All 22 Review, Big Time Throws, Waddle's Routes, OL Improving, Linebackers Making Plays, Versatile Defense Sets Tone

edition of the Drivetime Podcast. I am your host, as I am every single day here to bring you your daily dose every single day Travis Wingfield and on today's show, it's all twenty two review, not a Tuesday, but rather in all twenty two Monday, we're finishing up the Ravens win before we turn the page here and it starts with the tape, the numbers, the snap counts, you guys know, the drill plus will scan the soul sioal all of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the

Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. So it's Sunday, a little before noon. The F one race coming up, a whole slate of NFL action. My first Sunday off to watch it all. I'm a little bit excited about it. If you haven't checked out the top news story up on Miami Dolphins dot com, please go do that tons of good information and insight there for you guys on Thursday's win and this Dolphins football team ten weeks into the season, and you guys know what

time it is. It's the All twenty two review. Had a great time watching this film, especially on the defensive side. And you know these podcasts typically on the Tuesday podcast, which again is a little bit earlier this week, I talk really fast through these things because I find myself getting more and more excited as I detail the information that I have gone back and found for y'all to put onto the podcast. So stay with me. Let's go ahead and run through this thing. The offense, the defense,

the numbers, all that fun stuff. And we start on the offensive side of the football. Just a few of the plays we're looking at here, and I want to talk about some of the play sequencing because I think the deep shot to Albert Wilson, the blown coverage late in the game that helped the Dolphins put this game away for sixty four yards from Tunga Voloa to Wilson.

I think it was a variation of multiple plays throughout the game, and I could be wrong on this, but if you watch the Adam shaheen screen down around the goal line. That's a bunch of rhymes. Early in the first half, he goes in motion, Wilson does then runs that same replace route where he kind of just angles that motion up towards the perimeter right behind the wide receiver who clears the space out for him. But the

first time around, Baltimore has it covered. Later Tongue Bola's first play in the game, after replacing an injured Jacoby Brissette, he comes out of the pistol, Albert goes in motion again, and this time they're late to get over there, and I'm thinking, I wonder if that's what they saw to say, Hey, if we do this one more time, maybe they take the cheese on this, this possible jet sweep, this possible inside handoff, especially especially late in the game when the

ray Wins might be thinking this Dolphins off fence is gonna want to kill some clock and trust that defense. But they didn't do that. And that's my favorite part of this entire game, probably of the entire season, was getting aggressive, go win the game with your offense. I'm a huge proponent of that and I absolutely love to see it in this game and off of play sequencing no less fantastic work by the Dolphin's coaching staff. Now the long past to Shahem another one of these instances

I've talked about on the podcast before. You guys know, I have my preferences, and this is just Travis Wingfield sitting in this podcast studio talking about what he sees in a football field. But one of my personal preferences is this particular look here another instance of scheming up a nice deep shot with good past protection which Max protection with was I believe seven guys in past pro maybe eight guys in this particular look. But again third

and short going deep. You know how much I love that. It's great high percentage throws. As far as deep throws goes, You're never gonna get a higher percentage throw than third and short or fourth and short on those instances. And this time Shaheen just goes up and makes a fifty fifty rebound on a log ball that was over the top of Chuck Clark, one of our focuses of the preview show earlier in the week, and he took a while to get through the jam, but it just didn't

matter because the pass pro was so good. So that's gonna be a theme throughout this podcast. These big plays, which they usually are, where a great indicator of all eleven guys getting their job done. How about some more offensive line protection work on the Mike GHASICKI drop slash Marlin Humphrey pass breakup. That's a third and nine play on the second drive. I'll let you be the judge whether or not it's a drop or a p BU.

I tend to lean PBu. I think when defensive back separates your hands or puts his hands in the football, that indicates a pass breakup. But on this play, the Dolphins offensive line effectively picked up a seven man blitz. How much do you love to hear that seven rushers come, No one gets home. And mac Hollands on that play as well, ran a beautiful curl route little curl slash dig where he takes a couple of steps inside towards the curl zone. But that cat blitz got around the

running back off the outside. Patrick Lair in the situation aation for a QB hit, so the ball had to come out earlier to Mike. But on that play, mac Holland's a nasty route, and that was a theme throughout this game for a particular receiver. We'll get to that in just one second. I love the way they found to get clean pockets in multiple looks. Like we know the past, protection has been an issue at times this season,

and there were some struggles again in this game. We know about the outside tackle pressure, which we'll hear about later on from both the left and right side, and pass pro wasn't great in this game. But they found a way to scheme up these really clean pockets for these guys Jacobe or two ah to take their shots. And there's a play action shot on the first drive.

It's a slot fade to Mike that went incomplete, but they pull Robert Hunt and then Liam and Austin hit a double team to steal off the field side uh the same side the running back is on Miles Gaskin. And they did it again later to open the drive in the first half that started the ten yard line. The first real bad field position of the game. You get a clean pocket, the dig opens up and there was just a perfect line of side, a perfect patch

protection there for the quarterback. And on this particul their play, I thought there was a missedread. You get a dig route from Preston Williams. The linebackers suck in the outside safety and Cover two is giving inside leverage, which means that his buttons to the sideline and he wants the route to go inside over to his help. And Miami did a good job again with the route combination to use a backside crossing route to clear out that other side of the field safety to create space for this

dig route. But the ball just didn't come out. The ball has got to come out on those particular looks. Doesn't come out here, we scramble, throw the football away. It's a wasted down. But that whole whole point of that was these clean pockets, the finding way to scheme them up is only going to create more and more deep shots, as it did in the second half of this game. I think throughout the course of the rest of the season it bodes well for this Dolphins offense.

A couple more plays here. Albert Wilson caught a screen pass early on, and just again to kind of give a nod to the offensive line, both Robert Hunt and Jesse Davis got out in space and made key blocks. Then it's just Albert Wilson making moves he has two sharp cuts. Must have learned them from Robert Hunt in this game. That freed him a possible tacklers. If you can add that element to this offense, and maybe you get Will Fuller back, maybe DeVante Parker comes back in

a couple of weeks. I'm getting ahead of myself, but maybe in a couple of weeks, maybe we finally get the full version of this offense we pictured back in the summer. Speaking of the full version of the offense, how about Isaiah Ford's game as we get into the individuals here, what a game. He had his first catch a fantastic whip route to create plenty of space on second and nine, and it puts Miami in position for a third and one, which they would convert. So great

job by will Isaiah Ford. Rather to sell an inside route, jerk that thing back to the outside. And he also did a great job to win a back shoulder type of throw from Jacoby on the nineteen yard reception he had before the end of that first half. Nice route to snap it off right when Jacoby had put it out there. I thought this is one of the best, one of Jacoby's best anticipatory throws. He's had this entire season, maybe his entire career, not really his game, but on

this play, it was a fantastic throw from Jacoby. Then the fifty two yard or was a total coverage bust. You got Chuck Clark down in the box. He starts to bell out and starts to run to play that deep half of the field, but then he just rotates out the other way and goes to the middle of the field and Isaiah Fords turned free at the land scrimmage with a cornerback, and you see the cornerback look

back like, where the hell are you? Like we we focused on Chuck Clark And that's kind of kind of communication issues popped up a couple of times in this game for them, and it led to big place for the Dolphins. So good job by Miami though to capitalize on those and some nice running after the catch by

Isaiah Ford Miles Gaskim. I think his best run of the game was the game clinching run in my opinion, a second and nine run from the ten yard line that he gains eight yards on where it was a tough sledding all game long, but he got great blocks across the board and just found this tiny crease between Jackson and Liam for a nice important seven yard run which Miami would later execute and convert, which put the game to bed, especially after the touchdown. But getting that

first down was key. And just the running game right now, the entire running back stable. They're just not seeing it and hitting it right now. And I know that the blocking hasn't always been great, but I think it's getting a lot better, and the back's got to do more take advantage of what's out there on the tape. From my opinion, speaking of the offensive line, thought, Austin has obviously been through a bunch this year. We all know

about that. A a tried intrude, you know, first round pick from last year, who's getting his reps in and and growing. I think, and I think you see every single week that he is getting better. But one thing I see on tape every week is a certain demeanor that he plays with. He's kind of, let's just say, I wrote down a bit of a pest, but that

doesn't do it justice. He's a bit of an a hole, if you want to be honest about it, just in the way he plays, great guy, nice guy otherwise, but the way he plays kind of a card carry in a hole, which you need to have on a football field. He finishes through the whistle, he finds work. You see him kind of putting his hands on guys and they get upset about throughout the course of the game. You love to see a guy that can set the tone

like that. He'll run eight yards down the field when the play is beyond him and give Miles or Savant or whoever the back is an extra surge. He also, like Robert Hunt tends to do every single week, finds himself a slack of ribs in this game. What does that mean? It's when someone else has engaged in pass protection, you don't have work, so you come over and you find that man and you put him on his back with a big shot to the side. Great job by Austin Jackson and Rob Hunt every single game. I love

the way they're coached to do that. I also think he's playing more in control and space. He's been doing these little skip step pull action where you kind of get you pull to the other side of the formation, but does a skip step to get himself clear of it. And when he comes around the end the edge and those looks or when he climbs to the second level as a run blocker. I think his processor is speeding up. He's he's getting the things quicker, and he's playing more

in control. And I think one thing that could really help him is if he can start to kind of keep his feet more active upon contact. They still go dead a little bit when he gets that contact, but I'm seeing a lot of progression here from Austin Jackson,

just from my own perspective on the tape. Speaking of offensive line play rob Rob Hunt, Peter Steger said on Good Morning Football on Thursday, the first time I watched that show in three months because I work every morning here at the facility, but having that morning off, he said that people around the league are saying Rob Hunt's playing at a Pro Bowl level. I think that might be accurate. He's playing pretty well right now, and this

pad level is so good. Fires out of his stance, and he's not just getting on blocks like there's so many instances where because I've watched Christian Wilkins do this all season long, or I've just watched the offensive line kind of have its struggles where you see it stack up, you see the run play coming in that direction and then you just kind of expect the defensive lineman to chuck him and shed him and get the tackle. It doesn't happen with sixty eight. He's getting on those blocks,

he's staying on those blocks. And what's more, he's also turning guys out of the gap because when you two gap and again go watch Christian Wilkins. He's one of the best in the NFL at this where you stack it up and then you you lock out your arms full extensions so that you the guy can't control the rep, and then you can use your your eyes to peek around either side, stack and peak, as they call it. You'll see him doing out here in practice every single day,

training camp or otherwise. And these defensive linemen are trying that on Robert Hunt. But not only is he not letting him do that, he's saying, I have to get your butt to the right side of this gap so my back can get through. And he's doing it. So he's not just hitting blocks staying on them, he's turning

guys and moving them off the spot. And then also when he hits these double teams, and this is with Jesse Davis most of the time, obviously shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, and that's a two man thing, so it's good to see it come together for both of those guys. But he does it in a way with that kind of right arm into Jesse's left arm where he keeps his left arm free and can then get another shot on an additional pursuing tackler. And he had a couple of catching climbs in this game where he's

basically impacting two defenders. That's how you get things going in the running game. And I kept on watching him in the run game, you know, expecting him to lose one of these reps, and he's just not doing it. He stays on these blocks. I'm feeling really good about this transition to guard for Robert Hunt. It appears to really really be clicking for him. Speaking of the rest of the offensive line here, I thought that Liam had some good doubles and an excellent block in space on

the Albert Wilson end around in the fourth quarter. Talked a little bit about some of the struggles across the board in past protection leam mount tackle Jesse at right tackle, some of the stuff across the interior. Austin writer had a couple of situations, and I talked about Rob Hunter. He too got beat a couple of times in pass pro, so just in pass pro. Not their their greatest night, But I think this offensive line is coming a long long way in terms of their run blocking, and we'll see.

I think it's hard to take advantage of that here in the second half of the season. Talked about one of Jacoby's best throwers. I wanna talk about two more. I thought he had three really nice throws in this game. First and tent from the plus forty six. Immediate pressure off the left side of the formation, and he gets away immediately and throws on the move, right on time,

right on target to Jalen Waddle. And Waddle, by the way, did something on this route that he did all night with regularity, and it garnered a tweet from Marlin Humphrey, which I put in the top news story today up on Miami Dolphins dot com. But Waddle gets a free release working off a stack, which means there's a guy right in front of him. This time, I think it was Durham Smith. Maybe Mike Kisiki didn't write the note down,

but it was a big tight end. He pushes inside to force Humphrey to do a head whip where you know Humphreys basically committed to the inside route and then Jalen cuts that thing back to the outside with a nasty just a nasty nasty cut back to the outside, and then Humphrey has to turn his back to the formation. You see that forty four from the end zone angle and he tries to close down the out route, but it's too much space there for Waddle, who comes out

of this outcut from a nasty split. Nasty split is in tight to the formation and it gave Jacoby tons of space to work with, which he needed because of that pressure. But it was a good throw and a phenomenal route. And we're gonna talk about while here and just one secon because the entire segment did a kid to Waddle's route running in this podcast. I thought it was his best game as a professional. Another one of Jacoby's best throws the shot to Shaheen before the half.

He's good on those low ball into congested area type of throws where he can drive it to the ground and take his man to the ground. Think about mac hollins throw the touchdown last week and against Houston, did it again here to Shaheen to put that ball away from danger and a big reception there for the Miami Dolphins. Alright, Waddle, Oh man o, buddy, this was a fun, fun tape for Jalen Waddle. First, before we talked about the route running, go look at his blocking downfield on the Albert Wilson

reverse in the early minutes of the fourth quarter. When we talk about the route running, and pair that with what he does in the blocking game, big fan, big, big fans so early on the motion and you know, having Albert Wilson part of this game plan, primarily on those fly sweep actions the end around the double pass attempt they ran. I think this was a great idea all night long because it kind of freed up Waddle

to do some more downfield route running. And when you watch this game on tape, you'll see why that's a dangerous thing for the opposing defense. On the thirty five yard reception, I think you saw what he could do with it. There are chances opening up for him in this offense, and I think is the offensive line continues to gel, it's going to get incrementally better. And if they can keep at it, keep quarterback one healthy and upright.

Then I think you're gonna start to really see some of these things pop. Some more instances of that third and nine on the sack. On the opening drive, he's the three to the or the three to the field, goes in motion to a nasty split again and tied to the formation, and Jalen pushes five yards beyond the sticks and whips that thing back to the outside, right behind the flat defender. And the pass rush just barely got home and the balls out, balls not out. He

takes a sack. The ball could have come out on time and made a completion, but it doesn't get out, and the Ravens overload this pressure and use dummy pressure to rotate and fill, and Robert Hunt pulls over to the other side of the formation to help out, but pushes the stunting nose right into the two Austin's writer and Jackson and creates a lane for the Ravens to come down downhill on a pass rush. But on that route. If you watch the All twenty two, go watch waddle.

He creates tons of space and turns his man around. There's a throwaway to start the second drive. The dig route is there. Linebacker steps up. We talked about it already on the run action protection is good. Ball has to come out. It does not. But away from that play, Wattle runs from the one to the field, which is the wide side of the formation, the furthest split out receiver.

He runs right at the middle of the field safety who is in cover three, So he has the middle half and you have two cornerbacks that have the outside halfs in that particular look. And just again watch the end zone angle on that play. If you have the all twenty two. The acceleration from the time that he takes his route from getting vertical to going sideways, he flies. It looks like he's on fast forward and everybody else is in regular motion. It's phenomenal the speed this guy

plays with. Later to his first throw, Mike takes the point on a stack which again Stacky receivers up to create free releases, and Waddle does a good job of staying inside his man so that Humphrey has to come over the top of that pick and it creates plenty of space for two of to Waddle. Just continue to good picks, good route combinations, good route running. To his first third down conversion, again he hits Marlon hun or

rather the first third down play not a conversion. They went incomplete, but he gets Humphrey again and Humphrey gets turned around and slips out of the break. He's putting all Pro cornerbacks on the ground with the route running the slot fade that drew the defensive pass interference. He slow plays the release off the line, and the moment he hits the Jets, you see Humphrey inank up the urgency and the only way he was gonna be able

to keep up was to grab Ahold. He does DP I first and ten at the one yard line, and go watch this game. Go watch seventeen. It was a clinic on route running, and I'm very excited about what he could be to a tongue. Boy Low comes into the game second half of talk about his game. I really appreciate the way he navigates the pocket with his eyes up down field on that weird early misfire to Mike Kasicki, where you might be thinking, man, the finger

is really bothering him. What the heck was that throw? It's way off target. But if you go back and watch it, it's a miscommunication all the way. And those are obviously a killer because it would have been third and short instead of third and ten, which they did

not convert. But on that play you see Mike slowly like check up, like I'm gonna set this route down right here, and two it goes to pull it the trigger and then Mike takes back off again, so it's like a check up or continue that route and really and and just continue onto those side of the formation. They're just not on the same page. There's no one you know, that's a fault we can't place because we're not part of the play call. But it wasn't just

an errant throw like it was a miscommunication. So one I saw one thing, the other guy saw something else. Also for two of the first r P O look just a nice way of creating multiple conflicts and passing lanes. And this is a short game to Albert Wilson. But you fake the handoff and you read number six, who's Patrick Queen on that Ravens defense and he stays in

the first lane. As Mike gets Sicky from the tube, which is the second receiver for this from the outside, runs a slant and Queen stays in that lane, so he's off the line. Don't hand it off. He's in that passing lay on the first lane, don't throw it there.

So he throws in behind that to the second passing window, which clears to Albert Wilson, who runs a Texas route go outside, cross space, back inside, usually running back route, but he runs this from the one position to that side of the formation, and it sets up a manageable third and three that they would convert on the flee flicker.

It's really too bad that Klaas Campbell came right down the middle and pressured that thing early, because that ball, you know, if it gets back to two a sooner, both Albert Wilson and Preston Williams are ten yards behind the defense. But it was never gonna get down that field because two has two guys running free right his face, and there are already forty yards away. So if you crank that thing sixty yards down the field with pressure in your face kind of falling away from those guys,

that's basically what you would have needed. And then you also have time for the safeties to catch up and get under that ball. It just wasn't gonna happen. But a good job to kind of hot potato that thing say you know you want the ball. I don't want the ball. You take the ball in a nice ten yard game. There the thirty five yard throw, which is a couple of plays later to a Waddle. The route design the pass pro all beautiful. One of the best

players of the season for the Miami Dolphins. I think to what was actually just a half beat late on this throw, But it didn't matter. I think if he would have wanted it back, he would have thrown it one hitch earlier in the progression for himself. It was the same result though, because Waddle comes off the line like an absolute screaming banshee like you see the suddenness and the burst and the speed which can create vertical opportunities when pass pro isn't holding up as well because

of that speed. But he turns number twenty one Anthony Averett completely around and this belongs in the Wattle route file as well. But then he slams on the brakes, breaks this thing off to the corner, and that in Anthony avery It doesn't know what's happening. He's been put in the spin cycle. He breaks this thing back to the corner, and the ball's coming out and gasik. He's crossing route from the front side of the formation, holds that underneath the fender and it gives to a small lane,

a small window, and he layers that thing beautifully. Next gen stats had at a forty six air yards and it was a thirty point six percent completion probability and he nails it. Fantastic throw, fantastic play. Oh and guess what Albert Wilson was in jet motion again. I think that was a big key in this game. There's a third and eight play later, a shot to Isaiah Ford from midfield. The snap is wide and low to it, reaches down by his ankles and grabs it one handed.

I'm surprised he even got that thing and then picks it up and throws a strike to Isaiah Ford, who makes a tough contest and catch, but again back to Waddle.

Looks like he was open on the drive concept, which is two routes that try to separate high and low for the defense to to kind of create that conflict, and waddles behind Ford for an even bigger completion, and you even see him reach his hands up to catch the football, but it was rule a half yard shore on the Ford catch could have been a potential dagger if they hit that route and once again waddle wide open very next drive. The play that put Miami on

the doorstep of victory. Twenty one for Baltimore just came up on the play fake and once he sees two A pull that ball out of Miles belly, he turns and runs, but it's obviously too late. They stayed with that look all game long. Albert Wilson gets up the sideline and twenty one doesn't see him. You see him immediately once that ball comes out of the belly. He takes back off because he knows that he was responsible for that look back there, I think is what I'm seeing.

Or he just knew that someone blew it, so he goes back that way. But the ball to Wilson on time on target. Don't miss those throws, he didn't. It's a game clinching type of play. There was a few more off target throws, and you're used to from two in this game, and you'll see that in the stats portion.

But I really liked the plan for him on some of those quick hitters, using the horizontal action both pre and post nap, and of course that big throw on first and twenty, just making a big play in a big spot, the QB sneak to put the ball in the end zone. I thought this was a Miami moment for two is as. I think ESPN covered that pretty well. But all things told, not his best performance throwing the football.

But when you've got a broken finger and you're eight for thirteen with a hundred and fifty eight yards and a game clinching drive after the Ravens just went yards, if that's like our low bar for a second year quarterback, I'm gonna be pretty happy with that. My final thought on the offense, just needed better execution inside the ten yard line. The run game was tough, sledding, passing game having a hard time get much going. Penalties. You gotta

cut those things out. Two false starts into the five yard line, an ineligible touch or legal touching on the into the ten yard line. Can't do that stuff. It's killing this team and they score one touchdown on four trips inside the ten yard line. Gotta get that fixed. So we always start with the offense first, with the defense deserved at this time, But we didn't change it

because that's what we do. Baby. But on the defense. Now, we talked about the Ravens twelve and twenty one personnel packages in the preview episode, which means two tight ends or two running backs, and that called upon for a lot of base style defenses out of your Miami Dolphins,

including lots of bear front switch. You You're gonna put a a defensive lineman over the center over and over each guard zero technique and two two techniques, and then your outside backers play quasi five techniques and two points stands stand up type of roles. There's your bare front and also two stack backers, which means you stack a backer behind either of the two techniques the two guards, and that creates opportunities from gonna run, run free and

run clean towards the ball carrier. And what did it do but produced ninety four rushing yards for the Ravens, their second lowest total in the Lamar Jackson era, and that scene to play right into Miami strength all night long. All these cover corners, not to mention Brandon Jones and Javon Holland, who were slot corner slash star role type of players their final years in college, and then that

versatility really helps out. But Baltimore had success early in this game with running those kind of pinning those four techniques where the tackles would just squeeze the four techniques and then using chips and speed to the edge to get wide on those outside backers. And I was wondering, how are the Dolphins going to adjust to this. There's gonna run this ball at those two guys all night long,

and it's gonna be a tough night. But Miami did adjust by adding more hats into the box, more players down there, and primarily the two safeties who came up. There were some split safety looks early on. I did see Brandon Jones play a stack position early in this game, but they kind of got out of the two split safety looks and just didn't really do it a whole lot after that first series. And they also just executed better beating more blocks to gapping, better coaching, production, execution.

It was all on point in this game. If you can't tell it was my favorite tape of the season. It was a fun one to watch, and they got extra hats in the box in different ways. Even one rep here with Byron Jones coming off the edge, you know he's gonna go down and take on a pulling guard to create a lane for your landing robberts to scrape and make a tackle. I love the versatility of this defensive backfield. Also the simulated pressure looks with guys dropping.

It worked to perfection and a big reason why I thought when they pulled rushers out of out into the hook, and this can be anywhere from Christian Wilkins to Adam Butler to Jalen Phillips, They're gonna pull anybody out there, damn will please because it creates confusion upfront in these drops. They got depth. Get get depth. I'm always calling to get depth. Don't just hang out five yards behind the line of scrimmage and cover nobody. Go get your depth

and find a person and coming in. Nobody had been more explosive on crossing routes per next Gen stats than these Baltimore Ravens. But they undercut a ton of these routes and did it with a guy like Adam Butler who gets twelve yards of depth and takes away this crossing route. Fantastic work, Adam. In addition to your first sack as a Miami Dolphin, great great job by Adam Butler doing that even saw Emmanuel Ogba out there and the you know he's got terra dactyl wingspan there infecting

the affecting the passing lane. Great job by this Dolphins defense all night long, some of the individuals. Christian Wilkins has another long paragraph on this podcast from your boy. He's so good. He's so so good. First snap, four technique, snatch and chuck right tackle Tyree Phillips five pounds by the way, snatches him by the shirt, chucks him to the ground. He's on his skis, falling forward like that girl that does the popcorn in the movie Theaters Trip

where she throws the popcorn in the air. He was doing that too, guys, all night long, same drive, same position inside rip leaves him out over his skis again. And this is really all hands to the area where I think Christian has taken his game to another level, a Pro Bowl level. He comes clean and disrupts the mesh point on zone read from the pistol, and Lamar keeps it to get wide and Brandon Jones flags him down step for step. So Christian constantly impacting plays regardless

of he makes the player not he is. He's been so good this year. The next series, Phillips squares up and the tight end tries to double him. He doesn't move him. The right tackle Tyger Phillips knocks spares him up. Tight end comes in, tries to chip him, doesn't move and allows a Landon Roberts to come off of his button scrape for a tackle. Then he gets off the block and makes the tackle with Riley and Roberts. He's doing this every single week. Stack up, double teams, get

off blocks, make the play. Very next play, he's the two eye technique, which is the inside shoulder of the offensive guard. He beats Bradley Boseman the center across his face, so slants across his face and takes him right into the backfield and it sets up Ogba, who had a strong edge set on that play, on Devonte Freeman for a two yard loss. And then finally, second half opening drive, he chucks a guy again to make a TfL with Andrew Van Ginkl. Christian Wilkins is playing at a Pro

Bowl level. If you don't agree to go talk to a wall. Zach Seiler had some really good rushes where he reset the pocket and made Lamar reset his motion which had him off rhythm, and we saw how frustrated he was throughout the course of this game. The start of the second quarter, Seiler holds the point and creates a lane for a Landon Roberts to scrape off of Roberts scraped off these guys all night long. They played so well up front to make a big collision and

tackle for no gain. A good read on the fullback from Roberts here to take him to the football. He comes across the formation and make that play and his big TfL Seilers, I should say, it was just a great call to again get more hats than they can block, and Seeler gets turned free. The fullback gets wide for a Brandon Jones blitz, and Steeler wins for a big play in a big stop. He's playing really well this year. We don't talk about it that much, but he is

playing like he always does. Really strong at the point, good against the run, occasional pass rush. Manuel Ogba again put him in the movie Swat starring Michael Pania. I think it was. I don't remember. I didn't I didn't see the movie Ethan Hawk maybe, but put him in

that movie because he gets one every single week. Eyes on the quarterback quit game, keeps his frame clean, doesn't let the offensive lineman get into his chest, creates that distance, gets the hands up, he leads all defensive lineman and passes defense. And he started putting together his pass rush

plan this game too. And I think it got started with that bat because you see Tyree Phillips starting to think, I have to get into his chest plate to really force him to declare his move and don't let him get his hands up in the air. And I think he was tired of Manuel getting his hands inside because once that happened, he started throwing the cross chop, the double swipe, the dip and rip. He was putting all

kinds of moves on Phillips to cause issues. I was a big matchup in this game, and og Bab won it. Adam Butler again just the first up explosiveness. It helped him get that first career sack as a Miami Dolphin, and he was just too quick for the screen game to get set up all night long. Big game for Adam Butler. Jalen Phillips. His half stack was similar to last week. He lined up inside the tackle and wins

across the face, typically a dip and rip move. Working off that explosive first step really is effective for Phillips when he condenses inside. And I thought Van Ginkl did a great job of keeping his frame clean so that he could shed his block when Lamar stepped around that pressure and then they met at the quarterback. Good job by Jalen to stay with it and keep working. And that pursuit on the Lamar Jackson scramble where he basically was outflanked and outran Lamar Jackson. I mean they're not

even even there. He's outflanked by five yards and he runs them down. Absolute freak. A guy that can pass rush in that interior position and do that, absolute freak. Sorry plugging the computer. And I mentioned Andrew van Ginkel his uh he forced an errand throw on Lamar early in the game with a move on ale Handrea Villaneueva to get over set and then win back underneath. That's kind of the stuff we saw from him last year. Quickness to win with kind of the slippery pass rush moves.

He gets skinny and he does it with quickness. Had a nice upfield move than a crossover step to get inside here on Villaneueva to force an air and throw. I thought he played super fastness game, did a great job staying square as he closed the distance in the backfield, but staying in a in a position to turn and run so he was able to take on blocks and get wide. Good game from Andrew Van Ginkle. I think Jerome Baker had his best game of the year that toss play to Davantae Freeman at the end of the

first half. The pursuit outside to take both the threat of Lamar's run and that to force the quick pitch to Freeman and then to retrace and get wide and run him down. Awesome, awesome, awesome play from Jerome Baker, Like that's a tough ask and he did both things very well on that play. Javon Hallen has a long paragraph did you guess that was coming? Second play, big

run by duvern A comes from depth. Go watch that thing on the All twenty two, the depthest of depths, and he's on his horse right away and never decelerates through the hit. The that he can basically hit a Lamborghini when he's in the McLaren running full speed head on. He's phenomenal in that regard. He's such an explosive player

and his past break up, same situation. The natural instincts just kicking because you see that he's in position to affect two routes, in position to run with Byron Jones. Man the help over the top, but Byron's got it. So he's like, all right, I'm gonna go then, dog, you got it. I'm taking care of this one. He starts to close and he gets there right when the ball does for a pass breakup. I mean he's ten yards away when Lamar Jackson starts to throw this ball,

but the anticipation puts him right there. Bang. Great play. I like the way he and Jones can set tackles up with those outside rush lanes to create lanes inside. The quickness of the urgency, the speed, the timing. His sack wasn't overload with Jerome Baker and Eric Row right alongside him, and the back tried to come in and cut down Baker, who took a quick angle to the quarterback. So a great rush here from Jerome Baker, and that gave Hall on the free run, who does not waste

a step on those outside rushes. He closes that thing, angles with the quarterback and puts them, and you've got to make a decision right now or you're gonna get hit hard type of situation. He's great in that regard. Very next play, he baits Lamar Jackson into that deep shot that he lays out for. He flips his hips to the field and you see Lamar his eyes kind of get big, like I'm gonna take this deep shot.

This dude's open. But nope. He flips back around and gets to the boundary, runs over the top of that thing, and Hollywood Brown shuts the route down because our Hollywood Vaughan was over the top. Impressive, impressive stuff, even though there was defensive past interference underneath. Great play. Two plays later, he gets outside of a block and then he's that he's outflanked on and he helps run the jet pot pass to the sideline, forces the ball carrier to bubble

and never gets stuck on that block. And then Brandon Jones shows you his speed and instincts and and just acceleration to come over the top and the team up for that stop for a short game might have even been a TfL. Just these two safeties are playing so well right now. And speaking of Jones, the way he attacks blocks inside. He made a play because he just came downhill on a pair of blocks, the full back to his side. He just runs in there and jams

that thing. He outflanks Lamar and just gets in and wax him and wound up in the correct gap, which Wilkins, who had obliterated a double team on display, helped them win those matchups together for a combined tackle right there. So that was the situation all night, all these guys finding ways to impact the running lanes and win their matchups. Eric Robe, he came a long way for that force fumble he had in this game. Unfortunately Baltimore gets it back,

but great effort and a great tackle. They missed the field goal though a great job by getting the ball carrier down. Miami just rallied and tackled all night really well. He also had a nice tackle in a third intense screen passed early in the second quarter to help get the defense off the field. Justin Coleman a later third and long screen, he blows up the lead block and clears a lane for xaviing Howard to come up and

make an open field tackle. This was the theme of the night, the Dolphins just blowing up blocks and beating tackles on the perimeter, so the Ravens just couldn't get anything going against that zero pressure. Look. Also, he had a great pass breakup on that deep ball. Good job high pointing it and not interfering with the receiver and getting his hands on the football. Now, Xavian Howard's the ball skills on the strip you all saw, you all

know that's what he do. But he was terrific the entire game, tackling well outside, successful jams, went up on the line, great job playing with an eye inside, but then showing the ability to open the hips and go get vertical whether it was zone or man pattern matching, and the runback was tremendous. He set up blocks and got great blocks from Coleman and Agba on that play and then Byron Jones again, terrific tackles all night long.

He hits Mark Yes Brown gets him down a little flat route early in the game to get through traffic and make a play on the on tackle. He was also in good shape on a lot of deep balls, never got stacked, played aggressive man him and excess ability to fluidly flip between zero, one and three coverages gives this defense, so much flexibility on top of what these safeties can do. Just a great, great game plan, great adjustments, great execution. What else can you say? A terrific game?

Dolphins win. It's a big one. Some PFF numbers and next Gen numbers two a here fourth quarter three for five ninety three yards. That's eight teen point six yards per pass, and it improved his fourth core quarterback rating to one oh four point seven, which is the fourth highest since nine and his twelve touchdowns this stack courtesy of C. K Parrott on Twitter. His twelve touchdowns on one d and thirty nine plays is the highest percentage of touchdown plays of any quarterback over that span in

the fourth quarter. So again, the lightscap bright to a place his best twenty plus yard throws two for two yards under pressure, three for five seventy nine yards. Next Gen has two US completion over expected rate at point eight, which is thirteen among all qualifying quarterbacks this year. I think that's even more impressive when you consider his league best twenty one point eight percent aggressive rate, which the

stat judges at the catch point. How much separation is their track through GPS between the receiver and the defender. If it's one yard or less, it counts as an aggresive throw. Two leads the league in aggressive throw percentage at twenty one point eight. Joe Burrows next at twenty point one. I believe this his time to throw jumped up to two point five six seconds, which is a climb,

still the third quickest in the league. At running backs only Wilson, Albert Wilson, and Jacobi Bursett for smith tackles. They both had one in the game, and the yards after contact average Gaskin one point seven one Savon Akhmed two point oh Receivers Isaiah Ford nine point three three yards per route, yards per route run wowenty one yards per target wow. Albert Wilson five point one two yards per route run Wow. Twenty one point eight yards per

target Wow. Those are crazy numbers. Jalen Waddle one point five three yards per route run and ten yards per target. But he played the entire game mostly for the most part, so those numbers kind of get decreased because you run more decoy routes and more complimentary routes. Past protection. Liam Eichenberg seven pressures, two sacks and one hit. Austin Jackson just two pressures, one hit. Austin Ryder two pressures, no hits. Robert Hunt six pressures, one sack and one hit. Jesse

Davis three pressures and one hit allowed. Jesse Davis I think had maybe his best game of the season in this one. Defensively pressures Javon Holland six, He leads the NFL now among safety's. Andrew Van Ginkl in a manual OGA five apiece og bab moved into a tie for eight among edge defenders with forty QB pressures this year. That ties Shack Barrett of the defending champion Buccaneers. Brandon Jones had two pressures and a handful of guys had

one pressure. Run stops. Van Ginkl, Baker, Roberts Howard all had three run stops a piece. Seiler, Brandon Jones, and Eric Rowe had to a piece, and a bunch of guys had one. Coverage numbers Byron Jones allowed nine catches on ten on ten targets. I don't remember it being that bad. Hundred and five yards Xavian Howard four or five for thirty two yards, Eric Row four or five for thirty one yards. Javon Holland one of four completed

for just six yards. Justin Coleman just one of four completed for no yards, also had an interception and a pass breakup. Last two weeks one for five going after Coleman zero yards, two interceptions and a PBu. That of course, is a zero point zero rating. Javon Holland before action on Sunday this coming Sunday has the most pressures in the NFL by any safety. It's fourteen. Brandon Jones has the second most with twelve. And it wasn't just pass rush.

Holland and coverage on thirty one snaps targeted four times, just six yards gained, and Brandon Jones thirty six coverage snaps two for three two yards game. These guys are rushers, their cover guys. They're really getting done right now. Some snap counts real quick. Offensively to have played thirty two, Jacobe played thirty seven snaps. Offensive line went wire to wire. Waddle led all receivers with sixty one snaps. That was eight percent of the workload. Pretty clearly your number one

receiver here. Albert Wilson thirty eight, Preston Williams eighteen, Mac Hollands thirteen, Isaiah Ford eleven. Mike Kasiki continues to play a high percentage of snaps pent in this game with fifty six snaps. Durham Smith played forty one. Adam Schehen played thirty eight. Lots and lots of tight end reps for this Dolphins team. Miles Gaskin played forty two snaps that was sixty one percent, just sixteen for Laird and just nine for savan Akhmed. Christian Wilkins also played two

snaps on offense. Defensively on the interior, Adam Butler leads the way with forty seven snaps. That was six Christian Wilkins thirty four, Zach Seedler six, Ray Kwon Davis twenty three, John Jenkins three snaps off the edge. We talked about the change in the game plan. Andrew van ginkl sixty seven snaps that was a season high for him, Emmanuel Ogba forty six snaps, Jalen Phillips forty one, and Brendan

Scarlett two snaps in the game at linebacker. A lot of linebacker snaps because of the base defense, the three four looks, and Baker off the edge with Van ginkle seventy three snaps. Every single rep for Jerome Baker for Roberts, twenty six for Duke Riley, and three for Sam Ego Van. Cornerbacks Exaving Howard and Byron Jones both played all seventy three snaps. Justin Coleman played forty four and Nick Needum

just five snaps in the game. At safety, Holland and Jones both played all seventy three and Eric Rohe plays forty four snaps in the game. Let's scan the social and get the heck out of here. I want to go watch some Sunday football as well as the F one race two thousand and two thousand, twenty one classes. I see a lot of takes on Twitter about the quality of the drafting done around here. One, what are you gonna say, because your first three picks right now

are playing at the high, high level. We know about that. Javon Holland six quarterback pressures of sack, five total tackles, and two passes defense in this game. Jalen Phillips half a sack, three total tackles. Waddle caught four passes for sixty one yards, including a thirty five yard game on first and twenty that kind of turned the game around. Leah Meickenberg gave two a ample time on that play

to find Waddle. Last year's class we mentioned to a tongle by Lowers performance the first pick of that class, big big game for him, a big, a big sign of progression going forward here in his Dolphin's career. Austin Jackson surrenders a game low two UH team law I should say two quarterback pressures, the eighteenth pick in that draft. No bunogeny, you know, didn't play on defensive whole lot in this game or at all in this this season, but he made a big special teams tackle on punt coverage.

Robert Hunt enters the game with a second best run block win rate among all NFL guards at s. He left the game with one of the more memorable moments in recent memory for comedic purposes obviously, but he's playing well. Ray Kuan Davis helps stack out blockers all night long and route to holding Baltimore to nine rushing yards. Brandon Jones seven tackles, applied pressure on action twice. Blake Ferguson executed UH eight punt snaps, two point after tries and

three field goals, no failed snaps. So the draft classes are the reason, a big, big reason why this Dolphins team won this game against the Baltimore Evens, and they're

showing signs of progression every single week. In total, all those players from those two draft classes played five ten offensive snaps and defensive snaps and are showing significant strides midway through the season, the way Xabing Howard did his second season, the way Mike A. Siky did his second season, the way Christian Wilkins has again trajectory for these young players one to three years to develop. It looks like it's trending in that direction. That's my scan of the

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