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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And on today's show, we're gonna rip through the All
twenty two review from the Dolphins loss against the New
England Patriots. One more piece of content before we're on
to Buffalo. Let's dive right in from the Baptist Health
Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Drive Time Podcast Aye d Week two Patriots thirty three,
Dolphins twenty seven Offensive General points from the All twenty
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two watch. We've got a long one here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Strap in.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I've got some good performances, some not so good performances.
We're the top five tapes at the end of this
as well. And we start as we do each week,
with the offensive general themes and thesis. And before I
get into this, like, I have noticed how much more
like I've always been this way, but I'm really noticing
it on these podcasts lately, how much more geared I
am to the offensive side of the ball and knowledgeable
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on that side of the ball compared to defense. Like
I don't you know, I try to be the same
on both sides, but I definitely have a favorite, and
my knowledge goes more towards the offense. So that's why
that side of the ball is always more note field
than the defense.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Each week.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Let's go ahead and jump into the offensive general points.
So the run game creativity, there was a lot to like.
And I said this in the press room, and I
kind of got some some eyebrows raised because of the
running numbers in the game. But there was a lot
of like really good run design in this game. Like
the first play of the game, you saw where alec
Ingole aligns in this h back like up position eight
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chans behind Tua in the side saddle and shotgun formation,
and he motions back behind Tua like almost a pistol,
but resets back to the other side of the formation,
and then he recuts back across the face of two
on the handoff, and you get a nice double team
from Pat and Jonah, a good kickout from Julian Hill,
a good down block from alec Ingles, a kind of
insert blocker in that backside B gap.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We've had a few runs this season so.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Far in that like eight to ten yard rag where
when you get them, it's usually a really nicely executed
play across all eleven guys, and that's how this game started.
And I suppose the next step in the process would
be developing more consistency there and being able to get
to the run game more and not being chasing on
the scoreboard for large periods of time. But there was
just a lot of this throughout the entire first half.
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And I think it was seven for forty eight the
Dolphins ran for which is a really good average, right obviously,
but the Malik Washington run, you dummy motion across the
formation with.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Who was it Ny lost track? I think it was
Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, Tyreek Hill goes across the formation of motion with
Allie as the side saddle and shotgun, and you see
how the Pats are late to react because they cut
it back across the grain. It just gives you all
these really good angles of attack in the blocking game.
You get a good crack on the outside from Jalen
Waddle and now you've got Larry Borum and all the
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Gordon with really good angles leading a convoy from Leake
Washington to pick up eighteen yards in the ground. And
they both executed those blocks as well. The very next
play the inside zone toss. I love the inside zone toss.
It can create so much leverage for your interior offensive line.
The Niners made this kind of a thing back in
like twenty seventeen, and McDaniel has continued it on here
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but doesn't run it a whole lot. But they run
it right after the malikue Washington play to Oli Gordon,
and on this particular snap, Malik is in a nasty
split that means he's close and tight to the formation
to the left. Tyreek motions from right to left and
to what tosses it, and it looks like it's going
to be an allie toss to the outside, but he
puts his foot in the ground and doesn't follow Tyreek
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in motion where he has that lead wrap block that
you see from Julian Hill across the formation so many times. Right,
you take him in jet motion, he wraps the edge
and tries to seal that outside the force defender, but
all he puts his foot in the ground and follows
Malik Washington as the insert blocker.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
On the inside. You get Brewer and Jonah pushing a
man to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Keon and Larry displaces the backside end by five yards
and all he brings the boom where he gets five
yards past the line of scrimmage and then just wants
it more than the Patriots defense. Right, And that's why
as good as Devon ah Chan is, I think you
have to run Allie more for the temperament, the tone
that it sets, sense sets, because that was an attitude
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run and that's three more yards than you had blocked.
Like excellent design, excellent execution, excellent finish from running back.
And again I don't care about some of the mental
errors and off ball assignments, and maybe it's more than
I'm privy to. It probably is for me to have
this comment. That's so you know, that runs so parallel
to what the coaching staff feels like in terms of
getting seven snaps in one carry. But I mean, you know,
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we'll talk more about other possible Broster changes down the
line here, but you know ten has off ball assignment
errs and and effort questionable effort on snaps. You know,
I've seen all these do this all summer, all preseason,
and now in a game in September. We need this mindset,
we need this counter to Devon ah Chan, and it
was clear they wanted to attack the corners of the
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Patriots in this game. We talked about it last night,
but even some of the incompletions, like the first third
down of the game, you had these mirrored combos. Mirrored
means you're running the same route combination on one side
of the field as you are on the other. Flat
seven what is flat seven?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Is a corner route right the number three, it's a
seven route and then the flat route you guys know
what that is? A little you know, get out in
space and cut to the sideline like two three yards
past the line of scrimmage. So it's a flat in
a sale or a corner right basically high lowing your
outbreaking routes at like five to fifteen yards of depth
and trying to create conflict for an outside zone cornerback
and get that ball over that corner back to the
sale under the safety or if that cloud sinks back
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into the sail route, you throw the flat. Are you
with me still? So a chan has a choice route
over the middle with mirored seven flat combinations on the outside,
but the Patriots spam the outside and have all those
four routes covered. So maybe that's an area of opportunity
because it used to be that they would only spam
the middle of the field on defense, right, you just
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flood the middle of the field TWA can't get the
ball out of the numbers, game over. But that's not
the case anymore in terms of how the offense operates.
So I think there could be some hope there that
this tape maybe changes the way teams can defend you
and gives them a little bit more to think about
since they were able to attack those areas of vulnerability
and get to three hundred and fifteen passing yards, and
sure enough, on the very next play, what's the concept?
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Not the next play, but what's the concept on the
Wattle touchdown? Yep, seven flat bang, good route, good throw touchdown.
The first play of the next drive, you get a
too high safety look that rotates into a robber and
single high. So I'm doing hands right now, but you
can't see it on a freaking audio platform.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But two fists in front of your face.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
One goes high, one goes low, right trying to take
away Tyreek on a crosser, but Reek presses the toes
of the half field safety and breaks it out for
a deep out, And we really took our yards on
those areas that I think could have a nice impact
going forward to open up space on digs, because in
the second half of this game there was something that
we hit and something that we missed curls or digs
over the middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You kind of created the overplay.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And quite frankly, like as much as I get, you know,
frustrated about operation and procedurals, which is a non starter
by the way, that's JV freaking football.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You have to get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But damn it, McDaniel had a hell of a game
play on this game, and the quarterback and some of
the other players on offense kind of, you know, let
him down in a big spot in my opinion. So
it's it's you know, eleven plus fold. It's not one
guy causing these issues. That there's a lot of things
going into bad football right now. But I just I
loved the call to check to a run on the
final drive of the first half. The Patriots are in
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this deep prevent with only four defenders in the box,
one of them being the off ball mike linebacker. So
you've got three on four on three at the point
of attack and everything is blocked but then Jonas ivit
Naya has a down block on robert splane and he
just flat out overruns it and he didn't even have
to really like square it up. He just had to
find a way to get in the way and he
couldn't do it, and it would have been probably a
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fifty five yard touchdown run. Now we did score on
that drive, so what you know, I guess the no
harm but like you still evaluate each play an individual basis,
and Mike was in his bag in the run game design,
especially early on and with the way they created space
on that seven flat combination. But man, this first half
drives two and three just beautiful. After all the seven
flat that worked, we get back to a Texas route,
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which that opens up space that the seven flat opens
up the Texas route because you see this linebacker who
is got real urgency to get to his width to
get over to that flat route that he's seen run
in front of him, you know, four or five times
at this point of the game, and a chan can
can take advantage of that by taking his route to
the flat, put a foot in the ground back across
the middle. And there's not a single linebacker in the
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world that can cheat on a flat and then have
a chan run a Texas and get back in shape.
Like you're behind him by two steps, and you're not
going to beat that guy if you're even with him,
much less behind by two steps.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Last point here, well that's not true. I have a
few more points.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I do this sometimes my notes where I write last point,
then I have like sixteen more. But additional point is
that the James Daniels injury, the biggest effect that's had
is on Jonahs ofvit Naya in my opinion, and it's
because you've essentially forced slides more to the right side
to protect Keon and Larry Borum as well more so
more so key On Smith with Brewer on the inside,
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and it's put Jonas and savit Naya in these binds
where he has to do a lot of stuff. We'll
come back and talk about him in one second. I
like alec Ingole, and I understand that he's a nice
tendency breaker when you do this, but these these routes
that he's running, I just I don't see the benefit
of it. Maybe I'm the stupid one here, and I
probably am, but it's it seems like you're not giving
yourself a lot of chance for explosiveness there. But here's
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my issue on some of the run game stuff though.
We get so many unblocked guys because we do have
guys like tripping over each other, and that's what some
of the complexities caused here, on top of the procedural stuff.
Like there's a play where Westbrook Akine tries to crack
the edge and Patrick Paul trips over him, and he's
supposed to go get the Will linebacker, and because he's outflanked,
Paul knows he has to like get out of his
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stands quick and get with on the play immediately. But
when he does the he trips overt Nwi's foot because
they're both kind of running in the same direction, and
it causes a collision on your own guys, which causes
a negative run. The little Malik drag that would have
had us first in goal up by two points late
in the third quarter was another great sequencing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Look we fake the toss to the.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Motion man that we had got earlier on the outside,
the all the Gordon inside zone run, the Leak Washington
little handoff in the outside, same concept motion man to
the left, the Mic linebacker takes himself all the way
out of the play with false steps and runs right
past my leak. Washington, who runs to open grass, has
a catch and run for fifteen yards, but Aaron Brewer
gets hit with a holding call. Like if that would
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have been a game changer, right, because your first and
goal from the three yard line. Instead it goes back
to first and twenty from the twenty nine yard line.
But the run game action like key on polls to
the play side. The motion man sells, split flow action
sells this linebacker a bill of goods, and they were
taking the cheese. A lot of the stuff on the
Dolphins offensive design in this game. Now we lost the
game in my opinion, on the final two drives. The
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quarterback was horrible in those two drives. It was part
offensive line. The procedure was terrible. It was a full meltdown.
It was it was JV football on those final two drives.
But one of the parts that has been a consistent
theme going back years now and with the way this
offensive line is constructed, with Jonah not playing well, Keon's
not playing well. I think Larry's been okay, we'll talk
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about him more in a second, but it's really been
Brew and Paul and then everything else. Kind of a
mixed bag. And what does that give you forty percent
of good? You know, one on one pass protectors like
you wind up you know, sorry Scott text that it
threw me off. You wind up putting yourself in these
positions in third and seven plus which this offense tries
to negate as much as possible through quick game and
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run game and being as head of the sticks. That's
where they lost the game. A lot of true dropbacks
that they just get beat on. And then two was
lack of moving off the spot is part of that
as well. It's a it's a full bag. But then
off of all the fun design, we get a play
if you want to go check this out on your own,
thirteen forty to play. In the fourth quarter, two of
throws it away. Literally everything is wide open. Tyreek on
a corner route, Waddle on a dig which might have
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been a damn touchdown because they had they they kept
cheating to the corner in the second half of the
game and created these inbreaking spaces that we love to hit.
We didn't hit him more than once in the fourth quarter.
Both Westbrook a Kyne and here's where I get pissed off.
Both Westbrook A Keena and eight Chan are in the
flat and there's a cloud corner eight yards off of them,
but they both run the same damn route. So Tua
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just throws it away even though there was no pressure,
even though he had really three four guys open. But
they wind up in the same area, and so they
kind of like turned down the route option because they think,
like to me, they seem to think like, well, he's
in my space, like he's not gonna throw it here,
and it just ruined a really nice set up play.
To belabor this point one more time or this week anyway,
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after the Westbrook a kN a first down that puts
you first and ten at the minus forty seven with
three poin twenty to play in the game, that's a
great spot to be right down by a field goal.
You need fifteen more yards and give yourself a realistic
shot aut a field goal. You know you need fifty
three yards to win the game. Delay of game, And
that's after a ball a third and seven completion that
goes for seven yards exactly over the ball, like right
in the middle of the field, so you spot the
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ball right there no one's deep downfield to run back, Like,
why can't we get to the next play in forty seconds?
Then Tua overshoots Tyreek hill on first and fifteen, And
this is the worst miss of Tua tongue of Bilowe's
career in my opinion, because it's a bread and butter throw,
top of the drop, perfect pass protection, one hitch timing,
wide open window, declared early anticipation, Tyreek back down the
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stem and we sail it. We sell the ball over
his head and the safety falls down too. So maybe
Tyreek catches that and spins out and breaks a tackle
and scores in the damn play.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But how we missing that throw? Bro? How are we
missing that throw? That is, you can't miss that throw.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I used to say this whole the time about quarterback
evaluation before I got to the Dolphins, Like I can
live with miss layups if we are giving the offense
something additional, like Lamar Jackson, Right, Lamar missed layups early
in his career. Josh Allen sure as hell did, but
he was so special with how they ran the ball
and how they create explosives elsewhere that you can live
with that. And then hopefully those quarterbacks can develop that
aspect their game, and that is what happened with Lamar
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and Josh but Tua, the athletic ability, the desire to
run to protect himself has to be there on top
of missing these throws with maybe a little bit sped
up processor trying to try extra hard to protect himself.
I don't know, man, I don't know. It's a tough look.
It's tough to win games doing that. But you get
it back because you go fifteen yards to Tyreek Hill
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setting up third and seven, and then Boram gets destroyed
and pass protection really his first egregious snap of the
entire day to me, he got way out over his skis,
off balance and got beat badly and then the pick,
and I think Julian Hill was a viable option on
the pick after rewatching the tape, but I cannot be
certain because I don't know what the call is there
with him checking, because he did stay in pass pro
for like a little bit longer than you would expect
him to on a play like that, and so I
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wonder if he was part of the route or if
it was just something he got to after the fact,
after the block was over. But I can't be certain,
but I think Tua should have gone there with the football.
The next drive starts well, but look at the Ingold catch.
If he throws up to von h Chan instead, who
is running like a crossing route in front of Ingold,
who runs like a hookup, he might have scored in
that player. There was nobody on that side of the field.
Then he goes the distance but steps out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We know about that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Then the air's return, we get another break of the
huddle at eight seconds in the play clock, and that
was after an injury timeout five yards back set them
back again behind the chains once again for a team
that can't really pass them true drop backs the way
they want to right, horrible combination at a quarterback they
can't get off the spot. I liked a deep shot
attempt to waddle. The location wasn't bad, the timing was okay,
but Wattle kind of got like he kind of stumbled
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through contact of the corners down there. The corner in
safety Jonah gets beat on third and twelve where Tyreek
is wide open on the dig once again forces Tua
to move. He steps out of bounds, never laid across
the middle right, But I think you gotta take a
chance there. I thought Tanner Connor was kind of covered
by the defensive lineman who got back into the frame late,
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but it would have been a crazy like throw across
the body. But Malik Washington was kind of angling back
towards Tua and that's hard to get your head all
the way back over there.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But that was the most viable option on that play.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Then fourth down there, pass protection, breakdown, game over, Jonah
Keon and Borham all lose fire the damn thing into
the sun. Man. Let's take our first break right there,
come back and talk more about the quarterback. That's next
Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. Right, we're back
talking about the quarterback from the dolphins thirty three twenty
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seven loss against the New England Patriots. I saw somebody
post the Alabama highlight reel this morning on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sad even really say it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I just want to say this because I got a
DM about this, and I want to make sure I
communicate this with you guys that love the show, my
diehards out there, my Ride or Die players. I am
not suddenly flipping my entire ethos to say Tua sucks
I'm not gonna do that. I'm not going to be
revisionist history. I'm not doing any of that. I think
concerns have become more prevalent two tapes in this season,
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and I spoke a little bit about some concern about
training camp regression, and maybe the Homer in me kind
of chalk that up to, like, oh, they're just trying
to work on new things. But there was some signs
of this in training camp as well that we covered
in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I mean, we talked about this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We didn't talk about two of for like ten days
straight on the show because there wasn't a lot to
talk about. But my criticisms and new stance comes from this,
like the tape, right, the operation of things on tape,
it looks to be barreling towards not good things, and
that could change things change in football all the time.
I talked with Jamon Bushrodt about this again. The one
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and four team, like they were horrible, they were down
and out, like just bad. But you know, a freezing
cold take right to say, oh, we're we're likely to
go seven and one more than we are to have
changes early in the season, Like shut up, dude, jeez,
what a horrible take. That was seven and one, You
freaking idiot. But it would not surprise me if Tua
became the next reclamation quarterback in the league. It happens
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every year now at this point right not in the
slightest because he is a good quarterback. I just think
that if this continues this way on this trajectory and
you get changes, I don't think he would be in
the future plan. So I'm trying to give the fans
a current snapshot but also be prepared for all options.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And my.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Direction going forward in the podcast is going to be
one of more stability and less hot takes. That's kind
of a Travis learning moment, Like you can have your
thoughts on what players and teams are in the preseason,
but let's not act like anything is a given anymore,
because that's how you get yourself in trouble. And I
do tend to pick this team to do better than
they probably should every year, and we got to learn
from that as well. But I just you know, if
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there is changes, I don't think he'd come back with
the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He's a good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But probably time running thin here unless things change right away.
Kind of in the way it ended for Ryan Tannehill.
Right two was a way better player than Tannehill ever was.
And look what he did with the Titans. You know,
a couple of playoff berths, AFC Championship game, really good
passer grading one year. But I want to start with
this about too. I know the pick that was offset
on the first drive looked bad, and I asked OJ
McDuffie and he said, one hundred percent of the time,
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the receiver cannot bail on that route the way the
Reek did. However, the very next play they spammed the
outside with cover two. The safeties widen, the hooks, widen
to the curl flat. We run that mirrored flat seven.
The Patriots bring four and it is a straight up
stonewalled good coverage, pass protection even better. And you basically
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have Tua just chilling there the way cam Ward used
to do at Miami. Right, just stand there and like
not even be moving. But he throws into a contested
a cham And this is me speculating, but because if
he moves off the spot, that's where things go wrong, right,
That's where the accuracy suffers, the arm strength suffers. He's
probably not gonna create He invites a hit which he
can't take right and that's where we become limited. So
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many quarterbacks I saw it from Drake May all game
long have picked that up with their legs, and I
think Tua could have with his athletic ability right now.
But as we'd see later in the game, he's not
gonna put himself in harm's way. And quite frankly, I
think that's where this decision, just discussion, I should say,
kind of comes to an end. You take that out
of his game, who does he become on top of
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the miss As we talked about here a little bit,
the same player, right, and he was already playing at
a deficiency you know, arm and athletic ability that he
did overcome because of the ability to do it in
a pinch when he had to, but also because the
elite anticipation, accuracy, placement, all that stuff. But you take
any sense of play making away, it's just not going
to play some say like the Rams game last year,
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that third and long conversion to Raheem most over, he
wheels out of there. That's not in the tool belt
right now. Remember the Chargers game, not just that he's
got hill tyreek Baum on third and ten, the deep
out to Burios on third and fifteen, moving to his
left like he was enough of a creator to pair
with the elite skills elsewhere. And now the creation's gone,
the creativity's gone, and the processing and location is regressing,
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like that's a rough place to be man. I thought
the first half or Tuoa was just a good job
manage in the game, making plays on time and in rhythm.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Nothing too crazy with eye popping throws or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The corner route to Waddle was beautiful, good job processing,
good job locating that ball with with trajectory in touch.
He hit him on a nice slant that had to
be well placed as well. The next drive, but it
was a lot of defined throws. He did a good
job seeing it and getting the ball there. The long
bomb to Tyreek I think is an underthrow spot for
any quarterback in the league. And you can fight me
on this all you want, I don't care. Mike talked
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about it. With the footwork and the uncorking of it. It
was not a traditional drop back where he could step
into it off one hitch and throw the ball down
the field. It was him kind of doing some additional
footwork and JT O Sullivan's kind of critical of this
of the Dolphins quarterback footwork, but he resets and launches it.
It leaves his hand with Tyreek twenty yards down the field,
and he's still even with the cornerback. He separates at
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thirty yards and then slows down at fifty from the
line of scrimmage. The ball traveled fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yards in the air. It's a quarters beater.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The same play they score a touchdown against the Patriots
on twenty three to Tyreek Hill. It's a nice adjustment
by tyreek Hill, but that throw is going to have
to be seventy seventy five yards if it's going to
hit him in stride, and that's not stepping up into
a one hitch. It's kind of moving off to the side.
And I don't think there's a quarterback on the planet
who can do that. Maybe Anthony Richardson, maybe, But I'd
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rather underthrow it than overthrow it, because overthrows have no shot.
The second corner route to Wattle was a nice rip,
tad late, but in good rhythm, throwing off the top
of his drop. I think his best throw of the
day was the third and five conversion of Tyreek Hill
on a far hash out a gap pressure, takes a
hit ball right where it had to be in tight coverage.
He threw a little rap dig to Wattle for sixteen
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yards to begin the fourth quarter. That was vintage to
elite anticipation. Bread and Butter did a good job on
third and seven on the penultimate drive, but Jonah is
right in his lap throws the ball on the right
shoulder of a cover in Nick Westbrook a kenne to
move the sticks. But that's where it all went to hell.
After that, we covered it already. That's the end of
the quarterback talk. Individual sounds offensively. Julian Hill, Malik Washington,
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and Nick Westbrook a Kinna all blocked outside the numbers
really well in this game. As far as the standout's Wattle.
I'm not saying this to disparage, but I feel Wattle
is venturing on twenty twenty one in the sense that
there's a lot of meat on the bone for him,
remember me harping on this podcasts. And then he goes
off for fourteen hundred yards and twenty two. He's opened
a lot, man, and for whatever reason, the timing of
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the progression of the pass pro bad location, whatever he's
not getting the fruits of the labor. From a production standpoint.
He had a good game, but he could have had
a lot more. However, on his touchdown catch, the play
that happened because of his ability to stack through the stem.
What I mean by that is the cornerback is outside
leverage and he's trying his best to reroute Waddle and
stay in phase on the outside shoulder so that Wattle
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cannot get over the top of him and stack him
on the corner route. But he outworks him and does
it and stacks him and it's an outside release or
outside route after an inside release. That is elite wide
receiver play right there from Waddle for a touchdown. Dvon
h Chan looks like rookie year a chan to meet
with the decision making and cutting off the blockers' butts.
He condenses everything and presses it. Not that it was
bad last year, but it was better as a rookie.
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And it looks back to that step for me this season.
And after the finish on a touchdown catch, man, that
is nice, dude. It tells you about him a little bit.
Right the play to start the drive that ended in
a pick, he chips and releases for a catch and
run for a first down. Very effective chip like, Yeah, Devon.
More of that in Pass Pro. Brother Tyreek Hill was
good too, But it is annoying to start beast every
single week with this. He never knows where the hell
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he's going out of the huddle, and it's just like
it's not gonna change. On the to a pick that
was negated because of the off sides, Buddy breaks off
a route that like you think it's Patrick Mahomes playing quarterback.
Like he breaks off the route and the only throw
from there is like a fifty yard throw across to
his body. Bro, he doesn't have that as arsenal, Like
you have to know that. You've been with him for
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four years. You have to know that now when he
gets the top gear and sinks the hips, he is unguardable.
The deep shot, splitting quarters coverage, the adjustment to the football.
The star is still in there in the ability sense
of things, and we saw it in some flashes in
this game. He also got himself a pancake block on
a little escort drag screen to eighth CHM before a
field goal that could have popped if he made one
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guy miss. So there's some good in there, but he
still frustrates me to no end. Aaron Brewer had two
bad penalties that were less than ideal. But the way
he can displace guys at his size and the advantage
that comes with that because of his elite ability to
get wide like you would think he has to sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Some power there, but he does.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He's violent, he displaces, but man, that hold on Barmore
was a killer. Julian Hill I just thought he had
a good job, had a good game in blocking all
game long.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Blik.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I like his usage as a ballcarrier, kind of a
Zuokama twenty three from the first game, two games of
the year.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Light there.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You can get favorable numbers doing that with personnel groupings
because he's a receiver and he plays running back, and
the way he presses is like a chan. It's like
a running back. Same deal on punt returns, individual misses offensively.
Key On Smith, I don't know what we're doing there.
Man on that ah Chan screen in the second drive
trips over his own guy, overruns a block, doesn't make
contact on anybody, and it's not like some defensive back
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in a full sprint. It's a flat footed linebacker and
he can't even like you can't even get in his way.
If you can't do that, what's your game Because your
game's not power at the point of attack Jonah and
Savita and Naya. I gotta say you, guys, I'm surprised.
I think it will get there, but I thought it
would get there a lot faster. And he had a
little inside handoff on the two minute drive to Devon
a Chan that should have popped, but he I talked
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about it earlier, like he just overruns a block that
was right there for him. He's popping straight up. The
feed are going dead, gets driven back multiple times in
this game. It's bad like instant you know, instant disregard,
snatch trap from the defensive line for a disposal for
tackle for loss. It's been bad tape man. Not Patrick
Paul's best day either, but not something I'm worried about.
I thought he got a little bit stuck a couple
of times. They're asking him to do a lot because
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he's trying to bring along Jonah, who's trying to sacrifice
for Key on the other side. He just didn't have
very good hand usage in this game. In my opinion,
Larry Borham. I didn't think it was a bad game,
but it's the same situation as like Kendall at right
tackle last year. There's no real attachment in the running
game from him, and it's gonna cost you off that
right side until we get Austin Jackson back. Offensive snap
counts TA and the offensive line went the distance. A
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Chan played fifty three of the fifty seven snaps. Ollie
Gordon had seven, alec Ingold had twenty. I'm okay with
a Chan getting that much work, but all he's gonna
have to have more on Thursday because that's a tough
turnaround for Devon ah Chan Hill had forty eight, Wattle
forty seven.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm great with that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
My league thirty five, perfect, NWI sixteen and d Sqorage
four At tight end, Tanner Connor played twenty six and
Julian Hill play twenty nine. Let's go ahead and take
a break, come back into the defense and the top
five tapes. Other Side of Draft Time podcast brought to
you by aoundation on the defensive side. Oh pressure, where
art thou look no further man. We can't close out
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series because we can't get pressure in the quarterback. Four
man rushes are doing nothing. There's not a lot of
bursts from anyone outside of Chop, and that allows them
to chip him and double him. He's not influencing the
pocket at all. Because of that, JP is probably a
ways away from being back to old JP. Like looks
like the juice is just not quite there yet. Sealer
had another game that wasn't his typical performance, like seventeen
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is gonna The Bills are so begged up on defense
that like, you could make a case the Dolphins could
score on them, but I won't make that mistake again.
But it's not gonna matter because Josh Allen's gonna do
what Josh Allen does to me. The game was won
by the Patriots on third downs and it didn't really
matter how far they had to go. I think our
pass rush is struggling, whether it's straight up four man rushes,
whether it's pressures and games or sim pressures, whether you're
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in exotic coverages, different versions of cover two, especially in
long down distances, where you might call a Tampa two
look and the mic gets his depth down the middle
of the field, then we overrun a rush lane. It
clears up the middle and all Drake May had to
do was just slide up and take easy access for
a first down. It was either that or throws under
the hook zone with run after the catch from the
running backs, with a bunch of play action and misdirection
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on early downs that got us on our false keys
and sprung big plays. It's nothing crazy. We just got
out executed for sixty minutes. Defensively. To me, that's where
the game was won, and you can get it corrected.
I think it's actually very correctable, but huge test on Thursday.
They're going to have to play a lot better than
they have these first two games. The Kasehon Booty touchdown
over Jack Jones, like on tape, is even better than
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I thought it was in person. Jack couldn't have done
anything else. He was all over it. Kind of an
amazing completion for them there. They went after Jalen Phillips
on those spot drops I talked about on the show
last night, but I counted four catches with him just
kind of chilling there, like not really impacting. The play
where they cross his face and hid it in rhythm.
It looks tough for him to get back there. And
there was a play the second quarter where they bring
Trader and Jordan Brooks and Drake May just replaces the
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blitz with the football and JB kind of like jogs
after it and looks distraught, like arms flailing, throwing the
neck back, and then Dodson misses the tackle. We'll get
to him here in a second. That Brooks sack was
one of the best designs and executions of the entire
season so far. Six man pressure that gets Jordan Brooks
on a back and he wins that matchup. Good call
for the play on offense too, because they did not
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have a hot and May had nowhere to go with
that football. The next drive, they are behind the chains
after a hold and May gets a check down to
Ramondre Stevenson against a four man pressure and he catches
it three yards beyond the line of scrimmage on second
and twenty. Nope, yeah, second and twenty and the hook
zone is all the sticks. Okay, second and twelve. They're
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all at the sticks twelve yards down the field and
Stevenson isn't contacted until four yards shy of the sticks
and actually sticking right there and make the play. But that,
to me is what we was talking about last week.
You gotta play tighter. It's way too easy if the
quarterback has an easy solution to get to his check
down there and there's like the result is a nine
yard game. It's too easy. Gotta play tighter in that
second level. Man, it's killing us through two games. Then
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they got us on the may screen to Stevenson after
that with a pressure call and that happens like we
showed seven, brought five, But that's five guys behind the
football and the two drops in the hook were KG
and Sealer, So that's defensive tackles that if they do
through that screen, they're probably not going to catch it
from the backside. That's a tough ass for the defensive
tackle to retrace that from that position. But a good
job by Josh McDaniels to win that play call and
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recognize that tendency. Individual standouts. Jordan Phillips is going to
be a star. I love this guy.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Love him.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Two of the first three plays, he is standing guys
up and their heads pop up like rock them, sock
them robots. Then he throws them on the ground like
he's going up against me, one hundred and sixty pound me,
these massive human beings. Second drive, he blows up a
play a boy getting knocked back and riding the way
for a stuff. Very next play, he absorbs a block
and fights around it and sheds into the gap to
make the play. He was so dominant that they dialed
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up a wham trap on him in the third quarter,
which is where you bring a tight end across the formation.
You let the defensive tackle go through, like you turn
him free like a screenplay, and the tight end comes
across and whacks him, and like you do that for
Indominkan Su, Like that's the kind of player you do
that for Minka Fitzpatrick. I think Minka's doing a lot
and it doesn't show up in the box score. He
has a lot on his plate and he's playing fast.
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He mans up tight ends and coverage. He caps pass
offs in the vertical passing game, from depth, from zone depth.
He comes from that same depth against the run. He's
a nice player, but I will say his body language
shows me a very frustrated player, and I cannot blame him.
The last two games he played here in twenty nineteen
were two of the worst in franchise history. Then he
comes back and we look like this tough deal for
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Minco Man chop Robinson. The sack was a nice little
wiggle to widen the back and pass than the closing
speed you know from him. Next play, he wins the
ghost move, but the right tackle tackles him to get
him to the ground, making it second and twenty five
on the holding call. That should be a drive killer, right,
but we got hit with the illegal contact on second
twenty five. But a single player causing twenty five yard
fifteen yards of losses on two plays there' that's killing
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a drive that gets you in the standout mentions. He
does need to do a better job on the May
rushing touchdown where he kind of buries his head and
goes to the ground.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Judon chased May out of the pocket.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He could have kind of had a better angle to
cut that off and make a negative play for the
Patriots there. Rasull Douglass was quiet, but that's a good
thing in this situation. Had that nice pass breakup coming
over the top on the first drive, and I thought
Jack Jones, you know, the touchdown was the only play
he really allowed, but I can't fault him for that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He was in phase all game.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
He had a nice strong side sea gap crash in
for a run stuff the field goal at the end
of the half. He re routes Buddet Keishawan Boody on
the play before that, on to the ground on a
may scramble once he broke the pocket his covers in
the second down incomple The Patriots final drive was really good.
He had a bunch of good reps out there, and
then Willie gave He played three snaps, but he was
impactful on two of them, and that tackle for loss
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was like a potential, you know, play before the play
type of deal because we put him in third long
and then gave up a screen pass on the next play.
Individual misses were vast tyrrel Dotson. I would make a
change if it were me. False keys, not very smart football.
The throwback on the first drive, that little tight end
wheel up the sideline, Brother.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Where are we going? Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You keep your eyes on the drag going away from you,
like pointing out to Brooks who's on it, like he's
got it, and then you let the leak just go
right back across your face and the other direction for
a huge play thinking not playing. The next drive, they
hit Henderson on a pick wheel and he tries to
go under the pick, like that's basketball one on one, right,
you cannot go under the pick. The play after the
Stevenson fifty yarder where he shoots a gap and Jordan
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Brooks has the gap and he overruns it. On a
drive earlier, he misses a tackle in a one on
one gap that was a tight as a phone booth.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He misses the tackle there.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
He overruns a play and it's out the gate in
the fourth quarter, Like you can't start him on Thursday.
You gotta go Willie Gay in my opinion, but I
doubt that happens because it's either kJ Bridge the next
guy for the green dot, the Mike linebacker Jalen Phillips.
The spot drops, does not look comfortable. The pass rush
juice is not there. He plays the run pretty well,
but he kind of looks like Ogbah did last year.
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And that's you need more from that, more than that
from Jalen Phillips. If emlafan Wu, I don't think has
really got a feel for what he's doing yet in
the defense. Pretty big scheme change from Detroit what he
did there, and he too looks like he's playing thinking
football than just playing football.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Jason Marshall.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
The field was slow for him too, hel t dot
him and if he all took the cheese on that
first touchdown to MATC. Hollins, just hilariously bad defense man,
the illegal contact play. I think you could have kept
that in your pocket as a raft, but like, don't
even give him a chance.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Man, what are we doing? What are we doing there?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Second in twenty five, Matthew Judon. Remember what I said
about players coming in after their thirtieth birthday who've been
on multiple teams made a bunch of money in this league.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Kind of looks like that to me.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
But he had a flat quarterback conflict and just flat
out left the flat. You got to ride that out
for the quarterback, boot Man, you gotta play the receiver
first thing. Come get the quarterback. Kenny Grant, he's losing
his gap too much. There's some nice work when he
plays the point of attack, but I think he's trying
to do a little bit too much. He's one of
the few guys in this list I'm not worried about.
Speaking of guys on that list. Zach Seedler, out of
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gaps displaced, couldn't get to his hump move. He tried
to hump move on when who and when who overpowered him?
I haven't seen that before. I'm not concerned. Generally. That's
two straight games where it's just not the same. Zach's
Eiler to me, But man, go watch the two point
conversion play and watch Michael on one. Who's no no, sorry,
Jared Wilson, it's the left guard. Watch the way he
celebrates that play. He took Zach on ice skates on
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that play. And then Jordan Brooks I thought was fine,
but the ramondre Stevenson play was on him. He just
got cooked on that for fifty something yards. It's tough
to win. Win a couple bunch of your best players. Phillips, Seeler,
Kenny Gee or in this category snap counts, Minka, Jordan Brooks,
Jack Jones, Rasull Douglas all go the distance with sixty snaps.
Tyrrell Dotson played all but one on the interior. Zach
s Eiler played forty five, Jordan Phillips played forty, Kenneth
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Grant played thirty seven, Matthew Butler played fifteen, and Zeke
Bigger's played six. So Jordan Phillips forty, Zeke Bigger six.
For those keeping track at home off the edge, Jalen
Phillips played forty, Bradley Chill played thirty eight. Chop played
twenty four, Matthew Judon twenty. I know he's not in
that position group, but I would love to see way
more Willy Gay and way lush Matthew Judon at linebacker.
Gay played three, kJ Britt played one. In the defensive backfield,
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Jason Marshall played twenty three and the safety rotation was
Minka every snap if he thirty six, Trader twenty and
Ashton Davis thirteen. I think some changes for Thursday that
are required. I would see more Willy Gay. I would
start him if I could, but we'll see. I would
see less Jalen Phillips and spot drops. I would see
less overall sim pressures because we're just not playing connected
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right now and it's causing too many issues in that
second zone, second level of defense. I would go with
Brun Skillet right guard, and I would see a lot
more Ollie Gordon. My top five tapes. Number five Jack
Jones good good day for the cornerback, Number four, Jalen Wattle,
number three, Tyreek Hill. Jordan Phillips is like a top
five player on this team right now. For me, he's
number two on the day and number one is Devon
a Chan. We'll come back on Wednesday and have the
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Until next time, Fin's up. Caroline Cameron Willow Dad coming Home.
This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And on today's show, we're gonna rip through the All
twenty two review from the Dolphins loss against the New
England Patriots. One more piece of content before we're on
to Buffalo. Let's dive right in from the Baptist Health
Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Drive Time Podcast Aye d Week two Patriots thirty three,
Dolphins twenty seven Offensive General points from the All twenty
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two watch. We've got a long one here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Strap in.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I've got some good performances, some not so good performances.
We're the top five tapes at the end of this
as well. And we start as we do each week,
with the offensive general themes and thesis. And before I
get into this, like, I have noticed how much more
like I've always been this way, but I'm really noticing
it on these podcasts lately, how much more geared I
am to the offensive side of the ball and knowledgeable
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on that side of the ball compared to defense. Like
I don't you know, I try to be the same
on both sides, but I definitely have a favorite, and
my knowledge goes more towards the offense. So that's why
that side of the ball is always more note field
than the defense.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Each week.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Let's go ahead and jump into the offensive general points.
So the run game creativity, there was a lot to like.
And I said this in the press room, and I
kind of got some some eyebrows raised because of the
running numbers in the game. But there was a lot
of like really good run design in this game. Like
the first play of the game, you saw where alec
Ingole aligns in this h back like up position eight
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chans behind Tua in the side saddle and shotgun formation,
and he motions back behind Tua like almost a pistol,
but resets back to the other side of the formation,
and then he recuts back across the face of two
on the handoff, and you get a nice double team
from Pat and Jonah, a good kickout from Julian Hill,
a good down block from alec Ingles, a kind of
insert blocker in that backside B gap.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We've had a few runs this season so.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Far in that like eight to ten yard rag where
when you get them, it's usually a really nicely executed
play across all eleven guys, and that's how this game started.
And I suppose the next step in the process would
be developing more consistency there and being able to get
to the run game more and not being chasing on
the scoreboard for large periods of time. But there was
just a lot of this throughout the entire first half.
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And I think it was seven for forty eight the
Dolphins ran for which is a really good average, right obviously,
but the Malik Washington run, you dummy motion across the
formation with.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Who was it Ny lost track? I think it was
Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, Tyreek Hill goes across the formation of motion with
Allie as the side saddle and shotgun, and you see
how the Pats are late to react because they cut
it back across the grain. It just gives you all
these really good angles of attack in the blocking game.
You get a good crack on the outside from Jalen
Waddle and now you've got Larry Borum and all the
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Gordon with really good angles leading a convoy from Leake
Washington to pick up eighteen yards in the ground. And
they both executed those blocks as well. The very next
play the inside zone toss. I love the inside zone toss.
It can create so much leverage for your interior offensive line.
The Niners made this kind of a thing back in
like twenty seventeen, and McDaniel has continued it on here
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but doesn't run it a whole lot. But they run
it right after the malikue Washington play to Oli Gordon,
and on this particular snap, Malik is in a nasty
split that means he's close and tight to the formation
to the left. Tyreek motions from right to left and
to what tosses it, and it looks like it's going
to be an allie toss to the outside, but he
puts his foot in the ground and doesn't follow Tyreek
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in motion where he has that lead wrap block that
you see from Julian Hill across the formation so many times. Right,
you take him in jet motion, he wraps the edge
and tries to seal that outside the force defender, but
all he puts his foot in the ground and follows
Malik Washington as the insert blocker.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
On the inside. You get Brewer and Jonah pushing a
man to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Keon and Larry displaces the backside end by five yards
and all he brings the boom where he gets five
yards past the line of scrimmage and then just wants
it more than the Patriots defense. Right, And that's why
as good as Devon ah Chan is, I think you
have to run Allie more for the temperament, the tone
that it sets, sense sets, because that was an attitude
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run and that's three more yards than you had blocked.
Like excellent design, excellent execution, excellent finish from running back.
And again I don't care about some of the mental
errors and off ball assignments, and maybe it's more than
I'm privy to. It probably is for me to have
this comment. That's so you know, that runs so parallel
to what the coaching staff feels like in terms of
getting seven snaps in one carry. But I mean, you know,
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we'll talk more about other possible Broster changes down the
line here, but you know ten has off ball assignment
errs and and effort questionable effort on snaps. You know,
I've seen all these do this all summer, all preseason,
and now in a game in September. We need this mindset,
we need this counter to Devon ah Chan, and it
was clear they wanted to attack the corners of the
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Patriots in this game. We talked about it last night,
but even some of the incompletions, like the first third
down of the game, you had these mirrored combos. Mirrored
means you're running the same route combination on one side
of the field as you are on the other. Flat
seven what is flat seven?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Is a corner route right the number three, it's a
seven route and then the flat route you guys know
what that is? A little you know, get out in
space and cut to the sideline like two three yards
past the line of scrimmage. So it's a flat in
a sale or a corner right basically high lowing your
outbreaking routes at like five to fifteen yards of depth
and trying to create conflict for an outside zone cornerback
and get that ball over that corner back to the
sale under the safety or if that cloud sinks back
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into the sail route, you throw the flat. Are you
with me still? So a chan has a choice route
over the middle with mirored seven flat combinations on the outside,
but the Patriots spam the outside and have all those
four routes covered. So maybe that's an area of opportunity
because it used to be that they would only spam
the middle of the field on defense, right, you just
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flood the middle of the field TWA can't get the
ball out of the numbers, game over. But that's not
the case anymore in terms of how the offense operates.
So I think there could be some hope there that
this tape maybe changes the way teams can defend you
and gives them a little bit more to think about
since they were able to attack those areas of vulnerability
and get to three hundred and fifteen passing yards, and
sure enough, on the very next play, what's the concept?
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Not the next play, but what's the concept on the
Wattle touchdown? Yep, seven flat bang, good route, good throw touchdown.
The first play of the next drive, you get a
too high safety look that rotates into a robber and
single high. So I'm doing hands right now, but you
can't see it on a freaking audio platform.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But two fists in front of your face.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
One goes high, one goes low, right trying to take
away Tyreek on a crosser, but Reek presses the toes
of the half field safety and breaks it out for
a deep out, And we really took our yards on
those areas that I think could have a nice impact
going forward to open up space on digs, because in
the second half of this game there was something that
we hit and something that we missed curls or digs
over the middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You kind of created the overplay.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And quite frankly, like as much as I get, you know,
frustrated about operation and procedurals, which is a non starter
by the way, that's JV freaking football.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You have to get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But damn it, McDaniel had a hell of a game
play on this game, and the quarterback and some of
the other players on offense kind of, you know, let
him down in a big spot in my opinion. So
it's it's you know, eleven plus fold. It's not one
guy causing these issues. That there's a lot of things
going into bad football right now. But I just I
loved the call to check to a run on the
final drive of the first half. The Patriots are in
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this deep prevent with only four defenders in the box,
one of them being the off ball mike linebacker. So
you've got three on four on three at the point
of attack and everything is blocked but then Jonas ivit
Naya has a down block on robert splane and he
just flat out overruns it and he didn't even have
to really like square it up. He just had to
find a way to get in the way and he
couldn't do it, and it would have been probably a
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fifty five yard touchdown run. Now we did score on
that drive, so what you know, I guess the no
harm but like you still evaluate each play an individual basis,
and Mike was in his bag in the run game design,
especially early on and with the way they created space
on that seven flat combination. But man, this first half
drives two and three just beautiful. After all the seven
flat that worked, we get back to a Texas route,
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which that opens up space that the seven flat opens
up the Texas route because you see this linebacker who
is got real urgency to get to his width to
get over to that flat route that he's seen run
in front of him, you know, four or five times
at this point of the game, and a chan can
can take advantage of that by taking his route to
the flat, put a foot in the ground back across
the middle. And there's not a single linebacker in the
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world that can cheat on a flat and then have
a chan run a Texas and get back in shape.
Like you're behind him by two steps, and you're not
going to beat that guy if you're even with him,
much less behind by two steps.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Last point here, well that's not true. I have a
few more points.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I do this sometimes my notes where I write last point,
then I have like sixteen more. But additional point is
that the James Daniels injury, the biggest effect that's had
is on Jonahs ofvit Naya in my opinion, and it's
because you've essentially forced slides more to the right side
to protect Keon and Larry Borum as well more so
more so key On Smith with Brewer on the inside,
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and it's put Jonas and savit Naya in these binds
where he has to do a lot of stuff. We'll
come back and talk about him in one second. I
like alec Ingole, and I understand that he's a nice
tendency breaker when you do this, but these these routes
that he's running, I just I don't see the benefit
of it. Maybe I'm the stupid one here, and I
probably am, but it's it seems like you're not giving
yourself a lot of chance for explosiveness there. But here's
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my issue on some of the run game stuff though.
We get so many unblocked guys because we do have
guys like tripping over each other, and that's what some
of the complexities caused here, on top of the procedural stuff.
Like there's a play where Westbrook Akine tries to crack
the edge and Patrick Paul trips over him, and he's
supposed to go get the Will linebacker, and because he's outflanked,
Paul knows he has to like get out of his
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stands quick and get with on the play immediately. But
when he does the he trips overt Nwi's foot because
they're both kind of running in the same direction, and
it causes a collision on your own guys, which causes
a negative run. The little Malik drag that would have
had us first in goal up by two points late
in the third quarter was another great sequencing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Look we fake the toss to the.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Motion man that we had got earlier on the outside,
the all the Gordon inside zone run, the Leak Washington
little handoff in the outside, same concept motion man to
the left, the Mic linebacker takes himself all the way
out of the play with false steps and runs right
past my leak. Washington, who runs to open grass, has
a catch and run for fifteen yards, but Aaron Brewer
gets hit with a holding call. Like if that would
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have been a game changer, right, because your first and
goal from the three yard line. Instead it goes back
to first and twenty from the twenty nine yard line.
But the run game action like key on polls to
the play side. The motion man sells, split flow action
sells this linebacker a bill of goods, and they were
taking the cheese. A lot of the stuff on the
Dolphins offensive design in this game. Now we lost the
game in my opinion, on the final two drives. The
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quarterback was horrible in those two drives. It was part
offensive line. The procedure was terrible. It was a full meltdown.
It was it was JV football on those final two drives.
But one of the parts that has been a consistent
theme going back years now and with the way this
offensive line is constructed, with Jonah not playing well, Keon's
not playing well. I think Larry's been okay, we'll talk
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about him more in a second, but it's really been
Brew and Paul and then everything else. Kind of a
mixed bag. And what does that give you forty percent
of good? You know, one on one pass protectors like
you wind up you know, sorry Scott text that it
threw me off. You wind up putting yourself in these
positions in third and seven plus which this offense tries
to negate as much as possible through quick game and
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run game and being as head of the sticks. That's
where they lost the game. A lot of true dropbacks
that they just get beat on. And then two was
lack of moving off the spot is part of that
as well. It's a it's a full bag. But then
off of all the fun design, we get a play
if you want to go check this out on your own,
thirteen forty to play. In the fourth quarter, two of
throws it away. Literally everything is wide open. Tyreek on
a corner route, Waddle on a dig which might have
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been a damn touchdown because they had they they kept
cheating to the corner in the second half of the
game and created these inbreaking spaces that we love to hit.
We didn't hit him more than once in the fourth quarter.
Both Westbrook a Kyne and here's where I get pissed off.
Both Westbrook A Keena and eight Chan are in the
flat and there's a cloud corner eight yards off of them,
but they both run the same damn route. So Tua
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just throws it away even though there was no pressure,
even though he had really three four guys open. But
they wind up in the same area, and so they
kind of like turned down the route option because they think,
like to me, they seem to think like, well, he's
in my space, like he's not gonna throw it here,
and it just ruined a really nice set up play.
To belabor this point one more time or this week anyway,
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after the Westbrook a kN a first down that puts
you first and ten at the minus forty seven with
three poin twenty to play in the game, that's a
great spot to be right down by a field goal.
You need fifteen more yards and give yourself a realistic
shot aut a field goal. You know you need fifty
three yards to win the game. Delay of game, And
that's after a ball a third and seven completion that
goes for seven yards exactly over the ball, like right
in the middle of the field, so you spot the
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ball right there no one's deep downfield to run back, Like,
why can't we get to the next play in forty seconds?
Then Tua overshoots Tyreek hill on first and fifteen, And
this is the worst miss of Tua tongue of Bilowe's
career in my opinion, because it's a bread and butter throw,
top of the drop, perfect pass protection, one hitch timing,
wide open window, declared early anticipation, Tyreek back down the
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stem and we sail it. We sell the ball over
his head and the safety falls down too. So maybe
Tyreek catches that and spins out and breaks a tackle
and scores in the damn play.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But how we missing that throw? Bro? How are we
missing that throw? That is, you can't miss that throw.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I used to say this whole the time about quarterback
evaluation before I got to the Dolphins, Like I can
live with miss layups if we are giving the offense
something additional, like Lamar Jackson, Right, Lamar missed layups early
in his career. Josh Allen sure as hell did, but
he was so special with how they ran the ball
and how they create explosives elsewhere that you can live
with that. And then hopefully those quarterbacks can develop that
aspect their game, and that is what happened with Lamar
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and Josh but Tua, the athletic ability, the desire to
run to protect himself has to be there on top
of missing these throws with maybe a little bit sped
up processor trying to try extra hard to protect himself.
I don't know, man, I don't know. It's a tough look.
It's tough to win games doing that. But you get
it back because you go fifteen yards to Tyreek Hill
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setting up third and seven, and then Boram gets destroyed
and pass protection really his first egregious snap of the
entire day to me, he got way out over his skis,
off balance and got beat badly and then the pick,
and I think Julian Hill was a viable option on
the pick after rewatching the tape, but I cannot be
certain because I don't know what the call is there
with him checking, because he did stay in pass pro
for like a little bit longer than you would expect
him to on a play like that, and so I
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wonder if he was part of the route or if
it was just something he got to after the fact,
after the block was over. But I can't be certain,
but I think Tua should have gone there with the football.
The next drive starts well, but look at the Ingold catch.
If he throws up to von h Chan instead, who
is running like a crossing route in front of Ingold,
who runs like a hookup, he might have scored in
that player. There was nobody on that side of the field.
Then he goes the distance but steps out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We know about that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Then the air's return, we get another break of the
huddle at eight seconds in the play clock, and that
was after an injury timeout five yards back set them
back again behind the chains once again for a team
that can't really pass them true drop backs the way
they want to right, horrible combination at a quarterback they
can't get off the spot. I liked a deep shot
attempt to waddle. The location wasn't bad, the timing was okay,
but Wattle kind of got like he kind of stumbled
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through contact of the corners down there. The corner in
safety Jonah gets beat on third and twelve where Tyreek
is wide open on the dig once again forces Tua
to move. He steps out of bounds, never laid across
the middle right, But I think you gotta take a
chance there. I thought Tanner Connor was kind of covered
by the defensive lineman who got back into the frame late,
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but it would have been a crazy like throw across
the body. But Malik Washington was kind of angling back
towards Tua and that's hard to get your head all
the way back over there.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But that was the most viable option on that play.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Then fourth down there, pass protection, breakdown, game over, Jonah
Keon and Borham all lose fire the damn thing into
the sun. Man. Let's take our first break right there,
come back and talk more about the quarterback. That's next
Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by AutoNation. Right, we're back
talking about the quarterback from the dolphins thirty three twenty
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seven loss against the New England Patriots. I saw somebody
post the Alabama highlight reel this morning on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sad even really say it.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I just want to say this because I got a
DM about this, and I want to make sure I
communicate this with you guys that love the show, my
diehards out there, my Ride or Die players. I am
not suddenly flipping my entire ethos to say Tua sucks
I'm not gonna do that. I'm not going to be
revisionist history. I'm not doing any of that. I think
concerns have become more prevalent two tapes in this season,
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and I spoke a little bit about some concern about
training camp regression, and maybe the Homer in me kind
of chalk that up to, like, oh, they're just trying
to work on new things. But there was some signs
of this in training camp as well that we covered
in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I mean, we talked about this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We didn't talk about two of for like ten days
straight on the show because there wasn't a lot to
talk about. But my criticisms and new stance comes from this,
like the tape, right, the operation of things on tape,
it looks to be barreling towards not good things, and
that could change things change in football all the time.
I talked with Jamon Bushrodt about this again. The one
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and four team, like they were horrible, they were down
and out, like just bad. But you know, a freezing
cold take right to say, oh, we're we're likely to
go seven and one more than we are to have
changes early in the season, Like shut up, dude, jeez,
what a horrible take. That was seven and one, You
freaking idiot. But it would not surprise me if Tua
became the next reclamation quarterback in the league. It happens
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every year now at this point right not in the
slightest because he is a good quarterback. I just think
that if this continues this way on this trajectory and
you get changes, I don't think he would be in
the future plan. So I'm trying to give the fans
a current snapshot but also be prepared for all options.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And my.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Direction going forward in the podcast is going to be
one of more stability and less hot takes. That's kind
of a Travis learning moment, Like you can have your
thoughts on what players and teams are in the preseason,
but let's not act like anything is a given anymore,
because that's how you get yourself in trouble. And I
do tend to pick this team to do better than
they probably should every year, and we got to learn
from that as well. But I just you know, if
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there is changes, I don't think he'd come back with
the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He's a good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But probably time running thin here unless things change right away.
Kind of in the way it ended for Ryan Tannehill.
Right two was a way better player than Tannehill ever was.
And look what he did with the Titans. You know,
a couple of playoff berths, AFC Championship game, really good
passer grading one year. But I want to start with
this about too. I know the pick that was offset
on the first drive looked bad, and I asked OJ
McDuffie and he said, one hundred percent of the time,
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the receiver cannot bail on that route the way the
Reek did. However, the very next play they spammed the
outside with cover two. The safeties widen, the hooks, widen
to the curl flat. We run that mirrored flat seven.
The Patriots bring four and it is a straight up
stonewalled good coverage, pass protection even better. And you basically
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have Tua just chilling there the way cam Ward used
to do at Miami. Right, just stand there and like
not even be moving. But he throws into a contested
a cham And this is me speculating, but because if
he moves off the spot, that's where things go wrong, right,
That's where the accuracy suffers, the arm strength suffers. He's
probably not gonna create He invites a hit which he
can't take right and that's where we become limited. So
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many quarterbacks I saw it from Drake May all game
long have picked that up with their legs, and I
think Tua could have with his athletic ability right now.
But as we'd see later in the game, he's not
gonna put himself in harm's way. And quite frankly, I
think that's where this decision, just discussion, I should say,
kind of comes to an end. You take that out
of his game, who does he become on top of
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the miss As we talked about here a little bit,
the same player, right, and he was already playing at
a deficiency you know, arm and athletic ability that he
did overcome because of the ability to do it in
a pinch when he had to, but also because the
elite anticipation, accuracy, placement, all that stuff. But you take
any sense of play making away, it's just not going
to play some say like the Rams game last year,
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that third and long conversion to Raheem most over, he
wheels out of there. That's not in the tool belt
right now. Remember the Chargers game, not just that he's
got hill tyreek Baum on third and ten, the deep
out to Burios on third and fifteen, moving to his
left like he was enough of a creator to pair
with the elite skills elsewhere. And now the creation's gone,
the creativity's gone, and the processing and location is regressing,
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like that's a rough place to be man. I thought
the first half or Tuoa was just a good job
manage in the game, making plays on time and in rhythm.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Nothing too crazy with eye popping throws or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The corner route to Waddle was beautiful, good job processing,
good job locating that ball with with trajectory in touch.
He hit him on a nice slant that had to
be well placed as well. The next drive, but it
was a lot of defined throws. He did a good
job seeing it and getting the ball there. The long
bomb to Tyreek I think is an underthrow spot for
any quarterback in the league. And you can fight me
on this all you want, I don't care. Mike talked
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about it. With the footwork and the uncorking of it. It
was not a traditional drop back where he could step
into it off one hitch and throw the ball down
the field. It was him kind of doing some additional
footwork and JT O Sullivan's kind of critical of this
of the Dolphins quarterback footwork, but he resets and launches it.
It leaves his hand with Tyreek twenty yards down the field,
and he's still even with the cornerback. He separates at
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thirty yards and then slows down at fifty from the
line of scrimmage. The ball traveled fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yards in the air. It's a quarters beater.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The same play they score a touchdown against the Patriots
on twenty three to Tyreek Hill. It's a nice adjustment
by tyreek Hill, but that throw is going to have
to be seventy seventy five yards if it's going to
hit him in stride, and that's not stepping up into
a one hitch. It's kind of moving off to the side.
And I don't think there's a quarterback on the planet
who can do that. Maybe Anthony Richardson, maybe, But I'd
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rather underthrow it than overthrow it, because overthrows have no shot.
The second corner route to Wattle was a nice rip,
tad late, but in good rhythm, throwing off the top
of his drop. I think his best throw of the
day was the third and five conversion of Tyreek Hill
on a far hash out a gap pressure, takes a
hit ball right where it had to be in tight coverage.
He threw a little rap dig to Wattle for sixteen
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yards to begin the fourth quarter. That was vintage to
elite anticipation. Bread and Butter did a good job on
third and seven on the penultimate drive, but Jonah is
right in his lap throws the ball on the right
shoulder of a cover in Nick Westbrook a kenne to
move the sticks. But that's where it all went to hell.
After that, we covered it already. That's the end of
the quarterback talk. Individual sounds offensively. Julian Hill, Malik Washington,
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and Nick Westbrook a Kinna all blocked outside the numbers
really well in this game. As far as the standout's Wattle.
I'm not saying this to disparage, but I feel Wattle
is venturing on twenty twenty one in the sense that
there's a lot of meat on the bone for him,
remember me harping on this podcasts. And then he goes
off for fourteen hundred yards and twenty two. He's opened
a lot, man, and for whatever reason, the timing of
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the progression of the pass pro bad location, whatever he's
not getting the fruits of the labor. From a production standpoint.
He had a good game, but he could have had
a lot more. However, on his touchdown catch, the play
that happened because of his ability to stack through the stem.
What I mean by that is the cornerback is outside
leverage and he's trying his best to reroute Waddle and
stay in phase on the outside shoulder so that Wattle
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cannot get over the top of him and stack him
on the corner route. But he outworks him and does
it and stacks him and it's an outside release or
outside route after an inside release. That is elite wide
receiver play right there from Waddle for a touchdown. Dvon
h Chan looks like rookie year a chan to meet
with the decision making and cutting off the blockers' butts.
He condenses everything and presses it. Not that it was
bad last year, but it was better as a rookie.
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And it looks back to that step for me this season.
And after the finish on a touchdown catch, man, that
is nice, dude. It tells you about him a little bit.
Right the play to start the drive that ended in
a pick, he chips and releases for a catch and
run for a first down. Very effective chip like, Yeah, Devon.
More of that in Pass Pro. Brother Tyreek Hill was
good too, But it is annoying to start beast every
single week with this. He never knows where the hell
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he's going out of the huddle, and it's just like
it's not gonna change. On the to a pick that
was negated because of the off sides, Buddy breaks off
a route that like you think it's Patrick Mahomes playing quarterback.
Like he breaks off the route and the only throw
from there is like a fifty yard throw across to
his body. Bro, he doesn't have that as arsenal, Like
you have to know that. You've been with him for
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four years. You have to know that now when he
gets the top gear and sinks the hips, he is unguardable.
The deep shot, splitting quarters coverage, the adjustment to the football.
The star is still in there in the ability sense
of things, and we saw it in some flashes in
this game. He also got himself a pancake block on
a little escort drag screen to eighth CHM before a
field goal that could have popped if he made one
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guy miss. So there's some good in there, but he
still frustrates me to no end. Aaron Brewer had two
bad penalties that were less than ideal. But the way
he can displace guys at his size and the advantage
that comes with that because of his elite ability to
get wide like you would think he has to sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Some power there, but he does.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He's violent, he displaces, but man, that hold on Barmore
was a killer. Julian Hill I just thought he had
a good job, had a good game in blocking all
game long.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Blik.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I like his usage as a ballcarrier, kind of a
Zuokama twenty three from the first game, two games of
the year.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Light there.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You can get favorable numbers doing that with personnel groupings
because he's a receiver and he plays running back, and
the way he presses is like a chan. It's like
a running back. Same deal on punt returns, individual misses offensively.
Key On Smith, I don't know what we're doing there.
Man on that ah Chan screen in the second drive
trips over his own guy, overruns a block, doesn't make
contact on anybody, and it's not like some defensive back
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in a full sprint. It's a flat footed linebacker and
he can't even like you can't even get in his way.
If you can't do that, what's your game Because your
game's not power at the point of attack Jonah and
Savita and Naya. I gotta say you, guys, I'm surprised.
I think it will get there, but I thought it
would get there a lot faster. And he had a
little inside handoff on the two minute drive to Devon
a Chan that should have popped, but he I talked
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about it earlier, like he just overruns a block that
was right there for him. He's popping straight up. The
feed are going dead, gets driven back multiple times in
this game. It's bad like instant you know, instant disregard,
snatch trap from the defensive line for a disposal for
tackle for loss. It's been bad tape man. Not Patrick
Paul's best day either, but not something I'm worried about.
I thought he got a little bit stuck a couple
of times. They're asking him to do a lot because
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he's trying to bring along Jonah, who's trying to sacrifice
for Key on the other side. He just didn't have
very good hand usage in this game. In my opinion,
Larry Borham. I didn't think it was a bad game,
but it's the same situation as like Kendall at right
tackle last year. There's no real attachment in the running
game from him, and it's gonna cost you off that
right side until we get Austin Jackson back. Offensive snap
counts TA and the offensive line went the distance. A
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Chan played fifty three of the fifty seven snaps. Ollie
Gordon had seven, alec Ingold had twenty. I'm okay with
a Chan getting that much work, but all he's gonna
have to have more on Thursday because that's a tough
turnaround for Devon ah Chan Hill had forty eight, Wattle
forty seven.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm great with that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
My league thirty five, perfect, NWI sixteen and d Sqorage
four At tight end, Tanner Connor played twenty six and
Julian Hill play twenty nine. Let's go ahead and take
a break, come back into the defense and the top
five tapes. Other Side of Draft Time podcast brought to
you by aoundation on the defensive side. Oh pressure, where
art thou look no further man. We can't close out
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series because we can't get pressure in the quarterback. Four
man rushes are doing nothing. There's not a lot of
bursts from anyone outside of Chop, and that allows them
to chip him and double him. He's not influencing the
pocket at all. Because of that, JP is probably a
ways away from being back to old JP. Like looks
like the juice is just not quite there yet. Sealer
had another game that wasn't his typical performance, like seventeen
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is gonna The Bills are so begged up on defense
that like, you could make a case the Dolphins could
score on them, but I won't make that mistake again.
But it's not gonna matter because Josh Allen's gonna do
what Josh Allen does to me. The game was won
by the Patriots on third downs and it didn't really
matter how far they had to go. I think our
pass rush is struggling, whether it's straight up four man rushes,
whether it's pressures and games or sim pressures, whether you're
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in exotic coverages, different versions of cover two, especially in
long down distances, where you might call a Tampa two
look and the mic gets his depth down the middle
of the field, then we overrun a rush lane. It
clears up the middle and all Drake May had to
do was just slide up and take easy access for
a first down. It was either that or throws under
the hook zone with run after the catch from the
running backs, with a bunch of play action and misdirection
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on early downs that got us on our false keys
and sprung big plays. It's nothing crazy. We just got
out executed for sixty minutes. Defensively. To me, that's where
the game was won, and you can get it corrected.
I think it's actually very correctable, but huge test on Thursday.
They're going to have to play a lot better than
they have these first two games. The Kasehon Booty touchdown
over Jack Jones, like on tape, is even better than
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I thought it was in person. Jack couldn't have done
anything else. He was all over it. Kind of an
amazing completion for them there. They went after Jalen Phillips
on those spot drops I talked about on the show
last night, but I counted four catches with him just
kind of chilling there, like not really impacting. The play
where they cross his face and hid it in rhythm.
It looks tough for him to get back there. And
there was a play the second quarter where they bring
Trader and Jordan Brooks and Drake May just replaces the
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blitz with the football and JB kind of like jogs
after it and looks distraught, like arms flailing, throwing the
neck back, and then Dodson misses the tackle. We'll get
to him here in a second. That Brooks sack was
one of the best designs and executions of the entire
season so far. Six man pressure that gets Jordan Brooks
on a back and he wins that matchup. Good call
for the play on offense too, because they did not
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have a hot and May had nowhere to go with
that football. The next drive, they are behind the chains
after a hold and May gets a check down to
Ramondre Stevenson against a four man pressure and he catches
it three yards beyond the line of scrimmage on second
and twenty. Nope, yeah, second and twenty and the hook
zone is all the sticks. Okay, second and twelve. They're
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all at the sticks twelve yards down the field and
Stevenson isn't contacted until four yards shy of the sticks
and actually sticking right there and make the play. But that,
to me is what we was talking about last week.
You gotta play tighter. It's way too easy if the
quarterback has an easy solution to get to his check
down there and there's like the result is a nine
yard game. It's too easy. Gotta play tighter in that
second level. Man, it's killing us through two games. Then
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they got us on the may screen to Stevenson after
that with a pressure call and that happens like we
showed seven, brought five, But that's five guys behind the
football and the two drops in the hook were KG
and Sealer, So that's defensive tackles that if they do
through that screen, they're probably not going to catch it
from the backside. That's a tough ass for the defensive
tackle to retrace that from that position. But a good
job by Josh McDaniels to win that play call and
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recognize that tendency. Individual standouts. Jordan Phillips is going to
be a star. I love this guy.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Love him.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Two of the first three plays, he is standing guys
up and their heads pop up like rock them, sock
them robots. Then he throws them on the ground like
he's going up against me, one hundred and sixty pound me,
these massive human beings. Second drive, he blows up a
play a boy getting knocked back and riding the way
for a stuff. Very next play, he absorbs a block
and fights around it and sheds into the gap to
make the play. He was so dominant that they dialed
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up a wham trap on him in the third quarter,
which is where you bring a tight end across the formation.
You let the defensive tackle go through, like you turn
him free like a screenplay, and the tight end comes
across and whacks him, and like you do that for
Indominkan Su, Like that's the kind of player you do
that for Minka Fitzpatrick. I think Minka's doing a lot
and it doesn't show up in the box score. He
has a lot on his plate and he's playing fast.
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He mans up tight ends and coverage. He caps pass
offs in the vertical passing game, from depth, from zone depth.
He comes from that same depth against the run. He's
a nice player, but I will say his body language
shows me a very frustrated player, and I cannot blame him.
The last two games he played here in twenty nineteen
were two of the worst in franchise history. Then he
comes back and we look like this tough deal for
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Minco Man chop Robinson. The sack was a nice little
wiggle to widen the back and pass than the closing
speed you know from him. Next play, he wins the
ghost move, but the right tackle tackles him to get
him to the ground, making it second and twenty five
on the holding call. That should be a drive killer, right,
but we got hit with the illegal contact on second
twenty five. But a single player causing twenty five yard
fifteen yards of losses on two plays there' that's killing
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a drive that gets you in the standout mentions. He
does need to do a better job on the May
rushing touchdown where he kind of buries his head and
goes to the ground.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Judon chased May out of the pocket.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He could have kind of had a better angle to
cut that off and make a negative play for the
Patriots there. Rasull Douglass was quiet, but that's a good
thing in this situation. Had that nice pass breakup coming
over the top on the first drive, and I thought
Jack Jones, you know, the touchdown was the only play
he really allowed, but I can't fault him for that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He was in phase all game.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
He had a nice strong side sea gap crash in
for a run stuff the field goal at the end
of the half. He re routes Buddet Keishawan Boody on
the play before that, on to the ground on a
may scramble once he broke the pocket his covers in
the second down incomple The Patriots final drive was really good.
He had a bunch of good reps out there, and
then Willie gave He played three snaps, but he was
impactful on two of them, and that tackle for loss
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was like a potential, you know, play before the play
type of deal because we put him in third long
and then gave up a screen pass on the next play.
Individual misses were vast tyrrel Dotson. I would make a
change if it were me. False keys, not very smart football.
The throwback on the first drive, that little tight end
wheel up the sideline, Brother.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Where are we going? Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You keep your eyes on the drag going away from you,
like pointing out to Brooks who's on it, like he's
got it, and then you let the leak just go
right back across your face and the other direction for
a huge play thinking not playing. The next drive, they
hit Henderson on a pick wheel and he tries to
go under the pick, like that's basketball one on one, right,
you cannot go under the pick. The play after the
Stevenson fifty yarder where he shoots a gap and Jordan
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Brooks has the gap and he overruns it. On a
drive earlier, he misses a tackle in a one on
one gap that was a tight as a phone booth.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He misses the tackle there.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
He overruns a play and it's out the gate in
the fourth quarter, Like you can't start him on Thursday.
You gotta go Willie Gay in my opinion, but I
doubt that happens because it's either kJ Bridge the next
guy for the green dot, the Mike linebacker Jalen Phillips.
The spot drops, does not look comfortable. The pass rush
juice is not there. He plays the run pretty well,
but he kind of looks like Ogbah did last year.
(34:21):
And that's you need more from that, more than that
from Jalen Phillips. If emlafan Wu, I don't think has
really got a feel for what he's doing yet in
the defense. Pretty big scheme change from Detroit what he
did there, and he too looks like he's playing thinking
football than just playing football.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Jason Marshall.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
The field was slow for him too, hel t dot
him and if he all took the cheese on that
first touchdown to MATC. Hollins, just hilariously bad defense man,
the illegal contact play. I think you could have kept
that in your pocket as a raft, but like, don't
even give him a chance.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Man, what are we doing? What are we doing there?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Second in twenty five, Matthew Judon. Remember what I said
about players coming in after their thirtieth birthday who've been
on multiple teams made a bunch of money in this league.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Kind of looks like that to me.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
But he had a flat quarterback conflict and just flat
out left the flat. You got to ride that out
for the quarterback, boot Man, you gotta play the receiver
first thing. Come get the quarterback. Kenny Grant, he's losing
his gap too much. There's some nice work when he
plays the point of attack, but I think he's trying
to do a little bit too much. He's one of
the few guys in this list I'm not worried about.
Speaking of guys on that list. Zach Seedler, out of
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gaps displaced, couldn't get to his hump move. He tried
to hump move on when who and when who overpowered him?
I haven't seen that before. I'm not concerned. Generally. That's
two straight games where it's just not the same. Zach's
Eiler to me, But man, go watch the two point
conversion play and watch Michael on one. Who's no no, sorry,
Jared Wilson, it's the left guard. Watch the way he
celebrates that play. He took Zach on ice skates on
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that play. And then Jordan Brooks I thought was fine,
but the ramondre Stevenson play was on him. He just
got cooked on that for fifty something yards. It's tough
to win. Win a couple bunch of your best players. Phillips, Seeler,
Kenny Gee or in this category snap counts, Minka, Jordan Brooks,
Jack Jones, Rasull Douglas all go the distance with sixty snaps.
Tyrrell Dotson played all but one on the interior. Zach
s Eiler played forty five, Jordan Phillips played forty, Kenneth
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Grant played thirty seven, Matthew Butler played fifteen, and Zeke
Bigger's played six. So Jordan Phillips forty, Zeke Bigger six.
For those keeping track at home off the edge, Jalen
Phillips played forty, Bradley Chill played thirty eight. Chop played
twenty four, Matthew Judon twenty. I know he's not in
that position group, but I would love to see way
more Willy Gay and way lush Matthew Judon at linebacker.
Gay played three, kJ Britt played one. In the defensive backfield,
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Jason Marshall played twenty three and the safety rotation was
Minka every snap if he thirty six, Trader twenty and
Ashton Davis thirteen. I think some changes for Thursday that
are required. I would see more Willy Gay. I would
start him if I could, but we'll see. I would
see less Jalen Phillips and spot drops. I would see
less overall sim pressures because we're just not playing connected
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right now and it's causing too many issues in that
second zone, second level of defense. I would go with
Brun Skillet right guard, and I would see a lot
more Ollie Gordon. My top five tapes. Number five Jack
Jones good good day for the cornerback, Number four, Jalen Wattle,
number three, Tyreek Hill. Jordan Phillips is like a top
five player on this team right now. For me, he's
number two on the day and number one is Devon
a Chan. We'll come back on Wednesday and have the
(37:10):
preview podcast for Buffalo. In the meantime, you all please
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