Dolphins offense OR Dolphins defense - which has been the bigger disappointment so far? - video Dailymotion

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The biggest argument against Anthony Weaver being the next head coach for the Dolphins.

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00:00So, remember a few days ago, maybe last week, Solana was talking about blame pie

00:07and who gets the blame for the Dolphins' slow start.

00:11And he had forwarded us an article this morning from CBS Sports

00:14about all the undefeated teams, who gets the blame pie.

00:19How do you divvy up the blame for all the winless teams?

00:23And I'll tell you how they do it for the Dolphins.

00:25And again, this is CBS Sports.

00:27They put 75% of the blame on the defense.

00:33The defense gets three quarters of the blame pie.

00:40The offense gets 10%.

00:44Awful vibes gets 10%.

00:50And injuries gets 5%.

00:54And what they write is, Miami simply cannot stop anybody moving the ball or putting it in the end zone

01:02and cannot take it away from the other team either.

01:05Some of that is due to various injuries in the secondary, but it is bad stuff.

01:10The Dolphins rank 26th in yards allowed and 32nd in points allowed.

01:15They've given up 31 or more points to all three of their opponents.

01:19They have forced zero turnovers.

01:23Opponents are averaging the most yards and points per drive in the league

01:26and have scored on an utterly preposterous 68% of their possessions.

01:32The defense has been so bad that it's overshadowed the offense,

01:37looking largely like a shell of a unit that took the league by storm a few years ago.

01:41The last two games have been better than the disastrous opener,

01:45but the high-flying explosive version of this team is gone.

01:49The vibes have been rancid since at least training camp,

01:53and that's shown up for this team on the field.

01:57And I do find it interesting because we keep talking about how Anthony Weaver

02:02will be the next head coach of the Dolphins,

02:04but, man, that defense is bad.

02:08It would be interesting.

02:09I know he's got the players' respect, and he seems to be next in line,

02:14but, man, that's a tough transition to make just based on what his unit is doing.

02:18A hundred points in three games is terrible.

02:22That's ridiculously just that's not football.

02:26But the blame pie, so even if you say the defense, which I'm with you,

02:30that's terrible, a hundred points in three games,

02:33is it personnel or is it coaching?

02:36Because, Huck, you said Storm and Jack are the next Pat and Sam,

02:41but they're not, and now Storm is hurt.

02:44Now we're bringing in an old corner in Razul.

02:48So even on the defensive side of it, is that acquisitions or is that play calling?

02:53Right, because they're bad.

02:54Is Anthony Weaver, are we blaming Anthony Weaver

02:56when he was handed a poor secondary to start with

03:00and then it got banged up beyond that?

03:02Yeah, let's put together an exotic blitz.

03:06If I'm blitzing, I'm in one-on-one on the outside.

03:09Like, you're in cover one or cover zero blitzing.

03:12I can't call a blitz with these dudes back here.

03:14They can't cover anybody.

03:16So that's where the blame, but just, I guess,

03:19the surface level of looking at the Dolphins, yes.

03:22If you're letting people score 30 points a game,

03:24you're going to lose a lot of football games.

03:26Would you divvy it up that way, though?

03:2875% on the offense, on the defense, 10% on the offense?

03:32No, the numbers would say that.

03:34I'd divvy it up.

03:35I wouldn't put 75 on the defense because of the fact that

03:38Tua and the offense had a chance to win that Buffalo game.

03:42Zach Seeler on special teams, why the hell is he rushing the punter?

03:46Like, I think it's a lot more to it if you watch every snap

03:49than just the defense has given up 30 points.

03:51The defense isn't good, but there are a lot of other issues on this team.

03:56How do you like the way they divvied it up, Solana, on CBS?

04:00It's probably a little unfair because, like Crowder's pointing out,

04:03the personnel just isn't conducive to a good defense.

04:08And it's funny because now you're getting all –

04:10I think it's a large enough sample size through three games

04:13where you're getting all these, like, deeper stats coming out.

04:18The Dolphins are number one in blitz rate in the NFL right now.

04:22They're number 32 in pressure rate.

04:24Think about that.

04:25They're blitzing more than anybody on average,

04:27and they're getting pressure on the quarterback less than anybody on average.

04:33So what does that tell you?

04:35That front seven that we were all expecting gaudy numbers by them

04:38hasn't been good enough,

04:39but also your personnel probably just isn't good enough.

04:43The biggest attribute the Dolphins were banking on was your front seven

04:47would put pressure on the quarterback.

04:49That would help alleviate the problems defensively.

04:51That has not panned out.

04:53And offensively, I think it deserves a little bit more blame

04:57because you know your defense has some weaknesses, has some holes.

05:00You got to do everything you can to keep them from being in bad positions.

05:04Guess what?

05:04Week one, turnovers.

05:06Put the defense in horrendous positions,

05:09and the Dolphins' offense just hasn't been able to score.

05:12To me, bad vibes, 10% injuries, 5% is correct.

05:17I'd put defense and offense even split, truthfully.

05:21I wonder if Anthony Weaver has changed his approach enough

05:28based on that blitz number that he just told us

05:33and what it's resulting in.

05:36Because if it's not resulting in anything, which it's not,

05:41then maybe you need to redesign what you're doing, though.

05:46100%?

05:47And like this week, who's it?

05:50Oh, damn, they got Garrett Wilson.

05:52And they don't have great quarterbacks.

05:53Justin Fields is not amazing.

05:54Tyrod Taylor is not amazing.

05:55Hey, by the way, what did we find out about Justin Fields today, Solana?

05:59He's practicing but still in concussion protocol.

06:03But it was pointed out that one of the processes of getting through concussion protocol

06:08is going through a practice, being reevaluated.

06:11So this is part of the process.

06:13But as of right now, as we talk right now, 348, he's still in concussion protocol.

06:17But to the number Solana just said, like Chop and Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips,

06:26people aren't worried about it.

06:28They're not scared of our front seven.

06:30Because I've seen three games.

06:31They're number 32 in pressure rate.

06:34And then Garrett Wilson is not walking up on Jack Jones and saying,

06:39oh, I got a game today.

06:41No.

06:41Hey, hey, Justin.

06:44Hey, Tyrod.

06:45I'm going to be open.

06:46Throw the in route.

06:46And it's just, so what can, so is Anthony Weaver calling a bad game?

06:54Or does he not have the material to call a good game?

06:57And that's where you, that's where we have to parse it.

06:59But I'll tell you, I don't think Jack Jones should be your number one.

07:03I don't think Storm Duck should be your number one.

07:05We had a number one in Jalen Ramsey, who's now with Pittsburgh, making plays, winning games.

07:12So I would say the surface love, we go offense, defense, special teams, head coach.

07:17I understand it.

07:18But if you go deeper, I don't think the personnel is there to really call a great defense because there's no corners that can choke anybody out.

07:25You got to choke people out.

07:26All right.

07:28Four o'clock hour is coming up.

07:29We're going to get caught up on the headlines.

07:31Rob Pizzola is going to join us in the four o'clock hour with some winners.

07:36I'm curious what his pick is.

07:38I gave him, I'm going to give him all the AFC East games.

07:40You know, I think it's Buffalo and New Orleans.

07:43You want to guess what that line is?

07:46Buffalo hosting New Orleans.

07:48Buffalo minus 11.

07:53Why?

07:55Yeah.

07:56Buffalo nine and a half.

07:58I think it's 16.

08:01I got to double check.

08:03I got to double check this.

08:0516.

08:06It's 16.

08:08Yeah.

08:09So I'm going to ask him that.

08:10The largest line this season in, in, in week four, for sure.

08:14I w I would imagine.

08:15Yeah.

08:15That's four points more.

08:1712 and a half was, was tied for the largest line of the season going into last week.

08:21That's three and a half, four points larger spread than any other line this year.

08:26Like that's has to be the largest line.

08:30That's why I'm curious what Pizzola thinks.

08:32Cause he loves getting a ton of points in the NFL, but you make a case for me that New Orleans is going to somehow stick

08:39within two and a half touchdowns of Buffalo at Buffalo.

08:44Come on, Rattler.

08:46I don't, I just don't see it.

08:48Ask about the dolphins as well.

08:50And I think the Patriots Patriots have another, uh, stinker to Buffalo's got new Orleans and the Patriots have the Carolina Panthers.

08:59Panthers just wore out who they wear out.

09:02Atlanta beat them.

09:04I put that more on Atlanta than, uh, than on Carolina.

09:08I'm just not a believer in Bryce young Atlanta.

09:11Whoop the Vikings.

09:13By J.J.

09:15McCarthy.

09:18All right.

09:18Anyway, we'll take a break.

09:19Four o'clock hour is coming up here on Hawkman Crowder and Solana.

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