All 22 Review, Ball Placement, Big Time Throws, Pass Rush Matching with Coverage, Snap Counts, Stats

the week. We'll look at the fifth straight win from your Miami Dolphins. The offense, the defense, the individual's areas of improvement, the most critical moments in which Miami executed. Plus the stats, the staff counts, ProFootball focus, next gen stats, all the data. We have a busy show here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, as we do here on the Tuesday show talking about the All twenty two.

Let's go ahead and dive right in sit hut and we're going twelve personnel package early in this game that featured Preston Williams and savan Akhmed flanking to a tongue of Byloa with Durham Smith and Mike Gasicki as the balanced inline tight ends that means on either side of the formation, and then you get an Albert Wilson jet sweep pop pass on the run. Thought he was a

little bit indecisive attacking the whole. But the idea here I'm looking at is the mix of personnel, the utilization of this pretty unique skill set of the Miami Dolphins. I think we're seeing more and more of it here as we go along, and it makes me very curious to see what they cook up for this final four game stretch with a week off to kind of put some more tendency breakers self scouting into the fold and

get all that stuff accomplished. Also, I think we saw maybe some jokes about this earlier in the season with this deep tie end room, but it finally happened. Wildcat with four personnel, that's one back Miles Gaskin, with four tight ends. They got Hunter long Seethan Carter, Durham Smith and Mike get Sick all four active tight ends that were dressed on Sunday. We're in the game for this very crucial four or five yard pickup to help set up that third and short, which later went as a

touchdown from Tuah Tunga by Loa to Isaiah Ford. Speaking of Tah, let's go ahead and get to his game. I thought the ball handling and the ability to get to multiple reads throughout his progression were very important in this game, on top of ideal ball placement, which got away from him a couple of times in this game.

We'll talk about that, but for the most part, once again one of the more accurate quarterbacks in the National Football League, he was accurate again, and that ball placement does so much to create yards after the catch, not just on slants where you see guys, you know you talk about the Wattle fifty seven yard catch last week.

It's not just those. It's the three, four or five yard hitch routes, the speedouts where he puts the ball in the outside shoulder and leads the runner into extra yardage, which on a third and four can give you the difference between coming up short. We'll talk about that in one play and picking up a first down. We'll talk about that in another play. But very right off the

top of the very first play, of the game. A couple of others as we went along we saw this I thought were indicative of this false narrative I've seen out there, and the Fox broadcast actually mentioned this in

their kind of lead into the game. How the Giant's focus was to squat on two was first read and the idea that he can't execute a progression for some reason is odd to me because Nick Saban had an entire episode on ESPN Detail where he talked about two of going through full field reads and getting to his third and fourth progression into the read, and how there are so few college quarterbacks that could do this and

could ever do this at that level. And on the very first play you get Albert Wilson motion across the formation. Two has the round option in RPO with gasking from the pistol, but he keeps that mesh point pulls that thing out and you see it. Drham Durham Smith get turned free down the seam into that second level, but there's a safety capping it over the top and it's gonna be a headache ball if he throws it, so

he does not. But because two was kind of deciphering between going to the flat, going to the hook going to the seam. There's a free rusher who was trying to process all of that at the same time, and all these ball fakes get him to leave his feet and creates a passing lane to get the football out wide to Wattle. And that pump also influenced the flat defender to give Wattle room to make a run after the catch for nine yards. Also on that play, really

good blocking up front, solid double teams prevented penetration. That's gonna be a theme throughout this review of the Dolphins win over the Giants. I thought the floater to Durham smythe up the sideline the wheel route was a nice throw. Thought Durham misstime that jump a bit, but DeVante Parker came clean over the middle behind the second level linebackers who pulled up on the play fake, thought too had a chance to make that RiPP put have been an easier,

more high percentage throw. That third down miss on the opening drive was un characteristically behind Galan Waddle and Austin Jackson had an awesome rep here where he stone walls the first man then passes off and picks up a second block and the same thing happened from Michael Dieter thought both those guys played pretty well in this game on the instances where they did have to go to more of a traditional drop back game, because you know, basically a fifth or a fourth of this offense is

is pretty well mitigated by the quick game with the quarterback's quick release and the play call. There was another quick hitter in this game to Mike get Sicky where he got hit immediately. I'm sure you guys recall what I'm talking about, and it's a two man route combination, a flattened hook and Devontae checks up on the hook up route. All that means the hook zones the middle portion of the field, like five or six yards off

the football. They call that the hook zone, where you know the hook defender defends that area and you can try to kind of capitalize against zone coverage in that area.

So Devantae checks up on the hook and Mike runs the flat and there was a cover to look there with an over the top safety in the underneath corner, and I thought maybe the corner behind that, but behind that flat route, a seven route was opened for an opportunity there, but it's not and it goes for a short game there on the side and quarter there was a slant to Davanta Parker his first catch of the game, and to A wants him in the first window, but he doesn't have it, so he rolls left and fakes

the ball to the flat and once again the free defender is influenced by the ball fake of Ta. So it's not just the eyes and the hips and the feet and the stuff before he throws the football, it's the use of the football as a pump fake to get defenders off their feet, to get them to take false steps, whatever the case may be. And then after that he comes right back into that second window to

Parker for a catch and a first down. And these details will never really get talked about by you know, your general mainstream type of coverage, but they matter so much. And that's why I think that some folks out there are missing the boat on this quarterback because they aren't seeing those fine details that really make a difference between winning and losing. And it's on a play by play basis,

kind of like Devanta's next catch. We talked about this already, a seemingly innocuous five yard hitch route on third and two, and James Bradberry, one of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League, is playing off coverage. He has eyes in the quarterback. He knows they want to go short, and he thinks he might have a chance to drive inside for a pick six here. But not so fast. My friend to a throws this ball wide, which spins Parker not just away from play on the football, but

from any kind of hit. It gives him a free run to the sidelines. You don't gotta take a hit. You have a catching a conversion to move the sticks up the sideline. He did it again too, plays later to Jalen Waddle on a hook up from the field side slot, and to put him in between a pocket of Giants defenders right out of harm's way. That's gonna make receivers make more better, tougher catches for you. The short hot throw to Albert Wilson on third down, and

there wasn't much there for him to work with. But I thought he could have planted and driven the ball to get more behind it on that throw because he's slid and kind of in one motion does a little hot step and then throws from those flat feet, and I think it costs him some velocity. That's an area I think too it can maybe work on over the bye week is finding more free space in the pocket to set those feet and throw with more velocity on

some of those throws. That's the only time I ever see his arm kind of lose velocity on those particular throws. Then some good stuff here the first touchdown drive man, the ball was out, the ball is on target. It was meeting guys right as they hit the top of the route, very precision like. He completes eleven of twelve passes on the drive, and I think that's where you

really saw him kind of settle into the game. They're all different kinds of platforms, arm angles, and yet the ball is right where it needs to be each and every time. There was a concern about his height coming out. I don't really get into that. I don't care. As long as you can play, you can play. But you would think for a six ft quarterback that he would have all kinds of passes swatted back in his face of the line, right remember Ryan Tannehill back in his

rookie season. It happened over and over again. It was six ft four, but two what does a good job to manipulate the coverage and the defensive line with those ball fakes and the footwork in the pocket, and he's very adept at finding those passing lanes and adjusting to get it through, said Lane. I loved the read on the past to Mike Gatsicki in the corner of the end zone that hit him in the helmet. He was even he was leaving to a lays it out there

and it was just beyond the defensive backs reach. But I won't blame Mike here because the defensive back's hand is directly between his two hands, and that's tough to make a catch like it hit him in the face, so you say he should have caught it. But when the ball was going towards his hands, the DB's hand was right there too, so tough to make that play.

I praise the location of two in the first half, the third down ball early in the third quarter to Jalen Waddle where he comes up short of the sticks and the punt team comes on. That's a good example of what happens when the ball does not take the receiver on an out route to the sideline. Ball placement

is so critical, both good and bad. On the very next play, a crossing route to Mike GATSICKI a dime over the top of that second level linebacker trying to get depth, but it's too late, but the football is dropped. I think across the whole offense and TOA talked about this a little bit that he's glad they won, but he felt they left some chances out there. I thought this play was a very embodiment of that type of game, pretty evident on tape. Something to work about here going

down the stretch. Something to work on going down the stretch. I'm flying baby. Jalen Waddles drop was a nice catch, rock throw right into the run. After the catch, he rips another strong one to Wilson on the next play, but Julian Love makes a great play to put his hands on it and prevent a third and eight conversion. But on that Wattle one, he I think he was gone. I think he was going for for a house call

on that one. But it's okay. We got one soon after the twenty five yard rip to Waddle It's a double over cross, deep crossing routes from either side of the formation and Jalen hashing, but green Grass out in front of him to run to and two has that football come out early, great timing. Now the throw could have been there a little bit more out in front to keep him running maybe, but the pass pro was terrific. And I'm a huge fan of these split zone looks

where you fake the handoff. Tight end comes across the formation to join the running back on the same side of the formation, and they go up and chip the outside tackle while the rest of the line slides the opposite direction. So you get better and more favorable one on one matchups and you take on their edge rusher with a two on one look, and that on top of the possibility of a possible false step laterally, it

just helps out the line so much. That's been a big part of these game plans recently, helping the offensive line of pass protection and onto a that ball came out before Waddle begin to make the cross of the crossing route, but again a little bit better location I think maybe has a bigger play there. The same drive, the little flip out wide to Albert Wilson going in towards the end zone. Man two arrides that mesh point for quite a minute there, and it influences the edge

who had one around the outside. To me, that's two is best trade in this particular game. His ability to manipulate the defense, you have to imagine that's very frustrating for a defense try to defend that also with a quick set up and throw where he's not set non ideal mechanics, but still he manages to put the ball out wide, which turns Albert Wilson into a cutback for a nice catch and run. Again, placement is so very critical on the Isaiah four touchdown just a couple of

plays later. As a matter of fact, you know what Isaiah talked about this in his press conference. Let's just go ahead and go to Isaiah to talk about the touchdown catch. They really put the Dolphins out in front by Lomon points in that fourth quarter. Let's go ahead and hear from the Dolphins receiver. It was weird because I hadn't ripped that play all week. Um, it's just

something that we put in the game plan. Um. And uh it was for Dalen, but he was happening and everything, so they trusted me to go in there and uh know what to do. Um, and when out then executed.

But that the Giants actually covered it pretty well, uh until I did a extremely good job buying some time and kind of deceiving the defense with his eyes a little bit and gave me up time to boil bag right at the front Pilo Hunt and he threw a great ball and I was able to make Now he's not going to talk about it himself, I'll go ahead and do it for him. Great toe tap and awareness to make sure he knew where his feet was before

making the catch. Attempt to make sure that it counted when he secured that thing and pulled it in good time or a big time touched on there. I should say for the Dolphins quarterback to receiver go ahead and finish up with the two third down throws to ice this game here. Late DeVante Parker talked about this on Monday as well, said he loves how to recognizes one on one situations and gives his guy a chance, and

that's what this was. The Giants had bracketed the field side trips with zone and then man on the backside to the boundary to Davante Parker, who got on the upfield show older of that corner and turned him into a full sprint to catch up to the potential deep ball, which then allows him to slam on the brakes come

back to the football. It's a terrific route. The throw is just as good and even better catch from Davante moving that or bringing that thing into his body away from his body while contorting towards the sideline, getting the feet into the same time then too, Mike. This one was also very nice. The Giants switched up to man free and they pressed across the board man on man coverage, single high safety up top, and Gassicky stacks his man and blocks him out. It's a four man pass rush

to Ah throws a perfect ball. Had to do it right, Go ahead and try it. Okay, I'll blash. There's a perfect pass, but not before sliding up in the pocket to mitigate a little bit of pressure off the edge, throwing it in rhythm. Really nice touch pass. That's a dime to put the game away. Great job, young man, and again Mike Gasicky his best route and catch of

the game. Boom baby, let's go, Jillian waddle the second catch, the toe tap on the sideline, short motion to stack gets himself a little bit of a chip on the defender just to kind of get his route set up there and then he shows his number two, plants his feet and bounds some nice nuance there from the rookie receiver. More veteran type work from him, and the location is very very good, just as it was all day on those perimeter throws away from danger but still in reach

for his wide receiver. The second and ten first down conversion on that opening drive, he just sets down the in between a giant zone. He presses outside, and this is why I like about this play. He presses outside and you see the corner get with and immediately turned his butt to the sideline, which the time indicates zone coverage, and he flattens it right back in behind that curl hook defender at the sticks, and the ball is out right when he hits the break and right on him

as he turns to the football. That type of stuff to force the cornerback to show their hands early only helps to I D coverage post snap. That's why one of the many many things about Wattle you have to love, and we talk about meat on the bone, just watch him run all of his reps, because even when the ball is not going there, you see some of his best reps in the game the Parker first back shoulder ball. They try to reroute waddle with a linebacker in addition

to the coverage he has by the cornerback. He gets on top of the reroute, completely sheds it, stacks the slot, and breaks that thing off inside. He's open. Obviously we've got sixteen yards on that play, but he's open for a potential big game there as well. Very pretty work. His third down conversion on the first touchdown drive towards the end of the half, he takes a slow release and then a quick explosion step inside with a nice little robe designed from Davonte Parker. I just don't know

how you cover that. He slow steps offline of scrimmage and basically he sets that cornerback up for that kind of I have a headstart because I'm moving and you have to react to me. With his speed and explosiveness, you can't react fast enough. And I love the location from Tah to lead him into the ground to get both the first down past the sticks, but also protect his receiver. On the mac Hollins touchdown, you see both the flat and deep defender come up and take the

cheese on the flat to waddle. They're focused on him. Awesome play design to play off of that focus and sneak that receiver in back to the back pylon. That's a very good throw from two to the back corner and makes a tough catch for six. And we saw to A, or rather Wattle get really upset after that Loan drop. I have to say, I think it's because he probably thought he was going to score on that play. The safety is coming straight downhill. Parker's man who's right

there as well, doesn't have an angle. If he can run at full speed, which I think he could have, because the ball was right on the money. I think it might have been a sixty one yard touchdown if he runs the same way he did in the Carolina game. As for Davante, Parker kind of covered his game a little bit, a little bit, but he really caught everything.

I was so impressed with. Obviously the body control on the sideline grabs, with the concentration, the feet, all of it, but even on the other throws, he just vacuums that thing and it protects it. First quarterback and that first back shoulder throw, just nice timing to see it, feel it break it off at the time of arrival, and

again terrific location on that ball. Thought. Savon Akhmed had the best run of the day, nice patience and a great jump cup after pressing inside to help Jesse Davis sustained a block and then really nice run outside for twelve yards. Big Rob Hunt had a downfill block on a linebacker that was terrific, and Jylen Waddle also had a nice outside block on that run. Austin Jackson I think continues to get better. I mentioned this in his pass pro mentioned his passport, I should say on the

very next play. After that play we talked about the next series, he catches a double team with Michael Dieter. It's perfectly played hip to hip, shoulders shoulder, and he climbs up to the second level and blocks out the sun on that second level linebacker. Him and deeeder Man. We'll talk about this in the stats portion. They were getting some push, a nice seven yard pop on that drive to end the first half, and a nice call

to run the ball there. With three time outs in plus territory, a minute four or five from the clock, you both take time off the clock and get yourself into a second and short, which is obviously a very fortunate position. To be in. Later on, he gets himself a pancake on a short gas and run. I thought he was driving guys off the football pretty continuously and consistently throughout the course of this game. In general, I think the doubles on this line are really good across

the board. There's lots of opportunities that where they create situations where the running back is one on one at the set at level with a linebacker, and hopefully we can start winning some more of those matchups. Hunter long, I think there's something there with him In the run blocking game. Early on, he had a really good rep on Leonard Williams, which he did enough to keep him at bay while Robert Hunt pulled backside to help wipe

him out on a double. That's a tough ask for a tight end, though much less a first year player against a guy Leonard Williams, She's played like a hundred and seven straight games in his pro career, keeping one on number eighty four in the run blocking game. Going forward here and then Rob Hunt really good day in pass pro. I liked how when Dexter Lawrence would try to one gap him and shoot upfield for a quick run stuff or even a pass rush. He would just

take him where he wanted to go. He didn't lose power against him, and he would just basically use that speed against him and ran him out of the play completely. A nice game here from Big Rob. I also like how Hunter Long got north and south. I just skipped this note, but on his one reception in the game, the way he got north and south after the catch. Was impressed by that good stuff there from the rookie.

Let's move on to the defense here, as it was a pretty busy one as pretty much everybody got in the notes here because of production across the board, but as a whole the way they rallied and tackled all game long. Personally, I love this usage of Nick need Um and Eric row at their safety slash nickel cornerback

positions slot cornerback positions. They've really stepped up to fill the role slash void left by Brandon Jones and his absence last couple of games, as you have seen a big increase in safety snaps for Nick need Hum, which then puts Eric Rowe in more of a slot cornerback position. So he's playing a little bit of both finding his way under the football field, not just in sub packages here, but also in base and that's kind of the complement of this Dolphins defense and the cross train they have

done all really since Brian Flores got here. The more you can do, the more you can help your team, and I think that's a big reason why the Dolphins kind of survived the attrition of a season so well and have a seventeen and six post Halloween record here under Brian Flores. Guys go down, next man up. It's a big mentality down here, and they execute it very well. I think one of the greatest elements of this defense right now is the communication between the second and third

level of the defense. The way they pass off without missing a beat and then they rally up and tackle on the short game. It's just so hard to beat this defense with the way they're playing. You have to stay patient, you have to try to compete on first downs. More on that in just a moment, and if you come up short on those first down players and get behind schedule, it unlocks all the games and complex rush

packages this defense has at their disposal. But the shirt tackling and sound communication within that second level sure is a big key for this defense right now. And cutting down those four or five yard plays, not letting me go out the back door for ten eleven, twelve yards and first downs. And say Kwon Barkley in this game, he consistently had to stop his feet and change direction

upon approaching the line of scrimmage. In Miami, played that bare front which is going to cover up the center and the two guards with Ray Kwan on the nose seeler and Wilkins at the two or two eye techniques that's either on the head up over the guard or on the inside shoulder of the guard, and they just got no push the Giants on those looks. Again, more on the first down defense and run defense coming up.

But Andrew Van Ginkle also in those looks plays a hell of an edge to kind of rush the pastor play and coverage play the run. And so is Jerome Baker with a kind of evolving role playing some more weak side edge basically going back to that Ravens game back in week ten, and these looks and you can really see his speed and ability to cut down angles really come into play in this position. This staff right now is pushing all the right buttons on how to

use these weapons on defense. And again more on the

first down defensive success here in a minute. But there's a run play second and ten, early second quarter, and you just have Eric Row, Jerome Baker, and Christian Wilkins to a man, all attacking their blocks and that allows them to stack them up and again Barkley has nowhere to go, and then Xavian Howard comes in and sticks his face and the fan to the toughness, the tackling, the beating blocks have all been keys to this Dolphins defense if turner out and I thought they schemed up

pressure so well from about the second quarter on. Baker has multiple free runs that create pressure on the quarterback throughout the course of the second half, and his fourth quarter past rush really took off in this game. One other thing I really like is how they can load up with four defensive backs and their seven man front and compete against bullyball, or they can go to their

seven defensive backpackage and do it there as well. They're they're very well versed in multiple looks and very deep in all those spots. Some of the individuals ray Kwon Davis kicked off the first two plays of the first two drives, shed shedding a tackle or a block rather and making a run stop, then stacks up another one later on to help out his friends. He's playing with so much power right now, and he's kind of the one that gets the least amount of stat production here,

but he consistently plays well. And a strong nose tackle here from Miami Christian Wilkins. It's more of the same for him. He stays on balance, the feat stay active, his hands are in position to disengage and make plays, whether it's at the point against a power running team or down the line making you know, seven or eight crossover steps against his own Such a solid player against

every kind of look you can throw at him. He also picked up a TfL or I guess it was a no gain in the third quarter by completely dismissing a polling guard. He swipes the hands down and side steps him. When you see the guard just basically fall over the front of his skis because of that work. Zach Seeler first splash player of the game for him

was on the Javon Holland near interception. He just chucks his man and gives himself a free line, a free run to put a big hit on Mike Glennan the very next drive as a four technique, he has an absolutely devastating swim move on the guard, who again stumbles forward out over his skis. After a heavy handed slap to the back, Steiler hits Glennon and forces a throwaway on that play, staying up front Adam Butler, his sack

was awesome. First of all. Jalen Phillips inside pressure completely removes the guard from the equation, and Butler just waits for that pick and comes around the edge and explodes downhill, showing that first step quickness to put a big shot on the quarterback for a big time sack and a great celebration following up that as well. Andrew Van Geigle, what a game he had, I thought one of the

best games of his entire career. He starts off with a shoe string tackle on safe Kawon Barkley on a screen pass where he might have been able to get around that corner and move the sticks. Instead, it goes for a no game as they had just gotten to plus territory as well, so kind of a crucial points

type of drive right there. The very next drive, he works so hard to stay on the upfield shoulder of the tight end on an off tackle run or off end run, and Barkley tries to string this thing out, but Gink's tackle attempt forces him to bubble backwards negative two yards, and then here comes a Landon Roberts to

clean that thing up. On a Kenny Golladay catch early in the second quarter, Van Geigle loops inside and you see that lateral agility and the ability to cut down the angle to put a good shot on the quarterback. I just noticed this because he's playing so fast right now. You can see forty three playing on a different speed than he was earlier in the season, I think. And then a drive later, it looks like he tries to steal one by kind of sho across the face of

the tackle. And that's one of those things where you play within the scheme, but you start to get more comfortable within the scheme and then you can start taking some more chances. Maybe it was by design, but it looked to me like he tried to take a chance here and give himself a big play. And he gets there and Barkley sidesteps out of it, but not far enough, as Van Ginkl lays out and makes another run stop right there. Pretty Much every play he made in the

run game was right at the line. Had a few quarterback hits as well, so we had a fantastic game for Andrew. Van Ginkle also covered it well. Jalen Phillips's first sack Byron Jones had tremendous coverage on the read that Glennon wanted to go to, but the closing speed of Phillips really stood out on this sack. He saw his line to the quarterback and he took off and Glennon could not get through the tight coverage. The downfield reads quick enough and he has to eat that sack.

On the very next play. He does a great job of staying true to his rush lane. You can tell that he wants to disengage and was ready to do it, but because of a nice little step up window they had given him Mike Glennon, he doesn't want to, you know, disengage right and then have glenn sneak around the left or vice versa. Uh. So, he didn't choose the wrong direction, just kept pushing the tackle into the quarterback and then once Mike Glennon made his choice, he comes off the

block and gets there. He took the drive over and basically wiped out that entire possession and gave Miami great field position on the other end on the next drive. Emmanuel Ogba didn't have tons of chances in the pass rush game. Here they chipped in, they doubled him, but he really impacted the game that way. But also his run defense off the edge of Stout. Once again, Jerome

Baker mentioned him off the top of this segment. Here in the first quarter, he has a really nice rep against a now route which is a catch the football with the quarterback and get it out of your hands quickly where he gets wide and that forces Darius Slate into bubble and change direction for a loss on the play. And again his fourth quarter pass rush was ferocious, consistent pressure in that period. I thought Duke Riley filled well in the running game all game long. He's taken on

a bigger role here and played very well. A land and Roberts same deal with him. He played so aggressive in this game and was the freeman in the gap often. I know he wants that inner option opportunity back because he did a great job getting depth getting to his landmark. You then see his head whip around and locate the route right next to him. He breaks on it but

just cannot quite squeeze the football. But a big game from a landing Roberts Sam ego Von has a crucial pressure on a third down in completion, running the pipe as the looper off a game where Adam Butler kind of set that pick and creates a lane. As eg Van comes from the three technique, it loops around inside for a pressure on the quarterback. And the second dary Eric Rowe got to play on the now route out wide to Darius Slayton on drive number two where he

comes from depth and makes an open field tackle. He looked so fast on that play. The very next play they sneak one behind him, and if one more step of depth, could have gotten the defense off on third down and really helped flip the field earlier in the game. But that was about as much as the Giants got cooking and Eric Row I thought played very well. We

talked about the run defense off the top. He talked about this openly back in two thousand nineteen, two thousand and twenty about how far he's come or how far he had to go against the run in his transition to safety. I see a really confident and aggressive player in the way he attacks things. He kind of plays the linebacker mentality down in the mess, and it's showing up for him here in recent weeks Exavian Howard on

the pick. You can see the corner route that's supposed to design to pull Xavian Howard down off deep coverage with him and Javon Holland, but Mike Gland loads up and takes a shot anyway, and right when ex sees this, he gets back and gets depth, He finds the football, he high points it, makes an unreal catch. It. The way he makes those catches, you just do not see

that very often from a defender. And throughout the course of this game, consistently good coverage where he not only is in position but disrupts the route and eventually the timing. And I think it's a big reason why when quarterbacks go after him he has such a high propensity for interceptions.

Byron Jones a lot of the same here. I like the way he presses the receiver into decisions and into their routes quickly, and because of his long speed, he can kind of pin them to the perimeter, get his eyes back to the quarterback and then he has the recovery speed to get vertical if he has to, or drive back down the stem. Another big game for Jones and X and then Javon Holland the speed to the quarterback as a blitzer. That first pressure on Mike Glennon.

He was moving and it made Glennon pay for letting that route develop a little bit and hang onto the ball a little bit and take a big shot there from Javan Holland. Literally the next player on the next drive or the next play, which is on the next drive, he's reading Mike Glenn's eyes and a crosser off play pass and he drives on that thing, drops the shoulder,

makes a clean hit to separate the football. Seems like every week this guy comes up with a textbook level hit on the near pick with he an X and the end zone. This time he he goes right as Mike Glennon starts to throw the football and gets himself in position to make that play to make a pick. But there were six hands in the equation with the receiver and X, so it goes down as a pass breakup. So that's your film review. Let's go ahead and do

the stats now. From this game. I had to put some counting stats, some volume stats in here, because there's some pretty impressive ones this week, and his passer rating splits in the fourth quarter to itsngvolo. That is, it's the best among all quarterbacks since when stat had that's as far back as they go. It's one on nine point seven, the best over a twenty eight year period for Tongue by Lowa. On the season, he ranks second in completion percentage seventy point nine and eight and total

QBR at fifty eight point one. His completion percentage is second, his total QBR is eight right now, his passer rating fifteen, his touchdown percentage fifteen, his interception percentage also fifteen. He has the seventeenth highest y p A yards per attempt and his sack percentage two a. Tongue by Loah is sacked the sixth lowest rate in the National Football League.

Jalen Waddle is tied for second in the NFL, not among rookies, among all receivers with eighties six grabs, He's fourteenth and receiving yards Jalen Phillips is tied for eleventh and sacks. Phillips Emmanuel Ogba and Andrew Van Gigel are all top fifteen in quarterback hits. Miami is allowing currently five point eleven five point one one yards per play on first down. That's tenth best in the NFL this season.

Since Week nine, the start of the winning streak, their tops at four point one nine yards per first down play. That early down success teas up the splash plays later in the series, as Emmanuel Ogba nineteen QB hits, Andrew Van Gingle eighteen, Jalen Phillips with sixteen, again all in the top fifteen. The Dolphins also have three players in the top twenty and passes defense. Xavian Howard has fourteen, Emmanuel Ogba has nine. There's no other defensive linemen in

that category. Javon Holland also has nine. Holland leads all safeties not rookies, all safeties and QB pressures with fifteen. He's also tied for third among all safeties not rookies with nine passes defense. Some Pro Football Focus numbers two on throws twenty plus yards, one for two twenty five yards in the ten to nineteen yard range, eight for thirteen, a buck o six and a touchdown. Pass in the short zero to nine yards eighteen for one one oh

nine and one touchdown. All those pass ratings were ninety five. Are better in the mid range. It was one third team. If you combine all the throws ten plush yards nine for fifteen hundred and thirty one yards and a touchdown and the Dolphins dropped free ball, so twelve for fifteen

on target balls. There on throws ten plush yards under pressure, four for six forty three yards when blitzed, eight for twelve seventy four yards and a tuddy when he was kept clean twenty six for thirty five with two oh one two touchdowns, and p F credits Miami with four drops, So again kept clean thirty of thirty five on target throws on the season. His adjusted completion percentage actually ranks the same as his actual completion percentage. PF has him

at seventy nine percent. That stat wipes away all the drops, so he's on target four out of five of his throws. That's not bad. Kirk Cousins is the only one high in the NFL right now. Receiverstavante Parker called all five of his targets, that's twelve point one yards per target one point nine four yards per out run number two yards is about where you want to be on that stat. Jalen Waddle nine for eleven for nine yards per target, two point for three yards per route ran. Mac and

Ford each caught one passed. They were both touchdowns. Mike ga Sicky seven for ten ten yards per target and one point three five yards per route ran and pressures allowed. Liam Eichenberg, Austin Jackson, and Michael Dieter all allowed one apiece. That sack where Jackson didn't get over enough before on the green dog blitz, they gave him the sack. The other sack went to two a tongue by lower from PFF Rob Hunt. No pressures allowed. Jesse Davis four pressures allowed.

The rushing direction Best's right end off right tackle, there was one carrier for eleven yards at an eleven yard average, but the middle left. Jackson and Dieter, who I thought played fantastic in this game in the running game, had a four point oh average. Defensively, Phillips leads the way with five pressures. Jerone Baker has four, Adam Butler has three, Seiler, Wilkins, and Van Ginkel all have two. Apiece. Javon holland Sam Ego, Von Duke, Riley, and Eric Rowe all had one apiece.

As far as run stops go, Van Ginkel and Row had four apiece, Wow Seiler, Phillips, Wilkins and Roberts had two apiece, and a lot of guys had one need hum ra Kwon Bake, Butler, Duke and Byron. How about some coverage stats Byron Jones forty eight snaps and coverage forty seven yards loud. That's very good. Eric Roe forty seven coverage snaps, forty five yards allowed. Nick need Um

twenty eight coverage snaps forty three yards allowed. How about these two Xavian Howard forty eight coverage snaps Javon Hall and forty five coverage snaps goose egg for both no yards allowed, no catches allowed. Next Gen has two at a two point five time to throw. That's the second quickest this year in the National Football League behind Ben Roethlisberger. His seven teen point eight percent aggressive percentage, which tracks at the catch point a defender being within one yard

of the receiver. His aggressive rate is the sixth highest. His completion above expected is plus three point two percent that's also sixth best in the National Football League. Some snap counts here quarterback in offensive line all went wire to wire. They played sixty nine snaps. Nice that's of the work Jillen Waddle leads receivers with fifty three apps,

seventy seven percent of the workload. Tavante Parker plays forty nine back in his return, Albert Wilson plays forty snaps on the game, Isaiah Ford had fourteen, Preston Williams eleven, and Mac Hollands nine snaps. At running back, Miles Gaskin plays forty four percent of the workload. Savan akmed gets an increase after Patrick Laird goes down. He plays twenty two snaps. Laird has the two at tight end, Mike Sick forty six snaps. That's sixty seven percent of the workload.

Durham Smith forty two. Hunter Long played ten Seethan Carter played three. On defense, Christian Wilkins thirty seven snaps. That's fifty seven percent of the workload. Davis thirty four, Sealer thirty three, Butler thirty three. All those guys giving you a lot of snaps in this game. Off the edge, Van Ginkle leads the way with fifty four snaps, a three percent of the workload. Emmanuel Ogbad plays thirty eight, Phillips twenty nine, and Vince Beagle two. At linebacker, Jerome

Baker missed I believe, let's see two snaps. He played sixty three in the game. That's nine seven percent. Roberts played already five, Riley thirty three, big increased role for him, and eg Von played three. Both Byron and X played every snap all sixty five, need him thirty eight, Coleman twenty two, and only two safety's had snaps On defense.

Holland and Row both played every single snap. As far as specialists go, Beagle played twenty five federalum so Van Gigel in addition to his what was it fifty four defensive snaps, also gave you twenty two special team snaps. Hollands, egg Von, Riley and Carter all played eighteen apiece. Eggbo played seventeen. Smythe and red Wine had fifteen special team

snaps in this game. Should we scan the social I was going to, but it seems pretty harmonious out there, So let's go ahead and punt that to next week. Sixty five yards out of here, just like a Michael Pollardi career long punt like he had in the game on Sunday. All right, that's gonna be my time on the film review of the stat review here. Any questions for me, go ahead and hit me up on Twitter

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