Drive Time: Dolphins Dominant in 34-15 Win Over Patriots

the stats from this one, because Miami was dominant. There was one point in the game where it was two eighty to eighty in total yards. And in the second half things got a little bit sloppy at times, and we'll cover that and hear from head coach or from Tua tongue by lower rather on how they can clean that up. But I mean in the game, twenty three first downs to fourteen for the Patriots. This was our worst third down game in quite a while, four for twelve,

which is good for some teams. For us, it's a pretty big step in the other direction. The Patriots were just three for fourteen. Miami had no fourth down attempts today. The Patriots were one for three on the critical down. Miami had three hundred and seventy three yards of offense. I mean, I talked about it back when you know, playoffs seemed a little bit lost and now they're back on again in terms of where the Dolphins are in

the standings. But if we can just continue to post four hundred yard days with thirty points of offense, I would feel very good going into the offseason. But we've done that and accomplished the wins to put ourselves back in the mix. So three seventy three to two sixty nine, Miami had three zho eight through the air compared to one eighty three for the Patriots. We did get out

rushed in this one eighty six to sixty five. We ran three more plays in the Patriots sixty six to sixty three, one turnover for the Dolphins, two for the Patriots. The Dolphins were sacked twice. They had four sacks of their own and just three penalties for seventeen yards for Miami in this one. We're gonna come back and talk about that later in the game. The Patriots had ten

for seventy five. Miami had the football for just over thirty two minutes, and the game started off kind of like you hoped it would, kind of like you'd expect it would. They get a three and out on defense, and my first note was the Benito Jones on a stack and shed rep right away. He took the guard back two yards, stacked him, shedded him, made the play right there. For I think it was a one yard

game once the running back fell forward. Then the Dolphins came out of this look that looked to me like covers zero, but I think they rotated and to cover one like man free with the single high safety. And I put that note in there because I'm thinking about the Raiders game plan last week and how it seemed to kind of rely upon like let's just keep them

in front of us and rally up and tackle. They got after Drake May with a game plan today and I'm looking forward to watching it on tape to tell you what I think happened in terms of how they called that game. But they got the checkdown, they got the rally up and the tackle short of the sticks

to get a three and out right away. And then Malik Washington has a very smart, like veteran presence play for a rookie to let this punt drop and he's playing it in front of him, and then it keeps quiet hands like receivers do on deep shots, where he didn't like show that he was gonna grab it, and he gets rabbed next to the football and then cradles it and takes off and takes it back to the

seventeen yard line. When he did that at the five yard line, had that ball bounced again, maybe the Patriots down that thing inside the five yard line. So a smart play there from the rookie, but Miami can't do anything with it. A four play nineteen yard drive, you get eleven yards and the opening play to John new Smith, which like, here we go again, right, and then Devon h Chan broke some tackles and turned to a zero

yard gain. I thought into seven yards pushing the pile, but then the Dolphins got kind of stuck in the mud. They were playing aggressive man coverage with a zero look.

On third and two, they pressed up and two. I tried to throw a speed out to John new Smith, which, man, the more we watch John new Smith get involved in this offense, the more it looks like he's kind of being schemed for, being planned for in terms of like critical throws and money moments, and he's been executing those for the last month or so here, So a big time boost for Miami in terms of their offense having another go to guy in that situation that they couldn't

convert here, thought the defender was a little early no flag, I wouldn't I probably wouldn't throw a flag there either. Then the Patriots had what I thought was their best drive of the entire game, a twelve play sixty yard drive that took seven and a half minutes off the clock and produced a missed field goal of forty five yards.

And it was basically a little bit of run game success, not a whole lot, but Drake may just finding his way in terms of creating off schedule, off script and creating out of the structure and getting on the edge and running the football and then throwing some passes off those looks as well. But they kept getting behind the chains offensively all day. They had a false start that put him at first and fifteen a positive gain, then another negative game that put him at second in sixteen.

And that's kind of the modern theory of NFL defenses. You can force these offenses to play, you know, ten twelve play drives, then you put yourself in a position where a couple of mistakes can put you behind the chains and you can't get out from behind that, and so they did keep getting out from behind that because he would find a way to you know, get off the edge and check it down to Antonio Gibson or Pop Douglas or Hunter Henry and they would create form

after the fact. Now they did bog down. There was a second and six of the Patriots at the twenty yard line and they were offensive off sides and the guy that was the right tackle blocking, Chop Robinson, holds him, so it makes for second and sixteen. They have a miscommunication on that throw creates a third and sixteen. They run the ball to get a better field goal situation, but Kalaeis Campbell is not fooled and stops it for

a three yard gain. So the Dolphins just found ways to win despite getting you know, on their back heel on that drive, and the Patriots paid off by missing the field goal. And then Miami goes back to what

exactly they've been doing for the last month. An eight play, sixty five yard drive that took four minutes off the clock and it results in a seven yard touchdown pass his first of four on the day from Tua to tight end John hw Smith, and it started off the drive the same way stick nod to John who Smith stick nods when you basically get down the field, turn your head back to the quarterback with one step, and

then go right back vertical down the field. And he hit that for a twelve yard gain, and then Waddle catches the dig route against man coverage, and the Patriots were in this man coverage look throughout most of the game. I'm really curious to see how that comes out from Next Gen or from True Media in terms of how they played this, because I thought it was man coverage almost exclusively in this game, which that's a big deal

to me because we'll talk about it later on. But I feel like the Dolphins have earned themselves back into the coverage from the opposing defense that you don't want to play against these guys, which is man coverage because all they have is man beaters and Tyreek and Waddle and now John new Smith and OBJ can do it and great Craft can do it. Eight Like, that's not a good place to be when you're facing this Dolphins offense.

But what's worse that or in being aggressive and trying to force the issue, or staying on your back heel and playing this soft zone that Tua just carves up and eats up and down the entire field while chewing off eight nine minutes of the clock. You can't win. But they run this single high look and Tua throws this shot to Waddle, who gets across the face of the corner back and then it's a safety trying to basically chase him down from a flat foot position and

he can't do it. And you see Wattle streaking across the field for twenty four yards and he ran the width of the entire field too, And I'm just been dying to see that, and it was so beautiful to get a look at it. Do the exact same thing in Tyreek. One play later, he could tackle Bill for eleven yards. And then they get themselves into a third and three at the twelve yard line too. Was hardcount gets them to come over the last scrimage for a

first down. That's two weeks in a row that he's had a hard count that worked, And then the first and goal went for nothing. Second goal was an inside slant to Obj against Christian Gonzalez, a pretty tough matchup. That's their best player, and he has a perfect rep to break it up. But then Tua finds John new Smith on the crosser for six where he felt pressure, stepped up off the spot and found John who on that little drag route for a touchdown, which to me

looked like it was deep into the progression. And let's actually go ahead and hear from Tua on his ability to get through progressions, because that was kind of the story of the day for me, was his ability to find time in the pocket through good pass protection from the Dolphins offensive line, survey the defense and do what he does best and make good decision. Let's go ahead and hear from Tua on the progression of the offense.

Sealer bowls up a play for a six yard loss as him and Jordan Brooks arrive to clean that thing up, and Stealer wins so dominantly that he gets into the line of scrimmage like before the offensive line can you even get to that spot? And it forces these backs to like bubble and go backwards, and then once he doesn't make the initial tackle, they go further backwards, and then Jordan Brooks and Jaylen Ramsey can rally up and

make the tackle. And then we get a Quinton Bell Chop Robinson meet at the quarterback where they come as they kind of sandwich Drake May together cater Coho's in phase down the field incomplete pass and then Chopp gets a big sack a third and sixteen win where he smokes the right tackle. The entire defense runs down to the opposing end zone and does the chop celeration in perfect synchronization in the end zone. What a fun series

that was. Miami gets the ball back and pays it off with another touchdown drive nine plays sixty six yards, almost five minutes off the clock, culminating in a nine yard Devon eight Chan touchdown reception, and alec Ingold gets back into the game today, his first game in a couple of weeks, and he has a nice lead block for an eight seven yard eight Chan run, and then that gets us a third down play where Jalen Wattle takes the slant and takes he catches the slam, the

cornerback jumps in his back and he carries him from for like twelve yards. It's like a five yard completion. Waddle carries this defensive back and picks up seventeen for number seventeen and once again they're still in single high coverage. And they tried this one on one ball with Christian Ellis to Devon Achan. That's a matchup I like a lot. The Dolphins did too. I thought he had a step, but the ball was just a tiny bit underneath where it had to be and allowed Ellis to make a

play on the football to break it up. They go quick swing to Maleague Washington for one yard, and once again it's a third long situation, but Luckily we have this quarterback who can deal in those situations, and he finds waddle on inside access to get thirteen yards down to the ten yard line, and then the now screen to Devon eight Chan weaving his way for six yards.

And you know, I'm gonna talk about some takeaways, but I just feel like the Dolphins have kind of found a solution to some red zone not I wouldn't say woes, but just where they could get better at. Last year, they found a way to get better at that. We'll come back and talk about that more in the takeaways. So Miami is a fourteen to zip lead. Patriots go three and out a three play, one yard drive, A hold puts him behind the sticks. They throw two short completions.

Then the Dolphins heat up. Drake made with the blitz and he misses. He had the hot route figured out, but he just missed the receiver. Whether it was miscommunication, miss timing the wrong route, whatever it was, the ball was not where the receiver was and that leads to a quick three and out and Miami goes right back down the field ten plays, eighty yards, four minutes and thirteen seconds, and again it's Devon eight Chan with a

touchdown reception. They did have a second and nine drop in the drive that looked like it could have maybe put the drive in some peril that looked like a fumble as well, but it was ruled a Julian Hill incomplete pass. And then on third and nine, Tua gets off the spot and fires to Waddle with anticipation right

on the money. Wattle elevates to pull the ball down from the traffic there and the Pats are they just continue to challenge the Dolphins with their safeties either cheated up or playing straight single high safety, and Miami said, all right, well we have two very good receivers. We're going to attack them. And that's what they did. And then Jalen Wright gets a ten yard run on an end a round where he takes that little no look

flip that Tua does. And then Tua had this really sick throw to Jaalen Waddle on a deep out against outside leverage. And there are a few receivers in this league that can do this like Wattle does, where he can win the route to the leverage the defense is playing. This defensive back is outside leverage trying to take away the outbreaking route. He gets around him, stacks him. Tua throws this really good ball to like the low perimeter.

He digs it out, makes the catch, first down Dolphins and then a third and three in the red zone the plus eleven yard line. Maybe my favorite design of the entire year, where I'll look at it on film more tomorrow, But I think what I saw was Reak and Waddle were shot gun sidecar to Tua and not reaking.

Wattle reaking and a Chan, and they had the bunch trips to the one side of the formation, and they fake the give to Tyreek to that side, and the entire defense collapses over and then a Chan just sneaks out into the flat the other side, and nobody goes with him for a walk in touchdown twenty one to nothing. At this point of the game, Patriots three and out minus ten yards. Chop comes clean and drills Drake may

I still think that the ball was fumbled. The arm was going forward to the letter of the law technically tells you it's an incomplete pass, But just like the physics of the game, the way the ball popped out of his hand as he was coming forward with it, it kind of looked to me like it was a fumble, but I get the call and then agbad does get the sack on third down to clean up the drive, get the Dolphins off the field, and then it's a twenty one yard field goals. Miami drives at seven plays

fifty six yards. Wattle has this gorgeous adjustment coming back to the football on a slot fade, which is one of two's best throws in the entire bag. He comes back in and gets it for a twenty nine yard gain, and he has one hundred and eighteen yards in the

first half. At this point, he became the first Dolphin with one hundred yards plus in the first half of a game since Jalen Wadda last year against the Jets in the game when Tyreek Hill was out, then Tyreek runs a beautiful corner route down to the three yard line, still in a man coverage, he gets big separation. Tua finds him for twenty yards and then two incompletions where Tua kind of got a little bit. I thought, slop you at the ball, putting it in harm's way. He

even mentioned it. In fact, let's go ahead and go to Tua here, who talked about or no, rather we'll come back to that. He talked about this later on, but he mentioned there was just too many hands on footballs down there in the end zone on that final drive and Waddle damn near caught a deflection off of the one of those pass breakups. So they kick a field goal there, go up twenty four to nothing the Patriots, and the half with a nil down there at the end of the half, So let's go ahead and take

our first break. Come back on the other side to the second half and the five takeaways, and I have a bunch more soundbites for you guys from coach and Tua and Chop. That's all next Draft Time Podcast, Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you Bye Auto Nation. Before we get to the second half game script here, I want to just hear some sound from Tula because I thought this was very instructive about the team's mindset and

the quarterbacks approach to things. Because just because you have one half of dominant, you know, put them away football, which you kind of did in the first half of this game. There's a higher expectation for both this player and this team, especially if they want to get to where they want to go to and That's what Tua talks about here with how happy he was with the performance and then going into the game on Thursday against

the Packers. Let's go ahead and hear from the quarterback before we do the second half games.

get to. So we'll enjoy this win, but you know this, this next one is going to be big for us, and we're excited to go down there to Green Bay and you know, show everybody on primetime a wee can do.

middle of the field. It's not there. And the reason they can pull guys away from the attention of that part of the field is this little flat route that you can run. But because they, you know, give more attention to the glance route, the flat route is there. And he did that and they got a compleation. They got a nice gain. But then Christian Barmore Saximon third down and they get their second Jake Bailey punt in

the last nine quarters. After having some very highly efficient offensive football, the Patriots get it back and they have a ten play twenty seven yard drive that ends in a punt where they brought Javon Hall and the Dolphins off the edge. Him and Ogball both forced May to bubble all the way around this particular formation, which, by the way, Drake make him play man. He's got some

real skill to his game. But on this one, and this was constant about the course of the game, he had to like flee and take you know, five eight yards backwards just to get himself in position to have a chance to attack the line of scrimmage, and the Dolphins were doing all this different stuff with their linebackers, their safeties, their corners and blitzing, and I'd love the

game plan. But he found a way to get four yards there, and they move the chains eventually on the hands of the face penalty of the Dolphins, first penalty of the entire game at that point, and then they get a first down hold the Bodito Jones draws with his pass rush really coming alive the last couple of weeks. They get a third and ten where May extends and

creates and finds Kendrick Bourn for eleven yards. But then Quentin Bell gets a big pass rush win and forces a throwaway after another Patriots penalty, and then third and seventeen, they tried a double pass and the Dolphins had discipline to match the downfield shot, the throwbacks shot. Everything on that play was covered by Miami, and they have to punt the ball after having the ball for five minutes

and ten plays. Not where you want to be. Miami gets it back though, and they punt it themselves, and it was kind of the Jalen Wright show in that third quarter. He had a nice explosive run, ripping through two arm tackles and picking up twelve yards to get the Dolphins off the shadow of their own goalpost. And then they had the fake toss cross to Tyreek Hill where he gets eleven yards going across the linebacker's face, where the ball is out before he's even clear the linebacker.

Just more vintage Dolphins stuff. Looks awesome. They get a DPI on Kyle Dugger on john Y Smith. Then they lose three yards on a swing route Raheem Moster, they pick up eight yards to Julian Hill, and then third and five was maybe my favorite throw of the entire day, where he runs this takeoff this slot fade from a bunch set and the ball was right there and he lays out and it's like right in his hands. It looks like it they'd be a vintage like Odell Beckham.

Nice catch with a perfect throw from Tua, maybe his maybe his Dolphins, you know, welcome to Miami moment in a way, and he just can't secure the catch as he goes to the ground. I'm sure that he'll he'll

have that one next time. But what a throw from two of that was, even on an incomplete pass, so they punt it back and then the Patriots fumble it back to Miami with Zach Seeler bull rushing his man running right through him, and then he pokes the ball three free while holding Drake May up to ensure that he doesn't lose track of May as he's this elusive, slippery strong quarterback. It's his four sack of the year.

He forces the fumble, Jordan Brooks picks it up and runs it back to the twenty five yard line and the Dolphins paid off two plays later, twenty five yard drive, forty two second drive where two throws the glance to Wattle where he threads the needle and then Waddle puts his shoulder down and runs into the end zone through a defender and does a great dance. It's not the Wattle. I kind of missed the Wattle personally, but this was not the Wattle. But it goes for a touchdown and

it is thirty one nothing Dolphins. But the Patriots answer back and they get themselves a touchdown with some good plays from Ramsey on to four Strake May backwards. Jordan Brooks had to run stuff to create a third and nine, but Hunter Henry converts that on the sixteen yard play, and then Chopp has this huge hit on May where I thought May might not get back up where he

kind of, you know, build Goldberg speared him. But on that next play on a fourth and fifteen, I think it was Austin Hooper gets turned free as it looks like two defenders in the backfield for the Dolphins like Chase the same route, and Austin Hooper uncovers and May throws this ball across his body down the field, just enough strength to get to the receiver and he crosses the goal line for the Patriots first touchdown and a thirty one seven lead for Miami. Miami gets it back

and it's three and out again. Patrick Paul checks into the game for toront Armstead. We still had Jalen Wright in there for Davon Hchan. You kind of feel like maybe they're going to start pulling some guys out of the game as this game gets out of reach with a short week next week against the Packers on the road. But then we get a four yard run and then

back to back in completions and that's it. But then the Patriots turn it back over on downs and You're like, okay, now we can do that where Chopp gets a PBu falling back into coverage a fourth down DPI on cam Smith extends the drive, but we get another fourth and down and four and Javon Holland has fantastic coverage from a halfield safety look to undercut this corner route to

Hunter Henry force the incompletion. Miami takes it back and Scalar Thompson checks into the game, but then he and Jalen Wright have an exchange issue as the ball bounces backwards. Christian Gonzalez scoops it up and Skyler had a chance to make a tackle and I thought he was gonna get him down. He gave it a great effort, but Gonzalez breaks the tackle because well, quarterbacks literally don't practice tackling since like high school before. That so makes sense.

But it's a three play four yard drive and ends in a sixty two yard Christian Gonzalez scoop and score, so Miami leads thirty one to fifteen after a successful two point conversion, and then it's a five play eight yard drive that takes three and a half minutes off the clock. As Tua had some screens and some successful run game with Davon ah Chan back in the game.

But then Tua took a pretty hard hit from Christian barr More on a third down sack, but it did take the clock under six point thirty before they punt it back. And then Tyrrel Dotson Welcome to Miami. He gets a pick on Drake May when some more pressure gets in to flex the ball up into the air, he snags with one hand Dolphins football and the Dolphins would take a six play twenty one yard drive, some more screen and run game action to kick a fifty

plus yard field goal for Jason Sanders. He is now seven for nine on fifty plus yard kicks this year. And that's how the game ended. So the Dolphins find a big win despite some sloppiness in the second half. That you heard two address there off the top. Let's go ahead and hear real quick I mentioned Chop Robinson's work. Actually no, let's come back to Chop. I have McDaniel audio here on Tua Tongue Bai Lowe. He spoke about his quarterback after the game.

And I think, you know, since maybe the Buffalo game on, I think he's really taking a step forward in that direction. So him him playing at the level that I think that he has the last couple of games was a feat in it in it of itself, because it's it's become more of the norm and not the exception. So I think making the plays that he needs to make, understanding the progressions and how to get completions, when to

extend plays. Came in at halftime frustrated that he there's too many hands, as he put it, on a couple of those red zone ops where he almost turned the ball over and was frustrated with himself, but then moved on. And that's the key for our team is when you have a confident player touching the ball every play that is pervious to the emotions of the game. Good or bad. As a collective unit, you can be a problem for people to defend.

to you by AutoNation. Five takeaways from a Dolphins thirty four fifteen win over the Patriots that was actually thirty one to nothing quickly after the second half began. So a game that felt like it had kind of gotten sideways pretty early on, and the Dolphins do, in fact close it out to put themselves right in position to attack. As we head into the Packers game in week number thirteen.

Let's see, the Raiders are currently trilling the Broncos by a touchdown, so they have to finally get that ball back. So the hope was the Broncos could the Raiders could pull the upside in Denver, and Miami could then win in Green Bay, which would then put them in the seventh seed in the AFC playoffs heading into the week to the Sunday action of Week thirteen. But let's go ahead and focus on playoff standings down the road. Let's

talk about this game. Five takeaways. Number one. If you're gonna play man and single high, we still have that back of tricks John Who's touchdown third down conversion on the next drive, both man coverage with single high safeties. Waddle has that twenty four yard catch and run against the on a dig against that look, Reek had one for eleven yards. Wattle had one for seventeen and thirteen

yards on the next drive. That's what this offense kind of originated in because you didn't want to play two one zone because he's so meticulous and precise with his accuracy. And I never thought we were gonna see this much man coverage again. In fact, the last time I thought we saw this much man the Chargers ran some two

man in that Week one game last year. But it was really that Lions game in twenty twenty two when they kept challenging US and Tua just went nuts in that game with Tyreek and Waddle both going nuts, and you really haven't seen much of it since then, But the Patriots unveiled a bunch of man coverage and the

Dolphins just went crazy against it. And I wonder if, I kind of wonder if our ability to put other stuff on tape and be patient and take the short stuff and take the run game and take the profit. I wonder if becoming one of the league's most efficient offenses that way perhaps changed the way teams wanted to play us. Then again, after what the Patriots did, maybe it won't because Miami was very tough to stop. And this one Tua goes twenty nine for forty three hundred

and seventeen yards, four touchdowns, thirty four points. In the game, we've scored twenty seven, twenty seven, twenty three, thirty four and thirty four since he came back. I watch a guy that you know, you heard McDaniel talk about his ability to improve within the game and the emotional maturity we've learned. We've seen him, I think, get better against cover two against two man, how to use his legs better,

how to attack offscript better. Then we finally saw a team be like, all right, we'll try man coverage against this and probably shouldn't do that either, because you know he'll spread it around and when after these dudes, like the franchise quarterback that he is since he came back to is one hundred and thirty pass completions on one hundred and seventy attempts. That's seventy six point three percent

for twelve hundred and seventy seven yards. That's seven and a half yards per attempt, eleven touchdowns, one pick, and that is a passer rating of one sixteen point two. It has been sharp, it has been effective against multiple coverages. And let's go ahead and hear from Tua after the game when he was asked about the Patriots heavy use of man coverage.

four whatever that looks like. And so you know, preparing wise, that's that's sort of how we well, that's sort of how I go about my process so that I don't get stuck on you know what the progression is, and I can progress past their knowing what the coverage is.

a pass catcher in the red zone. He caught that swing touchdown against the Bills back in week two, He caught a Texas route against the Cardinals in Week eight for a touchdown. He had the screen touchdown against the Bills in the second game, and now he has this one on a quick screen to kick off the game. It just winds his way through traffic and Aaron Brewer comes and destroys another defensive back like he has been

doing all year long. They also tried that takeoff I mentioned to a Chan against the linebacker one on one from the twenty five yard line, So like, yeah, John new Smith's been a big part of it, and that tracks with the stature he provides. But I love that a red zone solution is this one hundred and ninety pounds back that's been freaking awesome. And I wrote this before the second touchdown. They throw a swing route to him again with Reek in the backfield alongside Tua, and

it gives him a walk in touchdown. So that's five red zone receiving touchdowns that eight Chan has didn't even play in the second half of this game, which is a huge benefit. No, he did play, but he came in late. It's a huge benefit in a short week to rest your belcow back, which he is when you put up that four score lead at halftime. So that was my second takeaway. My third takeaways the defense bounced back in a big way after an up and down

performance against the Raiders. Right, the Patriots had that good drive in the first half, but otherwise it was three to three and outs. They had multiple three outs in the second half. They put himself behind the sticks and I liked how Miami dialed up the pressure on those third downs and forced may to some mistakes, forced him into some you know, getting off the spot, and he created off of some of those plays. But it was a good mixture of pressure of sim pressure of single

high too deep. They even ran, but I thought looked like some cover zero, but it would adjust after the fact nicely. They really adjusted to that drive where he took him down the field with some scrambles and some run game, and they went on to force punts on five of the next six drives after that, with a missed field goal being the other. And that includes four to three. Now, so defense, big big game, Seeler Campbell, both were awesome again, just really good stuff all around

all across this defense. My fourth big takeaway it's the reinclusion of the Wattle baby. I did the breakdown HQ showing you guys that there were balls that could be there for Wattle, but Miami's just taking the high percentage stuff. Well. Three third down conversions in the first half. He caught the six for one to eighteen. In that first half. We saw him catch one and get loose running all

the way across the field. Getting him back to this production begs the question if they get that from him, if they have Tyreek, if they have John Eu, if they have eight Chan, if two was this red hot, how the hell do you stop this offense? I don't have that answer right now. I mentioned earlier he was the first receiver since himself to have one hundred yards in the first half and on balance on the entire day.

He did end. Let's pull him up real quick, Jalen Waddle did have eight catches for a buck forty four and the touchdown. Let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel on While this is a great SoundBite here talking about how Waddle state invested when the targets maybe weren't coming his way, but it's a testament to how this guy prepares works.

ball does. It's everything that I believe in everything that it was an earned, earned game for him. He got the opportunities, and because his mind has been in the right spot where he's been focused on what he can control and not all the other noise, he was able to really make some big time plays in those moments.

So I you know, it's something that I don't think people uh truly spend the time, uh really putting themselves into receivers shoes in the National Football League, especially if you're you're one of the better receivers in the league. The you have expectations of output that you have no A lot of times you have no ability to control. So a lot a lot of players get worse from situations like that. He's been eager to help the team

win and he's been doing that. We can weak out by plays off the ball or plays when he doesn't have the ball, So for him to make some plays on the ball, this game was much deserved and and we had a lot of teammates that were fired up.

secondary move. I was talking to Seth about this. There was a play against the run where he fought like hell to get on the outside shoulder of the tight end and he ended up kind of getting like pushed back and almost ran over to a point, but he forced the play back inside and then worked back over the top of the block to put himself into the gap to really help, you know, slow the running back down.

So he's getting better in that way. I love the way he can like set a tackle up to show an inside move and then dip back onder the outside shoulder and kind of pin him there with the inside hand and then use that cornering speed that he has. He is coming on now. Man, the pressures, the sacks are piling up, the game changing plays. I want to go ahead and play a sound by here from Chop Robinson. We talked about McDaniel's you know press press audio there

on Wattle on the work he's done. Here's Chop talking about leaning into the presence of Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb.

cleanest finish to a game. You know, a lot of punts of fumble. Six of the backup quarterback in the game the sack on two and bar More landed on him, I just looked a little bit disjointed. I don't really fault the team for taking their foot off the gas and essentially killing in the clock, but it wasn't the prettiest execution down the stretch. But the penalties and the lack of pre snap penalties is really I think helping this offense find it stride. So there you go. That's

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