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this Dolphins team. And here's why I think it's so massive that this and a later play to Jalen Waddle are now on tape for the Dolphins offense as recently

as Week twelve. So it starts off third and eight, a three by one set, and the Jets are in pressed man across the board with a middle of the field safety who his only intention after the snap, based upon his body position and really just his disposition in general, is to squat on and wall off Waddle, who is the three to the field, which means he's the furthest inside closest to your right tackle, no, your left tackle.

On this play to the wide side of the field, he's preventing the crossing route, the deep over plays that we hit explosives on all the time, with another linebacker who's taking away the running backs two way go. So what this means is you have some receips who are one on one and Tyreek is one of those guys who has a one on one matchup as the two to the field. So Jalen's the three inside, Tyreek's the next, and then Braxton is the one out furthest he also

has a one on one. So if you're gonna play that coverage, the ball has to go along to Tyreek. It just absolutely has to. Most teams don't do this because, well, you've seen what happens when they do it. We hit thirty plus yard plays most of the time, we hit sixty plus yard touchdowns. When that happens, we usually beat it. And we did it again right here. But against this

defense that can really disrupt. They know that our bread and butter has been the middle of the field passing game, the intermediate passing game, and that's what they're doing, trusting that they can bracket the two way goes, press and disrupt the one way goes and get home with their four man rush. Because Tua has been dotting these vertical shots right in the bucket. You just can't cover that.

So you have no good solution. And what does McDaniel always say, if they take something away, it opens up something else. So, because we've been so damn good the last two years hitting those in breakers and chunk gains, take that away, we have to hit verticals. So Reek or rather DJ Reid I should say, is in pretty good shape on this play. But Tua throws this thing with one hitch timing, perfect footwork. Lets it go with

Tyreek two yards in front of DJ Reid. That's two yards before the old he's even he's leaving saying at the thirty three yard line, and Reek catches it. Now just one yard beyond DJ Reid at the other forty six that's twenty five air yards. It's an inch away from a seventy two yard touchdown. I think that Reid got lucky on the tackle. Quite personally. That's a game changer, man. I'm so glad it's on tape now and it shows

up again in the beginning of the second half. And allow me to tell you why this one is even better. So quarter three, fourteen oh four to play, third and three deep shot to Wattleford. I think it was thirty five yards on the play, So they walled off the cross for the first time. Right from that press man free liow single high free safety press coverage across the board.

Try and get disruption on the routes in the beginning, try and take away the hot routes and the quick answers to a potential pressure look and get home with your front four. But now they're going to go zero to the field. Last time it was zero to the boundary. Now they're zero to the field, and they bring that safety over to the boundary because guess who's there, Tyreek Hill. We can't let Tyreek Hill get vertical on us here. And this is why it's so nice to have two

number one wide receivers. This time DJ Reid has press and he has help, so the short stuff to him is out. Reid's gonna squat and play short and let him get on top vertically. Probably not gonna throw vertically because he does have a help up top. But you're gonna beat that bracket before. But against this look, it's not bracket. It's more trail and funnel, so which you know, play under funnel to the deep stuff. Bracket is inside outside. Don't let him get, you know, either leverage on you.

So for now you have Sauce Gardner against Jalen Waddle, who is a better player. So Sauce tries to mirror while but he can't run with seventeen, So it's just straight gas off the line of scrimmage for the fade where you're evenly split between the numbers and the hash mark on your pre snap alignment, and then you catch the football outside the number, so you kind of give yourself all that space to operate with and fade away

from the inside leverage of the defensive back. And again Tua lets this thing go and wattles at his own thirty seven and he makes the catch at the other forty one. That's twenty four yards of anticipation with trajectory under the football, and he couldn't have walked that thing down there and placed it any better. Plus Wattle survives contact and the ground with the catch. That is him,

that is in fact him does me. The next big play is a thirty four yard touchdown scamper from Raheem Moster in the fourth quarter with four minutes to play. I don't have a profound breakdown here on this one. It's a hat on a hat, Liam's connected, Lester gets connected, Smyth widens a gap with his block, Lamb holds a seal, Connor gets a two piece, a catch and climb, and then it's patients, good track and vision and speed to

daylight from Raheem Mostert. You spent fifty six minutes asserting your will on this front, and this was you breaking them down and putting the dagger in their proverbial chest. Good stuff, good night. And then finally the defensive play. What else would it besides the haland pick six. We've been over this at length so far, but Holland the catch. Phillips comes flying back into the frame downfield to help ensure that Javon does not get tripped up at his

own thirty yard line. And then we've discussed Christian Wilkins' twelve yard drive block puts Bresee Hall's back onto the turf at Metlive Stadium. Bradley Chubb gets a key block, Jerome Baker gets two critical key blocks. Cam Smith comes flying back into the frame so as Nick need him, and then Javon Hall with that move on Timmy boyle Coyle McPoyle six, game changer, good night, put it in the books. Let's go ahead and talk about the top

five tapes, though. First here number one, Jalen Phillips gets the first tap of the night. We're gonna miss this guy. Man, he was playing so good, so effective, so powerful, so inspired, and we're gonna miss him because they tried to crack him. Opening play. What does he do, just takes the receiver out wide and basically forces him all the way to the perimeter and then just chucks him and gets back

inside and gets in on the play. He then later on, like a couple of plays later, absorbs a kickout block, climbs over with a little swim move for a tackle for loss the next drive. The first play they try to block him with the tight end, just dispatch him in two tenths of a second rather and then he just sprints to the quarterback and man the closing speed he had to the quarterback on that play, I'm not sure I've seen a faster edge in football. It's a

blur how quick he was moving. I still think the blind flip that Tim Boyle had on that play should constitute as grounding because the spirit of the rule is you shouldn't just get to kind of ground the football, and he wasn't. He didn't know what he was doing. He should have paid for that mistake. And also if you watch it, like JP for sure pulled up on that because if he just ran through the sack, he probably has the same roughing the passer call got on

Herbert last year. But if he does that, he might bulldoze Boil into a forced fumble. And a touchdown there for the Dolphins. So I understand why he did it, but man, football, Yeah, bring back hitting quarterbacks. Man, That's how I feel about it. But then the very next play, a very next possession, I should say, he chases the play away from him on that dropped pitch for a six yard TfL like he shouldn't have been on that play.

The very next series, he makes the right tackle look like tight end and just runs through him and then swats a pass. He was doing this all night long. What a game for Jalen Phillips. We'll see him again next year, but man, we are gonna miss that guy. He gets the top tape of the game in his last game in twenty twenty three. Our second best tape goes to another Jalen, Jalen Waddle. And this was almost some fore shouting from last week when I told you guys that he was in the top five tapes after

having a four for fifty four day. Because this dude's playing his ass off right now, and what a time to have him kind of accelerate into twenty twenty two version of Jalen Waddle. First of all, the physicality is all the way back I'm not saying it wasn't before, but I think the accumulated injuries kind of the slow

ease back in approach. They had had to have had a little bit of an impact, a physical run to drop his shoulder and run through a man on the opening pop pass that he got this little set hut catch the football, pop it forward to Wattle on the jet sweep and he goes off the edge, drops the shoulder,

runs through a tackler. The next play is a now screen and Tyreek gets the football and he gets one Jets defender to the ground and then completely seals off a second comes off the block, flexing like he does.

This me mention the love of the game routes. Right that Durham ten yard catch on the second drive, the boundary safety is again squatting and walling off the front side cross or that was their entire game plan, which the Jets game plan was strange to begin with, because they played light fronts against this under man Dolphins interior offensive lineman or offensive line should say and just only we're concerned about crossing routes where they didn't realize that

and probably watching Stephen A. Smith and Stephen Ruiz and all these guys, non Dolphins fans on Twitter who think that Tua cannot throw the ball to the perimeter. Maybe he's listening to that stuff. I don't know, but the game plan was very generic in that sense. But the Dolphins responded to how to take advantage of the overplay. So Waddle on this play takes the inside release and presses his stem. So your stem is like how you

get vertical, how you get up the field. He presses this thing right at the safety and it causes some indecision, but also forces a natural pick where he has to climb over the top of that. That's being a great teammate, that's giving great effort. That's winning football. On the nine minute drive, week converted a third down in a pop pass at Tyreek and Waddle once again drove his corner off the edge eight yards, then flexed again to his sideline.

And that's not even talking about the catches he made. He had fourteen point three yards per target. He had four point h seven yards per route ran. That's insane levels of production. In fact, he and Tyreek had the highest combined YPPR by two teammates in a game this season since Week one. When they did it against the Chargers. So just thirty six of his one hundred and fourteen yards where yak he caught the football, he got speed down the field, he blought, he did everything in this game.

Jalen Waddle your second best tape. Your third best tape is another Jade name, but it's Javon Jalen Jalen, and Javon sounds like a jam band. It starts with the pick six, obviously completely change the complexion of the game,

a defleeting moment, defleeting, deflating moment for the opposition. But throughout the game you just see the secondary constantly shifting in unison, a ton of pre snap communication where he's the one barking out the orders, the way he closes down on routes at the top of the stem to take away options for the quarterback to get him off that read, to mess up the timing of the passing game and create another third three tenths of a second for your pass rush. And that's all this front needs.

It's why I was so adamant that just a little bit more cornerback help and they go get Jaalen Ramsey would help this pass rush so much. And you're seeing why because the back end is good. It's just when you had one week spot, the quarterback new where to go with it and they could take advantage of it. In the past, fast rush suffered as a result, but rather Holland's coverage ability. He came from depth and shut down one run the sea gap that was super impressive

with an open field tackle. He's having a phenomenal year and it's the plays he makes that mostly occur where the ball doesn't even go towards him. So it's tough to notice if you're just watching the broadcast one time, or if you have soup in your brains. Now, I'm just kidding, that's that's a cheap shot. But most people watching football don't really know what they're watching, right, Like he don't know concepts, you don't know coverages, you don't

know how those things attack each other. So when you watch him, maybe you don't see that impact, but on tape it pops every single week. Number four Christian Wilkins, when he's really taking his game to the next level. To me, where he has is the marriage between the moves and the quickness with his hands because he times up his punches and the placement at the exact same time, and those two things working in unison. It's like how

mechanics work, right, It's like how an engine works. You have two pistons firing and opposite, you know, revolutions, and that's what creates the forward thrust. It's about creating momentum and generating leverage. And Christian Wilkins is like a freaking I don't know a Maserati. What's the best machine out there?

I don't know cars. But he the way he times up his punches in the placement, it pairs up with these hesitation steps, these crossover steps, the lateral agility he has because his first sack, he starts his rush towards the B gap. He's a two technique head up over the right guard, and he starts his rush towards the B gap, which is the gap off of the right guard's right shoulder right wider around to the quarterback, and

this forces him to overset. But because he locked in his right hand on the middle chest plate, the minute he tries to generate force back the other way to the A gap back inside, the guard tries to run with him, but he's already pinned him in that place with his hand on the chest plate, and then he can use that left leg to cross over step and then it gives him a free run to the quarterback and from there he's got one of the best ten

splits among defensive tackles. So you're talking out a tremendous, absolutely tremendous technician who has a first round skill set athletically, and then he also has the desire of an undrafted rookie free agent trying to make a team. You see that on the retrace against the Raiders to cut Hunter renfro down thirty five yards down the field, on the block on Javon Hollins's pick, driving a running back twelve yards down the field for a key spring for a

touchdown run. There the unbridled joy when he makes a play or his teammate makes a play. What a freaking player this guy is. He's one of the best Dolphins we've had in a long, long time. Three pressures, two stops, two sacks, six and a half sacks is a career high. Connor Williams is my fifth best tape of the game. I never get sick of watching this guy run from the far hash to the opposite numbers twenty yards downfield and squaring up a block like he's going against a

guard who's half yard away from him. The accuracy of that is it's like Tua throwing deep balls, like he puts it right where it has to be right. I've never seen an offensive lineman with his control and open space. It's so awesome to watch on the end zone copy of the All twenty two. And then when you paired that with his power in a phone booth, like he handled these dudes, Quinn Williams, no chance, John Frankly Meyers, come on inside and get your butt kicked. It didn't matter.

He's on a heater right now, playing maybe the best we've seen of him so far in his two years here. And that's crazy to say because the standard from him from the word go. Last year was a top five center in the National Football League. One pressure allowed, it was a sack, his first of the year. But he did work in the running game all game long, critical first and second level of blocks on so many key runs. Close,

but no cigar for the tapes this week. Tyreek was in there, but I wanted to go waddle because I thought that his effort on the running game was just a little bit better. Tuas also in there. He's close to the top tape, if not for the pick six. Quite frankly, I'll tell you about the other pick here in a minute. Alec Ingold was also in there, where he moster also was close. I had the entire wide receiver room as a mention because of their blocking alone.

Shout out to Headrick Wilson and River Craycraft. I also put Xavier and Howard and Jerome Baker in there in the close but no cigar category. That's our time for our first break right there. Let's go ahead and come back on the other side and do offensive notes and defensive notes. We'll also talk about snap counts, and I have a SoundBite from coach McDaniel. I think you want to hear all that. Next Draft Time podcast, your host

Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and kick off the offensive notes from the dolphins thirty four to thirteen win over the New York Just the stage with a gripe. My only real gripe aside from the end of the first half was the first half short yardage, particularly the throw to durham smythe before the fourth and one field goal and first off, like, hey, don't run from who you are, like, go for it.

Go for it on fourth and one. I get that you want to get points there, especially against a team like this, but man, you're gonna convert that. Go for it right and also hand it off like Jeff Wilson had a first down on a give there. But we seem to get really alex he brained on some of those spots consistently until we didn't late in the game.

But hopefully that's a sign of things to come. With the throw of Eram Smile in that play, just bad operation all around, and it really ticked me off at the time and especially watching it back on the notes. Let's go ahead and talk about t ton go by Loa. Those two get man throws, man, like really really one throw. The second one was the equivalent to a hell Mary. I'll explain that here shortly, but you take away that one really really really bad mistake, terrible throw, terrible decision,

terrible timing. In fact, i'll tell you why it was a bad throw. But this is easily the best tape against this Vauntage Jets defense aside from that throw. But that throw still sticks to my freaking crawl. We did the first deep shot breakdown in big plays, also the second one to Waddle, But I thought t had Tyreek on the third down before the fade drop on the opening drive to the back corner of the end zone. It's a bunch. Tyreek gets through the mess clean to

the corner route on the opposite side. The cornerback squats and so we've seen two of make that throw a million times working off the leverage. In fact, he makes that same throw later in the game to Waddle on a third down conversion. They hit where the ball kind of hung up for a little bit, but he makes a clutch catch. Similar type of leverage he threw against on this potential non touchdown play here on the opening drive. I don't know why he didn't go there. It was

condensed space of the boundary maybe that's why. But he had a touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill on the play before Tyreek Hill dropped the touchdown on the perfectly placed fade ball. So Tua and Tyreek mistakes on back to back plays to cost you six points. It's frustrating, but sometimes that happens. My next note, though, came on third and five at the start of the second quarter in a three to nothing game where the Jets peel off into cover two from press, so cornerbacks pressed up in

the face of the receiver. They're going to play the short cloud area and you're going to have two deep half field safeties up top. They played their rules and expand from there as well as any defense we've watched on taper I have, I should say, like, you see both Sauce and Red feel the flat and there's nothing going to happen in that flat, so they start to get depth and that just expands their zone that they can cover, and it's really impressive how they do it.

But for Tua, you know, Smyth and Barrios on this third and five play, they go in and out from this bunch. So then it gives Waddle a little glance behind the hook zone, behind those linebackers that want to you know, rob that part of the field and and force the quarterback into a different look. But it's there. But Tua has pressure, so he steps up and he winds up flat footed, and he winds up dropping the arm angle to like three quarter and puts the ball

right on Wattle right on time. At this stage, you're sixteen minutes into the game so far, and you've seen Tua hit a dime on a nine route on third and eight, place, a fade perfectly on fourth and goal for a should be touchdown, and now evade a pressure to convert a third medium. The picks, I know the picks, but these are the kind of plays that we marvel with other quarterbacks about and say that they offset their turnover they had in the game because of plays like this, right,

high level stuff. He missed Tyreek a little back throw on the back shoulder on a levels throw on play action bootleg where the balls just behind. Not very common for him, but he had that miss in this one. And then just a footwork observation here on a third and five conversion to hefe here comes Bryce Huff shortening the corner once again. What a good player he is. By the way Tua is in his drop back, but you see him do something I've clamored about since Bama,

where he speeds up his drop. He expedites the process, operate quicker, and even if it's not quick enough, you've got the fastest trigger in the game where he can the time Tua decides balls coming out to the ball actually coming out is the fastest I've ever seen I think ever, maybe Marino, maybe Philip Rivers like that's the company that he keeps with the release, but his ability to throw with that speedy release accurately without the feat

being right, the ball could not have been placed better. No one excels with these fine intricacies at the position the way that Tua does. Nobody does in the National Football League. Then we gets to the corner route I talked about earlier. I mean a third down master class here from Tua. The ball is out against the leverage of a cloud corner who's squatting on tyreek underneath a safety who couldn't quite get over the top because he has to kind of decipher the route concept, but two

us doing it faster than he can. So he's playing before the defense can react and the trail defender is still trying to stick to waddle at the top of his stem. He hits this thing with his usual pocket anticipation, but he ripped it off of one foot, falling off to his left because of pressure in his face. This is creating. This is arm talent. This is playing on time amidst the chaos man. I'm so bummed that the pick is coming because this tape is spotless so far.

For QB one, I think the game plan was clear early on. You knew your defense was going to limit scoring. You ran the football well, so set yourself up for third manageables, and your quarterback stepped up time and time again to convert those to stay on the field and keep the offense and scoring range really all game long. It's a plan a lot of teams have taken against this Jets defense because they squeeze everything and make you earn every inch. But you need to be sharp on

third down to execute that plan. And in fact, Miami was eleven ver six teen sixty nine percent. Only one other team was over fifty percent. That was the cow or rather the Chiefs. No check that the Eagles in that game they had a while back. The Bills are combined ten for twenty six against the Jets on third down. The Raiders were five for fifteen, the Chargers were seven for sixteen, the Giants two for nineteen. The Broncos were four for ten. The Chiefs were seven for twelve. So

I have that stat wrong. They had two teams were over fifty percent. The Patriots were eight for nineteen, the Cowboys were nine for nineteen, and the Bills were five for thirteen. So Tu against a tough defense again, really played better than most of the quarterbacks's defense has seen this year. Okay, so two plays that stand out negatively from the rest. The first pick, let's talk about it, the slant flat combination. That is the first combo you

install every single year. The one receiver runs a slant in the middle, the two receiver runs a flat off of that. You try and catch that those two corners off that side in peril. Where Tua got in trouble here was that he wasn't on time. He pumped to the slant, and I think he really wanted to go there. In fact, it was open to tyreek. I'm not sure what he saw, but something told him to clutch and

then go to the flat. And by that time, Brandon Eckles had already kind of seen this play out and he immediately started getting dep or with I should say, to the side of the field. And so ecckles is breaking on this ball before Tua throws it. And that's why I get on other quarterbacks for being terrible like for Josh Rosen, this was consistent with him. For Zach Wilson, this happens every damn snap. For Tua, it never happened.

It literally never ever happens until this. That's why I'm so dumbfounded by it, and it's why watching other quarterbacks makes me immensely appreciate Tua even more because he just doesn't do that. He's not like that, and here he is doing it one time and he pays the ultimate price.

I loved how McDaniel, though, on the very next drive, got him going with two now throws catch rock, throw screen to Wattle, screen to Tyreek, and then he rips a glance sproute to Wattle and your back on target, back on time, perfect location, low and a way to protect him from the hit from the safety. Then we get a far hash out and this time it's on time and it works. But then we miss and this I think of this play like a hell Mary, no timeouts, third and one ball at your own forty five yard line.

You need a yard to have a heave to the end zone on the next play, because there's nine seconds left in the game or the half you have to get out of bounce you have no timeouts, and the Jets know this, so they protect the perimeter. They put two defenders on the sidelines at the plus forty yard line fifteen yards away. They have two high shell defenders with three intermediate defenders taking away the middle of the field. I guess just there for tackling purposes. I'm not really sure.

And then no pass rush with two corners manning up the mesh we ran. We ran two shallow crossers, one to either side of the field. So there's zero chance that two throws this ball if it's not the end of the half. Zero chance. And to compound it, he threw it too far inside missed his spot. So those two picks. I think that's the first time all year either of those things happened. Late and a missed spot on a short throw. Hey, I'm glad he got him out of the way in this game and we destroyed

an inferior New York Jets team. On the never ending drive, he hit two third downs, including one of off the similar rail glance concept. You know that the wheel route with the inside little slant that we run all the time off of RPO or off of play pass action. He slides to his left and Tyreek is engaged on a press from DJ Reid, and Tua throws it like he's posted up in basketball, like I got my left arm pinning him, throws to my right arm, two throws

it off the off shoulder. Tyreek disengages, makes the catch, and then lays it off the glass for two points. JK. But just a really good example again of how Tua's understanding of leverage and placement makes him a high level quarterback. I think his game the ability to convert in obvious passing situations, the added creativity, the obvious high level play from instructure. I came away from this tape the opposite of concerned about our passing game. I think it's only

going to get better from here. The only thing that I concerned that concerns me is just these self inflicted errors. It happens far too frequently. There's still some time to iron it out, but it's incumbent upon them on the team, on Tua to get that sorted out. If they do, we're gonna win the super Bowl. That's how I feel about it. If they get that figured out and they can play four clean games in January, they'll win the whole thing PFF twenty plus are yard throws two for

two for sixty seven yards. On ten plus throws, he was six for seven for one sixty two. Damn. What a game. Just the short right part of the field cost him. He was blitzed just four times, got sacked once. He was one for three for seventeen. He was pressured four times, got both sacks obviously, and then was one for two on those two plays for seventeen yards also, I believe. So there you go. There's your two notes. Let's go ahead and take our last break. Come back

on the other side. Do the rest of the offense, do the defense. We'll also do the snap counts and our last quote from Mike McDaniel. That's all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I don'tation. Third segment. We've only covered the quarterback right now. We did top five play, Top five tapes, explosive plays

as well. Let's go ahead and pick up the rest of the offense here though, and start by just another mention of Cedric Wilson, Brasen Barrios and the entire receivers work in blocking Cedric Wilson on a pop pass. Hip toss to guy to the ground. You don't see that very often in the offensive line, much less among Roger receivers. Had a critical connect and pin on a second quarter run. It was just consistent, excellent work without the ball in his hands. I see you said making big plays. Same

for Braxon Barrios. Really the whole room blocked their butts off. Ad Durham spice to that mix as well. You missed him with the game that he was down, but he's critical to our perimeter success. Jeff Wilson I thought had one of his best games as a Dolphin. There was some more juice from him that we've seen great time from fresh legs man. The route on the angle route that he ran to convert on third down. You add that with his ability and pass protection, but also to

push piles in short yardage. Having that skill set in the equation, I think gives you a chance to improve upon what has been the league worst short yardage. I can tell you that's a good thing to have. Raheem Moster. It thought he ran with real conviction, especially in the second half. I just love the way that he finishes runs man. I thought his physicality was what brought the face mask on that third and a mile. Then he

pays it off with the fourteen yard touchdown. Got awesome blocks on that play from Julian Hill, Austin Jackson, alec Ingold, Durham Smyth, Austin Jackson. I said that twice Liam Eichenberg, Connor Williams. He ran through three Jets defenders though at the eight and in for six. So Raheem continues to get yards after contact receivers Tyreek I mentioned Waddle already, but for Tyreek, you have to appreciate the concentration catches. A lot of fast guys struggle with that. It's tough

when you run twenty two miles an hour. Your head bobbles, you know, as you run. But he never drops those drop the ball in there. He keeps on going. The first screen of the game, we are one of just one of three offensive linemen peeling back and getting a block on Dj Reed from a fun Tyreek screen touchdown. But then Tyreek did score on that little swing route from the backfield. Doesn't score there without creating an open

field mistackle. And then how can you be anything but appreciative of a potential two thousand yard wide receiver, a potential league MVP who's asked to crack pin a two hundred and sixty yard defensive end and he does it like his life depends on it. Best trade in franchise history. Three points six four yards per route rayand eleven point one yards per target Big yat game seventy six yards eight point four per catch on the day for Tyreek Hill.

Alec Ingle was fantastic. He was head up on the linebacker and the gap one v one double digit times, and I think he lost maybe one or two of those. Really really impressive stuff on the offensive line. I think a generic statement is required here because they consistently had hat on a hat, moved guys against their will, and created big creases. Just a great game for the offensive line. Some notes here on Austin Jackson, who I thought had his worst game of the year. But here's why I'm

gonna tell you it's a good thing. Because on the second play of the game, on a play action pass, they get him working laterally and he thwarts the rush to the left, but Tua goes high low to the right, comes back high low to the left. Four reads for him on this play, and I bring this up because it's a long play. So Austin squeezes the four eye technique inside, tries to rush inside of his left post.

He then tries to spend back outside and you just see Austin's feet my favorite term typewriter feet baby just tapping and allowing him to transfer that weight with ease. Then he spins back inside and Austin does the exact same thing again. There's a drill and the combine and indie and he aced it with live action. Here the

rabbit drill inside, outside, inside, outside. All that said, nobody gave him the issues that Bryce huffed all year, and what I liked about it was the first move typically went Huff's way, but Austin just continuously responded time and time again and did enough to keep his quarterback clean, sell out, and make the block anyway you have to. He did that against a very good player. All thanks told,

Huff is an elite player. I love his game because when Jackson drew Franklin Myers, he made him obsolete in the game. Should also mention that Austin was bullying guys in the running game Liam. His balance and strength looks noticeably better. He's not getting knocked off target, He's not falling as much still on the ground. Sometimes he has a pretty good snatch trap move that he's been using that it's been effective for him. Encourage about Liam's growth

here this season. How about Keon Smith coming off the bench on his first play, collapsing the edge for a third down run conversion. That's good stuff. I had two negative notes here, Lester Cotton. I think this game, along with the Raider game, has led to a very obvious conclusion to me that Liam Eichenberg should be the left guard when Hunt gets back, or maybe it's Rob Jones when he's ready. I just know it's not sixty six

for me. There are far too many easy misses, not even tough assignments, like an outside run to Jeff Wilson to the right where you're you got an awesome turn and pin from Liam, a perfect second level block from Austin, a crackback from said, squared up lead block from Alec, and yet a defensive tackle from the backside pursuit makes the play because we couldn't wall him off, just couldn't get in his way. I always talk about how difficult it is to get an outside shoulder of a defensive

lineman who has you outflanked like a reach block. Right, the converse is true here the two I technique shoots across the outside shoulder and we let him just run right around us and go make the play. I don't know how big the play is if we execute that block, but when he's tackled, there are three Jets defenders who have Dolphins hats on them. It's at least a ten yard game. It only went for two. It might have been fifty, it might have been six. And this has

happened multiple times the last couple of weeks. And then tarn Armstead just doesn't look right to me right now. That's not the player I'm used to seeing on tape the last two weeks. You can tell physically he's limited. I know he could keep pushing through, but makes sense to me to get him one hundred percent for the stretch run. You know, Washington traded away. They're two best rushers and the Titans don't have an exterior rush, so to me, see, you'll meek fourteen for these Jets again,

but we'll see what happens there. And then just tip of the cap across the board to key on it. Left tackle and right tackle Kendall Lamb into the game late. Good stuff all around. In fact, PFF said that the Jets had six total pressures in the game, two credited to Tua, but the six pressures was the lowest in the game for the Jets this year. They tabbed one to smythe to Tehran, to Connor, and to Austin. So

clean sheets for Liam, Lester, Keon and Kendall. And how about this, Actually, the Jets six pressures was their season low by eight. Their previous low was fourteen. They came into the game averaging twenty three point one pressures per game, but Miami held them twenty five percent of their usual production while playing six different offensive linemen and having seven total guys play in the game. On top of being down, they're starting right guard, they're starting left guard, and their

top interior swing man in Rob Jones. Pretty damn good defensively. Gonna keep this brief because it was dominant. Everybody won their matchup. The team played fast, inspired, and the Jets did not get a whole lot done. Like, there wasn't a ton schematically that jumped off the tape in this game. It was just overwhelming. One v one domination across the board for the majority of the snaps. I thought the

connectivity in the back end was great. I thought the way the front seven is playing together up front stands out a lot three of our top five tapes where guys right here, Christian Javaon and Jalen sardlumped a lot

of this together. Starting up front with Raykwon Davis, who I've been so impressed by two additions to his game this year, where I think he's better planting his feet into the ground against doubles and holding up not getting grand backwards, and then also the balance to get down the line when he has a chance to make more plays in one gap situations or single blocks and making those gaps and creases for the back to choose from much more tighter. The more I watch this, it's just

Rinse repeat man Seeler getting one on one wins. Ogbaugh came in and did it two Van Ginkle got his. I think my biggest takeaway from this tape is that the scheme is becoming second nature of these guys more and more each week. They're all winning in ways where I think they're making fuel plays. Like I talked to Bradleychubb about this for the breakdown down on YouTube. Go

check it out. How you can pick spots where you can get off your gap or cheat the scheme a little bit, and it's based upon how you can anticipate where both the opponent is going and what the guy next to you is doing. Obviously it requires a lot more contact with the gist of it is that. That's the gist of it, and man, it's been consistent all game long, and these guys are just getting after it. Van Ginkle led the team with five pressures. Chubb had three.

Also had two stops, including a four to cut block in the first play of the game that I loved and one of the most violent hits in a pulling guard I've seen in a long time. Ogball had three pressures, and Wilkins and Hand both had two pressures of their own as well. I thought Jerome Baker's closing speed of

the perimeter really popped in this game. I also love the way he anticipated the passing game, which isn't something he's done in the past to me, whether he was in coverage from the start or sneaking around the line of scrimmage to bell out and bluff that rush. He would get to the flats quick and hit the backs before they could build up speed as runners after the catch. He also led the team with three stops and had a pressure and of course the pick in the secondary.

I just noted that Cater consistently plays with anticipation and physicality, which is a perfect combination for a slot cornerback. The entire secondary worked so well in concert. There just weren't many concepts that ran a route into one player. It was constantly getting ran into multiple guys. We constantly had the numbers advantage in terms of max pro versus limited rush or vice versa. I think the communication has really clicked here. I think Deshaun Elliott played another damn good game.

I think X looks as smooth as he has in a long time. I think Glen Ramsey is just a black hole until teams want to actually throw at him and you see what happens. There not a lot of chances here, but it was so consistently in tight phase

engaging guys at the los. That's the dentist system. Apparently a great overall effort from this group, and PFF had Cater with forty four coverage snaps allowed seventeen yards x thirty eight coverage snaps zero yards, one target, no catches, and Ramsey had three catches allowed for twenty five yards

on thirty eight coverage snaps. And before we get into snapcounts here, that's the end of the notes there, before we get into snapcounts, I wanted to give coach McDaniel the opportunity to clear the air about that weird story that Al Michaels told on Friday night about how he met his wife, not exactly how it went down. Al here's what coach McDaniel had to say about that.

forty five seconds. It was a special place in our memories, but I don't think it was I was. I don't know it was. I wasn't nearly that. I feel like I was painted out to be kind of a a d bag and it wasn't like that at all. It was it was all It was all niceties. We were celebrating as a team, and it was something that I think Stephen Barkley that the player that was dancing with her was well aware when I when I made that joke in jest that it was more important to me

than it was to him. So and I'm pretty sure I was right right. I mean, I have a family now, like good decision won or over. Clearly I had nothing to do with anything. It wasn't my my physical disposition. I promise to that. But uh yeah, it was a it was a cool, lightheaded story that I that I felt like took a turn.

but most of the guys went the distance. Tua played all but one night because they gave Mike White a snap there at the end, which is hilarious by the way. So Kendall Lamb had eight snaps and Keon Smith played twenty one, a career high for him. At receiver, Waddle led the way forty six snaps. That was two thirds of the reps. Tyreek played forty four snaps, so just below that, and then Barrios the next man up at

fifty four percent. Cedric played forty percent, River played thirty five percent, so good work from the entire receiver room here in this one. At running back, Raheem got the bulk of the workload sixty percent of the snaps, Jeff Wilson thirty three percent. A good little workload for him getting worked back into things here. And then Darrington Evans had five snaps before he fumbled and never saw the field again. Ingold played thirty percent of the snaps in

this one at the tight end position. Derham Smith welcome back, seventy seven percent of the snaps, Julian Hill played thirty percent, and then Tyler Croft got nine percent of the snaps in there at the end. And that's it, right, and then defensively, so no one went the distance. I's to get some rest there. Xavian Cater and Jalen all played forty eight snaps. Javon Holland played forty four. Bradley Chubb

played forty six off the edge. Of course, Phillips was right there with him, played thirty five before he got hurt and had to exit, but also off the edge. Let's see. Ogba played fourteen snaps in the game, so you'll probably see more of him going forward. But Van Ginkle gets the big boost I think going forward as well, twenty nine snaps for him. He has to kind of, I guess, get some less off ball linebacker snaps now

that we're gonna be playing more edge up front. Wilkins and Sealer their usual work Wilkins thirty seven snaps, Stealer thirty two. Actually everyone got a reduction workload here, so great job to get some rest in this game. David Long played two thirds of the snaps in this one. Javon Holland played three quarters of the snaps. Nick Neatam got twelve snaps, Cam Smith got eleven snaps, Elijah Campbell got ten snaps, Cam Good got ten as well, and

Justin Bethel saw one. So honestly, not much take away from all that except for to say they destroy the Jets, which is cool to see. But that is your podcast. That is your breakdown, lengthy as always here on a Monday. In the meantime, that's gonna be my time. We'll be back on Wednesday for the preview of the Commandos. We'll just do that on Wednesday, but you will please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast from Lewis and Rady. Leave us

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