Speaker 1: To all remove Dland Deep Speedways peas.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: He's got my Havan's in the playoffs. What is up
Speaker 2: Dolphins and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 2: your host, Travis wing Phild on today's show, bit.
Speaker 1: Win win, win win, Yeah, everything goes win win, win.
Speaker 2: Win, And what a fitting time to play that jam
Speaker 2: after a fifteen to ten Dolphins win over the New
Speaker 2: England Patriots. It might not have been pretty the entire day,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what, it's a W in the
Speaker 2: win column, and right now it's all I care about.
Speaker 2: We'll do the stats, we'll do the game script and
Speaker 2: the takeaways, and we'll also hear from head coach Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I'd like to begin with this before I jump into
Speaker 2: the stats as we always do, and maybe this belongs
Speaker 2: in the takeaways whatever, but I want to do it
Speaker 2: right now because you've heard me on the show on
Speaker 2: these recap postgame shows sounding let's be honest about it.
Speaker 2: The most dejected I've been in my tenure covering this
Speaker 2: team with the Miami Dolphins. Now you can go back
Speaker 2: before that with lockdown days and even with the perfect
Speaker 2: vill days and say, Travis, you've been down bad, worse
Speaker 2: than this before.
Speaker 1: You're probably right.
Speaker 2: But I've also been searching for answers that I'm not
Speaker 2: sure I was able to conjure up with how to
Speaker 2: message this for a Dolphins fan because we had enjoyed
Speaker 2: a certain level of success for half a decade. Now
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case prior to that, and it's tough
Speaker 2: to accept kind of going back in the other direction,
Speaker 2: which you saw the last few weeks. But I can
Speaker 2: tell you this man, winning sure can cure a lot
Speaker 2: of woes and it can open your eyes to what
Speaker 2: might be possible. Was this some sort of statement victory, No,
Speaker 2: of course not. The Patriots have struggled immensely this year.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of work to do. But can a win
Speaker 2: like this change the complexion of your season? To the
Speaker 2: Jets and Bills and the Pats for that matter, lose
Speaker 2: each of the last two weeks, are we now just
Speaker 2: a game behind Buffalo and tied with the Jets at
Speaker 2: two and three. All of these things are true, and
Speaker 2: both of those teams have been very healthy. We've dealt
Speaker 2: with about as much adversity as one team can stomach
Speaker 2: in an entire season, and we've done it inside of
Speaker 2: let's call it four weeks, because this week was actually
Speaker 2: pretty clean. Well I guess not because Jelen Phillips also
Speaker 2: went down last week as well. So who the hell
Speaker 2: knows what Week eighteen looks like in January? Who he
Speaker 2: knows what even week six looks like for that matter.
Speaker 2: But here's what I do know. And as someone who
Speaker 2: went and the record starts to get lopsided, I become
Speaker 2: a little bit more interested in college football and seeing
Speaker 2: what's going on with the prospects. I know this that
Speaker 2: the football season is so long, and you can go
Speaker 2: back over every single Dolphins season back to when I
Speaker 2: first started doing podcasts in twenty sixteen. One of the
Speaker 2: first podcasts I did was me and Kevin Dern, my
Speaker 2: former co host on the Finalysis podcast, was we would
Speaker 2: go down the list after the Dolphins are one and
Speaker 2: four and just find out who we thought were keepers
Speaker 2: for the following season and look at where that year
Speaker 2: ended up. Not only did you make the playoffs, the
Speaker 2: quarterback towards ACL and missed the next year as well.
Speaker 2: So like so much can change in a small snapshot
Speaker 2: of time in this league, no one expected us to
Speaker 2: be where we are today, right. We all thought three
Speaker 2: and two, maybe four and one at this time of year.
Speaker 2: Worst case would be probably be two and three. Are
Speaker 2: the hopes of a record breaking offense gone?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure? But also who the hell cares at this point?
Speaker 2: Now you get to go to the bye week, and
Speaker 2: for your boy, that's a trip to Disney World with
Speaker 2: a four year old little angel who has asked me
Speaker 2: every single day for the last month, Daddy, can we
Speaker 2: go to the Princess Castle today?
Speaker 1: Not yet, sweetheart, twenty four more sleeps.
Speaker 2: But for the football, it means we get to go
Speaker 2: into a game against the Colts in two weeks, hopefully
Speaker 2: with even more progression in the offense for Tyler Huntley,
Speaker 2: maybe a chance to reposition your I guess, for lack
Speaker 2: of a better word, your position as an offense. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying you wholesale change it, but they kind of
Speaker 2: did wholesale change at least some elements of it today. Right,
Speaker 2: And when you're game planning in a week. That's all
Speaker 2: you have time to do. You don't have time to
Speaker 2: you know, self evaluate and reformulate everything you've done to
Speaker 2: that point in the season. You now have a week
Speaker 2: to prepare for the Colts and to self scout and
Speaker 2: see what kind of adjustments you can make in the
Speaker 2: you know, post to a tongue by Lowe injury type
Speaker 2: of offense you want to run and hopefully for one
Speaker 2: more week right and realistically implement them since there is
Speaker 2: no opponent this Sunday, you're off the Sunday, and sometimes
Speaker 2: early bye weeks you're like that, I don't love it,
Speaker 2: but this year kind of need it. And real quick,
Speaker 2: I had my own thoughts written out on this next
Speaker 2: part here, but let's go to the pro here real
Speaker 2: quick and just hear from coach McDaniel on what the
Speaker 2: bye week does look like for him, for Tyler Huntley
Speaker 2: and for his team, but most importantly the growth of
Speaker 2: the quarterback who's still just been here for three weeks.
Speaker 1: It's huge.
Speaker 3: You know, there's the you're playing ketchup the whole time
Speaker 3: that you're playing football, and you're knowing your responsibilities, you're
Speaker 3: knowing what the past concepts are and now you have
Speaker 3: a chance to study, you know, really the strengths and
Speaker 3: weaknesses of certain things. For him to play convicted. I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna be huge for him just to just
Speaker 3: to have things settle down, because you don't really of
Speaker 3: time for much when you're just jumping in an NFL workweek.
Speaker 3: You have to orchestraight, you know, a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 3: And I thought he did a good job handling all that.
Speaker 3: He's done a phenomenal job really since it's been here.
Speaker 3: But it was a step forward today for sure.
Speaker 2: So as someone that does this job and tries to
Speaker 2: uphold a certain level of journalistic integrity despite living and
Speaker 2: dying with this football team that every single person listening
Speaker 2: to this podcast does the exact same thing. That's why
Speaker 2: you're here, right and everything this team does in the
Speaker 2: win column. As the fan that I am like, hey,
Speaker 2: sue me, but I'm excited to go into Indie with
Speaker 2: the thought the concept of this being an approach that
Speaker 2: works with the current makeup of the roster and thinking
Speaker 2: ahead that if that is the case and it produces
Speaker 2: a win and you get to three and three and
Speaker 2: you get to five hundred and you weather the storm
Speaker 2: well then all of a sudden, quarterback one is eligible
Speaker 2: to return from the ir list for the Cardinals, and
Speaker 2: after that, who knows, but that that alone is enough
Speaker 2: to at least, at the very least get me back
Speaker 2: to the point to where Seth and Og and the
Speaker 2: post game were show. Today we're saying we got Travis Beck.
Speaker 2: He's back in the saddle. So for now, yeah, I
Speaker 2: definitely am. So that's my die tribe. Let's go play
Speaker 2: by play and break this game down, because as much
Speaker 2: as it was kind of a slog, it was pretty
Speaker 2: fun to watch as well. Dolphins kicked off the game
Speaker 2: with a fifty four yard field goal, a seven play
Speaker 2: thirty eight yard drive, and it began the way the
Speaker 2: last two games have begun, with a dig a rip
Speaker 2: to Tyreek Hill after some play action success on first
Speaker 2: down that sucked up the two linebackers and created that
Speaker 2: window in behind that second level of the defense. And
Speaker 2: I thought we saw that today like at a level
Speaker 2: that was maybe near or closer to to a tongue
Speaker 2: of Iloa and this offense than what you saw, for instance,
Speaker 2: back in the Week three game where that element just
Speaker 2: did not exist. I'm talking about that eighteen to twenty
Speaker 2: one yard curl like deep hook range, and we saw
Speaker 2: several passes in this game go in that zone. We
Speaker 2: also saw several passes on the catch rock throw concept
Speaker 2: to John Husmith for first downs. Catch the snap, fire
Speaker 2: the ball to your tight end off the line scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can put his.
Speaker 2: Head down and go bury forward for two or three
Speaker 2: more yards and move the chains. It looked like a
Speaker 2: professional offense at times in this game. Now, there are
Speaker 2: still plenty of things you have to correct. In fact,
Speaker 2: coach McDaniel after the game said there were several.
Speaker 1: Issues they need to get corrected. But one of those
Speaker 1: things was early drive.
Speaker 2: And I expect this with a quarterback that's so new,
Speaker 2: And this is something that I wanted to explain to
Speaker 2: fans because I think it requires an element of football
Speaker 2: knowledge to be able to get to this point. And
Speaker 2: I think I can't say for certain because I'm not
Speaker 2: in the huddle, I'm not in those meeting rooms, but
Speaker 2: I think what we saw on that first sack on
Speaker 2: the opening drive, when Liam kind of got beat across
Speaker 2: his face and that forced him to open that b
Speaker 2: gap up because he chased the defensive tackle inside and
Speaker 2: then Austin was put in a situation where he had
Speaker 2: two rushers on either shoulder and he had to make
Speaker 2: a choice. And last week he made the choice to
Speaker 2: squeeze inside and let the outside rusher go, which is
Speaker 2: what you should do because the immediate threat is going
Speaker 2: to get to the quarterback quicker. And this week he
Speaker 2: went to the outside lane and he probably assumed he
Speaker 2: had more help inside than he did, but it created
Speaker 2: a free run in the B gap, and you can't
Speaker 2: play successful offense from that position on the field.
Speaker 1: So that was one gaff that it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I think your protection issues happen with quarterbacks that have
Speaker 2: been in the league for fifteen years. It's going to
Speaker 2: happen to a quarterback who's been here for fifteen days,
Speaker 2: you know, give or take. I thought the third and
Speaker 2: sevent team play on that drive goes back to something
Speaker 2: we talked about earlier, just two seconds ago with the
Speaker 2: catch rock throw like catch the football. You see the
Speaker 2: tight ends not covered up in the slot. He's gonna
Speaker 2: have easy access into the second level and then this
Speaker 2: guy can break tackles. Throw it to him, and he
Speaker 2: got you back into range for a field goal and
Speaker 2: it led to a fifty four yard field goal because
Speaker 2: of that catch and run. So that was good to
Speaker 2: see Dolphins take their first lead of a game where
Speaker 2: the game was not over of the entire year right there.
Speaker 2: And they come back out on defense a three play
Speaker 2: negative five yard drive for the Patriots where they go
Speaker 2: back to back sacks. There was a green dog blitz
Speaker 2: from Jordan Brooks with a running back staying in protection.
Speaker 2: His job is to cover that back and then if
Speaker 2: he stays in protection, go blitz because there's no one
Speaker 2: to cover in the field. Right and then Benito Jones
Speaker 2: and Emmanuel Ogbaugh and Zach Seeler all deent to the line,
Speaker 2: pushed him back and they converge for the sack on Brissett,
Speaker 2: and then a third down play Sealer wins again. He
Speaker 2: slides right before the snap, a quick rotation pre snap
Speaker 2: from the one technique on the outside shoulder of the
Speaker 2: nose tackle or of the center, rather over to the
Speaker 2: inside shoulder of the guard, which is your two eye technique,
Speaker 2: and he dips and rips and makes quick work of
Speaker 2: that new Patriot center filling in for David Andrews, and
Speaker 2: it becomes a sack. Dolphins get off the field and
Speaker 2: push the Patriots back. But then Miami throws a pick
Speaker 2: on the ensuing drive after they had been gifted a
Speaker 2: rather a nice situation because first of all, the way
Speaker 2: the Dolphins ran the football saying we'll get to this
Speaker 2: it was more conviction. And this is something that OJ
Speaker 2: harps on all the time with when we're watching the games,
Speaker 2: is like he wants to see guys get more north,
Speaker 2: north and south. And I know that's how it's taught
Speaker 2: in this system, particularly to kind of split defenders and
Speaker 2: get upfield. And there's been a lot of kind of
Speaker 2: you know, running parallel to the line of scrimmage in
Speaker 2: this offense. And what I thought you saw it to
Speaker 2: say with Raheem and Jalen Wright was if it's not
Speaker 2: blocked up for the big game, they found a way
Speaker 2: to get extra yards. And the first play of this drive,
Speaker 2: which is a five to play fourteen yard drive, was
Speaker 2: Jaalen Wright getting stacked up at the point of attack.
Speaker 1: And then here comes Austin Jackson to kind.
Speaker 2: Of play a bully ball that's his game, to push
Speaker 2: the pile for a four yard run. We get a
Speaker 2: screen blown up, and then third and seven Tyreek runs
Speaker 2: a speed out and he catches this ball off the turf,
Speaker 2: which I thought was a bad throw from Tyler. It
Speaker 2: was on time, which is great because that's my number
Speaker 2: one thing. I'm looking forth to the quarterback that's so
Speaker 2: brand new in the offense. But the target was low.
Speaker 2: Reek does dig it out. It creates a fourth and
Speaker 2: one situation, and the Dolphins punted, which I was so
Speaker 2: glad to see because normally I might go for it
Speaker 2: fourth and one, you should convert all of those, but
Speaker 2: in a game that was going to take on the
Speaker 2: shape of this game, great decision to punt the football,
Speaker 2: and you get reward for it because they have twelve
Speaker 2: guys in the field, But then we get the ball back.
Speaker 2: And I thought Huntley's mistake in this game, the one
Speaker 2: big mistake he made, was he double clutched throwing a
Speaker 2: slant across face on Christian Gonzalez, and that guy is
Speaker 2: never going to let you have that pass because he's
Speaker 2: so damn good. And he jumped it on the first
Speaker 2: clutch and it created a situation where he could run
Speaker 2: under the route and catch it and make the pick.
Speaker 2: And then that's where you're thinking, I don't know how's
Speaker 2: this game going to go? Because the Patriots get a
Speaker 2: five play forty no sorry, forty seven yard drive that
Speaker 2: results in a Ramondre Stevenson touchdown run. I noted in
Speaker 2: this thing that we had Marcus May playing really all
Speaker 2: over the field and I thought was probably one of
Speaker 2: the best Dolphins safety performances of the season so far
Speaker 2: this year, where he kind of played that Rashad Jones
Speaker 2: weak side seed gap would close it down and flatten
Speaker 2: back to the line of scrimmage and make a stop
Speaker 2: and created a third down situation. But then this was
Speaker 2: gonna be a takeaway if a game continued this way.
Speaker 2: We just started missing tackles like Carico who had a
Speaker 2: chance out in space to make a tackle on a
Speaker 2: little swing route and he didn't make that tackle, which
Speaker 2: normally he does, and he did later in the game,
Speaker 2: but he missed this one and it turns into a
Speaker 2: first down. Then they seal the edge on that Stevenson
Speaker 2: run Marcus May miss as a tackle, Javon Holland overruns
Speaker 2: it big time, and it just was kind of a
Speaker 2: sloppy looking player for the Dolphins defense who got hemmed
Speaker 2: in you had a bad fit from the linebacker two
Speaker 2: miss tackles in the defensive backfield, and that is the
Speaker 2: ingredients for a thirty three yard touchdown run. But it
Speaker 2: would be the only touchdown the Patriot to score on
Speaker 2: the entire day. To take a seven to three lead,
Speaker 2: Dolphins come back and miss a forty one yard field goal,
Speaker 2: which we can't miss field goals from that range. Right,
Speaker 2: there's guys making sixty sixty five yards here in this league,
Speaker 2: and the fifty yard field goals have become like pretty
Speaker 2: routine for guys. At this point, we've had two now
Speaker 2: forty yard or forty one and forty two yard field
Speaker 2: goals missed. This one came after a nine play forty
Speaker 2: seven yard drive where a chan got on the end
Speaker 2: around for an explosive play where Aaron Brewer peels back
Speaker 2: and bubbles the line of scrimmage and then goes and
Speaker 2: hooks the slot cornerback and pins him with a really
Speaker 2: impressive block on a run that goes for twelve yards
Speaker 2: and gets knocked out of the game right there, and
Speaker 2: pursuing with a concussion protocol, he does not return, so
Speaker 2: hopefully he'll be okay. There is a key that I
Speaker 2: thought showed up in this drive. It was the rush
Speaker 2: land integrity where Huntley had a drop back where the
Speaker 2: Patriots rush fanned out and there was nobody in the
Speaker 2: B gap, and then the edge rusher took off upfield
Speaker 2: and Austin just obliged him and ran him around the
Speaker 2: entire formation, and Huntley was able to attack the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage and throw a ball downfield into this massive
Speaker 2: vacancy for a wide open.
Speaker 1: Wattle for twenty yards.
Speaker 2: We get more great run blocking, Rob Jones kicks out,
Speaker 2: by the way, best game Rob Jones had all year.
Speaker 2: I can say that very confidently without watching the film
Speaker 2: yet alec Ingold, my god, what a game he had.
Speaker 2: Where heem Moster goes for twelve yards, our second twelve
Speaker 2: yard run of the drive after not having explosive runs
Speaker 2: for most of the season. Then we drop a pass
Speaker 2: though it would have been good for a first down.
Speaker 2: Then we get sacked on a scramble and that leads
Speaker 2: to the missfield goals. So that's what I'm talking about
Speaker 2: her this offense, and kind of where I took from
Speaker 2: this game was there was a lot of progress and
Speaker 2: of signs in this game that this Dolphins offense can
Speaker 2: maybe find out what it looks like without two a tongue.
Speaker 1: I low up.
Speaker 2: But you can't drop that second and eight throw right
Speaker 2: on the outside of the ten yard line, and you
Speaker 2: can't take a sack on third down there to create
Speaker 2: a longer field goal, although maybe you can, because forty
Speaker 2: one yards right should be makeable. We didn't make it
Speaker 2: this time around. Ball goes back to the Patriots three
Speaker 2: play negative one yard punt drive. Sealer draws one of
Speaker 2: his two holds. So Seiler had a sack, three quarterback
Speaker 2: hits and drew two holds. This guy is one of
Speaker 2: the best players in the National Football League. The Patriots
Speaker 2: do get back on schedule for a third and six play,
Speaker 2: but we get a Chop Robinson looping twist inside to
Speaker 2: put a hit on Brissett. And you have Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 2: who was awesome in this game, playing the point man
Speaker 2: on trips. So he's gonna take the first release to
Speaker 2: the perimeter, and he takes that route and he goes
Speaker 2: right in the hip pocket and creates this minuskill window
Speaker 2: that Brissett has to hit while he's being hit by Chop.
Speaker 2: Can't do it. Punt the ball back to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Miami gets it back. We'll go ahead and continue of
Speaker 2: the podcast after this, because we're.
Speaker 1: Going long already. I'm excited talk about a win today.
Speaker 2: We'll come back into the rest of the game script
Speaker 2: and the five takeaways on the Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. I
Speaker 2: left off the previous part of the podcast. I probably
Speaker 2: should start logging when these drives occur, because I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what part of the game I'm in here. I
Speaker 2: think on early second quarter when that Dolphins punt was blocked,
Speaker 2: it was another good looking drive that was seemingly gonna
Speaker 2: shape up well for the Dolphins with a couple of
Speaker 2: good runs. But then we get a four play sequence
Speaker 2: where Aaron Brewer gets hit for a hold. You have
Speaker 2: an illegal shift that gets declined, an illegal blindside block
Speaker 2: on Leak Washington that maybe I don't understand the rule
Speaker 2: well enough. I thought it was pretty cool football, but
Speaker 2: he was going back towards his own line of scrimmage,
Speaker 2: so I get the letter of the law there.
Speaker 1: He went against that.
Speaker 2: There and then a block punt where Duke Riley gets
Speaker 2: ran right by in the formation. And you know last
Speaker 2: week had the illegal touching player, not illegal touching, but
Speaker 2: he thought that. The coach Crossman explained when he thought
Speaker 2: the Titans long snapper swattered the ball and he went
Speaker 2: to advance it because of the consequence free nature of
Speaker 2: that when the kicking team touches the ball, but he
Speaker 2: didn't and it almost costs us a possession there. And
Speaker 2: the week before that there was a thirty seven yard
Speaker 2: net yard penalty that was on duke and special teams.
Speaker 2: So he's had a rough run here and on this
Speaker 2: one it causes a block punt that put the Patriots
Speaker 2: back in position to score points.
Speaker 1: So just bad football on the entire drive.
Speaker 2: Of course, the Patriots would miss a thirty three yard
Speaker 2: field goal on a five play seven yard drive where
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, again Zach Seeler causes another holding call. Benito
Speaker 2: has a free run on the A gap and can't
Speaker 2: quite get Brissette to the ground, but it does cause
Speaker 2: an eight yard completion, and then cater Kohu bounces back
Speaker 2: after the mistackle and makes a tackle for loss on
Speaker 2: a loss of three to create a third and fifteen play,
Speaker 2: and they just go give up with the draw call
Speaker 2: and then they missed the field goals that was great
Speaker 2: to see. Miami gets it back and continues to pick
Speaker 2: up more yards on the offense with a John wu
Speaker 2: Smith catch and run on a glance, a play action
Speaker 2: rip to waddle off of the face fake toss action
Speaker 2: which I thought was again more in corporation of what's working,
Speaker 2: and then wrinkling off of that off the overplay with
Speaker 2: the play action game. So I thought for coach McDaniel,
Speaker 2: his best game was a designer and play caller in
Speaker 2: this one. And they're also getting pushed off the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, moving.
Speaker 1: Guys off the football.
Speaker 2: You get Jillen right for a five yard run after
Speaker 2: the Wallle completion, and then Huntley extends and finds John
Speaker 2: news Smith wide open on that corner route. It looked
Speaker 2: like Huntley thought he was going to keep running up
Speaker 2: the sideline and John who's settled into the route where
Speaker 2: he was. It would have been at least twenty yards
Speaker 2: if not more, but they miss and then we get
Speaker 2: I think the best throw from Tyler Huntley is a
Speaker 2: Miami dolphin when they send a pressure package and Raheem
Speaker 2: runs an angle route, a Texas route, and that's where
Speaker 2: he starts in the backfield and runs towards the perimeter
Speaker 2: and then angles back inside. It's called an arrow route.
Speaker 2: There's different different for a beach for different offenses. And
Speaker 2: he runs across the face of the linebacker and Huntley
Speaker 2: under this pressure kind of falls off the throw and
Speaker 2: buys extra time. Every tenth of a second matters when
Speaker 2: you're hot against the blitz like that. And he throws
Speaker 2: a ball with anticipation right on the upfield shoulder for
Speaker 2: a completion and we get that first down and then
Speaker 2: we end up not converting after that, so we end
Speaker 2: up stapping the ball of the quarterback's head and coach
Speaker 2: said that Aaron Brewer had heard a cadence that he
Speaker 2: thought was Tyler, it was not, and he snaps the
Speaker 2: ball over his head. We blow that drive as well,
Speaker 2: So it's like Miami could have blown this game out.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the encouraging part is you got
Speaker 2: the win with the mistakes, because now hopefully with the
Speaker 2: bye week, some more familiarity for the quarterback in the offense,
Speaker 2: maybe guys kind of set it out a little bit
Speaker 2: and realize where we are and kind of go forward
Speaker 2: from here. Maybe you can start to patch together some
Speaker 2: of those issues and the way the defense is playing,
Speaker 2: maybe you can go on a run and win some
Speaker 2: football games. It's kind of how I view this whole thing.
Speaker 2: The Patriots get the ball back and they go three
Speaker 2: and out right away. Again, defense is playing awesome. Right
Speaker 2: There was perfect coverage by cater Coh who I thought
Speaker 2: had his best game of the year, where he pins
Speaker 2: the man to the sideline and we get good coverage
Speaker 2: and the rush shuts that play down for an incompletion.
Speaker 1: And then Barrios caught that.
Speaker 2: Wobbly line drive kick on the sideline and returns it
Speaker 2: for positive yards for a twelve yard run back on
Speaker 2: a ball that probably goes out of balance, but it
Speaker 2: could bounced backwards and gone even more further. So it's
Speaker 2: at least a twelve yard play there from Barrios. Great
Speaker 2: work there, but then Miami turns it over on down
Speaker 2: six play two yard. John new Smith another big play
Speaker 2: with a raheem block off the edge. He catches that
Speaker 2: out route and I don't know what the heck gulyant
Speaker 2: Tovao was doing there because he jumped inside like a
Speaker 2: pick and roll on basketball and just let John new
Speaker 2: Smith go up the sideline. It puts us down the
Speaker 2: twenty eight yard line, and John who's catching passes, he's
Speaker 2: chip releasing, he's running after the catch, looks like the
Speaker 2: guy that we were all fired up to sign back.
Speaker 1: In the off season.
Speaker 2: And then Huntley has a scramble that goes in complete
Speaker 2: in the end zone. Then a forty six yard field
Speaker 2: goal doesn't count because we false start, and then we
Speaker 2: roll the snap back to Jake Bailey on a fifty
Speaker 2: one yard kick and he gets tackled right there.
Speaker 1: So it's just this constant like two.
Speaker 2: Three Today was like four or five plays a positive
Speaker 2: and then one big mistake that cost you. So that's
Speaker 2: better than what it has been where it was like
Speaker 2: one play than two negative in the past couple of games.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm encouraged about what we're going from
Speaker 2: this point into the bye week. Patriots then go three
Speaker 2: and out Dolphins kind of end of half it there,
Speaker 2: we go to halftime seven to three game, Patriots get
Speaker 2: a field goal to open up the second half of
Speaker 2: ten play fifty yard drive and it was on the
Speaker 2: ground too. Like sometimes coming out of the locker room
Speaker 2: break can be tough on either side of the ball.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it just as who makes the better adjustments or
Speaker 2: maybe who's more ready to play in those moments. I
Speaker 2: don't really know how to track that, but Stevenson had
Speaker 2: a twenty yard run, and then they had a third
Speaker 2: and five conversion right on the edge of field goal
Speaker 2: range with a pass from Brissett to Pop Duck because
Speaker 2: I think it was. And that was after you know,
Speaker 2: Ramsey had drawn a holding call. Who played really good
Speaker 2: by the way he was playing off the edge and
Speaker 2: kind of reset the blocker on the perimeter and they
Speaker 2: held him. And then he ran by Brissette on the
Speaker 2: next play and like reached out and kind of like
Speaker 2: slapped him across the face and it got flagged for
Speaker 2: fifteen yards and that creates a Patriots field goal on
Speaker 2: that drive to go ten three up, and you're thinking, like, ah, gosh,
Speaker 2: offense has been so hard to come by. Can we
Speaker 2: recover from this? And that's a legit question when you're
Speaker 2: only scoring ten points per game, right, But Miami would
Speaker 2: still find twelve more points in the game, including three
Speaker 2: on the next drive and eight play fifty six yard
Speaker 2: field goal drive for a thirty two yard kick, and.
Speaker 1: It went right back to the well.
Speaker 2: Raheem finds the perimeter of the seven yard run and
Speaker 2: gets horse collar tackled. Then he makes something out of
Speaker 2: a run that looked like it had nothing where he
Speaker 2: gets five behind a good block from Toront Armstead, but
Speaker 2: the interior pressure made it look like he was gonna
Speaker 2: go nowhere on the play, it is really good to
Speaker 2: have Raheem Moster back in the field, and then we
Speaker 2: tossed out to john Us Smith and it's like I
Speaker 2: kind of felt like it was working there with Raheem
Speaker 2: and even Geelan Wright, and then he tossed the tight
Speaker 2: end and he goes for a loss. It's just like,
Speaker 2: go back to that and they would later on. So
Speaker 2: that was good to learn from that mistake. I thought
Speaker 2: in that moment it was a mistake. Third and six,
Speaker 2: roughing the quarterback extends to drive, so we had a
Speaker 2: twelve yard drive that had thirty extra yards of penalties,
Speaker 2: which was nice to see. But then we get back
Speaker 2: to third and nine and Huntley scrambles and throws for
Speaker 2: Tyreek probably should have been picked off in the end
Speaker 2: zone by Christian Gonzalez, it was not. They kick a
Speaker 2: field goal after Tyreek almost catches the fade route up
Speaker 2: the sideline.
Speaker 1: Just really goes out of bounds, but he does not
Speaker 1: get inbound kick the field goal. Ten to six.
Speaker 2: Game reads three and out again, just more good gap
Speaker 2: control and the Dolphins, I thought, had a great rally
Speaker 2: up and tackle on the third down checkdown. That kind
Speaker 2: of became the theme the second half. Miami gets it
Speaker 2: back another forty seven yard field goal. Nine plays fifty
Speaker 2: seven yards, Huntley scrambled for a first down and then
Speaker 2: it kind of became the Jayal and Wright show.
Speaker 1: I thought, this is where Rob Jones got going.
Speaker 2: He had a nice gap between Teestead and Rob Jones,
Speaker 2: and Rob was kicking out edges. He was ceiling on
Speaker 2: the interior, getting the second level and linebackers. Looked like
Speaker 2: a really good player in this game. Right also found
Speaker 2: a backside laying again another Rob Jones blocked for a
Speaker 2: seventeen yard run. Then we get a soft second level
Speaker 2: and open up those comeback routes I talked about earlier.
Speaker 2: A fifteen yard rip to Tyreek Hill, then a sack,
Speaker 2: and I thought Huntley bailed on a good pocket on
Speaker 2: that play and rolled right into pressure. You heard the
Speaker 2: broadcast talk about like you have a trust your offensive
Speaker 2: lineman sometimes and again that's communication and time with guys
Speaker 2: that I think will get better as time goes along. Here,
Speaker 2: then third and thirteen, twelve yard passed to Waddle on
Speaker 2: the comeback.
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to go for it there.
Speaker 2: But I also understood the decision making because let's get points.
Speaker 1: We see how this game is going.
Speaker 2: But fourth in just one shot of the sticks, luckily
Speaker 2: the field goal goes up. In good ten to nine
Speaker 2: football game, the Patriots get it back and go seven
Speaker 2: plays thirty eight yards. They get a checkdown on or
Speaker 2: a third and four play rather after a checkdown where
Speaker 2: he blitz and cannot get in and he steps up
Speaker 2: and makes a big time conversion jump throw, and the
Speaker 2: Dolphins really had to find a way to settle in
Speaker 2: and get that ball back for good field position. They
Speaker 2: rip a big run, and really the big runs they
Speaker 2: had were on the perimeter where they would steal the edge.
Speaker 1: And we're so.
Speaker 2: Green on the edge right now because of all the injuries.
Speaker 2: And then the linebackers would try to shoot the gap
Speaker 2: and play under the route or under the run play,
Speaker 2: and that's usually the way the big runs happen. Seal
Speaker 2: the edge, try to back door it and if you
Speaker 2: can't do it. Then it gets out the gate. That
Speaker 2: happened a couple of times. Luckily they dropped a slant
Speaker 2: that creates a third and eight that would have been
Speaker 2: like a third and one. And then on third and eight,
Speaker 2: Ramsey's all over the receiver. We Blitze heated up make
Speaker 2: it incomplete. And that's how the rest of the game
Speaker 2: kind of went for the Dolphins defense. They get it
Speaker 2: back to the offense down by one and they go
Speaker 2: fifteen plays eighty yards, seven and a half minutes to
Speaker 2: the football, capped off by a two y yard alec
Speaker 2: Ingle touchdown run. And this is after a leam Meikenberg
Speaker 2: hold makes it first and twenty. But then we rip
Speaker 2: that comeback route. It's that you can run the nine
Speaker 2: from there, you can run the post, you can convert
Speaker 2: it to a curl on the deep hook, and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what Tyreek Hill does for twenty yards. A big
Speaker 2: conversion there to move the chains, and then we get
Speaker 2: more Jalen Wright Pyle pushing. He creates a third and
Speaker 2: five on a second down run that was not there,
Speaker 2: and then Huntley moves a little bit and rips this
Speaker 2: pass to john Us Smith for a first down on
Speaker 2: that little like check chip release route that he ran
Speaker 2: after Huntley had created a little bit with his legs,
Speaker 2: So that was great to see catch and run for
Speaker 2: a first down.
Speaker 1: And then Jalen Wright hits the home run right he finally.
Speaker 2: Finds a crease, that quick jump cut that we talked
Speaker 2: about all training camp long, but Julian Hill has a
Speaker 2: penalty and it brings it back into you know, behind
Speaker 2: the chains once again, would have been first in town
Speaker 2: at the fifteen yard line instead second and thirteen at
Speaker 2: the minus forty three. We missed the speed out to
Speaker 2: John WUIs Smith on the next play, so it's third
Speaker 2: and thirteen and then the third and thirteen play is
Speaker 2: a quick hitter, but they're not lined up right and
Speaker 2: the linebacker was a slot receiver for a fresh set
Speaker 2: of downs of defensive pass interference well shore of the sticks,
Speaker 2: and I just wrote down, you have to go capitalize here.
Speaker 2: That's a massive mistake. You have to make them pay
Speaker 2: for it. And sure enough, Jalen Wright hits another big
Speaker 2: run behind an alec ingole block gets out the gate.
Speaker 2: Then Raheem hits one then back to right for a
Speaker 2: ten yard run down to the two yard line and
Speaker 2: from there, Ingold takes it in for the touchdown. So
Speaker 2: they've had this mix of writing and most hurt. That
Speaker 2: was really cranking all day long, and the common theme
Speaker 2: there was behind alec Ingold, who had the touchdown, almost
Speaker 2: got the two point conversion, but just could not get
Speaker 2: free of that edge rusher.
Speaker 1: And so it's fifteen to ten.
Speaker 2: The Patriots get the ball back and you're thinking they
Speaker 2: go win it or we get the ballack win the game.
Speaker 2: Ten plays, fifty three yards turnover on downs in the
Speaker 2: back of the end zone. The Patriots kind of got
Speaker 2: rolling there, and I just want to talk about the
Speaker 2: third and fourth down plays because those were really critical
Speaker 2: to get Miami, you know, to get him over the
Speaker 2: winners the finish line here for the win. The first
Speaker 2: and ten play incomplete that was covered up really well.
Speaker 2: Locked up the Jalen Polk touchdown. I knew that rule
Speaker 2: in the moment, and then I kind of forgot about
Speaker 2: it there as it happened, and then they quickly overturned it,
Speaker 2: so that was obviously an out of bounds play.
Speaker 1: Great to see that.
Speaker 2: Then the Dolphins get that third down play, they put
Speaker 2: pressure on Brissett. He has to throw one high out
Speaker 2: of the back of the end zone and kind of
Speaker 2: the same deal on fourth down after the fall start too,
Speaker 2: So really good job by Weaver recognizing if we heat
Speaker 2: up Brissett and they have to throw a ball in
Speaker 2: the field of play, it's going to be really tough
Speaker 2: for them to find, you know, success in this drive.
Speaker 2: And they went to that that well twice there and
Speaker 2: got after them.
Speaker 1: So that's it. The Dolphins win fifteen ten.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break rate there,
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and do the five
Speaker 2: takeaways Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto'nation. Just like that, the Dolphins are two
Speaker 2: and three and back in the mix of things.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's funny how quickly that can happen. My first takeaway
Speaker 2: here from the dolphins fifteen to ten victory over the
Speaker 2: Patriots is I think you found something with Jalen Wright
Speaker 2: and that run game in general was cooking. In fact,
Speaker 2: coming into the day, some folks categorize explosive runs as
Speaker 2: fifteen plus yards. Some other publications do it on ten
Speaker 2: plus yard runs. I kind of like ten plus because
Speaker 2: that's how much this for a first down, which in
Speaker 2: the running game. If you're getting ten yards on a run,
Speaker 2: it's pretty good, right. The Dolphins had no runs of
Speaker 2: plus fifteen coming into the game.
Speaker 1: They had five of those today.
Speaker 2: Five of those they had eight total plays if you go,
Speaker 2: ten plus yards and three of those fifteen plus yard
Speaker 2: runs were on the game winning drive. So they kind
Speaker 2: of when they had to have it, they found their identity.
Speaker 2: I love that coach McDaniel after the game. So the
Speaker 2: running back room was ready to put the team on
Speaker 2: their back, and that's exactly what they did. One hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety three rushing yards in this one. In fact,
Speaker 2: we haven't even done statute. Let's go ahead and rectified
Speaker 2: that real quick, live here and get you the Dolphins stats.
Speaker 1: For this game.
Speaker 2: So Miami out gains the Patriots. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: kind of a dominant performance, three seventy two to two
Speaker 2: ninety nine. Miami had twenty four first downs. New England's
Speaker 2: fifteen third down still an issue, two for eleven, the
Speaker 2: Patriots just four for thirteen. Both teams were zero for
Speaker 2: one on a fourth down. Miami had a buck ninety
Speaker 2: three on the ground and one seventy nine through the air.
Speaker 2: Miami had seventy five plays to New England's fifty five plays.
Speaker 2: We also gave it away twice and got no takeaways.
Speaker 2: We were sacked three times and only had two sacks,
Speaker 2: and the Patriots had twelve penalties for one oh five
Speaker 2: compared to our six for fifty four.
Speaker 1: So Miami kind of dominated most of the game.
Speaker 2: Just those critical mistakes, the giveaways, the inopportune timed penalties
Speaker 2: were what really killed you in this game. But back
Speaker 2: to the pot the takeaway here, because I kind of
Speaker 2: got off track there. Man alec ingold power run game
Speaker 2: inside where he would like short motion into the backfield
Speaker 2: then play like a b gap like lead dive block.
Speaker 2: He was killing guys doing that. He was peeling out
Speaker 2: out wide on the outside zone runs, killing guys out
Speaker 2: there as well.
Speaker 1: And then you saw him get that touchdown.
Speaker 2: Man, the conditioning he had to do what he did
Speaker 2: today because he ran all over the field. I don't
Speaker 2: know the numbers yet, but I'm betting he played his
Speaker 2: most snaps of the season. He ran the touchdown in
Speaker 2: and had like no juice left to celebrate. That's how
Speaker 2: he left everything on the field for the Dolphins and
Speaker 2: tip of the cap to him a captain came up
Speaker 2: big in a big spot there. Just loved the game
Speaker 2: that he had, leading both Right and Moster. Right had
Speaker 2: thirteen for eighty six, Moster had nineteen for eighty. The
Speaker 2: team had forty one runs for a buck nine three.
Speaker 2: I think you can build upon that going forward. In fact,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and hear from this from coach on this,
Speaker 2: because the general takeaway is the run game and something
Speaker 2: to build on here. I think that this commentary from
Speaker 2: coach about to me everything looking sharper.
Speaker 1: We talked.
Speaker 2: I talked about with Seth on the postgame show about
Speaker 2: how they were breaking the huddle with like twenty seconds
Speaker 2: and having plenty of time to get up the lane
Speaker 2: scrimmage and make all these checks and decisions. Like that's
Speaker 2: a road game, right, tough environment, and they're playing these
Speaker 2: quick hook throws to stay on schedule. I just think
Speaker 2: there's something there to build on offensively, especially with respect
Speaker 2: to the biby coming up here in week number six.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel on something alec
Speaker 2: Ingold said about command Tyler Huntley has in the huddle.
Speaker 2: Here's coach following up one that sentiment after the game.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely I can tell by the conviction with the
Speaker 3: other ten people coming out the huddle. You know, when
Speaker 3: there's when you're in a huddle and people have conviction
Speaker 3: and ownership in command of the huddle, you see people
Speaker 3: leave certainty from the huddle. And then on on top
Speaker 3: of that that, you know, every single play his technique
Speaker 3: and fundamentals, you know, I think you know I'm connected
Speaker 3: with So when after the ball is snapped, whatever coverage
Speaker 3: is presented, you know you have an idea where the
Speaker 3: ball should go, and you're watching his technique through to
Speaker 3: the defensive structure, and you know, I you I can tell.
Speaker 3: I could tell all week that he was going to
Speaker 3: operate in a high fashion, but I could feel during
Speaker 3: the game simply through his teammates and how they're approaching
Speaker 3: each play even if it was run, and it was
Speaker 3: with conviction to the line of scrimmage on almost every snap.
Speaker 3: I think we did have one pre snap motion penalty,
Speaker 3: but beyond that, it was that was much proof from
Speaker 3: the week before.
Speaker 2: That's one takeaway. Takeaway Number two is the defense continues
Speaker 2: to play really good football. Came into this one the
Speaker 2: best third down defense in the NFL. Bunch of pressures
Speaker 2: bunch of hits on the quarterback. Zach Seeler had three
Speaker 2: QB hits and two holding calls drawn and a sack.
Speaker 2: I thought Marcus may played the run and the pass
Speaker 2: really well. He seemed to have a good relationship for
Speaker 2: knowing how the rush was going to get in and
Speaker 2: where the top of the route could be for a
Speaker 2: possible completion, and then running that thing off. I thought
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks made some have all big plays. I thought
Speaker 2: Jaylen Ramsey was fantastic, Kendall Fuller as well. I thought
Speaker 2: Cater had his best game of the season. And I
Speaker 2: just thought the defense was really really good, especially with
Speaker 2: how they mix their coverages and their pressures up front.
Speaker 2: That third and fourth down call on the penultimate drive
Speaker 2: just Chef's kiss baby, keep it going. Number three is
Speaker 2: the operation can still be better? Right, clean some things
Speaker 2: up the sequences. I talked about illegal shift, illegal blindside block,
Speaker 2: block punt after a hold, we had a first down
Speaker 2: and plus territory, then got hit with a hole that
Speaker 2: resets the entire drive. That big Jalen Right run of
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter comes back on a holding call that
Speaker 2: I didn't agree with. But man, I just think there's
Speaker 2: so much talent that shows up every single which I
Speaker 2: think kind of adds to the frustration of kind of
Speaker 2: getting stuck behind the eight ball because this team has
Speaker 2: shot themselves in the foot too frequently this year, and
Speaker 2: I think that the upshot is, man, they can clean
Speaker 2: that stuff up. There's a lot of talent here and
Speaker 2: a lot of wins to be had if they can
Speaker 2: do that. Number four special teams have been have just
Speaker 2: been a problem. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of been that way all year,
Speaker 2: but in particular today forty one yard field goal missed.
Speaker 2: You get a blocked punt that looked like it was
Speaker 2: gonna be blocked the entire way that snap went where
Speaker 2: you missed a free rusher who cames free miss You
Speaker 2: make a forty six yard field goal, but you false
Speaker 2: start to negate that and then you roll the snap
Speaker 2: back to the holder and they blow up the fifty
Speaker 2: one yard attempt. There was a tweet by Marcel Luis
Speaker 2: Jock from ESPN that had some stats since twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two on Dolphins special teams twenty fifth and yards per
Speaker 2: punt twenty sixth and yards per kick return sixteenth and
Speaker 2: yards per punt return, twenty eighth in field goal percentage,
Speaker 2: and tied for second on field goals blocked, and at
Speaker 2: the time of the tweet, the Dolphins had forty four
Speaker 2: penalties on the year, and twelve of those came from
Speaker 2: special teams. So that just has to get cleaned up.
Speaker 2: Because if we're gonna play these games with good defense
Speaker 2: and a good running game and a quarterback that man
Speaker 2: the game, you have to win on special teams. And
Speaker 2: we did not do that today, and this game could
Speaker 2: have been a much more comfortable win had you done
Speaker 2: that on special teams. My fifth takeaway is it has
Speaker 2: looked a certain way. I get trepidation, but just look
Speaker 2: at where you.
Speaker 1: Are right now.
Speaker 2: This is why it's called a long season, and that's
Speaker 2: why this probably was the opening part of the podcast.
Speaker 2: Could have been done here, but I'm just going to
Speaker 2: reiterate that point. It's a long season, it's a bye week.
Speaker 2: You uncovered a style in the run game. I think
Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch tape and give you guys more
Speaker 2: on that on the podcast tomorrow. This is about when
Speaker 2: you know a chan became a thing last year, So
Speaker 2: can jeal And Wright follow those footsteps. I think alec
Speaker 2: Ingle was more downhill. I thought Raheem Moster brought back
Speaker 2: a certain attitude to your running game.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: I'll check the tape later on. I'll tell you guys
Speaker 2: about this on the Monday podcast. But I think this
Speaker 2: run game found itself today. I think it's been there.
Speaker 2: I think they found it and kind of kept going
Speaker 2: back to it. So kind of a repeat of the
Speaker 2: open That's what I'm going with here. Take one number five,
Speaker 2: but all the AFC East is owing to the last
Speaker 2: two weeks. Dolphins are one and one, so they have
Speaker 2: it all in front of them. If they can build
Speaker 2: on what they did late in the game offense and
Speaker 2: keep being what they've been doing on defense all year long,
Speaker 2: and get special teams going in the right direction as well.
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