Week 18 Film Room: Dolphins vs Jets

your pulse if what is up? Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime 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 show, we're we'reviewing the regular seaton finale by the numbers and by the tape. Plus we'll hear 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 Drive keep it off first with the offense and the all twenty two review. That's a wrap on the regular season from my tape watching eight teen game tapes in the HAAPA will definitely be using that this offseason to go back and look at some stuff, but starting off at the quarterback position as we do, and look like it's just obvious when you put the tape on that you're seeing a rookie quarterback kind of learning the

you know, the grooves of the NFL. There's not very much manipulation or moving defenders stuff like that. The throw of Tyreek that was tipped and nearly picked on the deflection on that opening drive, that's a throw we've seen executed all year long, but his eyes took that hook backer right into the passing lane and nearly equal disaster

for Miami. And that fourth down to open the game was also a miss where you have Tyreek running a hook up, which is just go to the sticks and hook or well not the sticks, but go to the hooks on the linebacker's shell drop and show the quarterback your numbers and he runs it right to the sticks, to the side of the formation that has fewer Jets defenders and the boundary despite the fact that it was the strong side of the formation for the offense, and

that's where your progression should start. On that pressure arrives, ball's got to come out because it's not a situation where it's like a tough read for the offense. You know, just based upon my knowledge of of what I see here, it's the best wide receiver in the league at the three in the furthest inside receiver to that strong side with Tampa two coverage and a free release, so you have a middle linebacker running out deep safeties off the

football and nobody pressing up. Tyreek runs to a vacancy shows the quarterback is numbers and it's It's the exact same play the Lions put the game away against the Packers on Sunday night, the one that I think it was almandros st Brown just run to the vacancy golf found him boom, first down, game over, exact same look. That's where the progression starts in every offense. These are the fine details that ultimately cost you plays, drives, and points off the score board at the end of the day.

I thought the first nice throw or nice play of the game was the third down conversion on the second drive. He did a good job to extend and eventually find Tyreek on a difficult throw and that was a big spot. And more on that just a moment. Now that said Tyreek was again open on the pivot straight away, and this is why it's difficult to put together sustained drives on offense. We're not anticipating open windows are opening vertically down the field, and we're not on time on what

should be layups. Just a tough way to make a living when you don't have that as part of your offense. Like the defense, it's the idea of taking with the defense gives you. If you're gonna take what they give you and you're not explosive down the field, you're gonna have days where you score nine points offensively and kick

a bunch of field goals. His best throw of the day, for my money, was the wheel route to Durham Smith early on in the game, and it was awesome spacing on a play that looked like it was quarters coverage to me with the three man shell underneath and rushing

just four. I can't know that for sure, but waddles flag his corner route, brings Sauce Gardner off the perimeter, and then a flat from Jeff Wilson Jr. Pulls the curl flat defender down and that opens up the space of the wheel for Durham Smyth and Skyler had immense pressure in his face, had to throw from a fade away position and put the ball not just away from the defender and away from danger, but right where Durham could go up and get it to me. That was

the best play of his NFL career so far. The miscommunication on the snap that ruined the drive seemed like just that Skyler making a check where he has both hands up to the helmet and Connor Williams fires off a snap that just was had too much pepper on it and was high and wide. But a great job by Skyler. I thought to fall on that ball because if he does not, might have been a touchdown for the Jets going the other way. Miami, you could not

afford that in this game. I really liked the third and four conversion throwing on the move to Wattle on that out slash comeback. Good job getting outside of of inside pressure the right The end off the offense is right side slanted across the face of Brandon Shell and beat him pretty good. But he throws an accurate ball on the move here to move the chains in a

big play. Again, just going back to this, lots of late stuff the out route to river Cracraft was way too late, uh in the third quarter or was it it was third quarter? The next drive in the fourth quarter, nine thirty six to play, it's a third down and eight and man Tyreek rants right past the coverage, which bust because you see a man follow him in motion

from one side of the formation to the other. And then he didn't run with him, which the Jets defenders were surprised by because nobody else did until it was kind of late for Gardener to get deep on him. And he's he's two yards beyond Gardner and throw that ball as far as you can and let Tyreek go get it on the first play of the eventual game

winning drive. As well, in another situation, Wattle wide open a deep out for a big game and Tyreek's open fifteen yards down the field on a curl coming back down the stems. So there's just too much of that. But all things told, I think the appreciation for Skylar was him not making the backbreaking mistake, Like we have to understand what you expectations should be for players, and great him against that expectation. He dealt with a lot of pressure from the Jets. He extended and made just

enough ace to get us into the Winter circle. That's what you asked for. I suppose when you're down QB one and when we've gone two and eight in the ten games without two of the last two years, I mean, I think you have to kind of appreciate the two wins you do get well. I guess last year against the Texans, the five turnovers was not really notable, but this one no turnovers and that was kind of the difference in the game. Big job for Scotlart Thompson, and he executed as much as he had to on the

offensive line. I continue to marvel at the job that Rob Hunt does and the way he plays so in control and because he's so aggressive and you know it just gets some of his best blocks, the big hit blocks you'll see across the National Football League. The way he does that but stays on balance with knees over hips, hips over knees, shoulders over hips and just finds a way to work into the strike zone. You know, the

chest plate of his man. It's impressive. He's patient enough to let a slanting rusher across his face and just make sure that his feet get there before his punch and allows him to thwart these moves in a way that looks totally effortless. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I've watched everything will snap from every single guard to give you a full you know, power rankings on this, but I know what good football looks like.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find many guards with a better body of work the number sixty eight this season a great year. Just go watch Jeff Wilson's big run on that third and inches call my man buries his dude and opens up a massive crease. Also got good seals from shell Smith and Long on the other side of the block to open that lane. But just was consistently making plays of this all game. Long second level blocks there again pulling some action at right tackle.

Like his second play at right tackle, he gets a pancake to seal the edge with great blocks from right guard Rob Jones and center Connor Williams as well to spring Wilson for sixty yards. He also got a great downfield block again from River Cracraft. But Hunt playing both those positions I think was so impressive. His right guard work is is a lot more impressive than right tackle,

but he was you know, adequate at right tackle. I thought, uh leam Eichenberg had some good work early in the running game, especially connecting on those first level catching client plays where he helps um you know, either the left tackle or center you know, engage the band that he

originally catches and climbs from. But gosh, there was some some rough reps in pass Pro, like forward lean punch fully extended out over his skis, where from that point it's just swiped the hands away and throw him off balance.

It's little resistance on one on one situations, and that's a spot you can't afford to lose that quickly, and that badly against because you know, guards and centers always surrender far fewer pressures than offensive tackles due by nature of the position and the space you have to defend. But this is a type of rep that you just can't have. Like it's a it's a play ender, it's

a drive ender. It's a potential turnover type of situation, and we see it often the deep shot from Skylar to smythe you know run action where the left guard pulls to pick up the front side edge and he just stops short of that landmark. You could have gotten that block, but we didn't get it, so it just needs to be more there. And also, you know, left tackle and right tackle were not the best tapes either. Um Brandon Shell, I thought before the injury was one

of his rougher tapes. And he had three tapes to me that we're not great this year the two Jets games in the Vikings game. Otherwise, pretty solid effort from Brandon Shell. But hopefully he can get back and healthy for the game next Sunday. But this was not one of his better games on the offensive line. I thought cornor Williams is better in this game, had some pressures on in past probe I had some really big blocks

in the running game. And speaking of the running game, the running backs will cover this in the stats portion, but man, we needed every one of those yards. Man, they were so imperative in this game, especially the ones

after contact. I mean, even when they weren't breaking tackles, they were shifty and powerful enough to keep defenders out of their you know, figurative strike zone so they could spin off or forward lean to get the extra yard or two or three the second possession, second play, Jeff Wilson is dead to rights at the line of scrimmage, but he gets three extra yards just fighting through the tackle. It goes from third and seven to third and four and we get a conversion of Tyreke on the very

next place. So going from punting out of our own end zone to a first down at your own twenty four. The fine margins like that that gonna win games like this for you so important, and we got a bunch of them like that in this game. And then the seven yard run from Savan akhman I would argue the best blocks we've seen all year from two guys during a Smith and Rob Jones. You get split flow from smythe and he wipes out the edge and watch the tape. He gets up pumped up, fist pumping after the play.

And then Rob Jones pulls in and squares up the force defender and really gave Savan all the room he had to work with. Just a little bit longer held on the block by Eikenberg and Savan could have popped that one for a bigger game, but either way put him in range for a field goal. At receiver, you know, Tyreek had his catches early in the game. Two of them were big ones too. On the first couple of drives.

The route on the second grab was was premier player stuff because he actually opens up on his original route but doesn't quit on the play as Skyler scrambles and it's kind of a fire drill at that point. And what does he do? What does he do besides follow his quarterback to the sideline and as the Jets corner follows him there, he then keeps going, turns up field and it puts the defenders back to the quarterback and Skylar sticks it right on Tyreek. So great scrambled rill

all along and a quick sidebar. Tyreek's blocking downfield and smythe on the Jet sweep to waddle to start the second half was absolutely awesome the keys of the play. I also thought the defensive past interference on the third down shot into the end zone where he was picked up by a linebacker or rather should have been d p I. It was close, but he ran through the

catchpoint and didn't find the football. Linebacker did and I note that because it was a good job by Tyreek coming back to the football, but he didn't get the call and surprised there was wasn't more laundry that Jets played pretty aggressive and grab a lot, but they didn't seem to call it very often, although it happened a

lot in this game. And waddle Man there's a play on third and eight where he sells uh dj read on the takeoff and then breaks it back out of the to the deep out and angles back to the quarterback. It's a really impressive route with the ball winds up going elsewhere, and that was kind of the story of this game. I thought waddle and Tyreek were open a few times and didn't get the next didn't get the targets.

On the very next possession, he turns Sauce Gardener around on another brilliant route man safety help to the boundary where I sent this clip to O J. And he's like, that ball that that corner had no idea the ball was coming there, because based upon the priest nap alignment and the coverage, that ball should have not gone there.

And uh so he turns around Gardner with safety help to the boundary where he's lined up, and it allows Gardner to play trail technique, and trying to run routes back to the quarterback on trail technique is about the hardest thing. The receiver can do. You have to convince him that you're going vertical and get him to flip his hips and start getting vertical himself, which Jalen does with you know, an inside release against outside leverage, which

is also tough. But you immediately see him close distance, like lean into Gardener because it's easier to create separation when there's a shorter distance between you and your man because he has to wait longer to react because you're so close to him, and he just leans into him and breaks off the route that way. Just the way his his knowledge of leverage and spacing continues to get

better was on display on that play. Then he fights through contact and it's a hold if you ask me again, no flag, and then angles his route back to Skyler and makes a huge catch on third down to set the Dolphins up in the red zone. Then on the game winning drive that catch to come back to the football and make the snag at some traffic going to the ground and stay beyond the sticks. What a player, man,

Jelen Waddle is some kind of player. Thought Gaski's uh strength of his hands and contested catchability on the thirty two yard play was such a big difference in this game for field position, you see Skyler's arm get hit and Mike is Johnny on the spot. Ball goes right to him, but they catch through contact. Was most impressive if that had pass breakup written all over it. But good strong hands there from a D eight Eric Azokama.

Jeff Wilson has an eleven yard run on a stretch play in the first quarter and easy hit the block and stayed on it all the way down the field. You saw good blocks from receivers all game long here, which is usually the case when you run for more than a buck fifty. Speaking of blocking on the perimeter, Surefield does it every single week. That little short motion return motion to crackback on crack toss for Wilson coming around the edge for a game of five on second

and six. It was the key block there, and he has so many plays where he is the key baller

town the field just in general. Wanted to mention the second field goal drive the opening of the second half and how I thought the designs in the running game in addition to all the blocking did a good job to kind of fool the Jets front and take advantage of their aggressiveness with some whams and some inviting guys up the field and using some reverse action, some end around, some you know going after the edges, which was a big focus for us on the game preview, and Miami

got a bunch of yards in that area. And then just also the common themes on some chunk runs. It's Rob Hunt blowing up defenders. It's Connor Williams heading tough reach blocks where he has to you know, beat pre snap leverage that's not in his favor and holding those blocks long enough for he most at, refusing to go down, and then key blocks at the point of attack by alec Ingold. There's obviously other factors where those are pretty

regular occurrences on the big runs. On the fourth down and five run play conversion a huge one in this game. What a play that was. First, Surefield coming from the field to the boundary and motion. Miami had five to block five to that week's side, and that's what you got. Craycraft successful, cra seal Williams another clutch reach block to seal the one shade on his outside shoulder. Rob Hunt

wipes out a linebacker completely out of the play. Surefield holds his block down the field and brand Shell goes out and makes just enough of a block to give Wilson that lane that he hit at top gear and didn't slow down to move the sticks. A great call, great execution, a first down. That was a massive shift in the game. In fact, my Yahoo Sports app in terms of win probability Miami's went from fifty percent to sixty percent after that play. Huge, huge moment and they executed.

And just a few plays later on the reverse toss to Raheem again, Sherfield Craigcraft Williams with a convoy taking out all three jets on the perimeter and a chance to make a play, and then Raheem finishes the run for a big time you know trip into the red zone and eventual field goal there. So the offense, you know, running game was was fun to watch. Passing game was a bit of a slog fest. But we'll see what

they have next week. Let's go ahead and take our first break and come back on the other side and to the defensive film review. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by do Nation. Back here on a Tuesday wild Card round weekend coming up, Let's go ahead and talk about Week eighteen. One last time though, and get to the defensive film breakdown here, And I really enjoyed watching this front all year long.

The run defense has been so good. Twenty carries thirty eight yards for the Jets in this game, and it usually looks like this front side stacks it up and holds the point and someone backside wins with quickness and pursues it and chases it down from the backside to make the play. And it happened consistently on Sunday. Christian Wilkins has made both of these plays a million times. Zack Seiler involved in that as well, the entire edge, Ray Kawan, John Jenkins, they all have a part in

making these plays. And I think the past rush has been really good too. I just hope we get a chance to see the same line up up front next year with a healthier or improved cornerback room, whatever the case may be, the path to improving the coverage on

the back end. I want to see this pass rush have a chance in this run game, have a chance to be paired with really good coverage on the back end, because I think you could get something special, and I think that's the key to sparking more turnovers like we had the last couple of years. Good coverage, good play upfront. That's how you create splash plays. We've got one part

of that really downpat. If we can get healthier or improved next year, maybe we get a return of that with the offense playing like it can and then gosh, the the the roof is the ceiling, as they say. Let's talk about Zach Seiler a play where he's a three technique with a hesitation step and shuffle crossover step

upfield where he fakes out the left guard. He just has a bunch of different clubs in the bag to get immediate wins like he has right here, and he faked the left guard all the way out to get that. That lane opened up for an early stuff along with Eric Rowe, who just continues to make plays in the running games, scraping and tight to the formation to pair up for a tackle for loss on the Jets first

field goal. Seiler had a pass rush on third down the red zone where he literally got there the moment flackle hold it back off of play action off the mesh point, but somehow still got the pass out and completed it. I don't know how he does this. He had a few of these throws in this game, and like that scrambled player where he threw it getting tackled in the end zone, the ball comes out of his hand and like it like changes the trajectory midflight. Just

go back and watch it. Like the way a Flacco was throwing those balls from those pressure situations was kind of unlike anything I've seen. And he has a definitely unique arm talent. His entire career, he's had that, but you saw in this game to kind of mitigate some potential big splash pressure on the Dolphins defense, and the fact that he completed them not just got rid of him was frustrating. Seiler, by my account, had four immediate wins in the first half, two against the run, two

against the past. Big time player. Speaking of big time players, let's talk about Jayalen Phillips is a game seven pressures, four quarterback hits. His first hit is the Jets first possession, the second third down of that possession, and he just walks the right tackle right into Joe Flacco's lap and actually has a hit on Flacco before the football even

comes out. It's caused a total miss from the quarterback, which is awesome, but I still don't understand how he didn't get a force fumble in the game, because Flacco not turning it over against that unrelenting pressure was absolutely wild. It happened all game long, and Wilkins got a piece of that ball on the deflection as well. Back to Phillips though. The next big shot was late second quarter.

He blasts Flacco on a third down completion where the back broke a tackle to make the sticks, but Phillips chucks the tight end and then you see the acceleration as he closes to the quarterback. Man. He's been good all year. You see that acceleration we mentioned on the tackle for loss against the run on the Jets opening drive of the second half as well, like beat your man and then angle in close flatten with a full sprint to beat the back to his aiming point. It

happened time and time again. His best chance for a sack was thwarted by the holding call that he caused because he crosses left tackle's face without anybody there had picked him up a free run down the b gap on the quarterback. It was the play that we challenged and lost. He was clean to Flacco and the left tackle ganked him down. To me, that's as good as a sack ten a loss, even though you don't get the loss of down, but ten yards is a big deal.

The tackle for loss he had at the start of the fourth quarter just got off the snap faster than everybody else and met the running back and smacked him for a huge TfL at that point in the red zone. Christian Wilkins, you know, got a couple of tip passes in this game, had to run stuffs early. He just continues to make plays. Man, he is so dang good, and the way he beats these tackles and guards with quickness never ceases to amaze me. He's truly a scheme

transcendent player. Doesn't really matter what you ask him to do, he can do it. The first play second half, Wilkins lets the right tackle kind of condense him into the wash, and then once he sees the running back folded back, he just discards the man and makes the play. That happened time and time and time again. Ne only got

that forced fumble there late in the game. They fell back onto but he just makes these plays where he knips in and meets the running back where they're not expecting it en route to tackles this year the most by defensive tackle s ray Kuan made a couple, or any defensive lineman rather, ray Kuan Davis made a couple of big plays in the running game in the second quarter. One a toss play or the back tried to bend it back, but Rae Kwon broke down in the gap

and made the play. Same with John Jenkins. He just got off blocks and was a really nice pursuing, you know, tackler. I thought in this game, I thought Jerome Baker beat blocks as well as he has all year. In this one He's really played his best football down the stretch. That coverage on the wheel route to Conklin was just choice man, no panic, stayed in phase, didn't interfere. Perfect. Also, the challenge we won was him and Phillips beating the

back and right tackle straight away. Without that pressure, Flacco probably could have stepped into that throw and made it, but because of Bacon Phillips winning immediately, I don't think he could. I just think Van Ginkl is as consistent as they come. He plays the same game like every week.

It feels like at least that's a solid do your job effort set, strong edges, find routes not grass when you're falling into coverage, take advantage when they put a tighten on you, and pass rush game just solid all the way around. Alandon Roberts made that huge play on the screen at the end of the half just by recognizing screen action and and just anticipating the route of the running back. Big time play with the preparation meets his tenacity. He did get put on his butt on

one play though by um uh. The other tight end Jeremy Rucker. In this game, Melvin Ingram just appreciation for him. He speeds up the clock on critical downs and those past rush situations for quarterbacks every single week. I also want to talk about kater Cohu and his hips, which is the best part of his game from my money. The way he transitions from squared up to cross overstep to contend with quick turns like slants for instance, is

so impressive. Second play of the game, you see him on the balls of his feet jam, recognize the route, flip the hips, stay on that upfield shoulder to reach around the front and contest for an incompletion. And that wasn't the end of it for him. This dude draws their best receiver in Garrett Wilson, and I slot fade with no safety help. I'm not sure there's a tougher route to cover in football. And by the way, Xavian gets a legendary jam on Corey Davis in this play

as well. There's not much to break down for Kater just stays in phase and plays the man without panic when the ball comes into the air and makes a play on the ball for an incomplete pass. Next drive, they run a rub for a little square and route to Corey Davis and Cater plays through the pick and

again comes underneath for a pass breakup. What a game for him, and of course the open field tackle on that third down before the game winning drive as well, he did get hit within their flag for defensive pass interference. I thought I was unnecessary. That's the next phase in his development. Don't pack so much when you think you're beat down the field. That stick by key on crossing to cut the Jets short of a first down was

excellent recognition. You see him start covering the two from a bunch set, passes it off immediately and fires out of his back pedal to close on the hook up and make a tackle short of the sticks. Maybe I like him more in his own coverage, smart football, good execution. Javon Holland's ability to get either vertical or vertical to either side like field or boundary from his cover one post position is crazy. The reaction and pair with closing speed is rare, rare stuff. Also his pass rush a

rare one as well. This season. Uh, he got a hand on that ball and save potentially a pretty big play there. I think rose insertion into the run fit every single week stands out. What a tough dude. He gets in there and makes plays every single week. Thought X had a really rough game that for play man like Wilson sold him a bill of goods and the takeoff and was just way too easy coming back on the stem. You had cater and crossing in good shape, but X was not in good position. And I don't

get it. With that five man rush against a team that has really minimal vertical game and an offensive line full of backups, I feel like the idea is make them beat you deep. I don't know, but the transitions at the top of the routes looked awfully slow all game long alongside Garrett Wilson. Now, the rep against Wilson that he caught but then dropped was really good work by X there inside hand. Jam kept that hand there to kind of fuel the receiver as you locate the football,

play it rake it out in complete pass. As far as the defense, there are just too many instances for me of guys coming on rushes that don't make an impact. They hit Corey Davis for a nice catching run to the beginning of the the second quarter, and Jerome Baker comes on delayed blitz where he never had a chance to do anything, like he's just wasting a position like ten guys out there. If he just bluffs that rush and falls back into the hook zone, maybe he can impact

the play. But I don't know. I just as something that stands out kind of weakly here on the tape. Let's get to the stats real quick before we go to the third segment here from Mike mcdan nal. We're gonna do end of regular season stats from PF next Gen and all the stuff we normally cover here that will be on tomorrow show. For now, let's go ahead and focus on the Jets game. Independently Skylert Thompson twenty plus yard air yards two for three fifty eight yards.

How big were those that flipping the field in the field position game? By the way, intermediate not so good ten ten to nineteen yard range two for five twenty six yards. When he was blitzed. He was two for four with negative two yards, also had a sack and under pressure eight for sixteen for a hundred and that was also the sack. There. He averaged three point oh four time to throw within depth of target average of six point seven. That is crazy low for how long

of the T T T that was. I think the most impressive number for him in this game was the fact that he was under pressure eighteen of thirty three dropbacks and took one sack and did not turn the ball over. The running backs where he most forced six miss tackles, had three point eight two yards after contact on average forty two total, and had three ten plus yard runs. Wilson forced four miss tackles, uh three point three one yards after contact fifty three total and also

had three teen plus yard runs. Smith led the way with three yards per route, ran on average seven point eight yards per target. Kasicki had nine point to per target, and then Waddle and Tyreek had lows this this week. One point four two yards per route ran for for Jalen, point eight eight for Tyreek, just eight point eight yards per target for Waddle and just four point six for Tyreek.

But good on him for gutting it out. He was definitely injured, you know, kind of getting through something with the angle this ankle in this game, and he also created a bunch of space for that big play for Gasicki, So good on him for for playing hard to the end. Pressures allowed Little three Eikenberg one on twenty nine pass blocks snap didn't play the whole game. Connor Williams had three. Rob Jones and Rob Hunt both had zero. Brandon Shell had five on twenty eight pass block snaps, and they

gave two to Smith and one to Jeff Wilson. Runs to the right, A, B, and C gaps eighteen runs for seventy four yards. On defense, seven pressures for Phillips, three for stealer to for Baker. Five guys had one. Flacco had an average time to throw of two point three six seconds. That's not the lowest single game total, but for context, Tom Brady has the fastest T T T this year and that's two point four or five seconds via next Gen. So yeah, Flacco was getting that

thing out like a hot potato. All game long run stops, Wilkins, Baker and e Rob had three. Holland, Seeler, Phillips, Duke and Row all had two. Five guys had one coverage snaps and yards allowed x thirty five and ninety five co who thirty five and negative thirteen. The only completion was a lateral play. There are one for five targeting kater co who Javon thirty three snaps twenty three yards, crossing twenty snaps five yards. McKinley and Roe both played

eighteen coverage snaps a piece, and we're not targeted. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back on the other side. Do snap counts and

Mike McDaniel's Monday media availability. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, segment number three on a Tuesday, and as we do weekly here, we pick it up with a snap counts before we hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday afternoon press conference a lot of shuffling on the offensive line dealing with some injuries. We had had three three guys go to wire sixty five snaps for Greg Little, Robert Hunt,

and Connor Williams. That also true of Skyler Thompson. Liam Eichenberg missed just seven snaps before he turned to the lineup, and Brandon Shell played fifty three so he missed twelve snaps in the game, and that will give you Rob Jones for a total of nineteen snaps in the game. At wide receiver, Jitlyn Waddle led the way seventy percent of the workload, Tyreek Hill gave you sixty six percent, and Trent Sherfield sixty five percent, with River Cracraft playing

fifteen snaps. Good and as Ukama played ten snaps in the game as well. At running back, Jeff Wilson led the way forty two snaps, that was sixty of the workload and Raheem Mostert was next with thirty two snaps in the game. Alec Ingold played just fourteen snaps. That it's tough to play that position with a club on your hand, but kudos to Ingld for for gutting it out and getting out there. Oh Savon Akmen also played four snaps in the game, and the tight end Durham

forty six snaps. Snaps we've seen that have two to one balance here uh in recent weeks. And then Hunter Long played eleven snaps at the tight end position on defense. Three players with the distance Javon Holland cater Cohu Xavian Howard. That's pretty standard for those guys, and I can't believe this is standard, but it is. For Christian Wilkins, fifty snaps is of the workload. That's the same number as Jerome Baker played in the game. Just crazy. Zach Heiler again,

same standard, forty five snaps for him. Jalen Phillips similar, forty eight for him. Uh. Let's see Wilson the defensive line, Ray Kwon Davis played twenty nine that's half the snaps in this game. John Jenkins played ten snaps in the game, and then off the edge of the linebacker position back to that spot, Ingram played fifty five of the reps. Van gekl was Bradley Chubb played just eighteen snaps forty

two in the game. And then as far as your off ball linebackers go, Roberts gave you a sixty one percent of the workload behind Jerome Baker's eighty nine percent. We saw Duke Raley for thirty six percent of the snaps, and then in the secondary of Samuegel Von gave you one snap and the second Dary finishing up with Keion

Cross and playing forty six percent on the snaps. Do you get the two primary corners kind of a third safety being used frequently in there is kind of the big nickel position as well, which is how you wind up with Eric Rowe playing of the snaps in total, and then also at the position Ron McKinley of the snaps and Elijah Campbell gave you ten snaps and Clayton

Federally gave you one as well. Let's go ahead and pick it up with Mike McDaniels Monday press conference, and we started off here with the question about the quarterback availability. Let's go ahead and play a couple of those answers here. Coach talking about to Teddy and Skyler, is there some hope for Monday or for next Sunday. So um has not been cleared for that level yet. I'm hoping to with all three active roster quarterbacks UM, they all have

injury related UM concerns. I'm hoping to have some clarity on Wednesday. UM, but as of right now, it's literally the aim if not more vague then when I just saw you guys last, I saw most of you guys last. Him saying he doesn't know about that process was asking if TA had been cleared to throw yet here's further clarification on to a status and where he's at currently. UM. I don't know exactly what goes on. I do know there's UM. I've seen him post post whatever that time

is called and he's sweating. I know there there's so UM tune two together. I try not to trying to stay in my level of expertise because again the primary concern, UM is that we lean on medical professionals for this UH, these medical opinions, and I don't want to influence by over asking or trying to micromanage what what the process is when he's ready to when when he's medically cleared

to practice, will practice. Until then, I'm not doing anything, and so as Berry Jackson from Miami, Harold does want to do asks a great follow up question, do you have game plans in place? You'll put together tomorrow or today on Tuesday. With regards to to a Teddy and Skylert Thompson, here's coach about the game planning for a game when you really don't know who the quarterback is

going to be. Yeah, that I think that's the You know, UM, you're playing a division opponent who you're pretty familiar with, who you just played, UM a couple of weeks ago. Um, that gives you a little liberty to have, um, some variants in your plan for each particular quarterback. And then when you get concrete clarity, UM, you have one direction, um for your entire team to kind of go by,

and that's what you stick with. Coach gave us updates as well on whereheem most to who had a bad broken thumb, he told us, and we'll have to get surgery this week and his availability doesn't seem very likely, but he said he wouldn't put anything past where he most dirt to get that. I'm ready to go, but we'll see about him. Same kind of situation for Toronto Armstead and Brandon Hill taking it right up to the game,

he said. He did say both guys have unknown status is both have excited expectations this year, we could guards of their timelines. It will be more late week fund for the Miami Dolphins. And the injury report talked about Tyreek and Jalen, saying toughest, some of the toughest players he's been around, and he believes they'll both be able to put themselves in position to be able to go on Sunday, and then was asked about the difference between

regular season games and a playoff game. Here's coach talking about just that. I think I think the team gained a bunch of valuable experience with this UH end the season stretched. A lot of the team hadn't been UM exposed to UH significant prime time games. They had not only UM a lot of exposure they had, they had UM uh failed expectations, which is tough. And then the biggest thing is winner go home. That you feel in the playoffs, and that's definitely what they felt like yesterday.

They knew that was the case. So UM, those are the biggest mountains that I was worried about outside of that. UM Yet, you know, it's going to be important for me to UH for those guys that haven't played in the playoff playoff game to remind them of the most obvious thing in the world. That is probably the thing that comes up the strong, especially with young teams in playoffs,

is that it's a football game. So you prepare for it, UM to give your best effort, but you don't have to do things outside of yourself for the outcome that you want to exist. So you you have to make sure that guys don't press UM. I I would have been a lot more nervous had we not had a um A playing game. UM just a last Sunday for

at least a taste, because it is different. One more here we'll go ahead and finish up with about a question that was posed to Mica about how the team was kind of riding high at a certain point of this season. The press clippings were really good and fun to read about, and now no one's really giving you a chance heading into Buffalo on Sunday. Here's coach talking about that element of it, expectations and how the players

should approach things. Yeah, I think you learned that, um, it's cool when it's favorable, it's not as cool when it's not favorable. I think you learned that none of it matters, that that like you have control over the narrative and it's generally UM retroactive, or it's the narrative UH can be controlled by your actions on the field, and you just worry about your actions on the field. I think UM, I would again be more worried about either way had we not gone through the huge highs

and lows. I think there is a positive in that, UM and that you uh, you really get to feel UM what it's like to possibly I'm not saying anyone did, but like your guard is down when people are singing your praises and it gets old when people are telling you how bad you are. UM. Both things are very natural consequences of black and white results. It will always be that way. You'll be praised when you win, and

UM people will be critical when you lose. When you lose, why because people care so And you know what's even more maddening when you're winning or losing games is when you really care about something that can't control it. So henceforth, there's always gonna be a reaction either way, and I think that the more people live through that, the better they can circumvent that, not make it any part of the equation. UM. When there's a job to do when they only have each other to rely on to do

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