Speaker 1: That's just all looking down Miami drawn. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I'm here to bring you a game day recap,
Speaker 1: your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: that's right, we made it. We are covering a Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football game. Will break down all things from the
Speaker 1: dolphins thirteen preseason defeat at the hands of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about a very special uber ride, the
Speaker 1: stats from the game, my five takeaways from the game,
Speaker 1: a position by position spotlight, will hand out some game balls,
Speaker 1: the drive of the day, and a bunch more here
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Well, it
Speaker 1: isn't quite a victory Monday podcast, but honestly, I just
Speaker 1: watched the tape and it kind of feels like one.
Speaker 1: The boys played some good football, got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on tape to give them an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: corrections and get better. And you have to feel good
Speaker 1: about the first half production and can make an understandable
Speaker 1: explanation for why the second half went kind of in
Speaker 1: the other direction, with a highly talented first round rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback getting so many reps for the Chicago Bears and
Speaker 1: he looked great, and then followed by a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: m v P coming off the bench to run with
Speaker 1: the threes after the fact, before we get to the game.
Speaker 1: How about a Saturday morning that you'll never forget. And
Speaker 1: I'm still a little bit star struck from I was
Speaker 1: on an Uber ride from the hotel to Soldier Field
Speaker 1: with Jason Taylor, who of course called the preseason game
Speaker 1: from CBS wfo R he and Steve gold Stein. What
Speaker 1: a fantastic job those guys did. I've done. I've been
Speaker 1: listening to, or watching rather Dolphins preseason games on the
Speaker 1: game Pass stream or previous streams before that for over
Speaker 1: a decade now and probably even longer than that, and
Speaker 1: I haven't heard a broadcast that good. Just finished up
Speaker 1: watching the game before jumping on the podcast here to
Speaker 1: record they did a fantastic job. But talking football the
Speaker 1: entire Uber ride over there with Jason Taylor talking about
Speaker 1: what I saw a training camp that was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to do. He was asking me some questions.
Speaker 1: Really really pleasure, really my pleasure, really kind of a
Speaker 1: surreal moment to get a talk to Jason Taylor about
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphins football team. And then to kind of
Speaker 1: finish that point, we got dropped off right in front
Speaker 1: of one of the gates to enter and at one
Speaker 1: point on that walk, my credential fell off of my
Speaker 1: belt and I had about a one hundred second panic
Speaker 1: thinking that's that's how you're getting into the stadium. Man,
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, you're not getting in. And JT,
Speaker 1: like the true class professional, he is, waited for me
Speaker 1: to run back flag it down. I found it it
Speaker 1: back on. We get back up there and everything was
Speaker 1: good from there, but a bit of a panic at
Speaker 1: the end of a fantastic morning. And then of course
Speaker 1: the postgame show after the game. If you guys did
Speaker 1: not catch the announcement or the show itself, I cannot
Speaker 1: recommend it enough. It's myself driving the show. SETH Levitt
Speaker 1: and O J McDuffie, the Dolphins legend from the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank podcast on the air for two hours after the game,
Speaker 1: talking all things Miami Dolphins football with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a touch of mirth in there as well. I
Speaker 1: had a great ball joke for Seth that he gave
Speaker 1: me some crap about. We laughed about it afterwards. Good
Speaker 1: time with those guys talking Dolphins football. I think fans
Speaker 1: of both Drive Time and the Fish Tank will love
Speaker 1: that show. It's on five six w q AM right
Speaker 1: after your Miami Dolphins games on Sundays in the regular season,
Speaker 1: Saturdays in the preseason, whenever the heck we're playing, We're
Speaker 1: gonna be on the air after those games. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the football game now, But first I want to
Speaker 1: get into the stats from the game, as we do
Speaker 1: every single recap podcast here on Drive Time, and we
Speaker 1: look at some of the key numbers here fifteen first
Speaker 1: downs from Miami to twelve for Chicago. But the third
Speaker 1: down number six for fifteen from Miami and one for
Speaker 1: two on fourth downs. That gives us, by my elite
Speaker 1: mathematic calculation, seven for seventeen on third and fourth downs,
Speaker 1: while the Bears were three for eleven on third down
Speaker 1: and one for one on fourth down, so four for twelve,
Speaker 1: last year's league leading defense on third down. Right back
Speaker 1: at it again, under their total from last year at
Speaker 1: thirty three on third and fourth downs, the total yards
Speaker 1: three d and thirty nine for Chicago, three twenty six
Speaker 1: from Miami. Miami outpassed Chicago to oh eight to one
Speaker 1: sixty eight. The Bears got the Dolphins and rushing with
Speaker 1: one seventy one to one eighteen, and Miami ran twelve
Speaker 1: more plays sixty three to fifty one plays in the
Speaker 1: game and had the t op time of possession advantage
Speaker 1: thirty three thirty nine to twenty one. But in the
Speaker 1: first half, Miami had the football for nearly twenty two
Speaker 1: minutes of the first thirty minutes. And one of my
Speaker 1: favorite stats carry over from the first two years of
Speaker 1: the Brian Flores program, m here four penalties thirty eight yards.
Speaker 1: That's a great number to be at. That's how you
Speaker 1: wind up in the top five each of his two
Speaker 1: years here and the Bears had nine penalties for fifty
Speaker 1: five yards. And we're gonna jump right into the takeaways here.
Speaker 1: We have five of them for you here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Number One, you gotta finish drives. You gotta finish every
Speaker 1: element of the game when it comes to the National
Speaker 1: Football League and really any other sport you look at,
Speaker 1: whether it's at the rim and basketball, whether it's in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning and baseball, or on the goal line
Speaker 1: and football, And if the Dolphins could have managed to
Speaker 1: put the ball across the goal line after getting second
Speaker 1: and goal from the one yard line and then two
Speaker 1: failed running plays, if they punched that ball in and
Speaker 1: go up seven zip early, you come back with a
Speaker 1: field goal later and make a ten zip and then
Speaker 1: eventually you're up zo. That game could have gone really
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins direction early on and set the set
Speaker 1: the tempo, dictated the pace of the game, and really
Speaker 1: put the narrative out there that Miami came into Chicago
Speaker 1: and like the numbers and the production you saw on TV,
Speaker 1: on the tape that you off, you would have seen
Speaker 1: the results of that match, and then you have the
Speaker 1: narrative complete that way for people to say, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins came out to Chicago and really handled their business,
Speaker 1: because I thought they did throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 1: And really, you're gonna make some mistakes, obviously, as coach
Speaker 1: Flores has told us, there's no such thing as a
Speaker 1: perfect game. But you're just so close to finishing off
Speaker 1: these drives, finishing up the short yardage runs. It was
Speaker 1: a bit of a bugaboo last year. Hopefully this is
Speaker 1: out an opportunity to put it on tape here in
Speaker 1: the early part of the preseason and get those things
Speaker 1: corrected going forward. But you gotta finish those drives. That
Speaker 1: was my first takeaway. And we're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: go to Brian Flores now for his postgame press conference
Speaker 1: and hear what he thought about the game and ultimately
Speaker 1: Miami's inability to finish some of those drives down around
Speaker 1: the goal line. Well, I mean, we're evaluating the entire game.
Speaker 1: So but I thought we did some good things executing
Speaker 1: some instances, didn't executing some some other instances. Um, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, played well defensively, got off the field, play
Speaker 1: well in the kicking game apart return unit, got some
Speaker 1: um positive plays there with Kiman and Jail. Offensively, we
Speaker 1: actually moved the ball and we just didn't didn't finish drives. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't finish the drives. We can't point
Speaker 1: it in from the one turn it over in that
Speaker 1: area of the field. Yeah, I come back to bite
Speaker 1: job and it did come back to buy the Dolphins
Speaker 1: at the end result of that game, and you know,
Speaker 1: thinking about not having the preseason last year. We all
Speaker 1: know the Dolphins started last year at one and three
Speaker 1: and then finished the season out nine and three. To
Speaker 1: close that thing, you hope that maybe some of those
Speaker 1: issues like in the Buffalo game last year, the Seattle game,
Speaker 1: hopefully get those things ironed out right now and then
Speaker 1: go into the season for that opening with the Patriots
Speaker 1: and start from square one, ready to take on those challenges,
Speaker 1: ready to overcome some of those obstacles that the team
Speaker 1: dealt with last year and now in this game, because
Speaker 1: if they can find a way to convert some of
Speaker 1: those red zone and inside the five yard line, drives
Speaker 1: into seven instead of three or even in this instance
Speaker 1: to where they got zero on the turnover. Like coach mentioned,
Speaker 1: that's how you go from ten and six, playing tight
Speaker 1: games and and really taking more ws and getting further
Speaker 1: along in your progress than that. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was a big point of emphasis. I had a note
Speaker 1: on here with two in the passing game. I just
Speaker 1: want to touch on this real quick, and this is
Speaker 1: kind of coinciding with my first takeaway. We're gonna come
Speaker 1: back and talk about two of here in a minute.
Speaker 1: But how about the second possession of the game, This
Speaker 1: narrative about taking check downs and throwing the football short,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, to go up top
Speaker 1: for fifty yards to your tight end to Mike get sicky.
Speaker 1: I thought that was just a great play. A great throw,
Speaker 1: great job by the offensive line to get that thing
Speaker 1: blocked up, great run after the catch, a great little
Speaker 1: subtle move by Mike get Sicki at the top of
Speaker 1: that route to give just a little bit of a
Speaker 1: nudge for that separation for the ball to float and
Speaker 1: there perfectly, and then taking off and breaking tackles and
Speaker 1: getting all the way down inside the ten yard line
Speaker 1: to about the seven. But again, gotta finish that drive.
Speaker 1: As coach mentioned, takeaway number two, first defense, and let's
Speaker 1: talk about this real quick. On the offense, no Will Fuller,
Speaker 1: no DeVante Parker, no Albert Wilson. Those are your one, two,
Speaker 1: three receivers on the depth chart starting off for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football team. So without those guys for two
Speaker 1: to have the game, he did even more impressive. Again,
Speaker 1: we'll come back to that. But the second takeaway is
Speaker 1: your first team defense, and we use that phrasing lightly
Speaker 1: talking about missing guys, no exhabing Howard in this game,
Speaker 1: no Byron Jones, no Emmanuel Ogba, no Jalen Phillips, and
Speaker 1: they allow on the first four possessions of the game
Speaker 1: thirty five yards, zero first downs, two point nine two
Speaker 1: yards per play, and big Bonogay. Christian Wilkins, Eric Row,
Speaker 1: and Nick Needum all had pass breakups in this portion.
Speaker 1: They finish out the first half, not allowing a first
Speaker 1: down until twenty seven seconds to play in that first half.
Speaker 1: In the second quarter, on that final field goal drive
Speaker 1: led by Justin Fields, they allowed just three point eight
Speaker 1: yards per play and five straight three and outs to
Speaker 1: kick off their preseason talk about starting off where you
Speaker 1: finished last year Number one third down defense didn't get
Speaker 1: the takeaway today, But when you're playing like that, not
Speaker 1: even necessary because that was a great defensive effort. Again
Speaker 1: without a lot of the guys at the top of
Speaker 1: that depth chart. The third takeaway today. Special teams remain
Speaker 1: special too. To return men that I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of electricity back through with Jalen Waddle and Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant on their first three punt returns, you go twenty
Speaker 1: three yards, twenty yards, and fifty four yards. At seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards and punt returns and we lost five yards
Speaker 1: on the fourth return and then after that. I don't
Speaker 1: have the numbers in front of me here for you,
Speaker 1: but just talking about the way the Dolphins came out
Speaker 1: and really one the areas of the game we've come
Speaker 1: accustomed to with Brian Flores defense, special teams, the penalty
Speaker 1: yards of the hidden yards battle so important to find
Speaker 1: victories in those margins because those thin margins in this
Speaker 1: league and special teams is a big one that seems
Speaker 1: to be overlooked every single year by the entire football
Speaker 1: cognist centi and I'm part to blame for that too.
Speaker 1: I do it a lot as well, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it anymore because it's so important to
Speaker 1: the success and outcomes of football games, especially this football team,
Speaker 1: and they demonstrate it every single time they step on
Speaker 1: the field. So the seventy seven yards of return yardage
Speaker 1: from Waddle and Jachim Grant, who just both look electric,
Speaker 1: as imaginable, like as electric as you get in this
Speaker 1: league on this planet when it comes to football players.
Speaker 1: And then you have two kickoffs back to back pinned
Speaker 1: down inside the twenty yard line. That's great work by
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders. And the coverage crew and Danny Crossman to
Speaker 1: dialogues up to get the team short of the twenty
Speaker 1: five yard line. Again hid in yardage six seven yards
Speaker 1: here or there. It makes a big difference. And then
Speaker 1: you also come out with Michael Pollardi a fifty five
Speaker 1: yard punt to kick things off with only a forty
Speaker 1: three yard net. Also had the great punt that center
Speaker 1: the Bears return man backwards, muffs it into the end zone,
Speaker 1: recovers that thing at the one yard line. So great
Speaker 1: work there by the punt team, the kickoff team. Jason
Speaker 1: Sanders of course does not miss field goals. He's two
Speaker 1: for two today with an extra point as well, and
Speaker 1: Blake Ferguson didn't miss any snaps. Got to mention the
Speaker 1: special teams. They continue to provide those thin margins for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Takeaway number four and this is something
Speaker 1: that basically was a carryover from the first couple of
Speaker 1: days of preseason action. We saw games on Thursday and
Speaker 1: Friday night before Miami and Chicago kicked off the action
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Don't take the backup quarterback position for granted,
Speaker 1: there's some teams out there that just don't have an
Speaker 1: experienced player at that position, and once the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: comes out, and we know how often injuries happen in
Speaker 1: this league, whether it's for the entire season or for
Speaker 1: a month, or even for a game. If you need
Speaker 1: a quarterback to come off the bench in a pinch,
Speaker 1: it sure is nice to have one that has played
Speaker 1: well in one football games in this league. And I
Speaker 1: thought that's what Jacobe Pricette did today. He showed that
Speaker 1: he can not only come in and get you into
Speaker 1: the right calls, get you into the right protections, the
Speaker 1: right looks, the right run plays, and even mitigate some
Speaker 1: of the pressure that we saw from the Bears front
Speaker 1: against this Dolphins substituted but not completely substituted offensive line.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Solomon Kinley, and Robert Hunt stayed out there
Speaker 1: for the majority of the first half, if not the
Speaker 1: entire half, I'm not mistaken. Now, Michael Dieter came out
Speaker 1: for Mats Scura and Jesse Davis gave way to Adam Panky,
Speaker 1: the old veteran getting some time off there in that
Speaker 1: first half. But Jacoby Brissette, when that offensive line pairing
Speaker 1: we just talked about, kind of allowed a little bit
Speaker 1: of pressure in that game. He did a good job
Speaker 1: to mitigate the pressure, get off of his spot, makes
Speaker 1: some scrambled plays. He had one nice scramble that came
Speaker 1: back when I holding call unfortunately, but also just through
Speaker 1: the football well kept the team ahead of the chains
Speaker 1: and produced points on some of his drives, including a
Speaker 1: great throw and catch to savan Akman. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Savon here in just one second because he is one
Speaker 1: of my takeaways as well. Not in my takeaway top five,
Speaker 1: but he's in there because explosive plays are the name
Speaker 1: of the game, and he certainly provides you with some
Speaker 1: of that takeaway four. B had to shoehorn this in
Speaker 1: here because I really have like twelve takeaways, but I
Speaker 1: gotta get done a five justin Fields, I would start
Speaker 1: him for the Bears if it was my decision. He
Speaker 1: really had his way once the defense started to kind
Speaker 1: of pull some guys out of the game. And it's
Speaker 1: good to get a tape to me. Even though I
Speaker 1: put this on Twitter and people said, well, it's the backups,
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, but it's still the tape that Dolphins
Speaker 1: are gonna watch and dissect and work on and get
Speaker 1: a feel for how to defend a quarterback of this caliber,
Speaker 1: which isn't the norm in the NFL by any stretch,
Speaker 1: but it's becoming more and more prevalent. These guys that
Speaker 1: can get off the spot and make plays with their
Speaker 1: legs and then bite by way of the plays with
Speaker 1: their legs, they become more dangerous through the area because
Speaker 1: you have to account for both and you don't want
Speaker 1: to get caught camping back in the defensive backfield. You
Speaker 1: have to pursue and then that of course opens things
Speaker 1: up downfield. But what a great opportunity to get a
Speaker 1: game and two practices on tape against the quarterback that
Speaker 1: can do these types of things. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: doing that at practice, getting out on the edge and
Speaker 1: throwing the football against scattered defensive looks because of the
Speaker 1: fact that he was threatening on the edge with the legs.
Speaker 1: To get that on tape, to get a chance to
Speaker 1: look at it, break it down, give this team a
Speaker 1: full month before they go into the regular season where
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a Cam Newton and Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: back to back weeks. To me, that's invaluable, just like
Speaker 1: it is to see a pass rush like a Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears team. That's only gonna get you better going up
Speaker 1: against those guys two days of practice and one day
Speaker 1: in a game. My fifth takeaways the offensive line because
Speaker 1: I found the narrative out there and interesting or intriguing
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know the term for, but they looked
Speaker 1: really good. I thought early on as far as the
Speaker 1: past protection goes, I talked about the Mike ga sicky
Speaker 1: throw from two, a tongue by lower. He had all
Speaker 1: day to sit back there and survey that Adam Shiheen
Speaker 1: throw was pretty similar as well. The interception to close
Speaker 1: out to was day. I thought he had plenty of
Speaker 1: time to pass on that one. I didn't get the
Speaker 1: surge you want in the running game, But as far
Speaker 1: as creating enough of a pocket for two to make plays,
Speaker 1: that's really what all you have to do for this
Speaker 1: offense to have a chance to be really explosive and
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. And things did get a little
Speaker 1: bit compromised. Like I mentioned, when you go from what
Speaker 1: Brissette had in front of him compared to what to
Speaker 1: I had, he just I thought Brissette was under more pressure.
Speaker 1: I thought Michael Dieter had a really good day up
Speaker 1: front in terms of helping out with past protection. There
Speaker 1: was a great rep where he had to go double
Speaker 1: a Keen Hicks with Robert Hunt because you got to
Speaker 1: take care of that guy. And then Khalil mackill looped
Speaker 1: in as the looper on a stunt and Deeter once
Speaker 1: he kind of helped Hunt get into square position up
Speaker 1: on a cheam Hicks. He comes off that block and
Speaker 1: follows Khalil Mack and just make sure he doesn't get
Speaker 1: to our quarterback. That's gonna be a critical critical element
Speaker 1: for this team this year that center position. Communicating all
Speaker 1: the games and helping keep your quarterback clean and healthy
Speaker 1: is so key. And I think for Michael to have
Speaker 1: a whole year of experience playing fifteen games and then
Speaker 1: last year stepping back and you know, he went through
Speaker 1: the full season, didn't get injured, but his his physical
Speaker 1: body kind of got a rest because he didn't play
Speaker 1: nearly as much. He only played a few snaps on
Speaker 1: offense and some special teams reps here and there. But
Speaker 1: he had a whole year too kind of sharpen the
Speaker 1: mental side of the game. I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: very crucial for him at that center position. And I
Speaker 1: thought he did really well today. Now there was some
Speaker 1: talk about the goal line runs that didn't work out
Speaker 1: where he was on the ground. He was cut blocking.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you cut block, you go to
Speaker 1: the ground. That's the idea of a cut block. So
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind. But the offensive line, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of takeaway, but a sub takeaway of the
Speaker 1: takeaways that the production they got with two in the game.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit about what you like
Speaker 1: about who is game that he does elevate the performance
Speaker 1: of those around him, especially when it comes to the
Speaker 1: quick passing game, and you get that ball out quick
Speaker 1: and you pretty much take away the entire factor of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. When you catch rock throw, there's no
Speaker 1: pass rush that can account for that type of passing game,
Speaker 1: and you just can't get home. You're not gonna unless
Speaker 1: they literally turn into parking cones and you can run
Speaker 1: right by them. But this offensive line is not that
Speaker 1: So it's more than good enough to handle the catch
Speaker 1: rock throw type of passes. But also with that mind
Speaker 1: and some of the motion and misdirection and zone read
Speaker 1: and stuff you can do, and we saw some of
Speaker 1: that today. The RPO action as well, that's gonna put
Speaker 1: just a half of the false step on the defense
Speaker 1: or a half of a delay in terms of how
Speaker 1: they key and trigger and flow. That's gonna make all
Speaker 1: the difference in the world. And I think we saw
Speaker 1: that how to have made his offensive line better based
Speaker 1: upon the way he handles the game and the approach.
Speaker 1: So that's our fifth takeaway, and that leads right into
Speaker 1: kind of takeaway number six, But we'll just go ahead
Speaker 1: and call the position by a position breakdown. I thought
Speaker 1: two looked really, really, really good in this game. The
Speaker 1: ball came out quick, he was off the back foot
Speaker 1: on the top of the drop, and he was stepping
Speaker 1: up and delivering the football, throwing with tremendous accuracy, and
Speaker 1: he attacked deep when he had the time, converted third
Speaker 1: downs of six, eight and nine yards. How I mean,
Speaker 1: how long have you been waiting for that as a
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan to consistently know that even when you don't
Speaker 1: win first and second down, you still have the ability
Speaker 1: to win on the third down. Keep the offense going,
Speaker 1: keep this really good defense fresh. It just all works together,
Speaker 1: all compliments, and to convert three third and longs. I
Speaker 1: thought that was such a big part of the game
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen talked about a lot, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it here on the podcast. Because the
Speaker 1: fifty yard to Mike Gatsicky again, great pass protection, great accuracy.
Speaker 1: I love the way the linebacker is in chase. He's
Speaker 1: a trailing the Mike Asicky on the route, and because
Speaker 1: his back is turned too, knows that he only has
Speaker 1: a certain width or depth that he can defend. Because
Speaker 1: you can't see what you can't you can't defend what
Speaker 1: you can't see. Rather, and so to a knowing that
Speaker 1: his back is turned Mike's on top, he has to
Speaker 1: be most concerned about the vertical speed of Mike to
Speaker 1: continue running this thing all the way. So just throw
Speaker 1: it up over the top and you're not in danger
Speaker 1: of him turning back locating the football. Because he does that,
Speaker 1: he loses a step and then Mike might be able
Speaker 1: to catch that thing and go all the way. So
Speaker 1: that location on that throw and the subtle little push
Speaker 1: from Mike to great separation. A nice piece of work
Speaker 1: there with that throw was fantastic on third down to
Speaker 1: convert and move the chains. The third and sixth row
Speaker 1: to Mike Asiki on the next drive that coverage. That
Speaker 1: ball had no business being completed. The coverage was super tight,
Speaker 1: pressure got in pretty quickly into his face, and the
Speaker 1: dB is all over Mike like he knows that the
Speaker 1: blitz on that play, he knows the ball has to
Speaker 1: come out quick, so he drives on that little stick
Speaker 1: and out route that Goaseki ran and so he's on
Speaker 1: his back. He's turning Mike as he comes over the
Speaker 1: top and the ball's per quickly located away from Mike's
Speaker 1: frame to reach his hands out and make the catch
Speaker 1: off frame. Now, granted, that's a very difficult catch to make,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure too, and Mike know that, like, hey man,
Speaker 1: our only chance to complete this is to throw a
Speaker 1: ball that's gonna be hard for you to catch it.
Speaker 1: I need you to make a play for me. We
Speaker 1: talked about two and making his guys better. How about
Speaker 1: making your quarterback better? And that's exactly what Mike Asiki
Speaker 1: did on that play, but to it to give him
Speaker 1: the opportunity to make that catch and not put it
Speaker 1: in harm's way where the dB has an easy p bu.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic work right there. That again had no business
Speaker 1: being completed, and they put it on the money. Just
Speaker 1: a great repetition there from your second year quarterback, your
Speaker 1: fourth year tight end, and they're working together here in
Speaker 1: their second year, and then the third and fourth, the
Speaker 1: third and nine throw rather to mac Hollins, there is
Speaker 1: trash it to his feet and he throws that thing
Speaker 1: out to his left. So he's trying to step left
Speaker 1: and drive with that right foot out to that side
Speaker 1: of the field. There's a body at his feet. At
Speaker 1: his feet so he can't step into that throw, so
Speaker 1: he has to step away from the direction of his throw.
Speaker 1: Go out in your backyard right now, take a foot
Speaker 1: ball and align yourself down the middle of your backyard
Speaker 1: and throw the ball straight. But step with your lead foot,
Speaker 1: your left foot if you're right handed, step out to
Speaker 1: the left and throw the ball straight, and tell me
Speaker 1: what happens. It's not easy. You have to account for
Speaker 1: the difference and the arm slot in the arm angle.
Speaker 1: And he put that thing right on the money on
Speaker 1: that throw for a big completion and a first down.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about mac hollins effort. Ext Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about it right now. Because mac Hollins
Speaker 1: how did himself a heck of a day special teams
Speaker 1: and receiving wise, he on that route the defenders underneath
Speaker 1: him playing trail technique because the safety had rolled to
Speaker 1: that side of the field, so he knows I can
Speaker 1: play the short stuff the end out, the inbreak, the outbreak,
Speaker 1: and work on that. But Max still got on top
Speaker 1: of him, stacked him, and then had a great route
Speaker 1: to the inside to create some space and separation and
Speaker 1: to with that pressure in his face, puts the ball
Speaker 1: inside to the defensive back so he can't make a
Speaker 1: play through the ball and get the PBu Hollins makes
Speaker 1: the catch big time, first down. Keep that drive going.
Speaker 1: Then the last one I want to talk about with
Speaker 1: the that's not the last one, but the next one,
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Brown flip where there's immediate pressure and and
Speaker 1: bodies at to his feet and he steps out of
Speaker 1: the possible sack and flips that thing out to Malcolm Brown.
Speaker 1: Instead of a six yard loss and second and sixteen,
Speaker 1: it goes for seven yards, so it's a second and sixteen,
Speaker 1: it goes to second and three. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: off script playmaking you like. In addition to the stuff
Speaker 1: we talked about here, playing on script in rhythm and
Speaker 1: throwing the football accurately under dress and two guys in
Speaker 1: tight coverage as well as with separations. So just good
Speaker 1: stuff there. And then we have talked about the interception
Speaker 1: because that was a bad play. Let's just call it
Speaker 1: what it is. He was late to come back to
Speaker 1: that read over the middle. He talked about it, Jason
Speaker 1: Tayler talked about it on the broadcast. You could see
Speaker 1: it from the press box. I saw Shaheen uncovered pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: thought that's where the ball should go, and it did,
Speaker 1: but it was just a few seconds late, and the
Speaker 1: end zone angle on the broadcast shows it as well.
Speaker 1: To one knows that has to be better. He owned
Speaker 1: up to it after the game and his postgame press conference,
Speaker 1: but until that point, just a really solid performance from
Speaker 1: QB one. It's it's too bad it has to end
Speaker 1: with the pick because before the pick he was eight
Speaker 1: for ten yards, and the two in completions where a
Speaker 1: throw away and a drop that would have been good
Speaker 1: for about thirteen or fourteen yards on his first pass
Speaker 1: of the game. It looks like the quarterback we've been
Speaker 1: seeing at practice and now has a chance to stack
Speaker 1: some good days and string this thing together and continue
Speaker 1: to get better in that way. But I come away
Speaker 1: from this first game very encouraged by what I saw
Speaker 1: from your Miami Dolphins quarterback. Let's go ahead and go
Speaker 1: to to Ah at his postgame press conference to hear
Speaker 1: how he felt he performed in his first ever preseason game.
Speaker 1: I think the better question for that is, uh, what
Speaker 1: didn't I do well? Um? You know, I thought I
Speaker 1: did all right. Um. There are a lot of things
Speaker 1: that we need to clean up offensively, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: with our communication, more saw our execution, with our plays
Speaker 1: that we're given. But the first time coming out, you know,
Speaker 1: in a real game like situation environment, UM, I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty good for the first time. Obviously, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we need to clean up,
Speaker 1: but that's what we got filmed for. You know, when
Speaker 1: we hop on onto the plane, we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at some of those plays that didn't go the way
Speaker 1: we wanted to and uh, you know, we'll get those fixed.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead now and go to Brian Flores
Speaker 1: on the performance of his starting quarterback to a Toungo Byla,
Speaker 1: I think he did. I think he did a lot
Speaker 1: of good things. I thought he made several good throws.
Speaker 1: You know, I know you had to drop with your
Speaker 1: early um, I want to say you had another drop.
Speaker 1: But he fired the ball in there on a couple
Speaker 1: of in cuts, made some good decisions obviously, the one
Speaker 1: bad decision in the red zone. We talked about it
Speaker 1: and he knows exactly um what he should have done
Speaker 1: with the ball air And it's correctable. That's what we
Speaker 1: talked about as the staff. Something that's very correctable, and
Speaker 1: he'll make the correction and we'll move on and get
Speaker 1: better from him. You gotta love that message there. It's
Speaker 1: correctable and he will go ahead and make those corrections.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go down the list here of
Speaker 1: players I thought shine and played well and made a
Speaker 1: good case for themselves in terms of either getting more
Speaker 1: playing time or earning a spot on the fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster three or four years from now down the line,
Speaker 1: which is a coach Flora's joke there, it's it's about
Speaker 1: a month away, but in terms of football days, it's
Speaker 1: years away. But here's some guys I thought performed well.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaston came into the game, uh second at the
Speaker 1: running back position and had some nice runs. Had that
Speaker 1: nice run off the edge as well as a little
Speaker 1: scamper up the middle where he showed some of the
Speaker 1: shifty cuts back and forth. But savan Akhmed, and this
Speaker 1: goes back to my point earlier about wanting to have
Speaker 1: explosive aspects or explosive options at every position on offense.
Speaker 1: And I think the receiver position has done a great
Speaker 1: job this offseason of adding to that component. Whether it's
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, whether it's Albert Wilson coming back off the
Speaker 1: opt out, whether you talk about Jachem Grant in the
Speaker 1: role that he has in this team and making big plays.
Speaker 1: It's there's so many options in this offense to make
Speaker 1: the explosive play. Mike Asiki for fifty yards, how many
Speaker 1: tight ends can catch fifty yard passes? Hit a seventy
Speaker 1: yard catch last season. But when you want to run
Speaker 1: the football to me, yeah, it's great to stay ahead
Speaker 1: of the chains. Yeah, it's great to convert short yardage.
Speaker 1: But if I can hit home runs and chunk plays
Speaker 1: in the running game, that's my main focus. I like
Speaker 1: to move the chains and hit big plays in the
Speaker 1: running game. And Savon Achmed had a twenty yard run
Speaker 1: today and a twenty three yard touchdown reception. And he's
Speaker 1: been hitting that wheel route in practice and games. He's
Speaker 1: been catching football's left and right over the middle out
Speaker 1: to the outside. He just continues to show his big
Speaker 1: play element. He's a guy I wanted to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on this camp because of the speedy offers and
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get a crease and hit the big play.
Speaker 1: We saw that today. Those two plays forty three yards
Speaker 1: running back, that's what you want, big time touchdown there.
Speaker 1: In the passing game, I thought Gascon and Achmed both
Speaker 1: played really well at the running back position, and also
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird had some nice work. Unfortunately, his one reception
Speaker 1: that would have moved the chains on third down got
Speaker 1: called back by a little rub p p I on
Speaker 1: the offense on Kirk Merritt, but nevertheless he told me
Speaker 1: to play. So good work there from Patrick Laird at
Speaker 1: the receiver position. Man mac Hollins on one of the
Speaker 1: plays on special teams, I saw him bust his ass
Speaker 1: down there, split a double team and get into the
Speaker 1: face of the return man who muffed it. But he
Speaker 1: got the guy down right away at the point after
Speaker 1: he recovered his own muff. Mac Hollins continues to shine
Speaker 1: on special teams, but also the route I talked about
Speaker 1: that route he ran on the fourteen yard completion on
Speaker 1: third and nine. He just stacked him, got a little
Speaker 1: stutter cut to the inside. Great route there from mac Hollins.
Speaker 1: He continues to uncover. The slant pattern he ran was
Speaker 1: a good look. There. Had another catch earlier in the
Speaker 1: game where he got outside of a defender and flipped
Speaker 1: his hips to the inside and ran the out route,
Speaker 1: snapped it back off to the outside that got called
Speaker 1: back by a holding call. But mac Hollins continues to
Speaker 1: be a prevalent target and a reliable target for two
Speaker 1: a tongo by Loa and then also Lynn Bowden Jr.
Speaker 1: Had a couple of catches in this game. Made some
Speaker 1: guys miss made some runs after the catch. Good to
Speaker 1: see him in game action. I've always thought Linn was
Speaker 1: a guy that was kind of a gamer. When the
Speaker 1: lights go on, he plays even better. So good to
Speaker 1: see him have a good preseason debut on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I thought Michael Dieter had a good game. I talked
Speaker 1: about his work passing off some of the the stunts
Speaker 1: and the moves and the games up front and just
Speaker 1: the communication he had upfront on the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think that his presence and his intelligence in that position
Speaker 1: can really help this Dolphins team pick up some of
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's more mental than physical, because I do
Speaker 1: think he's a very smart, heavy player in that position.
Speaker 1: I also thought Robert Hunt got some good push today.
Speaker 1: I had some good past protection reps as well. So
Speaker 1: good on those two guys up front. We go over
Speaker 1: to the defensive side now at the tight end position.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike get Sicky, we talked about him,
Speaker 1: what a game he had. He looks he looks back healthy,
Speaker 1: fresh and ready to go. And that's a big time
Speaker 1: playmaker in your offense. On the defensive side, I mean,
Speaker 1: stop me if you've heard this before. Man, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Adam Butler, Sack Steeler, Ray Kawon Davis, and I put
Speaker 1: Benito Jones in the list two because he had a
Speaker 1: nice couple of plays on the interior against the run
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. But Christian Wilkins, my goodness, what
Speaker 1: a game he had today. Watching the playback the broadcast copy,
Speaker 1: I thought he had one of the if not the
Speaker 1: best game on the entire defense. This team works so
Speaker 1: hard to keep their eyes on the football while engaged
Speaker 1: on blocks. You come off the block when the ball
Speaker 1: goes past you and you try to get the tackle.
Speaker 1: And he did that so well today, stacking up blocks,
Speaker 1: shedding blocks, getting back to the ball carrier. There was
Speaker 1: a great rap where he worked down the line on
Speaker 1: a block, came off of it. The running back bends
Speaker 1: it back because of the good work by Zack Seeler
Speaker 1: up front as well. Ray Kwon Davis upfront bends it
Speaker 1: back and Christian Wilkins is there from the Bill Goldberg
Speaker 1: style WCW pile driver to the ground. I'm surprised he
Speaker 1: didn't go for the jackhammer for the finish. That's what
Speaker 1: I would have done, but maybe another day. So Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: I thought was fantastic, also had a pass break up.
Speaker 1: He was a menace out there, staying in his gap,
Speaker 1: getting off blocks, stacking things up for his teammates. Zack Seeler, penetration,
Speaker 1: stacking blocks. You just can't get penetration or you can't
Speaker 1: push this guy back. He can't knock him back. He
Speaker 1: continuously gets a surge upfront on that defensive line. Adam Butler,
Speaker 1: same story, collapsing the pocket as a pass rusher, holding
Speaker 1: up things as a run defender. And Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: the same story. Man, He was in there, penetrate in
Speaker 1: that pocket, closing things down. He is so wrong. Guys
Speaker 1: have a really hell of a time trying to block
Speaker 1: to block him out of the hole. He and Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins had a great rap together. I think the hole
Speaker 1: was on Wilkins, but both he and Davis looked like
Speaker 1: to me they got held on a big outside run
Speaker 1: from the Bears that came back because of that flag.
Speaker 1: And then I mentioned Benito Jones as well, had a
Speaker 1: couple of plays in the running game at the linebacker position.
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkl had a great special teams tackle in
Speaker 1: this game. He also had a very strong edge set
Speaker 1: in a run game to get a big stop off
Speaker 1: the edge in a position where it was him a
Speaker 1: blocker in the ball carrier and it looked like it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a big game, but gink was able
Speaker 1: to get into the gap and make the play and
Speaker 1: shut that thing down for a short game. I thought
Speaker 1: Duke Riley's speed we talked about it on the podcast
Speaker 1: Every Day, showed up big time in this game. He
Speaker 1: was sideline the sideline, played a lot of snaps and
Speaker 1: had a lot of good ones too. I thought eg
Speaker 1: Van's strong camp continue to show show up in the
Speaker 1: game here today. His speed again. We talked about the
Speaker 1: speed on this team, me Seth and o J. Talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot on the postgame show on w
Speaker 1: q A. M Man. This team speed has really improved
Speaker 1: this year and the line backround position is a great
Speaker 1: example of that. Both Riley and eg Vaughan really exemplifying
Speaker 1: that team speed. I thought Brandon Scarlett had a good
Speaker 1: pass rush on justin fields as well as a strong
Speaker 1: edge in the running game. That's kind of been his
Speaker 1: m O of this training camp. A good game from him.
Speaker 1: And then Jerome Baker, I mean, he's kind of always
Speaker 1: in here because of the sideline, the sideline speed, the rushing,
Speaker 1: the coverage of the run defense. If your defense allows
Speaker 1: zero first downs on five drives, Jerome Baker most likely
Speaker 1: is doing something right because the defense kind of funnels
Speaker 1: through his position and what he does in that scheme.
Speaker 1: So a great job by Jerome Baker in the defensive secondary.
Speaker 1: Nick Needham possibly the player of the day. It's it's
Speaker 1: either him or Christian Wilkins on defense for me, because
Speaker 1: his technique on those two in completions that he had
Speaker 1: in the slot was perfect. Man Like two way ago
Speaker 1: from the law is a tough tough ask. But he
Speaker 1: was on the slant routes before the receiver both time
Speaker 1: where he just stayed true, kept his eyes on the hips.
Speaker 1: If his hips are there, he's not leaving. Just focus
Speaker 1: on that and you can keep your position. He drove
Speaker 1: on those balls and didn't get pass interference calls. That's
Speaker 1: a tough want to drive on where you can possibly
Speaker 1: turn the guys back with your back hand as you
Speaker 1: reach over the PBu with your outside hand. Great work
Speaker 1: there from Nick Needham. He had a good day Noah
Speaker 1: Igbanaga and he got banged up on a tackle that
Speaker 1: was short of the sticks on third down, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, we're always going to mention that here on
Speaker 1: the podcast. That takes real grit and toughness to make
Speaker 1: that play. He also had some damn good coverage reps
Speaker 1: force and completion was in perfect coverage on a ball
Speaker 1: that fields had to check down on another play, now,
Speaker 1: he did give up a twenty five yard completion. I
Speaker 1: think it was at one point where again he's in
Speaker 1: great position, just didn't quite get his head around in time.
Speaker 1: I think the more he continues to work and more
Speaker 1: experience he sees, he'll get better in that department as well.
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman had a great tackle in the open field
Speaker 1: on cole Commit and he didn't get any passes completed
Speaker 1: on him either, So a good day for the new
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins slot corner there. Eric Rowe the PBu on
Speaker 1: cole Commit as well. All he does is the race
Speaker 1: tight ends and play a strong safety against the run.
Speaker 1: Strong run game safety position as well is what I
Speaker 1: meant to say. A good job by Eric Rowe. Jim
Speaker 1: All Perry continues to make plays his tackle and open space.
Speaker 1: It was a ace picture coming onto the mound after
Speaker 1: the team has a four game skit or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. He was the stopper at that point because
Speaker 1: Justin Fields had gone down the field twice for touchdowns
Speaker 1: and they get the ball out of space on third
Speaker 1: and short after that muff punt, So good field position
Speaker 1: is at steak, getting off the fields at steak and
Speaker 1: Jamal Perry makes a great open field tackle and he
Speaker 1: also had a great special teams tackle in this game too.
Speaker 1: He has been really good in training camp and it
Speaker 1: came over into this first game. And then Javarros Davis
Speaker 1: another good coverage rep on a takeoff pass, something he's
Speaker 1: been doing all training camp long, and I continue to
Speaker 1: be impressed by his work at the cornerback position. Specialist
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle had the twenty three yard punt return that
Speaker 1: was awesome to see some shaking bake and the speed
Speaker 1: to really drop that thing in the second gear and
Speaker 1: take off and show the speed there. Jachem Grant had
Speaker 1: two fantastic punt returns as well, and some work in
Speaker 1: the receiving game as in the passing game rather as
Speaker 1: a receiver. Jason Sanders two for two and a p
Speaker 1: a T. Michael Plardy boomed the crap out of the ball.
Speaker 1: All had a couple of balls pinned down, as had
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line as well, and then Blake Ferguson
Speaker 1: some good snaps. Those are your special teams performers, Guys
Speaker 1: that I thought made their case as possible getting onto
Speaker 1: the roster. Guys. Javarus Davis mentioned him, Jamal Perry mentioned him.
Speaker 1: I thought Craven le Blanc had a good game, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird mentioned him earlier as well. For the guys
Speaker 1: that were kind of in that second half tier of
Speaker 1: of Snaptakers that I thought played well my game balls,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Nick Meedhum and Eric Rowe. We
Speaker 1: talked about both those guys and Christian Wilkins, Jachim Grant
Speaker 1: for the punt return work he did. He gets in there.
Speaker 1: Mike Gisicky, that big catches the the fifty yard catch
Speaker 1: basically was good for points. Savon Akhmed scored a touchdown,
Speaker 1: had two twenty plus yard plays, big time from running
Speaker 1: back Jamal Perry on that we talked about him already
Speaker 1: and then to a tongue of byloa, I was gonna
Speaker 1: take him off for the pick, but after watching the game,
Speaker 1: he was so sharp and efficient getting the ball out
Speaker 1: making his teammates better. He definitely gets in there. My
Speaker 1: top offensive performer is Mike Gisicky, it would have been
Speaker 1: to before the pick, and my top defensive performer was
Speaker 1: Nick need him with Christian will it's right there. And
Speaker 1: my drive of the game was gonna be the toa.
Speaker 1: I think it was a third team play drive. It
Speaker 1: was the one that ended in the pick, but they
Speaker 1: were going so well with third down conversions and just
Speaker 1: playing with rhythm that was gonna be the drive of
Speaker 1: the game. But we decided to pivot over to the
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette because he went five for five, couple of
Speaker 1: passes to Bowd and two to Akhmed and one to
Speaker 1: Robert Foster. I believe it was before the twenty three
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass to Savon Akmed. So all things good,
Speaker 1: looked pretty good for a preseason debut. Plenty to work
Speaker 1: on and correct for next week heading into the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: the loan preseason game at hard Rock Stadium this year,
Speaker 1: and we have two joint practices to cover at Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex as well as a practice on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back with you guys on Monday for
Speaker 1: a mail bag and kind of a deeper dive into
Speaker 1: this game type of podcast. Stay tuned for that. Get
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Speaker 1: post that, probably gonna do it on Probably gonna do
Speaker 1: it on Monday mornings. We're keep an eye out for that. Also,
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