WEBVTT - Dolphins Win 19-7 Behind Dominant Defense, Up Tempo Second Half Offense 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:14.400 Field touchdown, Miami most water run. What is up, Dolphans 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.639 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.680 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.720 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.200 late Sunday night, possibly Monday morning when you are listening 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.479 to this podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.199 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.080 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, you know what time? 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.360 It is another victory Monday edition here of the Drive 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.720 Time Podcast as the Dolphins win win, win, win. That 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.880 is seven of the last eight. So much to unpack 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.800 from this Dolphins nineteen to seven win win, win win 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.160 as what started off as a slow, kind of uneventful 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.880 game turned into a high wire act as a Dolphins 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.440 defense puts the clamps on the Bengals, not allowing a 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.920 point over the final three quarters and a resurgent up 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.759 tempo attack from the offense leads to the final nine 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.440 team points of the game. Will cover takeaways, individuals, audio 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.399 from coach and players, and we'll get John Knjemmy as 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.880 we do here every single Sunday night on the Recap 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.520 edition of Drive Time all of that and more on 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:27.920 this Monday, December, the seventh edition of the Drivetime podcast. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.240 That time brought by Auto Nation. 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We had the Dolphins win this one 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.400 nineteen to seven, and I finally got a chance to 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.520 go back and look at the box score because there 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.360 was a lot going on from quotes and articles and 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.160 writing things up in the let's call it a shift 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.280 in the mindset late in that game that kind of 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.440 set the temple for post game and what coach and 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.960 players were gonna talk about to the media. But what 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.120 kind of got lost in the shuffle there for me 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.919 was the box score. Look at this Dolphins box score. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.400 We've we've long heard the conversation this year that even 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.040 as Dolphins are winning games by multiple scores, we've heard 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.280 coach Flor's talk about how I don't really care about 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.760 the stats without the proper context, because they might tell 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.880 you one thing and I think I saw another thing. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.880 We'll look at the box score for this game from Miami, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.520 no doubt about who played the better football game. Miami 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 four hundred and six yards one hundred ninety six for 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.840 the Bengals. The Dolphins had one hundred ten yards on 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.679 the ground. Cincinnati rushed for only forty yards in the game. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.480 Dolphins passed for two nine six to the Bengals one 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.919 fifty six. Miami is one for ten on third down, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.480 so that's got to get better. We know that the 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.080 Bengals were three for twelve, right in line with Miami's 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.239 top third down defense in the National Football League. To 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.720 takeaways from Miami, one for the Bengals on that late 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.560 Miles gascon fumble, six Dolphins sacks the Bengals didn't have any, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.320 and the Dolphins eight penalties for fifty four yards. We 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.480 heard coach talk about that post game. That's not gonna 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.280 that's not gonna do it for Coach Flora's and the 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.919 way he wants this operation run. The Bengal six penalties 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.560 sixty two yards and TP goes to Miami, who had 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.600 thirty two minutes and sixteen seconds of time of possession. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.200 A couple of the storylines I was keeping my eye on, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.160 keeping a finger on the pulse of as we got 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.440 closer and closer to kickoff was how the running back 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.400 rotation worked, and it went how I thought it would. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.240 Miles Gaskin played the line share of the snaps. We 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.240 did see some Patrick Lard out there at times in 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.280 this game, and Chandler Cox as well in the very 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.360 early going. I don't know how many snaps he played, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.400 but I did see him on the field early, but 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.480 it was mostly Miles Gaskin out there as he Cox 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.480 the fullback of course, and Laird were the only running 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.200 backs available. Of course I was concerned or not concerned, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.680 but I was curious to see what To have played 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.040 like in this game because we've heard all the stories. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.600 He hasn't played since that Denver game. So you know, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.120 everyone in the week to week league and the kind 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.880 of get your reaction, get your take, gets your final 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.800 conclusion on a player after every single game, reform that 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.640 and propose it as a long term solution. That's how 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:01.960 it is in this league. So I was curious to 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.080 see how to would bounce back and the second half 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.800 that he played in this game, I think, I hope 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.400 is what folks will remember, and how he was just 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.880 comfortable and throwing on the move and making plays. We'll 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.119 talk more about that here. Just one second, I wanted 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.680 to know how many three an ounces they were gonna get, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.039 how many turnovers could they force? Could they hold the 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.880 Bengals to ten or fewer first downs? Those were my 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.920 target points and expectations for this Dolphins defense, and they 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.919 came damn close. Two more takeaways that extends the NFL's 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.839 longest active street of eight teen straight games with a 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.520 takeaway they get four or three an ounce in the game, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.359 a whole bunch of punts. We'll talk more about that 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.520 again in the takeaway segment here. And twelve first downs 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.520 with the Bengals offense, so just a little bit over 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.240 on the end of the game. A couple of first 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.599 downs they're late help the Bengals get over the ten mark. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.320 But those were what I was looking for, and this 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.080 defense once again did not disappoint. And then the offensive 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.479 line with Robert Hunt started the game instead of in 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.160 place of Jesse Davis at right tackle, with Solomonckinley back 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.480 at right guard. We did see Eric Flowers get hurt 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.400 in this game. More on that in just one second, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.040 which pushed Dave us in the right guard off the 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.240 bench and Solomon Kinley over the left guard where he 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.520 played at Georgia. So some interesting stuff to look out there. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.440 We'll get more on the offensive line stuff on the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.359 All twenty two review. Just an easier time for me 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.479 to have more transparency with that for you guys. First though, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.600 let's go ahead and just address the elephant in the room, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.320 and here from Coach Flora's he spoke post game about 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.640 the skirmish between the two teams, which saw the Dolphins 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.440 sideline kind of pour onto the field in support of 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.400 Jechem Grant, who was in a defenseless position a couple 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.520 of times on punt returns and took a hit to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.520 the rib cage from the Bengals gunners. Let's go ahead 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.240 and let Coach Flora's take you through his perspective of 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.200 the entire event. Yeah, I mean we got to do 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.120 a better job of keeping our pois. That starts with me. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.240 Have that a better job of keeping up my poys. Um, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.560 you know, look, I'm gonna stick up for my players, Um, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.880 They're gonna stick up for each other without getting penalties, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.880 without um, you know, hurting the team. But we got 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.919 to do a better job keeping keeping our boys, you know, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.440 as a team. These are I'm just gonna be These 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.960 are like my kids. So the first time, yeah, you know, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.159 second time I got a little you know said about it. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.000 But you know, still I got to do a better job. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.960 I have to and I can't. I can't you do 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.000 anything to hurt the team. My abotions got the best 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.120 in me there. But again he's you see somebody care 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.320 about you know, you'll get it like that, you know twice. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.640 And but I gotta do a better job. I keep 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.560 my punking ways better. We have to do a better 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.240 job of that as a team. And his greater point 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.719 remains and will remain for Coach Flora's that he just 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.760 has to maintain better composure. And coach was asked this 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.159 later in the press conference about if he felt like 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.120 he might have scored some points with his players, with 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.600 us with the entire Dolphins operation, and again he'll repeat 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.240 the fact that he has to do a better job 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.080 and his team has to do a better job of 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.279 keeping their poise. But the players talked about it afterwards 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.880 after the game, and they all came out and support 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.760 a coach Flora's and talked about the same things. Coach said, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.160 where if they're gonna do something to one of our 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.440 guys like Jacheems, someone you care about, then you're gonna 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.040 have to react in a certain way. And that was 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.320 kind of the general theme of the message afterwards. But 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.080 also the team, of course, has to keep your head 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.479 on straight. Can't have those kind of mistakes play out. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.280 And you know in a football game that maybe it's 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.320 closer on the scoreboard, So we'll go ahead and leave 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.040 that and bury that right there. You're not coming to 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.960 show to hear me talk about the drama. You want 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.960 to hear me talk about the football game. And that's 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.240 where we get into our very first takeaway here. With 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.840 the first takeaway the value of a cornerback that takes 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.960 the football away paired with the pass rush that does 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.040 what it does to close out football games. That's kind 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.880 of a long winded first take here, but I couldn't 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.080 find out a way to focus this thing on one 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.240 singular area, so I had to bring both of them 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.880 together because I think that they both go so perfectly 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.080 in unison to what we talked about on Friday's top 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.880 news piece. The vision of this defense, what coach Flora is, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.400 with Josh Boyer and that defensive staff, what they want 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.800 this defense to look like, to fit what they think 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.360 they can do best schematically, and so you'd hear them 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.200 talk about making the scheme fit the players, which of 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.200 course is great and you should do it, but it's 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.600 also nice when you sign players that have the skill 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.600 set to operate the scheme that you want to run. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.320 And that's what they did by getting these two lockdown 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.440 cornerbacks and Xavien Howard and Byron Jones. Now, the long 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.559 touchdown for the Bengals, the seventy or two yards today 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.720 came because of a little rub route on a flat 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.080 a little pick to get a first down for Tyler 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.480 Boyd on a third short but Byron Jones went underneath 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.640 the rub and that gave Tyler Boyd a chance to 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.840 make a move and get up field and scored that touchdown. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.400 But besides that mistake, the defense was lights out throughout 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 the course of this game, and the cornerbacks in particular, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.760 they continue to get it done. We talked about the 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.760 Brian Baldinger radio spot on that Friday top news piece 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 where he talked about you have the stout outside coverage 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.200 that allows you to get all these guys that can 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.560 rush from different spots and create and new different things 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.800 and line up in different spots and stunt and twist, 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.400 and when pass rush with the bull rush, when pass 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 rush with the speed move, do counter moves, all these 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.679 different variety of things. It confuses the quarterback. It allows 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.079 this defense to crank up the pressure with the trust 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.559 and and just security of knowing those cornerbacks on the outside. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.960 In addition to two safeties who should be mentioned in 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.200 that group as well, Eric Roe Bobby McCain are both 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.920 having fantastic seasons. The vision of the defense coming together 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.120 and as the second scoring defense in the league, the 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.560 top ranked third down defense in the league eight teen 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.080 trade games. In the takeaway six sacks in this football game, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.640 you see the vision pairing up with the talent on 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.440 the football field and manage. Sure has been fun to watch. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.680 When we go ahead and start here with xaviing Howard 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.400 who he catches it, and the press box just goes, yeah, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.000 it was ex who else would it be? It's it's weird. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.000 I don't know how to describe it. I think Shaq 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.600 Lawson said it best when he said he has never 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.880 seen anybody doing what Exaviing Howard's doing right now. And 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.040 his proclamation about who he thinks is the best cornerback 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.000 in the National Football League, best quarterback in the league, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.880 and down you get one every week, man, I ain't 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:40.959 never witnessed nothing like that. I mean, I'm playing with 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.560 good pointer back and don't get me wrong, I played 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.400 with a great quarterback last year. Let's see a guy 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.120 to get a pick almost every week. It's incredible, man, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.720 It's incredible, man. And I'm mad on witness being with 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.240 one of the best going in the league. That is 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.560 twenty interceptions in his last thirty four games. He leads 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.920 the NFL this year with eight. He got twenty picks 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.120 in fifty two career games, which of course that is 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.360 the same amount that he has in the last thirty 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.520 four games. I saw a staff from the great Brett 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.240 Coleman on Twitter the Fame YouTube channel of the Film Room, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.360 and he talked about Asante Samuel playing for eleven years 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.160 of his NFL career, so a lot longer than X 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.560 so far, but averaging a pick every three games and 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.840 how absurd that is. Xavian Howard in his career is 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.240 averaging a pick less than every three games, and in 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.200 the last thirty four games, it's like every game and 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.800 a half. So he is on an unreal ridiculous pace 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 helping this defense out and playing that good man coverage, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.160 that good tight coverage, staying in the hip pockets of 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.200 the game's best receivers up and down the field. He 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.400 and Byron Jones and Nick need him in the slot 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.240 with those two safeties that pairs up so well with 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.880 his pass rush that went off today, went off with 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.120 six sacks in the game, three for Kyle van Noy, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.280 two for Shack Lawson, one for Zach Seeler, and Shack 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.960 Lawson talked about I asked him this question post game, like, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.760 is there something about a guy making a play that 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.600 gets you guys energy level at just another level, like 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.920 beyond ten even. And the reason I want to play 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.040 this audio four years because I think it speaks to 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.720 what this Dolphins team, what they've said they are all 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.080 season long, about how they truly care for one another 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 and how they all have a like minded mentality when 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.920 it comes to how to work and how to play 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.200 football and how they truly do believe in one another, 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.320 and the Dolphins emphasis this offseason on getting the right 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.839 fifty three here in Miami. Listen to Shack Lawson talk 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.680 about the defense. It's the sitement when when you see 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.120 a guy make a play, especially your teammate, and you know, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.600 do after week you work hard, work hard to make 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.000 plays for Sunday. I mean you just feed off that 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.720 and you want to go make a next play and 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.360 then we just feed off each other. Man. You know, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.119 people is feeding off cow Alma Christian. You know Christians. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:44.120 The Christian is the reason why. Like I'm get us going, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.440 like it's energy and twice I know I'll be part 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.640 of that too. But Christian, it's it's been different since 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.400 we've been having him back then before he was missing. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.200 You know, the energy level is a lot different having 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.520 that guy. I want to focus on that last part. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.800 There's a reason I played that Christian Wilkins part because 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.160 this defense. We talked about Shack laws and we talked 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.440 about Kyle van Noy, the five sacks between those two guys. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.880 Today we talked about Emmanuel Ogba, who damn near had 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.120 his ninth sack, but they just overturned. It would have 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.160 given Christian a touchdown pass. Talking about Xavien Howard rightfully 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.600 so and all these other players on this defense, Christian 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 Wilkins continues down in and down out, game in and 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.720 game out, to give penetration, to get knocked back, to 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.120 be disruptive both as a pass rusher and a run defender, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.800 and he does so much to create chances for other players. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.120 But it's not just that we talked about the right 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.920 fifty three right well, you heard Shaq talk about it 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.960 right there. Who is the guy on this team, the 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.240 second year player that brings the juice and changes the 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.360 complexion and the overall feeling in that locker room. It's 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.640 Christian Wilkins. And he was the first draft pick of 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.480 the Brian Flores and Chris Career regime, the Brian Flores 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 Chris Career marriage here in Miami that right now is 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.280 looking so good with the way this defense has come together. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.080 Christian Wilkins was the first part they brought in for that, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.679 and they talked about that extensively when he was draft 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.920 throughout the course of his rookie season into this year. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.240 You hear it every day in the press conferences and 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.200 in this game, the reason I wanted to really harp 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.280 on Christian here he was so it was the same 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.280 Christian Wilkers performance should get a lot of the time 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.720 that goes unnoticed, just constant penetration, reset the line, scrimmage 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.160 on the inside and creating big gaps in big lanes 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 for pass rushers to blitz inside of him, for the 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.160 guys in the outside to get those one on one chances. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.120 He does so much for this defense. And it's not 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.080 just on the football field, it's in the personality. And 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.960 I think you hear that right here in Christians audio 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.760 when somebody asked him about getting that touchdown taking off 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.640 the board and he scooped up the aug bas strip 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.720 sack and they took it off the board after he 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.400 dunked it over the goal post and lost his mind. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.320 On the same level that he would celebrate with his 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.600 teammates he got to be the one scoring. This time, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.320 he loses his mind and has a great celebration, broke 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.480 out all the dances. He's not too thrilled about the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.840 fact that they overturned it and called it an incomplete 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.400 pass on the field. Here's Christian man daveson haters that's 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:49.760 all I got to say. I don't know who I 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.120 got to talk to, but I'm at set. I didn't 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.720 did every dance in the book, every celebration. I was 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.720 tired all of that. And it didn't even count. Mary 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.559 even got it. Took a fine, but it was worse 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.640 than I had a little fun out there. Not too bad. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.480 It just didn't count. But it does what it didn't. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.160 Glad We've got to win. So there you go. And 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.400 he finishes off by talking about the most important thing 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.920 on the day, getting to win, the bubbly personality, but 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.880 the switch to know when to flip that thing on. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.240 I love Christian Wilkins, I love Shack Loss and those 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.920 are too easy guys to to be around, to root 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.040 for and to watch play football, and I'm glad that 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.320 they're on our team. And I just continues this theme here. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.640 The first takeaway kind of turned into a defensive brave fest. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.120 Here is Josh Bowyer's unit continues to get the job done. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.400 We talked about the Van Noy three sacks, all three 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.920 of those sacks coming up lining up inside shack Laws 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.000 and ripping off the edge for both of his sex 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.000 add but in that same spot gets the the hit 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.640 on the quarterback, the non sack, the incomplete pass, Zack 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.120 Seeler on the three technique. It comes from all over, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.200 It comes and waves, and when you give this team 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.760 a lead back to the first point, man, they sure 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.200 do know how to close out football games. The Bengals 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.880 offense today punt punt, touchdown, three and out, punt, missed 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.800 field goal, three and out, three and out, three and out, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.200 punt interception. So this Dolphins defense just continues to blow 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.160 you away every single week. Takeaway number two calling the 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.520 game to two a tongue of by lower strengths. I 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 love the way chan Gailey got back to some of 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.280 those things in that second half. We're gonna go ahead 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.280 and hear from coach Flores here about the tempo in 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.560 the second half of the game, making the switch to 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.960 go up tempo and how that can impact the defense 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.520 and how you can also benefit your young quarterback and 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.720 your offense. I think the offensive staff, you know, made 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.920 that adjustment. We uh, I just wanted to pick up 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.800 the pace a little bit, and um, you know, it 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.800 was it was, it was efficient and we got some 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.640 production out of it, so we stayed with it. I think, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.359 you know, again, that's that's hard to deal with defensively. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.880 So we were able to make some good throws, make 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.680 some good runs and execute and really keep the pressure on. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.080 And that's that's that was the thought process at halftime, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.880 and we gotta we gotta accomplished. I gotta say there's 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.920 no one way to skin account. I never believe there's 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.480 one blueprint in the National Football League. But I sure 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.760 do like having my defensive minded coach helping rookie quarterback 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.320 because of things like that, the idea that he knows 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.520 what's hard on his defense, so he wants to call 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.520 things for his offense that puts the opposing defense in 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.480 a bind. And I just love they things they did 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.400 with Two in this game, getting him out on the move, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.480 getting him out on those boots, running some of that 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.440 zone read. He got free for a run early in 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.200 the game. He also had a couple of those quick 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.400 twitch movements in the pocket that you grow in love 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.480 with two a tongue of vloa, or you come to 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.520 grow in love about him the way he can evade 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.680 pressure and evade those free rushers. Got himself active that way, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.160 pressed the line of scrimmage and got outside and made 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.640 throws behind the line of scrimmage as he broke through 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.080 the initial pressure, the initial surge. I thought he got 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.800 comfortable that way, had that deep shot to Jakeem Grant 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.680 back up on his old goal post that was just 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.640 falling right into the bread basket there almost ran under 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:44.880 that thing and took it all the way for what 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.320 would have been like a ninety one yard touchdown drive. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.120 So you get him loosened up, you get him going 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.440 the deep shots, the running aspect of it, getting him 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.600 out in space. Plenty of those little pot passes to 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.360 Jakeem Grant to take advantage of, you know, maybe they 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.440 don't follow your motion or shift with you on the 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.720 defensive side of the football. I think Jachim had two 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.040 of those twenty yard or within the twenty yard range 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.800 pot passes in this game, giving lynbod and some carries 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.479 out of the backfield, and that RPO mixing things up 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.399 and keeping the Bengals defense off balance with plenty of 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.879 action where TWA does pull that thing and chuck it 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.960 into that little hook zone behind the linebackers, you influence 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.919 them that way, and those two things go off each 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.879 other so well. With the r P O game and 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.800 the way you open up the running game as Miles 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.360 Gascon hits it up for ninety yards. In this game, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.840 both those things can work off each other, finding that 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.680 balance and finding that rhythm and completing those six yards 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.280 RPOs to help keep those linebackers a little bit concerned 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.600 about their first fall step forward, their their first fall 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.200 step backward. If two can read that and make the decision, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.600 it's gonna be a lot more difficult to defend this 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.560