Speaker 1: Factors Patrick touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: It is Tuesday. I am Travis Wingfield and the emotion
Speaker 1: has worn off a little bit from the season opening
Speaker 1: loss in New England. As we are back and we
Speaker 1: are here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, a few more notes
Speaker 1: on that Dolphins Patriots open and before we officially turned
Speaker 1: the page to Buffalo, we're gonna hear from Coach Flora's
Speaker 1: his Monday press conference, a couple of sound bites from
Speaker 1: rookie safety Brandon Jones. The Dolphins coordinators will talk today
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday, and we're gonna go inside the numbers
Speaker 1: with all the snap counts, personnel usage, some all twenty
Speaker 1: two notes from late Monday night, and much much more
Speaker 1: as we begin to turn the page to the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: All of that and more on this Tuesday, September fifte
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime Podcast. We heard from Coach Flora's
Speaker 1: on Monday afternoon. Let's go ahead and first start by
Speaker 1: playing his press conference from Monday afternoon, some final notes
Speaker 1: from coach on the week one loss up in New England.
Speaker 1: Coach was first asked about some things the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: to work on, including creating more explosive plays on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: we gotta work on. Exposed to plays part of that.
Speaker 1: So we'll look at different schemes, personnel, We'll look at
Speaker 1: everything and try to do what he feels best for
Speaker 1: the team from exupposed to play at standpoint, but also
Speaker 1: just an overall offensive team. And up next was kind
Speaker 1: of an accountability checker here for coach Flora's as he
Speaker 1: takes accountability for the loss on Sunday, talking about how
Speaker 1: this team just has to be better across the board.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, as a team, we've got to
Speaker 1: be better across the board offense, defense, special teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were some opportunities that you know, we didn't take
Speaker 1: advantage of after watching the film. That includes the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: but it includes all the positions. Um, we need better
Speaker 1: play from everybody. We need better coaching. That starts with me.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's there's a little a little bit
Speaker 1: to go around at every every position. Um, every position,
Speaker 1: every position, coach, we all have to be better. And
Speaker 1: of course with two d and seventeen yards on the
Speaker 1: ground from the Patriots, coach was asked about how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can get better working off the edge and improving
Speaker 1: that run defense that they showed in Week one. There
Speaker 1: were there are obviously a lot of issues so setting
Speaker 1: the edge, you know, those quarterback read plays, who's got
Speaker 1: the quarterback who? You know, there's just some miscommunication on that. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of calls there where it was
Speaker 1: just a miscommunication. We try to get fixed on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Gotta fix one guy's gout at once, somebody does else
Speaker 1: doesn't have it, you know, change the grouping. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a there was a plethora of things we gotta
Speaker 1: get fixed. And um, we'll work on that all week
Speaker 1: and again that that falls on me and uh, we'll
Speaker 1: get that. We'll get that corrected. We're looking forward to
Speaker 1: another opportunity to go out and compete next week and
Speaker 1: we are going to come back later in this podcast
Speaker 1: and revisit coaches kind of initial thoughts going into Week
Speaker 1: two as you heard him talk about the need for
Speaker 1: improvement heading into the Buffalo Bill's game. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish here with his press conference with my question
Speaker 1: for coach to evaluate the past protection on the offensive
Speaker 1: line in Week one. But the protection was was was solid.
Speaker 1: We had we had a room to step up and
Speaker 1: time to throw it. That was good. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: we can always improve in that area as well. We
Speaker 1: were gonna need that. We're gonna need, you know, similar
Speaker 1: protection this week against a really really uh good front,
Speaker 1: good defense. So go to those young guys. Got off
Speaker 1: to a solid start. But I mean it's about consistency
Speaker 1: in this league. We really need more consistency across the
Speaker 1: board on this team, offensively, defensively, end in the kicking game,
Speaker 1: but I did think they got off to the start.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and pivot now to a piece
Speaker 1: we're gonna do every Monday post game, and it'll be
Speaker 1: Friday post game after the Jacksonville Week three Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game there in Jacksonville. We'll have to do that
Speaker 1: on Friday, But for the meantime, we're gonna do these
Speaker 1: things on Monday morning following the Dolphins Sunday games. Taking
Speaker 1: a look at team stats, individual performances, snap counts, and
Speaker 1: personnel usage, all that fun stuff. We did a weekly
Speaker 1: back at Locked on Dolphins. Gonna go ahead and continue
Speaker 1: that tradition here with the Miami Dolphins, and take into
Speaker 1: account that these were recorded before the Monday night game.
Speaker 1: According to Pro Football Reference, Pro Football Focus, next Gen
Speaker 1: NFL Stats, plenty of good stuff. First off, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: game was the shortest on Sunday, two hours and forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. Everybody loves a quick game, and just to
Speaker 1: kind of go off the top here, you always have
Speaker 1: to recall or think about sample size sixty snaps, give
Speaker 1: or take either side of the football. A lot of
Speaker 1: volatility in these stats as we go on here in
Speaker 1: the NFL season, even a sixteen game sample size can
Speaker 1: be too small sometimes, so take that into account here
Speaker 1: when hearing the stats. Won sixteenth of the season. Now
Speaker 1: in the books, Dolphins are ranked twenty five on offense
Speaker 1: and thirteen on defense, both those in total yardage and
Speaker 1: those rankings bear out in the scoring category as well,
Speaker 1: as the Dolphins allowed the twelve fewest points in the
Speaker 1: NFL Week one and have the seven rank scoring offense. Again,
Speaker 1: this out of twenty eight teams without Monday Night in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: the Giants, Tennessee and Denver. The Dolphins eighty seven yards
Speaker 1: on the ground ranked twenty one, and the two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen rushing yards allowed was in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins passing offense ranks twenty four, but the past defense
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest yards in the NFL. On Sunday, Miami
Speaker 1: allowed a fifty percent conversion rate on third down that
Speaker 1: was twenty one in the NFL. The offense converted thirty
Speaker 1: six point four percent of the time on third down,
Speaker 1: ranking nineteenth. In the crucial red zone, the red area
Speaker 1: the biggest portion of the field of Dolphins were one
Speaker 1: for two on offense, giving them the seventeenth ranked red
Speaker 1: zone offense and also tied for seventeenth on defense, allowing
Speaker 1: three touchdowns on four red zone trips and seventy of
Speaker 1: the time. The Dolphins ran majority of their offense through
Speaker 1: eleven personnel packages. That's one running back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: three receivers. They played thirty six snaps in that package,
Speaker 1: and then from there it was really a veritable use
Speaker 1: of different packages. They called on twelve personnel and twenty
Speaker 1: personnel six times each. That's gonna be one back, two
Speaker 1: tight ends, two receivers, and then twenty personnel is two backs,
Speaker 1: no tight ends, three receivers, so plenty of rotation that way.
Speaker 1: They also had five snaps out of twenty one personnel
Speaker 1: two backs and one tight end, and four snaps came
Speaker 1: out twenty two personnel where you go heavy to running backs,
Speaker 1: two tight ends try and jam it down the other
Speaker 1: team's throat. They ran four of those snaps, two with
Speaker 1: five offensive lineman and two of them with six offensive
Speaker 1: linemen as well, so plenty of beef on the field
Speaker 1: for those plays. The Dolphins ranked fourth last year and
Speaker 1: penalties committed both yardage and penalties assessed on Sunday. That
Speaker 1: continued with the fifth fewest penalty yardage and overall penalties
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins snap counts offensively, the offensive line and
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpacked all went the distance sixty two snaps for Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Eric Flowers, Ted Carris, Solomon Kinley, and Jesse Davis.
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt got two snaps as the extra offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at running back. Miles Gascon led the way thirty nine snaps.
Speaker 1: That was sixty of the workload. Matt Brida had fourteen snaps,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard had nine, Patrick Laird had four, and Chandler Cox,
Speaker 1: the fullback, played eighteen percent of the snaps with eleven reps.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, at receiver, Davante Parker only played twenty three
Speaker 1: snaps that was thirty seven percent because he did leave
Speaker 1: the game at halftime. Preston Williams led the way with
Speaker 1: fifty six reps, Isaiah Ford forty six, jakeem Grant thirty nine,
Speaker 1: and matc Collins had three. On the day, Mike Gasicki
Speaker 1: was the most snap getting tight end in the game.
Speaker 1: Does that sentence make sense, Probably not, but he played
Speaker 1: forty five snaps seventy of the time, Durham Smith had thirteen,
Speaker 1: and Adam Sheheen had twelve. Some advanced metrics on these guys.
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick was sixteen of twenty four for one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty six yards with no pressure, kept cleaning the pocket,
Speaker 1: and he also had eight point five percent passes completed
Speaker 1: above expected completion rate. That takes into account for separation downfield.
Speaker 1: We know by now this Patriots defensive backfield is as
Speaker 1: sticky as they come. Those guys were in tight coverage
Speaker 1: all day on the Dolphins big tall targets making for
Speaker 1: some tight windows, but Fitzpatrick completed eight point five percent
Speaker 1: passes above the expected completion rate according to next gim.
Speaker 1: He also averaged two point five seven seconds to pass
Speaker 1: from drop backs this game. The offensive line allowed only
Speaker 1: two hits on the quarterback one sack and one hit,
Speaker 1: and just five total pressures on the thirty eight dropbacks.
Speaker 1: Really good performance there statistically from PF On the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive line, Austin Jackson pitched himself a clean sheet and
Speaker 1: pass protection. No pressures, no hurries, no sacks, no hits,
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. In his rookie debut, fellow rookie
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley allowed just one pressure and that was merely
Speaker 1: a hurry from the Patriots pass rush. We're actually gonna
Speaker 1: have Solomon Kinley on tomorrow's podcast for the Wednesday feature,
Speaker 1: so check that out. He also had the second best
Speaker 1: run blocking grade from Pro Football Focus. He was behind
Speaker 1: only Ted Carriss along the offensive line, and carrass allowed
Speaker 1: just one hurry of his own as well. Running Back
Speaker 1: Myles Gaskin had forty yards and some passing game contributions
Speaker 1: as well. Thirty two of his forty yards came after
Speaker 1: initial contact. That gave him an average of three point
Speaker 1: five six yards after contact on Sunday. After last year,
Speaker 1: he led the Dolphins among backs that finished the season
Speaker 1: on Miami with three point to eight yards after contact,
Speaker 1: So now he's right down the middle at three point
Speaker 1: three three in his career, he led the team in
Speaker 1: that category on Sunday and rushing yards as well ten
Speaker 1: plus runs. He had one of those, and he tied
Speaker 1: for the team lead and rushing first downs with two
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick and Matt Brita. And Matt Brita also
Speaker 1: tied with Gasking for the team lead in average yards
Speaker 1: per carry at four point four, and Mike Gasicki was
Speaker 1: the team's best run blocking graded tight end our player
Speaker 1: rather on PFF with an eight eight point two and
Speaker 1: run blocking on defense. The snap counts up front for
Speaker 1: the defensive tackles a solid rotation in there, with the
Speaker 1: Von gard Shop playing forty four and Christian Wilkins playing
Speaker 1: forty three snaps. That's seventy and six respectively. Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Davis got twenty seven reps. That's Zack Seeler played four
Speaker 1: snaps on Sunday, Shack Lawson Emmanuel Ogball played sixty and
Speaker 1: fifty five snaps, respectively, a heavy workload for two defensive
Speaker 1: events on that Dolphins defensive lyne good to see those
Speaker 1: guys getting plenty of reps. At linebacker, Jerome Baker led
Speaker 1: the way for the Dolphins crew there on the second
Speaker 1: level sixty one snaps nine seven percent. On Sunday. Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy had forty one snaps. Eland and Roberts had
Speaker 1: forty making up sixty five and sixty percent of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins total snaps. On defense, Commu gruge Hill played eighteen
Speaker 1: snaps and Andrew van Ginkl had eight. In the secondary,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones played all but one snap sixty two snaps
Speaker 1: on the day. Noah Ignogamy was second among the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: with thirty seven snaps. Jamal Perry played thirty one snaps.
Speaker 1: That was for your kind of brometer there on half
Speaker 1: the snaps of the game. Xavien Howard got twenty seven
Speaker 1: snaps playing of the total reps, Bbby McCain had fifty eight,
Speaker 1: Eric Row had fifty four, and Brandon Jones had thirty
Speaker 1: four snaps. We're gonna hear from Brandon here in just
Speaker 1: one second, but Christian Wilkins took the honor for highest
Speaker 1: graded Dolphins defender on Pro Football Focus. The thirteenth pick
Speaker 1: in the draft of the NFL Draft, kicked off his
Speaker 1: second season with six tackles, two of those for a loss,
Speaker 1: and two run stops as well. Obviously, he had a
Speaker 1: sack and two batted passes at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy was the only player with multiple quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures per PFF. He had two hurries on the day
Speaker 1: and earned the third highest grade from the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: with five tackles and no misses on the day. Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain we talked about him in the snap counts. He
Speaker 1: was the second highest graded player. He broke up the
Speaker 1: loan pass targeted in his area for coverage on the
Speaker 1: p BU up against Julian Edelman. Really good job putting
Speaker 1: his hands on the football and separating it from Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: He also made four tackles and did not miss any
Speaker 1: on the day. Jerome Baker led the way with sixteen
Speaker 1: tackles and didn't miss any in his own right per PFF.
Speaker 1: He also had the sack and a forced humble Now
Speaker 1: Rookie safety Brandon Jones made ten combined tackles in the
Speaker 1: game with zero failed attempts. Only four other NFL players
Speaker 1: have had double digit tackle numbers in their first NFL
Speaker 1: game since Team xaviing Howard's one of those guys. Seattle
Speaker 1: cornerback Shaquille Griffin, San Francisco linebacker Fred Warner, and Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: linebacker Devin bush All did that on the day. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins only missed two tackles in the game, leading to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus is highest grade and tackling at eight
Speaker 1: seven point seven, Let's go ahead and hear from Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones on how he was able to prepare himself to
Speaker 1: play fast and play instinctive. Like Bobby McCain said on
Speaker 1: Sunday after the game, here's Brandon Jones on his preparation
Speaker 1: for game day preparation. Um, and what I do and
Speaker 1: just the type of guy I am. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a firm believer in the relentless effort and that's one
Speaker 1: of our pillars too in the program. And you know,
Speaker 1: just doing whatever I can to to get to the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, you know, going through through college with
Speaker 1: coach Herman, uh you know the plays, the play is
Speaker 1: not dead until the to the Wilson blown. So that's
Speaker 1: just kind of my mindset and how how I'm wired
Speaker 1: to to just go, go, go, and so I hear
Speaker 1: whistle and really just trust, you know, trust my techniques
Speaker 1: and you know, all the stuff that I've been able
Speaker 1: to accomplish up to this point. And like I said,
Speaker 1: just being able to read your keys and you know,
Speaker 1: see see what you need to see and not see
Speaker 1: too much. I think um I did a really good
Speaker 1: job with that and just realizing if this happens, what's
Speaker 1: what's what's next to come. So I think that's the
Speaker 1: biggest reason why I was able to play um at
Speaker 1: the speed I was yesterday. Really helps kind of exemplify
Speaker 1: the priority the Dolphins have for players down here in
Speaker 1: the way the foot the game of football rather is
Speaker 1: important to them in their preparation, their study habits and
Speaker 1: getting themselves ready for game day all week long, taking
Speaker 1: every single day approach the same and just being consistent.
Speaker 1: As coach Flora's talks about continuing back on the numbers here,
Speaker 1: Davon Godchaw picked up three more tackles on Sunday, giving
Speaker 1: him one hundred and sixty six in his career since
Speaker 1: he entered the NFL in seventeen, a fifth round draft
Speaker 1: pick for the Dolphins, he is fourth among all defensive
Speaker 1: tackles and fourteenth among all defensive linemen in tackles over
Speaker 1: that span. With the one hundred and sixty six and specialists,
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders may his only field goal attempt on Sunday
Speaker 1: from forty six yards. That improves his franchise best eighty
Speaker 1: two point four percent field goal percentage. He's forty two
Speaker 1: fifty one in his career. And let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: put a bow on these metrics and these numbers by
Speaker 1: talking about Patriots yardage gained against different packages. That's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the things you look at when you
Speaker 1: self scout, try to find out how teams are attacking
Speaker 1: you in each package. And we have a look here
Speaker 1: at the rushing yardage gained per Dolphins defensive deployment. We
Speaker 1: talked about all offseason how frequent the Dolphins can call
Speaker 1: on the nickel and dime packages five and six defensive
Speaker 1: back looks. The Patriots carried the ball eighteen times against
Speaker 1: those nickel and dime packages for one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six yards. That's an average of seven yards per carry
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins nickel and dime packages. And that can
Speaker 1: be difficult against a quarterback like Cam Newton because you
Speaker 1: saw how often they ran that kind of quarterback lead
Speaker 1: where you get an extra body in the game because
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks carrying the football, he doesn't have to turn
Speaker 1: around and hand it off and take himself out of
Speaker 1: the play. So you can be in eleven personnel with
Speaker 1: three receivers, one tight end, one back and get that
Speaker 1: back flexed out, get the Dolphins defense in the nickel
Speaker 1: or dime package, and then have the quarterback run against
Speaker 1: a lighter defense against more defensive backs opposed to a
Speaker 1: heavier linebacker who's more suited to come up and play
Speaker 1: the run. A difficult task there for the Dolphins on
Speaker 1: opening day as you look at the way the Patriots
Speaker 1: attacked their more base defense with more linebackers and defensive
Speaker 1: lineman on the field as the Patriots rushed the ball
Speaker 1: twenty one times and those instances, so still four point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry in those instances, but almost two
Speaker 1: and a half yards difference compared to base defense and
Speaker 1: nickel and dime defense. So again a good job by
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense. Kudos to Josh McDaniels and that offensive call,
Speaker 1: our coaching staff and the play calling. They really had
Speaker 1: themselves the hell of a game on Sunday, and it
Speaker 1: is Tuesday, which means we have the all twenty two
Speaker 1: out available for us late on Monday night. Was able
Speaker 1: to get a look at that and take some breakdowns
Speaker 1: with some things I liked on the table. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start on that Dolphin's offensive line. You noticed
Speaker 1: Solomon Kindley's movement. We talked to him in training camp.
Speaker 1: I forget when it was about kind of how nimble
Speaker 1: he is at that size at nearly three forty pounds
Speaker 1: or over three forty pounds, how impressive he can kind
Speaker 1: of keep his feet under him, stay on balance and
Speaker 1: really get push and movement in the running game, but
Speaker 1: also just have that sheer density and pass protection that
Speaker 1: checked out well on tape in this game, I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought Austin Jackson's kick slide and ability to readirect
Speaker 1: as pass rushers tried to go upfield and then work
Speaker 1: back underneath was really impressive. He also showed a very
Speaker 1: sturdy anchor again to allow a clean sheet and pass protection.
Speaker 1: We talked about Brandon Jones instincts, his ability to make
Speaker 1: plays and fly around and kind of key things. You
Speaker 1: see that priest nap with all the movement he does,
Speaker 1: running around, chasing guy's emotion. Very active player and Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: I noted Bobby McCain's communication because we know he's the
Speaker 1: one back they're communicating the defense for the play calls
Speaker 1: or for the second area, I should say. And there
Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of passing to talk about, but
Speaker 1: I would say there probably weren't any busts. We have
Speaker 1: to ask coach Flora's on that. But the Patriots completions
Speaker 1: were pretty much catch rock and throw. Cam would get
Speaker 1: the snap, get it out quickly and take what the
Speaker 1: defense gave them. So no big plays in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Good job communicating on the back end from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: captain and Bobby McCain. Christian Wilkins talked about how trimmed
Speaker 1: down he is this season coming into your number two.
Speaker 1: You heard him talk on the Sunday Night Recap podcast
Speaker 1: about how he really worked hard to get himself in
Speaker 1: position to make plays this year, and you can see
Speaker 1: the way he looks just look slimmer and trimmer, and
Speaker 1: he's got those active hands, that quick first step that
Speaker 1: helped him get in the backfield a few times there
Speaker 1: against that Patriots offense. Miles Gaskins balanced. The way he
Speaker 1: keeps his feet under his hips under his shoulders allows
Speaker 1: him to absorb that contact and then not be really
Speaker 1: ultra affected by the contact. And from there it's about acceleration.
Speaker 1: And obviously we know about the vision that really helped
Speaker 1: him produce four straight seasons of yards rushing in college.
Speaker 1: So a few notes there on the Dolphins all twenty two.
Speaker 1: Definitely some positive to look at with the offensive line
Speaker 1: and past protection Miles Gaskin, some of the guys playing
Speaker 1: up front, like Christian Wilkins had some nice games, Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker all over the football field, and the communication of
Speaker 1: the back end. I think when this team faces more
Speaker 1: pass oriented teams, you can see more production on that
Speaker 1: defense from these dbs because those guys get after it
Speaker 1: and play some good football. Week one in the books,
Speaker 1: not the best start, but hey, there's broom to grow,
Speaker 1: room to correct, and as Josh Boyer and Brian Flores
Speaker 1: have said so many times, this team will play better
Speaker 1: football at the end of the season than it did
Speaker 1: in the beginning. Let's go ahead and hear from coach
Speaker 1: Flores here one more time, and here his first take
Speaker 1: on the Buffalo Bills heading into week number two before
Speaker 1: we conclude this podcast with the assistant coaches. Here's Coach
Speaker 1: Flores on the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I mean I watched
Speaker 1: it this morning. Um. Obviously Josh Allen's big, strong, fast
Speaker 1: and he had something succeedge Russian yesterday. Um. Some similar
Speaker 1: some similarities of what we saw yesterday. Obviously, we're trying
Speaker 1: to get a lot of that fixed now. I'm an
Speaker 1: edge setting stamp point from a tackling standpoint, just from
Speaker 1: a thematically hopefully well, we'll work on that over the
Speaker 1: course of the week, just from a technique, fundamentals and
Speaker 1: practice standpoint, and then hopefully it helps us on Sunday
Speaker 1: next week. So that was Coach Flores on Monday and
Speaker 1: his press availability. He will not speak to the media
Speaker 1: today on this Tuesday, but we did hear from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins coordinators and Chan Gaily, Josh Boyer, and Danny Croftsman,
Speaker 1: as well as the Dolphins offensive possession coaches. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get things started. Right here with Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Josh Boyer, who first was asked about some of
Speaker 1: the issues the team had on Sunday defensively. Well, there
Speaker 1: there was a number of issues. I would say, some
Speaker 1: of it was just individual technique, um, you know, getting
Speaker 1: all eleven guys on the same page. Um. And then
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, some of it was you know,
Speaker 1: just overall in general, like we were in some different
Speaker 1: things on different things, and they they you know, it
Speaker 1: came up versus the various fronts and options and and
Speaker 1: you know, there was just a couple of corrections that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we just needed to correct on each play
Speaker 1: and then obviously we could coach it better, we could
Speaker 1: play it better. Um. So that's kind of what happened there.
Speaker 1: Up next, coach was asked to find the jobs of
Speaker 1: the defensive edge players against the run in his defense. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so again a lot of it and I would say
Speaker 1: a lot of it depends on the particular scheme, so
Speaker 1: it might not actually be the same every time that
Speaker 1: we do something, um, you know, um with with our
Speaker 1: edge guys. Um. But I would say, look, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's it starts with me, so you know, I've got
Speaker 1: to put the guys in better spots. I gotta coach
Speaker 1: it better and uh, you know, and everybody's got to
Speaker 1: understand and know what their responsibility is with within and
Speaker 1: each every call, and you know, so like it could
Speaker 1: vary from call to call, Um, it can vary worth
Speaker 1: they are in the defense, what defense we're in, um,
Speaker 1: which I think is ultimately what you want to do, um,
Speaker 1: because if you just line up in the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again, you know, then that makes it
Speaker 1: really easy for the offense there. So again, like look
Speaker 1: all of that, basically it starts with me, um, um,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna work hard to get it corrected because,
Speaker 1: like I said, we're gonna see it again this week. Hey, Josh,
Speaker 1: a couple of questions ago, you kind of mentioned the
Speaker 1: similarities of some of the offenses you're gonna face a
Speaker 1: week one, week two. I'm just curious, as you guys
Speaker 1: turned the page here, what can you learn from that
Speaker 1: first game to kind of apply to another athletic quarterback
Speaker 1: that's pretty big, Like Josh Allen Well, I think again,
Speaker 1: the focus starts with us and correcting the mistakes that
Speaker 1: we made and making sure that we have things uh,
Speaker 1: solidified as a unit. Um, and they were definitely you
Speaker 1: know again Buffalo they have they have very talented offensive personnel. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have a very good play caller who for sure
Speaker 1: is going to test us on things that that we
Speaker 1: struggled in with week one. Um, he's gonna test us
Speaker 1: on things that he proceeds as our weakness from a
Speaker 1: year ago. Um, you know, And and they're doing a
Speaker 1: variety of different ways. It won't look exactly the same. Um,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, so we we gotta work very
Speaker 1: hard here this week to get the things corrected. Uh,
Speaker 1: where we made mistakes, And the good news is it's
Speaker 1: all correctable. And it's just gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: of for a little bit of work and getting everybody
Speaker 1: kind of on the same page on some things. But
Speaker 1: it's all correctable and we're working hard to do that.
Speaker 1: And the final question here for coach boy are referred
Speaker 1: to the difficulties of trying to stop maybe a heavier
Speaker 1: run package when the sub packages are on the field
Speaker 1: defensively with your nickel and dime packages. Here's coach on
Speaker 1: matching up personnel on defense. Yeah, so I mean again, um,
Speaker 1: you know, based on the game plan based on the week.
Speaker 1: You know, we we can be in different packages. We
Speaker 1: were in a little bit more big people with them,
Speaker 1: we've we've probably been in Um, you know, you just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, the game is gonna kind of
Speaker 1: dictate itself a little bit by what they do personnel wise,
Speaker 1: and we we got to be ready to adjust. And obviously,
Speaker 1: like I said, it all starts with me. I need
Speaker 1: to do a better job at making sure that we
Speaker 1: got the right groups in there. And then all eleven
Speaker 1: guys that are out there and and are different groups, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, know what they're doing and do their job
Speaker 1: to the best of their abilities. So um, and like
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, we're gonna work very hard to
Speaker 1: make sure that that we have that. Now, up next,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from coach and Danny Crossman, Dolphins special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator. Let's hear from coach regarding Jackeene Grant spot
Speaker 1: as a top kick returner and punt returner on Sunday. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's earned that right, he's had you know, he had
Speaker 1: a good camp. You know, he's got a good production
Speaker 1: in the past. Obviously, there's always things we need to
Speaker 1: improve on, and we will improve going forward, but he
Speaker 1: earned the right to be the guy to start in
Speaker 1: both those phases. Hey, coach Clayton Federland popped up on
Speaker 1: the injury report late in the week. I'm just curious
Speaker 1: how much of a challenge it does for you guys to,
Speaker 1: you know, lose a core special teamer like that so
Speaker 1: late in the week and kind of have to alter
Speaker 1: your plan. Yeah, it's always hard any time you lose anybody,
Speaker 1: But you know, the truth be knowing you'd rather be
Speaker 1: in practice as opposed to being in the game because
Speaker 1: then you're a little bit more of a scramble and
Speaker 1: then you're down a body too based on game day rosters.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you never want players to go down, whether
Speaker 1: it be in practice or in a game, but a
Speaker 1: little bit easier when it happens in practice. Short and
Speaker 1: suite there from coach Crossman. Let's go ahead and spend
Speaker 1: forward now to Dolphins offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, who was
Speaker 1: first asked about asked about the offensive line performance both
Speaker 1: in past protection and in the running game. Did a
Speaker 1: good job, I thought in pass pro for the first
Speaker 1: time out, We've got some communication things that we've got
Speaker 1: to take care of. Uh. In the offensive line, but
Speaker 1: as you continue to develop, um the connuity there along
Speaker 1: with young players there. Um for the first time out,
Speaker 1: they did a pretty good job. But it's gonna keep
Speaker 1: you know, the tempo and the speed is gonna keep
Speaker 1: getting bigger and faster every week. Just because we missed
Speaker 1: some stunts, but we picked them up, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: keep trying that. In the run game, they moved to uh,
Speaker 1: some of their people more than we had seen before,
Speaker 1: and we didn't handle movement very well. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: get that too in the run game. So we've got
Speaker 1: to We've got to improve that that facet of of
Speaker 1: what we're trying to get done. We we just didn't
Speaker 1: get our base package run game running like I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin was the offensive performer of the day in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins backfield as far as production goes. Here is
Speaker 1: chan Gailey on the usage of Miles Gaskin and his
Speaker 1: running backs and how the game plan and the scoreboard
Speaker 1: and many things dictated what the Dolphins did offensively on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We actually didn't know how it was gonna play out
Speaker 1: in the ballgame. When we have players that play certain
Speaker 1: packages for us, the package that we were using. Jordan's
Speaker 1: far wasn't doing as well. UM. It ended up lessen
Speaker 1: in his playtime and Miles went up because we were
Speaker 1: more in the spread offense and and doing things that
Speaker 1: he um that we had him in. Therefore, we were
Speaker 1: trying to use all the packages and where it would
Speaker 1: get spread fairly evenly if we could, but it just
Speaker 1: didn't work out that way. By the end of the ginning.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I could ever say that we're
Speaker 1: gonna at this point have a guy, you know. I
Speaker 1: think that we're going to uh let the guys try
Speaker 1: to do what they do best. Uh. We'd like to
Speaker 1: play breed of more. I think we. I think we'll
Speaker 1: try to incorporate some of his um skill set into
Speaker 1: what we do. Uh. But there's a certain number of
Speaker 1: plays in the game. You can't get them all in
Speaker 1: there at once, and so we'll we're gonna try to
Speaker 1: expand all of them's role, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: there's only a certain number of plays for guys to
Speaker 1: get in. UM. I think we I think we'll look
Speaker 1: and see what fits each player the best and try
Speaker 1: to do that with them. And so there you have it.
Speaker 1: Dolphins coordinators Danny Crossman, Chan Gailey and Josh Boy. You're
Speaker 1: speaking on this Tuesday, on this player day off, We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and get out of here on this
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Nice and short and
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Speaker 1: offensive assistant coaches speak on Tuesday as well. If you
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