WEBVTT - Drive Time: JT O’Sullivan Breaks Down Tua, Dolphins Offense 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.760 to a looking whips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:17.040 The wide Dolphin touchdown timeriquel uncolievable, just blue. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.400 Fire for a second time. Don't know where he was 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.360 going right away? 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:21.920 Want to hit that man. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:23.320 I'm gonna help you soon. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.160 Step on your man wagon. Wattle Wattle to a shotgun. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.280 Back to throw, looking at them up myers touchdown, it's 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.559 Waddle his six touchdown. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:34.920 Parass this thing. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.040 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.559 Now we check your pulse if enough for. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:44.240 What is up? 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.839 Dolphins And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:52.920 the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.960 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.600 and on today's show, I hope you guys are enjoying 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.680 the bye week. I've been watching some horror films. I've 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.640 been looking at a little bit of tape. I've been 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.320 spend a lot of time with the family, play a 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.720 little bit of golf as well. But today I am 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.199 so pumped up about my guest, the Great JT. O. Sullivan, who, 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.160 for my money, is the best film analyst right now 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.200 in the business. He joined us talk all things to 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.560 a tongue, I looa Dolphins offense and what we can 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.640 expect here in the second half of the season, plus 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.440 the week ten picks at the end of the show 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.959 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:36.240 This is the Draft Time Podcast. Without further ado, my 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.200 guest today, Jto Sullivan, joining me today on the Drive 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.399 Time podcast is the creator of the QB School. I 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.319 wasn't gonna say YouTube channel, but really it's an entire brand. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.000 But check out the channel on YouTube, several million views 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.800 at this point. I believe he can correct me on that. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.720 When I welcome home in former Frankfurt Galaxy quarterback jt 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:54.360 os Sullivan. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:54.680 JT. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.240 What's up man graphics? 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.440 What's going on? Yeah, you guys were back in my 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.520 old stopping grounds recently. I love that Frankfurt Stadium. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.840 It felt too fitting to not bring up on this podcast, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.400 coming off the heels of that near comeback to victory 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.799 that didn't go our direction. But I was curious to 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.800 ask you just about your time over there. I know 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.880 you had a couple of stints playing in the old 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.120 NFL Europe League, but also just kind of your time 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.840 around the league. How did that compare compared to what 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.720 you know you dealt with in the States playing in 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:21.200 the NFL. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.560 Well, it was great for me personally, went over there 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.440 and played well enough both times to kind of stay 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.240 in the league. And you know, as a backup guy 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.520 or a guy who's not a first round guy, you've 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.680 really got to kind of bide your time for your 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.200 opportunity if it ever comes. And so the league, that 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.320 Europe League was great for me because I got a 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.079 chance to play. You know, you get to the point 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.720 in your career as a backup, as a young guy 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.480 where you need to play to get better. And it 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.960 timed out both times for me to be really little 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.079 trampolines in my career. That gave me probably extra years 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.200 in the league. So I'm very thankful for that opportunity. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.959 I had a blast over there, and I still have 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.760 a bunch of buddies that I played with from over there. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.320 I know the squad had a good time. I'm over 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:01.960 there and too with all the not just the players, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.280 but the entire you know, football support staff and all 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.000 the content team and all that stuff too. So cool 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.360 to get a chance to travel abroad from this league. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:09.960 I think Christian Wilkins said he never thought he'd got 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.600 to travel to Germany through football, But last year we 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.720 are in twenty twenty three and things have expanded quite 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.000 a bit. And JT you mentioned the you know, getting 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.360 reps in terms of you know, growing as a young player. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.760 I think it's a good place to start there with 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.359 the Dolphins quarterback to a tongue Bi loa who every 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:24.920 time you drop a new episode and I see him 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.239 up there, I get pretty excited about it, and not 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.720 gonna lie. It's a nice little peak in to, you know, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.960 kind of the explanation to some of the things that 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.160 we think we see in terms of trying to make 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.440 sense of film, as you say yourself, and so I 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.400 know Dolphins fans really appreciate it, but I want to 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.080 start here. You know, with your videos, you talk a 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.960 lot about two things with Tua that you know, I 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.680 don't call myself to an JT. I have always thought 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.280 he had a lot of good skills that go back 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.440 to what he excelled with the Alabama But if you 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.240 were to consult to and on, they would tell you 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:56.320 anticipation and accuracy are really the the the pillars of 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.680 his game, and obviously, you know, the footwork to kind 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.480 of change the launch points and just the momultiple things 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.160 that he does to put himself in position to succeed. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.280 I was wondering how you would describe, you know, from 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.360 guy has done this for so long playing and now analyzing, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.040 how would you describe the delicate balance of being able 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.280 to mirror the drop and the footwork with the timing 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.240 of the route to make that anticipation possible. Because on 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 tape it seems like he's seeing it as fast as 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.960 we are evaluating it, but I'm sure it happens a 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.480 lot faster when you're down there on the field. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:25.200 Yeah. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.560 I think you do a really nice job of describing 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.159 it right there. I think the thing that I would 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.000 add on to it is, you know, not only is 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.560 it the anticipation in the accuracy, but it is a 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.600 dance with how they do it. So as the modern 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.040 game evolves in Miami's at the forefront this year, with 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.599 the motion with the horizontal stretch to marry that with 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.320 the play action, so the timing and dance of the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.240 footwork with the perimeter speed and the down the field 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.200 kind of intermediate chunks that they've been accustomed to just 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.240 making so precise. That's the part that is really kind 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.680 of cut tip of the spear for what the Dolphins 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.400 do offensively that I just love to And really he 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.680 continues to evolve and push the envelope with how well 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.520 he does it and how surgical he is the vast 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.360 majority of the time. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.560 And you know what you mentioned growth earlier and talking 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.599 about when you were younger in the league and Tua 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.159 coming up, and I guess first couple of years probably 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:20.840 didn't go as playing the terms of the production and 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.720 just I guess the perception of where he was and 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.320 standing in the NFL. But then you know, Mike McDaniel 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.360 gets here and the offense starts to care and more 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.400 towards his skill set and what he does really well. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.320 But now we're in this portion of his career where 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.960 he's in the second year of the same system for 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.920 the first time really since high school back in Hawaii. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.320 When you put him on tape last year compared to 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.400 this year, what do you see that stands out in 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.280 terms of his growth from year one to year two 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:45.320 under Mike McDaniel. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.760 Cool I would say the thing that you know, I've 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.760 always been a big fan of Tua. If you go 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.719 back shoot to where I think I have videos probably 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.719 of him playing in college coming out, I was a 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.320 big fan of just what you mentioned. The anticipation and 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.400 accuracy is something that I think translates from Saturday to Sunday. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.040 And so the thing that I think with Tua that 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.160 for the first couple of years, you know, fighting through 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.480 the different staffs, through the different you know, offensive coaches. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.880 He also was seemed like he never was quite as 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.200 healthy as maybe he was when he first started going 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.320 in college football, and so now it looks like he's 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.080 not even healthy, but even a better athlete, a little 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.719 bit better moving, a little bit stronger. And so you 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.839 couple that with obviously the health concerns of what happened 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.120 last year, and just the fact that he can move 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.520 and looks more comfortable back there and a little bit 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.839 more dynamic of an athlete to be able to create 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.160 a little bit more and get out of some bad situations. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.080 I think that has added just another little sprinkle to 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.559 what he's already done and done at a really high level. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.600 You just want to see it consistently. You want to 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.839 see it travel. You know, you want to see it 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.680 in some bad, rough weather games end of season. But 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.839 I mean, what can you say from when when things 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.200 are looking good and they're out there and he's healthy 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.400 and he's feeling good, they're as fun and as dynamic 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.719 as anybody in the league. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.359 You mentioned, you know, the athletic ability almost kind of 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.400 being the part of his game that has advanced the most, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.360 and that almost seems like the converse of how it 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.400 usually works, right, Like I think about someone you know, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.680 going back to this is going to age me, you 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.760 know on the podcast here, but going back to like 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.040 Ben Roethlisberger in his early days, like he was so 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.360 talented physically, but once he got Todd Haley in his 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.080 corner and had you know, an offensive system that was 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.480 a little more you know, I guess based upon his 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.880 mental aptitude, then he really hit these peak years of 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.080 mass production. But it seems like too has kind of 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.160 been the opposite where he always had that you know, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.000 mental aptitude, but now the athletic ability, like you talk 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.240 about coming off the hip injury, is starting to catch. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.120 Up a little bit. Yeah, I think it's one of 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.280 those things that was just unfortunate for Tua. You know 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:45.920 so much. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.920 And this is hard for people to get outside the building, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.200 outside the league. But I think if you asked a 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.200 lot of guys who played, they would say that they 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.640 would agree with me when I say there's a lot 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.800 of luck that goes into your ability to stay healthy. Now, obviously, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.440 you know the guys who have done it for a 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.120 long time across professional sports, they take it to the 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.520 next level nowadays with they're taking care of their body 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.040 all that type of stuff. You're assuming that you're doing that, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.680 but you still need some luck to be able to 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.160 stay healthy. And if you're not healthy, that time to 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.120 get right is different for everybody, and so there's not 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.320 a lot of patients across professional sports, let alone the NFL, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.640 and so to go out there and try to battle 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.000 when you're not feeling great, I think there is a testament. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.680 There is a part of that, especially playing quarterback that 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.160 you're expected to do. But when you're feeling good and 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.040 you're surrounded by talented guys and you're in a system 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.560 with that you're familiar with and people believe in you, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.480 you can kind of see that kind of surge and 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.560 start to bubble out of two on what he's been doing. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.560 Dolphins fans know all too well about not having their 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.320 quarterback for the entirety of a season. I mean, I 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.640 just put a tweet on the other day that said 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.720 that this is the first year Dolphins have had their 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.760 starting quarterback start the first nine games of the season 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.760 since twenty sixteen. So it's been a minute they've had 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.000 anybody healthy for the duration of the season. But I 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.480 think one way the Dolphins have help to in that 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.439 Regard has helped himself was getting the football ot of 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.439 his hands quickly. And JT, I want to kind of 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.000 go in the weeds here a little bit talking about 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.880 something that you described so well on your videos that 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.240 I've seen Josh McCown before he got back into the 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.360 league as a quarterbacks coach talk about this with an 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.280 underdog is too us vision and how rare his vision 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:16.880 is to be able to process the field the way 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.120 he does. And he told a story about being in 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.640 the same quarterback room with Kurt Warner and that was 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.160 when he realized, I'll never see the field the way 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.679 that Kurt did, you know, in the peak of his career. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.720 And that's not the question here, But I guess maybe 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.000 I want to simplify that for someone who's never played 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.400 the position or the sport, Like, how special is that 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.800 vision to be able to, like I talked about earlier, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.319 to marry up your throws into those tight zone pockets 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.640 and to see things that maybe other guys can't. Had 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.640 you ever been around a quarterback that saw it in 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.439 a way that you're like, I don't understand what you're 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.000 seeing because I don't have it that way. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:51.520 Maybe, I mean, I would say that it is rare 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.800 that a lot of guy, not a lot, what's the 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.200 right word. Many people that come into the league playing quarterback. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.920 You get to that point in your care where you 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.360 get an opportunity in the league, and sometimes the guys 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.439 who are drafted really high, or maybe maybe the prototypical 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.960 guy in this regard, they just the freaks of freaks, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.679 you know, And that goes across all the NFL roster. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.960 But guys who are playing quarterback in the league have 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.040 probably had the strongest arm in their area, been the 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.360 number one guy their whole career, and so you don't 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.480 necessarily have to anticipate, you don't have to be precise 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.360 with your ball location consistently if you're back there running 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.880 around like its recess and just creating all the time. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.360 You're going to have guys wide open on scrambled drills. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.840 Where for Tua, I don't think that ever was his game. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.880 It certainly wasn't his game in college. He had that precision, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.640 He had that anticipation baked into it. I don't know 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.000 necessarily where he got it. He probably got it from, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.120 you know, detailed work and being prepared and feeling confident 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.520 in the trust in his own skills to be able 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 to let it rip. But when for me personally, when 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.040 I got to the league, it really helped to see 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.560 other people make anticipation throws. Is it's not just in person, 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.840 it's on film. When you're watching tape, you're like, man, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.680 he lets that thing go, you know, three steps before 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.760 the guy comes out of that post or that comeback 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.080 or that deep shot. And so you can just start 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.160 to experiment with it. And as you're a pro and 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.200 you've got those off seasons at that time to be 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.680 able to master it and fine tune your craft. I 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.680 think some guys lean into that more than others. But 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.600 to his vision, I mean, it's one of those things 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.520 that you know it pops off the film and and 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.960 to your point earlier, they allow him to do that. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.640 There are some systems where it's very much you know, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.920 hit the top of your drop, Look here, next, hitch, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.480 Look here, next, hitch, look here, or when you turn 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.079 on the film and you know I'm not in there 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.160 building at all. But it looks like they give him 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.560 some grace and some freedom even on like first level RPOs, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.400 which is what I would consider one of the harder 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.840 ones to do, where they allow him to use his 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.760 vision to see what's open and make a decision as 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.960 opposed to have kind of concrete like back in the day, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.640 you know, pure progression one, two, three, must look here. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.920 It's more what's the space look like? I know, my guys, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.720 I know where I can be precise with the ball, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.080 and allows him to flourish and use that vision like 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.520 really no one else in the league. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.440 And I think it allows me to play with a 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.560 certain level of confidence too. That's really fun to watch. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 And you know whenever you like pause your video and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.360 you do the capital A and you underline it and 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.600 you just kind of marvel about when he's letting that 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.440 thing rip and where the receiver is in the route 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.680 at that particular time. It's my favorite thing to watch 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.360 in your entire channel. But the confidence that he is 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.320 required for him to play like that, I feel like 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.319 that has to be not just something that he has internally, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.760 but something that's maybe reinforcing him. And it takes me 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.160 back to when Mike McDaniel first arrived in Miami and 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.040 he put on like a big seven hundred play clip 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.959 of two of making you know, these big time throws 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.720 that he was a fan of, and he went around 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.520 to the entire building and showed everyone, look at this, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.720 look at this tape of this guy that plays with 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.480 such high anticipation. Let's go out and get you know, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.360 play makers on the outside to really maximize that. What 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.520 can that do for a player's confidence? Like, for Tua 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.880 to maximize his game, I feel like he has to 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.920 play that high level of confidence. How much do you 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.680 think that really helped him to just take that to 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.840 another step and really you know, drive that thing in 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:04.480 there when he has to. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.360 I mean, I think it's a it's a huge testament 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.800 to coach McDaniel. I mean, it's one of those things 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.480 where I don't necessarily think that this is unique to 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.040 to in his relationship. I think This is a really 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.080 good example of you know, high level leadership and management 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:25.000 across sectors where you intentionally and publicly you know, acknowledge 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.040 high level performance. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.000 And you try to promote it. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.120 And you can do that by you know, building him 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.720 up internally in the quarterback room, in the team meeting room, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.160 but you can also do it in the media. You 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:36.920 can also do it across the in the building, you 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.640 can do it in the hallway, and those types of things, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.600 you know, resonate especially for a guy. And you know, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.000 I'm not pretend I don't know to it at all, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.720 but I would imagine a guy who you know probably 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.559 wasn't at his peak confidence, you know, when Mike McDaniel 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.200 first got that job, and so he really did you know, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.680 influence to it to step into this space, and now 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.880 he seems to own as far as being so you know, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.480 on top of it with his anticipation and leaning into 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.640 his strengths allows him to play, you know, to his 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.720 absolute peak as we move towards it. The other thing 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.840 I would add, and this is just me as a 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.520 fan of quarterback play and TUA, is you know, there's 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.440 this huge elephant in the room as far as we 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.440 need him to stay healthy. We talked about the Dolphins 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.120 starting quarterbacks not staying healthy, but for him, especially especially 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.040 with the concussion, things leaning in too, getting rid of 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.520 the ball and whether it be the quick release or 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.520 how they're doing it with kind of the use of 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.880 motion and the spread element of what they bring to 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.400 the table and how they just seem to collect speed 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.000 with their perimeter players. Allows Ta to just play just 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.520 a little bit faster and lean into kind of protecting 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.880 him and not taking some of those hits off where 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.520 you're kind of like, don't want to be back there, hitch, hitch, hitch, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.200 you know, waiting on things to open. You lean into 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.080 his strengths, and as kind of a corollary element, he 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.760 gets rid of the ball, he doesn't get hit all 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.080 those types of things that we're trying to to protect him. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.400 It hasn't even been close this year, man, Like, he 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.440 hasn't even really taken one of those big hits where 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.960 you're like, oh no, it seems like maybe this could 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.560 be one that you know, puts him on his back, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.000 but the ball comes out so fast, or he just has, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:12.920 you know, outlet options, Like there was a play in 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.000 the Germany game where he rolled to his left and 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.720 didn't have his you know, his primary and he came 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.240 back to the far side. He actually got hit for 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.560 a grounding call, which you know, we can you know, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.520 deliberate that at a different time, but he knew exactly 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.360 where heem moster was to get rid of the football 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.320 and just kind of, you know, basically grounded it that way, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.640 you know, at Raheem's feet, but got hit for the flag. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.640 So it seems like there's a good understanding of how 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.360 to get rid of the ball faster as well. So 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.200 it's been really cool for us to see that encouraging 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.960 going forward for sure. Let's go ahead and take a 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:39.880 quick break right here in my guest today, jto sold 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.600 Over from the Quarterback School. It's the Drive Time podcast, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.960 your host Travis Wingfield back here for a second number 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.920 two of my special guest today, jtos hold Over from 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.400 the QB School, breaking down all things to and this 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.080 Dolphins offense and JT one more like weird theory I 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.480 have for you here that I wanted to run by, 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.520 you know, former NFL quarterback before I talk about some 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.160 more general Dolphins offensive topics. And you know, I'm sure 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.240 you've seen some of the headlines talking about Miami's victories 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.600 versus the teams they've lost to this year. And I've been, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.760 you know, putting together different ideas and thoughts and segments 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.040 for the podcast, trying to make sense of what the 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.040 first nine games of the season means. And I went 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.040 back over Tua's career and there was a trip in 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.120 twenty twenty one to London. They lost to the Urban 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.680 Meyer Jacksonville Jaguars, and since that game, they have not 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.760 lost a game that Tua has quarterbacked where they were 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.600 greater than a field goal favorite to win the game. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.160 And to me, I think the common thread there is 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.800 is to a playing because they've had games against those 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.200 teams without two in the lineup and they've lost those games. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.480 And my theory JT is that his skill set translates 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.680 to a super high floor in terms of performance. In fact, 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.800 I think there was a stat a couple weeks ago 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.520 before what was the doubt like the Philly game, maybe 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.240 had a low passer rating, and it was he had 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.360 not had a game below ninety passer rating all season long. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.480 And so my theory is that he his floor of 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.840 a bad game is so high that you find your 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.600 way to victory against these maybe lesser teams in the NFL. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.000 Are you know, middle of the road teams. I'm curious 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.800 what you think about his floor and how his skills 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.200 translate to, I guess being able to be productive pretty 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.120 much every Sunday. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.280