Speaker 1: Factors. Fatric Parker touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow, what's up, Dolphans? And welcome to the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network,
Speaker 1: covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield on this Sunday Recap night here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we are going to recap the
Speaker 1: eleven defeat in New England. We'll get the quotes, will
Speaker 1: get the stats, and all the analysis here on the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast. All of that and more on this Sunday,
Speaker 1: September edition of the Drivetime Podcasts. Let's go ahead, start
Speaker 1: right off the top here with Brian Flores postgame press
Speaker 1: conference that happened immediately after the game ended up in Foxborough.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start here first with coach Flores
Speaker 1: postgame media availability. He talked first about Fitzpatrick and the
Speaker 1: performance of his starting quarterback. I had some spurts stairway.
Speaker 1: You know, we're moving the ball, but obviously with turnovers, um,
Speaker 1: you know those are those are huge. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: we talked about that. Um, you know, a lot as
Speaker 1: a team. That's stuff to win when you turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. Um, but I did think he you know,
Speaker 1: he had some put some drives together. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we've only finished the one, but just too many turnovers
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Up next, coach was
Speaker 1: asked to talk about the run defense and Cam Newton
Speaker 1: and that Patriots offense that had over two yards rushing
Speaker 1: on the day. We got to do a better job.
Speaker 1: We're on defense. Obviously the quarterback was an issue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta do a better job. Up next, coach was
Speaker 1: asked about the availability and the usage of Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 1: who leaved the Dolphins running backs in both rushing and
Speaker 1: receiving yards. Here's coach on the second year running back
Speaker 1: Miles of practice. Well, you know there's a rotation there
Speaker 1: to running back with Howard Matt. You know, later got
Speaker 1: a few few snatch as well, and he had a
Speaker 1: couple of good runs, some some good plays in the
Speaker 1: passing him as well, So we left him in that.
Speaker 1: Coach was next asked about the performance of his linebacker
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, talking about how this is a team game.
Speaker 1: It's not about just one guy. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a team game. It's not one guy. It's not just
Speaker 1: Jerome or Fits. You know, we we we've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job as a as a unit, as
Speaker 1: a team, offensively, defensively in the kicking game. We didn't
Speaker 1: do enough to win today. Um, and we've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job. So we'll go back and learn
Speaker 1: from the tape, meet on this tomorrow and then close
Speaker 1: the book on this one and move on to the
Speaker 1: next opponent. And here is coach on the performance or
Speaker 1: the assessment rather of his offensive line with two starting
Speaker 1: rookies and four news starters from last season. Yeah, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, from a PROTECTU standpoint, we were okay. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we had the one sack late in the game,
Speaker 1: but you know, other than that, look like we were
Speaker 1: able to protect. We have time in the pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a good rush, good secondary. Um. But you know
Speaker 1: again you know that that that part of it. It's
Speaker 1: a team game. So you can play well in one
Speaker 1: phase and um, you know, not playing anywhere and enough
Speaker 1: phases and not enough, not good enough. And some of
Speaker 1: coach's impressions on the performance of rookie safety out of
Speaker 1: Texas Dolphins third round draft choice back in April Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: I thought he had an up and down game without
Speaker 1: reviewing the film. Um again, he's practiced well. We uh
Speaker 1: stuck him in there and though he made a couple
Speaker 1: of good tackles in the open field, did a good
Speaker 1: job in a kicking game from what I saw. But
Speaker 1: you know, we'll go back learn from the tape. Again,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, you know, this is his first NFL game.
Speaker 1: So up next we'll hear from coach on the assessment
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins run defense and how Cam Newton and
Speaker 1: that Patriots run offense was able to have so much
Speaker 1: success in eleven victory for the Patriots. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was based on a lot of things. You know, bad technique,
Speaker 1: you know, bad tackling. We got to clean up a
Speaker 1: lot of things in the run game. Um, which obviously
Speaker 1: that will be a focus this week. Next we heard
Speaker 1: from coach here from Coach rather on receiver Davante Parker,
Speaker 1: who left the game in the second half with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. He's he's in there. We'll take a look
Speaker 1: at him over the course of the week. I don't
Speaker 1: have a status update right now, but obviously he didn't return,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what that looks like, uh, you know
Speaker 1: tomorrow in the coming days. Up next, Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about the final drive, if you considered kicking a field
Speaker 1: goal there instead of going for the touchdown at the
Speaker 1: end tilling by two scores late in the game. Here's
Speaker 1: Coach on that final possession. Um, yeah, we were obviously
Speaker 1: trying to score a touchdown. Um, if we didn't pick
Speaker 1: up the last one, we're got to kick the field goal.
Speaker 1: You know. Unfortunately the balls picked off, you know, whether
Speaker 1: they made the call, didn't make the call. I mean,
Speaker 1: not much we can do. We just gotta live with,
Speaker 1: you know, the calls that are made or made on
Speaker 1: the field. And we'll go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with coach on a couple of notes and thoughts from
Speaker 1: Coach about what he thinks could have been better on
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. Well, I thought, you know, overall,
Speaker 1: the tackling could have been better, The conditioning could have
Speaker 1: been better, obviously without We're not gonna make excuses on
Speaker 1: whether we had preseason games. Didn't they didn't have any
Speaker 1: preseason games all either, But um, all things we can
Speaker 1: improve on, we can improve. The tackling proved, the run defense,
Speaker 1: you can improve the conditioning. UM, work on those things
Speaker 1: over the course of the weekend. Um, we got a
Speaker 1: tough opponent next weekend. UM, you know to it. And
Speaker 1: so there was coach Flora's You guys can find all
Speaker 1: the media availabilities up on Miami Dolphins dot com as
Speaker 1: well as on the YouTube channel. We had Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, Jerome Baker, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Coach Flores at
Speaker 1: the media availability postgame. Some status from this game. The Dolphins,
Speaker 1: of course lose twenty one to eleven at the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. The Patriots had twenty eight first downs to
Speaker 1: Miami seventeen, and third and fourth down was kind of
Speaker 1: where the game was shifted as far as the stats go.
Speaker 1: The Patriots converted six out of eleven. They were five
Speaker 1: for ten on third downs and one for one of
Speaker 1: course on that crucial fourth down on the really the
Speaker 1: drive that kind of put the game on ice there
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Miami did not have as much success.
Speaker 1: They were two for ten on third downs. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: had two hundred sixty nine total yards to the New
Speaker 1: England three hundred and fifty seven total yards in the
Speaker 1: ass in game, Miami did have more with one eight
Speaker 1: two to New England's won forty, but the rushing yards
Speaker 1: where the story of the day. The Patriots, behind Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: had two hundred and seventeen rushing yards to Miami's eighty seven.
Speaker 1: The Patriots grants sixty three plays to Miami's fifty eight.
Speaker 1: That of course changed a lot there towards the end
Speaker 1: of the game, with the Dolphins in that hurry up,
Speaker 1: urgent mode getting plenty of plays and passes off late
Speaker 1: in the game, the Patriots completed fifteen of nineteen passes,
Speaker 1: so very measured in their approach and being very efficient
Speaker 1: on offense. The Dolphins had three turnovers, the Patriots had
Speaker 1: just the one. Miami picked up two sacks on Newton,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins surrender just one sack to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Penalties
Speaker 1: Dolphins had four for thirty five yards, the Patriots had
Speaker 1: three for forty seven. And time of possession. Patriots take
Speaker 1: that battle thirty four minutes and fifty three seconds to
Speaker 1: Miami's twenty five minutes and seven seconds of possession. Now
Speaker 1: my five takeaways for the game, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start right there with number one. It's that Cam Newton
Speaker 1: is still Cam Newton. The run defense. You heard coach
Speaker 1: talk about it has to get better. Jerome Baker said
Speaker 1: that exact quote in his postgame press conference, that Cam
Speaker 1: is still Cam, former league MVP, we know all too
Speaker 1: well about that. Nobody on this team took him lightly,
Speaker 1: and coach talked about the importance of conditioning and rotation
Speaker 1: this week. You heard it postgame there as well, and
Speaker 1: it did feel like the team adjusted well early on
Speaker 1: to the running game. You heard Tony Romo during the
Speaker 1: broadcast talk a lot about defensive looks and simply said,
Speaker 1: you're just not gonna run it on us with this
Speaker 1: particular look, talking about instances where the Dolphins brought down
Speaker 1: a player into every gap and overloaded gaps, sometimes as
Speaker 1: many as ten guys on the line of scrimmage, sometimes
Speaker 1: as many as all eleven in that cover zero look,
Speaker 1: putting tons of players down on the line in hopes
Speaker 1: of stopping that run game and really forcing the Patriots
Speaker 1: to beat them with the passing game. But it was
Speaker 1: just tons of stuff based around the quarterback. Flora said
Speaker 1: the Dolphins didn't play well enough against the run to
Speaker 1: win the game. You heard him in the media availability
Speaker 1: and that obviously started with the quarterback. They just had
Speaker 1: so much stuff that was based around that quarterback run
Speaker 1: and stuff that can be a challenge to defend, and
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, and if you don't have
Speaker 1: it on tape, it's kind of like Tony Romo was
Speaker 1: talking about pretty much throughout the course of that broadcast.
Speaker 1: But they ran the ball pretty successfully, starting with quarterback
Speaker 1: lead with power. They had a nice conversion on a
Speaker 1: draw play where Cam kind of takes the shotgun, snap
Speaker 1: steps back, evaluates the defense, and then takes off right
Speaker 1: up the middle. If you get a too high structure,
Speaker 1: too safeties deep off the football, good chance the quarterback
Speaker 1: wants to see that and take advantage of the running game.
Speaker 1: Tony Romo talks about that a lot in the broadcast.
Speaker 1: There was one particular instance where the Dolphins did have
Speaker 1: two high safeties and Cam took off on a draw
Speaker 1: for a first down. The Dolphins did adjust to it
Speaker 1: pretty well in that second quarter. After that first touchdown,
Speaker 1: they had fourteen carries for seventy nine yards on the
Speaker 1: first two drives the Patriots did. Then the next two
Speaker 1: drives just six carries for twenty two yards and two
Speaker 1: drives that did not result in points that way, but
Speaker 1: then they came back and added some more wrinkles, some
Speaker 1: jet sweep action with some misdirection the RPO that really
Speaker 1: helped hold the linebackers in and kind of create more
Speaker 1: problems that way. And that fake sweep that one to
Speaker 1: action going left. Then Cam takes it back the right
Speaker 1: the other way for his second touchdown of the day
Speaker 1: right around the pylon. That play that was reviewed for
Speaker 1: the touchdown and held up eventually there at the end
Speaker 1: by the Patriots. That Captain eight played drive where they
Speaker 1: threw the ball the first three times for thirty seven yards,
Speaker 1: and that was purely in the gun again going off
Speaker 1: of what Romo said, do you fake handoff the r
Speaker 1: p O, you ride it out, you read it out,
Speaker 1: you see what the linebackers do. You pull that thing
Speaker 1: out and you pop it right over the middle. It's
Speaker 1: really tough to defend an offense when you have guys
Speaker 1: going that well as the Patriots did. Just so much
Speaker 1: to think about defensively for the Dolphins, because you have
Speaker 1: to play that thing going forward, you have to think
Speaker 1: about sideways and all that jet sweep action. You have
Speaker 1: to worry about going backwards on the r p O.
Speaker 1: If they pulled out and pop it in behind you,
Speaker 1: that's a tough task. As Flores, Wilkins, McCain, and Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker all said. It just wasn't good enough on this
Speaker 1: day for the Dolphins. Then on the crucial drive mid
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, they break out this option toss play where
Speaker 1: Cam takes it out to the side and has an
Speaker 1: option pitch to Sony Michelle, which he does just layers
Speaker 1: and layers and layers on top of each other, which
Speaker 1: resulted in two hundred and seventeen rushing yards for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: First game out that type of offense. Again, Gonna be
Speaker 1: tough to find out all those wrinkles. Now they have
Speaker 1: it on tape, and hopefully the next time around, as
Speaker 1: some of the Dolphins players they're said post game, they'll
Speaker 1: be more prepared for it. Defensively, takeaway number two. The
Speaker 1: Patriots defensive backfield is still really, really, really good. Stefon
Speaker 1: Gilmore's interception was a hell of a play in tight coverage,
Speaker 1: and that was the case all day long for Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and those Dolphins passing offense. We saw it last year.
Speaker 1: Plenty of contestant catches Davante Parker and Mike Kisiki going
Speaker 1: up over players, and that was the case in this
Speaker 1: game as well. Dolphins won some, Patriots one some, but
Speaker 1: even on the catches, you see these Patriots defenders just
Speaker 1: draped all over the Dolphins receivers. Davante made some nice
Speaker 1: plays on those contestant catches and that one sliding catch
Speaker 1: with the ball was a little bit behind him was
Speaker 1: just such a good concentration and effort play, really showing
Speaker 1: the ability to catch the football away from his frame,
Speaker 1: away from his body. That of course, with what made
Speaker 1: him such an elite receiver last year attacking the football
Speaker 1: down the field. I thought Gasick's rebound type of play
Speaker 1: on that touchdown drive where he kind of snagged it
Speaker 1: and positioned it away from his body to prevent the
Speaker 1: defensive back was a really nice look there from Gisicky.
Speaker 1: He kind of got cranking their late towards the end
Speaker 1: of the game, Parker goes out and it's always tough
Speaker 1: to lose a player again who finished fifth and receiving
Speaker 1: last year, fourth and touchdowns across the NFL. You even
Speaker 1: saw fits get aggressive and go to him when the
Speaker 1: Pats were putting Gilmore on Preston Williams because Gilmore, the
Speaker 1: defensive player of the Year last year, was kind of
Speaker 1: bouncing back and forth, and Preston did get involved late
Speaker 1: in the game on that lone touchdown drive, getting on
Speaker 1: top of Gilmore on a crucial fourth and two play.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins just had to have he gets on top
Speaker 1: forces defensive past interference. But when you play this Patriots team,
Speaker 1: that's just gonna be the case. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make plays in tight contested areas. We heard Fitzpatrick talked
Speaker 1: about it in the pregame last week during his media availability.
Speaker 1: It just didn't happen enough on this day for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense to have enough success. One field goal, one
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, eleven points. Gonna be tough to win games
Speaker 1: going that way. So that's takeaway number two, and it
Speaker 1: kind of ties well. And to take away number three,
Speaker 1: I thought the offensive line and pass protection held up very,
Speaker 1: very well in this game. There were some looks early on.
Speaker 1: We talked about the variety of formations and we'll get
Speaker 1: into that here in just a moment. That the Dolphins
Speaker 1: can run with all those different guys, with Jachem Grant
Speaker 1: and his speed, Isaiah Ford in his short area reliability,
Speaker 1: Davonte Parker and Preston Williams the downfield attacking ability, Matt
Speaker 1: Breed's ability to flex out wide, Miles Gaskin's dual ability,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard's powerful physical running. They've got so many different
Speaker 1: guys that can do different things, and they did a
Speaker 1: good job of really kind of rotating those packages. Is
Speaker 1: in rotating the players, in getting everybody plenty of snaps.
Speaker 1: And there was a couple of plays where they had
Speaker 1: play action where Eric Flowers kind of peeled off, kind
Speaker 1: of shows you that simulated pulling guard look that you'll
Speaker 1: see sometimes, and that was actually what the Patriots did
Speaker 1: on the big Jerome Baker sack, was they tried to
Speaker 1: pull a guard and he won right in that B gap.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins were doing that with Eric Flowers, and I
Speaker 1: love the way he would kind of search and hunt
Speaker 1: for someone to block the free rusher who comes free
Speaker 1: because of that play action look. I thought he did
Speaker 1: really well in that regard for the most part, good
Speaker 1: communication upfront, no really stunts or twist or unblocked rushers
Speaker 1: coming in because of poor communication and not passing guys off.
Speaker 1: They did well in that regard thought. Austin Jackson looked
Speaker 1: very good past blocking his first career game as a pro.
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt got plenty of work as the sixth offensive
Speaker 1: lineman to help them slam the ball in down around
Speaker 1: the goal line on the lone touchdown drive, and it
Speaker 1: was good to see the offense offense really kind of
Speaker 1: assert their will on that possession. They basically said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna run this thing over and over again until you
Speaker 1: stop us. And the first two plays the Patriots were
Speaker 1: up to the task, but play number three, Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: the sledgehammer finally plunges in across the goal line for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. So good resiliency there. Ryan Fitzpatrick said after
Speaker 1: the game that he barely got touched. He mentioned the
Speaker 1: mood and the mentality of the two rookies and both
Speaker 1: Jackson and Kinley and said he felt they were definitely
Speaker 1: ready for prime time, which is a great sign going forward.
Speaker 1: You want to develop these young offensive lineman and create
Speaker 1: a nice wall there a long term, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: not easy to at that. Patriots and Belichick rushed scheme blocked,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins for the most part on Sunday, they
Speaker 1: were up to the task takeaway number four, staying on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Miles Gaskins strong training
Speaker 1: camp translating looks like here. Early on he changes the
Speaker 1: angle and gets kind of skinny in that gap and
Speaker 1: sees the hole and hits it hard. And most of all,
Speaker 1: I love the way he finished his runs on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And although there wasn't just simply a lot of room
Speaker 1: to get going just three point to two yards per
Speaker 1: carry for the Dolphins on offense, I was impressed with
Speaker 1: the way all the running backs finished off their runs.
Speaker 1: Ultimate confidence in Jordan Howard. Like we talked about on
Speaker 1: that third down and goal from the one yard line,
Speaker 1: I thought Matt Brita pushed the pile a couple of
Speaker 1: times on that late drive at the first half when
Speaker 1: Miami got their field goal. And that's certainly the case
Speaker 1: here with the push you get from the big offensive
Speaker 1: lineman upfront, Solomon Kinley, Ted Carress, Eric Flowers, Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: and Jesse Davis getting some nice push there on some
Speaker 1: of those runs number five. And this goes back to
Speaker 1: what coach Flora said, some conditioning and the mystery that's
Speaker 1: going to make for an interesting first month of football,
Speaker 1: especially against the team again with limited tape like we
Speaker 1: have on this Patriots offense. Romo talked about it in
Speaker 1: the open with Fitzpatrick and Chan Gaily having a history together,
Speaker 1: kind of some old library the Patriots could go off
Speaker 1: of to look at the tape and say, maybe they
Speaker 1: might do this, they might do that, But he said,
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Josh McDaniels with Cam Newton, there is
Speaker 1: no history there, So how do you really prepare for
Speaker 1: that and study for all the wrinkles they might want
Speaker 1: to throw you. I talked about the adjustments and that
Speaker 1: was great to see, but Romo once again referenced all
Speaker 1: the new stuff they were rolling out over and over again,
Speaker 1: just continuously piling on new things. You've got players going forward, sideways,
Speaker 1: and backwards. Just tough to defend. A lot to ask,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider rotation, trying to keep guys fresh.
Speaker 1: We saw line changes about the course of the game.
Speaker 1: Linebackers going in, linebackers coming out, defensive, lineman in and out.
Speaker 1: Just plenty of guys played, plenty of snaps. And I
Speaker 1: go back to something Josh Bowyer said a week or
Speaker 1: two ago that they expect to be playing their best
Speaker 1: football in December, So it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they perform when they've got some tape, they've got some
Speaker 1: corrections to make, and can really self scout themselves and
Speaker 1: find out who they are, because right now everybody across
Speaker 1: the National Football League has to find out who they are,
Speaker 1: what they do well, where teams might want to attack them.
Speaker 1: And I think we'll feel pretty good about where Flores
Speaker 1: gets this team going and the coaching staff gets this
Speaker 1: team going, because we saw last year that coach Flores
Speaker 1: is capable of doing just that. It's another test next
Speaker 1: week with a big quarterback who had a big day
Speaker 1: today in the opener, and Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and on that note, around the a f C East
Speaker 1: real quick. The Bills did blow out the Jets in
Speaker 1: the opener. It wound up a twenty seven team final,
Speaker 1: but it was with like three minutes to go and
Speaker 1: the Bills on the one yard line. They kicked a
Speaker 1: field goal. The Jets drove down late for a touchdown
Speaker 1: to kind of make it a closer game than the
Speaker 1: scoreboard would tell you, to make it a ten point game.
Speaker 1: But the Bills looked really, really good in that opener
Speaker 1: tough test next week. Some big plays that I thought
Speaker 1: really helped swing momentum for Miami in this game. The
Speaker 1: near muff punt recover to open the game up. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins almost got a break there on that opening drive.
Speaker 1: I didn't see who it was. Initially it might have
Speaker 1: been Brandon Owns, but not quite certain, but a great
Speaker 1: job of running the blocker right into the return man.
Speaker 1: I no Cavon Fraser was down there too, so a
Speaker 1: good job by those guys to kind of cause some
Speaker 1: confusion and get downfield and cover that punt. The Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain pass breakup on Julian Edelman where he catches the
Speaker 1: ball in front of him and then McCain swings the
Speaker 1: hand around the backside and punches that thing out. That
Speaker 1: then led to the Jerome Baker sack. So instead of
Speaker 1: first down and plus territory, all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 1: third and nineteen. Two big plays a fourth that drive there.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaston had a conversion on a third and short play.
Speaker 1: The offense went trips to the field side of the formation.
Speaker 1: All those guys kind of flooded out to the other side,
Speaker 1: and Myles Gascon just snuck in behind, Fitzpatrick found him
Speaker 1: for a nice chunk gain to keep a drive going
Speaker 1: in that first half, and that was crucial, I thought,
Speaker 1: because it really kept the Patriots rushing offense that was
Speaker 1: having so much success off the field for at least
Speaker 1: another three plays. Jamal Perry had a huge tackle on
Speaker 1: a third and six a draw Dolphins go dime defense
Speaker 1: six defensive backs. Cam Newton catches it, tuck, tucks it
Speaker 1: and tries to run for the first down and he
Speaker 1: meets Jamal pair he head up and that's not a
Speaker 1: matchup where Perry has the advantage. He's probably giving fifty
Speaker 1: pounds in that matchup to Cam Newton, but he did
Speaker 1: will to kind of bow up and make that stop
Speaker 1: on a big third down. Miles Gaston had another big
Speaker 1: play in the first half, the very first play I
Speaker 1: think it was of that of the lone field goal
Speaker 1: drive in the first half from Miami, where he gets
Speaker 1: a tackle, gets hit, immediately bounces off and rips off
Speaker 1: an eight yard running to keep that drive kind of
Speaker 1: alive at the time, because you go down behind the
Speaker 1: chain second long up against your own goal post late
Speaker 1: and a half, you might have to think about getting
Speaker 1: out of that drive, so he keeps me alive with
Speaker 1: a nice run there. Obviously, Jerome Baker's huge strip down
Speaker 1: around the goal line is just a massive play, and
Speaker 1: he talked about that in his media post game how
Speaker 1: it's really about just flying around and getting to the ball,
Speaker 1: run to the football and good things will happen. He
Speaker 1: did that there and made just a huge, huge play
Speaker 1: because it was about to be three if he goes
Speaker 1: in for the touchdown and a successful p A T instead,
Speaker 1: it's fourteen three. Dolphins get the football back and they
Speaker 1: would go down and score. So many big, nice momentum
Speaker 1: changing play there from the Dolphins linebacker, and then Preston's
Speaker 1: defensive past interference forced on Stefon Gilmour. Nice job to
Speaker 1: get on top of the defensive player of the year
Speaker 1: and coverage there and forced him to play underneath and
Speaker 1: try to play through you to the football and of
Speaker 1: course causes the d p I which led to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins touchdown to make it a tight game there at
Speaker 1: the end of that third quarter. Some individual performances I
Speaker 1: loved in this game. Christian Wilkins. We talked about his
Speaker 1: sack that was really more about Emmanuel Ogba bending the edge,
Speaker 1: had a really nice double chop where he swiped down
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman's hands and then flattened that corner and
Speaker 1: forced Cam Newton to step up where he then saw
Speaker 1: number ninety four who also won inside. So don't take
Speaker 1: anything away from Christian Wilkins for getting there, because you
Speaker 1: have to get around your block to get there, But
Speaker 1: ogball forces Newton off the spot, forces him off that
Speaker 1: first read. Then Wilkins gets right in there for the sack,
Speaker 1: his first of the year. He also had two pass
Speaker 1: breakups and a nice run stop as well. Big statistical
Speaker 1: day for Christian Wilkins, but after the game he did
Speaker 1: say he'll change all that or trade all that in
Speaker 1: rather for a Dolphins victory on the cornerback position. Out wide,
Speaker 1: not much of test for the guys like Byron Jones
Speaker 1: and xaviing Howard and Noah Ignogeny playing outside because the
Speaker 1: Patriots just didn't really go to those guys. I thought
Speaker 1: early in the game, seeing the inactives that the Patriots
Speaker 1: produced pregame with only two tight ends, I thought we
Speaker 1: might see more receivers get downfield because of the fact
Speaker 1: that they didn't have multiple tight ends available to them.
Speaker 1: But they just went heavy personnel, heavy offense, two backsets
Speaker 1: and ran the football and when they did throw it
Speaker 1: was mostly inside to Julian Edelman or to those tight
Speaker 1: ends who also had a nice game as well, but
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and Xavian Howard when I watched them in coverage,
Speaker 1: thought they did pretty good on the outside as well.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, he was an enforcer in the box, making
Speaker 1: plays left and right, eight combined tackles in the first half,
Speaker 1: with six of those solo. He finished with ten tackles
Speaker 1: and seven of those solo on his own. Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: talked about how fast Brandon Jones played in the game, saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, but he's a guy we rely on
Speaker 1: and we love the way he plays instinctively in flies
Speaker 1: to the football, and that was something I kept seeing
Speaker 1: on tape, or not not on tape, rather on his
Speaker 1: Texas tape sure, but in training camp watching the way
Speaker 1: he pursued at the line of scrimmage, timed up his
Speaker 1: runs and just got hisself, got his face mask on
Speaker 1: some footballs and made some plays that way. So good
Speaker 1: to the rookie, the Dolphins safety out of Texas making
Speaker 1: some big plays. You heard coach talk about some spurts
Speaker 1: where the offense had some success. I liked the way
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick started going after the size he has on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. Of course, the big
Speaker 1: dp I we talked about on Preston Williams, the big
Speaker 1: catch from Mike get Sick. Then another dp I down
Speaker 1: in the end zone before the touchdown as they were
Speaker 1: trying to basically take Kasiki down to prevent him from elevating,
Speaker 1: because they know how much they can get After the
Speaker 1: Dolphins camp with those big bodies throwing high into the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone and getting touchdowns that way.
Speaker 1: He talked about how he's going to take chances and
Speaker 1: trust his guys and sometimes, yeah, that might bite you
Speaker 1: in the backside, as it did this day with three interceptions,
Speaker 1: but it also can result in some monster days, some
Speaker 1: four yard days like we've seen in the past. And frankly,
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure how else you approached this game
Speaker 1: with those cornerbacks, because they are that damn good. We
Speaker 1: talked about. Miles Gaskin is one of the takeaways again,
Speaker 1: just real shifty, his ability to kind of change the
Speaker 1: angle of the tacklers down in the box, down in
Speaker 1: the trash, down in the muck, was really impressive. Talked
Speaker 1: about Eric Flowers and pass protection. Thought he did really
Speaker 1: well that way. Really the entire Dolphins offensive line a
Speaker 1: note for all those guys, Jesse Davis, Solomon Kinley, Ted Carress,
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers, and Austin Jackson all performed well in pass protection. Again,
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker thought the way he caught the football away
Speaker 1: from his body, contested catches, we saw what he did
Speaker 1: last year, kind of translate this year into Week one.
Speaker 1: We'll check on him later in the week. On the hamstring.
Speaker 1: He heard coach say he left the game, did not return.
Speaker 1: We'll have to get a status update on Devonte Parker.
Speaker 1: He talked about Emmanuel Ogba's big pass rush win, showing
Speaker 1: that length and the heavy, heavy hands that he certainly brings.
Speaker 1: Package wise, there was tons of variety. We talked about
Speaker 1: the rotation of the Dolphins offense down around the goal line,
Speaker 1: those heavy packages, Robert Hunt getting involved, two backs, two
Speaker 1: tight ends, and an off sixth offensive lineman. They were
Speaker 1: doing line changes early on in the game as well.
Speaker 1: They started the game with Chandler Cox and Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: They rotate those guys out and bring two tight ends
Speaker 1: in just a bunch of different packages, a bunch of
Speaker 1: different looks. Again, more time goes on, the more of
Speaker 1: this team can find out who they are, what they
Speaker 1: want to be, and go forward from there. And we
Speaker 1: are joined now by the host of the audible podcast
Speaker 1: and writer from Miami Dolphins dot com dot com and
Speaker 1: media analyst here with the Dolphins, John Can Jemmy, John,
Speaker 1: how you doing, man? I'm doing fine, driving us up
Speaker 1: about yourself. Not too bad, could be better. We'd be
Speaker 1: better if we had a w in our back pocket,
Speaker 1: but we don't. And we are here talking about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins post game here Dolphins twenty one Patriots or Patriots
Speaker 1: twenty one rather Dolphins eleven. And John, I just want
Speaker 1: to start here with your three takeaways. You can find
Speaker 1: them up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Johnald Wright, three
Speaker 1: takeaways and three keys before the game and after the
Speaker 1: game every single week. Let's go ahead and start John
Speaker 1: with your first takeaway from the Dolphins loss on Sunday. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously we had a very difficult time containing Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: You know, he he had twoty total yards when you
Speaker 1: take into account what he did through the air and
Speaker 1: on the ground and the two rushing TV. So the
Speaker 1: first takeaway for me anyway was there wasn't sufficient edge defense.
Speaker 1: There wasn't enough of that setting the edge on the
Speaker 1: defensive side for the Miami Dolphins to Number one slow
Speaker 1: down Cam Newton before he got five or six yards
Speaker 1: down the field. And that seemed like most of the
Speaker 1: time was the first contact he had as a Dolphin
Speaker 1: defender would try to tackle him. Uh So, so that
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing for me. I think you knew
Speaker 1: what was coming, and I just didn't think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: did uh an efficient job at slowing him down in
Speaker 1: and around the line of scrimmage, and he just got
Speaker 1: to use that big frame and go downhill for four quarters.
Speaker 1: He certainly has a good way of kind of riding
Speaker 1: that that zone read out doesn't even He can keep
Speaker 1: the football in the pocket of the running back and
Speaker 1: then tuck it back out once he makes the read
Speaker 1: on the crashing end. And then John looked like they
Speaker 1: related a good job of adjusting to the Dolphins adjustment,
Speaker 1: because I thought in that second quarter range the Dolphins
Speaker 1: kind of aid an adjustment. But then the Patriots come
Speaker 1: back with the RPO and it seemed like from there
Speaker 1: are things really kind of got back on the back
Speaker 1: hill again, didn't it. Yeah, it really did. I thought
Speaker 1: the Dolphins did a pretty good job and Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: trying to add personnel to and around the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but that only set up man to man coverage. And
Speaker 1: when you add motion to that, I think it moved
Speaker 1: the land and Roberts or whoever that inside linebacker would
Speaker 1: have been to that side of the r P O
Speaker 1: of the run pass option, moved him inside a little
Speaker 1: bit more and created a bigger window for Edelman and
Speaker 1: Harry on quick slants. And I think that they were
Speaker 1: able to beat man to man coverage. And even though
Speaker 1: there weren't that many explosive plays in terms of getting
Speaker 1: the football down the field off of that zone read
Speaker 1: or that that run past option, they were able to
Speaker 1: keep the Patriots on the field, move the chains, and
Speaker 1: keep the Dolphin offense on the sideline. So I think
Speaker 1: in in those terms, the Patriots really dictated time of
Speaker 1: possession and they dictated the way the game was played
Speaker 1: in the second half, and that led to the first
Speaker 1: game that ended on Sunday. The game was over almost
Speaker 1: in a flash. Other games still had four or five
Speaker 1: minutes ago at the end there, so you can tell
Speaker 1: how the Patriots really shorten the game that way. John,
Speaker 1: how about takeaway number two for you? I want to
Speaker 1: say a little bit about the Dolphin offense and their
Speaker 1: lack of explosiveness. I think in the offense you were
Speaker 1: used to our accustomed in the second half of the
Speaker 1: season last year of seeing Mike Kasicki or Devonte Parker
Speaker 1: be able to come down with some big plays, or
Speaker 1: get Jachem Grant in space and have him break a
Speaker 1: tackle and get to daylight. You didn't see a whole
Speaker 1: lot of that today. And I think you know, with
Speaker 1: the three turnovers from Ryan Fitzpatrick, I do not want
Speaker 1: to lay all of them on his shoulders because he
Speaker 1: had I believe it was Preston Wilson Williams fall down
Speaker 1: uh and and that led to an interception by Gilmore,
Speaker 1: I believe. And then there was a couple other times
Speaker 1: you had fifty fifty opportunities where it could have been
Speaker 1: past interference it wasn't called. I just thought that the
Speaker 1: lack of explosive plays didn't lead to those chunk yardage
Speaker 1: plays where you get thirty or thirty five yards right away,
Speaker 1: and now you're in scoring position, and with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: struggling a little bit offensively to find an identity in
Speaker 1: Week one, you needed one or two of those plays
Speaker 1: to cut the field in half. And they sure didn't
Speaker 1: do that today. And they certainly did that last year
Speaker 1: in the Weeks seventeen victory where they had the big
Speaker 1: chunk place to get things going, to get drive started.
Speaker 1: And it seemed like this year, this time around, they
Speaker 1: would have moments where it started to look that way,
Speaker 1: but then, like you mentioned, something to go a Ryan
Speaker 1: that you just kind of couldn't get it going and
Speaker 1: and string together consistent plays, John, how about your third takeaway? Well,
Speaker 1: I thought we needed going into the game. I thought
Speaker 1: we needed to win that turnover margin. And I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, losing on the turnover margin really could lead
Speaker 1: to bad things for any team, no matter if it's
Speaker 1: Week one or Week seventeen. And I thought the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had to had to have a leg up in that
Speaker 1: in that arena, and you know, in that type of
Speaker 1: the ledger, that side of the ledger, the Dolphins give
Speaker 1: it away three times. They were able to get two
Speaker 1: sacks in the game, which I thought might lead to something, uh,
Speaker 1: may lead to a turnover later in the game when
Speaker 1: you forced the issue on Cam Newton. But I just
Speaker 1: think even though the points didn't directly come from that,
Speaker 1: those are tough to come to. Get over there demoralizing
Speaker 1: to an offense. You put your defense back out on
Speaker 1: the field. I like the sudden change of the defense
Speaker 1: in response to the turnovers. But anytime you lose in
Speaker 1: that category, you feel like you you give the other
Speaker 1: team a little bit of momentum, and that's something the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were looking for all afternoon. You can certainly see
Speaker 1: the impact of turnovers because the Dolphins were about to
Speaker 1: go down twenty one to three, and then Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: comes up with a big play that really at the time,
Speaker 1: I'm right in my postgame article, John, I put in
Speaker 1: there like, well, this could be the turning moment of
Speaker 1: the game. That's gonna be the crux of my article.
Speaker 1: But of course things didn't go that way. John Conjemmy's
Speaker 1: three takeaways. You can find them up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. He also is the co host of the
Speaker 1: Audible podcast with Kim Bokamper. John, I appreciate your time tonight, man,
Speaker 1: No problem, Travis, and hopefully we'll be celebrating at home
Speaker 1: in South Florida against the Bills next week. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, if you got anything on the Bills
Speaker 1: for us, you go ahead and unload the notebook. Here's
Speaker 1: what do you think about that game right now as
Speaker 1: we see here on Sunday night. Well, the one thing
Speaker 1: that scares me is that Cam Newton went for seventy
Speaker 1: five on the ground. I could see Josh Allen. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's done it in the past. He's gone for over
Speaker 1: twenty five against the Dolphins on the ground and basically
Speaker 1: their unscripted runs. So I would think that the Bill's
Speaker 1: defense is gonna put a little bit of that run
Speaker 1: pass option or that zone read in next week to
Speaker 1: see if the Dolphins make any adjustment on the edge
Speaker 1: of their defense. You know, we we talked about coming
Speaker 1: into the year, Kyle van Noy and Ogba and Shack
Speaker 1: loss and and you know, Byron Jones and all these
Speaker 1: new faces on the defense. I don't think we said
Speaker 1: their name maybe more than twice in the game, and
Speaker 1: that has to change against the Buffalo Bills. So you're
Speaker 1: hoping that you don't have a repeat performance of a
Speaker 1: quarterback rushing for close to a hundred yards because that
Speaker 1: could lead uh to demise for the Dolphins defense next week.
Speaker 1: Because most of those runs in the past have been unscripted.
Speaker 1: My fear is they put a little bit of that
Speaker 1: in and see if the Dolphins can stop it next week.
Speaker 1: And you certainly hope that having some stuff on tape.
Speaker 1: I kind of mentioned this before I brought you on, John,
Speaker 1: that having that stuff on table really go a long
Speaker 1: way to helping you prepare because, as Romo said throughout
Speaker 1: the broadcast, we just you just don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get with McDaniels and Newton because you haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet. So John, we appreciate your time again. Man
Speaker 1: the second closer here for you. I'll let you out
Speaker 1: of here and go and enjoy the rest of your night, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks for Havis. So there he goes John
Speaker 1: kN Jemmy Miami Dolphins media analysts. There, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to some game notes here working off of
Speaker 1: this Dolphins at Patriots and got sent out in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Linebacker Jerome Baker had a career high sixteen tackles thirteen
Speaker 1: of those were solo. He also had one sack and
Speaker 1: a forced fumble coming into the game. Baker entered with
Speaker 1: two hundred career tackles and two seasons over and nineteen.
Speaker 1: His two hundred tackles ranked seventh among players from the
Speaker 1: eighteen draft class, and all six players with more career
Speaker 1: tackles were drafted ahead of Baker in that twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: draft class. Christian Wilkins stands out. His first game of
Speaker 1: year number two told six tackles, four solo, two tackles
Speaker 1: for loss, one sack, and two pass breakups on the day.
Speaker 1: His six tackles and one sack each matched his career high,
Speaker 1: and his two passes defense where the most in his
Speaker 1: career as well. He finished twenty nineteen with fifty six tackles,
Speaker 1: thirty solo, and that was the most of any rookie
Speaker 1: defensive lineman in the league. Jordan Howard found the end
Speaker 1: zone for the dolphins first and only touchdown of the day.
Speaker 1: It was, of course, his first touchdown as a member
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins. It was his thirty first career
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. Those thirty one are tied for six in
Speaker 1: the NFL since team when Howard entered the NFL and
Speaker 1: finishing up here, Jason Sanders goes one for one on
Speaker 1: the day with the forty six yard field goal. He
Speaker 1: is now forty two of fifty one. That's eighty two
Speaker 1: point four percent on field goal attempts in his career,
Speaker 1: which is the best in Dolphins history. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be our time here on the Sunday Recap Drivetime Podcast.
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