WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Falcons Preseason Week 1 Recap 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.720 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.280 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.560 to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:16.400 A wide Olphen touchdown, trick call, uncrelievable, just. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.680 Bluevin for a second time. Don'tknew where he was going 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:20.320 right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.600 I want to hit that though. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.000 Man, I'm gonna help you. Someone will up on your 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.920 man away Wattle Wadle to a shotgun, back to throw 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.560 looking at them up Myers touchdown. 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Dolphins? 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.720 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:53.600 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.800 How's it going, everybody? 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.880 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:58.840 we are going to talk. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.720 About a Miami Dolphins football game. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.880 Certainly not going to earn any awards for prettiest game 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.840 you've ever seen in your life, but there's gonna be 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.360 a lot to chew on, including plenty of players who 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.440 stood out, some things to debate about, competition and battles 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.120 and all that fun stuff. Plus we'll do the five 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.240 flagship takeaways and here from head coach Mike McDaniel. All 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.760 of that and more from the Baptist Hell Studios inside 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.200 the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.959 This is Yes Miami Topics. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.600 Let's go ahead and kick this show off with a 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.080 statement from coach McDaniel that I think was the most 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:33.280 important part of the entire day. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:39.920 Yeah, he's doing good. Yeah, No, it was a mid 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:48.680 section injury that you know, sometimes you have guys that 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.480 end up coming up with an injury after in the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.800 middle of camp, after having a tremendous offseason. That that's 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:03.160 kind of what Jalen has had from OTA is the onset. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.680 He's come to work. He does some really good things, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.360 so you never want to see anyone ever get injured. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.360 But he's banked enough quality reps that I'm really not 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:21.960 worried about his participation within the offense. So unfortunate that 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.000 it's not something that I don't that will be a 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:31.680 long term deal. But he's steadily rehabbing and working with 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.679 the trainers, which fires men. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.440 That's obviously Mike McDaniel talking about Jalen Waddell, who, of 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.440 course he was injured in the last practice we had 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 out here, and coach was asked about it after the 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.120 game on Friday night, and that's your answer there. So 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.040 it sounds like Jalen should be okay. We'll get you 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.239 updated more and we have more information on that. Let's 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.160 go ahead and talk about a football game here, because 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.520 the Dolphins lose the Week one preseason opener to the 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.000 Atlanta Falcons, a nineteen to three final from hard Rock Stadium, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.600 And let's go ahead and take a look at the 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.160 autopsy as it were here of this game. And you know, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.600 we'll hear from coaching a moment here about where he 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.960 thinks things broke down as far as where the scoreboard 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.080 wound up. But Miami had more yards than the Atlanta 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.520 Falcons offensively, three seventeen to two twenty seven actually, and 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.079 really you look at the entire you know, game book 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.000 in terms of numbers, twenty to thirteen and first downs 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.000 three for ten versus three for twelve on third down 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.720 in favor of the Miami Dolphins, zero for two on 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.799 the fourth downs obviously, both of those in the red zone, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.079 which is something we'll talk about here. But more total yards, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.560 more passing yards, more rushing yards, more plays ran. The 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.800 four turnovers is where the game really swelling in favor 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.720 of the Atlanta Falcons. But I think that when you 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.080 look at this game, it was pretty even back and 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.840 forth throughout the first you know, three and a half quarters, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.520 and Miami's inability to capitalize on some of the red 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.960 zone looks they had, and I thought they had chances 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.800 to make some of those plays happen. Two of the 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.880 red zone failures were fourth down failures, and one of 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.080 the throws I thought was a chance to hit Tyler 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.240 Croft in the corner of the end zone by Mike White. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.880 The ball got tipped into the air, but Devon Achan 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.960 had a chance for a cut block on a blitzer 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.120 and he missed it, and that blitzer got his hand. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:10.520 In the football. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.160 If you hit that block, you have a chance to 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.200 throw a clean touchdown passing the corner of the end zone. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.360 Another one to Brax and Barrios on a little mesh 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.920 concept where they got the linebacker in some peril and 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.560 kind of rubbed him with a dB who was covering 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.919 Brax and Barrios. And we'll talk more about Brax and 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.200 Barrios here in a moment. But I thought White had 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.039 him open in the end zone and you know, not 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.040 wide open, but NFL open where Barrios had him stacked 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.760 on his back and the ball is a little bit 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.919 behind and that gives a dB all he needs to 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.719 catch up and get a hand on the football. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:37.479 So those two. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.320 Plays right there with you know, a late pick six 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.119 that gets tipped into the air, a late punt return 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:42.760 that gets ran. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.479 Back for a touchdown. That's that's the that's. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.880 The game right there, and you're gonna hear coach talk 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.000 about process over results, but using the results to kind 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.159 of teach and learn some things. I think the Dolphins 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.640 have a good chance to learn some things from this 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.280 game after going back and watching the tape and realizing 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.880 four or five plays can really change a game in 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.479 the NFL. That's kind of lesson for this game. I 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.240 takeaway is that Miami played well and consistent throughout the 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.520 course of the game to you know, keep the scoreboard 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.800 what it was as a six nothing, six to three 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.560 ball game, and again could have been you know, fourteen 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.240 to six or seventeen to six if the red zone 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.159 had gone a little bit better. They didn't, And that's 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.840 a teaching lesson to learn how in this league. If 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.120 you don't capitalize on those opportunities that are right there 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.880 for you, you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the scoreboard. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.560 Let's go ahead and hear from coach who met with 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.760 the media after the game. This was an opening statement 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.360 before they ask questions to Mike McDaniel. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.560 As did you guys enjoy that the clinic? 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:35.280 Yeah, no, the. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.320 I I hope it doesn't get lost. It was a 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.960 It was a really cool defensive effort for a lot of. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.640 Guys that haven't been here very very long. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.800 So private players and coaches for that, and uh, yeah, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.960 you're gonna lose football games when you're vote for three 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.920 in the red zone and you give up a pick 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:01.400 six and pun return. But overall, I'm fired up to 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:02.039 be here, guys. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.520 So let's go ahead and do five takeaways from the game. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.200 We're gonna do this after every single Miami Dolphins football 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.479 game in season. Gonna be a little more in depth 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.040 on the takeaways because you can learn more from regular 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.200 season football and kind of give yourself a big picture 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.840 thought after a game, as we like to do, you know, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.039 as media and fans too, where every single game is 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.839 an event of itself and you have to kind of forecast, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.080 you know, big picture takeaways from each game, but in 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.520 the preseason not so much. But I want to stay 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.159 true to the format here and kind of give you 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.279 five thoughts I had coming out of that game. And look, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.000 I've always been this way, going back to you know, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.360 the twenty sixteen season covering this team on Lockdown Dolphins, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.960 where the exhibition season for me is about finding standouts 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.400 and highlights and star not stars, but stars are the 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.880 game that you think can carry that production over into 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.160 the regular season and help your team come September because 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.719 the games in August, no one cares about the standings 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.560 in August. Let's find out what we can do to 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.960 make the team better in September. That's always been my pro. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.000 So just kind of have that mindset going into the 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.120 takeaways here because number one and we'll again we'll talk 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.359 about the individuals shortly, but I thought the ability of 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.640 the offense in a game situation to create opportunities and 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.480 scheme up plays for guys showed up a little bit today. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.360 You know, Eric Azukama had the two carries for fifty 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.160 two yards I think it was, and thirty nine of 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.560 those on the one rush that he took around the 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.400 edge and showed you the run after catch ability that 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.040 he has. There was the third down conversion to Miles 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.200 Gaskin and the big game that he had where they 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.080 short motioned him against a linebacker who didn't really follow 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.560 him to the wide side of the field, to the 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.360 side of the field that he went to on that 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.280 motion and kind of gives you a little tip there 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.920 as a quarterback or you know, anybody in the offense 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.800 that hey, they don't have a guy for him, or 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.640 maybe they're in zone coverage or man coverage. Based upon 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.800 how they moved they short motioned him, he gets a 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.080 free release into the flat. It's an easy pitch and 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.800 catch for him to Mike or from Mike White to 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.120 Miles to move the chains and get that first down. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.520 There like really easy pickings. A quick screen to von 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.000 a chan where he was able to pick his way 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.480 through some traffic and pick up a first down. There 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.480 was a Texas route to a change later in the game, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.240 again on a linebacker. You know, if a Chanin's running 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.720 for the outside shoulder that linebacker, he better flip his 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.440 hips and get committed to going vertical that way, and 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.320 the minute he does that, a chain breaks it back 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.920 across his face and catches a pass, takes a hit 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.400 first down. Love the toughness we saw from devon a 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.480 change in this game. So the offense's ability when they 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.080 have a chance to scheme things up in a regular 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.520 season game, That's what I'm excited to see because I 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.400 thought we saw, you know, the offensive line struggled late 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.320 in this game, particularly to protect the quarterback, and Scaler was, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.600 you know, tough as hell back there, taking some shots 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.280 and getting back up and staying in the game and 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.400 staying with it. And we heard from him post game 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.320 he was very you know, just I love hearing Scaler 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.280 communicate after a game, you know, the way he sees 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.679 the game and kind of taking things, his own accountability 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.360 of things, even though you know, if some of those 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.360 pockets were he'd had no chance in some of those pockets. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.360 So I just I thought that his ability to kind 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.920 of bounce back and you know, be Scalar Thompson was 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.400 important there at the end. But to give him a 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.840 chance to go out and compete against you know, and 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.920 Coach mentioned this as well, as might I see an 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.960 opportunity next week where Skyler and Mike flip their you know, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.920 game script and give Skyler a chance to run with 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.000 some more of the I guess higher up the depth 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.120 chart part of the roster versus Mike White, who got 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.120 to play first to night. Flip those guys next week 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.840 and maybe get a better look at that. And we'll 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.559 talk about the quarterback competition for that number two job 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.560 here in just a moment. But in general, you know, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.040 the opportunity to scheme things up for your offense is 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.760 where I think this offense goes from. You know, a 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.120 bunch of highly talented players that didn't get to see 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.960 a lot of those guys tonight in terms of the 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.760 main components of your offense. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:34.920 But you take it from a bunch. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.120 Of guys playing football to like, all of a sudden, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.640 it's a chess match and you have a guy like 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.800 Mike McDaniel putting all together to really make those pieces 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.360 hum and work together in harmony. That was kind of 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.559 a small takeaway I had from this game, just in 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:47.439 those few plays. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:48.959 Number two is similar. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.640 It's the continuity of the offense plus newcomers or new 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.240 contributors I should say as well on offense that could 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.640 have a real impact Braxon Barrios was a guy that 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.960 I thought was really good in this game. Eric Azukama 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.560 obviously a really good opening night in the preseason here 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.600 in this twenty twenty three season, a guy that didn't 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.360 play a lot last year in the regular season. That's 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.520 why I call him a newcomer, new contributor, a guy 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.280 that could potentially contribute for you this year. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.520 I thought there was a good. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.560 Glimpse of that on the offensive side number three, and 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.959 you heard coach allude to it in that opening statement 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 about some of the defensive players that just got here. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.880 I thought it was impressive for DeShawn Hand to show 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.520 up and play as much as he did and really provide, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.160 you know, a good look at a very strong candidate 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.240 for the next guy after Wilkins, Seeler and Rakewon, because 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:36.679 we know we have in those three guys, right and 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.200 Coach Fangio talked about that a little bit. How we 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.839 know those three guys are good players. They're going to 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.360 give us lots of snaps this year. But what's beyond 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:44.599 that in the depth, and you have a bunch of 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.240 guys that are fighting for roles on this team that 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.960 don't have a lot of NFL experience, will insert DeShawn 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.000 han who's played in that role pretty much his whole 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.360 career with the Detroit Lions. I thought he looked really 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.440 good in this game, played a bunch of snap showed 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.840 you he's in shape, and coach alludes to that in 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.760 his press conference. That's a big sign to me because 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.520 that was a spot where who's going to be the 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.800 guy that kind of played that John Jenkins role last year. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 I think Deshaan Hann really put his best foot forward 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.640 to say, hey, that might be me going forward. Takeaway 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.000 number four. I noted the penalties eight for seventy two 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.959 in this game. It's something, of course that the Dolphins 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.600 have emphasized the operation and just making sure the whole 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.920 thing is cleaner from a penalty standpoint, and that's the 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.640 kind of stuff that can really you know, bog down drives. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:26.160 There was a. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.320 Holding call on Elijah Higgins that I didn't like it. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.079 I didn't agree with it. I thought it was a 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.680 little bit soft from the perimeter, but it took away 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.400 a big play and put Miami behind the chains. Just 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.000 stuff like that that happened a little too frequently last year, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.680 and you saw a little bit poke up in this game, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.880 especially late, and you'll hear a coach in the press 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.440 conference talk about the fact that, like late in that 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.600 fourth quarter, is you know, you're running guys out there, 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.320 ninety man rosters pluging this game. Thirty one guys not 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.880 available for the Dolphins in this game. But if you 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.120 look at the list of guys not available, a lot 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.360 of guys that will be contributing on Sundays not out there. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.600 So you're going into you know, your entire ninety man 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.640 roster and getting everybody on the same page with that 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.920 many players can be difficult. In that first preseason game, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.319 I thought we saw some of that kind of rear 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.360 Itch Ugly had there late in the game, just having 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.480 to track going forward because the penalties, if they can 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.920 cut those down man this offense, they can be as 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.720 good as they like. Number five, the ability to finish 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.680 the game, and the stamina. You'll hear coach again talk about, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.800 you know, guys having a hard time getting back to 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.120 the huddle at certain points and just trying to get 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.360 themselves into game shape. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.800 It we saw some guys play the pretty much the 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:27.480 entire game. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.240 I think Alamo yu Lave the center from San Diego State. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.840 I think he played the entire game, not mistaken, No 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.200 Connor Williams, no Dan Feenie, So it would make sense 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.280 that he did at that center position. Isaiah Willams out 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:41.680 there for a lot of the game tonight as well, 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.000 and he showed out really well. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.319 We'll talk about him in a moment. But I just 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.920 thought that the. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.480 Stamina to play that full game and then to not 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.360 finish the game or finish the game the way they did, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.440 I thought was just a negative takeaway that you can 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.199 kind of look at and learn from and get better 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.560 from hopefully going forward. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.719 Those are the five takeaways there. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.400 Let's go ahead and come back on the other side 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.840 here and talk a little bit about some competitions the 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.760 quarterback position here a lot more from head coach Mike McDaniel. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.240 That's all next on the game Recapetition of the Draft 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.960 Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:15.760 Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and play some sound here 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.480 from coach McDaniel to kick off the second segment of 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.400 the game recappetition. Dolphins falls to the Atlanta Falcons to 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.760 go to zero to one in the preseason by the 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.520 final of nineteen to three. A pick six late, a 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.160 punt return late for six, zero for three in the 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.640 red zone. That's the script to lose a football game, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.320 the formula to play a losing football. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.320 As the Dolphins did in this game. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.280 Let's go ahead and go to coach McDaniel, who talked 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.600 about the offensive execution, but got more into just the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.439 overall theme of the night in terms of competition, fighting 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.600 for positions on the on the offense, on the defense, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:46.480 and the team in general. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.360 Here's head coach Mike McDaniel. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.920 I thought, I thought it was a pretty good job 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.600 in the first half. Henceforth we were in the low 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:02.920 red three times and then gave you know, see fourth 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.120 downs in preseason games as an opportunity to you know, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.640 see see certain people at the point of attack. Second half, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:17.880 I didn't like the operation at all. You know, the compounding. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:24.640 Variables of like guys being more tired than they're used to, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.400 getting back to the huddle late, those types of things 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.840 I did not like at all. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.720 You know, I think that there was some real good 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.320 stuff on the line of scrimmage from the offensive line, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.360 particularly in the first half, and there's some you know, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.440 there's a lot of things to build upon it's a 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.680 preseason is all about process of results, but you learn 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.320 you use the results as a teaching tool. So yeah, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.840 I think that you have to. You can really learn 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.280 the hard way and you utilize preseason to see how 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.800 precious those opportunities you get in the red zone and 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.280 how you have to come up with points or you can, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.280 you know, waste a pretty good effort by the defense, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.720 you know, holding that team to six points and really 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.480 really come together. So there's some good stuff to learn from. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.200 And I thought there was certain players that are in 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.240 heavy competition did some good things that will help them 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:27.840 stand out. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.120 And you know, so it's the tale of two halves 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.960 really offensively, and to that point. We'll talk about the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.560 quarterback competition here in just a moment. But I thought 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.600 that one of the guys that coach allude to there 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.960 was Isaiah Win. At least that's my takeaway from it 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.520 because the way I watched him and Seth commented on it, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.800 OJ talked about in the post game show. I thought 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.720 Isaiah Win played incredibly fast and fired off the football 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.800 and really got some surge in the running game, which 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.960 on those interior three positions, you know, the left guard 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.160 spot for winning this game. You want to get that 0:15:58.240 --> 0:15:59.960 knockback and surge in the running game and try to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.320 create lanes up the middle to get those big running 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.000 plays up the middle on your offensive attack. And I 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.200 thought that when, especially when you factor in what we've 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.400 heard from coach in the past, and offensive line coaches 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.760 here and offensive coordinators talk about, you know, Frank Smith 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.040 and Butch Berry and obviously Mike McDaniel talk about is 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.440 playing fast off the ball, and the players talk about 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.520 it and they want to fire off and trust the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.800 process of you know, we're going to put you in 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.880 positions to play fast and not worry about the vulnerability 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.200 that comes with that of making mistakes or over running 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.280 a player, over running your block and putting yourself in 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.080 a bad position, and that. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.600 Trust fall that coach talked about. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.800 For a guy Isaiah Win who came over from a 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.880 primary gap man scheme in New England and you know, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.640 put his best foot forward on the first game of 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.200 his career in the Miami Dolphins uniform in this system 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.240 that does prioritize the way they come off the ball, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.680 I thought that was super impressive. Attached to some blocks, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.920 got some pancakes, move guys around and create some lanes. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.320 So I thought Isaiah Winn did really well in his 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.960 first game as a Miami Dolphin at that left guard spot. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.680 The quarterback competition, if you want to call it that, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.440 then two job between Mike White and Skyler Thompson. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.440 Now the statistics they're not. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.000 Going to do those guys in your favorites, go ahead 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.200 and read those off here real quick. So for Skyler 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.240 in the game, he of course played the second half. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.360 He was ten for sixteen with one hundred and four yards, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.320 two interceptions, and was sacked four times. That was kind 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.679 of the main takeaway late in the game was in 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.080 again the coach we'll talk about this was just how 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.240 difficult it was kind of you know, rowing upstream for 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.400 Skyler Thompson to get anything accomplished with the pressure bearing down. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.560 And he talked about in his postgame press conference as 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.840 well that he didn't really he kind of got confused 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.440 by a couple of the pressure looks we saw from 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.280 the Falcons in this game and maybe held the ball 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.000 a little bit too long and took some of those shots. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.680 But not his you know, best game statistically. We saw 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.200 him really tear it up last preseason, but a rough 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.119 night for him with a forty one points having a 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.320 passer rating, and then for Mike White as well, nine 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.840 for fourteen eighty five yards and a pick and just 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.440