December 2, 2025 • 35 mins
Travis is in the film room dissecting the Dolphins 21-17 win over the Saints. Breaking down the schemes, the standouts and, as always, top 5 tapes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis wing thee.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it's the all twenty two review from another Dolphins win
twenty one to seventeen over the Saints. We're going over
all the good, the bad, and the ugly from the
Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
is the Draft Time Podcast days. We have so much
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to get to today, Let's go ahead and dive right
in so offensively general points where we kick it off
every single Monday night slash Tuesday morning here on the podcast.
I couldn't have loved the first two plays of the
game out of a bye week more than I did.
That was the answer to how did Mike McDaniel and
company spend the bye week? First you got Waller Ingold
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and a chan in the backfield. You get an outside
zone with split flow action, and you just ask them
to win their matchups and they do it. Reaches, seals, crackbacks, kickouts,
They dominate the point of attack for eight yards. Tone
setting game, tone setting type of run on the first
play of the game. Then you think you're ready for
that type of approach, and the Dolphins hot change it
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full on shift change hockey style Florida Panthers hockey. Stanley
cups goals. You swap out the running back, Jalen Wright
comes into the game, you bring in Daniel Brunskill. You're
bringing Julian Hill and Greg Dolsich. A total personnel change
only waddle to it, and the offensive linemen are the
same players on the field. Then they run see why counter.
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We've talked about GY counter and CT counter.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is the Aaron Brewer.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Portion of the playbook we talked about on the show
last week with Mike McDaniel and how they create plays
around this unique talent. Now they're pulling Brewer and Brunskill,
who basically is a big tackle right or an extra
tackle on the field, but he's playing the y so
it's a shy counter and you get down blocks from
the rest of the offensive line. Julian Hill inserts into
the fit on return motion with me. Still a lot
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of language here, but that's the whole concept. That's the idea.
We're trying to put all of this on. The Saints
play on the first two plays of the game, and
you do that while getting sixteen yards back to back
eight yard runs. I thought that was just a masterclass
of using the time you have, using this new package
that you unveiled over the course of the last month,
and creating wrinkles and different looks and different window dressing
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off of that here off the bye week, now, I
think where the offense hits its speed bumps or potholes
in some of these instances in this game. Was those
two man max protection deep shots that we got early
in the year. These were how basically how Waddle got
all these forty plus yard plays he's made this year.
The Saints were just on it, and quite frankly, I
kind of feel like Brandon Staley kind of got the
best of Tua in this game. And then Tua winds
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up kind of on these spots kind of a sitting
duck because he's not going to be able to, you know,
create and get outside the pocket and evade pressure where
they can't track him down because they're fast to him
and they'll just track him down and he can't do that,
and so he can't throw the ball away in that
position because it's going to be grounding. So he just
winds up taking the sack. The best passing game stuff
occurred over the middle of the field, which is a
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nice I guess look back into the past of the
passing offense here, but splitting zone defenders, you create that
space with the threat of the swings and the running backs.
We do that type of throw and route so often
in this offense. You would see these curl flat defenders
widen and then Tua just take the over the ball route.
There was a couple of those in the opening drive,
the touchdown scoring drive, and some of the quick game
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that I think the Dolphins got away from the rest
of the entire game. The turn up get eight extra
yards after the catch for both Aarren Waller and the
League Washington on a pair of plays that he raced
a second and eighteen following a first down sack.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But then you never really saw off the rest of
the game. You would get an.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Inbreaker to Waddle later on in the game, but for
the most part, that part of the field in the
passing offense just was not available to the Miami Dolphins.
The third drive began with a no gain run for
a Chan and the ailment on those is usually it's
pretty uniform in terms of you know what's going to
cause these defeated run plays. You know what it's gonna
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look like on tape when it happens, the assignments get
a little bit muddled with pre snap motion, the end
you know, winds up being left unblocked. It's one of
those plays that probably looks good when you draw it up,
you know, on Tuesday, but the end crashes in a
different way than you're expecting to and it winds up,
you know, forcing Daniel Brunskill to take a vertical step
opposed to a lateral step, and then he can't get
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the reach he has to make, and then the whole
play is kind of gets blown off of its access.
That that's football in a lot of ways. But also
you create these situations sometimes by just doing a little
bit too much right, And that's been one of the
arguments of the last the whole season really maybe going
back a few years, I will give credit. That's been
a nice change in terms of like there's been a
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lot more just power concepts and downhill football and just
line up and go beat your guy, you know, with
this recent win streak, but these things do pop up
in these games from time to time. Then The next
play was a screen where you get three miss blocks
because of the same complexity issues. You know, execution issue
for sure, but sometimes when you get all these misdirections,
you wind up walking yourself into offensive confusion. You're trying
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to confuse a defense, but you wind up confusing your
own guys, and that leads to a bust and that
leads to a negative play. The next play, twelve men
in the huddle, just ugly, ugly stuff, followed by a sack,
and it didn't look like the first drive did at
all on these next two possessions. I loved the design
on the deep ball to Waller when he got loose
for thirty three yards, damn near broke a tackle and
turn it into a sixty eight yard touchdown whatever that
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would have been. And we'll get into that in the
two a portion of the to a breakdown portion, because
after that it was right back to power football. They
go to a split flow, wind back, inside zone toss
to all the gordon with me. That's they play that
the Niners made popular when McDaniel was there with Kyle Shanahan,
where they would get that with Rahem Moster. It was
inside zone flow that looked like outside zone with a
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toss element to kind of create that widening and create
those easier gaps and angles for the offensive lineman for
Raheemo then cut the thing back inside. They can do
with Ollie Gordon because he has shown a propensity on
some outside zone runs, but then he turns into this
downhill hammer on these inside zone runs. And on this
particular play, Julian Hill cuts the backside edge, takes him
to the ground. Austin Jackson and Cole Strange drive the
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end right into the linebacker's lap and dump him there here.
You deal with this, it's your problem now. And this
allows Ollie Gordon to drop his shoulder into defenders who
are on their heels opposed of their toes. And that's
an easy five yard pile drive. Not the WWWE move,
but driving the football pile five yards downfield.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Power football, baby.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They come back to the exact same play with a
chan but there's a wrinkle. But wait, dej more, it's
alec Ingold's return motion back to counter split flow. It's
a fancy way of saying they dressed up the exact
same play with a different look. But again, Cole Strange
drives the three technique off the football with a combination
with Aaron Brewer. Brewer climbs up and catches another pancake
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at the second level. Did the exact same thing on
the previous play. Jonas sbite Naya is gettinglateral displacement again
an eight chan's downhill for eight more yards. The stuff works, man.
It is how you win football games nowadays. I mean,
quarterbacks are thrown for one hundred and fifty yards and
a lot of these wins.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's just what it is like.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, let's not do it right now, but go
look at the passing leaders in the NFL this year.
It is tough to throw for three hundred yards anymore.
They ran this full house toss to the boundary the
Dolphins did. There was another one of these jumpled messes,
but it made up for on the next call. Was
the screen to eight chan so well designed. It's a
shame they didn't convert it. Hang on one sec. We'll
get to that one side. Yeah, they would have made
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it seventeen to nothing going into the last drive of
the half where Suol Douglas gotta pick off the Saints.
Devon tries to one hand catch this thing. I think
if he just puts both hands up in the air,
he plucks it like a receiver, like on a fifteen
yard dig downfield, which he has done in the past
as a receiver. He walks into the end zone if
he does that, and I laugh because I know Twitter
is not a real place. But the backlash for saying
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that Devon eh Chan dropped that ball was like, Oh,
you don't talk badly enough about tuas like listen to
the podcast. I mean like we've we've been critical of
the quarterback when he's deserved it. But on that play,
like the balls in a face mask, use two hands
and catch the football and you walk in for a touchdown.
Could have been placed better, for sure. Wasn't a perfect
on the black type of a ninety nine mile an
hour fastball, but should have been caught.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's all there was to it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I felt it was a little conservative after the Rasul
Douglas interception, and McDaniel talked about this in his press
conference on Monday.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I thought he covered it well.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Once they got to the thirty yard line, the decision
to back off and go for the field goal made sense.
I talked about that in the show last night, but
I thought that where you went wrong. In my opinion,
you know, far be it from me to make you know,
to make that call, but want to wait on the
game clock. You got one time out, left balls at
the plus forty two yard line. The two run plays
to get you started, and I get you. They gets
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you to a third and short, which you convert to
get you know, into field goal range in that first down,
but it burns the time out and leaves you with
twenty eight seconds of the thirty yard line. That was
where you lost the ability to possibly threaten for a touchdown.
And I think that probably speaks to the balance of
the offense and where the strength in the offense is
right now. I mean, if this is twenty three, they're
throwing that ball up and down the field, but right
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now the quarterback's not playing like he was at that
and that time. So with a thirteen to nothing lead,
I think I get it. I'm of the mind that
you should always be aggressive, and maybe that's to my
own detriment in some of these spots, but that's what
that's what Travis Winfield, who cares, would have done in
that spot, would have been more aggressive on the early
downs to possibly create a situation where you could have,
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you know, made a move for the end zone, but
it didn't go that way, and that's where that's where
we disagree. I really liked the third and one boot
call to Julian Hill, the one that we missed. Two
has got to make that throw. I like the usage
of Jalen Wright getting some package of a package of
plays which is different from the Aulie and a Chan
kind of like one two punch of splits, like it's
a change in scheme for the offense. I think it's
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good coaching because he has talked in the past about
not having run outside zone in college, and I think
you see some of those some of the lack of
playing time come from his inability to find his track
on those outside zone runs, and so you get some
of these lead ISO plays and some counterplays inside and
he's made the most of those runs. So finding reps
for Jalen Wright to give a Chan a breather here
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and there, I like the approach of that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Let's talk about the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
This was Tua's second worst game with a season, behind
the Cleveland game, and those two stand quite far alone
on their own merit a total off day. The ball
placement is just was not there, which is that's your
calling card, man, like when you can't when you don't
have that, then it's tough to fall back in other traits.
The waller missed that he talked about that's to me,
it's a touchdown ninety nine times out of one hundred,
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at least for two in previous years. Maybe not so
much this year. But he missed that one. The Julian
Hill ball on the back hip, that's off frame. It's
not even on the back hip, it's off frame behind him.
Probably could have been caught and probably is caught by
a guy with you know, more of a hands resume.
But the throw it's way off. It's way off. It's
quite the opposite of what you've been used to have
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a guy that you put the ball in the keyhole.
The placement was just off all day long. But it
has become more than norm this year, which is part
of the discussion about the passing offense not doing its
part right now. Additionally, the decision making. I think with
too watches this game back, he'll want some of the
decisions back in a big, big way. He tried that
floated at Hedrick Wilson with tight coverage on a second
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and seven there was like three Saints defenders in the area.
He had the first down with ease with his legs
and takes that shot. The next play, they try to
clear out space behind the hook with Waller on an
over route and replace it with Wattle on the dig.
But Waddle gets jammed into Maleikue Washington and like a
stack formation and he throws it to the spot that
Watle is supposed to be at, but he was never
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even close to going there. Just throws it anyway, so
that I think, you know, Waddle has to find a
way through the reroute, But I don't like the idea
of just throwing it base off the coverage without him
actually being there, Like it would be nice to know
that he's going to be there again. That thirty three
yard ball to Waller was a lot better on tape
than I realized. He takes a quick set catch rock throw.
It gets the deep third defender out of his responsibility
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driving downhill and you see two a looking at Wattle
on the out. It opens up that window and he
places it perfectly out there before the middle of the
field safety can get over. Really nice quarterback play on
that look. But man, he's playing blind on some of
these man that throw I talked about to Wattle earlier,
the wheel to Malik Washington that should have been picked
off in the end zone too. He sees the safety
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drive on a dig to Wattle, which might have scored
if he threw that because it opened up the posts inside.
But the corner on the leak is getting depth the
entire time, and Malik's not going to outrun him. He's
five yards behind him. He's not gonna win a fifty
to fifty ball. I just I don't know, Like, what's
the purpose there? Is my question on the pick. The
safety never comes down. He's always getting depth and Tua
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cuts it loose with Wattle ten yards from being even
to Levin, you know what I mean. McDaniel mentioned Waller's
route after the game was a little fake post back
to the corner and the deep route lifted all the
space that he needed for Waller to get open. There
he's all alone for a twenty yard kit and catch,
so you know yards with a clean pocket are available
to you. But he tries waddle and it gets picked off.
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The throw to Julian on third and one off frame catchable, yes,
but we kind of make that throw man. The one
that really grinded my gears was the play before the
big completion to Dulcach.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He gets off the spot just like this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Cedric Wilson Pployee talked about got eyes downfield. He's three
yards behind the line of scrimmage when Malik makes a
move off script that has his man fall down and
Malik is naked for fifteen yards downfield for what's going
to be at least a twenty yard play if not
forty if he makes one man miss and to what
takes off and runs. This time, it was like he
faced these two way decisions for the most for most
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parts of the game and consistently chose the wrong one. Now,
far be it from me to be critical of that
from my cozy spot in the press box, because it
happens fast, it's quick decision making. But it just seems
like you could flatten that thing to the line of
scrimmage and be a bigger threat with your arm opposed
to a you know, a six yard scramble in that
particular spot.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Maybe it's nitpicking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think there were three big time plays from two
in this game, the waller play earlier, the dulsage conversion
on third down, which is the next play after the
miss Malik's off off schedule play. Nice clean pocket gets
to the backside of his scan and fire as a
strike right on the eight five of dulsage for a
big completion.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's a points throw. You punt there.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The Saints are probably gonna be in, you know, within
position to at LEAs kick a field goal because they're
going to get a good feld position there. And then the
throw to Waddle after his near interception through that thing
with timing and anticipation on a secondary Reid right on
target for a big conversion. The quarterback play with this
run game, that quarterback play on those three throws, that's
gonna win a bunch of football games for you if
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you get that more consistently. I think we could legitimately
go on this run here, but we haven't had it
for a while. I still think the pick that was
reviewed was caught. We just kind of got lucky. There
wasn't a good enough angle to show that. And on
that play he had mo Leak open on the over route.
On the intermedia overroute, he tries the deeper over out
just an off day from Tua, which we saw, you know,
the endline throw to Waller a little bit too much, sauce.
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I think he makes that throw so many times out
of one hundred, ninety nine out of one hundred if
i'd be you know, if I am not mistaken, Let's
go ahead and pause right there, come back and talk
about the individual stounds on the offensive side of the
football defense that will come as well. Drive Time Podcast
brought to you by AutoNation. Offensive standouts aside from the
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quarterback position. Darren Waller. That catch on the opening driver,
he splits the curl flat and hook defenders and gets
upfield to get us back in third manageable like it's innocuous.
But the part that gets him in the notes is
the way he just transitions back upfield and gets eight
more yards after the catch.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That little suddle ability to do that. It goes a
long way.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I thought his blocking left a lot to be desired
in this game, but he could have had another touchdown
on this one. That big play as well, and the
long play, Like this guy just shows up and makes
plays for you. He's gonna be a big part of
the offense here down the stretch of the season. Austin
Jackson was really good in this game. Really nice time
to get him back man. The offense has fully developed
identity and it fits his game to a tee. We
heard McDaniel on Monday talk about the violence that Austin
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brings to the game and how they made him the
point of attack blocker for so many plays because of that.
There are some losses on this tape, as there always
will be, but just watch the reps and how guys
react to the way he plays them. He's pissing guys
off because he's got that mean streak, that physical nature.
That's not a fun game to play for sixty minutes
across from him. He also had a critical seal on
the HM touchdown run and got some serious surge denting
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the edge on runs away from the backside where he
can kind of seal that backside and create backside cutback
lanes for the running back. I thought there was plenty
to like in pass protection. Had some really good jump sets.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He likes to throw this inside punch at the inside shoulder,
so using his left hand for the right shoulder of
the defensive end and it kind of opens the gate
around the edge, but he has the foot quickness to recover.
Every once in a while he can't do it, but
for the most part he can. But when it gets beat,
it's usually doing that. Cedric Wilson, his work on crackback
blocks was awesome. We've seen him out snap all receivers,
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Butt Waddle and Maleik a couple times this season, and
I think you can see why on the run game reel.
Watch him on the n touchdown run wipes out the
safety completely on his crackback. Speaking of critical blocks on
the chn touchdown, go peep Julian Hill, he kicks out
Carl Granderson with violence, both feet off the ground at
the time of impact on that block for Granderson. Then
he gets off the block, which gave a Chan the
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angle to beat Granderson. Then goes and hits the Mike
backer who beats the reach of Cole Strange with a
tough ask on the play and takes him out of
the play too. So Julian cut of two.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
For one on that.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Aaron Brewer more highlight reel stuff in space, but I
think it's kind of amazing how he does that, and
then they can run inside zone counter off of his
backside a gap with a one shade to that side
of the formation, so they're gonna he's gonna be out
leverage with the snap. The guy's off of his left
shoulder and we're gonna run the ball into the left gap.
So he has to get his butt over one gap
and outpower the guy and seal him there, and he
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can move that nose tackle who's giving up thirty forty
pounds too. Sometimes. That's why he's the best center in
football for my money. He's hitting forty home runs, playing
that power inside and stealing forty bases the speed on
the outside, if you will. I watched another ten or
so plays of this dude. Man connects, drives you, dumps
you at the exact right time, and then goes and
hits a safety or linebacker. He'll be in top five
tapes most likely, I think at the end of this
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Patrick Paul he's just so steady as she goes man
so smooth, you kind of forget about him because he's
so just quality over there, and there's so many pass
rush reps that turned to stalemates. He can work across
his man from one shoulder to the next to reposition
his hands and get things sealed off there. He drives
ends off the football, He's clean on combo blocks. He
had one bad pass that that got him where Chase
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Young got him for a sack. But he handled Chase
Young for the most part in this game. Jonas of
I Naya, He's coming now. There was a couple of
miss assignments that I can't be certain who they were on.
It's just like the interior offensive line didn't hold up,
but like a two a throw away in the first
half on third and six in the red zone. He
didn't sense the rush and maybe that's part of the
protection scheme and not on him and more so on
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getting things idd pre snap. I'm not sure, but I
say that to say the mistake, if they are his,
are more about reads and things that are just like
coming with seasoning. Because his physical game, the technique, the
comfort level he has has taken a huge step. I
talked about coming out of the Buffalo game. It was obvious.
Then it got better against Washington, it got better here
against the Saints. I think the same thing is true
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for Cole Strange, who gets his own section here too,
because there were some games inside that gods collectively but
really I thought every individual across the offensive line played
well and had moments where they were the key matt
the point of attack in the running game. I think,
just like Jonas ofvit Naya for Cole Strange, it's been
clicking in place more and more here as we go along.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Eight Chan.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The best part of all these critical blocks we're discussing
is the eight Chans the perfect player to maximize those
tiny creases.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I didn't see the effort of cornerback number one Alonte
Taylor for the Saints on that touchdown run. He talked
about a turndown, but I think Devon put him in
some peril by his track and cut. That's consistent in
his game. Man Flat Stanley. He finds these creases and
just splits them. On the playoff for two was pick
we run stretch shown stretch Joan. It's not there, but
a Chan presses. He's patient, gets it back inside and
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makes it into a positive gain. I had three players
I thought didn't have the best tapes. Tua we talked
about him already. I thought Waddle not my best, not
the best for me. Boy here he got re routed
and jammed up on that Robi talked about earlier he
had a brotherhood route where he didn't He kind of
took the playoff, which is not what I'm used to
seeing from Ski. Also think he could have come back
to the ball on that near interception, and then Ali
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gordon I didn't think saw it very well on Sunday.
The fourth down run. You cannot stop your feet and
go lateral there. You can't do it or parallel should say,
go over the top like a goal line run, because
fumbling is not gonna hurt you there as much as
getting stuff like it's the same thing as getting stuffed.
He also had one earlier where he ran to a
stalemate on his offensive lines back just on a good
vision day for Ali gordon I didn't think snap counts
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the quarterback in the offensive line went the distance. Austin
Jackson missed one snap for Larry Boram. Waddle played fifty
four of the fifty nine snaps Maleik thirty six, nw
I thirteen, Cedric Wilson ten, and D. S Gridge two.
The running back split goes eight chance forty four. All
these sixteen right six and three tight ends with twenty
or more snaps. Julian thirty three Waller twenty seven Dulcic
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twenty one. Quick change Here to the defensive side of
the football. From general thoughts from the first play of
the game, we got a good look at everything I
talked about in the preview podcast. Attached why two nasty
split eligible sidecar to him, it's the grid Kids offense.
One of those players is Taysom Hill. We're gonna have
nine gaps in the running game, and you better fit it.
In the next play, they run thirteen personnel, one back,
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three tight ends, one receiver, nine gaps nine not JJ
McCarthy nine, but nine gaps in the running game. There's
a couple of things to unpack from that number.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
One.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We had three safeties play fifty six plus snaps in
the game. Jason Marshall only played four snaps and that
was a mega Fitzpatrick got nicked up. You had three
edges that played thirty seven plus snaps in the game.
Judah played thirty seven, Chopin'chubb played more. You had three
defensive tackles who played thirty one snaps or more in
the game. The fourth had twenty two and the fifth
had sixteen. So this was a bigger front seven game
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against an offense that again runs my level offense in
terms of everything is tight, everything is tight. It was
big boy bully football. Buckle that chin strap. And this
requires a deeper menu of fronts. We saw bearfronts. We
saw three defensive tackles playing over the guard or in
that's a barfront tight front, which is the same concept.
No one further out than the four I technique off
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the inside shoulder of either tackle. Jam those guys in front,
play outside backers off of that, play safeties down off
the fill off that, and get your nine gaps fit
that way. That requires additional overhang players, which the Dolphins
called upon Mika Fitzpatrick to do that a lot. We'll
talk about him a whole lot here as we are
just scratching the surface on all the things that he does.
I think Jason Marshall could be a player down the
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line that could fulfill those types of responsibilities and roles
if he develops that way. But I like the approach
developmentally of not overloading him and asking him to go
out there and play safety one snap and play nickel
and be on top of those different coverage rules and
every single step that's protecting the young man and making
sure that he can develop in the right way. I'm
not saying he's not capable, but the thinking to me
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is sound to ask Minka to do that and post
to your rookie fifth round draft pick. I mentioned how
excited I am for where this defense is going in
terms of playing connected. The first third down, they show
man with a mugged up linebacker in the A gap,
and that backer winds up peeling out going to the
opposite side curl flap. The defense rotates into cover two
two high safeties with a cloud corners underneath, and that
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creates a throw excuse me, right into our zone trap.
We rally up and tackle short of the sticks. They
wanted that ball to go to that spot. Shook took
the cheese through it there. That route could have been
a first down against the man covers that he thought
he was getting in my opinion on that rep. But
you bait him into taking a third down throw short
of the sticks, right where you wanted to. That's winning
scheme and man. The rally to the ball and sound
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tackling fundamentals were just outstanding. I love the way this
defense rallies and tackles right now, straight out good technique
want to the defense is fun to watch. The call
on the Minka Fitzpatrick sack fumble another Weaver specialty man.
Excellent disguise from earlier looks I talked about where he's
walked down as the force defender. They basically have him
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as like the weak side linebacker and they're gonna sim
pressure this and peel Chop out from the strong side
to get his drop into the hook zone. And then
here comes Minca off the backside of the formation and
the Saints slid the protection away from Minca and we
totally bust their protection call. That's Weaver doing what he
does best. The two point play man coverage across the board.
We heard the story about how the communication went out
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on that play, so it was like grab a man
and try to rush the quarterback. Everybody else covers somebody
in coverage and the pass rush played through their guys.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That was great to see.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Bradley Chubb used his best pass rush move on that
two point play where he completely undresses the left tackle.
Seeler walks the right guard into the quarterback and Chop
has a good rep to contain Shook into his spot.
He had to throw that ball because he's gonna get
sacked if he does not. Minka has the toughest cover
on the entire play, running all the way across the formation.
Pressure forces the ball a little bit behind. Mica catches
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it and pays off for the game winner. Essentially. Then
the fourth down stop, they want to flatten the a
gap to the defense's left. They want to basically have
Shook go over the top of that to his right
the gap of the off the center's right, but Jordan
Phillips stops any movement on two players from both the
center and the guard. Going low, he causes a pile up.
Shook tries to go over, but Chop is right there
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because both linemen had had to try to dig out
Jordan Phillips, and it creates a one on one chance
Shook against Chop, and Chop wins it, wins it and
gets us in the club dub there. So let's go
ahead and pause for one more break, come back and
talk about standouts individually on defense, stand downs and the
five top tapes from this game.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
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Lots of names on defense to talk about that stood
out in this game from a Dolphins twenty one to
seventeen win over the Saints. We're going to start with
Minka Fitzpatrick. This is one of the best tapes by
a Dolphin all season. Second snap of the game, double
wise to his side. He has to play both forced
defender and wall off the edge, then try to widen him,
but then he plants his flag, causes a pile up
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by going and getting him blocked. The way he attacks
blocks and reroutes, He's gonna bring the business to you,
not let you get to him, and it causes the
other blocks to overrun the entire play. Then the cutback
is not there because we have guys flooding those gaps.
Mika winds up beating the block by himself and then
makes the play. That's a guy that you're gonna ask
later on to cover in the slot to rush the
quarterback from that position, play week snide linebacker and also
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play in the post. In Tampa two in half half
coverage like this guy unreal on Zeke Bigger's a sack.
They run two verticals with an over route and it's
this new in vogue. Look where in the NFL you've
seen this across the league. For Washington Football every Sunday,
where they'll align the receivers in tight or they'll motion
them into the formation and they'll they'll proceed to take
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their route behind the lion of scrimmage, but then get
upfield between the tackle and the guard. It's a way
of trying to sneak him in there and get them
lost in the wash at the lion of scrimmage. But
Minka sees this and up and presses him and knocks
him off the route entirely, then runs trail right in
his hip pocket. Shook has nowhere to escape with good
rush contained and just eats the sack. Truly one of
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the best studied players I've ever watched on tape.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Mika Fitzpatrick. It was that way back in twenty eighteen.
It's this way now.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
These are the notes that I had before his sack fumble,
which honestly was just a perfect angle, timed it well
in relationship to the snap and made the play. Zack
Steeler on the sack fumble, he got doubled and the
design of the defensive call with pulling chop back, he
was like angling across the edge which was a gap
and a half over and he's getting double teamed. Essentially,
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he had no opportunity to make a play there, but
he didn't stop working. He wrote it all the way
through and the ball found him. And that's what effort
does in this game.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He rode the wave and made a play on an
outside zone run. Did a little bit of everything in
this game. But as always for him, the effort was
just unreal. He had two pursuit plays that frankly, no
defensive tackle has any business making on the first two
drives of the game. Just peer determination. That was the
theme of the day up front. A lot of guys,
a lot of players where guys got there through strain,
and I'm excited about that. At four and seven, off
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of a bye week against the Saints, these guys came
to play. That tells me a lot about how the
makeup of this football team is. Right now, Zeke Biggers,
that was you know, that was his sack. Right effort,
double team splits it. Some guys will just take the stalemate.
But he worked and worked and worked and split that
thing and gets rewarded by the edges pushing Shook up
into the pocket and collects the sack. I can't stop
talking enough about Jordan Phillips. I'm not sure he's been
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a more consistent player on tape week to week. Brooks
for sure, Minka, that might be it than Jordan Phillips.
The way he can generate power from different bases is
kind of crazy. There was a Jordan Brooks TfL where
the bat where he back doors his gap, realizes he
misses like the chance wasn't paying off, then gets himself
back into position to play under his man, and still
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without even being perfectly on balance, still gets knocked back
and causes the pile up. I mean, I'm one quarter
into the game and I've got him completely undressing Caesar
Ruiz twice pro bowler, our first round picks.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's Ruiz.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
He has a run stuff later where he rides the
wave one outside zone. They double him, He holds his ground,
then works off the block and makes a tackle A
couple of gaps down. First play the second half, he
long arms and locks out to Lisi Fuaga just suns him,
pops him straight up. I cannot say enough about Jordan Phillips.
This is gonna be a very good player in the
league for a very long time. Kenneth Grant, I think
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we're gonna look back, Phillips had a better rookie year.
But I think we're gonna look back in a year
and be like, it was so obvious this guy was coming.
Why was anybody ever worried about him? His pad level
has gradually gotten better, and there's been a couple of
reps in this game where he kind of pops straight
up and that's where he loses. But he's jacking guys
up the way Jordan does with his power, and he's
got more wiggle and burst. So when he really puts
it together the way those two guys can work together,
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I think you're gonna see a lot of splash plays. I
look at his trajectory with jonasovit Naya and the way
the rest of the class is played. It sure has
me excited about the trajectory of this young foundation. Tyrol
Dotson gets into the positive notes this week. I think
that was his best game by far. He had a
third down breakup where he separate the hands on Juwan Johnson,
outstanding pursuit on a checkdown short of the sticks cut down,
Tyler shook on a quarterback sweep and had the communication
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call on the two point play. Big day for Tyler
Dodson Willie Gay limited snap count, but defeated a block
and got to shook on a sweep. He ran like
three sweeps in this game before his pass breakup and coverage,
which was excellent work. Flexed out against an athletic tight
end Jordan Brooks, business as usual, scraping in tight to
reduce the track run options for the running back. He
can pick up, changing landmarks, new assignments on the fly.
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They jet motioned one play and he chases it, feels
the running back get back inside and condenses the edge
and then engages the edge to make the tackle and
stop right there. He had another one of those blitz
reps one on one against the back where he sends
him to Okachobee Jack Parkman Major League two style, best
not be on the tracks and the train's coming through Son.
He had another stuff where he just flips Fuaga with
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the crossover step man. Every game, this guy does multiple
things that gets you out of your chair. Bradley Chubb
I was prepared to say that it wasn't his best game,
but then he finished, and you could have had a
monster game if he makes three more tackles, because he
had three mess tackles in this game, two TFLs and
one sack, but his sack was great, a pure bull
rush running Kelvin Banks into the ground, and then he
made his best pass rush on the two point play.
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He fakes a spin and puts the left hand into
his chest and turns his back that way. But then,
like it's like the reverse pivot in basketball, just continues
back upfield and Banks gets stuck in the blocks. He
couldn't move, and Chubb had the big hit on Shook
that helped that ball go off target to Mika Fitzpatrick,
Rasul Douglas and Jack Jones. Jones had a rough finish
to the game, but he played well for like fifty
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five minutes. But they were in tight phase for the
most part of the game. I love how they both tackled.
I love how they plastered after the fact, at least
earlier in the game. Shook got some plays off late,
but for ninety percent of it, these guys were all
over out of structure and did a great job within
their rules and then rallying up to tackle on Rasoul's pick.
I've seen him do that in Green Bay and Buffalo.
A whole heck of a lot just great film study,
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knowing where your help is, where he could take a
chance and pay it off of the game changing play.
He's clearly not a high school running back back in
his days because the decision to cut that thing back.
I don't know what he was doing, because he had
a touchdown of the sideline if he can just not
get tackled by Tyler Shook, but he didn't do that.
He also came off of a deep coverage responsibility when
the Saints tried to hold him with a tied end
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on a vertical route, but he had safety help and
I think it would have been trouble if it was
a speed receiver, but it wasn't. So he clamps his
hooks on and throw and then Shook has nowhere to
go and eats a sack. These little things are popping
up on the tape more and more with all the
Dolphins defensive backs and then Jack Jones's coverage and that
third and eight on their field goal drive to make
it nineteen to eleven was as good as it gets.
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But the touchdown throw he like kind of quit on
the play. Got to finish the play, big dog. And
then the Chris Olave drop also that was a bad look.
And if he makes that catch, we're talking about a
different game and a different tape here. Individual misses. I
think Ashton Davis, he reminds me of a seat. Then
throw at quarterback. There's a Devon Vle catch in the
sideline where there's nowhere else to go, and he just
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like let's him get access to the quarterback. And then
also the shook two point sweep run, he's the forced
defender and takes the cheese inside.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Speaking of that play, if he Mela Falmo got totally
lost on that play, I feel similarly about him in
terms of see it and then go. I thought Trader
played well with a limited snap count. That's one of
those ones I don't get. But I'm a dingus, so
what the hell do I know? Chop Robinson had the
stats in this game. The sack was a coverage and
a good job read to working on a reworking a redirect,
you know, praise for that. But he got out of
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his gap, he overran the quarterback, had another off sides
on third and four. So it was up and down
day for Chop. I won't say he was bad, but
up and down to me and then Judon. I'm not
sure I've seen him slip up block this year. If
he gets like, he'll get some walkback on bull rushes,
but by and large, he's not getting off of them.
Snap counts, linebackers and cornerbacks went the distance. JBT, Dot
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Jack and Rusoul seventy two snaps across the board. Minka
missed one snap on that shoulder injury he took. Ashton
played sixty nine snaps. Nice if he played fifty six
and then Trader only played five, but Trader made two
plays in the five reps, so I would I don't know,
We'll see Jason Marshall four snaps. It was a big
nickel game, right, so he didn't get any looks really
besides the four Chubb fifty eight of the seventy two
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Chop forty five, Judeon thirty seven, Cam Good one and
he got a pass breakup on that one. Sealer played
fifty one of the seventy two, Grant thirty two, Biggers
thirty one, Phillips twenty two, but Til sixteen and Willie
Gaye played three snaps and he made two plays in
three snaps, So there you go. My top five tapes.
I said Brewer is going to be in here, but
he's not. I'll beg Brewer five B. How about that.
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We'll give them one more Mika Fitzpatrick number one, Devon
ah Chant number two, Jordan Brooks number three, Zach Sealer
number four, and then Tyrrel Dotson and Aran Brewer will
share the fifth and final spot. That's gonna be my
time on the podcast today. Wednesday, we'll come back and
talk about playoff scenarios. Playoffs, we'll talk about that. We'll
have a Jets guest on I believe, we'll do the
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preview show on Thursday and have our usual football Friday show.
All of that coming this week here as the Dolphins
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
Until next time for Dunk, Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis wing thee.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
it's the all twenty two review from another Dolphins win
twenty one to seventeen over the Saints. We're going over
all the good, the bad, and the ugly from the
Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
is the Draft Time Podcast days. We have so much
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to get to today, Let's go ahead and dive right
in so offensively general points where we kick it off
every single Monday night slash Tuesday morning here on the podcast.
I couldn't have loved the first two plays of the
game out of a bye week more than I did.
That was the answer to how did Mike McDaniel and
company spend the bye week? First you got Waller Ingold
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and a chan in the backfield. You get an outside
zone with split flow action, and you just ask them
to win their matchups and they do it. Reaches, seals, crackbacks, kickouts,
They dominate the point of attack for eight yards. Tone
setting game, tone setting type of run on the first
play of the game. Then you think you're ready for
that type of approach, and the Dolphins hot change it
(01:14):
full on shift change hockey style Florida Panthers hockey. Stanley
cups goals. You swap out the running back, Jalen Wright
comes into the game, you bring in Daniel Brunskill. You're
bringing Julian Hill and Greg Dolsich. A total personnel change
only waddle to it, and the offensive linemen are the
same players on the field. Then they run see why counter.
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We've talked about GY counter and CT counter.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is the Aaron Brewer.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Portion of the playbook we talked about on the show
last week with Mike McDaniel and how they create plays
around this unique talent. Now they're pulling Brewer and Brunskill,
who basically is a big tackle right or an extra
tackle on the field, but he's playing the y so
it's a shy counter and you get down blocks from
the rest of the offensive line. Julian Hill inserts into
the fit on return motion with me. Still a lot
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of language here, but that's the whole concept. That's the idea.
We're trying to put all of this on. The Saints
play on the first two plays of the game, and
you do that while getting sixteen yards back to back
eight yard runs. I thought that was just a masterclass
of using the time you have, using this new package
that you unveiled over the course of the last month,
and creating wrinkles and different looks and different window dressing
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off of that here off the bye week, now, I
think where the offense hits its speed bumps or potholes
in some of these instances in this game. Was those
two man max protection deep shots that we got early
in the year. These were how basically how Waddle got
all these forty plus yard plays he's made this year.
The Saints were just on it, and quite frankly, I
kind of feel like Brandon Staley kind of got the
best of Tua in this game. And then Tua winds
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up kind of on these spots kind of a sitting
duck because he's not going to be able to, you know,
create and get outside the pocket and evade pressure where
they can't track him down because they're fast to him
and they'll just track him down and he can't do that,
and so he can't throw the ball away in that
position because it's going to be grounding. So he just
winds up taking the sack. The best passing game stuff
occurred over the middle of the field, which is a
(03:11):
nice I guess look back into the past of the
passing offense here, but splitting zone defenders, you create that
space with the threat of the swings and the running backs.
We do that type of throw and route so often
in this offense. You would see these curl flat defenders
widen and then Tua just take the over the ball route.
There was a couple of those in the opening drive,
the touchdown scoring drive, and some of the quick game
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that I think the Dolphins got away from the rest
of the entire game. The turn up get eight extra
yards after the catch for both Aarren Waller and the
League Washington on a pair of plays that he raced
a second and eighteen following a first down sack.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But then you never really saw off the rest of
the game. You would get an.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Inbreaker to Waddle later on in the game, but for
the most part, that part of the field in the
passing offense just was not available to the Miami Dolphins.
The third drive began with a no gain run for
a Chan and the ailment on those is usually it's
pretty uniform in terms of you know what's going to
cause these defeated run plays. You know what it's gonna
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look like on tape when it happens, the assignments get
a little bit muddled with pre snap motion, the end
you know, winds up being left unblocked. It's one of
those plays that probably looks good when you draw it up,
you know, on Tuesday, but the end crashes in a
different way than you're expecting to and it winds up,
you know, forcing Daniel Brunskill to take a vertical step
opposed to a lateral step, and then he can't get
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the reach he has to make, and then the whole
play is kind of gets blown off of its access.
That that's football in a lot of ways. But also
you create these situations sometimes by just doing a little
bit too much right, And that's been one of the
arguments of the last the whole season really maybe going
back a few years, I will give credit. That's been
a nice change in terms of like there's been a
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lot more just power concepts and downhill football and just
line up and go beat your guy, you know, with
this recent win streak, but these things do pop up
in these games from time to time. Then The next
play was a screen where you get three miss blocks
because of the same complexity issues. You know, execution issue
for sure, but sometimes when you get all these misdirections,
you wind up walking yourself into offensive confusion. You're trying
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to confuse a defense, but you wind up confusing your
own guys, and that leads to a bust and that
leads to a negative play. The next play, twelve men
in the huddle, just ugly, ugly stuff, followed by a sack,
and it didn't look like the first drive did at
all on these next two possessions. I loved the design
on the deep ball to Waller when he got loose
for thirty three yards, damn near broke a tackle and
turn it into a sixty eight yard touchdown whatever that
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would have been. And we'll get into that in the
two a portion of the to a breakdown portion, because
after that it was right back to power football. They
go to a split flow, wind back, inside zone toss
to all the gordon with me. That's they play that
the Niners made popular when McDaniel was there with Kyle Shanahan,
where they would get that with Rahem Moster. It was
inside zone flow that looked like outside zone with a
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toss element to kind of create that widening and create
those easier gaps and angles for the offensive lineman for
Raheemo then cut the thing back inside. They can do
with Ollie Gordon because he has shown a propensity on
some outside zone runs, but then he turns into this
downhill hammer on these inside zone runs. And on this
particular play, Julian Hill cuts the backside edge, takes him
to the ground. Austin Jackson and Cole Strange drive the
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end right into the linebacker's lap and dump him there here.
You deal with this, it's your problem now. And this
allows Ollie Gordon to drop his shoulder into defenders who
are on their heels opposed of their toes. And that's
an easy five yard pile drive. Not the WWWE move,
but driving the football pile five yards downfield.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Power football, baby.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They come back to the exact same play with a
chan but there's a wrinkle. But wait, dej more, it's
alec Ingold's return motion back to counter split flow. It's
a fancy way of saying they dressed up the exact
same play with a different look. But again, Cole Strange
drives the three technique off the football with a combination
with Aaron Brewer. Brewer climbs up and catches another pancake
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at the second level. Did the exact same thing on
the previous play. Jonas sbite Naya is gettinglateral displacement again
an eight chan's downhill for eight more yards. The stuff works, man.
It is how you win football games nowadays. I mean,
quarterbacks are thrown for one hundred and fifty yards and
a lot of these wins.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's just what it is like.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, let's not do it right now, but go
look at the passing leaders in the NFL this year.
It is tough to throw for three hundred yards anymore.
They ran this full house toss to the boundary the
Dolphins did. There was another one of these jumpled messes,
but it made up for on the next call. Was
the screen to eight chan so well designed. It's a
shame they didn't convert it. Hang on one sec. We'll
get to that one side. Yeah, they would have made
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it seventeen to nothing going into the last drive of
the half where Suol Douglas gotta pick off the Saints.
Devon tries to one hand catch this thing. I think
if he just puts both hands up in the air,
he plucks it like a receiver, like on a fifteen
yard dig downfield, which he has done in the past
as a receiver. He walks into the end zone if
he does that, and I laugh because I know Twitter
is not a real place. But the backlash for saying
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that Devon eh Chan dropped that ball was like, Oh,
you don't talk badly enough about tuas like listen to
the podcast. I mean like we've we've been critical of
the quarterback when he's deserved it. But on that play,
like the balls in a face mask, use two hands
and catch the football and you walk in for a touchdown.
Could have been placed better, for sure. Wasn't a perfect
on the black type of a ninety nine mile an
hour fastball, but should have been caught.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's all there was to it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I felt it was a little conservative after the Rasul
Douglas interception, and McDaniel talked about this in his press
conference on Monday.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I thought he covered it well.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Once they got to the thirty yard line, the decision
to back off and go for the field goal made sense.
I talked about that in the show last night, but
I thought that where you went wrong. In my opinion,
you know, far be it from me to make you know,
to make that call, but want to wait on the
game clock. You got one time out, left balls at
the plus forty two yard line. The two run plays
to get you started, and I get you. They gets
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you to a third and short, which you convert to
get you know, into field goal range in that first down,
but it burns the time out and leaves you with
twenty eight seconds of the thirty yard line. That was
where you lost the ability to possibly threaten for a touchdown.
And I think that probably speaks to the balance of
the offense and where the strength in the offense is
right now. I mean, if this is twenty three, they're
throwing that ball up and down the field, but right
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now the quarterback's not playing like he was at that
and that time. So with a thirteen to nothing lead,
I think I get it. I'm of the mind that
you should always be aggressive, and maybe that's to my
own detriment in some of these spots, but that's what
that's what Travis Winfield, who cares, would have done in
that spot, would have been more aggressive on the early
downs to possibly create a situation where you could have,
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you know, made a move for the end zone, but
it didn't go that way, and that's where that's where
we disagree. I really liked the third and one boot
call to Julian Hill, the one that we missed. Two
has got to make that throw. I like the usage
of Jalen Wright getting some package of a package of
plays which is different from the Aulie and a Chan
kind of like one two punch of splits, like it's
a change in scheme for the offense. I think it's
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good coaching because he has talked in the past about
not having run outside zone in college, and I think
you see some of those some of the lack of
playing time come from his inability to find his track
on those outside zone runs, and so you get some
of these lead ISO plays and some counterplays inside and
he's made the most of those runs. So finding reps
for Jalen Wright to give a Chan a breather here
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and there, I like the approach of that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Let's talk about the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
This was Tua's second worst game with a season, behind
the Cleveland game, and those two stand quite far alone
on their own merit a total off day. The ball
placement is just was not there, which is that's your
calling card, man, like when you can't when you don't
have that, then it's tough to fall back in other traits.
The waller missed that he talked about that's to me,
it's a touchdown ninety nine times out of one hundred,
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at least for two in previous years. Maybe not so
much this year. But he missed that one. The Julian
Hill ball on the back hip, that's off frame. It's
not even on the back hip, it's off frame behind him.
Probably could have been caught and probably is caught by
a guy with you know, more of a hands resume.
But the throw it's way off. It's way off. It's
quite the opposite of what you've been used to have
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a guy that you put the ball in the keyhole.
The placement was just off all day long. But it
has become more than norm this year, which is part
of the discussion about the passing offense not doing its
part right now. Additionally, the decision making. I think with
too watches this game back, he'll want some of the
decisions back in a big, big way. He tried that
floated at Hedrick Wilson with tight coverage on a second
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and seven there was like three Saints defenders in the area.
He had the first down with ease with his legs
and takes that shot. The next play, they try to
clear out space behind the hook with Waller on an
over route and replace it with Wattle on the dig.
But Waddle gets jammed into Maleikue Washington and like a
stack formation and he throws it to the spot that
Watle is supposed to be at, but he was never
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even close to going there. Just throws it anyway, so
that I think, you know, Waddle has to find a
way through the reroute, But I don't like the idea
of just throwing it base off the coverage without him
actually being there, Like it would be nice to know
that he's going to be there again. That thirty three
yard ball to Waller was a lot better on tape
than I realized. He takes a quick set catch rock throw.
It gets the deep third defender out of his responsibility
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driving downhill and you see two a looking at Wattle
on the out. It opens up that window and he
places it perfectly out there before the middle of the
field safety can get over. Really nice quarterback play on
that look. But man, he's playing blind on some of
these man that throw I talked about to Wattle earlier,
the wheel to Malik Washington that should have been picked
off in the end zone too. He sees the safety
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drive on a dig to Wattle, which might have scored
if he threw that because it opened up the posts inside.
But the corner on the leak is getting depth the
entire time, and Malik's not going to outrun him. He's
five yards behind him. He's not gonna win a fifty
to fifty ball. I just I don't know, Like, what's
the purpose there? Is my question on the pick. The
safety never comes down. He's always getting depth and Tua
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cuts it loose with Wattle ten yards from being even
to Levin, you know what I mean. McDaniel mentioned Waller's
route after the game was a little fake post back
to the corner and the deep route lifted all the
space that he needed for Waller to get open. There
he's all alone for a twenty yard kit and catch,
so you know yards with a clean pocket are available
to you. But he tries waddle and it gets picked off.
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The throw to Julian on third and one off frame catchable, yes,
but we kind of make that throw man. The one
that really grinded my gears was the play before the
big completion to Dulcach.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He gets off the spot just like this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Cedric Wilson Pployee talked about got eyes downfield. He's three
yards behind the line of scrimmage when Malik makes a
move off script that has his man fall down and
Malik is naked for fifteen yards downfield for what's going
to be at least a twenty yard play if not
forty if he makes one man miss and to what
takes off and runs. This time, it was like he
faced these two way decisions for the most for most
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parts of the game and consistently chose the wrong one. Now,
far be it from me to be critical of that
from my cozy spot in the press box, because it
happens fast, it's quick decision making. But it just seems
like you could flatten that thing to the line of
scrimmage and be a bigger threat with your arm opposed
to a you know, a six yard scramble in that
particular spot.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Maybe it's nitpicking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think there were three big time plays from two
in this game, the waller play earlier, the dulsage conversion
on third down, which is the next play after the
miss Malik's off off schedule play. Nice clean pocket gets
to the backside of his scan and fire as a
strike right on the eight five of dulsage for a
big completion.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's a points throw. You punt there.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The Saints are probably gonna be in, you know, within
position to at LEAs kick a field goal because they're
going to get a good feld position there. And then the
throw to Waddle after his near interception through that thing
with timing and anticipation on a secondary Reid right on
target for a big conversion. The quarterback play with this
run game, that quarterback play on those three throws, that's
gonna win a bunch of football games for you if
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you get that more consistently. I think we could legitimately
go on this run here, but we haven't had it
for a while. I still think the pick that was
reviewed was caught. We just kind of got lucky. There
wasn't a good enough angle to show that. And on
that play he had mo Leak open on the over route.
On the intermedia overroute, he tries the deeper over out
just an off day from Tua, which we saw, you know,
the endline throw to Waller a little bit too much, sauce.
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I think he makes that throw so many times out
of one hundred, ninety nine out of one hundred if
i'd be you know, if I am not mistaken, Let's
go ahead and pause right there, come back and talk
about the individual stounds on the offensive side of the
football defense that will come as well. Drive Time Podcast
brought to you by AutoNation. Offensive standouts aside from the
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quarterback position. Darren Waller. That catch on the opening driver,
he splits the curl flat and hook defenders and gets
upfield to get us back in third manageable like it's innocuous.
But the part that gets him in the notes is
the way he just transitions back upfield and gets eight
more yards after the catch.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That little suddle ability to do that. It goes a
long way.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I thought his blocking left a lot to be desired
in this game, but he could have had another touchdown
on this one. That big play as well, and the
long play, Like this guy just shows up and makes
plays for you. He's gonna be a big part of
the offense here down the stretch of the season. Austin
Jackson was really good in this game. Really nice time
to get him back man. The offense has fully developed
identity and it fits his game to a tee. We
heard McDaniel on Monday talk about the violence that Austin
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brings to the game and how they made him the
point of attack blocker for so many plays because of that.
There are some losses on this tape, as there always
will be, but just watch the reps and how guys
react to the way he plays them. He's pissing guys
off because he's got that mean streak, that physical nature.
That's not a fun game to play for sixty minutes
across from him. He also had a critical seal on
the HM touchdown run and got some serious surge denting
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the edge on runs away from the backside where he
can kind of seal that backside and create backside cutback
lanes for the running back. I thought there was plenty
to like in pass protection. Had some really good jump sets.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He likes to throw this inside punch at the inside shoulder,
so using his left hand for the right shoulder of
the defensive end and it kind of opens the gate
around the edge, but he has the foot quickness to recover.
Every once in a while he can't do it, but
for the most part he can. But when it gets beat,
it's usually doing that. Cedric Wilson, his work on crackback
blocks was awesome. We've seen him out snap all receivers,
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Butt Waddle and Maleik a couple times this season, and
I think you can see why on the run game reel.
Watch him on the n touchdown run wipes out the
safety completely on his crackback. Speaking of critical blocks on
the chn touchdown, go peep Julian Hill, he kicks out
Carl Granderson with violence, both feet off the ground at
the time of impact on that block for Granderson. Then
he gets off the block, which gave a Chan the
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angle to beat Granderson. Then goes and hits the Mike
backer who beats the reach of Cole Strange with a
tough ask on the play and takes him out of
the play too. So Julian cut of two.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
For one on that.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Aaron Brewer more highlight reel stuff in space, but I
think it's kind of amazing how he does that, and
then they can run inside zone counter off of his
backside a gap with a one shade to that side
of the formation, so they're gonna he's gonna be out
leverage with the snap. The guy's off of his left
shoulder and we're gonna run the ball into the left gap.
So he has to get his butt over one gap
and outpower the guy and seal him there, and he
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can move that nose tackle who's giving up thirty forty
pounds too. Sometimes. That's why he's the best center in
football for my money. He's hitting forty home runs, playing
that power inside and stealing forty bases the speed on
the outside, if you will. I watched another ten or
so plays of this dude. Man connects, drives you, dumps
you at the exact right time, and then goes and
hits a safety or linebacker. He'll be in top five
tapes most likely, I think at the end of this
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Patrick Paul he's just so steady as she goes man
so smooth, you kind of forget about him because he's
so just quality over there, and there's so many pass
rush reps that turned to stalemates. He can work across
his man from one shoulder to the next to reposition
his hands and get things sealed off there. He drives
ends off the football, He's clean on combo blocks. He
had one bad pass that that got him where Chase
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Young got him for a sack. But he handled Chase
Young for the most part in this game. Jonas of
I Naya, He's coming now. There was a couple of
miss assignments that I can't be certain who they were on.
It's just like the interior offensive line didn't hold up,
but like a two a throw away in the first
half on third and six in the red zone. He
didn't sense the rush and maybe that's part of the
protection scheme and not on him and more so on
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getting things idd pre snap. I'm not sure, but I
say that to say the mistake, if they are his,
are more about reads and things that are just like
coming with seasoning. Because his physical game, the technique, the
comfort level he has has taken a huge step. I
talked about coming out of the Buffalo game. It was obvious.
Then it got better against Washington, it got better here
against the Saints. I think the same thing is true
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for Cole Strange, who gets his own section here too,
because there were some games inside that gods collectively but
really I thought every individual across the offensive line played
well and had moments where they were the key matt
the point of attack in the running game. I think,
just like Jonas ofvit Naya for Cole Strange, it's been
clicking in place more and more here as we go along.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Eight Chan.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The best part of all these critical blocks we're discussing
is the eight Chans the perfect player to maximize those
tiny creases.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I didn't see the effort of cornerback number one Alonte
Taylor for the Saints on that touchdown run. He talked
about a turndown, but I think Devon put him in
some peril by his track and cut. That's consistent in
his game. Man Flat Stanley. He finds these creases and
just splits them. On the playoff for two was pick
we run stretch shown stretch Joan. It's not there, but
a Chan presses. He's patient, gets it back inside and
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makes it into a positive gain. I had three players
I thought didn't have the best tapes. Tua we talked
about him already. I thought Waddle not my best, not
the best for me. Boy here he got re routed
and jammed up on that Robi talked about earlier he
had a brotherhood route where he didn't He kind of
took the playoff, which is not what I'm used to
seeing from Ski. Also think he could have come back
to the ball on that near interception, and then Ali
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gordon I didn't think saw it very well on Sunday.
The fourth down run. You cannot stop your feet and
go lateral there. You can't do it or parallel should say,
go over the top like a goal line run, because
fumbling is not gonna hurt you there as much as
getting stuff like it's the same thing as getting stuffed.
He also had one earlier where he ran to a
stalemate on his offensive lines back just on a good
vision day for Ali gordon I didn't think snap counts
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the quarterback in the offensive line went the distance. Austin
Jackson missed one snap for Larry Boram. Waddle played fifty
four of the fifty nine snaps Maleik thirty six, nw
I thirteen, Cedric Wilson ten, and D. S Gridge two.
The running back split goes eight chance forty four. All
these sixteen right six and three tight ends with twenty
or more snaps. Julian thirty three Waller twenty seven Dulcic
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twenty one. Quick change Here to the defensive side of
the football. From general thoughts from the first play of
the game, we got a good look at everything I
talked about in the preview podcast. Attached why two nasty
split eligible sidecar to him, it's the grid Kids offense.
One of those players is Taysom Hill. We're gonna have
nine gaps in the running game, and you better fit it.
In the next play, they run thirteen personnel, one back,
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three tight ends, one receiver, nine gaps nine not JJ
McCarthy nine, but nine gaps in the running game. There's
a couple of things to unpack from that number.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
One.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We had three safeties play fifty six plus snaps in
the game. Jason Marshall only played four snaps and that
was a mega Fitzpatrick got nicked up. You had three
edges that played thirty seven plus snaps in the game.
Judah played thirty seven, Chopin'chubb played more. You had three
defensive tackles who played thirty one snaps or more in
the game. The fourth had twenty two and the fifth
had sixteen. So this was a bigger front seven game
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against an offense that again runs my level offense in
terms of everything is tight, everything is tight. It was
big boy bully football. Buckle that chin strap. And this
requires a deeper menu of fronts. We saw bearfronts. We
saw three defensive tackles playing over the guard or in
that's a barfront tight front, which is the same concept.
No one further out than the four I technique off
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the inside shoulder of either tackle. Jam those guys in front,
play outside backers off of that, play safeties down off
the fill off that, and get your nine gaps fit
that way. That requires additional overhang players, which the Dolphins
called upon Mika Fitzpatrick to do that a lot. We'll
talk about him a whole lot here as we are
just scratching the surface on all the things that he does.
I think Jason Marshall could be a player down the
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line that could fulfill those types of responsibilities and roles
if he develops that way. But I like the approach
developmentally of not overloading him and asking him to go
out there and play safety one snap and play nickel
and be on top of those different coverage rules and
every single step that's protecting the young man and making
sure that he can develop in the right way. I'm
not saying he's not capable, but the thinking to me
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is sound to ask Minka to do that and post
to your rookie fifth round draft pick. I mentioned how
excited I am for where this defense is going in
terms of playing connected. The first third down, they show
man with a mugged up linebacker in the A gap,
and that backer winds up peeling out going to the
opposite side curl flap. The defense rotates into cover two
two high safeties with a cloud corners underneath, and that
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creates a throw excuse me, right into our zone trap.
We rally up and tackle short of the sticks. They
wanted that ball to go to that spot. Shook took
the cheese through it there. That route could have been
a first down against the man covers that he thought
he was getting in my opinion on that rep. But
you bait him into taking a third down throw short
of the sticks, right where you wanted to. That's winning
scheme and man. The rally to the ball and sound
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tackling fundamentals were just outstanding. I love the way this
defense rallies and tackles right now, straight out good technique
want to the defense is fun to watch. The call
on the Minka Fitzpatrick sack fumble another Weaver specialty man.
Excellent disguise from earlier looks I talked about where he's
walked down as the force defender. They basically have him
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as like the weak side linebacker and they're gonna sim
pressure this and peel Chop out from the strong side
to get his drop into the hook zone. And then
here comes Minca off the backside of the formation and
the Saints slid the protection away from Minca and we
totally bust their protection call. That's Weaver doing what he
does best. The two point play man coverage across the board.
We heard the story about how the communication went out
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on that play, so it was like grab a man
and try to rush the quarterback. Everybody else covers somebody
in coverage and the pass rush played through their guys.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That was great to see.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Bradley Chubb used his best pass rush move on that
two point play where he completely undresses the left tackle.
Seeler walks the right guard into the quarterback and Chop
has a good rep to contain Shook into his spot.
He had to throw that ball because he's gonna get
sacked if he does not. Minka has the toughest cover
on the entire play, running all the way across the formation.
Pressure forces the ball a little bit behind. Mica catches
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it and pays off for the game winner. Essentially. Then
the fourth down stop, they want to flatten the a
gap to the defense's left. They want to basically have
Shook go over the top of that to his right
the gap of the off the center's right, but Jordan
Phillips stops any movement on two players from both the
center and the guard. Going low, he causes a pile up.
Shook tries to go over, but Chop is right there
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because both linemen had had to try to dig out
Jordan Phillips, and it creates a one on one chance
Shook against Chop, and Chop wins it, wins it and
gets us in the club dub there. So let's go
ahead and pause for one more break, come back and
talk about standouts individually on defense, stand downs and the
five top tapes from this game.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Drift Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Lots of names on defense to talk about that stood
out in this game from a Dolphins twenty one to
seventeen win over the Saints. We're going to start with
Minka Fitzpatrick. This is one of the best tapes by
a Dolphin all season. Second snap of the game, double
wise to his side. He has to play both forced
defender and wall off the edge, then try to widen him,
but then he plants his flag, causes a pile up
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by going and getting him blocked. The way he attacks
blocks and reroutes, He's gonna bring the business to you,
not let you get to him, and it causes the
other blocks to overrun the entire play. Then the cutback
is not there because we have guys flooding those gaps.
Mika winds up beating the block by himself and then
makes the play. That's a guy that you're gonna ask
later on to cover in the slot to rush the
quarterback from that position, play week snide linebacker and also
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play in the post. In Tampa two in half half
coverage like this guy unreal on Zeke Bigger's a sack.
They run two verticals with an over route and it's
this new in vogue. Look where in the NFL you've
seen this across the league. For Washington Football every Sunday,
where they'll align the receivers in tight or they'll motion
them into the formation and they'll they'll proceed to take
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their route behind the lion of scrimmage, but then get
upfield between the tackle and the guard. It's a way
of trying to sneak him in there and get them
lost in the wash at the lion of scrimmage. But
Minka sees this and up and presses him and knocks
him off the route entirely, then runs trail right in
his hip pocket. Shook has nowhere to escape with good
rush contained and just eats the sack. Truly one of
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the best studied players I've ever watched on tape.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Mika Fitzpatrick. It was that way back in twenty eighteen.
It's this way now.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
These are the notes that I had before his sack fumble,
which honestly was just a perfect angle, timed it well
in relationship to the snap and made the play. Zack
Steeler on the sack fumble, he got doubled and the
design of the defensive call with pulling chop back, he
was like angling across the edge which was a gap
and a half over and he's getting double teamed. Essentially,
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he had no opportunity to make a play there, but
he didn't stop working. He wrote it all the way
through and the ball found him. And that's what effort
does in this game.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He rode the wave and made a play on an
outside zone run. Did a little bit of everything in
this game. But as always for him, the effort was
just unreal. He had two pursuit plays that frankly, no
defensive tackle has any business making on the first two
drives of the game. Just peer determination. That was the
theme of the day up front. A lot of guys,
a lot of players where guys got there through strain,
and I'm excited about that. At four and seven, off
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of a bye week against the Saints, these guys came
to play. That tells me a lot about how the
makeup of this football team is. Right now, Zeke Biggers,
that was you know, that was his sack. Right effort,
double team splits it. Some guys will just take the stalemate.
But he worked and worked and worked and split that
thing and gets rewarded by the edges pushing Shook up
into the pocket and collects the sack. I can't stop
talking enough about Jordan Phillips. I'm not sure he's been
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a more consistent player on tape week to week. Brooks
for sure, Minka, that might be it than Jordan Phillips.
The way he can generate power from different bases is
kind of crazy. There was a Jordan Brooks TfL where
the bat where he back doors his gap, realizes he
misses like the chance wasn't paying off, then gets himself
back into position to play under his man, and still
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without even being perfectly on balance, still gets knocked back
and causes the pile up. I mean, I'm one quarter
into the game and I've got him completely undressing Caesar
Ruiz twice pro bowler, our first round picks.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's Ruiz.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
He has a run stuff later where he rides the
wave one outside zone. They double him, He holds his ground,
then works off the block and makes a tackle A
couple of gaps down. First play the second half, he
long arms and locks out to Lisi Fuaga just suns him,
pops him straight up. I cannot say enough about Jordan Phillips.
This is gonna be a very good player in the
league for a very long time. Kenneth Grant, I think
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we're gonna look back, Phillips had a better rookie year.
But I think we're gonna look back in a year
and be like, it was so obvious this guy was coming.
Why was anybody ever worried about him? His pad level
has gradually gotten better, and there's been a couple of
reps in this game where he kind of pops straight
up and that's where he loses. But he's jacking guys
up the way Jordan does with his power, and he's
got more wiggle and burst. So when he really puts
it together the way those two guys can work together,
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I think you're gonna see a lot of splash plays. I
look at his trajectory with jonasovit Naya and the way
the rest of the class is played. It sure has
me excited about the trajectory of this young foundation. Tyrol
Dotson gets into the positive notes this week. I think
that was his best game by far. He had a
third down breakup where he separate the hands on Juwan Johnson,
outstanding pursuit on a checkdown short of the sticks cut down,
Tyler shook on a quarterback sweep and had the communication
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call on the two point play. Big day for Tyler
Dodson Willie Gay limited snap count, but defeated a block
and got to shook on a sweep. He ran like
three sweeps in this game before his pass breakup and coverage,
which was excellent work. Flexed out against an athletic tight
end Jordan Brooks, business as usual, scraping in tight to
reduce the track run options for the running back. He
can pick up, changing landmarks, new assignments on the fly.
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They jet motioned one play and he chases it, feels
the running back get back inside and condenses the edge
and then engages the edge to make the tackle and
stop right there. He had another one of those blitz
reps one on one against the back where he sends
him to Okachobee Jack Parkman Major League two style, best
not be on the tracks and the train's coming through Son.
He had another stuff where he just flips Fuaga with
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the crossover step man. Every game, this guy does multiple
things that gets you out of your chair. Bradley Chubb
I was prepared to say that it wasn't his best game,
but then he finished, and you could have had a
monster game if he makes three more tackles, because he
had three mess tackles in this game, two TFLs and
one sack, but his sack was great, a pure bull
rush running Kelvin Banks into the ground, and then he
made his best pass rush on the two point play.
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He fakes a spin and puts the left hand into
his chest and turns his back that way. But then,
like it's like the reverse pivot in basketball, just continues
back upfield and Banks gets stuck in the blocks. He
couldn't move, and Chubb had the big hit on Shook
that helped that ball go off target to Mika Fitzpatrick,
Rasul Douglas and Jack Jones. Jones had a rough finish
to the game, but he played well for like fifty
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five minutes. But they were in tight phase for the
most part of the game. I love how they both tackled.
I love how they plastered after the fact, at least
earlier in the game. Shook got some plays off late,
but for ninety percent of it, these guys were all
over out of structure and did a great job within
their rules and then rallying up to tackle on Rasoul's pick.
I've seen him do that in Green Bay and Buffalo.
A whole heck of a lot just great film study,
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knowing where your help is, where he could take a
chance and pay it off of the game changing play.
He's clearly not a high school running back back in
his days because the decision to cut that thing back.
I don't know what he was doing, because he had
a touchdown of the sideline if he can just not
get tackled by Tyler Shook, but he didn't do that.
He also came off of a deep coverage responsibility when
the Saints tried to hold him with a tied end
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on a vertical route, but he had safety help and
I think it would have been trouble if it was
a speed receiver, but it wasn't. So he clamps his
hooks on and throw and then Shook has nowhere to
go and eats a sack. These little things are popping
up on the tape more and more with all the
Dolphins defensive backs and then Jack Jones's coverage and that
third and eight on their field goal drive to make
it nineteen to eleven was as good as it gets.
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But the touchdown throw he like kind of quit on
the play. Got to finish the play, big dog. And
then the Chris Olave drop also that was a bad look.
And if he makes that catch, we're talking about a
different game and a different tape here. Individual misses. I
think Ashton Davis, he reminds me of a seat. Then
throw at quarterback. There's a Devon Vle catch in the
sideline where there's nowhere else to go, and he just
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like let's him get access to the quarterback. And then
also the shook two point sweep run, he's the forced
defender and takes the cheese inside.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Speaking of that play, if he Mela Falmo got totally
lost on that play, I feel similarly about him in
terms of see it and then go. I thought Trader
played well with a limited snap count. That's one of
those ones I don't get. But I'm a dingus, so
what the hell do I know? Chop Robinson had the
stats in this game. The sack was a coverage and
a good job read to working on a reworking a redirect,
you know, praise for that. But he got out of
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his gap, he overran the quarterback, had another off sides
on third and four. So it was up and down
day for Chop. I won't say he was bad, but
up and down to me and then Judon. I'm not
sure I've seen him slip up block this year. If
he gets like, he'll get some walkback on bull rushes,
but by and large, he's not getting off of them.
Snap counts, linebackers and cornerbacks went the distance. JBT, Dot
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Jack and Rusoul seventy two snaps across the board. Minka
missed one snap on that shoulder injury he took. Ashton
played sixty nine snaps. Nice if he played fifty six
and then Trader only played five, but Trader made two
plays in the five reps, so I would I don't know,
We'll see Jason Marshall four snaps. It was a big
nickel game, right, so he didn't get any looks really
besides the four Chubb fifty eight of the seventy two
(34:11):
Chop forty five, Judeon thirty seven, Cam Good one and
he got a pass breakup on that one. Sealer played
fifty one of the seventy two, Grant thirty two, Biggers
thirty one, Phillips twenty two, but Til sixteen and Willie
Gaye played three snaps and he made two plays in
three snaps, So there you go. My top five tapes.
I said Brewer is going to be in here, but
he's not. I'll beg Brewer five B. How about that.
(34:32):
We'll give them one more Mika Fitzpatrick number one, Devon
ah Chant number two, Jordan Brooks number three, Zach Sealer
number four, and then Tyrrel Dotson and Aran Brewer will
share the fifth and final spot. That's gonna be my
time on the podcast today. Wednesday, we'll come back and
talk about playoff scenarios. Playoffs, we'll talk about that. We'll
have a Jets guest on I believe, we'll do the
(34:52):
preview show on Thursday and have our usual football Friday show.
All of that coming this week here as the Dolphins
are still in the mix. We're back in the hunt
baby for now. Until then, you all please be sure subscribe,
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Until next time for Dunk, Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He's coming home.
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