Speaker 1: To remove Darlin Deep Speedways past Hell. From the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, this is
Speaker 1: Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my havings in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolph Fans? And welcome to the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on
Speaker 1: today's show you are going to get a different version
Speaker 1: of the Draft Time Podcast, and I think you've probably
Speaker 1: ever heard before. We're gonna get into where we are,
Speaker 1: how we've gotten here. We'll talk about the game a
Speaker 1: little bit. I suppose we'll do five takeaways, but get
Speaker 1: ready strap in. It's gonna be an aggressive one. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maggie Daffi. Back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, I was in my third season
Speaker 1: on a Dolphins message board. I was twenty two years old.
Speaker 1: I was learning the game of football. I was in
Speaker 1: love with a horrible team in the Miami Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: I was trying to buy in on the concept of
Speaker 1: Trent Green being the guy that got us over the hump,
Speaker 1: and perhaps Cam Cameron could bring his Chargers offensive expertise
Speaker 1: that was steeped in, you know, Drew Brees and Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers and Ladanian, Tomlinson and all those guys, and Antonio
Speaker 1: Gates to Miami and that didn't happen. And I remember
Speaker 1: being on that message board and there was a thread
Speaker 1: that became a weekly thread and it was titled simply,
Speaker 1: we are in trouble. And as I watched this Dolphins
Speaker 1: team in Week three at the Seahawks fall twenty four
Speaker 1: to three and look lifeless and adaptiveless is that a word,
Speaker 1: and lose effort towards the end of the game in
Speaker 1: middle parts of the game as well. And compound that
Speaker 1: with what I saw in the Jacksonville game and what
Speaker 1: I saw in the Buffalo game. We are in trouble,
Speaker 1: And those are concepts that I think are illustrated in
Speaker 1: both operation and in execution by the players. First off,
Speaker 1: to come into this game after having seen three years
Speaker 1: of Skylar Thompson. You guys heard me the podcast, I
Speaker 1: played a damn sound drop from I Think You Should Leave,
Speaker 1: telling you how much I thought it was not gonna
Speaker 1: happen for him back in training camp, and he won
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback job, beat out Mike White. Mike White
Speaker 1: goes in signs with the Buffalo Bills practice squad. My
Speaker 1: biggest gripe I think at that spot is that the
Speaker 1: quarterback that you saw in the game today cannot play
Speaker 1: at this level. We've seen it demonstrated time and time
Speaker 1: again when he's gotten chances, and the tape definitely demonstrates that.
Speaker 1: And with seeing that for three years and still going
Speaker 1: to the same concepts, which is a complex wordy Verbie
Speaker 1: offense that requires a quarterback in complete command, in complete
Speaker 1: confidence and control of things to be able to communicate
Speaker 1: those words and play calls and execute those motions and
Speaker 1: shifts and pre snap all the stuff that goes into that.
Speaker 1: I think Kyle Krabs used the word hubris about this.
Speaker 1: That's what it is to see all that and to
Speaker 1: go into the game with that plan because you had
Speaker 1: tenfold the exact same huddle operation issues we've seen for
Speaker 1: three years now, right two plus years late. Breaking the huddle,
Speaker 1: get into the nyscarmage and having two shifts an a
Speaker 1: motion with seven seconds on the play clock, it's never
Speaker 1: going to happen. I've never seen a head coach hang
Speaker 1: out by the referee for the entire first quarter waiting
Speaker 1: to make a timeout call that was super strange to me,
Speaker 1: and a couple times he would be there for the
Speaker 1: time out and not make it, and the play would
Speaker 1: get so disjointed that you would have a full back
Speaker 1: moving or slowing down his motion waiting for the rest
Speaker 1: of the operation to catch up to his speed, or
Speaker 1: a guard that came out of his stand before anybody
Speaker 1: else because he was ready for play when nobody else was,
Speaker 1: or vice versa. And you get these illegal shifts that
Speaker 1: drive after the cater cohu interception, and we'll go over
Speaker 1: this game in general. He you had a play where
Speaker 1: Ingold's coming off. You know you're shifting, so you move
Speaker 1: him off the line of scrimmage to make that shift,
Speaker 1: and they snap the ball on that count. The quarterback
Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's doing in terms of who's going
Speaker 1: where and how this operation has to run, and yet
Speaker 1: you still go to it. And then you have the
Speaker 1: concepts that we've seen percolate through two and a half years,
Speaker 1: or well two years and three games, where you take
Speaker 1: your first couple of drives and take them into plus
Speaker 1: territory after some good early down designs and runs right
Speaker 1: the running game was once again cranking, especially down the
Speaker 1: middle against a banged up Seahawks front and a Dolphins
Speaker 1: line that was moving the moving guys off the football.
Speaker 1: And we can get into the whole offensive line discourse
Speaker 1: again if you want. I know, the confirmation bias is like, oh,
Speaker 1: a career is less worried about the offensive line than
Speaker 1: we are. The offensive line hasn't been the issue, guys.
Speaker 1: It's been horrible quarterback play, the same soft nature of
Speaker 1: the offense that we were hoping that I was certainly
Speaker 1: hoping and convincing you or trying to maybe convincing myself
Speaker 1: that those things would improve, and rather than improve, they
Speaker 1: have multiplied in the wrong direction. We're trying to stamp
Speaker 1: out this virus, right and rather than a vaccine, we
Speaker 1: gave it a multiplier. Had two possessions today with first
Speaker 1: and goal inside the six yard line and got three
Speaker 1: points out of that. How does that happen? How do
Speaker 1: you go into the game with that same operation, knowing
Speaker 1: what that quarterback was capable of and doing that. I
Speaker 1: don't understand that. I'm not going to sit here and
Speaker 1: call for jobs. I think that's that's first of all,
Speaker 1: it's not my place. Second of all, I think that
Speaker 1: you should believe in the ability to overcome and learn
Speaker 1: and progress throughout a situation. But gosh, it's getting late early.
Speaker 1: And what you can argue about is twenty six penalties
Speaker 1: in three games compared to thirty three points. So you
Speaker 1: had all these issues that were there before. You just
Speaker 1: had the top offense in the National Football League masking
Speaker 1: it right, because the other coaches that came here and
Speaker 1: had those same issues, they often had the twenty second
Speaker 1: ranked offense and that was why the team stank. But
Speaker 1: right now you're scoring eleven points per game and your
Speaker 1: offense can't even you don't even feel confident they're going
Speaker 1: to get off first down on a drive. I man,
Speaker 1: you know that that negligence that game plan to come
Speaker 1: in with that and just run the same old stuff
Speaker 1: and have these same issues times ten. I think I
Speaker 1: predicted twenty seven to thirteen in the podcast. I was
Speaker 1: off by a few points there, but like, how could
Speaker 1: you not have seen that coming. That's compounded by throwing
Speaker 1: another fourth down pass to Braxenbergers, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: has four targets this year and has less than one
Speaker 1: yard of separation on all those. We were zero for
Speaker 1: a billion on third down, right, And my biggest point
Speaker 1: of contention to put a I guess almost to get
Speaker 1: a bow. We're working on that here on this entire
Speaker 1: opening segment of me so many things is we heard
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer before the season talk about how Dolphins teams
Speaker 1: in the past, if you got them down, they would
Speaker 1: bury themselves and you could run away from the game
Speaker 1: on them. All those changes with Poyer, Campbell, John wu
Speaker 1: Marcus made, Jordan Brooks, Anthony Walker, all these additions you
Speaker 1: made with guys that have some of that you know
Speaker 1: ish to them. Today was the worst example of that.
Speaker 1: I saw Devon a Chan walking after his helmet that
Speaker 1: got knocked off on a running clock in two minute
Speaker 1: offense effort, body language, laughing on the sidelines. And every
Speaker 1: time this team gets behind by a couple of scores,
Speaker 1: Sands a Baltimore game which in hindsight there was blown
Speaker 1: coverages all throughout that fourth quarter, Sands that game. When
Speaker 1: the Dolphins get behind big, it becomes a bigger deficit.
Speaker 1: Usually teams kind of find their way to make those
Speaker 1: close those scores a little more competitive. It goes the
Speaker 1: other way on these Miami Dolphins. And I think that
Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest test here. How can
Speaker 1: you We're gonna find out how sustainable this culture is
Speaker 1: when things aren't going away, because we haven't seen it
Speaker 1: that way before, even last year's losing streak, even in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, to the losing streak behind the backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: like you had reasons to believe those were one offs.
Speaker 1: I think those reasons are gone now and they have
Speaker 1: a chance to respond and change my mind again. But
Speaker 1: I've changed my mind on that. And I will add
Speaker 1: a maya kulpa here about the entire build of this thing,
Speaker 1: which again we talked about all last week on the podcast.
Speaker 1: It was almost Travis's a therapy session here at the microphone,
Speaker 1: but a maya kulpa about I guess the way I
Speaker 1: approached disagreements, and that probably comes from this idea of process,
Speaker 1: and I put a lot of time into this, and
Speaker 1: you know, I watch the tape and I break things
Speaker 1: down and give you concepts that I think match what
Speaker 1: the team identity and the belief and the build is.
Speaker 1: And I need to be more receptive to dissuading opinions
Speaker 1: even if I don't think you've put in the same
Speaker 1: process as I do, so I will own that, apologize
Speaker 1: for that. I apologize if I filled you with false
Speaker 1: hope in doing that. But I can now see myself
Speaker 1: on the other side of that forest, seeing it for
Speaker 1: the trees, and really feel like this thing is about
Speaker 1: to get a lot worse because I don't think the
Speaker 1: makeup of the team of how it's done. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's one that thrives in these situations because they
Speaker 1: haven't proven it right. They've proven the opposite to Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer's point and the way this has the potential to
Speaker 1: ruin football for me, I think I talked about on
Speaker 1: the podcast. If I didn't, I've talked about it in
Speaker 1: text and with friends. Like As a thirty six year
Speaker 1: old Dolphins fan who only really got into the game
Speaker 1: in the very late nineties, one of my first experiences
Speaker 1: with this team was the ninety four playoff field goal
Speaker 1: miss from Stoyanovic. One of my earliest core memories. That
Speaker 1: Kingdome game was great. That was awesome, and I'll always
Speaker 1: remember that game. But the bigger core is the Jacksonville game.
Speaker 1: In Marino's last game or two thousand and four, Ricky
Speaker 1: Williams retirement. That's the bulk of my fandom of this team.
Speaker 1: And so going from a fan of a team that
Speaker 1: was consistently, you know, sixteen points per game, try to
Speaker 1: win the game late in the fourth quarter, even if
Speaker 1: you have eight Pro Bowlers, but you refuse to sign
Speaker 1: a quarterback besides Jay Feeler, and you make every game
Speaker 1: close and stressful and doesn't have to be. After experience
Speaker 1: on experiencing all that, and the years where you do
Speaker 1: gets like seven to five and you think you've got
Speaker 1: a quality win that puts you in this, you know,
Speaker 1: in the playoff mix, and then you're not getting the
Speaker 1: respect you think you deserved from the national pundits and
Speaker 1: you're hanging out and that in the Hunt column. After
Speaker 1: two years of being a one seed, you know, into
Speaker 1: December into November and having this high flying offense, which
Speaker 1: I still think is the best way to win football
Speaker 1: games is to be the best offense on the field.
Speaker 1: After that, and after talking to my friends about how
Speaker 1: we finally have the franchise quarterback, a guy that led
Speaker 1: the league in passing. It's I got Aligan passer rating.
Speaker 1: We have this young head coach who's on the cutting
Speaker 1: edge of innovation, and offense and he's brilliant. All these
Speaker 1: articles get written about Mike McDaniel and how the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense is the most replicatable offense in the league because
Speaker 1: it's so innovative, having all that, we're gonna have it
Speaker 1: for fifteen years. Then in Week two you get the
Speaker 1: rud pulled out on you in the quarterback and you
Speaker 1: don't know what his future holds. And in Week three,
Speaker 1: the same issues don't just percolate, they magnify and multiply
Speaker 1: and become heavily more intense. Oh brother, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm laughing through the tears here because I can't fathom
Speaker 1: going back to being excited about eight to nine football,
Speaker 1: trying to get your way into the postseason. Maybe a
Speaker 1: bottom out could be fun because there's some quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: in this year's class. But the way this is going
Speaker 1: to you know, if I have to watch a game
Speaker 1: like today, I watch the Steelers and Chargers before the
Speaker 1: Dolphins game, and it was two teams that the Chargers
Speaker 1: don't trust, Justin Herbert that you don't trust a quarterback
Speaker 1: if it's a ten to seven game and there's fifty
Speaker 1: five seconds left in the first half and you have
Speaker 1: a third and ten at the minus forty yard line,
Speaker 1: and you opt with one time out to run the
Speaker 1: football and call that drive a wash. That's not modern football.
Speaker 1: That's not trusting your quarterback. And the Steelers on the
Speaker 1: other side are just trying to get to that fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and they pulled out. Both those teams are a
Speaker 1: full facade. I see all the way through it. So
Speaker 1: I can't get behind becoming Wanstead football again. I just
Speaker 1: have no interest in that, and I know you all
Speaker 1: feel the same. And as a Dolphins fan, it feels
Speaker 1: like it's almost more cruel that you got that taste
Speaker 1: of success for two years at least up until the
Speaker 1: final few weeks of the season to revert back to
Speaker 1: what you were before. I would kill to be ten
Speaker 1: and three and to be let down again, wouldn't you,
Speaker 1: because this feels like we're nowhere close to that. Got
Speaker 1: sacked six times in this game because they were down
Speaker 1: fourteen points seven minutes into the game and had a
Speaker 1: three to one passing ratio at that point and held
Speaker 1: the ball for two point nine se per attempt. You
Speaker 1: knew this offense with that quarterback that averaged three point
Speaker 1: zero four time to throw last year or two years ago,
Speaker 1: I should say, compared to a quarterback, we average just
Speaker 1: two point three seconds time to throw. How does that compute?
Speaker 1: It does not at all. So, oh man, where do
Speaker 1: we go from here? I think Monday night, your dogs
Speaker 1: against the freaking Titans. Have you seen Will Lewis play
Speaker 1: football lately? Your dogs to that at home? Because Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle and Tyler Huntley, Tim Boyle moved the ball better
Speaker 1: than Skylar Thompson did today. So that's where we are.
Speaker 1: That's the opening segment. That's come back and rip through
Speaker 1: the game. And segment two we will do five takeaways
Speaker 1: and segment three and get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: That's all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 1: with the game script and stats. Will go ahead and
Speaker 1: start with the stats on this one again. Dolphins lose
Speaker 1: twenty four to three. In the game, Scalar Thompson was
Speaker 1: thirteen for nineteen for a bucko seven eighthn had eleven
Speaker 1: carries for thirty yards. Tyreek Hill had three for forty.
Speaker 1: As far as the team stats go, twenty one first
Speaker 1: downs for Seattle, thirteen for Miami. This game was a
Speaker 1: display and how to not convert third downs on either
Speaker 1: side of the football, three for eleven for Seattle, one
Speaker 1: for twelve for Miami. The Dolphins were also zero for
Speaker 1: three on fourth down, just two hundred and five yards.
Speaker 1: We got so used to four hundred yard games last
Speaker 1: year that that seems like it was never even a possibility.
Speaker 1: Three hundred and seventy for Seattle, got outthrown two seventy
Speaker 1: to one forty, It got out rushed one hundred to
Speaker 1: sixty five, and the Seahawks only ran four more plays
Speaker 1: than your Miami Dolphins. The Seahawks also had two giveaways,
Speaker 1: Dolphins didn't have any. Dolphins did get sacked six times
Speaker 1: compared to Seattle's three, but again I thought that was
Speaker 1: more indicative of the game script and the the drop
Speaker 1: back passing nature that took on this game. As a
Speaker 1: result of the score early on, and the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: eleven penalties for eighty five yards, Seattle was no eleven
Speaker 1: for ninety two, and this time possession was about thirty
Speaker 1: one to twenty nine, so pretty even across the board there.
Speaker 1: Let's go up and down the script here and tell
Speaker 1: you how this game got to where it was. It
Speaker 1: started with the Seahawks field goal, a fifty seven yard
Speaker 1: field goal no. Less on a seven play twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard drive where again I thought we saw Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: was a guy that was consistently making plays in this
Speaker 1: one where he had a first down run stuff and
Speaker 1: then had a hard a pressure on the quarterback I
Speaker 1: should say, where he forced Geno Smith up into the
Speaker 1: pocket off that right tackle. That was a big key
Speaker 1: for me heading into this game. Phillips against stone forsythe
Speaker 1: their third string right tackle, and he did not disappoint
Speaker 1: forced him right into that DeShawn hansack and it resulted
Speaker 1: in a quick in a field goal attempt there for them.
Speaker 1: And I made a note of this that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: lost contain on the well placed kickoff by Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: that got the ball on the thirty five yard line.
Speaker 1: And if you make that tackle back in the twenty
Speaker 1: where the contact occurred, I mean, if the drive played
Speaker 1: out the same way as it did with the fifteen
Speaker 1: xtra yards, that's not a field goal, so you And
Speaker 1: it was that kind of day for special teams all day.
Speaker 1: Four special teams penalties in this one accepted. I think
Speaker 1: there was at least one more that was not as well.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks take that three to nothing lead. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: get right back down the field and they missed their
Speaker 1: own fifty seven yard field goal, and they threw a
Speaker 1: twenty three yard glance spro out to open the game
Speaker 1: to de von Hien, who aligned as the number one
Speaker 1: receiver to the boundary, which to me, I wanted to
Speaker 1: put that note in there because it was just so
Speaker 1: impressive that he was able to He can do that
Speaker 1: from that position. That's pretty rare for running back to
Speaker 1: lineup out there. And then Jalen Wright won the corner
Speaker 1: on a toss play where I saw him just burst
Speaker 1: out of the gate there and look so fast. And
Speaker 1: that no call on the horse caller slash late hit
Speaker 1: out of bounds was very strange because it looked like
Speaker 1: to me the letter of the law, the ref right
Speaker 1: there didn't make the call, and you get a long
Speaker 1: missed field goal where otherwise your first and goal in
Speaker 1: the first and ten in the red zone. So they
Speaker 1: don't get that call, they get stuffed on second down,
Speaker 1: they go third and one, they get stuffed again, and
Speaker 1: then they missed the field goal. Just everything about that
Speaker 1: sequence from the call, the decision to you know, go
Speaker 1: trick play second down like a play action boot where
Speaker 1: he got pressure in his face and a full back
Speaker 1: dive that hasn't worked a couple times in a row now,
Speaker 1: and then the fourth down called to take the long
Speaker 1: field goal. Just a weird sequence of events. The execution
Speaker 1: no better, not how you want to start when you
Speaker 1: are on you know, a lot of backups across the
Speaker 1: entire roster. The Seahawks paying it off with the easy touchdown,
Speaker 1: going five plays fifty three yards, just chunk, chunk, chunk
Speaker 1: down the field. DK Metcalf had that great catch over
Speaker 1: Fuller who was in great shape and played a good
Speaker 1: game until he left the game in concussion protocol. And
Speaker 1: then they'd run out down our throats for a touchdown
Speaker 1: to make it ten to nothing, and you're immediately behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball, and that's where operational issues began to
Speaker 1: take over. It's a five play punt drive for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Skylar Thompson dropped the football on a snap that looked
Speaker 1: way too familiar to John Beck back in that Buffalo
Speaker 1: game in two thousand and seven. That's why I kept
Speaker 1: thinking watching Skyler throughout the course of this game, John
Speaker 1: beck Man, this looks like John beck overwhelmed overmatch. Can't
Speaker 1: see it, can't rip it, just really really bad. So
Speaker 1: they punt that one away. Then they get a major
Speaker 1: major play from cater Coho. They get just outright wins.
Speaker 1: Across the board. There was a OPI on Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: with or dk metcalf pushing off on Jalen Ramsey where
Speaker 1: he took him back negative yards because Ramsey kind of
Speaker 1: had him strapped, and I thought Ramsey played a really
Speaker 1: good game, by the way. Then Kendall Fuller Damn Near
Speaker 1: squatted and drove on a pick six, but he gets
Speaker 1: a pass break up instead, and then the pass rush
Speaker 1: gets in where Seeler bowls over the left guard. He's
Speaker 1: the pick stunt man bowls him over. And then you
Speaker 1: get a loop inside from Emmanuel Ogbah who puts a
Speaker 1: hit on Gino And that happened a few times in
Speaker 1: this game. They would hit him the cause Aaron throws,
Speaker 1: they gets tipped way up into the air and here
Speaker 1: comes cater Cohu for the pick. He gets tackled with
Speaker 1: a six yard line and the Dolphins paid off with
Speaker 1: just a field goal. They got a legal motion where
Speaker 1: the ball gets snapped too quickly. Then a third down
Speaker 1: where I thought Skyler had waddle in the corner of
Speaker 1: the end zone but didn't let the play develop and
Speaker 1: tried to scramble to his right, And that's you know
Speaker 1: that could happen without you know, your elite quarterback play
Speaker 1: as you bail on clean our pockets. I thought that's
Speaker 1: what happened there, and it cost us a touchdown in
Speaker 1: that moment. Yeah, you just held the ball for too
Speaker 1: long in that situation, you get a field goal out
Speaker 1: of it. But then we get a one play touchdown
Speaker 1: drive where the Dolphins they showed the All twenty two
Speaker 1: clip on the on the broadcast where Javon and Poe
Speaker 1: were in half field deep safety looks and Ramsey's in
Speaker 1: that kind of cloud area the you know, the curl
Speaker 1: flat of Cover two or a variation of what looks
Speaker 1: like Cover two to me, I can't know the call
Speaker 1: for sure, and Metcalf runs a double move. Javon jumps
Speaker 1: inside the route and it's an easy walk in touchdown
Speaker 1: from there because he got about fifteen yards behind the
Speaker 1: defense and quickly it's seventeen to three before you've even
Speaker 1: found your seat, yet really, Dolphins get the ball back
Speaker 1: and punt it right away. The Seahawks go nine plays
Speaker 1: forty five yards, but they get a missed field goal
Speaker 1: after some really good plays by Zach Sealer once again
Speaker 1: who just continued to beat guys in the run game,
Speaker 1: get good pass rushing in forcing Gino Smith off the spot.
Speaker 1: David Long makes a big tackle on third and seventeen.
Speaker 1: Is that field goal try that goes wide. Dolphins get
Speaker 1: it back and they again open the drive with positive plays.
Speaker 1: They got a good wash. I thought they got good
Speaker 1: wash off the edge all day from Toront Armstead when
Speaker 1: he was in there, from Austin Jackson, from Kendall Lamb,
Speaker 1: even Patrick Paul's one snap. He had good blocking on
Speaker 1: that play, and they would get pushed and then just
Speaker 1: the drive would kind of crumble from there with a penalty,
Speaker 1: with a missed execution in the passing game. And then
Speaker 1: we throw our first ball to Tyreek Hill and it's
Speaker 1: dropped on a third and thirteen screen pass where he
Speaker 1: had some room to run. And that was a theme
Speaker 1: last year in some big spots too. So that's one
Speaker 1: of those things that kind of carried over that you
Speaker 1: were hoping would be no more at least in this spot.
Speaker 1: Kind of tough to deal with, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is. They give it back over to the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks take it back, and this is what the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense turned it on. After a slow start, even
Speaker 1: though they gave the offense that short field that could
Speaker 1: have been considered a seven point advantage in the defense's favor.
Speaker 1: They go four plays eleven yards, the next drive three
Speaker 1: plays minus nine yards, the opening drive of the second
Speaker 1: half three plays minus three yards, and then the next
Speaker 1: drive plays minus three yards. They were just getting after
Speaker 1: him the entire time. Then they picked off, you know,
Speaker 1: in the very next drive. It was short drive, defensive dominance,
Speaker 1: and time and time again the Dolphins offense just could
Speaker 1: not pay it off. On the other side, we got
Speaker 1: a false start of just more weird operation where the
Speaker 1: timing of the snap is not going up with everyone
Speaker 1: getting off the football at the same time. We go backwards,
Speaker 1: we get multiple pound because on special teams, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, a third and six becomes a fourth and
Speaker 1: thirty nine. You know, how does that happen? And then
Speaker 1: end of half we a very weird circumstance where they
Speaker 1: have a chance to throw a couple of hell Mary's
Speaker 1: that Seahawks back all eleven off and don't rush anybody,
Speaker 1: and we don't throw the ball into the end zone.
Speaker 1: And then on the other play it's a play action
Speaker 1: where there's not routes into the end zone and scy
Speaker 1: takes a big shot. Just weird football man, and it
Speaker 1: ends one of the uglier first halfs that I can remember.
Speaker 1: As it goes what was a score seventeen to three
Speaker 1: at half there, Dolphins get the ball out of the
Speaker 1: break and it's a three play, one yard drive and
Speaker 1: there was a quick game that was opened. The ball
Speaker 1: didn't come out or hesitation, I thought from the quarterback
Speaker 1: spot there, and it results in a sack and a
Speaker 1: quick three and out for the Dolphins. But again the
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips forces Gino Smith up into the pocket into
Speaker 1: the klay as Campbell sack and Sealer Campbell, DeShawn Hand
Speaker 1: and JP I thought all played really good football games
Speaker 1: and kind of kicked the Seahawks offensive line butt and
Speaker 1: kept us in this game. But again the Dolphins just
Speaker 1: couldn't pay it off because they go turnover on downs
Speaker 1: after a seventeen yard dig to Tyreek, and I thought
Speaker 1: Skyler's best play was the play where he actually got hurt,
Speaker 1: where he had that pressure, flipped the hips, got the
Speaker 1: ball safely to the running back on the checkdown for
Speaker 1: a positive game, but he can't come back in. It
Speaker 1: looked tough, It looked, it looked pretty you know, severe
Speaker 1: for Skaler laying down the turfer as long as he did.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's we'll get the news back tomorrow that
Speaker 1: he's he's doing better, because that was a tough look
Speaker 1: to see him go out. And I feel bad for
Speaker 1: Skaler because you know, he as many games as he started,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's had to exit, you know, half
Speaker 1: of those games or so with injuries. When he gets
Speaker 1: those chances, which is obviously you know, tough, you get
Speaker 1: right after that, you get surge on second five to
Speaker 1: create a third and one, but then Gold fumbles the
Speaker 1: ball and then we try to throw a man coverage
Speaker 1: rep to barriers, but the defenders all over him. PBu
Speaker 1: broken up four and out right there, Seahawks punted back,
Speaker 1: Dolphins go two screens and a run three and out
Speaker 1: on their own. Right then you get this Seiler pick
Speaker 1: and you're right back in a fourteen point game at midfield,
Speaker 1: but a chance to go get you know, make it
Speaker 1: a one score game, and they drive it down there
Speaker 1: eleven plays fifty yards, five minutes, fifteen seconds, but you
Speaker 1: go first and goal from the three two yard eight
Speaker 1: Chan run. Durham can't complete that catch in the corner
Speaker 1: of the end zone, which was would have been a
Speaker 1: great diving catch, but I hot that throw from Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle was really good. And then the fourth and goalplay
Speaker 1: you get incomplete pass to devon eight Chan, turnover on
Speaker 1: downs and then that's where the levee kind of broke.
Speaker 1: Seahawks go eleven plays ninety eight yards and drive for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and make it twenty four to seven. And
Speaker 1: that was basically it. So that was the run of script,
Speaker 1: the run of the game. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: with the podcast on the other side, and here five takeaways.
Speaker 1: I'll do my five takeaways from this game Big Picture.
Speaker 1: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
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Speaker 1: dolphins twenty four to three loss in Seattle. And I
Speaker 1: think it starts at the quarterback position, where you or
Speaker 1: rather the rest of the team where you made mistakes
Speaker 1: that you just can't make when you're down. You're starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: short fields starts at the four and you only get
Speaker 1: three points out of that. We had second one in
Speaker 1: positive in plus territory and lost yards on those plays
Speaker 1: before failed third down conversions. Those are just point costing
Speaker 1: mistakes that you make, critically in the first half that
Speaker 1: you could have tied this game or had the lead,
Speaker 1: and maybe you had a different circumstance in the second half. Again,
Speaker 1: the operation was just out of whack, way too many penalties,
Speaker 1: way too many errors. You know, not enough in time
Speaker 1: or on time and in rythm plays. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: drop screen pass from Tyreek, the four special teams penalties
Speaker 1: that were part of seven overall penalties that kind of
Speaker 1: killed you in that first half and then at the
Speaker 1: end of the half when you know there was just
Speaker 1: a lack of urgency. I thought that that was just
Speaker 1: really a collection of all the things that could go
Speaker 1: wrong that did go wrong, and that was the case
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins in this one. You cannot make those
Speaker 1: mistakes when you were down your starting quarterback. My second
Speaker 1: takeaway was that once again it seemed like the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were a little bit overwhelmed in a loud road environment.
Speaker 1: It constantly snaps up against the clock. You know, McDaniel
Speaker 1: was hanging out by the official trying to get time
Speaker 1: outs in. It seemed like on half of those plays
Speaker 1: in that first quarter, and then it continued in the
Speaker 1: second half, just breaking the huddle late. You get into
Speaker 1: the last commage with like eight seconds left, and you
Speaker 1: know you have shifts, emotions. Just a complex operation and
Speaker 1: a loud environment proving difficult yet again for the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 1: My third takeaway is that defensive front did, in fact
Speaker 1: eat That was good to see. I thought the Seahawks
Speaker 1: offensive line was a spot we could get after, and
Speaker 1: we did that. The Dolphins front played very well. They
Speaker 1: gave the Dolphins offense short fields and they handled their
Speaker 1: own short fields and quick turnarounds. Steeler was dominant. Campbell
Speaker 1: was swimming over double teams and getting pressure on the
Speaker 1: interior to Sean Ham made a couple of plays. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips had a really great retrace where he ran down
Speaker 1: a receiver out wide, just showed great effort. And there
Speaker 1: was a four drive sequence where it was four plays
Speaker 1: eleven yards, three plays nine minus nine yards, three plays
Speaker 1: minus three yards, three plays minus three yards, and then
Speaker 1: a pick. So you had five consecutive drives where you
Speaker 1: were just locked down defense. That was great to see.
Speaker 1: My fourth takeaway, I mean, we talked about it already.
Speaker 1: It's it's just not gonna happen. For Scott R. Thompson, right,
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen. It wasn't it. But you
Speaker 1: have to have known that. I don't have to tell
Speaker 1: you that you saw it. It felt like John Beck
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. This whole game felt like
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven to me. So that's not gonna
Speaker 1: cut it. My fifth takeaway I talked about off the top,
Speaker 1: we are in some trouble. Boy. This is a bad team. Guys.
Speaker 1: Things have boiled over into last year in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: You know, either had to get better or worse, and
Speaker 1: it looks like it has gotten way worse. Now there's
Speaker 1: more football ahead of you. But is the quarterback position
Speaker 1: gonna get resolved? Are you gonna change your operation? That's
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway here is will they make an adjustment
Speaker 1: to fit what they currently have? Because you're forcing situation
Speaker 1: right now? Where Skyler is probably gonna be down, I
Speaker 1: would assume, and if he's not, should you even play
Speaker 1: him anyways? Because it doesn't look like a functional offense.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have a quarterback that just got here
Speaker 1: back in September or early September, and a quarterback that
Speaker 1: just got here last week, and that's Tim Boyle, and
Speaker 1: that's Tyler Huntley. Huntley I think becomes a completely different offense.
Speaker 1: And that's like wildcat we're talking here, or boil, which
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm curious to see what the adjustment
Speaker 1: is to that. I thought the McDaniel stuff was way
Speaker 1: too early, but you've still not seen a change whatsoever
Speaker 1: from a year ago. And to alone doesn't fix that.
Speaker 1: He makes it much better. He makes your offense far
Speaker 1: more operational. But there are issues beyond just the quarterback
Speaker 1: that I think was evident in this game. The operation
Speaker 1: is terrible. There continues to be mistakes from the best
Speaker 1: players that shouldn't happen, a chance effort on that helmet
Speaker 1: off play, just a lot of football that I don't
Speaker 1: think you can be proud of in this one. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how you put a bow on that and
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