December 8, 2025 • 34 mins
The Dolphins enjoyed a runaway victory Sunday in New York, Travis is taking you through all the the details of how it happened. Scheme, individual standouts, top tapes and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it's the all twenty two review. Dolphins dominant in New York.
We haven't seen a beating like that since Marvin Harry
traveled to New York for Home Alone two. I'll tell
you what the tape says about the Dolphins victory offensively
and defensively from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist
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Hell Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is the Drive Time Podcast DAFFE.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Week fourteen, New York Jets film review, general points on offense.
Before I even venture into the tape, twenty five zone runs,
twelve gap runs, and they had it all working. Man.
I saw a clip on Twitter. I think it was
Eric Smith, the great O line coach Eric Smith that
posted them pulling three guys. It was bull tackles and
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the center and like, look, hey, when you've got ninety
fifth percentile athletes at those positions, why not, Like it's
like the Albucado's commercial, right, why not both Let's go
ahead and get into This's gonna be a long episode
because it was a long day for the New York Jets.
I loved the Wattle reverse on the second play of
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the game because of how they got to it. I
put the timer on it on the film here. Five
point one four seconds was the amount of time between
breaking the huddle and snapping the football. No shift, no motion.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say this. The only
Jets defenders who didn't take false steps were the four
that could not within the play, two interior defensive linemen
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and two safeties who were twenty yards off the football
and don't need to anticipate the snap that way. Everybody
else took their initial step in the wrong direction. If
you've ever played or coached this sport, you know that
that's almost always a fatal flaw on a play for
one guy, much less seven of them. Then you get Brewer,
Ing Gold and Julian Hill all pulling into space. Each
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catches a block, and there go Ski for twenty one
yards the good run picking out that gap in those lanes.
Then you get the big a Chan run. I love
how they bring brunskill into the game for the first
time on the first and goal run and they throw
from it exactly what I was talking about. In the
preview podcast, and after you just gash them for sixty
yards on back to back plays, show run throw at
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six points. The entire second level of the Jets defense
on that throw from Tua to Wattle crashes and you
wind up getting three one on one pass routes, and Wattle,
Malik and Nwi don't separate, but he separates by three yards.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But a hat tip to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Westbrook Akine for selling blocking action on his route. He
held the one potential defender He's in this tight split,
a nasty split to the side of the formation that
Wattle runs two Wattle came from the other side of
the formation ran the crossing route. And if Nwi like
takes a snap off, and guys do this all the
time in this league, if he takes the snap off
like doesn't commit and sell out that run action, that
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defender can easily fall into that spot. And we saw
the hit that Tua took. If Tua has to double
clutch that one more hitch, then that's probably a sack
fumble right Like it's a blindside hit the balls in
one hand as he goes to throw. It could have
been a sack fumble there. So Nwi, you know, not
hitting this the stat sheet, and he's had a very
difficult first year for the Miami Dolphins. But tip your
hat where you can first play with the next drive
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more of the same. You've got three defenders that overplayed
a fake to a chan and Tua really had his
choice on a layer's concept, a flood concept to go
after anybody he wanted. He took the high percentage throw
to Greg Dolcic, who rumbles for twenty three yards. Just
another hat tip to the plane because we got so
many runs. This was a new thing for the Dolphins
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in this game that I wasn't used to seeing over
the course of four years now under Mike McDaniel. So
many runs from spread looks. There's no attached tight ends,
there's no fullbacks in the backfield, just five down linemen,
Tua and a running back behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's new thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Jalen Wright's touchdown run was from that look, and I
don't think I've ever seen an easier two yard touchdown
run right up the gut than that play. It looked
like he was running against a prevent light box, like
from his own twenty yard line at you know, with
like forty four seconds to play in the first half
and no timeouts, like they were saying, you can have
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this these two yards, we'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It was in the end zone. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So as much as this tape is great, the Jets
tape was just as bad. So, like, if if you
listen to this, like to a podcast from a Jets perspective,
it's going to be the complete opsite talking about how undisciplined,
how unmotivated this team was, and I think that's fair.
But from the Miami Dolphins perspective, they weren't those things
and that's why they beat him by twenty four points
in this contest. The Waller thirteen yard play, shortly after
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the ones we just talked about, you get two linebackers
who collapse on Jalen Wright's jet motion to the right
side of the formation. They have a fake toss to
Devon ah Chan on the left side of the formation.
Another linebacker chases that one out of the play and
just completely display place. Is the second level of the
defense they were in. Hell, man, their heads were spinning.
It reminded me of like the run version of the
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twenty twenty three opener against the Chargers, when we just
continuously were putting Kenneth Murray in binds by throwing the
ball over his shoulders on play action passes in those
eighteen yard dig routes and those crossing routes. We did
the same thing but with the run game in this one,
and they just had no clue what was going on.
If it were up to me, though, if I want
to put a negative out there into the world, I
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would cut those little throwback screens to Maleakue Washington out
of the playbook altogether. The upside on those plays is
like a four yard game, but they seem to lose
yardage at least half the time, if not more so.
The ROI, the radio, on Internet, the return on investment
is just not there for me. I think if there's
one area of teaching besides me talking about cutting out
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a section of the playbook from this game, it's the
interior pass rush in general, with the overloads they can
present in those positions. And last night on the show,
I talked about some of the games that we couldn't
pick up, and I thought that was more of the
case in this one, And that was really the case
in the Saints game, but in this one, it was
like delays or disguise Blitzer's second level defenders coming down
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on Blitz in the a gap where the running back
couldn't quite get in that gap quick enough. I saw
one with von A Chan where he missed, and Olie
Gordon on another where.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He couldn't get in there.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's kind of like, if I'm focusing on one area
to kind of harp on for corrections on the offensives side,
you know, that would be one of the big areas
I'm looking at, And honestly, I think that pretty much
covers it. Like I'm not even a halftime in the
film on this part of the podcast, and that's basically
the analysis that you needed here. I will close with
this before the standouts. There's a lot of just flat
out execution eleven men across the board here like and
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don't get me wrong, like coaching staff had a hell
of a plan. McDaniel was in his bag for this
one with the run game design and how he paired
the pass game off of that. But again, tip of
the cap to McDaniel for just letting eleven guys execute.
And I'd asked him a question of the press conference
today about the Brewer, Paul and Jackson shoving Allie across
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the goal line, and he talked about the residuals, you know,
not just on the scoreboard, but like the way that
impacts the game and the mentality they want to play with,
the mindset this team has, like he felt that he
recognized that within the game and just said, we're just
gonna run the ball down their throats. I think he
got away from him there for a little bit in
the middle thirty part of the game. But that last
touchdown drive that eight the nine plays eight runs, seven
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of those to write for like fifty one yards whatever
it was. That was just like, go beat the guy
across from you and let's take the ball on the field.
And they did that. So tip of the cap to
Mike for going to that call as well. Like eight
Chan's last run for instance, to go back to like
some of these just Jimmy's and Joe's over Ex's and No's.
AJ kicks out the Will backer, Abram Brewer climbs up
to the sambacker and knocks him out of the play.
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Daniel Brunskill kicks out the nine technique, Cole Strange reaches
and overtakes the three technique, and then Alec Ingold wipes
out the rat in the hole and eight Chan hits
it like when you get a back like this and
you block it like that. Like me and bush Rod
talked about this in the post game show. If e
Chan's healthy this game and they give him the thirty
carries that the rest of the backs like.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Kind of accumulated four.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I know we had forty one in the game, but
if they had given him like thirty carries, I legit
think he would have ran for over three hundred yards
in this game. There was so much space and with
his speed and explosiveness, you've just seen more big plays
than we had in this one. And maybe it's a
good thing we kept him rested for the next game
because we needed more for the Steelers game than we
did in this one. But he could have had like
a record setting day in this game with how they
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blocked this thing. We were just better than them and
they ran it until they stopped it and they couldn't
stop it. That's a good mentality to have the quarterback.
I think the biggest takeaway from this tape was just
how important it is and look like it. It hurts
to say this. This is a team that used to
win only because of Tuba playing at a high level.
And now it feels like in order to like, you've
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won a bunch of games in spite of the quarterback play.
Isn't that life as a Dolphins fan man, Like we've
had the good defenses, we've had the good offenses. Like
it's just so funny how the cyclical nature of this
league works. But Tula got into a rhythm in this game,
and that's what you have to find the way to
do for the final four games of the season. All
of these teams are beatable. The Patriots might be a
different story in Week eighteen. Steelers, Bengals and Bucks are beatable.
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But you're gonna have to find a way to keep
this quarterback in rhythm, reduce turnovers, reduce mistakes. And he
found that rhythm early in the game. Playing on schedule.
He played with anticipation, he was feeling the overplay of
the defense and attacking aggressively. Accordingly, we made it look
easy in that first quarter. That Wattle touchdown was a
really nice process in placement combo from Tua. The waller
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throw on the thirteen yard play sam exact thing he
got Dulsag in the flat early. All those guys want
that ball as soon as possible on those little flat
release routes, the slide routes, and he did that. He
obliged him from the school of the seemingly innocuous. He
had a completion to dulsag on the third touchdown drive
after a false start. We run that rail glance side
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slide RPO combination and everything's covered up, and so Tua has.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
To kind of, you know, am I gonna? I guess
that's not RPO.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's just the rail slide glance because he got off
his spot and tip it on RPO. They're gonna run,
They're gonna they're gonna try to, you know, run off
the line of scrimmage and get downfield. So if you
hold the ball for a second, you're gonna get ineligible
guys downfield. So it wasn't that, but it was the
rail slide glance combo and he kind of gets free
into the you know, off script and there's a free
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runner right in his face and just drops the armslot
down around him and whips it in there for a
completion to Dulcich, who gets six yards, and that changes
the math on the drive from second to fifteen if
we have to throw that ball away to second nine
and the very next play he has a pivot and
throw off platform again to dulcich Off of like play
action backside boot who picks up the first down on
that play man.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I love the process.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
On the third down throw to Waller before our first
punt of the game, he anticipates him clearing the back
or before he does, throws it out in space, but
he just threw it behind him. Now, to be fair,
he had two bodies at his feet with pressure getting
in and couldn't really step into his throw and go
watch any quarterback across the league, quarterback missfires typically happen
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because there's uncertainty around their feet, and that was the
case in this particular game. The next throw to Waddle though,
wasn't outright missed, and we got to hit these balls
because there was a few throws in this game that
could have been explosive plays that Tua missed, and you're
gonna need those against Joe Burrow, right, But he had
Wattle on a little slant and just led him too
far and there was a lot of room after the catch.
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So it's a bummer he did miss that one. There
are so many plays where he just has nothing but
time to get to a full field progression. That's the
thing a beaut from the offensive line, and if we
can do that for him, we can keep winning football
games in addition to the running game and what that's doing. Honestly,
it wasn't a great game for Tua, but I thought
the tape was better than how I felt coming out
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of the broadcast. Like he had a ball to Waller
that got tipped and nearly picked off on multiple deflections,
but it was actually a really nice read and confident
delivery into a space Jamie and Sherwood the hook linebacker
like accessed a fifty two inch vertical or if Bob
Yucker from Major League is calling this game, he had
to rocket up, as you know what, to get up
there and get a piece of that. But it was
a good, convicted throw into a triangle defenders that was
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gonna be right on target, but it got tipped out
of the way.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I also thought the next.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Throw to Waddle, that play where he runs at the
sticks and the safety comes over the top and breaks
it up, was a nice process. Against a six man pressure,
they have a post safety dropping down and Tua has
to fade away from the interior pressure to buy some
extra time and throw it before Wattle gets his face
mass back to the football. It's off the right shoulder.
It's just a really good play about the safety to
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get a hand on that and break it up. Now,
there were a few throws that we got to have them.
We just we simply have to have them. And if
we get them, the way this defense is playing and
the run game is going, they will go four and O.
If Tua makes these corrections in all four games. It's
asking a lot because, like I'm asking you to play
really high level quarterback play every single snap. If we
get it, we're gonna run the table and go to
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that and seven because it's there for us. The backwards throw,
I think you can't throw that ball, but there's a
lot of factors at play there. I think you can't
make that call as well, So I'll just leave it
at that. The near pick six and the swing, he
turned down a lot of open options he had Waller.
They ran double slam from double wise. That's two attached
tight ends to the boundary the short side of the formation,
and they had the first tight end release on a
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little slamp and then Waller widened his hook linebacker and
then ran the slant in behind that first slant and
the window was there, and that was his first read,
but he passed it up. And then on the other
side of the formation, Nwi runs a straight seam against
a single, single high safety and he could have put
it on him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now, that might not be into his bag.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In fact, I probably think it's not, so I get
not throwing that ball, but then he came all the
way across the progression and just threw it blindly into
the flat. That's bad process all around. And he would
have thrown a pick on a ball that he missed
after he missed Waddle who was wide open on a
play where Wattle just destroys Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We'll talk about that here in just one second.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But the very next play was a deflection on a
play that I think we got Julian Hill or somebody
for a hold on a little rollout play, and he
throws a ball to Malik that was about to get
undercut and picked off, but it got tipped.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So there was mistakes.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We'll get to the one to Wattle here where he
missed a really good chance for a big explosive as
wattles wide open as well, So like a C plus game.
I thought it was more of like a C minus
D plus game, but C plus B minus game for Tua.
With some of the missed opportunities we had in that one,
Let's go ahead and take our first break, come back
and talk about the standouts on offense individually. That's next
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Draft Time podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. We've talked
offensive structure and the quarterback. Let's go ahead and talk
about all the players around this offense that made this
thing go devon eight chan. I mean, the Jimmy's and
Joe's adage applies so much to this dude. Like, yeah,
the run scheme was dominant, but that thirty nine yard
run to get things rolling was one of the best
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runs you'll see this year in football. The way he
sets up that spin and broke inside, spun back outside
to make a guy missing a phone booth and then
accelerates past him. That was like a Madden type of
mistackle man looks machine generated, and then he takes on
the pile of three Jets defenders and then squirts out
the backside on his feet still at the twenty yard line,
breaks through that and goes all the way down to
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the three yard line. I am just out of superlatives.
If we had won a couple more games early in
the year, I think you're hearing about Devon h Chan
as a possible MVP of the league. He wouldn't win it,
but I think you hear about conversations around that. Jonas
oft Naya is going to be an example I lean
on for years to come. His college profile told me
he was going to be a dominant guard at this level,
and maybe the mistake I made was projecting it right away.
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But early you could tell he was swimming a little
bit in terms of play, speed, technique, finer points. And
now here we are thirteen games in and the Arizona
tape is back for this guy. It's back in front
of me week after week. Controlled balance, climbing wall you off,
puts you on your butt. Everything looks cleaner for Jonas
Ivit Andaya. It started with a streak and it's just
gotten better each week. Pardon the rhyme, I think he's arrived.
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I don't want to get the anointing oil out too
soon here, but it reminds me of Patrick Paul's progression.
It just looks the part in every way. Right now,
I'm tallying blocks where he latches on and his man
can't disengage. It's one after the other, Bubba, that is
the good stuff. It's every other snap of this game.
You're raising a player from the run fit frequently. I mean, dude,
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the eight chant touchdown run, he holds off the three technique.
He reaches him and then holds him off with the
long arm the right arm. Hits the second block with
his left arm to kind of attach that, but can't
quite you know, stay glued to it because he has
one arm holding off the running three technique. And then
he goes and refinds that linebacker reattaches it and seals
him for the score. Oh buddy, this is not just
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a good rookie tape. This is a great tape for
any player in the NFL. Jonah, go get yourself a
game ball, my friend Patrick Paul Man speaking of Patrick Paul,
Buddy like natural into his pass sets can absorb power
and anchor in this effortless way. They I mean Will
McDonald's and Jermaine Johnson are first round draft picks. Did
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you see them. Could you tell they were playing in
the game yesterday. Austin Jackson hat tip too. But he
can strain to get into space and still find contact
on wide blocks. Then you watch him against a slanting
five technique, just patient you want to try to get inside.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He reminds me of like a Venus fly trap and
how he just waits for the prey to get within
range and then snatch your mind.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Game over for you. Your life is over now, the pass
rush was over. Wave the white flag. He can pin
you when he wants.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
He will let you take yourself out of the play
because of the recover ability, the length, the hand strength,
the grip strength. This goes back to spring and summer ball.
But this guy is on his way if he's not
already there to being one of the best left tackles
in football. I love that Mike McDaniel talked about this
in his Monday press conference about how they felt they
knew pretty early on training camp they were gonna get
good football from Patrick Paul.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I mean I saw it too.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I know there was some detractors early on, but it
was pretty obvious early on training camp. Alec ingold shades
of twenty two at Buffalo. What a game he had.
He's breaking the huddle, running one way, shifting back the
other way. He's got these post nap assignments where he
fakes a lead dive inside, wheels back out and ends
up wiping out the forced defender on an outside toss play.
He was just exceptional and his angles, his hits, his
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overall effectiveness. The run game went through alec Ingold in
this one. Aaron Brewers here every single week I retweeted
the Brandon Thorne highlight cutup. Someone replied to a tweet
of mine calling the Dolphins a finesse run team, and
you know what, I'm just gonna say it as nicely
as I can. I strongly disagree with you, Bucko. You
see Brewer out on the perimeter making these highlight blocks,
but he constantly overtakes the one shade when he has
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to get wide of a player who has him out
leveraged at the snap and then steal him back inside.
His technical proficiency is fantastic, his strain, his toughness. He
is center one in the National Football League. Greg Dolsach
is a player, details details details. I talked about Westbrook
Akins release being a pivotal part of the Wattle touchdown
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on Dulcuch's twenty three yard catch and run. He executes
the footwork and technique of a past pro set pure
pass pro set and fulfills the punch shock attach, shock
him and then pull him back towards you to kind
of slingshot yourself Ricky Bobby style shaken bake to get
into the route. It's perfectly executed. It's patient disengages into
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the route. He completely takes that man out of the equation.
Sometimes that one extra step. This is my biggest thing
about watching Tyreek Hill on tape over the years. He
always took the extra step to help create space within
the passing structure. That one extra effort it can make
a play. And this type of stuff is all over
his tape. He also had the seal on the forced
defender on a Jalen Wright wide zone run. Job executed.
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Man Travis has a new player to stand here. I'm
a fan of this guy and that run, the run
on the play that got called back. I mean, what's
not to love about Greg Dolsic Jaalen Waddle. I thought
he paced his routes really well on this game. Caught
the ball clean, ran in space very well and had
some damn good work in the blocking game. Shout out
to the work he does from those nasty splits in
the running game where he has to like attached to
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a safety and just like kind of get into the
muck and the mire. This guy never complains, man like
think about what number one receivers do in terms of
like saying those crazy ass quotes we get all the
time from these guys. He never complains, never talks it,
just does dirty work and shuts his mouth. Waddle is
the number one receiver all teams desire to have. Unfortunately,
his best route of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Was not paid off.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
He smoked Brandon Stevens on a crossing route late in
the third quarter that would have been a forty three
yard touchdown, but Tua didn't see him. Austin Jackson kind
of crazy. I think he missed ten games because he
looks and mids. He's informed, punishing play at the point
of attack, overtakes reaches, squaring up blockers outside the numbers
eight yards downfield. He's been a big boost to a
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running game that was already cooking. Jalen Wright, we have
a new LAYA candidate linear yardage accumulation a mcdanielism from
years past where he moster previously got that Moniker. This
dude hits the first tackler and gets three or four
more yards if the cavalry does not arrive, like you
have to bring the party to tackle Jalen Wright. He
is so smooth on these downhill runs where it's go
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to a gap, make one cut and go. His combination
of urgency to the whole and just general power it's
a really nice fit in this running game.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I had two individual misses here Waller.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Maybe it's a bit nitpicky, but if he blocked literally
anybody on like a couple of these long catching runs,
we would have had huge catch and runs. I think
it's worth noting that. And then Cole strange it wasn't
even a bad game, just comparatively to the rest of
the offensive line. The pass pro on two was touchdown.
He got smoked. Malik had a pop pass on the
third touchdown drive the play before we scored where he
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would have scored if Cole can get detached from the block.
There attached to the block.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Tua also got hit on an incomplete ball to Waller
where Cole got beat one on one again.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I think he's playing fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There's lots of good reps on his tape, but I
think that he's the one area that I'm not like
doing backflips over right now, and quite frankly, with the
guys around him, having a non tomato can at that
spot is plenty good enough and he's not a tomato can.
Snap counts for the offense. Jonah and Pat are the
only players who went all sixty five snaps. There replay
some of the offensive line towards the end of the game.
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Cole played sixty three snaps. Austin Brewer and Tua played
fifty eight of the sixty five. Zach Wilson played seven,
Brunskill played nineteen. He got some time at guard after
they made the changes there. Larry Boren played seven snaps
and Keon Smith played two snaps. Waddle fifty one, Maleiak
thirty four, nw I twenty two, Cedric Wilson thirteen. D. S.
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Gridge got seven snaps. Jalen Wright leaves the way for
running backs to thirty four snaps, eight Chan twenty two,
Olie Gordon sixteen. Alec Ingold also got twenty two snaps,
and then Greg Dolsitch plays thirty five snaps at tight end,
Julian Hill plays thirty three, and Darren Waller played twenty
four snaps in the game. Last break right there, we'll
come back for a lengthy third segment covering the entire defense.
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That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
We talked about how the Dolphins got thirty four points
on the New York Steed. Let's go ahead and talk
about how they held them to ten points defensively and
generally from the first snap, the defense was just playing connected.
I mean the Jets run the switch release to the boundary.
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A switch release is where the inside guy goes out,
outside guy goes in. They're trying to confuse your coverage
responsibilities and Ashton Davis and Rasul Douglas have a banjo
call on which is like first in, you go in,
second out. I'll take that one out and it's perfectly
executed with Davis running down the seam on this what
becomes a corner route on like a smash concept, with
the knowledge that he has Mika Fitzpatrick to take anything
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breaking back to the inside will go ahead and inside
leverage it and if he crosses face.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There's Mica.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
If he breaks to the outside, I'm in position to
run to the outside and rasouls their squad and drive
on the underneath route. The way this team is fitting
up the run same thing. It's gotta have Anthony Weaver
watching tape in his office. Just ear to ear smiles, man.
Like the second level players are reading the flow, feeling
the flow, doing the bull dance. The guys up front
are stacking and they either disengage or the combo blocks
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overrun the backers because they have to. Like Max strain,
Seth Lovett is going to love this show. He hates
the term strain and I have like the in the
copy here like twelve times. But they have to strain
so much just to get movement on the stout front.
It's not a mystery that the improvement upfront has correlated
to better backer play. It all works together, right. It's
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all cyclical, money going in, money coming out. It's all
about the economics, right. It's always sunning in Philadelphia. They
cover this on an episode. They've really found the secret
sauce with their fronts. Overload opportunities, stacks three by ones, Sealer,
Biggers and KG have a lot of positional flexibility playing
inside and outside, and I think they've been able to
kind of add more to the plates of the rookies
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and it's had this ripple effect that's allowing them to,
you know, find their second gear in this season. As
a defense man, I don't envy the job that Brady
Cook had on his plate in this game. This is
not a soft landing spot for a rookie quarterback. I
mean you talk about like they are so deep into
their disguised menu. From a coverage standpoint, he really had
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no shot in this one. Like they walk Minca up
into the slot, t dots off the same edge as
a possible blitzer. Minco winds up bailing out into a
deep quarters a deep quarter of the deep three in
a cover six package where you have quarter quarter half
Tyrel dots and peels back into the hook zone into
that short area for short throws. And Cook actually had
the right idea and he throws the ball into the hook,
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which is you know, you're getting that depth, so you
can't really like work back downhill, so you can take
advantage of that and throw to a receiver like hot
off the land scrimmage, but you're not gonna get it
eight yards to the sticks, and both Jack Jones and
Tyrel Dotson come in there and make the play at
the sticks. We rally up and tackle there like it's
presented as Cover zero and showing with seven players in
the possible pressure package, and it turns into a four
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man rush with cover six. Is that is diabolical? Weaver
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Individuals stand outs here from the Dolphins defense Rasuell douglass Man,
the feel from spot drops, like that third down breakup
on the opening drive Cover two. They the tight end
downhill at him on that switch release. It's a player
I talked about in the opening segment there. They're trying
to get him to gain depth and feel responsible for
that corner route in behind him. Then they just throw
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a little follow stick route behind that, but he sifts
through the route, attempt keeps his eyes in the quarterback,
doesn't get depth, rather drives downhill and breaks it up.
He is a high processing zone cornerback to me, the
ideal player for Weavers defense. How about Jackie Boy Jack Jones,
that's his game too. But then you get these third
down reps where they're re routing at the line of scrimmage,
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and they're pretty damn good at that too. I also
think his improvement against the run is a testament to
Weaver and the coaching staff or like loving him up,
staying with him, supporting him. I wholeheartedly agree with my
co host on the postgame show, Jamon bush Rod, who
talked about, like when you invest in a player like
that and you put your arm around them, the return
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becomes so much greater because now they'll strain extra for you.
He had a play on a third and eight where
they threw short of the sticks. He leaves his man
before the ball comes out and just goes and hits
the receiver with zero yak yards. His eyes take him
to so many plays and that's what playing cornerback in
this system is all about. Like a game winning pick
in Madrid for instance. And if you've got NFL Pro,
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go watch him pressing a d Mitchell throughout this game.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
He took him out of the ball game. How many
what did Mitchell have in this game?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Ullah Jack Jones pressing him and erasing him from the
entire ledger. Yeah, he caught one ball for twenty four yards.
Congrats brother, Like, I don't know, man, I would think
long and hard about bringing both these guys back. You
get the continuity there, you get Juju Brentz back, you
get Cater Kohu back. Jason Marshall Junior has got a
lot of talent to invest into. You can develop all
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those guys Minka Fitzpatrick factors in there. Maybe the answer
is you go find a stud safety who frees up
Minka and all of a sudden your secondary is super deep.
Can we be the team that capitalizes on Caleb downs
like falling in the draft.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm not opposed to going to a cornerback if one
falls to you, like a premier one, like if it's
man Sewer Delaye from LSU. But I think you've got
parts here right now that can really make the secondary
thrive in another year of Anthony Weavers defense. Zach seeler Man,
he was barking out plays before they happened. One gaps,
put the tackle on tight end from those wide alignments,
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which he's getting more of because again, these young guys
are doing their thing inside and it's working. But he's
collapsing to play from the backside more and more. Gosh,
he was slipping blocks. He commands so much attention, and
when he starts thwarting these double teams, it's gonna be
a long day for the opposing offense because you cannot
afford to double and lose on seiler, not with the
way the rest of this front's playing. How about Jordan Phillips.
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Some Jabbroni on my timeline called Jordan Phillips a jag.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's dumb. That's a dumb thing to say.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
One of the things you can you only get from
watching the tape is how much the combo man on
these you know, combination blocks up front have to make
a dent on him on these double teams. Like there
are so many reps where Jordan Brooks makes a play
because the combination blocker trying to get to him is
late because he had to give extra work and strain
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to move Phillips off of his spot. He controls that
first guy so much that they have to have a
second block, like drive him out of the play. You
can't just chip him and climb because he's going to
stand there and make the play. Kenneth Grant had some
Jordan Phillips reps in this game, and that's what you
want to see from this guy. We'll get the flash eventually,
but right now he's building out his game. He's developing.
He's twenty one years old. He was under guys pads,
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controlling the reps just again. Didn't get a lot of
chances to make plays, but that's okay. There's a brief
Hall run on their third drive where he presses play side,
tries to wind it all the way back, but because
Kenneth Grant stands a single block straight up and Jordan
Phillips thwarts a double team, he's got nowhere to go.
By the time he winds it back, our pursuit is
there for a tackle for loss. He had some really
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nice stack reps against armand Membu, who's been the best
rookie tackle in football this year. Taking six slots ahead
of where KG went at number thirteen. Tyrell Dotson I
thought played really well in this game and had the
catch on the pick, which is excellent, but you know
it's worth noting a good ball there is a completion
for a first down, but I thought he did a
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good job punishing there and there for making a mistake,
and it gave you basically forty to fifty yards in
field position.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Bradley.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Chubb's pressure numbers did not indicate this, but he pretty
routinely beat one of the game's best left tackles and
Olufashan who in true dropback situations, he had moves they
got Fashanhu off balance. It's two straight games where he's
beaten pretty good left tackles routinely. Minka Fitzpatrick. The ground
he covers, the way he can sprint to a new spot,
get his eyes on the formation and get the information
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that he needs from that, and process and then go.
It's the lynchpin of this defense and the way we
disguise that all the different looks we run.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He's so good.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Impressed the slot, he's so good ranging over the top
from half field looks. He fits the run just fine.
He's the straw that stirs the drink here. And speaking
of half field looks, that DEPI call was horrendous.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Mela fan Wu.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I thought he did a lot of good stuff walking
up to the line of scrimmage, seeing him get more and
more comfortable in those kind of will linebacker roles. He's
playing some you know, some hook some hooked spot drops.
Almost can't say that. And like the red zone so
there's some some stuff here for if you to continue
to work on, and he's playing well in that role.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Chop Robinson.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I like the way he's getting inside penetration and looping
back inside off a zack sealer picks. Like that relationship
is starting to kind of blossom there a little bit,
and it's adding to his bag which helps him exploit
the edge, which he did on his trip sack.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I had two individual misses.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Jordan Brooks didn't play a bad game, but it wasn't
his best game, just nothing crazy, but a couple of misfits,
not his usual impactful self. And then Matthew Judon like
he missed a sack on the first play of the game.
He loses his feet on these cut blocks, which it's tough,
but he goes down to the ground a lot. There's
very loose drops in zone coverage. To me, edge is
the area you have to really kind of focus on
this offseason, kind of the one big hole right now.
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And then obviously safety alongside Mienka could use on their
body there, maybe a linebacker alongside Jordan Brooks. Kind of
my off season checklist right there with edge being the
top one. But that's also the hardest one to find,
like ruben Bain, maybe come on down. I don't know,
just thinking out loud here about you know, a month
from now snap counts Ashton Davis the only player who
played all fifty eight snaps. Man a long week, a
nextra day of rest, and we had only forty three
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snaps played by the rest of the defense. Max forty
three for Minka, for Brooks, for Jackie Boy and for Rasoul.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Dotson played thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
kJ Britt played twenty, Willie Gay played eighteen at safety
if he played thirty two, and Trader played twenty nine.
Sealer played thirty eight snaps, KG twenty seven, so did
Zeke twenty seven, Phillips played twenty four, and Benitol got thirteen.
In the game, Chubb played thirty seven snaps, Judeon thirty four,
Chop thirty two, and Cam Good twelve, and then Jason
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Marshall got seventeen. Ethan Barner got sixteen. My top five tapes,
I'm not gonna go eight Chan even though he was
the best player on the field, but I had six guys.
I'm gonna take him off because I want to get
these other guys from shine here. He's in there every
single week anyways. Number five was Aaron Brewer, could have
been higher quite honestly.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Number four Jonas about you Nay.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The top five tapes Big Dog, Number three Rasul Douglas,
Number two Jack Jones, and number one was Patrick Paul.
What a great game this was to watch. I had
a lot of fun watching the film. We'll come back
on Wednesday. I believe I'm gonna have Bradley Chubb on
the podcast. That might be on Friday. Either way, you're
gonna hear him this week. We're gonna talk about Wattle's
charity event. On Monday night, we'll get into some more
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nitty gritty football stuff as well.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Have the Thursday for you for you guys Friday variety show.
All that to go on the Draft Time podcast.
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it's the all twenty two review. Dolphins dominant in New York.
We haven't seen a beating like that since Marvin Harry
traveled to New York for Home Alone two. I'll tell
you what the tape says about the Dolphins victory offensively
and defensively from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist
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Hell Training Complex.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is the Drive Time Podcast DAFFE.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Week fourteen, New York Jets film review, general points on offense.
Before I even venture into the tape, twenty five zone runs,
twelve gap runs, and they had it all working. Man.
I saw a clip on Twitter. I think it was
Eric Smith, the great O line coach Eric Smith that
posted them pulling three guys. It was bull tackles and
(01:00):
the center and like, look, hey, when you've got ninety
fifth percentile athletes at those positions, why not, Like it's
like the Albucado's commercial, right, why not both Let's go
ahead and get into This's gonna be a long episode
because it was a long day for the New York Jets.
I loved the Wattle reverse on the second play of
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the game because of how they got to it. I
put the timer on it on the film here. Five
point one four seconds was the amount of time between
breaking the huddle and snapping the football. No shift, no motion.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say this. The only
Jets defenders who didn't take false steps were the four
that could not within the play, two interior defensive linemen
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and two safeties who were twenty yards off the football
and don't need to anticipate the snap that way. Everybody
else took their initial step in the wrong direction. If
you've ever played or coached this sport, you know that
that's almost always a fatal flaw on a play for
one guy, much less seven of them. Then you get Brewer,
Ing Gold and Julian Hill all pulling into space. Each
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catches a block, and there go Ski for twenty one
yards the good run picking out that gap in those lanes.
Then you get the big a Chan run. I love
how they bring brunskill into the game for the first
time on the first and goal run and they throw
from it exactly what I was talking about. In the
preview podcast, and after you just gash them for sixty
yards on back to back plays, show run throw at
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six points. The entire second level of the Jets defense
on that throw from Tua to Wattle crashes and you
wind up getting three one on one pass routes, and Wattle,
Malik and Nwi don't separate, but he separates by three yards.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But a hat tip to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Westbrook Akine for selling blocking action on his route. He
held the one potential defender He's in this tight split,
a nasty split to the side of the formation that
Wattle runs two Wattle came from the other side of
the formation ran the crossing route. And if Nwi like
takes a snap off, and guys do this all the
time in this league, if he takes the snap off
like doesn't commit and sell out that run action, that
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defender can easily fall into that spot. And we saw
the hit that Tua took. If Tua has to double
clutch that one more hitch, then that's probably a sack
fumble right Like it's a blindside hit the balls in
one hand as he goes to throw. It could have
been a sack fumble there. So Nwi, you know, not
hitting this the stat sheet, and he's had a very
difficult first year for the Miami Dolphins. But tip your
hat where you can first play with the next drive
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more of the same. You've got three defenders that overplayed
a fake to a chan and Tua really had his
choice on a layer's concept, a flood concept to go
after anybody he wanted. He took the high percentage throw
to Greg Dolcic, who rumbles for twenty three yards. Just
another hat tip to the plane because we got so
many runs. This was a new thing for the Dolphins
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in this game that I wasn't used to seeing over
the course of four years now under Mike McDaniel. So
many runs from spread looks. There's no attached tight ends,
there's no fullbacks in the backfield, just five down linemen,
Tua and a running back behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's new thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Jalen Wright's touchdown run was from that look, and I
don't think I've ever seen an easier two yard touchdown
run right up the gut than that play. It looked
like he was running against a prevent light box, like
from his own twenty yard line at you know, with
like forty four seconds to play in the first half
and no timeouts, like they were saying, you can have
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this these two yards, we'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It was in the end zone. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So as much as this tape is great, the Jets
tape was just as bad. So, like, if if you
listen to this, like to a podcast from a Jets perspective,
it's going to be the complete opsite talking about how undisciplined,
how unmotivated this team was, and I think that's fair.
But from the Miami Dolphins perspective, they weren't those things
and that's why they beat him by twenty four points
in this contest. The Waller thirteen yard play, shortly after
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the ones we just talked about, you get two linebackers
who collapse on Jalen Wright's jet motion to the right
side of the formation. They have a fake toss to
Devon ah Chan on the left side of the formation.
Another linebacker chases that one out of the play and
just completely display place. Is the second level of the
defense they were in. Hell, man, their heads were spinning.
It reminded me of like the run version of the
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twenty twenty three opener against the Chargers, when we just
continuously were putting Kenneth Murray in binds by throwing the
ball over his shoulders on play action passes in those
eighteen yard dig routes and those crossing routes. We did
the same thing but with the run game in this one,
and they just had no clue what was going on.
If it were up to me, though, if I want
to put a negative out there into the world, I
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would cut those little throwback screens to Maleakue Washington out
of the playbook altogether. The upside on those plays is
like a four yard game, but they seem to lose
yardage at least half the time, if not more so.
The ROI, the radio, on Internet, the return on investment
is just not there for me. I think if there's
one area of teaching besides me talking about cutting out
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a section of the playbook from this game, it's the
interior pass rush in general, with the overloads they can
present in those positions. And last night on the show,
I talked about some of the games that we couldn't
pick up, and I thought that was more of the
case in this one, And that was really the case
in the Saints game, but in this one, it was
like delays or disguise Blitzer's second level defenders coming down
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on Blitz in the a gap where the running back
couldn't quite get in that gap quick enough. I saw
one with von A Chan where he missed, and Olie
Gordon on another where.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He couldn't get in there.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's kind of like, if I'm focusing on one area
to kind of harp on for corrections on the offensives side,
you know, that would be one of the big areas
I'm looking at, And honestly, I think that pretty much
covers it. Like I'm not even a halftime in the
film on this part of the podcast, and that's basically
the analysis that you needed here. I will close with
this before the standouts. There's a lot of just flat
out execution eleven men across the board here like and
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don't get me wrong, like coaching staff had a hell
of a plan. McDaniel was in his bag for this
one with the run game design and how he paired
the pass game off of that. But again, tip of
the cap to McDaniel for just letting eleven guys execute.
And I'd asked him a question of the press conference
today about the Brewer, Paul and Jackson shoving Allie across
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the goal line, and he talked about the residuals, you know,
not just on the scoreboard, but like the way that
impacts the game and the mentality they want to play with,
the mindset this team has, like he felt that he
recognized that within the game and just said, we're just
gonna run the ball down their throats. I think he
got away from him there for a little bit in
the middle thirty part of the game. But that last
touchdown drive that eight the nine plays eight runs, seven
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of those to write for like fifty one yards whatever
it was. That was just like, go beat the guy
across from you and let's take the ball on the field.
And they did that. So tip of the cap to
Mike for going to that call as well. Like eight
Chan's last run for instance, to go back to like
some of these just Jimmy's and Joe's over Ex's and No's.
AJ kicks out the Will backer, Abram Brewer climbs up
to the sambacker and knocks him out of the play.
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Daniel Brunskill kicks out the nine technique, Cole Strange reaches
and overtakes the three technique, and then Alec Ingold wipes
out the rat in the hole and eight Chan hits
it like when you get a back like this and
you block it like that. Like me and bush Rod
talked about this in the post game show. If e
Chan's healthy this game and they give him the thirty
carries that the rest of the backs like.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Kind of accumulated four.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I know we had forty one in the game, but
if they had given him like thirty carries, I legit
think he would have ran for over three hundred yards
in this game. There was so much space and with
his speed and explosiveness, you've just seen more big plays
than we had in this one. And maybe it's a
good thing we kept him rested for the next game
because we needed more for the Steelers game than we
did in this one. But he could have had like
a record setting day in this game with how they
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blocked this thing. We were just better than them and
they ran it until they stopped it and they couldn't
stop it. That's a good mentality to have the quarterback.
I think the biggest takeaway from this tape was just
how important it is and look like it. It hurts
to say this. This is a team that used to
win only because of Tuba playing at a high level.
And now it feels like in order to like, you've
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won a bunch of games in spite of the quarterback play.
Isn't that life as a Dolphins fan man, Like we've
had the good defenses, we've had the good offenses. Like
it's just so funny how the cyclical nature of this
league works. But Tula got into a rhythm in this game,
and that's what you have to find the way to
do for the final four games of the season. All
of these teams are beatable. The Patriots might be a
different story in Week eighteen. Steelers, Bengals and Bucks are beatable.
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But you're gonna have to find a way to keep
this quarterback in rhythm, reduce turnovers, reduce mistakes. And he
found that rhythm early in the game. Playing on schedule.
He played with anticipation, he was feeling the overplay of
the defense and attacking aggressively. Accordingly, we made it look
easy in that first quarter. That Wattle touchdown was a
really nice process in placement combo from Tua. The waller
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throw on the thirteen yard play sam exact thing he
got Dulsag in the flat early. All those guys want
that ball as soon as possible on those little flat
release routes, the slide routes, and he did that. He
obliged him from the school of the seemingly innocuous. He
had a completion to dulsag on the third touchdown drive
after a false start. We run that rail glance side
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slide RPO combination and everything's covered up, and so Tua has.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
To kind of, you know, am I gonna? I guess
that's not RPO.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's just the rail slide glance because he got off
his spot and tip it on RPO. They're gonna run,
They're gonna they're gonna try to, you know, run off
the line of scrimmage and get downfield. So if you
hold the ball for a second, you're gonna get ineligible
guys downfield. So it wasn't that, but it was the
rail slide glance combo and he kind of gets free
into the you know, off script and there's a free
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runner right in his face and just drops the armslot
down around him and whips it in there for a
completion to Dulcich, who gets six yards, and that changes
the math on the drive from second to fifteen if
we have to throw that ball away to second nine
and the very next play he has a pivot and
throw off platform again to dulcich Off of like play
action backside boot who picks up the first down on
that play man.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I love the process.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
On the third down throw to Waller before our first
punt of the game, he anticipates him clearing the back
or before he does, throws it out in space, but
he just threw it behind him. Now, to be fair,
he had two bodies at his feet with pressure getting
in and couldn't really step into his throw and go
watch any quarterback across the league, quarterback missfires typically happen
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because there's uncertainty around their feet, and that was the
case in this particular game. The next throw to Waddle though,
wasn't outright missed, and we got to hit these balls
because there was a few throws in this game that
could have been explosive plays that Tua missed, and you're
gonna need those against Joe Burrow, right, But he had
Wattle on a little slant and just led him too
far and there was a lot of room after the catch.
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So it's a bummer he did miss that one. There
are so many plays where he just has nothing but
time to get to a full field progression. That's the
thing a beaut from the offensive line, and if we
can do that for him, we can keep winning football
games in addition to the running game and what that's doing. Honestly,
it wasn't a great game for Tua, but I thought
the tape was better than how I felt coming out
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of the broadcast. Like he had a ball to Waller
that got tipped and nearly picked off on multiple deflections,
but it was actually a really nice read and confident
delivery into a space Jamie and Sherwood the hook linebacker
like accessed a fifty two inch vertical or if Bob
Yucker from Major League is calling this game, he had
to rocket up, as you know what, to get up
there and get a piece of that. But it was
a good, convicted throw into a triangle defenders that was
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gonna be right on target, but it got tipped out
of the way.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I also thought the next.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Throw to Waddle, that play where he runs at the
sticks and the safety comes over the top and breaks
it up, was a nice process. Against a six man pressure,
they have a post safety dropping down and Tua has
to fade away from the interior pressure to buy some
extra time and throw it before Wattle gets his face
mass back to the football. It's off the right shoulder.
It's just a really good play about the safety to
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get a hand on that and break it up. Now,
there were a few throws that we got to have them.
We just we simply have to have them. And if
we get them, the way this defense is playing and
the run game is going, they will go four and O.
If Tua makes these corrections in all four games. It's
asking a lot because, like I'm asking you to play
really high level quarterback play every single snap. If we
get it, we're gonna run the table and go to
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that and seven because it's there for us. The backwards throw,
I think you can't throw that ball, but there's a
lot of factors at play there. I think you can't
make that call as well, So I'll just leave it
at that. The near pick six and the swing, he
turned down a lot of open options he had Waller.
They ran double slam from double wise. That's two attached
tight ends to the boundary the short side of the formation,
and they had the first tight end release on a
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little slamp and then Waller widened his hook linebacker and
then ran the slant in behind that first slant and
the window was there, and that was his first read,
but he passed it up. And then on the other
side of the formation, Nwi runs a straight seam against
a single, single high safety and he could have put
it on him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now, that might not be into his bag.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In fact, I probably think it's not, so I get
not throwing that ball, but then he came all the
way across the progression and just threw it blindly into
the flat. That's bad process all around. And he would
have thrown a pick on a ball that he missed
after he missed Waddle who was wide open on a
play where Wattle just destroys Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We'll talk about that here in just one second.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But the very next play was a deflection on a
play that I think we got Julian Hill or somebody
for a hold on a little rollout play, and he
throws a ball to Malik that was about to get
undercut and picked off, but it got tipped.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So there was mistakes.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We'll get to the one to Wattle here where he
missed a really good chance for a big explosive as
wattles wide open as well, So like a C plus game.
I thought it was more of like a C minus
D plus game, but C plus B minus game for Tua.
With some of the missed opportunities we had in that one,
Let's go ahead and take our first break, come back
and talk about the standouts on offense individually. That's next
(14:22):
Draft Time podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. We've talked
offensive structure and the quarterback. Let's go ahead and talk
about all the players around this offense that made this
thing go devon eight chan. I mean, the Jimmy's and
Joe's adage applies so much to this dude. Like, yeah,
the run scheme was dominant, but that thirty nine yard
run to get things rolling was one of the best
(14:43):
runs you'll see this year in football. The way he
sets up that spin and broke inside, spun back outside
to make a guy missing a phone booth and then
accelerates past him. That was like a Madden type of
mistackle man looks machine generated, and then he takes on
the pile of three Jets defenders and then squirts out
the backside on his feet still at the twenty yard line,
breaks through that and goes all the way down to
(15:03):
the three yard line. I am just out of superlatives.
If we had won a couple more games early in
the year, I think you're hearing about Devon h Chan
as a possible MVP of the league. He wouldn't win it,
but I think you hear about conversations around that. Jonas
oft Naya is going to be an example I lean
on for years to come. His college profile told me
he was going to be a dominant guard at this level,
and maybe the mistake I made was projecting it right away.
(15:27):
But early you could tell he was swimming a little
bit in terms of play, speed, technique, finer points. And
now here we are thirteen games in and the Arizona
tape is back for this guy. It's back in front
of me week after week. Controlled balance, climbing wall you off,
puts you on your butt. Everything looks cleaner for Jonas
Ivit Andaya. It started with a streak and it's just
gotten better each week. Pardon the rhyme, I think he's arrived.
(15:50):
I don't want to get the anointing oil out too
soon here, but it reminds me of Patrick Paul's progression.
It just looks the part in every way. Right now,
I'm tallying blocks where he latches on and his man
can't disengage. It's one after the other, Bubba, that is
the good stuff. It's every other snap of this game.
You're raising a player from the run fit frequently. I mean, dude,
(16:11):
the eight chant touchdown run, he holds off the three technique.
He reaches him and then holds him off with the
long arm the right arm. Hits the second block with
his left arm to kind of attach that, but can't
quite you know, stay glued to it because he has
one arm holding off the running three technique. And then
he goes and refinds that linebacker reattaches it and seals
him for the score. Oh buddy, this is not just
(16:32):
a good rookie tape. This is a great tape for
any player in the NFL. Jonah, go get yourself a
game ball, my friend Patrick Paul Man speaking of Patrick Paul,
Buddy like natural into his pass sets can absorb power
and anchor in this effortless way. They I mean Will
McDonald's and Jermaine Johnson are first round draft picks. Did
(16:54):
you see them. Could you tell they were playing in
the game yesterday. Austin Jackson hat tip too. But he
can strain to get into space and still find contact
on wide blocks. Then you watch him against a slanting
five technique, just patient you want to try to get inside.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He reminds me of like a Venus fly trap and
how he just waits for the prey to get within
range and then snatch your mind.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Game over for you. Your life is over now, the pass
rush was over. Wave the white flag. He can pin
you when he wants.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
He will let you take yourself out of the play
because of the recover ability, the length, the hand strength,
the grip strength. This goes back to spring and summer ball.
But this guy is on his way if he's not
already there to being one of the best left tackles
in football. I love that Mike McDaniel talked about this
in his Monday press conference about how they felt they
knew pretty early on training camp they were gonna get
good football from Patrick Paul.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I mean I saw it too.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I know there was some detractors early on, but it
was pretty obvious early on training camp. Alec ingold shades
of twenty two at Buffalo. What a game he had.
He's breaking the huddle, running one way, shifting back the
other way. He's got these post nap assignments where he
fakes a lead dive inside, wheels back out and ends
up wiping out the forced defender on an outside toss play.
He was just exceptional and his angles, his hits, his
(18:06):
overall effectiveness. The run game went through alec Ingold in
this one. Aaron Brewers here every single week I retweeted
the Brandon Thorne highlight cutup. Someone replied to a tweet
of mine calling the Dolphins a finesse run team, and
you know what, I'm just gonna say it as nicely
as I can. I strongly disagree with you, Bucko. You
see Brewer out on the perimeter making these highlight blocks,
but he constantly overtakes the one shade when he has
(18:28):
to get wide of a player who has him out
leveraged at the snap and then steal him back inside.
His technical proficiency is fantastic, his strain, his toughness. He
is center one in the National Football League. Greg Dolsach
is a player, details details details. I talked about Westbrook
Akins release being a pivotal part of the Wattle touchdown
(18:49):
on Dulcuch's twenty three yard catch and run. He executes
the footwork and technique of a past pro set pure
pass pro set and fulfills the punch shock attach, shock
him and then pull him back towards you to kind
of slingshot yourself Ricky Bobby style shaken bake to get
into the route. It's perfectly executed. It's patient disengages into
(19:11):
the route. He completely takes that man out of the equation.
Sometimes that one extra step. This is my biggest thing
about watching Tyreek Hill on tape over the years. He
always took the extra step to help create space within
the passing structure. That one extra effort it can make
a play. And this type of stuff is all over
his tape. He also had the seal on the forced
defender on a Jalen Wright wide zone run. Job executed.
(19:35):
Man Travis has a new player to stand here. I'm
a fan of this guy and that run, the run
on the play that got called back. I mean, what's
not to love about Greg Dolsic Jaalen Waddle. I thought
he paced his routes really well on this game. Caught
the ball clean, ran in space very well and had
some damn good work in the blocking game. Shout out
to the work he does from those nasty splits in
the running game where he has to like attached to
(19:56):
a safety and just like kind of get into the
muck and the mire. This guy never complains, man like
think about what number one receivers do in terms of
like saying those crazy ass quotes we get all the
time from these guys. He never complains, never talks it,
just does dirty work and shuts his mouth. Waddle is
the number one receiver all teams desire to have. Unfortunately,
his best route of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Was not paid off.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
He smoked Brandon Stevens on a crossing route late in
the third quarter that would have been a forty three
yard touchdown, but Tua didn't see him. Austin Jackson kind
of crazy. I think he missed ten games because he
looks and mids. He's informed, punishing play at the point
of attack, overtakes reaches, squaring up blockers outside the numbers
eight yards downfield. He's been a big boost to a
(20:39):
running game that was already cooking. Jalen Wright, we have
a new LAYA candidate linear yardage accumulation a mcdanielism from
years past where he moster previously got that Moniker. This
dude hits the first tackler and gets three or four
more yards if the cavalry does not arrive, like you
have to bring the party to tackle Jalen Wright. He
is so smooth on these downhill runs where it's go
(21:00):
to a gap, make one cut and go. His combination
of urgency to the whole and just general power it's
a really nice fit in this running game.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I had two individual misses here Waller.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Maybe it's a bit nitpicky, but if he blocked literally
anybody on like a couple of these long catching runs,
we would have had huge catch and runs. I think
it's worth noting that. And then Cole strange it wasn't
even a bad game, just comparatively to the rest of
the offensive line. The pass pro on two was touchdown.
He got smoked. Malik had a pop pass on the
third touchdown drive the play before we scored where he
(21:34):
would have scored if Cole can get detached from the block.
There attached to the block.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Tua also got hit on an incomplete ball to Waller
where Cole got beat one on one again.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I think he's playing fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There's lots of good reps on his tape, but I
think that he's the one area that I'm not like
doing backflips over right now, and quite frankly, with the
guys around him, having a non tomato can at that
spot is plenty good enough and he's not a tomato can.
Snap counts for the offense. Jonah and Pat are the
only players who went all sixty five snaps. There replay
some of the offensive line towards the end of the game.
(22:05):
Cole played sixty three snaps. Austin Brewer and Tua played
fifty eight of the sixty five. Zach Wilson played seven,
Brunskill played nineteen. He got some time at guard after
they made the changes there. Larry Boren played seven snaps
and Keon Smith played two snaps. Waddle fifty one, Maleiak
thirty four, nw I twenty two, Cedric Wilson thirteen. D. S.
(22:27):
Gridge got seven snaps. Jalen Wright leaves the way for
running backs to thirty four snaps, eight Chan twenty two,
Olie Gordon sixteen. Alec Ingold also got twenty two snaps,
and then Greg Dolsitch plays thirty five snaps at tight end,
Julian Hill plays thirty three, and Darren Waller played twenty
four snaps in the game. Last break right there, we'll
come back for a lengthy third segment covering the entire defense.
(22:47):
That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
We talked about how the Dolphins got thirty four points
on the New York Steed. Let's go ahead and talk
about how they held them to ten points defensively and
generally from the first snap, the defense was just playing connected.
I mean the Jets run the switch release to the boundary.
(23:07):
A switch release is where the inside guy goes out,
outside guy goes in. They're trying to confuse your coverage
responsibilities and Ashton Davis and Rasul Douglas have a banjo
call on which is like first in, you go in,
second out. I'll take that one out and it's perfectly
executed with Davis running down the seam on this what
becomes a corner route on like a smash concept, with
the knowledge that he has Mika Fitzpatrick to take anything
(23:30):
breaking back to the inside will go ahead and inside
leverage it and if he crosses face.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There's Mica.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
If he breaks to the outside, I'm in position to
run to the outside and rasouls their squad and drive
on the underneath route. The way this team is fitting
up the run same thing. It's gotta have Anthony Weaver
watching tape in his office. Just ear to ear smiles, man.
Like the second level players are reading the flow, feeling
the flow, doing the bull dance. The guys up front
are stacking and they either disengage or the combo blocks
(23:58):
overrun the backers because they have to. Like Max strain,
Seth Lovett is going to love this show. He hates
the term strain and I have like the in the
copy here like twelve times. But they have to strain
so much just to get movement on the stout front.
It's not a mystery that the improvement upfront has correlated
to better backer play. It all works together, right. It's
(24:19):
all cyclical, money going in, money coming out. It's all
about the economics, right. It's always sunning in Philadelphia. They
cover this on an episode. They've really found the secret
sauce with their fronts. Overload opportunities, stacks three by ones, Sealer,
Biggers and KG have a lot of positional flexibility playing
inside and outside, and I think they've been able to
kind of add more to the plates of the rookies
(24:39):
and it's had this ripple effect that's allowing them to,
you know, find their second gear in this season. As
a defense man, I don't envy the job that Brady
Cook had on his plate in this game. This is
not a soft landing spot for a rookie quarterback. I
mean you talk about like they are so deep into
their disguised menu. From a coverage standpoint, he really had
(25:00):
no shot in this one. Like they walk Minca up
into the slot, t dots off the same edge as
a possible blitzer. Minco winds up bailing out into a
deep quarters a deep quarter of the deep three in
a cover six package where you have quarter quarter half
Tyrel dots and peels back into the hook zone into
that short area for short throws. And Cook actually had
the right idea and he throws the ball into the hook,
(25:22):
which is you know, you're getting that depth, so you
can't really like work back downhill, so you can take
advantage of that and throw to a receiver like hot
off the land scrimmage, but you're not gonna get it
eight yards to the sticks, and both Jack Jones and
Tyrel Dotson come in there and make the play at
the sticks. We rally up and tackle there like it's
presented as Cover zero and showing with seven players in
the possible pressure package, and it turns into a four
(25:45):
man rush with cover six. Is that is diabolical? Weaver
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Individuals stand outs here from the Dolphins defense Rasuell douglass Man,
the feel from spot drops, like that third down breakup
on the opening drive Cover two. They the tight end
downhill at him on that switch release. It's a player
I talked about in the opening segment there. They're trying
to get him to gain depth and feel responsible for
that corner route in behind him. Then they just throw
(26:11):
a little follow stick route behind that, but he sifts
through the route, attempt keeps his eyes in the quarterback,
doesn't get depth, rather drives downhill and breaks it up.
He is a high processing zone cornerback to me, the
ideal player for Weavers defense. How about Jackie Boy Jack Jones,
that's his game too. But then you get these third
down reps where they're re routing at the line of scrimmage,
(26:32):
and they're pretty damn good at that too. I also
think his improvement against the run is a testament to
Weaver and the coaching staff or like loving him up,
staying with him, supporting him. I wholeheartedly agree with my
co host on the postgame show, Jamon bush Rod, who
talked about, like when you invest in a player like
that and you put your arm around them, the return
(26:52):
becomes so much greater because now they'll strain extra for you.
He had a play on a third and eight where
they threw short of the sticks. He leaves his man
before the ball comes out and just goes and hits
the receiver with zero yak yards. His eyes take him
to so many plays and that's what playing cornerback in
this system is all about. Like a game winning pick
in Madrid for instance. And if you've got NFL Pro,
(27:14):
go watch him pressing a d Mitchell throughout this game.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
He took him out of the ball game. How many
what did Mitchell have in this game?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Ullah Jack Jones pressing him and erasing him from the
entire ledger. Yeah, he caught one ball for twenty four yards.
Congrats brother, Like, I don't know, man, I would think
long and hard about bringing both these guys back. You
get the continuity there, you get Juju Brentz back, you
get Cater Kohu back. Jason Marshall Junior has got a
lot of talent to invest into. You can develop all
(27:42):
those guys Minka Fitzpatrick factors in there. Maybe the answer
is you go find a stud safety who frees up
Minka and all of a sudden your secondary is super deep.
Can we be the team that capitalizes on Caleb downs
like falling in the draft.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm not opposed to going to a cornerback if one
falls to you, like a premier one, like if it's
man Sewer Delaye from LSU. But I think you've got
parts here right now that can really make the secondary
thrive in another year of Anthony Weavers defense. Zach seeler Man,
he was barking out plays before they happened. One gaps,
put the tackle on tight end from those wide alignments,
(28:17):
which he's getting more of because again, these young guys
are doing their thing inside and it's working. But he's
collapsing to play from the backside more and more. Gosh,
he was slipping blocks. He commands so much attention, and
when he starts thwarting these double teams, it's gonna be
a long day for the opposing offense because you cannot
afford to double and lose on seiler, not with the
way the rest of this front's playing. How about Jordan Phillips.
(28:39):
Some Jabbroni on my timeline called Jordan Phillips a jag.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's dumb. That's a dumb thing to say.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
One of the things you can you only get from
watching the tape is how much the combo man on
these you know, combination blocks up front have to make
a dent on him on these double teams. Like there
are so many reps where Jordan Brooks makes a play
because the combination blocker trying to get to him is
late because he had to give extra work and strain
(29:05):
to move Phillips off of his spot. He controls that
first guy so much that they have to have a
second block, like drive him out of the play. You
can't just chip him and climb because he's going to
stand there and make the play. Kenneth Grant had some
Jordan Phillips reps in this game, and that's what you
want to see from this guy. We'll get the flash eventually,
but right now he's building out his game. He's developing.
He's twenty one years old. He was under guys pads,
(29:27):
controlling the reps just again. Didn't get a lot of
chances to make plays, but that's okay. There's a brief
Hall run on their third drive where he presses play side,
tries to wind it all the way back, but because
Kenneth Grant stands a single block straight up and Jordan
Phillips thwarts a double team, he's got nowhere to go.
By the time he winds it back, our pursuit is
there for a tackle for loss. He had some really
(29:47):
nice stack reps against armand Membu, who's been the best
rookie tackle in football this year. Taking six slots ahead
of where KG went at number thirteen. Tyrell Dotson I
thought played really well in this game and had the
catch on the pick, which is excellent, but you know
it's worth noting a good ball there is a completion
for a first down, but I thought he did a
(30:08):
good job punishing there and there for making a mistake,
and it gave you basically forty to fifty yards in
field position.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Bradley.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Chubb's pressure numbers did not indicate this, but he pretty
routinely beat one of the game's best left tackles and
Olufashan who in true dropback situations, he had moves they
got Fashanhu off balance. It's two straight games where he's
beaten pretty good left tackles routinely. Minka Fitzpatrick. The ground
he covers, the way he can sprint to a new spot,
get his eyes on the formation and get the information
(30:36):
that he needs from that, and process and then go.
It's the lynchpin of this defense and the way we
disguise that all the different looks we run.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He's so good.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Impressed the slot, he's so good ranging over the top
from half field looks. He fits the run just fine.
He's the straw that stirs the drink here. And speaking
of half field looks, that DEPI call was horrendous.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Mela fan Wu.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I thought he did a lot of good stuff walking
up to the line of scrimmage, seeing him get more and
more comfortable in those kind of will linebacker roles. He's
playing some you know, some hook some hooked spot drops.
Almost can't say that. And like the red zone so
there's some some stuff here for if you to continue
to work on, and he's playing well in that role.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Chop Robinson.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I like the way he's getting inside penetration and looping
back inside off a zack sealer picks. Like that relationship
is starting to kind of blossom there a little bit,
and it's adding to his bag which helps him exploit
the edge, which he did on his trip sack.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I had two individual misses.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Jordan Brooks didn't play a bad game, but it wasn't
his best game, just nothing crazy, but a couple of misfits,
not his usual impactful self. And then Matthew Judon like
he missed a sack on the first play of the game.
He loses his feet on these cut blocks, which it's tough,
but he goes down to the ground a lot. There's
very loose drops in zone coverage. To me, edge is
the area you have to really kind of focus on
this offseason, kind of the one big hole right now.
(31:51):
And then obviously safety alongside Mienka could use on their
body there, maybe a linebacker alongside Jordan Brooks. Kind of
my off season checklist right there with edge being the
top one. But that's also the hardest one to find,
like ruben Bain, maybe come on down. I don't know,
just thinking out loud here about you know, a month
from now snap counts Ashton Davis the only player who
played all fifty eight snaps. Man a long week, a
nextra day of rest, and we had only forty three
(32:14):
snaps played by the rest of the defense. Max forty
three for Minka, for Brooks, for Jackie Boy and for Rasoul.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Dotson played thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
kJ Britt played twenty, Willie Gay played eighteen at safety
if he played thirty two, and Trader played twenty nine.
Sealer played thirty eight snaps, KG twenty seven, so did
Zeke twenty seven, Phillips played twenty four, and Benitol got thirteen.
In the game, Chubb played thirty seven snaps, Judeon thirty four,
Chop thirty two, and Cam Good twelve, and then Jason
(32:41):
Marshall got seventeen. Ethan Barner got sixteen. My top five tapes,
I'm not gonna go eight Chan even though he was
the best player on the field, but I had six guys.
I'm gonna take him off because I want to get
these other guys from shine here. He's in there every
single week anyways. Number five was Aaron Brewer, could have
been higher quite honestly.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Number four Jonas about you Nay.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The top five tapes Big Dog, Number three Rasul Douglas,
Number two Jack Jones, and number one was Patrick Paul.
What a great game this was to watch. I had
a lot of fun watching the film. We'll come back
on Wednesday. I believe I'm gonna have Bradley Chubb on
the podcast. That might be on Friday. Either way, you're
gonna hear him this week. We're gonna talk about Wattle's
charity event. On Monday night, we'll get into some more
(33:20):
nitty gritty football stuff as well.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Have the Thursday for you for you guys Friday variety show.
All that to go on the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
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Speaker 2 (33:44):
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