Week 6 Film Room, Dolphins Vikings - Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

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's show, we look at the aftermath from week number six, where

things worked, where they didn't, and everything in between. On the All twenty two recap, plus we'll look at the key numbers, snap counts, and here from head coach Mike McDaniel on his Monday media availability from the Baptist Health

Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drags Podcast let's jump right in here to the All twenty two review, taking a look at this tape and start off as we do weekly, with the offense and a few notes that I thought were just kind of interesting as far as how the offense is structured and

designed in the play sequencing. And I continue to be a big fan because the very first play of the game, and we talked about this on the preview podcast about how this Viking zone defense finds landmarks, gets their deep drops and kind of has some space you can pick apart in the middle. And from the very first play, I thought you saw the equality of the pacing and

the timing of the routes in this offense. You go back and watch that play all four eligibles, it's the go into the pattern, sink their hips and got into the route at the exact same time. It is like watching synchronized swimming, and I think it speaks highly to the synchronicity of the offense and how the design of each play is predicated on the idea of creating spacing. Every route has a purpose. Go watch any of the great film evaluators we have out there, and right now

there's hundreds of them. In this in this space and dollars to donuts. When you see an interception where it's difficult to understand why would the quarterback throw the ball to that spot, what was his read? What was his thinking there? You will almost always see the absence of a particular route that should be holding a defender who

sinks into the coverage comes off there man. Whatever the case may be, the lack of a route designed to create the space for the route you want to throw can be the reason a lot of the times and the vikings, as we learned in those podcasts on Thursday and Friday, want to play coverage and keep the roof on top of the defense, and Miami did so well throughout this game with the spacing and timing to create

easy windows for their quarterbacks. It's why I believe, you know, when we get to a back in the fold, we can continue to put in those hours over the course of several weeks of an NFL season with him working with this first team offense. Again, I have no doubt in my mind this offense is still not even close to reaching its peak form and what we can get from this group, But I do think we'll see that sooner rather than later, maybe even this week, Like I

think it's coming very soon. An offensive explosion with what you have in terms of spacing and timing the receivers we have in the in the building as far as you know, creating space and what you're getting back in terms of your quarterback and potentially offensive lineman hopefully coming up this week. The thirty yard ball to Waddle to start the second drive from Skylar Thompson. You see Tyreek Hill take his motion across the formation straight into a

vertical route. He seen that this time this year, plenty of times right where he gets that full speed running start and then just boom, he's off and he's getting vertical. He's doing up ground immediately. And you also see on the other side of the formation Tanner Connor who takes a full sprint down the seam from his attached alignment.

That why position the tight end right next to your offensive tackle, and both of those vertical routes with Tyreek's four to speed and the headstart and Tanner Conner's four four speed from that attached position, it completely removes the top of the defense and that allows Waddle to run his deep over into a completely vacated space. When scotlar Let's the football go, Wattle is between the hash mark. He's in the middle of the football field at the

thirty yard line. The closest defender is the underneath hook who is eight yards in front of Jalm, and then the three deep. Each deep player is covering a third. Each of the deep thirds are sprinting towards the end zone ten yards away from him because they have to worry about Cheetah and Tanner Connor. You've never seen a player that wide open thirty yards down field. It's part of the offensive structure. It's why I'm so excited about the few drow of this offense, even just six games

in here under Mike McDaniel. Then there's a wheel route to Trent Shurefield. I know you guys recall it got called back on a penalty where Waddle runs a slant that displaces the curl defender. That creates that space for shure Field up the sideline. Again, timing and spacing continues to create these nice opportunities for whoever is playing the quarterback position. The coolest part about it is that Surefield is the fly sweet motion running behind Waddle to the boundary.

The short side of the field. Remember boundaries not referring to the perimeter. It's the short side of the field and Tyreek is in a nasty split to the field. What's that means? The fields the wide side of the field and the nasty split means you're in close to the offensive tackle basically a tight end position, and he runs split flow at the snap. What does that mean?

It means he comes across the formation like you would uh to kind of mix up your zone looks in the running game, which just gives the linebackers so much

to keep their eyes on. You have a potential hand off to sherefield, a potential inside shovel to Tyreek running that same direction just from a more delayed pattern, a potential quick hitter slant inside to waddle, and then the forgotten route winds up being the most dangerous one, a wheel route fifteen yards downfield before the balls to him, or I should say the ball gets there when he's fifteen yards downfield and the nearest dB is three or

four yards away. So there was multiple instances where guys are just wide the heck opened in this offense, and man on the play where Teddy got tripped on his drop back Jalen Waddle comes wide open on an over route and I'm not sure where the progression would have taken him, obviously, but if we see if we see that route and we hit that route, it's minimum first in goal. If not a touchdown, we wind up making a field goal. But it's just that's how frustrating this

tape was. Like, if your right guards, you know, left foot kick slide is three inches further up the field that doesn't trip Teddy Bridgewater, you potentially have the opportunity to see that route and hit it for a big play, maybe even a touchdown. Uh. Those are the some of the offensive structures I was looking at that I thought were really pleasing to the eye. Let's go ahead and get to the individuals. Here's talking about Skylart Thompson at

the quarterback position. I thought his very first play of the game was really good progression where he got to the backside after crossing off his front side checklist. So that's a good uh, you know, look for the young

quarterback to be able to get through that. There was a corner route on the second play of the game where we took Tyreek Hill to the flat with a cloud corner before Skyler separates the hands has already made up his mind that he's going to close and take away the short route, which frees up Mike on the flag route, the corner route, and Skyler is rolling that way and has time and plenty of armed talent to

get it there, but he took tyreek. I'm not gonna blame you for throwing the ball trick ever, but I think Kisiki had about fifty more yards on that play. And you know that's the point of these evaluations, right,

we talked about every single play. On the next one, his scramble first down, great play, great job getting the first down, moving the chains, and again we're not gonna complain about success, but we're talking about what we see, right, and he had the right look, the right leverage, the right coverage for a big chunk once again to Mike Gasicky where he hits the top of the drop, hitches up and if he lets it RiPP in timing and rhythm,

it's gonna be a huge play. But that's not the same level of trust, you know, for as you might have from a third year quarterback and leap processor that you would have in a rookie. We make a play either way. It's great. But man, watching these tapes last three weeks just continues to really make me appreciate. Number one.

The throw to Mike on the first possession, you know, Gassicky heavily involved, was absolutely absurd, a real positive sign of growth even within the progression, or that I should say within within that same possession, learning from a previous look on the scrambled play, I thought he had Gassicky but as shoot it for the throw, and then he comes right back with a similar look and Zing rips that thing right in there, this time on time, in rhythm and off the back foot, or I should say

off off that first hitch up. And then you know I mentioned the design of the thirty yard hit to waddle. Really nice throw right there to put some air under it and get Jalen clear of any potential hit or contact from that underneath the fend or so there's you know, it's going back and forth. Some good. Some things you can say, hey, here's where we can get better. That's every game for every player. But you know with a

rookie quarterback especially, you point those things out. There was a play on a hook up route to Tyreek Hill just a little bit late. Just get the ball out there, you know, one hitch earlier, and you can maximize the yak that you get, which we saw in this game. Again, there was another play later, like some of these plays

were called back on penalties. Right with the scramble slashed off script throw to River Cracraft was his best of the day on the move trail defender on that downfield hip, the underneath hip of Craik Craft and he just throws it right on stride upfield to create craft exceptional throw, especially after we're standing a hit in the pocket after everything was covered up with an immediate pressure right in his face. The big game to waddle right before or

on the that same drive, the flag barrage drive. Again, we're just a moticum late, a step late because Wattle has to stop on the ball with the middle of the field open. Their safeties were not in the middle of the field. He could have caught this thing on time.

And I think you know, the offensive pass interference call on Ingold, for instance, is because we hitched up one too many times where you know, Tyreek catches what looks like a flare route completely flat footed, standing still and on both of these things just a little bit sooner anticipation can make all the difference in the world. Again, something to learn to learn off of from his first start. The next drive, we take a deep shot the Tyreek Hill with two defenders in the area at second down

and eight. It's off coverage, a full sprint vertical from the cornerback on this play and running it right into a safety who shaded to that side of the field as well. So two guys capped over the top and we let it rip. Like you can't waste those downs because you had a great pocket and options underneath. Don't just throw it just to throw it. We did on

that play. There were a couple of plays that just could have been a little bit quicker, But man, I think you saw some really good potential there to develop out of Skylar Thompson. Some of the traits that he's putting on tape makes it a little bit mind blowing to think that he was on the board for you

there in the seventh round. How about Teddy Bridgewater thought his best throw perhaps was the first one, an absolute missile into a tight window to Mike Gasicki on that little rounded slant route that he runs down the seam just beyond the linebacker, right before the safety who can't close on it. Because of that, you see Teddy's hands separate before Mike clears the curl defender. We love that anticipation.

Here on the Drivetime podcast. The play at the two minute warning, it's seven to three first and ten at the plus thirty four yard line. Right, you're you're in

field goal range. Right, Tyreeke and Jalen run a switch release to the wide side of the field the field and Chase Edmonds runs a swing route against an Outflakes linebacker chases three steps outside the HASH and the man covering him is not just ten yards downfield and on the far HASH on the other side of the field, so at least ten yards of depth and at least ten yards of width, and Waddle is almost coming out of his break ten yards down the field with again

middle of the field open, but Tyreek is double covered with a cornerback literally all over him. He's touching him. There's no separation. Ball sales high out of bound, and then you go to the end zone angle. Jordan Hicks, the linebacker, literally points out Chase and says get over there, like right as Teddy pulls the ball back from play action. He's yelling get out there. Number two is wide open. You see Eric Kendricks react super late, killer miss right there.

We then go run for no gain incomplete pass missfield goal. Brutal, absolutely brutal. Such a frustrating tape to watch. Not to mention there was a clear lane for him to step up into and throw a you know what was a third down check down route, but we expedite the process to get that throat to the back who hasn't even made his break yet out of the out of the route. So frustrating sequence there. In the third quarter, there were two balls behind Jitaln Waddle. The first one Patrick Peterson

nearly jumps it. The next one is broken up with some room to run after. I like the way he bounced back after that was really impressive. But man, there was a chance to hit Waddle on a big play there. The play that he does make to Tyreek on the twenty eight yard catch and run is so beautiful. He sidesteps immediate pressure, then throws across his body to an

all alone Tyreek hill. And then perhaps the best throw I thought was the one on the Wattle fumble where he drops the armslet and just slot and just flips it out there, opposed to a longer wind up because there's immediate pressure. Has to get it out quick. He does, puts it right on the money for Wattle. Let's move on to the receivers now, Tyreek hill Man, he is

just a solution to so many issues. You might have third and ten short of the midfield stripe, two straight immediate pressures forced Teddy to throw the football away and then Tyreek gets single coverage, runs the corner five yards beyond the sticks before he throttles down and the ball is right there in time for a big conversion and an extra seven yards after the catch. He did that

all day long. He makes a tough catch later on going to the ground where he has solid five or six yards of separation and the ball is impacted by Teddy getting hit on the play. But I just always appreciate a receiver securing those catches off the ground. That's not easy to do at all. I sure do love that little gatherer step that he does when working back to the quarterback where he kind of catches it and then you know, puts the ball away and takes a

jump step backwards to create more oparation. On the twenty eight yard play twenty of it's after the catch because he does that hop step and the corner falls off to the wrong side. Tyrek sees it and just goes zero to sixty, eating up yardage in the blink of an eye. On the fourth and five man, he's getting press.

The safety is bracketing him double coverage. He beats the press with his release and he wins it so quickly and so obviously that the corner then takes off says, I have to get deep because Tyreek can run by all of us. And then Tyreek hits the brakes. It's five yards of separation coming back to the quarterback, and Teddy cannot ask for an easier throw, and he just keeps coming back to the quarterback. Big time stuff there

from your top dog receiver. How about Waddle. His understanding of landmarks and steps and timing is such high level. The way he stems and sets up his route at the top of the route is very nuanced. The ball off of his shoulder that gets picked off, you see him peek at the defense just before he secured the catch, and a ricochets in the worst way possible, So a mistake there for waddle. But on the one where the ball is a bit behind and broken up I referred

to it earlier second and ten, middle third quarter. He's the point in trips, the highest man up on the line of scrimmage, and he wants to run a crossing route off the safety who's getting depth and what looks to me like Cover one, which is your single high safety man coverage underneath. Not only does he stay on the stem to push that safety deeper, he takes one last step inside at the top of the stem that

widens Peterson to create that separation. Once he breaks the route off of the top, the balls out on time, but it's on the back shoulder and broken up. At the time of the breakup. Jalen is at the hash at the thirty yard line. The safety is between the hash marks, so trailing behind the play at the thirty six. There's one more corner on the other side of the field with sure field right there for a block, and so if Jalen can make the safety miss in open space,

it might be an eighty eight yard touchdown. And he set it up all with that little nuance in his route running It's something we talked about this offseason with Tyreek and how he does that. To me, it says a lot about Jalen to really incorporate those little details into his game, because clearly he's getting that from Tyreek Hill and he's putting it into his game. What do you use your resources then? Man? He had a touchdown later in the game to first play after the vikings

made at sixteen to three. He runs to the flag on the opposite side of the field. He's in the short side of the field and he runs across the entire thing. There's the middle of the field safety and the corner to that side jumps Tyreek Hills dig route that the ball eventually goes to for a first down, by the way, So that's good. But Waddle was all alone with nothing but green grass in front of him.

And speaking of man the fumble, it's a great play by Harrison Smith, but Jalen was out of that tackle. He just didn't secure the ball. You see him try to resecure the ball and that's when he goes down. But he had the angle of the sideline kind of like Kenyan Drake and the Mighty Miracle Man. That one hurt running backs for he most are the first carry of the game, makes an unblocked man miss in the backfield, turns it right into a three yard game. What an

impressive runner he is. I sure liked his patient on that patience on that sixteen yard run on the toss left where Ingold comes in motion and wipes out the man the Hunter Long originally engages with, and then Hunter climbs and gets the dB out of the play. Liam Eikenberg stays on his block the entire time. Greg Little walls off the mic linebacker and the safety comes down and makes the play like that's perfect. You're just you know, your first contact is the safety twenty yards away. That's

his job to make that tackle. But springing your back untouched to that post shape post safety, that's chef's kiss man onto the offensive line. Obviously, not the best day I thought Connor Williams and Rob Hunt, who have had really good seasons, just not not their best days. Like high bars for both those guys, But I didn't think either of them stayed on blocks the way we've gotten used to through the first five games. That ineligible man

down field flag on Connor Ah, that was rough. I'm not really sure what happened on that play and against same with Rob didn't sustain in blocks like we're used to. Got fool a couple of times from the Vikings Rush games, including the hit that got Skyler knocked out of the game on Leah Meikenberg, a couple of times where he's kind of slow to come off the chip and double

and gets beat inside by a fitting backer. The first sack of the game is a late reaction to a twist once the man's all the way by him for a free run of the quarterback knocked out a field goal range. The hold on the Craycraft play just an absolute killer. The pressure is the reason Scholar is able to kind of create that way, but getting walked back right off the jump causes that hold because he was

retreating from the word go Greg Little. There was just a lot of oversets inside access beat around the post bull rushes. Just not his best tape either, obviously. I thought Brandon Shell played really well. The way he kind of shortens the runway the same type of way that Tehron Armstead does is impressive. He did really well to give himself all kinds of room to work in those one on one situations, which we asked him to do quite a bit of that, and he won for the

most part. On the deep shot that we tried to tyreek to start the third drive of the game, the Vikings have a three technique who was outside of Rob Hunt outside shoulder at right guard, and a wide nine, a two point stance rusher with Gassicki in the extra gap. So he's really got no clear you know, prestap information tell him where his block is. So Mike chips the

wide nine. So what Shell does is squeezes that outside rush of that defensive tackle to help Rob Hunt, but he puts himself in position to get depth with his secondary drop step once Gasicki releases the chip, which he does, and then Shell gets to that final landmark and just picks up to Darius Smith very cleanly, very very nice, good eyes, good feet. It all works in tandem. I'm

impressed by brand Schell. And then Teddy's very first drive of the game, he washes down the four eye that inside shoulder, you know, the player that lines up off the tackles inside shoulder on a reach block where he crossed his face and takes him right out of the play. Again. Run game pass game. Very impressed by brand show Mike Asicky loved the way he widened the zones on those quick slants jab step outside, cross face and stay on track through contact. Uh to reach out and pluck the

football off your frame. Good stuff from Mike there. Also loved the way he covered up on the touchdown catch, get the ball, put it away, didn't allow the defense a chance to make a breakup on it. Uh. Rough game for the other tight ends in the block game. I thought, that's the offense. Let's take our first break and come back into the defense. That's next. On the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you

by Auto Nation. Second segment on a long Tuesday podcast, picking it back up with the defensive All twenty two review, and we start upfront with Emmanuel Ogba. On the very first third down of the game, Kirk Cousins has Justin Jefferson wide open at the sticks, but the ball is high and the reason og Ball walks his man right into cousins lap and he has to get the ball over that big paw right in his face, and he

cannot do it. So that's a big impact right there, big reason why pressures are very important and not just sex guys. He made another super impressive play set in the edge where he gets off the block after getting outside and then coming back inside under the block to cut Dalvin Cook down for a three yard game. That's

the play right after Jalen Reagor's big punt return. Andrew Van Ginkl discards tight ends and the run game as well as anybody have ever seen, Like you can set your watch to it, and you can also say like, yeah, you're supposed to win those, but he always does. He shuts down their second play of the game doing this.

Then the second down on the next series gets off a block from IRV Smith forces Cook to bubble to avoid the tackle for loss, and that gives Baker enough time to scrape right over the top and usher Cook out of bounds for a gain of one. Trey Flowers has had some good reps. I hope he gets back healthy because he damn near gets himself a safety on

a stunt with Jalen Phillips. Which, by the way, how about the front on that play you talk about multiplicity, It was the Cousins throwaway in the end zone, Flowers over the nose, Baker mugged up in the B gap, which is tackled between tackle and guard. Phillips is the two eye, which is on the inside shoulder of one of your offensive guards, and then Ogba and Ingram are off the edges. It's a lot of pass brush talent on third and long. You get your tackles out of

the game. You bring all your defensive ends and edge outside linebackers. Both of the guys win Flowers and Phillips, and I have no idea how Cousins got that ball away. It saved him two points because Miami won that play big time. Christian Wilkins, the two plays he made after the failed fake punt doesn't just forced Justin Jefferson to bubble on the jet sweep, which is the number one key when you can get up field like that, He

gets him down for a six yard loss. The next play jab step right crossover left to get the left guard out over his skis, swims in, puts him on the ground, and greets Dalvin Cook right in the gap for another TfL And on that play, Phillips took his man right into the backfield, which created way more space for Wilkins to operate with Zach seeler Damn Near changed the game with an exceptional play on a Viking screen pass where he fights through a block and puts a

big paw on the football to jar loose Ah so close Ray Kwon Davis. That play was hurried by Davis on that screen when he just chucked his man right out of the club and got an immediate pressure on Kirk Cousins, which didn't allow the Vikings to set up the screen they were looking for their properly, as no one can get out to their blocks. Then the very next play he gets his sack where his initial punch sends the right guard tumbling and Davis just continues running

right through him for a sack. He had himself a nice game as well. The entire Dolphins defense played well. Man Landon Roberts gets pushed back on a climb from the tight end to clog up Cook's gap his track. They're trying to get that second level block, and he just greets him and takes him backwards. The very next play he spies Kirk Cousins and when Cousins hitches up,

Roberts closes and wham got him for the sack. He later came free on the a gap for another sack on Kirk Cousins as well, So a nice day for Landon Roberts. Jalen Phillips had a monster day in this game. On the first sack, it's one of the most absurd

reps I've seen. He gets off the initial chip attempt of one tight end, then here comes another tight end and split flow action and Phillips just steam rolls him like remember the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal gets the steam roller and runs a bunch of things over. It looked like that, like an actual steam roller. Then he stops on a dime, changes directions and gets Cousins for the back or from the back. I should say, all of his traits that we love we're on display.

On that single rep. He walks the left tackle right into cousins lap on the next play, who then has to take a check down on third and long later in the game, he condensed his inside once again in and runs the loop around the pick by Christian and man again the traits the way he turns the corner and scrapes off that pick from Wilkins. The burst through the change of direction is so super rare. This guy playing multiple positions like he's getting the job done. Then

Jim Phillips is playing awesome football right now. Xaviing Howard the past breakup on Minnesota's third drive, where he's covering Adam Thieland is absolutely textbook. First, he and Needham communicate their man coverage assignments as the short motion to stack, which gives you two receivers on top of each other. Kind of can confuse your defensive coverage that way, but

not when they communicate it well. Felands tries to create space on a curl, but X not only walls off the potential vertical throw, he works back down the stand while doing that. For the past breakup, that is vintage X. You take away the route with the ability to play the ball on the complete opposite of that route. It's doing two jobs at once. X does that so many times. He did it here, so very good. On the very next play, he zone turns, which is where you show man.

Then you put your butt to the sideline, get eyes in the quarterback and process from there. Passes off receiver, picks up the flat route and knocks him out of bounce for a two yard game. He was on fire in this game. I thought he Nick need him. Key on crossing no ignogamy as well. We're all playing their best games of the year. Nobody was open and that was pretty evident with how many times Cousins had to hitch up, pump, double clutch, all that stuff. He did.

On the Vikings first touchdown drive, get caught guessing on a Jefferson bluffed drag route where he then goes back out to the perimeter and x working through a pick, just runs inside to nobody and Jefferson's all alone for a coverage bust. He also kind of got beat on the theland touchdown, but you asked so much of a cornerback in this system, especially one of xaviing Howard's caliber. Those players are gonna happen to negatives out of the

whole game. Well three with the pick play from Jeffersons as well, out of you know, sixty snaps will take it all day long. Key on Crossing. That hand he had in there for the pass breakup on the Vikings third drive was awesome where he fights through some traffic from trips and drives on the inbreak to get his hand up in there. The complete lack of fear that he shows as well, sticking his face in there against

the run. It's just awesome We've we've seen in his career so far that he can play the run the screen game very well. He comes in there and nails Dalvin Cook after a very short pickup on their first touchdown drive in that first half. A good play from Crossing there. Shame to see him go out with injury as well. Brandon Jones again, that first crossing play where he gets the past break up. The hit that Jones put on Osborne on that play is also Chef's kiss.

Just such good team defense on so many plays in this game from Miami. He was in in good shape and coverage against tight ends all day was Brandon Jones had a really nice tackle after our first touchdown drive of the game in that fourth quarter to get the tight end to the ground. For a minimal game, you can use the momentum of the offense scoring touchdown get a quick stop on first down. Just really consistent tackling

throughout the course of this game. Being in good spots and finishing plays I thought was the bigges story for this defense. Nick Needa Man, he was playing so well. I feel so much for him on that injury. Get well soon, Nick, I know you'll come back even stronger

than before. Noah Bnogay the first play where he draws defensive past interference man, he was in great shape right there, panicked a little bit and got hit with the flag, But the way he responded the rest of the game I thought was really awesome to see for the young corner. His first pass breakup, he just won the route at every stage, one on one versus Adam feeling good jam releases at five yards, runs out of the break, has hands on the ball, but theeling breaks it up on

the backside. The very next play he blankets stealing again for no target. Then they come back to him on another vertical shot on the very next series and he's in phase and just erases any chance dealing has to make a play by pinning him to the sideline. And you know it looked like he was the receiver on the play. So another nice day here, or I should say a nice day here for Noah Ignogady. Justin Bethel the play on third and short, the throw where he

came and got feeling short of the sticks. What a nice read good job to pull the trigger and come out of that break, come up and make a play. I just thought the defense played really really well in this game. If they can keep that rolling, I like our chances to be in a lot of football games this year. It was really the Dalvin Cook run and the big play to jeff for Sin and we got caught on the pick and missed a couple of tackles

on the Cook run. But aside from that, man the quick change is tough on the Cook run and the big player Jefferson, But aside from that, it was it was really good all day for the Dolphins defense. Let's go ahead and take our second break and come back on the other side and do the numbers, the snap counts. And here from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday news conference, that's next Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,

brought to you by Auto Nation. We pick it back up here in segment three with Pro Football Focus and next Gen staff numbers looking at this Dolphins and Vikings sixteen defeat. Here in week number six, for the quarterbacks, it was a day under Durest with six sacks, nineteen hits, and thirty two pressures surrendered on fifty five dropbacks. Dolphins qbs were ten of sixteen for a hundred forty one

yards under pressure. It's not bad compared to twenty of thirty one with two hundred and seventy seven yards and kept clean. That's really good. From Pro Football Focus, Bridgewater on twenty plus yard throws was two of four for forty four yards and the ten to nineteen yard range, he was nine for thirteen with a buck thirty five,

a touchdown and two picks. He had two point eight eight seconds average time to throw two was at like two point five this year, up from two point three last year, so these are much longer numbers than one to a plays, which I don't know. It's kind of indicative of how he plays, but also how the scheme gives you just more time back there uh nine point four average depth of target and one drop, which of course led to the pick. Skylar Thompson had two throws

of twenty plus yards. He completed one of them for thirty yards. He was two for two on the intermediate throws in that ten to nineteen yard range for thirty six yards. His time to throw on average was two point six seven, so you know, two tenths of a second quicker, which is a lot of time in this league. Ten point six average depth of target to drop passes, but that average depth of target man these This team attacks vertically, creates space down the field. Pressures allowed. Its

nine for Greg Little was a rough tape. We know that. Leah Meickenberg three pressures, Connor Williams one, Robert Hunt three, and Brandon Shell too. From Pro Football Focus where he most dit forced three miss tackles on his fourteen carries. It's good for two point to nine average yards after contact. Tyreek had a hundred seventy seven yards on fifteen targets with a catch rate. What It's eleven point eight yards per target. It's four point oh two yards per route ran.

So eight yards per targets good. Two yards per rout rans good. He's four yards over the first mark, double the second mark. An absurd day. Did you guys see the amount of separation that he created on that fourth and five play where he's bracketed. It's crazy. He also forced three miss tackles and piled up sixty seven yards of rack. That's five point six average yack yards at

per catch. He leads the NFL with seven d one receiving yards and has the most receiving yards and franchise history through the first six games ever, Jalen Waddle caught six of ten for a buck twenty nine. That's twelve point nine yards per target, even higher than Tyreeks. It's two point six three yards per route ran. He had sixty eight rack yards on one forced miss tackle. It's an average of eleven point three YAK yards per catch. He is fifth among all receivers and YAK over expected

that next gen stat. He's fifth in the NFL and receiving with five hundred and thirty three yards. Mike Kasicki much improved gritty to go along with six grabs on seven targets for sixty nine yards nice that's nine point nine yards per target. On defense, Jalen Phillips leaves away with six pressures. Roberts, Wilkins, Ingram and Davis all have two apiece. Seiler, og Bob Baker and Flowers all had one pressure. Run stops Seiler and Jones Brandon Jones had

three each. Phillips, Wilkins, Roberts, and Ogba had two apiece, and seven players had one. The coverage snaps and yardage allowed x and coverage on thirty five snaps one ten yards allowed, forty seven of that on the one play obviously, but again Washington tape x has asked so much in this defense. Holland did not get targeted thirty four coverage snaps, no yards allowed. Out Brandon Jones twenty seven coverage snaps, just eight yards allowed on two targets. Again, he played

really well in this game. Noah aben Agny nineteen coverage snaps, no yards allowed. Oh for two on targets, one defensive pass interference, two pass breakups. Pretty good day for no aben Ageny, Keion crossing end coverage on eleven snaps, one yard allowed. Justin Bethel eleven coverage snaps, no yards allowed, and Nick Needon played coverage on nine snaps allowed eighteen yards. Again playing so well, but get well soon, man, So

you go. Those are your stats. Just go ahead and finish up with snap counts and head coach Mike McDaniel presser. On the offensive line, we went wire to wire without the first time this year, seventy eight snaps for all five of the offensive lineman. Waddle played sixty two snaps the Tyreeks sixty That's good. For seventy nine and seventy seven percent of the workload. Pretty good number there when you have the depth to kind of work guys in to keep those guys fresh and keep them at their

most dangerous. Teddy played fifty four snaps compared to twenty four for Skylar Thompson. Sherfield was third and receiver reps at fifty two. It's a pretty big development. The river cracrafts sevent teens, Cedric Wilson fifteen, and then at tight end Gaziki leads away with fifty snaps. That's sixty of the workload. Hunter Long played twenty one snaps and Tanner Conner eight and then at running back where he most hurt forty eight snaps to Chase Edmonds is thirty one.

That's a snap workload, which means obviously a two percent of that. They're both out there together and alec Ingold played one third of the snaps with twenty six snaps played On defense. Javon Holland, Jerome Baker and Xabing Howard did not leave the field. They played all fifty two snaps. Christian Wilkins is absolutely insane forty nine snaps percent of the workload and twelve special team snaps. He's an absolute machine. Brandon Jones played forty eight just left the field for

four snaps out there. Ray Kuan Davis is conditioning pretty good. Forty snaps for him. Zach Seeler thirty eight snaps. Jalen Phillips thirty eight snaps, Emmanuel Ogba thirty six snaps. Elandon Roberts was your second highest snaptaker a linebacker with seventy. With a thirty nine, I should say that's seventy of the workload. Mill of An Ingram played twenty four snaps. A bit of a departure from the last couple of games.

Andrew Van Ginkle played twenty snaps. There you go. He gets an increased workload there and made the most of it. I thought it, but now Gonna played thirty one snaps at corner That was the third highest snaptaker. Check that second highest snaptaker at cornerback. Needham played thirteen cross and twelve, Bethel thirteen as well. Eric Row had eleven. Tindall played two snaps, Duke Riley one snap, and Trey Flowers the one snap he had was impactful, but that was it

for him. So there you go. There's your snap counts. Let's go ahead and finish up the podcast here with head coach Mike McDaniel, who gave us all kinds of updates on a very banged up Dolphins team. The plan is to have to enter the week as the starting quarterback, so it sounds like we're gonna have two a back on Sunday Night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Byron Jones. No timetable yet. He will not return to practice this week,

so we'll wait and see. On number twenty four, we will see about Toron Armstead, who coach said the time off was very beneficial for him and it will be day by day for him. Same deal with Austin Jackson

come back from that high ankle sprain. Seene how well he can get back out there and ready to go with his second week of practice now in that twenty one day activation window, Nick need, I'm gonna go on I R. Skyler Thompson's thumb has him day to day, which coach says is kind of a bucket that our entire team seems to be in in that day to day plan. Let's go ahead and play a couple of sound bites here from head coach Mike McDaniel, starting here

with what twos return means of the football team. Well, I mean I think, uh, you know, he's he's a captain. He's a captain for the reason for a reason, um and as of I told you guys um from the onset, I think he's a very very good player at that position. So um, very very good players. They they definitely give people, um a boost. I'm not because of what other people aren't, but more just because he is who he is. So um. You know, he's uh strong fabric of this team and

that's that's exciting. UM. When when you when you get to go play with with one of your brothers, which is why the team will will be excited and it will be exciting. We are all very excited about that. Next, coach was asked about if you will request to a two kind of change his play style, about some of

the hits that he's taken in the pocket. Back there, here's coach talking about the approach to live to fight another down for your QB one talk to him, Um, you know a lot sooner than this week, you know, um, when we were when you'd come by the office and we just kind of talked about, you know, how how things have h how things have kind of gone you know this this is there's risks in this game. Um, and you've got to be able to control the controllables. One thing for him is, uh is you love his

competitive nature. Okay, but there is a time um uh in a play where you have to kind of concede UM. And that's where he's, uh, where he's kind of been focusing on because it's something that's not natural to him. He he wants to break every tackle and and um. And he he doesn't like when players don't work well sometimes they won't, so he that's something that um, he's

mindful of. UM. And I think that that uh, that's a consistency of you know, all the really great quarterbacks that you think of, you know, the guys that you look up to, the guys that kind of set forth the example of how to play the position. Um. They do find ways to be available. And part of that is that concession. Um. But that that is a a all things consider that's probably you know, it's a good

good problem to have in terms of a competitor. You just need to be able to understand your your importance to the team and and how sometimes the best play

you can make is a throwaway. Really good stuff there from Coach will finish up with this quote about Jalen Waddle, and I asked the question because I was curious to hear how Coach felt about this, because as a fan, you know, I love the camaraderie and the brotherhood of the NFL, and you know, you go get your jersey swap, you talk to the next college teammate or your buddy

after the game. But I also kind of like it when I see someone like Jalen Waddle very upset about the fact that, you know, the ball slipped out of his hand there at the end of the game and it was a costly turnover and he was upset about it. And so I asked, Coach, does it kind of does it fire you up to see a guy that's that's so fiery himself, And then it clearly means so much too. Here's Coach talking about that moment for Waddle and how he can channel it positively into his play. Well, it's

definitely a case by case for him in particular. Um, you know, I I recognize it as a as a good thing in nature like it's good that you're mad, UM, but you know he's a he's a young player that um is going to have a wonderful career and we rely on him to you know, make plays for us.

So uh to me, I think, you know, the one of the things that he can take a step forward and is being able to translate that frustration towards the next play rather than um his helmet and the side and the sideline bench because people understand where he's coming from, but also what he aspires to be as a player, UM and what I want to see him get to. UM. When you're a big time leader, uh, you you end up you end up translating that energy. UM. Four things

between whistles. So UM it was it was definitely not a negative thing, but something that I could UM that I that used the opportunity to to try to UM give him a picture and a vision of you know, growth moving forward, because things will happen that you don't want to happen. You know. He was he uh uh regardless, he was trying to catch the first turnover UM that

bounced off of him was an interception. Then he was trying to score when he lets let the ball be a little loose and UM twenty two made a terrific play. That isn't that is coming from the right place. He's trying to help the team win. UM. And then you can just learn from those examples because they're very powerful and UM emotional because that's the type of competitor he is, and the competitor he is is why he is my favorite player in the National Football League. All right, that's

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