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Speaker 1: And on today show, the Dolphins win some staggering defensive numbers.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are now seven and four heading into the
Speaker 1: final month of the season. We're gonna hear from coach
Speaker 1: Flora's on the defensive performance someone he thinks does not
Speaker 1: get enough credit. He'll talk about the quarterback situation and
Speaker 1: his fourth quarter offensive philosophy. And we'll hear from Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki on his touchdown reception and how he's grown as
Speaker 1: a route runner as a player. And Land and Roberts
Speaker 1: discusses a defensive success. Will give you all the staffs
Speaker 1: from that dominant showing from three points allowed. Get the
Speaker 1: five takeaways here on the podcast individual performances, and here
Speaker 1: from John Conjemmy. All of that and more here on
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Speaker 1: So the Jets take the opening kickoff and go down
Speaker 1: the field for a field goal drive to start this
Speaker 1: game off, but then Miami scores twenty unanswered points for
Speaker 1: the win. Win. Jay rocks a little bit later, but
Speaker 1: that's okay. We still get the seventh win of the season.
Speaker 1: Back in the win column after a one game hiccup
Speaker 1: in Denver, Miami have now won six of their last
Speaker 1: seven games and head into December again at seven and
Speaker 1: four for the first time since Miami's last playoff season.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins also not up the all time series against
Speaker 1: the Jets fifty five apiece. There was one tie in
Speaker 1: the series. They've now won eight of the last ten
Speaker 1: games over the Jets. The defense is allowing eighteen points
Speaker 1: six points per game. Dominant dominant defense through the first
Speaker 1: eleven games of this season. And you know we talked
Speaker 1: about this team coming under Brian Flores and Chris Career
Speaker 1: and putting together a package of resources for this previous
Speaker 1: offseason and more for next offseason. How this thing is
Speaker 1: going to be built hopefully ideally in the vision for
Speaker 1: sustained success. Well, here you go, your number two defensively
Speaker 1: for Brian Flores, who has the defensive background, though we
Speaker 1: know he is much more than that as a leader,
Speaker 1: as a delegator, as a person that elevates people in
Speaker 1: his organization to do good things like we've seen with
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer and more on that here in just one moment.
Speaker 1: But your number two. Eleven games in eight teen points
Speaker 1: six points per game. You have to love the progress
Speaker 1: with how Brian Flores has instituted his defensive system, his
Speaker 1: defensive coaches, his defensive players, and the results you've gotten
Speaker 1: on defense that will be in the takeaways portion of
Speaker 1: this podcast. No doubt, a couple of storylines I was
Speaker 1: looking at in this game. We'll talk offensively here because
Speaker 1: most of the takeaways they come from the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. Why wouldn't they, But two things I
Speaker 1: wanted to take a look at was the Jets ran
Speaker 1: more nickel personnel and granted this numbers right around sixty
Speaker 1: five to sevent for most teams in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: but coming into today, the Jets had run nickel defense
Speaker 1: eighty point five percent of the time. That was second
Speaker 1: most of the National Football League. So I was kind
Speaker 1: of curious to see how the Dolphins might attack that
Speaker 1: because if you go twelve personnel, that gives you the
Speaker 1: numbers count in terms of players in the box against
Speaker 1: their players in the box. It gives you more size
Speaker 1: to kind of force them to put linebackers onto the
Speaker 1: field unless they want to try to tackle running backs
Speaker 1: going through blocks of tight ends with defensive backs, so
Speaker 1: you can kind of draw them into their ace package.
Speaker 1: And what does Miami do early in this game? Durham
Speaker 1: Smith has three receptions on the first two drives. He
Speaker 1: has a big block on a Matt Brida conversion, So
Speaker 1: plenty of twelve personnel snaps. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday podcast when I have the numbers official.
Speaker 1: But quick completions dr Derham Smith early in the game,
Speaker 1: Miami comes out with twelve personnel to help combat that.
Speaker 1: I was curious about running back because we had no
Speaker 1: savan Akhmed Miles Gaston did not get elevated off the
Speaker 1: injured reserve, so we had Matt Brida, DeAndre Washington, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Lair available for this game. I love the way
Speaker 1: that Matt Breeda bursted through that hole on a moving
Speaker 1: that gap open, greeting that gap scheme hole on that
Speaker 1: third two conversion early in the drive. He would later
Speaker 1: have the fumble, but Brian Flores did make a note
Speaker 1: that he ran the football well aside from that fumble,
Speaker 1: and made a good note on Patrick Laird's long run
Speaker 1: that he too had a good run before his fumble
Speaker 1: on offense. But DeAndrea Washington I thought he played really
Speaker 1: well in this game. And Coach Flores talked about this
Speaker 1: at his press conference about taking control of time of
Speaker 1: possession and picking up first downs in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and that's a sign of how closed out football games.
Speaker 1: And obviously we talked about the situational importance of everything
Speaker 1: that Brian Flora's overseas and everything he wants this team
Speaker 1: to do. Those little situations like trying to cultivate for
Speaker 1: first downs in the fourth quarter. We talked about this
Speaker 1: and wins over teams like the Rams or even the
Speaker 1: Chargers game, or you go back to other you know,
Speaker 1: kind of blowouts, and against the Niners and Jets earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, how the Dolphins had goals on offense
Speaker 1: to move the chains and put those drives together because
Speaker 1: that shortens the game and helps your defense stay fresh
Speaker 1: and close out the opposition. And Miami has done that
Speaker 1: very very well this season. And while this game wasn't
Speaker 1: a blowout per se, it was a ten point game
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter there with the Jets and plus territory,
Speaker 1: but it always felt like Miami had control of the game.
Speaker 1: And that's because the Dolphins are seven and oh in
Speaker 1: games this season with halftime leads. They are good closers.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's on his
Speaker 1: philosophy in that fourth quarter with getting those first downs
Speaker 1: and controlling the TP. Yeah, I mean, you know, those
Speaker 1: fourth quarters, first downs, fourth quarter of rushing yards, fourth
Speaker 1: quarter time with possession. I mean, it's those are things
Speaker 1: we talk about. Things are very important. We can get
Speaker 1: those done and kind of finish off games like we
Speaker 1: did today. That's always good. At the Wash, I thought
Speaker 1: he ran the ball effectively and we need that especially
Speaker 1: trying to close out a game. I had a big
Speaker 1: run there in the fourth quarter that kind of sprung
Speaker 1: I think the final they're trying to put us seventeen.
Speaker 1: So and DeAndre Washington thirteen carries for forty nine yards,
Speaker 1: which led Miami and rushing in the game. And so
Speaker 1: just before we get into the five takeaways from this game,
Speaker 1: the stats from this game, and don't forget to check
Speaker 1: out Tuesday's podcast as well as Monday's article. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go more in depth on the film and the snap
Speaker 1: the snap counts, and the stats. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see what the defensive stats look like after this one.
Speaker 1: But in this game, Miami three total yards of the
Speaker 1: Jets to sixty one oh four on the ground to
Speaker 1: the Jets eighty seven. Miami had to forty one through
Speaker 1: the air to the Jets one seventy three. Dolphins converted
Speaker 1: eight of sixteen on third down conversions in this game.
Speaker 1: The Jets were three for thirteen. Last game, the Jets
Speaker 1: were two for seventeen, so five for thirty converting third
Speaker 1: downs against this Jets defense and two games great work
Speaker 1: by the Miami defense. Dolphins also had three sacks. The
Speaker 1: Jets did get four on Ryan Fitzpatrick. Miami commits three
Speaker 1: fouls for twenty yards, the Jets six for seventy four,
Speaker 1: and Miami has the TP victory with thirty two minutes
Speaker 1: and thirty seven seconds of time of possession. The five
Speaker 1: takeaways in this game, we started a little bit on
Speaker 1: the offensive side early. Let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 1: the first takeaway here. How many free rush sacks is
Speaker 1: this team going to get? Brandon Jones comes clean on
Speaker 1: quarterback Sam Donald in the very first possession of the
Speaker 1: game to get a big sack on third down in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Those were four point plays. Man Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on really for a long time.
Speaker 1: Now you go back to his rookie profile. We talked
Speaker 1: about here on drive time at Texas. What did I say?
Speaker 1: The most guy plays fast, guy has a quick trigger,
Speaker 1: Guys instinctive. We knew about his skill set based upon
Speaker 1: or his his preparation skill set based upon that offseason
Speaker 1: goal he had to get everybody's playbook in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He couldn't work out at the combine, so he wanted
Speaker 1: to prepare himself mentally to be as strong as he
Speaker 1: could that area. While his physical was catching up, and
Speaker 1: we've seen that progress on his college tape. On the
Speaker 1: training camp portion. We talked about him all the time,
Speaker 1: those articles about how fast he played. We had Gerald
Speaker 1: Alexander on Tuesday, himself, the man himself who has the
Speaker 1: Gospel word when it comes to this stuff. Defensive back
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins. He said he loves the way
Speaker 1: he plays, the way he prepares, and a quick trigger
Speaker 1: and quick instincts that gives him so he comes free
Speaker 1: on that impact play right away. We saw the Dolphins
Speaker 1: get a free rusher against the Rams for a scoop
Speaker 1: and score. Emmanuel Ogball comes clean. Jerome Baker did later
Speaker 1: in the game to hit golf to get an interception
Speaker 1: for Eric rowe Aga. Again in the Cardinals game, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times are you gonna get free rushers on
Speaker 1: the quarterback with the scheme with this defense, And yeah,
Speaker 1: the players execute, but you give him a free run.
Speaker 1: That's the best hope you can get for quarterback pressure,
Speaker 1: for hits, sacks, takeaways. That's what Miami did once again
Speaker 1: in this game to save four points down in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Let's go ahead and hear from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: on the performance of his defense and the unheralded d
Speaker 1: C Josh Boyer here in Miami. So we play well defensively,
Speaker 1: I guess he turnovers. Josh, you know, called a great
Speaker 1: game really throughout. We had some sudden chain situations there
Speaker 1: with turnovers, we will get ourselves off the field. Big
Speaker 1: stop fourth to one in the red zone kept him,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, keeping them mind of the end zones
Speaker 1: always a great accomplishment in this league. So turnovers, big
Speaker 1: stops on fourth and one. But Josh called a great game,
Speaker 1: and he's done a great job really entire year. I
Speaker 1: think often times for people probably give me too much credit.
Speaker 1: Josh has done a great job in the entire year.
Speaker 1: And so that's just kind of how it goes on
Speaker 1: this team. If you're gonna if you're gonna play or
Speaker 1: perform well, or Brian Flores is gonna give you credit,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna take ano that credit himself. He takes
Speaker 1: accountability and he passes credit. Just like in the Joe
Speaker 1: Shad article over the weekend on the Palm Beach Post
Speaker 1: of Miami's Miami's true Leader and Brian Flores, Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: on defense again, this this entire staff and system and
Speaker 1: putting guys in position to succeed. It's been fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And in two games against the Jets, man, that's been
Speaker 1: fun to watch. I talked about it all week. I
Speaker 1: just don't like that team. Man, It's always been a
Speaker 1: team that has been the biggest rival for me as
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Twenty five possessions this season against the
Speaker 1: Dolphins for the Jets offense, and they scored three points
Speaker 1: in the two games. That's point one two points per possession.
Speaker 1: Miami had three interceptions, six sacks and now has a
Speaker 1: takeaway in seven teach trade games, the longest active streak
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And on the day the two picks,
Speaker 1: a missed field goal and six points three of those
Speaker 1: for three announced. That's eight three an ounce over two
Speaker 1: games against the Jets offense. And they just continue to
Speaker 1: do it with so many different looks. We talked about
Speaker 1: the Brandon Jones blitz where you basically have four guys
Speaker 1: on the line and Brandon Jones plays in the box
Speaker 1: like he often does, but he's not really showing pressure.
Speaker 1: But at the snap he flies in there and comes
Speaker 1: cleaning to the a gap. Because you kind of watched
Speaker 1: the Jets offensive line say, well, both the defensive lineman
Speaker 1: on either side of the center, so we're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of fan out and kind of get the edge created
Speaker 1: better there for Sam Donald, as they did. But Ogbach
Speaker 1: shot through a double team as well and got pressure
Speaker 1: that way. But also the free run for Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: Just good ski, good execution, pairing both those things together
Speaker 1: for big, big plays. Then later in the game, you
Speaker 1: get a zone look on third and seven and it's
Speaker 1: a four man rush the kind of keys Donald throughout
Speaker 1: the throughout the play, as they kind of did throughout
Speaker 1: the game. You'd have Jerome Baker or Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 1: because we saw Donald can make you pay with his legs.
Speaker 1: They were keeping eyes on him and kind of rushing
Speaker 1: into line and keeping containing off the edge and not
Speaker 1: letting him escape. So the Dolphins played that kind of
Speaker 1: pressure contained with coverage look on a third and seven
Speaker 1: and Donald sells the thing out of bound. So you
Speaker 1: play multiple coverages, multiple fronts, multiple rushes, you confuse another
Speaker 1: young quarterback, and how about this for the stat of
Speaker 1: the game on past targets for Denzel Mims, Burchard Perriman
Speaker 1: and Jamison Crowder, who got some production in this game.
Speaker 1: Don't take you know, don't get that twisted. But for
Speaker 1: those three guys, the big storyline coming in that I
Speaker 1: heard on pregame shows was the Jets have their first
Speaker 1: for the first time. They have their top three receivers
Speaker 1: available eleven for twenty two passing to those guys for
Speaker 1: a passer rating of thirty nine point four on those
Speaker 1: twenty two targets. So hat tip there too Byron Jones xaviing,
Speaker 1: Howard Nick need him, Bobby mc kane, and Eric Rowe
Speaker 1: takeaway number two the defensive line. Just in general, these
Speaker 1: guys were dominant in this game. I can't really tell
Speaker 1: you who was more dominant than the other one. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more on all twenty two Tuesday, I suppose, but
Speaker 1: just constant penetration, shedding blocks, kind of keying to play
Speaker 1: in the backfield and getting off those blocks and making
Speaker 1: plays at the line or behind it. Fifteen of the
Speaker 1: twenty three run plays in this game for the Jets
Speaker 1: game three or less yards, So we're gonna have tons
Speaker 1: of run stops to cover in the ends of the
Speaker 1: numbers piece on Monday, and that just sets you up
Speaker 1: for success on third down and long and and third
Speaker 1: down in general. We talked about it again. The Jets
Speaker 1: in two games against Miami five for thirty on third
Speaker 1: down conversions. So you limit them to the to so
Speaker 1: many run wins, you limit them to eighty seven yards
Speaker 1: on the ground. And I just talk about this all
Speaker 1: the time on the podcast. To me, it's not about
Speaker 1: the cumulative it's about winning plays and giving yourself a
Speaker 1: position to make a play on the next play. And
Speaker 1: I don't care if the quarterback, for instance, if you
Speaker 1: want to go on the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: I don't care if the quarterback starts the game with
Speaker 1: the pick and then throws one on a hell May
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half and that derails
Speaker 1: his passer rating, because maybe he had a great game
Speaker 1: on the other thirty eight throws, but those two interceptions
Speaker 1: kill his passer rating. So there's this perception around that player.
Speaker 1: But in actuality, what did he do with his other
Speaker 1: ten drives? If he'd lead seven touchdown drives and we're
Speaker 1: complaining about the two picks because he didn't maybe have
Speaker 1: the stats you want to see in the passer rating.
Speaker 1: So I like the idea of counting wins over cumulative,
Speaker 1: which I think, you know, cumulative approach kind of zaps
Speaker 1: all context. This is the context I'm talking about. You
Speaker 1: get enough wins on these rundowns fifteen twenty three, you're
Speaker 1: gonna create opportunities for sex Dolphins got three. You're gonna
Speaker 1: create opportunities for interceptions, Dolphins got two of those. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna create opportunities to get off the field and
Speaker 1: get the punt team on the field. Miami got six
Speaker 1: of those in this game as well. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to my question for you, good Land and
Speaker 1: Robert's about how much success or how much conference does
Speaker 1: it give you guys to get those early down run stops.
Speaker 1: What can that do for a defense? I do big,
Speaker 1: you know, you know it's it's no it's no secret.
Speaker 1: You know. It's very disappointed in our details a week ago,
Speaker 1: and I think we came out and play good fundamental
Speaker 1: Dolphins football, you know, and um he was able to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, play some good run defense this week and
Speaker 1: takeaway number three from this game. The Dolphins stay hot
Speaker 1: and special teams with Jason Sanders, who hits field goals
Speaker 1: from fifty four and fifty one that gives him a
Speaker 1: couple of really nice marks. He has an eighty five
Speaker 1: point seven career field goal percentage on field goals of
Speaker 1: that distance that's the best in the NFL since from
Speaker 1: fifty yards, his eight successful field goals of plus fifty
Speaker 1: yards this season are most in the NFL, and he's
Speaker 1: hit ten consecutive field goals from that range fifty more
Speaker 1: yards fifty yards or more going back to last season
Speaker 1: and earlier this year, Sanders set the Dolphins franchise record
Speaker 1: for most consecutive made field goals with twenty two. That
Speaker 1: of course, topped Linda Murray's run of nineteen consecutive field
Speaker 1: goals in So, if you guys want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and vote for Jason Sanders for Pro Bowl and the
Speaker 1: rest of your Miami Dolphins team for the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: this season, go ahead and do that open now on
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com. So Jason Sanders stays completely and just
Speaker 1: continues to help the Dolphins with a weapon putting points
Speaker 1: in the board. From when you get to the thirty
Speaker 1: five yard line, you pretty much know, okay, we're here,
Speaker 1: we're good. We can rely on Jason Sanders. And also
Speaker 1: people on Twitter are not entirely convinced that he and
Speaker 1: I are not the same person. I can confirm the
Speaker 1: Jason Sanners and I are not the same person. He
Speaker 1: has a right, a golden right leg. I do not
Speaker 1: all right. Takeaway number four, The Dolphins continue to develop
Speaker 1: players no matter how old they are. Davanta Parker and
Speaker 1: his six NFL season, Mike A Sicky in his third
Speaker 1: NFL season, coming over from a previous regime and being
Speaker 1: a player that Brian Floores and his staff inherit and
Speaker 1: they focus on the development of these players. Mike A
Speaker 1: Sicki has a big touchdown catch in this game. Davanta
Speaker 1: Parker has his season high and a season high for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins this season in general, with a hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen receiving yards. He kind of just mixed in different
Speaker 1: looks all game long. He caught some passes on slants,
Speaker 1: went to the ground once and made a tough catch.
Speaker 1: The broadcast crew talked about how tough that is for
Speaker 1: a six ft three receiver to go to the ground
Speaker 1: like that and make a sure catch like that. He
Speaker 1: can again winds up with one nineteen yards and eight catches.
Speaker 1: Caught a couple of slants and had some yack run
Speaker 1: after the catch some back shoulder balls. I think you
Speaker 1: just love to see the variety of ways which Devanta
Speaker 1: Parker could beat defensive backs in this game. The true, really,
Speaker 1: the true, the true merit of the number one receiver
Speaker 1: is how well can you do against double teams? How
Speaker 1: well can you do on third down? How well can
Speaker 1: you do in short condensed areas in the red zone?
Speaker 1: How well can you do in the other team. Everyone
Speaker 1: in the stadium knows the ball is going to you,
Speaker 1: how do you perform well? Devanta has become a big
Speaker 1: on third downs all season. He's been big in the
Speaker 1: red zone catching touchdowns. He has just been a good
Speaker 1: weapon all season long. Whoever the quarterback is today, it
Speaker 1: was Ryan Fitzpatrick, and here's what Fits had to say
Speaker 1: about Devanta Parker. DeVante is very special, you know with
Speaker 1: the ball and some of those tough catches, and so,
Speaker 1: you know, for for us and and really for me
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, of teams are gonna give us the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that that I'm going to give up
Speaker 1: DeVante the opportunity to make that play more often than not.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, people can say sometimes that's not
Speaker 1: the right move and whatever else, but if I've got
Speaker 1: a guy that I trust that I seemed to over
Speaker 1: and do it over and over and over again, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him every opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: And he did a great job making some of those today.
Speaker 1: It was just a lot of man coverage out there
Speaker 1: in a pretty classic Davante partner game when you play
Speaker 1: him in the end coverage. I talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about the run after catch. Last year. There was a
Speaker 1: game up in Buffalo where Deavante put his shoulder down
Speaker 1: at the pilot and and just thrust into the end
Speaker 1: zone over a Buffalo Bills defender. We saw that throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season. He talked about staying healthy,
Speaker 1: fighting through nis and bruises, just that development his game
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more willing to fight through
Speaker 1: those things, to be a little bit tougher, to be
Speaker 1: more physical. He's become that guy. He's been reliable, durable, dependable,
Speaker 1: all those things you talk about. Mica Sicky, we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about tight ends and you're number one. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a tough transition to the league because you have
Speaker 1: to work on pass protection, running game, pass routes, all
Speaker 1: these things. Mike A. Sikey's rookie year to not get
Speaker 1: off to the start he wanted to, I'm sure, but
Speaker 1: in year two and three he's um flying up the
Speaker 1: boards in terms of his stats and production, and a
Speaker 1: big part of that is a finely tuned machine and
Speaker 1: working on the craft diligently, as Mike Kasicky has. I
Speaker 1: asked him post him about the touchdown catch because Ashton
Speaker 1: Davis came up and tried to get hands on him,
Speaker 1: how he works to fight through that contact, what he's
Speaker 1: learned as a route runner in the NFL in his
Speaker 1: three years. Here's Mike on a great little breakdown of
Speaker 1: that touchdown reception and how he's worked to work different
Speaker 1: releases and different looks and different approaches into his game
Speaker 1: as a route runner. I think I've learned more about
Speaker 1: like releases and you know, using my hands, um, you know,
Speaker 1: making moves on guys and not just trying to beat
Speaker 1: him with my speed because at this level and everybody
Speaker 1: can run. So yeah, I knew that, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: two and come down try to get hands on me.
Speaker 1: Was it was covered zero, There's nobody back there, So
Speaker 1: I knew if I just got his hands off me,
Speaker 1: and when we broke the huddle. It said like it's
Speaker 1: coming to you, no matter what said. Okay, So like
Speaker 1: when you when you hear that, go out and make
Speaker 1: a play. So um, how to get his hands on me?
Speaker 1: How to get open? Ran back fist through the ball
Speaker 1: as high as the stadium I think was up there
Speaker 1: for it felt like a minute, and I just jumped up,
Speaker 1: caught it and he would though. I called the game
Speaker 1: when he touchdown the super Bowl because I was so excited.
Speaker 1: And you gotta love that final comment there. Earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, Ryan Fitzpatrick told us about how happy Mike
Speaker 1: Asiki is every time he catches a football. Looks like
Speaker 1: the first time, feels like the first time for Mike
Speaker 1: Kasiki every time he catches the ball. I apologize for
Speaker 1: the horrible singing. So let's take away number four. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number five, And I don't know how to phrase this.
Speaker 1: I just think that the perception that we see on
Speaker 1: a daily basis, whether it's social media or whatever, has
Speaker 1: just gotten so much worse than it used to be.
Speaker 1: Where these narratives form and you can almost see them
Speaker 1: kind of mount and build up and manifest, and the
Speaker 1: ball just gets rolling and out of control, because you know, Twitter,
Speaker 1: to me, was not that much fun to be on.
Speaker 1: This week. The Dolphins are seven or four going into
Speaker 1: a home game against the Bengals with a chance to
Speaker 1: get to eight and four. There were four and one
Speaker 1: in November. They're winners of six other last seve even
Speaker 1: and yet you would have thought that on social media
Speaker 1: the sky was falling. And I'm not sure if that's
Speaker 1: just an overexposure to information into access we have these
Speaker 1: days in the social media world. But I just would
Speaker 1: caution and suggest to just take a step away and
Speaker 1: relax and stop and smell the roses a little bit,
Speaker 1: because this team has played good football all season long.
Speaker 1: The defense has been really, really sharp. The offense has
Speaker 1: been efficient. They've been good closers they've had they've made
Speaker 1: plays and they needed to. They've been big in the
Speaker 1: red zone, score touchdowns. They've had a weapon and a
Speaker 1: field goal kicker. They've got great special teams that gets
Speaker 1: it done every single week. We talked about Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: once again. Another Jets drive after a Dolphins kickoff starts
Speaker 1: at the seven yard line. And I say all this
Speaker 1: because I know a bunch of the listeners do follow
Speaker 1: me on social media, and we're very much a family
Speaker 1: in that way. For the way we interact with each
Speaker 1: other talk about Dolphins football, it's kind of a safe haven,
Speaker 1: a release I get away if you will. And I
Speaker 1: just think we can maybe learn from that experience and
Speaker 1: from what today was a solid, resounding victory when after
Speaker 1: a week of getting all this praise and all this love,
Speaker 1: it kind of stopped last week. And so now the
Speaker 1: Dolphins again seven and four at the end of November
Speaker 1: in a great spot heading into December. I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and play some audio here from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: on the situation at quarterback because we again we saw
Speaker 1: many many things out there the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Let's let coach talk about the situation at quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he's he's he's the diamond. How many different
Speaker 1: ways do we have to say that, continue to say that,
Speaker 1: but keep we keep asking, keep answering the same the
Speaker 1: same way. So again, you know, he's he's dealing with
Speaker 1: with something with the hand. We'll take a day to day.
Speaker 1: He's a tough kid, he wants to be out there. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: we have guys who other guys who stepped up. We
Speaker 1: talk about we can talk about two, but we had
Speaker 1: fifty two other guys who were not there and play
Speaker 1: their butts off today. I don't know in all three phases.
Speaker 1: And we're able to get a division win on the road,
Speaker 1: and now you have the most important part, the division
Speaker 1: win on the road. Flora's also said they try at
Speaker 1: him out pregame. We saw the CBS broadcast talking about
Speaker 1: two of throwing the ball in the tunnel back there.
Speaker 1: Flora Has also mentioned he was close to going in
Speaker 1: this game. They decided to roll with Ryan Fitzpatricks. So
Speaker 1: we'll see about next week, evaluate and got the course
Speaker 1: of the week and we'll get you guys updates here
Speaker 1: on drivetime Miami Dolphins dot Com and otherwise. How about
Speaker 1: some individual notes here, Just talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick earlier
Speaker 1: in this game. I thought he was accurate on some
Speaker 1: of those slants against the Jets, kind of playing off coverage.
Speaker 1: Good job taking advantage of what the defense gave him
Speaker 1: on those plays, got those drives, rolling, got some field
Speaker 1: goal range early in the game at running back position.
Speaker 1: I love the way DeAndre Washington kind of has that
Speaker 1: shifty look, but also the way he works in the
Speaker 1: passing game. He's so well adept at kind of you know,
Speaker 1: on that screenplay where he picked up six seven yards,
Speaker 1: he shows a blitz pick up and it forces the
Speaker 1: pass rusher who comes in clean to kind of take
Speaker 1: an angle and basically get himself into a position where
Speaker 1: the time he took to go around it was basically
Speaker 1: the same amount of time it would have been if
Speaker 1: he had been blocked. But Washington dummies that blitz, that
Speaker 1: blitz pick up and then the leaks out there for
Speaker 1: the reception. He had a couple of nice plays in
Speaker 1: this game again, lead the Dolphins with forty nine rushing yards.
Speaker 1: At wide receiver Davante Parker again so many different ways.
Speaker 1: He caught the football tenth career, one hundred yard receiving day,
Speaker 1: second this season, one nineteen yards in the game. That
Speaker 1: was the most for a single game for a Dolphins
Speaker 1: receiver this season. I loved you Achem Grant's conversion on
Speaker 1: third down and eight created plenty of separation on that play,
Speaker 1: gave a big target there to Ryan Fitzpatrick, and they
Speaker 1: had really good pass protection on that play as well.
Speaker 1: At the tight end position, we talked about Mike Asiki
Speaker 1: and the growth and development there with a big, strong
Speaker 1: contact balance and running through those routes catching several passes
Speaker 1: in this game. You see the big strong mids, the
Speaker 1: big strong hands of pull balls off the top of
Speaker 1: defenders heads, and it really helps when you can have
Speaker 1: that one on one situation to kind of loft that
Speaker 1: thing up there. He also joked after the game about
Speaker 1: Fits throwing the ball out of the stadium height wise.
Speaker 1: Durham Smith had a few catches, had a couple of
Speaker 1: nice blocks as well that I noted in this game.
Speaker 1: On that one screen pass to Washington again, Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: wiped a player out the second level on a block.
Speaker 1: He does that just about every single week. Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: also had a big one thought. Jesse Davis had several
Speaker 1: nice plays in the running game as well as pass
Speaker 1: porten action in this game. And Robert Hunt had a
Speaker 1: great block on the second level on Matt Breda's eleven
Speaker 1: yard run, the biggest for him in the game, got
Speaker 1: downfield and made a big play. So you see the
Speaker 1: size and athletic ability of this offensive line just about
Speaker 1: every single week. On the defensive line, they got there
Speaker 1: on takeaway Ray Kwon was knocking guys back and getting
Speaker 1: off block. Zach Seeler was in there almost every single
Speaker 1: play that seemed. Christian Wilkins did multiple things from stacking
Speaker 1: up the run, getting off blocks, shooting into the gap
Speaker 1: one one gap penetration style, getting into the backfield. These
Speaker 1: guys made so many plays. Shack Lawson had plays against
Speaker 1: the run, Emmanuel Ogba had some impact rushes, drew a hold,
Speaker 1: played the run well as well. So this defensive line
Speaker 1: had one hell of a football game. At linebacker, Van
Speaker 1: Ginkl draws that hold early on in this game with
Speaker 1: that instant push off the line dips down around the corner,
Speaker 1: explosive first step and dips down to get that hold
Speaker 1: around the collar, the horse collar there from the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle that he then later beats a dig out block,
Speaker 1: and that's where the tight end comes across the formation,
Speaker 1: tries to dig out the edge. He knifes and under
Speaker 1: that thing and trips up Frank Gore with what was
Speaker 1: a huge gap behind him for what could have been
Speaker 1: a huge run. Instead, it goes to third and four.
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense gets off on the very next play. I
Speaker 1: thought the way Kyle van Noy played in this game
Speaker 1: was very special. Are very good as well a couple
Speaker 1: of special plays where he got half a sack on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He also had one big play where Donald
Speaker 1: broke out of the pocket and he met him and
Speaker 1: kind of cut him off at the pass. Worked from
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the defensive line, came all the
Speaker 1: way around, kept his eyes in the quarterback and forced
Speaker 1: Donald to kind of throw falling away instead of attacking
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and that throw sailed in complete.
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense gets off the field. Jerome Baker fantastic pursuit
Speaker 1: speed on a backside flare to Frank Gore where he
Speaker 1: has to run across the formation, gets a big open
Speaker 1: field stop there. Earlier, had a great pass rush on
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and just continues to force blitz the way
Speaker 1: teams picks up pick up the blitz to change because
Speaker 1: he's so effective and getting after the quarterback through multiple
Speaker 1: gaps and different blitz looks as well. Eland and Roberts.
Speaker 1: We talked about his game shooting the gap on that
Speaker 1: fourth and one. He does that pretty much every single week.
Speaker 1: Nick need him talked about a post game We just
Speaker 1: we know he's gonna do it once or twice the game,
Speaker 1: and there he did it. On a big important play.
Speaker 1: Speaking of those defensive backs, we talked about the numbers
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins up against the Jets. Top three receivers
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, just constantly staying in phase and not taking
Speaker 1: the cheese on takeoff routes or double moves, gets himself
Speaker 1: into perfect position. He got one catch over the top
Speaker 1: of him today which was just a great catch by
Speaker 1: Abrashott Perriman. But my goodness, these guys they're playing so well.
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard has his hands on two footballs, does get
Speaker 1: the second interception, possibly saves a touchdown on a long
Speaker 1: pass play with a pass breakup as well, just continues
Speaker 1: to play at an all pro level. This guy has
Speaker 1: been so much fun to watch this season and in
Speaker 1: his Dolphin's career. Nick Needon gets the interception, a couple
Speaker 1: of good plays otherwise as well. So this Miami secondary
Speaker 1: just continues to light things up. Can't wait to watch
Speaker 1: that tape on defense for Tuesday's podcast. As for now,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and welcome in my guest, John con Jemmy,
Speaker 1: as we do every Sunday on the podcast, the co
Speaker 1: host of the Audible podcast. Let's get him in here.
Speaker 1: John con Jemmy and joining me now on the Drivetime
Speaker 1: podcast as we do every Sunday. Couldn't make it happen
Speaker 1: last week, but we're bad back again this week. John
Speaker 1: con Jemmy, the co host of the Audible here on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. First, John, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: How is your Thanksgiving? Man? Thanksgiving was great. I was
Speaker 1: thankful for a lot of things, and health and safety
Speaker 1: number one and number two. Um, you know, bouncing back
Speaker 1: to see the Dolphins bounced back after a loss last
Speaker 1: week at Denver and then this week winning by any
Speaker 1: means necessary. I think it was. It wasn't pretty, but
Speaker 1: it was. It was beautiful at the end because you're
Speaker 1: seven and four and and you're heading uh down the
Speaker 1: road where winds get tempered to accomplish. And I think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are on the right track at least, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, grinding out wins they need to need to win.
Speaker 1: It's certainly beautiful when you look at the cumulative stats
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins defense and two games against their a
Speaker 1: f C rival this season, really fun to watch that
Speaker 1: defense turned the heat up on those Jets and we
Speaker 1: got again John. Contributions from many many players in this game.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, let's go ahead and kick things off
Speaker 1: with your first takeaway from Dolphins twenty Jets three. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I have to call out the
Speaker 1: sudden change defense in terms of when the Dolphins turned
Speaker 1: the football over in the second half and they were
Speaker 1: struggling to to put positive plays together, struggling to get
Speaker 1: first downs and string them together. Uh, you know, Brita
Speaker 1: lays one on the ground, Laird Laze one on the ground,
Speaker 1: and the defense responds. You know, they forced a punt
Speaker 1: on the first turnover and then a Landed Roberts comes
Speaker 1: up with that big fourth and one stop on the
Speaker 1: second one. I just thought that that was probably a
Speaker 1: turning point in the game, other than early points scored
Speaker 1: by Jason Sanders when he needed to come through with
Speaker 1: big kicks. I thought the defense was put in a
Speaker 1: tough spot in the second half, and they responded. They
Speaker 1: responded by uh, you know, coming up with some big
Speaker 1: answers against the Jets offense that couldn't move the football
Speaker 1: on third down and and get stuffed on fourth down
Speaker 1: by a Landed robertson that defensive front. So I think
Speaker 1: the sudden change defense was really huge for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: today and Nick needn't talked about a post game about
Speaker 1: how on one side of the ball might be not
Speaker 1: you know, not doing their up to their standards, then
Speaker 1: another side of the ball has to pick them up.
Speaker 1: When you talk about Jason Sanders, those fifty yard field
Speaker 1: goals he hits, do you wonder how much that changes
Speaker 1: the complexion of the game in terms of how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can call it, how the Jets call it. It
Speaker 1: all worked out for the end for Miami twenty three
Speaker 1: once again, and John conjemmy second takeaway from the victory
Speaker 1: is what, well, it's it's a kicker. It's Jason Sanders.
Speaker 1: It's he's been the difference in the Dolphins feeling comfortable
Speaker 1: in games or feeling anxious in games. He's been so
Speaker 1: solid and the majority of his kicks are tough, difficult kicks,
Speaker 1: eight in a row from fifty yards plus. I mean,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? The guy's been money and I
Speaker 1: just can't believe that. You know, we we we go
Speaker 1: by week after week and you kind of paid lip
Speaker 1: service to it, but how important those points were early
Speaker 1: in the game against the Jets. Number one, you know,
Speaker 1: to answer a field goal with a field goal, but
Speaker 1: then to get that pad to go to thirteen to
Speaker 1: three just before halftime, to have to have a feeling of,
Speaker 1: you know what, we need one more score that's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, have the knockout punch to this Jets offense
Speaker 1: because unless we really screw it up, they're not going
Speaker 1: to have the firepower to come back and beat us.
Speaker 1: And I just think, you know, give credit where credit
Speaker 1: is due. And well, I know we've talked about him
Speaker 1: a bunch throughout the season, but Jason Sanders was really
Speaker 1: pivotal and and being able to get the points when
Speaker 1: you needed to get them because you weren't getting touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you weren't having a lot of momentum, and he was
Speaker 1: able to come through in a big time way today.
Speaker 1: I like your point there about how it makes Dolphins
Speaker 1: go from comfortable to anxious or from anxious to comfortable
Speaker 1: in these games. We saw the Chargers game twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 1: A long field goal there puts it right through, makes
Speaker 1: it a two possession game. You go back to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals game on the road to was that big win
Speaker 1: where to Or drove the team ninety three yards and
Speaker 1: then again in the fourth quarter and I think that
Speaker 1: fourth one play right on that fringe of field goal ranger,
Speaker 1: maybe where other teams might think they're on the fringe.
Speaker 1: For us, we're in full blow and field goal range.
Speaker 1: But it gives you the conference to say we can
Speaker 1: go out and take the league. We don't have to
Speaker 1: take a risk here on a fourth and one. We
Speaker 1: just put stars in the game. He puts three points
Speaker 1: on the board. So I love that point, John, And
Speaker 1: with that, let's go ahead and finish up your third
Speaker 1: takeaway from again Dolphins twenty judge three. Miami moves to
Speaker 1: seven and four on the season. And I thought the
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback Bryan Fitzpatrick did just enough today to be
Speaker 1: able to move the offense, to be able to keep
Speaker 1: alive place, to be able to run the option like
Speaker 1: theeen year old when he tucked it down and ran
Speaker 1: it late in the game. But I thought he got
Speaker 1: everybody involved. He had eleven different receivers. He was he
Speaker 1: was pretty much accurate throwing the football early. You know,
Speaker 1: he didn't start out the second half of the way
Speaker 1: he wanted to. But then there was a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure in the pocket, which reminded me a lot of
Speaker 1: last week's game when Ta was a little bit frustrated
Speaker 1: because he was trying to navigate pressure and still be
Speaker 1: accurate and find receivers down the field. But I thought
Speaker 1: Fitzy did a really good job of just calming everybody
Speaker 1: down and finding Davante Parker getting him going again with
Speaker 1: eight catches for a hundred and nineteen that was the
Speaker 1: season high for him. But finding the tight ends and
Speaker 1: throwing touchdowns in the red zone, all the things you
Speaker 1: need to do to be successful. I thought Bryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: did an excellent job of of guiding the offense, especially
Speaker 1: on third down where they you didn't have the running
Speaker 1: game to rely on a lot today. Uh, they did
Speaker 1: just enough in those areas, But I think Fits did
Speaker 1: more than enough. I guess when I when I take
Speaker 1: a look at the overall picture of coming in on
Speaker 1: a short week of preparation, getting your number called, and
Speaker 1: being that veteran presence that Brian Flores uses and needs
Speaker 1: and relies on in a backup quarterback. He joked post
Speaker 1: game he mentioned the option there. John, He joked post
Speaker 1: game that I think that was a play they had
Speaker 1: in there for two of but they kept it in
Speaker 1: for me and then he and then he went on
Speaker 1: to say that you know, I heard the play call,
Speaker 1: I laughed, made the call to the all, and then
Speaker 1: just kind of thought to myself, this is a pretty
Speaker 1: fine situation. Guy that turned thirty eight years old earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. But nonetheless, like you mentioned, he gets
Speaker 1: it done. Dolphins defense and special teams gets it done
Speaker 1: once again and win the game twenty three going away there,
Speaker 1: scoring the final twenty points of the game seven and four. John,
Speaker 1: we got a home game coming up against the Bengals
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium next Sunday. We'll see you then,
Speaker 1: my friend, thank you so much for joining me. No,
Speaker 1: you got it one we need at home, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: To get dating for looking forward to Travis. And so
Speaker 1: there he goes John can Jemmy the co host of
Speaker 1: The Audible with Kim Bocamper. You guys can check that
Speaker 1: out on the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. Before we get
Speaker 1: out of here for this podcast, couple of quick notes.
Speaker 1: It is December as of this week. It will be
Speaker 1: later on in the week. And as Mike Francessa always said,
Speaker 1: season doesn't start to after Thanksgiving Dog, and it is
Speaker 1: now after Thanksgiving week twelve and the books Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: playing strong, got some tough opponents coming down the pike here,
Speaker 1: coming both to Miami and on the road the final
Speaker 1: two weeks of the season, but for now, a three
Speaker 1: game homestand and look I talked about it in the
Speaker 1: fifth takeaway, kind of stopping and smelling the roses of
Speaker 1: what has been a successful season so far. Plenty of
Speaker 1: games to go, but so far it's been fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are in good position. As a lifelong
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan at age thirty three, I'm gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna enjoy this. I'm gonna cherish it. I
Speaker 1: think the future is bright Miami. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of us feel that way, and we are just gonna
Speaker 1: get things started here this season. But I'll be damned
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna stop, not stop and smell the roses
Speaker 1: along the way. We have a fun December coming up.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes coming into our building here in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, a Patriots rematch that we, you know, want
Speaker 1: to avenge from earlier in the season. The Raiders are
Speaker 1: a tough team, the Bills another tough a f C opponent,
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Raiders and Bills. Man I thought
Speaker 1: the Chargers might pull that game out there laid against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. They did not, so Buffalo moves to
Speaker 1: eight and three and maintains that one game advantage in
Speaker 1: the a f C East. But Miami at seven or
Speaker 1: four now among the non division leaders, is tied with
Speaker 1: the Colts at seven or four for UH six and
Speaker 1: seventh in the a f C standings right now. Of course,
Speaker 1: Baltimore at six and four plays the Steelers on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so that could chan age things. But the Raiders lost
Speaker 1: to the Falcons knocks them to six and five, and
Speaker 1: then you have the Patriots at five and six, with
Speaker 1: a couple of four win teams beyond that. So the
Speaker 1: a f C is starting to kind of round into shape.
Speaker 1: Dolphins have a great opportunity to ahead of them starting
Speaker 1: this Sunday against the Bengals, a chance to get to
Speaker 1: eight and four, and that would be a great spot
Speaker 1: to be heading into the final quarter of the season.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna be my time here on the
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