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Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show
Speaker 4: we back.
Speaker 3: We are back in the winner circle. And you know
Speaker 3: what time that means.
Speaker 4: It is as we transition from one theme song to
Speaker 4: the next theme song. Here is the Dolphins win big
Speaker 4: thirty one sixteen over the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: Dolphins get to four and one for.
Speaker 4: The first time in twenty seasons two thousand and three,
Speaker 4: the last time that happened, also atop the AFC East
Speaker 4: following a Buffalo Bills lost in London to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 4: We'll tell you how Miami got to that thirty one
Speaker 4: sixteen final, as well as audio from head coach Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel quarterback to u We'll break it all down and
Speaker 4: look at the five big picture takeaways from the Baptist
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Speaker 4: A number of Miami Dolphins somebody made a suggestion to
Speaker 4: me that I should change that opening to that's another
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins touchdown with the frequency of which the Dolphins
Speaker 4: have scored touchdowns this season, and they do it again
Speaker 4: on Sunday with four more trips to the end zone
Speaker 4: and a field goal, And it could have been even more,
Speaker 4: which we'll talk about in this podcast. But the Dolphins
Speaker 4: through the first five games of the season are just
Speaker 4: a yard shy of twenty six hundred yards, and that
Speaker 4: is the most all time through five weeks, eclipsing the
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine You guys might recall that team the
Speaker 4: Saint Louis Rams the Greatest Show on Turf with Kurt Warner,
Speaker 4: Marshall Falk, Isaac Bruce, Tory, holt Oz hakim Man. What
Speaker 4: a fun group that was to watch. Well, this Miami
Speaker 4: Dolphins team, statistically is more fun. Based on the numbers
Speaker 4: of the first five games, almost twenty six hundred yards
Speaker 4: through five games, and Miami got a bunch of those
Speaker 4: in this one.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 4: They put up five hundred and twenty four yards of
Speaker 4: offense three zho two through the air, two twenty two
Speaker 4: on the ground, and they did that on just fifty
Speaker 4: four plays, which I'll get the calculator out here. Five
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty four divided by fifty four that's nine
Speaker 4: point seven yards a clip. This Dolphins offense has just
Speaker 4: been unstoppable really through much of the year. A couple
Speaker 4: of their own self inflicted wounds have caused some low
Speaker 4: red zone mishaps. You have one game against the Buffalo
Speaker 4: Bills that don't go the way you want it to,
Speaker 4: but by and large, this Dolphins team has just been
Speaker 4: cooking all year long. Hopefully it continues, but through the
Speaker 4: first five games it has been just that twenty two
Speaker 4: first downs to Miami's fifteen. Miami just three for eight
Speaker 4: on third down. But this is an offense that hasn't
Speaker 4: really faced a lot of third downs this season because
Speaker 4: they've been so prolific on first and second down.
Speaker 3: They hold the Giants.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins defense does which by the way, Miami defense
Speaker 4: no touchdowns allowed in this game, just a couple of
Speaker 4: field goals as far as the defense is concerned, and
Speaker 4: really got after the quarterback. They have the second most
Speaker 4: QB hits as of the end of the one o'clock
Speaker 4: games and the National Football League with forty and a
Speaker 4: bunch of those came today, but the Giants just five
Speaker 4: to seventeen on third down, one for two on fourth down.
Speaker 4: Miami nearly doubled up the Giants total yards two to
Speaker 4: sixty eight for the Big Blue to Miami's five to
Speaker 4: twenty four. They had one eighty three passing, they had
Speaker 4: eighty five on the ground compared to Miami's two twenty two,
Speaker 4: and they ran at twelve more plays. Checked that fourteen
Speaker 4: more plays at sixty eight than the Miami Dolphins did.
Speaker 4: And how often do you have a game where you
Speaker 4: have three giveaways and no takeaways and you win pretty comfortably.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that's what happened today. The Dolphins do
Speaker 4: sack Daniel Jones seven times and eventually actually sent him
Speaker 4: to the locker room.
Speaker 3: He was replaced by Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 4: In this game, Miami took just one sack on their
Speaker 4: side of the ball, So give it six sacks this
Speaker 4: year allowed for the Dolphins offense. Through five games, both
Speaker 4: teams had the exact same penalty number six for forty
Speaker 4: three and the Giants had the ball for a second
Speaker 4: less than thirty six minutes, which means Miami had it
Speaker 4: for twenty four minutes. And a single second, So really
Speaker 4: productive day individually to twenty two for thirty three hundred
Speaker 4: and eight yards, two touchdowns, the two picks. We'll break
Speaker 4: those down more on tomorrow's podcast. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: Today's well though, but a one hundred or one hundred
Speaker 4: point four passer rating on the day to Von Hgen
Speaker 4: eleven carries for a buck fifty one, another touchdown, Hee
Speaker 4: most are at ten for sixty five, another touchdown, Tyreek
Speaker 4: Hill eight for one eighty one and a touchdown, and
Speaker 4: Waddle gets on the board with his first touchdown. And
Speaker 4: how about Cedric Wilson four for fifty two in his
Speaker 4: biggest day as a Miami Dolphin. Offensively so far, so yeah,
Speaker 4: the numbers keep on coming. Man, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: actually go back to twa tongue by Low who was
Speaker 4: asked after the game about the ability to post those.
Speaker 3: Types of numbers we just talked about.
Speaker 4: Offensively with the number of errors they made, which again
Speaker 4: three giveaways, a couple of penalties there, and just not
Speaker 4: the most efficient offense we've seen from this team this year,
Speaker 4: which I think should tell you how spoiled you are
Speaker 4: as Dolphins fan that you're not most efficient taste still
Speaker 4: produces thirty one points and five hundred and twenty four yards,
Speaker 4: pretty impressive, but Tua says it's thanks to the entire
Speaker 4: team and a complimentary effort that allows the offense to
Speaker 4: post that many yards when maybe they weren't their sharpest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that that says a lot out the
Speaker 5: guys that we have on on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 5: In order for us to do that offensively, we got
Speaker 5: to get the ball back.
Speaker 6: And in order for us to be able to, you know,
Speaker 6: do that, we got to we really got to all
Speaker 6: play together.
Speaker 5: And in order for me to pass the ball, the
Speaker 5: guys got a block. In order for the guys the
Speaker 5: runners to run the ball. You know, our guys got
Speaker 5: a block. And so I think they've done a tremendous
Speaker 5: job up front today. And you know, turn turnovers happen
Speaker 5: regardless of what the game is.
Speaker 6: And I don't think any any of the guys blinked.
Speaker 5: You know that there was no swing of emotion I
Speaker 5: felt throughout the locker room and throughout the guys. When
Speaker 5: we come to the sideline, it was just say, you know,
Speaker 5: we got your back, We got your back.
Speaker 6: And we're going to go and continue to play.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's go ahead and take a look at this
Speaker 4: game holistically comprehensively from the beginning, and we'll have some
Speaker 4: numbers and tomorrow's podcast for you guys, the All twenty
Speaker 4: two review, because I want to take a look at
Speaker 4: Dolphins defense at home versus the road and the splits.
Speaker 3: We talked about it a little bit on the Wednesday
Speaker 3: pod pod.
Speaker 4: I think it was, but those numbers continue now as
Speaker 4: the Dolphins have fourteen wins and their last sixteen starts
Speaker 4: here at hard Rock Stadium. Pretty great to have that
Speaker 4: type of home field advantage. But this game began a
Speaker 4: little bit differently than they have in the past, at
Speaker 4: least this season, as we saw the Chargers score on
Speaker 4: their opening drive, the Patriots did not. The Broncos did
Speaker 4: not either. They get a field goal in that drive.
Speaker 4: I think the Brokers got a field goal. The Bills
Speaker 4: score on their opening drive, but the Dolphins defense comes
Speaker 4: out first and puts it right to the Giants, who
Speaker 4: got a first down. But then quickly we're kind of
Speaker 4: knocked off that pace. And I thought there was a
Speaker 4: good variety and a good mixture of kind of getting
Speaker 4: some guys back into the fold. I thought Deshaun Elliott's
Speaker 4: return paid dividends, and we saw that come into play
Speaker 4: immediately with a scrape off the edge for a run
Speaker 4: stuff in that opening drive, we saw Cater Kohu kick
Speaker 4: back inside with Eli appleback on the outside getting some
Speaker 4: significant playing time there. Obviously, Andrew Van Gigle gives you
Speaker 4: lots of snaps in this game without Jalen Phillips, and
Speaker 4: we'll see when he comes back board a shot in
Speaker 4: the arm for the defense he will be I mean,
Speaker 4: you could argue your two of your best players on
Speaker 4: defense will be coming back to this team here, whether
Speaker 4: it's you know, sooner than later with Jalan Phillips and
Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey. But that's a point for a different day.
Speaker 4: But I thought you also saw lots of variety in
Speaker 4: terms of new fronts. We saw a pretty heavy bear
Speaker 4: front where you have a defender over the center and
Speaker 4: two defenders over either guard.
Speaker 3: So I zero in two.
Speaker 4: Two techniques to kind of put a stop to some
Speaker 4: of the running game. We've seen have success on this
Speaker 4: defense in some previous weeks, and the results are what
Speaker 4: they are. I mean, the Giants ran the ball in
Speaker 4: this game just twenty nine times but ran for only
Speaker 4: eighty five yards, so a very good average for this
Speaker 4: Dolphins run defense. And you know, two high, single high
Speaker 4: playing some different dime packages and third medium with Justin
Speaker 4: Bethel coming out of the field. I just thought you
Speaker 4: got lots of variety early on, and that was the
Speaker 4: case throughout the day. And they played a good game plan,
Speaker 4: a patient game plan to help them put themselves in
Speaker 4: situations to go make plays, which they did in this
Speaker 4: game to Alph look at the ball back on offense
Speaker 4: and go right down the field, which we're used to seeing.
Speaker 4: That eight plays eighty nine yards and it was all
Speaker 4: screens and plays off the edge in quick hitters, and
Speaker 4: it was an impressive game plan. We'll talk about that
Speaker 4: here in just a moment more. But consistently good blocking
Speaker 4: off the edge, consistent good blocking from the tackles, and
Speaker 4: obviously the guard, I mean everyone was involved in all
Speaker 4: that action. But I love the trickeration. You go Dwaddle
Speaker 4: in the backfield, a twenty four yard end around for
Speaker 4: Devon h Chan. Let's see Austin Jackson gets twenty yards
Speaker 4: on the field freight the big block on twenty yard
Speaker 4: screen pass to Waddle Tua has that quick hitro as
Speaker 4: Hedrick Wilson for twenty three yards, just all kinds of space,
Speaker 4: and I thought McDaniels in his bag early to get
Speaker 4: that early seven points on the board. The Giants take
Speaker 4: the ball back and miss a field goal after a
Speaker 4: couple of third down conversions, but then the final third
Speaker 4: down on third and seven, Ogbaugh and Wilkins getting immediately
Speaker 4: for a combined sack there on Daniel Jones. Some tackling
Speaker 4: issues on that play. There was a couple of plays
Speaker 4: that got out the gate because they had him wrapped up,
Speaker 4: and he wound up getting bonus yards after slipping some tackles,
Speaker 4: but it didn't cost them because the Giants missed the
Speaker 4: field goal.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins then lose a fumble.
Speaker 4: Where I thought that was a really good man beater
Speaker 4: call to get Tyreek Hill on a little drag route
Speaker 4: over the middle, and Tua had good process to find
Speaker 4: him to get that first down and move the chains,
Speaker 4: and then a change starts breaking tackles again, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, the ball pops out for our second
Speaker 4: fumble of the day Whereheem had a fumble on the
Speaker 4: first possession, and that's the fifth funnel the last two games,
Speaker 4: which if you're want to point some things to clean
Speaker 4: up ball security part of that. Dolphins would have three
Speaker 4: giveaways on the day and that drive ends early because
Speaker 4: of that. But then you get a immediate defensive stop
Speaker 4: there from Miami to hold the Giants to a three
Speaker 4: and out. Nearly had a special team's air there, which
Speaker 4: again goes into the bag of corrections you can make,
Speaker 4: and eleventh man ran off the field. They flagged the
Speaker 4: Dolphins for it, but it was actually our They flged
Speaker 4: him for a twelve minut of the field who couldn't
Speaker 4: get off, but it was actually the eleventh guy that
Speaker 4: couldn't get off, So we were out there.
Speaker 3: With ten guys.
Speaker 4: But McDaniel challenges it and wins it and gets the
Speaker 4: football back, and as a result of that, the Dolphins
Speaker 4: after Cater Kokhu, by the way, he blew up a
Speaker 4: screen on first down to create a second and four
Speaker 4: team which then turns into third and three. And then
Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins, who just gave the center of the Giants
Speaker 4: fits all day long. He and Zach Seeler, my goodness,
Speaker 4: they were giving those guys fits.
Speaker 3: In the interior.
Speaker 4: They forced Daniel Jones off the spot, Baker cleans him
Speaker 4: up for a big hit to get off the field.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: On third down, you have the special teams almost air
Speaker 4: but didn't wind up being that. And then the Dolphins
Speaker 4: hit a seventy six yard home run with devon a change,
Speaker 4: and this was let's go ahead and do it right now.
Speaker 4: The play before the play was to a tongue of
Speaker 4: I looa on second and ten backed up, and the
Speaker 4: top of his drop on this play is in his
Speaker 4: own end zone. He gets pressure off his left and
Speaker 4: the rusher actually gets a piece of to a shoulder
Speaker 4: and kind of yanks at him, but to a you know,
Speaker 4: good strong bass stands in there and doesn't go down
Speaker 4: on the hit, climbs in the pocket, attacks the lion
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, and throws the football into Tyreek Hill for
Speaker 4: a first down, which you know, if he doesn't complete that,
Speaker 4: it's third and ten backed up, or if he gets sacked,
Speaker 4: it's potentially a safety. Maybe third and you know, seventeen
Speaker 4: from your own one yard line, that's not a good
Speaker 4: position to be in. And the reason it's played before
Speaker 4: the play is the very next play is a hat
Speaker 4: on a hat block across the board for Devon Achan
Speaker 4: to go seventy six yards. Boy, what an angle eraser
Speaker 4: he was. You watch that game on the broadcast or
Speaker 4: that play on the broadcast, I should say he those
Speaker 4: guys had the angle on him, but not for long
Speaker 4: because he ran right by him. And you see that
Speaker 4: urgency almost pick up, and the defender like, okay, I
Speaker 4: got this play. Oh no, there he goes, and sure enough,
Speaker 4: there he goes. He is just impossible to catch him
Speaker 4: the back. He and Tyreek Hill continue to rewrite the
Speaker 4: top speeds in the National Football League this year in
Speaker 4: terms of how fast they run at their fastest. So
Speaker 4: the Dolphins get out to a fourteen to nothing start.
Speaker 4: The Giants answer back and get a field goal after
Speaker 4: I thought Van Ginkel had one of his most impressive
Speaker 4: reps of another very impressive game where he stacked and
Speaker 4: shed had his eyes in the quarterback, pursued downhill on
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones and swallowed the ball back in his face.
Speaker 4: Deseean Han gets a pressure. Then they get three plays
Speaker 4: from Eli Apple in a row, two good, one not
Speaker 4: so much. The first was a really good pass breakup
Speaker 4: on Darren Waller, but then he gives inside access on
Speaker 4: a slant for a first down, and then he comes
Speaker 4: down and makes a play on the following play for
Speaker 4: a run stop there to create a third nine situation.
Speaker 4: They didn't go after Xavi and Howard on Darren Waller
Speaker 4: on a slot fade and he makes a great breakup
Speaker 4: after a first down for the Giants. And then Zach
Speaker 4: Stealler has back to back reps where he splits double teams,
Speaker 4: one for a TfL one for a sec just consistently
Speaker 4: collapsing the interior of this Giants line. They came in
Speaker 4: banged up, Miami took advantage and harassed them all day
Speaker 4: long upfront, and Zach Sealer actually got my game ball
Speaker 4: on the postgame show I do with Seth and OJ
Speaker 4: because I was just so impressed with how he consistently
Speaker 4: was in there against running plays, pressure in the backfield,
Speaker 4: and passing plays. Just a great player. Zach Sealer has
Speaker 4: become here for your Miami Dolphins. They kicked the field goal,
Speaker 4: Miami takes it back and all of a sudden, like
Speaker 4: this half is moving along super fast, and the Dolphins
Speaker 4: take it right down the field. They have a first
Speaker 4: and goal from the four or I think this, I
Speaker 4: think it was the four yard line. They get a
Speaker 4: short run and then the incomplete pass and it should
Speaker 4: have been DPI on Waddle in the corner of the
Speaker 4: end zone with a defender not even looking at the football,
Speaker 4: but they don't call it. And the next row, Tua
Speaker 4: tries to jam one into to Waddle, it gets tipped
Speaker 4: into the air and picked off and ran back for
Speaker 4: one hundred and two yard touchdown return. Just not great
Speaker 4: football there from Tua. He talked about it after the game,
Speaker 4: said that was his fault, his mistake. He came make
Speaker 4: that poor decision. And this comes after a sixty four
Speaker 4: yard screen pass to Tyreek Hill where that was where
Speaker 4: they both hit those high speeds and it was just
Speaker 4: impressive to watch those guys get out in space and
Speaker 4: really run, really open it up. And the reason I
Speaker 4: wanted to bring that up, actually, you know, let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and put that back to the takeaway because I
Speaker 4: have a point on that I want to make about
Speaker 4: the adjustment of the exitter, sprint motion, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: To call that.
Speaker 4: But two, his big pig six, just it's gotta be
Speaker 4: better than that, and he knows that, and he'll he'll
Speaker 4: bounce back and make better plays than that, the Giants
Speaker 4: score the touchdown, Mimi gets it right back in.
Speaker 3: Tua goes five for five. Boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 4: A bunch of good plays there to put the Dolphins
Speaker 4: in position to kick a field goal to take a seventeen.
Speaker 3: To ten lead at halftime.
Speaker 4: And I want to go ahead and play some audio
Speaker 4: here for you because Tua addressed his ability to kind
Speaker 4: of bounce back and play good football when he makes
Speaker 4: a mistake.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and run the audio on that.
Speaker 4: Because he talked about his sharp play after a turnover
Speaker 4: again five or five on that field goal drive to
Speaker 4: put Miami back in position. And he also had a
Speaker 4: pretty good bounce back in the second half as well.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and play the audio here from Tua
Speaker 4: on bouncing back after a mistake.
Speaker 6: When when I came into the league, it was.
Speaker 5: It was a lot different when I would throw an interception.
Speaker 5: The mindset I'd have, I throw an interception and I'd
Speaker 5: feel the need to press and think that I need
Speaker 5: to make a play for our guys, And really that's
Speaker 5: not that's not how I sort of take it into games,
Speaker 5: and that's really how I do it in practice as well.
Speaker 5: If you know, I throw an interception in practice, like
Speaker 5: those are game reps that I can use, So if
Speaker 5: it does end up happening in a game, I know
Speaker 5: how to move from move forward from that, So it's
Speaker 5: you know, it happens, and then it's move move on,
Speaker 5: and then what does this play entail for you to
Speaker 5: do to get your job done? For all these guys?
Speaker 3: Really good stuff there.
Speaker 4: We have more on that on the other side, including
Speaker 4: a breakdown of the sixty nine yard touchdown pass that
Speaker 4: Tua through a Tyreek Hill to kick off the third quarter.
Speaker 4: We have sound from coach on that too. On that,
Speaker 4: and we'll also talk about Tua's journey to get to
Speaker 4: this place and what McDaniel thinks about his ability to overcome.
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Plenty to come your way here on the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 4: including five big picture takeaways. All that's next Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 4: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by autot Nation.
Speaker 4: First half in the books, right, Dolphins take a seventeen
Speaker 4: to ten lead into the halftime break, and it felt
Speaker 4: like it should have been a lot more. I think
Speaker 4: it was three twenty five to one twenty six in
Speaker 4: total yards, but a fourteen point swing, they're late, We'll
Speaker 4: do that. And I actually had the exact same thing
Speaker 4: happen for my Washington State Cougar's on Saturday, who lost
Speaker 4: their first game of the year to UCLA. They were
Speaker 4: down nine to three before the halftime break and we
Speaker 4: got the pick six going back the other way, taking
Speaker 4: a ten to nine lead, and then just didn't play
Speaker 4: well the rest of the game. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that seems like maybe a little bit of a payback
Speaker 4: there for my football weekend. I don't know, no one
Speaker 4: of the Dolphins cares about the Washington State Cougar so
Speaker 4: I digress. We move on to the second half here,
Speaker 4: and it was good to see Miami put themselves back
Speaker 4: in shape to score a field goal after the pick
Speaker 4: six that made a fourteen to ten to take that
Speaker 4: seventeen to ten lead. But they would not take very
Speaker 4: long to find a big splash play down the sideline
Speaker 4: as to a dialed up t Tyreek Hill for a
Speaker 4: long touchdown sixty nine yards. I counted the ball as
Speaker 4: thirty one yards in the air and man, this thing
Speaker 4: hit him right on the face mask. What a dime
Speaker 4: that was from QB one to put that ball in
Speaker 4: that location. I thought it was even better in addition
Speaker 4: to Tyreek Hill's release where we talked about with OJ
Speaker 4: in the postgame show, like zero zero zero, he whiffed
Speaker 4: in all phases of that jam the Brookie cornerback did
Speaker 4: as Tyreek's release got him wide open up the sideline, And.
Speaker 3: That's obviously great.
Speaker 4: But Tua's ability to play with the defense and manipulate
Speaker 4: what they do in terms of how they rotate and
Speaker 4: move two high safeties half half. You know, both guys
Speaker 4: had a half part of the deep coverage and Tua
Speaker 4: kind of locked onto the safety to Tyreek's side, and
Speaker 4: they ran a crossing route right at that safety which.
Speaker 3: He then pulls up.
Speaker 4: And that's designed, that's quarterback manipulation, that's Tyreek Hill winning
Speaker 4: on the perimeter. Just a lot of these things, good
Speaker 4: patch protection, obviously, a lot of these things that go
Speaker 4: into completing a sixty nine yard touchdown pass. The Dolphins
Speaker 4: had it all on that play, including a great throw
Speaker 4: and a great read and a great manipulation there from
Speaker 4: the quarterback and the keyhole ACU received obviously down the
Speaker 4: football field. But what you didn't know watching the game
Speaker 4: was that Tua actually made that play call himself. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and hear from Tua on how that happened,
Speaker 4: and he kind of teased you up for a McDaniel
Speaker 4: sound bite, which she'll play right afterwards as well.
Speaker 5: That's around play call, and you can ask Mike about that.
Speaker 5: I don't think I should be saying.
Speaker 6: That was wrong play call. I called the wrong play.
Speaker 6: I called my own play. So you guys might want
Speaker 6: to ask Mike about that one. But it's around play
Speaker 6: on the touchdown play. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds weird just.
Speaker 5: Taking the credit for that one or No, dude, he
Speaker 5: said a play and I.
Speaker 6: Told him I misheard him. As I was looking at.
Speaker 4: It, I was like, oh, I thought it was cool
Speaker 4: to get that sound bite there because he went before
Speaker 4: coach did the postgame press conference, so they did ask
Speaker 4: Mike and here's what Coach McDaniel had to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently he's still in my thunder. I wanted.
Speaker 1: I wanted to unveil that he's now a play color
Speaker 1: as well. No, I that's one of the moments that
Speaker 1: in the in the story of his you know, his journey,
Speaker 1: that is indicative of where he's at. I just know
Speaker 1: the way that we were able to move the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then those turnovers and the picks.
Speaker 1: Last year, it would have been hard to get him
Speaker 1: out of that, Like just how mad he would be
Speaker 1: at himself and all the discipline work that he's done,
Speaker 1: you know, with mind, body and soul to be in
Speaker 1: a moment like that, and you know, uh, just take
Speaker 1: the game in his own hands. That's what you're trying
Speaker 1: to build, you know, these are the it was.
Speaker 2: It was a really cool moment that.
Speaker 1: When you're watching the formation set up, I am not
Speaker 1: composed because I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, what it what? What?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: You just don't know that you think everything, You have
Speaker 2: no idea.
Speaker 1: It's hard to visualize what play he actually called because
Speaker 1: you're just thinking that nine people are messed up. And
Speaker 1: then you know, is that that's the type of stuff
Speaker 1: that you can't manufacture to be able to have the
Speaker 1: wherewithal to say, you know what, let's put it in
Speaker 1: mine in Tyreek's hands. You know, I'm just very very
Speaker 1: proud of him. You know the sometimes the messy games
Speaker 1: are my favorite with regard to that stuff. You turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, that's hard, but what's uh, the big
Speaker 1: the best way to separate yourself is to be able
Speaker 1: to come back from that and progress forward and not
Speaker 1: let other plays linger. And there's very few guys that
Speaker 1: could pull it off.
Speaker 3: Gosh, you have to love to hear that as a
Speaker 3: Dolphins fan.
Speaker 4: Right, you look back at all the teams that accomplish
Speaker 4: things that this team wants to accomplish.
Speaker 3: What do they all have in common?
Speaker 4: Really good quarterback play, really good head coach, and a
Speaker 4: relationship between those two guys that works together and rows
Speaker 4: in the same direction. Has this relationship certainly feels like
Speaker 4: we have that here with to a tongue by Loa
Speaker 4: and Mike McDaniel. So the defense comes back up again
Speaker 4: after a really good first half, and you know, they
Speaker 4: could have sulked and been upset by the offense, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of ruining their point total for the day with
Speaker 4: the pick six, but they didn't do that. You get
Speaker 4: more big plays from Wilkins and Steeler Andrew Van Geinkle
Speaker 4: had back to back very effective rushes that caused the
Speaker 4: offense to kind of sput her out and get themselves
Speaker 4: into danger. And in fact, man, this Dolphins defense posted
Speaker 4: some big time numbers. We'll talk about that here in
Speaker 4: the takeaways. Just a really good game from those guys,
Speaker 4: they give it back to the Dolphins. Dolphins then turn
Speaker 4: it over again to a tongue by Lowa throws an
Speaker 4: interception that just didn't seem very characteristic of him. He
Speaker 4: called it, you know, poor decision, throw, poor everything by
Speaker 4: the quarterback. And this came after a holding call negated
Speaker 4: a forty yard raheem moster at run and then a
Speaker 4: chain catches an end around for a big yard and
Speaker 4: draft for the fact. But then tow It throws a
Speaker 4: bad ball that gets picked off and you know, some
Speaker 4: bad decisions putting the ball in harms way. Not usually
Speaker 4: characteristic of Tua in terms of it doesn't happen that often,
Speaker 4: but it happens sometimes. And that's why, you know, I
Speaker 4: always thought he was gonna throw more picks this year
Speaker 4: than they did last year, because I think the ability
Speaker 4: to know the offense better means more aggression and will
Speaker 4: be more explosive, which we have been, which sometimes comes
Speaker 4: with some negatives too, And that's okay. But five picks
Speaker 4: through five games, eleven touchdowns through five games is pretty
Speaker 4: dang good. All the numbers are going to look pretty
Speaker 4: good when he comes. When we just look at the
Speaker 4: box score and all the stats tomorrow, but just putting
Speaker 4: the bond Harm's way, obviously not great, leads to a
Speaker 4: Giants field goal, which Miami got off the field almost
Speaker 4: immediately a big time stop from cater Cooho on third
Speaker 4: and twelve. Dolphins take the football back once again and
Speaker 4: go score to make it thirty one to thirteen on
Speaker 4: one of the most impressive drives you can possibly have
Speaker 4: and assert your wheel type of drive and just showcases
Speaker 4: Miami's multiple routes to victory with its current raw. So
Speaker 4: they have offensively passing game, running game or defensively special
Speaker 4: teams like across the board, they can find ways to
Speaker 4: win games in multiple ways, and they did it on
Speaker 4: this drive by just committing to the running game. So
Speaker 4: devon e Chan goes for eight, they do a pop
Speaker 4: pass which counts as a throw from two it but
Speaker 4: it's really a glorified handoff for eight or for fourteen
Speaker 4: yards to eight Chan.
Speaker 3: Then Moster goes.
Speaker 4: Back to back eleven to twenty three yard runs, then
Speaker 4: a Chan again six five, and then Moster checks back
Speaker 4: into the game for six yards and then an angry
Speaker 4: run two yards into the end zone for six. Love
Speaker 4: to see that the Dolphins' ability to do that is
Speaker 4: going to make this offense just really difficult to stop.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on the
Speaker 4: running backs and that drive in particular, where it was run, run, run,
Speaker 4: maybe run some more.
Speaker 1: It was the time in the game that was definitely intentional.
Speaker 1: It was the time of the game that I felt like, shame,
Speaker 1: shame on, shame on me if I didn't put it
Speaker 1: in the ball carry in the line's hands, because I
Speaker 1: felt like they had they had a nice competitive advantage
Speaker 1: at that moment.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's a.
Speaker 1: That's that's huge for what we're trying to build when
Speaker 1: to try to be able to win games handing the
Speaker 1: ball off, you know, for the type of respect that
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of our that our pass game
Speaker 1: really gets.
Speaker 2: It's a monumental. And that's something that.
Speaker 1: I can tell that the team really you know, got
Speaker 1: them going, and you know, you're hoping that you can continue.
Speaker 2: That whole process.
Speaker 1: But I mean, shoot, like, I'm just happy for the
Speaker 1: guys that got to execute that stuff.
Speaker 3: So that makes it thirty one to thirteen.
Speaker 4: The Giants would add a field goal as the Dolphins
Speaker 4: and Giants kind of went back and forth.
Speaker 3: In the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: Miami had five hundred yards and just the third quarter alone,
Speaker 4: So they've been playing these games. They are kind of
Speaker 4: like college teams where the offense doesn't really have much
Speaker 4: to do in the fourth quarter and you wind up
Speaker 4: losing a quarter of statue could potentially post, but I
Speaker 4: don't think it was going to cry for the Mimy Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Twenty five hundred and ninety nine yards through the first
Speaker 4: five games is the most in league history. Dolphins neel
Speaker 4: the clock out after some back and forth there, and
Speaker 4: the defense just continued to put pressure on that giant's front.
Speaker 3: So that's the second half. That's the result of the game.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 4: and come back on the other side. We'll hear some
Speaker 4: more from Tua and McDaniel and also give you my
Speaker 4: five big picture takeaways. All that's next on the Draft
Speaker 4: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
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Speaker 3: The game is in hand. The Dolphins are four and one.
Speaker 4: I'm recording this late at seven o'clock on a Sunday night,
Speaker 4: so we don't have the results of the rest of
Speaker 4: the AFC games, but right now, the Chiefs are currently
Speaker 4: leading the Minnesota Vikings. The Dolphins and Chiefs are the
Speaker 4: only teams in the AFC with just one loss still
Speaker 4: on the schedule through the first five games, So good
Speaker 4: company there to be keeping through the first five games
Speaker 4: of the season. Let's go ahead into the five big
Speaker 4: picture takeaways here, and I want to make very clear
Speaker 4: off the top that I have one in here that
Speaker 4: would be construed as a negative. And I want to
Speaker 4: just make it abundantly clear that I think very highly
Speaker 4: of this team and what they can possibly accomplish and
Speaker 4: where they want to get. I think to get there,
Speaker 4: you demand perfection and then eventually we'll fall somewhere among excellence.
Speaker 4: So I always we'll look for things that could be better,
Speaker 4: just FYI. And that's going to be one of the
Speaker 4: takeaways we do here. But first, that ain't the first one.
Speaker 4: Number one is the game plan to attack the edges
Speaker 4: on offense with the addition of the wrinkles off the
Speaker 4: sprint exit motion, and with that you now have an
Speaker 4: NFL records setting offense through the first five games of
Speaker 4: the season. I talked about that first drive, just consistently
Speaker 4: going after the Giants off the edge. We talked in
Speaker 4: the preview podcasts how the Giants are awfully young at
Speaker 4: the cornerback position. Going up against these receivers is a
Speaker 4: tough matchup for anybody, much less guys playing their first
Speaker 4: five games or their pro careers. And the Dolphins just
Speaker 4: found a way to execute by running the ball off
Speaker 4: the edge involving the backs or I should say the
Speaker 4: receivers in the backfield with the backs out wide and
Speaker 4: using end to round and pop passes and reverses and
Speaker 4: all this action screen game just fun to watch. But
Speaker 4: the big wrinkle that I took away from this is
Speaker 4: you just added another thing on tape that teams coming
Speaker 4: down the pipeline here are going to have to adjust
Speaker 4: to and play to and honor and cover more space
Speaker 4: than eleven guys can cover. Because the sprint exit motion
Speaker 4: that took the league by storm and revolutionized the you know,
Speaker 4: the entire league in terms of copycat and other ocs
Speaker 4: using this stuff to their benefit, well they just threw
Speaker 4: another wrinkle in there because off of that sprint motion,
Speaker 4: Tyreek would often you know, take that rail or that
Speaker 4: glance over the middle, or sometimes the steam route like
Speaker 4: or the hookup or the like there's different variations that
Speaker 4: he can run off of that. But all of that
Speaker 4: basically puts the defense on their heels in a way
Speaker 4: that they would kind of, I guess, adjust to by
Speaker 4: playing off and just say, okay, well you can have
Speaker 4: the underneath stuff.
Speaker 3: We're going to prevent this deep stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, now all of a sudden, you just have Tyreek
Speaker 4: stop and come back to the quarterback and to us
Speaker 4: so dang quick on the trigger and accurate, which is
Speaker 4: such a critical component of these screen passes to get
Speaker 4: the ball out fast and to put it right on
Speaker 4: the numbers so there is no waste of movement to
Speaker 4: allow those blocks to set up and to get the
Speaker 4: cheetah running at full speed from the jump. That's a
Speaker 4: critical part of that play. Innocuous, sure, seemingly easy, yeah, probably,
Speaker 4: but it's critical and to it does it as well
Speaker 4: as anybody. So now you've put this wrinkle into your
Speaker 4: offense where we got to come up and guard behind
Speaker 4: lion scrimmage too, and be aware of thirty yard dimes
Speaker 4: down the field, like have mercy, where does it stop?
Speaker 4: And there's just so much this offense can do. I
Speaker 4: love the blocking across the entire board. We'll go ahead
Speaker 4: and say that for a future takeaway because I have
Speaker 4: it multiple takeaways here because it was a big takeaway
Speaker 4: from me. But that's my first takeaway is the Dolphins
Speaker 4: offensive game plans and structure and the wrinkles they're adding
Speaker 4: and the stuff they're putting on tape.
Speaker 3: It is a lot.
Speaker 4: Martin del tollls before the game that he was losing
Speaker 4: sleep this week trying to prepare for this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 4: Takeaway number two is the interior defensive line takes over
Speaker 4: a game, and really you can stretch it out to
Speaker 4: the entire defense because they were dominant in this one.
Speaker 4: And the great Marcel Louis Juck, who congratulations Marcel on
Speaker 4: your engagement over the weekend. He and Haley Sutton, another
Speaker 4: local reporter down here, will be getting married soon. So
Speaker 4: congrats to those two. They're awesome people and I love
Speaker 4: working around them and with them. But he had a
Speaker 4: tweet about the Dolphins pass rush production, which you know,
Speaker 4: we get the numbers from PFF sometimes, and Marcel tweeted
Speaker 4: out the numbers that he had from a quarterback pressure standpoint.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and rattle those off, because the Dolphins
Speaker 4: were just utterly dominant upfront in this game all game long.
Speaker 4: Here are your pressure, sack and QB hit numbers. Andrew
Speaker 4: Van Ginkle eight pressures, one sack and five QB hits.
Speaker 4: He had a second sack that was negated by penalty.
Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins seven pressures on the interior, a half sack
Speaker 4: and two more QB hits. Bradley Chubbs seven pressures and
Speaker 4: four quarterback hits. Manuel Ogball four pressures, one and a
Speaker 4: half sack and two QB hits. And then Zach seeler
Speaker 4: Man four pressures, two sacks and three quarterback hits. That
Speaker 4: was my game ball in the post game show, by
Speaker 4: the way, but I mentioned the interior dominance. I mean
Speaker 4: the edge two Van Ginkle with eight, chubb with seven,
Speaker 4: Ogball with four. That is what nineteen pressures from three players,
Speaker 4: but just the two interior guys, Wilkins and Sealer combining
Speaker 4: for eleven pressures, two and a half sacks and five
Speaker 4: QB hits. You will not lose football games. Get that
Speaker 4: type of production up front. And they just whether it
Speaker 4: was you know, playing with power splitting double teams, crossing
Speaker 4: face and using arm unders or swim moves or you know,
Speaker 4: crossover steps. They just consistently gave the interior of that
Speaker 4: Giants offensive line fits all game long, constantly moving Daniel
Speaker 4: Jones off the spot, is peaking, stacking, shedding, and making
Speaker 4: plays in the running backs in the backfield on handoff.
Speaker 4: So it just really really forced this offense into, you know,
Speaker 4: having to adjust to find backs to come scam protect
Speaker 4: and get in there, and to really get away from
Speaker 4: the running game in general, dominant game from the Dolphins defense,
Speaker 4: but in particular on the interior defensive line. Takeaway number
Speaker 4: three is I put devon a Chan's angle erasing running
Speaker 4: and how dangerous of an element that is to the
Speaker 4: offense that already has all these elements that can threaten you.
Speaker 4: But then I just said, hey, the run game in general,
Speaker 4: because we're at a point where five takeaways just isn't
Speaker 4: enough for me, because I'm cobbling together some of these
Speaker 4: ideas and thoughts I have throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 4: But the seventy six yard touchdown run, I mentioned it
Speaker 4: on the previous part of the show, where his speed
Speaker 4: like jumps off the tape and I think he's the
Speaker 4: fastest player in the league, like Tyreek has the time
Speaker 4: right now. But I think in terms of running away
Speaker 4: from guys, a Chan's might be the fastest.
Speaker 3: Like it's the proof is.
Speaker 4: There, right, But you had hat on a hat blocking
Speaker 4: across the board. That was so impressive. Just everybody that
Speaker 4: had a seal nailed it. Everybody that had a down
Speaker 4: block and nailed it. Receivers out in the perimeter. Good
Speaker 4: team football to get points on the board. You're running
Speaker 4: back in the end zone. Just love to see it. Man,
Speaker 4: these guys have been so effective. Raheem and alec Ingold.
Speaker 4: You know those guys are big parts of the offense too.
Speaker 4: I want to go look at the numbers of how
Speaker 4: productive we are when Raheem and a chan are on
Speaker 4: the field together. That two back personnel has been dominant.
Speaker 4: You added alec Ingold all of a sudden you have
Speaker 4: like thirty personnel, three backs, no tight ends.
Speaker 3: It's so cool, man, it's so fun to watch.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and hear from QB one on RB
Speaker 4: twenty eight to a tongue of I Loowa talking on
Speaker 4: him on a chance growth and what he's meant to
Speaker 4: this offense.
Speaker 5: I think the coolest thing about someone like him being
Speaker 5: a rookie is.
Speaker 6: Just who he is as a person.
Speaker 5: How you see him on the sideline, just chill, relaxed,
Speaker 5: like that's who he is, and that's how he is
Speaker 5: in the huddle. And to be able to go in
Speaker 5: the huddle and see someone like that, it's very it's
Speaker 5: very promising to know that, Okay, he's gonna line up,
Speaker 5: he knows where he's going to line up, and then
Speaker 5: basically if he's getting the ball, you know it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a big play more often than not. But I
Speaker 5: got a lot of respect for that guy, and I
Speaker 5: think a lot of guys around the league have a
Speaker 5: lot of respect for him as well. But the cool
Speaker 5: thing about it is, you know, that's like he doesn't
Speaker 5: take heed to listen into any of that. Just a
Speaker 5: humble guy just coming into working doing what he needs
Speaker 5: to help the team win. So I'm very proud of
Speaker 5: him and very proud of basically all the guys.
Speaker 4: And we'll go ahead and play some more sound here
Speaker 4: because coach McDaniel touched on the return of Connor Williams particular.
Speaker 4: He talked about the entire offensive line, but he was
Speaker 4: asked specifically about Connor Williams returned the lineup.
Speaker 3: What a good player. Connor Williams is.
Speaker 4: Man. Here we go, here's coach on Connor Williams and
Speaker 4: the Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 1: Phenomenal job. He willed himself to play in this game.
Speaker 2: If you go by by.
Speaker 1: Standard measurement of injury and timeline, he he exceeded that.
Speaker 1: And I think it was very It's very impactful. It
Speaker 1: was very impactful for our whole group in general, because
Speaker 1: he's really taken a step in his game. One of
Speaker 1: the things that he does very well that we're kind
Speaker 1: of spoiled with is his ability to anchor the pocket.
Speaker 1: That's huge for you know, I think our interior line
Speaker 1: has did a really good job with that relative to
Speaker 1: any season I've had. And you know, I think that
Speaker 1: Connor's Connor's frustration at not being able to play with
Speaker 1: his teammates last week, it was it was so evident.
Speaker 2: I think it.
Speaker 1: Also charged up a lot of his teammates because he was,
Speaker 1: I mean viscerally like just angry that we lost a
Speaker 1: game and he didn't play, and so he was gonna
Speaker 1: make sure that there was no way he was going
Speaker 1: to stay off the field. And I mean, shoot, that's
Speaker 1: that's the type of guy that teammates love.
Speaker 3: Takeaway number four.
Speaker 4: I told you guys, I had to put one thing
Speaker 4: in here the Dolphins can improve upon, because again, to
Speaker 4: get where we want to go, we gotta get a
Speaker 4: little bit cleaner.
Speaker 3: And the entire operation.
Speaker 4: Wasn't too sloppy for today because you gained five hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty yards, didn't allow a defensive touchdown.
Speaker 3: But it was a little bit sloppy.
Speaker 4: So the stat disparity and the score disparity were not
Speaker 4: on par with each other, right, Like this should have
Speaker 4: been probably a thirty point game based upon just the
Speaker 4: stats alone.
Speaker 3: That's not how football works.
Speaker 4: But three takeaways versus no takeaway, it's kind of a
Speaker 4: sloppy game. And that loan department that often dictates the
Speaker 4: final results of football games. But it speaks to how
Speaker 4: dominant Miami has been in the rest of the part
Speaker 4: of the football game, which you know is most of it.
Speaker 4: But those plays tend to bog you down and cost
Speaker 4: you games. It did not today, But the pick six
Speaker 4: I just thought, you know, didn't have to force that
Speaker 4: ball in. There a couple of third down conversions for
Speaker 4: the Giants early on in the game that were you know,
Speaker 4: some easy access slants they got over the middle of
Speaker 4: the field, the eleven slash, tenth man or twelfth man
Speaker 4: leaving the field on special teams.
Speaker 3: These are small things they can clean up.
Speaker 4: The second interception, you know, to us said it didn't happen,
Speaker 4: but it looks like on the video his hand might
Speaker 4: have hit the helmet of Connor Williams.
Speaker 3: So just some things you can clean up.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and actually hear from Tua here who
Speaker 4: agrees with that that there are things that Dolphins can
Speaker 4: get corrected, even in a big win like this over
Speaker 4: the Giants.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of things are going right for us.
Speaker 5: If we just stuck with our plan and we stuck
Speaker 5: with our rules for each play, I think things were
Speaker 5: going really smooth. There were just times where we were aligned,
Speaker 5: things were you know, didn't didn't play within the structure
Speaker 5: of our offense, and things just just got out of hand,
Speaker 5: you know with some players. But outside of that's that's
Speaker 5: I would say, that's how the game went.
Speaker 4: And my takeaway number five here, I guess I kind
Speaker 4: of talked about the interior defensive line, but just how
Speaker 4: the defense senses blood in the water. I love this
Speaker 4: team's ability to play complimentary football and that when the
Speaker 4: offense has success, I feel like it just breeds success
Speaker 4: for the defense to be able to pin their ears back,
Speaker 4: rush the quarterback move them off the spot. I mean,
Speaker 4: forty quarterback hits is a ton, second most of the
Speaker 4: National Football League at press time. We'll see if that
Speaker 4: holds up and get you an update that on that
Speaker 4: on tomorrow's podcast. Also want to give you guys an
Speaker 4: update on the home versus road splits that are just
Speaker 4: so impressive right now in terms of how this Dolphins
Speaker 4: defense at home has been absolutely electric. But no touchdowns
Speaker 4: allowed in this game, put on a short field twice,
Speaker 4: one of those in field goal range.
Speaker 3: Pretty good stuff.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: The defense was definitely held up there, end of the
Speaker 4: bargain today and good to see them get a bounce
Speaker 4: back game for last week's loss up in Buffalo. Speaking
Speaker 4: of Buffalo, they lost. They fall to three and two.
Speaker 4: So we have a sole possession right now of first
Speaker 4: place in the AFC East with the first five games
Speaker 4: before welcoming in the Carolina Panthers next week here to
Speaker 4: hard Rock Stadium. Let's go ahead and just real quick
Speaker 4: give you some more numbers on this Dolphins defensive effort
Speaker 4: because the Giants came into this game. Here's Daniel Jones' day,
Speaker 4: fourteen for twenty for one hundred and nineteen yards, had
Speaker 4: six yards of pass sacked six times. Tyrod Taylor comes
Speaker 4: in nine for twelve eighty six yards, and he didn't
Speaker 4: throw a touchdown on our pick one sack on him.
Speaker 4: Their leading rusher had twenty five yards on twelve carries.
Speaker 4: The next was Daniel Jones four for twenty four. Matt
Speaker 4: Brida had nine for twenty one, so no running back
Speaker 4: for the Giants average better than two point three yards
Speaker 4: per carrying this one pretty effective day. Waller had eight
Speaker 4: for eighty six, so that was their best day offensively.
Speaker 4: But this Dolphins defense man just numbers and production limiting
Speaker 4: point totals. What a great day for them, What a
Speaker 4: great day for the team, What a great day for
Speaker 4: South Florida. Man four and one heading to the Carolina
Speaker 4: Panthers at home next week. Love where this team is
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