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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, you know what time?
Speaker 1: It is another victory Monday edition here of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast as the Dolphins win win, win, win. That
Speaker 1: is seven of the last eight. So much to unpack
Speaker 1: from this Dolphins nineteen to seven win win, win win
Speaker 1: as what started off as a slow, kind of uneventful
Speaker 1: game turned into a high wire act as a Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense puts the clamps on the Bengals, not allowing a
Speaker 1: point over the final three quarters and a resurgent up
Speaker 1: tempo attack from the offense leads to the final nine
Speaker 1: team points of the game. Will cover takeaways, individuals, audio
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Speaker 1: Miami today, huh. We had the Dolphins win this one
Speaker 1: nineteen to seven, and I finally got a chance to
Speaker 1: go back and look at the box score because there
Speaker 1: was a lot going on from quotes and articles and
Speaker 1: writing things up in the let's call it a shift
Speaker 1: in the mindset late in that game that kind of
Speaker 1: set the temple for post game and what coach and
Speaker 1: players were gonna talk about to the media. But what
Speaker 1: kind of got lost in the shuffle there for me
Speaker 1: was the box score. Look at this Dolphins box score.
Speaker 1: We've we've long heard the conversation this year that even
Speaker 1: as Dolphins are winning games by multiple scores, we've heard
Speaker 1: coach Flor's talk about how I don't really care about
Speaker 1: the stats without the proper context, because they might tell
Speaker 1: you one thing and I think I saw another thing.
Speaker 1: We'll look at the box score for this game from Miami,
Speaker 1: no doubt about who played the better football game. Miami
Speaker 1: four hundred and six yards one hundred ninety six for
Speaker 1: the Bengals. The Dolphins had one hundred ten yards on
Speaker 1: the ground. Cincinnati rushed for only forty yards in the game.
Speaker 1: Dolphins passed for two nine six to the Bengals one
Speaker 1: fifty six. Miami is one for ten on third down,
Speaker 1: so that's got to get better. We know that the
Speaker 1: Bengals were three for twelve, right in line with Miami's
Speaker 1: top third down defense in the National Football League. To
Speaker 1: takeaways from Miami, one for the Bengals on that late
Speaker 1: Miles gascon fumble, six Dolphins sacks the Bengals didn't have any,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins eight penalties for fifty four yards. We
Speaker 1: heard coach talk about that post game. That's not gonna
Speaker 1: that's not gonna do it for Coach Flora's and the
Speaker 1: way he wants this operation run. The Bengal six penalties
Speaker 1: sixty two yards and TP goes to Miami, who had
Speaker 1: thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds of time of possession.
Speaker 1: A couple of the storylines I was keeping my eye on,
Speaker 1: keeping a finger on the pulse of as we got
Speaker 1: closer and closer to kickoff was how the running back
Speaker 1: rotation worked, and it went how I thought it would.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin played the line share of the snaps. We
Speaker 1: did see some Patrick Lard out there at times in
Speaker 1: this game, and Chandler Cox as well in the very
Speaker 1: early going. I don't know how many snaps he played,
Speaker 1: but I did see him on the field early, but
Speaker 1: it was mostly Miles Gaskin out there as he Cox
Speaker 1: the fullback of course, and Laird were the only running
Speaker 1: backs available. Of course I was concerned or not concerned,
Speaker 1: but I was curious to see what To have played
Speaker 1: like in this game because we've heard all the stories.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played since that Denver game. So you know,
Speaker 1: everyone in the week to week league and the kind
Speaker 1: of get your reaction, get your take, gets your final
Speaker 1: conclusion on a player after every single game, reform that
Speaker 1: and propose it as a long term solution. That's how
Speaker 1: it is in this league. So I was curious to
Speaker 1: see how to would bounce back and the second half
Speaker 1: that he played in this game, I think, I hope
Speaker 1: is what folks will remember, and how he was just
Speaker 1: comfortable and throwing on the move and making plays. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about that here. Just one second, I wanted
Speaker 1: to know how many three an ounces they were gonna get,
Speaker 1: how many turnovers could they force? Could they hold the
Speaker 1: Bengals to ten or fewer first downs? Those were my
Speaker 1: target points and expectations for this Dolphins defense, and they
Speaker 1: came damn close. Two more takeaways that extends the NFL's
Speaker 1: longest active street of eight teen straight games with a
Speaker 1: takeaway they get four or three an ounce in the game,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of punts. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: again in the takeaway segment here. And twelve first downs
Speaker 1: with the Bengals offense, so just a little bit over
Speaker 1: on the end of the game. A couple of first
Speaker 1: downs they're late help the Bengals get over the ten mark.
Speaker 1: But those were what I was looking for, and this
Speaker 1: defense once again did not disappoint. And then the offensive
Speaker 1: line with Robert Hunt started the game instead of in
Speaker 1: place of Jesse Davis at right tackle, with Solomonckinley back
Speaker 1: at right guard. We did see Eric Flowers get hurt
Speaker 1: in this game. More on that in just one second,
Speaker 1: which pushed Dave us in the right guard off the
Speaker 1: bench and Solomon Kinley over the left guard where he
Speaker 1: played at Georgia. So some interesting stuff to look out there.
Speaker 1: We'll get more on the offensive line stuff on the
Speaker 1: All twenty two review. Just an easier time for me
Speaker 1: to have more transparency with that for you guys. First though,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and just address the elephant in the room,
Speaker 1: and here from Coach Flora's he spoke post game about
Speaker 1: the skirmish between the two teams, which saw the Dolphins
Speaker 1: sideline kind of pour onto the field in support of
Speaker 1: Jechem Grant, who was in a defenseless position a couple
Speaker 1: of times on punt returns and took a hit to
Speaker 1: the rib cage from the Bengals gunners. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and let Coach Flora's take you through his perspective of
Speaker 1: the entire event. Yeah, I mean we got to do
Speaker 1: a better job of keeping our pois. That starts with me.
Speaker 1: Have that a better job of keeping up my poys. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I'm gonna stick up for my players, Um,
Speaker 1: They're gonna stick up for each other without getting penalties,
Speaker 1: without um, you know, hurting the team. But we got
Speaker 1: to do a better job keeping keeping our boys, you know,
Speaker 1: as a team. These are I'm just gonna be These
Speaker 1: are like my kids. So the first time, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: second time I got a little you know said about it.
Speaker 1: But you know, still I got to do a better job.
Speaker 1: I have to and I can't. I can't you do
Speaker 1: anything to hurt the team. My abotions got the best
Speaker 1: in me there. But again he's you see somebody care
Speaker 1: about you know, you'll get it like that, you know twice.
Speaker 1: And but I gotta do a better job. I keep
Speaker 1: my punking ways better. We have to do a better
Speaker 1: job of that as a team. And his greater point
Speaker 1: remains and will remain for Coach Flora's that he just
Speaker 1: has to maintain better composure. And coach was asked this
Speaker 1: later in the press conference about if he felt like
Speaker 1: he might have scored some points with his players, with
Speaker 1: us with the entire Dolphins operation, and again he'll repeat
Speaker 1: the fact that he has to do a better job
Speaker 1: and his team has to do a better job of
Speaker 1: keeping their poise. But the players talked about it afterwards
Speaker 1: after the game, and they all came out and support
Speaker 1: a coach Flora's and talked about the same things. Coach said,
Speaker 1: where if they're gonna do something to one of our
Speaker 1: guys like Jacheems, someone you care about, then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to react in a certain way. And that was
Speaker 1: kind of the general theme of the message afterwards. But
Speaker 1: also the team, of course, has to keep your head
Speaker 1: on straight. Can't have those kind of mistakes play out.
Speaker 1: And you know in a football game that maybe it's
Speaker 1: closer on the scoreboard, So we'll go ahead and leave
Speaker 1: that and bury that right there. You're not coming to
Speaker 1: show to hear me talk about the drama. You want
Speaker 1: to hear me talk about the football game. And that's
Speaker 1: where we get into our very first takeaway here. With
Speaker 1: the first takeaway the value of a cornerback that takes
Speaker 1: the football away paired with the pass rush that does
Speaker 1: what it does to close out football games. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a long winded first take here, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: find out a way to focus this thing on one
Speaker 1: singular area, so I had to bring both of them
Speaker 1: together because I think that they both go so perfectly
Speaker 1: in unison to what we talked about on Friday's top
Speaker 1: news piece. The vision of this defense, what coach Flora is,
Speaker 1: with Josh Boyer and that defensive staff, what they want
Speaker 1: this defense to look like, to fit what they think
Speaker 1: they can do best schematically, and so you'd hear them
Speaker 1: talk about making the scheme fit the players, which of
Speaker 1: course is great and you should do it, but it's
Speaker 1: also nice when you sign players that have the skill
Speaker 1: set to operate the scheme that you want to run.
Speaker 1: And that's what they did by getting these two lockdown
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and Xavien Howard and Byron Jones. Now, the long
Speaker 1: touchdown for the Bengals, the seventy or two yards today
Speaker 1: came because of a little rub route on a flat
Speaker 1: a little pick to get a first down for Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd on a third short but Byron Jones went underneath
Speaker 1: the rub and that gave Tyler Boyd a chance to
Speaker 1: make a move and get up field and scored that touchdown.
Speaker 1: But besides that mistake, the defense was lights out throughout
Speaker 1: the course of this game, and the cornerbacks in particular,
Speaker 1: they continue to get it done. We talked about the
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger radio spot on that Friday top news piece
Speaker 1: where he talked about you have the stout outside coverage
Speaker 1: that allows you to get all these guys that can
Speaker 1: rush from different spots and create and new different things
Speaker 1: and line up in different spots and stunt and twist,
Speaker 1: and when pass rush with the bull rush, when pass
Speaker 1: rush with the speed move, do counter moves, all these
Speaker 1: different variety of things. It confuses the quarterback. It allows
Speaker 1: this defense to crank up the pressure with the trust
Speaker 1: and and just security of knowing those cornerbacks on the outside.
Speaker 1: In addition to two safeties who should be mentioned in
Speaker 1: that group as well, Eric Roe Bobby McCain are both
Speaker 1: having fantastic seasons. The vision of the defense coming together
Speaker 1: and as the second scoring defense in the league, the
Speaker 1: top ranked third down defense in the league eight teen
Speaker 1: trade games. In the takeaway six sacks in this football game,
Speaker 1: you see the vision pairing up with the talent on
Speaker 1: the football field and manage. Sure has been fun to watch.
Speaker 1: When we go ahead and start here with xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: who he catches it, and the press box just goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was ex who else would it be? It's it's weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it. I think Shaq
Speaker 1: Lawson said it best when he said he has never
Speaker 1: seen anybody doing what Exaviing Howard's doing right now. And
Speaker 1: his proclamation about who he thinks is the best cornerback
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, best quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: and down you get one every week, man, I ain't
Speaker 1: never witnessed nothing like that. I mean, I'm playing with
Speaker 1: good pointer back and don't get me wrong, I played
Speaker 1: with a great quarterback last year. Let's see a guy
Speaker 1: to get a pick almost every week. It's incredible, man,
Speaker 1: It's incredible, man. And I'm mad on witness being with
Speaker 1: one of the best going in the league. That is
Speaker 1: twenty interceptions in his last thirty four games. He leads
Speaker 1: the NFL this year with eight. He got twenty picks
Speaker 1: in fifty two career games, which of course that is
Speaker 1: the same amount that he has in the last thirty
Speaker 1: four games. I saw a staff from the great Brett
Speaker 1: Coleman on Twitter the Fame YouTube channel of the Film Room,
Speaker 1: and he talked about Asante Samuel playing for eleven years
Speaker 1: of his NFL career, so a lot longer than X
Speaker 1: so far, but averaging a pick every three games and
Speaker 1: how absurd that is. Xavian Howard in his career is
Speaker 1: averaging a pick less than every three games, and in
Speaker 1: the last thirty four games, it's like every game and
Speaker 1: a half. So he is on an unreal ridiculous pace
Speaker 1: helping this defense out and playing that good man coverage,
Speaker 1: that good tight coverage, staying in the hip pockets of
Speaker 1: the game's best receivers up and down the field. He
Speaker 1: and Byron Jones and Nick need him in the slot
Speaker 1: with those two safeties that pairs up so well with
Speaker 1: his pass rush that went off today, went off with
Speaker 1: six sacks in the game, three for Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 1: two for Shack Lawson, one for Zach Seeler, and Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson talked about I asked him this question post game, like,
Speaker 1: is there something about a guy making a play that
Speaker 1: gets you guys energy level at just another level, like
Speaker 1: beyond ten even. And the reason I want to play
Speaker 1: this audio four years because I think it speaks to
Speaker 1: what this Dolphins team, what they've said they are all
Speaker 1: season long, about how they truly care for one another
Speaker 1: and how they all have a like minded mentality when
Speaker 1: it comes to how to work and how to play
Speaker 1: football and how they truly do believe in one another,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins emphasis this offseason on getting the right
Speaker 1: fifty three here in Miami. Listen to Shack Lawson talk
Speaker 1: about the defense. It's the sitement when when you see
Speaker 1: a guy make a play, especially your teammate, and you know,
Speaker 1: do after week you work hard, work hard to make
Speaker 1: plays for Sunday. I mean you just feed off that
Speaker 1: and you want to go make a next play and
Speaker 1: then we just feed off each other. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: people is feeding off cow Alma Christian. You know Christians.
Speaker 1: The Christian is the reason why. Like I'm get us going,
Speaker 1: like it's energy and twice I know I'll be part
Speaker 1: of that too. But Christian, it's it's been different since
Speaker 1: we've been having him back then before he was missing.
Speaker 1: You know, the energy level is a lot different having
Speaker 1: that guy. I want to focus on that last part.
Speaker 1: There's a reason I played that Christian Wilkins part because
Speaker 1: this defense. We talked about Shack laws and we talked
Speaker 1: about Kyle van Noy, the five sacks between those two guys.
Speaker 1: Today we talked about Emmanuel Ogba, who damn near had
Speaker 1: his ninth sack, but they just overturned. It would have
Speaker 1: given Christian a touchdown pass. Talking about Xavien Howard rightfully
Speaker 1: so and all these other players on this defense, Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins continues down in and down out, game in and
Speaker 1: game out, to give penetration, to get knocked back, to
Speaker 1: be disruptive both as a pass rusher and a run defender,
Speaker 1: and he does so much to create chances for other players.
Speaker 1: But it's not just that we talked about the right
Speaker 1: fifty three right well, you heard Shaq talk about it
Speaker 1: right there. Who is the guy on this team, the
Speaker 1: second year player that brings the juice and changes the
Speaker 1: complexion and the overall feeling in that locker room. It's
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins. And he was the first draft pick of
Speaker 1: the Brian Flores and Chris Career regime, the Brian Flores
Speaker 1: Chris Career marriage here in Miami that right now is
Speaker 1: looking so good with the way this defense has come together.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins was the first part they brought in for that,
Speaker 1: and they talked about that extensively when he was draft
Speaker 1: throughout the course of his rookie season into this year.
Speaker 1: You hear it every day in the press conferences and
Speaker 1: in this game, the reason I wanted to really harp
Speaker 1: on Christian here he was so it was the same
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkers performance should get a lot of the time
Speaker 1: that goes unnoticed, just constant penetration, reset the line, scrimmage
Speaker 1: on the inside and creating big gaps in big lanes
Speaker 1: for pass rushers to blitz inside of him, for the
Speaker 1: guys in the outside to get those one on one chances.
Speaker 1: He does so much for this defense. And it's not
Speaker 1: just on the football field, it's in the personality. And
Speaker 1: I think you hear that right here in Christians audio
Speaker 1: when somebody asked him about getting that touchdown taking off
Speaker 1: the board and he scooped up the aug bas strip
Speaker 1: sack and they took it off the board after he
Speaker 1: dunked it over the goal post and lost his mind.
Speaker 1: On the same level that he would celebrate with his
Speaker 1: teammates he got to be the one scoring. This time,
Speaker 1: he loses his mind and has a great celebration, broke
Speaker 1: out all the dances. He's not too thrilled about the
Speaker 1: fact that they overturned it and called it an incomplete
Speaker 1: pass on the field. Here's Christian man daveson haters that's
Speaker 1: all I got to say. I don't know who I
Speaker 1: got to talk to, but I'm at set. I didn't
Speaker 1: did every dance in the book, every celebration. I was
Speaker 1: tired all of that. And it didn't even count. Mary
Speaker 1: even got it. Took a fine, but it was worse
Speaker 1: than I had a little fun out there. Not too bad.
Speaker 1: It just didn't count. But it does what it didn't.
Speaker 1: Glad We've got to win. So there you go. And
Speaker 1: he finishes off by talking about the most important thing
Speaker 1: on the day, getting to win, the bubbly personality, but
Speaker 1: the switch to know when to flip that thing on.
Speaker 1: I love Christian Wilkins, I love Shack Loss and those
Speaker 1: are too easy guys to to be around, to root
Speaker 1: for and to watch play football, and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: they're on our team. And I just continues this theme here.
Speaker 1: The first takeaway kind of turned into a defensive brave fest.
Speaker 1: Here is Josh Bowyer's unit continues to get the job done.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Van Noy three sacks, all three
Speaker 1: of those sacks coming up lining up inside shack Laws
Speaker 1: and ripping off the edge for both of his sex
Speaker 1: add but in that same spot gets the the hit
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, the non sack, the incomplete pass, Zack
Speaker 1: Seeler on the three technique. It comes from all over,
Speaker 1: It comes and waves, and when you give this team
Speaker 1: a lead back to the first point, man, they sure
Speaker 1: do know how to close out football games. The Bengals
Speaker 1: offense today punt punt, touchdown, three and out, punt, missed
Speaker 1: field goal, three and out, three and out, three and out,
Speaker 1: punt interception. So this Dolphins defense just continues to blow
Speaker 1: you away every single week. Takeaway number two calling the
Speaker 1: game to two a tongue of by lower strengths. I
Speaker 1: love the way chan Gailey got back to some of
Speaker 1: those things in that second half. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from coach Flores here about the tempo in
Speaker 1: the second half of the game, making the switch to
Speaker 1: go up tempo and how that can impact the defense
Speaker 1: and how you can also benefit your young quarterback and
Speaker 1: your offense. I think the offensive staff, you know, made
Speaker 1: that adjustment. We uh, I just wanted to pick up
Speaker 1: the pace a little bit, and um, you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was, it was efficient and we got some
Speaker 1: production out of it, so we stayed with it. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, again, that's that's hard to deal with defensively.
Speaker 1: So we were able to make some good throws, make
Speaker 1: some good runs and execute and really keep the pressure on.
Speaker 1: And that's that's that was the thought process at halftime,
Speaker 1: and we gotta we gotta accomplished. I gotta say there's
Speaker 1: no one way to skin account. I never believe there's
Speaker 1: one blueprint in the National Football League. But I sure
Speaker 1: do like having my defensive minded coach helping rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: because of things like that, the idea that he knows
Speaker 1: what's hard on his defense, so he wants to call
Speaker 1: things for his offense that puts the opposing defense in
Speaker 1: a bind. And I just love they things they did
Speaker 1: with Two in this game, getting him out on the move,
Speaker 1: getting him out on those boots, running some of that
Speaker 1: zone read. He got free for a run early in
Speaker 1: the game. He also had a couple of those quick
Speaker 1: twitch movements in the pocket that you grow in love
Speaker 1: with two a tongue of vloa, or you come to
Speaker 1: grow in love about him the way he can evade
Speaker 1: pressure and evade those free rushers. Got himself active that way,
Speaker 1: pressed the line of scrimmage and got outside and made
Speaker 1: throws behind the line of scrimmage as he broke through
Speaker 1: the initial pressure, the initial surge. I thought he got
Speaker 1: comfortable that way, had that deep shot to Jakeem Grant
Speaker 1: back up on his old goal post that was just
Speaker 1: falling right into the bread basket there almost ran under
Speaker 1: that thing and took it all the way for what
Speaker 1: would have been like a ninety one yard touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: So you get him loosened up, you get him going
Speaker 1: the deep shots, the running aspect of it, getting him
Speaker 1: out in space. Plenty of those little pot passes to
Speaker 1: Jakeem Grant to take advantage of, you know, maybe they
Speaker 1: don't follow your motion or shift with you on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. I think Jachim had two
Speaker 1: of those twenty yard or within the twenty yard range
Speaker 1: pot passes in this game, giving lynbod and some carries
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, and that RPO mixing things up
Speaker 1: and keeping the Bengals defense off balance with plenty of
Speaker 1: action where TWA does pull that thing and chuck it
Speaker 1: into that little hook zone behind the linebackers, you influence
Speaker 1: them that way, and those two things go off each
Speaker 1: other so well. With the r P O game and
Speaker 1: the way you open up the running game as Miles
Speaker 1: Gascon hits it up for ninety yards. In this game,
Speaker 1: both those things can work off each other, finding that
Speaker 1: balance and finding that rhythm and completing those six yards
Speaker 1: RPOs to help keep those linebackers a little bit concerned
Speaker 1: about their first fall step forward, their their first fall
Speaker 1: step backward. If two can read that and make the decision,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot more difficult to defend this
Speaker 1: Dolphin's offense when they get both those things working and sync.
Speaker 1: I like the way they went empty and spread things
Speaker 1: out and create those big pockets and big windows for
Speaker 1: two of to make a quick decision catch rock throw.
Speaker 1: Your pass protection at that point basically is invalid because
Speaker 1: the balls out before the defensive line even has a
Speaker 1: chance to get there. So spread things out created a
Speaker 1: line of vision for tow The ball out of his hands,
Speaker 1: got him in that rhythm. I just love the way
Speaker 1: they called this game for him in the second half,
Speaker 1: giving multiple options to football, spreading things out and going
Speaker 1: to the up tempo look to start the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Here's too, we're talking about the stress the up temple
Speaker 1: offense can put on the opposing defense. I think when
Speaker 1: you're on the ball and you're going fast, it confuses
Speaker 1: the defense because they need to get lined up. They
Speaker 1: can't get their right call in at times. Then when
Speaker 1: you have guys motioning, it confuses up their call if
Speaker 1: they have a blitz on or what coverage they're gonna run. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the up temple things that we
Speaker 1: did in the second half really helped us to get
Speaker 1: the ball rolling, and they did get that ball rolling
Speaker 1: for a career high two nine passing yards there four
Speaker 1: tongue BYLOA think an area of improvement for this week
Speaker 1: to look at as red zone opportunities. They had some
Speaker 1: down there close near the goal line. Just couldn't quite
Speaker 1: finish off a few of those drives. But otherwise I
Speaker 1: thought the game was a really good one for to
Speaker 1: that play where he broke contain and found Miles gasking
Speaker 1: for thirty five yards was just vintage to getting off
Speaker 1: the spot making a playoffs had the pocket. He almost
Speaker 1: did the exact same thing and that Chargers game with
Speaker 1: the Jachem Grant peel back throw where he got out
Speaker 1: of pressure, threw it up the field and just was
Speaker 1: out of reach of Towah. This time he finds Gasking
Speaker 1: with a floater for thirty five yards in a big game,
Speaker 1: and that's right before the touchdown pass where he finds
Speaker 1: Mike gets Sicky with just perfectly leveraged throw or get sick.
Speaker 1: He has the open back shoulder underneath the fender, big target,
Speaker 1: put it up high and away, Gassicky locates it, pulls
Speaker 1: it in. That's what he does to gave him the chance.
Speaker 1: They're just love the way he's able to do that,
Speaker 1: the way they're aggressive out of the out of the
Speaker 1: break at halftime, I talked about that gets him in
Speaker 1: this motion where he goes seven for ten with ten
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown on the next two drives quick
Speaker 1: ten points to really change the feel of that football
Speaker 1: game to make it sixteen seven. And I talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about Lynn Boden there. I liked why soften
Speaker 1: linbod and I think there's something there with some more
Speaker 1: work as we go along here. Jan Guilly spoke about
Speaker 1: spoke about his skill set kind of integrating with the
Speaker 1: offense back when he first got here, not that it
Speaker 1: was a lack of talent, but a lack of just
Speaker 1: being here and having those repetitions and practice him getting
Speaker 1: more work is a positive sign for another possible option
Speaker 1: in the skill spots. Getting the football in the game
Speaker 1: and jachiem Grant on those pot passes again. Loved his
Speaker 1: activity and involvement in this game. So offense, good job
Speaker 1: in that second half. Third takeaway. We'll go quickly here
Speaker 1: through these the injuries and the way this team responds
Speaker 1: to adversity. We lost at one point, Eric Rowe. He
Speaker 1: landed Roberts and Eric Flowers in this game, and Road
Speaker 1: did return to the football game, so that was good
Speaker 1: to see. The story was not the same for Roberts
Speaker 1: and Flowers, and Flowers went off on a car. So
Speaker 1: you hope the best for him. I felt sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach watching him get carded off. You could see
Speaker 1: how how upset he was about that fact. Playing good
Speaker 1: football here for his hometown team. Get well, suing Flowers.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you're good man. I hope everything's
Speaker 1: okay with Eric Flowers in his place. They brought in
Speaker 1: Solomonckiley at left guard and brought Jesse Davis off the
Speaker 1: bench to play right guard. Thought that group played well
Speaker 1: and it's not unexpected that Jesse Davis steps and employs
Speaker 1: well at a spot he's played four spots of the
Speaker 1: offensive line in his career, but that losing the bodies
Speaker 1: on both offense and defense with guys, and just the
Speaker 1: uncare acturistic penalties of this game, like not reporting on
Speaker 1: that on the fake for Matt Hawk taking points off
Speaker 1: the board, a false start from Mac Hollands on the
Speaker 1: punt team neutral zone, and fraction on the defense roughing
Speaker 1: the quarterback on a slide down from Calvin Munson. Just
Speaker 1: some mistakes you don't see this football team normally make.
Speaker 1: We're out there in this game. Some drop passes, some mistackles,
Speaker 1: some that that weird aggressive you know, the zero blitz
Speaker 1: where Byron Jones kind of weren't worked on the inside
Speaker 1: when Tyler Boyd got the outside for the one really
Speaker 1: good offensive play they had in the game. Some ound
Speaker 1: characteristic mistakes, but this team's metal and next band up
Speaker 1: mentality for both the injuries and those mistakes, the way
Speaker 1: they bounced back and made sure this thing didn't cavalcade
Speaker 1: into a you know, too score deficit, a three score deficit,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it's the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and you're you're done. You've lost a game that you
Speaker 1: you need to win. They didn't let that happen. They
Speaker 1: turned it around, They showed the resiliency, turned things back
Speaker 1: up and got back in the game and one going away.
Speaker 1: So that was great to see. Love the fact that
Speaker 1: this team can respond to that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to take away number four here, it's just that
Speaker 1: Jason Standers stays golden. Jason Sanders stays golden, four for
Speaker 1: four on the day. What a weapon this guy is
Speaker 1: and the way it can change the way you approach
Speaker 1: the football game is really my takeaway here because you
Speaker 1: put him out there, you're okay, three points, that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else is it? Twenty nine? It changes
Speaker 1: the way you can attack in key situations. It changes
Speaker 1: the target point for the offense when you're trailing in
Speaker 1: a game, when we eventually get to this point, which
Speaker 1: we're going to at some point where you need a
Speaker 1: drive late to win the game. It's happened I think
Speaker 1: once this year and since since TWA came in once
Speaker 1: in a long time. On top of that, where Miami
Speaker 1: had to have a drive late in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: to put points on the board to to tie it
Speaker 1: or go ahead, and they got it down against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and then later came back and had the game
Speaker 1: winning field goal there as well, that's gonna happen again
Speaker 1: at some point, and knowing that I can get the
Speaker 1: ball to the forty and being pretty damn good shape
Speaker 1: for Jason Sanders, that is a weapon, my friends, Jason Sanders,
Speaker 1: an absolute weapon. Vote him for the Pro Bowl Number
Speaker 1: five takeaway here the career days for two a Ghasiki
Speaker 1: and Gasket. I thought that we talked about the offense
Speaker 1: a lot in the second takeaway, but just kind of
Speaker 1: piggyback off that and give some more individual notes here
Speaker 1: to really on his perform. I just again thought he
Speaker 1: was really good in the second half and saw a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that you feel comfortable with him,
Speaker 1: maybe knocking off some of that rust after not playing
Speaker 1: for a week less, missing last week with the thumb,
Speaker 1: getting things going and giving yourself a chance to have
Speaker 1: some confidence and some positivity going into a tough game
Speaker 1: next week against the Kansas City Chiefs. And it just
Speaker 1: seems like for most of the season, and really since
Speaker 1: especially since two have got back, we just haven't had
Speaker 1: all the weapons come together. And right now, I know
Speaker 1: Preston Williams was not out there today, but getting Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskon back in the running game going a little bit,
Speaker 1: and having Mike got sicky with DeVante Parker and Lynn
Speaker 1: Bowden active and ready hopefully to get Malcolm Perry back
Speaker 1: here as soon as well. He was inactive in this game.
Speaker 1: I liked the rhythm these three, these three guys got
Speaker 1: into together to a tonk about looa most passing yards
Speaker 1: in his career at ninety six. He also has now
Speaker 1: tied the franchise record with five consecutive games without throwing
Speaker 1: an interception, that ties Jay Fiedler all time. He's four
Speaker 1: and one in his five starts. Again, hasn't turned the
Speaker 1: football over pass a raining around a hundred. That's top
Speaker 1: ten twelve in the league if you qualify him among
Speaker 1: enough past attempts. He's off to that start and Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki's nine receptions in this game those are a career
Speaker 1: high for Gasicki. He's third among all tight ends with
Speaker 1: touchdowns since Week thirteen of last season, so basically since
Speaker 1: he started scoring touchdowns, he's become a consistent red zone threat.
Speaker 1: That way, he has the most the highest first down
Speaker 1: conversion rate of tight ends this year in the NFL
Speaker 1: as well. So Mike Gasicky continues to get done career
Speaker 1: high nine catches and in eighty eight yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in this game. Miles Gaskin finishes a day with
Speaker 1: one forty one yards for scrimmage. That is a career
Speaker 1: high for him as well. So this Dolphin's team again
Speaker 1: plenty they can work on going forward, but again eight
Speaker 1: and four for the first time since two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and rip through some of my individual
Speaker 1: notes here really quickly. I talked about Gaskins balanced to
Speaker 1: stay on his feet after the screen pass, after the
Speaker 1: pass that a chim grant went in complete deep from
Speaker 1: their own end zone. Uh, it was a second and ten.
Speaker 1: They threw a screen to Miles Gaskin and he was
Speaker 1: four or five yards behind the line and got hit,
Speaker 1: and you shot. You saw the balance and the lower
Speaker 1: body strength of of gas going to stay on his
Speaker 1: feet to pick up sixteen yards after what probably should
Speaker 1: have been a loss, and the Dolphins would go on
Speaker 1: to score that drive. So big change in the game
Speaker 1: right there by Myles Gaskin staying on his feet and
Speaker 1: making a good play their receivers. We talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about Lynn Boden. DeVante Parker draws to passionate ference
Speaker 1: calls in the game early on to help get the
Speaker 1: offense going early. He also caught a pair of passes
Speaker 1: why I thought was a really nice anticipation right between
Speaker 1: he and tongue Bylowa early in the game. Mike is
Speaker 1: sick and we talked about him already, but that one
Speaker 1: handed catch looking like Oronde Gadsden one two days rather
Speaker 1: after he was on the podcast. Thank you for doing that, Mike.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. My man on the offensive line, we
Speaker 1: talked about three replacements on the interior getting the job
Speaker 1: done there with Jesse Davis. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: on Tuesday's podcast. Defensive line wise, we talked about Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins a bunch he was all over my notes. Agba
Speaker 1: continues to win from multiple spots. Zach Seiler had the
Speaker 1: sack and continues to do what he does all season long.
Speaker 1: This defensive line just playing really good football in conjunction
Speaker 1: with the linebacker corps. Van Noi three sacks in the game.
Speaker 1: Calvin Munson I thought had some good plays outside of
Speaker 1: the one penalty we talked about in this game. A
Speaker 1: Land and Roberts had some good pursuit early on before
Speaker 1: he left the game with an injury. Jerome Baker continues
Speaker 1: to show that speed sidelines the sideline. Andrew Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: makes plays as well. I talked about Byron Jones being
Speaker 1: in the hip pocket on a third down stop on
Speaker 1: a pass target on the first possession, just always in
Speaker 1: phase where he needs to be. And then Nick Needam
Speaker 1: gets a great pass breakup on Tyler Boyd in the
Speaker 1: first half of that was worth mentioning, in addition to
Speaker 1: his his I T that fell from the heavens into
Speaker 1: his hands. Good for him there. And then the Exavian
Speaker 1: Howard pick Man the switch release where he fights through
Speaker 1: the rub and plays the football like a receiver. Again
Speaker 1: we talked about off the top. It just doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: you anymore. Eric Row and Bobby McCain, the way these
Speaker 1: guys communicate and move. We talked about the foods ball
Speaker 1: table last week. Saw more of that this week. And
Speaker 1: McCain's ability to run off routes and then close on
Speaker 1: different routes and impact multiple reads in the progression on
Speaker 1: any given play. Gosh, it's fun to watch. I love
Speaker 1: this secondary so much, and they played another great football game,
Speaker 1: another game allowing just seven points, allowed ten points in
Speaker 1: the last two games combine. So just dominant, dominant defense
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and turn this
Speaker 1: thing over now to John Knjemmy and get to his
Speaker 1: three takeaways for Dolphins nineteen Bengal seven and joining me
Speaker 1: now the podcast, as he do does weekly here on
Speaker 1: the Sunday edition of Drive Time, is John Conjemmy. He
Speaker 1: is the co host of the audible podcast John, How
Speaker 1: you doing tonight? I'm doing great. Uh, nice win at
Speaker 1: home for the Miami Dolphins. So it sets uh, it
Speaker 1: sets this football team up for a strong finish and
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll be able to win enough down that stretch
Speaker 1: to to enter the playoffs. So it's uh, it's a
Speaker 1: good conversation to have, and I'm looking forward to see
Speaker 1: what the last couple of games and in this last
Speaker 1: month having store for us first time at eight and
Speaker 1: four since two thousand and three, that was the year
Speaker 1: the Dolphins beat the Cowboys and Thanksgiving and then things
Speaker 1: kind of went arrived from that point forward. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, John, usually you and I have these these
Speaker 1: moments in the press box where you're going down for
Speaker 1: TV in the fourth quarter and you leave and the
Speaker 1: game's pretty much in hand. That wasn't the case in
Speaker 1: this one, although it kind of started to feel that
Speaker 1: way as the Dolphins defense got hotter and hotter. I
Speaker 1: have to imagine your first takeaway if I'm wrong, correct me,
Speaker 1: but I have to imagine your first takeaway goes somewhere
Speaker 1: towards that Dolphins defense. It does. And it was really
Speaker 1: the tale of two halves. You know, Um, when I
Speaker 1: got up at the beginning of the fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: kind of missed the fisticuff. So I need to get
Speaker 1: filled in some people at some point this week on
Speaker 1: what exactly happened. But it really was a tale of
Speaker 1: two halves, both offensively and defensively. I think Cincinnati left
Speaker 1: some points out on the football field that they could
Speaker 1: have had, you know, two scores or at least ten
Speaker 1: points going to halftime. And I thought the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: very fortunate to be only trailing by a point going
Speaker 1: in a halftime with the way they played. They were.
Speaker 1: They were a little bit lethargic on both sides. They
Speaker 1: had too many penalties. Um, they weren't efficient in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Uh, just too many self inflicted mistakes, and
Speaker 1: I don't think too I had a particularly good half.
Speaker 1: But then you know, you turn around, you come up
Speaker 1: after a halftime, and all of a sudden, the offense
Speaker 1: goes into this up tempo, no huddle, get to a
Speaker 1: going and getting distributing the football, and they looked like
Speaker 1: a completly different football team, and so does the defense.
Speaker 1: They go with three consecutive three and outs. I think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins the total yardage in the third quarter was
Speaker 1: something like one to minus four. So it really was
Speaker 1: a different football team after the first thirty minutes, and
Speaker 1: I it really turned the whole game around. The offense
Speaker 1: came out and was explosive, the defense came out they
Speaker 1: you know, stop Cincinnati in their tracks, and they both
Speaker 1: complimented each other and it was fun to watch for
Speaker 1: the last thirty minutes. You said minus four yards in
Speaker 1: the second half of the Bengals second maybe the third quarter.
Speaker 1: I think it was the third quarter, Uh that they
Speaker 1: had maybe minus four yards to one somebody, Uh, what
Speaker 1: was telling me that On the way out of the
Speaker 1: stadium after we were done doing the Channel four stuff
Speaker 1: and I kind of jotted it down, but it was
Speaker 1: it was. It was a total domination in that third quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I believe it for the half
Speaker 1: because there were so many sacks and negative plays there.
Speaker 1: Towards the end, they just kept pushing that offense back.
Speaker 1: And that's been one of my favorite things about watching
Speaker 1: this team this year is the NFL. It seems as
Speaker 1: designed where a team has a seventeen or twenty point lead,
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be, and the other team starts
Speaker 1: inching their way back. That just doesn't happen on this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. They they closed games as well as anybody
Speaker 1: in the league right now, John, what is your second
Speaker 1: takeaway from Dolphins nineteen Bengal seven. I thought some of
Speaker 1: the star players shined. I thought Mike Kasicki was had
Speaker 1: his best game as a pro. I know he had
Speaker 1: a career high nine catches, but just the way his
Speaker 1: catches impacted the game and the way you felt like,
Speaker 1: who is that? You know that was eight? That was
Speaker 1: Mike Kasicki And and you know the one touchdown was
Speaker 1: again climb the ladder, rip it away from somebody. And
Speaker 1: I just thought he played really well. I thought to
Speaker 1: a really played well in the second half. Obviously, Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard with with another interception, making an eight on the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy with the multiple sack game in the
Speaker 1: defense with six total, Uh in holding, you know, holding
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati offense just they were inept in the second half.
Speaker 1: And I just thought that defense rallied, but that the
Speaker 1: star players came up and they shined when they needed to.
Speaker 1: And you know guys, and there's a lot of them
Speaker 1: on this football team, and a couple of them stepped up,
Speaker 1: and I thought they needed to to get to win
Speaker 1: at least absolutely. You mentioned Mike a SICKI that one
Speaker 1: handed catch was it looked just like a Rende Gatston
Speaker 1: back in two thousand two against the Jets, And I
Speaker 1: actually spoke to Rande on the Friday podcast. I was
Speaker 1: very excited to have that those two things come together.
Speaker 1: He catches nine passes, like you mentioned, on ten targets,
Speaker 1: so highly efficient eighty eight yards on those ten targets.
Speaker 1: That is some supreme production out of your tight end. John.
Speaker 1: He is number one in first down conversions in terms
Speaker 1: of how many of his targets turned into first downs
Speaker 1: among tight ends, and since Week thirteen of last season,
Speaker 1: when he called his first career touchdown pass. He has
Speaker 1: the third most touchdown receptions among all tight ends. So
Speaker 1: Mike a sicky, big, big time game here in the
Speaker 1: Dolphins win. John, as always, appreciate your time here on
Speaker 1: the podcast, the Sunday Night Crossover Edition with John Conjemmy
Speaker 1: of the Audible. John, you have a good night. You
Speaker 1: gotta thanks Travis, And there he goes John Congemmi of
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