Drive Time: Dolphins Commanders All 22 Review

Dolphins forty five Commanders fifteen. We're gonna break down the biggest plays of the game, the top five individual tapes. I'll go through the entire offense and defense and tell you who's shined in this one. We'll talk about the schematics of it, what the Dolphins can build upon going forward. We'll look at key stats and snap counts, the entire recap the aftermath from another big Dolphins victory from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This

is the Drive Time Podcast. Maybe so we get this game or this game recap podcast started with the big plays right, and it got off to a pretty quick start in that regard the first quarter seventy eight yard touchdown pass from two of the Tyreek and third play of the game. What's cool here is you see Devon h Chan motion out to the boundary the short side of the formation, and the linebacker follows him. And you probably won't find a bigger indicator of man coverage than that.

The linebacker chasing the running back to the perimeter and frankly a Chan smokes him and might have had a long touchdown of his own. But what this motion reveals is the man coverage on Tyreek Hill and the slot. And we're not going to pass that up ever, And we've been money on these slot fades. Right. You also see two will make a hand gesture to Reek and Braxon over there after that backer follows DeVaughn. So my

guess is, hey, man coverage, let's throw Tyreek deep. I don't know what to call this, come on in huddle mount in the meeting rooms, but that's what it looks like. No safety help and the slot corner I was outside leverage, which Tyreek uses to his advantage. He's playing off, but Tyreek turns it into press. These are the little nuanced details of Tyreek scan. It's so good he turns it into by going and getting him going, attacking the middle

of his jersey. Then it's a stab step to the outside, which forces him to do a double foot jump skip step to the perimeter to prevent the outbreaker. And once he does that, that's all Tyreek needs. Put the foot in the ground, hit the gas and the way he turned it into press, and pitch the shutout on the re route five yards down the field. And for Tua to see this play out in real time and see him get that win. The hands separate when he's literally five yards off the ball where he wins that little

move at the minus twenty seven yard line. And the craziest part is Tua actually does a little mini shoulder roll pumped to the stick that influences the safety and you can see this thing play out. It's a testament to Tua's mastery of the position at just twenty five years old, because he knew the look, he knew the coverage, he knew the rotation, he knew where to sell the goods to move the defense the way he wanted to and then the dime throwing a vertical and all this

happens inside of two seconds. It's insane quarterback play. But back to Tyreek, I mean the you know creating a press situations when the cornerback is off as impressive. The in flight adjustment probably the best in the business. On these throws, you have to have landmarks, and Tua told us as much in his postgame presser. He's shooting for

the numbers on these throws. So Tyreek stacks the defensive back where you get around him and then get on top of him so that his ability to run a full line sprint and put the head down is not possible because he'll run into you that stacking, get on the same plane as the cornerback, and then look back. There's the football right and stride at the forty five yard line and you know the rest. Show him your tail lights. Ten pass pro was perfect five on four.

Good slide to deal with Washington's slants coming from the offense is left to the right. They just picked it up cleanly to not even a breath on him touchdown. How about we do it again this time for sixty yards back to Tyreek hill. Once again, it starts with unbelievable pass protection. Once again, the Commanders bring a fifth and you can't pick it up better than Miami did

on this play. First off to Ron Armstead herases a one on one and actually runs him off the screen to Baltimore, Like, bro, if you have the game pass, pull this stuff up. It is hilarious. Tron ragged all of this man. It's comical the way his head is like a bobblehead getting whipped around because he's just controlling him, almost like you know, a fifteen year old bully on a ten year old kid. Like it's comical. They simulate seven, but two back out, don't blitz to it, by the way,

the correct they correctly adjust. The offensive line does, and Durham releases into the route right when his man bills,

and then Austin and Rob hit a double team. Connor picks up a blitzer and runs him to West Virginia on the other side of the map, and Liam takes the other blitzer and Stone walls him in his steps, and then Raheem comes across and hits the chip away from Tua, and the pocket adjusts a little bit on this play because Tua has to slide a little bit from his left to the right where the overload winds up coming from with that pressure, and he incorporates his

mechanics into the slide it's the cleanest footwork in the entire game. It's like one hitch step, the foot kicks out and then he establishes that plant base, all within one motion while generating this crow hop action. It allows him to load up and shoot this thing fifty yards downfield for a handoff for an easy touchdown from the far hash right on the numbers. Like, come on, man, and guess what I just I don't get it, and I never have gotten it. I get it even less now.

But for those that were, you know, getting their tweets off about what a bad touchdown throw it was, which is hilarious, Like imagine getting mad at a player for hitting a home run that scrapes the top of the fence and gets out, Like shut up, nerd, you know, just shut up, nerd. But anyway, you don't know what you're talking about anyway, because you don't know the basic principles of football, which is it's middle field closed. That means you can't throw to the middle of the field.

A single high safety means you can't throw the post route. So why would two put it over there? There's no way you want to throw a post inside the numbers, or I should say middlefield closed inside the numbers. TI week, Tyreek wins the inside release again and then takes it back to the numbers. It's the exact same look as the first play. It's the exact same play, but Tyreek

messes it up. If he stacks the corner and tracks it that way, it's gonna look the exact same But because he's All World, he can mess up like that and still make it a sixty yard touchdown. Headwhip find it, show them your telllights once again. Oh I'm having fun. I love the all twenty two this year to all playing out of his mind and after every throw to have made in this game, he would hold the pose like talk about feeling yourself Steph Curry style. It's impressive

to watch him when he's playing at this level. How about Andrew Van Ginkles pick six Before we go to the top five tapes here, you look at Sam Howse passing charts by formation and a lot of times when they go empty, it's gonna be quick game and probably screen game behind the line of scrimmage. So they come out and empty, and I feel like that's where Van Ginkle's study paid off right there. If they go empty

pretty good chance. They screen it and what do you know, they do it and he knew it the entire way. Usually in football, a big play is eleven guys doing a job. But everyone else in the field here probably could have just stood there and watched this happen, because it would have happened either way. Just great instincts, great preparation, and a great job finishing a catch. It cannot be easy catching a football thrown by an NFL quarterback. They're supposed to go twelve yards and you pick it off

point Blake at five yards. It's got a little bit of mustard on at that point. My top five tapes Tyreek Hills number one. I've been noticing that I don't always have a ton of individual notes on Tyreek. It's because he's always littered throughout the big plays category. We talk about his game in there, but I mean it's more of the same. He uses his league best speed to accentuate his league best nuance. That's a quote for you, Big Seth. I know you'll write that down and text

me about it later. Justin Jefferson is right there with him in that regard. But he knows how to do everything, how to create the release that he wants, how to set up the defensive back for the access that he wants. If he wants to get outside, he knows how he has to move to create that outside access, the speed to turn big plays into full field touchdowns. Ween, I'm talking about thirty yard catching runs here, we're talking about seventy yard touchdowns. He never ever ever drops these Like

have we seen him drop a long ball? I don't recall one. We just don't miss when we get them. I mean to count on one of these just about every single game. We are so so spoiled. And again he blocks his ass off in the game. Again. He's the real deal in every sense. What a football player. I don't think I've ever seen a better athlete with my own eyes. I don't know, man, I feel like I'm gonna tell my grandkids about watching Tyreek Hill in practice every day. It's wild. He had twenty six point

two yards per target in this game. Eight is a good number. He's three xt it, you know it's a good number. Two yards per route ran he had eight point seven to two. He almost four and a half xit he yeah, four and a half, almost eighty two yards after the catch. He averaged sixteen point four yards just after the catch. He had a good yards per catch average just after the catch. My second tape is

to a tongue Bai Looa. I thought this was his best game since the Chargers opener, both insanely high bars. Denver's not bad either. I say that because I thought his pocket management was as good as we've seen in the NFL by anybody, And strangely enough, on his third throw, the one after the long touchdown pass to Tyreek, it's a swing to Tyreek where he takes a hit and the ball short hops him. He tried that little ball fake that has been so effective this year getting defenders

off their feet. But good on forty seven for Washington for not taking the cheese. He ran through it and put a big hit on Tua, but man Tyreek had the sideline on that play might have been another long touchdown if it works out. They got in because the guy who showed running with the motion man the slide motion that Tyreek is on converts to a blitz and

then Raheem couldn't get back in front of him. So it's a good defensive call and it puzzled to it for just long enough to get the incompletion, but that was pretty much it for confusing too, I thought he missed one spot throw to Durham smythe on a play that he threw to Ingold out wide that was a loss on the play. But other than that, those were not only two misses for Tua on the entire day.

The next throw he has is a rip to Wattle between a trio of defenders, just a perfect N sync shot into the window at the right time that throttles wattles, Throttle's wattle throttle wattle down to protect him from a big shot sixteen yards on third and five. And like, here's my thing, man, going back to this whole like sixty yard touchdown gate, which the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I've never seen a quarterback criticize for a sixty yard touchdown play, you know, like especially when the balls like going vertical like a screen pass whatever. But I just don't know what we're doing. There is not a better landmark thrower in the game than Tua. He's been put in the football where it needs to go and when it needs to go there Since I don't know, twenty seventeen National Championship game, probably earlier at Saint Louis High

School back in Honolulu. I just wish it were more appreciated how he plays the game, these emphatic thoughts that he's being dragged along by Tyreek like it is what

it is, it ain't gonna change. But in a league where you've pivoted all the way to these almost permanent, too high structures, that can limit some of the crazy traits he types of throws, Like I talked in the past about how the Josh Allen throws that he you know, hits the highlight reels, and all these throws that Drake may at Unc is making, or that Justin Herbert made his rookie year, which were they all great throws and they're a cool trait to have, and they definitely can

help an offense when things bogged down. But I used to say those are three percent throws back then. That's before the league pivot to playing in a way that minimizes the opportunity for those throws to even exist. And what is accentuated by the way defenses play now is more precision, it's more processing. I feel like we should appreciate that when we have a quarterback who's probably the

best at those two things. I shouldn't say we the people who do the breakdowns who I really respect, Kyle Krabs, Brian Baldinger, Lewis Riddick, the list goes on and on, Chris Kaufman, like all these guys that I know know football. They appreciate it. Maybe I just wish it were more universal. And that's why I defend this quarterback tooth and nail like I do. And you know, Seth and OJ kind of got amy on the postgame show for it a little bit, and I explained to them it's because I

want perception to catch up to reality. And I feel like the only way that's gonna happen is if Tua puts up like video game numbers. And he was doing that for a while and now he's still a top five quarterback in the NFL, but the numbers have not quite you know, come along with that in terms of like five thousand passing yards and fifty touchdowns. That's what I wanted to help disprove the narrative. It's not gonna happen, but I feel like the tape should do that. I

feel like being nine to three should do that. I feel like scoring, you know, thirty forty points a game should do that. Let's go back to the breakdown. That's that was an off script, tyrant tyrade. So the wattle drop, oh man, that's a Touchdoffee catches that. I think it's a good shot of Tua's improvisation. But what I liked about it the most was how patient he was with it, because the Commanders dropped eight on that play, and there was a couple of throws that he could have tried.

In fact, I would venture to say that he did try earlier in the season, but he got off of them and didn't challenge those windows because hey, yeah, those twenty yard players are awesome when we get them, but like, if we have to lose one or two of those a game and it saves us a turnover a game,

let's do that instead. Like it's it's funny because I love I love his aggressive nature more than anything, but I appreciated the patients here, especially in a game like this, and especially with the defense you have, Like we don't the forty points is fun, but we don't always have

to score forty. Man, you probably just need thirty to beat almost every team in the NFL with how good this defense is so anyway, so on those looks, sometimes the best move where you can buy time is just to get your guys running away, away from a broken structure because coverage eight in coverage is tough to beat. And so here he does a good job and man

like he has one guy to beat. Assuming that Tyreek makes a block from a premo position for a key block and waddles off to the races two, it gets out of the pocket, hits him the chest, drops the football, probably a seventy five yard touchdown if he makes that catch. Tough to see. And we were so close from like a four hundred and fifty yard day from Tua because that swing of Tyreek that he missed, that was to

his fault. The wattle drop the post route to waddle after that, and this time this was a good player for Washington, making good play. Cameron curl middle of the field open again. That's the time to go for the post right middlefield closed, No, no, middlefield open, split safeties. Throw the ball between them, just like we did against the Buffalo Bills last year to beat them down here in September when the sun was too hot. Shut up

about the sun. The boundary safety is not getting vertical on this play, and so that's where the side that wattle is on. And Tua loads up to rip this thing off the backside because of Tyreek running an over route that looks like it's gonna occupy that safety, so too a nose in his mind. I've got Tyreek on this over route, and Cameron Curl showed me that he's gonna buzz that over route, which opens up that post

wide open, and he turns this thing loose. But right when he steps into the throw, Cameron Curl recognizes it, pivots and gets on his horse and goes an mpeds waddle's path through the football because otherwise I think it's a run through cruise in walk in touchdown for another long play. Great play, Cameron Curl, you prevent this from having one more bit of fireworks on this day. We also had a twenty four yard play on a dig route the Tyreek. There's a nickel defender between the numbers

and the hash at fifteen yards. The play's not open at all. But what does Tua do? And I put it on Twitter for you guys to go see. Tua looks out to the numbers and throws the ball inside on a no look. Nastiest no look through I've ever seen in my entire life. He moved him out of the way by throwing no look. Kwan Martin runs the opposite direction and he replaces where he is with the football. Completely ridiculous. The pocket management was completely ridiculous all day long.

Third and twelve pressure in the a gap with a body falling into his left Get this trash away from me. He moves the football to his other hip, his off hip to protect it. Two heads in the ball, move it to the other side, slide away, and immediately gets his feet back a line square to his target and rips this dig to Jaalen Wattle sixteen yards first down.

Elite stuff. On the following drive, the play you've seen a million times, the little side step, rip a dart to Julian Hill, who he knew was gonna be open because that's who was hot. That's when the blitzer came off of And that's why you don't throw the vertical route to Wattle, who got wide open because he was hot. Free runner had to make a miss, put the ball in the place of the blitzer. Perfect. There you go. The third and twelve, we didn't get onto his last drive.

He throws this corner route to Tyreek between the half field safety and the cloud corner in this cover two. Look, that's the honey shot, right the honey hole thirty yards far Hash and I bring it up because we didn't complete it. Tyreek did knock get his feet down, but I think you've been told that he cannot make that throw by some people, and he can, and he did

his location time and time again. Had to rip an absolute shot to cray Craft on the move with a man in his face off RPO action where you don't have the right grip in the football. Couldn't have walked it down there any better. Even the next play, they interrupt the lane on a bubble screen to Waddle, so he just throws a little wide outside ball that leads Waddle into the catch and run. Like, give me this Tua every single week and I'll show you a Super

Bowl champion ten weeks from now. He was two for four on deep throws for one hundred and thirty eight yards and two touchdowns. He now has more deep touchdowns and deep passing yards on twenty plus air yard throws than any quarterback in football can go figure ten plus airyard throws. He was six for ten total with two hundred and three yards and two touchdowns. When they blitzed him, he was three for four with eighty one yards when

he in a touchdown. When they was pressured, he was three for six with twenty eight yards to is your second best tape and a great game from him. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there. Come back on the other side. We'll go ahead and do tapes three, four and five and the offense. That's next Drag Time podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield. Brought to

you by Auto Nation. Tua always takes up a lot of time in the podcast here because I like to try to break down the quarterbacks game and show some nuance to a orderback who has some of the most nuanced in the NFL. We move along here after Tyreek and Tua and the big play breakdowns with Liam Eichenberg, who's our third top tape. And I really want to throw the entire offensive line here, but we can't do that. I know, Seth and OJ gotta tell me I give out way too many game balls. You're right, I do.

But we'll here we'll keep it to Liam Eichenberg. I haven't seen the entire offensive line that good in a long time. It's just awesome. And it's also the best game I've ever seen Liam Eichenberg play in his life. And I said that about the last two tapes as well. What a progression that has been, huh? And you know it's he's been everything the opposite of what he was before, where he's not in sync. Things were flying open. The feet never made sense. They never matched with the hands.

He was too wide, he was too narrow. Everything operates now with Liam and Unison. When the hands go, the feet go. He's stabbing that one arm reach shot on the downfield shoulder, locking it in and staying a step ahead of the sprint to the perimeter of a three technique like he's running those guys out of the play completely. He's shuffling inside against a game to cut off a rush lane for the looper to keep too a clean I mean, I've gotten no other words. Awesome, awesome stuff

for Liam Eichenberg. One pressure on twenty six pass blocking snaps for him, in fact, two pressures allowed over his last three games. That's fantastic. Number four as Andrew Van Ginkle, and his production probably stopped when it did because they began to commit a second blocker to him on every single play. They couldn't handle him. His explosiveness was getting the right tackle to overset, which he would exploit with

an inside move. Did it twice. But then when they started getting more rushes from the three technique in that gap, as a result, he would open up some more one v ones and he would impact the play as a result. Just an outstanding rush plan, outstanding reaction and study for Andrew Van Ginkel, big time playmaker who finishes those splash plays. Elite tape from Gink six pressures led the team three stops in addition to a pick six and a SEC. Yeah,

that'll do it. My fifth top tape goes to Jaylen Ramsey. He's probably substantially higher if they ever tried him one time. In fact, after the game, he said that Hal wasn't feeling it that they thought he was going to try them more often. He didn't feel it this game like he usually does the rest of the season. To give him those three hundred and thirty year in passing games. But I guess that just means that Ramsey was so good that they couldn't even conceive the idea to throw

at him. So maybe he should go higher Anyways, I don't know, but he had one of those quiet dominant days. Guys like had no pop coming out of their breaks because he was usually on top of them and they didn't have room to operate. The thing I didn't know was how fast he is in playing bump and run with recovery speed. Like I knew he was fast, but he can show you inside access. He can play trail technique and give you something and then he trusts his speed and you know, ball tracking to get back in

the play to make the play. We saw it on third down and the flea flicker against the Raiders a couple weeks back, where he went vertical down the field with Devonte Adams. He did a few times in this one. He mirrors routes, he plays off in zone, He plays

press like C. K. Parrott. On Twitter, Chris Kaufman had this research where Ramsey's played two hundred and fifty nine snaps this year and on those snaps, the defense gives up four point five yards per play, and it's three point eight yards per carry and just four point eight yards per pass. That's crazy. They've taken it away eight times, eight turnovers and allowed eight touchdowns with those snaps and

have allowed a twenty three percent first down rate. Like enough said, thirty coverage snaps, eleven yards allowed, one for two passing my close, but no cigar category goes to the entire offensive line besides Liam again, Zach Seeler, Duke Riley, cater coo who Xaviing Howard and Deshaun Elliott will come

back to those guys. Let's go ahead and go back to the offensive notes here though, because I just loved the use of different motion, some of those orbit motions, return motions, creating matchups with eight chans, you know, flexibility, creating different looks pre snap to contend with every single week. And man, that twenty one personnel package that features Raheem and Devon the fast twenty one personnel, that's going to

be deadly. Man. They're creating some big pass play opportunities down the fields with these running backs, especially to Devon Ah, and keep an eye on those going forward. This game was just everything I wanted from the offense. The Dolphins hit those inbreakers behind the second level. They dialed up deep play action, Tua made checks to exploit man coverage. They protected well, they ran it well. They didn't miss a beat when guys went down, and they never put

the football in harm's way. And they did create some or I should say, do some new creative stuff to generate space offensively. The first down throw early in the game to Wattle, it's a glance on third down on the second drive of the game. Hchan motions out and hooks up right in front of the nickel whose zone drops in the play and he's trying to get depth to impact the throw to Wattle, but he draws up to Chan and creates the space for Wattle to operate in.

I just haven't seen them go to that throw from that look. It's just so fun to watch McDaniel and the staff find new ways to get their best stuff out there every single week. They were so consistently able to create and exploit these creases. They just have answers

like those wall off the get depth mike linebackers. We just have so many ways to attack those guys in the middle of the field, Like Fred Warner saw it last year, and I thought we missed some plays in that game, even though he did take some of it away with some length and depth, but he couldn't get to all of it. But to stretch them with the bread and butter right that fifteen to twenty yard zone we'd love to throw the football into. That changes the

way you fit the run defensively. But from that depth, they also have to protect against over routes going across the formation, the glance, that little quick slant route. We've hit some corner routes off of these looks, and that's not even accounting for the underneath opportunities it creates, Like when you hit Tyreek on a mesh concept, which that third and two conversion where he and Smyth intersect and Smith kind of naturally picks off the linebacker and frees

up Tyreek for an easy first down. I don't know how you defend it. I'm going to explain a thought I have here on our rookie running back when I get to him. But man, I know the natural reaction to this is to point out the Dolphins record against teams with winning records. But I'm telling you this this tape that I'm watching the sequential nature of watching these tapes week to week multiple times, and how it's all

kind of added up to this cumulative product. You were going to have to be on your stuff to beat this Dolphins football team, and if they don't shoot themselves in the foot, if they limit the penalties and cut down the turnovers like they did this game, you might have to go full on Felix Hernandez twenty twelve against the Tampa Bay Rays and throw a perfect game like this is a ninety five mile an hour fastball with an eighty eight mile per hour change up to complement

that that looks the exact same until it dives off right at your knees in front of the plate. It's that level of overwhelming have to contend with basically playing a guessing game. Let's go ahead and talk more about it. So the eligibles to von h Chian, you never want to make it too much about a rookie, right, but I just think that there's a different element that he adds to the offense. It's tough to describe his first touch where he took that pop pass and got wide.

The man is running full speed parallel to the line of scrimmage and then has a crease between Alec and Tron Armstead that you could barely fit a human body between, and he hits it with conviction and barely loses any speed at all. And on that wet track he did that. It doesn't make sense how he does this, the way that we get our blockers on the perimeter, and the way that he goes so fast and sees it so well.

I don't know, man. I think this is a catalyst that makes the offense something that you have to just hope to contain. I mean, he's played four full games this year. Those games we averaged five hundred yards per game, or more than that, over forty yards per game, and he's compiled six hundred and twenty one yards for scrimmage in those games and nine touchdowns. How do you argue

with that? I mean, when you run this double post concept where Tyreek and Jalen remove all the corners and the safeties out of the side, and it puts eight chan one on one on a swing route versus a linebacker who you know he's going to make miss every single time. It's like a gifted fifteen yard play. It's a lot to deal with, man. As far as a ball carrier, he had fifty five yards after contact. He forced three mess tackles and average three point twenty four

yards after initial contact. I thought, Raheem moster, you know earlier I made a fastball change up reference and on those perimeter runs, that's how I view twenty eight and thirty one. Eh Chan glides in a way that puts you in like decision time mode in terms of how you'll deal with his speed and Raheem just gets north and south like he makes you make another type of decision, and if you choose wrong and he runs you over,

then he'll run away from you after the fact. But his physicality on the perimeter is something that most cornerbacks are not interested in dealing with. I just love his feel too for when to be patient and to get back across the grain, back across the flow of those wide zone plays, and he looks fresh man, those little jump cuts where his feet come down and get right back to chopping. He ran through John Allen for his touchdown run. Just put a shoulder down, ran through a

three hundred and fifteen pound defensive tackle. Fun combo of speed and power, fitting type of guy to beat Ricky Williams touchdown record. Huh forty one yards after contact, three miss tackles forced, and he averaged three point seven two yards after contact per run. So running backs are pretty good. Jaalen Wattle just continues to get open down the field. The explosive play is coming, man, it's so close. They prevented one with a tremendous play by the safety, another

by interfering with Wattle. He sold that cornerback a bill of goods on the double move on the DPI and was about to run right past him. He continues to block his butt off, and I love the way he celebrates with his teammates. I would take fifty three Jaalen wattles if I could just two point four to eight yards per route. Ran is actually very good, but six point five yards per target was his lowest of the season.

Alec Ingold another awesome game from him, Just so many final pieces of the run blocking puzzle where he squares it up and knocks it down and makes the play happen. And then I also put down Durham, Julian Hill, River, Craycraft, Cedric Wilson, Braxon, Burios. Shout out to each of you guys, because you block your butts off every game and it makes a massive difference. Headrick Wilson a huge block on

the first eight chance touchdown run. How about the offensive line, man general thought here on how much I love what our athleticism up front affords us. The run action we saw over and over two would set up a give and then flip the ball back the other direction. Such a cool design, and they have different designs like this every single week. They are cool to watch. But you get split flow action into that dummy handoff, so you always have to have a reason to make the defense

believe what you're faking. Right, So they bring durham Smyth across on that dummy handoff and you just see the commander's defense hesitate a step. That's all it takes for Raheem to win the corner. They went at it a few times, and a couple of time occasions they shot it from the front side and blew it up. But it's just so cool to watch how Mike and the staff mess with the defenses processing like they have offensive line that makes it happen too because of their athletic ability.

Let's actually go quick order here individually, so Austin Jackson is a pain in the ass to play man. He knows what you do best, and he attacks it. He knows how to initiate the action in the game like he goes and gets things. He also gets under guy's skins like they were frustrated and then getting stonewall only added to that. Playing against Austin Jackson, He'll get you a little bit out just through the echo of the whistle.

Connor Williams business as huge, man. I mean high level reach, blocks, perfect communication inside and protection. I don't watch enough league wide film. I just watch the Dolphins play to make this claim, but I'd be surprised if there are many centers better, if any at all. Rob Hunts Pierre strength is my favorite thing to watch on the entire offensive line. He's back at it again, Daniel. That Michael or blindside

block was hilarious. Carries a dude from the far hash all the way out to the numbers and just buries him. What a freaking football player. Kean Smith can play dude like I did not do. Shaquill O'Neil was not familiar with your game, young man. Back in training camp, I thought he wasn't gonna make the roster, and we've come close to it, but his get off might be the

best on the entire team. His block on that last touchdown something I'm not sure there's ten offensive tackles in the league that can execute that from an athletic standpoint. And then Lester Cotton also got some movement in this game. I thought his best showing of the year. It's not a great commander's front, so take it with a grand salt in terms of all the production, but this line's coming together in a big, big way for the stretch run.

PFF gave out four pressures. Raheem, Hunt, Liam and Connor all had one apiece, just two QB hits on the day. Dominant dominant day, so much fun as it was for the defense as well. We'll take our last break right here, come back on the other side and do that. Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoation. Final segment here recapping the Dolphins forty five

to fifteen victory in Washington. Picking it up here with the defensive notes as far as the all twenty two goes, and I thought Vic Fangio and the defensive staff was equally as creative as the doll offensive staff was. They had a little bit of success on that first drive the Commanders did, and then start mixing up with a

cat blitz. The unleashes Cater Kohu for a TfL playing behind the last scrimage where he is fantastic, and then Vic cover zero zero him up, peels back Gink and Christian Wilkins in the hook zone with all reliable Brandon Jones getting a big hit on the quarterback to enterrupt the pass and get the defense off the field. The bliss was so effective that Needham was actually looking for at a free run, but Robinson the running back had to pick somebody up. He chose Nick and how it

gets planted by Jones as a result. How about how you come out of the game with Terry McLaurin not catching a pass. He's played it now seventy nine games in his career and only one other time that he failed to record a reception, and that was a game two years ago in which he played forty percent of the snaps. He played eighty two in the game on Sunday, they mix it up on him man. Sometimes it was Ramsey one v one with press. He saw a man everywhere he goes. And other look which is a zone

man combination where you cover one guy with man. It's like boxing one kind of in basketball. He got x manned up, he ran into brackets fun just a masterful job limiting one of the game's premier weapons in Terry McLaurin. There's a level of effort this defense gives that when I watch other defenses versus our offense back to back, it stands out to me like Andrew van Geekle taking on a crack block and Christian Wilkins is getting doubled

and walled off on an outside run. But they still strain to get to the perimeter to meet the running back. And part of that happens because cater Coohu beats a block and David Long does a great job pushing the outside shoulder of his blocker to force the running back to bang it up inside. And that's where Gink and William or Wilkins effort are paid off in the biggest way. It's just consists in every week this defense works for everything they get up front. Zack Seeler probably had more

immediate wins in Sunday than he has all year. He was very close to the top five in this one. It looked to me like they are really prepared for his power. So he was just slanting inside of that a gap with the crossover step and his patented swim or dip rip combo. He also just flat out would pull the left guard's arms down a few times, almost like big brother little brother, like, hey, put those arms down. It was kind of funny to me. He consistently moved

how off his spot. Five pressures for him was second on the team behind Van Ginkel. I think it's worth mentioning that Chubb and Wilkins had a big role in Sealer's solo sack. I'd say that five times fast. Chubb forced Holle to tuck the football and move, and Seeler met him because he had turned free on a pick stunt that Wilkins created to occupy and hold both the offensive lineman. Gink gets doubled. So that's your four man rush just doing good team work across the board. Chubb

had four pressures, Wilkins had won in the game. Ogbop. We have so much power on this defense, but that sack might have been the best display of it all year. He just engaged the right tackle and then took him for a walk. Right into the quarterback's lap, like sheer

power your off ball linebackers. I love the way David Long shows patience, Like there's a run stuff where the gap inside opens up on duo, which is two double teams at the point of attack, which then they have to get off of and climb up to the linebackers to hit those second level blocks. So he's clean, but he can't get attached to the second level because he just goes in and condenses and grapes off of the double team, like get yourself in tight to that double team.

That way, they can't come off that level and get you. And he just scrapes off of it and goes and makes the play for a big collision right at the line of scrimmage. There was a rap where he ran the shallow crossing coverage with sam with Curtis Samuel and like he was step for step, like it went incomplete. So really good game here from David Long. Three stops and three pressures boom. That's really good stuff there from him.

Jerome Baker sucks to watch him get knocked out. I thought he was in the middle of the ones better career runs of his entire Dolphins career, he had been effective in all three phases. I'm eager to get an update on him, but it was good to see him talking about being okay on Twitter. Duke Riley and how about stepping in for Baker Man. I knew Duke was fast, but I think maybe I forgot. I don't know, because he would stay with his man in coverage, then peel

off and go pursue the quarterback. He took on blocks with ferocity and key and diagnosed as good as he has ever as a Miami Dolphin. All up and down this roster, there are guys stepping in and not missing a beat. That's another sign of a really good football team here in Miami. He led the team with five stops only to play half the game on thirty one snaps. Great job Duke in the second, darry xaviing Howard's playing the best football he has in a couple of years.

If he asked me, and it's the scheme change to me, sticky coverage, really really good feel for the system. I just love the way that his relationship with help, you know, funnel to linebackers, funnel to safeties, seems to get better every single week. And you know, he was getting up there in age, the growing injuries were accumulating, and he seemingly was, you know, getting tested by man coverage last year. Now he's getting eyes in the quarterback a little more,

playing a lot more zone. He's more effective. I think it could also prolong his career, especially with how he's looked this year in the system. Thirty coverage snaps, twelve yards allowed on two for three passing, cater Coho was very close to top five tapes. We see him blitz a little bit more and it's kind of like a trump card of sorts this year, Like, you know, think

back to the sack he had on Justin Herbert. He had a similar rep where Sam Howe hands it off so he flattens and makes the play on the running back at the line of scrimmage. But like, if you need a big play, just blitz cater Coho. And he was also great in coverage too. He did a great job getting vertical on that first zero look of the day where he stays right in the hip pocket of Curtis Samuel, and then another man coverage rep on a whip route to Logan Thomas where he just stayed in

that hip pocket again, target incomplete. I will say there are some situations where I can see why Josh Allen and the Bills go after him because he loves to kind of run you into the hardest throw in the field. But because Josh Allen can make those throws, it kind of exploits him a little bit, if that makes sense. But I'm curious to watch that rematch and see how they go after that. X. Javon and Cater combined for eighty seven coverage snaps, eight targets, four catches allowed, and

twenty nine yards third. That's point three to three yards per coverage snap combined. You're not gonna win games doing that against this defense. To Sean Elliott, some linebacker in his game man, when he comes down to the box against heavy personnel, he just loves sticking his face in the fan and I love watching him play. He is very, very good and run support. And then Brandon Jones, it's some really impactful things in this game. Those two plays

in the first series. Hit a big stick on the play where we lost backside contained and then did a good job getting back over the top to put a hit that limits that game. I just thought he looked far better than he had earlier in the year. In this defense, some snap counts for you guys here. Offensively, the Lion was a shuffle once again. Hunt only played sixty nine percent of the snaps. Keon Smith had to play half the game because to Ron played half the game.

He also got Lester Cotton for nineteen snaps. Otherwise it was Austin Liam and Connor going the distance. On the offensive line. Tua just forty eight snaps in this game because Mike White came in and gave you a thirteen. Offensively, at the tight end position, Durham smythe his usual role two thirds of the snaps, with Julian Hill getting fifty percent. No no, no, sorry, that's Tyreek Kill thirty three percent

of the workload. Same workload for alec Ingold. So that's your kind of heavy personnel, right Durham, Julian and alec Ingold kind of blocking plus guys on this team. They're getting some good work in Tanner Connors on nine snaps in the game. Jeff Wilson got five. The other running back split was let's see a Cham played thirty seven snaps to Raheem's twenty three. Give the Vets some Restler,

he'd loved to see it. At receiver, Wondald led the way with thirty seven snaps, Tyreek played thirty one snaps, Burrios twenty five, Creve Craft twenty four, and I missed. Cedric Wilson played thirty three snaps in the game. So you kind of know the rotation by now, especially offensively, it's it's pretty clear what it is. Roster and eighth Chan kind of one A, one B, Durham Smyth plays about two thirds of the snaps. Waddle and Tyree Green to play the most snaps, with a variation who gets

the third and fourth most snaps. But you kind of understand what it looks like on offense now twelve games into the season. How about on defense Brandon Jones playing every snap with Ramsey, Elliott and X playing ninety five percent of your reps. That means Cater plays eighty nine percent coming off the field for a couple of base downs the other cornerback working the game. Needham gave you nine snaps in the game, and Cam Smith played three snaps.

There at the very end, you also got let's see, Van Ginkle gave you eighty five percent of the snaps the same workload as Chubb on the day, so those guys both kind of Chubb and Phillips roll though. You see how that plays out. Ogbah gave you sixteen snaps, so he kind of gets relegated back to the I should say, promoted to the Van Ginkle role. There. We'll see how that works out with JPP going forward, who got three snaps late in this game of his own.

I see what else. David Long played eighty two percent, a big bump from last week, but Jerome Baker was down. That makes sense. Baker played twenty two and Duke played thirty one snaps in the game. Sealer and Wilkins their usual workload eighty two percent of the workloader for both those guys. Rayquan played nineteen snaps in the game. So

many guys got snaps this week. Deshan Hand played eight, and then Elijah Campbell, Channing Tyndall and camp Smith and Jason Pierre Paul all got three snaps to close this thing out. So there you go. That's your film notes, your snap count, your stats, all that fun stuff. Always love doing this podcast for you guys. A lot of work, but it's always fun to help get to know this

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