WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Drop Heartbreaker to Bills 30-27 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.800 To remove gall in deep speedwas peace do hell peas. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.400 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:28.480 He's got my advands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.840 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.920 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the Dolphins drop a heartbreaker, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.120 a crushing defeat that felt like it was ours to 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.440 have Dolphins fall thirty twenty seven. 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.680 They dropped to two and six on the season. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.840 They played a brand of football that looks a lot 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.400 more like the Dolphins you've come to know over the 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.680 last few years. But now the margin for air is 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.720 super super thin at two and six. We'll break down 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.760 the key moments to the big picture takeaways. We'll cover 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.720 this game from every single angle from the Baptist Studios 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:06.400 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.600 Time Podcast, another Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and get 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.640 to the stats in this game. And when I read you, guys, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.679 these stats are gonna say, Wow, the Dolphins beat the 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.240 Bills on the road, didn't they? But they did not 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.880 because they really outperformed Buffalo by many many metrics in 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.120 this one twenty six first downs of twenty four. The 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.680 Dolphins were four for eight on third down Buffalo five 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.080 for ten. Both teams were one for one on fourth downs. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.679 The Dolphins had three hundred and seventy three yards of 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.120 total offense, which actually was over four hundred prior to 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.800 that Waddle play at the end of the game where 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.759 he lost a bunch of yards trying to run around. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.280 The Bills had three twenty five. The passing was pretty even, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.680 two thirty one to two twenty four. Again, Miami would 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.200 have clipped that had that last play not happened. A 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.760 buck forty nine on the ground for the Dolphins, ninety 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.120 four for the Bills, sixty plays to fifty nine. I mean, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.240 the Dolphins turned over once, the Bills turned it over once. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.600 Both teams were sacked once. The Dolphins had eight penalties 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.640 for fifty seven yards, Buffalo four for forty and Miami 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.800 had the football for about thirty two minutes, just a 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.679 little bit less than thirty two minutes in this game. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.680 And I just wanted to look at these last few 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.240 Dolphins drives going back the last two weeks. Here's what 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.800 it looks like going back to the Cardinals game, touchdown, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.560 field goal, punt, field goal, touchdown, safety, touchdown, punt, punt, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:26.800 field goal, touchdown, fumble, field goal, touchdown, touchdowns, fifteen drives, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.520 six touchdowns, and four field goals, So scoring drives on 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:35.040 sixty six percent of your drive drives. That's twenty seven 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.239 points per game, obviously, but points per game is a 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.400 stat that you need context behind, because typically most games 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.320 have ten to twelve drives per game in them, ten eleven, twelve, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.880 whatever that might be. But the Dolphins have gotten seven 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.679 and a half drives per game, and sure part of 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.360 that has to do with our offense being able to 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.000 kind of take the air out of the proverbial football 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.960 and milk the clock that way. But man, that is 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.679 three point six points per drive and the NFL average 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.440 is two points for drive. So they're scoring like one 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.920 and a half times more. Is that the right math? 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.160 Double one and a half times more than what an 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.480 average offense is doing right now? The offense that we 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.160 that I talked about all off season, how excited I 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.360 was for the extra pieces, the offensive line that I 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.040 thought did a good job of retaining continuity and chemistry 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.280 up front, All of this has shown up the last 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.920 couple of weeks, and this deep backfield is providing a 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.720 compliment this offense, I would say even last year didn't 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.720 have with their ability to milk out long drives and 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.880 get tough yards and move the football that way. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.400 But such as life in the NFL. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.160 Because the offense going on this heater pairs up with 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.440 the defense having their worst two game stretch of the season. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.040 Again, such as life in the NFL. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.960 Just these little fine margins, man, not a huge difference 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.280 between two and six. And let's just say you know 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.120 a superior record because you can point back to you 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.120 can point back to the fumbles the last few weeks. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.000 You know, the snap, the failed snap in the end 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.600 zone for a safety, the fumble going into Bill's territory 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.280 today with a lead in the game, potentially a two 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.400 score lead in a game where you would score the 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.040 rest of your drives the rest of the way out 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.080 the Colts game. Two fumbles that gave the Colts a 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.080 tying touchdown drive, and a fumble at the eleven yard 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.320 line when you're about to go in for your own go. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.080 Ahead touchdown drive. So I can look. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.920 At three plays in three games and say, if those 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.839 are just different the Dolphins are probably five and three, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.200 but again, that's not how this league works. You have 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.160 to finish your plays and make your plays. But it's 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.160 worth noting how the Dolphins have just really kind of 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.159 you know, errors aside shooting yourself in the foot of side, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.040 just come up short on a few critical plays and 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.920 put them in a very tough spots. Go ahead and 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.240 cover this game top to bottom, and I have a 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.920 lot of notes in this one because I was having fun. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.080 It was fun to watch the Dolphins on this Sunday 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.960 compete against another top level team, a top level quarterback 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.359 that has given us issues for years. I thought the 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.600 Dolphins showed themselves in a road environment and competed their 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.480 butts off offensively, loud, raucous crowds that converted critical third 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.839 and fourth downs. We'll get to all that here shortly, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.080 because the game began with a Buffalo three and out, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.120 a three play, three yard drive where Emmanuel Agba really 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.719 understood his role today as that forced defender off the edge. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.200 He said it hard edges all game long on the 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.000 third to set up a third down play. On this 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.839 particular drive, he has a second downplay where he creates 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.440 a third down by a very hard edge that creates 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.800 a situation for Chop Robinson to get a very quick 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.159 pressure on Dion Dawkins, who he beat several times in 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.640 this game with speed to power, taking him right back 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.359 into the quarterback sped Allen up on this drive. He 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.480 throws it away and the Dolphins are off the field 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.039 straight away. Dolphins get the ball back themselves and we 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.200 go punt as well with a five play twelve yard 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.039 drive where Austin Jackson gave up the inside post on 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.000 the play that tu Would dropped the snap on. He 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.440 ends up eating the sack. It's a seven yard loss. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.240 After Miami ope with a first down, we did get 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.320 back into the count and I love the offensive game 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.479 plan all day. It'll be a point of contention on 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.599 the end of the podcast. Are the takeaways I should 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.920 say where Obj makes a catch to create a third 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.120 and eleven, and then we get Tyreek on a little 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.280 like stick nod but not really a stick nod where 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.159 he puts his foot in the ground and gets back 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.919 up the seam on the glance route widen the cornerback 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.479 and creates a window. The ball is there, but Tyreek 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.840 cannot make the catch and it is punting time. But 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.800 then it's the only punt of the day, and it's 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.159 a short punt followed by a thirty yard return that 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.880 once again gives the Bills a short field. Like we 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.520 talked about all week long, you can't do this and 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.680 give thee this team short fields. And they paid off 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.840 with not a touchdown but a field goal on a 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.920 seven play, fifteen yard drive, a drive that began at 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.760 the plus thirty seven yard line. You got yourself into 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.719 a third and four situation, but they go back to 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.440 their mister reliable and Khalil Shaker, who has a catch 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:41.320 and moves the chains. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:42.240 On that third and four. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.400 They run a quick running play and a quick game 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.800 throw that sets up another third medium at the plus 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.640 sixteen and Emmanuel Ogba overpowers this crackback block on a 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.640 Josh Allen sweet play that is the exact same play 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.200 on tape that the Cardinals ran last week with Kyler 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.719 Murray to clinch that game. But Ogba took this and 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.799 stretched out the pocket man. Some of these right handed quarterbacks, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.680 they want to get loose to their right because they 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.120 are most dangerous when they have a head of steam 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.640 towards the lion scrimmage and you force them to bubble 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.240 on that route, which Agba did. It makes for a 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.520 tough spot and he gets a big TfL and brings 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.440 the big fellow down for a huge loss. That's two 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.360 drives with eighteen yards allowed, a defensive win. But Buffalo 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.320 would find their footing later on in the game. They 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.520 take a three other lead here, almost get the football 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.160 back and take a nine play forty nine yard field 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.320 goal drive where they just put themselves in it behind 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.920 the chains once again, but they on and behind the 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.440 chains play on third and eleven. They throw this middle 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.560 screen to Raheem Moster who puts a shoulder down and 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.520 runs over Taylor Rap and it was a Buffalo blitz 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.840 and Miami had the right call at the right time 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.320 to get him into space to create a long catch 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.800 and run. There was a flag on Taylor Rap for 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.200 getting truck sticked. I don't know why that was called. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:56.640 We thought it was going to be on Raheem for 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.840 lowering the crown of the helmet, which they also like 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.840 never call that. But I couldn't believe that was fifteen yards. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.560 But hey, we're gonna take it because we got great 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.760 blocks by John uy Smith League, Washington Jalen Waddle. I 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.080 thought Miami's entire receiving a tight end room did a 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.880 pretty damn good job today. In the blocking game, it's 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.760 the attack on fifteen yards. It puts us to the 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.400 plus forty five. A chan catches a rail and goes 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.480 for you know, ten yards. After a running play with 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.840 that to put it the plus twenty nine yard line, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.040 you get nine more yards. Miami consistently got seven eight 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.960 nine yards in a first down in this game, and 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.440 it made it pretty pretty easy. But then you go 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.840 third and one and you run that like up back dive, 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.800 which worked twice against the Jags on opening Day, and 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.800 it worked for the Ingle touchdown against the Patriots. But 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.440 other than that, that play has been tough sledding. And 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.760 later in the game they executed a third and short 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.480 run by just doing the traditional running game. So it 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.600 kind of feels like when they just go with their 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.840 bread and butter and what they have blocked really well 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.120 all year long, it tends to move the chains. And 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.200 I love the idea of mixing things up and being 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.320 multiple and how you can attack, but it kind of 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.000 seems like that play has been a little bit fit 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.080 figured out I'll be curious see how the Dolphins are 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.559 just based upon that, if they can execute it next time, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.400 or if there's a wrinkle off that just thought it 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.560 was worth mentioning that play seems to have kind of 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.760 stalled out a little bit on those third and short situations. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.400 But I just think you have to find a way 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.199 to convert in that spot because again, against that team 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.560 and that environment, and I've talked about it in every 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.160 Bills matchup, you can get Buffalo to like kind of 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.760 go into the tank for a little bit offensively in 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.720 terms of multiple drives in a row where they're not 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.000 clicking and they're not firing in all cylinders and converting 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.439 first downs and putting points on the board. But it 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.600 just felt like, in that moment, third and one at 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.560 the twenty yard line about to be in the red zone, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.480 you gotta find a way to get you know, that 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.840 first down at least to give yourself a chance at six. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.959 They do not, But I just love the sequencing and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.760 the game plan in this part of the game to 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.080 take the run game, take the short quick game stuff, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.719 and be a very efficient offense. Which we'll come back 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.560 to that more in just a moment. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.040 So the bill. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.559 The Dolphins and Bills tied it three after this, and 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.960 then Buffalo goes down the field and you can't help 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.360 but feel like, here we go again, right But it 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.000 says to eight play fifty nine yard drive. It takes 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.199 four and a half minutes off the clock, and they 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.360 throw a quick slamp to key On Coleman, who can't 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.320 handle it. And you know Ramsey is beat on the play. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.960 But this is where effort wins. Like a lot of 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.440 picks happen because of effort, guys running after the football, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.440 and Ramsey didn't give up on the play. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.800 He stays in tow and I think if he's not there. 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.040 Coleman re catches this ball because he double caught it 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.360 and had a chance at it, but Ramsey said, no, sir, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.160 I am here. I am going to take that ball 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.240 from you. He rips it away for the pick and 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.439 the Dolphins proceed to have by far their best drive 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.360 of the entire season, fourteen plays, ninety seven yards, eight minutes, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.959 twenty one seconds of game clock, exhausted and capped off 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.319 by a fourteen yard touchdown pass from Tua to Devon 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.600 a chan where you get this offensive line, guys, I don't. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.560 I mean, I can't. We'll talk about it on the 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.280 film tomorrow. It's every guy. Every guy's playing well on 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.440 that offensive line right now. They got great surge, a 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.840 good run behind Brewer, Lee and Jackson Ingle to key 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.160 block that gets Raheem Most at seventeen yards downhill. They 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.480 take a toss sweep wide for ten more yards to 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.240 Raheem Most. It were Meleik and Waddle hit big blocks 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.920 off the perimeter to seal that lane. They go four 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.679 straight runs to open the drive. They lost a yard, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.000 and then they went four plays for twenty seven yards. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.400 Rather they went four places twenty seven yards. Let's see 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.320 if that softens up a little bit. I'm writing my 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.679 notes live as I'm watching this game. And we then 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.120 take advantage of them paying their ears back when they 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.600 blitz it on second eleven after a loss on that 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.920 fourth run for a yard with a little flip screen 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.120 inside to John uy Smith. It goes against a five 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.520 man rush, which gives them less guys to tackle on 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.080 the back end, and we get ten yards. Third and 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.280 one eighth traditional run behind Toron Armstead. He takes his 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.000 man all the way out of the B gap. He 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.120 was out leveraged, but hit the key block and it 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.880 freeze a lane for eight Hn to convert for a 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.440 first down. They get the ball at midfield, they throw 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.680 that slant to the X. In this position, it was 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.240 OBJ to the short side of the field, and good 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.960 on OBJ for winning that route because it was inside leverage. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.960 Tua puts the ball right where it has to be. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.080 He knows he has a hit coming from the front 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.400 end the back. He makes the tough catch and we 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.800 get upfield again. And then two had I thought one 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.439 of his better processing plays of the day at the 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.800 plus forty four yard line where he wanted to go left. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.439 He's able to come back all the way to the 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.319 right and swing this ball to h Chan up the sideline, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.360 gives us a first down at the plus three seven 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.240 yard line. Two have made that play a couple times 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.080 in this game, where he's able to get to his third, fourth, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.600 fifth read in the progression. And then Malik Washington has 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.680 that end to round play looks like a punt return 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.960 where he's weaving his way through gaps and Dolphins are 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.319 hitting more key blocks down the field and your you know, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.560 punt return and level receiver just has a vision for 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.240 how to set up those blocks and make those key 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.560 cuts and impressive drive so far where they're just mixing 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.320 that quick game. They're throwing the short you know, quick 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.240 game with i should say, the running game with the 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.320 quick game to the short flats and the short intermediate 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.160 part of the field. And then you're going some well 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.520 timed end a round, some well time screens like they 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.560 just had it all figured out, and they get a 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.199 downhill run from Raheem Moster for a first down at 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.480 the twenty three yard line. Nine more yards devon eight 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.120 chan where Austin Jackson clears this massive lane alec Ingland 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.240 has a dig out block. It's second and one from 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.880 the plus fourteen. Then we run into a wall sets 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.480 up a third and short and you gotta have this, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.200 I'm right, and you gotta have it. And we go 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.520 tempo and force the Bills into a substitution air which 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.640 forces a time out. And I love how you kind 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.840 of reverse the script on the team that has done 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:20.800 that to you in the past. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.840 But again you got to pay it off. And what 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:23.280 do they do? 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.680 Third and one run to eighthan converts it first down, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.600 but then we get behind the chains again for a 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.160 third time, but this time it's okay because we're in 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.720 the Texas screen, which is a angle out and then 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.280 cut back across the middle. Some call it arrow, some 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.240 call it an angle route, some called a Texas route. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.760 I like the Texas route version. Han catches it, weaves 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.599 his way in for a touchdown and the Dolphins have 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.240 a ten to three lead with like three and a 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.559 half minutes to play in the first half. Buffalo gets 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.680 it back though, and takes it forty nine yards for 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.440 a field goal drive to make it ten to six 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.000 at halftime. But at this point they had three red 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.000 zone drives and no touchdowns. So the defense, you could 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.600 argue they were playing really well. I think they were 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.560 in some spurts, But I think you could also make 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.000 the argument that the Buffalo offense had kind of struggled 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.840 to finance rhythm. The drop pass on the pick obviously 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.480 as a killer for them. They had a mesh play 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.160 to James Cook on this drive that he drops and 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:14.760 then that would have probably been a touchdown because there 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.400 was nobody there to catch him. They have a couple 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.400 of big runs from Josh Allen to get called back 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.600 on holding calls, and again Chopp was giving Dean Dawkins, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.560 a premier left tackle in this game. Issues with his 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.840 speed and speed to power moves and he tried to 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.680 snatch him and ends up pulling him down by the 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.040 face mask and it gets called for a holding call. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.440 They said they created some bad throws on the turf 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.920 by Josh Allen got him playing off of his back foot. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.840 It was a good half for both the offense and 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.560 the defense. On third and thirty at the plus thirty one, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.680 they just throw the ball out of bounce. I was 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.240 hoping they would put the ball in play. Allen has 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.280 done that in the past. He's at risk reward quarterback. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.280 He plays a smart throws it away. They kicked the 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.480 field goal from forty eight yards to make it ten 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.880 to six, and I thought, you know, four possessions for Buffalo, 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.880 three from Miami and you lead the game ten to six. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.920 Getting it out of the break, Dolphins took the air 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.080 out of the ball. They had tacked the Buffalo defense vulnerabilities. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.640 I thought the story of the day on the other 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.320 side was Buffalo's mistakes. That that mess drop by Cook, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.520 the Coleman drop, turned to pick the penalties the end 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.160 of the half. That took a touchdown off the board. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.400 But that said, the Dolphins capitalized on all of it. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.640 Ramsey makes the hell of a play for the interception. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.920 Our Russian coverage was pairing so well off those penalties 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.920 and drops to put pressure on Allen, force him off 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.560 the back foot to throw check downs that he has 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.280 to kind of lob because he has to get the 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:25.920 ball up. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:26.840 And down, so to speak. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.400 And then you get rallying zone defenders means fire zones. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.440 You're running to come up and tackle and make plays, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.520 and they were doing it all half long. I was 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.240 so fascinated to see how the Dolphins open the second 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.080 half of the game offensively, because you know, do they 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.080 come down support the run that they can't stop so 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:42.960 far in this game. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.480 Do we take our shots? 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.480 Do we come out trying to take advantage of their 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.960 overplay against the run. I was just so I get 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.080 fascinated by the perspective of how this game would take 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.920 shape in the second half. Let's go ahead and take 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.880 our first break right there, come back on the other 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.720 side and tell you what it looked like in that 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.200 second half. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.600 brought to you by Auto Nation. So it's ten to 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.320 six at the break back here in the Draft Time podcast, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.720 the Dolphins have the football and they go right back 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.560 down the field. Three plays thirty yards, but that third 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.440 player is a long run from Raheem Moster where he 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.680 coughs up the football and the Bills fall on the fumble. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:22.640 He broke a tackle in the backfield in the first play, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.280 runs for seven yards. Another big John who Smith Block, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.520 who's having a hell of a day in a hell 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.960 of a month, quite frankly as a Miami Dolphin. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.400 So that was your first answer. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.280 They ran the ball, and they ran it again, and 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.440 then we got a little more support inside and Raheem 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.040 sneaks outside for the swing route for fifteen yards. And 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.880 I've been talking about this for a couple of years 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.440 with Tua. I always felt the next progression in his 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.200 game was to be able to find those quick outlets 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.840 and those quick access to throws where the defense has 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.880 vacated because of one year running game and two year 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.440 vertical passing game and three your intermediate passing game. They 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.920 can't cover all those spots. And I think Tua kind 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.720 of has that figured out, and so was Mike McDaniel, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.360 and they're hitting these swings routes to Moster to eight 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.920 chan in the future to Jalen Wright, and they're picking 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.480 up ten, twelve, fifteen yards of pop on these and 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.040 then we get another strong lane off the right side 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.960 behind Austin Jackson's having a hell of a year at 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.760 right tackle, and we get eight yards before Tarren Johnson 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.639 Peanut Tillman punches the ball and knocks it out and 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.960 it would have been second and two at the plus 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.879 thirty six. Instead it's Josh Allen back on the field 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.440 trailing by four, and I think that if you could 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.399 have found a way into the end zone there to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.720 go up seventeen to six, the way you run the ball, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.480