August 25, 2025 • 32 mins
The final all-22 review of the preseason, Travis takes a look at what worked, what didn’t, who stood out and everything from the Dolphins 14-6 win over Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, Dolphins,
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the film is out and
the review is in one last exhibition run. We're talking
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about the individuals. What I like from a structure standpoint,
offensively and defensively, What I did not like, the standouts,
the stand downs, the top five tapes, and a whole
lot more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist
Hill Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, preseason
week number three in the books. Let's go ahead and
talk about it here against the Jacksonville Jaguars. So the
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offense general points that first screen of the game, the
ineligible man downfield. I think easily could have kept that
flag in the pocket upon the rewatch, I had the
wrong landmark watching the game live in person. But Jonas
of Ianaya, his body was striding the twenty five yard line,
which is right at the two yard limit downfield. The
twenty three yard line was a lion of scrimmage. Patrick
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Paul was on the right side of it. But man,
we had that thing so well set up. In fact,
the part that may be the most upset about it
wasn't the fact that we got the penalties. I thought
it was a kind of ticky tat call there, but
we didn't block it very well for how well it
was set up on the outside. Malik Washington had like
four on two and somebody flew in there and tripped
him up. And so good little opportunity on tape there
to get that thing corrected and you know, make that
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play happen next time without the foul as well. The
next one they had the Jags beat also, but Jacksonville
cat blitz the hell out of us cornerback blitz all
night long, and this particular instance got the deflection into
his face. They bring the will backer and the nickel
with a number one corner to that side of the field,
The furthest out cornerback ten yards off and you would
have had Waddle on him and Connor on a safety
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with Allie Gordon responsible to outrace a linebacker to the
perimeter for a ten plus yard gain. And then who
knows after that game of inches, right, instead of two
explosive plays, you're behind the chains by five yards because
of two little details you missed. More fun with the
run schemes. We talked about the I mean really all
spring and summer about the added flexibility of James Daniels
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and Jonas Avitanaya, and they roll out this gy counter
the guard and why tight end counter coming across the formation,
both pulling place side on Olli Gordon's first run of
the game. And you've got more flexibility here because of
those guards as well as the running versatility of Ollie Gordon,
and you've got James Daniels pulling place side, just erasing
a man at the point of attack. I kind of
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felt the protection scheme on the second snap was just
poorly designed. The second sack, I should say, sorry, was
poorly designed. I'm not sure whose fault this is, but
Pharaoh Brown is chipping to James Daniels, who is pulling
across the formation, to kind of sell that run action,
which is a staple of the offense. They do it
all the time with no matter who the guards are,
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pull them backside and seal that back side edge rusher
and kind of help yourself pick up interior rushers for
the tackles as well, and the tied end. On this
particular instance, he was chipping and releasing and he was
on the upfield shoulder and that's where Daniels attacked, and
they wind up turning him free right into Tua because
he had Tanner Connor for a big chunk down the middle,
if they pass that off correctly, or if Pharaoh just
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stays in and does not release, which I don't think
he can do that because you have to make yourself
available to the quarterback in that spot, and upon really
kind of rewatching it back, I think it was James
Daniel taking a bad angle on that play. So again,
one small detail, one eleventh not doing their job can
ruin a good play. And watching this tape to me
confirms what I felt leaving the stadium. It was easily
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correctable stuff. I don't think this is something where you're like,
oh no, the Dolphins are in trouble, one piece here
or there, and this is why they get these reps
in August right to polish it up for September. In fact,
you saw corrections on the very next drive, the third
drive of the night. The first play penalty could have
been officiated differently. Tua gets it out a hair faster
on the second play. It's a big play. We run
a tighter route on the first sack probably a completion.
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If Tygreek is out there, I think that probably changes that.
James Daniels gets more depth on that second sack. That's
an explosive play. This is not getting dominated, and trust me,
you want to see them clean this stuff up against
you know, backup competition. I fully agree that that was
not good enough, especially from the quarterback position, but I
don't think it's indicative of some problem going forward. Malik
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missed a block on an Ali Gordon run on the
third drive that could have sprung that for a big play. Now,
the pressures on Tua, I thinks a lot due a
forgiving us the looks that you gave us, because both
offensively and defensively, they kind of unloaded the kitchen sink,
especially with their exotic looks in the rush game. Like
it didn't matter who the quarterback was either Zach and
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Quinn both got the same treatment. The pressures on Tua
was pretty much all blitz stuff in communication except for
the first sack, which if if you're on Larry Borom
for that sack, go back and watch the tape again
or maybe just go take a one on one class,
because that was all on Tua and you know, not
a not great from a results standpoint. I think three
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drives and only seven points against that defense. You know,
we always say that two points per drive is about
the league average in the NFL these days, but against
that defense you probably should expect like double that. So
you know, score on the second drive, get out of
there and call it seven points and two drives, and
that would be a good result there. But it is
a good tape to get on film ahead of the
games counting in September. Like if you go back to
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the Rams teams with Jared Goff and one of the
reasons they sold him off the Lions and now they
probably have the better quarterback in Detroit at this stage
of their careers with Matt Stafford having all these injury issues.
But one of the ways that team shut that offense
to that offense down was the same way by blitzing
that backside edge and relentlessly trying to cut off their
escape hatches, because those offenses want to play off play pass,
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and they want to be able to run the ball
wide and then pull the ball out of the belly
of the back and have the quarterback bootleg that and
really take advantage of all the overplay in the middle
of the field and on that week's side of the formation.
But if you blitz that hard angle and you kind
of take away the quarterback's ability to come off that
fake and have any kind of action, you can kind
of erase that entire concept. But I'm glad it's on
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tape because now we got several looks at it to
make corrections ahead of the Colts game, and I'm sure
teams are going to try to replicate that. Like I'm
sure teams watch that preseason tape and are gonna be like,
we got to blitz two on the back side of
these bootlegs and go after him, And I think that
the Dolphins will not have a chance to kind of
correct that. So that's good. So that's good. One last thing, right,
great example, they did it again with the cat blitz
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on the Malik Washington touchdown, and this time we got
execution eleven man across and it's an explosive touchdown. Go figure.
And then on the two point conversion they bring us
slot once again and it's a pretty easy pitching catch
to Faraoh Brown, although he juggled that thing and definitely
did not make that catch. He was still getting control
of it with his foot on the white sideline. But
I'm not going to complain about it, Mike McDaniel said postgame.
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It was the presentations that they hadn't exactly prepared for.
And why would you for a pre he's in game
but for it to be difficult for those first couple
of drives and then make an in game adjustment. That's
a nice little dress rehearsal run to get a real
game situation out in front. In the preseason they played
a lot of single high stuff as well and spammed
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the sticks where it was like two curl flat defenders,
three hook zone drops and then one single safety in
the post. Try to copy that when ten gets back
out there, because you can't do it with him on
the field. And then to finish this with the run scheme,
there was so much variety there. I just love how
they're able to line up and get to different stuff,
but also on top of that to run people off
the football. Brian Baldinger tweeted a video of the Dolphins
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just playing downhill football. You can go figure three times
in a row this preseason. They've done that and we've
talked about it all summer, and I think the physical
nature of this football team is not yet known by
the masses, but those of us that grind the tape
we can see it. We never saw a first team
defense in these games, which bothers me a little bit.
I would have liked to seen us goal up against
the Bearers or Lions first team at one point. But
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some pretty good lineup and welcome back off the football
type of stuff from this offense. Let's go ahead and
talk about the quarterbacks here to a tongue bai Loa,
I guess he could have gotten that first swing out
of his hands a half beat faster. But I liked
how they got the protection slide to get the free
run into Tua's face, because you don't want the free
run coming from the backside where the quarterback can't see
it to what can deal with it and get the
outlet swing right away. They just made a good play
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to get hands on it. I did think, still on
the tape after further review, looked a little bit anxious
on a couple of those dropbacks. On the first sack.
I think you could tell that he knew they had
the wrong call for that coverage. They had the birds
on the fence right at the sticks there. They talked
about four or five defenders across the line of scrimmage,
or rather across the first down chains with a safety
thirty yards deep in the post, and all of our
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stuff breaks to the outside, and that's where they were
kind of like funneling and falling off into the deep corners,
and there was a vacancy like you know, fifteen twenty
yards down the field in the middle, and that's kind
of where you need to attack on those particular coverages.
And our routes broke to the outside. So I think
you could see to it hit the top of his
drop and realize, we don't have the play for this coverage.
Let me try to move, and that's how you wind
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up getting him running right into that sack off the
edge as he tried to find a way to create
to give the receivers a chance to break off their
routes and go make plays that way, like we would
have had Nick Westbrook akine on the middle of the field.
But they peeled the defensive tackle back into the hook
zone and took that away too. So lots of presentations
from the Jacksonville front that confused Tua in our protection
and better play calls than what we had on a
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couple of those drives to start the game. It caused
the offense to not get anything done for two drives
in a row. The throw to tanner' connor dropped ahead
of the fourth down play was a very pretty ball,
like the ball is out before he comes out of
the break, reads the leverage and the curl flat cornerback
and doesn't you know he's not going to drive, So
Tua puts it right in the window between him and
the hook linebacker perfectly. Would have been a third and
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six win against drop eight like right away, which usually
it's tough to find those quick windows, but Tua did
on that play kind of catch that football for him,
and that fourth down throw was nasty, man. I mean,
that's a regular seas in pressure call. They have a
one shade which is your backside one technique off the
outside shoulder of the center, and a three technique off
the play side, which is outside shoulder of the guard,
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and then they walk down a linebacker and two edges,
and the walked up linebacker and edge to the strong
side both go back into coverage. They bring the edge
and the stack linebacker and the slot cornerback all from
that right side to overload it. So they present, you know,
a six man pressure, and they do bring six, but
it's two guys that you didn't expect in the equation.
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That's as exotic as it gets to bring pressure after
the quarterback and two A stay's calm drifts a little
bit to buy that extra half second and throws a
dot to Malik Washington, who makes a good catch on
that play. I thought Zach Wilson looked to his game
I thought was his worst of the preseason and probably
one of the worst he's played in the preseason in
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a while. Like that, that wasn't typical two of that
you saw it there. I thought Zach played the best
football I've seen him play in his pro career. You know,
the Jets tape was never that great. There was a
couple of games in there, but you know, he didn't
get help couple of times. But the way he was
throwing to spots and into guys you know, running through
the catch was really impressive. A couple of drops in
there as well, But there were some stuff that where
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he probably couldn't you know, there was some stuff where
he probably could have seen it better, but I came
away from this one very encouraged about his growth when
it comes to playing on time. His first drop back
of the second half, I've never seen something like this.
He locates a free runner and takes his eyes off
of him, looks back to the backside, and then looks
back down the barrel and moves off the spot and
completes the ball, throwing away from his body like one
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of the more unorthodox splitz beaters I've seen, where you
see it and then take your eyes off of it.
It's almost like taking your eyes off of a pitch
in the middle of the fastball coming down the strike
zone to you. But I think it does speak to
his comfort level rising in the offense. The strike to
d s Gridge two throws later was right on time.
Hit the drop ball out right on the money, Like
all right, Zach. This is what I talked about back
in OTA's. I didn't care what it looked like in
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OTAs because that was, you know, a product that didn't matter.
It wasn't the finished product. It's like it's like judging
a beta release, like who gives a day but today,
or rather on Saturday, he looks better. He's grown, he's
found more rhythm in the offense, and then that fourth
and sixteen rip was special, flat out special. That's why
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he was the number two pick in the draft a
couple of years ago. Now my question is why in
the hell can he not throw a flat route because
that two point conversion was a walk in. I went
back and watched it because it reminds me of Tannehill
and his lack of touch on those throws. He looks
like he's kind of striding too far, and then the
arm angle or the arm power. I guess the rev
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up power is off sequence because he's trying to throw
it softer, and I think what's happening is he's kind
of throwing the ball way too over the top and
it's coming down out of his release and it doesn't
have a chance to layer. It just kind of goes
to a laser, not a layer at the receiver's feet.
So he's got to work on that throw because he's
missing some opportunities there, and that's part of the base offense.
Quinn Ewers, I had one player that I didn't like
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and the rest I did like, and it was the
first one I would have liked to have seen him
take a shot to Andrew Armstrong. On the first rep
where he took a sack. There was a linebacker who
was in a robot technique and that's where he's running
with his back to the quarterback and can't defend more
than the width of his shoulders when he does that,
and he had Armstrong with an ability to kind of
throw it over the linebacker's helmet. Would have been a
high level throw, but I want to see him take
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that chance in this spot. And that was it, because
I thought the rest was really good too. The first
third down throw was really nice. Inside leverage. Player had
his back turn to the route, so he knew that
he could throw it to that spot without being you know,
risking the receiver running into a person that wasn't in
the coverage scheme or in that particular zone to put
a hit on Armstrong. And the throw comes out just
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as he sinks his hips into the route and he
trusts his guy to cross face and he does it,
and he stuck it on the numbers for a completion.
Good football. I love the throw to those on the
out against another cap blitz. He put it on a
spot well ahead of the break and it's right on
time and on the money. Then I just keep going through,
you know, throughout the night. I think this was a
pretty comfortable tape for quinn Ewers, and his best tape
of the preseason. I'm pretty excited about what I saw
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from him in terms of getting it out at the
top of his drop and finding the receivers right out
of their breaks. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there, come back and talk about the rest
of the offensive standouts and who did not fare so
well looking forward to next week. All of that next
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quarterbacks and the general offensive points in the books. Let's
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go ahead and move on to the standouts across the
rest of the positions offensively, and it starts with Aaron Brewer,
who looks outstanding to me. His feel in the offense
is already so far ahead of where it was this
time last year. And it was good last year, but
the way they're sliding and he can sort of, you know,
sift and have eyes for the loopers and delayed rushers,
all the stuff the Jags threw us in the game,
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and he constantly handles it so well then there's the
run game work. That combination attached drive on the elite
on the Olie Gordon run right after the Malak Washington
fourth down conversion was teach tape. Very next play, he's uncovered,
goes up against the Mike linebacker and drives him to
the turf. He is a nasty dude and he really
helps us with our physicality in the offensive line. Larry Borum,
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the most annoying things to me is the piling onto
a guy because of preconceived notions. And that's kind of
what I got from this game last night, because go
back and watch the tape. It was a fine job
by Larry all around. That first sac was also fine.
He kind of got a little bit heel Clickie on
the reddirect that I think he could have done a
better job of getting back in the face of that rusher.
But he ran the rush around the quarterback and then
two of runs right into him like there's not a
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whole lot he can do about that. He was jump
setting guys and cutting him down and really good in
the run game as well. Ollie Gordon watching this tape
made me go look up his broad jump and vertical
jumps with the combine because I'm kind of surprised they
weren't higher sixty first and seventy first percentile. The acceleration
off of his cuts is so explosive and so deadly
for the power that he plays with. They kind of
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opened the menu for him as well. In this game
counter inside zone, the general outside zone we see all
the time, and he looks comfortable doing all that stuff
to me, and there's a sense of urgency where he's
not playing slow. He sees it. There's no hesitation, he
just goes. We raved about the fourth down pass Pro
for good reason. He did miss on the deep shot
to Eskridge that would have afforded to a little bit
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more time to find a wide open leak Washington off
script had he made that block. I sure do like
how many guys it takes to get him to the
ground when he causes pile ups. I think that speaks
to your short yardage and your formatt offense we talked
about in the show last night. He had another spill
job in pass Pro as well on a Zach to
Maleik completion cut the green Dog and took him all
the way out of the play. So that was nice
to see Wattle never saw the ball outside of the
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one little hookup catch he had, but his releases and
speed to get vertical and how he held space, he
looked good to me. Jonas of Ianaya. The first play
was rough because he got flagged, but I thought it
was a nice progression for him in this game, getting
a lot thrown at him in terms of the blitzes
and the different things in the running game. I thought
he was good downfield, getting linebackers in the second level,
and his best pass pro game so far. Patrick Paul.
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We don't see it nearly as much as we did
last year, but man, he can overrun a play and
like lose initially and still win because of the length
and recoverability and how he can sink at that size.
The first play of the second quarter of the Mike
linebacker and the five try to backdoor him, but both
he and Jonah handle it well and he made the
critical seal on that play. Blake Washington, the punt returns,
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the fourth down catch, the touchdown. What a baller. Hayden Rouchie.
Call me crazy, but I kind of like him the
most of all the whys and the roster, and he's
got to do it. Against the ones before he can
really put him in that category, but it looks good
each week on tape. He seals the screen to start
his game and then a split flow kickout block where
he cuts the edge and knocks him to the ground.
Completely awesome job on the Mike boone touchdown run two.
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Keon Smith I thought had a really good tape and
how important was for him to put a good tape together.
He was excellent in pass pro and a lot of
one on one assignments. He had some good work outside
the numbers in the screen game running off the edge
in our outside zone scheme. I probably would end the
guard experiment and keep him at tackle. He looks a
lot more comfortable in that spot. I think that's the
case for both he and Larry Borum on this roster,
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who both have the capacity in emergency situations to kick
inside the guard. But when you get Liam and Andrew
Meyer back with how I think Daniel Brunskill and Braden Daniels,
who I expect to at least beyond the practice squad.
If not the fifty three, you're you got plenty of
depth on the inside. I think the question is the
tackle position. I feel pretty good about Borham right now,
and I think Keon's kind of could be that fifty
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third man as that fourth tackle on the roster if
you don't try to sneak him back onto the practice squad.
I mentioned Brunscale. I thought he did everything at a
high level in this game. Good communications in pass pro
against a bunch of exotics, got surge in the running game.
In fact, I think he was really good. He might
even be a top five tape for me. You know,
I felt pretty good about him coming into the lineup here.
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It was a rough start to camp, but he has
really put it on and I like the depth of
the interior offensive line with with those guys coming back
off of a pup and potentially ir for Andrew Meyer.
Braden Daniels more of the same found work and pass
pro good squatty base that allows him to shuffle and
get to landmarks and throw that punch and kind of
get guys that are off balance as they're engaged by
somebody else when he throws that punch. And he also
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uses that same leverage point to get some displacement in
the running game. Taj Washington, we covered it last night.
Suddenness at the top of the route, but I loved
the down block on the safety and a nice Oli
Gordon run that he had. That's how you earn your reps,
young man. Get out there and get some blocks in
the running game and give Waddle and Rieka a breather
at some point. Then he has a catch on an
out from Zach to open the third quarter, and the
way he stems that thing to kind of you know,
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sell the vertical and force the defensive back off and
then makes the break right after he stacks the defensive
back to keep him away from you know, driving and
cutting undercut and throw like. That's high football, iq man,
and that's tough plays. Lastly, here I thought Addison West
and Josh Preeb had a couple of nice combo blocks together,
especially one getting us back on schedule after quinn yours
his first two plays a sack and a false start.
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As far as the misses, I thought tanner' connor had
a rough night, the drops, the miscommunications in terms of
going the wrong way, turning the wrong shoulder. He had
a bad miss on that gy count that we talked
about where he started to drive drive number two that
could have been an Ali Gordon one on one space
versus a cornerback, but because he lost his block, we
never got a chance to see the opportunity. James Daniels,
it was okay with that the one play that kind
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of ruined drive with that sack on Tua, and I
thought he could have done better to get more depth
and find the outside shoulder of the rush. Could have
been the difference in the narrative of the night right
ds Gridge. I can definitely pick out one of the
loose routes that McDaniel talked about in his postgame press conference,
that deep cross for that we missed. He kind of
ran a haphazard route where he checked up and didn't
finish it. He also heard footsteps on one drop and
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that's what he cannot do right because given his his
separation profile, he has to make those contested catches, and
Zach did a good job of settling him into that
location with a throw too. I thought Westbrook a Keene
had a couple of underwhelming routes. Definitely one of the
loose routes that mcdaland talked about. But the block on
the Malak Washington touchdown was a really great play, and
on the two point conversion The way he ran his
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route without engaging to set a legal pick was awesome.
It gave him a room service completion. He's the quintessential
player that you're not gonna hear rave practice reports about
because that's all about yards and catches. But he wins
in the margins with nuance. I just thought the routes
were a little bit underwhelming in this game, Pharaoh Brown.
The blocking was supposed to be really good, right, and
it kind of needs to be flawless to mask what
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he is as an eligible in terms of the pass game,
but it hasn't been. And he had a nice cut
on the mink touchdown, and he's a he's you know,
slow mover and slow turner. He did drop that two
point conversion. They did not challenge it, but you know whatever,
I guess. Ryan Hayes had some good work, but some
of the one on one assignments they usually go the
other way against him. And then Jackson Carmon had some curious,
you know, pass pro decisions. He lost to one on
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one run game stuff a couple of times as well,
including the Mike boone touchdown run. Let's go ahead and
pivot over the defense here real quick and get to
the general takeaways before our last break, We've you dog
you dog get. First play, they roll with five guys
on the line of scrimmage, but they bump Jalen Phillips
out to show press on the number two receiver to
the field. He's not going to cover him right and
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Chopp is rushing as the five technique and Phillips never
like shows that he's going to rush, which I don't know.
That's kind of a tough acting job to sell, right,
but he does, and the right tackle fans out to
pick him up. Benido Jones is playing the two technique
to that side of the formation, and the right guard
takes him because the center is concerned about doubling Zach
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Seeler with the left guard, and it creates a free run,
a game of can Shop Robinson run downhill down the
b gap unimpeded And the answer is yes, easy sack
like you're gonna get a lot of those situations this year,
even against starting offensive lineman and quarterbacks. On the next series,
they come out with Seiler as a four I that's
off the inside shoulder of the tackle. Benito's the shade
the backside one technique off the outside shoulder of the center,
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Jordan Phillips the three technique, which means he's on the
outside shoulder of the guard, and then you've got Chubb
and Phillips as these seven techniques. So basically to make
that easier to understand, three defensive tackles, hand in the dirt,
and then two edges. But then off of that, Willie
Gay is snuck down off the edge. He's playing the
Jordan Brooks role because Brooks is down for the game,
so he's an off ball linebacker here. But they sneak
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him down into the wide nine technique outside Bradley Chubb,
which is where Cam Wake played for years. Right, You
put him way out there and give him all that runway,
and everybody but Jalen Phillips comes and they have to
each Chubb, which gives Gay a free run off the edge,
and the quarterback throws it before he wants to and
winds up skipping the football to the receiver. It was
so nice to see something that I have speculated about
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for a while now, the ability of Phillips and Chubb
to be good enough rushers to win on their own,
but also the power to crash and dent the edges
and then you unfurl the speed around the corner with
Chop or Willy or Brooks or Minca or Iffy or
Jason Marshall. Options are endless. I am so excited to
see what this defense looks like come opening day. And
what's this? I see now Minca in the post with
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Ifi Melafan Wu walk down next to Willy Gay as
a linebacker, and then Minko widens too the half field
and Jason Marshall wheels out to the other half field
and if he runs the pipe in at Tampa two coverage,
look weave you don't. They later get to cover three
from a split field presentation where they rotate the two
safeties one down, one up, with either cornerback going into
depth into the deep third of the field off of
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a variation where the slot had peeled back previously. The
whole jargon and verbiage I'm just vomiting at you right
now is to tell you, like, this is what quarterbacks
have to process in real time. It's a look off
of a look off of a look. He fakes the
fake right the green playbook from the water Boy, and
you basically get guys that are interchangeable on these spots
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and that's how it was built. Man, make the coverage
tough to cipher. Have one of the best front seven
pass rushes in the league, and let's go to work.
And that's why I also shout out the tackling of
the defense for all three games. It has been good.
I hate referencing PFF these days because the commercial product
is just no longer valuable to me. But they have
the Dolphins with twenty six missed tackles in three games,
which is decent less than ten per game in these
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preseason games. But like three from Dakwan Jackson, three from
Ethan Robinson, two from Chang Tendall, two from John Sonders,
two from Patrick McMorris. So that's guys that probably aren't
on the fifty three man roster. Fourteen from the rest
of the guys over three games. That's pretty dang good.
Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
come back and talk about the standouts, the stand downs,
and the top five tapes from the defense. Here are
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at the stand up and stand down from the defense,
top five tapes overall here on the Jags Film Review Podcast.
Draft Time Podcast brought to you by AutoNation. This is
the last thing I have to do. Record this segment,
and then I have an art project to do with
my daughters. Let's go ahead and knock this thing out
here real quick. Individual standouts on defense. Jack Jones on
the screen that was whistled dead the second play of
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the game. He was about to make one of his
patented screen blow up plays. I shared the clips of
him doing that back when they signed him. He was
right therefore, it was gonna be a big lick on
the receiver. And on the John Walford scramble, he was
all over the dig patient, felt the route, undercut the
route before the receiver did. I like what Jack Jones
has done for us so far in this preseason. He's
going to be a cornerback one in my opinion, and
he should have been all along. Minka Fitzpatrick brief action,
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but he gets He gets so little action because like
in terms of targets, because he cuts things off before
they ever have a chance to materialize. Like I wonder
if he ever wants to play a little bit more
bait and switch, because he's so on top of things
that guys just never give him a chance. Jason Marshall.
I continue to see it, guys, I continue to think
this has a chance. Mike Hilton came in after him.
I think he's your starting slot opening day against the Colts.
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On the Walford scramble on the first drive, he plays
trail and funnel right into the robber, which is Minka Fitzpatrick,
and then he immediately peels back and falls into the
backside dig And if we had contained that rush lane better,
they might have tried to throw that football and it
could have been a pick six going back the other
way from Marshall, he is man The feel he has
for a guy that's played this position for what two
weeks now, it's kind of uncanny. And something else with
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him his tackling ability when he hits dropped into the
hook and into the curl flat zones where this defense
encourages you to throw the football like they want you
to take the out stuff outbreaking throws for five yards
and we then rally and tackle. I think he's been
one of the better tacklers within that role to be
seen in this defense for quite some time. Bradley Chubb
is a hell of a player and it's so good
to see him coming off the ACL to still have
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that juice and that pop and that power. His ability
to play with power against the run and the pass
is a total game changer. Jalen Phillips the same thing
for him. By the way, Jalen's going to be JP
and Jordan Phillips is going to be Jordan. Okay, because
I miss having Jayalann Phillips be JP for me. But
the sack that he had with Chubb was so nice,
a little engaged dip and rip around the corner, get
back and flat into the quarterback and then Chubb chips
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the slot and then beats the left tackle to prevent
the quarterback from escaping for the Jaylen Phillips win. They
have such good chemistry together. It is two fifteen officially
back in Miami again. Speaking of Jordan, not sure I've
been more impressed by anyone's body of work over the
three preseason games so far. With Kenny Grant down, he
slots right in with the ones alongside Benito Jones and
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just starts making plays. He wins an overtake rep where
you have to we talk about the reach block, when
you have to get outside of a defensive lineman that
has the has you outflanked, has you out leverage the snap.
The opposite's true here where you have to overtake a
guy that just has to get off the ball and
seal you, and he does it by beating the center
across his face when all that guy had to do
was pop up and seal the edge there. I tweeted
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about the double team drill a while back, and man,
every time you see him engage the center and the
guards try to displace him with that little hip block
and the hip common aid, he just widens the stands,
absorbs the power and doesn't budge. It is so impressive.
He is a hell of a football player already. I
do think the pass rush game needs some development, but
I think he's your best nose tackle right now. Chop Robinson.
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I posted a rep of him the Twitter, crossing face
with a little cross chop inside hand to the left
tackle and beating him to the point to crash a gap.
In the run game, he had the runs on the
quarterback as well that we saw. Matthew Judon is just
another guy with quickness to cross face against zone running
schemes and win the gap before they can cut you off.
He did it in the second quarter. Here. He also
looks good slanting against as a pick mam to create
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chances for the defensive tackles. I think Seeler and KG
are going to love the way he does that. Willie
Gay just gonna love his speed all year long in
the second level, especially when it comes to playing josh
in Lamar three times this year. He did a lot
of good stuff getting quarterbacks and check downs down to
the ground. In this game, I thought kJ britt his
first rep was like false steps and I was ready
to kind of give a negative grade here, but then
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he just played good. The rest of the night went
back to more of the same. I love the way
he attacked blocks and changes the equation rather than letting
the offensive line dick at the terms on those blocks.
Zeke Biggers he got some work as a heavy end
as a base down defensive end against the run, and
I think that role kind of suits him because of
the length, the power and the length that allows him
to sort of plant the flag in two gap. He
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also has this really nice ability to use the arms
and upper body strength to pry open the elevator door
and split doubles. Man. When we had Seeler Wilkins and
Ray Kwan locked up for like three years back in
twenty twenty. That was cool. But now he got Steeler
here until twenty twenty nine, and then KG for five
years and Jordan Bigger's for the next four at least.
It's a pretty damn good defensive tackle group there. Man
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changing Tindall. Another good game from him. But it's a
deep room. And I think that, you know, he's had
his best preseason in camp. I think I'll make somebody
else as a roster. There's been too many mas missed
assignments for me, but I think he's made someone else's
roster with what he's done this August. Jordan Colbert, so
we had some plays about him. I just love the
way he plays and I could have put more up
there too. Effort collision sees it and goes the very
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next play after I talk about that and he gets
moved to linebacker, he comes down hill and wam big hit.
Then he goes in there again on the collision and
the next play puts the right tackle on his butt.
The next play he blitzes and hammers the quarterback as
he throws it. What a night for him. Deep room
in the safety room. But if he doesn't make the roster,
I hope Colbert six round in the practice squad Ethan Robinson.
I'm gonna take him off the standout because of the
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last play of the game. The athletic ability is obvious,
and there's some good feel ups where he comes off
of his zone and goes and pops somebody else, like
on the Eugenias Sante near fumble recovery the play that
he got injured on. Robinson came off with the curl
flat and put a good stick on the receiver there.
But dude, go block. Watch the John Saunders pick. If
Robinson blocks the quarterback, it's a touchdown. Speaking of Saunders,
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nice way to end the game, right. Zero coverage stays
in the hip pocket, eyes in the quarterback. Receiver did
get rerouted by Dansler and he kind of stumbles over
his route and it gave Sunders a chance and he
did not miss it. Individual misses. I thought Benito Jones
had some instances where he kind of got the sombrero
on him and they went after him, and they took
advantage of that. That scramble rush. We have to have
better lay integrity to hold up against that but outside
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of that, nothing too crazy. Thought. Elijah Campbell took some
bad angles and didn't play well to the relationship of
where help was from his depth position. Patrick mc morris
was more of the same, and coverage just doesn't look
very comfortable in that regard. But also the run game
stuff to me has regress from last year. And then
Quentin bell I thought he got trapped a couple of times,
and then there was a rep where his man goes
down because he got tripped and he had a room
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service sack and he missed it. You can't do that.
My top five tapes from this game, we'll go in
reverse order. Number five key On Smith, I thought he
was excellent in this game. Number four, Olie Gordon, Number three,
Malik Washington, Number two, Bradley Chubb, And my top tape
for the game was Aaron Brewer. He was dominant out
there all night long. All right, this week, this podcast
for Monday, no podcast on Tuesday. We're going to take
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the day off, and then Wednesday we're going to cover
the initial fifty three man roster. And here from Chris Career,
He's got a press conference on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning,
we'll put that podcast out for you sometime in the
afternoon Thursday. I have an interview with Anthony Weaver and
my August takeaways, and that podcast will come out Thursday Friday.
I'll have a pod, but I'm undecided on if it's
gonna be a season prediction podcast, a mail bag. We'll
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, Dolphins,
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. On today's show, the film is out and
the review is in one last exhibition run. We're talking
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about the individuals. What I like from a structure standpoint,
offensively and defensively, What I did not like, the standouts,
the stand downs, the top five tapes, and a whole
lot more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist
Hill Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, preseason
week number three in the books. Let's go ahead and
talk about it here against the Jacksonville Jaguars. So the
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offense general points that first screen of the game, the
ineligible man downfield. I think easily could have kept that
flag in the pocket upon the rewatch, I had the
wrong landmark watching the game live in person. But Jonas
of Ianaya, his body was striding the twenty five yard line,
which is right at the two yard limit downfield. The
twenty three yard line was a lion of scrimmage. Patrick
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Paul was on the right side of it. But man,
we had that thing so well set up. In fact,
the part that may be the most upset about it
wasn't the fact that we got the penalties. I thought
it was a kind of ticky tat call there, but
we didn't block it very well for how well it
was set up on the outside. Malik Washington had like
four on two and somebody flew in there and tripped
him up. And so good little opportunity on tape there
to get that thing corrected and you know, make that
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play happen next time without the foul as well. The
next one they had the Jags beat also, but Jacksonville
cat blitz the hell out of us cornerback blitz all
night long, and this particular instance got the deflection into
his face. They bring the will backer and the nickel
with a number one corner to that side of the field,
The furthest out cornerback ten yards off and you would
have had Waddle on him and Connor on a safety
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with Allie Gordon responsible to outrace a linebacker to the
perimeter for a ten plus yard gain. And then who
knows after that game of inches, right, instead of two
explosive plays, you're behind the chains by five yards because
of two little details you missed. More fun with the
run schemes. We talked about the I mean really all
spring and summer about the added flexibility of James Daniels
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and Jonas Avitanaya, and they roll out this gy counter
the guard and why tight end counter coming across the formation,
both pulling place side on Olli Gordon's first run of
the game. And you've got more flexibility here because of
those guards as well as the running versatility of Ollie Gordon,
and you've got James Daniels pulling place side, just erasing
a man at the point of attack. I kind of
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felt the protection scheme on the second snap was just
poorly designed. The second sack, I should say, sorry, was
poorly designed. I'm not sure whose fault this is, but
Pharaoh Brown is chipping to James Daniels, who is pulling
across the formation, to kind of sell that run action,
which is a staple of the offense. They do it
all the time with no matter who the guards are,
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pull them backside and seal that back side edge rusher
and kind of help yourself pick up interior rushers for
the tackles as well, and the tied end. On this
particular instance, he was chipping and releasing and he was
on the upfield shoulder and that's where Daniels attacked, and
they wind up turning him free right into Tua because
he had Tanner Connor for a big chunk down the middle,
if they pass that off correctly, or if Pharaoh just
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stays in and does not release, which I don't think
he can do that because you have to make yourself
available to the quarterback in that spot, and upon really
kind of rewatching it back, I think it was James
Daniel taking a bad angle on that play. So again,
one small detail, one eleventh not doing their job can
ruin a good play. And watching this tape to me
confirms what I felt leaving the stadium. It was easily
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correctable stuff. I don't think this is something where you're like,
oh no, the Dolphins are in trouble, one piece here
or there, and this is why they get these reps
in August right to polish it up for September. In fact,
you saw corrections on the very next drive, the third
drive of the night. The first play penalty could have
been officiated differently. Tua gets it out a hair faster
on the second play. It's a big play. We run
a tighter route on the first sack probably a completion.
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If Tygreek is out there, I think that probably changes that.
James Daniels gets more depth on that second sack. That's
an explosive play. This is not getting dominated, and trust me,
you want to see them clean this stuff up against
you know, backup competition. I fully agree that that was
not good enough, especially from the quarterback position, but I
don't think it's indicative of some problem going forward. Malik
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missed a block on an Ali Gordon run on the
third drive that could have sprung that for a big play. Now,
the pressures on Tua, I thinks a lot due a
forgiving us the looks that you gave us, because both
offensively and defensively, they kind of unloaded the kitchen sink,
especially with their exotic looks in the rush game. Like
it didn't matter who the quarterback was either Zach and
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Quinn both got the same treatment. The pressures on Tua
was pretty much all blitz stuff in communication except for
the first sack, which if if you're on Larry Borom
for that sack, go back and watch the tape again
or maybe just go take a one on one class,
because that was all on Tua and you know, not
a not great from a results standpoint. I think three
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drives and only seven points against that defense. You know,
we always say that two points per drive is about
the league average in the NFL these days, but against
that defense you probably should expect like double that. So
you know, score on the second drive, get out of
there and call it seven points and two drives, and
that would be a good result there. But it is
a good tape to get on film ahead of the
games counting in September. Like if you go back to
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the Rams teams with Jared Goff and one of the
reasons they sold him off the Lions and now they
probably have the better quarterback in Detroit at this stage
of their careers with Matt Stafford having all these injury issues.
But one of the ways that team shut that offense
to that offense down was the same way by blitzing
that backside edge and relentlessly trying to cut off their
escape hatches, because those offenses want to play off play pass,
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and they want to be able to run the ball
wide and then pull the ball out of the belly
of the back and have the quarterback bootleg that and
really take advantage of all the overplay in the middle
of the field and on that week's side of the formation.
But if you blitz that hard angle and you kind
of take away the quarterback's ability to come off that
fake and have any kind of action, you can kind
of erase that entire concept. But I'm glad it's on
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tape because now we got several looks at it to
make corrections ahead of the Colts game, and I'm sure
teams are going to try to replicate that. Like I'm
sure teams watch that preseason tape and are gonna be like,
we got to blitz two on the back side of
these bootlegs and go after him, And I think that
the Dolphins will not have a chance to kind of
correct that. So that's good. So that's good. One last thing, right,
great example, they did it again with the cat blitz
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on the Malik Washington touchdown, and this time we got
execution eleven man across and it's an explosive touchdown. Go figure.
And then on the two point conversion they bring us
slot once again and it's a pretty easy pitching catch
to Faraoh Brown, although he juggled that thing and definitely
did not make that catch. He was still getting control
of it with his foot on the white sideline. But
I'm not going to complain about it, Mike McDaniel said postgame.
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It was the presentations that they hadn't exactly prepared for.
And why would you for a pre he's in game
but for it to be difficult for those first couple
of drives and then make an in game adjustment. That's
a nice little dress rehearsal run to get a real
game situation out in front. In the preseason they played
a lot of single high stuff as well and spammed
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the sticks where it was like two curl flat defenders,
three hook zone drops and then one single safety in
the post. Try to copy that when ten gets back
out there, because you can't do it with him on
the field. And then to finish this with the run scheme,
there was so much variety there. I just love how
they're able to line up and get to different stuff,
but also on top of that to run people off
the football. Brian Baldinger tweeted a video of the Dolphins
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just playing downhill football. You can go figure three times
in a row this preseason. They've done that and we've
talked about it all summer, and I think the physical
nature of this football team is not yet known by
the masses, but those of us that grind the tape
we can see it. We never saw a first team
defense in these games, which bothers me a little bit.
I would have liked to seen us goal up against
the Bearers or Lions first team at one point. But
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some pretty good lineup and welcome back off the football
type of stuff from this offense. Let's go ahead and
talk about the quarterbacks here to a tongue bai Loa,
I guess he could have gotten that first swing out
of his hands a half beat faster. But I liked
how they got the protection slide to get the free
run into Tua's face, because you don't want the free
run coming from the backside where the quarterback can't see
it to what can deal with it and get the
outlet swing right away. They just made a good play
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to get hands on it. I did think, still on
the tape after further review, looked a little bit anxious
on a couple of those dropbacks. On the first sack.
I think you could tell that he knew they had
the wrong call for that coverage. They had the birds
on the fence right at the sticks there. They talked
about four or five defenders across the line of scrimmage,
or rather across the first down chains with a safety
thirty yards deep in the post, and all of our
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stuff breaks to the outside, and that's where they were
kind of like funneling and falling off into the deep corners,
and there was a vacancy like you know, fifteen twenty
yards down the field in the middle, and that's kind
of where you need to attack on those particular coverages.
And our routes broke to the outside. So I think
you could see to it hit the top of his
drop and realize, we don't have the play for this coverage.
Let me try to move, and that's how you wind
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up getting him running right into that sack off the
edge as he tried to find a way to create
to give the receivers a chance to break off their
routes and go make plays that way, like we would
have had Nick Westbrook akine on the middle of the field.
But they peeled the defensive tackle back into the hook
zone and took that away too. So lots of presentations
from the Jacksonville front that confused Tua in our protection
and better play calls than what we had on a
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couple of those drives to start the game. It caused
the offense to not get anything done for two drives
in a row. The throw to tanner' connor dropped ahead
of the fourth down play was a very pretty ball,
like the ball is out before he comes out of
the break, reads the leverage and the curl flat cornerback
and doesn't you know he's not going to drive, So
Tua puts it right in the window between him and
the hook linebacker perfectly. Would have been a third and
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six win against drop eight like right away, which usually
it's tough to find those quick windows, but Tua did
on that play kind of catch that football for him,
and that fourth down throw was nasty, man. I mean,
that's a regular seas in pressure call. They have a
one shade which is your backside one technique off the
outside shoulder of the center, and a three technique off
the play side, which is outside shoulder of the guard,
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and then they walk down a linebacker and two edges,
and the walked up linebacker and edge to the strong
side both go back into coverage. They bring the edge
and the stack linebacker and the slot cornerback all from
that right side to overload it. So they present, you know,
a six man pressure, and they do bring six, but
it's two guys that you didn't expect in the equation.
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That's as exotic as it gets to bring pressure after
the quarterback and two A stay's calm drifts a little
bit to buy that extra half second and throws a
dot to Malik Washington, who makes a good catch on
that play. I thought Zach Wilson looked to his game
I thought was his worst of the preseason and probably
one of the worst he's played in the preseason in
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a while. Like that, that wasn't typical two of that
you saw it there. I thought Zach played the best
football I've seen him play in his pro career. You know,
the Jets tape was never that great. There was a
couple of games in there, but you know, he didn't
get help couple of times. But the way he was
throwing to spots and into guys you know, running through
the catch was really impressive. A couple of drops in
there as well, But there were some stuff that where
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he probably couldn't you know, there was some stuff where
he probably could have seen it better, but I came
away from this one very encouraged about his growth when
it comes to playing on time. His first drop back
of the second half, I've never seen something like this.
He locates a free runner and takes his eyes off
of him, looks back to the backside, and then looks
back down the barrel and moves off the spot and
completes the ball, throwing away from his body like one
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of the more unorthodox splitz beaters I've seen, where you
see it and then take your eyes off of it.
It's almost like taking your eyes off of a pitch
in the middle of the fastball coming down the strike
zone to you. But I think it does speak to
his comfort level rising in the offense. The strike to
d s Gridge two throws later was right on time.
Hit the drop ball out right on the money, Like
all right, Zach. This is what I talked about back
in OTA's. I didn't care what it looked like in
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OTAs because that was, you know, a product that didn't matter.
It wasn't the finished product. It's like it's like judging
a beta release, like who gives a day but today,
or rather on Saturday, he looks better. He's grown, he's
found more rhythm in the offense, and then that fourth
and sixteen rip was special, flat out special. That's why
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he was the number two pick in the draft a
couple of years ago. Now my question is why in
the hell can he not throw a flat route because
that two point conversion was a walk in. I went
back and watched it because it reminds me of Tannehill
and his lack of touch on those throws. He looks
like he's kind of striding too far, and then the
arm angle or the arm power. I guess the rev
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up power is off sequence because he's trying to throw
it softer, and I think what's happening is he's kind
of throwing the ball way too over the top and
it's coming down out of his release and it doesn't
have a chance to layer. It just kind of goes
to a laser, not a layer at the receiver's feet.
So he's got to work on that throw because he's
missing some opportunities there, and that's part of the base offense.
Quinn Ewers, I had one player that I didn't like
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and the rest I did like, and it was the
first one I would have liked to have seen him
take a shot to Andrew Armstrong. On the first rep
where he took a sack. There was a linebacker who
was in a robot technique and that's where he's running
with his back to the quarterback and can't defend more
than the width of his shoulders when he does that,
and he had Armstrong with an ability to kind of
throw it over the linebacker's helmet. Would have been a
high level throw, but I want to see him take
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that chance in this spot. And that was it, because
I thought the rest was really good too. The first
third down throw was really nice. Inside leverage. Player had
his back turn to the route, so he knew that
he could throw it to that spot without being you know,
risking the receiver running into a person that wasn't in
the coverage scheme or in that particular zone to put
a hit on Armstrong. And the throw comes out just
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as he sinks his hips into the route and he
trusts his guy to cross face and he does it,
and he stuck it on the numbers for a completion.
Good football. I love the throw to those on the
out against another cap blitz. He put it on a
spot well ahead of the break and it's right on
time and on the money. Then I just keep going through,
you know, throughout the night. I think this was a
pretty comfortable tape for quinn Ewers, and his best tape
of the preseason. I'm pretty excited about what I saw
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from him in terms of getting it out at the
top of his drop and finding the receivers right out
of their breaks. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there, come back and talk about the rest
of the offensive standouts and who did not fare so
well looking forward to next week. All of that next
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quarterbacks and the general offensive points in the books. Let's
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go ahead and move on to the standouts across the
rest of the positions offensively, and it starts with Aaron Brewer,
who looks outstanding to me. His feel in the offense
is already so far ahead of where it was this
time last year. And it was good last year, but
the way they're sliding and he can sort of, you know,
sift and have eyes for the loopers and delayed rushers,
all the stuff the Jags threw us in the game,
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and he constantly handles it so well then there's the
run game work. That combination attached drive on the elite
on the Olie Gordon run right after the Malak Washington
fourth down conversion was teach tape. Very next play, he's uncovered,
goes up against the Mike linebacker and drives him to
the turf. He is a nasty dude and he really
helps us with our physicality in the offensive line. Larry Borum,
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the most annoying things to me is the piling onto
a guy because of preconceived notions. And that's kind of
what I got from this game last night, because go
back and watch the tape. It was a fine job
by Larry all around. That first sac was also fine.
He kind of got a little bit heel Clickie on
the reddirect that I think he could have done a
better job of getting back in the face of that rusher.
But he ran the rush around the quarterback and then
two of runs right into him like there's not a
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whole lot he can do about that. He was jump
setting guys and cutting him down and really good in
the run game as well. Ollie Gordon watching this tape
made me go look up his broad jump and vertical
jumps with the combine because I'm kind of surprised they
weren't higher sixty first and seventy first percentile. The acceleration
off of his cuts is so explosive and so deadly
for the power that he plays with. They kind of
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opened the menu for him as well. In this game
counter inside zone, the general outside zone we see all
the time, and he looks comfortable doing all that stuff
to me, and there's a sense of urgency where he's
not playing slow. He sees it. There's no hesitation, he
just goes. We raved about the fourth down pass Pro
for good reason. He did miss on the deep shot
to Eskridge that would have afforded to a little bit
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more time to find a wide open leak Washington off
script had he made that block. I sure do like
how many guys it takes to get him to the
ground when he causes pile ups. I think that speaks
to your short yardage and your formatt offense we talked
about in the show last night. He had another spill
job in pass Pro as well on a Zach to
Maleik completion cut the green Dog and took him all
the way out of the play. So that was nice
to see Wattle never saw the ball outside of the
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one little hookup catch he had, but his releases and
speed to get vertical and how he held space, he
looked good to me. Jonas of Ianaya. The first play
was rough because he got flagged, but I thought it
was a nice progression for him in this game, getting
a lot thrown at him in terms of the blitzes
and the different things in the running game. I thought
he was good downfield, getting linebackers in the second level,
and his best pass pro game so far. Patrick Paul.
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We don't see it nearly as much as we did
last year, but man, he can overrun a play and
like lose initially and still win because of the length
and recoverability and how he can sink at that size.
The first play of the second quarter of the Mike
linebacker and the five try to backdoor him, but both
he and Jonah handle it well and he made the
critical seal on that play. Blake Washington, the punt returns,
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the fourth down catch, the touchdown. What a baller. Hayden Rouchie.
Call me crazy, but I kind of like him the
most of all the whys and the roster, and he's
got to do it. Against the ones before he can
really put him in that category, but it looks good
each week on tape. He seals the screen to start
his game and then a split flow kickout block where
he cuts the edge and knocks him to the ground.
Completely awesome job on the Mike boone touchdown run two.
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Keon Smith I thought had a really good tape and
how important was for him to put a good tape together.
He was excellent in pass pro and a lot of
one on one assignments. He had some good work outside
the numbers in the screen game running off the edge
in our outside zone scheme. I probably would end the
guard experiment and keep him at tackle. He looks a
lot more comfortable in that spot. I think that's the
case for both he and Larry Borum on this roster,
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who both have the capacity in emergency situations to kick
inside the guard. But when you get Liam and Andrew
Meyer back with how I think Daniel Brunskill and Braden Daniels,
who I expect to at least beyond the practice squad.
If not the fifty three, you're you got plenty of
depth on the inside. I think the question is the
tackle position. I feel pretty good about Borham right now,
and I think Keon's kind of could be that fifty
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third man as that fourth tackle on the roster if
you don't try to sneak him back onto the practice squad.
I mentioned Brunscale. I thought he did everything at a
high level in this game. Good communications in pass pro
against a bunch of exotics, got surge in the running game.
In fact, I think he was really good. He might
even be a top five tape for me. You know,
I felt pretty good about him coming into the lineup here.
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It was a rough start to camp, but he has
really put it on and I like the depth of
the interior offensive line with with those guys coming back
off of a pup and potentially ir for Andrew Meyer.
Braden Daniels more of the same found work and pass
pro good squatty base that allows him to shuffle and
get to landmarks and throw that punch and kind of
get guys that are off balance as they're engaged by
somebody else when he throws that punch. And he also
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uses that same leverage point to get some displacement in
the running game. Taj Washington, we covered it last night.
Suddenness at the top of the route, but I loved
the down block on the safety and a nice Oli
Gordon run that he had. That's how you earn your reps,
young man. Get out there and get some blocks in
the running game and give Waddle and Rieka a breather
at some point. Then he has a catch on an
out from Zach to open the third quarter, and the
way he stems that thing to kind of you know,
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sell the vertical and force the defensive back off and
then makes the break right after he stacks the defensive
back to keep him away from you know, driving and
cutting undercut and throw like. That's high football, iq man,
and that's tough plays. Lastly, here I thought Addison West
and Josh Preeb had a couple of nice combo blocks together,
especially one getting us back on schedule after quinn yours
his first two plays a sack and a false start.
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As far as the misses, I thought tanner' connor had
a rough night, the drops, the miscommunications in terms of
going the wrong way, turning the wrong shoulder. He had
a bad miss on that gy count that we talked
about where he started to drive drive number two that
could have been an Ali Gordon one on one space
versus a cornerback, but because he lost his block, we
never got a chance to see the opportunity. James Daniels,
it was okay with that the one play that kind
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of ruined drive with that sack on Tua, and I
thought he could have done better to get more depth
and find the outside shoulder of the rush. Could have
been the difference in the narrative of the night right
ds Gridge. I can definitely pick out one of the
loose routes that McDaniel talked about in his postgame press conference,
that deep cross for that we missed. He kind of
ran a haphazard route where he checked up and didn't
finish it. He also heard footsteps on one drop and
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that's what he cannot do right because given his his
separation profile, he has to make those contested catches, and
Zach did a good job of settling him into that
location with a throw too. I thought Westbrook a Keene
had a couple of underwhelming routes. Definitely one of the
loose routes that mcdaland talked about. But the block on
the Malak Washington touchdown was a really great play, and
on the two point conversion The way he ran his
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route without engaging to set a legal pick was awesome.
It gave him a room service completion. He's the quintessential
player that you're not gonna hear rave practice reports about
because that's all about yards and catches. But he wins
in the margins with nuance. I just thought the routes
were a little bit underwhelming in this game, Pharaoh Brown.
The blocking was supposed to be really good, right, and
it kind of needs to be flawless to mask what
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he is as an eligible in terms of the pass game,
but it hasn't been. And he had a nice cut
on the mink touchdown, and he's a he's you know,
slow mover and slow turner. He did drop that two
point conversion. They did not challenge it, but you know whatever,
I guess. Ryan Hayes had some good work, but some
of the one on one assignments they usually go the
other way against him. And then Jackson Carmon had some curious,
you know, pass pro decisions. He lost to one on
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one run game stuff a couple of times as well,
including the Mike boone touchdown run. Let's go ahead and
pivot over the defense here real quick and get to
the general takeaways before our last break, We've you dog
you dog get. First play, they roll with five guys
on the line of scrimmage, but they bump Jalen Phillips
out to show press on the number two receiver to
the field. He's not going to cover him right and
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Chopp is rushing as the five technique and Phillips never
like shows that he's going to rush, which I don't know.
That's kind of a tough acting job to sell, right,
but he does, and the right tackle fans out to
pick him up. Benido Jones is playing the two technique
to that side of the formation, and the right guard
takes him because the center is concerned about doubling Zach
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Seeler with the left guard, and it creates a free run,
a game of can Shop Robinson run downhill down the
b gap unimpeded And the answer is yes, easy sack
like you're gonna get a lot of those situations this year,
even against starting offensive lineman and quarterbacks. On the next series,
they come out with Seiler as a four I that's
off the inside shoulder of the tackle. Benito's the shade
the backside one technique off the outside shoulder of the center,
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Jordan Phillips the three technique, which means he's on the
outside shoulder of the guard, and then you've got Chubb
and Phillips as these seven techniques. So basically to make
that easier to understand, three defensive tackles, hand in the dirt,
and then two edges. But then off of that, Willie
Gay is snuck down off the edge. He's playing the
Jordan Brooks role because Brooks is down for the game,
so he's an off ball linebacker here. But they sneak
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him down into the wide nine technique outside Bradley Chubb,
which is where Cam Wake played for years. Right, You
put him way out there and give him all that runway,
and everybody but Jalen Phillips comes and they have to
each Chubb, which gives Gay a free run off the edge,
and the quarterback throws it before he wants to and
winds up skipping the football to the receiver. It was
so nice to see something that I have speculated about
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for a while now, the ability of Phillips and Chubb
to be good enough rushers to win on their own,
but also the power to crash and dent the edges
and then you unfurl the speed around the corner with
Chop or Willy or Brooks or Minca or Iffy or
Jason Marshall. Options are endless. I am so excited to
see what this defense looks like come opening day. And
what's this? I see now Minca in the post with
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Ifi Melafan Wu walk down next to Willy Gay as
a linebacker, and then Minko widens too the half field
and Jason Marshall wheels out to the other half field
and if he runs the pipe in at Tampa two coverage,
look weave you don't. They later get to cover three
from a split field presentation where they rotate the two
safeties one down, one up, with either cornerback going into
depth into the deep third of the field off of
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a variation where the slot had peeled back previously. The
whole jargon and verbiage I'm just vomiting at you right
now is to tell you, like, this is what quarterbacks
have to process in real time. It's a look off
of a look off of a look. He fakes the
fake right the green playbook from the water Boy, and
you basically get guys that are interchangeable on these spots
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and that's how it was built. Man, make the coverage
tough to cipher. Have one of the best front seven
pass rushes in the league, and let's go to work.
And that's why I also shout out the tackling of
the defense for all three games. It has been good.
I hate referencing PFF these days because the commercial product
is just no longer valuable to me. But they have
the Dolphins with twenty six missed tackles in three games,
which is decent less than ten per game in these
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preseason games. But like three from Dakwan Jackson, three from
Ethan Robinson, two from Chang Tendall, two from John Sonders,
two from Patrick McMorris. So that's guys that probably aren't
on the fifty three man roster. Fourteen from the rest
of the guys over three games. That's pretty dang good.
Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
come back and talk about the standouts, the stand downs,
and the top five tapes from the defense. Here are
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at the stand up and stand down from the defense,
top five tapes overall here on the Jags Film Review Podcast.
Draft Time Podcast brought to you by AutoNation. This is
the last thing I have to do. Record this segment,
and then I have an art project to do with
my daughters. Let's go ahead and knock this thing out
here real quick. Individual standouts on defense. Jack Jones on
the screen that was whistled dead the second play of
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the game. He was about to make one of his
patented screen blow up plays. I shared the clips of
him doing that back when they signed him. He was
right therefore, it was gonna be a big lick on
the receiver. And on the John Walford scramble, he was
all over the dig patient, felt the route, undercut the
route before the receiver did. I like what Jack Jones
has done for us so far in this preseason. He's
going to be a cornerback one in my opinion, and
he should have been all along. Minka Fitzpatrick brief action,
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but he gets He gets so little action because like
in terms of targets, because he cuts things off before
they ever have a chance to materialize. Like I wonder
if he ever wants to play a little bit more
bait and switch, because he's so on top of things
that guys just never give him a chance. Jason Marshall.
I continue to see it, guys, I continue to think
this has a chance. Mike Hilton came in after him.
I think he's your starting slot opening day against the Colts.
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On the Walford scramble on the first drive, he plays
trail and funnel right into the robber, which is Minka Fitzpatrick,
and then he immediately peels back and falls into the
backside dig And if we had contained that rush lane better,
they might have tried to throw that football and it
could have been a pick six going back the other
way from Marshall, he is man The feel he has
for a guy that's played this position for what two
weeks now, it's kind of uncanny. And something else with
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him his tackling ability when he hits dropped into the
hook and into the curl flat zones where this defense
encourages you to throw the football like they want you
to take the out stuff outbreaking throws for five yards
and we then rally and tackle. I think he's been
one of the better tacklers within that role to be
seen in this defense for quite some time. Bradley Chubb
is a hell of a player and it's so good
to see him coming off the ACL to still have
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that juice and that pop and that power. His ability
to play with power against the run and the pass
is a total game changer. Jalen Phillips the same thing
for him. By the way, Jalen's going to be JP
and Jordan Phillips is going to be Jordan. Okay, because
I miss having Jayalann Phillips be JP for me. But
the sack that he had with Chubb was so nice,
a little engaged dip and rip around the corner, get
back and flat into the quarterback and then Chubb chips
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the slot and then beats the left tackle to prevent
the quarterback from escaping for the Jaylen Phillips win. They
have such good chemistry together. It is two fifteen officially
back in Miami again. Speaking of Jordan, not sure I've
been more impressed by anyone's body of work over the
three preseason games so far. With Kenny Grant down, he
slots right in with the ones alongside Benito Jones and
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just starts making plays. He wins an overtake rep where
you have to we talk about the reach block, when
you have to get outside of a defensive lineman that
has the has you outflanked, has you out leverage the snap.
The opposite's true here where you have to overtake a
guy that just has to get off the ball and
seal you, and he does it by beating the center
across his face when all that guy had to do
was pop up and seal the edge there. I tweeted
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about the double team drill a while back, and man,
every time you see him engage the center and the
guards try to displace him with that little hip block
and the hip common aid, he just widens the stands,
absorbs the power and doesn't budge. It is so impressive.
He is a hell of a football player already. I
do think the pass rush game needs some development, but
I think he's your best nose tackle right now. Chop Robinson.
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I posted a rep of him the Twitter, crossing face
with a little cross chop inside hand to the left
tackle and beating him to the point to crash a gap.
In the run game, he had the runs on the
quarterback as well that we saw. Matthew Judon is just
another guy with quickness to cross face against zone running
schemes and win the gap before they can cut you off.
He did it in the second quarter. Here. He also
looks good slanting against as a pick mam to create
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chances for the defensive tackles. I think Seeler and KG
are going to love the way he does that. Willie
Gay just gonna love his speed all year long in
the second level, especially when it comes to playing josh
in Lamar three times this year. He did a lot
of good stuff getting quarterbacks and check downs down to
the ground. In this game, I thought kJ britt his
first rep was like false steps and I was ready
to kind of give a negative grade here, but then
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he just played good. The rest of the night went
back to more of the same. I love the way
he attacked blocks and changes the equation rather than letting
the offensive line dick at the terms on those blocks.
Zeke Biggers he got some work as a heavy end
as a base down defensive end against the run, and
I think that role kind of suits him because of
the length, the power and the length that allows him
to sort of plant the flag in two gap. He
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also has this really nice ability to use the arms
and upper body strength to pry open the elevator door
and split doubles. Man. When we had Seeler Wilkins and
Ray Kwan locked up for like three years back in
twenty twenty. That was cool. But now he got Steeler
here until twenty twenty nine, and then KG for five
years and Jordan Bigger's for the next four at least.
It's a pretty damn good defensive tackle group there. Man
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changing Tindall. Another good game from him. But it's a
deep room. And I think that, you know, he's had
his best preseason in camp. I think I'll make somebody
else as a roster. There's been too many mas missed
assignments for me, but I think he's made someone else's
roster with what he's done this August. Jordan Colbert, so
we had some plays about him. I just love the
way he plays and I could have put more up
there too. Effort collision sees it and goes the very
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next play after I talk about that and he gets
moved to linebacker, he comes down hill and wam big hit.
Then he goes in there again on the collision and
the next play puts the right tackle on his butt.
The next play he blitzes and hammers the quarterback as
he throws it. What a night for him. Deep room
in the safety room. But if he doesn't make the roster,
I hope Colbert six round in the practice squad Ethan Robinson.
I'm gonna take him off the standout because of the
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last play of the game. The athletic ability is obvious,
and there's some good feel ups where he comes off
of his zone and goes and pops somebody else, like
on the Eugenias Sante near fumble recovery the play that
he got injured on. Robinson came off with the curl
flat and put a good stick on the receiver there.
But dude, go block. Watch the John Saunders pick. If
Robinson blocks the quarterback, it's a touchdown. Speaking of Saunders,
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nice way to end the game, right. Zero coverage stays
in the hip pocket, eyes in the quarterback. Receiver did
get rerouted by Dansler and he kind of stumbles over
his route and it gave Sunders a chance and he
did not miss it. Individual misses. I thought Benito Jones
had some instances where he kind of got the sombrero
on him and they went after him, and they took
advantage of that. That scramble rush. We have to have
better lay integrity to hold up against that but outside
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of that, nothing too crazy. Thought. Elijah Campbell took some
bad angles and didn't play well to the relationship of
where help was from his depth position. Patrick mc morris
was more of the same, and coverage just doesn't look
very comfortable in that regard. But also the run game
stuff to me has regress from last year. And then
Quentin bell I thought he got trapped a couple of times,
and then there was a rep where his man goes
down because he got tripped and he had a room
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service sack and he missed it. You can't do that.
My top five tapes from this game, we'll go in
reverse order. Number five key On Smith, I thought he
was excellent in this game. Number four, Olie Gordon, Number three,
Malik Washington, Number two, Bradley Chubb, And my top tape
for the game was Aaron Brewer. He was dominant out
there all night long. All right, this week, this podcast
for Monday, no podcast on Tuesday. We're going to take
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the day off, and then Wednesday we're going to cover
the initial fifty three man roster. And here from Chris Career,
He's got a press conference on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning,
we'll put that podcast out for you sometime in the
afternoon Thursday. I have an interview with Anthony Weaver and
my August takeaways, and that podcast will come out Thursday Friday.
I'll have a pod, but I'm undecided on if it's
gonna be a season prediction podcast, a mail bag. We'll
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see when I want to put those out, but we're
gonna we're gonna do that, have a nice three day weekend,
and then come back and it'll be a cold tweak,
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