WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Fail in Houston 20-12 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:05.119 What is up Dolphins, And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.440 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.640 we are just gonna jump right into the Dolphins twenty 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.920 to twelve loss in Houston. Skip the intro, get past 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.239 all the glitz and the glamour, and just talk about 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.800 what happened on that football field today from the Baptist 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.120 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:29.320 the Draft Time Podcasts. So before we get into the stats, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.720 as we do every single week here on the show, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.600 just want to do what we tend to do after 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.520 these types of games and tell you, well, good morning 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.200 Dolphins fans, it is Groundhog's Day once again, because here 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.600 you are in a big spot, in a big game, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.880 and you come up short, you come up looking like 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.240 an unprepared team, and you lose in a big spot 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.040 where you had every opportunity to put this game really 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.040 in cruise control and take control of the game and 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.880 put it, you know, put it away. Like the way 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.160 that the Dolphins played to defensively in this game, the 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.039 way they held CJ. Stroud, the way they battled against 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.520 short fields, they should have blown the Texans out of 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.000 this game. Man, but they didn't because they couldn't execute 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.640 in every single phase offensively. And I think it opens 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.759 up a lot of questions about the long term build 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.760 of this thing. And we're gonna do more of this 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.120 on the Wednesday show. I have plenty of thoughts on 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.399 all of that, and now I don't think is the 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.400 time for that. We'll go ahead and reflect on what was, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.240 and we'll get to what it should be down the road, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.319 and down the road, I mean, in two days. But 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.000 with regards to this game, you came up short in 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.839 a big spot once again, and it is the same 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.240 damn show, the same damn movie every single time. You 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.040 come out unprepared, You have a horrible offensive series, you 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.120 have penalties, you make mistakes, you have special teams gufts, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.840 and then your quarterback misses throws and he finally eventually 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.520 settles into those two making better throws, and this one 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.480 the turners got away from him late. But it's the 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.200 same script every time. We couldn't protect to save our lives, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.040 we couldn't run the football. The running game is dead. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.320 And we talked to Joe Rose in the pregame show 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.840 and he's like, yeah, fellas, I don't think it's going 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.600 to happen this year. It seems to be kind of 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.320 a lost cause at this point. When you don't have 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.480 a right tackle and you don't have a true why 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.800 tight end, you're probably not gonna run the ball that well, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.560 especially with the guard play that you get from this team. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.160 And so there are a lot of things to think about, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.280 and I, you know, I think we'll speculate about how 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.280 to maximize the resources that we have who to move 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.200 off of, perhaps some addition by subtraction in that realm, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.520 perhaps a philosophical shift. And the one thing that I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.160 think is going to rub some people the wrong way 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.680 is I think the quarterback is here to stay, and 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.080 you can maybe kind of, you know, formulate the plan 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.760 around that quarterback because he has shown you, maybe not 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.160 in these games as much, but I will again point 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.440 back to other quarterbacks that have had much better careers 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.880 than Tua who had the same things said about them 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.760 at one point in their career. And I do believe 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.680 eventually he'll get there because I keep coming back to this, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.440 this comment that coach made in his postgame press conference. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.079 We did a whole segment on it on the radio 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.480 about how the way our offense is built. We have 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.200 to be so connected otherwise. He didn't say otherwise, but 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.600 he said, we have to be so connected because otherwise 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.120 you get these mistakes and these off target throws that 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.920 turn into not just near misses, but into picks. And 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.959 you have a star receiver who seems to run the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.360 wrong route every damn time in a big game and 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.920 seems to drop multiple passes in these big games, and 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.000 in this one, his last drop led to the game 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.359 winning pick by a cornerback who, by the way to 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.000 once in college punked for a luck like a seventy 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.480 yard touchdown in the Alabama LSU game. That cornerback completely 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.080 punked Tyreek Hill in this game. So I think that 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.680 there are your close in a lot of regards, but 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.520 you have to make some serious changes and we'll see 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.360 what happens coming up. Like I said, we'll talk about 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.559 that more on a Wednesday podcast. But I am just frustrated. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.440 I am tired. I mentioned on the podcast last week 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.480 in the preview show. I should be so excited for 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.320 this game. My favorite football team is playing a critical 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 December game where if they win, we are going to 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.000 be singing in their praises and talking about how the 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.440 miracle runs going to happen. They're going to make the 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.880 postseason after starting two to six on the year. But 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.160 as I'm going looking at Christmas lights with my family 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.680 and watching movies with my wife and my family and 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.560 having a great weekend, and then I wake up on 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.280 Sunday and I'm like, oh, I get to watch golf 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.320 YouTube for an hour, but then I have to go 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.160 to the station and do the pregame show, and then 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.840 I have to watch the game, and I know how 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.640 this game is gonna go, and then it goes the 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.760 exact same way I thought it would. It is exhausting. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.480 If I didn't have this job in this career, I 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.320 don't know how invested I would still be. Like it's 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.719 getting to that point. I'm telling you diehard podcast listeners 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.880 like basically telling you, like you shouldn't do what you're 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.320 doing because it's wasting your time, which is a conflict 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.760 of interest for my own well being. But damn it, dude, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.640 Like when will it ever change? And I feel like 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.520 that question kind of starts at the top, like you 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.200 have to make change to see change, and I don't 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.479 really necessarily believe in doing that or talking about that 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.080 here on the show and going in on people's like 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.880 jobs and titles and builds and structures and stuff like 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.120 we do the team building stuff on the podcast here. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.839 But damn it, dude, the sum of your parts is 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.920 less than what you have in terms of your talent 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.760 on the roster and the makeup of the people you have, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.200 and it's got to change. You got to stop being 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.240 so soft, You got to stop being so mentally a week, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.600 and you have to find guys that can elevate their 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.280 games in these moments. And you know, the quarterback didn't 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.039 have it today. Tua was awful, terrible, terrible game from Tua. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.279 I don't think that's who he's been in all these games. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.080 I think there's guys that have shown that in all 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.159 these games, and I think that that's where the changes 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.839 can start. And hopefully you can get the quarterback playing 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.080 better in these games as he has in other situations 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.960 like this, compared to other guys that maybe just haven't 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.440 done that. And we're talking about everybody in the entire 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.920 you know, in the entire program. So that's my opening discussion. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.359 Just a difficult, difficult Miami Dolphins loss as they drop 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.680 twenty to twelve to the Houston Texans to fall to 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.680 six and eight, and on the really making it tough 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.560 to find the path of the postseason here is they 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.559 actually looking around the league right now doing the show. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.440 The help the Dolphins need to get is happening right 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.440 now with the Colts and Broncos and the Bucks and Chargers. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.080 But I'm not even gonna get into that here on 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.200 the show because it's I think the Dolphins of the story. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.440 Here on the Draft Time podcast, we kick it off 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.960 with the stats from the game, as we always do again, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.560 Dolphins fall twenty to twelve. And here's the hardest part 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.200 to kind of, you know, swallow this one, is that 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.359 you outplayed the Texans in so many ways besides one statistic. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.880 And we heard Mike McDaniel his postgame press conference say 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.360 that you have like a three percent chance to win 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.400 games in this league when you turn the ball over 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.800 four times. And that's exactly what happened because Miami eighteen 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.200 first downs to twelve. They won that twelve first downs 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.320 for the Houston Texans today, who had one hundred and 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.960 eighty one yards of total offense. You shouldn't win games 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.080 in the NFL when you get a buck eighty one. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.120 You shouldn't win games when you get a possion that 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.840 begins to the four yard line and you only get 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.720 three points out of it. That happened to us back 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.040 in the Seattle game. Right, didn't win that game. That's 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.440 a defensive performance that should have lifted you to victory. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.200 But unfortunately Miami's offense just couldn't get it going and 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.760 turned the ball over far too often. They have two 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.120 hundred and twenty four yards of their own, one seventy 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.479 two through the air, fifty two on the ground. For 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.600 Houston it was one oh four in the air and 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.039 seventy seven on the ground. The teams were similar on 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.880 third and fourth down. Miami four for thirteen and converted 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.000 two fourth down opportunities. The Texans were five for thirteen 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.559 and converted their only fourth down opportunity as well. But again, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.960 four turnovers to one. That's the difference in the ball game, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.000 and Miami got one of those lucky takeaways. Right I 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.680 talked about it on the podcast, like, can we just 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.440 get one of those breaks to go our way for once? 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.560 And they do at the end of the half. They 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.200 get a ball on the ground and off of an 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.640 errant snap or a miscontrolled snap and Jordan Brooks goes 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.600 in there and scoops that thing up and puts us 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.920 in plus territory. So you got that, but you gave 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.880 back four in the other way. We had three sacks, 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.720 two was sacked three times, and CJ. Strow was sacked 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.600 four times. Eight penalties from Miami for sixty four yards 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.040 seven for seventy for the Houston Texans, and the Dolphins 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.400 had the ball for thirty three and a half minutes 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.520 in this game. Let's go ahead and run down the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.520 game script before the five takeaways and get the heck 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.040 out of here. So the Dolphins opened the game with 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.040 a punt, a six play eleven yard drive. They you know, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.640 I thought it was indicative early on of how the 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.320 game would play out. And this is kind of what 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.840 you you know, you expect in a game where you 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.800 are down your you know, Pro Bowl left tackle, your 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.679 right tackle was injured back in the middle of the season, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.720 who has been very very good player for you, excuse me, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.360 and then you lose Kendall Lamb, who doesn't go in 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.200 this game despite that questionable designation and some optimism about 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.480 his availability earlier in the week, or I should say 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.920 last week on Friday. He doesn't play in the game, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.440 and you get Jackson Carmen in the game, a practice 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.240 squad elevation from a couple weeks back, or rather he 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.120 joined the Dolphins practice squad and got signed to the 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.360 active roster after a couple of elevations there and then 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.920 Patrick Paul left tackle. And I thought the Dolphins kind 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.840 of inability to get yards on first down showed up 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.520 early and often in this game. Luckily, they convert that 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.640 first third and seven with the throw of Malik Washington 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.280 to the sticks, who did a great job to absorb 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.640 that hit and get the ball past the sticks. But 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.319 then a misfire on first down, a two yard run 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.320 Stei up a third and eight to it gets pressure 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.760 flees to his left. They brought the simulated pressure that 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.800 flushes him immediately and it turns into a dead play. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.200 Throw the ball away, live to fight another day. We 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.840 could have survived this game if that was the course 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.480 of action throughout the game, but it didn't play out 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.360 that way. The Texans got the ball back and they 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.640 kick a forty four yard field goal eight play fifty 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.360 five yard drive that takes four minutes off the I 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.520 just put in my notes here Elijah Campbell started the game, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.319 so that was a development that I was curious to 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.880 track throughout. He got some more snaps at that position, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.559 but we did see plenty of Javon Holland and Jordan 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.679 Poyer in this game as well. We'll do snap counts 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.360 on the Monday Film recap episode. Early in the game, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.000 I thought maybe, like it's gonna be one of these 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.080 games again, because they had that jet sweep to Tank 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.760 Dell where he is basically dead to rights, and then 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.160 he makes a move on Javon Holland and Anthony Walker 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.319 and turns what would have been a loss on second 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.720 and five to a first down, And I wrote, that 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.920 was a situation we have to get this offense into 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.080 because they have struggled all year long on these third 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.880 and longs, and you know, if you can't make tackles, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.280 you're not going to get third long. So that's what 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.599 happened early on, But luckily the tide would change for 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.280 the defense. We do get another takeaway opportunity as Cater 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.520 Kohu punches the ball out and what a game he 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.280 had on the ensuing run on the first down play, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.120 But they get a nine yard gain on a second 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.200 and ten. After that play where Kendall Fuller makes a 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.520 tackle short of the sticks, they try to throw wheel 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.960 on Jordan Brooks to Joe Mixon third and one, and 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.000 Jordan Brooks is all over it. They go incomplete and 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.520 they kick the field goal, and I'm like, wow, that's 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.640 a surprise for a team that has this kind of 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.080 offensive firepower. But as you would come to find out 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.640 the way their defense played, it was the right decision. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.960 So it's seven to nothing, or rather three nothing. About 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.800 halfway through the first quarter, Miami gets it back three 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.600 and out. Three plays eight yards a minute and twelve 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.000 off the clock, a hold on the special teams, and 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.160 once again in a big game like this, you have 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.440 a couple of special teams mistakes that cost you. Encroachment 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.040 sets up a second or a first and five, you 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.000 get a two yard run for second and three, you 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.440 go incomplete, and then it's third and three and Tua 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.839 breaks the pocket again rolling left. We've seen him make 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.240 plays off schedule, off script this year, but he has 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.200 Tyreek Hill and just misses the throw. And OJ said, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.920 Tyreek Lake got a foot on the ball like he 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.280 kicked it, and he said, if you can do that, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.679 you can dive for it. I don't disagree with that, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.000 but that ball has to be better thrown more on 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.480 the target. Four your receivers to make a player on 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.720 the football. Texans get it back and they go three 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.840 and out. Three plays negative six yards, take less than 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.560 two minutes off the clock. And who was beside Zach Seeler, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.320 who gets an immediate win, forces a throwaway to start 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.320 the drive where he splits the right guard and center 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.280 and forces Stroud backwards. They get a quick game completion 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.120 and set up a third and three, and then Seiler 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.439 wins again and this time finishes off the drive as 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.640 a looper off of a game with Jordan Brooks. And 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.360 you notice that Brooks on this play picks off the 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.760 new left guard Titus Howard, who couldn't get back inside 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.920 fast enough. So some of that offensive line shuffling of 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.520 the Texans I thought caused some communication issues early, and 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.920 we took advantage of the air. Two of our best 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.480 players on defenses, Sealer and Brooks getting there free big 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.520 sack on Stroud to get the ball back to the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.720 offense and the offense takes it down the field twelve 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.560 plays forty five yards and almost takes eight minutes off 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.880 the clock and kicks a fifty five yard field goal, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.800 and we get another short game on first down. But 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.600 then we get a quick game to John Hu for 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.880 nine yards and then Tua finds him against a free 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.520 runner in the a gap, blitzing him and he did 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.320 a good job of replacing the blitzer of the football 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.760 to pick up the first down on that particular play, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.000 and then more quick game and run game. The screen 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.520 game is really cranking, and you kind of knew they 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.360 were gonna have to throw a lot of those quick 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.120 screens and get the ball out on the edge and 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.240 help mitigate the mismatch that was you know, backup tackles 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.679 against one of the game's best pass rush duos off 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.920 the edge, and we put ourselves down, you know, a 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.280 big a swing, one of those escort swings where Tula 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.839 goes through his progressions. Like because of the screen game 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.640 and some of the run game you had working early on, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.320 there were some dropbacks where Tua had time to throw. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.319 And as we'll hear later on from coach McDaniel or 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.360 discussed from his comments that the Dolphins, you know, and 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.080 you could see it in the telecast, which we can't 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.120 see without having all twenty two for ourselves. But Tua 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.000 was frequently like just kind of chilling going through progressions 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.320 trying to find who was there and couldn't pull the trigger. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.840 And we heard McDaniel say later on at halftime that 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.920 they need the eligibles to be where they need to be, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.640 and they weren't where they needed to be or weren't 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.480 available for passes for Tua. So it was either pressure 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.760 or you know, good coverage and just out and out 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.120 defensive wins from the Texans throughout the course of the day. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.800 We get ourselves into a third and seven situation and 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.960 two A scrambles for what was maybe going to be 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.280 a first down after review, but it's all for not 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.680 because they call Rob Jones for a hold on third 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.880 and seven. Team we lose one yard on a screen pass, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.040 and then Sanders connects on the fifty five yard field 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.040 goal to make it a three to three game early 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.960 on right in this thing, right, and then you get 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.000 a three and out stop three play, negative five yard 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.439 drive where Jordan Brooks flows to this wide run, shoots 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.599 a gap, knocks the offensive lineman back, and makes a 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.839 tackle two yards behind the line of scrimmage. He also 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.200 banged up Joe Mixon on the play, and then Cater 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.680 drives on this bubble screen and makes a great play 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.959 where you could tell his preparation for the game was 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.120 on point because he flew off of that snap before 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.000 the ball was even snapped really and makes that play. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.199 Third and fifteen, they try a tight window throw to 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.280 Nico Collins and Gillen ramses right there, three and out stop. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:37.960 Dolphins get the ball back with a chance to go 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.840 take a lead right but then you go three plays, 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.640 three yards forty two seconds and you lose a fumble 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.040 as to a missfires on a deep out route to 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.640 Tyreek Hill on the first down play. He had it, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.959 he was wide open. The ball just got away from him. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.199 But there was a roughing the passer call on that one. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.600 And then Raheem takes a toss five yards, we miss 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.920 waddle on a glance that gets broken up and that 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.120 was like a quick pressure on two as well. Then 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.200 it's third and fourth minus forty four and Liam got 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.720 walked back into the quarterback and Jackson Carmen got beat 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.679 by a speed rush from Danil Hunter, which was that's 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.480 a tough matchup there off that edge and Tua doesn't 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.599 feel that backside pressure, goes to throw the ball and 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.680 as he goes a throw, it gets hit, ball comes out. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.560 Texans takeover very ugly series there. Texans paid off on 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.960 the other side with a seven yard touchdown pass from 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.840 Stroud to Nico Collins. Four plays twenty eight yards. They 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.800 start their drive with one of those play action boots 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.440 and CJ has a free role, and that was really 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.360 like the only offensive play that worked for them in 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.040 the course of the game was when they would play 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.080 action him and not have somebody kind of butts that 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.080 edge or getting his face off the edge and he 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.440 could then run and create from there or just wait 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.520 for windows to open up. They get tanked el for 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.880 fifteen yards. They get themselves into a third and four 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.800 situation down at the seven yard line. Everything that Texans 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.840 did offensively they had to really work for, even those 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.760 touchdowns down in the low red zone. They get a 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.280 three man rush that does not impact CJ. Stroud on 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.520 that play. He steps up and out of it. We 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.600 lose Nico Collins on the back end. As you can 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.600 kind of see Jordan Poyer and Anthony Walker trying to 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.920 figure out who's got who. They wind up like not 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.920 covering anybody and kind of get crossed up there and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.280 Collins winds up wide open for a touchdown for six 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.040 in the back of the end zone. Houston leads ten 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.800 to three. At this point, Miami gets it back a 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.960 chance to go put a dent back in the scoreboard, right, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.080 and they do with a ten play, fifty two yard 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.320 drive that takes almost five minutes off the clock and 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.200 produces a thirty six yard field goal. And I put 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.560 a note here on my notes that said that I 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.800 was a big fan of the Malik Washington swing day 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.960 through because he comes across the formation on jet sweep 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.040 and he after the snap he bubbles back, which usually 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.240 bubbling is a bad thing, especially if you have the football. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.680 But here the timing of the play made it really 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.320 work because it kind of gave two of the chance 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.280 to go through his progressions, read out the downfield routes, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.680 and you know, get displacement from the coverage, and then 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.920 he puts a perfect ball on the upfield shoulder and 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.960 it goes for a twenty yard gain. But then the 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.080 very next play, a Chen has a first down run 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.760 into plus territory and Waddle gets rolled up on he 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.680 would exit the game and not return. So on offense 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.360 that is already down their top, you know, three tackles 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.120 is already they lose Waddle in this game. It's it's 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.640 tough sled and when you're that banged up on the 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.600 offensive side, and he wouldn't return to the game. So 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.520 and then we get Grant Debos gets injured as well, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.080 and the reports are that he is staying in Houston 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.680 tonight and he is stable and stable conditioned. So that's 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.960 good to hear. After a very scary situation there with 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.520 Grant dud both taking a shot to the top of 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.640 the crown of the helmet and he was down on 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.920 the field for quite a while there. The Dolphins, after 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.080 that fifteen yard penalty, get a five yard throw to 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.080 John hus Smith where a defense hits a low block 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.200 and once again moves us into scoring range. And then 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.280 we get a little a couple of good running plays 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.160 where one a chan I thought had a touchdown when 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.200 John who kind of turned down the block and I 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.120 think that he thought somebody else was gonna pick up 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.200 down the field and it allowed the defender to come 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.440 down and get a hand on like eight chance belt 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.480