All 22 Review, Run Game Rolling, Defense Turns it On, Stats and Snap Counts

today's show, it's my favorite podcast of the week. We're breaking down the all twenty two, taking a look at some of the numbers, the advanced metrics, and all the key stats and snap counts. Will scan the social all of that and more from somewhere here in South Florida.

This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So housekeeping and news items off the top of this Tuesday Drivetime Podcast number one, The Dolphins signed a pair of players from their practice squad to the active fifty three man roster. They are Duke Johnson and Sheldrick RedWine, a pair of former Hurricanes who obviously played in the game on Sunday. Also Jalen Waddle and Philip Lindsay coming off the COVID I R list. They will be eligible return to practice

this week. No will Fuller for the rest of the season. Brian Flores announced on Monday that he would not come back this season for the Miami Dolphins. He also said, well see about Malcolm Brown and whether or not he can come back from his injury off the injury reserve this week for the Dolphins. In the backfield. Miami also adds Justin Coleman to the reserve COVID nineteen list and released safety Will Parks. All caught up there, Good to go with that. Let's go ahead and jump right in

to the all twenty two review. We start on offense this time, and normally, like we do every time, but normally we start with two in the passing game. But I wanted to start this time with the offensive line and the running game. And I think if you could go back and measure, you know, kind of a curve a graph of the running game, just from our Tuesday tape review shows every single week plot every single episode on a graph. I think you could visualize that graph

with a slow climb. And then yesterday it went up, I should say Sunday recording the podcast on Monday, it went up another notch. I love that they were creative and added heavy personnel packages with ten snaps from Robert Jones where they would flip Jesse Davis over to the other side of the formation and you would have Robert Jones as either a backside tackle and some past protection roles or getting some seal blocks, some cut blocks, getting some second level blocks, doing a few things there in

the offense or the heavy personnel offensive game plan. And you know, Brian Flores had this was part of the game plan heading in to utilize that package, and he thought they executed it well. And I think there was a little bit of influence from the success of the run game within the passing game. That fifteen year old curl route that to U through to Parker. Middle of the second quarter. You see the whole line, the Dolphins offensive line, and this is what it looks like when

you're doing zone blocking. Your first step is all in the same direction and unison. You see them all work to the right and then the tight end and running back come up and double to seal the edge that two wants to boot to, the two wants to roll to so he can step into that throw and you kind of see the influence of the running game impact the passing game. That complimentary approach really clicked on that particular look. I also continue to love these wide runs.

On fourth and short. They had a fourth and one toss sweep that worked out, and on that play Michael Dieter got himself a pancake block and then Big Rob Hunt throws Duke Ford for a couple of extra yards.

I thought that was pretty hilarious. The screen pass, oh man, the screen pass was pretty Miami floods the boundary the short side of the formation, then throws the football back to the other side, the field side of the formation, and you get both Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt turned free to the second level and Austin gets a chip on number forty doesn't get him all the way to the ground. And then here comes big number sixty eight, and oh boy, does he clean things up with a

big shot. He had a few pancakes or chucking guys on the ground, Rob Hunt, and another very big game for the Miami Dolphins. And at that point of the screenplay, Duke puts on a juke, breaks two tackles and it's out the gate for twenty yards. A big time game from him and really the entire offensive line in the short passing game, the running game all game long. What

a play that was. And you also can see that there was a defender that dang near cut Duke Johnson off before he even got out of the kind of the scrum there, and it was held up because Liam Eichenberg came across the formation and cut a player who was trying to work over the top of that throw. But he gets over there and holds on just long enough for Duke to get out. So several guys making plays on that particular play, and that will be a

theme the course of this tape review podcast. And we go forward to Miles Gaskins seven yard run on the second drive of the third quarter. I thought this play was very indicative of how the offensive line played in the throughout the course of this game. Liam and Austin had a fantastic double where they just carried their man five yards up the field and eventually that double team block swallows up the second level linebacker who comes up

to fill that gap. So they were hitting double teams throughout the course of this game on both sides of the offensive line. But really Liam and Austin connecting on some of those hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder, your first round pick from a year ago, your second round pick from this year really showing up in tandem on a lot of these good double team blocks. And speaking of Miles Man, he picked one hell of a time

to have his best run of the entire season. That thirty yard run that got out the backside looked like it was dead to rights at the start, but he barely squeezed through that thing and got a nice seal from Jesse. Then Albert Wilson comes down field and hits a big block and carries it for a while on that thirty yard run. So that was kind of the Miles Gaskin portion of the podcast and a huge play in that game that really put Miami from are they gonna win this game to really in the driver's seat

to control the rest of that game. But as far as the offensive line goes r with Austin Jackson here as a pulling guard from the backside, he really does a good job staying tight into the line and into Rob Hunt's backside when he kind of curls around that the gap between the right guard and the and the right tackle, you're your right side b gap there, and it really helps kind of condense the options for the linebacker to shoot those gaps because they're keeping such tight

splits when he comes around in that tight formation. Was very impressed by that with how kind of nimble he is working in those tight spaces. And then in past protection, I think there's just far less panic this year than earlier or right now, I should say, than there was earlier in the year for Austin Jackson. He mentioned in his Monday media that playing guard has kind of taught

him some technique things that he needed. And on the play where it's tipped and caught by Bert the past to Mike get sicky that gets tipped up into the air. You see the defensive tackle punch and then try to disengage and rip through on Jackson's left shoulder. But he stays calm and doesn't kind of panic when these shoulders are not matching the feet and just lets the feet kind of catch up and establish a firm base to

then re anchor and drop that weight again. So some very nice work in this game from Austin Jackson with the technique stuff, and he mentioned it too. In his Monday presser, Liam Eichenberg, I thought everything about him looks more fluid and confident over the last few weeks. He's getting into his sets for whatever the ask might be, whether it's vertical, whether it's a go attack and get

the blocker type of set. And he showcase this in a variety of running plays and passing plays, like there was one where he has to steal a backside run where you have to kind of cut off that short angle where you might see like an Andrew van Ginkl or an Emmanuel Ogba chase around that weak side edge. Just go kind of getting the way and steal that thing off and really get the weight on the toe so you can transition and drop that anchor and kind of use the balls at your feet to keep that

attacker at bay. And I thought he did that through the course of this game. He had another play where he has a chip and a double with Austin Jackson where he then chips or catches and climbs and get to the second level. And he was in that second level making a lot of big blocks for the course of this game. And then in past protection, I thought it was more of the same as far as the

technique goes, I thought his hands were excellent. He didn't really put so much, you know, on the play of his feet in terms of if that makes any sense, where he gets better up top so that he can play better in the lower half. So because the hands are better, it makes it easier on his feet to recover on some of those MR or redirections or you know speed move, speed to power or inside type of

move where guys are making lateral decisions. On Liam Eichenberg, he also throw a nice cut block on a very first completion of the game on the Christian Wilkins touchdown. What a job to wham the off side defender by Liam Eichenberg on that play. I mean, we get to replay the down if it doesn't work there. But Liam's work basically helped give us that celebration on that touchdown. Big play there, and just the strong hands in general.

He he latched on and ended so many reps. Right at the point in this game where he just goes out and gets guys and again go check the TUA truck play the nine yard run, Liam goes and gets the man and locks him up and shuts down his runway. Where he just closes any potential for him to build up some speed to go to power or again to make an inside or outside move, goes and gets the

block and ends it right there. I mentioned Rob Hunt thought he was terrific all game long, and his best block was pulling and ceiling on the second and six run right before the kind of red zone area. On the game winning drive, it was a twelve yard run by Duke Johnson. It was a key block where he works around another double team by Liam and Austin and pulls place out and hits a key block on c. J. Mosley to free up a nice twelve yard Duke Johnson run.

Speaking of Duke, what a nice sense of urgency and explosiveness of the whole that he runs with, and very decisive running. It looked like he was okay with making a wrong choice as long as he did it quickly, and as the game went on he seemed to make the right choice more and more often. What a performance it was from the hometown kid. You saw it with his fourth down, his fourth ront of the game, rather a third and one conversion. It's the Dolphins third offensive series.

He slips the tackle from Moseley, but Moseley could really only get an arm out there, one arm out there, because Liam Eichenberg has a great second level block scaring him up after helping Chip on that block on Austin Jackson's man we talked about in the previous segment here on the catching climb from Leam Eichenberg. But then Duke Johnson makes the arm tackle miss, and that was something

we saw throughout the course of this game. I thought the two touchdown runs number one, the first one he wants to get wide, gets caught up and slides a gap over and just slams that thing in to get it over the top. And check out Robert Jones on that play. The extra offensive lineman. We've seen so little of him between preseason and now a handful of regular season reps, but the intrigue only built for me in

this game about his game. I think he still has something there to work with the undrafted rookie this year on the Dolphins offensive line, but he stayed in for pass for on one play also, and it was an incomplete hitch slash back shoulder conversion throat to Davante Parker sometime in the third quarter, but he blocked the end pretty well on that one too, so some tackle works, some into interior work in the running game likewise of from Robert Jones, and was there for both of Duke

Johnson's touchdown runs. The second one, it was just really well blocked at the first level enough to get us to a five yard run down to the two yard line for second and goal. But Duke wasn't satisfied with that. He just finished that thing off with pure effort like he did the first run. So two big effort runs from Duke Johnson for a pair of touchdowns, and oh man, it got cooking on that run that was at the second quarter. You get a skip poll play side from

Big Rob Hunt. What that means is you're gonna see the guard kind of do a little shuffle step to work to his new gap, and obviously Rob is the right guard, so he leaves and tries to come around the left guard's left shoulder, which is the left side b gap, and he wants to kind of delay it

because you have Duke in the pistol. The operation takes a little bit longer to execute, so you don't want him just sprinting over there and getting out in front of the play so you skip pull them to kind of time up more with the mesh point with the handoff. And as this kind of occurs, Duke has patients working behind Rob Hunt and he does a little skip step of his own to the left and it brings a linebacker from Rob's right shoulder over to his left shoulder.

And after this little skip step, he goes right back to the wine back lane. Sets that thing up beautifully. After pressing at play side. The jump cut back to the backside explodes out that backside gap and not only helps Rob Hunt on his block, it helps Liam Eikenberg game leverage on a second level block as well when he puts his head down and picks up four more yards through the tackle. What a frigging run that was

all game long for Duke. And then later, how about this spin move on second and five to set us up for a third and one to pose to what looked like there's gonna be a loss. I mean, he gets out wide and the edge is completely set, he just spins off that tackle and because the north and south momentum, he falls forward for a game of four. I just love the way he ran this game. His eleven yard run to end the third quarter, Austin Jackson gets a pancake and Liam is ceiling and working down

field to stay on his block. They just continue to kick ass in the running game all game long. The numbers will bear that out here in just one second, but Duke again finishes for a handful of extra yards and then finally, the last note on his game was the stiff farm on the outside run on the game winning drive. That's all that needs to be said about.

It presses inside, bounces out wide, throws the stiff arm, and springs another seven or eight yards after that on a first down completion, and all of a sudden, it's at the negative forty two yard line from Miami on that game winning drive. Great stuff there from Duke Johnson speaking of that game winning drive to I had that first throw to get Miami going in positive direction for a nine yard game. To Mike KASICKI, let's talk about his game. It was up and down at least as

far as I was concerned. And you know, I just want to go ahead and make it a point that this is strictly my opinion when breaking down the film without knowing exactly what the play design or what the play call is or who's supposed to be where, et cetera. This is my best guess at what I'm seeing, so take it with a grain of salt. We'll talk to the coaches on Tuesday and get their opinions on things

further and continue to use their word as gospel. And this is just my opinion only, and that's all it is, right, an opinion. Everyone has one. Here's what my take on TOOS game on Sunday. Early on the failed exchange look to me like Duke never expected a handoff and he might have had Davante Parker on a slant for a

possible first down. Just a rough start that got worse on the very next snap, the interception to start the second drive, he's throwing that to Mike gets sicky on a corner route, But it looks like Mike's route is basically over and rightfully so, because not only is he covered over the top and underneath cloud corner kind of falls back and flipped his hips and got depth double covering Mike. He's just not open and it looks like

the boundary safety shows buzz what that means. You might hear a lot about the term three buzz cover three buzzes where you show quarters with four deep type the two corners and two safeties deep, and then your third guy will buzz the middle, rob the middle of the field and kind of take a shot on a crossing route or try to maybe a hook route, a dig route something over the middle, and then it kind of converts into a cover three look and that boundary safety

buzzed and then realized there was no crossing route, and he goes back into a deep safety look and he's over the top and Mike's like, all right, this route is not gonna he sees it that way to a does not and DeVante Parker comes open, but it looks like he kind of pulls his arm. Downs have to say, no way is that ball for me? And I don't

think it was. And you guys know, I'm a huge fan number one's game, but this was just such a blip way off the charts for his standard that I don't want to say, like, I just kind of want to say shake it off and move on, because there's nothing to suggest that this is some kind of trend. So the key now is to not let it become one going forward. But a really strange play there on to his first interception, the deep shot to Albert Wilson. I was wrong about this on the Sunday recap pod.

Wilson runs a delayed wheel route where I thought it was more of a generic wheel route or a traditional real wheel route, I should say, where he's really working first to stretch the cloud corner horizontally going lateral to

the line of scrimmage. But then he just gets turned free and as a safety closes down field and Davante Parker to sees it and tries to set up and throw a deep ball as the rush kind of gets in as he throws the ball, but it's just about five yards short of where it needed to be to hit Albert Wilson and stride. It's a tough throw and he missed it. That's a throw where if Miami can hit that, it can really take this offense to the

next level. I really hope we get that look again at some point later in the season, cause I want to see they can execute it this time around. The very next ball to DeVante Parker, the one batted and nearly picked off again again, his location is off, which just speaks to it being a rusty start for to Ah I mean, the guy literally leads the league in completion percentage. We know he's accurate, but he's just off again. And I'll say this again. I talked about Waddles value

to the offense. Look, it's no secret. Look at his reception and receiving numbers. It's it's all there for you to a really shines when throwing to separation, like when he can anticipate separation off of a break and throwing the ball to put the guy in a spot to maximize that separation. And for large swaths of this game, in the first game without Waddle this season, it was a lot of throws into tight windows against a lot of receivers that are not separating. Against the Jets defensive

backfield that played very well in this game. And I think that was reflective in the fact that two was aggressivecentage, which are throws into windows of one yard or tighter jumped up like four in this game from what it was heading into the game. We'll get to that here in just one second, but lots of throws into tight windows and the covered receivers. But then it got better. The corner out to Davante Parker, who against covered. But

there's leverage on this throw. And I don't really have to add a whole lot from yesterday other than this one crucial detail. I told you the cloud corner had crashed the flat. That's because one looked out to the flat, and not only were his eyes to the flat, his front facing shoulder and his front foot we're facing that direction,

which indicates the throw to the flat. He then squares back up to the corner and fires that dime away from Parker to kind of box out the defensive back and it's a good catch and a tremendous throw from tongue Byloa. He had three significant scrambles in this game. Nice work on each one of them for good chunks of yards. He except the shoulder drop. Let's not do that, okay, he said that himself. I agree, no more of that.

And after doing the scramble on back to back plays on a drive at the end of the first half, he then has a nice strike to Mike get Sicky after a fall start had pushed him back into second long to move the chains. But then another throw to Mike get Sick in the next play, this one in the end zone where there are three Jets defenders in the area. It looks like Mike gets his hands on it, but still kind of a dangerous proposition. And Durham was naked in the flat, so just the type of reads

that you don't expect him to like. He's usually really good at that stuff, so I'm not gonna worry about until he becomes a trend right now. It was a one game thing with the type of stuff, and then it gets a reset and come back in the second half. And the throw to Isaiah Ford was so nice. The jet style of a blitz as they did at the end of the first half on a third and goal, throw that two or just throw out the back of

the end zone. Two A goes to the one guy in the pattern on this play that stacks his man after Isaiah gets a clean release and gets right on top. And you also see the middle of the field safety roll and get out to the opposite direction at the snap to his eyes are on him. He sees that and says, all right, there goes, that's where the ball is going. It comes out, and both those things allowed Isaiah to play that ball in the air like he did.

It was a great route, a dime throw, a nice catch, and then later in the game, Isaiah had a third and five conversion where he catches a two way go and puts a nice move to get space for two of to hit him on the out route. Just a good job of keeping the eyes down the middle on that play. Fight to a to not let the defender on the outside drive and anticipate that outside breaking throw. So I thought too, and Ford showed some good chemistry

in this game. After the long pass on the over the shoulder bucket throw to Ford, we come back with a terrific route from Mike Gasicki on a crucial third and nine conversion right before the end zone on the opening drive of that second half, and that was a great route by Ghisiki where he flips his man's hips and then kind of puts him in the spin cycle with the inside release and spins back outside. Ball's perfect move the sticks. And then we get the Duke Johnson

touchdown run. And then that whole shot to Isaiah Ford coming off an offensive holding call where he just sits in the zone and man, that ball came out before Ford even settled up in that hookup zone and the velocity to beat the defend. It was nice. It was a nice, strong, confident throw there from Tuah. You love to see those throws against the zone. The very next one though, disaster, and it was a good play by number twenty six for the Jets to drive on this ball.

You see Hunter Long come out of his break and then it's kind of a shuffle step or two to regather and re gather. So to me, that indicates a beat late in terms of the time of the football and that's probably the reason why he can drive on that and make the play just a brutal result, hopefully a learning lesson for Tuah and this Dolphins offense. Then you come back with a touchdown pass to DeVante Parker.

We talked about it on Monday. That ball was behind him, but DeVante was given that two way go and he did a good job of kind of slow playing the inside release to give himself plenty of space. That separation gives you margin for air and we needed it on that play. Big time catch and turn up field for

a touchdown for Davanta Parker. Let's talk about the defense, but first, real quick these words and as we talked about for the offense and the passing game early on, it was a rusty return for the Dolphins defense on the All twenty two review here the Tuesday edition of

the Drive Time podcast. For this Dolphins defense in the first half of this game, some uncharacteristic big lanes in the running game, some receivers left alone by significant patches of grass like tight ends or backs, or even receivers in the short areas just getting turned free with nobody around them, way too many mistackles. Just not the defense we had been seeing for the last six or so weeks in the first half of this game, but thankfully

it turned around quickly in the second half. But also a lot of those Jets plays were things I think

you can work to minimize going forward. Like four of the Jets big first big plays in that first half were a play action boot where Andrew van Geinkl disengages the tight end to pursue Wilson, he throws it right over his head, big run and catch after that, a reverse that goes for eight yards, a throwback where Zack Wilson catches a pass back from the receiver on a little end around look and he gets pressure right away and makes a tremendous scramble play and rolls the other direction,

and throws to an uncovered Ryan Griffin, who again was turned completely free when Wilson reversed field. That one, to me was frustrating. Then the fourth one you get a hook and lateral and there was four awkward jerseys in the neighborhood there on Braxton Barrios, but they just couldn't get him down short of the sticks. And that goes back to the tackling issues I thought we had in that first half of the defense. We've seen again for

the last seven weeks. Showed up right away from the first play in the second half when Zack Seeler gets knocked back and it basically forces in a pulling guard Elijah vera tucker. It knocks him over because the knock back forces a bubble and the guard doesn't see it and he gets knocked to the ground, and that creates a huge lane for Landing Roberts, who flies in and makes a huge hit right in that b gap. To

kind of set the tone on that first series. The Jets then try a now route to the flat from trips, but Miami plasters this thing three for three all the way across the board. The Jets get a holding call, Aga gets a sack. It is backwards from there for them. From that first series, guys just seemed to really lift

their level of play. And on the third down play on that series, Van Ginkle chased Zack Wilson out to the sideline to get a third down stop there as well, And then the very next series he does it again, the retrace, the kind of chase in one direction and change direction to go back the other way. We'll talk about that more here. In just one second, you think it a six yard run, then Zack Wilson slips the sack from Justin Coleman. Then bang, there's Brandon Jones who

gets home for an eight yard loss. And I like the way Miami reacted to those bootlegs and the naked action for the quarterback in the second half. It was one hell of an adjustment from that first half, because that's kind of how the Jets were setting up a lot of those trick plays and the miss direction to get fall steps and cause some of the tackling issues and cause some of the eye discipline issues in that first half. But Miami went into the locker room adjusted

and put a stop to it immediately. You'd love to see that the next play completion and then boom, Andrew Van Giegel comes off the edge like an F one are and gets the sack on Zack Wilson. The very next drive, they get two big plays and they tied in flat and a running play that both went for like twenty something yards. But then Zack Seeler comes up with the strip sack, working past the guard, running right

through the back. Great job getting the ball out and then the bottom of the pile by Agba to get that ball out of the bottom of the pilot as well for the phone recovery. They just couldn't get anything going. It was either immediate pressure or or coverage that forced Wilson to tucket and go and make a secondary decision. Let's talk about the individuals. Brandon Jones, that's sack I

talked about. He's sure is fun to watch man. The first play of the game, he's running away from the play in motion and it has to come all the way back to the other side of the formation and makes a tackle on a play that was strung out on the opposite sideline from where he came from and he's moving on that play, and really a lot of these plays he makes, he just moves at a different speed, and the guys around him going back to the front of the defense, up front on the defensive line. Man,

these guys they bowled out once again. Emmanuel Ogba the jet threw a ball to Jamison Crowder and the flat on the first drive, and you watch og Boss swat down the hands of the right tackle before a bull rush and just runs him right into the turf. It made me laugh quite a bit. Him and Steeler have some of the best grown man football tape you're gonna see out there. The very next drive, he forces the back to bubble on a run away from him. He then flattens off the snap and gets into a sprint

as the unblocked end going away from him. I love the way the Dolphins pursue the football off the edge on runs away from them, And I'm also very glad he got the past defense that he did. But Brandon Jones was coming downhill on that route and might have had to play on the ball either way. Good work from both. Talk about growing man football. Speaking of Zack Steeler time and time again, how about him recognizing that quarterback throwback and retracing upfield for a pass breakup on

one of the jets many trick plays. You don't see that very often, not from a three pound guy getting upfield playing pass coverage. The very next play a new drive, he kicks out wide to a five technique and swims inside. Elijah vera Tucker having a great rookie season at left guard, who's pulling to seal the outside shoulder of Seiler, and he just swims over it and makes a play in the backfield. This guy, I just keep writing this, This guy, man,

He's crazy. First play a second half talked with the knock back he gets where he trips up the pulling guard and gives a landing Roberts that free run for a hit in the backfield and a loss. S had a big tone there in the second half of that game. We mentioned the swim on the run stuff earlier. That's how he got his trip sack to the guard shoots for his left shoulder, he sidesteps hit, swims and gets that arm over the top to get right around him, then bull dozes the back and bang strip sack for

a huge play. Staying up front, Christian Wilkins, it so often looks like he's defending. He's just playing against the sled they work on in practice where he just pops that thing up, stays engage, peaks around the corner, and gets off the block. But he doesn't commit to a gap until it's been declared by the back, and that helps him make good decisions and helps him create chances for his teammates as well. He comes off and impacts the back decision making so frequently to just slows things

down a notch for the rest of his guys. And it's you know, it gets a really big play late in this game to get a two yard tackle for loss after the Jets had taken over with good field position. He knocks them back. They go back and back and back. After that good work from Christian Wilkins. I put a note on ray Kwon Davis that he just so rarely gets moved even against double teams. We talked about that edge position on this team. It's been I think one

of the best groups the entire team. Let's talk about Andrew van Ginkl who he does so many things well right now. He does such a good job down in and down out of setting a high edge and what I mean by that is getting damn near parallel to the line of scrimmage and really getting on the outside shoulder into the backfield. So if that back on an outside run wants to go the long way around, he's

gonna have to bubble. And what that means is you work backwards opposed to being lateral to the line of scrimmage, and that of course allows the rest of the flow of the defense to gain a step or two on those outside pursue plays. Then going the other direction. At the end of the first half, he pursues one as the unblocked man like odd Bad did earlier, and pulls the back backwards for his friends to arrive and finish

off a tackle for loss. He's playing so fast and it showed on that third down stop to kick off the second half, like we mentioned earlier, where Van Ginkel matches Zach Wilson step first step on a spy, they play coverage zero pressure. Look, only three guys come and one of them is Andrew Van Ginkle playing kind of a spy over the middle and keep yourself clean of the block, and they cover it up. Wilson has to get outside and run and he matches him step first

step to the sideline. No chance, And then again the very next play. On the next series, he chases him all over the field and does not let Zack Wilson get away. What a day for Andrew Van Ginkle. Jalen Phillips had a quiet day statistically, but he hit a big pass rush at the end of the third quarter that forced Wilson off the spot. Didn't finish the sack,

but Jerome Baker cleaned it up. Speaking of Bake, that third and nine where Byron's in tight coverage, thought Baker really forced the football to come out when it did with a good pass rush where he stays on the outside shoulder of the back and just keeps working inside to force Wilson's platform to kind of get off platform as it were, and force him off the original spot

and the ball comes out quickly. And his first sack of the game came right after the hooking lateralal where he gets the back to step up and pass pro right away like I'm gonna challenge this linebacker and he lost and Joan Baker gets a big sack there and

the defensive secondary X and Byron. The best way I can explain it for this game is that you saw such minimal movement when they were in close competition, whether it's jam or the top of the route, just difficulty for the receivers to create missteps for twenty and twenty four then also minimal indecisiveness when they would pull the trigger, get to fire out of the back pedal, to make a decision when driving on those routes. Just no real mystery for them as to what the receiver wanted to do.

Fire the trigger driving the top of the route they did at all game long, and the Jets ran so much motion and bunches, and I thought they communicated those combos beautifully from those looks to say, hey, I got inside, you got outside, vice versa. Byron's ability to really, you know, X didn't get a lot of action this game, So Byron's ability to go from mirror and then flip the hips and get on the horse and get vertical is still as smooth as anybody there is in this league.

He creates such small windows on those throws, and it felt like at times last year quarterbacks were hitting those and like an abnormally high rate. But man, he's always in good shape on those. And I love that. The one catch that Pro Football Focus credited to him was a nine yard completion on fourth and ten to end the game. Great game Byron and then Nick need Um. Nothing deep in the big plays were short throws that sprung free, So I thought he did a good job

in his first real ever free safety action. That's your all twenty two review. Let's move on to the numbers here, but first, real quick, a few words alright, so that is the film review. Let's go ahead and pick it up with the PFF numbers here, and we start with two. A tongue of Byloa's game. Did you know that he was two for three on twenty plus yard throws with an average depth of target of thirty two point three yards sixty four yards on passes completed over twenty yards.

He had a struggle in the intermediate though, three for nine for thirty six yards and a pick under pressure. Not his best game. Four for ninety one yards, a touchdown, an interception when he was blitz though that was when the Dolphins got some of their hey six for ten fifty three yards and both touchdowns coming against blitz blitzells from that Jets defense. Both interceptions came against four man rushes.

Duke Johnson forced eight miss tackles in the game and average three point six eight yards after contact and Miles had a season high four yards average after contact. He missed a big forced a big miss tackle on his best run really that thirty yard massive, massive run. He had two forced miss tackles in the day and average

five point four yards per carry. Isaiah Ford had three point six four yards per route run in this game that was a season high for him, and seventeen yards per target, where Davonte Parker had a very good showing at two point to seven yards per oute run and seven and a half yards per target. And again that ball he caught for the touchdown, What a catch that was. Pressures up front, first of all, no sacks from the

offensive line. They gave it the two as far as Pro football full because it's concerned after a scramble play for no gain. But Liam Eichenberg has his third grade game with one or for your pressure. You like the way that sounds. I talked about his past pro looking good. There's some numbers to back it up. Austin Jackson clean sheet, no pressures, Michael did two pressures, both QB hits, Rob Hunt one pressure allowed, Jesse Davis two pressures, five pressures

from the offensive line. Check that six pressures. How about some directional rushing the left end eight for forty nine, left tackle one for six, left guard five total fourteen for eighty three. That's five point nine three yards per carry and running behind Rob Hunt at right guard just a cool fifteen point five yards per carry. Defensively for the Dolphins. Pressures in the game, Agba had seven, Van Ginkl had five. That's twelve from your two primary edges.

Doesn't count Jaylen Phillips, who also had one. Adam Butler had three. Jerome Baker and Justin Coleman both had to run stops. Justin Coleman had four. Wilkins and Brandon Jones had three. Apiece, Ray Kwon Davis had two, and a bunch of guys had one. Ogbad Now has seven and sacks. It's the second highest total of his career, both of those nine last year with the Miami Dolphins. His ten pass breakups are most among defensive linemen this year. Cameron

Heyward and Pittsburgh is second with seven. Has fifty seven pressures that's ninth in the NFL. Van Gikl has forty twenty eight in the NFL Phillips has thirty seven that's tied for twenty ninth among edges, three guys in the top thirty and edge pressures. X and Byron played seventy two coverage snaps apiece or total. I should say five targets one on X, one catch for nine yards on Byron Jones one for four. As a team, Miami's thirty seven sacks are tied for fourth in the NFL. Prior

to the Monday and Tuesday games. They're twenty one takeaways or ninth most again prior to the Monday and Tuesday games. Next Gen stats not a lot to update here. A lot of the rankings are the same. To is fifth and time to throw at two point five one seconds. He's first in aggressive throw percent digit nineteen point two percent. That jumped almost four percent from last week. We talked about the receiver and the separation thing at the top

of the podcast. His completion above expected rate is three point one percent plus. That's third best in the NFL, behind Joe Burrow and Kyler Murray. And this isn't next gen, but he's eight in the NFL and total qb R at eight or fifty six point four. Josh Allen Carson Wentz, Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Justin Herbert, Aaron Rodgers, Matt Stafford are the names in front of him. In the game, he hit a long air yard throw of forty point

five air yards. His fastest are The fastest time measured in this game was Albert Wilson eight teen point seven two miles per hour, and Andrew van Ginkl had the fastest sack at two point nine seconds. How about some snap counts to I played sixty eight, jacobea played three. The offensive line went wire to wire for all seventy one snaps. Robert Jones played ten snaps, that's four percent. At running back, Duke Johnson played forty one that's fifty

percent of the workload. Miles Gaskin played twenty six snaps At receiver. Davante Parker led the way with sixty three snaps that was nine percent of the workload. Albert Wilson played forty one, mac or is a Ford rather nineteen, Mac Hollins thirteen snaps. Preston Williams played six in the game. At tight end, Durham Smith leads the way with sixty

five snaps percent of the workload. Mike get sick he played forty five, Hunter Long played twenty three, and Seaton Carter played one, and Christian Wilkins had the two snaps. On offense, he also had forty two snaps. To lead all into your defensive lineman, that was seventy of the workload. Ray Kwon Davis played thirty one, and Zach Seieler and

Adam Butler both played a piece off the edge. Van Gekle leads the way forty seven snaps, Jalen Phillips forty one snaps, Ogat thirty five snaps, and Vince Beagle one At linebacker. Jerome Baker played every rep all fifty seven. A Landon Roberts played thirty two snaps, Duke Riley played nine at cornerback. X Byron and Nick Needum all played every snap all fifty seven at safety. Son Brandon Jones

and then Justin Coleman played thirty six snaps. Eric Rowe played thirty three, so you get four defensive backs that really played all the snaps and then Coleman thirty six three. Just used six guys in the day. That's the absence of Javon Holland being a part of that obviously some notable special team snap counts Vince Beagle twenty five, Clayton Federal, Sheldrick RedWine twenty snaps. Let's go ahead and scan the social So I wanted to talk about players involving and improving,

and today we focus on the offensive line. We touched on it already in the All twenty two. This was the best offensive line performance we've seen this year from my money, and that's a damn good front the Jets

bring with them down here to South Florida. Not to mention where Sala's bread has been buttered in his career in that same area up front, but for the Dolphins to have that kind of performance and for the individuals to stand out the way they did, guys that were drafted really in the last two years, and this isn't a one time thing. It's a trend starting to kind of form. Over the last few weeks. Leon's last three games have been his best three games as a pro.

Gott to note the climb from the last from last season. With Robert Hunt playing as a top ten right tackle his final six games of his rookie season, you see them kind of get better as we go along here Michael Dieter coming back after not playing a game last year and giving you the production he's done up front. How about Austin Jackson's resurgence, pushing guys in the Running game, creating huge lanes, no pressures in the past protection game.

And it reminds me back to when we talk about complementing two US strengths with this massive offensive line that can lean on folks in the Run game and the r p O game and really by proxy, the entire Run Game is a collection of that, and I think you saw that in this game, that rushing performance with our full complement of weapons. I'm excited about the prospect of that. Hopefully they hit their stride right now. Either way, I'm pretty excited about what's to come, both now and

in the future. And to put a bow on that thought, Miami, as we've discussed, has done so well to continually restock the cupboards down the line, both in terms of cat flexibility, draft capital. They're obviously going to add talent, but the more you develop at each spot, if those additions are competing with incumbents, that's how you wind up with a deep team that goes fifty three deep. And it allows

you to strength and strengths. Hope that's the case we have going on here with the offensive line again, excitement, and that's for Monday in New Orleans more than anything else. All Right, that's gonna do it for our show, A long one here, the Tuesday film review edition of Drivetime. We're not gonna have a podcast on Friday. Enjoy your Christmas with your family. That's Christmas Eve. So no John

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