All 22 Review, Stats and the Context, Snap Counts and Scanning the Soc

two Review Tuesday. We're gonna break down the tape, tell you where I thought it went right, where I thought it went wrong, will contextualize the data from PFF and next Gen Stats, will scan the social We'll look at snap counts. We're gonna do a whole lot on this edition of Drive Time from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is you Guessed at

the Drivetime Podcast The Jury Knows. To kick off the podcast here, Brian Flores declared on his Monday press conference that Jason mccordy and Malcolm Brown would go to the injured Reserve. It was reported earlier on Monday by Ian Rappaport that mccordy had a suffered had suffered a foot

injury and was likely to miss some time. Here, Flora's confirms at least three weeks for both he and Malcolm Brown, and he also declared Jerome Baker Day today after Bake left the game playing just ten snaps on Sunday against Atlanta. It's Tuesday. That means we're talking about ALL twenty two and the tape here for the Miami Dolphins and becoming really my favorite day of the week to even after a loss, to go back and look at the tape and just kind of get a better field for what's

going on. Really enjoying watching this quarterback on the ALL twenty two because I think very highly of a couple of things that he does well with with a nuance and the subtlety of his game, and that's where he kicked off this podcast here taking a look at the day from Dolphins quarterback to a tongue Voloa. His thirteenth start in the National Football League on balance, probably about his twelfth total game when you consider the fact the

Buffalo last or back in Week two. He played two series in that game, so the first completion to Jalen Waddle and the Dolphins converted three times on third down on this opening drive and one of my favorite traits of two US I think has really shown up the last two weeks and in general more this season, a little bit more time removed from the injury that he suffered back in twenty nineteen. And actually Brian Flores commented on this about to his development in his Monday press conference.

If you haven't seen it, go check out the YouTube channel and watched Brian Flores in his entirety. But he touched on the idea of having two for the last eighteen months here in the program and the development of the quarterback and how he's grown in so many areas, and he mentioned the hip injury and all the just kind of unique circumstances to it has been through since he's been here in Miami with that injury, last year's

injury obviously as well. And you know you watch him, I mean, he made moves last year in that Cardinals game, making Buddha Baker miss and open space. We saw plenty of it this week and this season in general. And I am loving the fact that he's sliding very well, like going into second base on a stolen base looks

very good in that regard. But the mobility within the pocket was always an area of strength that I really really became quite admirable to with two a tongue of blow back to his college day, just having free rushers come in. He had that move where the he would separate the ball from his hands and kind of take a longer step like he's going backwards, and then quickly change directions off of that plant foot. And it still works for him in that regard and as a scrambler,

making guys miss an open space. And we're gonna talk about it from the pocket here because on this very first third down completion, you see him have the ability to kind of put his feet wherever he wants, whenever he wants, as fast as he wants. And when I'm talking about this, you see him get towards the top of that drop, and that left foot it just swings back and because of that new position, it becomes the

dry foot to move him out to the left. He's now in a position to vacate that spot quicker than the incoming pass rusher can get to it to disrupt his past or even sacked the quarterback, and this will out him to get to a spot where he could throw on time and give the football to Jalen Waddle out in space. He does it, makes the catch and it's a first down. We come right back a couple of plays later the second third down conversion of this this drive and the Falcons are going to cross dog

the nose and the mic linebacker. What that means is the nose, the nose tackle head up over the center will crash one gap and the linebacker will come around him and crash off the opposite gap. You're trying to confuse the protection call there up the middle of the line, and so the nose gets up field and to his only real option here is to the left on a

field side throw. The longer story you can make right the far hash and he hits the top of the drop and takes a little shuffle step to the left to clear himself and get himself once again to that clean platform where he can throw not just on time to the perimeter, but the location of the football. We're gonna talk a lot about location today, because I thought

this this was peaked to AH. As far as location goes, the location brings Jalen back away from the perimeter outside or inside from the sideline and sets him up for a move on the over pursuing cornerback who was beat at the top of the route at the stem, who got left behind. He then has to overpursue and because of the location, because Jalen comes back and catches it and turns back inside, it leads to eleven yards after the catch for an eighteen yard gaining Dolphin's first down

another third down conversion opening drive. It's an RP O pop to Mike Gasicky. And I've seen the quote multiple times. It was Brian day ball back when he was with Alabama, about how some guys can hit the barn, some guys can hit the door on the barn, some guys can hit the door knob, some guys or rather twa can hit the keyhole on the door knob. And you talk about the keyhole accuracy. There it was and to a has to get the ball from the mesh point and

up and out before you can blink. And Dion Jones has Gassicky in a negative separation like there, he's all over him and the football. There's literally one position like on the entire field of ball can be from Mike to have a good chance to stave off the coverage and make a tough, contested catch and that's where it was. And he had another one of those on the very next drive to Mike gasicky keyhole accuracy on those RPO hops.

If you can put the ball in that spot, there's just not many ways to defend that, like to defend the run inside, to defend the outside zone read if two wants to keep it himself and go around the outside, or if you want to throw that pop over the middle and you want to cover from from the backside with the cornerback playing underneath, maybe a safety closing on top. If that ball is that accurate, it makes that package

infinitely more difficult than it already is to defend. And then I also want to talk about his athletic ability

on scrambles. I mean, we talked about it in the pocket, but making a guy miss in space with a juke move and then the first down when he rushed for a key third down conversion after a broken tackle, and mind you doing this coming off a broken ribs injury, and not just that he gets stood up one yard short of the line to gain winds up trucking Eric Harris who has to exit the game with an injury, and then he dives forward for three or four additional yards.

Like the heart, the the talent, the skill set, the recognition. I mean, what do you want? I'm left at a loss. What do you what more do you want than that? That's that's such big time stuff there from your quarterback twenty years old doing that kind of stuff. Let's move on to some more stuff here. So I love the late I action you see from two us so frequently on tape where you can hold. You want to hold the particular route you're looking off as long as you

possibly can, right until the very last second. There's this little flip past to savan Akhmed out in the flat on a two man route combination to the boundary. The boundary is the short side of the field. You should know that if you're a Drivetime podcast fan. It's the balls in the right hash the boundaries to the right side. So the falcons on this cover three look, which means you're safety is in the middle of the field typically, and the two cornerbacks also get depth and they cover

the deep portion of the field. And thirds. I got the left third, you have the middle third, the right guy has the right third, and they're in this coverage playing really soft coverage underneath as well, so you basically have six zone defenders taking up or taking care of two guys in the route combination. The rest is match protect and then Savon Akhmed comes up to chip and

then get off the route into the flat. So the DBS are playing off on that side where Waddle and Preston execute what's called a scissors concept, and all that means is once you get downfield, you cross, and so you scissors is downfield, whereas a switch release is at the line. Just some more football jargon for you guys,

But they run this scissors concept down the field. It takes the DBS all the way down the field and to keeps his eyes on that scissors concept down the field until Savant chips the outside edge and then releases into the flat. And then the minute he does that, to his he's over there sound effects on the podcast, they're over there, and he rips that thing into the flat and it creates so much room for Savan to

pick his way, set up blocks. He catches the ball three yards behind the line of scrimmage and winds up with the first down on second and seven. So I just I'm so impressed by the ability to create yardage with nuance and subtlety. And on this particular play, you watch the boundary cornerback check the flat and then he bills and gets depth the moment to checks it down.

To me, this is why there's such a disconnect between some of the perception of two A's game out there and what he actually is, and why you have people crying poor for poor performance in the midst of a four touchdown game, or even better, a two week span with six passing yards and six touchdowns for two A tongue la three interceptions and we'll talk about those. You have to get those cleaned up. But six touchdowns, six hundred yards. When's the last time Dolphins quarterback did that? Guys,

I'll let you look it up and let me know. Also, by the way, one quarterback, one other quarterback through four touchdowns this Sunday towards Tom Brady just saying okay, before the interception, there's a blown r P O play where to tucks it and runs right up the middle. And you might have asked yourself during the game, what the heck was he doing? Why did he do that? Just to run straightforward and slide like he's still in second

base once again. And the reason for that is if the r p O, if you don't give it and then you don't pop it right away on the past, after that, you're gonna wind up with ineligible guy's downfield. The only option from that point after you you tuck it after the initial reads not there is you have to throw it away or you have to run it, because you're gonna get a flag for that, And so he just takes off, gets positive yards and then protects himself.

I love that aspect of that. So second and seven opposed to even even second and ten, or if you run and lose yards, even second and worse, there's a throw and we're gonna get to the negatives after this.

So this is why you're skipping over the interceptions. But there's a throw in the third quarter on an out route to the boundary to waddle where two one gets pressure in his face, and even though the pressure is in his face in the direction that he wants to throw, he just takes a slide step backwards, plants that dry foot in the ground, and throws back across the field the other direction with an absolute strike. I mean, it's not like a laser, but it's on time and on

target and it works. Plenty of quarterbacks have had success doing that for a long long time in this league, and two has been doing it now for thirteen games. Like it's it's doable. You don't have to throw the thing as hard as you can to knock over the old clown off the carnival game with your you know, trying to win the soft animal like you can just you can layer balls. You can put them there on time. That's that's just as effective as throwing the ball through

someone's chest. And so I thought we saw plenty of that, and the ability to throw away from his movement was all so impressive. We'll come back to more of that here in just a second. After the second interception, it was dime after dime after dime boundary double wise. That means two tight ends into the short side of the field. Mike Ga Sicky and Dirham Smith. They're gonna run the switch release. This is not the scissors, it's off the line switch immediately, and then they both run vertical, one

up the sideline, one down the numbers. Mike was on the numbers, Dirham down the sideline and he throws it up over the top of the defensive back and right into the bucket for Dirham to make a catch and tap the feet. What a throw Wet then over routes from either side of the formation. On the very next place you have the two slots are running deep crossers basically behind the mic linebacker. They're gonna cross their patterns and to slides away from pressure and throws twenty seven

yards in the air. Falling away from the throw because he has pressure to the left, he wants to throw left again, slides back to his right from the right hash mark to the left numbers twenty seven yards of depth. That's roughly thirty forty yard throw dime. I mean, if I was Trent Dilford, I'd be putting flames on this

and graphics you'd be calling them Dilford dimes. Then the very next play, it's a zone look from the defense, and whenever you are running the or passing against his zone, you don't concern yourself too much with where the receiver is. Just put the ball in between the two defenders and split them and let the receiver adjust. He does that on the very next play to Mike get Sicky. Next it's an out to waddle. He reads the middle of the field. The footwork and this is again another one

of these traits that I love. He has to speed it up because the rush is getting there, so you see him really expedite the footwork. And if you don't know what I'm talking about it, you can think I'm making it up, like whatever. If you just go look at a normal drop back where there's no pressure versus this one. It's on the the second to last touchdown drive, the penultimate touchdown drive that starts with a deep throat of Durham Smithe on that drive, So go back and

look at that. He speeds it up and gets the ball out quick to the boundary to waddle on time, on target, expedited drop in footwork, very very nice stuff. Then how about us scramble on third and sick we talked about off the broken ribs, drops the shoulder, runs over, Eric Harris picks up the first down. Then the very

next play on the touchdown past of Miles Gaskin. I originally thought he was a hair late on this, but after watching the tape, you actually see him peek back to the middle of the field because Waddle runs the jet motion to take the eyes to the left, and then Gaskin runs the little release route or the little swing route to the right, and you see like it's open right away, but two doesn't throw it right away.

And after watching it on tape, you see him kind of look back for the peel back defender like a tight end and the stick route right in the middle of the field, and you see the two defenders that are out widest they kind of take that cheese. They both take one false step and that was all Miles needed to get to the corner of the pylon for that touchdown. Then on the go ahead touchdown drive, they come right back after a tunnel screen. Didjitalan Waddle is

going backwards after ineligible man down? Phil, I think it was first and twenty It's a nice completion to the field on an out route, but we get a procedural penalty, so now it's first and twenty one. Yeah, I think it was first and sixteen. Then first and twenty one, right, So they pick it up with a screen and a run play, So two good plays. They're just in general for the offense to convert first and twenty one into a first down. Then we get back into third and fifteen.

And if you're a Dolphins fan, how many times we've seen these comeback attempts wiped out by something like that or just overall failure to get it done, but especially third and fifteen. Nope, not this one. Kasicki gets turned free and two of fires the ball right to meet him at his landmark. Another note on Gasicki on that in just one second. But then we come right back

with a touchdown past to mac Hollands. Good job to sell the flat to Miles gascon to pull the conflict defender who's possibly going to be in the passing lane for mac Hollins. He bites up on the look to the flat, boom opens the window layer right behind him for the go ahead score. What a tape. I thought it was one of the best quarterback tapes we've seen for this football team in a long, long time. And there are four negative plays I want to break down

real quick for you get to everybody else. I know it's a long podcast here, but your quarterback throws the ball forty times. That's what you get um there. I'm not gonna call him airs, but just things I think that could have gone better. First off, second drive, first throw. It's a comeback to mc collins. Just thought he was a little bit late. Mac creates some separation on the curl route and the ball is a little bit late in the defensive bat got his hand around the backside

and broke that thing up. Number two, second quarter, second and fourteen throws the ball to Preston Williams, does that little spin move or whatnot, and waddle clears the second window of the zone defense on a little seam pot pass opportunity. And two has the protection and it's too high safeties underneath umbrella, so he finds himself in that kind of fifteen yard range clear of any defender, and he gets into that space pretty quickly with some more

space behind him. I think there's an opportunity to hit that opposed to the quick ball out on the perimeter to a stationary target, get the ball to Wattle fifteen yards downfield on the move, opposed to a seven yard or so hitch route to a stationary target who's not

working his way downfield, and I just prefer that. Again, don't know the progression, but I would like to see or hopefully they can find a way to get the ball to that read on that particular look, and then number three, both these ex players are gonna be interceptions the first I and T. It looks to me like Durham's not expecting the ball and there and kind of lies the first fault in my opinion, I don't think the ball is supposed to go there because the safety

catch the tight end. And it's again another one of these cover two looks, and smythe is the one receiver to the boundary, the furthest out receiver to the boundary, and they're in Cover two. There's a soft corner getting depth on the outside, so it's a tough throw to sneak that into the turkey hole anyway. But if you look at to his head, he's looking to the back

to the boundary. Who's Miles Gaskin, who runs the flat route And as you guys know, on that cover to your flat is supposed to pull that cornerback, playing that kind of flat slatch, deep hook zone or deep curl zone. You want to pull him into the flat. And then Durham's kind of plant drive step off the top of that route. It just looks to me like he's not expecting the ball. He kind of just drifts backwards into the end zone. Not backwards, but he kind of drifts

into the end zone without real urgency. And I even think that if he sticks his foot in the ground and flattens that thing, or even just continues to run the route, he might have a chance to make a catch. But it doesn't go that way. So I think it's a bad decision to make that throw based upon the rules of route versus coverage from my own knowledge, and when I think I saw on that play, I could

be wrong. I asked a lot of people about this play, including including coach Flora's we're gonna hear from here in just one second, but I also think you've got to

help your quarterback out on that particular play. Let's go to Brian Flowers, who I asked about this on Monday his press conference about that interception, and asking him about the kind of philosophy behind wanting your quarterback to be aggressive, as he had mentioned earlier in the media availability, but also trying to calibrate when to be more cautious and how to balance that with a young quarterback. Especially asked

coach about that. Here's his response. I think that's a very valid point I think you want to be aggressive, but you also you want to make smart decisions and not put the team in position where, um, you could potentially turn the ball over or create a negative play. So um, that's a that's that's that's a fine balance. I think every quarterback kind of goes through that. That

that that thought process. I think a lot of it is is based on what defense you're seeing, the players you have on the field, and I think a lot of it is based on how you practice it. I think if you you can see those those areas that the field where you can create some chunk plays and you hit him in practice, and you have an opportunity

to him in the game if you get the same look. So, but something we practice, something we we uh try to put an emphasis on and and then players gotta go out there next cute if I could just follow up on that real quick to a talked about being a miscommunication on that particular throw. Is that something where there's a site adjustment post snap where they can kind of both read something and make an adjustment based upon the

original call. Um, which player are you talking about? We might be thinking of two different The first interception with dirt when Durham Smith is in the area, Okay. Um, Yeah, I mean there's there's you know, there's missing miscommunication on that one. Um, you know, unfortunately, and yeah, I mean it's I think it's one that you know too wishes he had back, Durham wishes he had back, And I

think it's something we gotta learn from. Yeah, there's you know, when you when you when you look at it that way, you know, there's some other places we could have went with it. Um. But you know what I like about like about most about that was tools response, Durham's response, and being able to turn it around and create some positive plays after that mishappen, so that you have coach on the first interception the second interception, This one was

a lot worse to me personally. I think you just cannot put the ball into harm's way in that position because the best case scenario there is that Jalen catches the ball and gets blown up, and you are a tad bit unlucky that the minute to have flips the thing out there. Jalen then moves in the opposite direction and makes it a room service pick for the linebacker.

But you just you can't do that, not in that spot, not on first down especially, I think you're just pressing a little bit too much there off the quick change, because Miami had just gotten the takeaway and could have gone down taken the lead right there. And you know, part of the press is that Grady Jarrett and he's white right into his face off the snap and he

has to get rid of that ball quickly. So that is the tongue by a lower review here on the All twenty two Tuesday podcast on the Drivetime podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network presented by Auto Nation, talking about the rest of the players on offense, Jalen Waddle, I'm just really a big fan of the way he can again some of these nuanced aspects of his game for such a young player, attacking leverage but also stacking

and chasing blind spots. There's a second and ten can version in the third quarter where he stacks the underneath corner, presses inside to kind of get on that blind spot and lose him because he's got eyes in the quarterback and he whips that thing right back out to the outside to space and there's all kinds of separation and an easy pitch and catch for a first down. He just does that every single game, and we saw a deeper depth of target in this game. Hopefully we continue

to see that grow and increase from here. Malcolm Brown very first play of the game, it's a wide uh wind's back a split zone run backside, and it first thought I thought Robert Hunt fell off of his block. But if Malcolm just presses that thing play side, then

Rob's in perfect position. And that's kind of you know, I don't know the design of these plays obviously, or where he's supposed to hit that, but I think it's a reminder that on first glance, especially without having all the knowledge of the call or the coaching points of the rules, you can't really assign blame on a particular play or you know, especially not seeing the in the first time. But I think it's a good example of

how two guys on a different page would be. One guy doesn't hit the right the job of the right way, just taking turns, just having these small mistakes that cost you. That's what I get cleaned up and fixed to become more consistent, become a better football team as we go along here. Now, Austin Jackson, However, I'm not sure the technique that's that's causing this. But so many times he's I called the you know, I knew it was you, Fredo.

He throws the hands wide and puts himself in position to get his hands on the outside of the shoulder pads, and that's where they're gonna call holding the most. So I kind of watched him doing that a little bit too often, and hopefully he can get that that fixed and corrected. But as far as like pulling him as a pulling guard, he's very smooth and actually hits a lot of good blocks in that area, super smooth and

and flew out of the first step. But then after that, on this particular play, he takes this gather step and kills all the momentum he had and the unblocked man beats him for a tackle for loss. That was quite prevalent in this game. Uh some TFLs coming from that defensive tackle position up over the left guard. I counted at least five times where his reps where his hand star outside in the rep. I hope that gets fixed here soon. I also thought he had the best repent

entire career in this game. On the first touchdown of the second and half where he chips and doubles Grady Jarrett with Liam Eichenberg. Then he comes off that block and digs out Dion Jones on the other side of the gap to create a gap. Then he showed some juice and energy. Was good to see Austin Jackson enjoying himself after that after a couple of big blocks there. But this team just again, there's often so often one block away. There's a second play of the game. It's

a screen pass where Robert Hunt. He gets out there and we've got some space. But when he has to engage initially it's just it's he misses him and it's hit or missing this position, and you just want to see more hits. I do think in general for rob he's better when he's moving towards this target opposed to being stationary. And you know, his run blocking was so good throughout the course of this game. He took a man all the way across the formation, just took him

out of the play. Then he climbed up to the second level and has good patience and control on that approach where he's not making contact right away but rather getting to a guy on a pole or a reach or getting in space, climbed to the second level, hands under his feet, just you know, some good technique and some good fundamentals. Just a few more are rap notes here.

I think he had a really good game and execute different kinds of blocks throughout the course of the game, especially in the running game where the pulling action I thought was really fantastic. Liam Eichenberg on the very first play of the game, the initial stunt that he sees, he loses the inside post and then I look back at my notes and about the third quarter of the game and just thought, I haven't written down anything about Liam. Yeah,

that's a great thing for an offensive lineman. So I'm back and looked at some of the players and he's handling isolations, he's picking up stunts. Thought he had a very good game. Austin Ryder I thought had a good game. I think maybe he's good to recovery. On the on the initial one on one rep from Grady Jerry, he anchors and kind of locks him out there. He has a play where he gets a second level climb and he goes and gets them, doesn't let them come into him.

He goes and gets them. I like that mentality. I think he stayed on blocks better than anybody else in this game. From Miami, I'm intrigued by a possible tough decision they might have to make when you know Dieter Manson and Austin Ryder are all back. I think all three have played well this year. From Miami. Thought it was Jesse Davis his very best game. A lot of one on one blocks for him and he executed him. That's all you gotta say about a good dub good game, Jesse.

I thought Myles Gascon was very a decisive pressing the gap often to the course of those games, how he ran very well, just kept coming back to decisive watching him run, hitting the gap and getting that thing to the second level to get himself a nice rushing day. I think Savon Ahmed it's just a different speed than every other back on the roster. He's got this urgency.

And we talked about the hip hop style running analogy from running backs coach at You dubbed their Keith on Offa on the podcast last year, saying that he's hip hop in your face. Now you've gotta deal with it right now. He's an angle eraser. There's a run in the second quarter of the linebacker has him out flanked and savon just he erases the angle, beats him to it, gets into the into the gap, and turns up field for a nice game. So I like his game a

whole lot. And then Mike get sicky. We talked about Wattles nuance to us. Nuance similar for him in terms of the subtlety of his game. He just knows how to create. We can talk about attacking leverage, but he can create and attack the leverage contested catches. He knows how to put himself in position to go up clean where you're not interfered by the contact, where your hands don't get kind of like jostled. He gets himself into a clean position up high to high point that thing

to where contact doesn't matter. It's better functional strength. And he's really put it all together now, and you're number four. I want to give him a shout out on that third and fifteen conversion. So I was gonna come back to it. Here we are coming back to it. He catches that thing and just gets forward to get past the sticks. He was right at the sticks catching it, but he didn't leave any doubt. He just jumped forward

two or three extra yards. Great awareness there by Mike Gasicky, and then Durham had I thought his best game of the season the run after the catch on that second down stick route. Very nice work there. He can denses on a block inside on an outside Miles Gas can run and dense the edge and gives Miles a quick access to the outside edge. So both passing game and running game for Durham, thought this was his best game of the season. So there you go. Offensively onto the

defense here real quick. Lots of unique groupings in this game, even before some injuries kind of forced their hand to do so. On the very first third down of the game, they were in a four safety quarter package, seven defensive backs with two safeties ten yards off the ball and a third safety fifteen yards off the ball. The next Avian Howard, Eric rowe Byron Jones, and Nick Needham played tight man coverage and they ran them right into that

safety help. It was beautifully executed as far as a eight man coverage goes, and Ryan tried to extend but he couldn't get anything going. Agba had one of the six pressures in the game on this play. We saw more zero defense, some post snap rotation to disguise it, to show it and get out of it, and some pressure looks as well. I think the variety is getting

more and more incorporated to this defense. Each week. We saw plenty, plenty of double teams on Kyle Pitts, a press and trail with over the top like he commands attention. He's a beast, and we saw why. In this game.

It looks to me like there's a lot of chunk plays on the ground where you get an initial fill from a linebacker or someone that you know playing the point, like a safety who comes in and fills and digs out the lead block, but then there's no one coming over the top to scrape that or fill that gap. That's been kind of my assessment on the big running plays, good good stacking up front, a nice feel, but no one to kind of make that final scrape and fill

that final gap for you on those big plays. As far as those guys up front, I continue to be impressed by all of them, really, but Ray Kwon Davis. There's a play reruns of the four technique, which means your head up over the offensive tackle and so the guard has to get wide on a reach block. A reach block is when you want to cross the face and you have to you're outflanked, but you still have to get to that block, and he just knocks the

guy right back into the running back. In the second quarter had an absolute grown man rep on a running play that went nowhere. He's playing the nose. He shoots his hands to the chess plate and just takes control of sixty one Matt Hennessey, and the guard tries to move him off of that spot with a double team. It doesn't budge him at all, and then Ray Kwan just tosses Hennessey to the ground and makes the play. I wrote down wows because that's how I felt about it.

The very next snap, he snatches Pennessey in the exact same way on a pass rush, then rips the inside arm through and gets to Matt Ryan for a pressure who has to rush the throw and then it's batted down by Emmanuel Ogba. Speaking of Aga, we talked about the cross chop all the time here. On the Falcon's first drive after their touchdown to start the third quarter, on third down, he runs a straight bul rush right into the right tackle and he runs him right into

Matt Ryan to cause incompletion. Good work there from Agba and then Christian Wilkins. My goodness, this guy is playing out of his mind. He goes right over the center on the nose with his swim move and winds up in Matt Ryan's lap on I think the second play of the game. Then the retrace that we talked about where he chases the screen wide, reverses field. He comes back over to the receiver reversing field and pits him to finish him off there. I just love watching this

guy play the hustle. He shows an effort every single week. Then later you see some of the previously you know, unquantifiable stuff I was talking about the first two years of his career start to turn into more production. Here working down the lion scrimmage on an outside rome run play, plants the foot, pushes his man aside to make sure he keeps going, but Christian stops to shed the block there,

gets into the gap and makes the tackle. He is positively destroying reach block attempts with consistency, and that's really nice to see. Adam Butler's mistackle on the potential TfL I cannot shake that. One had to mention it again that one hurt. I thought a land in Roberts had tough day. In term is a finding and staying in his gap. Just a beat later a hair laid at step away from where he needed to be or when the play would happen where he You know, ideally you

want to be just off by a little bit. A few times. Andrew Van Gigla think has been playing well off the edge in the running game, but he was a step late as well in coverage a few times, reacting on some of the split zone or wide zone with the boot action off of that where you fake the run one way, you bring the under round across the formation and the quarterback peels off that way also and kind of has the layers concept to throw too. He made a he just kind of gets lost on

that flat area. Sometimes he made a fantastic pay playoff the edge against double wise that's two tight ends of the formation where he beats the block and gets Cordell Patterson tripped up on an outside run. And then the next play he damn never got in the passing line for a pick six, but overran the thing once again. Not really find the landmark there in coverage. In the defensive backfield. I love how Javon Holland can work to depth but then click and clothes immediately and fire out

of that back pedal. I mean, we've already seen a bunch of big hits from this guy, some bubble production and that sack on Sunday, but I think there's a lot more coming and by that I mean interceptions hopefully here in the near future. On the sack, I just like the way he snuck up to the line and timed his run really perfectly. It's a good job by Van Gigl to flatten the edge to winning inside and taking on the back to help create a lane to

run through for Javon. On the long touchdown pass the Javan was involved in, I'll chalk it up to growing pains, but he tried to jump a potential dig or crosser route from Russell Gauge and he just ran right past him. But on balance, love Javon Holland's game every single week. Um. There's a great rep in general from the Dolphins defensive backfield. It was the Emmanuel Ogba force fumble, which again talk about effort man. What a play. The Falcons are in

trips and the Dolphins match it. With their with three of their cover guys and Eric Roe, Byron Jones, and Nick need Um, and they play staggered off the line. Nick need Ums up on the point right across from the point man uh Brian Jones is a second and aligned outside, Eric Rose third and aligned inside, and they all pick a man and plaster immediately off the top of the stem and that forces Matt Ryan to tuck it and then the second effort there from Ogba in

the pass rush pays off. I was so impressed by that and think it could be indicative of them beginning to kind of get the grasp of what they want to do and defensively, and then just watching x and Byron Jones, you want to see the targets, but also plays where they aren't targeted so you can see how they're taking things away. And there's one on xaviing Howard where he has the post the corner of the curl like everything a three way go, and he just closes

that thing down and takes away all three options. It winds up being a curl route and he's there with basketball type of defending the low post position like you're not gonna get this access on this pass down to the post. You're gonna have to go over the top or swing it and try to get this thing in their eats. It's impressive. And the same deal with Byron Jones. There's a field side rep against the one the furthest

out receiver with no safety help. He stays mirrored on an outside release and then beats Gage who tries to come back and cross face and get to the ball before he can or before the ball can even be thrown because it's taken away. There's just so much put on those guys as plates and they can beat their asses off every week. Jason mccordy had fantastic technique I thought in the past break up against Kyle Pitts and

those are my notes. I mnna start doing this. My favorite tapes and the game to a Kisicky Waddle, Rob Hunt, Christian Wilkins, Ray Kwon Davis, Emmanuel Ogba, Xavien Howard, and Javon Holland. How about some Pro Football Focus metrics here? Long podcast on this Tuesday took a lot of notes here. Interesting metric from Ben Baldwin the Computer Cowboy on Twitter.

It takes a look at sack rate compared to a team pass blocking grade on Pro Football Focus, and there's a cluster at the top of this chart which featured features Tongue by Loa Kirk, cousins, Josh Allen, and Matt Ryan as the best currently this year at mitigating pressure, and that coincides with last season as well, because you might recall that he was second and pressure evaded rate at twenty four point four percent, behind only Josh Allen

six point one percent. Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray and Derek Carr were three through five at one percent, nineteen point four percent, nineteen point one percent. So continues to mitigate pressure some more advanced to a stats he was one for one throwing the ball twenty plus yards for twenty seven yards. We talked about Atlanta playing lots to cover two and cover three deep cloud coverage UH in this game an average depth of target just six point three yards.

It was eight point nine coming and I think in the ten to nineteen yard range. Eleven for fourteen one and thirty two passing yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Against the Blitz, he was six for eight forty five yards. Against pressure, he was eight for ten eighty six yards and the interception twelve pressures and just one sack in

this game. I thought the line was very very good in this one their best game of the season, and the one sack was just late eyes to react to a nice pressure package there from DPS, like he's gonna cook you up. He's gonna have different looks for you. He'll get you once or twice. Just once in this game. It killed a drive, But all things considered, I think it's a good day from your offensive line to really

only have one drive negatively impacted by the pass rush. Well, I guess it was two because of the pick as well. But Leah Mikenberg two pressures, no hits, Austin Jackson four pressures, one hit, Austin Rider two pressures, no hits, Rob Hunt three pressures, it was a sack. Jesse Davis one pressure,

it was a hit. Average yards after contact is rushers to a three point to five yards Malcolm Brown three yards average miles Gascon two point to some on Achmed one point seven yards per route run and yards per target savon Akmed average two point three six yards per route run, Waddle two point two four, Gasicki two point two four, and Smythe two point oh six as far as yards per target savon average thirteen yards per pass target, Waddle ten point for Gasicki ten point six, and Smith

nine point two five. So those were your four most productive guys in the passing game. Defensively pressures, Agba had six continues to do it, Man, Wilkins and e Ra both had three, Van Ginkel and Butler both had two, and five players had one. One of those five players was Javon Holland. Sack run stops Seeler, Wilkins, and Van Ginkle all had three. Holland, Roberts and Eric Rowe had

two apiece, and Riley and Ogba both had one. Xaviing Howard was targeted eight times and allowed one catch for twenty eight yards to one point or a two point one pass aready against on him Byron Jones forty three yards on six targets. Javon Holland got hit for three for three seventy one yards and the long Russell Gage touchdown. A couple of season long stats here. Ogba's fourteenth among

edge defenders with twenty seven pressures. Wilkins the second and run stops that means tackles within two yards of the line. Among interior defensive line with twenty four and Zack Steelers with fifteen. Some next Gen stats two was eleven point nine percent. Completion over expected rate was the third best in the league this weekend, and it gives his season total a surge up to plus two percent, which is eleventh in the National Football League. Mayfield his tenth at

two point five. Lamar Jackson is twelfth at one point eight. His time to throw two point five seconds is third quick as in the NFL Big Ben and Bradier one and two. His seventeen point eight percent aggressive rate on next Gen is seventh highest in the National Football League. And then rush yards over expected per rush Miles Gascon negative point one two yards. It's a little bit below the middle of the pack. Miles Sanders mark Ingram are

some of the guys around him. Nobody else qualifies on the Dolphins right now separation numbers, Jalen Waddle averages four yards per route that's tenth in the NFL, Mike Kasicki two point eight, and nobody else qualifies. Kausiki gets a seven point one yard average cushion and Waddle six point nine. That's twelve and thirteenth, respectively. Kassicks a dot is nine point one, Waddle is five point to ninth fewest among qualifiers.

Surrounding names, They're Cole Beasley, Jamison Crowder, John new Smith, snap counts, the quarterback in the offensive line all played seventy three snaps. Wire to wire receiver Waddle sixty one, Holland's thirty nine, Preston Williams played thirty, Isaiah Ford played nineteen, Albert Wilson played three. Mike Gasicki played sixty snaps two A nice bump there. Get him out there as much

as you possibly can. Shaheen fifty one snaps. Durham Smith nine, Miles Gaskin played forty six snaps, Savon akmed twenty two, and Malcolm Brown five. On defense, Wilkins played forty three snaps at sixty percent of the total. Ray Kuan Davis played thirty three, Adam Butler thirty one, Zack Healer twenty six. Off the edge, Van Ginkle leads the way this week with forty eight snaps. Ogbad played forty two, then Scarlet eighteen. Jalen Phillips just fifteen snaps in this game at linebacker.

Sam maguav And fifty three snaps of the total. Landon Roberts played forty four, Baker ten, Riley six at cornerback, Byron and X both put every snap, all sixty three of them. Needham played twenty four. Holland at safety played every snap all sixty three, Row forty four, Brandon Jones thirty nine, Jason mccordy tent nine. Let's finish up with scanned the social here talking about offensive line improvement. Talked

about a little bit last week. I thought some of those pressures that didn't result in the sacks obviously were there were some work of two a tongue by lower to get out of the pressure. Quarterbacks and offensive line at all kind of goes in terms together in terms of who's at fault for pressures and sacks. But just twelve pressures allowed this Sunday a nice positive step in the right direction and what is slowly becoming a trend

in that right direction. They passed off pretty well, not the guards pulled very well, got they slid protection and communicated well. I thought Liam had his best game as

a pro. I thought was the best game of the year for both Hunt and Davis, and I thought Ryder filled in very admirably at center, and so on that thought, it has me thinking about develop admit and things coaches at about Tah and his development on Monday, and how one player's development has nothing to do with someone else's development, how it's not linear, how it's not overnight. But if they can continue this trend for the next ten games, that would be a huge boon to give you some

possible answers. On the offensive line, I think Christian Wilkins, who has always been a good player from day one, but the way he's putting it all together in year three, I think he's a good example of that of the development that kind of comes along with the player's progression. And we saw Mike GETSICKI have very little productions rookie season, then something clicked and he's gotten better every year since then.

Nick need Um, I mean, we've done this before, guys Exaviing, Howard, Miles, Gaskin,

DeVante Parker, examples all over the place. And when you look at a guy like Mike, guy like X and you see how it really clicks for them in year two, in the second half of the season, like twenty five games into their career, it makes me think about Robert Hunt makes you think about Austin Jackson in a little bit being the first half of year two, about Liam Eichenberg being the first half of his rookie season, about Deets Michael Dieter when he gets back here being on

a similar timeline in terms of playing time in this third season. Look, I thought Halloween was gonna be a game for first place in the division when the schedule came out, and obviously in training camp as well. And this season it's not gone the way many of us had wanted it to or expected it too. But that's what has me excited to watch every game down the stretch. Young players attempting to show their development in the way many of the mainstayer players on this roster did early

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