WEBVTT - Drive Time: Wildcard Weekend Lessons 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.080 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.200 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, well, 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.200 it was a fun weekend. Even though the Dolphins did 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.520 not play football over the weekend, we got to watch 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.759 plenty of football and I got lots of time with 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.440 the family. Hey, Sundays off in January in South Florida. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.960 I know nobody wants to hear this, but they ain't 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.559 all bad. We'll talk about which incumbents on the Dolphins 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.720 roster can stand to make this team better next year 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.920 that are not impact players right now, We'll talk about 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.479 the weekend that was in wild card weekend, and I'll 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.559 hit you guys with mock off season one point zero. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.720 And this is like the crudest one we'll do because 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.440 I haven't even come close to completing my film study 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.360 on all the prospects and freegans to be. So we'll 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.320 do that to kick off the off season here for 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.400 you guys, and I think Wednesday will get into the 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.360 position by a position review as we head into the 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.040 off season. From the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.080 Health Training Complex. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.759 This is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:13.279 Ye so yeah again, the reason I mentioned how nice 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.640 it is to have a Sunday off this time of 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.479 year in South Florida. So a lot of you probably 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.800 are from here, a lot of you probably are not 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:28.319 from here. But we bear really like seven or maybe 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.880 eight months of kind of hell, like the heat down here. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.520 It's pretty pretty unenjoyable for most of the year. But 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.840 there's like a four month window where we have the 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.039 best weather on the planet where it's like sixty to 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.120 seventy degrees really all day every day, sometimes up to 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.040 seventy five eighty, maybe a little bit blowout in the 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.240 certain cold fronts. But took the kids to a world 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.440 of beer. We live like right across from this huge 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.120 commercial complex full of restaurants, and it has like hewey magoos, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.600 It has duck Donuts, it has Bubbakups, it has Zuru Ramen. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.640 There's a dumpling panda in there. There's a flan Agains, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.040 there's a five guys I get my haircut over there. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.240 There's a casino Maderna. We walked over there before the 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.519 Broncos and Bill's game, and the kids were just happy 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.640 as can be. Daughter riding the scooter and got a 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.440 brunch burger from World of Beer, which is one of 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.160 my favorite burgers there is in South Florida, which I 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.040 know World of Beer is a chain, but you know, hey, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.880 I'm weak, but yeah, man, it was just a really 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.320 nice kind of dial things back. And that was despite 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.200 being sick too, So I hope your weekends were as 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.200 good as mine. And I didn't realize this as I 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.240 was doing it. I always talk about the playoff games 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.520 here on the show, but I was taking notes pretty 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.000 heavily throughout each of those games and trying to find 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.680 ways to tie what you were seeing on the field 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.960 back to the Miami Dolphins, as we do this time 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.919 of year for every single playoff round, or I should 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.120 say every year this time of year. And you know, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.880 the last couple of years, we had wild card games 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.480 of our own to recap and that would give us 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.600 another week of content. But now I have the full 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.800 wild card slate for the first time since twenty twenty 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.800 one to break down and look at it through a 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.000 dolphin's lens. And I'm sitting there taking these extensive notes, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.960 fighting some congestion and in between, you know, playing with 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.680 my daughter and my son. I taught my daughter this dap, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.200 you know, the tap up where you go high low, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.080 low high, then you pound it afterwards. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.679 Pretty excited about that development. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.960 But as I'm doing all this, I'm like, man, I 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:25.840 have like a lot of freaking notes here. I just 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.120 kind of I kind of just wrote a podcast script. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.960 So I want to talk about some of the takeaways 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.600 I have for you guys. And first, just off the 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.359 top four and one so far, we'll have the Rams 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.520 and Vikings tonight. I'm excited to watch that ball game 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.720 that brings us to one hundred and one or two 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.560 hundred and one wins this year, two hundred and one 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.600 and seventy six overall. We took the Texans, we took 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.560 the Ravens, we took the Bills, We did take the 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.880 Packers wamp wamp and took the Commanders in that really 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.800 fun game that kind of save what was otherwise a 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.720 boring weekend. However, all of that said will be about 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.600 four minutes into the show here. All for a preamble 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.880 is to number one. First off the top, A man, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.280 how great was that first game? 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.520 How great was that? 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.480 Dude? I was like a pig inn s, if you 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:13.560 know what I'm saying, watching everybody's favorite quarterback. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.400 Except for the Dolphins fans. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.240 And look like I even told someone of this on 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.800 Twitter or whatever social media platform was. I forget, probably 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.520 probably Blue Sky about how I don't even think Herbert 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.800 is a bad quarterback. I probably sound like that because 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:32.479 I have basically made myself on that platform into the 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.520 counter to what people do with Tua, which I think 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.040 is completely unfair. And that's why I go so hard 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.640 on the guy, and I do think he's vastly overrated. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.760 I have clips on my Twitter from back when I 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.240 used to do this stuff where I would clip, you know, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.039 watch every single college prospect every weekend and put clips 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.560 on Twitter. And that's kind of how I got popular 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.360 in the first place. And you know, trying to do 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.039 more of that on Blue Sky. But I would do 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.080 the clips of college quarterbacks, not twenty nineteen quarterback class 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.240 or twenty twenty quarterback class, I should say. And I'll 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.520 never forget the Arizon State game when Justin Herbert had 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.320 big moment on top of big moment against the Herm 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.760 Edwards defense that clowned him. And that was kind of 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.960 what he was in all those big games. And that's 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.679 what he's been for the Chargers. No One seems to remember. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.000 It was twenty twenty one. They were playing at the 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.480 Houston Texans. This is when the like the David Colvey 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.880 Houston Texans right, a team that won three or four 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.680 games and was happy to win three or four games, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.760 and he threw a stinker, had a bad pick six 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.480 in that game. I remember watching because I was on 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.760 the plane ride back from my hometown and we were 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.080 playing the Saints on Monday night the next night, and 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.599 the Dolphins needed a Chargers loss in that spot, and 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.120 the Patriots I think needed to lose a game and 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.960 they did to the Buffalo Bills. And it was a 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.200 really good plane ride watching those games transpire, and like, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.400 that's who he's been, and that's what he was in 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:41.880 this game. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.000 He doesn't see defense as well. You know, let's actually. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.279 Go let's get into all this first, because I don't 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.360 want to just make this justin Herbert podcast, but Chargers 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.839 Texans to kick things off here. Look, my first takeaway 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.880 was that you can't not have weapons unless you're Patrick Mahomes, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.920 Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, because Josh Allen just went 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.159 rough shot again in the wild card round without having 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.880 really any star talent around him in terms of skill players. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.800 Lamar Jackson just feasted on the freaking moribund Pittsburgh Steelers 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.760 without Jay Flowers and then Patrick Mahomes the last couple 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.240 of years has won super Bowls without you know, well, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.200 he's got Travis Kelcey, but now he's got just the 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.760 corpse of Kelsey and nothing else much around him besides well, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.440 I guess Rashid Rice was there, Hollywood Brown is now 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:25.479 there and Xavier Worthy. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.760 But in the past he's done it right. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 He's proven that it's the old Tom Brady with Rashe 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.719 Caldwell and freaking you know, Troy Brown is a good player. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:32.600 But you get the point. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.640 These elite, elite quarterbacks can survive not having weapons. C J. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.039 Stroud and Justin Herbert cannot. That's the takeaway. And neither 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.719 could tow a tongue bai looa. This is what the 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.360 second tier quarterbacks look like without weapons. I mean, to 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.880 a people thought that he couldn't play the position because 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.880 when he had Isaiah Ford and DeVante Parker and Mike 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.000 Kasicki's his top weapons, it didn't look as good. I mean, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.520 you can separate the individual, and I always thought too 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.480 like made that offense, you know, basically at an FCS 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.880 offense functional, but especially in the case here with the Chargers, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.240 where this quarterback has to see it in order to 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.440 throw it. I don't know who the hell's telling you people, 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.440 you people that this guy is like an elite processor 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:13.560 and anticipator. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.080 I don't. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.480 I never have gotten that. That's why I didn't like 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.080 his game. You guys know how I roll. That's the 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.200 number one thing to me with quarterbacks. There's a reason 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.440 why I thought he was overrated. He threw two balls 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.320 in the first half where his arm was hit as 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.160 he threw. And that's another deficiency where he doesn't sense 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.360 or prepare or move or feel pressure like he's got. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.000 He is really good when he does. It reminds me 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.800 of Ryan Tannehill. It's he's when he can get out 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.720 and get on a straight line, it's very good. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:40.600 He's very fast. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.200 But when it comes to like quick movements in the 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.840 pocket and sensing things, he doesn't do that. And the 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.840 Texans had six passes defense in the first half, and 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.160 I'm sitting there thinking like this is gonna turn bad 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.440 for him because he keeps on throwing these balls into 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.520 these windows that are not there. The ball keeps getting 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.440 tipped up into the air and he's throwing them late, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.000 and that's why he's getting these pds. I also note 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.320 the something you can take away from this game from 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.520 a Dolphins perspective. You gotta have temperature changing defenders. Man 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.880 watch the way. And this might be too late, you know, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.880 after the game's already occurred, but if you guys were 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.640 watching it with great detail, Kamari Lassiter and Kaylen Bullock 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.239 are dogs man, young players, hungry players coming off pile, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.560 slapping their heads like Jalen Waddle does me he makes 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.880 a big catch like this me just me absolute psycho pass. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.720 You have to have that. And the Dolphins I thought 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.040 lacked that outside of like Jordan Brooks and Zach Seeler 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.440 and like don't I don't want to get into like 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.360 telling who was not a dog, but we don't. We 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.440 just didn't have enough, right because there's there are guys 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:37.640 in this team that are like that, but there just 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.599 wasn't enough. Like look at Derwin James, you know, or 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.640 Dayone Henley for the Chargers on the other side, same 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.520 exact thing. The Chargers average three point seven yards per 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:47.920 play in the first half of that game. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.240 CJ. Stroud didn't look good for most of the game. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:53.960 Nico Collins kind of came to life and he was 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.040 able to hit some of those inbreaking you know, rpo hits. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.800 But by and large, these are two teams that the 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.640 doll they're not any better than the Dolphins. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.440 And look, we were bad this year. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.240 I thought there was too many new things that came 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.640 up for the Dolphins this year that we just were 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.000 not acceptable. And then the quarterback misses six games, which 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.120 is really the only difference between us being in this 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.240 game versus those two teams being in this game. But 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.160 this is a clear indicator. We'll get to the other 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.160 two AFC games here in just a second. There's three 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.120 teams in the AFC and then everybody else like that. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:23.000 That's just how it is. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.440 And we are in that everybody else category until we 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.839 prove otherwise. And last year we were near the top 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.080 of that everybody else category, I felt, but we still 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.360 were in the everybody else category. But that's why I 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.360 think this whole like, oh, you gotta tear it down 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.400 and start over it, Like no, that's how the conference 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.000 works right now? Man, are the Chargers gonna tear it 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.000 down and restart. No, they're not going to will the 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.640 Texans after they get shellacked next week by the Chiefs. No, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.040 they're not going to do that because you can either 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.199 be the Chiefs and the Chargers or the twenty twenty 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.360 three Dolphins, or you can be the Cleveland Browns or 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.040 the New York Jets or the New England Patriots. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.760 Which, by the way, something else. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.200 That is sticking in my craw this weekend is all 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.560 like there is a huge faction of Dolphins fans on 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.760 social media who only tweet their misery. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.400 Well, Mike Rabels in the AFC East, now we better 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.080 go cry, like what are you doing? Dude? 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.600 They won four games last year. Your quarterback is seven 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.559 and zer against that team. I know Mike Rabel is 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.160 a good coach. I think he's a great coach. Actually, 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.800 I think he's gonna be do really well in New England. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.600 I think Drake May has a chance to be pretty good. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.120 But that's the worst roster in the NFL by far. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.679 So what are we doing? Like, do something else? Man? 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.760 If this just makes you miserable, I don't understand that. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.720 And we're gonna be just fine, Like the Dolphins are 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.000 gonna be just fine. Now they're not gonna be Buffalo, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.480 then why say you're just fine. I'm not talking about 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.319 like winning championship, but they're not gonna like fall back 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.240 into the basement. They have too good of a quarterback 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.760 for that situation to happen. So those are some takeaways there. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.920 Justin Herbert four picks, his passer rating was less than 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.199 a half of what two was was. I guess the 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.840 Houston Texans, So better start the segments talking about how 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.679 the Chargers have to change quarterbacks, right. Ravens and Steelers 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.200 game was was pretty one sided. The Steelers were always frauds. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:57.640 We knew that. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.240 You knew that if you're a drive time fan. But man, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.280 they were just going through the motions back there. They 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.280 had some you know some There was some unsavory comments 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.000 coming out during their losing streak from players talking about 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.400 effort level and who's in it and who's not. And that 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.520 was just a ship that was sinking very very fast. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.680 And it reminds me of this debate about Mike Tomlin. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.240 One of my my buddies, John Ledyard is he runs 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.360 a Steelers podcast. He used to work for Peter Report 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.080 for the Buccaneers. He's one of the original Draft Network founders. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.120 He is very adamant that Mike Tomlin is a very 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.520 overrated head coach. And I saw him debating some people, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.559 some some you know, uh, who was it, Dan Orlovsky, No, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.000 it was It was so many big at ESPN that 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.679 he was going back and forth with and they were like, yeah, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.439 I kinda I kind of see it, are great Rosenthals, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.120 he it was, and they were like, yeah, I kind 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.440 of see it that way too. And it's just like 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.760 this elite mediocrity does that track for you guys, Like 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.440 they're a team that they're gonna be in that second 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.520 tech that tier of well I just talked about Chargers, Texans, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.120 twenty twenty three Dolphins, but they're not at the top 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.719 of that tier and they're never going to break through 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.880 into the next category until they find themselves a big 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.760 time quarterback. When they had a big time quarterback, it 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.320 was big Ben Roethlisberger, and they their last championship was 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.240 in two thousand and eight, and so you know, I 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.800 don't I would love to have a Mike Tomlin. I 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.280 think a program disciplinarian like that, a program center who 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.080 is a disciplinarian is a good thing to have in 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.400 your building. But this Steelers team, man, I'm glad we 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.559 get them next year. I would like to to prove 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.280 that fraud fraudulentce is that word from the Miami Dolphins. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.319 So that was the big takeaways. That game was never 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:33.920 going to be close. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:34.439 JT. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.679 Santo saw a great videographer here who went to the 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.160 Ravens last season or this season. I was texting him 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.440 and he doesn't like it when I jinxed his teams 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:41.480 and I was like, you guys, go win that game 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.120 by three touchdowns. And I'm kind of mad that they 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.880 kneeled the ball inside of ten yard line under a 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.040 minute to go. That could have made it a three 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.559 touchdown game. But that's just for my own vanity purposes. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.160 And then with the Ravens, like Lamar is just as 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.040 good as anybody. And remember, like I want everybody to 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.840 remember right now, what the narrative is on Lamar Jackson. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.320 Sixteen points per game in the playoffs, he six in 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.839 the six games, he's like two and four. Whatever the 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.480 record is, Just wait what he's twenty seven, twenty eight. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.360 It's all gonna end this year and no one's gonna 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.000 care about that, and that's something I think everyone should 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.600 keep an eye on because we're gonna talk about Jordan 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.320 Love and we talked about Justin Herbert and obviously two 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.240 was in that category. Now there's a lot of really 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.240 good quarterbacks that haven't had playoff success because guess what, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.440 it's really really hard to win at this stage. It's 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.400 I mean, the wildcard round often comes down to your draw. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:29.080 Who you got. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.520 You know, we got the Chiefs, we got the world 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.559 champs and minus twenty five degree with their last year, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.880 you know, bad draw there and the Broncos and Bill's 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.480 game I have. This is where my notes kind of 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.679 got more extensive. The Broncos. I thought, actually, let's go 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.679 ahead and take our break right there, come back and 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.400 do the other games on the other side. That's next 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.160 Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:55.080 by Auto Nation. So Broncos and Bill's turned into a laugher, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:00.760 weird surprise, Shocked, couldn't believe it. I did think it 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.080 was impressive how the Broncos stole that possession in the 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.200 first half with a fake punt against a team where 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.480 it's like fourth and medium at around midfield. Kind of 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.280 a house money game, and you weren't aware of like 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.840 a possible route from your gunner against a what you 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.360 call the jammer, the guys who play on the outside 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.840 against those gunners. I thought that was kind of strange, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.240 but I just noted that in this time of year, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.640 you know, the margins get tighter, creating short fields, and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.560 special teams plays can make the difference. And it got 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.360 me thinking about the Dolphins and like, in each of 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.960 our narrow losses to the Buffalo Bills, you're really just 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.800 one special teams play away, right, And go figure that 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.000 in two of those last three games they had against 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.400 us where they narrowly beat us, what do they get 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.440 besides was it a ninety four yard Deontay Hardy punt 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.280 return touchdown when Cameron Good was in the gap to 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.640 make a play and then his leg blew up. Sorry, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.040 you know, if you don't laugh, it's it's tragedy or 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:53.720 whatever they say. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.520 And then how about the other one? Is a sixty 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.800 one yard field goal to win a game? You know? 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.800 Like it just if you can generate a splash play 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.720 on special teams, it can swing these these big games. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.240 And for years, the Dolphins special teams have ranked bottom three, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.640 four five of the league. And what was the last 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.880 you know, splash team we had a special team. But 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.800 the last time we had a splash play on special 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.560 teams was the Jets game, and you won that game 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.400 because you got that splash play. Most likely, if you 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.640 get a splash play against the Cardinals, against the Bills, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.680 against the Colts, you would have won those games and 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.720 you'd be playing right now, or maybe you would have 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.680 played this past weekend. So you know, the news that 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.360 came across that Danny Crossman and both Wes Welker were 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.400 let go. The Danny cross won. You know, I love coach, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.680 he was a really really good dude, But that seemed 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.760 like it was long, long, long overdue. And I think 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.120 the last big special teams play we made, you know, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.280 I don't count a muff punt against the Titans last 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.440 year on Monday Night, was the blocked punt that Andrew 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.800 van ginkl Jalen Phillips block punt touchdown return against the 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.160 Bears in twenty twenty two. I think it was like, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.720 you know, if you can get those in big games, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.280 it could separate you in tight, close games. So I 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.920 also noted that in these big time games, which playoff 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.640 games or you know, must win regular season games, teams 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.160 typically make mistakes early. To me, it's about managing those mistakes, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.040 weathering the storm, and then capitalizing when the other team 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.000 makes the mistake because we in the first quarter of 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.160 those games put ourselves behind the eight ball and have 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.640 to play catch up the rest of the game. It 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.280 happened all year last year, in that Eagles game, in 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.280 that Chiefs game, in the Bills game, they scored on 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.880 the opening their opening drive after to or through a pick. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.240 You know, like it's just that same formula, and we 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.520 got to find a way to start faster and to 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.600 be prepared coming into the game rather than have to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.880 take a quarter to quarter and a half two quarters 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.640 to settle into a football game. I think I think 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.680 to do that, I think Miami has to find a 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.040 way to emulate difficult situations because the thing I just 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.320 talked about is an element of being a tough football team. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.160 You know, we used to get that in training camp 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.800 with the weather. It was brutal. It was nobody wanted 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.960 to practice in Miami. And while I think that too, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.160 a day's for twenty one straight days is a good 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.840 way to manufacture your own December swoons. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.040 Right, those are only two thousands football teams. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.480 We can do a hell of a lot more than 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.440 what we've been doing with all these you know, vet 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.119 rest days and hour and forty minute practices, where if 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.280 we do what we're supposed to do, we can get 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.840 out of the early like no, strain a little bit 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.800 and make it harder on yourself. That was my big 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.879 takeaway from how just these these little fine margins can 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.800 make a difference, not in this round so much because 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.000 there were so many mismatches, but you'll see that going 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.760 forward and the Ravens and Bills game friends, and they're 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.120 gonna see plenty of that. I also noted that the 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.680 Broncos is a good job early and this is funny 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.040 to say this for a quarterback that had a perfect 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.119 passer rating their their cage concept. Rushing Josh was how 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.480 you have to do it. And basically your ends will 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.720