Speaker 1: To on the move, Darlan Deep Speedways, Peace do hell
Speaker 1: Pad From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's gotta
Speaker 1: Miami has in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: where you're going to look into the dolphins thirty one
Speaker 2: to ten loss against the Buffalo Bills, go down the
Speaker 2: game script, give you five big picture takeaways. We'll also
Speaker 2: hear some sound bites from head coach Mike McDaniel, largely
Speaker 2: surrounding the concussion suffered by quarterback to a tongue of
Speaker 2: I looa, and we'll unpack some of that. All of
Speaker 2: that and more here from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcasts.
Speaker 3: Hover Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I want to begin the show tonight this morning whenever
Speaker 2: you hear this podcast with some updates on tua tongue
Speaker 2: Bai loa, and I have four soundbites here from head
Speaker 2: coach Mike McDaniel. We're gonna go ahead and start here
Speaker 2: with coach's first thoughts when he saw the injury happen
Speaker 2: for Tua.
Speaker 4: My thought was concerned and I was just worried about
Speaker 4: my guys.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not not something that you ever want, ever want
Speaker 4: to be a part of, you know, you hope not to.
Speaker 2: And then the next question was a very common follow
Speaker 2: up for something like this, the question regarding where do
Speaker 2: you see Tua's a future trip to the injuryserve his
Speaker 2: future outcome with the injury. Coach was asked about that
Speaker 2: and answered accordingly.
Speaker 4: It's more about uh, you know, getting in a proper
Speaker 4: procedural evaluation tomorrow and taking it one day at a time.
Speaker 4: That the furthest thing from my mind is, you know
Speaker 4: what what is the timeline?
Speaker 3: You know, I want to know we we just need
Speaker 3: to evaluate.
Speaker 4: And and you know, I'm just worried about my you know,
Speaker 4: my teammate and like like the rest of the guys are.
Speaker 4: But we'll take We'll get more information tomorrow and then
Speaker 4: take it day by day from there.
Speaker 2: And then the natural follow up from there is does
Speaker 2: the injuries that he suffered in twenty twenty two impact
Speaker 2: how you and the team handle this time around one
Speaker 2: more time back to head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's important to to approach each and
Speaker 4: every situation to the you know, much like approach every
Speaker 4: injury with it, which is basically, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 4: handle this particular situation with this particular player. You know,
Speaker 4: every every situation is unique to its own. So you know,
Speaker 4: I think I think there's you know, for me, I
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about anything that's out of my hands
Speaker 4: in terms of I'm just worried about the the human being.
Speaker 4: And you know, he'll he'll drive the drive the ship
Speaker 4: when we get the appropriate information. But it's day by
Speaker 4: day health is what you know of, you know, really, uh,
Speaker 4: try to approach all.
Speaker 3: The stuff that way, particularly with concussions.
Speaker 2: And the final one on the topic of Toua's injury
Speaker 2: was asked about the consideration about where he goes from
Speaker 2: here suffering a handful of concussions in twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: and now this one here tonight one more time for
Speaker 2: coach on concussion talk with twa tongue Bailowe.
Speaker 4: I think we'll we'll find out some more information tomorrow
Speaker 4: in terms of, uh, where where.
Speaker 3: Two is at. He'll he'll you know.
Speaker 4: Be able to spend a good amount of time being
Speaker 4: evaluated and then we'll have conversations and progress as as appropriate.
Speaker 4: But you know, I I'm like the rest of his
Speaker 4: teammates who he he he went around the locker room
Speaker 4: and connected with, you know, trying to as a as
Speaker 4: a leader, is trying to keep the guys heads up
Speaker 4: and and and he'll he'll be in the office tomorrow
Speaker 4: to to be have the appropriate care.
Speaker 2: And that's what's going to dominate the headlines and the
Speaker 2: story of the night. I mean, before that, it wasn't
Speaker 2: the story obviously with the Dolphins coming up short once
Speaker 2: again against the Buffalo Bills as they come down to
Speaker 2: Miami once again and spoil the night for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pivot now as tough of a
Speaker 2: transition as that is to the game. And we start
Speaker 2: here on the recap podcast every time with the stats
Speaker 2: and you wouldn't know it. The final score does not
Speaker 2: reflect what these numbers tell you. But Miami had seven
Speaker 2: more first downs twenty compared to thirteen. They were seven
Speaker 2: for fifteen on third downs compared to Buffaloes three for nine.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins were one for five on fourth down compared
Speaker 2: to my or compared to Buffalo's one for one, which
Speaker 2: was of course a touchdown on their opening drive on
Speaker 2: the fourth down completion of James Cook. Miami had three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty one yards to Buffaloes two forty seven.
Speaker 2: They out passed them two twelve to one to thirty nine.
Speaker 2: They out rushed them one thirty nine to one oh eight.
Speaker 2: They had thirty more plays offensively, but where the game
Speaker 2: was won three turnovers for the Dolphins they were sacked
Speaker 2: twice zero and zero for the Bills in those categories,
Speaker 2: and seven penalties for Miami for fifty yards one for
Speaker 2: five for Buffalo. The Dolphins had the ball for thirty
Speaker 2: six minutes and nineteen seconds. So yeah, the story of
Speaker 2: the game was the turnovers, right. You had multiple drives
Speaker 2: that resulted in either interceptions or turnovers on down short
Speaker 2: fields and Buffalo did not fail to capitalize upon those.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go back to the beginning though
Speaker 2: here and start with the opening drive of the game,
Speaker 2: A six play drive that goes nine yards two and
Speaker 2: a half minutes, and it looked good. They were getting
Speaker 2: some wash down the offensive line. A quick shot to
Speaker 2: waddle for a completion, another third and one conversion where
Speaker 2: Rob Jones has a nice block and Aaron Brewers seals
Speaker 2: a lane for another alec Ingold first down, and then
Speaker 2: you get the negative plays loss of three to Julian
Speaker 2: Hill or a loss of three in the running game.
Speaker 2: I should say when Julian Hill Rasul Douglass beat his
Speaker 2: block to make a stop, and then a deep shot
Speaker 2: the Tyreek for no gain, and then a third and
Speaker 2: fourteen ball off the shoulder pad of Grant to Boss.
Speaker 2: And if I can explain to you how this offense operates,
Speaker 2: shannonhan Tree or otherwise across the you know, Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, Matt Lafleur, Sean McVay, on and on and in,
Speaker 2: on and on again. The concept behind this passing game
Speaker 2: is you want to hit the receiver the minute they
Speaker 2: come out of that break because the cornerback, the defensive
Speaker 2: back reacts to how the receiver comes out of the stem,
Speaker 2: and they are late to react because the receiver knows
Speaker 2: where he's going, the defensive back has to react. And
Speaker 2: so the idea that from a philosophical standpoint is the
Speaker 2: maximum separation occurs when the receivers first out of his break,
Speaker 2: you have to catch that football and for it's a
Speaker 2: bounce like that and get deflected and get picked off.
Speaker 2: It's just really really bad luck. But that's part of
Speaker 2: you know, that'll be a takeaway talking about playing with
Speaker 2: receivers that just got here in the depth of the
Speaker 2: receiver room being so far that the numbers throwing to
Speaker 2: those guys have not been very good. And it starts
Speaker 2: that way here off the top. It gives the Bills
Speaker 2: a short field. The Dolphins defense bows up. I mean,
Speaker 2: they got some good plays there. They got a third
Speaker 2: and two stop with David Long shooting in making a
Speaker 2: big play in the backfield, Zach Seeler shedding a block
Speaker 2: and making that tackle along with David Long to get
Speaker 2: a loss on third and two, and that creates a
Speaker 2: fourth down play where then the Bills get a perfect
Speaker 2: call into the cat blitz. The cornerback comes in off
Speaker 2: the edge, David Long can't get out there to get
Speaker 2: James Cook who has a walk in touchdown, and quickly
Speaker 2: five minutes into the game, it's seven to nothing. But
Speaker 2: then Miami response and you kind of feel like there's
Speaker 2: that medal, there's that you know they're not going to
Speaker 2: go into the tank and let this thing get out
Speaker 2: of control, because they go ten plays, seventy yards six
Speaker 2: and a half minutes. They get the ball on the
Speaker 2: perimeter with some of the end of round stuff, the
Speaker 2: jet sweep stuff. Tyreek has a kerry for twelve yards.
Speaker 2: Devon eight Chan gets plenty of run as he did
Speaker 2: all game long to have made two awesome throws on
Speaker 2: third down conversions, the one to Jalen Waddle for seventeen
Speaker 2: yards where he stepped up out of pressure, attacked the
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and threw a good ball over the middle.
Speaker 2: And then we got the touchdown throw on the escort
Speaker 2: swing to eight Chan with alec Ingold making the key
Speaker 2: block and on that play to a one Wattle originally
Speaker 2: and scan the entire field and made a really good
Speaker 2: decision put the ball right on target for a nice
Speaker 2: touchdown there for the Dolphins. So they got crankin, got
Speaker 2: that ten play drive to tie the game at seven apiece,
Speaker 2: and then they get a three and out three play
Speaker 2: drive nine yards with another short yard stop there from
Speaker 2: David Long sifting and wrapping on a James Cook run.
Speaker 2: And then Kalays or rather that was the second down play,
Speaker 2: and then Kalaias Campbell was the one that on an
Speaker 2: errant snap that got free. He kind of gets some
Speaker 2: depth and falls into the hook zone and gets his
Speaker 2: big paw on a football and swats it back into
Speaker 2: the face of Josh Allen and the Dolphins take over
Speaker 2: and they're again moving it around. They get another play
Speaker 2: to Tyreek Hill for twelve yards. It goes for a
Speaker 2: first down. They throw this they get a first down
Speaker 2: at the end of the first quarter, I should say,
Speaker 2: and they throw this ball to Robbie Chosen where the
Speaker 2: ball is over his head and it looks like he
Speaker 2: runs a route that two wasn't expecting. I think maybe
Speaker 2: that ball got away from two a little bit as well,
Speaker 2: so kind of some you know, air on either side
Speaker 2: of that thing. But again, you're throwing to receivers that
Speaker 2: have just gotten here, you know, in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, and some miscommunications and understanding of when the
Speaker 2: ball is going to be on you that I think
Speaker 2: can be expected. So the Dolphins three possessions in two
Speaker 2: picks for QB one, it was the first time in
Speaker 2: his career he had two first quarter picks. The Bills
Speaker 2: pay it off with the field goal. So the defense
Speaker 2: bows up for the Dolphins on seven plays nineteen yards
Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean they forced Allan off of his spot.
Speaker 2: He kind of short hopped one of those throws to
Speaker 2: the sideline with a good job mixing the pressure, looks
Speaker 2: the linebackers coming and putting more pressure on Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: So they take a ten to seven lead at that
Speaker 2: point early in the second quarter, and the Dolphins go
Speaker 2: back to a three and out and it's that the
Speaker 2: third down play man. They had double slants off stack
Speaker 2: with Tyreek and Waddle and to a shot one to
Speaker 2: Reek off the first part of the slant and then
Speaker 2: Wattle came underneath and it looked like he was going
Speaker 2: to be open, but the ball never got there because
Speaker 2: it went to Tyreek hill. And that was after they
Speaker 2: almost overcame a second and seventeen, which will be one
Speaker 2: of the takeaways we talk about here is the Dolphins
Speaker 2: when they don't hit the big plays, these longer drives.
Speaker 2: They had one early in the game. These long drives
Speaker 2: are tough to come by because you can get these penalties,
Speaker 2: a drop pass, a negative run that puts you behind
Speaker 2: the sticks. The case. For whatever case, that seems to
Speaker 2: be what happens for the Dolphins on some of these
Speaker 2: long drives. And that's what happened on a second and
Speaker 2: a second down in Jalen Wright run for a first
Speaker 2: down where he looks sharp, but to Ron Armstead gets
Speaker 2: flagged for holding. You get behind the chains. Then the
Speaker 2: fourth down play can't go complete, or the third down
Speaker 2: conplay I should say, goes incomplete, and the Bills pay
Speaker 2: that off with a touchdown of their own, an eight
Speaker 2: play drive that gets down the field pretty quickly, third
Speaker 2: and twelve from the thirty four yard line. The Dolphins
Speaker 2: had a had him in a good spot at that
Speaker 2: point of the drive, but Josh Allen creates and you
Speaker 2: saw Jalen Phillips was the rusher off the right side
Speaker 2: on that play and he lost his footing, which gave
Speaker 2: Allen the ability to break that contain, which you know
Speaker 2: you can't let that happen. But it rained all day
Speaker 2: here in South Florida. Feel was a little bit wet.
Speaker 2: Guys were slipping a little bit throughout the night, and
Speaker 2: he got to the perimeter and made a good throw
Speaker 2: around Jalen Ramsey, who kind of got lost once the
Speaker 2: play was you know in the second phase of the
Speaker 2: play with regards to you know, him going off script
Speaker 2: and creating that way. So they get that play down
Speaker 2: to the one yard line on third and twelve for
Speaker 2: thirty four yards. Then a walk in touchdown for James
Speaker 2: Cook off the b gap off the left side for
Speaker 2: a seventeen to seven lead, and the Ofphins get it
Speaker 2: back and they start driving down the field once again,
Speaker 2: a big lane for eight Chan for seventeen yards. Thought
Speaker 2: Austin Jackson got plenty of washdown. The whole offensive line
Speaker 2: created lanes all throughout the first half. They ran for
Speaker 2: one hundred yards in that first half. You got leam
Speaker 2: Meikenberg climbing up to the second level Julian Hill with
Speaker 2: a key block, and then they got more runs from
Speaker 2: a Chan to get him to a third and one.
Speaker 2: And finally, after I think four successful conversion to the
Speaker 2: first two games, Ingle gets stuffed and then Rob Jones
Speaker 2: gets beat by Ed Oliver for a sec on fourth
Speaker 2: and two, goes right back to the Bills and it's
Speaker 2: a one play drive. The forty nine yard run for
Speaker 2: James Cook where we're in a light box. They had
Speaker 2: a double team a catch and climb, and they caught
Speaker 2: the stack linebacker who was David Long in that same position.
Speaker 2: Kendall Fuller came in and I thought took a bad
Speaker 2: angle to the football and that got behind him and
Speaker 2: from there it was show him your tel lights for
Speaker 2: James Cook. A forty nine yard drive on one play,
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. Tough spot to come back from there,
Speaker 2: but Miami's offense takes it back and drives thirteen plays
Speaker 2: fifty four yards and three and a half minutes for
Speaker 2: a field goal. Just kind of taking the short stuff there,
Speaker 2: taking what's underneath, going to John new Smith and going
Speaker 2: to to ahead to scramble on the drive for twelve
Speaker 2: yards on third and eleven, just kind of trying to
Speaker 2: milk the clock and not let Josh Allen get the
Speaker 2: ball back, but also find points. But ultimately in the
Speaker 2: first half, Tyreek and Waddle had five catches for thirty
Speaker 2: six yards on seven targets and finished the game Tyreek
Speaker 2: had Let's see, Tyreek was targeted six times with three
Speaker 2: catches for twenty four yards, Wattle four for four for
Speaker 2: forty one yards. So if you get seven catches for
Speaker 2: sixty five yards from Reek and wattle probably not going
Speaker 2: to be the results you want at the end of
Speaker 2: the night. That's what happened here, so rough start to
Speaker 2: the game, it would get worse. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our last break right there. Come back on the
Speaker 2: next side and do the second half of the game.
Speaker 2: We'll get the five takeaways. Short episode tonight, not to
Speaker 2: love to harp on here. That's next track Time podcast,
Speaker 2: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2: So the Bills take a twenty four to ten lead
Speaker 2: into the break, They get the football back to start
Speaker 2: the second half, and the defense bows up again. They
Speaker 2: get a five play seventeen yard drive a third and
Speaker 2: seven where Chop Robinson, who I think continues to show
Speaker 2: some good stuff in these first two games, ran a
Speaker 2: little stunt there with Zach Seeler and Sealer splits the
Speaker 2: blocks and as the pickman gets in there and creates
Speaker 2: the air and throw, but chops speed on the quarterback.
Speaker 2: The closing speed on that looping role I thought was
Speaker 2: pretty impressive and shows you some of the mixed bag
Speaker 2: that he can offer as an edge rusher and player
Speaker 2: in the middle of the defensive line to put an impact.
Speaker 2: These opposing quarterbacks. But then that's when things really got
Speaker 2: out of hand. The Dolphins get the football back, they
Speaker 2: get a little swing route to a chan for twelve
Speaker 2: yards and a first down. We get a corner slips
Speaker 2: over there and create some space for him. Then a
Speaker 2: couple of plays go backwards. They're third and behind the
Speaker 2: chains again, and then Tua makes a decision that I
Speaker 2: just haven't seen him make in his career before with
Speaker 2: trying to throw the ball away, doesn't get it out there,
Speaker 2: it gets picked off and goes back the other way.
Speaker 2: Even if that ball gets completed, what are you looking
Speaker 2: at there? A couple of yards and you're still punting
Speaker 2: the ball like you gotta take the sack there and
Speaker 2: just move on to fight another day. But that's kind
Speaker 2: of what happens in these Bills games. Right that they
Speaker 2: get up, they start putting more pressure. The passing game
Speaker 2: becomes all you can do because you're behind on the scoreboard,
Speaker 2: and then they find a way to turn you over
Speaker 2: and it turns into an avalanche of negative plays. That's
Speaker 2: kind of what happened here. Yeah, Pick six just can't
Speaker 2: do that and then turn over on downs in the
Speaker 2: next drive. And that was when Tua Tongua Bai Looa
Speaker 2: had a third down scramble to move the chains or
Speaker 2: fourth down scramble rather, and he gets knocked to the ground.
Speaker 2: His helmet collies at the mar Amblin's arm and he
Speaker 2: doesn't look right and they end up pulling up from
Speaker 2: the game and it's a concussion. And we finished out
Speaker 2: with Scalar Thompson and I stopped noting the game at
Speaker 2: that point because thirty one to ten quarterback goes down.
Speaker 2: It was kind of just playing out the string at
Speaker 2: that point. I thought the Dolphins played hard and did
Speaker 2: a good job competing in those circumstances, considering everything that
Speaker 2: had happened there, So WorldWind of a week man, lots
Speaker 2: of emotions on Sunday, the absolute last result you wanted
Speaker 2: in the game here on Thursday against a team that
Speaker 2: it felt like this was the best chance to kind
Speaker 2: of go get that Buffalo team, right. I mean, they
Speaker 2: were down Matt Mulano from back in training camp. They
Speaker 2: didn't have Taron Johnson who was hurt in the opener.
Speaker 2: They lost Torel Bernard early on in the game. They
Speaker 2: were down some key parts. Not to mention, you know,
Speaker 2: not having Hide Employer and Trey White and all these
Speaker 2: critical guys that have been a big part of that defense.
Speaker 2: Even with backups and different guys, they still found a
Speaker 2: way to make the Dolphins offense slow down and get
Speaker 2: off rhythm and off timing. And for two games now
Speaker 2: it's looked that way for the Dolphins offense, even with
Speaker 2: QB one in the game. I mean, they had seven
Speaker 2: points at halftime once again, right or no ten points
Speaker 2: at halftime after a seven point first half last week.
Speaker 2: That is just not the team we're used to. They
Speaker 2: scored thirty points in two games. That's our per game
Speaker 2: average last year, so half of that so far just
Speaker 2: hasn't looked sharp through the first two games, and losing
Speaker 2: the quarterback makes it a lot tough for going forward,
Speaker 2: depending on his timeline there. So let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: get into the five takeaways here. Like I said, it's
Speaker 2: going to be a brief one. But before we do that,
Speaker 2: McDaniel spoke at length about the concept of narratives and
Speaker 2: what's going to be written. And obviously Miami doesn't have
Speaker 2: one of those teams you know coming up on the
Speaker 2: schedule until Buffalo again. Really, I mean the Seahawks the Titans,
Speaker 2: the Patriots, the Colts, the Cardinals. All of those teams
Speaker 2: were not playoff teams a year ago. So you don't
Speaker 2: have a chance to really, you know, change that until
Speaker 2: you face Buffalo once again. But of course you need
Speaker 2: to win games in the meantime. But I thought it
Speaker 2: was important to hear from coach right here about that
Speaker 2: and how no one outside of this building is going
Speaker 2: to think the Dolphins have a chance to win in
Speaker 2: those types of situations.
Speaker 4: There there was a lot of high expectations and ambitions
Speaker 4: for the game, fully knowing that it was gonna be
Speaker 4: a tough one. But I think I think every person
Speaker 4: on the team would tell you the when playing a
Speaker 4: good football team, if you're if you're minus three or four,
Speaker 4: whatever it was, and then with the fourth downs on
Speaker 4: top of that, like no one first saw that, So
Speaker 4: I don't think you can win. You might be able
Speaker 4: to win one out of a hundred with with those
Speaker 4: the nuts and bolts of that, and and I think
Speaker 4: that's the main thing that the football team is feeling
Speaker 4: is supreme disappointment because it's uh they've they've put a
Speaker 4: lot into it, they have high expectations and you can't
Speaker 4: even you can't even evaluate appropriately when when you're uh,
Speaker 4: when you're playing football that way and giving it to
Speaker 4: the opponent and you know, so giving them actual possessions,
Speaker 4: especially a quarterback like that.
Speaker 3: So, you know, I think it's you know, football is
Speaker 3: a tough, tough business.
Speaker 4: There's you know, like I told the told the team
Speaker 4: like this hurts for a reason, and then you just
Speaker 4: you have to find out if if you need uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I think I think we have enough veteran
Speaker 4: players in that locker room that understand that the belief
Speaker 4: will come from within because you quite frankly, you can
Speaker 4: already turn the page note that know what's going to
Speaker 4: be said about us, and and that's probably.
Speaker 3: Gonna last for last for a while. We'll have plenty
Speaker 3: of opportunities to you know, uh uh.
Speaker 4: Really take take the take the uh just sheer, frustration
Speaker 4: and anger out on are are the way we approach
Speaker 4: our jobs day and day out. It's also you know,
Speaker 4: very much weak two and and that was our first
Speaker 4: division game, and it feels way bigger than that, because
Speaker 4: you know, there's a there's a lot of history to
Speaker 4: to this, uh, this matchup, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: things that we thought we're going to take care of
Speaker 4: that are that are are are are definitely not taken
Speaker 4: care of. So, you know, I think it's a it's
Speaker 4: a gut check for the for the team. Early in
Speaker 4: the season, I I look at things like, uh, if
Speaker 4: we would have won by thirty, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: You know, I think that puts the game perspective. It's
Speaker 4: one loss that's you know, that really cuts deep, but
Speaker 4: that that can either be a good thing or a
Speaker 4: bad thing depending on how you respond to it.
Speaker 3: So I really believe in in in the locker room.
Speaker 4: I believe in the coaching staff, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I better believe it because it's gonna be a while
Speaker 4: before uh it's gonna be anybody but us believe in that.
Speaker 4: And that's okay. I think you have to these types
Speaker 4: of moments where you, uh, your expectations and and what
Speaker 4: you put in two things far up.
Speaker 3: Exceed the result. Uh.
Speaker 4: You know that you can't hide in situations like that.
Speaker 4: And so I'm I'm expecting uh this to I'm expecting
Speaker 4: to move forward as a team and have have this
Speaker 4: be a galvanizing moment in our season as we look
Speaker 4: back on it down the road and.
Speaker 3: How do you do that? You you you.
Speaker 4: Handle tough situations, you come together as a group, and
Speaker 4: you you make sure that you clean up the things
Speaker 4: in your game that led to this.
Speaker 3: And you know, we really didn't uh.
Speaker 4: The team wasn't given a fair shot necessarily that tonight
Speaker 4: because you know, we had some absolutely catastrophic uh uh
Speaker 4: misgivings with with with the football and that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: And I, you know, I suppose it's best to know
Speaker 4: that it's better to learn that sooner than later. And
Speaker 4: we have a gigantic season ahead of us, and we're
Speaker 4: one on one and there's there's some there's some adversity.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2: All right, last break right there, We'll come back and
Speaker 2: do five takeaways and get the heck out of here.
Speaker 2: We will have the film review podcast tomorrow for you guys,
Speaker 2: so I'll be more in depth on that, or I
Speaker 2: guess later this evening because this is early Friday morning.
Speaker 2: I will be more in depth on what actually happened
Speaker 2: on the field. But that's all. Next Drivetime Podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. It's one
Speaker 2: forty in the morning. Here at the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: I have five takeaways from this game, A thirty one
Speaker 2: to ten loss to the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I'm also
Speaker 2: pretty sick of that. I thought this was a chance
Speaker 2: to really kind of to change things, to get early
Speaker 2: season narrative buster out of the way. Of course, it
Speaker 2: won't be that way. And here's five reasons I think
Speaker 2: that is where we are right now. Number one, I
Speaker 2: mean the injuries at the receiving position and the lack
Speaker 2: of depth beyond Reak and Wattle. With what we've seen
Speaker 2: from a production standpoint, it continues to provide issues. It
Speaker 2: was a big issue last week. And you know, we
Speaker 2: through the quick game kitchen sink, if you will, at
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars, and some of those plays work. Some
Speaker 2: of those plays get you behind the chains because when
Speaker 2: they get privy to it, they can cut you down
Speaker 2: for a loss. And then you wind up in second
Speaker 2: and thirteen. Then you go incomplete on the second down throw,
Speaker 2: and then you have a third and thirteenth throw where
Speaker 2: Tyreek and Wattle come off the field and you throw
Speaker 2: this ball right on the target to Grant Dbos and
Speaker 2: it hits them off the chest and goes deflected for
Speaker 2: an interception. The same thing I talked about with the
Speaker 2: chosen play. Different pages there. You know, I don't like
Speaker 2: assigning blame to players, but I don't know the progressions
Speaker 2: or the calls and all that stuff. But you tend
Speaker 2: to lean towards the quarterback that's been here for three
Speaker 2: years the system and probably knows where you know, the
Speaker 2: different stems off the top of the route are. But
Speaker 2: just cycling through, you know, a practice squad call up
Speaker 2: and a signing that was claimed off waivers a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. It's tough living man, especially in an
Speaker 2: offense that is so so critically dependent upon the timing
Speaker 2: and being on the same page and the chemistry with
Speaker 2: those guys. You know, I think Tua was certainly responsible
Speaker 2: for his own, you know, misgivings in this game. But
Speaker 2: I think the dolphins inability to win outside of freak
Speaker 2: and waddle has been an issue through two games. That's
Speaker 2: my first takeaway. My second takeaway is just the general
Speaker 2: operation has been sloppy offensively, and that extends to the penalties.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about when they had way more penalties than
Speaker 2: Buffalo had tonight. The drop passes again, getting behind the chains.
Speaker 2: Through four drives, they had two picks and a three
Speaker 2: and out. They would turn it over on downs again
Speaker 2: later in the game, throw another pick later in the game.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's just consistently the same issues that
Speaker 2: prevent them from getting you know, those long sustained drives
Speaker 2: down the field. And we've seen it through two games
Speaker 2: so far, and it goes back to last December. So
Speaker 2: is it concerning? Yeah, I think it is until something
Speaker 2: changes and you know, we'll see what the offense looks
Speaker 2: like even in Seattle. But beyond that, you know that
Speaker 2: Craycraft is going to be on IR for a couple
Speaker 2: more weeks and Obj's not coming off pup until he's
Speaker 2: eligible after the fourth week of the season. So some
Speaker 2: questions exist about how this offense can find those answers
Speaker 2: but also just play sharper football and be the offense
Speaker 2: we got so spoiled by the last couple of years
Speaker 2: by going up and down the field. We haven't seen
Speaker 2: that so far in twenty twenty four. My third thing
Speaker 2: is kind of a takeaway off of all that, is
Speaker 2: that I think the Dolphins are just a little bit
Speaker 2: too dependent right now on the big plays and I
Speaker 2: love them, don't get me wrong. It's the best part
Speaker 2: about football. In a league where there is sixty five
Speaker 2: percent two high shells, which is double the rate it
Speaker 2: was a couple of years ago, they're trying to prevent
Speaker 2: big plays, and the Dolphins again just cannot sustain these
Speaker 2: drives because of the previous issues we talked about, whether
Speaker 2: it's a blown assignment or a holding call on a
Speaker 2: second down run that goes for a first down, but
Speaker 2: because you held, now it's second and seventeen. And the
Speaker 2: depth of receiver creates this issue where when we spread
Speaker 2: you out and we get into this dime defense and
Speaker 2: you have sub packages and you're playing a three high
Speaker 2: roof and you can rush the quarterback with four and
Speaker 2: you know bracket, reek and waddle, it's tough to convert
Speaker 2: those You're not really built to convert those plays. And
Speaker 2: you tried a couple times and they got you picked off.
Speaker 2: So these inability to stay ahead of the chains and
Speaker 2: be consistent and milk out these drives. We saw Buffalo
Speaker 2: do it all night long, just the one penalty and
Speaker 2: didn't really have the arison mistakes, and they just kind
Speaker 2: of came out here and took it to us by
Speaker 2: having those long, sustained drives, whether short fields or long fields.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars last week had long drives up and down
Speaker 2: the field. So I think right now the Dolphins have
Speaker 2: to find a way offensively to be able to score
Speaker 2: and be effective when it's not an eighty yard touchdown
Speaker 2: to Tyreek Hill or a sixty three yard play to
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle or a forty yard play to devon ah Chan.
Speaker 2: They have to find a way to be more consistent
Speaker 2: when they don't have the big plays. My fourth takeaways,
Speaker 2: they just couldn't hold the point in the run game. Defensively,
Speaker 2: I talked about the James Cook touchdown. That was really
Speaker 2: the one that got on my radar because they were
Speaker 2: light on that side in the running game. In the count,
Speaker 2: they took some bad angles. They got, you know, down
Speaker 2: blocks that took out critical pieces of the potential stop
Speaker 2: on James Cook, and they just between that run that
Speaker 2: was like a man power run. There a man gap scheme.
Speaker 2: They had some good backside cutbacks from James Cook where
Speaker 2: they would wash us down or find gaps off the outside.
Speaker 2: I just thought the Dolphins didn't consistently hold up the
Speaker 2: point of attack in the running game, and that allowed
Speaker 2: James Cook to have the big night that he had.
Speaker 2: And then the fifth one, look like, this is what
Speaker 2: it is right to put the bow on McDaniel's point,
Speaker 2: you just can't consider yourself in the same weight class
Speaker 2: as the other AFC powerhouses right now, and I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna tell you that you are because they haven't proven it.
Speaker 2: They haven't beaten the Chiefs and the two Chances last year,
Speaker 2: or beaten the Bills in the last three Chances, or
Speaker 2: the Ravens last year. They did get the win over
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, that's a great win they had. They lost
Speaker 2: to the Eagles early in the year as well, Like,
Speaker 2: until they can prove it that they can show up
Speaker 2: and compete in those games, then it is what it is.
Speaker 2: And that's just kind of the big takeaway here tonight.
Speaker 2: I thought that a new season, some reinforcements could change
Speaker 2: that right away, and I'm not saying it can't change
Speaker 2: later this year, but as it is right now, you
Speaker 2: can't consider yourself in the same class as those elites
Speaker 2: because you haven't proven it over the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: And then the sixth takeaway is just hope two is okay,
Speaker 2: that's the number one thing that comes out of tonight.
Speaker 2: Man Like it's a great dude, great person, great family.
Speaker 2: Man means everything in the world to this organization. And
Speaker 2: we really really hope to is feeling good and feel in,
Speaker 2: you know, in a good place, because we heard coach
Speaker 2: talk about it and he was trying to chill the
Speaker 2: guys up in the locker room after the game, thinking
Speaker 2: about number one is the number one thing tonight. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll get out of here.
Speaker 1: You go.
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