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Two fires touch Stock

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Waddles knocked into the end zone

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of Miami by type bro

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Hi window. They had to get that touchdown

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on that play. They get it. What

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is up, Dolphans And welcome

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to the Drivetime Podcast, part of

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the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering

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your team, your Miami

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Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am

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your host, Travis Wingfield and

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as always I am here to bring you your

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daily dose of Miami

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Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's

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my favorite podcast of the week. We're

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breaking down the all twenty two, taking

0:39

a look at some of the numbers, the advanced metrics,

0:41

and all the key stats and snap

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counts. Will scan the social all

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of that and more from somewhere here in

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South Florida. This is the

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Drivetime Podcast Miami

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Dolphins. So housekeeping

0:55

and news items off the top of this

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Tuesday Drivetime Podcast number one,

1:00

The Dolphins signed a pair of players from their

1:02

practice squad to the active fifty three man

1:04

roster. They are Duke Johnson

1:06

and Sheldrick RedWine, a pair of former Hurricanes

1:09

who obviously played in the game on Sunday.

1:11

Also Jalen Waddle and Philip

1:13

Lindsay coming off the COVID I R list.

1:16

They will be eligible return to practice this week.

1:18

No will Fuller for the rest of the

1:20

season. Brian Flores announced on

1:22

Monday that he would not come back this season for the

1:24

Miami Dolphins. He also said, well see about

1:27

Malcolm Brown and whether or not he can

1:29

come back from his injury off the injury reserve this

1:31

week for the Dolphins. In the backfield.

1:33

Miami also adds Justin Coleman

1:35

to the reserve COVID nineteen list and

1:37

released safety Will Parks.

1:40

All caught up there, Good to go with

1:42

that. Let's go ahead and jump right in to the

1:44

all twenty two review. We start on offense

1:47

this time, and normally, like we

1:49

do every time, but normally we start with

1:51

two in the passing game. But I wanted to start this

1:53

time with the offensive line and

1:55

the running game. And I think if

1:57

you could go back and measure,

2:00

you know, kind of a curve a graph

2:02

of the running game, just from our Tuesday

2:04

tape review shows every single week plot

2:07

every single episode on a graph.

2:09

I think you could visualize that graph with a slow

2:12

climb. And then yesterday it went

2:14

up, I should say Sunday recording

2:16

the podcast on Monday, it went up another

2:19

notch. I love that they were creative

2:21

and added heavy personnel packages with ten

2:23

snaps from Robert Jones where they would flip

2:25

Jesse Davis over to the other side of the formation

2:28

and you would have Robert Jones as either a

2:30

backside tackle and some past protection roles

2:33

or getting some seal

2:35

blocks, some cut blocks, getting some second

2:37

level blocks, doing a few things there in the offense or

2:39

the heavy personnel offensive game

2:41

plan. And you know, Brian Flores had this was

2:43

part of the game plan heading in to utilize

2:45

that package, and he thought they executed

2:48

it well. And I think there was a little bit of influence

2:50

from the success of the run game

2:52

within the passing game. That fifteen year old curl

2:55

route that to U through to Parker. Middle

2:57

of the second quarter. You see the whole

2:59

line, the Dolphins offensive line, and

3:01

this is what it looks like when you're doing zone blocking.

3:04

Your first step is all in the same direction and

3:06

unison. You see them all work to the right

3:09

and then the tight end and running back come up and double

3:11

to seal the edge that two wants

3:13

to boot to, the two wants to roll to so

3:15

he can step into that throw and you kind of see

3:18

the influence of the running game impact the passing

3:20

game. That complimentary approach really

3:22

clicked on that particular look. I also

3:24

continue to love these wide runs. On

3:26

fourth and short. They had a fourth and one toss

3:29

sweep that worked out, and on that play Michael

3:31

Dieter got himself a pancake block and

3:33

then Big Rob Hunt throws Duke Ford for

3:35

a couple of extra yards. I thought that was pretty

3:37

hilarious. The screen pass, oh man,

3:40

the screen pass was pretty Miami floods

3:42

the boundary the short side of the formation, then

3:44

throws the football back to the other side, the

3:46

field side of the formation, and you

3:49

get both Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt turned

3:51

free to the second level and Austin

3:53

gets a chip on number forty doesn't get him

3:55

all the way to the ground. And then here comes big number

3:57

sixty eight, and oh boy, does he clean things

4:00

up with a big shot. He had a few pancakes

4:03

or chucking guys on the ground, Rob Hunt, and another

4:05

very big game for the Miami Dolphins. And at

4:07

that point of the screenplay, Duke

4:09

puts on a juke, breaks two tackles

4:12

and it's out the gate for twenty yards. A big time

4:14

game from him and really the entire offensive

4:16

line in the short passing game, the running game all

4:18

game long. What a play that

4:21

was. And you also can see that there

4:24

was a defender that dang near cut Duke

4:27

Johnson off before he even got out of the

4:29

kind of the scrum there, and it was held

4:32

up because Liam Eichenberg came across the formation

4:34

and cut a player who was trying to work over

4:36

the top of that throw. But he gets over there

4:38

and holds on just long enough for Duke to get out.

4:40

So several guys making plays on that

4:42

particular play, and that will be a theme the

4:44

course of this tape review podcast. And

4:47

we go forward to Miles Gaskins seven

4:50

yard run on the second drive

4:52

of the third quarter. I thought this play

4:54

was very indicative of how

4:56

the offensive line played in the throughout the course of

4:58

this game. Liam and Austin had a fantastic

5:01

double where they just carried their man five yards

5:03

up the field and eventually that

5:05

double team block swallows up the second level

5:07

linebacker who comes up to fill that

5:09

gap. So they were hitting double teams throughout

5:12

the course of this game on both sides

5:14

of the offensive line. But really Liam and Austin

5:16

connecting on some of those hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder,

5:19

your first round pick from a year ago, your second round

5:21

pick from this year really showing up in tandem

5:23

on a lot of these good double team blocks. And

5:26

speaking of Miles Man, he picked one hell of

5:28

a time to have his best

5:30

run of the entire season. That

5:32

thirty yard run that got out the backside

5:34

looked like it was dead to rights at the start, but

5:36

he barely squeezed through that thing and got

5:39

a nice seal from Jesse. Then Albert Wilson

5:41

comes down field and hits a big block and carries

5:43

it for a while on that thirty yard run. So

5:45

that was kind of the Miles Gaskin portion of

5:47

the podcast and a huge play in that game

5:49

that really put Miami from

5:52

are they gonna win this game to really in the driver's

5:54

seat to control the rest of that game. But as

5:56

far as the offensive line goes r with Austin Jackson

5:59

here as a pulling guard from the backside,

6:01

he really does a good job staying tight into the

6:03

line and into Rob Hunt's backside

6:06

when he kind of curls around that the

6:08

gap between the right guard and the and the right tackle,

6:10

you're your right side b gap there,

6:12

and it really helps kind of condense the

6:15

options for the linebacker to shoot those gaps

6:17

because they're keeping such tight splits when he comes

6:19

around in that tight formation. Was

6:21

very impressed by that with how kind of nimble he is

6:23

working in those tight spaces. And then in past

6:25

protection, I think there's

6:27

just far less panic

6:29

this year than earlier or right now, I should say,

6:32

than there was earlier in the year for Austin Jackson.

6:34

He mentioned in his Monday media that

6:36

playing guard has kind of taught him some technique

6:38

things that he needed. And on the play

6:41

where it's tipped and caught by Bert

6:43

the past to Mike get sicky that gets tipped up into the air.

6:45

You see the defensive tackle punch and then try

6:47

to disengage and rip through on Jackson's

6:50

left shoulder. But he stays calm

6:52

and doesn't kind of panic when these shoulders

6:54

are not matching the feet and just lets the

6:57

feet kind of catch up and establish a firm

6:59

base to then re anchor and drop that

7:01

weight again. So some very nice work in this game from

7:03

Austin Jackson with the technique stuff,

7:05

and he mentioned it too. In his Monday presser,

7:08

Liam Eichenberg, I thought everything about

7:10

him looks more fluid and confident over

7:12

the last few weeks. He's getting into his sets

7:14

for whatever the ask might be, whether it's vertical,

7:16

whether it's a go attack and get the blocker

7:19

type of set. And he showcase this in

7:21

a variety of running plays and passing

7:23

plays, like there was one where he has to steal a backside

7:26

run where you have to kind of cut off that short

7:28

angle where you might see like an Andrew van Ginkl or

7:30

an Emmanuel Ogba chase around that weak side

7:32

edge. Just go kind of getting the way

7:34

and steal that thing off and really get the

7:36

weight on the toe so you can transition and drop

7:39

that anchor and kind of use the balls

7:41

at your feet to keep that attacker

7:43

at bay. And I thought he did that through the course of this

7:45

game. He had another play where he has a chip and a double

7:48

with Austin Jackson where he then chips or catches

7:50

and climbs and get to the second level. And he was

7:52

in that second level making a lot of big blocks for the course

7:54

of this game. And then in past protection, I thought

7:56

it was more of the same as far as the technique

7:58

goes, I thought his hands were excellent. He didn't

8:00

really put so much, you know, on the play

8:02

of his feet in terms of if

8:05

that makes any sense, where he gets better up top

8:07

so that he can play better in the lower

8:09

half. So because the hands are better, it

8:11

makes it easier on his feet to recover on

8:13

some of those MR or redirections or

8:15

you know speed move, speed to power or inside

8:18

type of move where guys are making lateral decisions.

8:20

On Liam Eichenberg, he also throw a nice

8:22

cut block on a very first completion of the game

8:25

on the Christian Wilkins touchdown. What a

8:27

job to wham the off side defender

8:30

by Liam Eichenberg on that play. I mean,

8:32

we get to replay the down if it doesn't

8:34

work there. But Liam's work basically

8:36

helped give us that celebration on that touchdown. Big

8:38

play there, and just the strong hands in general.

8:41

He he latched on and ended

8:43

so many reps. Right at the point in this game where he

8:45

just goes out and gets guys and again go check

8:47

the TUA truck play the nine

8:49

yard run, Liam goes and gets the man

8:52

and locks him up and shuts down his runway.

8:54

Where he just closes any potential for him to

8:56

build up some speed to go to power or again

8:58

to make an inside or outside move, goes and gets

9:00

the block and ends it right there. I

9:02

mentioned Rob Hunt thought he was terrific all game

9:05

long, and his best block was pulling and

9:07

ceiling on the second and six run right

9:09

before the kind of red zone area. On the

9:11

game winning drive, it was a twelve yard run by Duke

9:13

Johnson. It was a key block where he works

9:15

around another double team by Liam

9:18

and Austin and pulls place out and hits a

9:20

key block on c. J. Mosley to free

9:22

up a nice twelve yard Duke Johnson

9:24

run. Speaking of Duke, what

9:26

a nice sense of urgency and

9:28

explosiveness of the whole that he runs with, and very

9:31

decisive running. It looked like

9:33

he was okay with making a

9:35

wrong choice as long as he did it quickly, and

9:37

as the game went on he seemed to make the right choice

9:39

more and more often. What a performance it was from

9:42

the hometown kid. You saw it with his fourth

9:44

down, his fourth ront of the game, rather a

9:46

third and one conversion. It's the Dolphins

9:48

third offensive series. He slips the tackle

9:50

from Moseley, but Moseley could really only

9:53

get an arm out there, one

9:55

arm out there, because Liam Eichenberg has a great

9:57

second level block scaring him up after

9:59

helping Chip on that block on Austin

10:01

Jackson's man we talked about in the previous segment here

10:04

on the catching climb from Leam Eichenberg. But

10:06

then Duke Johnson makes the arm tackle

10:08

miss, and that was something we saw throughout the course of this game.

10:10

I thought the two touchdown runs number

10:13

one, the first one he wants to get

10:15

wide, gets caught up and slides a gap

10:17

over and just slams that thing in to get it over the top.

10:19

And check out Robert Jones on that play. The

10:22

extra offensive lineman. We've seen so

10:24

little of him between preseason

10:27

and now a handful of regular season reps, but

10:29

the intrigue only built for me in this game about

10:31

his game. I think he still has something there to work

10:33

with the undrafted rookie this year on the Dolphins

10:35

offensive line, but he stayed in for pass for on

10:38

one play also, and it was an incomplete

10:40

hitch slash back shoulder conversion throat to Davante

10:42

Parker sometime in the third quarter, but

10:44

he blocked the end pretty well on that one too, so some

10:47

tackle works, some into interior work in the running

10:49

game likewise of from Robert Jones,

10:51

and was there for both of Duke Johnson's touchdown runs.

10:54

The second one, it was just really well blocked

10:56

at the first level enough to get us to a

10:58

five yard run down to the two yard line

11:00

for second and goal. But Duke wasn't satisfied

11:03

with that. He just finished that thing off with pure effort

11:05

like he did the first run. So two big effort

11:08

runs from Duke Johnson for a pair of touchdowns,

11:10

and oh man, it got cooking on that

11:12

run that was at the second

11:15

quarter. You get a

11:17

skip poll play side from

11:20

Big Rob Hunt. What that means is you're gonna see

11:22

the guard kind of do a little

11:24

shuffle step to work to his new gap,

11:26

and obviously Rob is the right guard, so

11:28

he leaves and tries to come around the left guard's left

11:30

shoulder, which is the left side

11:32

b gap, and he wants to kind of delay

11:35

it because you have Duke in the pistol. The

11:37

operation takes a little bit longer to execute,

11:39

so you don't want him just sprinting over there and getting out in front

11:41

of the play so you skip pull them to kind of

11:43

time up more with the mesh point with the

11:45

handoff. And as

11:47

this kind of occurs, Duke has

11:49

patients working behind Rob Hunt and

11:52

he does a little skip step of his own

11:54

to the left and it brings a linebacker

11:56

from Rob's right shoulder over to

11:58

his left shoulder. And after this little

12:01

skip step, he goes right back to the

12:03

wine back lane. Sets that thing up

12:05

beautifully. After pressing at play side. The

12:07

jump cut back to the backside explodes out

12:09

that backside gap and not only helps

12:12

Rob Hunt on his block, it helps Liam

12:14

Eikenberg game leverage on a second level block

12:16

as well when he puts his head down and picks

12:18

up four more yards through the tackle. What a

12:20

frigging run that was all game long for Duke.

12:23

And then later, how about this spin

12:25

move on second and five to set us up

12:27

for a third and one to pose to what looked like there's gonna

12:29

be a loss. I mean, he gets out wide and

12:31

the edge is completely set, he just spins

12:33

off that tackle and because the north and south momentum,

12:36

he falls forward for a game of four. I just love

12:39

the way he ran this game. His eleven yard

12:41

run to end the third quarter, Austin

12:43

Jackson gets a pancake and Liam is ceiling

12:45

and working down field to stay on his block. They

12:48

just continue to kick ass in the running game all game

12:50

long. The numbers will bear that out here in just one

12:52

second, but Duke again finishes

12:54

for a handful of extra yards and then finally,

12:56

the last note on his game was the stiff farm

12:58

on the outside run on the game winning

13:01

drive. That's all that needs to be said about. It

13:03

presses inside, bounces out wide,

13:05

throws the stiff arm, and springs another seven

13:07

or eight yards after that on a first down

13:10

completion, and all of a sudden, it's

13:12

at the negative forty two yard line from Miami

13:14

on that game winning drive. Great stuff there from Duke Johnson

13:17

speaking of that game winning drive to I had

13:19

that first throw to get Miami going in

13:21

positive direction for a nine yard

13:23

game. To Mike KASICKI, let's talk about his

13:25

game. It was up and down at

13:27

least as far as I was concerned. And

13:29

you know, I just want to go ahead and make it a point that this

13:31

is strictly my opinion when breaking

13:34

down the film without knowing exactly

13:36

what the play design or what the play call is

13:38

or who's supposed to be where, et cetera.

13:41

This is my best guess at what I'm seeing,

13:43

so take it with a grain of salt. We'll talk to the coaches

13:45

on Tuesday and get their opinions

13:47

on things further and continue to use their

13:49

word as gospel. And this is just my

13:52

opinion only, and that's all it is, right, an opinion.

13:54

Everyone has one. Here's what my take on TOOS

13:57

game on Sunday. Early

13:59

on the failed exchange look to me like

14:02

Duke never expected a handoff and he might

14:04

have had Davante Parker on a slant for a possible

14:06

first down. Just a rough start that got

14:08

worse on the very next snap, the interception

14:11

to start the second drive, he's throwing that to Mike gets

14:13

sicky on a corner route, But it looks like Mike's

14:15

route is basically over and rightfully so, because

14:18

not only is he covered over the top and

14:21

underneath cloud corner kind of falls back

14:23

and flipped his hips and got depth double

14:26

covering Mike. He's just not open and

14:28

it looks like the boundary safety shows

14:30

buzz what that means. You

14:33

might hear a lot about the term three buzz cover

14:35

three buzzes where you show quarters with four deep

14:38

type the two corners and two safeties deep, and then

14:40

your third guy will buzz the middle, rob

14:42

the middle of the field and kind of take a shot

14:44

on a crossing route or try to maybe a hook route,

14:46

a dig route something over the middle, and then it kind

14:48

of converts into a cover three look and

14:51

that boundary safety buzzed and then realized

14:53

there was no crossing route, and he goes back

14:55

into a deep safety look and he's

14:57

over the top and Mike's like, all right, this route is not gonna

15:00

he sees it that way to a does not and

15:02

DeVante Parker comes open, but

15:04

it looks like he kind of pulls his arm. Downs

15:07

have to say, no way is that ball for me? And

15:09

I don't think it was. And you guys know, I'm

15:11

a huge fan number one's game, but this

15:13

was just such a blip way off the charts

15:16

for his standard that I don't want to say,

15:18

like, I just kind of want to say shake it off and

15:20

move on, because there's nothing to suggest that this is

15:22

some kind of trend. So the key now is

15:24

to not let it become one going forward. But a really

15:26

strange play there on to his first interception,

15:29

the deep shot to Albert Wilson. I was

15:31

wrong about this on the Sunday recap

15:33

pod. Wilson runs a delayed

15:36

wheel route where I thought it was more of a generic

15:38

wheel route or a traditional real wheel route,

15:40

I should say, where he's really working first

15:42

to stretch the cloud corner horizontally going

15:45

lateral to the line of scrimmage. But then he

15:47

just gets turned free and as a safety

15:49

closes down field and Davante Parker to

15:52

sees it and tries to set up and throw a deep ball as

15:54

the rush kind of gets in as he throws the ball,

15:56

but it's just about five yards short of where

15:58

it needed to be to hit Albert Wilson and stride.

16:01

It's a tough throw and he missed it. That's

16:03

a throw where if Miami can hit that,

16:06

it can really take this offense to the next level.

16:08

I really hope we get that look again at some point later

16:10

in the season, cause I want to see they can execute

16:12

it this time around. The very next ball to DeVante

16:15

Parker, the one batted and nearly picked off again

16:17

again, his location is off, which just speaks

16:19

to it being a rusty start for to Ah

16:22

I mean, the guy literally leads the league in completion

16:24

percentage. We know he's accurate, but he's

16:26

just off again. And I'll say this again.

16:28

I talked about Waddles value to the offense. Look,

16:31

it's no secret. Look at his reception and receiving

16:33

numbers. It's it's all there for you to a

16:35

really shines when throwing to separation,

16:38

like when he can anticipate separation off

16:40

of a break and throwing the ball to put the guy

16:42

in a spot to maximize that separation. And

16:45

for large swaths of this game,

16:47

in the first game without Waddle this season, it

16:50

was a lot of throws into tight windows against

16:52

a lot of receivers that are not separating. Against

16:54

the Jets defensive backfield that played very well in this

16:56

game. And I think that was reflective in the fact

16:58

that two was aggressivecentage, which

17:00

are throws into windows of one

17:03

yard or tighter jumped up like four

17:05

in this game from what it was heading into the game.

17:08

We'll get to that here in just one second, but lots of throws

17:10

into tight windows and the covered receivers. But

17:12

then it got better. The corner

17:14

out to Davante Parker, who against covered. But

17:16

there's leverage on this throw. And I don't

17:18

really have to add a whole lot from yesterday other

17:21

than this one crucial detail. I told

17:23

you the cloud corner had crashed the flat. That's

17:25

because one looked out to the flat,

17:28

and not only were his eyes to the flat, his

17:30

front facing shoulder and his front foot

17:32

we're facing that direction, which indicates

17:34

the throw to the flat. He then squares back up to the

17:36

corner and fires that dime away from

17:38

Parker to kind of box out the defensive back and

17:41

it's a good catch and a tremendous throw

17:43

from tongue Byloa. He had three significant

17:45

scrambles in this game. Nice work on each

17:47

one of them for good chunks of yards. He except

17:50

the shoulder drop. Let's not do that, okay, he said

17:52

that himself. I agree, no more of that. And

17:55

after doing the scramble on back to back

17:57

plays on a drive at the end of the first half,

17:59

he then has a nice strike to Mike get Sicky

18:01

after a fall start had pushed him back into second

18:03

long to move the chains. But then another

18:06

throw to Mike get Sick in the next play, this

18:08

one in the end zone where there are three Jets defenders

18:10

in the area. It looks like Mike gets his hands

18:12

on it, but still kind of a dangerous

18:15

proposition. And Durham was naked in the

18:17

flat, so just the type of reads that you don't

18:19

expect him to like. He's usually really

18:21

good at that stuff, so I'm not gonna worry about until he becomes

18:23

a trend right now. It was a one game thing

18:25

with the type of stuff, and then it gets a reset

18:27

and come back in the second half. And the throw to Isaiah

18:30

Ford was so nice. The jet style of a blitz

18:32

as they did at the end of the first half on a

18:35

third and goal, throw that two or just throw out the back of

18:37

the end zone. Two A goes to

18:39

the one guy in the pattern on this play

18:41

that stacks his man after Isaiah

18:43

gets a clean release and gets right on top.

18:45

And you also see the middle of the field safety

18:48

roll and get out to the opposite direction

18:50

at the snap to his eyes are on him.

18:52

He sees that and says, all right, there goes, that's where

18:54

the ball is going. It comes out, and both those

18:56

things allowed Isaiah to play that

18:58

ball in the air like he did. It was a great

19:00

route, a dime throw, a nice catch, and

19:03

then later in the game, Isaiah had a third and five

19:05

conversion where he catches a two way go

19:07

and puts a nice move to get space for two of

19:09

to hit him on the out route. Just a good job

19:12

of keeping the eyes down the middle on that play. Fight

19:14

to a to not let the defender on the outside

19:16

drive and anticipate that outside breaking

19:18

throw. So I thought too, and Ford showed some

19:20

good chemistry in this game. After

19:22

the long pass on the

19:25

over the shoulder bucket throw to Ford, we

19:27

come back with a terrific route from Mike Gasicki

19:30

on a crucial third and nine conversion

19:32

right before the end zone on the opening drive

19:34

of that second half, and that was a great route by Ghisiki

19:37

where he flips his man's hips and then kind of puts

19:39

him in the spin cycle with the inside release

19:41

and spins back outside. Ball's perfect

19:43

move the sticks. And then we get the Duke Johnson touchdown

19:45

run. And then that whole shot to

19:48

Isaiah Ford coming off

19:50

an offensive holding call where he just sits

19:53

in the zone and man, that ball came out

19:55

before Ford even settled up in

19:57

that hookup zone and the velocity to beat

19:59

the defend. It was nice. It was a nice, strong, confident

20:02

throw there from Tuah. You love to see those throws

20:04

against the zone. The very next one though, disaster,

20:06

and it was a good play by number twenty

20:08

six for the Jets to drive on this ball. You

20:11

see Hunter Long come out of his break and then

20:13

it's kind of a shuffle step or two to regather

20:15

and re gather. So to me, that indicates

20:17

a beat late in terms of the time of the football

20:19

and that's probably the reason why he can drive on that and make

20:21

the play just a brutal result, hopefully

20:24

a learning lesson for Tuah and this Dolphins

20:26

offense. Then you come back with a touchdown pass to

20:28

DeVante Parker. We talked about it on Monday.

20:31

That ball was behind him, but DeVante

20:33

was given that two way go and he did a good

20:35

job of kind of slow playing the inside release

20:37

to give himself plenty of space. That separation

20:39

gives you margin for air and we needed it

20:41

on that play. Big time catch and turn up field

20:44

for a touchdown for Davanta Parker. Let's

20:46

talk about the defense, but first, real quick these

20:49

words and

20:51

as we talked about for the offense and the passing

20:53

game early on, it was a rusty return

20:56

for the Dolphins defense on the All twenty

20:58

two review here the Tuesday edition of the Drive

21:00

Time podcast. For this Dolphins defense

21:02

in the first half of this game, some

21:04

uncharacteristic big lanes in the

21:06

running game, some receivers left

21:09

alone by significant patches

21:11

of grass like tight ends or backs, or even

21:14

receivers in the short areas just getting

21:16

turned free with nobody around them, way

21:18

too many mistackles. Just not the

21:20

defense we had been seeing for

21:22

the last six or so weeks in the first

21:24

half of this game, but thankfully it

21:27

turned around quickly in the second

21:29

half. But also a lot of those Jets

21:31

plays were things I think you can work

21:33

to minimize going forward. Like four

21:35

of the Jets big first big plays in that

21:37

first half were a play action

21:40

boot where Andrew van Geinkl

21:42

disengages the tight end to pursue Wilson,

21:44

he throws it right over his head, big run and catch

21:47

after that, a reverse that goes for eight

21:49

yards, a throwback where Zack

21:51

Wilson catches a pass back from the receiver on

21:53

a little end around look and

21:56

he gets pressure right away and makes a tremendous

21:58

scramble play and rolls the other direction,

22:01

and throws to an uncovered Ryan

22:03

Griffin, who again was turned completely free

22:05

when Wilson reversed field. That one, to me

22:07

was frustrating. Then the fourth one

22:10

you get a hook and lateral and there was four

22:12

awkward jerseys in the neighborhood there

22:14

on Braxton Barrios, but they

22:16

just couldn't get him down short of the sticks. And that goes

22:19

back to the tackling issues I thought we had in

22:21

that first half of the defense. We've

22:23

seen again for the last seven weeks. Showed up

22:25

right away from the first play in the second

22:27

half when Zack Seeler gets knocked back

22:29

and it basically forces

22:31

in a pulling

22:33

guard Elijah vera tucker. It knocks

22:36

him over because the knock back forces

22:38

a bubble and the guard doesn't see it and he gets knocked

22:40

to the ground, and that creates a huge lane

22:42

for Landing Roberts, who flies in and makes

22:44

a huge hit right in that b gap.

22:47

To kind of set the tone on that first

22:49

series. The Jets then try a now

22:51

route to the flat from trips, but Miami

22:54

plasters this thing three for three all the way

22:56

across the board. The Jets get a holding call,

22:58

Aga gets a sack. It is backwards

23:00

from there for them. From that first series,

23:03

guys just seemed to really lift their level

23:05

of play. And on the third down play on that

23:07

series, Van Ginkle chased Zack

23:10

Wilson out to the sideline to get a third

23:12

down stop there as well, And then the very next

23:14

series he does it again, the retrace, the kind of

23:16

chase in one direction and change direction to go back

23:18

the other way. We'll talk about that more here. In just

23:20

one second, you think it a six yard run,

23:23

then Zack Wilson slips the sack from Justin

23:25

Coleman. Then bang, there's Brandon Jones who

23:27

gets home for an eight yard loss. And

23:30

I like the way Miami reacted to those

23:32

bootlegs and the naked action for the quarterback

23:35

in the second half. It was one hell of an adjustment

23:37

from that first half, because that's kind of how the

23:39

Jets were setting up a lot of those

23:41

trick plays and the miss direction to get

23:43

fall steps and cause some of the tackling

23:46

issues and cause some of the eye discipline issues in

23:48

that first half. But Miami went into the locker

23:50

room adjusted and put a stop to it immediately.

23:53

You'd love to see that the next play

23:55

completion and then boom, Andrew Van Giegel

23:58

comes off the edge like an F one are

24:00

and gets the sack on Zack Wilson. The very next

24:02

drive, they get two big plays and they tied in

24:04

flat and a running play that both went for

24:06

like twenty something yards. But

24:09

then Zack Seeler comes up with the strip sack, working

24:11

past the guard, running right through the back.

24:14

Great job getting the ball out and then

24:16

the bottom of the pile by Agba to get that

24:18

ball out of the bottom of the pilot as well for the

24:20

phone recovery. They just couldn't get anything going.

24:22

It was either immediate pressure or or

24:24

coverage that forced Wilson to tucket and go

24:27

and make a secondary decision. Let's

24:29

talk about the individuals. Brandon Jones, that's

24:31

sack I talked about. He's sure is fun

24:33

to watch man. The first play of the game, he's

24:35

running away from the play in motion and

24:37

it has to come all the way back to the other side of the formation

24:40

and makes a tackle on a play

24:42

that was strung out on the opposite sideline

24:44

from where he came from and he's moving

24:46

on that play, and really a lot of these plays

24:48

he makes, he just moves at a different

24:50

speed, and the guys around him

24:53

going back to the front of the defense, up front

24:55

on the defensive line. Man, these guys they

24:57

bowled out once again. Emmanuel Ogba the

24:59

jet threw a ball to Jamison Crowder

25:01

and the flat on the first drive, and you

25:03

watch og Boss swat down the hands of

25:06

the right tackle before a bull rush and just runs

25:08

him right into the turf. It made me laugh

25:10

quite a bit. Him and Steeler have some of the

25:12

best grown man football tape you're

25:14

gonna see out there. The very next drive, he

25:17

forces the back to bubble on a run away

25:19

from him. He then flattens off the snap

25:21

and gets into a sprint as the unblocked

25:23

end going away from him. I love the way the Dolphins

25:25

pursue the football off the edge on runs

25:27

away from them, And I'm also very glad

25:30

he got the past defense that he did. But

25:32

Brandon Jones was coming downhill on that route

25:34

and might have had to play on the ball either way. Good

25:36

work from both. Talk about growing man football.

25:38

Speaking of Zack Steeler time and time again,

25:40

how about him recognizing that quarterback throwback

25:43

and retracing upfield for a pass breakup

25:46

on one of the jets many trick plays. You don't

25:48

see that very often, not from a three

25:51

pound guy getting upfield playing pass

25:53

coverage. The very next play a new drive,

25:55

he kicks out wide to a five technique and

25:58

swims inside. Elijah vera Tucker having

26:00

a great rookie season at left guard, who's pulling

26:02

to seal the outside shoulder of Seiler,

26:05

and he just swims over it and makes a play

26:07

in the backfield. This guy, I just keep writing this,

26:09

This guy, man, He's crazy. First play

26:11

a second half talked with the knock back he gets where

26:13

he trips up the pulling guard and gives a landing

26:16

Roberts that free run for a hit in the

26:18

backfield and a loss. S had a big

26:20

tone there in the second half of that game. We mentioned

26:22

the swim on the run stuff earlier.

26:24

That's how he got his trip sack to the guard

26:27

shoots for his left shoulder, he sidesteps

26:29

hit, swims and gets that arm over the top to

26:31

get right around him, then bull dozes the back

26:33

and bang strip sack for a huge play.

26:36

Staying up front, Christian Wilkins, it

26:38

so often looks like he's defending. He's

26:41

just playing against the sled

26:43

they work on in practice where he just pops

26:45

that thing up, stays engage, peaks around the corner,

26:47

and gets off the block. But he doesn't commit to

26:49

a gap until it's been declared by the back, and

26:51

that helps him make good decisions and

26:54

helps him create chances for his teammates

26:56

as well. He comes off and impacts the

26:58

back decision making so frequently to just

27:00

slows things down a notch for the rest

27:02

of his guys. And it's you know, it gets a really big

27:04

play late in this game to get a two

27:07

yard tackle for loss after the Jets had taken

27:09

over with good field position. He knocks them

27:11

back. They go back and back and back. After that good

27:13

work from Christian Wilkins. I put a note on

27:15

ray Kwon Davis that he just so rarely

27:18

gets moved even against double teams.

27:20

We talked about that edge position on this team.

27:23

It's been I think one of the best groups the entire team.

27:25

Let's talk about Andrew van Ginkl who he

27:28

does so many things well right now. He

27:30

does such a good job down in and down out

27:32

of setting a high edge and what I mean by

27:35

that is getting damn near parallel to the

27:37

line of scrimmage and really getting on the outside

27:39

shoulder into the backfield. So if that back

27:41

on an outside run wants to go the long

27:43

way around, he's gonna have to bubble.

27:45

And what that means is you work backwards opposed

27:48

to being lateral to the line of scrimmage,

27:50

and that of course allows the rest of the flow

27:52

of the defense to gain a step or two on

27:55

those outside pursue plays. Then

27:57

going the other direction. At the end of the first half, he

27:59

pursues one as the unblocked man like

28:01

odd Bad did earlier, and pulls the back

28:03

backwards for his friends to arrive and

28:06

finish off a tackle for loss. He's

28:08

playing so fast and it showed on that

28:10

third down stop to kick off the second half,

28:12

like we mentioned earlier, where Van Ginkel

28:14

matches Zach Wilson step first step

28:17

on a spy, they play coverage zero

28:19

pressure. Look, only three guys come

28:21

and one of them is Andrew Van Ginkle playing kind of

28:23

a spy over the middle and keep yourself

28:25

clean of the block, and they cover

28:27

it up. Wilson has to get outside and run and

28:30

he matches him step first step to the sideline.

28:32

No chance, And then again the very next

28:34

play. On the next series, he chases him all

28:37

over the field and does not let Zack Wilson get

28:39

away. What a day for Andrew Van Ginkle. Jalen

28:41

Phillips had a quiet day statistically, but he

28:43

hit a big pass rush at the end of the third quarter

28:46

that forced Wilson off the spot. Didn't finish

28:48

the sack, but Jerome Baker cleaned it up.

28:50

Speaking of Bake, that third and nine where

28:52

Byron's in tight coverage, thought Baker

28:54

really forced the football to come

28:57

out when it did with a good pass rush where he stays

28:59

on the outside shoulder of the back and just keeps

29:01

working inside to force Wilson's platform

29:04

to kind of get off platform as it were,

29:06

and force him off the original spot and the ball comes

29:08

out quickly. And his first sack of

29:10

the game came right after the hooking lateralal where

29:12

he gets the back to step up and pass pro right

29:14

away like I'm gonna challenge this linebacker and

29:17

he lost and Joan Baker gets a big sack there and

29:19

the defensive secondary X and Byron. The

29:21

best way I can explain it for this game

29:23

is that you saw such minimal movement

29:27

when they were in close competition, whether

29:29

it's jam or the top of the route, just difficulty

29:31

for the receivers to create missteps for

29:33

twenty and twenty four then also

29:36

minimal indecisiveness when they would pull

29:38

the trigger, get to fire out of the back pedal, to

29:40

make a decision when driving on those

29:42

routes. Just no real mystery for them

29:44

as to what the receiver wanted to do. Fire

29:46

the trigger driving the top of the route they did at

29:49

all game long, and the Jets ran so

29:51

much motion and bunches, and I

29:53

thought they communicated those combos beautifully

29:55

from those looks to say, hey, I got inside, you got

29:57

outside, vice versa. Byron's ability

29:59

to really, you know, X

30:01

didn't get a lot of action this game, So Byron's ability

30:04

to go from mirror and then flip the hips

30:06

and get on the horse and get vertical is still

30:09

as smooth as anybody there is in this league. He

30:11

creates such small windows on

30:13

those throws, and it felt like at times

30:15

last year quarterbacks were hitting those and like an

30:17

abnormally high rate. But man,

30:20

he's always in good shape on those. And I love that. The

30:22

one catch that Pro Football Focus credited

30:24

to him was a nine yard completion

30:26

on fourth and ten to end the game.

30:29

Great game Byron and then Nick need Um.

30:31

Nothing deep in the big plays were short throws

30:33

that sprung free, So I thought he did a good job

30:35

in his first real ever free safety action.

30:37

That's your all twenty two review. Let's move

30:39

on to the numbers here, but first, real quick, a

30:42

few words alright,

30:44

so that is the film review. Let's go ahead and pick it

30:46

up with the PFF numbers here, and we start

30:49

with two. A tongue of Byloa's game. Did you know

30:51

that he was two for three on twenty plus yard

30:53

throws with an average depth of target of thirty

30:55

two point three yards sixty four yards

30:57

on passes completed over twenty yards.

31:00

He had a struggle in the intermediate though, three for nine

31:02

for thirty six yards and a pick under

31:04

pressure. Not his best game. Four for ninety

31:07

one yards, a touchdown, an interception when

31:09

he was blitz though that was when the Dolphins got

31:11

some of their hey six for ten fifty three yards

31:14

and both touchdowns coming against blitz blitzells

31:16

from that Jets defense. Both interceptions

31:19

came against four man rushes. Duke Johnson

31:21

forced eight miss tackles in the game and average

31:23

three point six eight yards after contact

31:25

and Miles had a season high four yards average

31:28

after contact. He missed a big forced

31:30

a big miss tackle on his best

31:33

run really that thirty yard massive, massive run.

31:35

He had two forced miss tackles in the day and average

31:37

five point four yards per carry. Isaiah

31:40

Ford had three point six four yards per route

31:42

run in this game that was a season high for him, and

31:44

seventeen yards per target, where Davonte

31:46

Parker had a very good showing at two point to seven

31:49

yards per oute run and seven and a half yards

31:51

per target. And again that ball he caught for the touchdown,

31:53

What a catch that was. Pressures up

31:55

front, first of all, no sacks from the offensive

31:57

line. They gave it the two as far as Pro football

31:59

full because it's concerned after a scramble play

32:02

for no gain. But Liam Eichenberg has

32:04

his third grade game with one or for your pressure. You

32:06

like the way that sounds. I talked about his past pro looking

32:08

good. There's some numbers to back it up. Austin

32:10

Jackson clean sheet, no pressures, Michael

32:13

did two pressures, both QB hits, Rob

32:16

Hunt one pressure allowed, Jesse Davis

32:18

two pressures, five pressures from the

32:20

offensive line. Check that six pressures. How

32:22

about some directional rushing the

32:25

left end eight for forty nine, left tackle

32:27

one for six, left guard five total

32:30

fourteen for eighty three. That's five point nine

32:32

three yards per carry and running behind Rob

32:35

Hunt at right guard just a cool fifteen

32:37

point five yards per carry. Defensively

32:39

for the Dolphins. Pressures in the game, Agba had

32:41

seven, Van Ginkl had five. That's twelve

32:44

from your two primary edges. Doesn't count

32:46

Jaylen Phillips, who also had one. Adam

32:48

Butler had three. Jerome Baker and Justin Coleman

32:51

both had to run stops. Justin Coleman

32:53

had four. Wilkins and Brandon Jones

32:55

had three. Apiece, Ray Kwon Davis had two,

32:57

and a bunch of guys had one. Ogbad Now

32:59

has seven and sacks. It's the second highest total

33:01

of his career, both of those nine

33:03

last year with the Miami Dolphins.

33:05

His ten pass breakups are most among defensive

33:08

linemen this year. Cameron Heyward and Pittsburgh

33:10

is second with seven. Has

33:13

fifty seven pressures that's ninth in the NFL.

33:15

Van Gikl has forty twenty eight in the NFL

33:17

Phillips has thirty seven that's tied for

33:19

twenty ninth among edges, three guys in the top

33:22

thirty and edge pressures. X

33:24

and Byron played seventy two coverage snaps

33:26

apiece or total. I should say five

33:28

targets one on X, one catch

33:30

for nine yards on Byron Jones one for four.

33:33

As a team, Miami's thirty seven sacks

33:35

are tied for fourth in the NFL. Prior

33:37

to the Monday and Tuesday games. They're twenty one

33:39

takeaways or ninth most again prior

33:42

to the Monday and Tuesday games. Next

33:44

Gen stats not a lot to update here. A lot

33:46

of the rankings are the same. To is fifth and time

33:48

to throw at two point five one seconds.

33:51

He's first in aggressive throw percent

33:53

digit nineteen point two percent. That jumped almost

33:55

four percent from last week. We talked about the

33:57

receiver and the separation thing at the top of the podcast.

34:00

His completion above expected rate is

34:03

three point one percent plus. That's

34:05

third best in the NFL, behind Joe Burrow and Kyler

34:07

Murray. And this isn't next gen, but he's

34:09

eight in the NFL and total qb R at

34:12

eight or fifty six point four. Josh

34:14

Allen Carson Wentz, Patrick Mahomes, Tom

34:16

Brady, Justin Herbert, Aaron Rodgers,

34:18

Matt Stafford are the names in front

34:20

of him. In the game, he hit a long

34:23

air yard throw of forty point five air yards.

34:26

His fastest are The fastest time measured

34:28

in this game was Albert Wilson eight teen point seven

34:30

two miles per hour, and Andrew van Ginkl

34:32

had the fastest sack at two point nine seconds.

34:34

How about some snap counts to I played

34:36

sixty eight, jacobea played three. The offensive

34:39

line went wire to wire for all seventy one

34:41

snaps. Robert Jones played ten snaps,

34:43

that's four percent. At running back, Duke

34:45

Johnson played forty one that's fifty percent

34:47

of the workload. Miles Gaskin played twenty

34:50

six snaps At receiver. Davante

34:52

Parker led the way with sixty three snaps that

34:54

was nine percent of the workload. Albert

34:57

Wilson played forty one, mac or is

35:00

a Ford rather nineteen, Mac Hollins

35:02

thirteen snaps. Preston Williams played

35:04

six in the game. At tight end, Durham

35:06

Smith leads the way with sixty five

35:09

snaps percent of the workload.

35:11

Mike get sick he played forty five, Hunter

35:13

Long played twenty three, and Seaton Carter played one,

35:15

and Christian Wilkins had the two snaps. On offense,

35:18

he also had forty two snaps. To lead all into

35:20

your defensive lineman, that was seventy of

35:23

the workload. Ray Kwon Davis played thirty

35:25

one, and Zach Seieler and Adam Butler both

35:27

played a piece off the edge.

35:29

Van Gekle leads the way forty seven snaps,

35:32

Jalen Phillips forty one snaps, Ogat

35:34

thirty five snaps, and Vince Beagle one At

35:37

linebacker. Jerome Baker played every rep all

35:39

fifty seven. A Landon Roberts played thirty

35:41

two snaps, Duke Riley played nine

35:43

at cornerback. X Byron and Nick Needum

35:46

all played every snap all fifty seven

35:48

at safety. Son Brandon Jones and then

35:50

Justin Coleman played thirty six snaps. Eric

35:52

Rowe played thirty three, so you get four

35:54

defensive backs that really played all the snaps and then Coleman

35:57

thirty six three. Just used six

35:59

guys in the day. That's the absence of Javon Holland

36:01

being a part of that obviously some notable

36:03

special team snap counts Vince Beagle twenty

36:05

five, Clayton Federal, Sheldrick

36:08

RedWine twenty snaps. Let's go ahead and

36:10

scan the social So I

36:12

wanted to talk about players involving

36:14

and improving, and today we focus on the offensive

36:16

line. We touched on it already in the All twenty

36:19

two. This was the best offensive line performance we've

36:21

seen this year from my money, and that's a damn

36:23

good front the Jets bring with them down here to South

36:25

Florida. Not to mention where Sala's

36:27

bread has been buttered in his career in that

36:29

same area up front, but for the

36:31

Dolphins to have that kind of performance and for the

36:33

individuals to stand out the way they did, guys

36:36

that were drafted really in the last two

36:38

years, and this isn't a one time thing.

36:40

It's a trend starting to kind of form.

36:42

Over the last few weeks. Leon's last

36:44

three games have been his best three games as

36:46

a pro. Gott to note the climb from the last

36:48

from last season. With Robert Hunt playing

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as a top ten right tackle his final

36:53

six games of his rookie season, you see them kind of

36:55

get better as we go along here Michael

36:57

Dieter coming back after not playing a game last

36:59

year and giving you the production he's

37:01

done up front. How about Austin Jackson's resurgence,

37:04

pushing guys in the Running game, creating huge lanes,

37:06

no pressures in the past protection game. And

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it reminds me back to when

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we talk about complementing two US strengths

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with this massive offensive line that can lean

37:17

on folks in the Run game and the r p O

37:19

game and really by proxy, the entire

37:21

Run Game is a collection of that, and I think you

37:23

saw that in this game, that rushing performance

37:26

with our full complement of weapons. I'm

37:28

excited about the prospect of that. Hopefully

37:31

they hit their stride right now. Either

37:33

way, I'm pretty excited about what's to come,

37:35

both now and in the future. And

37:37

to put a bow on that thought, Miami, as

37:39

we've discussed, has done so well to

37:41

continually restock the cupboards down the

37:44

line, both in terms of cat flexibility,

37:46

draft capital. They're obviously going

37:48

to add talent, but the more you develop

37:50

at each spot, if those additions

37:52

are competing with incumbents, that's how

37:55

you wind up with a deep team that goes fifty

37:57

three deep. And it allows you to strength and strengths.

37:59

Hope that's the case we have going on here with the offensive

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line again, excitement, and that's for

38:04

Monday in New Orleans more than anything

38:06

else. All Right, that's gonna do it for

38:08

our show, A long one here, the Tuesday film

38:11

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38:15

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38:17

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38:22

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38:24

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38:26

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38:28

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