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We're gonna get into the numbers, the snap counts, the rankings, all the aftermath of Week fourteen in the National Football League. Plus will dive into the all two here from the assistant coaches and take the temperature of the team with three weeks to go. All of that and more on this Tuesday, December fifte edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Three Dolphins Fans, The New Year starts now at Auto Nation.

Let's skip the rest of twenty and get to big New Year's savings on your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's, Four's, Toyotas, Hondas, and a whole lot more shops safely at the Auto Nation store near you or auto nation dot com and save. Now. Let's go ahead and jump right away into the Dolphins team rankings after fourteen weeks of the NFL season, and offensively, twenty five point four points per game is fifteen best

in the National Football League. The Dolphins have the twenty seventh ranked offense, twenty seventh ranked rushing offense, and twenty second ranked passing offense. They've allowed the fifteen few ast sacks in the NFL, and their third down offense is

best in the NFL. On defense, eighteen point eight points per game allowed, that second best in the NFL, just point six points off the Steelers pace for the top spot in the National Football League, my Amy's defense is ranked eighteen and total defense twenty two and rushing defense eighteen. In passing defense and the Dolphins third down defense is best in the National Football League thirty three point one percent.

They have the are tied for the eleventh most sex in the league, and their twenty five takeaways is tied for first with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So those are your team rankings. As far as some individual stats and snap council, let's go ahead and start as we do with the special teams first and talk about the fact that Dolphins still for the seventh straight week, remain a top Football Outsiders d v o A special teams ranking their nine point one percent d v o A, which is defensive

adjusted value over average. I know it's a mouthful. They are number one in the NFL in that category. Why. Receiver Jakeem Grant is the NFL's top punt returner. He has three d and twenty three yards as a punt returner, and Jason Sanders thirty field goals are second most in the NFL. His eight field goals from fifty yards or beyond are tied for the most in the NFL, and his nine point seven percent success ray on field goals this year is third among kickers who have at least

twenty attempts on the season. Punter Matt Hawk registered just his second touchback of the season on Sunday. He's tied for the fifth fewest minimum ten punts among all NFL punters. His twenty two punts down inside the twenty yard line

are tied for six in the National Football League. We talked about penalties on yesterday's top news story and Brian Flores once again has this team near the top of the fewest penalties assessed against them and fewest penalty yard is assessed against them in that category, they've been penalized sixty times for four hundred and ninety nine yards this year. The sixty penalties is third fewest and the four hundred ninety nine yards is the second fewest in the National

Football League. As far as some of the advanced stats on offense, first we start with the snap counts and two. A Tongue of Valoa played eighty three snaps. That was good for one. He joined Solomon Kinley, Ted Carriss, Jesse Davis, Robert Hunt as players that played every snap on offense and as a whole, the Dolphins offense with those rookies uh Hunt, Kinley, and Tongue Vloa along with Austin Jackson who played seventy five snaps in the game and rookies

Malcolm Perry and Lynn Boden Bowden played fifty nine. Perry played thirty three. The Dolphins had forty five point six percent of their offensive snaps in this game come from rookies, so a little bit of perspective there on the offensive production with first year players. Running back Patrick Laird led the way among backs with forty two snaps. That was

one of the workload. DeAndre Washington was the only other running back to play in this game, thirty nine reps for him, good for forty seven percent, so a pretty even platoon there. We talked about Boden's fifty nine snaps, Mac Collins gets forty in the game, Malcolm Perry plays thirty three, Jachem Grant thirty one, Davante Parker seven, and Antonio Calais rounds out the wide receivers with twenty two snaps. At tight end, Mike Siki played forty three, Adam Shaheen

played thirty seven, and Derham Smith played thirty six. Plenty of players counted on in this game to play snaps, and then Austin and Jackson. We talked about the four offensive lineman who went wire to wire. He played seventy five reps. Julian Davenport played eleven in the absence of Jackson as well as some heavy packages down around the goal line, and Christian Wilkins had three snaps on offense as a full back slash eligible receiver into the game

in those heavy packages. As for some of the offenses. Advanced Metrics and Stats Tongue Byla hit a career high for the second straight week with three hundred and sixteen passing yards his first three hundred yard game as a pro per NFL next Gen stats, he averaged six point five air yards per completion that was the ninth most in the league this week. He did that with the twelfth quickest snap or snapped to throw time at two

point five six seconds. He completed three throws of twenty plus air yards for seventy four total yards, a touchdown and a pick on those throws, and when he was blitzed, he completed eight of fifteen passes for eighty yards, a touchdown, and the one interception he's thrown this year in six starts. Running Back Patrick Laird had the season high in terms of average yards after contact five point oh as he rushed for nineteen yards on four carries and two first downs.

DeAndre Washington picked up twenty seven of his thirty five rushing yards in this game after initial contact. We talked about Lynn Bowden getting his highest workload. It resulted in a career high eighty two yards. He averaged nine point one yards per target, and six of those seven catches

that he made produced first downs. Mac Hollins also has a career high with sixty six receiving yards He did that on nine targets, good for a nice solid seven point three yards per target and thirteen point two yards per catch for mac Hollins. Tight end Mike Gasicki caught five of his six targets for sixty five yards. That's a very impressive ten point eight yards per target. Also had two touchdowns for a second time in his career. All of his catches produced either points, a touchdown or

a first down. He's now fourth among tight ends with six hundred and two receiving yards and six among tight ends with six touchdown catches this season. On the offensive line, Ted Carres and Robert Hunt had the lowest pressure per snap right They both allowed two pressures each on sixty

five pass blocking snaps. Apiece and tackle Julian Davenport did not allow a pressure and his seven pass blocking snaps filling in for the injured rookie and Austin Jackson on the defensive sid would take a look at the snap counts over here. Christian Wilkins, who played three snaps on offense, also led all interior defensive lineman with forty three snaps

in the game at six of the workload. But ray Kuan Davis is right behind him forty one snaps, and Zack Seeler gives you twenty five snaps in this game. Defense event Shack Lawson had fifty eight snaps that was of the workload. Emmanuel Ogba played forty nine, Jason Strowbridge had one, and then a linebacker. Coach Flores talked about this on Monday, a little bit being down Roberts and van Noy, and more specifically van Noy, who does so much from an off ball and rushing linebacker off the edge,

does a little bit of everything. He talked about Jerome Baker having to do more rushing in this game. He produced US two and a half sacks, playing sixty one of the team's sixty two defensive snaps in this game, Commu gruge Hill played thirty seven snaps. That was Andrew van Gekl had thirty one, and Sammguavin got onto the field for six snaps. In this game. Quarnerbacks Byron Jones Xaviing Howard never left the field. They played all sixty

two snaps, as did safety Eric Rowe. Cornerback Nick Needon played forty six snaps in the game. Safety Brandon Jones played thirty four That was two snaps more than Bobby McCain, who had to exit the game a couple of times with injuries, and safety Cavon Fraser played twenty four snaps and Clayton Federlum gave you seven snaps in the game. Now, as far as these defensive advanced metrics, there are some good ones. Howard had an interception for the fifth straight game,

giving him nine on the season. That's the most in the NFL. He's now one interception away from tying the franchise record set back in nineteen sixty seven by Dick Westmoreland, who had ten picks that year. No NFL player has intercepted nine passes in a season since Chicago's Tim Jennings did it in and the last time a player recorded double digit interceptions in one season was San Diegos Antonio

Carmardi back in two thousand seven. When targeting Howard this year, opposing quarterbacks have a passer rating of fifty three point four, that second best among cornerbacks who have seen at least thirty pass targets in their direction. And we talk all the time about coverage, mirroring or marrying up with the pass rush and defensive play up front. Well, it started with these defensive tackles who all had very good games in this one. Rookie ray Kwon Davis has thirty five

tackles this year. That's most among rookie defensive lineman. Three of his five total tackles were within two yards of the line of scrimmage. Are One of our favorite stats are on the podcast a run stop and since Week nine, Davis has fourteen run stops, that's fifth most in the NFL. You know who has the most over that period, Zack Seeler. He has sixteen run stops in that period and he is third at his position on the entire season with

twenty seven run stops this year. He added three run stops and a quarterback pressure in the game on Sunday, and Christian Wilkins is right up there to He had three run stops and a pressure on Mahomes three times in that category, including a half a sack along with Jerome Baker on that final sack of the game from Miami. Wilkins now has twenty five run stops on the season. That's tied for seventh most among all NFL defensive tackles. Jerome Baker had two and a half sacks on the game.

The thirty yards sack was the biggest loss this year on a sack, and the Dolphins are the only team in NFL history with two sacks of twenty eight yards lost or more. His two point five stacks on Patrick Mahomes was the most ever against that quarterback. He had eight tackles, four of those were good for run stops, and he was second on Miami with three quarterback pressures. Shack Lawson had four pressures. He led the way in

that category also made two run stops. Defensive end Emmanuel Ogba added three pressures to his season total, which is now up to fifty six, tied for third most among edge defenders with Los Angeles Joey Bosa. What a season Emmanuel Ogbas having. If you go back and look at the tape. We'll talk about this later. He actually was a big part of that Jerome Baker thirty yards sack. He forced h Patrick Mahomes to kind of wheel deal

into that pressure of Jerome Baker. Andrew Van Geigel had two run stops and also tipped the past that led to the pick by cornerback Byron Jones, who of course did have his first interception as a Dolphin, also forced to fumble, and he was targeted just one time in the game for one reception and nine yards. Safety Eric Row had his second interception of the season and his third as a member of the Miami Dolphins. For the rest of the article, inside the numbers up on Miami

Dolphins dot com, go check out the website. We do this every single week here on the Tuesday Podcast and Monday up on Miami Dolphins dot com. So go ahead and spin this thing forward. Now to the All two review. Getting a chance to watch this on the game pass, after watching the broadcast version, watching Tony Romo compliment this Dolphins team, and of course after being there in person

on Sunday. But the All two review, we start with the offensive side of the football, and earlier we talked about the snap counts, and you might have noticed all the snaps played by the tight ends, each of them checking in with at least thirty five snaps in this game. And certainly part of that is losing Parker and granted injuries,

but there were some thirteen personnel looks before that. They opened the game with back to back snaps out of thirteen personnel, so wasn't just by the injury design, by game plan design going into it. They used those tight ends. Second drive of the game, they work off the success of the fly sweep last week to Jachim Grant coming across the formation, taking that handoff, ripping off a pair

of twenty plus yr runs. On this one, they sneak the tight end out into the area vacated by Jachem's motion and he's wide open at the line with room to run for sixteen yards. Tongue baloa to Shaheen like that play sequencing, building off of previous plays and using wrinkles on the new plays. The ensuing play was the lynbowed and touched or pass rather and the Chiefs were

just on top of it. Nothing else really to talk about it, but besides the fact that they covered it well, and then the third down conversion to Jachim just before the Ghaziki touchdown to finish up our general offensive scheme notes here it was a nice little simple short motion where Parker goes out and gets into a trips bunch look and then Grant just runs off a natural rub off that and it creates an opportunity for him to get wide open on the past play, So some cool

stuff there from chan Gailey and the offensive system. Lets go ahead and talk about to his game and his day starts off for me with that first third down throw and incomplete pass over the middle to Jachim. The pass pro is terrific. The Chiefs get a hit onto Ah after some time in the pocket on a t e stunt, a tackle end stunt that clears a run down the b gap onto a from a free rusher, but everything else is picked up and the throw is

really something. Miami motions Parker once again into a trip set into a tight formation or tight into the formation, and the Chiefs bracket Parker on his over out coming across the formation and in behind him, Jachim is on a dig route a you know, ten twelve, fifteen yards downfield, squared off inside and you see two his hands separate with Jachim still on the stem before he comes out of the break and a defender in the exact location where the football winds up going, so he's working off

that leverage, chasing the defender towards Parker. The window opens up after the ball has left to his hand and it meets Jachim off that incut just gotta fit to play there. But these anticipation throws are my favorite thing, and all the football to watch Dolphins are otherwise. And he's really been doing it on a weekly basis more

and more. And you also see him building off an area of his game that personally I've loved since his days at college, and I covered Dan Orlovsky talking about this to the third and three incomplete pass to Lyn Bowen right before Jason Sanders missfield goal. In this game, you can see two carry out the r P O and in one motion, he goes from facing the outside target and Mike get sicky on a flat route to simultaneously getting his feet and eyes back inside to Bowden

while he's been getting that throwing motion. And he does something similar on the very next third down play, the one that Orlovsky tweeted himself showing the goods as he put it. On third and eleven from the plus forty five. Your three routes to the field are a take off, a straight line go route towards the end zone from the furthest split receiver, the corner route from the two receiver the next receiver inside, and a flat from the

three The furthest slot inside. The safeties go back and it looks like they take a deep half each with the underneath corners kind of squatting the It's the look of cover two. I don't know the call, that's what it looks like to me. And what Orlowsky points out is the same thing we saw in the Bowden play two in one motion, looks and locates his body to the flat route while starting his motion to go over the top of that to the corner route, and the ball is out while once again Gasicki is still on

the stem hasn't come out of the break. And I have to believe this is the stuff that Romo was impressed with early on when he mentioned it. The underneath corner takes a step forward and that was all he needed to know that he had a pocket to throw out football too. And he later does it again on the first play of the second quarter, where his body's

pointed one way, the ball goes a different direction. And on that same drive, they run a slant off of an r P O with jet motion and the defensive end is left unblocked and you see him the defensive ent chase inside for the potential handoff. Then to a fakes the throw to the flat and the defensive end runs back in that direction, and then to just snaps the ball right and behind the area that he just

displays the defensive end from. So you've gotta love when you can leave a player unblocked like that and get the quarterback to influence him with those fine details to his game. The first touchdown past to Mike Gasicki was a great job of just using his eyes and staying with the play. Gasicki flashes late, comes off that block and the ball finds in between the eight and the eight on the jersey into a tight window. Nice throw there.

On the second half of the game, he gets a free rusher right in his face and gets out in space to extend and create some space for the receiver. As mac Hollins kind of breaks off the initial route. You have to create more time for the receivers to do that when the pressure closes in No One's open downfield. And then later in the game, a free runner comes right up the B gap and to a just as quickly as he catches the shotgun snap, he has that thing out of his hand to Smith on a slant.

The ball handling a quick trigger. We're on point at times. Now, both he and Flora's reference some mistakes in the game. He talked about getting it out quicker and giving what the defense are taking with the defense gives him rather like a second down. An eight sack in the second quarter looks like Shaheen flashes in the flat. I have no idea again, what the play caller progression is, but

maybe he's talking about stuff like that. Or on the safety where Mike Gasicki runs into over route and again I'm not sure what the callege, but it looks like he came open on that one, so you'd have to ask too about the progression there. But maybe those are some of the mistakes that he and Flow talked about in this game. And I'll just go ahead and finish with a note about the accuracy. I really like the confidence he has to try to fit those balls in

the tight windows. They say that sometimes covered guys are actually open in this league because of how good defensive backs are, and he's really putting the ball in position where his guys have a chance to win. I was really really impressed with this game from our rookie quarterback. Now we referenced the play of Mike Asiki on several of those plays, and I just felt for Mike on Sunday. You could tell he was hurting after that injury had to exit the game with. But what a game he had.

He's had. He's just added so many weapons to his route repertoire. He's got a nice shake, he can get through reroutes. He's become so deadly at catching contested balls as we've seen, you know, the touchdown to go high point the football and then to double catch it on

the kind of redirect. He did an awesome job on that play before the catch to kind of stack the defensive back and then slow up a little bit so the dB has to kind of work around him and gets kind of caught in no man's land trying to work through a body on the way of the football. Plus the dudes got hand you can count on in those tight spots like we mentioned, and really that's that's gonna be the best way to develop that trust between

quarterback and receiver. And I think we've seen that a lot with Mike the last few weeks, catching passes in those tight windows. Get well soon, Mike, Hopefully, hopefully your back sooner than later, Lynn Bowden, I just like this guy's game, man and my John Gruden voice. I like his game. He does a nice job of pushing leverage and then breaking his route when the defensive back commits

based on that leverage. It's similar to him making sudden change of direction bursts with the ball in his hands as a runner, which he certainly is capable of as well, and he can kind of slow play the release to close ground on the dB, then explode off the top of the stem and create separation that way. Be curious to watch some more of his game as we close

out the season here down the stretch. Jachim just put a note in here about the speed as such a nice element to have in there, and the sense of the jet suite because he carried another one for twelve yards. I talked about the influence that has for play sequencing earlier. It just does so much to hold those defenders for a beat at a time. Robert Hunt on the offensive line, he played really nice game. He's improving in past protection.

It seems every week he's got a really devastating first punch that he throws and then has the active feat to reposition and get himself back into good shape for that kind of second wave of the rep. There's a few times where he's you know, they slide the protection away from him and he's one on one on an island,

and he holds up pretty well there. I thought he also does good to get a good push to widen those b gap runs between he and the and the right guard where he comes out of that strong source of lower body strength, where he pops out of that stands and you see him really shove those those big heavy hands into the chest pad of the defensive end and it gets a little bit of knock back there and creates a lane. So a good game for Robert Hunt. I thought. I thought Austin Jackson had two reps in

this game early. I really liked the third down miss on the opening drive. The incompletion they pick up a stunt and he just stone walls that thing very well. Then the first play of the next drive he wipes out the chief's edge for a nice seven yard run from DeAndre Washington. And in past probably wrote about this outside arm stad that he just throws the left arm out there and gets a nice little stale may on

the pass rusher going up field. Then he can get himself back in position to rework for that secondary move. There's some stuff to work there with Austin Jackson. I've been picking up every single week that you like there out of your left tackle Durham Smith, who had a seven yard scramble on a bootleg that covered up both pass options. The Chiefs took it away, and Durham does a great job to get off that edge and seal that block and create an opportunity for two or to

attack the line of scrimmage. Durham does stuff like that every single week that just kind of goes unnoticed. Ted Larson, I thought he held the point pretty impressively against some some stout bull rushes in this game on the offensive line as well, rookie Solomon Kinley. I'm sure as a few those reps he'd like to have back. But the theme that I keep going back with him is the

work he does on double teams. He's just flat out overwhelming at times in a way where he swallows up blocks and if you remember back to Steve Marshall, I think it was like October maybe September, talked about doing a better job of staying on blocks with the entire offensive line. I think he might have a case for the best on the line when it comes to attaching to those blocks. And another note just for the Dolphins offensive line general man Chris Jones, that guy is good.

He is tough to get blocked. DeAndrea Washington the first down run where he leaps over the pile. I like that decision because Ted got cut down on the middle of the of the formation and it kind of creates this pile up for players to stack up. And DeAndre did a nice job. I thought of getting over the line with all those bodies littered in that gap that he was shooting for. And mac Hollins, I just put a note in here about his ability to fight back

to the football and work through a defensive back. He made that nice catch on the first touchdown drive of the fourth quarter, getting on top of the dB and coming back through the football. So some positive notes there. I love to his game here thought some of these receivers stepped a big time. Mac Hollins, Lynboden Jr. And

some good moments for the offensive line. As the Dolphins do get twenty seven points in this game, let's go ahead and flip it over to the other side of the football now and the defensive all twenty two review, and we just start again by talking about the mixed looks and coverages and pressure packages of this Dolphins defense.

They mix it up all game long. On the very first third down of the game, Bobby McCain is up around the line of scrimmage showing pressure at the line with that zero pressure look that we've all known to grow and love here in Miami. Then he just gets out at the snap and turns and runs vertically with Tyreek Hill. It's a well executed bracket, but Patrick Mahomes just found a way to make a play in that

on that particular instance. But they did some cool stuff to get into their regular four man pressure looks where it looked like more guys were coming, just constantly showing and running different coverages and pressure packages throughout the course of the game. One of my favorites was on a third and fifteen in completion in the second quarter. The Dolphins bring seven defensive backs onto the field. They play

man with some press corners on the outside. McKay is about twenty yards deep off the football behind the sticks. Then Fedulum and Brandon Jones are both playing at the sticks. That's where Mahomes tries to go, tries to squeeze a tight window to Tyreek Hill with the two safeties Jones and Federlum are there to force the incomplete pass. It seemed like it was something new every play, and that's I guess that's kind of want you have to do. It gets the quarterback like this that can really dissect

you in so many ways. Some individual notes Rae Kwon Davis. I thought, you know, he gets consistent knocked back. I wrote down first play of the game, locks the center back for a run stop, then again then again. He's just so strong and imposing with that first punch, and he's really getting better every single week. Zack Seiler. He wins immediately in the past rush situation as a five technique on the first and ten of the Chief's opening

drive and gets immediate pressure. But once again, this happened throughout the course of the game. Patrick Mahomes escapes around the edge and then just slings it and makes a

big play to Travis Kelsey. Ridiculous throw. But Seiler's hands I've noticed over recent weeks are really complimentary to his power where he can put pressure on the opposing pass protection or or offensive lineman with a bull rush, but then use those hands to kind of swipe the initial punch away, and he has a bit of quickness in that first step two where once he gets that swipe and gets his frame clean, he can then get some

impressive work going towards the quarterback or working against the run. Christian Wilkins on the defensive line, we talked about the defensive run stops. These guys have all contributed this year with regards to Ray Kuan Davis, Zack Seiler, and Christian Wilkins. Just watching him hold the point regularly and stubble teams getting into his gap and applying pressure when he gets

one on one chances inside. He's been such a solid find on the interior defensive line going back to last year's draft, going back to the second level on the linebackers. Want to go ahead and talk about Andrew Van Ginkle, the effort he showed on the tipped I N T two Byron Jones to for him to quickly get up

after going to the ground like that. He pops right up and you see Mahomes kind of discount you know, the player on the ground since he's down there, but springs right up gets his hands in the football for the interception and Byron Jones, let's go ahead and just put that ball away in the open field. On the next drive, Van Ginkl is there on a botch snap to nearly cover it up and get another takeaway for

the Dolphins. Then he draws Travis Kelsey on a one on one UH coverage situation on the very next play and gets him down for just seven yards on third nineteen or second and nineteen rather, which creates a third and twelve. And I thought that was pretty impressive to get on his back hip and just make sure you get the tackle after the catch and don't allow it anymore, yak. And then on from that next play, Jerome Baker makes his first play of the game or for big play

of the game. Dolphins are and dime defense once again with Bobby and Brandon Jones deep. They take away Tyreek Hill on a double team and Patrick Mahomes starts to roll that way looking to find tygreek Hill on that deep over route, but og Bas won his pass rush on the front side, Baker's won his pass rush on the backside just to one on one wins for Baker and Ogbah and then from there you see baker speed, the change of direction, the finishing ability all on display.

What a team win on that play, and what a great play by Jerome Baker. His second sack is also pretty awesome. Clyde Edwards Hilaire re releases into the flat to give Mahomes some help as they roll him to that side of the formation, and Baker has to both be responsible for c E. H. Clyde Edwards Hilaire as

well as Mahomes. He stacks up Clyde Edwards Hilaire and keeps his eyes in the quarterback, then detaches very last minute and gets Mahomes to the ground, puts him in a third and fifteen, which would lead to a Chiefs punt. This is also an awesome, awesome hustle play by Shack Lawson, who meets Baker at the quarterback coming all the way from the other side of the formation. He gets off the snap and just sprints over that way when he sees the rollout and gets there to finish off the

play that with jer Own Baker. I wrote down Bobby McCain's name at such an integral part of just any plan as he kind of dictates some of those dummy pressure looks, the double teams deep down the field, running deep with the opposition like a Tyreek Hill for instance, or the opposition's most explosive player. Two touchdowns were scored with him on the sideline in this game. I just think he's such a key part to one of the league's best defenses and doesn't get enough credit. You see

it every week on tape. He's constantly getting himself into the right position of flipping the hips and turning sideline the sideline to get those deep routes run off. He did it again in this game, I thought very well.

In a few more notes here on the Eric Row interception slash Emmanuel Ogba portion of the podcast, Rose I n T comes off a tip pass where Mahomes drifts into some pressure from Ogba, really who wins across the face immediately on the right tackle, and Mahomes tries to throw it right back across his body when he falls

left to get away from the pressure from Agba. So you've got two big plays in this game, the sack and the I and T that don't show up in his stat line, but impact plays from Miami's defensive end out there. Then he comes back on the next series and impacts of Mahomes pass with a pure bull rush on the right tackle, walking him right back into the lap of the quarterback. They just had a tough time with him in general, either side runner pass. He was impactful.

Also how to tackle on Mi Cole Hardman out wide on a retrace on a screen. So the effort, the power of the speed, the pass rush, the run game all working for one in this game. Brandon Jones I talked about it on the Sunday Recap podcast. He did

so well to play the option. That option play where Mahomes keeps it, forces the quarterback to keep it because you rather have the ball in Patrick mahomes hands as a runner than you would Clyde Edwards Hilaire forces him to keep it, then turns it back inside and get

them to the turf. Later, he beats a block of the Kansas City right tackle to get back involved on a tackle right at the line of scrimmage with Jerome Baker loves seeing that play and speaking of Bake, he also beat a block on that play from Travis Kelsey and then Byron Jones and exaviing Howard talking about these guys all the time on this podcast to really impressive

corner backs. We heard Dan Orloski on the Top News Story on Monday reference that not many teams can replicate what this Dolphins defense does from a style and aggressive standpoint with the two cornerbacks they have out wide an X and Byron, with how aggressive and how physical they can be. He just said, if you don't have those cornerbacks, you can't necessarily play the style of play the Dolphins do.

And I thought both guys had that kind of good, quiet type of game working well in different coverages, making life tough on guys when they were in man coverage. Byron Jones had one target aside from the I N T which didn't go as a target towards him since it was a tip, but has one target and allows like nine yards receiving. Also had a tremendous, tremendous punch out on the force fumble, put his knuckles right on

the football. And it's funny to talk about Xavian Howard having a quiet game because the interception was just we talked about in the Jets recap where he shows the quarterback these windows then takes them away before they can even have a chance to fit it in there, and he kind of did to Patrick Mahomes on this play, albeit with an sensational one handed catch, but two catches on five targets to X the ridiculous. I n T. He was pretty They were pretty rarely targeting X in

this game. Did a good job of staying away from both he and Byron Jones, who I just continue to be impressed with how those two guys play on the outside. So that's your all twenty two review. Let's go ahead and turn this thing over now to the Dolphins coordinators and offensive assistant coaches. Let's go ahead and start here first with defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, who first was asked about the performance of ray Kuan Davis, who we referenced it earlier in the podcast, him kind of coming on

over the last few weeks. Here's coach on what impresses him most about his rookie defensive tackle. I think the thing uh impresses me the most is his work ethic and his effort um. You know, and we've talked about this guy a lot this year. He really loves football, um, and he's doing everything he can to get better. And a lot of that is, you know, his work ethic and his effort. I can't say enough good things about that. I mean, he plays really hard, and he works really hard,

and he's constantly striving to improve. So we talked about ray Kuan Davis is a growth over the last few games. Another Alabama product playing for your Dolphins over the last six games has been or six of the last seven games has been to a tongue by Loa and Chan Gailey answered a question that I asked him about his ability to process all the pressure packages, all the the blitz is the Chiefs through him late in that game.

I'm sure you guys have seen it. And if you haven't by now go check out Brian Baldinger's breakdown of two and the Dolphins offense. He talks a lot about the ability to get the football out quick against the pressure. A lot of stuff we cover on this podcast with the quick release, the feet, the hips, the eyes, all that fun stuff. Here's coach, here's Chan Gailey, Dolphins offensive coordinator, onto his ability to come up with some answers for

all those Chiefs pressures late in the game. I wasn't sure he would he would be able to do that because he hadn't had to do that yet, and so I thought he handled that part of it really well. He saw things and that you can't simulate in practice at the speed and handled it, handled it well. So I think, uh, that was encouraging from our standpoint to know it he's seeing things and understanding where to go with the ball and um making plays when they're bringing

all that pressure. That's not an easy thing to do for a young quarterback. So um, as I said earlier, I think that was a real positive for him, and they did. They turned up the pressure and he handled it. I thought that was good and just continues to kind of jive with the things we heard from people we had in the podcast, the experts in the field, the people that recruit or not recruit, but people that scoured this guy, people that coach this guy you know for

a long time. Seeing those things show up in the NFL tape, it's it's fun to watch this. Chiang Gilly mentioned,

they're definitely definitely encouraging with your young quarterback. Let's keep this thing rolling here with Dolphins special teams coordinator Danny Crossman, who was asked about the challenges of all the necessity for players to come off of his unit, are not off the unit, but guys from his unit to go and make significant impacts on offense and defense and play several snaps that way, in addition to playing all their

core special teams roles. Here's coach Prossement on the trickle down effect of having of losing guys on offense and calling up players from special teams to make plays and fill those roles. You know, that's that's part of it, you know, and it's you know, everybody deals with it. You know, we get to what you refer to maybe as the trickle down. You know, guys, you lose a

guy on offense and defense, and that's well known. But then obviously those guys that you know are our core guys for us, you know, they they have to go fill those roles. So that's part of it. Um. You know, we're it's what we all signed up for. You know, we had a nice stretch there for a while where we were really pretty healthy and and and working and using the same guys weekend and week out. But this

is part of it. And you know, along with injuries, now you have the COVID, you know added to it to the mix this year, but it's what everybody's dealing with. You just got to try and find a way. And speaking of that being part of it and trying to find a way, Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studisville has seen plenty of turnover, plenty of different players called upon for a significant playing time this season in that running

back room. He says he's seen us before. That's just part of the game plan and it speaks to the larger picture about what they want to be as a team in terms of everybody has to be ready, everybody has to prepare so what the number is called, you

can get in there and make an impact. I'd love to be able to tell you that I haven't been through this before, but I have, and uh, I forget what year it was, but when we played in Kansas City, when you're in Denver and I lost, I went through three backs in the first half, So, um, it's happened before. And that comes to you know, how we set up the room, which is everybody's got to be prepared for everything at all the time. You never know when your

opportunity is going to come up. And that's how we talk about it. That's how their coach, That's how UM we talked about them preparing and getting ready so that no matter when that time is, you're ready to go in the game and perform and do what the team needs you to do to give us the best chance

to be successful. Let's keep it rolling here with the Dolphins positional coaches and quarterbacks coach Robbie Brown and I wanted to go back to that kind of Brian Balding her breakdown and ask coach about two is mechanics and mechanically what makes him different compared to other quarterbacks. Here's Robbie Brown on the mechanical process of two A tongue byla.

That is a good question, um, and everybody's different. I know that sounds like a the answer, but you as you're trying to get a feel for what a guy does and what he's good at. UM, I think you know that was something I notice watching him come out, is that he's kind of natural mechanics. Uh if those are the best ones, Um, you know, when they open the right way or angles are good. He throes with

good arm angles. So I would say that his mechanics just from a base throwing we're pretty good when he got here from a player who plays quarterback in the NFL to a guy who was a quarterback last year in college after playing receiver previously a Kentucky and now back to receiver here in the NFL with your Miami Dolphins career high and snaps, catches, targets yards for Lynn Bowden,

the rookie receiver out of Kentucky. Wanted to get a couple of questions here for Dolphins receivers coach Josh Grizzard, First about his ability to embrace the challenge of coming into the Dolphins camp after training camp had already broke.

We heard chan Gailey speak earlier this season about how those installs are kind of things you miss and then you get into the situation where it's game plan specific and weekly, week by week specific game plans that he has to kind of learn the other stuff on the fly. So I wanted to get Coach gizards take on his ability to do that, his progress in that area. And then he was also asked about evaluating Lynn coming out of college and some of the things that he did well.

Here's a two part answer for Dolphins receivers coach Josh Grizzard great job of embracing and it does take some time to actually learn the playbook once he got here and going through walkthroughs and just trying to get the basic information on what we call formations, motions, things of

that nature. Um at this point the season, it's very game specific on how those things are, just so I mean, he's got to grasp of the whole playbook and then just saying here's the nuances of the game planned this week, and then we always try to get those guys going on different positions as well in case something happened like this past week. So he's he's kept his head down and playing so many positions in college, becomes pretty naturally

formed to move around like that. And his evaluation pre draft. I did evaluate him coming out, and I think a lot of things you see on tape from the position flexibility, being able to either throw it, run it, throw it to him on the perimeter, just getting handoffs the wildcat, I think that stuff shows up, and just getting the nuances of the coverages and seeing those things. That's really the biggest adjustment that he has gone through playing that

slot receiver position in the NFL. But it's pretty much as as expected up at this point. He's done a good job coming along. Let go ahead and finish up with Dolphins tight ends coach Georgia Godzi again. All these press conferences can be found up on Miami Dolphins dot com and you two page later on in the afternoon as soon as we get those posted for you guys.

But he was asked about the evolving nature of the tight end position when they lost Mike Kisiki in the game, if Kasi is not available for this upcoming game and into the future, the ability to adapt to them, and just the general feel for this season, how it's all about adaptability and Miami's ability to do that. Here's coach talking about his tight end room position and how again it's all about the ability to adjust and they're going

to have to do that if Mike cannot go. Yeah, Well, as far as a position goes, I think that's really where the off season training camp, making sure that everybody knows rules can change, especially this year. I think going into the season that was kind of a priority from not only just from Brian and the head coach, just each position, just making sure that everybody was ready in case of something um you know, from a medical standpoint, obviously we know in this league injuries are a part

of the game. Um. So depending on you know, Mike status, if he's if he's there great, Uh you know he's he's actually improving each week like we expected him to. Um. And if he's not, as the next guy up, so um, you know we've had that issue at other positions and uh, you know guys have stepped up. So I think from from just an offensive perspective, our guys are ready to step into a role if if their numbers called. So there you go. Very busy Tuesday edition here of the

Drivetime podcast. Hope you guys all enjoyed it as much as I do. Love breaking down the games, love hearing from the coaches, love getting into the numbers. Very fun Tuesday edition. And in the meantime, if you haven't checked it out yet, the Fish Tank podcast with Olindo, Maury talking to Seth and Juice over there at the fish Tank.

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