WEBVTT - Dolphins Defense Dominant Again, Beat Jets 20-3 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:17.119 Touchdown, Miami Run. What is up? Dolphans And welcome to 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.840 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:25.000 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.080 every day. How's it going, everybody? It is Sunday night. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.480 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.960 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:42.159 And on today show, the Dolphins win some staggering defensive numbers. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.280 The Dolphins are now seven and four heading into the 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.760 final month of the season. We're gonna hear from coach 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.000 Flora's on the defensive performance someone he thinks does not 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.120 get enough credit. He'll talk about the quarterback situation and 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.720 his fourth quarter offensive philosophy. And we'll hear from Mike 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.240 Gasicki on his touchdown reception and how he's grown as 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.720 a route runner as a player. And Land and Roberts 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.600 discusses a defensive success. Will give you all the staffs 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.520 from that dominant showing from three points allowed. Get the 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.119 five takeaways here on the podcast individual performances, and here 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.600 from John Conjemmy. All of that and more here on 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.080 this Sunday, November the twenty nine edition of The Drive 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:25.240 Time podcast Draft is brought to you by AutoNation. 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We still get the seventh win of the season. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.560 Back in the win column after a one game hiccup 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.280 in Denver, Miami have now won six of their last 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.080 seven games and head into December again at seven and 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.960 four for the first time since Miami's last playoff season. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.560 The Dolphins also not up the all time series against 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.320 the Jets fifty five apiece. There was one tie in 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.679 the series. They've now won eight of the last ten 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.960 games over the Jets. The defense is allowing eighteen points 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.760 six points per game. Dominant dominant defense through the first 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.680 eleven games of this season. And you know we talked 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.320 about this team coming under Brian Flores and Chris Career 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.760 and putting together a package of resources for this previous 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.240 offseason and more for next offseason. How this thing is 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.440 going to be built hopefully ideally in the vision for 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.960 sustained success. Well, here you go, your number two defensively 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.800 for Brian Flores, who has the defensive background, though we 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.079 know he is much more than that as a leader, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.480 as a delegator, as a person that elevates people in 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.960 his organization to do good things like we've seen with 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.480 Josh Boyer and more on that here in just one moment. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.840 But your number two. Eleven games in eight teen points 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.200 six points per game. You have to love the progress 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.320 with how Brian Flores has instituted his defensive system, his 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.200 defensive coaches, his defensive players, and the results you've gotten 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.520 on defense that will be in the takeaways portion of 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.280 this podcast. No doubt, a couple of storylines I was 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.760 looking at in this game. We'll talk offensively here because 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.400 most of the takeaways they come from the defensive side 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.640 of the football. Why wouldn't they, But two things I 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.600 wanted to take a look at was the Jets ran 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.520 more nickel personnel and granted this numbers right around sixty 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.880 five to sevent for most teams in the National Football League, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.120 but coming into today, the Jets had run nickel defense 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.840 eighty point five percent of the time. That was second 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.880 most of the National Football League. So I was kind 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.840 of curious to see how the Dolphins might attack that 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.400 because if you go twelve personnel, that gives you the 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.880 numbers count in terms of players in the box against 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.120 their players in the box. It gives you more size 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.400 to kind of force them to put linebackers onto the 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.000 field unless they want to try to tackle running backs 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.720 going through blocks of tight ends with defensive backs, so 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.680 you can kind of draw them into their ace package. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.440 And what does Miami do early in this game? Durham 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.880 Smith has three receptions on the first two drives. He 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.160 has a big block on a Matt Brida conversion, So 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.880 plenty of twelve personnel snaps. We'll talk more about that 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.160 on the Tuesday podcast when I have the numbers official. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.760 But quick completions dr Derham Smith early in the game, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.479 Miami comes out with twelve personnel to help combat that. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.880 I was curious about running back because we had no 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.960 savan Akhmed Miles Gaston did not get elevated off the 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.000 injured reserve, so we had Matt Brida, DeAndre Washington, and 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.520 Patrick Lair available for this game. I love the way 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.279 that Matt Breeda bursted through that hole on a moving 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.719 that gap open, greeting that gap scheme hole on that 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.400 third two conversion early in the drive. He would later 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.880 have the fumble, but Brian Flores did make a note 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.279 that he ran the football well aside from that fumble, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.479 and made a good note on Patrick Laird's long run 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.760 that he too had a good run before his fumble 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.599 on offense. But DeAndrea Washington I thought he played really 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.120 well in this game. And Coach Flores talked about this 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.520 at his press conference about taking control of time of 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.960 possession and picking up first downs in the fourth quarter, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.240 and that's a sign of how closed out football games. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.839 And obviously we talked about the situational importance of everything 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.520 that Brian Flora's overseas and everything he wants this team 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.680 to do. Those little situations like trying to cultivate for 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.039 first downs in the fourth quarter. We talked about this 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.800 and wins over teams like the Rams or even the 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.200 Chargers game, or you go back to other you know, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.440 kind of blowouts, and against the Niners and Jets earlier 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.919 in the season, how the Dolphins had goals on offense 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.119 to move the chains and put those drives together because 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.559 that shortens the game and helps your defense stay fresh 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.920 and close out the opposition. And Miami has done that 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.160 very very well this season. And while this game wasn't 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.720 a blowout per se, it was a ten point game 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.240 in the fourth quarter there with the Jets and plus territory, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.520 but it always felt like Miami had control of the game. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.880 And that's because the Dolphins are seven and oh in 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.080 games this season with halftime leads. They are good closers. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.440 Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's on his 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.320 philosophy in that fourth quarter with getting those first downs 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.400 and controlling the TP. Yeah, I mean, you know, those 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.479 fourth quarters, first downs, fourth quarter of rushing yards, fourth 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.720 quarter time with possession. I mean, it's those are things 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.760 we talk about. Things are very important. We can get 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.479 those done and kind of finish off games like we 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.320 did today. That's always good. At the Wash, I thought 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.280 he ran the ball effectively and we need that especially 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.320 trying to close out a game. I had a big 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.240 run there in the fourth quarter that kind of sprung 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.599 I think the final they're trying to put us seventeen. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.160 So and DeAndre Washington thirteen carries for forty nine yards, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.240 which led Miami and rushing in the game. And so 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.920 just before we get into the five takeaways from this game, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.160 the stats from this game, and don't forget to check 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.000 out Tuesday's podcast as well as Monday's article. We're gonna 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.960 go more in depth on the film and the snap 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.280 the snap counts, and the stats. I can't wait to 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.760 see what the defensive stats look like after this one. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.800 But in this game, Miami three total yards of the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.120 Jets to sixty one oh four on the ground to 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.800 the Jets eighty seven. Miami had to forty one through 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.440 the air to the Jets one seventy three. Dolphins converted 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.080 eight of sixteen on third down conversions in this game. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.839 The Jets were three for thirteen. Last game, the Jets 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.960 were two for seventeen, so five for thirty converting third 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.440 downs against this Jets defense and two games great work 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.280 by the Miami defense. Dolphins also had three sacks. The 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.920 Jets did get four on Ryan Fitzpatrick. Miami commits three 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.760 fouls for twenty yards, the Jets six for seventy four, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.520 and Miami has the TP victory with thirty two minutes 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.080 and thirty seven seconds of time of possession. The five 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.200 takeaways in this game, we started a little bit on 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.320 the offensive side early. Let's go ahead and get to 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.480 the first takeaway here. How many free rush sacks is 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.000 this team going to get? Brandon Jones comes clean on 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.760 quarterback Sam Donald in the very first possession of the 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.200 game to get a big sack on third down in 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.239 the red zone. Those were four point plays. Man Brandon Jones. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.840 We talked about it on really for a long time. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.800 Now you go back to his rookie profile. We talked 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.240 about here on drive time at Texas. What did I say? 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.600 The most guy plays fast, guy has a quick trigger, 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.520 Guys instinctive. We knew about his skill set based upon 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.960 or his his preparation skill set based upon that offseason 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.320 goal he had to get everybody's playbook in the NFL. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.440 He couldn't work out at the combine, so he wanted 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.760 to prepare himself mentally to be as strong as he 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.800 could that area. While his physical was catching up, and 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.520 we've seen that progress on his college tape. On the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.640 training camp portion. We talked about him all the time, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.280 those articles about how fast he played. We had Gerald 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.040 Alexander on Tuesday, himself, the man himself who has the 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.480 Gospel word when it comes to this stuff. Defensive back 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.640 to the Miami Dolphins. He said he loves the way 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.040 he plays, the way he prepares, and a quick trigger 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.840 and quick instincts that gives him so he comes free 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.400 on that impact play right away. We saw the Dolphins 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.000 get a free rusher against the Rams for a scoop 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.040 and score. Emmanuel Ogball comes clean. Jerome Baker did later 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.160 in the game to hit golf to get an interception 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.439 for Eric rowe Aga. Again in the Cardinals game, I mean, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.360 how many times are you gonna get free rushers on 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.400 the quarterback with the scheme with this defense, And yeah, 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.160 the players execute, but you give him a free run. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.280 That's the best hope you can get for quarterback pressure, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.320 for hits, sacks, takeaways. That's what Miami did once again 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.360 in this game to save four points down in the 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.720 red zone. Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.400 on the performance of his defense and the unheralded d 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.560 C Josh Boyer here in Miami. So we play well defensively, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.840 I guess he turnovers. Josh, you know, called a great 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.120 game really throughout. We had some sudden chain situations there 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.280 with turnovers, we will get ourselves off the field. Big 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.360 stop fourth to one in the red zone kept him, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.880 you know, obviously, keeping them mind of the end zones 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.040 always a great accomplishment in this league. So turnovers, big 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.160 stops on fourth and one. But Josh called a great game, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.280 and he's done a great job really entire year. I 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.559 think often times for people probably give me too much credit. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.120 Josh has done a great job in the entire year. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.079 And so that's just kind of how it goes on 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.120 this team. If you're gonna if you're gonna play or 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.360 perform well, or Brian Flores is gonna give you credit, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.760 He's not gonna take ano that credit himself. He takes 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.360 accountability and he passes credit. Just like in the Joe 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.839 Shad article over the weekend on the Palm Beach Post 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.040 of Miami's Miami's true Leader and Brian Flores, Josh Boyer 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.520 on defense again, this this entire staff and system and 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.160 putting guys in position to succeed. It's been fun to watch. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.160 And in two games against the Jets, man, that's been 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.040 fun to watch. I talked about it all week. I 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.800 just don't like that team. Man, It's always been a 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.840 team that has been the biggest rival for me as 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.680 the Miami Dolphins. Twenty five possessions this season against the 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.920 Dolphins for the Jets offense, and they scored three points 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.120 in the two games. That's point one two points per possession. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.920 Miami had three interceptions, six sacks and now has a 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.000 takeaway in seven teach trade games, the longest active streak 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.520 in the NFL. And on the day the two picks, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.160 a missed field goal and six points three of those 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.280 for three announced. That's eight three an ounce over two 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.960 games against the Jets offense. And they just continue to 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.360 do it with so many different looks. We talked about 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.320 the Brandon Jones blitz where you basically have four guys 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.280 on the line and Brandon Jones plays in the box 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.840 like he often does, but he's not really showing pressure. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.000 But at the snap he flies in there and comes 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.760 cleaning to the a gap. Because you kind of watched 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.600 the Jets offensive line say, well, both the defensive lineman 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.520 on either side of the center, so we're gonna kind 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.840 of fan out and kind of get the edge created 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.760 better there for Sam Donald, as they did. But Ogbach 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.720 shot through a double team as well and got pressure 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.080 that way. But also the free run for Brandon Jones. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.920 Just good ski, good execution, pairing both those things together 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.480 for big, big plays. Then later in the game, you 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.560 get a zone look on third and seven and it's 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.720 a four man rush the kind of keys Donald throughout 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.000 the throughout the play, as they kind of did throughout 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.959 the game. You'd have Jerome Baker or Kyle van Noy, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.480 because we saw Donald can make you pay with his legs. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.760 They were keeping eyes on him and kind of rushing 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.599 into line and keeping containing off the edge and not 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.000 letting him escape. So the Dolphins played that kind of 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.200 pressure contained with coverage look on a third and seven 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.640 and Donald sells the thing out of bound. So you 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.440 play multiple coverages, multiple fronts, multiple rushes, you confuse another 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.960 young quarterback, and how about this for the stat of 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.040 the game on past targets for Denzel Mims, Burchard Perriman 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.400 and Jamison Crowder, who got some production in this game. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.440 Don't take you know, don't get that twisted. But for 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.440 those three guys, the big storyline coming in that I 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.360 heard on pregame shows was the Jets have their first 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.600 for the first time. They have their top three receivers 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.520 available eleven for twenty two passing to those guys for 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.200 a passer rating of thirty nine point four on those 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.560 twenty two targets. So hat tip there too Byron Jones xaviing, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.320 Howard Nick need him, Bobby mc kane, and Eric Rowe 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.480 takeaway number two the defensive line. Just in general, these 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.920 guys were dominant in this game. I can't really tell 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.520 you who was more dominant than the other one. We'll 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.079 talk more on all twenty two Tuesday, I suppose, but 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.640 just constant penetration, shedding blocks, kind of keying to play 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.640 in the backfield and getting off those blocks and making 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.960 plays at the line or behind it. Fifteen of the 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.200 twenty three run plays in this game for the Jets 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.199 game three or less yards, So we're gonna have tons 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.160 of run stops to cover in the ends of the 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.480 numbers piece on Monday, and that just sets you up 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.840 for success on third down and long and and third 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.960 down in general. We talked about it again. The Jets 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.960 in two games against Miami five for thirty on third 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.440 down conversions. So you limit them to the to so 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.080 many run wins, you limit them to eighty seven yards 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.240 on the ground. And I just talk about this all 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.240 the time on the podcast. To me, it's not about 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.280 the cumulative it's about winning plays and giving yourself a 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.560 position to make a play on the next play. And 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.440 I don't care if the quarterback, for instance, if you 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.000 want to go on the offensive side of the football, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.760 I don't care if the quarterback starts the game with 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.880 the pick and then throws one on a hell May 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.120 at the end of the first half and that derails 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.400 his passer rating, because maybe he had a great game 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.640 on the other thirty eight throws, but those two interceptions 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.880 kill his passer rating. So there's this perception around that player. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.120 But in actuality, what did he do with his other 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.760 ten drives? If he'd lead seven touchdown drives and we're 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.400 complaining about the two picks because he didn't maybe have 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.560 the stats you want to see in the passer rating. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.400 So I like the idea of counting wins over cumulative, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.080 which I think, you know, cumulative approach kind of zaps 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.760 all context. This is the context I'm talking about. You 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.800 get enough wins on these rundowns fifteen twenty three, you're 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.640 gonna create opportunities for sex Dolphins got three. You're gonna 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.839 create opportunities for interceptions, Dolphins got two of those. And 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.960 you're gonna create opportunities to get off the field and 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.920 get the punt team on the field. Miami got six 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.079 of those in this game as well. Let's go ahead 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.439 and get to my question for you, good Land and 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.120 Robert's about how much success or how much conference does 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.360 it give you guys to get those early down run stops. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.720 What can that do for a defense? I do big, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.800 you know, you know it's it's no it's no secret. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.000 You know. It's very disappointed in our details a week ago, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.400 and I think we came out and play good fundamental 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.160 Dolphins football, you know, and um he was able to, uh, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.360 you know, play some good run defense this week and 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.880 takeaway number three from this game. The Dolphins stay hot 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.720 and special teams with Jason Sanders, who hits field goals 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.600 from fifty four and fifty one that gives him a 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.160 couple of really nice marks. He has an eighty five 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.040 point seven career field goal percentage on field goals of 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.560 that distance that's the best in the NFL since from 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.520 fifty yards, his eight successful field goals of plus fifty 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.040 yards this season are most in the NFL, and he's 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.840 hit ten consecutive field goals from that range fifty more 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.600 yards fifty yards or more going back to last season 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.440 and earlier this year, Sanders set the Dolphins franchise record 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.800 for most consecutive made field goals with twenty two. That 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.160 of course, topped Linda Murray's run of nineteen consecutive field 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.640 goals in So, if you guys want to go ahead 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.520 and vote for Jason Sanders for Pro Bowl and the 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.000 rest of your Miami Dolphins team for the Pro Bowl 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.880 this season, go ahead and do that open now on 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.480 NFL dot Com. So Jason Sanders stays completely and just 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.920 continues to help the Dolphins with a weapon putting points 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.720 in the board. From when you get to the thirty 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.840 five yard line, you pretty much know, okay, we're here, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.520 we're good. We can rely on Jason Sanders. And also 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.160 people on Twitter are not entirely convinced that he and 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.440 I are not the same person. I can confirm the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.760 Jason Sanners and I are not the same person. He 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.240 has a right, a golden right leg. I do not 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.520 all right. Takeaway number four, The Dolphins continue to develop 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.440 players no matter how old they are. Davanta Parker and 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.920 his six NFL season, Mike A Sicky in his third 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.920 NFL season, coming over from a previous regime and being 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.640 a player that Brian Floores and his staff inherit and 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.320 they focus on the development of these players. Mike A 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.000 Sicki has a big touchdown catch in this game. Davanta 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.320 Parker has his season high and a season high for 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.920 the Dolphins this season in general, with a hundred and 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.160 nineteen receiving yards. He kind of just mixed in different 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.680 looks all game long. He caught some passes on slants, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.680 went to the ground once and made a tough catch. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.200 The broadcast crew talked about how tough that is for 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.320 a six ft three receiver to go to the ground 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.600 like that and make a sure catch like that. He 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.760 can again winds up with one nineteen yards and eight catches. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.160 Caught a couple of slants and had some yack run 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.200 after the catch some back shoulder balls. I think you 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.280 just love to see the variety of ways which Devanta 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.360 Parker could beat defensive backs in this game. The true, really, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.960 the true, the true merit of the number one receiver 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.960 is how well can you do against double teams? How 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.760 well can you do on third down? How well can 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.640 you do in short condensed areas in the red zone? 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.680 How well can you do in the other team. Everyone 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.400 in the stadium knows the ball is going to you, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.000 how do you perform well? Devanta has become a big 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.160 on third downs all season. He's been big in the 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.440 red zone catching touchdowns. He has just been a good 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.160 weapon all season long. Whoever the quarterback is today, it 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.560 was Ryan Fitzpatrick, and here's what Fits had to say 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.040 about Devanta Parker. DeVante is very special, you know with 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.120 the ball and some of those tough catches, and so, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.840 you know, for for us and and really for me 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.760 as a quarterback, of teams are gonna give us the 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.880 opportunity to do that that I'm going to give up 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.040 DeVante the opportunity to make that play more often than not. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.800 And uh, you know, people can say sometimes that's not 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.840 the right move and whatever else, but if I've got 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.920 a guy that I trust that I seemed to over 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.639 and do it over and over and over again, then 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.600 I'm gonna give him every opportunity to make a play. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.159 And he did a great job making some of those today. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.080 It was just a lot of man coverage out there 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.520 in a pretty classic Davante partner game when you play 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.720 him in the end coverage. I talked a little bit 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.600 about the run after catch. Last year. There was a 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.080 game up in Buffalo where Deavante put his shoulder down 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.159 at the pilot and and just thrust into the end 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.720 zone over a Buffalo Bills defender. We saw that throughout 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.159 the course of the season. He talked about staying healthy, 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.920 fighting through nis and bruises, just that development his game 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.200 to be a little bit more willing to fight through 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:40.680 those things, to be a little bit tougher, to be 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.760 more physical. He's become that guy. He's been reliable, durable, dependable, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.560 all those things you talk about. Mica Sicky, we talked 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.720 a lot about tight ends and you're number one. Maybe 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.879 it's a tough transition to the league because you have 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.760 to work on pass protection, running game, pass routes, all 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.920 these things. Mike A. Sikey's rookie year to not get 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.679 off to the start he wanted to, I'm sure, but 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.359 in year two and three he's um flying up the 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.679 boards in terms of his stats and production, and a 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.439 big part of that is a finely tuned machine and 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.639 working on the craft diligently, as Mike Kasicky has. I 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.159 asked him post him about the touchdown catch because Ashton 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.960 Davis came up and tried to get hands on him, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.520 how he works to fight through that contact, what he's 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.840 learned as a route runner in the NFL in his 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.439 three years. Here's Mike on a great little breakdown of 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.439 that touchdown reception and how he's worked to work different 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.680