Week 3 Film Room, Dolphins Bills - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if further What is up golf fans 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, you know what time it is, It's the Autopsy. The Aftermath will take a look at the thrilling victory through the lens of the film. The all twenty two to get to three and o with the victory over the

Buffalo Bills. Will peep the numbers from the game. We'll talk about snap counts and what they mean. All of that in a heck of a lot more plus hearing from head coach Mike McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. Let's go ahead and kick this thing off with the all twenty two review. As you can imagine, the defensive tape was nearly three times as long as the offense. I think it was twenty six minutes versus

sixty minutes, UH defense versus offense. Let's go ahead and do the offensive side first. And I just thought the Bills had a plan and this would make sense, right given all the guys they were down. And this is also the benefit of having a pass rush that almost never blitzes, that can get pressure with the front four as you can play that zone coverage, sit back and

prevent deep balls. And we look, we talked about the passer ratings allowed two quarterbacks since the start of and just one quarterback was over a hundred and their passer rating two had pass writing. So it's the best in

two years against that Buffalo Bills defense. And that was with them doing a great job taking away Tyreek Hill and there afforded the opportunity to do that to bracket two sides of the field with Jalen and Tyreek, because they're so athletic at the linebacker position, who just both exhales so much in coverage with their speed and athletic ability. It's just crazy what Edmunds and Milano can do in the middle of the field to occupy so much space.

That's why this defense is so tough. It's why having those guys down in the second area was such a big opportunity for this Dolphins offense and team to get some points and get the victory because catching it it's all about catching teams at the right time, right, and you probably caught the Bills at a good time. They're despite the fact that the offense was cranking, and we saw how that played out. But that's for the second part of the podcast. Just so much fun design from

the offense. The end around to Waddle. You see Smith split flow action, then he peels back the exact same way alec Engle did in the Baltimore game for the wheel route that he caught, where he peels back and it takes the edge of the Buffalo defense and they all suck into the formation and it gives that edge to Jalen Waddle and we know what he can do once he has the ball in his hands off the edge. And it's not just Derham Smith. On that play, you have Rob Hunt pulled to the other side of the

formation because you have to sell your look, right. You can't run something just to run it. You have to sell it. You have to set it up and convince the defense you're going to do it. And on that play you can see Tremaine Edmunds chase Rob Hunt and flow directly at number sixty eight and fit the wrong gap, and then you have Derham Smith downfield with a great block on that particular play as well, Buffalo did have

some success buttzing dbs against the run. That big negative play, the six yard loss that kind of was a drive killer there on Uh I think it was. I think it was play number two of the second half. It was just Teo Ron Johnson kind of pulling his best Brandon Jones where he timed up his blitz perfectly and gets in there for the impact play. Let's break down to his game. What say you right away? We get

some high level stuff from tah in two areas. It's a variation of smash which you have one route that holds that cloud corner against Cover two and then you sneak someone into that corner or as John Gruden once called at the turkey hole of that cover too coverage. And to ah as we've come to learn from this quarterback, and you go back to my evaluation of his Alabama tape and how great he was at that. If you have a chance, type in at wingfield NFL to ah L s U and go back and watch the L

s U tape that I broke down. We're starting to see a lot of that in the NFL tape where he uses not just his eyes to occupy that cloud corner, that underneath corner. He strides towards him, He puts his motion towards that guy and you see him take one false step up and that was all to A needed to fit it in between the corner and the safety twenty yards downfield. Now we didn't make the catch. It

happens Alec will get that next time. But to U's ability to influence the defense on display from the first snap, the speed out to the field to Trent sherfield after the forced fumble and recovery by Javon Holland and Melvin Ingram, Surefield runs that flat route from trips bunch and the most outside corner is leveraged in the opposite direction and you see two take his eyes over there to see that, and he separates the hands, which tells you the ball

is coming out before Trent even turns his head back to the quarterback. The timing continues to be super, super impressive. I mentioned the r p O on the recap pod, it was even better on tape. There's a safety bearing down over the top and to us throw doesn't just settle waddle in away from that danger. It's on the backside shoulder, which allows him to wheel out and run

after the catch, and he did just that. I thought the design of the next play was really cool, the same idea where the Bills take away Tyree over the middle and here comes Mike get sicky again, selling it off of split flow action which looks like a run play, and he just ducks the blocker right into the vacancy left of the linebackers who were keying on Tyreek. This offense is designed to give you a look that you think it's gonna be and then playoff of that. It's

the ultimate Mike McDaniel move. And then who boy the touchdown past the River Craigcraft. There's a diamond of Bills defenders against a trips bunch of Miami. So four verses three and Mike comes off inside first and holds Tremaine Edmonds and then River follows him inside while Raheem widens

it out to the other direction trying to displace. And this is where to go super high level again, like you have to anticipate these types of throws into these tight windows so well, and it's been a strong suit of his game, a superpower in his game. One of the things that I think he's best in the league at, which is how you become you have to be you know, you have to be best at something the league. This

is where I think two was gonna really shine. You see the outside they're their best player in the secondaries to Ron Johnson as well. Takes one step wide and that was all to Ah needed to see when he hits his back foot and to see that shot open up to it is throwing before Craycraft is even out

of the break. The safety is driving on it and it's just absolutely perfect throw and it had to be and it was I think the best part was the number four to tomar Hamlin is playing three yards deep in the end zone and he's reacting to the route combination. You actually see him take a step to get more with too potentially deal with the route to the to the corner. I think it was a back pylon route by Raheem Moster, and that one step was all the

space that Craig Kraft needed to make the catch. Really really good stuff from one strike up the band, Let's go Coogs, even though this weekend was brutal. On the next series, he gets away from a free runner to it does and throws on the move complete to Waddle and Armstead got beat this one time in the entire game. It was this one, but to a creates and Waddle

comes back to help him move the chains. You're seeing a little bit of everything from to hear the big arm or I should say the accuracy downfield, I'll be more blunt about that. Uh. The creativity off the spot and the anticipation, timing and accuracy, it's all. It's all very very good. We talked about him settling Jalen Waddle down. He did the exact same thing to Tyreek on the first play of the second half and absolute dart twenty yards with anticipation out of the break but not leading

him into the safety. Beautiful, beautiful throw. The corner route to Waddle for thirty three was another example of smooth pocket awareness to slide away from some pressure and drive

a throw sort of backing away from that pressure. And the Bills, man, they disguised their coverage so well in this game, like these guys were coached up and communicated it pretty well, I thought, as far as being so many backups in there, they play a quarters look or that corner is bumping like you don't usually do that, and he has to fall. I don't think you're allowed to do that, and he winds up falling off of

the coverage and getting depth and then waddle. You know, we'll talk about him here in one second on that route. Let's come back to that. Actually, let's do the third and twenty two first. It's an awesome concept to sit sure field down about five yards short of the sticks, right around field goal range, like just short of the thirty yard line, to kind of occupy those backers because if they get depth, you can then just shoot that ball in there and take the three points. But they didn't.

They closed on it, and then that gave the middle of the field open to Jalen Waddle. And on the other side of the formation, Tyreek is running a full speed clear out route that widens the field side safety. He hammers it down right at the sticks, and that safety takes the cheese and takes a couple of steps that way and to his hands separate. When Jalen's at the thirty seven yard line, he's also literally on the step to the flag to the seven route to the corner,

which widens the safety. So you've got both safeties just inside the numbers at the twenty seven yard line and Jalen's at the thirty seven he's still ten yards away, and two is like, that's it. That's the spot. That is elite level anticipation to a drop sit right down the pipe at the eleven yard line. It's literally between the two hash marks where you would set up a field goal in your ideal position, right between the hashes. What a dime, What a time to drop that dime.

How about these receivers man Tyreek and Jalen. The hitch that Tyreek caught and took a pretty good hit on this is just the type of impact that he has in in one tangible snapshot where he presses a ten yard cushion and still forces a retreat step by the corner. It's that speed, just tangibly showing up there and creating space for two to work with the effort on the

clear out route. We talked about it, what a great effort that was from him, and it's just a great teammate, especially on a day where Buffalo was going to apply two men to him really throughout the course of the game and then back to Waddle. The pacing of his routes is sync up so well to too. His timing right now, it's so obvious they've played a lot of football together. He knows when to throttle down, when to hit the jets, how to set up his brakes, attack

leverage relentlessly. His route running is so oh dang good. The thirty three yard drive starter going back to that corner route right before his forty five yarder which, by the way, doing the math in my head, seventy eight yards on one drive to a game winning drive. Talk about arriving the corner bails at the snap, talk about that press coverage he gets out and so Jalen just goes to work really chasing that blind spot. What I mean by that is a cornerback can't defend his back.

Jalen sees him bail and he goes inside to that blind spot because he has or outside leverage. And then the minute he flips the hips, that's when you flip them back yourself and go to the corner, and that turns him goes to the post, I should say, and that turns him around. And what that was a bad Chris Burman, He's right back to the outside. It's spin cycle man. That's what he did. And then the route on the copper route, we talked about that the post

or the corner to the post Chef's kiss man. The way he stayed vertical after his jab step to the corner and then didn't like go straight to the post. He kind of stayed inside to stay in that cornerbacks like to keep him in phase so that he could run further away from him. Does that make sense, like, rather than take the advantage of the distance you already created, stay tight so that that corner thinks he can stay tight with you, but then you can separate more from

that point. It's elite level processing like that. That makes this guy an elite player on top of his elite level start stoppability. What a game for Jalen Waddle. What a game, and what a year so far for Toron Armstead. The way he shortens the runway for Von Miller to eliminate those speed rushes, those ghost rushes. The way he

bends that corner. He just continuously redirected Von Miller's rush path right around two, and we saw that ghost move against the Rams and Joe Noteboom where he would just dummy a punch and then whoop dip right under him to Ron would go shorten that track and then just get the quick kind of pivot step or the drop step to open up and run him around the arc.

It was elite stuff from Toron Armstead. The first run of the game, Chase Edmonds, he washes down the four eye technique, which is on the inside shoulder of Toron, so that means it's a reach block right, which is one of the toughest blocks you can make, and takes him across the entire formation before pancaking him. Then he's stone walled. Viller, Our Miller Viller, Detective Von Miller on the sherefield completion after the fumble that we got down

to the six yard line. Their pressure is right into his face in the direction of the past, and he speeds up his drop to find the landmark to get that anchor right in front of his quarterback. And you see Miller, who has a speed rush speed to power completely thwarted. We're talking, I don't know. This tape is

really good man. The completion of Tyreek where he takes a big hit afterwards once again goes out there and cuts down that runway on Vaughan and realizes that he actually lost the angle, but he has recovery ability to quickly shuffle back and get depth off of the pass rush landmark there. It's been teaching tape through three weeks here for Toron Armstead. He's a hell of a football player, just like we expected. So is Connor Williams. He just moves guys in the running game man gets him out

of their gap. Go look at the first Edmonds touched and that is some kind of play by Williams. I haven't seen a play like a like that from a Dolphin center since Mike Pouncey was here. And then our big runs consistently. You just see fifty eight ceiling off where he's the first man off the snap and just wall somebody off. But even more than that, like all you gotta do is wall that off. But sometimes he gets a movement, which is just a bonus on those plays.

Rob Hunt had two great anchor reps back to back against Tim Settle and his big behind Raheem's longest run came behind Rob clearing out a man with significant punch. He was excellent again. And then the push that he and Connor got on the double team on the second Edmond's touchdown. Man, I might have been able to score on that play, not really, but I mean you get what I'm saying. And then what else that was my

offensive line work. Greg Little had some great work on the second Edmond's touch on the seal that five technique, a huge block in a big moment, but also on the uh second shot on the first drive, he got beat inside by a spin move on von Miller. It's just too bad because we had guys open on that play sherfield and over route for him on an option out route. We had a miss block on too. Ron Johnson late in the game. The third on a third

down that could have sprung him as well. One of those instances we heard about where the defense where there was lanes but one miss block kind of did us in. And then the running backs Chase. I love his change of direction that toss play to run inside where he gets on that track and gets to high speed quickly. I love that look, and I continue to be impressed

by Raheem most starts feet. Matt Mulano chopped him down twice on one on one situations in the hole that I thought Raheem had a chance to spring a big one. I trust that next time he'll do that. But man, what a play by Matt Mulano on those couple of snaps there against Rheem Moster. All rightlet's go ahead and take our first break here on the podcast. We'll come back on the other side and do the defensive side

of the football. That's next kind of the Drift Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, back here on a turn the page Tuesday edition of the Drift Time Podcast, putting this game to bed, and we continue right here with a defensive All twenty two review. I thought the plan was so good. They just never busted a coverage to allow the Bills to get vertical

on them. They asked so much of these speedy linebackers, this deep linebacker room in terms of playing coverage, keeping your eyes on Alan, the occasional pass rush. Real big tip of the cap to coach Campanelli and Tyrone mackenzie for the job those guys did, and just the plan in general from you know, Josh Boyer and the entire staff to have those guys mixed between getting depth coming up to the line. Alan made so many plays, but they just kept coming on the strip. Sacked by Javon

Halloween broke that down on the podcast on Monday. But you have Holland and Baker communicating signals so well they wind up bringing eight which speaks very highly of the coverage that exaviing Howard, Nick Needham and Kater co who had on that back end because a mistake there with eight man rush and zero coverage that could be eighty eight yards of the house. Instead, you've got really good coverage. Every route is capped, everyone's on top of the route

and driving on their breaks out of the stem. The beautiful part of all the pre snap checking is that Alan knows that Brandon Jones is coming off that strong side and he actually diverts his drop to kind of fade away from it. But the problem is Javon comes to and runs right around both Dion Dawkins and Devin Singletary and puts a hand on the football, which as a pass rusher, sacks are great, but getting the ball out that's a different ball game. Just a great play

all around. Christian Wilkins is off to an all Pro start. He is an incredible, incredible player. Starts off very early with a quick crossover step to get right on Josh Allen instantly, which he evaded like he does, but just the the fake rush to the right and then cross order back to the left to kind of get the offensive lineman off balance and gain the momentum advantage is game. And the way he surfs down the line on those

stretch runs to the outside is so damn good. He consistently disengages and makes the play on those plays, and then as arsenal of pass rush moves, it continues to get better every single year. He put a pressure on Alan in the second quarter in the red zone, where he used his outside hand and kind of threw that thing across the guard's body on the onto the inside shoulder. Then he rolls the outside part of his body under that block with a crossover step. It's like rare, rare

balance with strength and heavy hands. He gets better every year, every game. And he took on double team after double team after double team and was still productive in this game, having one hell of a season. Melvin Ingram is a block destroyer. Whether it's physically running through a blocker or taking quick angles to get around them, he consistently does it.

His first stack was a pretty crazy move, a little dummy step to the inside, a jab step back to the outside, back in crossing face when he gets the tackle to overset up field and that gives him a bee line to Josh Allen. But I would not overlook the importance of finishing that sack. He's a tough guy to get to the ground, and Melvin Ingram did it. Then. I talked about the effort on the final drive on every single platform so far, but I have to do

it again because this entire defense was so good. Emmanuel Ogball was so good. He kept winning again and again. You can see the conditioning seventy plus snaps in this game, and he gives you that effort down in and down out. There were so many snaps where they just didn't have an answer for what he was doing. And he was winning inside, which is just kind of how you do it against Alan, like if you were run around the

arc on the outside. That allows him to step up and scramble and make big plays and drop that shoulder and just do what he does. So those direct shots are so very good to get after Alan, Ingram, Ogball, Phillips, Trey Flowers just kept coming and the effort was so amazing, especially Melvin on that final play Man Rush's mrs. The Sack retraces and it's his effort along with xaviing Howard walling off the sideline that keeps Mackenzie in the field

of play. And once he went down out there, he wasn't getting back to the middle of the field and time game over, Dolphins win. And then just the goal line work was so so impressive. They never quit. E Rob was flying around down They're making plays, Wilkins, Seeler, Jenkins, og Bos standing things up. What an effort. Let's go Let's go ahead and keep going back to a bay here though, because his processing is something that I just love in his game, where he has eyes in the quarterback,

he'll slide, he'll shift pre snap to different positions. He lines up at different positions. Half the damn time he two gaps, He won gaps, he rushes, he stays true to his gap integrity. He's an awesome player and was an absolute steal and free agency three years ago. Go back and watch the field goal. By the way, got his hands on that ball. Have a day. Ninety one

mentioned Trey Flowers. He had a big fourth down play last week and applied some pressure on Alan in this game you talk about playing through your man to the football. Performances like the one that he gave us is why teams with a quarterback like this might be so quick to bail on the running game. When you have a guy that can play the run on the way to the quarterback, it can make teams one dimensional. I thought Jerome Baker's best game of the season happened on Sunday.

He processed very very well while shortening the distance between he and the backs in that intermediate area, so dang well. The first down stop before the Hall enforced fumble. You see him get himself into a position to take on the block and then create distance so you can separate and then make the plant on the back. That was textbook play. I talked about the screen game a lot on the recap podcast. Baker's conditioning was also on display.

The way he pursued and got so many tackles where he had to cover yard after yard it flashed on tape. And just the way that he played from depth to close. He ran some routes down the middle, even got a pass break up on one where he's going away from the quarterback. But the way he approached downhill towards the quarterback and tackled on backs on Josh Allen coming from that depth. He seems to have these breakout games every year after a few and it feels like this was

that game for him. I thought aland and Roberts atone for that opening drive touchdown where he didn't pick up the back after we had the rush off that side from Melvin Ingram. With those goal line plays late in again, let's go ahead and work through those plays. On the second to last drive of the Bills, first and two from the from the two yard line or first and goal Wilkins gets walked back where he takes his man three yards behind the line. Jenkins comes off a block

and Roberts fils. Good team effort from those three guys. Second goal from the one seiler comes in unblocked and they miss blocks on Baker and e rob more of a failed offensive execution there. Third and two, it's outstanding coverage across the board. The play that x made was outright sensational, even without getting the pick. He chases Digs to the spot and then Digs changes direction, which when this happens in the quarterback moves off of his spot

and gets away from the initial rush. It's almost always a touchdown. But not only does he stay on Diggs, he turns his head back, locates the ball and gets hands on it. If he makes that pick, it's seriously probably the best play of his career. So so good. And then fourth and two, Josh Allen missed it. I thought it was pressure on the Sunday podcast. He just missed that throw. Nothing more to it. Then the final play the game again, Ingram wins immediately on a twist

and misses the sack. Phillips also splits a double team as the pick man. They both cannot finish, but you see the effort right afterwards. They both hopped to their feet immediately and sprint after the quarterback. And then what X did to follow that play back insides a big time from him as well. Duke Riley, I'm intrigued by his game. He had some some really good plays in this game. He damn near got a pick where he was in the hook zone and key to crossing route.

He did break it up. His speed shows up every week. You're seeing him get more and more of a role. I think you need that speed in this defense. Zach Seeler his first play before the Holland forced fumble, where he holds off a double team and allows Baker the space to get in there. Then the very next play, he throws his punch, stands up Dan Dawkins, then sheds the block and makes the play. He is so dang strong.

He controls guys one on one with such regularity. The past rush move on the play where Alan got free, it was either third or fourth down. I think it was actually fourth man. I think he's the only quarter back in the NFL that gets out of that. You gotta finish, but it doesn't take away from the rep where he uses that left hand to punch, then rips the right arm through and the guard is left stumbling over his skis. Grown man strength on display every time

this dude straps it up. Javon Holland, the range, the ground that he covers. Even on the big run he comes from the far hash and saves a touchdown. He comes from depth and cuts down runs before they can get going. He's part of that rush package. He's willing on the back end to cover and cap so many of those deep route concepts the teams throw at them.

He communicates it all so well. And then his breakup on that final play, first play I should say of the final drive was excellent coverage from him, especially with how tired he for sure was after playing snaps in the game. What an effort. Nick Needham had two big

pass breakups on that last drive. The second one was negated by the hole on Emmanuel Ogba, but process right, Brandon Jones man, He and Holland were so good and deep zones, different looks where they would crossers, like where you have too high safety, and then Holland goes to the post and Brandon Jones comes down and tries to rob the crossing routes where you basically just cut in front of them and say you're not throwing it here.

He was doing that, but then he would fly downhill and put a hit on the quarterback or the running backs as well. Like that. Having multiple roles within one player is such a such a beneficial factor for this defense, and the corners did a good job funneling stuff into those safeties. I know Buffalo got lots of yards through the air, but man, this defense made them earn every single inch of it. And just Brandon Jones play so

fast every single game. Keion crossing that pass breakup on Gabe Davis and the end zone saved us four points. It was sensational. Davis had that thing tucked away, but Kion stayed on him and found an avenue to shoot that hand across the bow and Jart Lewis want to play and then x was such a good game from Xavian Howard. I know we expect him to catch everything because he usually does. If he squeezes just one of

those two potential picks, it's such a monster game. But it was still so good the way he was rerouting digs and the way he was clamping on zone looks, the way he was driving out of his back pedals and brakes. Very very good for a good game for Xaviing Howard kat Cohu. Look that ball that Alan threw on second nineteen. He was in such good shape and and Christian Wilkins beat a man, drew the running back, and drew a third blocker literally triple teamed on that play.

And Caho's in good shape. But sometimes you get beat by a perfect throw. The second touchdown of the game there in zero and he just loses his man doesn't run with him off the snap, and it's the easiest touchdown of Josh Allen's career. So all in all, a couple of times guys got turned free. There was too

many misstackles PFF had sixteen of them. But man, there was so much good in this game on this tape, especially when you consider how many snaps there were, that they were out there for ninety and simply just kept coming back. So impressed by the effort this team game, in this game, we love to see it. It's a proud performance, and by that I mean one that the fan base should be so very proud of. That's your all twenty to review, come back and get to the numbers.

Next here from Pro Football Focus Snap Counts, and we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel. That's next on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and look at the numbers here, starting off with Pro Football Focus to uh on the day, completed all three of his twenty plus air yard throws. He was three of five in their intermediate that's ten

to nineteen yards. And on the season, throwing the ball twenty plus yards down the field, ready to kill some narratives nine three three yards, three touchdowns, one pick. It's a one eighteen passer rating. Throwing the ball twenty plus yards downfield ten plus that includes the twenty plus yards, but anything beyond ten yards of twenty seven that's right around sixty seven percent completion five two yards, six touchdowns, two picks. That's say one twenty nine rating. It's really

really good, guys. Buffalo blitzed him just two times, a sack and one in complete, which was a drop by the way, So he's thirteen of seventeen for a hundred and eighty six yards and a touchdown against non blitzing plays and with really only six possessions seven if you count the butt punt possession uh touchdowns on half of those mentioned this in the Patriots game. If you get the average eleven possessions per game, touchdowns on half of those is four and a half. That's like thirty one points.

That's more than ideal. Right, it was an efficient effort offensively, just eighteen throws, but so many big, big moments, and the yards per play continues to really poppy. Second NFL and yards per play right now. And speaking of pressure, how about the offensive line? Man? We knew that would be a key with Buffalo's injuries in the secondary and that ferocious pass rush still being there. Five pressures all game long Armstead zero, Eikenberg to William zero, Hunt zero,

little to Rob Jones zero. We got one by the tight ends as well for the fifth pressure PFF has with a six yards average running off right guard. It's a couple of weeks in a row over six yards running behind big Rob Hunt. How about the running backs. The big stat for me here is four first downs and two touchdown. That's six conversions on just fourteen rushing attempts by your two running backs, and that second short to medium conversion range is a big deal to me.

Convert those hit explosive plays. I'm happy with the running backs doing that, especially with their pass game production among wide receivers and tight ends. Buffalo did a good job keeping things in front and limiting yak yards. Waddle led the way with eighteen yak and Smith had sixteen. He was second just one yak yard for Tyreek. I can't imagine that's going to happen a whole lot this year.

Twenty five point five yards per catch for Waddle. He's doubled his toll from last season up to eighteen per catch. Remember how I couldn't stop talking about the fact that he caught twenty targets in college on passes over twenty eight yards. Pure electricity from that kid. He also notch six point three eight yards per route run. That's absurd. Anything over two is good. It was Jalen's day back

to back one dred yard games River Cracraft. All he does is catch touchdowns, two catches, twelve points for River. And how about this stat it was only our our only contestant catch in the day was his touchdown catch, which speaks of the offense ability to create separation. When he caught that ball, he had point nine yards of separation, which next gen gives us a completion probability of just

twenty seven percent on that play. That'll work defensively. Forty six pressures as a team on seventy three allen dropbacks. Ogba had seven, Ingram had six, Phillips and Flowers had five apiece. Seiler and Wilkins had four apiece. Holland and Jenkins had three apiece. Need Hum, Brandon, Jones, and Baker all had to apiece, Crossing, Van Ginkel and Riley all had one. And can we just appreciate the conditioning of this team again, like rushing the quarterback is such an

exhausting activity, especially when it's that quarterback. Og baft pass rush snaps, Wilkins forty nine, Phillips forty four, Sealer thirty four, Flowers thirty two, Ingram, thirty two Jenkins. That's unreal effort from those guys. How about run stops. They didn't run the ball a whole lot because we stopped it. Baker four, Ingram three, Holland, Phillips and Roberts to a piece and seven guys had one in coverage. We had nine pass defense as a team. Holland and X had two apiece.

Holland played sixty nine coverage snaps allowed twenty yards. Needham played sixty nine coverage snaps eleven yards x harder from this position than safety and slot corner. Sixty five snaps fifty nine yards under one yards. Great against the fond. Diggs's great against anybody against the fon Diggs, It's phenomenal. Brandon Jones sixty sixty eight yards right above one yard per coverage snap. Kator Cohu fifty four eighty two yards allowed.

That's pretty good for the rookie. Excuse me, Baker fifty four coverage snaps fifty four yards allowed some league leaders to a nine twenty five passing yards a second NFL. Eight touchdowns is tied for third. Seven point nine percent touchdown rate is second in the NFL. His interception rate is two percent among quarterbacks with at least one hundred pass attempts, at his thirteenth best in the NFL. Also just one fumble, just three potential turnovers in three games.

Nine point two yards per attempt a second seventy one point three percent completion is fourth one. Seventeen point eight passer rating is second. Eighty two point eight q b R is first. His fourth quarter comebacks, he's got two of them. That's tied for first. His game winning drives, he's got two of them. That's tied for first. Jalen and Tyreek are one and two in yards per route ran. That's dynamic three point seven oh and three point four eight.

Waddle has nineteen catches, that's eighteen in NFL. His three hundred forty two yards a second, his three touchdowns are tied for second, and his eleven point four yards per target is eleventh. Tyreeks twenty one catches our seventh. His three hundred and seventeen yards are third, his two t ds are tied for eleventh, and his ten point nine yards per target is eighteen. X has four passes defense that's tied for fourth the National Football League. Javon has

three that's tied for fourteen. How about Thomas moore stead seventy four yard free kick? By the way, how big was that? Good stuff? Good special teams, good defense, good offense. You gotta get you know, compmentary in nature, you have to find multiple ways to win football games. This team continues to prove that they can do that. How about some snap counts here before you hear from coach Mike McDaniel and then get out of here. Let's go ahead

and pull that up real quick. I probably do that first. Travis on defense man Holland played all ninety two steps. That's wild need him played ninety. Brandon Jones played eighty three, so did Jerome Baker Xabing Howard played eighty one. Those guys, get them some massages, get them a conditioning or so, and I v get him a an ice bath. Odd bon Co who played seventy. That's so very good co when getting some war work. That kind of tells you

how they view his role in this defense. Wilkins sixty three, Phillips sixty two, Ingram fifty seven. All those guys are big integral parts of that front seven rotation, Roberts forty seven, Stealer forty six, Flowers fresh off of the getting called up and he has forty one snaps in this game. Jenkins thirty seven, Riley, Eric rohe seven, Van Ginkal twenty one, Crossing eleven and Egglevan played three in the game. Offensively. Some interesting splits here. You had Eikenberg, Connor Williams to

Ron Armstead and Rob Hunt played forty Rob Hunt missed one. Sorry, the other guys played forty three. That was every snap Rob Hunt missed the one to a missed three snaps snap count there, which gives Teddy Bridgewater three snaps. Greg Little played thirty eight snaps playing without hand injury. Tyreek played thirty seven. Waddle played thirty two, the same number of Smith and Smith has kind of becoming tight end one here Kaski with seventeen snaps in the game. Sherefield

had twenty seven snaps. Where is Craig Craft nine snaps for craig Craft and Wilson played just five snaps in the game. Among running backs most Edmonds nineteen, so a pretty even equitable split. Their Ingold played twelve snaps in the game. Just not a lot of options to get to multiple packages for the Dolphins in this game. Rob Jones gives you five snaps, Tanner Connor gives you one snap, and Larnel Coleman gives you one snap as well, So a lot of defensive snaps, not much on the offensive side.

Let's go ahead and hear two comments from coach McDaniel, first about TWA and his confidence outweighing his perfectionism this year a big goal for him. We'll hear him talk about that, and then we'll come back right after that and hear him talk about the value of Armstead and xaviing Howard gutting it through injuries this week and playing in that It was a really cool last week. He That's the one. One of the things that I can't say enough about about two in general is how coachable

he is. And it's one thing to say a coaching point, which is what you're alluding to, and it's another thing for a guy to take it by the teeth and run with it. And he had um. He he channeled that the end of the Baltimore game into a great week where he was you could feel his spirit, his command, his attention to detail, but also his confidence and I think it definitely um manifests itself in this game. You know. UM, that's why you can't just look at uh, you know,

stat lines. His stats were nearly as impressive UM as the game before, but he definitely took a step forward in the right direction. Um. You could argue that Yeah, I would argue that it's probably that that in rhythm touchdown that he made to River Craycraft, that that I would put that up against any any play that he's made this year. UM. And I don't think going into the Baltimore game he might have made that play because it was a UM more than just a bang bang.

It was he had to see the coverage right and UM really really hummed the ball in there because it was a tight window in in that low red area. UM. So that that's an example of him. UM. I think on the long Wattle catch, Uh, you know, people talk about all sorts of nonsense to me, but all I see is a guy that not only made the throw, but watch what he what he was doing priests or

before the throw in his drop. Um. The only reason why there was any room from the field half safety was because he was eyeing him up the entire time and and really not even looking at Wattle to try to manipulate that guy. So what that tells me is that's a guy in a situation that, UM, it's not for everybody. Third and twenty two isn't exactly where you want to be. UM. But he saw that he recognized that he had a play call that that he owned. He got the look that UM, we were looking for,

and he really, um really owned that moment. And it's you know who who would have known that that could have been one of the bigger plays in the game. UM. A guy that's confident, a guy that is not trying to force stuff but recognizes when his opportunity is there. UM, that's what that guy was there. So I think I think it was a a really really big week applying all that Baltimore, not all that gained moment them from the Baltimore game into this past week that I'm not

sure if we would have won the game otherwise. And now on his captain's tehron arched at an Exhavian Howard gutting it through those injuries to play the entire game. There's this, there's a lot of inspiring. Our guys are really UM are really taking UM leadership and understand following leadership appropriately. UM and our captains UM specifically have done an unbelievable job setting the tone. And when you have two captains like that do everything they possibly can to

contribute as much as they can to the team. UM. There's a trickle down effect that that I think really it's hard to just say their own play. Not only did they play very very well, both of them, um, but I think they, uh, you're also setting a towne own for your teammates to follow. Um and and I think there's a lot of straining, a lot of grit um, a lot of battling in that game that is a function of a lot of captains really scratching and clawns.

So um, that's the thing I was so pumped about was because they not only put their characteristic you know, um, top top shelf play on the on performance, but I think they they um show they lead by example in a way that you'd really hope, um your captains would and that's what we count on them for and they came through for sure. There you have it, really fun podcast here taking a look at a huge, huge Miami

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