Week 16 Film Room, Dolphins Packers -- Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Monday Presser

If you're not of them? What is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the Draft Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it was a tough tape watch. We are unpacking another lost cathartic therapeutic Those are the

words I'm hoping to use to describe this episode. We'll take a look at the all twenty two, the numbers and break it all down before hearing from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday afternoon press conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drift time. Go ahead and pull the bandit off right away here and start with the offense and the quarterback, and honestly, this tape was sensational through three quarters.

Even some throws in between the interceptions were great throws from the quarterback. But you're gonna look back at this game and three plays that undid the entire thing for the QB. It starts off with a great throat of Tyreek with a free hitter right into his face where the ball is out before Tyreke even throttles down on

the route. And this is one of two of his best traits on this play where he can layer the football and what that means is a certain level of touch and location to put the ball in a spot that is not about like the velocity or the trajectory. It's just a certain type of finesse on the throw that gets it up over a certain level and then back down with just a certain amount of torque and spin. And that's arm talent. That's that's all about what throwing

the football successfully is all about. He's got that touch and feel to lay that thing out with the right amount of pace so Tyreek can finish the route, get his head back to the football and locate it and not have to look back at the line, drive this five feet from his face and try to react in time for that and for two of the balls thrown perfectly into a pocket between three Packers defenders, and he

does this under pressure from an awkward platform. The tape was full of throws like this all early on in this game. I didn't think the initial third down deep shot the Tyreek hill was a defensive past interference like I saw a lot of folks on Twitter calling for. I thought it was really good coverage and you see the power of Tyreg and that he still uncovers at the very end. Two. I needed a perfect ball, no margin for air on that throw. He just left it

a tad inside. Let's break down the Waddle touchdown first. What a great call and design. It's a two man route with Waddle and Tyreek. It's run from twenty one personnel, so you get the Packers based defense on the field and they pull a safety down to the box trying to account for the extra two gaps you created by putting Durham Smith and alec ingled attached to the formation.

Ingle did go in motion towards the fake toss side to the boundary side of the formation, and that held the attention of literally all eight box defenders, and this is why that opening drive and the run game success can be so vital. The Packers knew after those consistent seven eight yard ribs on tape that they needed an answer to the Dolphins running game in Miami. Probably knew

that too, so they played off of it. We mentioned the Packers playing that cover three really all year long, and on the back end of their blitz as they'll drop into that cover three. Same deal here the middle of the field safe. He took a poor angle and ran it right into a block of Tyreek hill. Let's give some more love to twa here, because this is an over route that takes time to develop even with

wattle speed off the line. So the weak side end, who has run responsibility for the cutback and slash will flatten down the line in pursuit of the run away from him him. Once he sees two of the football, he converts that pursuit to a rush of the quarterback and it's free because they have eight against our seven and he's the unblocked man off the edge of the formation.

The play fake takes care of the unblocked man, but you still have to deal with pressure in your face with a run action puts pause on that defender, which you needed because if he ran right a two of that play blows up from the start. But when to h gets back into a throwing possession off of play pass, Wattle is just barely breaking inside the numbers to that

side of the field, to the boundary. He would eventually catch the ball on the hash on the other side of the field, so he really covered like half the football field too. From a fade away off the back foot, throws it right before Waddle clears the two backers, and that had gotten depth after the initial surge forward, but it was too much and too late. So it's a great play by the quarterback to that point, and then

the Penguin and Chia just take over from there. I love how Tyreek misses the block initially but then buses butt to get right back into position to really make the key block down field for Wattle. Also, Waddles acceleration from leaving his feet and then hitting back on the ground is in sane to me. He's kind of like one of those wind up cars that you pull back on the table and then let go and it takes off.

He just has unreal zero to sixties speed. Then he makes a move that leaves Jyr Alexander in the dust, and then it's a race to see who can run thirty five yards fastest in the answer is seventeen. There he hit the fifth fastest speed on the play of anybody in the NFL this year, at twenty one point six five miles per hour, and it was the fastest time by a wide receiver on a touchdown catch this season.

Connor Williams on that play, by the way, prevented Kenny Clark from penetration with a quick upfield first step that could have impacted the play if fifty eight did not cut him off. So tip of the cap there too. What a great play all the way around. And the good plays continued. That scramble where TWA has Tyreek on the on the rail route and then waddle on the slant,

but the Packers took both away. It's another free hitter to it makes the man miss and scrambles for five on second and five, but it's a hold on Connor Williams and then the next play is an errand snap. These are the kind of things I think Mike was talking about after the game. That's a two place equence that we just haven't seen much of all year, and it takes us from first and ten at the plus thirty five to punting on our own side of the field.

That's giving away drives. And we'll talk about one later in this game too, before the second interception where Miami had a chance to go and take a lead but then winds up being behind the chains and goes from first and goal to first and fifteen at the thirty yard line. You're giving away drives, you're giving away points.

You do it multiple times in a game. That's how you wind up with the game tape where I'm sitting here watching it saying, if I don't know the score of this game, I don't know the flags coming out because you can't really see him on tape unless you look for the yellow hankies. I'm thinking the Dolphins won this game by three or four scores. But you look at the end of the day and it's not that way. Because these key moments, with key critical errors, it's got

to stop happening at some point. It's week sixteen, when will that stop happening. It's killing this offensive production and the win lost column. As a result, I could argue the last three games should have been Dolphins wins, but these little errors like this keep poking up and causing you to not win these close games. That's how you lose close games. Every game in the NFL typically comes down to one score, like on on balance, When you'd have errors like this, you're going to lose those one

score games. That's happening here the last few week from Leimy Dolphins, and they have to get it corrected by next week. Tyreek then catches a glance behind the linebackers under that cover three coverage and does this little pirouet at the time of the tackle where he almost spun out of the tackle. And I just want to make a mention of this because watching him like it defies

the basic rules of science. The low center of gravity he has, the power and speed he has in those legs, it produces moments like this where you're like, hmm, didn't know gravity could be changed like that, but apparently Tyreek Hill can do that. Back to more good to After the Armstead hold, the Packers drop seven on first and twenty and we get Tyreek on a speed out with Ghasiki running up the sideline and this might have been

my favorite play from TAH of the day. Haven't gotten to the deep shot yet, so we'll see if that surpasses it. But Ta does this expedited pump fake that pulls the cloud corner off that side down to the speed out and it springs to Mike Kasicki rather free into that level of the defense. But before two was even finishing the pump, he's already got his feet set to make the throw and he resets all in this one motion and the balls out like like within a

half of a pump fake. It's really crazy if you haven't had a chance to go back and watch it, one of the more uncanny pump fakes I've ever seen. And because of that, Mike clears the corner and the ball is in there before that half field safety can close and put a big hit on our guy. Mike then fell down because yeah, doesn't happen at that position. But I want to get to the fourth quarter because this tape right now is absolutely sizzling. It's really good.

And again first and fifteen, after another procedural penalty, we heard to a break this down that the Packers wearing a hybrid coverage. He called it six strong quarters to one side, cover two to the other. He climbs the pocket from pressure, hitches up anticipating a bomb throw, and you see Wattle occupy the field deep third safety and that cover three once again, and the middle third safety

cheats down on Wattles. You're getting this give and take now between Waddle and Tyreek, where it's not just takeaway ten. We have to contend with seventeen as well. And when he catches eighty four yard touch downs NDI, and that clears the point the post for Tyreek Hill and too lets it flies from his own forty with Tyreek at the seven yard line, just inside the numbers of the boundary, and I don't think you could throw it much better. He could have put it one yard further and probably

scores a touchdown. But if you're mad about that on a throw fifty yards away, then you don't understand, like how difficult the percentage of that throw is. But it hits him right in the bread basket just before the defenders converge. And at this point he's right under two hundred yards passing in the first half. At one point in this game, he was seven for ten with two with two and ten yards in a touchdown. How do

you lose that game? Man? I'm still the first and seventeen throw to Waddle after the fake punt stop and the hold on big rob Hunt. That was a beautiful piece of timing from the entire offense again, just looking unstoppable, And it makes sense why McDaniel said nobody in that locker room expected the result they got when they went in for the halftime break. They were absolutely rolling. Now too, had a couple of bad plays after this. He missed an open Gaziki and Tyree looking right at them on

a sack on the next play. Just didn't play that one decisively. But then after a sack we convert on third and fourteen with another seed, this one to Trent Sherfield where he steps up from pressure off the edge and fires it before Sherfield clears the hook backer and settles him in right in front of the safety. Multiple big time throws in this tape. Then another sack that I think was on two two sacks on this drive where his initial reads were open. Got to clean that up.

The first drive of the second half, great throw, great route by a Waddle on a deep whip. That's a route usually see it the five to eight yard range where you challenge inside leverage, put your foot in the ground and went back out to the outside. Waddle runs this one of fifteen yards down the field. Two has got a great pocket and rips it right on the upfield shoulder to lead him into nine yards after the catch when there was less than a yard separation. That's

another really good placed football. So a couple of mistakes in the first half in terms of not being decisive on a couple of throws that he took sacks on. But again, this tape looks so good at this point, but then we get intior pressure on third and eight before the Sanders missfield goal. Tyreek is open at the sticks on this play, but to has to flush the other side and throws it away. Now we're onto the fourth quarter. I mean, he told us, but he just

overshot Tyreek on the first pick. The Packers had that two man route combo from Tyreeke and Jalen boxed in, so it was a very tight window throw. But he's made those all year long. This one just sALS and Alexander is able to sit back on it and wait on it. Because they had two backside defenders walling off those crossers and the middle of the field safety clamping. I thought the next throw to Waddle for six team

was awesome. The first throw of the next series, similar play to the eighty four yard touchdown, but this time the backers get depth on that over route so to a buy some time and attacks line scrimmage and throws it so Waddle can get more time to uncover from those guys, develops further and he throws it up high away from the linebackers and Waddle climbs the ladder and goes and gets it. A really nice play and a

bounce back throw from the previous throw. I thought the next throw going to Trent Sherfield it was a second and seven play, was another very nice play. Uh. He throw ows him away from danger, away from the coverage, away from where the leverage was. Then they get a great pass break up on a great play by Douglas against Wattle, and then another really nice shot to Tyreek right on the money that allowed him to catch it on the move for twenty more yards. So you're under

eight minutes trailing by three. First intent at the twenty seven yard line at that point, you're thinking, we're gonna rescue this game. For all that the warts we had, we're gonna rescue it, especially after the next play where it's second and eight and Waddle uncovers on a slant and takes it down to the ten yard line. Instead, it's a procedural penalty. He didn't check with the raft to see if he was covering up the tackle. Easy

five yard flag. Moving back to second and thirteen from the thirty op post to the first and goal from the ten twenty yards lost. Then the pick two was a catch rock throw to Raheem and he's flexed out to the two receiver position to the strong side of the formation. Balls in the middle of the field, so there's no field boundary, but Raheem just kept running, never looked back to the quarterback. Looks like he thought it was a clear out route to A throws at short

and it's right to the linebacker. Personnel wise, it was a nice look because you have twenty one personnel, but when empty, so two backs, one tight end and nobody behind to a and then ingold motions back in Durham's the one to the strong side, ingled in the shotgun with two while Raheem's this two to the strong side of the formation. So the strong side of the formation

is literally Durham, Raheem and Ingled as your eligibles. There was a nice little lane there for him to catch it and run maybe all the way, I don't know. There was a big spot there for him to run. He never looks back and it's a great play by Devandre Campbell will follow to his eyes to the football. More on that just a second. Finally, the third one, Tyreek runs a square in Mike Kasiki runs the flag.

That flat corner presses Tyreek and you see two A look at him like he says, okay, he's pressing, which means space and behind him is open. Then you try to attack a second level. But the minute two comes off of Tyreek, Rasul Douglas falls off. That corner falls off right there, and then the ball was way short of the target. A higher throw. I think Mike could

have made a play. Just a really out of character quarter when we come to see from this quarterback for you know, three years now, that's the only way I can describe it. I will say this, and this goes back to the Davandre Campbell pick, and I think you know McDaniel intimated as much as postgame pressor to his fundamentals got away from him after that first pick. And that's happened a few times this year. Right, He's so good at using his eyes to move guys. We raved

Bottle on the podcast all the time. But the Packers played disciplined football and sometimes would not let the cheese. They wouldn't take the cheese. But he's still attacked. It's tough because the anticipation is the superpower. But now you're gonna have teams probably trying to copy that. And when it's a tight game or he's coming off a mistake, he seems to really press. And his last throw is a good example of that, where dude, it wasn't there, and if it was, like your location was way off,

what's going on? That's that's not who you are. You're better at making better decisions and better accuracy than that. It's a continuation of his mechanics getting bad against pressure last year and putting the ball in harm's way like the Titans game for instance, that was pressure in the pocket, and he just continued to lose his fundamentals. He did more of that in this game after some stalled drives that little flips past he had off script that was

also nearly picked. It's something to improve upon, Like things aren't always gonna go well, so you have to improve those when games are going against you and have that ability to bounce back and come back. Because think about the Ravens come back. It was all going well in that moment, right, Like he had the two picks early, but when it was eight, he was just rolling and rolling, rolling. He probably felt confident. If we can get him playing

at that level despite the surroundings, we'll be talking. But that's it's one spot that I think is uh, you can look at for improvement. All things told, a lot of good on tape, but a couple of critical errors undoes that, and now he needs to get those corrected and get right back to the blistering pace we've seen most of the year because we need it this week right now. Let's go ahead and take a break and come back and talk about the rest of the offense.

That's next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Tuesday here on the Drivetime Podcast. We are rolling into segment number two. Before we look at the defense, let's go ahead and finish up the offense. Receivers Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle continue

just to amaze me and everything they do. I talked about the individual place, but there isn't much to break down here because their release, their timing, their work up the stem, the way they attack blind spots, they the way they make catches in stride or off frame. It's all so good man that a legal formation call hurt though. Man Like, let's get lined up right, guys, because that's that's a killer. But these two guys are the best in the business. For my money. Rob Hunt is putting

together a really good season. He's moving people wherever he wants with consistency, and he's doing it every aspect of the position. And go reach a three technique, Go seal the nose guard, climbed to the force linebacker and displace him.

He is really really dang good Pro Bowl good. There's a Jeff Wilson run to open the third quarter where he pulls and has the force defender all alone, and big offensive lineman missed those blocks in space all the time because it's tough to sprint at three and thirty pounds come to balance and hit a block station are Usually they just run through a spot and try to get in the way best possible. On this play, rob attacks the outside shoulder, turns him inside and seals off

the lane. For Jeff Wilson, he is a great player at this point. Need a one yard touchdown run running behind sixty eight. Him and Brandon Shell hit a great double team. Then Hunt climbs to the second level linebacker takes care of him. You get good dents from Smith and Long off the edge to create that space as well. But how about Alec Ingle blowing up the force defender completely decleted him on that touchdown run from Jeff Wilson.

Speaking of great lineman, something I've been noticing but haven't mentioned the podcast. The Way to Ron sells a certain action I think has low key big impacts on this offense. On an RPO rip to Tyreek, he opens his gate on the first step to match the run action and the end tries to crash inside, which is where that run gap is developing. But then he opens up the hips, readjust his landmark and walls him off. That helps influence those second level defenders to like, especially when it's paired

with the left guard pulling out of that gap. They're watching the offensive lines movement, trying to figure out the play, and they're selling, you know, a bill of goods with those initial movements, and Toron is a big part of that. Those two guys Tehron and Rob hit key blocks on a thirteen yard most dirt run right before the deep

ball to Tyreek. The whole play with Chef's kiss, Torn has to turn the five technique and told him for a slow developing inside zone bounce by Raheem Hunt Poles and swallows up the key linebacker in that b gap. Smith has a great seal. Rob Jones and Connor Williams make a great seal to point with Shell walling off his edge hat on a hat beautiful, but you get a holding call that I don't know if I agree with Hun to Ron Armstead. Rough game for Connor Williams,

which I haven't said all year long. He was dispatched in past pro a couple of times, had a killer penalty and a bad snap just Kenny Clark got the best of him. Doesn't happen very often, but I did in this game. I thought Durham. Smith had some great

key blocks and running plays. Had some pass pro gaffs which are kind of you know a thing week by week of the tight end position here um, but he had a really good down block on the first run play of the game, and the opening play of drive three he seals a big lane for a Wilson twelve yard run. That first half fumble was such a killer, just an absolute killer, well blocked arm tackle, punches at free Raheem. That and the interception from Raheem. That's he'll

he'll worry about those all week long. I'm sure that's too tough plays. I thought the pass pro in general wasn't the standard we've come to expect when we had this line up in the game, I thought, who could have gotten the ball out quick a couple of times when there was some plays we made, but he just didn't. And then the scramble throw to Waddle before the fourth down conversion. Immediate pressure forced two to find a new platform on that throw and as a result, he couldn't

get to Tyreek, who was uncovered. Packers Front has some dudes, Preston Smith and Kenny Clark in particular, and they were getting in with more frequency than some of the recent poems we faced. And all in total, I thought, you know, Durham had a couple of protection breakdowns that killed some plays. Jeff Wilson did the did that on the throwaway before the standards, missed, just completely whiff a block that would have given to a pocket Tyreek uncovered. You gotta make

these these very, you know, basic type of blocks. Rob Jones had a bust that led to immediate pressure that forced us to move off the original read. Kenny Clark gave Williams his worst game as a Dolphin. Mostard had some errors too, had the two places where I thought if he had throws before us coming to pressure, we could have moved the chains. And then too, I had the two really bad picks and then the third one as well. I legit philis could have been a forty

point output. And now that it's week sixteen, I'm not gonna keep telling you that we're gonna get there because these shoot yourself in the foot airs. That's who you are at this point of the year until you prove otherwise. The Dolphins have to get it figured out this week. Let's go ahead and go right over at the defensive side of the football here and start on defense, and honestly, I feel kind of the same way I do about the offense where they were just they played really well.

The tape I thought was good for like three courters of the game, but there was just a few plays that got away from the defense. And more notably, kind of the story of the year for the defense this season, to me, has been the inability to capitalize on opportunities. You know, third down defense is good in this game. I've talked about the situations that they faced in that game on Sunday, and those were all tough circumstances they overcame.

But the difference to me between this defense this year compared to the last two years was the ability to take the ball away to convert and finish splash plays that thereby didn't extend drives, got your play countdown, got the ball back to the offense more, and obviously improved your field position. Hasn't happened at all this year, and

this game was a microcosm of just that. So many balls that were tipped into the air, chance to make a play an interception that Exhaviing Howard makes one hundred times out of one hundred and one. We just so happened to have the one hundred one time here. All year long, that's been the situation. Rogers hemmed into the pocket in the grasp, almost gets out of it, escapes and makes a first down run like all year long, it's happening. This tape was more of that too, So

as well as the defense played. I'm gonna be a little bit critical at times because of those instances. But talk about X men first play of the game. His effort after that long kick return would have been so easy to say we just started first in goal like they're gonna score a touchdowns pack him. He didn't do that. His effort to the edge and sweat and took on a pulling right tackle to slow him down a guy he's giving up more than one hundred pounds too. That's

teaching tape man. Great stuff from your captain on the opening play of the game. Then another captain on the second play of the game, landon Roberts. There's a great pursuit and breakdown of Rogers in space to get him to the ground. But I loved how once he noticed and he saw it quickly that it was boot action, he got off of the original play action track change directions, got on his horse and ran to the spot that Rogers was trying to get to to make the play.

Just a great play from Landon roberts Man. They really went after Kater co who early in this game. Uh, they ran some plays where it was based personnel, condensed the package, get Miami into that man free press coverage. They roll the safety away, throw the glance in behind the linebackers and with that outside leverage given that inside access, pretty easy to go after those. And they went after Cater. But as part of the defense here where these corners

have to be so perfect against two way goes. Really a lot of the time it's tough for guys to make it happen. But I think Cater's ability to do that all year long has been pretty damn good. Uh for this season. How about another captain on the next drive, that pop pass that Javon Holland closed down. He makes plays like that all the time. Man, He's a big time hitter. Great range, can come from the opposite side of the field, reads the flow of the play here

and knives into the blockers to cause a loss. Again on a goal to goal situation, there was so many defensive wins early, like the Eric Rowe pass defense in the end zone. We had lost Aaron Rodgers on a third and eight scramble play previously, and that did happen a few times, but Eric Rowe bounces back with a really good tackle after that. Like this, We've played so many elusive quarterbacks where there's good coverage, good rush, moves him off the spot, then he creates a first down

by escaping. Feels like it happens once or twice a week, and we just continue to play so many good quarterbacks man, so many good quarterbacks, but still like when the players are there, finish them, make the plays that you have opportunities to. So frustrating. And then the touchdown the first one Sandy Von was totally lost in coverage there. That was, you know, fourth down play that we could have made a made a stop there and gotten the ball back.

The deep shot on cater Co who that was converted was really good coverage. But it was a perfect throw. I'm gonna tell you why that's important here in just a second. Tip the cap on that one, because later in the game you see a non perfect throw on the fourth down attempt such a tough ask, but Kater handled it so well as he has all years. Zero, look,

fourth and one. That's not uncommon at all. And I've always been a big proponent of the deep ball in short yardage because you don't have to manufacture the deep ball on those situations. Teams will naturally give you a look that gives you some some vertical one on one shots. And they got it. But Cater competed the entire way through their best wide receiver. For my money and Christian Watson. He was slightly open, but the balls a tad long.

You shorten that window make them be perfect. Here they weren't big win by Cater and not his first of the day. The pick was another sensational play where again he's put in a situation where no safety help cover him on a three way go. His eyes are back to the football when he made the contact on the wide receiver, so there's no defensive pass interference there by the way, he has a right to play the football and feel for where the receiver is while he's looking

back to the ball. That's how you do. It's teaching tape. Many times the leap and catches it at its highest point I'm excited about kater co whose future. Man, what a rookie year he's had. I thought ray Kuan Davis got off blocks really well in this game. He doesn't usually get a lot of chances to make like stat type of plays because he's so often plays that nose tackle and sees double teams in the run game. But he made some plays in this one, most notably against

that fake punt. Just stay true to rules, true to his technique, and it led him to a huge play in the game. Andrew van Gekl makes plays, man, He got his hands on a pass early in the game. The second play in space on or that play I should say in space on second and goal in the tie game in the fourth quarter was so nice. Where he came from depth and he just has such spatial awareness. You see him kind of feel where guys are in certain zones and like, I'm not gonna stand here and

cover grass, I'm gonna go find a body. He does such a good job of that and then gets downhill and makes tackles in space. Does anybody fail to finish more sacks in the Miami Dolphins, man, our pressure rates are so good, but like in this game, was was really disheartening because there are like Jerome Baker had a run on Aaron Rodgers on the play before they failed fourth down, so like it didn't matter in the grand scheme. But man, the tackle at Temple was like a fly by.

Let's finish these sex Baker Chub. You know a lot of these guys are getting there. Just gotta finish the play. Speaking of finishing plays, Christian Wilkins is unreal man. He had tipball in the first quarter and immediate one gap win early in the second for a tackle for loss. The very next play, he gets a rerun for a QB hit on Rogers and forces an incomplete pass on

third short. And the reason he had a free run is because his best buddy beats the left guard instantly with a dip and rip move and A J. Dillon crosses the formation to go get him your most immediate pressure, which freed up the blitz pick up for Wilkins that

wasn't there, so he gets a quarterback hit. Then the first play of the next series, Wilkins beats the right guard, forces Rogers off the spot and steps it right into a sack of Eric Rowe, who went up against Aaron Jones and passed pro and dominated that rep, just engaged him, threw him out of the club. Made the sack drive before the end of the half. For Christian Wilkins. Another

tip pass opening play third quarter. He's playing the four eye technique away from the play, comes all the way across the formation, makes the tackle, then tips another pass on the first play after the two interception. Guy's a Pro Bowl player, probably the best defensive tackle in the NFL this season. His production this year might be dt one. Speaking of Zack Seeler, that third and one stuff was

vintage ninety two man every single week. Then on the opening drive the second half, second and six, Seiler throws his man all the way out of the club, and then A. J. Dillon tries to set our step as he sees nine two bearing down, and he trips and falls, and Steeler gets the easiest finish to a TfL he's ever had by kicking the crap out of the left card. I can't believe Extant make that pick man tough catch, but man, we got so used to him making tough

plays look routine. It was a really nice rap eyes to the quarterback zone turn, but to the sideline feel that vertical route while you keeping your eyes in the quarterback, accelerate high point, make the catch. But then when he pulls it in his knee knocks it free. Of course it does, because that would have put us right at the plus forty yard line with play up ten in the first half. We get it back on the next drive.

The next drive was the fumble, so it probably changes that entire script because you're in plus territory already, you're one first hand away from field goal range, and maybe you do fumble it back. Who knows, But that was the whole game. It's hard to keep saying that because it's legit been every loss this year. They're so tough to take these losses. As a fan, I can't imagine how it feels for the players. But there there were like fift team plays in this game where if it

goes the other way, Miami wins. Like that's this was the what's the word the microcosm of the Bengals game that there was a you know, player to the Jets game even I know it was seventeen, but there were plays in that game where the Sanders miss field goal. I still think that game goes differently if it, if it, that play goes differently. The Waddle fumble in the Vikings game, the take your pick in the Niners game, the Gisiki fourth down catch, make that catch and convert? Did we

score touchdown that drive? Probably the Chargers game. There's multiple instances in that one. The Phillips roughing, the passer call, the Buffalo game, do we get the dp I call on Jalen Waddle? A million other examples in that game then Green Bay. I feel like it was the pinnacle of that. Oh it hurts, It really hurts me. Okay, Thatt sucks some defensive struggles here. I'm not sure I understand all the soft and off stuff right on the fringe of field goal range. Right after the Raheem most

Art fumble. You get a miss from Aaron Rodgers on first down, he just spikes a flat throw that was a totally missed by the quarterback. But then we give them nine yards by giving away ten yards of soft coverage for a catch and run on a quick hitter, easy as you like. They then convert on the third down. Would really like it if Bradley Chubb stops cheating inside

on wide runs. He'll kind of swim inside the right tackle or left tackle, who then just says, okay, well, I wanted to seal you anyway, so I'll go ahead and pin you and keep you there. Happens all the time. We lose the edge in the run game and give

those big runs up. We busted really bad on that third and nine from the minus forty five on the Packers opening second half touchdown drive, which would have been getting the ball back middle of the third quarter, right, That would be pretty great, but didn't happen that way. Rogers gets under pressure and we have Eric Row in the middle of the field between the hash marks and

xaviing Howard at the numbers, both at the sticks. Ten yards down the field, a tight ends running acrosser pressure is getting in and the running back is leaking out. As that pressure gets in, X is out wide, Rose inside and it's zone. It's clearly zone coverage, and X chase at the tight end inside and by the time Roe sees him going there, he's two wait to get back outside, so the back has nothing but green grass. If it's zone, then stay in that spot, or if

it's not, tell him, hey, I'm coming across. You gotta get wide over here to take the running back. There's communication there because it was the easiest third nine conversion. You can imagine it goes for twenty because again the back had all the sideline to work with. But if we just stay home or communicate, I don't know the responsibility to place and not on the defensive call, but you gotta get that stopped. Man, these are the type of things that are maddening, and they're happening on both

sides of the ball. Weekly also, come on, man, challenge the plays when they're not made. That Lewis catch was on a catch. Let's challenge it. Gosh, your own Baker struggled in this game. The rep on the takeoff to Romeo Dobbs might have been the best of Keion Crossing's Dolphin's career. Didn't grab him, didn't even engage unless Dobbs did what she did a couple of times, stayed right in phase, pinned him to the perimeter. Really nice cornerback

play on that particular rip. And man, I forgot about that failed mesh point between Rogers and A. J. Dillon before their go ahead field goal. The ball bounces right back to Dylan. Just that kind of game, man, like, I mean, how many balls we beat in this game, five or six? Can't get a single one of those to tip up into the air for an interception all year.

You see, you guys, see the second down play before to a second pick, Alan Lazzar literally throws X to the ground like okay, I guess it's not a flag, but it gets them a twenty five yard play where nothing else was happening. It would have been a sack for sure. It winds up being a twenty five yard game and a huge one for the Packers. Then the next draft you get them on first and twenty and they spring that big run off the edge man that

one hurt. That was just bad discipline, bad fundamentals to lose the edge and they wiped out three guys with one block as a result. Then Jalen Phillips made two plays to say have a late touchdown, then the third down play after that getting the guy to the ground to force a field goal. That those two plays, plus the effort on that trip up on Rogers on third and long was some really really good effort from Jalen Phillips. As we come to expect every single week, this tape

was tough to watch. I'm so glad that I'm through it, but I cannot believe. I can't believe we didn't win that game. The Dolphins are such a better team and had every chance to win that football game game and didn't do it, and I am so so sad and so upset about it. Gosh, I should have won that football game. Let's go ahead and take no. Let's go

to the stats first, PF stats too. On twenty plus yard air throws two for three seventy six yards ten to nineteen seven for eleven one ninety one touchdown, three picks, still a nineties seven passer rating. It was basically a great game, marred by three mistakes in total ten yard plus throws nine for fourteen for two sixty six, a touchdown,

and three picks. They blitzed just twice, and it was Castler outhouse one eight four yard touchdown, one intercepted pass under pressure four for six for one and a touchdown pass that's really really good, uh all three picks worthout pressure. He was twelve for nineteen for one seven and three interceptions when he was kept clean. Waddle and Tyreek had two more huge games. Waddle produced one forty three on six targets. That's twenty three point eight yards per target.

Also had six point to two yards per route ran. Waddle is second in that stat in the NFL from Pro Football Focus at two point seven eight. He's first with eleven point eight yards per target this season. Tyreek had one o three on six targets that's seven team point two yards per target. He also had three point nine six yards per route rand. Remember two is really good on the year in those categories. He's first in yards per route RAND at three three point four nine.

And what's really cool about this, nobody else is over three. The next highs is Waddle at to seven eight and Tyrek is fourth with ten point three yards per target this season. To really important stats, Dolphins killing with those two guys and the quarterback, by the way, throwing them. The football gets credit for that too. The quit telling

me it's all about the receivers. The quarterback has a big part of the two where he most hurt, forced two miss tackles and average three point eight eight yards after initial contact. We allowed eight total pressures per Pro Football Focus, Armstead, Jones, Williams Hunt all had one apiece three from Brandon Shell but again I think there was more of a team effort on some of these. Remember how I said we averaged fourteen yards per carry behind

Rob Hunt last week fifteen point five this week. Defensively pressures three for Chub, two for Phillips, Wilkins, Baker, and A Landon Roberts. Three guys had one run stops Holland, Phillips, Wilkins, Rake one, and E. Rob All had three. Cater Seiler, Gink, Baker and E. Ro All had two x had one. Let's go ahead and take the last break right here and come back on the other side and do snap counts from the game will also here from head coach

Mike McDaniel his Monday afternoon press conference. That's next Drivetime podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on a recap Tuesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's real quick, go ahead and get into the snap counts here as you get wired and wire from the offensive line and quarterback. Fifty snaps for all those guys. Tyreek was the next highest snaptaker. He played forty snap.

That's of the workload. Waddle played thirty seven Sherefield was next with twenty two and Cedric Wilson with thirteen Blon Sanders had seven snaps in the game. A lot more two back too tight end personnel in this game because a lot of receiver snaps not that high. In this game, Durham led all tight ends with thirty two snaps. That's sick. He played twelve snaps, and Hunter Long played four. At running back, Jeff Wilson gave you third. D alec Ingold

gave you twenty seven. Most gave twenty six, almost a fifty fifties split there. On defense, Holland played every snap, Baker and co who played, and Xavien Howard played percent of the snaps. Christian Wilkins gave you of the snaps again. Steeler played those guys are crazy. Phillis played fifty five snaps, Row fifty three, Roberts fifty one. Ray Kwon gave you forty one snaps. Off the nose. Van Gigle gets a

nice bump with thirty three snaps. Chubb played twenty eight, but he was injured in the game and came back. Jenkins played twenty two, cross And eighteen, McKinley fourteen, Melvin Ingram thirteen, and then some other guys had single digit snapcounts there, so pretty good workload across the board. Let's go ahead and here from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed the media on Monday afternoon. We start here with coach and actually, why don't we go ahead and just

finish up here with some injury updates. As I'm sure you all saw by now that to a tongue of voloa will enter the concussion protocol this week. No timetable on the return or how he will progress through that, of course, has all uh turns over to the medical professionals and the doctors to make that decision on when he's ready to return to play again. So if it's not him, we'll get teddy Bridgewater on Sunday against the Patriots.

We'll keep you guys abreast of all that situation moving forward here as the Dolphins look to get a big win Sunday and Foxburg. Let's go ahead and call it a podcast right there. I'm gonna just go ahead and wrap it up. If you want to find Mike McNally's full media availability to go ahead and check out the team YouTube channel. In the meantime, you all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Leave

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