard.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Guard tackle counter.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You pull him across the formation, and that tells you
about the versatility the offensive line. Because we raved on
the Friday Show with Patrick Paul and you'll see it
on this week's HQ.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The video component of that interview.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Watch Patrick Paul's face when I ask him about CT counter.
Now they're doing it with Strange and Borum the other directions.
So think about how the defense has to process that. Right,
You have to think about, well, they're gonna pull Patrick
Paul and Aaron Brewer this way, and on the next
play they can pull Cole Strange and Larry Boram this
back direction. Like it's it's like three ways of chaos
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circling these guys's heads as they're trying to process and
read their keys. And when you get all of this going,
it sparks the very next play, a third and three
conversion to Malik Washington for eighteen yards where Tua gets
all day versus a three man rush.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It creates a one on one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Two way go from Alakue Washington who wins his route,
catches the football and moves the sticks right back to
the ground. After that and Allie Gordon on lead ISO
again every play, it's different more to think about, and
it's simple football. It's Jimmy's and Joe's. It's not coach
glanf football. It's Jimmy's and Joe's. There was a run
where Aaron Brewer had a difficult reach block, gave some
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ground and displacement, and then Malik Washington comes screaming across
the formation. I'm guessing to kick out the backside edge,
but the play was so far away that he didn't
even have to do that, Like he didn't have to
do the oral because his kid was already already had
a chance to win the competition. That's I think you
should leave for those that don't get the reference. But
he winds up colliding with Aaron Brewer, who goes down
and his man makes a tackle for loss. These are
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the little things you can clean up, And by cleanup,
I mean maybe just throw in the trash because everything
else is working. And when you get these two cute elements,
it backs you up in certain ways. I'm going to
tell you right now, though you're right, no man watching
a lot of these concepts. There are some opportunities for
a guy like Darren Waller if he comes back from
injury reserve, and I don't know if he will or not.
I just I'm pontificating about the possibilities here. There's that
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word again. Someone check me on that. But the possibilities
for a really good stretch vertical element to your f
position from these bigger groupings. Because I love what Greg
Doltwich has done. I think he's earned a role here
long term, Like he does a great job. But Waller
is a different type of athlete, right, I think if
he comes back, you could get real creative and thirteen
personnel groupings and you can almost make it your base,
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something we almost never do with three tight ends. But Waddle, Dulcic,
Waller and Rouccie with a Chan, let's roll baby, because
we can get these downhill running concepts. Maybe you can
make it twenty two personnel with Dulsic and Waller, a Chan,
Alie and Waddle. Like you got options to reduce your
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speed element to two players ah Chan and Waller who
were both or sorry, h Chan and Waddle, who are
two of the fastest players in the league. And then
you have the ability to play big boy football too
with Oli, Gordon and h Chan as your running backs.
I think there's a lot to chew on there. All right,
let's go ahead and fast forward here to the third
down stop on the turnover run downs drive. I just
thought we ran that ball into a bad look, which
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you call a time out, call a check get out
of that look because we try to wash the defensive
line and then insert Julian Hill and Alec Ingold against
linebackers and Julian loses Frankie luvlu knocks him to the ground.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Go Koogs, but not in this instance.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Alec does win his block, but Luvu was right there
after defeating Julian Hill to stand Allie up and then
by the time he does that, the cavalryel arrives and
it's a dead play. But pre snap, it was three
on four with the Commanders having the four man advantage
to that side of the football, and it essentially becomes
two on three because Patrick Paul Combo's on Jonasoviti Naya's
man and they wash him down. But it creates a
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gap for those second level defenders to play clean and
play free. We didn't have numbers of the strength either.
Like it was a bad look all around. So check
to a pass because they were selling out to stop
the run on that play, or call a time out
and do it again, because there was a bust to
play from the start when we ran right into the
teeth of the defense. But man the fourth down on tape,
the mist to waddle That's one that Mike and Tua
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gotta be sick about because we had Waddle on a
drag against Bobby Wagner, great player. Mash up with Wattle
and coverage not a good look for them. It's a
spot drop with nobody else near them. They got exactly
what they wanted in terms of the backside clear out.
They had two routes breaking to the outside to kind
of create that window for two for Wattle to cross
face and beat Wagon or across his face there, but
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to he had time, but his feet got stuck. He
anticipates pressure off the left side and never gets his
feet reset and winds up throwing a ball that's on
the back hip of Wattle and it goes incomplete. And
we'll get to more of that here in the quarterback portion.
One of my favorite plays was the third and seventh
conversion to Malik Washington. They motion Waddle to the trip
side to the field the wide side right, and it
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isolates maleak backside as your y ISO of sorts, although
it's more of a flanker ISO or maybe it's an
x IO I guess on this point. But they don't
react to the motion, so you know they're soft and off,
so it's catch rock throw on a slant with free
access from Lake Washington, easy first down conversion there. Would
love to see more of those quick hitters were using
motion to identify the zone coverage in those spots. As
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far as the quarnerback, I talked about that fourth down play.
We'll get to that here in one second, but I thought,
really the first throw of any real consequence or analysis
was the mist to Dulcich on the back pylon on
the second drive of the game, the second field goal
of the game. Before that, it was like a run
heavy plan with some play action two man route combos
predetermined one man routes like screens or just quick hitters
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designs that was up to Tua to execute within those confines.
That was the first one that seemed like I had
a conflict defender to read and making a location throw too.
Dulsicg Now he did hit Dulsuge on the glands earlier,
which was a nice play, a nice throw, but I
think he overshoots this one. I could be wrong, Dulsuch
could have had the wrong landmark, but the ball looked
high to me. Regardless of where the landmark was. It
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just never had a chance to go complete the very
next play. We got what we wanted on that two
man route combo on a sale concept and Tua takes
a sack on third down. The cell is a corner
route and a flat route to kind of put that
cloud cornerback. Who's in between both those two routes put
him in conflict. Does he get depth, throw it short
because he sync down low, throw it high over the top.
We had a good look there, but Tua continues his
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boot action right into the free runner. We need to
be able to make that play because you had two
on two in the route. You had either the option
to put your foot in the ground and throw a
back pile on fade to dulcitch, which I think could
have worked because the cloud corner had eight chan in
the flat that he had to be concerned about. Or
if you don't like that, put your foot in the
ground and throw an absolute frozen rope to a chan
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on the upfield shoulder, because he could have made the
defender miss in space rate there, or make the free
runner miss and get a play from there. None of
those things happen. He tries that little spin move that
he does. I think defenses are privy to that now
because it's really his only escape move that he has,
but he winds up taking a sack. Like we have
three chances to make a play there, and to me,
it's kind of a damning play because like, that's a
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winning play in the NFL, and we didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So that was a big concern to me.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I thought the fourth down incompletion was a product of
sensing pressure. We talked about that a little bit in
the offensive portion. Overstrides to a route that he didn't throw,
doesn't reset his feet, then throws the ball off Wattle's
back hip when he had nothing but space out in
front of him.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That was a bad, bad miss.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So a couple of bad plays that took points off
the board there at the quarterback position. That first down
near pick on the deep shot to Waddle, I averaged
over the top and leverage to the wide side of
the field. Now there was nowhere else to go with
the football on that play. But it's in the defender's
hands late third quarter, down by a touchdown near midfield
on first down and he just dropped the football. There's
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nothing on the tape that says to throw that football.
I don't care. I don't care so much on third
and thirteen, but on first down Man tried to giving
the ball away in a big spot there. He also
sailed the slant on goal to go on the Dulc
miss early in the fourth quarter. Now, one of his
best throws was the drop that Waddle had where he
influenced the window and rips it on time and on target,
but wadd will drops it then on the sack, his
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last sack of the day. He had two curls at
the sticks, and I'm used to seeing him throw those
routes with anticipation. He did it to Tyreek Hill, to
Jaquem Grant, to Isaiah Ford, to Devonte Parker all over
his entire career. But here he gets happy feet, doesn't
rip it eats the sack. It was a rough tape.
That was a really really rough watch at the quarterback position.
That was the last time to let him throw the football.
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The rest of the game was all runs besides those
two throws late in the game when it was kind
of like out of reach and in the fourth quarter.
But uh yeah, you kind of had to call around
his game because he was not seeing it and not
feeling it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
In this game. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Come back into the rest of the standouts offensively, we'll
get to the defense as well. All that coming up.
Draft Time Podcast brought to you by AutoNation. We have
discussed from the Dolphins sixteen thirteen overtime win in Madrid,
the offensive operation, the quarterback play. Let's go ahead and
talk about the standouts, and in this one you're gonna
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get all five offensive linemen a clean sweep.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It starts with Aram Brewer. Has there been a game
where he wasn't in here? Pull up that first drive.
You can count on the number of on one hand
the number of centers that can do what he does.
Look at his displacement on Alli Gordon's twenty yard run
late in the fourth quarter. Two.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This guy is awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
He is so so good. He is center one in
the NFL this year. What a game for Larry Boram
and quite frankly, what a year he's had. The athleticism
in space stands out. He was just awesome. Those runs
off the right side as a the eat in space,
pulling back to the left side and hitting critical key
punishing blocks for h Chan inside. He did everything in
this game. I thought jonahsavit Naya got a lot of
(16:08):
pushback on my take last week, saying that I saw
real growth in his game. Well, a joke's on you,
because that growth like manifested itself into more growth this week.
And sometimes, like you know, I think, sometimes, especially if
you're trying to analyze some forecast, you have to see
the growth despite the production. And in this case, I
feel a little bit vindicateings. I thought the feet just
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looks good on tape last week, despite some misses. On
Waddle's big catch and run, he compos with Aaron Brewer
and then flattens to the line of scrimmage so as
to not wind up downfield for an eligible man downfield call.
You just see these little things in his game that
click more and more each week. But the feet playing
more gathered more control. He can actually attach himself at
the second level, where previously he was overrunning those plays
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and getting himself in a lot of trouble. Patrick Paul
is so good, rock solid. His one on one pass
rush reps where Piercetell mates zero movement, they isolate him
frequently on island. In pass protection, he at reach blocks.
He widened plays on outside zone, caught bodies in space.
He is an elite left tackle in this league. Cole
Strange also in the grouping here it's a five R
on the offensive line. They were really really good. I
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thought he brought the punch in pass pro and was
connecting on combinations, combinations, climbs and polls. His block on
the Ali Gordon touchdown was chef's kiss, exceptional pad level
and leg drive. Now on the turnover on downs he
had back to back gas, which kind of derails is
great a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Kyle Krabz got on me for that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He was big mad that I said that Cole Strange
played well because of those two plays. But he got
beat bad in the third and fourth down plays. But
still a good game for Cole Strange. And then the
other two players I have for standouts were a tight
end in the running back Julian Hill is an example
of investing in a player and watching that growth materialize.
The way he approaches those rat blocks and the adjustment
of landmarks off those rat motions, it's all so much
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cleaner and smoother this year. And how about the way
he finished that run off that play action boot slide
in space. He he like destroyed three tacklers on that run.
He did did get beat badly on the third and
goal stop you mentioned earlier, critical critical drive block on
the Ali Gordon touchdown run though, So some ups and downs,
but a good day for Julian Hill, who's a big
piece of the offense for me going forward. And then
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Devon h Cham, I mean, what else can you say?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Special?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Special, special, special player That pop pass with the fake
from Tua, He's running away from the goal line to
his own goal line, no momentum, He's got two defenders
right in front of him, makes them both miss, reverses
field runs back by them, makes two more guys miss.
Also the conviction he's never run with better vision and
decision making than he has this year. He's every bit
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as good as Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, Bjehn Robinson. That
run on the final drive and the fourth on the
toss play where Tua has some issues with a snap
like rare rare ability to start and stop and make
guys miss in a small small amount of space. As
far as miss as I had three alec Ingold had
a lot of just whiffs and was playing in no
man's land a lot. Waddell went from one drop to
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on the season. We can call that uncharacteristic now, but
they have had a pretty big impact on two plays
the second one. The first one caused an entire drive
to go could put. The second one took away the
opportunity for potential rolly potish and game winning field goal
at the end of.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He was a good pursuit away from a sixty five
yard touchdown on that slant catch and run.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And then Westbrook a Kine.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I had one play where I got him in the
notes here there was a run on the last drive
in regulation where he doesn't do anything. He just goes
up to his guy, doesn't block him, and his guy
makes the play. He got less snaps than Cedric Wilson too.
Don't trust me on number three receiver evaluations anymore. I'm
gonna cut myself off because I get him wrong every
single year, snap counts two in the offensive line. They
went the distance all fifty six snaps. Waddle played forty
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seven of Lake twenty eight, Cedric seventeen and Wi fifteen
and Taj two. Then you get Dulsitch for thirty and
Julian for twenty six, So the two tight ends are
kind of like receiver two and three at this point.
Right there with my league Washington Rouchie got two snaps
in the game, So if Waller comes back, I imagine
that becomes even more of a discrepancy there. This is
a tight end running game team right and Hm played
(20:06):
forty five snaps all a twenty two. Jalen Wright just
won alec ingole twenty three snaps in the game. Let's
go ahead and should we do one more segment. Let's
go ahead and pause it right there. We'll come back
into the defense and top tapes in the final segment.
Drivet Time Podcast brought to you by AutoNation. A brief
b block gets us a long seed block here talking
(20:28):
about all things Dolphins defense and a sixteen to thirteen
win over the Commanders. I think there was some really
good front variation in this game, especially in some of
those short yard situations. Some bear fronts where you get technically, well,
you know, really three bears in Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips,
and Zach Seeler. A bear front is where you cover
(20:48):
up the center and both guards. It's a zero technique
and two to two techniques, a lot of hybrid coverages,
which to me speaks to further growth in the defense,
man to one side, zone to the other. I think
we could have been more sharp, sharper, and more connected
on the routes from bunches and stacks. They got some
natural rubs that create easy throws early in the game
that we kind of struggled to communicate and get through.
Those require so many reps and continuity to get things right,
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and you're working in you know, Ashon Davis got back
in the lineup over Dante Trader, which I don't think
I would. I don't agree with it quite personally, but
who the hell care, is what I think. And then
also a juju Brents getting some run in that position
as well as kind of a newer player in that defense.
But it felt like this was a new part of
the menu type of game. From the defensive standpoint, there
was a cover six rep and cover six his quarter
(21:31):
quarter half, three deep defenders, one corner steps down and
plays the curl flat zone, and then you get kind
of a hybrid of zone coverage across the hook zone.
It was in the second quarter, and I thought Brent's
he got big eyes on a post route that took
him out of his deep third responsibility, and they fit
a corner throw for like twenty five yards in on him.
There you see him flip his hips and get back
(21:51):
and again second start. So it's understandable, but I think
it's it's fair to see some you know, miscommunications and
busts in those circumstances. We had a few more in
this game than we have in recent weeks. I am
really intrigued though, by how they're calling things right now.
I think you're a lot closer to the personnel that
makes Weavers defense go now that you were back in
September working in all these new parts and guys that
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were injured up and down that cornerback position. Lots of
reps with inverted coverage, different zone variation, tons of disguise.
They'll invert it with Minka and if he pressed up
in coverage or in the curl flat in zone with
Brentz and Jack bailing back into deep thirds in their
zone coverage. I am intrigued to watch this the rest
of the way because I think there's so much variety that
can only continue to grow and get better from here,
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especially with a bye week to self scout and then
quite frankly, the Saints, Jets, Steelers don't really have dynamic
passing attacks. You can kind of get things ramped up,
hopefully to win three games there before you get the
real true test with the Patriots and the Bucks and
Bengals are to finish the season. So I'm really really
curious to watch that play out here. But ma'am, these
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long physical corners man real quick. There was one rep
at the end of the first half where Brooks and
Brent's wound up in the same spot and vacated the
deep hook where Mario took a shot and a completion
on a dig for fifteen yards, So there was some
miscommunications there. But in total, these long physical corners, we
had a two man rep, two high safeties, man coverage
across the board, funnel your help coverage to the safeties
(23:15):
right or your man coverage into the help where the
safeties are, and it was across the board erasing white
jerseys and man coverage with two high safeties, back t
dot and a spy roll. He closes down for the sack,
executed in a big spot to not just get off
the field there, but to make the field goal longer
which was missed. And then my last note from a
general standpoint on the grounding call that was not He
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gets contacted in the tackle box and they spin him
out of the tackle box right off the edge, so
it was super super close. I feel like it was
a good spot to kind of give a makeup call
for the DPI on Jack Jones earlier, but they opted
not to in that spot. And also the fact that
he got that ball off is kind of a miracle
because Chop had him in the grasp and threw him
down on the ground and he just spun out of
that thing and threw it blindly. It was kind of
(23:57):
a miracle that he got it off. As far as
the standouts, Jordan Phillips once again, Yeah, I think we
struck gold in the fifth round. Here, guys, the pad level,
the get off, the violence. I mean, there is rep
after rep next to Seiler where he looks like Seiler
and Seiler does not the way he shoots his hands
and controls. Guys, there's double team snaps where he's got
one foot off the ground and the other foot is
just hopping up and down trying to stabilize an anchor,
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and he just never gives up ground even playing on
one foot. He is outstanding. I cannot say enough good things.
I need the apologies from those that wanted Shadu in
that spot because you were so wrong. You were more
wrong than I was about Odell Beckham Junior and Nick
Westbrook Akine Kenneth Grant. I want the miracle run more
than anybody else in the world, but I'm telling you
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it's almost secondary to me to the growth of some
of these young dudes. Jonah had the light come on,
and so did Kenny g In my opinion, the pad
level the first step quickness, and the power to prevent
guys from recovering once he beats them initially off the football.
This looked like his Michigan tape. That stuff on the
Mariota keeper. He drives the center from Madrid to Barcelona.
(25:01):
I have no idea how far apart that is, but
I know it's not in the same ballpark, and it
causes all the blocks off the edge to get stacked
up on top of each other. It causes a fourth down,
they fallse start kick the field goal. He's a car
crash causer. CCC Kenneth Grant Up and down day for
Zeke Biggers. I know Omar was a big fan of
the one play he made. It was a very nice
job overpowering the center who tried to reach him as
(25:22):
a three technique, which is a really tough block to make,
but his length stands out that way. But the rest
of the game he kind of got washed on a
few times. We're not trying to fill agendas here, man,
We're just gonna tell how it is. Jordan Brooks, I'd
like to begin my multiplayer multiple part apology for saying
that he didn't have a great gamer today.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He's unreal. He was awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, he had a couple of plays that he missed,
but the conviction of his study, paired with his play
speed makes for a damn all pro. He is outstanding.
He plays tight to blocks, then he explodes off of
one step and just goes stays clear of the block,
arrives with violence. He like always finds his way into
the tackle, gets guys cut down to the ground. He
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cuts down a that looks like a massive play against
a blitz, just any eraser of problems in the middle
of your defense. The way he beats blockspan he waits
for guys to get right up on him. Then he
unfurls his move. It reminds me of like a late
hands receiver of the catch point. These big offensive linemen
think they have this kill shot lined up. Then he
just ducks them, covers two gaps and then makes the play.
It's insane. It's sensational to watch on the Jack Jones DPI.
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He steam rolls the running back and pass protection and
forces Mario to throw that ball into a dangerous window
which should have been good for incompletion. He's the best
mic linebacker in football this year, Jack Jones. The way
he plays his man anticipates the move then snaps to it.
It is so freaky fast man. He's quick to itch
with the knack for the football. He wasn't a racer.
Nothing open all day against him. Nearly scraped to pick
(26:43):
off the ground. Earlier in the game, blows up a
screen for a loss of three where he does his
work in the film room, then makes the play, and
then the interception man play changes its picture with a
late shift, winds up on Ertz, feels the over route,
sprints under it, undercuts it, gets there and makes a
play above his head in the football game winner. What
a game for Jack Jones. I think he's earned himself
a chance to compete for a job here again next year.
(27:05):
Juju Brents the press man work the stuff we talked
about with the hybrid coverages. He has the goods to
make that go because he's so good impressed with speed
to recover vertically. The run game support was awesome too.
Supremely bummed out by his injury, which sounds like it's
gonna be a season ending for him. I think he
had a chance to really play his way into it,
like a cemented role possibly next year. Never going to
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go as far as to say that he would for
sure get it, but it felt like he was building
towards a chance to really compete for a starting job
in twenty six. Now the evaluation becomes a two game
sample size and you have to add another injury onto
that tag for him, So difficult stuff for him there.
But he's got all the tools in the world, and
I think if you can build your depth in the
room with him, that's a good place to be for
a Dolphins cornerback room going forward. Minka Fitzpatrick, there is
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so much variety this defense can get to because of
Minca also the way he works through the mental checklist,
then goes on broken plays in the back end the
player where Mariota was dead to rights and Bradley Chubb
misses the sack mink up plasters for like four seconds
on that play. All of that after playing traffic cop
as the middle of the field safety, big time blitz
on the second down in completion at the stop at
(28:10):
the end of regulation before the missfield goal. Then he's
in phase on the deep ball and third down. Big
game from Maka Fitzpatrick. And it was for Jason Marshall
Junior too. He had three critical plays that helped the
Dolphins defense stay in this game late. I like what
he did closing down from depth as a run defender
in tight to the formation that looks natural for him.
He made the big first down run stop before the
gay missed field goal at the end of the fourth quarter.
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Then he gets a pass breakup in phase and second
down on a hot throw from Mariota, and then on
Jack Jones's pick on the game clinching drive. There he's
in phase and comes right back down the stem on
the comeback and Marioda wanted that throw has to come
off at double clutches goes back over the middle late
without that, he never goes to Earth's and never gives
Jack Jones the chance. So Jack Jones makes the play,
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but Jason Marshall helped him give a chance to make
that play. The misses individually, Matthew Judon everything just lacks
you to me, like he's not undressing tight ends and
backs the way you should in protection, the backside, sift
pursuit like never arrives, overshooting gaps in the run game,
taking chances that puts other guys in peril. I don't
like it. Ashton Davis has always been to see it,
then go guy. That's a problem. He's tackling without his arms,
(29:15):
that's a problem. He made a great play on the
third down before the fourth and goal stop, but he
was way at a position on the fourth down, overruns
the little angle route on Zach Ertz. Luckily Ertz slipped
and we get the ball back Steeler.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's strange because he's just been overpowered so much this year.
Another thing that does make sense though, is like he
was a pick stunner and he did that one time
in this game where Kenneth Grant couldn't get free.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
He does it so.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, but there's not other guys making the plays off
of that. So I think that like maybe a shift
and approach has kind of cost him this year. But
he gets he's on the ground a lot man and
then Shop Robinson just not stout enough against the point
of attack. He got pushed around. His pass rushes have
been speed around the corner, gets ran around the quarterback,
which there's you don't do anything back there. It's like
you just boogie board at that point. He did have
a great pass rush on the grounding that was not called.
(30:01):
Speaking of no pass rush, Bradley Chubb, he got stood
up by Laramie Tunzel all game, got dented in the
running game a lot condensed inside and got taken off
of his gap. Off of his best game, one of
his worst tapes of the year, I would say.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And then Willie Gay, I think the big.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mariota run was kind of on him in that spot
for forty three yards on a critical third down. Snap
counts Minka Brooks and t dot All go the distance
sixty seven snaps Ashton Davis fifty two compared to Trader's
fifteen snaps at safety. If he played forty snaps in
the game. This was a bigger Commander's offense, so I
kind of get that, but I don't know. I think
Trader kind of got pulled back a little bit there.
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Jack Jones played sixty six of the sixty seven, Brents
played forty nine, Marshall nineteen, and Ethan Bonner one snap
sealer took fifty three snaps, a big departure from Kenneth
Grant who played thirty four, and then Jordan Phillips thirty
with Biggers playing twenty three and Bonito seventeen. Let's go
with that the rest of the way, the young guys
getting those snaps over twenty per game, and then Chubb
fifty two, Jude On thirty eight, Chop thirty seven, and
(31:00):
Cam Good seven. My top five tapes for this game.
Number five Jason Marshall Jr. Just eighteen snaps in the game, right,
but he made him count huge plays down the stretch.
He gets number five, his first top tape of the
season of his career. Larry Borum first top tape of
his season two. He's number four on this one. Jordan
Brooks number three in the game for me, Devon Han
number two and number one Jackie Jones played his best
game as a Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Let's go ahead and call the day. That's my time here.
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