WEBVTT - Dolphins Pull Off Improbable Late Win; Recap, Takeaways, Sound Bites from the 26-25 Victory Over Raiders 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:14.160 Looking down field. Touchdown, Miami drawn. Here we go. What 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.040 is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.400 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.960 your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.639 It is late on Saturday night. I am your host, 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.080 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.199 post Christmas, your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.479 on today's show, I mean, why don't we just go 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.519 ahead and let this thing play for fifteen seconds? 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Now, let's go ahead 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.160 and just go through this thing from an emotional standpoint first, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.479 and then we'll go ahead and let that shine wear 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.480 off a little bit and get back into it more logically, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.840 more rationally. Here on this recap edition of the Drive 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.480 Time podcast, David Locke, the owner of Locked on Sports, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.559 one of my I Guess podcast mentors, taught me rule 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.480 number one in this industry a long time ago. You 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.760 play the hits first, and we start with the play. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.320 Let's actually go ahead and first start with the quote 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.080 from Mac Hollins on what he had to say on 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.080 what he saw on that particular play, his big thirty 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.919 four yard reception to help put the Dolphins in position 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.760 to win over the Raiders. Um, I'm not sure from 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.359 there and what what happened, Um, I'm sure fits. It's 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.000 something usually when safeties or corners go somewhere, they're not 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.239 supposed to be at their their following quarterback eyes. So 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.560 I didn't get to see back there, I'll ha. All 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.440 I saw was the picture so far fits his face 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.200 facing the opposite end zone. Um, while he's throwing the ball. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.880 So that's the only picture I've seen, so I'm not 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.800 even sure how he got the ball off, but yeah, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.360 if I had to guess, I'd say one of the 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.280 safeties was falling quarterback eyes and ended up losing me 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.200 on the back side. And I kind of feel like 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.760 saying something on steroids is the most cliche like thing 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.760 you can say, but this game to me felt like 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.120 the Miami Miracle on steroids, because one, it puts us 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.320 in prime position to go ahead and control our own 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.880 destiny in Week seventeen. But two, I mean maybe it 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.359 was just that one reason, but I do feel like 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.280 these two events that occurred had similar odds of occurring 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.960 like that because you look at the pitch play and 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.720 you think, yeah, that's obviously a very low percentage chance 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.000 of happening. But consider the things that had to happen 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.200 on this play from the twenty five yard line, a 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.640 thirty four yard pass with nobody in sight around mac Hollins. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.440 You heard him talk about the possibility of a cornerback 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.120 or a safety kind of peeking on on Ryan Fitzpatrick's 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.600 eyes in that cover to look that he talked about there, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.000 I mean that had to happen. You had to get 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.600 that face mask, because even if Matt comes down and bounds, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.280 you still have to shoot another ten fifteen yards to 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.160 the sideline, probably to give Jason Sanders a realistic shot. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.480 He was at about a fifty nine fifty eight yard 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.840 field goal, which he can make those, but your percentages 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.000 from that distance are not great among the National Football 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.560 League history of field goals. So you had to get 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.440 that penalty to help stop the clock and get you 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.080 the extra fifteen yards because if you shoot the middle 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.440 of the field on the next play, you're not gonna 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.960 have a chance to get up there clock and get 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.040 the kicking team out there. So the odds of that 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.120 just insanely low of having that happened. And Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.960 discussed the play post game. He was asked, was this 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.960 the craziest play you've ever been a part of? Or 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.520 was this the have you ever had a completion more 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.039 in saying in that one. Here's Fitzpatrick after the game. No, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.400 I I don't think so. Uh, you know, I think 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.640 the the odds are pretty low there of us being 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.840 able to complete something with the proper yardage and not 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.000 have to throw a hail Mary, but actually take a 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.440 field goal, and um, you know. I didn't. I didn't 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.040 know that it was complete. As you guys saw, my 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.760 face mask was getting pulled and my head was getting 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.839 ripped off, and I turned around to say, hey, you know, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.920 face masch just to make sure they saw it. And 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.800 I think Jesse Davis or um maybe Miles had to 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.520 tell me that it was complete, but I didn't know 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.360 that we completed it. I mean, nineteen seconds, no time outs. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.000 You literally have like two possible outcomes on this play. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.720 You either get a big catch and run down the 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.040 middle of the field and spike it and you hope 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.760 you have some time left out of nineteen seconds to 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.719 have what happened happened. I mean, I guess we could 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.120 get some pitchy woo woo going, but that's usually the 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.920 final play of the game, reserved for when you have 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.520 to go the length of the football field on one play, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 so you don't consider that an option on this play. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.920 But you get the receiver in behind the cornerback there 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.680 and underneath the safety. Not sure what the raider's call 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.800 was there, mac halland speculated maybe a cover to look 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.839 where they're kind of focused on Fitzpatrick's eyes, but he 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.599 feels the dang thing like a punt and gets out 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.480 of bounds. So there you're looking at fifty eight, fifty 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.760 nine yards, maybe sixty depending on where the spot where 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.440 the snap and all that stuff is from Jason Sanders. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.160 But even more impressive as the fact that Ryan Fitzpatrick's 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.520 head is on sideways. Give him fifteen yards, give us 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.000 forty five yards for Jason Sanders to go ahead and 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.359 put that thing through the uprights. Money in the bank, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.760 give us one win away from the postseason. Let's go 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.039 ahead and hear from Fitzpatrick, who's now just one win 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.839 away from going to the postseason for the first time 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.080 in his career. I want to go, man, I want 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.040 to I want to feel what it's like. Uh. I 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.320 think we've got a special team. I think this team 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.360 all year long as has fought. And for me, it's 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.880 it's not just this year, it's it's the last two 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.920 years and trying to build this foundation and you know, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.920 build this vision of what coach Floras thinks that we are. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.200 So I'm proud of the fact that I've really been 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.680 able to contribute to that and have a strong contribution. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.839 And uh, you know that that today was was a 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.159 great play at the end, but just on the sideline, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.880 the excitement being able to hug your teammates and your coaches. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.039 I mean, that's why we played the game. So uh, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.440 I am well aware that to the playoffs, I promise 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.120 you omar and would love nothing more than to get there. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.320 And so the play that sparked the victory that got 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.880 us to within one victory of the postseason was after 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.520 absolute mayhem. Before that, the Raiders didn't convert a third 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.320 down all game long. So after Myles Gaston rips off 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.080 a fifty nine yard touchdown catch and run on that 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.280 Fitzpatrick pass late in the fourth quarter, like three left 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.520 in that game, I was pretty well expecting that to 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.840 be the game. Right there, I had you erased and 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.600 begun my story from Miami Dolphins dot com. Go ahead 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.440 and check that out right now up on the team 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.560 website for oh, I don't know, the eighteenth time or so, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.400 I had my winning column my losing column, trying to 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.240 find out how to match those two things together and 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.760 get you the best story post game possibly. I'm happy 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.280 to do it. And then they got the big play 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.640 from Nelson agilark back to the losing column, I have 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.520 to go ahead and publish the Swing of Emotions. Oh buddy, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.720 I'm just not cut out for but this team, they 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.640 certainly are. It speaks of the resilient nature of this team. Man. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.440 You heard Fitzpatrick talk about it there in the playoff clip. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.440 This team has risen to the occasion all year long 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.200 and become a team that has taken on the personality 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.320 of their head coach, a team that just is not 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.960 gonna give up, not gonna lose their fight. They're gonna 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.600 keep that even keel mindset that even kill personality and 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.840 approach from opening gun to the final buzzer. Oh my god, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.280 and my god. You know, I love this time of 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.480 year for many reasons. But I also love how Facebook 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.360 or Snapchat or time hop, whatever those social media sites 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.000 that give you the flashback data from your previous post 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.280 or tweets or whatever it might be. And on Christmas 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.360 Night in my brother and I popped champagne when the 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.280 Chiefs beat the Broncos to get the Dolphins into the playoffs. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.000 That you're breaking an eight year streak of playoff free 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.320 football for the Dolphins. And tonight he was with me 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.360 again to watch a game for the first time together 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.520 since actually the Colts game and a tough loss. That 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.720 game was together. But man, I'm not popping anything tonight, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.760 but that was a fun, fun game of fun night, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.839 fun experience that with my brother. Let's go ahead and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.440 jump right into the takeaways, the storylines I was taking 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.640 a look at and the individual evaluations here on this 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.360 recap edition of Drive Time. No John can gem me tonight. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.000 I'm hoping he is fast asleep right now as we 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.520 are recording this podcast very early morning hours on Sunday morning. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:55.840 So a couple of things I want to take a 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.480 look at heading into this game, and of course the 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.360 storylines changed throughout the course of this game. What the 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.400 Dolphins offense looked like when they go back to the 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.360 more hurry up approach, is it going to be more 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.640 of a conservative kind of milk the clock and play 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.200 the defense and special teams game. Early on that was 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.120 the case. Pretty pretty slow start offensively both from a 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.520 production and pacing standpoint. The second half, they got things 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.319 going there with the running game, got that balance back achieved, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.040 and got some some more up tempo attack going, especially 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.400 in that fourth quarter once Ryan Fitzpatrick was inserted into 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.800 the lineup. A different looking offense when he came into 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.000 the game, and they kind of had to go and 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.959 had to get up tempo and had to get points 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.040 on the board there quickly. And the balance on the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.240 offense was a big thing I was keeping an eye 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.559 on in this game because heading into the final game 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.319 and the playoffs stretch down the line here, the more 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.600 versatility you can show as a team and really as 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.400 an offense in this particular instance, is only going to 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.480 help you at this time of year, because whether or 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:52.360 opponents or different circumstances that arise throughout the course of 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.160 a game become heightened tenfold week six team, weeks, seventeam 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.319 possibly into the postseason, and you have to have multiple 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.520 pitches in your bag. I think I referred to this 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.679 on a podcast a while back about the Saints over 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.160 the years. How all those years Drew Brees piled up 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.480 four thousand, five thousand, you know, fifty five hundred yards 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.360 and fifty touchdown passes and all those records making numbers, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.559 but they were going seven and nine in games because 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.360 they only really had that one pitch in their in 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.560 their toolbag. The the vertical offense, the explosion explosive offense, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:22.880 and kind of had to find a way to win 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.480 games forty two to thirty nine and a half the time. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.120 Then they found that balance. They found Alvin Kamara and 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.600 mark Ingram a couple of years ago. They got Cameron 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.800 Jordan playing at a high level. They got all those 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.079 the defense playing at a high level to go along 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.120 with Cameron Jordan's and they suddenly had multiple ways to 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.800 win football games, and they become a twelve thirteen win 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.880 outfit that goes into the postseason every single year. You 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.840 find that balance. You find a two hundred and fifty 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.839 yard Russian performance last week and one hundred sixty nine 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.320 yards from scrimmage this week from one guy from Miles 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.679 Gaskin gonna be a takeaway. You have that ultimate balance. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.599 And then we see Mike Kasicki taking steamshots up in 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.200 the middle of the field with that injured shoulder and all, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.120 and playing through it and playing through the and fighting 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.640 through the pain of whatever he's dealing with in that shoulder, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.880 and going out and making big plays in the passing game, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.960 and Lynn Bowden taking vertical and horizontal shots and and 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.880 making his plays, and Jachee Grant taking pot passes and 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.720 just incorporating the entire slew of your offensive arsenal to 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.160 find balance on offense. I think that was a big 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.160 accomplishment and big achieved achievement in this game. My other storyline, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.720 how did the injured guys come back? You heard me 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.040 talk there about Mike Asiki and Jeachem Grant. Both those 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.560 guys had an impact, although Grant did leave later with 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.640 an ankle injury and did not return to the game. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.760 Davante Parker was not available for this game. We'll see 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.319 about his status for next week. I also wanted to 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.760 know which back is gonna get the bulk of the workload. Well, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.079 there you go, Myles Gasking one and sixty nine yards 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.199 from scrimmage. What a game he had. What was the 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.240 plan going to be for Derek Carr coming off of 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.400 an injury that originally, you know Ian Rappaport, those guys 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.520 reported ten to fourteen day injury. They did have a 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.199 ten day layoff in between games. And so he comes 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.760 back after that ten day layoff and plays a good 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.400 football game. Derek Carson to good quarterback. But I thought 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.839 Miami's planned once again after a bit of a slow 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.360 start that first Raider touchdown drive. After that, I thought 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.360 they really settled into their own and found a way 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.640 to kind of make him uncomfortable and cut off the 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.160 pass on some of those bootleg rollouts. We'll talk more 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.240 about that here in just one second. Was really curious 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.880 to see how they would do that going in and 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.920 with the special teams get back on track after a 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.200 couple of games that just seemed a little bit uncharacteristic 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.080 from Danny Craftsman's units. These things were all stuff I 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.640 was looking at. And the first takeaway from tonight's podcast, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.640 you have to say, Ryan Fitzpatrick to the rescue. You know, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.360 I let off my my recap story up on Miami 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.439 Dolphins dot com talking about his October twenty one press 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.640 conference when he was you know, he kind of bared 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.600 his soul to the Miami South Florida media, talked about 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.120 how much pain it was to find out that he 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.959 wasn't gonna get a play anymore. How he opened internally 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.120 about is this the last time I get to play 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.560 with the squad or with you know, with this league, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.880 with this sport, with this profession, that I take my 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.680 last snap as a quarterback in the National Football League. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.640 He thought about that. He talked about that to us 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.800 and to see him come out here and get that 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.120 victory in this game, play the way he did and 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.560 kind of sparked the offense with that energy. It just 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.839 speaks to the character of Ryan Fitzpatrick. It speaks to 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.800 the value of Ryan Fitzpatrick for this football team. And 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.640 how about the stats. He ended up with the one 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.640 touchdown past nine for thirteen, throwing the football on two 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.559 yards and at one thirty seven point five passer rating 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.520 for Ryan Fitzpatrick, the ball came out quick, he felt 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.920 in the rhythm early on. He talked about post game 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.320 how he was heading back to the bathroom, kind of 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.839 you know, taking a pee in the tunnel bathroom back there. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.960 When Brian Flores approached him when he came back onto 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.320 the sideline, said hey, you're gonna be going in. He 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.679 talked about getting his obligatory seven warm up reps, has 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.880 seven warm up throws coming right into the game, coming 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.199 off the bench called coach Flores talked about him like 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.679 a ninth inning reliever in that sense. And this guy 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.600 can just really flip a switch and turn it on 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.760 in an instant. I can't think of a better backup 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.719 quarterback maybe in the history of the National Football like, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.480 this guy is exactly how you want to be as 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.360 far as that galvanizing force, that guy that really sparks 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.800 the energy and and helps the team, you know, be 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.400 better from a preparation standpoint, and when he has to 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.400 come onto the field and the pinch, he can perform 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.440 for you. He did it in this game. He helped 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.760 it Dolphin save the season for the meat for the meantime. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.360 You know, we'll see what happens next week. And they 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.120 also had scenarios to get into the playoffs with a 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.280 loss in this game. But getting that victory is a big, big, big, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.359 big note here for the Miami Dolphins, for Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.160 and he comes off the bench and makes it happen. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.800 What a job by Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let's go ahead and 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.680 here from two a tongue of Valoa on what he 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.360 saw fen the sidelines when fitz came in and made 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.760 things happen. Well, it's always good to win. It always 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.320 feels good to win. First off, Um, you know, I 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.080 know outsiders they're probably gonna say, well, it wasn't you 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.360 in there that brought the win? Of course it was 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.720 Fits And I think it was a it was a 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.240 great effort by not just him, but the entire offense. Um, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.520 you know, just him understanding you know how to get 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.680 in the groove and you know where to go quickly 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:59.680 with the ball and whatnot. I think, um, oh that 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.600 that's that's what makes fits to who he is. And 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.400 in a way, it really wasn't as shocking um tonight, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.440 you know, to see what had happened. Um now they 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.600 call it fifth magic for a reason. I mean, how 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.320 great is that spirit there from Miami Dolphins quarterback to 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.400 a tongue byloa who Brian Flores announced after the game 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.120 he's the starting quarterback. That's how it's gonna be going forward. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.160 Fits came off the bench to help give you a spark. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.880 He achieved that he accomplished that. Here's Coach flor Is 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.160 talking about tows game after the game. Um, you know 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.080 I think you know it was up and down. Um, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.120 look I have a way. Look we I have a 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.320 lot of confidence to us. He's made a lot of 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.120 place for us because he makes he made place today. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.840 But we just felt like we needed a spark the 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.880 way the game was going and the Fitz he gave 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.480 us that. But if we have a lot of a 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.800 lot of a lot of confidences to us when he's 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.760 a young player, he's developing, he's improving on a daily basis. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:05.240 He's learning from these experiences and you will be better 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.600 next week and he will get the Buffalo Bills on 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.000 the road next week up there in Orchard Park. But 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.880 just to go ahead and finish off that first note, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.960 man like Ryan Fitzpatrick, the value he has this football team. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.240 You heard him talk about the two year process of 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.320 being a big contributor to establishing a culture and establishing 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.680 the vision that Brian Flores has here in Miami. It's 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.560 been fun to watch fits tip of the hat to use, sir, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.600 you have the utmost respect from myself, Dolphins fans, Dolphins Nation, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.720 all over the country, all over the world, Ryan Fitzpatrick, forever, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.520 forever in our hearts. Let's go ahead and talk about 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.040 takeaway number two here in Miles gascon. The production. We 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.880 talked about the one and sixty nine yards, the two 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.280 touchdowns he scored in the game, one from two oh 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.160 one from fits there breaking tackles and the balance to 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.000 wind back those runs and to run through arm tackles 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.520 and produce extra yards as he kind of fell forward 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.480 through the contact and the vision to find those backside 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.960 cuts or those backside lanes on those cuts, and just 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.440 to set defenders up to make them miss in that 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.720 first and second level. There were so many players where 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.200 it seemed like he got to the edge and he 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:04.800 had to get around one guy that whether it was 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.880 with speed to the edge or a cut up field 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.680 and kind of get through an arm tackle or get 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.760 him off balance and make him miss in the open field. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.400 He did it time and time again. I cannot wait 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.000 to go back and check out the PF numbers on 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.000 yards after contact, how many forced miss tackles he had 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.320 because he was making it happen all night long in 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.080 this game. A big, big piece of the puzzle as 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.399 he comes off of savan Achmed's one and twenty two 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.439 yard rushing performance last week, former Washington Husky and his 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.240 own right there and gives you this performance in this game, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.119 one hundred sixty nine yards from scrimmage. Man, what a 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.359 good performance that was the Dolphins running back And all 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.199 of a sudden, you've got some backs in the stable 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.879 now that can produce for you and generate that balance 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.239 we talked about that's so important to have at this 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.119 stage of the season. Now, he also had that fifty 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.439 nine yard touchdown run do in large part of a 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.840 couple of big downfield blocks from Mac Hollins and Mike Asiki. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.240 They talked about that in the receiver room, in the 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.160 tight end room all the time. It was a big 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.720 focus of my article on Friday, my Top News Temperature Check, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:06.000 not Friday. On Thursday's Top News, the Temperature Check article 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.560 taking a look at the Dolphin's ability to block downfield. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.480 How Chan Gailey says, You're not gonna have a big 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.440 run unless you have blocking downfield. How Josh Grazzar, the 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.840 receiver's coach, a few weeks back, said, if you're not 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.760 gonna block force, you're not gonna play in this room. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.800 Mike Asiki Mac Collins made huge blocks downfield on that 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.720 fifty nine yard touchdown. Here's Myles Gaskin talking about the 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:28.480 blocks from his guys Mike and Mac. Yeah. Uh, this 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.320 kind of got spun around after the catch. And then 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.320 I've seen see my dogs out there. Uh, Mack and Mike. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.600 So I've seen I've seen Mike's block. I don't really 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.200 see Max block. He told me about it. Yeah, it 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.840 was great, and News is always trying always trying to 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.880 make plays, you know what I'm saying, So you ain't 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.639 always gotta have the blowing on hand. The main plays 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.680 I don't happen ont In too, and He's absolutely right, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.960 does not happen without those two guys out there. Takeaway 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.440 number two. I wanted to see how this team responded 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.680 to the slow start, and especially defensively. After that first 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.920 Raiders drive goes down, they score touched not the first 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.520 I have the second drive of the game. Rather they 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.880