Drive Time: All 22 Review Dolphins Bills Week 4

your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. And on today's show, we'll assess the tape and find out what the hell went wrong and a forty eight twenty loss up in Buffalo, Examine the big plays, give you the top five tapes, general notes, key stats and snapcounts, and Mike McDaniel as well as alec ingold commentary from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Mayeff some news items

for you guys. To kick this off to Ron Armstead, we'll miss the game this coming Sunday. Coach said it was more about a week's rather than day's type of prognosis and they'll find out more on Friday about where his long term prognosis will be. He will not play Sunday, but he will play again this season, per head coach Mike McDaniel. Some good news, Jalen Phillips and Connor Williams were close to getting onto the field on Sunday. Hopefully both of those guys come back stronger than ever against

the New York Giants on Sunday. Let's dive right into this tape here, because it wasn't a lot of fun. Wasn't a fun Monday for your boy last Monday? Pretty fun. I was pretty much rolling off of adrenaline and coffee for that tape and really the first two tapes of the year also, And today we come down a little bit. There's always a come down after the coffee high, and

that's this week apparently. On the podcast. Let's go ahead and talk about the big plays, and I was thinking about breaking down some of the negative big plays, but we'll do plenty of that in the rest of the podcast. Here the touchdowns I think are worth looking at here. Number one just wanted to note that both Rob Hunt and Austin Jackson had pancakes on a Chan's first touchdown run. We'll get into the design of that play later on in the podcast, but that's the execution portion of it.

The right side of the line gets two pancakes and eight Chan makes the backside one technique miss at the point of attack. Who got off of Isaiah wins block a pretty frequent occurrence in this game as far as guys getting off blocks on the Dolphins offensive line, and eight Chan made him miss in the gap, so impressive work from him and the right side and leam Meikenberg had a pretty good block on that play as well.

More on him in a moment. Second touchdown is more great action with Tyreek given the defense a lot to look at, lots of eye candy and pulling second level defenders out of their position. And then it's peer speed. It's a seal from Durham, an excellent down block from Tehran, and a pancake block from Jalen Waddle at the three yard line, who gets up beating his chest. More on him in a moment, and we're gonna get to Tula because I thought he played well after watching the broadcast.

I'm even more impressed after watching the tape. But his touchdown pass man third and long in the red zone. Windows are never tighter than when you're down there. We go trips to the field against a four man diamond look in terms of the coverage, which is an advantage for the strength of the passing defense. Right three on four, Tyreek runs the hook up right at the sticks, and that's great design because typically teams are going to crash

on that. In Buffalo crashed on him all day long, and there's some meat on the bone to react to. That we'll talk about in a moment as well. And then you have wattle to the flat, which more eyes go to ten and seventeen. Put those guys in positions to pull the defense away from an area, and then you have two defenders playing inside and inside leverage like

inside of the entire formation. And Tua's hands separate when Barrios is still inside the numbers as he's running that corner route, he's just starting his break to the corner. The safety is up top and still getting depth. Which if he's getting depth and flips those hips and makes an Ed Reid play, maybe there's a play on the football to be had there. But the quick release of Tua and the football being right on his face mask, man,

that was some high, high, high level quarterback play. Great route from Barrios, Waddle and Rik as well, really good front side pass protection from Kendall Lamb and Isaiah Win and then a recovery rep from Austin Jackson after he lost the rep initially. More on that in a moment. The last big play a Chan's big run. Excellent, excellent work from both Rob Hunt and Austin Jackson staying on blocks and riding the entire wave down the line on

that outside Kerry. Really good efforts from Cedric Barrios outside in the perimeter getting blocks. Every time you have a big run, there's gonna be a receiver making a good block down the field. You get a good seal inside from Smith, and even Liam had a good block on this play too. More on all of that here shortly.

Let's go ahead and start though, as we do with the top five tapes, and for the fourth consecutive week, Tua makes the top five, and he's a top tape on this one, which I believe he was my top dog tape at least two of the four games. I forget where he was in the Patriots. I think it was like two or three in the Patriots game and like number two in the Denver game. But I digress, but he's my top tape here. I came away from

this game very very impressed. I think it showcases yet another MythBuster, if you will, that Tua is just a first read quarterback right, take that away. He's got nothing else and a great Joe Marino posted this stat from one of the analytics websites. I forget. I apologize for not crediting. I'm usually better than that, but there's so many these days about how Tua in weeks one through three through to his first read eighty percent of the time, and in this game he threw to his first read

just fifty seven percent of the time. So Buffalo had a great plan, had a great scheme to force the Dolphins off that first read, and I thought Tua really responded well and played pretty well. Yeah, you had some misses. Yeah, the guy on Twitter told me he had a pick. He threw a drop pick, which I guess. You can't have a good game if you put the ball in harm's way twice, which Tua did in this game. But

he consistently found the backside. And that's not even just a second read like you often have a one to two read, like read low to high, inside to out, whatever the case may be in terms of your progression to one side of the field, and then you come back to the backside, and that's when you get to three four or two three two three, four, Sometimes you get to five. It's just depends on the different concepts

you have. But the near interception off Rahiem Mostert's hands, he gets pressure right down the middle and has to fall back. Why throwing this sort of blind shot and he's got the right man. The accuracy was just off a tad and as it was on I think, I think four plays game, I'll give him, you know, off target throws, but think about that wanting accuracy on four out of thirty five throws. That's about what you get

from the best quarterbacks each week in the NFL. I want to go ahead and play this sound for you real quick here from coach McDaniel on Tua because I asked him about that stat getting to your second read, and coach does a good job here of going over some of the highs and lows for Tua, but also why he loves coaching this quarterback because he can take

those errors as he's done in the past. That Ravens game last year, forcing the ball down the field on that Marcus Williams pick and then coming back after that and throwing five more touchdown passes in the game after that. When Tua puts bad stuff on tape, you typically don't

see it again more than once or twice. And coach will answer this question regarding, first off, the Bill's ability to take away the first read, and he really commends the way the Bills game plan came out and did a good job of trying to take away those options. For two in the passing game, here's.

clinic fashion. So those particularly when you get into a one sided game where you're behind a little bit and you're passing and getting a little off schedule, you know, and first and second down that can happen you have you end up throwing the ball more and that you become a little bit more predictable in that way. So we we needed him to be able to progress. I

think he did real well on some plays. There's a couple that I know, one interception and then the tipped ball that Jalen caught are were progression plays that he would like to be better on for various reasons. So it was I was really happy with how he approached the game, how he executed a vast majority of things

that he did. And then, you know, the great thing about two is that you can for me in our relationship, I can just literally coach him on the things that he's not good at and don't have to worry about it making him worse because he's going to use it all to make sure he improves moving forward.

next play, I'm just so impressed by this. You get a levels or a layer's concept, and that's basically where you play action boot and you flood the one side of the field with all your routes, and if they're in zone, it can typically leave someone guarding grass on the backside and then you just overwhelm their zone coverage by going a short option, intermedia option, and deep option up the top and with boot action on this play, you know we've seen him hit that layer the first

one like a million times. A little flat route like whether it's Durham Spice leaking out the running back or sometimes it's a slot receiver, but just finding a way to get the ball to that area, but they cover it on this and Tua, with a free runner coming downhill right towards him, pumps and continues to get space and with that wide and Tyreek's coming over to that second level from the backside and he just throws his absolute dart on the move while taking a hit and

the ball is twenty two yards down the field on a dot man. That's high level stuff in terms of the way he processes. And then you have these physical

traits really shining through this season as well. Then the first play on the very next drive, the second touchdown drive of the game, and the second drive of the game, I mean, you get another look where it's two wide, two backs and then Durham smiths and they're basically pass protecting and the backs run and actually coach is going to break this down on the breakdown coming up this week. I was very happy. This is the play that I was most excited about and the play he was most

excited about. And the Raheem is the first back and he runs a clear out route like a wheel up the sideline and then eight Chan comes across the formation and occupies the flat. So you have your high low stretch there and then on the back side of the formation, there's only one route and it's wattle on this dig which is about fifteen yards down the field, cut across the middle of the field and catch the pass that we've seen this offense, you know, excel with so many times.

And then back to the strength of the passing formation where Raheem and eh Chan ran the clear out stuff. Tyreek runs down the seam one hundred miles an hour and then turns back around for the little hook curl action and Tua wants to go waddle to the wide side to the field. The backside of this the weak area of the field, not the strength the week, and

it's taken away. The Matt Malonal gets depth and just completely wipes away that opportunity, which you know, Fred Warner, Matt Mlonal, These linebackers, those are the guys that we have to keep an eye on for this Dolphins offense going forward. Those are typically the players that make us have our least amount of success, like we saw in this game offensively. But it's taken away. So what does

Tua do. He immediately gets off that read. You see the helmet snap back to the backside of the formation or I guess the strength of the formation, and this hand starts to set operate on a hook route twenty yards down the field while the defender is underneath Tyreek, he's underneath them and he's throwing this anticipation, understanding of the offense and where the ball when the ball gets there.

What the picture looks like then compared to what it looks like now, The timing, the accuracy, second read man. That's great stuff and a great sign for your quarterback going forward. Now, Buffalo did a lot of interesting stuff here, and I think if teams want to copy that, you're gonna have to commit to the run more. I know the scoreboard kind of took you out of that in this game, which I don't think will happen too frequently.

I mean, we don't have any This is the most explosive office think you're going to see the rest of the season. Kansas City doesn't have the weapons on the perimeter anymore. Like it's pretty clear at this point of the year. The Eagles I think, are that level as well. But beyond that, maybe Dallas in week sixteen. It's a ways away. But Buffalo put together a blueprint with this particular personnel grouping that you can you can take it away.

It's a kin to the Niners last year. That those linebackers get in that twelve, fifteen, eighteen yards worth of a drop. That's something you need to come up with a solution for because team are gonna try it and you have to have the athletic linebackers to make it happen. But this is where I think I would knock to his performance a little bit, though I'm not entirely sure I can pinpoint how the progression on some of these go. But there are chances to find some guy's open backside

when he's pulling the trigger front side. And the reason I say that with hesitation, like if he deems the one to be open, you're never gonna see a quarterback see his one or two open and not throw it Like that's not how you're taught to put the position at all. And so you can't really fault him for not getting to an open three or four when he's deemed one or two to be open. If there are errors there, sure, like if it's not you know, if the ball shouldn't have gone to the one. But typically

he finds these guys when they're open. I just think you have to have a counter to that, because you know the way the Bills play this is they would like flow and take guys from the backside that they know. You know, if Tua can see the number one open, they'll pull guys off of that and get more bodies into the strength and take by his way from the weakness.

And that's where you saw Waddle uncover. That's where you saw a couple of guys get open that were never part of the first side of the progression, and it looks like they're open on tape. But like I said, you can't really fault the quarterback for that. But like, for instance, one of them was the twenty five yard

dot on the wheel to raheem between two defenders. Like he hit that ball perfectly, it was a fantastic throw, but you had alec ingold from a one alignment the furthest receiver out run this little slant inside like a little glance route, and Tua just ever thought about it. And there was a couple of instances where they had that open. And maybe now that it's on tape, you

can have that option. Maybe it wasn't part of the game plan originally, but I think there's some chances to have some counter to what Buffalo did in this game. And I thought what Buffalo did its best to contain Tua was with combination coverages where guys would peel off from what looks like man and how they would trail and flow but then just peel back and camp in

a zone. Like Tua was late on a throw to the sideline to Tyreek, I think on the second drive, the one where he didn't get his feet down where it looked like he did, but he was on the white on the chalk and you just see two a double clutch before the throw as Taron Johnson is wheeling off an underneath man to get that depth. That's really good defense. So sometimes you just tip your I know Dolphins fans don't like to do that, like if we lose, it's because we're terrible and we can never win a

game again in the possible next fifty years. But sometimes they play good defense. And for Tua here, like I understand the trepidation of not throwing that football because you know Taron Johnson has a knack for taking that ball away. Or Micah hyde Er he didn't play in this game. But Jordan Poyer, there's guys that have made those plays in this Buffalo defense many many times, and I can

understand why there would be hesitation there. But if you can start really mastering this thing and getting the feel of what that looks like, you can counter off of that and make plays I think against that. Like there was a really good trap coverage they ran where Barrios ran a speed out and the number one receiver to that same side ran a clear out, but it didn't clear the defensive back out. He just camped and put

a big hit on Barrios. I know my guy, Oja McDuffie hates that because that happened to him in his career a few times where the quarterback throws what is basically a hospital ball. He can't have those. But like, they just disguised it well and they got him. Like, I can't fault the quarterback for just getting got a few times by a good defense. It happens. The Jets got Mahomes a billion times last night. It just happens sometimes. Man. But moving on here, how about that third down scrambled

to move the sticks? Damn damn Daniel. You know day kwon Jones wins really quick inside with a one on one pass rush against Rob Hunt, and Rob hasn't had these in the regular season. They were once a game in the preseason, but he just got whipped and so that dtackle was coming right down the barrel for a shot on Tua and I have a screenshot on my phone.

I'm not gonna post it because I can't, but Tua is dead to rights, like he is swallowed up by this three hundred and twenty pound man and just whoop, just skates alongside and third and five goes and gets the sticks and runs for a first down. That was some Keanu Reeves what's his freaking name? And the replacements Shane Falco some Falcal stuff there.

We're gonna be just fine. So he's first in passing yards he's first, and yards per pass, he's second in quarterback rating second, and passer rating, he's second EPA per play, he's first in a million other categories. That performance against that defense is winning football. He just didn't get enough help from his friends. He was one for two throwing the ball twenty plus yards down the field, and again Buffalo had like every play was different coverage, a different look.

There were some three safety looks where they wheel out and the Tampa two backer would flip and it invert with the middle guy and they would run combo hybrid you know, zone versus man coverages, and they just man. They were in their bag in that game. So just two throws beyond twenty eight yards with the I as well, he was nine for eleven in the intermediate with one hundred and fifty seven yards and a touchdown pass, So very good there under pressure. Not his usual sharp self.

Two for eight thirty passing yards and win blitzed. He was five for eight with sixty one yards, So that's the good. That's the quarterback. We have four more tapes I liked get to get to. We'll do that next, but we'll come back also and talk about plenty of stuff that was not so good in this game, especially on defense. That's next draft on podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoundation. Before we get to top tapes two through five, I want to go ahead and

play some audio for you all. Hear from the captain, alec Ingold. He had a phenomenal press conference on Monday where he just kind of gave us some perspective, and I feel like the fans need to hear someone's perspective from the players because one of the nice parts about being in the building compared to just being like a fan on the outside, was like, you know, I'm kind of riding the emotional roller coaster with you all back

in those days. But like when you see how these guys kind of take certain things and react to them, like it's just like they're gonna be Okay, It's gonna be fine, guys. I promise it's gonna be fine. Here's alec Ingold on the kind of temperature of the room in terms of the locker room and just where the guys are at today.

ways to get better and improve. A cool thing I think we covered in our room was, you know, anytime you're in a result based business or industry, there's expectations, there's potential, and then there's what you put out on tape, and that gap that is bridged between the two changes every single week. And the challenge for a lot of guys in the room is balancing remembering who we are, what we've done in the past, what we just did, and continuing to find ways to close that gap towards

the potential, the expectation, the standard in the room. And you know, honestly, that's not gonna that gap will never close. You never arrive towards that full expectation at full standard. But finding ways to continuously close that gap. The wins, the losses, the good and the bad, the applause, the criticism, being able to use all of that To continuously close that gap is the challenge for the guys in the room and to not lose any focus and just continue that improvement.

he doesn't lose acceleration. And then I love how he doesn't mess around with hitting it up in the crease, like if he sees a spot where he has to bury his nose and take his three or four yards, he does it. He's not that scat back that just searches for home runs every single play. I think you saw all the skills he offers in that long run too.

The fifty five yarder just so damn impressive. Man. He pressed the hole, found a little cutback lane and made it and then was off to the races and he runs away from guy that's my favorite part about this running back. He had seventy two more yards after contact in this game, good for an average of nine on the day. He's averaging six point nine three yards after initial contact and has eleven missed tackles forced on twenty seven carries this season. My third top tape Austin Jackson. Hey,

how about Austin Jackson. Four games now, I think it's a pretty good sample size to say that things have clicked for this dude. He looks really good. Even on some reps where he loses initially, he still recovers and gets the job done, and then his work in space in the running game is as consistent as anything on this football team. He had a pivotal block on the long eight chan run. I'm getting a channed down by the way he was putting some tough spots, like the

first play of the second half. We are double wise to his side, so there's a long runway because the edge wants to rush around both those tight ends wyse are attached tight ends to the formation, so you have Austin tight end tight end and then the edge is outside of those two guys, so it's a long runway. He has to work up and get speed to put his pass rush on Austin, And initially he gets around Austin and it kind of looks like one of those

previous Austin reps. But then he recovers and busts his butt to get back into shape for a good angle, and he lays out to shove the edge around our quarterback. That's the kind of urgency and effort I need to protect this guy because if that guy's health, we're gonna win thirteen freaking games this year. One hundred and fifty seven pass block snaps this season, one sack, two hits, eight total pressures. That's a pbe a pass block efficiency of ninety seven. Go get him, Austin. Proud of that guy.

Number four. Jalen Waddle. I know you're gonna say, Travis, he caught four for forty six, but don't watch the tape for stats. He was getting open on most of the immediate pressure plays, and he was just kind of a guy that got screwed because of the fact that we couldn't get the ball out in time and he was, you know, or he was getting open when the ball

was already already out hot. Like I'm talking about when he's the three to the backside and they're getting the ball to the one or the two front side, and you can see him kind of voice some of his frustration. I think there's some elements of force in the ball of Tyreek. They probably come in to play there. More on that in a moment, But like on the fourth down sack, for instance, Waddle uncovers at the exact moment that the blade blitz gets in and gosh, he blocks

his butt off two man. His pancake on the second eight Chan touchdown run was absolutely awesome. I just love the way he plays, and he got paid off later with some targets. I love the big catch he made on the opening drive of the third quarter. He runs a switch release with I think it was Tyreek, and he's working against outside leverage and still gets there to the outside for an accurate ball outside the numbers. I thought he was just open more than his target suggested.

The two point conversion would have been a walk in for him if we didn't throw the immediate fade, which I mean it worked in week one, but fades to Tyreek. You know, I don't know who am I The route he ran on a touchdown. That was awesome. That one got wiped away. About another case of him getting to the place the leverage of the defense wants to prevent him from getting to and Tua give him a great ball to go make that play. I think he easily could have had like seven for one hundred in this

game if we just would have found him more. And I think there's some fortune the football, the Tyreek that we could get away from a little bit. Waddle needs to be involved more. That's all there is to it for me. I think the reaction to that, to the deep drops the teams are playing, is him on some mesh and some drags, some shorter stuff in underneath the linebackers,

and then tu on the scrambles. Man Like, the more that he can win with his legs, the more he can maybe pull up that second level of the defense and force them to have something else that can ten with Just thinking about concepts and ideas to beat that deep drop that you know, sinking linebackers, things that teams have played the takeaway some of our bread and butter. My fifth favorite tape is Andrew Van Ginkle. I honestly didn't really have a fifth here. I thought about x

or Van Ginkle. I wanted to give one guy on defense and shine even though maybe it's tough to find, but I mean Van Ginkle's I just told you I'm not gonna look for box score, and now I'm gonna tell you that I'm looking at box score. Two sacks, four pressures, three run stops. That's pretty damn productive. Even though I thought he lost his rush Land integrity a few times, he offset that with the way he anticipated and played the game in the backfield pretty thoroughly. So

those are your top five tapes. Let's go ahead and pick this up here with the offensive notes. And you know, I thought there were some instances of let's just say, guys not playing one hundred miles an hour at all times. Routes that kind of got lack a days ago. On the back end. It's an issue, man. You can't play like that. You can play every snap one hundred miles an hour. I raved about it on the Sunday Pod. But man, the creativity down on the red zone is

just awesome. Scheming up touchdowns. There is something that will translate week after week. You know, sometimes you need guys to go win a match up, but when you can generate walk in touchdowns with scheme. It's a massive, massive advantage. And the Dolphins had nine consecutive red zone touchdown trips trips that resulted in touchdowns at one point of this game, going back to last week. That's the most ever for the team. So like pump the brakes on like the

sky is falling, you know. But Tyreek on that first orbit motion had four second level defenders moving in the opposite direction of where the eight chan run went. It creates advantageous angles for your linemen and makes the reads for the running back much more easy to make. And in the same situation on the second touchdown, Tyreek action on the fake after the jet sweep to e Chan you get serious flow and fall steps going that direction.

We had some more great run action off play pass to create some clean pockets for Tua on the two touchdown drives. Early thought we got away from that a little bit, but good to see early on in the game. And man, every snap the Bills just showed something different, like a great plan varying your looks. We could probably take a note out of that playbook that and Tarren Johnson,

like damn he is good. There were a couple of plays where he would vacate his backside coverage just take off to the passing strength, Like on the play where Wada looked open. We're backed up against our own goal, on our own goal line, and Tarren Johnson is there. He just anticipates it and goes early. It's the same thing we praise the snowman for all the time, just being really aware of the situation in the space around you. He's a great, great football player, and he made a

bunch of great plays. To a pre snap on that play has four on two to that side, that's almost an automatic check list in your mind, like I'm not going there. They have is outman by two guys, and even still Johnson doesn't make the play, and it's probably a conversion to Raheem with a good ball. Just wasn't a good ball. But they constantly had looks like that

where they would peel guys off the backside. I think the last note I have here is they just played a variety of coverages that we kind of played into the near white interception. They rolled three deep and had the cloud corners drive underneath the short stuff, but our routes wound up going into that deep hook right into their backers, so to a created and through to Cedric Wilson and by the way, come back to the freaking

ball man, what are you waiting for? But White had eyes onto a jumped it and should have had a pick six right there, So onto one of the four or five plays I didn't like from him. Now, there were some good counters. We had a couple of those quick square INDs in quick game to get like three verticals kind of running off that middle level shell. And I'm excited to see what the staff comes up with in terms of a response to that, because I think

there's some space underneath that to attack. And speaking of counters, you know the run action where the guard pulls and seals the edge. It looks like we adjusted to some of that interior pressure they were having all day long by having rob kind of pull up inside to pick up the you know, the linebackers and the d tackles that were kicking our butts all day. And just as we did that, the bills and an extra rusher off the edge to get a free run and a hit

on two of the leads to an incomplete pass. They just dialed up good stuff at the right times all day long. The eligible Let's break these guys' game down real quick. Raheem continues to catch passes in a way that makes me think we should do it more, you know, with the ball as a route runner and of course contested catch. He's been pretty damn good all the way around that little hesitation step he had on a catch

and run for a first down on the sideline. He's just so good at setting up tacklers to miss, like to make a move and make them. But the ball security man, you got to put that thing away and then he's a vet and Hill correct it and he did in that game, but I thought it made him think and slowed down a step after that fact, they did a good job justsrupting Tyreek and the line of scrimmage. Some of his releases were way too elongated and wasn't conducive for the timing of the offense. It feels weird

to say this, but Tyreek had a bad game. Let's actually go to coach here real quick and hear how the Bills took away Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill and just kind of how teams play the Dolphins in favor of trying to find ways to get ten and seventeen out of the game.

And and when you get in situations where you're behind and guys can kind of predict pass, they can play softer coverage that takes takes the ball away from you, you know, outside the numbers with a corner end of safety and then inside the numbers with sinking backers and and such. So that's not not something that we hadn't seen. We just hadn't you know. It's tough when you get into those situations and you're behind several scores to to

really dictate the terms the way that we like. And you know, I think they they the Bills did a great job adhering to their game plan and they didn't take anybody away with one or two individuals. It was a it was a team commitment. That you know, when when you keep you know, fifteen yard plays from being thirty yard plays and you stop twelve yard runs and make them three yard runs, it has a residual effect that they deserve all the credit the world for.

on a Week five game. There's gonna be a little saltiness around going around, but the way that guys are able to trust each other, come together, go to work after a loss, a tough loss and loss like that, and be able to move forward is really important for the rest of the season. It's a long season. You're three and one at the quarter, and you're able to use a tough loss like that and see how guys

respond to it. So I think it's a great opportunity for everyone in the room to kind of get to know the guy next to him a little bit more and get in the foxhole a little bit.

score game. But man, you get a first down there and plus territory down by two touchdowns, maybe you go score a touchdown and you're down by seven going into the fourth quarter. Who knows how the game changes, Probably not, but you never know. Offensive line in general, I just didn't think it was our best game. That's about it that way. There were some creases and some of those you know protection schemes where they work off the pistol sweep action and roll the line to give to an

extra time to attack down the field. Like you know, attached block that gave up creases inside for rushers to get through. You haven't seen that so far for the first three games, getting inside on some double teams with games and slants from the Bills front, and they didn't stay attached to blocks long enough really all game long.

They did really well when they got their matchups on our tight ends and pass pro against defensive ends and outside linebackers like those guys should beat Smyth and Julian Hill, and they did. I think the biggest thing with the Bills did was flow really well at the second level. It's these linebackers driven teams are our nemusis it seems like, and just found ways to knife inside for big plays like the second Raheem fumble. We had guys out wide,

but they shot the B and C gaps. It's kind of like the mechanics of running backs and pass protection, right, Like you need to eliminate inside pressure first. The most important rusher is the most immediate threat to your quarterback. And in the running game, like they just made the outside blocking irrelevant because they were able to knife in and cut that thing down before it got stretched out wide.

And then those creases that broke through and pass pro those are plays where we typically get much longer setups and have some shots with slow developing routes. But if the quarterback has to move off the spot, it messes with the timing of the play and becomes a broken play. And that's if he can shake free of the initial coverage or pressure. I should say, all right, so we've been waiting for this all podcasts. Right, let's talk about

Liam Miikenberg. The technique is just it's all over the place. He's way too high. It gets him over extended to the block at the point he's so easily discarded by guys because there's no balance there. I know that on the third play of the game, a two yard run for moster, it didn't even impact the play, but you can see how it's an issue. And the very next snap is the wattle catch off of deflection, and once

again you see the issue. He comes in high, his feet are way outside of his shoulders, which gives you no base to operate, no balance, no power, just not good man. There's then there's the processing factor. Like a four man rush, You've got a two eye technique to your left, which that means he's on the inside shoulder of the left guard, and a four eye technique to the right, which means inside shoulder of the right tackle.

So nobody else inside of that. So where's the most immediate threat The two I right That means the only real threat is that two I crossing your face unless that four I loops all the way around. But you can pick that up because he's coming from two gaps over. And then you have help from Isaiah Win on your inside post because the next closest player to the left side is a wide nine technique rushing way outside to Ron Armstead's outside post. But Liam over sets inside and

gives up the inside posts. There's no understanding of where the help is. The technique is bad and as far as the mental I mean, that's the position pointing out you know your Mike cues and your protection slides. I'm gonna discontinue this because that's from the first drive alone and just continued in the second drive, and I don't need to belabor this point on a snap by snap basis. You guys all saw it. But look look there for the root of the issues you had in this game. Offensively,

and I do have one more, actually spatial awareness. Get a feel for what might happen. There's no anticipation whatsoever. Don't go chasing waterfalls. Man. I thought Rob Hunt has the worst game of the year. I thought Win did too. Kendall Lamb probably too, although I thought he was fine, but that one I can understand better. Coming off the bench cold is difficult. But I trust those guys to have bounce backs in the next game and then really

good work by the Bills defense tackles. You know, Win and Hunt have been good in pass pro this year with they lost some one on ones where the Bills were able to engage and then swipe and cross face and get off those blocks and make plays. Some numbers for you here, t Stead no pressures on sixteen pass blocking snaps, Lamb had one pressure allowed, although it was a sack on thirty one snaps. Austin Jackson just one pressure on forty seven snaps. Hunt also won win two.

Both those guys played forty seven sort of leam Mikenberger, but he gave up five pressures, two sacks, a hit, and two more hurries, and then Smyth had two pressures allowed with the quarterback hit three sacks on the offensive line PFF credits to with one of those sacks is his responsibility. Two hits and thirteen total pressures, And even as bad as I say it was, this is a defensive line who in the previous three games had twenty four, twelve,

and twenty six pressures, so thirteen is not terrible. And that twelve game, the Raiders like never had the ball, so that's kind of weird as well. But perspective, I suppose they had a great plan. Tip your cap, move on, just like we're going to do here after we hear another word here from alec Ingold on what went wrong after those first two touchdown drives and then four straight three and outs. Here's Miami's fullback once again.

your role. And yeah, it's a great defense. They made adjustments. They're really assignments sound they play on a string. That's the challenge. That's what you love about going up there and playing the Bills. You know, you know you're going to be playing a great defense that plays together, and you got to be on your stuff. So that was really the adjustment there.

And usually when a player caps the blitzing defender where he lines up right behind him, that's a note that he's gonna blitz. But Josh Allen didn't do that, and so he shifts this empty look, or I should say Javon Holland didn't do that. Alan shifts to an empty

look and then points out Caterer like he's blitzing. How do you know that the defense holds its water and just kind of stays there because they didn't really adjust much at all in this game and just replaces the blitz with the football and the Knox runs through Javon Holland's tackle, which happened all day long. They hit a thirty yard run to Latavious Murray with thirteen personnel against

too high. That's a numbers disadvantage and it produced was their left guard having a free climb up on David Long, and that's right where the run goes. Then we miss a tackle the third level and Long, hey, stop jumping the strong side part of the play. Stay weak and honor your gather. He's been doing that way too often. I think this is the biggest reason for these explosive plays.

I think coach has mentioned this, but guys jumping out of structure to make a play and leaving a massive vulnerability. On that first touchdown, Javon's already checked off his backside help roll and starts flowing to the post where xaviing Howard's covering Stefont or I think Gabe Davis. But still Brandon Jones stays inside despite the fact that he has

half field perimeter responsibility, just bails on it. And it's way too easy on a wheel route with a dummy screen or slip screen to the flat that pulls Justin Bethel up, but Jones has to stay home there he is. I'm not like some pro evaluator, but I know what most coverages look like. I'm not really sure what the coverages were most of the time in this game. It just didn't look structurally sound at all. On the front,

we couldn't get off blocks. The pass rush has to be way better with one on one chances against this quarterback and this offense in particular. I thought Wilkins had a rough start but got some pass rush going later. But the truth is that he and Steeler. They made some plays, but we need more from those guys, especially the way the system op rates. Deshaun Han got a lot of snaps and just didn't didn't play very well to be quite fair about it, I guess, or nice

about it. The linebackers, Jerome Baker was rough man. His processing was slow, and there just doesn't seem to be a lot of physical urgency there, like kind of jogging after the ball. Don't love seeing that. Long's not been a whole lot better himself man, Like I mentioned it, he continues to put himself in the wrong gap and abandons the lane that then opens up a bend back for the running back. Now, he did shoot the gap

correctly a few times and make some big plays. Like I got all excited about this offseason, but I'm starting to see the consistency thing that Vic Fangie was talking about. Sometimes it's great, other times it's like, can't win with it ball. Then Duke Riley checks in and gets you know, worked as the conflict defender. Bradley Chubb is doing these spot drops that he's like covering grass for sometimes going to the same portion of the field the Baker's hanging

out in the hook zone. I don't get those, and the second dary again, I don't know what brand Jones doing in a long touchdown. And then the tackling was just terrible. Cater got lost in trail technique a few times. But you know, I'm not calling that long touchdown from digs on him because first off, we blized Allen and had enough time to triple hitch up in the pocket, like three point seventy five seconds on the clock of time to throw. It's way too long when you're not scrambling.

And Deshaun Han just gets he's chilling on the ground, Rayquon Davis is running around having a good time. Jerome Baker's got velcro on his jersey, and then off the edge Ogba and Van Gink will get chipped. And they trusted their one on ones inside versus rayque Hand and Baker. And if we can't figure out a way to win those pass rush reps, teams are gonna do that all the time over and over again, like it's gonna be incumbent. I think upon ninety four and ninety two to just

get going. My last note for the bad was Javon Hollins tackling was not good like Rap and finish Man and then X not many targets, but I thought he was glued to gave Davis much of the day some good reps, just staying with him, falling off in zone and picking guys up. I thought he was in great shape to the post and that first touchdown pass. Day through, he had twenty nine coverage snaps and just eight yards

allowed on PFF. So more PFF here. Cater twenty nine coverage snaps, one hundred and one yards allowed, two touchdowns. That's his worst day as a pro. David Long twenty six coverage snaps, ninety yards not good. Chubb and gink both had four pressures each. Then Wilkins, Long, Baker, Ogball had one apiece and then run stops. Gink, Long and s Heeler all had three run stops. Bethel had two, and a handful of guys had one. Let's do this with McDaniel and we'll do snap counts after and be

out of here. But here's Mike McDaniel on the level of concern he feels about his defense at this point of the season.

And my concern would be if what's what happened to us on this previous game we didn't absolutely get better from because I know the journey is long and at the end of it, for the season to be worth anything, you have to be in big games and be at your best, and those things that happened on Sunday can't happen.

So I have the utmost faith in the defensive coaching staff and our players, and you know, very candid and let them know that my expectation is that we aren't that team that continually does the same thing, makes the same mistakes. And then, you know, I really really want to see guys, you know, come together in their journey and understand that not one play player has to make

a play on each play. I think there's some of that too, where guys are have a high standard they can feel during the game that the it's not living up to their standard. So all right, well I'm gonna go get I'm gonna go strip the ball from this ball carrier and then not get the ball carrier down and that leak for seven more yards. Things of that nature of guys just trying to make a play. You know, they they need to all the entire locker room. They need to really come together as a group. And we

need to as a defense play better team defense. And there's that's a great thing about this game. There's nowhere to hide, so like it is what it is, and that doesn't bother me. You get beat forty eight to twenty, you should you should know coming into the building that things have to get corrected and that's not to our standard. So I think we're on that process. I think the meetings have been good today and we'll see what that brings forth on Wednesday.

back snap taker. He played sixty percent compared to most hearts forty three. Maybe you see more of that going forward. Waddle and Hill played both seventy five percent of the snaps. Barrios played fifty percent, and then Cedric Wilson thirty five, So he goes from inactive to thirty five percent. I think you missed what you had in Azukama and great craft from this game. Ingle just thirty one percent of

the snaps. Kind of a game where you can't do too much twenty one personnel, and same thing with Julian Hill just fifteen percent of the workload, and then Chosen played twenty eight percent of the snaps. On defense, we had three guys go to distance, the two safe rather Brandon Jones, cater Coohouni Xavi and Howard Javon Holland played all but three snaps in the game. And then Long

was your by far your most prominent linebacker. He played ninety three percent of the snaps compared to Baker's seventy six, So a little bit of a benching there for Baker at one point, which was filled in by thirty one percent workload from Duke Riley. Chubb and Gink played both eighty percent of the snaps, give or take. Sealer and Wilkins played seventy five percent, Bethel sixty seven percent, Rayqwan forty percent, Hand twenty eight percent, to Ogbas twenty eight

percent as well. So it looks like they're trying to kind of figure things out right now, which I guess is the point at this time of season of the season, but it's got to get a lot better on that side of the football. I think they'll find it eventually. We have reinforcements coming here soon with hopefully Jaylen Phillips hopefully Jalen Ramsey, Nick Needham as well, so plenty of

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