Dolphins Rams All-22 Review, Assistant Coaches' Media

The numbers, the snap counts, the team rankings, advanced metrics. We're gonna hear from coordinators and offensive assistance on this podcast. But the real reason I'm most excited all twenty two has been grinded. It has been typed up in my quote unquote virtual notebook. We're gonna talk about that and much much more on this Tuesday, November the third edition of the Drive Time Podcast, and Drive Time is brought

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the NFL. Offensively and defensively, and on the offensive side, the Dolphins eleven and scoring at twenty six point nine points per game. When it comes to total offense, Miami's three d and twenty four point four yards per game

is twenty eight in the National Football League. On the ground, the rushing offense is averaging yards per game that's in the nf FELL and when it comes to passing yards to twenty six point four per game, that is twenty one, and the thirty seven point eight third down percentage is right now in the NFL. On the offensive line, the Dolphins quarterbacks have been sacked only eleven times. That's tied for ninth fewest in the National Football League. And on

the defensive side, that's where things get really fun. Eight team points six points allowed per game, number one in the league, best scoring defense in the National Football League right now. Three hundred and seventy six yards allowed per game against the Dolphins, that ranks twenty in the NFL. On the ground game, Miami allows one d twenty five point one yards per game and that ranks twenty one

in the league. And just real quick, a quick aside as far as rushing yards allowed, you see these numbers posted up here. All teams except for six allowed at least one hundred yards per game. The Falcon, Steelers, Ram, Saints, Colts, and Bucks are under one hundred yards per game allowed. The way I view rushing offense, especially in modern football, is not about the number of yards you allow. It's a number of plays you win. How many times do you put the offense in second and ten, or second

and twelve, or even second and eight. Can you get stops like that to get enough wins to force them into long third downs? To me, that's the key in the running game, and I think we've seen that throughout the course of the last three Sundays plenty of plays with the Dolphins defense puts the offense into predictable into predictable passing downs based upon some stops early on in the game or in the down and distance in the series. As far as passing defense goes, Miami currently right now

is allowing to fifty point nine. That's twenty in the NFL. But when it comes to sacks, Miami has nineteen of those that's tied for tenth in the National Football League. And overall takeaways, the Dolphins have registered thirteen this year that's tied for fifth and just one takeaway off the

lead behind the Seahawks, Browns, Bucks, and Chiefs. And when it comes to third down defense, the Dolphins are tied for second, allowing just thirty three point three percent of third down conversions to be converted against them when the other team has the football. So really good, good defensive stats there for the Dolphins of the half of the season to the first seven games of the season. And so those are your team rankings currently through eight weeks. Individually.

Let's go ahead and start with the snap counts, and there was quite a bit of discrepancy here between the offensive and defensive side. The Dolphins played forty nine snaps on Sunday two. A tonk of volo of the quarterback, and the five starting offensive lineman all played all forty nine snaps for your Miami Dolphins. Adam Panky also had two snaps on the offensive line, and Christian Wilkins had

his one snap as a fullback. In this Miami offensive attack, running back Myles Gaskin led the way again with forty three reps. That's eighty eight percent. Matt Brita had eight snaps and Malcolm Perry had seven at the running back position, with Malcolm Perry a running back slash wide receiver designation. At receiver, Preston Williams led the way with forty four snaps. That was of the workload. Davante Parker was out there for twenty nine snaps on Sunday, Isaiah Ford seventeen, Jakeen

Grant sixteen, and Mac Hollins two snaps. At tight end Durham Smith he played thirty two snaps, leading the way at sixty five percent. Mike Asiki was out there for twenty eight snaps, and Adam Shaheen out there for sixteen snaps. As far as some of the offensive metrics there for your Miami Dolphins, we talked about it on Twitter on Monday.

Quarterback to a Tongue of Blois touchdown pass, the first of his career to DeVante Parker had a nearest defender a separation mark of point to eight yards per NFL next Gen Stats. That is the tightest window touchdown pass in the NFL this season. Of course, the defensive back was flagged for defensive pass interference on that play, but it did not matter. Parker hauls it in. It was the tenth touchdown and has past eighteen games played and going back to Week seven of last year, Parker's ten

receiving touchdowns are tied for ninth in the NFL. At running back Miles Gaskin lad the Dolphins and rushing for the sixth game this season, had forty seven yards and in his last nine games gas him has one five carries four hundred eighty five yards, three touchdowns on the ground and thirty three catches for two hundred and thirty yards and all purpose back there for the Miami Dolphins.

And on the offensive line, Pro Football Focus had Miami with four pressures allowed on quarterback tongue viola, and of those four pressures, the veterans Jesse Davis and Ted Carriss both pitched past protection clean sheets with no sacks, hits or hurries. No pressures allowed from Harris and Davis onto the defensive side, and I cannot wait to watch this defensive tape here with you guys on the Drivetime podcast. Snap counts on the defensive line. Zack Seeler played sixty

five snaps on the on the Dolphins defensive line. That was sixty percent of the workload. Christian Wilkins not far behind him with fifty eight, Great Kwon Davis had fifty and Benito Jones got twelve snaps on Sunday at defensive end, Emmanuel Ogball played sixty nine reps. That's good for seventy of the workload, and Shack Lawson played forty five snaps at linebacker. Plenty of snaps to go around here. Kyle van Noy played ninety reps in the game on Sunday,

that was of the defensive workload. Jerome Baker played seventy five snaps, Van Gekl had forty six, Landon Roberts had nineteen, Cruge Hill had seventeen, and Sam Mguavin had seven reps in this game. So you see the idea there. The game plan specific for the week. Linebackers were crucial in this Dolphins game plan for Josh Boyer and Brian Flores and in the defensive secondary. Xavian Howard played every snap

all ninety five out there. Of those snaps, Byron Jones played eighty eight, Nick Needham played sixty six, Hey Hayes had fifteen reps, and Noah Ignogeny was out there for seven. At safety. Plenty to go around here. Bobby McCain also did not leave the field nine snaps for him, Eric Rowe had eighty seven snaps and Brandon Jones played thirty nine in Miami seventeen victory, and defensive end Emmanuel Ogba. His hot shriek was not slowed down by any stretch.

Over the course of the bye week. He wrecked up seven more quarterback pressures, a sack, a hit, and five hurries. He also batted a pass down at the line, made a run stop, and forced a fumble that led to a touchdown. His thirty two orderback pressures this year our fifth most among all edge defenders on Pro Football Focus, trailing only t J. Watt ofth Pittsburgh Cleveland's Miles Garrett,

l A's Joey Bosa, and Tampa Bay Shack Barrett. That is the best of the best and edge rushers out there in the NFL right now, and his counterpart, Shack Lawson, piled up five pressures, a sack, a hit in three Hurries also had a run stop and a forced fumble which essentially put the Dolphins down, or it didn't. Essentially, it did put the Dolphins down at the one yard line, essentially leading to that touchdown from Miles Gaskin there in the first half. On the inside, Zack Seeler four more

quarterback pressures, three and more run stops. This guy, to me, is becoming one of the more under appreciated, unherralded players, not just on this Dolphins defense or on the Dolphins team, in the national football Like, this guy is damn good and we're gonna talk about him a lot in the tape study as we do every week here. On drive time, Christian Wilkins had two pressures, had to run stop, and of course that big interception that really began Miami scoring.

Scoring on slot there in the first half led to the first touchdown of the game. Andrew van Gikl had the scoop and score for the second longest or fumble return rather in Dolphins history. Jason Taylor had an eighty five yard return back in Week one of two thousand five against the Broncos. Van Ginkel also had a QB hit, two hurries and a run stop, and did not allow a completion and coverage. Also at linebacker, Van Noi had two quarterback pressures, made nine total tackles, and broke up

two passes. Four of his tackles were for run stops. Those are stops within two yards of the line of scrimmage. He also had a twenty eight yard return on his fumble recovery that set Miami up at the Rams one yard line. At Land and Roberts made four tackles in the game, three of those were good for run stops and in the secondary, cornerback Nick Needham was targeted eight times in coverage, allowed just four receptions for fifty yards.

That's an average of six point to five yards per target and fifty clip and Byron Jones allowed just forty five yards on seven pass targets on Sunday. At safety, these two guys are playing out of their mind right now. Eric Row had the most passes defense in an NFL game this season, or tied for it with five five. He is now tied with Jesse Bates of the Bengals

with eight passes defense. That's the most among all safeties for Bates and Eric row and on the season, he's allowing just fifty eight point one percent of targets on him to go completed, for an average of four point five two yards per target and a passer rating of sixties six point six, quietly becoming one of the best safeties in the National Football League. He already is. He's one of the best safeties there is out there. Bobby McCain,

he's in that category too right now. He allowed just three yards receiving per Pro Football Focus, a passer rating of seventy nine point two, and two tackles without any misses and in the open field there for Bobby McCain. So, this Dolphins defense really turned the screws on opposing offenses as of late. They've allowed eleven point three points per

game over the previous three games. In the three game winning streak, they also have eight takeaways, ten sacks, and have allowed the opponent to convert just of the third down plays over those three wins. Dominant, dominant defense here for your Miami Dolphins. And with that, let's go ahead and turn the tape on and get to the all

twenty two review. Here from the Dolphins offensive side of the football, and we'll go ahead and start as we do weekly on the All Review, talking about some of the scheme and structure of Changile's offense and the play calls and off the top the first play, I already liked what I saw, or what I see I suppose from a possibility standpoint, You've got Jachem Grant coming across the formation on a fly sweep, and you get a

player in instant conflict. He has to honor the motion of both Grant and read to a right and the mesh point there with Miles Gaskin. All the linemen hold their blocks at the line, so to A can pull that thing and flip it out to Grant who's just staying there behind the last grimmage uncovered. So there's options built off that play. Another general note here of the offense. I love the way these guys connect with the twister

or the looper coming in on stunts and twists. They always throw a punch and a lot of times it completely messes up the rhythm of that t e stunt or twist where you have the tackle going out in the end coming in and trying to get that game up front. The initial contact helps us wrap that timing

of those stunts on the defense. We heard Ted Carriss say in his media this week that he'd like to have some blocks back and a couple of times they connected well to start but just couldn't stay on those blocks. I think that's what he's talking about. That's my assumption, but I think there were some opportunities there to get those blocks cleaned up and get some more yardage. In the running game. The Rams really covered things up well

on the back end. There was a couple of layers looking plays where they had the underneath, the over the top, and the deep route, and they just covered everything up blanketed on all three layers of that particular play on the Miles Gascon fumble that might have been That play might have been the biggest hole this season. We saw in the running game a huge lane opens up between Harris and Kindley and you see a linebacker take a false step following Jachem across the formation on that jet

sweep action. So all the I candy there part of the offensive attack. In Week eate with the Dolphins, Malcolm Perry's catch, he got outside access on that play because the slot corner crashed on the fake so another nice schemed up first down there and then again on the conversion to Isaiah Ford the third down in one conversion.

In the late in the game, the fourth quarter, they do rooming boomerang motion, so he comes inside and then goes back outside of motion and that causes the defender following him in man coverage to get out leveraged, and it's an easy throw and catch to move the chains

there on third and one. As far as to us game, the first play or the second play, rather the sack fumble, there was some good rushes from both Larrd Floyd and Aaron Donald, which forces too to climb and kind of hitch as he climbs up to find another platform to throw from, because if he stays home there, he's gonna

get drilled by either Floyd or Donald. But as he climbs the windows on the windows he tries to find also closed down as so as he tries to reach back to throw, Donald comes in off the block and knocks the football loose. And look, this is a damn good defense you're facing. They're gonna have plays where several guys win, and that's what happened on this play. The completion to Preston Williams. The slant on the r P O later on the ball handling, how quick the process is.

That part has me excited. I mean, I knew about it at Alabama, but it's been a while since I watched it on tape and the quick ball handling, that thing was out. I timed it three time, one point six six seconds snap to release that football is out. The Dolphins offensive line can handle that one point six six all day long. On the deep shot later to Preston Williams, I love the the way to his head works. As you watch the all twenty two working from one

side of the field to the other. He starts right, comes back to the middle and you see the safety that's over to Preston's side. He runs the opposite direction back towards the middle of the field, and that's exactly when TWA takes his shot. But it's really good coverage downfield by thirty one Darius Williams, so the play goes incomplete. They come back a couple or the next series, rather a couple of plays later with a deep shot to Mike Asiki, and it was the same thing that I

really liked about his game. He's so quick to get to that safety with you watch the end zone copy. You see his head pointed directly at the safety in the middle of the field and he sees what that safety is doing, and the decision comes right after that. Now, I don't know what the progression is of that place, and I don't know the play call or the design of the play, but you see him look at the safety, and when that safety makes his break, that's when TWA

makes his decision. And so safety comes down on the middle of the formation and jumps the backside crossing route, which means to that point that Mike Asiki on that takeoff has a one on one opportunity. And as soon as the safety rips are breaks forward to a lets that thing ripped. I put it on the handheld timer because I was curious to see how fast it took him to process that information. And the football lands twenty five yards down field off the line of scrimmage with

a snap to release time of two point one. That's anticipation ripping the football man and the ball was right there. Just a hell of a play once again by Williams to get the pass break up the completion to Joachim Grant on the comeback route before the touchdown throw to DeVante Parker. That ball was out just as Jachine was coming out of the break and right on the money. That was cool to see. The touchdown pass was six

man pressure. The Rams brought six on the blitz against five and protection and two was quick release, really wiped out the free rusher and the throw was right on the money, just perfect, just as Parker's catch. Was awesome execution there from two h to Parker. We jumped forward to the second half. Now a second down and ten

a quick shot two miles Gaskin for nine yards. The Rams have a great disguise to get a couple of rushers off the left side alone on Jesse Davis, So he takes the inside man the most urgent pressure as he should, and the outside guy becomes to us responsibility and he gets that thing out quickly with an accurate throw right in behind the blitz. Again things he did

well in college. There was an A and M tape a couple of years ago at Alabama actually was twenty nineteen where they kept blitzing off the backside of the formation and he just kept throwing slants right behind those guys. That's kind of what this looked like right here, a quick shot to Gasking with pressure in his face and

the ability to get the football around him. All in all, I thought the Rams did well to get pressure while playing that deep coverage and really cutting off from the deep opportunities the Dolphins had two took the two deep shots he did have, and and they'll get those balls eventually. They're gonna You're not gonna hold down DeVante Parker, Preston Williams and Mike Asiki on those, especially when they have those one on one chances and the ball is up

early and out quick to got it out quickly. Most of the time, a couple of plays didn't work one reason or another, whether there was pressure or the or the past just didn't get completed. But I think there's plenty of stuff that can be corrected and see more

offensive output next week. As far as some other guys on the offense, Solomon Kinley on the Miles Gaskin four yard run in the first half, he really connects well on a shoulder to hip combination block with Robert Hunt on Michael Brocker's he turns him and seals him and then comes off and gets to fifty nine Micah Kaiser at the second level to seal that thing off. Awesome work by the rook but then sixty nine Joseph comes

off his block for the tackle. We heard Flora's talk on the Monday or the Sunday night postgame presser about how on special teams in the kicking game he felt they were one block away and they finally got that block and sprung Jachim. It looked like there was a couple of instances of that in the running game in this game as well. So the hope there as this team can get those things corrected and get those bigger chunk runs going in the future to help out to

a tongue of Biloa. As Ted Carriss said in his Monday presser. Speaking of Ted Carriss on Gaskins run before the to a touchdown, he has a hell of a double team or a combo block where he catches and climbs at the first level and gets up to the second level and hits a cut block to get that defender down to the ground. Derham Smith back to that

deep shot to Preston Williams where they couldn't connect. There was a protection slide to build an absolute wall in front of Aaron Donald and it puts Durham Smith in a one on one situation with Michael Brocker's Michael Brocker's a defensive tackle and he holds up really well on that one and pass pro and on that same Kinley block where he gets a double on Brockers with Robert Hunt on the same play, Derham Smith comes up and really pulls across the formation to hit a nice block

there too. So Smith continues to make key blocks both on the running and passing game. Eric Flowers I had him down for a really nice combination block on a four yard run from Matt Breta in the third quarter. You see a lot of these good double teams on the Dolphins interior offensive line. It kind of goes in line in hand with the way I like their their ability to communicate those stunts and pick up those guys

twisting and and looping around them. The good communication up front between Carris, Flowers and Kinley on the interior, and then Jachem Grant on the punt return. You get a number of critical blocks as that's going to be the case when you have a touchdown return on a punt return, but he gets a critical block from Noah Igbanogeny who comes in and it gets a little hip on the defender trying to make the the tackle before Grant makes

his breakup field. You get a big block from Cavan Fraser on the punter, just enough to get in his way. But I like most about it was Cavan Frasier got put on the ground earlier, gets up, sprints down field and gets in the way of Johnny Hecker. On that play, Jachim does so well to run to space at that point. He also got really nice blocks from both Throham Smith and Andrew Van Ginkl to go ahead and spring him

for the eighty eight yard touchdown. I also wish you would have gotten a chance on a crossing route on a third down and six. It's the second possession of the third quarter. He has some green grass to run there, but Aaron Donald was into his face again. It might have gotten his arm or his his hand on the

arm onto his throw there. So offensively, you know, not the most production, but yeah, again, think about the fact that they had a one yard drive, they had a punt return for a touchdown, they had a funbl return for a touchdown. Several drives wiped out because of that, and then a couple of third down plays I'm sure Miami would love to have back to get some completions, move the chains, keep the offense on the field longer,

and then obviously have more production that way. So offensively, plenty more on the bone to chew on there for this Dolphins offense, and defensively on the All twenty two as good as they played, I think that's the same case here. Let's go ahead and talk about this Dolphins defensive All twenty two tape and win over the Los Angeles Rams on the Drivetime podcast brought to you by Auto Nation, where every vehicle sold and service is sanitized

keep driving safe at auto nation dot com. And with that we get into the defensive notes, and boy are there plenty of them. That's what happens when you produce seven points from your defense, you get four takeaways, you get a whole bunch of stops on the third down. You put pressure on the opposing quarterback all game long, starting as we do with the defensive calls and structure

on Jared Gobbs very first throw. Nick Needham blitzes the backside so that when golf bootlegs out, there's a body in his face and it forces him to throw it away. A good plan against the NFL's highest rated passer throwing when outside the pocket per Pro Football Focus. And speaking of that game plan, the first instance of a free rusher was on the Rams third possession, rather the third

down that got the defense off the field. Jerome Baker comes clean up the middle against empty and empty formation where you have five offensive lineman, no tight ends, no backs, just the quarterback, five guys wide out into the formation and the Dolphin's line. With six guys on the line, the Rams have to slide and Baker comes clean inside. Beautifully done. And that was the case throughout the course

of this game. On Christian Wilkins's interception, another one of those instances where you get six on the line against the Rams empty package, the five guys in the protection. So now not only do the Rams have to slide leaving Emmanuel Ogba on blocked, but both Wilkins and Baker back out into coverage into the hook zone and Goff doesn't see them and he throws it between the nine and the four on wilkins jersey as he's backing away

from the rush after he fakes the rush inside. First, there was a couple of instances where they had Shack Lawson and Emmanuel Ogba on the same side of the formation. Nothing to note, they're just that note in general. The cover zero looks began on once the Rams crossed the fifty yard line in the early part of the second quarter. The first one they got fifteen yards out of it to Cooper Cup, but two plays later they get a throwaway.

Miami's got eight up on the line. Lawson and Davis both fall into the hook zone this time, and McCain and Rowe blitz off either edge as Jerome Baker once again wins inside against the right tackle for the pressure, and he does so well to slip inside those blocks and close that distance between he and the quarterback very quickly. Alright, the fumble return again, it's empty against a six man front. Og Bad gets the free run this time, and he

gets it done. The gangster comes off his block, scoops it, scores it, and finishes it up there. And that's really just it. Another great call and execution from the Dolphins defense. On the third down and three before the half, Miami shows a pressure look again, but then they drop eight against a three men three men out in the route for the rams and Golf just has to throw it

away there. So a good mix there of rush and coverage changing it up on Golf, changing the picture so he has a different look on every snap and man. So many of the passing yards they piled up there and late in that game was just catch rock throw against the defense playing off and keeping everything in front.

We heard Brian Flora's on his Monday press conference say that he was a little bit leary of the stats in this game because if if you look at the stats, that says the Dolphins got dominated, but he said he felt that was not the case during the game, and it just tells you again all stats needs some context. And finally, you just love the coverage on the back end. Consistently they held up consistently enough for Golf to have to hitch and sometimes double hitch, and that was all

the past rush needed to get home. Some individual notes. Kyle van Noy sure do love the way he attacks blocks and reads which direction he has to disengage. The very first play of the game, he sets a hard edge and comes off inside to get Henderson down for a tackle. Emmanuel Ogba. He gets started by t Kimba Mtumbo rejecting a Jared Goff passed back into his face. That thing popped way up into the air. That happens.

You know in the future you might get a chance for an interception on that ball getting batted way up in the air. Nick need Him the first third down stop of the game. He does an excellent job to stay over the top on an over route a intermediate crosser and you'll see Xaving Howard undercut these things as

we'll talk about here in just one second. But need Him did very well to defend it the other way over the top and force the receiver to make a contest and catch if the quarterback can put it there,

but the ball sailed high. Great work there. He has an incompletion later on Cooper Cup where he comes down and completely disrupts the timing of the route with a hard jam at the line in Miami's pass rush eventually affected the throw as Golf has to hold it because of that jam by need Him, he had a great game. I thought on Sunday ray Kwon Davis. There's a Henderson run for four yards right off the fumble, and you

see the long arms. Recall the Brian Floras on draft night showing the long arms and disengage that thing off and you see the rams try to seal him, and he just washes his man right down into the gap with those strong arms, that powerful move for the tackle.

Another one later in the game the second half where he just rips and gets through and the offensive line tries to push the side of him, but it doesn't budget at all because of how massive he is, and he forces the back to bubble for a short gain. On that play as well, Eric wrote, we have a few notes here on the same play as ray Kwon's first tackle he talked about right there with Darrell Henderson, he just steps up to the blocker, disengages it, and really gets his nose in there to make a play

on the football. And this was consistent throughout the game for Eric Row. On the next drive on first down, he jumps right down in front of Gerald Everett and takes away a route. Very instinctive to know exactly what the what the route that Everett ran on that play and to jump in front of it to take away the option there for Jared goff and physical and fast is what I wrote down here because man Robert Woods gets loose on an under route coming across the formation.

They play action bootleg it and throw it to Woods underneath, and he's one on one in the wide open field against Eric Rowe and what and Roe gets him to the ground, just an open field tackle against a really good runner in the open field. Two plays later, he

hammers Tyler Higbee after a one yard catch. Then on the next play gets the interception, but that was from a pressure again on a hit arm as the Dolphins are in zero coverage, and once again it's Jerome Baker getting a clean run on the quarterback won a game he had. He hits Jared Goff, the ball waddles out and Row capitalizes. Row later gets another pass break up in the middle of the third quarter, and you see where his conversion really has where it has its benefits.

Higby flexes out wide to the furthest split receiver, the number one receiver out wide, and there's no safety help over the top. But Row doesn't really have to concern himself with the quick vertical release because he knows he has plenty of makeup speed. If that is the case. If that's where Higby wants to go, so he squats on it, jams him and almost gets an interception four point to five yards per target allowed this year for

Eric row so he can do that. Then on the very next series, the Rams bring Robert Woods inside the inline tight end to kind of help them block in there, and Rowe comes down, throws his hands, disengages and makes the tackle for a two yard game. What a freaking player, man.

And on his near pick six, you see Joe Alexander on the bottom of the screen ready to run down there with Eric Rowe for the touchdown if he can picks if he can squeeze it and take it back for six, and then he just kind of turns and walks away any other direction. At of the game. G A tweeted out the the video of Vernon Davis Fate crying on ESPN saying, this is me when we dropped pick sixes. So that was pretty funny to see. Bobby McCain, man,

this guy is seeing it so well. You'll see him kind of peek at a two man route combination of the Rams, and then they come off their stem and make their break and that's his key. He hits it. He goes the right way and takes away those over the top passes. The last three offenses are over fourteen, throwing in the football twenty or more yards down the field.

Christian Wilkins on the series before his pick, he forces Golf into an errant throw with a pure power bull rush, gets a pressure in his face and forces a bad pass, and then later has some serious power off the nose tackle on a four yard cam Acres run where he just works his way into the gap and gets the tackle. Another good game for Christian Wilkins. Xavian Howard, the first note I have on him is for a tackle on a six yard Henderson run off the outside where he

beats a block on the edge. He's the furthest offender outside beats the block and gets Henderson to the ground. I thought the Dolphins tackled really well off the edge on those outside on and against the Rams receivers out wide as well. I think the crosser to Reynolds would have been a pick nine times out of ten if you asked. Xavian beautiful undercut runs the route for the receiver, just couldn't quite squeeze it, which we've come so accustomed to him doing. A pick in four straight games before

this game, Dolphins are in dime. On a third and ten, that's six defensive backs. Howard great coverage, Wilkins and Van Ginko both get pressure inside on a nice stunt, and then just before the half for X a really really good rep on a quick hitch where he stays in the hip pocket and drives and breaks the pass up. So thought X had another good game here as well. Andrew Van Ginko, we talked about the fumble return already on the near interception. He did so well to create

separation between he and left tackle. On that quick pass. You see the quarterback rise up to throw get the separation. Elevate gets his hand on the football, sends it up into the air and almost comes down with it, nearly finishing that play. Zack Steeler got a few notes on him once again. On the first and tent at our own thirty six, the Rams run outside and Seiler walks his man down the line and backwards, getting that penetration

and puts him right in the running backs face. From there, Van Noy had beaten his block off the outside as well, and they team up to get a stop. For no game, They're a big start to a series on the fringe of field goal range as Miami allowed zero yards at first and tent from the thirty six starting there with Seiler and Van Noy. In the second quarter, he beats a double team outright and gets outside for a tackle.

Just sheer power and strength. And then later in the game two plays right before loss and strip sec he flows down the line once again and gets a big stop at a two yard game to help create that situation for shack loss and those are always big plays to me. And then again with the power in the middle of the third quarter, he walks the center right into Golf's lap as he shoots one into a bracket between Brandon Jones and Xavier Howard. Just a really nice

team stop on that third down. Get off the land and Roberts have mercy on that tackle for lost before van giggles pumble return, he gets his key, pulls the trigger and wham, what a collision. That was love watching him do that. He comes back in the second half and does the exact same thing, only this time he uses the tight end going across the formation for a block to throw him into the running back for a three yard loss to create third and thirteen when he

sees it and goes man. That's fun to watch. Byron Jones, We're never gonna talk about him because teams just don't throw at him, and when they do, it's usually not successful. Like on a take off route they try on third down and six, he just mirrors that thing, stays right in phase, and elevates at the catchpoint for the incompletion perfecto I wrote down. They come back and try it again with the Dolphins and cover zero and Jones once

again is right there. Those guys X and Jones on the outside allow you get really creative with those safeties back there and Rowan McCain shack Lawson on the series of Eric Rose interception. He beats a block inside and closes that thing down after setting a very hard edge for the tackle inside on his strip sack. You've got X and Jones right in the hip pocket. To go back to that comment earlier, right in the hip pocket up the stem. As the receiver's break into the route,

stay right in that hip pocket again. The tight end is bracketed. Lawson wins with speed and gets underneath Gerald Everett for a run on golf and he gets that ball out awesome rush. Good job beating a tight end. As a ass rushing you gotta get those. We saw Van Ginkle do it against the Niners. We see laws and do it here and Kyle van Noy a great job to scoop that thing and nearly score it. He had to have played some running back sometime in his

past because that was a hell of a run. And then later in the game, Losson gets home on a third down and thirteen in the second half with a nice stunt inside to force another golf throwaway and a punt there for the Rams. My final note here for the defense, Commo grouge Hill makes a hell of a play to start the second half. Van Ginkle also beats a block to get there with him for a stop for no game came off his block Dove who made a tackle right there at the line. So plenty of

notes there on the Dolphins defense. On the All twenty two review, they played their butts off. It was fun to watch. I couldn't wait to watch this tape and it did not fail to live up to the hype. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast by hearing

from some Dolphins coaches, the coordinators and offensive assistance. Today on this Tuesday, November third edition of the Drivetime podcast, Let's go ahead and bring on our first coach on this Tuesday edition of Drive Time, and here from Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, and let's go ahead and talk to Josh. First out the goal of the defense in general. He was asked about the defensive run game production, but here he is on the goal of the defense to

keep points off the board. Yeah. I think that the thing for us is, you know, we we try to be good against the run. Uh you know, we try to be good against the past, and you know, you know, statistics, numbers, all all those things. I mean, ultimately, what you're trying to do is win the game. Uh you know, I mean they don't give you points for yards. I know that. Um so you know, but I mean we're we're not okay,

you know, giving up yards either. Uh So, you know, everything that we do has a rhyme and has a reason, and um you know, obviously we're trying to improve, Like I said, the things that that we don't do so well, and you know, the things that we have done well, we try to build off of that. So you know, as far as the numbers go and all that stuff. You know, ultimately, what we're trying to do is win the game. We're trying to keep the point totals down

and get the ball back to the offense. That's really what we're trying to do, and we're trying to improve on a weekend, week out basis. Speaking of the running game, the Cardinals bring a dynamic runner at the quarterback possession end of this game. The Dolphins will have their handsful with Kyler Murray. Here's coach Josh Bowyer's opinion and take on Kyler Murray. Yeah. I mean I think you're very aware of the things that he's capable of. And you know, uh,

he and he's got it all. He's he's the total package. I mean, he's quick, he's fast, he has a strong arm, he's got a quick release. Uh, he can make plays in the pocket, he can make plays out of the pocket. Um. You know, we got a big challenge in front of us this week. Um. You know, and like I said, each week is different. You know, how we approach it,

how we attack it. Ultimately, what we're trying to do is to put our players in a position to succeed and that's you know what, we're working this morning very hard to make sure that that we can do that. Next, let's go ahead and get to coach Crossman who talked about some of the veteran guys of his special teams. It's doing a good job not just producing on the field,

but helping nurture the younger players on that unit. Again, I think that you know that anytime you're you're working at the point of attack, you know those blocks are always critical. H So you know, yeah, big block, but we had a bunch of good blocks and a bunch of critical, good technique blocks. You know, you're not necessary people looking for knockouts and be his but really be doing a good job of being able to get in

the way. And then cave I was like, like a lot of guys, you know, they're playing on four phases and uh, giving great effort, you know, and really doing a good job during the week, especially you know with the younger guys. When you take our veteran players, you know he and Fed and Como and Mac, you know, those older players are really doing a good job nurturing

the younger players. Let's go ahead next here and here from Dolphins offensive Cordin or Chan Gailey, who first starts off by talking about what he saw in two a ton of lows NFL debut. Well, he, Um, he made some good reads. He made he he did some good things. Uh as far as understand what we're trying to get done run game wise, which everybody thinks it's just past game. But he understands what we're trying to get done with the run game. And he's gotta he needs he needs reps.

He just got to keep working timing with these guys and keep getting reps. At those reps that he got down the night were the other day were invaluable. And um, he'll get he'll start to I think he'll start to get better, um and bigger jumps as we go forward, because the more he sees, the more he understands, the more field he gets with the receivers. I think he'll I think he'll get better and better. And just he just get just needs to play and he's got a

lot of talent. So I'm anxious to, um see what steps he's gonna take this week. The two things happened to me for young quarterbacks. UM, One they start to see defense is better and to the game starts to slow down form because it's at a hectic pace the first time you go out there, and then the game starts to slow down the more you play. And that's

what that's what I see from young quarterbacks. So that's what I've experienced with young quarterbacks through the years, is they understand better what defenses are trying to do, and then they the game seems to slow down form. Let's keep it rolling here with Dolphins wide receivers coach Josh Bizzard, who was asked about Mac Collins and the work he puts in both in the receiver's room and the special teams units. Yeah, he works incredibly hard in terms of

being in the meeting room. He's also really good for some of these younger guys because he's been around and he really uh he grinds for everything that he gets, and and that came through special teams even from the time that he was at Carolina. So to see that and show that you can carve out a roll and get you on the field and make plays on special teams and come in and do things we asked them to do on offense as well, I think it's a great example for everybody really to see the room, and

he just brings juice every day. It's a great personality and great teammate. Let's go ahead and keep this thing moving right along. Here with Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studisville as he was asked about the r p O game, here's coach on the r p O. Yeah, Cam, it's a good question that it doesn't change. What it changes for us is there's always a free defender. That's the r p O concept, and so we just have to know who that is. Is it a linebacker or is

it a defensive end for instance? Who is the free guy? So when we're talking about that during the week, that's who we're trying to really study and say, how does this guy play? How does he squeeze as a linebackers, at a defensive end, whoever. And it's but but that's all around the league. I mean, you can do that in multiple different plays. So it's not we do it all the time. Other teams do it all the time.

But it's just that it doesn't change anything. We we have mechanics of every play that our eyes are in a certain place, we're trying to see different things and and that doesn't change them a few more coaches to go here, Let's go ahead and hear from Dolphins offensive line coach Steve Marshall on the protection calls and how that might change from one quarterback to the next. We went from Fits who was probably dumb boast experience one of the most experienced quarterbacks in the NFL too too,

who's obviously day one, first game. Uh, the calls or anything really don't change, um, you know, understanding what they're seeing in front of them, understanding you know, making sure that we can get get the right guys blocked. Uh, you know, which We've done a heck of a job of this year and I'm I'm sure we'll continue to do that, you know, and get them protected, you know, but the calls really haven't changed any you know. It's obviously, um two was first time through getting a getting a

a pro pass rush coming at him every minute. Obviously, is this thing that he'll get better and better at. And obviously, my the young guys we got up front of offense and continue to get better and better some of that knowing the different and a variety of blitzer is they get specially on third down, you know, And and Arizona is going to be no different. They've got they've got a really dynamic third down pressure packet that we've got to be ready from the offensive line to

the quarterbacks. Coach Robbie Brown, our penultimate coach here on this Tuesday edition of Drive Time. Coach was asked about the things that he saw from Tah that he was encouraged from this past Sunday. Well, I think I was encouraged. Uh, he did some good things communication wise. I thought he was calm. I thought the coach to QB communication if we do that stuff in practice, but it's different doing it in the game. Uh. So I thought all that stuff went well. Um, it wasn't just uh a hundred

percent smooth. We had some stuff where you know, he says, hey, I like this, don't like this during the week and that kind of stuff. So I thought he communicated well with what he needed. And every guy's different, every quarterbacks different. Some guys want this little reminder, some guys want this. But I thought he did a really good job of saying what he liked, what helps him, what didn't help him. And that's what I've told him, uh to keep focusing on.

And he does a good job of being himself overall, so he's not afraid to tell you. And I think that would be my focus, uh, to try to tell him to keep improving on is Hey, let's let's hone in our communication, because that's the first thing you have to do is be on the same page as the Dolphins, uh. And I think he did a good job with that, And I think that's somewhere that I would say we keep focusing on and let's go ahead and finish up

with coach George Godzi, the tight Ends coach. I asked coach about the relationship between Adam Shaheen and Mike Gisicki and Derham Smith because we know how close both Mike and Durham were coming into the NFL in the same draft class. But Shaheen has jumped right in here and kind of made it a three headed monster. I wanted to ask coach about the relationship of those guys in

that room. Here's Coach Gotzi on his tight Ends room. Yeah, it's it's excellent that you pointed that out, because, um, in that room, there's a lot of communication that has to go on, especially you know sometimes when you're in as a why and then you got a wing and then another wing, and all those guys are tight ends.

We're trying to communicate from inside out, so one of them has got to get the call from you know, the offensive line or the center, and then you know it gets relayed finally out to the to the last man on the edge. So we talk a lot in

that room. Um, there's also you know, the dynamic of a new player coming into an organization, organization where you know, two of the guys had been in here for a couple of years, so just being acceptance from Mike and Derham standpoint, and then obviously from from Adams standpoint, open and up and and I think the more we kind of get to know each other, the better off will be as a unit. So, um, they've worked at it.

It's not easy to do, especially you know when it's uh, you know, when when by the time aneman had gotten here, there was an offseason that had already taken place, so it's it's it's not really just plug and play always. So those guys have worked at it, and uh, you know, commend those guys. And you can check out all these press conferences in full up on Miami Dolphins dot com.

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