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Speaker 2: victory Monday, and y'all know what time that means. It is.
Speaker 2: It's time to celebrate a victory here on the Draft
Speaker 2: Time Podcast, twenty four to seven teams Dolphins win for
Speaker 2: the second consecutive week. They now have back to back
Speaker 2: wins to open a season. For the second consecutive season,
Speaker 2: for the first time since two thousand and one, two
Speaker 2: thousand and two. I think that's pretty special. I think
Speaker 2: it's pretty special to get two consecutive victories on the
Speaker 2: road to open your campaign. And remember, because of the
Speaker 2: Germany game and two road games in the books, Miami
Speaker 2: only has five true road games remaining, with nine games
Speaker 2: at hard Rock Stadium on the schedule. Still, we're gonna
Speaker 2: break down this game tonight though, Dolphins over the Patriots.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Tuatngo bai Loa, We'll hear from Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: We'll do five takeaways, tell the story of the game,
Speaker 2: the stats to play before the play, and much much
Speaker 2: more from the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is the Draft Times, that's Miami Dolphins. Well,
Speaker 2: we are feeling ourselves tonight after the Dolphins get their
Speaker 2: second consecutive win, and before I get into the game
Speaker 2: story in stats, I was looking at my storylines after
Speaker 2: the fact and they kind of.
Speaker 3: Bared some fruit here.
Speaker 2: First off, I was curious how would the offensive line
Speaker 2: do after that first week performance with Tron Armstead potentially
Speaker 2: out again, and he was out in this game. And
Speaker 2: how did Kendall Lamb play well. Lamb had a bunch
Speaker 2: of really good blocks, minimal pressure, and the Dolphins only
Speaker 2: allowed one sack in this game, which means two was
Speaker 2: being sacked a half time every single game. One sack
Speaker 2: in two games. I believe the quarterback hits number was
Speaker 2: very low. It was at zero in the first half.
Speaker 2: I do not have an update for you on that,
Speaker 2: but I'll get that for you guys on the Tuesday
Speaker 2: podcast because well it's late here, or I should say
Speaker 2: early on a Monday morning. And then how would the
Speaker 2: Dolphins fill in the Zealand Phillips role if he was
Speaker 2: not available? Well, Andrew Van Ginkle gives you that answer.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that here in just a moment.
Speaker 2: How would the Dolphins attack this Patriots defense? Would they
Speaker 2: doubled Tyreek Hill? Would they bracket him and create opportunities
Speaker 2: for other folks? Thought that played out pretty well in
Speaker 2: terms of how the Dolphins atacked this Patriot's attack. And
Speaker 2: then how could Miami attack a offensive line of the
Speaker 2: Patriots who was down a couple of players, most notably
Speaker 2: their left tackle Trent Brown and then of course Riley
Speaker 2: reef the right tackle on ir and I think that
Speaker 2: Miami kind of checked all those boxes as you go
Speaker 2: down the list. Let's go ahead and talk though about
Speaker 2: the stats here before we get into our story of
Speaker 2: the game or guess how the game played out. As
Speaker 2: we go along the first segment here off the top
Speaker 2: team statistics, Miami really kind of you know dominated, I
Speaker 2: would say for the majority of this game. The Patriots
Speaker 2: did have one more first down twenty three to twenty two.
Speaker 2: They were more efficient on third down seven for fifteen
Speaker 2: compared to Miami's four for ten, But the Dolphins out
Speaker 2: gained in them by more than one hundred yards three
Speaker 2: eighty nine to two eighty eight. They outpassed them two
Speaker 2: forty four to two hundred, and they out rushed them
Speaker 2: one forty five to eighty eight. That's on ten less
Speaker 2: plays as well, sixty one to seventy one in favor
Speaker 2: of the Patriots, and total plays ran. Miami turned it
Speaker 2: over once. The Dolphins turned over the Patriots twice. They
Speaker 2: also sacked Mac Jones four times compared to the aforementioned
Speaker 2: single sac on to a tongue by Loa. The Patriots
Speaker 2: penalized five times for forty five yards, Miami six for
Speaker 2: forty six, and the Dolphins possessed the ball for thirty
Speaker 2: minutes and nineteen seconds, which obviously gives you the Patriots
Speaker 2: twenty nine fourteen. Miami also averaged six point four yards
Speaker 2: per play. That's right in line with where they were
Speaker 2: a season ago, and that was second in the NFL
Speaker 2: coming off a game last week where they were even
Speaker 2: higher than that. They were at seven yards per play
Speaker 2: in the first half of this game, and man, what
Speaker 2: a crazy contest this was. Is Miami not slow out
Speaker 2: of the gates. They went down the field and kicked
Speaker 2: an opening drive field goal eleven and thirteen play drives,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of where the story of the game
Speaker 2: lines up. We'll get to this in the takeaways as well,
Speaker 2: in terms of how Miami attacked this thing from a
Speaker 2: philosophical standpoint. Actually, let's go ahead and start here with
Speaker 2: this sound from coach McDaniel and coach and quarterback to
Speaker 2: a tongue by Loa, who both addressed how the Patriots
Speaker 2: played it and how the Dolphins had to respond to
Speaker 2: the Patriots plan of attack in this game.
Speaker 4: We definitely didn't assume that what was on tape thus
Speaker 4: far this season was going to be everything that we
Speaker 4: were going to get. That was a it was a
Speaker 4: unique game plan that you know, I think guys did
Speaker 4: a pretty solid job of adjusting to the weird spots
Speaker 4: that the guys were in. And then, you know, I
Speaker 4: was happy with a lot of stuff that Tua did,
Speaker 4: you know, But I think that that forced throw to
Speaker 4: two Tyreek in the second half is something that he
Speaker 4: was trying to win the game after a couple of
Speaker 4: frustrating drives, and that's something you have to learn from,
Speaker 4: you know, you don't force the hand, you know. But overall,
Speaker 4: I was really happy with how he bounced back from
Speaker 4: things that you know, I know, frustrate him anytime he's
Speaker 4: off on any sort of throw. You know, in the past,
Speaker 4: you know that frustration is really led into multiple drives
Speaker 4: and and you know, there was one drive in the
Speaker 4: first half. Was it the first or second half where
Speaker 4: he I think it was the first one of the
Speaker 4: first drives in the second half, I can't remember, but
Speaker 4: he had a couple throws that he would have liked
Speaker 4: to have back, one to Tyreek and one to Jalen
Speaker 4: Waddel down the field consecutively. But it speaks to where
Speaker 4: he's at in his game, because I thought he came
Speaker 4: back from that. We had some operations stuff that will
Speaker 4: we'll need to clean up. You know. There's that's the
Speaker 4: whole point, and that what I talked to the team
Speaker 4: about all the time is it's a journey. It's a
Speaker 4: journey of getting better. So your best football is in December.
Speaker 4: So when you're able to not play entirely or clean
Speaker 4: at football and get to win, you embrace that and
Speaker 4: we'll look forward to get better from it.
Speaker 2: The Patriots obviously came out in the second half and
Speaker 2: had a pretty good adjustment for a Dolphins offense that,
Speaker 2: like I said, averaged over seven yards per play in
Speaker 2: that first half in two hundred and thirty four total
Speaker 2: yards in the first half. Cook and ride along once again,
Speaker 2: but propped to New England for coming out in the
Speaker 2: second half and really giving the Dolphins some fits on
Speaker 2: certain drives, a couple of three and outs, but some
Speaker 2: mistakes as well. Obviously the interception that you heard coach
Speaker 2: talk about there and Tua kind of trying to force
Speaker 2: that one in which went away from the script that
Speaker 2: I thought he followed pretty well all night long. To
Speaker 2: take the profit take the short stuff, take what's there.
Speaker 2: And if you go look at two US passing chart,
Speaker 2: how often did I talk about this in training camp,
Speaker 2: how Miami was finding ways to be more widespread as
Speaker 2: an offense, whether it's the running game, whether it's taking
Speaker 2: shots in the short intermediate field that the perimeter throws
Speaker 2: that we saw to a make all training camp, all preseason,
Speaker 2: and now in the two games in the regulars season,
Speaker 2: if you go look at his next gen throwing chart,
Speaker 2: stat like, there is almost nothing in the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. So props to the Patriots for taking away
Speaker 2: Miami's bread and butter. But props on top of the
Speaker 2: props to the Dolphins for adjusting and finding a way
Speaker 2: to get multiple ways to win games on offense and
Speaker 2: as a team in general, which we'll talk about here
Speaker 2: in just one second, but before I go to tua
Speaker 2: on Bill Belichick and the way this Patriots defense plays
Speaker 2: so tough, which, by the way, in games started by
Speaker 2: two a tongue of Biloa, the Dolphins are five and
Speaker 2: l against the Patriots and Bill Belichick, and they're twenty
Speaker 2: three and thirteen in general in games started by too
Speaker 2: a tongue of I looa. But My note is this
Speaker 2: because you know, the Patriots have their offense has not
Speaker 2: ranked as highly in recent years as it used to.
Speaker 2: And while you know that maybe is a little bit
Speaker 2: nicer than what things used to be facing a certain
Speaker 2: quarterback and head coach combination they once had with the
Speaker 2: weapons they once had, I'm ready for this defensive mastermind
Speaker 2: to not be part of our lives two times a
Speaker 2: year because Bill Belichick once again crafted up a really
Speaker 2: good adjustment at halftime to kind of slow the Dolphins
Speaker 2: offense in a way that we haven't seen in quite
Speaker 2: some time with this quarterback at the controls. So I
Speaker 2: want to go ahead and play some audio here from
Speaker 2: Tua talking about how that defense adjusted to the Dolphins
Speaker 2: offense before we get to our game story. Here's QB
Speaker 2: one victorious twenty four to seventeen to a tongue of
Speaker 2: Bai Lowa after the game.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's really a big, big thing I
Speaker 1: would say for any Bill Belichick defense. When they're going
Speaker 1: out there, you know, you can see one thing, and
Speaker 1: then if you hit an explosive or something happens on
Speaker 1: that you can expect something to change in that instance.
Speaker 1: And so how they defended one of our plays towards
Speaker 1: the ending of the game. Wasn't how they defended it
Speaker 1: the first three four times they got they got adjusted.
Speaker 1: We got a call and we were able to go
Speaker 1: down there.
Speaker 2: And there was a play in the game that seth
Speaker 2: OJ and I. We watched the game together before our
Speaker 2: post game show on local radio down here in South Florida,
Speaker 2: and there was a play where Tua got through the
Speaker 2: entire field and kind of scanned his whole read and
Speaker 2: then went to the running back and was looking like
Speaker 2: he might throw it to the running back, but he
Speaker 2: checked and double pumped and went elsewhere with the football
Speaker 2: and actually ran for positive yardage. And we were like,
Speaker 2: that's the adjustment from a year ago that maybe you
Speaker 2: didn't see as much, where he was able to process
Speaker 2: what he was seeing in real time and really make
Speaker 2: a good decision right there. Not that he didn't last year,
Speaker 2: but we thought it was a different level of processing
Speaker 2: in football IQ within that moment.
Speaker 3: So good stuff there.
Speaker 2: We're gonna hear more from those two guys here in
Speaker 2: a moment on our five takeaways portion of the podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and get into the game story here,
Speaker 2: because it began on defense and who boy, this Dolphins
Speaker 2: defense man, they played their hearts out in this game.
Speaker 2: You get a couple of first downs from the Patriots
Speaker 2: to kick off the game, but you get a quick
Speaker 2: punt after that because David Long and we saw the
Speaker 2: Blitz have big impacts in the game last week against
Speaker 2: the Chargers, especially in those late game situations, trying to
Speaker 2: stop Justin Herbert and the Chargers offense from mounting a
Speaker 2: comeback late in that game. And we saw Miami go
Speaker 2: back to the well on the opening drive with David
Speaker 2: Long and a little green dog Blitz where he runs
Speaker 2: in there and gets a big hit on the quarterback
Speaker 2: to finish him up. And they originally awarded half of
Speaker 2: a sack to Bradley Chubb on that play, who had
Speaker 2: himself a hell of a game, but David Long showing
Speaker 2: some downhill explosiveness getting a sack to get the Patriots
Speaker 2: offense off the field right away. And then we talk
Speaker 2: about the Dolphins offense doing what they do best, just
Speaker 2: getting down the field time and time again, really efficient operation,
Speaker 2: passing game, running game, and I thought it was again
Speaker 2: going back to the Belichick defense and the Patriots defense
Speaker 2: attack for Miami to just be so sure fired in
Speaker 2: the short and perimeter passing game to get fly sweeps
Speaker 2: going to find different options to get the running game
Speaker 2: and passing game going. I thought was a good example
Speaker 2: of vertical and horizontal stretch to put the ball really
Speaker 2: all the way down the field quickly and efficiently, before
Speaker 2: we once again get into an area that through two
Speaker 2: games has been a bit of a rough patch, and
Speaker 2: that's the low red zone. Now Miami's scoring points, which
Speaker 2: is great, but there's points to be had that are
Speaker 2: out there. So after a couple of running plays don't
Speaker 2: go for much or at one running player, then an
Speaker 2: incomplete pass, you get a throw away on third and
Speaker 2: five from the third and goal from the five yard
Speaker 2: line where the snap is low. Tua has a hard
Speaker 2: time corralling it, and I think he might have had
Speaker 2: Brax and Barrios to the front Pilon, but he opts
Speaker 2: wisely to throw the ball over everybody's head, get rid
Speaker 2: of it. Fight to live another day, or live to
Speaker 2: fight another day. And we've seen that a couple times
Speaker 2: from Tua now, which I think is a good takeaway
Speaker 2: as well, to preserve his health and make sure we
Speaker 2: have him here for seventeen consecutive games, which this would
Speaker 2: be you know, we see this team can be when
Speaker 2: he's out there. I thought that opening drive was a
Speaker 2: good mix of how wellis offense has played a little
Speaker 2: bit of the things that have plagued them, the quarterback
Speaker 2: center exchange issue, the low red zone execution, and then
Speaker 2: Tua being smart with the football and protecting himself. Then
Speaker 2: I thought one of the biggest moments of the game
Speaker 2: was the Dolphins response as the Patriots were responding to
Speaker 2: the Dolphins opening drive. And it just looks like we
Speaker 2: see it every single day in training camp. And that's
Speaker 2: why I love doing this job comprehensively and bringing you
Speaker 2: guys all the camp reports, all the preseason action to
Speaker 2: carry over into the regular season because you can learn
Speaker 2: the entire story of the team from July twenty sixth
Speaker 2: or whenever the first day of practice is all the
Speaker 2: way up till you know, January, hopefully in the postseason,
Speaker 2: hopefully into February, where these stories interconnect and we every
Speaker 2: day in practice. Christian Wilkins, Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, you
Speaker 2: name it. They get their gassers in, they condition unlike
Speaker 2: anybody really on the football team that I see, and
Speaker 2: I think they need to because those guys play in
Speaker 2: positions where typically you don't get major high snap counts.
Speaker 2: But all these dudes go out there and play fifty
Speaker 2: sixty snaps a game. And Bradley Chubb to be a
Speaker 2: defensive lineman and a receiver, a slot receiver, catches the
Speaker 2: ball down the field to retrace that thing, and for
Speaker 2: guys to come down and force him to, you know,
Speaker 2: make moves and bubble and run around. For Bradley Chubb
Speaker 2: to show the effort and have the conditioning to get
Speaker 2: down there and strip that ball from the backside was
Speaker 2: kind of a game shifter at that point. And just
Speaker 2: the way he did that, and then for Deshaun Elliott
Speaker 2: to rake in there and get it away from the
Speaker 2: Patriots player, really good stuff. Really good application of training
Speaker 2: camp coming to life in the regular season. And off
Speaker 2: of that, the Dolphins march seventy three yards to make
Speaker 2: it ten to nothing with a touchdown. And I thought
Speaker 2: that Tua's throw to Brax and Barrios on the back shoulder,
Speaker 2: moving up off the spot, a little bit off structure,
Speaker 2: off script, in between two Patriots defenders, kind of that
Speaker 2: honey hole we talk about in that cover two look
Speaker 2: really pretty jerk route slash like jerk to wheel that
Speaker 2: Braxon Barrios ran balls right there, hits it, big play,
Speaker 2: puts them down in gold to go, and then the
Speaker 2: Fins capitalized with the Raheem Moster first touchdown run of
Speaker 2: the night and eight yard rush. And the Dolphins on
Speaker 2: this drive as well, had a big screen to wallow
Speaker 2: for twenty seven yards on second and nineteen. That play
Speaker 2: was from the plus forty three yard line. That I think,
Speaker 2: you know, if we can add the screen element into
Speaker 2: our offensive attack, it's only going to make us more
Speaker 2: and more dangerous. So really cool to see the Dolphins
Speaker 2: have a variety of ways. You know. Savon Achman had
Speaker 2: to carry for a first down on second and seven
Speaker 2: where he broke some tackles. Isaiah Winn had a big
Speaker 2: block on that wattle screen at Tyreek's all over the formation,
Speaker 2: lining up with the wide position, going across the formation
Speaker 2: in motion, just to really befuddle the Patriots early on,
Speaker 2: and they were doing that ten to nothing early on
Speaker 2: in the game. They go back and get another Patriots punt,
Speaker 2: another green dog blitz from David Long once again another
Speaker 2: quarterback hit, Andrew Van Ginkle gets a quarterback hit, Cater
Speaker 2: Kohu beat a block and shut down screen pass for
Speaker 2: a loss. So the guys are coming out fired up,
Speaker 2: ready to play this game. Defense certainly looked like they
Speaker 2: had something to prove in this one as well. Then
Speaker 2: the Patriots defense responded as they are wont to do
Speaker 2: with a three and out forced on the Dolphins. And
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear McDaniel talk about this. Maybe he already
Speaker 2: did in that first SoundBite actually with Tua getting frustrated.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure this was the possession he was talking
Speaker 2: about where Tyreek was kind of in a triangle of
Speaker 2: Patriots defenders and Tua put it in the spot between
Speaker 2: all three of them, and it kind of looked like
Speaker 2: Tyreek had outran the window and Chris Collins were set
Speaker 2: as much on the incompletion. Then had a deep shot
Speaker 2: to Jaylen Waddle where it looked like defensive pass interference,
Speaker 2: but either way, the ball was a little bit shortened
Speaker 2: and just off the mark in terms of the accuracy,
Speaker 2: and so the Dolphins get it back to the Patriots,
Speaker 2: who go down and get themselves a field goal. And
Speaker 2: this was a Patriots plan of attack all night long,
Speaker 2: and I think the Dolphins defense executed.
Speaker 3: Their game plan really well to create this.
Speaker 2: Because the Patriots want to play these methodical long drives.
Speaker 3: Stole the ball short of the sticks.
Speaker 2: You know, last week the Patriots threw the ball down
Speaker 2: the field like barely at all. They threw something like
Speaker 2: twenty passes at over the hind line of scrimmage tonight.
Speaker 2: I think mac Jones was four at the end of
Speaker 2: the third quarter. He was ozer for seven trying to
Speaker 2: throw the ball vertically with the pick, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he got one after that either. Again, we'll update
Speaker 2: stats on the Tuesday podcast.
Speaker 3: But the type of.
Speaker 2: Game plan the Patriots want to play, we talked about
Speaker 2: it all the time limit possessions. It's the two minute
Speaker 2: warning of the first half. Miami had the ball just
Speaker 2: three times. The Patriots go down kick a field goal
Speaker 2: after nearly getting an interception from Deshaun Elliott driving on
Speaker 2: a play after rayqwon. Davis had made a bunch of
Speaker 2: plays to stack their running game up and put them
Speaker 2: into a third nine situation.
Speaker 3: Elliott drives gets the breakup field goal.
Speaker 2: Dolphins get the ball back, and they do the old
Speaker 2: fashioned double dip at least the opportunity to do that
Speaker 2: with a touchdown drive where they get a touchdown pass
Speaker 2: from Tua to Tyreek Hill, his third touchdown catch of
Speaker 2: the year. But we had a nice third and one
Speaker 2: conversion with Raheem Moster where Connor Williams got out in
Speaker 2: space and made a huge block to create some space
Speaker 2: for Moster to convert. There, Tua gets Craik Craft for
Speaker 2: back to back big plays for first downs. Then he
Speaker 2: has Barrios to put him in scoring range, and then
Speaker 2: the beautiful design to the motion smythe away from the
Speaker 2: strength and that creates a one on one situation for
Speaker 2: Kyle Duggar, who's an all world player, but one on
Speaker 2: one with inside leverage against Tyreek Hill, easy pitching catch
Speaker 2: for a touchdown. They're just a lot to deal with.
Speaker 2: As the Dolphins take a seventeen to three leads a halftime,
Speaker 2: then you get a three and out, and this might
Speaker 2: have been where Michael was talking about the frustration as well,
Speaker 2: because we missed a couple of plays and throws. Here.
Speaker 2: They get a sack on the third downplay that winds
Speaker 2: up pushing the Dolphins into a punting situation, but he
Speaker 2: immediately get a return punt from the Patriots and the
Speaker 2: Dolphins go down. It looks like they might put the
Speaker 2: game within a three score lead. That could effectively kind
Speaker 2: of put it on ice.
Speaker 3: I know it's never.
Speaker 2: Officially over, but you feel if you can do that,
Speaker 2: maybe you have a chance to really put it on ice.
Speaker 3: With the defensive.
Speaker 2: Performance where the Dolphins just continued to take advantage of
Speaker 2: what was there. You know, Eric Azukama had a nice
Speaker 2: run on this drive where he was able to turn
Speaker 2: a third and possibly eleven on a swing route into
Speaker 2: a third and three because he broke a tackle. Then
Speaker 2: Tua found Tyreek on a stick, which I just love
Speaker 2: seeing the Dolphins throw these little hookup routes to the
Speaker 2: receivers to create chances for them to make big plays
Speaker 2: or to convert and keep your offense on the field.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit more of what they didn't have
Speaker 2: a year ago. Now it looks like you have more options.
Speaker 2: Then you get the deep ball from Tua to Waddle
Speaker 2: for thirty two yards, a big connection. They finally give
Speaker 2: him a chance to make a deep play and he does.
Speaker 2: Then the offense stalls out and they have to kick
Speaker 2: a field goal and you get this crazy field goal block.
Speaker 3: That's just something that Bill Belichick does.
Speaker 2: Man. They find ways to create opportunities in the margins
Speaker 2: and they get a big field goal block. But big
Speaker 2: shout out to Christian Wilkins for going after that play
Speaker 2: and tackling the fumble recovery because if he didn't do that,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a touchdown out the backside because
Speaker 2: nobody else is back there, and Wilkins hustled his butt
Speaker 2: back to get in there, and as a result, you
Speaker 2: wind up getting your an interception on the following drive.
Speaker 2: So Christian in effect kind of saved you seven points
Speaker 2: here because we had Javon Holland first of all, in
Speaker 2: great men on man coverage and the slot, which we
Speaker 2: saw more of that in training camp, especially after Ramsey
Speaker 2: went down of him playing some man coverage, and he
Speaker 2: right here shows you why pins the receiver to the
Speaker 2: sideline gives him no window. The Patriots would get themselves
Speaker 2: into the red zone, but then after a fourth and
Speaker 2: inches conversion, they tried Devonte Parker one on one against
Speaker 2: Xavion Howard, who has a vintage Exavion Howard rep where
Speaker 2: he pins him to the sideline, high points to the football.
Speaker 2: He's getting pulled and interfewed with the entire time doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: High points, the ball catches, the football taps the toes
Speaker 2: Dolphins ball twenty ninth pick of X's career and the
Speaker 2: fourth tied for fourth all time with Patrick Sturtan and
Speaker 2: Glenn Blackwood in Dolphin's history. Dolphins then go three and out,
Speaker 2: and that's three to three and outs in addition to
Speaker 2: the two touchdowns a field goal. With the block field goal,
Speaker 2: we get a drop on first down and then we
Speaker 2: get Mostert run to setut third and seven, but then
Speaker 2: feet get tangled for Tyreek Hill and it's back to
Speaker 2: the Patriots, who then score a touchdown to make it seventeen.
Speaker 2: And then Miami looks like they have a chance once
Speaker 2: again to put the ball in scoring position to win
Speaker 2: the game, and they just couldn't do it. There was
Speaker 2: a snap issue again at this point. We had smythe
Speaker 2: for a first down after the snap issue, but then
Speaker 2: we had an undershot ball to Tyreek that gets picked
Speaker 2: off with good coverage there just thought to force that
Speaker 2: ball a little bit, like Mike had mentioned in the
Speaker 2: open of the show, but the Dolphins would get some
Speaker 2: offensive success later as the Patriots wind up going three
Speaker 2: and out, and then the Dolphins get a forty three
Speaker 2: yard touchdown run from Raheem most Or they make it
Speaker 2: twenty four to ten, and you get really good blocks
Speaker 2: from Lamb and Win, and you get a really good
Speaker 2: climb from Robert Hunt as well as Connor Williams as
Speaker 2: Raheem takes off for forty three yards for the long
Speaker 2: touchdown the second straight week. In the fourth quarter, you
Speaker 2: get a quick change and hit an explosive play one
Speaker 2: play touchdown drive for the Dolphins. Patriots come back and
Speaker 2: score a touchdown of their own to make it back
Speaker 2: to a one score game, twenty four to seven team.
Speaker 2: And then can the Miami Dolphins four minute offense close
Speaker 2: it out? We'll finish up with that next and the
Speaker 2: five takeaways on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travel Wingfield,
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Speaker 2: side of the podcast. We're getting deep into it before
Speaker 2: our first ad break there. But the Dolphins four minute offense,
Speaker 2: can they close it out? Was my question here. They
Speaker 2: get Raheem Mozert for five yards and a hit on
Speaker 2: a defenseless receiver very if he hit to the back
Speaker 2: of Walla's head for fifteen yards, then you go raheem
Speaker 2: for ten to another first down at the plus forty four,
Speaker 2: raheem for two, and then he breaks a couple more tackles,
Speaker 2: get seven to put up a third and one situation
Speaker 2: at the plus thirty five. You convert there. You're pretty
Speaker 2: much milking another minute and two off the clock. Kick
Speaker 2: a short field goal, call it good, get the heck
Speaker 2: out of there, go to two to zero, but we
Speaker 2: fill on the quarterback center exchange, which tu after the
Speaker 2: game took responsibility for that issue. And then Jason Sanders
Speaker 2: is no good from fifty five yards to give the
Speaker 2: Patriots a chance to get back in the game. But
Speaker 2: you get a big sack from Bradley Chubb to put
Speaker 2: him behind the sticks. A big game for Bradley Chubb
Speaker 2: in this one to get home incomplete on second and eighteen.
Speaker 2: Gasiki gets fourteen yards on third down to set up
Speaker 2: four more than four, and then we get the crazy
Speaker 2: play of the night where Mike Gesicki catches the ball
Speaker 2: short of the sticks. The Dolphins do a great job
Speaker 2: to stand him up short of the sticks. And he
Speaker 2: later rolls it back to Cole strange of all people
Speaker 2: who puts his helmet down, absorbs a great hit from
Speaker 2: Javon Holland and kind of runs over the top of that.
Speaker 2: But then Eli Apple and Andrew Van Ginkle arrive at
Speaker 2: the scene and hold him up and you can see
Speaker 2: it clear as dawn the replay, the ball is about
Speaker 2: six inches short of the line to gain. Dolphins defense
Speaker 2: does its job late, holds him up, gets the victory.
Speaker 2: What an impressive performance. And Van Ginkle was all over
Speaker 2: the place in this game. In fact, let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and here from coach McDaniel on Andrew Van Ginkle, who
Speaker 2: had himself a whale of a football.
Speaker 4: Game, says everything you know, you know, I think it all.
Speaker 4: That's why all the offseason is so valuable. And Van
Speaker 4: Ginkle probably knows the defense better than anyone because of
Speaker 4: his the multiplicity, and that was a a great move to, uh,
Speaker 4: to get in front of and you know, with with
Speaker 4: VIC coach Campanelli, Ryan Slok and Austin Clark kind of
Speaker 4: identifying uh, you know, the the varied use or the
Speaker 4: potential of you know, it's been instrumental for us and
Speaker 4: for him to be able to come in and uh,
Speaker 4: not just play but be an impactful force. Says everything
Speaker 4: about him and really all the people that are uh
Speaker 4: that are around him as well, like as far as
Speaker 4: coaches and you know. It was it was really cool
Speaker 4: to see that. But it didn't surprise It didn't surprise us. Really.
Speaker 4: I figured he'd have a pretty good game. He's a
Speaker 4: he's a really good player.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to coach McDaniel here, who was asked
Speaker 2: how that game kind of felt and how he would
Speaker 2: describe that game. We felt the same way Seth o
Speaker 2: J and I watching the game, that it didn't really
Speaker 2: have to be as.
Speaker 3: Close as it was. We felt.
Speaker 2: Here's coach McDaniel saying something similar about how the Dolphins
Speaker 2: maybe got in their own way a little bit, but
Speaker 2: the best news is you come out with a victory.
Speaker 4: Long, No, it was. It was a divisional matchup, as
Speaker 4: you expect, where those are hard to really separate yourselves.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you have the opportunity to, you know, in your mind,
Speaker 4: put the game away, but generally it's good football teams
Speaker 4: that's not the case. I thought that complimentary football did exist.
Speaker 4: I thought the team played well together, picked up on
Speaker 4: each other's momentum. Specifically the the Bradley Chubb forced fumble
Speaker 4: that turned into a twelve play touchdown drive, and then
Speaker 4: the the defense holding their offense to a field goal
Speaker 4: before the half, and then the offense making the plays
Speaker 4: to go down the field. I think those are the
Speaker 4: biggest points in the game. And it was probably, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, you go and look at the tape, and
Speaker 4: I told the guys in the locker room that they're
Speaker 4: gonna feel like it didn't need to be a nail bier,
Speaker 4: and that that happens a ton. You're fortunate to get
Speaker 4: the win in that in that learning process of how to,
Speaker 4: how to you know, make sure that that's not the case.
Speaker 4: But overall, you know, on the road, prime time division opponent,
Speaker 4: those are very very valuable games to be able to
Speaker 4: come up with the win. So as happy for all
Speaker 4: the guys really, So.
Speaker 3: There you go, your game flow.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and do our five takeaways here and
Speaker 2: the play before the play and get the heck out
Speaker 2: of here. My first takeaway, and this was more towards
Speaker 2: the first half. I still believe it relates to the
Speaker 2: entire game and the entire team and the entire season
Speaker 2: because the defense they faced is very good, that head
Speaker 2: coach they faced is very good, and we still saw
Speaker 2: some bright spots in that second half. But the first
Speaker 2: takeaway is pick your poison against this offense.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: They played that three deep safety shell that we saw
Speaker 2: Bryan Floores and the Minnesota Vikings run against the Eagles
Speaker 2: in the Thursday night game. That was really having a
Speaker 2: lot of early success before the Eagles kind of opened
Speaker 2: it up a little bit and found their success, especially
Speaker 2: in the running game. But for the Dolphins to be
Speaker 2: able to attack the short perimeter passing game, the screen
Speaker 2: passed to Waddle on second to nine for twenty seven yards,
Speaker 2: the fly sweep to savon akmed to really stretch them
Speaker 2: horizontally to create that space and create opportunities to get
Speaker 2: chunk gains, to get short gains, to let guys run
Speaker 2: after the catch, to open up the running game, and
Speaker 2: to really force them to come down and on that
Speaker 2: stuff to create more opportunities up top the mid red
Speaker 2: zone runs. On the second drive, Raheem goes to the
Speaker 2: weak side with a good number count and I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is a check to a maid or
Speaker 2: if he just stayed with it. But they had positive
Speaker 2: numbers to the weak side of the formation. Stick with
Speaker 2: that call it run the ball, go score points. You'll
Speaker 2: love to see that. Then you get versatility on the
Speaker 2: second scoring drive Craycraft twice smythe runs from Mostert and
Speaker 2: from Savon Akmed Braxon burials on that whip wheel route,
Speaker 2: Tyreek the touchdown on the short pass after the Smyth motion.
Speaker 2: Whatever teams are taking away from the Dolphins offense, they're
Speaker 2: finding answers in other parts of the field. To the
Speaker 2: tune of what I mentioned, two hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 2: yards on thirty four plays in the first half seven
Speaker 2: yards per play. I think that also helped the Dolphins
Speaker 2: defense pull off their plan and really make the Patriots
Speaker 2: one dimension on the second half. Big part of that
Speaker 2: is the offense executing early on in the game, and
Speaker 2: then when the passing game struggles, the run game kind
Speaker 2: of comes to life. A forty three yard touchdown scamper
Speaker 2: from Raheem Mostert, who had himself one of a game.
Speaker 2: You got excellent catch and climb on that play from
Speaker 2: Williams and Hunt. I cannot wait to watch that on
Speaker 2: the All twenty two and break that down. And then
Speaker 2: the four minute offense I thought was really well executed
Speaker 2: until one single play could have been a nice little
Speaker 2: bow in the end of that game to maybe go
Speaker 2: kick a field goal, go up twenty seven to seventeen,
Speaker 2: called a game, get out of there. Obviously it didn't
Speaker 2: go that way, but still you'd get the win.
Speaker 3: That is what matters.
Speaker 2: Takeaway Number two is the defense bounces back in a
Speaker 2: big way, didn't they? My goodness, man, they were so
Speaker 2: good in this game. Late in the third quarter. They
Speaker 2: had seventeen rush attempts for thirty nine yards in this
Speaker 2: game and the mac jones was it an eighteen yard
Speaker 2: scramble on third and fifteen. That one kind of got
Speaker 2: under my skin a little bit. But still the Dolphins
Speaker 2: allow just eighty eight rushing yards on twenty five attempts,
Speaker 2: good for three point seven yards per or three point
Speaker 2: three yards per carry, I should say, which is a
Speaker 2: very effective day from the Dolphins run defense. And we
Speaker 2: saw them kind of have a different game plan this
Speaker 2: time out, reducing the front with more bodies inside, bringing
Speaker 2: Wilkins and Stealer and putting Raquon on the nose a
Speaker 2: little more frequently, getting long shooting gaps and Bakers shooting
Speaker 2: gaps the off ball linebacker position. There was relentless pressure
Speaker 2: all night long. Four sacks. I'll get you guys the
Speaker 2: hits and the pressure numbers tomorrow. Chubbed the you know,
Speaker 2: the pressure off the edge, Van Ginkle off the edge
Speaker 2: to Sean Elliott. Really nice game after I thought was
Speaker 2: kind of a rough opening game for him. But the
Speaker 2: humble recovery, the drive on the near I n T
Speaker 2: and the third down to nine on the fringe of
Speaker 2: the red zone.
Speaker 3: You know, just Javon haul in that big.
Speaker 2: Play on third and one to fly in the A
Speaker 2: gap and shut that run down for a three yard
Speaker 2: loss and force the punt team out, exaving Howard doing
Speaker 2: he does best with his pick on that vintage rep.
Speaker 2: You know, Mac Jones couldn't get anything going in the
Speaker 2: vertical passing game, which speaks to Holland, to Elliott, to
Speaker 2: Cater to x to Eli, all the guys out there.
Speaker 2: And then we talked about Van Ginkle doing his thing. Man,
Speaker 2: what a game for Andrew Van Ginkle and for Bradley
Speaker 2: Chubb combined.
Speaker 3: The two of them combined.
Speaker 2: For thirteen tackles for two sacks. I believe they had
Speaker 2: a couple of pass breakups among them, and just overall
Speaker 2: really good production from Van Ginkle and Chubb in a
Speaker 2: game where you didn't have Jaylen Phillips to rush the
Speaker 2: quarterback off the edge. So good stuff all around. Takeaway
Speaker 2: number three is the end of half execution is just
Speaker 2: what good teams do. You defer the opening coin toss,
Speaker 2: You get the football back with two plus or maybe
Speaker 2: minus two minutes to go in the half, you go down.
Speaker 2: And the best part about it to me was the
Speaker 2: operation on the scoring play to Tyreek Hill where they
Speaker 2: had the ten second run off after the Barrios play
Speaker 2: went down in bounds just barely his knee hits the
Speaker 2: green part of the grass, not the white sideline, So
Speaker 2: they run ten seconds off and when they cut to
Speaker 2: the angle of the of the offense versus defense, the
Speaker 2: snap like the Dolphins are at the line. They snapped
Speaker 2: that ball right with sixteen seconds. You maximize your chance
Speaker 2: to run three plays there without timeouts with sixteen seconds
Speaker 2: to play. Very good job getting the ball all the
Speaker 2: way down there, and then a very good job but
Speaker 2: being aware of the situation to put it in the
Speaker 2: end zone. And then the great play call in great
Speaker 2: design and great execution of the Tyreek Hill touchdown.
Speaker 3: So very good stuff there.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 2: and come back and finish up this podcast with two
Speaker 2: more takeaways and the play before the play on the
Speaker 2: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 2: by autot Dation. Dolphins victorious week number two, twenty four
Speaker 2: to seventeen in Foxborough, improved to two to zero on
Speaker 2: the season, one to oher in the division. That's a
Speaker 2: road victory in the division as well, when we did
Speaker 2: not get a year ago in Foxborough, so off to
Speaker 2: a good start there. And my fourth takeaways, how about
Speaker 2: this offensive line and running game, Man, they looked awesome tonight.
Speaker 3: We saw, you know, to a pump in the ball
Speaker 3: out quick.
Speaker 2: I had this stat on the postgame show that two
Speaker 2: point h two seconds was the average time to throw
Speaker 2: that is lightning fast against a pass rush that could
Speaker 2: really heat you up with all kinds of games and blitzes,
Speaker 2: And it didn't really matter what they did two It
Speaker 2: just got the ball out fast. And it was actually
Speaker 2: the fourth fastest time to throw in a game since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and going back to that same time span,
Speaker 2: it was the most average air yards per attempt at
Speaker 2: eight yards per attempt at that time. So the ball
Speaker 2: is getting eight yards down the field on average coming
Speaker 2: out of his hand to two seconds. That's great design,
Speaker 2: great quarterback play. But when they had too on true
Speaker 2: dropback situations. Aside from one sack and the pick that
Speaker 2: got a pressure on to they were doing a great
Speaker 2: job keeping him upright.
Speaker 3: No hits in the entire first half.
Speaker 2: Obviously no sacks, one sack on the night. But the
Speaker 2: push in the running game to make the Patriots, you know,
Speaker 2: you have to choose your poise, let me talk about
Speaker 2: in the first takeaway, to make them, you know, pay
Speaker 2: for playing so deep coverage and forcing you know, Tyreek
Speaker 2: and Jillian to not have a chance to run vertical
Speaker 2: on them. You have to make them pay for that,
Speaker 2: and they did with the running game with Raheem moster
Speaker 2: with Savon Achman saw some devon a chin and they're late.
Speaker 2: Love the push they got, especially in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: in that last drive when the Patriots knew the running
Speaker 2: game was coming and they still got the push. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on the effort
Speaker 2: of Raheem moster, who we in the postgame show.
Speaker 3: Named our money player of the game. Here's coach on Raheem.
Speaker 4: He was hard to tackle and I think that he
Speaker 4: that was a huge boost, especially the way they're playing.
Speaker 4: You know, we needed the line of scrimmage and you
Speaker 4: have to you have to take advantage of overplay. So
Speaker 4: if the overplaying the past game, if if you want
Speaker 4: to be a good offense, you have to threaten them
Speaker 4: with the run. And I told them early that that, uh,
Speaker 4: if they they are, they are telling you something. When
Speaker 4: you know they're they're they're coverage first. Generally defenses aren't
Speaker 4: that way. They felt good about their upfront matchups, and
Speaker 4: I thought the guys were properly prepared and took that
Speaker 4: personal and we were able to make some plays there
Speaker 4: that were instrumental. So you know, that's that's something that
Speaker 4: we've been building on, and it was it was a
Speaker 4: you know that that's an important moment for the for
Speaker 4: the guys, because you know, defenses watched tape and they're
Speaker 4: they're going to try to evaluate how you've won game
Speaker 4: won games before and not allow you to do the
Speaker 4: same thing to them. So that was their priority and
Speaker 4: I thought I thought guys did a good job and
Speaker 4: and there'll be stuff that we'll get better from two.
Speaker 4: But the guys were fired up to.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and hear from QB one as well.
Speaker 2: On the Miami Dolphins running back who had himself an
Speaker 2: excellent night one hundred and twenty one yards on the ground,
Speaker 2: two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a testament to all the guys
Speaker 1: he's surrounded by. Testament to Tyreek, kale Jalen Waddle, Rob Hunt,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, I'm gonna keep naming him. We got Kendall
Speaker 1: Lamb alec Ingo, testament to all those guys with you
Speaker 1: know those guys basically telling us, hey, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: beat us, you're gonna have to run the ball by
Speaker 1: putting an umbrella over over our guys and so it
Speaker 1: you know, I would think Raheem would say the same.
Speaker 1: But you know this, it's well deserved done in every
Speaker 1: aspect of the run game.
Speaker 2: One more takeaway here after talking about the offensive line,
Speaker 2: about as good of a start in the conference as
Speaker 2: you could hope for. As the Dolphins currently as of
Speaker 2: this taping are one of two teams in the AFC
Speaker 2: who's off to a two and zero start, you have
Speaker 2: the Bills at one and one with a divisional loss,
Speaker 2: the Jets losing their starting quarterback for the entirety of
Speaker 2: the season, fall to the Cowboys in week number two
Speaker 2: to go to one and one as well, and the
Speaker 2: Patriots also at to two. Patriots and Jets next week.
Speaker 2: Always a fun matchup to watch there as a Dolphins fan.
Speaker 2: And then across the league, I mean the Bengals and
Speaker 2: Charge to two teams that I saw frequently picked to
Speaker 2: represent the AFC and the Super Bowl. They are both
Speaker 2: h and two, including a head to head win.
Speaker 3: Over the Chargers.
Speaker 2: For the Dolphins, the Chiefs slow out of the gates.
Speaker 2: They'll get going, for sure, but they are one and
Speaker 2: one and had a kind of slog fest against the
Speaker 2: Jags who are also one and one, and they also
Speaker 2: had themselves a challenging game offensively in this one. And
Speaker 2: you know, it means nothing two weeks into the season.
Speaker 2: But I think if you look at the conference as
Speaker 2: a whole, and the more presumed favorite of the two
Speaker 2: conferences in terms of records would be this year the
Speaker 2: Dolphins have put their best foot four in the AFC
Speaker 2: that has struggled out the gates through the opening two
Speaker 2: weeks and have a chance to get to three to
Speaker 2: no next week against the Lebroncos. So really good looking
Speaker 2: opening two weeks here for the Miami Dolphins in terms
Speaker 2: of how they look on the field, in terms of
Speaker 2: how the conference around them has played, and obviously the
Speaker 2: only team in the division right now without a defeat.
Speaker 2: So that is your fifth and final takeaway. And the
Speaker 2: play before the play tonight is multifaceted. Braxton barrios Is
Speaker 2: eighteen yard punt return was similar to a sequence the
Speaker 2: Dolphins had last week when cater Coho sacked Justin Herbert
Speaker 2: to back the Chargers offense up to the shadow of
Speaker 2: their own goalpost. Tonight, it was Andrew Van Ginkle to
Speaker 2: get that sack. You get the good field position last
Speaker 2: week at the thirty five yard line and it's one
Speaker 2: play up top to Tyreek Hill for a touchdown. Tonight,
Speaker 2: it's an eighteen yard punt return from Brax and Barrios
Speaker 2: and out to the forty three yard line of the Patriots.
Speaker 2: It's another one play drive with a forty three yard
Speaker 2: gallop from Raheem Most from Raheem mos Dirt in a
Speaker 2: seven point game with eight and change to play. That's
Speaker 2: a big time player there that essentially put the doll
Speaker 2: Dolphins in position to close it out late. So that's
Speaker 2: your five takeaways, your game story, and your play before
Speaker 2: the play. We're gonna have the All twenty two podcast
Speaker 2: for you guys either tomorrow or Tuesday morning. It's two
Speaker 2: thirty right now, so we'll see what happens for y'all.
Speaker 2: We'll also hear from head coach Mike McDaniel and some
Speaker 2: players at the press conferences they do on Monday.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, though, that's.
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