Drive Time - All 22 Review

Dolphins football. And on today show, we look back one last time at the Dolphins game on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks, falling to one and three on the day. We'll get into the numbers here, take a look at some of the tape and talk about what went wrong what went right? On this edition of the Drive Time Podcast will also hear from coaches on the offensive side of the football, the coordinators on this Tuesday, and some players as well. All of that and more on this Tuesday,

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Nation store near you, or drive pink dot com. And so we are going to hear from the Dolphins coordinators and offensive assistance on this edition of the Drive Time podcast. Later on in the episode, Let's go ahead now, though, and first start with the aftermath, the inside the numbers from Dolphins and Seahawks, and checking where this team is statistically across the league individually, snap counts, all that fun

stuff through the first quarter of the season. And so we start to dive in a little bit here to the aftermath from Dolphins twenty three, Seahawks thirty one. In this tightly contested game, we know the Dolphins had chances to grab the leading the fourth quarter, as they have in all four games this year, going up against three teams who are ten and two on the season in those losses, and of course getting the one victory over a one and three Jacksonville team convincingly last Thursday night.

Let's go ahead and update you at the quarter poll. Is that what you call it these days? I'm not really sure. Four games into the season of a sixteen game season, one fourth of the way through this NFL season. Here is where your Miami Dolphins stand. After putting up over four hundred yards against the Seahawks defense on Sunday. The offensive ranks really improved across the board, as they are twenty three and total offense twenty four yards per

play in passing and twenty one and overall rushing. The scoring offense ranks twenty four at twenty three point three points per game, and the offense has been able to sustain drive so far this season. They have a forty six point nine percent third down conversion rate that's ninth

best in the National Football League. They have nine touchdowns on fifteen red zone trips, three of those field goals coming in Sunday's game, but they still rank sixteenth in the NFL with a sixty conversion rate in that most critical area of the field and of the game. Dolphins average drive time here on the Drivetime Podcast is three oh five, sixth best in the NFL, and the Dolphins two point three three points per drive are twenty in

the NFL. I recall it must have been even five years ago you wanted to score two points per drive was enough to put you up over league average. So at two point to seven points per drive. Ranking nineteenth kind of tells you where the NFL is today with their offensive juggernauts across the league, Dolphins have ninety six first downs in four games. That's tied for ninth best in the NFL and both on passing an offense during

the top ten in chain moving plays. They have thirty first downs on the ground that's tenth in the NFL and fifty seven first downs through the air that is twelve best in the NFL. And only five teams in the NFL have allowed fewer sacks than the Dolphins offense. They've only allowed six sacks through four games. That's an average of one point five sacks per game, down from three point six sacks per game last year, so better than two sacks less per game this season compared to nineteen.

On the field goal unit, Jason Sanders is the only kicker in the NFL that has field goal rate. With nine made kicks, he has the most makes among the seven teams that have not missed a field goal this year. He'll so has the second longest kick at fifty two yards out of that group. The Dolphins are seven and total defense and passing and twenty in the league in total rushing defense so far and the twenty one and

yards per carry. On the rushing defense part of the game, they allow twenty four points per game and that is

tied for twelve best in the National Football League. The Dolphins have faced four opponents who ranked pretty highly in scoring offense or three of the four do I should say Seattle second and scoring offense, Buffalo's fifth and scoring offense, New England twenty two, and Jacksonville And so going up against those four really good offensive teams, the Dolphins are tied for twelve in scoring defense in the National Football League.

They have twenty one miss tackles through four games. That's fourteenth best in the NFL, and there are two teams on that list that only played three games so far. With the delays and the postponents. With a twenty one twenty point one percent pressure rate, the Dolphins are ranked tied for thirteenth and applying pressure on opposing quarterbacks, one of every five drop backs they get a pressure on

the quarterback. As for the snap counts in this game, it's a pretty similar low toy have been used to the first three weeks of the season. Fitzpatrick did not leave the field played all seventy one snaps, and that was true of four of the five offensive lineman. Of course, Austin Jackson left the game for a few snaps in this one for twenty five snaps for Julian Davenport. Austin

Jackson played forty six. Robert Hunt also played three snaps, but Flowers, Carriss, Kinley Davis, and Fitzpatrick, five players on offense, all played all seventy one snaps. In the backfield, Miles Gaskin once again paces the Dolphins running backs forty six carries, that was sixty of the workload. Matt Brita was next at seventeen carries that's of the workload, and then Jordan Howard and Chandler Cox both played eight snaps each in

this game. At receiver. Davanta Parker, who talked about this on his Monday morning press conference, how he's just as he's gotten older and learned how to manage, you know, both pain and injury management. That he's learned that you can fight through and manage these small tweaks and knicks and injuries, and he's gonna get himself back out there and play and that's exactly what he did, fifty seven snaps of the workload, and on fifty seven snaps he

produ is a hundred and ten receiving yards. Preston Williams played forty three snaps in the game. That's Isaiah Ford had forty five snaps at sixty better or more than Preston Williams, and Jachim Grant played twenty eight snaps. That's thirty nine percent, with Lynn Bowden playing four snaps and mc collins playing two snaps. At wide receiver Mike ah Sick was on the field for forty five snaps, Durham Smith for twenty nine, and Adam Sheheen twenty snaps in

this game. So the Dolphins offense or tight ends rather all three of them getting pretty heavily involved into the mix. As far as these stats for the offensive players, the Dolphins passing game under pressure produced both the best plays and the most detrimental players in this game. When Fitzpatrick was under pressure, he was eight for twelve with one

ten yards. He also had three scrambles that produced more than ten yards on each of those three runs, but his arm got hit twice under pressure, and both those balls got kind of adjusted. Fitzpatrick talked about it post games Sunday, and they eventually, of course, we're picked off the first a tip which you just can't control a f you the quarterback at all whatsoever. And half of Miles gaskins ten rush attempts move the chain on Sunday. He ran for forty yards in the game, with twenty

five of those yards coming after initial contact. That's good for a two point five yards per contact per average. He's led the Dolphins running backs in that stat each of the first four games. Matt Brita average thirteen yards per catch with twelve yards average run after the catch. Two of his three catches moved the chains in the game, showing some bite on the passing game for Matt Brita.

We talked about DeVante Parker ten of twelve targets he caught, He's got a nine point six yards per target rate right now. That's best in the team and thirty seventh best in the NFL. Durham Smith had a career high thirty receiving yards in the game. He also did not allow a quarterback pressure in the game, so a good day for the Dolphins tight end there. And Miami's interior

three offensive lineman. Another stout day in past protection between Eric Flowers, Ted Carriss Solomon Kinley, Seattle only put pressure on Fitzpatrick against that Triumvirent two times the entire game and on the season, those three players have allowed a total of twelve pressures in this season. Solomon Kinley has two shoutouts so far through four games with zero pressures allowed. Ted Carriss was the highest graded run locker in the

game on Sunday per Pro Football Focus. Defensively, the snap counts upfront, Christian Wilkins once again leads the way with forty four reps, Devon god Shall thirty six, Zach Seeler had twenty six snaps, and ray Kwon Davis had nine. Team at defensive vent it's Ogba and Lawson for the most part, he had forty eight snap did Ogbah and Lawson had forty seven, making up seventy six and seventy of the Dolphins defensive workload. Kyle van Noy did not

leave the field. He was one of three players with that distinction, also cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Noah Abanogamy playing sixty three snaps in this game, Jerome Baker had forty four snap that's seventy of the workload. E Land and Roberts had thirty two. Commu grug Hill had twenty three, and Andrew van Ginkl was out there for ten snaps

in the game. At the cornerback spot, Nick Needum played forty four snaps against seventy for him and Jamal Perry had twenty three reps in the game, seven percent of the workload, some of that coming at safety, some of that coming at corner. Because Bobby McCain missed twenties three snaps in the game with the concussion evaluation, he played already snapped in the game. Eric Roe played fifty and

Brandon Jones played nineteen on that defensive side. Speaking about Bobby McCain and Jamal Perry, who was his temporary replacement in the game, those were the two highest grade defenders on Pro Football Focus. McCain had two quarterback pressures, including a hit on Russell Wilson. He had a pass breakup

and four total tackles in the game. A very solid day there from the last line of defense, trying to prevent those Seahawks deep passes and making some tackles and pressure in the quarterback two, which was a theme in this game from the defensive backfield. Miami dial up pressure with the DBS a few times, and Jamal Perry had five tackles in this game total. To round out that safety performance, the Dolphins defensive line provided consistent pressure on

Russell Wilson. Agba had a second sack of the season and two more pressures, a hit, a hurry, and a sack as well. He also made four run stops in the game without missing a single tackle. We saw Shack Lawson's first sack as a Miami Dolphin. He also had a run stop and an additional hit on Russell Wilson. Up front, Zach Seler had a big day five pressures, all of him hurries, but the five pressures on twenty one p rush reps gave him an impressive twenty three

point eight percent pressure rate. That's the second highest pressure rate in a game this year, behind Kyle Vanoi last week in Jacksonville with a thirty percent pressure rate. Speaking of van Noi, he had two pressures of his own and five total tackles without missing a tackle. Christian Wilkins also had a pressure and two run stops and Nick Needham had two hurries on Russell Wilson and back to the safety spot. Eric Rowe was credited with thirty seven

yards allowed on seven pass targets. They tried to get those tight ends going, but he was up to the task, good for a five point to eight yards per target rate there when going after Eric Rowe. He also made six tackles and had a run stop in this game. Eric row has been very solid so far this season for your Miami Dolphins. And to wrap this thing up with the penalty count, the Dolphins are six in the

NFL and fewest penalties against, with sixteen against them. Green Bay eclipse that number on Monday Night's game against Atlanta. It's the Patriots, Rams, Titans, Texans, and Steelers, and so the Titans and Steelers on that list both have played one fewer game, and the Dolphins have one more penalty than Pittsburgh and three more than Tennessee, so could be moving into the top five there shortly when those games get made up. The yardage against the Dolphins and penalties

is also very good. The one twenty six yards assessed against them ranks seventh in the National Football League but again Pittsburgh and Tennessee both on that list within striking range for the Dolphins to move closer into that top five penalty yards against. So another good season of not beating themselves with bad penalties and mistakes that way under Brian Flores. Alright, how about some tape dogg in here

on the Drive Time podcast. Game Pass was kind enough to put the tape out for us on Monday afternoons. We got a good look at this Dolphins and Seahawks tape before he turned the page here on this Tuesday, and jump into the assistant coaches and the coordinators for this Dolphins team. We start on the offensive side of the ball. My notes kind of just went in order of the plays and I categorized it by who was

who I was talking about on that particular play. We start with Chan Gailey, who I loved his game plan once again, first play of the game comes out of two personnel and they spread it out four wide until the Seahawks. We talked about this in the pregame show, the Cover three defense they've run for so long they're under Pete Carroll. You really read that group out. You get linebackers on the field, you have your best receiver, Devantay Parker round a comeback route. It's pretty much pitch

and catch him there. I love that opening play of the game and the throwback pass to Durham smythe on that third and one. The conversion was a really cool look. Eric Flowers pulling to the play side, the tight end goes to the ground off a chip block intentionally and then gets up and leaks out to the other side of the field for a big eighteen yard pick up. On third down and one, there's a quick set up where they threw a slant pass Davanta Parker in the

first window. It's a heavy personnel package, meaning six offensive linemen with Robert Hunt on the field, and Fits initially goes to show the play actions to the running back, but quickly stands back up and hits Parker in that first window, which gives him time to kind of set up the safety who's farther off the line scrimmage with a tackle breaking opportunity. There. So cool design on that one. And then Smith a twelve yard reception with three nineteen

to go in the first half. He goes empty out of thirteen personnel. It's one back with Miles Gaskin and three tight ends and Gisicky Smythe and Shaheen you slide dog you Chan Gaily Robert Hunt. I put him out for him here the first snap of the game. I love the way he controlled the down block at the second level. That was all I had on him in this game. But he does get some good push off the outside of the offensive line some Jacchem grand note.

Grant notes here on the first interception, he has a really good looking wheel route where he gets open deep on that Seahawks cover three forces the corner into come coming up into a flat footed approach and Fitz was trying to shoot that thing, but his arm got hit as he threw. I thought he might have had a shot a touchdown later in the game where he ran

a deep over route to the back pylon. It was a play where fits when after Isaiah Ford on the back shoulder throw and almost got that completion in there. But Jachem really showing his speed off on that deep over.

I thought that was cool to see. And then before the Jason Sanders field goal to make it seventeen twelve, the Pascal is incomplete Davante, but Jachim was coming across the field on a drag route and created some good separation there as well, with the defender pretty far in his hip pocket there or back off of his back

pocket in trail technique. And then he had a big time catch on a third and seven where he uncovers early and shows that speed again explosiveness again off a line for a big catch to move the chains there in the fourth quarter. Austin Jackson notes here, I love the play when Fits got flagged for the forward pass for Austin Jackson's work because he had to check a b gap pressure as they walked up Bobby Wagner onto

line of scrimmage. So he peeks inside and then he has to get back outside to the speed rush of the defensive end who has lined up in that wide technique a couple of gaps off the offensive tackle, and you really see Austin's athletic ability and the recovery speed on display there as he can check inside and then get back to the outside and run that rush around the quarterback. The athletics doesn't make him the number eight

team pick in the draft on display right there. Then he had a really good second level block on a Miles Gaskin run on the play where they hit Eric Flowers with a hold, he squared up a linebacker at the second level. Speaking of that Eric Eric Flowers hold,

let's go ahead and get into his tape here. Love and watching this guy play very solid and pass protection communication and finding work among all three of those interior guys on the offensive line has been very strong so far, and I think Eric Flowers has been a big big

part of that. On the holding call, head Carriss chips the man that Flowers is blocking, and it looks like that kind of shifts flowers hands to the outside of the shoulder pads there, but it also knocked the defensive tackle over and it kind of made it look like Flowers was the one that threw him down. But I thought that he really had a good block on that play.

So a tough call, a tough look there for the officials to make a decision on that, because, like I said, the impact of Carress really shipped the way that block went. Hit an awesome block on the Lynn Bowden carry where he pulled play side and crushed his block, turned it and sealed it and created a gap there. He also hits a big block on the outside on kJ right on a screen pass to open up the third quarter, he displaces the nose on a two or like by two gaps two or three gaps on a nine yard

miles gascon run in the fourth quarter. Really good day again for Eric Flowers. He's been solid through four games, and so is Ted Carriss. I talked about the communication. That's something that Ryan Fitzpatrick credits the Dolphin center, the guy that kind of is the ring leader of getting all that stuff communicated, watching him pass off and work and games and bluffs by the rushers up front. Ted Carriss has been very solid so far through these four games.

And Solomon Kindley again solid and passed with these guys working up front and the interior. I love watching him find work when his guy drops out into coverage, when they show pressure and then drop out. He puts big hits on people when he can go over there and chip and find that work. The communication between these three

again super super good. Put a guy on the ground on the dirham smythe throwback and that was the guy that Smith was gonna come up and help chip and kind of double team there with with Solomon Kinley, and he does but because Solomon puts him on his back, it makes the release for Smith super easy. So great job.

And then on the Flowers hold again, I thought there was a bunch of good blocks on that play and you see Eric Flowers come off clapping thinking he had a good block, and the rest of his guys did. Eric Flowers or brother Solomon Kinley had a really good reach cut block on the the nose tackle of the Seahawks on that play. And then the Brita reception, the first one, he literally locks out and shuffles across a passenger trying to cross face on him with one arm.

Doesn't lose any balance, doesn't look any panics, just super strong looking. Good weekend and week out for Solomon Kindley. On Fitzpatrick on the forward past call the illegal four pass, every part of the body has to be across the line of scrimmage, but literally only the football was the line of scrimmage, smacked down on the thirty one yard line and both of his feet were planted behind the

thirty one yard line. And fits was definitely aggressive in this game, going after guys and coverage, throwing on his back shoulder throws. We talked about that cover three. He tried a couple of those. Got a lot of p

bus in this game from the Seahawks. In this particular game, the Turkey whole shot on a smash concept where you're gonna have a wide receiver or the outside receiver run like a little hitch or a drag or a curl route inside, and then you run the second receiver closest to the slot there on a corner route and behind that. They ran that and fits through an absolute gem to

Mike Kisiki for a big completion. On the completion to Chandler Cox for the first down, it looked like mac hollins was kind of coming free deep in the secondary, But it's hard to gauge whether or not you take that chot or go underneath. I'll be curious to ask somebody about that question this week with regards to what's the decision making there on third and short. Do you want to get the first down or do you take

a risk and go deep up top? On the third intense scramble play on the field goal drive the eight up half the fourth quarter was such a nice run by Fitzpatrick. He looked dead to rights at about eight yards, but dove forward for that big first down for the Miami Dolphins. A couple of tight end notes here Durham Smith when they go six man protection and just with him in the offensive line, I think it looks really really good. Smith has been really good as an inline

blocker this year. I thought Adam Shaheen had a nice game blocking off the edge as well. Matt Brita, there was a player where gets sick. He draws a double team with a the two hook linebackers kind of jumping onto him, and Brita just go his head out of the pistol formation and shuts up right in front of that double team, gets a catch, and then you see all speed from there for a big twenty plus yard game.

And then another catch leader in the game just flat out escapes the linebacker who's around his waist completely and just gets rid of him and takes a dump off pass for a first down in the third quarter. Very strong and explosive that way. Miles Gaskin continuously slips tackles behind the line of scrimmage and runs through contact. I also love the way he gets in behind those big guards on double teams because he fights through arm tackles.

Very easily, and you get a lot of those with guys like Solomon Kindley, Eric Flowers, and Ted Carriss on those double teams. I had Davantae Parker for a note with an awesome catch on a dig He was kind of stretched out over the middle of the field on an absolute fast ball from Ryan Fitzpatrick in the beginning parts of the second quarter. Big catch there for Devantae Parker. Mike Gasick. I had him running to the deep post

on a third and four on the incomplete passage. Achem Grant thought that Gassicky did well to kind of get himself off the contact there from the linebacker and get free on that play. I just want to go ahead and make a note here how much better Mike is from year one to now as a run blocker. Completely different player in that area, and it's a credit to

his work ethic. Speaking of work ethic, Isaiah Ford on the play before the fourth quarter, runs a little hesitation hook up route where it gets Bobby Waggon to sink down and lose his depth and then he speeds it right back up and runs around him for a nice looking catch and run for seventeen yards. Then he also runs a little pivot route on a big time third and tenant conversion in the fourth quarter, and despite the defensive bat grabbing his waist and turning him, he makes

a big time tough contested catch. So a nice day again here from Isaiah Ford. Let's go ahead and gets the defense now on the A twenty two review and start off here with xaviing Howard on the interception there in the third quarter. I really thought that interception was just a good call from Josh Boy and the Dolphins

defensive staff there. They got immediate pressure on Russell Wilson, which forced him to kind of fade back into his throw off that back foot, and that caused the throw to have a little bit less juice on it, and that gave x just enough time to undercut that pass and make a hell of a play on the football. We know he's one of the best ball hawks and playmakers on the ball in the air in the National Football League. With fourteen picks his last twenty six game.

That's more than a pick every other game. That's really really good production out of a cornerback out there. Emmanuel Ogba. I've got several notes on him here at landon Roberts gets a TfL on an outside run, but Ogball is the one kind of working off the outside tackle and he forces the running back to bend back against the formation because he stacked it up and set the edge, and then Roberts is a good job to come back

inside and clean the thing up. But Ogba really strong point there off the edge, and that was consistent throughout the game. He wipes out a kick off kickout block and makes a big tackle in the backfield there for another run stop. He stacks up and displaces the edge on the Chris Carson fumble working outside on outside run there to kind of get the tackle, reset back into the backfield, uses his hands to disengage and gets in

there for the forced fumble. Had very vicious hands on the sack, works upfield and then swats the hands of the offensive tackle away from him, and then very impressive cornering ability to turn the edge there and get the sack on Russell and get the defense off the field. And then he had a four yard TfL on the second half of the game. Hard to top this. One man stacked it, reset it, disengaged and made the play. I just wrote down, Damn man What a play by

that guy, Bobby McCain. I thought I had a really good game, his best of the year for my money. He had a very nice timed blitz on the Seahawks second drive, a second down and eleven. He comes in right at the snap free up the b gap. A nice call from Josh Bowyer there as McCain gets pressure on the quarterback and forces a throw over the head of the intended target. On the very next play, comes back with a huge hit on dk metcalf to force and in completion will give him a p BU for

that one. That was seven man and cover John that play with a contained rush. Love the call there to kind of keep Russell in the pocket and engage and that's your defensive back squad and make a play they did on that particular play. Zack Seeler several notes here on him. His first pressure he oversets a guard and then cross his face with a powerful punch. Really impressive work on that one. On the ogg Boss sack, he bowls over the center and a double team to put

a bunch of trash down around Russell Wilson's feet. You can see Russell kind of wants to step up when he sees ogg boss pressure off the edge, but he realizes he's got a bunch of trash around his feet and just kind of turtles into the sack because at that point the play is over. He puts a huge hit on Russell Wilson on the scramble play to open the third quarter. He scrambles for a first down, and the defense had great coverage on that play, but sometimes

with Russ that just happens. He at least put a good hit on there and make him feel your presence. And then Seattle goes into the red zone on that drive and he beats a lineman across face and then when the back bends it back across the formation, because he locates it with his eyes, he beats him across face and spins back into the play and makes the tackle. I wrote down, Wow, what a play by Seiler. Wow

Christopher walking aside Noah ig Monogamy. I had a good rep for him on a press and pin to the sideline on a takeoff slash come back route from from almost Ricardo Lockett from Tyler Lockett, Russell Wilson throws a deep over the top. Lockett came back down the stem for a comeback route. He was in the hip pocket there. He has some good reps where he got in the trail,

got into phase on that particular game. But of course we talked about with Eric Rowe and Brian Floors and some of the communication mistakes in the back end leading to some big plays. We had John Conjenmy talked about it on the podcast yesterday as well. As Noah has had a lot of big tests so far early on in his career. Going to be interesting to see how he responds going forward in this rookie season. Still again the youngest player in the National Football League, staying in

the secondary. Eric Rowe a few notes here on him. I thought he had a really good game. Off to a great start this season so far. His first two catches on him are just flat routes with a challenge him to make a tackle in the open field off the edge, and he does it with ease. And then he has really good coverage on a third and two conversion to Greg Olsen where the ball just takes a bad bounce in lands in Olsen's laugh after he gets

a ebu It's where did you get a PBu? But the guy still ends up with a catch that happened on this play and then later in the game outstanding underneath coverage and I throw again to Olsen right before the turnover. On downs he has to kind of stay with the with the receiver because Wilson breaks the pocket. He carries his contact to the five yard mark, releases it, then has to turn and run upfield after Wilson extends the play, but he just stays in there right close

into Greg Olsen. Shack Lawson on the fourth down stop the series. Right play before that, there's a second down two where they try to sneak Chris Carson into the flat for a little screen pass, but Lawson engages him physically, not the dentist system, but engages him physically enough to disrupt the timing of the play and causing incompletion. I thought his sack again like the other, like the interception

for Howard, was a great call. He wins inside and Wilson has to escape a Nick Needham blitz coming clean off the corner on a cat blitz. Cat means corner blitz, and Shaq does well to break down the open field and get Wilson to the ground. Kyle Van Noy had a great play as a forced defender on the Chris Carson fumble, working off the edge, sets the edge of forces something to bubble, then gets his hand back in there when the back cut it up to help Ogba

get the fumble out. And then he had pressure on Russell Wilson on the third down before the turnover on downs.

His arm over on the running back forces Wilson off the spot and forces him to scramble and make that throw that we talked about with Eric Rowe getting a hand on that football yesterday or Sunday, I should say, I said the Igbo and Van Noy were on the two man route combination on the deep pass at the end of the first half, but it was actually Nick need Hum with you know, and Eric Road talked about this, how this team is still working on the communication. I

think that showed up there. They both kind of bit up on the underneath receiver. Talked about the play before the fourth down turnover on downs. Jamal Perry plays and

safety in this game. On that third and three incompletion, he had some really nice closing speed and read there on Russell Wilson as he breaks the pocket and Perry takes off the same direction and gets the helps Eric Rowe get a p BU on that play, and then Brandon Jones had a really nice tackle I thought in the fourth quarter where you saw his fet his play

speed and his physicality and aggressiveness. It was an eight yard run, but you can really see him closed down that thing and get across the formation for a nice tackle in the open field. Overall review, love the past protection on offense. I think Matt Brida and Miles Gassing I put together some really nice tape so far. In the backfield. I think Jachem is itching to bring some explosiveness to the offense. We talked about this in the

podcast earlier. Not that many twenty plus yard plays. I think Jachem's on the verge of getting one here shortly. I love this tight end group just all the way around, blocking, receiving smythe Shaheen and Giziki getting the job done defensively. Agba is who I thought he was. I was a big time fan of that signing. He is playing really good football. I'd like the decision to play some zone to help force some of those crossing patterns we've seen

beat this defense in previous weeks. I thought the corner and defensive back blitzes were well timed and well conceived. Eric Rowe playing really, really, really good football. I've got Van Noy staying strong in his gaps in his assignments, with a good pass rush to boot and Zach Seiler as a total bowl been fun to watch him grow and progress into this defense since signing last December. Let's go ahead and here from the Dolphins assistant coaches and coordinator.

Starting off here with Dolphins d C Josh Boyer, here's an interesting stat for you. Through the first four weeks. The top four corner backs on the average yards allowed per coverage snap are all rookie cornerbacks, Jeff Acuda, Jeff Gladney, Damon Arnette, and Noah Ignogady among them. Here is Josh Boyer on Noah for the first four weeks and how he can adjust and play better on game day. No is he's a diligent worker. Uh, you know, he'll come in and put a good day's work in and you know, um,

you know, hopefully things will improve. And you know, we asked out of all of our guys, so like, you know, the things that aren't going so well for you know, guys, we work harder to try to improve that and things that they're doing good we try to build on. So I think a lot of it, you know, goes to practice and really just focus on a play to play basis.

Staying in that secondary, we had Eric Row on media availability on Monday, and he talked a little bit about communication and how the defense has to react to the offenses motion and shifts pre snap, and how they have to get communicated with a new alignment. They're gonna show you from what they showed you pre motion pre snap. Here is Josh Boyer on that communication element, the motion, the shifting of the offense and how there's another team come into town or I guess we're going to their

town on Sunday. They'll do plenty of window addressing, misdirection, motion pre snap, plenty of stuff. With Kyle Shanahan and the forty diners offense. Well, I mean there's you know, the offenses. You know that we'll face them. We're going to see another one this week. That the motions you know as much as anybody in the league. So, um, you know there's always gonna be communication. Um, you know,

whether it's from the front or the back end. Um. Again, a lot of that starts with us in practice, you know, and you know, and I wouldn't say all of all of the airs that we've had have have have not been in communication. Some of them are just basic stuff that you know. It's it's a focused thing from playing

play out from multiple players. And obviously, you know, for us to be good, consistent consistently on a down in and down basis, we have to be able to handle motion, We have to be able to know and understand our calls, and you know, and then once we can get to that point, you know, we've shown spurts or flashes of playing good defense from time to time, but on a down end, down out basis, we're all striving to improve. And like I said, that that starts with me and um,

that's what we're working to do. Let's go ahead and finish up here with a comment about Dolphins defensive lineman Zach Seiler from Josh Boyer. Here's a cool fact on Seiler, six ft five heavier than two five pounds, with a sub eight five forty yard dash with thirty reps on the bench press, one dred and fifteen inches in the broad jump, and a three cone under seven one five three players have done that. Ever, it's Mario Williams, J. J.

Watt and Zach Seiler. You pair of those physical traits with a strong work ethic, you might just get a good performance. On Sundays, we saw Zach had five pressures on twenty one pass rush reps on Sunday. Here is Coach Boyer talking about the work ethic, the relentless motor of Zack Seiler. You know, one thing that makes the job enjoyable is that we have a lot of guys that that that they put in a great day's work. I mean that they come in and they work as

hard as as they possibly can. They're constantly striving for improvement. I think Zach and he is that. I think, Uh, you know, when you watch Zack on the field, he plays with great effort and that that's probably what sticks out most is you know, and I mean obviously you love and respect that about him. Um, and he's constantly uh and coaches offices, you know, trying to get better,

trying to watch more film. And then he goes out and he practices as hard as he possibly can, and then he's gonna play as hard as he possibly can. And like everybody else, you know, there's there's some things that are good that you know that he's doing, and then there's some things that we're working on to try to get better. But uh, za Zack is a hard,

hard worker, and he's a high effort guy. Uh and uh you really enjoy to be around and um, you know, and again, like I mean, I do, I feel lucky that you know, most of our guys are like that. And uh, they're they're very highly motivated and they're they're very diligent workers. So you know, and we know the task at hand in front of us. We just need to keep striving for improvement, try to get to the point where we can play down in, down out consistent football.

Let's go ahead and get to a question here for coach Danny Crossman about his place kicker Jason Sanders, perfect nine for nine on the season, has not missed a p a T. He has the most makes of any kicker with a percent kicking so far this season. Here is coach Crossman on what makes Jason Sanders such a special kicker. No, I think the biggest thing that jumps jumps out at just you know how coachable he is. Um, he's always looking Uh, to try and improve weekly, almost daily,

every time we go out on their practice field. He's willing to to try and work on anything you're giving, you know, and then you you know, if you if you're scraping, you scrap it. But he's always open and willing to try whatever you may suggest. So I think

that's the biggest thing. I really wanted to make it a point to ask questions about Eric Flowers on this particular Tuesday because I think that he's played so damn l at that left guard position, and a lot of times these rookies, the young guys that everyone's kind of curious about the draft picks and how they're performing well. The two guys we brought in via free agency, Eric Flowers and Ted Carriss, have played good football as well. So I wanted to ask chan Gailey about the performance

of Eric Flowers. Here's the Dolphins O see on what Flowers has meant to that offensive room so far. Offensive line room checked that he's having a very good start to the season. He is a calming influence on on the line for us. He's very competitive on game day, but very quiet during the week and very calm and really very professional about the way he goes about his business.

So I've been very happy with what he's brought to us, not only on the field playing block in run game, pass game, but what he brings as a as a leader to our offensive line. And one of the guys running behind that offensive line has been Dolphins running back second year pro out of Washington is Miles Gaskin. And we had Eric Studisville on to talk about what has really sparked Miles Gaskin's emergence in the offense and the opportunity he's received. It's all about his work ethic, says coach.

I think the first skill that he possesses is a tremendous work ethic because that's something that he's broad and used and that's what's giving him the opportunity that he's in right now. Um. Physically, I think you see him on the field. I think you see as toughness, his ability to get on the edge of tackle, to finish on some guys. At the second level. We're still working on past protection and those things, but he's really really

improved since last year. I'm catching the ball and working and running routes in space, and I think we're starting to see some of the production possibilities of that, but overall, he's it's it's his work ethic that he brings to work and what he does every day. He's passionate about it and he wants to be good and he continues is working in that direction. Let's go back to the Eric Flower's comment because I wanted to again focus on this player and his leadership and his his work ethic

and his performance. I love watching the way he hits a key block and then goes upfield, picks up us running back. He's clapping his hands, he's getting the crowd involved. Just a lot of fun watching Eric Flower's number seventy five at that left guard spot, as well as the Dolphins offensive line totality. But what does Eric Flowers as quiet demeanor and leadership and work by example do for the rest of the offensive line. Here's coach Steve Marshall

on just that. Well, Eric Flowers is a quiet man, uh, you know from talking. But you know when he does talk, he's you know, he's an experienced player. Uh, he's been through some ups and downs in his career. And uh he's you know, Ted and Jesse and Eric. You know, you guys have asked a lot about the young guys, but the real credit goes to those guys, you know, as far as helping young guys, and Eric is certainly leadership wise, uh, and he's he does it with his play.

He has played. He has played very well his first four games. I mean, we play four first four games and uh, I think he's uh uh, you know, he he's done well and done. He's exceeded expectations and we can you know, we're going to count on him moving forward as we are the rest of the guys and

staying on that offensive line. I think one of the benefits of this Dolphin's roster the way it's currently constructed, is that you have some players who are serving in backup roles right now who are getting an opportunity to develop kind of in the shadows behind some veteran experience in front of them. That serves as an opportunity for those guys to kind of sit back and learn through mental reps and getting physical reps in practice. Well, we had Robert or the question for coach I was about

Robert Hunt coming onto the field most heavy packages. Here's coach on why Hunt is a benefit in those heavy packages working off the edge, but also where he's at his development as a potential long term future starter. Dolphins second round draft pick this past April out of Louisiana Lafayette. Putting Robert Uh, you know, at at the and as an eligible tight end in our well, in our quote heavy package or whatever you want to call it, um gives us some advantage on certain things we like to do.

So I think moving forward, we'll we'll you know again, we'll see each and every week. Each and every week poses different problems as the forty niners are this week. You know, they got a big old athletic front and uh, you know, we'll see kind of where we think we need to uh and you know where we need to put guys. Uh, moving forward. That's what I That's what I just left doing while before interviewing with you find gentlemen, Coach Marshall always such a delight to talk to. Up next,

we had quarterbacks coach Robbie Brown. I asked him a question not about us quarterbacks, but about the communication aspect between the qbs and the offensive line, how important that is and kind of how that balance goes back and forth throughout the course of the week. In those meeting rooms with the quarterbacks and kind of how they evaluate the way the offensive line plays and where it allows them to make their opportunities or make their plays down

the field. Here's coach talking about the relationship between the offensive line and the court back positions. We have parameters set up, um, so the offensive line kind of tries to know where we're gonna be. Are we gonna be setting up here, We're gonna be setting up here, And there's a lot of communication, uh that goes on. I remember my first years of quality control UH in New York. I sat in on one of the player meetings with

the offensive line they would meet. I remember, I can't remember what day it was, but I was just that was my first go at it. You know, I was maybe three months into the NFL, and it was amazing at the communication between the center and quarterback. Then the center's communication everybody else. So I think it's very important

that those guys are on the same page. They spend a lot of time talking to each other, uh, center, quarterback, everybody talking about, you know, different things that are gonna happen in the game. This protection versus this player, this protection versus this player, or this defense, So I think it's very important that we're all on the same page. So, yeah, it does have an impact, and there's constant communication between those groups as to what they can handle, what they

can't what that kind of stuff. Go ahead and finish up with receivers and tight ends first, starting off here with receivers coach Josh Gizzard. He talked about DeVante Parker and the comment DeVante made earlier in the week about maturing into his role playing through some nix and bruises. Here's coach on his ability to perform well, maybe nicked up and bruise a little bit on game day, coming out of the game and going back in. Yeah, it's um.

It's a testament to him that he's able to play through some of the things that he's been dealing with lately, and just to go out that early in the game and he's been having a good year and and gets nicked and then comes back and not only comes back

but has a great game and plays well. It's it's good to see from him because you can tell that he's um maturing and that's the leadership role we've talked about on the past and here and for those young guys, whether it's Lynn or Malcolm or Kurt or Matt or any of those guys. Just to see that. I think it's a great example from the room and really not only for the room, but the whole offense and the team in general. And wrapping up here with coach George Godzie,

the Dolphins tight ends coach. I asked him about the versatility of the tight ends room being able to go thirteen personnel, spread the offense out and play those guys for twenty snaps or more each. Here's coach on the versatility of that room. Well, it's we're fortunate because those guys do a good job. You know, Travis is a good it's a good point because they're playing positions that maybe it's a position where usually it's Davante or Jackiemer one of the guys outside as a number one on

that particular cat set. You're you're talking about number one, meaning the number one, the most outside extended receiver. UM, and those guys do a good job. And it really started last spring, uh too. Just take take the concept and and grasp it and not just your particular role maybe for that practice. UM. So that's how we teach it. That's how we do it in that room, um, because

we we feel like we're versatile enough to play those rules. Um. And those guys accepted the code, and you know, unfortunately that was a that was a good play for us. It was a cash for first down. Alright. So there you go. Very busy Tuesday edition here of the Drive Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation, where Dolphins fans can sell their vehicle for cash now visit auto nation dot com. If you guys want to see the rest of these press conferences, they're they're longer than I

played on the podcast here. Didn't want to play the entirety of those pressers here on the pod as we went over the numbers the film here for Tuesday for the Seahawks game on Sunday. As we turned the page here looking forward next week to the San Francisco forty, We're gonna have plenty of content for you the rest of the week. The feature piece will be on Eric

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