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shall see when we get there. Chris Brooks probably more close to week to week in his injury. Phillips was on a limited snap count, although he wanted to play a lot more football. Good to see him get ramped up ahead of the big game in Philly next Sunday night. So Miami coming away from this game looking pretty good on the injury front, aside from all the guys we

have on the injury reserve. But we digress. Let's go ahead and get into those big plays here, and we start with the opening touchdown, a four yard swing pass or swing screen to Raheem most or early in the second quarter. And I wanted to put this play in here because of the design of the play. I just don't know how you stop it. Eleven personnel Durham Smyth attached to the short side of the field the boundary in a two by two set, So you have Tyreek

and Durham to one side. You have I think it was Cedric and Waddle to the other side with a pistol formation with Raheem right behind Tua and Smyth motions out wide to Tyreek, so it looks like you're gonna still have a two by two set, but then he returns in orbit motion a tight end going behind the

entire formation is not something I've ever seen before. I think the Panthers here are in a hybrid man's zone look man to the backside on Tyreek zone to the front side, and the backer who motioned out with Smyth did not follow him, but rather stayed in there to bracket Tyreek. So when Tua pumps the ball to Tyreek, he flows that way. So you've already erased two defenders by showing action to Tyrek, when really that was just a ruse. So two guys to one on that side.

All of a sudden, you have a favorable numbers count to the play side, and the Mike linebacker follows Durham on that orbit motion. But they bust the coverage on Raheem because nobody is out there with him. I mean nobody, and I'm taking Raheem one on one in space every single day to make a tackler miss, but give him an additional blocker, zero chance walk in touchdown. Great design, great execution, great attention to detail by Tua to hold that look on the backside and come back front side

to Raheem moster. Raheem also has our second big play break down, a forty nine yard scamper in the middle of the second quarter. First, very cool wrinkle off that sprint motion, the exit motion whenever the hell we're calling it, where Tyreek typically runs off of the formation into the

route continuously. He's in that little sumo squat that he does where he's kind of that tight end and the weird legs like further than the shoulders apart and getting ready to go into that motion, and usually he takes off there, but instead it's Julian Hill who comes across the formation from the same side that Tyreek is on and goes and hits a lead block off of that jet motion and completely completely erases Brian Burns, one of

the best players in the National Football League. Then you get really good backside effort from Tyreek to stay in front of ya Teer gross Models who's trying to get backside pursuit to go cut this play down, but Tyreek's just being like a little gnat, staying in his way and not letting him do so. You then get Liam Eichenberg with a turn and pin on shy tunnel inside

for an impressive block. Isaiah Win washes out the front side four technique, which he needed some help to get there because Lamb kind of checks, and then climbs up to the second level to hit another block. But for a win that's a a gap one side to your left.

He has to go cut off and make a key block, just like Austin Jackson did to a four eye technique, which is playing off of his inside shoulder, and with the run going to the inside to the left of Austin Jackson's left shoulder, it's a very challenging block to hit, but he works and works and works and gets himself in position to thwart him from making a play on

the ballcarrier. And then you get Rob Hunt wipe him out, wiping out a safety who's trying to come from depth, and that puts Raheem one on one against a post safety but also a corner who gets back into the play after getting off a block, and he makes him both miss. He absorbs another tackle attempt from ninety seven. I think that's I think that's Tuttle in pursuit, shakes him off and runs for thirty more. Very impressive team offense to get that production there. How about the forty

one yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill. The Panthers are in cover six on this play, and if you don't know what cover six is, you're gonna have one cornerback who's gonna play the flat, and then you're gonna have a safety to that side rotate to a deep half so he's covering half the football field deep, and then you're gonna have your other safety play a quarter of the deep coverage, and then the other corner on the opposite side plays the remaining quarter deep. So quarter quarter

half is what you call that. And you can identify this by the corner playing flat and that half field safety really making an effort to get beyond the numbers to that side of the field because he has to cover half of the deep portion, so he has a lot more responsibility than your other two in that three high shell. And so to beat this, you're gonna have to find a way to hold one of those quarter

safeties to the side that Tyreek is on. And you know, while he has the best release in the game of football, Dante Jackson's trying to mirror his you know, movement which is basically pressed without actually making physical contact and Tyreek just hits the smallest of jab steps inside and he he pairs it with a little head nod to really sell that he's going to take an inside release. And that's all it takes for Jackson to open his hips up like five degrees too far, like he wants to

run inside. Tyreek then cross his face and gets back outside. Takes him out of phase, so he's open. But then it's on Tua and the pass protection. And I think the other the reason the other quarter safety doesn't gain depth to help there on Tyreek is that the Dolphins have a crossing route coming from the bunch to the strength the wide side of the field the field, and Tua knows this, so he works that side. You see the helmet facing left away from where the throw goes,

and at the top of his drop. That's the most important part because when he hits that drop in hit or in rhythm, you know, one hitch timing, that's the defense trying to kind of key what he might do. But then as he hitches up, his head whips back to the backside, and as he's doing this, he doesn't even hitch into the throw, just starts the arm motion and it goes from his own forty nine down to

the seven yard line. I mean, if we can get a ball forty two yards down the field without even stepping into the throw, and it's out in two point one seconds and your receiver wins that cleanly, Who the f is stopping that? Nobody is, doesn't matter who's out there. Pass pro. You get Kendall Lamb with an excellent absorption of a speed to power move from Brian Burns, and it's like you kind of just know it's gonna suck, and he sees it coming, He's like, all right, time

to anchor up. And he absorbs that initial hit and has to kind of re anchor his feet because who wouldn't. It's Brian Burns, and he does it, just calmly locks it up, as does everybody else across the board. High high, high level stuff from both Tua and Tyreek to get another long touchdown. Remember this guy couldn't throw deep balls. I mean, Charger game was a thirty five yard deep

touch down. Bronco Game fifty four yard deep touchdown, Giants Game sixty nine yard deep touchdown, Panther Game forty one yard deep touchdown. Yeah, keep on you know, pushing those narratives, though I guess I'm fighting myself because if you're still saying that, then you're just not paying attention. The forty seven yard completion from two to Tyreek with nine to fourteen to play in the third quarter, the one more Tyreek broke a tackle and ran for a bunch more

yards after. And it starts with Tua doing two things because the Panthers are in one of the kind of variations that you play off of quarter six. It's cover three, which is two corners getting depth and covering a third. And then you're middle of the field safety closing off those post routes and middlefield throws, and Tua just stares down the barrel at the center field safety Sam Franklin, almost James Franklin. He's properly leveraged to take away the

dig to Tyreek. As you see his hips are facing towards Tyreek' side of the formation, but Tua just stays on him. You see the helmet down the middle, and then here comes this seam route that catches his attention. He must see the color flash because he rotates his hips the other way and literally the moment he flips

the hips. That way, Tua's hands start to separate, So Tua is clearly reading this middle of the field safety waiting for him to clear out, and you want to run this dig route right in underneath him and hope that he's late to trigger so you can fit it in there for a big completion. And Tua his hands separate right when Tyreek's outside the numbers before breaking inside with a hook defender getting depth who's inside of Tyreek. So it's another one of these capital a anticipation throws.

Ball travels thirty yards through the air, and if you freeze your frame on where the football is when it arrives, Tyreek runs right through it, like perfectly located. You couldn't have handed it off any better. It's every damn week with this quarterback. Then Tyreek being Tyreek gives you an extra twenty five yards because he's Tyreek Hill and just

real quick. On that play, Julian Hill draws yet tear Gross Mottos, who hasn't been a good pro so far, but one on one a tight end versus an edge rug sure and just destroys him, like physically dominates him. Not good for gross model, it's great for Julian Hill and also Austin Jackson carried Derek Brown to Naples in the play man just good across the board And speaking of that good, let's go ahead and talk about to a tongue by Lowis tape because my top five tapes

two was at the top. Last week was the first week we didn't put him in the top five, and he goes right back to the top spot with a freaking what a performance. This guy is so good, He's such a good player. Damn near flawless tape and nice to get back to that after I felt his last two games were not flawless, even though he's the only quarterback in the National Football League this year to play six games with a ninety or better passer rating. I

know y'all watched that Bills game last night. How did Josh Allen look? I know y'all watch Patrick Mahomes on Thursday? How did he look? Has two ahead a game like that this year hadn't had it ain't happened very good. Literally, he hasn't had a bad game. But we went back to near flawless on this tape, which is what you want to see because when your quarterback plays at that level, it's hard to lose football games. And Tua's superpowers that we talk about all the time on this show, we're

on display in this tape. We didn't give him a game ball on Postgame Live, and that was a mistake. Whether Seth or OJ want to agree with me or not, we had a bunch of options to pick from. It's a good problem to have, but Tua should have been in there because he was dialed. First play that caught my eye was the third and three hit to Barrios to move the chains on the first touchdown drive. And it's just these subtle little nuances every week that make

the tape so much fun. Miami comes out an eleven personnel and goes empty, so you have a running back and a tight end with three receivers and you get five wide set and Caroline doesn't match up in man coverage. They stay in their off coverage with too high and they eventually rotate to quarters. You have four deep zones, which this offense draws a lot of Cover six, a lot of quarters coverage, and a lot of Cover three because they're trying to keep that shell, that roof on

top of the defense right. So Tua has Barrios as the three to the passing strength. What does that mean. He's the closest to the lion screen, your ones, the furthest out, two next threes in close to the line of scrimmage. And here's what he has to do. He has to hold that Mike linebacker Frankie Luvu, one of the best in football, and rip to Brax and Barrios on a five yard hookup. Seems easy enough, and it looks easy enough, right. But this all occurs in exactly

one point three seconds. The best way I can describe it is that Tua, I think is the best multitasking quarterback in the NFL. In one point three seconds, he not only scans the weak side, he takes his hitch, gets aligned, and the throwing motion is already in the works while all of this is happening. So it's like an assembly line of things occurring at once to put together the car right. It's a big reason why you

see Dolphins wide receivers open so frequently. On top of their skill set, on top of the design of the offense, Tua is one third of that equation. At least, Defenses just cannot key on what he's doing. Actually, let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel, because I asked him about this. What is it about Tua's ability to manipulate defenses that makes this offense go? Here's coach, when you're trying to play.

an outlet or you know, progress throughout the progression. So to play to be confident to you know, get past the ball against zoning defenses, it's absolutely a critical.

that is one of the reasons he's so productive. Really.

Turnpike speed limits, about ninety miles an hour. The second touchdown throw is another good example of that. He beats the free runner around the edge and it's funny if

you watch this tape. Brian Burns is livid with Dante Jackson for taking the angle he did, which helped to make the play, but good on to his athletic ability to get that edge, and it looks like Tyreek's gonna come wide open, and eventually he does, and Tua actually throws probably the harder of the two throws, but that defender did kind of peel off when Tua's hands separate to throw back against the grain to waddle there in the end zone, and he just puts it on the

keyhole on the move to waddle for six. Great play from quarterback one. The next drive, we look a little bit disjointed on the first two plays of the series, but we face a third and ten and the capital a anticipation pops up once again. And this just goes back to Tua understanding what defenses are trying to do. He IDs blitz to the field the wide side of the formation. The Mike linebacker again, that's who you're typically

working off of. He rotates that way, and so Tua just throws to the space that he just vacated and didn't get his drop into that window. When his hands separate, Wattle isn't even into the break yet. He hits the drop and the ball is out. That's how you beat the blitz, and the Panthers came after him in this game actually nineteen dropbacks, a big difference from last week.

He was fourteen for nineteen for a buck fifty one and two touchdowns against the Blitz, just four pressures and the ball was out in an average of two point four to two seconds. So he's really really dialed in right now. And then, by the way, that third down throwaway in the third quarter, just to kind of you continue the script here, Tua took the exact same hit as Matt Malono put on him last year and he rolled out of it onto his shoulder and pop right

back up. So the durability stuff like that work. It's all paying off as well. The throw to Wattle that was broken up between three Panthers defenders, what a freaking dined that was. Man, he should have caught that football. When he lets it go. There's a defender on the same plane as Waddle, like right in front of him by five yards, and then one on the same plane five yards behind him. That is the definition of dropping the ball into the bucket. It just lands right in

the bread basket. Absolutely unreal dialed tape. On passes twenty plus yards in this game, he was four of six for one thirty nine in a touchdown on passes ten plus yards, so incorporating also the ten to nineteen yard window seven for eleven one seventy three two touchdowns. This quarterback is elite. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there. We'll come back on the other side and do top tapes two through five. We'll let's talk about the rest of the offensive notes and defensive notes

and talk about snap counts and what they mean. That's all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autundation. We are breaking down the Dolphins win over the Panthers via the all twenty two, via the critical numbers, and so much more. Let's go ahead and pick it up with my second top tape of the day. It belongs to who else? Wide receiver Tyreek hill I broke down a lot of his work in

the big play section. The release the acceleration from any plane in terms of where his feet are like he can be two widespread, not have his feet under his shoulders and just hits the accelerator and goes zero to sixty and a blink of an eye. The run after the catchability is obvious. The fact that we can trust that he's going to be where he needs to be in a rhythm offense. Just a very very special player

on track to shatter. Pro football focuses yards per route ran statistic, which really is pretty consistent in how it projects the top receivers every single year. The guys that are on the field divided by how many yards they produce. Pretty simple. But he's at six point seventy nine for this game once again, and again you have all pro receivers who typically finish between two and three in that category every damn game. He's tripling those really good stats.

It's absurd. He's on pace to shatter the record there for YPPR sixteen point three yards per target. Again, anything over eight is typically pretty good. They threw the ball to at seventeen point five average depth yards of target. That's speaking to two's ability, and he averaged eight point seven yards after the catch. The third top tape goes to Raheem Moster. His contact balance and subtle movement right before impact is to me, the best part of his game.

He consistently puts guys in this position where they're just catching a small piece of him and it's not enough to get him to the ground, the effort that he shows the nose for the line to make the conversion on that third and eight swing play where he just made one guy miss in space and then has to split two defenders to get to the sticks. It's just winning football, like, go make a play for us, and he did. Also on that play. Durham Smith had a

critical blockout there too. I just really really want to harp though. On the way Raheem finds the line to gain man two of his touchdown runs, he's wrapped up with the ankles and lunges forward to make the line, and then on the first down run there on third and eight. He's just so tough, so physical, and such a great football player. Love watching this dude, love being around him. Great person as well. Pro Football Focus had him down for ten missed tackles forced for an average

of five point eight two yards after contact. He also ran for six first downs and two touchdowns. He scored a receiving touchdown and also picked up a first down as well, so that is ten total first downs for he moster or touchdowns in the game. What a player, man. My number four top tape seems like every week I have to kind of pick my favorite child here on the offensive line, and this week I'm going Isaiah win because he was freaking dominant man. His pass pro could

not have looked better. He frequently drew these one on one matchups with some space because of how wide, you know, Brian Burns rushes are, and they would get nothing from the two or three technique or the five technique who tried to clamp down him. And we're gonna hear from Mike McDaniel on this in a moment about the equality of the job the guys did to limit both Burns

as well as Derek Brown's production in this game. And I think he made he makes a comment here about kind of how they were able to put themselves in position to give so much attention to Burns Brown. We'll come back to that here in just one second. But we ran off of Isaiah wins gaps in this game five runs for fifty five yards and a touchdown, and he was tabbed with just one QB pressure from Pro

Football Focus. Our fifth top tape goes to the defense Javon holland his ability to pick up and run with wide receivers coming off a bunch or stack where he's stationary and kind of waiting to read out the play and how it might go and then like hit full speed pretty quickly. Is so impressive. I feel like the job that he does just does not get enough love because it doesn't produce stats. But he's so critical. He's

been phenomenal in coverage. In fact, on the Cater hit of Bryce Young, he might have had a pick there if Cater didn't, you know, mess up the pass because he's trying to throw the ball out wide to a receiver going back down the stem and Holland like beat him to the point of the stem, so might have jumped that. Who knows. He gets our other top tape. He was absolutely outstanding in this one. First one's out in terms of top five tapes and no particular order.

I thought Kendall Lamb was fantastic, thought Julian Hill was fantastic, Christian Wilkins, Bradley Chubb and David Long and I'll throw Cater Kohu and there, as well as guys that I thought had really good tapes that were just on the outside of top five some more general offensive notes. It started off about as off as we've seen, right. I loved the adjustment we got on the third series of

the game. The Panthers were dropping into two and high two and three high looks you know, all game long, and then planting their linebackers in deeper hook drops than usual akin to how the Niners played last year, and you know, held our offense to low production. Even the first play of the game that screen to waddle, you see Frankie Luvu reacts not at all to the run action on the play. That's the beauty of this offense. If you see something anything, it will usually inform for

a call later in the game. And they used that lack of activity to the perimeter or in the running game a lot against the Panthers, and then would play off of that into the overplay. They would give where they would you know, run counter action at a pass rusher collapsing hard off the edge and just say we'll leave you unblocked and we'll get in space and you can just take yourself out of the play because we

know how you're going to react. And then we see that same you know, taking advantage of those you know, deeper drops on the third series the first play, our first role successful offensive play of the day. It's a similar two man vertical route with Tyreek and Waddle as twins just means we're the same side of the formation. And then we've got on that same third down checkdown where they rally up and cut down Raheem earlier in

the game. So they start this drive by swinging Raheem wide on the same look, and the Panthers backers react to it. They flow that way, and then Waddle runs the shell off with a good effort route, a good love of the game route, and Tyreek runs a basic, a deep and cut a dig twenty yards a post to your traditional you know, twelve fifteen eight yard landmarks.

So stretch that zone a little bit more and find creases if they want to play that far off to what hits it right on time, right in rhythm, and it's an explosive play to get the offense going after a very slow start. They also had a great plan for Burns and Brown all game. Law very very rarely

were those guys not getting extra attention. In fact, let's go ahead and hear from coach at real quick, because before we talk about the offensive line play, he makes a comment here that I think is very valuable in terms of how this offensive line kind of operates.

football games. I know, the the from an individual standpoint, they're you know, those guys that had those matchups new what type of players are going against. That will be the same thing this week. There's just gonna be more guys that have those matchup concerns because of the quality of the team that we're that we're playing overall. But I think it you can't just show up. You have to really really be on your p's and q's to

be able to perform against playmakers. And I thought that you know, our guys on the edge, whether it was offensive line and or tight end or full back, everybody responsible for blocking did a good job in preparation and execution to keep those guys from making players because they're good players.

where Rob Hunt peels back and seals the edge. Like I mentioned, they use the aggressiveness and the overplay to just take yourself out of the play. Jalen Waddle gets a good block in space and then Raheem just does Raheem things. But the way the edge that they ran at the way he crashes inside because of the counter action.

I just think that that's really cool for the offense to put themselves in situations where they're scheming up you know, easy yards, the eligibles we talked about Tyreek and Raheem already. The effort in this game all around was so good and he shows up every week in the blocking of the wide receivers. Waddle connected on some key shots downfield man. I also loved his route running all game long, the

whip route I mentioned in Tua's bit. The footwork allows him to sell his routs because he's not cheating the process. He does everything with full detail. He opens it up when he needs to like full run full speed, and breaks it down when he needs to climb, chop, square it off, press the outside, leverage, pivot back inside, and explode off that pivot step to make sure that you're the one get into the spot first. Just picture perfect football from Waddle here. His feel, I think is also underrated.

On that touchdown catch he made, he keeps his feet chopping and active and just sustains the space between the two defenders and doesn't get close too close to either of them to give to a throw on that boot goes for six for a touchdown. Weekly, Brax and Barrio shout out his feel for the sticks to get upfield immediately. Critical third down conversion guy. He runs good routes that draws attentions away from zone defenders to clear space as well.

So valuable, if not unheralded. Is Braxon Barrios. And then I put down Chris Brooks and Savon Akmed that Brooks run. My god, man, what a grown man that is. And then Savon Achmed had some really good work between the tackles, and watch his effort on the pick six. I just always appreciate a guy who runs, you know, it doesn't give up on plays like that offensive line. We talked about him a bunch already. But the execution of this group is multifaceted to me, and I've been saying this

for you know, two years. Number one, the scheme is great. Number two, the execution is great. Number three two was great, But like the ability to curate clean pockets when you're banged up, down two key starters. So okay, let's go ahead and keep six in protection. We'll use dual swing options on the fake give and an orbit motion to hold those edges. Those guys off the edge have so much to think about with all the activity and motion

and potential reverses going on behind the quarterback. And then we'll dial up our deep shots to two of the most dangerous wide receivers in the game. Even when Derek Brown gets his punch and tosses Rob Hunt like he did one play in this game. Here comes Liam to like put a hit on him and take him out of the play like it was impressive. It's got to be so damn frustrating, and I would love to hear what opposing pass rushers have to say about facing this offense,

because it takes guys out of games. We saw it with Miles Garrett last year. We saw it. We just we see it so consistently. Kendall Lamb was, like I said, so close to cracking the top five. He had a couple of one on one reps where he had to go beat Brian Burns and he did. He allowed nothing.

That's a macp. The Panthers have to win to win this game their best guy one v one, But we win the matchup because Kendall Lamb has some of the best hands, some of the best patients, and some of the best recovery work I've seen at tackle besides Tarron Armstead on this team in a long long time. Just a good football player. Critical one on one win on the first touchdown and a play earlier on that drive as well. He allowed just one pressure on the day.

A hurry Leam Mikenberg. I thought the improvement was noticeable, and start number two here on Raheem's first down catch where he broke a bunch of tackles. He had a great pass pro rep where he went and tacked Derek Brown with the one technique and stopped his momentum and then peeled back inside to pick up a looping five technique. I've never seen him do that before, so that was cool to see. But I thought he was better connected throughout a lot of his work, but still fell off

too many blocks early. I think his processing is still a big step down from fifty eight in that position. And also, hey, like, snatch your man, dude. Like they had three batted passes all on guys working off of Liam, including a battered pass on a gold go at the one yard line that would have been two US fourth touchdown pass of the day where TWOA made an awesome little escape and threw from an awkward platform and took

a big shot. Pay off your quarterback, Snatch that guy and don't let them get hands up to bap down passes. But zero pressures allowed really good game for Liam in that sense. Austin Jackson was just awesome again. Cut and pace. He's a dog throwing guys all over the place, great lead blocks out in space, running off his gap eleven for seventy seven and a touchdown and one pressure allowed. Just a shout out to some of the unsung guys

out there. I know we covered their games, but Julian Hill, Durham, smyth alec Ingold every damn game, critical blocks and those names will sort of fade into the ether when discussing the historic pace offense that we have here, But damn it, they shouldn't they execute key elements of the offense on a regular basis. Durham had a critical late block on Raheem's second touchdown. Hill had critical blocks on Raheem's forty nine yard run, on the forty seven yard throw to Tyreek,

and savon Achmed's touchdown run. I'd add some receivers into this mix too, like I just think we should separate the r there. But Wilson key blocks Tyree, Waddell Braxton. I cannot wait to see what Chase Claypool can do here because there's you know, there's no way to play in this room other than up to the standard. And if Claypool does that and he engages that frame in

the blocking game. Who buddy, all right, let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back on the other side and do defense and snap counts. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, third and final segment here of the Panthers game before he turned the page of the

Philadelphia Eagles on Wednesday's podcast. I am looking forward to that, but first off, early on, there seemed to be some confusion in coverage, like guys covering zones that you know aren't there's just nobody in them. And that's been the case a couple of times this year. You know, X playing off with inside leverage and hauling getting depth, but also to the inside that gives young the access to the out route where otherwise he would have had nowhere

to go. It's a long year and hopefully you get this stuff really ironed out by the time the playoffs get here. But I think it improved as the game went along, because I thought I saw something that clicked here. Maybe it was once the Panthers got off their original script. Maybe that had nothing to do with it, but I thought starting with that fourth possession. The Dolphins just played

super sound in the back end. I am super intrigued to see if that carries over to Philadelphia because I thought they made life really hard on Young the rest of the game to make him get into that second and third hitch. In fact, that's exactly what coach said that the coverage was really good in this game, and he felt that they played their best team defense that they were hoping they would get to at some point

this year. Maybe a little bit lawer than you would want to, but it's still only October, so not that battle things considered individually. Upfront, Zach Seeler, I just noted the way he anchored against double teams had continuous pocket collapsing as well, but like his ability to take on two blocks and stay home really created chances for both Baker and Long in this game to have a bunch of tackles and run stuffs, So shout out to him for that. He and Christian Wilkins combined for let's see,

Steeler had five pressures and two run stops. Wilkins had four pressures and two run stops, but also two sacks. Speaking of Christian, he was really close to the top five tapes. I think the system is starting to click here. I think I've seen him playing with his usual pristine fundamentals, which is allowing him to play faster and make more splash plays. The ability to rip that first arm under and then get a quick step upfield and just lean

into the out leverage offensive lineman. It produces tons of pressures. It produced a sack in the game yesterday as well, but also up front ninety eight is it just gets pushed around a lot. That was the case again in the game yesterday. As far as the edge guys. Van Ginkle that double swipe move and then the counter off of that gets him in for a lot of QB hits. It did in this game. Early on the very next snap he controls the tie end with a long arm

to work his way into a run stuff. The way he's playing with his eyes up physically through blocks has been the most impressive thing about Van Ginkle this year. And then just two plays later he works over the top of the three technique to sean hand to get in there for a tackle for loss. Every damn week this guy shows up on tape in an impressive way. Very good work from Andrew Van Ginkle. I thought Bradley

Chubb has his best game as a Dolphin. He won in the run game in a variety of ways, getting up field with speed, playing over the top on runs away from him, just super I packed Phil, But he also forced a fumble on his sack that I don't think was seen because Bryce Young falls right back on top of it. Four pressures including a sack, and four run stops for Chubb, big game for him. Great to

see Jalen Phillips back out there. He blew up a play with a speed to power move where he bulldozed the right guard and then made Young kind of just throw the ball into the ground off of his back foot. He looked like an old Western outlaw kicking open the door to the swinging salon doors. Saloon doors. That was cool to see. He had two pressures in the game

on like twenty one pass rush snaps. Second level off ball linebackers like Jerome Baker had some good plays in this game, but there was one that I just can't get out of my head where Cater's covering a little hookup route and he's playing the hook zone as well. What good does playing the hook zone do if you allow to catch and then overrun the tackle or a step further. How about when you're helping that cornerback who plays outside leverage and funnels him inside to you to

then overrun the play. That issh is just not good enough. Bro David Long was though. The acceleration that he shows once he sees it is so impressive. He is an outside run eraser, he's scraping cleaner. He's condensing into the formation like I saw him do it with the Titans for so much, where he kind of can squeeze down and hide himself away from blockers and then pops right out into the you know, not getting caught in the wash,

and goes and makes the play. He and Baker had a combined five run stops in this game, according to Pro Football Focus on the Secondary, I think there have been just too many instances of max pro max protection against a four man rush and then a two or three man route where they're able to get separation, Like

why is that happening? There was a a play in this game where we had four guys covering grass in the middle of the field and then they had two perimeterive routes with comebacks and they separate against Eli Apple, who I'll just say this about Eli, don't. I don't think that that lineup will stick around too much longer. It's it's been rough. Forty covered snaps, sixty two yards allowed. Maybe he's been put in bad spots, but there's just too many reps where it's like, not good enough. Cater Kohu.

The way he squeezes up and hits or squares up and hits is so damn impressive. You know, I might like his work as the forced defender against the run, the last guy on the edge, as I do in coverage,

and I love his game in coverage. He keeps his feet moving, continues short in the distance by gaining you know, by reducing depth I guess, getting closer to the ballcarrier, but then stays in position to turn and run wide if that player tries to bounce, but then also sticks his face in the fan when he bangs it up in there for an inside run. So I just love the way he attacks the game. He had thirty eight coverage snaps and thirty two yards allowed in the game

on Sunday, Oh Perry Nickerson. On that opening third down stop, he comes down and beats a block and gets a crucial hit on the ballcarrier played seventeen coverage snaps allowed just thirty yards. He's had some good work. Deshaun Elliott saved a touchdown on the Panther second drive. They would eventually score anyways, but both Long and Baker got caught on blocks and he comes over the top and makes a diving tackle. I did that little feature on him last week where I talked about his you know fit

in the defense. Clicking and affirmation is always nice. He said he's feeling more and more comfortable, and you could see it. He was playing to what I think were his rules in the scheme, but then peeling off and finding additional work when he didn't have any within his rules in his zone. Good stuff from Deshaun Elliott Xavian the second touchdown they scored, Like, come on, bro, he was in the area. The ball just can't get over your head right there. You even see Javon like motion

him stay this way. I'm gonna follow this guy inside and Javon clamps like he always does, and then Cater passes off his guy two X, who then just creeps up a couple of steps for I don't know what reason, and the ball goes right over his head for a touchdown. That ball had to come out because David Long had a free run on him. But if we just stay in there, it's a pick six. I don't get it. But he did have a nice rep on a third down tackle short of the sticks where he was in man.

Everywhere he goes coverage where there's zone coverage and then one guy playing man coverage and he runs down the drag route from depth and finishes the open field tackle to get us off the field. Thirty two covered snaps, forty six yards allowed for Xavi and Howard all right snap counts before we get out of here in this one. Interestingly enough, the Dolphins offensive line goes the distance too to not play the entire game because Mike White came in for some mop up duty there for eleven snaps.

But Waddell once again leads all receivers with forty six snaps. That was seventy percent. Tyreek coming in and out of the lineup gave you just fifty seven percent of the snap. So Tyreek is so efficient, man like getting those rest reps in to come out and make his big impact. Definitely has felt that way. Cedric Wilson Outsnap Brax and Burrios in this game for the second straight week, twenty five to twenty snaps. They're thirty seven to thirty percent total.

The tight end position, Durham Smyth leads the way with forty four snaps. That was two thirds of the overall workload, but Julian Hill gets his most snap since Week three. He played forty six percent of the snaps. Tanner Connor also played ten snaps in the game there. At the

tight end position. The running backs, Raheem leads away with sixty one percent of the workload, Savan plays thirty six percent of the workload, and Crisp gave you eleven snaps start towards the end of the game, so pretty not really any surprises there. Defensively, we saw Andrew van Ginkel maintain his heavy workload with Phillips back in the lineup sixty one percent compared to Phillips forty three percent, but he's obviously ramping up. Bradley Chubb led the way there

for Edges with forty nine snaps. That was good for seventy one percent of the workload we had. Let's see four guys played sixty five snaps in the game. Holland, Apple, Elliott, and Kohu X played fifty six. He obviously exited a little bit earlier. David Long played three quarters of the snaps in this game, so he I think he's getting more and more comfortable. I think he might become your LB one here pretty soon, your off ball LB one. Jerome Baker played just four snaps fewer, but you know,

Long led the way for snaps there. And then let's see what else. Zach Seeler played forty six. That was just three snaps fewer than Christian Wilkins. Those guys both played right around seventy percent of the workload. In reduction to workload for those guys, I think has helped them become more productive. Rake one Davis played twenty eight snaps in the game. Duke gave you twenty two snaps, the same as Ogba. Ogba's been the primary like five technique

in that three to three five nickel they run. Deshan Hand played twenty snaps, Perry Nickerson gave you twenty as well, and then a bunch of guys got light snaps there. Campbell played four, Good played four Brandon Jones and Camp Smith played four snaps and Justin Bethel played two there as well, so a good mix. Dolphins blowout wins are giving them chances to get more guys snaps in the back end of the game. That's always cool to see. That's gonna be my time today. We're gonna have tomorrow off.

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