Drive Time: Dolphins Patriots Week 8 All 22 Review

inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maybe gaffe trying to speed it all up today because we have a lot of notes to get to because a lot of guys bawled the f out on Sunday. So the injury updates from coach on Monday's press conference sounds like to Ron Arbson has a chance to get back for the KC game. He will potentially have his twenty one day window opened up. We'll travel with the team and they'll test it out all week long.

Robert Hunt is day to day. What else do we get? Looks like Javon Holland will be coming out of protocol this week. He tweeted himself that that was the case, so taking his word for that, David Long returned to the game, so he's fine, good to go. What else we got? Gave us some updates on durham Smyth and alec Ingold, but not a lot of clarity there. So lots of questions to coach by injuries every single week, never get really any full clarity. But there you go.

If you want to check it out on YouTube, you can see the entire press conference. We're gonna skip it on the podcast today because well, we have a lot to get to, starting with the big play breakdowns from Week eight against the Nelnggland Patriots, a thirty one seventeen Dolphins victory, and you know where we're going to start here.

A forty two yard dart from Tua to Tyreek for another long touchdown, and just a great call all around because the Patriots are doing what they do and getting an extra hat to the fit in the running game. They've got a zero technique which is head up over the center, a four technique which is head up over a tackle, a four eye technique which is just inside that tackle, and then two wide nines. Those are two think Cameron Wakes flexed way the heck out there off

either tight end. Really, if there was a tight end, they'd be outside that tight end with their pre snap alignment, and this leaves them a man short in coverage against a two by two set. Then we motion hefe Wilson across the formation to tyreek side, which makes it three to one, and they don't chase him over there, which tells me zone. But the field safety loses his depth because he sees that motion man and comes forward. All the while j C. Jackson stops his feet for some reason.

He comes downhill and stops his feet. Wish we could play that guy more often, but just two times this year. Tua turns his back to the defense to fake the jet sweep to Jeff Wilson, and you see Twoa's head immediately snap back and locate that safety who's losing depth.

He's coming downhill and right there Tua knows where the football is going, but he doesn't rush the mechanics and this is the key part of the play for me with Tua to put himself in position to throw this ball half the field right like he threw the ball from midfield. It winds up a couple of yards deep in the end zone for a touchdown. It's all about the hitch up and the foot mechanics for Tua here,

which doesn't rush. It gets to his drop hitches up, clean footwork, no clicking, no cross feet, just keeping the feet even with the part shoulders, hips, feet, all that stuff aligned underneath him. It allows him to do what he does best and throw fifty yard handoffs, this one again to Tyreek Hill for a long touchdown. And the way he's layering these balls to the outside shoulder to really run ty Reek away from the contact Chef's kiss

baby like. I love the location on these throws. You basically create no chance for the defense to make a play on it if you miss it somehow. But she also give the best receiver in the National Football League plenty of opportunity to run underneath it. Just perfect. And then Tyreek man wasted zero time like on the slow release against the Eagles, and it was a shorter part

of the field. I think they were what thirty one yards compared to forty two yards or whatever it was on this one, he didn't have He didn't have time to waste. To quote Alkaline Trio and he just went just straight gas all the way to the end zone. And also you know, it locates the ball tracks, it hauls in, and he's back on the bench. I talked about it on Twitter on mon Sunday night. I went ahead and put the clock to it. From anap to

catch is four point nine seconds. From ketch to bench is nine point one seven seconds, so a little more than double, but impressive. Nonetheless, the next big player breaking down is the Tyreek catch on third and nine with six and a half minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Balls at the minus forty one and the score is

twenty four to seventeen. If you don't get this first down right here, the Patriots have half the quarter and two timeouts to potentially mount a the exact same drive they just had right, a full length field scoring drive, and they probably go for two. And I don't want to be in that position at all. So let's get the defense or the offense rather to convert. And that's exactly what happens. We come out in an empty set three by two with the strength to the field. What

does that mean, Dravis? It means you're three receivers to the wide side of the field. And the Pats are in Cover zero and they place four birds on the fence. That means the defenders are just hanging out at the sticks nine yards down the field, trying to cut off any passes right at the sticks. And still Miami gets it. They send five on the rush, a safety pivots out into the and they're in this what I think is a hybrid zone man combination, which can be a variation

of Cover eight. It can be sometimes Cover six. There's all kinds of different coverages that have multiple variations. But I think we get man to the boundary and zone to the field. They defend Waddle and claypool man up to the boundary. That's obvious to me, but I think they're trying to inside out this thing to the field, which is basically a communication like a banjo switch, where one guy takes in and you carry him, and then the second guy to the outside. The second player carries

that guy. It sounds confusing because it kind of is. But Tua has a three step drop from the shotgun, and as he's hitting the top of that drop, he's geared up to make this throw. The hand separate. The ball's coming out and Tyreek is sandwich between two defenders and he's three yards short of the sticks. Like that

tells you how fast has happened. Like Tyreek is six yards off the line of scrimmage and Tua has already sped up the process to get the process of the throw going, and he wedges this football just right between two defenders, and you get tremendous effort from Cedric and Barrios to run the perimeter defenders off and Tyreek to really push up to really I guess, keep those defenders on their heels long enough to create that space that

he winds up fitting it in between. And then of course Tyreek skies up and catches the football off of his frame, which you know, Tua gets out of the credit for the throw and he should, but Tyreek to make that catch like someone who called him one trick pony who was at the ESPN guy, the ESPAN analytics guy that said he was a one trick receiver, Like, shut up, dude, that's a big time catch in a big time moment. And you know something that you would see I don't know George Pickens or I guess who's

a great all time Terrell Owens. So it's a better option there if they did this in a playoff game, like if that was like the AFC Championship game or whatever, that would be the play where you're getting testimonies from to Tyreek, McDaniel, maybe Christian Wilkins about you know, like on America's game like that was that play was sick man, they would break it down because it was so high

level in such a critical spot of the game. Pass Pro does a good job absorbing four man and then a fifth rusher gets free, which you know that's part of the issue in the protection slide, I suppose. But if he's coming off of to his left side, you know, from the far side, Tua is so good that he gets the ball out before that player can arrive, like ninety percent of the time. And that sped two up. But just a team with two elite players two in Tyreek executing at a super high level to help you

win a football game. Fantastic. And then Waddle ends up. The Patriots go cover zero again. Dugger steps down to fit the run off play action and that was really the key part of the play. But Jack Jones is sprinting across the formation, going with the man in motion, and you know, trying to take away tyreek, converting to a kind of deep half field corner at that point, and Wattle comes clean down the middle. Now it's a

wide open walk in Tuddy. But if you've got the tape, pull it up and take a look at Twuoa's feet

for me. Once again. He keeps them active. He keeps kind of like tapping and clicking and making sure that he's not you know, getting crossed up or getting stationary and stuck in a position where if I see the throw, I want to make sure my feet are active and moving in a position to where I can get off a good mechanical operation here and not you know, have an overstride or a mistride and possibly drop the arm angle and missed this walk in touchdown and create a

fourth down situation where we have to convert. Otherwise we're back in that same spot where the Patriots can go win the game. But he doesn't do that clean footwork. Puts the ball right in the spot, and he kind of locks on the Tyreek first and sends the coverage that way, sees the overplayed it gets aligned, locates, Waddle puts it on him, and Ingold picks up a key chip that Kendall Lamb actually misses on the original protection.

You get a good wall from Cotton, Eikenberg, Jones and Jackson that a FOURDS two of the time ballgame, last big play. Ramsey swipes it. So at the snap of Jaylen Ramsey's interception, the Patriots are four by one with two wide and orbit motion man heading to the strength and the back is also to the strength offset in the back that alongside Mac Jones. So four players to one side eligible one and he's attached on the line of scrimmage, so not really much of a passing threat.

So Miami kind of knows, well, the only possible threat here is the perimeter and also maybe a crossing route back to the backside. And to me, there's two parts of this play that made the play happen to start. Before the two things, I think Andrew van ginkles, So I guess the third thing, Andrew Van Ginkle's speed rush and win around the corner sped Mac Jones up just a little bit. He beat Trent Brown off the edge, but you see Brandon Jones drive on DeVante Parker with

Ramsey outside leverage. Like Ramsey's walling off the sideline. He's running in phase with Parker on the outside hip. But then Brandon Jones just stops and wheels back into the post, which is where Parker runs. So there's like a film study, you know, dual communication thing here with Ramsey and Jones that works out perfectly, and I think that Ramsey feels this.

But either way, his eyes are on the quarterback all the way, which the ability to run and phase but also have eyes in the quarterback is super, super rare. So I think mac Jones is expecting Jalen to ki Harry Parker to the post and for Brandon Jones to be too far away to come down and close off that wheel. But at the last second they swap that and Jones runs the post and Ramsey comes back down the wheel and the moment that you see mac Jones's hand separate, this is the second part of the play

that blows my frigging mind. The plant. Like the minute he separates, Ramsey internalizes it and hits the plant leg. And when I tell you that, this man stops a full sprint and then starts in the other direction, all within two steps, like you know when you're driving, and like, oh, you want to reverse your car and it's an automatic and you pop it back into reverse and takes a minute for the gears to click. Like Ramsey's quicker than the gear click on your car. We said he was

an alien for the recovery. This is the alien stuff that he does. The change of direction that puts him in shape for the easiest catch, like coming back down the stem. That's the easiest catch anybody can make. That's that's in the pregame warm ups when the coaches are throwing you footballs out of your back pedal and you come back down hill. That's fantastic work to get themselves

in that position. Then you get a great downfield block from cater co who that helps spring Ramsey for a forty nine yard return on the reception Top five tapes with Miami Dolphins. We're gonna stay right there with Jalen Ramsey. You can see the impact by how he aligns. The defense has all these moving parts and shifting and pointing

things out and communication changes. But Ramsey, I'm chill. I'm just pressed up over here on the one to the field, which is the furthest out receiver to the wide side of the field. Sometimes it's the boundary the short side of the field. But either way, I'm just gonna go ahead and press up and keep my eyes on this man right here, not even concerning myself with the rest of the defensive call or shifts or motions. It's the old Sam Madison tend on ten ten on ten and

the coolest part. And Jordan rod Reeg from The Athletic told us about this in the podcast this summer. Dennis told me about these shorts Kendrick Bourne, DeVante Parker, Hunter, Henry, Randy Moss. It doesn't matter. He can cover them all. They were essentially taking various parts of their progression out of the game when they matched up on Ramsey because he just beat them all. He won with physicality, he won with quickness and instincts. I knew he was good.

I didn't you had my attention. Now you've got youah my curiosity. Now you've had my attention. I just blew that. But I did not expect him to be this good. Ninety four days off surgery and then the force fumble was textbook like Pop Warner one on one football. It's how they teach it man, which is kind of rare in the National Football League these days, Hat on the correct side of the ball carrier, brought his feet through the party, finished through the ball carrier. Man, I wish

we had fallen on that ball, so it counted. Deshaun Elliott tried to scoop it up and maybe he had a chance to be falls on it, but a good effort by Zeke Elliott to get his hand back in there and kind of strip it away from DeShawn who was going to pick it up and posta run it back for six. By the way, if Wilkins doesn't get the sack before the Patriots field goal at the beginning of the third quarter, after we fumbled it back to him,

they go three and out. Ramsey would have picked off the third downplay because he falls into a backside, you know, deep over route from Kendrick Bourne and he would have gotten there before the ball did him. Born put the mailbox up like I'm open, but he wasn't because Ramsey felt it the entire way. Go watch it on tape, you'll I'm talking about twenty nine coverage snaps. They targeted him three times, they caught one for twenty four yards.

He damn near broke that up to had a pick and a forced fubble that did not go into the books. First game back, he's the top tape of the week, tape number two, and this is his seventh time in the top five out of eight games this year. Two tungu Lo. They blitzed the hell out of him and effectively got free runners often, but man, he just got rid of the football. Didn't matter. They blitzed him more than double any defense did this year twenty three times.

That's forty eight percent of his dropbacks. And on those dropbacks he did get sacked twice, he scrambled once, and he was fourteen for twenty with a buck forty four and two touchdowns. There's no good defense against this guy, who is comfortably, comfortably the second best quarterback in the NFL. And the only reason I give Mahomes this top spot over him still is legacy because right now two is playing better than anybody else in the National Football League.

Go talk to your cactus about it. And when you can play like this under pressure with no run game, man, that's putting the damn team on your back. Greg Jennings style so much determination though the location on the back shoulder ball to wattle on the fourth and one on the opening possession, color flashes into his face, a blue jersey right there. He throws it with Wattle at midfield and a defender on top of him with inside leverage, So the ball has to go back shoulder because he's

right there in the hip pocket. There's a safety over the top ten yards deeper, so we have to make sure this ball has some zip on it. So we kind of settle Wattle down before he runs into that coverage, and there trap corner who's outside squeezing back inside of Wattle. So this ball it has to be through a proverbial twenty two inch tire rim, you know, like old Big Black from the Robin Black Days, twenty two inch arms. My arms are my rims. It's a turnover on downs

if we don't fit it through Big Black's arms. And when you have the most accurate quarterback in the NFL, it's seventeen yards on fourth and one, not a turnover. Just I can't say enough about this guy. He's so damn good. We got a nice adjustment very early on too, you know, the first incompletion to Claypool where Jonathan Jones just sort of walls him off and you're like, what

the heck was that? Well, first of all, past interference, I thought they he did that all game where somebody would wheel out of the pressure look and just search for the crosser and basically set a pick and wall them off on the very next play after the Claypool in completion, it's the following series they do the exact same thing to Tyreek on a shallow cross. So Tua checks it, and I think he's reading low to high.

You can't know if you're not in the quarterback room, but I think he reads Tyreek and then Durham to like the dagger the fifteen yard little en route and then replaces the vacancy with the football to smile. That's why your two star receivers went over one hundred yards in my opinion, because you had solutions to those brackets with your MVP. To this point, quarterback finding the available space that they created, he threw them out of that coverage enough to the point we got two hundred and

thirty three yards from Waddle and Hill combined. Really good stuff. The pick he told us about it. They ran a unique coverage with double hooked defenders that damn Kyle dugger Man that Damn, Bob Barker. He does such a good job of just being in every place every time it seems like. But on this particular play of flashing in front of Julian Hill where it looks like he's gonna pick him up and run the vertical stem, but then he peels out right at the last moment and baits

two into that throw. Bad Reid. Great play defensively, tip of the cap, Kyle Duggart, you made a lot of players in this game. Oh my goodness, guys. The throw to Waddle at the end of the half where he laid out for the catch. So the Patriots are in that double hook Look again, where where they're taking away that ten to eighteen yard rage pass that we just

you know, Pepper teams with. We get a swing an out from alec Ingold and a hookup from Durham smythe all to that side of the formation with Wattle running the cross or in behind all of that. Now, when Tua strides on the throw, he's directing his body language at alec Ingold on the out route and the entirety of that middle structure of the Patriots defense, which by the way, there's also two deep safeties on top of

all that with a three man rush. So this really well orchestrated, really well conceived, eight man drop in coverage. These are the hardest plays to win against when you have no threat of the run due to the game situation. In this situation, no clock left, you know, before the half, Tua gets them all to flow outside of that throw to Wattle because he strides to Ingold, then fires over that level twenty yards down the field to Wattle. That

is as elite as it gets. I know that people want to see guys throw you know, off script, you know, rolling to their left, across their body, ropes and stuff. But I don't give a damn about that. I care about this stuff. This is winning football, like elite stuff. Then the throw to Waddle after the dropped back shoulder that he had, He's chased off the spot, attacks the line of scrimmage, eyes up, and throws a dart to Waddle on the move. Siri, what does elite quarterback play

look like? Oh? Yeah, cool, cool cool. I think you could look back at the top two or the two New England games this season at the end of the year and collectively say that that was Tua's most impressive body of work over his entire career in terms of how they challenge you, make you play left handed or I guess right handed in this case, ten to find ways to make you one dimensional, the way they challenge your rules, the way he executed from a progression standpoint

back in week two and in this game from a big moment execution standpoint, from beating tight coverages time and time again. Third and longs who collectively just two awesome, awesome tapes from QB one. Am I plugged in here? I would suck if I just did all that without being plugged in. Let's see just thoughts by train of thought. So besides the pick I thought, he had two other misfires. The one to Barrios that Jack Jones almost broke on.

That's just a good play from the defender, really, and then the final touchdown drive before the huge third down conversion of Tyreek, he had Wattle wide open and through the ball behind him. Waddle dropped it, but it could have been a lot bit of a throw otherwise, an awesome tape that ended with a touchdown throw to Waddle. His lowest deep ball percentage of the season, just went one for four for forty two yards. It's nice to

have a score in there as well. And then on throws over ten yards in general, so ten to nineteen plus a twenty plus he was nine for twenty with a buck ninety two and two touchdown and a pick. Both are over one hundred and passer rating, so relatively speaking, like this guy still just balls out and still leads the league in everything. If he doesn't leave the league,

he's second or third in the category. Let's run out of the top five tapes on the other side here and take our first break because we are deep into the podcast. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Top two tapes today go

to Jalen Ramsey and two A Tongue Bi Loa. Our third top tape against the Patriots goes to Jalen Waddle and just want to acknowledge off the top some of the drops that both he and Tyreek had because spoiler Tyreek is my fourth top tape, just a rare instance for both, but my goodness, I just love this dude's game, man, the effort in getting himself into position and outworking guys in the run blocking game. Just grit and determination and demeanor.

It's all really like, it's admirable for a guy that makes his money running by people, I think. And then how about the ultimate hype man when a fellow wide receiver does something big, just loving up on Heeddrick Wilson

after his first career touch his the Miami Dolphin. And then there's the stuff that he gets paid for making the big plays like catching a now throw at the Lion scrimmage on third and fourteen and following great blocks from Tyreek, from Barrios, from Jackson Hunt and getting seven yards after the initial contact. He is so adept at picking his way through traffic. It's no mystery why he

was a dynamic returnment in college. The balance the accelerator slash decelerator up the stem after one of the best released packages in the entire game. That's why he's always open. Tremendous, tremendous route runner. And as I wrote that, So he drops that back shoulder throw in the third quarter right like,

got to make the play. But onto the next snap and he gets j C. Jackson one v one, Tua extends the play, Wattle presses the off coverage and just gets going downhill at him and then turns in with the head nod to sell the inside route. Jackson takes the cheese and wheels all the way out and runs around and circles and tries to drive before realizing it's

to double move. And then all of a sudden, Jackson sprints back to the goal line and Wattle flattens it back out and it's a deep, out, wide open, easy catch of twenty three yards. This is the wattle game

we were used to in twenty twenty two. In terms of stats, two point eight eight yards per route, ran ten point one yards per target, forty one yards after the catch, and what could have been so much more because three drops on the back shoulder on the dagger that I thought to a put behind him, and that little swing throw that would have been like at least fifty more yards. He could have been close to like one seventy five, close to two hundred if he catches

all his balls. My fourth top tape is Tyreek Hill, and the chemistry that he has with two a tongue of I looa continues to pop in a way that just is rare. He ran one crosser on boot action with layers where you got you know, a low layer, a mid layer, a top layer to kind of spread

the defense out in terms of vertical spacing. And Kyle Dugger saw it and knew where to go because he's Kyle freaking Dugger, and he runs to the spot where Tyreek Sprout normally goes, and then, in perfect unison, Tua starts his throw at the exact same time that Tyreek just throttles down and stops, and he checks up, and Tua knew that he would and just throws it there.

It goes back to his postgame comment to us about practicing against looks you probably won't get to see, you know, against a team because of olive variety they show, and a good example of just having answers to overplay and answers to what they might do to you, because you

have this offense so well versed. And really, I think the part of his game that makes him so dangerous, because we've seen you know, John Ross, like four to two guys coming to the NFL and accomplish absolutely nothing, right, is Tyreek's feel, his understanding of coverage and how teams are trying to defend him. He's so smart and tow

of matches that smartness. I have to imagine why. That's why that he went on that like pr campaign last summer, gassing up his quarterback because like the confidence to Bill is nice, that's good, but because I think that he knew a secret that nobody else really did. That this quarterback and him, we're gonna go off the way. They have two point five to five yards per round. Ran just eight point six yards per target, his second lowest output on both those categories on the year, both of

those against the Patriots. Thirty two yards after the catch. We move Christian Filkin's my fifth best tape. They didn't move him with a double team all game long. It's a thankless job for anybody that has to fulfill it, and it helps him create splash plays for other guys around him. And then he does that as well as anybody along with Zack Seeler. But man, how about the run stuff he had that I mentioned in the podcast

last night. He's the one technique He knocks the right guard back into the backfield, throws him to the side, feels the flow, beats Ezekiel Elliott to the corner, and cuts him down outside of the numbers for a big tackle. You know Andrews and Strange on the Patriots O line are good players. He gave him all they could handle. They couldn't deal with Christian Wilkins and the way he creates gaps and then exploits them like I'm gonna knock you back into the backfield, then get off this block

inside and cut down the B gap. It's impressive, man, It's really really impressive. All game he would widen the split and then get back inside of the block to make the play. His sack arsenal is or his sack was the full arsenal of moves he has where he walks the right guard three yards into the backfield, disengages, and then closes with the first explosive step to the quarterback. What a game. One pressure of the sack, but five stops in terms of getting rundown or wins for the

defense and running downs. My consideration for top tapes were also Austin Jackson. I thought the combination of Rob Jones and Lester Cotton were really good. Jalen Phillips with my five b behind Christian Wilkins, David Long, Cater Kohu, and Deshaun Elliet all garnered consideration for top tapes. Let's go ahead and pick up the offensive notes here and just in general. So I would love to have coach McDaniel explain this, because he alluded to it in his press

conference postgame. But I think the reason that he was so impressed by the Patriots game plan was because they had many different looks that ultimately gave them the same result. Bodies in the middle of the field who could both fit a gap in the running game but also be able to get proper depth to take away those intermediate

throws between the numbers where Miami lives. Because the thing that Miami did to combat that was, you know, they had to have success to other parts of the field, the perimeter, the flats, the verticals, you know, the Barrios reception, the Ingold swing, the Reek and Waddell screen passes, the Tyreek deep shot. Hitting all those opened up some of your bread and butter later in the game. And then then would come back to those concepts and the Patriots

would react differently. And it's Tua's ability to recognize real time those variances that's what made the difference to me. I talked about it in camp all camp long, right, it seemed like Miami made this concerted effort to be able to expand their passing game with consistency beyond those middle of the field throws, and at times it looked

like a struggle. But those reps are starting to pay off now because A, you know, you had success moving the ball and doing that, and B you got the Patriots to react to get ultimately what you do best. An example, you know, the fourth and one conversion to Waddle was the exact same concept as the Wattle touchdown, but the Patriots react differently. They vacate the middle of the field you see to a hitch and pump and

realize it let the ball go walk in touchdown. I would love to, you know, ask like a Bill Belichick or somebody how they feel about defending this offense for sixty minutes, because it just looks like such a challenge and it's proven to be that way so far. The rest of the eligibles. I just want to note Durham smile. It's gutty performance because he got dinged up early and just kept coming back for more and toughed it out, made some big catches and key blocks and competed his

ass off. Great game durham smyth, Julian Hill is a player man. So like we have you know, support staff that aids the coaches around the building and whatnot, like whether it's cutting up tape, getting extra research info, or just getting a coffee, like it makes the job easier, right, I feel like that's Julian Hill's role for the offensive tackles.

He enacts something of a push push on some catch and climb doubles where he gets surge and kind of helps displace those five and four techniques out of their gap. Then stays attached at the hip with really good chemistry with those tackles to prevent the second level defender from coming downhill and splitting that double team. He just looked climbs up and walls them off. It's really impressive, and on a consistent basis, he dents the edge you know,

and creates a new gap inside for Miami. On Raheem's touchdown run. You know, as my co host Seth Levitt would say on the postgame show, he just hits you know, grown ass man blocks and he raises the forced defender for a Raheem Moster walk in touchdown. He's a damn good cog here Man alec Ingold, same story. His ability to change track, like the mental processing to go pick up a block that looked like somebody else had it,

but they fall off the block is just awesome. Like you know, someone springs a leak, he's going one way, he stops and goes and gets it. Maybe we dub him the repair man. I like that nickname, just kind of a jumping off point. I don't know. You can tell me whether or not you like it. Chase Claypool awesome right after the catch. But man, the block that he hit on fourth and one, the conversion to Tyreek, that's to me his welcome to the Dolphins moment. Great,

great work there. You do that, Chase, You're gonna get more and more ops and he seems inspired. I just get the feeling that he's gonna make a big play in a big game at some point this year. Go ahead and write that down. We'll come back to it later.

Cedric Wilson. The pre snap motion creates a situation on his touchdown where he had a two way go and he has to win inside and his release sells the defender that the outside kind of fade route or outbreaking route was a possibility, and that was just all he needed to cross face and give two of that target. Excellent route, good catch, touchdown. Dolphins Raheem Moster looked off to me, looked slower to hit his creases. He would stretch his track, I thought, too far and allow the

backside pursuit to catch up. There were some failed blocks that led to immediate contact, but I thought the backs in this game in general did little to help. That to me, the lowest performing game for the running backs of the Dolphins this season. Shout out to Savon Ahmed though, for making the unblocked man miss on that screenplay where he picked up like sixteen yards and got us a big first down when we're backed up behind the sticks.

That's what you ask of your back win a one on one matchup in space, and he executed for a big conversion there. Offensive line wise. Just to lay a blanket over this and how you know, how can you be anything less than impressed? I mean, yes, the Patriots did pressure us more than a team so far this year, but damn it, the offense was incredibly productive even though they had to dig deep into the offensive line depth.

It's a credit to so many people, starting with Butch Berry for teaching them, and the players of course for

taking the teaching and executing it. But it's also up top with personnel for building this football team in a way that maximized the strengths of the quarterback and the head coach Mike McDaniel, who implored the organization to do so with his famed seven hundred play cut up to build a team from the outside in in terms of getting dynamic eligibles who can maximize the accuracy and anticipation while making the job on the line easier because the

anticipation and getting the football out quickly. It's just an organizational win across the board. But again giving up for Lamb Cotton, Liam both Robs Austin forgetting the job done yesterday. There was a time when this organization, you know, if you're down for offensive lineman or even a couple, they wouldn't have scored a point, maybe not even get first down. But Miami with this situation twenty four first downs, thirty

one points. Hats off in that scenario. I had been concerned about the connectivity on the interior that was sharp all year prior to injuries, but damn it, it was really good. So credit to Jones, Cotton, even Eikenberg forgetting this stuff picked up and playing as a singular unit individually. I thought Cotton got some good movement on some successful runs they had, and had really good work in pass pro evident by one pressure allowed on forty eight pass

blocking snaps Austin Jackson. What more can you say about the guy? His processing has been fantastic. He really seems to understand the design of each protection when to go help inside, but to also keep an eye outside for those delayed blitzer or guys coming off the edge who maybe weren't part of the initial pressure equation. He just

is smart. His first vertical step after engaging contact on a pass rusher, it's gotta be one of the quickest in the league because he gets so much depth with it that the rusher thinks like he shows him the corner and they try to take it with speed. He just latches on and runs them right by the quarterback and they wind up five yards behind the QB forty eight pass block snaps, no pressures allowed. I'm ready to rubber stamp it. Austin Jackson's a very good player. Kendall

Lamb displacement in the running game was consistent. His work off the edge was really good. That patented patient hand draw where he flashes the hands and brings him back and gets the pass rusher to show his hands. Does it so well. He got critical push on a mid red zone run before our third touchdown that created a six yard run due largely to his dentic of the edge after the injury too, What a beast that is. And then to go back to that on the game

sealing touchdown drive. Raheem had a ten yard run on second and five on the opening series of the drive. I just saw it was such a key play in the game, and Lamb sealed that block with a great reach. He had to get outside of a a I think a five technique on an outside shoulder to go hit with proficiency. He does a huge play in a big spot. Forty five or rather forty six pass block snaps, no pressures allowed. A couple of negatives. I thought Rob Hunt had his worst game in a long time, even before

the injury. He lost back to back blocks for TFLs on the opening drive, missed a pretty simple second level wall off that cost Raheem a chance to hit a second level at full speed. Then he got beat on the outside post for a sack, eventually gets injured, just not the rob hump we've seen all year long. And then leam Meikenberg, same story, got thrown around. Didn't really sustain blocks, unreliable the few times you asked him to

hold up one on one in pass protection. We had the perfect look on the long Tyreek touchdown, and it almost got ruined because he got undressed by Barmore on that play. So that's your Dolphins offense. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there and back on the other side to a quick defensive recap and snapcout recap. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought

to you by Autotation. Defensively a strong showing for your Miami Dolphins, and just some general notes off the top. I'm not sure what happened on the Kendrick Bourne touchdown, but it was way too easy, and I think that Bethel expected help inside because he didn't really challenge Bourne's access to the inside release. And it looks like Deshaun Elliott maybe saw something on the other side of the formation that forced him to run that way away. From

the post. Maybe just a miscommunication, I don't know, but it definitely is a teachable moment because that was way too easy on that situation there. But you know what else, other than that play, the cohesion just seemed really damn good. There was a lot of like you know, sharp communications and pass offs, mostly working off Jalen Ramsey. And my theory there is that he's so instinctual and consistently in good position that it makes life easier for everybody else

to go get their keys and find him. Go. So I thought that was great on the front. Jalen Phillips and like he was so close to my top five tapes, the way he would work inside, then spin back outside and make a run stuff and after forcing the back to bounce out there or when you know the opposite was true, he'd work outside the set the edge and then kick back inside for a tackle when you can dictate the backs track and then make the play. He and Wilkins did this all game long. That's elite stuff.

Attacks goes out in attacks pulling guards to which those guys are supposed to be able to knock out of edge, but not dealing Phillips. He wins that shut down the series in the next run as well. Very next play he locks out Hunter Henry and then resets Lione scrimmage, detaches and cuts down a jet sweep for a short game. That's three notes. I'm six snaps into his game. He finishes with two pressures and five stops. They ran to his side the right tackle and right end six times

for seventeen total yards. Good game, JP, Bradley Chubb his length impact of the game. I thought big time. They couldn't really move him in the running game. His pass rush heated up as the game went on, and he and Phillips just whipped tight ends all game long. They should and they did the coverage on the play before the play from last night's podcast. Just good stuff, man. And what's funny, his sack wasn't even one of the

best pass rushes. I didn't think it was a double team that just kind of stopped playing and he didn't. And just another reason that you don't look at sacks as the end all be off because he had better rushes in the game where he didn't get there because the ball gets out before you can get there. So three pressures and two stops for Bradley Chubb off ball linebackers David Long. It's great to see him playing like

he has the last two weeks. To me, this is a player that you know, we saw in Tennessee who uses knowledge and instincts with speed to make those splash plays every single game, and these last two games he's been all over the field. It's sort of like two on offense. The more reps he gets, I think, the better that he will get as a player because he just kind of sees more and becomes more familiar with more in terms of his you know, role on this football team. So that's great to see him, you know,

enact all that. And then when he went out for a snap, we got one snap of Duke Riley and all he does is recognize a pulling guard and wham, he goes and gets him and stands him up. That's great work from Duke there. On stap off the bench and you go and initiate contact like that. Keep that up. Jerome Baker, I thought timed up some blitzeres really well and played through some contact well early in the game.

But just as I freaking write that, back to back passive reps where we get out of our gap and let a down block absorb us. It's just freshrating the lack of consistency there. Then we come back and overrun another hookup throw. I get that. It's to Mario Douglass and he's fast as hell, but it's a common occurrence where it's a whip route. We attack it. He makes a move and beats us back inside. Just frustrating to me and the secondary Deshaun Elliott. This dude's an absolute baller.

So Javon Holland typically plays the boundary side safety and two high looks where you're on the short side of the field, and this allows him to peak on potential crossers on the front side, help the X receiver to the backside. It just gives him options and I thought Elliott just killed it in this role. The run fits. There's a play where the Patriots on the Patriots first touchdown drive where it's him and Ramondre Stevenson in the gap, nobody else Mono Imano and he just whacks Stevenson and

puts him on the ground. That's a two hundred and thirty pounds back man. And then of course the hit on DeVante Parker. Good stuff man, set and stuff cater Kohu. I just love this tape from him. He played closer to the lion scrimmage in the formation of this game, did some more blitzing, but man, when he follows the jet motion, you might as well take it out of the progression because they threw those swings against him three times, and I think they broke even like zero yards in

those plays. They tried him quite a few times. Three two covered snaps, seven targets, six catches, but just thirty four yards allowed. That's under five yards per target. A great day there for cater Kohu. We finish up the podcast here as we do every single Tuesday or Monday night with the snap counts, so quite a bit of a shuffling on the offensive line. Both Liam Austin. Liam and Austin went the entire distance in the game, and then you had a bunch of guys that missed some snaps.

Lamb missed five snaps, caught and missed six snaps. I think it was the one series they were rotating him and Robert Jones out. Speaking of Robert Jones, he plays fifty six snaps in the game and Rob Hunt played just twenty seven snaps in this game, with Keon Smith playing five in his first NFL action ever, Tua goes the distance. Waddle and Tyreek both played exactly three quarters of the snaps fifty eight total. The next receiver was

Braxon Barrios at fifty three percent of the snaps. Cedric Wilson played thirty percent, and then Chase Claypool played fourteen percent. I imagine that we'll start to kick up here as we go along. That's kind of your typical receiver rotation without River Craycraft back out there. Yet at tight end, we had Durham Smyth play sixty six percent and he gutted all those snaps out. Julian Hill played forty four percent, So lots of tight end action in this game. Plenty

of twelve personnel they enacted in this one. Ingold gives you thirty two percent of the workload, and then your running back workload. Raheem kind of got some time off in this game fifty six percent of the snaps, and then savonn Okme was second with twenty five percent. Jeff Wilson got the same amount there. Bothose guys got nineteen snaps at the running back position. On defense, I think you've kind of fallen into a power now going what you're gonna get here in terms of who's gonna play

the most and who's not. You saw on defense, both safeties played the entire game, all fifty three stats for Jones and Elliott, Cater and Ramsey played fifty three and forty nine STAPs respectively, so basically the entire game for all four of those guys. The other cornerback additions, Bole played eighty nine percent of the snaps and then you had a big drop off there because the next guy was Justin Bethel who played four and Nick Eadom got

four snaps on that final series. Let's see other linebackers. Jerome Baker played every snap long came off the field on the injury. He played eighty nine percent of the total workload, and then Duke Rowley had the one snap off the edge. We saw Phillips play eighty five percent of the snap, so it looks like he's all the way back and that's fantastic news. Chubb played eighty one percent and Van Ginkle had a big dip in production here.

But this Patriots group is a big unit, so it makes sense to have Chubb and Phillips more than a speed rusher like Andrew Van Ginkle. He gave you twenty six percent of the snaps on the interior Ogbah played six snaps in the game, so his workload continues to decrease here for the Dolphins as he kind of falls into that fourth edge man fourth position on the edge rotation on the interior defensive line. Wilkins played eighty seven percent,

Steeler played eighty five percent. Those guys are just beast man. Raykwan gave you thirty eight percent and that's it. So there you go. Those are your Dolphins. Snap Count your Dolphin All twenty two review from the Patriots victory, a sweep of the Patriots. We'll come back on Wednesday and preview the Chiefs, as the entire team is now in j Germany by the time you hear this podcast. We'll get to that on Wednesday, but until then, that's gonna be

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