Tour Fires touch stop by Waddle stocked into the end zone of Miami tight pro tide window. They had to get that touchdown on that play. They gave it what it is Up Dolphins and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. Not today's show, it's an All twenty two Tuesday, my favorite day of
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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. 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. Derham Derham 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 too was kind of deciphering between going to the flat, going to the hook, going to the seam, there's a free rusher who is 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 Battle 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 a floater to Durham smythe up the sideline the wheel route was a nice throw. Thought Durham misstime that jump a bit, but Devonte 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 him in an easier, more high
percentage throw. That third down miss on the opening drive was uncharacteristically behind Jalen Waddle and Austin Jackson had an awesome rep here where he's stone walls the first man then passes off and picks up a second block, and the same thing happened for 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 quarterbacks quick release in 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 second quarter, there was a slant to DeVante Parker his first catch of the game, and to Ah 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 up twa. 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 Davante'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 too 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 two 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 in kind of in one motion to a little hot step and then throw us from those flat feet, and I think it cost
him some velocity. That's an area I think two 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 was 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, are 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 Gisicky in the corner of the ends, one 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 back's 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 that like it hits him in the face, So you say he should have caught it, But when the ball was going towards his hands. The DBS hand was right there too, so
tough to make that play. I praised 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 Gatsicky, 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 to A talked about this a little bit, but he's glad they won, but he felt they left some chances out there. 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
two waddle. It's a double over cross deep crossing routes from either side of the formation and Jalen has nothing 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 matchup 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 past protection and onto that ball came out before wild begin to make the cross of the crossing route, but again a little bit better location I think maybe has a bigger play there. On 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 Dolphin's 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 Jalen, but he was
scramping and everything. So they trusted me to go in there and uh know what to do. Um and went out then executed. But that the Giants actually covered it pretty well. Uh til 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 hil Hunt and he he uh threw a great ball and I was able to make the catch. 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 big time. Touched on there. I should say for the Dolphins quarterback to receivers, go ahead and finish up with the two third down throws to ice this game here late Devanta 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 shoulder 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 Devanta 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, a single high safety up top and Ghasicky 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, so 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 Gasicki his best route and catch of the game. Boom baby, let's go.
Jillen 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 in bounds. Some nice nuance there from the ricky 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 what 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 stone 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 brake 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 me 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 rube designed from Davonte Parker.
I just don't know how you cover that. He slow steps off the line 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 two to lead him into the ground to get both the first down past
the sticks, but also protect his receiver. On the Mac Collins 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 designed 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 Mac 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 yeard touchdown if he runs the same
way he did in the Carolina game. As for Davonte 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 grounds, with the concentration, the feet, all of it, but even on the other throws, he just vacuums that thing and it protects it his 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 a really nice run outside for twelve yards. Big Rob Hunt had a downfill block on a linebacker that was terrific, and Jalen 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 forty five and 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 there where they create situations where the running back is one on one at the second 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 bro 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 Rowe 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 Um, 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 compliment of this Dolphin 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. M 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 plays 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 Kwan 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 Kuwan 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 passer 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 defensive turnaround, 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 pass 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 and 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 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 sidesteps and when you see the guard just basically fall over the front of his skis because of that work. Zach Seeler first splash play 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 Giggle. 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 Kwon 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 gain 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 runner, off end run, and Barkley tries to string this thing out, but Geink's tackle attempt forces him to bubble backwards negative two yards, and then here comes a landing Roberts to
cleaning that thing up. On a Kenny Golladay catch early in the second quarter, Van Ginkle 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 that because he's playing so fast right now, you can see forty three playing 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 shooting 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 Ginkel 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 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 glann sneaker on the left or vice versa. 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 a 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
Landing 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 interception 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 land In 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 at the 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 looks 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 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. Xavian 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 x sees this, he gets back and gets depth, He finds the football,
he high points it makes an unreal catch. 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. At 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 Javon 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 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 breakups. 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 a Tonga that is it's the best among all quarterbacks since n 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 Tongua by Loa. 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 passerrating fifteen, his touchdown percentage fift, interception percentage also fifteen. He has the seventeen highest y p A yards per attempt and his sack percentage two A Tonga by Loa 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 and 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 lineman 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 oh six and a touchdown, pass in the short zero to nine yards eighteen twenty one one oh nine and one touchdown.
All those pass ratings were ninety five or better. In the mid range, it was one thirteam if you combine all the throws ten plush yards, nine for fifteen a 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 minaded me 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. P F has him seventy nine. 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 the only one higher 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 route 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 four three yards per route ran. Mac and Ford each caught one pass. They're 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 toungo by lower from PFF Rob Hunt. No pressures allowed. Jesse Davis four pressures allowed.
The rushing direction bests right end off right tackle. There was one carrier for eleven yards as an eleven yard average, but the middle left Jackson and Dieterer, 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 Roe had four apiece wow, Seiler, Phillips, Wilkins, and Roberts had to apiece, and a lot of guys had one. Needham, Y Kwon, Bake, Butler, Duke, and Byron. How about some coverage stats Byron Jones forty eight snaps and coverage forty seven yards allowed. That's very good. Eric Roe forty seven coverage snaps, forty five yards allowed. Nick Needham 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 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 a percent of the work Jillen Waddle leads receivers with fifty three snaps seventy
seven percent of the workload. Davante 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, Myles Gaskin plays forty four 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 Hunter long played ten seeth and 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 Ogba 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 percent. Roberts played thirty five, Riley thirty three, big increased role for him, and egg Von played three. Both Byron and X played every snap all sixty five, need Him thirty eight, Coleman twenty two, and only two safeties had snaps on defense. Holland and Row
both played every single snap. As far as specialists go, Beagle played twenty five Fedulu so Van Gigel in addition to his what was it fifty four defensive snaps also gave you twenty two special team snaps. Holland's 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 the stat review here. Any questions for me, go ahead and
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