Dolphins Raiders Rewind - Deep Diving the Tape, Stats and Coaching Staff Commentary

Back to the Lab take Review podcast. You know how we do it here the last one of the preseason, not gonna do it for next week's game. Will go over anything we missed from the game recap slash Takeaways pod, will sprinkle in some PF data, and we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and the assistance on a very very busy episode here of the podcast from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is

the Drivetime Podcast. So it's funny because watching the game live in the stadium compared to on television in the in the station, the radio station for the postgame show with Seth and o J. They both have their different advantages and then of course there's watching the game in a room by myself, which for me is full of pausing, rewinding,

pausing rewinding. And when I'm there live, I noticed that I don't get as many offensive line notes, but I do get a better feel for looks, concepts, coverages, that sort of thing. So it's an interesting dichotomy on these rewatches to measure the things that I missed. If you have not done so yet, check out the most recent episode. And the idea is that these two pods give you a full scope of things you know when we do

this review in season. I've always liked the idea of the emotional reaction podcast post game and then the fine tooth comb review the day after after having some time to dig us the game, both from a film standpoint, but also from you know, the emotions cooling down after the game. I just think it covers the game in a comprehensive fashion. You don't get a lot of places. So what that said, here are my rewatch notes for the Dolphins lost against the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday

night in Week two of the preseason. Chase Edmonds his big play in the passing game is where I start, and it's just nice by everyone involved. You have the line that squeezes and shuts down the rush game of the opposing defensive front. The Raiders run a little twist up front. I liked Ikenberg getting extra wreck work on that play where he goes out and gets the ribs of the man rushing on um left tackle Larnel Coleman. We'll talk to coach Matt apple Bomb about that here

in just a moment. And then for twa to attack the line of scrimmage with his eyes up and keep your your eyes on your options down the field. He's the top of his drop and you've got nothing but Raider Jersey's covering up the guys in aqua. I can't even see the number on the field side or the boundary corner who's driving on that route to tell you

who it is. Edmunds and Surefield are both bracketed and Ghasicki's beginning to uncover on a little whip route back to the inside, but to us season opening on the backside and heads for that space. I like the way he attacked that open space aggressively and that gave Chase

just enough time to outrun the linebacker. The location of the ball out in front helps Edmunds transition from pass catcher to runner running back and then his ability Edmunds to stay active through the penalty that legal contact flag that came out and turn it up with explosiveness and suddenness. We saw the same thing we've been seeing all camp with him, how quick and explosive he is. And how about Chase by the way, just a different feel with the ball in his hands and it I mean he

was running hard. He really didn't get squared up as a ball carrier after that opening play, which there was a big wine back lane. If we could just get that first forced defender off that edge blocked. But his speed, suddenness, it just gives the offense another one of these guys who forces defenders to make these snap decisions, which is the best way to create airs and poor decisions on the defensive side. Right. I am a huge, huge Chase

Edmunds fan man. He is. He's fun to watch. I thought the Raiders did a good job of consistently blitzing the weak side edges of this Dolphins offense on those fakes and boots, different run action and play action they had off of that, they were able to either stop the quarterback from getting wide. We're forcing them to bubble and go the long way around. We did see a four team percent reduction and play action calls. That's gotta

have something to do with it there. It's nice to get work against that and good to see it on tapes. You can kind of have your you know, counter to that. Look once the games start to count. Here on the first one that two had to ground at Gaski's feet, you see Surefield behind the defense all alone on a deep crosser, and if TWA could have gotten outside that forced defender man, they had a chance for a huge game.

Something to look at when you go back to the tape as a coach and put together your plans for for regular season games. All of that said, I become more and more encouraged the more I see these guys work with how clean the pockets have been for them. I think it's a combination of challenging or changing rather the launch point, playing you know, a solid play action game into that, and then just good old fashioned execution doesn't hurt either. Frankly, who cares how it gets done.

It's getting done, and if they can sustain that, when Cheetah and Penguin are in the lineup. That's gonna pair awfully nicely, isn't it? A good example? That's the sixteen yard throw to Trent Sherfield. The run action stretched the second level of the defense but also puts the solid wall in front of Tah so he can go through his looks and his reads and progressions. And I just love the way he moved his feet with his eyes.

The eyes and feet hardwired together. That helps you stay in a threatening position while you get through your checks mentally. And then he gets right back to that backside and puts the ball on Sherefield on time. As he comes out of that break, the ball is right there. And you could see Trent get upset with himself after the play because his first step after catching the football you

see his foot slide out. I think he probably believes that the space that he had, he could have made a move to make a man miss and get some

more yards there. Durham Smith had a really nice pole slash lead block into the gap on that three yard Edmonds run, and then the ensuing four yard run you get a pancake block from Rob Hunt as Liam leads on a pole and squares up his stack backer, So some good work all around there, and then like that first down completion to Edmunds, the more I look at it, that little flare where to gets it out quickly that I just love that play so much. Trent sherfield on

that play back to him real quick. He runs a really really good route to clear that boundary corner. And the only threat to Chase is an outside linebacker whose first step is upfield to bluff a rush, and that's as good as coming on the blitz because with the release and Chase his speed, the only chance he has to get over there for that sideline pursuit is to sell all the way out on it. And then that move back inside for a guy with Chase's shift nous.

I mean, it's really just child's play for him at that point. You're not gonna make that tackle very often if you're that backer in that situation, So good operation. There's only no defense for that. It just protects you in the instance that if you're hot, you put the ball early into an advantageous situation. And we saw that there from tah. He also had that nice check down to Mike Gasicki getting through multiple reads. We talked about that. We retweeted it from both I think it was Dan

Orlovski and Brian Baldinger. So go check out at Wingfield NFL to find those clips of those guys breaking that down. And the last thing here, and it's sort of a continuation of something we've been on is Tah's eyes, and I thought they were really good in this game. You know, Orlovsky broke that play down where you see him getting off reads and anticipation of the defensive rotation. That linebacker recoils back into the hook and takes away that route.

The flat corner falls into the deep third, which then opens the flat to Mike Gasicki on that check down. I just think my biggest takeaway from this brief brief showing as much as you can get from eight preseason snaps to hammer the point home, finding that check down fast and preventing that le defensive pursuit. It's such a hidden and tangible, but all the best quarterbacks do it well. I enjoyed seeing the tight end get some run in

that fullback position slash alignment. Durham Hunter, Sethan Carter was back there. You know. Alec Ingles had a really good camp so far. With him not out there, you get some valuable work for those guys formerly called the muscle club, the fullbacks and tight ends position room on the safety Teddy bridge Wire took where coach took all the blame for a bad play call there. I think two things were true there. There wasn't really a route anywhere near where Teddy rolled to, but he did have a lot

of time to get rid of that pass. That's a play that you're happy to just get out of the way there. In the preseason, put in the trash and forget about River Cracraft. Couple of times we saw him communicating things to guy's pre snap, and that kind of speaks to his mental aptitude and just where he is in this offense. I like the way he found soft spots in the zone and then caught the football and

turned up immediately into a runner. That's why he converged so many first downs for your Washington State Cougars, Go Coos. Then that big gainer on the corner route was a really nice catch, and he's sold that route to the post before taking it back to the corner with a really good head fake to put a dB one step in the wrong direction. That's all you need in this league. I thought Robert Jones up front looked good. He was snatching guys in pass pro and they would mirror their

movement while maintaining the grip up front. The kind of night you want to see from someone like him operating late into the game with clean rep after clean rep. He really moved his man on that Savant Akhmed run, which was really good burst and cut from Savon for twelve yards. I thought Rob Jones and Michael Dieter in that kind of second string offensive line had pretty consistent pass pro all night long. And I thought Adam Panky came into the game at left guard later and had

some really good work too. Always found some work held his own in pass pro and he's a guy who can play all five spots as well. What a ball from Teddy, by the way, on that Braylon Sanders fade right into the bucket that one and his throw on the move where he wheeled out of trouble. That ball and the fade into the end zone that the defensive back broke up on Braylon Sanders were both absolute dimes.

You had moments from all three quarterbacks in this game that just has to have you feeling good about that room as a whole. Back to the tight end position, Hunter Long had a really good run after the catch on a quick stick from Teddy where he drops the shoulder and runs through a tackle to finish that run and get extra yards for a first down. I thought he had some good work as a blocker to the very next snap he washes down the edge for a

nice cut back from Savan. On the very next series, Miles starts with I think a four yard rush and Hunter motions to the play side and goes and gets the force offender and blocks him up. Good work from him might have been the best tight end tape on the on the field tonight or that night. And man on that shot to Eric Azukama across the body, you know Azukama waste not a moment to break his route and come back to the quarterback. What an impressive night

he had. He is just so impressive from a mental standpoint of physical standpoint. Let's go ahead and go deeper into his game. He talked a little bit about Wes Welker emphasizing getting your shoulders past your man and that's the best way to win routes and on that first deep ball, you see him come out of that original really east off the line and he dips those shoulders and gets him past his man, then takes off and it just happens so quickly. Take your coaching and ball

out as a result. You'd love to see that. And then the catch obviously down the field, the contestant catch absolutely absurd. Those two on the final drive between he and Skyler Thompson, outstanding throws, insane body control, just a really really impressive couple of plays from the two rooks.

And I do want to mention Skyler Thompson again. He's not an omission from the podcast last night because we talked about that, but man, he was feeling it the field and the instincts are pretty dang nice for a

rookie quarterback. And then his touchdown past his a Quandree White, so he had that touchdown catch obviously, but he had one carrier for four yards and I thought was super impressive where he cut backside then right at the line, made one more little jump cut and a spin that made a man miss and propelled him forward beyond the line of scrimmage for a nice positive game. When he was contacted into the backfield. So good work from the offense,

go ahead and turn the page of the defense. I thought Van Gekle and Steeler consistently whipped their guys and pretty much access full goblin mode. Wilkins and Phillips also won their matchups with regularity. I thought Phillips pass rush on the near Nick Needham interception there was play three

of the game. Man he runs the arc and then he's able to stop, put his foot in the ground, and then get back the other direction and retrace back towards the quarterback, and he gets his hand on Stidham's arm to force an errand throw which popped into the air. His athletic ability at that size, that combination, it never ceases to amaze me. Did the exact same thing on Zach Seeler sack, which, by the way, my god, Seiler

is so strong. Back to Gink real quick. He had a rush where he looped inside from the foretech where your head up over the tackle and then come across the center position, and he puts a pick on the center and moves him over a solid gap with that strike, and then he comes off the hit, closes in the quarterback and finishes with a big hit on him. Now, great play by stid him to complete that pass. But man Ginkle did a little bit of everything in this game.

And the very next play he lines up off the weak side sea gap and cuts that down for a tackle for loss, just like Rashad Jones used to do for so long here right, it was cool to see that. I thought Elijah Campbell was good again. He was in coverage on the aforementioned fourth down, but his recovery speed to make a play on the football was so nice. The guy is just the guy that he was covering. Just made a really nice catch on that play, that near pick that he had down on the red zone.

You see him put a foot in the ground on the little whip route the tight end runs and he ran it better than the receiver or the tight end. Just really explosive and his change of direction of movement skills. Big fan of his game. On the play where Needham got hurt back to him real quick, his effort, chase and tackle and then the hit he made were all so so very good. That play was defended so well. But the downside of third and short as they get

one yard and they converted. Keion crossing wasn't coverage on a deep shot incomplete with good hands, a good jam, good start stop on the double move to get right back into phase when the receiver turns it on, he hemmed him into the sideline with no real room to operate. Done that a couple of times so far this preseason.

I thought Kator Cahoo's insta inks really showed on that pass breakup he had where he's running with his man, passes him off to the next man in the zone, and then immediately works to get depth into that hook zone and puts himself in position to get his hands on a football man. His ability to match impress without putting a hand on the guy is pretty impressive. Quick twitch and a fast processor. With the athletic ability he's got, that's an intriguing combination if he can do that kind

of stuff consistently. There was a play where his man went in motion and took a jet sweep and who ran all the way around and made the play on the other side of the formation. Super super impressive. That porter Gustin cross shop was absolutely sick. Little heavy step timed up with that inside hand swatting down the right arm of the right tackle, turned that corner and wham sack. He's had a nice preseason so far. Duke Riley was

not just fast, he fit the run super well. Good pursuit, no false steps in there and getting to the gap quickly and finishing that stuff off. That's why I got here. On the offense. On the defensive fun rewatch they always are. Let's come back and do some media, some Pro football focus. That's all that fun stuff that's next on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.

It's a Monday here on the Drivetime Podcast. I want to go ahead and cover some PFF numbers before we hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, and the time to throw numbers for the quarterbacks really stood out to me. Two point eight five, two point seven six, two point eight eight, that is outstanding. We talked about the clean pockets. There's your proof right there by the numbers with an average depth of target around eight yards for all three

quarterbacks too. By the way, Skylar was three for three on passes over twenty yards with eighty one yards in the game. Doesn't hurt when you' getting the big splash plays down the field from the receivers, and interesting that the Raiders only blitz two oh once, Teddy four times and Skyler zero times again preseason. Not a lot of creativity there in terms of your scheme. We'll hear from

Josh Boyer on that in just a moment. But how about five point seven yards per route run from Eric Zukama on twenty routes and outrageous number he caught two of three contested passes and small sample size obviously, but league leaders each year typically around fortent in that category. As a team, we caught four of seven. Craycraft and Preston both were one of one in that category as well. Zukama had a four yards after the catch average eight

point five yards after the catch for Chase Edmonds. I mentioned the Quandrea whites one kerry. He was contacted three yards behind the line to give him seven yards after initial contact. Savon and Miles with both larger workloads, average three yards after contact. PFF had zero pressures allowed for Connor Williams, Robert Hunt, Liam Eichenberg gots On four teen pass rush reps or pass blocking reps. Adam Pankey also

had zero. Austin Jackson had one Rob Jones had one Jackson the fourteen reps and Panky and Jones played a whole bunch. Van ginkle Man, he and Seiler went full Goblin mode. Like I mentioned, four pressures for kink on thirteen pass rush reps, two for Seiler on eight. Gustin, Stilly and Jenkins had two pressures of each. A peach kind of move into the country. Eat a lot of peaches a piece for those guys. And then Hodge Phillips,

Carney Jr. Wilcomes and Wilkins and Aguavin had one apiece. Cahoo, Good and Fedlum led the way with three run stops each. Channing Tendall, Porter, Gustin and Ben Stilly and Sam Ego van All had to those are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage. And then kat Caho also had just four yards receiving allowed on twenty seven coverage snaps. What a night for him. That's that's all on the

PFF numbers. Let's go ahead and do Mike McDaniels press conference from Sunday, starting with the question about Jalen Waddle and Tehron Armstead their availability coming into this season. Just now three weeks away. Talking about those two players, here's coach Mike McDaniel. UM, both of them are doing real well. UM. The with with Armstead, that's that that's a guy that's done it in the league at a high level, and we're trying to make sure that he's UM ready to

go week one. UM and he's you know, we evaluate that on a day day basis. He's been practicing, but we're trying not to overload him. UM. He you know, he he has invested UM a good amount this offseason, more typically than he usually does. So we're just trying to be smart with that. UM. And I don't have I don't have any concerns for a week one at all, UM. And the plan is is to to that you guys will see him a little bit UM this week for sure.

With Wattle that that's just an exercise of uh what would you call it, um, A really restraint because you know it would be one thing I think I'd probably be less cautious had he not come back from UM. You know, his out of any player on the team, his jump in the scheme from O t As to training camp was the highest. He he was UM doing

well but kind of swimming in the playbook. UM, and you know, I was very interested to see, you know, a second year guy with his first offseason, how he's gonna come back for training camp, and UM he was. Uh he exceeded my expectations. And you guys know I have high expectations for him. So when UM, you know, we we noticed something that was a little tight and just you know, we really really wanted to be UM preventative.

We've been extra cautious with him because just just knowing where he's at in his game, um, within the offense and how well he was doing so uh this week, we UM planned to get involved a little bit, but I planned to be very cautious with him as well, just knowing what he means to the team and how UM we don't want him to have any any lingering setbacks. We want him full fad and we rely on rely on him, um for a multitude of things, and we we want to make sure that that that he is

comfortable and um a hundred percent full go. I mean, shoot,

he's starting to get pretty annoyed with how cautious we're being. UM, but I think it's uh to his credit, and I think it's the best thing for the Dolphins, and I think you guys would be mad at me if I wasn't really cool conversation with coach back and forth about Eric Spoelster coming out to the practice last week and talking about some carryover between basketball and football, and they talked a little bit about spacing on a basketball court and how that relates to spacing on a football field.

Here's coach mcdowmond talking about football and basketball, which I think is a cool intersection because coach had talked previously about or there was a story I should say about coach using Alan iverson tape to talk about releases and creating space on a football field. Here's coach talking about

the carryover. Clearly he loves this stuff. You've got them going now you're you're, you're, you're dead right though, we had the same conversation, so I I I floated out here because I don't pretend to be an expert on basketball, but in my experience and just generation right, we've watched UM three point percentages completely changed the range and where where good shots are taken from um, you know, fat fast break three pointers, and just how um the shooting

range of players expands the defense they have to come, they have to guard more for space, which in in theoretically and kind of the way UM we look at football specifically on the offense is we're trying to make a defense defend maximum amount of space. So you know, we do that with our principles of outside zone, but also speed. One of the reasons why you like speed is because now the defense has to defend more ground.

So it's kind of a similar philosophy of UM creating space. UM. You do it in basketball with shooters, so then you have to draw defenders out, giving more space underneath UM. And you do it in football with with UM playing fast and having speed, so that in the timing of the play, defenders have to defend that much more area. Because that's that's all In both sports, UM defenses are trying to do the same thing, and that's that's really you know, you're trying to compress the area that they

have to defend. And and uh so it was a really cool conversation. It's something that we couldn't really forecast exactly where it was gonna go, but UM, I think it was beneficial for both and there are some commonalities for sure in that I wanted to ask coach this question about how does Dolphins rookie last despite the fact that the fewest amount of draft picks this year in the National Football League but also the fewest draft value points by the Jimmy Johnson Value Chart, How they've been

able to do that and still get so much production from this rookie class. Here's coach Mike McDaniel. Well, you just know that the UM. You can't stop developing UM from the ground up, so to speak, UM on an NFL roster. So when you have limited resources, this wasn't the first time in my career I've been a part of that UM. But you just know the stakes, so

you try to use those. The fact that you have limited resources means that you can spend more time in a given area projection of the draft, but it also puts pressure on You're like, hey, we we don't we can't afford to to miss because then you have a UM. You know, UM players under rookie contract that you know, that's the way the CBA has written in the way the salary cap is. It's UM. It catches up to you if you don't have contributions UM from UH successive

draft classes. So UM it's to the credit of the UM UH Chris career, in the in the scouting department, all the position coaches and coordinators. UM. When you have those limited resources, you know you need to get some contribution from the class. So so you have to really dig your heels and make sure that you're not missing on those limited selections and opportunities. Lets go ahead and finish you up here with Eagles Week coming up and joint practices this week to last for fans to come

out and check out this training camp. Coach was asked about do you change up your practice plan with a new team this close to the season for joint practices? Here's yeah. I mean you're always I I really really test the entire building and the organization UM with changes because you know, it's my philosophy to always change relative to think through stuff. Maybe it doesn't change, but a

lot of times you're altering stuff depending on your exact situation. UM. I think that's more to do with UH, the amount of reps that you can take UM and UM where you're you're feeling, UH, where your most depth is that the decisions that you have to make in the pending future and those opportunities UM from are you asking from a schematic? The follow up was about one on ones

and the tone and script of practice. Here's coach, that's the nature of joint practices, Like it's hard, Um, Guys are competitive and and you you plateau to a degree when you're going against the same people all the time. But then you get this random influx of different types

of players and the competitor in each individual player. Like even if we tried to tone down the the um intensity, that would be hard because they want to beat that guy across from them and prove it, and they get more opportunities UM in joint practices where I mean you can go a quarter as a receiver and maybe not catch man coverage, or if you do catch man coverage, maybe the ball doesn't go to you. Well, joint practice, you line up and how many one on one reps

can I take? Because if I take six, I know I'm gonna get six man to man opportunities and get the ball six times. So what can I do with that? Those are UM that with exception. The only thing that we really would adjust UM is maybe the length of it, but the intensity and exactly what you're doing that's hard to adjust, and um, that kind of defeats the purpose of the joint practices. There you go, Head coach Mike

McDaniel on his Sunday postgame press conference. Day after press conference, I should say let's go ahead and take our last break here before we get to assistant coaches media. I spoke to Josh Boyer, Sam Madison, Austin Clark, Wes Welker, Darryl Bevil, and Matt Applebaum. We'll play the hits from those chats here next on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's pick this back up with assistant coaches media. We had six

guys I had a chance to talk to. Always good insight, always some expertise offered offered from those guys, and we start here with Darryl Bevil, who I asked about the genesis of two 's pregame ritual and what we saw on the broadcast, how that came to be, how that was received by two oh when coach Bevill brought it up.

Here's coach, you know we I mean, we've we've talked about a lot of things, and UM, you know, I just I just try to impress on them just different you know, I've been around some pretty successful quarterbacks with me, Matthews, Afford, Russell, Wilson, and they all they all have different things they like to do. So, um, you know, something sticks, some things don't. And that was one of the things that I think he found important. And my follow up, how would you

say that has impacted his game positively? You know, I would say that his preparation really since the day that we've been here, has has attributed to the success that he's having. And you know, the leaps and bounds that he's having within our offense. And he's done a great job of um, of of really investing his time into it. And it's this is not an easy system to learn, so he's really done a great job just um kind

of dive into it every day. I would I would venture to guess there's probably not a day that goes by that he's he's not doing something good. The offense had to cut that short because of that freaking helicopter, but he was pretty much done there with the answer, and you got the gist of it. Up next, Wes Welker and his perspective on Mike McDaniel's comments Sunday about Jalen Waddles jumped from O T A S to camp being the biggest he saw in the entire roster. Here's

West Wilton. Yeah, I know, absolutely. I think Jalen, you know,

he had such a great rookie year. Um, you know, we're very excited about you know, him coming back for the second season and and uh really just to see the jump he's made, I think with the additions that we've made in the room, and and uh, the type of guys that are in there, having some real pros in there because he's still a young player and still learning and and all those different things, and and to do what he's done, do what he did as rookie is is pretty incredible, and so um, you know, just

trying to build off that, and I think he's uh, you know, face that challenge head on and you know, making sure there's no sophomore slump or anything like that, and and going out there and and perform the way he has has been pretty remarkable. And and he's such a talent to talented dude, and and um, when when he puts it all together, man, it's it's pretty special. Special player indeed, how about an update on the progress of Eric Azukama and Braylon Sanders. No, they're doing really well.

You know. Um, they just continue to get better every day they come out, They work hard, They done everything that we've asked of them, and and um, you really see them, you know, just continuing to grow and um, and then they're going to continue to I mean, there there's still a lot of mistakes that we got to clean up, but you can really see the talent level of those guys and what they have to offer as far as football players, and and they're they're they're going

there in the right trajectory of where they're supposed to be and probably even a little bit ahead. And and so we just got continued to stay on those guys and and make sure that they're they're continue to develop to where you know, they can hopefully help us. And then finally, how about the way he felt Eric a Zukama responded after the fact that he got off to a slow start by his words, and the coach Welker kind of challenged him. How did Welker felt like he

responded to that challenge? H, Well, I'm just gonna start ripping him every game, you're gonna do that. So UM. But no, UM, it's always good to see guys that can that can take criticism, especially you know, I don't necessarily like to get onto guys on game days. To me, that's that's their day. Um. But if I see something they feel like, you know, they need an extra boost or whatever it is. Um. And every guy's kind of

different with that. So UM. You know, it was good to see him respond the way that he did, though, and and go out there and and put together the game that he did, especially there in the fourth quarter and giving us a chance to win. One of my favorite conversations with offensive line coach Matt apple Bomb, I asked him first about an evaluation on Austin Jackson, Liam Eichenberg and Rob Hunt. Um. Yeah, I mean those guys are getting better every day, you know what I mean. Um,

So I'm pleased with their progress. Um. I think from the start of the off season until this very day, those guys have come in with the right mindset, right attitude. Some days are better than other days, that's to be expected, but I think it's been an overall steadily climbed towards becoming the players that they're meant to be and that I expect them to be and they expect themselves to big. And then here's a fun little behind the scenes coaches

talk here. I asked him about the guards often finding extra work when they don't have anybody to block on a certain or on a given play, I should say, and coach broke it down two parts for me right here, let's go ahead and run that. Yeah, it depends um within the protection scheme. Obviously, we don't want guys to not block anybody. We kind of call those no hitters. Those aren't acceptable. Uh, So you know what they can do when the defense presents a situation where they wouldn't

have any work is scheme dependent. So it's not like they just error aimlessly kind of looking for a guy. It kind of depends on what the play call is and that will push them in one direction or the other to look for that work. But yeah, if you're just watching the tape and you see your guard uncovered and then or it's like a three technique and the

guy loops out to the tackle, the end drops. Now he doesn't have work, you're gonna see the guy looking for work and trying to get a piece of somebody, um, and if you didn't know what the play call was, it might look like it's just kind of like at his leisure. We know that leisure, like at his discretion which direction to work in, But there is a there's

a planned part of that part even too. It's like, if I'm the left guard, let's say and I got the three technique man, the center's go on the other way, three loops out, five drops. His reaction is scheme dependent in terms of which direction he might work at that point. But certainly if you want to go smash somebody, you know what I mean. It's just it's not just like but it's not just like you know, at his discretion, there is a even the the reactions to the reactions

are built within the scheme. I guess what I'm trying to sell, awesome, awesome stuff. Let's go to the defensive side of the ball and more stuff here from d C. Josh Boyar asked him about how the preseason approach kind of changes or you know, what's your focus is? When the Raiders, for instance, didn't match personnel with the Dolphins offense,

I asked him, what's the benefit of that. Here's coach Boyer. Um, Well, again, it could be something you could throw it in as a change up, it could be something that you do on a regular basis. Uh. There's obviously, um, you know, some thought process to be bigger versus smaller groups, like for example, if there in a loving personnel to be in a base defense, if you feel good about your adjustments and your matchups. Um, And obviously that's a harder

pa to run against. Uh. And then some people they prefer to be in like a nickel or call it a big nickel three safety package versus all groups. So and again I think the element of like as coaches were creatures that habit, So you kind of study what people do and have done. And if you know they throw you change up or a curveball there you've got. You gotta be ready to adjust as as it comes.

So and then I asked him about a follow up about the benefits of seeing looks that maybe are not advantageous to you, but you let the play run out anyway to get an opportunity to see that look against

a you know, disadvantage. Look, here's coach boyl you're breaking down, Yeah, which I think happens quite often in the preseason, So there there may be situations that come up that you ordinarily would adjust a different way, but you're you're not really willing to put that out there, like what you're gonna be in certain situations. It's come up several times for US already this year. UM, so yeah, I think

there's advantages in the preseason too. Uh, you know, not exactly playing how you would in the regular season and the follow up. Do you ever have to kind of quiet the competitor inside to not dial up a blitz here's coach? I think. I think one of the things that you know, our staff does a great job of is um even as the game's going on, and'd be like,

all right, this is what we're getting. We would adjust it this way or we do it this way, but it may not necessarily transpire or like you know it it's and sometimes it's easy because you know, it's usually pretty basic in the preseason and it's not a lot of game plan stuff. You'd be like, all right, this

is their game plan, this is what they're doing. Um. You know, there were a lot of offensive calls and defensive calls last night that you would have saw the same offensive play versus the same defense, uh last night, which you know that that happened several times. Um. Again, I think they were you know, kind of the same mentality of us and more fundamentals techniques evaluate players, UM

and UM. It was some good work for us, and there's some things to learn from and you know, it's a good opportunity for us to come in here today and let's see the things that we could do better and that we need to do better to ultimately win games. Let's go next to cornerbacks coach Sam Madison on key on crossings play and how it compares now to what they saw on tape when he signed. Aggressiveness is the

key to the game, a little bit more aggressive. You know, his game before was a lot of user utilizing his speed, UM, and just the way that Josh really wants to play. You gotta want to be aggressive at the line of scrimmage and knows some of the things that I like to do. So just being able to pick up on the little things that he does very well, having the confidence to utilize his speed but putting a little aggressive aggressiveness on it, and he's been doing very well with that.

Finish up with coach Austin Clark first about Ben Stilly's training camp in preseason and then Andrew Van Ginkle's speed in instance. Yeah, I think Ben, you know, coming in, we kind of knew that he was a high motor, high effort physical guy. I would say one of the

other things that's he's a really smart guy. You know, in terms of, uh, he can handle a lot and he has good uh you know, he soaks it a lot, and he's able to his recalls very very good, and he can handle multiple spot And I think that coupled with the you know the fact that he's's been able

to grasp the technique quickly has really helped him. And we've seen a guy that you know, initially struggled a little bit and he's getting better each game and you know, excited to see what he does on Tuesday and moving into Philly weeks. Yeah, you know, Gink his speed is one thing. His instincts are another thing. And I think when you combine those two things, that's kind of the the type of player he is. And he knows when to take a shot, you know. And the other night

on that on that counter is a perfect example. You know, he he was able to play with great instinct, shoot a shot, get to TfL, get us to second and long situation, and uh, you know he's smart too, you know. And I think those those things about Gink over the past two years. You've seen it, and it's it's cool to see him have some confidence with what he's doing now. And you know, I think it's gonna be big for him, big challenge for him this week. All Right, that podcast

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