Week 17 Film Room, Dolphins Patriots -- Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

on the field. CPR was administered and he was transported to a local hospital, and luckily it was a Level one trauma center in Cincinnati. And if I can leave a message here, it's to always remember that under each and every one of those helmets is a human being, a son, a father, a brother. It's wild how important football is until it isn't. Watching those scenes play out with something none of us have ever seen during a football game. But I do think you saw the ultimate

triumph of the human spirit. As several million dollars three and a half as of this tape was raised for his charity, the Chasing Ems Foundation Community toy Drive. An entire country is with this young man. Our thoughts remain with the Mar Hamlin. Let's go ahead and start the show. You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is

Drive Time with Travis Winfield. Back to throw to a looking touchtop ton Rick call waddle, waddle to a shotgun, back to throw looking steps up fires, It's waddle, It's six touchdown. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive 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 Winfield. And

on today's show, all review coming your way. We'll take a look at the tape, the stats, the snap counts, and here from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday afternoon press conference. All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time. Let's kick this thing off with the offensive notes right off the top, and we usually start the quarterback position, so we'll go ahead and do

that once again here with Teddy Bridgewater. And there was some good, some bad, and a lot of stuff that makes me continue to appreciate QB one every time we have a chance to watch a tape. It's not him out there, and a lot of that is timing, timing and ball placement. There was a completion in the first drive of the game that led to a big hit

because the ball was out a little bit late. On the second drive, you got Tyreek Hill screaming across the field on a deep over route free access to the middle of the field safety and Jawan Bentley, the middle linebacker, is getting depth into the hook and Tyreek breaks his route off at the forty three yard line, and Bentley bites up on Wattle on a high low type of look, and he took the cheese on the on the low at the thirty seven yard line, and we opt not

to throw the ball. These are the kind of throws that to have made regularly and their high degree of difficulty. Don't get me wrong, but these are the kind of throws we would routinely hit over the course of the winning streak, even some of those games and the losing streak that produced a top two offense in yards per play. We also saw some plays in this game on Sunday

dropping the eyes against the rush. There was a play where Jeff Wilson's leaking out for an easy first down catch and run on the third and seven before the fake, but the quarterback takes off slide up, dump it off. That's the move if your eyes are up. But if your eyes are down, you can't see that. That throw to Tyreek that didn't count on the first drive was an absolute dime, an absolute perfectly thrown ball, really good coverage and on a wheel route, i should say, from

a bunch at the formation at the Alliance scrimmage. In the formation, three receivers stacked up together in which Teddy has all data throw, but Jonathan Jones doesn't take the cheese on the out and he gets vertical. Now Tyreek is still behind him because well, nobody in the league can run with that guy. But he's made the window as small as he can. And so Teddy who throws it early. When Tyrek is even with him at the forty eight yard line of the Patriots, far hash from

his own thirty five, so almost twenty yards away. He layers a nice little touch throw out to the Patriots thirty yard line, right on the hash mark on the perimeter, a great reaching gap grab in full extension from Tyreeke and there's a still shot where the ball is in his hands and the right foot is still touching the earth surface. Could they overturn that with the assumption that he had control. Who knows, but man, that was a close want to know. A great throw from Teddy and

a great catch from Tyreeke. I feel like we say it every week, and a big part of it is correct rble, correctable procedural stuff, right, But my god, how how lucky unlucky do we have to be on stuff like this? We wind up punting from our own side of the field opposed to first and ten of the New England at the at the New England twenty eight yard line. That's points like east will maybe if you

make the field goal. But a great throw and a great catch and it just doesn't go your way because a split second decision that goes in the favor of the home team. I think there's something to be learned off this tape for whichever quarterback plays in this system, and that's the benefit of having explosive backs running into space created by the attention that has other team paying so much regard to the perimeter eligibles. I'm talking about

tenants seventeen. Of course, that first down on third and six to Raheem on the opening touchdown drive that I think it was the second or third drive of the game. You get seven man coverage and they bracket both Cheetah and Waddle, and that puts the hook backer in a conflict where he has to say, am I gonna buzz the curl and take away the quick throw to Cheetah or do I stay right here and do it for he most or who hooks up on the middle part

of the field. He gets caught in between. The throw goes to Raheem short of the sticks, but plenty of room to run because of that conflict linebacker, and he gobbles up nine more yards after the catch. If you can mix in those type of plays like timely check downs when they really back off their epe man have a man coverages with the explosives man watch out. Now that said, there are points where we're checking the ball down because the ball is not getting ripped on those

anticipation throws to the intermediate portion of the field. We've seen too and make those all year long. So it is give and take, and I would prefer the aggressive attacking mentality. But the reason he's able to get to some of those checkdowns Teddy is because the pass pros holding up and then we're just opting to not throw the ball to the middle of the field. We'll tell you about time to throw here in a little bit.

But Teddy doesn't play the game anywhere near the same pace as one and it shows on this tape, and that's the case for all the quarterbacks besides two we've seen this year. That drive in general, the touchdown drive, inspired a lot of confidence in the offense's ability to get this done. Because Teddy fired a really good ball

and a deep comeback to Tyreek against the blitz. Miami kept in seven and protection and got Teddy a great pocket against a five man rush I think it was actually a six man rush, and he threw it before Tyreek's out of the break right on target gain of nineteen. And Tyreek is an absurd route runner. Man just goes from full speed on the vertical to breaking down and snapping the route off all like inside of a second.

It's amazing suddenness. And then I thought Teddy's best throw of the day was the shot to the to Mike Gasicki into the red zone. Mike is running an out route right at the hash to the field, the wide side of the field, and Teddy is throwing the ball to space based upon the leverage very to a like right.

That's what he does. And you see on this play like it looks like quarters to me, I'm not entirely sure if it is, but you have four defenders hanging off ten yards off the line kind of protecting the end zone there, which that's usually quarters, and Tyreek takes the wide corner to the end zone with a wicked double move and that displaces the one corner of that side of the field, and then underneath to the field, you create the under part of that pocket because of

a flat route with the defender squatting, and that creates that pocket from Mike Gasicki to run away from an inside leverage linebacker and Teddy throws it with some sauce right over that linebacker's fingers for a big completion because of a well timed, accurate ball. So there are some examples of it on the tape, it's just not as frequent as it is with QB one. And that's that's what you expect. Going from you know, top of the

depth chart to the next guy in line. I thought the first like, they're not the first real miss, but a really bad miss that really costs the Dolphins in this game was a third and seven before the missfield goals the field goal. Wattle comes open on a speed out and the ball is just way too far inside. It's pitch and catch like it is a routine on air type of throw. Wattle gets plenty of separation, balls way off the inside. I mean, that's the throw you

gotta make. And it kept going from there. That third and nine that Sherfield caught out of bounds, just a bad ball. It was high and it carried him out of bounds. He was open for a first down, and we're missing those types of throws to stay on the field, which reduces the plays you run on defense, increases the players you run on offense, increases time in possession, and

obviously can lead to more points. Just all the credit in the world though for that flip off script touchdown that he made to Raheem Moster, that's a great play. Unfortunately though, that's where things went back the other direction. First down coverage and pressure equals and in completion, second down run stuff fall start all of a sudden third and fifteen with a four point lead. We gotta play some aren't here. I got to know what we're capable

of because it's still even in the turnover department. And if you win this, if you win the turnover battle this game, or even tie, I think you win this game. Obviously you lost by two points and you were down to nothing in that category. You needed that, you know you needed to win that. And it's third and fifteen and the throw is late into a tight window. I mean, what does that result in? Kyle Dougger three times this year he stepped in front of passes for pick six

is he takes it away? And the worst part was the window was actually there. And we've seen the offense convert third and longs at the best rate in the NFL this year, right, and why because we anticipate windows opening up as well as anybody else in football. But here Sherfield is already coming off the stem breaking in.

When Teddy goes to throw, that ball has to be out before he even clears that first linebacker, that first defender, Timing, timing, timing, it's everything, and it cost us not just a first down let's play, but seven points going back the other direction. It's a killer enter Skyler Thompson. I think the best way to describe his game is the way he did. He said he felt like he settled into a rhythm at a certain point. I thought it was very shaky early in hims of timing and field. There was just

no rhythm going at that point. But once the Dolphins got late or got behind, Layton started driving. At that touchdown drive, he made some nice plays, you know, to to kind of get back into rhythm against what was

more often soft coverage. And uh, we'll need that. We'll need that same type of energy going into next week if he is in fact the quarterback but skittish early holding the football, not replacing you know, uh, not not looking guys off and replacing the ball with guys that have moved off of the manipulation that throw to sherfield on his first series that was dropped off the chest, Wattle was open to the flag behind that little kind of you know, the hitch route that kind of acts

as a smash partition smash portion of that concept. He could have manipulated that flat corner or that cloud corner and pulled him to the flat and throwing over the top to waddle just didn't manipulate at all. And that's okay, like that's expected. But these are the things you miss when you don't have your quarterback one out there. It's a major bumber. The scramble got called back because that was a great bit of playmaking for a rookie. And that's what he brings you. Right when the pocket is

compromised in two spots, he still got out. It's what he brings you. But on balance, I mean, that's how you expect, you know, player coming off the bench, seventh round rookie to look, it's just not going to be as polished as your former number five pick and a guy that's played a lot of reps within this offense and in this league and in this sport. So we go to Tyreek Hill. We talked about his route running.

The ability to erase angles is just freaking awesome. Miles Bryant had him dead to write on that touchdown catch, but he just outran him. And Surefield has a full season of great blocks, but this one might be his best. He catches the furthest man outside, but then realizes Briant has an inside track to shoot up field and get Tyreek and take a chance that you can out angle him,

which was a bad choice. But Trent gets a little chip on the shoulder pad of Brian and that gives Tyreek just the fraction of a second he needs to ensure that he beat him to the pylon. Great stuff there from those two guys. I'm curious what happened on the deep shot that mccordy dropped, because Tyreek is running past the corner and throws the mailbox up and he's open and Teddy UNCORKSI but Tyreek stops. Now the throw was way too far inside because he actually had the

pylon to Tyreek for potential touchdown, but Tyreek stopped. Throw was inside and then Accordy dropped the pick. Just some ugly football all the way around there. Waddle is also just a great route runner man. The big catching run he had in the touchdown drive, you see mccordy widen towards the pylon because Jalen runs that route like a slot fade. We've seen him run that route for success this year a couple of times. And then the minute mccordy gets with Jalen stabs that right foot into the

ground and breaks it back across the inside. The ball is perfect, and that was the moment the offense to me, looked the most like we've been used to seeing earlier in the year when they were rolling that you know, catch it and stride, keep rolling, big run after the catch, a nice play. His catch waddles on third and seven with the game still within two like in the fourth quarter, was just another example of how well rounded his game is.

Tough catch, big spots, stationary possession type of route and you see him hanging out in that pocket because the ball was late, um, but to be able to stay there and and survive a hit and elevate and make the play. I love his game. Man. Trent Sheriffeld also had a great edge seal and a nice raheem run to the perimeter the very next snap after the touchdown that he or the play that he's he blocked for Tyreek on a touchdown. Just had a really good job

in the in the running game for Trent Schriffl. Once again, speaking of blocking, there was some cool protection schemes dial up and I thought it was kind of a way to mask the fact you didn't have to Ron Armstead like one player they pulled Liam to right tackle to

double Lawrence guy off that edge. You slide Connor, you slide Rob to fill the three tech and the nose tackle to the exact same thing, but flipped it on the second and seven on the following drive, the touchdown drive where this time Rob pulls to help a slanted defensive line where the Patriots called on a backside one technique, front side three technique, and a six technique with Jude on to the wide nine all the way to the

other side. You have this big gap off the right side, and they're overloading the pressure off the one side, so they they they widen Jude's rush with misdirection and motion in that way they kind of forces him to go the long way around. Then you pull Rob off that week side where he just has to run you know, a lot of room because the way you called that motion. So you get robbed to help on the heavy side.

Just a big fan of the creativity and pass pro when you're down some dudes, most notably you know to Ron Armstead, and then there's good rotation on that Teddy scramble on the right before the fourth and one conversion where the Patriots went with the same exact look. You know, I don't know the name of that front is, I gotta find it. Basically overload three Judean why technique to

the weak side. Then they looped from the nose backer, this time around the edge, but Liam slides to run him around the ark, while Kendall Lamb took his man out of the place, slanting inside. And then you get Connor and Big Rob doubling Lawrence Guy in the middle. Then finally a conversion when I checked down past to Raheem Mostert, same look with this time, rather than looping around, just tries to split the backside a gap, but Big

Rob just puts him on the turf. Also, in these situations where it's kind of like a three car pile up or six car if you count both offense and defense, like Connor Williams balance always stands out. If he goes down, it would create a potential gap for them to run through, but he's literally absorbing contact and getting bounced around there but staying on his feet despite like Rob hunting Josh j both falling into him. It's impressive to watch. To me,

this is about the scheme. It's where there's when there's balance on the offense and the running game passing game. They can create these advantageous pass pro situations. Then on obvious passed downs I think two masks a lot of that. But then also in those situations you get some you know, gas from the positions you've had issues within the past, and you know what those are. So uh, scheme quarterback.

I made a big difference. You've been better a couple of positions, but still some of the shortcomings occur obvious passing situations from some of the usual suspects. Another point of just general offense. I just love the spacing they create, and part of that is certainly the speed of tenants seventeen, but the design too, that little swing route to Raheem where he caught and ran for nine yards in the

second quarter. Teddy throws the ball and you've got Tyreek at the forty at the numbers on one side of the field, the balls at the twenty four yard line, so sixteen yards downfield. You've got Wattle on the forty on the other number on the other side of the field. Just hit my elbow. Ouch. You've got Dirham Smith at the in the flat Raheem at the fifteen on the same side, and then Hunter Long runs a shallow cross to the other side of the field at the twenty

five yard line. You wind up with three Patriots on this play covering grass space. Has been impressive all year and a major upgrade from what we saw a year ago. Without question in that department, the design of the Wilson

end around toss was incredible. Surefield motions across the play side and bluffs like he's gonna run split flow back across the formation, and they also pulled Rob Hunt from that side to the backside, and you see the entire Patriot second level stay in tight because the fake that they give to most with all that action, it screams inside run like a counter run. Then you hit the opposite of the counter with Cedric Wilson a good seal play side on the perimeter and Jeff Wilson gets a

head of steam with Surefield leading him up. It's a nine yard first down run on the red zone. Those are huge, uh. I just put a note here about different tight ends losing at the point of attacks myth Hunter Long and I just wrote the tight end position was rough. Again to me, it's been comparable to the cornerback spot and think about the health of those two

rooms this season and how that kind of sounds. Connor Williams, I thought, had his another not one of his best games, like last week, he missed a second level seal and then Liam fall off a block at the point of attack on a pole, and that would have been a bigger game had they made those blocks, had the correct leverage and benefit of hitting on the move, and bar More just spins off and comes off that block. These last two games have just been like his poorest, but

they're not like, they're not terrible. They're certainly much worse games across the offensive line over the year, and he just got noticeable losses on these tapes that he wasn't having earlier in the year. The first sack, the one that really ended that dry before halftime was him getting beat on a pretty wicked rip and swim by Carl by Carl Davis um Liam Whift multiple times in this game. I thought Kendall lamb uh. He lost a key point of attack block on Raheem's non fumble rep that didn't

go for a fumble. Had a huge hole if Kendall land hits that block. But However, he was outstanding in pass pro manu o j kept trying to convert speed to power on him and it just wasn't working for him. Like he would kind of get that wide stance, that rush up field and try to basically take all that power or that speed into the power up into the chest. But Land would get the punch into his chest on nuch and absorbed that power and dropped the ankle and

forward it. Later on the completion to Gisiki. Before the first touchdown, he gets one on one with Anthony Jennings, whose best trip pedigree trade is the arm length, and he tries a long arm on Land. He just swats it away and gets right back into good positions. So he looked really good in past protection. How about another short yard conversion running behind big Rob Hunt, like this

is what we do man. He got great movement leading Wilson for that first down, and Connor is a good job taking out bar More's the low man in that battle. But speaking of Rob Hunt, the way he positions himself technique wise on doubles where his double partners climb is very very good man. Like you see him latch and then rework and rework and get eventually squared back up onto the block. And you notice this in the toss

play to Wilson with Ingold leading the way. It sure seems like all of our big runs come from Rob climbing up to that second level and wiping out a linebacker. We had another ten plus yard run on the drive before the half with Rob just blacking out the jersey of number eight like you see eight in blue, and then it's covered up by sixty eight and white. And once more the run before Teddy's touchdown pass another big down block turn first and goal from the six to

second and goal from the three. It's a huge difference, Uh, the rest of the offensive line. I mentioned seventy four him and seventy five. I just burned this tape. Seventy five had some decent moments, or I should say seventy four had some decent moments, but way more bad. Really rough game for seventy one as well. Uh, Skylar's first play that screen. If Shell holds that block for a second longer, that play might go out the gate. But you had some some rough outings up front on the

offensive line. How about that catch and run by most of it, by the way, have mercy catches at five yards shy of the sticks on third and six, makes a move to make one man miss at the sticks. Then off of that move he drops the shoulder into contact, runs over another defender, and then runs through another arm tackle, hits a stiff arm for a fourth broken tackle, and then the pass pro on that play really helped Teddy get to his downfield reads and to the check down nicely.

By the way, and the last note here, I think Jeff Wilson sometimes is getting a little too cute with the vertical running like or the horizontal running. I should say, like take the gaps that are there and put your shoulder down and run through it. I think it costs a few yards and critical situations in this game. So on balance, not a great not a great performance with the Dolphins offense. Some good to look at, some bad.

I think, some stuff you can carry over to when you do get QB one back, whether that's you know sooner than later, who knows, but um some good stuff for him to take a look at. I think another one of these games, we feel like if you had a full compliment of your health, you might have a chance to win it. But you don't and so you gotta find ways to win like we do. Next week, we'll do that as well on defense and see what

went wrong but went well there. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,

Segment number two on a Tuesday. The penultimate game of the regular season could be the penultimate game of the year in general, if we don't get the dub on Sunday and we go back to the previous Sunday against the Patriots and pick it up with the defense here and the first series, like you get some critical plays right away, third and five, press man cover one, Javon Hollins in the middle of the field, everybody up on the line of scrimmage, pressing there, guys, and they throw

a back shoulder hitch to Jacoby Myers, and I thought the later call were pretty obvious, but this one could have gone either way. I also thought the hole on cater Cohu on third and two on the opening drive could have been a no call. But I also get while you called it, he wrapped up Myers and there was a slight turn, but it's hard to say if

it really impacted the play. But that's part of playing that aggressive style of man coverage though, but also with that in mind, like, I know you've got a baron cupboard, but I don't know how you call that much pressed man with a guy that grabs every time they play that coverage. It's been seven all year long getting aggressive and getting flagged for it. At that first drive though, was a really good, uh snapshot of Mac Jones at

his best, some good quarterback play from him. He threw with good timing and location on several throws on that drive. I like a lot of what Eric Row does. And again, injuries put you in positions that you probably wouldn't be in otherwise. But covering Jacobi Meyers pressed up one one on a two way go with a takeoff route is just it's not really a winning formula. And then a

rough go for him early is Hunter Henry. It's on him in that same situation and puts him in the spin cycle and man coverage on the very next drive for a huge game. So you're just at these these positions where and a good job by the opposing offenses of attacking these vulnerabilities that have been created because of the injury attrition. But I don't know it just there are some other moments in the game where they played

different looks and it worked better. Now. I like the way speaking of like two phase a landing Roberts right, great and run defense guy that comes off the field for sub But I like the way he plays because he initiates contact as well as anybody, and he plays that physical style and it costs him a little bit at certain times. But I thought he had another really good game. I think it's been his best season as a Dolphin for my money, and these last two games

might be his best. To Hey, what do you know, there's kater co who get another tackle for loss on a screen pass. He had a few of those in this one. And after that rough opening series, just just kind of a side there by the way, after that rough opening series and the Patriots moving the ball on their second series a little bit, the defense like puts

their foot in the ground and finds the rhythm. On one plays a four man pass rush and it started with Wilkins on a picks done and he absolutely blast cold strange their left guard who's working against ray Kwon Davis, and it knocks him over a full gap. And this not only creates a free run for ray Kuon but also for Christian and they converge on the quarterback as Phillips does as well, who wins his rep to join the party on this look, you're soft and off nice

shell to take away the quick options for Jones. This is the most effective way to like win on defense with regularity, right, But obviously Easiert had than done is the fore man rush getting home. But I liked the way the fore man rush with some of those you know, softer zone coverages to take away Max early reads with Javon Holland buzzing certain spots. And that's where the verticals came from, was they didn't really play Javon deep and

McKinley did a couple of times, and not really. They would kind of buzz the crossing route and try to take away the short stuff for mac Jones, and he was able to get enough of those deep shots with either d p I s or connections, and those were kind of the difference in the game for the Patriots

on the two scoring drives. Speaking of Eric Rowe earlier, his tackle on the second nineteen run was so clutch, and then the very next play third and short landon Roberts comes right back with another play just completely disregards the back on a blitz against play action and that alone ruins the play. And the best case for the Patriots there is throw it away, get back to forth and inches probably go for it, but nope, he gets in there and gets the sack to end the possession.

What a great play and a great job by Seiler also to help him stay with it and finish it off there. Ray Kwon Davis, you know, he does a lot of like holding the point of attack and creating chances for the linebackers to make tackles, but you rarely see him come off the block when he has a chance to disengage and do so. And to me it really stands out next to ninety two who are so

consistent with that. Jilean Phillips is a really nice job when team trying to take care of him with the design of the run or a combination of a receiver or tied end on a chip or block. And he does this by you know, they run the ball away from him by staying flat. And what I mean by that is up close to the line scrimage, there's no openings or gaps or leaks and then sprinting in not like a good run, a sprint to eliminate that bend back b gap where he jumps over a lane and

takes it away. And if you want to bend back and then kick out around Phillips and bubble wide, than the rest of the cavalry is gonna get there. So it's really good effort place he makes to get himself involved. A huge fan of how he deals with those types of runs. We get another stop on second and third and long and two man press look too high? Safety is good coverage underneath this rupt the timing Wilkins went on his pass rush man this defense. Without Christian Wilkins

this year, where would they be? He's been so so clutch. Second down play, opening drive of the second half, Cater goes outside of a Myers block on a swing route and it forces the ball carrier to bubble and that's all Christian Wilkins needs to chase it down. There's your teach tape for both guys right there. Say what you want about. You know, Bradley Chubbs production this year, but his presence was missing this game that that that side of the offensive line really locked down the Dolphins pass

rushed from most of the game. Keion Crossing had a good rep I think his best one when they tested him deep on third and seven where he stayed in phase without safety help and press man coverage, mirrored the release and ran with Myers in the vertical. Big ask, big execution there. And then I just put a note in here, like mac Jones, I talked about the first quarter, and he was good in the fourth quarter as well.

He missed so many throws in the second and third quarter, and I thought that kind of kept Miami alive in some situations wherever some yards should be had by the Patriots offense. Javon Holland continuously puts himself in position to defend multiple routes, like it's fun to watch him deal with Crossers and pass one guy off and go to the next. He's constantly defending a lot of field that doesn't allow with him a lot of chances of takeaways as teams kind of basically just throw the ball away

from where he is. Why wouldn't you at this point, But man, he pops each week on the All twenty two. And that said, I do think he busted that third and five completion to Taekewan Thornton up the seam. He goes and caps a route that was actually really well

covered by crossing. It's two by two, so he has his choice, and I'm not sure his rules here exactly, but he vacates a spot where Baker is carrying Thornton up the scene, and to me, it would seem logic would say you you take the backer passing off receiver opposed to helping another cornerback on a receiver on the

other side. The first play after our go at head touchdown, you see Wilkins make one of the best players he's made this game, head up over the right tackle and he reads him widening, which kind of a cue to go inside right, so he slants across the face of the guard and makes a play on the run away from him. He is a tremendous, tremendous football player. And you can look back at a huge chunk of our run stuffs this season, and a lot of times it's

number nine making a great play. Another screen passed, another cater stack up at the point of attack, Another hustle play from the front, this time Phillips free traces it to get down throwing screens tocater Co. Who's a bad idea. The Patriots checked down on third and twelve right before the Folk field goal to make it fourteen ten, and Mac couldn't get to an open Myers because of a pressure that Van Ginkl had working against the left tackle.

He also got pressure from Phillips condensed inside flop flipped to the other side of the formation working against left guard. That's a big time pass rush way. They're an example of the pass rush impacting the game without getting the sack, without the rep that Noah Ignogamy had on takeoff ers. Tae Kwon Thornton was one of the best that he's had as a Miami Dolphin. We brought the house and

trusted him on their fastest player. And yes the ball was short, but you see him do everything right on the throw inside hand jam opens the hips, stays in phase where vertical gets a hand on Myers as the ball or rather Thornton as the ball is in flight, and looks back and tracks the football. Great rep there, and that's the type of coverage I think you can really trust him in. I don't you know, just go

play your man, don't think about it. Then we get to the drive backed up to the minus eleven yard line, trailing by two points. In the fourth quarter, we overrun a screen that gets them ten yards. Wilkins swats a ball and then a five yard swing past creates third and five where a misstackle could have made a third and eight. But then they get you with the big play on third down once again. Switch release on stacks and bunches all game long, and we're just a beat

late to react. You see crossing an eigbow, take a beat to see who's got what, and Mac takes advantage with an anticipation throw down the field right on the bucket for a massive conversion in a big game. Then we lose a gap in the run game eight yard rush. It was a land the Roberts that missed it. Uh sneak moves the chains, then a four yard gain, then

the run stuff by creates third and six. Then you get the crossing dp I cover zero and it was over from the start because Myers releases at the line in a way that puts Crossing, you know, at a big disadvantage. We had to make up ground. And then the under thrown ball was the best thing that could have happened because him trying to make up ground and running full speed like he was always gonna tackle the

guy before the ball got there. So good on them for putting you know, us in that position, but also us for putting ourselves in that position. And then the touchdown to Myers, nobody covers him until Duke realizes it late. We'll hear from head coach Michael Daniel on that. In just a moment. I wanted to mention how big time that sack was by Seiler on the fourth down on the next possession, and we got ourselves into a spot where an on side possibly saves it but cannot get

the football. Another very frustrating table. Let's go ahead and get to the stats here real quick. Uh, Teddy Bridgewater twenty plus yard throws one of three for nineteen yards.

How does that work? I guess Tyreek coming back to the football, Uh ten for ten of nineteen yard throws, intermediate three for six fifty two yards and a pick when blitzed, two for four forty two when pressured three for five for thirty six yards and a touchdown, and the average depth of target was ten point seven yards, has time to throw was three point oh six seconds and that's a big difference what you see from two a man that the AI dot is on pace with

the time to throw, it's like a half second longer for Skylar twenty plus yard throws oh for one ten to nineteen yard range, four for five for fifty six yards and a touchdown when he was blitzed one for one for four yards. When he was pressured six for ten for fifty one yards. Now his A dot drops to six. And that's I mean. We talked about the tape, right, like trusting the reads down the field and all that

fun stuff. His time to throw us three point five four seconds holding the football, not trusting your eyes as much, and that's understandable, man Like reps are what they are. Tyreek had seven targets, four grabs, sixty two yards. That's one point three four yards per target. That's seven point eight six yards per route ran. Seven point eight six

yards per target. And remember his yards per route ran is three point three two this year, so he is almost two full yards under his season average, which, by the way, two yards in that category is very good. He's way over that. Him and Waddle both top five this year in that stat and they both were way below their league out their season average. Because Waddles was one point three three, his average is two point six six, So like half of production when you change the quarterback.

It's funny how that works. For four targets, three grabs, fifty two yards one point three three yards per oute ran twelve point seven five yards per target um. Again that the y pr R YPPR was a big difference there, and it's indicative of the quarterback play running backs where heem caught all eight of his targets for sixty two yards and the touchdown three point six five yards per out ran and he averaged two point five yards after

contact on average. Wilson had thirty one yards through the air, he caught three for six and forced the only mistackle of the day. For the running game, we need more of that from these guys. And then uh he averaged one point seven five yards after contact. Pressures allowed little four on thirty two pass blocking snaps. Lamb had zero on fifteen, Eikenberg had seven, Williams had two, Hunt had three,

Shell had four. And these are a little bit miss leading because look at the time to throw stats and how much different that is than our season average. The twenty pressures were that were allowed, were the most since Week six that was twenty two against the Vikings. In fact, the only times we were in double digits since that Week six game was the San Francisco game that was

eleven and the Hughes And game that was seventeen. But also, how many of those snaps in the Houston game with the second half when two of didn't play thirteen of the pressures? In fact, how about this pressures per game and removing the Bengals game because I'd have to go back and watch the whole thing tallied up. So sand's the Bengals game with two hundred one pressures divided by eleven and a half games is eight point eight pressures

per game. And the three and a half games without the Jets, the Vikings, the Patriots in the second half of the Houston game forty seven pressures divided by three and a half games thirteen point four pressures, so uh, five pressures more per game without two in the lineup. On defense, ra Kuan had three pressures, Seiler and Wilkins had two. McKinley, Phillips, Gink and e rob All had

one apiece. A Landing had six run stops Seiler, Phillips, Wilkins and Baker had three cohu and ray Kuan had two uh coverage snaps and yards and penalties cater thirty eight snaps thirty nine yards. Great game. They're one penalty crossing thirty eight for seventeen but the two penalties obviously loom large row got beat badly in this game. And coverage thirty seven coverage snaps fifty nine yards from the state, the spots tough haul and thirty igbo twentive snaps seven

yards allowed. And I want to end on this. It seems like if it seems like each time we had a chance to get the ball back in the fourth quarter and go win the game. Yeah, now give them credit for stops against Pittsburgh, Detroy, Chicago, Baltimore and Buffalo, no doubt, but this will hurt you as much as it did me to look up. So here's the drive length down by one score, fourth quarter, Bengals fifty five yards game over, Jets fifty six yards game over essentially

Vikings fifty nine yards. That was the closest one, but we didn't get that victory back nine years go thirty four yards to kick a field goal to go up by two scores. The Chargers go seventy nine yards to go up two scores, the Bills eighty six, Patriots go

eighty nine yards to go up by two scores. Tough way to make a living there to win games tight when you're giving up these long consuming drives late in the game like that, Let's go ahead and take our second break and come back on the other side and do snap counts and Mike McDaniel Monday press conference commentary. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, Tuesday Drive Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and take a look at the snap counts from

the penultimate game. You had four offensive lineman go wire to wire, seventy one snaps for shell, Hunt, Williams, and Eikenberg. Of course, we talked about Greg Little playing thirty nine snaps and Kendall Lamb playing thirty two, and Little was out there for way more pass pro reps. So you kind of get the sense there as to why there was so many pressures with him and without him. Receivers Hill played a two percent, Waddle played seventy six percent.

Sherfield played fifty nine percent, and then Craigcraft gave you seventeen snaps, with Cedric Wilson giving you eleven snaps. At tight end, Smith led the way with fifty nine percent of the workload. Gau Sick he had a bigger workload this week. Hunter Long gave you twelve snaps as well.

Um alec Ingle gave you eleven. At fullback, Wilson had sixty percent of the running back workload and most are had of the running back workload, so they seem to kind of favor Wilson when he's out there on defense. Crossing and Cohu both only missed one snap. Javon Holland missed just three snaps despite the injury. Wilkinson se there gave you again. Phillips gave you eighty eight percent. Those guys are crazy man, and then Rake Kwan Davis gave you sixty eight percent on the nose, and also John

Jenkins gave you twenty percent also on the nose. Then Jay Bronson, I didn't as a practice squad call up for eight percent of the workload there at the linebacker position, Baker played a two percent, Roberts played sixty eight percent. Van Ginkle gave you sixty three percent, with Ingram forty seven percent. I think I skipped Phillips there at eight percent. He's always out there. Eric Rowe played fifty two snaps. That was a lot, pretty high number for him in

recent weeks, eighty seven percent of the workload. And then Igna gave you thirty snaps at cornerback too, so pretty well spread across the board. McKinley just ten snaps a row, kind of out wrapped him in this game. Elijah Campbell seven, Duke Raley five, and Clayton Federlin had one out there. Let's go ahead and go to Mike McDaniel here, but first we'll tell you that he said that the Dolphins are preparing as if Skyler and Teddy could potentially Bill

start the game to us. Status is not something we're thinking about right now. He remains in the concussion protocol, obviously. He also talked a little bit about the potential of signing a quarterback this week. We'll we'll hear more about that as a week goes along. He mentioned Teddy Bridgewater has a dislocated pinky, not a broken pinky. Um he was talking about potentially coming back into the game, but decided not to because it was a third and ten

when he was thinking about coming back in. That was too precarious of a situation, Coach said, And they wrote it out with Skyler. UM, let's see you talked about the potential for the other guys getting back out there. I said, probably won't see Kendall land this week. The other guys were pretty short, came up just short on game time decisions. Let's go ahead and go back to

Mike here. Talking about Skylar, Thompson said, laying into the game once the game got rolling a little bit, I think that he got into the rhythm and timing, UM, which is much of his game. UH. And you know that's you're always gonna it's always gonna take you a minute, UM when you get in there, UM considering the UH. More often than not, UM. All the live available reps that you're able to take with your offensive unit that week are eaten up by the UH. UM the starter.

So I thought he started to find himself a little bit. UM. You know you can you can always tell with him UM early if things are getting out in rhythm, because he's such a rhythm player, you know that he'll sometimes have to progress the number three or four, Um, depending on the coverage and the play call, but generally, um, he gets the ball out pretty quick. So UM, there was a couple of times I thought earlier that he

would have made he would have made throws later. Um. Those throws that he missed earlier, he didn't throw, didn't attempt, he would have made later in the game. I thought he got better as the game progress, for sure. Let's finish up here because it's a very long press conference and you guys can go to YouTube and check out the entirety of it. A lot of injury talk, a lot of to a talk as well. Go check it

out on the team YouTube channel. Also discussing the uh the ideal scenario for a starting quarterback being named earlier in the week, but you know, it's it's up in the air at this point. Like he about, let's finish up here. They're talking about how do you get your mind right in six days for the biggest game of the year and a chance to still get into the playoffs with the win over the Jets. Ballistically, Um, what

what is reality? Reality? You know, we feel a certain way, we've we've like you said, one three lost three one five lost five. Um. If that if we got to the same spot in a different order, if we would have lost lost three one three lost five one five, would we be feeling different? I think the bottom line is that exercise lends you to the that however you get there. UM. Your your choice in the NFL season

is to have stuff um work for you or against you. Uh. And we have one game against the Jets, and UM, I don't really look at uh, well we should have cut or whatever. This this is our our journey and the all all my messages to really the team and everyone in general is so we're we're playing the Jets this weekend. UM. Yeah, We've we've had key players make um mistakes and crucial situations, specifically the the last three weeks, UM, where we've had the lead late into the third quarter

at least and lost him. What does that mean for this week? It means absolutely nothing unless you let it. You can. UM. You know, there will never be a season that is void of emotional roller coasters. There's too much investment, there's um too much parody. UH. And you know the fact of the matter is it's too scrutinized because it's too successful of a sport, so you're going to get UM knee jr knee jerk reactions either way.

Might as well get used to it. UM. And And you know I I I think that UM running away from reality doesn't do anybody service. It's been a tough, tough five consecutive weeks, UM for sure, UM. Unless that's gonna get us some Asterix points against the Jets, why even pay mind to it? Why even think about how

hard it's been. You have a week with your teammates to prepare to play in an NFL game UM on Sunday, and if you win that game, certain you know you can you can possibly be afforded an opportunity to play another game. But regardlessly, even if all those implications are our guys just need to UM find a way to come together and win a football game and not UM not set ourselves up uh to win win it and then have critical mistakes down there UM certain fourth quarters.

So that's what I'm really focused on. I think that's what we're very capable of doing. UM. And it's a it's a challenge that UM. You know, I truly believe that the locker room and and the coaching staff is up for all right, I think that's more than enough time spent on that game. Let's go ahead and call the podcast. We'll be back tomorrow for the Wednesday midweek show than Thursday preview show. Will have Antoine daily on

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