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CLNS Media's Mike Kadlick and Taylor Kyles review the film from the Patriots loss to the Dolphins. They evaluate Jacoby Brissett's performance and if it's time to play Rookie Drake Maye.
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Transcript
00:00I am joined by Robert Griffin, the third James White field.
00:08Yes, Mina Kimes.
00:09All right.
00:10So first play, we're going to look at second into one of the Patriots first offensive plays.
00:14What's going on?
00:15Everyone?
00:16Mike Catholic, Taylor Kyle's here for CLNS media back with another episode of Pads daily
00:20here on the CLNS media network.
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00:24We'll talk about them a little bit later, but first Taylor, you dove into the film early
00:29often on this Monday morning, Monday afternoon into the Patriots 15 to 10 loss to the Miami
00:35Dolphins and ugly one again, offense only puts up 10 points while defense lets up 15.
00:40There was penalties all over the place, missed opportunities, especially on the offensive
00:44side of the ball.
00:45And that's what we're going to dive into today in our film breakdown.
00:48Jacoby Brissett goes 18 of 34 completing just 53% of his throws, 160 yards and no touchdowns.
00:55I don't know why I wrote a touchdown, but he did have some relatively clean pockets
00:59I think the offensive line played a little bit better.
01:02I think you would agree with that.
01:03I think the majority of people who watched that game and have analyzed the degree that,
01:07you know, they, they put that five offensive line, that new five offensive lineman out
01:10there and looked pretty solid, but unfortunately the offense just couldn't get the job done.
01:15So we're going to break down some Jacoby Brissett misses and then some overall execution problems
01:21that the Patriots had specifically at the end of the first half.
01:25So before we do so, Taylor, just blame pie, right?
01:29There's, there's a lot of heat on Jacoby Brissett right now, Gerard Mayo this morning, talking
01:33to the media and the Greg Hill show on WEI and fails to name Jacoby Brissett their starter
01:38moving forward this week.
01:39Now the last two weeks in his Monday morning presser, he did say Jacoby Brissett was their
01:44starter.
01:45So there's a little bit of a change there.
01:46It looks like there may be a transition to Drake May coming against Houston.
01:49We don't know.
01:50Next time we'll hear from Gerard Mayo is Wednesday morning.
01:52But in the meantime, don't know who the quarterback is, but blame pie, like I said, the offense's
01:58failed performance, if you will, on Sunday, whose fault was it?
02:03Alex Van Pelt, offensive line, Jacoby Brissett divvy it up as best you can.
02:07What do you think was the reason why they were ultimately only able to score 10 points?
02:12Well, I do want to acknowledge, first of all, this is a team that we knew was going to win
02:16with their defense and their running game.
02:19Maybe their special teams.
02:20I think now we've at least seen that they are a good enough unit and they're well coached
02:23enough that we can't expect them to make some important plays because of that.
02:28I need to acknowledge it.
02:29They weren't perfect either.
02:30Like the special teams, for the most part, they were fine.
02:32I, you know, they did have the delay of game that was unintentional led to a touchback.
02:37And then I know actually they tried to have another delay of game and that wound up in
02:41a touchback where the Dolphins ended up scoring.
02:43They had another one that wasn't intentional.
02:45I believe that also ended in a touchback.
02:47But the defense also like you have Keon White getting penalized twice egregiously on a drive
02:53that ended in a field goal.
02:55You also had the Dolphins only touchdown drive was sparked by the fact that Christian Ellis
02:59on a third and 15 decided to try to get a pass breakup when he didn't need to.
03:03That's a situation where it doesn't matter if they get a completion, make the tackle.
03:08And that obviously would have gotten them off the field.
03:10Instead, the defense stays on the field, they're gassed and they gave up a touchdown.
03:13And then the Patriots, for the first time in the game, actually lost their lead.
03:18And that put the offense in a bad position where we knew this is not a team that can
03:21play from behind.
03:22You don't want to be in that spot.
03:24And then all hell broke loose pretty much.
03:26So I need to acknowledge those things that the defense played its butt off for the most
03:29part.
03:30And I thought really overall, it was a good day from them.
03:32But those critical, critical mistakes put their offense that, you know, you have to
03:37drag along with you in bad situations.
03:40Now that said, Alex Van Pelt, I was really disappointed.
03:44I went into this game and we kept saying it.
03:45I keep reminding people that I said they needed to run 30 times because I thought it meant
03:50that they were controlling the clock and winning time of possession, which they did not.
03:53I thought it would mean that they were maintaining some kind of lead, which they were for most
03:57of the game.
03:58Although the run game was only partially responsible because there were so few opportunities.
04:02And then on top of that, not just Alex Van Pelt in terms of play calling, where it felt
04:06like there were just too many situations, less than I thought after review because of
04:11all the penalties and times they got backed up.
04:13But there were too many times where I felt like they immediately went to the straight
04:16drop back passing game when it felt like the run game was starting to get momentum.
04:20Like there were very few times that they ran on consecutive plays better in the second
04:24half.
04:25Again, I will say, I think they actually started to lean on it more.
04:28And that's really where I thought some of Jacoby Brissette's lapses started to come
04:31up.
04:32And you started to really notice, ah, you know, it feels like they're starting to maybe
04:35figure it out, but Jacoby's not doing well enough.
04:37And then just penalties constantly.
04:39Every time they started, like Jacoby said, it was one foot forward, 20 back because you
04:44start doing things positively, then you get a hold or, you know, whether it's like Brett
04:48or, you know, pre-snap infraction or what have you, you keep putting yourself in these
04:52bad positions.
04:53And Jacoby, to his credit, really did a solid job in those extra long yardage situations
04:58of getting them back in the spot where they could potentially convert and have less aggressive
05:03down and distance situations.
05:05But at the end of the day, he is the quarterback.
05:08He's the one who touches the ball more than anybody else.
05:11He wasn't good enough.
05:12There were way too many missed opportunities on this tape.
05:15I can say Alex Van Pelt wasn't good enough and he wasn't a lot of times, but also you'd
05:19expect your quarterback to capitalize on downfield opportunities, touchdowns, things we've been
05:23saying week in and week out.
05:25And earlier today, I tweeted out that I felt it would be a little scapegoaty to sit Jacoby
05:30Brissette after this specific game, because he didn't put, remember last week I said,
05:35he can't have this turnover filled game again.
05:37Because with Jacoby Brissette, that's like the bare minimum.
05:39You can't turn the ball over.
05:40He did protect the football.
05:41I thought he made plays that he had no business making against constant, I'm sorry, instant
05:46pressure and just really bad situations that the down and distances put them in.
05:50But there were times where he could have gotten them bigger plays or score points and he didn't.
05:55So if he does get benched and it sounds more and more like that could be the case, I'm
06:01not going to be surprised and I won't hate it.
06:03I wish that we could maybe give Drake May a week so he doesn't have to go against Texans
06:07defense.
06:08It's one of the best past defenses in the NFL.
06:10I'd like to see another week of just the team overall playing clean and playing smart and
06:15being coached better.
06:16Not perfect necessarily, but better than what we saw against the Dolphins.
06:20But again, this is never going to be a perfect situation.
06:23I think Drake May needs to play before November.
06:25That's been the bottom line.
06:26I said it after the game, a change is necessary.
06:30And we're going to see why in this film, because they're just reset wasn't good enough
06:33and he continues to not be good enough again in a very difficult situation that is far
06:37from enviable.
06:38Definitely.
06:39And let's break it down before we do.
06:41I just do want to say on top of that, Brissette's been kind of put in like, like we know, an
06:45impossible situation where the offensive line has been in disarray.
06:49The playmakers aren't great and he's just here one season holding the seat for Drake
06:55May.
06:56Right.
06:57And that's, yeah, everybody knows that, but there's still, I mean, he's getting his butt
06:59cracked back there.
07:00So kudos to him.
07:01And there's one play too, specifically that I know is not in the breakdown, but I was
07:04watching it over this morning where he stood in there, got his shit rock for a better term
07:11and delivered a throw right on Keisha on booty's chest and that deep curl on the right side.
07:15It's like, see, that's the kind of stuff where, okay, good for him to still be able to sit
07:19back there.
07:20And yes, is his clock speeding up?
07:22Yes.
07:23Is he missing throws?
07:24Yes.
07:25We're going to get into it all, but he's still putting his best foot out there.
07:26And sometimes he makes a great play where I'm like, man, good on you to stand in there
07:30in front of your teammates and keep getting back up, which he keeps saying.
07:33But like the one, the Hunter Henry, where he was literally getting dragged down.
07:38He had another one to Jalen Polk where that weird shotgun bootleg thing, they keep, for
07:43some reason the guard doesn't get out and it feels like a QB is too far back.
07:46He's again getting brought down, but still manages to complete it.
07:49Great catch and adjustment by Jalen Polk.
07:51But yeah, like there were times you could point to where it's Jacoby had no business
07:55making that play.
07:56Of course, you can argue that Drake may could have done it as well, but it's not like Brissette's
07:59out here giving you absolutely nothing like the dude is battling and you have to give
08:03some level of respect.
08:04But I also understand that fans are frustrated because it's just been a nearly impossible
08:08product to watch.
08:09Impossible to study.
08:10I've been telling you, like I am emotionally, mentally, spiritually exhausted studying this
08:16tape every week.
08:17But you know what?
08:18And let's let the people know what's good.
08:19So let's do it.
08:20Yeah.
08:21We got five plays here.
08:22Five misses from Jacoby Brissette that you mentioned it, Taylor.
08:25He's not getting it done.
08:26Show us why.
08:27We got five of them here for for you guys.
08:28Yeah.
08:29So we're going to run this one.
08:30This was an example of Jacoby Brissette just going short too quickly, which happened a
08:35few times this game when it seemed like he had an opportunity to get downfield, specifically
08:40here.
08:41Other times, you know, there was the one where Romandre Stevenson made somebody miss.
08:44I did think he had a mystery there.
08:46I didn't include it here.
08:48But even that when I was like, you know what?
08:50This is early in the game.
08:51You just want to get the ball out of your hands fast.
08:52I get it.
08:53And then there was another one later where it was a third and two when they ran mesh
08:56and Jacoby immediately, once again, threw it to Romandre Stevenson before anything else
09:00even had a chance to develop.
09:01And there were two defenders that came down to the football and tackled Romandre.
09:05So this, I believe, was the second time that Jacoby just seemed to get to him way too fast.
09:10So this is going to be a split safety look where to the top, we're going to get cover
09:15two and at the bottom, we're going to get quarters technique.
09:18Now also in this breakdown, you've seen the other ones skimmed out a little bit on some
09:21of the graphics just so we can really hone in on things that really matter here.
09:24Because the biggest thing here is that to the bottom of the screen, we do have them
09:28in quarters technique and the Patriots to that side are going to be having Demario Douglas
09:33run an in breaker downfield behind him is going to be Jalen Polk on a post and then
09:38Romandre Stevenson as we saw going to the flat.
09:41Now against this quarters look, this double post or double in breaker type of concept
09:46is exactly what you want because this safety is responsible for taking this in breaking
09:51route.
09:52Right now, Jalen Polk, you're going to see is going to end up breaking inside and no
09:56one's going to be there.
09:57If Jacoby Brissette shows me anticipation, recognizes the play, I think he can get this
10:02to poke for it.
10:03Touchdown.
10:04Now I know there's been times where, you know, earlier this, uh, this season, Jacoby Brissette
10:09told me there was a play that wasn't really a play.
10:11It was dead.
10:12And I was thinking, okay, maybe that's what this is, but I think that poke is running
10:15a live rep.
10:16So let's see how this develops in slow motion.
10:18Now, Jacoby, one, two, three step drop immediately goes to remind Ray Stevenson.
10:24But if he had just given it a tick more time, you have Jalen Polk open in the end zone.
10:29Now of course you do have Mike and when you let up a little bit of pressure inside, but
10:35it's not nearly enough that I think Jacoby was, should have been saying to himself, I
10:38got to get this ball out immediately because he got Jalen Polk coming open.
10:43If you can look at the top of the screen, this safety is also being occupied.
10:47If you put this on a line right in front of the hash towards the hash, I think you're
10:52okay.
10:53But this is a big missed opportunity for Mondra Steven Kitson gets stopped for minimal gain.
10:57And this was followed, um, by actually this was the driver percent did a great job fighting
11:02back, but then the Patriots wound up running on the next play for minimal game.
11:06Then they end up missing a field goal on again, what could have been a touchdown.
11:10Now this is one where Jacoby Berset is just going to miss a really good downfield opportunity
11:15to DeMario Douglas.
11:16Once again, I don't know my screen is doing that, but anyway, all right, so you get the
11:20action.
11:21They fake outside zone, get a favorable look actually.
11:24But for some reason, Jacoby Berset actually throws his receiver into coverage.
11:28So let's break down what we got here.
11:30Now the dolphins are going to show single high, but they're actually going to rotate
11:33who's in the middle of the field.
11:35So this deep safety is going to drop in this safety near the line of scrimmage is actually
11:38going to take that deep middle.
11:40That's going to be a tough rotation because the Patriots, like I said, are running this
11:44naked bootleg.
11:45They're going to actually have Jalen Pope come to set the edge and give, uh, I'm sorry,
11:50Jacoby Berset somewhere to reset.
11:52You got Antonio Gibson faking the outside zone action.
11:56Then here's the biggie.
11:57You're going to have Haitian booty running a deep curl to occupy this deep third defender.
12:02Then you're going to have Hunter Henry coming across the field, attracting some attention
12:06on this side, and you're going to have DeMario Douglas isolated against the safety as he's
12:11dropping on a Dino or a corner post, because again, this guy's trying to drop underneath
12:16from all the way across the field and get deep, really tough position for him to be
12:20in.
12:21Let's see it in slow motion, Jacoby Berset with the fake, and you see the extra fenders
12:25actually duped here.
12:26He buys the run.
12:27And then you get Jalen Pope helping out to pick up the blitzing linebacker.
12:31Now you're going to see the safety is actually telling this corner underneath the Mario Douglas
12:36route because he thinks it's a corner and this is some kind of flood.
12:39But DeMario gives him that nod, breaks back inside, and look where the safety is.
12:43He has to speed turn.
12:45Throw it flat, Jacoby.
12:47Come on.
12:48And if Jacoby puts this flat down the hash somewhere like this, as he's getting ready
12:53to throw right now, to be fair, he does have a couple of defenders in his face.
12:57But still, if you put this flat, it forces the defender and have to stay on top of the
13:01route.
13:02And as I said, he's going to lead DeMario Douglas into coverage downfield.
13:07And then DeMario is going to try to track it.
13:09He's just like, wait a minute.
13:10Where's this ball going?
13:11He turns up field, tries to find it.
13:13Can't make a play on the ball.
13:14You don't want to jump ball.
13:15You're a little guy like that.
13:16So another tough position that was, yeah, I thought that was his worst miss of the day,
13:21Taylor.
13:22Again, where you had the block up, you had it blocked up.
13:25You mentioned and you see, you see that the defense falls for the play action and you
13:29have that nice that, um, you know, that block from Jalen Polk sets him up where, again,
13:34he didn't have a ton of time, but he had enough time to set up and throw.
13:38And this is just a chemistry thing slash a bad throw, right?
13:41Because okay.
13:42Paul, yeah.
13:43Paul, he has time right there to set and throw.
13:46And yes, you obviously it's, it hasn't completely developed yet, but this, uh, once he turns
13:51the safety around.
13:52Throw it.
13:53This is when he really is hit the top of his dream.
13:55He should say, okay, I'm putting this.
13:58Like I'm putting this horizontal.
14:00I'm not trying to put this deep because that's where the safety and that's what pop thinks
14:03he's doing.
14:04And then I don't know if he misses them or if he just doesn't throw it there, but that's
14:07a everything else lined up.
14:09And that was one of the players here where we mentioned that, you know, the offensive
14:12line is, is in tough shape and it's not all Jacobi's fault.
14:15That one just can't have it.
14:17When you finally get everything put together, you have to make it happen.
14:20And he just didn't right there.
14:21Yeah.
14:22And that was a drive that ended in the field goal and that could have been a better opportunity
14:25for them maybe to run into the end zone if they wanted to.
14:27We don't know.
14:29Here was a throw that he missed.
14:31This was another really tough miss on third down.
14:33Now to be fair to Mario Douglas had dropped the slant, the play before this, that would
14:37have put them in the low red zone and they would have been in position to convert.
14:41So this is kind of one of those things where it's not all on the quarterback.
14:44Other people are missing opportunities as well, but as the quarterback in a critical
14:47situation, you need to find the open man and get him the ball.
14:51Now on this play, the dolphins are going to be sending a blitz with man coverage across
14:55the board and this safety in the deep middle.
14:58Now, notice how all these people are pressed up, but you've got Austin Hooper with free
15:02access.
15:03Now, the two best man beaters on this play are going to be Austin Hooper on a curl route.
15:09And then backside, you got Jalen Polk running a slant again, this safety is dropping to
15:14the middle.
15:15So there's space for him to make this throw if he wants it.
15:17But I don't mind the idea of him throwing the Austin Hooper here because once again
15:21off coverage, this is pretty much a gimme and we've talked about it.
15:24He needed to take more of these opportunities when you got the guy uncontested, just get
15:28him the ball in space.
15:30He's going to throw to Austin Hooper.
15:31That's his choice.
15:32Now, it's the top of his drop.
15:36There's some congestion in the pocket.
15:37They have the blitz.
15:38Antonio Gibson still does a solid job picking this up.
15:41He gives a Joby Brissett some room to step up.
15:44And now you see also Austin Hooper is beginning to turn around.
15:47So the plan should be quick hitch, get the ball out of your hands.
15:50I know it's muddy.
15:52You can make this throw.
15:53He does step up and Austin Hooper turn it around.
15:56He's open.
15:57The ball is way too low, hits the turf before it even gets to Austin Hooper.
16:02Another missed opportunity, third and eight.
16:04This wound up being a field goal.
16:06Once again, this was the one where Demario Douglas could have had the catch that got
16:10them in the low red zone, but another missed opportunity.
16:12All right.
16:13And this play, this, it was tough watching this live.
16:19I know we were like, ah, this was such a tight window throw and he's late.
16:24Was it because there's a lot of traffic in the area?
16:25Of course.
16:26But I still don't really love the outcome of this play because I feel like Jacobi Brissett
16:30just hitched at least one too many times before letting this ball go to the sideline on third
16:35and eight in the fourth quarter with the Patriots up just one point.
16:39So the way this coverage is basically going to work out is you're going to see the point
16:43man end up essentially being bracketed.
16:45Then you're going to have this safety covering Jalen Pope from all the way over here.
16:50And then I believe that's a Demario Douglas is going to get coverage from the outside
16:54most defender.
16:55So the Patriots are going to run a route to basically try to get Jalen Polk open by having
17:00Kayshawn booty run a clear out on the corner.
17:03Then Demario Douglas basically just trying to suck up this defender on the curl.
17:06And then you're going to have this out route where ideally he can sneak between some of
17:10the coverage defenders.
17:12So the way it plays out, it is a murky picture.
17:14I have to admit that.
17:15So it's kind of confusing the way that this gets passed off because you're going to see
17:20Demario Douglas sucks up the attention from that outside most defender.
17:24Jalen Polk starts to clear right behind him right now.
17:26We'll see.
17:27Did you Kobe for a sec?
17:28Like right now is when you're like, look, this guy's not even looking at Jalen Polk.
17:33Let the ball out.
17:34You see, he realizes, oh, I think that there's some route underneath me and starts to speed
17:39turn.
17:40But once again, there's time for Jacoby to make this throw.
17:42Put it.
17:43It's just sitting there.
17:44Look at Jacoby in the pocket.
17:45He's not doing anything.
17:46I mean, nothing's not doing anything, but make a decision.
17:49All this time, plenty of space to throw.
17:52This is when he makes the throw.
17:53So I think this is one hitch too many that this is when he should have let it go.
17:57One more hitch.
17:58Now he opens, tries to make the throw, tries to put some sauce on it.
18:03But Jalen Polk just really puts him in a tough position to have to try to make this catch
18:07along the sideline.
18:08And then we would see a similar play later in the game on what we all thought was a touchdown.
18:12It ended up not being because Jalen Polk just couldn't quite get his second foot down.
18:17It's going to run it a couple of times at once, full speed, just so we can remember
18:22if you forgot this unfortunate nightmare.
18:25So, so close.
18:27Just feels like Jacoby was maybe thinking about that Fred Warner interception, wanted
18:31to make sure he put it over the linebacker.
18:33I'm also going to break down why he was kind of in a tough spot because of how the defender
18:37reacted.
18:38But at the same time, you just wish you gave your receiver a more catchable ball.
18:41Could a veteran have caught this?
18:43Maybe.
18:44But again, it's on the quarterback to give him something that's a little more catchable.
18:47So we're going to see the Patriots are going to run what looks like a common concept for
18:51them where they're going to run basically a levels concept with a high low here.
18:55This receiver on a sit route, this receiver basically just clearing out the middle.
18:59And then DeMario Douglas running an underneath route is one of the last options on this play.
19:03What they're actually running is instead of having a seam, this player is going to run
19:07a corner.
19:08It's Keyshawn Booty to keep this safety's attention.
19:11And then Jalen Polk is going to pretend to sit down, but actually go vertical over this
19:16defender.
19:17This was, I think the best play call of the day for Alex Van Pelt.
19:19He knew what he was getting and dialed up something to isolate this middle linebacker.
19:24And then to the top of the screen, you're going to have this safety.
19:26I'm not 100% sure if it's quarters or if they're in some type of cover too, but either way,
19:32this smash concept is going to hold his attention.
19:35So let's let it play out.
19:36Now you can see Jalen Polk looks like he's going to run the sit route.
19:40The middle linebacker respects that, then takes off vertically.
19:43And you're going to see he's going to go into clear space with these two defenders having
19:47their attention on Keyshawn Booty running the corner route set, lets it go.
19:52And this is where it's kind of tricky because it looks like this defender is going to continue
19:56to carry him and maybe turn his back to the ball and try to get his hands up.
20:00But he hesitates.
20:01He, he, he kind of opens up.
20:03Right.
20:04He doesn't turn.
20:05Yeah.
20:06And I think Jacoby was trying to put it so high that if he put his hands up, the guy
20:09wouldn't have a chance to make a play on it.
20:10But either way, there's also a defender coming down about to hit Jacoby as he makes the throw.
20:16So again, not an easy situation for the quarterback, but he puts this high and Jalen Polk in the
20:22back of the end zone.
20:23Maybe a more experienced receiver does a better job keeping his feet down and find some way
20:27to get that toe tap.
20:29Unfortunately, he isn't able to do it and it's an incompletion, wipes away what would
20:33have been potentially a game winning score for the Patriots offense.
20:38Devastating.
20:39A couple, a couple of thoughts, a couple of thoughts before we get into the end of half
20:43stuff there.
20:44One, there, there's 12 yards for Jacoby to get that ball in.
20:47So a little bit better of touch and it's a touchdown.
20:50I think.
20:51And like you said, yeah, he may be being cautious of that, of that middle linebacker as a defender
20:56there because he can get his hands up or he's going to carry him, what have you.
20:59But just again, not, not good enough for an end of gameplay.
21:04Now, I think you're right too, where that, I don't think all the blame is on Jacoby there.
21:08I think Jalen Polk, more experienced, he's only a rookie, get both feet down.
21:13He's not used to it.
21:14He's played in college for the last couple of seasons.
21:15So it's not an excuse, but it's the reality where they still need to get that muscle memory
21:19down and make sure you get both feet in.
21:22And then before that, on that play where Jacoby is just sitting there holding on the ball
21:25on that out route.
21:27We don't have it up, but there, there's a point where the defender that's on Polk and
21:32he's sprinting to the sideline.
21:34You have to throw it now because Polk has to slow up for the sideline.
21:38And so then by the time he's able to throw, he's slowing down and that guy gets under
21:42it where you have to get them in stride and throw it.
21:44And it just, it doesn't happen.
21:45So I don't know if it's, it's an internal clock thing with Jacoby on that specific play.
21:50It's not because he's taking way too long.
21:52Other times it's just, again, it's not good enough.
21:54So it feels like it's both the internal clock at times where I think that he's just going
21:59through his reads so fast.
22:01He's taken some things off the board, but it's also, I think he's afraid to challenge
22:04some tight windows and show that anticipation of, okay, I got to get the ball out because
22:09sometimes it's just a matter of a step where you can just see the defender's leverage.
22:13We're like, if a tight end is sitting in zone where it's like, yeah, it's a tight window,
22:16but you gotta make that throw.
22:18You have to squeeze it in after you hit the back foot.
22:21So like you said, you, you nailed it.
22:22It's a combination.
22:23It's one, I think he's just going too fast, but also it seems like there's hesitation
22:26to throw one of those tight spaces.
22:28Now sometimes he did and showed great anticipation and aggressiveness, like on when he was throwing
22:33downfield to Mario Douglas, like that was a big sign of growth.
22:36I did see from Brissette, but at the same time, that was really more of the exception
22:40than the norm.
22:41Yeah, for sure.
22:42But like we said, it's not all on Jacoby.
22:44There's some execution issues across the board.
22:46We're going to get into that.
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25:44All right, Taylor, let's break down a couple more drives before we get out of here.
25:48Uh, two, I don't want to say crucial ones, uh, but we talked about it, uh, on the postgame
25:53show.
25:54We talked about it in the press box.
25:55We were fuming.
25:56Uh, Taylor was apoplectic where it was the end of the half, like a minute 45 left.
26:01And they ended up getting two drives together and it was just execution nightmares all across
26:06the board.
26:07They could have, and probably should have just ran the clock out to halftime, but instead
26:11they make a bevy of mistakes.
26:12Stop the clock, et cetera.
26:13Taylor, let's break it down.
26:15First and foremost.
26:16Uh, again, a minute 46, I believe on the clock, uh, is where this thing starts.
26:20Oh, so I will say really quickly, the big thing for me here is that while the execution
26:25wasn't good enough, I didn't like the fact that this was just like the Seahawks game
26:31where I gave them a pass for being aggressive at the end of halves, but the execution wasn't
26:34good enough.
26:35And we have not seen like they had no momentum, right?
26:38They were going through and out.
26:39They were getting penalized.
26:40They had missed a field goal.
26:41Like I just didn't understand what made them think that they had done well enough to say,
26:45yeah, we're going to be able to push the ball far enough to score points backed up.
26:49Yeah.
26:50That's what I was saying.
26:51Just run the clock out.
26:52Like just at some point someone needs to pee the adult and say, we got to get into the
26:54halftime.
26:55We need to regroup because things are not working.
26:57We are out of sync and you are going to see that in these examples.
27:01Um, so again, as much as I didn't like the execution, I don't think they should have
27:05been put in this situation.
27:06I think they should have run the clock out.
27:07They got very lucky that the defense didn't end up allowing any points here.
27:11So I'm going to run this through really quickly.
27:14This was after an eight yard game from laundry Stevenson.
27:17It is second and two and the Patriots decide to go for a shot play to Jalen Polk that doesn't
27:22get completed.
27:23It looks like there was a miscommunication.
27:24So you can't really see it, but Jalen Polk on the bottom of the screen as the X running
27:29a fade route against man coverage.
27:32Now Jacoby percent hits the top of his drop.
27:35He's going to throw this upfield like he's expecting Jalen Polk to separate and stack
27:40his defender.
27:41But what Jalen Polk is actually going to do, and sorry, the banner kind of high.
27:44Hold on.
27:45I'm trying to take it off here.
27:46Go ahead.
27:47That should be gone.
27:48But what Jalen, Oh goodness gracious.
27:50Love technology.
27:51Okay.
27:52But what Jalen Polk is going to do is pretty much box up with this defender.
27:56Like he's expecting it to be a back shoulder throw instead.
27:59Like I said, Jacoby percent leads him upfield cater code turns around.
28:03I don't want to say almost fixes all because it wasn't super close, but still gets a hand
28:06on the ball.
28:07And there's really no shot that Jalen Polk has at this.
28:10Now this is on the next play.
28:12This is going to be on third and two.
28:14This was literally the poster child for the fact that one after the miscommunication and
28:18Jalen Polk and percent playing different types of routes, you also have a miscommunication
28:22here on this place.
28:23So I'm going to run it through real quick.
28:28I'm sorry.
28:29This is a mistake by me.
28:30I'm sorry.
28:31This was the miss to Austin Hooper.
28:32This is a miss to Austin Hooper, where this was one of the examples of, I thought Jacoby
28:36percent not doing a great job anticipating the spaces in zone coverage.
28:41So this is super basic.
28:42The dolphins are playing cover three blank.
28:44It's kind of a relief when I see defense to just do this normally in the graphics.
28:47I'm like, Oh, I don't have to do all this crazy stuff.
28:49It's very straightforward.
28:50Cover three, right?
28:51And the Patriots are going to be running another vertical route to the bottom with Austin Hooper
28:57run.
28:58It looks like an option route.
28:59Just trying to find the space in zone, which is really the best choice is up here.
29:03You're going to have an out route in a slant.
29:04This is really a better combination against man coverage where, all right, if this defender
29:08is playing you with inside leverage, you're breaking away.
29:10If this defender is playing with outside leverage, you got somebody breaking away.
29:13And then obviously you're going to have Ramond Gray Stevenson in scanning for any blitzers.
29:17And then he's just going to drop as the check down option.
29:20But once again, Austin Hooper, as the guy who's trying to find the space in zone is
29:24really the best option here.
29:26So Jacoby reset is going to take the handoff.
29:29Once he gets to the top of his drop, he can anticipate, okay, this defender's leverage
29:33is a little farther away.
29:35This guy's going to the flat.
29:36I can at the very least throw this low and just give Austin Hooper a ball where he can
29:41kind of dive on it and then be at the sticks.
29:43I think that's pretty reasonable to expect from a veteran quarterback, but he holds onto
29:47the ball, immediately goes backside before he really gives the route a chance.
29:52Then you see the slants walled off because they're in zone coverage.
29:55So I know live, it seemed like he potentially missed a throw to Hunter Henry.
29:59He really missed it to Hooper and then exacerbates it by pretty much running.
30:03I'm tries to get, I'm sorry, the check down to Ramond Gray doesn't like that.
30:06Then runs himself into pressure and throws it away on third down when the Dolphins had
30:12all three of their timeouts.
30:14Not only did I not like the decision to try to score points and go for this when the Dolphins
30:18once again had all of their timeouts, the Patriots ran the ball, then decided to pass
30:22twice and they kept stopping the clock.
30:25So just unexcusable execution, in my opinion.
30:28I don't really know what they were thinking when this happened.
30:31And then it didn't stop there because actually, let me show you really quickly from the end
30:35zone angle.
30:36Yeah, because you can really get an appreciation for the fact that Hooper put it on his numbers
30:40right now.
30:41Right.
30:42Right now.
30:43Yep.
30:44I don't know why he doesn't because the linebacker isn't enough of a threat for you to even think
30:46he can really make a play on this again.
30:49Pressure does get there in the pocket, but I just don't like the decision there from
30:53Jacoby Brissett, one to kind of panic and then to throw it away.
30:57Now this is the final one from the end of the first half.
30:59Now this is going to be a third and five.
31:01They had some bad luck earlier.
31:03The play before this, they tried to throw the DeMario Douglas after there was a miscommunication
31:08where this is the play.
31:09I ended up just getting rid of it because I was trying to highlight the set more than
31:13anything.
31:14But Hunter Henry had to tell Kendrick Bourne to go upfield because Kendrick ran a hitch
31:18when he was supposed to run a go and also in Hunter Henry wound up running right in
31:22his area.
31:23Jacoby Brissett tried to extend the play and throw it to DeMario Douglas.
31:26It got bad at the line of scrimmage.
31:28It set up this third and five.
31:29Once again, the Dolphins have their timeouts.
31:31Just get into the half.
31:33I know you really want a field goal probably, but you're getting the ball at halftime and
31:37you already have a lead.
31:39This felt really greedy for me.
31:41So I'm going to run it through real quick.
31:44So you have Hunter Henry coming to the backfield to help out.
31:46This felt to me, honestly, more like an answer for cover zero than cover one robber, which
31:51this turned out to be.
31:52I'm kind of going to explain why.
31:54So the Dolphins, like I said, cover one robber where you're going to have this safety cheating
31:58down to take the in breaker from Mario Douglas, which Jacoby Brissett should have seen because
32:03they're not really trying to hide it.
32:04And then you have man coverage across the board.
32:07The Patriots are running double slants to the bottom of the screen with a slant flat
32:10combination to the top.
32:12Pretty much all the slants should be on the table.
32:15But if there's one that I would want to eliminate from my progression, it would be the one where
32:18he's running into a safety because obviously even if you throw it to him, he's probably
32:22going to get lit up.
32:23So what Jacoby Brissett is going to end up doing is taking the staff and he does look
32:27to the Mario Douglas first.
32:29It looks like Mario, like I said, is running into traffic and behind him.
32:34You've got Keishon Booty running into space.
32:37Jacoby Brissett comes off to Mario Douglas, doesn't go to Brissett or Booty either.
32:42Then Nick Leverett gives up some pressure on the inside.
32:45And Jacoby Brissett once again, for whatever reason, just take the sack, take the sack,
32:50punt it away.
32:51At least maybe your punter has more room.
32:54Make them burn another timeout too, right?
32:56You take one of their timeouts.
32:57Your punter has more breathing room.
32:58Instead, again, he throws it away and I don't understand why he does this.
33:02I don't know if it was coached.
33:03I don't know if he decided to go rogue, but these are repeat mistakes in a two minute drive
33:07from both the coaching staff and the players.
33:10Just not acceptable.
33:11It's just not.
33:12And again, I don't want to keep harping on this because it kind of, it killed me on the
33:17post game show when I brought out the stats and was talking about how much time they had
33:20and the plays they were running.
33:21It's like, this is not an offense that has the ability to go rogue, if you will.
33:28It's not like Patrick Wilhelms at the end of a half, right?
33:30Where he can just dink and dunk, make stuff happen to Kelsey, make something happen to
33:33Arashi Rice or whatever across the middle.
33:36They're not built this way.
33:37They're not built to score quickly.
33:39They're built to grind you down, move the ball slowly but surely, grind you down, run
33:45the football, throw in the opportunities that they're not.
33:48They're not built for end of half situation like that.
33:51So for them, like you said, it felt greedy.
33:52I think that's a good word to try and get a double score when you're already leading.
33:56Get yourself to halftime, get the football at the beginning of the first, excuse me,
34:01the beginning of the second half, grind them down that way, get your double score there,
34:06if you will.
34:07It's not really a double score, but you're taking the lead, add to your lead.
34:09Instead, two drives in a row, they give the ball back to Miami and risk them scoring.
34:15Luckily, they had the dropped hold on one of the drives and then Miami just ran out
34:21of time on the second one.
34:22But not good enough, poor play calling and then obviously poor execution when it comes
34:25down to it too.
34:26And we used to get on Bill Belichick for being ultra conservative in the last couple of seasons
34:30where the offense just didn't have any momentum and he was like, you know what, I know we
34:34have all of our timeouts, I know we're at our own 30-yard line, I'd rather go into the
34:39half, I'd rather regroup.
34:41And we didn't like it at the time, but also every once in a while, I was like, you know
34:46what, I agree, because I think you are just going to start bleeding more profusely if
34:50in this critical situation, you try to put your foot on the gas pedal when you got no
34:54gas.
34:55And now-
34:56Oh yeah, go ahead.
34:57No, you can set it up, go ahead.
34:58I was going to set it up.
34:59So after the Jalen Polk missed touchdown, we talked about Patriots actually get the
35:02ball back after Miami forces, or they forced Miami to punt, they get the ball back with
35:07about 30 seconds left on their own 43.
35:10And looks like they're just trying to get themselves into range or something, but still
35:13poor execution here.
35:16No timeouts and they don't get it done.
35:17So Taylor, take us through it.
35:18Yeah.
35:19So I'm going to go through these pretty quickly.
35:20Honestly, they're pretty straightforward, but you can see in this clip, so I'm going
35:24to run it.
35:25This was them trying to get into Hail Mary range pretty much.
35:30Jacoby Bursette has hit the top of his drop.
35:32No one is looking at him.
35:35This is a play where I would like for them to try like a middle field screen.
35:39Like where we saw they had the trick play against the Niners where you throw it underneath
35:41and then you have the lateral, like something a little more creative because you know, your
35:45offensive line cannot hang when you have, I know Antonio Gibson was briefly in there
35:51to help out, but you just can't do this when you have five offensive linemen.
35:55And we saw last week with Demontre Jacobs got put in a tough position, wasn't able to
35:59hang against Nick Bosa.
36:01Now you kind of put him in a similar spot where he's got to block somebody.
36:04He doesn't really have the skill to block.
36:06And you're going to see once again, the free rusher, the rusher is there.
36:09He's bearing down on Jacoby Bursette and no one is even looking at the quarterback.
36:13I don't even know, honestly, how many of these refs were alive because when you look at them,
36:17it looks like Jalen Polk thinks there's a screen or something like Jalen Polk at the
36:21top.
36:22It looks like there's a screen.
36:23Demario Douglas.
36:24I don't know really what I think Hunter Henry's maybe trying to get to his landmark, but he's
36:28not looking.
36:29The only one who starts to actually give his eyes is Keyshawn booty.
36:33But by this time, Jacoby Bursette is trying to get out at two sacks.
36:36Just get the ball out of his hand at this point.
36:39And I'm not really even mad at him for trying to make this throw because Hunter Henry wasn't
36:43really an option at this point when he started making it.
36:46And you do have booty.
36:47At least, you know, you're getting past midfield.
36:49I really don't hate, hate this decision because they did need yards and they did manage to
36:54spike it.
36:55You didn't have it in there, but I did point out on Twitter earlier that I love this from
36:59Keyshawn booty.
37:00I don't know if you saw this, but he, he impressed me yesterday for more reasons than one, obviously
37:05the big block on remanders touchdown.
37:07And again, I don't know if it's in the clip here, but as soon as boot, first of all, he
37:10reads this, this coverage gets to the ground and as soon as he gets the ref and he tries
37:15to spot the ball, you run to the ref to spot the ball, which, and then someone responded
37:18to me when I tweeted the clip and was like, isn't this obvious?
37:21Shouldn't everybody know this?
37:22This is like high school football levels of, um, you know, levels of awareness.
37:27It's like, do you remember chase Claypool a couple of years ago?
37:29Yeah.
37:30Catches a first down with 40 seconds, no timeouts.
37:32And he points for a first down and one of his other teammates has to run and grab the
37:35ball to give it to the ref.
37:36So no, it's actually not as easy as you might think for, I mean, it is, but some of these
37:41guys don't do it impressed by case on booty for him to do that in that situation.
37:45And sometimes they'll actually try to spot the ball themselves and everyone tells you
37:49don't do that because you think you know where it's being spotted.
37:52Then the ref has to move it again.
37:53And that time could take two valuable seconds off the clock.
37:56So a great point.
37:57That was great awareness for him.
37:58This end zone angle just cut it off, but that's a really, that's a really great point there.
38:02All right.
38:04This one, I know that they said it was about execution and I think I may know why, but
38:09this is just one where I feel like there weren't a lot of great answers.
38:12Okay.
38:13Cause the Patriots are basically going to try to flood the right side of the field.
38:15So you're going to have all these guys breaking towards the middle and Jalen poke pretty much
38:19just trying to clear out here.
38:21So Jacoby were set, gets out of the pocket.
38:23He's got a good amount of time.
38:25Now I feel like you go or the Mario Douglas is the best angle or the best option here.
38:30You do have this defender coming down and I understand that.
38:34But if you're able to hit him in stride, there's at least a chance that tomorrow is going to
38:37get out of bounds.
38:38Now instead he ends up going to Hunter Henry who to be fair is running into some space.
38:44And I understand it.
38:45Honestly, if it weren't for the situation, this would have been an insane throw from
38:48Jacoby because you're going to see, he puts it right over the defender.
38:53This was almost a pick literally right over the defender, but because Hunter Henry has
38:58to slow down and kind of jump up to shield the ball, there's no chance of him getting
39:04out of bounds at all.
39:06Now these situations are like impossible.
39:09These are very, very tough positions, but anybody in because everybody in their mother
39:12knows you need to get out of bounds here or the clock is going to keep running.
39:16The dolphins play this well and they actually end up having these safeties pretty much trying
39:21their best to cover anything over the middle or anything that breaks near here.
39:26I would, I'm curious to know what exactly Gerard may have thought Jacoby could have
39:29done better, but I'm guessing just the fact that Hunter Henry had to stop his momentum.
39:33He even has the safety coming over the top, good defense by the dolphins.
39:38I want to give him credit, but again, just like no shot here.
39:41This is an end of half situation.
39:43Only opportunity you have to potentially win the game.
39:45And it felt like just those back to back plays where you didn't really have a fair shot.
39:49And then just putting a bow on at the end of half stuff wasn't good enough from a coaching
39:52or execution standpoint.
39:54I was going to say the coaching there to me is to me because you got to get guys going
39:57to the sideline more than just, you know, one, one option with tomorrow, Douglas, or
40:01have it be your de facto Hail Mary play where you flood the right side.
40:05And then instead of having Jalen pull clear out, have him run opposite.
40:08See if you can get him in one-on-one coverage across the top.
40:10And I'm not going to sit here and call out Stan Paul's plays.
40:12I don't even know if they have that in the playbook, but there needed to be something
40:16different there to kind of give them a chance.
40:18But unfortunately they just don't have it.
40:19Oh, cause you had 12 seconds to start the play, right?
40:22So honestly, you're at, so you're at Miami's 36.
40:25That's Hail Mary territory.
40:26I would have tried to throw a couple in there.
40:29Maybe they want to be a closer.
40:30Like I don't really get the idea there, but you're right.
40:32At least send people into the end zone.
40:35You're going to the sideline and maybe it's a little bit closer, but the end goal is the
40:38same.
40:39And if you don't get out of bounds, then you're screwed and you have all these routes running
40:42from the other side of the field.
40:44Maybe they thought that Miami wasn't going to distribute them properly because they weren't
40:47in their vision.
40:48I don't really know what the thinking was, but just not good enough from the coaching
40:50perspective.
40:51And also, as we mentioned a few times, Toby Brissett didn't really do enough to put them
40:55in a winning position either.
40:56Nope.
40:57No, no, no, he didn't.
40:58And I think that's why we sit here today, Monday afternoon, not yet knowing who the
41:01Patriots quarterback is going to be next Sunday against the Houston Texans.
41:04We'll probably hear from Gerard Mayo Wednesday morning with potentially a decision there.
41:09Again, he refused to name a Chico oversight, his starter heading into this week, something
41:13he hasn't done all season in his Monday morning press conference following watching the film.
41:18So some drama there to potentially to watch as the Patriots get ready again to host the
41:24Houston Texans for their week, week, six, week, five, week, six, matchups, or week six
41:31seasons going fast.
41:32We're already in week six.
41:33Yeah, that's it.
41:34Right.
41:35Patriots though, one and four after another loss 15 to 10 to the dolphins.
41:38So that's going to do it for our offensive film breakdown.
41:41Some misses from Jacoby reset, some poor execution at the end of both halves of the Patriots
41:45and overall the offense, just not good enough as they suffer their fourth loss in a row.
41:49We'll be back here on Patriots press pass throughout the entire rest of the week with
41:53more of your Patriots content as they continue to rummage through the rest of this season.
41:59I think that's the best word to use it, but again, four straight losses for the Patriots.
42:03So we'll be back moving forward until next time.
42:07Thanks for watching.
42:08Talk to you soon.
42:09Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and we will talk to you next time.
42:15Take care.
42:16Bye bye.

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