Speaker 1: All right, guys, what is up?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Guiltiest Charge Podcast pres anybody the Chargers
Speaker 2: Podcast Network. My name is Stephen and I am the
Speaker 2: host as always, and have a very special episode planned
Speaker 2: for you today. It is week one. We have real
Speaker 2: football to talk about in a preview and this is
Speaker 2: gonna be a really nerdy, coach heavy episode. So we
Speaker 2: thought who better to come back on the show than
Speaker 2: mister Sean Said, who joined us to talk about Kellen
Speaker 2: Moore earlier in the off season. Sean, thanks so much
Speaker 2: for taking the time again, man, How you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing awesome.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it so much once again, and wow, we
Speaker 4: don't have to look at training camp clips. We don't
Speaker 4: have to, you know, see who's in the best shape
Speaker 4: of our life. We don't have to break down any
Speaker 4: more preseason film. We have made it and it feels
Speaker 4: it feels absolutely incredible.
Speaker 5: It does feel absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait for I mean, we're two days away
Speaker 2: from an NFL game being played, and a few short
Speaker 2: days after that for the Chargers and the Dolphins game
Speaker 2: being played as well. Joining us as always is my
Speaker 2: guy Tyler. Tyler, what's up man? How you doing? Great man.
Speaker 6: Our first episode on this Chargers channel was before the draft,
Speaker 6: and everything's.
Speaker 5: Really awesome in the draft and yay.
Speaker 6: Then it was just summer and we had eighteen episodes
Speaker 6: of just like stuff in the middle of summer. And
Speaker 6: again you're like, everyone's in the best shape of their lives.
Speaker 6: It's amazing how good in shape. All these guys are
Speaker 6: the best shape of their lives. But now we'll see
Speaker 6: what kind of shape they're in. Football is here. I'll
Speaker 6: be there on Sunday.
Speaker 5: I'm stoked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I cannot wait for this game. It's a game
Speaker 2: where I think if you study film and you are
Speaker 2: into schematics and you are into data, this is kind
Speaker 2: of your super Bowl and it's in. It's happening in
Speaker 2: week one and I cannot wait to dive into it
Speaker 2: with Tyler and Sean before we get started. As always,
Speaker 2: Tyler and I are fans of the team first and foremost,
Speaker 2: just like you guys are are very fortunate to have
Speaker 2: this platform, but the opinions that we express on this
Speaker 2: show and every week on this show are not always
Speaker 2: reflective of.
Speaker 1: The Charters organization.
Speaker 2: Like I said, very grateful to be here and happy
Speaker 2: to kick off week one with Sean before we really
Speaker 2: dive in here with Sean, I think it's important to
Speaker 2: really kind of set the stage of why this coaching
Speaker 2: battle is so important heading into week one and the
Speaker 2: kind of tone that it can set for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. You know, if you look at the
Speaker 2: kind of metas that are around the NFL these days,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of vic Vangio disciples, and it's a
Speaker 2: lot of Kyle Shanahan disciples, and these two coaches, Brandon
Speaker 2: Staey and Mike McDaniel, have really kind of taken their
Speaker 2: own twists off of their background. So Sean, I want
Speaker 2: to start with you, how have you seen Brandon skate
Speaker 2: Brandon stay take the vic Vangio defense and maybe molded
Speaker 2: into his own vision over the past few seasons as
Speaker 2: the Rams defense of coordinator and of course the Chargers
Speaker 2: head coach.
Speaker 4: I think I just think Brandon Staley is an exceptional,
Speaker 4: exceptional defensive game planner.
Speaker 3: I really really do.
Speaker 4: I like his philosophies of defense, particularly the way that
Speaker 4: he approaches pass coverage, and I think some of his
Speaker 4: blitz designs are really really good. I like the way
Speaker 4: that he's gotten the Chargers DBS to match routes. I
Speaker 4: think they have a really deep thir downbag, and they
Speaker 4: forced quarterbacks to play after the snap. In today's NFL,
Speaker 4: you can't. You cannot just sit back in one coverage
Speaker 4: alignment all day. Quarterbacks have gotten way too good at
Speaker 4: processing board before the snap, and offensive coordinators they just
Speaker 4: understand how to break the rules of coverage better than ever.
Speaker 4: And Staley's pass defense, right, they end up in the
Speaker 4: top ten last year. I think that's for a reason,
Speaker 4: and I think that's certainly had at least designed to
Speaker 4: thank in part. But I do know that a lot
Speaker 4: of Chargers fans, you know, there is criticism for Brandon
Speaker 4: Staley's defense, particularly in the run game. I think that's
Speaker 4: it's a difficult problem for all defenses, right. I think
Speaker 4: defense as a whole is an allocation problem.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: You could line up eleven players in the box and say,
Speaker 4: you know what, we're going to stop every single run.
Speaker 3: But then the team's just going to pass the ball.
Speaker 4: And Staley's made it clear on the field that his
Speaker 4: emas is designed to stop that explosive pass. But the
Speaker 4: problem comes up when instead of those plays, you're seeing
Speaker 4: explosive runs. And I don't think that's something that Staley
Speaker 4: shies away from. You know, he said it in press
Speaker 4: conferences that they need to do a better job. And
Speaker 4: the question is going to be this year obviously, you know,
Speaker 4: how are the Chargers going to be able to do that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone's like, well, you know, stop stopping these or
Speaker 6: stop letting the explosive runs happen. Of course, like Brendessili
Speaker 6: does not want those to happen. He invites to run
Speaker 6: more so than the pass, of course, but he doesn't
Speaker 6: want them to run. He wants them to run for
Speaker 6: zero yards or negative yards if possible. This Dolphins game,
Speaker 6: and you and tedj talked about this on I believe
Speaker 6: it's stats and what is it stats in film? What's
Speaker 6: it called stats in scheme?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 6: Does that that that particular episode pretty.
Speaker 3: Much that's in film? Yeah, pretty close.
Speaker 6: Excellent And you call this like the highest watchability game
Speaker 6: of Week one.
Speaker 5: There's so much going on here.
Speaker 6: You watched last year's game and this was like the
Speaker 6: game that a lot of guys, different guys point to.
Speaker 6: Ted Winn had an article come out before the playoff
Speaker 6: game against the Jaguars, like Brandon Staley is an elite schemer,
Speaker 6: he's an elite defensive play caller. It's a fantastic scheme
Speaker 6: and he's elite. He's he's a genius nuts sort of thing.
Speaker 6: How do you get the Chargers? And I guess this
Speaker 6: is the million dollar question. How does Brandon Staley get
Speaker 6: the Chargers in this defense to consistently do this? There
Speaker 6: are some defenses or teams across years, across years, or
Speaker 6: even it's the entire season where you just know, oh man,
Speaker 6: we're going to struggle against this team because their defense
Speaker 6: is just historically or has been for several years.
Speaker 5: A really really good defense.
Speaker 6: Brandon Staley in this defense has shown again in this
Speaker 6: Dolphins game the previous Dolphins game that they're so good
Speaker 6: at doing so many things and can execute at such
Speaker 6: a high level. How do you get them to do
Speaker 6: that across an entire season? What is the next step
Speaker 6: Brandon Staley might have.
Speaker 5: To take this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, on a year to year basis, defense it's
Speaker 4: so much more fragile than offense, right, I think if
Speaker 4: you track it out, you know, I don't pretend to
Speaker 4: the stats guy first, but if you look at it
Speaker 4: from year to year, your offense is more likely to
Speaker 4: have kind of a similar high end result if they
Speaker 4: did the previous year, and the kind of opposite. And
Speaker 4: on the defense event, right, coverage is a fragile thing
Speaker 4: where you know it's really just inches or the typical
Speaker 4: ball that can lead to an interception, which is such
Speaker 4: a huge swing. And I really think defenses they are
Speaker 4: helped by being you know, you're in the same system
Speaker 4: year after year.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: I think there were early hiccups with the Chargers in
Speaker 4: that first year and the defense system, it's not the
Speaker 4: easiest to learn, right. Part of it is that we
Speaker 4: need to get you know, Staley's personnel in there. That
Speaker 4: is a really big thing where it's a safety that
Speaker 4: you have to learn how to watch, how routes express
Speaker 4: it in a bit of a different way. And seems
Speaker 4: like every year, right, Chargers get a little bit of
Speaker 4: bad luck with injuries, but you know, coming in this year,
Speaker 4: let's keep all those edge guys healthy. I think that
Speaker 4: is such a big difference in the run game, whether
Speaker 4: it's something you have your kind of random TfL that
Speaker 4: you weren't expecting because mosta just beats it gam I
Speaker 4: think that's something that's so possible against the Dolphins and
Speaker 4: it's hopefully possible a week tweak. I think figuring out
Speaker 4: that nickel spot right, whether it's weeked on a week
Speaker 4: to week basis, you know, we want someone who's more
Speaker 4: active in the run fit, someone who can really attack
Speaker 4: that the ball in the backfield and make those sorts
Speaker 4: of plays, or maybe it's you know, certain downs we're
Speaker 4: going to get more of a pass coverage player. I
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time just watching the explosive runs
Speaker 4: that the Chargers let up last season to see.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, how do you troubleshoot this?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: I think that a lot of times people at the
Speaker 4: start where at least in good positions, right, because one
Speaker 4: thing would be awful. That's the starting point. Are we
Speaker 4: just like lined up totally awful?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: I think later in the season there was just better
Speaker 4: intier defensive line play, and I think run defense, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: it's a really cascading effect where if your interior guys
Speaker 4: are getting beat a little bit, it makes the linebacker's
Speaker 4: life harder because then the offensive lineman can climb the linebackers.
Speaker 4: Now a linebacker has to fight off a person, and
Speaker 4: there were a lot of runs where it just ended
Speaker 4: up with an incredibly athletic running back in space with
Speaker 4: full steam at a defensive back. But towards the back
Speaker 4: half of the season, I do think, you know, especially
Speaker 4: and Joseph Day, I think he played a lot better
Speaker 4: that interior defensive line they had Steely as creative and that,
Speaker 4: like you said, Stealely doesn't want to let up these runs, right,
Speaker 4: He's not asking and telling the offense, Hey.
Speaker 3: You guys, just run all over as much as you can.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So against the forty nine ers, against the Titans, they
Speaker 4: had different fronts where they have two defensive linemen really
Speaker 4: clogging the kind of the a gaps both sides of
Speaker 4: the center, and that makes the center's life harder. It
Speaker 4: they have the ability just to blitz into different fronts.
Speaker 4: So even if you don't have a certain type of personnel,
Speaker 4: Britton Staley has shown just a cool ability to say, look,
Speaker 4: we don't have you know, Vince wolferk in at the nose,
Speaker 4: but we can you know, send a linebacker there and
Speaker 4: mess with the offensive line in different ways. So, you know,
Speaker 4: consistency is going to be the question. And it may
Speaker 4: just be that I like to see the good new people,
Speaker 4: but I think Stalely has so much good to him,
Speaker 4: and I hope that they can build off that back
Speaker 4: half of last year going into this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioning the defensive tack room. I think that's
Speaker 2: a super important point that we have tried to emphasize
Speaker 2: on our show across a few episodes, whether it was
Speaker 2: you know, the draft conversations where certain draft analysts wanted
Speaker 2: the Chargers to draft Siaka Ika in the first round
Speaker 2: or like Mazzie Smith and their first and it's like, no, no, no, Like,
Speaker 2: defensive tackle is not the problem you guys, Like the
Speaker 2: defensive line was was solid last year. Of course I
Speaker 2: would love to have a young guy like a Quinn
Speaker 2: Williams or Chris Jones or whatever, but the Chargers have
Speaker 2: solid pieces up front and where they got into trouble
Speaker 2: last year was that edge rusher spot opposite of Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned the secondary pieces as well.
Speaker 2: So you know, we'll we'll tackle this from a personnel
Speaker 2: standpoint on our own channel later this week. But Sean,
Speaker 2: in your opinion, like, how do how does Brandon Staley
Speaker 2: maybe overcompensate for some you know, subpar personnel that you've
Speaker 2: seen in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well the Dolphins game was I think one of
Speaker 4: the best examples where he I think he really really
Speaker 4: got his players bought in on a game plan, right.
Speaker 4: So the Dolphins example, I just keep I keep that
Speaker 4: one in mind. I feel like over so many whether
Speaker 4: it's a flaw or whether it's a bad result for
Speaker 4: the Chargers in any sort of way. And I think
Speaker 4: that he can simplify things when he needs to, where
Speaker 4: his system of figuring out Okay, well the second receiver
Speaker 4: is releasing a certain way after this many steps, Now
Speaker 4: I need to pass my guy off of somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Against Miami, he made that a lot simpler, right by
Speaker 4: playing heavy man coverage in different ways. So I do
Speaker 4: think that really has a good ability to figure out
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 3: Well these are the pieces I have left.
Speaker 4: And you know, defense, it's not always about what you
Speaker 4: want to do a lot of times it's about what
Speaker 4: you have to do. So I'm hoping the injury bug
Speaker 4: doesn't hit you guys the same way that it always
Speaker 4: has because obviously you have Derwin James. Hopefully he's healthier
Speaker 4: for a full season. And you know, we talk a
Speaker 4: lot about positional versatility on the defensive ends. Sometimes it
Speaker 4: helps when that person is really good at one thing.
Speaker 4: But Derwin James is good at a lot of things,
Speaker 4: and hopefully he can help erase some things up front.
Speaker 4: And I'm happy to see Eric Hendricks and I watched
Speaker 4: him a lot with the Vikings last year. I think
Speaker 4: he still has juice left in him. So the ability
Speaker 4: to bring in guys, you know, continue the system again
Speaker 4: another year, just get that by in again and again
Speaker 4: and again. And it seems like, you know, people emerge
Speaker 4: for the charges, right, you got new cornerbacks coming in
Speaker 4: year after year that you just hopefully see more success
Speaker 4: from them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Really curious, and we'll dive into in various scene. Really
Speaker 6: curious if Brandon Steely has for this offense against the Dolphins.
Speaker 6: I think he cranked up his stunt rate by about
Speaker 6: five percent compared to the rest of the games throughout
Speaker 6: that season. So we'll see what he's got. Does he
Speaker 6: have to do that this game? I don't know, because
Speaker 6: now he's got all his guys back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, like Tyler said, let's let's dive into this matchup
Speaker 2: into the nitty gritty of these coaching schematics. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: feel like most people were kind of surprised that the
Speaker 2: Dolphins hired Mike McDaniel. You know what, he hadn't been
Speaker 2: with you know, an elevated you know title.
Speaker 1: In San Francisco for very long.
Speaker 2: Of course, he had followed Kyle Shanahan for quite some
Speaker 2: time and was kind of known around the NFL as
Speaker 2: this run game guru that was working with Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2: And then he gets to Miami and they're not really
Speaker 2: running the football a whole lot. Sean, what did you
Speaker 2: kind of see from his first step as a play
Speaker 2: caller as a head coach down there in Miami last week?
Speaker 4: The Dolphins were just one of the most exciting offenses
Speaker 4: to watch last year, especially when they're full of healthy
Speaker 4: under Mike McDaniel. And as you said, you know, he
Speaker 4: comes from that Shanahan tree. He did a great job
Speaker 4: of taking the roots of that offense, which you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of it is a credit in the run game.
Speaker 4: And like you said, you know, I think he had
Speaker 4: a really high pass rate over expectation because he just
Speaker 4: super charged the whole entire thing with Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 4: Jayleen Wattle while forming it around his quarterback strength. So
Speaker 4: same way, I think that Staley has a good job
Speaker 4: defensive game planning. I think mcdaniell understands these are the
Speaker 4: pieces that I have, and this is how I make
Speaker 4: the most of him. And he did that by making
Speaker 4: it attract me for teams, right, they used that kind
Speaker 4: of fast motion at the snap to get into stacks
Speaker 4: at full speed. It scared defensive backs off, it opened
Speaker 4: up space underneath, and they were even able to get
Speaker 4: to some of the more classic Shanahan play action concept
Speaker 4: from shotgun instead of under center, which has been really
Speaker 4: really hard for teams. When Tua played in rhythm, he
Speaker 4: played really really well. Teams backed off Hill and Waddle
Speaker 4: as they probably should, right, I wouldn't want Tyreek Hill
Speaker 4: running full speed at me. I think that the Dolphins
Speaker 4: were happy to take advantage of that underneath space. But
Speaker 4: the problem that defense is that presented to a lot
Speaker 4: of offenses where you stay in those two high shells
Speaker 4: and you wait as long as possible to get out
Speaker 4: of that and show your rotation. The Dolphins solved that
Speaker 4: with speed and aggression their creative motion. It forced teams
Speaker 4: to back out of the press or, it made them
Speaker 4: show their rotation a lot earlier, and it put the
Speaker 4: Dolphins into a place where they could play pre snap
Speaker 4: where two a good point and shoot a lot of
Speaker 4: times where he'd go to his first read and didn't
Speaker 4: have to worry as much about processing after the snat.
Speaker 6: I feel bad for Tua because there's this he comes
Speaker 6: into the league and he's not Herbert and he's not Burrough,
Speaker 6: so automatically that's very tough for him in the comparisons.
Speaker 6: And then there's a situation where that maybe the team
Speaker 6: doesn't want him, so he has a couple of rough seasons.
Speaker 6: Then finally he has a really good season. Mike McDowall
Speaker 6: comes in and he puts up great numbers, the numbers
Speaker 6: that you'd want from your franchise quarterback when he was healthy,
Speaker 6: and all think is labeled is now is like, well,
Speaker 6: it was the system. It was the scheme that did
Speaker 6: it for him. So it's more like you can't win
Speaker 6: either way.
Speaker 5: What did you see?
Speaker 6: I don't know how much Dolphins you've watched the last
Speaker 6: few years, but like, what have you seen has to
Speaker 6: himself legitimately improved how he plays from let's say the
Speaker 6: previous year to last year or is it really just
Speaker 6: the scheme did everything for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that question is so tough because it's so hard
Speaker 4: to pull apart, right, how can we pull apart the scheme?
Speaker 4: How can we pull apart the quarterback? And just thinking well,
Speaker 4: how many quarterbacks would succeed in the system. It maybe
Speaker 4: that a lot would. But also you know the way
Speaker 4: that Tua takes a snap and gun and snaps his
Speaker 4: head one way and is able to get the ball
Speaker 4: out with such anticipation so quickly. There are a lot
Speaker 4: of strength that Tua has. Now, of course, you know
Speaker 4: I would agree and that you said that, yeah, Tua
Speaker 4: is not justin Herbert, because a lot of quarterbacks aren't
Speaker 4: justin Herbert. He is incredibly unique and you guys are
Speaker 4: incredibly lucky to be rooting for him every single week.
Speaker 4: So I do think that Mike McDaniel understood. Okay, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe Tua does have some limitations, but Tua still was
Speaker 4: more than happy to drive the ball down the field.
Speaker 3: He just did it in rhythm.
Speaker 4: He did a little bit quicker than I think some
Speaker 4: other people would do.
Speaker 3: So I like Tua. I think this is really the.
Speaker 4: Year where we can maybe decide defenses have seen a
Speaker 4: little bit more from them. The Chargers put out sort
Speaker 4: of a blueprint, but just a fantastically played game, and
Speaker 4: you know, Ken twas start to hit some of those
Speaker 4: outbreakers or can you start to play to his second
Speaker 4: and third read in different ways where I'm optimistic for
Speaker 4: TUA because particularly because I think so highly of Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 4: But I'm sure Chargers fans are gonna want to see
Speaker 4: something different on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just hearkening back to that matchup last
Speaker 2: season and also to the forty nine Ers game that
Speaker 2: they had where the forty nine Ers really crushed them.
Speaker 2: Obviously a little different. You have Fred Warner, you have
Speaker 2: Nick Bosa. The Chargers didn't have those guys healthy. Again
Speaker 2: the Chargers, Bosa was already out injured. You know, the
Speaker 2: defensive line was pretty banged up at that point. So
Speaker 2: you look at how the forty nine Ers went about
Speaker 2: that game, and everybody leading up to the theme was like,
Speaker 2: well the Chargers don't have Fred Warner, Like how are
Speaker 2: they going to do this? So revisiting that game, you
Speaker 2: know what, what did you really see from how the
Speaker 2: Chargers approached blitzing that that passing attack and kind of
Speaker 2: staying away from the track meet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that the game plan versus the Dolphins was just
Speaker 4: so fantastic, and I'm glad that you bought off the
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers game because it was so different than
Speaker 4: that game where you make a great point Fred Warner
Speaker 4: is he's just one of one, right, Not every team
Speaker 4: has that kind of player. The forty nine Ers were
Speaker 4: able to erase that intermediate middle of the field with
Speaker 4: linebacker death, and that's something that's hard to do because
Speaker 4: has said not everyone has Fred Warner. But Staley wanted
Speaker 4: to avoid that track meat. Instead of backing off soft zones,
Speaker 4: he pressed the Dolphins, which it's easy to say now,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, like they pressed him, But that was really
Speaker 4: revolutionary at the time because I don't think anyone really
Speaker 4: thought of that. I don't think it made sense on
Speaker 4: a chalkboard to say we are going to press this
Speaker 4: incredibly fast receiver where there can be results like that
Speaker 4: one long touchdown that there was just on that vertical ball,
Speaker 4: but you know, not surprised to pay sometimes. I think
Speaker 4: the Chargers did a great job of getting the Dolphins
Speaker 4: into third and long and they just had a deep, deep,
Speaker 4: third and long package. Whether it's different coverages while you
Speaker 4: have different guys dropping out. You know, they did a
Speaker 4: great shot with those safeties robbing down, taking away that
Speaker 4: intermediate middle of the field. But the disruption aspect of
Speaker 4: it was so so cool to see, whether it's pressing
Speaker 4: on the backside of a route so to a can't
Speaker 4: just snap his head around in play action and get
Speaker 4: that throw. But then also as much as I love
Speaker 4: to talk about scheme and x's and o's, you know,
Speaker 4: those players played out of their minds. Some of the
Speaker 4: DV players were awesome. I think how many times snap
Speaker 4: after snap you're covering wattle and hill at full speed
Speaker 4: is so difficult getting your hands on balls that I
Speaker 4: think other teams weren't able to do. So a beautiful
Speaker 4: combination of game plan execution, let's disrupt this and it
Speaker 4: is absolutely something that I'm sure Mike McDaniel and tour
Speaker 4: you know, they're watching over and over and seeing how
Speaker 4: did they do this to us?
Speaker 3: What do we do to get better against?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just going back to it the game and just
Speaker 6: the numbers. I was looking at the third downs that
Speaker 6: they faced and I was surprised that, you know, nine
Speaker 6: out of eleven of the third downs they faced were
Speaker 6: third and long and that's really a credit to what
Speaker 6: they were able to do, yes against the past, but
Speaker 6: also against the run. Now that they stop for the run,
Speaker 6: I think they still ran for four yards to carry,
Speaker 6: but they were able to limit what the Dolphins could
Speaker 6: do on early downs to get into those third and
Speaker 6: long situations. The Dolphins didn't face a third and shorts
Speaker 6: like a minute and a half left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see what the Chargers can
Speaker 6: do this game, because, like you said, scheme drawed up
Speaker 6: whatever you want.
Speaker 5: The players just flat out executed. I mean they were undermanned.
Speaker 5: It should have been worse.
Speaker 6: I think Steven and I both predicted a loss that
Speaker 6: game because of the injuries. But these guys play played
Speaker 6: out of their minds. So I really hope those guys
Speaker 6: can do that again this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think my biggest curiosity for you know, outside of
Speaker 2: the scheme, is how does a Sante Samuel Junior in
Speaker 2: the slot kind of factor in how this game unfolds,
Speaker 2: because if you go back and watch that game, it
Speaker 2: was a lot of Michael Davis on Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 2: it was a lot of kind of you know, shadowing
Speaker 2: the middle of Drew Trank one, Well, just hear Taylor
Speaker 2: on Jayson Wattle and Asante just kind of roamed a
Speaker 2: little bit and was able to make plays in the
Speaker 2: coverage area. Now, theoretically like he's going to be the
Speaker 2: one matching up with Jalen Wattle and maybe a J. C. Jackson.
Speaker 2: We'll see what his status unfolds like this week. But Sean,
Speaker 2: what would you kind of estimate You know, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about adjustments here in a second, but like the idea
Speaker 2: of a Santee in the slot, how do you think
Speaker 2: that manifest manifests itself this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's going to depend on what Miami
Speaker 4: comes out with, right. I think that if you have
Speaker 4: someone who's more of a past defender, where I think
Speaker 4: Asana Samuel is very good in coverage. If the Dolphins say, hey,
Speaker 4: we bought in Braxton Barrios, maybe we want to get
Speaker 4: into more eleven personnel where it's just one running back
Speaker 4: and one tight end and three receivers instead of how
Speaker 4: they usually had it with two running backs, a tight
Speaker 4: end and then just those two receivers. So it's going
Speaker 4: to depend a little bit on does Miami see their
Speaker 4: solution as hey, we need to get the ball out
Speaker 4: quick or we need to get these checkdowns and kind
Speaker 4: of run those over and over. Do we need to
Speaker 4: get into our kind of our RPO game in different
Speaker 4: ways where we have a run going one way and
Speaker 4: maybe a bubble going the other way. So I think
Speaker 4: it's something that Stale. He's gonna have to be pretty
Speaker 4: fluid with it, whether it's Samuel is doing a great
Speaker 4: job in the run game, he's not doing a great
Speaker 4: job in the run game. Because I do think the
Speaker 4: first answer that the Dolphins should toward move towards is
Speaker 4: finding different ways to run the ball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is the one I really want to get
Speaker 6: into in just a sec. Because you mentioned right after
Speaker 6: the Chargers game and from that Bill's game on the
Speaker 6: Dolphins just figured out how to run the football, and
Speaker 6: I was curious, Okay, did they actually improve, you know,
Speaker 6: is there any kind of adjustment there?
Speaker 5: And I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6: I'll let you speak on that, but the Dolphins went
Speaker 6: from like twenty second and epa pri play rushing the
Speaker 6: football to fifth just in after the Chargers game, like
Speaker 6: they figured something out. And I'm really curious how they
Speaker 6: test the Chargers this game, because you know, we talked
Speaker 6: about Michael Davis and Tiger Kill and Jill and Waddle
Speaker 6: and all that, but the Dolphins theoretically could just go
Speaker 6: out and test the Chargers run game. Okay, Sante Samuel
Speaker 6: Junior is now your starter in the slot. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: think that that's a smart way to do it. And
Speaker 6: it felt really interesting.
Speaker 4: You know, you turn the bills film on that literal
Speaker 4: next game first clip outside Zone Lee, Right, So it's
Speaker 4: not to me. Maybe it's more that McDaniel said, Hey,
Speaker 4: I have these absolute studs in Hill and Waddle. We
Speaker 4: can run them downfield all day and I imagine know
Speaker 4: if you have those shiny toys, sometimes it's annoying to
Speaker 4: put them down and you know, play with something else.
Speaker 4: So to get back into that run game where that
Speaker 4: is I think something that McDaniel is so so good at.
Speaker 4: So he just has an embarrassment of riches between this
Speaker 4: really incredibly incredibly designed, an incredibly executed passing game and
Speaker 4: a run game that I do think that we'll talk
Speaker 4: about gap scheme in a little bit and the different
Speaker 4: ways I think they will use it this year. But
Speaker 4: it wasn't that they Yeah, they didn't change things overnight.
Speaker 4: I would say against the Bills, for example, but it's
Speaker 4: more of a commitment to things that were already in
Speaker 4: their system that McDaniel.
Speaker 3: Is so used to.
Speaker 4: It's just I think offensive play callers probably are by
Speaker 4: nature a little bit impatient, right, I would want to
Speaker 4: throw a touchdown first down every single time. I think
Speaker 4: McDaniel's sometimes had that approach, and where we always know
Speaker 4: that passing is going to be more efficient than running,
Speaker 4: sometimes taking that easy run is the right decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned the efficiency. It's it's gonna be really curious.
Speaker 2: Seth Waller talked about this on Menachims podcast that early
Speaker 2: down passing efficiency was like the lowest it's been in
Speaker 2: like eight to ten years. I can't remember the exact
Speaker 2: stat there, but passing efficiency is starting to come down
Speaker 2: on early downs. It's still more efficient than running the
Speaker 2: football according to EPA for play, But you know, both
Speaker 2: of these offenses have talked so much about running the
Speaker 2: football and being able to marry the run game in
Speaker 2: the pass game. It's been the theme of the offseason
Speaker 2: for both of these teams. From like a schematic standpoint,
Speaker 2: to me, like the key to the Dolphins rushing attack
Speaker 2: is probably Alec Ingold like, I think what he's able
Speaker 2: to do for them is pretty similar to what the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers have in uscheck. I don't think Ingold
Speaker 2: is nearly the receiver that you check is.
Speaker 1: But when the.
Speaker 2: Chart, when the Dolphins get into that twenty one personnel
Speaker 2: alec Ingle gives them a ton of options. I'm curious
Speaker 2: to see how that you know expresses itself this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think having a fullback that ken block is a
Speaker 4: rarity in the NFL now, and it opens up your
Speaker 4: run game in so many different ways. I think a
Speaker 4: lot of the outside run outside zone runs are able
Speaker 4: to be successful because if the defense adds a player
Speaker 4: to the box, the offense can put that fullback there
Speaker 4: and they're using their angles in different sorts of ways.
Speaker 4: It's more of we can solve the problems of the
Speaker 4: defense presents us in different ways. So we can have
Speaker 4: our maybe our right tackle working at a different angle,
Speaker 4: or a wide receiver on the outside kind of crack
Speaker 4: blocking instead of sending our guard to kind of climb
Speaker 4: to that person. So having a fullback is such a
Speaker 4: thrilled it.
Speaker 3: Is so fun to watch. I think we need to
Speaker 3: be more into.
Speaker 4: The run game and I'm gonna, you know, pound my
Speaker 4: fist on the table all year for gap scheme runs,
Speaker 4: particularly because it makes life so hard on defense. And
Speaker 4: when defenses continue to as daily does, and I think
Speaker 4: rightfully does, devote more resources to stopping the pass, you've
Speaker 4: got to be able to get them off balance right balance.
Speaker 4: In the NFL, it's not about passing the ball fifty
Speaker 4: percent of the time and running the ball fifty percent
Speaker 4: of the time, but it's if the defense is giving
Speaker 4: us a favorable look, are we able to take advantage
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 1: It is very.
Speaker 6: Difficult to find a full block. The Chargers just cut
Speaker 6: theirs there is now on the Steelers practice squad, so
Speaker 6: it's very difficult to find a really, really good blocking one.
Speaker 6: Talk about that gap scheme, man, because I know you've
Speaker 6: been excited to talk to talk about it on stats
Speaker 6: end scheme. I got at this time you talked about
Speaker 6: how it's not that everyone's shifting all the way back
Speaker 6: towards gap right and from this outside zone and whatnot.
Speaker 6: But there is kind of a retooling or remolding I guess,
Speaker 6: of how the run game might go for some coordinator.
Speaker 6: So talk about how the Dolphins might bring that to
Speaker 6: this game and then why that would be so effective,
Speaker 6: maybe in particular against the Chargers.
Speaker 4: When we talk about gap schemer runs, we have power, counter,
Speaker 4: trap and wham. You know, there's a lot of the
Speaker 4: run that we'll see from the Lions, for example on
Speaker 4: Thursday on opening Day, they can feel a little bit
Speaker 4: more I think aggressive than a zone run. It's more downhill,
Speaker 4: it's kind of more at you where for example the Chargers,
Speaker 4: I think they'll be running more duo, which that's also
Speaker 4: a more of a vertical attacking play, and a lot
Speaker 4: of defenses now they're i think designed and defensive lineman.
Speaker 4: They're playing their technique in a way to shut down
Speaker 4: zone runs and zone run.
Speaker 3: The NFL is a zone running leak.
Speaker 4: It's maybe not always, but I think for the next
Speaker 4: few years it has for the last while where inside
Speaker 4: zone and outside zone those are the most common runs
Speaker 4: and defenses. They are happier to play with lighter boxes,
Speaker 4: you know, they have those two high coverages and they
Speaker 4: want to kind of maybe string that ball out. They
Speaker 4: want to get it to kind of it's called rolling
Speaker 4: off the table where you can have a safety coming
Speaker 4: down and clean that up. But that's a lot harder
Speaker 4: when you have you know, your left tackle or Trent
Speaker 4: Williams with the Niners does a great job. They're washing
Speaker 4: down the whole entire front of the line. You have
Speaker 4: that fullback kicking out the edge, and then the running
Speaker 4: back is just able to get vertical. It's a different
Speaker 4: skill set for a running back where when you're running
Speaker 4: it's really hard. You're reading one gap at a time.
Speaker 4: It's it's fuel based, it's timing based. You're not always right.
Speaker 4: It's difficult, and in gap scheme, it's a lot of
Speaker 4: times it's take the ball and run this to the
Speaker 4: gap that we've assigned and get downhill right. It's a
Speaker 4: more aggressive style of run that if your linebackers are
Speaker 4: kind of rocking back or they're playing off the defensive tackles,
Speaker 4: a lot of that doesn't matter when the defensive line
Speaker 4: is are the offensive line is able to push the
Speaker 4: d line vertical with those doubles, they don't have to
Speaker 4: finesse in the same sort of way. And then there's
Speaker 4: a question of are you going to load the box
Speaker 4: then on defense, and now you've put the defense into
Speaker 4: such a bind where we're not sure if we can
Speaker 4: play the run with our light box, but they're running
Speaker 4: over us for five yards to carry, So now we
Speaker 4: have to get into something else that's gonna change.
Speaker 2: Getting to that point about gap schemes, I think we're
Speaker 2: seeing that come to fruition with the Chargers here in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles too, where you know Killen Moore. If you
Speaker 2: go back a couple of years ago to the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: they were one of the league leaders in outside zone.
Speaker 2: But with the Chargers, it's been a lot of aggressive
Speaker 2: downhill concepts, a lot of duo, a lot of counter,
Speaker 2: a lot of trap. And we talked to Joshua Kelly
Speaker 2: about this a few weeks ago, and the running backs
Speaker 2: are so excited about the changes because it just makes
Speaker 2: things so much easier for them. So I think you're
Speaker 2: going to watch the film of this game after Sunday,
Speaker 2: Sean and be really really happy about the amount of
Speaker 2: gap concepts that you're seeing.
Speaker 1: I think on both sides for these teams.
Speaker 4: That's really exciting to hear. I think that that is
Speaker 4: exciting for the Chargers offensive line particularly. I think that
Speaker 4: that offensive line unit is going to be so so good.
Speaker 4: And I know maybe we're talking about the Dolphins offense,
Speaker 4: but have to take a second to think about those
Speaker 4: guys getting healthy, getting together, being aggressive in how they
Speaker 4: attack defensive fronts, and it's going to be so fun
Speaker 4: because the Dolphins defensive front is really, really, really good,
Speaker 4: and being spoiled in Week one is just it's just
Speaker 4: it's almost too rich. Right. We're not even used to
Speaker 4: watching these full play games back to back to back
Speaker 4: and thinking, oh, man, I want to watch the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 4: I want to watch the Chargers offense. Just just be
Speaker 4: incredibly excited for Sunday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited, man, I'll be there. Hopefully there's a win.
Speaker 6: I'd love to drive home after a win and go
Speaker 6: to work after a win. You've talked a couple of
Speaker 6: times so far about these outbreaking routes and how the
Speaker 6: Dolphins might lean into those more and how two maybe
Speaker 6: needs to be better at those. Talk about why they
Speaker 6: would lean into that more and how that takes advantage
Speaker 6: of how the Chargers DB's played last time.
Speaker 4: So the way that DB's were playing were on a
Speaker 4: lot of the times when there was a stack release
Speaker 4: and it was kind of a switch where receivers would
Speaker 4: kind of cross each other. They would stay playing low
Speaker 4: so closer to the line of scrimmage and then inside
Speaker 4: closer to the ball. And McDaniel I think he noticed
Speaker 4: that because they did run those outbreaking concepts at least
Speaker 4: two times. I think where you see on film there
Speaker 4: was one example where two ended up scrambling and had
Speaker 4: a really nice scramble. But that route is open, and
Speaker 4: it is open because the defense cannot take away everything, right,
Speaker 4: No defense is able to take away every single angle.
Speaker 4: A lot of times in Pascar, for example, you know
Speaker 4: you're playing leverage.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 4: You're playing leverage hopefully to help in some sort of way. Right,
Speaker 4: So a lot of times you'll play outside leverage because
Speaker 4: you know you have and you're funneling them inside. But
Speaker 4: Staley had the DB's do a really good job of
Speaker 4: saying to a beat us on these outbreaking routes. And
Speaker 4: I don't think the Dolphins were comfortable taking that, they
Speaker 4: were comfortable calling it. But it is I think to
Speaker 4: his benefit that he got to watch that tape last year,
Speaker 4: he got to go through it, he got to think
Speaker 4: about it for that long. So now coming back here
Speaker 4: on Sunday, I'm absolutely gonna anticipate them at least calling
Speaker 4: those deep outbreaking routes once, It'll be interesting to see
Speaker 4: are the Chargers going to say, you know what, if
Speaker 4: you can beat us with that, after we've taken care
Speaker 4: of all these different things, you know, hats off to you, right,
Speaker 4: We'll try and disguise you in a different way. We'll
Speaker 4: play at around with leverages. But those outbreaking routes, especially
Speaker 4: at the deeper level, where you're being threatened with hill
Speaker 4: and waddles, verticality in so many different ways, that's what
Speaker 4: was open base, just how the defense was playing them.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure Staley knows that, right, he understood that,
Speaker 4: and he said beat us this way and they didn't.
Speaker 4: So maybe that, you know, if the Dolphins can manage
Speaker 4: getting themselves into third and four way more often, this
Speaker 4: isn't an issue in any sort of way. But for
Speaker 4: the Dolphins during the year, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm
Speaker 4: sure teams across the league were one studying the Dolphins
Speaker 4: because what can we steal from them? What can we
Speaker 4: learn from them? But then also, well, are you able
Speaker 4: to hit that sort of concept, those kinds of routes
Speaker 4: where you know, it looked like maybe you weren't as
Speaker 4: comfortable doing it, And two has arm strength to make
Speaker 4: those throws he really does for those specific throws he does.
Speaker 4: So it's just a question of are they Charges going
Speaker 4: to present that same sort of look, are we going
Speaker 4: to force you to make the same sort of throw,
Speaker 4: and can you make it right at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, can you execute on what is being designed?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is just the cat and mouse
Speaker 2: of this coaching matchup is so interesting to me because
Speaker 2: of what you've kind of outlined today for us. So
Speaker 2: you think that the Dolphins are going to be countering
Speaker 2: one way, Maybe they're going to be doing the same
Speaker 2: kind of thing. I don't know, but what we know
Speaker 2: about the Chargers is that they're gonna be healthier this
Speaker 2: time around than they were against the Dolphins previously. So
Speaker 2: taking into consideration what you think the Dolphins might be changing,
Speaker 2: what you yourself might need to change, how do you
Speaker 2: balance that if you're Brandon Staley of hey, let's do
Speaker 2: what we know and what we trust versus let's maybe
Speaker 2: be a little bit proactive against the Dolphins on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4: I think that Staley is gonna have to continue to
Speaker 4: be really flexible with his run fronts, and I'm glad
Speaker 4: that they got games in against the Titans last year.
Speaker 4: They got a game in last year versus forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to make sure I watch those because
Speaker 4: the question to me was, well, is Staley just sitting
Speaker 4: back in one thing? You know, is he inviting the
Speaker 4: defense to run constantly into the same exact looks?
Speaker 3: And he wasn't.
Speaker 4: Right, So he's more than comfortable getting heavier in the
Speaker 4: box against certain teams and against certain looks. I think
Speaker 4: it's gonna be. It's sometimes tough just to line up
Speaker 4: against the Dolphins because if they're in their two running
Speaker 4: back one time end and then Hill and Waddle, if
Speaker 4: they're in that personnel and can get to all of
Speaker 4: these different things, that makes life so hard. But I
Speaker 4: do think whether it's blitzing into different fronts where you're
Speaker 4: kind of you're building a different front instead of lining
Speaker 4: up in it, that's one way to do it. I
Speaker 4: think that having those hard, hard edges with bos End
Speaker 4: Mac is going to make a difference in the run game.
Speaker 4: And then you know, I'm hoping for a lot from
Speaker 4: Eric Hendricks, right. I know he's he's happy to be
Speaker 4: back in his hometown in La So it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a combination of we need to be versatile on the
Speaker 4: defensive front, and that might mean hey, we have to
Speaker 4: play man coverage again. But you know, the charges showed
Speaker 4: they were comfortable doing that. So then it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's football so beautiful because it's counter counter, counter, counter,
Speaker 4: counter counter. We're just throwing punches back and forth. Whether
Speaker 4: if the defense is comfortable, you know, now we have
Speaker 4: to get into heavier boxes. Now the offense says, well,
Speaker 4: that's going to open up more space for the receivers.
Speaker 4: So I do want to focus on think of those
Speaker 4: early downs. Are the Charges getting in different fronts against
Speaker 4: the Dolphins run game? Are the Dolphins saying, you know what, well,
Speaker 4: three chances of getting ten yards through the air and
Speaker 4: seeing you know that back and forth and push and pull.
Speaker 4: I think Mike McDaniel does a good job at the
Speaker 4: start of the second half. You know, they'll have their
Speaker 4: sometimes they'll just repeat plays or they'll have kind of
Speaker 4: scripted their home openers, so we'll see what those adjustments
Speaker 4: are in that in that short twelve minute halftime.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 6: I'm very curious to see what they do here and
Speaker 6: how they adjust or change or don't.
Speaker 5: I mean, I totally get even why you wouldn't.
Speaker 6: I feel like Brandon Staley could go find a Sofi
Speaker 6: stadium hot dog and sit in the seats with us
Speaker 6: because he's got his all pro back and then his
Speaker 6: other all pro back and the guy who paid eight
Speaker 6: million dollars to play on the D line for and
Speaker 6: the other guy who paid ten million dollars to play
Speaker 6: on the D line four. Like, there was so much
Speaker 6: missing that last game that I feel like Staley could
Speaker 6: just run the same thing again and they'd be Okay.
Speaker 5: What are the interesting.
Speaker 6: Changes though, and we'll see how much it does change things.
Speaker 6: Is that Joey Buzza has talked about gaining I think
Speaker 6: it was like twenty something pounds or whatever it was
Speaker 6: over the offseason. Morgan Fox last year talked about how
Speaker 6: over the course of the season, when he had more
Speaker 6: of a defined role, he naturally kind of look ut
Speaker 6: the holidays, he said, gained weight. So like with Joey
Speaker 6: Bosa gaining twenty something pounds or whatever, like, how does
Speaker 6: that help? I know it's like to play the run,
Speaker 6: of course, but in your eyes, why would that be
Speaker 6: able to help them this game or really any game?
Speaker 6: Throughout the season.
Speaker 4: My hope with Joey Bosa is that he is able
Speaker 4: to return to a top level as a pass rusher,
Speaker 4: because that's where you know, if you're a defensive end
Speaker 4: and you bring real, real pass rushing juice that Bosa
Speaker 4: has in and that is the top end of it,
Speaker 4: and that's that kind of tail end that you're hopefully buying.
Speaker 4: I do think if you're stouter there, it makes it
Speaker 4: easier to deal with those big tackles.
Speaker 3: And you know, we see TJ.
Speaker 4: Watt a lot of times he'll just throw a tight
Speaker 4: end away and it feels like for the top end
Speaker 4: defensive ends, it I think that they're insulted when the
Speaker 4: offense kind of just has a tight end on them.
Speaker 4: And I'm hoping to see we see it more often
Speaker 4: this year where Bosa is just just dumping people and
Speaker 4: able to get into the backfield and stop him for
Speaker 4: zero or minus one. He absolutely has that ability. He's
Speaker 4: shown it for sure. I think that I hope that weight,
Speaker 4: you know, whether it helps him keep them healthy, whether
Speaker 4: it's something that you know that solidifies him in his
Speaker 4: core area. But I do think, you know, being able
Speaker 4: to knock back those tackles a little bit because he
Speaker 4: has so much lower body strength. So I think that
Speaker 4: all of it combined, it's just is it hopefully better,
Speaker 4: right Mike. I hope he doesn't lose any speed off
Speaker 4: the edge. I don't think he will. I think just
Speaker 4: being able to be healthy and being able to get
Speaker 4: into his full routine is going to be able to
Speaker 4: just let him jolt off the edge. And you know,
Speaker 4: if it's sometimes where he flies up the field so
Speaker 4: far that the running game gets in there, hopefully that's
Speaker 4: balanced out by any sort of sacks. Because you know,
Speaker 4: we can make predictions, we can think about it. What
Speaker 4: if the Charges defensive line just washes the defensive the
Speaker 4: Dolphins offensive line, the game's just over at that point.
Speaker 4: It almost it doesn't matter how much scheme we want
Speaker 4: to talk about, or how much, you know, how much
Speaker 4: high love Mike McDaniel and what he puts out. If
Speaker 4: you can't block those guys, you cannot get to what
Speaker 4: you want to get to, and you're going to have
Speaker 4: a really long day. So I know you guys are
Speaker 4: really hoping for that, and throughout the season, I think
Speaker 4: that's something that certainly we hope to see from Bosa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, yeah, you know, Tyler and I did
Speaker 2: our NFL prediction show this past Saturday on our own channel,
Speaker 2: and my big thing with the Dolphins is, like, all
Speaker 2: of this is great. I do think that Mike McDaniel
Speaker 2: is an above average play caller, but I don't know
Speaker 2: how much I trust what they have along the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Toront Armstet is already injured and he's potentially inactive in
Speaker 2: this game. We'll see how that one kind of progresses
Speaker 2: through this week. But to me, like this, this is
Speaker 2: really going to come down to that matchup of how
Speaker 2: the Chargers are able to get after Toua, get him
Speaker 2: off of his spots, and I think that's really going
Speaker 2: to be how the Chargers potentially win this game. Is
Speaker 2: a big day from Joey Boson, Morgan Fox, Khalil Mack,
Speaker 2: Sebastian Joseph Day against the run, because I think that's
Speaker 2: their big advantage in this matchup, is the defensive line
Speaker 2: versus the Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 4: And you obviously hope you know you have a supernova quarterback,
Speaker 4: right the Chargers, it seems like they're built to play
Speaker 4: with the lead and to close that lead. Right, I
Speaker 4: think they're great in pass coverage. I think the numbers
Speaker 4: show it out and the film shows it out just
Speaker 4: beautifully with how dbs take care of routes, So you know,
Speaker 4: whether it's something getting an early lead, you know, I
Speaker 4: hope Kellen Moore's foot is on the gas pedal the
Speaker 4: whole game, but particularly early right. I think that Chargers
Speaker 4: fans have seen it that when you have a quarterback
Speaker 4: like that, it can just blow the ceiling off of defenses.
Speaker 4: And obviously you're hoping the new weapons on the offensive
Speaker 4: side allow that pass rush to get more into it.
Speaker 4: Whether it's hey, the Dolphins have to take more pass snaps,
Speaker 4: We're going to get more chances with both end mac
Speaker 4: with their hands in the ground.
Speaker 3: That's going to hopefully lead to more sacks for the Chargers.
Speaker 6: So how did the Dolphins manage to be a good
Speaker 6: and consistent offense last year? Because the offensive line has
Speaker 6: not been good When two has been the quarterback, it's
Speaker 6: been a bit rough, and last year I wouldn't say
Speaker 6: they were great either, and leading into this year, the
Speaker 6: offensive line is.
Speaker 5: Almost the same as it was last year. So how
Speaker 5: did the Dolphins?
Speaker 6: How did Mike McDaniel manage to get a good offense,
Speaker 6: if not almost offense out of what they had given
Speaker 6: their offensive line woes.
Speaker 4: I think that the Dolphins did a good job manipulating
Speaker 4: defenses in different ways. Whether it's that motion coming across
Speaker 4: the field where the defensive end is unblocked, so in
Speaker 4: that situation, you know, that is obviously dangerous for TUA.
Speaker 4: But when you have that kind of quick inbreaker, they
Speaker 4: would run it where they have someone running too the flat,
Speaker 4: they'd have someone running a kind of a post, but
Speaker 4: it would be like a glance kind of a short
Speaker 4: in breaking a slant and a wheel behind it where
Speaker 4: defenders would be unblocked. So you know, if you can't
Speaker 4: block them, just don't sometimes, right, I think Dolphins did
Speaker 4: a really really good job of that. But they also
Speaker 4: were not bailed out. But they were able to rely
Speaker 4: on Hill and Waddle in so many different ways, and
Speaker 4: McDaniel had creative waste again to play action. I really
Speaker 4: thought it was so cool the way they got into
Speaker 4: their play action game from the gun. I think it
Speaker 4: made their offensive lines life a little easier. They whether
Speaker 4: a lot of times things. You know, we think of
Speaker 4: Tom Brady where our guard's pulling in play action they had.
Speaker 4: They did a good job where on the back side
Speaker 4: of a concept where if we think about the goals
Speaker 4: versus the Niners that I think it was maybe Hassan
Speaker 4: Redick where he's on a tie end, he can just
Speaker 4: dump him in play action where the Dolphins, they'll have
Speaker 4: a guy on the backside peel instead, so it'll be
Speaker 4: that backside guard kind of hinging and turning. So now
Speaker 4: we have a guard on that player instead. So Mike
Speaker 4: mc daniel is is incredible, and he is very very smart,
Speaker 4: and he's very good at this. So and part of
Speaker 4: that is shown as you said, you know, how did
Speaker 4: they figure this out?
Speaker 3: They were able to.
Speaker 4: So whether it's through players, you know, stepping up a
Speaker 4: little bit, but a lot of times, you know, the
Speaker 4: assignments were made easier because I think McDaniel understood, well,
Speaker 4: we maybe have a shortcoming here or shortcoming there, so
Speaker 4: we need to make sure we're playing on time, we're
Speaker 4: playing in rhythm. We can get to our first read
Speaker 4: fairly quick, take advantage of that speed. And Staley saw
Speaker 4: that and said, no, thank you and change it up for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love to hear that.
Speaker 2: So again, like I said earlier, this coaching matchup to
Speaker 2: me is so so exciting and not just this you
Speaker 2: know matchup, right, you got Vic van Jie versus Kellen
Speaker 2: Moore on the opposite side, which time and I dive
Speaker 2: into a lot on our show on Thursday, Sean, this
Speaker 2: has been great man.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: We'll get you out of here with one more thing
Speaker 2: and that is a final score prediction Chargers Dolphins.
Speaker 1: What you got for us? All right?
Speaker 4: So I don't love making predictions, but you know how
Speaker 4: much I care about you guys, So I am you
Speaker 4: know I come on this podcast.
Speaker 3: You guys are so nice to me.
Speaker 4: The Chargers are always great to me, and I'm going
Speaker 4: to predict the Dolphins win. I got twenty eight to
Speaker 4: twenty four. I think that McDaniel gets to punch back.
Speaker 4: I just know that they have been in their dark
Speaker 4: room watching over and over showing to a Hey, we
Speaker 4: need to be able to hit these sorts of concepts.
Speaker 4: I think they bought in new threats.
Speaker 3: On offense.
Speaker 4: They have Devin h and they're going to be more
Speaker 4: than happy to attack running the ball, and it's going
Speaker 4: to be on the Charges to adjust that. At the
Speaker 4: same time, the Chargers obviously have. They have so many
Speaker 4: paths to victory here. Right, the offensive line is going
Speaker 4: to come back strong. We're gonna hopefully see Herbert continue
Speaker 4: to take that next, next next step. Steve, I know
Speaker 4: you like the defensive line from what you saw camp.
Speaker 4: The defensive line they can just overmatch the Dolphins, right
Speaker 4: and again, if Posa and Mac are just getting after it,
Speaker 4: it does not matter what the counter punches are, because
Speaker 4: you know, everyone has a plan until you get punch
Speaker 4: in the mouth, and the charge of defensive line can
Speaker 4: do that to you.
Speaker 3: They can overwhelm you.
Speaker 4: But with all that said, I think that Mike McDaniel
Speaker 4: gets to punch back on this one. I have them
Speaker 4: twenty eight twenty four. But I am more than happy
Speaker 4: to be wrong. I am more than happy to get
Speaker 4: get added in the in the replies and the comments
Speaker 4: or whatever. I'm hoping that I'm wrong, and obviously hopefully
Speaker 4: everyone goes out to sofa and has a good time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, negative engagement is still engagement, So I
Speaker 6: appreciate all the extra comments you just got for our video.
Speaker 6: I don't know who's still watching forty minutes in, but
Speaker 6: I'm sure they have something to say, we will still
Speaker 6: invite you back at some point, but if you know,
Speaker 6: if you're right, then I guess we can invite you back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, this has been awesome. Hopefully you
Speaker 2: guys listening have learned a ton from this episode. I
Speaker 2: know I certainly have. Please go check out Sean on
Speaker 2: his podcast over at Summer Sports with Taje Stats and Schemes.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic podcast, So go check them out. We
Speaker 2: really appreciate it, Sean Man. Any final thoughts on this
Speaker 2: matchup before we head out.
Speaker 3: Just cannot believe this is week one.
Speaker 4: This is like I can't overstate how big that the
Speaker 4: Sales defensive game plan like shocked the whole entire film
Speaker 4: world last year and it was so exciting, And you know,
Speaker 4: I would have loved for this to be like Week twelve,
Speaker 4: whether it's both, these teams just get so many reps
Speaker 4: and reps and reps to figure these things out. But
Speaker 4: we are truly spoiled and it's gonna be a pleasure.
Speaker 3: I hope that. I just hope it's a great game
Speaker 3: more than anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one, like I said, appreciate your time today. Cannot
Speaker 2: wait for this matchup. Chargers fans, as always, make sure
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