Week 5 Film Room, Dolphins Jets - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

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I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it is the after Matthew Autopsy episode, as we unpack the week five loss at the Jets by looking at the film, the key metrics as a result from the game, the snap counts, as well as Mike McDaniels Monday press conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. I don't want to waste any time as we typically do not waste time on these Tuesday podcast taking a look back

at the game. By the way, go Marin is the Mayor's moving on to the American League Divisional Series play in the Astros tonight. Let's go get that one, baby. That was the waste of time. Now we're not gonna waste any more time. Dolphins Jets All twenty two review and starting off with the offense here and piggybacking off of what coach Mike McDaniel said about how he doesn't recall a single first or second down play in the first half where the Jets played a single high safety.

It was a lot of two or even three deep with that middle shell going four or five guys across. And then they would win with plenty of four man rushes against this dolphense pass protection scheme that was obviously without to run Armstead and Austin Jackson off either side, with Brandon Shell stepping up after being signed to the practice squad and elevated just the last couple of weeks

and then at right tackle with Greg Little. And that's why I was so encouraged by the run game, because you know the way that they played this game that the Jets defense, it just didn't really afford a whole lot of opportunities to throw the football into those areas. And if you are going to throw the ball into those areas, you have to be very precise with your

timing and anticipation. And to expect a rookie quarterback you know, we'll use seventh round traffick, I guess, but just the rookie in general, to expect that time and time again, it's just not gonna happen that way for you. You have to, you know, have an elite process or an anticipator at the quarterback position to really take advantage of those those you know, coverage looks. Otherwise you're gonna have a game where it's tough to get the passing game

going and your leading receiver has just forty seven yards. So, you know, I think if you take advantage of those looks where they're lighter in the box enough times, especially as this team gets healthier going forward and we get the intermediate passing game going once again, we're gonna be awfully tough to stop, just like we were for the first three games this season. Being one of the most

efficient offenses in the NFL. And a quarterback that was number two in the NFL, and e p A per play number one and pass the right number one and qb R and I think the fourth highest PF grade. Alough, we don't care about that, but you get the point. So into the actual plays of this game. For the Miami Dolphins offense, Teddy Bridge war is one play the safety. It's a nice blitz conversion there by the Jets playing

in their typical zone look. They give you pre snap and the eligible receiver, which in this instance was alec Ingled the only eligible too, sauce Gardener's side. That makes him stay over there, and that's why you run these motions to keep people where they're supposed to be. He doesn't follow ingold, which tells you zone coverage. But he was over there to begin with because you have to

put someone on the side of the eligible. But he motions away and so all Gardner does is convert a cat blitz and he has great closing speed, took a great route to Teddy Bridgewater to his ultimate drop back or the I guess where the ultimate destination was off

that play action look. And it's just a great play for him because man, we had a receiver on a defensive back for all their DB's ten yards down the field for each guy ready for a block and a convoy out ahead of Raheem moster and one key block for Rob Hunt to hit in that portion of that screen for to get out the gate for potentially big play.

But because Gardner closed so quickly and got Teddy, it winds up being an intentional grounding I guess, which I need an explanation for that, because he was throwing the screen past to Raheem, and the reason it went the wrong way was because he got hit Like Teddy wasn't even looking at Sauce on that play, never saw him in fact, So the whole intentional part of the intentional grounding doesn't make much sense to me. If anything, it was a fumble like way closer to a fumble to

me than it was grounding I could. I would have been like I would have understood if they ruled out a fumble because it was hand moving forward, but it

also was almost empty hand moving forward. But the grounding I don't understand that, So I guess better than seven points, but it was still still two points off the first play, and you lose your quarterback for the game, and that brings up Skyler Thompson, who, you know, let's look at some of the positives here with his game that he played, and I thought he, you know, all things considered, did enough to acquit himself to show that he belongs at

this level and his first start when obviously coming off the bench like that, you kind of take some time, like he mentioned in his postgame presser, to get settled into the flow of things. Uh, and you know, it's it's a tough spot for him to be in, but I thought that he did an awesome job of improvising at times and buying some time when things broke down a little bit like that throw to Jitalen Waddle where he basically, you know, had to get himself horizontal to

the ground and throw that diving type of pass. It was a great play by Thompson. And then there was a throw before our second touchdown of the game, right before the end of the first half where I thought, watching it live, the ball was behind Tyreek where he catches it down in a ten yard and took a big shot down there, but it actually was perfectly located to settle Tyreek into that soft spot. Before running him

into the hit. He still took the hit, but it could have been a lot worse if he leads him into it. And frankly, I thought it was his best anticipation throw of the day as well as he threw it before Tyreek came out of that break. And then

the interception I don't think was on him. I mean, sometimes things happened and his arm got hit on that play, and you know Greg Little, he gives a lot in that rush to speed to power that knocks him back quite significantly, and that kind of I think tipped off Raheem most to go help and chip on him, because Little did eventually settle that block and actually walled him off.

But then Raheem's chip knocked him off of the block and that allowed the rusher to get in there and put a hand on Skyler's arm, which obviously causes the ball to flutter and gave sauce Gardner, who has a great trigger coming out of that back pedal, that extra tenth of a second to come up and make a play and he did. Great play by Sauce Gardner. He's a great pick for that team for the Jet so far. He had a throwaway that I thought was very impressive.

You say Travis a throwaway really it? Well, yeah, because saving negative plays is a big deal as well. It was a play action boot the Jets blitz the edge that he was supposed to boot to, saw it stopped and just got the ball out over the head of his outlet wide receiver. That's a positive. When you turn a negative into a nothing, it's a net gain from what it's supposed to be. Like you're looking at a negative play, all of a sudden it goes back to

second and ten. We'll take that every single day when the play calls wrong, get us out of the disaster and get us back on schedule. Obviously, plenty of things to work on. After the defensive past interference on Tyreek Hill, we missed Tyreek uncovering on a dig route, just didn't see him. There was a double clutch on a checkdown. That was kind of the case all day. Just you know, I'm sure he'll trust his eyes more as he goes.

But again, first start, Like look across the league rookie's the last few years, it's not usually very pretty, especially early on. Look at what happened in Pittsburgh on Sunday, I mean, it's tough to come into this league and be effective right away at that position. Just take some time to see things, to get the experience, understand how NFL defenses rotate and move, and I thought that, you know, he got better as the game went along. There was a vert goal route he threw on a third and

twenty where the route was capped. The defensive back was five yards on top of the receiver through it anyway, and Chase Edmonds was kind of opened on a design screen. But there was urgency in the pocket because pressure was coming. So again you understand some of the stuff here, but also just mentioning where maybe it could improve. Uh So, there was a lot of see it, then throw it, you know, the anticipation of throwing it before he uncovers.

I just really grew appreciation over the last couple of weeks for Tuah in that regard, and really watching the NFL in general, with how late some throws can be. Toa is so adept in that regard that the more you you see games without him, the more I think you appreciate just what he already can do. There was a bad miss to Kasicki on a third down right before our last points the Sanders field goal, an out route that short hops him that probably is a first down if Mike can catch it and turn up for

an extra yard and a half. And then one frustrating play on third and six after we got the fourth down stop is Mike Gasicki once again uncovers on a little en route over the middle of the field, and he's open immediately right in the line of path of where Skylar's helmet is facing. You know, who knows the progression where he's looking. But there's time for him to hitch up and throw. He hitch ups and and hesitates,

and then it's a sack right after that. Little things like that go a long way, And I'm sure that's what Skylar's talking about when he said that I'm looking forward to watching this tape and getting better from it. In the game on Sunday, we just weren't quick, weren't anticipating enough to take advantage of the zones the Jets ran. They played zone all day long, and we kind of had to just find our picks and spots here and there. Then the sack fumble. Obviously got to have better ball security.

Another late read not getting out of the ball, the ball out of your hand with anticipation because Tyreek or was it Jalen Waddle uncovered on that play. By the time he locates the check down, you know he goes to throw it and then you have just one hand on the ball in the pocket. After three seconds in the pocket, you just can't do that. He'll learn that, he'll get better, no doubt about that my mind, that

Scott Thompson takes this game and improves from it. But all in all, again I thought he played pretty well given the circumstances. Some throws a little bit late, a couple of off target throws, but he managed the game well. Every quarterback in every game has some off target throws in some time, some late timing place. But he made some nice scrambles and did his best to protect the ball up until that last trip sack again the pick hard to fault him on that. So an uneven day.

But I think about what you expect from my third stream quarterback coming off the bench to to be your last available guy, I mean, the next guy up with Cedric Wilson. So it just tells you about the attrition of this league and where the Dolphins were in this game on Sunday. But tip of the cap to Scarlett Thompson into that game very late. There a tip of the capt to the scouting staff and coaching staff for getting him ready and putting yourself in position with your

third quarterback. You have a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter against the division arrival. The running game got going, didn't it. I was super impressed, and I always am by the design of the running game. It's so much fun. There's so many different looks where if I'm playing Mike linebacker, well that defense is in

trouble first of all. But if I'm playing Mic linebacker, my eyes are very confused because I have the power of fast forward rewind here on my Mac computer to go back and say, oh, there was a miss key. There's auto cool looking pulling guard. There's a nice little side a level block. There's a lot of that. There's a lot for the eyes to kind of follow. In

terms of this blocking scheme. There was one play early on where Greg little Down blocks the second level and Robert Hunt pulls in behind him to wipe out the edge. Like you change your assignments and you change the gap assignments of the defensive line. Then Gisicki, who's in a nasty split, also comes up to the second level. Connor Williams goes the opposite direction of all that flow and walls off the backside knows the one technique right there,

with Liam Eikenberg pulling in behind him. So if you're trying to key the center of the offense like the center and to guard positions, two guys going one way, one guy going the opposite way, it's tough to track. And then you have Armstead off the other side climbing up to the second level, and then Ingold who motions out seals off the edge. It's just a lot of

things to sift through. And speaking of Ingold in motion, man, they use him in so many different ways, and I think that as we go along, he's going to continue to be more valuable. But he already has been very valuable the motions and varied usages of his skill set. Like nobody else in the roster can do what he does in that regard, so it's very important that we

have him. But attaching to the lion scrimmage, you know, operating out of the backfield that h back positions up back, deep back out wid as a receiver where he's coming in that brotherhood motion. The Niners ran all all year last year where they would bring Trent Williams in motion. There was a couple of plays where Ingold did that some of the counterwork. He's a very valuable asset. Looking forward to him getting more and more work here in

this offense. How about the Raheem most touchdown run. That was a thing of beauty. First of all, how many times have I talked about this in the podcast Twitter Spaces, the postgame show about your ability and the Dolphins this preseason training camp running different receiver combinations with the first team offense. Because this touchdown run comes out of one personnel, which is two backs, one tight end, which means you have two receivers. Raheem and Chase are the backs, not

alec Ingold. Your two tailbacks might get sick of the tight end River Craigcraft and Trent Shurtfield, like that's your red zone run the football, make tough catches offense. It's a good package to have down there close to the end zone. And Raheem is stacked behind Mike Gasicki in a nasty split. Nasty split when you hear me say that that means a receiver and eligible is in tight

to the tackle, right next to the tackle. And then a stack is when you have a guy up on the line and then a guy right behind him, which prevents jamming. It gives you obviously a clear route to motion to go off that side, and it keeps you off the line of scrimmage to be able to go in motion and you don't have to shift and readjust as a result, y'all with me still on that play, he goes in motion and then they snapped the ball before he gets to the quarterback and immediately hands it

to him. And because of that, because of that quick snap, he already has the entire box count out flanked. Great, so you've already designed yourself a play where the running back has already beaten the linebackers and defensive line to where he needs to get. And then all of a sudden, all you need is two blocks from River and Trent.

They crush it, absolutely kill their blocks, push their guys off the football and then raheem, we have to ask you one more thing here, sir, make one man miss, and he does us he makes I think it was C. J. Moseley miss in the hole. If it wasn't him, it was kwe Alexander, I forget. That's the recipe for a touchdown right there. Great play call, good perimeter, blocks back, makes one guy miss touchdown Dolphins. Problem is with a running game is there was lots of missus falling off blocks,

you know, left guard, right tackle, tight end position. We Uh, there was the Tyreek Hill reverse man. We had a touchdown on that play if we finished the blocking. Like and there's a play where Liam peels back and tries to go block plays that are already behind him. If he goes out and gets the edge and blocks the edge, that eventually tackles Tyreek, I think it might have been a touchdown. Just go get somebody. Uh. That was frustrating

to see that. Just these instances of one guy getting beat and it ruins the play, which obviously is the case. You know, that's that's how you win football games on defenses. Have somebody win a big important matchup and get a stop right there. But it was just too frequent at those spots. And then off the edge, the Jets pressures and and quarterback rush, the one on one situations, the four man pressures off either edge was was too much to handle. Has to get better out there as well.

Let's see. So Sauce Gardner is a hell of a player. We already talked about that. But Tyreek on that first dp I just got him, got off the top of him. And that's what we talked about, this urgency that his speed creates, always talking about it here on the podcast.

Like Sauce had to stay vertical, and the moment that Tyreeke adjust back to the ball in the air, it's almost impossible to not get flagged for, especially with Tyreek knowing well enough to go back and play the ball through the man because he's blind to the play and Tyreek can basically initiate that contact at that point, which

is gonna draw the flag every single time. There was a play later in the game where it was either Conklin or Usama one of the Jets tight ends where he was downfield against Jerome Baker, and Jerome runs step for step and puts his helmet, hits the football and gets the pass breakup. If Usama just comes back to that ball and plays through Baker, it's a d p I. So Hill knew to do it. Usama or Conklin one of the two didn't know to do it. It's a

difference there. But Tyreeks put you in positions like that time and time again. More on Tyreek. The Jets played a lot of Meg, which is man everywhere he goes where you're all in zone. But you have one guy matching up man, Tyreek. And that's why you got some of those d p i s because there was DBS trailing underneath Tyreek. Just basically, hey, cover Tyreek, don't worry about anything else. Just stick to him, don't track the ball,

don't track our defense. Just go cover ten again, sixty one yards and d p i s a big reason for that because they were playing him and not the football. The catch he made on that sideline throw that was a bit back inside. The defensive back DJ Reid had his hands on it and Tyreek just took it from him. And you can see the sideline shot where he reaches his hands right back across the face and plucks it away from Reid and he has no idea what happens.

He thinks Tyreek out of bounce, he thinks the ball is not caught. He looks over. Both of those are wrong, Like what the hell That's what Tyreek does. Man, he makes plays. And then the move that he put on on the reverse, the one that I was upset about, uh before our first touchdown man two defenders on either side, he just splits them and accelerate right through his cut. Such a rare breed one block away from a touchdown

on that play. And the Jets did a great job on that throwback play where you give it to Tyreeke. He wants to throw back to Skylart Thompson. They actually put a man on Skyler so we can't throw it back. But then Tyreek just did more like we were one block away on that play from potentially going all the way.

But that one I don't blame so much because Rob Hunt was trying to get out there, but Tyreek ran passed him so he couldn't finish the block, but he had to keep going with the speed because of the flow of the play. So good play by Kawan Alexander on that one awesome, awesome block on the edge on a Raheem most At twenty four yard run. Both Tyreke and Waddle hit key blocks there. Connor Williams also forced Kwan Alexander to retreat twenty yards before he was able

to angle towards Raheem Connor is awesome man. The push that he got on that smith sneak touchdown run was chef's kiss. And then staying there with both Connor Williams and Rob Hunt the opening drive of the second half, Raheem most At rips a nineteen yard run, Connor and Rob double up a play a tackle, I should say, and Connor pancakes him and Rob peels off and drives a linebacker a gap off to the side and five yards downfield. Those two guys are getting it done in

such a big way right now. Very impressive play out of the center and right guard. Combo here of your Miami Dolphins. And then let's go back to the receiver position. My notes a little bit out of order here. The way that Waddle followed his quarterback like on that crazy broken play that Skyler Thompson had while getting driven back was was just awesome man. The catch to scoop it off the turf. Such a complete player, the way he competes and catches tough passes and finds the football and

runs good routes. Then, of course that big thirty four yard defensive pass interference late was was big, big time where he gets on top stacks the receipts are the defensive back and then fights for the ball. And give him a lot of credit to because you can tell the way he's trying to gut that out out there. He's laboring a lot coming out of those breaks. It's just not the normal explosiveness we're used to with Jalen Waddle.

Back to Raheem moster Man, he was cooking. There was an inside toss play early in the second quarter where we turned number free right at the line and Raheem does this hair of jump cuts and it works as an ankle breaker. Then he gets to the second level. He runs for twelve on a play later on where the plays blown up. They threw Liam on the ground right in front of his track and he just side steps to tackle and gets to full speed within a

few steps. The way he wins the edge even when it's not there is so valuable, not just for the yards that it gets, but also the stress that it puts on defenses when we go to that stretch boot action, because I gotta get all the way over there to deal with Raheem speed. And then if they're gonna pull it out and play action in other direction. Now I have to get back that way too. I just liked the way both he and Miles Gasking ran the ball in this game, especially in short yardage where they found

the sticks. You have to be able to do that consistently in today's NFL. Big running plays, first down conversions. Miami was very good in those two departments. Chase Edmonds had two drops, took his eyes off the football before he secured it. I think he'll get that righted, like a little doubt in my mind, he'll figure that out. He just wanted to make a play for his team. Coach talked about guys pressing in the Bengals game once

the quarterback goes down. I think a little bit more of that here, But I trust him to get it fixed. And then Tanner Conner know you don't need analyzing on the drop. It just went through the midst in a big spot. I trust those guys to get that fixed next time around. Back to Williams and Hunt and I don't know why I'm so disorganized here, but they're double teams. Are teaching tape man low pad level, good drive hip

to hip, shoulder shoulder. The Jets were playing that hair on fire one gap upfield penetration style, and we had some nice wham calls. What's that? It's where they want a one gap upfield and you just let a guy go free and you take the opposite side player and you just go take care of him, like basically take him where he wants to go, take him out of the play. Teams did that to and Dominican sue all the time down here, uh and it worked. So Rob

Hunt in particular, just he's he's awesome, He's fantastic. On the series of the missfield goal, there's a first intent run that puts us at the plus thirty six where Rob is head up over a defensive tackle, a two technique who wants to one gap his way in, but Rob fires off the ball faster and gets the knock back that he was looking to get on Rob and then buries him with a pancake. Really good stuff to Ron Armstead on the play where he had to exit with such a smart veteran play to grab a hold

of Lawson who beat him inside. But take the ten yard holding call opposed to a hit on your third quarterback that you can't lose. It wiped out a scramble for a first down, but that scramble doesn't happen if if Lawson gets in there and puts a hit on

your quarterback. I thought Brandon Shell had some good push in the running game, although again off the edges in the past past protection wasn't wasn't very sharp and a lot of walking back off the edge, which obviously condenses the pocket and makes life tough, especially again on your rookie quarterback. And my last note on the offense, keep throwing screens behind Trent Sherfield. He had two more in this gammer. He's locking up blocks for the entirety of

the play ten yards downfield. He is fantastic. Let's go ahead and take our first break. Thirty plus minutes into the podcast here whoa twenty minutes. I don't know where we're at. It's late. Take our first break here. Come back on the other side, do the defense to the numbers,

all that fun stuff. That's next Drivetime Podcast. Your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation back here on a film review Tuesday, week number five edition of the Drivetime Podcast, asked you boy Travis Wingfield with you guys here on the Draft Time podcast. We start with Jalen Phillips, who right off the top on a second and short run just throws the left tackle on the ground and into the gap where the running back wants to go.

Then he flies further in and resets the left guard and stacks up the run with the Landon roberts On Jerome Baker's sack that he had in the game. Phillips shocks left guard to the point that he's about to walk him right into the lap of Zack Wilson, but then the center sees it and comes over and helps him, and that frees up Baker, who did an excellent job of his own of finishing that sack. Phillips I thought had a bunch of big impact plays early in this game.

Hopefully we can get four quarters of that from him going forward. He's he's I think he's playing so well. Just the stats aren't there yet. It's gonna happen eventually. Just stay patient with you, and Phillips is playing really well. Christian Wilkins is playing out of his mind as well. Batted pass early in this game just shows you how

he can impact the game even when double teamed. It's a guard center double team on him, and he sees that recognizes he's not gonna win the pass rush pushes into them to create space between their bodies and that allows him to elevate and swap the ball down and

get the defense off the field. Textbook more textbook stuff on the next drive as he rides the wave from the opposite side of the formation all the way outside the numbers to the field side of the formation for a tackle, and then literally the next play, it's the next drive, but it's the next play. Defensively on the tape, it looks like Michael Carter has the biggest cutback lane you've ever seen, but Wilkins disengages from the right tackle and makes a stop right at the line. It saved

at least ten yards, if not more. And I didn't notice it on the broadcast, but Christian beat a double team on the third and two stuff right before the fourth down in completion. When Nick met him, people thought he might get flagged for DP I and Corey Davis on that play. The play before, Christian Wilkins beats a double team and gets a third and two stuff of

the Jets running game, Melvin ingram Man. The play that he made on that TfL that got pulled back for a face mask was such a ridiculously good play before the face mask happened, where he swims one block and then split low action comes over and tries to wipe him out, but he goes and drops the shoulder and wipes that dude out. Really good play, just kind of finished. They'll grabb in the face mask insane with ray Kwon

Davis on his sack splash face mask. He shocks his man and then waits for Christian Wilkins to come in and set the pick stunt from his three technique position, and then ray Kwan scrapes and tight to that congestion. And what I mean by that is in this game, like you obviously want to stay clear of any blocking or congestion, so if you go too far around that little pick, you're gonna not have enough time. You have to stay in tight and scrape off of that so

you can get the quickest angle to the quarterback. And he did it so beautifully, just grabbed the face mask. And it's a game of inches, man. Neither guy had to do that to make the play. Their hands just round wound up in the wrong place. Emmanuel Ogbot pressured Zack Wilson on a third and goal misfire, and this looked a lot like the two a touchdown to Mike Gasiki where they kind of high load that end zone linebacker plopped in there. But of course our quarterback made

the thrill. Another quarterback didn't. But Emmanuel had a quick pressure where he won in side and forced to throw high and out of the back of the end zone. Not everybody can make that throw. Zack Seeler had that swim move several times in this game. He damn near blew up the Michael Carter touchdown run with it. Then the next drive he does barry Zack Wilson almost instantly off the snap. He got the throwaway. But man, you cannot win any quicker than Zach Seiler on that swim move.

Jerome Baker's effort on the pass breakup forty yards downfield was absolutely superb. And then Brandon Jones too, who sprint into the football the entire play and wound up being three or four yards away from a potential gift interception

as a result of that tip. Little things like that you'd love to see because you know if it tips up a little bit higher, he does get a pick and you have all kind of room to run with because he hustled to the football, run to the football, Good things will happen, I thought Baker speaking of him and e Rob showed really good patience and reaction to the briefe Hall directs snap play down the goal to ghost situation. Both kind of saw what was going on

there and made the play for the stop. How about seeing Channing Tindal involved really nice form tackle along with Kater who on that third and long where they planted seven awkward jerseys right at the sticks, he fires up makes a big play there. Maybe we'll see more of him going forward, We'll see I'd love to see him get some work at some point. This rookie sees him and some things never changed man, And I love the way Andrew van ginkle plays tight to the line on

the backside pursuit of outside runs away from him. He gets another run stop on a pivotal Jets drive. They eventually scored that drive, but Van Ginkl has a run stop to kick off a series and that in that particular drive. Unfortunately, though the Jets scored because on the very next play, we picked ourselves, uh with ig Monogamy setting a pick on Jerome Baker and Stanley Bruce Hall had some nice patient runs where he picked his way through.

That hesitation that he would do would cause some of our guys to get caught on blocks in the second level and fifty two. Sometimes it's very good running, but getting off blocks is obviously key for linebackers. Brandon Jones, man, he timed that blitz on that sack so so well and then staying on the quarterbacks track without losing him such a big time playing a big spot this uh that on that particular moment. It's been a very big year here for Brandon Jones in his third season. You know,

back to know Eggnogny. The first pass on him is incomplete, but only because it was a skipped ball over there. Then third and seven it's his zone dropping. He's just covering space and lets his man get free over there. There's a play later on where he runs down the field trying to cover somebody um and then the pick that he winds up setting on Jerome Baker like he's playing the man. It's just it's a tough responsibility out there. Hopefully I will continued to build on that and use

this tape to get better. I thought Nick Needa made a really nice stop on the jets first field goal drive when Bruce Hall bounced to outside and tried to make a move on him, and he wrapped up and brought him down. But otherwise, holding the edge has been an issue or a bug a booze this year, and they were again in this game tackling and setting the edge outside. A few more notes here kator Co, who missed a tackle on a little whip route by Garrett

Wilson in the middle of the second quarter. But man, I was impressed by him on an island in that slot position, putting his foot in the ground and changing direction in a very tough spot to cover with two way goes or three way goes. Really, he really wasn't that far from jump in the dang thing. Then he gets on Wilson immediately after the catch, but just doesn't

finish the tackle. You have to finish. There has another rep just like that later in the game, middle third quarter, but I thought he did a great job again with the change of direction, but they flagged in a turn of the receiver. It's tough to see on the All twenty two, but I suppose he did. I didn't really see it, but you can't tell from that angle the long past debris. Obviously it was a missed assignment somewhere.

Eric Roe kind of caught flak on Twitter, but you can't really who knows, you know who the responsibility it was there. It looked like it was him, but you can't know without on the defensive play call. But it was a cool design with the Jets to you know the value of having those two back sets where you like we have with Raheem and Chase, big part of that right there, it looks like a lead block on a little zone read run. But then he gets turned

free and it's the easiest seventy nine yard past. Wilson's gonna have his entire career on the whole. Obviously, too many missed tackles. You don't need double labor that point, but you've got a pretty clear directive where you can get better. Better tackling equals fewer yards equals longer down on distances, which means more opportunities for the splash lays that we have been lacking. Not a bad tape through three quarters with the Levy for sure broken that fourth

quarter with three quick changes in three short fields. That's a tough tough ask. Hopefully you can get one stop, but I mean starting at the five yard line, that's you're not gonna get stops there. Very often the next drive starts to the thirty yard line. It's a lot to ask your defense and the past rush, like if I can you know say what the defense needs to do better. The pass rush just has not been consistent

enough in four man rush situations this year. You know, we go through all the games and blitzes, but winning true one on one four man rush situations with more frequency would really go a long way, especially while X and Byron are down. And also I think the corners actually played pretty well all things considered, some key situations

where they had really good coverage. But I can't wait to see X and Byron back playing together again, hopefully sooner than later, because we all kind of got spoiled with all the press man looks that marry up so well with the pressure packages up front, which is the cause the cause of all the chaos we've gotten the past couple of years. All the takeaway is it's just not gonna be there when you're playing off and bail

and as much zone as we have been. You know, Javon halland basically is forced to play twenty yards off the football is kind of a mop up guy back there. As a result of it all, it changes the way you do things when you're down your top two guys off the edge out there. Like imagine that same difference where if we didn't have Tyreek Hill and some of those deep concepts just don't work the same without the

fastest player in the NFL. That's my notes. Let's go ahead and take our last break and come back on the other side and do some numbers, some snap counts as well. It's here from head coach Mike McDaniel. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here segment number three on Tuesday on the Drift Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and breeze through these pro football focused numbers here real quick,

and just give me some stats from the game. Uh Skyler Thompson twenty plus yard throws in this game was one for four for thirty yards. In the ten to nineteen range. He was two for three with twenty three yards and of course the interception, and and they only blitz three times on Skylar Thompson, well four if you count Teddy Bridgewater. And a big reason for that is it's tough to blitz when you have so much speed

on the back end. So that's obviously a big impact of Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle against the Blitzky was one for three with negative one yard. As a team, this is our lowest yards per attempt output of the season at five point oh. Obviously you know too, it leads the NFL right now at nine point two, so hopefully we get back to that here soon. Tyreek caught all seven of his targets for forty seven yards plus

the sixty one yards of d p I yardage. Waddle also caught all three of his for just twenty three yards plus thirty four yards of d p I of his own. Cedric Wilson caught two of four for twenty yards, Mike Kisiki one of two for thirty yards. We did have seventy four yacht yards on the offensive line. Brand Shell was hit with seven pressures, Greg Little with five pressures, Liam and Rob four a piece, and Corner Williams with three.

I think Tehron had one in the backs and tight ends had a couple as well for twenty five total pressures. I think it was in this game Raheem slipped four tack cools with four point seven two yards after contact on average. What a day that was for him. Eighty five is a hundred and thirteen yards came after contact. He had four ten plus runs, five first down runs.

What a great day. Myles Gascon had three yards after contact without any miss tackles, which kind of goes back to what coach alluded to with your forward lean on Sunday Night. Eight first down runs out of twenty five for this Dolphins team. That's pretty good, just under one third of your runs. Pro Football Focus defensive numbers pressures Ingram had two seiler Brandon Jones, Jerome Baker, and Emmanuel Ogball all had one. Just not enough pressure there on

the On the defense run stops, Wilkins had four. Brandon Jones and Lendon Roberts had three. Apiece. Zack Seeler, Jalen Phillips and nicked him all had two, and then six players had one apiece. Coverage numbers. Kater Co who played twenty five snaps twenty six yards allowed against him. It's a good figure for him. Ignogeny played eighteen had seveneen yards against him. Nick Needham twenty six coverage snaps, twenty one yards allowed, Brandon Jones nineteen for thirty four. That's

that's pretty good. Jerome Baker two coverage snaps twenty one and then Eric Rowe got hit for the seventy nine yards, so his number is not so good because of that. Javon Holland wasn't the nearest man on any pass attempts for the Dolphins here today. So I want to finish up here before you get to coach Mike McDaniel with scanning the social But first, how about some snap counts

for you real quick. The offensive line went wire to wire except for the left tackle position, which obviously Brandon Shell played fifty nine snaps, so just eight snaps for Tron Armstead in this game. Uh Skyler played sixty six snaps. Teddy Bridgeward just the one obviously, waddle leads to the receivers with fifty one snaps. That was se Tyreek Hill played forty three snaps at running back, where he most played.

Seventy of the snaps as the biggest work share of a running back this year for the Dolphins, Trent Sherfield played forty four snaps. Kaski out wrapped Durham Smith thirty six, thirty three, alec Ingold played Wilson sixteen, Craycraft fourteen, and then the backs gas In thirteen chased Edmonds ten. So interesting splits there. At the offensive side of the football. The four defensive players did not leave the field. That was Javon Holland, Jerome Baker, Nick Needham and cater Cohu.

Brandon Jones only left for two snaps in the game. How about Christian Wilkins playing fifty snaps. What a conditioning job he has done in his career. Zach Heeler played forty a Landed Roberts played thirty nine. Agba and ray Kwon Davis both played thirty eight a piece. That's sixty for those guys. Melvin Ingram thirty six snaps, dealing Phillips thirty three. No Agnogamy played half of the snaps thirty one, and then Van Ginkl nineteen, Duke Raley ten, and then

a bunch of guys had a small snap count. Eric Road just six snaps on defense and this game changing Tendell played two snaps in the game. So scan of the social I think this week was the week where Twitter sort of broke me. Not in the sense that I'm not going to use it anymore, but I suppose what I should say is that this time, this is the time where I've most seen it, you know, jump the shark, as it were, the uh, what are we even doing here anymore? Revelation. I don't really dive too

deep into the depths. I use the mute mute tool with the heavy hand because there's just too much nonsense to sift through. From being quite honest with you guys, but one thing I noticed, and look, everyone's got their podcast on their YouTube shows. I know it's fun for the fan base to really have their choice of content, but man, here's the revelation I sort of had. Some of those videos do numbers, you know, most of those videos do numbers, and the double digits less than a hundred,

not exactly viral. And sometimes those same accounts on social push narratives from that same feed that makes certain claims, and then those tweets get picked up by a few and it's a few likes here and there, but for the most part, it's overwhelmingly opposition. Get a load of this response. You know, as a result, something that is only seen by a few people and believe by substantially less people becomes this look at what dolphins Twitter thinks

and believes. And the truth is, no one actually thinks that. It's just what if a few waves have been made to make you think that's the general narrative, But it's not. So my skin of social is Twitter is not real life. It's entirely manufactured representation of the truth. And look, everyone

enjoys this game in their own way. I'm thrilled at football has billions of fans for so many reasons, but selfishly, none more than the fact that it created this platform that I could strive for and eventually, you know, achieve. Now that you're all buttoned up, here comes the hammer. The opinions you see, a tiny fraction of them are actually qualified. Just how it is. It's a hard game to understand. I don't know what I'm talking about half

the time. It's I don't coach this league. It's how you wind up with quarterback X is the best quarterback on the roster takes because of a failure to understand even the slightest motor come of nuance. Look at the pressure numbers, Look at the increase and time to throw. It's a tenth of a second better or longer this past week, a little hitch, little hesitation, and look at the receiver production. Look at how the Jets play us

on defense. If you can't see a clear difference in this tape, then you've got some homework to do a lot of it. At the end of the day, it means nothing, but man, it became too much from the weekend and not address it. Let's my scan the social just nuance would be nice here and there. Let's go ahead and finish up here with coach Mike McDaniel, who spoke to the media on Monday, and we start here

with some injury housekeeping items. Coach, let us know that to a is in a twelve to twenty four hour recurring evaluation process that he is not ready to take the steps to do some football on field activity. He said, talk to me every twelve to twenty four hours about that. He said, Teddy Bridgewater has no symptoms today, had no symptoms of a concussion yesterday, but per the rule change,

he's being treated as though he has a concussion. To Ron Armstead, his back in South Florida, said the visit went well and he said that he knows to Ron will do everything that he can to play this Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. I talked a little about the spot or the whole call to to pull Teddy Bridgewater out of the game, saying that he's not in the business of evaluating spotters, and a lot of good conversation about him. With that, said that Tyreek Hill left the city.

I'm looking good in the walking boot after the game on Sunday, said the expectation is that Durham Smith, or rather that he believes Derham Smith will do everything in his power to get back to playing after exiting in the game as well. I want to go ahead and play these two audio clips here of coach here telling us about when asked will Skyler Thompson start the game on Sunday against the Vikings. Here was his response. You know, it's too soon for me to to really pinpoint that.

You know, there's um again. I I kind of have to wait and assess the whole situation, which I do not have in scope. What I do know is that um, Skylar relief practicing on Wednesday, and hopefully Wednesday I'll have a better better feel of the direction that we should

we should go that's best for the football team. So yeah, you're gonna have check back on Wednesday for updates on health and availability, as we do every single week, and of course throughout the course of the week heading into Sunday, let's go ahead and hear from coach on the challenges of coming into that game for Skylar Thompson. He also alluded to the fact that Teddy was so prepared for this game and he was excited for him to play in a game and execute in a game that he

was very prepared for. His teammates were excited to see him play. And the rules, you know, have been placed

for players safety. That's what coaches all about. Whether he stumbled or not, the rules of the rules, and his only takeaways to form are from the whole process is his relationship with Teddy Bridgewater talking about how prepared he was, he was asked about Skyler Thompson coming into the game cold like that and the work that you do all week long to get your starting quarterback ready and how difficult it can be for the backup to come in,

especially when the backup as a rookie. Here's coach UM, I really respected the fact of how you know, being being a backup quarterback in this league is not easy. And what people don't understand is you can't have you have to have a finite amount of reps during the week because you can't deplete your athletes and put you can't have endless amount of reps. So typically UM starters

get anywhere from eight of the practice reps. So a backup quarterback, especially a rookie, tremendous challenge because you have to own the old game plan, visualize it, be able to call it, be able to line people up and

then execute appropriately. UM. I think he was way on top of the game plan, UM in a way that I don't think UM that typically I'm used to rookies being on top of UM And I think he uh he was also frustrated with his play, but confident that he It was more of like a frustration in the moment,

like my feet are messed up, that wasn't the right timing. UM. Overall, it's exactly what I thought would be where I left the game knowing that um, the game is not too big for him, and that was probably if he has UM, if he has any saying it, it was probably uh the worst. That he will feel like he's he'll perform as a professional, and that was good enough to win. So I was very happy um with the player um because he It takes a lot of prep and it's

a big stage that everyone's an up for. Alright, long podcast on Tuesday, as they typically are, getting you all the nitty gritty from the autopsy and the game. On Sunday, we heard from coach McDaniel, gave me some fun stats there as well. We'll come back for you guys on the podcast tomorrow and then of course the Thursday preview, the Friday perspective from the opposition the Minnesota Vikings this week. In the meantime, you all please be sure to subscribe

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