Week 8 Film Room, Dolphins Lions – Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

let me check 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, I am fired up to bring you the Aftermath Podcast as we peel back the curtain on Miami's seven win in Detroit. We'll go over the tape, talk about two's big day, Tyreek Jalen, the entire offense, tell you where it went right and wrong on defense,

give you the key stats and snap counts. And here from head coach Mike McDaniel and his Monday afternoon press conference. All of that and a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and

dive right into the film off the top. We have a lot to get to, especially on the offensive side of the football, and we start with two a tongue of by Lowa's big, big day, and I start here in order of his game and the ball handling was the first thing that releastood out to me on his

game tape. And the fact that we can throw those glance routes which are off the r p O looks the quick little skinny slants inside where you see him basically hit the back of his drop and fire that football out there quickly coming off an r p O. Look his ability to go against the flow of the play action fake from the gun, so like Raheema is at two his left and for a quarterback when he pulls the ball back out of his belly, that typical side of the throw is the opposite side of the

running backs flow on that play to a can pull the ball out and his mechanics right and throw to either side with such quickness and accuracy. It truly is a marvel to watch something going back to his Alabama tape that has been so so good. And by the way, on the first one the Sanders fumble, Mike runs the flat and during this entire operation which is less than two seconds to checks the flat and that widens the defender that too is working off of for the glance

to Sanders into the second level of the defense. So within two seconds to it has to put the ball in the belly of the running back, pull it back out, come off the back of that drop, check the flat to move the defender, and then put the ball in behind the hook linebacker. All of that under two seconds is high, high level quarterback play for this for this

young man. And how about the throw to kick start the second possession of the game, ten yard dropped back to his own to any far hash and drills when the tyreek hill along the perimeter to the forty one yard lines, thirty one yards from the far hash, right on time, right on target, plenty of velocity and zip to get that ball out there. I'll touch on that more here in just a minute. And my goodness, the third and thirteen conversion to Tyreek is so so good.

I'm gonna explain to you why Tyreek is so special but also can be difficult to hit perfectly in stride on a vertical pass here in just a moment, but you get to look at it right here, four lines defensive backs in zero coverage. You're at the sticks, seven men up on the line, and they're all coming. All seven guys are going to rush the quarterback here against I think we had four eligibles. One quarterback makes five.

That means we have six and protection, so one more than you can block, right, which means to one knows he's hot, he knows he's gonna get pressure unblocked most likely. And Tyreek is running a forty yards sprint and he eats up the first ten yards and is past the defense. I use a lot of handheld time around this one

because there were so much things happening quickly. He runs past the defense and one point nine five seconds that's the average time on three handheld blocks I use on the film, and to A throws it when Tyreek is four yards from clearing them, like a new definition of if he's even he's leaving, if he's within four yards he's leaving is our definition, apparently, and with pressure into his face. The ball is right on Tyreek forty five yards down the field from where he threw the football.

That's a FreeRunner coming down the b gap there in less than two seconds and two it doesn't even have time to set his feet. And that's when he doesn't really have the sixty sixty five yard throws what we've seen from him. When he's not set, he's not gonna make those throws. And you can't set against this particular look.

It's a tough throw to make, and the best part of it all, he throws it in a way that allows him to protect himself from a big shot where he rolls that left shoulder out of the play altogether and gets his back turn of the defense. You're not gonna take a big shot that way. It's high level play, high anticipation, high pre snap, high post snap, high accuracy,

high delivery, everything high level on that play. The next throw, they come back to the glance look they saw to the Braylan Sanders throw in the first drive, and this time is Jalen Waddle, and this time the hookbacker is there, but to a just says, all right, all you ball placement to throw around you, and I believe this is the throw Mike was talking about. And we'll hear from

him in the press conference. When I asked him on Monday, what stood out to you on to his tape that really made you think he played the game at a high level. He talked about red zone location. I'm pretty sure this is the one that he's talking about where two of sees that hook defender and just says, okay, I'll throw the ball off the back shoulder of Wattle and I'll explain Waddles play or part in that play under his breakdown, because he was very good there as well.

Touchdown number one. I broke this down a little bit on Sunday Show, but I have a correction to make. I thought it was a hybrid coverage, but it's not. I thought it was man zone, but it's man across

the board. But even still, trying to cover seventeen on an over route and man coverage is really tough because first off, he's operating from trips and the releases they take they all switch, like the inside guy doesn't go to the inside route, the outside guy doesn't go to the outside route, and that's going to really confuse a ban joe call, which is where you have three defensive backs or sometimes two defensive backs trying to say, hey,

you got first in, I got last out. It's tough to communicate when you get those switch releases, and it causes them to be a beat late, which gives Wattle inside access, so you're already scheming him up to an advantage over his defender. And then from there, the backside of the formation is Shutfield on a little snag route just shy of the goal line, with Tyreek running the flat.

From the backfield. You see three defenders collapse on those two rights to those two routes to the back side of the formation, and then here comes Waddle over the top, who carefully picks his way through the defense in a way that doesn't let him get rerouted, so to sets up to Tyreek first, and that takes his next progression up higher. It's low to high two Trent Shirtfield, and

here's the part I love the most. Shutfield very wisely continues his route inside and two attracts him, so once he's already pulled those defenders up, he then pulls them off to the side to create maximum space in the back of the end zone. And you see the backer who's really the only guy that has a chance left to possibly get in the way of Wattle. You see

him chase Shrfield inside. Then here comes Jalen wide open, and from there it's the easiest touchdown pass you can have, perfect low to high read, great eyes, great protection to afford him, the time, design execution. All of it was beautiful. On the very next play is a forty two yard pass from to a tongue of Byloa to Tyreek Hill. And please allow me to tell you why there's no quarterback on Earth who is going to lead Tyreek streaking into the end zone on this play, let's play action

with a moving pocket. To A has to retreat back to the right after flowing left and does a great job to climb up around a rusher, and he also sets up in gold for a good angle to get him that block. By the time that Toa does all this and resets at his own twenty yard line and loads up for a deep shot, Tyreek is at the opposite forty. That's forty yards away. We already told you Tyreek can show up thirty yards and just over three seconds, and a ball that travels forty yards in the air,

it's gonna take three seconds to get there. That's just how it works. That's how gravity works, right, I think we understand gravity. So for him to hit Tyreek and stride, he's gonna have to throw this ball to the end zone eighty yards away from his own twenty yard line. Not Josh Allen, not Patrick Mahomes, nobody can make death throw. Okay, nobody. Instead to us, he's an open receiver and just throws it into a pocket that's clear forty yards downfield. Tyreek

makes an uncontested catch forty yards down the field. Think about that. Are we gonna get mad about that about a receiver making catch forty yards uncontested downfield? Isn't that what you want? I'll take it. Touchdown Number two comes a few plays later. The slot fade, and this one's even prettier, just beautiful in every sense of playing. The quarterback position. First motion indicates man coverage with two high safeties. After the snap, the safety show their hand. They both squat.

Their goal is to bracket tenants seventeen, but the problem for them is the field safety. The one closest to that side of the field of the throw squats on Tyreek's crossing route, and then the boundary safety who's way too far to get over the top of help for for Jalen's route. He's he's left with nothing to do because he wants to take Tyreek where the field side safety should have taken the slot fade, but to what takes the snap and you see his helmet go right

to that squatting safety and then the hand separate. He says he's squatting. Jalen has one one on the slot fade. He's not gonna lose that route. He didn't, and he lets it. He lets it fly, and the indicator was that safety squatting right, So he's applying his knowledge of the offense like that. It's high level stuff and the ball is right on the outstretched hands of Waddle for a touchdown pre snapper, post snap application a handoff from thirty yards away. Can you do it any better than that?

I say no. Perhaps my favorite throw of the day is the next drive third and thirteen two has Tyreeke and Trent and condensed splits to the field. What does that mean? The fields the wide side of the formation that condensed splits mean they're inside the number, so you

have space to work on possible out routes. Tyreek is the one, which means he's closest to the quarterback and he pushes right up the sema a little skinny post where he just uses that four to speed and takes off and that removes the safety and the inside hookbacker. Surefield runs off of that a little pivot route back to the outside off of the wide corner from his two position the furthest I'm sorry I had those backwards, the ones the furthest out. Two is the furthest in.

So from the one position out, Tyreek is the two position in. He runs that pivot route to the outside and two drills it from the far hash before Trent has even settled into his pivot route, and the ball just drills him right between the one and the four twenty yards down the field from the throw and from the far hash. Argue to a wall about arm strength. Man, I'm just I'm not. I'm not. I an't here anymore. It's not the calling card of his game, but it's plenty,

plenty good enough. And I don't know about you, but i'd rather have my franchises quarterbacks calling card be a trait that shows up on of the plays opposed to a trait that's applicable are magnified on like ten percent, give or take. Call me crazy. So you know the deep shot, the tyreek that we just missed, the one that was between two defenders, the one that we were flagged for for a legal shift. Yeah, that ball was dropped. Go look, go back and look at it. To put

that thing right on the money. Wouldn't count it anyway, but it was a great throw. Next drive, I did a freeze frame on a dig at Jalen runs and when the ball is coming out, there's a safety right in front of two of but twenty five yards down the field. There's a linebacker just to the right of two A fifteen yards down the field, and Wattle is even further to the right of him, eighteen yards down the field to A drills it right to a spot between all of them, and here comes number seventeen flying

in to make the play. Two us feel for how to locate the ball differently for man and zone coverage is another one of those subtle intangibles that you just don't see when you're watching the game on Sundays. That's why you come to the podcast here to get the end depth breakdown from a guy that can tell you

for the last four years this quarterback is special. We're seeing it play out on plays like that and Man, the throw of Trent Shutfield that he was ruled down the one to it takes a shotgun snap and as he turns to hit the back foot one step catch rock throw opens the hips to clear the throwing lane, separation of the hands, and the ball is out before

Sherefield has even gotten off stemming his man. What is stemming, It's where you try to square your guy up so you can put him in position best to make your move to create separation. You want his shoulders to be even with your shoulders to get that move correctly. Two way go executed. By the time he gets to his landmark, the ball is located with the accuracy of a handoff and it helps Trent sling shot right into the end zone with a tremendous effort to reach it out over

the goal line and real quick. On Trent Surfield, his blocking remains stupendous. He is such a good player. Man. The block he made on the little end around the Tyreek was absolutely textbook. The third touchdown pass or the fourth touchdown pass you want to call that you already heard. McDaniel mentioned the fourth read and the progression on that play,

Dolphins are four by one to the field. That means four guys on the wide side of the field, one eligible to the boundary with Waddle as the running back and most Dirt motioning to the perimeter where he's just gonna go occupy space and be a horizontal stretch piece, not even running around. He just goes to the sideline

stands there. The snapshot the two has when he goes to throw this is Raheem at the fifteen yard line along the sideline, chilling, Jalen and Tyreek hooked up at the sticks, meaning they've already show the numbers of the quarterback. They ran their little hook routes and they're blanketed. And then Mike Gasicki is in behind two defensive backs and

over the top of an underneath defender. The throw is just over the underneath defender and between two defensive backs, and it settles Mike's position away from the defensive backs, away from the hit to create great throw and how about finishing off the game by creating extra time with a scramble to find Tyreek for that last first down to bring on victory formation. What a freaking game to that's all they can say. How about Tyreek Hill? What a game for him to the ground that he covers

from the release. This is a guy that can get thirty yards down the field in like three seconds. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. Jam him, find a way to get him from clean releases because he is too explosive for that. And for a quarterback to even have a chance to hit him and stride. He literally has to catch rock throw, which is essentially the setup you have for screen passes. It's it's really crazy to watch.

You see it on that opening play of Drive to where he works off a stag or there's a receiver in front of him from a nasty split, which means he's in close to the formation right by the tight ends and he gets a free release because of this. The off corner turns his hips right after the snap, and because Tyreek is full pedal to the post, he has to get depth. He has to turn his hips and run vertically because if he doesn't. There's a chance that the Dolphins have a vertical shot on that you're

gonna leave Tyreek Hill alone downfield like Baltimore did. You can't have that. So the minute he takes off deep, Tyreek just goes ahead and throttles down, breaks it out five yards separation anticipation throws right there, doesn't give the cornerback time to recover because Twah is so good with the anticipation throws his concentration. Tyreeks with things that should take, that should take. His ability to catch contested football's more

difficult is so impressive. He just doesn't get rattled by you know, color flashing in his face, arms and hands flying in front of his face mask. He's got the quiet hands that don't go for the football until it's right there, and then he just cradles it and hangs on his route on the slot fade touchdown is such a good example of brotherhood routes where you're not getting

the football. I mean, he he could have, but he has to get off that line quickly and runs this incut with the urgency that clears before Wattle gets there on his takeoff, and he does it because he's so fast and because he's committed to run in the route.

Tyreek doing this drew the safety and took away help from forty one A J. Parker, who you guys remember we we sat We highlighted him on the preview podcast, taking a look at a guy that you know we could get these slot fades and takeoff routes and over routes. From there, you go touchdown past Tyreek and Jillen Big on that play I talked about to his recognition of man and zone. The way Tyreek paces his routes and understands where the windows are again zone is also special.

We obviously know what he does to man coverage, but he can do it again zone as well. He also catches a twenty yard or so curl route on the opening drive of the third quarter, and I just love how to is seeing it man. When Tyreek turns his back, he doesn't have to wait, like we're not wasting that separation that his speed by pushing up is creating the balls on him right when he turns back to the orderback.

It maximizes what his speed does to push those safeties back, and it creates some yacht opportunities which we haven't had quite yet, but we will. And not all quarterbacks can throw it before it's clear that it's there. There was a quarterback we traded a second round draft pick for a few years ago that had to see it before he threw it. Not having to see it first really accelerates the anticipation process and maximizes what Tyrek and Jalen

speed do on the field. He gets a punctuation on the game with a wheel route on the last drive, which is deflected, but his concentration is good enough that he still makes the catch anyway. He's He's crazy man, Jalen Waddle fourth and four motion on that play, I d s man coverage with Waddle taking the three to the field side of the formation that's closest into the the formation, inside leverage from the cornerback that does not want to let him cross, which from that possession is

a good time to run the over route. He pushes that route like it is a crossing route, and it puts that dB back on his hills heels, I should say. Jalen then snaps it off and to it puts it right on the money move the chains. Jalen is pretty reliable on third downs man. He makes a lot of tough catches like that, and he's the ability to adjust at the speed that he plays no less is just outstanding, Like settles into a spot, turns back and snatches the ball off of his frame. That was that glance route

I talked about earlier. Just to make those hands catches is so valuable. We have more coming on that later. His acceleration with the ball in the air on the slot fade touchdown was amazing. The balls out of his hands out of to his hands. I should say when Jalen is at the twenty three yard line, he makes the catch at the four yard line, it's two point

one nine seconds. I put it on the clock three times to track a football, so you're not like in a full sprinter sprint, but tracking the football twenty yards are covering twenty yards and two seconds. It's a cheat code. Same thing I said about Tyrek of understanding windows two and they open how to maximize your time in that zone. It reminds me of hitters in baseball. You want to keep your bat in the zone for the maximum time because it gives you the most time of barrel to

baseball potential. It's what these guys do against own coverage and to have had that one ball that I thought got away from him, but Jalen caught it. Anyways, the play action role with Wattle on the over route, he leaps and snags it off of his frame. What a special special player to do that while you're rolling at four three speed is ridiculous. Let's go ahead and take our first breaks. Were so deep into the podcast, we'll come back into the rest of the offense defense numbers

here from head coach Mike McDaniel. Gonna be a long

one today. Buckle up, We're still got plenty more come Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, Resuming here on a Tuesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast, picking it back up with the offense with the running backs and Raheem Moster, who I just love the way he presses blocks to hold lanes but also to compressed defenders into the blocks like they're already there, but he presses it and it kind of shortens the

runway for guys to be able to detach from their blocks. It makes it easier on our running back or our offensive lineman too whole blocks because of the way he does that the first play, they opened a massive gap and the design of the play is so cool because the entire right side from right tackle to center gets push and then Liam Eichenberg, who played great by the way, hits a second level reach and walls it off, and then Tehron also reaches his block on the first level

and gets that walled off. And the counter action they have in Gold he peels back against the flow after the snap and that's where raheem presses backside before getting to his gap. It's just really impressive work the way they're kind of reading it and feeling the design of this really complex running game. It's getting closer and closer every week, and they're getting a hundred yard games every week now. Three in the last four, Chase Edmonds had a really nice scan and protect on the fourth and

fourth conversion. Shell wins his rip. Hunt takes the three tech and and just wipes him out, and then Chase has to step up for Malcolm Rodriguez blitz up in the A gap and he gets up in there and Stone walls him. Great work from Chase Edmonds on that play. On the very next play, they get similar action from Ingold where he does a little fake inside, counter back outside, he leaks out into the flat and two gets him

for seven yards. Just so much to contend with for opposing defense is all the I can do you have on this d on this offense. And speaking of Ingold, just a shout out in generals with a thankless job that he executes every single week. He gets some key lee blocks, opens up the playbook has tons of effort plays where he goes out and just hammers a block outside the numbers. He's a fun player man. The deep shot from two to Tyreek for forty two yards was

a great work by both of those guys. Obviously great design to roll the pocket on play action and move the rush points of all those guys. But the guy that afforded too of the time that he needed to hit Tyreek was alec Ingold peeling back on a block for Aiden Hutchinson. Just really good work from number thirty. And then the effort on his touchdown run first of his career, by the way, it was so nice he almost didn't get in, but second effort push it across

the line. Also have to love the call. I mean they even faked me out. I bought the confusion as real as we're watching the game live, I'm like, no, what's going on? Time out? Time out? Challenge the previous play, but it worked. Speaking of effort, the block on two is scrambled, which just we appreciate you so much. Alec, Like, what a valuable asset you are man downfield making blocks for your quarterback, big, big time on the offensive line, I think this line is starting to really play as

one singular unit opposed to five individuals. You can see it clicking like love analogies. And even though I kind of hate this one, I can't think of a better way to describe this to me. It's kind of like the human centipede. You guys seeing that movie, one of

the worst movies ever made. It's like one body with ten arms and ten legs, and you see the lions try to slant and twist some looks, and our guys are just simultaneously, you know, slanting their shoulders and getting their angles right in the direction to square up both moves off the stunt. This guy wants to go this way, this guy wants to go that way. We have it picked up because we are so in tune that we angle these things off and wall them off, we slide together.

We don't pass off until we know we have covered. If you watch it closely, I think you'll understand what I mean. Offensive lines playing really well. Right now. We're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel on that here in just a moment. Connor Williams had an excellent block early on riding down the wave. He got down the line like three gaps and stayed on a block, then turned the guy out when he tried to disengage. Just really crafty, veteran stuff he does to get good angles

in the blocking game. Really having a hard time finding bad raps on his tape man. He is consistently getting movement, teaming up with guys on doubles, holding up in pass pro. He's been fantastic. So as to Ron Armstead, everything is so so good. He's so patient getting to his spots, the initial moves, the counter moves, the variety of those moves. He's got an answer for everything you want to throw

at him. Hutchinson really emptied his entire arsenal in this game, and I thought it was funny watching him get frustrated as the game went along because he didn't get anything, and those off tackle runs to t Stad's side. He just makes his sets and approaches look so similar. It reminds me of great pitchers in baseball, and really Felix Fernandez, who's fastball and change up look the exact same, but it's ten miles an hour difference. Which how do you

hit that? No one did hit Felix. It's tough to tell what he's doing until it's too late for the defensive end. Is he coming to get me in pass pro? Is he coming to get me in the running blocking game? Oh? There goes the back. It's it's tough to deal with. He widened the b gap for Raheem's twelve yard pop in this game that you could have driven a mack truck through. John Madden would have been going crazy over

that one. Rest in peace, John Mann. Rob Hunt got a great pancake block on the holding call on the second drive where he just worked down the line and buried a defender. He does that every single week. Brandon Shell is really really good. He's really good the pulling play side. Early in this game, he gets himself a bang outside the numbers where he wallops a linebacker and takes him off the play that's so tough to do

in space for a for a big offensive lineman. I can't tell you how hard that is for an offensive lineman to do. This man had so many disrespectful reps. And I'm saying that in the most like the most complementary way I can about an offensive lineman just holding guys off with one arm while the feet are still moving, like I got you. I'm checking someone else, but I got you over here, like get away a little bugger, and then hits the initial punch with such force that

guys are bouncing off of him. He made Hutchinson look like a child at times in this game. It's it's impressive man in the past bro, it just doesn't seem to matter if he has to honor the inside or outside post, going either direction. You can tell at second nature for him to engage and then keep his feet under his knees, under his hips, under his shoulders. He's not often pushed pulled off balance. He can rework his hands to get back into favorable positions if he loses initially,

he's really good man. The play after the rep that we that made me right the above, he has to reach a four eye technique, he gets all the way inside, latches on, then you see him just flip his butt into the gap and wallet off. He's playing at an unbelievably high level right now on you know, on a variety of looks uh leam, Eichenberg Man. The injury shure sucks, doesn't it. But he's playing because he was playing so

well these last two games. There's examples of him sifting through rush games and picking up the right guy by squaring him up getting pushed. In the Running game, there was a snap where he pulled on run action then sells into past protection, just patiently gets to a spot in control, drops the anchor, and stops the rush dead in his tracks. His pad level was also exceptional in this game. He was digging out guys who were playing low themselves to get movement on a guy who clearly

wants to just jam up a gap. That's the mark of a great run blocker. I thought Liam was doing it very well in this game. I also just thought he was great hitting guys on chips and combos in a way that stunned him, that allowed Connor William's job to be easier, where he would just swallow him up like swallow guys up like he does so often. And then Rob Jones the first snap that he gets second level wall off on Raheem most starts twelve yard run.

On Raheem's nine yard run to start the last drive, he took a man three gaps away from the place. Maybe Rob Jones can play too. I don't know everyone's playing it on the offensive line right now. The sacks, the first one was just a great call execution timing by Malcolm Rodriguez. He timed up his run in a way that made him tough to I d with late movement, but he's got the quickness to get in their fast two and never had a chance. And then hat tipped

to them on that one. But also the second one that was similar because they brought more guys that we could block and they just time their bits as well. That's all it was. Sometimes the defense wins. Let's go ahead AND's been over to the defense here. Uh, let's take our second break here in a minute. We'll get to this in the snap counts. But some interesting formations we haven't seen a lot of. We saw more seven

man fronts, and we have all season. The fewest Nickel looks we've seen all year, and a lot of that has to do by the Lin's offense. We talked about their propensity to play those twelve personnel packages in the wake of some receiver injuries they've had. Did a lot in the game here as well, but we also stayed in those base looks against some eleven personnel packages. But that allowed the lines to get some favorable passing matchups

against our linebackers. I think it's something you're gonna see going forward if you do that more so, maybe you need an ability to counter that. Maybe, Jane Kendal Duke Riley, I don't know. Speed to me is the answer to that, honestly. I just thought the Lions did a really good job with their spacing and Goff saw it really well. Those big plays are the big play of t J. Hockinson. McKinley clamps the flat hall and rotates over the top, but the ball is just out before we can get there.

It's good quarterback play. He really did well to take advantage of some of the space on zero looks Jared Goff did and throw out to spots with anticipation. He played a great game. First play of the game, we miss a tackle and stand over the guy and taunt him at mid which puts the ball at midfield. That's just ridiculous start of the game. That's gotta get cleaned up. Uh. DeAndre Swift touchdown is a tough route for Baker to

cover with a two way go. You know, Swift stems him, squares him up and then you're gonna get a lot of guys in that situation. But he really got Baker good with a little head nod outside, widened him and then bend back across face with a touchdown. We did see Baker's best later in the game, taking on two blockers on his pick stunt to free up Zack Seeler. That's where he's best a gap brushes, get pressure on the quarterback. Love seeing him back in that role. Plenty

of variety in this game from a coverage standpoint. I think between that and the fact that you had so many new pieces out there, so many new members of the defense with different looks, like the deep ball of Cliff Rayman cover three, we wind up jumping short and don't take the deep third. There's a conversation there between a couple of players about what happens on that place so, and I think that when you're working at these young guys in all this depth you have from to call upon,

you're gonna get some of that. I think there was more of that in this game than there have been in the previous really several games here for this Dolphin secondary. Then penalties. Obviously we're a killer, always seemingly coming at times where we get stops too, although eight accepted penalties tells you there was other times as well. But just gotta get that cleaned up. Man. Jillen Phillips was again really good. The second player of the game was crazy man.

There's a crackback on his outside shoulder from receiver and a lead pull on his inside shoulder from the guard. He splits those two and then ends back out, leaves them both blocking each other, and strings DeAndre Swift out to the sideline for a gain of one. I hope you can appreciate how good that is despite it not

being a splash play. He had a really nice rush on a throw where Golf has to speed up his entire operation at the end of the first half where Taylor Decker came and got him and tried to shorten the runway, but Phillips just dipped the shoulder and used the acceleration to shorten the corner and forced Golf off of his spot. He had another really good game, so

does Zach Seeler. Just awesome. If he wasn't resetting the line in the running game or winning with his pass rush, he was getting his hands up and impacting the quarterback's vision and getting his hands on football's His strength is on display on the sack man. He got knocked back on the left guard on that sack with the initial punch and then loops around and flattens to Golf. Exceptional

rep teaching tape there from Zach Seeler. On his very next snap the next drive, he just completely discards the left guard and puts more heat on Jared Goff. Then the next series he takes his man right into the backfield, gets off the block and makes a TfL. He had a bunch of big plays and that really good second

half from the Dolphins defense. Og Ball was in on the sack as well, with the pressure of his own had another great rap later in the game where on the on the final drive I should say, where he made Golf feel him and made a move off the spot so ag Boston good late past rushes. Duke Riley had a great plan of swing route where he got underneath the blocker and closed down for a huge TfL, but it was a penalty. I just think his speed

and his collision show up every single week. Cater Man, I come out of games, even if there's a couple of plays you'd like to have back, so impressed by his ability to stay in phase and coverage. He's to me he's the second best cover guy in the team right now, not giving up lot of separation in situations

where he's up and press. He made a heck of a play on the game winning fourth and two stop running right with the wide receiver not getting grabby when Reynolds extended his hands and put his hands on Cater That can cause a natural reaction to grab back, and sometimes rest will flag that. Plus, his tackling is so consistently great, not good great. I thought X was close

a few times, but overall not his best game. He'd give a step off the line a few times and then was in chase and golf was so accurate that he couldn't really pull those vintage undercut I n T s. We've gotten so used to seeing with him, but it was close a few times, just didn't quite make a play. Javon Holland had so many big hits, and there was a play on the first drive where the tight end gets free and Javan just comes downhill and wallops him.

On the second drive, he flies in and cuts down Swift in a one on one situation in the gap. His play speed against the run and passes up there with the best of the position. His punch out on that st brown and completion was a thing of beauty, clicks and clothes. Is quick enough to get over the top and then hits the strikes down with the punch man. When a game he played upon that rewatch, getting off blocks out wide on screens, just chucking guys out of

the club, arriving with big collisions. I'm surprised he hasn't jarred more balls free this year, the way he squares guys up and runs through his tacklers just rather punishing. He got some more opportunities down in the box in this game and made the most of them. I thought, I hope we see more of that stringing out runs sure tackling on shorthook cup passes, fighting through screens, rushing the quarterback. He really does it all man Keion crossings

coverage and that slot fade was textbook perfect. Too bad it was he raising an off sides penalty. Thought no eg Bnalogady got lost in space a couple of times. Thought von McKinley's instincts were on on display, but also a little bit slow a few times to get over the top on some plays. And then the final four plays of the game. First down, Christian Wilkins stacks double team, Steeler beats his block as they team up for a TfL and ray Kwon Davis held his ground there too.

Great rep from all three of those guys to get that first down stop. Second down, og Ball's bull rush runs the right guard right into the quarterback. Phillips wins off the opposite edge and it makes Golf throw mesh before it can develop. And good thing too, because it was wide open and I think st. Brown might have had a huge play if we did not get those

wins from Ogbond Phillips. Third down, good on good Man, good coverage, good job finding the check down by Golf, and then a great effort by Hawkinson to make it fourth and two and then fourth down we dial up zero coverage X blankets. His man gets his best rep of the day. Cater does the exact same thing cross and gets a good jam on the other side. The pass rush does not get home, so there's time this time, but Golf takes the shot down field because of good coverage.

Cater makes the play. We talked about what a four place stand for the defense to get off the field for the last time. Let's go ahead and our last break right here. We'll come back and do the numbers. We'll do snap counts. We will do Mike mcdonnel's press conference on Monday afternoon. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Final segment here on a Tuesday edition of the Drivetime podcast The Autopsy,

one of my favorite podcasts do every single week. Let's go ahead and pick it back up with the numbers here, starting with PFF next jan leaderboards to A in the game. These are gonna sound fake, by the way, because they just sound fake. Twenty plus air yards four for five one thirty one a touchdown, a perfect passer rating ten to nineteen eleven for thirteen one sixty three and two

touchdowns and a perfect passer rating. You put all throws of ten plus air yards together, It's fifteen for eighteen, two hundred and ninety four yards, three touchdowns, and a perfect passer rating when he was blitzed seven of eight for a hundred yards, a touchdown, and a perfect passer rating when he was not blitzed twenty eight with two hundred and eighty two yards and two touchdowns and a one thirty two point four passer rating when he was under pressure four for seven eighty six yards and a

one sixteen point seven passerwading. He was percentile and e p a per play, nine percentile on a DOT percentile and completion percentage over expected, and those are measured for all quarterbacks in all games. Those are the percentiles this game ranked for two a tongue of by Low. On the season twenty plus air yard throws, he's fifteen for twenty four for four eighty seven, four touchdowns and two picks.

In the ten to nineteen yard range, he's thirty nine for fifty seven with six sixty five five touchdowns and a pick. Total ten plus air yard throws this year fifty four eight one, one thousand one hundred and fifty two yards, nine teddies, three picks in a passer rating of one thirty one point three. Yeah, that's sixty seven percent. Completion percentage on ten plus air yard throws would be

eight among all other quarterbacks on all throws. Take away all his passes under ten air yards, the one that he apparently only ever throws right, and he's still eighth in the NFL, and completion percentage insane. Only eight teen point eight percent of the yards that we had on Sunday came after the catch. So that narrative that I heard a lot about on Sunday, watch the game. One

drew two on the year. Passer rating one twelve point seven first y p A nine point oh first QBR seventy eight point eight first net yards per attempt that includes sack yards lost eight point three one yards per drop back. It's first touchdown percentage six point five third yards per game to eighty seventy nine point seven seven, interception rate one point six percent, seventh average depth of

target nine point three yards, the third highest. Those two numbers can bind the A dot and the interception rate is incredible. Time to throw two point five seven seconds is the fifth quickest ball out rate completion percentage over expected two point two plus. That's tied for second in the NFL e p A per place point one eight. That's first among all quarterbacks. By the way, the e p A stat you get Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes to a tongue of by load like that's that's

the names we're talking here. How about the wide outs. Jalen and Tyreek combined to catch twenty twenty three targets l O L for two nine four yards l O L and two scores combine. That's twelve point eight yards per target. Tyreek had thirteen point four per target, five point eight eight yards per route ran number two yards per rout rands Good five point eight eight, Jalen eleven point seven yards per target, three point one two yards per route rand, Kausiki had nine point five yards per target,

and Sheffield had twelve point five yards per target. Tyreek leads the NFL and catches with sixty nine and receiving yards with nine sixty one. He's also first with a hundred twenty point one receiving yards per game and first downs with forty one. He's sixth and yards per target at ten point four. That's among qualifying receivers with thirty or more targets. Waddle is fourth and receiving with seven hundred and twenty seven yards and thirteenth with forty two catches.

He's tied for fourth with his five touchdown grabs and tied for fourth with his thirty four first down catches. He's third with eleven point five yards per target. How about our running backs? For he Mostard had another three point one four yards after the contact day on four point six average. Overall, he slipped two more tackles, had three runs of ten plus yards, and ran for four first downs. In his last four games Whereheim has twelve

miss tackles, forced eleven runs of ten plus yards. He has a first down conversion rate of twenty four point two percent. Fifteen of his twenty six runs, sixty two runs have been first downs, and he's averaging three and a half yards after initial contact. Pressure rate last week was eight point six, pressure rate best in two his career Sunday in Detroit nine point five second best to run arms as the only player with multiple pressures allowed.

Both were hurries to Inglden smith Smyth tab with the other two pressures, so between Eikenberg and Jones, Williams, Hunt and Shell no pressures allowed. On the defense pressures, Jalen Phillips had seven, Zack Heeler had three, Manuel Ogma had to Holland and ray Kwon Davis both had one run stops. Seiler had five, Baker had two, and nine guys had one. By the way, Jalen Phillips now to thirty two pressures this year is tied for eight among all edge rushers.

Coverage yards and allowed yard is allowed. Her coverage snaps and yards allowed x forty two and forty two one. That's that's pretty good. Kator co who forty and fifty two, Egg seventy one, Holland thirty five one twenty three. He got tied with two big completions. McKinley thirty five no targets. Justin Bethel ten coverage snaps and no targets. Let's go ahead and talk about our snap counts in this game.

Very busy day here, keep up on the podcast. We almost got another game of wire to wire offensive line play of course, sixty eight snaps for the four guys. Leam Myichenberg plays fifty three, and Robert Jones gives you fifteen quality snaps at left guard to of plays all sixty eight snaps. At wide receiver, Waddle had fifty two and Tyreek had forty nine. That's right around seventy for each of those guys. Trent Sherfield clearly the number three

receiver at this point forty snaps. That's sixty percent of the workload for him. The running back workload where he most at sixty five percent with forty four snaps. Chase Edmonds gets two percent with sixteen snaps, and Savon Akmed got three snaps as well. At tight end, Mike sick leads away thirty one snaps. Actually, him and Durham tied thirty one apiece, and then Tanner Conner had two snaps in the game and Hunter Long had seventeen. How I

skip over that. Let's see Let's go to the defensive side of the football here, Holland, Baker, and Howard all played all sixty snaps. Kater co who played fifties seven, Christian wilkins Man eight five again for that guy, and Zach Seeler played one snap feed or fifty snaps for Zack Seeler Phillips his conditions great forty nine snaps for him.

McKinley got eight percent of the workload in that safety position, so that's really what you look at in terms of percent of the snaps having just one safety on the field. The other ones kind of went to Royan McKinley at linebacker. Landon Roberts played thirty five snaps. Baker played all of them. What we got here. Duke Riley played twenty seven of the snaps. Manuel ogbab gives you thirty two and ray Kawon Davis gives you thirty three. Upfront, so you kind

of can see where the rotation pieces are. Melvin Ingram gets sixteen in the game, Andrew van Giko gets twenty five. It's kind of starting to work itself out where you see what rotations they are using, although it does change week to week but based upon the game plan. But you can kind of see some consistency here in the snap counts. Eggny nineteen snaps, key On Crossing fort and

Justin Bethel eleven. Uh John Jenkins played nine, Clayton Federalum three and Sam edg Van got on the field first half. Let's go ahead and pick up coach Mike McDaniels Monday afternoon press conference, he said, we're not going to see Austin Jackson back on the field this week or in this game on Sunday. Gets the Bears still taking it day by day, doesn't anticipate we'll see him sooner rather

than later. Let's see good news on on Leah Mikenberg, m c l. Sprain gonna be out for some time, but we don't know the exact timeline yet, but doesn't have the torn all the l C all the c L s, I think is what coach had about that No Byron Jones this week yet either. Let's go ahead and play the four sound bites that I wanted to get to here with coach McDaniel, starting with what he sees on the offensive line, how they're jelling so quick, or what's causing him to gel at this point of

the season. Here's coach, you know, I think it's continued um deliberate work that you know once we got into the season. Um, there's some different adjustment that you have to make. Um uh when as an offensive lindman, when you're preparing for different um play styles from defensive linement on a week by week a week basis. UM. I think, um, there's been a uh you know one of the the

old line enthusiasts himself. I think, uh, the Frank Smith as an offensive coordinator has done a great job working with those um uh, working with offensive line coaches as well, and we've just really tried to emphasize certain fundamentals and techniques and get get back to our um uh really

are are roots within UM? How do you how do you approach each and every block so UM, long and short of it is hard work and deliberate work and investment in their jobs and they get they're starting to see better results that we that we're accounting on to continue to improve as a season progresses. Yeah, I don't underestimate Frank's most value to those football team and he has been been a really nice piece here for the Dolphins offensive staff. Next, on the defensive side of the ball,

coach was asked about Javon Hollands leadership. This is a great comment here from coach about our star young safety. Well, it's just um, it's not only yesterday making UM important plays UM, but the energy, the command, UM, the responsibility he takes the pressure he puts on himself, and UM, you know, it's it's impressive to watch someone go from uh ediquated to be being like a sophomore in high school because he was just a freshman, right, he goes

from being like a sophomore to a senior like real quick. Um, that's kind of what it what it feels like in terms of his leadership, UM skills, and that's it's transferred to his to his play, but also his teammates play and how they're playing together. Um. And I thought that, you know, some of the best opportunities to be a leader and to really show your true colors is making plays on the back half of a game that you're experiencing a lot of frustration within. You know you can't.

Those are moments where, um, the people straining at the you know, making plays in the second half after um, you give up twenty seven first half points. Um, those are the people that end up winning games in this league because you're gonna have to survive some onslaughts at some at some point and not have any excuse to try to get the the W. That's awesome, awesome stuff there on Javon holl Let's go ahead and finish up

with coach. I wanted to ask him, you know, he had gave us a great little sound bite about what plays stood out to him about to was game. After the fact, I wanted to ask him what else did out to you after you had a chance to go back and watch the tape. Here's coach talking about two was high level playing the game on Sunday. Um, Yeah,

there was. There was, UM a considerable amount of UM plays that he made that that I thought, UM were high level UM quarterback play and that he was UM seeing the defense appropriately, UM you know, checking things down when he needed to, but UM, you know, really really putting guys in a position to succeed. There's some you know, UM ball placement stuff that you could see on film, particularly one to jail and waddle in the red zone. A couple of his UM red zone plays in general

were signs of a confident quarterback. That's um really starting to uh get comfortable in the system and and comfortable playing the position within the system, which is the most important part. All right, there you go. Really fun podcast has to do, really fun tape to watch. I apologize I got so long, but not really because you guys all listen to Anyways, right, let's go ahead and get out of here. I'll be back tomorrow for another addition

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