Drive Time: Dolphins Chiefs All 22 Review

It was a tough one. As Coach McDaniel said, it was painful, it hurt, but it was I suppose somewhat therapeutic. We'll go through that, give you the reasons why it didn't work, why things did work, this defense taking a big step in the right direction. The key stats, the snap counts, and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Aye. Yeah,

it sucked, man, that sucked to watch. If you want to feel better, they'll go watch coach McDaniel's Monday press conference as well as Tron Arms and a few of the other guys. Like there's just a sense of like that ain't gonna happen again, and I know that's gonna fall deaf on a lot of ears because you don't want to hear that. And I understand that. I get that. I felt that way at twenty one nothing. I feel

a lot better after the second half. And even though the game end of the way it did, at least Miami was competitive, and for some reason I got torch Or saying they outplayed the Chiefs. Go talk to a wall man. I mean, I suppose your own performance includes shooting yourself in the foot, which that can be taken into account. But like Miami was right there and they beat themselves, and McDaniel said as much in his press conference on Monday, So yeah, go listen to coach. I

think it's it's instructive. I think it's therapeutic to do so. But we're also gonna start the all twenty two review podcasts a little bit different today. We usually be big play breakdowns, but I want to go through the final sequence there at the end of the game first, because first down, you get them in a five man box after runs of twenty six and twenty nine, and you

can't know that until you call the play. But I wonder if for some kind of autonomy to kind of make a check there because you go empty against a five man and Raheem motions across the formation, but not side saddle alongside Tua. I can't fathom the idea of not having him just stop right there and checking to a run. And again, I don't know the mechanics of that, but like, hey, let's go ahead and hurt you down

right here, Raheem. Let's get hat on a hat, maybe get a clean five yard runway, and if you make a play, Raheem, it's another big chunk. And at that point you want to run some clock. Right, it's one seventeen to go at the plus thirty one yard line. You hit a fifteen yard run. Now all of a sudden you've got two timeouts under a minute to play. Probably let the clock run with fifteen yards to go.

And McDaniel addressed this in his press commerce on Monday, saying that like, you know, whatever the call is, if it works, it's genius. If not, it doesn't, you know, it's it's the other way around. So I get the whole, you know, results based process there. But I just think in that situation, there was a chance to maybe you know, get some more yards and put yourself with four down territory.

You could have given yourself maybe three cracks at throwing the football with only you know, needing five yards, which changes the equation. Then on second down, press coverage on Wattle and they freaking hold him. They hold him, they interfer him, the mug him, knock him down. I don't know why it wasn't called. Look, it didn't cost you the game, don't I never want to say that about

officiating every single game across the NFL. When you watch a non Dolphins game, I bet you don't talk about the officiating unless it's like egregiously bad, like maybe that Jets and Chiefs game was earlier in the season, But it is what it is. He was held, he was mugged, he was thrown down. You still should have find the

way to execute a third down. It's probably my least favorite play from two of the year, and it's not because of this wildly inaccurate take that he has some inadequate arm like all the and I wrote down here mouth breathers on Twitter, which is probably a little harsh, but I mean, if you have that take, then I don't know what to tell you, Bud. He's made that same throw for touchdowns like four times this season, so stop with that. I can't be certain what happened. Here's

what I think happened. We heard from him to and from him Cedric and McDaniel miscommunication, But I think that to a predetermined he was throwing that ball in the comeback, and in his mind as he was throwing the ball, he sees Cedric running go, and he processes that mid throw and changes his mind and the ball comes off wonky. That's kind of the way I saw it. It's the only real possible explanation that would track to me on that,

because you know, I don't know. I don't know if you can check that midplay and just throw the takeoff because the cornerback is squatting at the sticks and Cedric hits that little kind of hesitation step at him. There's no help squatting at the sticks. That's a one hundred percent of the time vertical throw for me. But what do I know? Then the snap off frame. It's a bad snap, but you still probably should have caught that. I think his eyes went up towards the pressure probably,

which is good. But you know, a ball off your frame coming in hot tough to catch. Those same result as you know, if you pick it, don't fall on the ball, it's the same result if you pick it up and they you know, they fumble it around and take it back for six. Like just a total breakdown there and crunch time and it sucks. And that's the hard part of the tape to me, and I thought there was a lot more hard parts of the tape. Let's go ahead and talk about the positive big plays

though the Cedric Wilson touchdown. You know, teams have really been letting a lot of these guys run these verticals one on one down the field, even Jalen Waddle sometimes, but we don't always try them. I think there's a little bit too much of a vertical focus on Tyreek, and maybe opening up some of the other guys in the vertical game could change the way defenses view you. But here I thought to throw a really good ball

as Cedric runs this post corner route. He's running down the stem with a cornerback who has outside leverage, so he fakes the move inside and that holds a single high safety in the middle of the field on the far hash and right when he breaks it back to the corner to a season and uncorks it, and because of that good route, it's well timed. Cedric is in position to make a play on the football while the corner is trying to recover and get back into shape and he doesn't have a chance to go up and

get the ball. So what's really nice here is that Tyreek is also all alone for a touchdown or what's going to be at least a big play on a slant. In fact, he might have scored two. I think he probably would have, but Tua works him. You see him work to the one side of the field and then come back and I'm almost certain that he sees that safety getting width away from Cedric, so he knows I have a poster opportunity with a five to ten corner against my six street receiver. Here, I'm gonna go ahead

and throw it up inside from the leverage. He makes a great play of the ball. Good throw there as well. Pass pro is great because everyone fires off the football on that play pass and you see the Chiefs pass rush pop up out of their stances. That's a bad place to be. And then just a special shout out here from Durham Smyth for locking down the left edge on split flow. He had a tough assignment and he got it done. And that's been durham S mice game all year. I've been a big fan of his tape

this year. For the Dolphins offense, Raheem's touchdown pretty basic. Toron Armstead exceptional double team with Smyth to widen the gap. Raheem reads that and has a great slash step inside first cut and just springboards off that left foot when he plants it in the ground and picks up steam from there for some linear yardage accumulation. Alec Ingold picks up two heads with a key lead block and then it's all speed from there from Raheem, Moster for a

touchdown and then the forest funnel from Chubb. Your recovery from Seiler not a lot to it. The coverage caps what is essentially four verts from the Chiefs. Mahomes finally gets a little hook that comes clear like ten yards downfield on third and twenty, but by that time the rush had already won. So Seler gets a great pick

stunt with Bradley Chubb. Tooney wheels out and looks like he's gonna make the block of the year, but Chubb throws him to the ground and gets the sack, gets a handle the football, and then Phillips runs through two Chiefs defenders and joins in on the hit. And then great awareness by Zach to find the football. Those are your big plays? How about your top five tapes? Number one for me in this game with Jalen Phillips, he just wins reps with such consistency. I know you don't

see it. You know, jump off the tape every play because sometimes when a defender wins it doesn't amount to anything. But he's controlling the edge in the running game and rushing with a real purpose, not just trying to win a matchup, but with real purpose and conviction for how to impact this gap or how to widen this guy's stance. He does it in so many ways. Up and under, rip, under that upfield shoulder, then corner flat lined to the

quarterback for a throwaway. The next drive, he bluffs upfield and then crossed over steps back in side to wreck the inside post of the right tackle. Then the right guard comes into help and he runs him over, just flattens him like the steamroller in the Malcolm in the Middle episode when Hal runs the steamroller and runs over

all the kids' toys. That creates a free run for Zach Sealer on the te stunt for a pressure throwaway, he's jumping inside to cut down b gap runs, set in the edge wide peeling off outside to make those plays. Also had a really good reroute for an incompletion on Kelsey.

Great tape for Jalen Phillips. He gets the number one tape by the week with four pressures and two stops and another sack according to Pro Football Focus, which, by the way, starting to salur on those guys even more than I already was, because they gave the Dolphins defense the second lowest grade of the year for them, and their grade was one point higher than Buffalo's. So yeah, PFF grades, Man, I don't know. Jalen Ramsey gets the

number two tape here. I think he's going to be a mainstay here in this top five because of the way he impacts the rest of the defense. I thought they got even more coverage looks post snap rotations than we saw in the Patriots game. And you know how the Patriots used to always speaking of those guys double your top guy and then put like Reevis or Gilmour

all alone on your number two. He did some of that this week, and the way the zone part of the coverage is working together in tandem, Like, I don't know how many times you're gonna get open guys against this defense. If that first drive was pretty much it as far as these last two games go, you know, there's a few reps where I wrote in my notes that he just erased the red off the screen where like he pressed and they got behind him on the screen and you just see him covering air because of

the jersey right behind him. Like this guy's good man. Thirty eight coverage snaps, he allowed thirteen yards on two for three completions in attempts. My number three tape goes to Bradley Chubb. Fantastic work every single week in the Running Game. I thought he did a tremendous job when peeling back into coverage as well. That force fumble pass rush was elite stuff. Just chucked Joe Tuney aside, one

of the best guards in the game. You know. I talked about him and Phillips seemingly every day denting the edge in the Running Game back in training camp, and my gosh, that's showing up in some kind of way PFF said. Two pressures, one stop and of course the forced fumble on a sack, six coverage snaps and just the Rashi Rice catch for five yards in coverage. But number four tape goes to Tarron Armstead. Great to see

him back. Just copy and paste performance. I think he maybe could have stayed on some blocks a little bit longer in the running game, but I think his ability to wipe out someone one on one in pass protection, like I think it was the second series of the game. You know, welcome back to the league, big fella. We're gonna go ahead and slide protect away from you. Go ahead and handle you know, a George Carr loft as

he did that very seamlessly. There. He has some really good seals and climbs in the running game, big block on the raheem most right, touchdown run, welcome back, We need you, big fellow. One pressure allowed via Pro Football Focus. And then my fifth tape goes to Xavier Howard. Just excellent vision and feel all game long. He would play from depth and crash on the short screen game or

the short passing game. He's squat on routes and see our ability to give more help over the top of him because of Ramsey's presence allows him to be better with his physicality, which is of course his best trait besides maybe the ballhawking. But even with that, I thought he got into phase and ran stride for stride down the field with the receivers and tight ends. The groin looks better. I'm excited they arrested him and let him

get back to full health. Great tape here from ex I thought one of his best games in a long time as a member of the Miami Dolphins. Thirty nine coverage snaps, eight yards allowed on just two for four passing. My close but no cigars were Waddle, Wilkins and Long. Let's go ahead and roll on here in the first segment. Some offensive notes here as we kind of pivot towards, you know, the two sides of the football. Just in general. The Chiefs playing, I thought they had a really good

plan and executed it really well. They knew how to deal with some of the stuff that has really worked for us all year. You know, they would rotate off of the exit sprint motion and convert from in this is you know, middlefield open, middlefield closed essentially refers to single high or too high, if it's split safeties, it's open, if it's single highest, close right. And then from there they would attack the short games. They would come from depth and kind of anticipate to offset the way our

motion anticipates static movement or lack of movement. I suppose from the defense. That's how they got their TfL on our first screen and then essentially won the game on the Tyreek fumble the same exact way. It's tough to get the screen game going when you play it defensively with that type of anticipation. The good thing from Miami, though, is now it's on tape and they have a chance to self scout and play off those looks because I'm

sure they'll get them again. I thought this was also the best an opponent has done at disrupting our receivers to the line of scrimmage a couple of times there, you know, anticipating the snap and getting into their jam before our guys can even make the release move. We saw the Chargers do some of that last year effectively in the game in December, and that came after the buye. I'm excited to see what coach and the staff has for an answer to all the things the teams have

had success with against them. You know, in the losses we've had, they also beat our cracked toss look a lot. And that's why a lot of those tosses just didn't work. You know, they were ready with their big they got big, strong edges on this team. A receiver like Brax and Barry was trying to block a George Carl Loftus. He was more head on a swivel. And that's probably how teams're gonna have to play it going forward. So this is something that Dolfins is gonna have to adjust to here.

But they just didn't give our backs any runway going wide. They would have to stop their feet, and when you do that, the pursuit catches up in this league, and you're gonna get nothing if your feet go dead. That happened a lot. And look, I'm through the first half. On my notes here of I note this like kind of chronologically as I go through it. I'm through the first half, and the first half execution is on the receivers. Man,

we were disjointed. We didn't get open or even finished the concepts half the time, and then on half of the times we did, we dropped it. We had an illegal shift that and the lack of ability to get the edges in the running game. You're not gonna score doing that, and you get blanked for the first time in forty games as a result. Then that gets cleaned up and we start scoring. But then man, the savon

achmed toss. You know, I'm not sure if Tua can check that or what, but we ran into a numbers disadvantage four to five to that side of the formation. They shoot it, they blow it up, and a six yard loss on first down is tough to overcome. You know. It's one thing to have a five yard penalty where you can get it back on the first down, but to lose that yardage stuff to overcome. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there and come back on the other side. We'll talk about Tua and the

rest of the offense. Next Drive Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a Tuesday, All twenty two review edition of the Drive Time Podcast. We pick it up here talking Toua's game, and I didn't put him in the top five, but if it wasn't for the last two plays he would have been there because Tua played good again man till late until late, and there were some misses and some throws that I thought he could have had back. But

that's every quarterback and every damn game. Let's go ahead and go through this thing here. He had two big time throws in those first two drives, the opening play between a trio of Chiefs defenders to Waddle. Then again the next drive between four Chiefs defenders to Tyreek and the Dolphins were in this max protect two man route combo. So Tua he has to anticipate and hit these throws with the level of courage that he does. Otherwise this

offense doesn't work. You guys understand that. But both those throws are right on the money. But there were more misses than usual sprinkled throughout this tape, and that's why he doesn't make the top five. And some of them are for sure on two. Some of them you know have to have you know, an ear to the play design to know this to really understand. But like there's a little rail slide combination. Slide is the motion man

that carries the flat. The rail is the guy that goes up the sideline or the seam sometimes just basically vertical off a line, and we throw to that guy a lot, right Tyreek goes in motion to a pumps to him on that slide, you know, a little route to the flat. Then Cedric is timing up a rail between the linebacker and safety and they're just on different pages.

And he talked about this in his press college because I asked him, like, is that something where you know, Waddle being down, you playing his role, maybe you're not quite on the same page. And he said, like, no, we wrap this stuff, you know, time and time again to get on the same page. But I think that Cedric wanted to either settle into a spot and that part of the coverage, and I think Tua wanted him to cross face because he throws it right at the safety,

which we've seen him do that millions of times. Throw it at the defender. The receiver will cut that off for you make a play, but he gets a hand on it and it winds up going for a myths takes a big shots result. And again, Wadle played just

fifty four percent of the snaps. I think that impacted the game a lot because even on those fifty four percent, he wasn't moving like he usually does, and all of a sudden, you know, if there's an area in this team that you look at, like receiver depth is not you know, Tygreek and Waddle, you don't have anybody else

liked those guys. So I think getting Craitcraft back will be a big boost to the team because he's not those guys, but just in terms of intelligence and being really supposed to be, he's a He's a big time player for this offense, I think. But then to us very next throw is this gorgeous back shoulder ball to

Wattle on a similar route. He's the two to the boundary, which is the you know, slot receiver to the short side of the field, and the linebacker carries him right to safety help and so his inside leverage is cut off, his over the top leverage is cut off. There's only a small box on the back shoulder, and Tuus throws this line drive to him and Watle makes a great catch off the frame and a great adjustment for that grab on third and nine, but we get hit for

an illegal shift even though everybody was set. It might not have been a full second, but Tyreek was like kind of nonchalant, not getting set. So you know, Tyreek had some plays this game he probably wants back. Two was next throw was a dot and another example of what makes him great. Man two men route combo repressing the safety. You know that means basically running full speed to hold them with Wattle running a deep over behind that.

And two was reading that safety that Tyreek is trying to, you know, conflict with his speed off the line, and two as sees that safe to take one step forward and immediately the hand separate. Just quick decision making. But even still, it's a tight window throw and he feathers that thing thirty yards down the field and Tyreek's the only guy in the league Probate gets that football, but he didn't hang on like it hit his hands catch the ball. So we're on our third possession and I

have four big time throws from your quarterback. Like, think about if you hit those how the game changes, How the flow of the game changes, how the narrative changes. These small details, Man, these small fine details that sometimes aren't even a player's fault, wind up creating these big narrators where Kyle Brant goes on Good Morning Football and ni Kelly Green Eagles. Jerseyn tells you about how the Dolphins are frauds for the fourteenth straight week, Like it sucks,

but that's what it is. That's why no one in this building cares about that stuff because we just it just doesn't matter. Like my goodness. That's a different topic though. Remember that deep corner to Wattle where it looked like he lost it in the roof for the lights. This is the biggest miss I thought two ahead on the entire day. Julian Hill comes across the flow on a little old school Randy McMichael tight end leak like fake the block, go to the ground, get up and run

to the other side of the formation. When Tua hits the top of his drop, Hill is the only player to that side of the field, and with Wattle running the corner full speed out of the play, he would have taken that cornerback twenty yards downfield. Hill would have had at least twenty yards before he even sees his first red jersey. I liked the ball, It gave Waddle a chance, but this play should have been an explosive

one way or the other. Julian Hill would have been a guarantee because it was high percentage and he was naked man. I liked the way Tua started reading out the plays and then getting it to checkdowns. On the first touchdown driving that second half, the first two plays go eleven yards to Hefe and then seven to Durham, where the receivers just ran the coverage off down field. Good pass pro to have flips it out on the upfield shoulder to maximize run after the catch. Then we

get a critical third and short. They send six two of fines. Durham hot move the chains. We're humming right now, getting the offense for a flow going now. I'm not sure if he could have gotten to this because of the drop pressure and timing, but Waddell uncovered deep on that Durham play. They showed it on the broadcast as well. I know you guys know what I'm talking about. And it just brings up a consistent thing. I've noticed that we don't try these verticals to anybody besides Tyreek, Like

we don't even consider them. I thought we had some chances to hit you know that one in this game and other games, but we don't take them. And sure enough the next day and plays the touchdowns Hedrick Wilson. I'm going chronologically here, and you know, something we can build off here because I think we talked about this in the big play segment that you know, his ability to you know, poster aize a cornerback like that, you can use that. And I thought two was playing really

well up to this point of the game. And then the first play after the turnover, after a hole, two A slides and takes a sack when he had Tyreek alone on a broken play right in his line of sight. I don't know why he did that. I hate the decision. So we're stacking some you know, mental errors here of the quarterback position. Among the good throws we talked about before the Raheem touchdown, Reek is open on that classic dig route and the ball was not out in front

on the face mask like it usually is. It does hit Tyreek in the hands, and I'm calling it a drop, but it's just not the usual sharp tool we're used to. And then the penultimate drive, good back to back shots to Tyreek on third down to move the sticks, timing anticipation to the perimeter. Then a good rail route to Wattle who goes up and makes a catch. You know, in the air with a little no look action from Tua, and we're thinking, right here, we're gonna go tie that

game up. We're gonna get this, you know, game into overtime. Er go win it with two points here. And I have to nitpick a little bit here because on the third down M plus territory, which is the same the very next series. On that drive, Tyreek had his best

release of the game. He gets inside of a cornerback in the slot and he makes the catch for a first down, but the balls on the back shoulder and the dB was in full sprint, so who knows what happens, But I'd love to see that play play out in the simulation where the ball is the usual accuracy of two. It just slightly off on a few of these throws that I thought maybe maybe cost him the sack. After the Savon loss, which is a perfectly called coverage within

the blitz, they ran tip your Captain on that. Then the miscommunication on third down and the failed shotgun snaplay just a brutal way to end it. We covered it already, I think if we finished that drive. This tape is looked back on fondly as a good performance against a tough defense and you know, beating an MVP of the league instead, two plays and it causes all kinds of consternation.

Not his best game, not his worst game, but again two key plays that will be highlighted by the folks that don't bother to comb through the other fifty six. It is what it is. When he was blitzed eight for eleven for sixty six, when he was pressured two for seven for eleven, that's gone way down this year. Last year under pressure he was like top righted quarterback in the NFL. Has we haven't been as good under

pressure this year? And then twenty plus air yard throws one for three for thirty one in the touchdown and then ten plus yard throws six for fifteen one on nine and one touchdown. Let's go through the eligibles in the line here real quick for our last break. Raheem's vision comes and goes to me, and the first run of the game, he has a chance to just slam it up inside for a positive run, but he stretches it out for a negative. But maybe that's the way it's. Coach.

I can't be certain, but there's times where I think you can read the block of like alec Ingold and just say there's nothing out there. He's inside the forced defender, so let me just go ahead and run off his butt right here and get inside for you know, two or three yards opposed to no gain. I wish we had more bang in the bounce bang bend equation. You guys know what that means on outside zone runs. The bounce is to go wide, ben bang is to hit it up in the gap, and bend it is to

go back the other direction. But he did have great conviction and burst on the touchdown run and the two runs in the final drive. He did have another fumble. It's too much in ball security issues, had one arm around it in traffic. That's a teachable moment for Raheem Moster. Those two runs at the end though, were just awesome. Where he's If he runs like that, man, we are

so tough to stop. But it's interesting in this offense has number one, number two and drops and Tyreek and Waddell number one fumble and the little top offense in the NFL, Like, man, just get that stuff sorted out right. Three misstackles forced average four point one seven yards after contact. Hefe you know it's probably not a first down with that drop on the angle route. Like we just made these mistakes all game long. Man, I thought him and

Akmed struggled to get going a little bit slow. Looked like Chase Claypool had a really rough tape, miss blocks all over the field. His routes were not convincing. I don't know what's there going forward. We'll see alec Ingo, I thought he missed a handful of key blocks. A Tyreek end of round could have been an explosive if he held his block. He did have the big block in the touchdown run though, and some other good works.

So kind of mixed bag for alec. I thought Waddle was the best player on offense outside of Toron Armstead. He made some tough catches, gutted it out when he wasn't feeling right. Clearly, this whole year really in this game, but this year in general reminds me of twenty twenty one more than twenty twenty two, where I feel like there's a lot of meat on the bone for Gielen Waddle and we're not getting it to him. It'll happen eventually. I'm just ready for it to happen, Like now, two

yards per route, ran seven yards per target. Not the usual high production we see from him, Tyreek. You know, look, this is the best non quarterback in football, right. But we can also talk about the plays we didn't make because the fumble. I have a hard time saying that he should have done better there because I don't think he even had a control of it, and if he did it probably a forid. Progress has stopped. I don't know.

It's a weird one to call, but he's the one on the play that changed the game, right if that play hasn't happened, I think Miami wins this game pretty cut and dry. But the ball off his fingertips to drive earlier. Sometimes you have to be perfect to get completions in this league, and against the defense and the way they are playing, that's what the day called for. At this stage of the game, two has hit three really difficult throws. One is negated by an illegal shift.

The other two were chunk gains. This could have been a fourth, but we cannot complete the catch. Instead of first and ten at the plus thirty, it's third and ten at your minus forty and we kick it away one play later. He was the one Tad win the illegal shift man so that and has dropped. That's two drives he's killed out of three. And then the fumble

had a big drop in that Philly game. Your best players are not impervious to bad moments, and we've learned that these last two games later he dropped that dig pass as well, dig throw. Just want more from my best player in games like this. Man that's all six point one yards per target one point seven nine yards per route ran. Those are both the lowest for him this year across those metrixs Durham Smyth talked about him. Just appreciative of the player that he's becoming this offense.

I didn't necessarily love his tape before in previous offenses and even last year, but I think that this year he's been really good on the offensive line. They just consistently beat our angles in the running game. It's that simple. We often execute these difficult reach blocks that makes us run game hum. But they consistently played the upfield, shoulder reset, the lion of scrimmage and worked and worked and worked

to stay free. And by the time we had a semblance of the corner, we were out of real estate. Running wide to the perimeter, but I thought the pass pro was really good for the most part. The pressures were more good blitz calls with effective games that either got home or pushed to off his spot. But we really negated them in the first half with all the movement and misdirection. They slide protection to t set a lot of the time, and he handles it like he

always does. I continue to be very impressed by Austin. I think we missed a critical block on the shovel to Savon Achmed that cost us not just a first down on third and twenty, but a forty seven yard touchdown if Rob Jones just gets over there and makes that play. I thought Connor Williams looked like we're used to seeing him in terms of, you know, getting out in space and making key blocks in those big runs.

You know, Austin they ran an end around that. There was one play where Austin Jackson they ran an end around in the third quarter going away from Austin, like off of Tehron's side of the formation, and Austin just takes off up the field and he runs all the way across the field and hits a block in space on the other side of the field. I'm not sure I've seen a tackle run faster than that. I thought

he was good enough in pass Pro. The holding call that he was flagged for, though, was mind numbingly stupid, Like he was chasing a defensive line from the back and he put his hands over his shoulders. A la Zerk sees on King Leonidas in three hundred, you know, like we will fight in the shade them hands on the shoulders and spins him. I'm not sure what he was doing. Their easiest call the rest made all day,

you know, Lester Cotton. I thought there was issue on the interior connectivity in terms of passing off games in the pass rush department, and some of those blitz calls got us. There were some plays where he fell off blocks in the running game, so it was kind of like up and down for him. But I think he'll be He's played better than I thought he would when we lost Isaiah Wins. I'm encouraged about him playing that

left guard spot. When Rob Hunt gets back, four pressures on him, a sack at hit in two hurries and then yeah and then Rob Jones. You know again, if he catches a fiber a fiber of drew Tranquil's jersey on that savon shovel. It's a forty seven yard touchdown. Julian Hill wipes out the only defenders with a possible angle on him down the field. It's a walk in touchdown, man, damn it. The more I got into this tape, the

more that position was an issue. We just weren't as good in the interior because I think, you know, backup guards against a good defensive front, and I want to start doing this on this show. Why we lost Why we won? Category? To me, it's all on the offense and it falls into this category. We lost because we allowed the KCDB to dictate the play in the first half against our receivers. We lost because we made critical

errors drops pounties and the big moments. We lost because we couldn't sustain blocks on the edge and got behind the chains too frequently. And we lost because our quarterback made two bad plays at the end of the game. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there. Come back on the other side. Doe Defensive Notes and snap counts. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Defensive Notes Staulphin's fourteen

Chieps twenty one. Guys, I think the defense is about to take off and maybe even become better than the offenses. What a good tape this was. And the first thing that jumps out to me is that Ramsey played almost an entirely different role this week than last week. So last week he tilted the field right, lots of ten on ten press up. I got this side of the field. I got this guy. Don't worry about it. Flood the other side and make life hell for the quarterback unless

he wants to test me one on one. Good luck with that. He tried it once and paid dearly. Here he played a lot more off, a lot more zone combination coverages where he just kind of looks to be in full force in terms of connectivity and communication and passing things off. The way that he steps back in processes the passing game, it's like watching a top quarterback do his thing on the other side of the ball. It's fun to watch. Speaking of that, you're seeing them

get the different coverages from different personnel groupings. You know, their base, their nickel, their dime, their different front and rush concepts, and eventually just running everything off vertically to an end and even Mahomes can't get the ball down there. To those guys watching this defense players, that reminds me of the offense when Tua came back for Pittsburgh last year, where a little bit rusty after the you know, the

concussion that made miss a couple of games there. But after having those first few games in hand against New England, Baltimore, Buffalo, missing three games than Pittsburgh in a rusty game, he then went scorched earth against Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Houston. Right.

I think the defense could be in for a similar track here, especially in the next five games against a rookie quarterback, against a backup quarterback that shouldn't even be in the league in my opinion, a quarterback in Sam Hall who's a second year starter, a rookie, and Will Lewis then back to that backup quarterback we probably shouldn't be in the league. Like it could be a dominant five game run for them. We had one bust all game long that Jerrick McKinnon touchdown. Three guys went with

Travis Kelce. They left McKinnon alone. They hit some good plays in that first drive, and then that was pretty much it and you know, of course the hit the Rashi rice was such a critical play in the game. Outside of that, just an utterly dominant showing with a dolphin defense. I'm not sure there's a trio of edges

I would take over Phillips, Chubb, and Gink. We talked about the first two already in our top five tapes as it goes to Tron Armstead on offense, and then Chubb and Phillips get top tapes with x and Ramsey riding out the other five. Andrew Van Ginkle the way that he beats polers, whether it's a guard coming across or a split flow tight end, he sets them up like a little hesitation step and then goes arm over or swim and just swipes him out of the way.

He gets around him so frequently, and that messes up so much in the run game and play action game.

His effort to man if there's a play where Casey was backed up and both Raykwan, it's either fan out and kind of widen the center and it opens up the middle for a one on one with Baker and Pacheco and Gink like off the Edge sees this and peels back and Biggs kind of getting ran over a little bit, and Gink goes in there and just puts a big stick on the running back and shuts down any more forward progress for like a three yard gain.

Christian Wilkins his ability to hold the point and win with the three technique but then also kick out to the five technique and give somebody like Orlando Brown Junior issues as a straight up pass rusher. What a value to have This guy man, plus his one gap penetration has been on fire this year. That big TfL was massive. I thought Rake one Davids had one of his best games as a Dolphin. He consistently shot the hands and the chest plates of the guards and centers and controlled

like big chunks of reps in this game. That's not been the case for him in his career. Zach Steeler such a critical part of what we do from a rush perspective. He had four more pressures, the key force fumble recovery just made life hell inside for sixty minutes, like he always does. At the second level. Off ball linebackers, David Long is freaking good. I told you so. I

told you so, guys. What a wrecking ball like he I love watching him play just a bowl in a China shop, full speed, hitting everybody in sight like a Tasmanian devil man. I've not seen a Dolphins off ball linebacker who hammers big guards like and stops them in their tracks and prevents any climbing the way that he does in a long time, probably like maybe like Kevin Burnett, I don't know, maybe further back than that, I don't know. Zach Thomas didn't do that that well. The way that

he side steps you know, backs with quickness. I think because of the threat of the ability to run them over, he can get around them when he blitzes Mahomes how he scramble out of bounds for minimal yards were long. He just hits this little hesitation step juke move on the running back and runs right around him. I'm not sure how many guys can do that either, especially when they pair it with the physicality that David Long displays. So the secondary man, this is what I thought we

had coming into the year. Like my goodness, the way that Javon X to Sean and Jalen flow together, it's a thing of beauty back there. They carry their verticals into help they pass off they transition back down the field to climb down the stem. It's just fun to watch and then cater it allows him to go be a Greml person inside, blitzing, disrupting fit in the run, playing trail technique and coverage. This is only going to get better if you ask me. I put down notes here.

I mentioned X in his feel for the rhythm and what he's asked to do. I thought he processed exceptionally well from the off position. I thought he clicked and closed to match, tackled well gotten phase. I think a less disciplined quarterback would have given him some pick opportunities.

He didn't get grabby. He absorbed the push off. There was a route where Justin Watson tried to run a little stick back down the stem and he tried to expand X by pressing his toes and X because you could help him because of what you have from Ramsey on the other side. Just squatted and drove, made a great play on the football, didn't get grabby. Twenty twenty

version of X looks like he may be here. And then Deshaun Elliott, the way he inserts versus the run, the physicality he plays, he puts his all into every hit and I just really appreciate that from him. Let's go ahead and finish up here some snapcounts. We'll get out of here. We have some fun bye week content coming you guys's way. Jt O. Sullivan will join me

for the podcast later in the week. Channing Crowder as well will also do a review of the offense and defense and kind of do two separate episodes on that. So plenty of content coming away over the next week here on the Draft Time podcast. Snap counts. So for Lineman with the distance, we know that Rob Jones got hurt, and so Liam Eichenberg played fourteen snaps. Tua plays every snap. Obviously, Tyreek a big expansion this week. Ninety percent of the workload.

Wadalo took the injury, so he winds up playing just fifty four percent. Actually got out snapped by Cedric Wilson. I think that's kind of where you point to for some of the issues there as well, even though I thought said played well in some positions, but there's just no re placing Julian Wattle on this offense. Barrios twenty seven percent, Claypool twenty two percent. You know, Barrios had a really tough time getting off press coverage all game long. That was a tough game for him. And then at

tight end, Smyth played eighty four percent. Julian Hill played just seven snaps in the game total. That's a big departure. Therefore, we used to Raheem got fifty six percent of the running back workload. And this is where I think, you know, Devon a Chan who should be back next game. This is where you can kind of cut into these reps. Here. Savon played nineteen snaps and Jeff Wilson played eleven steps. That's thirty snaps among those two guys that I imagine

have to go to the rookie in the future. On defense man, five guys played the distance. Holland Baker, Ramsey, Elliott, and Howard Christian played all but three snaps in the game. Stealer played all but four snaps just monsters. Phillips played all but nine snaps in the game. Chubb played all but eleven snaps. Like they didn't really change much. You had eleven stars out there and you played them most

of the game. Pretty much. Your sub package came in there, and we saw Coho played sixty five percent that's brighton line with your nickel percentage. David Long played seventy seven percent of the snaps. Van Ginkle gave you forty five percent, and then look at these drop offs like forty five percent, Rayquon forty two percent, Nick Needham six snaps, Deshan Hand four snaps. Like they know who they want to play out there, They've got them. We'll see if they can

stay healthy. Hopefully they can, because this defense looks like it's ready, but a little bit concerning to me there that they don't have the depth to really rely on there in those big spots. Hopefully they can find a way to develop that down the line here at the end of the year. That's the time for the podcast, though you all please be sure to subscribe, rate, review all that fun stuff we talk about here every single conclusion on the show. Go ahead and follow me on

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