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What is up, Dolph fans, and welcome to 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.159 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:57.200 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.440 I am your host, Travis Winfield here for a another 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.720 victory Monday or Sunday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. And 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:10.640 on today's show, it is five straight baby win win 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:17.560 win win win. That's right, five straight wins and eight 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.919 and three start for the first time since two thousand 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.480 one as the Dolphins roll up a thirty burger in 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.680 the first half of the game and close it out 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.040 down the stretch against the visiting Houston Texans. Thirty to 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.319 fifteen year final score. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.440 quarterback to a Tungle Bloa will give you the five takeaways, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.119 the play before the play teaching tape, and a whole 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.320 lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:48.720 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.360 a really interesting game for the Miami Dolphins. Here the 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.120 last game of the month of November. It means we 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.600 head into December at eight and three and again, the 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.160 first time the Dolphins will be at eight and three 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.520 through eleven games since the two thousand and one season. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.480 O J joked after the game on the post game 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.400 show that he had season tickets that year, his first 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.400 year with season tickets to the Miami Dolphins after retiring 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.200 a member of the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.360 get to the stats here and again, Dolphins were up 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.520 thirty to nothing at the break in the game, thirty 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.919 to fifteen, and they get there in interesting fashion. I 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.000 I think I would be the best way to describe that. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.640 Twenty five first downs of the Texans fourteen, so some 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.200 domination in that regard. Only four for fifteen on third 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.160 down where the Miami Dolphins one for one on fourth down. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.400 That's the same for the Texans on their fourth down attempt. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.640 They were two for thirteen on their third down tries. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.280 Miami did out gain Houston three thirty nine to two ten. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.000 Two hundred and seventy three of that came through the 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.240 air for Miami, sixty six on the ground compared to 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.320 one seventy four and thirty six for Houston. Miami ran 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.400 fourteen more plays, seventy two compared to fifty eight. They 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.560 also had the one turnover compared to Houston's three turnovers. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.560 Both quarterbacks, or I should say both teams took five 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.920 quarterback sacks. The Dolphins had four penalties for thirty five 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.119 the Texans had five for forty five. And time possession 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.359 not that big of a disparity thirty two and a 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.680 half minutes for the Miami Dolphins compared to twenty seven 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:17.720 minutes thirty three seconds for the Houston Texans. So uh, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.239 A game that felt like it was kind of I 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.560 wouldn't I'll never say over, but it definitely felt like 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.920 the Dolphins had the driver's seat occupied pretty significantly and 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.680 pretty confidently really early in the game, especially after that 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.240 touchdown drive after the first series kind of starts off 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.320 a little bit sloppy, some mistakes here and there, and 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.960 we'll get to that here in just one second. But 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.400 you saw this Dolphins defense, I thought, really take ownership 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.320 of what that side of the football can be. And 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.800 we start there with our takeaways number one, defensive domination 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.800 and a second half of the season adaptation of what 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.400 we could expect to see going forward. But let's go 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.600 ahead and first start here with quarterback to a tongue 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.600 of by Low who was asked after the game about 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.800 what a defensive performance like that can do for the 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.440 offense and the entire team. Here's QB one on the 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.880 defense man. That was awesome to see from from our defense. Um, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.360 you know, the turnovers, the sacks, you know, just the 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.760 big hits that that they were making defensively. For me, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.839 I'm I'm used to seeing that because in my first 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.560 two years, you know that that's the type of defense 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.880 we've had, Uh, a defense that would get interset interceptions 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.880 and then would score, um you know, and we'd come 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.080 off with like five turnovers a game. Um, you know, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.839 my my first two years. So I'm used to seeing 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.159 that and it's always great to watch UM when you know, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.040 when when we're able to also do some things UM 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.960 really well offensively. And of course that all kind of 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.440 coincides with the Bradley Chub trade, right. I mean, that's 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.719 one of the notes I haven't here among many for 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.080 this Dolphins defensive performance that was so dominant in this game. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.680 And that's kind of the general takeaway here from this takeaway, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.000 and we've talked about it on the Wednesday podcast, right. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.839 We talked about it back when or the winning streak 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.000 when the offense had the good yards per play and 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.760 some of the good numbers that typically and traditionally equated 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.320 to offensive success as far as points scored, but it 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.640 wasn't translating, and we talked about how typically that will 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.000 correct itself if you maintain that level of yards per 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.160 play production, and we kind of got there right at 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.239 least over the last five games. And then the running 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.039 game kind of a similar situation where it was coming along, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.799 it was coming along, and then it had a breakout 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.240 couple of games the last few weeks on that road 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.520 trip and then finishing up here at home against the 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.039 Browns before the bye week, and we feel the same 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.440 way or at least I did. About the pass rush. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.200 It was getting close. One of the top pressure teams 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.840 in the NFL didn't have the sacks to complete that. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.279 And you also had quarterbacks that could run around and 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.040 make plays and all these very gifted scrambling quarterbacks, and 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.640 not just the guys that can run and make plays 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.839 with their legs, but guys they can evade pressure, sidestep, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.559 get out of trouble, and make big plays with their arms. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.560 I mean, you were seeing top echelon quarterbacks weekend and 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.039 week out, between Lamar jack In, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.480 Kirk Cousins was down here in South Florida as well. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.960 I mean, Justin Fields's performance in the Bears game. So 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.400 the Dolphins to kind of really put their stamp back 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.520 on what this defense has been in recent history, but 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.919 also to ramp up that pass rush and get home 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.640 as frequently as they did in this game with five sacks. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.559 It was three sacks a couple of weeks ago against 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.159 the Cleveland Browns. But Bradley Chubb's inclusion and that the 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.440 trading for Bradley Chubb kind of change the way that 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.000 you can operate. And it didn't take away from the 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.960 way you were operating. It put another feather in the cap, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.400 if you will, another pitch in the arsenal to find 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.719 your way to the winner circle. And that is, of course, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.520 rushing with just four or three pass rushers and dropping 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.440 seven or eight in coverage, which is difficult to throw against. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.760 If you're not extremely precise and on time and in 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.279 rhythm and accurate with the football. It's tough to throw 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.640 into seven and eight man coverage looks. So when you 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.320 can dial those up and still maintain a good level 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.240 of quarterback pressure with only three or four down man, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.200 you're gonna be tough to beat. And we're seeing this 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.400 Dolphins defense get closer and closer to that, and we're 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.360 kind of seeing them break through the door in that 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.520 regard against both Cleveland and Houston. And you know, Cleveland 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.240 has one of the best offensive line in the NFL. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.440 We talked about with Mark Vandom here on the podcast 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.480 on Friday as well as the Not Friday Wednesday, as 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.840 well as the Tuesday preview edition of the Drivetime podcast. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.680 The Texans offensive lines probably the strength of that football team. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.040 We saw Larrymie tuns Will almost catch a two point 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.120 conversion which I thought was my favorite part of the 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.640 entire game, and the quarterback kind of threw him open 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.320 on the back shoulder there and he almost made a 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.800 cool play, which I thought would have been fun to 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.920 see him get that two point conversion late in that game. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.920 Of course, you know him coming back for his first 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.160 game in South Florida since the trade that sent him 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.480 over to Houston, which of course resulted by and large 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.120 in Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, and Javon Holland. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.920 So just kind of a cool parallel there. But to 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.360 see that pass rush really get cranked up and go 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.000 after a good Texans offensive like there was. The opening 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.720 sack of the game was Melvin Ingram winning across face, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.400 Zach Seiler winning across face, and then Duke Riley looping 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.800 around is kind of a delayed stunter scraping off of 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.520 that inside pressure and getting around the edge to put 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.960 the hit on the quarterback to get him to the ground. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.120 You had one on one Pierre Pier pass rush wins 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.880 just beating the guy with speed, like for instance, Bradley 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.160 Chubb on that sack, I just really felt like you 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.800 had the full compliment of his abilities available or I 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.600 should say, on display on that particular look. We saw 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.200 Christian Wilkins doing it time and time again. We saw 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.720 mentioned Melvin Ingram. We saw Andrew Van Ginkl gets the 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.640 interception and returned down to the two yard line. We 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.600 saw Elijah Campbell come on the blitz and really force 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.040 you know, Kyle Allen to throw the football away before 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.480 he wanted to. We saw ray Kwon Davis eating up 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.319 space in the middle up on that front of the 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.920 defensive line. I thought the two linebackers again, the two 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.920 off ball you know, Mike inside linebacker types and Jerome 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.040 Baker and uh Land and Roberts who were coming off 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.720 in my opinion, their best game in Cleveland play another 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.320 really a good game with physicality, some big hits that 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.560 forced fumble that Jerome Baker had, What a hit that 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.520 was on the quarterback. Late in the game. Landon Roberts 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.000 had a sack of his own. Just constant, constant pressure 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.880 from all levels of the defense. Constant competition in the 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.280 second level of defense as well. We saw the scoop 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.240 and score by exaving Howard. We saw Kator Cohu once 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.160 again just continue to stick his face in there against 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.120 screen passes and outside runs. How about that big stick 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.360 that Eric Rowe put on the tight end to knock 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.079 the ball free for the Exhauving howard scoop and score. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.440 It was just all levels, all phases, all different looks 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.960 of a dominant defense. And I kind of pulled back 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.920 on the pass rush there because spoiler, the pass rush 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.160 in its own right is going to be a specific 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.600 takeaway later on in the episode. But I just want 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.559 to go through the drive counts here because I kind 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.200 of stopped keeping track at the very end. But the 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.600 first drive of the game three and out four yards. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.719 Second drive of the game it was minus one yard. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.360 They did get a first down, but eventually minus one yard. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.439 Third drive thirteen yards, fourth drive eighteen yards, fifth drive 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.440 one yard and a pick. Sixth drive five yards, seventh 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.680 drive negative nine yards and a fumble lost, eighth drive 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.920 fourteen yards, halftime ninth drive five yards. So I mean 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.319 they never got over twenty yards and the first nine 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.000 drives of the game. That is absolute domination from your defense. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.040 On the day they do well. The third down numbers 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.440 they were over oh for nine, I believe on those 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.160 first for seven. Check that on those first nine drives. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.240 They had four first downs on those first nine drives. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.560 They did wind up two for eleven and with thirteen 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.839 first downs, but again, the game was thirty to nothing 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.440 before they got their fifth first down in the game. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.760 Just really really dominant performance by this Dolphins defense. Takeaway 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:48.080 number two. This started off as Trent Sherfield's value is 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.600 not like quantifiable, but I wound up making it the 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.880 entire wide receiver room and the way it's been reshaped 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.440 around the strengths of their quarterback is one of the 0:10:58.440 --> 0:10:59.960 biggest tips of the cap. I think you can get 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.280 of the personnel staff, Chris Career or frankly any executive 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.840 around the NFL for the way they took a part 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.760 of the roster, remade it entirely and got just value 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.280 on top of value. And let's talk about Trent Schurefield 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.079 her first, because the fourth down catch was the reason 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.920 I made this the takeaway under Trent Shurefield at first, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.800 because you see to scan the side of the field 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.560 that has Tyreek and Waddle. Maybe it was just one 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.920 of them. I'll have to go back and look at it. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.120 I can't remember watching the game live, but I know 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.720 for sure that one of the guys is over there 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.640 and you see him kind of check check check. Oh 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.599 there's my third read. Let me get that ball to 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.200 Trent Shufield, who is in the right place at the 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.240 right time, knows where he's supposed to be and can 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.760 make a tough catch among traffic and take a shot 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.120 and hang on to the football on fourth down where 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.040 you don't have any margin for air. You have to 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.359 execute in that play, and he makes that catch through contact, 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.320 and just so valuable to have someone that is so 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.960 in tune with Tua, so in tune with the offense, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.120 so in tune with the play caller, the coaching staff, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.640 and what his job is on a down end down 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.840 out bay Sis. I just think it's the perfect compliment 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.920 to the two guys that are, you know, pacing the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.080 league right now in terms of yards and receptions and 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.959 all the fun stuff that Tyreek and Jayalen are doing. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.480 I can't think of a better compliment than Trent Sherfield 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.280 and what he brings the table. I can't think of 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.840 a better compliment to that than River Cracraft and what 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.280 he's done catching a bunch of first downs. He got 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.720 sets game ball today. I took the coug right out 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.839 of my mouth and took the game ball from River 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.120 Cracraft and gave him that thing. We played the Washington 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.240 State fight song there on the pot on the radio 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.040 postgame show, but um, I'm not gonna play it here 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.360 because it was a tough Apple Cup and I'm not 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.000 gonna talk about that any further. But those two guys, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.360 Cedric Wilson, what he's providing you in special teams and 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.800 the the you know, occasional timely catches that he gives 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.880 you as well. Just one through five, these guys, they 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.880 dressed typically weekly when they're all healthy, have just been 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.760 so impressive. They're so well constructed as far as the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.200 way they work, the way they're detailed, the way they 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.560 can you know, use their physical traits to beat teams. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.560 The way those receieing room has been constructed. It's just 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.280 as ideal to this quarterback strength, to this offensive syst him. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.400 It's been fun to watch and to kind of continue 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.440 that tyreek I just put on here, the rare, rare 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.760 speed that he showed on that catch and run on 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.160 that little drag route where he ran across the entire field. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.640 And I'm telling you, the NFL football fields what fifty 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.760 three and a half yards wide? Man, If that thing 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.560 is fifty four and a half yards wide, he might 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.640 have had a ninety one yard touchdown catch on that 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.200 because they barely got him out of bounds up along 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.040 the perimeter. And then Jalen Waddle, I mean, the contested 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.600 catch that he made down down the field. What more 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.120 do you need to see from the kid about his 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.760 complete the complete compliment and the complete skill set of 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.199 his game. I mean, I've been talking about it since 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.480 last training camp when he caught everything known demand and 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.440 went on to have a hundred catch season, and now 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.959 he has a Dolphins record for most receiving yards through 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.600 the first two seasons of any Dolphins receiver ever. That's 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.600 Smart Clayton, That's Mark Duper, That's Jarvis Landry, that's Chris Chambers, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.880 that's so on and so forth. It's it's incredible what 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.040 he's done first two years here in the league with 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.440 the Miami Dolphin the most receiving yards. Jalen Waddle with 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.080 another big game today as he caught five was five 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.440 for eighty five, the same number Ty he kill had 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.959 six eighty five. But I just thought that what Waddle 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.560 was able to do with that was just so so 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.400 very impressive. And the way he's able to the quick 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.720 release off the line, the abilities to stem and stack 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.559 receivers and just keep them, you know, kind of at bay. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.120 And then explosiveness, the catching, the contested catch ability, the competitiveness, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.640 it all jumps off the tape. And in fact, let's 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.680 go ahead and here from quarterback to a Tongua Baloa 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.640 on Jalen Waddle. Congratulations to Jalen. Uh. You know that's 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:34.480 news to me. Um. I'm definitely gonna go in uh 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.560 beat him up about that. I don't know if he 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.320 knows too so that that'll be that'll be awesome to 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.720 tell him, Um, but will deserving for for someone like him. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.600 Um comes into work, works his ass off. Um has 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.120 a lot of questions every time, and you know if 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.440 he doesn't get him answered, then he's not going to 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.080 be in for that play. So very detail oriented person 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.800 and very happy for him. You know, this is just 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.920 the beginning. He's only in or two and we've got 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.360 a lot more games to play. I just wanted to 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:04.960 play that because I think it's really cool to hear 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.240 him talk about the details and the way he asked 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.040 questions and the way he studies and goes about his profession. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.000 It goes back to what he talked about with you 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.600 know Waddle coming out of the draft, like, oh, he's 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.400 a speed merchant, we know he can do that. No, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.680 that's that's a slight to his game because he is 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.160 a complete receiver, one of the best receivers in the NFL. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.960 The way he's playing, the way he prepares. Just everything 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.040 about Waddle you have to love and to kind of 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.680 put a bow on this point to take away number 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.880 two about the receiver's room constructed in a way that 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.120 really magnifies what the quarterback does well. It magnifies with 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.040 the offense does well. Because of the way they block 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.960 so well. In the running game, you get a bunch 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:40.400 of you know, every time you get big runs down 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.400 the field, you'll see a receiver putting on a big block, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.680 or the effort you get from Trent Sherfield and those 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.840 kind of ghost motions, of those smoke motions. It goes 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.280 across the formation has to peel back around and see 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.320 a block on the backside. Just really the effort, the 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.160 way they work, and then the skill sets. It's I 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.640 don't know how you can say more about this Dolphins 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.600 receivers women. I think you'd be hard pressed to find 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.720 a position group in this franchise's history or across the 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.720 league this year that really saw, you know, more put 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.600 into it and get more production out of those new 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.520 pieces than these Miami Dolphins wide receivers. Let's go ahead 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.080 and take our first break and come back on the 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.600 other side and do takeaways three through five. We still 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.960 have teaching tape and the play before the play plenty 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.040 to come here on the Victory Monday edition of the 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.920 Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:33.680 by Auto Nation. It's a Sunday evening slash Monday morning, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.680 depending on when you listen to this podcast. 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That's all optional, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.880 of course, but if you're here, that means you enjoy 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.440 the show, and that means we're gonna keep on going. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.720 Right now with takeaway number three, which is the subtleties 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.360 in two is game and I'm talking not about the 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.160 gaudy statistics, about the accuracy stuff that we know about. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.600 I want to talk about his mobility, his ball handling, 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.040 and his autonomy athlone scrimmage, to get into positive looks, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.280 into good run counts, and to recognize what the defenses 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.399 showing him and to attack that vulnerability based upon what 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.360 he sees. But I want to first start here. There 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.479 was some good back and forth about something I know 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.880 you all saw on the broadcast. Of course, being at 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.480 hard Rock Stadium, I don't see the broadcast, but there 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.560 was a great story about Mike McDaniel and a seven 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.239 hundred play reel clip showing to a about why he 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.359 believes he's a good quarterback in the league. There was 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.520 some good back and forth, some good discourse between the 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.119 media and Mike McDaniel, but also to a tuggle by 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.119 Lowa about that. Let's go ahead and go to to 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.840 a first who has asked that question about the seven 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.320 hundred play highlight tape that Mike put in front of 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.720 him when he got here in Miami. I thought it 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.840 was cool. You know, I think anyone here can attest 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:56.080 to someone believing in them and um, you know how 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.760 how that changes how they see um themselves, but also 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.320 things around them, so perspective. But it I mean, it 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:12.320 was awesome. Um, there's a lot of details that UM entail, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.920 you know, me sitting down with him and and other 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.399 things as well, but it's awesome. It's really cool. And 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.560 let's go ahead and here from Mike McDaniel, who has 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.080 asked two questions about that. First and then the follow up. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:30.320 Here's coach on his quarterback. You try and um put 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.480 yourself in other people's shoes as best you can. I 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.480 think that's an important component to be a head coach. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.240 And you know, no one really I think it's hard 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:46.480 for people to truly um wrap their head around what 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.000 it is to be a quarterback in the National Football 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.680 League in terms of you talk about as much pressure 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.520 as one could ever have. You have all these teammates 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.600 depending on you to do the right thing on every play. Um, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.200 people are trying to tackle you full speed while you're 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.720 making split sex second decisions and you're in charge of 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:11.879 making sure that our plus minus turnover ratios, right, that 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.600 is a hard, hard job. Not to mention this just 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:21.840 in anybody that's drafted as a quarterback in the top ten, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.879 top five, they want to be good. They want to 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.720 be good with the I would not I would not 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:37.840 want to trade places or wish um any short, any 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:43.919 sort of uh. Anybody really to to be drafted super 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:50.280 high UM and then fall short of the franchises expectations. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:55.040 That is a tough place to live in. And that 0:19:55.320 --> 0:20:02.680 was the motivating factor. UM. Behind everything is you acknowledging 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:08.000 that understanding that, Wow, it's hard enough to play an opponent. UM, 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.439 I better make sure you know, there's a lot of 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.560 things that are telling me that this this player may 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:18.960 not have the confidence that he should. UM. So instead 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.560