Drive Time: Dolphins Raiders Week 11 All 22 Review

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the offense and just off the top. We heard coach talk about this and Tua in his postgame press conference about how the Raiders on tape were pretty much exclusively a man coverage team. Despite Patrick Graham's previous stops and his influence of man coverage, they have rolled out a lot of zone this year, and I kind of wonder if the man coverage element of that came because of the fact that Nate Hobbs was down and he's such a critical part of how they can run those zones

and invert those two deep looks. And they lose to Cory and Bennett in the middle of the game as well, so they got so banged up at cornerback. I think that probably issue ushered in some more man coverage, but the Dolphins' ability to adjust off of that from the third play of the game was what I found really impressive.

They hit three rub routes on that opening drive touchdown, and it got me thinking about another two of SoundBite where he referenced pulling up his mental roll index of how teams have a us did from pre snap structures and the different variations, and it's the exact is the exact thing I wanted to hear with regards to my assertion through various points of Tua's career that when this guy gets into his thirties, you know, even late twenties, he's going to be such an adept quarterback at the

most critical elements of the position that you're gonna have mid career Drew Brees, and that's where I think he already is, because at age twenty six, he looks like a quarterback that has three, five, ten, fifteen years of experience. He's taking those reps and banking them and adjusting to

future reps with that rolodex in mind. That is so impressive, and it's what made all the great quarterbacks of yesteryear great before it was the TNA club that's a Hooters and Booters, if you will, which is what Kyle Krabs and I call the new wave of quarterback scouting, which only seems to care about traits and not about actually

playing the quarterback position. And our good friend Ben Solak went on Twitter and made an ask of himself talking about Justin Herbert and Tua during the Chargers game, and all Herbert did was proceeded to throw like six for his next twenty four and have seven consecutive non scoring drives in the second half of a game with a fumble and he should have been walk off pick six

that he had dropped by Mike Hilton. I digress. It's tough to confuse quarterbacks like two that have that experience, not so much a quarterback like Justin Herbert, who you can confuse pretty easily, and when he gets in that category where he is, he's only going to get better from here. More on the quarterback in just a moment. I keep getting this question, and I totally get it.

But I'll tell you, guys, the same thing I told my brother, who was concerned about the fantasy team purposes of this question, Wattle is he's been open, just like he always was, but Tua was playing the position very differently.

And it's kind of crazy because while the argument for you Know too Long was that receivers made two of I'm watching these tapes and thinking you could definitely go the Chiefs team building approach with this quarterback and basically a shoe the receiver position and focus on other areas

like your offensive line or your defense with your resources. Now, I think that's a waste of resources because I think that two was one of his greatest strengths is how he can mitigate offensive line play, whether it's good or bad. He just makes it not that relevant on a bunch of his snaps. And it's why I argued all freaking somewhere about this stuff and finally getting some payoff on that deep into the season after his injury set that

argument back a little bit. But if you wanted to do that, I feel like you could because this guy has proven in the past that he can take Matt Collins and Miles Gaskin and Isaiah Ford, Preston Williams no shade, a little bit of shade down the field and produce enough offense to win more games than they lost in twenty twenty one. And again, that's not my method of preference. I want to go after skill players and that's why I think wins you football games in this league. But

you could, is what I'm saying. So with Waddell, for instance, in this particular rep, it's the first third down of the game. Man free coverage, that's a single high st was playing zone. He's trying to help the most immediate threat vertically and then man coverage underneath. And the safety on this play cheats towards Tyreek Hill side because well he's Tyreek Hill and waddle wins inside access on a dig.

What's a dig, Travis, It's basically pushing up anywhere from twelve to eighteen yards you have different variations, and then cutting across the middle of the field, but the corner is in position to potentially make a play on the back hip of Wattle, even though he kind of has him stacked. It is an open window, and I feel like in the past, Tua would have challenged that throw. And let's call that just for the sake of the argument.

I don't know a seventy to thirty throw for a catch that you know just arbitrarily put that number on it. But eight chan naked in the flat is a one hundred percent throw because he's wide open, and Tua never misses those throws. In fact, he threw the ball right on the upfield shoulder that took him into the run after the catch, which made it a seventeen yard gain that you probably would have got eighteen from Wattle at most.

That's consistent throughout this tape and the way this offense is cruising right now, the best in the conference and pacing the Lions for the best in football since Twua's return. Why on earth would I want to change that to force the ball in hopes of making one guy happy. Now, granted, I do want Watald to get his I think he deserves it. I think that he keeping him engaged as a critical element of the offense. But watch the body language and the tape of Waddle because this is winning

football and he's having a great time. He's being a great teammate, he's supporting the other guys, he's blocking his butt off and committing his himself on his decoy routes. And that's why you pay a guy like Jeden Waddle, because yeah, you pay him for the thirteen hundred yards seasons, but you also pay him because of how he's wired, and that's the kind of guy he is. And I think you're getting that engagement back now with his quarterback

back in the fold. That's my Waddle Dye tribe. On the offensive line, it is nice when you can slide your protection and get four eyeballs on an All Pro because of the feet of the rest of your offensive line. The first third down conversion of the game, they slide right towards Max. Crosby and Armstead, Jones and Brewer all have to essentially reach on these pass pro assignments, which is usually a run game effort. It's when you have to get to a space before the defensive lineman does,

when he's closer to that space than you are. Got it that's a reach block, and they were able to do this because they have those zone feet to get themselves in position to make those good pass protections or pass sets, I should say, to get good pass protection. They just continue to play very connected, very well, very communicative, and understanding where the biggest threats are and how to

thwart those big threats. I do have some negatives from the Dolphins offense in this game, despite the fact that they never punted the football. It was just the running game, the negative and zero yard runs. I wanted to go through and check out what happened on those. I think I missed the last two on that final drive because I just didn't care enough to log those because it was game over, just trying to get to the field goal. But the first one, Liam loses connection on a back door,

which is when you hit those reach blocks, right. If you let that offensive lineman overplay the reach block and go around the backside, that's called backdooring a play. It's a criminal sin or cardinal sin. One on one. Do not do that unless you're like JJ Watt and you can win doing that regularly. But he got back doored on outside zone left where he overran his block, and then Julian Hill lost his leverage with dead feet upon contact. You have to keep those feet churning, and it went

for a one yard e Chan loss. Next one Lamb over sets and gives up his inside posts. The edge bursts right through and cuts a Chan down for no gain. Jalen Wright had a no gain run early on. Both a Chan and Brewer lose leverage. It couldn't have been a Chan. I had to have written the wrong name there. Oh man, I'm not sure who it was. I can't go back now. Brewer and somebody else lost leverage and

did not stay connected on their blocks. A Chan loss three later on a return motion sweep, and a lot of these runs are like toss sweeps into the boundary where you're not You don't have the numbers count, so it's like you can get away from those by just calling a different play. We had an unblocked defender who made the play. I just I think that a lot of those also happened that way when you don't have

alec ingold Raheem Mostert loses three. It's a low, low red zone toss sweep into the boundary again unblocked force defender Malik cannot hit the crack back on the slot, and that gets blown up from the start because that crack player you're supposed to crack. The linebacker you're supposed

to crack. He runs into Julian Hill, who's trying to get out wide to hit the forced defender, and he blows up that too, So the whole thing was just disjointed right lost two later in the game, Julian Hill misses a rat block, but they have really good backside pursuit and they just flew to the ball really well

all game long. Like that's part one of a million parts why I hate when someone says, well, it was just the Raiders, Like they're professional football players and while they might not win a lot of games, pros are going to win reps, especially when they play hard. And that Radar defense played hard on Sunday eight, Chan's one yard loss before the John who put away touchdown Kendall

Lamb fell off of his block. So to me, it's mostly losing Austin Jackson because he's probably the best run blocker on the team outside of Brewer, maybe maybe Toront They're all really good. And then not having alec Ingold. That's pretty much it, and then some bad decisions to run into bad counts. That's pretty much where the run game I think has struggled. That's really it. Now you're not gonna get Austin back, but you we'll get Ingled back. I think that can be a big deal. What else here?

We had a third and one conversion on the second drive where we went four for four on critical blocks to get an easy eight chan first down run. And it's like, I think ck had tweeted about this, you know, three archs per carry, Chris Kaufman about like, just run these simple downhill runs and you will convert a post of being cute. And that's that's kind of I kind of agree with that. It's an easy first down run

because we're so well connected. And again, it just has me believing that we've hit this inflection point to where the offense is so second nature for so many guys that they can do this routinely. You get Rob Jones connecting to Ron Armstead, doubles and washes down that player out of the B gap completely, and then Smith and Julian have a kind of tough combo they have to sort through, and they do it perfectly and get both

the guys taken care of for a first down run. Also, I don't think we'll see that much man coverage the rest of the year. I'm kind of surprised we got as much as we did in this game. I thought they had. I thought the Ofphins had perfect answers just

about every damn time, especially on the money downs. Favorite sequence of the game from a play call perspective was the eleven yard completion to Julian Hill within that ninety seven yard touchdown drive, then racing up to the line of scrimmage to get to that thirty yard eight chan run with tempo. It was the first tempo of the entire day. Because they were in the nickel package against our twelve personnel package, one back, two tight ends. You

are outmanned from a physical standpoint. At that point. We dial up a shot play, but it didn't work. However, However, they stay a nickel on the next play when all we did was sub John U for Durham Smyth. Then we run another pass play from that set, get the first down, and then we go tempo and tap or trap them in that look. Not to mention, both plays were long and the rush had to work on the first and secondary and third moves, and the defensive back

got ran all the way down the field. Then they run the split flow where the tight end comes across the formation, but rather than run to that side, they run to the other side, and you get displacement. It creates these easy seals for Kendall Lamb and Rob Jones with excellent seal blocks on Crosby and Adam Butler, and that allows them to get double ti teams of the linebackers with your offensive lineman, and that's where you get

big runs. A Brewer and Liam climb up, Julian hits a down block, Tyreek has a nice seal, and then a cham breaks tackles at daylight for thirty plus yards, and we end with the John u backbreaking touchdown. Tuwa explained what he thought caused the bust in his postgame press conference, and this is why you take your profit all day long, especially against the defense that is so good at shifting its rotation from strong to week, like Ted Winn talked about on Friday, and they just finally

miscommunicated one. That's pretty much all it was, and it sprung a room service fifty seven yard touchdown. For your Dolphins. You earned that by playing fifty seven minutes of discipline football. How about this quarterback? How about this quarterback? Man? If people are arguing with you about Tua on Twitter, just move on. There's it's over. They lost, so that's over. Like he's a great quarterback. It's gotta stay healthy, that's it. Gotta protect the ball a little bit better and crowded

pockets that's it. Maybe win a playoff game, but that's like, you know, that's out of his control to a certain extent, Like you can't just like win a playoff game. Like everything that he can do right now he's doing except staying healthy and protecting the ball and muddy pockets. But he's an elite quarterback man off the top, Tua is. He sees it so damn well. And I get that if you don't understand how that looks or what it's

supposed to look like, that you can't appreciate it. So I get where the negative, you know, connotations come from. But we don't got to hear from those people. You don't need to hear from everybody on Twitter. You got Kyle Krabs, you got this schlub over here. To a certain extent. You've got Chris Kaufman, you got the three yards per carry. Guys got Eric Smith cranking out good offensive line content. You don't need that stuff. It is nonsense. It is noise. His vision cone toua is expanding with

each start that he makes in this league. His first throw of the game is to a wide open a chant against Cover one, and there's a decent window on the shot to Wabble talked about it already against an outside leverage cornerback with a single high safety who's rolled

the other way. And the minute you see this linebacker who is in man coverage on a chan try to run around a rub route by Odell Beckham Junior, and he squares him up and collisions him head on and blows obj up, but it slows him down two or three steps, and you see two his helmet. It's I can't tell you what his eyes are doing because I can't see inside his helmet, but you can see the helmet stripe right on that linebacker, and the minute that

collision happens, the ball comes out. The only play I hated was his fumble again coverage one play was over pass protection. Breaking down, he tries to create in a situation where there just wasn't anything there and punctuated it by not putting the football away. And that's kind of how he like how he escapes pressure. He kind of dangles it out there, which he shouldn't do that because he's too small to be able to protect it that way.

And again here is where you see you know, Liam setting with his eyes on that Lamb Crosby matchup, and when he commits to go help, there's nobody left to pick up the game, the looper coming from the other side of the formation. And that's not something that should be a surprise a tool because he knows the protection call is for help on Crosby and he knows this Raiders front under Patrick Graham likes to run lots of games.

That to me is the next step for him, and I know he'll do it because he's literally improved every other element of his game every single year. But just a better feel of when a play is dead and how to mitigate the damage as best he can to one get us out of negative plays, but to protect yourself and a quick inside baseball mode for you guys.

At one point last week at practice, I was just kind of watching when it was over, and I saw Tua and Obj talking to each other on a knee after practice, and I couldn't make out what's being said, obviously, but it was very clear to me that Toul was like teaching something or exercising some form of leadership and

talking to Obj, who was doing more listening. And when I watched this completion, he has on a first for a first down to Obj with two raiders in his face, where he just splits the two hook defenders and Obj paces the route perfectly to get there at the right time, not too early to draw him in, not too to miss it. I get the sense that familiarity is growing from there, and Tua is taking it into his own

hands to make that happen. Now, Tua had to throw to Waddle right around midfield during that ninety seven yard drive where Wattle is inside the numbers to the boundary that's the short side of the field, the hashmark closest to the sideline, and the raiders show six and they bring them all and what basically turns into a man zero look where Tua is hot and I don't know

if this is him or Brewer or what. I'm pretty sure it's two at this stage because I can't make the assertion for sure, but I think this quarterback knows how to call his protections. If you're hot and you've got a free runner, you want it to be in your peripheral. You want to be in your face, not blind to the backside. So he patiently takes his snap.

He knows this rusher is not gonna get blocked. He fades one step back and just flicks the thing out there to the perimeter against an inside leverage cornerback who can't get to the spot because he's playing man coverage. It's high level execution. He does this stuff every single week, pretty much every single drive. The ball is out under a second and it's halfway to wattle before he turns his head. But Tua doesn't rock at the balls in there.

He layers it so it's easier to pick up in flight and to make a catch on a football that has less velocity and less RPM's. It's really good stuff. Let's go ahead and take our first break. I have more Tua for you guys here, his vintage throws and Tua the Creator that's coming up next Drive Time Podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by autoation. I promise you some vintage TUA on the other side, and we had a few of them. The opening drive, second

and three seventeen yards to Tyreek Hill. He cuts this thing loose before Tyreek's final two steps, before even thuddles it down. Man Ball is right on him right out of the break. Bang, first down, Dolphins. How about a third and eight up by five, last play of the third quarter. It's dagger. All dagger is is you have a either the two or the three, depending on how

many receivers you have to that side. The closest receiver of the formation runs vertical and tries to displace the safety to create an inside cut from the number two or the number one receiver who's further out wide, either in the slot or the furthest out to run a dig inside of that clear out route. That's dagger, okay, And the hook defender respects the underneath route by Odell just enough, because Odell runs this route at full speed

to help create that underneath displacement. And then you notice John hu Smith pacing his route down the seam, which is kind of like a shield like he's almost like setting a moving screen. As he prevents that hook linebacker from getting the underneath a jump that he needs on that throw, and that one beat that they have to slow up both in the short and the deep hook is all that to and Tyreek need to make it

work because it's perfectly timed. It's a good catch by Tyreek off of his frame, and that's a throw that's gonna look sometimes maybe a little bit off because they're throwing to a spot and with timing and so you don't know exactly where he's gonna be. That's why I think that ball was kind of like off the backside

of his frame. But either way, it's an explosive play on third long used to see in that the corner route to John hu Smith against what might have been the first cover three we saw all day just split the cloud corner underneath and that deep third player in the deep part of the field perfectly. And I love the play design too, because Devon eighth chan hooks up right in the same line of the throw to John new Smith and because of that, the cloud corner stays

just one beat longer. In case that throws goes underneath, he has to go make a tackle. So good design, good execution good finished by John new Smith, the creator

at some point on a Wednesday show or something. I want to look at some of the throws where Tua does not have his cleats in the ground because it's been an area of growth of his and something you can track back to spring to spring football at OTAs if you watch him at training camp back here, and I'm sure there's one person maybe two out there that saw this. Every time he would do individual warmups he

would throw. He would like they're playing stagnant catch, just like back and forth with the receivers coaches or the quarterbacks coaches, and he would like take a few steps and throw off platform. He worked on it all off season. You can watch it out here during these November practices too.

Well you can't, but I can. In this one second and ten, they drop seven against a two man route concept, which we have these shot plays a lot where it's a couple of man route concept and Jalen Wright is on play action where he hockey pies the flat but it's not really a route, so it's like two against seven essentially, and Tua takes this three step drop from pistol, which is where you catch this it's a shotgun snap and the running backs behind you and you fake the

handoff and that creates basically this new school seven step drop, but it's really a three step drop that gets you to a seven step drop. It's a shot play, and that's evident by the fact that you have two doubles and then Kendall Lamb winning a one on one to create this massive pocket. But because all those blocks are so well connected, he attacks it stepping up and that

gets Crosby out of his rush lane. Two was really good at stepping up into the pocket and condensing the rush lanes and then quickly flipping back out to the left. That's where he's most dangerous, and he flees that way. But here's the part that I love the most. He sees Wattle's leverage and throws it early because the dB has not reacted to him the way Wattle has reacted to him, and the ball was so perfectly on the upfield shoulder. Wattle never broke stride, catches it for a big,

explosive play twenty four yards thing of beauty. I think my favorite to date is the touchdown pass at Tyreek Kill. The Raiders get a free run with a game. Tua feels it and flees and you see him check his blind spot to make sure he's not going to get hawked by. It was actually Max Crosby who got put on the ground by I think it was Toron Armstead.

And he steps out of the sack with a little high step move and Tyreek does a phenomenal job coming all the way across the field, meets his quarterback on the sideline, angles it back to the quarterback to make that throw easier for him. Ball is perfect, six points. They celebrate. Great moment there for the Dolphins. Tua played

a hell of a game. Individual standouts eight. Chan's vision was maybe his best of the entire season in this game, tiny creases that he would find, And then I think that part of his game that probably is the most misperceived is his ability to absorb hits and maintain contact

through balance or balance through that contact. It's not super often we lose multiple blocks in a running play, but there was one in the red zone yesterday right after the holding call against John U where he's got nowhere to go, but he finds the sliver of a crease, hits it with conviction, slips a tackle puts his hand on the ground to keep himself up and lunges for three more yards. He's a bell cow back because they think he's special and they want to have him get

as many touches as possible. So it's not gonna go away. Just FYI. John new Smith another great tape. I meant four down the fourth down touchdown catch on deflected ball. I thought he inserted against the run at a level it's good enough. I don't think he's a great inline blocker, but it's good enough to maximize his versatility to give you an extra blocker from twelve personnel, but also a dangerous receiving threat who can be a quasi receiver in

those looks that can contribute in both ways. He's running with absolute purpose after the catch. I love that little flat return route where he made his move before he caught the football. It created another five yards of run after catch, and watching it back on tape, Diablo overruns that play by two steps because of that move. He's a hit man, like many of the off season moves have been so far. I hope he finishes his career

with the Miami Dolphins. Tyreek Hill. I thought he had great feel for how to run his routes in accordance with the timing needed for TUA. Also, his effort on some vertical routes pushed the roof back to create space for others. He also had a four down conversion, made a good catch in the air between three raiders. Defenders picked up those pair of chunk gains and did a fantastic job getting back into the play on that touchdown

when two of broke contain. I also loved his route on the flag with Julian running the out on our ninety seven yard drive where Rieke takes the coverage off the top by screaming off the lion of scrimmage and it pulls Julian's man one step inside of the hook, which creates a wide open throw when he comes off the line of scrimmage. With that type of conviction, he has a gravitational pull where defenders come with him. Big game for Tyreek Hill. I thought Rob Jones bounced back

after a really rough game and injury last week. He had some really good sets in pass pro, including a nice rack of ribs early on where he engaged and engaged Rusher got a piece of him finding some work there. I Also, he also had a really good drive and seal on a Chan's ten yard run where he cut it right off Jones's block, getting Tyree Wilson out of there. Now that said, it's a bit of a rollercoaster for

him at times. He has some good moments, but he has a kind of a lower batting average, and he would like where he gets out and out whipped one on one. Win's gonna be healthy here soon. I probably would make that switch. And I thought the entire interior kind of struggled. Aern had a bit of an off day and Liam struggled too. I thought Obj had one of his better games as a dolphin. There's not many to go off of, but I just want to shout out the route that he ran on that third and

five conversion. It's outside leverage, which means the cornerback doesn't want you to get outside, and he wins the out route, which is the toughest thing for a receiver to do. But he widens his release to square the corner back up, and his footwork is really good to sell this corner on a vertical route by just a half of a step.

The minute he hits his heels, Obj breaks this route off sharp down the line to again create a better throwing angle for your quarterback to us perfect right on the money move the chains, and also his route on the dagger throw at the end of the third quarter is plus plus stuff as well. He created He helped create that window by running his route very very hard. Toront Armstead, set your watch this guy. You know he had some real grinded out blocks in the running game.

That's sort of different element of his game where he played with power that you're just not used to seeing because he's not asked to do it that often, but he did it in this game at a high, high level. I thought Kendall played really well in this game. He helouped in pass protection against one of the best in the games. Some of those doubles teams were helping him with that, but he did plenty of one on one coverage against a really good pass rusher. His run game.

It's not Austin Jackson level, that's for sure. I thought Julian Hill blocked two guys on the eight chan touchdown run, and he did it by engaging, turning and sealing them when he did not have the leverage advantage. Might have been the best damn rep by anybody on the entire day, and it sprung a touchdown run. Julian Hills. He has some bad reps that you guys loved to point out, but he's had a lot of really good reps too. And then Waddle ran a great route on that holding

call that extended our last touchdown drive. He completely shook his man enforcement to basically promenade Waddle as he took him to the sideline. Individual misses. I covered this in the hits. I don't really have a single standout egregious performance. They scored every damn drive, So what do you want me to do? I did think it was Brewer's worst game as adult, but that's a high bar. Jones's roller coaster continues, and Liam had his handful of l's. I

thought same with durham smyth. I thought Jalen Wright looked at Tad slower in his decision making snapcounts, quarterback and offensive line go the distance. How about John hus Smith being next. I think this was the direct impact of the Raiders personnel inviting more of a middle of the field receiving threat with the ability to impact the running game. He goes for eighty one percent, Julian gets fifty six percent, Burn and Durham thirty four percent. I hope that's the

split the rest of the way. That looks really good to me. A Chan got sixty two percent. Again, I think he's special right twenty six and most at fifteen. I kind of feel for Raheem. You know, the fumbles are what they are, but you can tell it's affecting him. And then Reek and Waddle seventy eight percent each, Moleik forty percent, Obj twenty five percent, Cratkraft nine percent. What a beautiful sight that is. I've been looking forward to

for three years. I've been wanting to see a receiving breakdown like that where it's two great receivers and then three good receivers to round out the room. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there. Come back into the defense. That Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. We have done the offense,

it's time to do to defense. And if this game provided a lesson, you know, they say you win or you learn right, and we did win, but I don't imagine the defense will be thrilled about the way this one went on that side, as the Raiders were able to sustain drives and match the offense a handful of times. But my goodness, man, thirteen and twelve personnel groupings was the name of the day and the game of the day. And I don't think we'll see another team this year

that does that like they do. But when a team has that in their arsenal, I'm glad we have this on tape now. They just too frequently were able to get us out leveraged off the edge with some of the jet sweeps and outside runs and screen game. And I noticed we'd stay a nickel on some of those thirteen personnel groupings, which can create a size advantage for the offense, like we've done a few times on that eight chance run for instance. Well it was twelve personnel,

but you get it. They looked like an offense that had a bye week and a new OC and a new game plan. And I thought the reaction to that was sound, with Tias Bowser getting some off ball linebacker work plenty of Benito Jones in this game. But then the Raiders attacked that with Bowers and kind of went after all of our linebackers and we were thin there because no more David Long and Tyrel Dodson is not ready to roll yet. I don't know how comorfolly you are with Duke Riley and a kind of you know,

B gap to B gap type of game. So tyas Bowser it is. And when I see the question on social and I get this a ton, I've gotten this a ton. What was the game plan against the Raiders

that allowed them to get to all that stuff? And I think we were able to successfully out They were able to successfully out leverage Miami's defense on their outside stuff and the run on screen game, and that then later created some false steps in the game where they would then run stick or glance or slant some inbreaking stuff that they could, you know, expose that space that they had created by their early success to the perimeter. The progression from there led to some really simple concepts.

So it's really like, man, they didn't get complex. They stayed within themselves. And I really think that, you know, the plays after the running into the punter kind of changed the complexion of the game. It was like slant flat, capitalizing on our urgency to the edge where they we had to get out there to stop some of those outside runs and open up those slants, and they would run some mesh and just take the short stuff all

day long. Everything kind of rolled off those early runs with you counter where you faker run one way and come back the other way, or jet sweep, or these misdirection screens where it's just like they gave you what the Dolphins offense wants to give you plenty of eye candy to feast on and get you out of your

gaps and get you out of your fits. But they go back to Bowers on a second drive on jet sweep, and here comes Javon holling down to the fit to reset the edge and knock Jakobe Meyers five yards back towards Jupiter, Florida and forces him to bubble and gets the TfL along with I think it was Jordan Brooks over there. I'm gonna be real with you, guys. I don't think we'll ever see a game plan like that against a quarterback of a certain level. It looked to

me like they weren't. They were content to force Minshew to play a smart, clean game because he hadn't done that very often. Now, you might have thought, why not gamble and force him into mistakes because that's what he's been this year. That's what I thought too. But I can see the thinking with how our offense was playing or is playing, and how the Raider defense has played so far, their quarterback's reputation, and just making sure they don't get anything easy, don't let us spring a long

touchdown and get him back into this game. Probably frustrating for you as fans. It was for me at times, and I think some mistackles exemplified that, but I think you can understand the thought process that goes into that. We'll do the individuals in a second here, but I think it's worth fitting that. I think it's fitting that

we played this game the way we did. We stayed patient and stuck to the plan, and late in the fourth quarter of the Raiders bus at a coverage for a fifty seven yard touchdown and then had a miscommunication on offense led to a room service interception. You can pick out, you know, individual moments and say this could have been better or that could have been better. But when I watched this full tape and see the fourth quarter, dominance,

to me, they played their hand beautifully. They had a sixty minute plan they committed to it, and it paid off. They lop sided victory, fifteen point win in the end, And of course you can always execute in spots a little bit better, but knowing the opposition, knowing the element of surprise they had with their new knowing their head coach said that they're going to go into this game and throw caution to the wind, because well they're two and seven, and who gives a damn. I think all

that tracks is what I'm trying to say. It's got to be better, but I think perspective can help you understand why it looked that way just a little bit. More individual standouts. Zach Seeler commands attention the way we gave attention to Max Crosby. I mean, think about that for a moment. They doubled him so much and he still reset them. He got knocked back, and his relentless

effort with those reps, never taking snaps off. It forces the Raiders to play down a man and creates chances for others because sometimes guys will see double teams and just be like, ah, I can kind of chill here, and you allow one of those players to go find other work. But he never does that and coach talked about with Chop Robinson too. He was very active in that way. The way that Zach splits double teams is

truly insane to me. He can swim one block, absorb a shot to the ribs, not lose an inch, and still penetrate and take away a gap. And I write that right before I watched the two point conversion play where he swam completely clear of any blockers like Mike will Phelps and makes the play of the backfield special special player. When I see Zach sealer play, I'm just thinking, like, and you heard Coach McDaniel call Seeler and Campbell the heart and soul the defense, and Campbell is in the

standouts again. Him and toront Armstead. It's the same story every damn week. He wins with his length, he wins with his anticipation. He allows us to be flexible. Had a big sack in this game, nearly a block to punt. I don't know how he didn't, he was right there. But he is dominant. I thought Benito Jones played comfortably his best game ever as a Dolphin. That goes back to twenty twenty as well. He just played on the other side of the line of scrimmage a lot Jackson powers.

Johnson couldn't really handle him. He kept shedding his blocks, and Kalaeus's sack was a clean up effort of Benito totally undressing the right guard. He pushed, pulled him, shoved them aside and takes a bee line to Minshew, forces him to flee right into Kalayis for a sack. How about Chop Robinson? And I asked coach McDaniel about this at the press conference. You guys can check it out on YouTube. Not gonna un it because it's like a

three minute answer as coaches want to do. But I asked him, like, where does chops, you know, uptick and production come from? And man, his game recognition is coming along each week. It's slowing down, as it were. He had a rep where Mayor Chip released but on the chip Chop Chip Chop took him, chucked him, Chop Chip Chop took him, chuck him talking Roethlisberger football man, and he quickly pursued Minshew on the bootleg and forced him to bubble and throw it away where otherwise he has

a clear attack angle to the line of scrimmage. You can probably throw a touchdown play because of the way the receivers can break off their routes on secondary movements. But Chop said, no, sir. He also just straight up had that right tackle on skates all day. Stealer's sack came as a result of Chop walking the right tackle into Minshew's lap and forcing a step up right into number ninety two who had collapsed a double team like

he does. And man, he's getting so good at cornering through contact, which was a big issue I had with him early on where he would lose his foot his footing, and that's been a massive area of growth for him. His best pressure of the day was a near Minshew interception that Jordan Brooks frankly should have caught. He hit the right tackle with the heavy step and then faked the cross over move and went back to the perimeter and ran the arc and got under him and then

cornered back in and forced this off platform throw. That's a that's like a Jason Taylor play on that particular rep. Quentin Bell is coming along here. He's playing himself into more playing time. The last couple of weeks had the sack, the strip sack last week had that had two really good backside see gap closed downs where you play through unblocked and you pursue the ball from the backside, and hawk the running back down. He also had what I thought was the best coverage rep on Rock Bowers of

anybody in the entire game. Gillen Ramsey is a great player, but his effort on the last play two plays of the game. Go watch him. He like flew to the football and made these big hits on guys to keep them in bounds and short of the sticks. And I just like he had just made a game clinching pick. And sometimes guys will chill. That ain't Ramsey's nature. He played really hard until the final play. That to me is teach film that I think the coaches will show

all week long. I don't how many specific plays for Storm Duck, but he was just in tight coverage. I thought he made a really nice tackle on that far Animal Raiders drive as well. And then Javon Hollin to me, has played a couple of really good games here. I think his processing from the post was really good and how he cut off certain deep routes and passed off and picked up routes. I also loved the way he reset the line of scrimmage on that Bower's jet sweep.

Individual misses. I thought Bowser and Ogba had rough days. They got hemmed in too often and didn't do enough in rush situations to be really helpful or impactful. Jordan Poyer, same different week, same stuff. How slow did he look on that brock Bower's touchdown? My goodness, cater Cooho played slower than he hasn't been lately and had some really bad tackling and that kill shot on the third down play when a simple tackle would have changed the entire game.

My goodness, that was a bad rep and he'd be the first one to tell you that one of the worst efforts I've seen from him. It's just like a dream tackle and he totally whipped it and ducked his head and it just wasn't that tackle. He had three on the day, so not a good tape for him. I thought Brooks and Walker got a little bit overpowered in the early running game and then were late to get to spots and coverage and after the replay, again,

Brooks should have had that pick. Snap counts the usual suspects at one hundred percent Brooks, Holland Poyer, Ramsey, and Cater. He is the inside outside cornerback. When they go to nickel, he moves inside. He plays on the outside. When it's base defense. With Kendall Fuller down, he is clearly a cornerback three. Otherwise, Storm Duck is the next guy up. He got fifty six percent of the snaps, cam Smith just twelve percent. That might be telling and not a

good sign for camp Smith long term. Anthony Walker played all but one snap the twelve and thirteen personnel packages track that Bowser played sixty percent, and half of that or give or take was off the ball. Ogbah led the edge group of sixty three percent, and Chop was down to forty three in this game and Bell at twenty six. I imagine Bell gets a little more running

here coming into these next couple of games. Stealers seventy five percent, Campbell fifty seven percent, Benitol forty nine percent, Hand forty five percent, and Feral fourteen percent. That's pretty common with how they use that workload. I'd love to see one more guy get in there, but it's going to be the way we run the rest of the year. Because it is November and you can't really add guys this time of year. My top tapes Number one was to a tongue of by Lowe. I thought he was masterful.

I thought Toron Armstead was next. He had a really good game in a different style of play. Devon ah Chan was three with his vision and contact balance and explosive plays. John hu Smith was four because he one hundred yards and two touchdowns, first Dolphins end since nineteen seventy to do that. And then Chop Robinson and Zach Sealer. I couldn't pick just one. They share the final spot in five A and five B. So there you go. That's it. Long podcast. We'll come back on Wednesday. I

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