Week 9 Film Room, Dolphins Bears – Tape, Contextualized Stats, Snap Counts and McDaniel Commentary

Time with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis wingfielding. On today's show, we are peeling back the

hurtain on the dolphinst to win in Chicago. We'll look at the tape, the key stats, the snap counts, and here from head coach Mike McDaniel from his Monday afternoon press conference from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's kick off this Tuesday podcast as we do every week.

With the film review taking a look at the offense and first with the quarterback position into a tongue of by Loa who starts off this game with much of the same that you've come to see from him really over the course of his entire career. Three by two formation tilted towards the field, the wide side of the formation, your three receivers, your two to the back side of the formation, and the Bears drop into this tampa to look. And this play I think really exemplifies two US superpowers.

As the mic linebacker is running the pipe that means down the middle of the field, your two wide safeties both have a half Your middle linebacker takes the pipe down the middle and he puts his back to the boundary side of the formation, so he is walling off anything from the field and basically saying the backside part

of the formation I don't care about. So what TA does is works that field side of the formation the front side, and as he flips his alignment to go backside to go behind that linebacker who's not a factor

in the boundary side of the formation. As he puts his body in alignment to attack that side of the field, he sees it at the same time, so it's all happening like onto the progression ball out like it happens that fast, that quickly, and it just puts himself in position to throw the ball as quickly as he sees it.

And you'll see Waddle throttling down his route right at the numbers with the hook backer to that side of the formation, two yards inside of Jalen Waddle, so to us, hands separate at this moment, and he shoots it into the vacancy. By the time Waddle finishes his route, the football is right there to hit him and stride in that window. This is the type of execution we are getting the last two weeks on a down by down

basis from number one. And the thing about it, it's a three man rush, and there's only one way you can effectively consistently beat eight man coverage with high, high level anticipation. That's what you see here, ball coming out before your receiver has cleared face or cross face of that hook linebacker. Not a lot of quarterbacks are doing

that at that level. I also positively love the throw to the back pylon on the defensive pass interference called on Tyreek Hill in the end zone on that same drive, because the defender only has one move there to run as fast as he can with zero chance of getting his head back to the football. His only hope there is to meet Tyreek at the catchpoint and try to

separate the hands and get get the past incompleted. So you know Tyreek the way he plays this, He knows about this, so he just comes back and plays through his man on the way to the football. It's a guaranteed defensive pass interference when you do that. So put the ball up. Let Tyreek come back. Easy pickings for easy yardage. We get another elite level execution on play two of the second drive for two a tongue of Byaloa. You get priest nap motion that tilts the formation once

again three by two to the field. Your three receivers on the wide side, two to the short side, and you see Jikwan Brisker. They're very talented rookie safety and part of a too high structure. He moves to the other side of the field, now to a or I should say, to the hash to the to the hash mark to that side of the field. Now to a has Gasicky and Tyreek stacked in a condensed split to the boundary. That means they are aligned inside the numbers on the field to the short side of the field

against two off zone defenders. So you basically have three on two with the safety over the top and those two off cover guys and the perimeter cornerback whose zone turns which means he puts his butt to the perimeter and he's got eyes in the quarterback that way. And then the inside guy is a linebacker, and both of them are ten yards of depth with Jakewon Brisker rotating twenty yards of depth over the top. So it's a

tough window to find. But thirty three, the outside corner is incredibly wary of the lag route potentially here from Tyreek Hill, and so to a locks on Ghisicki into the flat and that pulls thirty three down just enough. It's one false step is all he needed. Then he rips the ball right in behind him to a location that's just too far for him to get up and get a hand on, and it's away from any potential big hit from Jakwan Brisker. I think this is the

best way I can describe this. Remember how the Patriots would always play Ryan Tannehill in those games in Foxborough like eight and coverage, disguise the coverage and force him to make anticipatory throws all day. I love Tannehill, but that was not his game. To A is shredding that approach to the game positively, shredding it with elite processing, elite manipulation, and elite accuracy. He's playing like an elite quarterback because you can't blitz him either because he'll shred

that too. So pick your poison with this quarterback right now, and you get it on the next play too, with something that you know. My whole to A stance has been that the reason that he doesn't get the love that I think he should get, even you know, in the last two seasons, is because the things that he does super well are not like readily apparent to your eye. Right. The same thing with the snap count or the snap issues we had in training camp, like the five high

or low snaps. That's something you can tangibly point out and say, hey, that's not supposed to happen, But I don't know anything about reach techniques or you know, dropping an anchor on it, you know, an inside loop from a stunt pass rush move like the things that too does well aren't as readily apparent as you know, the big strong rocket arm that comes into play five percent of your play, like it's just in this play, and I'm talking about your hair with the innoculous looking look

to the casual eye. Two receivers to the field with Surefield coming across the formation and pre snap motion, which of course gives you a three by ones here two by two motion comes over unbalanced, make it three by one and two is looking at Tyreeke and Jalen, who is the two to that side of the formation, the closest into the formation, and he can see they're facing this press man coverage with safety help over the top.

And it doesn't take him more than a half a beat to recognize this and realize that nobody allowed Surefield across the formation, and so what does he do? Give it to him right away. So many times I see quarterbacks wait a beat, like maybe I can process this further, maybe they'll uncovered downfield. Okay, now I can get to my check down, and by that time, defenses will show you how fast they are because they rally up and cut that thing down before it ever has a chance

to get going. So rather than catching this with people around him, surefield has some space with it. This play doesn't wind up going anywhere against two yards, but the process of having the answers getting it out fast is a highly effective process, as we'll see the rest of this game. On the very next play, you fake a give on his own read, you peek to the flat that pulls down the curl flat defender, and then you run waddle right in behind the same linebacker who's also

reading the flow of that potential run. You throw it before he crossed his face. So again, on time, in stride, perfectly, in rhythm, easy as you like for a game of twenty six yards. Copy and paste that over and over and over. Did it all day long, been doing it all year long, been doing it his entire football life. And I was thinking about asking this question to coach on the touchdown throw to Tyreek Hill, but it didn't

get to it, so I didn't do it. But there is a defender who was in good shape on Tyreek Hill on his touchdown catch. But TWA has the ball out and under one point five seconds, and that defender jumps when the balls in the air inside to Mike Ga sicky, and that's why Tyreek was so open. It's the only thing I can think of, is that to a no looked it as the only thing that makes sense to me, or the defender just flat out busted it.

But it's the only reason I can think why he would jump inside because on the play we run a muddle huddle quick to the line, snap it real quickly, and maybe that caused the confusion there because Jeff Wilson also came wide open inside on the choice route little Texas route, arrow route, whatever it's called. You know, your your wide linebacker across his face and run across the middle of the formation. He was wide open, but so was Tyreek, and I swear it had to been a

no look. Pass the wheel to Tyreek. The third and six conversion is exactly what you want to see. Get that guy that open that far on field and just please don't miss him. Don't throw it too far in front where he can't make a play. You're more than willing to sacrifice the perfection of hitting him right and stride to guarantee that you not just get the first down on third down, but it winds up going for

thirty seven yards. I don't know when we started scoffing at forty yard gains in this league and complain about potentially more on the back end, But I will take forty yards any day of the week. First play of the second half, he gets some pressure to it, does hitches up and resets and shoots a deep out from the far hash to Tyreeke. And the reason I wanted to put this in the notes is because last year I thought that once things broke down and he had

to get realigned mechanically, that's when some issues arose. But for this particular rep, top of the drop, hitch up, reset, let that thing fly, and boy does he from his own seventeen yard line. Tyreek catches it coming out of his break at the forty five yard line. So for those scoring at home, that is a crossfield far hash throw from twenty eight yards away. That's pretty good. The touchdown passed the waddle might be my favorite play of

the entire day. For two a go by Lowa. We flood that side that two of boots to the left side of the formation his strong side for the role, you know, throwing that left arm, and Gasicki's corner route takes the safety towards the back pylon and holds the corner to the front pilon say, two men occupying route from Mike Kasicki, and credit to Mike Gasicki for the routes he runs. We'll talk about that more in a second. And the entire receiver's room and tight end's room, the

routes they run to create space. We're gonna talk to Mike McDaniel about that here in the final segment as well, as he gave a great answer for what that entails and how you get guys to do that. And Tyreek runs his route right behind the hook backer, and we'll talk about Tyrek and what he does in these creating

space chance type of routes as well. But from their Wattle is operating in vacated space and two us sees us all play out and throws it right where the safety or I shouldn't say right when the safety goes for width and depth covering Ghasicki and the timing by Wattle to settle it into the zone and to come back to the football and get it is top notch stuff.

We'll break that one down more. And and Wattle and Ghasiki's portion of this I think Tyreek to because I talked about all of those guys running really good routes. We get to the first miss I've seen on this tape for two and it comes with eleven minutes and thirteen seconds and the third quarter. It's an over out to Waddle. The one that he nearly caught looked like it was picked wind up getting popped out late and going incomplete. I thought too, it was just a hair

late to deliver that football. Wattle has free access inside against off coverage, and the mic linebacker has already washed down inside on play action. So with Tyreek running the backside corner out of the play to a could have thrown this thing to the space that he eventually did throw it too with loft and touch before Waddle got to that first hash before he crossed the first hash mark.

But he waits until Wattle is on the second hash marks, so he's crossed the middle of the field, and that's gives Brisker just enough time to get depth and make a play. To me, this is the equivalent of walking a batter like in the top of the sixth inning, to break up your perfect game. He was throwing a perfect game and he walked somebody and then got out of the out of the ending, So it's not a big deal to me. You're gonna have your misses. So

I'm all over the place here. But look, I thought we all came to an understanding that every quarterback missed like two, three, four, sometimes ten throws a game, depending on how good they are, like every quarterback in the league, every single game we watch. I thought we agreed upon that the last time we all watched a primetime game together,

But maybe I'm wrong. Happens every game for every quarterback to was first one, in my opinion, came early third quarter and I had him with three total on the day, So yeah, I really liked his throwaway on second and six on that same drive, right before the Jeff Wilson touchdown two it gets pressure steps around a sack and there is nothing open, so he puts it in the bleachers. Great. When you're playing this efficiently, I think it makes even more sense than normal to live to fight another day.

And he did and we did. And again the timing the ball is out on the Wilson touchdown the minute he puts his foot in the ground and breaks it to the outside and gets up to the perimeter. The ball's a tad low, but it's on the right shoulder, the upfield shoulder, which all was Wilson to turn it up, put the hand down and lunch for the end zone. Another three touchdown day for two, and talk about man.

I think if Jalen keeps running on the deep shop, we've got the d p I on, we might have had an eighty two yard touchdown, a potential fourth touchdown for two on the day. He puts that ball on the opposing thirty yard line from his own ten. It's a sixty yard air yard shop, but it's only fifty two because he's eight yards behind the line. But you get it, and then a man in the fourth down miss of Derham Smith is harder to watch on tape

than it was the broadcast. All the attention is flowing the other way to Tyreek and Jalen, and Smith gets lost in the sauce coming across the formation the opposite direction. He's the only person white jersey or Navy blue jersey running in that direction. There's nobody over there. And I think when he picks his head up is just when two goes to throw the football and it caused this, like misfiring of the wires of like oh no, no, no,

what come back? And the ball winds up going short and Two has a nice pocket and maybe if he stays in there and sets his feet and he throws it, him stays on his track. But Durham went wobbly up and down that line. Took his head off the court, his eyes off the quarterback. I don't understand that. I don't understand why you would do that. Maybe he thought there was gonna be a scramble, but with the way

that play flowed, there was. Man, we gotta have that conversion and that's a big, big miss, And stay on your track, man. Then the thing about the third down deep shot to Waddle is that it looks like just like you draw it up, like Wattle gets his gets free before the sticks, His release is fantastic to it lets it fly with plenty of time, Like Two is already separating his hands when Jalen is five yards shy of the stick, so he's only five yards down the field.

The past winds up being two yards short of where it needed to go. But like, let's not make a thing out of this, right because again quarterbacks miss throws. That's all this is. Excuse me, I really don't want to hear about the arm, because that dude threw the ball sixty yards down the field on the d p

I to waddle earlier in the game. It's a tough miss, but I would say it really was one of three misses in the quarterback all day A rate, great great tape, elite anticipation, manipulation, accuracy is making two an elite quarterback in two. Tyreek Hill so many plays in this offense work off of what he does that first third down conversion where he squats at the sticks and draws a bracket. We run trent sherfield right behind that on the skinny post.

And what I love about this most is that Tyreek doesn't just like run the target or the route at the depth that he's been coached too. He adjusts it to most influence the defense. Like he doesn't just stop and give up when you know, trying to garner their attention. He runs this little stick route at four yards. Then you see the defense kind of off of him, so he takes this hot step back and like engages them, like puts his back on their on their like hands,

and they it sucks him up. It kind of velcros the defense to him and creates that space accordingly behind them as they react, so it occupies their attention to create space elsewhere. The wheel route off the rub from the bunch is such a great route from Tyree. We talk all the time about backers scraping off blocks. You want to stay as tight to the man as you can to get the best potential gap because windows in

this league are slim. Tyreek does that on a delayed release where he lets the rub happen through the Bear's coverage and it puts him in a foot race, not where you want to be against Tyreek Hill. But the way he stayed in tight to that bunch in that rub made that whole thing happened. The opening play of the second half is ridiculous. It's a deep out from the far hash, but Tyreek runs it in a way to give to us such a big window to work with. The corner is butt to the sideline zone turn you know,

zone with the middle of the field close. What does that mean? Single high safety park in the middle of the football field so you can't throw your posts and steam routes. Tyreek threatens to the post, and even though there's safety help, the corner is so concerned about his speed that he takes off and runs inside. As soon as he does that, Tyreek throttles down goes back out wide. He is so tough to cover man. Then check out

his route. On the Jeff Wilson touchdown, the corner wants to press and give him access outside, so ty takes it. But again, rather than running away from him and potentially getting the defensive back's attention elsewhere, he stays engaged. He dips that right shoulder right into the dB and like tucks into him as he pushes up field, which the cornerback says, I better stay in phase right here. He's trying to get a back shoulder ball or something or

I'm gonna be on a highlight reel. I don't want that. And what it does is clears up space for Wilson to run a choice route on a linebacker, which is a great great route when you know you're grunning it for your teammate, not for yourself. For Tyreek Hill, what a player this guy is. How about Jalen Waddle? His

touchdown was excellent, excellent spatial awareness. Coming back to the football, you see him work off of Tyreek doing that thing we just broke down where he kind of slow plays to the spot and then once two rips it, he turns the jets back on and goes and attacks the football.

Great play from a great receiver. The whip route to convert on third down on our final touchdown drive, he has off coverage and waddle shows an over out off the release, takes that left foot and crosses, crosses over like I'm gonna get to the inside part of the field, and you see the corner jump way inside. He takes that cheese way inside the minute he does that while puts his foot in the ground and he's moving back to the perimeter before the corner can even change direction

out of the misstep that he took. It's the easiest third down conversion to it has had all season. And then again, his release on the third and eleven play was absolutely superb. Just left his man in the dust, swipe the hands, got that inside shoulder up the on the upfield shoulder of the defensive back stacked him from there.

We want that one back. How can you not love Trent surefield Man the opening drive where he knocks Jack Sanborne down on a crackback block and then makes a tough catch in traffic on third and seven to move the chains and it comes off another cool design where Tyreek does that same thing where he pulls the defense in. So this receiving corps man Cedric Wilson, you know, had a couple of catches as well. This receiving corps really got after it in this game. Deep into the podcast here,

let's go ahead and take our first break. We'll come back and break down the rest of the offense and to the defense as well. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We cover the quarterback and the wide receivers. Go ahead and pick it up with the running backs. Here for your Chicago Bears Week nine Dolphins thirty five thirty two

victory film breakdown. We start with Jeff Wilson and man, how about that blitz pick up he had coming across the formation and burying the edge right in front of two. It's off play action and the Bears blitz a corner which can be a problem for bootlegs, but he flies all the way across the formation and tandem with Rob Hunt and lays out, he dives for a block and takes the cornerback off his feet in the act. His twenty eight yard rush was just hat on hat execution.

You had Armstead and Jones double the backside. Armstead gives this really good shove to the three technique which allows Rob Jones to bury him. And then Rob comes off of that block and washes down the mic linebacker who tried to shoot that gap. So really two for three there for your Dolphins left tackle left guard combination. On the front side, Connor Williams moves his man down a couple of gaps and you get an excellent downfield block

from Cedric Wilson. He was one step away, Jeff Wilson was from running that thing in for six, but good stop by Eddie Jackson. Very next play, Wilson does what backs need to do, makes a man miss at the point and turns a well fit played by the Bears defense from a potential no gain into a seven yard run. And then the effort on the touchdown catch speaks for itself. Ball a little bit low, digs it out, stays on his feet, finds the pilot. What a play, What a player.

Jeff Wilson looks to be alec Ingolds, a destroyer of worlds. His first block of the game, he just leads it up in the sea gap and wipes a dude out. And he's so consistently gets these late chips on guys and pass pro that just afford to an extra half second.

What a valuable addition he has been. Now, he did miss a block that I think would have sprung Raheem for a touchdown run on that two minute drill inside the twenty yard line, just whipped it, would have hit it, maybe had a big block for a touchdown run there, But I'm not gonna hit him all. Connor Williams that thirteen ish yard run by Wilson on the two minute drive at the end of the first half, he takes the one technique and reaches him and wipes him out

for a huge gap for that run for Wilson. And I don't know if I can explain, you know how consistently he hits that block. It the toughest block for a center who has to snap the football and then get a cross face of a guy who has you outflanked, and if he gets a good get off, you have such a tough task of getting across face, but he

does it so effectively every single time. Now, I will concede that for the first time all year, a bad snap cost us that ball hit to his ankle and it put us in fourth and medium after being in third and short. So bad snap got us on that one first time in nine weeks. Wow, big deal Rob Jones on that same thirteen yard run from uh I think it was Wilson. Yeah, he blocks out the sun

on a second level down block on a linebacker. Also had a really nice combo block on a run late in the third quarter where he uses that massive width and base to really put himself into situations where he can square guys up at the first level. How about Tron Armstead's game to us completion to Wilson on the second drive where he got called for re from the pastor is a great example of what Tahron does to

make the whole offense better. He starts the wrap off by squeezing inside the the inside post of Rob Jones his left foot, which you know, if you have potential, you know cross face or rush game. The tackle wants to squeeze and help that guard on a bigger body is kind of make gonna bull rush and try to displace the offensive line's pass pro wall. And the Bears see this open path around the outside because Toron has squeezed it and they want to win with speed. But

to Ron is perfect in his mechanics. He swings open that left hip, gets to depth, gets to his landmark, and realizes he needs to get deeper. You see him kind of bring the hands out and then like put him back, like I can't do this yet because I have to get in a better position before I engage this dude. So he turns and gets to a spot and gets a push on the edge right before he gets it to helping inside, recovering outside. That's elite man. His pass pro on the wheel to Tyreek as well

was so so good. He's not just winning reps, he's cutting rushers down before they can even get him to retreat or like, you know, displace the anchor. It just gives to a more room to operate with. How about Brandon Shell who overran a block on one of the first players of the game on the opening drive That might have sprung a long run, But after that I thought he was aces his rep on the Raheem touchdown

run was text book. Washed a man down two gaps, playing from his base and generating that power up through the knees, up through the hips, up through the shoulders, and threw his punch knocked him out of the play completely. You also get a great seal from Connor Williams on that play, a perfect pull and seal from Rob Jones.

Really good backside wall off by Tehran and Raheem had great vision to drop his shoulder into a location where he couldn't get squared up touchdown both ns uh Shell also had an awesome pass pro rep where his punch got knocked back just like knocked the dude off of his rush altogether. Then he sees a looper from the front side of the formation and goes and close him off. Him and Rob Hunt have been really good working on games, and this whole line has like wins where they make

two blocks in one play. It's been fun to watch. They did have one rep on the two minute drive where two I had to throw it away where they split Rob Hunt and Brendan Shell with the four eye. That was the one mistake I really had from that side of the offensive line as a combo. Speaking of

Rob Hunt, he has some disrespectful pass pro reps. Man the opening third down play, he one hand punch stifles the defensive tag goal, shuffles his feet to get back square, and then winds up getting the rusher back and do his belly like when when the rusher's back is to you, it's a great place to be. Just basically ends the rep. Rob did that because of a devastating punch to start

this pass pro rep. Let's go to Mike Gasicki, who had a quiet day catching the football, but his effort on a third down conversion of Tyreek on that last touchdown drive really helps clear that space. Tyreek winds up one on one on the linebacker as the three receiver to the field, so that means closest to the formation right the receiver closest to your right tackle, and Mike is the two, so he's the slot guy among the three over there. Uh, he must clear out that corner.

So what he does is presses the toes of that corner who has outside leverage by running straight at him, and that forces the dB to initiate contact on him. Then he bends his route back to the post and it removed him entirely, which gave Tyreek a one on one chance against Jack Sanborn. Game over right there. Good

job at Mike Sicky. I think the fourth down miss, though, is why we don't see more targets here, because you're gonna have to be able to generate more separation in this league if you're going to get those types of you know, one on one looks, and we had no separation on that play too. I tried it and it winds up being a miss. Hunter Along had himself a really nice block in space on that late run by Raheem for eight yards right before the fourth down stop

on the past of Durham Smith. He comes across the formation and carried his block throughout the whistle offensively. In general, the second drive, first play, we throw a swing route to Tyreek kill against the flow of outside zone the other direction, and you see the entire box count of the Bears false step. You get a great block out

wide by Sherefield. It's an easy eight yards. Look. This is the game of Jimmy's and Joe's right, But man, these built in yardage eaters are a nice way to get your players the maximum number of chances to make the big plays, particularly putting yourself so far ahead of the chains like that it's easy pickings. It's a good combo of execution but also scheming in easy games for the offense, and then give the line in general credit

for the way they fire off the football man. A lot of these clean pockets come from play action slides where it's just like I mean, the past rush is basically negated by the fact that you ran that play action slide like they're materializing by creating hesitation from the defensive line up front, and the way our guys come off the ball with purpose in the run game and on play action has a lot to do with that.

I think what you've got is the tackle play has been really good on both sides, holding up on an island by themselves consistently, and then the middle three guys are playing so well in their communication passing off, and it's just creating constant clean pockets for two h Even more impressive when you consider you worked in a new left guard this week and Rob Jones and really didn't miss a beat. Let's go ahead and turn it over the defensive side of the football fund tape for the

offense not so much for the defense. I will say, you know, let's talk about them in general here. First, some really cool packages on the opening third down stop. We had Ougba, Phillips, and Chubb upfront with Wilkins, so your three edge kind of Nascar rushers with Christian Wilkins inside, and then Duke Riley and Channing Tinda were the off ball linebackers. That's about as much speed and pass rush ability as any team could put on the field on one rep, and they got off the field on that play.

But this game was all about the quarterback run. And I can't really even pinpoint big airs and just say it's not good enough. Like it's obviously mistackles and bad angles, all the things that go into big rushing performances. But like, also that's what players like this dude do. They are angle killers. They are often put in wide open spaces when the play breaks down because of the nature of the quarterback position, and it's so dang tough to contend with.

I'm not saying you have to just conceive that you can't do anything to stop it against a guy like this, but it sure as hell isn't easy. This defense has been integral and multiple wins this year, So I think the overreactions are a bit much, and I would be very surprised if they don't get it right right away. You can obviously learn from every tape, but I'm just not so sure. This is one of them where you take a lot away from because you know it could

be wrong here. But there was so much in this game plan that I just don't think more than two or three quarterbacks in the league can execute the design runs, the boot action, his ability to throw on the move, to drop the arm angle. He's an insanely talented quarterback and a lot of that stuff that they hit on

is orchestrated to that very unique skill set. I'll mention the numbers against traditional poth sing and running in the stats portion of the podcast, but not many players can operate an offense like that one the fields did, and not there's no players on Miami schedule the rest of the way that play that style of football. The sixty one yard touchdown run, I'm just not sure how many quarterbacks we'll see jump and fake a throw, hit the

ground and take off with four four speed. That got the slightest bit of hesitation from Jerome and Duke and that's all that four four speed needs. Chicago emptied the entire playbook. Man, they pulled out all the razzle dazzle. Feel that a very rare athlete do his thing, and boy did he. My thoughts on this game as tip of the cap, and move on. I'm glad we won. Let's talk about some of the individual moments. Bradley Chubb. You felt his presence almost immediately. The Bears first third down,

He's one on one against the left tackle. He gets a hit on Justin Fields after engaging the tackle with a left hand and the right hand and quick succession one one to whoop and then playing through his base to run the tackle right into the quarterback chucks him aside and puts a hit on Fields. His work on that early option play to string out both the pitch and the ball carrier. Elite level reaction and athletic ability

on display there. Speaking of those two trades, Jalen Phillips does so much that I don't think gets enough love. The Bears pulled a guard at him, and he goes and gets the blocker and sets a hard edge like don't let him get into your body, go get him, and he does that and forces the back to bubble

and eventually bend it right back into Zach Seeler. On the first really magical run of the day for Justin Fields, Phillips tosses the Bears left guard again rushing from a condensed uh set or alignment and has a shot at Fields, but he makes JP miss. Gosh, he's so tough, but also gosh, Phillips has some great reps once again. Man, he had a sack, but the right tackle tackles him right in front of the quarterback. But that penalty put them behind the chains and effectively ruined the rest of

that drive. And on the next play he flagged down a jet sweep to Chase Claypool where he literally was out flanked and ran him down from behind in a full sprint. He is incredible, man, Christian Wilkins, you know on carriages by the backs, the traditional looks. He was

once again consistently able to thwart blocks. Normally he gets his quick one gap wins, he gets his stack and shed two gap plays where he comes off the block and makes a tackle, but he had a couple of snaps in this game where he just shed his man immediately. Then he is the gap like just chilling number ninety four waiting for him unblocked, and he makes a couple of plays doing that. Zack Steeler's tape is often my

favorite on defense. The Bear second drive starts with the run stuff and you see Seiler's length just stand out. But there's a muck of bodies in the pile, and you see this right arm just jamming up the shore pad of the Bears left guard, jamming up that shoulder pad, standing him up and riding him down the way for a tackle on the other side of the formation. Think ray Kuan Davis doesn't get enough love for what he

does weekly against double teams to hold his ground. He had one play where he came off for a run stuff late in the second quarter. I mentioned Channing Tendall speed on that spy on the opening drive was crazy. I thought a Landed Roberts had some good flow and scrape plays, particularly one tackle on Khalil Herbert late in the first quarter where he had to get a round to lead block, cut back underneath it, and dive inside

for a tackle. Great work on that one. Also had great coverage running stride for stride twenty five yards downfilled with cole commit as a past defender. Jerome Baker I thought was excellent playing through blocks on traditional run looks. Stayed very tight to the line, got off blocks, and

made some nice tackles and big spaces. Melvin ingram that sack just running right through the left tackle by dropping his inside shoulder into the chest plate, then ripping that inside arm through once he uprooted the left tackles anchor. Great job of winning a pass rush while maintaining rush lane integrity. And then Duke Riley his speed on his sack on that final drive to get a loss there from justin fields every week his speed makes an impact.

You move on to the secondary. I freaking love Kater kohu Man. He shoots through a block and blows up a quick screen early in the game. So good at coming downhill and squaring up his shots. One play later, it's a defensive passe interference on Keion crossing to the other side of the field, but Cater's on the slot manned up on Darnell Mooney, the bears best receiver. He runs a slot fade and Cater stays perfectly in phase.

Gets the exact same look later in the drive, and this time Fields scrambles left, so the possibility of back shoulder come back it's all there. But Cater stays right in phase, right in hip pocket. He is, in my opinion, by a massive distance, the second best cornerback on this football team. They would try him again the second quarter on takeoff route. Once again there he is. And then a big, big tackle in space on a now route on that penultimate drive, the woman get the defensive stop again.

On a second and fifth team play right after Melvin ingram sec he comes in there with a play. Before the play, I thought Xavian had fantastic mirror coverage on the one on one route to the corner U to the boundary, I should say the X receiver, you know that's that's the toughest place to play in football. With no help. On the opening drive, he pins Mooney to the perimeter and made that window impossible to hit. A

fantastic catch and throw by Mooney on the touchdown. Tough to run to the corner from the number three receiver position and closest to the formation, through the traffic, through the rub and defend a perfect throw. Good on Fields and Mooney, man. They made that play happen I like the way Javon Hollam recognizes the most dangerous routes in

certain concept ups. On the opening drive, he passes off this vertical route that basically is away from the play and then buzzes the backside over route and comes down and takes it away, and that's why Justin Fields tucked it and had to run and couldn't move the chains. More good stuff from Javon Holland. I thought Eric Rowe played really well with the plays in front of him, recognizing the floods and boots and closing for sure tackles

immediately after the catch. Also stuck his face and the fan against actual handoffs to backs to clog up the sea gaps and cut them down. He also spilled out a lead block to free up Jerome Baker to make a tackle on a toss late in the third quarter. Just does a good job weekly inserting himself against their traditional run looks. And then Elijah Campbell, he ran in and undercut a screen that forced an errant throw slash incompleation early on good instincts to recognize the play and

come get it. He had some additional nice fields in the running game as well, coming from death. So look, I know I talked a lot of positives and that's this game was not a positive one for the defense. But like I said, sometimes players make plays man, justin Fields did. We got to be more consistent in our rush land integrity, our tack links, staying discipline to keep our on the ground and just make sure you wrap up. But again against actual runs and passes, you know, traditionally

defense played pretty well. I thought, let's go ahead and take our last break, come back and do stats. I just want to take it very clear that like it wasn't a good performance from the defense, like Fields got you. So I just wanna make that very clear. But it's not one of the panic overs. So what I'm trying to say, let's go ahead and take our last break, come back and do stats, snap counts, and here from

Mike McDaniel. That's next on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, Segment number three here on a Tuesday edition of the Drive Time Podcast, catching you up on the latest stats and numbers from Pro Football Focus next Gen League leader boards. Let's go ahead and start with to and take a look at his depth of target on twenty plus or throws of twenty plus air yards, he was three for four eight two yards in a touchdown. On throws of ten to

nineteen yards eight for nine for one one. On the year throws over ten yards, he's sixty four of ninety three. That's six nice one thousand, three hundred and sixty five yards. That's fourteen point seven yards per pass, and he's throwing ten touchdowns and three picks on the season. He is first in passer rating QBR yards per attempt, touchdown percentage, expected points added per play, net yards per play. He's third in completion percentage, he's tied for fourth and interception percentage,

and he's fourth fewest sack percentage in the NFL. How about an update on the third down stats. He actually improved his all time standing going back uh he had a one forty two point seven passer writing coming into play. After the game, he's won forty seven point oh after going six o seven for one o nine and a touchdown. His career passer writing also moved to ninety five point three. That's the best in Miami Dolphins history. Tyreek Hill is

first in receptions and yards yards per game. He's got fourteen point three more yards per game than Justin Jefferson, who's second in that category. He's first with forty eight first downs. He's first with three point eight two yards per route RAN. He's second with eleven yards per target minimum forty targets. Jaln Waddle, It's tied for tenth and catches fifth and yards. He's tied for third with six touchdown catches. He's got the fifth most first downs, the

fifth most yards per game. He has the first yards per target eleven point six among receivers with forty targets. He has the third highest yards per route ran two point seven nine. Again yards per route ran. You were always going to see the best receivers in the league atop that leaderboard. Tyreek Hills one Jilan Walls number three.

Together they have nineteen hundred and sixteen yards, the second most for any duo through nine games, behind only Billy Groman and Charlie Henigan, who can forget them from nineteen sixty one Houston Oilers. Tyreek already has the twelve best receiving season in team history. From a yard standpoint, he needs just two eighties six to break the single season mark thirteen eighty nine set by Mark Clayton. For the game, Tyreek and Jalen caught twelve of their fifteen targets for

two hundred twenty eight yards. That's fifteen point two yards per target. Individually, Tyreq was seventeen point nine yards per target, Jalen twelve point one, Cedric Wilson twelve point five, and Trent Sherfield nine point oh yards per route ran Tyreek five point one one in the game two is good three point to seven for Waddle, three point eight three for Cedric, one point five for Surf. On the rushing stats, Jeff Wilson had two missed tackles forced on nine carries,

where Heim had one on his nine carries. Wilson average three point one one yards after contact. They both had ten plus yard runs and they converted three of their eight teen carries into first downs. Pressures allowed to Ron Armshead had to, Rob Jones had three. Cornor Williams and Rob Hunt both had none, and Briannan Shell had three.

No sacks allowed in this game. Defensively, pressures Phillips had five, Chub had three, Riley had to, Tindall, Roberts, Xavien and mel All had one apiece run stops Kati co who leads me with five in this game. Wow. Five tackles within two yards of the line. Seiler E Robin E ro All had three apiece, Wilkins, Davis, Baker and Riley had two apiece, and four guys had one X. Played forty three coverage snaps and was tabbed with twenty six

yards allowed. Cohu forty two snaps, nineteen yards allowed. Again, you want to be uh, you know, a little a little over one is very good. Javon Holland forty two coverage snaps, four yards allowed, Eric Row thirty four coverage snaps twenty one yards allowed. The quarterback run again obviously a big element. Fields had one hundred and seventy eight yards on fifteen rushing attempts. You know, I had a feeling he was coming on and he has arrived, and

good for the Bears. Man, They've been searching for a guy like that for a long long time. But Miami against the running backs twenty one rushes for fifty nine yards. Receivers had four for fifteen. They also caught seventeen twenty eight passes for one twenty three just four point four yards per past attempt and again, Fields is in that Lamar Hearts Kyler class. It's such a tough task to

consistently defend players like them. But the Dolphins had a good job and the rest of the game, that's kind of why they won the game, getting those wins in the other areas. All right, there you go. Let's take a look at these snap counts before we get to Mike McDaniel's Monday press conference. You had the offensive line play wire to wire and your quarterback fifty seven snaps.

For all of those guys, Tyreek played seventy nine percent, Waddle played seventy two, and Sherfield played sixty of your snaps and offense, so pretty clear line of demarcation there for the receiver's room. We also had Cedric Wilson played thirteen snaps in the game at tight end, Smith played thirty three, played twenty eight snaps, so let's say percent, and then Hunter Long gave you eleven percent workload at the tight end position. Pretty standard what we see this year.

At the running back spot, we had Jeff Wilson and alec Ingold played twenty eight snaps and Raheam played twenty seven, so really even down the line there. On defense, we had two players go the distance, Holland and Howard. That's pretty common. Kator Cohu missed just one snap playing seventy three. I mentioned we had the package with Duke, Riley and Channing tend Old. Jerome Baker snaps goes down to sixty one percent in this game after playing one from most

of the season. We had Christian Wilkins again man eighty six percent of the snap sixty four. His conditioning is unrivaled by anybody but Jalen Phillips, who gave you sixty one snaps in the game. Seiler and Roberts both give you fifty seven. That's seventy seven percent of the workload. Same for Eric Rowe. Bradley Chubb gave you fifty four snaps, and his first outing here, Ray Kwon played forty four snaps.

And then you get a big drop off there from Ray Kuon playing forty four, Melvin Ingram twenty seven snaps. Emmanuel A reductions there for those guys Crossing twenty nineteen. Duke played seven, team Tindal had the five, egg Von had one, Van Ginkle had ten. We also had Elijah Campbell for sixteen snaps. And John Jenkins played uh fourteen, So maybe some more Elijah Campbell, maybe some more Duke Riley, maybe some more Chaining Tindal, plenty of kater cohu in

there as well. Interesting to get a look at that as we go forward. So we heard from head coach Mike McDaniel on Monday. He told us that Hunter Long entered the concussion protocol and that was the only injury we had in the game coming out of the game on Sunday, which was a rarity for this team. Obviously, no change on Byron Jones. We're gonna see Austin Jackson practicing this week and trying to see him get more and more ramped up to get back on the field.

And they'll go ahead and play three quotes for you here. I wanted to ask coach about the receiver's effort and the routes because it seems like, man, all these guys give their all on every single play. Coach gave me a phenomenal answer. Here's Mike McDaniel. Cowal. Coach was awesome.

Coach's answer was awesome. No, Um, that's that's cool. That's a that's a something that's been of paramount of importance that I think you can really separate offensive UM play in the past and run game by the perimeter receivers, because yeah, they always looked at it like this, You're gonna, by and large gonna have straining try hard UM offensive lineman and running backs have to try hard otherwise they're gonna get blown up and tackled. UM and tight ends

are kind of an extensions off the line. But you can really have a UM a well UM oiled offense if you have UM football playing wide receivers and so football playing wide receivers don't just run routes hard when they are scheduled to get the ball UM, because that that's a the the orchestration of good wide receiver play within a good offense UM is a full commitment and a standard. And that's something that UM you don't you

don't just turn on. That's something that's too accredit to every single UM coach and player on the on the staff because it's a daily commitment that you know, if UM West is in there and not UM not pointing out that the backside of a of a run or or maybe a runoff route isn't to the standard that we'd like. If he doesn't point that out on a random Thursday in September. It's not going to be right in October. So UM that that is something that I

think it's very important. A in a way that you can separate yourself in this league is a commitment to buy a position that is predominantly dominated by statistical UM figures that they play team football. Then you've got a heck of advantage UM that opposing defenses will feel over the course of time. How about the impact of Bradley Chubb and what he saw from his tape. Here's coach McDaniel on the newcoming pass rusher Bradley Chubb, and also

some Jeff Wilson in here as well. I was pumped to the the stuff that he was able to do in terms of you know, your you put yourself in his situation, and it's Tuesday, UM, and you just get notified that you're traded teams. Then you're taking uh, your Wednesday of your NFL prep week, UM, where you're preparing for first and second down. Half of its occupied by doing physical some stuff, and then you you're trying to get sped up to to a defensive system that's in

a different language. UM. I was very happy with how he was able to go out and play pretty hard. He'll um there was a uh several occasions that Um he he didn't end up on the stat sheet, but he completely affected the past plays by UM getting getting to the quarterback uh and in a rhythm fast quick enough that he had to get the ball out and that's what you're asking in that position. UM. He'll get um better and better as he gets more versed in the nuances of our scheme and both running pass. But

UM really happy with the player, the talent and the effort. UM. I feel like he's gonna fit right in UM and UH and really hope are our group moving forward. Finally, he was asked about the expectation for Tyreek Hill coming in what he sees from him. He's gonna tell you a little bit about Tyreek behind the scenes and the work he puts in. Here's coach on the Cheetah as

well as a celebration with the backflip after the touchdown. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna have some beef with our video department because we cut that celebration off in our coaches copy tape. So we're visiting, We're revisiting that after this press conference. But UM, but live you know, I thought it was a I feel like a seven point eight because there was you know, I didn't feel like he's stuck the landing and from UM, I know that's a very important

part of the of the judging process, right, UM. But uh, you know, I think that's the cool thing about Tyreek as he recognizes, UM that this game is all about improving, and he's you know, obviously you're excited, UM to have production on on unforeseen level before UM. That's great, UM, But what you like is that he's uh that he and his teammates see that as a vessel for us to get UM our job done, which is to win.

And in that process, he hasn't he's not wavering or um, you know, trying to take the easy way way out. You know, there's a couple of things in this past game that he did better than he has all season. That's what we're looking for, and that's, UM what makes me the happiest about it, because UM, you're you're either getting better or getting worse. There's not really any in between, and he's committed getting better. So I look forward to

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