Drive Time: Dolphins Jags All 22 Review

Steve Balmer for you there, almost forgot his name. A little bit of a new format here on the A twenty two podcast. We'll talk in more general terms on both offense and defense. We're gonna talk about the quarterback every week two or otherwise. We'll highlight the standouts, talk about the misses, and we'll issue our top five tapes

and go inside the numbers and snap counts. A heck of a lot more busy Monday night, Tuesday morning episode from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.

This is the Draft On podcast. We're gonna start, as we do on these Tuesday shows, with the offense and we'll cover some more general points off the top here, because in terms of the personnel usage, I think we're just beginning to scratch the surface of what this offense can do and what it can look like and the many, many shapes that it can take. We had two tailbacks

and this does not include alec Ingold, who's a fullback. Obviously, fifty two percent of the time, two fullbacks on the field, and no other team heading into Monday Night Football, which the Niners are part of, but I doubt they do that with McCaffrey being the guy there. No other team was over thirty three percent, and this is what I was looking for with regards to the receiver's room being

so banged up. But I think you also still saw what we can do when we get our guys back, like Craig Craft to Malik Washington and obviously the big one Odell Beckham Junior. Because there was still twenty snaps from eleven personnel it's three wide receivers, and now fourteen of those were in the first half. But I thought that was part of the second half adjustment, get out of that package that brings quite frankly lesser players onto

the field. That split with the two back personnel was thirty five percent twenty one personnel that is two backs and one tight end, and then seventeen percent twenty two personnel, which is two backs and two tight ends and just

one wide receiver on the field. To me, that is how you combat the lack of depth you have right now at wide receiver, because for me, right now, the Dolphins have two receivers worth throwing targets too that are active and healthy, and that should change when Malik gets back and OBJ and Craikraft won't be back before what is it, Week four, so you're gonna have to content

with that over the next couple of weeks. We have the toughest game in the first part of the schedule coming up on Thursday, but I feel pretty good about Miami's ability to win the following three games with the personnel and the makeup. The way it is, get this game in Thursday in Buffalo, and you get through the restless schedule, go into the bye week unbeaten, and get guys back. I think that's a very scary thought for the rest of the NFL. But first, let's go ahead

and break down this Jacksonville tape. I do think that eleven personnel grouping was more by necessity as we were in these you know, long down and distances, and the threat of the run really goes away when you have that. Thus, two backs does you no good unless you're literally using them as a wide receiver, which again was the case with a Cham. But I think that when you're in third and twelve, him as a receiver kind of loses some of its luster because the cats out of the bag.

There's no creativity in terms of do we use him as a runner here? Is it more of a motion like decoy because he's a true wide receiver at that point, And I don't think that's where his true value is. It's in the complexity and diversity and package defensive package confusion it creates, not just a true wide receiver, although I think at the current makeup, I do believe he

is the third best. Even with all that said, but we ran eleven personnel just a level seven percent of first downs and just nine point five percent on second downs. It was mostly those third long situations. Now, the first fourth down play is an example of how quite frankly undermanned we are at that position. The personnel was Waddle, who was bracketed. I would do the exact same thing, just like the Ravens and Bills, And well, they didn't brack at Walla. They breck it tyrek in those games.

But the Cowboys and the Titan like, that's what teams did to us last year because of the exact same situation. And then you had Debo's chosen Barrios Connor and a chan on the field. Barrios was open and I love the design, a little short motion out of the backfield Texas route back across the face of the linebacker. But

I thought Tua was late on the read. I think that he wanted a chan on a vertical shot up up the sideline, but the cornerback got right back into phase as you saw Tua's helmet go that way, so I think it caused a little bit of a hitch. And then he throws it just a beat late, and I'm going to give it a breakup because the hand was in there. It was not a drop pass like it was clearly a defensive back breakup on that play.

I chalk that one up to Tua, but also have a note in the back of my mind like this personnel is not good enough. To win. I wouldn't go for fourth downs if I have that kind of personnel. That's just me. We saw Barrios, Tyreek, watt Ole, Johnnu and Tanner in the backfield at different points of the game. Talk about using your versatility, and we talk about Anthony Weaver's defense being this positionless attack where guys can line up in different spots and know their rush patterns from

those spots. The offense kind of looks like that too, man Like, it's crazy to see how many different guys can line up in different alignments on this offense. Now, excuse me as far as the misses, I get the mo when things go wrong is who do we have to replace? Right? But it's why I urge fans of any team in this league, in this sport. It is a very esoteric game that I don't expect you guys to sit here and grind tape and come up with

your thoughts in all fifty three players. But it's the whole concept of like one bad play, gotta get a new guy in that position is just not how it's ever going to work. Because when you watch these plays, just have a little bit of patience to understand, like it's one thing that went wrong. That was all it was.

Because on the thirty nine yard play to Devon a Cham and that deep miss to Tyreek Hill early on, we were just one assignment off on those plays from being long touchdowns, and both of them were actually from

the f position. A miss in protection off the edge by alec Ingold on the deep shot where I thought he had the chance to get back into the line of sight for the quarterback and that edge rusher, but that kind of forced to it to roll his shoulders and miss that throw because he was trying to protect himself as we want him to do. And then there was also a failure down the field to cut off the backside safety on that long a Cham play by John new Smith, and the effort was like, come on, dude,

what are you doing, Like get out there. He just jogged after the block, and if he makes that block, a chance scores in that play, no doubt about it. Alec on the short motion pivot back just it was clear what he had on that play with Devin Lloyd, but he just couldn't get his footwork back under him as he sifted back outside. It's not an effort thing, so I can't get two down him for that, Like you can get mad about effort, but Alex just couldn't get wide and too had to roll the shoulders and

miss that throw. So a couple of just minor misses cost you fourteen points in the game early on. In my opinion, I also felt like the quick game rhythm was broken up for two reasons. Number one, they did a great job Jacksonville of taking it away on a few plays those robber brackets they would play underneath trail and funnel into safety help and bracket Tyreek or Waddle

or sometimes even john Smith. It was a priority over the middle of the football, over the field, middle of the field, over the top of the football to bracket those routes because we do so well in those areas, clearly a point of contention, but also too when they didn't do it, we just couldn't separate because the same damn issues as last season with Chosen and Brax and Durham and now Debos whatever the hell Johnny was doing, that's not going to be good enough, and we don't

get the new guys back and playing at their full capacity, or if we don't adjust the plan with the personnel we've got I'm not sure how much you can do to overcome, you know, bad slayers, Like you can scheme around bad offensive line play. I've been saying that for the whole damn offseason. But you can't scheme around receivers that can't get open and guys that have no explosiveness. Then you get shut down by the more athletic defensive backs every single time. Then you'll have the same issues

you had down the stretch last year. It's that simple. That's the biggest thing they're gonna have to contend with over these first four or five weeks. Again, I'm grateful the schedule is what it is, but I think there's no excuse even with all that, to not be at least four and one at the bye week. But that, to me, is going to be the biggest hurdle to get to that point. And to the point about robbers,

Do you guys know what robbers are? So essentially a robber isn't a too high structure and one will pivot back to the post to take away the middle of the field and the other safety. The robber will come down and try to pick off crossing routes. It's called robbing. The crossing route basically, so they play that deep hook and take away crossers and deep hook routes by you know,

interior receivers. So to the point about robbers, they also do this thing where they would peel the backside linebacker to the front side crosser the slants like on the double slam on that fourth down failure, A Luacun. How do you say it? I think it's foya sat a Luacun on that fourth down did this masterfully and you just don't typically account for a guy in your front side count from the backside. But now it's on tape, so they know they can see that and have plans

to work around it when it does happen. I think at some point we're gonna get a wrinkle off of that escort screen where you have the lead blocker like upfield and then the running back behind the line of scrimmage and two throws it to the backman because at a certain point in this game, and a lot of teams do this. The Dolphins didn't do it last year, but the Rams and the Niners incorporated this escort swing route.

What you saw a lot with the Jaguars in this game was they would just basically turn the front guy free knowing he's a blocker. There is definitely a throw down the field, kind of like the fake screen. Like remember back in the day, you'd fake the bubble screen and throw the ball to the fake block down the field. I think we score a touchdown in the two thousand and eight finale against the Jets to Anthony Fossano doing that. If not mistaken, Dolphins institutional knowledge is why you come

to the Draft Time podcast, baby. But I think we have a chance to throw a wrinkle in off of that with that look and then finally more or just general offense. I think Jeff Wilson and what he showed that he can be kind of akin to the Rams and what they've done with Kyron Williams, who's this really good outside zone runner, but he also has a lot of good vision and conviction and power inside to go

run power. What's power, Travis, It's man gap schemes where you pull a backside guard, you get down blocks hat on a hat and you try to just blow him off the football and get knocked back. The lines did it in the Sunday Night game and overtime. Just push

the Rams off the football and won that game. We did it in the fourth quarter here against the Jacksonville Jaguars, power eye formation, some real nineteen nineties throwback stuff, and that's just what Jeff did on the fourteen yard run with power, conviction, attitude and an offensive line that feeds off that energy. My either note about the offense here is devon ah Chan's usage really enjoyed the creative ways

to get him the football in space. He had a twenty yard catch and run with a short motion tyreek out and then he ran the swing from the pistol and it clears out this entire area besides one poor linebacker, one poor soul out there just left to have his jockstrap left on the turf. And that's exactly what happens, because you have no chance to get this guy down

in an open patch of grass. He lined up as a receiver eight Chan did on forty percent of his snaps, Eleven of the seventeen came from the slot, and he also caught all seven targets for seventy six yards and made four tacklers miss as a receiver. We've been talking about this here. It is a Chan the receiver. It's a big, big deal. For this team, and it's going to be more going forward. Let's go ahead and do

a no huddle big play round up. Last year we kicked off the tape with the explosive plays, but we're gonna do this in quick succession here because I want to just break down these critical plays in quick succession before we get into the rest of the individual's successes and go ahead and cue some music here. So a chance thirty nine yard catch and run on the opening play, great run by Devan, fantastic blocks by both Liam and Austin who got out in space as they did all

day long. And a great job by the receivers both Burrios and Waddle hitting key blocks. So Liam, Austin, Burios, Wattle a Chan, good job boys on the eight chan touchdown run. A brilliant design on the pivot full back dive. And this is why I love this offense so much, because Tua's pivot footwork operates in unison with Tyreek Hill, who runs the orbit reverse action that holds this backside end for just a beat. And if you watch this play, Trayvon Walker had the b gap dead to rights if

he wants to shoot it. But because of that action because of the footwork and the front side motion he's keying that he takes one step upfield, and that's all a chan needs to penetrate that b gap. As a play caller, you are a storyteller. You're a poker player. Your bluff must make sense every step of the way. And that was a well crafted story, a well crafted bluff there from Mike McDaniel and Frank Smith. Jalen Wattle's

sixty three yard reception. One hitch footwork with a little bit of a shoulder roll pump to Tyreek and at that glance you see that backside safety say, oh cool, pick coming my way. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It gives Waddle all the space he needs in that deep crosser from the other side of the formation and just a perfect ball from doing with Dongabailoa and the pass pro. What a work of art. You had, full extension, lockout across the board, right tackle Austin Jackson, jump sets Josh Allen Hines.

You get Liam Miikenberg locking down Mason Smith. You get Tyler Lacey going nowhere against Aaron Brewer, who is in the top five tapes. Is he number one? He might be. He's locked out in that rep and then the front side action creates this flow that puts the Jags other part of the pass rush completely out of the play as well. So design, scheme, execution all across the board

thing of beauty Tyreek Hill for eighty yards. The way he attacks space and presses the toes of defensive backs is the most underrated aspect of anybody's game in the entire National Football League. He's just so fashion gets wide open, nah bro. He's one of the most detailed route runners

in the entire damn game. And he showed it right here where he widened or got more depth on this route to push Andre Cisco back, get him on his heels, and when he sees that, it feels that then he rips that thing horizontally across the field and that just creates this extra bit of separation. And with Tua being so perfect, that's why he's able to erase that angle because of his nuance, because of Tua's timing and accuracy, and then the Cheetah takes over from there. Just beautiful football.

I love professional football when it's played at this level. Let's pick it back up here and get into the quarterback to a tongue Bai Loa's game. We're always going to do a portion on the quarterback during these shows, whether it's whether it's tu Us Collar Thompson or otherwise. So the opening drive deep shot the Tyreek is very well covered. But we've covered it well, I should say. But you see the rush fan out and leave the

middle wide open. And I mentioned this because Tua would later exploit it in the game, and that was kind of the theme of the entire game. A new DC on the other side, you absorb their opening punch. They have a game plan that you have no clue what it's going to be. You're not sure what you're going to get from that, and they've found out on the fly. It's like when you are golf reference incoming, when you're on the driving range and you don't have your swing.

You think it's gonna be a bad day, but you find it on the course. That's a testament of a great golfer. And I think it applies to football, especially on the offensive side. You find out what they're gonna do as the game goes along. Four total pressures on forty one dropbacks. Weird, How did that happen against a great pass rush weird, and I think a lot of that was Tua's mastery of the offense because we saw it all day. And this is why I make this point.

I'm not telling you the offensive line is some five group of all pros. It's because the offense works this way. He just saw it play out. It was like first read, bang, second read, onto the next, then get the ball up and down to that third or fourth read based upon the information you gathered from the early part of your progression. It is working like clockwork. I've never seen him scan faster than I did in this game, like scan the post, the seam, than the escort swing. Just boom boom boom.

Ball is out two point five seconds and mitigate any pass rush they might have. I think we saw how well he just knows this offense, even early on in the game when things were not going smoothly. He wasn't really put in a lot of positions to play make early on in the game tons of quick game. But I thought vintage Tua showed up on that third and eight strike to Jalen Waddle on the first touchdown drive

of the day. They're in this too high safety look outside leverage and you see Wattle and Tua kind of have a hand signal communication and a great job by Waddle to take this inside release, get the cornerback out of phase, create the blind spot back to the perimeter, which is where you want to throw the ball, make him blind to that, and then round that route off.

And right when he gets around that round off, the ball is right there because Tua throws the thing before he's out of the break, layers it right on time, right on the money. That's a big time throw. Man. If we don't get that, we're kicking the ball back away to Jacksonville down by fourteen. With them getting the ball at halftime, the game could have gotten away from you if you didn't hit that play, but they did. And then a few plays later it's third and six

after durhams my little start. But Tyreek this play is just as great because they're condensed space to the short side of the field the boundary, and they run this return motion where Tyreek comes in, goes back out and he makes his break well before the ball or with the ball well in the air, and it's perfectly located on the outside shoulder away from this driving defender who's thinking pick six all the way, not when that quarterback's

throwing that ball buster brown high level quarterback play on that drive. He did have a couple of misses that were used to that we're not used to, I should say, in that first half. Earlier in that drive, I thought he had grant d Bos for a touchdown on the twenty one yard line play where he opted to throw a short route underneath despite this high low progression being there and de Bos angling back to the quarterback at

the goal line. I also thought he had waddle on a deep hook on that third and long sack he took out of the break. Would have been tight, but I'd rather see him rip that than not in that situation. I thought he missed a back shoulder wheel to Raheem Moster in the fourth quarter, just off the mark on a few throws the layups that are usually so precise. But he still completed twenty three passes with six drops on the day for three hundred and thirty eight yards,

So his bad days are ye pretty good too. He had a big time throw Tyreek Hill with ten minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Three defenders and this triangle. He has not even come out of the top of the stem, yet all within five to seven yards of tyreek. And he throws this thing well before the throttle down. When he turns around, the ball is right on him in that pocket. I had four big time throws from

our guy. Did not have any turnover worthy throws. That's minimum of B grade just based on that criteria alone. The way he managed the offense and kept the ball moving, you know, there's some playmaking, no put in the ball in harm's way. I'm saying it's probably a B plus two a game. I would give it an A minus to hit more of those layups because just had a couple of misses in the day, right and then of course the rip on the game winning drive to Waddle.

That thing was tight across the board, perfect ball, great catch by Waddle, great start to the season for one our franchise quarterback. Did it again. Fourth quarter, comeback, game winning drive, all that fun stuff. Let's take our first break right there, come back and do individual standouts and misses on the offense. We'll come back and do some more defense as well. A lot more to come here on this first All twenty two review podcast of the

new season. Drivetime podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I Don't need. We're breaking down some tape here on September the ninth. I keep saying Tuesday podcast, but I'm gonna bring this guy, this podcast to you guys on Monday night. So I hope you're ready ahead of the Jets losing their home opener or their season opener and being the only team in the AFC East at O one one gonna happen. Can't wait for it.

I think the biggest misconception from the game social and even seeing it live myself, I'm to blame for this as well, was the play of the offensive line. It's really good in this game. I thought Austin Jackson was terrific in space, and so was Aaron Brewer and leam Meikenberg had critical surge on short yards runs really all day long. Also did some good work in the screen game. Armstead was awesome in pass Pro and really good in

the running game as well. Just usual in game intelligence paired with athletic ability to put that processing that he possesses to use. It's so fun to watch. He just consistently made great decisions and cut that B gap off constantly. On down blocks. Brew was outstanding man. He always found help and ribs and pass protection. Go get She'll rack and ribs, my man. Go out in space and clear lanes.

Connection with both the guards, blocking outside the numbers, moving guys off the football, getting critical blocks on the slip screens out to the perimeter. Just really, really good stuff. The one guy that I thought had a rough day two holding calls and he was bummed about that was Rob Jones. But I have confidence he'll bounce back again.

Both tackles were left on islands consistently against great pass rushers. Weird, right, I mean the investment in the tackle position as a premier spot in this offense is there, and it produced against Josh Allen Hines and Trayvon Walker. They handled it, man. I thought Austin's physicality on the perimeter and the second level was amazing. I do have to mention he did get positively obliterated by I think it was Walker on the sack that knock us out of the field goal range,

like just got railroad. He had one bad snap. It was that one. It was atrocious, but he bounced right back and had one of the best plays I've ever seen ever. Ever, ever, ever from a Dolphins offensive lineman. He stonewalls Josh Allen Hines at the point of attack and then gets vertical displacement on him. I'm to the second level the linebacker and on his just puts him on his back and it was oh ya kun again, who's a great player too. Like I tweeted about it,

go check it out. It is impressive work from number seventy three. And I think Liam was super well connected and coordinated on his angles and when he would catch a release in the quick game, he would get out there. It was impressive. I thought Jaylen Waddle was fantastic. What a tough dude man took that pop caught the football, caught the slant at the end of the game with the guy all over his back. I like how he

catches the ball with his hands. I talked about this law season, didn't I told you he was going to show up with that. Didn't drop a single football, never let the ball get into his body. Also, the DPI was a filthy route where he shook Tyson Campbell, made him fall over and pull Walla to the ground with him. Just a really, really good route and a good penalty too, because if he doesn't do that, Waddle has a one

on one with the safety for a possible touchdown. Then he finishes with the biggest catch of the game to get us into plus territory on that final drive and avoids a third long with the Jags having timeouts, big big game from the Penguin and then Julian Hill, same stuff we've grown used to with this guy, just the worst thing a dB can see screaming around the cours. I had him with one miss on the first play of the game, then one after the big wabble play,

but then not again the rest of the day. He was by far the best tight end or the best edge in full back, whatever you want to call it. He was the best guy in that role all game long. The individual misses, John hu Brother, what the hell the hell was that on the thirty eight yard eight cham play. We talked about that cut off, that backside safety and then you know the poor efforts one thing, but then we get that screen blocked up where they had a

convoy for him. Both Austin and Lea Meikenberg chucked and climbed perfectly, teaching tape on the screen game. Julian Hill has a squared up block on the perimeter, and it's gonna be John U Smith versus a nickel and a front side safety with Julian Hill square on that block against the nickel, and then Eikenberg and Jackson to go get that safety and then one of the best running tight ends in the league two and drops the football. The very next play is off size by a full yard,

Like what an abysmal start. I will say he did go get that backside safety later on, so he learned from the mistake. I expect more from Johnny Smith the rest of the year. That better be the worst game he plays as a Miami Dolphin. Braxon Burrios, I mean, I'm over it man one on one, either glued to a defender or the result of being velkrow to the defenders. He gets tangled and goes down and we lose in eligible in the pattern, just totally out of the play.

I'm looking forward to Malik, Craik Craft and Obj and what this receiving core can be in the future going forward. I thought Raheem just didn't see it like he usually does, wasn't as convicted of hitting his tracks and gaps. Thought Ingold had a rough early start, but bounced back with some big lane clearing blocks and some really good conversions on third and short. Thought durham smythe We talked about it yesterday. Drops, failed blocks, just penalties, really bad game.

My big takeaway though, is I did a good job putting us into the box that we got put in last year. And I'm so glad it happened in game one because we repped it all training camp long. Didn't start off well, and they went back to the emphasis they had in training camp to work on those things, and they figured it out and they won the game. And we have reinforcements coming to build off of that and to develop and grow this offense. I was pretty doom and gloom for two and a half quarters, but

actually I've been flipped to quite the opposite. I think we're in a great spot now after that game. As a result. Some fun numbers here. Two was a two point three to eight second time to throw. Guy that's right on pace for what he was last year. Four big time throws, no turnover worthy plays. Six of the fourteen incompletions were tagged as drops by PFF. I think that tracks right. John who had one Smith had a couple we had a back had had one. I believe

Tyreek had won. At one point he was four for seven against the Blitz, with thirty yards on throws of twenty plus yards three of six for one sixty four, a touchdown and a one thirty five passer rating. Weird also had a DPI to Waddle. We've given you a baseline for yards per route ran right. Two point zero is great. Tyreek had three point six to one, Wattle had two point nine to two, and eight Cham had three point four to one. But here's your issue again.

The numbers tell you the story here. Barrios zero, Julian Hill point three to five, John two point four to one, Smith zero. We just need one more. We need one more guy in Craik Craft for obj or Malik will provide that, and it'll probably be more than once. Like all three of those players. Hefe had three point six yards after initial contact and two force miss tackles on

just five carries. He also had four man gap runs to one zone run where Raheem was four to one in favor of zone and then eight Chan wasn't even split with four runs man four run zone. But I love this idea of going fresh hefe Wilson in the fourth quarter after guys have worn down chasing Raheem and eight chan sideline the sideline all game long on the outside zone game and then you come in with fresh legs, hefe and you go power pull a guard downhill, punch

you in the mouth. I like that recipe. I like this guy. I really like this guy. Okay, that's a I think you should leave offshoot pressures. T Stead, Liam and Austin were all charged with one, so was alec Ingold four pressures on forty one drop backs. Weird defensively, I just just like the offense. It was the halftime adjustments for me. The Jags were able to run it

very successfully. Early on, they'd create one on one situations for the back on the perimeter and win those, or they'd get doubles and washed down inside and force our and safeties to play through traffic to make tackles, and they couldn't do it early on. And then in passing situations they'd bring backers but from the stacked positions and more of like a delay look. And later they started to mug those guys up and creep them to the line. Scrimmage.

Early and it not only provided confusion in the protection play like we talked about early in the previews show last week, but I think it wound up messing with their gaps in the running game too. They kind of got Jordan Brooks a few times early on with the outside run game and the boot action off of that, and he's a key fiend. He wants to read keys and go get it, so if he's not seeing it well at any given time, you might get some reps where his fit looks off and it causes a big

bust in the running game. But after a slow start, I thought he really got things going really the entire middle of the field. On defense, they got consistent washed down inside, consistent displacement in the middle of the field, and the hook zones. In the passing game, they overloaded single players with conflict and Lawrence was seeing it and

ripping it early before Miami changed the picture. So a good first half hats on our back foot, But then he just didn't and it began on the first pass of the second half, third and five, walking up two backers to bring them in the A gaps with Long and Brooks. They drop JP off the edge and it

creates this Brooks matchup on the back. It creates a Yeah, Brooks match up on the back, one that he wins, and it heats up Trevor Lawrence to throw hot into this coverage rep with javon On Evan Ingram outside and it's just excellent technique by the snow man. He plays the man, drives on his movement, swipes at the hands and gets the pass breakup. It's his first game changing play of the day because it won the possession back

for us. He would have one later on too. Two plays of total team effort to me punctuate the overall effort of the team, and they were back to back. So Seeler gets totally washed out, washes out the guard, i should say, and brought the tackle down with him on this third and one play, which creates a lane for David Long to hit, and boy did he. He also got Ogba and Campbell both getting knocked back and Jordan Poyer filled his spot too. Just great team football.

And that was before the first play of the fourth quarter the Jags. Atrocious play call by the way on fourth and one, but Ogba gets out standing pursuit side, amazing work on a double team by Jordan Brooks to run out wide and force Etn to know I don't have this, I have to bounce it back. Ramsey had

a great fill and then it was pursuit time. All eleven hats were at the numbers or outside of that to the field, and that's why I thought, oh no, he's gonna get a first down and then some and frankly, the only reason I thought they did get back was because Jalen Phillips comes shot out of a cannon. Remember that play against the Packers when he chased down Aaron Rodgers from the wrong side of the field and got

him down short of the sticks. It was like that because it forced ETN to bubble back like three or four yards. And that is all the time you need for Jalen Ramsey, for Kalais Campbell, Jordan Poyer, Kendall four, David Long, they all get there and arrive at the same time. What a damn play. Then the last drive,

Long had a great trigger to go get it. After Ogbab beats a split flow cut block, then he has to cross face of the pass rush Ogbab does to win on that second down play and then JP finishes it off with an excellent effort and power to push the pocket from the outside. More on that in a moment. But the way this team just kind of came together on defense and they all got wins was so impressive. Let's take our last break right there, come back and

do the defensive individual standouts. We'll do some numbers and snap counts, some misses, a lot more to come your way here on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation, we talked about some of the guys in the play so far. Let's go ahead and get to the individuals here. First guy up is Kalais Campbell, whose first two snaps I just wrote, Lol. He hems in an athletic quarterback in space off of a free run, and I thought the tackle for loss

was even more impressive. Swim redirect gets tripped by split flow, lays out and makes the play going to the ground just absurd movement ability for a guy that size. Outside of that, he consistently dented his gap, clogged things up, made backstop their feet. What a debut for Kaleis Campbell. DeShawn hand consistently held his water, had good gap control. You'd see them connect and then bring the combo block and it wouldn't budge him. He just stood his ground

like Stan Marsh, important player in the rotation. He did his thing. Yesterday. Jalen Phillips was throwing different moves. I saw power, straight speed, speed to power, cross chop, double swipe, dip and rip, and he was kind of filling it out. And then it started to pay off in that second half where he got a pressure throw away with that

dip and rip move. And man, the way he reduces the arc by rushing the outside shoulder of the tackle and running through that contact and resetting him back upfield is what makes him special. Special. It reduces the step up lane and helps him play outside content at the same time. Watch him when you played the Buffalo Bills on Thursday, how valuable that is against Josh Allen. Manuel

Ogbah was big in this game. He played with power off the edge all day, great rep on the sack to cross face, swipe the hands and finished through the quarterback. He had some effective rushes throughout the day. David Long. I thought a couple of times he and JB shot the same gap and were conflicted that way. I think they'll have to endure some growing pains as they work out their chemistry. It takes some time, but my goodness,

what a football player he is. He made back to back plays on the Jags four and out series where he came from the middle of the field to make a tackle short of the sticks on second down. Then that third and one play he blew up that I talked about earlier, playing fast and physical, sea his keys and going at it. Man, what a fun player to watch. I thought. Kendall Floyd played really well too, the best

of all the corners for my money. He played off the blocks or off the backs, i should say, of their breaks, and got underneath some of those routes like plays where the ball doesn't come his way because he has good coverage. He only saw two targets all game long. I thought he showed good feel in zone and was active in communicating things that he was seeing like they would be he'd be on the backside of play, kind

of like pointing out things to the front side. Just a good communicator and guy that's seen a lot of football. And then Javon Holland won a freaking game for him. Talked about him earlier with the coverage play the fumble. If he tries to wrap up there, it's probably a touchdown. Best case scenario, it's first and goal at the one. But you put your fist on the football and you change the entire tone of this podcast, in this entire football team, because you probably lose that game if he

doesn't make that play. So missus I had a lot of them too on defense. So Ramsey on the opening that first Jags touchdown drive, loses contail on the outside, takes a stiff arm on what should have been a no game instead it goes for twenty. Then he seems to have no real urgency getting depth on the Brian Thomas Junior DPI in the end zone. Just let himself get out of face and didn't hustle back until it was too late, And that's always going to be an

underthrow DPI if you do that. Sealer got washed out consistently, one of the games that I thought he was least productive in with Miami Dolphins. Couldn't get a feel for his fits and couldn't contain gap control. He'll get there, but it just was a slow start. Jordan Poyer on the first pass of the game drops a Room Service pick that Christian Kirk drop. We were not connected at all there, and I can't put it on Poe because I think he was robbing from that too high post

snap rotation. And the jagsks a couple of times with this by adding conflict to one player to go in two directions, which is what offense is. That's what you're supposed to do, and it just seemed like it was Poyer most of the time, including the touchdown pass, beautiful throw and catch, but he was kind of caught no man's land the play before that too, the thirty yard

play to Christian Kirk. He widens and makes this read super easy for Lawrence and again I know that this is cover two and he has to get over the top of the vertical, but you see Kendall full turn his man free and Poe just widens and makes this throat in the middle so easy, and it's the easiest throw in the progression, like right over the football. You know, is he cheating over there because he's lost a step? I don't know, but you can't do this against better offenses.

I'm pretty concerned about cater Co, who doesn't seem to have a real feel in space or when the route stem is going to end. There was like just no anticipation for when that break's coming. He also missed a tackle off the edge, which is his game, So you know, I didn't see him crashing with the reckless abandon we saw in that first year. Just doesn't break down a phase.

So it's like a good matchup for the opposing offense to run back shoulder and go conversions against him because he doesn't have a feel for We saw it last year, saw it again on Sunday. They also ran a two man combo into a seven man coverage and they run eat end of the flap and Cater is right there in good shape, and then he just starts getting depth for no reason, and Lawrence throws the check down and it's an easy walk in the park. Twelve yards wasn't

a good game for him. Some fun numbers here, Brooks, Long and Campbell all had three stops each. Phillip's hand and Fuller and Ogball all had two. Phillips led the team with three pressures, Ogball had two. Fuller played twenty eight coverage snaps allowed just eighteen yards. Ramsey was not targeted outside of the DPI he allowed. Cater had to twenty five coverage snaps and sixty seven yards allowed. So that's the spot they're going to have to figure out

in this defense, whether it's Cater or somebody else. My top tapes, I just thought the offensive guys were a little bit more consistent as the game went along, even though the defense closed it so strong. The individual tapes to me, were a little bit more in favor of the offense. That's why it goes like this. Aaron Brewer is my top tape of the entire game. He was terrific. Austin Jackson was nipping at his heels, but the one sack he gave up was pretty brutal, so he falls

a second. Tyreek Hill was third. I mean, what can you say about that guy? I have kalay As Campbell fourth. He was impactful all game long from the opening whistle. And then fifth is tu Watunga Bailoa. The other guys that were right there for me, like right on the cusp where Jalen Waddle, Tron Armstead, Jalen Phillips, David Long, and Javon Hollands. So I had ten, I'd whittled down

to five. Told you the other five as well. I had to put two in there because our top rusher had twenty six yards and we still had four hundred yards offense. That's a two as stat. Okay, some snap counts. What we learned from that, it's always fantastic sick when your offensive line and quarterback play one hundred percent of the snaps. That was the case here today on Sunday. I should say Waddle and Hill both played fifty one

and fifty snaps. That was seventy two and seventy percent of the snaps, and then Braxon Barrios was next to thirty seven percent among the receivers. I think that will change when we get guys back, but I would reduce that thirty seven number down quite a lot to bos and chosen word eighteen and seventeen percent. In the game, the tight end split was fascinating. Julian Hill played sixty percent, Durham forty two, and John U twenty eight. Just a

nightmare debut for him. I think that will shake out more towards John Whu and Julian As I said all camp long, a chan is going to lead backs and snaps because of the receiver played. But he played fifty two percent Raheem forty four. Hefe fifteen percent, and Alex Ingld out there for forty percent. It's a good mix, man. It's going to be at rotation heavy offensive skill groups

this whole year. On defense. Brooks and Long are the guys, and we knew that one hundred percent for them, same with Holland and Poe one hundred percent for them, same with Fuller, and would have been for Ramsey if he's healthy. Right, but Fuller goes the distance. Ramsey plays thirty nine of fifty. I don't think you get much changes with that group of the entire year. Maybe some more Marcus May we shall see. Zach Steeler is your bell cow. He's going

to be your justin. Mattabeke upfront if you will. Eighty seven percent of the snaps. Kalays Campbell was a second among the defensive tackles sixty six percent, and then to Sean Hand thirty six. That seems to be the rotation will get all year long. If you ask me. Peeley played five snaps, Benito played eight. I do think Benito plays more of those thirteen total snaps than what he did, and when he's fully healthy. Cater Co, who played eighty nine percent, which is telling for how they view the

cornerback spot. Storm Duck was next at eight and it makes you wonder where Ethan Bonner is in the rotation or Cam Smith when he gets back. Finally, off the edge, Phillips and Agba played forty and thirty four snaps. I think Phillips is going to be in Sealer's territory when he's full go. And then Chop and Quinton both played thirty percent. I think that will tilt more towards the rookie as we go along. There you go. The first All twenty two podcast of the year is in the books.

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