Week 10 Film Room, Dolphins Browns - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield. And on today's show, we have a busy one, so we're not gonna take a whole lot of time getting into this aftermath tape stats will hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, all of that in a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. A lot of the breeze through that open because we have a lot of

notes to get too. Because it was a fun tape to watch and we pick it up here with the offense and the Browns defense really played a lot of Cover six in this game, and that's where you get your two high safeties. You roll them to a third each and then a third player, a cornerback, will take the other third of your deep portion of the field.

Then you have three players, typically two linebackers and a nickel defensive back in the hook zones the intermediate part of the field, with the other perimeter cornerback playing a curl flat responsibility. It's off coverage, it's designed to keep things in front. It's also a possibility to give you options to come down and buzz some of those middle

of the field passes we've had all season long. And this is a big reason why the box score was the way it was and what I think should really terrify opposing defensive coordinator because the Browns essentially eliminated the opportunity for anything deep for the home run ball for sure. So to it just went to work on the vulnerabilities throwing behind those hook linebackers, finding the flat zones, getting into favorable run looks, and just spreading the football around

to the favorable matchups. With that, let's go ahead and jump into this game from two because we're three weeks running now. Best tape I've ever seen him play three times in a row, which is awesome to say that. The first throw that pops is the Surefield grab on the first drive for eighteen yards. Really good rhythm relationship that with him and Surefield on this deep pivot route.

It looks like an over route where're gonna cross the formation, but he sticks the foot in the ground and bends it back out the other direction away from that middle linebacker dropping into that hook zone, and to Us slides up into the pocket and fires it just as Surefield puts that foot in the ground, and of course the football with the ball placement is just out of reach of the underneath man and arrives in the tight window before the over the top linebacker can get their great timing,

better location. Get used to hearing that on this podcast. On the touchdown to alec Engld, the best part about the pump fake is that there wasn't even an option on the pump to throw the football. He does that solely to remove the defender from the equation. Because you've got Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle are both blanketed on a wheel curl combination and both don't really expect a ball to come their way. And what a pump fake.

It was. Like we talked about, like one of the things to talking about the quarterbacks all time is hand size. To had one of the bigger hand sizes at the Combine that year, and the ability to kind of do a full pump fake like that maintained possession of the football. That's where hand size comes into play for a quarterback. On a day full of terrific throws, I think his best one maybe possibly could have been an incompletion. It's

the first throw of the second quarter. He's got Wattle working off the glance route off of RPO, which is a staple of r P. Oh It's it's basically a slant, but it's like, now, get it to him with a skinny little slant route. And the thing about Tyreek and Jalen is they can end those. They're like eight yard routes. Typically, this one went fifteen because of Jalen's speed and the Browns do get through on this play with a blitz and this is why I think it was such an

impressive throw from t A. It's the fifth rusher. He gets in clean. You do get a great effort from raheem most to step over in front of to A and cut him off and buy two of the extra half second he needs. But to h with that pressure right in his face, just falls back a little bit, get some more death, give yourself a bigger window to get the football off in time to throw the football

from the awkward platform. It's a fifteen yard glance route, an absolute dot without setting his feet right on the up upfield shoulder into very tight coverage and Waddle gets his hands on it. But the defender, if you look at it closely, he's got his hand on Jalen's right bicep and he's not tugging at it for a d P. I so I'm asking you for here. But he tugs at it right when the ball rise, and I think

that separates Jalen's hands enough to force the incompletion. So great tight window, throw, good route, just a good play from the defensive back. Then we come back on the next play and it's probably even better. And this is a good example of to getting through his read so quickly that Mike McDaniel mentioned post game, He's got Tyreeke and Gisicky and a stack to the boundary. What does that mean? It means Gisicky to the point man Tyreek is behind him for a clean release into the short

side of the field. Then you have Trent Sherfield and Jalen Waddle to the wide side of the field, the field side of the formation, and they're in condensed splits. That means inside the numbers, so everything is packed in tight. It's that cover six look again, and they're pressing on Mike and Reek and you see two a work that side. That's where his head goes first. He keys the safety up over the top who's in that deep third right, But actually this time they rotate to too high. It's

not a cover six look. It rotates back into a cover to look, and to h from that look can ascertain at the middle of the field was open, which creates what openings for skinnies and slants and things in the middle of the football field. He gets back to the field side of the formation immediately and the ball is out with Jalen Waddle at ten yards off the

line of scrimmage. He's just gotten on top of the slot cornerback, but he has not yet crossed face so that the defender still has that inside position on Wattle, but to a is to his third read before the receiver, one of the fastest players in the NFL, has ten

yards downfield. That is a an actual application of how quickly Too was reading the defense right now and the anticipation that he will and of course he does get on the inside part of that defensive back, and the ball settles Wattle right in before the safety who widened out because of two's initial look to that side of the formation before he can get back over the top and won't put Wattle in any risk of getting a big hit and a potential chance to catch it and run.

And boy, he was a centimeter away from stepping out of that tackle and putting a sixty five yard touchdown up on the board. Thirty yard player will take it. I found a miss. I found one miss on this tape. We're at the point we're measuring one or two faults from two game now. It's he's playing that clean of football on the field. Gold drive, early second quarter, Tyreek comes open on a dig and two. I didn't see him. I just legit. Don't think that's happened this year just

missed open Tyreek, didn't. He threw someone else got a completion, got positive yards, but Tyreek was opened for a bigger play. But that's absolutely nitpicking because this quarterback has been so sharp. We heard, you know, Mike McDaniel, we heard Frank Smith, Wes Welker, coach Darryl Bevil all talk about how well to is seeing the field. I think that deep comeback

to Tyreek is a great example of that. The Browns, like we mentioned, playing a lot of that Cover six, which can easily convert into Cover three where you have you know, three deep coverage guys and then you have, uh, it's it's a two corners and the safety and you bring another safety down to buzz potential crossing routes to potentially play the hook zone. So it's it's kind of similar, but it changes based upon whose where, and you don't

have that cornerback hanging out underneath. So in this cover three look, that means that Tyreek is now all of a sudden with a pressure look one on one with no safety help to his side of the formation, which of course means the cornerback better get into a full sprint towards the goal. Line because you have to. You have to with Tyreek hill speed to has the football out before Tyreek goes after the blind spot of the cornerback by slamming on the brakes and breaking the route outward.

And the reason this is also effective is not just because the Tyreek speed big part of that, but because two has shown his application of understanding the leverage of that off corner. If he's gonna squat, Tool will just throw it deep and Tyrek will take off and he'll take the vertical shot. Or if he gets depth to a throws back underneath and Tyreek knows when to break that route off. The relationship and the chemistry and the synchronicity of those two guys is really the best in

the league right now in my opinion. And with two brown jerseys into us face, not to mention to like unblocked guys right in his face, like there's no white jersey in front of two, it's brown jerseys, two of them right in front of him. The feet are not set, the ball is out before the break, and it's right where it needs to be, right when it needs to

be there. That is such an elite throw. Have mercy the drive before the end of the half, he did that thing again where he pulls the cloud corn to the flat by looking that direction and then throws right behind him. You get tyreek on a square in at two yards to hitches up, kind of separates the hands quickly. That forces that cloud corner to bite immediately resets and pops the corner route over the top a dime to

Mike Kasicki for fifteen yards. The location on the Wattle third down conversion on the out route and the touchdown pass to Trent Sureffill are just you can't place the

football any better than those two throws. We broke it down on the Sunday Night Monday Victory edition of the Drivetime podcast, but just marvel at it on tape because those throws were absolutely perfect to Waddle putting it up high, because for a cornerback like there's a chance to undercut that and drive and take it back for six the other way, but to do that and elevate it's not really possible. And so the placement on a far hash out route is so good. To put that ball up

high so Wattle can elevate and go get it. Then the surefield throw. Look, the ball was out when Trent was at the eight yard line and the cornerback is at the five, so three yards before he's even he's leaving and the ball probably would have scraped the top of the back part of the pylon if no one touched the football. It's insane keyhole accuracy from this quarterback.

Maybe my favorite part of the game for two was how he adjusted coming out of the break because the first two throws he makes and the second half a little floater to Jeff Wilson for fourteen yards in a catch and run, and they checked down to alec Ingold where he spends out of a tackle for a first down.

As well. What you'll see is the Browns are dropping into more of a quarters look, a four deep look, and with deeper hook coverage, those linebackers are pushing back because again that's where Miami has lived all year long. You get seven in coverage and then the four other four guys rush, and where does that leave you open in the flats? So to it just starts attacking the flats. He's got answers to the test right now to every question, and that's how you're getting what coach called it really

high level quarterback play. They're gonna all right, we'll go after that vulnerability. You know. Mike mcdown talked about this last week after the UH Bears game about how his game planning starts with an abstract thought and then to go out and approach and attack defensive vulnerabilities a post and just you know, taking plays out of your own playbook. He wants to attack the particular vulnerabilities. Two was doing the same thing. Like, think about that for a second.

It's a good place to be if you're a fan of the Miami Dolphins. Just a few plays later, you get another intangible trait to show up. He's got a clean pocket. He wants Mike Gasick on the crossing route, pumps the first window that allows Mike to then clear out of the second window and just drills that thing

between the two eights on Mike Kasiki's jersey. Derham Smith had a great pick up on split flow action on that play too, By the way, I wanted to shout that out the third and tent on the next drive,

the Browns get one of their pressures. There wasn't many with Miles Garrett getting up field, but to us steps around it and a great job by Tehran, who did give up this pressure on this play to ride that block all the way past the quarterback and stay engage because it helped to get that reset and shoulder roll right into perfect alignment and mechanics like to get off your spot, your mechanics get broken, you have to reset them.

Did it perfectly, shoots it between four Browns defenders to an open Jalan waddle to convert on third and ten. Once again, move the chains, a little bit of everything on this tape. Man the touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill more exceptional work and just another thing he does. The Browns get a free runner in the B gap that usually spells disaster for most quarterbacks. Best case scenario. Most of the time, in that situation, just throw the football away.

Watch other games around the league right now, and how many quarterbacks have to eat plays. Two is not eating plays almost every There's a couple here and there, but it's just not happening. He continues his drop back and throws from that shortstop reset arm angle with his feet not set at all and puts it right out in front of Tyreek, who helps make this play because he stacked his man. He puts the defensive back on his back, keeps him there and makes a tough catch. Have a

day at one, have an absolute day. I keep thinking we're on the last play here, but then we get another great throw, the big play of Trench Rfield late that conflict hook defender we talked about every single week in the podcast, where he kind of has to keep is two are gonna throw the wheel? Is he gonna throw the flat? Is he gonna throw the glance to?

On this play, strides to the flat, the linebacker flushes out and chases that, and then to it just pops it right over the middle for the big lane, big opener, big opening, I should say to Trent Surefield, who makes the catch, lowers his shoulder, stays on his feet, and turns a thirteen yard gain into like twenty eight yards. So just really high level stuff from all these guys. And then another one. The location on that third and one throw to Waddle to extend that late touchdown drive.

The location was absolutely perfect. Jalen just basically puts his hands out and cradles it into his chest against that inside leverage of the cornerback. What a banner day for QB. One man. He is, he is so so exceptionally good. He's a phenomenal, phenomenal football player the running backs. Where he most her his second run was that toss against the motion, and man, he looked like he was in trouble behind the line, but he winds up gaining yards.

His patient's vision and ability to create advantageous blocking angles would never go unnoticed. He helps get maximum yards on these runs. Such a smooth and natural runner, and his speed will obviously help take advantage when you have great blocking. They talked about it all last year, how there were some lanes we didn't take advantage of. And on this particular twenty four yard touchdown run, it's well blocked, and what a job by him to press blocks and really

create these perfect angles for his his run blockers. But man on that plane, look at Connor Williams and Rob Hunt. If you go back and watch it, it's such an outstanding combo block, just walling off the entire backside of the play while Rob Jones and Tehron Arms had hit a play side seal and down block. And it's a finished, a terrific finish by Trent Sherfield with his block downfield, But most speeds sets it up Miami hat on a hat,

and that was the case all day long. I marvel at Jeff Wilson's ability to drop his pads and make the decision to either run through the tackle or sidestep it because it all looks the same. I'm not gonna make my Felix Hernandez fastball change up comparison again, but it reminds me of that it pairs so well with

his offenses. False keys that create they create because you get this in decision from a processing standpoint at that second level, and if you hit your blocks in the first level, the scheme kind of takes care of that second level for you. And then on top of that, Jeff Wilson's quickness and power combination allows him to either maximize that indecision by cutting wide or just run right through somebody who's on their heels because of the situation

he's put them in. Watch how many of these gash runs in a game where Jeff Wilson gets to the whole in a one on one situation, linebacker kind of comes to balance, but he's not playing forward because he's processing. Was it a jet sweep? Was it a run following the fullback to to a pull and throw it behind my ear hole. He's trying to process these forty five thoud things, and then you get twenty three coming at your downhill and you're still processing. It's too late at

that point. It's the same thing as if he's even he's leaving for a wide receiver, the exact same thing. Alec Ingold is a phenomenal football player. The athletic ability from a fullback is absurd. You'll hear him on the tank about, you know, moving from high school to college, from quarterback to running back to linebacker, back to fullback.

So it makes sense. But man, that run after the catch looked like a running back to me, both on his touchdown catch but also the one later the game when to have found him to start the third quarter. I want to put the entire offensive line in one category this league. This week, and I started counting how many bodies were on the ground in terms of dolphins pancakes in the running game and then also just basically throwing dudes to the ground in the past Pro game.

I stopped counting in double digits in the first half because it was I just could I couldn't keep up. There was too many go back and watch this tape. Rob Hunt throwing guys to the ground, brand Rob Jones steamrolling guys to the ground. To Ron Armstead doing the same thing, Brandon Shell, Connor Williams down blocking defensive backs and put them on their backside. And we'll talk to

some individuals. But man, whether it was playing head up, gap scheme, zone pulling, ceiling catching, climb, chipping, just across the board, man, the work, the work of the two guards in this game was off the chart. Key block after key block. I'm writing these notes as we go. When I tell you that I could note almost every single play, I'm not gonna do it for time's sake. But rep by rep, you're getting the same things I

mentioned from the same guys over and over again. Fire off the ball, win the low man battle, get your good hand placement, drive through your lower half to transfer that power from your base up to your upper half, and displaced guys climbed to the second level while those dudes off. Turned to the proper leverage and just stay glued to your block. I used to have so many issues with how often Dolphins lineman fell off blocks. It's not been the case this year. Man, It's It's a

completely different ball game. This is a resume game for everybody on staff involved in the offensive line play and certainly for the players. It was positively superb. Been watching Dolphins tapes since I don't know if I would call a better game, like some of those j g I games and twenty six team are pretty good, but man, this across the board was so exceptional Toehron Armstead gets

started early that first third down the Tyreek. It's one on one on an island against Myles Garrett and Tahron is the first guy off the ball and he just completely swallows up Garrett. Like Garrett rushed to the center chess play and he just like took him out of the play. His landmark is perfect, his punch, his lean, his weight transfer. Then the anchor drop its teach tape time and time again. Then you get a seventeen yard run from Jeff Wilson and Rob Jones gets great placement.

But then Tahron adds this chip on his route up to the second level and it's just like it's like almost when you click a lego into place, like it locked into place. Rob got the hands and just kind of threw him to the side. I cannot speak enough about how much to Ron just helps everybody in terms of pass pro but also the run game. He's helping in the run in the past getting pancakes. This dude is as advertised. And one last bit of appreciation here

that drive at the end of the first half. Garrett throws everything at Tahron on that drive in countless one on one situations. He goes speed, he goes speed to power, he spends back inside. Nothing worked, and they moved him to the other side of the formation. This guy's a percent player in terms of right side, ten percent left

side of the defense. They moved him and he actually won on a pass where on the throw to Surefield I think it was but Rob Hunt put him on the ground because he spun inside him and beat Shell. But Hunt puts him on the ground. But they moved him because he was getting nothing going against Ron Armstead. I think this was the best game of Rob Hunt's career. My goodness, man, the push, the athletic ability he showcased.

He moved guys multiple gaps in multiple ways. The fourth down conversion on the opening drive, he's outflanked by a one technique. He has to get across face and he tries to one gap up field and Rob beats him off the snap. He initiates the contact, washes him down and throws him to the ground violently on the other side of the formation. Just want to go ahead and add something here. Rob said this summer that he hopes he plays in this system the rest of his career,

and you can see why. The way that they maximize his rare blend of power and athletic ability, it's something else. I was such a big fan of his Louisiana tape, Like his son belt tape was ridiculous, Like it looked like she wasn't even real. And you're seeing that transfer over here now, why he was one of the drafts darlings that year as far as the guy that could develop in something very special. You're seeing it before your

eyes here. This dude is hitting down blocks on linebackers five yards downfield, two gaps over like you have no business making that play. That's not even supposed to happen with this type of regularity, and it does. And then finally the sherefield touchdown. You know, Myles Garrett finally scores that win with a nasty spin move inside but here comes Rob to come off of the man that he's doubled with Connor Williams and just throws Garrett to the ground. This is a teach tape that he will show his

grandkids someday decades down the line. It was that good Rob Jones had a coming out party. Man. We've lauded his base and ability to straight up just absorbed guys here on this podcast, but his grip strength was something to note on this tape. On Wilson's seventeen yard gash, in the opening drive, you see the hands locked into

great placement. Then he uses the torque of the lower body and just drives that power through the hands and it Legit looks like he picks up a man and just moves him like I'm gonna take you from here. I'm gonna put your here. We're gonna be good to go. The way he moves his feet and stays square from the time that he initiates contact to where the reps ends, it's all so smooth. He's rolling his hips through and keeping his feet under his shoulders. He might have something

to say about the left card position. Man, He's playing pretty good football. Connor Williams copy and paste it man every week with this guy. There's a play on a long Wilson run where Connor gets tripped up and goes to the ground, but he still hits the lead block and buries the brown safety. He's literally going to the ground and secures the key block as Jeff Wilson blows by the defender. Just every week, Connor Williams checks in

with a massive, massive game. The first play of the game, they get smythe and ingoled on a double team on Miles Garrett and slide protect right. It gives two of this massive law and I wanted to bring it up because there's just so many plays where yeah, we get the great execution, but there's also play schemed up where this offensive line just based upon the nature of this offense and what coach McDaniel and Frank Smith design takes care of a lot of that stuff for this offense.

So it's been fun to watch. And the only real downside of this tape was the three straight run stuffs on second, third, and fourth and one. That was really the only stretch of game where they didn't get pretty solid execution on the play by played Bassis at the

receiver spot. Trent Sutfield that fourth and one conversion on the opening drive, he gets a pancake inside like he comes down and beats him Er twenty two Grant Delpit to the point and then puts him on the ground right at the point of attack, the most critical area of that run for Jeff And here comes your wide receiver getting a pancake block. When he can do that and make the catch like the one he did in the touchdown reception, What a signing Trent Shuffield has been.

How about Tyreek Hill blocking on the alec Ingle touchdown outstanding. That's one of those plays where we talk about how he sets a certain standard. The NFL's leading receiver coming into the game and he's hitting crucial blocks and then celebrates it like he just caught an eight yr touchdown pass. Did it again later on that last Wilson touchdown run.

You know you mentioned his speed in the deep comeback route and the to a portion, the way he times his routes after pressing the issue with speed the moment he sees the corner, flip the hips and get on this horse. He's coming back to that blind spot. You give me a blind spot. I'm chasing it, so the best receivers do. I cannot imagine what level of football I Q that he has does for the trust of

his quarterback. And then how about the speed on that little hook up catch and run where he just goes across the entire field and absolute angle eraser, and then the way he came back to the ball in the touchdown catch. Just more nuance from these receivers. Speaking of nuance, Jalen Waddle. First, he had a shaff Key blocks down the field on the eagle touchdown. The Wilson run two plays later, man him and Tyreek's effort is just one of a million things that's so special about those guys.

I mentioned the twenty nine yard throw from t of being beautiful the way Jalen creates separation by running at guys and pressing them and challenging them in the physical aspect of the game. What I mean by that is this slot cornerback on this play has inside leverage, so he's trying to wall off any in breaking routes from Waddle, but Jalen creates the opportunity to get inside of it by angling his route directly at the nickel come off, the ball fired downhill, right at him, press him, press

the toes. Then the nickel tries to engage physically, not unlike Dennis Reynolds, and Jalen doesn't arm over. Move that allows him to accelerate through that contact. That's head back to the quarterback and square off that route in a way that increases the window for your quarterback. Balls right on time, right on target. Gorgeous football tape here, man, it's been fun to watch. We saw it again on

the third and one conversion. On the penultimate drive, he releases inside, gets the dB TA, flips flip his hips, and the moment he does that, Jalen breaks back to the outside, stacks him. Great throw from two a first down move the chains. His catch on third and seven,

the conversion in the first half was similar. He goes right at the man with outside leverage, sinks the hips late enough to show the defensive back that maybe I'm going vertical, but nope, sink the hips, drive to the outside, and then he angles once again back to the quarterback to maximize the window. It's high level nuance. My second

year player and Jalen Waddle. Cedric Wilson's effort in the running game was fantastic where Heim got like thirteen yards and a wide run and Cedric Wilson slips like Connor Williams did earlier. But man, just to sustain the block long enough for Raheem to run right around it. Just just the will to compete for this guy. Man the wide receiver pass said, my man, Tyreeks all alone in the end zone and to a something but green grass in front of him. Oh man, you wanted to throw

that ball. Let's get the touchdown, baby. Mike Gasicky great second level climb, turn and seal on the very first run of the game, had a good down block on the fourth and one conversion. He later had chip duty on fifty eight with Tehran waiting for help, but he

never needed it because Mike handled it. Really really good game from Mike Kasik in the blocking department this week, and I thought Durham had some really good blocks on some of those second half runs and split flow action coming across the formation and making key blocks at the point of attack. Who wait, that was one take. How are we doing. Let's go ahead and take our first break and come back into the defense and the numbers on the other side. That's next draft time. Podcast, your

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defense right now and structurally on this tape. The way this team sets such hard edges in the running game was why I was so bullish on the opportunity to take down one of the league's top running game games that doesn't have a quarterback like Lamar adjustin fields pairs so well in this game with the middle linebacker play that we got. E Landon Roberts played one of his

best games as a Dolphin. He continuously scraped off stack after stack and just made big plays flowing downhill, stay tight to the block, explode through the gap, make your play. And then Jerome Baker just kept himself clean all day long, didn't let guys into his frame. That third and one pop on Kareem Hunt sure was something one of the best players in Jerome Baker's career. For my money, saying that a lot in this podcast. He stacked up behind

John Jenkins Key's the pulling guard. That's the part that I love the most. As you see him follow the guard before the handoff even happens, and then he kind of works off of that and gets downhill and just drills the ball carrier pursuing downhill and puts that big lick on him. Exceptional play from Jerome Baker. We also saw some more press man and hybrid looks like Zo on one side man the other side of the field that held up long enough to allow the pass rush

to get home. Jacoby Brissette held the ball two point eight eight seconds. That's a testament to the coverage and that's been the case that your quarterbacks to get it out hot hard to get him to the ground right. When they hold it longer, your pass rush can get home. In this offense, pass rush has been good all year. I don't care what what you think you see out there.

The numbers tell you it's been good in terms of creating pressures when quarterbacks don't throw the ball and under two point three seconds, And that's a testament to the coverage for the ability to get those extra tents of a second. The difference between the past rush getting a whole bunch of pressures and then changing the game with sacks and splash plays. Also love the incorporation of different guys in different spots, like Elijah Campbell coming down and

playing some some plays in the box and covering. There was a pick stunt by Veron McKinley where he had a lane to rush, but he goes and attacks the guard to free up Jalen Phillips to loop inside for a hit on the quarterback. Boyer cooked up some really good plans this year. This is another good one here for Josh Boyer. Christian Wilkins some kind of a game for him. He went up repeatedly against arguably the best right guard and football early on and just one play

after play. Now, Teller did leave the game after Levin snaps, but he did get a half sack on him and dropping the bull rush. Then work in the second effort to wriggle free off the lock and route to the quarterback. On the very next drive, he gets around the outside

shoulder of the right tackle. And this is what I love about Christians game, on top of the conditioning and everything else that he does, is he plays so smart man like he's looking at the guard tackle combination to see where they're gonna go off the ball, not even worried about the back of the quarterback, and he makes a decision on his rush plan to get upfield, reacts to the flow and then gets right in Jacoby Brissette's face to force an air and throw. He had a

fantastic game, so did Zach s Heeler. Uh we broke down the force fumble just pure teach tape three technique. Opposite side of the field. Go get your man, Go attack the man and engage the contact. He does that, disengages, rides the wave, gets a big paw on the football. Great play, but his ability to factor into the pass

rush after he's had to pick as awesome. He runs a stunt with Melvin Ingram where he sets the pick but then just stays on balance and fights through the double team, splits it and puts a hit on Jacoby Brissette. And then also his ability to set the edge on a big tackle and get the anchor dropped on outside float.

There's a play where him and Van Ginkles at the edge really will but Ginkles off the ball and Seeler has to set the edge on outside zone flow where he engages the tackle with his inside arm but keeps the outside arm free and then you see him put his foot in the ground and it stops the tackles flow like any other human being, like myself. I'm getting buried six ft deep on the turf and I'm a bad comparison. But you know NFL players are gonna get washed out there, not him. It's he stopped like a

sixty mile a moving car, like with his powers. It's what he did on that play. It's ridiculous. Keep the outside arm free, make the stop right there. He also had a run stop at the start of the fourth quarter where he works down the line then shoves the left tackle to the ground, like get out of here, sir, I'm making this play that he does. You know, Set from the Fish Tank loves to call him a grown ass man. Hard to argue with that characterization. Ray Kawon Davis is also a g a m. He does a lot.

I don't think it's recognized on this defense. He rarely gives ground the key nose tackle position and so many running plays. He's also providing more and more pass rush this year too. Bradley Chubb had a great game. His half sack comes and the play where they chip him and he has to run the long arc around and he gets there because Wilkins flushed Jacoby back, but a great effort to keep working, keep working, then explode around that edge when they give you the chance to do so.

The way he works to keep his outside arm free, like we talked about Zack Seeler, hold on to his block without letting it climb to the second level, then disengage at the critical moment and make the play. This is a three down player who's a three down problem for opposing offenses. Also love the way he uses leverage

to his and his size to his advantage. He had a pass rush where he dropped his inside shoulder into that left tackle, then just use his length to kind of get separation, but then kind of pull him back towards you and rip that outside arm through. He's got a plethora of pass rush moves, man. You see it throughout the course of the game. He sets guys up with moves early and exploits them late. He constantly one inside.

As a result of that, tackles were getting privy to his speed off the edge, so he started rushing at the inside post more where he would step up field lateral step cross face and it forced Brissette to reset off of his You know the pocket, the area of the pocket he wants to be in because that inside when he has to him in reset, which we know increases time to throw. And you see the impact of

getting Chubb on this tape. I think very very substantially, Jillen Phillips his pass rush continues to have an impact. He runs his man through the quarterback so frequently where he forces him off the spot by just bull rushing through him speed to power through him. And we saw how that, along with you know, one more pass rusher winning their rep can really effectively ruin a passing play.

I loved seeing him get paid off on a half sack on that fourth down with Melvin Ingram where he was the pickman on a pick stunt and he played through the contact and redirects back to the quarterback to meet Ingram there, who also won with a great lateral step inside. Manuel Ogba man sucks so bad that he's out. You want meet a better guy than Emmanuel Ogba. He had a devastating pass rush on the Brown second drive, the one that Brossettes somehow snuck between two defenders right

between kater Cohu and I think it was McKinley. He puts the guard on the ground, then gets a hit on Jacobe get Well. Soon a manual will be thinking about jaman A. Land and Roberts had a run stuff on their third drive where he plays full speed right into the block, knocks the dude into the back, and gets to stop by using someone else's body. He's playing so fast and violently lately, been fun to watch him play.

Talked about Melvin Ingram his ability to transfer power from his get off to his upper body and displaced guys with heavy hands is great to watch. Had a textbook bull rush with great hands on his sack at end of the first half where he just got into the guy's chest plate and use his hands to basically throw him off of himself and then finished with the quarterback. Duke Riley made a great play on that Christian Wilkins tackle for loss in the second half where he goes

and gets the pulling guard. Don't let him get into you go get him, which forced Nick Chubb to bend it back backside and that pays off the effort by Christians backside pursuit to make that tackle. I love the way kator Co who bounced back after they got him on the first play of the game, double move, he jumps it on the first move, Brissette throws a good ball to get on top of him, but that was pretty much it. He did lose track of his man

and zone on that uh that can. That completion between the two defenders look like it's gonna be picked off, and it wind up getting completed for a first down. But other than that, he was phenomen his mere technique on that fourth and one pass breakup, stay square, open the hips the minute receiver tries to cross face, then reach around with that downfield arm without turning on that back hip. Great great cornerback play. This dude is covering

over routes and man coverage frequently. It's one of the hardest things to doing football, and he closed a couple of those. Donal when people jones over routes, that's such a hard thing to defend with no safety help. He did it a few times in this game. X's coverage on that deep shot on the third and one from plus territory where he just runs the corner route for the wide receiver and was one step away from potential interception. Good play there from X and then also a great

job falling on that fumble. It was him and a bunch of Brown's players around the football and he falls on it and does not give it back. Great play by x there. Justin Bethel's press coverage has been terrific all year. Textbook inside hand jam, ride the receiver in phase, and then locate the ball on that corner route in completion before the Browns kicked their loan field goal middle

of the third quarter. Then he has that pass break up on the sideline where he gets in phase, locates the ball, puts his hand straight through the defense the receiver's two hands and separates them for a textbook p bu late in the fourth quarter. He's been awesome to watch man really really good open field tackle on a

drag route on the very next snap as well. And then Javon Holland the way that he can defend multiple routes, you know, sometimes opposite sides of the field, with his spacing, reading the quarterback and the inherent knowledge of his own range. It's something you're taking away entire sections of the possibility

of deep passing. And with the attrition we've had a cornerback this year, it's been so crucial to the Dolphins that just don't allow downfield passes like it's happened a few times, but he's a massive part of why the defense just does not allow a lot of completions in the deep part of the field. Also cool to see him get some more snaps down closer to the line of scrimmage by having McKinley played that post safety role.

On the sack before the end of the half, he picks up a crossing route with great communication where X says, Hey, he's coming, he's coming. He's running a crossing route. Take him and Javon buzzes down and takes away the hot read for Jacoby and it leads to a sack. Finally, Eric Rowe, his run defense just gets better every single week. Man. They opened a huge hole on the second drive of the game and he comes from out wide to hit

Chubb and taken right to the ground. I'm not sure how many defensive backs have one against Nick Chubb at the point of attack this year, but Eric Road did on that play. All rlet's go ahead and take our

last break. We'll do all the stats and the snap counts and Mike McDaniels Monday press conference, that's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation at the normal time where we cut the podcast for good, but we have one more full segment coming your way talking about the numbers from the game and the season. Let's go ahead and start with the quarterback and twa who was blitzed seven times, completed five of those passes for fifty nine yards and a touchdown.

When he was not blitzed, he was twenty of twenty five for two twenty six and two scores under pressure four for seven fifty one yards, two touchdowns against pressure not pressure, thirty four in touchdown. How about the twenty plus are yard throws three for four sixty three yards and a touchdown the ten of nineteen yard range. The intermediate portion of the field continues to absolutely slay right there.

Six o seven, one oh six. He was seven first seven with eighty yards and another touchdown on third down. He's now posted ratings on third down the last three weeks of one fifty eight point three, one fifty eight point three, and one fifty three point nine. It's crazy, man. The ball is out in an average of two point three five seconds on the year. Passer rating first third down passer rating first, fourth quarter passer rating first, red zone and yards per attempt. He's first in all those.

It's a one eight teen point four total passer rating one forty nine point eight third down. That's seven points eight point shy of perfect on third town. His fourth quarter reads passer rating is one three point two one eight team point eight. In the red zone, he's averaging nine point one three yard kerk pass. How about the last decade his ranks and the passer rating total third, third down passer rating first, fourth quarter passer rating seventh,

red zone passer rating seventh, yards per attempt fourth. How about his stats for this season in terms of his rankings. His q brs eighty two point six. That's number one only quarterback over eighty. His ep A per play is point one nine. These numbers are improving each week. It's crazy that he's taking elite numbers and improving upon them. He's first an e p A per play. His touchdown percentage seven point three percent of his throws are touchdowns,

that's first. His interception rate one point two percent of his passes are picked off. That's the fourth lowest He ever just two eighty three yards per game. That's the third highest in the NFL. I mentioned the y p A is you know, first by more than a half yard. It's crazy, by more than a half yard of the next guy. His adjusted net yards per drop back his nine point four seven that's first. Second is seven point nine one. It's almost a yard and a half better

than second place. His net yards per drop back eight point five nine, that's first. His sack rate is three point one percent, that's second. His completion percentage over expected three point five that's third. On passes twenty or more yards this year, he's twenty one for thirty two. That's sixty six percent completion, throwing the ball twenty yards down the field for six hundred thirty two total yards. That's twenty yards or pass attempt, six touchdowns, two picks, ten

to nineteen yard range. He's fifty two for seventy two. That's seventy nine hundred and two yards. It's twelve and a half yards per past, five touchdowns and a pick. To take all of his throws ten or more yards down the field, you know the whole Oh, he throws the ball five yards and tyre beecon jayl and catch and run for touchdowns. Well, you know that's not true. Ten plus are yard throws this year seventy three one oh five. That's sixty nine point five percent. It's fifteen

hundred and thirty four yards. That's fourteen point six yards per pass, eleven touchdowns and three picks. He's the best quarterback and playing right now. That's it's not arguable past catchers. In this game, the team produced a hundred and thirty three yacht yards. Nobody had more than alec Ingolds forty one. He caught all four of his targets for forty five yards.

Sherefield caught all four for sixty two, Waddle caught four of five for sixty six, most Are caught all four of his for twenty three, and Tyreek caught five of six for forty four. We had four players with better than two yards per route ran Ingold, Shurfield, Dtle, and Raheem Tyreek's first game under that stat this year. The run game this year sixty seven yards after initial contact.

Jeff Wilson had all five forced miss tackles among Dolphins backs on his seventeen rush attempts, averaging two point six five yards after initial contact. Miami hit three fifteen plus yard runs, seven ten plus yard runs three for Raheem, four for Jeff, and twelve of the twenty five carries between Most and Uh and Uh Wilson sorry produced first downs or touchdowns. PFF had the Dolphins with eleven point four yards per carry running to the a gap to

the left between Connor and Rob Jones. In fact, Miami's rushing numbers to the left side of the field off left end eight yards per carry, off left tackle seven point eight yards per carry, off left guard nine point eight yards per carry, and middle left That eleven point four figure QB pressure's five total on thirty six pass blocking snaps. That's just twenty one in the last four

games and a hundred and fifty dropbacks. That's one pressure every seven point one four dropbacks, roughly four to five per game. In this game, Armstead had one, Robert Jones had zero, Arna Williams had zero, Robert Hunt had one, and Brandon Shell had to. Jeff Wilson had one to give you five total. Defensively, Melvin Ingram led the way with seven pressures, Christian Wilkins had five, Bradley Chubb had four, Jalen Phillips had three. Seiler, Ray Kwon and Gink had

two apiece. Cohu e Robin Ogba had one apiece. Run stops, Christian Wilkins had five of those two Baker and e Rob had three each. Seiler and Melvin had two and four guys had one. Coverage snaps and yards allowed. Javon Holland forty six coverage snaps, no yards allowed. The Browns were four for ten throwing the ball ten plus air yards. Xaviing Howard had forty five coverage snaps, just twenty two yards allowed. Coho forty four snaps, sixty yards allowed. Half

that on one play. Uh. They were two for six targeting kator co who he also had two pass breakups, So not a lot of efficiency there for the Browns offense going after kator Coho. Eric Rowe thirty four coverage snaps, no yards Justin Bethel nineteen coverage snaps, forty eight yards. Keion Crossing seven snaps, no yards allowed. Great day by

the film, Great day by the numbers. Let's go ahead and get to the snap counts here before we hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, who spoke to the media on Monday and gave us more good nuggets as he always does. But first the snap counts. We did not get a five player wire to wire performance from the offensive line because to Ron Armstead got rest late in the game. We had the other four guys played all

sixty nine snaps. Nice to Ron played sixty and Greg Little played nine to one didn't play the whole game because Scott Thompson got in the game for seven snaps to a place sixty two. At receiver, Waddle leads the way again fifty one snaps at Tyreek had forty nine and Surefield had forty five. So again those are your three top receivers weekend and week out. Wilson forty two snaps, Ingold forty two at the running back and fullback spot,

and Raheem got nineteen. So a heavy workload here for Jeff Wilson before the bye week at tight end, Durham thirty seven, Mike thirty two, and that was it for the tight end position. And then Cedric Wilson gave us twenty one at receiver and Savan akhmed of just seven at the running back position. On defense, you had only Javon Holland played the entire game, but Kator Cohu and Xavien Howard also both just missed one snap a piece. Christian Wilkins another fifty plus snap game eight two percent

workload for him. Zack Heeler gives you fifty three snaps, Jerome Baker gives you fifty two, and how about Eric Row with a big bump up and playing time to fifty snaps in this game. Bradley Chubb played forty four, Phillips played forty two, and then Melvin Ingram thirty four. So we're seeing variety in those that front seven workload, the linebacker position, the edge rushers. When you need him, you pull the pull them up. When you don't, you rest him. It's kind of a great rotation to have.

Duke Riley plays thirty two snaps at linebacker. Roon McKinley gives you thirty two snaps back to the front. Rae Kwon Davis gave you a thirty one. Roberts made the most of his twenty seven snaps by golly, Andrew Van Gigle plays twenty four. How about Justin Bethel twenty three

more snaps at cornerback played a great game. John Jenkins and Keen Crossing both gave you eleven, AUGBA injured only gives you ten, and then obviously uh with the injury there, and then Elijah Campbell six and Sam Ega von one snap in the game. Three sound bites here from head coach Mike McDaniel. First, he's gonna tell you about the idea of the message of the team trying to make this a year to remember what that means, how you get it, and what his whole philosophy is behind that.

Here's coach. When you go through things when you're fully invested UM, contrary to popular belief, you can't really control uh ultimate outcomes. You can't. And I'm not worried about that. It's I've learned a life lesson in my experience that the you get out exactly what you get in or you put put in your and UM, you'll make uh memorable if you and UM collection of other individuals decide to invest um as much as they've ever invested in

in their craft. Because in that experience, Arians, there's highs, lows, UH, there's relationships, but ultimately I know this for a fact, you get the most out of whatever you got and you'll remember that. Uh. And and so I'd make it less tangible or like hey, UM, a proclamation about we will do X. If it's more about UM, you know, if you reflect on some of the things that you've done. Uh. In team sports, UM, some of the guys speak on

it candidly. Guys that have won stuff you and guys that have gone along, have gone to the playoffs, gone and done stuff in the playoffs and etcetera, etcetera. The common denominator is that, uh, you know, players decided to put team first and individual stuffs set and and you invest, and you go through hardship, and you go through triumph and you become closer as a team, and it kind of defines you as as a human being as well. So that that's all that. It's the investment UM, which

so far I've been very happy with. And but it's a it is a UM. It's a long it's long distance running. It's not sprint. So we still have a lot of the race to go next. Coach was asked about alec Ingold's usage and if his most snaps played in the game this year correlates with the fact that the Dolphins had their best rushing output. What do you think, coach, I don't think it's a coincidence, UM, when you're going into the game that we were going to have him on the field a lot. He provides a very um

physical presence. UM. It isn't just into playing you know, he's played fullback before, but that what that means and how are utilizing his skill set is a little different than he's been used before in his career, a little more VERSATIL. You're just he's got a lot more running he's UM, not as much close quarter stuff. Uh. And I thought he did a tremendous job and he's starting

to come into his own in that regard. So he stepped up to the plate we needed him to UM, and he he's a tone center UM for our football team that we count on week and week out, UM to establish and help establish a physical style of play. So I was happy to see him be putting some

um advantageous situations. And he took advantage of me yesterday finishing up here with the last question of the press conference from yours truly and coach choked me up a little bit because he talked about his relationship with his daughter and the shoes that he wore in the game and the painting of him and his daughter on his shoes. How to ask him about that? Here's coach about that and the slut disservice and what all that means to him? Great stuff here from she can't really talk, but she's

a Savanta painting and she does not know. Um, that was gifted to me. Um, that was a surprise on on on on Saturday. But you know the I have people on top of people are yeah, surprise on Saturday. I'm getting um uh my haircut on Friday by Steve and you guys might know, but he's and then he's like, I got a present for you on Saturday, said cool, I didn't expect that. Slut disservice, which, um, you know it's is is very meaningful to me. I very much

appreciate it. But then to have h a picture of myself and my daughter's like, what world am I own? This is unbelievable. So then I went down the hall and checked with my regulatory advisors to make sure that I would not be violating into NFL rules. UM to get the uh and and I think it passed all tests, and so then I put them on and it was a It was a really cool thing to be able to support um an unbelievable cause for you know, people that sacrifice, um, really everything they have for our our

in a selfless manner, for our way of life. Um. And then they have that on top of a painted picture of of my daughter who when I saw her on the sidelines before the game, Um, they're talking about him, so I pointed, and she goes which was her name? She said? So she recognized herself on a shoe and I almost you know, I almost just broke down crying before the game. That was pretty cool, uh, and I

felt very fortunate to be a part of it. Um. And those uh, those shoes are I I took them from the game him and I'll probably be wearing them doing dad duty. Oh week, well I'll take out the trash. Gosh, I'm sure you like this, head coach. All right, that's my time today. We have one more podcast for you guys this week, the Kind of Season Look Back so Far. We'll do that either tomorrow or Thursday, and not quite

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