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

Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody, It's a Tuesday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football, and on today's show, will perform the autopsy on that game on Sunday, take a look at the All twenty two tape review of the stats. Will also scan the social from somewhere here in South Florida. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. We opened us up with the all review. Let's just go ahead and dive right in

and not dress this thing up. It wasn't pretty on the offensive side of the football. Some promising stuff on defense, and and even some silver linings. I suppose on the offensive side. We'll go ahead and open it up right away, starting off with two because from the very first play I thought we were going to be in great shape

in this game. Because it was a familiar look with a different wrinkle or different progression within that play where you have the motion man come across the formation along with an inline tight end who starts on the same side the motion started with coming across the formation on a split zone action, which gives you two guys flowing to the same side of the field and on that same side of the field the wide side of the field, Jalen Waddle runs a takeoff and what that does is

it creates flow from the middle portion of the field and it opens up a backside slant to davant a Parker to create a ton of space in the middle of the field to a comes off that field side read to the motion to the inline tight end coming across and split motion or split zone i should say, and Waddle going vertical on that side, takes a look over there, peeks back to the back side, and the football is between the one and the one on Devonte Parker's jersey for twenty yards to kick off the game.

The very next play, intelligible man downfield gets called, but it's a really nice screen set up where Austin Jackson and Rob Hunt just come off their blocks as to is kind of holding the ball to help the rush get up feel a little bit more. They come off their blocks and released downfield, and they're about three yards downfield.

The flags come out, and that sucks because it really didn't impact the play as Miles was able to create some yards or just pick up I guess what was there for him on that well designed, well executed screen otherwise from the ineligible men down field. And that takes you back from you know, the Dolphins converted on that first and fifteen after that, but it takes away a snap your third ha half of the game coming from plus territory down to the Titans like forty one yard line,

so that that hurt. And I thought, this is kind of I thought. Rather The challenging portion of Towa's day began with the Wattle corner route on possession number two, where Wattle had really created some separation by pressing Kevin Byrd, who's in the post, you know, put the field goal post. Put your hand with the fild goal post istra outlined in the middle of the football field. That's where your

post safety typically plays. And Wattle knew that was kind of the guy that was gonna go over the top

of him. On this corner route, so he takes a release that has a steady stem right towards the safety and then once he gets to a point where he feels like Bayard has now had to kind of get back on his heels and that back pedal because of the speed that he threatens with, he snaps it off to the outside and he by the time he drives out of that back pedal for Byrd, it's too late and the underneath corner had squatted on the flat route by Isaiah Ford, So it creates this window and the

ball is out on time, and it goes right off the very fingertips of Wattle, who jumped a little bit early and kind of had to second clutch throw his hands up after kind of you know how the guys are the crazy ops kinds to spend themselves in mid air. He kind of does that and he throws the hands up and it just goes off the fingertips. And I can't really pinpoint if it was a little bit too late on the row, if it was a little bit too high on the throw, or if Wattle expected it earlier.

Either way, that's the ball we usually complete, and it's off by a fraction this time, and that's kind of where the off target thrower started to go. And I really wanted throughout the course of watching this tape if it was more so that the ball was not where it was supposed to be, or if TWA's decision or TWA's frame of mind about where the available passing window on that particular throw and what the receiver thinks of

that same idea are different. Does that make sense because there's one play and it's on my notes here, but I'm jumping ahead where it's a dig route to DeVante Parker and the the off cornerback drives on the inside of this dig route and dig route straight vertical route down the field, break it off inside. It's it's an incut, a dig route, whatever you call it. I mean, there's

different playbooks, have different verbiage for it. But on this play, the off cornerback drives inside and basically there's a huge window on Devanta's back shoulder and that's where two it throws the football and you see Davante reached back with one hand trying to grab that thing, and part of me says, well, it makes no sense throwback shoulder ball in that situation. But the other part of me says, if he throws it in front of him, it's not

just a hospital ball, but possibly a pick. And so I can't know that, But that's what I'm trying to convey is these fine margins Dolphins missed in this game. That was a big part of this game. And on the very next play after this missed a waddle that kind of got those miss conversations going. It wasn't great. He's got Waddle on a drag route to put him in space one on one again against Kevin Byrd who's closing from depth, who kind of had his mind the

number seventeen all game long. And two as choose that route, which I was okay with because it's a tough he has to break a tackle to get the first down and he rolls left, and it's great because mac Hollins has just turned his man around right at the sticks on this third and nine play, and two had such a free lane to throw the football, but he might have even been able to run for nine yards in

the first down. But as he goes to throw it, Holland is at the numbers on the football on the fifty yard line, where it says five zero on the on the field, and the closest titan is about two steps inside of the hash mark, so he's got about seven eight yards of solid separation. But the ball checks up short. The mechanics looked good. I don't know if he aimed it too low, if he didn't get the

right squeeze in the football. I'm not gonna sit here and speculate what it might have been because I don't know what it was, but what the result was that it was a short throw to a wide open receiver that you gotta hit those. That's just it's just all there is to it. And there's a third and ten where he runs out of bounds for one yard and I was curious what happened on this play, and there wasn't really wasn't much there, But there was one very

tough throw that he could have opted. Four, I think where Mac wins a post route but as he does, color flashes, the inside pass rush flashes in front of to his face, and it would have been a great anticipatory throw a solid forty yards downfield. They actually could

have been yachtsie for like a ninety yard touchdown. But if he hits that we're talking like a career highlight throw where it's remember that tanne Hill throw against the Chargers into my six team where he took the shot under the chin and the ball was right on the money in the back of the ends on the Kenny Stills. It would have been one of those types of throws perfect. He would have to see it early, let it fly early, and taking the big shot and put the ball right

on the money. Instead, he decides to flee the pocket and he no one uncovers after that, and it goes for a one yard rush. I'd like to see the receiver, the receiving options on scrambled plays find more creativity to get off the plastering of the defensive backs. It seems like it rarely happens for those Dolphins offense to create those plays off script where the broken route gets re routed and we hit the big play because of it. I want to see more of that later. There's a

failed exchange. I have no clue who's a blame on that on third and short. The Dolphins would convert on fourth and one or fourth and two and nice little dash past to Dermis Smith, but you can't wasiste downs there's a throw to Mike get Sick on a slant after the Titans made it seventeen to three. The footballs behind him and kind of high. And I like the high location because Mike plays above the rim more so

than any defensive back he's gonna see. But there was an underneath defender that kind of I suppose could have influenced the location of the throw. But either way, it's Mike gets his hands on it behind the back of his helmet and the location of it allows the defensive back to punch it out. And you know, to have mentioned they wanted to push the ball vertically down the field, and they really tried it, and it was there. A

lot of these throws were there. They just couldn't execute for one reason or another, which makes it even more frustrating because of how the defense really held serve as long as they could until that fourth quarter. You just had a couple more of those chunk gains. You're talking more points and at the very minimum, flipping the field position to significantly help your defense. Opportunity lost there for

the Dolphins. Even the ensuing third down to a a third and nine pass where two of Hitskasiki on a nice timing throw to the outside, but Mike has to come back inside. Like these are the throws that we talked about earlier in the season where to his location was turning these guys upfield into good yards after the catch. He was just consistently off in this game, which is the opposite of what we're used to with his precision

in the passing game. The next one was a nice throw on a broken play where he could out wide, And I talked about guys trying to create separation off the plaster coverage from broken place when when the when the play breaks down, the routes over, a defensive backer taught to plaster, just find a man and glue to him and stick with and the rest of the play, and we don't create any big plays off of those.

But on this one, Mike doesn't really get off the plaster, but to of throws the ball away from the defensive backs leverage and Mike's able to go to the ground and make the catch. That was a nice throw, a nice catch on a contested play, and then the very next one they come back for another contested catch for back to back fourteen yard plays, And that's where I'm thinking all right he hit he hit Parker on a slant here he h no check that was later in the game. But hit these two throws to Mike a

sicky to get them going. They're get a little bit of Temple going. And then the play where Monty Hooker just drops the past that goes over the top of Mike gets sicky. I broke it down the Sunday or the Monday podcast rather. That was my least favorite throw from two because he starts to reset his mechanics and the throwing motion to get his feet and everything aligned. And as he does that, the block that he's looking at or that he sees or senses stabilize this, and

all of a sudden he has a clean pockets. So he decides to throw from it. But he's already halfway into the stride and throws from that position and the ball sales on him into double coverage, which was not the best decision, I don't think, and and Hooker drops the football. So just these these kind of off the radar types of plays over the last couple of weeks we haven't grown accustomed to. I mentioned the location of

the throws on some of these capped off routes. Again, I can't talk to it because I'm not sure the calls with the decision making that those guys are making on a play by play basis, But I did like the slant route Davanta Parker on second and ten when they're backed up after a tipped ball on first down, goes short to Isaiah Ford, where the ball is right on time into a very tight window in a big spot where if you don't get a first down there,

you're basically punt into field goal range for the Titans, And that play kind of sparks momentum once again as they get you know, back to back strikes down the middle. Right after that, after a couple of runs to Mike Gatsicki Durham Smith, one's a fastball, one's a floater, a good look and drive, but then it stalls and the next drive to DeVante Parker has all kinds of room on a slant route and it's high another missed chance for one of these really pitch and catch ten to

fifteen yard types of plays. It just really put the Dolphins behind the chains all game long and kept the offense from having much success. Later on a good conversion rip over the middle on a quick crossing route to Davante Parker right before the jailan Waddle bomb. And that's where I get so confused. Back to that hall Ands throw early and why I just think maybe it slipped

out of to his hand or something. Because on this play, Waddle once again that same look from earlier attacks the post safety who's at the field side hash the wide side of the field hash Mark and Waddles lined up wide outside the number, so he has to condense inside and by the time he bends it back to the outside, two was on his third hitch up in the pocket.

And that's kind of what you saw back at Alabama with the vertical game, was those very clean pockets where he can step up and drive the football and the

location of the ball was perfect. That's kind of what I think you want to work towards if you want to build a vertical game around this quarterback is trying to find a way to solidify that protection consistently, so five, six, seven times a game, and you can dial up these seven step drops where he can hitch up and and make his decisions and throw these accurate downfield balls, because

that's where the explosive plays are gonna come. You get fantastic protection, a good route from Waddle and a big time throw. Let's get going. But then it's a reverse flee flicker. There's nothing down there, and he takes a hit blindling the ball comes flying out. So the trick plays. They didn't fool Titans at all. They had great discipline on all of them. And the fumble puts you in second and long, and that's a short route to Durham Smith.

Then you get a miscommunication to DeVante Parker on third down where he runs a post, the ball goes to the corner. Then the fourth down throw I thought was really good, but there's a no call. Turner run downs and that was really to three. After that was seven and a half minutes to go. The next time you get the football back again. They had chances right up to the very end. Just didn't play well enough. And that's it, that's all there is to it. Jacoby took

one snap. I thought the throw to Waddle was absolute aces like comically perfect perfect on that third and short throw down the field from Brissette to Waddle. Let's go ahead and take a quick break. We're gonna come back and talk about the rest of the offensive breakdown here on the Tuesday edition of the Drivetime podcast. We've already broken down the quarterback play and some of the offensive play here on the Tuesday edition All twenty two Autopsy

review of the Dolphins and Titans Week seventeen game. We pick it back up here with the passing options, and there's not much to write about here with Waddle. I asked coach about this on Monday, and he talked about how they were able to give him different looks and lots of doubles and brackets. We missed him a couple of times, and that's what I wrote the notes, that

he was double frequently. There was a couple of times where they had a trio of defenders bracketing him, just locking him down completely in terms of not giving him an opportunity to create space. And that one speed out on the field goal drive, there was no separation on that speed out route and he goes up with one hand, but he can't pull it down. You just don't usually see him blanketed like that, and that was pretty common

throughout the course of this game for Jalen Waddle. I think it was somewhat indicative of one thing that has plagued the Dolphins offense without the course of this season is the secondary options in the passing game consistently not being able to take pressure off of that. And that's that's a big reason why you you you know, your drive success rate, your points per game, your yard all

those numbers are down the twenties. I gotta have more options than than just one guy consistently to to find ways to beat doubles and beat single coverage even and create opportunities like that. And that's that wasn't the case outside. I mean, Christian Fulton and Jack Rabbit Jenkins did a good job with tight coverage on Davante on Isaiah Ford on mac Holland's all game long a. Monty Hooker was

really good on Mike get Sicky. He was aggressive and didn't give him an opportunity to really open up and get that long stride going. And then the drops. This is my last note in the passing game here, really the drops after the turnover on downs on the tour to Parker in completion. That was disappointed to see. I thought, I mean, Jalen Waddle drops an open slant. It's twenty four or three at this point, so the game feels

like it's in hand. And then after that, Duke drops a checkdown pass, Parker drops a slant, and then Mike get sick. He drops a stick route that gets kicked up into the air and picked off. Just not the response you want to see after a tough game. And know, I know, it's crappy conditions and it's like very bleak at that point, and you're you're on the brink of elimination, but you can you can still go out and catch

the football. Rob Hunt on the offensive line. I think this is I don't know, the seventh of the last eight or so games where I've just loved Rob's game. You know, Duke pops a sixteen yarder and Rob on that play drops his inside inside shoulder right into a double team with Michael Dieter. He comes into it the bass square. He comes off with the bass square to climb to that second level in complete control, and he just blocks out Rashaan Evans just basically engulfs him on

the play. He's been really, really good and on that long Duke Johnson run, he had great backside vision, tremendous burst and finished the run. Some of the stuff I thought we saw the course of the game with Duke, also what we saw in that Jets game when he went off. But back to Rob. Before we go back to Duke, there were some snaps where Jeffrey Simmons got him, but like obviously, but he more than held his own through the course of the game. So you look for

silver linings around this tape. Big Rob had himself a battle with one of the best interior defensive line in the league, and I thought he did more than held his own. I thought he flat out one it. So that's good to see. And then so Duke Johnson had the big run, early fourteen yard run to start the drive after the Dolphins fell down ten zero. You get great push from both Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson who kind of opened up a lane inside and he's threw it in a flash. The very next run goes for

eleven yards from up temple type of drive. You get two duo blocks, the two double teams, and he does a great job of pressing the front side place side double team of Rob Hunt and Jesse Davis. On Jeffrey Simmons wrote down Simmons and forgot his first name for a second, and it gives Mike a SICKI a better angle because of the way he pressed that run at the second level block to help him pick up eleven yards and he hits that thing so quick when he goes.

Some of the sacks I thought were really coverage sacks in this game for the offensive line. The first one, you know, Waddle flashed into a brief window, but it was a solid thirty yards down the field in a pocket that was slowly caving in. Tough throw to make. I just don't think we're gonna pull the trigger on those most of the time. Requires a lot of zip and velocity to get that thing out there consistently against pressure,

and you're putting it in harm's way. But good pass pro throughout the course of this game, I thought on some of those sacks. Even on the first one, Rob picks up a stunt and really anchors against Nico Autry, who loops around full speed, and Michael Dieter does the same thing on the other side of that stunt, and you know it was his guy who eventually got there. But I thought he played pretty well on that play, and there was plenty of time on that sack and

a couple of the others just good coverage downfield. The one sack that wasn't coverage was immediate pressure off the left, two effective bull rushes on Austin Lee and put them both into his lap pretty quickly. But again, pass pro throughout the game I thought was very solid. They tried to really run a lot of their one on one rushes and everyone really showed out with the anchor and just holding up long enough to let everything downfield developed.

I thought was a very strong showing from the Dolphin's offensive line. My overall thoughts on the offense where they just missed too many chunk gain opportunities and the early down passing game was not effective enough with some of those short passes for almost no gain, going back to the Smike dashed pass, some of the wasted downs because the trick players didn't work. Just things like that, some

of the misfires as well. It creates situations that led to some of those coverage sacks, and just overall offensive really inaptitude for sixteen minutes in this game. Defensively, I didn't think it was that was the case. I thought the defense played pretty well until about ten minutes to play in this game and the rushing defense. You know, they picked up the numbers and stuff, but overall, the

Dolphins defense competed for for about fifty minutes. I think not competed because they gave effort the whole game, but they played strong and and we're in it until about ten minutes left. So the first third down stop scarous

about how they would defend a j. Brown. They doubled him from the inside with Byron Jones and trail technique and a twin receiver set, and then Brandon Jones wall his walls him off over the top, and you've got x one on one with Westbrook at Kane and he's in great shape at the catchpoint to force an end completion. So force them to go elsewhere and throw out your best cornerback against a receiver who doesn't have the resume

of Xavier. Howard thought that was a good look. And then later they go incomplete to Brown where he's covered by Xavian in the slot, but they flipped his zone and Roberts gets the reroute on the possible cross right, possible over route, and because of that, the ball's off targets. I thought was a nice mix of different looks. On him. He did get free on the very next play on

second and fifteen, the touchdown drive. It's man free, so single high safety and man coverage underneath, and he wins inside access on X who just cannot quite recover in time, and it goes for twenty yards. But he would catch that one and one ball later and that was it for him. So a good job taking out their top option there. But the running game got going and they

built off of that. The first touchdown run in the game, a Landon Roberts got banged up and came out of the game and Duke Riley stepped in for him, and they were able to seal him off and kind of get him Cobb in the wash. And then I thought from their Holland kind of overran the play and had a bad angle to the football, and that was just kind of the case all game. I think they fit the run well enough to win this one. You'd get two guys in one gap and back takes the daylight

and it's a chunk run into that third level. Too many of those in this game for the defense and some of the individuals performances here. I say that every week now, really all elements of Christian Wilkins game have improved this year. First off, he played nearly every damn snap in his sixteenth game of the season when an animal. On the first play, he works three gaps down the

line for a run stuff. Later in the first half, he backdoors a front side run and wins with quickness to force the back to bubble right into someone else

for a run stuff. On the very next series, he's in a different position, not the three tech he played previously, but in the two technique where he's head up over the right guard and he gets underneath his pads, stands him up like rock and sock 'em robust, shoves him to his right to get a line of sight to the backfield to see the quarterback of the possible split zone,

possible give to the back coming his direction. He sees the play coming winding back that direction, throws the guard off the left side, and then greets the back in the hole one gap slashing, two gap body tossing. He's playing at such a high level, he's got a variety of routes to victory, and he showcases them each and every week, and as a result, he comes up with

the nearest flash play late in this game. On the fumble the Titans got back, he stands up the left guard again from that two technique position, slides over, chucks him, and then drops his shoulder right on the football. He's He's had a Pro Bowl level year. Jerome Baker's depth on a dig route early in the game I thought was another good example of how Miami got different looks

in terms of how to defend a j. Brown. It helped to interrupt a passing ling with Titans passing game early in this game was kind of off, and that was because of good depth for the Dolphins linebackers and good plan on the back end from the Dolphins secondary, and he put together some good rushes to Jerome Baker where he beat backs and tight ends, that's what he does.

And that play where he ran with Westbrook a cane down the seam on the Titans second touchdown drive and gets forces in completion, I thought was a very nice

display of his athletic ability. Much like his sack where he gets off a cut block and then the acceleration once he you know you slapped the It's like the bag slap drill where you keep the shuffle shuffle slapped the bag, he slapped the cut block down and then from there his feet are already moving at full speed to get the acceleration to the quarterback for a big time sack. A couple more there was the whole lot. Manuel Ogba received his fair share of chips up front.

They really kind of got the tight end involved who would chip and release off of him, so his impact was minimal. The same deal for Jalen Philip didn't get a whole lot going into this game. Thought Zack Seeler had his fair share of plays where he was able to prevent the Titans line from getting press in his particular gap coming off those blocks, and the Titans again,

they really opened up the rushing numbers late. But I thought the chunk gains early were just not fitted up well at the second level, and there were some instances to where even Seiler, even Wilkins and Davis and Butler and the guys up front couldn't quite maintain their gap. But for the most part, I thought the line was solid. It was some second level stuff for the Titans were able to spring some of those bigger runs. The play where Jalen Phillips chased down the front side run from

the backside to Deante Foreman. What a display of his freakish athletic ability. Outstanding Javon Holland I've noted the big hit right before the first down Marker creates a chance on third and short to get a tackle for loss and your land and Roberts shoots the a gap and makes that play there with Christian Wilkins and cleaning that thing up. So another one of those play before the plays.

And again credit to Seiler on the Javon hall And play where he got the tackle because his pursuit really forced the ball carrier to lose his balance on that run because see there was in hot pursuit on his backside. And then my last individual note here is that I continue to love the way that Brandon Jones just inserts

himself in the running game. The first quarter, they have a j Brown short motions into a nasty split right into the formation, and he follows him in there and then wins across his face and running play and gets a hit on the back to stack him up for a short game. So those were some of the takeaways. They're obviously not good enough on the defense, but I thought they played a pretty good game it was more so the other side of the football that couldn't quite

compliment their performance, but the overall takeaways. There was too much success for the Titans on early downs, and they overran some of those chunk games they had, and they were really able to build their play auction play action passing game off of that, which adds another layer of conflict. Which also opened up Tannehill's ability to run the football,

which is another layer of conflict. And we saw some of those boots where it's a rece eiver, a backer and the quarterback and you have to commit to either going back in coverage or stopping the run, and he's gonna choose the other one. He just flips right behind your head. That happened a few times in this game. All of that made it so they were able to cash in some of those red zone opportunities and help put this game out of reach. They also really made

it impossible to get pressure with any consistency. I thought they had a good game plan and they executed it well. So those are your film notes for the week's seventeen game. We're gonna come back and talk about the PFF numbers. Will also scan a note the social here next on the Drivetime Podcast, Travis Wingfield. Stay tuned. We're back here on the Tuesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast January the fourth, talking about the Dolphins and Titans recap the All twenty

two review. Just go ahead and pick it up here with a short visit down the statistics here, starting off with the Pro Football focus on twenty plus yard throws two, it was one for three for forty five yards. On intermediate throws ten to nineteen yards. This has got to get better. Five for fifteen eighty four yards and a pick when he was kept clean. Again, the anomalies compared to his previous statistics and so many categories are are

stark in this game. When he's kept clean fifteen for thirty for one sixty one, that's just five point four yards per pass. I mean it wasn't for the forty five yard They did nothing in the in the passing game when he was kept clean, even under pressure. Three for eight for forty four yards. That's five point five yards per pass and a pick when he was not blitzed. Sixteen for thirty four for one. That's just five point nine yards per pass and a pick. And they only

blitzed him four times. He goes to for four. I should say on balls that he threw, he goes to for four with six yards just one point five yards per pass the Russian game, Duke Johnson had the only two four Smith tackles. In the running back room, he averaged four yards per carry after contact. The receivers Jalen Waddles one point one eight yards per route run led the team. It was the first time he didn't catch

fifty of his targets in a game. Three of seven, Parker caught four for thirteen for one point one two yards per route run. The pressures allows pretty good. Leah Meickenberg had four, Austin Jackson had three, but listen to these numbers. Michael Dieter had one. It was a sack. That coverage seck we talked about. Rob Hunt had zero pressures and Jesse Davis had one and it was a sack as well. The only two times they had to

getting hit was the two sacks. So good day and pass pro against a team that really didn't bring a whole lot of blitz is in this game. On the defensive side, the Dolphins only had four pressures in this game. Jerome Baker had two of them. Nick Needham and Christian Wilkins both had one apiece. Run stops. Jerone Baker had seven of those. Seiler and Wilkins had four apiece. Brandon

Jones and Landon Roberts had three apiece. Javon Holland, Ray Kwon Davis, Andrew Van Ginkel, and Emmanuel Ogba had two run stops in this game, and then Phillips, Butler and row all had one apiece. Coverage snaps. Guys that played twenty snaps and coverage Javon Holland, Xaviing Howard and Byron Jones. Holland one for two completions on targets for one yard, Xaving Howard one for two for twenty five yards. Byron Jones was not targeted in this game. Jerome Baker played

fourteen coverage snaps. They completed two for four for eighteen yards. Nick you Don't played eleven coverage snaps, one for one for seven yards, and of course that dp I we talked about. Brandon Jones played end of them too, for two for twenty yards. And Andrew Van Gigel had six cover snaps, three for three for thirty eight yards and a lot of that was off that action in the running game, which is so tough to deal with when you cannot consistently get those run stops to keep them

in short yardage. Again, great playing by the Titans. We're gonna go ahead and punt on the next gen stats here everything went backwards, so who cares to talk about it? Snap counts quarterbacks too have played sixty one played one snap that was for two. Along the offensive line, Davis, Deeter, Hunt, and Eikenberg all played sixty two snaps, every one of them. Austin Jackson played fifty nine. Solomon Kiley philled in for three snaps. At running back, Duke Johnson leads the way

with fifty eight percent of the workload. He played thirty six snaps, big big difference from last week. Miles Gasking fifteen snaps and Philip Lindsay played seven. In the game. At tight end, Mike Ski leads the way after Derham Smythe took that crown for a few weeks in a row. He plays forty seven snaps for seventy of the workload. Derham Smith played forty one, Adam Shaheen played nineteen Seethan Carter played one and this is what we talked about

with the weapons and in the passing game. Davante Parker fifty eight snaps, nine d Waddle fifty seven snaps, and then after that just seventeen snaps from Isaiah Ford and twelve from mac Holland. So that's a lot of snaps there for guys uh in that deep not tied end receiver room. For the Miami Dolphins. Along the defensive line, Wilkins played fifty six snaps. That's eighty nine percent ridiculous. Zax Healer played fifty, ray Kwon Davis played thirty nine,

Adam Butler played thirty. Off the edge, Van Ginkle les away with sixty one snaps that's nineties seven percent. Ogbad played forty one, Phillips played twenty three, and Brandon Scarlett welcome back, played two snaps. On defense, at linebacker, Jerome Baker played sixty three every snap, Landon Roberts played forty six, and then Duke Riley had nine when he came out. When Roberts came out, and then Munson played one snap when I think Baker went down for a snap as well.

At cornerback, Byron and x both had sixty one snaps a piece. That's nine seven percent of the workload. Nick Needn played twenty four, Justin Coleman played one, Javon Holland played all sixty three snaps at safety, Brandon Jones played forty seven, and Eric Role played fifteen. So those are your numbers. I want to go ahead and scan the social here real quick, because I need about this on Monday. And it's one of those things where I knew it would be greeted with some backlash, and that's why I

found it important to do it. I just think perspective is important. Like, look, you guys heard me all summer and offseason. No one believed this team could be one of the top seven teams in the a f C back in August more than I did. No one thought that could compete for the a f C East more than I did. And the truth is that they did both of those things. I mean, they were in both races until Sunday. Now, this is a bottom line. Business

in Miami came up short. But as I've been saying for I don't know when did I start locked on Dolphins August team for four point five years. Now, process over results. The results tell you again, no playoffs since sixteen, going into year four of the current structure. That's where conversations typically start about is this the right guy or whatever you want to say about you know, job security.

I'm not going to be the one that goes after and talks about that, but that's about where the evaluation starts to begin, right and every position in the organization goes under that evaluation really every year, So I mean every year we do that. But the results I don't think we're what we expected, but that doesn't change the process. We know this defense can play. We know it's deep at all three levels. We know it has ball hawks. We know it can lead the league in sacks in

the weeks seventeen. We know it can make quarterbacks uncomfortable and take the football away, and the vast majority of that group of that defense is under contract long term. We know the offense has shown some flashes. We know the rookie receiver is really good. We know the quarterback really excels in a rhythm, quick strike passing game that can really manage the pocket and help against these great

pass rushers this league has. By the same token, he led the league in turnover worthy plays from Pro Football Focus going into the last game of the season. We know where he has to get better. That's that's that's what it comes down to. We know the Dolphins have the fifth most drop passes according to Pro Football Focus. We know there was too much pressure all year long, the most according to Pro Football Focus from the Dolphins

pass protection. And we know the running game works ranks thirty one, where the Houston Texans have fifteen fewer yards in the ground the Miami Dolphins. The Pittsburgh Steelers surpassed Miami and Houston on Monday night to get into We also know that this team is projected to have the most caps based in football next offseason. We know they have that one first rounder this year, two first rounders

next year. And that's not just three young players. It's flexibility, it's future resources, and you can use those resources however you want. You don't have to stay there and draft who's there. You can use it for veterans, you can use it for rookies, you can use it to get more capital. It's up to you. My point there is

that there are upgrades to make. I think that's pretty evident, not by the individual, but you have to get better in all those areas we listed, right, it has to happen, and I think we still have a chance to go, you know, better than five hundred for the second straight year, for the first time since I was a freshman in high school. You know, I see ten wins by two scores or more over the last two years. That's more than the total number of two score wins between nine.

It's a six year period. Did more of that in two years? I see the opportunity to fix those issues and be back in position next year, only without looking back at three buzzer beater field goals and wondering how we could have closed the margins on those games to flip them the other way. That's the hope, that's what we'll look That's what'll work on this podcast this offseason.

But before that, though, we have one more game to go, and let's go ahead and get that ninth win and sweep the Patriots for the first time since the two thousand season. All right, that's gonna be my time on this Tuesday edition of the Drivetime podcast. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, wherever you get your podcast from. Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Wingfield NFL. Follow the Miami

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