WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Bills Week 9 All 22 Review 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.920 Do I remove galling deep speedwas Peace dot Hell. From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.360 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:18.200 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my heavy 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:30.320 hands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.839 to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.959 And on today's show, the All twenty two review from 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.239 the Buffalo lost the Dolphins fall to two and six. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.080 I'm gonna tell you where it went right, where it 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.479 went wrong, the things I love, the things I didn't love. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.240 Why I thought the quarterback played his best game or 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:51.000 any Dolphins quarterback in the last I don't know thirty years. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.360 We'll break that down, tell you about how the defense 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.319 couldn't get off the field of much much more. From 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.480 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:06.080 This is the Draft Time Podcast. Mage some general points 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.280 off the top here, and you know we'll start with 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.000 the offense as we always do on these All twenty 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.679 two reviews. I went in on this on the show 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.000 yesterday off the broadcast, so I won't do it in 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.759 detail again. But I just love the process and attacking 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.720 areas of the field that were left vacant by the 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.240 Bills defense. Like, okay, so look again, we're two and six. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.680 I get there's mostly frustration across the fan base. This 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.319 team is just too talented to be in this position. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.280 All of that justified, But I'm telling you this was 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.920 the next evolution for the offense to become an even 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.520 better version of the group that finished first in total 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.600 offense a year ago. I always felt like we needed 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.080 to be able to take advantage of the way teams 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.400 defend Tyreek and Waddle a little bit more, even if 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.280 that means those guys have to go a game where 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.960 they only get a handful of targets, or if they 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.880 have a game where they have you know, four k 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.440 just for eighty yards, it's pretty effective. It's not Tyreek's typical, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.560 you know, ten for one eighty, but it's pretty good 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.600 and they have to be okay with that. I think 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.400 that based upon their blocking efforts, it looks to me 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.440 like they are and like we saw this with Tua 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.919 before McDaniel got here, right. I think back to the 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.799 twenty twenty one game at the Jets, where he played 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.760 a great game, throwing verticals to Mac Collins, getting his 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.320 checkdowns to Adam Shaheen and Miles Gaskin getting his intermediate 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.919 work to Isaiah Ford, Like he's shown that he can 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.240 move an offense by just going to the open guy, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.079 even if it's not the most notably explosive group in 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.320 the world. And quite frankly, those eligible groups were probably 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.720 the worst in the NFL at the time. But if 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.960 you can give me both of those worlds, I mean, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.280 that's how you pull teams out of the bracket funnel 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.120 two man approach we've seen, and sure enough what happened 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.600 late in the game. But a vertical shot to Tyreek, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.000 a deep crosser like, a deep glance to Tyreek, a 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.480 dig to John new Smith, a deep out to Waddle 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.359 for a critical third down conversion, a scramble touchdown to Wattle, Like, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.880 you pulled them out of that by being perfectly efficient 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.600 in your other stuff. So while they had the perfectly 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.320 timed screen dialed up on three bills blitzes on two 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.600 separate scoring drives, dammit, I just also loved the vision 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.239 of this offensive attack, and you see it all the time, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.720 really good quarterbacks. They catch the snap, they hit the 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.720 top of the drop and the ball starts to come 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.160 out when I watch a broadcast and the opposing quarterback 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.200 plays like that where it's catch rock throw and you 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.320 can't see the coverage down the field because for whatever reason, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.200 someone in football broadcasting decided that you should only see 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.080 the pass rushing quarterback and not the entire field. I'll 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.920 never understand that, but you usually know it's a bad 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.520 play when the quarterback's in rhythm because that means they 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.080 saw it and they ripped it and it was to 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.640 an open man when they play that fast, and that's 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.640 what two was doing all game long, and it's not sexy. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.400 It's five and six yard throws, which we'll come back 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.880 to the concept of average depth of targeting the difficulty 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.920 of doing these things, because I think there's a large 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.000 contingent of non football people that don't understand just how 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.080 good that is or what goes into that. But it's 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.640 because they know what's going to be there based upon 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.600 the pre snap look with anticipation, and they can generate 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.000 this you know, forward lean or even run after the 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.480 catch to the receiver because they put the ball in 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.600 a good location on the upfield shoulder away from the 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.280 leverage of the defense, and you can steal seven or 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.520 eight yards here or there with really easy over the 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.160 football throws. It goes back to the concept that you 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.600 know Kyle Krabs asked this to Daryl Bevell in the 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.480 summer back in training camp about trying to lighten the 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.240 load of stressful reads for the quarterback. That's part of it. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.560 When you can get those spot throws for eight yards 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.560 to give yourself a second and two when it's a 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.239 relatively easy spot, and it puts you in these consistent 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.400 second three second two spots, which is a recipe for 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.040 highly efficient football because you can attack explosives and keep 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.240 ahead of the chains like you're not going to get 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.000 stopped that frequently, especially when your quarterback plays at this level, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.719 your offensive line plays at this level. You have receivers 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.120 willing to block, and they're good receivers as well, and 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.760 you got a stable of running backs that can hit 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.760 you in any cut type of way. So like just 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.200 on the first drive alone, eight Chan goes for eight 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.400 followed by a spot route to Tyreek for like four 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.720 or five. That moves the chains. Easy first down. It's 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.880 take that all the all the all day. The ball 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.680 was out right away, Tua moves this rail defender just 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.760 a little bit the sideline kind of like it's like 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.240 a wheel route, but it's from the it's from the 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.760 line of scrimmage, so it's not the you know, the 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.880 out and up. It's just the straight kind of takeoff 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.720 you call it. It's called a rail and the ball 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.960 hits reek right out of the break away from the leverage. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.880 They take a sack and after that, on second and 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.800 seventeen they have a spot throw to Odell Beckham to 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.880 get you right back into the down and distance. It's 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.839 not like a shot play. It's not like a give 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.159 up running play. It puts you back in third long. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.200 This is our third manageable I should say, this is 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.080 the offense that I liked, opposed to again trying to 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.040 run the ball on second and ten, which they did 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.720 that a couple times in this game, but they got 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.520 away with it in some spent some spots, but typically 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.400 I don't like to run the ball on second and ten. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.680 I digress. They also run this fake screen draw and 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.520 it was, you know, a wrinkle off of the now 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.720 throws where they stand up and throw the ball to 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.159 the perimeter to the receivers and they it got us 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.640 in this positive leverage situation and it pulls ed all 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.680 over all the way upfield out of the play. They 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.400 just had like answers and then answers to the adjustment 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.040 to the answers, we cause confusion on a slow play 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.159 screen to Raheem Moster, where they the receivers were all condensed. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.840 They were all inside the numbers, you know. And this 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.160 is why it worked because they short motion. Malik Washington, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.840 he was the one receiver to the field, to the 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.680 wide side of the field. He was the furthest out 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.520 and he motions into a stack, which means he's right 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.880 behind Jalen Waddle and he's doing it on the exit 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.400 motion track. We know how he used to send Tyreek 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.480 out and he would go upfield. And the motion kind 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.599 of took the league by storm there for a whole season, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.400 and it caused this confusion between the hook defender and 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.120 the curl flat defender. Travis, what does that mean? The 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.360 curl flat defense is the perimeter defender, which he can 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.120 play that like you know, eight yard curl zone, or 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.120 he can play the flat on the quick stuff to 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.360 the running back. And the hook defender is quite simply 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.320 the linebacker or a slot defender sometimes a safety in 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.200 the middle of the field, so it's basically that middle 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.920 level of the defense. Curl flat is outside, hook is 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.960 on the inside. So they confuse those two guys in 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.280 coverage against a Bill's three deep zone coverage, which you've 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.240 earned from all the tape you have of Tyreek and 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.000 Waddle beating teams deep. So what's the adjustment to that. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.480 And here's why it worked. They brought the lead block 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.760 on the play for ahemoster from the backside, so the 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.800 front side of their zone coverage can't identify that because 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.800 they can only play what's in front of them within 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.480 their zone. And so two A patiently back pedals and 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.520 lets the rush get in before he flips it right 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.440 over their heads. That's screen game one oh one. And 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.400 you get John new Smith from the backside Malak Washington 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.600 from the front side on these downfield blocks where they 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.840 go hit unsuspecting defenders, and there's three defenders that are 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.600 five or fifteen yards there was two there were fifteen 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.040 yards and one that was five yards beyond the first 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.320 down marker being out of the play, and then four 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.000 pass rushers on the other side of the ball who 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.560 are behind the football and out of the place. So 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.080 you have seven defenders all the way out of the play. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.040 You've got well timed up and good angles for Malik 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.760 and John who to execute their blocks in the middle 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.840 of the field, and Raheem just goes and gets it. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.200 It's when good scheme meets good execution and that is 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.480 what makes me happy on a Monday morning watching this tape. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.960 Is Mike McDaniel back, I think you might be We're back. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.959 Who was that Sam Ellinger at Texas? That was a 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.120 fun drop. Later we get downhill flow on split flow action, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.920 which you guys know what that is by now right. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.240 It's when you run your zone one direction and the 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.760 tight end off the opposite side of the formation comes 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.439 back and picks off the backside defender to kind of 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.280 make sure they can't crash freely and cut down your 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.480 play from the backside. And we run this under route 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:57.920 to John U. Smith where he has a catch and 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.240 run of ten yards. Like when you get the run 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.600 game going like this, you can scheme up these walk 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.560 in the park throws to make stuff easier in your 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.120 quarterback and then you go ask your franchise quarterback to 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.000 make five or six big time plays in a game. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.199 He had like three big time throws and two big 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.240 scrambles and off script type of throws as well. That's 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.760 what you're looking for. And this is exactly this is 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.480 to a T to a T toungue mailoa. I wrote 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.559 my three takeaways piece to day, and I wrote to 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:29.120 a T on offense like T o a tee to 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.199 a T and then parenthetical to a T to to 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.720 you tu a whatever. Who cares? I lost the thread 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.080 there again, this is what Drew Brees did his entire 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.400 career en route to the Hall of Fame, right he 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.600 you know, and the game manager stuff like I'll say 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.079 it for Mike mcdaalelau I asked him about in his 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.520 press conference. Which is the cool part about having this 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.320 position is I can see what you guys are talking 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:53.920 about and I can go ask the head coach about it. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.480 But there was a you know, it was. It was 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.520 such a Drew Brees perform romans in terms of just 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.400 you know, Drew used to be. He would go out 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.960 four on bye weeks and he would go out at 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.439 one o'clock in New Orleans at the super Dome and 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.000 run the full game script. And that's just like the 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.160 type of player he was. The way he visioned the game. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.360 And I can tell you guys right now some sideline 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.599 feedback that when we're talking about player interaction and I 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.000 guess demeanor on the sidelines, there's there's one guy that 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.000 is always locked in on the game and asking questions 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.040 about the game, looking at the tablet and coverages, and 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.000 it's to a tongue of by Lowa. He is a competitor. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.120 He is locked in. He is the guy you want 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.319 to lead your franchise because of how he's wired in 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.040 that way. And that's where Drew Brees was obsessed with 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.800 the process and the you know, the route concepts and 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.079 the rush and the coverage and how all that comes together. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.160 And that's why Breeze took a while to develop and 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.760 became the superstar quarterback in his late twenties and do 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.920 his thirties, And here we are too at twenty six 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.040 years old. It looks to me like he's unlocked that 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.439 next level of his game. On top of the manipulation, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.720 on top of the anticipation, on top of the hibernation 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.440 and the consternation and the fluggabration. I'm just kidding this point, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:06.120 but he like took this ability to know where things 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.719 were going to be after the snap pre snap and 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.600 maximized it. And that's why you get these massive scoring 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.240 runs and touchdowns. And you're scoring on sixty six percent 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.760 of your drives since he came back. You're averaging three 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.800 point six points per drive since he came back, which 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.160 is double the league average. Like this team is on 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.800 one on offense, they just need more possessions which gets 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.000 some takeaways, maybe get some stops from three and outs 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.440 and that would go a long way. But the Cardinals 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.800 and Bill's offenses both kind of got whatever they want, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.000 especially in the second half of games. But it's it's 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.960 you know one o the kids say, it's giving Drew 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.480 brees Man. It really is. Now. There was a single 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.600 play that I hated on offense. It was the offset 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.480 dive to Raheem Moster on third and one on that 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.480 opening field goal drive. Without going in depth, that play 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.160 required Tyreek Hill to cut off Taylor rap across his 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.240 face when he was out leveraged by two steps. He's 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.600 just not going to make that block. I don't think 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.000 there's any receiver in the league that does make that 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.480 block much less year five to nine speedster, I don't 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.480 know this for sure, but I think that Tua has 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.200 autonomy to get out of that play, and in that instance, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.560 that's one mistake that he made, aside from a drop 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.120 snap that he had. And then there was one more 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.440 layer of the game that I forgot, But we're gonna 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.520 get to the notes here just a second. We ran 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.160 this a few times but never got to it with 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.400 Reek and Waddle both getting open on stick nod and 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.400 stick nod. If you are not familiar with that, it's 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.079 the play that Waddle made against the Ravens two years 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.559 ago when he caught it in the middle of the 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.640 field and took off like a fifty seven yard run 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.600 and Ingold had that crushing block down field. You basically 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.600 run stick, which is like a six yard route over 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.640 the middle of the football, and then Nod is getting 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.320 back up field vertical and the quarterback meets you at 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.719 once you juke got that linebacker or slot defender in 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.600 the middle, and we kept going to it and says, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.480 it's this great wrinkle off of all the short and 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.520 quick game we hit over the perimeter, and sure enough 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.440 they do come back to it on the deep ball 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.000 to Reek, which wasn't stick nod, but it was a 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.520 double move, a little out and up, which is similar 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.199 to stick nod. So we saw something there and went 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.199 after a relentless and Tua missed the throw by just 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.120 a hair on that deep shot. But it wasn't as 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.599 bad as they made it seem on the broadcast. Or 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.079 maybe even two was getting on himself, which you should 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.960 believe too, because he knows where the ball is supposed 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.719 to go. But Damar Hamlin, are you guys familiar with 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.520 the red line on the football field. It's on the 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.600 practice field, it's not in game day field, but it's 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.600 the line that receivers are supposed to hold when they 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.240 run vertical that way. Tamar Hamlin was like one step 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.959 away from where the red line would be, which means 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.079 he was gonna converge. And if the ball's even a 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.040 step further inside, I think Tyreek gets blasted. Now, there 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.599 was a perfect spot he could have put it for 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.480 a maybe a little bit more of a catch and run, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.440 but I really don't think it cost him more than 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.960 like five or six yards, and it kept Tyreek Klan 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.559 from taking a big hit. Now, it did put the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.880 ball into a contested catch spot, which I don't love that, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.320 but he made the catch, so all is good here 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.640 on this one. Just a quick shout out to a 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.800 few guys on the a Chan Texas screen. Touchdown. Obj 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.840 has a great block downfield. Rob Jones has a crushing 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.199 block at the point of attack to give him the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.000 initial space. Aaron Brewer winds up in the end zone 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.560 before Devon a Chan does, which just shows you how 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.960 much effort he puts into it. I love that stuff, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.079 and gosh, like, the big takeaway is kind of this. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.840 They lined up against a good football team that plays 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.400 big boy football and plays connected and has coached well 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.000 and usually beat you up in the trenches, and they 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.640 took it to them. You lined up and went at them. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.840 There wasn't bells and whistles, there wasn't any cute bs. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.800 They just played football and took it to them and 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.000 scored on like, what was it, six of the eight 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.240 possessions or five, however many it was. I think I 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.960 think that was the best part about the game, even 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.040 if you came up short at the end. The biggest 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.240 thing for me is, for the love of God, please 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.280 learn from that and keep doing it as we go forward. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.000 That's my only thing. My final thought is this and again, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.720 I know there's a massive section of Dolphins fans that 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.800 do not want to hear this, and that's okay. You 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.560 are within your rights as a fan to well, for one, 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.800 do whatever the hell you want, because you know that's 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.440 your right in any sense. But as a fan, you 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.280 can be upset about looking at black and white results, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.680 which that's not my job here. So when I tweet 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.920 something about the game and you say one in three 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.000 though whatever it is like that, I'm not for you 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.400 go to the newspaper and read the box score, because 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.720 that's not what I do. I provide nuance and contexts 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.360 and critical context too, But I feel I feel like 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.200 you learn some hard lessons this year. Lessons that and 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.320 this is where I can get mad too. Should probably 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.440 have only taken four weeks, but it took them eight 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.720 and two. A injury is the caveat there. But still 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.000 the offensive structure it was bad early on, Like it 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.880 had me questioning things about the structure of the offense 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.280 and what are we doing here in your number three? 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.200 Like it was not what I expected coming in and 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.560 that wasn't a quarterback dependent thing. It was bad for 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.520 I thought all the quarterbacks early on didn't matter the 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.320 personnel choices I didn't love either. I thought Malik, you know, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.280 he was hurt early on, but we've taken a lot 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.520 longer to ramp him up than I thought was required. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.720 And you can't tell me that chose him. Braxton or 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.160 Grant Dubos were better options than that guy early on. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.640 And quite frankly, he looks to me kind of like 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.440 River Craycraft two point zero in this offense, and probably 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.000 with more juice as a receiver. What a boon that 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.640 would be to the offense. So it's probably a little 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.640 bit too late at two and six. If they had 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.080 won yesterday or against the Cardinals Omber three and five, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.680 I would say, this is your seventh seed in the 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.680 AFC playoffs. But I think you might have given yourself 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.000 one game too much of a whole. But what does 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.840 Mike McDaniel always say, You have to make losing purposeful. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.320 Let's take this year, Okay, take it on the chin, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.720 get those few week spots buttoned up on the offense, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.480 play some really good offensive football all the way down 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.880 the stretch, develop further continuity and Anthony Weavers system, and 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.840 go remix some of the positions you're going to have 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.920 to do this offseason, like go after the edge group, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.120 go after defensive line depth this offseason, and come back 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.280 and be the offense you saw yesterday, but be that 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.560 in week one and the defense that you saw in 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.160 weeks three through seven. Be that from week one, Go 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.760 win fourteen games, go play two home playoff games, and 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.120 go to the Super Bowl. Okay, that's the vision. That's 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.160 the basket I'm putting my eggs in when I'm rooting 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:00.760 for the rest of the year, because last week I 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.400 didn't know what to root for, because I didn't know 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.840 if this team had the gumption to do what we 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.600 saw yesterday offensively. Now that I've seen that, that's why 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.600 I want the rest of the way. And again more caveats. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.560 I know Dolphins fans have the smallest patients of any 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.480 fan base and again warranted, but you have to also 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.280 be logical to understand that you cannot let twenty four 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.240 years of futility impede your decision making today. Right, what 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.240 happened prior to twenty twenty two is not relevant to 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.840 the staff. So if it's a six game period where 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.600 you looked like you were not NFL worthy and you 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.800 learn from that. Okay, I can bite the bullets, so 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.240 to speak, on that and invest myself into other loves 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.600 I have while this season kind of plays its way out. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.520 My wife, my kids, my golf game. You know, I'm 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.000 a big film and show buff, my golf YouTube channels, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.199 the Mariners, the Heat College hoops in March and April. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.720 I am more than willing to not think the world 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.360 is over when the football season is kind of over 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.560 at this point in life. If you can't get there 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.440 with me, understandable again. But it does feel nice to 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.720 have direction once again and to be able to cope 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.720 with the perspective that sometimes otherwise good operations have years 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.560 where it just does not go their way. And I'm 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.440 going to do this on the Wednesday podcast where I 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.200 talk about some teams that had one year hiccups in 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.159 the road of otherwise good builds. And that's again the 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.720 vision that I'm hoping for. I'm not saying it's going 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.000 to happen, but that's what I think you can see 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.399 as the positive end of the tunnel light with this 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.920 whole situation. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.399 right here, come back and talk about a quarterback that 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.000 I think played the best game we've seen the Dolphins 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.280 quarterback play in a very long time. The rest of 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.080 the offensive notes, the snapcounts, defensive notes, as well all 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.120