September 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Travis is back in the film room taking a look at the Dolphins 27-21 win over the Jets. What worked? What didn’t? How did they scheme it up? Who were the top performers? All of that and more answered on this episode of Drive Time!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield and on today's show, an all twenty two
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review from Miami Dolphins win. Looking forward to doing that.
We'll talk about these standouts from the game, the stand downs,
the defensive and offensive schematics, what worked, what didn't, how
the Dolphins adapted in a post Tyreek Hill world, and
also what.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The heck is going on with the run defense.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll get to all of that in a heck of
a lot more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the
Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Ye Daffy first Week four versus the New York Jets
Film review notes. Let's dive into the offense as we
do every start of these Tuesday Monday Whatever data is
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Film Review podcast and the first play of the game,
you can see coach McDaniel back on his ish in
the run game design stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Once again, it continues to be one of, if not
the most creative run game designers in the National Football League.
You get duo action from the offensive line, a cham
Is sidecar to Tua's right. His first step is to
the right, and Malik Washington comes in this orbit motion
from the left side of the formation back behind Tua.
So they're trying to sell this action that they're going
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to run one of these many Malik Washington end rounds
that he gets right. But instead of that, Tua pivots
off the line of scrimmage to his left and does
a full three to sixty spin back inside to hand
it to a Chan who put his foot in the ground,
revers his course back to the left and takes the
carry inside. And ma'am, they had this thing blocked up.
You had jets fall steps all over the defense. Devon
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just slipped on some slippery grass in this game. But man,
the creativity was there on this play throughout the course
of the night. And I am excited to get into
some of the run game DS with you guys here
because I think I think we could be seeing a
potential shift in landscape for how the Dolphins offense operates,
and we saw it in this game. And you know,
it's funny because I talked about Darren Waller as the
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point man on bunches and stacks in the podcast last night,
but the first thing down, the first third down of
the game. They motion him into a bunch with Malik
Washington at the point, and the Jets go with it.
They follow the motion to indicate man coverage and we
switch release it where you have basically, you know, if
it's me and you to my left, I'm gonna run
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my route to the left, you're gonna run yours to
the right. We're gonna switch our pre snap formation in
terms of where the routes go. It's a switch release
and it creates a collision with Waller at the defensive
back right around the five yard mark, and then from
there you get Waller essentially resetting the line of scrimmage
five yards down the field to create this two way
go situation for himself where he can then engage, you
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know physically. The dentist system believe that's the E and
the tennis system engage physically, separate entirely. That's basically what
Darren Waller does right here where he breaks inside and
it's free access to an easy grab for him. When
you play off the bunch, you can't press up right,
so if Waller is stacked behind somebody, you can't press him,
which allows him to kind of take that release where
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he resets it, and then if you don't win immediately
off the release, he's free into the secondary. And when
you're at that five yard landmark as well, you better
be careful about your contact because if you hold it
for another yard backwards, all of a sudden, you're in
the illegal zone as far as where you can put
hands on guys and they'll throw a flag on you.
So a nice smooth man cover beater to kick things off.
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But I also wrote this note here in my All
twenty two film review. The Jets are just really bad
that Tyreek conversion. On the opening drive. They play half
man half zone combination to one side of the field
and they try to disguise it, but like the man
they're trying to show the man that is capping ty
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which means he's lined up across from him. He's ten
yards off and bails before the snap into a twenty
yard cushion and nobody ever picks him up. So Tyreek
runs ten yards unimpeded to the sticks and just shows
his numbers to.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The quarterback and the balls right on him.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That is as easy as it ever will get for
a quarterback for a receiver for any offense to pitch
and catch for a first down. They are so undisciplined
in their gaps, like they try to back door plays
when they shouldn't. They cheat the scheme. It is just
they don't tackle well. Their pursuit angles are awful, Their
effort is bad. It is terrible, terrible football. If I
woke up today a Jets fan, I would mean the
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last three weeks in the podcast have been pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If I woke up today's a Jets fan like you have,
they have nothing to hang their hat on. Like maybe
Justin Fields is a fun, create, creative quarterback like you
know for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Is he the long term solution? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But as far as the coaching and the effort and
the way they play it and the talent on the roster,
will always have the Jetsmiths guys. I think the Dolphins
found something that we haven't seen in the last couple
of years with the play action half field reads. And
maybe I shouldn't say the last couple of years, the
last Yeah, I think going back to twenty four, the
first play at the second quarter, that's the genesis of
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the entire offense. We're gonna break it down Dolphins HQ
for you guys, and I had a fun time breaking
down the Dolphins offense for this episode. But they're gonna
threaten the wide zone and get overplay, and that's what
this offense is created to do, right, and throw the
ball back against the grain of the overplay. You condense
the formation, which means you pull your receivers in tight.
Nobody was aligned wide of the numbers on the field,
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even the boundary receiver the short side of the field,
the short hash marks of the sideline is inside the numbers,
and the Jets are in the soft cover three presentation.
That becomes quite frankly, I don't know what it is,
because the post safety sprints down and winds up collisioning
on Julian Hill and kind of like picks Sauce naturally,
who then doesn't really carry Tyreek on a drag route
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and it is eventually becomes man coverage and they wind
up chasing Julian Hill on the overout and you leave
Tyreek Hill by himself on drag.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know how you get.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
To that design, how you get to that conclusion, to
that result, but you just see the entire front of
the Jets and that safety bite on the misdirection of
the Dolphins, and I think some of the early ball
handling and play fakes and just general design of the
run game kind of had them on their heels in
this one. And you got some free yards out of
those looks because of the ability to run the ball
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and Tua's job selling the ball fakes and selling the
ball handling, and the offensive lines selling of the fake
right that the play they're not going to run, and
all those different run game looks. It looked outstanding in
that regard really from jump and then you get that
little blind flip play from Tua that people have you know,
come to fall in love with here for the last
couple of years, where he you know, tosses it behind
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his body without looking, and it's it's off of a
power look, a power run scheme with the lead motion man.
They flip it back to Malik Washington, and there's just
so many defenders for the Jets out leverage like that's
what you try to create, positive angles for your blockers
and your runners in the running game, and McDaniel was
in his bag in that regard. My favorite part of
all of it was the design after Tyreek's injury. Twenty
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two personnel, two backs, two tight ends, heavy football, line
up and out, execute the man across from you, and
the run action on one play to the boot action
on the next play, which is a wall or touchdown
his second of the game creates the overplay, creates confusion,
creates defensive collisions with each other, and it we kind
of took it too in that regard. I'm really excited
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to see what the stack can cook up for the
offense off those particular looks. I've been asking for this
for a while now, right, and Kyle Krabs was texting
me all summer long saying like we can move ten
and pivot this offense into more of a ground and pound,
you know, waddle based distribution, offensive passing attack with a
heavy run game. Well, now you might get your chance
because I think we've been we've been trending this way
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for a while at this offense, and now because of
the injury, you might be kind of forced into that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'm not excited about losing Tyreek Hill, but I am
excited about what the pivot could possibly be if they
can execute it at a high level. The next drive,
you get alec Ingold and Julian Hill attached and balanced.
Twelve personnel. This is twenty one personal actually because Ingold
he's kind of a tight end in a full back.
But they were able to add a gap to either side,
so you put a tight end outside of either tackle
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that's balanced. You put them both on the same side
of the formation that is unbalanced. And with Ali Gordon
the back, it's a pretty big running back, Nick Westbrook
a kne it's a big wide receiver, and Jalen Waddle
that's your twenty one personnel package. That's another big people package.
Consider me very intrigued by those and McDaniel talked about
this in his press conference. Stakes I asked him, part
of the game planning process is to have natural contingencies
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for any possible situation, whether it's losing your star receiver
for the entire game or a player tapping because they
just ran a a twenty yard motion into a forty
five yard sprint on a go ball and they got
to catch their breath and man that hn touchdown run
Nwi cracks back inside. Alec Ingold hits a lead block
on the perimeter, Julian Hill seals the backside. That's just
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beating the other team with execution, just being better at
football than they are. And that's fun to see. It's
fun to out scheme guys, but it's also fun just
to go beat them. I think when you can do
both of those things, that's when you get championship level football.
I'm not saying we're there, but that's the idea behind
this entire game of football, right and after those touchdowns,
you know, just lining up and running at them from
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those heavier personnel groupings.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I still think that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oli Gordon might be more of your four down offensive back,
but I understand why you want to go eight Chan
because he can hit the home run in that spot
and call game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But do you need home runs there?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Because eight yard runs kind of work in the same
way where if you can get first downs, you know,
after two runs and milk, you know, a minute and
twenty seconds off the clock every time you do that,
that's going to be really effective four minute offense closing
games out. So impressive football, man, impressive football. And go
look at Cole Strange on the combo block on the
twenty two yard run from e Chan that damn near popped.
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He was really really effective on that particular play. Much
like when they brought a shoot who was last year
who do they put in at right guard in the
Niners game down the stretch and ah and had that
touchdown run. Was it Isaiah I can't remember who it was,
Isaiah Win. I think it was Isaiah Win right rotating
with Leam Eikenberg.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was like that.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It looked just like that play as far as the
quarterback position goes to it was excellent. This was the
two that I thought we were gonna get all year
long that we didn't see for the first three games
of the season. I do not think the line had
their best game. And he didn't take any sacks and
didn't turn the ball over. That alone is elite stuff
from your quarterback position. From the first drive, like he
threw an incomplete ball to Alie Gordon where both guards
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got beat instantaneously, and he was quick twitch off the
spot and got out of a negative play and threw
incomplete He just consistently moved off the spot. He looked springy,
he looks spry, and he made good decisions on the move.
It was accurate from different platforms mechanically, this was the
quarterback that we thought we had. I mean, far and
away his best game from a mechanic standpoint, the player
where Larry Boram got hit with the holding call, the
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pocket is collapsing from the inside, and he just keeps
the feet active, moves a tiny little bit, and has
a good foundation to drive the football. I don't think
that was the case in the first three games for him.
And if this continues, like it puts me back in
this situation where like, it's strange to me because those
three games wasn't like an unplayable quarterback on balance, you know, cumulatively.
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But I am fascinated by what his trajectory is from
here because this happens sometimes I don't love it. But
if he goes off and rips off eight consecutive games
like this, then this team's gonna win a bunch of
football games, and it just makes the conversation interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That was winning quarterback play. The first three games were not.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I suppose the rest of the year kind of we
did this with Tannehill a lot where you'd kind of
fall out of favor and then you'd come back and
be like, well that's pretty good, and then you would
kind of the rest of the year would feel like
an evaluation. And perhaps that is the answer you need
if you're in that situation and year six or seven,
maybe it's time to, you know, think about something else.
But I can't, you know, I can't sit here and
tell you the quarterback against the Jets was anything but
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really good. That's what was The deep ball to Waddle
was capital a anticipation. He knew he had man coverage,
he knew that corner wasn't going to survive the rub
throws it before the receivers even leaving leaving and even
even Stephen Levin.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bevin, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To the right side of the formation, throws it to
open grass right and stride for a big play. The
throw on the Waller touchdown is even more impressive on
tape because the concept on the front side of the
formation from the trips bunch. They had did a great
job to get Waller space with two outside releases from
the interior route runners, and then he takes an inside
leverage release on Sauce Gardner wins it stacks him, but
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Brandon Stevens is on the back side of the formation
and he falls back into the window. He sinks back
into the window there, and he's in great shape to
make a play on the ball, maybe even pick it
off if it's not well thrown. But it's perfectly thrown
right at the crossbar. Timing touch, fading away from pressure
location vintage Tua on that play. He dealt with pressure
from those two guard positions frequently, and the right tackle
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position bore him. Not a good night Cole Strange very
up and down, mostly down. After watching the tape and
Jonas Savit and Aya really really struggling so far four
games into his NFL career, and Tua was able to
navigate all of that. The throw to Tyreek on the
injury play was high, high level stuff man third and eight.
He knows he's got man coverage far hash out route
cuts it loose before Tyreek even sinks the hips into
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the break read. The leverage ball was right on the
money on a critical third down conversion. I gotta say
on the scramble, first off, dude, that is way too close.
What are you doing? But also he had guys open.
I wish he would do a better job when he
breaks contain of keeping his eyes down the field to
attack with his arm. Because he's more deadly that way,
and there was opportunities down the field when he broke
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contain on that play. And again just the off script plays,
you know, both incomplete on our drive after the consecutive
touchdowns in the second half, the feet just looks so
much smoother. The way he gets himself into position to
be a threat to either move or to throw from
that spot. He looked in total command, the feet, trust
the conviction that he played with. That's the two what
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we've seen in the past, and we got it all
night here against the Jets. So let's go ahead and
pause for a quick break right there, come back and
talk about these downs on offense, the stand downs on offense,
and we'll get into that defensive tape and take you
through the entire first drive and what the heck the
Jets did to stuff it down the Dolphins throw on
that drive. That's all Next Drivetime Podcast, brought to you
by AutoNation. Right, we talked about the quarterback position. How
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about the other folks on offense that performed at a
high level. Aaron Brewer, it is copy and paste for
this guy. Man. The stuff where he gets wide in
the running game is every single week, but the way
he is in past protection has become just as impressive.
He is so patient with a great set. He'll throw
one hand up, engage the rusher and then kind of
wait to see how the rep materializes and matures from
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there before throwing the second hand based upon the positioning
of the first punch that he lands.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's just all so smooth. He can work in concert.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He can break up the hands in the feet but
not get himself like tongue tied, as it were, the
way the rookie next to him has. He settles into
his stance and just mirrors guys so impressively. Good squatty body,
good like butt to the floor frame in terms of
that a stance that he takes. He's also a massive
help to the guards in pass pro. They squeezed a
lot of pass pro reps in this game, and he
was constantly making the guards right when they otherwise probably weren't.
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Devon h Cham he has really walked the walk this year.
What I mean by that is that, you know, he
made the comment this offseason about leaving yards on the
field searching for big plays, which I thought was an
apt observation by himself, but now his tracks, his angles
to leverage, the way he cuts the power, he just
looks like an all Pro back and our second third
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down conversion the little stick to reek. He has an
a gap assignment in pass pro and he goes and
gets it. Man, go put a helmet on that guy's
face mask, does it, executes it, gets a good enough
pocket for two to execute, and some of the stuff
they can call where it's like, hey, Devon, this is
your responsibility. We're gonna leave this man unblocked and make
him miss. And he goes and does it. He is
a special, special player. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Man with Devon Ahgen, he's a special looking player right
here on Spider through white Banana. Man, I'll tell you what.
I'll get him the football as much as I possibly can. Man.
Julian Hill has played back to back good football games.
I talked about the light coming on for him last week,
continued this week. He's squaring up his blocks out wide,
he's playing physical when he's attached to the line of scrimmage,
and now he's getting involved in the passing game.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's kind of the next step of his evolution.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
If he can be a factor as an eligible just
as a Durham smythe roll right like they're gonna leave
him alone, catch it and go put your shoulder into
someone's face mask and run through him like it's been nice.
Been getting deeper into the tape. He buoyed some guys
on some wide runs. Another really good game from eighty nine.
Patrick Paul is an ass kicker in the running game man.
Some of his combo attachments at the second level, they're amazing.
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They slide protection away from him, no problem. Will McDonald
didn't do a damn thing against him. What a stud
Patrick Paul is. Watch him on a little flip play
to Malik Washington where he chips and clown and cleans
out a linebacker ten yards downfield outside the numbers. He
did have a couple more losses than usual where he
kind of dropped his head like on the Devon e
Chan run to open the second half and got beat
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for a bad loss there. But by and large, Patrick
Paul has been a very very good love tackle for
your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
How about Darren waller Man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
The acrobatic ability at that size is just something not
many guys have, and one game in it's clear he
still got it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's got the chops.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I just like the timing and patience and the understanding
of his routes and the timing with Tua, and he
knows how to initiate and disengage from contact. You know,
the Dennis system is working for him. He plays through
collisions in a way that we haven't seen from our
eligible since. Like Charles Clay, I only think that's a
good name drop, like Oroande Gadston, like it goes that
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far back. Maybe Brandon Marshall. I guess, I don't know.
You got to go quite a ways back. Also check
out alec Ingolds cut block on the first wall or
touchdown massively important pass pro pick up there from the captain.
And also watch Waller's route on the Wreek injury play,
the way he commits to the inside release and occupies
a man defender. If he doesn't give you full detail
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on that route, that player could have recognized that fallen
off into the thronging lane and possibly picked that off.
All eleven have to do their job right. Speaking of Tyreek,
you saw him make plays. It was one of his
best games in a while. He also blocked his butt off.
I thought he was just excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
All game long.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Gonna miss him in the passing offense. Nick Westbrook a Keene,
speaking of the passing offense, just watched him in the
running game. He's one of the most proficient run blocking
receivers I've ever studied. As far as the misses on offense,
they weren't that many. But Jonah, I don't know, man,
It's been the same thing, static feet, lunging, bending at
the waist, not the knees. He gets discarded one on
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one and pass pro way too frequently. I think there's
some good displacement where he gets into his surge right
off the snap. And it makes me wonder if there's
a possibility of powering or pivoting to more power in
the running game, because it seems like that's gonna suit
him better at least right now in his career, and
they probably should with the loss of Tyree Kill. But
he is really struggling right now. Malik Washington, I just
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thought his decisions in the screen game weren't great, and
they were worse on tape. He got to hit that
thing up in there upon a rewatch. I thought Cole
Strange struggled. I was wrong about that. He had some
good plays in there, including the big eight Chan run
at the end, but they were able to swipe his
hands down and kind of chop him, get him off balance,
and pass pro quite a bit. And Larry Borum, I'd
said he was good last night. Wrong, wrong, what are
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you talking about?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He was not good.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
He got beat so bad on one of Tua's best
plays of the night, that throw a tyreek in the
two minute drill at the end of the first half.
He got beat so bad that his only option was
to bring his man down with him and he got
caught for a holding call. Snap counts offensively to and
the entire offensive line go the distance they played fifty
eight snaps. Would love to see a game where we
get sixty plus snaps these seven to eight posession games
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and running, you know, fifty five snaps a games. That's
why you're not scoring a ton of points. Waddle fifty two,
Reek twenty four, Malik twenty eight, Westbrook AAKA twenty seven.
That's kind of your big jump right there, right Westbrook A.
Kine gets the twenty seven snaps, We'll probably see how
Taj Washington gets incorporated. Now ds Gridge got four snaps
and Cedric Wilson reportedly will sign to the Dolphins roster,
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so we probably see some more of him as he
knows the offense. He can get in the right of
way as well, and that would coincide with more big
body blockers in the running game at the running back position.
Eight Chan forty four, Allie Gordon fifteen, Alec Ingle thirty
one snaps. I think Aleck probably isn't for an increase
in workload two because of the Tyreek injury. And then
it tied ends this is the split I want Julian
Hill forty, tan oer' connor nine, and then why didn't
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even get Waller snaps? Let me get that real quick
for you, Boom sixteen snaps for Darren Waller. Let's go
ahead and turn the page and talk about the defense
here real quick. We'll go ahead and pause for a break. First,
come back to the defense and the top five tapes
on the other side. Draft Time Podcast brought to you
by Auto Nation. All right, defensively, tough night for the
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Miami Dolphins on that side of the football. I want
to just go ahead and get into the run game stuff.
The Jets were able to accomplish on that first drive
because It kind of tells you where the biggest struggle
on this entire team is right now. And the first
play is an inside zone run. They fold over both
double teams where Jordan Phillips tries to plant, can't do it.
Kenneth Grant comes out of his stands way too high
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and gets displaced. Both ends, Seiler and Butler get widened
by single blocks, I mean the single blocks the double teams.
Four for four, like you you know, that's how you
allow runs in baseball, right, four straight hits? They got
four straight hits? Did the Jets offensive line on this
one play? The next rep is lead a lead running
play where the tight end displaces Chubb two gaps, Kenny
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gets folded up again. Then our first pass play. The
Jets passing game design is so high school, like they
went mirrored stick flat combost that came to static ends
and the entire offense just kind of watch justin field
try to create. I'm not sure what that's trying to accomplish.
They come back to the running game, smart outside zone
run for a first down and second down they display Seiler.
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That's been happening for four games straight. They hit that
pass with a great catch by Allen. They come back
to the pin pole scheme, pin and poll running scheme.
Kenny gets displaced again. Chop hits a brick wall on
the kickout block the split flow action, Brooks has to
take on a lead block and they're able to get
a down block on Tyrell Dotson. It's tough living for
the linebackers man when they're catching climbs five yards down
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the field and have to try to disengage around the
block and find it, you know, try to scrape off
of that and get over a block and make a
play on the runner. It's just not gonna happen for
those guys. Another drop back pass, another field scramble. We
send seven, including double cats. That's double cornerback Blitzeres with
both Jack and Razool. They both win. But fields can
step around that, as most athletic quarterbacks can. When you
don't pressure the interior, there's no interior pressure there. Chop
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gets doubled and they wipe him out. Then Kenneth Grant,
Benito Jones, and Matthew Butler all gets stammied on one
on one opportunities. You cannot go zero for three in
your one on one pass rush. Opportunities and have any success.
And that's what I was worried about back in camp.
I thought the defensive line did a better job in
Camp in the running game, and that hasn't translated. But
the pass rush wasn't there, and that's what Zach playing
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like he is right there. There's just been no White
Knight coming to save us so far at that position.
And I gotta say, you know, thank the heavens for
Jordan Brooks because we get steamrolled. But he kept us
in some of those plays where it looked incredibly bleak
at times, like the next play was a little zone read,
and he diagnoses it, sinks into the blocking scheme and
makes the play. He was kind of the saving grace
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on some of these plays back there. The next one
is outside zone from pistol where Zach Sealer gets stood
straight up and pushed over two gaps. But you know,
Jones does a good job of not falling into the
wash and Bradley Chubb pursues it from the backside for
a stop, so that's a rundown win creates a third
and five. They run it again on third and five
in you know, mid red zone. They dial up duo
Kenneth Grant gets driven out once again and actually trips
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the running back. I don't know how they didn't call that.
He stuck his leg out there and just tripped him.
Don't show a Jets fan that play. Then we go
we cover a first and fifteen. Well, but it's I
legal hands in the face, fresh shut of downs. We
do a good job on duo on the first play,
the first and goal, and that led to the Jack
Jones play where you kind of kick this thing off
with the goods the good plays, and it was even
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better on tape. I think this offensive formation is sort
of instructive for how teams are gonna roll things out
against this Dolphins defense. Going forward, they had five their
five down linemen. They had an offset attached wise where
you have one on the line of scrimmage, one off
of line scrimage, but both attached to the tackle, so
double wise. And then they put a full back directly
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behind the left guard stacked behind him, so they had
with the running back over from that side as well.
They had six players left of center with then fields
and then the three offensive lines, so ten of their
guys are in this box, six on one side of
the formation. And Jack goes in motion with the fullback
who came from a wide alignment to that stack position,
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and he winds up fitting the A gap, which I'm
not sure I've ever seen a cornerback do that before,
Like the B gap maybe for a slot corner, but
your perimeter cornerback in the A gap, I've never seen
that before.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And he does it successfully.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
He forces a cutback and then he wheels back out
and puts a hand on the football with a diving effort.
That's probably the play of the year so far by
a Dolphins defender or maybe Dolphins in general. It was
a great play by Jack Jones. And but yeah, like
the way the Jets got down there, variety of run scheme,
but the results were most of the same. Vertical displacement.
Miami can't beat blocks on double teams or even single blocks,
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and it makes life very difficult on these off ball linebackers.
Not a lot of surge and getting knocked back down
in and down out. But the next play is just
a terrible fit. I don't get what we're doing in
our fits from depth, Like I don't get the lack
of physicality upfront. I don't know if there's a fix
there for either of those two solutions. And that's why
as much as I'm excited about where the offense can
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go from here, it's you're probably gonna play a lot
of games like that where you're trying to hang on
for dear life and try to win it late, which
with this operation in this quarterback hasn't been their strong suit.
There's not a ton of scheme breakdown because it was
mostly up and play football and run the ball right.
They got some passing game success against some softer coverages
that came with big leads. I think if the run
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defense had performed well, you could have seen a blowout
where the pass defense was making plays because there were
some opportunities for plays and the few plays they did have,
but there just wasn't enough opportunities and you're not getting
any of those because teams are going to run the
ball down your throats and make big plays.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I do think this though.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Until they can be gap sound, until they can fit
the run with rush with lane degrity, they probably need
to get away from some of the sim pressures, some
of the rush diskise, the rotation stuff in the back end.
Like I hate simplifying your defense, but if you can't
do the one oh one stuff like Kevin Dertn told us,
then how the hell are you going to get into
the five to zero one stuff like it? It's further
complicit with the scheme when you got guys not adhering
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to it, like for instance, the strip sack the fourth
and five, the passing situation right that was the best
design of the entire night. Jordan Brooks moves right before
the snap and walks down off the edge and he
winds up like dummy, blitzing and picking up the running
back and coverage. And then from there t Dot takes
almost like a delayed path blitz to the quarterback and
it causes a protection issue where you get this brilliant
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call and a well time run by Jordan Brooks, and
Phillips does a good job of setting the right tackle
wide and then crossing face to kind of create that
squeeze that gives t Dot the lane to run through,
and t Dot takes a great angle, breaks down an
open field, puts a hand on the football and for once,
Justin Fields can't get away from the pass rush, and
they use Chubb to chip and bracket Garrett Wilson and
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they go man across the board with a single high
safety in the post, everybody gets locked up. That was
your best defensive play of the season on balance with
Jack Jones having the best effort individually on the previous
strip sack or the previous strip play in this game.
So standout performers. Jack Jones the punch out. I thought
he was in good shape on the Wilson OPI call.
I like the way he competed as he usually does.
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He's physical man his reroutes. They're effective for a guy
that's not the biggest player, he sure does play with
a lot of physicality and punches above his weight class often.
I thought was Douglas was good. He got beat one
time on a truly sensational catch. His sack was excellent
mirroring of the quarterback while dealing with a blocker in
front of him that he could beat, and then he
finished damn near got to pick undercutting a football later
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in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good day for Rasull Douglas.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Mika Fitzpatrick had a big hit on an incomplete pass too.
I think it was Breesse Hall where he came out
of nowhere Randy Orton style and puts a stop to
that had the fumble recovery. I like the way he
challenged the Jets tight ends in the blocking game as well,
and then Jordan Brooks. The only time he doesn't really
make a play is if the defensive tackles get washed
into his lap. Otherwise he reads it, he scrapes it,
he hits it, and goes eighteen tackles all over the field.
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Good job scraping off some of the tough to replays
in the running game. Looked good in coverage. Had some
good rush where he forced fields into a throw away
at one point. Fun player to watch as far as
the misses. I mean Kenneth Grant, It's like him and
Jonah have both really struggled. He's just playing too high.
He's got to get lower in his pad level. I
think Zac Seeler looks like a different player this year.
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Like watch him next to Jordan Phillips. Phillips was playing
of attack like coming out of the stance. It's a
diagonal line where he plays up through the face mask
of the player of the offensive lineman. He strikes the
chest and plays through it, driving his man back. Seeler
comes out of these stands, is flat footed and like
is catching the way Patrick Paul would catch his pass
pro reps as a rookie and then tries to disengage,
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like he's letting the offensive line dictate the play in
front of him. I never saw this from him in
six years, and now here it does on tape. It's
it's crazy to me. Matthew Butler couldn't drop the anchor
all night. Banito Jones looked more like Lions Benito Jones
or first time around Dolphins Benito Jones. No splash, no
real stake, just kind of out there. Chopp is on
a milk carton right now. I hate to say it,
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but he's just not made an impact. His one great
rep getting off the snap, he blew by the right
tackle and then couldn't get fields down. That was the
only play really noticed him as far as making an impact.
Tyrell Dotson the sack fumble was great. I thought it
was more scheme. But man, these these soft hook drops
where we're kind of just covering grass and you know,
playing eight ten yards off the ball, they fear me.
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And then Ashton Davis the angles of pursuit. I thought
he was late in his keys. And that's about it. Man,
snap counts Minka t Dot, Jordan Brooks and Jack Jones
all go the distance sixty three snaps. Razul Douglas missed
one snap. Cornell Armstrong played twenty seven in the slot.
Zach Seedler played fifty snaps in this game, Kenneth Grant
twenty nine, Matthew Butler twenty seven, Jordan Phillips sixteen, and
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Benito Jones thirteen. So that rotation is kind of all
over the place. That's the group that has to figure
it out. Man. That's been the worst part of the
entire roster so far. Jalen Phillips played forty eight snaps.
Chub Bradley Chubb played forty six, and I think you
gotta get more from both those guys, especially Bradley Chubb.
I probably should have put in the missus category. He
got planted by armand Membu a couple times in this game.
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Not a lot of juice, law of displacement off the edge,
soft edges. In the running game, Chop played twenty two snaps.
Was not impactful. Judahon played fifteen, Willie Gay played three
again and then at safety Ashton Davis played fifty three.
He has taken the job of Ifi Melafamu eighteen snaps
for Iffy and Dante Trey played ten snaps on defense.
Top five tapes. Tool was the best player on the
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field for Miami last night. I think Devon ah Chan
next and Tyreek Hilled next. All three of those guys,
you could have put them in any order for me.
That would have worked for me. I have Aaron Brewer
fourth and Jack Jones fifth. Best tape, so Tua Han,
Tyreek Brewer, and Jack Jones, and that's it. Fun win,
just frustrating defensive performance, some fun stuff on offense. I'm
very curious see where we go next week against the Panthers,
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hopefully a second straight win. We'll preview that game on
the Thursday podcast. We'll have the Football Friday Show for
you guys, and then it's right back to football weekend
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Until next time, burn drop Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield and on today's show, an all twenty two
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review from Miami Dolphins win. Looking forward to doing that.
We'll talk about these standouts from the game, the stand downs,
the defensive and offensive schematics, what worked, what didn't, how
the Dolphins adapted in a post Tyreek Hill world, and
also what.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The heck is going on with the run defense.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll get to all of that in a heck of
a lot more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the
Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Ye Daffy first Week four versus the New York Jets
Film review notes. Let's dive into the offense as we
do every start of these Tuesday Monday Whatever data is
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Film Review podcast and the first play of the game,
you can see coach McDaniel back on his ish in
the run game design stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Once again, it continues to be one of, if not
the most creative run game designers in the National Football League.
You get duo action from the offensive line, a cham
Is sidecar to Tua's right. His first step is to
the right, and Malik Washington comes in this orbit motion
from the left side of the formation back behind Tua.
So they're trying to sell this action that they're going
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to run one of these many Malik Washington end rounds
that he gets right. But instead of that, Tua pivots
off the line of scrimmage to his left and does
a full three to sixty spin back inside to hand
it to a Chan who put his foot in the ground,
revers his course back to the left and takes the
carry inside. And ma'am, they had this thing blocked up.
You had jets fall steps all over the defense. Devon
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just slipped on some slippery grass in this game. But man,
the creativity was there on this play throughout the course
of the night. And I am excited to get into
some of the run game DS with you guys here
because I think I think we could be seeing a
potential shift in landscape for how the Dolphins offense operates,
and we saw it in this game. And you know,
it's funny because I talked about Darren Waller as the
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point man on bunches and stacks in the podcast last night,
but the first thing down, the first third down of
the game. They motion him into a bunch with Malik
Washington at the point, and the Jets go with it.
They follow the motion to indicate man coverage and we
switch release it where you have basically, you know, if
it's me and you to my left, I'm gonna run
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my route to the left, you're gonna run yours to
the right. We're gonna switch our pre snap formation in
terms of where the routes go. It's a switch release
and it creates a collision with Waller at the defensive
back right around the five yard mark, and then from
there you get Waller essentially resetting the line of scrimmage
five yards down the field to create this two way
go situation for himself where he can then engage, you
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know physically. The dentist system believe that's the E and
the tennis system engage physically, separate entirely. That's basically what
Darren Waller does right here where he breaks inside and
it's free access to an easy grab for him. When
you play off the bunch, you can't press up right,
so if Waller is stacked behind somebody, you can't press him,
which allows him to kind of take that release where
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he resets it, and then if you don't win immediately
off the release, he's free into the secondary. And when
you're at that five yard landmark as well, you better
be careful about your contact because if you hold it
for another yard backwards, all of a sudden, you're in
the illegal zone as far as where you can put
hands on guys and they'll throw a flag on you.
So a nice smooth man cover beater to kick things off.
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But I also wrote this note here in my All
twenty two film review. The Jets are just really bad
that Tyreek conversion. On the opening drive. They play half
man half zone combination to one side of the field
and they try to disguise it, but like the man
they're trying to show the man that is capping ty
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which means he's lined up across from him. He's ten
yards off and bails before the snap into a twenty
yard cushion and nobody ever picks him up. So Tyreek
runs ten yards unimpeded to the sticks and just shows
his numbers to.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The quarterback and the balls right on him.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That is as easy as it ever will get for
a quarterback for a receiver for any offense to pitch
and catch for a first down. They are so undisciplined
in their gaps, like they try to back door plays
when they shouldn't. They cheat the scheme. It is just
they don't tackle well. Their pursuit angles are awful, Their
effort is bad. It is terrible, terrible football. If I
woke up today a Jets fan, I would mean the
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last three weeks in the podcast have been pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If I woke up today's a Jets fan like you have,
they have nothing to hang their hat on. Like maybe
Justin Fields is a fun, create, creative quarterback like you
know for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Is he the long term solution? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But as far as the coaching and the effort and
the way they play it and the talent on the roster,
will always have the Jetsmiths guys. I think the Dolphins
found something that we haven't seen in the last couple
of years with the play action half field reads. And
maybe I shouldn't say the last couple of years, the
last Yeah, I think going back to twenty four, the
first play at the second quarter, that's the genesis of
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the entire offense. We're gonna break it down Dolphins HQ
for you guys, and I had a fun time breaking
down the Dolphins offense for this episode. But they're gonna
threaten the wide zone and get overplay, and that's what
this offense is created to do, right, and throw the
ball back against the grain of the overplay. You condense
the formation, which means you pull your receivers in tight.
Nobody was aligned wide of the numbers on the field,
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even the boundary receiver the short side of the field,
the short hash marks of the sideline is inside the numbers,
and the Jets are in the soft cover three presentation.
That becomes quite frankly, I don't know what it is,
because the post safety sprints down and winds up collisioning
on Julian Hill and kind of like picks Sauce naturally,
who then doesn't really carry Tyreek on a drag route
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and it is eventually becomes man coverage and they wind
up chasing Julian Hill on the overout and you leave
Tyreek Hill by himself on drag.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know how you get.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
To that design, how you get to that conclusion, to
that result, but you just see the entire front of
the Jets and that safety bite on the misdirection of
the Dolphins, and I think some of the early ball
handling and play fakes and just general design of the
run game kind of had them on their heels in
this one. And you got some free yards out of
those looks because of the ability to run the ball
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and Tua's job selling the ball fakes and selling the
ball handling, and the offensive lines selling of the fake
right that the play they're not going to run, and
all those different run game looks. It looked outstanding in
that regard really from jump and then you get that
little blind flip play from Tua that people have you know,
come to fall in love with here for the last
couple of years, where he you know, tosses it behind
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his body without looking, and it's it's off of a
power look, a power run scheme with the lead motion man.
They flip it back to Malik Washington, and there's just
so many defenders for the Jets out leverage like that's
what you try to create, positive angles for your blockers
and your runners in the running game, and McDaniel was
in his bag in that regard. My favorite part of
all of it was the design after Tyreek's injury. Twenty
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two personnel, two backs, two tight ends, heavy football, line
up and out, execute the man across from you, and
the run action on one play to the boot action
on the next play, which is a wall or touchdown
his second of the game creates the overplay, creates confusion,
creates defensive collisions with each other, and it we kind
of took it too in that regard. I'm really excited
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to see what the stack can cook up for the
offense off those particular looks. I've been asking for this
for a while now, right, and Kyle Krabs was texting
me all summer long saying like we can move ten
and pivot this offense into more of a ground and pound,
you know, waddle based distribution, offensive passing attack with a
heavy run game. Well, now you might get your chance
because I think we've been we've been trending this way
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for a while at this offense, and now because of
the injury, you might be kind of forced into that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'm not excited about losing Tyreek Hill, but I am
excited about what the pivot could possibly be if they
can execute it at a high level. The next drive,
you get alec Ingold and Julian Hill attached and balanced.
Twelve personnel. This is twenty one personal actually because Ingold
he's kind of a tight end in a full back.
But they were able to add a gap to either side,
so you put a tight end outside of either tackle
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that's balanced. You put them both on the same side
of the formation that is unbalanced. And with Ali Gordon
the back, it's a pretty big running back, Nick Westbrook
a kne it's a big wide receiver, and Jalen Waddle
that's your twenty one personnel package. That's another big people package.
Consider me very intrigued by those and McDaniel talked about
this in his press conference. Stakes I asked him, part
of the game planning process is to have natural contingencies
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for any possible situation, whether it's losing your star receiver
for the entire game or a player tapping because they
just ran a a twenty yard motion into a forty
five yard sprint on a go ball and they got
to catch their breath and man that hn touchdown run
Nwi cracks back inside. Alec Ingold hits a lead block
on the perimeter, Julian Hill seals the backside. That's just
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beating the other team with execution, just being better at
football than they are. And that's fun to see. It's
fun to out scheme guys, but it's also fun just
to go beat them. I think when you can do
both of those things, that's when you get championship level football.
I'm not saying we're there, but that's the idea behind
this entire game of football, right and after those touchdowns,
you know, just lining up and running at them from
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those heavier personnel groupings.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I still think that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oli Gordon might be more of your four down offensive back,
but I understand why you want to go eight Chan
because he can hit the home run in that spot
and call game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But do you need home runs there?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Because eight yard runs kind of work in the same
way where if you can get first downs, you know,
after two runs and milk, you know, a minute and
twenty seconds off the clock every time you do that,
that's going to be really effective four minute offense closing
games out. So impressive football, man, impressive football. And go
look at Cole Strange on the combo block on the
twenty two yard run from e Chan that damn near popped.
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He was really really effective on that particular play. Much
like when they brought a shoot who was last year
who do they put in at right guard in the
Niners game down the stretch and ah and had that
touchdown run. Was it Isaiah I can't remember who it was,
Isaiah Win. I think it was Isaiah Win right rotating
with Leam Eikenberg.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was like that.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It looked just like that play as far as the
quarterback position goes to it was excellent. This was the
two that I thought we were gonna get all year
long that we didn't see for the first three games
of the season. I do not think the line had
their best game. And he didn't take any sacks and
didn't turn the ball over. That alone is elite stuff
from your quarterback position. From the first drive, like he
threw an incomplete ball to Alie Gordon where both guards
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got beat instantaneously, and he was quick twitch off the
spot and got out of a negative play and threw
incomplete He just consistently moved off the spot. He looked springy,
he looks spry, and he made good decisions on the move.
It was accurate from different platforms mechanically, this was the
quarterback that we thought we had. I mean, far and
away his best game from a mechanic standpoint, the player
where Larry Boram got hit with the holding call, the
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pocket is collapsing from the inside, and he just keeps
the feet active, moves a tiny little bit, and has
a good foundation to drive the football. I don't think
that was the case in the first three games for him.
And if this continues, like it puts me back in
this situation where like, it's strange to me because those
three games wasn't like an unplayable quarterback on balance, you know, cumulatively.
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But I am fascinated by what his trajectory is from
here because this happens sometimes I don't love it. But
if he goes off and rips off eight consecutive games
like this, then this team's gonna win a bunch of
football games, and it just makes the conversation interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That was winning quarterback play. The first three games were not.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I suppose the rest of the year kind of we
did this with Tannehill a lot where you'd kind of
fall out of favor and then you'd come back and
be like, well that's pretty good, and then you would
kind of the rest of the year would feel like
an evaluation. And perhaps that is the answer you need
if you're in that situation and year six or seven,
maybe it's time to, you know, think about something else.
But I can't, you know, I can't sit here and
tell you the quarterback against the Jets was anything but
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really good. That's what was The deep ball to Waddle
was capital a anticipation. He knew he had man coverage,
he knew that corner wasn't going to survive the rub
throws it before the receivers even leaving leaving and even
even Stephen Levin.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bevin, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To the right side of the formation, throws it to
open grass right and stride for a big play. The
throw on the Waller touchdown is even more impressive on
tape because the concept on the front side of the
formation from the trips bunch. They had did a great
job to get Waller space with two outside releases from
the interior route runners, and then he takes an inside
leverage release on Sauce Gardner wins it stacks him, but
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Brandon Stevens is on the back side of the formation
and he falls back into the window. He sinks back
into the window there, and he's in great shape to
make a play on the ball, maybe even pick it
off if it's not well thrown. But it's perfectly thrown
right at the crossbar. Timing touch, fading away from pressure
location vintage Tua on that play. He dealt with pressure
from those two guard positions frequently, and the right tackle
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position bore him. Not a good night Cole Strange very
up and down, mostly down. After watching the tape and
Jonas Savit and Aya really really struggling so far four
games into his NFL career, and Tua was able to
navigate all of that. The throw to Tyreek on the
injury play was high, high level stuff man third and eight.
He knows he's got man coverage far hash out route
cuts it loose before Tyreek even sinks the hips into
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the break read. The leverage ball was right on the
money on a critical third down conversion. I gotta say
on the scramble, first off, dude, that is way too close.
What are you doing? But also he had guys open.
I wish he would do a better job when he
breaks contain of keeping his eyes down the field to
attack with his arm. Because he's more deadly that way,
and there was opportunities down the field when he broke
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contain on that play. And again just the off script plays,
you know, both incomplete on our drive after the consecutive
touchdowns in the second half, the feet just looks so
much smoother. The way he gets himself into position to
be a threat to either move or to throw from
that spot. He looked in total command, the feet, trust
the conviction that he played with. That's the two what
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we've seen in the past, and we got it all
night here against the Jets. So let's go ahead and
pause for a quick break right there, come back and
talk about these downs on offense, the stand downs on offense,
and we'll get into that defensive tape and take you
through the entire first drive and what the heck the
Jets did to stuff it down the Dolphins throw on
that drive. That's all Next Drivetime Podcast, brought to you
by AutoNation. Right, we talked about the quarterback position. How
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about the other folks on offense that performed at a
high level. Aaron Brewer, it is copy and paste for
this guy. Man. The stuff where he gets wide in
the running game is every single week, but the way
he is in past protection has become just as impressive.
He is so patient with a great set. He'll throw
one hand up, engage the rusher and then kind of
wait to see how the rep materializes and matures from
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there before throwing the second hand based upon the positioning
of the first punch that he lands.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's just all so smooth. He can work in concert.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He can break up the hands in the feet but
not get himself like tongue tied, as it were, the
way the rookie next to him has. He settles into
his stance and just mirrors guys so impressively. Good squatty body,
good like butt to the floor frame in terms of
that a stance that he takes. He's also a massive
help to the guards in pass pro. They squeezed a
lot of pass pro reps in this game, and he
was constantly making the guards right when they otherwise probably weren't.
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Devon h Cham he has really walked the walk this year.
What I mean by that is that, you know, he
made the comment this offseason about leaving yards on the
field searching for big plays, which I thought was an
apt observation by himself, but now his tracks, his angles
to leverage, the way he cuts the power, he just
looks like an all Pro back and our second third
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down conversion the little stick to reek. He has an
a gap assignment in pass pro and he goes and
gets it. Man, go put a helmet on that guy's
face mask, does it, executes it, gets a good enough
pocket for two to execute, and some of the stuff
they can call where it's like, hey, Devon, this is
your responsibility. We're gonna leave this man unblocked and make
him miss. And he goes and does it. He is
a special, special player. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Man with Devon Ahgen, he's a special looking player right
here on Spider through white Banana. Man, I'll tell you what.
I'll get him the football as much as I possibly can. Man.
Julian Hill has played back to back good football games.
I talked about the light coming on for him last week,
continued this week. He's squaring up his blocks out wide,
he's playing physical when he's attached to the line of scrimmage,
and now he's getting involved in the passing game.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's kind of the next step of his evolution.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
If he can be a factor as an eligible just
as a Durham smythe roll right like they're gonna leave
him alone, catch it and go put your shoulder into
someone's face mask and run through him like it's been nice.
Been getting deeper into the tape. He buoyed some guys
on some wide runs. Another really good game from eighty nine.
Patrick Paul is an ass kicker in the running game man.
Some of his combo attachments at the second level, they're amazing.
(16:50):
They slide protection away from him, no problem. Will McDonald
didn't do a damn thing against him. What a stud
Patrick Paul is. Watch him on a little flip play
to Malik Washington where he chips and clown and cleans
out a linebacker ten yards downfield outside the numbers. He
did have a couple more losses than usual where he
kind of dropped his head like on the Devon e
Chan run to open the second half and got beat
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for a bad loss there. But by and large, Patrick
Paul has been a very very good love tackle for
your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
How about Darren waller Man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
The acrobatic ability at that size is just something not
many guys have, and one game in it's clear he
still got it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's got the chops.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I just like the timing and patience and the understanding
of his routes and the timing with Tua, and he
knows how to initiate and disengage from contact. You know,
the Dennis system is working for him. He plays through
collisions in a way that we haven't seen from our
eligible since. Like Charles Clay, I only think that's a
good name drop, like Oroande Gadston, like it goes that
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far back. Maybe Brandon Marshall. I guess, I don't know.
You got to go quite a ways back. Also check
out alec Ingolds cut block on the first wall or
touchdown massively important pass pro pick up there from the captain.
And also watch Waller's route on the Wreek injury play,
the way he commits to the inside release and occupies
a man defender. If he doesn't give you full detail
(18:07):
on that route, that player could have recognized that fallen
off into the thronging lane and possibly picked that off.
All eleven have to do their job right. Speaking of Tyreek,
you saw him make plays. It was one of his
best games in a while. He also blocked his butt off.
I thought he was just excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
All game long.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Gonna miss him in the passing offense. Nick Westbrook a Keene,
speaking of the passing offense, just watched him in the
running game. He's one of the most proficient run blocking
receivers I've ever studied. As far as the misses on offense,
they weren't that many. But Jonah, I don't know, man,
It's been the same thing, static feet, lunging, bending at
the waist, not the knees. He gets discarded one on
(18:42):
one and pass pro way too frequently. I think there's
some good displacement where he gets into his surge right
off the snap. And it makes me wonder if there's
a possibility of powering or pivoting to more power in
the running game, because it seems like that's gonna suit
him better at least right now in his career, and
they probably should with the loss of Tyree Kill. But
he is really struggling right now. Malik Washington, I just
(19:03):
thought his decisions in the screen game weren't great, and
they were worse on tape. He got to hit that
thing up in there upon a rewatch. I thought Cole
Strange struggled. I was wrong about that. He had some
good plays in there, including the big eight Chan run
at the end, but they were able to swipe his
hands down and kind of chop him, get him off balance,
and pass pro quite a bit. And Larry Borum, I'd
said he was good last night. Wrong, wrong, what are
(19:24):
you talking about?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He was not good.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
He got beat so bad on one of Tua's best
plays of the night, that throw a tyreek in the
two minute drill at the end of the first half.
He got beat so bad that his only option was
to bring his man down with him and he got
caught for a holding call. Snap counts offensively to and
the entire offensive line go the distance they played fifty
eight snaps. Would love to see a game where we
get sixty plus snaps these seven to eight posession games
(19:46):
and running, you know, fifty five snaps a games. That's
why you're not scoring a ton of points. Waddle fifty two,
Reek twenty four, Malik twenty eight, Westbrook AAKA twenty seven.
That's kind of your big jump right there, right Westbrook A.
Kine gets the twenty seven snaps, We'll probably see how
Taj Washington gets incorporated. Now ds Gridge got four snaps
and Cedric Wilson reportedly will sign to the Dolphins roster,
(20:09):
so we probably see some more of him as he
knows the offense. He can get in the right of
way as well, and that would coincide with more big
body blockers in the running game at the running back position.
Eight Chan forty four, Allie Gordon fifteen, Alec Ingle thirty
one snaps. I think Aleck probably isn't for an increase
in workload two because of the Tyreek injury. And then
it tied ends this is the split I want Julian
Hill forty, tan oer' connor nine, and then why didn't
(20:31):
even get Waller snaps? Let me get that real quick
for you, Boom sixteen snaps for Darren Waller. Let's go
ahead and turn the page and talk about the defense
here real quick. We'll go ahead and pause for a break. First,
come back to the defense and the top five tapes
on the other side. Draft Time Podcast brought to you
by Auto Nation. All right, defensively, tough night for the
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Miami Dolphins on that side of the football. I want
to just go ahead and get into the run game stuff.
The Jets were able to accomplish on that first drive
because It kind of tells you where the biggest struggle
on this entire team is right now. And the first
play is an inside zone run. They fold over both
double teams where Jordan Phillips tries to plant, can't do it.
Kenneth Grant comes out of his stands way too high
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and gets displaced. Both ends, Seiler and Butler get widened
by single blocks, I mean the single blocks the double teams.
Four for four, like you you know, that's how you
allow runs in baseball, right, four straight hits? They got
four straight hits? Did the Jets offensive line on this
one play? The next rep is lead a lead running
play where the tight end displaces Chubb two gaps, Kenny
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gets folded up again. Then our first pass play. The
Jets passing game design is so high school, like they
went mirrored stick flat combost that came to static ends
and the entire offense just kind of watch justin field
try to create. I'm not sure what that's trying to accomplish.
They come back to the running game, smart outside zone
run for a first down and second down they display Seiler.
(21:55):
That's been happening for four games straight. They hit that
pass with a great catch by Allen. They come back
to the pin pole scheme, pin and poll running scheme.
Kenny gets displaced again. Chop hits a brick wall on
the kickout block the split flow action, Brooks has to
take on a lead block and they're able to get
a down block on Tyrell Dotson. It's tough living for
the linebackers man when they're catching climbs five yards down
(22:15):
the field and have to try to disengage around the
block and find it, you know, try to scrape off
of that and get over a block and make a
play on the runner. It's just not gonna happen for
those guys. Another drop back pass, another field scramble. We
send seven, including double cats. That's double cornerback Blitzeres with
both Jack and Razool. They both win. But fields can
step around that, as most athletic quarterbacks can. When you
don't pressure the interior, there's no interior pressure there. Chop
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gets doubled and they wipe him out. Then Kenneth Grant,
Benito Jones, and Matthew Butler all gets stammied on one
on one opportunities. You cannot go zero for three in
your one on one pass rush. Opportunities and have any success.
And that's what I was worried about back in camp.
I thought the defensive line did a better job in
Camp in the running game, and that hasn't translated. But
the pass rush wasn't there, and that's what Zach playing
(23:01):
like he is right there. There's just been no White
Knight coming to save us so far at that position.
And I gotta say, you know, thank the heavens for
Jordan Brooks because we get steamrolled. But he kept us
in some of those plays where it looked incredibly bleak
at times, like the next play was a little zone read,
and he diagnoses it, sinks into the blocking scheme and
makes the play. He was kind of the saving grace
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on some of these plays back there. The next one
is outside zone from pistol where Zach Sealer gets stood
straight up and pushed over two gaps. But you know,
Jones does a good job of not falling into the
wash and Bradley Chubb pursues it from the backside for
a stop, so that's a rundown win creates a third
and five. They run it again on third and five
in you know, mid red zone. They dial up duo
Kenneth Grant gets driven out once again and actually trips
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the running back. I don't know how they didn't call that.
He stuck his leg out there and just tripped him.
Don't show a Jets fan that play. Then we go
we cover a first and fifteen. Well, but it's I
legal hands in the face, fresh shut of downs. We
do a good job on duo on the first play,
the first and goal, and that led to the Jack
Jones play where you kind of kick this thing off
with the goods the good plays, and it was even
(24:06):
better on tape. I think this offensive formation is sort
of instructive for how teams are gonna roll things out
against this Dolphins defense. Going forward, they had five their
five down linemen. They had an offset attached wise where
you have one on the line of scrimmage, one off
of line scrimage, but both attached to the tackle, so
double wise. And then they put a full back directly
(24:28):
behind the left guard stacked behind him, so they had
with the running back over from that side as well.
They had six players left of center with then fields
and then the three offensive lines, so ten of their
guys are in this box, six on one side of
the formation. And Jack goes in motion with the fullback
who came from a wide alignment to that stack position,
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and he winds up fitting the A gap, which I'm
not sure I've ever seen a cornerback do that before,
Like the B gap maybe for a slot corner, but
your perimeter cornerback in the A gap, I've never seen
that before.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And he does it successfully.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
He forces a cutback and then he wheels back out
and puts a hand on the football with a diving effort.
That's probably the play of the year so far by
a Dolphins defender or maybe Dolphins in general. It was
a great play by Jack Jones. And but yeah, like
the way the Jets got down there, variety of run scheme,
but the results were most of the same. Vertical displacement.
Miami can't beat blocks on double teams or even single blocks,
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and it makes life very difficult on these off ball linebackers.
Not a lot of surge and getting knocked back down
in and down out. But the next play is just
a terrible fit. I don't get what we're doing in
our fits from depth, Like I don't get the lack
of physicality upfront. I don't know if there's a fix
there for either of those two solutions. And that's why
as much as I'm excited about where the offense can
(25:45):
go from here, it's you're probably gonna play a lot
of games like that where you're trying to hang on
for dear life and try to win it late, which
with this operation in this quarterback hasn't been their strong suit.
There's not a ton of scheme breakdown because it was
mostly up and play football and run the ball right.
They got some passing game success against some softer coverages
that came with big leads. I think if the run
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defense had performed well, you could have seen a blowout
where the pass defense was making plays because there were
some opportunities for plays and the few plays they did have,
but there just wasn't enough opportunities and you're not getting
any of those because teams are going to run the
ball down your throats and make big plays.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I do think this though.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Until they can be gap sound, until they can fit
the run with rush with lane degrity, they probably need
to get away from some of the sim pressures, some
of the rush diskise, the rotation stuff in the back end.
Like I hate simplifying your defense, but if you can't
do the one oh one stuff like Kevin Dertn told us,
then how the hell are you going to get into
the five to zero one stuff like it? It's further
complicit with the scheme when you got guys not adhering
(26:45):
to it, like for instance, the strip sack the fourth
and five, the passing situation right that was the best
design of the entire night. Jordan Brooks moves right before
the snap and walks down off the edge and he
winds up like dummy, blitzing and picking up the running
back and coverage. And then from there t Dot takes
almost like a delayed path blitz to the quarterback and
it causes a protection issue where you get this brilliant
(27:07):
call and a well time run by Jordan Brooks, and
Phillips does a good job of setting the right tackle
wide and then crossing face to kind of create that
squeeze that gives t Dot the lane to run through,
and t Dot takes a great angle, breaks down an
open field, puts a hand on the football and for once,
Justin Fields can't get away from the pass rush, and
they use Chubb to chip and bracket Garrett Wilson and
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they go man across the board with a single high
safety in the post, everybody gets locked up. That was
your best defensive play of the season on balance with
Jack Jones having the best effort individually on the previous
strip sack or the previous strip play in this game.
So standout performers. Jack Jones the punch out. I thought
he was in good shape on the Wilson OPI call.
I like the way he competed as he usually does.
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He's physical man his reroutes. They're effective for a guy
that's not the biggest player, he sure does play with
a lot of physicality and punches above his weight class often.
I thought was Douglas was good. He got beat one
time on a truly sensational catch. His sack was excellent
mirroring of the quarterback while dealing with a blocker in
front of him that he could beat, and then he
finished damn near got to pick undercutting a football later
(28:11):
in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good day for Rasull Douglas.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Mika Fitzpatrick had a big hit on an incomplete pass too.
I think it was Breesse Hall where he came out
of nowhere Randy Orton style and puts a stop to
that had the fumble recovery. I like the way he
challenged the Jets tight ends in the blocking game as well,
and then Jordan Brooks. The only time he doesn't really
make a play is if the defensive tackles get washed
into his lap. Otherwise he reads it, he scrapes it,
he hits it, and goes eighteen tackles all over the field.
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Good job scraping off some of the tough to replays
in the running game. Looked good in coverage. Had some
good rush where he forced fields into a throw away
at one point. Fun player to watch as far as
the misses. I mean Kenneth Grant, It's like him and
Jonah have both really struggled. He's just playing too high.
He's got to get lower in his pad level. I
think Zac Seeler looks like a different player this year.
(28:56):
Like watch him next to Jordan Phillips. Phillips was playing
of attack like coming out of the stance. It's a
diagonal line where he plays up through the face mask
of the player of the offensive lineman. He strikes the
chest and plays through it, driving his man back. Seeler
comes out of these stands, is flat footed and like
is catching the way Patrick Paul would catch his pass
pro reps as a rookie and then tries to disengage,
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like he's letting the offensive line dictate the play in
front of him. I never saw this from him in
six years, and now here it does on tape. It's
it's crazy to me. Matthew Butler couldn't drop the anchor
all night. Banito Jones looked more like Lions Benito Jones
or first time around Dolphins Benito Jones. No splash, no
real stake, just kind of out there. Chopp is on
a milk carton right now. I hate to say it,
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but he's just not made an impact. His one great
rep getting off the snap, he blew by the right
tackle and then couldn't get fields down. That was the
only play really noticed him as far as making an impact.
Tyrell Dotson the sack fumble was great. I thought it
was more scheme. But man, these these soft hook drops
where we're kind of just covering grass and you know,
playing eight ten yards off the ball, they fear me.
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And then Ashton Davis the angles of pursuit. I thought
he was late in his keys. And that's about it. Man,
snap counts Minka t Dot, Jordan Brooks and Jack Jones
all go the distance sixty three snaps. Razul Douglas missed
one snap. Cornell Armstrong played twenty seven in the slot.
Zach Seedler played fifty snaps in this game, Kenneth Grant
twenty nine, Matthew Butler twenty seven, Jordan Phillips sixteen, and
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Benito Jones thirteen. So that rotation is kind of all
over the place. That's the group that has to figure
it out. Man. That's been the worst part of the
entire roster so far. Jalen Phillips played forty eight snaps.
Chub Bradley Chubb played forty six, and I think you
gotta get more from both those guys, especially Bradley Chubb.
I probably should have put in the missus category. He
got planted by armand Membu a couple times in this game.
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Not a lot of juice, law of displacement off the edge,
soft edges. In the running game, Chop played twenty two snaps.
Was not impactful. Judahon played fifteen, Willie Gay played three
again and then at safety Ashton Davis played fifty three.
He has taken the job of Ifi Melafamu eighteen snaps
for Iffy and Dante Trey played ten snaps on defense.
Top five tapes. Tool was the best player on the
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field for Miami last night. I think Devon ah Chan
next and Tyreek Hilled next. All three of those guys,
you could have put them in any order for me.
That would have worked for me. I have Aaron Brewer
fourth and Jack Jones fifth. Best tape, so Tua Han,
Tyreek Brewer, and Jack Jones, and that's it. Fun win,
just frustrating defensive performance, some fun stuff on offense. I'm
very curious see where we go next week against the Panthers,
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hopefully a second straight win. We'll preview that game on
the Thursday podcast. We'll have the Football Friday Show for
you guys, and then it's right back to football weekend
Dolphins at Panthers. In the meantime, you all please be
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(31:46):
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Speaker 2 (31:53):
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