Drive Time: Dolphins Colts Week 7 All 22 Review

break it down as we do every single Monday. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. Bye daffirs. I apologize sincerely for the voice. My voice has been out of commission since about Thursday and then Sunday night about halftime the Jets game, the congestion came in, the sore throats start to come in, started to come on. So I am not doing well. Watching that tape today was not any easier. I think we got Can you go to

Disney World and not get sick? Like there's no way you don't catch one of those little booger picking kids's germs, right, Like, I think I've adapted to all of the diseases that my kids bring home from daycare, and the immune system has built us up up for that. But I don't think Walt Disney, we haven't reached that far yet in terms of our immune system. So I'm gonna struggle through

this podcast. I appreciate you guys staying with me that made it this far, especially with this content we're gonna do today. But we're gonna talk about this offense, and I'm gonna give you a glimmer of hope. I know that's that's what you get paid to do by the organization. It is not. And that's an automatic block on Twitter, by the way, because I don't want to hear that nonsense. You hear this podcast all the time, and you hear me tell you what's wrong with this team all the time.

So I will not be hearing any of that. But I will tell you that I watched this tape and real quick before the information comes in, Tua had his press conference. I thought it was a little bit brazen. I thought it was a little bit conflicting to what Mike McDaniel said at his press conference, But nonetheless, we are going to probably see Tua on Sunday. In fact, I'd be shocked if he's not out there against the Cardinals. And I want to tell you why I think that

this offense can get back on track. I think the biggest positive you can take away as we dive into this Colts tape, the biggest positive you can take away from this difficult stretch of games. And look, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that you have to feel good about anything. I just want to make that clear. They have played really poor football through six weeks on the offensive side of the football, and there's nothing you

can do to change that. You can correct it going forward, but it's been a very bad product for the first six game. Really. I mean, they did throw for over three hund yards again Jacksonville, and they got two explosive plays and they won the game, and it was ugly for two and a half quarters. So I won't couple that game in with the rest of them, because the rest of them have been a far cry from that

game even but it's been a bad product. I just want to tell you that you're within your rights to be upset and not want to hear any of this, But if you come to this show, I imagine you're searching for the nuance that I try to provide. And I'm gonna tell you the good and the bad, and what I saw on tape right and what I saw developed from this stretch is a much wider variety of run scheme from this offense and some really good execution doing it. And we'll get into this as we go along.

But damn it, man, what I'm seeing on tape, with the way that Tua reads out the middle of the field and some of the stuff that's there as a result, I mean, my goodness, man, we are consistently getting flat footed linebackers and wide open end breakers against outside leverage cornerbacks with the hook zone, that intermediate part of the field completely vacated because of the attention of the run game is getting Go back to the Chargers game last year,

all of those throws where Tyreek catches it off the end break and races across the field before the split field safety can find can fly him down and get him down for you know, fifteen more yards after the catch on a twenty yard air throw, it's pitching catch thirty thirty five yard completions. Those are those are there on tape with what we've influenced defenses with this run game. And I'm curious when he comes back because teams will know we have that. Now we have a quarterback that

can see the field. Now, I wonder how much more of the run game might even open up with Tua in the lineup, Like maybe it is another thirty rushing attempt game, because I don't I don't think the Cardinals can stop our running game. But let's let's go ahead and get back to that later in the week. The Dolphins are executing better on outside zone than they were early in the year. They're mixing in enough inside zone and duo to keep teams hon us that way. But man,

their gap scheme is really really good. They are getting downhill drive. They are displacing teams vertically on the opening. For instance, they run this pin and pole concept, which is essentially, you block back against the grain of the run and you pin a lineman and you pull the offensive lineman that's head up over that defensive lineman. You pin him with one guy and you pull the head up offensive lineman to the strong side of the formation,

and they're hitting these blocks with conviction. On the first one I saw, Austin sends a man two gaps over and Brewer turns and seals a man, which, by the way, how good has he been at doing that all year long? And Teestead widens his man and creates a huge gap. And Liam doesn't have his best rep but he does enough to get up to that second level and wall off a linebacker and Raheem rips it for ten yards.

We just got this displacement all day long and drove the point of attack two to three yards off the football, and a lot of the time that was just power football, not the And I hate the term smoking mirrors on outside zone because that is not what outside zone is. It's a well crafted running scheme that works in this league, but sometimes you want to just go north and south, and they can do that now. I think it's a

strength of their game at this point. Now we have to prove that we will not continue to outsmart ourselves and go away from what works and throw in wrinkles that have proven fatal at seemingly the most inopportune times all year long. But I do think the forced adaptation of this run scheme could provide major dividends for this offense going forward. I think, you know, two and four is probably probably just barely too deep of a hole. We'll see. I mean, you know Buffalo is gonna beat us, right,

I mean they always do. But beyond that, the next four of the next five games are against teams I think the Dolphins are significantly better than. And then you get the Packers on a Thanksgiving Day game, which will be very tough. But then you get two against the Jets in a game against the Browns. I think Miami's better than those teams. And then you have Houston and San Francisco, which the Niners are reeling right now and just lost Ayuk for the year, and the Texans CJ.

Stroud through for thirty or for eighty six yards on Sunday. So think those will all be wins. But you can see the path, you can see where if this offense gets even remotely close to last year with the way this defense is playing, and I think they can because of the running game and what they've done and how the offensive line has geled and come together, I think there's opportunity there. We'll see. We don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. But let me tell you

about some of the misses here in a second. Excuse me struggling big time in a second in the passing game that I think Tua comes in and corrects just from the fact that he's too a tongue of bi Lowa first before that. I don't think you can blame Reek and Waddle for their production on Sunday because they know the ball's not coming. It's just not you can see it. And how they play the first Malik Washington dumped down on the crosser. Wattle never gets into more

of a jog because the ball's not going there. When they're wide open, the ball's not going there. We had a first down run on the second drive after they got hit with that neutral zone fraction to move the chains and Tyreek just jogs right past the cornerback then realizes I could block that guy and runs back and by the time he gets him, the corner is making the tackle. Now, I don't want to say the effort wasn't good all day, because there were plays in the

fourth quarter. We're both Reak and Waddle. We're hitting big blocks for this offense. But there are some instances where they kind of maybe take a snap off. And I can't say that I blame them. I really can't. It's I mean I can because it's your job and go be a pro. Like Travis doing his podcast when he's feeling crappy. I'm not comparing myself to football players. I am a giant p word compared to any of those guys, and probably compared to most human beings. That's a foul word,

by the way, a woosie if you will. But you can just see the impact of the running game on this passing game, and that's his one on one as it gets, you know. Aaron Rodgers was asked by the way and five, we just get a quarterback that can play average footballs is gonna carry Yester Division title? They're two and vice. They suck, dude. Aaron Rodgers was asked about what the issues on offense are and he mentioned their inability to run the football and how that's impacted

their ability to go play action. So the drive after our first touchdown, our only touchdown because we're a one touchdown per game operation, we are backed up on a third down and we fake this toss to a chan and you see the mic backer crash with like six false steps. I'm not exaggerating. He takes six false steps in the wrong direction and John who runs this little glance route and behind that and it's this easy rip

for a chunk gain. And we had like four of those plays in the game and we missed like twelve others. By the way, I don't use PFF stats in here anymore, because like Tyler Hunty was the fifth highest GRADO player on the offense. What what okay? Oh? That hurt my throat so bad. You can't kill the personality. Not even influenza can do that. But just the this run game, the variety and success of it, has opened more doors for easy throws to alleviate the pressure on your quarterback.

And we talked about this in the offseason, and Kyle Krabs has mentioned a few times here how it's the job of the coaching staff is to create stress free throws for your quarterback so that when he comes time for those big plays that he has to make, it's he doesn't feel bogged down by the weight of the game. And for Tua, especially a guy that presses like nobody else,

like that's a that's a big deal. I think and so I think when you start hitting those passes that Huntley did hit because you literally can't miss him did miss a few of them. With the ground game and with what Tua does from his antisia patron standpoint, I think it's going to open up some major splash play opportunities like the alec Ingold wheel route for instance, or those John wh Smith chunk plays in the middle of the field. Those are wide open because of what you've

created in the running game. Now, I simply cannot understand. We'll come right back to the core, but I'm going in order of the game with how I wrote things down. I simply cannot understand the alec Ingold play, Like the design didn't fumble the ball, But what the hell was that outside zone with dive action inside. I don't know how Aaron Brewer is supposed to block that because he has to sell the outside zone action to get the

overplay that you want. So he has to cross face of that one tech, and the one tech just says, okay, well, if you're gonna seal me here, I'm gonna hang out, and he back doors the play on and hits alec in the backfield. It's an easy play for him. I just hated that entire setup, from from everything considered by from the design, from the fact that Right was ripping them and Right played six snaps in the game. I think he's the best running back on the damn team.

I really do like and I love Raheem and h and I really do so that was that was frustrating the quarterback position. Look, I'm done, pull the plug. Seriously, like we we only see Huntley or Boil again if two it gets hurt this year, right, and if that happens, then we don't need any more. You know, It's just put the season into the freaking furner. But it's it's awful, Like mechanically processing placement. Nothing is done well. And it's the reason for everything I've seen the takes on Twitter.

And this could come back to bite me later in the week when if we don't play well on Sunday. But I think that everything in this offense is directly traced back to the quarterback. And you can point back to the end of last year. You can point back to the Jacksonville and Buffalo games. You can do all that.

But I'm telling you right now what I'm watching on tape is much more akin to the stretch of games last year to open the season, or the Panthers game and Giants game, the Commander's game and the Jets game and the Jets game. Like I think it's it looks a lot more like that on tape right now than what it did down the stretch last year or in Week one when our running game didn't really know what

it was doing quite yet. So there are other issues I'm not in any way, shape or form excusing pre snap issues or the occasional protection breakdown, or you know, the receiver death being a serious issue, or the tight end position besides John who not playing well at all. And I think all of this was overcome. That's not a word. And you could have had it in this game and the Titans game in your four and two, and I would even add the Seattle game in there

too that if you had average quarterback play. Now I sound like Joey freaking Jets. If you have average quarterback play in those games, I think you're on the same spot you were in last year at five and one. Again, Yes we commit too many fouls, too many pre snap alignment issues. Yes we had crippling turnovers. We cannot pass the football reak and Waddle had nineteen yards and we were driving for the win. Just by all of that. What does that tell you, Well, the tape told me

it's the quarterback again. Yes, other issues, as every single team has in this league. But if we had Tua and his top ten skill set, talk to a wall if you disagree with that, because it's been proven for the last three years, this quarterback is one of the best in the league. He just can't stay healthy, right that's the knocks, that's the downside there. But if we had that, I nobody is firing off forty two tweets

about how much of a disgrace this organization is. If you want to get mad, get mad about not having a better planet backup quarterback, fair game. I still think it should have been Mike White all along. Does that change any of these outcomes? Maybe? And maybe all you needed was one outcome to change, you know, I might say yesterday. So it's not you know, some world beat or change. But that's the long and the short of it.

You are playing NFL games without NFL quarterback play, and that's why you're scoring eleven point six points per game right now, it's not any harder than that. And hell, let's call two's production one and a half games this year because he got hurt in the third quarter of the second game and called the other four and a half games to the other quarterbacks. That's six quarters for TUA and has not been good. But it was thirty points of our collective seventy. That's twenty points per game.

Do you want to know what it is in the forty points and four and a half games the other quarterbacks? It's eight point eight points per game, Like, what do we expect? Eight point freaking eight. It's a miracle. We won one. And if we're being honest here, I am going over the plays and I don't want to break

them down. I really don't like the first drawback of the game where Tyreek uncovers and you see Huntley start his throwing motion and second guess it, and just as he pulls it down, Tyreek runs neo a patch of grass twenty yards down the field, right over the football on a dig slant or a dig sale combination that is against perfect leverage with a proper, proper key that the linebacker falsely takes and pulls himself out of the

hook zone and it's there's no Colts defender. He goes to throw at second, guesses himself, tucks the ball and runs away and runs into a negative play. I mean, we start hitting those, we won't just win these games. We'll go back to bowling these teams out. That's how it's gonna be. I'm probably going to predict a blow out for the Cardinals game because I'm watching this tape and the passing offense has every opportunity to throw for three hundred yards. All right, I'm not gonna do any

more quarterback plays, I promise. I'm not gonna talk about the second down sack before the John new Smith play where Wattle runs this jerk route against inside leverage where the cornerback is literally getting posted up and Wattle pushes into him to get him on his heels, which means he cannot explode out of that stance out of the inside leverage, and Huntley is aligned, which he usually is not.

This is a downside of his game. His mechanics and processing does not put himself in alignment in concert to throw the ball to the Reeds on time, but this time he is. He just doesn't throw the ball it's a crippling fear to me that he's gonna get picked six by leaving the ball too far inside. But you have to throw that. I'm not gonna talk about that.

I'm not going to talk about the third nine play at the minus forty four yard line with twelve minutes to go in the second quarter, when the Colts walked up seven, only sent four and had to dig the tyreek wide open or the spot to waddle wide open, both beyond the sticks for a first down with a perfectly executed protection scheme and a clean pocket to step up into and drive the football. Instead, we bail and scramble for a game of two. I'm not gonna talk

about that. I was mad about the call on the throw to Beckham at the end of the first half, but he's wide open if Huntley is on time. In fact, I think he scores. Go watch it again. The ball is two or three steps late, and a player like Kenny Moore, you can't give him two or three more steps.

He makes that play every time. I'm not going to talk about the third and twelve on the drive after the Raheem Moster at fumble where Odell Beckham is running a post between two split safeties and no one's getting vertical with him, and Snoop has a clean pocket and bells again, I'm not gonna talk about it. Gosh. I thought his one really good throw was the deep shot to Tyreek. You saw the Colts giving respect to John Whu over anybody else. They capped him, which means they

double teamed him. They had a press press corner and a safety that was over the top of the corner, which typically indicates blitz, but they didn't blitz. And the it was a linebacker on a cornerback. They kept two guys on him, and I gave Tyrek a one on one slot fade, which is like if that if Tyreek or Wallall gets a slot fade against one on one coverage no safety help, it's got to be a touchdown every single time. Last year it was twenty twenty two.

It was he runs right past Kennymore, he stacks him, and then it just kind of stops like a Dennis Reynolds film Penetration Crime, Penetration Crime, and then it just kind of stops and the ball lands right in front of him. Brutal everybody in the sideline too. I love watching the film, because you get like this wide pan shot of reactions. Everybody has their palms to Jesus, like,

what the hell was that? I did think Tyler showed a real comfort with some of the built in play action concepts, like when they would stack Reek with John Hu and Reek takes the first release and gets the double coverage attention and with the outside release and widens that premier cornerback and backs the safety way off. Then you throw the glance to John Hu Smith between the

safeties that you've widened in that position. He's good when it's like predetermined and built in like that, But I just felt like we left so many timing and anticipation throws out there again. And I get that it can be tough to get worked into an offense within a month of being here, I really do, but it's where we are struggling to get things going. Those chunk play sustained drives. It changes the way defenses play you and

obviously produces many more points. Our passing game is just really lacking, and that's why you're seeing the results you're getting. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there, come back and do the rest of the offensive standouts

and the defensive tape. Next in the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AU donation segment to Colts tape review, taking a look at the individuals stand out to an offensive perspective, and I know this is not an individual, but the offensive line continues, Despy. You know some individual losses that you'll get every single game sporadically, but in terms of playing as a cohesive unit and creating lanes and doing plenty of good pass

protection work. I come away from the game yet again impressed by this offensive line. Man. And we covered the nature of the scheme earlier, but man, the chip screen for six to John hus Smith, the Colts have two defenders of the goal line and knew is catching the ball at the eleven yard line. But here comes Toront Armstead and Aaron Brewer leading the charge, squaring up blocks in the open field and escorting him right in for six.

It was so impressive and I'm not sure if anybody saw this, but Warren Sharp tweeted a clip of Josh Allen Hines trying to make a play on Ramandre Stevenson in the Patriots and Jags game and questioned his effort, and Ryan Fitzpatrick replied to it, saying, I love your stuff most of the time, but you have no idea how hard it is to tackle those guys in space like that. And I'm thinking about that as I watched these two three hundred pound athletes square up linebackers who

were ten yards away from them in open space. It is so impressive. And so Brewer and Tea Stead have been like Pro Bowl good this year. They really have. Those have been the two best tapes on offense all year from Miami. For my money, Brewer has probably been the best. His ability to fire out of his stance and catch that one shade. It's a player playing off of his outside shoulder that he has to get wide of and then work his feet back underneath him because

you kin't have to reach into that block. It's literally called a reach block, and then not just seal it, but seal it and then drive him back the other direction like out of gaps. It's some of the best center play I've ever seen in this organization. And I've been watching a film since two thousand and eight. Shout

out Samson Stelli. I thought I was done with the blurb and then I'm watching him fire off the snap again, get to linebacker, square it up, knock the backer back three steps on his initial punch, and then go get him again, like put him on the ground and carry the block and t bag him. Quite frankly, he t bagged his face mask at the end of it. Like that's how you ultimately disrespect somebody's offensive lineman, and Brewer

does it all the time. Then Tea stead the way he attaches on blocks, whether he's working down on hill to the second level or getting width to the perimeter, it's Hall of Fame caliber every single week. There's there's a reason this guy is so good, and teams going back to the Saints have been willing to basically take a thirteen game player and sacrifice the other three or four games because he's that freaking good. I thought Liam had another really good game. He dominated his match up

against Raikwon Davis, which is awesome to see. I don't think it was the best game of the year for Austin or rob but it wasn't bad. I feel like the floor of the offensive line has really really been high the last couple of weeks. John U. Smith Man, his balance and strength are so good, and I think you're starting to see him really understand the relationship of timing and his routes and the quarterbacks footwork for how to maximize the windows, like when to throttle down or

speed up to hit those windows. I'm pretty excited about what's to come for him in this offense with you know, capable quarterback play a chan. I thought he was hitting it faster than he had in some previous games, getting getting outside I'm still good on the inside runs with him, but finding those small creases and hitting him with conviction. I thought he was fun to watch, especially running towards daylight.

And then Jalen right, man, it's crazy. In a backfield full of track speed, nobody goes zero to sixty from pre snap to getting the ball faster than he does, and he makes decisions without really slowing down that big run there was nothing there, but he presses this small crease, hits it with conviction, and keeps his feet under his hips and accelerates out of it for an explosive run. Got me feeling nicy who special talent man some individual

misses the quarterback. This was Skyler Thompson's Week three game. Bad I don't know what the hell PFF saw and Boyle, what the hell are those feet? Boil? Are there boils on the feet? You know? Rob Jones had more good blocks than we saw early in the year, but I thought he slipped off a few too many. He was up and down. I thought the same for Austin Jackson. He gets like ten reps a game where it's like whoa, that is really really good and even in a bad game,

he's not getting like blown up. There's just a couple of blocks he didn't attach to Alec The fumble was atrocious, like there was a game changing play in the game, but he just missed like a lot of cut blocks that he usually hits. I thought he was not his best in this game. Julian Hill a drop and another penalty.

I kind of feel like you need an Adam Gay's twenty sixteen style reckoning here, Like I'm the last person to call for jobs right, Like I feel like you need to send a shot across the bow a little bit, like maybe call up Hayden Roucci and demote Julian for the consistent errors that are kind of mental mistakes. And Braxon's out for the going to be out for the year. I think with an ACL I think was the report

he was put on IRS. That's not official, but U the injury takes care of that demotion because he didn't have a catch in six games. Penalize the guys to fumble the football, you know, take him out for a couple of series. I think you need to send some more kind of messaging that poor plays have consequences, and I feel like your best option for that is eighty nine, which is going to go down as an all time missing camp for me. With the way things are going.

I remember talking to Kyle Krabs about how nobody changed our minds about a player in training camp more than Julian Hill did. And it's just been bad for pop ball for six games now, six penalties this year and two drops on seven targets. That's killing you. I thought both Reek and Waddle had some misses in the blocking game, but again I kind of get it. Snap counts the offensive line goes the distance Boil twenty three, Huntly forty six. Reac and Waddle played their highest snapcounts of the year

sixty two and fifty nine. Maybe its because they didn't running them in deep routes. I don't know. The next receiver was Malik at twenty five, Obj at eleven. Hopefully we see Obj get back into the fold here. More and more as we go along. The tight ends went Julian thirty six, John New thirty four, you know, and Durham seventeen. Durham's holding call was a horrible call watching on tape that was that should not have been thrown on that play and it was really a shame because

there was such good blocking across the board. The running backs went eight Chan forty, team twenty three and right six. I can't understand that. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there, come back on the other side and do the entire defense. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I don't Nation.

Dolphins defense pitches another great game and right now is in the NFL in yards allowed per game at two hundred and eighty five and they allow first downs on third downs a quarter of the time. That is tops, tops in the NFL. My voice is bottom of the NFL right now. I think this defense has two things, actually three things that really make it tick and why they are leading the league in those categories. Stealer and Campbell's versatility are one, and you saw it from the

first snap. I'm not saying they were never going to do this, but you go back to the Jacksonville game when JP and Agba were rolling at full speed and it was a lot of even fronts four down with those two and then Seiler and Campbell playing a combination of the one and three techniques. But to start this game, they open this even front and that they park Benito Jones in the nose tackle and Campbell slides out to a true four technique, which is head up over the tackle.

And this is why I think the Dolphins can sort of survive the attrition at the edge position if they keep their proper nutrition for an exhibition, because Campbell and Steeler are plus edge in addition to being e elite like top ten defensive tackles. And seriously, for my money, the best duo in the NFL this year, maybe outside of Pittsburgh with what Cam Hayward and Larry Okujobi have done.

But I'm taking our two guys. And of course we saw Seeler get wins from the five tech throughout the season. Did I say Cameron Jordan I met Cameron Hayward, most notably his pull swipe sack in Seattle. That's what happens. You have add bring you think about twenty five things at once. The next facet is the versatile nature of the cornerbacks, all three of Ramsey, Fuller and co who can play all three positions and a ligne anywhere from

those spots. And I feel like Cater has really come on the last couple of games with his feel and recognition after I said a couple weeks ago like I didn't think he could do it because he wasn't doing it, but his ability to move around has helped Ramsey and Fuller move around, especially Ramsey, and make the most of

their skill sets. I kind of hope we have these guys here for a long time, even though they are older with coach Weave, because this is like, this is really good and this is gonna work if they have those guys. Jalen blissed five times Sunday and got in for four pressures. It was the most blitzes by a defensive back this season per Next Gen Stats. We've seen him match up on tight ends. We've seen him cover the boundary X and boundary main short side of the field.

You know that if you listen to this podcast. We've seen him man up. We've seen him play the curl flat zone. We've seen him fall into the deep third, the deep half. I don't have to go over every coverage, but he does all of that. I tweeted this one hundred and sixty four coverage snaps eighty four yards allowed at second in the NFL at a half a yard per coverage snap behind just Reek Wollen in Seattle. The third element of this is the range of the off

ball linebackers. We saw it tenfold with Jordan Brooks on Sunday. I think he's finally completely comfortable in the defense. And what a scary thought that must be for opposing offense is because he was already playing at a super high level.

But I thought his reaction times on Sunday and the range getting into the vertical passing lanes, or rather getting vertical into the passing lanes was the best it's been as a Dolphin, his has been as a Dolphins linebacker since his peak Seahawks tape like he looks so good in the game on Sunday. Those are three really really good things to hang your hat on. As for the structure, more of the same. They mix things up. They kept

Richardson kind of confused. I think where some of the misfit runs come from is well, it's just that, and I noticed it on this tape. It's typically guys trying to like backdoor things to the outside. It's okay to try it now and then, although coaches will tell you otherwise,

because I'll never forget JJ Watt. It was like a month ago replying to Brett Coleman about how he used to backdoor plays from those two high looks to go make a play against bad rundown looks, and how the first time he did it in Houston, they said, great play, Never do that again. Then he did it again and made the play and they were like, hey, great play, but don't ever do that again. Then the third time he did, and they're like, okay, you can do that,

but nobody else can. To me our ability to win pass rough situations one on one and the personnel we have to go to when you don't have Seiler a Campbell on the field, you know, it's the weakness of the defense is putting those guys on the sideline and the lack of range at the safety position with Poyer really, because you know, I don't think he was to beat with Javon Hall now, I thought that Marcus Man was very good those to me, and then the run defense

and the misfits are the heels of this defense. But otherwise it's been really good. Some individual standouts here. I mentioned Brooks. His feel for those spot drops and coverage looked exactly like what I saw on Tap and Seattle and got me so fired up for him to come in here. He moves with anticipation in that position, which is incredibly difficult, and to me, it's what makes the linebackers, the great linebackers in this league really stand out from

the rest. The Fred Warners, the Roquan Smiths, those guys. Jalen Ramsey kind of already covered it, but I did not mention that he took on a two hundred and sixty pound tight end in Ogle Tree and tossed him to the ground and went made the play on Tyler Goodson and ran him out of bounds. And he probably scores in that play. Because if this tight end can wipe out a cornerback, that only five cornerbacks can defeat that block in the entire NFL. There was no one

else there. It's probably a touchdown. He just he's the man he's been as advertised Kendall Fuller. The chemistry that him and Ramsey have together is unc Like there was a play where they motioned to play across the field and rams he was kind of late to get over there, and they just switched it at the snap, And I think that that's why he kind of slow played it to confuse the coverage for Richardson, and he slow plays it and they both just pick it up in perfect unison.

He knows, you know, Fuller knows where he can give a little bit, and he like knows how to I guess, make the vulnerability of any particular coverage rep the least dangerous, if that makes sense. And I also have no idea how that DPI was calling him none whatsoever. He played

a really good game, kalay Is Campbell. I mean it is uncanny how well he's able to figure out what a play is doing before it goes like he reads his keys, plays with quickness, and when he wins there, which is most of the time, you will not stop him. Because of his length and strength. He beats you with anticipation and then overpowers you with sheer mass. Cater Coho was great again. His breakup in the first quarter is

one of the best reps I've seen from him. He tracks a three way go from the slot, which is no small task, squats at the top of the stem, and then in unison, works back down the stem with Josh Downs and breaks it up and Josh Downs has been killing people. The very next play, he runs vertical with Michael Pittman on the boundary, takeoff, staydon face the entire way and forces the incompletion. I've been so impressed with Marcus May's range and feel and how he gets

covers ground from depth. He was terrific and continuously gets himself into passing lanes. After the game, Shane Steikin said that he didn't feel like things were open for Richard Zim and that's what this entire tape showed me, with all these guys covering up things so very well on that back end. So I'm excited about the future of this defense, and I think if they keep playing at this level, even with elite quarterbacks coming up, and the offense can just get back to baseline like no reason

you can't go on a run. I think of the next five games, I will never pick us to beat Buffalo until we do it again. But today, if you had if you asked me, I would say the Cardinals, Rams, Raiders, and Patriots games are all games that you should win comfortably, even though Rams is Monday night, and even though they might get Nakuba back in time for that, you're a better football team. And all of those teams individual misses

in this game. I thought Quentin Bell consistently gave up his chest and cannot stop his feet, which just means getting pushed around Jordan Poyer, same as always. Bad angles, bad depth and coverage, bad range, bad season. But Eto just offers so little to me. He's even doesn't even really eat space. That's like all he's supposed to do when he's got ninety two and ninety three next to him and twenty behind him. Chop, I feel like he's close still, but he's still working on that functional strength

and a secondary rush move. You're getting some bad reps that are making for some bad highlights, and that makes Twitter go crazy. I get it, but it's going to slow start for him, I thought David Long jumps some gas looking for the big play and got caught a few times. The snap counts impressive list here going the distance, Brooks, May, Fuller, Poyer, and Ramsey all went the distance. We saw Cater go eighty percent at corner and that was that was it

outside of one Saran Neil snap. It seems like they kind of found their guys and they're going to go forth with all of those guys in the secondary. And I hope I doubt it. I don't know, I shouldn't say I doubt it. I just really hope that when Javon comes back, he's in for Pole, for Poyer, not May. The linebacker split went sixty eight percent for Long, thirty two percent for Walker, so you've got a two third

split to one third split there. To me, that's part of like more base rundowns where Long can kind of get, you know, taken out of plays by bigger players. Makes sense to me. Off the edge sealer was eighty four percent, what a freaking beast sixty percent for Campbell, Chop sixty one percent, Bowser sixty percent. So basically the same rotation for Chop, Campbell and Bowser. We need a manual ogbab back and Chubb and Cam Goods. We can get more reps inside for Campbell and Seiler and reduce the reps

of the depth in that position inside. Deshaun Han played sixty percent, but Hedi played forty four percent. That's the impact of having Seeler and Campbell on the outside, and then Mokamara played twenty five percent. Didn't really have to make a big splash in the game, but I thought he played well with his assignments. And Quentin Bell played fifteen percent of the snaps. My top five tapes, Aaron Brewer was number one. He was fantastic. Watched the tape

and just tell me I'm wrong. He was really, really good. Jalen Ramsey number two, Jordan Brooks is number three. I put Kalays Campbell four and Toronto Armstead five because he had a couple of pass protection reps where he did kind of give up some pressure on the quarterback. So that's the All twenty two review podcast. I'm hoping to take a day off and get some rest and feel better because I feel like dog doodoo. But we'll come

back on Wednesday with a deep dive podcast. I'm not sure exactly I might I might monologue that they probably gonna want to come back and check that out because it's kind of my kind of my favorite stuff that I do when I get a little bit hot, a little spicy Trav on the show. We'll do that on Wednesday, of course, a Thursday game preview, Friday Kyle crabs you know how it goes, and finally a game that I'm

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