Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if you're not far What is up? Dolphins?
And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
How's it going? Everybody?
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're gonna take one look back at the night in Philly, the film review of the key data points that went for and against Miami, a snap count review and hearing from head coach Mike McDaniel, and his day after press conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
This is the Draft Time Podcast. May gaff In Season Hard Knocks.
Miami Dolphins twenty twenty three, Pretty dang cool looking forward to that.
Its gonna be a lot of good content that comes off of that.
Of course, I believe every Tuesday night covering this team, and maybe after the way things went in Philadelphia and the league having two previous Hard Knocks appearance teams in the Arizona Cardinals who were basically like eliminated by Thanksgiving and made a product not really worth watching and the Colts who collapsed prior to the playoffs back in.
Twenty twenty one.
Maybe we can get some of the calls in our favor to ensure they get some playoff hard knocks. Good idea, right, I think they'll get it anyways, But just kind of the optimist in me thinking they're the Dolphins is gonna be on end season hard knocks after the bye week.
One quick note here.
Before we jump into the all twenty two tape. I just noticed this this morning when I was thinking about how few plays the Dolphins ran and how infrequently they had the football. They had eight possessions in that game last night. Punt, field goal, punt, touchdown, punt, turnover on downs, interception, turnover on downs. That's three possessions fewer than the league average per game per team. So consider that when you
think about ten points is never good. I'm gonna just get that out in front right now, and I'll tell you why they only score ten points here in the breakdown. But eight possessions, that's tough.
Living.
Defense has to find a way to get off the field faster. Like I thought, it was a good game for the defense, but you make it hard up for the offense to score a lot of points when you don't get any three and outs and well, actually, you know what, they got takeaways and they scored, so I take that back.
I take that back.
But the two long drives in the fourth quarter of those those were the killers. So the big play breakdowns Tua the Tyreek for a twenty seven yard touchdown.
It starts the quarterback right first.
The footwork is clean, and you won't see that same situation on the pick he threw.
Not clean footwork there, but clean.
Hitch up, one hitch timing, chuck it down the field, heels, don't click, not crossing our feet, just a clean operation altogether. And quite honestly, the work to hold the middle of the field safety is irrelevant because the inside bracket safety is not even looking at Tua and you get that on bracket coverage, you're just covering the man. Hey, if Tyreek tries to go inside, don't let him go inside. And he's focused on not lging Tyreek cross his face.
And the great part about this is this is an answer to teams taking away our bread and butter action that glance for out, that dagger route, all the stuff over the middle of the field. He's squatting on the dagger and Tyreek has produced hundreds of yards on that route this season. And then the fantastic, just ridiculously drippy stutter release to widen the corner. He slow plays it,
which helps Tua get into his timing further right. It kind of condenses the or I guess creates more space for two to throw into a condensed part of the field where he can out throw the end zone from that spot.
So give your quarterback more time.
But the way he slow paces that stutter release outside, you see the cornerback widen and that creates that gap for him to then just that was my accelerator f one driving books, books, books off the rails already. But Tyreek just running straight line down the red line that you would see on a practice field with that full acceleration after widening that corner and just basically eras in that middle of the field safety and Tua lets this thing go on one hitch timing when Tyreek is at
the twenty yard line. It reminds me to a of the old Russell Wilson deep balls. Just put it out there, tons of air under it, and let your guys go and catch it. He catches it. Exactly five yards deep.
In the end zone.
He didn't squeez them up against the back pylon. He didn't throw him short and have to come back and make a contested catch.
He didn't put him on the sideline.
He just throw it right over that outside shoulder, away from the over the help top up, over the underneath coverage. In elite throw, elite release, elite catch, and the pass pro you get Durham Smyth locking up Brandon Graham one on one. We talked about Graham having a little bit less juice in the tank, and so when Durham Smyth is matching up with you, good on Durham, but you have to win those matchups as a pass rusher one on one. That leaves Kendall Lamb to pick up a
blitzing linebacker, which he does. Lester Cotton had his best rep of the night in this one one on one versus a condensed inside Josh Sweat. He wins that matchup. Now, Jalen Carter whips Eikenberg, but Tua throws it right before he gets hip. So there was color flashing in his face, as there was all night long. That's the one loss we had was Carter on Eichenberg a common theme in this game, and Austin Jackson down Fletcher Cox and you get a massive touch on that changes the course of
the game at that point. Our next big play two on defense Chubb force fumble Wilcom's recovery on the Eagles second drive of the game. And the key here was a key all night with good rush lane integrity to
help make this play happen. Miami has just a four man rush on this play and drops eight into coverage and DeVante Smith actually comes free on the dig route where he crosses over the middle of the field and Javon Hollins on his back and doesn't really have space to kind of run with him over the middle of the field. But the Dolphins reset the line of scrimmage with bull rushes across the board and Hurts has to kind of tuck the football and find clean space in
the pocket to operate from. Then Miami just outworks the Eagles offensive line. We had guys kind of quit on the play quite frankly, but Chubb keeps playing and goes and gets the hand in the football. JP gets his hand across the ball as well. It does go in the books for Chubb, but JP had a hand on that shoulder of Hurts as well, and then Christian great job falling on the football there, big takeaway.
Wish we could with a.
Touchdown, but nonetheless, Dolphins hide the game after a big takeaway on the Eagle second drive, and then their second takeaway of the Knights, just their third pick of the year, goes back for six the other way and ties the football game late in the third quarter.
Everyone's feeling good at this point, and I think that this.
Play was just good team Football's ourpo action run pass option. Miami literally has a man in every gap in the correct leverage position you want them to be. With Wilkins, raekwan Seler, Gink, they all win their leverage. Chubb comes clean and wipes out Swift the running back. Cater blitzes with a free run and Jalen hurts his face and frankly, I'm not sure where he's throwing it, because Long David Long gets over a natural rub route on slant flat and he's all over it. And then Javon Holland is
closing in on the AJ Brown route too. Maybe he's throwing the ball away, I'm not sure, but Cater swats it, it lands right in Drome Baker's bradbasket. Johnny on the spot sprints in for six.
You'd love to see it.
And with that it's time for Travis's my top five tapes of the game. We start with the linebacker position with David Long and this tape was the guy that I scouted with the Tennessee Titan over the course of the off season. What a game he played on Sunday night. Just outstanding effort, beating blocks of guys much much larger than he is with both quickness and physicality. He was initiating the contact and they just engaging in the blocks more so than the offensive line most of the time.
And he and Jerome Baker played so well in tandem together. In fact, one of the best tandem off ball linebacker games. I would say the Dolphins I've had since Jack Thomas. Maybe it's been a long time, long time since you got that good a linebacker play. There was a DeAndre Swift run in the mid red zone on the first drive where Long slips past a Jordan Mylotta block. If you don't know about Jordani Lata, he's about seven hundred
and eighty pounds. He's about nine feet too tall, a tough guy to get around, and he gets around him with really good quickness, just kind of slips off the block, and then Jerome Baker comes over the top of that presses that block, and then Dallas Goddard, because of those guys causing it a pile up of sorts, tries to come in and split flow and wipe them both out and whiffs and that allows Jerome Baker to step in
and fill in for the run stuff right there. So they had that kind of stuff working consist throughout the night, a big reason why Miami allowed less than one hundred yards rushing on the ground on thirty four carries against this vaunted Eagles attack. He also impacted the game as a blitzer. That tip pass he had was just more downhill speeds to the quarterback where he saw it and went. And then in coverage the long ball that Cater defended it and nearly picked off. I think it was in
the second quarter. He has a vertical stem down the middle, but he recognizes the safety coming over to help, so he's playing more instinctively in tune to the rules of the defense, passes it off to the safety. Then he immediately jumps out into the deep curl flat area, which is the underneath portion of the potential route that aj Brown could run. So that gives cater Cooho the freedom to know, I don't have to take the cheese on this double move. I can stay patient and stay off and get vertical.
He does.
They try it deep and he's there to make a play on the football and break it up.
So good team defense.
But David Long all over the field, four stops in the game, two pressures on just three blitz reps, a pass breakup, and allowed twelve yards on twenty coverage snaps. He gets my top tape of the week against the Philadelphia Eagles, Tape number two.
Tua Tongua bai Loo a man.
He made some big time throws in terms of situation, down in distance what the defense gave him, and most of them on third and long plays as well. He threw a third and seven corner route to Jalen Wattle against what looked to me like Cover eight, which is a variation of man to one side, zone to the other side of the formation, and the side he attacked had a cloud corner a guy that's playing zone and getting depth and kind of keying the eyes of the
quarterback with half field safety help. So akin to what we talked about with David Long and Cater Kohu on the previous snap, they have that coverage and that is the definition of an NFL throw in the honey hole against that two man zone. Look there, I think you want to high low that thing corner flat combo that pulls the cloud corner down and holds that curl flat defender closer to the line of scrimmage up post to
getting depth. But for whatever reason, Raheem Moster winds up right next to Jalen Wattle, and I think actually makes the throw look even better because he had to layer it over that cloud corner who never should been there in the first place, right underneath the halfield safety. That's a big time throw and it kind of got going
for two of from there. The next big time throw was the very next third down on that same drive for six points, but waved off on a holding call by Lester Cotton to his hands separate on this throw before Tyreek even makes the break inside, which is every damn week we say this, he's at the five yard line, the ball meets him three yards into the end zone right on top of the helmet, an absolute dot.
But again it's coming back.
And what's funny about that holding call was it was a hold, but it was the exact same hole they didn't call on David Long when he shot that gap for potential big run stuff early in the game as well.
Back to Tua, I just think we've seen him do so many things this year you've been told that he cannot do, like the throw on the rail route the tyreek to the perimeter, where if he throws that ball three inches inside of where it was, it's probably a pick six by Darius Slay, who has a nickname for making a big play like that big play Sleigh, and he tried to jump it, but the ball was just a little bit too far outside right on the money. And he's gassing these throws up with more velocity than
I've ever seeing him throw with personally. There were some no look throws as well, some more master of manipulation, putting the Dolphins in scoring range before the first half. Then they do strike gold, but we already broke that play down for you guys, the deep shot that tyreek for a touchdown, So we move on here to the play before that. Actually the quarterback. You know, when was the last time the Dolphins had a quarterback that you felt like Third and eighteen wasn't the end of the drive.
I'll tell you right now, it's been twenty four years since old Danny Marino walked through those doors.
I'm so impressed with Tua's accuracy.
As the game went on, color kept flashing in his face, pass rush, kept getting through and beating guys on the interior offensive line, even on the long touchdown throw. Then a throw early in the third quarter where he fakes a toss sweep, sets his feet and fires with Josh Sweat right in his face, and the ball once again is on the face mask of Tyreek Hill coming out of the break on that dagger route over the middle
of the field. Really, prior to the pick, I didn't see any passes where he went outside of what I think are his progressions or structure of the offense. So he really played fundamental football, some of the short stuff and checkdowns on these vertical routes or crossing routes into these walled off zones. And credit to Sean Deci, I thought the Eagles defense kind of found something in this game that clicked for them in terms of their communication and really covering well on the back end to pair
well with that pass rush they have up front. But Tua sees that doesn't force it, avoids taking a big hit, checks it down, lives to fight another day. If we get that for seventeen games from two, we're going to be just fine because his health is how far the season can go. Right. But the Tyreek, he'll drop another world class anticipation rip to him in space for a potential touchdown, once again, color flashing right in his face.
They ran games all night long, and we'll cover this on the offensive line portion that we just could not pick up. And the left guard was Leicester Catt on this play, oversets and winds up picking the man who's rushing on Kendall Lamb and just opens this free lane for.
Josh Sweat to loop in.
But once again Tua just plays in rhythm and again the hand separate before Tyreek even begins the break, catches the football, but then his knee collides with the ball is what bumps it and sends it flying through the end zone for a mad scramble with some Benny Hill music there as he and both Brax and Burrios could
not fall on the football incomplete pass. I loved the decision to go back shoulder on that fourth and three throw to Cedric Wilson because Bradbury was completely horizontal with the goal line, like his name plate was straight up to his back was to to his face right, and so you can't cover what's behind you. It's a perfect spot for a back shoulder throw. Puts it on the right spot. Cedric gets tackled by the face mask. Nothing
you can do about that. I actually thought his worst throw before the interception was the first play of that drive on a Gland sproute to Waddle that he did catch, but it was just on the back hip. And the more I watch other games and see how late quarterbacks are, like, you know, watching who was it the other night on Thursday night football?
Gosh dang it? Who played on Thursday? Oh, Derek Carr was just late? Every damn throw was late.
Justin Herbert often so late on these reads and these you know, trying to put the ball on these tight windows. And then on top of that a issues where balls are often on the back hip or on the wrong shoulder, Tua doesn't do that, but on this throw he did,
and Waddle still caught it. So it's like we have one miss and we make the catch anyways, But then the second Tyreek drop another absolute seed right back on his stuff, right on the face mask with a defensive back in close quarters, throws it well before the break. It's just commonplace with this quarterback right now, Like it does. It happens every single week, multiple times a week. He comes right back and drills a third and long rip
to Jalen Waddle to move the chains. Very next play is the back shoulder completion to Cedric on the move.
Throws pretty much the same ball.
He threw against Bradbury on the previous drive and puts it right on the money on the move.
Just playing so well, so smooth.
And how about another accurate throw after fielding a ground ball that gets rolled back to him, picks it up, throws for five yards. I just don't know what more you can ask of this, dude. If we don't get top shelf quarterback play in this game and in Buffalo as well, which you lost by twenty eight and fourteen points, it's funny to say the game is a total laugher like Miami is blown out by five touchdowns if they don't have, you know, a quarterback of Tua's caliber in
this game. Which is funny because all we ever hear about is how Tua is propped up by his teammates. But he really carried the offense that had no running game and couldn't block anybody from the center over to the left side of the line for most of the night.
Then we finally get the bad play.
It was defensive pass interference, but I don't think that changes the decision or the throw itself.
Actually I liked the decision.
He just made one mistake and put it short because he had pressure in his face and couldn't step into the throw. But he has to know that, he has to know what his limitations and what the circumstances were. But he made one mistake and he paid for it dearly. Also running a stutter go with a wheel into the same area. That's not something you do by design on purpose. When Waddle flashes to the post like he runs a double move back to the corner like a what is it called a post corner?
Is a shoe? I forget the name of that anyway.
Post corner route and it slave flips his hips to run inside to the other safety help. If he just keeps running that way, it's going to open up the back pylon for Raheem Moster, who's going up against number fifty two.
I think that's Nicholas More if I'm not mistaken.
But the ball's underthrown, and if Slay's not there, I think the DPI call comes out, obviously because it's one on one tackle job on the receiver. But with how this game was called, who the hell knows, but bad spacing, bad throw, bad no call, just bad all around. But if he plays like this on this stage, if we have our healthy compliment of guys, if we clean up some of the mundane stuff that has plagued us, if we get a little bit more even better officiating, you will start.
To win these games.
I know it's easy to point to the quarterback in these spots, but this is one of the better tapes of the season. I would rank them as such. Chargers, Panthers, Patriots, Eagles, Broncos. I thought all five of those tapes were great, really good tapes. I thought Bills was good. I thought Giants was his worst, right around average so this quarterback's playing
very very well. And you know he on passes twenty plus yards two for four, fifty six yards touchdown and a pick, ten plus yards nine for fourteen, one hundred and fifty yards touchdown and a pick. When pressured, he was three for eight with thirty eight yards and a touchdown. So I'm not sure where Benslock is get these number in terms of you know, sixteen passer ray and that's
not true at all. Also, I love Ben, but his evaluations crazy because Tua was by far the better quarterback in this game, especially from a processing standpoint, accuracy standpoint. Hurts has the running stuff in the tush push, which obviously helps. But he was blitzed just four times or five times sacked once, went three for four to twenty seven yards. So Tua is our second top tape. Our
third top tape is Jerome Baker, Dolphins linebacker. I thought he processed and pursued as well I have ever seen from him, like in his entire career.
He was fantastic. Also thought he played a physical.
Brand of football that you don't typically see from a guy at two hundred and thirty pounds at linebacker. He condensed he scraped, he filled, he made tackles. I think he was often set up by the playoff David Long, and the two of those guys playing together just was fun to watch. He had four stops and a pick six on defense. My fourth top tape goes to Robert Hunt. He was the one offensive lineman to me who physically
dominated his matchups routinely in this game. When he needed to go get someone to go somewhere, like take him somewhere, he did that.
He got placement, got movement.
He was able to hip toss Fletcher Cox on one where he most run and throw him out of the club. He would find extra work in pass Pro, allowed zero pressures in the game, able to get off double teams and climb up to the second level, which was not a frequency a frequently occurring matter for the Dolphins offensive line in this game. Rob Hunt having a hell of a season. My fourth tape in this game and my fifth top tape goes to Christian Wilkins. You can't wash
over the neutral zone fouls. You just can't line up there, man, you can't do it. And I will wash over the ref from the passer call because it was a flot from the opposing quarterbacks and only one of the back judges threw a flag, which to me like they're both watching that, what are we doing?
But otherwise he was really good.
He got doubled on almost every damn play and made a bunch of plays. He and Rayquan and Sealer were pivotal in holding Philadelphia to ninety eight rushing yards on thirty four attempts. Very good game for the Dolphins in that standpoint. He also took Lane Johnson for a ride and made him look silly a couple of times. He destroyed the right guard in a one on one pass protection opportunity on the one that Chubb hit hurt on that you know, throwing while getting hit that wound up
round up a completion of Devonte Smith. He shut down the run and had some pass rush wins quickly as well. Four pressures one stop for Christian Wilkins in this game, just on the periffery for me. Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Zach Steeler, and Javon Holland all got consideration for top tapes from this game. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there, and come
back on the other side do offensive notes. On the third side, we'll do defensive notes and snapcounts so much more. That's next dravetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation Top five tapes in the books, Let's go ahead and talk about some offensive notes. Who did not make the top five tapes and generally speaking, I mentioned it earlier. I thought Sean Deci really uncovered his defensive identity in this game in terms of the physicality,
but also just good communication on the back end. Had some great calls, those little traps on speedouts to you know, take away those slot routes that we would throw winning leverage in the running game. We just got beat in
a lot of those areas. That's all it really comes down to, man like that, and they matched our quickness off the ball in the front, but brought more power than we could withstand We couldn't execute some of the blocks we have this year that sets up the running game and the run games and ability to get going.
I think impacted our ability to throw the football. They just got beat and hopefully it's a good thing to have on tape, and frankly, they won't see a team the rest of the year who's better up front unless they go back to the Super Bowl and see this team or the forty nine ers for that matter, on either side of the ball. Really offensive line as well. We already did two in the top five tapes. Let's
go ahead and get to the eligibles. And I thought that Smyth and Moster were frequently on the wrong page. In fact, the tight ends in general, Hill and Smythe not their greatest games, but them ceiling blocks to cut back inside and most are bouncing like that happened a couple of times. And a five yard tackle for lost in the opening drive gets your way behind the chains. Rahiem just had a bad night, man, those routes that kind of got, you know, mixed up in multiple spots.
Not great in pass pro. Not his best running effort. He had one really nice run. I thought Achmed had a rough game as well, in decisions slow at times. Also he could play on that rail throw man, like that was a good ball from Tua. We got to go and make that catch. Other eligibles, I thought Waddle I mentioned he was on the Periffherrey. He had a I think he ran the wrong route but I can't confirm, so I don't want to knock him too much for it.
But other than that, the tough third down catch on the field goal drive is an example of his route running prowess. He has to win inside to create that space on the corner route, and he does it.
He sells it inside.
Both he and Tyreek are so good at beating the leverage that's built to stop them from getting to that spot. Nobody else on this team is close in that regard, and most guys across the league are not close in that regard. But he gets that space by pressing the safety to keep him off the pylon and then breaks it out without rounding the route to kind of, you know, not make it. Oh, he's gonna run that route here Like it's all so sudden. It happens quickly in the
quarterback sees that the defensive bat cannot react. He looked fast, even coming back from the back injury that knocked him out.
He caught the ball cleanly, including.
One tough glance route that was well behind him, and he blocked his ass off.
Good game for Jill and Waddle.
I thought Cedric Wilson's out on the twenty nine yard completion was fantastic, and I think there's something brewing here with Cedric Wilson as kind of a nice role piece beyond the guys that have carried the heaviest loads in this offense. He thwarts a reroute, dummies to the posts that turn sleigh all the way around in the spin cycle, then whips it back out to the perimeter and makes a tough contested catch on a ball high because he angled back to the football. Good stuff from Cedric Wilson.
On the offensive line, we had some issues. I thought you could tell it was a new line combination from left tackle all the way through center. They had some simulated pressures with mugging up in the a gaps from linebackers, and it would cause like an over set or a jump set or indecision that would put us in spots where we're kind of on our heels against these quick,
powerful pass rushers. Gosh, Philly is nice in the middle man and much like that, that's the death for the opposing defense against our offense with all that action, it's the same for Philly if you get one false step, one position out of place. With all the games they run, they're too big, too strong, too quick to have a half step advantage, and I thought that happened with regularity in this game, particularly off the left side of the
offensive line. It happened a lot on our toss action or outside action where he just could not cut off those reach blocks we've been hitting all year. Like Connor Williams, you know, when a one technique is outside of him and he has to get outside that shoulder. He's so good at that. When you lose that, it's a key
element to this offense. I think this is a much different game if you have your line because the lost blocks we had from sixty six and seventy four, to me, was the difference often between success and failure in the running game, and then from there the passing game kind of flows off of that. Right, I think we would have had more chances to neutralize their front and pass reugh situations had we had more success in the running game.
So those two losses were critical, man. And finally, I think the bigger issue is we all had to call so many max protects to kind of mask those, you know, true passet.
Issues we had.
And this isn't that uncommon with the healthy offensive line, but there were a lot of two and three man route combos where there's just nothing there for Tua and we have to run it that way to make sure he's not getting hit and getting killed. Because quite frankly, I come out of this game just happy that two was still upright because the way those guys played against that front twoa never took a bad hit, which was
the best thing possible. And also, I don't know the mechanics of the plan to be able to give you a correct take on this, but there were some instances of guys not coming off the snap at the right time, like the first drive.
On that third down throwaway.
Towards the end of it, Austin is super late to get off the snap, and that's all Hassan Reddick almost said. JJ Reddick needed to beat him off the edge because there wasn't like a synchronousy in the timing of the snap. And finally, I thought they were late to disconnect from
doubles at the point of attack. There's a savon Achmed run where the two linebackers of Philly are clean with free runs down either a gap and Achmed works off the seal and runs right into a defender and it looked to me at first like he chose the wrong gap, But upon further review, you just can't have clean backers awaiting you on either side.
There's no win there for the running back.
That's gonna make running the football very tough, I thought Austin Jackson. You know he lost the edge on that first third long play where he's laid off the snap that gets a speed rusher around him. But damn it, man, he was into with a snap count. He played at a high level when he was continuously drew last year's NFL sack leader in Hassan Reddick and kept him at bay and a lot of one on one reps. He's done a great job in that regard. Since Tron Arms
had went down. He's been asked to do more one on one work, allowed one pressure a hurry. What a great
night for Austin Jackson. Again, he's a new contract. Lester Cotton got beat on the third play of the game that was a holding call that his holding call was a hole, but again exact same holding call that didn't get called on David Long false start before the twenty nine yards Headrick Wilson play, But to his credit, he bounced back and dominates the next rep and puts Carter on the ground to give us a big thirty yard completion.
On the Tyreek touchdown, he absorbed power from Josh Sweat and then redirectly to shut that down a second time. So the two big plays he had his best reps, but other than that, it was tough sledding. On two his pick, he gets walked right into to his lap and has to have to a throw off his back foot as a result. That's the reason he didn't get any driving the football. Four pressures and a QB hit. Kendall Lamb three pressures in a sack. Liam Eichenberg just
one pressure. But I'm gonna tell you right now, comeback. Connor like the snap issues in terms of getting them off at the right time. That's gotta be on a new center. Big part of several run failures. First and goal on that field goal drive is a touchdown if he just gets off the block and catches the second part of the catching climb with the linebacker, but he is late and turns and tries to reach back and
grab him. You know, he drives the double team three steps before finally peeling off and just watches Nicholas Marrow go feel his gap while Raheem is forced to peel back into an unblocked man off the edge. Go watch him on the Tyreek touchdown, just gets chucked aside to put pressure into his face. And here's why we lost offensively. I thought bad connectivity on the left side of the
offensive line. Could not decipher matchups, had no clue on games, couldn't hit reach blocks we normally do, got overpowered and out quicked, had too many operational airs, and then the key drops and bad decisions on the pick, and of course the horrible officiating. No chance to win with that combination of things, even when your quarterback played awesome. But like five of those seven things are Connor Williams is the fix to it. Interesting statistical note here that I
think tells you how much closer this game was. In the final score. Dolphins had five point one yards per play, which is not great. But the Eagles had five point two, which is also not great. Miami four for eleven on third down, Philadelphia four for twelve. Now, they did get the fourth downs and ten penalties compared to zero. It's
a big change. Otherwise, pretty even game. Let's take a break right there and come back on the other side and tell you about the defensive notes and the snap count totals and kind of a forest for the tree situation I'm looking at right now. That's all next Draft Time Podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield.
Brought to you by Auto Nation Film review.
Eagles Dolphins fall to five and two thirty one seventeen score. On defense, the Eagles hit some good route combinations that challenged our rules and I thought created some busts and coverage.
On the first drive.
They hit Dallas Goddard on a deep over the first play after his long catch and run where Eli Apple just jogs after him and you see Baker pick it up and pass it off and as he starts to cross the formation and hashes. I can't know those for certain, but I'm pretty sure that Bake is supposed to carry that vertical and pass it off whole horizontal. But because they ran Smitty on a little drag route under that to give him a layer's look, David Long then clamps
down on that and Goddard springs free. We talk about our design all the time, other teams do it too, and they did a good job of it right here. And to that point the well time screen for that Goddard touchdown. But gosh, I can't get over that sequence.
Man.
You go from third and ten to thirty five yard line to first and ten at the twenty because of Wilkins roughing.
That's rough.
That should have been a potential field goal or punt opportunity there, maybe even turnover on downs, who knows, but you never get a chance to see it upfront. Some notes here Rayquon Davis, I thought got off blocks and reset the line of scrimmage better than he has all year long. Couple of run stuffs that would create some chances for our guys. Had good hand placement, didn't play too high like it typically happens, winning the reset portion
of the rep like good job by Raykwon Davis. I thought Jaln Phillips had a good showing in a more prominent role in this one. Thought he played really strong edge all game that really helped the performance of the linebackers. We saw split some double teams, beat some blocks for some big collisions, got that sack. I thought he had
one bad rep and it was costly. He jumped inside on an outside contained play by Jalen Hurts where he got out of the pocket through to aj Brown for the big completion that was originally rule a touchdown brought back to the one yard line. They scored a play later, but at the last moment he just jumps inside. Hurts sees it immediately and flees to his right, his most dangerous spot on the field. But he had four pressures and five stops. Did Jalen Phillips Bradley Chubb. It's seriously
been a that kind of year for Chubb. Like the force fumble awesome, but he damn near had an even more impactful play on the Eagles drive that made the game seventeen to three in the second quarter. He hit a diabolical pass rush after a gritty rundown win on first down. He then draws mylotta one on one in an empty set. That's what you get when you win
your rundowns. He throws a cross chop. The inside arm goes over the outside arm of the tackle to swipe him down, then hooks him and holds him there to use the leverage of my lotta to corner into Hurts. He hits Hurts at the top of the throw. The ball turns into a pop fly into the infield. Baker gets a hand on it, but then Smith catches the deflection. I mean literally, we saw this later in the game. The ball bounces one more foot inside. Baker has a
maybe a second touchdown too. For Chubb, seven pressures, two sacks, three stops.
Great game for him.
Second level off ball linebackers both my top five tapes, so no conversation there. And the secondary Eli Apple. They got him turned around on comebacks and hitches all night, and I get it. Their vertical game is where they bury you. And it's very tough to stay with Smitty when he's pressing the gas full throttle, then slams on the brakes and has that insane catch radius. They caught us on a mesh a couple of times, some natural rub routes, including that first drive with a big hitter
to Goddard. But man, you have to run after the football.
Go get it.
Nothing worse on tape than jogging when the play is still going. The change of direction is bad, and so is the reaction slash instinct, which is where I thought he was best with the Bengals. So I don't know why he's still playing any perfectly honest with you guys. Good thing need UM's back next week and Ramsey is either back this or the following week, because I don't think we'll see him on the defense very long the
way he's playing, in the effort he's giving. They threw a hitch to aj Brown the first play of a drive with you know, nine forty five to go in the second quarter. You know how Tua throws it so that like by the time the receiver looks back, the ball is right on them. A Brown comes back down the stem on a hitch route and the ball has not left hurts his hand.
That's late.
That should be picked, if not just at least broken up, but he's late to feel it. Then when he it's time to drive downhill, he's stuck.
In mud, just not going anywhere, just not moving anywhere. And then that should have been a pick, but it's a catch. And then we miss a tackle too.
One hundred and four yards on him on thirty eight coverage snaps and a touchdown.
Terrible.
Perry Nickerson been a nice fine for US. I thought he competed really well, looks good as a blitzer. He was willing and depending, a willing and dependable tackler as well on the perimeter. Twenty five coverage snaps, no catches allowed, Plus he had a stop on a screen and a pass breakup that was negated by a penalty that should
not have been called. Cater Kohu, It's a tough ask, but he was left on AJ Brown a lot, and he I don't know where he's going on the big play that was almost touchdown where he just is covering Brown and leaves him to go make a tackle on the quarterback and it's a wide open throw for a long play. I don't know what he's doing there. It just looks terrible, brutal game outside, just like a Buffalo game.
I think the Ramsey return an Xavier return as.
Well has a ripple effect that bumps Cater back in side where he's best, and obviously getting Ramsey back helps too. But a really rough game for Cater Coo who one hundred and twenty five yards, thirty seven covered snaps in a touchdown, and then brand Jones just four snaps.
But he is he looks low. I don't know where he's going.
Half the time. Snap counts Leam Eikenberg, Kendall, Lamb Hunt and Jackson all go the distance. Win plays just five snaps to Cotton's forty four two It goes the distance as well. Receiving breakdown Hill seventy eight percent, Barrios and Wilson both twenty nine percent kind of tells you about how much we're hurting when we don't have our top two guys. Wilad did play forty five percent, but you just don't have the depth you usually do in the
receiving core. Clay Poole played four snaps, Smyth played ninety two, and Julian Hill played twenty nine, so that's kind of your offset to Wilele going down. Maybe some more pass protection reps for Durham Smyth running back rotation Moster at fifty three percent, Ahmed thirty seven, Ingle twenty four and Hefe fourteen percent. Wilkins played all but three snaps, Sealer all but seven, and Ray Kwan played fifty four snaps, while DeShawn Han played our fifty four percent. I should
say DeShawn Hand played five total. So we went back to the high workload for Wilkins's Chubb ninety percent of the snaps, JP sixty nine percent.
Some good workload there.
Van Ginkle sixty but some off ball linebacker stuff. Ogball played three snaps in the game. Jerome Baker played every snap. David Long was out there for a lot but got injured and played fifty one percent. Duke Riwley played eight percent. We saw more Van Ginkle off ball. Coho and Apple went the distance. Nickerson the third corner was sixty two percent of the workload. Elliott went the distance halland missed just four snaps. Those were Brandon Jones's snaps, and Elijah
Campbell played five snaps. And look, the tape was better than the broadcast. I thought we should not be concerned about how this we come out of this game. I think it's all correctable stuff. I thought Buffalo was substantially worse, and damn it. If we ever get just like most of our key parts back, I think will be in
good in good shape. I am personally like a little bit concerned about winning big games, especially on the road, but I think circumstances would tell you Miami played pretty well in this game all things considered, and had a chance to win the game late. So that's your all twenty to review quick one today. Let's go ahead and get out of here back on Wednesday for the Patriots
preview podcasts. In the meantime, you all please be sure to driver with the podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts from, rating and review on those podcast apps. Follow me on social at wink for NFL. Check out my guys Seth and Juice in the fish Tank podcast, the YouTube channel for Dolphins Today, media availabilities, and much much more, and last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot Com. Until next time, Fin's Up. Kelen mccameron, Daddy