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from the Dolphins coordinators. This is always our longest episode of the week. Let's go ahead and not waste any more time and jump right in to this Tuesday, December twenty nine edition of the Drive Time Podcast Dophins. Hey Dolphins fans, the New year starts now at Auto Nation. Let's skip the rest of and get two big New Year's savings on your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's Fords, Toyota's Hondas, and a whole bunch more shops safely at the Auto Nation store near you or auto nation dot com and

save now. So, how's everybody feeling? We had Christmas on Friday, that crazy, crazy game on Saturday night, and then a Sunday in the NFL. That really went in the Dolphins benefit across the board really as far as getting additional help just in case Sunday does not go the way we want to, as far as the game up in Buffalo. Now Miami can get in the playoffs and four different routes. Number one, beat the Buffalo Bills. You do that, You're in.

You are the fifth seed in the a f C. Now, if the Dolphins do not win the game on Sunday, then three teams in the a f C all have to win in order to kick Miami out of the top seven. If the Colts, Browns, and Ravens all win their games on Sunday and Miami loses, we will miss the playoffs. If one of those teams loses their game and miamises as well, then the Dolphins will still get into the dance into the January tournament. So lots of possibilities.

Fifth seed, sixth seed, seventh seed, and the dreaded eighth seed out of the playoffs are all in the realm of possibilities. And one more sweetener for this season. Dolphins currently owned the third pick in the NFL draft. This season war to end today If the Texans lose on Sunday to the Tennessee Titans, that pick will be locked into the three seed as they are battling with the Falcons.

There for some supremacy in terms of strength of schedule, but Houston's dip below Atlanta's in the Week sixteen games the Week sixteen slate of action, so Miami could be picking third in next April's draft. The last time a team made the playoffs and picked top five or top three in both instances was the Washington football team. They went to the playoffs in ninety nine and picked a second and third in two thousand. Miami could follow that up twenty years later here this year. If Week seventeen

goes all according to plan. We didn't have a podcast on Monday, but I wanted to go ahead and mentioned the anniversary of the Your Gray Hat game December back in two thousand eight. Chad Pennington, Ted Gain, Philip Merling, Ronnie Brown, Ricky Williams, all those guys making plays in that game. This is or yesterday. It was rather the anniversary of the game in the Midowlands taking out Brett farrv Eric Mangini and that Jets team with Tony Sperrano

and Company and winning the a f C East. Wanted to go ahead and mention that just before we jump into the team rankings. Here in individual metrics from the Monday Inside the Numbers piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com, you guys can find that right now. As for the Dolphins team rankings, Offensively, twenty five point two points per game is fifteenth in the National Football League. Miami, you're twenty three and total offense twenty two rushing and twenty

five in the passing game. Now, on defense, we are one week away from securing the top scoring defense in the National Football League. Miami currently sits first in that category, allowing just eight teen point eight points per game this season. The total defense ranks twenty, rushing ranks seventeenth, and passing defense ranks nineteenth in the NFL. Miami's forty sacks this year are tied for the ninth most in the National

Football League. The third down defense, allowing just thirty point seven percent conversions, is first in the NFL, and the twenty seven takeaways is tied for first with the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it seems like we say it every single week, but It's pretty much true that Dolphins defensive standing there across the NFL continues to impress me and I'm sure all of you as well out there in Dolphin Nation.

It was the two d road win in Dolphins franchise history, and just the third time since two thousand two that Miami has been ten in five or better after fifteen games. It last happened in twenty sixteen, the last playoff year here for your Miami Dolphins. How about some recent streaks here from Miami nine and two over the last eleven games, ten and three over the last third team, and fifteen and nine over the last twenty four games. A win on Sunday gets coach Flora's back to sixteen and sixteen

in his coaching career. Clayton Federlum. That fumble recovery at the end of the game extended Miami streak of consecutive games with a turnover up to twenty one that's best in the league, and the Dolphins scored thirteen points while trailing in the final five minutes of that game. The last time that happened was remember twentieth, two thousand sixteen

at the Los Angeles Rams. I know You'll remember that game, Ryan Tannehill to Davante Parker over and over again, Parker with the game winning touchdown in that game as they scored fourteen points to come back fourteen ten in that crucial, crucial win. How about some snap counts and stats starting here with your offense to a tongue of Volo played forty six snaps. Ryan Fitzpatrick played seventeen in the game. At running back, Miles Gascon led the way with forty

eight snaps, Savan Akhmed had fifteen. At receiver, Lynn Bowden Junior led the way with fifty eight reps. Mac Hollands forty nine, Isaiah Ford thirty three, Jachem Grant nineteen, and Malcolm Perry had one snap in the game. Plenty of receiver and tight end action here for your Miami Dolphins in this game. Mike Kasiki had forty five snaps, Durham's

my thirty, and Adam Sheheen fifteen. All five of your offensive line with the distance, Austin Jackson, Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss, Jesse Davis, and Robert Hunt and Julian Davenport came off the bench for two snaps in the win. On Saturday night for Fitzpatrick. It was the eighteenth game winning drive of his career and thirteen come from behind vig three. The offense put together thirteen points when he was in

the game on thirteen dropbacks. He completed all four of his passes when under duress for sixty seven yards, and he was two for three on passes twenty or more yards down field, with sixty five yards to boot on those. Quarterback two A Toungo Baloa continued his successful run throwing against the blitz as he completed nine of eleven passes against that extra rusher, including his touchdown pass to Miles

gas Kim. On the season, Tunga Baloa has seven touchdown passes and just one interception when the opposition sends a fifth or sixth rusher bringing that blitz after the young quarterback. Gaskin rushed for eighty seven yards and gained a season high for the Dolphins one and sixty seven yards from scrimmage. He averaged three point three six yards after initial contact.

That was the high for a Dolphins running back with at least ten carries in a game this season, and seventy four of his eighty two receiving yards occurred after the catch. He became the first Dolphin running back with multiple receiving touchdowns in a game since Reggie Bush did it in And how about some cool data from our ends up next Gen Stats. His fifty yards after the

catch on that fifty nine yard touchdown reception. He was expected to get three yards after the catch with initial tackles broken there, so he got fifty yards over expected YAK on that play from next Gen Stats, that was the third most YAK over expected on a reception this season. You stay with me on that most yards after the catch above expected based upon NFL averages and speed and

stats and all that fun stuff. I have the tweet available from next Gen Stats in the top news article that was published on Tuesday on Miami Dolphins dot Com. Out at the receiver position. Three of Isaiah fords four receptions in the game move the chains, including that critical seventeen yard gain on a third down and five on Miami's game tying field goal drive, the one that made it sixteen to sixteen there in the fourth quarter, And why receiver Mac Collins improved upon his team best PFF

run blocking grade at seventy eight point one. He and Ted end Mike get sick He hit key blocks on gaskins fifty nine yard touchdown catch and run. Hollins also pulled in the third most improbable completion of the season on Fitzpatrick's no look thirty four yard heave to go ahead and put the Dolphins in position to win that game Saturday night. On that play again, back to next Gen stats, air distance of that throw forty five point

three yards quarterback under pressure. There was point four yards between Hollands and the sideline when he made that catch. All of that adds up to a ten point nine percent completion probability. That was the third most improbable completion in the National Football League this season. We got it, We got the field goal, We got the dub. Tight End Mike Kasicki pulled in four passes for fifty four yards. He's now fifth among tight ends with six hundred fifty

six receiving yards. His thirteen point seven yards per reception ranks fourth among tight ends with at least twenty catches. If he can get one hundred thirty six yards in the season finale and Buffalo next Sunday, he would surpass Randy McMichael's seven nine one yards for the most yards

by tight end in Dolphins history. Center Ted Carris and right guard Jesse Davis were charged with one pressure allowed each, and offensive tackles Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt combined to allow five pressures, but none of those were hits on the Miami quarterback keeping two and fits clean in that regard. On the defensive side. For the snap counts here, we start off on the defensive line. Ray Kwon Davis has fifty three snaps in this game, eight three pc of

the workload. Christian Wilkins gives you forty seven and Zach Seeler gives you thirty in the game. But Ato Jones also how to snap up front. Emmanuel Ogba played fifty nine snaps in the game at linebacker, Kyle van Noy played every wrap all sixty four. Jerome Baker gives you sixty two snaps, and Andrew Van Geinkle gives you fifty six in the game. Plenty of guys showing their conditioning, showing their late season Week sixteen, that endurance, the work

they've put in to get their conditioning. These guys playing tons of snaps in this game and paying off huge dividends for this Dolphins defense e Landon Roberts left the game on the cart that was I did not like seeing that scene. Man, that sucked. That guy works hard. He is a big part of this team, a big leader on this team. Nineteen snaps for him in the game. Calvin Munson gives you six. Commu gruge A Hill plays one. In the secondary, Byron Jones played sixty three snaps. Xaving

Howard did as well. That was one snap short of the total for the defense. Nick ed him played thirty seven in the game, and safety Eric Rowe put every snap all sixty four. Bubby McCain gives you sixty three, and Brandon Jones gives you sixteen snaps in the game. Hey Caroline, how's it going, baby girl? As for the stats from Pro Football Focus, in this game, cornerback Xaving Howard was targeted four times in the game. He allowed

to catch, but it went for negative one yard. That performance improved upon his league best forty nine point four percent completions allowed and dipped his league best pass rating against down to forty eight point five that's best among all NFL cornerbacks. He added two passes defense that gives him nineteen for the season, also tops in the NFL to go along with his legal nine interceptions this season.

This The last time a Dolphins defender had nineteen pass defense in a season was Andre Goodman in two thousand eight, and no player has had more since Patrick Sir Tam in two thousand good company there. Linebacker Jerome Baker made ten tackles in the game, giving him better than one hundred tackles for the second consecutive season. Six of Baker's tackles were good for run stops. Those are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage. He continues to

have a fantastic season. Andrew Van Giggle had a big, big game. He became the fifth different Dolphins defender to record multiple sacks in the game this season. He also had a career high five quarterback pressures and added three run stops and batted a pass down at the line of scrimmage. Defensive end Emmanuel Ogbo was second on the team with three QB pressures. That gives him sixty two on the season, the most in a single season by a Miami Dolphins since Cam Wake in teen who had

sixty seven that year. So five more pressures from the big man can help him get in Cam Wag's company from that great, great season. Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins was the highest grade defender on the Dolphins defense. He applied two pressures and made two total tackles in the game. Zack Seelert ray Kwon Davis also added a combined three quarterback pressures and both had two run stops each in

this game and as four. Miami specialist Jason Standers put together his second game winning kick of the season, this time from forty five yards out. Had the fifty yard against the Cardinals back in Week nine with just one second on the game clock. This time around. His thirty four made field goals are the second most in the NFL and second most Dolphins history. His one d thirty six points scored this season are also second best in

franchise history. His nineteen field goals from forty plus yards leads the NFL, and his eight field goals from fifty plus yards are tied for most in the league. The long range kicking of Jason Sanders comes up big, big time and time again for your Miami Dolphins. Matt Hawk has twenty four points down inside the twenty yard line. That's sixth best in the NFL, and Jachem Grants three d and thirty punt return yards are still tops in

the National Football League. The Dolphins have one of the most disciplined teams in the NFL under head coach Brian Flora's top five last year in penalty yardage and fouls committed against them this year third fewest penalties seventy two times and six hundred and fifteen penalty yardage. That's fourth

fewest in the National Football League. Let's go ahead and break down some films, starting here first with the offensive side of the football, and we start here with the offense and the quarterback, and two a tongue of Bloa in general here and talking about him kind of reflecting upon maybe taking some some opportunities to throw the football where in this league it's covered but it's actually open.

He's talked about that a few times. And on the first play of the game, you've got the safety who's pretty much in conflict with a corner route from one side of the field to the wide side and a post route from the boundary to put him in a bind to go for the corner or the post. And I think it's one of those instances that to who might be talking about, we're letting it rip a little bit. It's a leverage throw where you have to anticipate the defenders lean and there might have been a big play

opportunity there. But there's also something he's shown the ability to do plenty of times as well in that anticipation rip, the reading the leverage of the defender and throwing it accordingly.

We've talked about that YouTube channel with JT. O. Sullivan a few times on this podcast, and he goes back to the Cardinals game when Gasicki gets behind a linebacker and because a linebacker's back is turned to two, he knows that in that instance he can only cover the width of his shoulders, and so he's done it before, but it just might be an experienced thing where he continues to get more reps and continue to see more defenses at this level, which twenty two year old quarterback

here coming off of an off season where there was only virtual meetings and programs. In that type thing. We've see him do it in college. We've seen him doing it here in the pros. It's literally the least of my worries when it comes to this football team, but you see those reps kind of start to add up, and maybe he can begin to create that catalog of

his own that Ryan Fitzpatrick always refers to. Now, for instance, a third nine conversion on the second drive of the game, Jachem runs a little cruel route at the sticks between a quad of raiders defenders for defenders in the area, and you see two US hands separate from the football before Jakeem gets to the top of the stem and starts coming back down the stem on that curl route.

The anticipation is there, just got to do it more consistently, and Las Vegas often wroth late in the formation or late at the snap in this game to what ultimately got them into what I think was covered too. I don't know their defense, but you see the cornerbacks play up tight, turn the receiver deep, and the two safeties deep in the middle of the field take half the

deep half of the field. And there were some instances where the receiver will release on a takeoff and got turned free with that little ten to fifteen yard pocket to rip that turkey whole shot. An area where cover two can be beat sometimes and an opportunity for this offense take to take advantage of those looks some more

to us stuff. You're on the second possession, second down and ten, the Raiders get a well timed safety blitz, and I like the way to It does so well to erase these negative plays and get you into even if it's a one yard game like it was on this one, to quickly flip the ball out and not

take that sack. And it was the only option because it was looking like it was gonna be a sack with a free rusher coming in onto who still was not to the top of his drop yet, so he doesn't have that twitch to be able to move because he's not anticipating getting pressure that early. So you go from an eight nine yard lost in that play to a one yard game. I also love the quick rip and the quick ability to drop the arm angle and flip that thing out in a hurry, whether his feet

are set or not. There was a drag route to Jachem Grant on the first field goal drive of the game. If he catches the football clean, he might have the angle on the safety he's outflanked, but had about fifteen yards or so to re establish that angle. But we've seen what Jachem speed can do to those pursuit angles. I think maybe he catches that ball clean, he bobbles it, gets it and gets some yards. But maybe if he catches a clean he might have gone the disk. And

on the very next play, it's an empty package. Raiders are ten of them up on the line of scrimmage, and all five routes are blanketed, manned up across the board. And that's what you get when you get man coverage opportunities for the quarterback run too, finds a crease, steps up, sneaks out and converts on fourth and two. Nice play there from the rookie quarterback. And I don't know the progressions of the play. I talked about this all time. I'm just telling you what I think I see, but

I don't know the actual calls. On the next snap, he lays one out to Lynn Bowden for six yards. With a couple of layered routes coming over. You've got Linn Bowden coming under the formation for the little quick hitter, and then Mike Siki running a corner route and he's got similar position with leverage on a downfield defensive back ten yards deeper than that. Kind of back to that first point about experience and seeing more, maybe letting that

thing fly down feel a little bit more. Ryan Fitzpatrick comes into the game. His first pass play to Ford was an example of that. Ford gets an outside shoulder and fits, lets that thing fly and gets to the point of the break with a defender out leveraged such a big play in that game, backed up deep in your own zone, third down, trailing in the fourth quarter. Nice player there from Ryan Fitzpatrick. He of course got the ball out quickly and did what he does in

this instance. He's such a good reliever to come off the bench when you need a spark on your offense. He gave it to Miami in this game. But going back to to his game, I think there's plenty of things you look at in this tape where you say that's that's the quarterback we like, that's the quarterback we want.

He's still making these big time reads, getting into correct run call run calls at times, and continues to save negative plays and make them positive plays, and still does not turn the football over barely at all so far at this point of his career at the running back position.

Miles Gaskin, what a game this guy had just an incredibly smart, instinctive runner that both gets to the correct lane and at least the lane that met looks most fruitful on certain plays and limited wasted movement, setting up blocks before he gets to those points. And this all happens in a flash, and it speaks to his feel

for the game, his smarts, his instincts. He largely avoids negative runs as he recognizes and gets away from danger to find a spot where he can get away from that initial penetration and get north and south when that instant penetration does arrive. He is obviously a monster in

the passing game. His first big rip, a fourteen yard play he's pressing at play side, winds it backside, and before he gets to the whole he throws a little jab step that moves a linebacker over the top of a Robert Hunt's second level block, and that simultaneous first and seven second level block action just sets them up for big runs and big gashes in the ground game.

Love Miles Gaskin's tape. The touchdown on the screen pass running through two tackles just a stroke of genius, a nose for the goal line, and also a very nice ball fake and quick flip by two on that play to drop the arm angle and get that football to him quickly immediately so he can make those guys miss.

And then of course the long touchdown the balance on display once again to slip out of that first tackle, squares up, the defense finds an opening, reverses field, gets two huge blocks downfield from Mac and Mike for the fifty nine yards score. Just great team effort all around, but Miles Gasking I thought this tape was just terrific for the Dolphins second year running back. Speaking of the offensive line, Robert Hunt's matchup with Max Crosby in this game was a fun one to watch. He got some

one on one opportunities. They would slide protection away and keep him on the island, and he has this heavy punch initially that stifles Crosby in his tracks, and Crosby later went against that and kind of drew a punch out of Robert Hunt early and got him out over his skis a little bit. But that was basically it. Hunt would redirect. He would work against the power and

anchor against those bull rushes. He would get up field on speed rushes, the cross chops, trying to get two moves or the counter move to the first move, spin moves inside. He really had answers for most of the things that Crosby was throwing his way. I was super impressed by this tape and his recent round of tape in general. He also had some damn good work in the Running Game. We talked about his big blocks on Winnovich and Jones last week to spring that thirty one

yard akmed run. He had an awesome second level climb and seal on McMillan on a big gas and run in this game as well. Ted carriss I just continue to be impressed, mainly by a couple of things. His active feat as he works to continuously stay in position and pass protection, and his second level work in the Screen game as well as climbing to that second level

in the Running Game. I also love the way he attacks a pass rusher like Maurice Hearst, for instance in this game, who wants to play that hair on fire, get up feel as fast as you can, and rather than letting him get off the line of screments with that quick get off that he has, Ted would go attack and he would go initiate the contact and stop him before he can get started. Also Ted and Jesse. I thought both Jessa Davis hit a number of key reach blocks in this game to get that outside shoulder,

turned the man inside, create that lamb. That's a tough ask and both those guys did well in that department. Eric Flowers had a key block on a twenty four yard Miles Gaskin run and very similar fashion reach, get outside catch and turn seal off that gap. I thought he got better as the game win long cutting back off that injury. Isaiah Ford, you love the field. This

guy has the first catch. He had, moved the chains in the red zone on that touchdown drive that was capped on the screen pass from two to Miles gas Kim. He moved with ta as two of broke contain and gave his quarterback a target on a scramble broken play. Veteran moved there from Isaiah Ford. How about Mike A sicky man. What a tough dude he is getting back and making a big impact. That big gainer on the over route on the game tying field goal drive. Fitzpatrick's

first of the night. Nice little stutter step as he closed his ground quickly and eats up the cushion from the safety and coverage and then just turns on the jets and runs away from him. His releases have become such a weapon at this stage of his career. Then he comes right back and runs the seam with an awesome elevating catch for thirty one yards. That guy is the best Tampa two buster, one of the best Tampa two busters in the NFL, with that speed, that length,

athletic ability and strong hands. Staying at the tight end position, I thought Adam Saheen did an excellent job of sealing the edge without holding. Has a very strong grip that way. Miami is getting big runs off the edge every single week now, and these tight ends are a big reason for it. Because the same can be said about Durham Smith. He had an excellent seal on an eight yard Miles gas Can run that really created a lane for him

to get through. He also had a key block on Lynn Bowden's first down run on that direct snap play. So once again, offense is young, continues to grow and improve and find out more about themselves. They continue to find gaps and plays in the running game, which is a good thing to have going forward. We'll see if we can continue to develop this passing game and really create that balance and get the ultimate complete team victory

hopefully here coming up soon in the coming weeks. Let's go ahead and spin this thing over to the defensive side of the football the All review here on the Tuesday, December the twenty ninth edition of the Drivetime podcast, and we start with the topic that I think I've covered quite a few times here on the All twenty two reviews every single Tuesday on Drive Time. And the most fun thing to watch for me with this team every

week on defense is the mixing of coverage. Is there are so much pre snap to skis and post nap rotation where guys are flying in and out of the

box and going backwards. For instance, there's a play where you've got Brandon Jones lined up pretty much on the lines, like one or two yards off the football, Bobby McCain's fifteen yards deep in center field and he flies downhill Bobby does to take away a flat route while Brandon Jones gets back over the top to take away the deep middle, and you've got Nicked them coming off the corner on a cap blitz, just mixing it up, confusing the quarterback, trying to throw different looks at them and

force them into quick decisions under your pressure looks. It's

been successful pretty much all season long. The Raiders did have some success with some traps, some wham blocks where you reach the nose tackle where basically you invite him upfield and you hit him with a guard to get him off balance to get him out of the play, and that opens up a situation where you can then down block the linebackers, because we know Miami loves to walk up Baker and Van Noy and the entire lineback and crew into those a gaps and show that pressure

that way when they're mugged up. If they can get down blocked by a big offensive tackle, that's a tough matchup there if that linebacker. But I think it's a good thing you saw some of that in this case because if someone tries it again later in the season,

you know have some tape on on that look. With the wayam and trap blocks the Raiders through the Dolphins in this game, there was a big third down stop in the red zone where you just had excellent coverage across the board late in this game, late third quarter, might have an early fourth quarter where Byron is locked up on Renfro, x on Aglar, Bobby McCain on Jason Witten, and Van Noy greets Darren Waller who's coming across the formation of motion. He greets him with a big hit

and pretty much takes him out of the play. And I thought this play was a great descriptor a great indicator of who this Dolphins defenses. Physical, it communicates well, it battens down the hatches on third down and in the red zone. Huge play late in this game. I'm it was aces all game long down in that red area. Xavian Howard Man. We talked about his coverage skills all the time, and for good reason. He's been one of

the best in the league all year long. But the play he made on the second play of the game I think shows his overall value. He keys a screen pass to the outside and gets to the football immediately. His quick reaction forces Needham's man to come off and make a block trying to get to X, so when Renfro changes direction, Needham is there to help clean it up along with Kyle Van Noy on that play and

then for X on the coverage. Literally the very next play, he's on Nelson Aglar and a condensed split, and Agilar releases inside on what looks like it could be an over route. You get that condensed split run across the formation, forced the defensive back to play catch up the entire snap, but then he bends it back across for a corner route and X is just in the hip pocket the

entire time. He has been so good at recognizing the route and transitioning in and out of breaks and getting into that hip pocket at least a lot of picks leads a lot of past breakups, leads to a lot of just place where he doesn't get targeted at all. Also, his mirror ability impressed man coverage is awesome. Press is often confused for a jam where the receiver gets or the cornerback gets up on the receiver's face and puts hands on him, But in this instance, he's just mirroring.

He's not gonna initiate that contact, but just mirror the release of the wide receiver. It was a takeoff from Aglare and X just pins him into the sideline runs the route for him. Just continue to be impressed by the season. This guy is having all year long. Go up into the front seven Andrew Van Gigelman. The way he beats blocks off the edge continues to really impress me.

He's consistent at it. He knifes under the blocks or he hits it with contact, finds a way to get around, and then gets his hands down in the lower half of the back like the quads, the ankles, the feet, and so many times he can trip up those running backs. Would think he's out of the play, but he did it on the first play of the game to stop Josh Jacobs for a game of just three. His sack was another element of his game. His first act, I

should say had to in the game. His first act was just another element of his game that he's definitely developed from his college days back at Wisconsin. He just throws a straight bulrush on Colton Miller and runs him right back into Derek Carr and damn near gets the football out in the process. He puts hand on him and runs right through a block and the left tackle could never reset his feet because of the power on

that play of Van Ginkel. Now on the batted pass, same situation, he goes for that same power move, but here does a great job of keeping his eyes up and then creating space between he and Colton Miller so he can elevate. If you're in too tight, you're not gonna be able to get off that block and elevate and get your hands up. He does it here, keeps his eyes in the quarterback, gets the hands up, deflects the past. Now on his second sack, I want to

really just appreciate Emmanuel Ogba. Here he sets the pick for Van Ginkle to loop inside and og Boss pure power move forces the tackle to help because he beats the guard initially and the guard continues to block outside and that creates the inside alley for Gink to run through. From there, he's got a corner and finish, and he does just that. Not to mention a great job and

man coverage across the board, everything locked up. I thought Bobby did a good job being in multiple passing lanes throughout the game in the deep half of the field back there. Speaking of aug Ba, I thought he drew a bunch of double teams in this game and still found a way to make an impact, mostly when he would slant inside across the face of the tackle and push the pocket that way. He forced to throw away on a third and goal by forwarding a chip block

and a cut block simultaneously. Went and tries to kind of get a shoulder on him to throw him off, and the tackle tries to cut him. He gets away from it, and then after coming to a full stop, sprints downhill in a hurry to put car in a bind and force him to throw the football away. Speaking of more unappreciated play, Kyle van Noy his hustle to retrace on wide receiver screens and make a tackle after getting cut blocked. Love to see that from the veteran.

I also mentioned this on the Sunday podcast with the play that he made just before the fourth down Zach Seedler stop where he attacks the fullback cars on the boot, then he falls back into coverage to take away the running back in the past concept just so dang good. And on the other side of that play, Jerome Baker picks up a backside crosser before that thing can develop

and forces the incompleation. These guys just play so instinctually sound, and they communicate and they get themselves in the passing lanes. I thought both those guys again had a hell of a game. Speaking of the underappreciated club. Christian Wilkins does so many things that just don't really show up in the stats, in the stat line, the box score, even

though he does get in the box score. He wins quick inside on a twist to help carry up a blocker and free up a Ray Kwon Davis pressure where he just shows you that quick burst and get off in the kind of short compact bill where he can rush through and and force the line to change its complexion in a way. Did that a couple of times in this game. There's a first and goal running from the three where he's head up over Trent Brown three

hundred and eighty pound Trent Brown. That rhymes and Christian strikes him, tosses him aside, gets into the gap and stacks up Josh Jacobs just sheer strength to go along with that quickness. What a hell of a combo finish up here with Zach Siel, This dude freaking split a double team against as a three technique between the left

tackle and left guard. The double him and it forces a throwaway from Derek Carr and then on the fourth down stop he wins across face even though he was out leveraged pre snap I just wrote, Damn, I'm glad we found this guy. What a game again, What a play? What a season for Zack Seelers. That's your defensive notes, of the offensive notes, the stats. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast by hearing from Josh Boyer, Danny Craftsman,

and Chan Gailey, your Miami Dolphins coordinators. And we start here with defensive coordinat or Josh Boyer, who was asked an interesting question about what he might take from Brian Flores as coaching skill set in Brian Flores is demeanor in the building and how he might try to emulate that.

Here's Josh Boyer talking about how they're both their own man. Well, I think you know Flow, you know, he directs the entire organization from a coaching standpoint, and if you know, if he wants something done and you know the best the best of you know, our abilities as a defensive staff, we try to get that executed. Um, you know, Flows his own person. I'm my own person, and I really try to emulate um, you know, or be the same.

Just try to be myself and be genuine. Um you know, but you know, he he does an outstanding job of of having his uh, you know, hand on on the pulse of the team. Um, he understands X and XS and knows very well and UM, you know, it's it's just been a you know, a working relationship. He's him and I'm me and um, you know, and ultimately we share the same goals. UM. So it's uh, when you have a shared vision and shared goals, it's it's a pretty easy, uh working relationship. And so we get the

Buffalo bills this weekend. If you guys watched the game on Monday night, you know what Stefon Digs is capable, leads the NFL and receiving. You know what Cole Beasley is capable. And you know that John Brown could be back this week and plenty of other options there as well. So I wanted to ask coach how the process goes throughout the course of the week as far as deciding what matchups you want to roll with, deciding who's gonna cover who, who's got who when you go in man coverage.

Here's Josh Boyer on the process of picking out matchups throughout the course of the weekend preparation. Shan H, I think I think it's a combination of of all things. I think sometimes you have a pretty good idea going into it. I think, uh, sometimes you can start one way and you can get into the week and go,

you know, this might be a little bit better. Ultimately it comes down to, you know, you really just want to put the guys in the best position to succeed, and um, you know, based on what they've done, based on what our opponent does. UM. So you know, a lot of a lot of things go into that, um, but ultimately, you know, what you're trying to do is

put those guys in the best position to succeed. And again, back to the game on Monday night, the Josh Allen the Buffalo Bill's offense just kind of did whatever they wanted, as they have done for the last several weeks. Here on this role, coach was asked about Josh Allen's athletic ability, the mobile quarterback and the challenges that presents. Coaches talked again at length about all the weapons this offense has

and how dangerous they are. So here's Josh Boyer talking about the threat of Josh Allen and the dangerous of a mobile quarterback. Well, again, he's extremely athletic. Um, you know, I mean he can stand in the pocket make all the throws, he can move and make all the throws. Um. You know, he's been productive in both both areas. Um. You know. I think as the season goes, you know, you hope you improve in all facets of the game, and um, you know, and and really what it comes

down to his execution. You know, like I would say that we're constantly striving for improvement, Uh, no matter what it is. And you know, there's always you always face adversity, there's always bumps in the road. And you know, I don't think anybody's ever coached a perfect game or anybody's played a perfect game. But at this time of the year,

we need to be at our best. Let's go ahead and hear from Dolphins special teams Cordin or Danny Crossman, who discussed the fake punt to Clayton Federluin, who ripped off a twenty two yard run just one yard shy of Matt Turk's twenty three yard run back in two thousand three, the longest run by a non skilled player

on offense since that run by Matt Turk. Here has coach Crossmen talking about the Dolphins proclivity to go towards some trickeration on special teams and getting the looks they like, and how they go ahead go about calling those fakes

on special teams. Well, again, I think you know, you know, we try and come up with with things that we like, uh, and I just think that more than anything, you know, opportunities have presented themselves, whether it's with particular looks or with the situation of the game where it's something that's uh given us the opportunity to call it. And then more importantly, you know, as you guys probably sick here, and then it comes down to the execution of it.

And you know, we've been good on some things and bad on some other things. But you know, fortunately it uh, it was successful on Saturday night. And we know Jason Centers has just three misses on the season. He's been so consistent and reliable as the placekicker on this football team, scoring tons of points ont six, just eight points off

the team franchise record set by Lindel mare Back. I'm always fascinated by the aspect of kicking, the techniques, the psychological aspect of kicking, kind of like in the way golf, it's all about the stroke and having confidence in that stroke and in your swing. Here's coach Crossmen talking about the confidence Sanders has in his stroke right now and how even when he misses, because of the confidence with that stroke and how he struck the ball well, it

never wavers. I think the biggest thing with with Jason's and I don't think his I don't think his confidence has has ever wavered. Um. I know we've we've talked about this in the past, and you know, even on some of his on his misses, you know he's he's struck the ball very well. So I think when you when you have that and you're you're striking the ball well and you've struck it well off season, you know if you do have a miss, you're not gonna over

analyze that. And I think as a as a group, as a team, I think there's there's a confidence in the team when we run Jason out there that you

know that successful things are going to happen. So uh, you know, again, hopefully that continues and uh and we keep working in and you know, he keeps in the in the zone that he's been in all season, and we'll go ahead and finish up with Dolphins O C Chan Gailey, who was asked about the approach to go vertical and to go high temp or up tempo high attacking down the field late in the football game, all about the situation of the game trailing late, and I

thought the most interesting part of this quote was him talking about the stylistic approach of the offense and how this offense wants to be a specific type of offense. Here's Chan talking about what type of offense they want to be. The situation of the game has a lot to do with it. You know you you end up getting behind and needing to get down the field and score points quickly. That has a lot to do with it.

And then we're um, we've been attained. It is tried to be nine, ten, eleven, twelve, play drives, run the football, play action, pass, UM, control the time on the clock, UM. And so that's the that's the situation that we found with two of in the ball game. We're plus you you know you you're missing some receivers from time to time,

and that has something to do with it. So a lot of that goes into decision making about how they how the situation, how the game is being called and what kind of players we run and Myles gas can return with a big night one and sixty nine yards from scrimmage on Saturday night. I wanted to ask chan Gaily about the lift he gives you an offense. He talks here about the committee approach and going with the

hot hand in the backfield. He had a good week of practice, which you know that that always means a lot. If the guy has a good week of practice, you have a lot the confidence going into the game. And m savon and done extremely well obviously the week before. So uh he got to start and then all of a sudden, Miles started running the football and getting some creases and making some play. So um, he got the hot hand. And that's kind of how we've been doing

it this year. Whoever he gets the hot hand, we let him go. And so there you have it. There are your coordinators. That's gonna do it for this Tuesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. This week coming up, we have the Bills preview on tomorrow's show. Do not miss that. We'll also have the feature with Savan Akhmed and Miles Gasking here on the podcast. Looking forward to doing that. We'll flash back later on this week as well, planning to come your way here on Drivetime and Miami dolphins

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