Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins, And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are just gonna jump right into the Dolphins twenty
Speaker 1: to twelve loss in Houston. Skip the intro, get past
Speaker 1: all the glitz and the glamour, and just talk about
Speaker 1: what happened on that football field today from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Draft Time Podcasts. So before we get into the stats,
Speaker 1: as we do every single week here on the show,
Speaker 1: just want to do what we tend to do after
Speaker 1: these types of games and tell you, well, good morning
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans, it is Groundhog's Day once again, because here
Speaker 1: you are in a big spot, in a big game,
Speaker 1: and you come up short, you come up looking like
Speaker 1: an unprepared team, and you lose in a big spot
Speaker 1: where you had every opportunity to put this game really
Speaker 1: in cruise control and take control of the game and
Speaker 1: put it, you know, put it away. Like the way
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins played to defensively in this game, the
Speaker 1: way they held CJ. Stroud, the way they battled against
Speaker 1: short fields, they should have blown the Texans out of
Speaker 1: this game. Man, but they didn't because they couldn't execute
Speaker 1: in every single phase offensively. And I think it opens
Speaker 1: up a lot of questions about the long term build
Speaker 1: of this thing. And we're gonna do more of this
Speaker 1: on the Wednesday show. I have plenty of thoughts on
Speaker 1: all of that, and now I don't think is the
Speaker 1: time for that. We'll go ahead and reflect on what was,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to what it should be down the road,
Speaker 1: and down the road, I mean, in two days. But
Speaker 1: with regards to this game, you came up short in
Speaker 1: a big spot once again, and it is the same
Speaker 1: damn show, the same damn movie every single time. You
Speaker 1: come out unprepared, You have a horrible offensive series, you
Speaker 1: have penalties, you make mistakes, you have special teams gufts,
Speaker 1: and then your quarterback misses throws and he finally eventually
Speaker 1: settles into those two making better throws, and this one
Speaker 1: the turners got away from him late. But it's the
Speaker 1: same script every time. We couldn't protect to save our lives,
Speaker 1: we couldn't run the football. The running game is dead.
Speaker 1: And we talked to Joe Rose in the pregame show
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, fellas, I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to happen this year. It seems to be kind of
Speaker 1: a lost cause at this point. When you don't have
Speaker 1: a right tackle and you don't have a true why
Speaker 1: tight end, you're probably not gonna run the ball that well,
Speaker 1: especially with the guard play that you get from this team.
Speaker 1: And so there are a lot of things to think about,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, I think we'll speculate about how
Speaker 1: to maximize the resources that we have who to move
Speaker 1: off of, perhaps some addition by subtraction in that realm,
Speaker 1: perhaps a philosophical shift. And the one thing that I
Speaker 1: think is going to rub some people the wrong way
Speaker 1: is I think the quarterback is here to stay, and
Speaker 1: you can maybe kind of, you know, formulate the plan
Speaker 1: around that quarterback because he has shown you, maybe not
Speaker 1: in these games as much, but I will again point
Speaker 1: back to other quarterbacks that have had much better careers
Speaker 1: than Tua who had the same things said about them
Speaker 1: at one point in their career. And I do believe
Speaker 1: eventually he'll get there because I keep coming back to this,
Speaker 1: this comment that coach made in his postgame press conference.
Speaker 1: We did a whole segment on it on the radio
Speaker 1: about how the way our offense is built. We have
Speaker 1: to be so connected otherwise. He didn't say otherwise, but
Speaker 1: he said, we have to be so connected because otherwise
Speaker 1: you get these mistakes and these off target throws that
Speaker 1: turn into not just near misses, but into picks. And
Speaker 1: you have a star receiver who seems to run the
Speaker 1: wrong route every damn time in a big game and
Speaker 1: seems to drop multiple passes in these big games, and
Speaker 1: in this one, his last drop led to the game
Speaker 1: winning pick by a cornerback who, by the way to
Speaker 1: once in college punked for a luck like a seventy
Speaker 1: yard touchdown in the Alabama LSU game. That cornerback completely
Speaker 1: punked Tyreek Hill in this game. So I think that
Speaker 1: there are your close in a lot of regards, but
Speaker 1: you have to make some serious changes and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens coming up. Like I said, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that more on a Wednesday podcast. But I am just frustrated.
Speaker 1: I am tired. I mentioned on the podcast last week
Speaker 1: in the preview show. I should be so excited for
Speaker 1: this game. My favorite football team is playing a critical
Speaker 1: December game where if they win, we are going to
Speaker 1: be singing in their praises and talking about how the
Speaker 1: miracle runs going to happen. They're going to make the
Speaker 1: postseason after starting two to six on the year. But
Speaker 1: as I'm going looking at Christmas lights with my family
Speaker 1: and watching movies with my wife and my family and
Speaker 1: having a great weekend, and then I wake up on
Speaker 1: Sunday and I'm like, oh, I get to watch golf
Speaker 1: YouTube for an hour, but then I have to go
Speaker 1: to the station and do the pregame show, and then
Speaker 1: I have to watch the game, and I know how
Speaker 1: this game is gonna go, and then it goes the
Speaker 1: exact same way I thought it would. It is exhausting.
Speaker 1: If I didn't have this job in this career, I
Speaker 1: don't know how invested I would still be. Like it's
Speaker 1: getting to that point. I'm telling you diehard podcast listeners
Speaker 1: like basically telling you, like you shouldn't do what you're
Speaker 1: doing because it's wasting your time, which is a conflict
Speaker 1: of interest for my own well being. But damn it, dude,
Speaker 1: Like when will it ever change? And I feel like
Speaker 1: that question kind of starts at the top, like you
Speaker 1: have to make change to see change, and I don't
Speaker 1: really necessarily believe in doing that or talking about that
Speaker 1: here on the show and going in on people's like
Speaker 1: jobs and titles and builds and structures and stuff like
Speaker 1: we do the team building stuff on the podcast here.
Speaker 1: But damn it, dude, the sum of your parts is
Speaker 1: less than what you have in terms of your talent
Speaker 1: on the roster and the makeup of the people you have,
Speaker 1: and it's got to change. You got to stop being
Speaker 1: so soft, You got to stop being so mentally a week,
Speaker 1: and you have to find guys that can elevate their
Speaker 1: games in these moments. And you know, the quarterback didn't
Speaker 1: have it today. Tua was awful, terrible, terrible game from Tua.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's who he's been in all these games.
Speaker 1: I think there's guys that have shown that in all
Speaker 1: these games, and I think that that's where the changes
Speaker 1: can start. And hopefully you can get the quarterback playing
Speaker 1: better in these games as he has in other situations
Speaker 1: like this, compared to other guys that maybe just haven't
Speaker 1: done that. And we're talking about everybody in the entire
Speaker 1: you know, in the entire program. So that's my opening discussion.
Speaker 1: Just a difficult, difficult Miami Dolphins loss as they drop
Speaker 1: twenty to twelve to the Houston Texans to fall to
Speaker 1: six and eight, and on the really making it tough
Speaker 1: to find the path of the postseason here is they
Speaker 1: actually looking around the league right now doing the show.
Speaker 1: The help the Dolphins need to get is happening right
Speaker 1: now with the Colts and Broncos and the Bucks and Chargers.
Speaker 1: But I'm not even gonna get into that here on
Speaker 1: the show because it's I think the Dolphins of the story.
Speaker 1: Here on the Draft Time podcast, we kick it off
Speaker 1: with the stats from the game, as we always do again,
Speaker 1: Dolphins fall twenty to twelve. And here's the hardest part
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, swallow this one, is that
Speaker 1: you outplayed the Texans in so many ways besides one statistic.
Speaker 1: And we heard Mike McDaniel his postgame press conference say
Speaker 1: that you have like a three percent chance to win
Speaker 1: games in this league when you turn the ball over
Speaker 1: four times. And that's exactly what happened because Miami eighteen
Speaker 1: first downs to twelve. They won that twelve first downs
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans today, who had one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty one yards of total offense. You shouldn't win games
Speaker 1: in the NFL when you get a buck eighty one.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't win games when you get a possion that
Speaker 1: begins to the four yard line and you only get
Speaker 1: three points out of it. That happened to us back
Speaker 1: in the Seattle game. Right, didn't win that game. That's
Speaker 1: a defensive performance that should have lifted you to victory.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately Miami's offense just couldn't get it going and
Speaker 1: turned the ball over far too often. They have two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four yards of their own, one seventy
Speaker 1: two through the air, fifty two on the ground. For
Speaker 1: Houston it was one oh four in the air and
Speaker 1: seventy seven on the ground. The teams were similar on
Speaker 1: third and fourth down. Miami four for thirteen and converted
Speaker 1: two fourth down opportunities. The Texans were five for thirteen
Speaker 1: and converted their only fourth down opportunity as well. But again,
Speaker 1: four turnovers to one. That's the difference in the ball game,
Speaker 1: and Miami got one of those lucky takeaways. Right I
Speaker 1: talked about it on the podcast, like, can we just
Speaker 1: get one of those breaks to go our way for once?
Speaker 1: And they do at the end of the half. They
Speaker 1: get a ball on the ground and off of an
Speaker 1: errant snap or a miscontrolled snap and Jordan Brooks goes
Speaker 1: in there and scoops that thing up and puts us
Speaker 1: in plus territory. So you got that, but you gave
Speaker 1: back four in the other way. We had three sacks,
Speaker 1: two was sacked three times, and CJ. Strow was sacked
Speaker 1: four times. Eight penalties from Miami for sixty four yards
Speaker 1: seven for seventy for the Houston Texans, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had the ball for thirty three and a half minutes
Speaker 1: in this game. Let's go ahead and run down the
Speaker 1: game script before the five takeaways and get the heck
Speaker 1: out of here. So the Dolphins opened the game with
Speaker 1: a punt, a six play eleven yard drive. They you know,
Speaker 1: I thought it was indicative early on of how the
Speaker 1: game would play out. And this is kind of what
Speaker 1: you you know, you expect in a game where you
Speaker 1: are down your you know, Pro Bowl left tackle, your
Speaker 1: right tackle was injured back in the middle of the season,
Speaker 1: who has been very very good player for you, excuse me,
Speaker 1: and then you lose Kendall Lamb, who doesn't go in
Speaker 1: this game despite that questionable designation and some optimism about
Speaker 1: his availability earlier in the week, or I should say
Speaker 1: last week on Friday. He doesn't play in the game,
Speaker 1: and you get Jackson Carmen in the game, a practice
Speaker 1: squad elevation from a couple weeks back, or rather he
Speaker 1: joined the Dolphins practice squad and got signed to the
Speaker 1: active roster after a couple of elevations there and then
Speaker 1: Patrick Paul left tackle. And I thought the Dolphins kind
Speaker 1: of inability to get yards on first down showed up
Speaker 1: early and often in this game. Luckily, they convert that
Speaker 1: first third and seven with the throw of Malik Washington
Speaker 1: to the sticks, who did a great job to absorb
Speaker 1: that hit and get the ball past the sticks. But
Speaker 1: then a misfire on first down, a two yard run
Speaker 1: Stei up a third and eight to it gets pressure
Speaker 1: flees to his left. They brought the simulated pressure that
Speaker 1: flushes him immediately and it turns into a dead play.
Speaker 1: Throw the ball away, live to fight another day. We
Speaker 1: could have survived this game if that was the course
Speaker 1: of action throughout the game, but it didn't play out
Speaker 1: that way. The Texans got the ball back and they
Speaker 1: kick a forty four yard field goal eight play fifty
Speaker 1: five yard drive that takes four minutes off the I
Speaker 1: just put in my notes here Elijah Campbell started the game,
Speaker 1: so that was a development that I was curious to
Speaker 1: track throughout. He got some more snaps at that position,
Speaker 1: but we did see plenty of Javon Holland and Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer in this game as well. We'll do snap counts
Speaker 1: on the Monday Film recap episode. Early in the game,
Speaker 1: I thought maybe, like it's gonna be one of these
Speaker 1: games again, because they had that jet sweep to Tank
Speaker 1: Dell where he is basically dead to rights, and then
Speaker 1: he makes a move on Javon Holland and Anthony Walker
Speaker 1: and turns what would have been a loss on second
Speaker 1: and five to a first down, And I wrote, that
Speaker 1: was a situation we have to get this offense into
Speaker 1: because they have struggled all year long on these third
Speaker 1: and longs, and you know, if you can't make tackles,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get third long. So that's what
Speaker 1: happened early on, But luckily the tide would change for
Speaker 1: the defense. We do get another takeaway opportunity as Cater
Speaker 1: Kohu punches the ball out and what a game he
Speaker 1: had on the ensuing run on the first down play,
Speaker 1: But they get a nine yard gain on a second
Speaker 1: and ten. After that play where Kendall Fuller makes a
Speaker 1: tackle short of the sticks, they try to throw wheel
Speaker 1: on Jordan Brooks to Joe Mixon third and one, and
Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks is all over it. They go incomplete and
Speaker 1: they kick the field goal, and I'm like, wow, that's
Speaker 1: a surprise for a team that has this kind of
Speaker 1: offensive firepower. But as you would come to find out
Speaker 1: the way their defense played, it was the right decision.
Speaker 1: So it's seven to nothing, or rather three nothing. About
Speaker 1: halfway through the first quarter, Miami gets it back three
Speaker 1: and out. Three plays eight yards a minute and twelve
Speaker 1: off the clock, a hold on the special teams, and
Speaker 1: once again in a big game like this, you have
Speaker 1: a couple of special teams mistakes that cost you. Encroachment
Speaker 1: sets up a second or a first and five, you
Speaker 1: get a two yard run for second and three, you
Speaker 1: go incomplete, and then it's third and three and Tua
Speaker 1: breaks the pocket again rolling left. We've seen him make
Speaker 1: plays off schedule, off script this year, but he has
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and just misses the throw. And OJ said,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Lake got a foot on the ball like he
Speaker 1: kicked it, and he said, if you can do that,
Speaker 1: you can dive for it. I don't disagree with that,
Speaker 1: but that ball has to be better thrown more on
Speaker 1: the target. Four your receivers to make a player on
Speaker 1: the football. Texans get it back and they go three
Speaker 1: and out. Three plays negative six yards, take less than
Speaker 1: two minutes off the clock. And who was beside Zach Seeler,
Speaker 1: who gets an immediate win, forces a throwaway to start
Speaker 1: the drive where he splits the right guard and center
Speaker 1: and forces Stroud backwards. They get a quick game completion
Speaker 1: and set up a third and three, and then Seiler
Speaker 1: wins again and this time finishes off the drive as
Speaker 1: a looper off of a game with Jordan Brooks. And
Speaker 1: you notice that Brooks on this play picks off the
Speaker 1: new left guard Titus Howard, who couldn't get back inside
Speaker 1: fast enough. So some of that offensive line shuffling of
Speaker 1: the Texans I thought caused some communication issues early, and
Speaker 1: we took advantage of the air. Two of our best
Speaker 1: players on defenses, Sealer and Brooks getting there free big
Speaker 1: sack on Stroud to get the ball back to the
Speaker 1: offense and the offense takes it down the field twelve
Speaker 1: plays forty five yards and almost takes eight minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock and kicks a fifty five yard field goal,
Speaker 1: and we get another short game on first down. But
Speaker 1: then we get a quick game to John Hu for
Speaker 1: nine yards and then Tua finds him against a free
Speaker 1: runner in the a gap, blitzing him and he did
Speaker 1: a good job of replacing the blitzer of the football
Speaker 1: to pick up the first down on that particular play,
Speaker 1: and then more quick game and run game. The screen
Speaker 1: game is really cranking, and you kind of knew they
Speaker 1: were gonna have to throw a lot of those quick
Speaker 1: screens and get the ball out on the edge and
Speaker 1: help mitigate the mismatch that was you know, backup tackles
Speaker 1: against one of the game's best pass rush duos off
Speaker 1: the edge, and we put ourselves down, you know, a
Speaker 1: big a swing, one of those escort swings where Tula
Speaker 1: goes through his progressions. Like because of the screen game
Speaker 1: and some of the run game you had working early on,
Speaker 1: there were some dropbacks where Tua had time to throw.
Speaker 1: And as we'll hear later on from coach McDaniel or
Speaker 1: discussed from his comments that the Dolphins, you know, and
Speaker 1: you could see it in the telecast, which we can't
Speaker 1: see without having all twenty two for ourselves. But Tua
Speaker 1: was frequently like just kind of chilling going through progressions
Speaker 1: trying to find who was there and couldn't pull the trigger.
Speaker 1: And we heard McDaniel say later on at halftime that
Speaker 1: they need the eligibles to be where they need to be,
Speaker 1: and they weren't where they needed to be or weren't
Speaker 1: available for passes for Tua. So it was either pressure
Speaker 1: or you know, good coverage and just out and out
Speaker 1: defensive wins from the Texans throughout the course of the day.
Speaker 1: We get ourselves into a third and seven situation and
Speaker 1: two A scrambles for what was maybe going to be
Speaker 1: a first down after review, but it's all for not
Speaker 1: because they call Rob Jones for a hold on third
Speaker 1: and seven. Team we lose one yard on a screen pass,
Speaker 1: and then Sanders connects on the fifty five yard field
Speaker 1: goal to make it a three to three game early
Speaker 1: on right in this thing, right, and then you get
Speaker 1: a three and out stop three play, negative five yard
Speaker 1: drive where Jordan Brooks flows to this wide run, shoots
Speaker 1: a gap, knocks the offensive lineman back, and makes a
Speaker 1: tackle two yards behind the line of scrimmage. He also
Speaker 1: banged up Joe Mixon on the play, and then Cater
Speaker 1: drives on this bubble screen and makes a great play
Speaker 1: where you could tell his preparation for the game was
Speaker 1: on point because he flew off of that snap before
Speaker 1: the ball was even snapped really and makes that play.
Speaker 1: Third and fifteen, they try a tight window throw to
Speaker 1: Nico Collins and Gillen ramses right there, three and out stop.
Speaker 1: Dolphins get the ball back with a chance to go
Speaker 1: take a lead right but then you go three plays,
Speaker 1: three yards forty two seconds and you lose a fumble
Speaker 1: as to a missfires on a deep out route to
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill on the first down play. He had it,
Speaker 1: he was wide open. The ball just got away from him.
Speaker 1: But there was a roughing the passer call on that one.
Speaker 1: And then Raheem takes a toss five yards, we miss
Speaker 1: waddle on a glance that gets broken up and that
Speaker 1: was like a quick pressure on two as well. Then
Speaker 1: it's third and fourth minus forty four and Liam got
Speaker 1: walked back into the quarterback and Jackson Carmen got beat
Speaker 1: by a speed rush from Danil Hunter, which was that's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup there off that edge and Tua doesn't
Speaker 1: feel that backside pressure, goes to throw the ball and
Speaker 1: as he goes a throw, it gets hit, ball comes out.
Speaker 1: Texans takeover very ugly series there. Texans paid off on
Speaker 1: the other side with a seven yard touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: Stroud to Nico Collins. Four plays twenty eight yards. They
Speaker 1: start their drive with one of those play action boots
Speaker 1: and CJ has a free role, and that was really
Speaker 1: like the only offensive play that worked for them in
Speaker 1: the course of the game was when they would play
Speaker 1: action him and not have somebody kind of butts that
Speaker 1: edge or getting his face off the edge and he
Speaker 1: could then run and create from there or just wait
Speaker 1: for windows to open up. They get tanked el for
Speaker 1: fifteen yards. They get themselves into a third and four
Speaker 1: situation down at the seven yard line. Everything that Texans
Speaker 1: did offensively they had to really work for, even those
Speaker 1: touchdowns down in the low red zone. They get a
Speaker 1: three man rush that does not impact CJ. Stroud on
Speaker 1: that play. He steps up and out of it. We
Speaker 1: lose Nico Collins on the back end. As you can
Speaker 1: kind of see Jordan Poyer and Anthony Walker trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who's got who. They wind up like not
Speaker 1: covering anybody and kind of get crossed up there and
Speaker 1: Collins winds up wide open for a touchdown for six
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. Houston leads ten
Speaker 1: to three. At this point, Miami gets it back a
Speaker 1: chance to go put a dent back in the scoreboard, right,
Speaker 1: and they do with a ten play, fifty two yard
Speaker 1: drive that takes almost five minutes off the clock and
Speaker 1: produces a thirty six yard field goal. And I put
Speaker 1: a note here on my notes that said that I
Speaker 1: was a big fan of the Malik Washington swing day
Speaker 1: through because he comes across the formation on jet sweep
Speaker 1: and he after the snap he bubbles back, which usually
Speaker 1: bubbling is a bad thing, especially if you have the football.
Speaker 1: But here the timing of the play made it really
Speaker 1: work because it kind of gave two of the chance
Speaker 1: to go through his progressions, read out the downfield routes,
Speaker 1: and you know, get displacement from the coverage, and then
Speaker 1: he puts a perfect ball on the upfield shoulder and
Speaker 1: it goes for a twenty yard gain. But then the
Speaker 1: very next play, a Chen has a first down run
Speaker 1: into plus territory and Waddle gets rolled up on he
Speaker 1: would exit the game and not return. So on offense
Speaker 1: that is already down their top, you know, three tackles
Speaker 1: is already they lose Waddle in this game. It's it's
Speaker 1: tough sled and when you're that banged up on the
Speaker 1: offensive side, and he wouldn't return to the game. So
Speaker 1: and then we get Grant Debos gets injured as well,
Speaker 1: and the reports are that he is staying in Houston
Speaker 1: tonight and he is stable and stable conditioned. So that's
Speaker 1: good to hear. After a very scary situation there with
Speaker 1: Grant dud both taking a shot to the top of
Speaker 1: the crown of the helmet and he was down on
Speaker 1: the field for quite a while there. The Dolphins, after
Speaker 1: that fifteen yard penalty, get a five yard throw to
Speaker 1: John hus Smith where a defense hits a low block
Speaker 1: and once again moves us into scoring range. And then
Speaker 1: we get a little a couple of good running plays
Speaker 1: where one a chan I thought had a touchdown when
Speaker 1: John who kind of turned down the block and I
Speaker 1: think that he thought somebody else was gonna pick up
Speaker 1: down the field and it allowed the defender to come
Speaker 1: down and get a hand on like eight chance belt
Speaker 1: or his jersey, and it pulled him down when he
Speaker 1: had a big lane to run through off the left side.
Speaker 1: And then the very next play they run this really
Speaker 1: cool motion toss where eight Chan motions into the backfield
Speaker 1: and then like he returns back the opposite direction, they
Speaker 1: toss it back that and you can see the entire
Speaker 1: Texas defense flood to the motion side and he has
Speaker 1: a big lane. I thought he might score on the play.
Speaker 1: He winds up getting tackled with the four yard line,
Speaker 1: but it's holding on Tyreek Hill to push it back
Speaker 1: to second and ten the twenty one yard line, and
Speaker 1: we'd have to check down the third down play and
Speaker 1: kick a field goal. So that's a penalty that you
Speaker 1: can probably say not probably, but you feel like you
Speaker 1: could have scored four more points on that drive if
Speaker 1: not for the holding call. So that's points off the board,
Speaker 1: potentially still a ten six game. And Houston has their
Speaker 1: bad luck drive happen right four plays, nineteen yards fumble
Speaker 1: lost after they a snap goes off of CJ. Stroud's hands,
Speaker 1: and then here comes Jordan Brooks and just scoops that
Speaker 1: thing off the ground and takes it back the other
Speaker 1: way to put Miami at the thirty eight yard line
Speaker 1: in great territory. But after a two play drive one
Speaker 1: negative one yard, they throw a pick two that throws
Speaker 1: the ball over the middle of the field. And I
Speaker 1: don't have the audio currently, but here was what Tua
Speaker 1: had to say about the play after the game. I
Speaker 1: saw the defender. It was more so a trusting that
Speaker 1: Tyreek was going to cross his face. And if you look,
Speaker 1: a lot of the throws that we throw in break
Speaker 1: safeties are there. We throw it to the safety, trusting
Speaker 1: that our guys going to cross face. But that's not
Speaker 1: just on Tyreek. That is on me as well, which
Speaker 1: is kind of like, yeah, dude, we get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's coded. And I mean, Tyreek's always in the wrong
Speaker 1: place right going back to training camp, he's talking about
Speaker 1: how he's in the wrong place in certain routes that
Speaker 1: turn into turnovers, and he's making big drops and critical games.
Speaker 1: And look, Tua's got his own cross to bear here
Speaker 1: in terms of how he played in this game. But
Speaker 1: your big play receiver, your thirty million dollar receiver, continues
Speaker 1: to make these mistakes. It's getting it's getting pretty old. Man,
Speaker 1: and then you get this crazy effort from devon a
Speaker 1: Chan to cut down that play at the five yard
Speaker 1: line before Caden Bullet could take it across the end zone,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins defense stands up again. Cater makes a
Speaker 1: fantastic play on the second down pass where you could
Speaker 1: see him playing outside leverage and cheating the out route
Speaker 1: and driving on it just like the previous screenplay we
Speaker 1: talked about, where he gets out to the perimeter before
Speaker 1: the ball can get there, breaks it up and saves
Speaker 1: the Dolphins four points. Texans field goal thirteen to six
Speaker 1: at halftime. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there, come back on the side, talk about the
Speaker 1: second half and the five takeaways. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. So
Speaker 1: it is still very much a game at thirteen to
Speaker 1: six at halftime. But the Texans get the opening half
Speaker 1: kickoff and drive nine yards seventy plays four minutes and
Speaker 1: ends with another Stroud to Collins touchdown pass, this one
Speaker 1: for four yards and we stopped him for third and
Speaker 1: short and Chop Robinson has CJ. Stroud wrapped up in
Speaker 1: the backfield, but he throws this ball while in the
Speaker 1: grasp and somehow can get the pass off to Collins
Speaker 1: for a first down and moves the change. After what
Speaker 1: was going to be potentially another third down, Chop Robinson
Speaker 1: sack to get the Dolphins off the field, and then
Speaker 1: we get a third down stop on a John Mechi
Speaker 1: dropped that would have been a touchdown had he caught it.
Speaker 1: Chop gotten had kind of gotten pushed behind the quarterback
Speaker 1: and Stroud stepped up and threw a dime but Mechi
Speaker 1: dropped it, and Okay, the third down play that Stroud
Speaker 1: made with Chopp was no longer relevant because we got
Speaker 1: to stop here anyway. But they run a fake punt
Speaker 1: on the next play and they get a thirty five
Speaker 1: yard gain and it sets up a touchdown on another
Speaker 1: play action where Stroud can get wide and create and
Speaker 1: Fins calling for the second time. Their run game hadn't
Speaker 1: found much, Their offense hadn't had just kind of been
Speaker 1: beating us in the margins right. Two takeaways, special teams explosives.
Speaker 1: There was that penalty on the kick return on the
Speaker 1: second drive that cost Miami like twenty yards or so.
Speaker 1: We just keep making these errors offensively and on special
Speaker 1: teams and the quarterback is not playing well just to
Speaker 1: was worst games sensibly that Buffalo game back in week two,
Speaker 1: and so that's where the game kind of got away
Speaker 1: from you twenty to six here, But Miami fought back
Speaker 1: and got themselves back into the game, but real quick
Speaker 1: before he pressed forward. I want to run the audio
Speaker 1: here or talk about the audio from coach McDaniel who
Speaker 1: talked about the punt. He said that we were anticipating
Speaker 1: that situation, so we had the appropriate call, and I'll
Speaker 1: have to take a look at the execution of it
Speaker 1: because I was surprised if it was the punt return
Speaker 1: scheme that we want in that situation to defend against
Speaker 1: on that specific play, So end quote there. It's something
Speaker 1: they were ready for that play, but whatever, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: could not execute to get that stop, which would have
Speaker 1: been a huge play in the game. At thirteen six
Speaker 1: you get a you know, a fourth down stop right
Speaker 1: around midfield or so could have been a huge play.
Speaker 1: But luckily the offense fought back and had their best
Speaker 1: drive of the game on the next series eleven plays
Speaker 1: seventy three yards, six and a half minutes, and Maleak
Speaker 1: takes one of those now screens for a big play,
Speaker 1: damn near broke it for a touchdown, gets clipped up
Speaker 1: with like the forty two yard line. You get the
Speaker 1: the I mentioned it earlier when I was wrong, the
Speaker 1: unessary roughness on Grant Dubos on the injury takes the
Speaker 1: ball to the plus forty three yard line. Just keep
Speaker 1: granting your thoughts because how scary was that? And I'll
Speaker 1: be sure to be retweeting all the team's updates on
Speaker 1: how Grant Dabos is doing here as we get more
Speaker 1: and more information. So then you get a third and
Speaker 1: sixteen and the way the game's going with the game plan,
Speaker 1: and you know the quick game. After a Jackson Carmen
Speaker 1: holding on third and six wiped out a first down
Speaker 1: to turn it back into second or rather third and sixteen,
Speaker 1: Tua hits his best throw the day, Tyreek on a
Speaker 1: dig for twenty one yards, a great throw in a catch,
Speaker 1: and then just a couple of plays later on fourth
Speaker 1: and two, he comes back and makes even a better
Speaker 1: throw to jonnick Smith in the back of the end
Speaker 1: zone on a broken play that goes for six. But
Speaker 1: then we missed the pat as Jason Sanders hooks it,
Speaker 1: and it's now twenty to twelve. The Dolphins trail by
Speaker 1: still one possession, and you get a three and out
Speaker 1: from the Houston Texans offense. Three play, one yard two
Speaker 1: twenty on third and two, chop does get home, this
Speaker 1: time with a beautiful redirect as he did get behind
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but got off the block, climb back upfield
Speaker 1: and C. J. Stroud, as he likes to do, escapes
Speaker 1: to his right. Coverage is very good down the field.
Speaker 1: Brooks was plastered from the check down back. You saw
Speaker 1: Walker and Ramsey had really good coverage as well and
Speaker 1: rotated in that middle part of the field. And Chopp
Speaker 1: just keeps working and makes the big play for the sack.
Speaker 1: Get the football right back and the Dolphins take the
Speaker 1: ball down the field and it looks like they might
Speaker 1: go in for another score to make this either a
Speaker 1: tie game or a two point game if they can't
Speaker 1: get a two point conversion, but it was intercepted at
Speaker 1: the five yard line by Derek Stinglely a thirteen play
Speaker 1: fifty three yard drive that took almost seven minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock. I loved how they had patience to open
Speaker 1: the drive with the running game a completion of John
Speaker 1: hus Smith creates a critical third and one and then
Speaker 1: Raheem Mostored a good, strong physical run to move the sticks.
Speaker 1: They get to line quickly and get another play in
Speaker 1: there against a mismatched personnel look where the detextans are
Speaker 1: heavy and Miami has more. They go empty and they
Speaker 1: hit Smithe for eight yards and to the third quarter.
Speaker 1: They get stuffed on the opening play of the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter from Raheem Moster, but then TWOA delivers a shot
Speaker 1: the Tyreek hill to move the sticks on third down
Speaker 1: and puts us at the forty yard line. Since the
Speaker 1: pick TWOA was ten for eleven with a touchdown throw,
Speaker 1: so he had come on after the pick, which we
Speaker 1: know that two alecs to do that after he turns
Speaker 1: it over. Then another third down, third and four, we
Speaker 1: try the speed out to Maleak Washington is not there,
Speaker 1: sets up a fourth and four play, and then Tua
Speaker 1: throws a great dime to John U. Smith across his
Speaker 1: body getting off of the spot John who breaks some
Speaker 1: tackles and moves the sticks for us. Then a first
Speaker 1: down play for nothing, which kind of felt like the
Speaker 1: theme throughout the course of the day. A quick out
Speaker 1: to Malik it's up a third and five at the
Speaker 1: fifteen yard line and you get a interception throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to Tyreek hill On and Trent Green. Throughout the
Speaker 1: game was talking about how Miami had kind of been
Speaker 1: setting up this double move out and up look because
Speaker 1: Derek Stingley had been jumping those out routes, and we
Speaker 1: talked about in the podcast last week how frequently the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were able to hit those outs against the Jets
Speaker 1: and their off coverage. But this time Stingley gambles and
Speaker 1: it pays off because he undercuts the route and I
Speaker 1: ran the route for Tyreek jumps it bad football left
Speaker 1: too far inside. He makes a play picked off and
Speaker 1: the Texans just get the big crushing takeaway. But Miami's
Speaker 1: defense fights back and gets a stop a punt from
Speaker 1: the Houston Texas on a nine play twenty six yard
Speaker 1: drive on the ensuing possession where Seeler draws a hole
Speaker 1: in a second and five play where he pretty clearly
Speaker 1: won the move and got by the tackle and was
Speaker 1: able to draw that hold, and so you know that
Speaker 1: would have been a first down around midfield with seven
Speaker 1: and forty to go in the game, and a field
Speaker 1: goal could have been curtains at that point. They do
Speaker 1: get thirteen yards on the second and fifteen play on
Speaker 1: the third and two. We butted him though, and Anthony
Speaker 1: Weaver has one of his best calls of the day.
Speaker 1: He replaces the rusher with the football to move the
Speaker 1: chains and it's under six minutes and looking bleak, but
Speaker 1: then Miami bounces back as both Javon Holland and Kalaias
Speaker 1: Campbell make plays to create another third and down third
Speaker 1: and eight felt like that was the season at that point.
Speaker 1: Four and a half minutes to go third and seven,
Speaker 1: and this pressure look works even better than the last
Speaker 1: one did. To force a quick throw. He sprints out
Speaker 1: to his right and tries to throw back over the middle.
Speaker 1: It's high, in complete and we get it back but
Speaker 1: we go three and out, and this was like it
Speaker 1: kind of felt like this was the game at this point,
Speaker 1: because to punt the ball from this position with only
Speaker 1: one time out left felt like deflating. But Miami on
Speaker 1: a critical drive from the seventeen yard line four to
Speaker 1: twenty to play in the game, two timeouts, down by eight,
Speaker 1: what do you got? I write down here? And the
Speaker 1: drive starts this way, which kind of felt fitting for
Speaker 1: the entire game. False start, sack, timeout, hold, and a
Speaker 1: drop on the holding call like I don't have any
Speaker 1: breakdowns for you because it's just like, yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: the game went. Texans get it back and the defense
Speaker 1: stops him again. Two more runs don't move the chains,
Speaker 1: but they did milk all the Dolphins timeouts. They get
Speaker 1: a third down stop where Chop comes in for another
Speaker 1: sack where he just completely destroys the right tackle. It's
Speaker 1: a three play, negative five yard drive, took fifty four
Speaker 1: seconds off the clock. Miami gets it back, but the
Speaker 1: first play is picked off. And you heard, you know,
Speaker 1: we've I'm sure you've heard this discussion on social media
Speaker 1: to talked about the first interception there with not crossing
Speaker 1: face and this one, the ball hits Tyreek Hill's hands,
Speaker 1: but as Stingley comes down now with it, he pulls
Speaker 1: it away from Tyreek, gets the interception. Game over, They
Speaker 1: kneel out the clock and that is that. So really
Speaker 1: tough way to go. Steingley played a hell of a game.
Speaker 1: Dolphins did not bring their a game and they fall
Speaker 1: twenty to twelve to the Houston Texans. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break right there, come back on
Speaker 1: the other side. Do the five takeaways. That's next Draft
Speaker 1: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: AutoNation Five takeaways from the dolphins twenty to twelve loss
Speaker 1: at the Houston Text and dropping them a six and
Speaker 1: eight on the season, And mathematically I believe they'll still
Speaker 1: be alive in the playoff hunt, but it is going
Speaker 1: to be bleak over the final three games. Is going
Speaker 1: to have to win all those games and get a
Speaker 1: lot of help. As I believe the Chargers are going
Speaker 1: to lose the Bucks. That's probably the team you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to replace because the Broncos are going to beat
Speaker 1: the Colts right now. So that's what's ahead. What's happened
Speaker 1: on this Sunday number one too. I had a bad
Speaker 1: game at the worst time, right and like, the turnovers
Speaker 1: are the turnovers, and I think that every play requires
Speaker 1: context to determine, you know, the receipts, route, the offensive line,
Speaker 1: the call, like whatever you want to talk about in
Speaker 1: terms of fault or blame or whatever. You if you
Speaker 1: want to do that, that's all good and well. But
Speaker 1: there was just some throws early that I thought were
Speaker 1: indicative of him maybe not feeling as comfortable, not getting
Speaker 1: his feet set, like the inaccuracy, like this is the
Speaker 1: most accurate quarterback in the league. Right, So he had
Speaker 1: a couple of throws early that were just off. That
Speaker 1: miss to Tyreek Hill on the broken scramble play on
Speaker 1: the second drive that Tyreek ended up kicking. He missed
Speaker 1: the deep out Tyreek on the very next drive where
Speaker 1: he was roughed. He had the bad ball security and
Speaker 1: the third down fumble where he separates the hands and
Speaker 1: the pass rushes right there. You got to find a
Speaker 1: way to put that ball away. The pick. After we
Speaker 1: get some fresh life down there, we finally get some luck,
Speaker 1: the luck that I begged for in the podcast. We
Speaker 1: got it. But he throws a room service interception there
Speaker 1: to the Houston defense that gets ran almost all the
Speaker 1: way back. We just I wrote, we had to find
Speaker 1: an adjustment to that single high safety drive where they
Speaker 1: would play they would like show a too high or
Speaker 1: a single high presentation. He would come down and camp
Speaker 1: in the middle and they would like invert two cover
Speaker 1: guys back can just confuse to it. He looked like
Speaker 1: he didn't, you know, see the field very well in
Speaker 1: this game like he usually does. Now, McDaniel at halftime
Speaker 1: did say, you know, we need eligibles to be where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. That was a quote from him,
Speaker 1: which you know tracks because we've had some dropbacks where
Speaker 1: two it has time, but he has to scan scan,
Speaker 1: scan and can't find anything. So it's either the immediate
Speaker 1: pressure or nobody. Nobody opened for the most part on
Speaker 1: those on those stalled out drives. Then he bounces back
Speaker 1: and got it clicking, has us in the red zone,
Speaker 1: down by a score in the fourth but another interception
Speaker 1: where Stingley jumps the route. Then we have two chances
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and they both were completely disaster drives,
Speaker 1: a three and out that went backwards and a pick
Speaker 1: on the first play. I you know, I thought the
Speaker 1: ball to Tyreek was actually pretty well thrown, but Stingley
Speaker 1: made a better play on it than our guy did
Speaker 1: and turns into a pick. So three picks and a
Speaker 1: fumble lost in a game where you only needed twenty
Speaker 1: one points to win. That's a tough sell right there.
Speaker 1: So that's takeaway number one. Takeaway number two that I
Speaker 1: felt that personnel dictated a game plan that made things
Speaker 1: tough and you know this is an offense that prioritizes
Speaker 1: the tackle position. Right We've seen Ron Armstead get a
Speaker 1: major contract and produce at Pro Bowl level for three years.
Speaker 1: Here when you've had him healthy and he's played, you know,
Speaker 1: the majority of your games. He missed this one obviously
Speaker 1: after an injury last week, but Patrick Paul played fine.
Speaker 1: But when you're down, you know your veteran all start
Speaker 1: left tackle, your right tackle is a guy that I
Speaker 1: don't know how much experience he has playing in a
Speaker 1: system like this. There was a couple of reps for
Speaker 1: Jackson Carmen where I thought, like, ah, he just he
Speaker 1: needs some time and some refinement. But you don't have
Speaker 1: that benefit when you're down so many players, which you
Speaker 1: know is an indication of a guy getting called up
Speaker 1: off the practice squad or signed up off the practice squad,
Speaker 1: I should say. But there was the one where Daniel
Speaker 1: Hunter did the spin move on him, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought back to when when coach McDaniel talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, retraying the offensive line to play a new
Speaker 1: style of football they're not used to in the system
Speaker 1: that fires off the football and makes runs and passs
Speaker 1: look the same like it looked like Jackson Carmen was
Speaker 1: struggling to get to his past sets, and that's to
Speaker 1: me to be expected for a guy that new in
Speaker 1: the lineup, especially you insert him, you know. So, I
Speaker 1: thought Liam had a tough day at right guard. I thought,
Speaker 1: really the entire offensive line kind of had a tough
Speaker 1: day in this one to keep you know, true, true
Speaker 1: drop back pass sets, and I thought that dictated a
Speaker 1: lot of screen game in this one. We saw even
Speaker 1: more than the twenty five percent behind the last scrimmage
Speaker 1: throw rate we've seen. So just a tough way to
Speaker 1: make a living because if you get behind the sticks,
Speaker 1: you can make a foul and you try to get
Speaker 1: this quick game going and you can't really run the
Speaker 1: football again for the fourth or fifth straight game. Like
Speaker 1: it's tough to make a living that way, and we
Speaker 1: saw that play out twelve points because you're just not
Speaker 1: going to drive the field like that five or six
Speaker 1: times in a game. My third takeaway is the defense
Speaker 1: has some certified dogs, and it starts with Zach Seeler
Speaker 1: and Jordan Brooks. They couldn't block Seiler in the game.
Speaker 1: He is as good as it gets. Like we're talking
Speaker 1: about like Chris Jones Nomine madap week. That's the company
Speaker 1: that Zack Seiler's keeping right now with how he's produced
Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons. And then Jordan Brooks has
Speaker 1: gotten I think played his two best games these last
Speaker 1: two weeks after the Packer game, and that was a
Speaker 1: guy that was already playing at a high level. I
Speaker 1: added Kter Kohu to this game, particularly because he made
Speaker 1: a bunch of really good plays, saw the field, drove
Speaker 1: on the football good time, some big time tackles. I
Speaker 1: thought Javon Holland played his best game in a while.
Speaker 1: I thought Gelen Ramsey was very good, Kendall Fuller as well,
Speaker 1: kalay As Campbell as always. I thought Quentin Bell said
Speaker 1: hard edges. So there was plenty of good defensive efforts
Speaker 1: out there, but Sealer and Brooks to me stand out
Speaker 1: is like cornerstone types of this defense. My fourth takeaway,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be similar to the fifth takeaway.
Speaker 1: The record against teams in playoff positions technically drops to
Speaker 1: zero to five this season, one and six last year,
Speaker 1: so that makes one and eleven combine. Now the Rams,
Speaker 1: I think will by the time you're this podcast, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks lose here in an hour, then the Rams will
Speaker 1: be atop the NFC West. So that could change the
Speaker 1: record here, you know, from from to one and four
Speaker 1: into two and ten, but doesn't change the argument. It's
Speaker 1: it's an issue they have to find a way to
Speaker 1: get these wins. Until they do, that's that's what people
Speaker 1: are going to talk about. And the fifth takeaway is
Speaker 1: that just self inflected errors inflicted airs? Do you find
Speaker 1: this game and this season? You know, picking the red
Speaker 1: zone that's three points if you don't throw that pick
Speaker 1: there at least at least right the holding call that
Speaker 1: brought back the run that would have set up a
Speaker 1: first and goal to the four yard line, that could
Speaker 1: have been four more points. The pick at the end
Speaker 1: of the half gave them three, could have been seven,
Speaker 1: but it did give them three. Probably took three off
Speaker 1: the board right on the fringe of field goal range there.
Speaker 1: So that's nine points. If you count the four from
Speaker 1: the Tyreek hole, that's thirteen points. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the fake punt, the penalty and the kickoff that cost
Speaker 1: you almost twenty yards of field position in a critical
Speaker 1: field position game miss throws. If we play a clean game,
Speaker 1: I think you win this game going away quite frankly,
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen that way. So tough to deal with,
Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow. Let's get out of here. You
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