Drive Time: Dolphins Raiders Week 11 All 22 Review

The film is always fun following a win and Travis has a lot of big plays to breakdown. Offense, defense, what worked, what didn’t and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two on the move, going deep speedways, Peace do hellas.
From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my advands
in the playoffs. What is up, dollphans and welcome to

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the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
And on today's show, it's an all twenty two review
of the podcast. Will break down the biggest plays, how
two of the Creator has become a thing in my world,
the vintage two of throws are back. We'll talk about
the offensive evolution even further, and I'll tell you where
things went wrong defensively and why it's not gonna be

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that big of a deal going forward. From the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Drive Time Podcast. May we kick it off as
we do every single week on the Review podcast with
the offense and just off the top. We heard coach
talk about this and Tua in his postgame press conference

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about how the Raiders on tape were pretty much exclusively
a man coverage team. Despite Patrick Graham's previous stops and
his influence of man coverage, they have rolled out a
lot of zone this year, and I kind of wonder
if the man coverage element of that came because of
the fact that Nate Hobbs was down and he's such
a critical part of how they can run those zones
and invert those two deep looks. And they lose to

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Cory and Bennett in the middle of the game as well,
so they got so banged up at cornerback. I think
that probably issue ushered in some more man coverage, but
the Dolphins' ability to adjust off of that from the
third play of the game was what I found really impressive.
They hit three rub routes on that opening drive touchdown,
and it got me thinking about another two of SoundBite
where he referenced pulling up his mental roll index of

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how teams have a us did from pre snap structures
and the different variations, and it's the exact is the
exact thing I wanted to hear with regards to my
assertion through various points of Tua's career that when this
guy gets into his thirties, you know, even late twenties,
he's going to be such an adept quarterback at the

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most critical elements of the position that you're gonna have
mid career Drew Brees, and that's where I think he
already is, because at age twenty six, he looks like
a quarterback that has three, five, ten, fifteen years of experience.
He's taking those reps and banking them and adjusting to
future reps with that rolodex in mind. That is so impressive,

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and it's what made all the great quarterbacks of yesteryear
great before it was the TNA club that's a Hooters
and Booters, if you will, which is what Kyle Krabs
and I call the new wave of quarterback scouting, which
only seems to care about traits and not about actually
playing the quarterback position. And our good friend Ben Solak

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went on Twitter and made an ask of himself talking
about Justin Herbert and Tua during the Chargers game, and
all Herbert did was proceeded to throw like six for
his next twenty four and have seven consecutive non scoring
drives in the second half of a game with a
fumble and he should have been walk off pick six
that he had dropped by Mike Hilton. I digress. It's
tough to confuse quarterbacks like two that have that experience,

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not so much a quarterback like Justin Herbert, who you
can confuse pretty easily, and when he gets in that
category where he is, he's only going to get better
from here. More on the quarterback in just a moment.
I keep getting this question, and I totally get it.
But I'll tell you, guys, the same thing I told
my brother, who was concerned about the fantasy team purposes
of this question, Wattle is he's been open, just like

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he always was, but Tua was playing the position very differently.
And it's kind of crazy because while the argument for
you Know too Long was that receivers made two of
I'm watching these tapes and thinking you could definitely go
the Chiefs team building approach with this quarterback and basically
a shoe the receiver position and focus on other areas
like your offensive line or your defense with your resources. Now,

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I think that's a waste of resources because I think
that two was one of his greatest strengths is how
he can mitigate offensive line play, whether it's good or bad.
He just makes it not that relevant on a bunch
of his snaps. And it's why I argued all freaking
somewhere about this stuff and finally getting some payoff on
that deep into the season after his injury set that

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argument back a little bit. But if you wanted to
do that, I feel like you could because this guy
has proven in the past that he can take Matt
Collins and Miles Gaskin and Isaiah Ford, Preston Williams no shade,
a little bit of shade down the field and produce
enough offense to win more games than they lost in
twenty twenty one. And again, that's not my method of preference.
I want to go after skill players and that's why

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I think wins you football games in this league. But
you could, is what I'm saying. So with Waddell, for instance,
in this particular rep, it's the first third down of
the game. Man free coverage, that's a single high st
was playing zone. He's trying to help the most immediate
threat vertically and then man coverage underneath. And the safety
on this play cheats towards Tyreek Hill side because well
he's Tyreek Hill and waddle wins inside access on a dig.

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What's a dig, Travis, It's basically pushing up anywhere from
twelve to eighteen yards you have different variations, and then
cutting across the middle of the field, but the corner
is in position to potentially make a play on the
back hip of Wattle, even though he kind of has
him stacked. It is an open window, and I feel
like in the past, Tua would have challenged that throw.
And let's call that just for the sake of the argument.

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I don't know a seventy to thirty throw for a
catch that you know just arbitrarily put that number on it.
But eight chan naked in the flat is a one
hundred percent throw because he's wide open, and Tua never
misses those throws. In fact, he threw the ball right
on the upfield shoulder that took him into the run
after the catch, which made it a seventeen yard gain
that you probably would have got eighteen from Wattle at most.

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That's consistent throughout this tape and the way this offense
is cruising right now, the best in the conference and
pacing the Lions for the best in football since Twua's return.
Why on earth would I want to change that to
force the ball in hopes of making one guy happy. Now, granted,
I do want Watald to get his I think he
deserves it. I think that he keeping him engaged as

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a critical element of the offense. But watch the body
language and the tape of Waddle because this is winning
football and he's having a great time. He's being a
great teammate, he's supporting the other guys, he's blocking his
butt off and committing his himself on his decoy routes.
And that's why you pay a guy like Jeden Waddle,
because yeah, you pay him for the thirteen hundred yards seasons,
but you also pay him because of how he's wired,
and that's the kind of guy he is. And I

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think you're getting that engagement back now with his quarterback
back in the fold. That's my Waddle Dye tribe. On
the offensive line, it is nice when you can slide
your protection and get four eyeballs on an All Pro
because of the feet of the rest of your offensive line.
The first third down conversion of the game, they slide
right towards Max. Crosby and Armstead, Jones and Brewer all

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have to essentially reach on these pass pro assignments, which
is usually a run game effort. It's when you have
to get to a space before the defensive lineman does,
when he's closer to that space than you are. Got
it that's a reach block, and they were able to
do this because they have those zone feet to get
themselves in position to make those good pass protections or

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pass sets, I should say, to get good pass protection.
They just continue to play very connected, very well, very communicative,
and understanding where the biggest threats are and how to
thwart those big threats. I do have some negatives from
the Dolphins offense in this game, despite the fact that
they never punted the football. It was just the running game,
the negative and zero yard runs. I wanted to go
through and check out what happened on those. I think

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I missed the last two on that final drive because
I just didn't care enough to log those because it
was game over, just trying to get to the field goal.
But the first one, Liam loses connection on a back door,
which is when you hit those reach blocks, right. If
you let that offensive lineman overplay the reach block and
go around the backside, that's called backdooring a play. It's
a criminal sin or cardinal sin. One on one. Do

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not do that unless you're like JJ Watt and you
can win doing that regularly. But he got back doored
on outside zone left where he overran his block, and
then Julian Hill lost his leverage with dead feet upon contact.
You have to keep those feet churning, and it went
for a one yard e Chan loss. Next one Lamb
over sets and gives up his inside posts. The edge
bursts right through and cuts a Chan down for no gain.

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Jalen Wright had a no gain run early on. Both
a Chan and Brewer lose leverage. It couldn't have been
a Chan. I had to have written the wrong name there.
Oh man, I'm not sure who it was. I can't
go back now. Brewer and somebody else lost leverage and
did not stay connected on their blocks. A Chan loss
three later on a return motion sweep, and a lot
of these runs are like toss sweeps into the boundary
where you're not You don't have the numbers count, so

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it's like you can get away from those by just
calling a different play. We had an unblocked defender who
made the play. I just I think that a lot
of those also happened that way when you don't have
alec ingold Raheem Mostert loses three. It's a low, low
red zone toss sweep into the boundary again unblocked force
defender Malik cannot hit the crack back on the slot,
and that gets blown up from the start because that

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crack player you're supposed to crack. The linebacker you're supposed
to crack. He runs into Julian Hill, who's trying to
get out wide to hit the forced defender, and he
blows up that too, So the whole thing was just
disjointed right lost two later in the game, Julian Hill
misses a rat block, but they have really good backside
pursuit and they just flew to the ball really well
all game long. Like that's part one of a million

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parts why I hate when someone says, well, it was
just the Raiders, Like they're professional football players and while
they might not win a lot of games, pros are
going to win reps, especially when they play hard. And
that Radar defense played hard on Sunday eight, Chan's one
yard loss before the John who put away touchdown Kendall
Lamb fell off of his block. So to me, it's
mostly losing Austin Jackson because he's probably the best run

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blocker on the team outside of Brewer, maybe maybe Toront
They're all really good. And then not having alec Ingold.
That's pretty much it, and then some bad decisions to
run into bad counts. That's pretty much where the run
game I think has struggled. That's really it. Now you're
not gonna get Austin back, but you we'll get Ingled back.
I think that can be a big deal. What else here?
We had a third and one conversion on the second
drive where we went four for four on critical blocks

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to get an easy eight chan first down run. And
it's like, I think ck had tweeted about this, you know,
three archs per carry, Chris Kaufman about like, just run
these simple downhill runs and you will convert a post
of being cute. And that's that's kind of I kind
of agree with that. It's an easy first down run
because we're so well connected. And again, it just has
me believing that we've hit this inflection point to where

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the offense is so second nature for so many guys
that they can do this routinely. You get Rob Jones
connecting to Ron Armstead, doubles and washes down that player
out of the B gap completely, and then Smith and
Julian have a kind of tough combo they have to
sort through, and they do it perfectly and get both
the guys taken care of for a first down run. Also,
I don't think we'll see that much man coverage the

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rest of the year. I'm kind of surprised we got
as much as we did in this game. I thought
they had. I thought the Ofphins had perfect answers just
about every damn time, especially on the money downs. Favorite
sequence of the game from a play call perspective was
the eleven yard completion to Julian Hill within that ninety
seven yard touchdown drive, then racing up to the line
of scrimmage to get to that thirty yard eight chan

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run with tempo. It was the first tempo of the
entire day. Because they were in the nickel package against
our twelve personnel package, one back, two tight ends. You
are outmanned from a physical standpoint. At that point. We
dial up a shot play, but it didn't work. However, However,
they stay a nickel on the next play when all
we did was sub John U for Durham Smyth. Then
we run another pass play from that set, get the

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first down, and then we go tempo and tap or
trap them in that look. Not to mention, both plays
were long and the rush had to work on the
first and secondary and third moves, and the defensive back
got ran all the way down the field. Then they
run the split flow where the tight end comes across
the formation, but rather than run to that side, they
run to the other side, and you get displacement. It
creates these easy seals for Kendall Lamb and Rob Jones

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with excellent seal blocks on Crosby and Adam Butler, and
that allows them to get double ti teams of the
linebackers with your offensive lineman, and that's where you get
big runs. A Brewer and Liam climb up, Julian hits
a down block, Tyreek has a nice seal, and then
a cham breaks tackles at daylight for thirty plus yards,
and we end with the John u backbreaking touchdown. Tuwa
explained what he thought caused the bust in his postgame

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press conference, and this is why you take your profit
all day long, especially against the defense that is so
good at shifting its rotation from strong to week, like
Ted Winn talked about on Friday, and they just finally
miscommunicated one. That's pretty much all it was, and it
sprung a room service fifty seven yard touchdown. For your Dolphins.
You earned that by playing fifty seven minutes of discipline football.

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How about this quarterback? How about this quarterback? Man? If
people are arguing with you about Tua on Twitter, just
move on. There's it's over. They lost, so that's over.
Like he's a great quarterback. It's gotta stay healthy, that's it.
Gotta protect the ball a little bit better and crowded

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pockets that's it. Maybe win a playoff game, but that's like,
you know, that's out of his control to a certain extent,
Like you can't just like win a playoff game. Like
everything that he can do right now he's doing except
staying healthy and protecting the ball and muddy pockets. But
he's an elite quarterback man off the top, Tua is.
He sees it so damn well. And I get that

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if you don't understand how that looks or what it's
supposed to look like, that you can't appreciate it. So
I get where the negative, you know, connotations come from.
But we don't got to hear from those people. You
don't need to hear from everybody on Twitter. You got
Kyle Krabs, you got this schlub over here. To a
certain extent. You've got Chris Kaufman, you got the three
yards per carry. Guys got Eric Smith cranking out good

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offensive line content. You don't need that stuff. It is nonsense.
It is noise. His vision cone toua is expanding with
each start that he makes in this league. His first
throw of the game is to a wide open a
chant against Cover one, and there's a decent window on
the shot to Wabble talked about it already against an
outside leverage cornerback with a single high safety who's rolled

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the other way. And the minute you see this linebacker
who is in man coverage on a chan try to
run around a rub route by Odell Beckham Junior, and
he squares him up and collisions him head on and
blows obj up, but it slows him down two or
three steps, and you see two his helmet. It's I
can't tell you what his eyes are doing because I
can't see inside his helmet, but you can see the

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helmet stripe right on that linebacker, and the minute that
collision happens, the ball comes out. The only play I
hated was his fumble again coverage one play was over
pass protection. Breaking down, he tries to create in a
situation where there just wasn't anything there and punctuated it
by not putting the football away. And that's kind of
how he like how he escapes pressure. He kind of

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dangles it out there, which he shouldn't do that because
he's too small to be able to protect it that way.
And again here is where you see you know, Liam
setting with his eyes on that Lamb Crosby matchup, and
when he commits to go help, there's nobody left to
pick up the game, the looper coming from the other
side of the formation. And that's not something that should
be a surprise a tool because he knows the protection

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call is for help on Crosby and he knows this
Raiders front under Patrick Graham likes to run lots of games.
That to me is the next step for him, and
I know he'll do it because he's literally improved every
other element of his game every single year. But just
a better feel of when a play is dead and
how to mitigate the damage as best he can to
one get us out of negative plays, but to protect
yourself and a quick inside baseball mode for you guys.

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At one point last week at practice, I was just
kind of watching when it was over, and I saw
Tua and Obj talking to each other on a knee
after practice, and I couldn't make out what's being said, obviously,
but it was very clear to me that Toul was
like teaching something or exercising some form of leadership and
talking to Obj, who was doing more listening. And when
I watched this completion, he has on a first for
a first down to Obj with two raiders in his face,

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where he just splits the two hook defenders and Obj
paces the route perfectly to get there at the right time,
not too early to draw him in, not too to
miss it. I get the sense that familiarity is growing
from there, and Tua is taking it into his own
hands to make that happen. Now, Tua had to throw
to Waddle right around midfield during that ninety seven yard
drive where Wattle is inside the numbers to the boundary

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that's the short side of the field, the hashmark closest
to the sideline, and the raiders show six and they
bring them all and what basically turns into a man
zero look where Tua is hot and I don't know
if this is him or Brewer or what. I'm pretty
sure it's two at this stage because I can't make
the assertion for sure, but I think this quarterback knows
how to call his protections. If you're hot and you've
got a free runner, you want it to be in

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your peripheral. You want to be in your face, not
blind to the backside. So he patiently takes his snap.
He knows this rusher is not gonna get blocked. He
fades one step back and just flicks the thing out
there to the perimeter against an inside leverage cornerback who
can't get to the spot because he's playing man coverage.
It's high level execution. He does this stuff every single week,
pretty much every single drive. The ball is out under

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a second and it's halfway to wattle before he turns
his head. But Tua doesn't rock at the balls in there.
He layers it so it's easier to pick up in
flight and to make a catch on a football that
has less velocity and less RPM's. It's really good stuff.
Let's go ahead and take our first break. I have
more Tua for you guys here, his vintage throws and
Tua the Creator that's coming up next Drive Time Podcast.

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Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by autoation. I
promise you some vintage TUA on the other side, and
we had a few of them. The opening drive, second
and three seventeen yards to Tyreek Hill. He cuts this
thing loose before Tyreek's final two steps, before even thuddles
it down. Man Ball is right on him right out
of the break. Bang, first down, Dolphins. How about a

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third and eight up by five, last play of the
third quarter. It's dagger. All dagger is is you have
a either the two or the three, depending on how
many receivers you have to that side. The closest receiver
of the formation runs vertical and tries to displace the
safety to create an inside cut from the number two
or the number one receiver who's further out wide, either
in the slot or the furthest out to run a

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dig inside of that clear out route. That's dagger, okay,
And the hook defender respects the underneath route by Odell
just enough, because Odell runs this route at full speed
to help create that underneath displacement. And then you notice
John hu Smith pacing his route down the seam, which
is kind of like a shield like he's almost like
setting a moving screen. As he prevents that hook linebacker

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from getting the underneath a jump that he needs on
that throw, and that one beat that they have to
slow up both in the short and the deep hook
is all that to and Tyreek need to make it
work because it's perfectly timed. It's a good catch by
Tyreek off of his frame, and that's a throw that's
gonna look sometimes maybe a little bit off because they're
throwing to a spot and with timing and so you
don't know exactly where he's gonna be. That's why I

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think that ball was kind of like off the backside
of his frame. But either way, it's an explosive play
on third long used to see in that the corner
route to John hu Smith against what might have been
the first cover three we saw all day just split
the cloud corner underneath and that deep third player in
the deep part of the field perfectly. And I love
the play design too, because Devon eighth chan hooks up
right in the same line of the throw to John

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new Smith and because of that, the cloud corner stays
just one beat longer. In case that throws goes underneath,
he has to go make a tackle. So good design,
good execution good finished by John new Smith, the creator
at some point on a Wednesday show or something. I
want to look at some of the throws where Tua
does not have his cleats in the ground because it's
been an area of growth of his and something you
can track back to spring to spring football at OTAs

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if you watch him at training camp back here, and
I'm sure there's one person maybe two out there that
saw this. Every time he would do individual warmups he
would throw. He would like they're playing stagnant catch, just
like back and forth with the receivers coaches or the
quarterbacks coaches, and he would like take a few steps
and throw off platform. He worked on it all off season.
You can watch it out here during these November practices too.

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Well you can't, but I can. In this one second
and ten, they drop seven against a two man route concept,
which we have these shot plays a lot where it's
a couple of man route concept and Jalen Wright is
on play action where he hockey pies the flat but
it's not really a route, so it's like two against
seven essentially, and Tua takes this three step drop from pistol,
which is where you catch this it's a shotgun snap

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and the running backs behind you and you fake the
handoff and that creates basically this new school seven step drop,
but it's really a three step drop that gets you
to a seven step drop. It's a shot play, and
that's evident by the fact that you have two doubles
and then Kendall Lamb winning a one on one to
create this massive pocket. But because all those blocks are
so well connected, he attacks it stepping up and that

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gets Crosby out of his rush lane. Two was really
good at stepping up into the pocket and condensing the
rush lanes and then quickly flipping back out to the left.
That's where he's most dangerous, and he flees that way.
But here's the part that I love the most. He
sees Wattle's leverage and throws it early because the dB
has not reacted to him the way Wattle has reacted
to him, and the ball was so perfectly on the

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upfield shoulder. Wattle never broke stride, catches it for a big,
explosive play twenty four yards thing of beauty. I think
my favorite to date is the touchdown pass at Tyreek Kill.
The Raiders get a free run with a game. Tua
feels it and flees and you see him check his
blind spot to make sure he's not going to get
hawked by. It was actually Max Crosby who got put
on the ground by I think it was Toron Armstead.

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And he steps out of the sack with a little
high step move and Tyreek does a phenomenal job coming
all the way across the field, meets his quarterback on
the sideline, angles it back to the quarterback to make
that throw easier for him. Ball is perfect, six points.
They celebrate. Great moment there for the Dolphins. Tua played
a hell of a game. Individual standouts eight. Chan's vision
was maybe his best of the entire season in this game,

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tiny creases that he would find, And then I think
that part of his game that probably is the most
misperceived is his ability to absorb hits and maintain contact
through balance or balance through that contact. It's not super
often we lose multiple blocks in a running play, but
there was one in the red zone yesterday right after
the holding call against John U where he's got nowhere

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to go, but he finds the sliver of a crease,
hits it with conviction, slips a tackle puts his hand
on the ground to keep himself up and lunges for
three more yards. He's a bell cow back because they
think he's special and they want to have him get
as many touches as possible. So it's not gonna go away.
Just FYI. John new Smith another great tape. I meant
four down the fourth down touchdown catch on deflected ball.

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I thought he inserted against the run at a level
it's good enough. I don't think he's a great inline blocker,
but it's good enough to maximize his versatility to give
you an extra blocker from twelve personnel, but also a
dangerous receiving threat who can be a quasi receiver in
those looks that can contribute in both ways. He's running
with absolute purpose after the catch. I love that little
flat return route where he made his move before he

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caught the football. It created another five yards of run
after catch, and watching it back on tape, Diablo overruns
that play by two steps because of that move. He's
a hit man, like many of the off season moves
have been so far. I hope he finishes his career
with the Miami Dolphins. Tyreek Hill. I thought he had
great feel for how to run his routes in accordance
with the timing needed for TUA. Also, his effort on

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some vertical routes pushed the roof back to create space
for others. He also had a four down conversion, made
a good catch in the air between three raiders. Defenders
picked up those pair of chunk gains and did a
fantastic job getting back into the play on that touchdown
when two of broke contain. I also loved his route
on the flag with Julian running the out on our

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ninety seven yard drive where Rieke takes the coverage off
the top by screaming off the lion of scrimmage and
it pulls Julian's man one step inside of the hook,
which creates a wide open throw when he comes off
the line of scrimmage. With that type of conviction, he
has a gravitational pull where defenders come with him. Big
game for Tyreek Hill. I thought Rob Jones bounced back
after a really rough game and injury last week. He

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had some really good sets in pass pro, including a
nice rack of ribs early on where he engaged and
engaged Rusher got a piece of him finding some work there.
I Also, he also had a really good drive and
seal on a Chan's ten yard run where he cut
it right off Jones's block, getting Tyree Wilson out of there.
Now that said, it's a bit of a rollercoaster for
him at times. He has some good moments, but he

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has a kind of a lower batting average, and he
would like where he gets out and out whipped one
on one. Win's gonna be healthy here soon. I probably
would make that switch. And I thought the entire interior
kind of struggled. Aern had a bit of an off
day and Liam struggled too. I thought Obj had one
of his better games as a dolphin. There's not many
to go off of, but I just want to shout
out the route that he ran on that third and
five conversion. It's outside leverage, which means the cornerback doesn't

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want you to get outside, and he wins the out route,
which is the toughest thing for a receiver to do.
But he widens his release to square the corner back up,
and his footwork is really good to sell this corner
on a vertical route by just a half of a step.
The minute he hits his heels, Obj breaks this route
off sharp down the line to again create a better
throwing angle for your quarterback to us perfect right on

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the money move the chains, and also his route on
the dagger throw at the end of the third quarter
is plus plus stuff as well. He created He helped
create that window by running his route very very hard.
Toront Armstead, set your watch this guy. You know he
had some real grinded out blocks in the running game.
That's sort of different element of his game where he
played with power that you're just not used to seeing
because he's not asked to do it that often, but

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he did it in this game at a high, high level.
I thought Kendall played really well in this game. He
helouped in pass protection against one of the best in
the games. Some of those doubles teams were helping him
with that, but he did plenty of one on one
coverage against a really good pass rusher. His run game.
It's not Austin Jackson level, that's for sure. I thought
Julian Hill blocked two guys on the eight chan touchdown run,

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and he did it by engaging, turning and sealing them
when he did not have the leverage advantage. Might have
been the best damn rep by anybody on the entire day,
and it sprung a touchdown run. Julian Hills. He has
some bad reps that you guys loved to point out,
but he's had a lot of really good reps too.
And then Waddle ran a great route on that holding
call that extended our last touchdown drive. He completely shook

(25:46):
his man enforcement to basically promenade Waddle as he took
him to the sideline. Individual misses. I covered this in
the hits. I don't really have a single standout egregious performance.
They scored every damn drive, So what do you want
me to do? I did think it was Brewer's worst
game as adult, but that's a high bar. Jones's roller
coaster continues, and Liam had his handful of l's. I
thought same with durham smyth. I thought Jalen Wright looked

(26:07):
at Tad slower in his decision making snapcounts, quarterback and
offensive line go the distance. How about John hus Smith
being next. I think this was the direct impact of
the Raiders personnel inviting more of a middle of the
field receiving threat with the ability to impact the running game.
He goes for eighty one percent, Julian gets fifty six percent,
Burn and Durham thirty four percent. I hope that's the
split the rest of the way. That looks really good

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to me. A Chan got sixty two percent. Again, I
think he's special right twenty six and most at fifteen.
I kind of feel for Raheem. You know, the fumbles
are what they are, but you can tell it's affecting him.
And then Reek and Waddle seventy eight percent each, Moleik
forty percent, Obj twenty five percent, Cratkraft nine percent. What
a beautiful sight that is. I've been looking forward to

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for three years. I've been wanting to see a receiving
breakdown like that where it's two great receivers and then
three good receivers to round out the room. Let's go
ahead and take our last break right there. Come back
into the defense. That Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
brought to you by AutoNation. We have done the offense,
it's time to do to defense. And if this game

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provided a lesson, you know, they say you win or
you learn right, and we did win, but I don't
imagine the defense will be thrilled about the way this
one went on that side, as the Raiders were able
to sustain drives and match the offense a handful of times.
But my goodness, man, thirteen and twelve personnel groupings was
the name of the day and the game of the day.
And I don't think we'll see another team this year
that does that like they do. But when a team

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has that in their arsenal, I'm glad we have this
on tape now. They just too frequently were able to
get us out leveraged off the edge with some of
the jet sweeps and outside runs and screen game. And
I noticed we'd stay a nickel on some of those
thirteen personnel groupings, which can create a size advantage for
the offense, like we've done a few times on that
eight chance run for instance. Well it was twelve personnel,
but you get it. They looked like an offense that

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had a bye week and a new OC and a
new game plan. And I thought the reaction to that
was sound, with Tias Bowser getting some off ball linebacker
work plenty of Benito Jones in this game. But then
the Raiders attacked that with Bowers and kind of went
after all of our linebackers and we were thin there
because no more David Long and Tyrel Dodson is not
ready to roll yet. I don't know how comorfolly you
are with Duke Riley and a kind of you know,

(28:17):
B gap to B gap type of game. So tyas
Bowser it is. And when I see the question on
social and I get this a ton, I've gotten this
a ton. What was the game plan against the Raiders
that allowed them to get to all that stuff? And
I think we were able to successfully out They were
able to successfully out leverage Miami's defense on their outside
stuff and the run on screen game, and that then
later created some false steps in the game where they

(28:38):
would then run stick or glance or slant some inbreaking
stuff that they could, you know, expose that space that
they had created by their early success to the perimeter.
The progression from there led to some really simple concepts.
So it's really like, man, they didn't get complex. They
stayed within themselves. And I really think that, you know,
the plays after the running into the punter kind of
changed the complexion of the game. It was like slant flat,

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capitalizing on our urgency to the edge where they we
had to get out there to stop some of those
outside runs and open up those slants, and they would
run some mesh and just take the short stuff all
day long. Everything kind of rolled off those early runs
with you counter where you faker run one way and
come back the other way, or jet sweep, or these
misdirection screens where it's just like they gave you what
the Dolphins offense wants to give you plenty of eye

(29:21):
candy to feast on and get you out of your
gaps and get you out of your fits. But they
go back to Bowers on a second drive on jet sweep,
and here comes Javon holling down to the fit to
reset the edge and knock Jakobe Meyers five yards back
towards Jupiter, Florida and forces him to bubble and gets
the TfL along with I think it was Jordan Brooks
over there. I'm gonna be real with you, guys. I

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don't think we'll ever see a game plan like that
against a quarterback of a certain level. It looked to
me like they weren't. They were content to force Minshew
to play a smart, clean game because he hadn't done
that very often. Now, you might have thought, why not
gamble and force him into mistakes because that's what he's
been this year. That's what I thought too. But I
can see the thinking with how our offense was playing
or is playing, and how the Raider defense has played

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so far, their quarterback's reputation, and just making sure they
don't get anything easy, don't let us spring a long
touchdown and get him back into this game. Probably frustrating
for you as fans. It was for me at times,
and I think some mistackles exemplified that, but I think
you can understand the thought process that goes into that.
We'll do the individuals in a second here, but I
think it's worth fitting that. I think it's fitting that
we played this game the way we did. We stayed

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patient and stuck to the plan, and late in the
fourth quarter of the Raiders bus at a coverage for
a fifty seven yard touchdown and then had a miscommunication
on offense led to a room service interception. You can
pick out, you know, individual moments and say this could
have been better or that could have been better. But
when I watched this full tape and see the fourth quarter, dominance,
to me, they played their hand beautifully. They had a

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sixty minute plan they committed to it, and it paid off.
They lop sided victory, fifteen point win in the end,
And of course you can always execute in spots a
little bit better, but knowing the opposition, knowing the element
of surprise they had with their new knowing their head
coach said that they're going to go into this game
and throw caution to the wind, because well they're two
and seven, and who gives a damn. I think all
that tracks is what I'm trying to say. It's got

(31:09):
to be better, but I think perspective can help you
understand why it looked that way just a little bit.
More individual standouts. Zach Seeler commands attention the way we
gave attention to Max Crosby. I mean, think about that
for a moment. They doubled him so much and he
still reset them. He got knocked back, and his relentless
effort with those reps, never taking snaps off. It forces

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the Raiders to play down a man and creates chances
for others because sometimes guys will see double teams and
just be like, ah, I can kind of chill here,
and you allow one of those players to go find
other work. But he never does that and coach talked
about with Chop Robinson too. He was very active in
that way. The way that Zach splits double teams is
truly insane to me. He can swim one block, absorb
a shot to the ribs, not lose an inch, and

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still penetrate and take away a gap. And I write
that right before I watched the two point conversion play
where he swam completely clear of any blockers like Mike
will Phelps and makes the play of the backfield special
special player. When I see Zach sealer play, I'm just thinking, like,
and you heard Coach McDaniel call Seeler and Campbell the
heart and soul the defense, and Campbell is in the
standouts again. Him and toront Armstead. It's the same story

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every damn week. He wins with his length, he wins
with his anticipation. He allows us to be flexible. Had
a big sack in this game, nearly a block to punt.
I don't know how he didn't, he was right there.
But he is dominant. I thought Benito Jones played comfortably
his best game ever as a Dolphin. That goes back
to twenty twenty as well. He just played on the
other side of the line of scrimmage a lot Jackson powers.
Johnson couldn't really handle him. He kept shedding his blocks,

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and Kalaeus's sack was a clean up effort of Benito
totally undressing the right guard. He pushed, pulled him, shoved
them aside and takes a bee line to Minshew, forces
him to flee right into Kalayis for a sack. How
about Chop Robinson? And I asked coach McDaniel about this
at the press conference. You guys can check it out
on YouTube. Not gonna un it because it's like a
three minute answer as coaches want to do. But I
asked him, like, where does chops, you know, uptick and

(32:56):
production come from? And man, his game recognition is coming
along each week. It's slowing down, as it were. He
had a rep where Mayor Chip released but on the
chip Chop Chip Chop took him, chucked him, Chop Chip
Chop took him, chuck him talking Roethlisberger football man, and
he quickly pursued Minshew on the bootleg and forced him

(33:16):
to bubble and throw it away where otherwise he has
a clear attack angle to the line of scrimmage. You
can probably throw a touchdown play because of the way
the receivers can break off their routes on secondary movements.
But Chop said, no, sir. He also just straight up
had that right tackle on skates all day. Stealer's sack
came as a result of Chop walking the right tackle
into Minshew's lap and forcing a step up right into

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number ninety two who had collapsed a double team like
he does. And man, he's getting so good at cornering
through contact, which was a big issue I had with
him early on where he would lose his foot his footing,
and that's been a massive area of growth for him.
His best pressure of the day was a near Minshew
interception that Jordan Brooks frankly should have caught. He hit
the right tackle with the heavy step and then faked

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the cross over move and went back to the perimeter
and ran the arc and got under him and then
cornered back in and forced this off platform throw. That's
a that's like a Jason Taylor play on that particular rep.
Quentin Bell is coming along here. He's playing himself into
more playing time. The last couple of weeks had the sack,
the strip sack last week had that had two really
good backside see gap closed downs where you play through

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unblocked and you pursue the ball from the backside, and
hawk the running back down. He also had what I
thought was the best coverage rep on Rock Bowers of
anybody in the entire game. Gillen Ramsey is a great player,
but his effort on the last play two plays of
the game. Go watch him. He like flew to the
football and made these big hits on guys to keep
them in bounds and short of the sticks. And I

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just like he had just made a game clinching pick.
And sometimes guys will chill. That ain't Ramsey's nature. He
played really hard until the final play. That to me
is teach film that I think the coaches will show
all week long. I don't how many specific plays for
Storm Duck, but he was just in tight coverage. I
thought he made a really nice tackle on that far
Animal Raiders drive as well. And then Javon Hollin to me,
has played a couple of really good games here. I

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think his processing from the post was really good and
how he cut off certain deep routes and passed off
and picked up routes. I also loved the way he
reset the line of scrimmage on that Bower's jet sweep.
Individual misses. I thought Bowser and Ogba had rough days.
They got hemmed in too often and didn't do enough
in rush situations to be really helpful or impactful. Jordan Poyer,
same different week, same stuff. How slow did he look

(35:25):
on that brock Bower's touchdown? My goodness, cater Cooho played
slower than he hasn't been lately and had some really
bad tackling and that kill shot on the third down
play when a simple tackle would have changed the entire game.
My goodness, that was a bad rep and he'd be
the first one to tell you that one of the
worst efforts I've seen from him. It's just like a
dream tackle and he totally whipped it and ducked his
head and it just wasn't that tackle. He had three

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on the day, so not a good tape for him.
I thought Brooks and Walker got a little bit overpowered
in the early running game and then were late to
get to spots and coverage and after the replay, again,
Brooks should have had that pick. Snap counts the usual
suspects at one hundred percent Brooks, Holland Poyer, Ramsey, and Cater.
He is the inside outside cornerback. When they go to nickel,
he moves inside. He plays on the outside. When it's

(36:07):
base defense. With Kendall Fuller down, he is clearly a
cornerback three. Otherwise, Storm Duck is the next guy up.
He got fifty six percent of the snaps, cam Smith
just twelve percent. That might be telling and not a
good sign for camp Smith long term. Anthony Walker played
all but one snap the twelve and thirteen personnel packages
track that Bowser played sixty percent, and half of that

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or give or take was off the ball. Ogbah led
the edge group of sixty three percent, and Chop was
down to forty three in this game and Bell at
twenty six. I imagine Bell gets a little more running
here coming into these next couple of games. Stealers seventy
five percent, Campbell fifty seven percent, Benitol forty nine percent,
Hand forty five percent, and Feral fourteen percent. That's pretty
common with how they use that workload. I'd love to
see one more guy get in there, but it's going

(36:49):
to be the way we run the rest of the year.
Because it is November and you can't really add guys
this time of year. My top tapes Number one was
to a tongue of by Lowe. I thought he was masterful.
I thought Toron Armstead was next. He had a really
good game in a different style of play. Devon ah
Chan was three with his vision and contact balance and
explosive plays. John hu Smith was four because he one
hundred yards and two touchdowns, first Dolphins end since nineteen
seventy to do that. And then Chop Robinson and Zach Sealer.

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I couldn't pick just one. They share the final spot
in five A and five B. So there you go.
That's it. Long podcast. We'll come back on Wednesday. I
have some really good content for you guys. Spoiler alert.
John Hu Smith's going to join the podcast this week
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