Drive Time: Dolphins Ravens Week 17 All 22 Review

tapes in this game, believe it or not. I'm gonna tell you where things went wonky for Tua and where he played really well. I'm gonna tell you about the many, many, many, many many coverage busts on the back end for the Dolphins defense, and so much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. You guys know, are you guys? Silicon Valley fans? The HBO vehicle The comedy starring Thomas middle

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on this podcast. Probably am gonna yell. No big play breakdown Today, We're gonna jump right into the top five tapes and the top best tape. The best tape of the game for me was to Ron Armstead. I know he wasn't happy about his game a while back. I think it was I don't eve remember what game that was, Titans, maybe Jets, I can't remember. But he's been aces the

last few weeks. Great rep one on one in space on Odafe Oway on the Cedric Wilson touchdown where he basically shut down any pass rush attempt that he could possibly have there. He got outside of Patrick Queen on a climb reach that was really difficult to get to on that forty five yard devon a chan run and pancaked him. He took the five technique all the way from the hash out beyond the on another big run

from eight to ten yards on this one. I think there's a lot to like about this group's this current group's ability to get things going in the running game, and to me, Testad is at the forefront of that. He put his butt off top tape for me on this game. He was charged with a sack late in the game when the ravens Edge ran upfield by about three yards and was off sides with the running start, kind of like when you turn off off sides and Madden.

Not sure how it didn't get called, but it didn't, and it was a free run sack that got charged to Ron Armstead. My second top tape I mentioned the big run devon. Achang gets back into the mix here

after a long absence from the top five tapes. Man his ability to accelerate off cuts, like he can really dictate defensive line flow like stretch him to where if they are vulnerable, and then exploit that vulnerability like his long run was just great patience and then vision to anticipate the lane opening up and then zero to sixty

speed top gear Let's go. I also really like his ability to see what there is to get from a play like an inside run, and just go get it, like bury your nose, put it in there for three or four yards and live to fight another day. He's never gonna push piles. I mean, well that's not true, because he kind of has. But the size difference in this game with he and the Ravens into your defensive line was a little bit funny to me. I mean even despite that, despite that, we did have fourteen for

one h seven on the ground here from him. Big time stuff. And then in the passing game, his route on the touchdown catch, he shook Queen inside, but pressure forces two to get out and he immediately whips the route back outside and shakes him again. And that's one of the best players right now in the league. Patrick Queen and Rokwan Smith are playing so good and then he goes and high points to football and makes the catch. Good to see him back for a monster day and

my second best tape. He had seventy yards after initial contact, albeit on just two forced miss tackles. Best. The thing about this guy, he can make one guy miss and give you a forty five yard run as a result, five yards on average after contact, five first down rushes, seven point six yards per carry, also had forty two yards after the catch on him four catches, four out of five targets, six yards per target, one point five to eight yards per route. Ram Dan Chan big game

against the Ravens. My third top tape is a combination once again, a combination. It's a combination like we had with Christian and Zach last week, and I just spoiled it.

It's Durham Smith and Julian Hill. They could probably go both go in individually here, but I think the pairing works better because how they were both so critical on some of the same plays and against a physical, big, powerful, long group of Ravens edge defenders, these guys moved the line of scrimmage time and time again out there and hit big blocks out in space. Let's talk about it.

So Julian Hill, it's unbelievable to me to think this guy was playing football at Campbell last year because on a Chan's red zone run for a first down in the opening series, he comes all the way across the formation on that you know, sprint exit, cheat motion, whatever the hell we're calling it, and the ball is snapped when he is directly behind Rob Jones the right guard and Jadevian Clowney in this setup is a nine technique, which means he's on the outside shoulder of the tight end,

so he is three gaps away and Julian's job is to go attack his outside shoulder, turn his butt outside and pin him inside and we're gonna run off of that lane. The critical block of the play designed around Julian Hill's ability to reach Jadevian Clowney. Think about that, and it's the key block on a fifteen yard run against Jadavian Clowney, who legit might be the best run defender of the last decade off the edge. He also blew up Odafe Oway on a forty five yard devon

eight chan run. So, Julian Hill, this guy, he's a big part of the future to me in this offense. I think so is Durham smyth, and he has a contract extension to prove that. Speaking of the block on the eight chan run Julian and Durham is it's just a nice gumbination. I don't think this pass catching element of Durham's game is going anywhere either, because he's a

big stick target. What I mean by that stick is essentially your bread and butter for a quarterback when they blitz or when they devote attention to the perimeter, to a receiver like Tyreek Hill or to a receiver like a Jalen Waddell. And what I mean by that why he's a good stick target. First, he has this very calm sense about him when the ball is clearly designed to come to him on a certain play where he gets up the stem, but like doesn't attract attention by

how he gets off. It's always the same get off as a blocking rep that he might have, and that allows him to manipulate those zone pockets. He can kind of throttle down, he can speed up, he can determine where he wants to get his head back to the quarterback, and then Tua can just throw the thing at him, which must be kind of a nice change of pace for him to have a big frame we can just throw at opposed to having to anticipate and throw the ball to spots like we have to do to this

receiving core. And I'm not saying it's a knock on those guys. It's just probably nice to be able to feel almost like a three to zero fast ball, right, let's go ahead and just we're taking right here. Let's go ahead and paint this thing over the outside black and get it back into the count. It's a change

up from our timing offense. But I think his ability to both hit key blocks outside and then this added element, I think it gives you another answer to what defenses takeaway and I think it could be big against the Bill's smaller defense. We'll explain that on Wednesday, a different

podcast for a different day. And man, if you can just add to this room a seam busting tight end that's not Mike Gesicki, and it's not a knock on Derma Smythe because I just I'm looking for a little more explosiveness in that role, but more like Laporta from the Lions. Then this tight end room can go from pretty good to oh oh wow, that's the best tight end room in the league for what they're asked to do.

And I want to come back to that point. I actually got my notes mixed up here a little bit, and I had a point earlier that was supposed to play off of this, but we'll just come back to that. But put a pin in that and This is a Tron Armstead and tight ends and Austin Jackson stat for

that matter, but mostly for Smyth and Hill. Here we ran the ball for one hundred and forty yards and one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty four yards one hundred and forty of those came off tackle, So pretty good job off the edges for the Dolphins in this game. My fourth best is the only defender in the lot, and it's Zach Sealer. I love watching this guy play man. His sack is a microcosm of his will and determination. They're behind the sticks, Baltimore are is.

We bring four against their five, and Christian draws the double. So that means you have Chubb and gink manned up as well as Zach Sealer, who you picking to win. You're one on one. There is it? The big plotting defensive tackle. Probably not right, but when you have Zack Seeler it can be. And he just works and works and works and takes the left guard right into Lamar Jackson's lap. But the job at that point is only

like twenty percent done against that quarterback. So he works some more, sheds the block and finishes doing large part to the help that Gink and Chubb gave him by really honoring their rush lanes and not letting Lamar get out. He tried to step up, but Zach beat his block right at that moment and gets the sack. I thought

that play was the most connected. The secondary was the entire day looked like the defense on that rep that we've seen for the last two months, and outside that first series in the first half, which you could have gotten off the field by better effort on the third and sixteen screen more on that in moment. There was a lot of good plays on defense in that first portion of the game. It's why it was a close.

It's why you had a ten to seven lead and the ball driving for the Miami Dolphins offense, like it was a possibility you could have made it a two score game and gotten this defense back in position where maybe the the flow of the games different. But it wasn't. I digress, just there was a few plays and Zack Seler I thought was a big part of those plays early on in this game. My fifth top tape goes to Cedric Wilson in this No knock on Cedric, but

it tells you how bad of a game. This was right because one, he had to step up in a role that he's not usually playing, and that's not how this offense was designed. But I think some of these routes that he runs are pretty crisp and pretty nice and tells you why the Dolphins kind of made him a priority ahead of the Tyreek Hill trade. And his ability to make catches in traffic is a skill that I think he has above the rest of the receiving corps just in terms of his size and stature among

that group. The touchdown catch exceptional route, the little nod outside with eight Chan's underneath route really sells Patrick queen to get out of that space. Then there's a half field safety who gets on his hills and just gets beat to touchdown. Then on the long eight Chan run he cracks down and seals the edge. Physical player man. I thought this might have been the best run blocking

game we've got from a receiver all year. And he made a couple of nice catches a touchdown and that little back shoulder corner throw to get a drive going there when we were down by what thirty five thirteen was at eighteen points like simpressive stuff there from Cedric Wilson, my honorable mention tapes, Austin Jackson and Rob Jones, and that's it. Nobody else on defense, we'll tell you about that.

Why here in a moment, let's go ahead and do some offensive notes first though, as we always do, and generally, here's where I think it went wrong. I think the injuries to this Dolphins offense have hemmed them into a box offensively, and I think that box is still incredibly fruitful, a top ten attack that you can win with. But we thought this might be a generational record shattering offense. Right, Boy,

that was a fun time, wasn't it. But watching this team on tape, and I do think this is a big part of being so depleted, Wattle especially, But man, they just never respected the backside seem vertical on some of the stuff that we ran. And by that I mean a nasty split. Once. A nasty split, Travis, it's when you align your receiver or running back in close to the tackle, like within an arm's length away from

the tackle. Nasty equals tight to the formation, and you split that on the weak side of the formation, so all the flow goes strong side, and the Ravens would bring a safety down to hunt crossers or slants from that side, but they never thought about getting depth or

running vertical. If we just hit one vertical seam on the backside off of the slide glance action, which is our bread and butter right go in motion to it has the option throw the ball directly to the sideline to durham Smythe or alec Ingold sometimes it's Devon eight Chan, or you can throw the glance route to Wattle or Tyreek in behind that hook linebacker from that look. If we can find a way to get the ball to the backside, the vertical nasty split down the hash marks.

It reminds me of the Titans recap we talked about them just basically not honoring the out route to the backside at all. Just take it away, go fit the run from our nickel defense. You have to find ways to hit these spaces that they're leaving for you, and then you can get more from your bread and butter and you can just expand the offense even more. It's this was a big, a big reason in this game why I thought the Ravens defense clamped down late in

the game. They adjusted and we did not adjust. To it. It's why I was never worried about Dallas, you know, in their defense. Watching on tape, sands a few drives that Parsons can squash on his own. They just don't adapt like that. But the Ravens do, the Titans do, the Bills will. Fortunately we saw this on tape and

can now work to exploit some of that. But you have to find a way to fix it because teams will keep doing that, and you're playing in that at that point, like twelve on eleven or eleven on ten, whatever, you're down a man basically. But it also takes me back. This is the point I talked about the titands earlier. It takes me back to Greg Olsen on the Cowboys broadcast on Christmas Eve when he said something really fascinating to me that I hadn't heard anybody pick up after

the fact. He jokingly told coach McDaniel in their production meeting, I love the offense, coach, but we got to find a way to get the tight ends more involved in McDaniel jokingly, I think maybe some truth as well. Replied back to him, that's year three of the offense, which sort of goes back to the point I made on

the Sunday Recap pod. It's still just year two with this group, and the best teams are usually hardened by difficult experiences, right, Usually Patrick Mahomes is like the only quarterback that just showed up and started winning right away and super Bowls right away. Right. I guess Joe Burrow had some of that, but he had some losses, lost AFTCY Championship, lost a super Bowl, you get it. But on top of that, we saw this offense evolve in

a great way this year. It's but as far from its final form, so something to chew on because I thought the Ravens game was a good example, and to that point, Durham actually did start to hit some of those team shots. I just I still can't believe the one eighty I've done on durham smythe as a player. But man, think about inserting like a Charles Klay type into that role, ideally a George Kittle, Right, But those

guys don't grow on trees. But I mean, just thinking about it out loud, that seems to be one area where Miami cannot just improve the depth chart, but holistically make the defense defend an entirely different dynamic option. And that's where I think that you can go back to the records heating talk add add something to your offense that you can exploit when the defense takes away our best options. If you do that, and it doesn't have

to be a tight end, I think that's best. But it really just about occupying this one area that can remove the defense's attention from other portions of the field to open up Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddell, on and on and on. So more notes here offensively starting off straight bully ball. And this is why I thought we had ourselves a classic in the making between the two best

teams in the conference. And I fired off my freezing cold take about these being the top two teams in the AFC, and it ain't close because at that point it was two nineteen to two PHO nine in yardage, same time on possession, like three or four plays difference.

Miami starts this game walking them off the line, pinning them at the point of the of the attack and critical gaps out, scheming them with wide open receivers off action that set them on one thing and gives them another and a quarterback who's seeing it ripping it threading it all those factors together. Man, take me back to one ten PM when it felt like we're about to roll up forty points with the way this offense is cooking.

Let's keep it going here, and they did. The next drive starts with the play action dig to tyreek for fifteen or so yards. Then the next play you see a hesitation at the second level on a toss to a chan that helps him earn the edge and go for forty five yards. Fantastic opening script and plan that had the Ravens totally on their heels. The run game was working. They were doing a great job manipulating the

hook zone coverage with some high low stuff. You hook up short of the sticks and that draws the linebacker down. Sneak the glance in behind that and throw into it, or if it gets depth, throw the stick. All kinds of cool creative designs. But here's my take on how things got out of hand in these games, or how they do get out of hand in these games, like we've seen it against Baltimore and Buffalo this year, the two teams who at the time to me were the

best teams that Miami has played this year. Week four, Buffalo week seventeen, Baltimore. I think the defense giving up huge chunks and several touchdowns to start the game puts the offense into a bit of a mode they want to try to avoid where they press right, because you see it all over the tape. But the good part is, I don't think that's who they are. I think who they are is the team that has been so sharp offensively like the other ninety percent of the season. But

that's what I see when I watch those games. I think the offense would have sustained more efficiency and had the score stayed tighter. Like the Rowan Smith pick just forced a ball against the coverage you cannot force it into. I will explain that more in the to a portion of the podcast, speaking of let's go ahead and get to Tua, but first, let's go ahead and take our

last break before any of that. Though. I know it's a big part of the offense and the confusion and I discipline that kind of forces the defense to plan for a lot of stuff. But man, can we just like not do the end to rounds and a little toss that's a Tyreek? Do they ever work? They always seem to lose yards. They did it again in this game. Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come back on the other side and talk about Tua's game, the rest of the offense and the defense all that.

Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. It's two a time here on segment number two. And I always come away from these tapes more impressed by Tua. I think it's kind of the style of his game, but this one there's a lot to unpack in terms of how it devolved into a not so vintage to a performance after it looked like we were gonna get vintage to a here on the road at the Baltimore even so, opening drive, fantastic

execution up and down. I thought he had Cedric on the second down in completion, but quickly atones as he widens the middle of the Ravens defense and makes the safety weight a beat before ripping a capital a anticipation heater to Hedrick Wilson again for six, big time throw, patient development of progressions on a third and goal from the eight. That's a four point play. That's a big time throw. That's a franchise quarterback player right there in a big time game to go get seven opposed to

three to open the game. The throw on the drop to Tyreek the exact same thing, big, big, big time stuff. Reek motions to the field to join a condensed What does that mean? Remember the nasty split in close to the formation condensed and type. But now we have three receivers in a bunch set trips basically trips nasty or trips condensed, whatever you want to call it. Cedric basically clears out the hook defender by running to the goalpost. It's a clear out route, Brotherhood route, Love of the

Game route. Barrios runs a speed out against inside leverage, which widens that man defender as well, and that opens up the window inside and Tyreek runs this great route that leaves the corner falling off back onto his heels and out of the break to a season. He cuts that thing loose before Tyreek even throttles down. Exceptional throw right on the face mask. And we're talking about a six of seven start with eighty four yards and two touchdowns.

I mean, that's what Lamar did all game long, right, and we'd be going back and forth here, but instead it's five for seven for seventy seven yards. And one touchdown, Like, still a good start, but it could have been perfect. You could have not envisioned a better start than that. It goes back to my point about how this team

has multiple ways to win. A lot of the success in within that, and then the scheme of this game and the running game was out scheming them and dominating at the point of attack and getting good positive runs. But when a drive stalls and you're called upon your franchise quarterback to go execute third and long because it's only passing that situation, and on third and eight in mid red zone and third and seven in mid red zone, the two toughest plays to execute in the NFL, down

in condensed areas with long yards to gain. Tua makes his two best throws of the quarter. One's a touchdown and even easier should have been touchdown. But then what happens. I'm expecting it to get bad at this point, but it hadn't yet because I thought the ensuing misses were explainable up until the pick, which we'll get to as well. But there's an off target ball to Cedric Wilson on

third down. Looks like a difference of where he was versus where Tua thought he would be then a screen pass a tyreek that comes off of his hand funky and flies overhead. But then it's an absolute sniper shot to Durham for sixteen yards on a third and seven. And this is with six minutes left in the half of a fourteen to ten games. So your win probability this point is forty nine percent right here. And we're ripping these big time throws and having these big third

and media and third long conversions. It's why I initially planned a satirical takeaway in my notes before halftime called the two a legacy game because he was making these big time throws over and over and over again. The best part of that third down shot to Durham is Barrios runs a hook right at the sticks and Tua no looks this thing downfield. He strides towards Braxton and you see Patrick Queen jump out of the window. As

a result, Man, we got twenty five minutes. I'm frustrated because we have twenty five minutes into this game and it's two Juggernauts blow for blow going back and forth. And then later on the drive fourth and five, you need another big play from your quarterback after what I thought was really good execution against a simulated overload pressure. Look where the Ravens rushed four but got themselves a free run because of the pre snapped disguise and Tua

slides protection. And when you get a free runner, you want to be in your face so you can see it and make a move. And he gets that, and he delivers in the face of that pressure, a good back shoulder ball, but chosen just I don't know what he does half the time, just never comes back to the football. But on the fourth down play you get more of a true rush. The Ravens spam the middle of the field with three hook defenders, so Tua goes, all right, I've got tyreek one v one outside and

drops an absolute pearl right in the bucket. Again like this is an a maybe a minus quarterback performance to this point. But that's where things got a little bit sideways. The first interception the Raving I did with the shot to Durham with the complete opposite here, because you see Smith getting depth and width to that side of the field, which is already a stop sign to not throw the ball.

If that linebacker cheats, you cannot throw that pass because in this spot, typically that ball gets batted into the air and then you hope you survive it. But Queen just makes a crazy one handed catch. But Tua even pumps at this point, and that turns Smith not just into a cheat, but into a full sprint in that direction, and it, like I said, could have been a PBu but he makes a great one handed catch and we pay the ultimate price for really our first really really

true bad rep of the day. Bad look, but you can still survive that if the defense can bow up. They can't. But there's a lesson to be learned from that first pick one. When the mic aligns the opposite side of the center of where you want to throw the football, that's usually an indicator that window is going to be there. And it's why I think we put teams with bad off ball linebacker play in hell, because they can't compete with getting over there. But teams that

have really good ones, like this team. He shows that and then he immediately begins to work the side that two is working, and he's so quick and instinctive that he can get the depth while keeping eyes on the rest of the play. So you kind of got out quarterbacked here by a really good defensive quarterback, if that

makes sense. And to the point about those linebackers. On the very next drive, we are about to have first and ten to the plus forty with thirty three seconds left to maybe make it a twenty eight sixteen game. Maybe you get back into maybe even score a touchdown and it's twenty eight twenty maybe who knows. But Patrick Queen right there makes an outstanding breakup on a ball that Tua puts right on Jeff Wilson. So it just wasn't our day. The second play, like Tua talked about this,

the pick just forcing it. And this is in the second half after a fumble that maybe gives you some momentum in a thirty five to thirteen game. But this is part of the game situation and the urge to press. But the reality is that pressing is the worst thing you can do because it plays right into what the defense is doing. It's a first and ten twenty one personnel, but the Ravens are in too high because it's an eighteen point game, right and that score also allows Rokwan

Smith to get depth at the snap. I'm not gonna worry about a run if you get six yards compared to the four that you would have gotten. That's a win for me. When Tua cuts this thing loose, Smith is ten yards off the lion of scrimmage. I mean, if he's honoring the run and is two yards closer to the line of scrimmage, this is an eighteen yard completion. But he's not. He's a great player and Tua needs to recognize that and take what's there. He didn't, He

forced it and he paid the ultimate price. Once again. I'll end with this on Tua my theory as to why these games get this way, and he's twenty five, which means he'll learn. I think he's come such a long way in general game management, and we saw it last week in total command on that game winning drive, to the point that he has the awareness to address Tyreek but while talking to Braxton so as to confuse

the Cowboys to where the play is going. But damn man, every time this defense is getting dog walked, and it happens too often. Right Tua tries to stretch his game into something that he's not. It reminds me of the

Mariners star prized player Julio Rodriguez. We had zero bats this year, the manners did around Julio, So every time he sees a first pitch in a big spot runners on base, he was swinging out of his shoes because he felt that if he wasn't driving the baseball into gaps and over the fence and piling up runs, then we as a team wouldn't score. And he was right about that. But Tua is such a good quarterback, one

of the best. Every quarterback has their limitations. For Tua, it's the ability to thread tight windows downfield without anticipation, and that's fine. I'd rather that be my weakness than to not be able to see the field at all, like a lot of these quarterbacks can't do a certain quarterback in Los Angeles, for instance, But when they can cheat on these drops, Tua has to. He must take

the underneath stuff. I love you, man. You've been my favorite quarterback to watch on tape for this franchise ever, because I didn't watch the Amrina on tape. But you are not punching twenty five yard throws into a defense that's playing to take away twenty five yards. Most quarterbacks aren't.

You're not doing it either, So I think that he inherently presses when the defense is getting dog walked, and if he just took a little more measured approach, we could hang around in these tight games and give ourselves a chance to climb back. In really good tape for the first twenty eight minutes, excellent even, I would say, But then a really bad choice compounded by a worse one, and you go from an AA minus down to a

seed rather quickly. But I will say this, if you know ball and you watch this tape, you will not come away from this game thinking it's a quarterback problem. I get being frustrated he could not get us into the third quarter, get us going in that third quarter, but like it's a secondary issue. It was a reaction to what the bigger issue was, which we'll get to here in a minute. The best example of stretching the

defense on our last touchdown drive. We had this third and five and converted a sort of back shoulder throw to Cedric who's running like a slot fade sort of, but it's more like run to space and two adrills this thing to the plus thirty throwing from the far hash from his own forty five yard by it, so say, twenty five yard rip. This is what I mean by expanding with the defense can defend if we can get

to these more consistently. When they drop four defenders between the numbers and span the middle of the football field ten plus yards down the field, this is the winning play. It's how you get them out of that. It's how you gain yards while they're in that, because then we come back to Braxon burials on a fourth down speed out and convert that. I can't say it for every opponent, but when these throws are given, we have to hit them.

Because Baltimore adjusted that for the first few drives, and the adjustment was taking personnel away from those areas of the field and moving them inside. I said I was going to finish up on two a one more hit thing for you. Here the last play for him, the shot to Chase Claypool looks like a desperation heave, But the Ravens sort of just got lucky in the timing because the corner falls off, like almost accidentally at the same time that Tua throws this thing and throw it

right on top of that coverage. With the ball, it couldn't have been more perfect. It was a perfect ball, and we drop it gross. So two drop touchdowns on the day, one for three on twenty plus yard throws for twenty five yards, that's not very common for us. On ten plus yard throws in the intermediate six for

fifteen one hundred and ten yards, but two picks. In fact, he had just one pick and the ten to nineteen yard range coming into the game tripled out him out with two in this game, just out of character, he was blitz three times, one for three for sixteen yards. He was pressured on ten dropbacks. That's four sacks, one for six passing for seven yards. To me, that's the next progression into his game, kind of learn how to protect ourselves, but also not giving up on play so early. Right,

It's a conundrum. It's tough, but also getting the ball out quicker to checkdowns and on the perimeter tough result. That's the next progression for two. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there, come back and do all the eligibles in the defense and the snap counts. Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you

by Autoation. This should be a little bit briefer of a third segment than usual because we used four of the eligibles in the top five as well as one defender, and we're not gonna talk too much about the defense because we've already talked about how terrible it was. So Alec ingold spoiler. We're doing a breakdown on Alec for the YouTube series this week. On the fourth play of the game, you get a look into how unique this player is from in terms of the options that he

gives an offense. He gets naked in the flat purely because of the unique design built around his skill set little face fake toss action left. But Alec is the one who sells this from an upback position in the I formation because he takes three counter steps left and you watch the Ravens defense just completely fold and wash over that side and then pivots back and counters back into the flat and two of finds him for eighteen yards in the opening drive, one of the most unique

weapons in the game. And we get the matchup of he and Tarn Johnson next week. Always a pivotal matchup when the Dolphins and Bill's face off for Tyreek Hill on that ingle catch, Let's hustle to that block. Let's run to the block. Okay, don't jog after it, run to the block. Also the drop. Yikes, I don't know, I get it, it happens, but yikes. Then the very next play, the third drive, he runs the wrong right out him

in two on different pages. I just don't get the lack of lock in in these games, he said to himself, the worst game ever played. Inclined to agree, but play better next week, please. He did have a great response after that, dropping the catching the fourth and five ball up the sideline, beautiful release, good late hands, good over the shoulder, tracking the attention, he commands. Man, it's palpable. Like in the red zone. It's always two guys bracketing

either side at all times. With the Ravens two point zero five yards per route, ran six point three yards per target twelve yards after the catch. Okay, it might be time to stop using these stats because they said Tyreek did not have a drop in the game. Zero drops for tygreck kill. What the we're talking about? Chosen,

I'm all good there. Tua took a sack on a two man route combo where they had three bodies on Tyreek and just one for Chosen, and it took eight point nine seconds for Chosen to get off the reroute that's not an accurate time, but it took forever two a loads up to throw there. But when he realized his chosen is about twenty yards away from where he needs to be, just tucks it and takes the sack.

I'm good there on the line. The protection was actually really good in this game, even in the way they distributed games inside, which is been a steady improvement since the Connor Williams injury happened. Some of those big two of throws came from totally clean pockets. But I thought there was a disconnect in some blocking assignments in the running game. And look, the Ravens interior is so damn good. Like Michael Pierce is a breed. They just don't make

him like that anymore. Three sixty it moves like that, okay. He also defeated a lot of blocks, and it looked like the interior three We're having conversations after some of those blocks, like Liam and Lester would argue a lot of plays about detaching and climbing and who you want to attach you to the second level. Just that those two players were rough in this game. The rest I thought was pretty good, but the absence of Waddle and

Raheem I think impacted more than anything else. Your second best separator and truthfully a top ten separate in the NFL, plus a top pass protector slash receiver from the backfield. Tough to overcome that. For sixty minutes, Miami could not do it. I thought Austin Jackson was great again. Good blocks in space, a bit of a nastiness that he brings to the running game was back. Plus several Ravens rushers just putting him on the turf with a good balance and power, and then his set to finish with

a punch and carry them around the arc. Good game for Austin Jackson. I mentioned Liam and Lester. There's a technique issue with Liam where he leans into some of these blocks and you just can't do that against NFL defenders, much less the biggest interior defensive line in the league. Like get another step under you and then fire into that rep. Because he got controlled all day and got no knockback, that was enough to get him beat over

and over again by Michael Pierce. I'm not really interested in telling you about left guard spot because it's been a weak point on the line for over a month and it's costing several yards and drives at this point, though, I will hear because on the last drip of the first half, dude one on one head up against Michael Pierce. That's not a guy that you lose pass rush to

when you're even with him, and he does quickly. I do like Rob Jones for what he is, a good, powerful people mover, but there's things in this offense he can't get to, Like the first sack of Tua. He's the poler to go dig out the front side edge and it's just a laborious process one that he ultimately cannot get done. It makes a second and ten for a throwaway, a second and fifteen with a sack. But I did think Rob Jones played a really good game on balance. But getting Rob Hunt back will be huge

because he can make a big difference. There is long as as well as rareheem moster in pass protection Testad one pressure, the sack that shouldn't have been a sack, Cotton two pressures a sack, Iikenburg one pressure in a sack, Jones two pressures. Austin had four pressures, though I'm not sure about that. They did give him their highest pass blocking grade. But whatever behind Teasa, I should say, all right, defensively, the Ravens did a really good job of getting their

shot plays against our base front right. The Wilkins, Davis, Sealer Chubb front still a good rushing group. You usually don't want number ninety eight rush in the passer, but that's a rundown front. And the Ravens dial up these two man route combos with two leaks where they would help in protection then get out into the flat, and that with Lamar's ability to scramble, they would get doubles on Chubb and Wilkins and have a helper on Sealer.

It would give Lamar these five second pockets. And you wind up with Flowers running a free lance corner route against a Sean Elliott whose role is to play the deep half, and you wind up putting him in a position where he's basically man covering Za Flowers. He's not gonna win that. That's not his skill set. But Lamar's ability to just constantly change the launch point I think is where he got us because the rush you figure

eventually will get home. But how well versed that line has in terms of playing with Lamar for the last several years and knowing how he moves about, how will they know his mobility. It just makes plays like this so difficult to defend. So like we were rolling early on, but the Ravens also had a very good plan and throughout the entire game. Honestly, the lack of adjusting to things is just like everyone is mad about all the offense today, but go watch those two tape men. It

ain't freaking close. Those were JV mistakes on the defense, getting caught on a rub going underneath it five plays after they just did that on the previous four plays earlier, or getting busted on the exact same cheat motion that we run our offense runs. How on the defensive line, I thought Christian Wilkins continues to find ways to make a splash on the stat sheet every single week. Double and run away from him. Okay, he'll ride the wave and go over the top and make a play four

yards down the field. Double him in pass pro Fine, doesn't go on the stat sheet, but he'll he'll work like hell to make sure you both those blockers and sustain it for a chance for somebody else to win their one on one. He had two stops and no pressures in the game. They took care of him pretty good. Double them up, Bradley Chubb. I'm devastated for this guy. Man,

He's such a good dude. He made a tackle on Lamar on a third down scramble where we were up ten to seven, where he came from several yards behind the play and caught it and because of guys making Lamar change directions, Cobb to it, but effort and straight on the retrace. It's why you love him out There were some one on one pass rush chances where he kind of got caught in quicksand not his best game

in that department. He did four stops and two pressures in the game though, so on balance, you know, wasn't our biggest problem. Andrew Van Ginkle just such an appreciation for the way that he has made additions to his game over the years. It showed up in this game a big, physical team that tried to wham, trap and crack him, and he just didn't lose his feet and kept coming back for more. I really thought the front

was fine in this game, not great, but fine. The mistakes in the back end I thought just really flipped this game on its head. But I will say, I think they were so hyper aware of Lamar's running threat that we didn't have much of a pass rush plan and it hurt us a lot. Chub to Wilkins, to Melvin, anybody besides Zach and Gink really kind of didn't have a plan how to counter those second rush moves. Gink had three stops and one pressure in the game. Raekwon

Davis was a rough one. Melvin Ingram that was a rough one. We'll just leave it at that second level. Off ball linebackers. Duke has been so good, but this was a tough game for him. It's a tough ask for a linebacker on those running back wheels and against this offense. I get the need to be able to crash the line of scrimmage in a moment's notice because of the running game and the quarterback. But going underneath the rub wheel is a zero percent chance you'll run

vertically with that running back. You're never gonna do it, never going to run with Justice Hill taking that angle. And then the very next series he has awesome fuel, scrapes and explodes down to the line scrimmage and finishes on an outside run from Justice Hill. So there are good plays there, but man, they went after him and coverage in a very very bad way. David Long on the Hill screen. This has surprised me because this is not who I've seen on tape all year long, but

on the on the Justice Hill screen. I need some damn charged up effort that you showed all night against the Titans back on Monday Night football, because when Hill cut up, he's still six yards shy and Deshaun Elliott's behind Long and he's the one that gets there. I cannot fathom not having urgency in that moment. Generally speaking, I feel like they just got us mixed up in the middle of the field passing game, we'd pass off

and leave somebody alone. We'd get too much depth. Like it was just always something against a quarterback that I think you're so aware of the run that maybe you don't honor some of the passing stuff like you normally do. But the way Lamar has developed this year and taken a big step and killing teams from the pocket like he did in this game, a lot of man beaters. It got the best of us. So Long had three stops, Duke had one. Long was in coverage eighteen snaps for

fourteen yards one for two. Passing duke coverage for twenty six snaps sixty two yards four for four in a touchdown. Not a good day. Secondary was the worst part of the tape by far. I don't think a lot has to be said here. The story was similar all day long. Confusion, or at least the body language would indicate confusion. Rashan Bateman catches a slant on the creative way to get to slant flat one that we are all too familiar with. Exit motion. You see Javon call for something and you

have to assume a switch inside banjo. You take first in, I'll take first out. But then he runs to the flat and Ramsey's already playing the flat because Bateman catches it in a patch of grass and runs for more yards after the catch. We just chased ghost all day long. The long touchdown, we both jumped the same route, Eli Apple, were you paying attention in meetings this week? Leave one open? You lose one of your best players in the four

snap of the game. Javon is back in the lineup for the first time in over a month, so maybe there was an adjustment period there. But it was awful and it has to be a lot better this week. Holland twenty six covered snaps forty eight yards on three for three passing in two touchdowns. Elliott twenty six for thirty one, Apple twenty two for one oh four in a touchdown. Yikes, Ramsey twenty six to twenty five, He's great.

Cater twenty one for thirty one in a touchdown. I thought Javon had maybe his worst game as a pro. To mention the banjo call. Like on that play, javan is equipped to squat on the hook and Ramsey's equipped to run the vertical on the sideline, and they did the opposite. And Ramsey comes off that play losing his damn mind. Cater coo, who has just not been a good year. He got caught in bad spots all game long.

We just looked like crap man X gets roast on the first play of the game, no safety help and you buy it on a slant on the first play of the game and gets run by then on the screen, both Cater and Javon take awful angles in the football and open up that backside windback run from Hill. Let's get out of here. Forget the snapcounts. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go watch the college playoffs. This was a terrible tape defensively. They have to get it fixed next

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