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Speaker 1: victory Monday or Sunday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, it is five straight baby win win
Speaker 1: win win win. That's right, five straight wins and eight
Speaker 1: and three start for the first time since two thousand
Speaker 1: one as the Dolphins roll up a thirty burger in
Speaker 1: the first half of the game and close it out
Speaker 1: down the stretch against the visiting Houston Texans. Thirty to
Speaker 1: fifteen year final score. We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: quarterback to a Tungle Bloa will give you the five takeaways,
Speaker 1: the play before the play teaching tape, and a whole
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Speaker 1: a really interesting game for the Miami Dolphins. Here the
Speaker 1: last game of the month of November. It means we
Speaker 1: head into December at eight and three and again, the
Speaker 1: first time the Dolphins will be at eight and three
Speaker 1: through eleven games since the two thousand and one season.
Speaker 1: O J joked after the game on the post game
Speaker 1: show that he had season tickets that year, his first
Speaker 1: year with season tickets to the Miami Dolphins after retiring
Speaker 1: a member of the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to the stats here and again, Dolphins were up
Speaker 1: thirty to nothing at the break in the game, thirty
Speaker 1: to fifteen, and they get there in interesting fashion. I
Speaker 1: I think I would be the best way to describe that.
Speaker 1: Twenty five first downs of the Texans fourteen, so some
Speaker 1: domination in that regard. Only four for fifteen on third
Speaker 1: down where the Miami Dolphins one for one on fourth down.
Speaker 1: That's the same for the Texans on their fourth down attempt.
Speaker 1: They were two for thirteen on their third down tries.
Speaker 1: Miami did out gain Houston three thirty nine to two ten.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and seventy three of that came through the
Speaker 1: air for Miami, sixty six on the ground compared to
Speaker 1: one seventy four and thirty six for Houston. Miami ran
Speaker 1: fourteen more plays, seventy two compared to fifty eight. They
Speaker 1: also had the one turnover compared to Houston's three turnovers.
Speaker 1: Both quarterbacks, or I should say both teams took five
Speaker 1: quarterback sacks. The Dolphins had four penalties for thirty five
Speaker 1: the Texans had five for forty five. And time possession
Speaker 1: not that big of a disparity thirty two and a
Speaker 1: half minutes for the Miami Dolphins compared to twenty seven
Speaker 1: minutes thirty three seconds for the Houston Texans. So uh,
Speaker 1: A game that felt like it was kind of I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I'll never say over, but it definitely felt like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins had the driver's seat occupied pretty significantly and
Speaker 1: pretty confidently really early in the game, especially after that
Speaker 1: touchdown drive after the first series kind of starts off
Speaker 1: a little bit sloppy, some mistakes here and there, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to that here in just one second. But
Speaker 1: you saw this Dolphins defense, I thought, really take ownership
Speaker 1: of what that side of the football can be. And
Speaker 1: we start there with our takeaways number one, defensive domination
Speaker 1: and a second half of the season adaptation of what
Speaker 1: we could expect to see going forward. But let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and first start here with quarterback to a tongue
Speaker 1: of by Low who was asked after the game about
Speaker 1: what a defensive performance like that can do for the
Speaker 1: offense and the entire team. Here's QB one on the
Speaker 1: defense man. That was awesome to see from from our defense. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the turnovers, the sacks, you know, just the
Speaker 1: big hits that that they were making defensively. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm used to seeing that because in my first
Speaker 1: two years, you know that that's the type of defense
Speaker 1: we've had, Uh, a defense that would get interset interceptions
Speaker 1: and then would score, um you know, and we'd come
Speaker 1: off with like five turnovers a game. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: my my first two years. So I'm used to seeing
Speaker 1: that and it's always great to watch UM when you know,
Speaker 1: when when we're able to also do some things UM
Speaker 1: really well offensively. And of course that all kind of
Speaker 1: coincides with the Bradley Chub trade, right. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: one of the notes I haven't here among many for
Speaker 1: this Dolphins defensive performance that was so dominant in this game.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the general takeaway here from this takeaway,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it on the Wednesday podcast, right.
Speaker 1: We talked about it back when or the winning streak
Speaker 1: when the offense had the good yards per play and
Speaker 1: some of the good numbers that typically and traditionally equated
Speaker 1: to offensive success as far as points scored, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't translating, and we talked about how typically that will
Speaker 1: correct itself if you maintain that level of yards per
Speaker 1: play production, and we kind of got there right at
Speaker 1: least over the last five games. And then the running
Speaker 1: game kind of a similar situation where it was coming along,
Speaker 1: it was coming along, and then it had a breakout
Speaker 1: couple of games the last few weeks on that road
Speaker 1: trip and then finishing up here at home against the
Speaker 1: Browns before the bye week, and we feel the same
Speaker 1: way or at least I did. About the pass rush.
Speaker 1: It was getting close. One of the top pressure teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL didn't have the sacks to complete that.
Speaker 1: And you also had quarterbacks that could run around and
Speaker 1: make plays and all these very gifted scrambling quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: not just the guys that can run and make plays
Speaker 1: with their legs, but guys they can evade pressure, sidestep,
Speaker 1: get out of trouble, and make big plays with their arms.
Speaker 1: I mean, you were seeing top echelon quarterbacks weekend and
Speaker 1: week out, between Lamar jack In, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was down here in South Florida as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, Justin Fields's performance in the Bears game. So
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to kind of really put their stamp back
Speaker 1: on what this defense has been in recent history, but
Speaker 1: also to ramp up that pass rush and get home
Speaker 1: as frequently as they did in this game with five sacks.
Speaker 1: It was three sacks a couple of weeks ago against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. But Bradley Chubb's inclusion and that the
Speaker 1: trading for Bradley Chubb kind of change the way that
Speaker 1: you can operate. And it didn't take away from the
Speaker 1: way you were operating. It put another feather in the cap,
Speaker 1: if you will, another pitch in the arsenal to find
Speaker 1: your way to the winner circle. And that is, of course,
Speaker 1: rushing with just four or three pass rushers and dropping
Speaker 1: seven or eight in coverage, which is difficult to throw against.
Speaker 1: If you're not extremely precise and on time and in
Speaker 1: rhythm and accurate with the football. It's tough to throw
Speaker 1: into seven and eight man coverage looks. So when you
Speaker 1: can dial those up and still maintain a good level
Speaker 1: of quarterback pressure with only three or four down man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be tough to beat. And we're seeing this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense get closer and closer to that, and we're
Speaker 1: kind of seeing them break through the door in that
Speaker 1: regard against both Cleveland and Houston. And you know, Cleveland
Speaker 1: has one of the best offensive line in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We talked about with Mark Vandom here on the podcast
Speaker 1: on Friday as well as the Not Friday Wednesday, as
Speaker 1: well as the Tuesday preview edition of the Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 1: The Texans offensive lines probably the strength of that football team.
Speaker 1: We saw Larrymie tuns Will almost catch a two point
Speaker 1: conversion which I thought was my favorite part of the
Speaker 1: entire game, and the quarterback kind of threw him open
Speaker 1: on the back shoulder there and he almost made a
Speaker 1: cool play, which I thought would have been fun to
Speaker 1: see him get that two point conversion late in that game.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know him coming back for his first
Speaker 1: game in South Florida since the trade that sent him
Speaker 1: over to Houston, which of course resulted by and large
Speaker 1: in Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, and Javon Holland.
Speaker 1: So just kind of a cool parallel there. But to
Speaker 1: see that pass rush really get cranked up and go
Speaker 1: after a good Texans offensive like there was. The opening
Speaker 1: sack of the game was Melvin Ingram winning across face,
Speaker 1: Zach Seiler winning across face, and then Duke Riley looping
Speaker 1: around is kind of a delayed stunter scraping off of
Speaker 1: that inside pressure and getting around the edge to put
Speaker 1: the hit on the quarterback to get him to the ground.
Speaker 1: You had one on one Pierre Pier pass rush wins
Speaker 1: just beating the guy with speed, like for instance, Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb on that sack, I just really felt like you
Speaker 1: had the full compliment of his abilities available or I
Speaker 1: should say, on display on that particular look. We saw
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins doing it time and time again. We saw
Speaker 1: mentioned Melvin Ingram. We saw Andrew Van Ginkl gets the
Speaker 1: interception and returned down to the two yard line. We
Speaker 1: saw Elijah Campbell come on the blitz and really force
Speaker 1: you know, Kyle Allen to throw the football away before
Speaker 1: he wanted to. We saw ray Kwon Davis eating up
Speaker 1: space in the middle up on that front of the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I thought the two linebackers again, the two
Speaker 1: off ball you know, Mike inside linebacker types and Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker and uh Land and Roberts who were coming off
Speaker 1: in my opinion, their best game in Cleveland play another
Speaker 1: really a good game with physicality, some big hits that
Speaker 1: forced fumble that Jerome Baker had, What a hit that
Speaker 1: was on the quarterback. Late in the game. Landon Roberts
Speaker 1: had a sack of his own. Just constant, constant pressure
Speaker 1: from all levels of the defense. Constant competition in the
Speaker 1: second level of defense as well. We saw the scoop
Speaker 1: and score by exaving Howard. We saw Kator Cohu once
Speaker 1: again just continue to stick his face in there against
Speaker 1: screen passes and outside runs. How about that big stick
Speaker 1: that Eric Rowe put on the tight end to knock
Speaker 1: the ball free for the Exhauving howard scoop and score.
Speaker 1: It was just all levels, all phases, all different looks
Speaker 1: of a dominant defense. And I kind of pulled back
Speaker 1: on the pass rush there because spoiler, the pass rush
Speaker 1: in its own right is going to be a specific
Speaker 1: takeaway later on in the episode. But I just want
Speaker 1: to go through the drive counts here because I kind
Speaker 1: of stopped keeping track at the very end. But the
Speaker 1: first drive of the game three and out four yards.
Speaker 1: Second drive of the game it was minus one yard.
Speaker 1: They did get a first down, but eventually minus one yard.
Speaker 1: Third drive thirteen yards, fourth drive eighteen yards, fifth drive
Speaker 1: one yard and a pick. Sixth drive five yards, seventh
Speaker 1: drive negative nine yards and a fumble lost, eighth drive
Speaker 1: fourteen yards, halftime ninth drive five yards. So I mean
Speaker 1: they never got over twenty yards and the first nine
Speaker 1: drives of the game. That is absolute domination from your defense.
Speaker 1: On the day they do well. The third down numbers
Speaker 1: they were over oh for nine, I believe on those
Speaker 1: first for seven. Check that on those first nine drives.
Speaker 1: They had four first downs on those first nine drives.
Speaker 1: They did wind up two for eleven and with thirteen
Speaker 1: first downs, but again, the game was thirty to nothing
Speaker 1: before they got their fifth first down in the game.
Speaker 1: Just really really dominant performance by this Dolphins defense. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number two. This started off as Trent Sherfield's value is
Speaker 1: not like quantifiable, but I wound up making it the
Speaker 1: entire wide receiver room and the way it's been reshaped
Speaker 1: around the strengths of their quarterback is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest tips of the cap. I think you can get
Speaker 1: of the personnel staff, Chris Career or frankly any executive
Speaker 1: around the NFL for the way they took a part
Speaker 1: of the roster, remade it entirely and got just value
Speaker 1: on top of value. And let's talk about Trent Schurefield
Speaker 1: her first, because the fourth down catch was the reason
Speaker 1: I made this the takeaway under Trent Shurefield at first,
Speaker 1: because you see to scan the side of the field
Speaker 1: that has Tyreek and Waddle. Maybe it was just one
Speaker 1: of them. I'll have to go back and look at it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember watching the game live, but I know
Speaker 1: for sure that one of the guys is over there
Speaker 1: and you see him kind of check check check. Oh
Speaker 1: there's my third read. Let me get that ball to
Speaker 1: Trent Shufield, who is in the right place at the
Speaker 1: right time, knows where he's supposed to be and can
Speaker 1: make a tough catch among traffic and take a shot
Speaker 1: and hang on to the football on fourth down where
Speaker 1: you don't have any margin for air. You have to
Speaker 1: execute in that play, and he makes that catch through contact,
Speaker 1: and just so valuable to have someone that is so
Speaker 1: in tune with Tua, so in tune with the offense,
Speaker 1: so in tune with the play caller, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and what his job is on a down end down
Speaker 1: out bay Sis. I just think it's the perfect compliment
Speaker 1: to the two guys that are, you know, pacing the
Speaker 1: league right now in terms of yards and receptions and
Speaker 1: all the fun stuff that Tyreek and Jayalen are doing.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a better compliment than Trent Sherfield
Speaker 1: and what he brings the table. I can't think of
Speaker 1: a better compliment to that than River Cracraft and what
Speaker 1: he's done catching a bunch of first downs. He got
Speaker 1: sets game ball today. I took the coug right out
Speaker 1: of my mouth and took the game ball from River
Speaker 1: Cracraft and gave him that thing. We played the Washington
Speaker 1: State fight song there on the pot on the radio
Speaker 1: postgame show, but um, I'm not gonna play it here
Speaker 1: because it was a tough Apple Cup and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that any further. But those two guys,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, what he's providing you in special teams and
Speaker 1: the the you know, occasional timely catches that he gives
Speaker 1: you as well. Just one through five, these guys, they
Speaker 1: dressed typically weekly when they're all healthy, have just been
Speaker 1: so impressive. They're so well constructed as far as the
Speaker 1: way they work, the way they're detailed, the way they
Speaker 1: can you know, use their physical traits to beat teams.
Speaker 1: The way those receieing room has been constructed. It's just
Speaker 1: as ideal to this quarterback strength, to this offensive syst him.
Speaker 1: It's been fun to watch and to kind of continue
Speaker 1: that tyreek I just put on here, the rare, rare
Speaker 1: speed that he showed on that catch and run on
Speaker 1: that little drag route where he ran across the entire field.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, the NFL football fields what fifty
Speaker 1: three and a half yards wide? Man, If that thing
Speaker 1: is fifty four and a half yards wide, he might
Speaker 1: have had a ninety one yard touchdown catch on that
Speaker 1: because they barely got him out of bounds up along
Speaker 1: the perimeter. And then Jalen Waddle, I mean, the contested
Speaker 1: catch that he made down down the field. What more
Speaker 1: do you need to see from the kid about his
Speaker 1: complete the complete compliment and the complete skill set of
Speaker 1: his game. I mean, I've been talking about it since
Speaker 1: last training camp when he caught everything known demand and
Speaker 1: went on to have a hundred catch season, and now
Speaker 1: he has a Dolphins record for most receiving yards through
Speaker 1: the first two seasons of any Dolphins receiver ever. That's
Speaker 1: Smart Clayton, That's Mark Duper, That's Jarvis Landry, that's Chris Chambers,
Speaker 1: that's so on and so forth. It's it's incredible what
Speaker 1: he's done first two years here in the league with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphin the most receiving yards. Jalen Waddle with
Speaker 1: another big game today as he caught five was five
Speaker 1: for eighty five, the same number Ty he kill had
Speaker 1: six eighty five. But I just thought that what Waddle
Speaker 1: was able to do with that was just so so
Speaker 1: very impressive. And the way he's able to the quick
Speaker 1: release off the line, the abilities to stem and stack
Speaker 1: receivers and just keep them, you know, kind of at bay.
Speaker 1: And then explosiveness, the catching, the contested catch ability, the competitiveness,
Speaker 1: it all jumps off the tape. And in fact, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and here from quarterback to a Tongua Baloa
Speaker 1: on Jalen Waddle. Congratulations to Jalen. Uh. You know that's
Speaker 1: news to me. Um. I'm definitely gonna go in uh
Speaker 1: beat him up about that. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: knows too so that that'll be that'll be awesome to
Speaker 1: tell him, Um, but will deserving for for someone like him.
Speaker 1: Um comes into work, works his ass off. Um has
Speaker 1: a lot of questions every time, and you know if
Speaker 1: he doesn't get him answered, then he's not going to
Speaker 1: be in for that play. So very detail oriented person
Speaker 1: and very happy for him. You know, this is just
Speaker 1: the beginning. He's only in or two and we've got
Speaker 1: a lot more games to play. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: play that because I think it's really cool to hear
Speaker 1: him talk about the details and the way he asked
Speaker 1: questions and the way he studies and goes about his profession.
Speaker 1: It goes back to what he talked about with you
Speaker 1: know Waddle coming out of the draft, like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: a speed merchant, we know he can do that. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's a slight to his game because he is
Speaker 1: a complete receiver, one of the best receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The way he's playing, the way he prepares. Just everything
Speaker 1: about Waddle you have to love and to kind of
Speaker 1: put a bow on this point to take away number
Speaker 1: two about the receiver's room constructed in a way that
Speaker 1: really magnifies what the quarterback does well. It magnifies with
Speaker 1: the offense does well. Because of the way they block
Speaker 1: so well. In the running game, you get a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, every time you get big runs down
Speaker 1: the field, you'll see a receiver putting on a big block,
Speaker 1: or the effort you get from Trent Sherfield and those
Speaker 1: kind of ghost motions, of those smoke motions. It goes
Speaker 1: across the formation has to peel back around and see
Speaker 1: a block on the backside. Just really the effort, the
Speaker 1: way they work, and then the skill sets. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can say more about this Dolphins
Speaker 1: receivers women. I think you'd be hard pressed to find
Speaker 1: a position group in this franchise's history or across the
Speaker 1: league this year that really saw, you know, more put
Speaker 1: into it and get more production out of those new
Speaker 1: pieces than these Miami Dolphins wide receivers. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and do takeaways three through five. We still
Speaker 1: have teaching tape and the play before the play plenty
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Speaker 1: Right now with takeaway number three, which is the subtleties
Speaker 1: in two is game and I'm talking not about the
Speaker 1: gaudy statistics, about the accuracy stuff that we know about.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about his mobility, his ball handling,
Speaker 1: and his autonomy athlone scrimmage, to get into positive looks,
Speaker 1: into good run counts, and to recognize what the defenses
Speaker 1: showing him and to attack that vulnerability based upon what
Speaker 1: he sees. But I want to first start here. There
Speaker 1: was some good back and forth about something I know
Speaker 1: you all saw on the broadcast. Of course, being at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium, I don't see the broadcast, but there
Speaker 1: was a great story about Mike McDaniel and a seven
Speaker 1: hundred play reel clip showing to a about why he
Speaker 1: believes he's a good quarterback in the league. There was
Speaker 1: some good back and forth, some good discourse between the
Speaker 1: media and Mike McDaniel, but also to a tuggle by
Speaker 1: Lowa about that. Let's go ahead and go to to
Speaker 1: a first who has asked that question about the seven
Speaker 1: hundred play highlight tape that Mike put in front of
Speaker 1: him when he got here in Miami. I thought it
Speaker 1: was cool. You know, I think anyone here can attest
Speaker 1: to someone believing in them and um, you know how
Speaker 1: how that changes how they see um themselves, but also
Speaker 1: things around them, so perspective. But it I mean, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. Um, there's a lot of details that UM entail,
Speaker 1: you know, me sitting down with him and and other
Speaker 1: things as well, but it's awesome. It's really cool. And
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and here from Mike McDaniel, who has
Speaker 1: asked two questions about that. First and then the follow up.
Speaker 1: Here's coach on his quarterback. You try and um put
Speaker 1: yourself in other people's shoes as best you can. I
Speaker 1: think that's an important component to be a head coach.
Speaker 1: And you know, no one really I think it's hard
Speaker 1: for people to truly um wrap their head around what
Speaker 1: it is to be a quarterback in the National Football
Speaker 1: League in terms of you talk about as much pressure
Speaker 1: as one could ever have. You have all these teammates
Speaker 1: depending on you to do the right thing on every play. Um,
Speaker 1: people are trying to tackle you full speed while you're
Speaker 1: making split sex second decisions and you're in charge of
Speaker 1: making sure that our plus minus turnover ratios, right, that
Speaker 1: is a hard, hard job. Not to mention this just
Speaker 1: in anybody that's drafted as a quarterback in the top ten,
Speaker 1: top five, they want to be good. They want to
Speaker 1: be good with the I would not I would not
Speaker 1: want to trade places or wish um any short, any
Speaker 1: sort of uh. Anybody really to to be drafted super
Speaker 1: high UM and then fall short of the franchises expectations.
Speaker 1: That is a tough place to live in. And that
Speaker 1: was the motivating factor. UM. Behind everything is you acknowledging
Speaker 1: that understanding that, Wow, it's hard enough to play an opponent. UM,
Speaker 1: I better make sure you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that are telling me that this this player may
Speaker 1: not have the confidence that he should. UM. So instead
Speaker 1: of getting mad at that or doing anything, UM. It
Speaker 1: was incredibly important that anybody that would listen, UM, would
Speaker 1: be able to see from a starting point not just
Speaker 1: you know, not just watch the face time where I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a great player, UM, to actually know.
Speaker 1: And it was easy. He had the stuff on the
Speaker 1: tape and UM, you know, I think that's a credit
Speaker 1: to him, and he's he's to his credit, he's really
Speaker 1: listened taking the coaching that he's good. So ka coach,
Speaker 1: I believe you, and UM, I think you guys have
Speaker 1: seen the residuals UM up close and personal for a while,
Speaker 1: and then the follow up was posed, at what point
Speaker 1: did you hear about the confidence you're talking about? And
Speaker 1: so coach game was kind of a timeline of that
Speaker 1: and this is just really cool perspective. We broke it
Speaker 1: down to the post game show talking about how unique
Speaker 1: we think it is for a coach to just think
Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff and to have that approach
Speaker 1: and the self awareness. Here's Mike McDaniel on noticing that
Speaker 1: confidence and how it was really just about his own
Speaker 1: intuition in a lot of ways, this is not going
Speaker 1: off of straight fact. This was just using intuition that
Speaker 1: getting beat up and having your existence be be completely
Speaker 1: tainted by people saying that you aren't X, Y, or z.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, Um, from my vantage point,
Speaker 1: I felt like he was put behind the eight ball
Speaker 1: in a way with UM. You know the he he
Speaker 1: basically he his strengths. He couldn't play too and so
Speaker 1: if if you're not able to play your play to
Speaker 1: your strengths in your position, that you've one of the
Speaker 1: reasons you've gotten there is you're an unbelievable point guard.
Speaker 1: I felt, how could he Um with all the things
Speaker 1: going on and all the uh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot of loud noise that you try to ignore,
Speaker 1: but people are human, so um, it was intuition and
Speaker 1: it started, you know, seeing him every practice. Once he
Speaker 1: started getting um, you know a little bit more confidence
Speaker 1: each and every day, you could see his personality evolve.
Speaker 1: And that's when that's what I learned kind of how
Speaker 1: deep it was because I'm learning his personality the first day,
Speaker 1: I mean, meet him is who I know him as.
Speaker 1: And then you fast forward a month and a half
Speaker 1: and he's a different guy than retroactively, Like, wow, that
Speaker 1: was real. And it's not like he admitted it either
Speaker 1: to me at the time. Live speed, you know, this
Speaker 1: is something that um, I think he he uh, he did.
Speaker 1: All he did was just come to work, buy in, listen,
Speaker 1: um and then do what he could control instead of
Speaker 1: worrying about any of it. Is he chopped wood, got
Speaker 1: with coach bevill And and Chandler Henley and they they've
Speaker 1: not done anything but tried to work on technique fundamentals
Speaker 1: and how to play the position at elite level and
Speaker 1: they've done outstanding job with that. And henceforth we or
Speaker 1: eight no with him um or I guess that's he
Speaker 1: didn't finish the game. But you guys get it. He
Speaker 1: wins a lot. Yeah, he does win a lot. We'll
Speaker 1: cover that here in the final segment of the podcast,
Speaker 1: but back to two real quick. I talked about mobility,
Speaker 1: ball handling, and the autonomy at the Lion of Scrimmage,
Speaker 1: on top of what coach told us there about confidence
Speaker 1: and just you know, believing in himself and what he
Speaker 1: was able to do to kind of kickstart that belief
Speaker 1: in that confidence, which as we've all seen kind of
Speaker 1: coming out this year and it's been really cool to witness.
Speaker 1: But there was several plays in this game where I
Speaker 1: thought to us, showed you some nuance to his game
Speaker 1: that maybe doesn't get enough credit. And number one is
Speaker 1: the mobility, the way he evaded the rush and created
Speaker 1: off script, off off his platform, off his original drop
Speaker 1: on the Durham Smith touchdown, What more could you want
Speaker 1: than that? He might have had a lane to run that,
Speaker 1: but throw the ball like that's what I want my
Speaker 1: quarterback do him and he put the ball right on target,
Speaker 1: right to his tight end Durham Smith for a big
Speaker 1: touchdown and a good celebration there Durham. At least we
Speaker 1: didn't go gritty. I love the celebration term Smith. I
Speaker 1: want to see might get back in the endzone here
Speaker 1: soon and see what he has for us next as well.
Speaker 1: Tight ends not us a point this year when they
Speaker 1: find the end zone. We saw it again later at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half when he had pressure
Speaker 1: from multiple angles and he had to kind of move
Speaker 1: around the pocket and get to this side and put
Speaker 1: his foot in the ground and cut back the other
Speaker 1: direction and then throws the ball away to not just
Speaker 1: keep himself from taking a hit but also preserving a
Speaker 1: negative play and getting into just a net no gain,
Speaker 1: an incomplete pass. Good stuff there from TWA. I love
Speaker 1: the ball handling. We talked about this a lot in
Speaker 1: the podcast The Great Film you know analysts, the guys
Speaker 1: that break this stuff down, that the Josh mccowns, the
Speaker 1: Kurt Warners, the jt O Solivan, Tim Jenkins, the guys
Speaker 1: that we refer to in the podcast at all time.
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger talk about that ball, that ball handling and
Speaker 1: how proficient it is, how subtle but how effective it
Speaker 1: can be and selling those fakes and you know, help
Speaker 1: carrying out the entire operation of the offense. That just
Speaker 1: not even just the ball fakes, but the the ability
Speaker 1: to go from one platform to this and get the
Speaker 1: ball out and the snap of a finger. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a quick pass he had to River Craycraft where
Speaker 1: the ball is literally in the belly of his back.
Speaker 1: I didn't see who the back was on this particular snap,
Speaker 1: and by the time from the time that the ball
Speaker 1: comes back out of the bellies the backs belly and
Speaker 1: into crate Crafts hands eight ten yards down the field,
Speaker 1: I swear it was less than a second. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not, but the I'm what I'm trying to tell
Speaker 1: you is it happens so quickly, and it's rare to
Speaker 1: be able to do that, and his footwork and his
Speaker 1: ability to get the ball out from those different angles
Speaker 1: and platforms is a really great trade that not many
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have, and it allows you to run stuff like
Speaker 1: a play action off the play side, where the quarterback
Speaker 1: then has to pivot back to the same side of
Speaker 1: the formation and throw a glance route where your your
Speaker 1: backs of the defense. You don't have eyes to locate
Speaker 1: what the movement is and the ball is not just
Speaker 1: like out on time and like quicker than it would
Speaker 1: be for most quarterbacks. The location of it throwing almost
Speaker 1: blind is perfect. It's it's really fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: thought there was the Jeff Wilson touchdown run. They had
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill to one side of the formation there and
Speaker 1: one cornerback was over there, and it reminded me of
Speaker 1: the Chase Edmonds running the Baltimore game motion away man
Speaker 1: coverage because the guy follows him run to that gap.
Speaker 1: They motioned Tyreek and the guy kind of followed him,
Speaker 1: and they run the ball right into that look. And
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking two went to the line. He made
Speaker 1: a check. Everyone kind of did that thing when they
Speaker 1: put their hands to the side of their helmets, which
Speaker 1: you see this offense. Do you see that the Niners
Speaker 1: do it as well. I don't know if it's a check,
Speaker 1: but it looked like at least some kind of communication
Speaker 1: to get into the right look. I just think that
Speaker 1: to a and his control and his autonomy at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage is really high level. It goes right
Speaker 1: in line with the way that he's been playing all
Speaker 1: year long, which of course is high level and some
Speaker 1: of the most demanding aspects of the position. I just
Speaker 1: think you continue to see it day in and day out,
Speaker 1: and and then also the the ability to kill the
Speaker 1: clock after he took that sack at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half. The level of maturity and professionalism and
Speaker 1: veteran awareness of game situation. You need that stuff to compete,
Speaker 1: you know, talk about December to remember O J always
Speaker 1: loves talking about that into January. If you want to
Speaker 1: compete in those areas, you have to be sharp in
Speaker 1: those situational areas of the game. And to his showing
Speaker 1: us consistently that he's been that guy so far for us. Also,
Speaker 1: how about no interceptions in a hundred and seventy four
Speaker 1: pass attempts for two consecutively. That's a Miami Dolphins record.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up here with two. Was
Speaker 1: asked about the m v P chance that broke out
Speaker 1: once again. Keep those going all year long, by the way,
Speaker 1: love here and that we'll hear from two on the
Speaker 1: m v P chance here in the week twelve victory. Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, it's it's us just playing together as
Speaker 1: a team. Um. I understand the question of that being
Speaker 1: an individual thing, um, but really I'm not able to
Speaker 1: have recognition or any of that without everyone doing their jobs,
Speaker 1: doing their assignments. And uh, you know, if a team
Speaker 1: has success, that's what brings individual success for for anyone
Speaker 1: on on any team. So, um, you know, if if
Speaker 1: we were losing, I mean, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would be getting the recognition I'm getting, I don't know
Speaker 1: if any of the guys on our team would be
Speaker 1: getting that recognition. You know, it's it's really, it really
Speaker 1: is a team. So individuals success is based off of
Speaker 1: the team success. And if we can just finish up
Speaker 1: on this point here with Mike McDaniel, who again was
Speaker 1: asked back about the sea clip about the confidence growing
Speaker 1: with Toa throughout the course of O T A S.
Speaker 1: There was a follow up about that, and I want
Speaker 1: to just play this answer because he gives you a
Speaker 1: sound bite here talking about his career in the NFL
Speaker 1: and what tool was able to do that he hadn't
Speaker 1: seen from other quarterbacks back in O T S. Here's
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel on his quarterback to a tungle
Speaker 1: by Loa and when he really impressed him first, originally
Speaker 1: way back in the spring. Um, I think in within
Speaker 1: the off season, there were some uh it was definitely
Speaker 1: an O T S and Uh, there there was a
Speaker 1: particular practice in general that UM he he made some
Speaker 1: plays going against her our def sense that I we've
Speaker 1: been running a very similar offense a starting point, the
Speaker 1: same offense since two thousand six or or so. So
Speaker 1: there's course concepts within it that that you build from
Speaker 1: and UM it may look different, but the principles are
Speaker 1: the same. And there are several plays in I think
Speaker 1: a practice in May that that for the twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen years of cut ups of running said play, UM
Speaker 1: didn't have one example of a quarterback Pano pull off
Speaker 1: a play that he did so going over the top
Speaker 1: with that, and then his teammates UM in an authentic
Speaker 1: way gravitating to him and really really being excited about
Speaker 1: very good quarterback play. Once he did that, he flipped
Speaker 1: and never went back. It wasn't wishy washed, it wasn't
Speaker 1: back and forth. It was more that you had to
Speaker 1: just scratching cloud of breakthrough something UM. And once he
Speaker 1: did is he was good to go. So two of
Speaker 1: finishes this day, fourteen and complete passes a little high
Speaker 1: number for him. He's usually you know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: sixty one completion usually around but twenty two for thirty
Speaker 1: six yards a touchdown, a ninety six point nine pass
Speaker 1: awad in great day there for two and once again
Speaker 1: takeaway number four. We'll make this brief because I talked
Speaker 1: about in the open. It's just how the pass rush
Speaker 1: continues to heat up. And I mentioned Elijah Campbell's ability
Speaker 1: to blitz off the edge and to really get a
Speaker 1: forced throwaway in the way that he did. The ability
Speaker 1: to win inside from those bear looks. We have a
Speaker 1: head up over the center, two heads up over the
Speaker 1: guards with Christian Wilkins and Zach Seedler and ray Kwan
Speaker 1: Davis inside, and how those guys have their ability to
Speaker 1: disrupt the passing game with their own pressures. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: off the edge with Chubb and Phillips and Ingram and
Speaker 1: Van Ginkl and just keeps on coming with those guys
Speaker 1: off the edge, the ability to play that four man
Speaker 1: rush look, and man, if you can get these leads
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have been getting out to the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and you can play from ahead with that four man
Speaker 1: pass rush, and you don't have to worry about blitzing
Speaker 1: because you don't have to worry about as much of
Speaker 1: the running game because teams have to become one one
Speaker 1: more one dimensional. You can dial off the dogs a
Speaker 1: little bit and play four man pressure and get home
Speaker 1: with that. Gosh, it's a it's a recipe for success.
Speaker 1: We saw them get five sacks with not a ton
Speaker 1: of bliszing in this game. We'll have numbers for you
Speaker 1: guys on that tomorrow, but at all levels man, edge, interior, linebacker,
Speaker 1: defensive backs. The way this pass rush is kind of
Speaker 1: again starting to kind of match what the tape showed
Speaker 1: you in terms of production. I'm excited to see where
Speaker 1: it goes from here. And then take away number five
Speaker 1: and we'll have to and coach give you the details
Speaker 1: on this, but just some general I don't want to
Speaker 1: call it rust or sloppy, no thiss, but just some
Speaker 1: things that were a little bit off early in the
Speaker 1: game and then some protection breakdowns that happened. Obviously, four sacks,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see that all of those were
Speaker 1: after toront Arms had exited the game with his injury
Speaker 1: and a really short span the end of the first
Speaker 1: half beginning of the second half of those sacks all occurred.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from both to and Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel on the sack production allowed by the Houston Tech
Speaker 1: or by the Dolphins today by that Houston Texas defense. Yeah, uh, well,
Speaker 1: I think with some of the plays that UM I
Speaker 1: told Mike I I liked. Um, I put some guys
Speaker 1: in some bad situations by doing so, and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said that that's that has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with kind of finding the rhythm of the game
Speaker 1: with you know, your guys and your players. So you
Speaker 1: know that that that you know, I would say that
Speaker 1: one falls on me. Um, but yeah, well we'll be
Speaker 1: better for it. And then of course coach McDaniel, the
Speaker 1: you know, we were struggling, UM to degree I think, UM,
Speaker 1: I would have to I would have that part in
Speaker 1: that as much as any anybody really, Um I there
Speaker 1: there was some um uh play calling decisions that I
Speaker 1: definitely learned from. I put some guys in some unfair situations.
Speaker 1: Um was way too aggressive, UM And it was something
Speaker 1: that you know, I told the team after the game
Speaker 1: then UM will uh I'll definitely learn from because it
Speaker 1: was it wasn't fair to them. And um, when you
Speaker 1: do have some lineup changes, you can't you can't play
Speaker 1: the way that or put them in positions they were
Speaker 1: really put in. So UM, I don't think that was
Speaker 1: a fair representation of the the group in general. Even
Speaker 1: if there was some lineup changes there, they they were
Speaker 1: able to tee off and um we hadn't established a
Speaker 1: run game, and I kind of put the tackles in
Speaker 1: um some real, real tough situations and so something that
Speaker 1: it will all get better from it. Um. And you
Speaker 1: know the good thing about this, this group of UH
Speaker 1: players in that locker room is they'll hear me say
Speaker 1: that I need to get better um at in that situation,
Speaker 1: not put those guys in the situation again. But the
Speaker 1: players will take the accountability as well, know that they
Speaker 1: can work on their techniques to make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: if I if I had a stroke and did it again,
Speaker 1: that they would they perform better. So yeah, just some
Speaker 1: things to clean up. You can always get better, right
Speaker 1: And this wasn't a perfect game by any stretch. You
Speaker 1: had some some off target throws, some drop passes, the
Speaker 1: sacks we mentioned there, and I'm sure we'll see some
Speaker 1: things on tape to get cleaned up and get better
Speaker 1: going forward. But that's what you play the games for.
Speaker 1: That's why you get corrections. That's why you have mondays
Speaker 1: to get corrected and go in the right direction. I
Speaker 1: was so ready to fire off a tweet about goal
Speaker 1: to gost situations and how the Dolphins entered the game
Speaker 1: thirteen of fourteen scoring touchdowns. Well, they went two for
Speaker 1: three on that. So now the fifteen for seventeen on
Speaker 1: the season eighty eight point two percent. We'll see where
Speaker 1: the rest of the leag checks in. If the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had converted this the third attempt in the goal to
Speaker 1: go situation, that numbers up in the high nineties, but
Speaker 1: is not to be eighty eight point two percent goal
Speaker 1: to go conversion. Very good number there for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break and come
Speaker 1: back and finish up with the play before the play
Speaker 1: as well as teaching tape and some interesting stats about
Speaker 1: this team in this game. That's next Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: back here on a Sunday night slash Monday morning, depending
Speaker 1: on when you download the victory Monday edition of the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast. The play before the play was tough
Speaker 1: to choose in this game because it wasn't really like
Speaker 1: a game breaking moment or a turning point of the game.
Speaker 1: But I went with the Bradley Chubb sack before the fumble,
Speaker 1: scoop and score because I don't think you get that
Speaker 1: same look check down against you know, rallying tacklers who
Speaker 1: wind up punching the ball out. What a great effort
Speaker 1: that was by Rick Row to get in there and
Speaker 1: put a huge hit on the tight end to force
Speaker 1: that ball free for Exhaviing Howard's touchdown, scoop and score.
Speaker 1: But Bradley Chubb, the burst, the bend, the length of
Speaker 1: the athletic ability of finishing on that play to get
Speaker 1: the ball out put them third and a mile behind
Speaker 1: the chains, creates that situation for Eric Row to make
Speaker 1: that hit, for kater Cohu to bradt the tackler to
Speaker 1: then allow the hit to then allow Xaviing Howard to
Speaker 1: pick it up and take it back for six my
Speaker 1: teaching tape and we can do this every single week
Speaker 1: with the guy if you want to. Jalen Phillips is
Speaker 1: an absolute menace and he had to play in this
Speaker 1: game where he pursued Kyle Allen starting off the three
Speaker 1: tech position. I think is where he was maybe it
Speaker 1: was a four eye. It's between the tackle and guard
Speaker 1: on the right side of the offensive formation. He then
Speaker 1: loops inside around the center so to the opposite side
Speaker 1: of the formation and flushes Kyle Allen out to the right,
Speaker 1: who boots back against where Phillips came from, and Phillips
Speaker 1: runs him down. He was like eight yards behind the ball,
Speaker 1: and he runs him down and lunges out and gets
Speaker 1: the heels, clicks him together, swipes it with his hand
Speaker 1: and forces Allen to go to the ground short of
Speaker 1: the sticks. And he does that not just every game,
Speaker 1: like every couple of series. He makes one of those
Speaker 1: hustle plays, retracing a screen going back against a boot.
Speaker 1: His effort is awesome. I can't speak highly enough of
Speaker 1: the effort that Jalen Phillips gives you every single game.
Speaker 1: He's been so much fun to watch. He gets our
Speaker 1: teaching tape in this game. How about some numbers for
Speaker 1: you here. So Jeff Wilson's played three games to the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and has a touchdown in all three of them.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle now has sixty five plus receiving yards in
Speaker 1: five consecutive games. Exavian Howard scored a fourth touchdown his
Speaker 1: second fumble return for a touchdown. All of those have
Speaker 1: come at home here at hard rocksty and cool stat
Speaker 1: there for you. The Dolphins have scored thirty points in
Speaker 1: four straight games for the first time since the two
Speaker 1: thousand nine season. Wow. We continue to get those types
Speaker 1: of stats and information every single week, it seems here
Speaker 1: so far the Dolphins of the third team just scored
Speaker 1: thirty points in the first half this season. The Bengals
Speaker 1: did it against Carolina and Buffalo did it against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. We talked about TWA's record a d and
Speaker 1: seventy four consecutive passes without a pick. That previous record
Speaker 1: was a hundred and sixty attempts in fifteen by Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle has eighty five plus receiving yards and four
Speaker 1: of his past five home games gets the job done.
Speaker 1: Here we have the first career pick in the career
Speaker 1: of Veronn McKinley, the rookie out of Oregon. Saw Javon
Speaker 1: Holland celebrate that pick with him. That was really cool
Speaker 1: to see. It's the Dolphins third straight year with a
Speaker 1: five game winning streak. That's a cool stat. Cheetah has
Speaker 1: now caught at least five passes and eight consecutive games
Speaker 1: to h is fourteen and two in his last sixteen starts.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. The Dolphins have won eleven of their
Speaker 1: past twelve games at hard Rock Stadium, the best twelve
Speaker 1: game home stretch since they went eleven and one from
Speaker 1: December second, two thousand one to December fifteen, two thousand two.
Speaker 1: So competing with those fun teams early in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, I should say what else we got here
Speaker 1: to was two hundred seventy eight first half passing yards
Speaker 1: were the most in a first half by Dolphins QB
Speaker 1: since at least nineteen Dolphins are now twenty and fourt
Speaker 1: teen all time and games immediately following bye week, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins held Houston to just thirty six rushing yards, the
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards allowed by the Dolphins since in a
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots back on Monday Night football. Actually
Speaker 1: believe or not, Dolphins allowed just five point six four
Speaker 1: yards per past since Week seven, which is third best
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That the Texans had just four yards
Speaker 1: per pass in the game today and with eighty five
Speaker 1: receiving yards Tyreek Hill moved into fifth place single season
Speaker 1: all time Dolphins receiving behind Clayton Duper Duper and Irving Friar.
Speaker 1: His one thousand, two hundred and thirty three yards are
Speaker 1: fifth most in franchise history. There you go, that's the game.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my time. We'll have the Tuesday All
Speaker 1: twenty two film reviewed for you guys up on Tuesday
Speaker 1: morning at sometime in the meantime. It's gonna be my time,
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