Mike McDaniel is a Diabolical Genius.

answer problem answer for great NFL coaches football is much more than just having one answer average coaches think it's simply can you beat the defense yes or no but that is not true the reality is good coaches present an answer but when defenses combat that with a problem they're toast great coaches like Mike McDaniel they answer the defense's problem with another answer that's what we've seen with Tua and the Dolphins where last year McDaniel transformed his career then week 14 happened where Brandon Staley embarrassed them holding Tua to a pathetic 10 of 28 for 145 yards on National Television but then week one rolls around and boom 466 yard explosion answer problem answer today I'll show you McDaniel's first answer from last year turning Tua into a quasi MVP candidate then house daily countered his answer by creating a problem and then what McDaniel did in week one to answer that problem last year to a completely turned his career around going from an average Quarterback to a quarterback who led the NFL in yards per attempt yards per completion and QB rating McDaniel identified Tua has an elite quick release and ability to anticipate open receivers so he created an Innovative scheme that accentuated those abilities and their offense exploded they dominated the league with one specific play that they ran over and over it all centered around a concept where Tyree kill or Jalen waddle would start opposite the play then Jet motion to the other side to pick up a head of steam he could go inside outside deep Tua is at his best throwing in Breakers over the middle so they mostly ran these quick dig rats and just eight defenses alive teams who liked playing man coverage were basically screwed because how are you gonna guard Tyreek Hill running full speed at the snap right off the bat and since you have to respect his speed going deep a three-yard cushion turns into way too much space to give him and he can easily release wherever he wants this is the route they use to destroy teams with over and over there were a million different times Tyrique or waddle just torched defenses over the middle cause Tua could feed them the ball there with Precision on repeat the concept is designed to read this inside seam type route first and then whatever Tyreke is running after the motion seconds so if the first read comes open to a hit some quick in case a team is playing zone or blitzing which leaves that quick void in the defense if teams drop back super heavy into Zone coverage they have this little slide route underneath that gets them a guaranteed seven yards every time by running this play or slight variations off this play Tua turned into a superstar waddle and Tyrique became the most fearsome duo in the league the doll Dolphins offense became unbelievably explosive these Constantine Breakers with their lightning quick receivers were impossible to defend until Brandon Staley happens in week 14 but before we dive into how he countered McDaniel's answer 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of their in-breakers leading to two as starting 3 of 15 for just 25 yards with Tyreke starting from the bottom and the Chargers in a too high shell which is important they press the first receiver so he can't get that free release at the seam and instead of chasing Tyreke with a man Defender they rotate a safety down so he can have leverage and a cushion to his first read doesn't have any space to breathe whatsoever and there are a couple of throws a game where you will see his arm strength limitations it was clear Staley's game plan was centered around shutting down the middle of the field where this offense had dominated the rest of the league he knows this is the only play Tool in McDaniels want so check out Michael Davis he's pressed on Tyree pill but when wattle motions across and Jasir Taylor follows Davis falls off of Tyrique at the last second so both he and Taylor can stay inside the Chargers are daring to it to throw anywhere but the place he wants to in this strategy completely stalled at what McDaniel was trying to do Staley kept throwing this coverage at him as they kept trying to get to their bread and butter but they simply could not they just did not have an answer when they needed it when they motioned Tyrek back across Taylor and Asante Samuel Jr switch off and look at how hard they're trying to stay inside leverage to keep the Dolphins from attacking over the middle they're still trying to run these in Breakers because that is what they do they weren't yet good enough as an offense to have a lot of different answers and they got exposed this coverage also helped bring the backside safety into the picture since both the Dolphins wide receivers were on one side and so the area that the Finns wanted to attack was completely blanketed and Staley had presented a problem for Mike McDaniel to chew on all off season and he did Fast forward to week one 466 yards and 36 points later McDaniel I'd say answered the problem Tyreke went off for 215 two touchdowns because of that answer where instead of motioning him all the way across the field which in last year's game gave the Chargers time to adjust Tyrique lined up on the same side as the concept A short-motion him outside and boom he was gone without the Chargers being able to react they still press the seam route so that wasn't really getting open but with less time to process JC Jackson simply had no shot in hell to guard Tyrique with all this space and with JC trying to get depth to match him deep just in case he did in fact burn him over the top he had no chance of coming back inside to guard him despite the fact Staley had so much success with his game plan last year he actually abandoned that plan once he saw that Miami had countered however his answer did not work last year he blitzed to it just six times and obviously had a lot of success by not but when his answer wasn't working he decided to Blitz him 20 times and he got torched when you Blitz a fifth Defender it's really hard to keep a second safety deep because he run out of coverage Defenders underneath with just one high safety there's not as much help on these deeper routes like they had last year which leaves the Chargers one on one on Tyree kill and Jalen waddle a place nobody wants to be especially with a defense whose Corners aren't built to match up in man I mean not that anybody is with these guys but certainly not them Staley wanted to Blitz the mesh point to make to a panic and either take a sack or make a bad decision but McDaniel's Concepts simply have too many answers with waddle pressed and now a linebacker on a tight end running the outside route in motion Derwin James Blitz is off the edge but remember that little slide route that acts as they're hot in case they get a pressure like this one a hot is just a quick route that is built into the concept where if the quarterback suddenly gets an unexpected Free Runner he can find his hot instead and because of the design the Dolphins pick up an explosive gain McDaniel had Staley's number throughout the day he had come up with the perfect answer before the game but also came up with new answers during the game for when Staley presented new problems here the Dolphins motioned Durham Smythe across the formation to try and get an easy completion to the flat the idea is that with the Chargers and man coverage it'll be super challenging for Eric Hendricks to Wade through all this traffic but watch Kendricks he gives a push sign to the corners telling them to Zone off and pounce his hands which is their check for this situation two expects this will get Smythe wide open but he gets fooled so what does McDaniel do he answers the problem in game now when they motion Smythe across Kendricks gives the same check right here but now the Dolphins use waddle to pull the coverage underneath and Tua makes a brilliant throw to Tyrique up the seam this episode is all about McDaniel today but but this game was also about Tua playing within then Breaking Free from his scheme and winning outside of it for really the first time this shows his Elite anticipation which is one of the major reasons why this offense goes like it does but we also sawtua extend plays with his legs and make plays out of structure let's give a quick three-play example where the Chargers are trying to stop this drift concept which is a quick end breaker over the middle by using their safety to rotate down into the window they're effectively taking away the route to a once a throw but he still does a nice job of running for the first down when it's not open so how do we counter that well if you're gonna roll these safeties down inside to stop the end Breakers we've got Tyrique outside to win one-on-one and you're now giving up your two high safety advantage by holding them both inside nice throw from Tua not the hardest but this next one is what's really impressive on an absolutely crucial third and ten the Chargers are running their safeties all around rounds but are ultimately bringing two of them down to try and trap the throw they know Tua wants to make they dropped her when James to the post but have JT woods and alohi Gilman sit over the middle for the Quicken breaker knowing they're gonna try and shut this down McDaniel wisely puts Tyreke on an outside wheel in case Tua doesn't like it McDaniel knows this will be run outside of the safety coverage since they're so worried about the middle so intua sees it isn't open he buys some time and On The Run drops an absolute dime yes McDaniel set up the play by being a step ahead of Staley but two has still had to make an incredibly difficult throw to win the game he has taken the next step to win outside of McDaniel's perfectly crafted scheme and at the same time he will continue reaping the rewards throughout the remainder of his career McDaniel developed an impressively Innovative scheme that he Unleashed on The League last year which turned the Dolphins into a contender however when that scheme started to show some cracks it was on him to innovate once again something that is not easy to do but here we are 466 yards later and we're just getting started Mike McDaniel has the answer to anything that goes wrong and with him as the coach Tua as the quarterback the Miami Dolphins themselves are an absolute problem foreign [Music] foreign

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Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 16 2023