Week 1 Film Room, Dolphins Pats - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts, McDaniel Commentary

victory over New England. Plus will provide context of the numbers and advanced metrics will scan the social we'll get snap counts, and we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel. Busy episode from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast mimiphics, so it's kind of funny. I'm I'm pretty busy in game, firing off tweets, putting together a radio show, outline my podcast takeaways, and organizing thoughts in general. As part of

the duties of the job. And the reason I'm telling you this and that I have three different avenues and platforms of coverage that I do on Sundays is because I went to bed on Sunday night upset with myself because I don't think I mentioned Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle in the Sunday Recap podcast. I talked about them a lot on radio and on Twitter and seemingly everywhere else, but somehow they didn't get notes on the podcast. That's bad. That's on me, and I'm gonna make up for today.

I want to just go ahead and get ahead of that, and we'll start here with the offense of all twenty two review, talking about the impact of these two receivers and some stats that I have for you in the Pro Football Focus slacks slash Next Gen review here later on in the podcast. Let's go ahead and start with

the film and the snap counts. I should say as the Dolphins had four offensive players go wire to wire, Liam Eichenberg, Robert Hunt, Connor Williams and two a tongue of vloa all played all sixty snaps to Ron Armstead missed two snaps, he played fifty eight. Greg Little played forty five snaps. That was seventy of the workload. Austin Jackson fourteen and Rob Jones three snaps At receiver, Waddle and Hill played forty apiece, Cedric played twenty eight, Surefield

thirty one, River Craigcraft ten. At running back, Chase Edmonds had thirty eight, Raheem had twenty five, and alec Ingold had twenty two snaps. And then among tight ends Durham's My thirty eight, Mike Kisikiwi Hunter Long twelve and Sethan Carter one, So a really balanced effort. Their offensive line had to go deep into the bench for some of

that stuff because of the injuries. That's why you gotta build a team full of depth, and they found a way to get this job done despite those injuries accruing at that spot. As far as the offensive tape and just some general takeaways, I sure do love this offense. Man. There are so much action where you kind of sell the run and you get the defense to believe it.

You have to write where you have pulling guards to simulate that run action, keeping those eyes of those linebackers guessing, giving them all sorts of eye candy to follow around. Just a really fun structured offense that makes things look the same and then build wrinkles off of them and just forces guys to be on their keys and be sharp with their eyes on top of the speed they have to defend. It could be it could be a

deadly combination going forward. And I felt like they really stole some yards in this game under as far as with design and the usage of getting the ball in the hands of their playmakers. Some extensions of the running game. Three wide receiver rush attempts produced twenty yards eight for Jalen, eight for Cedric, six for Tyreek in eighteen yards screen

pass a now route, stand up. Throw that thing out there against the Patriots dime defense, and you get a good block from Trent Surefield off the edge to pick up eighteen yards. A lot of it looks the same. You get that orbit motion, that receiver running back behind the quarterback. I can running back, you can go weak or strong. You can pull your split flow action with a tight end. You can pull a guard. It's just

a lot to prepare for. And I'm watching this tape from like a Ravens perspective, for instance, and just keep thinking, we're gonna have some long nights this week because we have so much to get ready for. There was a play action passed to Durham Smythe where the personnel is surefield, Craycraft, Smythe, Wilson and Edmonds a great grouping to run from right,

so they get jet motion. After shifting Smythe from a wider split and tight to the formation, you get the flow off of play action and to a steps up out of some pressure where the chase can then get in there and pick up that last blitz aer inside and then Smythe gets behind the second level because the

linebackers have their eyes on the running game. It's just a lot of that instances where you use the flow of the defense against them and kind of it's kind of like what we talked about with offensive line versus defensive line. A lot of it is trying to get a guy leading one way and then snap back the other way. Similar steps here on the offense, the Patriots

played tons of Cover three in this game. That's where you have one defender covering a deep third portion of the field, so left, middle, and right, and they really focused on those crossers and over routes with the curl flat guy getting depth from that backside, which is your guy that covers you know, flat routes or the potential five ten yard hook zone and then you get more depth for those yard overs. Good work by the Patriots to get that taken care of, because that style lends

itself to a lot more underneath throws. But Miami still found a way to push the ball and produce one of the highest average yards per past play this weekend across the National Football League. So the design, the structure of it, I think has so much room to to grow from here and go from here. You had about a half of football that was really feeling out each other offensively and defensively, and then you saw some more of that kind of takeoff late in that second quarter.

As far as the individuals go, we'll start with two a tongue of by lower here in his all twenty two. And there was I think four or five plays where I wrote down like that's something you want to probably get back in terms of a negative or a potential you know, turnover worthy play, er disaster play. But the

rest of it was also solid. The first play of the game brings up plenty of talking points and it seemed bad or at least weird, and I was convinced that to a thought, Tyreek was gonna settle into the hooks zone there, but the football gets tipped by Matt Judon. He gets I think his thumb. You see him reach around and you see the ball nose dive after it goes by him, and it makes me think that he

got that thumb on it. And the reason that Tyreek was running wide open downfield was that to actually pumps his shoulders to ingold over in the flat and that not only pulled the cover three cornerback up, he winds up slipping and falling because he tries to get back to depth and he can't stay on his feet. So I thought that was really sharp by two all game to move defenders. More on that here in just a second.

I thought his involvement in the running game. You know, there's something you're not gonna hear a lot of breakdowns from in terms of outside of coaches talking right, but he checked into favorable run counts and he executes his fake so well. Had that one good hard count that got the Patriots off sides for an automatic first down

on fourth down. And you know, speaking of the running game, the big negatives and losses, and this probably goes back in the offensive category, but it's here in my notes was the safety or the rat and the hole pulling the trigger and getting down past the blocks and coming in clean. You had both Kyle Kyle Dugger and Adrian Phillips, both very good in that regard, kind of like Brandon Jones and Javon Holland. Back to Tuh, I liked the

decision to go to Ingled on the wheel. He had Tyreek deep with the mailbox up saying hey, I'm open right here. But I don't know if he had time with the pressure in his face to make that throw, because you had Ingled with a step on Jawan Bentley, and that's a speed matchup that favors you based upon the way those guys ran back at their combines, right, But it looked like Ingle drifted a little bit and couldn't quite get to the football. It's a tough bang

bang play, but I liked the decision overall. Later there was a third and seven conversion to Chase Edmonds that was so nice. You see Waddle remove that flat corner. It's that brotherhood route we talk about where you have to run your routes a certain way to sell the concept of the passing game and it gets the flat corner to go deep and Edmonds goes right to that vacated spot and to interrupts his drop because he sees an unblocked man coming up the A gap, which is,

by the way, the quickest route to the quarterback. So to be a free a gap runner on third and seven with the completion and a first down, that is big, big, big time stuff. He gets it done. There plenty of examples of ta using his eyes and body position to

move that defense mentioned the opening play. They hit a slant on the last drive of the first half to Tyreek where he clears that curl flat defender by looking out to the flat and you see him take the cheese and take steps that direction, and all that does is clear up that little hook zone for Tyreek to run that slant route into the throw of the Patriots dropped. The pick was the one moment where I was like, don't do that, man, Like eat the set, get rid

of it, do something else. They did so well to keep getting depth on that backside for those crossers, and I think that there was some split second decisions where two I wanted to throw it but thought better of it. Except for in this instance some indecision caused a near pick. So we'll talk about his games some more on the stats.

But I thought, on balance, it was a good game, but there's more to be had there for TWA and I believe he'll get that running back Chase Edmonds man, he just doesn't get squared up and it allows him to maximize his yardage. And his work in the passing game was absolutely awesome. What a weapon this guy is. The balance on that catch on the final drive was so stupid good. I just love, love, love his game.

That Texas route in the fourth quarter where they tried to chip him and he winds up kind of duck in that shoulder, then folds it back inside back to the quarterback. Such an asset in the passing game. And

by the way, his past protection was fantastic. He told me when I first met him on the podcast, I'm gonna die in that pocket with you to A And he was out there getting it done in pass pro all day where he most had some nice rips as well, especially those last couple of runs on that last drive, and of course the big play in the passing game at receiver Tyreek Man, he opens up so much and you see the complete nature of his game, right, you need two yards in that first drive, third and two

get him in a one on one look with motion, rips off the speed out the football's right there to move the chains. They went back to that later in the game, and I'm gonna talk about this here in a second, the same route to the other side of the field and they couldn't connect on it. We'll come right back to that. There was the play down the field where Tyreek was open and threw the mailbox up what it required like a legendary throw, like sixty yards

off his back foot with pressure in his face. But it shows you again that this guy can get vertical on looks that don't allow vertical type of you know routes. Uh that motion to the comeback on the comeback route where he got twenty three yards and like five yards separation, he motions from the other side of the field, comes over and it keeps the cornerback moving but also gives him like a ten yard cushion with the free release and a running start from Tyreek, and you just see

off the snap the respect that his speed commands. As Jonathan Jones like gets vertical right away and that allows Tie to actually turn them around, not once, put twice and come back to the football. And right when he's out of that break, there's the ball from two us. So good stuff there, and his ability to just erase angles and the games that plays with your eyes on tape. I can only imagine how the defense feels when they

have to get him taken care of. In the screen game, they threw him a flat early in a screen late where he had no possible angle, but he just takes that acceleration step and he wins the angle. I'm not sure what the thought was on his twenty six yard reception in terms of the past, but what a play that was. Just stole the ball. That's why Tyreek is elite and for my money, the best receiver in football.

It's not just speed, it's not selling his routes in a way that creates more space than even his jitterbug skills allow for. It's making contest and catches. It's the entire compliment of his game. Just absolutely unreal. I did think there was two balls he'd want back the final drive of the first half. Two puts the ball right into a pocket between a trio of Patriots defenders after he did what I talked about where he moves the coverage with his eyes and body position and Tyreek goes

up one handed. But I thought if he just ran through it, he could have made that catch. Then there's the dig on that fourth quarter play where he's going to the ground. He usually catches that, but you know, he said after the game that he he thought he could have caught that, and also that he drifted a little bit on that third down miss at the start of the fourth quarter where he kind of runs his out route and drifts backwards into the defense a little bit.

I thought that gave Jonathan Jones a chance to make a play on it because he was successful earlier on Tyreek was couldn't make the play here, So that one a couple of drop passes, But those were three plays out of forty for Tyreek that were so good and the one route that he didn't really run with a typical crispness man. The acceleration this guy has we saw on the screen and by the way, on that screen,

the block by Trent Sherfield ten out of ten. He also made a catch on the sideline that was so tough. You need a lot of guys like Trent Sherfield, such a perfect receiver to round out this room. Jalen Waddle, there were instances where he was open, but for whatever reason, we just couldn't get him the ball. Like a little bit slower developing routes where the ball is out before he gets out of his break and the text maybe

isn't there. And then he started getting the ball and the first catch coming right before the two minute warning in that first half, and he just went to work after that. It's a slot fade potential conversion route where you bring it to a comeback, and what a route it was to keep the dB upfield, get those those hips flipped upfield, you hammer down, come back to the quarterback and keep that dB on your back. Because it's a far hash throw, you have to keep him pinned

back there so we can't jump it. And you earn the trust of your quarterback by doing that really good stuff there. And it continues to speak to the route running ability of both Tyreek and Jalen as these guys that are build as speed receivers, no, they are complete, complete receivers, and we saw that on Sunday. Let's go ahead and break down his touchdown. You get Jalen. He's the two to the field, which means he's the second

furthest out receiver. Cedric is the one the furthest out receiver, and he motions to bunch where you put those guys together, and it creates communication errors for the Patriots and favorable leverage for Wattle inside who flies off the football going from what was pressed. But now because of the bunch, they're soft and they're off and he just takes off and you press the toes of that soft coverage before

you attack that inside shoulder. You see the d the dB kind of opens his inside gate, which gives him that inside leverage. It creates this little pocket between those Patriots defenders and the ball is out right on time, right on money, and to also once again sold to the flat to create that space and with the ball not forcing Jalen to break stride one iota, that's where the world class speed shows up. That's where the accuracy

I mean did not look like Alabama. I heard for years that he couldn't make those throws in the pros. They just did for forty two yards and touchdown and pretty much the play that put the game away. So one false step by the safety coming downhill and he's gone. On that play, By the way Greg Little, Rob Hunt and Liam Eichenberg all Stone walled their rushers to give

to a perfectly clean pocket. I had one note on Cedric Wilson, the way he comes back to the football on the play right before the waddle touchdown, the play before the play right high level stuff. Come back to the quarterback and you earn that trust from your quarterback. I thought all three of those guys, said, uh, Tyreek and Jalen, but also you know Shurefield, all really showed that trust with their quarterback to come back to the ball and make place for him on the offensive line.

To Ron, Armstead is so stink and good. He was lights out the way he shortens the runway and varies his pass sets, just kept that edge clean all afternoon. On the sack right before the big play. To Jalen, Tehron recognizes his guy peeling back in coverage, so he comes all the way across the formation and dang near saves the day to get that backside block. But he just couldn't quite get there because it happened so fast.

But he just does so much things that impress you then go watch the last play of the game before the victory formation, he drives his man a gap and pancakes him. What a Dolphins debut, My goodness. I thought Connor Williams debut was excellent. He did some really good stuff in space and doesn't lose sight of those dbs as you'll often see when the big offensive line gets out in space. He just squares him up and takes two guys to the ground on the perimeter on a

Tyreek screen and a Jalen Waddle end around. He is awesome, man, He really is a big factor on those types of plays, and he was also sturdy as hell and passed pro with a strong anchor. The only real negative I had was the first snap of the game, but man, he and Tehran were as advertised. Let's go back upwards here

towards Liam Eichenberg. I thought he had some really good eyes and processing on that Tyreek comeback where he didn't chase the slant across his face and kept his feet moving and got back into position to pick up the other twist from the stunt game up front. And then he comes back the next snap and hits the reach block to move to von gard shaw gap. I thought, fundamentally, there's a lots of like there with his game, the

hand placement, his feet were never in a hurry. He stayed patient to try to turn guys out of their gaps. I did think he fell off some blocks though, So there's some improvements across the board to make for this offensive line. Big Rob Hunt the first big run of the day, he gets the second level and man, he blocked out the sun. This dude's gonna have some highlight

reel second level blocks this year. Had one here. He gets a pancake later on that drive, a run that took us into the ad zone, fired off low and planted ninety three for New England. Now the next play nine one got him with a double swipe on the sack fumble on that first drive and absolutely wicked move. Uh. He got a little bit over a skis a couple of times, but that's the that's how it works. You're gonna lose some snaps. Check out him on alec Ingold's

first down run. He fires off the ball before anybody else and blows the one tech two or three yards off the football. Thought Austin Jackson had some good work in his minimal time, including one nice run block. Greg Little had some moments as well, but those are your offensive line notes and total. There were obviously some wins by the Patriots, a couple of times where guys could have held their blocks longer, and some confusion at times

with that tough scheme. But I thought it was a damn good start for this Newish line learning a new system. And that tight end Hunter Long had a nice pop on a first down run in the third quarter, coming over on split flow action where he sealed the backside. I thought he and Derham Smith had a couple of

nice blocks like that in the running game. Smith had a great pick up on that split action on a play action pass in the fourth quarter, the completion to waddle where he makes out the legs of that free runner and gave to a clean pocket to throw the football from between that trio of defenders. Another one of two is nice or throws of the day. And then Smith had some really good blocks. A lead block I should say on Raheem most or it's big run in

that fourth quarter. That's your offense, good showing lots of creativity. I think plenty of meat on the bone and how about that Miami defense will do that next here on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Tuesday here on the Drivetime Podcast, and that means we're going a little bit long today. The All twenty two always gets about thirty five minutes out of me. And then we also have stats and

coaches presser. Let's get to the defense right away here. Snap counts. Javon, Jerome, Brandon and x all played every snap all fifty seven. Nick Needham played fifty six, just off the field from one of those up front Zach Heeeler forty four, Christian Wilkins forty one, Emmanuel Ogba forty, Ray Kwon Davis thirty six. Good work from those guys shows you they're conditioning. John Jenkins also got ten snaps.

Jalen Phillips played forty snaps. A Landon Roberts played thirty six, Melvin Ingram played thirty two, Duke played twenty, and Van ginkle Off the appendicitis seven snaps. Kater co who played eighteen, key On Crossing sixteen and Elijah Campbell played four. So I mentioned this a bunch, so I don't have to rehash it, I don't think, but the mixture of coverage and rush and the mixed matching that Josh Bowyer did was so good that last point, though they made a

halftime adjustment. Remember the Patriots, the majority of their yards came early in the game and that touchdown driving the second half. A lot of that through the ground game, but they flipped Ogba to the right side, playing more snaps over there per pro football focus in a game than he ever has down here, and that coincided with the run game of the Patriots getting very stacked up. They ran eleven times in the second half for thirty seven yards and on the final nine runs just twenty

two yards. And that's in a game where the situation up by two or three scores. You would think there would be some more room in the running game, but there wasn't. I thought early on the Patriots and Mac Jones did a good job taking what was there. That paired with a strong run game, kind of got Miami on the back foot, a little bit on the back heel, but then you call upon X to stop the bleeding and swing the momentum immediately, and that's just what he did.

It really felt like a filling out period. Early in the game, they showed some pressure looks would back out and the pass pro held up for mac Jones and he would let it develop and take check downs from there for some decent catching run yardage. I thought the plan was awesome, thought the execution was too, But even with the great results, I think it could be even better. Let's go ahead and highlight some individuals and start there with that play by X. First, I want to highlight

Javon running to the football. You fly to the football, good things are gonna happen. He comes from the far hash and there is the payoff to get that tip by exaving Howard now with X just an example of where he's so dang good press coverage, no contact, just mirrors the wide receiver, and then he gains ground on top of Parker when he takes that crows stover step once he sees Parker commit to the takeoff route, and

that's where the rep is one. If Parker gets on top of him, there easier window for for mac Jones to throw too, but he doesn't, so now he's pinned to the sideline and then from there that causes Parker to engage X first, which then allows him to jockey for position, because once that receiver goes hands on, it's a little bit fair game for the dB to do

the exact same thing. And that's exactly what X does so well, he's just gonna push you into that sideline, throws the hand up, pops it up, and there's Javon Holland. One A way to start of the season for those two, you know, one pro bowler and one future pro bowler. For my money, the rest of XS game was more of the same. They just didn't go after him and Javon Holland too. I talked about it on the Sunday podcast.

Once he goes, man, he goes, and it's the same working downhill and the running game as his vertical or sideways, whatever direction you want him to go, pure instincts. With the first step and straight line speed, it just allows him to play faster, a step faster than what you'd expect even from his best contemporaries out there in the league.

He's so quick, he's so adept at recognizing where the route might clear behind that second level like you get you know, Baker Roberts Ingram dropping ten yards off the ball, and then that receiver kind of clears in behind that second level. He is right there to close that down immediately. In fact, there's a scramble play by Mac Jones in the second quarter where Myers does come clean in that second level, but Holland took it away after like a

tenth of a second. Really good stuff. Jerome baker Man, he seems to fall into this category a lot where his box scores don't do his work justice. He plays a lot of positions in this defense. Off the edge, stack linebacker. He just plays so patient with his run fits and helps put other guys in positions to make plays.

You often see him ready to scrape around a stack where you know Seiler or Wilkins stacks things up at the point of attack and it changes the decision making of the back who will bubble or bend it back. Just watch him on someplace where the backs wind up, you know, stretching it and then bending it back. A lot of that has to do with fifty five being

right where he needs to be. And then real quick tip of the cap to the Patriots on the third and twelve screen call on that opening drive, perfect call against Miami's pressure backout rotate look that happens sometimes coaches and players get paid too. On the other side, they had a good call there. How good was Melvin Ingram his open field tackling where he breaks down, stays square to the ball carrier and just gets him to the ground.

The way he dents the line in the running game, being in constant good position and coverage, changing the eyes of the line as a rusher to create chances for all these rush games we do upfront. What a debut. And by the way, a scoop and score one handed palm with a no gloves look, and he's a classic throwback man. He made some plays in this game. Emmanuel Ogball was exceptional. The sack is kind of what we

talked about with the defensive structure. There's a late shift on the defensive line that confuses the Patriots and it just turns Emmanuel Ogba free in the B gap, which is always gonna be a loss for the offense. The play on that Max scramble on second in the second quarter for a third and twelve where he plays through a double team, spins out and retraces and makes the play. This dude's so good stacking things up on the running game,

rushing the quarterback. Great great season debut. Christian Wilkins gets on the board the tackle for loss early where it's pure quickness rinning across the face of his man. He also made a play on a backside run like away from him, that three tech position where he surfs down the line and makes the play out by the numbers.

He is so freaking good. He also got in there again on the Patriots touchdown drive and shut down a play where both he and Van ginkle again with quickness one across the face and then kater Co who comes and then cleans it up. His buddy, Zack Seeler his eye, discipline,

grip strength to gapability man. He shuts down a second quarter run where he just absolutely man handles this guy plays down the line play side, sees the backbended back, and then uses those eyes and grip strength to chuck his man and gets right where he needs to be where he in Melvin Ingram cleaning that run up. There was a snap in the third quarter where Seiler was the first guy off the snap and beats his man across the face for another short yard stuff right in

the backfield. Goodness that has some good stuff for him. He also, you know, had no business swatting down that Mac Jones past because he reads the quarterback and then works up off the outside shoulder of the tackle. Throw that big met up there and got the ball to the ground. And then finally a swim move on a third and two stuff late in the fourth quarter was

such a crazy good play. Christian takes on a double team in the middle and Seeler gets a one on one, swims over the guard, takes advantage of that pile up by Christian Wilkins. Those two guys are so good and ray Kwon Davis had made some plays as well. There were some reps from like all right ninety eight. I haven't seen that before where he walked guys back, played down the line, got chances at the nose tackle position,

but also various positions up and down the line. Sure do you like some of the flashes that he showed moving into the secondary Brandon Jones. I mean this is in the notes almost weekly, since the dude plays so fast and it's a combination of his prep and physical talents. You saw it come to fruition on the strip sack. You see the slot motion away and then Jones converts what we call a green dog if he's a linebacker.

Because he's a safety, it's called just a blitz. But he tied is it perfectly makes the pop changes the game. I broke that play down on the Sunday podcast, so I want to go ahead and look at the very next play by him. It's a Cover three look for the Dolphins. And that's again everyone in the deep third as far as your deep coverage goes, and if you know how that works, that usually comes to the four man cloud underneath unless you blitz a guy. They did not,

so you have seven and coverage four man rush. This is one of my biggest pet peeves in football when you make this type of call and guys just stand in their area despite no one being there. They just cover grass. But Jones sees that no one's threatening the flat. There's no back or tied end to that side of the formation, so he gets depth and undercuts a route that I cannot imagine. Matt Jones thought there was any chance somebody would peel out and get there. He's thinking,

easy completion. Cover three defender has his butt to the sideline. We're good to go. Nope, not so fast Jones gets back there, dang near picks it off and then a landing Roberts actually does the exact same thing on that play in the middle of the field on Hunter Henry. So these guys are being coached up well and executing it well. There's a play in the third quarter with a tied in motions away from Jones and so he shifts to covering him to just firing into that B

gap and makes a run. Stuff. The knowledge to quickly change based upon the motion is high level. This guy is really intelligent. Man, Nick need him. He had good coverage on that long ball the Patriots hit and that was a third of the yardage the PFF tab for him allowing in coverage. Tough ask to cover the slot fate and he was right there. But a good job of the Patriots to get a complete need him, uh, you know, changing his role, it's what he does often

here and he makes it makes it work. Kator cohu Man. That first run stuff just shows you this is not too big for him, staying on the outside shoulder, closing ground and sees it fires up, makes the play. What an impressive debut from him. Then the big stick on

the force fumble to create game from the rookie. And then how about Duke Riley rotating out of the backside on that pressure look to get to the number two on the other side of the formation, runs his butt off downhill or downfield, I should say, and gets the pass breakup. So impressive, And it's a shame too, because Javon might have had to play on that ball. It's a case of making too good of a play. I guess all right, that's we're gonna go ahead and end

it right there. For the second segment, here, we'll take our last break and come back and do the scan the social we'll get some numbers for you guys. And here from coach McDaniel. That's next on the Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. M doesn't it just feel so good to be back doing the All twenty two review? I think it is. I love the off season speculation, theorizing, and the creativity that comes with putting together these podcasts in the off season.

But I also love the formulaic nature of the end season showed that just in the dates the audience, with every piece of information we can what a time to be alive is we have the tape, but also the advanced metrics, and that's what we'll do now. I want to make some uh I do want to make scan the social thing here, and as I'm putting together the show notes, I don't have anything right now, but if something sparks my interest while piecing this together, we'll come

back and do it. Let's go ahead and start at number from the quarterback. This is before the Monday night football game, which obviously can change these rankings by you know, a maximum of two spots for guys. We'll see if Russell Wilson and Geno Smith can change that. A spar too, but still pretty dang good. Two ended Sunday, the eighth highest rated passer one oh four point four, the sixth best yards per attempt eight point two that was consistently

around low sixes last year. Eight point two is a big jump. Eighth best completion percentage over expected a next gen stats number two point nine percent. Fifth best adjusted yards per pass attempt at eight point eight, Seventh best net yards per attempt that includes sacks six point seven

two yards. Fifth best QBR seventy eight point three out of a hundred sixth best ep A at six point two, and he was one of nine quarterbacks without a turnover in the game under pressure six for ten sixty five yards when blitzed, nine for fifteen with eighty seven yards.

He was seventeen of twenty three when kept clean with two five yards and a touchdown pass, and fourteen of eight team with a hundred eighty three and the touchdown when not blitzed with play action nine for sixteen, one on nine but without fourteen for seventeen for one, six

one and a touchdown. He was two for five on throws twenty plus yards down the field for forty nine yards and the big jump here in the intermediate portion of the field four for six and the ten to nineteen yard range with eighty passing yards and a touchdown pass combined throws over ten yards. I thought he couldn't do it. Six for eleven, one nine and touchdown pass and one points have been passing writing yeah whatever, Yeah, where do I know? Running backs? Wasn't a lot there

in terms of yardage created or after contact. I think part of this is just that our guys didn't really have that track to get opened up Dawn. But Raheem mostret led the way with three point four yards after contact. Their damage was done in the passing game, though, As we mentioned, Most aret fourteen yards after the catch after

forcing two miss tackles as a receiver. Edmonds also forced two miss tackles as a receiver and picked up four grabs, averaging six point three yards at YAK at the receiver tight end position. Waddle seven point eight YAK two point four six yards per route rand. That's tenth in the NFL right now, four point seven yards over expected on YAK that's first in the NFL, and thirteen point eight yards per target is also very very good. Tyreek five point three YAK average three point oh three yards per

route rand. That's fifth in the NFL. He's plus two point three YAK over expected that's eighth. So Waddle first hill seven or eight in YAK yards over expected and then seven point eight three yards per target. They both clocked top ten speeds per next gen Waddle five at twenty point eight miles per hour on his touchdown and Tyreek went twenty flat mph on his eighteen yards screen. Their average depth of targets were nine point four and

nine point five. Wilson caught both of his targets for twenty yards, and Derham Smith caught one of his two targets for fourteen yards. On the offensive line, eleven total QBA pressures, one apiece for Armstead, Williams and Hunt arms Sad and Williams, the two newcomers, both had passed blocking efficiency marks of night point six. They tabbed Greg Little

with four pressures and Liam Eichenberg were three. In the game two had a two point seven six time to throw average that would have been a season high in one part scheme, part execution, with the bottom line there giving your quarterback more time to find these dynamic playmakers we just talked about. Defensively, Oddball led the way with two pressures. Brandon Jones and Duke Riley both had one.

Mac Jones had the fourth fastest time to throw in football, so clearly they were focused on getting the ball out of his hands quickly. Run stops. Agba had four cohu and Brandon Jones had three apiece. Steiler Ba, Baker and Ingram had two apiece, and then Nick Needham, Christian Wilkins, key On Crossing and Landon Roberts and xaviing Howard all had one. One total run stops in this game very good, and those numbers just don't do it justice on some

of these performances, and that will happen on defense. But Ingram was a beast. Two run stops, no pressures, the ten coverage snaps results of the negative three yards. Speaking of that, all these numbers are pretty damn good right here. Kator Coho fourteen coverage snaps no yards allowed exaviing Howard, thirty four coverage snaps, no yards allowed Javon Hall, and thirty three no yards allowed Jerome Baker. These guys will

typically give up more because the checkdowns and stuff. Baker thirty three coverage snaps twenty four yards allowed, Brandon Jones thirty one coverage snaps twenty two yards allowed. And then Nick Needon was a guy they went after a lot in this game, the most targets by far. Thirty four coverage snaps nineties six yards. What a game? Hey, guess what I came up with? A scanned the social and it'll be brief, but here it is. One complaint I saw on social was the mention of just thirteen points

for the offense. But that's why we love context. Right now, you heard coach and two of both talk about it on the podcast. There were mistakes, there are corrections you have to make, but there also isn't a team out there not saying the exact same thing. But I want to look at, excuse me, is the fact that there was a very uncommon football game out here for two. You typically get ten to twelve possessions as an offense per game. That's been baseline for a while now. The

Dolphins had seven on Sunday eight. If you include the drive that results in victory formation and with a pair of kneel downs and the red zone, that would have to be at least three points, if not seven more right, But that's the kind of game these two typically play. I mean going back to to his rookie season when he had three second half drives in the game, Dolphins scored points and all of them. Josh Boyer told us in his press conference last week, there's probably crossover between

these two defensive schemes. What have the Patriots done for two decades? Regardless of where they finish in total defense, They're scoring defense is almost always top five, if not top ten. They limited explosives. They maybe give a little more against the run than they do to protect the pass, and they played damn good red zone defense. Well that's what you got here, two teams playing the same style. Neither team ran sixty plays in this game. The Dolphins

had drives of forty fifty and fifty two yards. They're starting field position the minus twenty eight minus six minus eight minus twenty six minus nineteen minus ten midfield and the minus thirty seven yard li and so they had to go the full field on almost every drive. So there are opportunities for more, certainly there are, but I think the context is important to understand the type of football game you're in, taking what the defense gives you

and playing according to the situation. I love numbers as much as anybody, but using them void of context and as the baseline of an argument is really really short changing the process. That's all quick one this week. Let's go ahead and finish up a some sound bites from

coach Mike McDaniels monday press conference. He was asked about Austin Jackson's injury, and he did say that Jackson stayed in uniform and could have gone back into the game an emergency situation, but also said the Dolphins do more tests to determine the severity of that injury. So TBD on Austin Jackson and speaking of the offensive line, coach evaluated his old lines performance in week number one, I saw a line that UM is young in the season in terms of I saw some really good stuff there was.

There was some really a good UM plays made by the line. The one thing about offensive line play is you can't take UM advantage of really good things by some players unless everyone is in concert. So the really what happened to me in the game was that when players were making plays on them on the offensive line in the run game specifically UM, there was a couple of players that were hair off, and that's when you're going against the team that plays physical like New England.

That was UM definitely emphasizing stopping the run. UM, your results aren't what you want, UM, and I saw the same thing in the past game. There's some really cool UM uh protection UM clips from and plays made by UM really everyone across the board. But then there was some misques that were either UM, you know just rule oriented or you know, had UM a halfback miss the protection here? There? So ultimately UM, I was I was

pleased with it UM, and it kind of. I wasn't that surprised, UM, just just knowing the level of detail the Patriots bring forth and UM they play heavy up front, and UM, if you're off a little bit UM at one spot, it doesn't look UM the greatest. So UM, I was pleased with where we're at. UM. But that's UM, that's assuming and going under operating an assumption that we're gonna continue to get better. So it wasn't far from where I where I pictured, and UM, I no confidence

has been lost on my end. And I think once you get some of those things hammered out, you might have some of those gaps that we talked about all off season where these explosive backs can take advantage. Next, I asked coach about the game plan and adjustments of Josh Boyer and his defensive staff and how impressed he was coming out of that. Here's coach, Um I was. I was very happy with it. I was happy with uh where they were focusing um and there. Uh, their

overall game plan was was pretty good. I thought, UM, there was some some things that we were trying to get done in the second half. UM that UH, you know, there's ultimate accountability that we try to we try to preach, and to their credit, the players are saying, hey, we could have got that done, and um, you know the coaches are saying, well, you know, we probably didn't articulate it right. That's where you know, for a game where they give up seven points and score seven points, Um,

you're very happy with the mindset of the whole unit. Um. And so I was after digesting the film and and talking to all the guys, and I'm very happy with our where they're at, and they're um expecting to continually

get better, which is what we all expect. And how about the film watching too and your really you know on Monday from QB one, I was happy with two of because he uh he he did a lot of things, um well, and then he got the taste of um there were some things that he wasn't that fired up about.

But you know, this is a team thing, and you know there's a lot of things that me personally, um that that I told him, you don't if you're to do your position right in the National Football League, you can't be afraid to find things that you can do better at. And there was there was several times that you know, I think two of was covering for me because I was getting the play in later than I

would like. UM, those things I have no patience for for myself, and so I you know, i'd let the team know, I think after the game and then UM as well as today and and you move forward with that. There's some things that I think he's done in practice, UM that he didn't do exactly the same in the game. UM, but over the course of the entire I mean, you

touch the ball every play, that's that's to be expected. UM. What I really liked was that he he made plays UM in each quarter because that's to me, that's good quarterback play. Because you the hardest thing is between your ears to deal with this position National Football League. You have all the stuff going on. You have high expectations for yourself and for the offense. And when it's not you know, anytime you have a three and out or it's kind of hercue a turkey, UM, you can get frustrated.

And he UM he found ways to make plays UM, even after plays that he was frustrated at UM, which a lot had to do with me. So well, together, we'll keep moving forward, and I'm excited to do so. Now you have it. You can find coaches entire press conference up on the YouTube channel. As for my time gonna be my time, I told you guys would go along here on these Tuesday podcasts, but I don't think

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